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EVRy 14EDITION ViZENCii i,l)s i IMPORTANT DEBATE. SITTING OF APRIL 22. At half-past one o'clock M. Passy, the President, took 'he chair. All the Ministers soon after entered the hall. 1i public tribunes were crowded with spectators, and so e,re at was the anxiety evince l by the Peers to he present at the sitting, that nearly all the members of that house were in attendance. M. M:qiguin arrived at two o'clock. In the interval the Ministers deposited a number of projets de lei on the table. The Minister of War brought up various ordinances rela tive to his department, and amongst others, one for calling )tit 80;000 recruits of the class of 1839. The Minister of Finance ucceedcd his colleague, and p:esented the budget of 1839, which was already laid be fore the Chambers in January last. After the Minister had concluded, the President called M. Mauguin to the Tribune, but before the Hon. De puty could ascend it, M. Munnier de la Sizerane rose and ) demanded the adjournment to Monday of the interpellations of which M. Mauguin had given notice fur the 22d. This proposition, which M. Monnier de la Sizerano grounded on the gravity of circumstances, and the fear of aggravating them still more, was opposed by the great ma jority of the Chamber. M. Mauguin next rose and said, that it was not from a eense of curiosity he had yielded in bringing forward his motion ; he had been actuated by high considerations, and accordingly demanded leave to develope them. M. Monnier de la Sizerane's proposition being put to the vote, was rejected by an immense majority. M. Mauguin then proceeded to develope his motion. After an exordium on the inconveniences arising to the or,nintry at large out of the prolongation of the Ministerial e. ivis, he passed a severe censure on the ordinance insti tuting a temporary Cabinet, and even treated it as an un ocnstitutional act. The present Ministry, he said, was without a chief; it could incur no responsibility, nor be held to represer.t the Government, since its members themselves admitted that they were not bag to retain power. M. Mauguin then went over the different phases which the crisis had undergone since the dissolution of the Cabinet of the 15th of April, which he fixed at five. The first, a Coalition Cabinet, had been abandoned in consequence of the exigences of the members of the right centre. The second, which was to have been a centre gauche combination, was likewise given up, in con sequence of the reluctance of M. Thiers to enter it. The formation of the third Cabinet was committed to the Pre sident of the Administration of the 22d of February (M. Thiers). The motive of its failure had not transpired. Tice fourth combination was exclusively the work of Mar shal Soult, and remarkable for the diversity of men and principles which had been huddled together. So hetero genous a composition cculd not well grow into existence. The fifth attempt had been productive of the return of M. Passy to the Presidency of the Chamber. M. Mauguin concluded by an appeal to the different personages who had figured in these different combinations to disclose the reason of their failure. M. Girod de l'Ain, the Minister of Justice, justified the Ordinance which appointed the provisional Ministry for the despatch of affairs. He and his colleagues, he said, had franklyaccepted their functions, and held themselves ac countable for all the acts of their Administration. M.. Dupin followed, and began by disclaiming M. Mau ruin's right to address to him any questions on the part he had taken in the Ministerial crisis. He was preparing, be ;mid, after his election, to return to Paris, and resume his seat at the centre gauche, when he received several mes sages, urging him to repair to Paris to construct a Coali tion Cabinet. The formation of such an Administration appeared natural to him, as the Coalition had triumphed ; but he could not discern why he was applied to, having neither belonged to nor approved of the Coalition. He determined on entering it only on condition that its prin ciples should be consonant with his. He had never been ambitious of a seat in the Government. He accepted it, nevertheless, because the illustrious individual chosen by the King to preside over it was popular both in France and abroad. He also approved of the choice of his six other colleagues, Messrs. Humann, Thiers, Dufaure, Passy, Sau set, Duperre, &c. A programme was drawn up, in which the opinions of the centre gauche were clearly set down. The first article, implying a change of system, received his full approbation ; the second, touching the reduction of the Rentes, was not agreeable to him ; he was opposed to the measure, but he knew it would not be effected this year ; it, Iconsequently, met no opposition from him. The third ; article referred to Spain. No intervention was stipulated. The Cabinet merely reserved to itself to act according to circumstances. The fourth article of the programme re gulated the choice of public functionaries; the former ad ministrations bad too lightly installed their friends and partisans, without heeding whether they were fit or not for their situations. The Marshal took charge of the pro , gramme, and submitted it to the King, by whom it was accepted, the ordinance appointing the Marshal was signed, and all was nearly settled, when :he and his colleagues met i for the last time at the Marshal's. There the question of i the presidency of M. Odillon Barrot was debated. It was levident that the majority of the Chamber was on the side of the left ; the q ues ti on s h ou ld consequen tl y b e mo difi e d in that sense. M. Dupin approved of the course, but others were of a different opinion, and the combination failed. M. Dupin said that he had been applied to since to form part of all the succeeding combinations; that he did not know what entitled him to so much honour; but I that he was little flattered by it, and he request e d th e framers of all future Ministries to leave him out in their M;nisteriel lucubrations. M. Thiers followed, and explained his reasons for not accepting office in the various combinations of the last t uty-four days. His first objection was grounded on con siderations of foreign policy. He had condemned the coarse adopted on the 15th of April, and wished it to be modified. On questions of domestic policy he had not ! ns,t started any difficulties. He had consented to the maintenance of the laws of September; he was not, he i admitted, an impartial judge of those laws, having contri buted to establish them. He would only consent to modify th > article touching the attentat, which lie did not con sider well defined. fie had suggested, however, the necessity of adopting a more firm, frank, and resolute course, and for that purpose lie wished to be at liberty to change such of the public functionaries as were not com petent foe their situations. On the question of the reduc tion of the Rentes, he was of opinion that the Govern ment should take the initiative of the measure. The Belgic and Italian difficulties being settled, could no longer offer any obstacles. The Eastern question was not either a difficulty of a serious nature. His opinion was that it was incumbent on France to maintain peace in that quarter, at the same time that she should hold herself in readiness to act according to circumstances, with becoming dignity. As regarded Spain, he had sacrificed his ideas re. epectieg the necessity of an intervention; but he wished the Cabinet to be free to act according to events—he in sitted only en France doing for the Queen at least as much as England. M. Thiers had gladly