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THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 23. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 45 ; Highest, 47,- Noon, 47. BAROMETER., 29.65.—Wixn, No:m.---The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. TIM NEW HISTORICAL IthMANCE. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 1 vois., A . THIRD EDITION of " WHITEFRIARS;" OR, THE DAYS OF CILUILES IL " This work is one of the best of its race."—Athenaeum. "If ever there were a stirring romance this is one. It is .full of action after action, from first to laSt,"—Literary Gazette. " Whitefriars is the work of no common hand. It is full of talent." —John Bull. , "1 work of talent and imagination, (nil of interest, and replete .ith scenes of great power. Charles If., Rochester, Buckingham, ,Gwyn, Col. Blood, :fltus Oates, Claude Duval, and many other celebrities, figure in every page. , Court Journal. Beaty Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Martharough-street. Immediatsly, . VOL. VII. of MISS STRICKI;AND'S 7- LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND. Containing THE SEQUEL of the LIFE of QUEEN' ELIZABETH, and the COMPLETE LIFE of ANNE of DENMARK, FIRST QtEEN CONSORT of GREAT BRITAIN ; with a curious rortrait of Queen Elizabeth, engraved by permision from the Original Picture in the possession of the Earl of Mtradbroke, and a vignette of Anne of Den mark. from the Original at Hampton Court. N.B. NEW and REVISED EDITIONS of the First Sta Volumes are now ready. Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colisurn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. COMPANION TO THE NARRATIVES OF LADY SALE AND LIEUTENANT EYRE. Now ready, in 1 vol. small Rro., with - Plates, Ile. bsnrid, NARRATIVE OF THE LA S T C•A M AI G N IN A FFGHANISTAN. • UNDER GENEIL POLLOCK. • . By Lieut. GREENWOOD, of N.M. 31st Regiment. Orders received by all Bookselleis. • Henry Colbun, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, MARCH 25, WIII be performed Donizetti's celebrated Opera, entitled THE FAVORITE. Balthazar, Mr. Barrani ; Ferdinand, JI Duprez ; Lvuora, Mica Romer. After which, Will be repeated Albert's c lebrated Ballet of THE BEAUTY OF GURN F. • Mirquis de San Lucar, M. Albert ; Beneiict, M. r oguet Vestris; Beatrix, Mdlle. Fleury,- Agnes, Mdlle. Clara Webster; Julia, Madame Petit Stephan • Diana, O'Bryan. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3e. ;' Upper Circles of boxes 55., Second Price 35.; Pit 3s , Second Price 21L; Middle Gallery 2e.. &vend Price Is.; Upper Gallery k., Second Price lid. THEATRE ROYAL,_ HAYMARKET. MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER. LESSEE THIS EVENING, MACH 25, Will be repeated Shaltspeare's Comedy of The TAMING OF THE SHREW. Petrucio. Mr. Webster; Grurnio, Mr. Buck.stone ; Katherina, Mrs. Nisbett After the Comedy, Mr. JOHN PARRY will give his Operatic Scene, " Norma." To be followad by a New Drama, called LOLA H ; or, The Wreck Light. Commodore Tempest, Mr. Strickland; Custard, Mr Buck. stone; Lolah, Madtnie Celeste. 're conclude with A KISS .IN THE DARK. Mr. Salim Pettibone, Mr. Buckstone; The Unknown Female, Miss Connor; Mrs. Pettibone, Mrs. W. Clifford. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ' - Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 25.; Upper Gallery, Is. Hall.price —Boxes, _Ss. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at Half.past Six, and the Performances c•immence at Seven. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box e,ffice, from Ten till Five. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, MARCH 25, 111 , .1 be performed an English version of OTELLO. Otello, Mr. Alien; Elmiro. Mr. Weiss; Roderigo, Mr. Gardner; lago, Mr. Burdirn I Des:lemons, Madame Eugenia Garcia; Emilia, Miss R Wormer. To be followed by a New Farce, in One Act, entitled THE YOUNG SCAMP; or. My Grandmother's Pet. Juseish, Mrs. Keeley; Mildew, Mr. Keeley. To conclude with a Nrw Grand Ballet entitled LEOLA; or, the May day Bride. Patrick, Mr. Chicheloy ; Phellin, Mr. Gilbert ; R'.ona, Miss Charleton ; Leola, Miss Bailin. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. LAST FIVE NIGHTS OF THE SEASON. THIS EVENING, MARCH 'Xi, Will be performed DUCH F.SS DE LA VA ÜBA LI ERE, supported ty Messrs. Lyoii, Maynard, Wright, 0. S,cith, and Mrs. Yates. After which, the Farce of THE OMNIBUS. Pr;ncipal Charac ter.; by Mess: s. Hamilton and Fornmn, Mrs. Woollidge.and Miss 'Cu concluee with TOM AN!) JERRY; or, Life in London. Characters by Messrs. 0 Sm:th, Forman, Wright, Wieland, tiamil. tor, Miss E. Stanley, Miss Bromley, and Miss Woolgar. B,xes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; gallery, Is,- Second price at Nine. Doors °Fan at lialf.past Six, commence at Seven o'Clock. DA V IDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, :11 ARCH 25 Witt be performed a New Drama, entitled THE LAST SHIL LING, supported by all the Company. After which, SALLY AND TOMMY. Tommy. Mr. Shepherd; Sally, Miss E. Tetley To be follcrxed by the Surprising Performance of the Incredibles, Oantiron and Hercule, the Wouders of the World. To which will be added MISCHIEF MAKING. To conclude with STELLA RITTERSDORF. Ptr_ces and Prifate Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at_ the Box.. orim, from Eleven to Four. lIIGII WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TIES DAY. T-Terning 22 minutes after 3f" Evening .. 39 minutes after 5 UI a , *lnt LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1844. The discussion on the Factories Bill was resumed on Friday in the House of Commons. On the Bth clause being proposed, Lord ASHLEY rose to move as an amendment " that the word ten' be substituted for the word twelve ;' and in the event of this amend anent being carried, to add a. proviso to the effect that the restriction of the hours of labour to ten in the clay shall only take effect on the Ist of October, 1846; and that from the Ist of October next until the Ist of October, 1846, the hours of labour for females and young persons shall be eleven." To this just and humane amendment Sir JAMES GRAHAM, speaking the sense of Government, offered the most strenuous opposition. " He was so deeply impressed," observed the Bight Hon. Baronet, "with the magnitude of the interests involved in the principle then under discussion, that he felt he could not yield one point on the present occasion. All was dust in the balance to him, compared with the sense of duty which controlled him. He was quite satisfied our maim. , lecturing and commercial prosperity was at stake, and 'with this prosperity the House might depend that the peace, happiness, and future welfare of the country were connected." These are big words, but they 'svere evidently put forth for the purpose of frighten ing Hon. Members into an acquiescence in the views of Ministers. Does Sir JAMES GRAHAM really believe that our " commercial prosperity is at stake" because two poor lorry hours out. of the twelve are proposed to be deducted from the labour of helpless women and children? That. our national interests demand that we turn a deaf oar tothe sacred interests of humanity, and 1.) - 4 during the night attempted to throw out of a tWs beyond their strength those who, even if Lord ASHLEY'S amendment. take effect, will have quite as much work on their hands as they can get through 'without perilling their health, and cutting off at least twenty years from their short term of life ? It is impossible that the Right Hon. Baronet can se riously believe any such nonsense ; but the Govern 's-sent happens just now to be in a " fix," con sequently every species of artifice and sophistry, no matter how preposterous, must be resorted to to get them out of it. The question—though we grant fpott it is not without its difficulties—seems to our limited understanding to be one between the claims of humanity on the one hand, and the claims of the bleeches-pocket on the other. The two parties in terested are the poor, toil-worn, defenceless opera tives, and the rich, calculating, influential manufac turers. As a matter of discreet policy Ministers h.}ve .thrown the weight of their influence into the scale of the latter, with a view, no doubt, to reconcile em to the hold s t an d th ey h ave l a t e l y b een compe ll e d to make in favour of the agricultural monopolists. But this sop to Cerberus—this adroit throwing out of a Tub tc.; the Whale, will not avail them; for the free-traders can see through their manoeuvre, and will continue to re gprd them with just as much wholesome distrust as e v er. If Sir JAMES GRAHAM be as anxious as he pretends to be, to maintain our " commercial pros- PCrity," and shudders at the bare possibility of its being jeopardised, why does he not follow the sagacious advice of our CoBDENS, BRIGHTS, BRO.. THERTONS, and the majority of our leading manufac tsesers, and at once advocate a total repeal of the ac .. cssesed corn-laws ? He may rely on it that those gen tleenen best know their own interests, and what is the surest means of benefiting our national corn mate, and he may safely adopt their counsels. i ns tead, however, of acti ng i n t hi s enlightened s psi r is, he hopes to throw dust into the eves of the manufacturers, and conciliate their good opi nion, by opposing the small boon to poverty and be:plessness, of a Ten Hours Factory Bill! That ti r . poorer classes must work, and work hard too, if they desire to benefit themselves and families, we ASE: quite willing to admit; it is the n eces . sit , 7 of their condition, and no human power can rorwler it otherwise ; but there is a differ eficts between their working hard, and working