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JUSTICE TO IRELAND. DINNER TO MR. O'CONNELL. This Dinner will take place at COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE on TUESDAY, the 12th of March, at Six o'Clock precisely. Every attention will be paid to make the arrangements worthy of the occasion. The pit and stage of the theatre will be laid together, and the tables spread over the whole area. The boxes will be en tirely reserved for ladies. The galleries will be opened, and admit tance to the boxes and galleries by tickets, which will be issued to the Stewards. Dinner Tickets, One Guinea each, to be had from the Stewards only. In consequence of the number to each Steward being limited, au early application Is requested. The Tickets will be ready on Friday next. JAMES COPPOCK. 3, Cleveland-row, St. James's, Feb. 26, 1844. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY LEECH AND ALFRED CROWQUILL. The MARCH NUMBER, Price Half-a-Crown, of BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY, Will contain : THE FORTUNES OF THE SCATTERGOOD FAMILY, By ALBERT SMITH. With Two Illustrations by Leech. Chap. VIII.—Mrs. Chicksand's Lodgers—The arrival of Black Monday. Chap. IX.—Mr. Glenalvon Fogg's drama is rehearsed. Chap. X. The first day at Merchant Tailors'. The Eve of Saint Andrew. A Legend of Modern Germany. A Military Execution in the Portuguese Army. On an Early Violet. By 11. B. K. The Blue Fiacre ; or, the Parisian Othello. By Mrs. Romer. Appropos orfobacco. By an Old Smoker. Don't you think me right? By W. Law Gane. The Physiology of London Life. By J. Fisher Murray. Author of " The World of London." The . 3lan without a Home, with an Illustration. By Alfred Crow quill. The Poor Man's Evening Hymn. By William Jones. Elrick Storwaldsen's Klippa. By W. Law Gane. The Gaol-Chaplain ; or, a Dark Page from Life's Volume—Early Life of Edmund Beau—Mr. Nation—A Sporting Bishop, and life at Carlton House. Jeopardy ; or, the Drowning Dragoon. By Catherine Sinclair. The Mother's Lament. By William Jones. The Death of Joachim Murat. By A. A. Knox. The Divan. Richard Bentley, New Burling,ton-street, LiEtTISNANT-COLONEL NAPIER'S NEW WORK. Now ready, in 2 vols., small Bvo., with Plates, 218. bound, D IN L EITROPE, ASIA, S AND P AFR O ICA. R T S By Lieutenant-Colonel NAPIER. Author of " Scenes and Sports in Foreign Lands," " Excursions along the Shores of the Mediterranean," &c. Hairy Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. SEASON 1844. The following outline of the arrangements for the ensuing season is respectffilly presented to the Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public. ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE OPERA. Madame Grisi, Madlle. M. Favanti (her first appearance at this rlicatre), Madame Denial, Madame Dai Fiori, and Madame Persian!. lilgnor Mario, Sig. Correlli (his first appearance at this Theatre), Dal Fiorl, Sig. Felice (his first appearance at this Theatre), Sig. ornuarl, Sig. F. Lablache, and Sig. Lablache. Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor, Sig. Costa. - _ _ THE BALLET. 3fadlle. Carlotta Olds!, Madlle. Adelaide Frasl, of the Teatro di Pergola, Florence (her first appearance at this theatre) ; Mad. Guy Stephan ; Madlle. Scheffre, Madlle. Ferdinand, 3ladlle. Planquet, 3ladlle. Barville (their first appearance at this theatre) ; 3fadlle. Fanny Elseler, and Madlle. Cerito ; M. St. Leon, M. Montassu (his first appearance in this country), M. Conlon, M. Gosselin, M. Orouriet, M. Venafra, 31. Bertram, and 31. Perrot, and a numerous and efficient Corps de Ballet. Arrangements are also pending with 3fadlle. Taglioni, and there is. every probability that the talent of this eminent artiste will be se wed for a 'hulled number of representations. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, Will be performed Shakspeare's Play (as altered by Cibber) of RICHARD 111. Richard, Duke of Gloster, Mr. Charles Kean; Duke of Buckingham, Mr. Cooper ; Duke of Norfolk, Mr. G. Horncastle • Earl of Richmond, Mr. Hudson ; Eli za b e th, M rs. Warner; Luchess of York, Mrs. Selby • Lady Anne, Mrs. St , rung. After which, THE LADY OF ZH E LAKE. James the Fifth, Mr. Barker; Douglas, Mr. Stretton ; Allan ane, Mr. G. Horncastle; Rhoderick Dhii, Mr. W. Harrison ; Murdoch, Mr. fringe, Malcolm Grwme, Mrs. Alfred Shaw; Ellen Douglas, Miss Betts Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 63. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55., ; Second Price 3s, Pit 3s , Second Price Qs.; Middle Gallery ks.. tl,cond Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price Bd. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN, M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. THIS EVENING, WEDNESDAY, there will be no Perform ance. the Theatre having hem let previous to M. Jullien's occu pation. M. JULLIEN has the honour to announce that his ANNUAL BENEFIT will take place 'fo-MORROW EVENING, February P, when the following Music will be performed : PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING—PART I. Overture, Anacreon—Cherubini, Scotch Quk drine, with the imitation of the Highland Pipe—Jullien, Solo, Cornet-a-Piston, Herr Kcenig, Grand Symphony (first movement), entitled The Power of Sound— Spohr. Solo, Flute, Mr. Richardson. alse, La Cai le—Jullien. 'I he Destruction of Pompeii—Rech Albert. PART 1L The Nightingale Waltz—Jullien. Opera, Robert le Diable, Grand Fantasia, with Solos—Meyerbeer. Sole, Violoncello, M Pilet. Selections from Stabat Mater—Rossini. Valse, La Valse a Deux Tems—Jullien. I'he English Quadrille—Jullien. Doors Open at Hall-past Seven, commence at Eight o'Clock. Promenade, Is , Upper Boxes, Is. ; Dress Circle, 9.5. ; Private Boxes, 11 , Is. Tickets to be obtained at the Box-otlice of the '1 hatre; of Mr. Mitchell, old Bond-street; Mr, Andrews, New BoraLstreet; Mr. Sams, St. James's-street; and M. Jullien's Office, Maddox-stteet, Bond street, THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MS. BENJ AMIN WEBSTER. LESSER THIS EG 29, Will be VEN performed a New Cotn lN ic , D FEBRUARY rama, entitled GRIST TO THE MILL. Marquis de Richeville, Mr. Charles Mathews; Francine, Madame Vestris. After which, a New Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Bart., Mr. Charles Mathews; Sir Adonus Leech, Mr Tilbury; Wurzle, Mr . James Bland; Mary, Miss Julia Bennett ; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs. Humby. To conclude with a O LDEN y Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR ONE WITH THE LOCKS! King Lachrymoso, Mr. J. Bland; prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidors, Miss Julia Bennett. Orchestra Stalls, 59. ; Boxes, ss. • Pit 3s. • Gallery. 22.; Upper Gallery, is. Half.pri ce— Boxes,_3s ' . ; Pit, 9.5.'; Gallery, Is. ; Upper H Gallery, &I. Door s opened at all.past Six, and the Performance commence at Seven. rickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box office, from Teti till Five. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, . Will be performed LA SO NN A MBULA. Amina, Mrs. Wood; Liza, Miss Grant; Elvin , Mr. Wood. After which, A DIVERIISSEIIZENT from the favourite Ballet 01 LA SYLBHIDE Donald, Mr. Gilbert ; La Sylphide, Miss Bailin. To befollowed by a GRAND CONCERT • After which, THE OLD GUARD. Haversack, Mr. Morris Bar. nett ; Melanie, Madame Eugenie Prospere. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 29, Will be reated, by permission of Ch ar l es Di c k ens, E sq., THE CHRISTMAS CAROL Principal Characters—Messrs. 0. Smith, Wright, Lyon, Maynard, Forman, Miss Woolgar. Mrs. F. Mathews, Miss Chaplin, and Miss Lee. To be followed by ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA MARRIED AND SETTLED. Antony, Mr. Wright; Cleopatra, Miss Woolgar. After which, the Tragedy at RICHARD '[HE THIRD. M. chard, Mr. Wright; Lady Anne, Miss E. Stanley. To conclude with THE DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. EVENING, FERUARY .‘B, Will be performed a New Dr a ma, e n led ntit THE LAST SHIL LING, supported by all the Company. After which,. The Armenian Prodigy, or Wonderful Ariel Pole Dancer. TQ be followed by A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by a Boz," with splendid Appointments. To conclude with THE PLEDGE OF LOVE. THE WEATBER.-.SUN OFFICE, FEB. 27. THEILSIONIETER, Lowest, 25; Highest, 51 ; Noon, 33. BA.ROMETER, 29.5.—W1ND, N. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometels fair is Usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. lIIGII WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 21 minutes after S f Evening .. 5 minutes after 9. -.- ~-) 41.-1; ) , ' 'l '4 . ' pia , $a I• ar ii: .."4 • .Wr.l , is• N 'lei , ,k, , - , !:ittqf',;''''''.'o• .;°l,- ):?‘Akiii:%.- ''4`''' \ ..." .-.9 4,5 : ,, f 7"4 "": ...1 , 7-711.F -1111 ` k - ' • At 0 inornin LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1844. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a petition from the Magistrates of Glasgow, against the impo 6ition of religious tests upon professors in the Univer sits, of that city, and prayed that those tests might be abolished. They excepted, however, professors of theology. Lord CAMPBELL hoped the Noble Marquis would bring in a Bill on the subject. The law, in fact, was obsolete, and some of the most eminent professors of language and science would not subscribe the Con fassion of Faith. Lord BROUGHAM mentioned a number of eminent men in the University of Edinburgh and Glasgow who were Episcopalians, and among others, his dis tinguished and reverend relative, Professor DALZIEL. Lord HADDINGTON was favourable to the prayer of the petition, and there is every probability therefore, that a Bill will be brought in to make the law consirztent with a practice established by universal consent. The Hous(i adjourned at Half-past Five o'clock. In the , House of Commons, after the presentation of petitions, Mr. COBDEN postponed his motion for a Select-Committee to inquire into the effects of the corn-laws on farmers and farm labourers, for a fort night. Mr. WYSE gave notice that on Tuesday, the 12th of March, he would bring forward a motion for the universal education of the Catholics of Ireland, and especially of those persons intended for the priest hood. Mr. THOMAS DUNCOMBE gave notice that on the first supply day he would move for a return of all the moneys paid to FREDERICK BOND IkonEs, CHARLES Ross, and JOHN JACKSON, mho had been employed by the Government to take notes relative to the repeal agitation in Ireland. The men tion of the names of these short-hand writers, and the papers with which some of them were connected, excited much laughter. Mr. LEADER moved for numerous returns respect ing the expenses incurred in repressing the rebellion in Canada, the Canada Tenures Act, and a variety of other matters connected with that colony, which were agreed to. In answer to a question from Mr. HumE, Lord STANLEY said he.could not state the exact number of Canadian exiles now in Van Diemen's Land who ISPAIREigten pardoned, but he could state generally -111:)r..•v case not marked by peculiar aggravation ercifully considered by the Crown. - NORREYS put several questions to the *f 4 t . Pt* etary relative to the poor-laws in Ireland; L a S always sustained against the advocates of monopoly protection. But the power of capital is, in itself, the most grievous and grinding of monopolies, when it is brought to bear, on the largest scale, and with the most unfair advantages, or the depreciation of the wages of domestic industry. It may he a legitimite object of the capitalist so to deal with the market of labour as to keep down wages at the very lowest point to which the unthrifty competition of starving artisans may reduce it. But we are sure that this is a course neither politic in the social economy of the nation, nor advantageous in the long run even to the individuals who extract from it a temporary and exor bitant profit on the capital they expend in wages. Let the capitalist realise, by all the honourable means which his wealth, his ingenuity, his sagacity and his application & busi ness can suggest to him, the best return he can get on his money investments—large as these necessarily are. But we are not at all disposed to allow him to take advantage of the necessities of artisans, who are desperate from intense poverty, to an extent which is revolting to humanity, a scandal upon the country and an outrage on the civilization of our times. It is therefore that, when we see a Society endeavour ing, in a legal and constitutional manner, to rectify that enormous crime in legislation which has led to these disastrous consequences, by re-establishing the system of our currency on a more healthful footing, and one on which it may be again capable of impart ing that diffusive energy to British industry, by which British industry was animated from 1797 down to the first year of the operation of PEEL'S Bill of 1819 —we, without hesitation, give to such views and such principles our hearty support. Now the two strongest claims upon public confi dence and aid which the Society advances, are, the propositions it enunciates with regard to the recipro cal action of an extended paper circulation and high prices, and the indispensable necessity and justice of transferring the ultimate discharge of our onerous taxation from the shoulders of the industrial com munity of the country, upon whom the Bill of 1819 most iniquitously fixed it,. to those of the wealthy consumers. The Society has clearly demonstrated that, with the " depreciated paper currency," of which so much has been said, the manufacturer charged, and was paid, the additional taxation cost of pro ducing his commodity ; and he was thus enabled to pay wages to the operative, which also included the amount of taxation payable on their various neces saries of subsistence and clothing. When a gold standard was established by law, prices of course fell, and fell even in a far greater ratio than econo mists could define between the exchangeable value of the gold and the paper pound. In 1821 the war taxation may be said to have received its maximum of permanent reduction, and the scheme of our present taxation to have been established. Now what was the - difference of operation arising out of this change of currency as between the case of operatives and of masters, manufacturers or others This, that after allowing for all further re ductions and modifications of taxes in the interval subsequent to 1821, the taxes upon industry, to the amount of 30,000,0001. per annum—which,at all times, ought to be, and heretofore had been, paid by the rich and unproductive consumers of goods —were and still are, levied from our industrial poor. An enor mity of injustice this, more flagrant than the des potism of empires, wherein the sovereign authority is maintained by brute force alone, would be prepared to perpetrate. In truth, this sum of 30,000,0001. does not adequately represent the total aggregate of diminution in the wages paid under an established standard of gold currency from the wages paid under that previods currency, which was " repudiated," so to speak, by the Bill of 1819. Now, because the amount of labour supplied by the working classes has since been not merely not less, but (owing to the greatly increased amount of manufacturing production in the same interval) prodigiously more; it is clear that this working community has been wronged, not only in the amount of the depreciation of wages in the the Hon. Member not considering the answers of Sir JAMES GRAHAM satisfactory, gave notice that he would move for a Select Committee on the state of the law unless the Government took up the subject. In answer to a question from Mr. W. 0. STAN LEY relative to pauper lunatics in Wales, Sir JAMES GRAHAM said no subject could be more important, but he was not prepared to say at present that he would introduce a measure to compel townships to erect lunatic asylums. Sir HENRY HARDINGE said, in reference to a question put to him formerly, and also last evening, with regard to the collision which had taken place between some of the inhabitants of Brighton and the soldiers in garrison, that he wished to impute no blame to the inhabitants, that the soldiers had re ceived no provocation for the outrage they had com mitted, and that the offenders had been justly sen tenced to ten months' imprisonment. The Com mander-in-Chief had since issued an order that no soldier should enter the town, unless accompanied by a non-commissioned officer. In answer to a question from Mr. lIINDLEY, Sir ROBERT PEEL said he had no reason to doubt that the announcement published by the Illoniteur relative to Otaheite, which had appeared in the Times, was authentic, and that the King of the FRENCH and his Council had acted on the impulse of their own feel ings. He believed the act of Admiral DUFETIT THOUARS was disowned by the French Government. Mr. TURNER gave notice that, on a future day, hie would move that duelling was immoral in its ten dency, and contrary to Divine command. The Hon. Member tried to elicit from Sir ROBERT PEEL what was his opinion on the subject, but the Right Hon. Baronet reserved himself till the question should be regularly before the House. Sir ROBERT PEEL, in answer to a question from Mr. V. STUART, said he was not prepared to give any information relative to the expulsion of certain Poles from the Duchy of Posen, by order of the King of PRUSSIA. Mr. WALLACE then brought forward his motion re lative to judicial establishments in Scotland, and after pointing out their defects, moved an address to the Crown, praying that her Majesty would be pleased to command that the sittings of the Court of Session shall be extended by two months in each year. No Member seconded the motion, which of course was' lost. Lord JOHN MANNERS moved an address to her MAJESTY, representing that the detention of Don CARLOS in France is contrary to justice and the ho nour of this country, and praying the QUEEN to in- - - :ercede with Louts PHILIPPE for his deliverance, Sir R. PEEL opposed the motion, and was sup ported by Lord PALMERSTON. Both believed tha Don CARLOS was treated with every kindness and respect to which he was entitled. Several Hon. Members followed; eventually the motion was negatived without a division. Capt. BERNAL'S motion for a copy of the address of the Dublin Protestant Operative Association to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was rejected by a majority of 51. The third reading of the Horse-racing Penalties Bill was carried by a majority of 66. The other Orders of the Day were then dispn , ed of, and the House adjourned till Thursday. The Anti-Corn-law League has justgained another signal triumph over agricultural prejudices. At Gloucester, on Saturday last, a deputation consisting of Mr. COBDEN, Colonel THOMPSON, and some other members of