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The Public is respectfully informed, that the PRESENT MANAGEMENT WILL TERMINATE WITH THIS SEASON ; The following Programme is therefore given. •f its final ar rangements : The Standard Plays, as brought out at this Theatre, will each be performed once more, viz. : MACBETH, OTHELLO, HAMLET, CORIOLANUS, lON, THE TWO FOSCARI, WERNER, and VIRGINIUS. THIS EVENING, APRIL 22, Will be performed the Tragedy of MACBETH. Macbeth, Mr. Macready ; Macduff, Mr. Phelps ; Banque, Mr. ' Warde ; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. Warner. After which (second time) a Dramatic Romance, called AGNES BERNAUER, THE MAID OF AUGSBURG. To-Morrow, Othello, with Inkle and Yarico. 0 4 •• Ar?,l-* , 1!:" c = " : -4 - % 5 • 1,1 4 r 1 .. .4te;fr - . 3 > - • 'Y . ' , Z'he Zun. LONDON: MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1839. The Rodenires seem bitterly disappointed by the division, and chagrined by the debate. For four years have they laboured with a perseverance worthy of a better cause to blacken the Government of Ireland. We scarcely know a fault or a crime, short of absolutely putting the Protestants to death, of which they have not accused it. On this point, and this point only, the Times and the Standard, the Post and Herald, with all the weekly prints of the party, published in town and country, have been united, and have been unscrupulous in accusing the Irish Government, or in repeating the accusations of the unscrupulons Irish Orange press. It has been said, over and over again, that the Irish Government had gold itself to I.llr. O'CONNELL, and at his bidding was trampling all the Protestants under foot. It has been accused of partiality—of exciting the populace . aga i nst the landlords—of kindling agitation aqpinst the Irish Church—of perverting the constabu• Lary to party purposes —of turning the administration of justice from its course—of neglecting to enforce the law against criminals, and using it to oppress the poor Pro testant pastors—of suffering the country to be over run by bands of assassins, bound together by a secret oath, and of even appointing Ribbonmen and traitors to office—in short, for four years it has been unceasingly calumniated. The division of Saturday morning proves that the Rodeilite journals have not succeeded in poisoning the public mind of England to the extent they wished and expected, and their disappointment is proportionate to the unjust zeal with which they have laboured. The vote of the House of Commons is a proof that the daily diatribes of these journals are justly valued. They are not believed._ The debate, we think, gave them a complete contra , diction. If the charges they have made, over and over again, were true, why were they not brought forward and substantiated in Parliament ? Why even that great gobemoitche Lord RODEN himself, did not dare to propound one half of the calumnies put forth by Lis journals. They were still more sparingly used in the House of Commons, and the great leader of the party, even Lord RODEN'S cad, never ventured to countenance them by an allusion, or an expression of belief. The debate, by the eloquent silence of Sir Ro- BEIIT PEEL, Lord STANLEY, and Sir JAMES GRAHAM, as to the atrocious acts committed by the Irish Govern ment, has at once put an end to the calumnies of ou r Contemporaries. We are glad to purchase a release from them at the expense of the five nights' wearying debate, which certainly effected no other good at all comparable to that of giving a total and flat contradic tion to the accusations of four years. The Rodenite journals cannot be so shameless as to return to these charges ; they must invent something new against Lord EnarNo'roN, and the public will now be happily deli vered for ever from the repetition of the absurd accu sations. I t Wag asked (luring the debate what the Whigs Would do after they had got their vote ? They will rest contented with it so far as it goes. But what will the Rodenites do ? Will they carry on their inquiries with a partial Committee, the author of which named the Aaranis of NORMANtY on: it, and asked him to sit in jud'grnent on himself! The Noble Lord also named thqsMar quis o£ .NoamA.Nev's colleagues on it. HP took 'Ore, however, to have a majority of his own par t ) , oa tbd Committee, and must have intended, we presume, to have subjected th e N o bl e Marquis and his ~ 5i _ colleagues to a little torture every day. They were too prudent to be caught in such a snare, and they have left Lord RODEN to work out his accusation after his own fashion. The Committee, consisting of a great ma jority of Rodenites, will, of course,make a suitable report, which nobody will place the least confidence in ; and then what will the Rodenites do? They cannot impeach Lord NORMANBY : if they address the Crown to remove him from her Majesty's service, a counter address of the House of Commons will stifle the Rodenite device, and they will gain nothing beyond the appointment of a Corn ' m:ttee, the Report of which can carry no weight with it whatever. The Whigs have gained the sanction of the House of Commons, and may laugh at the Report of Lord RODEN'S Committee. They have gained, too, the approba tion of Sir R. PEEL. He praised Lord NORMANBY'S distribution of Church patronage, and he declared that religious opinions were not to be made a criterion for appointing to office. This is really what Lord Nort- MANBY has done, and this is exactly what the Rodenites have most severely condemned him for doing—it is the very reverse of what they would do were they in office ; so that Sir ROBERT PEEL in professing impartiality on the subject of religious opinions, both sanctioned the Whig principles of Government for Ireland, and opposed the doctrines of his new master. With such evidence of divisions amongst the Rodenites, backed by a one-sided Committee of the House of Lords, while the Whigs have Sir ROBERT PEEL'S approbation of their policy and a vote of the House of Commons in their favour, the question the publicask is, ' What will the Rodenites do ? We must leave them to answer that. The Whigs have gained their object. We beg in conclusion to say a word to those Radicals who did not support the Ministers by their votes. Mr. FIELDEN is probably the chief constituency of Oldham, and if be pleased himself by his vote his constituents will be satisfied. Mr. BENETT also, it ill likely, satisfied his constituents, who are much under the in fluence of the parsons by his absence. But the consti tuents of Mr. S. JERVIS, Mr. WAKLEY, and Sir Was. MOLESWORTII, will certainly not approve of their not voting. Their votes belong to their constituents, and are not to be given to gratify their own crotchets or caprice. If they think with Lord RODEN that Minis ters have not governed Ireland as they ought, it was their duty to have voted against them. Neutrality in such a contest is wholly unpardonable. There are few or no neutrals among their constituents, and one way or the other they were bound to vote. The substantial interests of the empire are not to be sacrificed to per sonal dislike or doctrinal niceties, and we trust that the electors of Finsbury, Leeds, and Bridport, will require Mr. WAKLEY, Sir W. MOLESWORTH, and Mr. S. JERVIS, to explain why they stood neuter when the fate of the Administration and the empire was in the balance, and ought have been decided by their votes. Mr. DUNCOMBK, Mr. LEADER, Mr. GROTE, and other Members of the party, expressed their disapprobation of the conduct of Ministers on some points. but voted in their favour ; Mr. WAKLEY, Sir W. MoLEswoRTH, and Mr. JERVIS, were silent and absent. Such conduct, in such an exigency, is, we believe, unprecedented, and dis franchising these boroughs will not, we presume, be tole rated by the constituencies. Some attention has been excited by the assertion that Viscount LORTON was engaged in a design to get rid of his Catholic tenantry, and his friends have been extremely anxious to vindicate him from what they call a gross calumny. We have, however, now lying before us the " Statement of the Views and Objects of the Irish Protestant Tenantry Society," of which the first patron is Viscount LORTON, the second the Earl of DUNRAVEN, and the third the Earl of ENNISKILLEN. One of the objects of this Society is to retain the pre sent Protestant population, and to introduce a Pro testant tenantry " into large districts which were not long since peopled with those gallant and faithful men," but which " have been weeded of them to such an extent that not a single Protestant is now to be found in them." The Society supplicates sub scriptions under the auspices of Viscount LORTON, to supply a Protestant tenantry, to Ireland, and get rid of those who attend the Popish Mass-house ; and yet, it is said, that his Lordship is calumniated, when he is accused of such a design. " From those districts," says the Society, '° all rational hope of the revival, either of true religion or civilization, through any other means than the replacing a Protestant tenantry, is utterly banished." Under Viscount LORTON'S patronage then, a Society is established to extirpate the Catholic and establish a Protestant