The Sun. — London, England, 1845-03-27 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.--The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden, took an early morning walk on the Terrace, the pleasure-grounds, and the home Park, and after wards returned to the Castle in a pony carriage. Soon afterwards her Majesty and his Royal Highness rode oat on horseback for some time in the Great Park, at tended by the Hon. Miss Hamilton, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and Major-General Sir Edward Bowater. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken for a carriage airing in the forenoon, and Prince Alfred in the grounds around the Castle.'"' Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Daft,. attended by the Baroness de Strumfeder, paid a vigit to the Duchess of Kent at Frogmore House this morning. In — the afternoon, the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Grand Duchess 4tphanie of Baden, rode out in a pony landau. The Countess of Charlemont, Lady in Wait ing, the Baroness de Strumfeder, Lady in Waiting to the Grand Duchess, and Admiral Sir Robert Otway, Groom in Waiting, followed in t h e next carriage. The Hon. Misses Stanley and Hamilton, Maids of Honour in wait ing, and the Earl of Hardwicke, Lord in Waiting, fol lowed in another carriage. The two equerries in wait ing attended on horseback. The Royal Family were taken a walking exercise this afternoon. _ _ Oa royal dinner party at the Castle to-day includei her RoyatHighness the Duchess of Kent, Lady A. M. Dawson, Lord Haddo, Dowager Lady Lyttelton, the Countess Wratislaw, Sir George Couper, Major-General Wemyss, Colonel Bentinek (Coldstream Guards) and Mrs. Bentinck. The band of the Coldstream Guards was in attendance during dinner, and performed the following pieces : Fantasia from Don Carlos—Costa. Quadrille, Zampa—Jullien. Sestetto, " Vedi Come" (Ernani)— Verdi. Waltz—Handley. Romance, " Va, dites eller"--M?yerbeer. Polka, Oleander—Dean. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended and performed the remainder of the evening. A deputation from the Kentish Coast Railway trans acted business yesterday at the Railway department of the Board of Trade. Mr. Rowland Hill and a deputation respecting the Brighton and Hastings Railway had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Dispatches from the Governor of the Mauritius were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Dispatches for the Governor of Gibraltar were sent off last evening from the Colonial-office. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. A new tragic drama entitle.] Alltintora, or the Last of the Inlawanogs, was produced at this theatre last even ing, with Mr. Edwin Forrest as the hero Metamora. This chief of the red men is already well known to the majority of our readers as Philip of Pukanoket, the hero of cave of the most touching tales in Washington Irving's Sketch-book. The character of Metamora is thus drawn by Geoffrey Crayon:—" He was a patriot attached to his native soil—a prince true to his subjects and indignant of their' - wrongts—a soldier daring in battle, firm in ad.. veriity, patient of fatigue, of hunger, of every variety of bodily suffering, and ready to perish in the cause he had espoikied—proud of heart, with an untameable lave of natural liberty, he preferred to enjoy it among the beasts of the forest, or in the &sisal and famished recesses of swamps and morasses, rather than bow his haughty spirit to submission, and live independent and despised in the ease and luxury of the settlements. With heroic qualities and bold achievements that would have graced a civilised warrior, and have rendered him the theme of the poet and the historian, he lived a wanderer and a fugitive in his native land, and went down like a lonely bark foundering amid darkness and tempest, without a pitying eye to weep his fall, or 'a friendly hand to record his struggle." The fall of Metamora might fjrnish abundant materials for a first-rate tragedy, but that tragedy has yet to be written. The present attempt is a mere melodrama, and not one of the highest order. Except when Metamora is on the stage everything is common-place. Mr. Forrest's Metamora was a vigorous, energetic, thosigh somewhat coarse performance, but it was the salvation of the piece. He was called fur at the con clusion; and honoured with the usual curtain ovation. The - scenery was ytj• beautiful. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. ,+`~ It is respectfully announced that A GRAND MUSICAL FETE, Comprising the unpublished manuscripts of the celebrated FELICIEN DAVID, Will bo executed, .for the first time in this country, THIS EVENING With the original Melodies and Choruses. Grand Descriptive Symphonic Ode of THE DESERT, • produced for the first time with the most enthusiastic success at the Consvitatoire Royal, Paris. LE DESERT. Ode, :Symphonic, Orientale—dlvided in three pa. is with grand orchestra. The orchastrreand chorus will include upwards of 200 per formers. The whole under the Direction of Signor Costa. Solos by Sigs. Morloullind Corelli. _ PROGRAMME. Part I.—Entrance to the Desert. Glorification of Allah ; grand chorus and orchestra—Arrival of tke Caravart—Departure of the Carav - an—Tempest in the Desert— Return of the Calm—The Caravan resumes its march. I'art.ll. .:ci d 3Jr. Tha Evening Star—halt of the 6revan—llymn to the 'Night : air sung .by Signor INlurianl—Arabian Fantasia—The Dance of the Alines—The Litkerty Dr the De,ert : grand chortle with orchestra Evening rejorit : 11101thly sung by Signor 3loriani, with chorus at oretwatriil.aaeornpaniments—Sleep ! Part 111 ;tm-rise Calf of the ; :ifti2zzin; orighial Arahiaa melody, with the Arabic worth—The Caravan starts once more on its journey—The Cart van gradually disappears in the distance ; grand chorus and orches tra—Memo in tho Desert—The Song of Thanksgiving—Allah. Grand chorus final. Introductory Part—lst. Fragment of Grand Symphony to E flat-2d.lodie imitative n Gm i Orchestre : Les Ihrondelles, sinig -by Signor Moriani-341. Melodic Orientate : Le Chibouptc-- 4th. Soiree du Printemps Frngtnsnt tire des ptartre 6aiesolis de Fellcien Davld, executed by all the string instruments. Boxes, Two, Three, and Four Guineas each. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Pit Tickets to be made at the Opera-office, Colonnade, Haymarket. Doors open at Eight o'clock ; to commence at Half-past Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. EVENING Will be perfeztrretrttOßEßT TILE DEVIL. Robert, Mr. W. Uar risort;,... Rftti'am, Mr. Stretton ; Raimbaut, Mr. D. W. King ; Isatiella, Miss Rainforth ; Alice, Miss Romer. After which will be repeated, a New Comte Ballet, entitled RORER e AND BERTRAND. Dances in the course of the Ballet Pas de Deux, by Wiles. Adele arid Louise. Pas de,Dettx, by Mdlle. O'Bryan and Mr. A. Webster. GranO,Pas de Caractere, by Mdlic. Polio and M. Gasperinl. • A New Polka, by Mdlle. roan and M. Gasperini. Tholero, by Mesdames Louise and Adele. La Esmeralda, by Wile. Polio, and A MAZURKA, by the Principal Ballet Nrformers. The Eminent Tenor, M. DUVREZ is engaged here for Twelve Nights only, and will shortly make his appearance in his cele brated character of ARNOLD, in GUILLAUME TELL; and is also preparing himself for his unrivalled personation of EDGAR, Lt Donizetti's popular Opera, TILE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR, for the - Performance of which, an Engagement has also been ex pressly entered into with Mdtle. EUGENIi: GARUL 'Me Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six In the Ercning, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, i laces, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will ho repe - ite4 "a New and Orir,dnal Comedy, entitled TILE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. W. FsCrren, Strickland, Buckstone, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W. Clifford, Mrs. Humby, Miss Julia Bennett, &c. Alter n'hich, a New Grand Classical Extravaganza, entitled TILE GOLDEN FLEECE. Principal Characters by Mears. C. Mathews, J. Bland, Madame Vestris, and Miss P. Horton. To conclude with THE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY. THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPIII. VICIDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will tie repeated a New - and Original Drama, entitled THE (MEAN Bi KIES ; or, A Hun !red Years Ago. Connor O'Kenncdy, Mr. So!by ; Cl,orge, Mr. Hudson Wild Murtogit, Mr. 0. Smith ; Muster Orinnldge, Mr. Wright; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Miami, Iffaclame Celeste. _ . After which, will be. repeated a New Grand Epereal Exposition, called ST. GEORGE AND TIIE DRAGON. Principal Characters by Messrs, Paul Bedford, Wright, John Saunders, Selby ; Miss Woolgar, Migißroolss, and Miss E. Chaplin. Tocaaeludo with MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL Mr. Snugsby, Mr. Lambert ; Lieutenant O'Scupper, R.N., Mr. Paul Be Von' ; Mr. Felix Fluffy, Mr. Wright ; Emily, Miss Fortescue. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, Will he performed the Play of TUE STRANGER. The Stranger, Mr. Graham; Baron, Mr. Archer; Count Wintersten, Mr. Courtney ; Mrs. Haller, Miss Cushman. After which, Mr. SANDS and his INFANT BROTH ER, MAURICE, will appear In their Pleasing and Wonderful Entertainment, DE SALON, FREAKS OF FANC P. To conclude with a New Gran] Oriental Melo-dramatic Burlesque Extrti•aganza, in Two Acts, called TIMOUR THE CREAM OF ALE THE TARTARS. Timour, Mr. Oxberry ; Zorilla, Miss E. Stanley. Stage Manager„Mr. H. I. Wallack ; Stage Director, Mr. Emden ; MaclVOist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. Superbly decorated, and with extensive alterations! forming one of the tiros*. Elegant and Comforable Theatres in the 3letroi4olis ! THEATRE. ROYAL, LYCEUM. - UNDER TILE MANAGEM ENT OF 311:S. KEELEY. Tim; EVENING Will be pertbrined CHUZZLEWIT. Old Martin Cloindewit, Mr. R. Yottuge; Mr. Pecsnitf, Mr. Frank Matthews; Mrs. Sairey Clamp, Mr. Keeley ; Bailey, Mrs. Keeley. Atter "Which, a Now Farce, entitled LOWTHER ARCADE. eh:lra - acts by Messrs. Keeley, Meadows, F. Matthews ; Miss Dawson, and Miss Grove. To eontlide with a Burlesque of English History, Pourtraying Olden Ideas and Modern Notions—lnvested with all the Pomp and Display of Scene-A'ainters engaged expressly—Costumes according to Faucy—Medhanisni, Ballet, Music, and .Novel Stage Arrange ments--to,-be called, WHITTINGTON AND 111 S CAT! Dick Whittington, Mrs. Keeley; 31nley 3loloch, the Lion Tamer of the Dessert, Mr. Keeley ; the Cat, Mr. Collier, supported by Messrs. Emery. F. Matthews; and Wigan ; Miss Fairinother, met Miss Grove. The Box-office is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Grogan. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. "(ender the Direction of Miss Davenport.) THIS ENING Will be repeated THE - GAME EV COCK OF THE WILDERNESS, Grlonei Mere Ville, Mr. 11. Mellon; Roderick, Mr. Binge ; Samar', Mr. Marble; Mabel, Mrs. Griffith. Alter which, THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM. To conclude with THE PLAGUE OF PLYMOUTH. ASTLE VA ROYAL AMPHITIIF ATRE. PROMIBTOR, Mir. W. BATTY. TIILTEVENING. The PerforniallCCS IV IlL6rffinlence with a Grand Military Equestrian Drama; entitled THE,SIA IIY OF Mit AGOSPA. Scenes In the cis' . tie, introducing M. and Md me . D umas, the cele brated nene›.Erpiestriatts. Te-eouclu,le with THE SLEEPING DRAUGHT. / DAWDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEiiinp - T -7-- OREAT ATTRA'CTION FOR THE EASTER HOLIDAYS. • - THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Drama, called MARGARET CATCH POLE— Supported by Messrs. 11. Hughes, Hicks, Fredericks, lc Honner,S. ilesiop, Lewis, Mrs, Duly:, Mrs. Lewis, and Mrs. R. nattier. _ . Aftei which, THE HUSH TUTOR, in which the Infant Power, Miss Heron, will appear. To conolulk wifli THE MOOR MAIDEN, in which Messrs. Hicks, Nevllle,'Fredericks, Lewis, Mrs. Hughes, Miss Martin, and Mrs. IL Vining will perform. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, ftom Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE . THIS EVENING win be repeated MARGARET CATCHPOLE, The Female Horse stvelvr. -Oncga end l'echuaaa (lted Chieftains), Messrs. Cony and Alanchard ; Margaret Catehpole. Miss Vincent. After Which, Ilk CJIES, KING OF CLUBS. To oonclade with THE KNIGHTS OF THE CROSS. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 27 1845. me by all my predecessors, but is eminently befitting the oec ision. "The constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safe-guard cf our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the bonds of peace and union this great and increasing family of free and independent States, will be the chart by which I shall be directed. "It will be my tint care to administer the Goverr. ment in the true spirit of that instrument, and to assume no power not expressly granted or clearly implied in its terms. The government of the United states is one of delegated and limited powers ; and it is by a strict adherence to the clearly granted powers, and by abstain ing from the exercise of doubtful or unauthorised im plied powers, that we have the only sure guarantee against the recurrence of those unfortunate collisions be tween the Federal and State authorities, which have occasionally so much disturbed the harmony of our sys tem, and even threatened the perpetuity of our glorious Union. . of union to them, yet we cannot but feel a deep interest stunt watchfulness. Equal and exact justice should in seeing the States meet their public liabilties, and pay characterise all our intercourse with foreign countries. off their just debts, at the earliest practical period. That All alliances having a tendency to joopard the welfare they will do so, as soon as it can be done without ire- and honour of our country, or sacrifice any one of the posing too heavy burdens on their citizens, there is no national interests, will be studiou'ly avoided, and yet reason to doubt. The sourid, Moral and honourable no opportunity will be lost to cultivate a favourable un feeling of the people of the indebted States, cannot be derstanding with foreign Governments, by which our questioned ; and we are happy to perceive a settled dis- navigation and commerce may be extended, and the position on their part, as their ability returns after a sea- ample products of ' our fertile soil, as well as the maim son of unexampled pecuniary embarrassment, to pay off factures of our skilful artisans, fiud a ready market and all just demands, and to acquiesce in any reasonable remunerating prices in foreign countries. measures to accomplish that object. I "In taking ' care that the laws be faithfully ex " One of the difficulties which we had to encounter in ecuted,' strict performande of duty will be exacted from the practical administration of the Government, consists all public officers. From those officers, especially, who in the adjustment of our revenue laws, and the levy of are charged with the collection and disbursement of the the taxes necessary for the support of Government. • In public revenue, will prompt and rigidaccountability be re the general proposition that no more money shall be col- quired. Any culpable failure or delay on their part to lected than the necessities of an ecoaomical administra- account for the moneys intrusted to them, at the times tion shall require, all 'parties seem to acquiesce. Nor and in the manner required by law, will, in every in does there seem to be any material difference of opinion stance, terminate the official connexion of such default as to the absence of right in the Government to tax one ing officer with the government. section of country, or one class of citizens, or one occu- I • 1 Although, in our country, the chief magistrate must pation, for the mere profit of another. ' Justice and sound almost of necessity be chosen by a party, end stand policy forbid the Federal Government to foster one branch pledged to its principles and measures, yet, in his official of industry to the detriment of another, or to cherish the action, he should not be the President of a part only, but interest of one portion to the inj ur y of another portion iof the whole people of the United States. While he ex of our common country. I have heretofore declared to ecutes the laws with an impartial hand, shrinks from my fellow citizens that, in 'my judgment, it is the duty no proper responsibi:ity, and faithfully carries out in the of the Government to extend, lairfar as it may be m e a ns Executive department of the Government the principles ticable to do so, by its revenue s, and all other means and policy of those who have chosen him, he should not within its power, fair and just protection to all the great be unmindful that cur fellow-citizens who have differed interests of the whole Union, embracing agriculture, I with him in opinion are entitled to the full and free ex manufactures, the mechanic arts, commerce, and ruiviga.