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AT a large and influential Meeting of the CENTRAL COMMITTEE of the LIBERAL ELECTORS of AYRSHIRE assembled at Ayr, on the 1 lth instant, it was Resolved unanimously, " That Mr. Campbell, of Craigie, is a fit and proper Person to Represent the County of Ayr in Parliament. They there fore request him to become a Candidate, and recommend him to the cordial support of all the Liberal Electors of the County, and generally to all Reformers." By Order of the Committee, Sir JOHN C. FAIRLIE, Bart., Chairman. TO THE ELECTORS OF AYRSHIRE. FELLOW ELECTORS, -X- COME forward at the desire of the Central Committee, appointed some time ago to attend to the n:erest of the Liberal Electors of Ayrshire, to offer myself to you, as a Candidate for the Representation of the County, now vacant b) . , the lamented death of Sir John Dunlop . lly opinions upon the general principles of Government are pretty well known to most of you, but there are certain points, of particular interest, at the present moment, upon which it is proper I should state to you my opinions. I am of opinion that Government is established for the equal benefit of all, and that the industry of the Labourer and the property of the Rich man are entitled b, equal protection. I am of opinion that the Corn-laws should be altered, guard ing the interests of Tenants under existing Leases, and placing the three great interests of the country on an equal footing in point of protection. I am not an advocate for Universal Suffrage, but I am not averse to some Extension of the Suffrage. Though I ara net satisfied that the Ballot will be a sufficient protection to the Elector, if no better means for his protection can be found, I will support it, as there is no object I am more noxious to secure than the free exercise of the Elective Franchise. I will do my utmost to maintain the Church in her existing rights, as by law established ; but I cannot support any proposal to encrease her Endowments, at the expense of these who con soientiously dissent from her. I think Church Patronage may be now safely vested in the heads of families, in communion with the Church. I am decidedly friendly to a National System of Education. I approve of returning to Triennial Parliaments. I disapprove of Sinecures and Unmerited Pensions. The time between this and the Election will be very short. I am afraid I may not be able to wait upon you all personally ; but I will meet you at the places where you have been in use to meet Candidates for your Suffrages, on days of which you will receive public notice. Gentlemen, lam not a Tory. If you shall do me the honour, to confirm the choice of your Committee, and to return me to Parliament, I shall use my best endeavours to serve you upon the principles I profess ; and to your local business I will pay the utmost attention. I have the honour to be, Fellow Electors, Your obedient, faithful Servant, JAMES CAMPBELL. Craigie House, April 11, 1839. TT: Is Majesty the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, —ll- His Majesty the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, And His Majesty the KING if PRUSSIA, havin; AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several Dis tributions of Money, which (though they are NO LOT TERIES, offer a great many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES. 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The Public is res p ectfully informed, that the PRESENT iNiANAGEMENT WILL TERMINATE Wall THIS SEASON ; The following Programme is therefore given of its final ar rawerneWs '1 he Stalidard Plays, as brought out at this Theatre, will each he perfo.med more, viz. : KING LEAR, iIACBETH, OTHELLO, ITANILLT, CORIOLANUS, lON, l iii: "1. - X U FOSCARI, WEItNER, and VIRGINIUS. THIS EVENING, APRIL 13, Will be performed the New Play, in Five Acts, calla RICHELIEU, OR IHE CONSPIRACY, Written by Sir E. Lytton Bulvver, Bart. The Characters by 'dr. Elton, Mr. Diddear, Mr. Macready, Mr. Warde, Mr. An !anon, Mr. Vining. Mr. Roberts, Mr. Phelps, Mr. G. Ben net*, Mr. 11,,we, ',Miss E. Phillips, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Yar noid, Mr. W. L. Payne, Mr. C. J. Smith, hlr. Bender. Mr. Paulo, Mr. Gough, Mr. Thorne, Mr. Brady, Mr. Bur do, Mr. Smith, Mr. Kirke, Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. \Val. dron, Mr. Ayliffe, Mr. Andrews, Mr. T. Matthews, Miss Ilelcu Faucit, Miss Charles, Mesdames Reed, Corder, Lee, Vsbuiduke, Mathews, Mew, and Morgan. After which, THE IN VINCIBLES. Itlonaay, Richeilea, with Fra Diavolo. -.!")glyt • •AA r•J ka4 4—; i• • anno LONDON : SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1839. IMPORTANT NEWS FROM INDIA. The Government have this morning received despatches from India, announcing the highly satis factory intelligence that the British troops had taken, possession of Hydrabad ant Bukkeer without any resistance on the part of the natives. The Ameers of Scinde have likewise submitted to tbc authority of Lord AUCKLAND, so that Russian influence has experienced a most signal defeat in that part of Asia. We are happy to learn that Sir HENRY FANE retains:the command of the Army in India. Mr. JAMES CAMPBELL, of Craigie, has just issued an Address to the electors of Ayrshire. In this Address, he states his political opinions in a temperate and rational spirit. He is decidedly for the movement of Reform ; but prefers to see it moving at a steady pace, rather than at a hand-gallop. He is friendly to the Ballot, provided no more efficient means of protection can be secured to the electors—the plain English of which is, that he will support it; he approves of Triennial Parlia talents ; of a National System of Education ; and of an Extension of the Suffrage. Above all, he writes himself down, " No Tory." In these t :" little words a world of emphatic, satis factory, and co m p re h ens i ve m eaning is conveyed. W e trust, therefore, that all the Reformers of Ayr shire will support Mr. CAMPBELL. 0 for which they assembled, we hesitate not to say, has not been surpassed in interest since the me morable year of 1782, when Ireland assumed that attitude which cowed her oppressors. We see, on this occasion the Nobility and Gentry flocking from all parts of the island to the capital, to join the commercial classes in raising a barrier sshich may protect their common country against that atrocious inroad upon its rights, and its wel fare, with which an unprincipled and blood thirsty faction, have had the audacity to threaten it. Those who could not take a personal part in this patriotic enterprise, we find expressing their heartiest concurrence in any measure that the friends of Ireland when met, may deem it advisable to adopt in the present crisis of her fate. Such a demonstration of the sentiments of the Irish people, must make even the most reckless of those who have been the cause of drawing it forth, shrink from the consequences which they cannot fail to perceive would follow the success of their short-sighted schemes. In one month after the accession of a Tory Administration Ireland would be one vast insurrection, which no power on earth would be able to subdue, much less a faction associated in Irish feeling with everything that can excite the resentment and hatred of the people. Until within the last few years, Ireland has never known what it was to have a Government that paid the least attention either to the feelings or the interests of the people. Oppression in every form, first under the sanction of the most cruel sys tem of penal law that every was exhibited to the world, and then by the partial and unjust administration of a more lenient code, has been the doom of this unhappy country. Never, until Lord NORMANBY was entrusted with the destinies of Ireland, has she had breathing time from the persecution of her enemies. She has at least tasted the sweets of justice and kindness on the part of her rulers. She has experienced the benefits of a mild and impartial administration of the laws in the improvement both of her civil and social condition. Can we wonder that she identifies the continuance of this system of rule with her prosperity, and that she regards the event which would again subject her to the tyranny