tenantry in Ireland. Such an avowed crusade will hardly recommend to the Irish Catholics the Government of Viscount LORTON'S friends. The Society, by its complaints, admits that the en dowed Church of Ireland, with all its immense legal advantages, has completely failed to make Protestants of the people. To maintain the supremacy, however, of this useless Establishment, the Government is to be changed, and the Irish justified in revolting, if they please. The attempt seems already to have excited a' somewhat diabolical spirit of persecution in the land. The Reverend Gentlemen and Lay Elders who consti tute the Synod of Glasgow and Avr, at a meeting of that body on Tuesday week, passed resolutions by a large majority to petition for the re-enactment of the penal laws against the Catholics. Of their flushed and persecuting hopes Sir ROBERT PEEL assumes to be the organ, as he is the head of their party. In truth he is closely allied with all the bigots of the country ; he stands pledged to promote most of their objects, and he would have to undo his own Emancipation Act, or be come unto them a veiny JUDAS. Reenactment of the Catholic penal lows, and the extirpation of the Catholic peasantry, replacing them by a Pro testant tenantry, are some of the objects which Sir Roamer PEEL'S friends contemplate, and which he, in office, would have to countenance. When such projects are nourished by his supporters, who are as violent and as erroneous in one extreme as the Chartists are in the c.ther, to place him in office would be not much wiser than to make Mr. ATTWOOD or Mr. FROST Prime Minister. In fact, they are both more opposed, we believe, to the physical force men than Sir ROBERT is to Lord LORTON'S extirpating Society, and to the Re verend crew of Scotch would-be persecutors. We must add that Mr. O'CONNELL alluded to the Protestant Tenantry Society in his speech on Friday, and our notice would have been more complete. had we had, previously to writing it, the benefit of his remark& The article wri4, however, in type before be spoke, but was kept out of the paper by the length of the Debate. The hopes so confidently entertained by the Court party in France, in the early part of last week, of being able to command a working majority in the Chamber of Deputies, have since been eutirely blighted. On Thursday and Friday, the Secretaries and Qua3stors were ballotted for, when of the four Secretaries elected, three, namely, MM. HAVIN, DUBOIS, and LEON DE MALLERVILLE, belong to the Coalition. M. BIGNON, a moderate Ministerialist, was alone returned by the Cot rt party. On Friday the Chamber was declared to be regularly constituted, when M. PASSY, the new Pre sident, addressed his colleagues as follo•.vs " In calling me to the high honour of presiding over this Ch amber, you have given me a testimony of your kindness, tie value of which I am fully sensible of, and my first great wish is to express to you how deeply I am affected by it. Perhaps, Gentlemen, the duties which will be imposed upon me by present circumstances may not allow aye to exercise for any length of time the functions with which you have invested me.—(Great sensation.) They have been recently performed with a talent and brilliancy which only increase their difficulty. Permit me to rely upon your support, and the desire we all have of seeing that order, calmness, and dignity reign over our discussions which will facilitate their progress, and will insure the decisive in fluence which it is so necessary they should preserve over the opinions of the people. Gentlemen, the session has opened under the weight of embarrassments which are not yet at an end. Let us hope that those will shortly be settled. The wisdom of the Chamber may remove many obstacles. The country relics upon it. Its guarantee is our attachment to the noble institutions by which we are governed, and our lively sense of the obligations we en tered into when we accepted the charge which has caused us to assemble in this place." There being no business before the Chamber, se veral Members rose, and seemed about to leave it, when M. MAUGUIN, one of the most formidable oppo nents of the ad interim Cabinet, ascended the tribune. We give the substance of his speech, and tile proceed ings in the Chamber consequent upon its delivery, as we find them reported in the Constitutionnel of Sa turday : M. Manguin amended the Tribune, and said—Gentle men, the country awaited with impatience the moment of your tieing constituted. The spectacle which the higher regions of po wer h ave f or too l ong a t i me presen t e d dis quiets, and at the same time afflicts the country ; its in terests are suffering, bu s i r , ess i s at a stan d, an d the com mercial crisis is justly attributed to a `political crisis, pro longed from day to day. It is necessary to quit a situa tion which cannot longer endure without exciting discon tent. It is above all things necessary to know the posi tion in which we stand. If we may credit the Ordinances of the Ist of April, we have a serious Mi n i stry b e f ore us ; but if we are to attach belief to the official journal of the THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 22. IRI9. slme day, we have before us only a temporary one. It is necessary that Ministers should declare which they are. Although we have no right to interrogate our Colleagues, I think such of them whose names have figured in the se veral combinations which have been proposed are bound to inform us what were the causes to which the sterility of their efforts are to be attributed. I shall not name to the Chamber the day on which it will be desirable that such explanations should be given ; let it be to-morrow or Mon day—the earlier the better. Several voices—Why not to-morrow ? No, no, Monday. M. Mauguin.—l will add one remark, which concerns the actual administration. Only yesterday there appeared in the public prints, in reference to the affair of the English packet Express, a correspondence represented as having been signed by our Ambassador. I cannot belied it to be so, but it is so represented. I demand from the present Ministers, who are at least responsible for what they do whilst in the exercise of power, to lay on the bureau all do cuments relative to that negotiation. I shall afterwards beg the Chamber to listen to the explanations with regard to it. Several voices—On Monday. M. Mauguin assented. Baron Tupinicr (Minister of Marine)—l have no objec tion to offer to the proposition just made to you by M. Mauguin, of fixing a day for the interpellations tube ad dressed either to the Ministers or to some Members of this Chamber. The present Ministry, as you all know, is charged with the Admistration of the country. All our wishes are fur the moment when a new Cabinet shall be formed ; but if it is not constituted on Monday the present Ministry will furnish the explanations demanded. As to the documents of which the Hon. Member, M. Mauguin, has also spoken, relative to the pilot taken from the Ex press, I request that the Chamber will postpone until Monday any explanation on the subject.—( Cries of " To Monday, to Monday," from all parts of the Chamber.) The President then declared the sitting to be adjourned till Monday. _ _ From an observation in the speech of M. PASSY, and a remark made by Baron TUPINIER, it is clear that the KING was hourly in expectation of enterin g into new Ministerial arrangements. It was re p or t e d on the Bourse on Saturday that the KING had either sent for, or was about to send for M. TRIERS, and to give him ample powers to form a Ministry. As Marshal SOULT was to leave Paris yesterday for his seat in the country, where he purposes to remain for some time, it is proba ble that he has at last given up all idea of success, as the chief of a Cabinet, and that he quits the capital that his presence may not interrupt other negotiations. The following list was handed about as including the names of the Members of a Cabinet, of which TIMERS would be Foreign Minister and President of the Council : M. Dupin, Minister of Justice; M. Dufaurc, of the In. tenor ; M. Passy, of Finance; Marshal Maison, of War Admiral Duperre, of Marine; M. Vivien, of Public In. struction; and M. Sauzet, of Commerce. _ . The prohibition of the exportation of corn and flour from France is to cease on the Ist of May next. The Journal de Paris has a letter from Petersburgh, contradicting the reported disgrace of Count NESSEL RODE. His Excellency continues at the head of the Foreign Department. - . CONSTANTINE.