The Sun. — London, England, 1839-03-19 00:00:00

The result of the Division was received with loud cheers. I but it must not be left to the Presr. Now is the time for Anti- I The Ho use th en went into Committee on the Tithes Corn-law Associations to multiply their numbers and extend (Ireland) Composition Arrears Bill. their operations. They must exert themselves to strengthen After a few words from Col. PE RCE VAL, Lord the li g ht of knowledge.till its blaze become intolerable to MORPETH, and Mr. SHAW, the several clauses were creatures that prey in the dark. Let them circ ulate agreed to. brief and plain statemen' s of facts, illustrating the real interests of the artizan the farmer, and the labour er. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved L e t the m send forth' comp e t en t lecturers to render fur leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Acts whereby th e es s entials of this universal question obvious to the inmates certain annuities have been granted to his Grace the of the factory and the inhabitants of the village. The agita- Duke of Wellington.—The Bill was read a first time. tion of instruction :must be beneficial. It will aid the many The other O r d e rs of the Day were then disposed of better to comprehend their private interests and public duties. and the House adjourned at a Quarter past Two o'Clock. Let all constituencies look to their representatives. An in delible brand should be affixed on those who repay themselves for the beer-bribe by the bread-tax. In all directions, the only thing wanted is the exposition of facts. The nefarious policy, that tends first to blot out the great towns and cities of the kingdom, tends next to reduce the farmer and labourer to the condition of beggarly serfdom. The infatuation that makes this a class question, must, as it is understood, bring down on the infatuated class, war and vengeance from other classes. Nor is it possible that the decision of the House of Commons should not re-act upon the House of Commons itself, and affect the general opinion of its con 'position and constitution. After the vote of last night, who will dare to contend that further constitutional reforms are not necessary ? Who will limit those reforms within the boun daries that might have seemed ample, hut for such an exuibi tlon ? The division is a solemn condemnation of the present system. Representation demands a freer suffrage and a broader basis to make it approximate towards realty. It is absurd to talk of represen':ation as identified with the predominance of a class that has neither the sagacity to discover its own interests, the just; ce to recognize the rights of others, nor the decency to treat with due regard the desires of a large portion of the com munity, and the interests of the entire community.—Morning Chronicle. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. Seven days of debating the Corn-law subject (both Houses of Parliament included) would be quite enough for the public patience, even had the debate been bona fide directed to the principles of that important question, and to the consideration of those general truths and maxims of policy which ought to determine Parliament in legislating, or abstaining to legislate, thereon. But, treated as the question has been, it is too much fer human patience to tolerate. Long ago it was manifest to the whole world with what unworthy and despicable motives the Queen's Ministers lent themselves, and engaged their political tools and dependents, to stir the popular feeling upon this vast sahject. It was aped and righteous cause, had it been honestly vin dicated. But it was not. We charged the Ministess in our fir-.t article on this great question Svith having used it as a cat's paw for their own selfish and factious ends ; and they themselves, and the subject which they ha"e so diseracefely perverted, fare accordingly. Fresh accumulations of contempt and ridicule have been their portion, and as for any immediate improvement of, or relief from, the Corn-law , it is lest; while in the place of it we have an organized power which threatens all law with defiance, and seeks redress of injury by unhallowed force—the result of a conviction, universal amongst all classes, that the offi ciel pretendere to Liberal policy, and self-constituted guar dians of the poor man's rights, are no better than so many hy poerh heal traffickers and hucksters of rabble delusion, who never approach a great national interest but to make it subservient to s me ignominious end—who never assume a principle, but to hire it out for some sordid project—nor invoke the people, but to abandon and betray them, leaving their minds disturbed by chimerical hopes, inflamed by evil passions, and disaffected towards the peace of society. The party questions en which the ilhilbeurne Cabinet had mounted into office having all succes sively dropped from under them, nothing remained bat to sup ply their place by wresting other questions, no matter how un suitable in their 'nature, to the same discreditable and corrupt u:es. It was necessary that the measure thus doomed to be first disgraced and then sacrificed should be one so much in favour with the multitude, that a sharp and loud agitation might be raised upon it, the excitement turned exclusively aeainst the landed proprietors, and, if found sufficiently formid able, be employed as a cheval de &Italie for the Whig Min's try against their Conservative opponents. The scheme was promising, but faired in the execution, the commersial interest soon discovering that all the overtures, professions, and under hand machinations of the Ministers were no better than a till) to the whale—an unprincipled sham, a low-priced snare for a credulous democracy, and a hollow make-believe assurance on the part of the Whigs that they would obtain fsom Parliament an unfettered importation of corn, in return for which they were entitled to demand a more ample share of confidence, and a mere implicit obedience from the representa tives of the Liberal interest in this country, than had ever be fore been conceded to them. It failed—the whole manmuvre. It failed, as low-blooded knavery always does, when it comes into conflict with earnestness and reso:sitien, however mis gu'led. The want of good faith in the Whigs was exposed to the country by a thousand circurnstanee.;. The people saw that the Ministers had sold them, and the agitation perished for want of food. Then it was that the test was applied in Parliament to the Cabinet whose creatures had gut up the agitation, but which shrunk from the consequences of its own proper work. The opposition to a repeal or amendment of the Corn-law, narrow and mistaken as were the grounds for such resistance, was more real and more resolute than the desire for its reform professed by the subordinates of office. The Go vernment took fright. Instead of making a Corn-law Bill their grand measure of " reform" fir the session 1839, they began to despeir of carrying it through the House of Commons, and dresded therefore the creation of a fresh heed of enemies in that assembly, more numerous than the friends whom they might propitiate. They devised the paltry expedient of leaving this, like the Ballot, an open question—refusing to introduce it by a Mi nister; refusing the support. of it by any one of their own body asa MinTster ; splitting their respective votes in each Houle of Parlia ment upon one and the same question, the Prime Minister loftily maintaining the Corn-law system, and reprobating with ail the solemnity of an appeal to his own tender conscience, the " madness" of any of his Radical patrons who could now dream of abolishing a law so indispensable, whilst one of the Noble Viscount's Colleagues, by name Lord Lansdowne, delivered himself in terms so happily illustrative of Talleyraml's saying, that speech was given us the more effectually " to conceal our thoughts," as to receive a high compliment from Lord Fitz william on the successful use to which the President of the Ceuncil had applied his vocal faculty. It is said, moreover, that in the division on Lord Fitzwilliam's motion, one of the Cabinet Ministers voted against Lord Melbourne ; two others skulking behind the Throne, and not daring to commit themselves by a vote on either side of the question ; while it appears from the reports that in the House of Commons the Secretary for the Horne Department, the sweet tempered Secretary at War, and the President of the Beard of Trade, gave utterance, the first to a trimming, the second an insufferable, and the third to all but an insurrectionary - speech, in furtherance of the motion of Mr. Villiers, the ob ject of which was represented by the head of the Government to be one which argued " nothing short of insanity" in those - by whom it was supported! Now, we have all along, through out the few previous observations, abstained from going into any argument upon the Corrnlaw question itself, the fate of which, so far as Mr. Villiers' motion is concerned, we un feignedly and most deeply lament, and in no small degree for the sake of the majority by which the motion of the Hon. Mem bes for Wolverhampton has been defeated. It would indeed be gross affectation to attempt, within the limits of a single article, the discussion of a subject which has already occupied the two Ilou,aes of Parliament for an entire week, and we doubt whe ther our readers would thank us for a series of articles devoted to the examination of assertions a thousand times refuted, and of fallacies as frequently exposed. We shall, however, take an early opportunity of noticing the speeches of the leaders of the Corn-law party. In the mean time, the one topic which can be more briefly and graphically touched, and which may be looked upon as very closely connected (though not in a manner the most reputable for those interested) with the commence ment, the course, and issue of the debate itself, is the light in which her Majesty's Ministers have placed themselves—the miserable destitution of all public principle, of all manly spirit, of all views beyond the dirty precincts of Downing-s'reet—the