of her oppressors as the greatest calamity that could befal her ? She has spoken her sentiments on this point in language that cannot be mistaken, and will not, we trust, be in vain. Among the petitions presented to the House o r Commons last night, were twelve by Mr. POULETT THOMSON, from various Noblemen and Gentle men possessing landed property in the Counties of Staffordshire and Derbyshire, in favour of the London and Birmingham Extension Rail way Bill, and complaining that in petitions presented to that House by persons con nected with the London and Birmingham and Grand Junction Railways, they had been falsely represented as opposed to the Extension Bill. A copy of one of these petitions from the Earl of Lichfield will be found in another part of The Sun, to which we invite the attention of our readers. Though the Extension Line from Stone to Rugby would effect, in conjunction with the Manchester and Birmingham Line, a saving irk point of distance of some forty miles to the public, it is now fiercely opposed on the ground of inter fering with vested interests, by parties who but; yesterday, as it were, pretended to be ready to lay down their lives for the promotion of the public convenience ! Finding direct opposition not likely to avail, they have not scrupled to resort to the dis honest expedient of seeking to misrepresent the opi nions of the most influential persons respecting the proposed Bill, in the hope, no doubt, of throwing it out by a trick. Here, again they signally and de servedly failed. The petitions presented last night will serve to put the House upon its guard against future misrepresentations. I❑ addition to the twelve presented by Mr. POULETT THOMSON, Sir ROBERT PEEL presented one from the inha bitants of Tamworth, in favour of the Extension Bill, the prayer of which was supported by the Bight Hon. Baronet. For our own part we shall support every proposed line which offers a guarantee for the promotion of speedier commercial intercourse, and promises to act as a check upon the establishment of Railway monopolies. We already see plainly that the coun try cannot have too many ways of ef f ectually con.- trouling the despotical powers assumed by these would-be road monopolists. Every fresh line is an. additional guarantee for reasonable charges of con veyance, increased speed, and more marked atten tion to the comforts and convenience of railway travellers. Lord SEAFORD obtained in the House of Lords last; night all the additional information which has been re ceived from Jamaica. The Earl of Wick Low inquired whether there wag any intention to introduce a Bill to improve the regis tration of electors in Ireland, and he was answered, no.. On presenting some petitions from the Grand Jury of Kerry for the promotion of railways in Ireland, the Marquis of L AN3DOWNE made some observations in. favour of the Government plan. The Duke of WEL LINGTON referred to the railways of England, and de clared that some general plan ought long ago to have been adopted. Their Lordships adjourned at an early hour. In the Commons, Mr. DUNDAS took his seat for Richmond. The Necropolis Cemetery Bill was withdrawn after a brief debate. A petition presented by Mr. BAINES from the So ciety for the General Promotion of Peace, excited some interest. _ _ _ Sir ROBERT PEEL'S announcement we have elsewhere adverted to. Mr. THOMAS DUNcoMBE gave notice, after Sir RozERT'S announcement, that he would add some words to Lord JouN RUSSELL'S resolution, ihoulcWit be adopted, pledging the House to some fur ther Reforms. Mr. HAwEs who has the merit of having concocted the Metropolitan Police Bill, and of having fathered it on the Ministers, asked what Ministers meant to do with respect to that Bill. Lord JOHN RUSSELL re plied that he did not intend to oppose the Police Bill of the City of London, and if the Bill introduced by his Hon. Friend went into a Committee, he should move to expunge the first fourteen clauses of the Bill. Lord JottN RUSSELL, and the Ministers, therefore, defer to the Corporation on this Police question, and throw Mr. H AwEs overboard. Whatever may be abstractedly the good of one general police for the metropolis, and a police not under the control of habitual jobbers, it was not prudent in the Ministers to risk their power and popularity in a conflict with the City of London, and with almost all the cities in the empire. They were beguiled into the fault, we believe, by some over-zealous friends, and will learn from it to trust more to their own good sense and less to their forward advisers. Lord JoHN RUSSELL is to forward the County Courts Bill as soon as is compatible with passing other im portant measures. Lord PALMERSTON laid on the table the papers connected with the insult to the British flag, and said the apology, of the French Government had been spontaneous, ample, and honourable to both countries. The affair, was deeply deplored by the French Government, and the strictest orders had been given to be more cautious in future. We are glad that this unpleasant affair has not disturbed the harmony between the two Govern ments. On the Order of the Day for going into Committee on the Prisons (Scotland) Bill Sir GEORGE CLERIC moved an instruction to divide the Bill into two parts but on a division was defeated by 65 to 19. The Bill was committed pro forma. The House was occupied through the remainder of the evening with the Supreme Courts (Scotland) Bill, which was committed. A considerable number of amendments were proposed and divisions ensued. The Timber Shipwreck Committee and the Railways Committee, after some observations from: Mr. EAST HOPE, were nominated. Several other measures were advanced. The House sat till near two o'clock. Sir ROBERT PEEL last night announced in the --- House of Commons the amendment which he should lir columns to-day contain an ample report of submit to Lord Joi; RUSSELL'S motion on Mon the proceedings at th e great meetin held in d ay. After referring to the motion made by Mr. SHAW on March 13 , for papers illustrative of the litiblirrt fifltursday last —a meeting g which, when condition of Ireland, to the motion made by wc _ 66ll - , , numbers, the influence, the enthu- Lord RODEN in the House of Lords on the 1-_____l -,:i - t isir te ons composing it, and the object 21st of March, and to the intended motion Slagsn , ' • l ' ' :. e tEnt) l3 i • • `:` the country, and we call on the Members of the House of Commons to look at the present disposi tion of the people, and inquire how the country can be governed by the Tories, before they break up an Administration of which the very feebleness with which it is reproached is not, in our present state of transition, a public disadvantage. by Lord JOHN RUSSELL on Monday, Sir ROBERT'S amendment goes on as follows : " Resolved, that it appears to this House that the appointment of a Committee of Inquiry by the House of Lords, under the circumstances and for the purposes above mentioned, does not justify her Majesty's Ministers in calling upon this House, without previous inquiry, or even the production of the information which this House has required, to make a declaration of opinion with respect to one branch of the public policy of the Executive Go vernment, still less a declaration of opinion which is neither explicit as to the principles which it pro fesses to approve, nor definite as to the period to which it refers ; and that it is not fitting that this House should adopt a proceeding which has the appearance of calling in question the undoubted right of the House of Lords to inquire into the state of Ireland in respect to crime and outrage, more especially when the exercise of that right by the House of Lords does not interfere with any previous proceeding or resolution of the House of Commons, nor with the progress of any Legislative measure assented to by the House of Commons, or at present under its consideration." We admit that this is very cunningly contrived. It impugns not the conduct of the Government as to Ireland, it pledges Sir ROBERT and his friends to no future line of conduct. It turns altogether on a matter of form, hurts no party feeling, and invades no political principle. It is calculated to catch as many votes as possible, without