The Sun. — London, England, 1844-04-06 00:00:00

COMPLETE HISTORY HISTORY OF THE CHINESE WAR, &c I been avowed, nor any sentiment fallen from any one f Now ready, in 2 vols. 81-0., with Maps and Plates, 325. bound , cl, NAltitAT IV E of the VOYAGE S man among them, that the people at large can dwell and SERVICES of " THE .NEMESIS," 1 upon as the subject of national pride, or cherish with From 1840 to 1843; Ald of all the combined Naval and Military home-felt satisfaction. In this respect the present Mi - ' i nisters are just as bad as the Whigs, and, indeed , t he y TegetirsT with Impo O rt i a 'E nt ß l T t l l O ce N s S of lN tha e t H C lN otry , a COMPLETE ACCOUNT or the COLQNY o f HONG-KONG, and p x . thar k s on our I are the very same !If they were all sent to Australia Future intercourse with the Chinese &c. From tho Notes of Commander W. H. HALL , R.N. , an d Personal, to-morrow, not an atom of the public send- COservations by W. D. ILUtNAP.D, Esq., A.M., gze. Ig q . Orders received by all Boosellers. 1 meat of sorrow would follow them. Can an y Henry Cothurn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. one conceive even the possibility of a single rational creature in Great Britain being sorry that THEATRE ROYAL, Ditl'lc Y-LANE. Immense Attraction for Easter. the career of Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S public usefulness It is respectfully ani ounce.), that the Administration cf II h • Aca d e mie Roya'e, Pa: is, having conscn ed to a prolo,,gdtien of the was transferred to another hem is p here? We can 'Doge f M Dorn, this eintitent Attlets will wig 1 lace Nights in • • Jae Eas!er Week imagine no such thing !" Nw or e either. So far MON DAY.EVE NI NG,. APR ' L 8 Will be performed the (lees indeed from bewailing the t rans p ortation of Messrs. Cl.Duprez ; Gestiler. Mr. G. Horncastie; vtilham Tell, Mr. I PEEL and GRAHAM as a y itret on ; Lutero, Menlo. Albertazt ; Matilda, Mi ss Romer; Martha, Miss Letts g reat discouragement" to the p o p ular cause, our To conclude with the revived Meiculrama of THE TALE OF MYSTERY. Count 3onamo, Mr. &Inv ; Cot:nt Romaldi, Mr conscientious opinion is, that the peop le ,firm and ;doper; Michell'. Mr. harlcy, Selina, l'rs Stirling. I would receive the tidings of such an event with the i); C 53 Boxes is., Second Plic‘. 3s. tin. • L ',pet CA CM'S a Coxes 5.4.- I 5-con ; d Price ..s. Pit ::s , Second P: ' ice ;:a. ; Md l e (labety xs., i liveliest feelings of satisfaction. The manufacturing 5 cand Price 14.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price &I. _ 1 districts would of course illuminate ; the agricul turists, with the Duke of RICHMOND at their head, would be anything but broken-hearted; the Opposi tion would regard the circumstance as a signal dis pensation of . Providence in their behalf; and the wailing and gnashing of teeth would be confined ex clusively to the white-waistcoated Treasury Benches. It is a delightful picture to contemplate, and the patriotic imagination lingers on it with fondness—the spectacle of Messrs. PEEL and GRAHAM tending sheep, with their hair cropped, on the vast pastures of Au stral ia, fixing on each other looks of grim despondency, and mutually confessing that the only chance of freedom left them, consists in their taking to the woods and becoming bush-rangers ! We fear, however, that the present age is not destined to witness:the renegarle Whig and the author of the income-tax figuring in this interesting situation. They have yet much mis chief to do ere their public career be closed, and the only transportation we can venture to anticipate for them is a transportation from the Treasury Bench to the Opposition side of the House ! THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mq. BENJAMIN WEBSTF.K, LF.SSEE. heturn of Madame Vestris and Mr. C. Mathews. ON EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 8, Twill b.. performed a New Conic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Bart., Mr. Charles Mathews; Sir Adonus Leech, Mr Tilbury; Wurzle Ja.iics Bland ; Mary, Miss Julia Bennett; Lady Ciutterbues ,Mr's Hamby. After which, a New Comic Drama. entitled GRIST TO THE MILL. Marqui- sie Kicheviile, Mr. I:Ludes Mathews; Francine, Madame VestriA. To be followed by a New, Original, Occasional, anti Local Extra rapra fountird on Fact, entitled rHE DRAMA AT HOME; or, 1 i Even mg with Putt: Principal C!:aracters by Mr. C. Mat , ews, Mr. J. Li.nJ, Mr. CaWDed, Nrs. GLiver, Miss P. Horto and Miss Lee. To conclude with the ExtraortYnary Performances of Processor RISLEY and his INFANT SON, surnamed "Le Petit Mercure." orchestra Stalls, ; Boxes, ; Pit, 5. ; Gallery, •s.; Upper tiarery, Ir, 'laic-price -Boxes, ; Pit, is.; Gallery, Is ; Upper naliery. 6.1. Doors °penes at Hail:past aiix, and the Performances commerce at Seven 'rickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box lice, from Ten till Five. THEA FRE ROYAL, LYCEUM, LASE ENGLiSH OPERA EOM. Under the Management of Mrs. KEEI.EY. The Pubic is rest ectiolly informed that this Iheatte WILL OPEN on EASTER MONDAY, April 3 , with an = d rtss by Mrs. Keeley. Alter which, be pre lured a New Cornedietta, in Two entit:ed HASP( CONCLCSIO• S. I tncipal Chatactets by Me;srs. I Diddear, F Mathews, F. Vining. Emmy, and Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. Keeley. 'Fo be folt.'wed by a Ne‘v Drama, its One Act., called THE POST OF HuNitU R. Charaaers by it s. Keeley, Turner, Moloch, J. Col cr, Sidon», Yarnold, Miss Woolgar (from the heatre Royal, Adeh , lii, her .first appearance at this 1 heatre), and Miss Grove. To conclude with an entirely new Grand Bade qua r airy Extra. vaganza, called OPEV SESAME; or, The Forty Thieves. t ha. ractets by Miss W001g , ..r, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs..Woollidge, Turner, Mi,s Grove, Mfs. 11igtn, Miss Jurors, Miss Pairbrother, and M-s. Keeley, Messrs. F. Mathza ner, lounge, NV isan, Yarhold. and Chaplin. PRICEi OP A DMI.SSION.—First Price-- - oxes, 45.; Upper Poxes, 2s. ; I'it, €a. ; Gallery, SE..ceill Price—Balcony Boxes, 25.; Upper Boxes, Is kJ.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Balcony i ier ((holding eight person.),- iWJ iwineas Prira a Poxes on the Second Der (hoc lug eight peiro..s), t ne Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on the P.t t ier (holding six pr,onsl ' One Guinea. Free Ad mission Tickets (for the first forty nights), One Guinea. Nightly Transferrable k ree Tickets (for the fir,t torty nights ' , 1 h ree Guineas Doors open at Half.paet six. Performances begins ;A even o'Clock• ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. EASTER MONDAY, Avail. 8. Toe RE.OPENI Nl+ of ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHI. THEATRE of ARTS (under ihe inanagefnea and sole proprietor. snip ~t Mr. BA rri). was. its Treble Rotation of Equestrisn and Dram itic Spectscles, and u :equalled Scenes of the Circle, and Ritty's Mw.ehlebs Stud of beautinal Horses, Fairy Ponies, &c. Mr. Batty, in announcing the Rc-opening nt Ast:ey's for tl , e se. cond season of his management, nevi respectfully to .cquaint the Nikility, Gentry, and public that, enecuraged by the flattering success during the past year, and in ,ding the 1 heitre not suffi ciently commodious for its PUM:sIO4I3 p t ons, he entered into an extensive arrangement v;,th Messrs. Haward and Nixon, the emi— nent build:l . s of Lambeth, for the re.cons• meting on a magnificent and novel praiciple, the whole of the interior of the Theatre, which has been rebuilt, dress boxes entarge , , upper boxes wEened, and it and g,lieries ext naively improved Fourteen glass metres are addcd, a ti a Grecian dome ceding, with er tirely new sp eM'id classic decorations, and gcoTof:ci,,s appp.antments, which, with the first-ra.e tal,nt to he tdr,rekl, tic presn.nes cannot tail of obtaining that support so literally bestowed on his endeavours during the lot seas- in. The grand Raster national Spe:tacle will combine al• the splen histor:cd efftcts of the Nie wan Conquest of Engl produced by Mr. W. D. BroarlfJot. The Cirque thyropiqi.e will in. troducc un quailed equestrian taleat, and the dou le company corn wise Wen_ of the highest older. The die r will open nighty at six o'clock, and the performances eminence at s ven. Box-oltice will be opened on Saturday, April and contnve so rialy front tea till fo.,r- 'Die private boxes have teen reconstructed and decorated with care ,nd splendour. Acting and stagennanager, Mr. W. D. Rroadfoot. The usual fortune of Sir ROBERT PEEL to reap ‘vliere others have sown, the " sic vos non vobis" fata lity which hands over to him the realised results of a policy that, while in progress, he has denounced, op posed, contended against, and done his utmost to obstruct,—are exemplified in the revenue returns for the year and quarter ended yesterday. They exhibit upon the enormous aggregate revenue of 50,396,9771. the proportionably enormous increase, over the aggre gate of the year ended sth April, 1843, of 4,318,1671. The comparison of this quarter with the correspond ing quarter of the year 1843, gives, not indeed a similar ratio of improvement, but a total increase of 325,034/., being the difference between 10,469,4771. and 10,794,511/. Now, if we analyse the returns, so aA to assign the particular items on which this excess of productiveness has been developed, we shall find that (setting aside the " property-tax," which is an integer in the account .s-ti gerieris, and not influenced by causes that inevitdoly affect the. other sources of revenue,) we shall find that the two heads of largest increase are precisely those which received the most incessant care and attention of Sir ROBERT'S prede cessors in office. They applied to them, to the utmost of their ability, those free trade principles which Sir ItonEar strenuously combated whilst in opposition, en masse ; but furtively adopts, piecemeal, (that he May not too abruptly shock the prejudices of his col leagues,) n3w that he is in office. It appears that the increase on the present over the last financial year (respectively ended sth April) has been—on the re ceipt of Customs 658,3351.; ditto Excise, 474,607/. Nov, what the admirable llbours of Mr. LABOUCISERE and Mr. BARING, in the consolidation and reduction of Customs' duties, were not permitted to accomplish, the luck of the Premier has, from time to time, suc- TILE IVEA'rilEll.