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THE - SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 6, 1844. /be perfected in my , time, though I am not a very old man, but I trust t 3 Providence that Lord Ashley's years may be spared—and if they are, he will conduct and complete it before he arrives at my age." This prediction was pronounced by the admirable patriot and philanthropist thirteen years ago, when the speaker was about fifty years old. Who doubts of its literal fulfilment ? Lord Ashley has ten years before him of the term allowed ; and if ever the prayers of. millions were answered, they will be ten years of success and happiness. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. POST.—It is curious to observe, that while in matters of mere discussion the French are much more given to abstraction than we are, yet, in the affairs of government, they are precisely the con trary. In these respects, it appears to us that our foreign neighbours have the advantage of us. In their common conversation, even about trifles, they are accustomed to use a kind of brilliant and expan sive logic which throws an interest around matters that, with us, are dull as ditch-water, or a Whig lec ture on education. But when they come to think of matters of government, they take into account the personal feelings of the people concerned, and deter mine their policy accordingly. The French have plenty of people who talk political economy with as much cool unconcern as any English disciple of Adam Smith, Ricardo, or Malthus. They have pro fessors at their colleges who lecture upop:the benefits of machinery and of cheapness almost as well as Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Gladstone, or even Sir R. Peel. But, in the Government, and in the Chamber, men place themselves in the situation of those who are to be affected by any proposed piece of policy, and they refuse to be charmed by any abstract•rules of right, however seductively scientific they may appear to be. It is an undeniable abstract truth, that coal andcotton thread can be had cheaper from England than by the employment of French labour in their production. But the French legislators do not much trouble themselves with that consideration. They bear in mind that a good deal of French capital and a great many French people are employed in providing fuel and cotton goods for French consumption, and they SPIRIT' of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. i say to themselves, "We . must take care of these FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. 1 French interests. We should have very little grati GL OBE .—Notw ithsta nding the vaunted numerical \ tulle for making fuel a little cheaper a nd cotton strength of its majority, numerous and formidable goods, perhaps, five or ten centimes in the hundred difficulties surround the Government, which seem ; lower in price than they now are. But the ruin of rather to increase than to diminish. These have i the wood and coal men would be a very serious affair, chiefly arisen from the party which placed Sir Robert ; and they would make a very angry noise about it, Peel in his present pi sition, and are traceable, partly, . and many villages would be reduced to pauperism if to the tend( nsy of his party to be dissatisfied with the ; the cotton manufacture were taken away from them measures of a Ministry which has been invested with by English competition. We will not be the destruc office through their means, but principally to the tion of _these poor people, for they are French, raised hopes of the Conservatives. These the dis- ' and have a right to protection at our hands." honest course pursued by Sir Robert Peel, as leader ' T o us t hi s appears very reasonable, because it is of the Opposition, contributed to inspire, which, as • founded on good feeling towards those w hom French Minister, he finds himself compelled to discourage 1 legislators are under a natural obligation to befriend and disappoint. Ever since the present administra- ias much as they possibly can. Again, look at the tion was installed, each successive session i difference between the respective Governments of has atlbrded fresh illustrations and proofs England and France in regarchto holders of the pub of the disappointments, distractions, and con- lie debt at a larger interest than that which is current sequent growing disaffection of the Conservative in the market. Our worthy Mr. Goulburn, who is party. One or other of the interests into which it is really as good a man as can possibly be, nevertheless divided has been in alarm and agitation. Those who f looks upon the holders of the Three-and-a-Half per looked to the Minister their own hands had made for .1 Cents. as mere abstract recipients of a larger interest increased advantages, in the shape of added po ever, or 4 than the Government need pay them, under the exist more stringent protection to their exclusive interests, ins y_ his means, have been doomed to deplore his state of the money market. He trouble s himself b not with considerations of the inconvenience, perhaps broken promises, and are provoked to denounce his 1 the misery, which many holders of this stock may breaches of faith with them. The new tariff, and suffer from the reduction of their incomes. Probably the improved sliding-scale of the first session, dis- I this idea never occurs to him, nor was it so much a s palled delusion from the agriculturists. Though even hinted at by any one of the si;c hundred and the benefits to the consumers of beef and I fifty-eight legislators to whom the proposal for re bread were found to exist only in the fair speeches duction was lately submitted. It is all the same to of Sir Robert Peel, whose sole object was to check them whether the holders of the Three-and-a-Half the popular dislike to his income tax, the landed per Cents. be poor widows or opulent proprietors, or interest saw, with alarm, their corn-law disturbed, and mere trustees, without any tie of affection to those the other restrictive duties upon the admission of for whom they administer their trust, or sticks and foreign agricultural produce diminished. They heard stones, which indeed have generally about as much in the House of Commons principles enunciated with f ee li ng o f their business as trustees have. The Go approbation by Sir Robert Peel, and his fidus Achates vernment and the Legislature care not one straw who at the Board of Trade, which, practically applied, or what may be the owners of the Thiee-and-a-Half would accomplish the destruction of protective duties. per Cents. ; they only consider that this stock may They remembered the Premier's character for facile re- be paid off, and another stock, at a lower rate of an nunciation of principle; and they dreadedlest he should terest, established in their place, and upon that ab be induced to betray the agricultural protection cause, street fact they set to work, and the stock is reduced as he had formerly that of Catholic exclusion. The accordingly. But in France there is a large amount following session saw the Canada Corn Bill, which ! of stock, bearing the interest of five per cent., would admit American corn, via Canada, at a small 1 which the Government has certainly an abstract duty, passed into law : thus, with characteristic chi- 1 right to pay off at 100, though the market price is chane, introducing the commodity by the back door, ' 120, or to convert into another stock bearing a less thus opened, while the front gates were barred ard interest, and yet the Government will not do so, be bolted w;th an affectation of determination truly laugh- cruse it takes into account the- circumstances, of able. These measures have sadly shaken the faith of the holders of the stock, and the injury which the agriculturists in Sir R. Peel's sincerity of inten- ' the " conversion " would be to them. " These tion, and have induced the formation of associations people," say the Government, " have a stock which for the protection of agriculture. The landowners thus iis worth 120 in the market. If we were to adopt a hope to preserve their rents from the ruinous reduc- policy which would depreciate it to 100, it would be tion, which they fear would follow the diminution or a revolution! These people could not bear to be thus entire abolition of the import duties of corn of foreign deprived of one-sixth of their capital, and one-fifth of ?rowth. They avow •their renunciation of confidence their annual income, by an economical stroke of in Sir Robert Peel. They make no secret of the policy." How opposite this is to the English govern course they will henceforth pursue. The Duke of mental mode of thinking and reasoning about the Richmond's expressive threat is now the motto of the same sort of thing we need not say. In this country, landlords :—" We made him; and, if he stir another between the governors and the governed, there is no step in the path of free, trade, we will show ourselves such thing as sympathy or community of feeling. No strong to depose and destroy, as we were to exalt and one dreams of it. The relative positions—especially support." The declaration of Sir Robert Peel, in the in regard to matters of finance and profit and loss— present session, that he "does not, at present, con- are rather antagonistic than co-operative. The Go template any further alteration in the Corn-laws," vernment has no sort of feeling with the people, to though it has somewhat quieted the apprehensions, prevent it having its work done on the cheapest pigs has by ne means restored confidence to the alarmed bible terms, and the people have no sort of feeling landlords. A kind of armed truce is kept up; which with the Government to prevent them from resisting 'will be converted into open hostility upon the first all manner of taxation and payment so far as they indication of an intention, on the part of the Ministry, may do so with safety. These are elements of the to legislate upon the protective duties. political status in quo which are worth the attention STANDARD. The intervention of " Good of the political philosopher. Friday" has caused all our Contemporaries of the ADVERTISER.