seem ing the least desirous to turn out the Ministry and seize the Government. Under this fair outside, however, there lurks much guile, and not a little hypocrisy. Sir ROBERT PEEL is fully aware that neither Mr. SHAW'S nor Lord RODEN'S motion, had for its .object to procure information, but both were intended as mere pegs on which to hang the speeches the Orangemen were pre pared to fire off against the Government. No opposition whatever was made to Mr. SHAW'S motion, and the contents of all the papers he asked for are as well known to him and his friends as if they had been printed for a month. If Lord RODEN had really required any information, or had there been anything to investigate, there would pro bably have been no objection to grant a Committee, but the multitude of details contained in his speech, each of which he magnified into a charge against the Government, proved that he and his friends have nothing whatever to learn. Both Mr. SHAW'S and Lord RODEN'S motions were mere pieces of technical hypocrisy, and Sir ROBERT PEEL carries out their scheme to its appro priate concluslon by his Amendment. Why had they not, and why has he not, the manliness to avow that the whole affair is a mere attack of one faction or party on the other ? Why does he not submit a motion of substantial censure on the Ministers, instead of attempting to turn them out on a barren technicality ? We never gave him much credit for inventive genius, or ascribed a spirit of lion-hearted independence to WELLING TON'S cad, but we did not suppose that he would de grade himself to be the cunning and subservient instru ment of odious Orange hypocrisy. It is useless for him and his friends to blink the question, and will be disgraceful to them to bring on the community all the evils of a change in an administration on no other grounds than that the mock inquiries of Messrs. RODEN and SHAW are still pending. If Sir ROBERT have nothing better to offer to the House and the country but a resolution that it is premature to pronounce an opinion on the mode in which the Irish Government has been adminis tered, after that Government has been hotly perse cuted and condemned, lie should refrain from voting at all. The public will read with great satisfaction the explanation which Lord PALMERSTON gave last night in the House of Commons, on laying some papers on the table, of the eonduct of the French Government in reference to the insult offered to the British -flag off Vera Cruz. The apology, Lord PALMERSTON said, was alike honour able to the Government offering it, and the Government receiving it. Count SEBAS TIANI said he was ordered by the King of the FRENCH to make known to the British Go vernment the deep regret which her MAJESTY felt at the removal of a Mexican pilot from the Express packet. We rejoice at this honourable termination of an unpleasant affair; and can but feel satisfied that the Minister did not act on the high-flown and hasty advice of my Lord LYND IIURST. We noticed yesterday that Lord MELBOURNE had stated in the House of Peers that the Emperor , of Russr.A. had given satisfactory explanations on the subject of the Russian, who had instigated the Prince of CABOOL against the English Govern ment of India. We have since heard that a dispatch has recently been received from Count NESSELRODE, disavowing, in the name of , his master, the Russian intriguer, who has been endeavouring to excite the hostility of the Asiatic Princes to our Indian Government. Such a circum stance makes us hope that there may be no necessity to prosecute the war in the East, or if prosecuted that it may be of short duration. At any rate, it is creditable to the Ministers that they have obtained such an explicit disavowal from the Prime Minister of the Emperor NICHOLAS. Lord JOHN RUSSELL is about, we hear, to pub lish a letter he has written to his Constituents at Stroud, with reference to the present state of poli tical parties. We trust that his Lordship will take this opportunity of explaining what he has been misunderstood to have said on the principle of fina lity, and will return to the use of that strong and hearty language which formerly obtained for him the cordial support of the Liberals. We shall look for this pamphlet with great interest, and so will the public, as an exposition of the political princi ples of Lord JOHN RUSSELL under the new cir cumstances in which political parties are placed. We request the attention of our readers to a re port of the proceedings which took place at the Hackney Petty Sessions, on Thursday last. The Church-rate war, it is evident, has, as the report states, commenced in earnest, and will, we trust, be vigorously carried on. There are symptoms of more than ordinary activity among the objectors to this " nefarious exaction"—we thank the Times for that happy definition—which lead us to hope that the time is fast approaching when that culpable partici pation on the part of Dissenters, in a system of re ligious compromise which has been but too com mon, will be exchanged for a general and determined resistance, at all hazards, to claims which cannot be submitted to without a violation of the highest and holiest principles implanted in the breast of man by the hand of his Creator. Hitherto many opponents of Church-rates have satisfied themselves with a verbal protest against the injustice of compelling those who not only de rive no benefit from the State Church, but who hold such a Church to be altogether at variance with the tenor and spirit of Christianity, to assist in keeping it up ; but at the same time they have handed over the amount of the unrighteous im post to the collector, taking no active steps to get rid of it, and, perhaps, hardly thinking about the matter at all until the next rate was called for. A more manly and energetic spirit—thanks to the ran corous persecution resorted to by the endowed Priesthood—is now diffusing itself throughout the Dissenting community. When it becomes general, there is an end to Church-rates, and to everybther ecclesiastical grievance. A very decisive proof of the spread of this feel ing may be gathered from the report of the Hack ney transactions. It thence appears that some of the leading Dissenting Ministers of the metropolis have felt it a duty to come forward and publicly bear their testimony against the iniquity of levying, contributions on Dissenters to support the Esta blished Church. The Rev. Dr. Cox and the Rev. Dr. PRICE, the one representing the Baptists, the other the Independents, appeared to the summonses issued against them by the Church authorities. The former gentleman stated that he had been a resident in the parish for upwards of twenty-seven years,during all which time he had carefully abstained from in terfering in parochial matters, and that he would not have come forward at this time had not religion been involved in the question at is sue. This was the reason,' said the Re verend Gentleman, " why he, a minister of of the Gospel came forward to denounce those rates as iniquitous and illegal. It was iniquitous for a Church, calling itself the Church of CHRIST, to demand support from those who conscientiously objected to its tenets. The Church of CHRIST had nothing to do with Acts of Parliament. It did not authorise the violation of men's consciences. In former times they burnt the heretics, but now they were content to rob them." The crowded Court responded to these sentiments by loud and irre pressible cheers at the close of every sentence, until at last one of the Magistrates was under the necessity of requesting the Rev. Gentleman to pursue a less excitinc , line of defence; to which he very pro perly replied, that those who had instituted these op pressive proceedings must be answerable for the ex citement which they occasioned. There are other important points arising out of these transactions which we should have noticed could we have afforded the space, but we have no doubt they will suggest themselves to those readers who take an interest in this question. The conduct of the Churchwardens must meet with universal re probation. It was not only manifestly illegal, but full of trickery and partiality. If he, however, thinks it indecent to pronounce an opinion, his