The Sun. — London, England, 1839-03-26 00:00:00

L ~+ ~" 4 .. , S EVENING EDITION 1.1141 M WATER AT LONDON BRUME TO-MORROW. Morning FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD ESTATES, LONG PRESTON, YORKSHIRE. mo BE SOLD, pursuant to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery; made in a Cause of HARD ACRE versus HARDACRE, with the approbation of Sir GirFiN WILSON, one of the Masters of the said Court, at Settle, in the county of York, some time in the month of May next (of which due notice will be given), The FREEHOLD and LEASEHOLD ESTATES of HENRY HARDACRE, late of Bend Yeat, in the parish of Long Preston, in the county of York, Gentleman (deceased); ' consisting of several Farms, Messuages, Tenements, Closes, Inclosures, and parcels of Meadow and Pasture Land, situate in the parish of Long Preston, in several Lots. Particulars are preparing, and may shortly be had (gratis) at the said Master's Chambers, Southampton-buildings, Chan , cery-lane, London ; of Messrs. Douglass and Cragg, Solicitors, Ns. 1, Verulam-buildings. Gray's Inn, London ; and of Messrs. Hartley and Dudgeon, Solicitors, Settle, Yorkshire (on appli cation to whom the property may be viewed); and at the prin cipal Inns at Settle, Skipton, Clitheroe; Gisburn, and Long Preston. SPLENDID PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM HOWITT. 11HE NATURALIST, Monthly Miscel lany, No. XXXI:, for APRIL, price 25., will con tain a Portrait, Memoir, and Autograph of WILLIAM HOWITT (the 4th of a Series). London : Whittaker and Co., and all Booksellers. THE FREEMASON'S QUARTERLY REVIEW, for APRIL, price 3s. Contains A most extensive Digest of the important and interesting Proceedings of the Last Quarter upon the Discipline and Practice of the Craft—A Masonic Memoir of the late Earl of Zetland—On Freemasonry Masonic Didactics—Terrestial Phecnomena—The Templars—Early Discipline of the Israelites —Grand Masters—Das Vehmo Gericht—Hebrew Chronology —Poetry—Masonic Intelligence—The Asylum—Obituary— Itev'ew of Llterature, &c. &c. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster-row ; Suther land, Edinburgh; Porter, Dublin. NOVEL, BY MISS MARTINEAU. Thia day is published, in 3 vols. price 275., E E It B R 0 0 K. A NOVEL. By HARRIET MARTINEAU. Edward Moxon, Dover-street. THE NEW NOVEL. Nosy ready at all the Libraries, in 2 vols. post Bvo., THE FERGUSONS; or, WOMAN'S LOVE, and the WORLD'S FAVOUR. " 'Ti3 a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love." —Shakspeare. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HIS Majesty the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, His Majesty the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, And His Majesty the KING of PRUSSIA. having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several Dis ributions of Money, which (though they are NO LOT TERIES, offer a great many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS at lIAMBURGH, and HEINE BROTHERS at LUBECK, are NOW SELLING SHARES for any of the said DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY, at various prices. The Dis tributions ecntain various portions, from NINE POUNDS TO TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS and upwards. Persons desirous to purchase may receive PRE VIOUS to giving any order, the Prospectus and Particulars, upon addressing, WI'IHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS at HANIBURGPI. P. S. THE NEXT AUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION CONTAINS PORTIONS OF 4,0001., 7,5001., and 30,000/. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. On EASTER MONDAY, APLIL 1, Will be performed the New Play, in Five Acts, called RICHELIEU, OR THE CONSPIRACY, Written by Sir E. Lytton Bulwer, Bart. The Characters by Mr. Elton, Mr. Diddear, Mr. Macready, Mr. Warde, Mr. An 3crson, Mr. Vining. Mr. Roberts, Mr. Phelps, Mr. G. Ben nett, Mr. Howe, — hiss E. Phillips, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Yar nold, Mr. W. lA. Payne, Mr. C. J. Smith, Mr. Bender, Mr. Paulo, Mr. Gough,, Mr. Thorne, Mr. Brady, Mr. Bur det, Mr. Smith, Mr. Kirke, Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. Wal dron, Mr. Ayliffe, Mr. Andrews, Mr. T. Matthews, Miss Helen Faucit, Miss Charles, Mesdames Reed, Corder, Lee, Valanduke, Mathews, Mew, and Morgan. After which will be revived the Grand Dramatic Romance, of LODOISKA. The Box Office will be open this day, March 26, To-mor row, Thursday, and Saturday, where Tickets and Places may be had of Mr. Notter, from Ten tili Four. ffoc ,j am , 4, ,k 1 % LONDON : TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1839. A little amusing sparring took place in the House of Lords last night between Lords BROUGHAM and MEL.- MOU RNE, on the former presenting some petitions re ferring to lunacy, when he bantered Lord MELBOURNE about the believers in the necessity for getting rid of commercial protection being fit for a mad-house. Lord MELBOURNE, however, stuck fast to his opinion, and persisted in affirming that what he said was perfectly true. We can only suppose that the Noble Viscount has some extraordinary conception of the extent and value of protecting duties, which other political philoso phers have never formed. The Duke of Wellington's Estate Bill was read a third time, when Lord BROUGHAM complimented the Duke for his generosity. Lord BROUGHAM declined to press for some returns relative to the Canada prisoners, of which he had given notice, while the case of the prisoners were under the consideration of a Court of Law, but he protested strongly against political offenders being mingled with, and treated like, burglars and highwaymetr. The Peers adjourned at an early hour, after receiving a few petitions. Mr. Ews took his seat in the Commons for Leicester. The Great North of England Railway Bill was read a second time. Colonel PERCEVAL presented a petition from Sligo against the appointment of Lord FORTESCUE to the Lord- Lieutenantcy of Ireland. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in moving the House into a Committee on the Ecclesiastical Appointments Suspen sion Bill, refuted a calumny of the Times relative to Lord WRIOTHESLEY RUSSELL, and Mr. V. HARCOURT, with Lord ASULEY, by their conduct and language, amply confirmed the refutation. On the motion for going into a Committee of Supply, Captain BOLDE RO persisted in preceding Mr. T. ATTwooD, in moving an amendment, touching the sup ply of great-coats to the Marines, notwithstanding an affecting appeal which Mr. ATTwooD made to the Captain, whether he would, as a gentleman and soldier, interfere, with his great-coats, to stop Mr. ATTWOOD'S Important motion relative to Russia. After some little discussion the Captain withdrew his motion, and Mr. ATTWOOD proceeded to unfold all the terrors he feels at the might of the CZAR. The Hon. Member made a long speech, in which he preferred the Tories to the Whigs, and both to the Radicals, who were the worst of the three. He dwelt much on the danger to which the country was exposed from Russia, and expatiated on her power and our weakness. He concluded by moving an address to her Majesty, to take efficient means to pro vide seamen for the fleet. No Member could be found to second the motion, and the House went into a Com mittee of Supply on the Navy Estimates. Seve ral sums were voted, after Mr. HITNIE had noticed the fact of the Hastings having been placed at the disposal of the Queen Dowager, when a ship, as the Honourable Member said, was wanted to go to Vera Cruz ; and Mr. WOVERLEY ATT WOOD had brought the inadequate wages of the ship wrights in the dockyards under the notice of the House. The Hon. Member was generally compli mented for the way in which he did it. Mr. WOOD admitted that it was a subject of difficulty, and thought it would be wise to revert to superannuation. There was also a brief discussion on the propriety of hiring transports, or employing men of war as troop ships, but nothing of iportance was said or done further than voting the money. After the House had resumed, Mr. HonsmAN post poned his motion for returns to elucidate the statistics of impressment. The House adjourned a little before One, having been occupied all the evening with the Navy Estimates. By the arrival of the packet-ship Scotland, Cap tain ROBINSON, at Liverpool yesterday, we have received highly important intelligence from New York to the 7th inst. inclusive. The Report of the Foreign Committee on the boundary question, with the all founded upon it—which passed Con gress with a haste almost unprecedented—will be found in another part of The Sun. Both docu ments will well repay the trouble of a care ful perusal. The Report evinces an anxiety for the amicable adjustment of the question to which we cordially respond ; but we cannot omit observing, that either the friendly professions con tained in the Report are insincere, or the Com mittee has acted injudiciously in accompanyin g them with assertions and declarations which amount to a virtual pre-judgment of the question at issue. Every acre of the disputed territory is assumed