accepted the Pr< s;deney of Marshal S cult. Although he had himself FesAed ~t, the Cabinet, )et his youth and the glory of the Marsl:al irnpoacci upon him the obligation to relinquish kali preteu,ions to that. lost ; but he declared to him from th,, beginning that he would only accept the Foreign De psrtmerit. The election of M. Odillon Barret was also a sue qua non of his acceptance. M. Tillers then entered Seto a long account of the negotiations to which he had In en privy since the 4th of March. In the first, attempted M. Guizot was to be included, but M. Thiers held to the aimission of his own friends, which - being resisted, the leieribination was upset. The next was a purely centre yGuche Cabinet. lie had seen the King, with whom he ha I come to alt understanding on many points of f,:reign policy, had differed with his Majesty on others, but had disagreed only on that of Spain. M. Thiers wished that the Commander of the French naval • forces on the Sdanish coast should he furnished with the i same instru ot i ons as t h ose of the English squadron ; he I wished France to supply the Constitutionalists with arms 1 itio. ; on thin po i nt the King and he had disagreed, ' and M. Thiers had accordingly addressed to the Marshal a letter in which he apprised him of his resolution to retire. Tha Marshal wrote him back to request him to withdraw e his resignation, informing him that the King was deter !blued on accepting his programme. He (M. Thiers) and his friends accordingiy repaired to the Palace. H o leas etre that there was a mistake in the Marshal's letter torching the programme, and that the King did not ap prove it as he (M. Thiers) understood it. Such was ac smelly the case. His Majesty could not be prevailed upon to view the treaty of the quadruple alliance in the same I esht as ha (M. Mier.) did. The Presidency of M. Odillon Barrot was another cause of the split in the Cabinet. M. Ilumann, however, alone opposed it with any vivacity,and re tired from the combination. M. Thiers thought that M. Hu mann could be easily replaced, but his secession being eisierned to have broken up the Cabinet, the combination was at an end. Next day Marshal Soult waited on M. 'Ehlers, and released him from his engagements towards him). What was, however, his (M. Thiers') astonishment A nen, on being sent for by the King, his Majesty offered lima the Presidency ofehe Council. He declined accept ing it, waited on the Marshal, and assured him of his de termination not to enter a Ministry of which the Marshal should not be President. Since then he never saw the Marshal. The Duke de Broglie, who was next charged w;th the construction of the Cabinet. waited upon M. Thiers, and requested him to join him and his friends iu an Administration. He consented, but on two con eitions, viz., the acceptance of the programme and the e ection of M. Odillon Bsrrot. These conditions were :it accepted. M. Thiers next gave an account of I , e last negotiations carried on between Him and M. Peaty, through the medium of M.M. Dufaure and Vivien. The Marshal insisted on his relinquishing all claim to the F ,rei g n Department, and accepting MM. Guizot and Du thatch for his colleagues. His friends had declined agree ing to these terns for him, und he thanked them for guessing so well his intentions. M. Thiers, in conclusion, declared that he had never, properly speaking, been charged web the formation of a Ministry ; that he had only figured 10 days out of the 44 in the attempts made to form one, and that ha was at present foreign to all combinations. M. Guizot succeeded to M. Thiers, and proceeded to explain the facts to which he had been privy. The first combination proposed was to have included him sad M. Odillon Bsrrot; but neither the latter nor M. Guizot, who had not sacrificed their res pective opinions as parties to the coalition, would accept a seat in such a Cabinet. The next trial made had for its object to amalgamate the two centres, with M. Odillon Barrot as President of the Chamber. M. Guizot sefsented to both p ro p os i t i ons . B ut w h en t h e organ i zat i on of Cabinet came un d er cons id ert i on, h e was on l y o ff ered 1 o o seats out of th e ten i nto w hi c h i t was to b e di v id ed. 1 . ~,,h c a se u , d epartments not being p o litical, h e ref u sed th em , se he thouht that if the two centres were to share power, they should equally participate in it. M. 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PARTICULARS, AND CATALOGUES, OF SAMUEL LANCASTER, WINE AND SPIRIT BROKER, 59, MARK-LANE. r- r r e 6 • 3 „ A,,s / • p . 056 stri& tin LONDON : WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1839. The Lords, after receiving a number of petitions, including several for a Penny Postage, and after Lord WESTMEATII had exhibited his bravery in speaking, took up the subject of the Deanery of Exeter. On the motion for going into a Committee on the Bill, the Bishop of EXETER made a long statement to show that Lord MELBOURNE knew that the deanery was not in the gift of the Crown, and that he had only advised the Chapter to stand up for its rights. He gave up his intention of moving for the correspondence on the subject. Lord MELBOURNE gave a brief explanation, and then the House went into Committee on the Bill, and the Bishop of EXETER was desirous of having the Bill put in the same words as the clause which had come up from the Commons. At. the suggestion, however, of Lord BROUGHAM, other words were omitted, and the Bill went through the Committee, The Church Discipline Bill was appointed to be read a second time on Monday, though the Bishop of EXE TER wished to have it postponed, conceiving it of great importance. Their Lordships then adjourned. Mr. HARVEY submitted a motion to the House of Commons for establishing a new Standing Order rela tive to Inclosures, requiring a space to be left for the recreation of the people, and efficient means to be pro vided for its being properly fenced. After a brief con versation, the motion, with an omission of the part di recting what funds should be appropriated to the fenc ing, was agreed to. Lord ELIOT moved for a Committee to inquire into the merits of Mr. SNOW HArinis's lightning conduc tors for ships. Mr. WOOD did not oppose the motion, but on the suggestion of Sir ROBERT PEEL, as it would establish an inconvenient precedent, it was withdrawn, and the duty of inquiry devolved on the Admiralty. Mr. WARBURTON sneered a little at the ignorance of the Board of Natural Philosophy, Which is probably the reason why many other inventions and improvements are cast aside by those who, from want of knowledge, era THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 839 incapable of inquiring into the merits of Anything which I is submitted to them. Th e pr e sent Bard is probably not more ignorant than its predecessors. Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated that he means to pro ceed first with the Jamaica Bill; and on Friday he will inform the House when he means to bring on the Canada Bill. Sir EDWARD CODIUNGTON moved a r esolution censuring the practice of reducing the crews of men•of-rear, and declaring that whenever they were about to leave the Channel they should have the same number of men in peace and war. The Gallant Officer pointed out with considerable force the disasters which accrued from our ships not being fully manned, and complained of the Admiralty being so con stituted as to render it incapable of appreciating the virtues and wants of seamen. Lord INGESTRIE seconded the motion. Mr. C. Woon opposed it, because it was interfering with the duties of the Admiralty. Several highly dis tinguished Naval Officers had approved of the present plan of manning our ships. Moreover their complements now were larger than in 1815, and the number of able seamen on board them considerably greater than at former periods. Captain PECIIELL and Captain BERKELEY supported the motion. Admiral ADAM opposed it. Mr. HUME deprecated the cry for war establishments kept up by professional men. On a division the motion was lost by 27 to 90. The House again heard Counsel against the Ja maica Bill, and settled that the discussion on it should be taken on going into a Committee on Monday. It adjourned before Twelve o'Clock. We said yesterday that we did not ask the Mi nisters so much for organic as administrative Re forms, and our reason for this is, that with such an Opposition as that headed by Sir ROBERT PEEL, pledged against all organic Reforms, none of them could be carried. The Ministers might break their own staff of office against such Reforms, but could not break with it the serried bands of their opponents. Since they came into office the increasing and even wild demands of the Chartists have made a great number of the moderate Re formers adopt the conclusion that further organic Reforms would be dangerous. They say that " the country has gained but little from that Reform Act, which promised to be an effectual renovation of the Constitution, and we feel very adverse to again opening the dykes, lest the flood of Chartism should overwhelm us. The middle classes are openly attacked and vehemently abused by the Chartists, and while they threaten us with physical force, and a determination to obtain the Charter at whatever cost, we cannot consent to commence a further theoretical change in the Constitution, when we know not whither it would carry us ?" Such is, we have reason to believe, the sentiments of the great bulk of the Reformers of the middle classes, and they, if the Whigs, whom they at pre sent support, were to propose further organic changes, would unite with the Rodenites, and give them, on the first election, a great superiority in the House of Commons. It is very unfortunate for the country that there should be such extensive demands on the part of the people enforced by such extraordinary means—that there should be such bitter and hostile feelings between many of the middle and lower classes, because while they last, they place both at the mercy of the oligar chy, and give up industry to be flayed by idleness; but while they last, the Ministers who derive their Parliamentary existence and official power from the present constituencies, are bound to consult their opinions, and defer even to their unfounded apprehensions. On principle we are as ardent organic Reformers as any of our Con temporaries. To have a proper representation of the people, which is at present a mere mockery, not one of them is more convinced than we are that it is necessary to make sweeping changes, but we can not shut our eyes and our ears to the sights and sounds around us, and they have convinced us that besides the whole Rodenite phalanx a great por tion of the present supporters of the Whigs, both in Parliament and out of Parliament, are opposed to further theoretical changes. Let us not, there fore, like children, cast away the benefits which the support of the bulk of the community will ensure us, because we cannot have the particular trinket on which we have set our hearts. The Ministers, in giving up the appropriation clause, in resisting at present further organic changes, in appealing to the House of Commons against the Rodenites, profess an obedience to public opinion. On this principle alone can we support them. Now, there is one question of ad ministrative reform on which all the people seem united—the Reform of the Post-office on Mr. HILL'S plan. The whole City of London is in favour of it. Manchester, Glasgow, Edin burgh, have all declared for it. Night after night petitions pour into both Houses from all quarters, demanding it. Men of all parties agree that it would be advantageous to the morals and the commerce of the country. It would tend to culti vate the social affections and to enlarge the power of the community. The Tories would not oppose it, and probably were they in office would make a point of granting it. Not a soul would be injured by it. There are no vested rights in question, no pre judices are assailed by it, no class would have its property or privileges injured by giving us a uni versal Penny Postage. If the Ministers adhere to their principle of deferring to public opinion, let them take up the Postage question warmly, sin cerely, and judiciously, and they will find the whole empire will second their exertions. We have never heard of but one feasible objec tion to Mr. HILL'S plan, and that be has completely disposed of in an article which we shall publish to-morrow under the head of Post-office Reform. Mr. S. RICE may say he dreads the revenue : let him him issue a few more Exchequer Bills, which the community in such a cause will readily pardon, and that difficulty may be •obviated. The pretext of the revenue ought not to be suffered to stand in the way of such an improvement. A tax on communication Lord ASHBURTON described as the worst tax ever invented. If Ministers had any scheme of their own to carry into execution they would think no thing of expending twice as many hundred thou sand pounds as the revenue would lose by substi tuting a Penny Postage ; and whereas one of their schemes, like the unfortunate treatment of Canada, might only lead to devastation and bloodshed--.a reform of the Postage would cement the affections of distant relatives, would increase the friendly commu nications between different classes of the people, would promote science and art, and increase the ci vilization an d prosper i ty o f the nation. We long ago di recte d pu blic attention to same of the moral eff ec t s o f t h e presen t plan, and som e o f them were thus described at the meeting of the Town Council of Manchester on Wednesday by Mr. BROOKES working classes, while it would be a new source of revenue. But what was the fact at present? Correspondence to this class was utterly prohibited; for a man out of employment would have to pay in postage what it would take two days' work to earn. A. Penny Postage would be a blessing to the workmen and the poor, would hand down to posterity the name of the Minister with honour who bestowed it, and would ensure him a great accession of present popularity and present power. The speech delivered by Mr. BURGE, the Agent of the Jamaica Planters, at the Bar of the House of Commons, on Monday evening, against the Government Bill for suspending for five years the Constitution of that Province, in consequence of the refractory conduct of the Provincial Legislature, would lead the public to suppose that the question at issue is yet capable of the simplest and easiest arrangement. Mr. BURGE assumes it as an in controvertible fact, that the House of Assembly has never yet openly resisted the known determi• nation of the Imperial Legislature ; that, though unwilling to be driven by menaces, it has always submitted to be led by kindness ; and that, in fact, all it now wants is time to yield with a good grace to a power which it never seriously meant to resist. The Learned Gentleman likewise made a strong appeal to the well-known disposition of the House and the Go vernment, to promote the growth of kindly feelings among all the inhabitants of the West Indies, of whatever race or colour. He contended that to suspend the Constitution of Jamaica would be, not to equalize, but to reverse the condition of the whites and blacks—to disgrace the former in the