—The "Young England" party daily press to have the start of us in observing upon has made some addition to its strength by the recent the auspicious revenue returns of the 4th of April, decision in Cambridge in favour of ' monasteries and 1844. There is no aspect in which we can contem- similar institutions' —a decision to which we have • plate this index of the national progress in which it already directed the attention of our readers. • The does not present occasion of pride and hope. The design of these worthies is to aid in Parliament the empire whose securities in Three per Cents. are cause which Pusey and his disciples are promoting in within a shadow of par; whose revenues are largely what is called the Church, and both together are increasing annually ; the nation, one section of which, longing for the return of those monkish institutions and one section only—though that is the most impor- which nearly three }Mildred years since bad ceased to tant—contains classes at ease, if not affluent, possessing darken the face of England. Purblind as these men incomes to the extent of much more than two hundred are rendered by the system of which they are the ad millions sterling the year (of this the income-tax of voeates, they seem to be ignorant of the change which five millions and upwards is the proof)—the empire time has wrought in the social condition of our that affords such evidence of credit, industry, and country, and of the absolute impossibility of its ever wealth, has little to fear from war in a stage of the returning to the institutions which "Young Eng- World's history, when war is made principally by land" contemplates with such fond affection. Menu money. We have rated the income of persons pos- factories put monasteries out of date, and railroads sessing 1501. a-year and upwards at much more than traversed by steam-engines at the rate of thirty miles 200 millions ; and upon that point the evidence of the an hour will not very happily consort with sleepy property-tax is conclusive ; but is this evidence ade- monks, who quate to the exhibition of the whole truth ? By no "Soundly sleep the night away, means. The property-tax scarcely extends at all to And just do nothing all the day; . Ireland (and, by the way, let this be recited Who eat, and drink, and sleep--what then? in the next schedule of Irish grievances, that Why eat, and drink, and sleep again." under the heads of property-tax and assessed taxes, That man must be strangely unobservant of the facts which do not reach Ireland, Great Britain pays which are subjected to hii every-day observation, or twice as much as the whole Irish revenue), and it as strangely ignorant of the facts of English history, certainly is not collected to its full amount even in who needs to be told that the age of monasteries, this island. It was said of the income-tax previous when the country . had a spare population—when the to 1816, that Glasgow paid, as we recollect, six alms of the baronial hall and the convent were mffi times as much as Manchester. Is there any reason cient for those who had to beg—when the mind of to suppose that the Leaguers of our day are more the whole population, with but few exceptions, bowed . honest than their fathers thirty years ago ? Pre- to the sceptre of Romish domination, differed alto-. . viously to 1816 the millocracy had but one motive to gether from England in the present age, when the understate their gains—the desire to save so much whole country is thickly peopled—when a spirit of tax; now they have another; and if possible, a more independence animates the humbler classes, and ren powerful motive, in the necessity of showing that ders them anxious to receive their support, not from their profits are so low as to require the sacrifice the hands'of some mitred abbot, but from the labour of the happiness, health, lives, and morals of the lof their own hands ; and when the minds of men have labouring classes to . save these profits from dis- t claimed that freedom which is their birthright, and appearing altogether. We look with anxiety for in the exercise of which they profess convictions the property-tax returns from the manufacturing strangely differing from each other, and from the districts—these returns being general, and con- ages anterior to the Reformation. The absurdity of solidated, will cause no invasion of any one's privacy attempting to restore the institutions of the middle by their publi c ati on , an d th e y sure ly will supply an a g es to the nineteenth centur y , renders it unnecessar y important eleme n t i n th e di scuss i on o f the great that we should offer any serious arguments against it. question which now occupies the public mind—What There is, however, in the present number of the Con is the income of the millowners 9 Surely this must gregational Magazine, a very talented article on the be known, before it can be determined whether the suppression of the monasteries, to which, on account people ought to be sacrificed. As et the only data of its appropriateness to the subject before us, we that. the public have is th e i r own b y oasi that in about cannot av oid a brief reference. " Multitudes in this twenty-five years they rea li se d M ore than the e country (observes the write r ) , deli g ht to contem p l ate purchase money of the f ee of - th United Kingdom. Now, if . the glorious remains of monastic architecture, as seen their income lie in such runs as Netley o r Fountain, Glastonbur y , or very great, though not quite so g rea t as the Tintern , a nd moved b y peaceful scenes and hallowed boast referred to implies, it is plain that they are . associations, are ready to say with Sir Walter Scott— under no necessity of compelling women and _ .' Here have I thought twere' sweet to dwell, pefsons to work twelve hours, and to remain fou r teen y o ung And rear again the chaplain's cell; Like that same peaceful hermitage , hours in the mill daily. If their income is not great, of what 'importance is their pauper-making an d Where Milton longed to spend his age.' This sensibility and taste have been wrought upon by misery-extending pursuit to the nation, to justify the sacrifice of the health, happiness, lives, and morals, ofi the pseudo-hi s t or i ans a n d novelists, who describe these the labouring classes to its preservation. They may , foundati ons as h av i ng been the asylums of learning, be like the person of whom the wise mans peaks— I th e homes of charity, and the sanctuaries of religion; " Who think life a plaything , and time a market for Fos e t reas, to use the ener ge ti c l angu age of John gain ; for, say they, we must be getting every way, er, ' the proud pile s were , i n f ac t, ra i se d t o cele brate the Conquest, and ;" but though it be by evil means 1 power of darkness over were as triumphal arches the u think, the people of Englarid will not endure such a I erseoctlesdo i n f the mem people. They I code of social morals, except upo n the ground of extermination of that truth whichw as orial of the invincible necessity. lire ought to have some know- life of man." The writer then alludes to g given to be the ledge of the aggregate gains, in order to determine as ; tary evidence which is being brought to l e i ht byumen to the existence of such' a necessity. The considera- i ecclesiastical inquiries now going on, and w hic h the . shows tion of the millowners' property-tax has led us away 1 " how awfully retributive were the • spohations of from the more general view of the subject. The whole , in th e Bluff Harry, and how truly he was a "besom ' rateable income o f th e United Kingdom can hardly be I hands of the All-righteous One to sweep from the less than the enormous sum of three hundred millions earth those gorgeous dwelling-places of sterling, a s perfect security against foreign aggression, hypocrisy and sanctimonious crime. " Did the Cam and a glorious means of softenin the condition brid g e resolutio n , l • gentlemen who passed the t o whi ch that of all classes o f the people—and g condition will we have referred, take in their discussion, the facts be softened. England does not become less moral or recorded in " The Black Book," made at the in less humane as she becomes more rich, thanks to the stance of Cromwell, concerning " the vile lives, the happy influence of our pure Protestant Christianity. abominable facts, in murders of their brethren, in The moral health of the country improves with its so d om ies, in whoredoms, in destroying of children, wealth ; contrary, certainly,the to - experience of all in forging of deeds , and o t her infinite horrors of life," Pagan and Romanist nations. The very humblest will, iof which the monasteries had been the eenes ? If sooner or later, share in the common b affluence l of the they did not, their judgment concerningthe desirable . nation. It may be now ; it may hence ; but the result is inevitable • e uhie few years ness of having monastic institutions