The Sun. — London, England, 1844-04-09 00:00:00

NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHORESS OF " THE FLIRT" Immediately, In 3 vols., post Svo., THE WILFULNESS OF WOMAN By the Authoress of " THE HISTORY OF A FLIRT," " THE MANCEUVRING MOTHER," Sze. Usury Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-: t vet. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, are re— spectfully informed that this Theatre will RE-OPEN THIS kWENING, April 9, when will be performed (for the first time this season) Eellin►'s Opera of I PURITAN!. Elvira, Madame Grisi first appearance this season) ; Arturo, Signor M irio (his first appearance this season); Giorgio, Signor La -ralach e (his first appearance this season) ; and Ricc.ardo, Signor Fornasari this first appearance this season) After which will be presented the new Ballet by M. Perrot, with new'Scenery, Dresses, Decorations, Ric., founded on Victor Hugo's celebrated work of . 4 Notre Dame de Paris," entitled LA ESMERA LDA. La Esmeralda, Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi ; Fleur-de-Lys, Mdlle Ade saide Fras:i ; Mad ,me Aloise de Gondelaurier, mother of Fleur-de- Lys, Madame Copere; Diana and Beranger, companions of Fleur-de- Lys, Mdlle. Ferdinand and Aidlle. Barville; Phoebus de Chateau. sera, St. Leon ; Claude Frollo, M. Gosselin ; Pierre G rin g oire, the Poet, M Perrot; Quasimodo, the Sonneur of Notre Dame, M. Coulon ; Clopin Trouillefou, M. Gouriet ; Truands, MM. Venafra, Baraschini, and Bet tram. In the course of the ballet, the following original dances will be presented:—First Tableau.—La Cour des Miracles; Valse de Vieux Paris, by the coryphees of the corps de ballet ; La Truandaise, pas Caractenstique, by C. Grisi and M. Perrot ; Bacolianale, by the corps de ballet. SQcond Tableau —La Nuit des Notes, Pas Scenique, Mdlle. C. Grisi and M. Perr t. Third Tableau.—Fleur.de - Lys , nd Pas des Fleury, by Mdlle. A. Frassi. supported by Mdlles. Ferdina and Barville ; Pas de Trots, S c heffre, Plankett, and M. St. Leon ; Pas de la Esmeralda, Mdlle Carlotta Grisi and M. St. Leon. Fourth Tableau.—Amour et Jalousie. Fifth Tableau.—La Fete des Fous. Marche, Dansinte, et Finale. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box Office, Opera fjolonnade. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY.LANEs. Immense Attraction tor Easter. It is respectfully announced, that the Administration of lb Academic Royale, Paris, having consented to a prolongation of the wnige of M. Duprsz, this eminent Artiste will sing Three Nights in the Easter Week. THIS EVENING, APRIL 9, Will be performed the opera of the BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Anaheim, INIr. Borrani; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison;• Devilshcof, Mr. Stret on ; Arline, Miss Rainforth ; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Betts. After which the farce or the ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER. Bcnjsmin Bombe, Mr. Harley; Fatima, Mrs. Stirling. Dress Boxes 75., Second Mc, 33. lid. ; Upper Circles of BoxesGler Is.. Second Price :Is. ; Pit 3s Second Price :Is.; M.ddle y Is.. Second Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price tid. - THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE. Return of Madame Vestris and Mr. C. Mathews. THIS EVENING, AND DURING THE WEEK. Will be performed a New Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream,. Bart., Mr. Charles Mathews; S,r Adonus Leech, Mr Tilbury; Wurzle, Mr. James Bland; Mary, Miss Julia Bennett; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs Hamby. After which, a New Comic Drama, entitled GRIST TO THE MILL. Marquis de Riclieville, Mr. Charles Mathews; Francine, Madame Vcstris. To be followed by a New, Original, Occasional, and Local Extra. ..sganza, founded on Fact, entitled THE DRAMA AT HOME; or, An Even.ng with Puff: Principal Characters by Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. J. Bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mrs. Glover, Miss P. Horton, and Miss Lee. To conclude with the Extraordinary Performances of Professor RISLEY and his INFANT SON, surnamed Le Petit Mercure." Orchestra Stall', ss. ; Boxes, as. ; Pit, ;'s. ; Gallery, ;X ; Upper tialiery, Is. Half-price—Boxes. 3s. ; Pit, tla. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, lid. Doors opened at Half.past Six, and the Performances commevce at Seven Mr. W. Farreti will appear on Monday, April 15, as . air Pete Teazle, in the School for Scandal. • rickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box ottice, from Ten till Five. Pit I N CESS'S THE AT It E, OXFO R DST REET. LESSEE, Mr. J. B. MADDOX. Great Attraction for the Holidays. THIS EVENING, APRIL 9, Will be presented Ros ini's Opera of OTELLO. Otello, Mr. Alen; lago, Mr. Eurdini; Elmira, Mr. Weiss; Des.!emona, Madame E. G rcia . After which a new Fairy Burlesque Extravaganza, caked FAIR STAR; or THE sINGING APPLE, AND THE DANCING WATERS The principal characters by Messrs. Wright, Paul Bedford, Oxb wry, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Miss Fortescue THEA ['RE ROYAL, LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING, April 9, an Address by Mrs. Keeley. After which, will be repeated a New Comedietta, in Two Acts entitled HASTY CONCLUSIONS. I rincipal Characters by Messrs. Diddear. F. Mathews, F. Vining, Emery, and Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. Keeley. To he followed by a New Dram; in One Act, called THE POST OF HONOUR. Characters by iMeses Keeley, Turner, Kinloch, J. Collier, Stanton, Yarnold, Miss Woolgar (from the "I heatre Royal, Adelphi, her first appearance at this Theatre), and Miss Grove. To conclude with an entirely new Grand Barle,que Fairy Extra vaganza, called OPEN SESAME; or, The Forty Thieves. ('ha. ?access by Miss Woolgar, MISS E. Chaplin, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Turner, hiss Grove,Wigan, Miss James, Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. Keeley, 3lessra. F. Mathews, Turner, lounge, Wigan, Yarnold, and Chaplin. PRICEi OF ADMISSION.—First Price—coxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, as. ; Pit, 2s. • Gallery, 6d. Second Price —Balcony Box es, 2s. ; Upper Boxes, Is fid. ; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Balcony 'I ier (holding eight persons), Two Guineas Private Boxes on the Second 11cr (ho ding eight persons), Cne Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guinea. Free Ad mission Tickets (for the first forty nights), One Guinea. Nightly Transferrable Free Tickets (for the tint lorty nights), Three Guineas. Doors open at lialf.past Six. Performances begins at Seven o'Clock. ASTLEVS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE:OF ARTS. THIS EVENING. APRIL 9. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE of ARTS (under the management and sole proprietorship of Mr. BATrY), with its Treble Rotation of Equestrian and Dramatic Spectacles, and unequalled Scenes of the Circle,and Batty's Matchless Stud of beautiful Horses, Fairy Ponies, &c. Mr. Batty begs respectfully to acquaint the Nobility, Gentry, and public that, encouraged by the flattering success during the past year, and finding the Theatre not suffi ciently commodious for its numerous patrons, he entered into an extensive arrangement with Messrs. Haward and Nixon, the emi— nent builders of Lambeth, for the re.cons , ructing on a magnificent and novel principle, the whole of the inteTior of the Theatre, which has been rebuilt, dress boxes enlarged, upper boxes widened, and p.it and galleries extensively improved. Fourteen glass lustres are added, ai:d a Grecian dome ceiling, with entirely new splendid classic decorations, and geigeous apppinntments, which, with the ifirst-rate talent to be offered, he 'presumes cannot tail of obtaining what support so liberally bestowed on his endeavours during the last season. The grand Easter national Speztacle will combine all the .splendid historical effects of the Noncan Conquest of England, ;produced by Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. The Cirque Olympique will in. traduce un quailed equestrian taleat, and the docile company com prise talent of the highest oilier. The door will open nightly at six o'clock, and the performances commence at seven. Box-office will he opened on Saturday, April and continue so daily from ten till four. The private boxes have been reconstructed and decorated with care and splendour. Acting and stage.manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. DAV WOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRF.. The most splendid Easter Entertainment ever presented—Everything New—Supr,orted by the First Talent in the Wotld. THIS EVENING, APRIL 9, Will be repeated an entirely New Drama, embracing all the strong effects of the celebrated work, entitled WHITEFRIARS, n which the entire Company will perform. After which (First Time), THE SCAPEGRACE OF PARIS, sup titrted by all the leading Favourites of the Establishment. To which wi'l be added the Wondeiful Performance of Herr IiEN LER on the Corde Elastique, and the Carlo Family in their 'Unrivalled 03 nmastiques. To cinclude with (never acted), a Drama of peculiar construction, entitled BARAK JOHNSDN ; or, The Blind Witness. Places and Priv Ate Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.. n bee, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Great Novelty and new Engagements. THIS EVENING, APRIL 9, Will he repeated a New Drama, called