-All the camps in the province of Bona, in changing their inhabitants have changed their appear ance in the hands of the 20th Regiment of the Line ; they now have paved streets, plantations, and gardens. At the camp of Toumoniots, Captain Montanbrun, of the battalion of Africa, has made a convention with the Kabyles in the vicinity ; according to which they are re ciprocally to protect each other against the robbers and the assassins who infest that country. In consequence of this agreement robberies and assassinations have entirely ceased, and the market outside of the camp is always well sup plied. The Kabyles affirm that Zephyrs (the name by which the Chasseurs on foot of Africa call themselves), are French subjects, that they are brothers, and ought not to hurt one another. At Staender and Philippeville horses have been stolen even in the very camps. General Galbois sent the Kalifs Ben Oussa to the spot. A sheik, who was suspected of being the chief of the robbers, has been arrested, and hopes are entertained that all the criminals will be discovered. General Galbois will shortly go to visit the camps between this and Stora, and punish the guilty tribe if there should be occasion. The sentence passed by the Katilas on seven Arabs, who have been condemned to death and executed, has pro duced a great effect on the native population. Since that time there has not been a single assassination. The open ing of a Roman Catholic church and the public celebration of divine worship, have also had a good effect on the natives, who looked on us as dogs, thinking that we had no God. Every Sunday we go to mass, though we arc not obliged to do so. There is always a numerous congregation ; the Mahoinetans likewise attend. Lately the Muftis and Sheiks were present, and in the evening at the General's they complimented our worthy priest on the ceremonies performed ; they had much conversation together and seemed to be very well acquainted with the Old Testament. CHRISTINA does OUT conscientious Coll6Co.por_.,) 0 Shoe-lane. The Augsburg Gazette of the sth instant ex presses itself in the following terms relative to the position of the British Government in the East :- 4 ' India is so nearly menaced on the side of Persia that it has become impossible to take the long route by the Cape of Good Hope for the trans port of troops. They must now be sent by the way of Egypt, but there is now nodoubt that MEHEMET ALI will never lend himself to permitting a passage by this short route ; and in this respect he is an obstacle which the English have the greatest interest to remove. This explains the taking of Aden; and it may also be seen that from that moment MEriEmET ALt has assumed a more imposing attitude." This lets out a secret on the part of our Augsburg Conremporary (which, by the bye, is no secret at all), that MEHEMET ALI is jealous of our influence in the East, and especially of the rapid progress of our steam navigation in the Indian seas. The PACHA is aware that the East India Company's navy at Bombay is about to be converted into a steam flotilla, and that the shores of Egypt, in the event of his attempting to stop our communication by way of the Red Sea, could, in the short space of about twenty days, be visited by a force from Bombay, sufficient, at least, to convince him that the march of improvement must not be stopped so readily, by one inferior to us in power and civilization. The taking of Aden has been a wise stroke of policy on the part of our Indian Government ; and although it was originally intended as a coal depot for the steamers which ply between India and the Red Sea, the fortress, in our hand, bids fair, in a political and military point of view, to become a second Gibraltar, to which place it bears, both in its natural strength and locality, a striking resemblance. That the Pacha of EGYPT was inimical to our oc cupation of Aden is apparent, from a report which has reached us, that previously to the arrival of the Agent from Bombay, to take possession of the place, aereeably to the terms of its cession, the Pacha had sent a body of troops to reinforce its slender garrison ; and had held out certain prospects to the son of the old Sheikh, sufficient to force us to storm the fortress, the success of which is already known to our readers. In another part of our paper will be found a short and succinct account of this very important acquisition to our power in the East. A rumour was current at Calcutta, when the last despatch left, that a Proclamation of War against Burmah bad passed the Council. The promulgation of it officially, was daily expected. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY. TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK. Arrivals this morning—Two French, Two Ostend, and a Dutch mail, with a number of ship letters of old dates, with the exception of one from the Cape of Good Hope. The Cape of Good Hope papers received to the 24th of February are destitute of information, with the excep. tion that the measles were prevalent and spreading with great rapidity in Cape Town and its neighbourhood, and will, probably, extend over the whole colony. ( From the Cape Papers.) On the 22d February the Trafalgar, R. E. Bagster, from Liverpool, sailed the 20th Nov., to Sydney; cargo sundries, passengers 9 in the cabin, and 28 in the steerage; in entering Table Bay last night, about half-past ten o'clock, got becalmed near the Anchor Bay, and drifted towards the shore, after missing stays, she let go her anchor, but from the strength of the current, and the swell, dragged her anchor, and went ashore. Crew and all passengers saved. One woman was killed by a mast falling upon her. The Frontier post came in late on Thursday evening, in consequence of being drawn by bullocks. The sick ness among the horses, it may be inferred, has been most fatal. (Penang papers received to the 25th November.) Imports from Europe :_Cotton Manufactures—The Chinese, from Singapore, have imported largely since our last of long cloths and Madapottams, and have, in fact, of late completely flooded our market with most of the suit able descriptions of cotton goods, which they have, as usual, sold at very low cash prices—in many cases under prime cost. Exchanges on London—Navy and Treasury Bills three and-thirty days, at 4s. 3d. per dollar; Private Bills, with local indorsations six months, 4s. 6d. ; Calcutta Govern ment bills at 30 days, 215 R. per 100 dollars. We have received the Antwerp papers of yesterday's date. Since the signing of the Treary of the 24 Articles, the contents of the above papers are of minor importance. The above papers contain an account of a fire which took place in Stockheim as follows :—" Yesterday the 17th of April a fire took place at a baker's house at Stock beim, and in less than one hour and a half 190 houses were a prey to the flames, and 113 families are thrown into misery. The fire was not extinguished when the accounts left." LIVERPOOI. COTTON-MARKET APRIL 20. —The Cotton. Market has been quiet to-day, sales being 1,000 bags at yesterday's prices. THE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning about the same prices as they closed at on Saturday, with very little business doing as yet, 921 i t Money, and 921- 93 for the Account. Ex chequer Bilis, 44 46 ; Bank Stock, 1961- 197. There is a great scarcity of intelligence this morning, although it is a double post-day, and it was expected that we should have heard of the arrival of the New York packet-ship of the Ist instant, for which the merchants are anxiously waiting to ascertain the state of commercial affairs in the Unitcd States, as by the last accounts they were of an unfavourable nature. Spanish Active, as they closed, 19i 20,4 ; Portuguese, 34 35i ; Belgian, 104 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 55a 3 1 ; Five per Cents., 102+ 102 A--most of he prices nominal. In the Cape of - Good Hope Papers, received this morn ing, an Ordinance is published, enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council, for applying a sums not exceeding 151,4051. 6s. Id. to the service of the year 1839. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stack 197 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cans 9•2A X 3 per Cent Ditty Red. 99 1 , X New 3 per Cent lo o3i9i New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities taexpire Jan. 5, 1860 14% 7-16 Oct. 10, 1859 Jan. 5, 1860. Jan. 5, 1580 April 5, 1880 Jan. 5. 1870 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Pelgian Bonds DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock Ditto Bonds 45 46 pm South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1731 Exch. Bills, £l,OOO ... 44 46 pm. Ditto 500 ... 44 46 201. Ditto Small ............... 44 46 pin. Ditto Commercial pm. Ditto Advertised Bank Stock for Account ... India Stock for Account ... Consols for Account ...9270 3 THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account 1 Portuguese Bonds Ditto New Bonds SPORTING IN TELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING—FRIDAY BETTING IN THE EVENING. DEILBY. 