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THIS EVENING, MARCH 11, Will be performed the Opera of GUILLAUME TELL. Arno'd, Dupree;U. Gessler. Mr. G. Horncastle; William Tell, Mr. Stretton Ltutern, Mane. Albertazzi ; Matilda, Miss Romer; Martha, Miss .detts. To conclude with HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS. Level, Mr. Cooper i MY•Lord. Duke's Servant, Mr. Hudson ; Sir Harry's Ser. vant,..mr. Harley; Mrs. Kitty, Mrs. Stirling. Dress Boxes PL. Second Price Ss. 6d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 54., Second 'Price 3e. ; Pit Se Second Price De.; Middle Gallery 25., Second Price la.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 61. THEATRE 'ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Jilt. BENJAMIN WEBSTER. LESSEE. THIS EVENING 1114RCH 11, Will b produced a New YeZditilll/14,Sirsical Drama, called DER N ECHT"'EUFEL Baron GUI , trickland Oscar, Mr. / I °We • rlaroness, Mrs. Glover; Matilda, Miss P. Dorton; Ca roline:Flu/Julia Bennett. p i a „,_fte: which, 'VICTOR - AND HORTENSE; or, False Pride. " , Mr. Webster -.Mallard, Mr... 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SECOND EDITION. t 4 )4 • . 4 . 02 'i. 44. 64 1 11 ORO 4 be 1° : --- -j r t,_ 34, 4- 01° AA • v a , Nom ~N `r _~ LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1844. The proceedings at a meeting, on Wednesday last, of tenant-farmers, - merchants, and tradesmen of Har leston, in the county of Suffolk, held - at the Swan Inn, in that town, and convened for the purpose of peti tioning Parliament to repeal the duties on foreign corn and malt, and in favour of free trade, generally, were, with some trifling exceptions, worthy of the in telligence, good sense, and spirit of one of the most important agricultural districts in England. We are disposed rto notice the affair, the rather because the scope which the address of the respected Chairman embraced was remarkable for the novelty of some of its views, in combination with a demand for corn law repeal, and the soundness and sagacity of the opinions avowed with regard to the operation of our system of currency, past and present. Desiring to say so much, without any sort of offence to the agricultural bodies of this kingdom, we must own that, in general, their notions upon the theory of our monetary arrangements by no means square with those which we have formed upon the results of long and attentive observation. But the Chairman of the Harleston meeting enunciated some prepositions on these subjects, highly important in themselves, and to us not the less interesting, because of their coinci dence with those which, from time to time, we have advocated. This gentleman, Mr. T. L. TAYLOR, of Starderston, a landowner of station and considerable property in the neighbourhood, reminded the meet ing that if the corn-laws were really beneficial, as had been contended, to those immediately interested, they must be so to himself. But he was for their entire repeal ; believing that they now were, and had, almost always, been, injurious to the tenant farmers, and their labourers. He proceeded to if., lustrate this important point by some statistical de-' tails, very well digested and very much to the purpose. At the same time, and with a becoming and manly ingenuousness (which we could wish to see exten sively imitated at other meetings, wilether of societies for the protection of British agriculture, •or of their opponents), he said that he was far from thinking that the repeal of these laws would prode very cheap corn, as the Anti-Corn-law League assumed that it would do. He went so far as to state that the League " had much injured the cause of repeal and of free trade by holding ouethat hope." In his:opinion the effect would rather be " to produce greater uniformity be tween French and English prices, --and also greater regularity." He regretted, too, that " both ma nufacturers and landowners are too selfish and one. sided in their views of this question." There is much of grave truth in all this. If the fact is to be deplored, it is not the less essential that, like other disagreeable testimonies of truth, it should be deliberately heard and considered. For our own parts, we have so recently and so often urged the claims of those most important, but most neglected classes—the producing labourers and artisans, who are the great sufferers in this squabble of contending interests, by reason of cruelly diminished wages and exorbitantly increased demands on their working hours; and by the almost absorption of the . needful " intervals for food and rest ;"—that we are compelled to concur in this grave imputation of selfishness upon both those classes of capitalists alluded to. The Chairman next developed the results upon the scale of rents and upon the prices of corn, which had been realized under the various corn-laws passed fromlBos to the present time. And first, as to the period from 1805 to 1815. Between 1805 and 1814 the price of corn never fell so low as 665. the quarter (the " pivot price" of Mr. BOBINSON'S Act of 1815), and consequently the trade was free; and yet, notwithstanding that freedom of importation, in some parts of this same term, the price ranged up to 120 s. per quarter. This was a salient and remarkable event in the history of the first corn-law ; and Mr. TAYLOR skil fully availed himself of so prominent a fact, in order to explain his own convictions of the opera tion of other causes—seldom or never sufficiently allowed for in corn-law discussions,—in bring ing about the high prices, and the high rents put upon the land, which are usually ascribed to the sole agency of the law in question. " Did not," said he, " the paper money produce some effect? And he would ask, might not the prent currency-law (he referred partly to Peel's Bill of 1819) produce some effect,—more even than the present corn-law does on present prices." If these questions were answered affirmatively, then were the farmers wrong in looking for protection to the corn-law and a sliding-scale only." The lovers of "protection" would really do well to lay seriously to heart these considerations, at once so incontestible and so pertinent, and especially the statistical proofs of which we have spoken above. Thus, in the same ten years, 1805 to 1815, the import of foreign wheat averaged about 500,000 quarters per annum. " This showed," Mr. TAYLOR argued, " that with open ports and high prices to tempt importation, we cannot have unlimited supplies, as;some suppo§e." In 1838, 1839, and 1840, it seems our importations of wheat ex ceeded 2,000,000 quarters per annum ; and yet it could not be said that there was, all that time, a sur plus of wheat, or- that wheat was especially cheap. The fact was, that with the lapse of years our popu lation had largely increased ; with population, manu factures; with these, the manufacturing community; and with that community, our consumption. " The more our manufacturers are employed," said he, " the more corn and food they require ; and the better prices we (the growers) shall receive." Granted, — if the Legislature, meanwhile, will only discharge the first and most imperative duty whi tice, feeling, and the safety of the empire alike litre ; namely, so amend our existing monetary system ;—so to remodel and ameliorate the currency as to make it perform the hitherto neglected function of distribution to the poor and labouring classes, whose condition at present deteriorates, from day to day, in the inverse ratio of manufacturing production and of the accumulation of capital in the kingdom. Let us hear Mr. TAYLOR fur ther on this very poipt,;r-lot to that, we find, his state ments and his reasoning irresistibly tend. We could not desire a more convincing argument for the change in the currency, which we contend ought immediately to be adopted with regard to issuing Government paper, convertible into Bank notes or gold or silver, at the market value of bullion, to the extent of our present taxa tion. That extent or amount, be it remembered, is neither allowed for by the manufacturer in wages to his workmen, nor represented by the convertible cur rency exclusively legalised, and abridged to the arbi trary gold standard of PEEL'S Bill of 1819:—" In 1815 wheat was down to 635. Bd. per quarter on the average ; and the landowners, considering, then, that it could not be grown for less than 80s. per quarter, passed a law prohibiting importation when the price was below that sum. Then the ruin of the tenant farmer and the labourer commenced; and mark— during the operation of this corn-law PEEL'S Cur rency Bill was passed." It might be imagined impossible to enhance the enormity of the injustice, worked by such a statute, passed under such circumstances, at such a period. Nothing, however, is more certain than that the very next illustration,' supplied by the same speaker, does greatly exaggerate its oppressive injustice. Want of space compels us here, for the present,3 to break off. With the abstract which we shall publish to-morrow of the proceedings, the speechei delivered, &c. at that meeting, we shall probably recur to the subject. It is now some three or four years since a proposi tion-wasd)rought forward in the House of Commons, and agreed to, for the formation of a public park at the east-end of the metropolis, to be entitled " Vic