both in the Report and the President's Message, as belonging to Maine ; and yet Maine her self has boundary da not r ! determin e d w h ere p rec i se ly to fix This does not look as if the United States Government was as averse to a war yr-41511,s country as a just appreciation of the in terests of the two nations, a rational anticipation of the deplorable consequences, and the conviction of a high moral responsibility, would lead us to expect from a really honest Executive. Far be it from us, however, to throw the shadow of an obstacle in the way of a speedy and amicable settlement of this troublesome question:; and we trust that when the negociations are begun, under the authority of the new Bill, the Bri tish Ministry will be prepared to make every reason able concession, short of a direct compromise of our national dignity, for the maintenance of friendly relations with a Government and a people with whom our commercial interests, and a regard for the extension of civil and religious liberty, require that we should henceforth live in amity. If the Governments on both sides be sincere in their efforts to maintain tranquillity, and if the Commissioners are solely actuated by like motives, the whole question will admit of a very simple, and very speedy adjustment. It would almost appear, however, that the United States has already resolved upon commencing hos tilities, if every claim put forth by the State of Maine be not conceded. If this be so war is inevi table ; and therefore it will behove us to be pre pared for whatever may happen. Since the above was written the Liverpool steamer has arrived, bringing us New York journals to the 10th inst. They bring no later news horn the frontier of any general interest. The news from Canada is not important. According to the Montreal Herald of the 2d inst. Sir JOHN COLBORNE had given orders to the 11th Regiment to proceed immediately to New Brunswick to prevent all disturbances on the fron tier. Two other regiments bad received orders to follow the 11th to New Brunswick in the course of a day or two. We subjoin the latest report of the state of the New York Money Market : MONEY MARRET, &C.-MARCH 9. The Stock Market yesterday was again inactive ; both monied men and operators seemed indisposed to make purchases. United States Bank Shares sold at 1161 dollars to 1161 dollars; Phcenix Bank, 1021 to 103; North American Trust and Banking Company, 97 to 98; Farmers' Trust Company, 108; American Trust Company, 101 ; Bank of Commerce, 102}; and all other descriptions of Shares sold at the Exchange Board, rather re ceded in prices. The offerings in insurance stocks have for some time been quite limited. The great depression that has existed in the share market the past week, appears to be rather " a panic" that has again risen up in conse quence of the unsettled state of affairs, connected with our north-eastern boundary difficulties, and which seems to us to have too extensive an influence. The state of the foreign exchanges have been but little affected, rates for bills on England:continuing at 4 dollars 82 cts. to 4 dollars 84 cents. the pound sterling, and on France at sf. 20. c Money remains much in the same position as the past week or two, and we see nothing in the prospective to materially vary its condition at present. The Bank of Commerce have given notice that a second instalment of ten dollars on each share is required to be paid on the Ist of April. " Persons desirous of making scrip shares full shares, can do so by paying interest from the 9th of February. This will entitle them to rateable dividends from that day." . . . Our advices from New Orleans are to the 27th ult. At that place money matters had considerably improved, and good paper was much more sought after, and at some re duction in rates. There continued to be a fair demand for flour, at 7 dollars 50 cents. to 8 dollars per barrel ; corn, 68 to 70 cents. per bushel. Freights unchanged. i dols. for cotton to Liverpool, and Li cents. to Havre. In the House of Commons last night, Sir I PEEL stated that it was very important to the country generally to be acquainted with the inten- tions of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, as to his motion concerning the Ministry, and therefore he asked when the Noble Lord meant to bring it on. Lord JOHN RUSSELL immediately fixed Thursday, the 11th of April, for the motion. Till that comes on all interest in other political questions will be sus pended. The existence of the Ministry is at stake, and all the trading politicians of the empire have their hopes or their fears intensely excited. We must say, that if this is to be the last act of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S leadership, it is rather a bolt} one. He meets and braves the danger, and if he can he will overcome it. Mr. WAKLEY'S language last night, is an in dex to what the Ministers, we are afraid, may expect from a considerable portion of Radical Mem bers of the House of Commons. " The Whigs," he said, " were in the mouths of every one, and there was nothing but one universal feeling of dis approbation expressed against them." The former enormites of the Tories, he added, were forgotten, being concealed and hidden beneath the more ample measures of Whig delinquencies. We cannot, however, wholly forget history, or assert that it will be more favourable to a repeal of the Corn-laws to have a Cabinet united against it, than a Cabinet which keeps it an open question. We cannot think it will be an improvement to exchange those who say the Irish Church is an extravagance, for those who will maintain every rector and every beadle belong ing to it, at all hazards, as a religious obligation. We will not even affirm that our cause would be served by substituting for those who profess obe dience to popular opinion as their creed—though they have too often forgotten their professions— those who avow their determination to rule in spite of opinion and coerce mankind into obedience to what they are pleased to order. At the same time, though there are many advantages in point of principle on the side of the Whigs, they have so managed to affront their best friends by setting up their finality doctrines, by running wild against the Ballot—by the Prime Minister's foolish declaration on the subject of the Corn-laws, and by Lord Jour RUSSELL'S reliance on the Bishop of LONDON-- by adopting Tory maxims, and imitating Tory practices, that we are very much afraid Mr. WAKLEY'S language is exten sively true, and that on the day of battle they will be deserted by some of their battalions. We have anticipated such a result. We have by encou raging them to pursue a bolder and a better policy endeavoured to prevent it, and if it should come to pass the Ministers will have to blame, not the treachery of their friends, but their own desertion of the principles on which they were placed in power. It seems probable, from what fell from Mr. WAKLEY, and what we hear, that the question on the 11 th will not be confined to Ireland. The opportunity will be taken by the numerous op ponents of the Ministry to make a general attack on their policy ; and, whatever there is unfor tunate in the situation of the country—whether the result of their policy or of natural and uncontrollable circumstances—whatever there is of distress at home and of danger from abroad, whatever causes it may arise from, will be laid to the charge of the Minis ters. Far be it from us to say that a more vigorous policy on their parts would not have com manded more respect abroad, and produced more unity at home ; but we may be permitted to observe that for much of thegrowth and extension and increase of power in foreign countries they are not respon sible ; and that the breaking up of parties at home is partly to be traced to the present unsettled state of political principles and opinions all over Europe. It is quite true, as SirJAMES GRAHAM observed, that everything has been cast loose and nothing fastened ; but it is not true that this is the fault of Ministers. Political society is in a state of rapid transition, and opinion does but follow events and circumstances. The bulk of the people are discontented—justly discontented, we think—with antiquated insti tutions that vex, harass, and impoverish, with out protecting them ; but, though discon tented, they are ignorant both of the true causes of their uneasiness and the best cure for it. Nobody knows. A future is rapidly advancing which has been scanned by no human intelligence, and who can tell what institutions will suit that ? Why, we cannot agree as to the effect of those institutions which now exist, and which are every day subject to examination, and the effects of which are forced on attention. What a world of disagree ment, for example, is there as to the effects of the Corn-laws. How then can our opinions be united as to the future ? For this uncertainty of public opi nion the Ministry is not responsible; though, had it possessed some prophetic sagacity and run a little before events, it might have done something to