3 to 1 agst Cwsar and Dragoman (taken) 7 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Caesar (taken) 7 to 1 agst Mr. G. Clark's Dragoman 8 to 1 agst Lord Lichfield's The Corsair (taken) 9 to I agst Col. Peel's The Dey of Algiers 10 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Euclid (take 12 to 1) 25 to 1 agst D. of Grafton's colt (taken) LATEST BETTING AT MANCHErSTBIL CHESTER TRADES' CUP. 6 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Harkaway—taken 6 to 1 agst Mr. Copeland's King Cole—takata 6 to 1 agst Captain Berkeley's Caravan—taken 10 to 1 agst Lcrd Normanby s Gipsey_offered 11 to 1 agst Captain Healey's Van Buren—taken 15 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Cardinal Puff— taken 16 to 1 agst Sir T. Stanley's Cowlaoy—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam s Modesty 20 to 1 agst Mr. Griffith's Lugwardine—taken 25 to I agst Lord Westminster's Sir Ralph—taken 7 to I agst Mr. G. Clarke's Dragoman 7 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Caesar 9 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Dey of Algiers 10 to 1 agst Lord Lichfield's The Corsair 16 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Ilderim 28 to I agst Mr. Thornhill's Euclid 33 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's iEthe • 33 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Erin-go-13ragh 33 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Accelerator •AYS. 10 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wapiti (taken) PRICE OF SUGAR. BOURSE,-PARIS } SATURDAY, APRIL 20. HALF-PAST Tinge—The French Stocks have a little recovered from the depression of yesterday. For the Account the Three per Cents. opened at inf. 20c , ftll totit: 15c., rose 81f. 25c., at which they closed, a rise of 15c. The Five per Cents. from 110 f. 20e., rose to 110 f. 30c., and closed at 110 f. 25c., being rise of sc. For Mo ney the Three and Five per Cents. are 20c. better. The Bank of France Shares are sf. higher. The Laffitte Bank of I,ooof. Shares are 10f., and those of 5,000 f. are '2of. higher. The Belgian Five and Three per Cents. are unaltered. The Belgian Bank Shares are 10f. higher. The Spanish Active has oscillated from 20f to .20k. and closed at '2oa as yesterday. The Railway Shares have continued to advance; the St. Germain are sf. ; the Versailles Right Bank 10E, the Versailles Left Bank, 20f., and the Havre 2f. 50c. The Orleans unaltered. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents 3 per Cents sl 15 ... 81 15 ... 81 5 ... 81 5 Bank of trance Laffitte Bank 1,0001: Si.— 1060 ...IWO —.1060 ...ICAO 5,000 f. :•1/ 530 —.5245 —.5231 :52.15 Belgian 5 per Cents lOl% ... 101% ... 101% ... iOl% 3 p,r Cents 72 40 ... 72 40 ... 72 33 ... 72 33 Bank 735 ... 740 ... 735 ... 737 s'l S, aniah Active t'.o% ... 20% ... 20% ... 20% Pai;sive 4% ... 4% ... 4% ... 4% New thie rei Neapolitan Roman RAILWAY SII A ItE. St. Germal, Versailles, B. B 723 ... 725 ... 715 7i7 50 L.8.3 . .?0 ... 320 ... 300 :',07 50 Charleroi .. . 433 ... 435 ... 455 ... 455 Havre Orleans . Strasburg to &le 337 50 ... 310 ... 337 50 .. . 340 Mulliausen to Thann .... ASPLIA LTES AND hl*l U3l ENS. Galvaniz, d Iron The horrible system of reprisals having ceased in Spain, the two parties amuse themselves in marching backwards and forwards, without making the slightest attempt by any decisive steps to bring the contest to an issue. They seem anxious indeed to convince the world that the Spaniards of the present day can fight only as assassins or executioners. EsrawrEtto, some twelve month's ago, marched from one part of the country to another, acting as executioner general on his own troops. Then Carlists and Christinos butchered their de fenceless prisoners in cold blood. MAROTO next followed the example of ESPARTERO, and put to death some of the most faithful supporters of DON CARLOS, and, having performed these achievements, they remain in utter inactivity. VAN H ALEN, the aid-de-camp, of ESPARTERO, it is true, has just made a pretence of at tacking the enemy, but in such a pusillanimous and im becile manner, that the Commander-in-Chief has cashiered him, and put the main army in motion. to save his own character. It is needless to say that this, like all his other movements, will end where it began, and further, that till the leading powers of Europe interfere, there can be no peace or security for Spain. It appears from the French papers that Lord PALmunsToN is pressing this on Austria and Prussia—that the former power is favourable, and that in all probability the other will accede ; but that the great obstacle is the leaning of Louis PHILIPPE to the monster DON CARLOS. " Prance," says the Courrier Francais, " has not supported these steps, and the - Northern Powers therefore cannot fail to conclude that she will not be displeased to witness the triumph of DON CARLOS." "We will not take upon ourselves," this Journal adds, "to explain the truly absurd policy of France with regard to Spain. Here is an occasion to assist that country without risking the life of a single men", or the loss of a five franc piece, yet the French Government refuses its aid." Thanks, however, 'to TIIIERS and his party, this system cannot long continue. The late elections, and the present ominous appearance of the Chamber of Deputies, speak in terms that Louis Pm- LIPPE cannot fail to understand. He leans to DoN CArtLos with the blind obstinacy of an old Bourbon dynasty, and prefers the alliance of the Emperor of Russia, who would have crushed the revolution of 18:30, to that of the people of England, who hailed it with unanimous consent—two very intelligible reasons for deciding the choice of the French nation. Madrid Papers to the 13th instant inclusive, with letters from Bayonne of the 16th, have been received. They announce the disgraceful ilight of General VAN lIALEN from before Segura, occupied by CARRERA, and that such was the indignation of the common soldiery that they openly revolted and deposed their General. This is in part confirmed by the publication of a des- I patch from VAN HALEN to the Minister of War. On the 7th the Madrid mail was stopped by a band of mounted Carlists near Baylen, and the escort, consisting of six individuals, mercilessly murdered. In La Mancha the Carlist butcher. PALILLOS has refused quarter to every Christino falling into his hands. All that are taken are instantly shot. The Madrid Government have succeeded in making a new contract for the supply of the army of the North for three months. DON CARLOS has established a new Government Junta, of which Father CYRIL is to be Vice-President. On all sides great preparations are making for an active campaign. Our Tory Contemporary the Herald observes that, notwithstanding the poverty of the Royal Treasury in Spain, the Queen-Regent has contrived that her in come of 400,0001. from the State shall not remain in arrear. The Herald need not be reminded that Royal personages, whether in England or Spain, sel dom think in exacting their allowances, of the poverty and sufferings of those whose industry is taxed to support them in unmerited afflu ence. Why thousands of the poor of England arc left to starve in the streets, while the pittances wrung from them ate devoted, by ostentatious selfishness, to the building of churches in Malta, and cruising about the Mediterranean, might puzzle a reflecting Spaniard almost as much as the extravagance of Queen liitto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account 3a4 Ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Prussian Bonds Russian Bonds, 1821 — Ditto Account ..........."•• Ditto Metallic Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1634 Ditto Account. French, 5 per cent. ----,-- 4 per cent —f. —c. ----- 3 per cent —f. —c. ---- Exchange. —l. _c, Dutch, 2% per cent. 55N,% Ditto Account • ••• Ditto, 5 per cent 1,2304 Ditto A0c0unt....".. ...... DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. British Iron Company .. ....... .. 50 United Mexican (issued at rl. pm.) .......... ... ..... 4 0 10 Ditto New Scrip 1%41 5 *astern Counties Railway ...... .... Great Western Railway Company Brighton Railway 17 London and Illackwall Railway .... ....... it crielon and Greenwich 'Railway Company Di 9% 10 London and Croydon Railway Company w. Ba. 161,4 1 ii 4 Ditto New Scrip National Provincial Back of England 35 375 7 4, National Bank of Ire] Jul .. Isf% 16”4 Van Dimming Land Agricultural Company.... 17 6X, PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 20. I per Cent. Censols ..,...... l :Pi I Grand Canal Delos. 6 per cent. 3/ per Cent. Stock )itto Reduced Ditto New, 1530 - 35, Per Cent. Debentured... 924 I National Insurance Company Bank Stock 1934 City Debentures, 4 per cent. Grand Canal Stock ..... Royal Canal Stock IIALF-PAST 0111 E. Ditto ACcount Chilian Bondi' D tto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1824 Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, Itt2s Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per Cent Ditto Account Neapolitan lO3 PRICES OF SHARES Tlll -Very little business has been doing in the course of the 'morning in the British Punds, and Consols may be quoted the same as in the early part of the day, 92i 93 for the Account, and Money 92i ; Exchequer Bills 44 46 ; India Bonds lower 48 46 ; Bank Stock 197 ; India Stock 1n 255. th e Foreign Market, the prices are much the same as in the morning, Spanish Active, 20q ; Portuguese, mi. for Account ; Spanish Deferred, 9 1 1 ; Dutch Two•and-a- Half per Cents., 55a 551 Five per Cents., 1021 shade lower. We are very dull in the City, both in commercial affairs and in want of intelligence to the present time. DUTCH FUNDS.--AMSTERDAM, APRIL IS Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Amon Syndic, 4% per cent 9451 9514 Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. 79% 814 Commercial Company, 4 1 4 per cent 130% 181 Ditto (1A32 and 18.33) 5 per cent. Ditto 1537, 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 98% 99 Exchange on London, One month l2 0 Two months ...... 