friends do not. Those whom his resolution is to support have already con demned the Irish Government, and his resolution administers to them a severe reproof for their haste. How can the dull Mr. Sergeant JACK sox, or the vivacious Recorder of Dublin, or the slow Dr. LEFROY, except from mere party motives, join him in declaring that the Ministers are not justified on calling on the House for an opinion with respect to the policy of the Irish Executive, when they have, over and over again, with much less information than at present, called on the House for such au opinion? In fact, they [ have bored the House and the country with their complaints and eliminations. Perhaps they mo destly think that complaints and charges only are to be made, and that the instant a defence is offered and a judgment required, they are to vote that it is not right to hear. This may be Irish fair play, but we hope the English Members will not assent to it. They like impartiality, and will not say, when Ministers are condemned by the vote of the Lords, that they are not justified in asking the Commons to give a different or a similar verdict. Mr. SHAW would, in fact, on the 13th of March, have asked the House of Com mons for a verdict against the Ministers, but both he and Sir ROBERT PEEL knew that it could not have been obtained. It is impu dent as well as hypocritical, therefore, when both were ready to pronounce a condemnation two months ago, to declare that the Ministers are now not justified in asking an opinion of the House of Commons. We shall see next week whether this cunning contrivance of the crafty PEEL does not stultify both himself and his friends. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1839 possible approach which can be made to the line of boundary described in the fifth article of t the treaty of Ghent, or to any part thereof, ' which yet remains to be decided, commencing their survey at that point between the degrees 46 and 47 North Latitude, and 70 and 71 West Longitude of Green wich, or in any other spot, where the boundary first ap pears unfixed and indefinite. " And it is hereby farther agreed, that in the event of the two Commissioners differing at any point upon the directions of the boundary line, which will afford the nearest possible approach to that line described in the fifth article of the treaty of Ghent, they shall immediately draw up a re port, or reports, jointly, or separately, of the point of dif ference between them, and shall lay the same before the umpire, hereinafter named and appointed ; and immediately that the said umpire shall have notified his decision upon the point of difference between the two Commissioners, and not till then, the two Commissioners shall proceed upon their sur vey, adopting at once and without reply, the decision of the said umpire, to all intents and purposes as if it had been made by themselves on mutual consent, and shall draw and mark out the line of boundary accordingly ; and on any flesh difference of opinion upon any point of the said boundary line, or upon the question of what is the nearest possible approach to the line de scribed in the fifth article of the treaty of Ghent, the same couro of reference to the umpire shall be pur sued, and his decision shall be considered as final by the said Commissioners; and upon all, and each, and every point of difference they shall adopt the decision of the umpire as if made by themselves, and instantly and without hesitation proceed to mark out and fix the line of boundary accordingly, till the whole shall be completed. And her Britannic Majesty, and the Government of the United States hereby agree to regard the line of boundary thus drawn out, to be to all intents and purposes the real and true limits of their respective dominions, according to the intent of all pre ceding treaties, conventions, &c." The appointment of the umpire, and the method of mark. ing the limits, when determined, would be easily provided for by the other articles ; but it is necessary never to lose sight of the fact that before the survey is com menced, the treaty which is to insure its finality, must be sanctioned by Congress, or we again begin to fight with shadows. Madrid Journals of the 4th inst. have been re ceived, but their contents are politically unimpor tant. A change of Ministers is still talked of, but nothing positive is known upon the subject. The courier who quitted Badajoz on the 23d March was stopped by the Carlists. The de spatches were burnt at Jamicejo ; all the escort were shot. The Captain-General, by way of reprisal, took 12 Carlist prisoners by lot, and sent them to the place where the escort had been shot, they ex perienced the same fate. " The official account of the re-capture of Melilla has been at last received and published in the despatch of ALVAREZ,. the Captain-General of Granada, to the Minister of War. This impor tant penal settlement on the coast of Africa was re-taken on the 25th ult. by Don SANTIAGO DE SORIA, Captain of the Royal Navy com manding the expedition, consisting of the guarda costas Soberano, Isabel 11., Christina, Proserpina, Neptune, and the Carmeno and Santa Ana packets, which conquered all the obstacles of want of pro visions, of the elements, the unfavourable season, and geographical position. " The Governor, ad interim, writes that at seven A.M., on the 22d of March, the troops commenced landing, but that about noon a storm arose (a Levantei), and blew off the vessels, with part of the troops for disembarkation and about three hun dred of the mutineers ; that in this state of things he occupied the first, second, and third lines, sta tioning 150 of those that remained in the place in a building, garrisoning the whole fortress by the Queen's troops. Thus natters continued . till the 25th, when, on the arrival of a felucca of war, the rebels were put on board the vessels in the bay, and conducted to Charafinas, where the Spanish vessels of war were stationed. " At Valencia some fresh and seriousdisturbances are said to have broken out. General INFANTES, a Deputy of high repute, has been named second in command of that city and province, for which he set out on Monday in the diligence. He is a man of great discretion and talent, and may do good if he reaches it safely, as La Mancha is again overrun by facciosos, who, on the 26th, took four passen gers in the Andalusian mail-coach and cruelly ill treated them. The Estremadura mail was also taken and burnt by the Carlists in the mountains on this side of Truxillo." We have received from our Paris Correspondent an account of a public dinner got up in the French metropolis in honour of Lord BROUGAM and Mr. LEADER. The dinner took place on Wednesday in the Great Saloon of the Feres Provencaux ; above fifty good Reformers were present, and but for the shortness of the notice the number would have been five hundred. Unfortunately Lord BROUGHAM had been attacked with rather severe indisposition in the course of the day, and was unable to attend. Mr. LEADER, however, was present, and was placed with M. ARAGO on his right, and M. CORMENIN on his left ; MM. MAR TIN, of Strasburg, GARNIER PAGES, CORALLY, BACHELU LARABIT, and a considerable number of Deputies, were present, and M. LAFFITTE, JOLY, and CARNOT, sent letters expressing their great regret that unavoidable engagements pre sented them from having the honour of dining with the illustrious strangers. The report of their speeches made on this occasion, however, we must defer till Monday. The French Government is doomed to encounter a series of mortifications. On Wednesday an action was brought against the National, the Europe, and the Echo Francais, the first for publishing, and the others for copying an article in the form of an ad dress to the army against the Treaty of the twenty four Articles. The prosecution was conducted by the Advocate-General, and though the most strenuous supporters of the liberty of the Press could not deny that there was ample grounds for it, the jury returned a verdict of acquittal in favour of all the Journals. This clearly proves the bad odour in which the Government is in with the people. When in the clearest cases of guilt Julies cannot be found to bring in a verdict of con demnation, authority