- erciso of their opinions and judgments, and that the tion.' I have also declared my opinion to be 'in favour I rights of all are entitled to respect and regard. of a tariff for revenue,' and that, 'in adjusting the de- " Confidently relying upon the aid and assistance of tails of such a tariff; I have sanctioned such moderate the co ordinate departments of the Government in con discriminating duties as .would produce the amount of dieting our public affairs, I enter upon the discharge of revenue needed, and, at the same time, afford reasonable the high duties which have been assigned me by the incidental protection to our home industry,' and that I people, again humbly supplicating that Divine Being was ' opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not who has watched over and protected our beloved country fir revenue.' from its infancy to the present hour, to continue His " The power 'to lay and collect taxes, duties, im- gracious benedictions upon us, that we may continue to posts, and excises,' was an indispensable one to be con- be a prosperous and happy people." !erred on the Federal Government, which, without it, The following extracts from the New York herald would possess no means of providing for its own sup- give the prevailing rumours as to the formation of port. In executing this power, by levying a tariff of the new Cabinet : duties for the support of Government, the raising of re- WASHINGTON, M.sacit I.—Texas is triumphant, and Mr. venue should be the object, and protection the incident. Polk has already determined on at least two of his Cabinet. To reverse this principle, and make protection the object, Mr. Calhoun retires to South Carolina to cultivate cotton and revenue the incident, would be to inflict manifest and philosophy, having accomplished the work ho un injustice upon all other than the protected interests. In dertook, that is,—finished the Texas question, and put levying duties for revenue, it is doubtless proper to the Oregon in a proper train of settlement. The two make such discriminations within the revenue principle, Cabinet Ministers thus far determined on are— as will afford incidental protection to our home interests. James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, Secretary of State. Within the revenue limit, there is a discretion to discri- Robert J. Walker, of Mississippi, Secretary of the nitrate ; beyond that limit, the rightful exercise of the Treasure. power is not coneededes The incidental protection 111ARCII 3.—The new Cabinet was unofficially given afforded to our home interests by discrimina 'out to-day, and a prodigious excitement has been pro tions within the revenue range, it is believed will doted in both the old cliques or factions. The friends of be ample. In making discriminations, all our home in lsalrv.agVer.un3Tuhreefno-latonndintghoissetwo.f I M 4_. t 7 ... . — Calhoun are equally terests should, as far as practicable, be equally protected. The largest portion of our people are agriculturists. • James Buchanan, Secretary of State. Others are employed in manufactures, commerce, nevi - Robert J. Walker, Secretary of the Treasury. gation, and the mechanical arts, engaged in their re- William L. Marcy, Secretary of War. spective pursuits, and their joint labours constitute the national or home industry. To tax one branch of this George Bancroft, Secretary of the Navy. home industry for the benefit of another would be un- Cave Johnson; Postmaster-General. just. No ono of these interests can rightfully claim an Mt. Saunders, Attorney-General. advantage over the others, or be enriched by impoverish- These names arc admitted generally to be the pro ing the others. All are equally entitled to the festering gramme, and the discontent among the cliqaes is very great. Benton, Allen, Tapper, and all those of that ilk care and protection of the Government. In exercising a denounce it, particularly the nomination of Marcy, he sound discretion in levying discriminating duties within the limit prescribed, care should be taken that it be b eing a Conservative of 1840, and everything but a frier of Van Buren and Silas Wright in New York. done in a manner not to benefit the wealthy few, at On the other hand the Southern Calhoun men denounce the expense of the Oiling millions, by taxing lowest the luxuries _of life, or articles of superior quality and high it as an ultra high tariff, and hostile to Mr. Calhoun. The Conservatives of New York and all the Tyler office price, which can only be consumed by the wealthy ; holders there and elsewhere are delighted. It is now and highest the necessaries of life, or articles of coarse said that few removals will take place, and that neither quality and low price, which the poor and great mass of leng entertained on this sub ' c I have encr he most amusing state of things is produced, and general views e or power. our people must consume. The burdens of government the old Van Buren nee Calhoun men can have any influ . should, as far as practicable, be distributed justly and r equally among all . classes of our population. These many laughable demonstrations are already taking place. deemed it proper to reiterate. It is a subject , j, upon which I predict a hot and bitter war upon Mr. Polk's Adminis conflicting interests of sections and occupations are sup- tration from large sections of his own party. The Whigs. posed to exist, and a spirit of mutual concession and are quietly looking on and preparing for 1248, with their compromise in adjusting its details' should be cherished two rival candidates, John INPLean and General Scott. Mr. Polk has treated Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Van Buren by every part of our wide-spread country, as the only means of preserving harmony and a cheerful acquies in the like cavalier way. He did not ask Mr. Calhoun cence of all in the operation of our revenue laws. Our to stay a day in the . Cabinet, and Mr. Van Buren's re patriotic citizens in every part of the Union will readily quest to put iu Flagg or Catnbreleng has been put aside without notice. In fact, Mr. Polk means to be Mr. submit to the payment of such taxes as shall be needed for the support of their Government, whether in peace or p m ol e k.. The inaugural address is now printing at the Globe in war, if they are so levied as to distribute the burdens um e as equally as possible among them. Msnen 4.—The following is the latest information re " The Republic C f Texas has made known her desire specting the formation of the Cabinet:— to come into our Union, to form a part of our confede , Secretary of State, Senator Buchanan, of Pennsylvania. Secretary of Treasury, Senator Walker, of Mississippi. racy, and enjoy with us the blessings of liberty secured and guaranteettsby our Constitution. Texas was once a Secretary of Navy, George Bancroft, of Massachusetts. Secretary of War, Governor Marc}, of New York. part of our country—was unwisely ceded away to a , . . foreign Power—is now independent, and possesses en Postmaster-General, Cave Johnson, of Tennessee. to Altarn - ey-G-eneeal, .Mr. Mason, late Secretary of the undoubted right to dispose of a part or the whole of , who is said to have . b i him, and to her territory, and to merge her sovereignty, as a separate Navy have refused it ; and it is s now said that J. W. Jones, and independent State, in ours. I congratulate my late Speaker of the House of Representatives, will be the country that, by an Act of the late Congress of the incumbent, but it is also said that this post remains un- United States, the assent of this Government has been filled, and that it is the only one that is so. given to the re-union ; and it only remains for the two President Tyler last night nominated Judge Wilkins, countries to agree upon the terries, to consummate an the Secretary of War, Associate Judge of the Supreme object so important to both. Court for Pennsylvania. The Senate refused to go into " I regard the question of annexation as belonging ex executive session, and left all the appointments for the elusively to the United States and Texas. They are in action of President Polk and the new Senate. dependent Powers, competent to contract ; and foreign President Tyler has also saved Mr. Polk all trouble nations have no right to interfere with them, or to take exceptions to_their re-union. Foreign Powers do not in making any election as to the mode of admission of seem to appreciate the true character of our Govern- Texas into the Union, for on Saturday one of his' msnt. Our Union is a confederation of independent nephews, Mr. Waggaman, was dispatched by ex- States, e t s h s e as G s o p i c e c r i l a i n l m IT n e t s s o e f rig j e e r x , a l s ie , a a r i i i n d g th t h; er e e f fo l o r u e. s e as r e i s t o i l s u t f i u o i n i3 s . Statee, whose policy is peace with each other and all the world. To enlarge its limits, is to ext e nd the dominione xpected, of peace over additional territories and increasing mil- expected, Texas will imtnediately accede to the terms of those resolutions, President . Polk has no trouble in the lions. Tho world has nothing to fear from military am bition in our Government. While the chief magistrate matter. and the popular branch .of Congress are el ec t e d f or l'alEW YORK MONEY MARKET, MARCH 5. short terms by the suffrages of those millions w h o must, s3oo,New York City Sevens 's3 113 in their own persons, bear all the burdens and 8,000 Ohio Sixes . 