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In distant parts af the country, the Third Edition contains MCI TWELVE some me ADTANCIL, a matter of important.' to those who want early intelligence. In those places where the evening mad arrives in the middle of the night, the " MORNING SUN," containing ALL the Debates, ttc. dce., will answer best, and Subscribers can suit themselves accordingly. Respectable Agents will always supply the proper paper; but where any wilful neglect is experienced, we recommend parties to write to " The Sun" office, 112, Strand, where prompt attention will be paid to their representations. Now ready, in 3 vols., with Plates, price 31s. 6d. bound, THE HISTORY OF _ _ MAR GAR E T CATC UPOLE, A SUFFOLK GIRL. " Truth is stranger than fiction. We have here a veritable his tory, with incidents more startling and extraordinary than are to be /band in any romance with which we are acquainted."—Norfolk Chronicle. . Henry Colburn, Publisher 13, Great Marlborough-street. SPANISH PASSIVE BONDHOLDERS! CAUTION Do not be tempted by the trifling rise in this Stock to sell. Your Stock is now scarce, and remember 31. Mon, the Spanish Minister of Finance, has pledged himself to propose to the Cortes a settlement of the whole Foreign Debt of Spain. Is the Active Stock, then, only to be converted, and our interests be neglected ? Believe it not. Your 100/. Bond is now worth but 71. If you will but be firm, another month will make them worth 17/. WHISPER. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. In consequence of the expressed desire of a great number of the Subscribers, and of its increasing success, TO-MORROW EVENING Will be repeated (fifth time in this country), Verdi's new Opera, ERNANI. In Your Parta-Ist., The l!andit; 24., The Guest; 3d., The Pardon ; 4th., The Mask. With new scenery by Mr. Marshall. Elvira, Madame Rita Boric, diovanna, Mdlle. Bellin ; Ray Gomez, Signor Fomasari ; Don Carlos, Signor Botelll ; Ernani, signor moriani. To conclude with an entirely new Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled EOLINE ; ou, LA DRYADE. The Music by Signor Pugni. The Scenery by Mr. Marshall. Principal Characters—Eoline (betrothed to Count Edgard), Mddle. Lucile Grahn ; Rubezahl (le Gnome), M. Perrot ; Count Edgard, M. Toussaint; Prince of Silesia (brother of Eoline), M. Gosselin. In the course of the Ballet the following Dances will be introduced Waltze Selesienne, by the Coryphees of the Corps de Ballet. _ . Pas de la FianceeLifdlle. Lucile Grahn and Toussaint, Pas de Cinq (composed bit M. Gosselin)—Mdlles. Louise Weiss, Fer dinand, Demelisse, Cassan, and Moncelet. Mazourka D'Extase-3ldlle. Lucile Gr.' hn and M. Perrot, Fourth Tableau. Grand Pas des Dryades by Mdlle. L. Gratin and the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. Doors open at Seven; the - opera to commence at Half-past Seven o'clock. Madame Anaide Castellan, of the Imperial Theatre St. Petersburgh, has arrived in town, and will make her first appearance on Tues lay next, April I, in Donizettl's Opera of LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Edgardo, Sig. Moriani ; Ashton, Sig. Fornasari ; and Lucia, Mdlle. A. Castellan. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. It is respectfully announced that a Second GRAND MUSICAL FETE, Comprising the unpublished manuscripts of the celebrated FELIC TEN DAVID, Will be presented on MONDAY WEEK, APRIL 7, With the original Melodies and Choruses. Grand Descriptive Symphonic Ode of THE DESERT, produced for the first time with the most enthusiastic success at the Con.servatoirs Royal. Paris. LE DESERT. Ode, Symphonic, Orientale—divided in three pails with grand orchestra. The orchestra and chorus will include upwards of 200 per formers. The whole under the Direction of Signor Costa. Solos by Silts. 3loriaai and Corelli. PROGRAMME. Part /.—Entrance to the Desert. Glorification of Allah; grand chorus and orchestra—Arrival of the Caravan—Departure of the Caravan—Tempest in the Desert— Return of the Calm—The Caravan resumes its march. Part 11.—Night. The Evening Star—Halt of the Caravan—Hymn to the sight : air sung by Signor Moriani—Arabian Fantasia—The Dance of the Almes—The Liberty of the Desert : grand chorus with orchestra— Evening reverie : melody sung by Signor Moriani, with chorus and orchestral accompaniments—Sleep I Part lll.—Sun-rise. Call of the Muezzin; original Arabian melody, with the Arabic words—The Caravan starts once more on its journey—The Cara van gradually disappears in the distance ; grand chorus and orches tra—Silence in the Desert—The Song of Thanksgiving—Allah. Grand chorus final. Introductory Part--Ist. Fragment of Grand Symphony in E flat-2d. Melodie imitative a Grand Orchestre : Les Ilirondelles, sung by Signor Morianl-3d. Melodle Orientale : Le Chibouque 4th. Soiree du Printemps Fragment tire des quartre Saissons de Felicien David, executed by all the string instruments. Boxes, Two, Three, and Four Guineas each. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Pit Tickets to be made at the Opera-office, Colonnade, Haymarket. Doors open at Eight o'clock ; to commence at Half-past Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated Balfe's Grand Opera, THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusignano, Mr. Burdini ; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. D. W. King ; Catarina Cornaro, Miss Poole. To conclude with DER FRIESCHUTZ. Adolph, Mr. D. W. King; Caspar, Mr. Stretton : Linda, Miss Betts. The Eminent Tenor, M. DUPREZ is engaged here for Twelve }Tights only, and will shortly make his appearance in his cele brated character of ARNOLD, in GUILLAUME TELL; and is also preparing himself for his unrivalled personation of EDGAR, in Donizetti's popular Opera, THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR, for the Performance of which, an Engagement has also been ex pressly entered into with Mdlle. EUGENIE GARCI The Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six In the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, lIAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Ori;rinal Comedy, entitled THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. W. Farren, Strickland, Buckstone, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W. Clifford, Mrs. Humby, Miss Julia Bennett, &c. After which, a New Grand Classical Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Principal Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, J. Bland, Madame Vestris, and Miss P. Horton. To conclude with YOUNG ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland ; Mr. John James Pooley, Mr. Buckstoue ; Mrs. Pooley, Mrs. Ilumby ; Mrs. Smiler, Mrs. Stanley THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. TIIIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE GREEN BUSHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, Mr. Selby Guorge, Mr. Hudson : Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Muster Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bsdtbrd ; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fltzwilliam ; Miami, Madame Celeste. After which, will bo repeated a New Grand Epereal Exposition, called ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Principal Characters by Messrs, Paul Bedtbrd, Wright, John Saunders, Selby ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Brooks, and Miss E. Chaplin. . _ _ To conclude with MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL Mr. Suugsby, Mr. Lambert ; Lieutenant O'Scupper, R.N., Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mr. Felts Fluffy, Mr. Wright ; Emily, Miss Fortescue. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, Will he performed a New Tragic Drama, called METAMORA THE WAMPANOAGS Metamora Mr. Edwin Forrest; Mordaunt, Mr. Henry Wallack ; Lord Fitz Arnold, Mr. Archer ; MaLmeokee, Mrs. Stirling; Oceana, Miss Emma Stanley. After which, Mr. SANDS and his INFANT BROTHER,MAURICE, will appear in their Pleasing and Wonderful Entertainment, DE SALON', FRE MS OF FANCY. To conclude with a New Grand Oriental Melo-dramatic Burlesque Extravaganza, in Two Acts, called TIMOUR THE CREAM OF ALL THE TARTARS. Timour, Mr. Oxberry ; Zorilda, Miss E. Stanley. Stage 3lanager, Mr. H. I. Wallack; Stage Director, Mr. Emden ; Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. Superbly decorated, and with extensive alterations I forming one of the most Elegant and Comfortable Theatres in the Metropolis THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be performed MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. Old Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr. R. Younge ; Mr. Pecsniff, Mr. Frank Matthews ; Mrs. Sairey Gamp, Mr. Keeley ; Bailey, Mrs. Keeley. After which, a New Farce, entitled LOW THER ARCADE. Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Meadows, F. Matthews ;Miss Dawson, and Miss Grove. To conclude with a Burlesque of English History, Pourtraying Olden Ideas and Modern Notions—lnvested with all the Pomp and Display of Scene—Painters engaged expressly—Costumes according to Fancy—Mechanism, Ballet, Music, and .Novel Stage Arrange ments—to be called, WIIITTINGTON AND HIS CAT! Dick Whittington, Mrs. Keeley; Muley Moloch, the Lien Tamer of the Dessert, Mr. Keeley ; the Cat, Mr. Collier, supported by Messrs. Emery, F. Matthews, and Wigan ; Miss Fairbrother, and Miss Grove. The Box-office Is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Grogan. ROYAL OLYMPIC TIIEATRE. (Under the Direction of Miss Davenport.) THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE GAME COCK OF THE WILDERNESS, Colonel Mereville, Mr. H. Mellon ; Roderick, Mr. Binge ; Samson, Mr. Marble ; Mabel, Mrs. Griffith. After which, THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM. To conclude with THE PLAGUE OF PLYMOUTH. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING. The Performances will commence with a Grand Military Equestrian Drama, entitled THE MAID OF SARAGOSSA. Scenes in the Circle, introducing M. and Mdme. Dumos, the cele brated French Equestrians. To conclude with THE SLEEPING DRAUGHT. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. GREAT ATTRACTION FOR THE EASTER HOLIDAYS. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Drama, called MARGARET CATCH. POLE. Supported by Messrs. H. Hughes, Hicks, Fredericks, R. Bonner, S. Cowell, Heslop, Lewis, Mrs. Dal3s, Mrs. Lewis, and Mrs, • R. Honner. After which, THE IRISH TUTOR, in which the Infant Power, Miss Heron, will appear. To conclude with THE MOOR MAIDEN, in which Messrs. Hicks, Neville, Fredericks, Lewis, Mrs. Hughes, Miss Martin, and Mrs. H. Vining will perform. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Til IS EVENING Will be repeated MARGARET CATCHPOLE, The Female Horse stealer. Onega and Pechuana (Red Chieftains), Messrs. Cony and Blanchard ; Margaret Catchpole, Miss Vincent. After which, HERCULES, KING OF CLUBS. To conclude with THE KNIGHTS OF TIIE CROSS. DALEY. —DREADFUL CASUALTY.—TWENTY-NINE Cows BURNED TO DEATH.—It is with feelings of deep regret that we have to mention a very unfortunate casualty, which took place in this neighbourhood on Tuesday the 18th inst., about nine o'clock. During the foddering of the cattle, at the farm of Auldmuir, in this parish, it is supposed that a candle, used on the occasion, had come in contact with some loose straw, when the byre, containing thirty-two cows, was instantly ignited, and in a short time entirely consumed. Twenty-nine of the cattle, a goat, and a number of hens p eris h e d. Th e farm is rented by a Mr. Hugh Archibald. We are sorry to say it is supposed that the stock is not insured against fire. The number of cattle destroyed may seem excessive, but the bewilderment occasioned amongst animals by fire renders it nearly impossible in such cases to,L , . •,. them from the flames.—Atir Observer. 00 1d . , , 4 it ....: uesday evening an accident occu rred which ~").. ', • : y• py , ed fatal to two persons. A woman of the naine of • . . e Chester, the wife of a bargeman plying on ..r.. i'..'s__ _ the Rigegte, Canal, was stepping into a boat wit h her '; 1-'l. vi - child, '*it is supposed, her foot slipping, she fell ilei t "- Z' -- with her in t. into the water. Assistance was speedily • at handoiaboth mother and child were taken out aiive \C ). and coni;e_yed to the Hawley Arms, Hampstead - road. ' , 4? Mr:'Gibicoa, a surgeon, in the neighbourhood, was im -'—' malately in attendance, and every means were adopted : for their recovery. The life of the child was saved, but the poor mother died on the same night about 10 o'clock. • THE WEATHER.-SITN OFFICE, MARCH 27. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 42 ; Highest, 52; Noon, 56. BAROBIZTEA, 29.0.-WIND, W. Nom—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. MOH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning •• 119 minutes after 4 I Evening .. 59 minutes after 4. , , kik ,* (.:V., .TA ' . ~, ' .r• *I i I ' • ••• Q t 4 . , 7 1 , , u s 1, . _ ii-. ..,. A •-•:. AP, Aii , I, ' • - ir,„ ,5..,,,, ,‘, , , -- rig5 . ,4.4 , 110 1 01 :',, -.• A .i.,' , 6 41::', - 4110114‘ CY,li , :', •, . diallk ' 7 ite:-.P .- _ --_‘%," • . It' _ , 41GZEir. ''' "Nu. l ' ; * _ .. • ,a.... ~ e•C1....•..."....." .. :.:.• s LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1845. The recent letter of the Duke of NEWCASTLE, ad dressed to an Evening Contemporary, is a document too remarkable to be passed over in silence—although we are very far, indeed, from any desire to impeach the truth and genuine character of its averments. No mere associations of party shall ever make us wit tingly unjust to persons. We therefore feel it our first duty, in considering this letter, to separate our recollections of the staunch Tory opponent of Reform and the progress of liberal opinions from those which regard the personal character and reputation of an English nobleman of the highest rank, family, and fortune. It has happened to us to have had con siderable opportunity for forming an unbiassed judg ment upon the deportment of his Grace in this dis tinguished position ; and we are bound to declare that we have always heard, moreover, from others who have had the best and the nearest means, in the transaction both of private and professional affairs, of observing that deportment, that he has discharged, in the most unexceptionable manner, all the relations and duties of private life, as a parent, a landlord, and a master, a steady friend, and an excellent neighbour. That the Duke of NEWCASTLE should be prepared, at any time, amply to vindicate his personal integrity and honour against all impeachment, was no more than we were at all times fully prepared to expect. The vindication of his Grace, therefore, on the present occasion,from the constructive imputa tion (for his Grace will allow us to remark that, after all, the motion which has occasioned him so much annoyance implied nothing more, and died abso lutely in the moment of so perfect an explanation as it had already elicited from Lord LINCOLN)—this vindication, we say, does not move us by any emotion of surprise. We may intimate a doubt of the dis cretion of his Grace's proceeding, with as much free dom as we have excepted, in times past, to certain unfortunate declarations made by him in the House of Lords. But we can as frankly declare, that we respect the very excitement under which he writes so boldly, albeit perhaps unadvisedly, as we adhere to the emphatic protests we have repeatedly made against the general tenour of his political views and connexions. And the Duke, to do him justice, leaves neither to us, nor to any others who have most vehe mently animadverted on his ultra-Toryism, any plea of difficulty in reconciling past with present profes sions. He manfully, if wrongly, adheres to his con sistent text. He is no political latitudinarian. He may have compromised the expediency-politics of the party with which he was once connected, but he will not compromise his own deliberately recorded opinions. From that party he has now withdrawn. This secession from the party adopted in the earlier period of a public man's public career, is the most common thing in the world in our times. But he has not passed over to the opposite party, nor changed his opinions in that transit. This is one of the rarest phenomena now to be witnessed in the political horizon. In so far, therefore, as regards singleness of purpose, con• sistency of party adhesion, uncompromising profes sion of a political faith, which it has become the almost universal fashion of its former votaries to ab jure—this letter is no every-day production. But it has yet more signal and distinctive properties about it. There is a straight-forward, searching, stern, and almost misanthropic truthfulness of statement about it, which is as honourable to himself as we fear it will be distasteful to his quondam connexions, and even to his own family. There is no mincing of matters with the Duke. In his justification, even his s'm had not gone far enough. His Grace seems to have been indifferent about going too far, provided he could completely justify himself from the imputation that might, as we say, be constructively inferred from the terms of Mr. Huma's or Mr. WIL- Lima's motion. Is he determined to set out the whole truth, even at the cost of some revelations of private concernments which it must be, at all times, a painful sacrifice for such a man to make to a sense of duty ? If the extreme step the Duke has taken might have been avoided, as it is reasonable to infer from the prompt acknowledgment with which Lord LiNcoLN's speech was responded to by all persons who heard it—it is now too late to lament, and impossible to recal it. We, like the rest of the world, are exempted from all liability to the charge of indelicacy in further discussing a pub lished letter, after readily acknowledging that it has completely answered its purposes of complete vindi• cation. For, surely, there is a moral beyond the matter in hand, on the present occasion, to be drawn from this document. What, after all, is this phantom of Parliamentary influence, of aristocratical distinction, of Ministerial connexion, of the authority attaching to vast property and high alliances, of all, in short, that goes to make up the showy pageant which men call "power," and the atmosphere of whose existence is designated public life ? Here is a ducal mantle withdrawn from the glittering mystery it coveted; and that mystery, for the mastery