direct the many scattered rills and rivulets of thought towards one common stream. Herein it has been deficient, and herein it has not answered expec tations. With respect to our foreign relations, in our humble judgment the political animosity of other nations, and the comparatively diminished power of our own, are entirely owing to the cursed Corn laws, which have both stinted the national growth and prevented other nations from uniting themselves to us by the affectionate and kindly bonds of commerce. For this the Ministers are far less to blame than the Tories, and we shall not approximate towards a restoration of commercial friendship with other nations by changing the present undecided, divided Cabinet, for a Cabinet pledged like that of Sir IIO4ERT PEEL, formed and supported by Tory landlords and the Clerical militia, to uphold the Corn-laws at the ex pense of national decay and the encouragement of animosities in other nations. The Tory gentry and the Tory nobility are a present in close alliance with the clergy, and we need not remind our readers that it is principally by means of this alliance that the Tories have of late increased so much in political influence. The clergy being all men of education, and many of them having very little to do, mingle very much in secular affairs, and labour most strenuously to mould them to their own exclusive purposes. One of them being constantly resident in almost every agricultural parish, in many parishes there are two, and the bulk of the electors in such parishes being in general very ignorant of public affairs, the clergy take the lead in election matters, and the return of the county representatives is, in fact, in their hands. At present the bulk of the squires agree with the parsons, and matters seem to go on swimmingly. There is, however, much hope for those who watch the signs of the times and observe the bear ings of things. Formerly there were qtrArrels between these two bodies—they were jealous of each other ; but they have now laid aside for a time their mutual bickerings to get the upper hand of the Whigs and the Radicals. We do not, how ever, despair of soon seeing them at loggerheads again, and we should have no objection to be in strumental in rekindling their contentions. Have the clergy ever thought of the effect of the Tithe Commutation Act in throwing the burden of the tithe war on the shoulders of those who will be better able to bear it than the farmers ? Have the country gentlemen ever thought of the advantage which the commutation will give the clergy in all future dis putes between them ? Let us say a word on this point, and perhaps the Tory squires, now blinded by their political ambition, love of Corn-laws, hatred of factory-owners, and terror of the Whigs, may be gin to doubt the wisdom of augmenting the influence and the power of their present allies. Formerly the tithes were a sore subject with the tenantry, and a theme of continual quarrel with the tithe-owners. Then the landlords, whenever they were so inclined, could play the tithe against the parson, and nourish in their tenantry no inconsider able animosity, to be used on proper occasions against the clergy. The Tithe Commutation Act has put, or will when it is carried into complete execution, an end to this state of things, and while it relieves the tenant from all payment in kind, and all compositions, will take from the landlords all their power to set the tenantry against the priest hood. Tithes by the Commutation Act are be come, or soon will be, a pure rent-charge; the tenant will be vexed with them no more, he will only have to give up his money to the landlord, with him only will he dispute and quarrel—with the resident clergyman he will share all the toils and joys of neighbourhood and fellowship, and the influence of the clergymen over the rural population, already very great, will soon go far ahead of that of the landowner. And who shall say that the clergymen, ministering to the prejudices, and sharing the cares of that population, if not soothing their afflictions and ministering to their wants, are not much more worthy of their respect and attachment than the absent re ceivers of rent ? Whenever these landlords, there fore, shall hereafter disagree with the clergymen, they will find themselves as much overshadowed by them as the landlords of Ireland are by the Catholic priesthood. That is their look-out ; we can but rejoice in the prospect of a contention between the owner of the soil and the clerical militia spread through the land, as in the palmy days of the Pope dom, who are now united to oppress and to starve the people. Great credit is due to Lord WRIOTHESLEY R us- SELL for the excellent practical rebuke he has given to greedy pluralists in our Church, by resigning one, and that the best, of two livings, conferred on him on his first entrance into the Church. He gave up 1,2001. a-year, and remains content with a third of that sum, devoting his time and care to the sacred duties of his office, fully convinced, no doubt, that the smaller income is amply sufficient for the maintenance of a minister of the Gospel. The very fact, however, that a newly-fledged clergy man, connected with the Aristocracy, can on first entering the Church receive two livings worth 1,700/. accounts for the miserable results of the Ecclesiastical Commission. The Whigs as well as the Tories have an interest in Church abuses, and it is too much to expect further, or indeed of any public body or party proverbially devoid of shame, that they will introduce any change affecting their individual interests, unless that chancr ° e is forced on them by th e p ressure f rom w i t h out . Look at the Corporation of London. All the Re formers then cried out for the Municipal Re form Bill, their representatives in Parliament, supported it, and though the disinterested public believe and know that abuses exist there to as great an extent as they did in any of the old unreformed Corporations, they have not made, now for five years, one serious attempt to reform themselves. So it is with the Church, and we might as well expect the Court of Aldermen to introduce a radical Mu nicipal Reform, as expect either the Whig or Tory aristocracy to remove the abuses of the Church. The resistance to further Parliamentary Reform, to the repeal of the Corn - laws , and to the reform othfetleteyesCohfurcthhe, however, p h u as bl d ic o , n a e n r d nu t c o h c , on vineethem toopen that the work must be doneby a third party—the party of the people. Every day only proves that reform can only be effected by those who have little interest in the abuses—who can reap no benefit from the six millions a-year expended on: the Church, from the tax on corn, and from the patronage of borough s and counties. Thanks to the obstinacy of both Whigs and Tories, who have so long alternately ruled this country, more for their own selfish purposes than for the public good, this party is becoming every day more powerful and more intelligent. They are unconsciously creating the pressure from without. We have occasionally been called on in this Journal of late to state and contradict certain facts concerning the condition of the agricultural labourers of Wiltshire. We feel some satisfaction, therefore, at finding in the following paragraph, apparently an authentic account of their condition. Such of our readers as remember the controversy which Mr. HARTWELL originated, will see how far his statements are borne out : " POOR-RATES.—On Tuesday a large number of agri cultural labourers and other very poor people, were sum moned by the Devizes Guardians before Major Oliaer and other Magistrates, to show cause why they did not pay the sums at which they were assessed for poor-rates. The unfortunate defendants pleaded extreme poverty, the majo rity having five and six children, and a wife, to keep on wages averaging 9s. a week, which, at the present high price of provisions, scarcely gave bread to their families. The Magistrates consulted together, and, after inducing THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1839. the Poor-law authorities to consent to such a course, they dismissed the summonses against those labourers having more than two children, and ordered the rates of the others to be paid forthwith."