'so 98} miseries of war, our Government cannot be otherwise 5,000 Kentucky Sixes lOl than pacific. Foreign Powers should, therefore, look 5,000 Illinois Sixes '7o 40i on the annexation of Texas to the United States , 5,000 Pennsylvania Fives 74 not as the conquest of a nation s ee ki ng to extend . 80 Shares National Bank 9B; her dominions by arms and viol ence , b ut as the 50 Vicksburg B ink peaceful acquisition of a territory once her own, by add- 50 Morris Canal .33 mg another member to our confederation, with the con- 25 Canton Co: ___ "To the States respectively, or to the people, have been reserved the powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States.' Each State is a complete sovereignty within the sphere of its reserved powers. The government of the Union, acting within the sphere of its delegated autho rity, is also a complete sovereignty. While the general Government should abstain, from the exercise of autho rity not clearly delegated to it, the States should be equally careful that, in the maintenance of their rights, they do not overstep the limits of powers reserved to them. One of the most distinguished of my predecessors attached deserved importance to ` the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most com petent administration for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwark against anti-republican tendencies ;' and to the preservation of the general Government in its whole constitutional vigour. as the sheet-anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad.' "To the Government of the,United States has been in trusted the exclusive management of our foreign affairs. Beyond that, it wields a few general enumerated powers. It does not force reform on the States. It leaves indi viduals, over whom it casts its protecting influence, en tirely free to improve their own condition by the legiti mate exercise of all their mental and physical powers. It is a common protector of each and all the States, of every man who lives upon our soil, whether of native or foreign birth ; of every religious sect, in their worship of the Almighty according to the dictates of their own con science ; of every shade of opinion, and the most free in quiry ; of every art, trade, and occupation, consistent with the laws of the States. And we rejoice in the gene ral happiness, prosperity, and advancement of our -wane try, which have been the offspring of freedom, and not of power. " This most admirable and wisest system of well regulated self-government among men, ever devised by human minds, has been tested by its successful opera tion for more than half a century, and, if preserved from the usurpations of the Federal Government on the one hand, and the exercise by the States of powers not reserved to them on the other, will, I fervently hope and believe, endure for ages to come, and dispense the bles sings of civil and religious liberty to distant generations. To effect objects so dear to every patriot, I shall devote myself with anxious solicitude. It will be my desire to guard against that most fruitful source of danger to the harmonious action of our system, which consists in substituting the m .re discretion and caprice of the executive, or of majorities in the legislative department of the Government, for powers which have been withheld from the Federal Government by the constitution. By the theory cf our Go vernment, majorities rule, but this right is not an arbi trary or unlimited one. It is a right to be exercised in subordination to the constitution and in conformity to it. One great object of the constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities, or encroaching upon their just rights. Minorities have a right to appeal to the constitution as a shield against such oppression. " That the blessings of liberty which our constitution secures may be enjoyed alike by minorities and majorities, the executive has been wisely invested with a qualified veto upon the acts of the Legislature. It is a negative power, and is conservative in its character. It arrests for the time hasty, inconsiderate, or unconstitutional legislation, invites reconsideration, and transfers ques tions at issue between the legislative and executive departments to the tribunal of the people. Like all other powers, it is subject to be abused. When judiciously and properly exercised, the constitution itself may be saved from infraction, and the rights of all preserved and protected. " The inestimable value of our federal Union is felt "and acknowledged by all. By this iystem of united and confederated States, our people are permitted, collec tively and individually, to seek their own happiness in their own way ; and the consequences have been most auspicious.—Since the Union was formed, the number of the States has increased from thirteen to t wenty-eight ; two of these have taken their position as members of the confederacy within the last week. Our population has increased from three to twenty millions. New com munities and States are seeking protection under its aegis, and multitudes from the Old World are flocking to our shores to participate in its blf ssings. Beneath its benign sway, peace and prosperity prevail. Freed from the burdens and miseries of war, our trade and intercourse have extended throughout the world. Mind, no longer tasked in devising means to ac complish or resist schemes of ambition, usurpation, or conquest, is devoting itself to man's true interest, in de veloping. his facult•es and powers, and the capacity of nature to minister to his enjoyments. Genius is free to announce its inventions and discoveries ; and the hand is free to accomplish whatever the head conceives, not incompatible with the rights of a fellow- being. All dis tinctions of birth or of rank have been abolishel. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection. No union exists between Church and State, and perfect free dom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds. " These are some of the blessings secured to our , happy land by our Federal Union. To perpetuate them, it is our sacred duty to preserve it. Who shall assign limits to the achievements of free minds and free hands, I under the protection of this glorious Union ? No treason to mankind, since the organisation of society, would be equal in atrocity to that of him who woull lift 'his hand to destroy it. He would overthrow the noblest structnre of human wisdom, which protects himself and his fellow-man. Ho would stop the progress of free Government, and involve his country either in anarchy or despotism. He would extinguish the fire of liberty which warms and animates the hearts of happy millions, and invites all the nations of the earth to imitate our example. If he say that error and wrong are com mitted in the administration of the Government, let him remember that nothing human can be perfect ; and that under no other system of Government revealed by heaven, or devised by man, has reason been allowed so. free and broad a scop e to combat error. Ilas the sword of despots proved to be a safer or surer instrument of reform in government than enlightened reason ? Does he expect to find among the ruins of this Union a happier abode for our swarming millions than they now have under it ? Every liver of his country must shudder at the thought of the possibility of its dis solution, and will be ready to adept the patriotic senti ment, 'Our Federal Union —it mast be preserved.' ro preserve it, the compromises which alone enabled our fathers to form a common constitution for the govern ment and protection of so many States, and distinct com munities, of such diversified habits, interests, and do mestic institution, must be sacredly and religiously ob served.. Any attempt to disturb or destroy these com promises, being terms of the compact of Union, can lead to none other than the most ruinous and disastrous consequences. " It is a source of deep regret that, in some sections of our country, misguided persons have occasionally in dulged in schemes and agitations, whose object is the destruction of domestic institutions existing in other sections—institutions which existed at the adoption of the constitution, and were recognised and protected by it. All must see that if it were possible for them to be successful in attaining their object, the dissolution of the , . Union, and the consequent destruction of our happy form of Government must speedily follow. " I am happy to believe that at every period of o ur existence as a nation, there ha s ex i s t e d, and continues to exist, among the great mass of our people, a devotion to the Union of the States, which will shield and protect it against the moral treason of any who woul I seriously contemplate its destruction. To secure a