of which men sa crifice their: convictions, their opinions, the con nexions of their youth, the deliberate pledges re corded by reflective manhood, the good will of those from whom only applause is worth the earning, the confidence of constituents, the respect of a contem porary public, and the favourable judgment of pos terity ? It is a shapeless, revolting, hollow, mock ing deformity. The heir of the honours and for tunes, estates and grandeur of the PELHAMS, the FIENNESES and the CLINTONS tells you so. He tells you that he his been made, for years past, the subject of deliberate misre presentation and vilification, on account of opi nions he never professed; and that he now finds him self comparatively alone, in the profession of those which he did and does profess, which his former poli tical connexions did profess, and have now, one by one, abandoned. So much for the fate of political singleness of purpose ; for the duplicity of political connexions. All the accidents of position, all the ele ments of success were with the Duke, and he broadly avows that, " at his first entrance into public life he possessed great power in a political point of view." It is evident that the sapping operation of selfish in terests, the cabals of treacherous associates, and the secret defection of trusted leaders, making their own terms at the expense of the parties who trust them, do more to wreck political " power " than the most stormy shocks of violent but open enmity. Then comes the Duke's exposition of his borough property, and the authority that gave him in the Legislature. We are quite willing to believe that his Grace is not less candid in his declaration that he never made use of this property in the way of dishonest traffic or for purposes of gain, and that he dispensed it by nomina: tions the most eligible and the best adapted for the public interests, according to his own notions of what those interests required. We cannot go along with him in considering it a grievance which any British Peer can be in a condition to plead, that if the sacrifice of these boroughs, by the Reform Bill, entailed a pecu niary loss, equivalent to 200,0001., he has never re ceived any compensation for that loss. But we think he is entitled to the praise of great and most honour able moderation, looking to the immense importance of his influence and support to any Tory Government, in having exacted—we should rather say accepted— so very little in the shape of mere honorary distinctions,—so absolutely nothing in the h s ape of public money or official pay. His conduct with regard to the offers of the Garter to him—his manly waiver of that high honour in favour of the Duke of WELLINGTON, when he was himself re commended for it on the ground of eminent public services—ought to be remembered, and to endure to the Duke of NEWCASTLE'S honour, when all the THE SUN, LONDON, -FRIDAY strifes of parties throughout the whole term of his existence shall have been forgotten. His subsequent investiture with the blue ribband, " by command," was the proper and becoming sequel of these acts of rare disinterestedness. In showing, at the conclusion of his letter, how the views and the measures of those with whom he was once associated have altered, and, as he contends, to the manifest prejudice aad peril of the public welfare, in reference to the state of the Church and the revision of its temporalities—to the reforms Parliamentary, Municipal, and Commer cial, which have been since established—we may and must express our utter dissent from and regret for the views so pertinaciously adhered to by his Grace —erroneous, obsolete, and mischievous as we conceive them to be. But we respect him for his bold and upright avowal of them. In these days we are brought almost to venerate the phoenix-like virtue of consistency, so that only our persuasion that the Duke's is a consistency in error can qualify our ad miration for it in his own person. But whilst we la ment to perceive that we can find no grounds of con gratulation in the views he still announces as a states man or a politician, we cannot abstain from declaring that our respect for the integrity and honesty of the man are enhanced by the very misgivings we enter tain of those who have abandoned him and his party for the power they wield in virtue of that abandon ment. The Message of President POLK on entering on his office as Chief Magistrate of the United States con tains no information, and exhibits no feature, which might not have been anticipated from the character of the parties by whom he was elected, and the well known aggressive spirit of the great body of the people. His language, consequently, is adapted to their pretensions, and the principles which regulate their conduct. These principles are to go-ahead, right or wrong, to extend their territory by foul means or fair, to claim Texas on the ground that it is an inde pendent state, though taken by violence from Mexico, that it originally formed part of the Confederacy, and had been unwisely ceded away to a foreign power. " Other powers, therefore," says the pacific President, " shouldlook on the event not as the conquest of a nation, seeking to extend her dominions by arms and violence, but as the peaceful acquisition of a territory once her own, by adding another member to the confederation, with the consent of that member, thereby diminishing the chances of war, and opening to them new and ever-increasing markets for their products." The Oregon question is settled with the same self-com placency in these words :—" Our title to the country of the Oregon is clear and unquestionable." So, when the time comes, will be their title to Canada, and all the British possessions in North America. These form a portion of that continent which the new republic claims as its own, and from which they anti cipate to be able, at no very distant day, to eject all British authorities, as unprincipled intruders from the old world. In fact, the Canadian territory is necessary to round off the northern line, to create a balance to the increase of power in the south ; and, above all, to infuse the pure spirit of liberty, and establish American institutions among their brethren on the other side of the Ame rican lakes. These are their arguments—they make no secret of the fact, and we are ready to admit that they have just as much right to Quebec and Montreal as they have to Santa Pe, and Galveston, and the River Columbia. But questions of such vast im portance, Mr. POLK knows well, are not to be settled by a few peaceable words, by unautho rised claims, or even by occupying the territory in order to perfect the title. Much more is required, and to such terms neither Lord ABERDEEN, however gentle his nature, nor Sir R. PEEL, with all his Irish difficulties, will agree. England has a vast interest in her West India colonies and her settlements on the continent. A balance of power is as necessary in the new world as in the old, and the people of the United Kingdom will not remain satisfied or quiet while inroads are made upon their trade and com merce, and the very existence of their posessions and the independence of their countrymen are threatened by lawless invaders. by this sort of continuous, unrelazing aggression and encroachment on the rights inherited by them from their forefathers. Our Contemporary indulged in a happy allusion to the shelter that Nottingham Forest (within the hounds of which some of the common lands to be inclosed under the Bill in question are situate), afforded, in the olden time, to ROBIN HOOD and his Saxon outlaws. It is not possible that, in these days of centralization and organised government such communities can ever again sustain themselves ; but, for our parts, rather than see the healthful wastes and sylvan glades which:the poor of England can yet roam over, or wend through unchallenged in their peaceful rambles, thus filched from them ; we should not be sorry to see such stout and effective, albeit irregular rural reformers as the bold Forester and his Sherwood company, re-established to the wholesome discouragement of oppression. Madrid journals of the 19th inst. have been re ceived, but they bring no news. The QUEEN, it was said, would visit Barcelona in May, passing through Valencia or Saragossa. It is not improbable that the journey is not without a French object, as it is known that M. LESSEPS has been suddenly recalled from Alexandria, and re-appointed to his former situa tion at Barcelona. The accounts from the Basque Provinces are favourable. General CONCHA, the Governor, had left Vittoria for Madrid. The Bourse was closed. The French Chamber of Deputies was engaged on Monday, as stated yesterday, in discussing the Cus toms Bill, which is founded on the tariff settled by royal ordonnance during the recess. This tariff, which applies chiefly to Belgium and Sardinia, re quires the sanction of the Chamber, and the Bill, therefore, was introduced for that purpose. The Chamber resumed the discussion on Tuesday, and was still occupied uith the subject at the hour of post. The debate was commenced by M. DE Ru- MILLY, who drew a gloomy picture of the present position of commerce in France. Each day, he said, the amount of exports was