The Sun. — London, England, 1853-04-25 00:00:00

THE INCOME TAX. (PROM A CORRESPONDENT.) li r• Gladst one ' s a b o minable Budget seems to haveZ been cunningly prompted for the pecuni ar y l eft of some large fundholding sybarite. or 4 0 years without rhyme or reason, he is to ensured 2/. 17s. 9d. per cent. interest up on every 1 - 0 01. of .his Consols. .., f oreign -built carriage is to be import ed free hf"V. At breakfast, he is to daint il y satisf y ali s ,aPpetite with d u ty-free sausages from Bologna u. Reindeer tongues from Lapland. After spell tiVphrough the unstamped advertising sheet of g er ; "nles,_ he takes an hour's stroll into his pre aja-4 e l , and with the help of his keepers and beaters ` i tit.Y-free foreign gunpowder, he contrives to d e ,, °° .„K Rome scores of tame pheasants, orders his Im re' butler to seal their crowns with free-of-duty fo wr,Perfumed sealing-wax--and then to his lunch, willconsist of sandwiches made from delicious dat d o ' imported duty-free from Westphalia, washed f re w n with foreign metheglin, also imported duty ei Re drawls through the afternoon in gos hiPreg tittle-tattle, and at dinner he is served with v i h i s ZnP made from Italian macaroni and vermicelli, li e -e " are to pay less than half a farthing per lb. duty. abl e then primed for feasting upon foreign-caught and salmon, and turbot with oyster sauce, for, free of duty. Then he attacks a free-of-duty 4 4 A - truffle stuffed French turkey and Portugal D . /2° 3 and after filling up crevices with duty-free baeZse a nd ptarmigan from Norway, and canvas duck from New York, which he washes with duty-free champaigned cider and perry hirled from Germany, he complacently lavers w ato e uenlinate fingers in duty-free foreign rose -444' L and then exercises the brightness of his ter efeb by yawning ,at the foreign duty-free pic whi- L i-rules, an d pictures, and marble statues, d e ,:',.,luxuriously adorn his salle-a-manger. At akf e ",,,he partakes of foreign grapes, and 'medlars the l c , lLu nces, paying only 2d. per bushel duty, and farth i wax candles, which are to pay only a ta, ate ri t g per lb. duty, exhibit to his foreign-acquired coves gaudily painted foreign oil-cloth table ' imported at the duty of only one penny per v 0 ,,;, (3 . Yard. After his claret, which he will endea- Vilf„;` ° ,iraPort at the duty of only 2d. a bottle, he it . enis cup of chicory-coffeefree of duty, washing, he itin -Iv ia with a glass or two of duty-free honied table ; and, if the night be not spent a t the gaming e-idc'r in. other dissipation, he may then retire to theiZr - downed bed to sorrowfully meditate upon dress of his fate. Ra h the poor striving tradesman, or skilled arti... 1,1 1.0 1°1 ' over-worked clerk, or much-pitied parson, b et :lances to rejoice in some hard-earned pittance (.I .e n 1001. and 1501. a year, is for the first time t it — ug the present generation to be unmercifully Po for seven long years at the rate of s d. in the • He is not: to eat rank Holstein butter 40 1 . he pays upwards of a halfpenny a lb. duty , 01 " coarsest Dutch cheese without paying a duty dud pears of a f ar thi n g a lb. Foreign raw apples ll t,P e ale he must not touch without paying the 3 d. per bushel—if dried, one shilling a ~helquit, without dates, ahealth-promoting and nutritive dies lt!ithont paying more than a Id. per lb. duty. wife is not to make a foreign potato-flour pud j., or hi s c hild ren eat their foreign-oatmeal I'dge, or foreign bread or biscuit, eLcept by pay „'ne duty of 4-id. per cwt. His humble tallow be twelves must pay a farthing per lb. duty. If he h t emperate man desirous to indulge in the bo ut beverage of spruce beer, he must pay 44 14 3 d. per gallon duty, and he will not evenbe IV' ed to brew it himself without .paying 2 s. 6 d. • duty upon the foreign essence. And if, in the C i nest pride of his heart, he should wish to make a rt ,. h. day present of the tinyest silk parasol or a fo t 4 °lgli hat or bonnet, however coarsely manufac of felt, or hair, or wool, or beaver, to the ite of his bosom or the bairn of his loins, he dare 4 0t d o so without first paying, not a duty of one Penny per diametrical yard, but the enormous duty Of one shilling each. And yet, forsooth, this new, this " Heaven horn" Budget is impudently called an extension of tree trade! Query—Would Satan himself ever at tempt to palm off such arrant hypocrisy even among the unhappy inmates of Bedlam ? This [Queen's head stamped on the writing-paper itself, and not a Queen's head postage stamp] is the a mp which should be used for the new stamp-re drpts, a n d on B an kers' cheques. The Times is e alning over his cleverly-concocted advertising ~, and his penny-label correspondents are a set of /Waddlers. COlov 1 , - „-L OF A. LETTER ADDRESSED TO JOHN E84:4., M.P., ON THE PROPOSAL TO ---- TEND THE INCOME TAX TO £lOO A YEAR• Patricroft, near Manchester, April 23, 1853. beg respectfully to entreat your earnest oppo -12. to the parts of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Ya et Proposing to tuttax the wealthy man's "men Bei -- of 2 ` 9 ', privat e carriages, horses, an d d ogs ," t o the extent of 14' 00 /. per annum, and to tax the precarious income s vi• to 1501. a-year to supply the deficiency ; for such ehe q l ; l eal ly be the operation of the Chancellor of the Ex- Uver eT'a Plan. Barefaced proposals to rob the compara- No t ,° give more to the already rich. % ride Wno has thoroughly investigated and under Matter will say, as the Chancellor of the Ex vaPereprft;_tirsated, and as is stated in the Times news mill t he 19th inst., that " the man with 1201. a year e e stap - i t well off under the proposed changes, on al? •:„ -- "n of losses and gains," as I will show from t'r p ° Ca ge, takingthe assumed income of 1201. a year. Sa ' o6 l eci l , ta x, sd. in the £. ........................ £2 10 0 rny n f; 'I the proposed reduction of duties in P 6 44 ' 1 Y—self wife, and nine children (sup to g the price of all articles to be reduced W e t consumer the full amo unt of the reduc -4 duty, which I believe very f ew exp ect, "uich certainly will not be the case with t4 ; t ;Pect to a ll th e articles enumerated ; as to d it is well known that the merchants and eal ers intend t o pocket the 41d. per lb. re -4 e4 ' ° n in duty, for it is too small an amount t purchasers share with of ounces and ilbs. of tea) ' u neumption of tea, average 11b per ,week, d u t y re d uce d 5 5 Ditto soap, 31b. ditto ditto l3 0 D itto butter, 41b. ditto ditto Ditt oiito D itto chee se Alb. ditto ditto eggs, doz. ditto ditto 1 3 apples, say a bushel a year .1 11. 6 1, 4 4 3 0 the proposed " rea djustment" of taxa- -- 0na................................................. - 0 0 18 6 Mr consumption of all the other articles the duty on ich is reduced, is so trifling as not to be worth taking rp% a ccoutt. 