-SuN OFFICE, APRIL 5. Inurtmoatraill, Lowest, 41; Hnedest, 64; Noon, 56 , BAROMETER, 29.95 S,W. I`..ioxit.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the reezing point, and 53 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.. - Hu II WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TH:S DAY. Deming ... 42 minutes after 3 I Evening ... 5 minutes after 4. • \ CS • r 4 7 -4 1.. t eft - t. _ , \dor • • \ ‘, - 17 ff {l. hco.. ROI cessfully pushed forward into practical working. Opposed, if we my credit his speeches in opposition, to the principles of free trade, he consistently enough declaimed against the preliminary of extensive modie fications of existing duties. In office he has, almost in silence, but by little and little, given to those prin ciples efficiency and practical application. But for treading in the steps, therefore, which Lord Men nseateE's Government were displaced for venturing to tread. Sir ROBERT would have had as indifferent an account to show of receipts from Customs as those who went before him, so long as these were not allowed to carry out the suggestions on which the Premier and his Government have since successfully acted, albeit in the teeth of their own avowed convictions or prepossessions of past years. The improvement in the product of the Excise is attributable to another cause ; but here, too, the result is one that comes, as in the other instance, in aid of the Premier's finencial receipts, whilst it supplies the most striking argument against the law he so per versely upholds. During the last administration cf the Whigs it was their misfortune to have high corn prices ; say, far an average, about 70s. the quarter for wheat. The impolicy of the statutable prohibitions virtually operating to exclude cheap corn from the market, they never ceased to deprecate; but they never could succeed in carrying a majority of Pirlia meat with them to repeal such impolitic laws. In deed, to say the truth, they were at time seriously di vided upon the question among themselves. Some of their more distinguished leaders were avowedly inimi cal to all propositions for disturbing the insufferable monopoly Which the class legislatien of the landed proprietors gives to the landlords of the supply of bread for the community. The consequence was that, with lowered wages, this artificially sustained high price of bread became not only a cruel but a destruc tive burthen on the labouring poor and bread-con suming artisan. They went on, month after month, year after rear from bad to worse. Pauperism in creased, with frightful rapidity, on all hands.. Simul taneous with that increase was a fearful diminution in the demand for labour. The very sufferers, by overtaxed bread comprise the great mass of the con sumers of Excise-charged articles of consumption, as tea, coffee, &c. The natural and necessary con sequence f.llossed. The revenue of Excise deterio rated in a corresponding ratio, quarter after quarter. But what has been the price of corn, since PEEL and his colleagues displaced Lord JOHN Russenn and Lord IthenoußNE? Corn has on an average been at about 50., per quarter. The demand for labour, though still very disproportioned to the supply, has very considerably increased, indeed, during the same period. The influence of these two facts is mani fested in the growing increase of the Excise. The labouring artisan i again able, thanks to the lowered price of bread, to spare a fractional portion of his wages, as formerly, in the purchase of those ex• ciseable commodities which, if not absolute necessaries of 'He, are indispensable to his own comfort and that of his family. The numbers of such consumers in the aggregate more than countervail the small ness of each individual's expenditure ; and thus the difference between years of high-priced corn and years of low, or at least cheaper priced corn, ma nifeste itself in the income of the Excise revenue. If Sir ROBERT PEEL and the Conservative land lords, supporters of his Government, were men of political (we had almost said—moral) consistency, we might expect that considerations of this kind would suffice at once to determine their policy with regard to a corn-law. They would have before them such irresistible evidence to the national prejudice, GS well as the political weakness and immorality of such a tax, that we might look for its immediate and indig nant repeal. But, unhappily, we have no such ex pectations —we indulge in no such hopes ! With Sir ROBERT especially, the principle of ex- upon patronage, andna pediency—the contri vances , a lli a nces, adjustments of —the private hold interests pg e , and conflicatlilngother official considera tions connected with his own maintenance of place and power—these outweigh, we verily believe, all the err of famished hundreds of thousands of our labour. ing poor for cheap bread, as well as all the mur murs of scores of thousands, in other classes, of moderate incomes, against the cruel and intolerable addition to the burden already imposed upon them by assessed and other taxes, poor-rates, and of a property-tax which has, this last financial year, yielded no less than 5,356,887/. ; being an increase on the product of this impost last year, of 2,900,5991. Altogether, the Premier's " financial fortune" is really remarkable ; but that the public should tolerate this last gigantic robbery of capital and income--this clumsy device for making good the defective working of his scheme of domestic and financial administra• ion, is infinitely mor ' surprising. One of the moat affecting cases of suffering and destitution we ever remember to have read of, was made known on Thursday at an inquest held by Mr. WAKLEY, on the body of WILLLAM Lisowx, aged one TilE SUN, LONDON, SATURDA Y MORNING, APRIL 6, 1844. HAT noL's ROYAL SURREY THEAVsE The most splendi .1 Easter Ditertainment..v.m pro entcd—Everythir_g New—Suplo , tcd by the 1 first Ta'ent i r the Wor ld. EASIER MUNI) AY, APRIL S, dill b~ produced r.n enti•ely New eintirseng all the strong ttrects t.f the celetrat,cl work, eutAled WHITEFRIA RS, 10 whm'i the eltrre Company wit periurm. Ater which (First Timc) oCA PEGR ACE OF PARIS, sup• p rt.*, by all tie kad,lig Favourites of the Egablishment. To wh ch wi I ba added the %Conde' fol Perform:roc: of Herr HINGLER on t e Corie Elasaque, and the Carlo Family in their Unriva' led Ci,ranastyues. 'Fe c ,TiCkitie with ,never ante L a D %Ana of wctilia: construction, antived BARAK JLiHNS ,N; or, The Blini Witn.ss. P.accs slid Prof./to &les to ue had ot Mr. Kerschner, at the Box,. tl ce, irom Eleven o Four. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPhI, WILL BE °et:NED EOR ITS SEASON OF MIRACLES ON EASTER MONDA Y. by the G . IEAT WIZARD OF THE NORTH. He will re-ascend his NI YSTIi: THRONE, and com mence liiS NEW :CIENCES of MODEMS MIRACLES, which have no par, lel in the world. In addition to the Wizard's Fer formances. MR. MALONE RAYMOND, the successtul repre sentative of Irish Characters, from t'ae Th,atre Royal, Haymarket, will give his original Eatertainment, entitled AN HOUR' IN IRELAND, assisted by MRS. MAI.ONE RAYMOND, MISS LINLEY, and Mkt. SM. CH. Boxes, Pit. Is. dd. Gallery, ed. Second Price at Nine o'clock. Mors open at Saven,the Performances commence at half-pa,t. LOVE'S PILVPIL?NIC ENTERTAINMENTS, CROWN AND ANCHOR TAVERN, STRANo; Mr, LOVE hts the honour to annou nce that be will RESUME HIS ANNUAL POLYPHONIC ENTERTAINMENTS, and LtCII.7RES on LIFE and CHAR ACTER on EASTER MON. DAY, and will continue the annie of• the following WE iSNESDAY sod i• RI DAY. He will introdece mu ;h Novelt?, which has been long in preparation, with entirely New, and &pr. priate Mutative Costunies and Appointment?. Total Change of Entertainments Every Evening. On MONDAY, April 8, MIRTH AND MARVELS; with A WOLF IN SHEEP's CLoTOINO ; and other Ent.rtainme ta. On WED.NEiO,Y, Anvil In LOVE'S REMINISCENCES; rith MINT HOST'S LIMA S; and other Entertainments. • On FRIDAY, April 11, LOVE IN ALL Sil ; with LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOS r ; an:l other Entertainments. Particulars is Handbill?. D ors at Half-past Seven ; begin at Eigl,t. Admission, Is. 6d.; Reserved Scats, 2s. 6d. , 11144 ,„,„„n-1411:-4 ALt-'441 LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1844. Of all political enigmas—and they abound in these days of shift and expediency the most difficult to be solved is the enigma of the politics of the Morning Pint. He must be a clever man who can discover the Longitude, but cleverer still who can discover the principles of our eece.ntrie Contemporary. One day he runs upon a Conservative tack; the next, he puts the helm about, and makes sail in an ultra-Tory direction. Now, he is all for the peopla; and now, he is all for prerogative. On Thursday,. he is a staunch advocate for constitutional principles ; on Friday, he fights with equal zeal in behalf of JAMES who did his utmost to destroy those prin ciples:. 