diminishing, and that of imports on the increase. During the five years which elapsed from 1838 to 1843, the average of their imports was 745 millions, or 202 millions greater than the exports. The merchant-shipping of e o ff f e t c h : e o f t es of frmn lB F 2 r 2 e a a c n h d velsBse2l6s, all w freights d, and giving them to England and America. He observed that, as the treaty existing with the United States was merely provisional, a negotiation might be en tered into with that country, which might effect very favourable changes for the commerce of France ; and thene d, of 1826 with England, which, h being fou n d e d on principles of said, i blamed in p the la ne treaty of reciprocity, was marked by very serious inequalities. He complained that the Belgian treaty had been in force for three years without legislative sanction, for which the Government deserved severe blame, even if the good one ; but in point of fact that measuretreaty been mischievous, for it appeared that in 1843, since the passing of the treaty the imports were ad from Belgium were 103 millions, while the exports from France to Belgium were only fifty-two mil lions, besides which, Germany had raised the duties on several articles of French origin on account of the favours granted to Belgium. The treaty with Sardinia he also blamed, as impolitic. It was inju rious to the agriculture and: navigation of France. The Minister of Commerce, M. CUNIN GRIDAINB, drew a different picture of the commerce and manu factures of France. Within the last year her com merce with Chili had risen from 11,000,000 f. to 14,000,000 f. ; with Mexico, from 13,000,000 f. to 19,000,000 f.; with Brazil, from 32,000,000 f. to 41,000,000 f.; with Uruguay, and La Plata, from 12,000,000 f. to 30,000,000 f. ; with Peru and Bolivia, from 3,000,0001. to 7,000,000 f. ; with New Grenada, from a few hundred thousand francs to upwards of 4,000,000 f.; and in all these cases the produce had been exported in French vessels. In heavy com mercial *hipping, undoubtedly, France was below many other countries ; for she had not, like Eng land or the United States, or the nations north of Europe, weighty goods which it was necessary to import in gross volume. No, France exported in ge• neral only manufactured goods of great value, which took up but small space. Hence they could not employ any great amount of commercial tonnage, and hence French trading vessels were inferior to those of the countries just mentioned. It must also be remembered that secondary states had, of late years, increased their trading shipping, and had en croached on the business formerly in possession of the greater nations. Thus, within the last ten years, the relative power of the American flag had dimi nished from 82 to 69 per cent., and foreign vessels had seized on the transports of the Union in the propor tion of from eighteen to thirty-one. He further stated that both imports and exports had increased, and if the latter were inferior to the former, the cause must be looked for in the nature of the commercial business which France carried on. The tariffs of France had been gradually lessened, and at present they rnounted to about 16 per cent., which was much lower than that of England ; and whilst France had diminished her customs duties, almost all other com mercial states, except England, had raised theirs, and had even placed on additional duties to protect their flag. Such was the case with Portugal, Russia, Bel gium, the Zollverein, Brazil, and even the United States. The Minister then referred to the treaty concluded between France and the United States in 1822, and maintained that as the exchanges between the two countries had increased tenfold, it would be most impolitic to alter the present state of things. The discussion on Tuesday related chiefly to The late tariff with Belgium, which seemed to give general dissatisfaction, and M. LESTI. BOUDOIS, an Opposition Member, moved as an amend ment, that the treaty at its expiration (the end of fifteen months) should not be renewed. M. GUIZOT said, France had a strong interest in conciliating Belgium ; but admitted, at the same time, that there was not, according to the present tariff, sufficient reciprocity for France ; and he, therefore, should not oppose the amendment, which was adopted by a great majority. The Paris journals are chiefly occupied with these commercial discussions. It affords us pleasure to find the Times entering its powerful protest against one of those "Inclosure Bills" which of late years have so often challenged our indignant reprobation. The Bill, now pending before the House of Commons, for the inclosure of certain lands and common fields in the parish of St. Mary, Nottingham, is the latest and one of the most disgusting editions of that grasping spirit of selfish aggrandisement which renders the large landowner or the capitalist in so many cases the nuisance, the bane, the curse of the district around him, instead of its benefactor and respected patron. Where waste and common are to be inclosed, the owner of the free hold of a few hundreds, nay of a few scores, of landed estate in their vicinity, knows that in the allot ments to be made under the Act of Parliament neces sary for such purpose, he will have the option of re claiming and entering upon possession of an extent of the waste, in proportion to the extent of his own previous holding. It is greatly to be feared that this circumstance operates as a powerful incentive to these parties —or, if not to them, to their hungry solicitors —to first discover the expediency of inclosing large tracts which have been for ages, perhaps from time immemorial, free and common to the poor of the same locality, supplying them also with free pasturage for their little stock, and thus enabling them to eke out the scanty subsistence afforded them by their wages as labourers or artisans, &c. The extent and enor mity of the injustice they commit on the poor man, by ousting him of the free range and pure air, the healthful exercise, and peaceful rambles, to which, like his fathers before him, he has been accustomed to resort in his snatches of leisure, or on his Sabbath holidays, never seems to suggest itself to their minds. The sort of equitable vested right, if such a right there be in any human being, that the families of the poor labourer—their toiling wives and the ruddy children, who look freely out from the humble cottage door, with a cheery confidence that has not yet come into collision with the harsh and sneering discourage ment of the world beyond their native heath—the equitable vested right that these families have to retain the privilege of living on, amidst the same scenery and associations in which their childhood or their youth has been passed, is a right which never crosses the memory, or disturbs the calculations of the parties to an Inclosure Bill. The whole powers of their ingenuity are taxed to devise the pretext.; which shall be most feasible, and may promise best, fir suc cessful effect, with Parliament, in the business of " soliciting" their Bill. These pretexts are usually of the most canting, hypocritical, and yet flimsy description. The parties to the Bill affect (and this is the only ludicrous part of the transaction) to be moved in the affair by consideration for the interests of the poor, forsooth I They gravely introduce pro visions for exchange of lands to be held in trust for the poor. whose common rights and rights of waste they are ousting ; or, when no lands can be had, proper for this " make-believe" exchange, they create a fund, by reserved rents or otherwise, in which experience shows that so soon as the Bill has come into operation, any but the parties rightfully entitled are sure to participate; and even they obtain a nig gardly fractional stipend of far inferior value to the common rights or of pasture which the poor have been defrauded of by the Act, and which do not and cannot make any compensation for the moral and physical benefits arising from those healthful recreations both for mind and body, the very "ground" for which has been literally " removed from under them" by the operation of the great landowner's and the rich residenes " Inclosure Bill." The iniquitous cheat, as well as cruelty, of this scandalous jobbing in statut ble spoliation does not stop here. It is a system of fraud and rapacity not one bit more ele vated in principle than the business of " thimble rigging," or any other such unblushing conspiracy, to obtain property by deceiving its owners. In cases where the measure of some disinterested legislator proposes to " secure" to the poor certain other waste, common, or other lands in exchange, you may be perfectly sure, beforehand, that the new lands are al together objectionable in point of situation, and altogether inferior in point of value. But there is still another screw which may be turned as a further power to ensure, after the eviction of the poor has been accomplished from one locality, their inability to avail themselves of the establishment which the same Inclosure Act may profess to provide for them in another. The substituted lands and rights can only be entered upon and enjoyed in full legal right, perhaps, on payment of a certain quit-rent