shabbiness, the cowardice, the crawling beggarliness, of their whole Corn-law exhibition, The Government indeed has for once, " out-shabbied" itself. It has been actuated by no feeling but those of cupidity and terror. It has left the Corn-law more un settled than before. It has left its own tenants of office more unset ' tied, for it has; lost friends and multiplied adversaries. It ha., p used that on no one national question, whereon any difference of sentiment exists out of doors, will it dare to offer a decided of.inion within doors. It has no one principle of cohesion more binding than the chance-medley jurtaposirion of articles hud dled together in a pawnbroker's shop. It has made Whitehall a filthy magazine of unredeemed pledges, and the customers who support it are the refuse of political society, Though we have the misfortune to differ with Sir R. Peel in his opinions upon the economy of the Corn Question, and though we are bound to admit that in hia speech on Friday night he did not act fairly either to himself or to the question (as we shall shortly take occasion to show), yet from the calm judgment passed by the Right Hon. Baronet on the Government, to wards the close of that speech, we certainly cannot dissent. " Though," says Sir Robert, " I might defer to the authority of an united Ministry, yet when that Ministry offers to me, not a declaration of principles—when, on the contrary, the declarations of the Ministry in this House are at direct variance with those of their colleagues in the other House; when they offer to the attention of the Legislature conflicting principles, colleagues dissenting, statements irreconcilable, arguments contradictory, counsels at variance—then I refuse to defer to the authority of that Ministry." And well any statesman may ; for how, or from what sort of minds, such Ministers can manage to possess any particle of authority, er even to enjoy any shadow of endurance, " doth move our special wonder."— Times. Preparing for Publication, in 2 vols. Bvo. DE TOCQUEVILLE'S NEW WORK ON ENGLAND. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. THE CHILD'S LIBRARY, A NEW VOLUME. 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The Peers began the evening by a little conversa tion on the agreeable subject of Mullingar Gaol. The Marquises of WESTMEATH and NORMANBY were the interlocutors, and the result was, that the man Cook had actually, as the first named Noble Marquis had averred, been discharged from goal without bail. Lord SEAFORTH inquired whether any information had been received from Jamaica relative to the free la bourers, but was answered No, though Lord Noassalizir said he should be ready to lay any he r ece i ve d on t h e , table. In answer to questions, Lord MELBOURNE stated that he did not mean to bring the wars in the East un der the notice of their Lordships till all the information concerning them was laid before them. Lord BROUGHAM explained the source of his mistake concerning the Glasgow petition, which gave him an op portunity of enhancing the merit of the Glas gow Anti-Corn-law petitioners. The Noble Lord fixed the second reading of the Beer Bill for Friday. Through him the Glasgow Cotton-spinners presented a petition to obtain a remission of their sentence, and promised only gratitude were kindness shown them. A little conversation took place about the Poor laws, on a petition presented by Earl STANHOPE. from a man in Huddertfield, who complained of being deprived in his old age of attending the worship of GOD in His holy temple. The Noble Earl talked of white slavery, but otherwise the conversation ended in nothing. The Earl of MOUNTC ASHEL , w h o h as not fi gure d much in Parliament for several sessions, made a short speech on the Corn-laws as applicable to Ireland, which reminded us of the Noble Earl in olden times. He said if the Corn-laws were repealed the labourers of Ire land would have their supply of potatoes reduced ; and he was also dreadhilly alarmed lest Toreign fundholders should make war on the English Stock-market, His speech cannot, however, be abridged. Every sentence is something to smile at. His eloquence could not keep their Lordships from dinner, and they speedily adjourned. In the Commons, Lord PALMIRSTON explained that Persia was to be watched by a Charge d'Affaires, in the absence of Mr. 11PNEIL, who has returned to Eng land. The documents connected with establishing a Board of Education are to be laid before the House, said Lord JOHN RUSSELL, immediately after Easter. On the order of the day for going into a Committee The House of Commons has at length, by a majority of 342 to 193, rejected the motion of Mr. Villiers. This decision against going into Committee on the Corn-laws is one of those events which, however confidently anticipated, yet affect the mind with a certain degree of surprise, showing that, in spite of all calculation, there was still a latent and lingering hope of the prevalence of man's innate sense of justice over the sordid dictates of a class interest. That hope has vanished. The majority of an assembly on which the eyes of the world are fixed, and whose deeds are history, is content to exhibit itself in the hateful and contemptible light of an oligarchical legislature, determinately sacri ficing the many to the few, the nation to a class, the food of the people to the amount of rent, and the condi lion of the country's prosperity to the temporary conve nience of bankrupt landlords. The circumstances and man ner of this denial of justice are calculated to make the strongest impression on every reflective and patriotic mind. There have nut been the ordinary and decent forms of legislative par tiality. The debate has been characterised by outbreaks of per canal insolence not usual in civilized society. The question has been treated, not as an appeal to be heard, but as an imper tinence to be put down. In the first instance, evidence was refused on the ground that the majority was sufficiently in formed ; and then consideration was refused on the ground that the majority had irrevocably decided. The triumphant orators —triumphant only in the anticipated strength of unreasoning numbers —seemed to think but one interest deserving of a thought, the interest nominally of the industrious cultivators of the soil—really, of the idle recipients of the produce. They laid it enough to lecture the struggling industry of the Country, the source of its prosperity and greatness, on the vanity of human expecta'ions. They assumed that, in Great Eritatn, humanity only exists to eat their corn, pay their im post, and submit to their rebukes. Never was the complaint of a suffering people treated more cavalierly or dismissed more rnmarily. The landlords have enacted the Van Amburgh of the iiritish Lion, and administered kicks, cuffs, and wanton in s.lance sufficient to have sent the tamest spaniel to their throats; cud all because we are not duly sensible of the honour of being permitted •to eat their corn exclusively, paying almost twice its continental price. Amongst the impudent puerilities of the debate was the persevering reckoning of the Malt Tax as a burden on ',the land, after having resisted is removal because it was paid by the consumer ; and the cool calculation of Mr. - Christopher, that while the farmer's profit was ss. Pd. per acre, the landlord's rent of one guinea was an unavoidable and unquestionable ex penditure. In fact, two assumptions were taken as comprising the merits of the case ; first, it was assumed that something was pocketed by means of the Corn-laws ; and secondly, that semethingbeing pocketed, all revision, modification, or consi deration, wa s ou t o f th e quest i on. The ignorant blunder of the one assumption is meet companion for the lordly selfishness of the other. The lowering of this great national question into a class straggle, will sorely recoil on th ose w h ose li tt l e, di r t y , peddling views have effected the degradation. In itself, it is a grave inquiry into the causes and impediments of national pros perity, The manufacturers started it, as was natural, they ben most obviously and promptly the victims of a re strictive policy. But th o u g h s t ar t e d b y them, no man with' the slightest real pretensions to the cha racter of a Statesman could take it to be a question simply of their interests, or of those interests as antagonistic to the profits of the agriculturist. Such limitation argues a piti. ful short-sightedness. The subject of a free trade in corn appertains to the whole community. It is in fact the largest branch from the great stock of the free trade principle. The majority of the House of Commons has most unwisely made it a etas; question—most unwisely, because in so doing they have ticedlessly and falsely exhibited the landowners as having an interest apart from th e common i nterest ; an d mos t unw i se l y also, however truly, exhibited them as reckless of injuring the c u a i m is re_ o u n interest for the temp orary a d van t age c f their class. ea ced from the right path by this evil example, we t rust that as a co mmon interest, this subject will be pursued I..Xt:losewitli whom the pr esent di sscuss i on originated. We agree with oar Itloi aiTing Cotemporary (from whom we have ss often to differ), tlie Ti mes, that it was a dereliction of the functions of i Z t e i r o n Zen o t, u n , no t take a decided course on so momentous a Contemporary will not, we hope, be induced by party eo_nection to neglect the duty which he lashes the Ministry for avoiding: The Press is now most important to the cause of cheap bread, free trade, and national ' posperity ; of Supply, Mr. T. ATTNVOOD wished to augment the Navy Estimates ; but his motion on this subject was re ected as informal. He moved an instruction to the ommittee, but was told he must proceed by an address, only a Minister being competent to alter an estimate. Mr. ATTWOOD insisted much on the danger arising from Russia, who influences, if she does not bribe our gentry. The House went into a Committee, and votes were taken both for Army and Navy on account, and then then the House resumed. _ _ The adjourned