LEONTINE; or SIXTEEN YEARS AGO ! Fitzartington, Mr. Osbaldiston ; Ar. thur, Mr. C. J. Bird (his first appearance); Mat, Mr. Freer ; Paul, Mr. Corene, (his first appearance) ; Len tine, Miss ViMr. ncent. ton With the Grand Fairy Ballet of ONDINE; by.. p and his Pupils. After which, a Melo.Dram 1, entitled, THE BRIDGE OF KEHL. Gervase, Vt.. Freer; Darville, sir. Wants; Albert, Mr. C. J. Bird ; Eugene. Mr. Seaman; Von Glotzen, Mr. James; Valance, Mr. Da!e ; Phillipo. Mr. Paul ; Madelon, Miss Saker, (her first appearance) ; Isabella, Mrs. O. Lee. To conclude with THE ICE WITCH. Harold, (the Sea. King) Mr. Santa ; Magnus Snoro, Mr. Gardner ; Hecla, Miss Arden; Ulla, Miss Stephens (her first appearance) ; Minna, Miss Saker Freyer, Miss Hicks, (her first appearance) ; Druda, Mrs. G. Lee, 8-. c., Sec . THEATRE ROY AI., ADELPHI, THIS EVENING, April 9, the GREAT WIZARD OF THE NORTH will re-ascend his MYSTIC . fIiRONE, and corn mence his NEW SCIENCES of MODERN MIRACLES, which have no parallel in the world. In addition to the Wizard's Per formances, MR. MA LON E RAI MOND, the successful repre sentative of Irish Characters, from the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, R give his original Eltertainment, entitled AN HOUR IN IRELAND, assi.sted by MRS. MALONE RAYMOND, MISS tINLEY, and MR. SMITH. Boxes, lie. Pit. Is. lid. Gallery, lid. Second Price at N►ne o'clock. . Doors open at Seven, the Performances commence at half-pa,t. LOVE'S poLYPI-10NIC ENTERTAINMENTS, CROWN AND ANCHOR TAVERN, STRAND. Mr. LOVE has the honour to announce that he has RESUMED HIS ANNUAL POLYPHONIC ENTERTAINMENTS, and LECTURES on LIFE and CHARACTER, and will continue the same on WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY. He will introduce much Novelty, which has been long in preparation, with entirely New, and Appr•priate Mutative Costumes an Appointments. Total Change of Entertainments Every Evening. TO-MORROW EVENINC, April 10, LOVE'S REMINIS. CENCES ; with MINE HOSE'S DILEMMAS; and other Enter . tainments. On FRIDAY, Alma 19, LOVE IN A LL SH APES ; with LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST ; and other Entertainments. Particulars in Handbills. Doors open at Half-past Seven ; begin at Eight. Admission, Is. hid.; Reserved Seats, 2s. 6d. EGYPTIAN ILALL, PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT NOTICE. • ONE SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON MU SEUM, the most magriifieent and extensive Collection of Histo rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to hove been formed by One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a cost of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in structive and inrerestin manner, the most Important part of Euro pean history, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR NAPOLEON. in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often, during the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies, also many thousands of the Nobility and Public ; and the Pro prietor has recently been able to Increase, by several very fine pictures, &c., his previous almost incredible number and variety of MSS., Works of Art, and a multitude of valuable Relics, and other curiosities, in this most instructive and, as hundreds have said it ought to be, a National Museum. Many thousand have inspected it, :and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS have stated tint it ought to be seen by every one. The price of admit- Sion -is reduced to ONE SHILLING. The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen only at the " Egyptian Piccadilly, daily from Ten till Dusk. THE WEATHER. —SUN OFFICE, APRIL 9. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 39 ; Highest, 59 ; Noon, 60. BARO3LETER, 30 60.—Wpm, S.W. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the "fo3zing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is squally placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. Ili , 11 WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... 42 minutes after 3 I Evening ... 3 minutes after 4. 4 ~. , • y c. ,je:24 SECOND EDITION. Otrrniaff LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 0, 1844. The sympathy of Europe is never more acutely `couched and awakened than when it is appealed to by the efforts of Greece to consolidate the new position • she has assumel among the family of modern nations. Her ancient glory, —matchless alike in science and philosophy, in arts and in arm:,—attained its true perfection in the extent and character of that refining influence which her example exercised upon all other civilised States, not only in the ages of her own pre-eminence, but (in a less or a greater degree) through all succeeding time. Iler sufferings and her wrongs, protracted through a stormy period of eighteen hun dred years, to the close of the first quarter of the present century, had given her additional claims In the generous assistance of European States, who Awed her, already, so large a of gratitude for the intelligence, the learning, the wisdom, which her loblest children had bequeathed to the most distant ~osterity. Alternately betrayed by the policy of the Emperors of Germany—excited or deserted by the i ierfidy of Russia—she had reaped, from her many gallant efforts to shake off the intolerable thraldom -if Turkey—since the closing years of the career of S OBI .:s ICI and MEHEMED—little other but the bitter fruits of unavailing conflict with organised power, And with hopeless physical and numerical superiority. Twenty years, only, remove us from that memorable stage of her eventful story in which she first successfully Ina-le head and rallied her resources—scanty as those were—against her Moslem masters. Following up those efforts with incredible pertinacity and resolu tion, at an awful sacrifice of Greek blood and Greek establishments, she rapidly achieved her way to a political position in which she became the subject of protective negotiations between some of the first-rate powers of Europe and the Sultan. From the cha racter - of a supplicating appellant for protection sgainst the mere brute violence and exter minating fanaticism of her oppressors, she has now advanced, by degrees which must be fresh in the recollections of our readers, to the rank of an independent monarchy. The noble con ,luct of the Greek Ministers and the people of Athens, in the revolution of the 15th of September last, was an exhibition of temperate decision, of an inherent ' genuine love of national liberty, and of a moral power of abstinence, in the moment of their triumph,lfrom all that could sully its lustre or. impede its onward pro gre3s, worthy of the best days of their best patriots And heroes. . But it was not to be expected that a weak Prince like King Otto, although some notorious evil coun cillors were then carefully removed from about his person, would be able to redeem, in all sincerity and strictness, the spirit of the pledge he at that time have to his people, to accept and abide by the bases of o , )nstitutional Charter forthwith to be prepared for his adoption. There was but too much reason to ap• prehend that—whatever might be the disposition of King OTIIO (on finding that his opposition to the great national movement in question had proved altogether fruitless, and might, if persisted in, involve him in personal danger) to act up to the engage ment he had frankly given to his subjects—the agents of c irtain Foreign Powers would not, without a determined, though , secret struggle, permit the esta blishment of a state of things—the formation of a constitutional Government—which must inevitably prove fttal to the influence of the Crowns they re represented, and to the further success of those Crowns in discouraging the principle of representative go- vernment. We have been well pleased to record :the arrival in this country of a copy of the Constitutional Charter of Greece, consisting of 107 articles, " de finitively settled by the National Assembly, and finally adopted by King OTno. The intelligent cor respondent of the illimning Post, in a letter dated " Athens, March 20," has forwarded a graphic and interesting account of some transactions which have attended the consummation of this great national manifesto. They are calculated to produce a mingled feeling of pity and of anger in respect of the young King of GREECE. Orno seems tempted to merit the biting censure upon the now excluded section of the Bourbons, conveyed in that reflection of the late M. DE TALLEYRAND, that " they have learned nothing ; and—they have forgotten nothing." Thus, says the correspondent alluded to, " when the Charter, after all the protracted discussions upon it, and the intense anxiety thereby created in the public mind, was, at last, sent to the KING for his ratification, to the surprise and dis may of most people, his MAJESTY returned it with so many alterations, that the Assembly had to take the matter again into serious consideration. It cannot be denied that, by such conduct, the KING placed in the utmost jeopardy the popularity he had been gaining during the last six months." In this and other matters, the infatuated young man had not only acted "against the advice of the representatives of England and France, but also that of MAVROCORDATO, COLETTI, and the other Greek Ministers, to whom he only communicated a part of his objections, and added a great many more without con sulting them at all, one of which was, that political of fences should