11 92% BELGIAN UND5....11111998L11, APRIL 19 Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. . .................... 53U Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent... ...... . ......... 1r 0% Loan of Thirty Atillions, 4 per Cent. ......... 9114 3 per Cent......... 71N Loan of City, isn. 4 per Cent ................... 4% Society of Commerce, 4 %per Cent ........ 12 14, Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ............. ...... 71% National Society . .................................... 100 —Brussels Papers, April 19. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.--Vfasnes, Aran. 12 Five por Cents. Metalliques ................ ......... USX Four per Cents. ........................ 101 34 ..................... Three per Cents .................... ........................ 81 % Bank Shares 1499 — 4ll gemeineZeitung, April 17. Mr. Notter, of the box-office, Covent-garden, takes his benefit to-morrow, when, will be performed, Othello, enough of itself to attract a full house; but M r . Notter has lib era ll y p rov ided a great variety of entertain ments ; and we have no doubt, from his acknowledged urbanity and general attention, that the friends of the drama will feel much pleasure in rewarding his deserts. Mr. Rutherford, the Solicitor-General, will suc ceed the Right lion. J. Murray as Lord Advocate, and also as Member for Leith ; the Liberal constitu ency of which is very zealous in taking the requisite mea sures for his return. We are happy to be enabled to state that the Duke of Richmond is recovering from his late severe ill. nets. Th e cause was t h e mov i n g of the musket ball by which his Grace was wounded at the battle of Orthez, and which, it never having been extracted, has been a con. meat source of pain and uneasiness. —Brighton Herald. EFFECT OF MONOPOLY. Table allowing the ex-duty price of West India-Sugar in Mine. ing-lane, and comparing the lame against that of foreign sugars : London, April 20, 1839. Per owt. The Gazette of Friday night quotes the average price of British Plantation Muscovado Sugar, exclusive of duty, at 30& 41d. The reports, made under the head of Markets in the daily News papers, of the quantity of West India Sugar sold by the importers are generally erroneous, and calculated to deceive the huyers, by leading them to believe that many more hhds. have been sold than is really the case : thus we find grave assertions made that in the week ending the 16th inst. 750 hhds. were sold, whereas in truth the importers disposed of only 444 hhds. and 41 tierces in that week, and upon this number the average price stated above is cemputed. The refiners wo king foreign, chiefly freelabour Sugars, are enabled to vend their produce for exportation, as follows : Refined equal in quality to double, 365. per cwt. ; fine pieces, 2113. per cwt. ; Bas. tards, 18r. per cwt. ; if we add the amount of British duty, viz., 245. to each of these, we have 605., 525., and 425., as the prices at which the nation would be supplied with these kinds of Sugar, if the West India monopoly did not prohibit the use of them; sugars, similar in quality to those described above, manufactured from West India Muscavado, are sold in London, the same market, at 785., 665., and 58s. the cwt.; the difference between these two sorts of prices is the exact amount per cwt. of what the law protecting West India Sugar plunders the home consumers for the benefit of the Colonists ; it le therefore clear, that in the amount of money paid by the nation at large for Sugar, the Chancellor of the Exchequer might as well have a duty of 40s. per cwt. as 245., provided we had access to the good and cheap Sugar; that is to say, that whether we pay a tax of 40s. per cwt., or a tax of 245. and 16s. in addition to them to somebody else is quite immaterial as far as concerns the money payments, but the result of this division of the 40s. is by no manner of means immaterial, for if the 16s. were applied to the exigencies of the country, many taxes which now oppress industry might and would be abolished. Besides the 161. per cwt. paid to the West Indian for his sugar, over and above the price for which the same thing may be bought in the same house in London, there is the extravagant cost of maintaining the system in its pernicious origin. We could point out a dozen absurdities, but our space limits us to one, from which the character of the remainder may be safely in ferred. The British refiner who elects to work foreign sugar, gives security to the Customs for the amount of the prohibitory duty im posed upon the sugar delivered to him for refining purposes. If at the expiration of a given period named in his bond the refiner does not return to the Customs the weight of sugar previously delivered to him, the condition of the bond renders him liable to a heavy penalty; the revenue, therefore, could not be wronged to the extent of the frac tional part of a farthing, but, on the contrary, would derive benefit to the extent of the penalty should the refiner distribute some of the Foreign Sugar to the home consumer. But the law, not satisfied with ample security, ridiculously insists that Customs' Of f icers shall be continually on the premises of the refiner to watch the pro cess. The nation is consequently put to an expense of many hundreds a year for the purpose of ensuring that the refiner does not injure himself by exchanging good and cheap foreign sugar for dear and bad—British plantation ; the latter being the only sugar to which he can by possibility have access. In other words, a group of Customs' officers is appointed and paid to ascertain that the refiner does not buy inferior sugar at 395. 4IA d. per cwt., in stead of superior at 245. per cwt. If this disbursement is not an ab surd waste of public money, it is difficult to say what is. The westerly wind has brought in several West Indiamen hea vily laden ; it is said that the five or six ships arrived from Jamaica haye last year's sugar on board. If that be the truth, then we have these cargoes in addition to the present year's crop, which, as we have before stated, will from this island be two months later in ar. riving than usual—a delay attributable more to the bickering, be. tween master and man upon the subject of wages than to the season. We are therefore confirmed in our opinion by the prospect before us, that there will be a considerable reduction in the price of sugar. COFFEE.-2,000 bags of Braail Coffee, via the Cape of Good Hope and liable to 84s. duty, were offered at auction yesterday, but as the the buyers were disposed to have a share in the profits arising from this transaction, and bid accordingly, the lots were brought in—this disinclination to purchase is symptomatic of a decline in the prices of all coffees, en opinion in which the buyers are justified by the large arrivals expected by this route as well as by shipment direct from our own colonies. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The past week's arrivals of English Crain and Flour were small, of Irish Oats and Foreign Wheat good, and the trade was very dull. There was a much better supply of English Wheat to-day than for several weeks past, and few sales could be made even at a decline of 3s. to 4s. for English parcels, and 4s. to 53. per quarter for Foreign. Barley dull and rather lower. Beans Is. per quarter dearer. Oats, flailing and Grey Pease main tained their value The Flour trade extremely heavy, but last quoted prices are still demanded. rItICES ON In Wheat, Red (old) --s —s. White (old) —s. —s. ----- Red 183.E.') -- Fine 6.2 s 15i. Superfine 68s. 70s. —White (1838) f4s. Fine 66s. 70s. Superfine 725. 755. —Foreign free s“s. 78s. Ryc 40s. 425. Barley 30;. 38s. ....-- Grinding 30s. 355. Malting 4os. 445. Malt 565. fiss. Fine New., Oils. 08s. Pease, Grey, New 355. 38s. Maple New 37;. L'B; White 40s. 425. Boilers 42 ; .44 5 . ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN lA. Wheat. B 2,562ars I $, English I ris h I - Foreign ART) OF SHIP Beans, Small (new) 439. 4 is (old) - Tick (new) 33s 36. (old) 34•..403 - Harrow (new). 35:. ass (old) 425. 443 Bran k Oats, Feed New 23, 275, - Poland New ..........24...28s Potato° 28 .30s. NSW Scotch Irish 22s .. Flour Town (per sack) .... 60>.62i. -- Seconds 5.4 54i North Country 50 52 . Bran l2, 13,. )NJ)ON DURING LAST WEI K. larley. Oats. Firm, I ,531 qrs. I 2,451 qrs. 3,737: acks 18,831 I 2,8:1) 1 SAIITHFIELD. 3,27 brls. A large supply. The Beef trade was more lively than on last Monday, and prices rose 2d. per stone for the prime sorts. Mutton declined 2d. per stone. Lamb sold briskly, the finest fetching 7s. per stone. Veal 4d. lower. Pork at former prices. Beef 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. ; Veal 4s. to ss. ; Mutton 4s. 2d. to ss. 2d. ; Lamb Os. to is. ; Pork 4s. 2d. to ss. 2d Beasts 3,308 ; Sheep and Lambs, 24,500 ; Calves 96 Pigs 501. CITY FISH MARKET. The supplies good. Trade lively, and much as on Saturday, LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. DEAL, APRIL 20.—Wind E. 21.—Wind N. W. to S. S. W.