debate on the Corn-laws occupied the remainder of the night. Mr. FIELDEN began it, but unfortunately the Hon. Member, whose speech from the little which could be heard of it, seemed full of curious facts, was inaudible. _ Mr. W. SMITH O'BittEN thought the repeal of the Corn-laws would throw many labourers out of employ ment, and though some alteration might be necessary, he was convinced that no fixed duty lower than 12s. would be advantageous. Sir .JOHN TYRRELL, a kind of clown to the county of Essex, endeavoured to create a laugh, but the subject was too dull. Mr. G. W. Woon defended his former statistical statements, and refuted some of those of Sir ROBERT PEEL. Mr. BENETT was in favour of the laws, and dreadfully alarmed at the labourers wanting work. If they had only food,we believe work will be abundant. Mr. O'CONNELL put the question on its proper basis as a remnant of the old feudal oppression, when the landowners treated all th e ot h er classes, and particu larly the trading classes, as fit only to be plun dercd. He showed very clearly, that the 2,300,000 poor of Ireland could lose nothing by the abolition of the Corn-laws. Lord SANDON, though the representatvie of Liver pool—the towns being divided against themselves thought the Corn-laws had not injured the manufac.. turers. He of course was to vote against Mr. VILLIEns' motion. Mr. HARVEY made a long, eloquent, and pow erful speech, in which good sense was pointed by sarcasm, and sound argument enforced by wit. He tore the falacies of Sir ROBERT PEEL to rags, and made the House laugh at the weeping and false sentimentality of Sir JAMES GRAHAM. He did something better ; he made—we believe, at least, what he said was enough to make—the Hon. Baronet ashamed of the monstrous assertions he made with respect to the working classes. His powerful speech will particularly re commend him to the working classes, whose interest on this question he especially advocated. The lashing he gave in their name to the pompous and specious heavy Baronets, will not soon be forgotten by them nor the by the House, who laughed most heartily at the Hon. Member's wit. After a reply from Mr. VILLIERS, who also exposed in an able manner the sophistries of Sir ROBERT PEEL, the impatient House divided, and then adjourned. As yet the moral consequence of the Corn-laws have undergone no discussion in Parliament. In our journal of September 15th we pointed out their connection with the great increase of crime which has taken place since 1815. We then remarked that the number of commitments for crime had very nearly quadrupled since that year, and it was dou bled within four years after they were passed. Dur ing the twenty four years which have elapsed since 1815 the country has been at peace, and the undi vided attention of the Legislature, so far as it has not been occupied with a factious struggle for office, has been given to our internal policy. Improvements in our institutions have been planned by all parties, and carried with a unanimous voice into execution. More churches have been built and more clergymen provided. The police has been established, and prison discipline much bettered. More fre quent courts have been holden, and the criminal law has been more promptly administered. Goal de liveries have been more frequent, and our criminal courts improved. There have been Acts fur punishing juvenile offenders, and Acts for sepa rating the partly pure from the wholly contami nated. The legislation touching beer-houses and public-houses, and the sale of intoxicating liquors, has been incessant ; and fairs and sports have been suppressed. Bull-fighting and boxing have been put down. The Parliament has been reformed, and sanguinary punishment very much diminished. In short, during those twenty-four years the Legislature has been engaged in one unceasing attempt to improve our laws and the morals of the people ; and what has been the result ? We answer boldly, a great, a lamentable increase of crime. A scoundrel disposition seems to pervade the land, and, after the fashion of the authors of the Corn-laws, all classes seek to prey on each other, and are given up to avarice and greediness. We do not rely on our own assertion—we refer to the daily diatribes of the ' Arsons out of Parliament, and the renewed ef forts of their friends in Parliament, to increase restrictions on the people because of the rapid in crease of vice and crime. Now though we might be warranted, after the example of some Corn-law advocates in Parliament, at once to charge all the evils which have afflicted the country since 1815, on the Corn-laws—for they have co-existed—we shall content ourselves with a more humble endea vour to show that much of this increase of crime may be traced to them. It is a fact that, in conjunction with all the im provements we have mentioned, the number of corn mitinews in England and Wales has nearly quad rupled in 24 years. Now the great majority of offences punished in England are offences against property. The tradesman finds he cannot live on. his profits so well as the Corn-law making 'squire's butler, or as the Bishop's chief cook, and he begins by cheating ; next he takes to issuing bills, and ends probably by committing forgery. The style of living adopted by those who live on the produce of the Poll-tax sets the fashion for all below them ; and as the very law which they nass to increase their opd.ence hampers trade and lowers profit, both increasing the desire to live splendidly and depriv ing men of the means, it is the parent of many of the crimes in the middle classes which the criminal law punishes. Again, it lessens trade in the manufacturing dis tricts, and prevents them offering a continual de mand for fresh hands. Stopping the growth and prosperity of towns, it stops the drains which erewhile carried off the surplus of the agricul tural population, and thus increases the compe tition amongst agricultural labourers, embitters their fate, adds to their toils, augments their poverty, and converts them into thieves. Those who know anything of the rural distr.icts of the South of England must have been amazingly amused, if not perplexed, by Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S sentimental allusions in the Corn-law debates to the village green and the " breezy call of incense-breathing morn," for village greens at present are studded by beer-shops-----the haunts of the lowest, raggedest, meanest, dirtiest, and most pilfering of her MA JESTY'S subjects. As we remember the rural districts of England in our boyish days, all the cottagers had fowls and pigs, most of the farm servants lived in the farm-houses, master and man were friends and helpers ; now the majority of the cottagers have neither pigs nor fowls, nor furniture, nor decent clothing ; the ser vants lodge where they can, and master and man are more enemies than mutual helps and friends. The masters getting stinted profits, and the servants ; stinted wages, each regards the other as the source of his distress, and they scowl on each other as foes. Deprived of all property, and of the means of acquiring any, the agricultural labourer too often becomes hostile to those who have it, and commits depredations on all around him. For example, we know a rural district, far re. moved from any sort of manufacture, in which, when we were boys, people scarcely thought of bolting their doors at night, where no property is now safe. As to hedge-rows it is almost in vain to keep them up. They are no sooner made than they are pulled to pieces for firewood. The re spectable inhabitants patrole the place at night, but their vigilance is no match for the cunning of the thieves. A few months ago a friend of ours was visited by the marauders, who took guns, fowls, and fruit. A day or two ago we received the following communication from the same quarter : " On Sunday night last, or early on Monday morning, the lock of the fowl-house was picked, and our remaining fowls stolen. Last night some of the thatch of the boat house was removed, an entry made, the lock forced off, and the boat's sail taken away. Several of our neighbours have suffered similar depredations." That is the example, but we have no doubt that similar scenes, and a similar deterioration to that we remember in the moral character of the agricul tural population in that district, are common to all the rural districts. Before Sir JAMES GRAHAM again indulges in sentimentality about agricultural labourers, which in him is like what an Edinburgh Reviewer said of the German, " a fat butcher weeping over a dead calf," it will become him to look into this question, and ascertain how much of the avowed increase of crime takes its rise in the agricultural districts, and how much of it has been caused by the Corn-laws. For our parts we have not a doubt that those laws cause more depredation, by increasing the splendour of some and the poverty and want of others, and by hampering all, and making all uneasy, than all the punishment of the law can prevent or cure. We need not add, that they cause diminished profit and increased competition in towns as well as in rural districts, and are consequently the parents of much of the strife, hatred, and theft which take place in towns as well as in villages and hamlets. We have only done justice, in our summary, to Mr. HARVEY'S eloquent and amusing speech, and seeing in the lists of the division that his name is on the right side, we can easily pardon him for sporting, towards the end, some crotchets of his own. He shares with so many persons the appre hension that free trade, under our present burdens, would only add to our difficulties, that we ex cuse in him the honest prejudice, though we differ from his opinion in toto. Whatever may be the burdens imposed for the service of the State, or in fulfilment of national obligations, they are all, in our estimation, much increased by the tax on bread, which makes competition with fo reigners, naturally difficult, hopeless, and impos sible. We do not totally disagree with Mr. HARVEY'S concluding observations ; for the whole tenor of our remarks must, we hope, have satisfied our