toria Park." Not a few ad captandum speeches were made on the occasion ; and those, in particular, who introduced the measure, took credit to themselves for the kindly feeling by which they were actuated, in endeavouring to provide for the health and re creation of those immense masses of the London population who dwell eastward of Temple-bar, in the remote regions of Shoreditch, White ehapel, Mile-end, Bethnal-green, &c., in whose vici nity the park was proposed to be located. Three or four years, we repeat—probably more—have elapsed since this useful measure received the sanction of Parliament, and from that period to the present it would:appear that not a single decisive step has been taken with a view to carry it into effect. The matter remains in precisely the same state in which it was when it was first broached in the House of Commons ; and there, we suppose, it will be permitted to remain, unless an active stir be made on the subject, for the majority of those interested in the completion of the park, are a poor, hard-working class, weavers, small; mechanics, and such like, who are utterly. without means and influence to press their claims on the kindly consideration of the Legislature, with any chance of success. By the following paragraph, which we quote from a Morning Contemporary, it will be seen that we have not been speaking without warrant, but that " Victoria Park" is still among the things that are yet to be :—" Notwithstanding the eager anticipations of the inhabitants of the eastern division of the metropolis, of the commencement of operations for the formation of the park early in the present spring, these are disappointed by the CroNVn having actually given permission to the market-gardeners to continue in occupation and plant their lands, which were lately purchased, for six months longer. The inhabitants naturally consider that the want of funds cannot be the reason of this strange dlay, as the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, in their; report of 1842, state that they had received 100,000/. from the sale of York House, which they had invested in Exchequer bills, and their report of 1843 further states that it remains there invested, for the purpose required, in the hands of trustees." It is clear from the above paragraph that little or nothing of moment will be done towards the formation of the park this year, at least ; for six months hence the fitting period for such out-door work will in a great measure have passed away ; the fine long days of summer will be at an end, and the rain and gloom of confirmed autumn will have set in. Really this long delay is quite inexcusable, the more so when we consider how imperative is the necessity that exists for a healthy, open place of recreation at the east end of the metropolis. T4' inhabitants of that quarter have no airy and cheeAl green fields lying within a short walking distance of them, such as is the case in the northern distrZet of London ; they have no spacious and salubrious parks, such as the west-end '<pan boast of; but are shift up - in narrow, crowded streets, iitA lanes and alleys, which stretch away to an almost iriterminable distance. Here and there, to be sure, the& may get sight of a thing growing in a miserably smalls, old-fashioned square, and calling itself a tree, but which looks rather like a quiz [up on vegeta tion; but with this rare exception, they can see nothing - to remind ;item of the country, and hfualve of fo fresh, sibulenaacikanuitera , ce ted of gulping in a mouth- Unless they stroll away to a distance of some miles from their homes. As for the west-end parka, scarcely to be reached without fatigue,ixpe nexcecse,ptibewthreyofueagarrh: the agency of an omnibus— and do not abound among the poor, toiling artisans of Bethnal-green and Whiteehapel; and the cheerful sylvan uplands of Hampstead in the north, and of Brixton in the south, are still more remote, and con sequently inaccessible, localities. Under these cir cumstances, the formation cf a park, wherein they may stroll at leisure on sunny summer evenings or on Sundays, becomes not merely a luxury, but a matter of absolute necessity, to the hard worked, ill-fed, and scantily paid artisans of the east end of London, who are numbered not by thousands, but by tens of thousands ; and we do hope that Go vernment will take their case promptly into consi deration, and if a " Victoria Park" is to be formed at all, give -directions to have it formed immediately. When a National Gallery, or any other luxury is required for the embellishment and convenience of the fashionable west-end, not an instant's time is lost in setting to work at it Committees of Taste are appointed, and the matter becomes quite an affair of moment ; but when a park is proposed for the use of a poor, plebeian, unfashionable district, whose inhabitants have no other means of obtaining fresh air and exercise; then, after the first mooting of the question and the first flourish of patriotic trumpets in Parliament, the affair is allowed to drop quietly out of notice, and no man seems to think it worth his while to revive it. This should not be ; to say the least of it, it is ungenerous and impolitic ; and we do hope that those officials who have a voice in the matter, will bear in mind that the poor mechanics at the east-end of the metropolis have quite as much right to have their interests consulted as those who dwell at the west-end, and who claim, in consequence, the privileges and consideration due to their unquestioned respectability. Since the Opposition Press was extinguished at Ma drid, no accounts of the slightest importance have ap peared in the Government journals respecting the af fairs of Alicant and Carthagena. Nearly the same silence prevails with regard to the state of the capital. Mystery, military despotism, and that horrible system of sanguinary retaliation sanctioned by the Du rango decree are the orders of the day. To the outrages on personal rights, liberty, and property, which are the certain consequences of this most humiliating, and at the same time most terrible of tyrannies, are super added those wanton sacrifices of human life, those in cessant demands for the blood of political opponents, which are only dreamed of under a reign of military terror. And as if even these atrocities were insuffi cient to glut the appetite for carnage, which is the disgraceful distinction of almost every Spanish parti san in the factious and insurrectionary movements of these days—prisoners of war, guilty of the crime of being taken in arms against the intolerable rule of NARVAEZ and the ferocious malignity of RONCALI, are decimated ! In a recent case, after some fighting against a detachment of the troops commanded by RONCALI, a party of 200 men surrendered to the vic torious banner of the " Captain-General." The com manding officer of the besieging forces (the affair was a sortie) ordered every fifth man to be shot ! In the most recent communications that have been received touching the progress of the young QUEEN'S troops against the insurgents, we read the following:— " The naval commander, Colonel Pinzon, sends the account of his taking possession of the Island of Ta barca, which the insurgents did not attempt to defend, the few persons there having hoisted a white flag on his commencing to cannonade it. This was on the 13th, and he admits that the blockade was almost fruitless.' On the 14th he went with the steamer in front of Alicant to silence the fire of two feluccas, the Pluton and Proser pina, which were firing on the English manufactory,where the Government engineers were at work: this object he effected, the feluccas retiring within the Mole, but the fire from the Castle cut up the steamer a good deal, one shot going right into the poop, and another, after carry ing away the chimney, took off the heads of a sapper and artilleryman; upon which he retired to the anchorage at the island. The insurgents who were taken in the two guarda costas were to be shot upon deck.