this influential confederacy, addressed an assembly of upwards of four thousand persons, a large number of whom were farmers, at the Shire-hall ; and, notwithstanding that the monopolists offered every opposition in their power, the deputation were received and listened to with marked respect, and a resolution in favour of free-trade was proposed and carried by an overwhelming majority, only about a dozen, hands being held,up against it. Earl DUCIE, who presided, and who is well known to be one of the most scientific agriculturists in the kingdom, expressed himself warmly in favour of the League, whose object, he justly said, was not to injure the farmer, but to benefit every class of the community, from the peer to the peasant. The opinions of an intelligent dispas sionate observer, like the Noble Lord, who is one of the largest land-owners in Gloucestershire, and as he himself told the meeting, has been " upwards of three and-twenty years engaged in agricultural pursuits," is calculated to have great weight with all thinking people, and will make a deeper impression on their minds than a hundred such monopoly-manifestos as that issued the other day by the Duke of NORTRUM- BERLAND, who, though a great man by the accident of birth, is, by the ordination of nature, a very small logician. Mr. COBDEN, who followed Earl DUCIE, expressed himself with his usual clearness, manliness, and simplicity. His speech abounded in practical arguments ; and long before he sat down he had dis armed opposition of its force, and made proselytes of all who had heads to understand and hearts to feel the acuteness, the cogency, and the healthy, unaf fected feeling that characterised his observations. " Does the price of land rise or fall with the price of corn ?" inquired the Hon. Member for Stockport, the unbeloved of Col. SIIITHORP, and the bugbear of Mr. FERRAND. " lie would ask, would land let at the same price when corn was twenty shillings a quarter as when it was eighty shillings ?—(Cries of ' No, no.') Well, then, if it would not, the object in keeping up the price of corn must be to keep up the price of land, or in plainer terms, to keep up the rents of the land latter, as compared with the former period, but in the further ratio of increased and excessive devotion of their physical existence, as well as powers—of their time as well as their manual labour, which has be come the sacrifice demanded in return for the mo- dicum of wages which the manufacturer can pay. The substitution of a dear for a cheap currency, the legalisation of an exclusively gold standard, compels the latter to dispose of his goods at prices minus the taxation cost, which would otherwise enter into those prices ; and this ccst, it is evident, is borne by the unhappy artisan, not, as the Legisla ture itself intended, by the competent consumer. The advantage is self-evident of their position who are the recipients of fixed incomes—who are Govern ment or other official servants, at salaries either still paid on the scale to which they were raised pending the days of paper currency, with a view to meet the higher prices of those times, or on a scale since but little modified:; and of mortgagees and other creditors who are now, by law, receiving payment under an enhanced standard, for advances made by them in a depreciated currency. Prices are already enormously lowered to their hands. They get in their debts in gold, they receive their incomes in gold ; and they command all the greater quantities of goods for the same denominations of money value, which coin of a natural scarcity artificially enhanced, will always produce. A little tract has been put into our hands, pur porting to be the copy of a letter addressed to the editor of a very influential journal, on the 9th ultimo, on this important question of protection to British industry. We are not at all astonished that 'our Contemporary, who has all along given so decided a support—interested or otherwise—to the Bill of 1819, and endeavoured to vindicate its operation, in the face of all its disastrous results, during the last four-and-twenty years, should have refused admission to such a document. It lords. Admitting the proposition to be correct, sup posing corn was raised to a hundred shillings a quarter, the farmers could not possibly, by the re motest chance, be one bit better off." Alluding to the fluctuations in the price of corn, Mr. COBDEN went on to remark, " This was the injustice to the tenant-farmer--he rented his land at Act of Par- liament prices, and sold his corn at market prices; and so when he went to pay his rent, he found he had been compelled to sell his corn at ten shillings or twelve shillings under the price which the landlord gave for his land." Strong, perspicuous reasoning like this reminds us of the sledge-hammer logic of COBBETT in his earlier and better days, against which there was no making head. Obtuse indeed must be the capacity, cased in sevenfold ignorance and prejudice, that cannot feel the full force of Mr. COBDEN'S arguments. Well may the monopolists take fright at his exertions, and strive their utmost to bear him down by clamour, for he is indeed a powerful opponent ; and one strong, transparent, convincing " fact" of his tells more with the community at large than all the sophistries, how ever ingenious, that issue from time to time from the Council chambers of monopoly. The adversaries of the League are just now in full feather, like geese at Michaelmas ; loud is their cackle, for they fancy that they are standing on vantage-ground, and that the Premier is their determined, albeit reluctant, ally ; but they are mistaken—cruelly mistaken ; their po sition is just as precarious as ever it was ; the ground on which they tread, however apparently solid, is undermined; and one fine morning, when they least is a plain and able exponent of the principles we have thus endeavoured to uphold. If the object of those from whom it emanates were that ominous "protection" which has been so recklessly conceded to what are falsely called the interests of British " agriculture," we should be the last to countenance or assist it. But the claims of our working classes— of those to whom the accumulating capital and in creasing commercial returns of the empire, never seem to find their way in anything like a fair propor tionate distribution, under our existing monetary •system—their claims shall always command our earnest and sympathising assistance, to the utmos extent of our ability. The petition from Durham against the return of Mr. BRIGHT, which in the rage of defeat the Tory party concocted and presented to the House of Com mons, has fallen to the ground. A petition more groundless—containing allegations more false, and charges m ore devoid of all foundation, was never brought before the tribunal of Parliament. After months of labour, and the expenditure oflarge sums of money, in the attempt to procure the shadow ofsubstance for the petition (in which attempt the stews and sink holes of Durham have been raked), the petitioners have been obliged to confess that they had no real charge against Mr. BRIGHT or his election, and have withdrawn their petition. If any case could have been made, neither money nor inclination was want ing to sully the fair fame of the first great triumph of free trade in the city of Durham. Mr. BRIGHT stands the Member for Durham, and the petitioners against his return confess that he was fairly, honour ably, and honestly returned. expect it, the train will be laid—the torch applied— the mine sprung—and monopoly, like the Egyptians at Acre, will be blown to atoms. . in the commendation with which we have felt our selves call e d upon to notice the manifesto, or exposi t tion of objects, which has been p u t f ort h by the Society for the Emancipation o f I n d ustry, we are under no apprehension of having uttered opinions the expres sion of which can be misunderstood. We have borne testimony to the usefulness and the really national design of an Association, which proposes to secure for the industrial community, whose labour produces the manufactured commodities which are the staple wealth of our foreign commerce, something like positive wages for their incessant toil. Instead of these, ..,kt is notorious that, year after year, they , \sve paid but a miserable week ly pittance; , , wjlich either experiences no in revenge, corresponding with the admitted extension and improvement of our trade ; or, when nominally raised, is still equalised to its former scale of insuffi ciency-by the increased and destructive demands on his time, his health and his energies, in the shape of " overwork hours" and " omitted meal-times." Had we any party feelings to consult, in the protest we have so repeatedly made against that vicious system of monetary legislation which fosters excessive PRO DUCTION, without, making any provision for the pro portionate DISTRIBUTION, of the profits thus realised by capital, those feelings would rather prompt us to carry to their extreme extent the free-trade princi ples of non-intervention with capital which we have Madrid Papers of the 19th have been received, but they are without interest. Alicant still held out on the lgth. • The Three per Cents. were done on the Madrid Bourse on the 19th inst. at 30 for cash and 301 at 60 days, and the Five per Cents. at 201 at 60 days. SMUGGLING.