beyond their strength, early and late, from sun-rise to sunset, through the long summer's day, and the , chilling gloom of winter, cut off from all chance of leisure and enjoyment, deprived of all opportunity of strengthening and informing their minds, and with no hope of escape but in the grave Sir Jim . Es Gssaliast will'never make us believe that this state of things—which humanity shrinks from with loath ing—is indispensable to our " commercial prospe rity." But the Right Hon. Baronet is not the only Minister who has been guilty of egregious cant on this occasion. Sir ROBERT PEEL is an offender to Auite as great an extent. But our readers shall judge for themselves. On the discussion on Lord WoanEr's Bill for the Inclosure of Commons, our consistent Premier thus' expressed himself :—" The . House had a perfect right to set the considerations of health, innocent recreation, and moral improvement, against the mere considerations of pecuniary gain. And if they could prove to him that by the in- I closure of these lands for a certain period of time, 'there would be a demand for labour, and ultimately a permanent increase of produce, that would not be so conclusive a consideration with him as the question whether it would not interfere with the healthful amusements and recreations of the people. It would be very unwise to apply a rigid principle of political economy, and to say that, by in closing these commons, a greater quantity of vegetable food would be produced." This was taking a generous, lofty, and comprehensive view of the ques tion, for it was directly opposing to the interests of the rich the claims of the poor, and justly sneering at that "rigid principle of political economy," which regarded nothing but the breeches-pocket! But now mark the manner in which the Right Honourable Baronet expressed himseT on the first dis cussion of Lord A SHLBY'S Ten Hours' Bill !—" What would he the effect of these restrictions proposed 1- 3 T the Noble Lord ? There were almost 300 working days in the year. Five days in the week the labour was to be two hours less than at present ; 250 of the 300 days the labour was to be reduced by two hours, or 500 hours in the course of the year. Now, only think of the cotton mills and woollen factories being idle for seven weeks' in the year—seven weeks less labour than was at present per formed !" Here is minute, peddling calculation with a vengeance ! But with what grace or con sistency does it come from the lips of a man who, but a week before, had advised the House not to be influenced by " too rigid a principle of political economy," and who had expressly stated that " the mere considerations of pecuniary gain" ought never to outweigh those greater considerations, " the health, innocent recreations, and moral improvement of the poor ?" In the one instance Sir ROBERT PEEL adopts the lofty, magnanimous, humane side of the question ; in the other, he takes the mere vulgar pounds-shil lings-and-pence view of it, and shows himself to be as nice, petty, and scrupulous a calculator as a Jew usurer. Yet the two questions, though differing in form, are precisely the same in essence. The poor are equally interested in both, yet the Premier can heave a sentimental sigh for the sufferings of the labourer, while he has not a word to say in favour of the factory children ! Nay, as if this flagrant one-sidedness was not in itself sufficiently dis graceful, he actually urges the " seven weeks'" lost labour in the year, as a cousive reason why women and children shoal still be compelled to work unremittingly beyond their strength ! Gracious Heaven, " seven woks' lost labour," set off against the health—the happiness— the moral and religious culture of thousands of our over-tasked operatives! Was there ever a more barefaced insult offered to justice, common-sense, and humanity ? Nit The most convincing proof of the effects of the anti-corn-law agitation is to be found in the part which the farmers themselves are now taking against the corn-laws. When tenant-farmers come forward, as at the last League meeting at Covent-garden Theatre, and denounce the corn-laws as the cause of great injustice to the farmer, bringing practical ex perience to bear upon this question, and supporting theory, by their own personal knowledge of facts, can there be any doubt of the progress of free trade opinions? Two "bond fide real live tenant-farmers," as Mr. COBDEN described them, detailing the injury which the corn-laws inflict, upon the very class, for whose especial benefit the landlords tell us, they are designed, and claiming relief from that very protection which the so-called " farmers' friends" will insist upon keeping around them. Save me from my friends, is now the feeling of the tenant-farmer, and this expression of that feeling, publicly and openly, at the great League meetings is but the com mencement of a long train of evidence to confirm the testimony of two as practical and as truth-telling farmers as England can produce. There is yet another class of men who are, as the Monopolists labour to make them believe, interested in the continuance of the corn-laws—the farm-la bourers. Some of that much benefited class will, ere long, we trust, be found to describe to the public the great mercies and kindnesses for which they are indebted to the corn-laws. To show the external appearance as to clothes and habiliments which the protection afforded to their labour enables them to assume—to prove by actual fact the amount received by them for their protected labour, and to exhibit the actual remuneration received in hard coin for that labour—to tell of the comfortable furniture which is to be found in their habitations, and the abundant supply of nutritious food, which their wives and children share with them, and to explain how " a bold peasantry, their country's pride," are valued, comforted, esteemed, and assisted, by the agricultural protectionist, who aims at pro ducing so much good for the farm-labourer, as well as the tenant-farmer. And if the farm labourer, should show decayed and worn-out garments, as his best clothes—eight shillings a-week as his earnings—should speak of his mud-walled cottage of two rooms, as the only abode for his family of many children, with scant supply of furni ture and bedding—and should state, that the taste of animal food is almost unknown to himself or children—can there be any doubt that if this be his condition now, with the corn-laws, he could not be much worse, without them ? The mercury is down to starvation point, now—it could not go lower, then. The tenant-farmer wants no corn-laws ; but he does want steady markets, and good customers, for his produce, and those he can only find at home, The corn-laws spoil his market, by making his cus tomers poor, and unable to give that price, and con sume that quantity of his produce, which unrestricted commerce, flourishing trade, and profitable employ ment would afford. The farm-labourer wants no corn-laws ; but he does want a fair rate of wages, constant employment, cheap provisions and clothing. The corn-laws de press the rate of wages by the uncertainty they cause in the markets; prevent employment by, checking improved cultivation of the land ; raise the price of provisions, and thus curtail his ability to find means of purchasing the necessaries of life. As the eventful day approaches, on which the ques tion of renewing the Charter of the Bank of England, —the conditions upon which such renewal shall be granted,—and the preliminary steps to be adopted by Government,—are to be discussed in Parliament, the public expect, with reasonable curiosity, some manifesto of the Premier's views and intentions upon the subject. Committees of London bankers, of joint-stock, and country bankers have hitherto vainly endeavoured to elicit, by various deputations admitted to conferences with the First Lord of the Treasury, his real purpose. All that they could get from him has been—a profusion of his cold but bland common-places; unmeaning official intimations "that the Government is not yet committed to any parti cular course ; that it will reserve its judgment until it shall have had an opportunity of hearing all which can he urged, on all sides, for or against the renewal, on the present terms e n j oye d b y the Corporation in What q uestion." the " inclination of his opinion" (to use one of the odd but not ineffective phrases of poor Lord CASTLEREAGH) may be, is not matter, it seems, et to be trusted as yet to the profane world. man aka mente repOstum." A report has got abroad, and a Morning Contemporary has almost vouched it s official authenticity, that the Premier intends to crown his gigantic labours, of five-and twenty years ago, in paralysing the commer cial energies of this country, and all the main principles of our social development and pros perity, by recommending to the Legislature the total " repeal" and withdrawal of 1/. and 21. bank notes throughout Scotland, and the establishment of a,, single bank of issue. We can make great allow ances for Sir ROBERT'S indignation at the provoking contumacy of the Scotch, in having not only suc cessfully resisted the discipline of his PROCUSTES bed-like standard of 1819 —upon which he lopped off, without mercy, the redundant proportions of English monetary prosperity; but—in having steadily extended all the operations, sustained the enterprise, and re warded the laborious processes of their agricultural industry, by upholding the anathematised small notes, and thereby avoided the frightful panics and desola 4. See Edinburgh Review for 1811, cue of Colonial Exchanges. , ft 40.4 . , • • , . 0 • %of •41,,- z,!«.