The Sun. — London, England, 1832-04-19 00:00:00

BRUSSELS PAPERS. ' BitussEr.s, Arlin, 15.—A promotion of officers i 3 spoken of, which it is thought will be pretty numerous. It is affirmed that after the adoption of the Budget of the Minister of the Interior the Chamber will adjourn for a month or six weeks. The troops forming the garrison of Brussels have gone into cantonments in the villages round this city. The King of Holland is said to have returned the pic tures which our Government sent him, as being the private property of the Orange family. The Chamber of Representatives in its Sitting yesterday adopted, by a majority of seventy-two to one, the proposal of M. Osy to abolish the prohibition of the transit of c9rn. APRIL 16.—The official part of the Moniteur of to-day contains two Royal decrees of the 21st and 31st of October, 1831, appointing permanent Councils of War in the army of Flanders, the camp at Diest, and the reserve division, and confiding the formation of them to Generals Niellon, Goethals, and Duvivier. A courier despatched yesterday by our Government to M. Ch. Le Hon is said to be the bearer of an autograph letter from his Majesty the King of the Belgians for the King of the French. Colonel St. Pair is said to he commissioned to choose 40 men from every regiment of infantry for the cavalry, which it seems is to be considerably augmented. At one of the late markets at Antwerp, all the rice that was for sale was bought up for the account of France ; above 3,000 boatloads of that article were bought in one day. It seems that the French who were sent to make these purchases are gone to Hamburg to buy up at any price all the rice they can meet with. The French and Belgian Governments have appointed Commissioners to arrange the differences that have arisen between them on account of the inundations caused by the canal of St. Antoine on the French territory. APRIL 17.—Yesterday the King gave a private audience to General Dssprez and General Baron Evain. His Ma jesty was afterwards engaged in transacting business with the Minister for Foreign Affairs. We learn from good authority that in the course of this week the King will visit the frontiers of West Flanders to inspect the troops. In the sitting of the Chamber of Representatives yester day, the O►der of the Day was the discussion of the Third Chapter of the Budget of the Department of the Interior, relative to the public works. The first article, relative to the keeping in order and repairing of the high roads, led to a pretty long discussion on the projected iron railroad, from Antwerp to Cologne. The Ministers at length de clared that the contracts should not be entered into till the Chamber shall have decided on the making of the road.— Brussels Papers, April 15. BERLIN, Anat. 6.—There is now no doubt of the ra• tification by Prussia of the treaty respecting Belgium.— The difficulties that have hitherto prevented a direct diplo matic intercourse between Prussia and Belgium will pro bably therefore be soon removed. The want of such a direct communication has hitherto embarrassed the Courts that have ❑ot ratified in the negotiations which Were commenced with a view to effecting some modifica tions of the treaty. These modifications are not given up, and so far as they are founded on indisputable claims Will certainly be brought about; the only difference is, that they were before considered as preceding the ratifica t►on, and will now be subsequently discussed, but without l'sing any thing of their weight. The Homburg Correspondent has treated us with new stories about approaching changes in the department of ecclesiastical affairs, which are very ingenious, but have not a word of truth in them. The discussions on the new legislation relative to the press are not finished, and a very great difference of opinion prevails on the subject.—All gerneine Zeitung, April 12. LISBON, Masten 3l.—The Gazette of this date con tains an Order of the Day, dated March So, announcing to th e army that the pay of the month of August, last Year, of officers of the effective classes, began to be paid yesterday in Lisbon. TRICKS OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock ...... 1961 i 71.4 3 per Cent. Red. 83 %Th a ' , 3 per Cent.Cous. ......... 84 y.i% 3,t4 per Cent. I ON7i Ditto Red 9 N4•Ni I STew3%per Cent-9'2 1% 2 3 ylq 3 per Cent. Ann. 170 .... 8314 I per Cent. 1826 Rank Long Ann. to expire Jan. 5, 166'i 16% Oct. 10, 1659 Jan. 5, 1860... ...... ...16 13-16 Jan. 5, 1860 April 5, 1880 Jan. 5, 1670 PRICES OP FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds — Belgian Bonds Ditto Scrip ....... ...... 1% pm. Ditto Account...... l% Y pm. Brazilian Bonds 43j4 Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Bonds Ditto Account — Chilian Bonds l6 Ditto Account — Columbian Bonds 9% Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 182.4 ll% Danish Bonds 664 Ditto Account Greek Bonds 23 Ditto Bonds, !EP-5 2934 , Ditto Account — Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent — Ditto Account Ditto, t per cent 3O Ditto'Account — Neapolitan — PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ON! O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Anglo Mex. Aria. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £lOO 7•X Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £`o 3651 Ditto St. John Del Rey Ditto Cocaes British Iron Mining Company £so 8 Columbian Mining Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) 47!.', 3 1 . i English Mining Company l2li 2'l General Mining Association Real dcl Monte Mining C 0...., l4 United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm.) 40 4V Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO _ _ 2 Protector Insurance Comp. Canada Company l7 General Steam Navigation Co. l3 Provincial Bank of Ireland l5 Van Dieman's Land Agricultural Co l2 £1 7 6 41 42 2tilA PRICES Or IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 16. Bank Stock 20 32 St. Patrick Insur.(pet Share Consols, 3 per cent. Gov. Stock, 3% per cent 90% National Ditto... ......... .... as Ditto, New 9O Patriotic Ditto 4 per Can — Hibernian Bank ..... .......... Gov. Deb. 3% percent B5 Provincial Ditto . Royal Canal Stock — Royal Irish Mine _ . Grand Canal Stock — 'lmperial Mine City Deb. 4 per cent....... —, Mining Co. of Ireland Ballast Office Deb. 4p. c. Commercial Buildings 24 SWITZERLAND.