— Wilts Herald. Besides,being valuable, as demonstrating the wretched condition of the agricultural labourers in Wiltshire, the paragraph is a conclusive answer to Lord WonsLEv and the tribe of landlords who advocate agricultural protection, because a high price of food is always at tended by high wages of labour. The wages average 95. per week, and the present high price of provisions was successfully pleaded as a reason of exemption in certain cases from payment of rates. All the income of the people is actually absorbed by purchasing bread ; though, according to Lord WORStEY and his colleagues, in committing cruel injustice, as the price of bread rose wages should rise in proportion, and the labourer should have more to spend on poor -rates or on any other con trivance by which it pleases the Legislature to take every possible farthing out of the pockets of the indus trious poor. It will be seen, too, by the paragraph, that the men with 9s. a-week, and having more than two children, are exonerated from the paying the rates, while those who had not the advantage of possessing so many children were ordered, though they bad only 9s. a-week, to pay them immediately. The men, therefore, with small families, must pay for the men with large families, a restoration of the old bounties on impru dence which were so much reprobated and so generally discarded. An exemption from taxation on this ground is the revival of the old principle of eneouragingpopu laand is, on the part of th e D ev i zes M ag i strates , an tk oti n ;er blow given to the prudence and independenee of the poor. The miserable result of the attempts to form a new Ministry in France fully confirms the opinion which well informed persons had long ago entertained of the character, of Louis PHILIPPE. Taking the most fa vourable view of the present state of parties in France, and the current of public opinion in that country for the last ten years, it is hardly possible to come to any other conclusion than that he is speedily working out his own destiny by obstinately persevering in the attempt to establish a despotism in a country that has unequi vocally pronounced in favour of liberty and a Repre sentative Government. The Chronicle, which occa sionally mixes up in a strange way Tory doctrines with the most Liberal ideas, thus wrote yesterday morning : " The French ought to give up the idea of a Representa tive Government : they seem utterly incapable of it." There never was a more wicked slander cast on a nation. For what has the struggle been carried on since the mad edict of CHARLES X. but for the Charter—in other words, for a Government in which the power of the Crown shall be controlled by the Representatives of the people. It was for this blood was shed in the " three days of July," and for this a great majority of Deputies has been returned, in opposition to the will of the Sovereign ; and because the Sovereign for the moment sets the national voice at defiance, the French people are declared unfit for self government. It would be time enough to make such a declaration when Louis PHILIPPE shall have completed what CHARLES X. began—put down the liberty of the Press, destroyed the Charter, and rendered himself as absolute as Louis XIV. or NAPOLEON. No doubt he has crippled the Press, he has disregarded the Charter and latterly shown every disposition to rule alone ; but have the French people acquiesced ? Is not the late election a decided proof to the contrary ? The end has not yet come. The determined manner in which the elections were carried on, the vain means used to dis tract the attention of the people, by the success of French arms in South America, and by threats of in vasion on their Eastern frontier, and the endless at tempts to carry the elections by every species of bribery, intrigue, and intimidation, all prove that the French nation look mainly to one great object—the establishment of a Representative Government. Louis PHILIPPE will try to defeat this. He has declared he will rather be deposed than yield. This is the question between him and his people, and when it is solved, it will be time enough to say whether they deserve the character imputed to them, or are determined to carry into effect the principles which placed him on the throne. Judging from the past it is not difficult to come to a conclusion, and on the head of that party that breaks the solemn compact entered into between King and People, be the responsibility. This is the day fixed for the opening of the French Chambers ; but as the KING is without a Ministry, and France without a responsible Government, it was be lieved in Paris on Sunday evening, that a prorogation would be resorted to, in order to allow more time for the construction of the Cabinet. The Journal des Dc bats, in answer to a paragraph in the ilioniteur, contra dicting a rumour that the Ordinance for the prorogation had been signed, observes that in the absence of a definite Cabinet the KING would stand before the Chambers in person—uncovered by the responsibility of a Ministry — a situation in which that Journal does not believe it possible that the MONARCH would be rash enough to place himself. Nevertheless it was asserted by the partizans of the Court that the KING would open the Chambers by Commission, and leave the Deputies to elect a President before taking any steps towards the appointment of a Ministry or a prorogation. Of course there would be no speech from the Throne. A day or two will remove all doubts upon this head. " It was affirmed to-day (Sunday), in the Hall of Con ferences of the Chamber of Deputies, that there will be no Royal sitting. M. Lacave Laplagne, it is added, on the refusal of Count Mole, will coma to the Chamber of Deputies to declare the Session opened, and M. Barthe, will perform the same ceremony in the Chamber of Peers." Madrid papers of the 17th instant have reached us. The Government was then carrying on an active cor respondence with ESPARTERO. A report prevailed that the Government had been offered a loan to a large amount by some London capitalists, whose names, how ever, were not mentioned on the Bourse. The Russian Government has been obliged to break up the University of St. Vladimir at Kiew, on account of the secret societies for the overthrow of Russian domination, which pervaded the University. The Grand Council of Zurich have come to the decision not to eject Dr. Straus from their University, but to put him on a retiring allowance of 404 a year. DESTRUCTION OF FITZWALTERS BY FIRE. We regret to state that this anc i ent mans i on, which is situate about a mile from the village of Shenfield, . was totally destroyed by fire yesterday m o r n i ng . Mr. Hall Dare, the owner of the property, was at home at the time, the other inmates being three male and three female domestics. The servants went to bed before eleven o'clock on Sunday night, but Mr. D. sat up reading in the parlour on the east side of the building till between twelve and one o'clock, when lie also retired to rest, leaving a fire in the grate, before which he placed a guard. Apparently everything was safe in the house. Soon after one o'clock he was aroused from sleep by a heavy crash; he immedi ately rang the bell, and the butler, who slept below, having heard the same noise, instantly went to his master. There was a strong smell of fire in the house, and the butler on opening the door of the room where Mr. Dare had been sitting, discovered it enveloped in flames, and a dense volume of smoke which issued from it, nearly suffocated him. Notwithstanding the engines, the materials continued to burn with unabated fury until five o'clock, when the flames were somewhat subdued, and by seven o'clock they were wholly extinguished, dense clouds of smoke only issuing from the ruins. A portion of the outer walls now only remain to mark where stood the " Round House," which for two centuries has been an object of curiosity to the traveller, from its singular octagonal form. The origin of the fire is unknown. It is conjec tured to have been occasioned by the igniting of a beam over the fire-place, which, it is supposed, must have been smouldering some time. Not a vestige of property be longing to the domestics was saved, but Mr. Dare had insured their wearinb apparel for 100/. The house and furniture were insured, but to what amount we have not ascertained. The damage sustained is estimated at from 4,0001. to 6,oool.—Essex Herald. STUTTGARD, MARCH 10.--The Budget pre sented to the Estates for the last financial year, estimated the revenue at 27,606,457 florins, and the expenditure at 27,599,748 florins; leaving a surplus of 6,709 florins. The actual amount, however, proved to be as follows : Receipts 32,590,669 florins ; Expenditure 27,859,686 ; surplus 4,730,985 florins. DREADFUL AND FATAL CALAMITY.