141! the loss, to such as me would be not less than `T per annum , and probably much more. An dth e this is not the time for laying more taxation on d an ce whose preeatioussincomes, of which there is no a e _ t ' c e_ of increase , range from 100/. to 1501. per year— ') W that brea.ctis fully 1-10th dearer than during the p r r r i ° ll 4 two years—animal food far above the average ioce—butter and cheese high—potatoes, essential in o je families, enormously dear. The present increased iaie e th e of potatoes alone over the average of years before t i t Potato disease made its appearance, is, on the quan ej., we require, equal to the proposed income tax item 4 o/. a-year ; and leather, which forms an important 2 , in the shape of shoes, has advanced in price at least " Per cent., and no prospect of the price being lower, 48 very few hides are now received front South America, , v 'hence, until recently, a large proportion of the best hides have come for some years past. On the whole, it appears by the Chancellor of the Exchequer's statement, that I and thousands of others who have expended the saved portion of our hard earn ings in buying bits of freehold property as a qualification to vote in the election of M.P.'s, professedly anxious to Promote the welfare and comfort of the great mass of t he people, and to adjust fairly the burthen of taxation (which freehold property, in my own n and numerous ethe r i ns t ance s, has not made 3 per ce nt. , the property it self being now not. wor th what it cost by 15 to 20 per cent.), an d w h o looked anxiously forward to the repeal 1 3 f the corn laws, and the removal of restrictions on the 4 ,;' l ,Pertation of articles of fo od generally, as measures great benefit, which woul d enable usex -IPend more on the education of our children, to make home more comfortable, and save a little against a rainy - day," -day ' " are to be deprived of the anticipatedi bene fits except the miserably small total c alculated saving o Per c en t.— no t eq ual to the present incre ased cost of b utcher s ' meat and potatoes. ,Purther, it is most unjust that an income of 1001. !r ne uld be taxed 21. ls. Bd., whilst 991 . p a y s nothing. " n 1 it is considered " expedient" that all precarious in. e,., tit'is unde r 1001. a-year should be exempt , then the o", lY equitable and common-sense course will be to com -rellee cha rg i ng f r om 1001. and not from 11., and b 11 ° P, ens thus—let 1101. pay 1 0 fivepence s or 4s. 2d.; orl - `• Pay 15 fivepences or 6s. 3 d ; 1201. p a y Bs. 4d. ; nn on charging all parts . of 51. as 51. This plan I ` 2, ) .`tni be si m pl e an d so j us t that I am sure no one wou ld l ' ei Ject to it, and what is still more impor tant the p rin- P a l inducement to fraud in making returns of income would be removed, and this a n should be extended to 4 2 1 precarious incomes under 2501. or 3001. a-year. Be rhnd these amounts tax on the whole income could be (letter afforded. .gain, if the in come t ax i s t o be levied on incomes under 150/., what constitutes the " inexpediency " of is trenching on what the Chancellor of the Exchequer ThePileased to call territory of labour "—that is n expediency of taxing artisans and foremen of arti -2001: thousands of whom in England earn from 1001. to 1 o Per annum, with less risk of injury to health and ~°.rvity than the clerks and others who will be .6.,l‘jeet to the proposed extensioa of the income tax? at is it but the fear that a storm of strenuous, indig wouid°PPosition wou ld b e ra i sed by this class, which ether I rive from o ffi ce th e present Ministry, or any taxation Ministry, that p ro p ose d suc h a re - a dj us t men t o f o f the richa! is now befor e th e p u bli c, v i z., t h e unta,xing va n man's luxurie s i n th e s h ape o f " men-ser e r ges, horses, and d ogs ," an d to ra i se an % l a ; tent ea riarevenue out of the income of the clerk, ar , and foreman of artisans, which may cease any a x who helps to pass these parts of the Budget cannot, surely, expect the support of the thus needlessly-intended-to-be taxed class, when he again requires it at the hustings ; and though the class is not numerous, it is not without influence, as may appear in the next elections, which are perhaps not far distant. — I remain respectfully, your very humble servant. To John Bright, Esq., M.P., London. H. T. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Silt,—As a subscriber to your paper I take the liberty of calling your attention to the proposed increase in the tobacco license, which, if carried, will raise my license from ss. to Si. is. 3d. per annum, which rather than pay I would not sell tobacco, and I think many of my brother victuallers would follow my example. As you have exposed some of the inconsistencies of the Budget, I hope, Sir, you will draw the attention of the Licensei Victuallers to this extraordinary advance in the tobacco license, that they may at once petition azainst it. I am, Sir, yours obediently, HENRY BIRD. Burton Hotel and Tavern, Freeman's Court, Cheapside, 22nd April, 1853. THE LATE BURGLARY IN ST. ANN'S LANE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. - - --- It was stated on Saturday last in The Sun newspaper, with reference to the recent robbery upon the premises of Mr. Cutmore, in St. Ann's-lane, City, that the burglars broke in where Goddard, the gravedigger, kept his tools. This is a misstat ement. Mr. Goddard is not gravedigger, but ward beadle and collector of rates for the ward of Aldersgate and the parish of St. Ann and Agnes. Trusting to your impartiality to correct this error in a line at two in this day's impression, we beg to remain your obliged, WILLIAM FANNER, SAMUEL ROBINSON SHORT, Churchwardens of St. Ann and Agnes. April 25,1853. SOAP DUTY. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is quite right as to the important effect the abolition of the soap duty will, —by way of stimulating the demand for palm oil,—have on confirming the suppression of the slave trade ; and in giving an additional impetus to negro improvement. He might, however, have gone further in his African speculations, and have added that by increasing the consumption in England of another African production —ground nuts---Lwhence the oil so largely used in making continental soaps is expressed, it will have still greater effects than he anticipated upon the affairs on the western coast of Africa. When the Portuguese first traded with that coast they found palm oil and ground nuts articles of native food, and so they remained down to a period of living memory. So used, neither required any cul tivation or gave rise to any notions of property. Though whole tracts of country are crowded by the palm tree, little care was taken of what was, in fact, superabundant ; and as for ground nuts, they were simply dug up as prudence or necessity dictated. Some thirty years ago a cask or two of palm oil was sent home from the Gold Coast ; it met so ready a sale that it was further inquired after, and the total amount now imported into England ranges from 25,000 to 30,000 tons annually. The exportation of ground nuts is even larger ; but owing to our excise on soap, they have hitherto gone principally to France—to Marseilles especially. Of these two articles, it is to be observed, the western coast of Africa appears to have a monopoly ; and with respect to palm oil, it is further to be remarked, that it is exactly behind those ports and up those rivers which were formerly the great nests of the slave trade that its production is largest ; and just as the slave trade there has been crushed, a commerce in palm oil has sprung up and replaced it. There are men alive who recollect the slave trade flourishing on the Gold Coast ; it has lent , been extinct there ; and palm oil is now largely expo rted . ' It is but a very few years ago since that traffic appeared to be irrepressible at the mouths of the Niger ; it is now expelled, and thence Liverpool obtains, instead, its sup plies of palm oil. So, also, later still, at Whydah, and the other ports of the kingdom of Dahomi, and along the Lagoon, which connects Dahomi with the Benin River, there the Spanish slave dealers are themselves inaugurat ing a considerable commerce in palm oil. Already the trade in this quarter is considerable ; and it would have extended much more rapidly than it has done were it not