-AFFAIRS OF BASIL. The following extract of a letter from Basil, dated April 11, gives a precise idea of the situation of affairs in th e canton of Basil :—The affairs of the canton of Basil, as well as those of the rest of Switzerland, appear for some time past to have taken a direction favourable to the cause of liberty. The Diet bad uselessly holden several meetings to terminate the disturbances in the can ton of Basil ; fur each time the votes were equally divided for and against the new Constitution which it was wished to impose on the country. At length the canton of Glarn, weary of the phantasmagoria, formally declared that it would send no m ore D eput i es to t h e Di et f or this affair, for no result was ever obtained. The Diet at length de clared that, as since the month of August a separation de facto had existed, and that as this separation hall been pronounced by the Government of Basil, and had effected a kind of pacification, it (the Diet) recognised provision ally the separation, and adjourned all further deliberation on the subject. It ordered at the same time, that the Federal troops should occupy the canton of Basil. But that which appears destined to effect the regenera tion of Switzerland is the remarkable union of seven Am bassadors, viz., those of Zurich, Berne, Lucern, Solathurn, Argau, Thurgau, and St. Gall. These have declared, that as it has been in no wise established how far the State may interfere in the affairs of another, and as a discussion of it might endaneer and divide not only the canton it concerned, but also all the other states of the federation, they deem it a sacred duty to remedy such a state of things, and consequently to conclude a tr ea ty, th e ma i ntenance o f which may in future prevent misfortunes similar to those to which Basil has been exposed this year and a half. 'With this view they signed a concordat (reserving, how ever:, the right of rectification by the grand Councils of their represe n t at i ve cantons), b y which, should any diffi culties arise in any one of the cantons of the new federa tion, the others should be sovereign arbiters in them. Thu s is the cantonal sovereignty subverted, behind which the aristocracy was incessantly entrenched, and especially that of Basil. Switzerland would then become from a federation of states, a federative state--thence a com mencement of centralisation. Solathurn and Lucern have already adopted the concor dat, and the rest are shortly expected to accede. There can be no doubt entertained that the liberal cantons of Vaud, Fri'‘urg, Glarus, and Appenzell will join the union. The remainder could not attempt to resist this colossus, comprehendi ng t h ree- f ourths of Switzerland. Every one expected the speedy termination of the affairs, when, on a sudden, Basil t oo k refuge in a coup d'dtat, which ' surprised the whole federation, and astonished Basil itself, for the results are very different from th ose t h at were foreseen. (The bloody events of Gellerkinden are known to our readers by the two letters which were inserted the day be fore yesterday.) The grand council of Basil has resolved not to admit for the present the federal troops into the city. We shall see whether Basil intends to support a siege ; 2,000 men are already encamped at Mumpf, Mali, and Rheinfelden, and b or 6,000 more are expected from the cantons of Argau, Zurich, and Lucern. At all events, the fall of the present Government of Basil does not appear to be very remote. Much irritation prevails among the different parties at Basil. In the several public-houses death and maledictions are sworn to the Liberals. Acts of the rudest violence are committed; many citizens close their houses, and re tire until the storm s h a ll h ave p asse d over . Th e rea l crisis will arrive when the federal troops present themselves before the city. The police has not taken any precautions to prevent excesses, and in the country we shall soon hear of reprisals. The representatives of the Diet returned yesterday to Basil. Their carriages were followed by an enraged multitude, incessantly exclaiming °" Rascals, vil . , lams, traitors !" and threatening them with their fists 'We learn that the federal troops have already entere I : ies bal , —Niedurheinis c h er Kurier of April 11, 1832' The Hon. Mr. Spencer, who lately conformed to the Roman Catholic religion, has been very ill at Rome from the rupture of a blood-vessel, owing to debility produced by his great exertions in his new calling, and the fasting enjoined by his church. LORD GREY. —The chief strength of the se ceders lay in the House of Lords. Their attacks here were directed with all the asperity of the House of Commons, and more concert and organisation. They found a Po werful 4111tillary where they could scarcely have expected it. Lord Grey made the formal declaration that he withheld his confi dence from the new Ministry. This was an unexpected and serious blow. It shook the confidence of the public in the new a r r angements. It was such a blow as Lord Chatham, by a deliberate formal declaration of the same kind, gave the first 116cki ngham Administrati o n. Th e t wo cases have a striking res emblance. Both Ministries were partial conquests over an exclusive and vicious system of Government ; both had to con tend with a court oligarchy and an adverse bias in the mind of the Sovereign; in both cases there was a present compro. rinse of principles, with a view to their future triumph ; and a certainanalo gy "Public station and person a l c h ara cter war rants the supposition that Lord Grey, like Lord Chatham, was h influenced by perso nal ambition an d i mpa ti ent pride. The effect , however, was chi , e h tl e om y u f n e c lt om by pr his i o si w n i g t party—the Whig allies of gr. Cannin. l consistency, high ground, and stately solitude of Lord Grey, gave a seeming air of little ness and desertion to those who had left his side to group themselves behind the Minister. Dr. I ardner's Cabinet Library. roc ,-! *lilt spn' ev+ - *N. 44k:A LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. APRIL 19, 1832. The question of Poland was brought before the House of Commons last night by Mr. C. FERGUSSON in an able and convincing speech. The Hon. Gentleman commented at length on the nature and provisions of the treaty of Vienna, which guaranteed to Poland a free and liberal Constitution, and was signed by no less than three plenipotentiaries of Great Britain, and then proceeded to show how in every in stance the treaty had been set at defiance by the St. Petersburgh Cabinet, till at length the un fortunate Poles, after enduring at the hands of CONSTANTINE, a thousand atrocious injuries, had no resource left but to take up arms for the recovery of their independence. In the course of his speech Mr. FERGUSSON put forth many convincing arguments to prove the utter indefensibility of the present treatment of Poland by NICHOLAS. He observed that " the Constitution of Poland had been grossly infringed, and by that infringement the insurrec tion had been occasioned, and, in his mind, fully justified.