or fine, or , The Coustitutionnel contains the following letter other payment, apparently of a very light nature, I frnrn a correspondent, dated Oran, March 10 : calculated on the single acre, hut amounting, in the ' " The steamer Gi endeur is j it, t returned from Tangiers . si bere she was sent with disi.,:o, 1 - 1( , bringing the iwalow aggregate of any quantity etsivalent to the inclosed In , it, V S:—.lli ner departur, , irrsrn Tsngiers. it was known waste, to a oon4lerable sum. Thus we learn, from there that Abd-el-Fader had assumed a hostile attitude, the Times, that a former Inclosure Bill had already toe ands the Emperor Abderrhaman, and called upon all true lmans to standard. considerabe taken from the townspeople of Nottingham large body Alussu of troops, unde j r oin the his command of A the Emperor' l s sections of common lands, some years ago, for see, had been sent to oppose him ; but little good was building purposes. The applotments remain to expected from the expedition, as numerous portions of this day unbuilt upon ; and the poor may enter on i the population have already declared in his favour. Several circles or districts were in open rebellion. This the substituted lands and their appurtenant right s on state of things is the more serious, as the party opposed payment of a sum amounting to 1,4001. Did those to the dynasty of Abderrhaman is very powerful, and who concocted that Bill and proposed these terms ever ' has only wanted a chief of ability to direct it. Our mi litary leaders are taking measures of precaution. All believe, or really expect that the poor could pay this I the disposable troops are kept in readiness to march, and amount? How is it to be done ? By public meeting ?1 a part of the subdivision of cavalry posted at Mostaga- What would be thought of a meeting of poor owners , nem has been called forward. We are astonished at of common rights, convened for the collection of the silence of the Government on the first operations of 1,4001. to secure those rights ? Why, there would Major-General Delarue, who is on the frontier. The trumpeter Escoffier, who has arrived with one of his be half-a-dozen Assistant Poor-law Commissioners companions in misfortune, gives a lively account of the dispatched from Somerset House to watch so porten- privations and hardships which he endured, and the tious a p h eno menon; and the town union would with- danger he ran during his captivity. Having only lately quitted the Smahla of Abd-el-Kader, he has been able to draw all out-door relief from that moment to a corn- furnish the Government with valuable information as to munity of poor so unaccountably rich in reversionary the position of the Emir." rights. The plea of taking away common lands for THE BOURSE—TUESDAY. MARCH 2i. building purposes betrays, after all, the true sordid First Hish:st Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. object of the promoters of such measures. They French Fire per Cents. •• .. 117 85 .. 117 90 .. 117 80 117 90 may honestly believe that the multiplication of tene- Four-and-a-Half.... 113 .. 113 •• 113 •• 113 }'ours. lO7 .. 107 107 .. 107 ments of a certain class may induce an influx of Three:per Cents.•.. 85 60 .. 85 75 •• 85 60 .• 85 79 . Loan .—•• .• .... 86 55 .. 8 G 60 .• 86 50 .• 85 60 labour and of manufacturing capital into the town; Bank of France •. ••••••3215 —3215 ..3215 —3215 but they must balance the chance of increased poor- Gouin Eank. I,ooof Shares 1 085 ..1090 ..1085 ..1085 rates by the certainty of such an increased house- B B e e l l g g i t a an n I F tn .e k s: • 1 . 8401 •• • .7. 105% 50 11 6 1 0 0 7 ” 5 : 7. 6 1 6 0 5 5% .... 6 1 6 0 5 5% rental as shall very far indeed outweigh any addi - 1842........1842........ 107 .. 10 7 .• 107 .. 107 Fonr-and-a-Half .•. 101% .. 143% .. 103 k .. 103% tional burden on the rates. The latter can only be Spanish Active............ 39% .. 39% 39% 39% Threes.. •• •• •..... 41 .. 41 1 ,4 .. 41 .. 41 distributed in minute apportionments over the whole Passive .•• •• ••...• 7 •• 7 .. 7 .. 7 rate-paying community. The former will find its Roman •• .. 106 .. 106 .. 106 .. 106 way into a few landlords' pockets, whether town, cor- RAILWAY SHARES. poration, or individuals. Versailles, R.B•••• . But this sort of ;spoliation will presently cease. Rouen L.B•• ... •• 7.7 1 4 1 0 6 7 0 50 ;1 4 1 1 6 0 0 :11 4 1 0 5 5 0 :11 4 1 1 5 0 5 We fearlessly predict that it will work its own cure. F Or o l u e c a n ns to Havre 975 .. 976 25 -. 975 .. 976 25 1322 50 ..1327 50 ..1322 50 ..1325 The people will not, and we hope they will not, much Strasburg to Bale" •• •• :::: 1 2 14 ,2 0 50 L . 1 2 1 34 22 5 50 0 : 1 2 13 3 5 0 % Igo ) longer endure it. They have a right, the sacred title rss g a i ra n ux t° to m T a e rs si d e ll . e . 3 :: of exemplary forbearance and good conduct under rani, to Seeaux .•••• • 702 50 .. 702 50 .. 702 50 .. 702 50 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, Aram 3. accumulated privations and suffering, in addition to St. Germain .• •••• —. 1 187 50 ..1187 50 .• 1187 50 ..1187 50 their title by common :law, prescription, or usage, Versailles, R. 13..•• •• 80 .... 1 4 16 12 0 60 Rouen ~ ..L .. .B . .... :::: : ::: :: 1 4 1 0 6 7 0 50 7.1 4 16 12 0 50 7.1 4 1 0 5 7 0 to every acre of common or waste that yet remains in that eondition, and under that tenure, in the im- g r o l u e e a n ns to . Havre . :::::: :::: 1 ;7 2 7 5 50 L . 1 9 3 83 02 50 • .:13 97 2 7 0 50 . • :1 9 3 8 3 2 0 SO . B k o vizi a on to to M T a mediate vicinity of large towns. It is a miserable, Strasburg to Bale ' . ..,.1 2 14 3 . 0 5 ....1 2 13 3 5 0 : 1 2 1 3 4 0 0 peddling, fatuity on the part of a Legislature to goad l eg le .":::: 1 21 0 0 them into dissatisfaction, disgust, and resentment, Paris to Sceaux•7o s .• 705 .. 705 , .. 705 LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, MARCH 27.-Wind southerly breeze and cloudy. DEAL, MARCH 26.-Wind N.W. to W.'N.W.-Arrd. South Stockton, China ; Amphitrite, Davison, Mauritius; Char lotte, Goble, Mauritius; Britannia, Lyme for St. John's, New Brunswick. Sld. Janes, Halifax. The South Stockton spoke the Margaret Thompson, and saved the crew of the said ship. The Janet, of Alloa, from Shields to Constanti nople, got on the Goodwin Sands this morning, but was as sisted off with loss of an anchor, and anchored in the Downs without apparent damage. FALMOUTH, MARCH 26.-Wind N.N.W., fresh breeze.- Arrd. Bachelor, Napin, Ichaboe ; Andes, Smith and Cynthia, Goldsworthy, Pernambuco ; Guiana, Kueft, Fernando Po, sld. 28th Dec., and aid. for London. Off Falcon, Rio, for Antwerp ; Niord, Kaufman, Havannah, for do. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 26.-Wind N.W. to W.N.W.- Sld. Ceres, Jamaica. Off Oriental, steamer, Alexandria, left 11th instant. SOUTHAMPTON. MARCH 25.-The Hawkhill, of Kincar dine, which had picked up at sea the crew of a vessel from Alexandria, name unknown, was passed off Cadiz by the Queen, steamer, arrived here. PADSTOW, MARCH 25.-Wind W.-And. Neptune, Jolly, lediaboe. NEWPORT, MARCH 26.-The sloop Endeavour, of Tanby, laden with beer, fell over on her broadside last night, and on the following tide filled. PORT TALBOT, MARCH 25.-The Two Sisters, Wood, of and from Plymouth, struck on the Bar in coming in last night, but was got off this morning, making much water. FALMOUTH, MARCH 26.-The Penguin packet, with the January mails, from this port, had not arrived at Pernam buco on the 12th of February. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals.-Thomas Lowry, Graham, from New South Wales, off Dartmouth, sailed from Sydney Nov. 13, St. Helena Feb. 6 ; South Stockton, Hickens, from China, in the Downs, sailed Oct. 8 ; Amphitrite, David son, from Mauritius, in the Downs, sailed Dec. 17, St. Helena Jan. 28 ; Calder-Kennedy, from Singapore, at Liverpool, sailed Nov. 10. Arrivals at St. Helena.-Herald, Jones, Feb. 1, from Coast of Africa, and sailed, 4th, to Cork ; Earl Grey, Douglas, 2d, from Coast of Africa, and sailed 2d, to Brazils ; George Glen, Arthur, 2d, from Coast of Africa to Pernambuco ; Emily, Hogan, from Mauritius, and sailed, 4th, to Cork ; Globe, (French,) Baudoin, from Coast of Africa, and sailed, 3d, to Goronne ; Tory, Duncan, from Madras, and sailed, 3d, to London; Cornelia, Gillies, 3d, from Coast of Africa, and sailed, sth, to Glasgow ; Dorothy, Brown, frc.m Coast of Afiica, and sailed, 3d, to Brazils ; Foam, Pringle, from Coast of Africa, and sailed. 