that disorder and warfare in the interior have been promoted and prolonged by the indiscreet zeal of some of our own naval officers and by the desire of some of our missionaries to rule at Abeeokuta, at Lagos, and at Badagry. When, however, order and tranquillity are restored, a most important trade will undoubtedly arise here. A generation ago, when palm oil was merely an article of food, there was, we have said, no property in palm trees. Since, however, large foreign dethand has arisen for this oil, the plantations, as al ready they are called, begin to be cared for ; and lately the title to some of them has been disputed in our courts on the Gold Coast : a contention which constitutes the first evidence we have received of the value of land, not actually under their own cultivation, being recognised by the natives. Thus the feeling of property and the desire for accumulation are springing up out of the palm oil trade ; and they are everywhere the germs of nascent civilisation. It is no light question, therefore, thus in volved in an increased demand for this article ; it may produce African consequences of incalculable importance to the whole human race. It is in France hitherto that the great consumption of ground nut oil has occurred. It is there used in the manufacture of soaps which, though preferred abroad, are little used in England— very much because of the excise laws. The specific gravity of the soap made out of ground nut oil is higher than those laws permitted ; in consequence we could neither make it for our own use or for foreign exporta tion ; and thus France has substantially the soap trade of the world. By the repeal of the duty, England will be enabled to compete—in this, as in all other trades, — with France abroad. —Daily News. LETTERS TO THE TURKS ISLANDS.—The following notice has been issued from the General Post-office : " The postage of all letters addressed to the Turks or Caicos Islands, in the West Indies, must in future be paid in advance, according to the following scale, viz.— is. for a letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight ; 2s. for a letter exceeding half an ounce, and not exceed ing one ounce ; 4s. for a letter exceeding one not ex ceeding two ounces ; and so on, according to the scale for charging inland letters. ROBBERY AT MONS. LAFONT'S RESIDENCE.—On Fri day evening, while M. Lafont was delighting the audi ence at the St. James's Theatre by his admirable performance of his great part of the Chevalier de St. Georges, some thieves entered his apartments, in Bury street, St. James's, and completely stripped them. His entire wardrobe, comprising every article of wearing ap parel, jewellery, including gold snuff-box and a valuable gold chain, presented to him by his Excellency the French Ambassador, were carried off, leaving him lite rally n othing but the clothes he was wearing at the time. THE NEW EMPLOYMENT FOR THE LONDON POLICE. — It having been moved, on Saturday last, in the Maryle bone vestry, that o the , the police rate, 12,3441., be paid by instalments, Mr. Nicholay said that he could not allow that vote to pass without calling the attention of the vestry, and the nation at large, to the fact, that the police were employed by the Austrian Government to pursue and persecute the Hungarians, w ho sought shelter here from th e from the fan g s of that despotic power. Such conduct was illegal --was a disgrace to the English nation, and the English Government, and exe crated by the rate payers, who paid and supported the police —but who, instead of protecting the lives and pro perties of English subjects, were dressed in disguise, and thus employed to hound down the wretched foreigners whom tyranny compelled to fly from their native land, and seek protection on English soil. He did not make these charges hastily or unadvisedly, for he could fully substantiate them. Mr. Hodges corroborated the pre vious speaker, and unqualifiedly denounced the policy of the Government in allowing the police to be so em ployed. The motion for paying the police-rate was ulti mately carried. MR. GEORGE FRENCH FLOWERS' SOIREE MUSICALE. — At a soiree given by Mr. George French Flowers, Mus. Bac. Oxon, at his residence, 3, Keppel-street, Russell square, on Wednesday evening, the music he has to the poet Laureate's fine ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington, was performed in the presence of a dis tinguished audience of professional an amateur musicians. The members of the British school of vocalisation (educated for the profession under that gentleman's new method of teaching the art) exhibited great progress since their first appearance in the Hanover-square rooms last year, by their execution of the ode, the music of which is both classical and characteristic ; and we understand it wi ll steamer be publicly produ ce d i n th e c ourse of the ensuing month. STEAM BRAZILS. the fit v —r first The e sißrazilians, ofthe n a e ‘line projected. screw o T f 70 E 0 tons, projected. by the South American and General Steam Navigation the building y ar d o Company, was launched on Saturday from Mr. John Laird, Birkenhead, in the presence of a large assemblage dimensions are :—length, of the principal mer chants of Liverpool. 230 feet • beam, 30 feet; r of spar deck, 8 feet ; depth of h o ld, 14 f ee t ; height r ule, about 1,300. She tonnage,h old m easure , 1,014 ; new ti engines d of 200 horse-power. R A ILWAY RETURNS.—O n a li am entary document, extending Saturday 36 was printed a par con taining returns relative to capital and loans, lengths, folio pages, &c., of all railways. It appears that the capital and loan authorised to Dec., 1350, amounted to 62 an d by act passed in 1851 , 6,815,1732,726,677/, 369,611,8 491 . Th e reduction authori sed was 9,183,4011. 1.. making The decrease in 1851 was 1,368,229/. The amount raised by shares an d loans during 1851 was a• 7,970,1511. The amount raise d at the end o(1851 was 248,240,8971. 4s. 6d., and the a mount which at the end of 1851 the companies retained powers to raise was 113,382,047/. 19s. 2d., making 361,622,945/. 3s. Bd. The capital authorised previous to December, 1851, was 361,428,4481. 17s. The difference which has been raised by companies in excess of their parliamentary powers is 194,4961. 6s. Bd. THE REPRESENTATION OF PLYMOUTH.—The promoters of the petition against Mr. C. J. Mare, the eminent ship builder of Blackwall, are very confident of making out a very strong case for the unseating of that gentleman. The petition against Mr. It. P. Collier, promoted by the supporters of Mr. Mare, is also to be gone on with ; it is for want of proper qualification ; but the friends of Mr. Collier assert that there are no grounds to sustain its prayer. The committee will be struck for on the 3d or May, and the inquiry will in all probability com mence about the 6th or 7th. The inquiry will be of all the more public interest from its presumed collateral bearing upon the labours of the committee to be ap pointed upon the motion of Sir Benjamin Hall in con. nexion with the dispensation of patronage in the Roya Dockyards. P e rl Yiti . oll ,44W11 ‘teti' zegiA NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Ephesus Nervous Petrel Julien Alamode SWEEPSTAKES. HANDICAP. SWEEPSTAKES, 50 Sovs., A.F. Diomedia . £5O. LAST THREE MILES B.C. Ariosto John of Berwick M. KOSSUTIT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—M. Kossuth has addressed to me a letter, full of startling facts and puzzling questions. As an English man I confess with shame that I can neither contradict the former nor reply satisfactorily to the latter. As