—(Hear, hear.) When the insurrec tion was put down by force of arms, the Con stitution still remained. The Government was not justified by the law of nations in taking away the Constitution. The actors in the insurrec- tion had exposed themselves to punishment, but the nation and the Constitution were in the same position as before. Such had been the conduct of this country with regard to the rebellion in Ire land in 1798, and such also had been her conduct with respect to the Scotch on a former occasion. The rights of the Irish nation were not forfeited by that rebellion—(Hear, hear) — nor were the rights of Scotland affected by what was done at the time of the Pretender.—(Hear, hear.) Yet his had been more than a common insurrection ; he had been proclaimed King in the capital of Scotland ; he had opposed and de feated the King's troops ; he had marched into the heart of this kingdom, and the King had shaken on his throne ; yet, when that insurrection was put down, though the chief actors in it were punished, Scotland herself was not held to have forfeited her national rights.---(Hear, hear.)" This is putting the question in its proper light. If GEORGE 11. was not justified (which no one was ever frantic enough to suppose he was) in destroying the nationality of Scotland, on ac count of the great rebellion of 1745, still less is NICHOLAS justified in destroying that of Po land fora still more partial insurrection, particularly when he has himself, as well as his predeces sor, promised, not once but a thousand times, to respect it. But Russia is a power bound by no treaty—no promise—no obligation. For the last half century, its Cabinet has had but one aim, (the favourite policy of the second CA THERINE) to extend its territory, and, by so doing, to impress on Europe a deep sense of its overwhelming influence. Every tie that would bind more civilized and conscientious Govern ments, has been unhesitatingly sacrificed to the attainment of this one grand paramount object. Poland is the latest, but will not be the last, vic tim to this unprincipled system of Russian ag. grandisement. Lord ALTHORP, in the absence of Lord PALmEnsToN, expresssed the warmest sym pathy for the unfortunate Poles, observing that Government " had as yet received no official information of the occurrences which had re centlrtaken place in - Poland ; and for that as well as for other reasons, it was not to he expected that lie should at that moment enter into the views entertained on that sub ject by his MAJESTY'S Government, and he therefore hoped that the House would excuse his entering into any details whatever ; at the same time that it was impossible for him even to touch upon such a subject without ex pressing the profound sympathy which the suf ferings of the unhappy Poles must excite in the breast of every man of common humanity—in that sympathy he trusted the House would do his colleagues and himself the justice to believe that they fully participated. Beyond that, it was impossible for him at the present moment to go, unless he were merely allowed to observe, that Government had at no time held out any encouragement tending to incite the Polish nation to the late contest, which ended so fatally for their interests." Several Ho nourable Members expressed themselves in favour of the necessity of Polish independence, with a warmth that did honour to their hearts. Sir C. FORBES was particularly animated, and alluded to the conduct of the late Grand Duke CONSTANTINE, in the only way that such a ruffian deserves to be noticed. At the close of the Debate, after the House had gone into Com mittee on the Anatomy Bill, it adjourned to Monday the 7th of May. Our City Correspondent says—" We have every reason to believe that we can now an nounce as positive, that the ratification and ex change of the Dutch Treaty with Austria and Prussia took place last night." The Paris Express is chiefly filled with par ticulars respecting the cholera, which, it seems, is abating a little in virulence. Many of the medical authorities attribute its extraordinary severity to the prevalence of a cold, blighting east wind, which has had the effect of impairing di gestion, and so predisposing people to the attacks of the pestilence. Among its latest victims is Prince CASTELCICALA, the Neapolitan ambas sador at Paris, an old man of eighty, who was much addicted to the pleasures of the table. - Ar. C. PERIER goes on favourably, though his ad visers will not ) et suffer him to transact any pub lic business. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, T WEL VE 0' CLOCK. The following foreign mails have arrived this morn ing :—Lish.n, sailed April 1 ; Malta, April 2 ; Gibraltar, April 10; Buenes Ayres, Jan. 31 ; Halifax, March 20 ; and Bermuda, March 10. Buenos Ayres Papers to the 29th of January, New Brunswick to the 11th of March, Calcutta to the 6th of December, and Port-au-Prince to the 27th of February, were received this day at the North and South American Coffee-house. The following private letter from Buenos Ayres was posted up : " BUENOS AYRES, JAN. 31.—Our Republic now en joys a cessation from civil war, and peace reigns in every p)rtion of it. All the provinces are under the federal system of Government, Buenos Ayres being the centre; and I trust we may shortly expect happier days. Exchange on London, 7a to 71; doubloons 107 dollars each. I re fer you to the newspapers tor the details respecting our late Charge d'Affaires, Mr. Parish, the address to him on his departure, and his answer." (From the Brunswick Papers, by the Halifax mail.) The balance of the ca , h account in the St. John's Savings-bank is stated at 1741. 