continuance of that devotion, the compromises of the constitution must not only be preserved, but sectional jealousies and heart-burnings midst be discountenanced ; and all should remember that they a-e members of the same p I:tical family, having a common destiny. To increase the at tachment of our people to the Union, our ltws should be just. Any policy which shall tend to favor monopo lies, or the peculiar interests of sections or classes, must operate to the prejudice of the interests of their fellow citizens, and should be avoided. If the compromises of the Constitution be preserved—if sectional jealousies and heart-burnings be discountenanced—if our laws be just anti the government be practically administered strictly within the limits of power prescribed to it—we me) , dis card all apprehensions for the safety of the Uni on . " Wi,h these views of the nature, character, and objects of the Government, and the value of the Union, I shell steadily oppose the creation of those institutions anal sys tems which, in their nature, tend to pervert it from its legitimate purp sses, and make it the instrument of sec. lions, classes, and individuals. We need no national banks, or other extraneous institutions, planted around the Government to control or strengthen it in opposition to the will of its authors. Experience has taught us how unnecessary they are as auxiliaries of the public authori ties, how impotent for good, and how powerful for mischief. sent of that member—thereby diminishing the chances of war, and opening to them new and erer•incieasing markets for their products. " To Texas the re-union important ; because the strong protecting arm of our Government would be ex• tended over her, and the va resources of her fertile soi and genial climate would be speedily developed ; h hilf2 the safety , of New Orleans and of our whole south - 50 Farmers' Tr 4O 100 E Boston Co. 70 Erie BR 10 Aub and Ro:h lO6 50 L Island RR 25 Mohawk RR 65 western frontier, against hostile aggression, as well as the interests of the whole Union, would be promoted by it. "In the earlier stages of our national existence, the opinion prevailed with some, that our system of confederate.' States could not operate suc cessfully over an extended territory, and serious ob jections have, at different times, been made to the enlargement of our boundaries. These objections were earnestly urged when we acquired Louisiana. Experience has shown that they were not well founded:" Tne title of numerous Indian trib , s t vast tracts Of country has been extinguished. New States have been admitted into the Union ; new territories have ken created, 'and jurisdiction and laws extended over them. As our population has expanded, the Union has been cemented and strengthen .d • as our boundaries have been enlarged, and our agricultural population has been spread over a large surface, our federative system has acquired additional strength and security. It may well be doubted whether it would not be in greater danger of overthrow, if our present population were con fined to the comparatively narrow limits of the original thirteen States, than it is now that they are sparsely settled over a more expanded territory. It is confidently believed that our system , may be safely extended to the utmost bounds of our territorial limits ; and that, as it shall be extended, the bonds of our Uion, so far from being weskened, will become stronger. " None can fail to see the danger to our safety anti future peace, if Texas remains an independent State, or becomes an ally or dependency of some foreign nation more powerful than herself. Is there one among our citizens who would not prefer perpetual peace with Texas, to occasional wars, which so often occur between bordering independent nations ? Is there one who would not prefer free intercourse with her, to high duties on all our products and manufactures which enter her ports or cross her frontiers? Is there one who would' nit prefer an unrestricted communicatitin with her citi zens, to the frontier obstructions which must occur if she xem - tins out of the Union ? Whatever is good or evil in the local institutions of Texas, will re main her own, whether annexed to the United States or not. None of the present States will be responsible for them, any more than they are for the local institutions of each other. They have confederated together for certain specified objects. Upon the same principle that they would refuse to form a perpetual union with Texas, because of her local institutions, our forefathers would have been prevented from forming our present Union. Perceiving no valid objection to the measure, and many reasons for its adoption, vitally affecting the peace, the safety, and the prosperity of both countries, I shall, on the broad principle which formed the basis and produced the adoption of our con stitution, and not in any narrow spirit of sectional policy, endeavour, by all constitutional, honourable, and appropriate means, to consummate the expressed will of the people and government of the United States, by the re-annexation of Texas to our Union at the earliest practicable period. " Nor will it become in a less degree my duty to assert and maintain, by all constitutional means, the right of the United States to that portion of our territory which lies beyond the Rocky Mountains. Our title to the country of the Oregon is ' clear and unquestionahle;' and already are our people preparing to perfect that title by occupying it with their wives and children. But eighty Years ago our population was confined n the west bi the ridge of iho Allughanks. Within that period —within the lifestime, I might say, of some of my hearers cr ( e ) a r sin th g e to have filled the as :en& d the MI is. uri to its head eastern people , opr adventurously ings; and are already engaged in establishing the blessings of self-g overnmen t i n va ll e y s , o f which the rivers flow to the Pacific. The world beholds the peaceful triumphs of the industry of our emigrants. To us belongs the duty of protecting them adequately, wherever they way e upon our soil. The jurisdiction o f our laws, and the benefits of our Republietat institutions , should be r..xtended over them in the distant IN gions which ' :n e y b e"facilities part of our ter ritory cannot be long delayed , w ithin t Stat. s, °h have selected for their homes. The in sphere obligation c " • san of intercourse will easily brinogf ourthe of which the formation in that Federative Union. In the meantime, every bli respected. oreign relations, it will "In the management of our f , sacredlyimposed by treaty or conventional stipulations should be other na ti o ns, while cur own will be the subject of con- my aim to observe a careful res p ect for the ri g hts 0 50 Stonington RR 43, 700 Nor and Worc 73 200 Reading HR 49 The Message of President Porx on entering on his office as Chief Magistrate of the United States con tains no information, and exhibits no feature, which might not have been anticipated from the character of the parties by whom he was elected, and the well known aggressive spirit of the great body of the people. His language, consequently, is adapted to their pretensions, and the principles which regulate their conduct. These principles are to go- ahead, right or wrong, to extend their territory by foul means or fair, to claim Texas on the ground that it is an inde pendent state, though taken by violence from Mexico, that it originally formed part of the Confederacy, and had been unwisely, ceded away to a foreign power. " Other powers, therefore," says the pacific President, " should look on the event not as the conquest of a nation, seeking to extend her dominions by arms and violence, but as the peaceful acquisition of a territory once her own, by adding another member to the confederation, with the consent of that member, thereby diminishing the chances of war, and opening to them new and ever-increasing markets for their products." The Oregon question is settled with the same self-com placency in these words :—" Our title to the country of the Oregon is clear and unquestionable." So, when the time comes, will be their title to Canada, and all the British possessions in North America. These form a portion of that continent which the new republic claims as its own, and from which they anti• cipate to be able, at no very distant day, to eject all British authorities, as unprincipled intruders from the old world. In fact, the Canadian territory is necessary to round off the northern line, to create a balance to the increase of power in the south ; and, above all, to infuse the pure spirit of liberty, and establish American institutions' amongt heir brethren on the other side of the Ame rican lakes. These are their arguments—they make no secret of the fact, and we are