—Acrived the Lord Goderich, Smith, from I3a• tavia; Caroline, Ceylon; Hayti, Rio Janeiro ; Lusitania, Gibbons, Oporto ; Bee's Wing, Smith, ditto. Arrived from the River and sailed with the rest of the outward bound, the Henry Davidson, Raymer, for Jamaica ; the Coriolanus, Maxwell, Quebec; Sir John Rae Reid, Dyson, St. Kitt's ; Aurora, Keck, Montreal ; Mellicent, Morris, Quebec; Pilot, Pearson, ditto; Ellen, Cobb, Miramichi ; Kate, Warmon, Africa ; Rhoda, Matthews, Mogadorc ; Letitia, Swalridge, Malta ; John Fleming, Rose, Madras; Lynher, Browse, Algoa Bay; Emma, Ware, Quebec ; Sebastiano, Dadero, Genoa. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 20.—Wind N.W. 21.—Wind N. N. W. to W.N.W.— Sailed the Adder, Wells, for Lis bon; Delme, Ashton, Oporto. Off port—the Camoens, Pernambuco. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 21.—Wind W.N.W.—Sailed the Kate, Cuthbertson, for Hamburgh; Jane,:Rowland, Deme rara ; City of Edinburgh, Murray, Quebec; Liverpool, Nesbitt, ditto; Mentor, Foster, ditto ; Onyx, Hogg, Bay Chaleur ; Cumberland, Williamson, Oporto; Aulaby, Wear, ditto. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 20. —Wind N. W:, fresh. 21. Wind N. W.—Arrived the Matilda, Scott, from Lima ; Patriot King, Clark, Calcutta ; Little Catherine, Wil liams, Demerara; Joseph,lOstend; Urania, Bombay; Wm. Russell, Paraiba. Sailed the Liverpool (steamer), Tay lor, for New York; Blakely, Snipe, Calcutta; Sterling, Saunders, Savannah ; Benans, Woolner, Constantinople. The Archbishop of Canterbury's public dinners at Lambeth Palace will commence on Saturday next, the 27th of April. Those who intend to honour the Archbi shop with their company on any Saturday, are requested to leave their cards at the Palace before 12 o'clock on the Friday preceding. Prayers at half-past six o'clock. Sir W. Molesworth was prevented by an acci dent from voting for Mr. Duucombe's amendment on Fri day last. WILKIE'S EARLIER PICTURES.—One of the earlier paintings of Sir David Wilkie may be seen at Mr. Bryant's,! in St. James's-street, where it is for sale for it the sum of 1,000/., being exactly as many pounds as the painter received shillings; a circumstance without prece dent, we should imagine, during the life and mental vigour of an artist. The picture of " Village Card-Players," once the property of the Duke of Gloucester, for which his Royal Highness paid 501., has been disposed of within the last mouth for 500/. to G. Bredel, Esq. The work now in the possession of Mr. Bryant is entitled " the Pinch of Snuff." A group is seated outside a cottage, at the door of which a mother is feeding her child, while her daugh ter, a blooming Phyllis, stands at her side. The " pinch of snuff" is taken by an old man, who is evdcntly unused to it, for he takes it awkwardly and ungracefully. has been supplied from the mull of a canny Scotch man—a rich and genuine specimen of the country, who sits upon a wheelbarrow, his day of labour done. There are other characters to make up the picture. It is a fine painting ; and one cannot marvel that Sir David was not long afterwards called upon to paint at prices which gave hundreds per cent. to purchasers. The hint may not be lost; elm are many who may buy works of promising artists, and find the bargain " a good investment." We could point out dozens that, within a year or two, will be worth four times their cost. It is unnecessary to allude to those who, like Bonington and Liverseege, had unhappily but a vision of the future, when they saw hundreds bidding for pictures for which little more than the prices of the canvass had been grudgingly given. —(Since this was written, " the Pinch of Snuff" has been disposed of for 800 guineas to Mrs. Rothschild, we understand, as a pre sent to her son.]— The Art- Union. CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT. Dr. Ward!aw delivered hi , fourth lecture on National Church Establishments on Saturday ; the subject being the province of the civil rule in matters of religion. A very illuscry similitude had been started, between the odic: of the civil ruler in regard to religion, and the duty of the head of a family. It was said that as it was the duty of a father to make provision not only for the maintenance and health of his children, but for their moral and religious education ; and that the duty of the civil ruler in relation to this subject was analogous ; and many domestic Utopias on a large scale had been sketched, particularly by pencils so imaginative as the Chalmerian, with all the power of a pleasing sentimen talism,—the p!cturings of a benevolent fancy, rendered more powerful in its delusions by the very s in-our of mind over which it was triumphing. There could be no correct analogy drawn between the relations of the civil ruler and of the parent :—they were essentially diffe rent : the one being natural, the other cony: ntional : the relation between the rulers and their subjects being founded on voluntary compact,—the subjects either choosing their rulers, or at least agreeing to the consti tutional principles by which those rulers succeeded to the throne.—(Cheers.) The subjects were not chil dren ; they were men and women—(Hear, hear)—upon whom there was a prior claim, before that of their rulers, for religious subjection, according to the unrestrained dictates of their own conscience. —(Cheers.) As to the analogy professed to be drawn from the Jewish Theo cracy, it was altogether visionary, for the civil ruler under that economyhad not the slightest powor to alter or esta blish the most unimportant matter in religion.—( Hear.) Dr. Chalmers must be aware of the natural aversion of the human heart to the great principles of Christianity. —(Hear, hear.) Would he c ommit the care of th e national health to persons who had never studied me dicine ?—( Hear, hear.) Was not the error as absurd, and infinitely more fatal, in religion ?—(Cheers.) Who was the first " Defender of the Faith" in our own country ? That monster of selfishness, lust, and blood, Henry VIII. Who abjured the Faith, of which he was entitled the " Defender," and yet transmitted the complimentary title to his successors ?—(Cheers.) Was that the man to whom it was right to commit the in terests of religion, merely because the faith which he adopted happened to be right?—(Hear, hear.) Little cared he, whether the religion were right or wrong. The religion which he threw off was simply the re ligion that thwarted his own lawless desires ; and to the unrelenting despot, whose interposition, so far as it could, established Protestantism in this country, Eng lishmen were as little indebted as to those who were instrumental in introducing Christianity into the world by crucifying the Lord of Glory ?—(Cheers.) By a merciless persecution he succeeded in subjecting all the consciences of his subjects to his own, which was subject to none but himself. Edward's pious, but brief reign, was quickly followed by the fiery and bloody pros cription of Mary, and that in its turn by the haughty dominion of the Virgin Queen, who, sternly, sensitively jealous of all that touched upon her prerogative, punished with cruel severity any infringement upon her ecclesias tical or civil supremacy, whether by Papist or by Puri tan.—(Cheers.) Dr. Chalmers considered the example of the Elector of Saxony the best possible instance of a change from Popery to Protestantism, and said, " the faith of the Monarch justified his part in the work, and the faith of his subjects justified their acquiescence in the change." Ought it not, then, to be inquired whether the change was for the truth or not ?—( Hear, hear.) It was not enough to say that the parties were sincere in effecting the change. Men had been sincere in burning heretics.—(Hear, hear.) It would seem from Dr. Chalmers' account of the matter that the acquiescence of the subjects would not be of any avail unless it coin cided with the opinion of the Prince.—(Hear, hear.) Nor, on the other hand, could the Prince establish the true faith, unless it agreed with the opinions of his sub jects, or, at least, of the great majority of them. But, suppose (not a very impossible case) that there was a difference between the faith of the Prince and of his subjects, there was a rather awkward dilemma—either the Prince must become a Non-conformist or a hy pocrite, or the subjects must become a nation of conscien tious rebels, or of submissive dissemblers.—(Cheers.) Again, the faith of the Monarch might change and not the faith of the subjects, or the faith of the subjects might change, and not the faith of the Monarch. In the former case where was the power of the Ruler ? In the latter case where was the liberty of the subject ? (Cheers.) There was a great distinction, let it be re collected, between that which was right and that which was right in the judgment of the Ruler.—(Hear, hear.) If it was said, " Establish the religion which you know to be right—there is but one true faith," what became of the conscience of the Ruler ?—(Hear, hear, hear.) Iu our own country the Crown might be said to bring the religion to the Monarch, rather than the religion of the Crown.—(Hear.) Our Sovereigns were born .heirs to the British Crown, and there/bee Protestants and memb ers of' the e - taablislied Church— Christians, ex o f ficio, though infidels and profligates in practice.