- The Govern ment has so far given way that the insurgents taken at Alcoz are not to be shot, as ordered at first, without the form of a trial. The court-martial is now sitting there upon the case. " The soldiers of the carabineers taken at Elda were to be decimated; and the Herald() states that a dispatch h as beekreceived from General Roncali to that effect." Even this passage conveys but a feeble idea of the blood-guiltiness which has stained, at this early stage of them, all the operations directei by the QUEEN'S officers against those of her subjects who will not submit to the domination of such monsters. The whole of their fine country seems about to be overrun by the same remorseless agents of a sanguinary and jealous Government, with which Spain in former cen turies, had become familiar at the hands of a PEDRO or a PHILIP. Domiciliary visits of authorised spies and police agents, secret arrests, long and painful imprisonments of innocent men on the mere whispers of hired and unprincipled ruffians who have the ear of the Minister, are once more filling the ancient dungeons of Madrid. In the field and in garrison the military commanders are almost rivalling the atrocities of the execrable MINA, in whose person our English hospitality and humanity were destined to be so signally dishonoured and forgotten. In the capital, and in the towns, the mischievous activity, the secret combinations, and the uncontrolled harsh ness and brutality exercised towards captives, who are rotting in obscure and solitary confinement, recal the dark and dreary period in which the spiritual predecessors of the present political inquisition in 7 salted Heaven, and disgusted all mankind with its diabolical discipline ; its alternations of deceptive hope and physical torture, of treacherous deception, and unqualified intimidation. How long are these horrors—the reproach, the shame, the revolting infamy of Europe, in 1844—t0 continue ? Englishmen impatiently demand, in the name of popular liberty and of Christian civilization, that these scenes of wanton and of useless carnage should at once cease and determine. Their moral example at present, their evil influence on the future, are incontrovertibly European evils, which it is pal pably the interest of all European States to remedy and to remove at once. But how is this remedy I to be administered? By whom is the removal of these human shambles for the political butchery of Spain to be effected? For a dozen years of alternating constitu tions and intrigues, parties and influences—these have been in full requisition ;* affronting the ma jesty of law, and menacing the tranquillity of esta blished governments in surrounding States. Her own dismantled condition, faction-torn, impoverished, and decrepid, would have enabled the great European Power& at any time to compel her to return to order, and to the peaceful development of her own still gign Ala resources for retrieving her internal eco nomy and wealth, and her political importance. But these Powers have generously, and we should say wi .ely and constitutionally, abstained from such an ex tame act of interposition. g then, the principle of non-intervention with the domastio policy Of a foreign State, salutary as it is even when pushed to an apparently injudicious point; be still to be respected as to Spain ; let the Site great Powers exercise their controlling influence, by a means more indirect, not less efficient, and, we should apprehend, by the law of nations, perfectly justifiable vad conclusive. Let them suspend all di plomatic relations with the Spanish Court and Cabinet until these have brought their agitations and factions to a close; or, at least, under such subjection to the ancient law and constitution of the country, that th e y may no longer burst forth in incessant and bloc-ly feuds and convulsions, that are alike a dis honour to our common Christian faith, and a revolting blot on European civilization in the nineteenth cen tury. Nadrid papers of the 3d have been received, but as usual they contain no news. The Gazette publishes a dispatch from General RoNcau, which seems a duplicate of one trans mitted some ten days previous. It is dated Fe bruary 28, and states, " that the insurgents had on that day made a sortie, under cover of the fort of San Fernando, but met with such a warm reception that they were soon obliged to re-enter, under protection of the fort, leaving behind them several killed and wounded. The heavy artillery was land ing, and every preparation making for bombarding the city of Alicant." The QUEEN-MornEn was expected at Albacete, on the 10th instant. Great preparations were going on at different places for her reception. The Three per Cents. were done at 30f at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 22i at 60 days; and the floating debt at 51 at 60 days. We have received Paris papers of Friday and Sa turday. The affair of Otaheite, and the subscriptions for a sword to the gallant Admiral, still excite some interest. The conduct of the students of the Polytechnic School, in favouring the subscription has been condemned by the masters; and the delin quents, as a punishment, ere to be confined within doors for fifteen days. The testimonial is also re ceiving support in other quarters ; and, according to some accounts, subscription-lists have beeri opened in the ranks of the national guards, and even the troops of the line. No one will suffer more from this foolish display, and none, probably, will regret it more, than Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS, and he will be placed in the painful position of offending the Government, or the subscribers. The following are extracts from the papers:— . On Saturday the Chamber of Deputies again anulled the election of M. Charles Laftitte, and the discussion of the re port on the petitions against the Paris fortifications was con tinued. The French Government has received the following tele graphic dispatch : " PERPIGNAN, MARCH 7.—The entry of Queen Christina into Barcelona on the 4th was a triumph ; there was great enthusiasm, and the town was magnificently illuminated. The fetes were continuing the day before yesterday. H er Majesty was to leave this day or to-morrow by land for Tar ragona, there to embark in the Lavoisier for Valencia.—The municipal elections of Valencia were knoW4 on the 3d. The Moderadet had gained the upper hand." THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1814. The Journal des Chemins de Fer states that at a meeting of the Cabinet Council, held on Friday, the Ministry decided that the Orleans and Tours Railway Bill and the Paris and Chartres Railway Bill should be presented to the Chambers without delay. " We have learned," says the Patrie," that some Italian emi grants resident in Paris, such as Lieut.-General Pepe, General Busi, Count Mamianic, and Lovatelli, Amari, Canalli, Crema, Leopardi, Montalegie, Roberchi, and Gonna, were this day sent for to the I'refecture of Police. M. Delaport informed them, that the French Government was acquainted with the intrigues of M. Mappini, Chief of La Jeune Italie, for produc ing an insurrection in Italy, and he, as a friend, advised them to abstain from taking any part in acts by which they might be compromised." "The Augsburgh Gazette gives the following from Posen, 25th ult. :—The fate of the Russo-Polish refugees is decided. This morning about two-thirds of them were sent under escort to Magdeburg. The remainder will follow in a few days, with the exception of a few who have received permission to stay until the end of March. Amongst the persons affected by the measure are the Count de Plater, who has always re sided here in a very retired manner, and who recently pur chased an estate in the Grand Duchy; the rich Count de Potocki, son-in-law of Count Edward de. Razzinhi ; Count Eugene Breza ; and M. de Luszewski, who is the owner of two houses in Posen." With the exception of the Five per Cent. Stock, the Funds on Saturday continued firm. THE BOURSE — SATURDAY, AfARCII 9. First Highest Lowest Last Pt ice. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. exdiv 122 65 .• 122 65 .. 122 40 .. 122 45 Four-and-a-Half.. • • 110 50 •• 110 50 .. 110 50 • • 110 50 Four per Cents. • • 104 50 .• 105 • • 104 50 .. 105 Three per Cents.. •• • 82 90 82 90 .. 82 80 .. 82 80 Bank of France. • .• • • • ••• • • 3 2 6 5 —3265 ..3265 326.5 ....... .. 4 .. Laftltie Bank, 1,0001. Shares llos • • 1105 . • 1105 .. 1105 5,0001. Sharcs soBs • • 5085 • • 5085 ..50 Belgian Five 5....... 1044 105 .. 104 105 1840 ........ 108 , • .. 1084 .. 1084 .. 1084 1842 •••• • • • • 100 • • 109 .. 109 . • 109 Spanish Active •••••• • • • • • • 34 . •• 34 .. 34 • • 34 Passive 64 •• 64 .. 64 .. 64 e Threes ••• • • • ...... 37 • • 37 • • 364 • . 364 Portuguese Five per Cents • • 46 4 • 464 464 .. 464 Neapolitan lO2 40 .• 102 60 .. 102 40 .. 102 GO 106/ • . 10 64 '.• 1064 .. 106} RAILWAY SHARIS. St. Germain ••••••• • • • • • • • 8;:0 • • 830 .. 830 .• 830 Versailles, R. 8.• •••••• • • • • • •'_ B , s • • 385 • • 332 50 .. 382 50 L. 8.• ••••••• • • • • 1 la • • 175 • • :172 50 .. 172 50 Rotten 865 • •• 872 50 .. 865 .. 670 Rouen to Havre • o.leans . 877 55 .. 877 50 .. 87:5 •• 875 Strasbuzg to Bale • Avignon to 31arseilles • • • • • • 775 • • 775 . • 771 25 .. 771 28 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. St. Germain ,• 832 50 • • 830 •• 832 50 Versailles,R.B. L.B.•••• •• e••• Rouen ••••••••••••••••••.•'B7O .• 877 50 •• 870 •• 877 50 Rouen to Havre Orleans . . . S;xasourg to Bale•••••••• .• 2 , 1.2 50 •• 245 Avignon to Marseilles.• • • .. 775 .. 780 •• 682 50 .• 685 •• 877 50 880 •• 242 50 .. 245 •• 771 25 775 To•morrow evening the grand banquet takes place, which is to be given :at Covent-garden Theatre, to Mr. O'Connell. We believe that no spectacle of our times will surpass it ; indeed, we doubt whether any will equal it. The Conunittee have been unremitting in their efforts -to render the arrangements worthy of the occasion, and _ the eagerness exhibited in fashionable circles to see the festival is unequalled. It has been found necessary to enlarge the area of the theatre to its utmost extent, and even then the space falls short of the size that is required, The stewards have made reserves of tickets up to the latest moment, and to prevent disappointment to strangers coming from distant parts, have resolved to give up their own places, rather than exclude any who are anxious to join in this grand national testimony of sympathy with Ireland. ACTIONS OF MAHABAJPOOR AND PUNNIAR.