- „ • , 4 " ,X,„„f'ffrie: •- • • • „..,1-41Ztrigg, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNI NG, MARCII 25, 1844. lation of the great commercial crises which have, on three or four subsequent occasions, filled London with mourning and desolation, and diffused insolvency, and discontent to the remotest corners of the land. The idea of a single bank of issue for a country like this —of such intrinsic wealth, with so enormous a mass of invested capital, and the daily operations of whose domestic intercourse, home trade, and foreign com merce, are represented by so vast a floating circula tion such an idea seems fraught with in herent absurdity. It is not the less consistent on that account, however, as one of the regulating principles of any scheme of currency that may be, projected by the artificer of that glittering cheat — the gold standard legislation of 1819. We re-pub lished, yesterday, a portion of an article in the Bankers' Circular of the 16th ultimo, containing a well-deserved eulogium on the merits and services of that fine example of a first-rate English merchant and an upright public man, the late Mr. JEREMIAH HARMAN :--" He it was," says the writer of the ar ticle in question, " who composed and tendered that celebrated remonstrance against the impending mis chief with which the Act of 1819 was charged, and which drew forth the undignified sneers of Lords GRENVILLE and LtvEarooL, and Mr. Hysaissori— presumptuous men, who dealt with a case of which they were totally ignorant, in defiance and contempt of the remonstrances of those who practically knew all." This premature determination of the case by such judges, on incomplete and unqualified testi mony, formed the subject (we well remember) of the honest and manly, protest against the currency mea sure, then about to be debated, which the father of the Premier, the first Sir ROBERT PEEL, pronounced in the House of Commons, on presenting the petition of the merchants and bankers of London against it. In alluding to the evidence taken before the Currency Committee, the late Sir R. PEEL said (May 24, 1819) The men best qualified to judge of the matter had not been consulted Looking at the re- port, he had found only witnesses who were not likely to give the Government any information. The most able had been left out, not consulted, and totally disregarded." .The Banters' Circular, therefore, might justly have added the present Sir ROBERT PEEL to his " presumptuous" trio of surely the most unfortunate " money brokers" and " money changers" (Heaven knows !) who ever dealt with the whole scheme of a country's currency. Our Premier, too, was one of the economic philosophers of Lord LIVERPOOL'S school, which session after sessiork, arraigned the bounty of PROVIDENCE ital4,l".)s .. eiwging on re dundant production add eicesiive harvests," those con vulsive and fatal derangements of our domestic pros perity, which-'eve solely' . !AtfibutalA to their em pirical, crotcheti..fr-:'44 , '.f#100 peOlon;for drugging the country WiWrieir*ii,i4kile44iostruna. The country, like a' stout ji6mlin-patieije; was never better than when the State quacks of the day com pelled him to swallow . their "gilded pills." He was never worse than when his " system" had become thoroughly imbued with the pestilent medicine which had been forced upon him. Ha man will only consider the state of our trade and commerce in the year 1818 ; the abundance of money circulated in the United Kingdom ; the re munerating prices obtained without difficulty for ail descriptions of our manufactures ; the fair wages earned by industrial labour in all its departments ; the• scope given to the enterprise of capital, and its prodi gious energy of reproduction under the encouraging influence of the times ;—if he will only bear in mind the absurd fallacy of the assumptions founded by the bullionists on adverse foreign exchanges (which seven years before, Mr. HORNER had demonstrated, in a paper in the Edinburgh Review, might be no niinally reported at 17 per cent. against this coun try, and yet be practically 7 per cent. in our favour') ; if he will compare the buoyancy of private credit and public confidence, the ready advances and rapid returns of capital, and the generally thriving condi tion of all classes in the kingdom at the same periods with the disastrous fear, the distrust, and displace ment which have affected the owners an the owner ship of money and property since 1819-20 ;—if he will do this, we say, any man of ordinary reflection must find it all but impossible to justify the conduct of those who in 1819 ventured to pull down the whole monetary fabric under which, or with which, or by means of which (the distinction is immaterial), our unexampled previous prosperity had been ob tained. To so gratuitous an abandonment of the certain elements of present safety and steady and progressive elevation in the scale of national great ness, for an ambitious, but untried, unproved, and delusive theory of speculative finance a vision of impracticable adjustment between gold at a fixed unalterable price, and paper of very fluctuating quantity, according to the fluctuating quantity of all commodities, the value of which it was to represent -L-we are at a loss to find a parallel. Nothing short of the unfortunate Mr. Cocumo's suicidal determination to cut the company of Mr. GREEN, whose balloon had so agreeably buoyed him up, and to sail away in a newly-invented, never tested apparatus in which he committed him self--deaf to the remonstrances of his friends and well-wishers—to his untimely fate, can be properly compared to the Pren;der's desperate expedient of 1819. But he has had, at least, a happier fate than the not less obstinate aeronaut. Will he tempt ship wreck again by propounding "a single bank of issue ?" A project for one imperial wine and liquor store, from whence, only, bottles, Treasury corked, may be drawn for the consumption of all Great Britain, in all time to come—one legislative oven, destined to supply ex clusive batches of loaves (or statutes) for the refection of all her MAJESTY'S subjects—one national vat, into which the great brewings of IltacLA.v and PERKINS, TRUMAN and BUXTON, and WHITBREAD and Co., must be all absorbed in a sort of ".Three per Cent. Stock' Entire" for the universal consumption of the people—all or any of those projects would not be more practicable, or less ridiculous, than this pro posal to have but one bank of issue for the United Kingdom. . It may be, however, that the Premier, who, like some of the Pharisaical ministers of CROMWELL, is a great " waiter upon Paovmmict," has not yet given his sanction to the preposterous design imputed to him by our ,Contemporary. It may be that he lies by, intending to avail himself of the best means which accident may present to him for retracing some of his steps from the fatal point to which they tended in 1819, for retrieving his future reputation, we will say, as a Minister, from the damage to which the working of his favourite measure has ever since subjected it. In this hope we shall address ourselves, in our next, to the consideration of Mr. JOHN GLAD STONE'S Letter to the Times, entitled "Considerations connected with the renewal of the Charter of the Band of England." Madrid papers of the 15th have been received, but bring no news of importance. A letter from Cartha gena states that a deputation from the insurgents had waited on General RONCALI, to propose terms of ca pitulation, but it does not mention the result. The Gazette publishes an order of the Minister of War, addressed to the Captain-General of the sth district, dated Aranjuez, March 13, in which he commends his conduct in putting to death four of his prisoners at Lugo. The Three per Cents. were done at 33/ for cash, and at 34/ at 60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at 22/ for cash, and 231 at 60 days. The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with the controversy between the clergy and the University. Nearly all of them blame the former. The France, however, is an exception, and calls upon the Church to be 'moderate and firm, and they will triumph. It would appear, however, that the bishops need. no such advice ; they have set the law at defiance, and treat with mockery the solemn opinion expressed by the Chamber on the question last Tuesday ; for on the following day the Bishop of VALENCE wrote a letter to the Abbe COMBALOT even in stronger terms of praise and sympathy than that condemned by the Chamber. The letter is a great curiosity, and runs thus:—" Your defeat, my dear Abbe COMBALOT, is a victory in the eyes of Catholic and religions Prance. The cause which you have maintained will thereby advance and increase. It will ennoble the iron bars a which are to immure you in a prison for fifteen days. ' w ‘ iCthumtheinwtiksedresutaytusou will not, ( H ewas numbered nbeegrreedt therefore , regret that you have one trait of resemblance with our divine model." On this strange production the Constitu tionnel thus remarks :—" The souls. of those insur gent devotees are not turned to the point of honour ; chastisement alone affects them, and puts an obstacle to their outbreaks, and if some one goes farther . and deserves prison, he is likened to JESUS CHRIST him self. Suppose that all French citizens, following each his passions, his interests, should imitate the example, which the heads of the clergy give them; suppose they study the penal code, in order to take it to the letter as the rule of their conduct towards the State, in order to advance boldly in their under takings to the extreme limit where punishment begins, what anarchy, what universal demoralisa tion would there be !" The very boys at school are rising up against these ecclesiastics. " In consequence of a revolt," says the Patrie, " which took place this day at the College Stanislaus, no 'less than sixty pupils have been expelled. It appears that these second floor one of the professors, who had given them offence." All the Professors of that College are clergymen. These papers publish a telegraphic dispatch from Cologne, announcing the death of BERNADOTTE, King of Sweden ; and, in announcing- the accession of his son to the throne, declare their opinion that, though OSCAR may reign, the CZAR will govern;" The Commerce states that near three hundred non commissioned officers and privates 'of the 70th Re giment of the Line have been dragged to Algeria, in consequence of the mysteriouS affair which has lately occurred in the Paris garrison. THE BOURSE—THURSDAY, MARCH 21. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. ' Price. Price. French Five perCents.exdiv 122 20 •• 122 50 • • 122 20 .. 122 50 Four-and-a-Ralf. •• • 110 50 • 110 50 110 80 .. 110 50 FourperCents. eadiv 105 50 • • 10.5 50 .• 101 50 .. 105 50 Three per Cents.• • • •83 15 • • 83 20 .• 83 .. 83 20 Bank of Franco. •. . • 3190 • • 3190 .• 3183 • .3186 Latlitte Bank, 5,000. f. Bhares.sllo ..5110 • • 5110 .4110 Belgian Bank Belgian Fives, 1051 • • 1051 • . 1051 • . 1051 1840....••••• 108; • • 108; 1083 .. 108; 1842 • • 109; ,• •• 109; • • 119; • • 109{ Spanish Passive •• • • 61 • • 61 • • 61 • • 61 Threes •••••• • • • • • • 351 • • 35; • • 35; • • 35.1 New Deferred ••. • • 14f • . 141 • • 14f • • 14f Portngneee Five per Cents 471 .. 471 • • 471 • • 471 Neapolitam lO2 65 .. 102 65 .. 102 6.5 • • 102 65 Roman RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R. 8.•• L. 8.•.• lBO 180 178 75 .. 178 75 Rouen Rouen to Havre • • • • ••• • • • • • 687 50 .. 691 25 • • 687 50 • • 691 25 Orleans .•• •• •• •• •• •••• •... 902 50 .• 907 50 .. 902 59 .. 907 50 Strasburg to3ale • Avignon to Marseilles 775 .. 775 .. 775 .. 775 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. Versailles, R. 8..• • • • • ...... 387 50 .. 387 50 .. 387 50 • • 387 50 L. 8.• ••• • • ...... 180 .. 180 .. 177 50 • • 177 50 Rotten •• • • ................ 925 . 930 .. 925 .. 930 Rouen to Havre 667 50 .. 692 50 .. 687 50 692 50 Orleans .......... 205 .. 910 .• 905 .. 910 Strasburg to Bale 248 75 .. 265 .. 248 75 .. 265 Avignon to Marseilles-- 776 25 .. 776 25 .. 773 .. 775 LATER FROM THE UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, M►RCIE 22. We have to-day received by the ship Sea, Captain Edwards, New York papers of the Ist and 2d inst. The ship Sea sailed on the 2d in company with the packet ship . Oxford (now telegraphed off the port), the Victoria for London, and the Oneida for Havre. The papers by this arrival are filled with details of the sad acci. dent which happened on board the Princeton, of which they contain some further particulars, but they are not of interest. The rate of exchange wag 109 to 1081, tending downwards. The fierce debate upon the notice of motion to put an end to the joint occupation of the Oregon territory was not brought to a con. elusion. The advocates of the desperate resolution had given up all hopes that it would be passed. , The House of Representatives, after cancelling on the 28th their twenty-fifth rule, which recorded the refusal of the House to receive any abolition petitions or notices, by a strange act of in consistency reinstated the said rule on the roll of the House on the day following. This small step towards liberal action is thus quickly retraced. The Oxford has just arrived. She left New York on the 3d (Sunday), but brings papers of the 2d only. POST-OFFICE NOTICE. The following notice appeared Saturday at the General Pest-office St. Martin's-le-Grand:— " Notice to the Public, and Instructions to all Postmasters, Sub Postmasters, and Letter Receivers. " General Post office, March, 1844. " Onand from the lit of April next, letters may be sent unpaid, vi• France, to the following countries and places, or the postage may be paid to destination, viz. :—The Austrian dominions, the Free City of Cracow, Moldavia, Wallachia, Turkey in Europe, to. gether. with the town of Scutari, in Aaia. " Letters may also be sent through France unpaid to the follow. ing provinces and governments of Southern Poland and Southern Russia, viz. : " IN POLAND. —The provinces of Cracow, Lublin, and Sando mier. " IN Ruasta.—The Governments of Abkhas, Astrakhan, Bes sarabia, Caucasus, Circassia, Cossacks of the Black Sea, Cossacks of the Don, Daughistan, Ekaterinoslav, Georgia, Imeretia, Koursk, Mingrelia. Nicolaei, Podolia, Poltonia, Schirwan, Tau. ride, Tchernigow, Uchrainis, Volhynia, Vowney; or the postage may be paid as far as Podgorce in the one case, or as far as Brody in the other. " The combined British and Foreign rate of postage to be taken on a single letter, weighing less than a quarter of an ounce, for any of the above.mentioned countries, will be as follows :—To the Austrian dominions, Is. 5d .; Free City of Cracow, Is. 54. ; City of Belgrade, Is. sd. ; Moldavia and Wallachia, le. 9d. ; Turkey in Europe (Belgrade excepted), and Scutari in Asia, is. Ild.; Southern Poland and Southern Russia, Is. 6d. " Letters exceeding the weight before.mentioned will be charged on the principle adopted with French letters, "Letters addressed to Greece, the Archipelago, and the lonian Islands, which hitherto could only be paid to the extreme frontier of France, may in future be paid as far as Trieste, and these which Modena, Parma are w.n ady a Place,d o d f r e Cn s a s e t d i iwr u t t he e s nt T eo r w t eb o ne S gs i o c e r i n i e i i sn , n t future h the Papa Benedetto, S throught a to te . , Sardinia, but by which frontier towns the postage rosy be paid. The co m bi ne d B r iti s h an d foreign rate of postage to be tak en on a single letter, weighing less than a quarter of an ounce , to th ese countries will be Is. 3d. If it ispreferred the B r itish rate (only 53 of paying the postage to th e extreme frontier of France, on letters addres sed to Switaerland, Baden, Bavaria, or ) may be paid. "Theoption the countries served through the office of Tour and Taxis is with. drawn. Those letters which are directed to the German and Northern States, to be forwarded through the office of Tour and Taxis, if not posted unpaid, must in future be paid to destination. By command, "W. L. MABERLY, Secretary." of 20 sot's. e ac h, 10 f t , an d on l y SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. Swee s P i s f tak derlared ; 100 soya. a dd e d. SWI NDON STEEPLE-CHASES.—F RIDAY . Handicap by s Tt h E r E e e p l L e E n g : t e s i Mr. King's Vanguard, 12st __ (Oliver) 1 Mr. Vevers's Charity, lOst 101 b Mr. Elmore's Lottery , 1 I st ; Mr. Anderson's King Cole, lOst 101 b ; Mr. Tilbury's Culverthorpe, lOst 101 b ; and Mr. Killard's Chance, 7st 81 b , also started , but were not placed. Won by half a length , after oneof the finest races ever seen . A Sweepstakes of 5 so's. each , with 20 added, list 71b each, &c., was won by Mr. Baker's Old Glory (O wner ), beat inga Mr. Jones's Dick Turpin, Mr. Holth lli am's Monarch, and B. M o r. Y ß A a t de L n' E s A Lo m co lN m G ot T iv o e N , STEEPLE Tln7RsdpdAe: The T d Handicap Sweepstakessecondvsaofels hsrs stakes.vseac 11, 5 ( ft, with 100 Subs. Mr. Powell's Roulette, lOst 101 b (i,owell 0 Mr. Wesley's Brilliant, lOst (Noblei 0 Mr. Tilbury's Tom Tug , list . 3 Lord Maidstone's Cmsar, list 4 Mr. Audinwood's British Yeoman, lOst. 5 The following also ran :—Little Robert, lOst 41b ; Camilla, lOst ; Emperor, llst ; Gay Lad, llst 121 b ; Charley, lOst 41b (killed); Ace of Diamonds, lOst 10Ib ; and Balugani, llst. A dead heat between Roulette and Brilliant, and the stakes divided. The Hurdle Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added. 12st each. Two miles and a half. (7 Subs.) Mr. H. Clarke's Leo 12st (Dowdeswell) 1 Mr. Le Blanc's Dide, 12st The Egyptian, 12st; Belfield, 12st; Fire King, 12st; and Refuse, 12st, were not placed. NORTHLEAGH STEEPLE CHASES. The Cotswold Handicap of 2 soya. each, with 25 added, four miles, was won by Mr. G. Symond's Nimrod, Ilst 71b, beating Mr. Dangerfield's Turfcutter, list, Ragged Jack, Hazard, Countess, and several others. • The second race was won by Mx.itetton's Aristocrat, beating four others. COURSING. • FLEETWOOD MEETlNG.—Theneetwood Cup for 8 all-aged dogs, was won by Mr. Browne's Domino ; Mr. Richardson's Robin ran up.. The Rossall Puppy Stakes (4 dogs) were *on by. Mr. Craven's Cokes ; Sir H. Fleetwood's Flirt's Son ran up. The Wyre Stakes were won by Mr. Browne's Domino; Mr. Redgett's Claret ran, up. LEATHERHEAD PIEETINH, MARCH 20.—A sweepstakes was divided between Mr. Beadle's Counsellor, and Mr. Mes senger's Troilus. BIGGAR MEETING.—The Collar (12 dogs), was won by Mr. Greenshield's Storm, and the Puppy Stakes by Sir W. C. Austruther's Minnie. MANCHESTER BETTING.—FRIDAY. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 6 to 1 agst Hooton 8 to 1 agst Father Mathew 7 to 1 agst Arcants 10 to 1 agst Poussin 7, to . 1 .agst Mosque CHEST ] 10 to 1 agst Dawson's lot 10 to 1 agst Pagan—taken 11 to 1 agst Pharoah 17 to 1 agst Jamie Forest 22 to 1 agst Tacita 25 to 1 agst Merry Andrew :it CUP.. 30 to 1 agst Sir Robert—t. 30 to 1 agst Vakeel—t. 30 to 1 agst Scalteen 35 to 1 agst Hooton 30 to 1 agst Everton—t. DEI 20 to 1 agst Running Rein 28 to I Not lonian 30 to 1 apt Leander The rest 40 oto 1 agst Sister to Grey Momus colt—t. 40 to 1 aget Vat colt, as before. THE PHCENIX, STE,immt.