restored, cannot trust to be impossible, the moral feelsins w hat f we be of much worth ; and if they did,' they - deserve the country shall retrograde. " The blessed g o f the contempt and execration of the country to re orm said the excellent Michael Sadler , <, can hardly • , which they are longing. to restore the institutions which our forefathers were compelled to uproot. In any case these Cambridge monks ought to avow their conversion to the Church of Rome, or else to make way for the return of the men whose places they most unjustly occupy. We make not these references to the abominations of institutions connected with the Romish Church invidiously, for it must be admitted that similar abominations in their most revolting phase occur in the history of our pre sent religion. It is not our object to condemn parti cular sects, but exclusive systems, with whatever sects they may be identified or associated. Recent exhi tions in the Established Church of this country fall in character nothing short of the former pollutions of the church which it succeeded, though in extent they may be less enormous. This, however, is not to be attributed so much to the change of creed as to the progress of the civilising, or, we would rather say, of the humanising principle, or, yet, rather the increased facility of exposure. Had there been in former times the same means of giving publicity to clerical delin quency as there exists at present, monastic abomina tions would have never reached that climax which now appals us, and were we now without a free press, or at least a press comparatively free, we should have the Established Church of the Reformation in a posi tion as debased as was ever that of the Church of Rome, and it is to this complexion—the ascendancy of Church abominations—that the zealous disciples of " Young England" would now force the national sentiment. HERALD.—The sum of five millions three hundred and fifty-six thousand pounds has actually been paid into the Exchequer within the last twelve months as the pro duce of the tax on the .incomes of persons possessing from 1501. per annum and upwards. The levy is after the rate of 7d. in the pound, except on farming profits, on which it takes only 3id. But we fear that it may safely be assumed that a very considerable proportion of those engaged in trade and professions have lacked the conscientiousness to make a return of their full and actual income. Ireland, too, is almost entirely ex empted. Taking all these circumstances into account, it will be evident that the actual receipt of so large a sum as 5,356,8871., clearly proves the gross income of the higher and middle classes of these islands to be very considerably above two hundred millions per annum! Another gratifying circumstance requires to be I noticed.' It was predicted that the forcible levy of the income-tax, which upon all visible property—such as lands, funds, railroads, Scc.,—cannot be evaded,— wculd very seriously diminish the produce of the other taxes; that people, in short, would save their income tax out of their general expenditure. Such, however, does not appear to be the case. We find an actual in crease in customs, excise, and almost every other de partment of the revenue. The use, however, that we are desirous of making of these important and gratifying facts, is a strictly practical one. We wish to shake, by their force, the fears and doubts expressed by several over-cautious speakers in the late debates on the ten hour's clause. It was often admitted that it would be in deed a very happy thing if we could eexcuse the poor labourers in the factories from more than ten hours of daily labour. It was not denied—it could not be de nied, that fourteen hours of confinement, which the twelve-hours' clause implies, is injurious to health, destructive of home habits and domestic vir tues, and incompatible with any kind: of mental or moral cultivation. Alt admitted that a more moderate amount of labour was very desirable, all professed to wish that , it were practicable ; but there came one difficulty in the way. However we might wish to be kind, and humane, and considerate, we must not attempt to indulge in such expensive sentimentalities, for "we can't afford it!" We are certain that none who followed the course of the late debate will charge us with misrepresenting or exaggerating that which was, in fact, the main argument on which the advocates of " twelve hours" relied. None ventured to assert that protracted labour was better than labour to a mode rate extent, is itself—none were at all backward in asserting, that they would gladly vote for " the ten hours' clause," if they dared—but one and all, on that side of the question, agreed in expressing their apprehensions; that so to limit the hours, in the present state of the national affairs, would prove, in a commercia4oint of view.,.a dangerous,and probably a ruinous expeihn&it. 'the . . surprising fact with which we begnii 110 shatild have some weight in the question. The nation is wonderfully rich —is fur richer, it is now ascertained, than she believed herself to be when she laid down twenty millions in one moment to purchase the freedom of the black inhabitants of her West Indian islands. Now, we say, not that another twenty millions is needed, or any similar sum ; but we do say, that in whatever way the freedom of our own factory slaves can be obtained, whether by remitting the duty on cotton, or by any other sacrifice that can meet the case, England is rich enough, and is willing enough, we will answer for her, at once to pay he price, and make the sacrifice. LORD AUINGER.—We regret to state that the ac counts from Bury St. Edmund's to-day are very unfavour able. Letters received this morning represent the state of the Noble and Learned Lord as utterly hopeless ; he is gradually sinking. FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. H. Gouger and D. Hunter, merchants, Great Winchester-street, City, April 26, at two—T. H. Wood, draper, Pentonville, April 26, at half-past one—F. Barry, miller, Rye, Sussex, April 26, at twelve —J. Overington, plumber, Arundel, Sussex, April 26, at twelve—J. Judd and W. Judd, mealmen, Southamp ton, April 26, at one—J. Turner, cabinet-maker, Grange • place, Hoxton, April 26, at half-past/one. In the Country. J. Wilson, draper, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, April 30, at eleven, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court — J. "Leech, ironmonger, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, May 2, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court — Samuel, William, and James Butler, iron-founders, Warwick, April 27, eleven, at the Birmingham District Court—J. Harford and W. W. Davies, iron-merchants, Bristol, April 30, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court —W. Fletcher, oilman, Birmingham, May 1, at one, at the Birmingham District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned. E. Minister, tailor, Argyll-place, Regent-street, April 26—R. L. Sturtevant, soap-manufacturer, Church street, Bethnal-green, April 26—Joseph, John, and William Forster, bankers, Carlisle, April 29—J. Wilson, draper, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, April 29—M. Murphy, grocer, Liverpool, April 26— M. Bower, toy-manufac turer, Birmingham, May 3—T. Bentley, cloth-ma nufacturer, Rawden, Yorkshire, April 26 —T. Parr, plumber, Liverpool, April 26—W. and I. Dunnage, plumbers, Tooley-street, April 26—T. Alford, licensed victualler, Harrow-road, Paddington, April 26 —C. Webb, apothecary, Oxford, April 26—J. H. Perry man, bookseller, Birmingham, April 26—T. 0. Hazard and H. Bingham, merchants, Sheffield, April 26—G. Pile and W. J. B. Staunton, wine-merchants, Bishops gate-street, April 26. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. - - J. K. Murphy and W. H. Dutton, Hull—G. S. Archer and W. H. Cane, surgeons, Notting-hill—R. Addison and T. F. Beale, music-sellers, Regent• street—R. Stuart, J. J. Smith, and S. Ackroyd, stove-manufacturers, Sheffield (so far as regards S. Ackroyd)—J. Lord and J. Whitworth, grocers, Burnley, Lancashire—S. Ward, D. Gomersall, W. Gomersall, and J. Rayner, fulling millers, Leeds (so far as regards S. Ward)—T. Oldham and J. Williams, coal-merchants, Cheltenham—W. Woods and M. Jordan, Ossulstun-street, St. Pancras— M. and W. Shackleton, letter-press printers, Manchester I. and S. I. Samson, commission-agents, Manchester —C. Macauley and F. H. Halpen, ship-brokers, Liver pool—J. Mush and R. D. Clarke, paper-stainers, Man chester—J. F. Moore, T. F. Moore, and J. Moore, iron merchants, Manchester—E. T. Meredith and H. Walker, surgeons, Ludlow—W. Lakin and W. Fletcher, soap manufacturers, Tipton, Staffordshire—S. Wray and L. Day, apothecaries, Salisbury-square—G. Wilson and M. Clegg, Liverpool- J. Capel and T. S. Parry, coal-mer chants—G, Proctor and W. 11. Trow, lucifer-match ma nufacturers, Leeds—W. Tarbuck and W. Henderson, starch-manufacturers, Liverpool—T. Acester, E. Green, and R. Dales, linen-drapers, York. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. JAMES SCARTH, commission-agent, Aberdeen, April 10, and May 1, at two, at the Lemon-tree Tavern, Aberdeen. WALTER DICKSON, millwright, Jedburgh, April 11, and May 2, at eleven, at the Spread Eagle Inn, Jedburgh: JOHN MURRAY, ship•owner, Dunfermline, April 11, and May 2, at twelve, at the Spire Hotel, Dun fermline. DAVID MOWBRAY, jeweller, Edinburgh, April 8, and April 29, at two, at the writing-chambers of George Gray, W.S., Edinburgh. WILLIAM PURSELL, cabinet-maker, Dunbar, April 11, and May 2, at two, at the writing-chambers of William Watson, Haddington. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the week ending April 2, 1844, is 345. Bid. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great Britain. CROYDON POLICE. An elderly man, in a miserable condition, who gave the name of Thomas William Robe, was taken before Mr. S. W. Sutherland, at the Town-hall, Croydon, on Wednesday, charged with begging. It appeared from the evidence given by the police, that the de fendant, who has been in the town for some days, had annoyed the inhabitants .a good deal b y begging, and he had been to almost every house in Croydon for that purpose ; but being at length caught in the fact, he was taken into custody. The defendant, in answer to questions put to him by Mr. Sutherland, said that he was a minister of the Church of England, and that he had f ormer l y h e ld a s mall curacy, the sti pend from which not being sufficient to sup port his f am il y , h e was re d uce d t o great st to infer distress, and at l eng th h e h a d been com pelled to r esor t t o b egg i ng as a means o f sub sistence. The officer produced a number of pieces nt found hlei fe thatfo contentsr i fora v ewhateverr theoyf co nsiderable w possessionhmicahy thereha v e been wasoof p a per,ft ii ehee s v i i former ardefendant,esol o which h fromn time the defendant has b een ' gaining his living by begging about the country. These papers had in scribed upon them the names of almost every principal town in the kingdom, and also the names of a great number of the inhabitants, with stars and =lee placed against them, evidently to denote those who had given money, and those from whom more was to be obtained, the whole forming a sort of guide to the cadging" fraternity, who always compare- notes when they meet at the . differentlodging-houses at night, and ascertain from the others the parties who are most likely to be imposed upon. The defendant said he would not offend again, and that if the magistrate dis charged him he would leave the town immediately. Upon this condition he was set at liberty, but Mr. Sutherland ordered his papers to be detained by the police. The readers of the Standard have long known, and have long kindly indulged, our rule, to abstain as far as we can from engaging their minds with political discussions upon the solemn anniversary which returns this day. It does not rest with us, nor can it rest with any single newspaper to avoid some desecration of such a day, though we anxiously look forward to the time when the great day of redemption shall be observed with the reverence due to it. Meanwhile we will continue doing all that we can to mark the distinction claimed by a " Good Friday."—Standard. THE DINER-OUT.—The diner-out must have a most passionate love for Andrei). lie must so comport himself that when his name shall be announced every child in the mansion shall set up a yell—a scream of rapture—shall rush to him—pull his coat-tails—climb on his back—twist their fingers in his hair—snatch his watch from his pocket ; and, whilst they rend his . super- Saxony—load his shoulders—uncurl his wig—and threaten instant destruction to his repeater, the diner out must stifle the agony at his heart and his pocket, and to the feebly-expressed fears of the mamma, that the " children are troublesome," the diner-out must call into every corner of his face a look of the most seraphic delight, and with a very chuckle assure the anxious parent that "the little rogues are charmingl"—Kenny Meadows' Heads of the People. THE ANTI-STATE CHURCH ASSO CIATION. (From the Morning Herald.) The Anti-State Church Association, like a log cast into a stream amid driftwood, is rapidly attach ing to itself the restless and whirling spirits of the age. Dr. Cox sits astride upon it in all the majesty of patron and founder, both steering the craft, trim ming the sails, and studying the chart laid down by the anti-church-rate and other defunct institutions. In the approaching conference, which has been long threatened, and in comparison of which all previous meetings have been but preliminary flourishes of trumpets, each " representative," we are told, is to have a ticket of admission, and an outline of the weighty business which " the executive committee" are to submit to the conference ; one only test is ,de manded—what do our readers opine is this augu4t " open sesame" to so august a brotherhood? It is none of those old fashioned and obsolete tests embodied in articles, creeds, and confessions : these are unworthy of such a measure and such a man. Is it immersion, as might be surmised ? No, it is this : • " The only limit imposed by the Committees in the exercise of that discretion intrusted to them, is the de termination, that each representative shall, on taking his seat, give his assent to a distinct declaration of his conviction, that the union of the Church with the State is derogatory to the kingly character of Jesus Christ,. contrary to the principles of the New Testament, and injurious to the interests of religion ; that it is, there fore, his bounden duty to employ every legitimate means for promoting the separation of the Church from the State." Each dissenting congregation, we are also told, is to choose representatives to the grand conference—. one of the representatives being, we presume, from the lists already published—the " minister?' He may complain at the meetings of tithes and church rates in strains of immortal eloquence—he may complain of _the union between Church -and State, under any symbols, however recherchees—le may. inveigh against lawn sleeves and silk cassoeks—he may thunder • against prelates in Parliament, or against chaplains in workhouses ; but if he utter a syllable against lord- deacons looking daggers from the pew at the pulpit, or against the semi-starvation' allowance of the voluntary system, or against any . other grievance within the walls of the chapel, he may expect either to be turned out instanter, or to be starved out in six months. This will keep the depu 7 ties as quiet as mice on some matters, and make them as garrulous as Dr. Cox on others. Have these Anti-State Church agitators, however, no abuses to rectify at home—no corrup tions to get rid of ? Are they •so • perfect that they can spare time to make Quixotic attacks on windmills, with which they have ,nothing to do? They are not united with the• State. Whv, then, complain of what they have no concern with? If the Church of England feels oppressed she can say so, and should she call in the aid of such dought y champions as he of Hackney, it will then be time. for the Doctor to harness himself for the battle. But,' on second thought, it is very kind on the side of Dis senters to become voluntary curates for the Church of England, and shed gratuitous tears for her, and cry aloud on her behalf, and do their part so well that an indifferent spectator would suppose the Church must be " Free" and the Dissenters in " Erastian" bondage. The American deputation of the Scotch seceders, having spouted violent voluntaryism in Philadelphian meetings and pulpits, have been summoned to join this great movement ; but the Witness, very wary as long as an Episcopal penny is likely to be turned, and trimming its goods to the market,- thus replies across the Tweed to Dr. Cox and his enthusiastic compeers : "‘Vould it be safe, would it be expedient, would it be catholic (Phil. iii. 15, 16) to adopt any course whieh. would necessarily exclude from this union se: Many Mi nisters and professing followers of Christ'? We - do not call on our friends to assert Establishment principles— why should they call on us virtually to assert the Volfin- tary ? Besides, the Free Church is not the only body in the empire which holds the Establishment principle beyond the pale of the Establishments. Nearly a mil lion of Irish Presbyterians are like-minded with us on the subject. The myriads of Wesleyans are the same ; and in the kindest terms, therefore, we would ask again, is it wise, is it expedient , i s it catholic, to adopt a basis for any public movement which must exclude all these denominations, as well as the sound - and catholic E m n e g m l b a e n r d s ? a , The Dissenters have been milked dry. Mr. Noelnd m i n i s ters of the Established Church in has given them an introduction to his brethren, and the Church of England must first be, pumped before they break loose on her. The Patriot, the organ of the Anti-State Church Association, far less meta physical and much more honest, replies to the Witness in these words : " One word, before we conclude , as to the declara tion' which is made the condition of a seat in the Con ference. It is alleged by some of ou r f r i en d s th a t thi s barrier excludes them. We cannot see why or how it should, if they have any real • desire to be included. Is it not their conviction, that the union of the Church with the State is derogatory to the kingly character of Jesus Christ, contrary to the principles of the New Testament, and injurious to the interests of religion? No doubt it is; then wherefore hesitate to make the declaration? Ad if such is their conviction as to the awful nature and extent of the evil, does it not immediately become their bounden duty to• employ every legiti mate means for promoting the separation of the two things whose unnatural and unscriptural conjunction is, in their minds, fraught with consequences so fearful to contemplate ? To this question, also, we cannot but anticipate one loud and unanimous affirmative; What then ? Is it the conference