4th, to Brazils ; Can dace, Reed, from whaling, Chusan ; Blayne, 4th ; Alice Chapman, 4th; Good Hope, Carfin, sth; Minerva, Dnck, Widdington ; Gardner, Caledonia ; Cumming ; Mountain Maid ; Allen, John Mitchell ; Douglas; Heli Brig; Rapid ; Earle ; Retrieve ; Lowthean, Janet ; Guthrie ; Conservative; M`Lacklin ; Europa ' • Ligert wood, 6th ; Arthur; Stable, and Monument ; Vining ; all from the Coast of Africa. Arrivals at Bombay-Regina, Quinton, Feb. 2, from China ; Charlotte, Leibsabwager, from Manilla ; Ichan geer, 4th, from Calcutta; Champion ' Cochrane, sth, from Aden; Mahi. M'Donald, from Bushire. Arrivals at Hobart Town-Emily, Greaves, Oct. 29, from Kingstown ,• Champion, Helpman, from Sean River; Calcutta. Nov. 1, from London. Arrivals at Madras-Charles, Dumerque, Jan. 24, from Pondicherry, and sailed Feb. 8 to Masulipatam ; Trio, 26th, from Mauritius, and sailed Feb. 11 to Mau ritius ; Owen Glendower, Robertson, 26th, from Cal cutta, and sailed 28th to Cape and London; Orestes, Fenwick, 27th, from China and Singapore; James Hall, Grant, 28th, from Bombay; True Bril,on, Consitt, Feb. 5, from London ; Indian Queen, from Vizagapatam ; Ellen, Brewer, from Coringa, and sailed Feb. 12 to Lon don ; her Majesty's ship Pilot, Jervis, from Moulmein; Sir William Wallace, Rose, Bth, from Cuddalore; Grey hound, Hutchinson, returned from sea, and sailed to Calcutta. Departures from Madras-Randolph Herone, Jan. 24, to Chittagong, Scotia, Jan. 26, John Line, 28th, to Nega patam and Aden ; Sir William Wallace, 28th, Duke of Argyll, 28th, to Pondicherry and Cuddalore ; Grey hound, 29th, to Ennore and Calcutta ; Lady Flora, Feb. 1, to Cuddalore ; Reginald Heba, 4th, to Liverpool ; Wellington, Liddel, Bth, to Cape and London ; Annun dehlinder, 9th, to Calcutta ; Northumberland, 10th, to Gape and London ; Cove, to Northern Ports and Cal cutta. Arrivals at Sydney, N.S.W.—Jane, Oct. 18th, Lady Blackwood, 19th, from Whaling ; Chance, 23d, from Manilla; Portenia, 25th, from Java ; Lanchester, 27th, London ; John Williams, from London and Hobart Town, and sailed to South Sea Islands ; Minerva, Ga tenby, 28th, from Calcutta ; Dublin, Jones, Nov. 1, Parrock Hall ; Canney, sth, from London ; H.M.S. Vestal, 6th, from Hobart Town. Arrival at Launceston—Jane, Oct. 30, from London. Arrivals at Port Philip—Athens, Oct. 18, from Ho bart Town; Mary White, 19th, from Sydney; Claren don, 25th, from Leith; Reward, Nov. 1, from London; Tropic, from Hobart Tawn. Arrival at Adelaide—Bleng, from Liverpool. Arrivals at Manilla—Sir John Byng, Jan. 2, and Urgent, Thompson, from Sydney; Meg Merrilies, 6th, from Batavia; Eleanor, Bth, from Hong-Kong. _ Departures from Singapore—lsabella Thompson, Due. 19, to Clyde; Janet Wilson, 20th, to Bombay; Iris, 24th, to Marseilles. COLLECTION OF CHARTS AT LLOYD'S. In addition to the valuable sets of charts which have been lately presented to Lloyd's by the home and foreign Governments, the collection has, been further augmented by a set published by the Spanish Govern ment. At the last g. neral meeting of the members of Lloyd's, the following resolution on the subject was pro posed and carried with acclamation !--" That the re spectful thanks of the meeting, signed by the chairman, be tendered to her Most Catholic Majesty the Queen of Spain, for the valuable set of charts published by the Spanish Government from actual survey, and graciously presented to Lloyd's by order of her Majesty." In consequence of the great number of charts of all parts of the world, which now comprise the collection, exceeding the expectations of the Committee, and which requ.re mounting, &c., it has been found impossible to open the " Chart Room" to the maritime interest at the early period at first intended ; but no unnecessary delay will occur to afford all interested in the subject every facility to inspect a collection of marine maps, not pos sessed by any other institution upon so extended and perfect a scale. In addition to the several facilities for transacting mercantile and other business, which the in stitution of Lloyd's has for many years afforded, a mer chant's room has been opened since the removal to the Royal Exchange, and many improvements and additions made to the establishment for the benefit of its members. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, THURSDAY EVENINC4. The Public Securities leave off a shade better than in the morning, Consuls being 99 1 / 2 % for Transfer, end 99% for Time. The quotations during the afternoon had been even a shade higher than the above. New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., ex. Div., for the Opening, were marked 102% %. S pan ish Bonds were a little firmer, the Five per Cents. at 30%; and the Three per Cents. at 40%; Mexican Stock was marked 36% %; and Chilian Deferred, 54. There was very little additional business in Railway Shares, and the quotations were much the same as in the morning. (From The Sun of Last Night.) A fair business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yesterday. The sales were 5,000 bales, all to the trade, and the market was firmer.—The Share Market had a steady aspect, and sales to a good extent were made. Barnsley Junction, ex new, 71. I Is. 3d. ; New Shares, 3%; Belfast and Ballymena, 3% ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accring ton, 6 1 / 2 ; Blackurn, Darwen, and Bolton, 4 1 / 2 4% ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 9% to 9 3 / 4 • Bolton Wigan, and Liverpool, 10 1 / 2 , Bs. 9d. ; Caledonian, 9% 8 16s. 3d. 3 A ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 6% ,• Chester and Birkenhead, ex div., 46 1 / 2 ; Ditto, Half Shares, at 5 dis., ex div., 23 ; Chester and Holyhead, 8%; Churnet Valley, 7 7% ; Clydesdale Junction, 10 10 1 / 2 • Cork and Bandon, 3% ; Direct Northern, 4% Dublin and Belfast, 6% ; Dublin and Drogheda, ex. div., 86 1 / 2 ; Dublin and Galway, 3 1 / 2 ; Dundalk and Enniskillen, 2 3 / 4 ; Dundee and Perth, 3 1 / 2 ; Eastern Counties, ex div., 21 21 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, ex div : , 61% ; Ditto, New Shares, 5% %; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock , 18 'ISUMMARY OF ys; Ditto, Half Shares, 9 1 / 4 ; Ditto, Preference Shares, 21.25. ; Grand Junction, ex div., 223 ; Ditto, Half Shares, ex div.. 111 110 ; 1it.,0, Quarter Shares, ex div., 55; Ditto, 4titil shares, 18 ; Great North of England. 301. Shares, 22%; Great Western, London to Bristol, ex div., 181 ; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 4/. 14s. 4 3 / 4 ; Lancaster and Car lisle, 35%; Lancaster and Preston, Quarter Shares, 7%; Leeds and Thirsk, 3 ; limerick and Waterford, 4 1 4 ; Leeds and West Riding, 7 6 3 4 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3/.lls. 3d. 3%; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 31%; London and Brighton, ex div., 62 1 3 / 4 ; Lon don and South-Western, ex div., 80; London and York, 3% %; Manchester and Birmingham, New Quarter Shares, 51. 3s. 9d. Si. ss. ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 14% ; Manchester and Buxton, Iy B ; Manchester and Leeds, ex div., 145 ; Midland Stock, ex div., 141%; Ditto, 401. Shares, 14% 15% ; Ditto, Birmingham, and Derby, ex div., 109%; Newark and Sheffield, 4% %; North British, New Shares, 4% 1 4 • North Wales, 2%; Oxford, Worcester, and Rugby, 4 1 / 8 4 ; Preston and Wyre, 32 1 % ; Scottish Central, 5 1 ,4 Y ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 1/. se. 6d. ; Sheffield and Manchester, ex int., 112 ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 4 1 / 8 4 ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 5 1 4 ; South-Eastern, ex new, 43; Ditto, New Shares, 161 die., ex New, 10/4 ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 3, 8 1 4 ; South Wales, 6 1 / 8 6 1 % ; Trent Valley, 22% ; Ulster, ex div., 44% 45% ; Lyons and Avignon (English), 21. 19s. ; Northern of France (English), 6% 6 ; Paris and Lyons, Laffitte's (English), 4/. 18s. 9d.; Ditto, New Shares, - 2/. 18s. 6d. ; Ditto (Gan neron's), 21. 1 ls. ; Sambre and Meuse, 6% ; Toulouse and Bordeaux, 2% ; Sardinian, 17s. 6d. The information received yesterday and to-day from the United States, upon the subject of the annexation of Texas, has taken almost all the merchants in the City by surprise. Still, however, it is not expected by parties well acquainted with American politics, that the scheme will be carried out if our Government takes a bold front in opposition to it. The majority of 2 in favour of the plan, will open a wide field for discussion, as we have it upon very good au thority that four, if not six votes, were obtained under a distinct (and our informant adds) a written contract of future patronage being bestowed. Without question, this is a subject of very deep interest to our mercantile men, and much weight ought to be attached to the intrigues which have been adopted to bring about the decision of the Senate of the United States in favour of the project. Although we have in our possession some curious details on this subject, it is perhaps more politic, in a national point of view, to withhold facts men tioned to us connected with this matter, until we find that the confirmed policy of the Republican Government is that of annexation, as far as Texas is concerned. The message of the new President in other respects is looked upon among merchants as of little worth. Commer cially speaking, the advices by the packet are somewhat sa tisfactory. Confidence appears to be rising, and, as a matter of course, a better disposition is shown in favour of manu factured goeds. The public securities have been again under the influence of the intelligence received from America, which so sensibly and unfavourably affected their value yesterday shortly before the market closed. Consols have been 9914 to 99% for present transfer, and 99% to 99 3 % for Account. Exche quervbills have receded to 575. and 555. premium. South Sea Stock has not been done, but a resolution has just been come to, declaring a bonus of 6 per cent. and the continuance of the Company's affairs. The value of Mexican Bonds has naturally suffered to a greater extent than that of Consols, as whatever may be the effect of annexation upon our relations with the United States, the position of Mexico in reference to its aggrandizing neigh - bour, must become critical. The value of the Bonds this morning has been 3574, being dull. Colombian Stock has been up to 15% and 15 1 ,4. Spanish Bonds have been 29 7 % to 3 4 for the Actives, and 7 for the Passives. Portu guese Converted have realised 62%, and Brazilian 01%. Dutch Two-and-a. Half per Cents. have been 63 1 / 8 to 627 8 . Shares generally have been rather drooping, but Cam bridge and Lincoln, Churnet Valley, and one or two others, are firmer. PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. ONE O'CLOCK. CLOSING PRICES. 