is shorn of that moral influ ence without which it becomes powerless for all the great purposes of good government. Such are the fruits of the September laws—those puny conco2- tions of short-sighted despotism I The Moniteur of Thursday publishes a tele graphic despatch from the French Ambassador in London to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, an nouncing the signing of a treaty of peace between France and Mexico. It is conceived as follows : " A treaty of peace has been signed at Vera Cruz be tween Admiral Baudin and the Mexican Plenipotentia ries, Gorostiza and Pictoria." There is not a syllable of original comment upon this important announcement in any of the Paris evening papers of Thursday ! • Only twelve individuals of the hundreds recently arrested in Paris have been detained for trial. All the rest have been set at liberty. On Thursday M. DUPIN was to entertain at dinner Lord BROUGHAM, Mr. HUME, Dr. Bow- RING, and Mr. ELLICE. Several Members of both Chambers were invited to meet them. We hope the gentlemen of the House of Commons, who are prepared to vote against the Ministers, are also prepared to settle how the Government is to be carried on. There are many persons in the country, who pant for a Tory Ministry, that they may have a feasable pretext for agitation, and means to stir up a row. Many of those, who at public meetings declaim the loudest against the Whigs, do it because they preserve the peace. They have not been provoked into instituting one prosecution, except that lamentable one against STEPHENS, to which they were insti gated by others, notwithstanding the numberless libels by which they have been assailed, and the , extraordinary, not to say illegal, proceedings which the distempered times have brought forth. Mob orators and demagogues hate them, because they supply no food for excitement. The To ries, it is expected, would take a different course, and by making a few martyrs would serve the cause of agitation. At a meeting .held at Newcastle on Tuesday last, the most violent declaimers were advocates of the To ries, precisely, we believe, on the ground that they want a Government which they can cordially hate ;and zealously oppose. We hope the gentlemen of I t the House of Commons have taken this point into their serious consideration, and before they vote out 'i the compromising yet conciliating, the vacillating 1 yet soothing Whigs, will ask themselves if they i are ready to back the new Government, with a formidable military force to overcome the fierce opposition, not to say hostility, which it will cer ; lainly have to encounter. We should like them also to remember who is to ' The the new leader. The Duke of WELLINGTON its getting an old man, and has resigned the chief command to BOBBY PEEL, a name that expresses his soft and yielding character. When did he really take the lead in anything ? What plans of government has he matured—what comprehensiv e ^,iillemes of administration has he invented ? From being a second-rate hack of the LIVERPOOL Ad. ministration, hating CANNING on account of his talents, he became, after that Minister's death, the head clerk of the Duke of WELLINGTON. At the Duke's command he gave up for a moment the convictions of his political life, and grud g i ng l y conceded Catholic emancipation. He then dis gusted his clerical friends by his treachery, an d strice he has continually shown himself a friend to the bigots, in order to win back his lost popularity with his own party. With no comprehensive grasp of mind, with none of the sagacity of a statesman—for he has never taken one position in advance—with no capacity to appreciate the present movement of society, for he has lived in the House of Commons, and the distinguishing mark of this age, is, that the people are giving the law to the law-makers—Sir ROBERT PEEL is 'wholly unfitted for the leader of that bigoted arid coercive Administration which, if the Ministers be turned out by the Orangemen and the Priest hood, he will be compelled to form. We hope those who, like Mr. JERVIS, have declared that thoty will not vote for the Ministers, have consi dered these circumstances, and are prepared with an Administration which, like that of what the Tim's calls the shabby Whigs, has preserved tranquillity at home, and peace abroad. We repeat what we have said before, that we are neither for Whigs, Radicals, nor Tories, but for , Our attention has been called to a Pamphlet on the Boundary Question, purporting to be drawn up from official documents, by Mr. JAMES, Historio grapher to her Majesty Queen VICTORIA, just pub lished by Saunders and Otley. The object of this tract is to make the public acquainted with the early transactions relative to the settlement of this question—a necessary knowledge, not previously acquirable, save by wading through a mass of Parliamentary and historical documents not al ways within the reach of the general reader. Mr. JAMES has executed his task with impartiality, sound judgment, and good temper. He gives a clear and succinct summary of the negociations on both sides since the ratification of the treaty of 1783—carefully avoiding imputations of an irri tating tendency ; and he subjoins, in a note at the end, what he conceives to be the only fair and practicable means of arriving at a just and amicable settlement of the question. As it is of the utmost importance that the opinions of those who have carefully examined all the difficulties of fixing, a boundary line between the British Pro vinces and the United States, and who are persuaded that nothing but mutual good faith is wanting to prevent all danger of a collision be tween the two Governments, should be maturely weighed by the British and American public, we quote Mr. JAMES'S conclusions as peculiarly interesting:— Although by no means fond of meddling with any poli tical discussions, I may be permitted to say that the re would seem to me to be a very easy wa y of settling the dif ferences on the boundary questio n, su pp osin g that there exists good faith and moderation on both parts. No new survey can have any good result, except up on such conditions as will create an umpire between the respective Commissioners of survey, and render the limits agreed upon by the Commissioners, together with the de c i s i on o f th e umpire in regard to all contested points, binding on th e two States .intereste d. The tr ansactions which accompanied the rejection of the division made by the King of the Netherlands, prove that the executive Government of the United States is not entrusted with suf ficient powers to effect this object ; and therefore it can only be brought about by a treaty of survey and arbitratio n , duly su b m i tte d to t h e cons titutional bodies of both States, and fully rat ifi e d b y b o th before any new attempt to define the boundary is made. One of the articles of the treaty might th us d e fi ne t h e o bjects of the survey , and the powers of the umpire : It is agreed that two Commissioners be appointed in the following manner : that i s to sy—One Com missioner shall be appoined by her Britannic Majesty, a n d one by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and the said two Commissioners so appointed, shall be sworn impartially to examine and decide what is the nearest The Chamber of Deputies was engaged on Thursday with the contested elections. The elec tion of General D'HAUDETOT, one of the KING'S Aides-de-Camp, for Bayeux, was made null and void on 'Wednesday by a majority of 211 votes against 189. The importance of this deci sion is thus noticed by the Nalional:— This vote, however insignificant in appearance, is a victory the more decided in favour of the Opposition, as it was gained in spite of the support given by the Doctrinaires to the Court party. All, with M. Guizot at their head, voted for M. D'lloudetot. Messrs. Duvergier de Hau ranne, Jaubert, and Renouard, alone joined the cote gauche, and still there was a majority of 22 suffrages against the Court. This result is significant, and ought to give the Opposition more confidence in its own strength." The following are extracts from the Paris Papers : The Moniteur of Thursday published the following : " The Storthing of Norway adopted on