'Will the . Poe be considerate enough o tell us what he- really is, and what are the political doctrines which he upholds ? He is not a Tory, for TorYitra repudiates the claims cf the people; he is not a Conservative, for Conservatism is a thing of petty trick and truckling expediency--and, to do our . Contemporary justice, there is nothing tricky or time serving about him ; for he has at least the merit of being honest, so ler as he is intelligible ; he is not a Whig, for Whiggery is of the Doetrinaire school, and he evidently hates that school with as much hearti ness as the Devil hates holy water ; and he is not a Chartist, fur Chartism is subveriive of all the constitutional laws of the realm. Poisibly he niay be what is called a Whig-Radical—that is to aaytan independent, straightforward Reformer, who, abjurieg allegiance to party , regards only principles; but this can scarcely be the case, for he is furious to Is degree against the notion of unrestricted freedom in commerce; and vvouid, we suspect, hail the hour that should see MeSSTS. COBDEN and BRIGIIT strung up back to back upon a lamp-post. Then, too, he is op posed to ell necessary reforms in the Church; is of opinion that. the _ hierarchy has not half power o r consideration enough ; and laments, with the solemn pathos of a JEBEMIAII, the gradual decline of pur e, unleavened p riestcraft. is evident, from t his, . that our Contemporary -cannot be a Liberal R eformer; and once again, therefore, we ask will he vouchsafe to-tell us what he is—or rather, what he is not ? . His leading article . of this morning clearly shows that, whatever else he may be, heis - no Ministerialist, for he denounces the PE EL Cabinet in the most energetic, unqualified term s , and boldly states that if they were all to be transported to Botany Bay to-morrow —we Wish to GOD . thOy were t—they would - not leave a single scut behind them to lament their expatriation. Thus speaks the Post on this delicate point :—" Ministers have better talents and more prudence than their predecessors, but we lament to be obliged to say that they do not appear to have any batter principles. It is morally impossible that such men should-awaken any warmth of afrection On the part of ration. The national heart is as much neglected as if'-the're were Tro such thing. Ministers seem totally incapable of raising any such sentiment in the public mind, or of even Appreciating the vain?, of it! Friends they have hot in•tbeir capacity of public men, nor has any principle year and eight months, the son of a poor shoemaker, ! residing at 27, Alsop-mews, Dorset-square. On the jury viewing the corpse, they were much struck with the extreme cleanliness, though evident poverty of the apartment; but their attention was more particu larly attracted to the emaciated forms of the parents, and five or six young children by whom they were surrounded. It appeared in evidence, that the deceased, without any previous illness, died suddenly, while sitting on his father's knee, on the afternoon of Satur day last; and it further transpired that the wretched i parent had been out of employment for seven weeks, and the only means of subsistence he had was, by pass ning, one by one, his articles of clothes and fur niture. He had not applied for parish relief, as he had the greatest abhorrence of " pauperising his family ;" more especially, he added, " as he had once been a respectable man in the parish, and had sat on juries before the Coroner, in cases similar to his own." In summing up the evidence Mr. WA KLEY observed,—" This was a case of real distress. The jury had gone to the house and found the child lying dead, without a coffin, the mother and six children sitting round in a state of starvation, and without a farthing in the world to obtain subsistence! Yet not one word of complaint was made, and had not the jury made the discovery themselves, in all probability the real circumstances would not have been known !" It is too much the fashion in these days of fastidious refinement, to consider the destitute and helpless as reck less, desperate beings, who are prone to guilt from the circumstances of their situation, and utterly scanting i❑ a sense of justice, consideration, and prin ciple. Here, however, is a case which proves just the reverse, and we mentioned a precisely similar one that was heard a few. days since at one of the police offices. In the instance immediately.before us, we find a rigi.l sense of self-respect, honour, and high minded principle rising superior to all those tempta tions Nith which squalid Poverty never fails to beet her victims, and coming out of the tremen dous ordeal unscathed ! Had the parents of these starving children rushed out into the streets, and snatched a loaf from the first baker's shop they came to, the offence would have been a perfectly venial one; and dispassionate Justice, taking the miti gating circumstances of the case into Consideration, would have relaxed the frown on her brow, and leaned to the side of Mercy ; but nothing of the sort appears to have been attempted; the almost ir resi,tible temptation was successfully struggled against ; and the parents of this famished family, with a heroism and magnanimity above all praise, preferred rather to die a lingering death by starvation, than to know themselves, and let their children know, that they had stooped to the, crime of theft! And so they sate with their surviving children round their uncoffined boy, awaiting in silence and resignation the welcome hour that was to dismiss them all from life ! If ever there was a case deserving of public sympathy, this is that one; and we hope that those who, at the call of the Bishop of LONDON, have sub scribed so lavishly for new churches, will not forget to subscribe at least the " widows' mite," for a case that is a thousand times more deserving of their conside ration. • We are glad to learn by accounts from Madrid of the 28th ult., that no military executions had taken place at Carthaiena, and that in all probability there would not be a repetition of the horrible scenes which Ror•CALI had enacted at Alicant. The Corporation of the city had entered into negotiations with the General, and while these were going on the insurgent leaders, with the assistance of the chief authorities, made their escape in a steamer. The intelligence from Madrid is otherwiSe destitute of interest. The Three per Cents. were done at 34 for cash, and 361 at 60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at 23f at 60 days. In the French Chamber of Deputies, on Tuesday, M. GARNIER PAGES brought forward his motion for the conversion of the Five per Cent. Stock. It was merely a matter, he said, involving the equilibrium of the finances, and it ought not to be forgotten that the conversion would produce the not contemptible saving of twelve millions of francs a year. He con ceived that the reduction of interest would be parti cularly useful to agriculture and manufactures. The first thing necessary for work of all sorts was capital, and as long as interest was kept high agriculture would in vain, from loans being exceedingly onerous, make efforts to develope itself, and manufactures would be incapable of resisting foreign competition. As to the fitness of the present time, there were three conditions to be observed in juding of it--everyth'ng was secure in the foreign relations of the kingdom.; • all was safe at home; and there existed commercial activity and health at home and abroad. The Minis ter of Finance admitted the right of the State to make the conversion, but did not consider the present time opportune for such an operation. He conse quently opposed the motion. On Wednesday the debate was resumed, when the Chamber divided, but so equally, that the President could not say on which side was the majority. On a ballot being taken, there were—Tor the motion, 154; against it, 163: majority for Ministers, 9. The accounts from Naples in the Paris papers con tinue unfavourable. It appears from letters received from that city, that an insurrection had taken place at Paola, a town on the coast of the Mediterranean, in which a colonel and several officers had been killed. Reinforcements of troops were on their march for Calabria. On the Paris Bourse the Five per Cents. improved in consequence of the opposition of the Government to the conversion of that stock. On Wednesday, the Fives closed at 122 f. 80e., and the Threes at 83f. 20c. THE BOURSE-WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3. First Ilighest Lowest Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents 122 45 .. 