ready to admit that they have just as much right to Quebec and Montreal as they have to Santa Fe, and Galveston, and the River Columbia. But questions of such vast im portance, Mr. PoLx. knows well, are not to be settled by a few peaceable words, by unautho rised claims, or even by occupying the territory in order to perfect the title. Much more is required, and to such terms neither Lord ABERDEEN, however gentle his nature, nor Sir R. PEEL, with all his Irish difficulties, will agree. England has a vast interest in her West India colonies and her settlements on the continent. A balance of power is as necessary in the new world as in the old, and the people of the United Kingdom will not remain satisfied or quiet while inroads are made upon their trade and com merce, and the very existence of their posessions and the independence of their countrymen are threatened by lawless invaders. " Ours was intended to be a plain and frugal Govern moat and I shall regard it to be my duty to recommend to Congress, and, as far as the Executive is concerned, ti) enforce by all the means within my power, the strictest economy in the expenditure of the public money, which May be compatible with the public interests. " A national debt has become almost an institution of European monarchies. It is viewed', in some of them, as an ,essential prop to existing Governments. Melan choly is the condition of that people whose Governmtnt can be sustained only by a system which periodically transfers large amounts from the labour of the many to the coffers of the few. Such a system is incompatible with the end for which our Repub ican Government was instituted. Under a wise policy, the debts contracted in our revolution, and durit.g tho war of 1812, have been happily extinguished. By a judicious application of the revenues not.required for other necessary purposes, it is not doubted that the debt, which has grown out of the circumstances of the last few years, may be speedily paid off. It affords us pleasure to find the Times entering its powerful protest against one of those " Inclosure Bill s " which of late years have so often challenged our indignant reprobation. The Hill, now pending before the House of Commons, for the inclosure of certain lands and common fields in the parish of St. Mary, 'Nottinihitin, is the latest and one of the most disgusting editions of that grasping spirit oP.selfish aggrandisement which renders the large landowner or the capitalist in so many,cases the nuisance, the bane, the curse of the district - around him, instead of its benefactor and respected patron. Where waste and' common are to lj inclosed, the owner of the free- I congratulate my fellow-citizens on the enti” restoration of the credit of the general Goverr the . Union, and that of many of the St would it be for indebted States, cc front their liabilities, many of - contracted. Although t' neither in a legal of the States ,asnt of ~.,,ea. Happy -they were freed fetich were incautiously Gov ament of the Union is a, opcwal sense bound for the debt , and it would be a violation of our compact hold of a few hundreds, nay of a few scores, of landed estate in their vieinity,knows that in the allot ments to be made under the Act of Parliament neces sary for such purpose, he will have the option of re claiming and entering upon possession of an extent of the waste, in proportion to the extent of his own previous holding. It is greatly to be feared that this circumstance operates as a powerful incentive to these parties —or, if not to them, to their hungry solicitors —to first discover the expediency of inclosiug large tracts which have been for ages, perhaps from time immemorial, free and common to the poor of the same locality, supplying them also with free pasturage for their little stock, and thus enablisg them to eke out the scanty subsistence afforded them by their wages as labourers or artisans, &c. The extent and enor mity of the injustice they commit on the poor man, by ousting him of the free range and pure air, the healthful exercise, and peaceful rambles, to which, like his fathers before him, he has been accustomed to resort in his snatches of leisure, or on his Sabbath holidays, never seems to suggest itself to their minds. The sort of equitable vested right, if such a right there be in any human being, that the families of the poor labourer—their toiling wives and the ruddy children, who look freely out from the humble cottage door, with a cheery confidence that has not yet come into collision with the harsh and sneering discourage ment of the world beyond their native heath—the equitable vested right that these families have to retain the privilege of living on, amidst the same scenery and associations in which their childhood'or their youth has been passed, is a right which never crosses the memory, or disturbs the calculations of the parties to an InclOsure Bill. The whole powers of their ingenuity are taxed to devise the pretexts which shall be most feasible, and may promise best, fir suc cessful effect, with Parliament, in the business of " soliciting" their Bill. These pretexts are usually of the most canting, hypocritical, and yet flimsy description. The parties to the Bill affect (and this is the only ludicrous part of the transaction) to be moved in the affair by consideration for the interests of the poor, forsooth ! They . gravely introduce pro visions for exchange of lands to be held in trust for the poor, whose common rights and rights of waste they are ousting ; or, when no lands can be had, proper for this " make-believe" exchange, they create a fund, by reserved rents or otherwise, in which experience !bows that so soon as the Bill has come into operatiop„ any but the parties rightfully entitled are sure to participate; and even they obtain a nig gardly fractional stipend of far inferior value to the common rights or of pasture which the poor have been defrauded of by the Act, and which do not and cannot make any compensation for the moral and physical benefits arising from those healthful recreations both for mind and body, the very "ground" for which has been literally " removed from under them" by the operation of the 'great landowner's and the rich resident's " Inclosure Bill." . The iniquitous cheat, as well as cruelty, of this scandalous jobbing in statutsble spoliation does not stop here. It is a system of fraud and rapacity not ,one bit more ele vated in principle than , the business of " thimble rigging," or any other such unblushing conspiracy, to obtain property by deceiving its owners. In cases where the measure of some disinterested legislator proposes to " secure" to the poor certain other waste, common, or other lands in exchange, you may be perfectly sure, beforehand, that the new lands are al together objectionable in point of situation, and altogether inferior in point of value. But there is still another screw which may be turned as a further power to ensure, after the eviction of the poor has been accomplished from one locality, their inability to avail themselves of the establishment which the same Inclosure Act may profess to provide for them in another. The substituted lands and rights can only be entered upon and enjoyed in full legal right, perhaps, on payment of a certain quit-rent or fine, or other payment, apparently of a, very light nature, calculated on the single acre,-but amounting, in the aggregate of any quantity equivalent to' - the inclosed waste, to a considerable sum. Thus we learn, from the Times, that a former Inclosure Bill bad already taken from the townspeople of Nottingham large sections of common lands, some years ago, for building purposes. The applotmcnts remain to this day unbuilt upon ; and the poor may enter on the substituted lands and their appurtenant rights on payment of a sum amounting to 1,4001. Did those who concocted that Bill and proposed these terms ever believe, or really expect that the poor could pay this amount? How is it to be done ? By public meeting ? What would be thought of a meeting of poor owners of common rights, convened for the collection of 1,4001. to secure those rights ? Why, there would be half-a-dozen Assistant Poor-law Commissioners dispatched from S.,merset House to watch so porten tious a phenomenon; and the town union would with draw all out-door relief from that moment to a cern munity of ,poor so unaccountably rich in reversionary rights. The plea of taking away common lands for building purposes betrays, after all, the true sordid object of the promoters of such measures. They may honestly believe that the multiplication of tene ments of a certain class may induce an influx of labour and of manufacturing capital into the town ; but they must balance the chance of increased poor rates by the certainty of such an increased house rental as 