—On Friday morning John Frost, a quarrier, went, as usual, to superintend the work at the pit, and having forgot some powder he was about to use, he sent a young woman to his house to ask his daughter for the bottle containing gun powder. On the young woman arriving at the cottage, at Ketley, she found three of the children up, but Mrs. Frost and four others were in bed. Elizabeth Frost, a gill of thirteen years of age, who, with a younger sister and an in fant brother, were in the common living room, went up stairs and returned with two bottles of powder, one of which was given to the messenger, and the other placed on a chair by the fire-place. The young wom an bad just left th e h ouse on her r e t urn t o th e pit when she heard a terrific explosion, and on looking round she saw Frost's house levelled with the ground, burying the whole family in the ruins. Imme diate assistance was procured from the pit and the neigh bouring cottages, when such of the sufferers as survived the explosion were dug out. Mrs. Frost and the four children who had not risen were found badly mutilated and bruised, but still alive ; and the two girls and the infant who were in the room when the young woman went for the powder were dreadfully burnt and quite dead. On Monday an inquest was held on the bodies and verdicts of " Acciden tal Death" returned. Slight hopes are entertained of the recovery of the other sufferers. —Salop Journal. MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY FISH MARKET. Supplies good and prices lower. Trade tolerably brisk. Turbot 7s to 10s, 15s, and 21s; soles, 9d and 3s 6d per pair ; lobsters is and ss; cod 2s Gd to 53. and 103 each ; salmon 2s 6d per lb ; whiting 3d and Sd each ; mackerel 4d and 10d each. HUNGERFORD MARKET. Supplies good and a fair business was done. Turbot 6s, to Es, 10s, 153, 20s each ; cod 2s 6d to 5s and lOs each ; lobsters is to 53 each ; soles 10d to 3s 6d per pair. The meat trade was not very lively, prices much as last quoted. CITY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COT PON MARKET OF MONDAY. —The market has been quiet to-day, holders waiting for the Liverpool. The sales are 3,000 bags., at steady prices. Letters from Brussels received in Pal is state, that on the proposition of the Minister of the Interior the Belgian Chamber of Representatives have adjourned, the Minister having de ciared that it would be imprudent, in the present circum stances of Belgium, to fix a day for their assembling. We hear that the Liverpool steamer is off Holyhead. Most important intelligence has been received this morning from the United States, by the packet ship Scot land, which left New York on the 6th inst. The extracts from the American papers, which have caused a great excitement in the City this morning, will be found in another part of our Paper. The trade at New York continues good ; money was, however, tight. United States Bank Shares, 117. The Supreme Court of the United States have decided that silk hose are free goods, not liable to pay duty, being free under the Act 1833. The President is also authorised to send a Special Mi nister to England to make pac'fic propositions. We have no doubt that on the arrival of the above Minister every exertion will be made on the part of Ministers to prevent a war with America; but, at the same time, they will take care not to compromise the honour of Great Britain. THE FUNDS. The intelligence from America has not had any effect on the British market up to the present time. Consols, which left off yesterday 924 1- for the Account, opened at the same price, owing to the still prevailing opinion that a war with the United States will not take place. Exchequer Bills, 53 56; India Bonds, 58 60; Bank Stock for opening, 200 201 ; India Stock, 251 253. In the Foreign Market, most of the prices may be quoted as they closed at yesterday. Spanish Active, 191 20; Portuguese, 344 4 ; Three per Cents., 21+ 4 , Belgian, 1024; Brazilian, 791 i; Colom bian, 281 29; Mexican, 23 24; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 55i ; F►ve per Cents., 103+ No papers or letters have as yet been received from the Liverpool steamer off Hob head, but expected by the after noon train. We have very few arrivals of consequence this morning. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock — India Stock — 3 per Cent. Red. ... ......... .. Ditto Bonds —pm 3 per Cent. Cons. 92%1 South Sea Stook — 3% per Cent — Old Annuities — Ditto Red. — New Ditto New 3% per Cent 100%%% 3 per Cent. Annuities, 17j1 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 ... 55 53 om. Jan. 5,186 a ..... ............ Ditto Small 55 53 pm. Oct. 10, 1859 — Ditto Commercial pm. Jan. 5, 1880 14 13-16 Ditto Advertised pm. Jan. 5, 1180 — Bank Stock for Account... April 5, 1830 — India Stock for Aceount ... Jan. 5. 1870 — Consols for Account 69.7k PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds — Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds 7J 4 % Ditto New Bonds 34 %% Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto, 3 per Cent. ......21 %h. % Ditto Account Chilian Bonds D tto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account — Ditto Account — Ditto Mcitallic — Columbian Bonds, 1824 Spanish Bonds . — Ditto Account ...... Danish Bonds Ditto Account — Ditto Account. Greek Bonds — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto Bonds, 1825 — 4 per cent. Ditto Account — 3 pee cent. — f. c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent —.--. Exchonge. --f. .....e, Ditto Account — Dutch, 2% per vent. Ditto, 6 per Cent — Ditto Account — Ditto Account — Ditto, 5 per cent 108%3y Neapolitan — Ditto Account — PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. great Western Railway Company 65 i 0,.% Brighton Railway London and Blackwall Railway 9 6 30 Z London and Birmingham Railway Company 9O 160 llanchestor and Birmingham Railway l5 Do. Do. Extension 11..rth Midland Railway Company 55 50% General Steam Navigation Company .... l4 25 1 4 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MARCH 23. 3 per Cent. Consols .... ..... f 2% Grand Canal Debs. 6 per cent. 23 1 4 3)4_ per Cent. Stock 99% Ditto, 4 per cent. Ditto Reduced . i . Hibernian Bank 23% Ditto New, 1130 ... 100% City of Dublin Steam Comp. 3% per Cent. Debentures... 91% National Insurance Company Bank Stock ... Grand Canal Stock Royal Canal Stock HALF-PAST ONE. The general topic of conversation this morning in the City entirely relates to the intelligence from America. Those who are well-informed in American affairs think that these warlike preparations are only adopted in case of need, and eventually that there will be no war between this coun try and the United States. It was also the prevailing opinion at Washington, that it would bo settled without having recourse to arms. The British Funds _instead of being heavy ,and re ceding, as was generally expected in the early, part of the morning, continue at 92/ both for Money and , the Ac count; Exchequer Bills, 53 55;_ India Bdnds, nothing done ; Bank Stock, 200 201 ; India Stock, 252 254. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active has rather im- proved, 20t i; Portuguese, 341 ii ; Three per Cents., 21i .1-; Belgian, 104: Brazilian, 791 :1- ; Colombian, 2F4A- 29; Mexican, 23 24; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 553- i; Five per Cents., 1031 1. The American papers and letters not as yet received. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Rank Stock India Stack Sper Cent. Red Ditto Bonds :I per Cent. Ccus 3!4 per Cent. Red, 101 Ditto New Annuities New 3},', per Cent 160% Fx. Bills, 1,000/ '2%d....5f1 pm. New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001 53 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 53 pm Jan. 1860 Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 FOREIG i 4 FUNDS, Asturian, 5 per cent — Portuguese Bonds, sper cent. Belgian, 5 per cent. 102 Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian Bonds 7 9 1,4 Prussian, 5 per cent — Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian Bonds, 5 per cent.... 112.% Chilian, 6 per cent Ditto, Metallic Colomlhan, 6 per cent 27! ;Spanish, 5 per cent 19% Ditto, 1824 29 'Ditto, Consolidated Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek Bonds, 1825, sper ct — Exchange —f. —c Mexican, sper cent. French, 3 per cent —f. —r. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 — Dutch, 2% per cent. ',57; 3 Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent — Ditto, 5 per cent. ... 103 k SHARES. Grcat Western Railway London and Brighton Railway London and Blackwall Railway London and Birmingham Railway 160 London and Croydon Railway (New Scrip) .. Manchester and Birmingham Extension Railway 44 North Midland Railway On Monday, the 4th, Sir David Brewster was unanimously elected Rector of the University of St. An. drew's, in the room of Dr. Buist, whose turn it was to re. tire.—Edinburgh Courant. BRISTOL, SUNDAY MORNING. DEPA It- TORE OF THE GREAT WESTERN.-The Great Western vas to have departed yesterday, but was unexpectedly de layed by some of her hands refusing to go in her etc"- having signed articles ; she sailed, therefore, this morning at about two o'clock. She takes with her upwards of 4,000 letters, a valuable cargo of silks, manufactured goods, worsted stuffs, cottons, and 108 passengers, among whom are the two eldest sons of the Earl of Winchilsea, Judge Hallyburton, alias Sam Slick, Lord F. Paulett, Lieut.-Colonel Oldfield, Captain J. Forbes, and Mr. Kaye, a Government messenger, with despatches. PUNN IN a MOTTO.—" Deum cole, resew seas,' " Worship God, serve the king," is the punning motto o Cole, Earl of Inniskillen. CHURCH DEBATE.—The adjourned discussion between the Rev. C. J. Kennedy and Mr. Leckie of Birrhead, on the subject of Church Establishments, was resumed and finished in the High Church on Monday night. Both parties appear pleased with the results, and both are pre paring to reward their champions for their exertions. A soiree is to be given in Mr. Nisbet's Church, on Tuesday, to Mr. Kennedy, when a testimonial is to be presented him. A sub scription has also been set on foot by Churchmen to confer some mark of respect on Mr. Leckie. In addition to this, the working classes among Churchmen are considering in what way they will testify their sense of the ability with which Mr. Leckie defended and supported the principles of Church Establishments.