122 60 122 40 •• 122 40 Four-and-a-Half— • lourperCents lO5 80 .• 105 80 •• 105 80 .. 105 50 Three per Cents B3 1 i .• 83 15 .• 83 10 83 15 Bank of France... Latlitte Bank, 5,000. f. Sharessl4o ..5140 —5140 —5140 Belgian Batik..... • • Belgian Fives, 1840. 108 108 •• 108 103 1842 Dutch Two-and-a-Half. Spanish Active .• ••••• • • • • 34-1 341 • • 3•11 •• 34 Threes • 33 381 • • 33 .. 3s Passive . • Portuguese Five per Cents• • 47 .• 47 • • 461 • • 463 Neapolitan.. • ...... •.• 101 23 .: 101 40 • • 101 25 .. 101 40 Roman ••••• • .• • • 106 .• 106 .. 106 • • 106 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain •••• • • • 825 .. 825 .. 825 .. 823 Versailles, R. 8.• ••• • • 405 .. 405 •• 397 50 .• 400 L.B.•••••• Rouen ••••••• • • • •• • • •• • • 937 60 938 75 • • 937 50 • • 937 50 Rouen to Havre. .....•••••. 700 .. 702 50 .. 700 .. 700 orieans ...... Strasburg to Bale• ••••• • • • • 305 • • 305 .. 295 .. 993 Avignon to Marseilles 766 23 767 50 766 2a •• 767 50 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. St Germain:• Versailles, 11.11..• •• • • 400 .. 400 .. 400 • • 400 L. 8.•• •• • • 285 .. 293 75 .. 285 .. 287 50 Rouen ••.• •...... .. 937 50 •• 940 • 937 50 • • 937 50 Rouen to Havre ....... 700 •• 702 50 .• 700 .. 702 50 Orleans •• •• •• ••••••••••••• 915 .. 915 .. 911 25 .. 911 25 Strasburg to 8a1e...• .• 305 .. 305 295 .. 297 50 Avignon to Marseilles•.•• The following is the House List of Governors and Directors of the Bank of England for the year ensuing : FOR GOVERNORS. William Cotton, Esq., Governor. John Benjamin Heath, Esq., Del:lay . Governor: FOR DIRECTORS. Edward Henry Chapman, Esq.) Arthur Edw. Campbell, Esq. Bouamy Dobree, Esq. Abel Lewes Gower, Esq. Thomson Hankey - , jun., Esq. John Oliver Hanson, Esq. KirktnariDaniel.Hodgson, Esq. Henry Lancelot Holland, Esq.' Thomas Newman Hunt; Esq. Charles Fredk: With, Esq. Alfred Latham, Esq: Humphrey St. John Mildmay,' Esq. The Election for Governor held at the Bank on Tuesday, Wednesday, the 10th inst., fa till four in the afternoon. James Morris, Esq. • Sheffield Neave, George Warde Norman, Esq. John Horsley Palmer, Esq. James Pattison, Esq. Henry James Prescott, Esq. . Sir john Henry Pelly, Bart. . Christopher Pearse, Esq. Sir John Rae Reid, Bart. William R. Robinson, Esq. William Thompson, Esq., and , Alderman Thomas Tooke, jun., Esq. and Deputy-Governor will be the 9th, and for Directors on om ten o'clock in the forenoon hav T e h lo e n r g e k ad in e d r l s y. o in f a t , h d e gedour Standard nile, ha t v o can from d political engaging their minds with discussions eabh)sntalnas known,f a r as all w a e Upon r e t s h t e w siD t l h e u n s n , a n n o n r i v c - e a r a s a i r y t r w o h t i c with i r t e h t ur a n n y s t s h i s g e a y n . e w l s t p a d n p o e e r s to avoid some desecration of such a day, though we anxiously look forward to, the time when the great day of redemption shall be observ'ed with the reverence due to it. Meanwhile we will continue doing all that we can to mark the distinction claimed by a " Good Friday."—Standard. A couple, who had been travelling the country with a monster, partly in human shape, a short time since took a house in Knott's-lane, in this city (Canterbury), and left after a brief residence, having secured the being (if we may so call it) in a closet. The neighbours, alarmed by incessant scratching and hideous screeching, entered the house, and on opening the closet the thing darted out with all the wildness of an infuriated being, increased by hunger, and flew at the persons present. It was . afterwards secured and conveyed to the wockhoilie'; and Subsequently fur, warded to Chatham, a person of this city, named Sayer, hav ing the charge of it. Looking round on one occasion, lie was so much alarmed at its hideous grimaces, as to be thrown into a fit of illness, under which he lisp;wed till last we*, when he expired.—Kentish Observer. SUMMARY OF EWS A s) Vabite C‘-ptaiGn. " Who runs may read." rOZLEIGN. On Monday the King and Queen of the French, and her Royal Highness Madame Adelaide, visited Nauilly, but returned to the Tui!eries to dinner. In the e% ening their Majesties received the Aintats ,, adors of Turkey, Spain, and Sardinia, the Charge d'Affaires of Rus sia, the Ministers of Portugal, Brazil, and Tuacany, the Pope's Nuncio, .the Charts d'Affaires of the Units d States, Lord Breweharn, Marshals Soult and Valk, Generals Desaix, Count de Blonthion, de Caminade, de Latour-Maubourg, Merlin, Durieux, and Cavaienae, Rear-Admiral Casy, and many other persons of dis tinction. On Wednesday the motion for reducing the interest on the Five per Cent. Stock was rejected in the Cham ber by a majority of 9. The Univers states that twenty-nine archbishops and bishops have already declared their adhesion to the sentiments expressed by the Archbishop of Paris in his reply to the Minister of Justice and Public Worship. According to the Constiiutionnel, the Bishop of Chalons has written to the Minister of Justice and Public Won.. ship, stating that his letter to the Abbe Combalot was not intended for publicity, and blaming severely those persons who resort to the journals to embitter the diffe rences between the Clergy and the University. The banns of marriage between Baron Excelmans, the son of the General, and Mdlle. Bertrand, were published on Tuesday at the Mairie of the first Arrondissement. The Princess de Canino, widow of Lucien Bonaparte, has made a present to the Museum of Calais, her native town, of the painting by Cotreggio called La Vierge au Bandeau. The Princess de Canino was born at Calais in 1778. Her father, Charles de .Blesehamp, was an advocate of the Parliament, and receiver to the entrepet of tobaccO at Calais. A meeting of the admirers of the writings of M. Casi- • mir Delavigne,' in Paris, was held - on Monday, to form a Committee for raising a subSeription in aid of that at Havre, for erecting in•that town, which was his native place, a statue to. his =emery. M. Vatout was called to the elwir, to which he was considered to be peculiarly entitled, from having. been the firet introducer of the poet, in his youth, to the King, when he was Duke of Orleans. His Majesty has himself opened the subscrip tion with a contribwion of I,ooof. _ _ _ Daring the last month, the amount of the deposits in the Paris Savings' Bank was 4,235,439 c., and of the re imbursements; 4;105,000F. There were 30,155 deposi tor,, of whom 3,576 made deposits for the first time. Accounts from Madrid bring intelligence that all the insurgent leaders at Carthagena had made their escape by sea. LAW AND POLICE. At Guildhall, Charles Freeman, aged 24, was brought by Daniel Forrester before Sir John - Key, charged with having committed sundry forgeries upon bankers in the City, by means of forged cheques. Williana Shepherd, a clerk in the house of Messrs. Childs aril Co., bankers, Fleet-street, stated that on the 12th of March last, a cheque was presented to him by some parson for 551. 10e. 2:1. The cheque purported to have been drawn by R Mrs. Nl•Pherson, who had liberty, through her :rustees, to draw on the house. The cheque turned cut to be a forgery. One of the notes paid upon this cheque had been passed by the prisoner to a hatter in the Strand. Ihe prisoner was remanded, in order that • further investigLAions may be made. On Thursday, George Rittman was brought before Mr. Long,, at Marylehone, fir final exa,rination, chargod with having broken into the house of his grandmother, Nlri. Todd, an infirm old lady residing at Kensall green, aul stealing various articles ; and also with having, by means of a forged orr.er in her name obtained money from Mr. Fenton, a baker, living at the above place. A few additional facts were n ow -:elicited, and the prisoner was committed for trial upon both charges. James Ward, late a drayman in the employment of Mesrs. Ediott and Co.. brewers, Pimlico, was brouglit before Mr.'Henry for final examination at Lambeth ..treet, on a charge of embezzling the sum of V. 14s. 2d., which he had received on account of the firm. A somewhat important point arises in this matter. It appeared that the prisoner was acting for another person who was ill. and who paid him (prisoner) for what he did. This rendered it doubtful if the prisoner was the servant of the prosecutors. If not their servant, he could not be convicted of embezzlement. .• The prisoner, who when apprehended said he had got d:unk and lost the money, was fully committed for trial. At Worship-street, two young men of bad repute, named Edward Rourke and John Sanders, were charged with robbing the house of Mr. John Dimmock Aspiand, an underwriter at Lloyd's, and resident in Grange-road, DalstoM The prisoners were remanded for the compl.