'shall very far indeed outweigh any addi tional burden on the rates. The latter can only be distributed in minute apportionments over the whole rate-paying community. The former will find its way into a few landlords' pockets, whether town, cor poration, or individuals. But this sort of :spoliation will presently cease. We fearlessly predict that it will work its own cure. The people wiil not, and we hope they will not, much longer endure it. They have a right, the sacred title of exemplary forbearance and good conduct under accumulated privations and suffering, in addition to their title by common .law, prescription, or usage, to every acre of common or waste that yet remains in that condition, and under that tenure, in the im mediate vicinity of large towns. It is a miserable, peddling, fatuity on the part of a Legislature to goad them into dissatisfaction, disgust, and resentment, by this sort of continuous, unrelaxing aggression and encroachment on the rights inherited by them from their forefathers. Our Contemporary indulged in a happy allusion to the shelter that Nottingham Forest (within the bounds of which some of the common lands to be inclosed under the Bill in question are situate), afforded, in the olden time, to ROBIN HOOD and his Saxon outlaws. It is not possible that, in these days of centralization and organised government such communities can ever again sustain themselves ; but, for our parts, rather than see the healthful wastes and sylvan glades which:the poor of England can yet roam over, or wend through unchallenged in their peaceful rambles, thus filched from them ; we should not be sorry to see such stout and effective, albeit irregular rural reformers as the bold Forester and his Sherwood company, re-established to the wholesome discouragement of oppression. Madrid journals of the 19th inst. have been re ceived, but they bring no news. The QUEEN, it was said, would visit Barcelona in May, passing through Valencia or Saragossa. 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The papers which she brings are five days later than those received last night by the Indiana, and the most prominent item in the news which they contain is the new President's Message—a lengthy, and, as the American journals state, a " tastefully written and patriotic document." Mr. Polk expresses himself decidedly in favour of the annexation of Texas, and the occupation of the Ore gon territory ; but it is thought that he will not, in pursuing these objects, use any violent or imprudent measures. Ile is in favour of a tariff framed gene-, rally with regarl merely to revenue, though he think, that incidental protection may be afforded to all interests. The Message is decidedly unfavourable to a Na tional Bank. The Bill for the annexation of Texas as it passed the Senate on the 27th ult., was recog nised by the House of Representatives, and received the President's signature on the following day. 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THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS. Yesterday, at noon, James K. Palk, the newly elected President of the United States, was inaugurated, and took the oath of office in the presence of congregated thousands. All the party leaders—all the officers of State—all the representatives of the people--.—multitudes of the fairest women in the land—and crowds upon crowds of the citizens of the United States, were there, and the whole scene presented one of the most imposing displays of Republican pomp, splendour, enthusiasm, and triumph, ever witnessed in the capital. The day opened with the noise of cannon, the ringing of bells, the display of the American flag from the Capitol, the Navy Yard, the public edifices, hotels, and msny of the private dwellings of the citizens of Wash ington. About eight o'clock, early as was the hour, the entire avenue from the President's house to the Capitol, was thronged with men, women, and children, from all sections of the country. It was rumoured in the morning that General Jackson had arrived, and such a bursting forth of shouts from point to point, as this report caught and spread among the multitude, the ears of mortal man hare seldom heard. It is scarcely necessary, however, to say, that " Old Hickory" was present only in spirit. Our correspondence from the capital is of the greatest possible intere. t and importance. The intelligence re lative to the formation of the new Cabinet will produce great excitement in this region. Washington is in a state of unprecedented ferment. Discontent—doubt— astoilishment—indignation hope—fear—rejoicing —all the varied and strong pa . sions of the political arena appear to be let loose in Washington, and no one knows what the next hour may bring forth. 'CUE INAUGURAL ADDRkSS. "Fellow Citizens:—Without solicitation on my part, I have been chosen by the free and voluntary suffrages of my countrymen to the most honourable ancrmost re sponsible office on earth. lam deeply, impressed with gratitude for the confidence reposed in me. Honoured with this distinguished consideration at au earlier period of life than any of my predecessors, I cannot disguise the diffidence with which I am about to enter on the dis charge of my official duties. "If the more aged and experienced men who have filled the office of President of the United States, even in the infancy of the Republic, distrusted their ability to discharge the duties of that exalted station, what ought not to be the apprehensions of one so much younger and less endowed, now that ,our domain extends from Wean to ocean, that our people have so greatly increased in numbers, and at a time when so great a diversity of opinion prevails in regard to the principles and policy which should characterise the administration of our Go vernment? Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble, when incurring . reponsibilities On which may depend our country's peace aod prosperity, and, in some degree, .the hopes and happiness of the whole human family. " In assuming responsibilities so vast, I fervently in voke the aid of that Almighty Ruler of the Universe, in whose hands are the destinies of nations and of mon, to guard this heaven-favored buid against the mischiefs which, Without Ilia.;uid.snce, might arise from an unw i re public policy. With a firm reliance upon the wisdom of Omnipotence to sustain and direct me in the path of duty which I am appointed to pursue, I stand in the pre sence of this assembled multitude of my countrymen, to take upon myself the solemn obligation, to the best of my ability, to preserve, protect, and defend' the constitu tion of the United States.' "A concise enumeration of the principles which will guide' me in the administrative policy of . the Govern ment, is not only in accordance with the examples set giving them to England and America. He obsel l. that, as the treaty existing with the United Se ; was merely provisional, a negotiation Might.be ''': tered into with that country, which might effect vefi favourable changes for the commerce of France.; "' then blamed the treaty of 1826 with England, 1 4 °) he said, in place of being founded on prineipie. s reciprocity, was marked by very serious inegmtlitit He complained that the Belgian treaty had Ite4" : force for three years without legislative sanction' f °4 o which the Government deserved severe blame, ey i t s the measure were a good one; but in point 0 1 . t ir that treaty had been mischievous, for it appeared wr in 1843, since the passing of the treaty the itur .u ris. from Belgium were 103 millions, while the OP; from France to Belgium were only fifty7two. ti,, lions, besides which, Germany had raised the dot'' t on several articles of French origin on sec° ll . ° o of the favours granted to Belgium. The treaty 0 ' Sardinia he also blamed, as impolitic. It was isi tv rious to the agriculture and: navigation of FOn ce. The Minister of Commerce, M. Cu KIN GainAl°' drew a different picture of the commerce and o °l2. factures of France. Within the last year her ... , ‘ , c to merce with Chili had risen from 11,000, 00 v" si t 14,000,000 f.; with Mexico, from 13,000,0 0 °f' ,n -19,000,000f.; with Brazil, from 32,000,000 t ; 41,000,000 f.; with Uruguay, and La natal' l e i , 12,000,000 f. to 30,000,000 f. ; with Peru and .1 3( " j : is from 3,000,000 f. to 7,000,000 f. ; with New Gren-i d.of from a few hundred thousand francs to uliYfarta 4,000,000 f.; and in all these cases the produce;; been exported in French vessels; In heavysc7; mercial shipping, undoubtedly, France was tlei° many other countries ; for she had not, 'like Onof land or the United States, or the nations. lAA to Europe, weighty goods which it was necess a P t n , e . import in gross volume. No, France exported 1 0 , h neral only manufactured goods of great value, b'cot took up but small space. Hence they, could se, employ any great amount of commercial - toll nil g to and hence French trading vessels were inferior 0 those of the countries just mentioned. It must si u p be remembered that secondary states had, o f ' es ; years, increased their trading shipping, and of rc °ached on the business formerly in possession 0, the greater nations. Thus, within the last ten l e/l i, the relative power of the American flag had P li a fi r , seized from 82 to 69 per cent., and foreign vesiels r seized on the transports of the Union in the pr o tion of from eighteen to thirty-one. lie: s - e ,i, stated that both imports and exports-tad - in,c r g o and if the latter were inferior to the former, th ti -C u s . 