eyes of the latter, and consequently jeo pardise the peace of the island. He even con tended that the House of Assembly was ignorant of the provisions of the Bill now before Parliament, and that he himself, though the recognised Agent of the Planters—recognised by the Government here, knew nothing of this Bill before its provisions were made the subject of debate in the House of Lords. We are not in a condition to state positively whe ther or not these assertions be correct—our impres sion is the very reverse—but if they are really true, then we do not hesitate to say that the Government has acted with undue precipitancy. That the Hous e of Assembly, in first refusing to originate, and subse quently to adopt the Prisons Bill, was guilty of a flag rant outrage against the principles of humanity, and the respect due to the Imperial Government, is indis putable. That this outrage was, moreover, an in sult offered to the Parliament that passed the Emancipation Act, and that it was designed to render the humane provisions of that Act inopera tive, is equally clear. Nor was it the result of a momentary ebullition of excited feeling. On the contrary, repeated prorogations, and addresses on the part of the Governor, Sir LIONEL SMITH, failed to induce the Assembly to rescind resolutions subversive of the administration of the colony. Such refractory conduct could not be tolerated, but still Ministers ought to have fairly and candidly apprised the colonists of the steps which they meant to take in order to enforce the supreme authority. We are here assuming Mr. BURGE S S statement to be true. Had the planters continued to bid defiance to the Government, then would it have been competent for the Colonial Secretary to submit the question for the consideration of the House of Commons, certain of receiving all necessary support. There is still ample time for the correction of any mistake resulting from the precipitancy of the Government. Sit ROBERT PEEL well observed on Monday evening, that this is not, and ought not to be, regarded as a party question—an obser vation the truth of which being acquiesced in by Mr. LABOUCHERE, must prevent its adjustment in any form, from being tortured into a party triumph. Any expense or inconvenience to which the Executive in the Colony may be put by delay, can very easily be thrown on the shoulders of the Planters, who alone ought to bear it. We do not say that the present Bill ought to be abandoned ; we only suggest that its operation be rendered con ditional, that the Colonists may have a last oppor tunity of testifying their repentance. Knowing that the Planters, as a body, neither merit, nor will meet with sympathy from the House of Commons, we are the more disposed to recommend to Minis ters the adoption of a generous policy towards them. They have been , tyrants and oppressors ; they sought not only to enslave the bodies, but to degrade and corrupt the souls of their unhappy victims : but let it,be remembered that former Par liaments sanctioned their claims to a right of pro perty in their fellow-creatures, and so far allowed them to usurp a power whi c h never was , an d never can be exercised without evil—a power which as naturally tends to the degradation of the charac ter and the perversion of the moral feelings of those entrusted with its exercise, as wet fuel cast on the fire to produce smoke. Sir ROBERT PEEL has two most important grounds of congratulation for his defeat on the Irish question. Had he succeeded, Lord RODEN, the head of the Orange party, must have been ap pointed to some high office in the administration, and having had the honour of originatino• he would the mo tion which defeated Mi n i sters, 0 not have been satisfied with an appointment only for himself, he must also have had his followers with him, the VERNERS and PERCEVALS, and other chiefs of Orange lodges, who have vowed eternal war aaains t Catholicism and O'CONNE LL , an d who bwould have embarrassed and perpl exe d hi m on every Irish question. He could have done nothing with them, and nothing without them. He would have been only the nominal leader of a mongrel party, and at best but second in influence in the Orange- Peel cabinet. The defeat on Friday night has saved him from this degradation for the present. In the mean time, the inquiry goes on—an inquiry which, judging from the whole tenor of his speech, he dislikes, and which, in the end, must lower these Orange leaders in public estimation, and thereby lower their pretensions to controul his po licy. It is well known that this is not the first time he has in vain reproved the ardour of_his followers ; and that it is not the first time also that he has allowed them to take their own course to convict them of folly. Never were men in a more likely train for such a consummation than the Rodenites now under the leadership of Lord WHA RNCL Ile FE. The House of Commons have DO occasion to take further steps to render the inquiry nugatory, and the Ministry would only act the part of madmen by following the advice of some of our Contemporaries who recommend another motion for disallowing the expenses of the witnesses. This would only miti gate the strong public feeling against them. Let them have the inquiry all their own way—let the Liberal Members of the Committee adhere to their resolution. of heating the proceedings with contempt, and they will have the thanks of the people of Ire land, and of every friend of Ireland, and among th e rest the most cordial thanks of Sir RO BERT PEEL. No event could be more injurious to the moderate Conservative party than a successful issue to this invidious inquiry. the especial duty of the Commons House of Par liament to watch over the conduct of the Govern ment and its functionaries. The utmost that the most slavish advocates of the oligarchy have hither to presumed to demand for the House of Lords, is, that it should have a sort of co-ordinate authority with the House of Commons in making the laws ; that is to say, that no law should pass without its consent. And this, it must be confessed, is no trifling privilege, when it is considered that this august assembly is composed of men whose Legis lalive qualifications are not the result of laborious study and long preparation, but an inheritance, handed down to them from their forefathers, totally unconnected with what vulgar people call merit. That three or four hundred persons, very few of whom have either the capacity or the knowledge possessed by tens of thousands of those industrious and intelligent men who are debarred even from the elective franchise, should, merely in consequence of the accident of birth, be allowed to have an equal voice in making the laws with the twenty-five millions of people who constitute the British nation, is a thing which would be pronounced incredible, were it not proved by the evidence of the senses. The existence of such a phenomenon in an age of high civilization, and in a country distinguished above all others for the rapid and extensive dere lopement of mental power, affords an overwhelming proof of the influence which prejudice is capable of exercising over the mind of man. The force of prejudice, however, though great, is not invincible. The dropping of water wears the stones, and perseverance in a judicious course of attack will weaken, and at last conquer, the most deeply rooted prejudice in the public mind. The great changes which have taken place within the last ten years have done much to open men's eyes to the folly of preserving that which is hurtful, merely because it is old. Reform has been car ried, to a certain extent at least, into every depart ment, civil and