—( Hear.) Without affixing any unjust stigma to our Legislature, it might be truly said that the pro portion of real piety which was to be found in it was very small indeed.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Dr. Chalmers spoke of Church Establishments as, " best of all, if done from the highest consideration—that of religious duty ; but next best, if done from the consideration of what is the most effectual mode of training up the suc cessive generations of a land, in the virtues of good citi zenship, and of diffusing throughout the commonwealth the blessings of moral and religious education." But let it be recollected that differences of religions belief were sometimes so minute as to be but splitting of hairs ; and it would be all very well if the rulers were to split hairs for themselves—(Hear, hear) —but they had no right to deprive their subjects of the liberty of splitting hairs too.—(Laughter.) Dr. Chalmers, indeed, said it was no difficult task to discern the distinction between Protestantism and Popery ; and " that he could not imagine a more testing evidence of the incompetence and profligacy of a Legislature, than that they should be unable to decide the question between the two reli gions." But it was not enough to discriminate between Protestantism and Popery. Protestantism was a very comprehensive word—it included every range of doc trine, from the most extravagant Calvinism to the most meagre Socinianism ; and in Church Government, there were Episcopacy, Presbyterianism, and Independency. —( Hear, hear.) And let it not be imagined that it was after all so easy to discriminate between Popery and Protestantism ; for it must not be too charitably con cluded that all statesmen were, or would be influenced by the sincere solicitude for the discovery of truth.— (Hear, hear.) Catholic despotism put every restraint upon the Press, endeavouring to prevent not only the diffusion of the Bible, but the spread of the literature of other countries, well knowing that the despot's crown was only safe on his head ; so long as he suc ceeded in keeping his subjects from the liberty of thought—(Loud cheers)—and that as soon as they assumed the privilege of thinking for themselves,lthe tyrant's prerogative was at an end.—(Loud cheers.) But why expose the true religion to the risks, and the false religions to the lures, of Church Establishments ? —(Cheers.) The dread of the prevalence of Popery was at present extreme, and improbable as it was that a system founded to such an extent in ignorance and darkness; should ever become predominant in an age of spreading inquiry and advancing light, it was in some respects not impossible, for it was a system very agreeable to human nature, as placing salvation in exter nal observances, substituted penance for penitence, and enabled men to be pious by proxy. But the voluntaries had one effectual means for arresting the progress of error—let Protestants be as earnest in maintaining the truth as their opponents are in spreading delusions.— (Cheers.) The circulation of the Bible among those who were growing up in ignorance and darkness would make them proof against error and delusion.—( Cheers.) We are told (continued the Reverend Lecturer) that we have just reason to apprehend the restoration of Popish ascendancy, and that we should tremble for the iiherti,:s of our religion. But we have one radical cure for all such trembling apprehensions. The very word "ascendancy" involves in it the possession of political power and eccle siastical supremacy and endowment, of which Popery was deprived at the Reformation, and towards which it is restlessly aspiring ; the object of that dispensation exists only so long as the system that links the Church to the State.—(Loud cheers.) Take away the prize, and the competition ceases.--(Cheers.) Do away with the secular allurements of political power, and endow ments, and patronage, and wealth, and honour, and do minion--leave Popery, in common with all other systems, to stand or fall by its own resources—annihilate the ambition of Popery, by destroying its aim—put all religious parties on a level, allowing each to work out its own principles by its own energies and resources, and away with the fears of Popish ascendancy !—( Loud and long continued cheers.) The union of Church and State has rendered the idea so habitual of Popery rising up and ultimately supplanting Protestantism as the do minant religion—for this is meant by ' ascendancy'— that it is difficult to dismiss this kind of morbid dread.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") But let there be no dominant religion, let there be a final end to all distinctions between religious parties, and where is the Protestant, who would not give such fears to the winds ?--(Cheers.) We denounce the Protestant who would not as unworthy of the name, being distrustful of his principles, and destitute of faith in their efficacy and final triumph.--(Cheers.) Let Protestantism and Popery, by all means, have a fair trial.—(Cheers.) In stead of setting the Senate of the nation to debate which of the two should have the sanction of its means of support, let all such questions be banished 'from Parlia mentary discussion—(Cheers) —and, instead of making it the struggle of one party to retain and the other to acquire ascendancy, the religious zeal and activity of each will be left to operate alone.—( Loud and long continued cheering.) Dr. Chalmers had said " Should the monstrous proposition even be entertained—n o t to tolerate, for that is as it should be—but to endow Popery ; not to abolish, but to abridge the legal funds for the support of Protestantism, for the aid of an anti scriptural faith—let us hope that there is still enough, not of fiery zeal, but of calm, resolute, and withal en lightened principle in the land to resent the outrage, EVENING EDITION% and enough of energy in the revolted sense o! this great country to meet and to ovel - bear it."---(Cheers.) " NV' join heartily," said Dr. Wardlaw, " in this denunciation but we apply the principle nearer home, and in a some what diffe re nt way."—( Loud cheers.) The estatilish meat ot . any religion by State endowment was injurious to ftith—(Hear, hear;—anti it asked what was the Province of the civil ruler in matters of religion, the re ply should be that the civil ruler had no province at all —(Checrs.)--,that, in the language of the Scriptures , 6, render unto eveLar the things that arc Cuasar's, and unto God the things that are God's."—(Loud cheering.) METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Morning Herald of this day, speaking of Frid a Y night's division, and the Mini s t er i a l ma j or ity in the House of Commons, says —" The time was when the Whigs' if they wanted a resolution of the Commons to overawe the House of Lords, hat only to put forward the accommodat ing Lord Ebrington with some high-sounding and menac ing proposition aimed at the independence of the arist e i cratic branch' of the Le g i s l a t ure , an d i nstant l y a wiority 0 a hundred and fifty and two hund re d were at their hac k, like Robin Hood's men, brought by the shrill call of his Lordship's whistle t o th e rescue. What a change t ll ,l Whiggcry or publi c o pi n i on un d ergone s ince tithe, that a Whig Mi n i stry , gasp i ng f o r life-; screaming to the R e p resentat i ves o f the Pe o p le to support its struggle for existence, can only, incluaine its own votes, obtain a majority of twenty-two! And this is the majority with which Lord John Russell was to Pr e " duce a moral impression on the country, and intimidate' from the independ en t an d const i tut i ona l ex ercise its high functions, the House of Lords ! Lord Jur. Russell might as w e ll a tt empt to stop t h e cour se of the Thames by himself, and his miserable majority, Putting their backs against the stream, as to arrest the mig. ht Y current of Conservative opinion continually swel'irg Int° a volume and strength which will sweet:, away Whigg w e b r i e in its resistless progress, while itself unspent." " mighty current of Conservative opinion," which i s bar ; so grandiloquently a ll u d e d to , is just now little better then a stagnant po o l, without ower to sweep away a str aw ' s_ the events of the l as t week hare shown. It will tabs long time yet to make a Niagara out of a Conservative current. The Times, in the course o f a l ea di ng art i c l e su ggest by Friday night's memora bl e di v i s i on i n t h e H ouse of Co mons, urges the f o ll ow i ng remar k s :—" S uppose the -be tested and undisputed facts laid by the Committee of House of Lord s t o b e suc h that no jury on their 0at,,D9,, without the ma n if est gu il t o f per j ury, cou ld f a il to I T that the laws have no t b een actively enforced in Irelliau; that the prerog a ti ve o f mercy has been abused i nte Le si a encouragement of cr i me ; that justice has not righteously administ ere d ; ' t h at M ag i strates h ave not hyea appointed for their willingness to repress political outra: but to encourage se di t i on , or to f oster a sp i r it a .1 obedience to the law s , as we ll as o f di sa ff ectio n tel f , the British Government, as was the case with Daniel O'Connell —suppose, we say, that the fac bt the attested—irresistible—acknowledged facts, bronit, out on oath by a variety of respectable u vi nesses before the Lords Committee, should be 500 " T y to compel a Report on the subject more or less inculpate, s of the late Lord Lieutenant and his officers, and in w h r.i. predicament will the House of Commons have Pla ee :b i k self, by pledging its own authority to a general aPPr" o f tion of Lord Normanby, without a tittle of evidence or a Whs t shadow of inquiry t o p a lli ate suc h a d ec i s i on ?" have i 0 better " evide n c e " could the House of Commons have better " evidence' could the House of Common s the Marquis of Normanby's admirable administrat ion Ireland than the unanimous testimony of that cotintryh. favour of it ? Were the late simulta neous meetings th, Nii irse out its entire length and b rea d t h no " ev id enc e?' o p there no " evidence" in the great Dublin Agg re f ie ld Meetine. ?