not be tried by jury. Fortunately, how ever, the wisdom of the Assembly afforded a great con trast to the folly of the KING, as it was at once de cided that, as debates were likely to arise, in which very open mention would be made of the KING and his proceedings, it would be proper to have the sit tings secret while such discussions continued. Ac cordingly, for three days the Assembly deliberated with closed doors, at the end of which period it was announced that ten of the KING'S alterations were accepted, and sixteen or seventeen rejected, the Assembly being unanimous on all points. It is notorious that the KING was placed in this false position by having been induced to follow the advice of the Prussian Minister, Mons. BRACIER DE ST. Simosr, and that of Mons. PRIVILEGIO—a position nearly as critical as that of the lath of September ; but, providentially, his MAJESTY seems to have been suddenly convinced of the error ha had been led into, and, within an hour of receiving the final de cision of the Assembly, sent down a message to say he adopted the Constitutional Charter as it now stood. The message was received with great acclamation by the Assembly, and the populace went under the Palace windows and cheered, when his MAJESTY appeared at the balcony, and bowed in acknowledgment." This is an ominous indication of the continuous ten dency of " Prussian principles," which, from the per sonal character of his Prussian MAJESTY, we regard rather with disappointment and regret than with sur prise. It suggests matter, too, for some observations on the singularly marked course of Russian counsels in their new delegated channels of Prussian interven tion, to which we shall hereafter call the serious attention of our readers. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Home Secretary of State, and consequently one of the most important Members of the Cabinet,—who is, or should be, the Premier's right-hand man—has just been refused_ that post which, by all accounts, he so much coveted—namely, the Lord-Lieutenancy of the county of Cumberland. Notwithstanding his claims upon that county, backed by his obseqious and unblushing Toryism, Sir ROBERT PEEL has discreetly decided against the "renegade Whig," and has resolved to continue the post in the family of LTNSDALE, who have held it for so many years. We cannot say that we are seriously afflicted at the idea of Sir JAMES GRA HAMS disappointment. On the contrary, we are strongly—some may perhaps say wickedly— disposed to rejoice at it, as furnishing an impressive proof of the declining influence of one of the most notorious political apostates of his day. Had the Netherby Baronet remained constant to the opinions' he once held, he would, with the talents which he undoubtedly possesses, but of which he makes so ill a use, have been one of the most influential men in Parliament, and exercised no slight ascendancy over the minds of his countrymen ; but he preferred the slippery, tortuous path, to the broad, straightforward one, caring little about consistency, provided he could only put himself in the way of getting a snug birth in Downing-street, under the auspices of a Minister who bid fair to maintain his post for some length of time. Well, he has gained the great object of his ambition ; he is installed in office under the powerful Tories in stead of under the feeble Whigs ; and what is the conse quence of this realisation of his most cherished hopes ? Why, just this—that at the present moment, not- withstanding the high post he occupies in the Cabi- Inet , he has less moral influence with the country than i any man ever possessed, who held the same distin guished position in the Government. His party, it is true, still pay a sort of forced and interested deference to him, because they know him to be possessed of all the useful qualities of a Tory tool ; but no really inde pendent Member cares two straws for what he says, or places the slightest confidence in his political prin ciples. As a Minister he has shown himself, during the whole period of his connection with the PEEL Cabinet, as little better than a mere bungler. Who forgets the pitiable figure he cut with his Factory Education Bill last year, which he was compelled to abandon in breathless haste, because he refused to allow the arrogant pretensions - of the Church to be one jot abated ? There were some good points in this faulty measure, as we mentioned at the time, but the Home Secretary was afraid to carry them out, because he knew well that the party with whom he acted would not permit the just claims of the Dissenters to be received .with the slightest attention. Then look at his famous Twelve Hours' Bill, his bungling management . of which —exhibiting, as it doe ,, , feebleness on the right, and vigour on the wrong side of. the question—has given the. Government a shock from which it will be slow—very slow to recover ! Poor Sir Janus GRAHAM ! He is a species of political Mar plot, and adroitly contrives to mismanage and jeopardise every question which he takes in hand. As regards the Lord-Lieutenancy of Cum berland, we are heartily glad that his claims have been rejected in favour of those of tha Earl of LONSDALE ; for though the Noble Earl is a Tory — and our admiration of Toryism is by no means ex cessive, but stops considerably short on this side idolatry—yet he is at any rate a manly and con= sistent one ; he has never adopted one set of principles to day, and another set to morrow, but has maintained throughout his public career a steady, open, undeviating course of policy. Besides, he is known to be a punctual, re solute, intelligent man of business ; when he held the Woods and Forests none were more liked by those with whom he was brought into official contact; and as Postmaster-General, he is confessedly one of the best that we have had for many a long year. - • The Morning Herald has put forth the first (we presume) of a series of articles intended to rebut certain fallacies which it declares are " echoed and re-echoed by the Anti-Corn law League agitators and free-traders." These fallacies it assumes to be the allegations indulged in by such parties, " that if the United Kingdom took freely and without restriction the agricultural produce of other countries, they would, with equal certainty and liberality, take her manufactures in return." And again, that "no country can be great or powerful, or wealthy, prosperous, and happy, but a manufacturing country, and that it is, consequently, the duty of legislators and legislation to attend to ma nufactures alone." With regard to the first of these propositions (neither of which is stated, by the bye, with much regard of fairness, or much care to avoid exaggeration in the terms of their statement), the Herald remarks that a careful examination of the whole of our imports would show "that we take scarcely anything else ex cept agricultural produce," meaning, by agricul tural produce, everything that is the produce of the soil cultivated by the labour of man, To this definition we shall presently crave attention. The Herald is indignant that it should yet be commonly imagined, and " loudly repeated, that this country either takes no, or but very little, agricultu ral produce from foreign nations?' With regard to the second proposition, the Herald threatens to re turn to it more at length in a day or two. We shall, therefore, await, with some curiosity, the more elaborate argument which our Contemporary promises on so curious a topic. It adds, "We shall show this point bears upon our commerce with the United States es pecially, and also the value of agricultural property and produce in this country, as compared to that in trade and manufactures. We propose also to show the same things as regards the United States of Ame rica, where the contrast in every part will be shown to be equally striking in the vast preponderance of agricultural over foreign trade and manufactures. Yet no one will gainsay the fact that the United States is a great country." In the meantime we beg to remark, that, if the Anti- Corn-law Leaguers hold that other countries, "if we would import freely their agricultural produce, would, with equal readiness, take our manufactures in return ;"—they do not assuredly mean to say that this either would, or could happen, without previous mo difications of our own antiquated and mischievous fiscal system. Even the boon that we should extend to the foreigner, by taking his corn off his hands, uncharged with the existing monopoly tax upon it, would not indemnify him for all the disadvantages of general trade with a country that overwhelms the fo reign customer by " customs"' duties, on so many of his commodities, that seem to have been imposed with no other purpose but to effect their virtual exclusion from our ports. So much for the first of the " falla cies" denounced by the Herald. As for the second, our Contemporary seems to overlook the fact, that, be fore he can establish a negative to it,—even in the ex ample he cites, subsequently, of the United States, — he must show that the manufacturing interest does not supply the largest, but are, indeed, the indispensable market for the 'agricultural produce of a country. If it be true that that market, or consumption, is pro vided by that interest, what the Herald terms " a fal lacy" remains—like the League itself,—" a great fact." But in perusing the remainder of the article from which we are cuoting, we are reminded of its definition