-- tion of the evidence for their committal to Newgate for trial. At Greenwich Police•court, a batch of twelve prisoners was charged with picking pockets at the launch at Woolwich on Wednesday.. Mr. Jeremysaid he should commit every one for trial, fur it was ciisgraceful that the public could go to no place of amusement in the vicinity of the metropolis without organised gangs of thieves attending. The prisoners were committed to Newgate. C 01711. T -FASHIONABLE. Letters from his Royal Highness Prince Albert, to her Majesty, and Mr. G. li. Anson, announcing the safe arrival of the Prince Consort in Germany, reached the Castle on Thursday, shortly before one o'clock. The letters were dispatched to the Queen and Mr. G. E. Anson, under cover to the Prince's private secretary, by a special messenger from the.. General Post-office in St. Martin's-le-Grand The Duchess Dowager of Bedford and Lady Rcehael Russell, who arrived in Paris in the preceding week from the south erFrarice, intend to leave for Campden-hill at the end of the month. The Earl of Lons tale and Sir John Beckett, Bart., arrived in town by railroad on Thursday morning, from - Lowther Castle. Lady Anne Becke tt has arrived at Stratford House from York House , Tw ickenham, whe re her Ladyship has demisebee nstoa3fitnhge Earlwi with Baroness Rehausen and Lord Sa ye and Sele arrived , on Wednesday, at the York Hot el , Brighton. Lord of Lonsdale. Lady Frederick B ent i nc k s i nce th e Headley is daily expected in Brunswick-square. Baron de Muncorvo, the Portuguese Ambassador, arrived on Thursday with his family in Brunswick -terrace. LDrd and Lady Granville have returned to the Duke of Devon shire's mansion in Kemp town. The Right Hon. the Earl of Lonsdale, Sir J. Beckett, Sir W. Powlett, the Hon. G. O'Callaghan and suite, on Wednesday morning left Lowther Castle for London. t'rom attenaing the funeral of the late lamented Earl Of Lonsdale, at Lowther. Tile Hon. Colonel Lowther still remains at Lowther Castle. Among the late arrivals at Cheltenham were th• Lady Emily Foley, the lion. Grantley Berkeley, M.P., and the Hon. and Rev. T. Coventry. rizz sC2S:G. GANEEMS. Thursday having been fixed fur the opening excursion of the members of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, for c the season, the Commod ore ( W . Harrison, Esq.), Capt. Durant, and several of the p rin cipal subscribers, assem btl at where they dined. A le thal hftimesTafochurtZveeayprrn, ee o Greenwich,ded to the river, which pre sented a very gay and pleasing appearance from the fineness of the day and the number of persons who had assembled to witness the proceedings, in which they ap peared to take great interest. The yachts were admirably titled up. The amusements of the day were brought to a close about eight o'clock. Yesterday the vessels cruised in different directions, visiting the.Nore and the Medway. On Monday last a new regulation came into op-ration in the long room, Custom-house, of stamping in words at full length the exact time at which the warrants, or merchants' entries, leave there for the several docks and other stations. This is understooa to be in consequeaee of a recommendation of the Conitnissioners of Revenue Inquiry, to whom complaints have been made of delay in the transmission of those documents. A meeting of the subscribers to the monument of the late Lord Edward Somerset was held at the Shire Hall, Gloucester, on Thursday last, when it was resolved to render the mason work of the monumental column more ornamental, the sum subscribed admitting of the extra ostlay. The fifth lecture of the British and Foreign Institute was 'iven on Thursday at the Hanover-square Rooms; to the members of this Society, who appeared to be deeply interested in Professor Grant's description of the structure and history of the palygastric animalcules. The drawings were numerous and good, and the whole subject was well treated. The number of members was considerable, including many ladies, and all seemed highly gratified. The answer to inquirigs in Portman-square on Thurs day was, that Mr. Hall had passed a better night, and the symptoms were more favourable. VICTORIA PARK.—On Saturday the tenants of Bonner's Hall, which building will be ta ken down for the entrance, to the new park, received not ice from the authori ties of Guy's Hospital, to whom this prop ert y belon g ed, that they had, by the purchase of the houses , b ecome the tenants of the Crown. Bonner's Hall, which was but one wing of the mansion of Bishop Bonner. is divided into about eight very tenantable houses, some of which have cellars, which, from their form and construction, were supposed to have been the prison cells of the Protestant martyrs of the time of Mary, and considerable interest is attached to the demolition of a fabric formerly belonging to one of the most violent in those times of fierce persecutors. Considerable interest is attached in the neighbourhood to the progress of the Park, and an eli gible piece of ground in the neighbourhood of Old Ford has Race course, where races are to take plac e, for the first time, on been dignitiedwith the title of the Roy al Victoria Park Easter Tuesday, the competitors to be restricted to residents in the Tower Hamlets. - --------- MEETING or GOLDSMITHS, SILVERSMITHS, AND JE7ELLERS.—A numerous meeting of goldsmiths, silver smiths, and jewellers was held-tin Thursday evening, to take into consideration a Bill now before Parliament to amend the laws in Orce for preventing frauds and abuses in the Marking of , gold ano -silver wares in England. Mr. Taylor was called to the chair. - It appeared that the clauses to which the meeting objected arc the 12th and 13th. These give power, upon oath of reasonable or probable cause Of suspicion, to enter and search the premises of all pe rsons manufacturing or trading in gold or silver wares, for forged marks and dies, as well as searching for, seizing, breaking up, and selling'any wares thatought to be marked, and of applying the proceeds . to the general expenses of the assay offices making such seizures. This power of seizing such wares as ought to be . marked, would, it was declared, be most injurious and vexa tious to the various trades mentioned, and would 'jeopardise three-fourths of the articles now. manufactured. Resolutions in which the injurious tendency of the clauses in`questionwas strongly declared, as well as a moticirisfer the appointment of a committee for the purpose of bringing the matter before the President of the Board of Trade, were unanimously carried, and a vote of thanks having been given to the chairman the meeting separated. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen. his Majesty the King of the Belgians, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Royal suite I and the household, attended Divine service this morn ing in the private chapel of the Castle. Archdeacon Wilberforce preached the sermon, and the HOD. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay assisted at the service. Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians, attended by her suite, went this forenoon to the Catholic chapel on Clewer-green ' to attend Divine service. The Royal Family have been taken to-day for their usual airings in the park. The two Queens took an airing in the Great Park this afternoon, their Majesties occupying an open carriage. The Ladies in \Veiling (the Countess of Dunmore and Baroness d'Hoogvorst) following in another carriage, and Major-General Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting, being in attendance on horse back. Majetty the King of the Belgians role out on horseback this aft:•rnoon, attended by one of the gentlemen of his suite. Yesterday, being Goal Friday, Divine service was performed in the forenoon in thz ChapA Royal St. James's. The prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Vivian, the lessons by the Rev. Dr. Knapp, and the Communion service by the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The sermon wa3 preached by the Dean of Westminster. The anthem, "He was despised," was sung by Mr. Hawkins. The Marchioness a "Westmeath, Lords Cathcart, Tyrconnell, Vivian, IVharneliffe, Ha warden, and Ernest Bruce, and Ladies ‘Vharnclitre and Vivian, were among the nobility present. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. HONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday had a tolerably steady appearance. Sales 4,000 bales, including 1,000 on speculation, an,l prices ware firm.—A very large business was done in Railway Shares, and higher prices were, in several instances, obtained. Birmingham and Gloucester, 97; Eastern Counties, 11-i; Great Wes tern Half, 701; Caledonian, 61; North British, 34; Mid- ' land Counties, 91; Brighton, 441; Birmingham, 23!;; South Western, 821; Manchester and Birmingham, 49.-I; Paris and Lyons, 3/. Is.; South Eastern, 361; Paris and Orleans, 36f. . This being Good Friday all places of public resort for business are closed. The attendance of merchants and others in the City were confined to those who had com munications to reply to. The state of the revenue has not caused much remark in the City among mercantile men who were compelled to be in town this morning. There were Port Philip papers to the 13th of October received at the North and South American Coffee House this morning. Not much news of interest is contained in them. The Banks had lowered their rates of interest. Most strenuous exertions were making to ship_ tf cured provisions for the British markets. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 4.—We have had more disposition to buy stock, and the market generally assumes a firmer appearance. Bolton and Preston, 30i ; Barnsley Junction, 21 and 21. Bs. 9d.; Caledonian, 61; Eastern Counties, 1 l ; Ditto Registered, 13a 131.95; Lan caster and Preston, 384 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 49 and 49k ; Manchester and, Leeds, 1121; Norwich and Bran don, 71; Manchester and Sheffield, 70i; Ditto Quarters, 81. Is. 3d. ; Strasburg and Bale, 12k ; York and North Mid land, 124; Leeds and Bradford, 221. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 4.—The Oaprey and Daring, two of the new 12 gun-brigs are in the basin and and masted ; sad are only waiting orders for the com pletion of the others, when they will all be commis - sioned without delay. There are no ships in harbour except the guard ships, tenders, &c. APPOINTMENTS —Mr. F. Rooke, Mate, to St. Vin cent ; lion. 11. Moreton, Midshipman, to ditto, vice Mr. T. B. Reid, Master's- Assistant, to Speedy ; Mr. Knapp, Naval Instructor, to Armenia. We have received Cape papers this morning to the 10th February. The •Wincheiter and Thunderbolt were lying in Simon's Bay,. and the American sloop of war St. Louis, and the French sloop Favourite, in Table Bay. The Enrigeetta slaver, a prize to the Thunderboit, in charge of Lieutenant lion. F. Kerr, arrived on the 2d February with 213 slaves. A third had been also captured by same vessel. The New Naval Regulations, promulgated by the 'Admiralty, contain many most salutary changes and improvements, calculated to confer lasting benefits on this branch of her Majesty's service. The Right !-lon. henry Corry, one of the Lords of the Admiralty, accompanied by Captain Brandreth, R.E., has proceeded in the steam-yacht Black Eagle to Cowes, todetermine on the immediate erection of a pier opposite her Majesty's contemplated marine re sidence. Norris Castle will, it is - said, he ultimately purchased for her Majesty. The Osborne estate, it is understood, has been taken for one year only at 1,000 guineas. The noble ships Rodney, 92, and Coliingwood, 80, at this port, are fast progressing for commissioning. Both will be masted in a few days, but will not hoist the pendant so early as reported. -The former goes to the Mediterranean, and the latter to the Pacific, as flag ship of the new Commander-in-Chief, Rear-Ad miral Sir G. Seymour. We have just heard that a large naval and military promotion has taken place—but it is not yet officially deciared ; also an extensive one in the Royal Marine corps. A day or two will give particulars. Rumour says that twenty captains are made rear admirals. The Hastings, 72, at this port, has been selected to relieve the Illustrious, 72, on the North American and West India station. She will not he commis- sioned, however, until June next as Sir Charles Adam's period of service does not expire before August. The Fantoine, 16, and Cygnet brigantine are being hastened at Chatham for immediate service. Both will be commissioned shortly, the latter for the coast of Africa. The following ships are in dock here :—Prince Re gent, 120 (ordered to be cut down to the class of the Rudney, 92, also in dock); Lily, 18, and troop-ship Athol. The new 12-gun bri, Flying Fish, is daily looked for from Milford,. to he r completed for commission. She will be brought round to this port by the Master of the Victory, harbour guard ship. The Vernon, 50, Captain Walpole, had not arrived at Lisbon on the 17th Marcli,althowib hourly looked for from Malta, on her way home. 'The Albion, 92, Captain Lockver, C. 8., was the only ship of war in the Taaus at the above date. The Helena, 16, Commander Sir C. Ricketts, Bart., arrived at Jamaica on the 16th February, from Madeira, which she left on the 26th January, and immediately transferred the Minister for Mexico to the Inconstant frigate, for a plssage to Vera Cruz, where she will remain in the room of the Pique frigate, ordered to rejoin the Admiral. PLYMOUTH.—SaiIed on the 28th ult., the Larne sloop, for the Western Coast of Africa, and the Tor toise, with Governor Finlaion, for Ascension. Ad miral Sir D. Milne has returned from leave, and re hoisted his flag on board the Caledonia. The Black Eagle Government steamer arrives here on Sunday, with the Lords of the Admiralty, on a tour of in spection, to report upon the site of a projected new dock for steam-vessels. Captain Boldero, Clerk of the Ordnance, is expected here, on business connected with the barrack department. SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAILWAY. The public have already been made aware of the general features of this important line. As it is an other link of the great chain of railways by which it is intended to traverse the length and breadth of the country, it may not be uninteresting to our readers to give some further particulars regarding it. It is now a matter of certainty that, in the course of about two or three years, a continuous line of railway will be completed from London, or we may say from Land's End, to Edinburgh and Glasgow. The Scottish Central Railway is proposed to branch off from the Edinburgh and Glasgow line near Falkirk ; and passing through the towng of Stirling, Bridge of Allan, Dunblane, Blackford, and Auchterarder, will terminate at Perth, thus forming about forty .five miles more of a great trunk between London and the north. The journey from London to Perth may then be performed in about twenty hours. The line will not only command a vast passenger traffic from and to the south of Scotland and England, but also that froni and to the west of Scotland and Ireland, being both a south and north line and an east and west line ; in fact, being to Scotland what the York and North Midland or Manchester and Leeds lines are to England. Besides the constant and tho rough trade arising from commerce, it will also derive much revenue from the pleasure-going part of the community,' as it lies so far on the route between Edinburgh and Glasgow and the Trosachs, and many other places of summer resort, such as the Bridge of Allan, Spa, Pitcaithly, Wells, &c., and the numerous shooting quarters of the English and Scotch nobility. As to the heavy trade, it has the advantage over almost every other line in the country,"in so as it will have •no direct water conveyance to compete with, either by sea or canal. It will thus not only secure the large trade in manu factures between Dundee and oth , rinorthern towns and Glasgow, as well as that arising from cattle and sheep on their way from the north to the greet Falkirk markets, but will also be the means of sup plying the whole of the district through which it will pass, and the Owns and country e,.st and north of Perth, with coals and lime from the rich mineral districts of Falkirk and Lanarkshire.--Scotsman. MISFORTUNES .N.EVkdi, COMB .ALoNE.— ! We see, the King of Hanover is announced, as well aS: the I , 27ieror cf Russia, to visit Faila diu t::, is all for the best that these two monarchs should make their visits at the same time, as instances have been known of one violent poison counteracting another.—Punch. Last THREE LAUNCHES AT BLACK WALL. Great as was the concourse of persons at Woolwich on Wednesday, to witness the launch of her Majesty's ship Bescawcn, 70 guns, the assemblage on Thursday at Blackwell was greater, owing to the novelty of three fine vessels being launched within one hundred yards of each other, viz , the - Wellesley, East Indiaman, and Monarch, steam-boat, from Messrs. Green's yard, and a fine iron steam-boat called the Meteor, from Messrs. Ravenhill and Miller's, the engineers. The latter vessel was expressly for the Star Steam-boat Company. Owing to the fineness of the day, the scene on the river was very animated. The numer ous steam-boats were gaily decorated with their signal-flags, whilst the yachts of the Royal Thames Club, trimmed out in their gayest attire, highly en livened the assembled multitude by the many manosavres they made in scudding clear of the throng of craft that covered this part of the Thames. Black wall Per and the Brunswick Wharf were densely crowded, and Messrs. Green's yard contained one moving mass of people. On the right of the Welles ley was erected a large gallery, for the accommoda tion of the more select visitors. Under the bow was also formed a platform for the christening party ; whilst on the left. stationed on the Indiaman Monarch (not the steamer), another fine large East India ship, which %sill be completed in the course of next month, was the band of the Royal Marines, from Woolwich. Every spot where a sight of the ceremony could be got was occupied ; and even the Kentish shore, on the opposite side of the river, was densely lined with spectators. Two o'clock having arrived, and being near high water, the order was given to launch off the Monarch steam-boat, and the work men commenced knocking away the few blocks that held her. In the meantime Mrs. H. Green, accom panied by a fashionable party, proceeded to name the vessel in the usual manner, and, on that being per formed, she glided off majestically into her future element, the company applauding, and the band play ing " Rule Britannia." She is a very fine vessel, about 200 tons burden, and is intended for the East Indies. All eyes were now directed to the "lion" of the day, and the heavy clank of hammers betokened that she would soon burst forth from her birth plice. At a quarter past two, Lady Hayes W&S escorted to the how of the Wellesley, where she performed the ceremony of christening her, officiating for the Duke of Wellington, after whom the vessel is named. All being in readiness, the labourers commenced knock ing away the dog shores, and after a minute or two of suspense, she proceeded steadily off the slip, with hundreds of human beings on her decks, the Royal Marine band playing the national anthem, amidst the tumultuous cheering of the thousands assembled. Her figure head is that of the great Duke. She is 1,150 tons burden, 190 feet in length, and 39 feet beam. The brilliant company, amongst whom were observed Sir John Pelly ; J. Hume, Esq., M.P.; several of the Trinity brethren, Gurney, Esq., W. Baker, Esq., &c., retired to the Sailors' Home in the East India-road, and sat down to a sumptuous enter tainment, a grand ball taking place in the evening to celebrate the event. The Meteor was launched just, before the Wellesley. Miss Harmer, a• fair daughter of the ex-Alderman of the City of London, acting on ,the occasion in naming her. She will be eighty horse power, and it is said she will be the fastest steamer on the river Thames. N ttwithstanding the immense assemblage of persons, not the slightest ac cident occurred. HAMBURGH PAPERS. STOCKHOLM, 111Aacit 22.