—The Lords Commis sioners of the Admiralty have ordered this frigate to be fitted with Mr. Steinman's submarine propeller, which has already been successfully tried in her Majesty's steamers Bee and Dwarf, and with new engines of 260 horse power. The Phoenix is the first war.steamer fitted by the Admiralty with a screw, -it we except the Rattler (200 horse power), built for experiments, and has been placed at Mr. Steinman's dis posal in Consideration of his propeller having surpassed in speed those of Mr. Smith (" the Archimedean screw") and Captain Ericson in the late trials, conducted by the Admiralty, in the Bee. The speed of the Dwarf when tried with this same propeller at the measured mile was 12.139 miles, which Is the greatest result yet obtained by a screw. BRISTOL BANXRUPTCY COURT.—Several estates, considered to be wound up for years past, are now in course their claims, have b een surprised on receiving notices from n, t o h f e in offi ve c s i t a i l g assignee s of their b e ing entitled to dividends. In the case of Walter Jacks (against the commission was issued upwards of forty years since), a dividend was declared on the 6th instant, on debts proved to the amount of nearly 70,00 0 L We learn that a dividend of at least 4s. in the pound will in a short time be declared 'on the estate of John Wood, a banker, at Cardiff, in which the last proceedings be fore the Commissioners took place so long since as the year 1827.--13rietel Jot rnaL SUMMARY OF NEWS AND pubitt Optnton. " Who runs may read." rOREZON. On Tuesday afternoon the Ring of the French, accom panied by General Gourgaud, Colonel Dumas, and two or derly officers, ♦iaited St. Cloud, but returned to the Tuileries to dinner. The Moniteur Parisien states that Lieutenant-General Count Pajol has been for the last two days in an alarming state from the consequence of the fall which he experienced some time since on leaving thi Tuileries. Another paper says he expired on Thursday. The Courrier Francais mentions a rumour that M. de Sal vandy is to be appointed Ambassador at St. Petersburgh or Constantinople. The Si?cle states that the Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on the Budget has had the conversion of the Five per Cents under its consideration, and that in the report which it will submit to the Chamber it will not only main tain the right of the State to make the change, if considered desirable; but will point out, in a marked manner, the ad vantage of the measure, and recommend to the Ministry to take it into consideration without delay. A letter from Beyrout, dated Feb. 17, in the Courrier Francais, saws :—" The Albanian troops commanded by Abbas-Aga having entered the Lebanon, some of them met at Ouadi-el-Delab two farmers and a woman with a child in her arms. They killed one of the men, and quartered the child. The other man escaped, and it is not known what is become of the woman. On a complaint of this outrage being laid before the Pacha of Beyrout, he observed—' There is no great harm done—it is only a trifle " In execution of the rules for granting gratifications to such drivers of fiacres, cabriolets, and other public carriages in Paris, as have shown the greatest honesty, the Prefect of Police has just awarded this mark of approbation to several drivers. The property which these men have restored to their owners, who left it in their carriages, during the year, amounts to 22,719 f. 30c. in cash and bills, beSides a great number of valuable articles. The Manheim Journal states that the Russian army in the Caucasus has recently experienced many reverses, arising principally from the improved state of discipline amongst the hardy mountaineers who are defending them selves against the invaders. It appears that several Poles, of military experience, have succeeded in joining the. Circas sians, and giving to them the aid of their tactics. LAW AND POLICE. The Assizes at Cambridge were opened on Thursday, by Lord Abinger. There were only seven common jury cases, and a calendar of fifty prisoners. At the Assizes at Exeter a man, named Walter Smith, was indicted for a burglary in the house of Captain Hero, at Stonehouse. The evidence against him being only that of an accomplice, and unconfirmed, he was acquitted. For the same reason, he was acquitted on four other charges. At the same Assizes two men, named Denham and Crocker, were indicted for sacrilege, in having broken open the church of Exminster, and stolen two surplices, the gold fringe from the pulpit-cushion, and other articles. The surplices were cut up in order to make shirts, and the gold fringe brought for sale to the house of a Jew. When Denham was asked by the Learned Judge if ho wished to say anything to the jury, he replied " Yes ;" and forthwith commenced addreAsing them, which he did with great effect, pointing out is a forcible and almost oratorical manner, the points in the evidence which made in his favour, whilst he recapitulated the story he had before told the policeman. Crocker said nothing. The jury acquitted Denham, and found Crocker guilty; sentence was deferred. Mrs. Mary Keene, a widow, about fifty years of age, the landlady of the Lord Kendal public-house, Cambridge-street, Edgeware-road, was brought before Mr. Long, at Maryle bone, upon a charge of stealing, from a Paddington omnibus, in which she was a casual passenger yesterday morning, a piece of Irish linen. On missing the parcel, the conductor went after the prisoner, and found it in her possession, when she apologised, and begged that nothing would be said about it. At the station-house she alleged that she had been making purchases, and mistook the parcel taken for her own. She was remanded, bail being refused. A court-martial has been ordered by the Lords of the Ad miralty to assemble at Portsmouth, for the trial of the en gineer of the Prometheus, on charges of neglect of duty, whereby the boilers of that vessel were damaged and the machinery deranged. George Guam, the young man who was some days ago brought up on suspicion of having been concerned in the rob bery of the City of Boulogne steam-vessel belonging to the Commercial Steam-packet Company, was put to the bar of the Mansion-house, in the custody of Daniel Forrester, for re-examination. He was again remanded. _ _ James Stokes, a man having all the appearance of a steady servant, was charged at the Guildhall with having systema tically plundered his employers of various kinds of paper, Messrs. Weadon, Smith, and Co., wholesale stationers, in Paternoster-row. He had enjoyed their confidence for the last fifteen years. He was committed for trial. coun.li—ras!ixoTir4.nriz. In consequence of the several deaths in the higher circles of society, the ball at Almack's, which was to commence the season this day is, by general approbation, postponed until after Easter. The Duke and Duchess of Buceleuch had a dinner party on Friday, which was attended by the French Ambassador and the Countess'de St. Aulaire, the Russian and other Foreign Ministers, and their ladies, Sir H. and Ladv Emily Hardinge, Lord and Lady Marshatn, Lord and LadiEmlyn, Lord John Manners, Baron Gersdorff, Capt. and Mrs. Cust, Mr. and Mrs. Rice Trevor, Capt. Hood, R.N., Captain Duncombe, &c. &c. The family will leave Montague House on the 27th inst.-for Boughton Hall, Northamptonshire. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and the Ladies So merset are expected to arrive at Beaufort House, Arlington street, on Wednesday next, from Badminton, for the season. The Earl and Countess of Wilton are expected to leave Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray, on. Wednesday next, on a visit to the Duke• of Rutland, at Belvoir. Castle, during Croxton Park Races, which commence on the 28th inst. The Noble Duke's party will close the hunting season in Leicestershire. The Right Hen. Selina Viscountess Milton, accompanied by her daughter, the Hon. Miss Fitzwilliam, returned to Aldwarke Hall, near Rotherham, on Monday. General the Hon. Sir Alexander Duff and Lady and Miss Duff left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, on Friday, for their new mansion, at Rutland-gate, which the Gallant General has just engaged for the season. The Marquis of Westminster, who has been slightly indis posed at Eaton Hall, has recovered. PrIZSCEZZANNOtrii. The Presbyterian marriage question is causing grat ex• citement in the north of Ireland, and meetings are in pro gress all over that part of the country. At a meeting held at Londonderry - on Wednesday, the Mayor in the chair, the speakers denounced the insolent and oppressive encroach ments of the State Church, and the system of base deception practised against the Presbyterians, since the unfortunate alliance between Prelacy and Presbyterianism, announced at the Orange meeting at Hillsborough, for the promotion of the scheme for turning out the Whigs. We find from a Return made to the House of Commons, for the last year, of offences committed against the Fac tories Act, that the total number of convictions in the four districts of Messrs. L. Homer ' T. Howell, Saunders, and Stuart, amounted to about 192.. The offences were princi pally the over-working of children or the employment of children under age, and at night, &c. From a summary ap pended to this Return it appears that the total number of convictions under the provisions of the Factory Act from 1834 to 1843, both inclusive, amounted to 3,401, being an average of 340 a-vear ; that the gross total amount of penal ties inflicted for 'the said offences during the above decade was 6,895/. ; and the total amount of costs 2,1231. By the annual report of Professor Moseley, Inspector of the Greenwich Hospital Schools, and addressed to the Lords of the Admiralty, it appears that the number of boys in the Upper and Nautical Schools, is at present 379, who are taught geography, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigono metry, and other branches of nautical knowledge. The number of astronomical observations made by the pupils during the past half-year, amounts to between 10,000 and 14,000. During the whole of the week a very considerable sale, under the orders of the Commissioners of Customs, has been proceeded with at the Commercial Sale-rooms, Mincing-lane, of property which has come into the possession of the Cus tom-house by forfeiture from attempt to evade the duties. There were above 1,200 lots, the produce from which will be above 15,000/. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Man= 23.—N.N.W., light breeze, and cloudy. DEAL, 11Linc.n 22.—LM., ; Wind W.S.W., fresh breeze ; p.m., Wind S.W., moderate.—Arrd. Elizabeth, Law, Mauri tius ; Unity, Agnew, Demerara. OFF THE START, MARCH 20.—Brig Eliza, of Kincardine. OFF MARGATE, MARCH 21.—Richgrds, Chambers, Buenos Ayres; James, Tynes, Trinidad and Bermuda. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 22.—Wind W.N.W. to W.S.W.— Spectator, Robinson, Shields for Bordeaux and Mauritius. OFr KINGSBRIDGE, MARCH 22.—Meg Mertilies, Thomas, Mauritius, sailed Dec. 12, Cape of Good Hope January --. • SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 21.—Sld. Montrose, steamer, Gibraltar. , . PLYMOUTH, MArtcn 22.—Wind S.W.--Sld. her Majesty's ship Fort, PortsmoUth. Arrd. Fox, Fox, Cadiz. FALMOUTH, MARCH 22.—Wind S.W., moderate 'breeze.— Arrd. San Jose, Gonsalves, Lisbon for Hambargh, assisted in with damage to hull, bowsprit, &c., having been in contact with a schooner, 19th inst., lat. 43, lon. 8, when seven of the crew of the San Jose quitted her, leaving only the master and two men on board. Off port, Clutha, 15tmcan, Moul mein. CARDIFF, MARCH 21.—S1d. Mary and Harriet, Quebec. STANGATE CREEK, MARCH 22.—A. vessel bottom up, and coppered, apparently of 300 tons, was passed 10th inst., in lat. 42, lon. 15, by the Pera, arrived here. BRIXHAM, MARcit 21.—The Nereid,Wayman, from Shields to Malta, which was driven ashore 17th inst. at Elbury, has been got off, after throwing part of her cargo overboard, and brought in here very leaky. NEWPORT, MARCH 21.--Sid. Julia, Calcutta; Clugas, St. Thothas's. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 22. —Wind variable and light.— Arrd. Sea, New York (2d inst.); Buckingham, Penhallow, Mobile. FSld. Jersey Lass, Rio ; Walter Scott, Jamaica.— Off, Oxford, New York ; Letitia Heyn, New Orleans ; Woodstock, Kingston ; and Matthew Pearce, CLYDE, llama 20.—S1d. Echo, Trinidad; Acadian, Hali fax ; Zebulon, Newfoundland. . . DUBLIN, Dawn 20.—S1d. Recovery, St. John's, New Brunswick. SHIELDS, MARCH 21.—S1d. Emma, Aden ; British Fiero, Montreal ; Lord Gambier, Davis' Straits. PLYMOUTH, MARCY! 22.—S1d. Chronometer and Star of the West, Coast Of Africa. DUMFRIES, MARCH 200—S1d. Francis and Diana, St. John's , New Brunswick. LEITH, Marten 20.—Sld. Fleetwood, Mauritius. FALMOUTH, Mutat 21.—The Fortune , Barr on, Shi elds to from Shelds be P ( A b ir y GN a T r ° egi N ' MsterApßicckli 21 he edu ."— p) T the F v o e r s t s tm el e, w ß r a ec rn k s e , cl of p e ro o v rk ed . to gale SI M e aT a t l E t TD s u i t wi A t o . s c e n e the T h n i e g E h o s t pe r f a l n oo e t e i from o s inst., , during se a a O 19._ h an it h o a s z t y . Jean de Luz, put in here, 13th inst., leaky, has discharged, and is repairing. QUILLEBOEUF, MARCH 17.—The Ami Catharine, ashore on the Tot Bank, has been got off, after lightening. VESSELS SPOKEN Wrrit—Ganges, M'Donald, London to Sydney, New South Wales, 29th ult., lat. 4, lon. 22, by the Elizabeth, arrived in the Downs. William, of Guernsey, 11th inst., lat. 42, lon. 14, by the Pera, Reed, arrived in the 'Creek. -- Rossini, who, since his return to Bologna, is per fectly rlcovered in health, has of late been assiduously employed in rehearsing the music which is shortly to be performed by the pitpils of the Lyceum in that city, and also composed a Cantata, which has recently been executed at Turin, on the occasion cif . the celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of Tasso's birth day. The Cantata was received with loud acclamations from the Mime, and encore d threo times. _ _ MONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS From The Sun of Saturday. Evening.) The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was without alteration; sales 2,500 bates.—There was a good inquiry for French Railway Shares, but the heavior Stocks were in dull demand. Chester and Holyhead, 6;; Edinburgh and Gies-. gow, 65 ; Eastern Counties, 11; ; Grand Junction, 232 ; Great Western, 112 ; Birmingham, 237 ; Manchester and Birming ham, 47k; Paris and Lyons, 2/. 15s. 6d. ; Ditto and Orleans, 34; ; Ditto and Rouen, 36i ; South-Eastern, 35s ;: Ditto New, 36i. - The result of the discussion on the Factory Bill in the House of Commons has been a topic of very general conver sation in the City this morning, but the opinions are most conflicting upon the policy of the ten hours' plan being car ried out. The accounts received from the United States to-day, aer considered to be so far satisfactory, and it is announced that the war party, as respects the Oregon question, has been defeated. Our new Minister at the Court of Washington, appears to have won golden opinions from the people, and very strong hopes were entertained that the difficul ties of the question would be got over. There was a great solicitude entertained in the United States relative to the future condition of the Cotton Markets. It is said that an immense quantity of the staple was about to be forwarded to Europe, and that the bold attempt to keep back supplies had most signally failed. The quotations at New York were principally nominal. There are some later accounts this morning from the Cape of Good Hope, namely to the 9th January_ There is no in formation from Natal of consequence. It is mentioned that coal had been discovered. The attention of the Government was directed to the improvement of the lands, a subject that had not of late years had much consideration. The revenue of the colony is represented as being in a more prosperous state than it had been. This is the last day for permitting dissents to be entered against the plan for the reduction of the Three-and-a-Half per Centi.;but up to the present hour the books, at the Bank of England, have hut nine or ten names, and said to be for small amounts. It will be some time before those holders in distant parts will send in their adhesion or otherwise to the plan. At present the amount of the objectors' stock is kept secret. With respect to the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. of 1818, it is said that the assents are very general as far as home holders are concerned. This is the version of the affair current in the Market. The Commissioners did not buy to-day. Consols for Money are firm, at 981, and for the Account at the same rate. A bargain has been made in the Three per Cents. of 1751, at 96i. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents, have been steady at 102; India Stock at an improvement to 294, but bank Stock has fallen from 200; to 1991. The premium upon Exchequer Bills has also dropped a trifle. Business has been slack in the Foreign funds to-day. Spanish Bonds have remained at about 25; ; the Threes at 35i, Mexican Deferred at 15; to 15k, -Russian at 117, Dutch Five per Cents. at 101} to 102, and Colombian ex Venezuelan at 14g. . The Railway Share Market is pretty firm. Birmingham and Derby have risen to 37 discount, the Thirds to 21, the Edinburgh and Glasgow to 14; premium, the London and Brighton to 5i discount ;but in the other lines the alterations have been slight. Brazil Imperial Mines are at 13 dis. MANCUESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 22.—Our market has been quiet to-day with no improvement in prices. The sales are :-z-Bolton and Preston, 3ci ; Manchester and Bir mingham, 47* ; Norwich and Brandon, 7 ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 31 and 4 ; .Mancliester Assurance, 10i. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Indian Stock. — pm. Ditto Bonds . . pm . Ditto 01:1 Annuities Ditto New Annuities Ex. Bills, 1,0001. .pm Ditto 5001 — pm. Ditto Small . . ...... Bank Stock for Acct 2OO Consols for Acct. 95% India Stock for Acct 294 FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per Cent Ditto, New Ditto... ......... Prussian, S per Cent ...... Russian, 5 per Cent ll7 Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per Cent.. . Ditto, 9 per Cent Ditto, Deferred — French, French, 5 per Cent....... —4 —c. Exchange —l. —c. French, 9 per Cent —f. --e. Dutch, 2% per Cent 51% Ditto, 5 per Cent 101( RES. Bank Stock n per Cent. Red.... ...... 3 per Cent. Cone. 336 per Cent. Bel New 334 per Cent. 102% New 5 per Cent ............ . ...- Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1060 Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860........... 0 paid) . 62 • 21 FOREIG Austrian. 5 per Cent Belgian, 5 per Cent Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cer,t — Chilian, 6 per Cent Colombian, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1824 Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent 93 amish, 3 per C ent Greek, 18.5, 5 per Cent — Mexican, 5 per Cent Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1831 — Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — SH Birmingham and Derby (F Ditto Thirds (25 paid) • ,eh, Ditto Eighths (11. 10i. paid) 43C Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) 7 Eastern Counties (21 paid) ... ...... ....