—Paisley Advertiser. NEW MARRIAGE ACT.—NO less than nine notices of marriage were read at the Board of the Barn. staple Union, on Friday last. Loss OF THE SMACK " FELICITY" OF SWANSEA. —We regret to state, that the fears entertained for the safety of this vessel have been confirmed. She sailed from - Swansea on the evening of Thursday, the 7th inst., for Abcrthaw, and it is supposed she must have struck on the Tuscar rock, and immediately went down. The body of the master, Mr. Thos. Thomas, was found on Newton sand ; but those of his mate and a passenger (which, with the master, were the whole on board) have not yet been discovered. The master has left seven orphan children, the eldest under fourteen, and the mate, a widow and two children, to deplore their loss.—Cam brian. EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.—On Saturday last, a boy, about seven years of age, son of a person, named William Solomans, of Risca, undertook, for a wager of a sovereign, to run from Risca to Newport, with the Tre degar coach, and to reach the Post. office in this town be fore it. Accordingly, the child started from Risca with the coach, and kept with it until they reached the top of Stow Hill, when he quickened his paco down the steep descent, and outstripped the coach, winning the wager, to the delight of every one who witnessed the extraordinary performance. The distance is about seven miles, and it was completed in 45 minutes, Considering the age of the boy, we think this a feat almost unprecedented.---Merlin. SINGULAR PIIENOMENON.—That extraordi nary phenomenon, the cause of which philosophers are very well acquainted with, consisting of a peculiar clearness of the atmosphere, which sometimes precedes an immediate fall of rain, was particularly observable here on the after noon of Wednesday se'nnight. The heavens were overcast with " thick clouds," evidently burdened withwater ; but so lucid was the air, that from Stow Hill, the eye might wander to the remotest verge of the horizon over the ex• tensive, beautiful, and varied landscape that lay around, and find no shadow to obstruct the view. We could not help identifying in our fancy this glorious phenomenon o nature, with the allegorical smiles of spring, that some. times beam forth on the eve of winter, too often, alas veiled by the passing tempest, and annihilated by the storm. —Merlin. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty rode yesterday afternoon in the Riding school, at Pimlico. _ _ The Marquis of Normanby and Viscount Melbourne had audiences yesterday of the Queen. • The Royal dinner party at the Palace, last evening, in cluded the Dowager Countess and Lldy Fanny Cowper, Earl of Uxbridge, Earl of Surrey, Viscount Melbourne, Lord Byron, lion. Charles Gore, Hon. William Cowper, and Sir Joseph Copley, Bart. The Duke anc Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Miss Kerr and Baroness Ahlefeldt, left town yesterday afternoon, for Kew. Messrs G. R. Robinson, T. N. Hunt, Brooking, Chris tophers, C. P. Bennett, and E. Hunt, a Deputation on the affairs of Newfoundland, had an interview with the Marquis of Normanby, yesterday, at the Colonial Office. The Earl of Clarendon, her Majesty's Plenipotentiary to the Court of Madrid, and suite, arrived, at four o'clock yesterday, at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, from Paris. The Rev. R. Alder and Mr. Clogstoun had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby, yesterday, at the Colonial office. Mr. John M'Neill, her Majesty's Minister to Persia, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Despatches from the Right Hon. Stewart Mackenzie, Governor of Ceylon ; from -Captain Prescott, Governor of Newfoundland; from Sir William Nicolay, Governor of the Mauritius; from the Governors of Honduras, Malta, Gibraltar, and the lonian Islands, were receivedyesterday, at the Colonial-office. MR. O'CONN ELL. The following letter was received in town this day:— " London, March 22, 1839. " MY DRAB RAY,—The people of Ireland will see with satisfaction the decided and manly part which the Ministry have resolved to adopt. They bring forward, on or about the 15th of April, the question before the House of Com mons—shall Ireland continue to be governed on the wise, humane, and impartial principles acted on since 1835, by Lord Melbourne's Government, or shall she be handed over to the truculent, the furious, and the sanguinary Orange faction ? This question the House of Commons is to answer. The House of Lords have, consistently enough, chosen the worst part; and, under the guidance of that harsh and ungenetrus old man, Wellington, declared for the Orange faction. There was a time when you would have been suprised to read the newspaper speech of Lord Brougham, yelping in with the vilest of the Orange rabble. But no one now is surprised at anything so unprincipled a statesman writes or sings, says or yelps. " Well, then, the tug of war is to come on the 15th of April. I intend to go to-morrow to Liverpool, and on Sun day night, unless it blows a whole gale, to go to Dublin. If not on Sunday night, then on that of Monday. Reckon on me for Tuesday the latest. " The fate of Ireland depends on Lord John's motion— conciliation or oppression. There is time, however, for the Irish nation to speak out—loud, long, and unanimous. I mean to move on Tuesday an address to the Irish people, calling on them to rally at once against the diabolical Orange faction, a fact'. t enr:chei by the spoils, and red with the blood of tl.e Irish nation. Let us peace ably, tranquilly, but at once meet, petition, and re monstrate. Let me present three hundred thousand peti tioners at the.bar of the House of Commons, calling by their respectful but firm petitions on the British Legisla ture, to avert from our lovely green land the horror of civil war and bloodshed; and to continue to us at least a just, a merciful, and impartial administration,—until they grant us the equalization of civil rights and religious free dom, which cannot be as long as the majority of the Irish people support the Church of the minority. Hurrah for this peaceful conflict ; I like the straight forward boldness of the blow of the Ministry ; it is what we desire—a collision between the two Houses on a great, a vital, and all important principle ; the principle on which Ireland is to be governed, either for a faction, or for the people. Hurrah for the Irish people I It makes me young again to engage in this conflict. All Ireland will, I trust, at once become " Precursors." It is the name of peace in which we will fight our bloodless battle. Hurrah for old Ireland " Circulate these tiding—l will le with you to enkrc these sentiments. "Faithfully yours, "T. M. Ray, Esq. " DANIEL O'CONNELL." THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS AND NAPOLEON. —On land, it is part of the Emperor's policy to surprise the people by encountering difficulties of every kind ; flying here and flying there in the face of danger ; accom plishing journeys, and doing all kinds of things, that no body else would do. Having exhausted all the themes of wonder that land adventures could furnish, he is now seek ing to prolong the illusion by similar doings at sea. He would have visited the fleet even had the weather been fine; indeed, he spends part of every summer in the Baltic; but to join it in the face of what, with Russians, would pass for a serious storm, be knew would cause a sen sation—give eclat to the manoeuvres—which is precisely the effect he aims at in all he does. To surprise, to im• press with an idea of his intrepidity, coolness, and decision, is what he lives for. He has taken another Emperor, who long filled the eye of Europe, for his model in this, as in some other things. " The end is nut yet." Will there be any resemblance in their closing destinies ?—Brentner's Russia. MURDER OF LORD NORBURY.--A case was tried at the Carlow Assizes on Friday which shox s that there is sometimes danger in offering large rewards for the discovery: of offenders. John Sullivan was indicted for being a common vagrant without any lawful means of sup port, and Mr. Tuckey, a Stipendiary Magistrate. proved that this person had come to him and declared that he knew all about the murder of Lord Norbury ; that upon the day it occurred he had been in the house of a man, named -, a tenant of his Lordship, when another tenant, then under ejectment, named Jordan, came in and said " The job was done." He (Mr. Tuckey) had forwarded the statement to Government ; but upon investigation it proved a complete fabrication. Sullivan had been quite unable to identify Jordan, and broke down in other particulars, upon which he was committed to gaol. The fellow was found Guilty, and transported for seven years. DEATII IN PRISON.