99 102% 68 72 3 per Cent. Consols New 3 1 4 per Cents — India Bonds, 1,0001 Ditto under 1,000/. .. ...... Bank Stock for Account 215 215 Consols for Account 99 % 3 /4 99% Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 1 1 / 2 d 56 57 55 57 pm. 57 Ditto 500/. Ditto Small . . 56 58 55 pm. 57 Ditto Advertised — pm. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Brazilian Bonds Ditto 1843 - 88 Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent.... • •••• -.- Ditto Deferred Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 15% 15 1 / 2 1 4 Danish, 3 per Cent ... 9 0 14 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 — Ditto. Account 35% Ditto, Deferred — Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents — Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, Converted • 66 1 / Ditto, Account — Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto Account Ditto 3 per Cent. — Ditto, Account 00000 ..•••• 40% Ditto, Passive __ Dutch, 2 1 4 per Cent Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 9 9 14 99% Ditto Bonds — 93 3 PRICES OF CLOSING PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. RAILWAY AILWAY SHARES Aberdeen Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% l 3 /4 Birming. and Gloucesterloo Ditto % Shares Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cambridge and Lincoln 1%...... 7 11 / s ue" 6% 7'4 Chester and Holyhead... 5 Cliurnet Valley Cornwall Diss, Beccles, Yarmouth 1 1 / l 3 /4 24 ..... . Direct Northern • 2 1 Dublin and Belfast Junc. 2 Dublin and Galway 2l l / 2...... 2% 3 ...... ... Eastern Counties 25 ...... 21%% 21% ... Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....41.135. 4d — Eastern Union lO .. ... . Ditto Extension Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto New 1 4 Shares... 2 1 / 5 14 Ely and Bedford Great South. and West. (Ireland) Ditto Extension Great Western Harwich ...... 31% 2 1 / Hull and Selby Ditto Quarter Shares 12%...... 20 Kentish Coast l% Lancaster and Carlisle... 15 London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...232 Do. Quarters London and Blackwell. 161. 13s 4d. 7 1 /% — London and Brighton... 50 London and Croydon, 13 1 . 15s. 9d. 16% 17 1 % London and Greenwich 12l 15s 4d... 10 3 g — London and S. Western 4116 s 10d 79% Do. New London and York . 2 2 % 1A ..... 3 1 A IA 3 — Lynn and Ely Manchester and Leeds... 73 146 144 — Manchester and Birmin. 40 111idlend 100 142 143 Do. Fifths 2 Do. New Midland, Birm., Derby...loo lO9 New4astlo and Darling thi Junction 24 ...... 47% Do. New Brandling... 10 Newcastle and Berwick 1% l4l Newry and Eninskillen. 2 1 Newark and Sheffield ... 1 1 ,% 4 1 1 / 2 North British Do. New Northern and Eastern... 45 North Wales .. ll4 2A IA , Norwich and Brandon... 10 Do., New ... ..... ..... 1 Richmond and \Vest End Junction Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 Scottish Midland l l /8 2 3 /4 Shrews., Wolverhamp., Dudley, and Birm 2 l / 2. .... 4 1 / 2 3,/, 5 ..... .. South Devon... lO ... . 20 South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 42% %14. . . Do., No. 2. Do., No. 3 South Wales 2%...... 5:4 6... ...... ... Trent Valley 2 ...... 17 Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... 3% %...• York and North Midland 50 Do. Selby Do. Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS Boulogne and Amiens... 4 Bordeaux and Toulouse 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette Great North. of France.. 4 Lyons and Avignon Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...... 18 17 1 Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 • Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2 Paris and Lyons, Gan neron's' ... Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2 Paris and Orleans 2O -, •1 Sambre and Meuse .... 2 ...... 6 7 1/ /4 2 •• • Tours and Nantes, Mac- ken zie's MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCII 26.—The sales are :—Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarters, 5 11-16 ; Manchester and Leeds, 147 ex div. ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 20 ex div. • Manchester and Birmin ham, 57 1 4 ex new and ex div. ; Ditto, New Quarters, 5% 1 4 prem. ; Midland Rail way Consols, 40/. Shares, 14 3 % %; reston and Wyre, 33%; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 9% ; Black burn, Dawen, and Bolton, 4 % ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liver pool, 10 1 4 ; Caledonian, 10 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 6% ; Erewash 'Valley, 15 ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 3 1 4 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 3 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3 3 / 4 ; London and Worcester. Oxford and Rugby, 4% 4 ; London and York, 3 1 4 % ; Manchester and Buxton, 2 1-16 ; Newark and Sheffield, 4% ; Scottish Central, 5' ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction, 4 1-16 •, Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c., 5 ; Trent Valley, 16% ex new ; Great Northern of France (English), 614. FRENCH RAILWAYS.—PARIS AND LYONS (GAN-. NERON'S) AND DIJON AND MULHOUSE RAILWAYS. — Such is the interest taken in these projects by his Ma jesty Louis Philippe, that, upon hearing Mr. Mowatt was at Paris as the representative of the English Committees, his Majesty desired to see that gentleman, and honoured him with an audience on Monday last, upon the intro duction of General Count Baudrand, who is the presi dent of both those lines. AND Pubitt ®pinto " Who runs may read." THE — NEW NOVEL.—We are requestei to state that Mr. Colburn. of Great Marlborough-street, has this day published " Maids of Honour," a Tale of the Court of George L, in three vols. post Bvo., which can now be had at all the Libraries. Mr. Colburn has also just published the following popular novels : —2. De Rohan, or the Court Conspirator, an historical romance, by M. Eugene Sue, author of " The Mysteries of Paris," &c , 3 vols.-3. Strathern, a Story of the Present Day, by the Countess of Blessington-4. Lady Cecilia Farrencourt, by Henry Milton, Esq., author of " Rivalry," 3 vols.- 5. Hillingdon Hall, a Tale of Country Life, by the 'author of" Handley Cross," 3 vols. MORNING,- MARCA 28, 1R46. ivis 11. WOREIGN. • The Queen of the French, the Count de Parlst., Duke and Duchess de Nemours, the Duke de itiong — c o sier, and the Duchess d'Aumale, attended YesPe ll Sunday evening at the church of Saint Roch. o p The Minister of Marine informed the Chamitho Monday, that the Bill relative to the organisation ° rr transatlantic line of steam-packets would be shortly') seated by the Minister of Finance. Admiral Baudin, Maritime Prefect of Toulon, h° rived in Paris. He comes as delegate from one of French colonies. A letter from Toulon states that the Asmoa Of; frigate will leave that port on the 4th of next mouth , h , Marseilles, to take on board his Royal nightie° Duke de Montpensier for Algiers. 01/6' The Spanish Government intends to send into F of Germany, Belgium, and England, a certain numbe r cor railroad and canal engineers, to study the differen t structilms. tee l/ A Limoges journal announces the death in that of M. de Saint Liger, a rich miser, who bad for years been remarkable for his sordid avarice. rifL A io considerable landed property and large sums invest7oo the funds ; and in his house, after his death, more Jo 100,0001. have been discovered buried or conceals various places. He dressed like a beggar, and wh en be personal effects were sold off by auction his Taw' fetched sizAy centimes. *rig ° The investments into the savings' banks of r the 23d and 24th inst. amounted to 562,4151., end bmw , imbursements to 900,000 f. 0 Good 11 A letter from Bayonne states that on Gs-- f there was found in the poor's box of the hospitaliediei. Leon, a stock receipt for 110,0001., giving an annel".aof dend of 4,600 f., with an anonymous note, ana° l— it was for the benefit of the hospital. The Universal German Gaza* has the fol i o under the head of Berlin, March 18 There it she longer any talk of the diplomatic negotiations shoe f oe acknowledgment of the Queen of Spam on the part ° o Northern Powers, insurmountable difficulties arisen." m i l Olt ' A Malta journal publishes a letter, dated 2 v, -- from Monestier, in the Regency of Tunis, Omni account of an affair which had just occurred the r boir native of Tunis, who at Malta had embraced occurred tian religion, having arrived at Monestier in an I,° o lll trader, the Cacli seized him, and it was with , air F ir that he escaped death at the hands of the excited lace. The English Consul at Susa having been sit s b of what was going on by an English sailor, weal on spot, and, having insisted upon the release ofd e b y tY he was set at liberty, and an apology was M a ' , Cadi. - SAV7 AND FOLIOS,. In the case of France v. Dawson, tried st 1331 before Mr. Baron Platt, the jury found for the Pit s bet damages 251. This was an action brought by tb° ass i of a servant girl, who had lived with the defe! Dawson (the governor of the Salop county P ui Vefil 6' cover 251., 61. of which was for maintaining 911 d b 0 mate child, of which Dawson is the father, an or acknowledged his paternity aforetime by diffe re i V ments, being the alleged seducer of the P"' t , ( l daughter. In his defence, the defendant attelll4loo cast imputations on the character of the girl. .1 manly proceeding, however, availed him nothing At Worship-street two young men, nateed..,"borili m Carter and David Herbert, were charged wiw of lp„'" been concerned with another man, not in cu l l,' Dr committing a violent and unprovoked assault ur n & 0, S. Vincent Phillips, a clerk in the Bank of Etie l 'ia th' siding at Barnsbury-park, Islington, and a lso 11 . 