14s. 10d. The Savings bank holds debentures bearing interest for 2,324/ 10s. Bd. A resolution has passed the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia increasing the duty upon certain goods imported from Great Britain to 5 per cent. " This is a measure," says the Halifax Journal, "which we think will not ope rate much in favour of the Colonial Timber question when again brought before Parliament." (From the Buenos Ayres Papers.) On the evening of the 24th January, salutes were fired from the forts and shipping ; after which a bulletin was issued, with the documents containing the happy termina tion of the civil war. (From the Calcutta John Bull of Nov. 26.) Rumours are afloat, to which we pay little attention, although, if true, of a sufficiently alarming nature, arising, we believe, out of what appeared two days ago in the Hurizaro, in regard to the state of affairs at Madras. The Port-au-Prince Papers are void of interest. By the French mail this morning, they write from Madrid, of the 6th April, that the several Foreign Mi. nis'ers in that capital solicited the Spanish Government that the individuals of their nation resident in Spain should be exempt from paying the contributions ; but the King of Spain has issued a decree, in which he states that the Spaniards residing in England ply to the Brit . sh Go vernment all the taxes imposed on them, therefore, the foreigners in Spain must submit to pay the contributions. Accounts horn Berlin state that Marshal Mortier was received by the King of Prussia with distinguished honour. Previous to his leaving for St. Petersburgh he learnt the Emperor of Russia's artritrary decree of the fate of Poland; accordingly, he sent fur fresh instructions to Paris. The Moniteur gives the bulletin of the ratification of Prussia to twenty-four Dutch Articles. A report prevails that the town of Turin was going to be formed into an entrenched camp. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent. India Stock Ditto Bonds 1 2 pm. 'South Sea Stuck 101 d Annuities ;New Ditto ........«.......« - 13 per Cent. Ann. 1751 - l Ex. Bills, £l,OOO l2 13 pm. 12 13 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial prn• Ditto Advertised — pm. Bank for Accouno India for Account Cons. for May 23 SIN, 5 •I•i THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account 11 y 3 Portuguese Bonds 4t g Ditto Account Regency Scrip Ditto Account ... OYX, die. Prussian Bonds 99 Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1822 Russian Bonds, 1822 1 47a4 Ditto Account 9B , —. New Loan 93 Spanish Bonds, 1521 ...... ... Ditto Account 14 1 4 i Ditto Bonds, 11+11 ... 12N 13 Ditto Account French !lentos, sp. c. 96f 541 c. Exchange 7oc. :t per cent —f —c. Exchange —f —c. Dutch Scrip 4. 1 75 4 3N Ditto Account 43N 4 3N French Scrip Due. I Arrived. Arrived. Due. 1 America 0 j I Hamburg 0 0 Brazil 1 Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Carthagena 0 0 Leeward islands ... 0 I Dublin 0 1 Lisbon 0 I Flanders U I 0 Malta 0 1 France t) 0 Sweden 1 Guernsey Se Jersey.. 0 I 1 Waterford HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning... 13 minutes after 5.1 Evening... 33 minutes after 5. THE FUNDS. The Consol market, which appeared rather heavy in course of yesterday morning, owing to various unfavour able reports, has resntned a brighter appearance this morn ing, as it is now generally expected that the ratification of the three Powers to the Dutch treaty will take place within a very short period ; also the vstafrtte from Paris brings more favourable accounts of the cholera in that ca pital. On Tuesday the deaths had diminished to 211, and instead of the French Rents having lowered 1 per Cent., as reported yesterday, they have remained steady and Sim at 70f. 50c. . _ Consols, which left off yesterdoy at S‘q-, sellers for Ac count, opened at the same price, since which they have been done at 84i 8:1'. In the Foreign Market little or nothing doing as yet; the Dutch Funds also have improved to 24. .11 ALF-PAS T ONE. We have every reason to believe that we can now an nounce as positive, that the ratification and exchange of the Dutch treaty with Austria and Prussia took place last night; and we have no doubt the example will he soon followed by Russia. In consequence hour, nseue Consols nce on o s fthea ,e b n o t upvebeitno 85 gk ; nown in the city a t an early market has not been so good. They at 84,1, for money Sla In the Foreign Market Dutch Stock 43i- 44. 7 BREE 0' CL 0 Cg. Consols for Account 848. may si n nc o e w " be ic q h uo t te h t e l Ditto Brazilian rUABRe Bonds (1 0 , O'CLOCK L 4 8 03 5; K 1 C ' GA .. O f re eSx, Mexican, PRICES .S. ...... to Consols ...... Danish ......... • • —"" Buenos Ayres... -- Peruvian Chilian Ditto.... 971 Russian Columbian 1824 Spanish THE EARL OF MULGRAVE'S NEW N O VEL. —We are requested to state, that the new novel, by the author, of " Matilda," " Yes and No," & c. entitled " The Con trast, , is now ready for publication by Messrs. Colburn and Bentley, New Burlington-street, and may be obtained of all Booksellers, and at all the respectable Libraries in the United Kingdom. Agents for Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh ; `,and for Ireland, Mr, John Cumming, Dublin. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY). HUGHES V. DAVIES. Mr, KNIGHT was heard to-day in reply in this case, which has already occupied the Court two days. The plaintiff by his bill insisted that he was entitled to two thirds of the tithes of a parish in North Wales, called Greenhall. His Honour the \ n ICE - CIIANCELLOR postponed giving judgment till Wednesday next, which will be the first sitting of the Court after to-day. ROLL'S COURT-(THIS DAY.) ROWLEY V. ADAMS. Mr. PEMBERTON in this case appeared for the plaintiffs, legatees under the will of a Mr. Henry Wyatt. The object of the bill was to have two legacies of 12,0001. each, which he bad left by will to his two daughters, secured and invested according to the directions of that instrument. Previous to 1817 the testator had carried on the business of ale brewer, in Portpool-lane, Gray's Inn•road, when he took his sun, Henry E. Wyatt, into partnership. - The business was managed by the son, who drew out the yearly balance sheets until 1825, when another son of the tea.