they stumble at ? Why should they ? What reason, that will bear looking at for one moment, can they assign for objecting to it ? Of whom will it be composed ? -Of whom, but of persons like-minded with themselves ? Every man in that assembly will be there because, and only because, he deems the union of Church and State the same flagrant evil and wrong that they deem it, and feels it to be - his bounden duty to employ all legitimate means for its removal, as they feel it to be theirs. Do they really object to confer with such persons on such a theme ? Incredible ! Impossible ! Either they do not see the evil to be so great as others see it, or they do not feel it to be their duty to assist in its abatement and removal; for, if they did, they could not hesitate to-con fer with those, and none but those, who do." Welhoroughly agree with the views of the Patriot as to the very low landmark between honest and bit ter voluntaryism, and voluntaryism professing to re tain the principle of an Establishment only to be quoted when Mr. Noel and other stray ministers of the English Establishment are to be inveigled: A private letter from, America, inserted in the Patriot, will show the Patriot and the extreme voluntaries that a very little patience is all that is necessary in order to secure the entire co-operation, if not incorporation. of the Scotch seceders. This letter will also set Mr. Noel right as to his very ridiculous assertion at the free secession gathering in Exeter-hall, " that Dr. Chalmers holds now at Morningside, near Edinburgh; the very same sentiments he advocated in the Hano ver-rooms." The letter from Americq, states— " The deputation from the Free Church of Scotland have opened their commission in seine of our cities, arid have obtained a fair supply of pecuniary ai&-which I suppose will be increased. You will not be surprised that they have avowed themselves to be inflexible. 'Ye luntaries, and have promised, on behalf of their associa tes, to renounce the unholy alliance with the ' dragOn's beast' for ever. Had they not discarded the foolery which Dr. Chalmers promulged in London a few years ago, they would have found the truth of our cardinal doctrine in this country, that the union of the Church and State is the great Bohun upas in the religious world, which is an incurably pestiferous source of danger, disease, and death, to all who breathe its un hallowed atmosphere, unless they take plentifully of the Gospel antidote. I cannot be certain that some of the Free Churchmen would have said amen to all that Drs. Brurns and Cunningham have advanced; however, we believe their doctrines, and give them the dollars to sus tain their earnest contention for the faith which once was delivered to the saints.'" As we stated before, we lament the existence of this Association, on account of our desire to-have no quarrel with every faithful missionary. of the Gospel, however defective the ecclesiastical polity to Which he - belongs. -We rejoice, however, -that the more respectable dissenting Ministers refuse to identify themselves with this mischievous crusade. The Witness and the Patriot, rowing in the same boat, will soon get over their love-quarrels, and Doctors Cox and Candlish are at one on the practical duty of opposition to the Established Church, and differing only On a transcendental and metaphysical abstraction, must, unless either change, soon co-ope rate like " vera brithers." Whether this new craft will ever get afloat, or whether they will get a crew to man it, we know not. This we do know, that the Church of England, throned-on th-J intelligence and affections of her people, surrounded by the tokens of her usefulness, her surest trophies, and built on the rock of ages, can afford to pity the men and to -de spise the projects that are set in array against her. In the course of our reading we have met with an interesting extract, which may suggest a "free" monument to a distinguished actor in the French Revolution, as well as enlighten our readers on the origin of some modern phantasies. Dr. Cox may thank us for it. The true origin of what is called the vo luntary or non-intrusion principle took place in the very heart of the French Revolution, and claims as its parentage no less illustrious a hero than Robespierre. His arguments for the confiscation of the property of the Church were just the same as those of Dr. Cox and his compeers of the Anti-State Church Association. . " Premier Principe.—Toutes les fonctions soot d'in stitution sociale; elles cat pour but l'ordre et le bon beer de la sOcicte; it en suit qu'il ne pent exister dans la societ4 aucune fonction qui ne soit utile. Devant cette maxime disparaissent les benefices . et les etablissemens sans objet, les cathedrales, les collegiates, les cured et tons les archereques qui ne demandent par les besoins publiques. - •` Second Principe.—Les officiers ecclesiastiques etant institues pour le bonheur des hommes et pour le bien du peuple it en suit que le peuple doit les nommer. Le peuple peut elire ses pasteurs comme les magistrats et autres officiers publiques." Dr. Candlish will see that he has been strutting before the public with borrowed plumes. Robes • pierre was obviously the first Non•lntrusionist and Free. Churchman, only with great consistency he saw that Dr. Cox's Voluntaryism and Dr. Candlish's Non- Intrusionism must be combined, and that an Estab lished. Church and voluntary machinery, are, as the seceders now testify, incompatible. THE SLIDING SCALE. The advocates of monopoly are beginning to meet the free traders on something like fair ground. They pro mise to have recourse to facts and arguments ; and to employ the press as an instrument for the dissemina tion of their views. This is manly and straight forward. It is all that we want—all that is requisite for the speedy triumph of our principles. The mo nopolists, take the field by accusing the Leaguers of concealing from the people the duties levied by the Government upon the importation of cotton, woollen, and silk manufactures, hardware and cutlery, pottery and glass, and various other productions of British skill and industry; which duties the said monopolists are pleased to describe as a protection to commerce. Now, it is too bad to charge the manufacturers with the enjoyment of a protection which they do not want, and which they have repeatedly declared to be injurious to them. The import duties upon manufactures are levied for revenue, and not at all under the plea of protection. Were they for protection and not for revenue they would, of course, be based upon a sliding scale to rise and fall according to the market price of manu factures in this country. But, as we have just said, these duties are levied to enrich the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and not the manufacturer. It can be easily shown that Parliament cannot pro tect British manufactures, and, therefore, that the plea of reciprocity of protection is sheer nonsense. The manufacturers are exporters of manufactures to the amount of many millions annually, and for all that they export they have to find markets in which they can undersell every other nation. Parliament cannot protect them in the markets of France, Spain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, the Netherlands, and North and South America; and the Government repudiates any exclusive advantage for British wares even in China. Were protection necessary or even possible, in the case of British manufactures, we could not ex port a single bale of goods. To talk, therefore, o protecting the British manufacturer in the British market is clearly an absurdity. That market becomes his own by his ability to sell cheaper than the fo reigner. Most of the manufactured goods known as French, and therefore fashionable among certain classes, are the products of British industry. , But in the article of corn, protection is high price and starvation. We are not exporters, but importers of food. Instead of growing corn for the rest of the world as we manufacture cottons, we do not grow corn enough for ourselves. There is, therefore, no analogy between the assumed cases of the protection of cotton and corn. We beg the attention of the farmers to this point. There can be no protection of what we produce in greater abundance than we re quire for our own use. Thus, the Chinese could not, protect, by means of import duties, the growth of tea' in their country, simply because no country could undersell the native teas in the Canton market. And were the Chinese Government to impose import duties upon tea, as an equivalent to the the tea-growers for an import duty upon camlets demanded by the weavers of China, there is not a boy of 12 years old, at a public school or merchant's counting-house in this country, who would not be able to expose the dishonesty of such a juggle. The Chinese tea-growers would, as a matter of 'course, tell the Celestial Government that they wanted no protection that they could not en counter competition in their own market—and that justice demanded that they should be allowed to exchange their teas for the cheaper camlets of the outside barbarians, instead of being compelled to 'pay a high price for a worse article manufactured at home. And were the Emperor to urge in answer to remarks so well founded, that the rate of import duty upon teas and camlets being equal, the protection was the same, who is there that could not see that the understanding of the tea-growers would be insulted by such a mode of reasoning ? Now, the assumed case of the Chinese tea-growers is