both are of deep interest, not to me alone, but to you, sir, and to every man in England, I make use of the privilege granted me, and send you the letter for publi cation. I shall make no comment upon it. Let England answer it for herself. But this I will dare to affirm ; that, if the statements 'of Mr. Dunford be facts, and Englishmen will submit tamely under a knowledge of them, then, indeed, have we reached a crisis of shame, and the further downhill of disgrace will be short, rapid, and facile. Political espionage is cuneiform. Give the vile sys tem but the smallest insertion, and, wedge-like, it will help itself, until it has cleft the columns of our glory, and sapped the foundations of our dear liberty. If our own sense of national honour move us not now, there is but little hope that we will be aroused by the scornful cheer that will soon greet us from the other side of the Atlantic. These ideas may be lightly treated by the over-wise and the too secure. To you, Sir, they will be thoughts of pain and sorrow, as they are to your MAY/4E obedient ßElD servant, 14, Alpha-road, Regent's-park, April 24. (Copy.) 21, Alpha-road, Regent's-park, April 23, 1853. My dear Sir, -- Recent occurrences have thrown such uncertainty upon the legal position of political refugees residing in England, that our honour as well as the in stinct of self-preservation render it indispensable that the exact nature of the right of asylum should be cleared up, which we have been induced to believe that the organic institutions of England afford to political exiles in equal degree, be they dethroned kings or inconspicuous mar tyrs of the cause of liberty. We are told, in and out of Parliament, that we live under the protection of the common laws of England. Now, sir, I apprehend it is no easy matter, even for Englishmen, to know exactly what is English law. Long forgotten statutes exhumated for some special oc currence from under the rubbish of bygone times, render the access to the sanctuary of your common law ex tremely sinuous. Foreigners can't be reproached for being unable to know the way of their duties and their rights in that labyrinth. You having been always amongst the foremost to de fend us spontaneously when we have been wronged, you will excuse me, I hope, for venturing to bring some facts to your notice, and for asking you some questions re sulting therefrom. Sir, I sincerely believe that Englishmen mean to be hospitable to political exiles, but few of them know what sort of hospitality England affords to us. Hospitality, in my view, means the admitting a guest to be at least on the same terms as the members of the family ; but forgive my saying, I feel that I, for one, am not thus treated. Englishmen are punishable if they break the law, but they are not dogged by spies, surrounded by political espionage, and the names of all who visit them kept in a black book ; they are not always trembling for the safety of their letters and the lives of their correspond ents, or of the innocent men whose names may be men tioned in their private memorandums. I avow my responsibility to the laws of Englishmen, and have not dreamed to ask more than English free dom while on your shores. But under the pretence of prevention (an especially despotic plea) it appears I am beset by agencies which all true-hearted Englishmen hate, and which, if applied to any of you, would, I be lieve, rouse your indignation. Of course I correspond with my friends, many of whom are suffering under lawless oppression, but such correspondence is no breach of your laws. Nevertheless, I live in daily terror lest, in waking some morning I find that my writing desk has been torn open, and my private memorandums rifled by virtue of a search war rant, obtained by I know not what one-sided deposition, from a secret irresponsible tribunal like that of the In quisition, obtained by anonymous accusation, the charge and the judge being unknown to me. I say I live in daily terror lest by such seizure of my private papers my innocent friends be betrayed to Austrian vengeance. Englishmen would not endure such a state of law as applicable to themselves ; but it seems you have excep tional laws against foreigners, which turn your hospi tality to exiles (possibly) into a cruel trap. Do you say, "not possibly"? Do you assure me that this power though committed to your ministry certainly will not be used ? Excuse some anxiety in me, who has read how the b ro thers Bandiera were betrayed, and has recently seen, in the case of an Englishman, how, without any process of law, where accuser and accused meet face to face — any plea of searching for gunpowder may be used in order to rifle my desk, and carry off my trunks and papers. What is to hinder some masked accuser from whispering something, which by virtue of " reasons of state ' justifies a burglary on my house, and puts the lives of my correspondents into hazard for no imaginable breach of your laws, men who ha ie never come within he sphere of English law at all ? These fears are not unfounded on fact. Listen yet a ittle, Sir. Mr. Dunford, printer and stationer, resid ng at Notting-hill, gives me the following informa- tion : While Lord Derby was still Prime Minister, men from the detective police, in plain clothes, were appointed t o watch my house at Notting-hill, and take the number of every cab which came to the door. The late Ministry having left office they were withdrawn. But a short time after the debate in the House of Lords about the refugees, previors to which your Home Secretary de clared in the House of Commons with loud applause, that "it is no part of the duty of an English Govern ment to provide for the safety of Foreign Governments" 7—according to Mr. Dunford's positive knowledge, the detective police not only made their appearance again about my house, but he has full reason to believe, that there was almost one policeman for every person who visited my house, and he asserts to knew,no that they had orders to mark every such person, aen to take a cabriolet, if necessary, to follow the visitor wherever he went. Further, Mr. Dunford informs me that, upon the oc casion of my removing from my late residence, at Not ting-hill, to that which lat present occupy, in Alpha road, Regent's-park, one of the detective police, in the disguise of a labourer, and upon the plea that he was out of work, insinuated himself into the service of the carman employed to remove my furniture, and in this character assisted at its removal, having thus free access to my house, and adopting what I, and I am certain you, sir, would pronounce a base means of getting acquainted with my private affairs. The earman himself, having too late learnt the matter has felt so ashamed and revolted in his plain honest English heart at being made a tool in so base a plot, that he never called for payment of his bill ; so that having waited for a considerable time in vain, I was under the necessity of sending to search him out and pay him his money. The people's moral sense is au honour able test of institutions. Mr. Dunford I have reason to believe a respectable and honourable man. His letter lies before me, of which he gave me permission to make public use, and autho rised me to say, that he is ready to come forward and make oath to the facts here stated. So much of political espionage for the present. But you will say—what of intercepted letters ? I, indeed, can oily answer you that one most important letter I have never received, which was directed to me under enclosure to a friend. It never reached my friend, and all knowledge of it is denied at