—MF. Wyld, of Charing-cross, has just published three ex cellent sketches-in reference to the two great battles gained by the British arms at Gwalior. One de scribes the route and positions of the Army of Exer cise before the commencement of hostilities ; another gives an outline of the movements of the Anglo- Indian army under Sir H. Gough upon Maharajpoor and Choundah ; and the third, a similar outline of General Grey's engagement in front of Gwalior. This celebrated place, it will. be seen from the map, lies between the scenes of action, being about ten miles from Punniar and eighteen from Maharajpoor. The rivulets, valleys, and temporary forts erected for the occasion are exhibited with much precision, and the sketches altogether will be found very useful in forming a correct idea of the country around the strongest fortress in India. They are published to gether in one small sheet and are accompanied by notes pointing out the lines of attack, the positions of the different regiments in the course of the day, and the respective camps of the victors after the battle. MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) . ...................__ CORN EXCHANGE—MONDAY. For Wheat fresh up to-day the demand was by no means active. However, the finest qualities of both red and white found buyers, at prices fully equal to those obtained on this day se'nnight. All other kinds of English Wheat at late rates. Fine Foreign Wheat at very full prices. For Corn under locks rates were almost, nominal. For. Barley the rates of Monday last were barely supported. Malt had a downward tendency. In Oats no quotable difference can be noted. Beans, Peas, and Flour unaltered. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL; MEASURE. Ws:Err-Essex & Kent, . I Af,avr-Chevalier........, 63s to - red -44 s to 835°yrs-Yorkshire and Ditto, white .. , 58. to 66 1 .. Lineolnsh., feed ... 23s to Norfolk and Potatoe .. .. .- C ._... .. 25s to coin, red 4 21 to 49s Youghall and C o rk, Dittowhite ...... Irish, red 475 to 505 Cork, white Ditto white Rrs-Old • 29s to 331 BBANS-Tick 30s to 36s New 368 to 38$ Peas- Grey 3ss to 38e Raster-Grinding 2ss to 28. Maple .......... ........ 33. to 34. Malting Chevalier......, .... MALT—Suftblk and Nor. FLOUR-Town made folk s6s to 62s I Suffo k 34s to 38s Brown 508 to 54$ Stockton & Norfolk 34s to 36 Kingston and Ware 56s to 625 , FOREIGN GRAIN AS Wsesr-Dantric Hamburgh 368 to 40s BARLEY 3Ol to 335 04sys-New ....... ..... Feed ..... ......." l4s to 16s ISMITIKFZELD. 4s per Blbs. ; b u t a t w hi c h • The Beef trade was in a slug g g o i o sh ta s t t io t s , o a f t, 2idnpseormBelbsi-n -ldniunb Downsers of oo In Sh in e a e n p d w ed er a e es--viz., from 4 s 2d t o 4 s 6d per Prim l dc ie l6 p ng nces realised for Lambs were bats the n goodnhc o e ig s ,hemlaeees clearance rn e fla c sr l i ce n erx e et oen w a s nno last st ie vefrexe. cewte effected. dd e . k i n ' wk's Thee o woolled Sheep were freely from 5s to 6s per 81 bs. Calves at late rates. Pigs at pre disposedB very ib s; s w t e h a io d i i- ta t ht r e a l h d a t e ae , l f a r_ t ab tr f ee d s u s l . l p aT r u i vious quotations. Per Sibs. to sink the nffal. e. d. to 5..4.1 O. 4. to I. d. Interior 8ea5t5.......... 2 0 2 /0, Inferior Sheep . . .... ... 7l©, 3 2 second quality &M... 3 0 3 4 iSecond quality ditto... 3' 4 - 3 6 PrimeJarga Inen.. 111 .. 3 6 3 Cseausaroolled ditto.. 3 8 4' , 0 Printe.Scotii. he. ...»« 310 6 • 8 611thdown Wilbert. 4 2 4 er !lime small ditto.... 4 6 41 1 XrP il o °ff rk s ers .."6 .7 " l 1 1 8 0 3 4„. 4 8 SneklingCalvoiessh 19 • se. ,o QUirteroldPip a i l ials 0 21 rs santriir _ J O 1212,22. Large coa tis Caly i el . 2 3sh olo I_ ~1 1. ). 1 „..c.21,7 7v6es. i pita 4 111 mrsrsvcsamss awn . Lasassurszazu The general demand - krj Meat must be considered steady, and price; td have had'an upward tendency. An evident im provement has been obseived, iii this quality of meat on Offer. At per Am's; by the Carcass I. d. to s. d.i I. 41. tee. d. Beef o n f a i or ....."... 2 2 2 d i Mutton, inferior .... 2 0. 3 0 -- istsldlin s ..........- 2 2 2 24 ---,-- middling.... 3 2 3 4 - prime large ..... 210 3 0 ( ---- prime 3 6 3 9 -...... prime small, ...... 3 2 3 6 4 3 61Pork, 1arge.......... Veal ..... .............. ..... 31- ---trnall. .... ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK. Beasts. Sheep. Calves. Pig.. Scotland l6 400 - 512 Yorkshire - 680 Norfolk ..................... - Suffolk . . .......... ....... ..... 1 7 12 0 Cambridges hire - go Essex ...... ...... - ..... - Surrey . ... .......... .. ......... Devonshire .... ... ....... ••••••• 5 40 30 48 Wilt s hire ........ ... ..... Other parts 101 FLOUR IN BOND. 13 E1lis .....».»....».» 20s to 26, raas. .. ..... ..... 233 to 27a houa—American Baltic Total ....It's . , 1 in I XI:1 Previous wce I II 1,920 400 2,134 610 2,670 Difference since our last... SS 70 210 534 BOROUGH AND SPITALPIZI.DI3. For the best qualities of Potatoes, the demand is very firm, at fully last week's quotations.. In all other kinds, the sup plies of which are seasonably extensive, only a moderate bu siness is doing, at late rates. BOROUGH HOP PIARRZT. Since our last report only a - moderate business has been doing in this market ; nevertheless holders are very firm, and have obtained full prices in every instance. WOOL DIAXICEIT. The demand is somewhat active, at prices fully equal to the late advance. No public sales are yet appointed. TALLOW. This market remains steady, and fine Y. C. is very firm and scarce, at 4s 3d. There is no feature to notice, except that a fair business has been done in new Tallow during the week at 41s 3d to 41s 6d. Town Tallow is plentiful at 41s net sash. - - SEIZURE UNDER TIIE INCOME-TAX.—It is well known in this district, and no doubt almost equally so throughout the kingdom, that the firm of John Fielden and Brothers, the largest spinners and manufacturers in the kingdom, made their return under the Income-tax Act, in 1839, 1840, and 1841—NiL This return, it is also pretty generally known, was not satisfactory to the Commis sioners, and in consequence one of -the partners appeared to show cause aginst a surcharge of 12,000/. per annum, which, at sevenpence in the pound, amounted to 3501. The indi vidual who thus appealed made oath to the correctness of the return, i. e., that no profits had been made by the firm in those years ; and not only this, but the Commissioners should have access to all books and documents in corro ebvoerra,tiwonouolfdtnhoetrbeteutianktenhaats a hasdetboeff again been mode. a 71i/return. The All this, how result is, that on Tuesday last Mr. Thomas Fielden, it is said, delivered to the officer charged with the execution the keys of their warehouse in Peel-street, Manchester, and probably the officer is now in actual possession. That the Govern ment will sell there is no doubt_; that the firm will permit a sale is equally certain, especially after what the Hon. Member for Oldham has publicly stated on the subject. The wisdom of permitting such extreme measures has been freely canvassed on 'Change, at Man chester; but as it is notorious that three of the most disastrous years (since 1836) were those of 1839, 1840, and 1841, the years from which the profits were calculated, the general impression is that the case is an extremely hard one ; no one supposing, who has any knowledge of the extraordi nary losses sustained on the immense stocks held by the Messrs. Fielden in those years (report states the amount at one million pieces), but that the return was precisely what it ought to have been. When the sale is to take place has not yet been stated, but come when it may, the attendance will be such as was never In itnessed on any s imilar occasion.—Leeds Paper. PICKLING WITH PYROLIGNEOUS ACID.—The ad vantages which this acid has over malt vinegar ought not to be overlooked : it possesses a very desirable property—that of hardening or rendering crisp whatever is pickled in it, and that in a very short space of time compared with vinegar; it is also suitable where distilled vinegar is required, and more over not more than one-fourth the price of the latter. There is no doubt of this acid being extensively used in the whole sale way, although the pickles would not appear of so good a colour,--Polytechnic Review, SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vubfir Optitton. " Who rams may read." roZEIGN. Accounts from Paris state that the Duke of Nemours is seriously indisposed. The complaint is said to be sore throat. The report caused a depression of 30c., in the Three per Cent. Stock on Friday, but on Saturday they recovered and ultimately closed at 82f. 80c. The heads of the banking-houses in Paris who negotiated the Belgian Loan of 1831-32, on Friday had an interview with the Minister. of Foreign Affairs, to whom they presented a peti tion, signed by the holders of shares in that loan, praying him to use his influence with the Belgian Government to prevent its reducing the interest of the loan from Five to Four per Cent., contrary to the terms of the contract The Minister informed them that he had already taken the first steps, and promised to transmit their representations to Brussels. The Viscount de Contades died a few days ago at Paris, from the following comparatively slight cause :—Walking along the street only a few days before, lie fell and broke his thumb. The pain brought on a fever, which terminated his life. The Faubourg St. Martin