readers that we have always considered the Corn-laws as an imperial question, and that it has been narrowed, not to say degraded, by having been chiefly argued as a contest between the manufacturers and the landowners. Differing from Mr. HARVEY as to the effects of free trade on wages, and differing from him as to the effects which totally repealing the Corn-laws would have on the farmer, as we find his vote on the right side, we will not suffer ourselves to speak of the trifling errors at the close of his speech, as the smallest drawback from its general excellence and general effectiveness. We were honoured, last night, by the particular notice of Mr. F. O'CONNOR, at the dinner given to Mr. FROST. Almost every other person makes a similar complaint—he is not reported at sufficient length. Several of the Members of Parliament assert like FEARGus, that the newspapers treat them scandalously. For our parte, we endeavour to do justice to all parties, and particularly to the public, by making it acquainted, as far as we can, with everything, which necessarily precludes us from filling our Paper exclusively either with the pro ceedings of the Convention or of the Parliament. _ _ If, as — Mr. O'CONNOR complained, we give him only a few lines of nonpareil, we are very often obliged to mete out the same measure to a Peer or a Minister. Turning, however, from him to Mr. FROST, the hero of the feast, we learn that he is still a Magistrate. The LORD CHANCELLOR It appears, has not yet issued a new commission for Newport, and Mr. FROST can still boast his corre spondence with the LORD CHANCELLOR and , Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Having no wish, we can assure Mr. O'CoNNoR to hide the light of the Convention, we have placed it on high in our columns, and fearing, nevertheless, that it might not be seen, we direct our readers' attention to the mighty blaze. Some of our Contemporaries are making; a areat deal of the boastings of the physical force men at public meetings, and of the bra vado of an old man publicly selling pikes. We hope that they have no sinister purpose to serve, either of their own or of others, which will be far more injurious to the community than all the boasting of the Convention. The cunning and ambition of Statesmen have in all ages done more mischief to society than the frank violence of the Demo cracy. We copy the following paragraph from the Pres, ton Observer : \Ve observe with the most profound regret that The Sun, a Paper noted for its talent and liberality, has bcgua to advocate the use of arms i n th e cause o f Liberalism. Yes as a means of advancing that holy cause of which it has been so long the able and unflinching advocate, The Sun advises that_the weapons of barbarism shall be uscd those weapons which have never . yet bezn wielded under the pretence of advancing such a cause without leaving it in a state of trier prostration—wounded, bleeding, and in the very last gasp of existence. And no %Yonder! for we might as well attempt to settle a disputed point in science by a contest of bull-dogs as to establish the supremacy of right by brutal force. Our Contemporary, after quoting in a manner as equally flattering to us as the above paragraph, some observations of ours, proceeds to contend, at considerable length, and with much eloquence, that a moral triumph was never achieved by physical force. We should regret still more than at present that the great demands on our columns prevent us from transferring to them the whole of our Contem porary's observations, had we the least inclination to enter into any controversy with him. In the main we agree with him, and notice the article rather to set him right as to our opinions than to dispute his doctrines. At the same time we can not agree with our Contemporary that no good came of the employment of physical force by the Dutch to throw off the yoke of Spain, by the Commons of England to resist the despotism of CHARLES 1., or by the inhabitants of the United States to secure their independence. All those events were great, and, as they were taken, necessary steps in the progress of civilization, consecrating and securing religious and civil liberty ; and we have no reason to suppose that without than the present state of society would have come into existence. At the same time, imaginative persons may suppose, that the progress of knowledge and the progress of population would have insured religious and civil liberty for the world, without the oppressed taking up arms to resist ; but this supposition it must be ever impossible to prove. It is safer to content our selves with noting what has happened, concluding that every pre-existing event was the necessary pre- cursor of the present condition of mankind. Our principal purpose is to say that our Con temporary does us an injustice when he accuses us "of beginning to advocate the use of., arms." We did no such thing : but we said that we would not go along with those Liberal Journals which con demned the people for talking of arming, and sought to dissuade them from it. We gave no advice either way. We stood neuter, or rather dumb, and we disapproved of other Journals for not following our example. We repudiated the advice of the Chronicle, because that was inviting oppression. The Government and the upper classes have stimuli enough to play the part of tyrants, without the Liberal Press heralding their way, by assuring them that do what they will, the people never can and never ought to resist them. These who give th a t a d v i ce , have, we admit, a much higher idea of the value and sanctity of the results of the deliberations of Parliament, which are nicely engrossed on parchment, than we have ; and till we are convinced, both of the spotless virtue and in fallibility of legislators, we shall not believe that the time has arrived when men should be advised to submit, unquestioning, and unresisting, to their decrees. Than the writer of these lines, there is no greater enemy to violence—no greater friend to peace, but he never can admit that one class in society, or one set of opinions, is to have a mono poly of force. At present, in our humble judg ment, the armed physical force is arrayed on the side of injustice ; and we cannot preach doctrines which promise it impunity, and tempt it to con tinue its profligate career. GoD forbid that we should advise our countrymen to arm themselves, but neither will we counsel them to cast themselves passively and unresistingly before the Juggernaut of the Corn-laws, or sacrifice their wives and children on the Moloch altars of the State Church. We speak advisedly, because we have before asserted, and now repeat, that the desire to preserve the tithes, or the revenue of the State Church, while rent is also preserved, makes the land lords of England disregard the affections, and court the hatred of the people. To tell the Bishops who voted for continuing the Corn-laws, and Sir J. GRAHAM, who resisted Mr. VILLIERS' motion because the Tithe Commutation Act imposed a burden on the land, that, do what they will—that if they increase the protecting duty to 100 s., and starve still greater multitudes than at present out of existence, those who remain must on no account oppose their Army and their Yeomanry, is to make ourselves parties to the continuance of injustice. When men have recourse to the terrible alternative of arms, they must do it on their own responsibility, and shall from us have no advice on the subject. We will venture to point out, indeed, how such a horrible alternative may be surely avoided : Let the Legislature set the people a good example. Let it be honest and do justice. Let it abolish the Corn-laws, and disband the Yeomanry. Let it t t ch y n r ee a mr n c itnronefi rely g t n m tihl a e k init e s, c ad o Tei n (ci fi i s t i l ti e a n wn e si fia n nn o dd t cease to assume the character of the master and the p r it u e h re p f l c o e n r . nfi tr c i f e a e n t t c h e i i never dream of - having recourse to arms, which it will then, for the first time in its career, have set the example of condemning. We have no wish to make any remark at present o n dangerous,, and till nowp u e n s - si E s u h r the late unfortun a t e occurrence near Hayes,r hurried by out which ot a fellow creature h as b een prematurely the world ; yet we ca nno t refrain from ex detestation of the den habit which has lately sprung up in this country. Within a few months three cases of assination have occurred, two of which proved fatal, and the life of the third victim was saved, almost by a miracle. Englishmen hitherto had been in the habit of considering these crimes pecu liar to Italy and Spain. To their shame they must now include England, and what adds to the ignominy is, that the practice has made its appearance, not among the ignorant and vulgar multitude, but among persons of rank and education—a class who in this country have long beer, considered incapable of anything like treachery or foul play against an antagonist. A great outcry was raised against the Commander-in-Chief for allowing sol diers to wear side-arms, but what was the bayonet com pared with the s,cret knife of the assassin ? The man who quarrels with the soldier knows his danger, and by strength, or skill, also might avert the strokes ; but what can ingenuity, or skill, or strength do against a weapon of a few inches long, which may be concealed about the person, and drawn in a moment of passion with fatal effect ? We would willingly impute some of the late acts to madness, but we fear that those are others than madmen, who arm themselves with these dastardly and infamous weapons of defence. They are openly exposed for sale, and so eommon, too, that a foreigner, especially an Italian or Spaniard, writing an account of the habits of Englishmen, might be ex cused for saying that every man was secretly armed with a stilletto or dagger. If it is illegal t o ca r ry such weapons, it ought to be illegal to expose th em to sale ; and we should rejoice to see those who hold out the temptation the first punished. EVEN ING EDITION. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1839. possession of the captured fortress. 'We select the only paragraphs in it, the substance of which has not been repeatedly published in the columns of The Sun:— " Convinced of the ill-will of the Mexican plenipotenti ary, and of the absolute impossibility of ever arriving at any reasonable result with him. I was obliged to lay hands upon the fortress of Ulloa. I occupied it, but as a pledge only, declaring that it would be restored to Mex ico as soon as the differences existing between the two go vernments were brought to a couclusion. Certainly, I might say to your Excellency that all my conduct has beeri that of a friend of the Mexican people, and not that of an enemy. I voluntarily allowed the garrison of Ulloa the most advantageous and most honourable capitulation which they could desire. The wounded Mexicans were ta ken into the fortress along with the wounded French, and treated as if they had been their brothers. Master of Ulloa, I could have obliged the city of Vera Cruz to surrender at discretioTr; I might have occu pied it; but I abstained, that of consideration for the ho nour of the Mexican nation, and respect for the integrity of its territority ; until at last the violence of Gen. Santa Anna obliged me to render the city powerless against me. and to take away its artillery. I effected this with all pos sible consideration for the life and property of its inhabit ants, doing all in my power to soften the rigours of war. I gave unconditional liberty to the Mexican soldiers who were taken prisaners ; I set the officers free upon parole, and only retained General Arista, who has been treated with every kindness, and with all the honours due to his rank and position. Master of the sea, I might, without exposing even one of my men, have overthrown all the fortresses on the Gulf of Mexico which were within range of my artil lery, but I have abstained to the present day from doing the slightest damage. . . . . . " I hasten to conclude, giving you once more a formal assurance that no feeling of ambition—no thought con trary to the independence of Mexico, has led the French Government to send out the expedition which I have the honour to command. If France had had the slightest intention to attack the independence of Mexico or the integrity of its territory, she would not have confined her self to the sending of a naval force, but would have-sent an adequate number of armed troops. But Ido not possess on board a single soldier, and so fur from making myself niastz,r of the• fortress of Ulloa, I have be gun to send back to France the major part of my squadron, only keeping such as are necessary for the blockade of the ports. We hear, excellent Sir, with pain, people talking of the hatred between France and Mexico, 'at a time when eli nations aspire to become brethren. The sentiment that confers most honour upon a people is that of universal beneficence towards all the members of the great human family ; .this sentiment I am bound to say, is' general arnolig,t all my countrymen. I hope also that the day will soon dime when the Mexican nation, undeceived, and knowing at length who are its true friends, and who are its real enemies, will accept the hand of friendship which Fra,,ce sincerely holds out to her. I long for this day with all my wishes." The list of the French Cabinet has not yet appeared in the official columns of the illoniteur. The Parisians expected it on Sunday, but the non-arrival of M. Hu- MANN, the proposed Minister of Finance, prevent.'d it. Nominated to office during his absence from the capital, it was considered doubtf u whether he, too, might not make his acceptance of the finance department contingent upon stipulations, which would embarrass his colleagues. M. THIZItS, therefore, recommended a delay of a day or two in the Gazet . tiny of the Mini s t r y, t o w hi c h t h e K ING consented. We stated at some length in an article last week that M. THIERS was in no hurry to take office, and that the KING was in as little haste to form a Coalition Cabinet before the settlement of the Belgian question. How entirely the Paris Correspondent of the Morning Post agrees with us in the opinions we then stated, and the reasoning we employed, will suffi ciently appear by the following extract from his letter in our Contemporary's columns of to-day : Thiers, as soon as he became sure of having the refusal of office, began to employ all possible means of delay in his decision, hoping that the Belgian question, in the mean. time, becoming a foregone conclusion, he should avoid the awkwardness of assenting to a piece of policy which he had so lately condemned in his fallen rivals. But, alas I the little man's calculations may prove abortive. The Belgians, reckoning on the friendly professions of their Lilliputian pseudo ally, have adopted every means of de laying their ultimate decision, and M. Thiers may be ob liged to take the seals some days too soon. One of the best signs of the times in Paris is a re petition of the demand of the .Journal des Debats for the active intervention of France and England in Spain. This intervention is enforced in an article in Sunday's number of the ex-Ministerial organ. The arrivals from Madrid are of the 10th inst., but they are wholly destitute of news of importance. In the following extracts will be found the latest frontier intelligence : BAiONNE, MARCH I.—(From the privato correspon dence of the Constitutionnel.)—" General Maroto is en gaged in re.organising his army; it:will form three divi sions, to be commanded by Generals Simon, Latorre, and Urbistondo. " Father Cyrille was expected at Tolosa on the Bth; be is appointed President of the Privy Council, to which Don Carlos seems to intend to confide the direction of the political questions. " The Marquis de Casor Equia, the famous Gomez, who executed the expedition iu 1836, Zariategui and Elio having been set at liberty, are going to be again employed." ALGIERS, MARCII 8. —For the tenth time at 'cast, Ted gino is reinstated in the possession of Ain Mabdi, from which the boastings of his adversaries have no more been able to expel him than his armies. It is in vain that Abd el-Kader has officially announced to our Governor that be had taken possession of that city, it was in vain that he had celebrated his triumphs at Miliana by public rejoicing, and that he thought he should be able by this means to deceive not only the French but the native tribes, whom be is equally interested in misleading. The truth is, in spite of the Emir's precautions to conceal it, be has again passed the desert. We learn that, after an obstinate combat against Tedgino and the Moza bites, who came to his assistance, in which he lost many men, killed and wounded, and a hundred prisoners, who were beheaded, he has with difficulty collected the remnants of his army, which is now encamped on the border of the desert waiting till the artillery shall be orga nized, with the means of doing which, he is supplied by us.— Constitutional. HAYMARKET THEATRE. This Theatre opened fast - night for the season. During the recess several alterations and improvements have been made in the interior ; among them are a new act drop and proscenium, and several new handsome chandeliers, lighted with wax, which if they do not give so glaring a light as gas, at least'give a mellower and more regular one. The house is also warmed with air stoves, by which a genial and equable temperature is kept up—no slight recommendation at this inclement and uncertain season of the air. The performances com menced with Sheridan Knowles' comedy of the Love Chase, in which Miss Taylor played the favouite part of Constance, and played it with uncommon vivacity. We missed, however, something of the grace and finish of Mrs. Nesbitt, who, in this, perhaps her best, cha racter, never lost sight of the lady in the hoyden. Miss Taylor has much ready talent and high animal spirits, which carry her handsomely through many difficulties, but she wants elegance, and, above all, repose of manner. She appears always in a flutter, and over-solicitous to make every point tell, however immaterial to the right understanding of the character she impersonates. If we except this defect, her Constance was all that could ha desired ; the coquette, in particular, was admirably brought out, and produced no slight impression on the audience. Mr. Webster performed Wildrake with his usual judgment. This gentleman is a careful and saga cious actor, but his manner is something cold and hard. lie understands, rather than feels, his part ; and, consequently, failed in some of the more impassioned scenes with Constance. Miss Mordaunt's Lydia was a chaste and intelligent performance, and would have been still more effective, had not the young lady had recourse so frequently to her white cambric pocket-handkerchief. Tenderness may be shown with out the aid of this auxiliary. Strickland's Sir William Fondlove, and Mrs. Glover's Widow Green left no thing to be desired. In their way, they were perfect. After the comedy, "God save the Queen" was sung by the whole theatrical corps ; and then followed a new farce in one act, entitled A ll'isfor a Day. The plot of this lively affair, which is from the pen of Mr. Bernard, may be summed up in a few words. Mr. Eli Tucker (Strickland), a New England farmer, .d Ny .ll : o l c f o n i i t ir t ! o l a:t d i c)a Clifford), V:: . i ( i l i l: n e o a r f n a rough, honest, John Bull sort of a fellow, is sons, ab T su h r e d with tait :l h a thl i daily expectation (Hill) i r:l,(l)iar sn reach home just as the old gentleman is quarrelli4 and high in her notions as her husband is the reverse. On entering the house, after an interview with their parents, Montague, who is a coxcombical libertine spoiled— as weak natures generally are—by foreign travel, informs his brother Nathan, a simp:e, rough, honest-hearted fellow, that he is married to a French opera-dancer wham he picked up at Paris ; and that as the match will be sure to be distasteful to the old folks, he, Nathan, must . pass off the lady as his own wife, just for a few hours, We are glad to find it announced