St. Martin's-le-Grand. Judge then whether I am unreasonable, or unchari table, in feeling frequent alarm for good and brave men, whose names are found in my private letters. When I review the past, and compare the most recent and still pending transactions of your extrajudicial activity, truly I have little ground for congratulating myself on security from proceedings which I used to think Austrian but not English. Pass laws if you please, which forbid exiles on Eng lish soil to use pen and paper, or to talk face to face, we shall then know on what terms we accept your profferec' refuge. But if you induce us to believe that England a free country, you must excuse us for believing that political espionage is incompatible with liberty ; if you like to boast of the proud personal security of English men, don't blame us for thinking that preventive political police measures can have no legal footing in England ; and if in that belief I take it for granted that I am allowed to correspond with my friends and to enjoy their company, will you then give me no security that, in using this common privilege, I shall not become the strangerc fashioned st sacredl e , n ghts. But perhaps I means of betraying my beloved compatriots to the Aus trian ha ngman ? I used an whod to pri, read aeeo r d t i h n a g t a to n n y Hungarian notions,w s the a principles r ) e e c s ei o v f ed co a i m um on o g n you la , sh e ou p l i d od h e a d ve bv equally am wrong . Those are old a petty " coup d'4t a t." Englishmen'ar x e - c - ontente'd m to an b y e liable to search warrants themselves upon " infortna don," and therefore mustl be contented . Is it so ?or are refugees placed under exceptional law, in order to please foreign are ntt n y e rants? These questions which agitate my hope you will help me to have them, answered, n have the honour to remain, mind, a (1 Dear sir, yours faihfully, - L. KOSSUTH. Captain Mayne Reid, 14, Alpha-road, Regent's-park, OVERLAND MAIL, INDIA AND CHINA. We have received by submarine telegraph the following dispatch, dated " TRIESTE, APRIL 24. " The steamer Bombay arrived at half-past two o'clock this morning in 108 hours from Alexandria, bringing advices from Calcutta to the 19th ult. " There was no news from Burmah. Trade was improving at Calcutta. Exchange on London, 2. " Trade was dull at Bombay, and money plenti ful. "According to advices from China, of the 12th ult., it was said that Nankin had fallen into the hands of the rebels on the 19th of Feb., and it was thought that nothing but European intervention could maintain the Emperor on the throne." THE UNITED STATES. I LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.—The royal mail steam- mu ship Niagara, Capt. Laing, arrived in the Mersey is to-night, with 120 passengers, but no specie on 20 freight. 25 NEW YORK, APRIL 12. There has been a rupture in the Cabinet at Washington. Mr. Marcy has resigned the Secre taryship of Stat 3 ; Mr. Cushing is to succeed him ; Mr. Dobbin to take Mr. Cushing's place, and Com modore Stockton to be the new member as Secre tary of the Navy. Such is the telegraphic state ment ; but it may not be correct to the full extent. The Hon. James Buchanan is the new United States Minister to England. The Senate adjourned sine die on Monday. The Illinois has arrived with two millions and a half in gold from California. Her news has been anticipated. The Prometheus brings but little gold. Caravajal has taken Reynosa on the Rio Grande, and there is a rumour that the town of Edinburgh is destroyed. The amicable arrangement on the difficulty at San Juan (Grey Town) is confirmed. MARKETS.—There is little or no change in any thing since last packet. Loans are made at 7to 12 per cent. Stocks not firm, but no decline of consequence. Sterling exchange firm, at 1091 for good. No change in cotton or flour. The former pretty active. Cotton brisk at New Orleans ; middling, 91c. THE FRENCH EMPIRE. The Paris papers of yesterday contain nothing of interest to the English reader. S. The Moniteur announces that the French Go- St vernment, desirous to wait for the result of experi- 25 ments which are likely to effect a most advantageous 100 alteration in the condition of steam navigation, St. and judging it to be imprudent to en g age the o financial responsibilities of the country, in the pre- 5 0 - sent state of uncertainty, to the extent of the subsidy 20 of 15,000,000 f., demanded by the various steam navigation companies, has resolved to adjourn the St concession for the service of the transatlantic lines. The Government had, however, also come to the resolution within a short time, and with the means at its disposal, to establish a line of communication with the Brazils. On the 20th and the 231 inst. the Treasury had repaid to the Fampoux-Hazebrouck Railway Com pany the sum of 750,000 f., and to the Lyons and Avignon Company the sum of 5,000,000 f. These sums represent the half of the caution money which these companies had deposited in the Treasury. At the Bourse on Saturday there was rather a large amount of business transacted in government securities, and prices showed an increase on yester day's closing rates. Closing quotations—Cash : Three per Cents., 80f. 25c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 103 f. 50c. For the account : Three per Cents. 80f. 10c. ; Four-and-a -Half per Cents. 103 f. 50c. Bank Stock, 2,730. —Berlin (Friday) : Loan, New Four per Cents., 100 ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 104. Bank Shares, 1091 Exchange on London, three months, 6.22 i (Satur day): Belgian Four-and-a. Half per Cents., 98k ; Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 55 13-16. Austrian Five per Cents., 84g. Spanish One per Cents., 23k. Tournay to Jurbise Railway shares, 320 ; Charleroi to Louvain, 507 ; Dendre to Waes 636 • Exchange on London, 25.071. AUSTRIA. The Vienna papers of April 20th do not contain any political news of importance. No leading articles have yet appeared; either in the Lloyd or the Wiener Zeitung, on the all-absorbing subject of Lord Palmerston's late investigations at Rother hithe ; but the excitement on the subject is not the less intense, nor the reserve maintained by the noble lord in his parliamentary explanations less tantalising. As might have been expected, these vigorous measures on the part of the British Go vernment are attributed to the attitude assumed by Austrian diplomacy, rather than viewed as a redemption of the pledge long since given by her Majesty's Ministers, that whenever an infraction of the law should be proved against a refugee domiciled in England, the full rigour of the law would be employed against him. No power on earth would be sufficient to persuade an Austrian that the Minister for the Home Department might not, had he only liked to do so, have spent the last two months of his political existence in daily dis interments amongst our suburban villas, of Con greve rockets, shrapnells, shells, and the like, labelled, like Rabelais' powders, " Pour S. M. le Roi," " Monseigneur le Dauphin," &c. SPAIN. zt. General Juan de Lara has been appointed to the place of Captain- General of New Castile, and M. Benavides, late Minister of the Interior has been 50 named Governor of the province of Madrid. The following are the prices of Stocks :—Three St. per Cents., 43 9-1 6 ; ditto Deferred, 24 i ; Redeem- 16 able Debt, first class, 11i t ; ditto second class, 5a ; St. Coupon Certificates, 4. Exchange on London, St. 51 20. RE SWITZERLAND. A dispatch from Friburg, bearing date April 22, announces that the city of Friburg has been in vaded by a troop of peasants, mustering to the strength of from 200 to 300, and commanded by Colonel Perrier, of the Federal army. The invaders occupied the college. There was a good deal of fighting, and some of the combatants were killed some were wounded. Colonel Perrier is among the latter. The Civic Guard of Friburg remained masters of the ground and captured many of the insurgents. Tranquillity is restored. TEE PENINSULAR MAIL. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Tagus, Captain Joy, arrived at Southampton yesterday, at twelve o'clock. Her dates are Gibralter 14th, Lisbon 19th, and Vigo and Oporto 20th. She brings sixty-six passengers, seven packages specie value 2,4001., and cargo. From Lisbon we learn that the Duke of Saldanha will soon have to resign office, in consequence of ill-health. The Duke of Terceira will, it is supposed, be appointed in his stead. Viscount Sade Bandeira is likely to be Minister of Foreign Affairs. The bill of indemnity is still in debate, and speeches stretched through Whole sittin g s. The Bengal, which did not reach Gibraltar until the 10th, was delayed by contrary winds hi the Channel, and other causes. She, however, made during portions of her voyage as much as 1512 knots per hour. It is stated that scientific men consider the fate of paddle-wheels now certain. Lisbon exchange on London 54i for bills at 90 days' date. The Lisbon exchanges are 5411 on London for bills of 90 days ; Paris, 528 ; Amsterdam, 451 ; Portuguese Stock at Five per Cent. was 40 to 41 ; Four per Cents., 32 to 3212; little doing. Bank of Portugal Shares, 190 to 185 milreis discount. Stock and shares, prices subject to current discount of 2± per cent. on Bank notes ; Oporto Bank Shares, 5 to 6 per cent. Her Majesty's steamer Firebrand sailed on the 14th, in quest of a vessel in distress, and had not returned. The on the Teviot l a ith rrived on the 13th, and proceeded to Rio PRINCESS'S THEATRE.--In consequence of the indis position of Mr. Charles Kean, a temporary attraction has been occasioned in the cast of Macbeth. On Friday evening, the chief character was assumed by Mr. Ryder, that of Macduff being delegated Walter Lacy. The Macbeth of Mr. Ryder produced no ordinary im pression on the audience, who testified, by coz dial and continual applause, their admiration of so impassioned, judicious, and masterly a performance. A loud and general recal at the conclusion of the play consummated Mr. Ryder's triumph in his arduous undertaking, which has reflected high an d lasting credit upon him as a tra gedian, eminently enhanced his histrionic osit io reputation,e and materially adv anced his professional pn. H takes rank henceforward as a first-rate artiste. That an excellent light comedian could signalise himself in such a part as that of Macduff it would be unreasnoable to expect, and Mr. Walter Lacy was, consequently; much more at home in the concludin piece of the evening. DOCKYARD. —The electric telegraph -office in the dock yard has been closed, the building recently erected adja cent to the Commander-in -Chief s office at Mount Wise being available for both departments. Mr. Robert Laws, storekeeper of Sheerness Dockyard, has arrived here to explain the system of keeping accounts ate according the to the new Admiralty regulations promulgd 18th inktaut.—Portsmouth Times. THE SHARE MARKETS !hr. I PaILLI 100 'Aberdeen . ..... NlAmbg. Nottng. Bost, & Eastn. Junet... a ll Birmg. Wolverh. & Stour Valley.... 28 Birkenhd. Lanesh. & Cheshire Junct. 11 Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. 181 Do. £2O 100 Bristol and Exeter 100 Caledonian all Chester & Holyhead all Cork and Bandon a ll Cork, Blackrock and Passage 45 Dublin&BelfastJuuc a ll Dundee Perth&Aber deem Junction all Do. New all East Anglian (£25 L and E. & L. & D.) a ll Do. Do. (IN. E. & 11.) a ll Eastern Counties 1 a ll Eastern Union, Class A. (late E. U. Sh.) 8i Do., do a ll Do., B. and C 100 East Lancashire all East & West Ind. Dk & Birming. June It. 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow 0 16 Ediu. and Peebles It. 100 Edin. Prth. &Dundee It. 100 ,Glasgow &S. Western it. 100 ,Great Northern Stk It. 100 Do., A. Stock St. 100 Do., B. Stock St. 100 ; Great; Southern and Western (Ireland). it. 100 ; Great Western L 2 11 Irish South-Eastern. 5 . 0 a ll 'Lancaster & Carlisle. L6l Ili Do., Thirds A. 100 ,Lancash.& Yorkshire 20 15 Do., Fifths 14 Do., Wst. Riding Un 50 all Leeds Northern 20 all Liv.Crsby.&Southpt 114 all , London & Blackwall - .0 3 !Loud. Tilb. & Sthend. It; 100 'Loud. Brigt. &S. Cat. It. 100 London &N. Western !I) 12 Do., Fifths LO 1 D0.,£10 Sh.M. &B. C It. 100 London &S. Western i 0 42i Do., £5O L 0 34 Do., £4O 15 a ll Londerry. &Coleraine ;5 all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. It. 100 'Manch. Shef. &Lincln 8 8 4 Do., Man.& Lin. Un 100 Midland 100 Do. Birming. & Derby 47A Midland G. West. (Ir.) I 17i Do. Shares 1 all Newcastle & Carlisle 100 Newmarket 3 Do. Bury Extension la Newp. Aberg.&Hftd 7a Newry & Enniskillen a ll Newry, Warrenpoint, and Restrevor 100 Norfolk a ll Do., New 36 Northu.Counties Un 100 North British 13 North Devon, No. 1 84 Do., No. 2 all Do., A Deferred . 5 Do., B Guaranteed 176 North Staffordshire-1 all North Western 10 N. &S. Westrn. June 100 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 100 Scottish Central L. & N. Westu. 100 Scottish Midland 100 Shrewsbury & 100 Do., uaranteed Stock. 8 Shrewsby.& Hereford all Shremby. & Chester (Nor. W. Miu.) all Do. Halves do all Do Do. Oswesti y 6i Shropshire 'Dion all South Devon , 100 South Eastern all South Wales 15 S. Yorksh.River Dun. 5 Do. 161 Stockton & Hartkpl 19 Thames Haven Dock and Railway' 17 Vale of Neath • all Water:d. & Kilkenny all Waterford& Limerick 14 West Cornwall Wimbledon&Croydn 1 Woodford 100 York Newctl. &Berw. 20 Do. Extensions 114 Do. G. N. E. Purchasel 100 York &N. Midland. St,. 50 50 20 20 20 10 St. St. St. St. St. BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Closing l'rices tis s day. 28b —29 b 6b 10 —10 i 7i sad 21 -- 22 d' 3A-- 20 104 -- 105 64 -- 65 214 22i 1 20 -- , - ... .4 - 5 pm 8 -- 9 --- ... 5 -- 3 - 4 13i / - 13a 10 11 7 - 72 - 74 55 - 57 73 - 75 32 - 31 63 - 65 86 - 88 53 - 55 L2B -130 AYH —llO 914 -92 j: 74 -- 81 92 -- 94 13ip i 77 41 -- 44 dl 3A -- 3 d! 154 -- 16/ ' — 9 4 9U 1— 2g pp 101 1054 104 1 4 5 119 1 3 20 f l u. 91 2 p I _ lg 901 — 1214 5 4Ad 4 12 13 19 21 291 304 3 3 d 174 75 43 - • 45 30 i 754 a I 50 52 p 4 ar 3 4 d 3 3i 8i 52 51 3 - 24 (I 34h -35 h 4i 4.1 d 8g 8 a 2 3 50 - 51. 99 - 100 1 62 - 63 64 - 66 73 -- 76 14 -- 0/d 17 -- 19 8A 9il 13 -- 15 34 -- 3 d 20A 21A 75 -- 76 36A 37 13 -- 14 4 -- 44 19 -- 21 3 -- 34 15 -- 16 31 -- 3 2 10 -- 11 d -- par 684 694' 7 d 2 2id 58, 59 15k 16k I 1 PREFERENCE SH.A.REI St. 5 St. 20 St. 15 - 100 Aberdeen. all Do., No. 2,7 p. c 100 Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares 100 Caledonian £lO all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5i per cent. Cork&Bandon 56 p.c. all ,Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction all E. Aug. (705.) 6p. c. all Do. (X 5), 7 per cent. 2 Do. (X 7 17s), 7. p et. all Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. o. No.l all Do., No. 2 , all Do., New 6p. c. St. all Eastern Union Scrips Guar. 6 per cont.:. LOO East Lancash. 6p. ets. all Edinb. Prth & D 100 Glasgow &S. Western Guar. 5 per cent... 100 Great Northn. sp. c. 100 Do. 5 p. c., Redeem. at 10 p. c. prem.. all Gt.S outhn. & Westn (Ireland) Eights 6 Gt. Westn. (Becks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c.) 100 Great Western, fixed 4i per cent 6 Lan. & York. F. £2O 100 Do., 6 p. c., Stock 100 London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. e 100 Do. Pref. sp. c., St. all Do. Convertible, sp. c., 1852 100 Do. New Guar. 6p. c 5 London &S. Western, Con. Thirds 10 Londonderry & Coler A Shares all I LAdndry. & Eanisk ? Shares ........ all Manch. , Shef.,&Lin., 1 Sharps, No. 1 all Do., • New, £lO 3 Do., - 6'6 all Marypt. & Carl. 4p. e, all Do. 4 : i per cent 81 Do 10 6 12 12 16 20 5 2 LOO Kid. Consol. 6 p.c.St. LOO Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent.... 5 Do. Pref. 4h percent. all Norfolk Eitension...l all Do. Guar. 5 per et. all Do. Waveney Valley 5 per cent 100 North Betish all North Staffordshire LOO Oxford, Worcester, lk Wolverh. £15,6p. c. 9 Do. all Shrewsbury & Birm. New Guaranteed all Shrewsby. & Chester Nor.W. (Miu), 3 p.c. 10 Do. 5 par cent. all south Devon Do. New all S. Eastern (Reading Auu.) f£l Os. 6d. all 3. Yorksh. 4p .c. Guar. 3 Waterfd.&Kilk. 6p. c. 100 York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 4 p. c. Pref. 5 Do 10 York &N. Midland, 11. & S. Purchase ... "-- 1105 -::: 107 .07 - 108 19 —2O xd d 6}xd i 31 If 4 1 liP - 2i p 14 -- 2 p 144- - 1541 - 3g 1 129 --.IV 1112 - 7i LO6 )0S id ip L5l 153 L . 6 - 1:85 3A- 4p' 10A - 11 13a 13ixd 8 -- 9 loi -11 i A --ipxd 48 - 150 22 4 - 23 - 64 - 211 109 - 111 25A - 26 - 24 p 101 11; 174 -- ISi liP 14i -- 151 par -- p 2G• -- 19A - 20 - t a b.] 102 101 5i -- par FOREIGN. 3 Xutwrp.&Rotterdam 3 Belgian Eastn..iunct all Charleroi & Erquolin 8 Dijon and Besangon 8 Dutch Rhenish all East Indian 1 Do. Extension .....• all Gt. Indian Peninsula ' 7 rd. Junco. of France 20.?, Gt. Westn. of Canada Shares 2 Lucca and Pistoja, 5 per cent. prof 15 Luxembourg 10 Do. (Railway) 2 Do. 3 Do. (Canal) 2 Do. 6p. cont. pref 7 Lyons & Medterran. 7i Madras 20 Maria Antonia 10 Do. New all gamur & Liege (with] interest all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of France all Do. 201. 3 p.. c. (fmy.B. &Ams. Shs. all Norwegian Trnk.Pret 10 Paris and Lyons all Paris and Orleans all Paris and Rouen all Paris and Strasbourg 4 Paris Caen &Cherbrg. 51 Quebec & Richmond all Rouen and Havre all Sambre and Meuse 4 Do. 51 per cent. pref 4 Southern of France 2s. Upper India Scrip al West Flanders 6 Do. 5i per c. Pref.,. 9 Western of France 2 West. of Switzerland 3 ; Now Zea1and......... td 13i -- 3 -- lf = 1, - 2A - 3 id 41 - 1 1 1 -- - 21 - 7i -- 3q -- 141.-- 8. -- 17 -- 41i -- 44i -- 35 -- 2O i -- 51 4A - 101 -- h Business done this day. 29?,, f 51 3' 2 6 2 4 2 211 5L a I 21 1-3,1 i i I Si 86 1 541 92 4 11 771 A B.} i 37i i 694 i 591 9 13 15i 15 PM i 1 181 18 2 p 25i 21 13i 13 I 4li 35i 5 i Pin Leasing Closing Prices Business Shr. l Paid RAILWAY:. Compans. this day. this day. 50 all Bo If.rd and London & Bletchley .. N. West 304 all Bum. & Oxfd. guarantee Gt.Westn. 304 all Do.withoutgr Do — 304 all Birm•Wolv. & .Dudley guar. Do 304 Do.wthtguar. Do — St. 100 Buckghamsh. L. &N.W lO7 —lOO 50 all Clydesdale Jc. Caludon 53 —55 51 St. 100 E. Lincoln. gr. 6p. cent .. ... Gt.Notrhn 149 —lslxd x d 25 all Glstr.&Dn.Fr. Gt.Westn 33 331 100 all Hrtlpl. Dk. & Yk. New. Railway & Berw.. . . 50 all dull & Selby Y.&N.Md. 112 114 25 all Do. A Shares Do 56 57 12 all Do. Shares. Do 27/ —28 A 12 all Lon.dzGreenw S.Eastoru l4 14/ 20 all Do. Preference Do 26 27 20 all Lowestoft gr. all 4 per cent... Norfolk 20 all Do. 6 per ct... Do 26 27 5} all Manch.Bxton. Ln.&N.W and Matlock & Midld 3 3i 50 all Middlesbro' & Stckt on & Redcar Darlingt. 100 all Midld.Bradfd Midland... 106 108 50 all Northern and Eastern sp.c. E. Count.. 65 67 66 5A 60 all Do. 6 per ct Do •• 50 all Do. Fixed sp. cDo 25 all Prest. &Wyre L. &N . W drLn& Yk 12/ 11l Do. 1 Shares. Do St. 100 Roystn.&Hit. Gt.Northn 149 151 St. 100 Do.Shepth.St. Do 149 151 25 1n Shef. Roth. & Lancash.& Goole ' Yorksh -- 12 91 S. Staffordsh.. MrMClean 1 1 d 50 all WearValleygr, Stoat. & 6 per cent Darling . 25 all Do Do 32/ 33/ St. 100 Wilts&Somrst Gt•Westn lO4/ 105 MINES. 1 all Agua Fria 108 all Anglo Californian.... fi p 10 2 Australasian S - 1 p 20 5 Australian 1 all Australian Cordillera pax— P I. all Australian Freehold. I 1 all Ave Maria 1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) par p 1 all British Austrin. Gold 4 pll 20 13.5 British Iron 8 10 35 241 Brazilian Imp. (issued at X 5 pm.) 5l 6 51 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiaba 5 - 51 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 30 —3l 301 1 1 Carson's Creek par— 4 p 40 all Cobre Copper 461 471 5 1 Colonial Gold - 2 p 3 21. 3i 14 Copiapo 6l 71 St. all CopperMinersof Eng 75 85 25 all Do. Preference 9 —lO p 5 all English and Austin Copper Smeltg. Co: 1$ —l4 d 20 all General l5 —l7 2 all Great Nugget Vein 1 - 2 p 34 3 all Great Polgooth 1 all Lake Bathurst 1 all Liberty l4 I 1 all Lond.&Californ.Gold Quartz Crush. Co 4 1 all Mariquita Hd par 1 10 9 Mexican &S. Americ. 7 84 1 all New Granada — P 1 all Nouveau Monde l2 1 p 2 I 5 1 Port Philip par- 4 p 1 all Quartz Rock par— 4 p 11 50 all Rhymney Iron 24 —26 15 Do. Now 7 8 30 10$ Santiago de Cuba 1 all South Australian -1, d —lpxn x new 10 7 Tin Croft lO —l2 xd x d 281 all United Mexican 6 61 61 $ 6 1 all Waller par 4 p 1 all West Granada • • par p 1 all West Mariposa 1 all Yuba par p P p 1 4 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia B4 -- 86 86 5 7 x d 50 all British N. American 20 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China 4 1 p 3 100 25 Colonial. ... 191 100 20 Commercial of Lon don — •,. 4 English Scottish and Australian ll lip 20 71 Lond. Chart. Bk. o Australia M) 20 London and County 50 10 London Joint Stock 100 20 Lond. &Westminster 35: 20 2 London Bank of Aus tralia and India d— par 50 221 National of Ireland... 25 all Oriental Bank o Corporation 52 54 534 25 5 Do. New ... •.. 100 25 Provincial of Ireland 494 10 all Do. New 5 1 Royal Australn.Bkg. & Gold Imp. Co $ 25 25 South Australia ... . 47 49 25 all Union of Australia... 751 761, 21.,D o. New 8 50 10 Union of London 40 all Union of Madrid — MISCELLANEOUS. 100 35 Australian Agricult 1 81 83 82 3801 80 2 20 6 Austrlasu.Pcific.Mail l 10 5 Australn. Royal Mail; 38# Brit. Americas. land' 80 82 80 1 100 323 Canada — •• • 5 5 Crystal Palace ll 1 3 6 3 g 4 2 Crystal Pal, of Prance 1 3 20 1 Eastern Stcam 1 1 Electric. Teleg. of Ir — 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat — 100 50 General Screw Steam I 20 24 Irish Beetroot Sugar, 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 10 2 Netherlands Land. I 20 24 N AU. of Europe Steam 50 all Peninsular &Oriental 83 50 25 Do. Do. 46 1 100 60 Royal Mail Steara 1 25 25 South Austral. Land 47 49 1 1 Submar. Telegraph — 5 2 Universal Emigration 10 and Colonisation... l 100 28i , Vau Diemen's Land..' 194 204 BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION IN THE CABINET. MR. GLADSTONE AND THE "TIMES." • ( From the Liverpool Mail.) •. Is there no modern Burke ? Is there not one plucky fellow among all the six hundred and fifty odd "honour able members," or "scoundrels," according to Dan O'Connell, among either or both, as the case may be— who has the moral courage and the English manliness to come forward and impeach a Jesuit Chancellor and a jobbing Administration of bribery And corruption more barefaced and more demonstrable than the worst dis- closures before recent election committees ? Are we jesting or romancing ? Far from it. We distinctly and fearlessly assert—all jesuitical, sancti monious, and patriotic pretensions to the contrary not withstanding—that never within the present generation , has there been a more flagrant, no, nor, so far as time permits, a more successful attempt at "buying up " on behalf and in support of the Aberdeen