- tator was introduced into the concern. The business was carried on under the new partnership articles till the death of the testator, which happened in 1827. In the partner ship deed executed in 1825, it was recited that 63,0001 , th e estimated value of dray-horses, plant, and other im plements connected with the business, exclusive of a stock of malt, ale, and the debts due to the concern, should con stitute the capital of the new partnership. Two other sums of 48,000/. and 3,500/. were therein represent,d as surplus capital belonging to the father and the son, which were to he accounted and paid for by the new partnership, with 5 per cent. interest. The business was carried on for some time after the death of the testator, when the trus- Sees and executers permitted Henry E. Wyatt to sell his share, they giving him an indemnity against all liabilities and debts. The two le , ..aeies in question were charged by the will of the testator primarily upon his surplus capital, which he directed should be called in. and also upon certain freehold, otpyhold, and leasehold estates, which were to be mortgaged for the purpose. The trustees had made an arrangement, however,wholly voluntary on their part, and without any due attention to a proper statement of accounts in relieving H. E. Wyatt from all liabilities, which defeated the intention of the testator in that respect. They had agreed to treat the two sums represented in the deed as surplus capital as altogether fictitious and nominal, and as the business, since the retirement of Henry E. Wyatt, had al together failed and become insolvent, the bill sought to charge them personally with the amount of legacies. His HONOUR, without hearing the defence, deemed it a w.- caste of time to go into the material facts of the case, or consider the relief which it might be proper to administer, as there was a preliminary question which it was ab solutely necessary, first of all, upon a reference to the Master to have ascertained. The legacies in question were changed primarily on the surplus interest of the testator, a trade which should first be proved inadequate to discharge them before the relief sought by the bill could be en tertained. That surplus interest was stated in the deed to amount to 48.0001., which had, how ever, been treated by the trustees, it was to be presumed upon proper inquiry, not as a real, but as a fictitious sum. His Honour did not think it at all unlikely that such was the fact, and that it had been introduced for the purpose of establishing a false colour and fraudulent credit to the concern. If the introduction of these sums turned out to be fraudulent, could the Court, upon any principle of justice, allow for a moment one of the parties to that fraud to treat as against the other two fictitious and nominal sums as substantial capital of the concern ? While that point remained unsettled, and it could only be settled by a reference to the Master, no further step could be taken in the cause. KING'S BENCII-(THIS DAY.) THE KING V. SLANE'S'. This was an indictment against the defendant for libel. The letters and plat; irds containing the libellous matter complained of were written about the period of the elec tion for the county of Oxford, where a gentleman named Fane was a candidate, and they imputed to some member of Mr. Fine's family very immoral conduct. The de-• fondant was found guilty. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL to-day moved for a rule to show cause why there should not he a new trial, and was proceeding to state the grounds of his application, when Lord TENTERDEN said it would be necessary to read over the evidence. When the defendant came up for judgment the evidence would be read over, and then if the Learned Couns4 could adduce sufficient grounds, the Court would grant a new trial. FRIEDLANDER V. THE LONDON ASSURANCE COMPANY. This was an action tried at Guildhall, last Term, in which the plaintiff, a dealer in jewellery, sought to re cover the amount of injury done to his house, furniture, and stock in trade, by fire. The claim was resisted on two grounds,-Ist, that the fire was a wilful act, and the plaintiff was accessory to it; 2d, that there had been a fraudulent representation of the property destroyed. The Jury found a verdict only on one issue, viz., that which imputed fraud, and upon that issue they found for the de fendants. The other issue was omitted from their consi deration without the consent or approbation of Counsel on either side. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved for a new trial, on the grounds of the rejection of evidence which ought to have been received, to contradict a witness for the de fendant, regarding the value of the property, and also upon the omission of one of the issues by the Jury. The COURT granted a rule nisi upon the evidence to contradict a witness alone. PHILLIPS V. TIIORNTON AND ANOTHER. This was an action to recover a compensation for ser vices performed for the defendants, who were eminent merchants in the city, and had an extensive establishment at Batavia. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for 3,000/. Sir JAMES SCARLETT moved for a new trial on the ground that the verdict was contrary to the evidence. The defendants had appointed their brother, Mr. Robert Thornton, to manage their establishment at Batavia, and his sister, Miss Thornton, went there with him to act as his housekeeper. Mr. R. Thornton died there, and for a considerable time the whole of that extensive establishment was managed by Miss Thornton, who was admitted to be a lady of gre it mercantile knowledge, and perfectly capable of effecting sales and c irrying on the business of a merchant. The plaintiff was the Captain of one of the defendant's ships, and was alespa - ched io B atavia, where he and his ship were placed at the disposal of Miss Thornton, as the d. fendants' agent, and by her orders made several mercantile trips in that part of the world. After some time the plaintiff married Miss Thornton, and from that period until he and she left B atavia, he assisted in the management of the establishment there. Upon coming to England, he made some of the most extravagant demands for services per formed, although the defendants