both in New until her husband can arrange matters for an ecelaireise ment. To this Nathan, after some little demurring, York and Paris Journals, that France has accepted i nFeedes, and hence arises all the fun of the piece. In the mediation of Enoland for the accommodation The Veloce, Go- ( - I . e is bt c s apacity of husband he is threatened . with arrest for of all differ gees with Mexico'Lacy). j i s s t a two contracted at New York ; is involved in a duel the for having seduced and deserted a lady in that city ,• French Government to Admiral BAUDIN, upon the and, in fact, gets into all sorts of scrapes, from which receipt of which he gave t h e English Charge he can only extricate himself by declaring the real state veroment steamer, brought instructions from d'Aff a i res a car t e blanche for negotiating with the of the case, which he accordingly does in the last scene, Me x i can Government the i n d emni ty due to F rance, w h ere i n matters are ma d e up, a f ter t h e usua l f ash i on of and th e treat i es w hi c h are to reg ulate the co mmerce farce. The whole burden of this piece rests u p on Hill, who proved himself every way equal to it. relati ons can be esta bli s h e d with th e di rect of the t wo countr i es b e fore more perma nent He is an actor of rich, but easy and unexaggerated humour, andis in full possession of that mos t va l u - In the interim c oncurrence of the and p during arties immediately the negotiations, the concerned, able of dramatic endowments—presence of m i n d. , Nothing appears to disturb his equanimity. He see ms blockad e i s to b e ra i se d— t h e French fleet remaini ng as much at home an d at h i s ease on the stage as he in the Gulf, and the Fort of San Juan d'Ulloa to would be by his own fire-side. In this respect, as al s o continue garr i sone d b y a b o dy of French M ar i nes , in his quiet manner, and the exceeding unction with With a view to facilitate friendly negotiations, Ad- abash ; and Mr. Lister with Sir R. miral BAUDIN addressed on the .'2oth of December, Liston. The dialogue of the piece is passable, which is he drawls out his good things, he reminds us of tion withi Bart. r rt ßobert Ferguson the utmost we can say for it. Tire best point made . was H. Inglis, Glynne has paired off until Easter with Lord a letter to his Excellency, the Mexican General-in- Sir Stephen describing the red lamp over an American S by Hill, who . . Sir Wm. Somerville paired off in favour of Mr.. Villier's m o . Chief, then at Tam ; . p.co, in which he condescended Sir David Roche has paired off with Sir Robert Bateson to i • • justify his own conduct and that of his Govern- ' bloe ' d•shot." The farce was received with much favour, rural after E-Mer I surgeon's shop-window, compared it to " a bull's eye I.ss bust • :,_ i . 1_.,,•,,,i.L is in tr... and ii,ia attending in the rit,use of meat, and to as,:ure the Mex;can Itepohlic rhtt ~r. ! : li , ,ited—partiertlaily te , , , - eds the close— Commons by the sudden and dangerous illness of a near relation. nothing w f m his thoughts than toretainof l aht The house was full, but not crowded, ,as farther ro I au. er. Acheson.—March 18. . PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. (Front the Fates and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1839. CORN IMPORTATION. ' Order read for resuming adjourned Debate on Question (12th March), " That this House will immediately resolve itself jute a Committee of the whole House, to take into consi deration the Act regulating the Importation of Foreign Corn :" (Mr. Villiers)—Debate resumed:—Question put. The House divided : MINORITY—AYES, 195. Abercromby, G. R. -Stirlingshire Hutton, Robert-Dublin Adam, Rear-Adm. Sir C.-Clack- Jervis, S.-Bridport mannan Johnson, W. Augustus-Oldham Aglionby, H. A.-Cockermouth Kinnaird, Hon. A. F.-Perth Ainsworth, P.-Belton Labouchere, Right Hon. Henry- Anson, Colonel-Staffordshire Taunton Anson, Sir G.-Lichfield Lambton, H.-North Durham • Attwood, Tho s . -Bi rm i ng h am Langdale, Hon. C.-Kilaresbo. Baines, Edward-Leeds rough Bainbridge, E. T.-Taunton Langton, Col Gore-Somerset ;*iannernian, A.-Aberdeen Leader, J. Temple-Wcstminster Baring, F. Thornhill-Portsmoutk Loch, James-Kirkwall Barnard, E. G.--Greenwich Lushington, Charles-Aslibnrton l:eamish, F. 8..-Cork Lushington, Dr.-Tower Hamlets Bellew, R. M.-Louth Lynch, A. H.-Galway Berkeley, Hon. F. H.-Bristc I M'Lend, R.-Inverness Berkeley, Hon. C.-Cheltenh. m M'Taggart, John-Wigton, &c. Bernal, Ralph-Rochester Marshall, Vv m.-Carlisle Bewes, 'l' -Plymouth - Marsland, Henry-Stockport Blackett, C.-South Northumber. Martin, John-Tewkesbury land . Manic., Hon. Fox-Elgin Burghs Blake, W. J.-Newport Melgund, Viscount -Hythe Blunt, Lir Charles-Lewes Milton, Lord -M alton Bri:coe, J. 1.-Westbury Morpeth, Lord-Yorkshire Brocklenurst, J.-Macclesfield Murray, Alex.-Kirkcudbright Brotherton, J.-Salford Murray, Right Hon. J. A.-Leith Browne, It. D.-Mayo Muskett, George A.-St. Alban's Buller, Charles --a.iskeard Nagle, Sir 11.-Wes meath Buller, E.-North Staffordshire O'Connell, Daniel. Dublin Bul*er, Sr E. L.-Lincoln O'Connell, M. J.-Kerry Buslield, W.-Bradford O'Connell, Morgan-Meath Byng, Right Hon. G. S -Chatham o're:rail, Richard M.-Kildare Callaghan, D.-Cork City Ord, W.-Newcastle-upon-Tyne Campbell, Sir Jcilin-Edinburgh Paget, Lord Alfred-Lichfield Clay, W.-Tower Hamlets Palmerston, Visceunt-Tiverton Cliv:.., Edward 8.-Hereford Parker, John-Sheffield • Codrington, Sir E.-Devonport Parke, R. 'l'.—Presto!) Collier, John-Plymouth Parnell, Sir H. - Dundee Collins, NV -Warwick Parrott, J.,sper-Totness Cowper, Hon. W. F.-Hertford Pattison, James-Loudon Craig, W. G.-Edinburglishii e Pechell, Captain-Brighton Crawford, W.-London - Philips, Mark-Manchester Crawley, Samuel - Bedford Philips, G. R.-Poole Currie, Raikes -Northampton Phillpotts, John-Gloucester Curry, William-Armagh Pigot, D. fl-Clonmel • Dalineny, Lord-Stirling Protheroe, Edward-Halifax Daaliwood, G. H.-Wycombe Pryme, George-Cambridge Denistoun, J.-Glasgow Ratnsbottom, J.-Windsor D'Eyocourt, Right Hon. C. T.- Rice, Edward Royd-Dover Lao ',AI; Rice, lit. Hon. T. S.-Cambridge Divett, Edward-Exeter Rich, H.-Knaresborough Dunkin, Sir IL-Sandwich Rippon, C.-Gateshead Duke, Sir James-Boston Roche, E. 8.-Cork Co. Duncan, Viscount-Southampton Roche; William-Limerick L)uncombe, T. S.-Finsbury Rolfe, rir It. M.-Penryn Dutsdas, C. W. D.-Flint Rundle, John-Tavistock Dundas, Frederick-Orkney Russell, Lord John-Stroud Easthope, J.-Leicester Russell, Lord-1 avistock Eliot, lion. J. E.-Roxburgh s hire Sa l wey , Lieut.-Col.-Ludlow Ellice, Capt. A.-Harwich ieholefield, J.-Birmingliana Ellice, Right Hon. E.-Coventry Scrope, Poulett-Stroud Ellice;iEdward-St. Andrew's Seale, Colonel-Dartmouth Etwall, Ralph-Andover Seymour, Lord-Totness Evans, Sir U. De Lacy-Westmin. Sharpe, General-Dumfries ster Shelborne, Earl of-Caine Evans, William-North Derby Slaney, R. A.-Shrewsbury Feilden, W. J.-Blackburn Smith, J. A.-Chichester Fenton, John-Rochdale Smith, Benjamin-Norwich Ferguson, Sir R. C.-Nottingham Smith, R. V. - Northampton Ferguson, Robert -Kirka:dy Standish, Charles-Wigan Fielden, John-Oldham Stanley, E. John-North Cheshire. Finch, F.-NValsall Stansfield,W. It C.-Huddersfield Fitzroy,. Lord C.-Bury St. 'Edna. Staunton, Sir George Thomas I leetwood, P. H.-Pres:on • Steuart, Robert-Haddington, &c Fort, J.-Clitheroe teivart,..lames--Honiton . . Gibson, Thomas—lpswich Gilloa, Wm. IX—Linlithgow Grey, Sir George—Devoilport Grey, Sir Char!es Edwara—Tyne mouth sioci: ' br.—Cashel Strickland, Sir G.—W. Yorkshire Strutt, Edward—Derby Stuart, Lord J.—Ayr Stuart, Villiers—Waterford Co t - ute, George—London Guest, J. J.—Mert':yrTydvil Hali, Sir Benjamin—Mars lebone Harvey, D. \V.—Southwark Haste, Archibald—Paisley Hawes, Benjamin—Lambeth Hawkins, J. H.—Newport, Isle of Wight Haytcr, W. G.—Wells Heothcoat, J —Tiverton Hector, Cornthwaite John—Pe tersfield St) le, Sir Charles—Scarborough Tancred, H. W.—Banbury Thornely,Thos.—Wolverhampton Troubridge Sir 'l'. E.—Sandwich Turner, Edmund—Truro Vigors, N. A.—Car,low Co Vivian, John Henry—Swansea Wakley, Thomas—Finsbury Walker, R.—Bury, Lanca,hire Wallace, Robert—Greenock Warburton, H.—Bi idport Ward, H. G.—Sheffield Hill, Lord A. M. C.—Evesham Hindley, Charles—Ashton Hobhouse, Right Hon. Sir J. C. Nottingham Hobbouso, T. Benj.—Rochester Hollond, Robert—Hastings Horsman, Edward—Cockermouth Howard, F. J.—Youghall Howard, P. H.—Carlisle Howick, Vize.—Northumberland Humphery, John—Southwark Hutt, W.—Hull Wemjss, Captain—Fifeshire White, Andrew—Sunderland Wilde, Mr."Serjeant—Newark Williams, William—Coventry Wilshere, William—Yarmouth Wood, Charles—Halifax Wood, Sir Matthew—London Wood, G. W.—Kendal Yates, J. Ashton- Carlow TELLERS. Villiers, C. P.—Wolverhampton Hume, Joseph—Kilkenny MAJORITY — Acheson, Lord—Co. of Armagh Arland, Sir T. a-.N Devonshire Adam', T. D.—West Somerset A'Court, Captain—Tamworth Adlre, Lord —Glamorganshi re Aglionby, Major F.—Cumberland Alexander, Viscount—Tyroncl Alford, Viscount—Bedfordshire Alsager, It.—Surrey Alston, Rowland—Hertfordshire Arbuthnot, Ganeral—Kincardine sldre Archbold, Robert—Kildare Archdall, Gen. M.—Fermanagh Ashley, Lord—Dorsetsliire Atwood, W.—Greenwich Attaood, M.—Whitehaveli 13agge, W.—West Norfolk Bacot, Hon. W.—Denbighshire Bailey, Joseph—Worcester Bailey, J. D.—Sudbury Itaillie, H. D.—Honiton Baker, Edward—Wilton Baring, W. B.—N. Staffordshire Barrington, Lord—Berkshire Barry, G. S.—Cork Co. 1.1:.11, Matthew —S. Northumber land Benett, J.--South Wiltshire Bentinck, 1 ord G.—Lynn Berkeley, Hon. G.—Gloucestersh. Bethell, Richard—Yorkshire 131ackburne, I. J.—Warrington Blackstone, W. S.—Wallingford Blair, J. Wigtoashire Blake, Martin J.—Galway Blakernore, tiichard—Wells Blandford, Marquisof— Woodstock Blennerhassett, A.—Kerry Bodkin, J. J.—Galway Co. Boldero, Henry G.—Chippenhan. Bowes, John—South Durham Bradshaw, James —Canterbury Bramston, T. W.—Essex South Broad ley, henry—East Yorkshire Broadwood, Henry—Bridgewater Brodie, W. B.—Salisbury Brownrigg, J. S.—Boston Bruce, Lord E.—Marlborough Brum), F.—Carlow • Bruges, W. H. L.—Bath Buller ' Sir J. Yarde—Devonshire Burr, D. H. D.