—On Saturday morning James Field the master and owner of the smack, Lord Howe, 25 tons burden, which was captured by a boat's crew belonging to the coast-guard station, at Garrison-point, Sheerness, on the night of the 18th instant, with a large quantity of contraband spirits on board, and John Gooding and Phineas Friday Webb, the crew of the vessel, were brought before the Mayor and Aldermen of Rochester, charged, on the information of Mr. William Sawyer, the collector of the customs there, with being found in a certain vessel on the high seas, such vessel having on board 252 gallons of brandy and 128 gallons_ 9f C G . e l n 3 e . va lrh su e bi r • e ri ct so t n o e f r o s rf a e l i l tu p re le , 4thacdoendtragilttoyt.heileas ofm W t ra er . said iv he was driven to it by distress. Sentenced to seven months' hard imprisonmentlahour .in the House of Correction at Maidston e , with On Sunday last the Rev. Mr. Sibthorp received the Holy Communion from the hands of the venerable Pre sident in the chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he is now staying on a visit. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDN_ESDA,Y, MOANING, FEBRUARY 28, 1844. IMPORTANT NEWS FROM PARIS. RESTORATION OF OTAHEITE TO QUEEN PONIARE. (From the Times.) 'We have received by extraordinary express the Paris papers of yesterday. The Moniteur contains the following - " Government have received dispatches . from the Island of Tahiti, dated the Ist and 9th of Novem ber, 1842. " Vice-Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS, who arrived in the Bay of Papeiti on the Ist of November to carry into execution the treaty of the 9th of Sep tember, 1842, which the KING had ratified, had deemed it his duty not to adhere to the stipulations of that treaty, but to take possession of the island. Queen POMARE has written to the KING to demand the fulfilment of the stipulations of the treaty which assured to her the internal sovereignty of her country, and to pray that she be maintained in her rights. The KING, by the advice of his Council, not finding in the circumstances reported, sufficient grounds for abandoning the treaty of the 9th of September, 1842, has ordered the execution, pure and simple, of that treaty, and the establishment of the French Pro tectorate in that island." The Paris papers of Sunday, which were delayed by the boisterous weather, have been received. The underhand attack made by M. TRIERS on the Court, in reference to the resignation of M. DE SALVANDY, still forms a subject of discussion in several of the papers. The Journal des Debats has written two long articles against the line of policy pursued by the ex-Minister, to which the Constitutionnel has re plied with much warmth, but their arguments possess no interest to the English reader. All the papers give reports of the questions put by Lord BROUGHAM and Sir GEORGE GREY, relative to the occupation of Otaheite, with the replies of the Earl of ABERDEEN and Sir ROBERT PEEL. The National, which loses no opportunity of exciting the bad passions of the two nations, has a violent article on the subject, attacks Lord BROUGHAM, M. GUIZoT, and every party in fact that is opposed to the unwarrantable step taken by the brave French Admiral. That journal in these attacks shows not only great anti pathy to England, but states deliberate falsehoods ; and among others, after alluding to British conquests in China, it asserts what every one knows is contrary to the fact, that England has opened the Chinese ports, but insolently repels from them European commerce. After the important intelligence, however, given above, the affair now has little interest. The Cabinet of Louis PHILIPPE has acted wisely and justly in disowning the rash act of D UPETIT-THOUA RS. The Constitutionnel gives, on the authority of a correspondent, very unfavourable news from the Papal States. The discontent of the people, it says, is no longer confined to complaints ; they have commenced to act in a manner which shows their de termination to resist the absolutist party: .At Ra venna, M. CuaTaar, the head of the police of that legation, was fired upon, and though he himself es caped, some of his escort were wounded. The fol lowing day a placard was found posted in the streets of Ravenna, that if M. CLAVARI did not take his de parture forthwith, he would not escape the next shot. At Saint Albert and Jaffignano, small towns in the same legation, several Carabineers have been shot, and the Swiss guard disarmed. At Bologna a peasant, who is said to have been one of the insurgents in August last, wished to enter the town, but was discovered by the patrol, whom he immediately shot with a pistol. The following day, at the funeral of the unfortunate patrol, shots were fired on the escort, and neither the murderer nor the others have been discovered. And it is also stated that M. ALEXANDRIN I, one of the members of the special commission to try the in surgents at Ancona, had been shot in open day. The French Funds fell on Sunday, in consequence of a report that the KING had had another bilious attack. At TORTONI'S the Three per Cents. closed at 82f. 32ic. FACTORIES. " Bill for Regulating the Employment of Children, Young Persons, and Women, in Factories." Brought into the House of Commons by Sir • James Graham and Mr. Manners Sutton. Or dered to be printed 6th February, 1844. • This Bill, in its present shape, consists of seventy seven clauses, with four schedules of certificates, forms, &c., connected with its various enactments. The first clause repeals the 42d Geo. 111. c. 73, the 3d and 4th Will. IV. , c. 109, a n d th e 4t h an d st h Will. IV., c. 1, entitled respecti ve l y , "A n A ct for the Preervation of the H ea l t h and Morals of a Apprentices and others employed Ae yedin Cott Act to Ronegnnldate otherthe Young Per sons i n t h e Mill s a in d te determining an l ad i b l o s u and r of Factories F Childrencot of r t i h e se and ; ' United 1c ti'rpretation, --ingdom ;" and " An Act to explain and amend " the last recited Act. t e n l e au l s e e gal 2 extent to he attached to these words whenever they occur i n t h e Bill, namely, any word denoting a signification nific le atio o n f n "male person," shall be taken to mean a ." female" as well as a male ; and " one person," or thing, any number of persons or things ; " child," to be construed a " child under the age of thirteen ; " young person," a person of thirteen and under eighteen, &c. & C . " Month," is to mean a " calendar month ;" " night," to imply from eight o'clock in the evening till six o'clock on the following morning. The application of the word " factory " is also carefully defined, together with the exceptions thereto which are to be noted ; as to such parts thereof, for instance, as are used solely for the purposes of a dwelling-house, or during the packing of finished goods; and from this and other parts of the Act are to be exempted Young persons, being me chanics, artisans, or labourers working only in making and repairing the machine ry , or any p ar t s o f th e factory. Clauses 3to d enact that no child under eight years of age be employed in an y f ac t ory; no young person under sixteen to be employed without a surgeon's certificate ; but children and young persons may be employed seven or thirteen days without such certificate. Clauses 7 and Children not to work more than six hours and thirty minutes daily, and young persons and women not more than twelve hours daily. Clauses 9 and 10 enact, that children and young persons shall not be employed in more than one factory, and are not to work in the night (i.e. after half-past seven in the evening). Clause 11 directs in what manner it shall be lawful for employers to make up and recover, by the additional labour of children, young persons, and women, time lost from drought or floods. Clauses 12 and 13—Work to cease on every Saturday after noon at half-past four; one hour and a half to be allowed for meal- times. Subsequent clauses provide precautions to ensure ,regularity in the observance of time ; eight half holidays to be allowed in every .year; children to attend school, and occupiers of factory to obtain school certificates, and to pay school fees. Factories to be lime-washed, yearly; protection to be provided for workers in net-spinning flax mills ; mill-gearing not to be cleaned while in motion ; machinery to be inclosed or guarded-; inspector or sub-inspector to give notice of dangerous machinery; notice to be given of any accident ; certifying surgeon to examine into cause and extent of accident, and report thereon. All these clauses (from 14 to 24 inclusive) are ad mirable,both for the spirit which has dictated and the details which develope their application. Then next follow various clauses requiring a registry to be kept, after a form in the schedule, in every factory; and providing for the appointment of inspectors and sub-in spectors, their meetings and reports, legal exemptions (as, from serving on juries) attaching to them, and arrangement of their offices. Notices to be given to them by persons beginning to occupy factories ; certifying surgeons to be appointed by them—duties, &c., of surgeons in their connexions with factors and mill owners, and inspectors ; proofs of age as to youths and adults;. inspectors authorised to annul vrtificates ; certificates of real age may be claimed, and to serve for one factory only ; prosecutions for compensation by inspectors; and application of such compensations when recovered.