—... Ditto Registered (816 s Bd . paid) Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) Gravesend. Rochester, and Chatham (2% paid) 2 Great North of England (100 paid) - 1063 Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Half Shares (50 paid) Lancaster and Carlisle ( 5 paid).... ........ Lon ion and Brighton (50 paid) .... .....•.. .... London and Birmingham (Stock) . — Ditto New Quarters ( .2 paid) ........... Ditto New Thirds (4 paid) 4O. London and Guildford Junction ( 5 paid) ... . London and South Western (41/. 6s. 10d. 'midi — Ditto Eighths (15s. rid) London and Croydon Trunk) Menchtster and Birmingham ..6% Midland Counties (100 paid)..—..... Ditto Quarter Shires (15 paid) 223( Northern and Eastern (4, paid) ..... ...... . ........ ... ..•.Ditto Quarter !thares (12% - paid) 16% North Midland (100 paid) Ditto. Half Shares (40 paid) " 45 29 Di to Thirds (ell. 1:15 . 48.) .: Paris and Orleans (20 paid) Paris and Rouen (20 paid) - - Ft: X Rouen and Havre ( M paid) - 15 South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 3 li Ditto Scrip (25 paid) 36 York and North Midland (50 paid) . Ditto New Shares (20 paid) York and Scarborough Branch (1 paid) THE THREE-AND-A- . HALF PER CENTS. Some degree of interest has been felt- in the City to day, to learn the result of the entries in- the Bankbooks for the carrying out of the plan, or otherwise, of the re duction of the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. We are en abled to state with the utmost confidence that the dis sents are few, and for insignificant amounts; and that the assents, as respects the rhree-and-a-Half per Cents. of 1818, comprise the larger proportion of the holders of the stock just named, both, of course, having reference to those national creditors who are resident in the United Kingdom. •As officially the positive amount of dissents cannot be communicated except to the Trea sury, still there are one or two statements in - circula tion upon this really interesting and national subject. If the information received from one party be correct, but ten or eleven holders have dissented; who have stock in their names to a sum not equal to 40,000/. 'The assents, as respects the Three-and-a-Half per Cents., have been given in very freely today, and there will not be the least diffieulty in providing for those:who have neglected to protect their own interests; -for by the negligence they will receive -in October next but- 1001. per cent., whereas the New Three-and-s-Quarter may be quoted as worth at least 2 per cent. more. But a month, or nearly, still must elapse for holders out of Europe, to dissent or assent (as to the stock of 1818); yet, how ever, the Chancellor is held to have - eminently suc ceeded. The next, and we believe, the most accurate assertion is, that out of holders of the Three-and-a- Half per Cents..of 1818 (the stock being calculated at about 10,000,0001.), full 7,000,0001. ,of: acceptors of the terms have inscribed their names. Then, as to the dis sents to the other Three- and-a-Half per Cents., they do not exceed 150,0001.—Observer. RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PARMA. MENT. - FRIDAY, MARCH 22, Eastern Union Railway—Read a second time and committed, and referred to the Committee of Selection. - Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway and Tyne Bridge Bill—Read a second time and committed, and referred to the Committee of Selection. Pontop and South Shields Railway Bill—Read.a second time and committed, and referred to the Committee of Se lection. North Wales Mineral Railway—Report from . Select Com mittee on Standing Orders (21st March) read; Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Mainwaring and Mr. Bagot. North Wales Mineral Railway Bill—" For making a Rail way from the river Dee, in the county . of Chester, to Wrex ham, in the county of Denbigh, with a Branch - Railway from Wrexham to the Mineral Fields in the township of Brytabo, in the parish of Wrexham, to be called The _North. Wales Mineral Railway,' " presented and read a first time. Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton Railway Bill—Read a second time and committed, and referred to the Committee of Selection. Whitehaven and Maryport Railway—Petition for addi tional provision reported. Instruction to the Committee on the Bill—That they hare power to make provision therein, pursuant to the,prayer of the said petition. Leeds and Selby Railway Purchase (No. 2) Bill—Petition of the Mill and Selby Railway Committee against; referred to the Committee•onthe Bill ; Counsel ordered. South-Eastern Railway Bill—Read a second time and com mitted, and referred to the Committee of Selection. NEW REGULATION IN GRANTING SUMMONSES.— On Friday morning Mr. Hall, the Chief Magistrate at Bow street, issued an order that all complaints for a summons which shall in future be made at the police-ceUrt, should be sworn on oath by the parties. This is in accordance-with the opinion of Mr. Justice Patteson, lately expressed in the Court of Queen's Bench. Up to the present time the sum monses have been granted on the mere statements of the parties. DEPUTATION TO THE HOME-OFFICE.—OU Friday a deputation of manufacturers extensively engaged in the cotton trade, consisting of Messrs. Thomas Ashton of Hyde, Henry Ashton of Turton, John Whittaker and George Higinbottotn of Ashton-under-Lyne, William Taylor of Preston, James Burton and Joseph Aingworth of Bolti,n, James Pilkington and Robert Hopwood of Blackburn, had an audience with Sir James Graham, Bart., on the factory question. It is understood that one of the Admiralty steam packets is ordered to be in readiness on Wednesday or Thursday next, to convey his Royal Highness Prince Albert and suite to the Continent, on-a visit of condolence, it is understood, to their High. nesses the reigning Duke and Duchess and Duchess Dowager of Saxe -Coburg Gotha. His Roy.tl Highness has not visited Ger many since his marriage with the Sovereign, in February, 1840; and his absence on the present occasion is not expected to exceed a fortnight or three weeks, during which period the Court is ex pected to remain in town. PORT or LONDON. —Captain Fisher, R.N., the principal harbour -master, a few days ago received orders from the Lord ?savor for the removal of the Atlas and Reso lution wrecks, which had been sunk in the lower part of Gravesend Reach, and form dangerous obstructions to the navigation of the river. He has received instructions to adopt any means of accomplishing the object, either by blowing up with gunpowder or by loughing, he may consider most advisable, and he is now engaged in making • the, necessary preparations. FREDERICK THE GREAT'S ANTIPHLOGISTIC RE- GlMEN.—Zirnmennan, in his narratives of his interviews.with Frederick the Great, of Prussia, says, " To-day the King had taken a great quantity of soup made as usual of the strongest gravy drawn from the most healing things. With this portion he mixed a large table-spoonful of pounded mace and pounded ginger. He then eat a large slice of beef stewed in brandy. This he followed up by a copious allowance of an Italian dish, composed half of maize-flower and half of Parmesan cheese ; to this is added the juice of garlic, and the whole is fried in butter till it acquires a crust as thick as one's finger. This favourite dish is called polenta. At length (continues Zim merman) the King, praising.the excellent appetite whiek the dandelion had given him, concluded the scene with a large plate of eel pie, so hot and so highly seasoned that it seemed to have been baked in hell ; while at table the lide,g fell asleep, and Was seized with cmaralsicts.." CC JURT CIRCULAR. ,„ The (Queen and Prince Alb er t, th e Duchess of J. 1., the Ladies: saT id Gentlemen of th e Royal suite,. And Household, ' attended Divine Service yes t e rday ro° 11 1 . ; in the Chap( .IRoyal, Buckingham Palace. The ser fn was preache( Iby the Bishop of London. Prayers.weis read by the I lon. and Rev. C. Leslie CourtennY• •t` 011 Saturdt y her Royal Highness the Duchess of gt.'', visiteci he r M a.iesty at Buckingham Palace. Hi s & ; Highness Prince Albert rode out on Mi.- back on F ;atur , lay morning, attended by Sir E. Bew°;;,' The R ayal dinner party at Buckingham Palace on turday evening included her Royal Highness the D., : r ichas of Kent, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, the Earl o f il ve tbe pool, the Earl of Aberdeen, Mr. George Edward on" Hon. Mrs.. Anson. s a- The A morican Dwarf, 4. General Tom Thumb, companied b y his guardian, Mr. P. T. Barnum of Sele York, had - a e honour of attending at the Palace in. w ils evining, hei the General exhibited his clever of Napole on, which elicited the approbation of her " jesty and. the Royal circle. . SOT . A Cabinet t Thiuncil was held at five o'clock on day afternoon, at the Foreign-office. It was attended . Si. - Robert Pe el, the Duke of Wellington, the 117 rd Chancellor. Lot d Wharncliffe, Earl of Aberdeen, . Stani • ey, Sir Jan. les Graham, the Chancellor of thi li o, chequer, Earl of Haddington, Earl of Ripon, Mr. ‘ l O , O stone, uid Sir Hairy Hardinge. The, Council sat ' hours. A deputation on t:le wool duties, from Li/err; Leeds, Dradford, Halits,r, Dewsbury, and thebar , Riding oif Yorkshire, had an interview with Sir llor, " Peel on Saturday, at his official residence in i newl.,,`" street. The deputation was accompanied by Lora T s ; don, Sir Howard Douglas, the Hon. J. S. Wortley, Charles. Wood, Mr. Beckett Denison, Mr. Beckett, Stansi:reld, Mr. Protheroe, and Mr. Aldarn. Captain Polhill, M.P., had an interview with m"" Stanley, on Saturday, at the Colonial-office. 