was on Friday morning in com motion, in consequence of the discovery of a new murder, the body of a woman being found in a cellar cut in pieces. The husband, it is said, has been arrested. _ _ The arrests in the Basque Provinces continue. Several of the principal persons in the district are involved in the Carlist conspiracy. The Descartes steam-frigate of 450 horse power, was launched at Rochefort on the sth inst. Captain Essen of the English vessel the Romulus, whos• crew had the affray with the French ship the Laurentine, in the harbour of Marseilles, which we mentioned on Tuesday, has published in the journals of that port a statement of the affair in justification of himself, his officers, and men. He de clares, that being obliged to remote the berth of his vessel to escape the consequences of the gale, he was attempting to do so when the men of the Laurentine, carried.a hawser from her to a Neapolitan vessel and barred his passage. Some of his crew went on board the Neapolitan and cast off the rope, but it was twice replaced and laid across his way again, Upon this his mate went ou board the Laurentine to remon strate when he was violently assaulted and struck in the loins with a handspike, and that what was afterwards done by his men was merely in self-defence. A few nights ago, as six men belonging to a fishing smack, of Dieppe were in a boat laying the nets for fishing for whit ing, a violent gust of wind surprised them, and capsized the boat, causing the loss of every man in her. The Memorial de Rouen states that the quays of Rouen are under water •from the flood in the Seine, and considerable damage has • been done to goods lying in the cellars of the adjacent houses. The low grounds near Rouen are all inun dated, and much property has been washed away. C 0 URT —rAsszo NAS LE. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge entertained his Ex cellency Baron Brunnow and a select party on Sunday even ing, at Kew Cottage. Her Majesty's first drawing-room, on the 25th instant, is expected to be very numerously attended. It is understood that the Royal apartments in Kew Palace are to be forthwith prepared for the temporary sojourn of the Prince of Wales, and the Princesses Royal and Alice, during the stay of the Court in town, for the advantage of . the coun try air. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland arrived at Stafford House on Friday evening, from visiting the Earl and Countess of Carlisle, at Castle Howard, Yorkshire. We are happy to hear that the Noble Earl is in a fair way of recovery. The Duke -and Duchess of Montrose left town on Saturday, on their return to Sulby Hall, for the remainder of the hunting season. The Duke of Devonshire leaves Devonshire House early in the week to join the Earl and• Countess of Granville, at Brighton. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland also will shortly go to Brighton, where their family are residing, and purpose prolonging their stay there until Easter. The Duke of Buccleuch and a distinguished circle were entertained by the Earl of Haddington et the Admiralty, on Saturday last. The Noble Earl will commence his levees at the Admiralty on Thursday next, the 14th inst. The Marquis of Lansdowne entertained Lord Melbourne and a select party at dinner, on Friday evening, at Lansdowne House. The Marquis of Conyngham left Jermyn-street at the end of last week, for Cowes, to superintend the alterations in his yacht, the Flower of Yarrow (late a cutter), which is being lengthened, as his Lordship intends to go afloat early in the season. The Earl of Mountcharles, his Lordship's eldest son, has been on a continental tour. Lord and Lady Brougham entertained a select party at dinner, on Sunday evening, in Grafton-street. The Speaker of the House of Commons has his last levee on Saturday next, and that gentleman's parliamentary dinners conclude this session on the 30th inst. II~iIbG~EL~:.~iNEOUB. A meeting of tenant-farmers was held at Harleston, in Suf folk, on Wednesday, when resolutions, condemnatory of the corn-laws, were carried by a great majority. A numerous and highly respectable meeting was held on Thursday evening in the Theatre, Preston, in aid of the 100,0001—League fund. A deputation from the League, con sisting of Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., Colonel Thompson, and Mr. R. R. Moore, addressed the meeting for several hours. After which, a subscription was commenced, and the sum of 8951. was announced by the chairman as the amount collected. The importation of live stock from Scotland to the port of London is rapidly on the increase. During the past week no fewer than 374 live cattle were landed. On Friday after noon the steam-ship Dundee, Captain Kidd, arrived at Wap ping from Dundee—her first trip this season. She brought 112 live cattle, 40 sheep, 24 boxes of the river Tay salmon, about 15 tons of killed beef, mutton, and pork ; about 10,000 hares and rabbits, and a large quantity of Forfarshire manu factured goods. The other importations of cattle during the week were, from Aberdeen, 150 ; Banff, 86 ; and Fraser burgh, 26. Mr. Baily has just received a commission for a statue in marble of hislate Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, for the Masonic-hallat the Freemasons"lavern. We understand that there is no truth in the story of coins having been found at Chatsworth to the amount of 10,0001., as stated in some of the papers. A sermon in behalf of the - Scktch Free Church was preached on Sunday, at Surrey Chapel,Nßlackfriars road, by the Rev. Dr. Candlish, of Edinburgh. Divine s er vi c e c o m m e nce d at half-past ten 'o'clock in the forenoon. The attendance was not so great as might have been expected, but this circumstance may be attributed to the very unsettled state of the weather. Sermons were also preached in various other Dissenting cha pels throughout the metropolis for the same object. On Friday evening, a deputation visited Saddleworth, for the purpose of addressing a meeting convened in aid of the League fund. The meeting, which was held in a large Dissenting place of worship, crowded to excess, was addressed by the members of the deputation with gre'at effect, and at the close of their speeches, a subscription was commenced, and upwards of 2501. was collected before the meeting separated. LLOYD' SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. LONDON, MARCH 11.—Wind this day at noon, strong breeze from S. to W., and cloudy, with rain at times. DEAL, MARCH 9.—W. S.W. to W. by S. 10.—S.W. to N.N.E. and N., squally.—Arrd. Medora, Spragge, Berbice ; Wilhelm Ludwig, Batavia, for Bremen ; John William Dare, Calcutta, for London ; John, Mauritius ; Caroline, Bock, Rio, for Harnburgh ; Secret, Valparaiso ; Octavie, Peterson, Para, for Antwerp. Sid. British Empire, . Madras ; Rose berry, Bombay; Toronto and Harriet, Cape of Good Hope; Lucretia, Cape Coast Castle ; Vicar of Bray, Valparaiso ; Janet, Willis, Demerara ; Thistle, Antigua ; Martha; Trinidad ; Gla diator, Nev York ; William, Henderson, St. John's, N.B. ; Harmony, St. John's, New Foundland, with the rest of the outward bound. The Claudine, from China, has not arrived in the Downs as reported. The Toronto, for the Cape of Good Hope, and the Thistle, for Antigna,;were in contact to-day, and both received considerable damage ; the former preceeded down the Channel, and the latter has put into Dover, with bowsprit sprung, &c. OFF MARGATE, MARCH 9.—T. Hoult, Cape ofGood Hope. OFF DOVER, MARCH 10.—Mary Catherine, Taylor, China ; Aippina, Rogers, Mauritius. k'ORTSAIOCTII, MARCH 9.—Wind W., fresh breezes. 10th. —W.S.W. to N.N.W., hard.—Sld. Surge, China; Ellison, New York. OFF THE START, MARCH 9.—Stadt Schiedam and Gu zina, Batavia for Rotterdam. PLYMOUTH, MAncii 10.—Wind S.W.—Sld. Hymen, Lima. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 9.—Wind W.N.W., fresh. 10th.— N.W. moderate. 9th.—Arrd. Com merce , Jones, Ichoboe, Jan. 10; Violet, Simpson, Cameroons ; Irt, Grier, Pernam buco; Gipsy, Cresswell, Maranham, 4th ult..; Matthew King, Miller, St. Domingo ; Captain Ross, Kinnaird, Hon duras; Perseverance, Bennett, Savannah, 10th; Pickwick, Cornish, Lima, Dec. 6 ; Champion, New Orleans ; Spring field, Roy, Savannah ; Abijon, Charleston ; Challenger, M'Ewen, Ichoboe, Jan. 10. Off—Lady Paget. IVuLTRY, MARcu 9.—The Queen, Read, of and from Shields to Charente, drove from her anchors, and went out to sea during a gale atW.N.W., the master and five men on shore at the time. A large loaded brig was seen to go down between one and two o'clock this morning, four miles to the north ward, with all hands. BRIDLINGTON, MARCH 10.—The George Canning, Allen, from Shields to London, sprung a leak yesterday afternoon, and was run on the rocks to the north of Flamborough Head Light-house, and went to pieces (crew saved), it blowing a gale at west-north-west at the time. FALmourii, MARCH 9.—Wind W.S.W. to N.W., fresh breeze. 10.—S.W. to N.W., strong gales and squally.—Arrd. Mary, Hendrichsen, Buenos Ayres, and sailed 9th for Ham burgh ; Swift, David, Aux Cayes. Off port, St. George, Lughrue, Callao ; Edward, Schmidt, Buenos Ayres, and sail e d for Antwerp. GUERNSEY, MARCH s.—Sld. William, Cape of Good Hope. JERSEY, MARCH 9.—Ski. Damon, St. Helena; Harriet, Campbell, Rio Janeiro. SUNDERLAND, MARCH 9.