—(Clauses 25 to 49.) Clauses 50 to 54 enact that occupiers of factories shall be liable in the first instance ; but all com plaints for infractions of the Act must be preferred within two months of the date of the offence. Sub sequent clauses regulate the proceedings under this Act; power to be exercised for recovery of penalties under it ; authority to judges to compel the attendance of witnesses, &c. Clauses 58 to 7,1 set out several offences as infractions of the Factories Act, assign the penalties respec tively attaching thereto, and direct the mode of their application; 72 and 73 direct that convictions be filed among the records of the county, and that there be no appeal from such convictions allowed ; 74, burgh magistrates in Scotland to exercise same Powers, as justices of peace in England; 75, exception ai to silk mills; 76 to 78, exemption of all deeds, Proceedings, &c., under this Act from stamp duties. Act to commence October 1, 1844, but may be pre viously re p ea l e d b y any Act for that purpose to be Passed in the present session of Parliament. - SUMMARY OF NEWS AND 01.)tntott. " Who runs may read." Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent is expected to arrive at Clarence House, St. James's, on Friday next, from Frogmore Lodge, on which day the Court is expected to re move from Windsor Castle to Buckingham Palace. The Duke of Cambridge's dinner to the Directors of the Concerts of Ancient Music will be given on the 13th of the ensuing month. The Duke of Wellington will leave Apsley House to day for Strathfieldsaye. The! judges, Justices Cresswell and Wightman, are expected to sleep at Strathfieldsaye previous to opening the commission at Winchester. The Duke will return to town at the end of the week. The Duchesses of Hamilton and Roxburghe, the Mar chionesses of Breadalbane and Douglas, Countess of Caith ness, Lady E. Pringle, and the leading nobility and gentry of the three Lothians, patronise the grand Celtic ball at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, on Friday next. The Mar quis of Douglas, the Earl of Caithness, Lord Berriedale, and Colonel Mountain, 26th Cameronians, are stewards. We have authority, says an Edinburgh paper of Saturday, to contradict the statement which we inserted in our last, from the Court Journal, regarding the marriage of Miss Baillie to the Earl of Mansfield. There is, we understand, no foundation whatever for the reports which have recently been circulated by the public press on this subject. Lord and Lady Willoughby d'Eresby and family are still at Rome, where they are expected to remain until the end of March, anal then leave that city on their way to Paris. The Earl and Countess of Eglintoun left the Ciarendon Hotel on Monday, for the Earl of Sefton's seat, Crosteth Hall, Lancashire, which is full of company, on the occasion of the grand national steeple-chase, which is expected to be attended by a strong muster of sporting noblemen and gentlemen. Sir Charles Rushout and the Hon. Lady Cockerell have arrived at Fenton's Hotel, to be present at the solemnisation of the nuptials of her Ladyship's sister, the Hon. Georgiana Foley, with Mr. Montgomerie, a gentleman of property in the county of Norfolk. MISCELLANEOUS. There has been another extraordinary change in the weather within a few hours. On Monday at noon the ther mometer stood at 51 degrees, in the course of the night it fell to 25, and at noon yesterday was only one degree above freezing. ThO gales of wind which blew heavily during the whole of Friday night and Saturday morning from S.S.W., were, we regret to state, productive of the most fearful results along the coast. At Scarborough it was severely felt, and the cala mity that was witnessed will long be borne in recollection by the inhabitants. Three fishing yawls were lost at the mouth of the harbour, and fourteen persons were drowned. The members of the Journeymen Tailors' Benevolent Asylum, on Monday, held their seventh anniversary meeting at the Freemasons' Tavern, Mr. W. Harrison presiding. The capital invested in the Bank of England amounts to 11,1261., being an increase for the past year of 221/. The number of the society's members now amounts to nearly 1,700. During the day an election into the asylum of five additional pen sioners took place, making the total number to amount to 44. Some of the new shops in Hungerford market, it is said, will vie in appearance with those of Covent-garden market, and besides being appropriated for the sale of choice fruits and vegetables, there will be some of them fitted for what is ermed — the "fancy" portion of butchers' and cheesemongers' :rades. 'We have reason to believe, says the Court Circular, that there is little truth in the report of the immense wealth said to be left by the late reigning Duke of Saxe Gotha, and that Prince Albert is not likely to have an increase to his fortune by any large bequest from that quarter. r ATROCIOUS MURDER IN FRANCE ' A threefold attempt at murder, fatal, however, in one instance only, was made on Sunday morning last, about five o'clock, at Perigueux, in the Loire. M. Desplat, who kept a public- house in the town, had sold his house and good-will, and was believed to have received a day or two before B,ooof. or 10,000 f in part of the purchase money. This tempted the avidity of some villains, who deter mined to obtain it at any sacrifice of life. Having armed themselves with a pick-axe, which they procured from the yard of a neighbouring house, by scaling the wall, they in lik e manner , got i nto the back premises of Desplat's house, which they entered by the yard door. Their first object was to silence a young man named Regnaud, the only lodger in the house, and pre vent his coming to the assistance of Desplat and his wife. They entered Regnaud's room on the second floor, and, finding him asleep, struck him on the fore head with the pickaxe, and opened his skull. The poor youth was killed at once, without uttering a cry; but, to make assurance doubly sure, they cut his throat with his own razor. Desplat and his wife slept together on the first floor, and, to execute their project with greater security, they enticed the husband up stairs, by imitating the voice of Regnaud, as if in pain, calling for a light. Desplat got up and came out of his room, but had not ascended more than three or four stairs when he was felled by two violent blows on the head, which stunned him, and covered him with blood. Believing him to be dead, the assassins went into the room, and attacked the wife ; • but her cries brought Desplat's senses back, and, rallying all his powers, he went to her rescue, calling out for assistance. Hearing this, the murderers took the alarm, and fled with no other booty than the watch of the unfortunate Regnaud, and, even if they had fully accomplished their murderous design, they would have gained but little more, for M. Desplat had not received any part, of the sum they expected to find. Some neighbours came in at the crisis, and brought the guard. They found the house deluged with blood. Desplat and his wife were both dreadfully wounded, but are not in absolute danger ; the body of Regnaud, with the head nearly severed from it, had been covered with his own mattress and bedclothes. It was taken to the hospital to be submitted to an autopsy under the eye of justice, in order to obtain and preserve legal evidence of the cause of his death. Several per sons have been arrested on suspicion, and every hope is entertained by the magistrates of bringing the perpetra tors of this brutal crime to condign punishment.— Ga. zette des Tribunaux. Tim POLES IN POSEN.—A Frankfort journal gives the following from Posen, of the 10th inst. :—" The Countess Kivileika, who in childhood was the companion of the Queen of Prussia, is gone to Berlin, in spite of her grief for the recent death of her husband, to entreat the King to recal the oraiance enjoining the Polish refugees to leave the province. The president of the police, M. de Minutoli, has offered his house to Count Plater, in' case the Government should allow him to continue to reside in the province. It is, however, scarcely probable that these steps will be attended with any degree of success, for the Russian Ambassador has declared that his Government has received positive informa tion that revolutionary measures were being taken in Poland and Galicia, and had every reason to apprehend that they extended to the Grand Duchy of Posen." Ii" THE END OF ALL THINGS AT HAND." ---A Mr. G. Dealtry is at present reaping a plentiful harvest in Stock port, by lecturing on the above subject, i n th e Temperance room, Lower llillgate ; a charge of one penny each being made for admission. The various prophecies contained in the book ofDaniel are the subjects upon which the lecturer chiefly grounds his doctrine, and incontrovertibly proves, according to his statements, that the world will assuredly come to an end on the '.9th of March, or in the beginning of April next. 'Whether or not the lecturer himself believes in the theory we are not prepared to say; but, at all events, he appears anxious enough to secure what cash he can; re gardless as to whether or not he has use for it before the end cometh. He delivered three lectures on the subject on Sun day, but refused to enter into any discussion on the subject at the close of thwa.