6 ' The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Engltindn 7 w meeting on Saturday afternoon, at the office in wm' tbs hall-place. The Commissioners present were h o p Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Chester, the 13i$ o f of Hereford, the Bishop of Lichfield, and the De!! Westminster. :Mr. Sheppard, M. P., transacted business at, Rome-office on Friday. The Commissioners of the Model Prison at ear; ville had a meeting on Saturday, at the Conned The Commissioners present were the Lord Presiki the .Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Chichester , John Russell, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Dr. Ferguson , Whitworth Russell, Mr. Crawford, and Major Jebb.4 Captain Brooke had an interview with Lord Sta n ' on Sat urday at the Colonial-office. • for The Duke of Buccleuch left town on Satazuk- Thames Ditton. 50 1 ' Mr. Sheppard, M.P., had an interview with Peel on Friday. Sir Edward Knatchbull left town on Saturday for, residemae in Kent. Lord Stanley had a dinner party on Saturdall.a. residence, in St. James's-square. • f ries The Duke of Wellington attended the early seo_ in the C - hapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. T he of Dr. Wes/my preached the sermon. The 3ilarquiee2da Salisbury, Normanby, and Winchester, Lords Del an al, and Ebrington, attended the daily service in the Currst Royal. • The sermon was preached by the 1 3011 1,0: Peter l aorough, prayers were read by the Rev. Dr.,* h iis. ley, the lessons were read by the Rev. M. Dti!..4,0 The Rev. Dr. Sleath officiated at the Communion or'" ' FLANDERS AND DUTCH 11ZA 11-1 tbe' BRUSSELS, MARCH 2 1 .—Baron Kielrnallsegi s ' has Hanoverian Minister at the Hague and at BrusselSwi been to Waterloo, to visit the field of battle. 11 0. it - 0 the necessary orders for the repair of the ni on "fell erected in. memory of the Hanoverian soldiers W 7 • in that battle. cootWice The Chamber of Representatives, at the ment of yesterday's sitting, unanimously Eger, ait amendment of the Senate to the project of 1 011 ,C, eeir conversion of Five per Cents. The interest of ws' oc ise..; Stock will, therefore be payable at Paris, with the P, r 5 000, that the expense of the operation shall not exceed • • francs per annum. The Senate adopted by a W i fi „•,, n Of • of 26 to 1, the project of law relative to th e 84,886,000 francs. r - t e r BRUSSELS, MARCH '22.--.-The Minister of the -.° t announced in the Chamber of Representatives t l , l i fi s etir Company had offered to undertake, on very su f of t he geous terms, the works for repairing the dykes, 00 00 Polder of Lills ; the project of law on this subj e• therefore, put on the order of the day. • '4O l The heavy rains which have again set in hirio L he ed a fresh rising of the Senne, but we do not - sPPL7a h Of that it will do much injury. A letter from lien ill y art o the 14th, says that the farmers do not remember wt. hay, seen the country in such a condition as at P„„ re j tb° : The ground is so wet that nothing can be done , r . t i a ia• public roads are absolutely impassable. Notwlt s r eelt. ing the vigilance recommended by the King's A - e ly general.robberies continue to be frequent, 5 110 night passes without some fresh instances of the, k ey the environs. Unhappily, the state of things noel seem, likely to cease so soon, for the polic e; ,? e tter cannot remove the cause of the evil, which is , 11- 0 00 1 • than the extreme misery of the people. Tho, ce , b raids aggravate the distress of the poorer ci_ A p h i a ss retarding the growth of the fruits of the earr. t . pro' should serve for their subsistence, the Wit h — visions bein g wholly exhausted. „ t POSEN, MARCH 9.—(FRox A CORRESP OI4 : - are rr hasten . to inform you, that the rigorous mes s ed*, r t specting the Polish emigrants is, if not re v el i s in a' essentially modified, inasmuch as their departure "root& finitely adjourned. This decision of our G°L e o f th a t has caused general joy here, and is a Pv;ogsr: the emigrants have by no means it tra" in any sort of intrigues. Neither II e pr r that any. of them have already left r., er eig o vince; they are all still here, and bless the 9 ° t 'i e e s i t who has not hesitated to withdraw such a reo' li for e soon as it was found to be unncessary, and there iot tiel l in harmony with his universally acknowledged elm of mind. The Communists who have latterly' ° At c otv Poland, and been here in the citadel, are alrer n : veyed, partly to Magdeburg, and partly to St e_ c "r nt saea; The recal of Prince Paskewitsch and the tIPP" / „,:r of Prince Czonitschiff as his successor causes sensation here, because it gives reason to :P3 of th° further rigorous measures in Poland, the r for Field-Marshal being attributed to his too g re a bearance. to THE HAGUE, MARCH 20.—The JAYA PsP e4- . 25th of November last, have the following , nevqj-risie° " Batavia, Nov. 17, 1843.—The chief town ,°„ t i e was visited, on the night of the Ist instant (n midnight), and on the afternoon of the sth , at '" 61.1 s two, by dreadful fires, by which it was reduced to 61.1 e with the exception of the old town. All the °.. n beel of the European and native o ffi cers to check the 1 3 ',:i e le: e of the' names were rendered unavailing bi j tb n e re vsi l d south-east winds, and the drought which hau no r if er°w e for some hours past. 2,075 houses, of which 7 1 01 fl e , stone, are destroyed in the nine vrampongs we o_llo consumed; 6,000 persons are hereby redu c , rhe 10°!A greatest distress, and four lives were lost. houses, clothes, furniture, merchandise' sil y ,, e ' &tit; iron, and notes, cattle, &0., is estimated at266,o)tice, of The .General Chamber of Accounts gives 1 . 1 % eoteld on the 15th and 16th of this montb, bonds ,a'D..„ a tiiw,7 e various descriptions (a list of which is given/1,..700" in all to the nominal value of 482,836,00 0 o f Pt.'" publicly burnt. ar de 0 1 5 . li' THE HAGUE, MARCH 21.—We learn from o that his Majesty's steamer the Bromoyut to 1 00 0 18th of this month, bound to Batavia and • t he Japan. , don - 0 0' The Stoats Courant contains the proton-4 ° ol d financial . law lately passed by the Chambe r .• blo tioned by the King. um tiO e t h al eir . Several honourable citizens of Rottei...- -- .0-10_, - daily from ten to one o'clock, in order to 'P Div ito • fellow-citizens all the information which the4 o, 0; 0 .. quire to make them comprehend the financill convince them of the advantage of preferring 'tto tary loan to the free gift to the payment of.tio will be levied if the loan should not be filled THE DUELLI NG.E D ITOR OF Tor s r2v ii;p r e, • TO Shy—There appears to be an inclinatien to the lishmen at the present moment to put a 45,ritiParlfn1 wicked all practice of duelling. This feelinf 'l.jou, , ,it in_ . the speeches in the late debate in t,„ c a h o,P", Uommons, and yet lam sorry to find I" — iii ene, - ; appears likely to be brought forward- that 1/- in t'' Wally stop this degrading prictice—d e g rit u cli tt e W o lf f highest degree, to a people strongly attaei` e ,,, stitebe reli.gion and laws. Instead of boasting of the to her." socie ty shock s a a t rm it y , if f r navy, or in this enlightened age, we °. in Maj Majesty's we are rank of a, gentleman, is obliged to s ettle A r e to 4. ,/ with hisneighbour ortolidndteheadt an non d , i p splitie by takin g his life. We, s l fo olis n that gentlemen are obligedto resort. to t tas t oh , practice, though strongly opposed to lt , r a n u th t l e '6 il' it! is no other means of settling their of f a t ice 6 manner that will enable them to keep th eir r # A . 1., OP society. won'. rid Let us see what this honour is ITO' ' t here a must be kept by pistol-law. I believ e b i r tli ti ll ., many men in this country—gentlemen b.r. 0 thov, education—that could not hit a man once 10 _ (yeatle sand shots at the gentlemanly distance Some b o f tb,; men duellists stand from each other. SI b it tne h l e professors of the art, I have no doubt, WOu'.„,ti 0* 0 man three times out of five. To place 3 '''' o rthe s c i scarcely ever saw a duelling-pistol before one o f se lf dead shots, as they are called, is the mo t l a t ev ise• . g unmanly thing that human invention on of se ttlifi tit duelling is to be the only gentlemanly waY , e , tsuP e a-dispute, let every scion of these gentletnen.us riv!ie the use of the pistol at school, or bY hi re cog e/5 0 tutor. We should then be enabled t 9 u, ic e t,l f something like fairness and fairplar , v i• t elling this V 13 1 CP. ~ til!' told, is the boast of Englislunen. II t" -- to • ( kers, rogues, and vagabonds, would but , l'e s°rt r po e ° duelling for six months, we should bear to .n o il: it in society, where it ought to be scorned as an al tisfactory and unchristian -like mode of set" J. i• putes. Warwick. *4 45 ------.-----"1""-- _,,,1t , one ..,---- THE cOURT —TIIE EASTER iiLITPAI':, n o or ir e at one time expected that, in consequence o o h e Pr e", e ; 0 ,0 u,, 0? measles in the towns of Windsor and Eaton, her Dfsi" r csswo, main at Buckingham Palace, and not p roceed to Winds°, th14„001 spend the Easter holidays. We understand ► h e* el e t r ow° ;11 rangements hare been made for the Court to leave Win, ,4 Wednesday or Thursday (the 3d or 4th proximo) fpr v' Castle, and that her Majesty will return So Buck' ,s.rl about the 15th or lath. ' ' It is said that the Postmastei-General, plose of Lonsdale, Intends to relinquish his office 6 ° .°°l3 $6 Faents C 4311 bo made (o the appointment of his sucr e4* ___ .. _ . b ltt 1 )1 4 4 t 11 1 , 1 1e,,144) 1 kt - mti the td arr " t' nlsen Nou 44t 4Ci 1 4 : 14 4i: A nd di mo trkt . t "k th, 6" eat s tr ent of d ay 4 ib tr I, l kil , ter of an d - "th e th. th at 'et -1)r, 'hiss N 14, 4 ,11 1 4: a pi anc Z l ;. 4l . 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