ecclesiastical, of the State, and the greatest benefits, it is admitted on all hands, have resulted from the adaptation of the institutions of by-gone times to the present. Why the House of Lords should be exempted from alteration is a question that cannot fail to be asked at a time like this, when, not content with paralyzing the exertions of the representatives of the people to go en with the great work of na tional improvement, that House has, in fact, as its late proceedings abundantly show, usurped the func tions both of the Commons and of the Executive Government. It is impossible, we say, that this question should not often occur to every th;nking person in the three kingdoms, and as often as it does occur, will such person be at a loss for an answer. The real truth is that no answer that will satisfy a rational inquirer can be given. A fatal mistake was committed in succumbing to the Lords when the Government might have van quished them, and deprived them of the power to do evil. Had Lord GREY, when they showed their refractory spirit in 1832, acted upon the all but unanimous decision of his Cabinet, and swamped them by a large addition to their number, we should have realised all the advantages which we had a right to expect from the Reform Bill. Such a pro ceeding, it might easily have been foreseen, was in dispensable to the successful working out of that measure, for it was to be expected that, after the inveteracy of their opposition to its passing, they would do all that in them lay to render it ineffectual in its operation. They submitted, it is true, but grumblingly, and so as to show plainly enough that they were still bent on mischief. They were not deprived, as they ought to have been, of their sting, and Reform rues the consequence. Happily it is not yet too late to repair the mischief. The rejection, by a large majority, in the House of Commons, last night, of Sir E. CODRINGTON'S resolution—" That the system of reducing the crews of her-Majesty's ships in time of peace, be low the number required to make them efficient in time of war, is injurious to the best interests of the service ; and that it is the opinion of this House that all her Majesty's ships, when actively employed, or about to quit the British Channel, should in future have but one complement of men, whether in peace or war"—is not to be understood as im plying that the majority of those who voted abstractedly condemned the proposition of the Honourable and Gallant Admiral ; but that they were not prepared to sanction so direct an inter ference with the functions of the Board of Admi ralty. On the contrary, we cannot but feel per suaded, that were the House at all wanting in con fidence in the Ministry the resolution would have been carried by an overwhelming majority. The vote is, in fact, a vote of confidence in the Mi nistry, rather than a vote of censure upon a mea sure which every friend to the best interests of this country must desire to see speedily adopted, and adhered to undeviatingly. There ought to be no such thing known in the British Navy as a peace complement of seamen. The wooden walls of old England should never be left for an instant without a stout garrison. In reducing the defensive establishments of the country in time of peace, the . proper quarter for all reductions is the army. Soldiers are rarely essential to the success of our arms in any quarter of the globe, and they are always to be had when wanted. Without sailors, on the contrary, we would be at the mercy of any ; Power that might choose to attack us. Mr. CHARLES WOOD contended that the peace complements of our ships now, are greater than they were in 1815. The Hon. Gentleman, to prove this argument worth anything, ought to have shown that in that year the peace complement of the Navy was sufficient for all emergiencies that miglit have arisen. He ought also to have pointed out the exact relation of our naval strength then and now to the marine forces of Russia, France, and the United States. But indepen dently of these high and national considerations, it is a notorious fact—a fact established by the evi dence of hundreds of our ablest and most distin guished naval officers—that the peace complement of our ships is too small to allow the men to work them without enduring the toil of galley-slaves. The Hon. Captain BERKELEY, whose retirement or dismissal from the Board of Admiralty Sir E. CODRINGTON attributes to the honest expression of just opinions upon this question, in his " Letter to Sir J. BA R now," states this very clearly and for= cibly. He says, " I feel convinced that the difficulty in procuring seamen, arises in a great measure from our ships being undermanned—from the injurious system of a short complement of men on a peace es tablishment. In the ships on a peace establishment, in fresh breezes or short tacks, all hands are con stantly on deck. The spirit of the men is broken they are cowed and depressed." And yet to men so overworked the Board of Admiralty would con sign the defence of the country rather than propose to Parliament the replacing of ten or fifteen thou sand useless soldiers by an equal number of able seamen. All that England wants to maintain her greatness abroad and at home is a good, well manned fleet, in a constant state of readiness for proceeding on any mission to any part of the world. By this means we shall avoid wars ; as all that a nation, so advanced in civilization as Great Britain, seeks from the presence of a❑ armed force is a sense of security—a freedom to enjoy the blessings by which it is surrounded. We have received the following article, with an urgent request to publish it, which we comply with, in order to make known in the proper quarter the suspicions which the Hanoverians begin to enter tain of him whom they formerly looked to as their friend and protector : With respect to the poor, it was amazing how little they knew of thei r f r i en d s at a di stance ; t h e y hardly ever cor responded. Th ree wee k s ago his servant man lost a sister near H u ll, an d he asked for leave to go into York shire; and then it appeared that the people had never thought of writing while she was ill, but only wrote when she was dead. And this was very common when people married; the ring, and banns, and fees, cost so much, they had no money to spare to write and pay letters ; and he knew a great many instances of workpeople, who never heard of their distant relations but when they died. And thus by Mr. COBDEN— Now, if a working man had wanted employment, or what was called " a shop," he would walk ten, twenty, or five and twenty miles, on the mere chance of finding one. It was not unusual for half-a-dozen persons to present them selves at the gates of his concern at Sabden, each wanting " a table." On inquiry he found that some of these had come twenty-five miles upon the mere chance of getting employed. Had the means of correspon dence between one town and another been acces sible, it was obvious that information would be flying about as to where work could be had ; where work was not to be obtained ; where the best wages wore paid. &c., and this orrespondence would be of incalculable advantage to the The House of Lords must be made to draw in its horns. During the last year or two, it has as sumed a tone and attitude of insolent defiance to wards the representative branch of the Legislature, which, in former times, would not have been sub mitted to, and which, if the House of Commons have any spirit, . will be submitted to no longer. The theory of the Constitution, it has been gene rally understood, requires that the executive power of the State, being lodged in the Crown