--11f celesfield Courier. - FOREIGN. The French GOvernment have officially announced that the occupation of Otaheite by Admiral Dupetit Thouars will not be ratified, and the dominions of Queen. Pomare are to be placed, as formerly, simply under the protection of France. Accounts from Athens of the 9th state that the National Assembly was still occupied with the discussion of the dif ferent articles of the Chamber. The country was quite quiet. The 25th of January, which is the anniversary of the King's arrival in Greece, was celebrated with great rejoicings at Athens. Sir Baldwin Walker has now been formally dismissed the Turkish service. The Porte resists his claim to half-pay, and a negotiation is now goink on on this subject between Sir S. Canning and the Turkish Government. Roncali, the Spanish General, who commands in the neigh bourhood of Alicant, has transmitted a military report to the Minister of War, in which are these words :—" The officers taken in the action of Elda have been shot—a sad but just warning to those who, ungrateful and treacherous towards their Queen, have followed the standard of rebellion. May this be a salutary example for those who through ambition have been induced to follow their steps." The Swiss Observer says the Swiss Confederation has al lowed the right to an asylum to the Duke of Bordeaux, and that the French Government has not protested against that resolution. It has simply required that official honours should not be accorded to the Royal Duke. Count de Budd, the last owner of the château of Ferney, which he purchased of the Marquis de Villette, to whom it was conveyed by Madame Denis, the niece of Voltaire, died lately at the age of 88. LAW AND POLICE. In the Common Pleas, an action on the prosecution of the Commissioners of Customs, was brought against Williams, Mottram, and Horsley, on a charge of defrauding the revenue, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Sentence was de ferred. At Judges' Chambers, Sergeant's Inn, before Mr. Justice Cresswell, Mrs. Newton, the wife of Mr. Augustus Newton, the barrister, was brought up, before the above learned Judge, on a writ of habeas, in the custody of the Sheriff of Glou cester; in order for her discharge from a writ of capias ad sa tisfaciendum, et the suit of Messrs. Rowe and Norman, the proprietors of the Cheltenham Examiner. The case was ar gued at length, when the Judge said there was•no irregularity in the arrest, for the sheriff was perfectly justifiable in issuing the warrant; but he (the learned Judge) had now no power to detain her, she clearly having no available property. His Lordship then made out the order for Mrs. Newton's libe ration from the Queen's Prison. At the Middlesex sessions, the grand jury having found true bills against the owners of 17 disorderly houses in the parish of St. Clement Danes, Mr. Pashley applied for process to issue against the parties immediately. Mr. Prendergast said that a most important question arose out of this applica tion, for by a recent Act of Parliament all persons not prac tising as attorneys, and not duly enrolled, were strictly pro hibited from sueing out process or discharging any other legal duty appertaining to the profession of a solicitor. The pro cess now sought was prayed for at the instance of Mr. Corder, who was only the clerk to the board of guardians for the Strand union. The Chairman said that he had granted the process, but if the parties chose to resist it they might do so, and appeal to the Queen's Bench. Before a similar applica tion could be again made The Court would give the objection a careful consideration. At Guildhall Mrs. Earnshaw, of Park-street, Camden town, and Miss Emma Wells, who resided with her as a companion, were re-examined, charged with purloining va rious articles from jewellers' shops. The prisoners wore again remanded for a fortnight. A stoker named William Reid was charged before the sit ting Magistrate at Wandsworth, with very serious and most unprovoked assaults upon Mr. John Pearce, the landlord of the Watermen's Arms, 'Wandsworth, and Mrs. Mary Pearce, his wife. Both cases were fully established; and Mr. Paynter fined the prisoner 20s. for the assault upon Mr. Pearce, and 40s. for the assault upon Mrs. Pearce. The money was paid, and the prisoner, having given bail to keep the peace for six months, was discharged. COURT—FASILIONABLE. COURT CIRCULAR WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert enjoyed their usual early walk this morning. Her Ma • jesty and her illustrious Consort again promenaded in the afternoon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent dined with the Queen and Prince Albert at the Castle yesterday evening. The Royal Duchess went from her residence, Frogmore Lodge, to the Castle this morning and visited her Majesty. It is expected that the Court will leave on Saturday next, for Buckingham Palace. H' lis Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has ap pointed Major-General Sir James Reynett to be Deputy Ranger of Richmond Park, in succession to the late Viscount Sidmouth. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House. A deputation from the London Missionary Society, consisting of Mr. Alderman Challis, Chairman; the Rev. Thomas Lewis, Deputy Chairman; with the Rev. Arthur Tidman and the Rev. J. John Freeman, Secre taries, had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen at the Foreign-office yesterday. The Ecclesiastical Commission for England sat yes terday afternoon at the office in Whitehall-place. The Commissioners present were the Bishop of Bangor, the Bishop of Exeter, the Bishop of Hereford, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Llandaff, the Bishop of Roches ter, the Judge of the Prerogative Court, the Earl of Bess borough, the Earl of Harrowby, the Right Hon, H. Hobhouse, the Right Hon. John Nicholl, D.C.L., and the Dean of Westminster. Baron de Hugel, Wurtemberg Minister, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. The Duke of Wellington left town yesterday after noon, for his seat at Strathfieldsaye, Hants. The Earl of Aberdeen had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday. Dispatches from the Governor of New South Wales were received yesterday, at the Colonial-office. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TUESDAY EVENDIG. The Stock Market closes rather better this afternoon, Consols having rallied to 974 4. The heavy investments remained about the same, nor was there any alteration in the Unfunded Debt. The Foreign Market was very animated, and Spanish Three per Cents. rose to 344 and 35, on account of the state ment in M. de Castro's letter, that the Ministry are deter mined to continue punctually to pay the interest. The Five per Cents. were 244 to 244. Peruvian closed at 304 to 31 ; Mexican at 344 4; and Portuguese Converted at 454. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, were 54a to 544. The additional transactions in Railway Shares' have been these :—Birmingham and Derby Thirds were 61; Eastern Counties, 124 ; and Ditt o ; N ew , 124 discount ; Great Wes tern Half, 18 ; Brighton Loan Notes, 14 ; Birmingham New Quarter, 27 ; Manchester and Leeds, 374 to 38 ; 'Yarmouth and Norwich, 64 : Northern and Eastern, 114 to 12 ; Rouen and Havre, 6 4 • and West London Extensi on , 1 prem i um. Manchester andßirmingham were at par. Provincial Bank of Ireland Shares were 164, and Union of Australia 1 prem. The Foreign exchanges were scarcely so firm this after noon on one or two of the continental cities. The party most opposed to the Treasury Bond agreement turned out to be Captain Britten, who offered a good deal of useless opposition. The resolutions were passed (for which see advertisement), and the following terms were agreed to : " To Joseph Tasker, Esq., Chairman, and the Committee of Spanish Treasury Bondholders. " London, Feb. 24, 1844. "Gentlemen,--In conformity with our recent conferences, and with the arrangement we have at length entered into, for the satisfactory settlement of th e c l a i ms o f t h e Spanish Trea sury Bondholders, I beg now to state, for your guidance, that it is to the following effect : " Ist. That every 1001, of the Treasury Bonds bearing five per cent, interest will be exchanged for 211/. 13s. 4d. (say two hundred and eleven pounds thirteen shillings and four pence) of Three per Cent. Bonds. " 2d. That the former holders of Treasury Bonds who ex changed them for only an equal amount of Three per Cent. Stock, when the capitalisation of the coupons, due from 1837 to 1840, took place, will also be entitled to all the pri vileges offered to the actual holders ; and, therefore, to the difference between the 100/. ofThree per Cent. stock they then received and the 211/. 13s. 41, after deductingfrom that diffe rence the value of the dividends paid to them at different periods. " As I had the pleasure to hear from you and Mr. Bramley that you considered this arrangement as an equitable settlement of these claims, it would, I think, be needless to call- your attention to the advantages it gives to actual Bondholders, or to the spontaneous and even unsolicited act of justice of the Minister, in,compensating those holders who exchanged their Treasury Bonds for an equal amount of Three per Cent. stock in 1842. " I only beg, further, to assure you that the present Mi nistry, being fully resolved to pay, as heretofore, the interest of the Three per Cent. stock, most regularly and punctually, you will, I trust, find this a valuable and safe conversion. " I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, " Your ve servant, " MANUEL BERMU ry DEZ obedient DE CASTRO." The following is the official return of the exports of Bul lion from the port of London, for the week ending Thursday last : Silver Coin to New York Hong-Kong and Macao 6,000 " Silver Bars to Rotterdam Gold Coin to New York 1,967 " (From The Sun of Last Night.) There was a steady market for Cotton at Liverpool yes terday, the trade buying very fairly. Speculators took 800 bales Surat, and 1,200 American •, 1,300 bales Surat realised 4d. to 5d., 50 Egyptian, Bd. to sp., and the rest American, at sid. to Bd. for New Orleans.