of " agricultural produce." We promised to recur to this, and here it is :—" The following are the articles, the produce of the soil—agricultural produce— which this country takes from foreign 'nations." Well, what, among other products, do we find enumerated under this very comprehensive heading, embracing, it seems, "everything that is the produce ,f the soil, cultivated by the labour of man ?" Why, actually these :—" Spelter ! quicksilver ! iron !" In what country these "oracles " of Arabian tales, these ferriferous and argentiferous lands, cropped alter nately with sugar-canes and several ores, "in situ," at the surface, are to be found, the Herald does not tell us. Some arable El Dorado territory he must mean, because he is precise in showing that these are "pro ducts of a soil cultivated by human labour." We might otherwise have supposed he meant to write "products of the earth below the surface" cultivated by man. But the " soil " referred to, wherever it be, has more than a Guano power of forcing production. This soil is further stated to grow "skins and hides," and "furs:' To the last, at any rate, we must object, in limine, as any sample of " agricultural produce ;" and the Herald will make but little way in the future progress of its Anti-League argument, if the other data, upon which it is raised, involve such false designations of things as this. Letters from Madrid, which are to the Ist instant, state that honours and rewards were being bestowed on the Members of the Cabinet, the disturbances having been for the present put down. M. GONZALES BRAVO and the Marquis DE PENAFLORIDA have been nominated by her MAJESTY Knights Grand Crosses of the order of CHARLES 111. General MAZARREDO has been appointed a Lieutenant-General, and M. CARRASCO, the Minister of Finance, has been ele vated to the dignity of Count of SANTA OLATLA. M. DONOZO CORTES, who was the person sent to Paris to invite Queen CHRISTINA to return to Spain, has been made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of IsABELIA. the Catholic, and has been appointed pri vate Secretary to Queen IsABELLA, with a salary of 50,000 reels. The Paris papers of Sunday have been received. Being Easter Sunday the day was observed with rather more solemnity than usual, and but little busi ness was done at TORTONI'S. The Editors of the Gazette de France and the Nation have each been sentenced to a year's imprison ment and a fine of 12,000 f., for a libel on the Govern ment. The offensive publication was a letter, written by M. DE ROCHEFOUCAULD, Duc de Doudanville, ad dressed to the Gazette, in which it first appeared, and afterwards copied into the Nation. The author of the letter has not been prosecuted. The articles in these papers being mostly on domes tic subjects, have not much general interest. The vote of the Chamber of Deputies on the Stamp Duties on Newspapers does not excite so much attention as might have been expected ; the Commerce only has an article on the question. . . A paragraph in - the Journal du Havre states that a conspiracy had been detected among the black popu lation of Cuba, the object of which was the destruc tion of all the whites in the colony. Captain BoUlt• DIN, of the Tigre, who communicates this intelligence to the journal above named, states : " Some days before my departure a vast conspiracy of the negroes was discovered, the object of which was to seize upon the whole of the island of Cuba, and to mur der all the white population. Numerous arrests had already taken place, and the number was daily added to. Unfortunately, among the number of• those who are in prison there figure several of our countrymen (French), all planters from the neighbourhood of Matanzas, and among them are some of the most esteemed of the num ber. These unfortunate men have been arrested on the declaration of a free negro, who was formerly the slave of one of them: The negro, it" is said, for the purpose of warding off the suspicion which fell upon himself, went and accused his old masters, and thus got them imprisoned. M. Mollien, the Consul-General of France TILE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1844. at the llavannab, was actively engaged with this affair, and there was no doubt that, in consequent? of his zeal and firmness, our unfortunate countrymen will soon 'be restored to their afflicted families." The Tigre left the llavannah on the 3d of March. The National still publishes long lists of subscrip tions to the sword to be presented to Admiral Du- PETIT THOUARS. The list of Sunday includes a vast number of "Enemies of England." The sums are exceedingly small, rarely going above half a franc. The Three per Cents. remained at 83t. 15c. asked, and 83f. 20c. offered. LATER FROM the UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. One of the most rapid passages ever made across the Atlantic has just been completed by Captain Burs ley and his noble ship Hottinguer. The Hottinguer left Sandy Hook on the 23d, and made the land in 13 days, when a calm came on and kept her some 36 hours in the Channel without making way. She brings 2,400 bags of cotton. When the Hottinguer left the city of New York, the news by the steam-ship Caledonia had not arrived at New York from Boston. This arrival furnishes news from New York five days later than received by the Montezuma; the papers are, however, unusually barren of interest to the European reader. Commercial matters appear favourable ; in most de partments there was considerable activity. Our New York correspondent states that "the springhas come upon us suddenly. The North River, as well as all other rivers in this vicinity, have broken up, and the steamers are running in every direction. Our list of arrivals shows a great increase. The hotels are filled a month earlier than common. • Our merchants are quite actively engaged. The supply of goods is large, and the , assortment good. The transportation from the city, south, is through the Jersey and Pennsylvania canals ; our own great Canal will not be open until the 19th of next month. As the navigation of the Lakes has commenced much earlier than usual, the amount of goods to be brought through the Canal will be large." The cotton market has settled down into regular business. The stock in New York was never known to be so large, amounting to above 150,000 bags. Speculation had ceased, and shipments are made in the usual course. Holders were keeping cotton.back till the arrival of the Caledonia. There bad been a good deal of panic in Wall street on the subject of the Texian question, and a sudden fall of stocks was the consequence. Stock operators have felt the influence of this sensation in the fall of stocks. The agitation still continues to some extent, but it has in some degree subsided. The Texian and Oregon questions are calculated to have an effect on mercantile matters; The rate of exchange on England was 1071 to 108 ; at the latter price a large business was done for the Hottinguer. On France the rate was sf. 32c., but nothing done. We have nothing new from Canada by this arrival. IMPORTANT FROM ST. DOMINGO. CAPE HAYTIEN, MARCH 5.L--It is reported here that the mayor and municipal officers (seven in number) of Petite Reviere—a small town in the west, near St. Marc—were massacred a few days since by the military. On Sunday week the civil officers of this place received an anonymous note, threatening them with the sumo fate, unless they should immediately resign; and they have consequently closed their • office, and taken down the national flag. The same has been done by several other of the municipalities. The cause of these disturbances is briefly this:—By the new Constitution the power of the military is greatly abridged, and that of the civil authorities proportionably increased; hence the Constitution is unpopular with the army, which alone has any real power. It is taking matters into its own hands, and the President, it is said, secretly favours the design. Many citizens here appear to think it a mistake to have have effected a revolution — the chief purpose of which was to reduce the army, and then to cleat the most successful soldier President. Whether any more serious difficulties will occur is at present uncertain. Business goes on as usual. The brig Rocket, Hardy, of Bostcn, arrived 'on the 26th ult., the only arrival since our last, per schooner Baltimore. LATER FROM HAVANNAH.—We learn from the pa!- sengers in the barque Hualco, which left Havannah March Bth, that some of the slaves who had partietated in the late insurrection at Matanzas, had implicated several of the planters at .that place, who were arrested by the authorities and thrown into prison. The brig Danube, of and from New York, for Matanzas, was totally lost, on Salt Key, Dog Rock, with the exception of $3,000 in specie, and a small portion of her cargo, anchors and cables. The latter had been sold at Havannah. The crew arrived at Havannah the sth. STATE OF TRADE. Asses.—We hear of small sales of pots at $4 50. Pearls continue very dull at $5. FLOUR.—This market continues firm. Western, good barrels, fetch, but not in any quantity, $5 a brl. Corros.