precisely that of the British manufacturers. While they are exporters of their products, and have to find markets for them in other countries, they can receive no protection from import duties. Mark the differ ence with respect to corn. As we said above, we ex port no corn. We do not grow enough to supply ourselves. The landlord has, therefore, a home market for the whole of his produce—a market greater than he has the means of supplying. His wheat has not to be carried St. Peters burgh, Vienna, Constantinople, Bombay, Can ton, New York, or New Orleans, like a bale of Bri tish merchandise before finding purchasers for it. The consumers are all at his own door, ready to take more than he can given them. Now, this is real pro tection, and better protection than is enjoyed by any other class of producers in the world. With the protection of an all-absorbing home-market for the whole of his produce, it is most cruel, must unjust, and most unreasonable on the part of the British -landlord to require the starvation protection of a sliding-scale. But the landlords have ever been plun derers of the rest of the community for their own immediate advantage. Seventy years ago, when more corn was grown in England than was required to feed the people, artificial scarcities were effected by Parliament granting a bounty upon the exportation of grain. This bounty was paid to the landlords out of the taxes to find a market for a part of their pro duce, and to enhance the price of the rest. The pre text, then, of course, was the encouragement of agri culture. Were we to retaliate by a bounty upon the importation of corn, we should be only paying the landlords with their own dishonest coin. But we do not want to retaliate wrong. We require justice and nothing more ; and by discussing the question of the corn-laws with us, the monopolists are arming us with weapons with which to win it.—Hull Advertiser. THE IRON TaADE.--The ironmasters' quarterly meetings take place next week, when it is expected that the recent improvement in the trade will be demonstrated in the shape of a definitive advance. We have heard of advances already made from various quarters, and we have no doubt that, in the main, these accounts are correct, but prices, though strongly tending upwards, have been unfixed and regulated much more by the immediate wants of the buyer and seller than by any certain charge. The ensuing • quarter-day, no doubt, will put an end to these uncer tainties.—Wolverhampton Chronicle. NEW MARKET AT CROYDON.—A good deal of in terest was created at Croydon on Wednesday, by the opening of a new and commodious stock market, at the back of the Greyhound Inn, and adjoining the Fair Field. The old mar ket at the bottom of the town had long been found very in convenient, and, in fact, totally inadequate for the purposes for which it was intended ; and Mr. John Martin, an old in habitant of the town, very liberally resolved to supply the deficiency, by erecting the new market in the centre of the town, and close to the st%tions of the Brighton and South- Eastern Railways, thereby giving very great facility to graziers, from the lower parts of Surrey and Kent, to bring their stock to market. The profits of the markets from tolls are to be vested in trustees, for the benefit of decayed sales men of the town. There was a very' good show of stock on time opening day, and the attendance of London and country butchers was very considerable, nearly the whole of the stock being sold off very soon after the formal opening of the market. THE HAIR.—Of the numerous compounds con stantly announced for promoting the growth or reproduc tion of the hair, few survive, even in name, beyond a very limited period; whilst " Rowland's Macassar Oil," with a reputation unparalleled, is still on the increase in public es timation. The singular virtues of this successful invention for restoring, preserving, and beautifying the human hair, are too well known and appreciated to need much comment. The very facts of the high and distinguished patronage it enjoys, its general use in all countries, together with nu merous testimonials constantly received in its favour, are au thorities which stamp its superior excellence and title over all attempts of a similar nature. Being universally preferred, its consequent great demand excites the cupidity of un principled shopkeepers, who vend the most spurious trash as the " genuine" Macassar Oil : whereas the genuine article is wholly the invention and property of A. Rowland and Son, and the amalgamation of its costly exotic materials renders abortive any attempt to discover its component parts—thus proving the imposition of all other articles bearing the title oT Mgcassar - Oil. The genuine article has .tha words " Rowland's Macassar Oil" on the wrapper.—All others aro fraudulent counterfeits ! NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 4.—The Osprey and Daring, two of the new 12 gun-brigs are in the basin and and masted, and are only waiting orders for the com pletion of the others, when they will all be commis sioned without delay. There are no ships in harbour except the guard ships, tenders, &c. APFOINTMENTS.-Mr. F. Rooke, Mate, to St. Vin cent ; Hon. H. Moreton, Midshipman, to ditto, vice Mr. T. B. Reid, Master's-Assistant, to Speedy; Mr. Knapp, Naval Instructor, to Armenia. We have received Cape papers this morning to the 1 10th February. The Winchester and Thunderbolt • were lying in Simon's Bay, and the American .?loop of war St. Louis, and the French sloop Favourite, in Table Bay. The Enriguetta slaver, a prize to the Thunderbolt, in charge of Lieutenant 'Hon. F. Kerr, arrived on the 2d February with 213 slaves. A third had been also captured by same vessel. The New Naval Regulations, promulgated by the Admiralty, contain many most salutary changes and improvements, calculated to confer lasting benefits on this branch of her Majesty's service. The Right Hon. Henry Corry, one of the Lords of the Admiralty, accompanied by Captain Brandreth, R.E., has proceeded in' the steam-yacht Black Eagle to Cowes, to determine on the immediate erection of a pier opposite her Majesty's contemplated marine re sidence. Norris Castle will, it is said, be ultimately purchased for her Majesty. The Osborne estate, it is understood, has been taken for one year only at 1,000 guineas. The noble ships Rodney, 92, and Collingwood, 80 at this port, are fast progressing for commissioning Both will be masted in a few days, but will not hois the pendant so early as reported. The former goes to the Mediterranean, and the latter to the Pacific, as flag ship of the new Commander-in-Chief, Rear-Ad mind Sir G. Seymour. l'Ve have just heard that a large naval and military promotion has taken place—but it is not yet officially. dec'ared ; also an extensive one in the Royal Marine corps. A day or two will give particulars. Rumour says that twenty captains are made rear-admirals. The Hastings, 72, at this port, has been selected to relieve the Illustrious, 72, on the North American and West India station. She will not be commis sioned, however, until June next as Sir Charles Adam's period of service does not expire before August. The Fantoine, 16, and Cygnet brigantine are being hastened at Chatham for immediate service. Both will be commissioned shortly, the latter for the coast of Africa. The following ships are in dock here :—Prince Re gent, 120 (ordered to be cut down to the class of the Rodney, 92, also in dock) ; Lily, 18, and troop-ship Athol. The new 12-gun brig, Flying Fish, is daily looked for from Milford, to be completed for commission. She will be brought round to this port by the Master of the Victory, harbour guard ship. The Vernon, 50, Captain Walpole, had not arrived at Lisbon on the 17th March, although hourly looked for from Malta, on her way home. The Albion, 92, Captain Lockyer, C. 8., was the only ship of war in the Tagus at the above date. The Helena, 16, Commander Sir C. Ricketts, Bart., arrived at Jamaica on the 16th February, from Madeira, which she left on the 26th January, and immediately transferred the Minister for Mexico to the Inconstant frigate, for a passage to Vera Cruz, where she will remain in the room of the Pique frigate, ordered to rejoin the Admiral. PLYMOUTH.