the 16th ult. a resolution, sanctioned the same day by the King, declaring the importation of potatoes into Norway free, until the 30th of June next, from the duty of 27 schillings (13fd.) per ton, to which they are subjected by the customs tariff of that kingdom l" A letter of the 4th instant, from Hamburg, quoted by the National, states that the death of the reigning Duke of Brunswick has actually taken place, and mentions a variety of rumours which were circulated on the subject. According to some, be had been strangled in an attempt to descend through a narrow window, in pursuit of an affair of gallantry in which he was engaged ; whilst others hint that his death bad been brought about by a Hanoverian bullet. The letter seems to throw some sinister suspi cions on the King of Hanover, and points out his Majesty's claims upon the Duchy of Brunswick. An article which appears in the Augsburg Gazette of the sth instant, expresses itself in the following terms relative to the position of the British Government in the East :—" India is so nearly menaced on the side of Persia, that it has become impossible to take the long route by the Cape of Good Hope for the transport of troops. They must now be sent by the way of Egypt ; but there is no doubt that Mehemet Ali will never lend himself to permitting a passage by this short route ; and in this respect he is an obstacle whic h the Engli sh have the greatest interest to remove. This explains the taking possession of Aden by the English ; and it may be also seen that from that moment Mehemet Alt has assumed a more imposing attitude. If the Pacha were to succeed in seizing upon Bagdad after having van quished the Turkish army, the English would find themselves in a very critical position ; nor would the occupation of the island of Kharrak, in the Persian Gulf, be of any assistance to them. We are given to understand that Mohammed Schah is leagued with Mehemet Ali against Turkey. By such a combination he would be able to repel the English, and all pretenders to the Crown, who may menace him on the side of Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf, and, by the support of Mehemet and the Kurds, place the Porte as well in a most dangerous position." The Emperor of Russia has recently made the following grants of estates in Poland :—The domains of Nowemiasto Korczy, producing a revenue of 8,000 Polish florins, on Major- General Kuria ; those of Welecz, 5,000 florins per annum, on Colonel Bakunin ; and those of Rzensnik and Sadykierz, 5,000 florins per annum, on Colonel Czerewin. During the last ten years numbers of young Ottomans Lave resojted to Europe, to study the sciences and make themselves acquainted with our civilization. France, and especially Paris, is become for them a new Athens, or a new Bagdad. We learn that Sultan Mahmoud, in a re-, port which has been made to him by his Excellency Ach met Pacha, his Ambassador to the King of the French, has just given orders to give assistance to several young natives of the East, who, having already begun their new studies, had not pecuniary resources sufficient to prosecute them, and to take their degrees in the University. This favour extends to all subjects of the Ottoman Empire, without distinction of religion. —Moniteur. The Monitsur contains two ordinances of the 4th of April, by which the Bulls arc received and published in the kingdom in the usual form, which institute M. Gallard (Romain Frederick), Bishop of Meaux, as coadjutor of the Cardinal Archbishop of Rheims, with the future succes sion, and under the title of Archbishop Anazarbe (in par tibus), and of M. Allen (Auguste), to the Bishopric of Meaux. The following statement confirms what we have said of the increasing distress of the population of Paris :—ln the month of March the total amount of the deposits in the savings bank of Paris was 2,202.615 francs; that of the sums withdrawn was 3 935,500 francs, exceeding the de posits by 1,792,885 francs in a single month. In the last week the same bank of savings at Paris received on Sunday and Monday 434,869 francs, and paid back 830,000 francs, being 395,133 francs more than the deposits. Now, if we consider the consumption of the city of Paris, it ap pears that the diminution in the consumption of meat dur ing the three months that have just elapsed amounted to 1,800,0001b5. These facts need no comment. They prove that the complaints which we hear are not exagge rated, and accuse the obstinacy of those who protract in definitely a political crisis, so prejudicial to the interest of all classes.— Courrier Francais. BOURSE.—PAMS, THURSDAY, APRIL 11. HALF-PAST THREE.—The home market has been brisk, and much business done. For the Account the Three per Cents. owned at sof 95c., rose to kllf , and then receded to 40f. 65c., the last price being as yesterday. The Five per Cents., from 1091. 95c., rose to 110 f., and after being down to 109 f. SOc., closed at 109 f. 85c., a fall of sc. For money the Three per Cents. are 10c. higher, and the Five per Cents. are sc. lower. The ' Bank of France Shares are unaltered. The Lafiiitte Bank, I,ooof. Shares, are unaltered, and those of 5,000 f. are sf. lower. The Belgian Three per Cents. have advanced 30c. The Spanish Active is better, having from 201 risen to 201. The Railway Shares have been ♦ery firm. The Versailles Right Bank are 2f. 50c. ; the Ver sailles Left Bank 7f. 50c., the Orleans sf. and the St. Germain 10f. higher. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. • French 5 per Cents lO9 90 ... 109 95 ... 109 85 ... 109 85 3 per Cents BO 85 ... 81 ... 80 132 ... 80 85 Bank of trance Latfitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 1047 50 ...1047 50 ...1045 —.1045 5,000 f. 5197 51 ...5197 50 ...5195 —.5195 Belgian 3 per Cents 72 ... 72 10 ... 72 ... 72 10 Bank 695 ... 095 ... 695 ... 69 Coupons S anish Ac ive 2 0 1,‘ 20 ... 204 Neapolitan Roman RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Versailles, R. /3 695 ... 695 ... 690 690 L. 8.262 50 ... 270 ... 262 50 ... 267 50 Havre Orleans Strasburg to Bale ......... 337 50 ... as; 5) ... 337 50 ... 337 50 Bordeaux to La Teste 4OO ... 401 400 ... 4 0 Galvaniz.d Iran LATEST FROM CHlNA.—lntelligence has again been received of another dispute with the Chinese, which has ended in the interruption of the trade. This event took place in December, in consequence of the implication of Mr. Inner, a merchant, in the smuggling of opium. _ _ The Chinese have insisted that Mr. Innes shall quit China before the trade is re-opened. This he had not done, and the stoppage continued. Viscount and 'Yiscountess Bridport and the Hon. Misses Hood, have arrived in town from Cricket LodgeA their seat, near Chard, for the season. Lord Abinger will give a grand dinner to-day in Spring-gardens. The Marquis of Northampton will give his third conversazione this evening on the Terrace, Piccadilly, to the Members of the Royal Society. The Marchioness of Ailesbury issued invitations yesterday, for a select evening party, to meet her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, on the 19th instant, The Countess of Wicklow and the Ladies Howard will give a grand ball and supper on Friday, the 26th instant, at the residence of the Noble Earl in Caven dish-square. The Earl and Countess of Rosebery have re turned to town from Hastings, where the mortal remains of their late son. in law, Sir John Dunlop, Bart, Pd. P., were interred in a local chapel on Tuesday last. Captain and Lady Harriet Hamilton, who are on a visit to Lord Aberdeen, at Argyll House, have taken a mansion at Brighton for six weeks. His Excellency Baron Bulow left town this morn ing for Brighton, where the Noble Baron intends passing a few days for the change of air. It affords us great pleasure to hear his Excellency is considerably better than a fort night since. Her MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The fifty-third Anniversary Concert of the New Musical Fund took place last evening at her Majesty's Theatre, before a full audi ence. The concert was in all respects delightful, supported by the gratuitous services of some of the most distinguished scions—foreign and native—of tht musical world. The Concert concluded with Mozart's overture to The Marriage of Figaro. The whole affair went off with brilliant ar.d unbroken effect. NEGRO POPULATION.