—A Coroner's inquest was held on Saturday at the New Bridewell, Westminster, on the body of Robert Parkes, aged forty-nine. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased, having been convicted by Mr. Gregorie, at Queen-square police-office, of vagrancy, was committed on the 4th instant to the above prison for one month. On Monday last he complained of a violent pain in his chest and a difficulty of breathing. He was im mediately sent to the infirmary, where he was bled twice. Blisters and other remedies were also applied, but without effect. He died on Wednesday morning of (as the cur. peon of the prison stated) congestion of blood on the lungs. Verdict—" Natural death." EFFECTS OF A DRAM.—Saturday last, a ware house girl was entrusted by her employers with some shawls to sew after she went home. Instead of going to work, she went into a house to get a dram. The dram rendered her desirous of more; more she got ; and having became unable to take care of herself, she fell into bad company, and was robbed of her shawls and eight shillings in money. The thief, a female of police notoriety, was discovered, apprehended, and uas yesterday sent for 30 days to Bridewell. It will probably take a year's hard earnings to pay for the shawls, and this is what the girl has gained by taking a dram.—Paisley Advertiser. NATIONAL PURCIIASES.—We learn wills ex ceeding pleasure that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has authorised the purchase of three or four of the most admi rable pictures in the collection of Mr. Beckford, including the superb work, the "St. Catherine" of Raphael. It was formerly the chief attraction of the famous Aldobrandini Palace. When the French (during the revolution) were advancing upon Rome, to gather glory and steal works of art, it was disposed of by the familly to Lord Northwick, through the agency of Mr. Day ; together with " Christ and the Doctors," by Leonardo da Vinci, and the " Christ and St. Peter" of Carraci, both now in the National Collection. While in the possession of Lord Northwick this picture was engraved by the Chevalier Desnoyers, in 1824 ; his Lordship afterwards transferred it to Mr. Beck ford. The nation is, we understand, to pay for it 3,500 guineas, a sum by no means too great, as, independently of its surpassing beauty, it is one of the very few works of RAPHAEL that arc in a genuine state. The first idea of this subject was among the Raphaels in the Lawrence collection; but a larger and more high ly finished drawing of it (in black chalk) is in ' l 3e Louvre. Both these drawings are undoubtedly from the great master's own hand. We may congratulate the country on the acquisition of this noble picture, and compliment the Chancello rof the Exchequer on his sagacity and good taste.—Aft Union, CHEAP POSTA G E.—We ate glad to see that the Gia=gow Town Council have petitioned in favour of cheap postage. Every town and village in the kingdom should follow the example. NIURDER.— On Tuesday, Mary Guff was brought before the Magistrates at the Town Hall, on a charge of being concerned in the murder of the unfortunate Michael Donohue, but there not being sufficient evidence to support the charge, the case was dismissed.—Preston Observer. LAMBETH POLITICAL UNION.—At a nume rous meeting of the Council of the above Association, last Thursday evening, Mr. M. Saul in the Chair, the following resolution was unanimously agreed to :—" That the system of centralization, as attempted to be carried out by the present professing Liberal Government, is contrary to every principle of justice and humanity, grossly sub versive of the liberty of the subject, and abhorrent to the feelings of free-born Englishmen. We therefore most earnestly call on our brethren throughout the country to resist, by every means in their power, the extension of the hateful spy police to the rural districts, as being one of the schemes by which our Whig oppressors hope to prevent our attainment of the People's Charter." TILE NEW ART.—Mr. J. F. Havel], and Mr. \Villmore (the engravers), have, by covering glass with etching ground and smoke, sketched, designs upon it. Through the glass thus exposed by the scratches, the pho togenic paper receives the light, and the design, which the sun may be said to print, may be multiplied with perfect identity for ever I Designs thus produced will probably become much more common, and even more generally applicable than lithography, because all the means are more readily accessible, whilst it will receive its rank as an art, and be excellent in proportion to the skill of the artist, as a draftsman, with the etch ing needle. The size need no longer be kept down by that of the printing press, as the size of the glass can alone limit the size of the design. This is a real and va luable discovery, applicable to a thousand purposes. It is reported that Mr. Havell, and his brother, the well-known painters, have succeeded in giving some trueperooldotuicres,d,alsboy, to their productions , by t h e a ct i on of light. Beautiful imi tations of washed bistre drawings may be stopping out the light on the glass by black varnish, which will obstruct the} ransmission of li g h t in proporti on t o tho ;specimens like with wich the varni s h i s l a id on and like fine mezzotint° prints hav e b een produced by this pro cess.—Literary Gazette. EVENING EDITION. METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. Tim Times of this morning, in the course of a leading article suggested by Lord J. Russell's notice of motion in the House of Commons, respecting tha Ministerial policy pursued towards Ireland, observes ;—" It is clear enough, that whatever course of action Lord Melbourne may have since been dragged into by his colleagues, with whom he spent five hours of Friday last, in anxious parley and re peated communication with her Majesty, his object was , while commenting on Lord Roden, to twist that Noble Earl's proposition into such an affront to the existing Ca binet and himself, as to secure a loop-bole through which to escape from the manifold perilS•and disgraces which the state of the empire at home and abroad must bring down upon the head of any Minister who, having raised such a tempest of calamity, rhall abide its pelting by a longer con tinuance in office. He provided himself with a retreat, not perhaps, the most honourable, but one wherein he might have found himself unmolested; nor was it, as we have heard, until many hours of Friday had elapsed, that the Noble Viscount could be prevailed upon to change his re sAution, and accommodate his colleagues with yet one other quarter-day." Tile Morning Chronicle contains a leading article which, taking for its text the question of the finality of the Reform Bill, justly states that " the power of the Reform Act for good government is gone— gone for ever, unless some process of renovation endow it with energy for the purposes of its authors. Much might be done by the ad dition of the Billet and . Triennial Parliaments; and, so far, there is not a Liberal Statesman who is not free to g 0 • But Triennial Parliaments and th e B a ll ot , t h oug h e ssential to the vitality of the existing law, arc not enough for the bon:I of a re-union of Reformers. They leave the con stituencies as they now are. The question of the masses , and therefore the question of all who desire to see the dif ferent classes of society harmoniously co-operating, is that of the Suffrage! It is argued that, were Household Sit frage adopted to-morrow, there would still be dissatis faction, and the agitation of excluded claimants. Be it so. No Suffrage, no law, will satisfy the pike and dagger-men' but the question is, not of their satisfaction, but of their isolation. Household Suffrage would go far, among . th e poorer classes, towards a separation between the politician s and the ruffians. The doctrine of -finality is the drum that beats up recruits for desperado leaders." The Morning Herald, commenting on Mr. T. Attwood's motion last night in the House of Commons urges the fol lowing observations :—" We trust th a t t h e b a d t a ste o' Mr. Attwood may not operate injuriously on the ultimate decision of the great question which he has brought unde r the consideration of Parliament. The dangers which threaten England throughout her dependencies, and Or li along her own coasts, are undoubtedly of the most alarming description. Twenty additi ona l li ne - o f-b att l e s hi ps , an d fifty thousand additional troops are required to place this country in a position of secu r ity. Th e expense i nse p a rable from such extensive arrang emen t s f or nat i ona l d e f en ce i 5 undoubtedly to be regretted ; but lot it not be forgotten that a sordid policy is always an expensive policy." The Morning Post observes, in reference to a leading article that appeared in yesterday's Chronicle, advocating further change in' the Reform Bill, " All this lachryllw v . e statement of the unhappy conditi on o f Lib era l a ff a irs 15 t neither more nor less than a bidding for another uprising 0 ' popular violence in favour of certain talentless and spiritless men, who find themselves unable to hold ground." The Morning Advertiser contains an article in reference to Lord J. Russell's notice of motion respecting Ireland, in the course of which our Contemporary says, " Ne ver was it so imperative on honest practical Reformers t° exert themselves as at present. On them devolves the salvation of the State. It is vain to look to Ministers or to Parliament for measures commensurate with the nee eg i sities of the times, unless u rge d on b y t h e stern reso lves the people." LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY DEAL, MAncla 25.