1 , 1 04° commission of other outrages. The prisoners 11;;;000; amusing themselves with throwing stones at tb: on 11,1 gers in Shepherd-and-Shepherdess-fields an d oe r e remonstrance being made, they knocked ' dewiltbe monstrant. Several females had suffered by lence. Herbert was fined 10s., or a fortnighesalsoir sonment ; Carter was fined 205., or a months bur aog went. James Ward, a lad 15 years old, one of tbrecat#o,l urchins who were amusing themselves w.iti t r g as, /1 7. stable-dung at persons passing thre'ugh Golden":, fined ss. at Guildhall for wilful damage Gold chanic's best coat, and being unable to pa)', be 4,01.11 mitted to 13ridewell for 14 days to be kept on water. „ A ' If/lb c°111:r Esther Gilbert, 19 years of age, cherg.- ho-,„ miffing several robberies whilst in service 111‘,/ifoly maid in the family of Lionel 011iver, Esq., °l„,,, o rtb* don-common, was fully committed from Wa n ' w ill COURT—PASHIONAISTak 'loot The Post says it is now arranged that the v c o a leave Windsor for the Isle of Wight on Saturdai; o 4l , 7 The various reports which have bk en cir cu te; some time past, calculated to lead the nations hort : it hor pect an increase in the Royal Family, are totally foundation. by 11.1 tr On Wednelay a new anthem, compose d Prince Albert, was rehearsed for the first tiirc:bobj ; eorge's Hall. The given's ! private band Oa of St. George's were in attendance. Her Mftt i la9F the Prince came into the Hall, and his Royal o 'lssfi l o ( after the first trial, picked out a few errors ic ° he ," • o de mental department. The anthem, on being ',,, 1 011 again, proved to be perfect. The (inert' then eotiglilr it to he played over once more, and was much, r l , e with the composition and the manner in which tt be t formed. This anthem, entitled "Out of the de% Of, called thee," is acknowledged by a number of ,'booth rate judges who were present to be the chef trtc av Prince's compositions. 10 / miscELLANZOITS. , ‘ ,; g en A very beautiful communion chalice Was week to the church at Hampton - ' or upon-Thatoed 36% MIA 16% 7 1 64 23% 2% 4% 20 j 4 43 3 % 101 66% 50 1 % incumbnt. Th following inkription - ..„hu the ped e estal:—" e PresenteCt to the Parish Chu': li"1 Mary, Hampton, by the Rev. Edward Jobnet°l4 Vicar. Easter, 1845.", 5i0. 1 0 4 The pending prosecutions by the City afi",.00,4), merchants and other non-freemen have beeo,; Jo". from the City courts into the Court of Q ueen "rse where they will undergo discussion in the ect o , few weeks on behalf of the associated non-fre eul tio - g 111 :,0 On Wednesday morning the body of a 7, 0 °- SI, dressed in a blue Guernsey frock, light wa": t he r oot trowsers, and high shoes, was found floating T o heLj, Thames off Blackwell- stairs. He is suppel% of the persons who, about six weeks ago, wa'',:" 'wss ing to Billingsgate-market with a cargo of ll down in Barking Reach, and four individuilerse,t, drowned. The others were picked up soon a tle ae , "o On Saturday afternoon, one of those felleeltob 0 11 ,1 Dated "area sneaks," who are ever on the ftstefil o d servants leave the kitchen stole down the Br e t - 0 6.2v Mr. Ellison's residence, ' No. 9, Half Bloon-6"t00'"4 succeded in carrying off some silver fort a spoons, two silver sauce ladles, a soup lour fe spoon, and a pair of sugar tongs. The Pio crest of an eagle's head with a coronet. e ftAbf be There is every prospect of the old Tower, n d o. 4 0 added to the list of public walks at the ea st town during the summer, and considerable avioriat displayed in gravelling it, a solid foundation li t oil i v ri t laid, and the drainage being very perfect ! ' the v - be be attempted to make a plantation, for w: fo r ine"ty of the subsoil quite unfits it, and the vegeteni or confined to a few flower-beds. The foundatittle,ePilf new barracks in the interior have made bu t 1 9 ,1) 0 '6,0 gress, although, in addition to the ordinarf for V' 100 soldiers are daily employed on the workp v „eh they receive an extra payment of 10d. per 101,,'" On Wednesday morning, James, alia s pi i e ster n aged twenty-eight years, terminated b ia hanging himself. It appears that the deceits ,;et, kept a cheesentonger's shop in Walworth-et'i bit fife r 1;e0 ber,‘ ell. had latterly become very jeal° l.l a s „ ° o o l sl, t° and in cons.quence lived very unhappily. L. - 00 0eu of letting his shop, and intended to have II! it: hil town yesterday for the purpose of advertisieeto 1,130 came down stairs at seven o'clock, and WO !,bt 0 .0 shop about twenty minutes afterwards, buts 14 0 : 0 0to he was discovered in the water-closet susPl i lliiid cord. He was instantly cut down, and inee-w -- in, but it was too late. __-_-.: nO lO l4 THE LATE FATAL EXP III ' AT BLACK WALL , i „ l atii CONCLUSION OF THE CORONER'S to i 0 9.,0 4, Yesterday forenoon, the adjourned Coren#Aer Gril; on the bodies of Jonathan Smith, R P- Ob e 'er George Chapman, and William N ea le, 4 jii o il their lives by the late boiler explosion at ,if. Samuda's factory, at Blackwell, was re be ° 0 0 ,0 011 4 concluded, at the Town-ball, Poplar9 esse s vi l ify Baker. The depositions of the wit" • i tsil, in number), who were examined at the prellesu f on the body of Thomas Wright, another of 110 std for whose death a verdict of manslaug hter ; f ef f , been recorded against Mr. Lowe, the ell o. , f er having been read over by the Coroner, be brie ; 01 i.lf, d 00 0 the jury, and recommended them to return 0 P` o o o diet in each case. This they unanimously a f (lte t and after the inquisition had been. signet" „ d t e',; handed in the following addenda:— ti °a *W I "( 1 ,, ° " The jury cannot close this investigate:l-g tt J . J r' pressing their opinion, that the apPli ett ; :gidlro pressure boilers to high pressure purpol s : kr,itell,' gerous, and ought to be prohibited by Iti t ," . ts en'ofir # ) are further of opinion that the important facts ('o v i 00 this inquiry should be laid before her gs.l es .;oo ° Al ment, in the hope that some legislative et , j ,i tbet f or be adopted whereby, if possible, topreve/r t he a destruction of human life which arises ul l ' e " of i , imperfect system." e tlnto At ok The CORONER observed that the inig'' t 0 1 0'74 jury were very valuable, and be would The color _ 440 0 warding them to the proper quarter. iog were then bound over to appear at the el l ye l fr o , of the Central Criminal Court, and the .1.0 tap were placed in the hands of the police for w d es. Ad sion of Mr. Lowe and his committal to 14evit°- ..,5 ------ p e a _ l % Or‘it TUE ADMIRAL'S GOOD SERVICS 'A-cuoirwrss;itol Earl of Haddington has conferred the,r ; ,h re 4 0 , Service pension 3001. per annum, wu'lirier: f i his Lordship's patage by the de m , e $ ewy Sir T. Baker, on Vice-Admiral of the pi!, i t i li j This Gallant Officer, who entered the Wi th the . , 00119 midshipman of the Phoenix in her action 7, 1 ,' , an,.':',o„ e ship Resolu, in the East Indies, in 11 7 4'0w - of 00 quently distinguished himself in the lest i°4 was Lieutenant of the Zebra at the "I s , a 0 o ii i. French islands there ; and was wei tl3 , l , l tbe f ° o lo l ,l, / shore in their capture. He served i• A ''' o arP u e- tfr parties on a great many occasions, an : 4 ,4 fr - storming Fort Royal, Martinique, in ",,;:i0 5 ,4, 4 lowing year he was eugaged in quelling i r eli br at St. Vincent's. In that affair he was go e 0 and had a pension of 250/. per annum g wounds in BM—Herald. 5a............,, The foT give the 1 th e new ( Attort; Nav y, have refu !ate Speal • ed, ant Presich ,the Seem uourt for eUentive ( talon of • Presid4 in MakiE AIDEILS nephews, PreSg 113 to the GI 4 ,expected, 'nose re s telatl/4r. WIND Albert, Badei taronees kind Sii Baron d George's half an kroceede Aiding-s Her %Ply nu t s lul also isden. 14r - E +laden, Bum d Castle tl Western and. After sYII hi, f., at non. CI The .- rlinces: telton, N , In th 4 Pleasure "The ] . The ; Include( 4, „,una X 'lr. and M 41, re m u , th e ; tti,t,