for the benefit of the people, should be liable to question only by the representatives of the people, it being Hanover, April 10, 1839. It is well known here that several of the higher classes of public men, who at present with incomprehensible in- consistency, and with a forgetfulness of all the principles of honesty, contend for the system of King Ernest with all the zeal of new convert;7, have beforehand provided them selves with a bill of indemnity from the nearest ag,nates. The Duchess of Cambridge was never partial to the Con stitution, and would very willingly see another pull the chesnuts out of the fire for her, so that should fate ever place her house on the Throne of Hanover the Constitution might not stand in their way. How little do Sovereigns understr.nd their own interest I How painful is it felt throughout the kingdom of Hanover that the Duke ot Cambridge preserves a rigid silence and contemplates the disorders in the country with the indifference of a sta tistician ! Formerly it was the delight of the Duke to be the protector and safeguard of his Hanoverians, now he has entirely forgotten them. Have they merited this from him ? A single protest sent to the Diet would set all to rights. A HANOVERIAN IN THE NAME OF MANY. The silence, therefore, of the Duke of CAM BRIDGE, the known partialities and opinions of the Duchess, and the statement that some of the most active supporters of the KING have received a pro mise of full indemnity from his nearest relations, make the Hanoverians begin to suspect that those on whom they relied have deserted, if not betrayed, them, and being so deserted they must help them selves. The explanations of MM. DUPIN, THIERS, and GUIZOT, in the French Chamber of Deputies, on Monday, respecting the causes of the long Ministerial crisis, and the repeated failure of so many combinations to form a popular Cabinet, will be read with lively interest. They will be found in another part of The Sun. M. DUPIN, with his wonted impetuosity, was the first to ' explain the extent to which his finger was in the pie ; and without intending to be facetious or m}stical, tendered explanations better calculated to excite laughter than to add to the Chamber's stock of information. Marshal SOULT, whose name the ex-President likened to a palm-tree under the shade of which a Ministry might safely repose, invited eight individuals to his house, of whom the orator and M. THIERS were two, and there a pro gramme was drawn up, and the question of a Cabinet all but definitely settled. In fact he saw nothing to prevent the Jormation of a Government, when suddenly he discovered that the projected machine had gone to pieces. He had afterwards been consulted, as lie u.sually was, when people began to despair of forming a Cabinet ; but finding that changes of men and measures were proposed, he declined all interference. M. THIERS' explanation was masterly and luminous, and re moved all doubt as to the quarter where the real cause of the Ministerial crisis existed. We reserve to the conclusion of the debate our observations upon it. Meanwhile we recommend it to the care ful perusal of such of our readers as take any inte rest in French politics. That it will gall the Court there cannot be the shadow of a doubt ; the more especially as M. TRIERS has all but named the KING as intriguing to break up the Coalition. On Sunday the KING had long interviews with [MM. DUPIN, SOULT, and the Duke de BROGLIE. The Liberal Journals state that the KING has a new intrigue on foot, by which he hopes to form a Cabinet from which both TRIERS and GurzoT`shall be excluded. We do not donbt the fact, but we question the success of any such manoeuvre. We subjoin extracts from the French Journals of Monday, and the German Papers received to day : To-day there has been a review of the whole com panies of the regiments composing the garrison of Paris. We are assured that King Leopold was present at the re view. We cannot ourselves either confirm or contradict this statement ; we can merely say, that the latest accounts from Brussels make no mention whatever of his Majesty's intending to come to Paris. We are assured that the King persists in his resolution to have a grand review on the Ist of May. The Presse, a Journal of the 15th of April, announced this morning that Messrs. Dufaure and Vivien had failed in their negotiations, and it added, " We shall confine ourselves to these few words." In fact, that Journal has given a proof of discretion. Its connection with the Marshal, through the medium of M. Lingrey, would have permitted it to disclose what the Marshal said yesterday, and what the Marquis of Dalmatia will soy to-morrow. The Journal of Toulouse of the 19th has the following letter : Bedorea, April 17.—The battery of artillery of the fo reign legion. which was still at Spain, arrived yesterday evening, at Urdos, comin g from Lo g rono, after four days' march. It is but a fragment, and the last that will come from Spain. It excites an involuntary feeling of regret to see so many brave men, whose services have been slighted. Almost all the artillerymen wear the insignia of the ditTerent Spanish orders. They are very fine men, all young, they are of various nations, French, Belgian, Russians, Saxons, and Italians. Cabrera has just taken from the Christinos, five leagues from Saragossa, a convoy of 300 waggons laden with ammunition and provisions. "—Le Commerce. Extract of a letter from Odessa of the Ist instant, quoted by the Commerce :—" We have received intelligence from Anapa and Tiflis, that, through the indefatigable exertions of Mr. Bell, the tribes of the Tehetchentses, Assetes, Avarians, independent Lesghis, Kurdes, and Turkomans, have assembled and sent a deputation to the Abasians at Soutcha, to concert measures for carrying on, with unity and vigour, the war they had so long waged separately against the Russians, and which, from the want of such union, had riot produced them any real advantage. They had also determined to give themselves a chief with the title and authority of Sultan of Circassia; but with regard to the choice of this Sovereign, the Princes and the azelers;or warriors, are divided. Oae party relying on the insurrection of Georgia, wish to elect Prince David, a descendant of King Heraelius ; while the other, consider ing the Georgians as an effeminate race, wish to confer the dignity on Serim Geraij, grandson of Dowlat Geraij, the last Khan of the Crimea. This party contemplates an offensive and defence alliance with the Tartars, Kirghis, and Kal mucks, and even with the Cossacks; Prince Selim Geraij appears to have much greater chances than Prince David, because lie is brave and has fought among the Cireassians. A letter from Anapa states that General Simonivitch, formerly ambassador from Russia to Persia, has, with the Emperor's consent, entered the service of the Shah, preser ving his rank in the Russian army. A new corps 0f30,000 men is forming at Woroneje, for the purpose of being sent into Imiritia, and a report is current that General Grabbe, who is at the head cf the army of the Black Sea, :sill be replaced in that command by General Rejewski, at present , serving under him. The discontent of the Don Cossacks is far from being allayed. The Hetman, ad interim, Ro lassaf, has not yet given orde: s for the reserve to return home ; consequently there are still 35,000 of his cavalry embodied in arms. The Emperor would gladly punish ' the Cossacks for their disobedience, but fears a general revolt among them." An Alexandria letter of the 3d instant says :—" We have lately had several arrivals of personages of importance. Among them were a Russian officer of rank, who came direct from Odessa, and a member of the Divan of the Arsenal, who proceeded immediately to Cairo in one of the Viceroy's djermes. We have no more than three or four battalions at Alexandria, and there are not six at Cairo ; all the rest of the troops are in Syria, or on their march thither. The cavalry now complete. An envoy from the Pacha has come into quarentine ; he is believed to be going to London, Mehemet Ali not being able to come to an understanding with the British Consul. It appears, however, that the Pacha is on the point of arrang ing for the passage of English troops through Egypt, the navigation of the Red Sea, &c. He expects to find sujas porters in the British Parliament ; and according to some, his correspondence with Lord Ponsonby is of an encou raging nature. Leirsic, APRIL 9.