—The Symmetry, Palin, of this port, was abandoned last night, in a sinking state, having been in contact with the Elizabeth Adnet, arrived here—crew saved. REDCAR, MARCH 9.—The Jenny, of Faversham, -is sup posed to have foundered, 26th ult., off this port —crew sup posed to be drowned. The Hopewell, from Whitby to Stock ton, was driven on the rocks near here this morning, and is now on the beach, with loss of rudder—crew saved. - CULINARY WoRDER.--In a very recherche dinner given last Saturday, by some friends of Mr. O'Connell, at the Reform Club, there was a remarkable dainty dish placed upon the tabl e , en titl e d " L e Soufflé Monstre a la Clontarf." The height of it was 29 inches, and the width 17 ; it took four hours and a quarter to bake, and contained 36 eggs, with other ingredients in proportion. Fifty very small souffles were seen clinging round that collosal mount a i n , a n d a n extraordinary good likeness of the great agitator (drawn on rice paper, and-surrounded by wreaths of shamrock) appeared, as it were, rising from the volcanic crater. It created much humour amongst the assembled guests, and we are happy to state that this monstrous sweet meeting was dispersed with the most perfect order. - AN UNWELCOME VISITOR.—On Saturday after noon, about five o'clock, Messrs. Sangster, umbrella, parasol, and walking-stick manufacturers, Fleet-street, were thrown into the utmost state of alarm in consequence of the sudden appearance of a horse with a lad upon his back in their shop, who, in his ingress, forced down the counter, on which were lying a number of gold and silver-headed canes, most of which were injured, besides demolishing a glass-door, the. panes of which were shivered to atoms. A gentleman, who was making r. purchase, was also knocked down with great force, and the animal in turning, himself fell, the prostrate gentle man narrowly escaping being crushed by the weight of -the horse's body. The horse, on being raised, was led out of the shop ; but not before he had shattered a glass casement, and done other damage. It appears that the animal had taken fright at something in the street. The boy was not it all in jured, and the gentleman only slightly so. 4JAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day to hoar appeals. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, and Lord Beaumont. • DRUMMOND V. WALDRON. The further arguments in this part-heard case occupied their Lordships the whole morning. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.-(THIS DAY. THE LADY THIEVES.—Ann Elizabeth Earnshaw and Emma Wells were placed at the bar this dav, before Mr. Alderman Challis, for the purpose of being finally examined on various charges of shoplifting. Mr. Alderman Challis remarked, that the best course to adopt would be to take the depositions inall the cases which were perfect, and bind the witnesses over to prosecute, which being done, Mr Clarkson said that as the prisoners had now been one month in custody, and during that time the officers had done all in their power to ascertain whether the money in the two saving -banks, standing in the names of the prisoners was the produce of any robbery, and they not being able to trace it to such a source. he now applied to have the books given up to enable the prisoners. to obtain such assistance as was necesLtry to their defence. Upon the principle of humanity it ought not to be withheld. Mr. Alderman CHALLIS said, that a vast quantity of valuable property had been found, and although not traced yet before they could be tried, some claimant might come forward and own it ; besides further evidence might be ob tained, which would show the money might be-the result of other robberies, Mr. CLAuxsorsr—lf not, you will let them have it ? Mr. Alderman CHALus—Certainly. If either of the pri soners asked to say any thing, he would hear them, other wise he should fully commit them for trial on the several charges ; but they would be brought up on Monday the 10th of April, and should nothing transpire they would' then 'be sent to Newgate. The prisoners were then fully .committed. CLERKENWELL-(T HIS DAY.). Two men named Madigan and Walshe, were charged with assaults of a violent character on police constable 124 E. It appeared from the evidence that on the previous night, about twelve o'clock, the officer being on duty in Coram street, saw the prisoners shoving one another against the shop windows, and thereby disturbing the inmates. The officer requested of them to desist, but they became more disorderly ; he took them into custody. IValslie immediately struck him, and Madigan kicked him in so savage a manner that he fell on the flags. In attempting to get up, Madigan seized the constable's forefinger in his mouth, and tore away the flesh from it. He knocked the officer down a second time, and when he was lying on the flags kicked him. At length the prisoners were secured. The complainant added that he was still suffering great pain from the wound on his finger. Mr. Inspector Rawley stated that several of the respectable inhabitants of the neighbourhood had complained of the pri soners and their associates. Mr. GREENWOOD said he always made a distinction between that inhuman practice of biting, and other kinds of assault, and also where a prostrate man was kicked. He should send Madigan to the House of Correction for 21 days, and Walehe for seven days. 31A.RYLEBONE.-(THIS DAY.) Henry Jones, a boy, was placed at the bar charged with having robbed his master, Mr. Barnard Swinstead, straw hat manufacturer, 32, Oxford-street, of ten sovereigns and• a straw bonnet. The prosecutor stated that Jones had been employed by him as errand boy, and on the 21st of February last he ab sconded, taking with him the money alluded to. The witness had upon the Monday evening placed a sum of 301. in notes and 10 sovereigns in gold in a cupboard at the back of his shop, which cash was safe on the Tuesday evening. The pri soner came early upon the Wednesday, and soon after left, leaving the shop door open. When witness came down stairs he found that the lock of the cupboard had been forced open and the gold abstracted. The bonnet had been left by a lady, and the prisoner had been sent home with it, but it had never been received. Mr. linwimrsex—How is it that he had not been taken into custody before? Mr. Swinstead—He was taken into custody at Sheerness a few days after, on suspicion of having stolen the money which he was spending very freely, and I wrote to the constable there, stating that an officer would be down on the- succeeding morning; but that person, after taking the balance, 31., from him, let him go. Mr. RAWLINSON said it was a most reprehensible thinwand before committing the prisoner he should like to see the ofti.• cer from Sheerness. He should therefore remand the case for a week. UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.) Ann Kelly was brought before Mr. Traill, charged with stealing eight sovereigns from Mr. John Marsh, under the following circumstances : The complainant, who resides in Trinity-square, was met by the prisoner on the preceding night, and accompanied her to a house in Newington. He had not been long in this place when the prisoner contrived to obtain possession of his purse containing eleven sovereigns. He missed the purse and eight sovereigns, and when he ac cused her of robbing him, she conveyed something into her mouth, and for some time was unable to arti culate, and become very ill. From the symptoms then appa rent it was believed she had managed to swallow the eight sovereigns, but she denied that such was the . fact, and de clared that she knew nothing about the money. The com plainant, however, having no doubt on his mind as to his being robbed by the prisoner, she was committed for trial. THE CASE of SUPPOSED TRANCE AT DEPTFORD. In the last notice of this 'extraordinary case it was stated, on the authority of several surgeons of experience, that de composition of the body was going on, although not appa rent to a non-professional person. On Friday, however, there were such unequivocal signs of decomposition having taken place, that the parents of the deceased determined on having a post mortem examination, and Messrs. Downing, sur geons to the H division of police, and Mr. Caleb Taylor, sur geon, of High-street, Deptford, were requested to perform the operation, which they did in a most minute and careful man ner, and in which they were occupied several hours. The following is an authorised copy of their report : " FRIDAY, MARCH 8. " POST MORTEM EXAMINATION ON THE BODY OF HENRY FRANCIS. " The body was well praportioned, robust, and above the mitldle stature. The calvarium being removed, the dura mater and arachnoid were found translucent and healthy, and no unusual quantity of serum in its cavity, but the vessels of the pia mater were remarkably congested with venous blood, the larger ones being quite prominent from distension and their minutest ramifications filled. The brain was also found very much congested, and sections of it being made, bloody points in very unusual numbers were shown, from extreme congestion of its small vessels. The ventricles contained no unusual quantity of serum, but the plexus choroides was much congested. No clot or extravasation was found. " On opening the chest the pericardium was found to con tain about four