—The market to-day is very inactive, about 700 bales sold in small lots ; about 300 bales taken by spinners residue for expor: ; prices unsettled. Several holders are withdrawing their supplies in hopes a more active demand will follow the arrival of the steamer. Freights are again dull at id. for square bales, and id. for round bales. SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 22. OLD STOCK EXCHANGE. )13,,00000 Do. F United States Sixes,iess, 1862 1 0 1853 104 2;000 Ind. Sterling 26 7,000 Ohio Sixes, 1860 06 2,000 Kentucky Sizes loli 25,000 Indiana Dollar Bonds, 25 yrs s3o 38 14,000 Illinois Special Bonds ' s 3 40 3 3,000 Pennsylvania Fives 10 Hudson and Delaware 100 Farmers' Loan • 39 25 Kentucky Bank 73 50 Harlem ......................................s 3 59 57 Auburn and Rochester Railroad lO3l 15 Canton Company 33 + 50 Mohawk Railroad b 30 561 100 Long Island Railroad . 73 SECOND BOARD. 9:4 $5,000 Ohio Sixes 25 Mohawk Railroad 25 Norwich and Worcester Railroad 25 Ditto Ditto Ditto b3o 35i 25 Canton 33 50 Long Island Railroad 100 Harlem Railroad s6o 60 190 Farmers' Loan bin 35} - PORT U GAL. LIbBON, APrit, 3.—The Diario of this day has not yet been published ; and the following very laconic piece of information was all that it gave the public yesterday, on the subject of Almeida, " Viscount Ponta Nova, in a dispatch, dated the 29th ult., states that all the batteries in front of Almeida are ready." By telegraphic signal from Oporto we learn that the cannonade against the town began on the 30th. General .lanso, the Spanish Governor of Ciudad Rodrigo, which is a fortified town about 16 miles from Almeria, on the other side of the frontier, has issued a proclamation to the following effect, viz :- Ist. That as long as the troops shut up in Almeida continue to resist, no person will be allowed to enter Portugal from the province of Salamanca, except at the village of Biepo, which leads to Val de la Multi, where the troops of her Most Faithful Majesty are posted. 2. That any persons seized in attempting to cross the frontier at any other point will be punished as a con trabandist. On the 30th ult. were cancelled and destroyed, at the Board of Public Credit, 175 contos worth of Exchequer bills, issued in o .`ict9ber, 1842, and 15 contos of paper currency. This act was performed in the presence of the Finance Minister, and several merchants as witnesses. Her Majesty's ship 72, C‘..1.". 1 " 14 - Sartorius, arrived here this morning from the Mediter ranean, on her way to England. NEWMARKET RACES. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) NEWMARKET SUBSCRIPTION BETTING ROOM, MONDAY. NIGHT. The result of the 50 Sovs. Stakes caused an immediate reversal.of the positions of the two favourites for the Derby ; in the morning the Ugly Buck was at 4 to I and Rattan at 5 to 1 ; this evening they offer to take 4 to 1 about Rattan, and to be 6 to 5 on him against the Buck ; the very easy style in which he was making a complete spread-eagle of his horses justified the change, find, as we have before observed, will make " bad hedg ing." The subjoined quotations will show two or three other changes in this race, as well as 111 the Chester Cup prices. TWO THOUSAND UINEAS STAKES. E ., en on The Ugly Buck js:to 1 agst Keeley CHESTER CUP• 12 to 1 agst Pagan 20 to 1 agst Red Deer—taken 13 to 1 agst Roscius 25 to 1 agst Sir Robert 13 to 1 agst Cattonite 27 to 1 agst Everton 14 to 1 agst Pharaoh 30 to 1 agst The Prior 17 to 1 agst Bramble—taken 50 to 1 agst Collina—taken 20 to 1 agst Freedom I - DERBY. 16 to 1 agst Sir G. Ileathcote's 25 to '1 agst Cockamaroo lot—t 30 to 1 agst lonian 7to 2 agst Rattan—t 4t0130 to 1 agst King of Gipsies 9 to 1 agst Ugly Buck—take;33 to 1 agst Bay Momus—t 5 to 1 , 35 to 1 agst Campanero—t 18 to 1 agst Orlando—taken 140 to 1 agst Mount Charles—t 6 to 5 offered on Rattan agst the Ugly Buck. TUESDAY'S DACES. Riddlesworth—The Duke of Portland's, Mr. Wreford's, and Lord G. Bentinck's colts are scratched. 200 Sovs. Stakes—Flycatcher filly and Miss Whip filly have paid. New Match for Friday—Duke of Bedford's Minotaur, 9st 51b, agst Mr. Payne's Audrey, 7st 51b ; T.Y.C. ; 150, h ft. - KENSINGTON. Last evening the Kensington " Easter Dinner " was revived, after some years' discon tinuance. At half-past five upwards of 100 gentlemen sat down to an excellent repast in the Assembly-room at the Crown Hotel. • Mr. Archdeacon Sinclair, the vicar, took the chair, supported on his right by Sir John Conroy, and on his left by Colonel Fox. Messrs. Ches terton and Belworthy, the churchwardens, occupied the vice-chairs. There were also present, the Rev. Mr. Pitman, the Rev. Mr. Irons, the Rev. Mr. Sherman, Mr. llolt, barrister-at-law, Mr. John Percival, and most of the principal inhabitants of the parish, including several Di 3senters. SUMMARY OF :,,E?,3 Al.`; OnDitr " Who runs may read." ronExGrir. The King of the French, accompanied by Generals Ayward and Friant, left the Tuileries at three o'clock on Friday for Neuiliy. On Saturdayduring the parade of the National Guards of the Seine, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Orleans, accompanied by the Count of Paris alighted in the Court of the Tuileries. The Count remained in the Court during the whole of the parade. The funeral of Marshal d'Erlon took place at Rheims on the 4th inst. his obsequies were attended by the military and civil anthoritieA. M. Lesseps, the French Consul at Barcelona, has ar rived at Paris with his lady and two children. The French general correspondence. states that so great is the favour in which the new hank of Isabella is held at Madrid, that 1,400 shares in it have been taken in one day, and that out of 20,000 shares, into which the wh oh) capital of the concern is divided, 13,000 have been already subscribed for. The Turkish Government have imported a printing • machine of the best and latest construction, from Paris. The habit of smokino- has become so universal and so imperious in Belgium, that - a carriage in each railway train is set apart for the fumeurs. Ladies who may attempt to get into it by mistake are told its purpose, but no warning of the kind is given to gentlemen. Every man in Belgium, it is supposed, either does smoke, has smoked, or will smoke. The town of Caen is about to erect a bronze statue to the illustrious mathematician Laplace. It is to be fixed on the peristyle of the Acaietny. Several deputations have presented addresses of con gratulation to Queen Christina on her return, and pre parations were being made for a grand military. concert, which was to be given by the garrison of Madrid to celebrate that event. LAW AND POLICE. The sessions of 'the Central Criminal Court opened yesterday. Charles Freeman, otherwise Pether, was charged, at the Guildhall, with uttering at Messrs. Child's, the bankers, a forged cheque, for 55/. 10s. 2d., purporting to be drawn by Mrs. M`Pherson, of Cadogan-place, whose trustees have an account at the bank, and permit her to draw.—He was committed for trial. _ A young man, named William Cape, in the employ of Mr. Thomas Healey and partner, the proprietors of the Medical Times newspaper, was charged, at Bow-street, with embezzling money, the property of his employers. Martha Lee, an elderly woman, late cook to Mr. Wat son, a solicitor, of 28, Bedford-place, Bedford-square, was charged, at Clerkenwell, with having stolen several arti cles, the property of her late master, whilst in his ser vice. She was also charged with having committed a similar depredation on a Miss Rose, an elderly maiden lady, residing in Montague-place, Russell-square, in whose service she hal been previously to entering that of the other prosecutor.—She was committed. Henry Reynolds. in the Et mice cf Mr. Stapleton, a dust contractor, residing at No. 15, North-wharf-road, Paddington, was charged, at Marylehone, with having caused the death of a man named John West, about 65 years of age, by driving over him with his cart. As a C'oroner's jury had returned a verdict of manslaughter. he was committed for trial. James Smith, late a porter in the employment of Mr. Oakley, a grocer, at No. 72, High-street, W bitechapA, was ehargetl, at Lambt•th-street, with embezzling 201., the property of his master. He was apprehended at Tunbridge Wells, with 41. in his possession. lie was ' committed for trial. William Smith and J. Carrill, were charged, at the same office, with selling a quantity of Manilla cheroots, very ingeniously made of oak-leaves and brown paper. The prisoners were detained in order to lay the case before the solicitor of the Customs. COURT-PASIIIIONAIME. ' " His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge is not expected to return to this country from Corfu until the end of the ensuing month, when the Prince's apartments in St. James's Palace will be prepared for his recf.ption. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury left town on Saturday, for ten days, for their seat, Tottenham Park, near Marlborough. The Marquis of Salisbury arrived at Salisbury House, Arlington-street, late on Sunday evening, from a short visit to the Duke of Wellington, at Strathfieldsaye, and yesterday his Lordship loft town for Hatfield House, near Hertford, to attend the sess'ons. The Dowager Countess of Sefton and the Ladies Molyneux are expected to return to Arlington-street, at the end of the week from Stoke-place, near Windsor, for the season. The Dowager Countess of Pembroke arrived at Lord Clanwilliam's, yesterday, from Cobham, Surrey. The Hon. Thos. and Lady Emma Vesey, her Ladyship's daughter, are expected to leave Lord de Vesci s seat, Abbeyleix, in the Queen's County, on Monday next, for their new residence in Park-place, St. James's. Earl and Countess Bruce, who are passing the holi days at Savenake Lodge, near Marlborough, are expected at their mansion in Pall. mall, early in the ensuing week, fur the season. The Earl and Countess of Dunmore are expected to return to the Dowager Countess of Pembroke's mansion on Hay-hill, Dover-street, to-day, from Windsor Castle, where her Ladyship's waiting on the Queen expired yes terday. Lord and Lady Do Manley are expected to leave Canfurd Hall, near Wimborne, Dorsetshire, to-morrow, for the Clarendon Hotel, for the season. The Duke of Devonshire is still at Chiswick. His Grace still suffers from a cold. The Marchioness of Clanricarde, Viscount and Vis countess Canning left town on Saturday last, on a visit to Lady Stuart de Rothesay, at her seat in Hampshire. IVZIEICEMX.BNEO I7B . The members of the Carpenters Benevolent Institu tion, established for the relief of aged and infirm mem bers of the trade, met at Itadley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, when, in the absence of Mr. Ewart, M.P., the President, Mr. Thomas Grissel, contractor, took the chair. The Report expressed the congratulation of the Committee on the improved prospects of the Charity, and sated that, al, hough the number of annual sub scribers had considerably augmented, nevertheless the number did not yet amount to one-fiftieth of those en gaged in the trade. The total funds now in the banker's and treasurer's hands amounted to 1611. Yesterday the number of visitors to the British Museum was 21,339. On last Easter Monday there were 18,342, making an increase yesterday of 2,907. Among the recent arrival of foreig n artists is that of . M. Auguste Putt, chapel-master to t he Grand Duke of Oldenburgh, and Regius Pro ! e ssor of Music in the Uni versity of Copenhagen. He is a pupil of Dr. Spohr, and brings letters from that eminent musician to members of the profession in England , h , ghly commendator y i.f him. M. Putt was selected in 1841 to conduct the great festi val of Salzburgh in honour of Mozart, which attracted together the leading,. - nusicians from all parts of the Con tin'nt, and became one of the most perfect performances on record. A statement having gone forth to the public that some inconvenience would be occasioned in the Dividend office of the Bank of England in conseqiience of a num• ber of the clerks being required to give attendance at the trial of Barber, Fletcher, and others, at the Old Bailey, for forgery, it is as well to explain, to set the public mind at rest, as the dividends are payable to morrow, that the places of all those who may be a bsent will be supplied by efficient and competent parties. The melancholy interest created by the awful conse quences of the late fire in Oxford-street continues. undi minished. Throughout the whole of yesterday crowds of persons visited the ruins, and it was with consider able difficulty that the police, who were stationed out side the building, could induce the populace to move on, so anxious were they to obtain a glimpse of the scene of desolation. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(T HIS DAY._ LONDON, Arrm O.—Wind this day, &coil SOUth-Ncesterty breezes and fine clear weather. DEAL, APRIL B.—Wind, N.W. to N.N.E., thick fog; N.E. to E.N.E., light and clear.—Arrd. W. S. Hamil ton, Brown, Singapore. Sld. Wilhehnine Marie, Singapore; John Knox, Bombay. CLYDE, APIII 6 Rover and Monarch, Montreal. • —gld • .- MARGATE, APRIL B.—The Tintern, from London to Bar badoes, got ashore oil Margate Sand, but was assisted off this morning's - tide, and is brought up off the North Foreland. ROCHESTER, APRIL 7.—The Loyal, of this port, was in con tact, 2d instant, with the Curlew, of Boston, off Flamborough Head, carrying away bowsprit, and doing considerable da mage to bull. YARMOUTH, APRIL B.—The Tar, from Shields to Rouen, has put in here with damage and loss of anchors, having been in contact with the Armful', of Weymouth, in Boston Docks. BRISTOL, APRIL 7.—The Hercules steamer, from Llanelli', is ashore in the mud on Nelson Point, and beneaped, but will not receive much damage—passengers landed. OFF BEACHY HEAD, APRIL 7.—Warrens, whaler, South Seas—out forty months ; Susan, Bahia, for Gcthenburg. OFF EASTBOURNE, ArniL s.—St. Thomas steam-packet, Peterson, Porto Rico, for Hamburgh ; Oost Indien packet, Baker, Tyilatap. PoirrsmouTir, APRIL B.—Wind S.S.E., light.—Arrived Oriental steamer, Alexandria, left 23d OFF THE WIGHT, APRIL B.—Empress, Scott, Boston. PLYMOUTH, APRIL B.—Wind variable.—'Sid. Spermaceti and Ann, Quebec. FALMOUTH, APRIL B.—Wind variable, light.—Off, Sam Slick, Simpson, Buenos Ayres; Fortuna, Kreig, Paraiba, for Hamburgh ' • Aurelia, Aurese, St. John's, New Brunswick , and sld. for Hull. PADSTOW, APRIL B.—Sid. Belle, Quebec. WISITEHAVEN, APRIL 7.—Sid. Lightfoot, Quebec. CLYDE, APRIL 6.—Arrd. Leodes, Robins, New Orleans. Sld. Janet and Catherine, Rio ; Janet, Dalhousie ; Northum berland and Faside, Quebec. LlvEnroor„ AriaL B.—Wind S., light.—Acrd. William Turner, 'Mauritius ; resource (late Lewis), Sierra Leone ; Belmont, Brown, New Orleans ; liottinguer, Bursley, New York (23d tilt.) Ski. Cordelia, Calcutta; Levenside, Angra Peguina ; Aurora, Africa ; John Brooks, La Guayra ; True Blue, Pictou ; A u ckland :and John, Quebec. Off, Mary, Hartley, Valparaiso ; Safeguard, Texas. CORK, .APRIL 6.--Sld. Pallas, St. John's, New Brunswick; John Wesley, Newfoundland. WIVENITOE, APRIL S.—The Friendship, of Hartlepool, ashore on the Gunflcet, has been got off after discharging 80 of coals. tons The late Dowager-Countess of Clarendon has left by her will the Pennine-Castle estate, near Cowbridge, to her husband's nephew, the present Earl of Clarendon and his heirs, on the demise of W. Hayton Gwinnet, Esq., the present possessor. The old and respectable firm of the Sherborne and Dorsetshire Bank have incorporated their banking business with that of the National Provincial Bank of England. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. UNION II ALL.-(THIS DAY.) Thomas PerciOal, a seaman, was brought up, charged with conveying smuggled spirits from a vessel in the river. The Excise officers being on the alert the preceding afternoon observed a sailor lowering himself from the bows of a vessel into a boat alongside. When he got into the boat, the officers perceiving that he had a large bladder apparently full of liquor underneath his jacket. rowed their boat towards him with the intention of seenring him. The prisoner, on seeing their object, pulled away with all his might to escape his pursuers, but, on finding they were gaining upon him, he jumped out of his boat into the river and swam towards the stairs. He, however, did not reach the stairs, but contrived to get into another boat alengside a collier, and jumped upon deck, at which time the officers secured him, but it was then found that the prisoner had very dexterously got rid of the bladder of spirits. Mr. TnAILL said that it was fortunate for the prisoner that the spirits were not fimnd in his possession, for if it had been, a conviction must have folloiked. The evidence against him being therefore incomplete he was entitled to his discharge. The prisoner hitched up his trousers, and seemed delighted to have escaped out of the clutches of the law. _ _ Another sailor named Johnson was charged with con• - eying smuggle c 1 tobacco. This defendant, however, was not so fortunate as his fellow-prisoner. Johnson, it appeared, was seen by Inspector Judge, Thames police, walking along Tooley-street with some thing bulky underneath his jacket. When stopped and examined 81bs. of tobacco were found in his possession. The defendant, a stout-looking man, began to cry, saying that the tobacco was given to him, and that he was ignorant it was an offence to carry it along. Mr. TRAILL fin: d the defendant 1001., and he was in formed that for any mitigation of the penalty he must petition the Lords of the Treasury. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY.) George Garrett and James Dunford, a chandler's shop keeper, living at No. 2, Little Chesterfleld-street, Mary lebone, were placed at the bar, the former charged with robbing his employer, Mr. Thomas W. Jefferies, of No. 39, Old Compton-street, Soho, butcher, and the latter with receiving the stolen property. - It appeared that the prisoner Garrett was the pro-e -cutor's foreman, and such implicit trust was placed in him that he was allowed to transact the money and con fidential part of the business. Latterly, however, Mr. Jefferies's sister, who is residing with him as house keeper, suspected that Garrett was dishone3t, and hav ing placed herself on the watch, this morning she saw the prisoner Dunford come to the shop at an early hour with a basket, the shop boy having been sent out of the way by Garrett on a trifling errand. Garrett then proceeded to take pieces of meat, (one of them- half of a salted round of beef) from different parts of the shop, which he put into Dunford's basket, and he was , going away with them when the police were called, and they were both given into custody, on which Dunford offered to give a sovereign to settle the matter. The prosecutor said from what he had since ascer tained, he had every reason to believe that this system had been carried on for upwards of twelve months. The meat Dunford was carrying away was of the value of about 14s. 6d. The prisoner was fully committed. CLERKEN WELL.