—Hereford • Burrell, Sir C.—Shoreham Burroughes, H. N.—East Norfolk Byng, George—Middlesex Calcraft, John Hales—Wareham Campbell, Sir FL—Berwickshire Canning, Right Hon. Sir S.—Lynn Cantilupe, Viscount—Helston Castlereagh, Visct—Down Co. Cavendish, Hon. C. C.—E. Sussex Cavendish, Hon. G. H.—N. Derby Cayley, E. S.—N. Yorkshire Chapman, Aaron —Whitby Chetwynd, Major W.—Stafford Chichester, J. P. B. —Barnstaple Christopher, R. A.—Lincolnshire Chute, W. L. W.—West Norfolk Clayton, Sir William—Marlow Clerk, iirsc (I._—Stamford nt Clive, - enuth Shropshire Clive, rt. IL V—.ufgrdw 'n niskilla Cole, Hon.ArthurH.—....... Cole, Viscount—Fermanagh Compton, H. Combo--Hampshire Copeland, W. T.—Stoke-upon. Trent Corry, Hon. H. L.—Tyrone Co. Courtenay, P.—Bridgewater Cripps, Joseph—Cirencester Crompton, S.—Thirsk Darby, George—East Sussex Darlington, Earl of—Shropshire Denison, W. J.—West Sussex De Horsey, S. H.—Newcastle. under Lyme Dick, Quintin—Maldon D'lsraeli, B.—Maidstone Dottin, A. IL—Southampton Douglas, Sir C E.— Warwick Douro, Marquis—Norwich Duff, James—Banffshire Duffield, Thomas—Abingdon Dugdale, W. S.—Warwickshire Dunbar, George—Belfast Duncombe, Hon. W.—Yorkshire Duncombe, Hon. A.—East Retford Du Pre, George—Bucks East, James Buller—Winchester Eastnor, Viscount—Reigate Eaton, R. J.—Cambridgeshire Egerton, W. Tatton—Cheshire Egerton, Sir P.—Cheshlre Eliot, Lord—East Cornwall Ellis .John—Newry EstcoUrt, T. G. B.—Oxford Univ. Estcourt, T. Junior—Devizes Evans, G. —Dublin County Farnham, E B.—N. Leicesttrshire Farrand, Robert— Stafford lector, John Minet...Maidatone Feilowes, Edw.—Huntingdonshire Fllmer, Sir E.—West Kent Fitzalan, Lord—Arundel Fitzgibbon, Hon. R.—Limerick Fitzroy, Hon. Henry—Lewes Fdzsimon, Nicholas—King's Co. Fleming, John—Hampshire Foley, E. T.—Herefordshire Forester, Hon. G.—Wenlock Fix, G. Lane— Beverley French, F.—Rosscommon Fresh field, .lames Will.—Penryn Gaskell, James Milnes - Wenlock Gladstone, W. E.—Newark-on. Trent Glynne, Sir S. R,—Flintshire Goddard, Ambrose—Cricklade Gordon, Robert—Windsor Gordon, Hon. W.—Aberdeenshire Gore, 0. J. IL—Carnarvonshire Gore, Ormsby—Salop Goring, H. D.—New Shoreham Goulburn, Right Hon. H—Cain. bridge University Graham, Right Hon. Sir J. R. G., Bt.--Pembroke Granby, Marquis of—Stamford Grant, Hon. Colonel— , Elginshire Grant, F. W.—lnverness-shire Grattan, James—Wicklow Co. Greenaway, Charles—Leominster Greene, Thomas—Lancaster Grimsditch, T.—Macclesfield Grimston, Viscount—Hertford. shire Grimston, Hon. E. H.—St. AI. ban's Halford, Henry—Leizestershire Handley, Henry—Lincolnshire Harcourt, G. S.—Bucks Hardinge, Right Hon. Sir H.— Launceston Harland, William C.—Durham Hawkes, Thomas—Dudley Heathcote, Sir G.—Rutland Heathcote, Sir W.—S. Hampshire Heathcate, G, J.—Lincomshire Heneage, Edward—Grimsby Hcneage, G. W.—Devizes Henniker, Lord—East Suffblk Hepburn, Sir T.—Haddingtonsh. Herbert, Hon. S.—South Wilts Ilerrie,, lit. Hon. J. C.—Harwich Hill, Sir Rowland—Shropshire Hillsborough, Earl of—Down Hinde, J. Hodgson—Newcastle upon-Tyne Hcd c ;es, 'l' L.—West Kent Hodgson, Rd.—Berwick-on-Tweed Hodgson, Frederick—Barnstaple Hogg, J..snes Weir— Beverley liolin.cs, Hon W.—lsle of Wight Holmes, W.—Berwick-on'Fweed Hope, Charles—Linlithgowshire Hope, 11. I.—Gloucester Hope, G. W.—W ymouth Hoskins, K.—Herefordshire Hot ham, Lord—LeomitisterE Houldsworth, T.—Nottingbams k. Houston, G. J.—ltenfrewshire NOES, 342. Howard, Sir R.—Wicklow Co. Howard, Hon. W.—Sutherlandsh, Hurst, R. H —Horsham Hurt, Francis—Derby South Inges . tre, Viscount—Staffordshire Irton, Samuel—Cumberland ' lrving, John—Antrim:Co. James, Sir W. C.—Hull Jenkins, Richard—Shrewsbury Johnstone, J. J. i4,—Ponfries shire Jones, John—Carmarthenshire Jones, T.—Londonderry Co. Ken'lile, H.—West Surrey Ker, David—Downpatriek Kirk, Peter—Carrickfergus Knatchbull, Sir E.—Eabt Kent Knight; H. G.—Nottinghamshire Knightley, Sir C.—Northampton shire Knox, Hon. Thomas—Dungannon Lascelles, Hon. W. S.—Wakefield Law, Hon. C. E. Cambridge Univ. Lelev re, C. Shaw—North Hants Lefroy, Rt. Hon. T.—Dublin Uni. versity Lemon, Sir Chas.—W. Cornwall Lennox, Lord J. G.—West Sussex Lennox, Lord A.—Chichester Liddell, Hon. H.—North Durham Lincoln, Earl of—South Notts Lockhart, M.—Lanarkshire Long, W.—North Wiltshire Lowther, Colonel—Westmoreland Lowther, J. H.—York Lucas, Edward—Monaghan Lygon, Major-Gen. Hon. H. B.— Worcestershire West. Mackenzie, Thomas—Hess-shire Mackenzie, W. F.—Pecblesshire 3fackinnen, W. A.—Lyinington M . Namara, Maj. W. N.—Clare Co. Maher, John— Wexford Co. Mahon, Viscount— Hertford Maidstone, Visct.—N. Northamp tonshire Manners, Lord C. S.—Leiccstersh. Marsland, Thomas—Stockport Marton, Geo.—Lancaster Master, Colonel—Cirencester Maunsell, I'. P.—Northampt nsh. Max well, Henry—Cavan Meyriell, Captain H.—Li sburn e WilliamL-Somersetshire Miles, Philip W. Sky nn er—Bristel Miller, W. H.—Newcastle-under- Lyme llithes, It. M.,-Pontefract Monyienny, T. G.—Rye Mordaunt, Sir John—Warwicksh. Moreton, A. H.—Gloucestershire Morgan, C. M. R.—Brecon Nedd, Joseph—Chipper - 111am Neeld,John—Cricklade Noel, William AL—Rutland Norreys, Lord—Oxfordshire O'Brien, Cornelius—Clare O'Brien, W. S.—Limerick Co. O'Connor Don—Roscommon Co. O'Neill, Hon. J. 13. R.—Antrim Ossulston,Lord —North Nor thum- ~berland Owen, Sir J.—Pembrokeshire Packe, C. W.—Leicester, South wrederick—Beaumaris —Droitwich '—heading _ Pakington, J. Palmer, Charles Fysos- Palmer, Robert-lierkl Palmer, George , ...sEssex Parker, Montagu-Devon Palter, T. A. W.-Oxfordshire Patten, J. Wilson-Lancashire Pease, Joseph-South Durham Peel, Rt. Hon. Sir It.-Tamworth Peel, Col. Jonathan-Huntingdon Pemberton, Thomas-Ripon Pendarves, E. W,-W. Cornwall Perceval, Colonel-Sligo Co. Perceval, 0: J.-West Surrey Philipps, Sir R.-Haterlordwest Pigot, Robert -Bridgnorth Pinney, W.-Lyme Regis Planta, Joseph-Hastings Plumptre. John r.—East Kent Polhill, Frederick-Bedford Pollen, Sir J.-Andover Pollock, Sir F.-Huntingdon Powell, Colonel. -Cardiganshire Power, James-Wexford Co. Power, John-Waterford Powerscourt, Viscount-Bath 'Praed, W. M.-Aylesbury Praed, W. T.-st. Ives Price, Sir ii.-Herefordshire Price, Richard-New Radnor Pringle, Alexander-Selkirkshire Pryse, Pryse-Cardigitif Pusey, Philip-Berkshire Rae, Right Lion. Sir Wm.-Bute Reit', Sir J. Rae-Dover Richards, Hichani-Merionethsh. Rickford, W.-Aylesbury Rolleston, Col.-S. Nottingham Round, Charier Gray-Essex N. Round, John-Maldon Rushbrooke, Colonel-Suffblk Russell, Lord C. J. F.-Bedfordsh St. Paul, H.E. Worcestershire Sanderson, Richard-Colchester Sandon, Lord-Liverpool Sanford, E. A.-Somersetshire Scarlett, Hon. J. Y.-Guildford Shaw, Rt. Hon. F,--Dublin Uni v. Shed, Richard Lalor....Tipperary Sheppard, Thomas-FroMe Shirley, E. J -Warwickshire Sibthorp, Colonel-Lincoln Sinclair, Sir George Caithness Smith, Abel-Hertfordshire Smyth, Sir G. H.-Colchester Somerset, Lord 0.-Monmeuthsh. Spry, Sir S. T.-.Bridinitl Stanley, Edward-Cumberland Stanley, Lord-North Lancashire Stanley, W. Massey-Pontefract Stanley, W. 0.-Anglesea ,Stormont, Viscount-Perthshire Strangways, Hon. John-Dorset Sturt, Henry Chasi-Dsrsetshire Surrey, Earl of-West Sussex Teignmouth, Lord- Marylebone 'ferment, J. E.-Relfast Thomas, Colonel-Kinsale Thompson, Ald.-Sunderland Ihornhill, G.-Huntingdonshire Tollemache, Hon. F.-Grantham Townley, R. G - Cambridgeshire Trench, Sir F.-Scarborough Tyrrell, Sir J. T.-North Essex Vere, Sir C. 8.-East Suffolk 'Verner, William-Armagh Co. Vernon, G. H.-East 'lett - Ord Villiers, Viscomr-Weymouth Vivian, John Ennis-Truro Waddington, H. S.-West Sufibik Wall, C. Baring-Guildford Walsh, Sir John-Sudbury Welby, Glynne Earle-Grantham Westenra, Hon.H R.-Monaghan Westenra,lHon. J. C.-King'. Lo. Whitmore, I'. C.-Bridgenorth Wilbraham, George-Cheshire Wilkins, Walter-Radnorshire Williams, Robert-Dorchester Williams, T. Peers-Marlow . Williams, W. A.-Monmouthsh. Wilmot, Sir J. E.-Warwickshire Winnington, T. E.- Bewdley Vs innington, H. J.-Worcestersh. Wodehouse, Edmund-Norfolk Wood, Colonel T.-Breckns.cksh. Wood, Thomas-Middlesex Worsley, Lord-Lincolnshire Wyndham, Wadham-Salisbury Yorke. Hon. E. T.-Cambridgesh Young, Sir W.-Bucks . Young, John-Cavan TELLERS. Baring, H. B.—Marlborough Fremantle, Sir Thomas —Bucks JEVENTNC DANIEL THE DENTIST. --..-- " The eye-teeth were the symbols of wisdom, ar thew fore he could not hope to extract them from the .Ariste . cracy. Vide O'Connell's speech in the Comas lit night. • " Daniel the Dentist, with forceps and claw Went out to the House of Lords to draw Their Lordships' wisdom-teeth, for he Had a long while feared their sagacity; But as soon as his curious.eye he claps On the Tory Peers' potatoe-traps, Behold I to his vast surprise, he saw The Devil an eye-tooth there was to draw I Not a single Tory Lord, in truth, Had as yet cut a single wisdom-tooth, Which clearly proves that Conservative sense,4 Like Hope, is still in the future tense. When Daniel the Dentist beheld this sight. 