had never entered intoany contrect with him, that they resisted the payment, and he brought his action for the sun) of 13,0001. for commission and service*. The Jury gave him 3,000/ , when, in fact, he was not entitled to a f a-thing, having actually been overpaid. The Learned Counsel here went into a very detailed state ment o' accounts in support of his assertion, and concluded by moving for a new trial. Loral T E N TERD EN, in granting a ru l e to c h ew cause , said it would be highly desirable if the parties could come to some amicable arrangement. EXCHEQUER COURT-(THIS DAY.) Their Lordships were occupied the whole morning with a motion for a new trial of no public interest, and which was not concluded when our reporter left. The Court, on its rising to day, will adjourn till Wed nesday, in consequence of the Easter Holidays. MAUNDY THURSDAY. This being Maundy Thursday, the usual bounty was delivered by order of his M ,jesty, to as many poor men and women as the King is years old, (viz. 67 ) in the temporary building erected fur that purpose, in Privy Gardens. The presents consisted of salt-fish, beef, bre ,d, some woollen cloth for the men, solie flannel for the women, and a small leathern bag containing a ❑ew half sovereign, a crown. half crown, shilling, sixpence, a silver three penny and a penny piece. At the conclusion of the gifts, each of !he paupers drank his Majesty's health in a bowl of ale. A vast number of ladies and gentlemen of rank attended %he ceremony, and to make purchases of the bags of money from the Maundy people, many of whom sold them for 5/. and upwards. This morning the Marquess of Lansdowne left town for his seat at Bowood, Wilts, for the purpose of being present at the grand fete there to be given by the Noble Mar quess on Thursday next, in honour of his son the Earl of Kerry, coming of age. Several bullocks are to be roasted on the occa sion, and the tenants of his Lordship, and the poor, are to par take of the hospitality of that worthy Nobleman. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, Armt. IB.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrivctl and re= mains the Industry transpnrt. Arrived and sailed for the river the York, Leary, from Madras ; North Briton, Alor rion, from Batavia; and Frances Charlotte, Coghlan, from Mauritius. Arrived from the river and sailed the Eliza Jane, Finlay, for the Cape of Good Hope; and Thomas King, Williams, for Demerara. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 18.—Wind S.S.W.--Passed by the Hythe, from China. Arrived the Farmelia, from Sierra Leone ; and Lord William Bentinck, from London, for New South Wales. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 17.—Wind S.E. to W.S.W., light airs.—Arrived the Lynn, Douglas, f ro m Z an t e . Off por t the Themis, Le Bas t from Monte Video. FALMOUTH, APRIL 17.—Wind S.S.E., fresh.--Ar- lived the Reinde-r packet, from Buenos Ayres, sailed the 31st January, and trom Monte Video the 3d February ; Cygnet packet, from Bermuda, sailed the 10th ult., and from Halifax the 20th ; Stantner packet, from Lisbon, sailed the lot instant; Firebrand straw-packet, from the Mediterranean, sailed from Corfu the 29th u 1.., Malta the 2d instant, and Gibraltar and Cadiz the 10th—spoke on the 12th, off Cape Rosa, the Meteor steam-packet ; Hebe, Batrick, from Port-au-Prince; and Anlaby, Overton, from Oporto and Lisbon, ordered away from both ports, although she had a clean bill. Cowes, APRIL IS.—Arrived the Ribble, Beckman, from Batavia, sailed the 12th November. DARTMOUTH, Aran. 17.—Arrived the Lady Flora, Ford, from Bengal, sailed December 7th, Madras Jan. 3, and St. Helena, Feb. 24. Arrived off the Wight, the Matilda, from the South Seas. - JERSEY, ArmL 16.—Arrived the Susan, Alexandre, from Lisbon. Llvrftroor,, APRIL h.—Arrived the Emerald, Masters, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Carlton, —, from the Tagus ; and Wade, from Lisbon. HOLYHEAD. APRIL 17.—Arrived the St. Lncia, from Lucia; the Bespham, Evans, from Genoa. BELFAST, APRIL 16.—Arrived the Matilda, Mere, from Alicant. The Polpano, Guillard, from Cadiz, was lost near Cape Sc. Mary's, 22d ult. crew saved. LISBON, Masco 31.—The Oceano, Thrank, which arrived 23d inst. from London, has been ordered ont, and sailed the 29th on her return. CHOLERA NIORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT. CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH. COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL.-(THIS DAY.) DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES. • • t 4 F ,o 6 - E. 5 UU 61 E 5 5 O Z.' =" -5 g g .° 4". Total 209 75 44 30 1210 2183 1129 Total from places where the disease has ceased and from which no return have been this day received 6 '36 1750 Grand Total 8219 278 LONDON.—APRIL 17, at FIVE P.M. 11 L CO: g g tix • .8 3 '4 E 5' N - o n o Cl 4 4.1 44 5 Total llO 7 3 17 97 2151 1109 Cases from places before reported.... ..... .......... . 326 192 Grand Total WM. RI ACLE A N 2177 I 1301 Secretary. (Signed) We understand that his Majesty's Government have not only reduced the number of the Medical Superintendents employed in the metropolis under the orders of the Central Board of Health, but have also determined upon a reduction of some of the members of that Board. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISII CORN, For the Week ended April 13, IS X, made up from the Return: of the Inspectors ill the different Cities and Towns in England and %Vales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat,----tiOs. 04.1 Oats 24.1 345. 21. Barley ..4s. Id. I Rye 335. 74.1Pea5e—.......... 345. 24 INIPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEEKS PRECEDING. Wheat-- 593. 5:( Oats 21s. 2d.1 Beans—..— , 345. sd. Barley-,-- Ms. 5d . 1 Rye --.. 313. &LI 353. Od. DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Wheat-- 275. Scr.l6;ts - -- --- j&i. Fld.jieans......lSs. 3d. Barley.-10s. 10d. Rye ..—..— ISs. 341.1 Pease...—. 16s. 9d HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.) CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.) Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 10 to £2 15 New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto 3 0 3 15 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 0 4 15 Clover Hay 4 0 5 lo Oat Straw ....