—(THIS DAY.) Two dissipated looking young men, named Henry and William Garden, were charged with the follov.ing out rageous induct. A decent-leoking poor woman and her husband, re siding in Milfield-place, Stoke Newington, were return ing home about twelve o'clock last night along the Loner-road. The wife caught held of her husband's arm to lean upon it. He in sport shook her off, telling her she had walked by herself all day, and must do so then. At this moment the prisoners came up and made use of the grossest and most offensive language towards the couple. The complainant desired them to go away, but they struck them, knocked the woman down, and kicked her on the breast. The husband came to her assistance, and him too the prisoners felled to the ground, and treated him very roughly. Walker, 88 N, and several civilians came up, and the prisoners were with much difficulty secured. Two gentlemen named Laing and Grontage, who wit nessed the occurrence, came forward and described the prisoners' conduct as very brutal. The complainant, when asked if he could account for the conduct of the prisoners, said the only reason ho could assign was that they entertained an old grudge against him on account of his resisting them in an at tempt to rescue a prisoner from the police twelve months ago. The defence set up by the prisoners was that the male complainant struck their father; but on investigating this allegation Mr. C03.18E said that he believed it to be altogether fictitious, and that it aggravated the offence. The prisoners were sentenced to pay a fine of 2/. each, or a month's imprisonment in the House of Cor rection. MARYLEBONE.—(THIS DAY.) Bridget APCann, a young woman, was placed at the bar, charged with a series of aggravated assaults. The evidence went to show that the prisoner lodged with a Mrs. Atkins, No. 4, John-street, St. John's Wood, and that she went into the latter's room yesterday even ing to pay part of her rent. Mrs. Atkins wanted the whole of it, when the prisoner got very abusive, and struck with great violence a young female who was sewing there. Mrs. Spall (Mrs. Atkins mother) came in to assist in ejecting the prisoner, when she was struck in the mouth, and tumbled down stairs. A policeman was sent for, and he, on taking her into custody, was attacked in a very disgraceful and dangerous manner by her, and was now suffering from the injuries received. It was mentioned by Mr. Jones, the usher, that the ' prisoner had been once before the Magistrate, on suspi cion of having caused the death of her husband, in a similar manner. The prisoner admitted having been in this Court on such a charge, but said she was belied, and that the case was dismissed. Mr. RAWLINSON said that it was very evident, from the severity of her attack on the policeman, and her flip pant conduct before the Court, that she was a dangerous woman, and not sufficiently aware of the violence of her conduct. He should, therefore, endeavour to impress the fact upon her. For the attack on each female she was fined 305.,0r, in default of payment, six weeks in the House of Correction ; and he was sorry that, for her conduct to the policeman, he could only inflict the penalty of 405., or one month there.—The female was then removed. John Turner, a young lad, was placed before Mr. liawlinson, charged with having been drunk and an noying Charlotte Thompson. The complainant said that some time since she had been keeping company with the prisoner, and he yester day came to her sister's house, where she resides, forced his way in, broke the kitchen door, and used the most infamous language to her. He did the same last Christmas. A policeman was called in, and he was given in charge. Police-constable 193 said he was bit in the hand, and tripped up by the prisoner. He had great difficulty in taking him to the station-house. Mr. RAwLlNsoN—Well, Sir, this is a queer way of making love to the girl. Why do you go after her at all if she does not like you? I must fine you 20s. Prisoner—l have no money. Mr. RAWLINSON—Then you go to prison. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) 71AYMARNETS. SMITIIFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 21 15s to 31; use ful ditto, 3/ 5s to 31 108; fine Upland ditto, 3/ 12s to 31 16s ; Clover Hay, 3/ 5s to 51; Oat Straw, 11 6s to I/ 8s Wheat Straw, 11 8s to 1/ lOs per load. Supply very limited, and trade dull. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 2/ 16s to 3/ 3s; useful ditto, 31 5s to 3/ 12s •, fine Upland ditto, 3/ I3s to 4/ ; Clover Hay, 315 s to 4/15s ; Oat Straw, 1/7s to 1/10s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ lOs to 1/ 12s per load. A moderate supply, and a heavy demand. Wumcn.trEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 2l 10s to 3/ ; useful ditto, 3/ 3s to 3/ lOs ; fine Upland ditto, 3l 12s to 3/ 16s ; Clover Hay, 3/ 5s to 5/ 5s ; Oat Straw, 1 / Os to 1 / 8s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ Ss to 1/ lOs per load. Both Hay and Straw sold heavily at the above quotations. COLuNzai , . The Colonial markets being shut we have nothing to report under this head in regard. to them, but we give the stocks in the port of London. SUGAR.—ApriI 1, 1844, British Plantation 4,790 hhds 467 tierces, against 8,317 hhds 1,099 tierces at the same time in 1843. The stocks of all other descriptions are larger than at this time last year. The deliveries of British Plantation are larger this year. Those of Bengal have fallen off. The home consumption of British Plan tation from the East and West India Docks last week was 466 hhds 12 tierces 147 brls. COFFEE—British Plantation, April 1, 1844, 2,051 hhds, 1,578 barrels and bags, against 3,331 hhds, 2,024 barrels and bags , at the same time last year. The stocks ofForeign and East India rather larger than at this time last year. The consumption of British Plantation has increased. lit73l.—April 1,1844, 11,704 puns, 2,821 hhds, against 17,638 puns, 5,229 bhds at the same time in 1843. TALLOW.—P.Y. Candle, is 40s 9d to 41s per cwt on the spot, and town 435. TFA.—Thc market is dull. FATAL ACCIDENT AT lIUNGERFORD MARKET.— Mr. Higgs held an inquest yesterday at the George, Castle-street, Leicester-square, on the body of William Paps°, aged 35, a porter in Hungerford-market. It ap peared in evidence that the deceased was on Thursday last employed to unload a barge of some mangel-wurzel. The barge was moored off the market, ghost ten feet from the shore, so that deceased had to carry his load along a plank. As he was on the middle of the plank, with a load on his shoulders, the barge was unexpectedly set in motion by the swell of a steamer leaving the pier, and the plank being shaken the deceased fell into the water. An alarm was instantly spread, and the drags were brought and put into operation without delay. lie was found in about ten minutes, but quite dead. Ver dict—" Accidentally drowned." " THE ROOKS HAVE LOST THEIR PLACES."—The rooks that formerly tenanted the trees on the parade in the Tower, as well as the crowns at the ,ummit of the White Tower, built by William Rufus, and which they inhabited fur many successive generations, have vacated that locality for about eight years. Until that period likewise there was a celebrated rookery in the large tree in Wood-street abutting from Cheapside. PROLIFIC FAMILY.—A person on Bolton Moor, named William Flitcroft, received, on the 24th ult., the following additions to his family, within the space o f two hours:—two children, eleven pigs, four whelps, and three kittens,—in all, twenty-one.—Bolton Free Press. ICU CIE Y . AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. There was a spirited demand for Cotton at Liverpool yesterday, and at id. per lb. rise, compared with Thurs day's prices. Sales, incuding 2,000 bales on speculation, 8,000 bales; viz. 300 Maranham, at 51d. to 6id.; 50 Bahia, at 61d. ; 300 Surat, at 34d. to sd. ; 50 Egyptian, at 7ld. ; and the rest American, at 51d. to 7d. per lb. A fair business was done in Railway Shares, hut prices were not so good as on Thursday last. Birmingham and Gloucester, 24 Dublin and Cashel, 6k ; Eastern Counties, 12* ; Edin burgh and Glaseow, 651 ; Great Weqern, 110: Don caster and Carlis t- le, 7i ; Caledonian, 52 ; Birmingham Thirds, 401 ; South-Western, 83 ; Manchester and Bir mingham, 481 ; North British, :31. Is. 6d. ; Paris and Lyons, 3/. 3s. 6d. ; Do., Rouen, 37 ; south Eastern, 35 ; Paris and Strasburgh, 31. There are commercial advices from Singapore this morning to the 18th January. Fine cotton goods wire in demand, and sold well. Most woollens were dull of sale, principally in consequence of the accounts that the markets in China were not favourable. The exchange on London was at 4.2, and bills much in demand. There were 18 British vessels in the harbour, most of which were likely to have cargoes. The Chinese at Singapore had resolved to present Mr. Bonham a beautifully figured umbrella for his kindness during the teriod he was Governor of the Straits settlements. It was to be sent home by an Englishman, who was about to leave the island. The address (in Chinese,), which was agreed to at the meeting referred to, concludes thus • All the Chinese inhabitants of Singapore think on your great virtues, and do exceedingly desire your return. They therefore unanimously, and with sincerity, respectfully offer you an umbrella, em broidered in superior silk, as a memorial of your virtue, most fervently hoping your acceptance of it, not indeed as a recompense, but as a small token of the respect and attachment of us all, and as a proof that we du not forget you." The commercial accounts from the United States, re ceived this morning, possess but little interest. rons New York we learn that the exports of cotton to Europe had been very extensive. In anticipation of a large shipment this year of timber, the trade was very brisk in. all parts of British North America. The Commissioners have rather increased their par' chases to-day, and have paid for the first time par for Consols. At the present time this is the.ruling rate. The premium upon Exchequer bills remains very firm at 725. to 745. The Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Re duced have advanced to 104, and India Stock to 294. In the other English Securities there was not any ma terial alteration this morning. A general depression appears to prevail in the Foreign Market this morning, with the exception, perhaps, Of Dutch Five per Cents., which have improved to 1 co* Spanish stock has been sold at 26k 4 ; the Three per Cents. at 361 it the French Five per Cents. at 1221.50 c.; the Mexican Five per Cents. at 351 ; the Deferred Stock at 1.5* ; and Colombian, ex Venezuelan, at 14g. In the Railway Share Market there has not been much alteration as to prices, but a good deal of business has been done. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock __ 199 N 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 99% ILO 3Y4 per Cent. Reduced Annuities New 3% per Cent. Annuities 103% Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860..... Ditto 3 . Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 Bank Stock for Account Consols for Account India Stock Exchequer Bills, 11.1 d. I%d 1,0001. 500/ Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE D'CLOCI+. ~ ' Columbian Bonds 14% 15 OA Mexican Bonds, 1 837, 5 per Cent. Ditto Deferred Stock Ditto DAentures Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 26% Ditto for the Account Ditto Passive Bonds. Ditto Deferred Ditto Three per Cent. Ditto for the Account. French Rentcs, 5 per Cent Exchange Dutch 2% per Cents. 601 %/4 Ditto for the Account. CO . • Dutch 5 per Cents ... 1004% Ditto for the Account lOO% New Loan 1837, 5 per Cents. „. 100% Ditto for the Account PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAEE. PAID. PER SMARR Birmingham and Derby...........' 100 Birmingham and Gloucester lOO ......... 054 7 ....., to 9 0 , Bristol and Gloucester 3U Caledonian Chester and Holyhead 5 - Dublin and Cashel ... 2% 5% to 6 Eastern Counties Ditto New Registered."... 8/. 6s. p Bd s. . 4 . d .... : .' 1 1 3 - Ditto t'erpetual 5 per eent to .-- Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O . .... .... 65 ......; to Great Western Ditto % Shares Ditto Fifths l2 .... ..... 18% Harwich (Br.athwaite) 2 ..- ..... 2% to --• London and Brighton 5O 43% to -- London and Birmingham. Stock .236 .... to London and South Western 41% 84% to ..-• Ditto Eighths London and Croydon (Trunk)... h% - Leeds and Bradford Manchester and Leeds '7o ll3 ..... .... to -- Midland Counties lOO ........ 91 North Briti.h Norwich and Brandon ._ ..76% ~. to -77... Northern and Eastern 45 57V:..... to --••' .„ North Midland Ditto 4 Shares Paris and Orleans ..„.... CO ...... South Eastern and Dover .........32 Strasburg and Basle ... . Yarmouih and Norwich - MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL B,—We bg l io : no material change to note in this market to-day. 1 2, a quotations are :—Blackburn and Preston, 4i ; and Cashel, 6 ; Paris and Lyons, 31. 3s. ' • bl a ncheal7 and Birmingham, 481 to 49 ; Sheffield and Mancheste r ' 70 to 71- ; South Western, 821 to 831. I. l ° FATAL ACCIDENT AT OLD SHADES night, at nine o'clock, the Fairy steamer, from Gr e c e or wieh, came up with a large freight of passengers to Shades Pier, London-bridge, tead the vessel was moored alongside, when Mr. Foster, the mate and rne" l .l collector, jumped out in advance of the people on he t cf with his ticket-books in his hand, for the pure: ls ;o taking the fares of those persons wha had not paid, -. 0 in doing so he fell between the vessel and the pier 2 ;ess the water, and disappeared immetliately. Assistanc e b io rendered by the crew, and boat-livoks were put out , f o r he was never seen again, and was nfowned. The O b oe' tunate man had a large sum of money about hina "tads time. He was a watermar., and had beei: for manYl7:-. in the Woolwich Steam Company's employ. ST. STEPHEN, WALBROOK.—Yesterday there Is another meeting of the parishioners, adjourned fr 013 303 27th ult. Mr. Rock took the chair at ten o'clock , _0 after recapitulating some of his former stateti lents the reference to Mr. Alderman Gibbs, adverted !A l lot struggle which was expected to take place at the fer o i t ,t• e.ections on Thursday. Immediately after the 00„ y er meet of Mr. Williams and another gentleman to.,; ( 0) seers of the parish at the last meeting, he (Mr. ''' o lo went to the Mansion-house, and obtained the aign e , i - es of Mr. Alderman Wilson, which was necessary t, e , m 7 0 111 effect to that appointment, and afterwards to Giw" m od where he obtained the signature of Mr. Alde r ec t' Challis. Mr. Alderman Gibbs, who held a vestry l e t be ing simultaneously and for a similar purpose, 01 e at same day, also applied to get the appoio, Un tlii! in favour of his nominees subscribed witil ,frf signatures of Mr. Alderman Hughes Hughes, ari". n ds Alderman Huniphery ; but both of them , deell e ,o the latter observing to the applicant—" Oh , ratl i sgot me in one mess already." Alderman Gibbs at e y c si obtained the signature of a brother Alderman, W lett name did not transpire•, and, it is said, that to al t . C 5 the requirements of the appointment, and for WA e ces, another tome, he superadded his own. The conet t i l l ea is, that there are now four overseers, and it is It) li that the question will be brought to issue by an r o ettt Lion to the Court of Queen's Bench. Mr. Ai :OAP Gibbs has further intimated his intention of cont de soi• with the parishioners the appointment of chnrch wBr dfor by means of a select vestry, which he has suzuract hkc Friday next, a vestry meeting for a similar purP es- 0 tr . ing likewise been convened by the parishioners e c ote Thursday previous. The latter meeting has he e , l2 o vened by the Rev. Dr. Croly, in conformity La s ?' Phillimore's opinion—to the effect that the Rector the right to call a vestry in the event of a refusal fre P " churchwardens. UlO BOULOGNE AND CALAIS.—The total. ° 40 ,5-1 sons who passed to and from France, via f° . ; during the week ending on Thursday, was 1,0389;01 via Calais, 241. The numbers in the, corresP:. 5 3 week of last year were—Boulogne, 773 ; a nd Cala i,, lP 4 60 EDUCATION IN FRANCE.—According to the si tics of public instruction in France, there exi st establishments of superior instruction—viz., n 4 4 0 . colleges, directing the education of 15,780 Vul e ,;l3,r c if communal colleges, directing the education' o' tic a: pupils ; 102 institutions, directing the ea Uest id, cit l ; 10,371 pupils ; and in fine, 10,011 public solo? 75,9.71 ducting the education of 24,580 pupils :—Tot a h, to7i, pupils. Add to these the primary schools, and V " ti ctso number of the houses of education in France s ll2 ° 40,000, in which are received about 3,000,000 eb r ed s r and adults. Of the communal schools 26,470 ar e 5 60 : . ally appropriated to the education of Catholics! ~co l ro Protestants, 29 to Israelites, and 2,450 to differellc WILL OF GENERAL LORD LYNEDOCII. - 4 0041 of this late eminent and veteran General, Knig"„disl,,A Cross of the Bath, Knight of the most distinie•-904%, Order of St. Michael and St. George, se u p c cgo " Father of the Army," has been proved in s t eels e Commons by Andrew Murray and Robert e Esq., two of toes executors, the Hon. Henry Tr v_u_ o/ 10 ing declined ct. The property within the j o ` l, T o ' of Canterbury has been sworn under . 4pr o poOrA, order to .enable the executors to receive that pr cro" . ,, in London, the will having already been p i ebt_ c l, in Scotland, where the bulk of his proper,tTe is very considerable) is situated. By o t t ,'".; ti blie meet the following legacies (the only . Ones r ( te si r r e j st o ) h a n re H g o is p 'e e n , the late J. Grame, Esq., 1,0001, in testi_ry,h, Fl o 5 : 700 1 0 .° 1. esteem and regard ; to J. Goodsman, of E o d - n e e_ w s :resPin t;hetochEilidizraenGorfamthee,. lcia:trie_t_eiter-oPfen2o-0 Lordship's late servant, 5001. ; and to all tb,r e due ; (1 ,, two years' wages, in addition to what Ina/. his "ea , r fs each of his trustees, 1001. The residue of is bequeathed to various branches of his family' annia• r°' thing like an abstract of the will.—Brzt i 5 utterly impossible, within our limited space, . t° b the str • p CLERKS OF ASSIZE AND PEACE:--Attie ' u t about to be had at these public officers ; vernment apply the pruning knife to s ma. v i o t .A ce, „ F ir leave the great ones untouched. N ot a find about own not excepted ! No, no ; bu t if theY__!; t b r° .ate good place, w' lc salary or a fat pension, it is done in a crack __ of pit fl Tories are disgusted with this jobbing sye bob down little hills, and, at the s ame time, a' mountains. MAA RT L. of Utt t : '4 , (3 l eati ir ' d .4r s: ? e:re ti: citttio t r Irb, 111048.11 . ftr s tr 4 ce t .u , h. : niut hi rtre S r °ce bi ihebttoao: eeyu vi )onr ~jnanisillgr:strndtyeaeethifi,Yia'rsm:tis.l,. coo. in ria °ea India, of t h e ii; l ,esmai, k i t t.7ontcred t tar n ,,,, a nner b el le ,' to the brid, l , B or the We s Mi: el Haines, of spui ts „, tte, a nal - • , tion. °TI and fea