—On the first day that the iron rail road from this place to Dresden was used for the convey ance of passengers, the journey of 31 (German. about 142 English) miles was performed in less than eight hours, in cluding all stoppages. The passengers breakfasted at Dresden, dined at Leipsic, and were back at Dresden to supper, which may now lie done every day, leaving four hours at the two extremities to transact any business. BRUNSWICK, APRIL B.—The iron railroad, from Bruns wick to Wolfenbattel, is far more frequented than was ex pected. There are days on which the number of passen gers is above 1,000. The undertaking has, therefore, 'ully succeeded, and does great honour to the proprietors. BOURSE.—PortIs, MONDAY, APRIL 22. HALF-PAST THREE.—Business has been flat to-day, and little done. For the Account the Three per Cents. opened at 81f. 25c., rose to•8lf. 30c., and closed at Slf. 23c., as on Saturday. The Five per Cents, opened at 110 f. 20c., and closed at 110 f. 30c., being a rise of 5 cents. For Money the Three and Five per Cents. are both unaltered. The Bank of France Shares have not varied. The Laffitte Bank of I,ooof. Shares are sf. higher, and those of 5,000 f. are unvaried. The Belgian Five per Cents. as on Saturday; the Three per Cents. are 35 cents. better; for the account they are 72f. 65e. The Spanish Active is better, having had but the one price of 20e. The Railway Shares have maintained themselves with few variations. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents 3 per Cents Bl 20 ... 81 25 ... 81 20 ... 81 25 Bank of prance Latlltte Bank I,ooof. Sh lO7O —.1075 ...MO ...1075 5,00.1 f. Sh 5_65 —5210 ...52‘10 ...5260 Belgian 5 per Cents JOIN ... 10114 ... 1011 i ••• 1011 4 3 per Cents 72 40 ... 72 CO ... 72 40 ... 72 60 Bank 750 ... 775 ... 750 ... 765 Coupons S Ac ive 20% ... 20% ... 20% ... 20% Passive 4% ... 4% ... 4% ... 4% Nealsolit.:n Roman . RAILWAY SHARE'. St. Germain Versailles, B. B 732 50 ... 732 50 .... 72i ... 723 L.B. 3ef , ..„ 335 ... 325 ... 332 50 Havre ... 9 67 50 Orleans 677 50 ... 680 ... 675 ... 6 40 .. Strasburg to Bale 345 ... 350 ... 345 ... 350 ASPrIALTES AND BITUMENS. Seyssel (A) 234)2 ...2300 ...2300 ...2300 4 3 6 2 5 a ::: 43g ••• 405 4 3 6 2 3 5 ::: :M Yarn PlanerlY's) Galvanic ,I Iron CHURCH PREFERMENT —News has reached town that the Dean of Ely, the Very Rev. Dr. Wood, is alarmingly ill. EVENING EDITION'. THE MAIMETii.-(THIS DAT) CORN-EXCHANGE. Considerable arrivals this week of ho:h English and Fo reign Grain, 1% ill a fair return of Flour. The Millets were quite irdisposed to purchase Wheat, and the Factors equally disinclined to take low prices. Barley is very in sale at last quotations. Little doing in Beans and .Peas• Notwithstanding the good supply of Irish Oats, prices last rs'alized have been well maintained, the buyers being ch . iIY out of stock. Scarcely any business doing in the Flour trade. dull ARRIVALS Wheat. Barley. ~()30eir9 IrB. Falglish lash O x t n. o oqrs Flour 3 , 710 acks • loTh• 2 5 7 ,33 , Forei g n I 31,330 I ic; I ---'.., NEWGATE AND LEADEN[IALL MARKETS. Supplies and trade good, and prices much as before. Beef, 2s. 81. to 3s. 101. ; Mutton, 2s. 10d. to 33. 101 Lamb, ss. 10d. to 6s. 101 ; Veal, 3s. Bd. to 45. 10d.; Pork, 3s. 10d. to 4a. 10d., Irish 34. to 3s 6d, Gtre and Poultry a large supply ; trade rather dull, and prices a little lower. Geese, ss. to Bs. ; Chickens. 23. 93. t ° 33. 91. ; Ducklings, 35. 61 to 4s. 61. ; Woodcocks,. 2s. 61. to 4s. ; Hares, 2s. to 2s. 61. ; Turkeys, 41. to 75.: Fowls, 3s. 6d. to ss. ; Guinea Fowls, 3s. 61 to 4s. 6.•' Pea Fowls, 6s. 61 to 9a.: Snipes, 61. to Is. ; 101 to Is. 9d. Eggs plentiful, and 4s. to 55. 31 . per 12°' CITY FISH MARKET. The supply is considerable except of Lobsters-traae. brisk, arid prices rather lower. Turbot, ss. to Is., Cod, 2% to 9s. ; Salmon, Is. 6d. to 2s. 6d. per lb. ; 14°13 : stern, Is. to Gs. each; Mackarel, 4d. to Bd. ; Haddevi, 1 Bd. to Is. 2 Rabbits, MONEY and COMMERCIAL Nl' CITY, TITELTI O'CLOCL• LIVERPOOL. COTTON- MARKET APRIL 23.--The amount n of ',.usiness transacted has been very trifling, scarcely 6". bales having changed hands, at prices somewhat lone' than yesterday. The Liverpool steamer, hence for New York, w it : spoken by the Australia, off Tuskar, at nine o'clock ° Sunday morning. he 94til We have received New Brunswick Papers to t of March. We extract the following : k the .‘ Legislative proceedings.—During the past sree - ,, ; 0p Assembly had got through much business, both 0 1 ,7; iit and Supply. A very important Bill, uniting the, ditl e h r i i i t; parties in the Province, or such of them as may t l e p proper to join together, to commence business , ° bp 130,000/. shall have been paid in, and the capital t. p dp limitrd to 100,0001., the shares to be twenty-fife P °ll each, was passed on Tuesday. c t tb° The House divided equally in Committee aga in s t t he removal of the duty on Salt provisions and Flour, it discussion in favour of its continuance was throng' casting vote of the Chairman, Mr. Hayward. A 201 The House was engaged on Tuesday and We.' ll- to in considering his Excellency's Message with referen i e e the the salary of the Commissioner of Crown lands en,„" constitution of the Audit Office—the resolution of the n c) ;). 0 in both cases was in accordance with the intimation fr°l Colonial Secretary, that the salary of the former ° : 0 1 should be reduced from 2,000/. to 1,2001., an d thee° l ' o , the Audit-office be limiied to 3001. sterling per an ti , ti t el The Session of the Provincial Legislature was enl3e-sp to close to-day—several of the County Members rived in town, from Fredericton, on their way horn e„1,01 We understand that his Excellency Sir John o l e . e k; will proceed to the county of Carleton early next ° and it is expected that he will have an interview, 00 Major-General Scott, of the United States army , m e . his return to head-quarters. The Liverpool Mail has a Second Edition, stating, o f portant information from New Brunswick to the 311 " March, ten days later than previously received. or der Sr. JOHN'S, NEW BRUNSWICK, MARCH 31.—Our e d war is for the present at an end, each party having *g r i d to withdraw their troops from the disputed territorlt,,,gt to appoint a joint civil force to protect the timber P"- being carried off the land. pot The substance of the above news we had before, but in so positive a manner. 0 0 1 The extensive importation of corn yesterday, 1 : 4 L 2 teeu quarters, chiefly from the Mediterranean, with the r' - n re price of it in our market, will no doubt lessen the $ 1 1 3 4 t0 hension felt of the continued drain of bullion from the . 