—SaiIed on the 28th ult., the Larne sloop, for the Western Coast of Africa, and the Tor toise, with Governor Finlaison, for Ascension. Ad miral Sir D. Milne has returned from leave, and re hoisted his flag on board the Caledonia. The Black Eagle Government steamer arrived here on Sunday, with the Lords of the Admiralty, on a tour of in spection, to report upon the site of a projected new dock for steam-vessels. Captain Boldero, Clerk of the Ordnance, is expected here, on business connected with the barrack department. SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAILWAY. The public have already been made aware of the general features of this important line. As it is an other link of the great chain of railways by which it is intended to traverse the length and breadth of the country, it may not be uninteresting to our readers to give some further particulars regarding it. It is now a matter of certainty that, in the course of about two or three years, a continuous line of railway will be completed from London, or we may say from Land's End, to Edinburgh and Glasgow. The Scottish Central Railway is proposed to branch off from the Edinburgh and Glasgow line near Falkirk ; and passing through the towns of Stirling, Bridge of Allan, Dunblane, Blackford, and Auchterarder, will terminate at Perth, thus forming about forty .five' miles more of a great trunk between London and the north. The journey from London to Perth may then be performed in about twenty hours. The line will not only command a vast passenger traffic from and to the south of Scotland and England, but also that from and to the west of Scotland and Ireland, being both a south and north line and an east and west line ; in fact, being to Scotland what the York and North Midland or Manchester and Leeds lines are to England. Besides the constant and tho rough trade arising from commerce, it will also derive much revenue from the pleasure-going part of the community, as it lies so far on the route between Edinburgh and Glasgow and the Trosachs, and many other places of summer resort, such as the Bridge of Allan, Spa, Pitcaithly, Wells, &c., and the numerous shooting quarters of the English and Scotch nobility. As to the heavy trade, it has the advantage over almost every other line in the country, in so far as it will have no direct water conveyance to compete with, either by sea or canal. It will thus not only secure the large trade in manu factures between Dundee and other fnorthern towns and Glasgow, as well as that arising from cattle and sheep on their way from the north to the great Falkirk markets, but will also be the means of sup plying the whole of the district through which it will pass, and the towns and country east and north of Perth, with coals and lime from the rich mineral districts of Falkirk and Lanarkshire.—Scotsman. NOtti3rt FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES). • BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 9 9 14 .Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons. ..-..... 99% DiOld Annuities 3% per Cent. Rel ... ...... 1&2%, Ditto New Annuities New 3,', per Cent-- ..... 1013 !Ex. Bills, 1,000/. I%d New 5 per Cent ! Ditto 500/ Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small mP Jan. 1880 ..... ....... 12,'„ ,Bank Stock for Acct f,01 )2 Oct. 1850. .... ..—.. Consols for Acct 99% Jan. 1860............ India Stock for Acct 291 FOREIGN FUNDS. - - pm. Austrian, 5 per Cent — Portuguese, 5 per"Cmt — Belgian,.s per Cent............ Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian Bonds — Prussian, 5 per Cent Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... Russian, 5 per Cent ll7 Chilian, 6 per Cent ..... ....... Ditto, Metallic — Colombian, 6 per Cent ...... 15% Spanish, 5 per Cent ..... Ditto, 1824 Ditto, 1 per Cent 36 Cuba Bonds, 8 per Cent 93 Ditto, Deferre.' l5 Danish, 3 per &lent .... ...... .. ,French, 5 rer Cent —f. —c. Greek, 18 5, 5 per Cent — Exchange —f —c. Mexican, 5 per Cent .... ..... 31% French, 3 per Cent. —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per Cent., 18.37, — Dutch, 2% per Cent...... 61 1 / Peruvian, 1925, 6 per Cent — Ditto, 5 per Cent lOO% SH A RES. Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) 95% Ditto New (17)4 daid) Bristol and Exeter (:0 paid) .. . 72 Bristol and Gloucester (30 paid) Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) 73,4 Eastern Counties (23 paid) - 1 2% Ditto Registered (8/Bag(' paid) Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) Ditto Quarter Shares (12) paid) 1634 Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Half Shares (50 paid) ......•••. ......» 7O Hull and Selby (50 paid) 59% Lancaster and Carlisle ( 5 paid).... London and Brighton (5 0 paid) London and Birmingham (Stock) Ditto New Quarters ( 2 paid) London and South Western (41/. 6s. 10d. paid) London and Croydon (Trunk) Manchester and Leeds (70 rid) — Ditto Half Shares ( 0 paid) Manchester and Birmingham Norwich and Brandon ( 2 paid) Newcastle and Darlington Junction (15 paid) North Midland (100 paid) Paris and Orleans (20 paid) Paris and Rouen (50 paid) `7 Rouen and Havre ( ' , paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 pain) 31% Strasbourg and Bale (14 paid) 1134 :Yarmouth and Norwich (16 paid) York and Scarborough Branch (23 2 paid) STATE OF THE HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES. The hosiery workmen in the midland counties, like other parts of the kingdom, are actively form ing themselves into confederacies, some for a general end, and others only to protect their own branches. Many large villages have agreed to pay a penny a week per frame to support the colliers upon strike, on express condition that the colliers are to relieve them in case they have to turn out. The Derbyshire union has been extremely active in sending parties round to examine the glove frames, and those that are set on above the regulated statement have been induced to narrow their frames to the proper standard. The silk glove trade in this vicinity becomes worse, but in Derbyshire it has rather improved. The cotton glove trade keeps brisk, and the Bulwell union having discovered that the hands at Ikeston are working considerably under price, have re• solved to strike them next week, and also the hands of a Nottingham hosier, who has had such long disputes with the drawer and pantaloon hands. This latter branch is still pretty well employed but the hosiers at times give out the material with a cautious hand. Were it not for the extreme vigilance of the union of this branch, the wages at times would suffer. The wrought cotton hose branch keeps in a very steady course, the hands having full employment. The cut up hose branch is not quite so brisk as it was some time since, but the frames were fully employed, and at better wages. The fancy bobbiumnet trade is rather getting better, and complaints are in some measure subsiding. The cotton warp lace trade is 'extremely brisk, and is extending in all directions, every frame is placed in requisition, and the price of them has ad vanced rapidly. A deputation from a general meet ing of the lap and press warp trade, in con nexion with the fancy silk blond trade, waited upon the manufacturers on the 25th ultimo, to solicit them to give the statement price, which price the trade had agreed to receive. Mr. Wild, with his usual alacrity to assist the workmen, pledged himself to give that price on the following Saturday, and has since fulfilled his promise. The rest of the manufacturers connected with this branch of trade pledged themselves to give the advance the following week, together with the advanced price upon that work taken in on the 30th of March, if Mr. Wild paid the advance on that day. That gentleman has performed his portion of the agreement, and we have no doubt the other manufacturers will now fulfil their promise.—Noltingham Review. DINNER TO MR. O'CONNELL AT CORK. As the day approaches the interest in this demonstra tion increases. Post afterADost brings accounts of the feeling in the country. Nothing can be more gra tifying than the spirit with which it is taken up both in Limerick and Waterford. In Waterford the enthu siasm is represented as unprecedented. Too much praise cannot be given to the Waterford Secretary, Thomas F. Meagher, Esq., son of the excellent Chief Magistrate of that city. He has been inde fatigable in discharging the duties assigned to him by his fellow-citizens. He has already sent up to Cork the names of sixty Waterford gentle men who propose to attend the dinner. Amongst others we are happy to mention the name of Sir Henry Winston Barron, Bart., M.P. This gentle man has not yet joined the Repeal ranks, and he comes to Cork with the view of testifying his respect and gratitude to Mr. O'Connell, and his abhorrence of the prosecution instituted against him. His example will be follow e d by many w h o en t erta i n s i m il ar opi nions, and we will take their presence at the banquet as a proof that the best means of swelling the popular ranks jus, ‘• now would be a et. mtinuance in the mad system of wercion, and in the stern denial of justice. , To the Go v . ernment are we indebted for Smith O'Brien's adl. ‘erence to the popular cause, and we can have no doubt that at the -provincial dinner, more ad hesions place. Why should there be any further ? Do we expect any good from their hesitation will take` Registration Act '.' Do we anticipate any wisdom in 1 their policy towar , Is Mr. O'Connell ? Are they not too closely bound up with the reckless enemies of the country to-do anything generous even if they had the' will ? No--there is no h ope for Ireland but in her own exertL o ns, and it is therefore we look so con fidently to theadhesions ~of such men as Sir Henry Winston Barron, men who hav e an interest in the ~x, ;ous for her prosperity, country, and are tru:v Mr. Kelly, D.L., of E'rina-.douse, county Li mer i c k. brother-in-law of our path lotic county M em b e r, Edmond Burke Roche, is os, 1 , to be present at the: l dinner. This gentleman is an I.%portant addition to the popular party—not only on at. - !ount of hi s grea t wealth, but also, because of his inte, ligence and in ame to the in fluence. He lately joined the Repealev", and he now comes forward to add the weight of his t.' present " national" demonstration.-- souulern Re porter. PARIS ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. SITTING OF MARCH 25. The important question of the nutritive or non nutritive properties of gelatine again came before the academy. M. Gay Lussac, alluding to the cominu nication which had been received from Amsterdavit on this subject, expressed his astonishment that thei commission of the Academy, which was appointed not less than fourteen years ago to make a report on this disputed question, had not yet come to a decision. M. Thenard, one of the members of the commission, stated, in reply to M. Gay Lussac, that he was fully sensible of the mission intrusted to him and his col leagues, and was not sorry that public allusion had been made to their inactivity. As far as he was per sonally concerned, he declared that no blame was dia.