—the most influential and important eve r , all in Ireland—where peopl e o f a ll ran k s an d ( the ir shades in politics, v i e d w ith eac h ot h er in i l f bt , eagerness to bear testi mon y to L or d Normanby's annbe ened system of policy ? W as t h ere no " ev id en ce elf charges of the Judges of Assize who spoke, with see r- dr an exception, to the progressive tranquillity of Irela l: ci l ip If these things be not " evidence "—and of the west late tinct ar d positive character, too,—in favour o f the 00 1 Irish Viceroy's Administration, we know not what is• the House of Commons, with such satisfactory "evi ti v en ids/ before it, come to any o th er d ec i s i on t h an i t did on ' fp e. night, it would have s h own i tse lf, not mere l y d e void e n ; s litical sagacity, but i ncom p etent even to legislate - Turnpike Act. a. The. Morning Chro n icl e con t a i ns t h e f o ll ow ing e- h fC the tions, in reference to the late important discussion i n k isb • House of Commons—" Now that the debate on the ~er. Government has terminated, w e can b e a t n o lose Op. ceive the reason of the strong objection to Lord John f e lt sell's resolution entertained by the Tories. Had bey old their case ag a i ns t Lord Normanby to be sound, they vi at fs• have hailed th a t reso l ut i on as a ff or di ng them a ° f o rs of vourable opportunity for exposingthe crimes and he"; a nd his Administration before the Commons of Englan•P sod nt the face of the Empire. Knowing it to be rotten , t he built on nothing more substantial than exaggeratinan 0'- most daring, and falseh oo d s t h e b asest an d m ost 50 % 1 1 gent, they naturally shrunk from a discussion which n , s f o ted of the slightest rectit u d e o f pr i nc i p l e wou ld have C' i s iflif with avidity. The r esu lt o f fi ve n i g h ts ' d e bate eV e 00 • we say, the instinctive repugnance of the Tories t o in the' tion that gave rise to it. A case never broke down roughly—so miserably—so contemptibly I" IRELAND. de rd REPRESENTATION OP TYRONE.--The Lonao- i icies t Journal notic es a rumour t h at Mr. Stronge, the °or son of Sir James Stronge, will oppose Lord Claude milton,la r .. who, it is added, has become extremely uttVP - 4 isfe with his own party. Lord Claude is an ultra and 0 0e .„ n " o lo Orangeman. The same journal remarks, as an "eltr v r it o of growing independence, that a requisition, signed "Zoe fewer than 47, freeholders of the western part 0 ' o s county, principally tenants of the Earl of Belm er % / it• been presented t o a gent l eman of reform principles, 'trot' ing him to stand for the representation—which, w e de be he will do, if no other competitor with Lord CIA° found."—Dublin Evening Post. da . LORD B RABA ZON.—IIis Lordship, who has mei c ite tamed for sev era l mont h s i n Rome owing to t he ded the state of his l a d y ' s h ea l th, posted to London acro s s Alps to support Lord John Russell's motion. Ths bi , i . lll JUDGE JOHNSTON. A Morning Contemporary' s ung to- Correspondent writes as follows Judge J°"„„ - who was prevented from going the last circuit i 0 " - ot her quence of a fall in his own Hall, has met with ° Loge accident of the same kind, which is likely to be. g "ste l with . more serious results. The Morning Register 10 ` a l the that it is more decidedly of an apoplectic selsure tb former ; but, on inquiry, I learn that such is not tbe ggs io It is understood, however, that although he may s ince° take his scat on th e B enc h , h e w i ll not again do h e as a Judge." se t" In the Dublin E ven i ng P ost o f S aturday l ast o'es subjoined correction addressed to the Register:- -- * n ise, Sir,--Having seen i n your P aper of this OT T. ; rig!: paragraph r e l a ti ng to M r. J ust i ce Johnston, I Olio'' its; to state the re a l f ac t s o f t h e case, as I was an eye's t of the accident referred to. About six o'clock - co ot' evening of Tu es d a y l ast I met t h e J udge in lii!r street. The wind was high, it was raining, and hl t s ot° were employed in h o ldi ng an um b re ll a, w h en he te h e a etv ladies of hi s acqua i ntance ; hi s attent i on being t ' o - tpe gaged in taki ng o ff hi s h at to sa l ute t h em, h e di d ceive the projecting step of a hall door (there are , n in front of the houses in that part of the street/0 lot' corning suddenly in contact with his foot threw,ll3 twee $1 ward on his face. lie immediatelygot up, a e " •ge , „ jo , 10 little injured that he refused the offer of my car% ho t P . take him home. I have no hesitation in certifying t fall was altog e th er accidental, and I feel confitier'l tp you will be g l a d to l earn that the insinuation O ntal utte /.1 your Paper as t o t h e cause of the occurrence 15 erroneous. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient serivi.j} ROBERT J. GRAV° I 9, liarcourt-street, April 17, 1 839. t inß MOVEMENT IN IRRIAND.-Referring to the el re o dsit the county of R oscommon, w hi c h was held last Thucerl Cie Dublin Evening Post observes that "it was , of respect, a demonstration worthy of the charge" - t county in which, among s t a ll c l asses — t h e wealth ic e o if prietors as well as the humble freeholders complete a preponderance of the friends of ireP ar- distl fr vernment of Ireland. The Chair was filled by * re sell s ' guished Reformer, Mr. Kelly, of Cargins, and th e ; 1 0 tions were introdu ce d b y Si r Mi c h ae l D. Be lle sVoe l lt Grace, of Mant u a ; M r . D. H. F erra n , Messrs. ir r o ft ew M•Dcrm o tt, Dill on , I rw i n , B a lf e, T aa fe, S ir ‘ c O'Beirne, Sie. " In fact, the prin . cipal landed proprietors, protest:slo%; well as Catholic, and Clerymen of both pe r6 l i n 00 ' earnestly co-operated on this gratifying occasion, I to thl gratulating Lord Ebrington on his appointme nt life" Government of Ireland, and declaring their toA n istr il : approbation of the Irish policy of the present A° ll) 4l3*" a itbo i e ri 00 § , tien. The crowded state of our columns, publish a double sheet, will account to our friend"' ir pro' common for the postponement of the report of O e ceedings until Tuesday next. m r P cie' " With respect to the conduct of the Sheriff, rick O'Connor, who r e f use d t o conve ne his bai"" r " :' y " the pretence that he would not be a P a- WhY; any political demonstration in the cou ntry. s ee. the Tories of Roscommon do not dream a .1 10°:, demonstration. There is, in truth, no Tory QartY t i o polili common. This Mr. O'Connor, opposed as be 15 .; biso 9e , cal discussion, did not scruple the other day, t? In d - Lort i S up in a sort of demonstration in favour of J - ' °r Mr. O'Connor is, we understand, should not waste a line on the conduct of this fen% WO' but that we think it deserving of remark , es in efd i. ; tration of the character of the present g relL ory 40 ' ment in Ireland, that whilst a Roman Catholic Tory his " little possible" in aid of the objects of a Roman Cativo I tioo ry, faction, the Liberal Nobility and Gentry, mu ch stet ° testar,t than Catholic, have everywhere taken dal nt. as the leaders of the peoe." The proceedings t theof Meath were imP. d to a county L ore Mr. Crawford's speech contained all that was req perfect the thorough union of the Irish Liberals. the A ros ere, c ca es ding ; y APPOINTMENT OF RECORDER. --Vie are iceit'l John to be Fr e e n d a e b r l i e ck d Ftoostsetra,teE, stqh.a,t l 4ll Re cor d er i ' ib o o f c! t h i, h hpo e :33 - itt h e a m o r p r ,a i s o: n o u i g n h gt el o da f d Manchester. ointment will give great and general satisfaction and As c o o f nd L uct, both as stipendary magistrate...lo,p tfie quarter sessions, has been so esewreco, and so free from even the slightest suspicion of P artf h l wil l ing, that we are sure the inhabitants of the borlhatts hail his appointment ,with great pleasure. --Jf Guardian. wore re' LONGEVITY.—It is a circumstance not Ol 00 markable than true, that Mr. Thomas Dixon, 15 1 am ity Rook, near Ravenglass, and Mary , his wife, bay° f at of of twelve children, all healthy and well , the youp o f oc so whom is thirty years of age ! Th e united Ong°°.,,,oont to venerable parents and their numer ous offsprg 11". no less than 625 years !—Carlisle Patriot.