1 l must be looked for in the nature of the -eotlini e ` — d business which France carried on. The tariffs tis France had been gradually lessened, and at P r so b they amounted to about 16 per cent., which,w o°l .o lower than that of England ; and whilst Fr li nce4 fik diminished her customs duties, almost all other Ina mercial states, except England, had raised:thenho had even placed on additional duties to protect fie l. flag. Such was the case with Portugal, ussit.,ol gium, the Zollverein, Brazil, and even ' the 1 . 1 . : t i States. The Minister then referred to the ti.,'"ia concluded between France and the Unite 1822, and maintained that as the exchanges b% . o no the two countries had increased tenfold, it " ts ts be most impolitic to alter the present : 0 01 of things. The discussion on . 0 b ich related chiefly to the late tariff with Belgiums : I o r seemed to give general dissatisfaction, and g•-• 1101, BOUDOIS, an Opposition Member, moved as an si a ot ment, that the treaty at its expiratiorathe e" 50 1 fifteen months) should not be renewed. 1 1 : . ?,, 1 1fig said, France had a strong interest in con° l ' l " tbe rs Belgium; but admitted, at the same time, t hit Ac iset was not, according to the present tari ff , st w " id p ot reciprocity fur France; and he, therefore, shn u ';,. e st oppose the amendment, which was adopted by s t t o l i ge a majority. The Paris journals are chiefly • 3cc . with these commercial discussions. lett er The Constitutionnel contains the following'. from a correspondent, dated Oran, March feel " The steamer Grondeur is just returned from Tiritor where she was sent with dispatches, bringing the 1 ,, ° 0 P0 1 • ing news :—At her departure from Tangiers, it was ''.„ler there that Abd-el-Kader had assumed a hostile si t l ' f ,•1 1 towards the Emperor Abderrhaman, and ca ll ed tiple true Mussulmans to join 4tia. standard. A cocc i Livi i body of troops, under the cOitimavtd,g the. E lls 0, sen, had been sent to oppose him ; burtiteleie expected from the expedition, as numerous portq u ot. the population have already declared in his !Cols Several circles or districts were in open rebellion. 1,,,,,,d state of things is the more serious, as the party ° ,..P, Ol e to the dynasty of Abderrhaman is very poweri,e;4ol. has only wanted a chief of ability to direct it. (:)° 'All litary leaders are taking measures of preenoti 6n i, sou the disposable troops are kept in readiness to Olt ' t d!' a part of the subdivision ot cavalry posted at: M° 1 :;(0 1 , nem has been called forward._ We are astool9'ool the silence of the Governm e nt on the first o&. l ** ti f.lb ° Major-General Delarue, who is on the f ro ntier. t hio trumpeter Eseoffier, who has arrived with 0 11 a_ ° o f th s companions in misfortune, gives a lively aecOuct od , 0 0 privationS and hardships which he endured' ? jo tilf danger he ran during his captivity. Having oel blot ° quitted the Smahla of Abd-el-Kader, be has been l i 0 to furnish the Government with valuable informed° the position of the Emir." • THE BOURSE—TUESDAY. MARCII' • 10 • First Itigh•st Low eett 0 0 Price. Price. Prig'- Frach Five per Cents. •• 117 85 .„ 117 90 .. 117 10 " 11' Four-and-a-Half • • 113 - .. 113 • • 113 10 5 70 Fours .. 60 ** 113 Three:per Cents•.•• 85 60 .. 85 74 •• *." Loan 88 55 .. 86 60 .. Si *" Bank of Franc0.•••....•.3215 ..3215 ••321 5 Gott' n Eank. I,ooof Shares • .1085 • • 1090 • • 1° 8 ! • v A I - 14 Belgian Bank ....... •••• •• 667 '5O • • 667 30 •• Belgian 1840........ 1t , 5% 1051 i 1051 lo' 1842........107 107 107 . Four-and-a-Half ..• 104% .. 1,3 r •• : 4 1 Spanish Active ••• • • .... 39. x 39.4 ;. 39'A •• Threes ••• • •• 41 .. 41!4 •• 4t n t I , Passive • .. A ,•— geapolitan•• ••• . Roman ..... ••............ 106 .. 106 •• lO f i • RAILWAY SIIARES. Versailles, R.B ••• • • • ...... 635 .. 6.50 • • 64 ‘ ) .. 11° L.B• •••••• • • • • • 407 53 . 410 • • 405. I 1 5 ' qS Rouen •• ..........1160 1160 ..1150 Rotten to Havre.. 1329 50 1218 Orleans •• • • Strasburg to 8a1e...—. •• • • 345 .. 345 .. 34, • 4 , Avignon to Marseilles.• •• . 1140 ..1142 50 • •1 13 ! •LI SO Bordeaux to Test° ........2 2 50 .. 232 50 •• he Paris to Sceaux . • . • • • • .. • • 702 50 .. 702 50 .. 70; - ,A RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, 3- .14" 1 lu • St. Germain Versailles, R. It 640 661 .. 640 1 n L.B. .......... 407 50 .. 412 50 .. 407 ? ° l ' . „1 .‘2 l 6 ' Rotten ••••••.•••• • •• •• • . • .1160 ..1160 •• 1 1 5 ,'0 ,a 0 Rouen to Havre . ..........977 50 982 50 •• ~ ::1-`,l4#•• Orleans . ...• •• .... 1325 • •1330 —1320 Strasburg to Bale ••••• • .. • . 343 75 .. 345 .. 34 3 Avignon to Marseilles.. ..1140 .. 1145 •• 1 1 3 ,1 •• fib llonlanux to Testo .........230 .. 230 • • , i n v c f• - ; Paris to Sceaux -••• THIS DAY'S NEWS. ST. STEPHEN'S, WA LBR° °l4l. (THIS DAY.) -, Ain PI; A Vestry Meeting of the rate-payers, cad.„,4, 1,.„ - suance of a notice from Messrs Flight and 11 " . : 0 0" popular churchwardens, to take into. considerettiorob' extraordinary proceedings of the C o nsere4i'l„k e er ). 4 6 1 1) , wardens, Lord Mayor Gibbs and Mr. Wh"iin ' - Tuesday last (which proceedings were reporSi.ool‘.' Sun), was held this day in the vestry-rogq , - 04 Dr. Crolly was called to the chair. • ti•qhe The Vestry Clerk, Mr. Cnosnr, then read th e , to . .t-A rC l) pee of the previous meeting, the protest 'of Dr: Tues ds Po i l aforementioned select vestry meeting on also a statement of what took place on that dei,P74of" to the adjournment of the select vestry (Lora jA ril•' Gibbs, Mr. Whittaker, and Mr. Eddison,) t° bill • e ship's private residence. - A dis t t i h r Mr. FLIGHT then said that he had hopet—too*," numerous body of the parishioners who had e lec .. ber v t Rock ar.d himself to fill the onerous situationqbstbat hwiasrdens would have fully satisfied Mr. Michielral. 0 reo' tiaiiand 2 iy O he y: .co a ot rs'dominationover the parish tnust .bale h l ° ° I I n ild sul h te a d ve h i i m s omwendiacthealyrarcetetirreodr, corfrieefid...witsr_na.erPho\ibiteeior them to commence the work of reparation of " -- ,,, 0 01"; church and the affairs of the parish stood so '' ot sel' he r in net d. But twenty years, it appeared, 1 15 ",„ 11 , to''s„ feed him ; the sweets of office were too ternPire'oreee,,", at once forfeited, and from that hour until g. n 'to i",, - / he had revented their being of the slightes t li g - n olo:0 A . interests of the parish, by not allowing anY r-, the the rates to be employed with the view of settin&,,,Ge to rights. He (Mr. Flight) had txamined the si; f ear ( that had been furnished, and he found tbat it t in ue f li 1825, when Mr. Gibbs first came into office, t",.. treq i i i 61. Bs. 6d. was expended for relief to casual P 0 0 „ .; to d m ,' . the next year Mr. Gibbs had increased that r u i - , 0 1.b f ,„" - f —(lfear, hear)—and in the succeeding year , ' l , h 'o•a he further increased to 671.—(Hear, hear.) 60 " 1 ., - t to t i t f, ' his first year of , thee, he increased the 0 01 ° 1 ' 1 '40'P 1 casual poor nine -fold, and in the second year ts",,, c hel, Mr. CUNLIFIE (the banker —Where are the I b u o ti A Mr. FLIGHT—The Churehwardeng are not be art,t i t; give vouchers for relief to casual asstpo.--Olear' of r h t ool- of 1 , 0 laughter.) Large and serious his other Or they would be still inure surprised at some ;5 the t he statrinents in, these accounts. In the year I 13 ' isat jo ,A 9 gregate amount of the poor-rate was 610 1, ii ter li g fidlowing year it had increased to 7801, an d ° , e ari i 4 to 860/., consequently in an interval of fou r .l a f no' rates bad increased one-third, so that in a For h our houses they were, in fact, charged about 1 4 b 1 ,1,b S a ir v i ror-rate.—(Rear, hear.) The next thing w", ( 1 ferric him as extraordinary was the amount chalp .sal.,,r - 0, expenses.—(Hear, hear.) He found that in tbet i fer - :. sp fi us v ii e tdi y n • e gf a o r r s3somet hing Crosby, r like 2,000/. was allege ri t° r o4 OP t h ry ear.) c le •B ri : is a fp fS l t; charges. —(Hear, subject, he found that these allege® 0 bad not been, really made, they - ° I RAD .: :r_