ounces of redish serum, the left ventricle of the heart dilated and hypertrophied ; th e r i g h t ventr i c l e, semi lunar, mitral, and tricuspid valves and aorta quite healthy, but the right ventricle, venx cave; ascendens and descendens, brachio-cephalics, coronary, and other veins were much dis tended with blood; the left pleural cavity containing about 8 oz. redish serum (this, as well as the contents of the peri cardium, being probably the result of cadaveric exosmosis), the membranes themselves being healthy. The right pleural cavity was completely obliterated by old adhesions, the lung being adherent throughout from apex to base, so that it was impossible to remove it without laceration ; both lungs were much congested, but otherwise healthy. The stomach con tained some undigested food, amongst which were found many large masses of cheese, considerably larger than filberts, their nature being evident when cut. into. The stomach was healthy, except being, in common with all the organs of the body, much congested ; which was also the case with the kid neys, being large, of a deep chocolate colour. The liver, spleen, intestines, and peritoneum healthy. " From this examination, it is evident that disease of the heart was not . the immediate cause of death, it having been produced by congestive apoplexy. " C. TAYLOR. " E. DOWNING." The foregoing document will no doubt be read with great interest by the profession as well as the public. One remark able fact is, that amongst the number of professional gentle men who viewed the body during the 35 days after death, only one gentleman expressed an opinion as to the cause of death, which has been borne out by the post mortem exami nation, and that was the gentleman who was mistaken for Mr. Callaway by the family (on whose authority it was stated Mr. Callaway and Mr. Bransby Cooper had seen the body). The gentleman referred to pronounced that the de ceased had died from paralysis of the brain, and pointed out the proper course which should have been pursued. Mr. Taylor certainly bled the deceased half an hour after the first surgeon had pronounced him dead, and the blood flowed copiously from the arm. Messrs. Downing and Taylor have not at present given any opinion as to the cause of the extra ordinary retention of natural appearances for so great a length of time. Even on opening the body the effluvium was very slight. This case clearly shows the necessity of a more patient in quiry by Coroners'juries, as in this case the Coroner thought it unnecessary to call the medical man, himself pronouncing that deceased died from an enlargement of the heart, on which the jury returned a verdict. FIRE ON BOARD A SHIP. MELANCHOLY LOSS OF LIFE. DEVONPORT, MARCH 9.—This morning about one o'clock an alarm of fire was heard at Mutton Cove, and shortly after flames were observed issuing from the companion and cabin window of the. brig Theresa, of about 150 tons, Captain Nichols, belonging to Devonport, and recently arrived from Newport with a cargo of coals, which she was discharging at the wharf near her Majesty's arsenal. The two town enginei were speedily on the spot, but owing to a defect in the hose, some time elapsed before they were brought into play. Lieut.; Williams, the superintendent of the dockyard police, with one engine, and Colonel Clarke with part of the 76th Regiment and another engine, were scion there. Captain Milne, son of the Port Admiral, Sir David Milne, and Lieut. Elliott, with it company of Artiller7, were also present. About ten minutes after the engines arrived a boy was observed to make two inef fectual attempts to leap from the cabin and catch hold of the skylight combings : the third time a man on the quarter-deck pulled him out, but, harrowing to relate, the flesh on the poor boy's arm peeled off in the act ; the shirt was burnt off his back, and the hair of his head destroyed. He was immediate) Doti: veyed to the workhouse. The cargo very soon ignited, - and, although low tide, the vessel was most injudiciously scuttled, when of course the water ran out as soon as it was poured in. The fire was, however, eventually subdued, but the brig is so much injured as to be past. repair. The charred remains of John Davis, of Devonport, aged 18, were found in the steerage berth. He, with John Phillips, aged 13, the lad who was rescued through the cabin-window, were the only persons on board. The unfortunate youth was relieved from his sufferings in the course of the forenoon. Before dying, he stated that he went on board about 9 o'clock on the Fri day evening, carefully put out his light and retired to bed, in the state-room, having received permission to do so from the master. The lad, who is the son of a gentleman now re sident at Newport, but formerly a collector of customs at a Cornish port, was determined to go to sea, in opposition to the wishes of his relatives, and was considered on board the brig more as a passenger than a sailor. The fire originated in the steerage, where Phillips slept in the mate's berth. It is supposed that he came on board very late, and that through his negligence the accident occurred; he must have been smothered in his bed-place. The clothes belonging to the crew are destroyed, as they slept aft and messed with the captain, to whom no blame can be attributed in this melan choly accident. El yS MONEY AND COMMERCIAL N CITY, QUARTER TO Till iP ribe This is the first day appointed in the resolutions of House of Commons to receive notice of dissent from° the holders of the Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Annuities, t scheme of conversion propounded by the Chancellor of 117 3 Exchequer oh Friday last, but up to the hour vrific hl i,o es k this article not, one inscription has been. made in the '— provided for that purpose in the chief cashier's office- , A considerable amount of business has been transacted ,_ the Consol Market this morning, and all in favour de r; in prices. This indi c at e s a feeling that the Govetn rne pe r proposition will tend to enhance the value of the Three of Cents. For Money, as well as for the Account, the pric e ,,, b c Consols has been 98e to 984. The Commissioners bt.lltd, 21,3001. Consols at 984. The New Three-and - a - l imi„ Nis Cents. have been done at 1021 and 104 Exchequer le at 71s. to 725. premium, and Reduced Alllllllltie s, with dividend, at 99. mi c of Pursuant to promise, the agents for the Rel m %, - 0 01 Mexico have advertised the half-year's dividend that rat' os t unpaid on 11th October,lB43, they having now in hand M,b, ample means to do so. By the last West India steamer, ciA,, actual amount received for the dividend fund was 130, 5 ° . , n ' o f lars. There are assu r an ces h e ld ou t of the punctual par' . ir the interest upon Mexican Stock for the future, and tfitieeTto sequence is, that the prices of the' Bonds have con tin advance. The Old Five per Cents. have improved n: Saturday from 354 to 36*, and the Deferred 'from' 14 i tci s n ' d For Spanish Stock the price receded from 25} to 2 6 1,,,,s the Three per Cents. from 353 to 35i. Dutch Stock .1%_;;;1 up, and Belgian have been sold at 1041. Chilian are at 50 ; Brazilian at 81; Peruvian at 30; and C olony ex A vast amount of business has been done agaialruk 3. aid Railway Share Market, but prices are scarcely so firm were on Saturday. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCIL (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ...... ..... 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 1 : 820 New 3' !I Cent. Annuities, - 1 % pet -.......... .......... -.. India 80nd5,1,000.. ........................ ......•••••••• Ditto under 1,000 Bank Stock for Account Consols for Account 261 India Stock Exchequer'Bills, llid. •• 134 d. Apoot. Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O•CLOCP• Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent 104% 61/4 Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. _- Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent Ditto Deferred ........... . 5 15''`t , 'a 4 Columbian Bonds. es Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent. Mexican Bonds, .837, 5 per Cent. ....... ..... ....., 36 3 6 / Ditto for the Account. 1 i Ditto Deferred 5t0ck.................. Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents. -., 30 Ditto for the Account. Spanish Bonds. Five per Cent 1840 Ditto for the Account ... ...... .. ........ Ditto Passive Bonds Ditto Deferred Ditto Three per Cent. ..............»....«....«••... -- }i 55 Ditto for the Account Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 4O u 5 Dutch 2% per Cents. ....... ........ ....... • 56 Ditto for the Account Dutch 5 per Cents lOl PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. ItAILWAVI. PAID. Pint SOAP.% ...., Birmingham and Derby........... 190 . .... to , 4 Ditto Eighths Birmingham and Gloucester lOO .....».. 8 4/163 ". to -- Ditto New ~ , , to - ' Bristol and Exeter 7O ..... .... 70/44 g " to Chester and Holyhead 5 ..... .... 64% ••• to ... Eastern Counties Ditto New 25 13%0 to ..., a Ditto Extension l3s. 4d % ........ .0 6 3 '- Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 61 % ...... to 99 Great North of England lOO ..... .... 96311 ••••••• to ~ Great Western t 0..... Ditto % Shares Ditto Fifths... .............. .......... 12 to •" , Gflnd Junction 100 , II arrowgate and Kr aresboro' ... 