4 Quoth he, to wash a bleckamoor white, Or take the breeks off a Highland wight, Were as easy a task as this of mine To extract from their Lordships a wisdom-sigtt # So, findirg his errand was all in vain, Daniel the Dentist went home again I MURDEROUS ASSAULT A MANCHESTER. MANCHESTER MONDAY EVE PO,' ;„ Last night the neighbourhood of Club-row, Oldham .roa d this town, was tht own into the greatest excitement and con' ter i; nation, by the report that a man had murdered his wife. 111 1, not literally tru- we fear that ere long the unfortunat r vie of jealousy will be numbered with the dead. From • Ella t a 'i can lean,, amidst many conflicting statement 14 the usual exaggerations attendant on occurrences of t;1 tit r ' - o f ture, the following appear to have been the circumsta -nc es this horrible assault : A man named George Whittaker, a cooper, who reo ide : in Club-row, Oldham-road, has been for some ti -t past living separate from his wife. However, ho for her to return to him, and on Sunday (yest jrointed she went back, but was a good deal dismal to find that the whole of the furniture of which the Y " -f tha t possessed at the time of their separation had been sold, its „„ c e he could only take her to a lodging. Whether this circu a produced any altercation, is at present a matter of some. °"„ n , However, between four and five o'clock in the aft ei nnv il the other inmates and the neighbours were alar Me d e a• the shrieks of a female, and cries of " Murder" l SO%I C ing from the apartment occupied by the wretched 0 7/r Some persons, apprehensive that there was serious grc the alarm, rushed into the room, and the spectacle th at P. sented itself to their eyes was of a most hirril in cription. Whittaker had a cooper's adze or elte tinvi s hi hand, - with which he was dealing deadly u n ' d " it at his unfortunate wife ; she was seated on a; sofa , 2 ,3 ; 0 . would seem, after she had received one blow, she I PL', l ; e r stinctively put her hand to her head to ward off 3 I, ,°' 5 - 0 and the hatchet coming dawn, had struck her w'it".d e s much force as to sever three fingers from her hand, :be' 4 inflicting a dreadful wound on the scalp. Again she '' n at . have sought to protict herself from the infuriated and brts tack of her husband, for two fingers were in like mani .l e r ,• vered from the other hand. The nature of this outrage - 13a1 r ,3 became known, a messenger was dispatched to the Oldha police lock-up, and Robert Daggett, the keeper, and on, $ ° t be Manchester police force, immediately proceeded Vent, Whittaker spot. When he entered the room, he found o c ; o t, Whittaker standing in the middle of the apa rti .° „ , o his shirt spotted and stained with blood. At his f !et:ife. the axe, besmeared with the blood of his wretch( d " t he Sarah Whittaker was at this time seated on the sof 5' e ar separated portions of her five mutilated fingers tg 11 0 . her on the floor, one of her hands split, or cut in taa $ 1° , 1 %1 tudinally, and her head severely cut and wounded. ) 3 .gb, immediately seized Whittaker, and told him he was '11 , ":" soner. Whittaker merely replied, " Oh, I shall not run a tie Daggatt conveyed him to the lock-up, and also sent fear ''.ol different surgeons to attend the poor woman. They %L be promptly, but the injuries she had received appeared , 7„ 6 1 of so serious and dangerous a character, that it was (14 1e : t er advisable at once to have her conveyed to the Marniu" . s Royal Infirmary. Daggatt sent for a coach, and she wa t it io _,• thither, and there received every attention which her iOn e rl choly condition demanded. Strange to say, she still re, 01" i it in possession both of her faculties and speech, and accordiil44 s was considered advisable that Wore she should fall o,: es , state of insensibility that her deposition should be Itte, Daniel Maude, Esq., our stipendiary Police Magi ts:o attended, and took down her account of the circum: under which she had received these dreadful ire' ia We believe that she afterwards became insensil iles which state she still remains. On inquiry at th ber firmary at a late hour, we learned from one (1 1 , 1 1 medical attendants, that in his opinion it would be itSa miraculous that she could recover; but he is of opiaioo she J ay linger for a day or two possibly for a week. o The wretched man Whittake r, was this morning conveyed' ' so t the Oldham-road loek-up, to the New Bailey. He vras f ; brought up in Court, at the sitting of the Magistrates this u'ie but Mr. Maude intimated that, under the circtunstances of case, he should remand him till Friday next. ea ° We rave not heard any distinct account of the alleg h os supposed cause of this brutal act. It seems, however, 'tolot been, partially at least, the result of jealousy, whether We P o , ill-founded, we know not, and partly the consequence of 01 ; d cited state of feeling, probably arising out of some bi.e/MVsi with the unhappy woman, whom, if he has not killedy h e d of most shockingly mutilated in both hands, for the rewae' o her miserable life. MONEY and COMMERIA CL N.:BvAS CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 C fr. c le , LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET OF MONDAY. — l “ he at mand has been to a fair extent. The sales 5,500 log' steady prices. - Arrivals this M o rni ng —A F renc h M a il, ship le tte 3 r ! from New York, by the Wellington, and Bombay, P 10 ::; v o Yesterday we had abundance of arrivals, to-dpiy we irof scarcely any, consequently there is a ver y great d e a l news in the City to the present time. of The result of the procrastinated debate in the Hodle o Commons on the Corn-laws, which finished last rty with a majority of 147 against its repeal, has not bad effect en the British funds, owing to the result having Ps'" anticipated. I t Consols, which closed rather heavy yesterdaftote 925 93 for the Account, owing to 100,000 being sold Ar o in the afternoon, opened this morni ng w ith a woe de r appearance, at 934, and for Money 925 93. Excl iet a l o l; Bills, 60 62; India Bonds, 64 66 ; B a nk Stock, 200 # India Stock, 255 256. pot In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, which 15 4 quite so go o d a s th e c l os i ng p r i ce o f yesterday; 2,',U; is at present 205 ; Portuguese closed 355, now $4/ 0 ". Three per Cents., 211 22 ; Belgian, 1014 102 ; s . Hien, 795 10 ; Scrip, par to 4 ; Dutch Two-sn d. ri; Half per Cents., 654 ; Five per Cents., I°4 Colombian, 294. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK/ Bank Stock — India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. ... ... Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons. 92A, 32% South Sea Stook ............•••' •./ 33i t per Cent Old Annuities .................. Ditto Red. — New Ditto . ....... . ................ New 3% per Cent lOO% 3i 3 per Cent. Annuities, 2 75 60 New 5 per Cent. . ..... ... . Exch. Bills, Xl ' 000 . • 0 .„.'"' Bank Long Annuities toexpire Dittosoo "" 6 FP - Jan. 5, 1880 — Ditt o S ma ll ilt2 ! P- Jan. 11 9 0. Oct. 10, 1859 — Ditto Commercial...... Jan. 5, 1550 — Ditto Advertised ...... 5, 1550 — Bank Stock for A s oount..*:Os IaSO --India Stock for Aceonnt ;0 Consols for Account .... • April ~ - Jan. ). PRICES OF FORL. THIS DAY IT6/4 - E - O''' 1 Peruvian Bends ............ 0. DittoAccronntz Bonds... .......•• ................. Portuguese ~/ 'just New Bonds ..... .... i t 60 1-- kccount ......... 35 47 '0 D itto ‘' Cent. ......... Ditto, 3 p..... . ........ Ditto Aecoun.. ..... I li . ...... ~ Prussian Bonds ...... ... 11 Russian Bonds, 15•22„..... ~., Ditto Account .....'' Ditto Metallic ••••" / ' Spanish Bonds.. ............... Ditto Account ....•0.. girl Ditto Bonds, 1134 ...... 0, a 34,1 Ditto Acc0unt.. ........ -21, French, 5 per cent...oo /4, ---- 4 per cent...oo:: "" ------ 3 per cent. .....• -..1. '1 -- Exchange ....... 5,4 Dutch, 2y,, per cent....•..... is 4 Ditto Account... ......... ... Ditto, 5 per sent .......... 0 ' Ditto Aspeount....oo ~.,•• ... °Tax.. _ DAY AT ONE $9O Paid. re 6 % Eastern Counties Railway l3 Great Western Railway Company 65 Brighton Railway London and Blackwall Railway 9 1 0 L^ndon and Birmingham Railway Company London and Southampton Railway Company 394 17s. td. ii 444 1 anchestar and Leeds Railway Company 50 Ws' 11 ochestor and Birmingham Railway l5 ~ ;5,, Danube and Mayne Company 411 13s. 4d. „car Private letters received this morning from An' state that the Dutch Funds have improved i per cent. pli The speculators both in the British and Fe It Markets are anxiously waiting to ascertain the re st t he the Belgian Chambers on the Treaty decided on by INI c %,' Five Powers, as well as the official formation o f the i . 0 05 French Ministry ; in consequence of which the va r l io Funds continue in an inactive state • the general .91100 is, that on or before Saturday we sh all' have account s Brussels of the final result. 0 1 9 5 ' Consols are a shade lower than n the morning, 9- ‘ ," 69; both for Money and Account; Exchequer Bills, 6 v 0 A India Bonds, 64 66; Bank Stock, 200 201, India 51 ' GN FUNDS Austrian Bends Belgian Bonds ,« Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chin= Binds D tt. Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Lund', 109 A Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account — Greek Bonds Ditt. Bonds, 15255 — Ditto Account Moitean Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto Account Ditto, G per Cent Ditto Account .... Neapolitan PRICES OF SHARES THI: 255 256. Y° rttl," In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, 20i- ; guese, steady 35i ; Three per Cents., 213 ( `224- ; gian, 1011 102; Brazilian, 791 80; Colombia n ,' " r ts., Mexican, 233- 24; Dutch Two-and-Half per Li e. ' 65i ; Five per Cents., 1031 HALF-PAST 0 ,h Of A Montreal Paper rece:ved this morning to the 2 0 0 se, February, at the North and • South American Coffecliot ° gives the following statement of merchandize imp orte 0 0 10 Montreal in the year ending the sth of Jan., 183 9, , 1 38: pared with those of the year ending the sth of Jan., l'oy, 1839.—Value of merchandize paying 2i cent. Car re o ot 738,0231. 4s. 2d. Value of free goods sterling, 4° ' - Is. 1838.—Value of merchandize paying 24- cent. Cu ll '4 l ' 958,662/. 16s. 11d. Value o f f ree goods - sterling, 6219. 183. 3d. tut regiment We hear reports of r i ot i ng at M anc h es t e r, and n t IE4 gone there this morning. [There is 11 " in the report.—En 1 Mr. Chalmers, M.P. f or M ontrose , was Pr o s ev " - by;illness from voting in the division on Mr. Va l° _ 42s tion on the Corn laws re,o • The NEW F LAT GOLD WA- r- • are offered in double-bottomed engine-turned c';',e5h1,,,,•,111,"; vertical movements, f o r S even G u i neas each, or , - a ' finished h or i zon t a l movements, jewelled and sv arran c ro ,ling Nine Guineas e a c h ; a t T. COX SAVOR YCOS;nbill, Loin Goldsmith, Sil versm ith, and Watchmaker, l o , don (S even D oors f rom ' Graccchurch-street). N.B.—The horizontal construction is rec°lnw—ende fo: its superior accuracy. somorrNputa4-.. _ MARRIED. 3' On the 18th inst., at St. George's, BloomsburY, 6072'1 Smith, Esq., of High-street, Hampstead, to Soyhl, a ' o or daughter of the late Mr. Lewis Lorant, of New J" stead. Ala, Londov Printed anal Ptilol'•'-1 bv 1111/17,0 No. 112, Strat , il aL he Ottce, 112 4 " 14 " 1 " the county of Miticl The.., M ar sh 19, 439