—Major-General Louis Marie de Camps, who was taken ill at the same time as the late King, died on the 20th inst., in the 79th year of his age. It seems that he was brought up by the same nurs? as the King, who kept him about his person during his whole life, and in 1811 gave him the commission of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Swedish service, which rank he had held in the French army. Ile was born at Pau. In 1828 he quitted the Roman Catholic for the Lutheran ChUreh.. He has left two sons and two daughters. We hear that the design for the new royal arms of the kingdom, is approved, and the shield is now to be divided into two equal parts, one with the Swedish and the other with the Norwegian arms, whereas hitherto only the third part has been allotted to Norway. CHRISTIANSAND, MARCH 15.—A report was spread here a few days ago that two English frigates had ap peared on our coast, and that a large fleet was coming in the North Sea. The captains of vessels just arrived from England did not see any such fleet, nor had they heard that an English fleet was destined for the North Sea; on the other hand, it was stated that of the 30 English ships of the line which, according to new resolution, are to be always kept ready for sea, bearing the name of advanced ships, 17 are already completely equipped, and are lying partly at Ports mouth and partly at Devonport. This news is con firmed by the accounts received from England by yesterday's mail. As for the report about the two frigates, and the fleet cruising in the North Sea, it is probably as true as that the captains of those frigates have sent a summons to the Governor of Christian sand to give up the harbour and fortress of Flekkeroe. ST. PETERSBURGH, MARCH 21.—The Duke of Leuchtenburgh left this city on the 19th for Stock holm, being commissioned by his Imperial Majesty to convey to the reigning King of Sweden, Oscar 1., his letter of condolence on the death of King Charles John, and the compliments on his accession. Count Orlow returned from Vienna on the 16th.—Iiam burgh Papers, April 2. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—On Wednes day night, between ten and eleven o'clock, a fatal accident occurred on the river, whereby a young man, named Samuel Jefferies, lost his life. The deceased, who was a •seal-en graver, residing with his father, in Union-street, Hackney, left home on Wednesday morning, in dOuipany with several other young men, for the purpose of witnessing the launch of her Majesty's ship the Boscawen, •at Woolwich, after which they proceeded in two boats on an excursion down the river, and on the return of the party, at the late hour above mentioned, one of the boats. containing deceased and two of his companions, ran foul of a lighter, which deceased at tempted tojump upon, but over-balancing himself fell into the water, and before assistance could be obtained he was washed away by the tide. The body has not yet been dis covered. Deceased and hia companions were perfectly sober at the time of the accident. Goon FRlDAY.—Easter was a goddess among our Saxon forefathers, and has been commemorated with pecu liar festivity from the earliest Christian. periods. In Russia the churches are thronged on Holy Thursday by congrega tions, every individual of which holds a burning taper in his hand. Thev are burnt throughout Thursday evening, extin guished on Good Friday. and kindled again at midnight on Easter eve. On Good Friday there is no further ceremonial than the erection of a kind of tabernacle in the churches, which, in general, is no more than a mere box laid upon tressels ' and covered with a cloth; on the upper side of the cloth the body of the Redeemer is represented in painting, embroidery, or half relief. This tabernacle stands there till Easter eve, with only so many lights as are necessary to show the objects. The doors of the churches stand constantly open, and the people go in and out to kiss the simulated wounds. TEE LATE MUDER IN MARYLEBONE.—AIthough it had been intended that the funeral of the murdered 'Woman Frances Crouch, should have taken place yesterday, it was deemed advisable by the relatives of the unfortunate woman that it should take place at an earlier period. It was there fore arranged that the funeral should take place at three o'clock on Thursday afternoon ; but, notwithstanding the se cresy with which it was endeavoured to carry out the pro ceedings, hundreds of persons assembled to view the melan choly scene, which took place in St. John's Wood Cemetery. The coffin was of plain elm, studded with black nails, and the plate bore the inscription, " Frances Elizabeth Crouch, died March 30th, 1844, aged 27 years." The infant of the deceased will be taken care of—it will remain with 'Mrs Lynes until weaned, and then Mr. and Mts. Smith will take chaige of it. A FOUNDLING.—Thursday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, a fine male infant was found lying in the passage of the residence of Mr. Mitcham, No. 25, Maze, Tooley-street, having evidently been there but a short time, as it was sleeping. It was dressed in a dark bedgown, linep shirt, cotton napkin, and flannel belt, and had wrapped round it a dark coloured apron. Its age is supposed to be about ten weeks. The little foundling was removed to St. Olave's workhouse, and every means have been used to discover the parent. HOT CROSS BUNS TO PAUPERS.—Yesterday (Good Friday) the inmates of the Greenwich union house had distributed among them at breakfast 2,000 " hot cross buns," in conformity with the provisions of the last will and testament of two merchants of Deptford. Arrangements for the distribution, which was made in the presence of the. Visiting Committee, were made by the Boaid of Guardians last evening. A curious case between two cooks came on a few days back, says the Droit, before one of the juges de pair of Paris. A cook of a rich family fell ill, and was obliged to call in another person to supply his place. The latter was employed ten days, and demanded 50f. for his ser vices, at the rate of sf. a day. The other refused to ac cede to this, unless his substitute paid over to him—lst, 5 per cent. on all the goods furnished to the family in the kitchen department during the ten days—they amounted to 350 f. ; 2d, ten kilogrammes of tallow purchased back by. the butcher for lf. 20c. the kilogramme; and 3d, five kilo grammes of melted fat, purchased back also at lf. 20c. the kilogramme: The substitute, besides, had received 15 bottles of wine, at 75c. a piece, which he had to account for. To these demands it was replied by the substitute that he had received nothing in the shape of per tentage, as the tradesmen refusea him any allowance, as he was in the place so short a time. He denied positively having received the other things, except the wine which was necessary for his dishes, and which was paid for by the mistress of the house. The jugs de paix inquired it' the cook's master was aware of this system of allowances, and received as answer that "every onie was aware of the system; his master, he supposed, as well as an other." The magistrate, after speaking severely of such practices, ordered the cook to pay to the substitute his claim of 50f. ALLEGED lloAx.—Thursday, throughout the day, a report prevailed in the neighbourhood of the Bank of Eng land that a large sum of money, in guineas, had been found by some of the workmen employed in clearing the foundation of the houses which formed Bank-buildings. The hoard was stated to have been contained in a tin box, near the site which was formerly occupied by the firm of Messrs. Lad broke and Co. The circumstances became known to the authorities at the bank, who sent sonic .menengers to inquire .into the truth of the report. when it was alleged that no such treasure had been found. It is believed, however, that sale of the workmen have dng up a quantity of guineas. r,!