& After a spirited discussion, it was decided by tie , Academy, that the commission should be called upon' to make their report within a delay of three months. After the reading of several scientific papers, pos- , sessing little interest for the public at large, a corn* munication was read from M. Goldsmith, of Got tingen, on the results of the new calculations which he has made for the purpose of rectifying the para bolic elements of the comet of M. Faye. These cal culations accord with those originally made, in at taching to our planetary system this comet, which, iiz the most eccentric point of its orbit, is at a distance from the sun which does not exceed six times the circuit of the terrestrial orbit. The Academy, having been invited by , the Minister of War to renew the annual commission of three! members to take part in the labours of the Conseil de Perfectionnement of the Polytechnic School, r(* elected MM. Poinsot and Thenard, and appointed Ikt- Poncelet to replace M. Arago. Previously to the ballot, M. Arago informed his colleagues that he would no longer corm part of the Commission, on se' count of the determination of the Minister to modifY, the constitution of the school, contrary to the forms' opinion of himself and his colleagues. A communication was received from M. Dupuits Delcourt and M. Maret Monce, relative to the new copper balloon which they are constructing. The chief merit of their invention is said to be the means of remaining longer in the air than with a ballot)), made of silk, as they say that their copper balloey would offer a resistance to the obstacles which pre' , vent a long sojourn in the air with the ordinary bal' loon. We know not how far these gentlemen: a»1: be correct, but some of the members of the Acadenif seemed to be of opinion that as the copper balloon is' made necessarily of thin sheets, there will be danger . of rupture at the joints. MM. Natalia, Guillot, and Melsens made a cat' munication on the use of iodure of potassium in ths, cure of persons affected with saturnine maladies:: They say that they have administered it with the me". decided success. The dose is gradually raised to four and even six grammes per day, and from 200 to $ 0 grammes in the whole suffice for a cure. A paper was received from M. Charrier on the use . • of opium in medicine. The author states all the cases. in which the use of opium is regarded as salutary injurious; and, in allusion to the general notion thwi. it should never be administered in inflammatory casehi: mentions some exceptions in which it may be give l !';' with great benefit to the patient. In most cases' where inflammation is not present he regards it as e t) ;' invaluable medicine. M. Guinant laid on the bureau of the wader:lt •" lens of flint glass twenty inches in diameter, largest that now exists. 11iI. Arago stated that telescope of Pulkowa, the largest in any observaterP : ,• is only fourteen inches in diameter. M. Andral read an interesting memorial from. Demazy, on suicides committed in the arrondisseelet, of Mans during the twelve years from 1830 to 18t r t From his observations it appeared that, in this spy of time, eighty-seven persons destroyed themseltt, and of these sixty-six were men, and twenty_°' women. The greater number took place on a W i r'' day morning, during full moon, and in the day-t l °' : The ages of the suicides ranged from thirty to slag Most of the individuals were married, and had e ; viously shown symptoms of mental alienation. m. s i bauchery and other bad habits were in moat cases 1 *" exciting causes. • ~ • I.* UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREW'S.--The Divinity attending St. Mary's College, St. Andretir's i _vrio, b isr to testify their regard to the Very Rev. Principal) Ha!' " * invited him to honour them with his company td' bre 4 _,d.; in the Black Bull inn, on Thursday, the 28th inst.. Aco o k ingly, a very large party, including most of the gentletto town, elders and friends of the Established Church, gat to breakfast ; Mr. James Anderson, Student of lAivititX the chair, supported on the right by the Very Rev. Priool Haldane, the Rev. Dr. Buist, Professor of Ecclesiast%kol: t he tory ; Professors Jackson, Alexander, Dr. Ferrie, &o.• ; er l 6o; left by Provost Playfair, Robert Lindsay, Esq., of B trait ios James Lumsdaine, Esq., of Lathallan. ! Go _.m y ., acted as croupier. We observed amongst those pres,,,,tir Drs. Anderson, Reid, Gillespie, Mudie, South ; Colonel I'Z i f; fair, John Bain, Esq., banker, Dr. Woodford, and the t re Messrs. Mason, Thomson, Cutler, Scott, Black, ~„ Martin, Herdman ; Messrs. J. Cusack, W. P. Dickso - 31 Students in Divinity. Grace was said by Dr. Buist.—S oo "" Record. 4 MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—Last n i bs between the hours of seven and eight o'clock. the inhabits of Essex-street were thrown into a state of the utmost 1 ror and alarm by the following appalling occurrence :—lt peered that, at the time above-named, a house-painier . ,* paper-stainer, named West, lodging in Essex-street, hit .0 altercation with his wife, and in a fit of ungovernable Pae''• he stabbed her mortally with a sword-cane in the a bdomt, her death was almost instantaneous. The wretched T t o derer then turning the weapon upon himself attempted to minate his own existence, and had inflicted a wound 0 11 2. person, when he was prevented from perpetrating A lijio destruction by his mother, who, with a child of his to deceased, was iu the room at the time. He was taken.: ~,, custody by the police, and conveyed to Mercer's ilospits!! Dublin Evening 31ai1 of Wednesday. EwAnx.—The once celebrated post-house , ri l e Clinton Arms, in this town, has ceased to be sucli.,,; horses, coaches,. &c. were last week sold to Mr. Jul* Gilstrap, of the Hotel Kirkgate, in consequence of the v ol; crease of road. business. The town h as now th a t listless f ool; so general in places dependent upon posting and 0 ,0 , traffic, which has been destroyed. The proximity of AS,,If way, and the effects of steam travelling, have become '"tr serious. The inn alluded to had, a few years ago, tv7, - , five to thirty pair of post-horses, besides those require" stage-coaches, &c.—Stamford Mercury. 0 ath MARGATE.—The certainty of a rail way 1 113 , 40 e prospect of an improved harbour, have already had a'l4o ticial effect upon the value of property in this toirn houses, in Cliff-terrace, which twelve months Since sod offered for sale and bought in at 5501., were bona fide 8 0 _,n). auction on Monday the 25th ultimo, by Mr. J. Starer! si'l White Hart Hotel, at 750/., after spirited competeti O Kent Herald. BIRTHS. i On the 4th inst., at Chester, the lady of Sir re. Walker, of a son. On the 2d list., at Camden Vicarage, the lady of t 10 : 18° James D. Money, of a son.' . • 11. On the 2d inst:, at "The Nunnery," Sussex , the /rd .. . Brown, Esq., of a daughter. of 14er On the 2d inst , the wife of Alfred B re ttl e , Esq., tinhorn, Kent, of a son, still-born. , r .. 1" On the 3d inst., a t H ac k ne y, th e l a d y . o f th e Rev. , Wright, of a daughter. O • On the 3d inst., in Nottingham-place, the lady of pal l . Shadwell, Esq., of a son. e I : t d o f On the 3d inst., at Elizabeth-place, Brixton-road, th of William Thomson, Esq., Assistant Commissary-G e n , of a son. CO; . s ek On the 3d inst., at Blackdown, the lady of the Rev. Codrington, of a son. On the 4th inst., at Oxford-terrace, Hyde-park, th e Richard Albany Nerson, Esq., of a son. On the 4th inst., at Woburn-square, Mrs, WOO / lowes, of a son. On the 4th inst., the lady of John Cutbell, Esq, of C dish-road, St. John's-wood, of a son. - MARRIED. On the 2d inst., at Holbeach, John Phipps, , Esq.' to Elizabeth Sharman. 10 11° 1 On the 4th inst., at St. Bride's Fleet-street, Mr. ote Piper, of Bishopsgate-street, to 'Elizabeth, second t tl i ej t , of Mr. Josiah Harvey, Grand Junction Wharf, W1_22.1!,t3.% DIED. _All, On the 22d ult., at Boulogne-sur-Mer, Mr. John -11'froeI' late proprietor of the Royal Pavilion Theatle, Whiter'ill road, aged 53. i ;ga ite' On the 24th ult., at Inverleith-row, Edinbttrgb,i3.A O s nant Charles William Hope, Royal Engin eers , yotin of the late Lieutenant-General Sir John Hope, G.C•,. ; A hei r On the 25th ult., at Paris, Patrick Stewart, Esq. , 0, ''' -c lunkart, county lt., aof Banff. °lt On the 28th u lt Spofforth, Yorkshire, Mall , o f the v ild of the Rev. Richard Hartley, D.D. On the 28th ult., at Carlsruhe, Baden, Cecilia, the . 4. Wingfield Yates, Esq. CIS # On the 30th ult., at Writtle, Essex, Mrs. Elizabeth bir, ~ On the 31st nit., at Manchester Lodge, Wariis Mary, the wife of Richard R. Jee, Esq. ( 8 . of /. On the 2d inst., at Brighton, Harriet Emily, the Brightman, Esq., of Lavender-hill, Surrey. L e i.,B 1 06 o f :: the 4 th inst., captaitsroate oy OHne: 3d inst., BBqa.rnes, Surrey, „,__,,m arg arev, .-- D "".' Y - to Of n David Bombay Castle, of Bombay. , o/ ii‘ol l f,,ondon : Printed and Published by MIIRDO + O . 11 No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Ofilelkiounti Strand, in the Precinct of ? ..the Searpy, in 0 3 1 ' , Middlesex, Saturday, - AprM 6, 184+f. .. ~..,,), °tee, A( 'lO-N t /1 4 8 : The n u Ticket ( tenatv e bad e , 1:11 ili ft. tnePet --ozn e an , liovettr Y• 0 1, rah, e T e ri. 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