—ln Shares business to a fair ex tent was done, and for some stock higher rates were paid. There was a serious failure among the speculators, but the party is expected to pay. Chester and Holyhead were 54; Grand Junction, 225 ; Harwich, 2g ; Liverpool and Manchester, 221; Birmingham, 228; South Western, Eighths, 3/. 6s. 3d. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 40k; Paris and Orleans, 32k; ditto and Rouen, ; Sheffield and Manchester, 714 ; and South Eastern, New, 37. There is rather an increased demand for money in the City this morning, and we hope that it is in consequence of requiremements for the purposes of trade and commerce. We are happy to find that the year 1843, comparatively, shows a very gratifying increase in the comforts of the peo ple. In 1842 the quantity of sugar consumed was 3,876,448 cwts., in 1843 4,045,181 cwts. ; of coffee the consumption in 1842 was 28,567,157 lbs., in 1843 30,031,606 lbs. ' • of tea, in 1842, the consumption was 37,389,576 lbs., and in 1843 it had increased to 40,302,981 lbs. ; showing an increase of nearly three million pounds. In spirits there has been a slight increase in the consumption of rum, but a very considerable decrease in the consumption of brandy, which we would hope has arisen from an improve ment in the drinking habits of the more respectable classes. The total exports declared in 1842 were valued at 40,785,350/., in 1843 at 44,720,563/. We are indebted to the circular of Messrs. Franks and Millard for these facts. The Express news from Paris, that the Cabinet of Louis Philippe does not approve of the conduct of the French Ad miral, in dethroning Queen Pomare and taking possession of Tahiti, has afforded much satisfaction in the City this morning, but the Funds have not been firmer in consequence. The settlement is proceeding, and this chiefly influences them, although 1-16th was yesterday given by borrowers of Stock. Consols have been 97} to for immediate transfer, and the same for Account, April 12. The Government broker has taken Consols at 97g.. Exchequer Bills are 68s. to 70s, and East India Bonds 86s. premium. Bank Stock is worth 195. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are at 1024 to ; and the Reduced at 1034 to I. The rise in Spanish Bonds is supported, and the Actives have realised 244 to I. The Three per Cents. are 34i tot. South American Bonds are firm. The 'Mexican Aetiveg are 341 to f, and the Deferred 12g. Colombian 'are 131 to Peruvian obtain 30i to 31. Belgian Bonds are 1064 ; French Three per Cents. 83f. ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 544 to A meeting of the Spanish Treasury Bondholders is in progress of being held at the London Tavern, to receive some fresh terms of compromise, but party spirit is. expected to run high, and it is at present too early to say if any satis factory decision will be arrived at. The 'Share Market is quiet again, partly because the holders are inclined to ask fuller rates. This applies to Brighton, Birmingham, South Western, South Eastern, and the French lines. The Joint Stock Banks are steady. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, An. 26.—The market is decidedly firmer to-day, and several Stocks inquired for at'an advance of price.—Eastern Counties, registered, 12 1-16; Grand Junction, Quarters, 404; Manchester and Birming ham, 40* ; Sheffield and Manchester, 704 to 71; South Eastern Scrip, 364 and. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3per Cent. Red 9B Ditto Bonds ............... 96 pm. per Cent. Cons. 3 per Cent. Red lO3 Ditto New Annuities... 96% New 3% per Cent lO2 Ex. Bills, 1,000!. 13(d... 68 pm. New 5 per Cent. Ditto 500/. f9 pm. Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5ma11............. C 9 pm. Jan. 1860.........,.. 12% Bank Stock for Acct.... 195 Oct. 1859 l2 11-16 India Stock for Acct.... 2'78% Jan. 1860 l2 9-16 Consols for Acct ing FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian. 5 per Cent — .Portuguese, 5 per Cent 76 Belgian, 5 per Cent 106% Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian Bonds SO Prussian, 5 per Cent Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent.., 35% Russian, 5 per Cent .... Chilian, r per Cent lO5 Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, 3 per Cent ....... 34% Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent 93 (Ditto, Deferred 13% Danish, 3 per Cent 87% French, 5 for Cent 1261. —c. Greek, 18.5, 5 per Cent — Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per Cent Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 !Dutch, 2% per Cent 54% Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent... 31 'Ditto, 5 per Cent 102% SHARE' Birmingham and Derby (100 paid) Ditto Thirds (25 paid) Eastern Counties (23 paid) lO% Ditto New (25 paid) Gravesend, Rochester, and Chatham (2% paid) 2g Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Half Shares (50 paid) • es London and Brighton (50 paid) Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid) London and Birmingham (Stock) Ditto New Quarter Shgr. s ( 2 paid) London and Croydon (Trunk) ..................... 16% Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ............ . Manchester and Birmingham . ......................... - Norwich and Brandon ( 2 paid) .................. 5 Northern and Eastern (41 paid) ..... 57 Rouen and Havre ( 8 paid) ... .. . ....... .. . ...... . 14% .BOURSE OF CF ) Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Gibraltar ..... . ...... Ditto, at sight l2 4 Leghorn ' ... Rotterdam 2U. 12 30 Genoa 25 80 95 Antwerp 25 80 Milan Mamburgh M.B. 14 0 Venice .. Veni 47 ..•... .......... Altona l4 0 Naples 391 Paris, 3 days' sight... 25 65 Palermo, per oz 114 Ditto, 3 months 26 85 Lisbon . 531 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 95 Rio Janeiro 23 Frankfort on Maine.. 122 Bahia 23 Petersburgh, 3 Us... 34 Buenos Ayres Brn 7 New York, Veienlina, effec. 11. 3 M 956 Philadelphia2ldys sight rieste, ditto.? 958 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Madrid 36* Foreign Gold, bars... 3' 17 9 Cadi 4. 361 Portugal Gold Coin 317 5 Bilbao 36 New Doubloons..... 00 0 Barcelona 36 New Dollars O4 9f Seville RAIL ' P - foil —.WAY BUSINESS IN ... ARLIAMENT.—The follow ing Railway Bills have been read a second time, committed, and referred to the Committee of Selection:—Manchester and Leeds (Bradford branch)—Huddersfield branch--Leeds and Selby—Manchester and Leeds (Heywood • branch) — Manchester and Leeds (Bury branch)—Norwich and Brandon —and the Great Western. The York and Scarborough arid the Salisbury branch have also been read a first time. The fol lowing petitions for,Bills have likewise been reported :—The Newbu, Basingstok e ,, London and Southampton, arid - the Sheffield Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT: , • HOUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 27. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on thelluv . sack at a few minutes after Five o'Clock. , rgo The Earl of YARBOROUGH p r eieuted 10 0 ,' 1 from Wisbeach, and other places in Lir colnshiv, ag'"'" any alteration in the corn-laws. RELIGIOUS TESTS IN' THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a re from the Lord Provost, the magistrates, and Tow a l Council of Glasgo w , w ith re f erence to t h e i m poeiti° l ,4 religious tests upon professors in the Universq.:, Glasgow. The petitioners stated that the itm. position of these tests in many cases unjust. The petitioners, however, were not dessire!! of abolishing those tests, in so far as they related IF professors of theology, but they thought them until:, sary with resp ec t t o th e pro f ess i on o f .p hil oso phh drat mistry, and other s c i ences . Th e pet i t i oners s tated t ot many excellent an d competent men h a d b een presen t are by these tests fro m g i v i ng th e i r serv i ces to th e 1: 40 " ts sity, and therefore prayed that in such cases the te s should be abolished. Lord BROUGHAM said, that having had the hen°4 of filling the chair of R ec t or o f t h e U n i vers i t y allude d in the petition, as had also his Noble Friend. (the quis of Lansdowne), he had had communicationkr, that body upon the subject, and he would say from the:i that they did not wish for the relaxation in the Os theological professors. tie Lord CAMPBELL con curre d i n t h e pra yer 0- f - petition, and he hoped the Noble Marquis would hr in a Bill to carry it into effect. In truth, the laic 1 "7;„ a great measure ob so l e t e i n t h e f our un i vers i t i es ofPiTh2 4 land; and if it h a d a l ways b een o b serve d the y coul d have attained th e ir present high p os iti on . Some most eminent professors of languages and science " 7 0 f been persons who could not subscribe the C o nfession a .. Faith.