£1 12 to £1 14 I Wheat straw 1 18 2 U A moderate supply; trade steady, and prices stationary. SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 15 to £3 0 New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 C Useful Old Ditto 3 5 3 15 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay ..... Clover Hay (extra fine).....E6 o... Generally Oat Straw X 1 11 to X 1 16 1 Wheat Straw 1 16 1 18 Supply good, trade dull, and prices stationary. GEORGE IV. AND THE CATHOLICS.- The King's reluctance was deep-rooted and violent. The bare mention of the subject exasperated him. He was known to say, and only in his milder mood," I wish those Catholics were damned or emancipated." The angered despotism — of this alternative still afforded the hope that his intolerance might be overcome by his seifish love of ease. It cost the Duke of Wel lington many months of management, vigilance, and perseve hraismsue,pptoosedobstuapini ne h i i i s ess a , ss m e .a n s t. i nt T ei fi lt e ly D d u it k e e: t s e m d i t n o d, o t v h e e r n co , i d n u e r t h h ig e first and greatest obstacles in his way. It appears from a pas sage in his correspondence with Lord Anglesea, that the King's health or his temper was in snch a state, that for some weeks the Catholic question could not even be named to him. Mo narchy, doubtless, has its advantages, but it is a matter of serious reflection that under a government called free, among a people called aivilised, the claims of millions, and the contin. gent horrors of a civil war, should be thus dependent upon the distempered humours and paramount will of a single unit of the species. —Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Library. WONDERFUL MEMORY OF SIR WALTER Scary.—llis memory, or perhaps, I should say, his recollec tion, surpasses that of all men whom I ever knew. I saw a pleasant instance of it recorded lately in Campbell's " Pleasures of Hope;" but I think I can relate a more extraordinary one. Ile and Skene of Rubislaw and I were put out one night, about midnight, leistering kippers in Tweed, and, on going to kindle a light at the Elibank Marsh, we found, to our inexpressible grief, that our coal had gone out. To think of giving up out sport was out of the question ; so we had no other shift save to send Bob Fletcher home all the way through the darkness, the distance of two miles, for another fiery peat. While Fletcher was absent, we three sat down on apiece of green sward on the bank of the river, and Scott desired me to sing him my ballad of " Gilmauscleuch." Now, be it remembered, that this ballad had never been either printed or penned. I had merely com posed it by rote; and, on finishing it, three years before, I had sung it once over to Sir Walter. I began it at his request; but at the eighth or ninth verse I stuck in it, and could not get on with another line; on which he began it a second time, and recited it every word from beginning to end. It being a very long ballad, consisting of eighty-eight stanzas, I testified my asto. nishment. lie said that he had lately been out on a pleasure party on the Forth, and that, to amuse the company, he han recited both that ballad and one of Southey's (" the Abbot of Aberbrothock,") both of which ballads he had only heard once from their respective authors ; and he believed he had reciteli them both without misplacing a word.—Hogg's Altrire Tales. ORIGIN OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S THEO LOGICAL STUDIES.—When a philosopher of distinguished emi nence, and we believe not inimical to the Christian faith, has found it necessary to make a laboured apology for a man like Newton writing on theological subjects, it maybe expected from an English biographer, and one who acknowledges the import ance of revealed truth, and the paramount interest of such sub jects above all secular studies, to suggest the true origin of Newton's theological inquiries. When a mind of great and acknowledged power first directs its energies to the study of the material universe, no indications of order attract his notice, and no proofs of design call forth his admiration. In the starry firmament he sees no bodies of stupendous magnitude, and no iistances of immeasurable span. The two great luminaries ap. pear vastly inferior in magnitude to many objects around him, and the greatest distances in the heavens seem even inferior to those which his own eye can embrace on the surface of the earth. The planets, when observed with care, are seen to have a raotion among the fixed stars, and to vary in their magnitude and dis tances, but these changes appear to follow no law. Sometimes they move to the east, sometimes to the west, sometimes to wards the north, and sometimes towards the south, and at other times they are absolutely stationary. No system, in short, ap pears, and no general law seems to direct their motions. By the observations and inquiries of astronomers, however, during successive ages, a regular system has been recognised in this chaos of moving bodies, and the magnitudes, distances, am, revolutions of every planet which composes it have been deter mined with the most extraordinary accuracy. Minds fitted an( prepared for this species of inquiry are capable of understand. ing the great variety of evidence by which the truth of the planetary system is established ; but thousands of individual', who are even distinguished in other branches of knowledge, arc incapable of such researches, and view with a sceptical eye th.• great and irrefragable truths of astronomy.