—Wind W. S.W.—Arrived the Zebra' Martin, from Shields. Came down from the river and regal' . the Cleopatra, Early, for Maui itius ; Jane, Watson, Valparalo; Charlotte, Peterson, St. Croix ; and Indus, Walker,‘ °deal; The Minstrel Boy, Moy es , b oun d t o M a l ta, h as put back, 'lt, loss of mainyard, boat, & c ., h av i ng b een i n contact l as t nig` i off Dungeness, with the Great Britain, London to Montreal. urn rived MARCH 25.—Wind W. to W.N.W. rived the Rainbow, Arn o ld, f rom —. Sailed the Diedia l " Champlain, for New York. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 25.—Wind W.—Arrived the Juno steamer, from Cork; Hercules steamer, London; Royal laide steamer, ditto ; and Royal William steamer, Dub '- Sailed the Silva de Grasse, Wederhold, for New York. FALMOUTH, MARCH 24.—Wind W. to S.W., fresh breefie;9", —Arrived the Adventure, Hill, f rom P or t- au -P r i nce ; Reg . ' a r Cobb, ditto ; Scipio, Watson, A ux C a y es; an d Ib er i a steanl e Cooper, London. t he LIVERPOOL, MARCH 25.—Wind N.W., fine.—Arrivei l , Scotland, Black, from Charle s to n ; S uper i or, C an dl e r, .L'f o . York ; Scotland, Robinson, ditto ; William Carey, Chieftain, ditto, after being aground in the Princess BS I David Luckie, St. J o h n ' s , N ew B runsw i c k ; S can d a b ur g, t o 0" don ; and Luna, Marseilles. The Georgia, Davies, from . I `d Orleans to this port, w as a b a d one d a t sea, 15 t h inst., disra lste ,to and very leaky, having been struck by a sea whilst Vale during a hurricane on the 7th i ns t., i n l a t. 45 , l ong . 39 ; (except one man, wa s h e d over b oar d) save d b y t h e Super Candler, arrived here. MILFORD, MARCH 23.--A new head-board, marked " tzeon," has been washed on shore at Freshwater Bay , I l k rently but a short time in the water. „ FOl 4 MARGATE, MARCH 25.—The A nn , Williams, irom Madox to Colchester, which was on shore on the Nayland tw— in a very damaged state, has been brought into this harbour' .. c HULL, MARCH 25. —The Elizabeth, T ra pp, arrived b e fo ' r 23d inst. from Memel, was beset in the Cattegat by the ice six days, and narrowly escaped being driven on Lessol. WHITEROOT H R OADS , M ARCH 2 5.—Arrived the A na' Cope, from Odessa ; Ell en , W oo d war d , di tto. ol HOLYHEAD, MARCH 25.—A rr i ve d o ff , the Liverpool steamer, from New York. The Elizabeth transport, from Halifax to St. John's, 14es : ; Brunswick, was fallen i n w ith, 28th u l t., o ff Cape S a ble, ' distress, and very leaky ; she put into Shelbourne, 2d inst• DEATH OF THE LIONS AT THE ST. JANW: e THEATRE. —The sudden diss o l u ti on o f t h e two lions in t collection of Mr. Wombwell, which for some weeks Pst r , have been exhibiti ng a t th e S t . J ames ' s Th eatre (the P a r , ticulars of whose death appe a r e d i n Th e S un of yestery. day) formed, during the day, the principal topic of Id versation in the theatri ca l c i rc l es , an d strange an d v,a r . o e were the rep or t s th a t soon o b ta i ne d act i ve c irculat i e r among the members of th e corps d ramat i que an d oth se e as to the circ ums t ances under which the death of th d e , truly noble animals occurred ; some attributed thei r 0 , mise to have b e e n occas i one d b y t h e e ff ects o f co ld pr o duced by being exposed to the different currents of air frequent b e hi n d th e scenes o f a t h eatre; ot h ers to b l iist proper diet, they having partaken of putrid meat ; vo some entertained a belief that a mineral poison must had been administered, from their occasional vomiting A t ii unexpected dissolution. All d ou bt s on t h e matter w ill sh° r o . o be set at rest, for in the course of the day the carcasses 1 % 0 removed from the the theatre previous to a post lz°7 o . examination, which subseq uent l y t oo k p l ace, the par t ! , is lars of which, however, have not as yet transpired. „ u st understood that the cont en t s o f t h e an i ma l s ' stomachs to he analyzed previous to the expression of any opinion ag the immediate cause of d ea th. I n t h e course o f a f e w ci d s lo the remaining portion of th e menager i e w ill b e remove of order to afford space for th e p re p arat i ons , w hi c h a re ° being made on a most extended scale, for the exhibitiond the performances of Horn Henrich Schilger's unrivalled collection of monkeys, dogs, and goats, which are expecto to arrive this day from Paris. Van Amburgh's collect' of beasts is new also in the course of removal from P 1" lane Theatre, previous, it is s a id, t o hi s ma ki ng a tv ,, hrough the provinces. St CHARTIST BRAVERY. —On Thursday ift ct i v - 'e a Chartist meeting, held i n t h e B azaar, Glasgow, Ps1;o Craig, of Kilmarno c k, gave t h e following advice as to - pi tactics which the Ch art i sts ought to pursue, in the efeli of their coming into con t act w i th the military I° 5.-it t c he a case," said th e ga ll ant B a ili e, " put the women ja front rank, and the!, the military will not dare to 6 ,1;(I This manly pr o p osa l was l ou dl y c h eered by the asse rs° Chartists. —Scotsman. h Ott RARE ANIMALS.—A fi ne ma l e ele p-a a 1' : r three years old, has b een recent l y b roug h t to th i s cotte d tr o in the Herefordshi re , C apta i n I saacson. The animal y consigned as one of th e " so f ter sex " to the firm of Me 700 , F. and C. Mangles, the shipowners, who have since to posed of it to Mr. Wombwell, th e menager i e keePer'voi whom he was delivered on Monday. Th e sam e ir eg a f. brought over for M essrs . M ang l es a pa i r of Exas deft These Formals are very rare, and we believe there ar e , sna st more than two collections i n th e country w hi c h ca n L'" o 1 of Exas deers, The importation will, therefore, be some value to the zoologist. Sr, PLATED CORNER DIS-ri with Strong Silver Edges and Ha n dl es .—A S et o f F o ur P s i g bi Corner Dishes and Covers are offered, complete, for o , Guineas ; or a set with richly- o rnamen t e d Ed ges, H an dless `se t for Ten Guin eas . Th e H an dl es ta k e o ff t h e Covers; thus forms Eight Dishes when required. T. COX SAVORY, CO Working Goldsmith, Silversmith, an d W atc h ma k er, 47, ' hill, London (Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street/'ts• N.B. A variety of Second-hand Watches may be from, price Two 'Guineas each, Warranted. MARRIED Le , Job _•• On the 26th of December l as t, a t St . G eorge ' s Ll" h-- Co ew li v Madras, Captain William Hill, of the Hon. East Inn a vo •ste, pany's European Regi men t, A ct i ng D eputy-Ju d ge General, to Emm a J ep h son Lowe, only daughter of " 40 001 Captain Lowe, of h er M a j esty ' s 25th Regiment Light Drafuoie On the 21st inst., at St. Mary's Islington, M r ; be la te Desbois Whe e l er , t o M art h a, the second daughter o' t Mr. William Fox, of Islington. .......---- BIRTHS. r ilei ca On the 23d inst., in Bedf or d. square, t h e l a d y o f '— Richards, Esq., surgeon, of a sen. 11 On the 21st inst., at Wellin g t on -t errace, S t. „John's the lady of J. E. Vibert, Esq., of a daughter. ci ° ll' On the 22d inst., at Westhorpe-house, the lady of 11 C:a)ton, Esq., of a son. . —. DIED. On Tuesday, the sth instant, at Sandbutton, yorksh ir :ti r g Mr. William Hudson, and Diana, his wife, the ' foro l- ! l ot' 84, and the latter aged 86. They had lived toget her %er e four years, died within seven hours f each other, as d buried together in the same grave. 6 On the 17th inst., at Thornhill, Southampton, l‘iffii, Elizabeth Mainwaring , widow of George near Henry M airllfir Esq., formerly Captain in the Royal Artillery._ I S t ' M On the 22d in s t., El iza M a tild a , w if e of r . Bunne l ' Martin's-le -Grand, aged 38. On the 22d inst., at Devonshire-place, dington, Mr. John Potter aged 69. betb AO, On o the 22d inSt., at Willow- cottage South Lam imot relict of the late William Michael Russell, Esq. cif Be d 73. Edge ware-road, Pad'' loage, Thames, Surrey, and of Clonmel, Waterford , ag e f • Von' On the 22d inst., of apoplexy, Mr. Joseph Farmer, o der's End, aged 52. rah • ' t of On the 22d inst., at Trinity - square, Tower, Leah, the late Assur Keyser, Esq., of Leyton, Essex, age d E l i s abet h, On the 22d inst., at Cresswell.park, Blackheath, E wifo of Major William Richardson, aged 54. London : Printed and Published by MURDO Y° Strand, in No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Of fi ce. N. 112, the county of Middlesex. —Tuesday , March 26, 183 .. 9 —..--0-•'