—The negro population of Africa is supposed to amonnt to very near a hundred millions ; in America the negro race may be taken at eight millions, the European at twenty.— Quarterly Review. It is stated that the system of imprisonment lately adopted in the army instead of flogging has been the means of greatly diminishing the number of offences.— Herald. On Friday last Mr. Henry Hargrave, of Bond gate, near Ripon, had two ewes which each dropped a single lamb, and neither lived over a few minutes. On examining them, it was discovered that both had neither a tongue or an under-jaw, but were snouted like a greyhound dog, although perfect lambs in every other respect.— Doncaster Gazette. ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN.—We understand that, up to last night, eight thousand signatures were re ceived to the Address to the Queer on the Government of Ireland. We believe that it wily remain for signature till to morrow evening, when it is to be sent off to London. Scottish Pilot, of Wednesday. The Hon. Edward Petre, who has been residing on the Continent for the last four years, is on the eve of returning home. His losses on the turf, five years since, exceeded 200,000/. ; and his other debts were considerable. Every claim is now liquidated under the able superinten dence of the principal trustee, his uncle, the Duke of Norfolk. CANADIAN " PATRIOTS" AT WASHINGTON. —These " Canadian patriots"—better " incendiaries"— may hold their public meetings in any of our cities, and call on the "sympathizers" to aid them ; and peradven ture, the British subject will be told that they are " re spectably attended." Would that the British public could once have a peep at such respectability, and they would little desire the smell of its garments. M'Kenzie and Theller—Dr. Theller, who escaped from the citadel at Quebec—had the impudence the other day to present themselves at the city of Washington, and to offer their advertisement for a meeting of " sympathizers" to " the Globe," the organ of the American government, and to the " National Intelligencer ;" both of which, of course, felt themselves insulted, and indignantly refused. The meeting, we are told, was a slender compliment to their " patriotism," both as to numbers and quality. The " loafers" of the streets went in to see " the Hons."— A Voice from America to England. At a general meeting of the Governors of the St. Ann's Society Schools, held yesterday at the London Tavern, the Rev. David Laing, M. A., of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, Honorary Chaplain to the Institution, was presented with a piece of Plate as a sincere tribute of respect, admiration, and gratitude entertained by the Governors at large, of his invaluable exertions in instruct ing in Scriptural knowledge, the numerous children under the charge of that most excellent Charity, the only one, except Christ's Hospital, which aids the fallen parent in the relief of his child, without waiting till it becomes an asylum. SUDDEN DEATH.—On Sunday week, as Jona than Wildsmith, labourer of Eckington, was walking in his garden, he felt unwell, and went into his house, and instantly died in a chair.—Derby Reporter. On the evening of Thursday last this town was visited with a flood which, about seven o'clock, rose to a height unequalled in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. The rain commenced early, and, from four o'clock it continued to fall in torrents, so as, with the co-operation of a high tide, to cause a swell in the Lee (the river running through this town), far exceeding its usual, limits. The streets were soon covered with an immense body of water, which, in certain parts, rose to four feet. About ten o'clock the flood began to fall, and in some short time dis appeared altogether. We understand that not a few shop keepers and others have been more or less damaged in pro perty. It is gratifying to find that no human life has been lost. Tralee Mercury. The Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire have issued cards for grand dinners on the 17th and 24th instant. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LITE IN FRANCE. Yesterday Count Henry de Castellano, eldest son of Lieut.- General Count de Castellene, was married to Mlle. de Dino, daughter of the Duchess de Dino. The ceremony was performed with great pomp by the A rc hbi s h op of Paris, at the church of St. Thomas d'Aquin.—Galignani of Thursday. EDITIUN• MANCHESTER AND BIRMING - HAM EXTENSION RAILWAY (STONE AND RUGBY.) The following is the petition from the Earl of Lichfield, referred to last night by Mr. Poulett Thomson, and printed with this day's votes:— Petition of the Earl of Lichfield, in favour of the appli cation for a Bill, and complaining that allegations have bt:en made by the opponents respecting his property with out his consent. The humble petition of Thomas-William Earl of Lich field, being a landowner upon the line of the proposed Manchester and Birmingham Extension Railway, Sheweth,—That a petition is now before your honour able house, for leave to bring in a Bill for making a Rail way from Stone to Rugby, to be calied the Manchester and Birmingham Extension Railway. That your petitioner is informed, that, in cet taia peti tions complaining of non-compliance with the Standing O rders of your Honourable House, certain allegations have been made regarding the property of your Petitioner, without any previous communication with or authority from him, rn relation thereto, and that such proceedings appear designed and necessarily tend to create an impression that yogi. Petitioner is aggrieved by and opposed to the said un dertaking. That your Petitioner submits, that the use so made of your Petitioner's name is unauthorised and unjustof the Standing not in accordance with the spirit and design the Standing Orders of your Honourable House, your Peti tioner being an assenting party to the line, and most anx ious on public grounds, that the same should receive the sanction of the Legislature, for your Petitioner considers that the measure will be found to be one of great public utility, and well deserving the sanction of your Honourable House. And your Petitioner will ever pray, &c. LICHFIELD. MARKETS.—(THIS DAY). COVENT GARDEN. Very large supplies of all sorts, particularly turnips and osr,", rots. Trade was lively. Apples 4s. to 30g. per bushel ; ci" potatoes, 40s. to 60s. per ton ; new potatoes, Is. led. per lb.o; celery, ls. 6d. to 2s. per bundle ; carrots, 4s. to bs, per dim . bundles; mushrooms, Bd. per pottle; cucumbers, Bs. to per brace. HAY MARKET. Supplies good and demand brisk, prices higher. Hays to 955., 100 s., and 105 s. Clover, 80s. to 100 s. and I I "' Straw, 365. to 425. per load. CITY FISH MARKET. t, Supplies good and trade brisk, prices reasouable ; Turbo ss. to 10s. 15s. and 20s. each ; Cod, 2s. 6d. bs. and l'3''' Salmon Is. 6d. to 3s. per lb. ; Soles, 6d. to 3s. 6d. per POr; Lobsters Is. Is. to ss. each ; Whiting 3d. to Bd. each ; dock Bd. to Is. 2d. each. HUNGERFORD MARKET. Tarb °l ' Supplies good, and business brisk. Fish cheaper. ss. to 10s. 15s. and 18s. ; Cod, 2s. 6d. to ss. and Bs. ; Lobsters, Is. to ss. each ; Soles, 9d. to 3s. 6d. per pair; Salmon to 3s. per lb. for good. Beef 7d. to Bd. and 814. ; Mutton, 7id. to 81d. ; Veal Bd. to 9d. ; Pork 7 1 ,4 d. to BW i d. Veg eta ' bles, uniform supply and prices much as Covent °archon. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS . Supplies to a fair extent, and the demand good-prices W o(L ere a little dearer. Beef, 2s. 101. to 3s. 1041. ; Mutton, 25- nA I to 3s. 10d. ; Lamb, 6s. to 7s. ; Veal, 3s. 841. te 4s. I v7 A ' Pork, 3s. 10d. to 4s. ; Irish, 3s. to 3s. Bd. Chickens, 3 s• u"; to 4s. 6d. ; Geese, 6s. to Bs. ; Guinea Fowls, 3s. to 45 „_" Turkeys, 4s. to Bs. ; Rabbits, 9d. to Is. 9d. ; Woodcockstr t 6d. to ss. ; Pea Fowls, 9s. to 12s. ; Ducklings, 3s. W . . 1%; Wild Ducks, 2s. to 3s. ; Pigeons, 6d. to 9d. ; Eggs, 45. iiu• ss. 6d. per 120. • MONEY MARKET and CITY NEVI CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCI:• LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.