—Family Library, SPIRIT OF TAB PUBLIC JOURNALS. We arc thought not to have dealt very fairly between the Dukc and the Doctor—between his Grace and D.D.; not that we have treated the latter too harshly, but that we have spared the former. Our task was, and is, a very simple one. They both stated that extracts from the Duke of Buckingham's letter to the King were inserted in the Times newspaper. They had seen and read them. The Bishop said—"lf those extracts were authentic, it was plain they cc uld only be furnished to that paper bysome person who had access to the original documents ;” meaning to accuse the King's Ministers. The Duke said, " I have only to add, that I was not the medium of communication with the Times, but the extracts from my letter to the King which appeared in that journal were copied verbati m ." —(Duke of Buckingham's speech of Friday last.) Monstrous ! Prodigious ! Incredible ! We have now done with the Bishop, though it is probable that some of his friends in the Up per House may not have done with him. But will it be believed, can it be believed, after the Duke of Buckingham has thus asserted that he had seen extracts from his letter to the King in the Times journal, and that " they were copied verbatim" from the original document, —can it, we say, be believed, that no such ex tracts ever did appear in the Times journal,— that the editor never either saw or heard one tittle of the letter in question, and therefore could have put none of it into the journal, and that all that ever did appear• in the Times was the letter of an anonymous correspondent, stating that a letter had been sent to the King by the Duke of Buckingham ? We leave a space vacant, as the author of Tristram Shandy says, " for the reader to swear in any oath he is most accustomed te.," only hoping it will be an innocent one. What. the Duke will say to this we cannot conceive, only, if it were not a contamination in his Grace to correspond with a newspaper, we will thank him just to point out to us those extracts in this journal which he declared to be " verbatim copies " from his own letter. If his Grace cannot do this, we think his countrymen will form no very high estimate of the consideration which he uses before he makes a grave and important assertion, —an assertion calculated and intended to affect the honour of those in whom his Majesty re poses confidence.— Times. The Legislature of this country, in authorizing the King's subjects, nay, enjoining such of them as were colonists in the West Indies, to make slaves—that is, beasts—of their fellow -creatures, committed the most flagrant sacrifice of principle to cupidity that ever disgraced the British name. Had the purpose been, bond . fide, to educate miserable heathen captives, rescued by money from foes who would have butchered them, into industrious husbandmen, free citizens, and be lieving Christians, and had even a protracted course of coercion, accompanied by one of sedu lous and useful instruction, been necessary to such improvement in the final condition of the negro, and honestly employed for its accomplish ment, the end must have been applauded, the means might have been justified, and last of all, that severe retribution which seems to be impend ing equally over the guilty parent state, and her colonial offspring,—a retribution whereby the wrongs of the African helot are like to be fearfully avenged upon his task -master,—would have been altogether escaped. In the question which now involves the fate of the West Indies, and which disturbs both the prudence and the con science of every man in England who is not wholly void of them, two great principles of general civilization, as well as of the British Con stitution, appear to be at open variance,—viz., security of person and of estate. That there never did exist, since the institution of Chris tianity, a right, political, moral, or religious, in one human being, to take another, who bad neither assaulted nor offended him, by brutal force, and make the sufferer his property, and above all for the purpose of wringing advan, cages exclusively selfish from his toil, is a truth which will not now, we presume, be ques tioned. Nevertheless, the Parliament of Eng land thought proper to assume that right, and deputed the exercise of it, on certain con ditions, and for definite uses commercial and political, to his subjects. It would be a rare and curious proceeding for individual citizens to impugn the authority of the state in what it per. initted, or what it prescribed to them to per form, under circumstances in which they had been placed by that same authority. Thousands of British subjects, therefore, bestowed their money on land in the western colonies, and more money on the purchase of negroes for the cuki vation of the territory so acquired, they and their representatives or successors continuing thus to employ and augment their means for little less ;Ilan two centuries. We say nothing of the taste or feeling, or Christian rectitude, which which prompted individuals to accept this de legated usurpation from a culprit Government,, ind to embark in the bloody traffic of man's flesh : but this we do say—that if the slave-, traders formerly—and if, since the abelition the trade, time slave proprietors have fuitiilA the terms of the contract imposed upon them as colonists, by the mother-country,--if they have bought their slaves according to law, and worked diem lawfully, and extracted sugar from their daily toil, and have consumed a large Amount of British manufactures, not be ing suffered or disposed to try any other .narket, and have fulnished the 13titish nation with enormous quantities of sugar, on which taxes constituting about one-seventh of the whole revenues of the state had been levied,—if, wa say, the colonists have fulfilled their obligation to the sovereign power which undertook to sane. Lion and protect them and their property, they cannot, with any shadow of regard to justice, be deliberately ruined in their posse&sions, so legally acquired and administered, because the parent state may choose to reprobate her own former policy, and to substitute a different system for that on which she encouraged, and, morally speaking, compelled, her subjects to stake tl;eir Jteir lives and fortunes down to this pesent. flour. As advocates, then, for the general rights of human nature, we affirm, that the slave pro-: oerty ought never to have ben planted in the :'nee soil of our King's dominions, to which it :vas so manifest an exotic. As friends to the ,;eneral welfare of mankind, we say that it is im possible to meditate the perpetuity of negro bon .tage, and that the West Indies must be lookcd at without blinking as a region which the slaves o f African race have a right to inhabit one day in the character of free citizens of the Brit!sh empire. It we are asked at what period we conceive that the negroes ought to be lifted from -livery to liberty, the answer is, whenever they Lre sufficiently adv an ced in the arts of life as to able to maintain themselves and their children in comfort and decency by their own unassisted labour, and at the same time so familiarized rids