—(Hear, hear.) If th e l aw h a d b een en forced Marquis of Lansd o w ne , Si r R o b ert Peel, Lord Staileo and Sir James Graham could not have filled the el'. of Lord Rector.— (Hear, hear.) Lord BROUGHAM said that those eminent: 3; j most useful professors, Sandford, Moore, - Young, own distinguished and revered relative, Dalxielt A to Episcopalians.—(Hear.) I n f ac t t h ere was no 03‘," the number of such names which he could repeat. .„.• After a few words from Lord HADDINGTO favour of the petiti on , th e conversat i on droppe d * a n d House adjourned at Half-past Five o'Clock. • HOUSE OF COMMONS, Feb. 27. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. CORN-LAWS. Col. SIBTHORP presented twenty-five petitions r :ff ar ° places in Lincolnshire, praying that no alteration ID be made in the existing corn-laws. ST. ASAPH AND BANGOR. Lord CLIVE presented a petition from a 15 139 ,1 a North Wales, again s t th e un i on o f t h e sees of St- Ili'. and Bangor. SUPPLIES. Mr. BLEWITT presented a petition from Newr"bi in Monmouthshire, praying that the supplies rallo withheld until th e gr i evances o f t h e people shall t been considered. _ POOR-LAWS. " Mr. WILSON PATTEN presented twenty pet -io v , from Garstang a n d o th er p l aces i n Lancashire, - rk for an alteration in the present poor-laws. ' CANADA CORN BILL. Mr. HUTT presented a petition from the Cnei g t7 o . and Directors of the S ou th A ustra li an Banking, pany, stating that they had invested a car ; p i 230,000/. in their business with South Australis , . 011 . praying that the provisions of the Canada Corr' might be extended to that colony. - TOBACCO. 660 Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD presented & from Rochdale, with 525 signatures, praying fora tion of of the duty on tobacco. - CORN-LAWS. t isoe . The House having remained some ti me witholl tioe, ness, the Speaker proceeded to the notices of, 02 , ° and first called the order No. 7 on the paper . , whic'hy: the notice of Mr. Cobden, of a motion for a Select mittee to inquire into the effects of the corn-law j i r tion upon the tenant-farmers and agricultural - !7ier ers.—(Loud cries of -" Cobden, Cobden.") No neto being given for some time, the Speaker then csurdo No. 8 upon the paper, which was Mr. Fer i ;l o o, notice of an am en d ment on Mr. .-c? o! motion, the amendment being to the effect . 01 it be an instruction to the Committee to inquire alo op r the effect upon the condition o f th e manufactur ing ratives by the immigration o f agr i cu l tural la b our ers . the manufacturing di s t r i c t s , an d t h e treatment o fsucl_s : ,P - a migrants by the m as t er manufacturers who Pt °_ them employment. No answer to the Spesker being given, th e cr i es f or M r. Cobden were renewe d• r length fter Mr. COBDEN p ostpone d his motion till this day night.—(Hear, hear.) • . • - 1- EDUCATION IN IRELAND. jar. Mr. WYSE gave notice that, on this day fortstie." s - would bring forw ar d a mot i on for the purpose o t t moting the uni v e rsa l e d ucat i on of the Catholics hr s land, and especially of thode who were intended ' l ° l t he, priesthood ; also, for the purpose of rendering , se , honours and advantag es of Trinity College •equ_ailtwo cessible to Roman Catholics with others of her Mk th elli to . subjects ; and of el eva t in g the College of n° MaY„ on., the rank o f a theological college, w ith th e power `7, ferring degrees. - - , •-. STATE TRIALS IN IRELAND.--SECRET °", VICE.—THE PRESS. 8 4 Mr.. T. DUNCOMBE gave notice that, 011• IT the Order of the Day for going into a Coninal fte r: Supply on Friday nex t, or on the first Supply' day Friday, he would move for a return of all the 02 ,1 W paid to Frederi c k B on d H ug h es, Charles Rossitisuo dolt Jackson—(A. laugh) —on acc ount o f any commun is m , l; made by them to Government relative to 1 110 . 10 1;iti agitation in Ireland, distinguishing the amount to each ; also the dates of the several .. ments, . specifying, the respective periods at , they commenced ; together with copies of every . tions given to the above named F. B. Hughes, Ross, and . John Jackson, with respect to the dott ed be performed by their in Ireland.—(Laughter•) ' a return of the amount paid for expenses during , fit attendance at the t r i a l ' of, the Queen V. O'C tf , •, and others.. Al s o a return of' all money* %,, the late proprietor, or proprietors; managerty,oo` ductors, or agents of the Morning Her Standard newspapers, or any of them-(Pai;ot on account of, .commnnications or information 02117,ere given by the said parties, or any of them, to the Tio• ment, in reference t o th e re p ea l agitation in Trels o _ l4 '. o lo tinguishing thp times at which the said comuunti" . .taiett or informations were f urn i s h e d ; and the period at the several sums of money were paid ; a l so the. a ; o lo or names of the short-hand writers appointed Of the Government report' of the proceedings - of t4t; of the Queea v. O'Connell and others.—(Laught o ') POSTAGE. Mr. WALLACE gave notice of a motion for 11 „", day, the object of which would be to give full e„ 1 700; the Act called the Postage Act. He also ga V eT f r olO P notice that when the Lord Advocate brought -1. c‘ 40 4 his motion on the subject of prisons, and prisQ" ' pline, he should move an amendment to it. • TURKEY. Mr. MONCKTON MILNES gave notice of a 2 7 0 00 for the Ist of March, on th e present stat e of crodit. jurisdiction over foreigners within the do m inions'. Porte. CANADA. iiioo in:liveatiandm3v M iyseeu, r hipt . ) .00tow,rnLd1fe8rEna cro4ae i cao p eigtuen E hr,felat ß eunydosdeif m tvateeer o h ; :em : cm:d,ai7 f snt o ßshta r a roeedtaitaraua t har : : lei in ler ef fo t li shp c e • e w ce i n th e arg f g tr s: :: .°-;111 :0 1' in consequence of the insurrection in Yinune C ate a sra n gre a lh d Ba a. 4nordf ii:s :l' - '1 41' 7 5 :; the Address of the House of Assembly of the Prol i , !TO, Canada to the Governor - General,respecting the C ivi 7o 0 1 regulated by the . Act for the Union of the ProTr" V I Upper and Lower Canada; of the Message of w i l Ai i vernor-General in r e ply to t h e sa i d Address, an.,,a1"7010" the 16th day of O c t o b er, 1843, together with' VS Ot P r morandum alluded to i n t h e sa id reply, ap;001' sented to the H ouse o f Assem b ly by the: e di - mand of the Governor-General ; and a ...! of the Address to her Majesty. the- Queen, Tatisearioie j last session of the Provincial Parliament by the of Assembly, respecting the said Civil List. t- , `...'_14. the Report and evidence presented by the COMIniS . .nO appointed, pursuant to an Address of the 7ttaL o f of September 'lB4l, of the House. of AsseinlJ, V" 0 , the Province ,of Canada; - to inquire reit i rt . ,„ l " 9 olo , the seignioral tenure 'existing in Lower `-'_64'" GO ' Alto, -extracts of any correspondence' of the G 01 7 .14% General of Canada. and.. the Colonial-office . res,Penir' - - , the repeal o f th e ' A ct o f th e Imperial Parlianr2, •of tituled ' The , Canada Tenures Act.' Retwr i be ! the names of • person s ' w h o a r e or :Were .111. :dr: , receipt of public moneys in Canada, who we r f at i g it .. faulters on the Ist day of December, 1843 ; 51 _..„ 14 " o r the o ffi ce held by them, the name of the 43 °"V., General by whom they were-respectively t!ppOnl . t ed ' n . f f, '' the amount due by them respectively. lie.l 3 ° ll , - pier.' Select Committee of the House of Assembly of t ihe' of these i $l7l Vince of Canada, appointed in the last session 9 1 , 1 0, Provincial Parliament, to inquire into the effect of British Copyright Act, and.the policy of excluding., : ',,,, the province .American reprints of British publicsti_;,d, Mr. HUME wished to know - from the Noble L? ll, :_ ti ; r 7.•, • Secretary for the Colonies whether he had an_,yO_V: r It to lay before the House a statement of the nuns , L .Canadian exiles now in Van Dienren's Land? u. .„6. . aware a pardon had been given to several happy persons, but the Noble Lord . per h aps wou l d 4 _„, 13 , no objection to give a return to the House in re f e r e to them. te 0 ' Lord STANLEY could not at that moment sta._ ; . ri s precise number of persons who had been pardoned . ,i he could state generally that every case which ~,_,I y marked by aggravated circumstances had been tnere , u u l • ' I • , considered by.the Crown: ' willing to w tO s t il h e e d H to ou k se no t w he Metcalfe, which had induced that' functionary to r,l l `' # . his consent to the Secret Societies Suppression B e y Lord STANLEY said, that Sir Charles Metea2,4, • the case alluded to, had not acted upon slN 3 ci fi . c. ro ot tions, but on general instructions given to an goi!,.. a , .. if-intshteruNctioobnies I'4:l t . ° r gi . L I S I ': , of colonies. The Bill itself he had received, bu' 0 f , • report of the Governor-General's.reasons for not 1 , 1 7. ti-, boning the Bill he had not yet received. ' - . .. ,i,` - - POOR-LAW (IRELAND).. ' --- .of • ' Sir DENHAM NORREYS rose for the purrY,;,.. die/ putting to the Right Hon. the Secretary et ot s !' th o r ; three,questions of which. he- hid given notice, l'a, tf r At , gard to - the poor-laws in- Ireland. Before he o„,. howeVer, he would ask the Right Hon. Baronet w.i.. 71 .., the Government would, or would not, object to . t7 9 , ,; pointment of. a Select Corantittee to inquire 11 01 0 1 'operation of the poor-laws in Ireland ?' lic tber'. the three following questions :-I.;Whether any abilit y ; been taken by the Government to carry into v