•:.,-,;! - + . o, - ,r to from . Tali , rtn(); • h complete famine reigned in Sicily, many persons intheinterior having died of hunger: Yet the Government had only just granted permission for the free importation' of corn. CHINA We have intelligence from Hong-Kong to the ad of January. The sickness so long prevalent on the island had not entirely disappeared ; indeed, it has broken out afresh on the south side of the island amongst the garrison there stationed. Nevertheless, many of the mercantile establishments were arranging for their removal thither from Macao. Her Majesty's ship Castor arrived on the 27th December, having on board Major-General d'Aguilar, who succceeds Lord Saltoun in command of the British forces in China. A commencement had been made of a trade with Formosa ; three junks having arrived at Victoria from the northern end of the island with cargoes of camphor amounting to about 1,000 piculs. The crew represent the place whence they oome as an extensive and flourishing town, named Hap-matam, containing 20,000 inhabitants, awl amply supplied with sugar and rice from the surrounding district. The Plenipotentiary, in a notification published Dec. 12, intimates that all the ground formerly occu pied by the Companies Dutch and Greek factories in Canton, has been secured on a lease of 25 years, for the use of the British authorities, but that so much AS they would not require would be portioned out into building lots, under a regular plan hereafter to be laid down, and would be available to any parties agreeing to pay the proportionate rent of the same and to build according to an authorised plan. Pur suant to the above-mentioned notification, a meeting ' of British merchants was held at the British Consul's office, Howqua's Hong, on the 22d December, and several lots were taken. The market at Canton is generally dull, except as regards green tea, which was kept up to a full price, in the face of large imports, to the extent of two or three million of pounds. Some adventurous American travellers having forced their way into the interior of China as far as the city of Chang Chow, in the province of Fokien, and pub lished an account of their journey at lacao, the British Plenipotentiary thought it necessary to address the Viceroy . and Lieutenant-Governor of Canton on the subject, in order to assure them that the parties in question were American, and not British subjects, at the same time suggesting that the local Chinese authorities should in future arrest and confine any such parties as might be found transgressing the bounds laid down by the late treaties. The man darins in this case appear to have supposed the tra vellers to be British subjects, and feared to oppose thsm more seriously than with a remonstrance against their progress as a breach of the treaty; this circum stance is at least a proof of the great respect in which the British name is held even in the interior Of China, remote from the scene of the late war. The supplementary treaty bearing the Imperial signature, was brought to the Plenipotentiary by some mandarins of rank in the latter end of December, and together with other dispatches, was forthwith dis patched home under charge of Captain Brooke, of the 56th Regiment, who will of course have reached London before this paper. The port of Shanghae was opened on the 14th November by the officiating Consul, Captain Balfour • Subsequent accounts to the Ist December represent the market as having been supplied by native dealers previous to the opening of the port, and consequent little trade was doing. In the port of Shanghae is included the town of Woosung, at the mouth of the river of that name. A custom-house and jetty were commenced. Some difficulty was found in procuring' private dwelling-houses, but warehouse-room wa s abundantly obtainaide. The English at first Wer e not in the least restricted in their excursions in the vicinity of the port, until unluckily two Chinese boys were accidentally wounded in the face by small shot , one so severely as to cause the loss of sight. This occurrence led the Chinese authorities to apply to the Council at once to have the limits defined w ithin which foreigners were in future to confine themselves , The cold weather had set in at the end of November, and the thermometer fallen to 40. An Ameiscan vessel, named the 0. C.•Riymon a t commanded by Captain Denison, in the course of last May took about 40,000 dollars on freight at Chusant for Macao, and disappeared from the China seas, lint was lately heard of at Valparaiso, where it was said the Captain had disposed of the sycee silver and man e over his schooner to the first mate, with the intentio n of proceeding to the United States. f • 1 The Hong merchants have applied to the Imper el , •to h f-nd r . led f th - •men' Commissioner to have a fund raist . tor pay , of their debts by the imposition of an additional aiti, of four mace per picul of tea and one mace per pion . of cotton at Canton. To this petition the Co nuy ni sioner replied that the Kwang Chow Foo would e b e a require :I to report on the proposition. This propos alteration of the tariff would be a manifest infracti on of the treaty, and has excited a suspicion moue the British mercantile 'community in China that tr l is but the first of many encroachments that may /)° ~ expected to be attempted unless decisively resisted P. the outset. The Chinese Superintendent of Custoolo at Amoy is said to have determined to levy a doub le , duty on camphor, but we are not informed whet hei this has arisen from any orders received from h° superiors, or otherwise. (From the Canton Press of Jan. 6.) We heartily wish a happy new year to our reader!' This year in China is ushersd in under more au s l'' ' cious c i rcu mstances than the last, when only a fe 7l weeks before its commencement the houses 0 4 property of British and foreign merchants 13 % , been destroyed by the violence of a ho , tile and when Canton was, to a certain degree, abandonn by its foreign residents. At the beginning of UP.' year the British flag floats quietly before the re Bt , deuce of H M. Consul, temporarily established Howqua's Hong, and its former owner would 1 , 3 , e doubt be somewhat unpleasantly astonished, could be see the guard of British marines posted before, 14 "„ house where for many years he was busied acc mulating thousands upon thousands, and in opliosl as much as his secret influence would do, the Br it e , interest, or rather in upholding a system which go, cured to him the advantages of the Cohong U1° 11 . 4 poly, and restricted, as much as laws could do 1 5e the general and friendly intercourse, between Chin e et and foreigners. A new era has during the past Yee. begun ; many of the restrictions isolating the C hine from the family of nations have been abolished, °l r i e , the new system must gradually subvert ninny At four ports already British Consuls, fully re nised by the Chinese Government, reside, and hope that another will soon be appointed to the capital of Fuhkeen. The most friendly intercon to between the Chinese officers and those of the wes te e o nations has frequently taken place during the I to just closed, and the Mandarins seem insensibli t y have dropped their pretensions to superiority aver a , rest of mankind. Our prospects of trade and in •e, course with China are of the brightest, and we s l d cerely hope and trust that they may not be ditu° by any unfortunate and unforseen accident. We learn that of the ground rented at Cantos ) the British authorities, 13 lots to build on have b e° let out to British merchants. TROOPS AT RONG-KONG. Col. C. Campbell, C. 8., her Majesty's 98th Pw meat, Commandant. Lieut. Haythorne, her Majesty's 98th Reg'!" 'Station Staff Officer. Royal Artillery.—:Lieutenant P. S. Pasco , com pan v. 110 # Royal Sappers and Miners.—Lieut. T. B. '‘i ° son, half company. Madras Sappers and Miners.--Lieut. T. B. son, det. F corn. ILO Her Majesty's 55th Regiment.—Capt. H. WC O3 " 4 com. Her Majesty's 98th Regiment.—Col. C. Cave ll' C. 8., 6 corn. 41st Regiment Madras Native Infantry.- - -. - Col. J. Campbell, C. 8., 6 com. aef Madras Gun Lascars.—Lieut. P. S. Pareol l ' D com. FIELD FORCE OF CRUSAN. Major-General Sir J. H. Schoedde, K.C.8., - manding Field Force. e pto Captain A. O'Leary, her Majesty's 55th Regis' Brigadier Major. • te Captain D. Bamfield, 56th Bengal Native In" - Military Magistrate. 7,766 le Lieutenant C. J. Elphinstone, 12th Madras Infantry, Sub-Assistant Commissary-General. ne ol' H. Green, Deputy-Assistant Commissary 0' Lieutenant J. Hitchens, Madras Sappers s o ' ners, Executive Engineer and Barrack-master. ~e/41 Surgeon A. Shanks, her Majesty's 55th IteB. 3 ' A Staff Surgeon. • if he r Madras Artillery, commanded by. Capt. Bac k ' quarters, G corn. 1 - 1 ,4 0° ' Her Majesty's 18th Regiment, Major C. 8., 4 corn. A C ' Her Majesty's 55th Regiment, Lieut.-C( on "Farren, C. 8., 5 corn. t 0 1. 2d Regiment Madras Native Infantry, Lieu J. K. Luard, C. 8., 10 comanie :tc hio l ' Madras Sappers and Mi p ners, s. Lieut. J. Ja" head-quarters, G. corn. c 0 0 ' Gun Lascars, Capt. J. Back, head-quarter s, GARRISON OF KeLA i NGSII ‘ . d Lieut.-Colonel J. Cowper, C. 8., Coma Garrison. Jai fj# Lieut. J. W. Graves, her Majesty's 18th 110 Y fantry, Station Staff fficer. W. T. Power, Ac O ting Deputy-Assistant COl3l A sary-General. g' Lieut. C. T. Collingwood, Madras mutant Engineer. pet . Madras Artillery, Lieut. Collingwood, comps. . . 1 . 0 0 1 Her Majesty's 18th Royal Infantry Regi Lieut.-Colonel Cowper, 5 comps. 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