—We have " an improved demand this week, and with it a more hea l th be t market, prices of American recovering themselves per lb , particularly for Mobile and New Orleans, t buyers being less inclined towards Uplands ; Brazilslo,llre been dull, not much having been done in them ; EgYP ti r o and Sea Island without change ; Surat a shade better tb last week ; speculators have taken 5,000 bales of Atner,. t cam 7 ; and 100 Surat. The sales to.day have been 2,500 104, of all kinds ; the Market quiet, but steady in price. Arrivals this morning—French mail. No ship letters', Owing to the very few arrivals this morning we has e b e great dearth of intelligence from all quarters a t o globe. The prevailing topic of conversation 111 the City relates to the important debate which is to take IN- 0 in the House of Commons next Monday, as well as t sir amendment to the motion of Lord John Russell, which Robert Peel is to bring forward. TRZ FUNDS. a Consols opened rather heavy .this morning, close 0 , 92 1 1 for Money ; for the Account, 92-i at present 113 0 be quoted 92-i sellers ; Money. 92i sellers' for the Act li k Exchequer Bills, 44 46 ; India Bonds, 45 48 ; . . - Stock, 196 197 ; India Stock, 251 252. et. In the Foreign Market scarce anything doing all ,a; Spanish a shade better than the leaving off price, 2"..et Portuguese the same as they closed, 35i 36 ; V001:03. Cents., 21f 22 ; Belgian, 1021; Brazilian, 77f ; C°, nof bian, 281 29i ; Danish, 74f ; Dutch Two.and-114-11 r Cents., 55i ; Five per Cents., 100 i 101 e. Everything appears very dull in the City, both Trioraye. spect to commercial affairs and operations in the " funds. The north-easterly winds prevent arrivals. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CrioCic f5l Bank Steck 1904 ! India Steck .............. 4;45 el. 3 per Cent. Red. 91;4% , Ditto Bends ................. --"" 3 per Cent. Cons. 92%4% South Sea Stock ......... .. .. ....., 3,4 per Cent — Old Annuities ........ .•••• .... ....". Ditto Red. 9 3304% New Ditto .............. .1.7.•6•1 ~...0 New .1 % per Cent 100 99% 3 per Cent. Annuities. 46 pli' New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 ,44 . 0 no Jan. 5, 1860 145 7-1 G Ditto Small 44'w r 0 Oct. 10, 1859 — Ditto Commercial — es. Jan. 5, 1860 14% Ditto Advertised -%,`„.., Jan. 5, 1380 — Bank Stock for Account ... ~.., April 5, 1880 — India Stock for Account ... ..0 Jan. 5. 1370 — Consols for Account .... 9279_4 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0. CLIA' .e Bonds Austrian . , , _. Belgian Bonds • Ditto - Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account ............... Portuguese Bonds. ............ yi Ditto New Bonds ...... ........ I)itte Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chinon Bench D tte Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account ............... Ditto, 3 per Cont. .. ....... 100 Ditto Account ............ - Prussian Bonds . ....... .. ..... .., Russian Bonds, MC.- ..... ... Ditto Account ............••• , Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1824 Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account Greek Bonds Ditto Metallic ..........•••• • Spanish Bonds.. ............... _ Ditto Account ......... r Ditto Bonds, 1634 ...... 20 4 Ditto Acceunt ......... 0 1! French, 5 per Ditto Bonds, 18'25 Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto Account Ditto, ti per Cent Ditto Account Neapolitan PRICES OF SHARES THI 4 Per cent. ....•• .....7t 3 per cent . .....• , ~; Exchange. .....• --" Dutch, 25, percent. ....•'" 00 Ditto Account. .......... .... t o Ditto, 5 per oent ............ 0. Ditto A0c0unt........." . er",B DAY AT ONE O'Cl' i , - ot .?•• Paid. British Iron Company &astern Counties Railway l3 70 .7 Great Western Railway Compan .y... ..... Brighton Railway COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY. 4 5 Amsterdam C.F. 12 4 , Gibraltar ........................ ..6 .10 Ditto, at sight Rotto.dam 2U. 12 4X 2 ' Genoa .. 5. 1 Antwerp.. Hamburg.. Attona •.. -,er OZ' fre 'all Palermo . ....... Lisbon ......... ....... .... Oporto. ............. ... Rio Janeiro ....... 0 Bahia .............. ............. Buenos Ayres .............. New York, 21 days' sigh t ." 0 , Philadelphia .............•••••• op PRICE OF BULLION,L 7i 0 Portugal Gold, 0 u Foreign Gold, in bars... ° 0 o .t New Doubloons ..... ..... 0 , 101. New Dollars .............. o ; 0 Silver in Bars ............ HALF-PAST O A eir Since our former report, we hear of an overla nd or patch from the East Indies having been received blocit vcrnment and at the India House, via Marseilles• er s o f contents have not as yet been made public ; no pato tb# letters to the present hour received. Report says, te nCeo papers received at the India House, are not of 101 )° , 1. ,,, 8/ 6 , but this is only on dit. The date of the dispat cP 4 25th February, from Bombay, a month later than i m account. to tut° • ~, The Semiramis steamer has been lost on her re w Bombay, after landing the troops on board. LT . - t ells* moment nothing has transpired respecting the desP" The great houses in the India trade have no news. 00 Consols are at present 921 for Money ; A c counts, o 46i little doing ; Exchequer Bills 44 46 ; India Bonds, • India Stock, 251 ; Bank Stock, 19t. ote t t Spanish Active 20, rather lower ; Portuguese inl. eg sk 35-3-1, owing to an expectation of some favourable 1.1,010 the next packet from Lisbon in respect to the di/ I 'c e nt%. Three per Cents. 211; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per 553 ; Five per Cents. 1013. Paris, 3 days' sight 25 40 ..................3Ditto Ms 25 70 Marseilles. Bcurdeaux Frankfurt on Maine, Ex. 51. 151 t A i l'etershuigh, ruble... 3 Us lO% Berlin Vienna, effective f1...2 51 lO 5 Trish, ditto lO 6 Itladrict '37tA 2t; Birceiona 36 2 Seville tW ee. GIG A t CCIDENT.—On Wednesday , 2,,,iott i twelve and one o'clock in the afternoon, Jatnea "„."siar costermonger, was corning through Earl's-court. l' e ", ofe t ton, with a dog-truck, when he was unfortunate l y re On by a horse and gig that was coming at a great pact ei e j . drife a ; concussion caused the horse to stop, and threw tufb out. Police-constable Hill, 134 T, hastened to *doe: and picked up Whelor, who was insensible, and cu t u p bI fully about the head. The gentleman was assisted Oe another constable, but his injuries were verygg i lloid a t r ; immediately gave his name and address, islurs'orra/fse Earl's-court, Kensington, and expressed h what had occurred, which he said was attributabled to horse having taken fright about half a mile off, a ll big * in a gallop, from which it was out of his power to s top Oos; The poor man Whelor was taken to St. Georgap,oo° pital, where he at present remains in a very d a state and the gentleman proceeded on his journeY• FATAL ACCIDENT ON TDB RIVEIt•---- 0 ,10- J day morning, about ten o'clock, as three Vot e or s George Clark, William Wyeth, and John " 8 1,;d P f° f proceeding up the river in a boat, in which thq ip ,,, OA/ very heavy barrels of pitch, when near Nine d one 1 , ° 6 accidentally rowed against the side of a barge, an d k the barrels rolling from the side on which it wasp ' e si brie lo ' boat upset. Wyeth and Wane, after a few piercing.na sank to rise no more . Cl are c l un g to the boat. y tizifOr° picked up by severa l persons w h o had corn° to to tunate men's assistance. PLI U/'° ' At a Vestry meeting of the parish of St•e of afor Covent-garden, yesterday, Mr. John itß „ t oo street, was unani mous ly elected vestry clerk In the,_ m r e yfrons Mr. Mosely, res i gne d. The salary has been rai 1001. to 80/. a year. l c , the - • TEETOTALERS.—One day last wee that man announced in the public streets of wed ' , o pp innkeepers had c o me to the determination not L Teetotalers with yeast. —Bradford Observer. tole) REFUSAL OF DUTY.--On Wedne:Clipatlydeo t be seamen, forming part of the c rew of the befo re i on Glasgow, Captain John Kerr, were bro?g the ir° d bt f u se Mayor of Gravesend, and convicted by re' Hall of that borough, charged with having "legator havil to proceed in the ship on a voyage tb Quebec ose w itr ea . entered into articles of agreKnent for that P o 'l l 4 l i-0 001 master, contrary to the 6th section of Cap _ men's Act, the sth and 6th Wm. IV., cap. 19.