3 Hull and Selby ao Ditto % Shares London and Brighton 5O 44 %%"' to ••",, Ditto Loan Notes London and Birmingham.... Stock Divot,' Shares ..:, , tO , $6. Ditto New Thirds London and South Western 41% ...... 134 6.74" . to Ditto Eighths - London and Croydon (Trunk)... 6 3 1 u 5 6. . . 71 . . ... ... ... t l O l7 - ; AU Lancaster and Carlisle 5 .... ..... 674 • .... to , 4 ,,b, Manchester and Birmingham Midland Counties Ditto; U Shares Norwich and Brandon .... ....... . 2 Paris and Orleans -.0 .... ..... 341134 a 4 0 , -, Paris and Rouen 2O 344 ••••••' to O r South Eastern and Dover ..... .... 50 - Ditto Scrip 25 ......... 36lei " to .' ...; Yarmouth and Norwich ~,, York and North Midland ~ , ,.....5 0 126 •••••••• . to ••• Ditto New Shares ' Ditto Scarboro ' Branch 2% ...... 21 ........ . A A, W 111 0°P 1I0 itrANCRESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 9. - e ..0-4 . 0 very buoyant market to-day, and a considerable buNi• I li i i , been done at the quotations :—Eastern Counti e S'Gisee , 9-16ths ;Ditto Perpetual, 11. 9s. 10d. ; Edinburgh And. 0 JI: Quarters, 15-i ; Manchester and Birmingham, 44 1 I 69 IF; Paris and Orleans, 34i• ; Sheffield and Mancheste r AO South Western One -Eighth Shares, 4-1; Manchester ance, 101. -•- . . 310 ,1°' THE SHAP CORN-LAW ..-- . P OLISTS. The monopolist meeting held yesterday aften lo°ll . a r.O t °SP' has proved, as we anticipated, that the independe nt r statesmen, and " other persons," of Westmoreland,ll:o 01 little sympathy with those who seek to persuade w_7.001 high rents and heavy, poor-rates are matters of 11 1 ° 70 l ife :, to mere practical agriculturists ; but that those bard 0 PI; in reality, borne by the generous landlords, for Ich t heaf. v ii tection" the Legislature has contrived to institute .....00,A dependently of the lay and clerical squirearchy --e 7 9> land and tithes—and a few Tory hangers-on from c if and the neighbourhood, we saw none present bu t reiol i f Shap and Orton, from Askharn, and Lowther, on t „ 0t0 t ,, 0 from Rigmaden and Kirby Lonsdale--the same wh e l oe"if at the Kendal election in November last, with 00%, 07 1 walking sticks, which most people called bludgeons; 1 0 49 46 hands, and even they seemed chap-fallen and out 0 ', 4 g10',,, at the use made of their serf-like services. There/ 4- oh r- .( no dm within, and gloom without the place ofassemblage -- t he d ing, no enthusiasm, no expressions of devotion to 10 4, 4 loaf, and no zeal, expressed or apparent, for the ei ( e,l ''."lo imported corn from the wilds of Westinorelall° 9n , whole affair looked like the rehearsal of i por.r.re farce—all the humour and jest of which had 0,,tije.1.1 through repetition. The flatness of the thing hi . ' ii D) the speakers, who might have been expected to kreeobillier interest front cooling, by remembrance of the stake. 'i r O r o they were to play • but they evidently regarded We i 0 iO .O , tions as " work without hope"—the efforts of coul lse oi ce,‘ a felon caught in the fact, and pre-convicted by ho t open fession. The marriage-settlement and endowir ken .,a 't w o tion of Sir Edward Knatchbull, the " common - s e n s e - oo go ments of Sir Robert Peel and Sir James Gre ha ta bY_A• 0 lukewarm co-operation afforded to the protectionl top?, Gladstone, seemed to hang like a dead weight el : ? n e veri A lff of the speech makers, and to clog and clip their ta i 0( tence. It was, in sooth, a pitiful exhibition Of meldess, o no bolstered, as well as might be, by daring and r " — tore`Jet," tion. We have only time and space now, howev e p t he " O •Pk the attention of our readers to the statements 0 co ot" moreland monopolists themselves—arguments w t 010, to them, because their confutation is part of thep ad dar; i 0 stance ; and to bear in mind the pretended file ts 0 a cll O prove a necessity for maintaining the corn-law s te r aP ° the tenant and labourer, as we shall next week ell oat discussion of these points more fully.—Ketidal O r 0 0 0 _ ? tO l o caPt -.4t Sa t L+r PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—A new ballet, ill and four tableaux, was produced at this theatre e es il o fP' fr i) night. The scene is under, on, and near the L a , k , 3i ,C d c al o ney ; the music (which is composed and aaaptea4,,lso o ptc is well selected ; and the dances (which are arrange u ft 4t P t) , Vedv) are national and characteristic. Th c i ous t a te of Naiad groups is really striking. A Naiau ig ht,s4e. earth to win a mortal lover to the Lakes on Mar.ll_,. toP m st peril, in caSe of failure, of incurring everlastiobbeealig Leola, Miss Ballin,.accepts the office, and ib a deprived by-Rhona. Miss Charlton, the Naiad Q in itnei talisman of immortality, proceeds toperforaintii are ii!s• character of a gipsy girl. All objects on e, f r he Ors" to Leola—the bird, the rose, the butterfly , pa: from her; the thorn of the second, when she Plus f ' tis lieo, , her; the third by its death, when incautious l y c . logeflof rifles her. She succeeds, however, in securingbe'ro, son of an Irish farmer, Phelim (Mr. G i ,! a vali t gel brother, Ryan (Mr. Harris), becomes his inf';',F o ltes .51111; When Rhona demands the victim, Leola au us ; tileoge for Phelim, and receives again in reward f rom tll Queen her chaplet of immortality. Then follosrld tai_ L di ffe into the lake, and, giving up immortality between love and duty. In the end she throws b a lle t ' to her mortal lover. A beautiful tableau conchio;hoe The dancing is in parts rather tedious, and the tb s 1 01 for 10;_7 t be P_ .e,e do abridgment ; but, doubtless, when properly flung f, %re' will prove very attractive. Bouquets were • Wi t " Baffin, and the ballet was given out for repetition 1, roof, applause. t , 2 5110 ... ., ' LOA, VISCOUNT AND VISCOUNTESS PAL I4I ' - 11.00 PC, TIES.—On Saturday the Duke of. Devonshire, Clans Nonnanby, Marquis and Marchioness of pdf d 111; Viscount and Viscountess Severn, Dowager, a n land, Lord and Lady Ashley, Lord Foley. , _r o artfL, gr.% ) Stanley, Mr. F. Byng, and a distinguisir„Stito'_ entertained at dinner by Viscount and v '' e rrac ° ! Sre, merston, at their residence in Carlton House-.,,ben Ladyship had an assembly after dinner,ced berfisq,(s 250 personages of rank and distinction gralesdingd v ship's salons by their presence. Among the. i . ar y an . , a 0 4 4 were the Marquis of Headfort and Ladies ° l ,„ e , I‘t i in 01 ;•( Taylor, Marchioness of Sligo and Ladies 13r,° t " - or a ndYi e Jle s :j. Lansdowne, his Excellency the Russian Min' s bis Brunnow, his Excellency Count Reventlow., . t ea' pi _A Mans to+ s sr"" Count Pollen, his Excellency the Belgian on 0 0 Van de Weyer, M. and Mad. Hummelauer, " 0 - f s o e b i ? and Honourable Misses Dillon, Countes s / f , r d 13 :00 1 0 Lady Louisa Fitzroy, Earl of Arran, .L'i:et pea Countess of Charlemont and Lady g ar e trif 1 ,1 (0 Lord Crewe, Viscount and Viscountess Jl 3 c 3 , o 3ess r. 0 1 '6, and Viscountess Howick, Baron and ole _ A P s . l, f ' Rothschild, Lady Caroline Wood, Hon°"catfoy"' o f cs a , Sir Augustus and Lady Clifford and ni.L''' cou ate")^o. o o Staunton, his Excellency Chevalier Bunsetocurite!ison.ini bery and Ladies Primrose, Viscount and v eagle, an P;ail Lady Hislop and Miss Hislop, Lord Mont fion. t 1 0:1 Foley, Mrs. M. Martyn, Viscount Emlyn , 1 8 ,4 of f i ' o " Catherine Cavendish and Miss Cavendi 3ll, 4 „ ff tort, d o e. ';10 and Hon. Miss Eden, Sir Thomas Win'a the roletlf f s , Lady. Robert Grosvenor, Lady Methuen fw Do ra o p, '• Methuen Mrs. Morier and Misses Morier, sr . ntg t o :l ; :lady Pe ' hel, Sir John aad Lady Ea sti ; °Pe a 'ad Vernon Smith, Lord James Stuart, I ‘' r,i enc y tile d vi d e 'Lord Dudley Stuart, Mr. Rose, his Exceui stint an dy fve sd Minister and Baroness de Cetto, Sir A 5. . n d _ for d,.,,, Forster, Mr. E. Landseer, Hon. Lady itzry.s Misses Hardy, Sir George and Lady Y Charteris, his Excellency Baron ligfe n l i Ilene)" t — e. 1;e moue, Lord Ernest Bruce, his Exce an d .01,4 v , bassador, Countess Reventlow, Mr. G. •r-' c a stele i Lady Hon. C. Murray, his Excellency Prinl.ord and so 1,10 de Thine, Sir William Middleton, u .,.__ an, 00 ,011 , vian, Lady Dacre and Miss S Inv orgio a n ft e . , sO L lr c t i ;l Blanche. Balfour, Mr. and Lady - izeabeth 10 - Excellency Mr. Everett, Lady Ei an d ,p 0 Gore, Lord Marcus Hill, Mr. and 3 . _lr;• lee Bjornstjerna, Baron Koller, Baron 1 , ,,,n 0 7 13 1 ele y, Di sir C o li t T e o, Count Kielmansegge, Mr. and Mrs. __ A 0 , 1 0 f prP Mr. and Mrs. Gibson Craig, Mr. in s u,;“ ren f e ll, - I )_l ou se, 'P Leman, Mr. M. Milnes, Mr. and uob . t 4 , o e, ham and Hon. Misses Pepys, Sir John Cain Cow" t ot? Miss Ridley and Lady Colborne and Hon. 01# Tufnell, &c. n e tt_ b distig.oll,ol Mr. Francis Nicholson, the of n i oandtirwdt who has just died at the patriarchal age itas 110 the father of the water-colour schyo s; u :„S ein . l; e d for d be country. He was a man of true gen.ieu his position as an artist, he was n° optl lit hoe s e btO practical knowledge of mechanics'_ „ ni to , i tt o for the advancement of which art .t- , ngtihm mistry. He also devoted much ot_ins,:„' d i s InucP Oa .. r et s oo l(3 to him. reiv en for t og M be CHARLES WOOD, ESQ., - ' has 11031 that the Honourable Member for h i s rat time prevented by illness from attending dairies,—Leeda Mercury. " '•a