0 t he which may be expected will soon be put an end to, e ti a iee monied interest are not of that opinion, as they ' lll "'tbe that all the stock of silver has been withdrawn trete I #l Bank, and there only remains, in case of a further It of for exportation, gold in coin, or bars, f ro m the Ille li c i e ley guineas, but there can be no doubt that the iroce,e n i e to' portations of grain exported from all quar ters, an d creasing duties paid on it, will tend to preYeat a'- drain of the precious metal. k , bet There is still a good quantity of silver in the Ba n e 00 the merchants wh o h ave b een a l rea d y sup plied ref pay the price demanded for it. • THE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning at the closing VII; yesterday ; 921 93 Money; for Account 9 1 / 2 with , with business doing as yet. Exchequer Bills, 44 46 ; India Bonds, 46 4 8 ; Stock, 196.1 197 ; India Stock 255 256. at sr. In the Foreign Market all th e p r i ces at Pr el i e sh Ae' nominal at the quotation they c l ose d a t. Sp a n 2 111 1 tive, 201 ; Portuguese, 35f ; Three per Cettu". 9 4 50! Belgian, 1021 -I; Brazilian, 77i 78 4 ; Colombian ' 3 9 1 6,5 t Mexican 2425; Dutch Two•and-a- Half per c 64 ; Five per Cents., 102 k Rio We have few arrivals this morning, those f rom re' fr o the P . Janeiro and Buenos Ayres are of old dates. • , Yor k sent hour we do not hear of the arrival of the o e _ yea tt'u packet ship Cambridge of the Ist inst., no doubt pr . ' by the north-east winds prevailing at sea. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE tycLOC /C. ." rank Stock 197 India Stock ................. 3 per. Cent. Ned. ....... 924 Ditto Bands .............. ••• 3 per Cent. Coos. p 2; South Sea St oc k ......««••''~ 17, , N per Cent - -Old Annuities......••••"''' *- Ditto Red. 0 .) 3 4 %s, % New Ditto ..................... New 3% per Cent lOl IOON 3 per Cent. Annuities. 411;:: New 5 per Cent. Exch. Ellis, £l,OOO ••• ". 44 Bank I:eng Annuities toexpire Jan. 5, MO 143. 7-16 Oct. in, 1839 - .1211. 5, 1.60 14 11-16% Jan. 5, 1880 __ .__. Ditto 500 " Ditto Small .............•• Ditto Commercial...... Ditto Advertised .....• Bank Stock for Account April 5, MO — Jan. 5. 1870 — PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds — Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account — Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account ......... Chilian Bonds' — D tte Account Colutn6ian Bonds — Ditto Account — Columbian Bonds, 113`-1-1 Ditto Account — Danish Bonds Ditto Account — Greek Bonds — India Stock for Account .0 iSO Consols for Acco unt..... lack THIS DAY AT ONE O'Cu— Peruvian Sends... ............ Ditto A cc ount ................ .• Portuguese Bonds. ....... ... Ditto New Moods ..... Ditto Account .......... Ditto, 3 per Cent. . Ditto Account ............ Prussian Bonds .. Russian Bonds, ....... Ditto Account... ............ Ditto Metallic ....•••• MAN Bonds _......•••• . ;0 Ditto Account . . ........ Ditto Bends, 183 4 P",r Ditto Account. ..... French, S per °ea....." - Ditto Bonds, 18X) Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, s.per Cent — Ditto Account Ditto, ( per Cent. Ditto Account " , 1%.74 Neapolitan PRICLS OF SHARES THU 4 per cen— • „O -- 3 per cent.....' „ --- Exchange. ......... Dutch, 2g, per cent. ..... 3 Ditto Account.... ....... 'O 7 / Ditto, 5 per cent ........ •...... Ditto Account.... ocf., e. DAY AT ONE WO' si Paid. g ro (Jolted Mexican (Issued at 2/. pm.) Ditto Scrip Bristol and Exeter Railway Corapa Cheltenham and Great Western RI Great Western Railway Company.., Bnlghton Railway I. listen and Birmingham Railway( London and Southampton .... .ni:nchester and Leeds Railway Con 7_Ditto New Shares 40 at!y :ailway 7Amnpany 90 ...... 381. 17s. 91. npuly 5l bf mchestor and Birmingham Rai: Midland Counties Railway Comle British North American Bank ... [way l5 Illy: (to. log filii 714 4 00 JO COUI:SE OF EXCH Amsterdam C.F. 12 4 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2U. 12 4% Antwerp... Hamburg. Altona.. . Paris, :3 days' sight 25 41) Ditto ... .... ........... 3 Ms 25 70 Marseilles Bourdeaux Frankfort on Mains, Ex.M. 151 Petersbuigh, ruble... 3 Us lO% lierliti Vienna, effective ti... 2 M lO 5 Trieste ditto lO 6 lladrid 37 25 ANGE YESTERDAY' .. : 5 Gibraitar ......... .... tia Leghorn. ..................... _, Genoa ....................... Milan.. .................... •• •• • ••• •• .0.0 .f 4 41 4 j ce i Naples. ......... ....... Pa1erm0........_ ..... Lisbon .. ......... ........ Oporto ..................... Rio Janeiro ....... w••' Bahia .......... Buenos Ayres ........ .1 31 New York, 21 days' s 4 . . Philadelphia... " ............ pe t s 0 PitICE OF BULL. 0 Portugal Gold, coin.*—s 1. 0 Foreign Gold, in bill"' 0' :10., New Doubloons •••••'"... 0 5 OF New Dollars ............ 0 Silver in Bars ..... HALF-PAST 4 ' o o o. g We have nothing further to add since our in report in respect to arrivals or intelligence. fv erpo°;,i The intelligence from New Brunswick, via A'aispel be that each party is to withdraw their troops from the r s oy he territory of the Maine, and that the Border-v ra . oo ie ! b e considered at an end, has given much Batista l 4h `„g City, particularly to the merchants connected , he United States, as they now consider tha e t ri ;inst l l i P e procrastinated affair V% ill soon have a pacific t . 00 o f t ie Consols continue firm, but without any altera t ' 9 l , 2 4 • P . mcorning prices, 93, 1 ,- for the Account, Money A g ; iiequer Bills l o w er , 46 44 ; I n di a Bonds, . Stock 1971 ; In India Stock nothing doing. dealo s , In the Foreign Market very little busines„, s loo p,s Spanish Active a shade lower 20 i ; N rtugul lo ic, shade lower, 354; Th ree p er C ent s., 21i; biog &De' 241 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., no t Five per Cents, 1025 1, rather lower. -" Cadiz.... 37;4 ailboa BITCCII4I4I t/t; Seville 36A We have good reason to believe that O' e r graph which has been lately going the round of the CO' purporting that Count Nesselrode's influence a t the ... of Russia was at an end, is totally without foundatioilone, THE WEATHER.—Yesterday some g enl . B § A continued showers fell ; to-day the sun shines nui f rea cantly—speaking as it were of the actual advent of spring, and no sham summer. ou Ol t)i f TI ER NI: NOVEL, (c T HE - S re ) IItiNTER ; OR, DAs SCHIiCsAL." Keen and b u rfoll ie l satire pointed exhibition of the foibles BIT 0, ite of character and manners sharp observatl° o str much tack in weaving together the amPl° 4 e ere rials of this highly entertaining_ narrative , -- - " i " e t s v 11/19 the qualifications that Denis 'lgnatius geriarve'rooo brought to this work. The novel in fact, softh t with amusing i nc id ent. W e too k it 13P Wid ° s slight misgivings that Mrs. Trollope's admirable o us bal l . Barnet)," should have preoccupied any of the.teriey Hunter's ground ; but although the Widow M ersey quite as amusing, quite as clever, quite as do k t - r 0 01 the Widow Barnaby, yet her style of thought, those e ° , e 9 Of tactics, are so essentially different from _A to!' the Widow of Silverton, that the two wiclof e ff u : w ith may range over the ample field of husband- 131301 1% 0 00. 1. 1 out in the sm a ll es t d e gree interfering with e 1"_ ' 00,1ttn The Widow Met sey's description of the stately Of lo ok! etiquette of Prince Gruffenhausen' s dormitory gran 01 1 Donkerstein, is one of the most laughable likertrrolltegl ever excited us to mirth. In a word, Mrs- itse lf Widow has more of the tact that displaYs sor iarty ' seizing on ordinary events; while id invention 0011, Widow has :more of the bold an d intrepid disregards common facilities, and seeks the areits ends excellent,by w h a o a l d l y w unanticipated c has read either, c 4. 1 -f immediately to gettbe° b : ... ......0•' ,- Ornrionstarkhtla&_l(2-ci:ls oc:l3:°,ltehr