Administration and their monkish Chancellor's Budget of minute mosaic-work, the sweet voices of the "leading liberal" and whig-radical organs, everywhere, and especially in our great cities and towns. The hugest "sop " to traitors to the public weal, is that to the Lon don Times ; but the Liverpool Mercury, the Manches er Guardian, the Leeds Mercury, and all such like Socinian, or Dissenterised prints are to receive incredible _ bribes and boons. Yes, Tittlebat Titmouse, with his windfall of ten thousand a year, was nothing but a poor fool to some of them. Their mouths are to be stopped, on the puerile principle of "Shut your eyes, but by all means open your mouths, a nd see what Gladstone will send you." We proceed to the proofs of our own grave impeaohraent. We take first and foremost the case of that vile and most unprincipled print the London 2'imes. One, at least, of its present or former staff holds office under the Aberdeen Administration. The tortuous tactics it has long pursued, in respect to the taxes on knowledge (and all knowledge, advertisements included, as we challenge any to disprove, is knowledge, business knowledge, practical knowledge), and, therefore, useful knowledge) has long excited the disgust and scorn of every intelli gent man, who comprehends the whole question. Well, Thursday week, the House of Commons by a decided majority, by an unexpected doubled vote, by an additional 100 voters, formally decided that the advertisement duty ought to be repealed. No doubt of it. • Next morning, the leading journal, in a most lugubrious article, which caused many a laugh at its trembling monopoly, ventured to " congratulate" the public on the repeal, " accordingly." The following morning, Saturday, there was an evidently reluctant admission :—" We do not for a moment doubt that with the duty abolished there will be much more advertising." But this was, seemingly, at a later hour, accompanied with a paraded list of "factious" Tory members, who had impiously resisted pledges as to the repeal of any tax last spring ; but who (pursuant to Earl Derby's pledge last Christmas) deemed the advertisement duty ought to be abolished at the earliest moment the revenue would permit. Monday morning came, and with it stranger, spasmodic, and most sig nificant "remonstrances,"' avowedly addressed to parliamentary greenhorns in general, accompanied with still savager denunciations of Milner Gibson and Advertisement-duty Repealers in particular. No doubt the venal Times knew well what all this daringly inconsistent staff was designed to settle, to wit, an alli ance, offensive and defensive, against all opponents of the Aberdeen Ministry. Tuesday morning came, and the precious plot began to come out ; true, the universal press of the three kingdoms, already relieved by a vote of the house, was to be cajoled, and, if possible, SILENCED, beyond all question, its more important organs were to be BRIBED ! Instead of giving the whole newspaper press that entire relief from advertisement duty, formally passed by the Commons House, a Loyola Chancellor of the Exchequer had the wicked temerity to withhold part of the promised sum, like Ananias and Sapphira of old, for selfish and basest uses. Instead of conceding the whole vote of the house, in favour of the whole press, this sanctimonious Chancellor withheld a , part a third part—wherewith to bribe the organs advocating his own opiinons. Mr. Gladstone, to favour some half dozen prints, deliberately proposes to inflict on hundreds of other prints all the vexatious enactments and all the costly machinery for a duty threefold as pro . - ductive. But he knew his men. Oii the next morning, Tuesday, there appeared the " leading" journal's most fulsome thanks and unmeasured eulogies for all these well-understood " bribes." Like Puff in the play— audaciously supplicating a higher power to sanctify whatever means they may use to encompass their ends -it disgustingly falls to prayers, and with mock de votedness, exclaims :—" We cannot but congratulate the British people on the great enterprise, the rare op portunities, and the high favour of Heaven—to which they owe these great, we had almost said these unex pected, reductions from their hereditary burdens !" Now, not to pursue this revolting theme much farther, _ _ we simply quote a mendacious pretence which, within ten lines, precedes all this wretched stuff :—" With re gard to the abolition of the duty on supplements, it is about the last thing we should have thought ourselves of asking." Here is an emphatic, distinct, brazen denial of a boon —or bribe—long sought by the Times. Its exact import and money value cannot but be well understood by every Government ; inasmuch as the first duty of their Chan cellor of the Exchequer is to master all recent Blue Books on taxation. Bearing all this in mind, we beg to introduce to our readers an astute " lawyer," as he de scribes himself—a barrister, we believe—placed by old Walter at the head of the Times. Well, what says he, Mr. Mowbray Morris, to the Parliamentary committee on newspapers ? Q. 2016. You are connected with the Times? A. Yes, I am the Manager of it. Q. 2028. You say the " Times " paid 66,0001. during the last year (1850) for Stamps altogether ; how much of that was paid for Stamps on the Supplements? A. 16,6661. odd for Halfpenny Supplements. But that is not the whole amount. Sometimes the " Times" publishes double Supplements, &c. Q. 2235. You expressed a fear that the removal of the Stamp would lead the public to patronise inferior papers, &c. ? 30i A. YES. Q. 2226. Whatever was done with the Stamp on the Paper itself, you think that the Stamp on the Supple ment decidedly ought to come off? A. YES ? I enter my protest against it 111 Lives there a creature worthy the name of an intelli gent human being ?—lives there any but born fools, who cannot detect at a glance, see " how the cat jumps ?" Here have we given chapter and verse, from Parliamen tary records, proving that, rememberinghow constantly the Times issued double supplements, its cost of 16,6661. for single supplements approaches 25,0001. per annum for both kinds—to say nothing of another 25,0001. indi rectly thrown into its lap ! LLOYD'S SIIIPPIAG-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, April 25.—Wind this day at Noon, N.N.W. ; fresh breeze, and squally, with rain. DEAL, April 24.—Wind, W.N.W. The Seaflower (barque), of Jersey, has been wrecked on the Goodwin Sands ; crew saved. _ . . DOVER, April 24.—The James and Emma, Antwerp to London, is sunk on the Kentish Knock ; crew saved. PLYMOUTH, April 24.—The Kinnear, London to Sydney, N.S.W., has put in leaky, and must iiischarge. FALMOUTH, April 24.—Wind, W.S.W., strong breezes, and squally. Arrived—Leona, Havannah, and sailed for Antwerp ; Thos. Rowell, Shields for Quebec, to stop a leak. _ _ _ _ PORTSMOUTH, April 21.—Arrsved—H.M.'s s. Hastings, India, &c. Off Port—Camperdown, Calcutta. LIVERPOOL, April 24.—Wind, N.W. Arrived—Ore gon, New Orleans ; Tyrell, do. ; Wild Irish Girl, Mobile ; Washington, do. ; Isaac Wright, New York ; Perseve rance, St. John's, N.B. ; Gauntlet, Buenos Ayres ; Mori son, New Orleans ; Crown, do. ; Arran, do. ; Waterloo, New York ; Guy Mannering, do. Sailed—Catharine, Ade laide, S.A. ; Catharine, Africa ; Bess Grant, Jamaica ; Charles Crocker, Now Orleans ; Lucy Thompson, do. ; Asia (s), do. ; Comoz, do. ; Lord Maidstone, Quebec ; Anna Dorothea, New Orleans. April 25—Arrived--Nia gara (s), Boston. DUMFRIES, April 23.—The Hope, of Glasgow, is on shore much damaged, and is discharging. VIGO, April 20.—The Carl Otto, Newcastle to Constan tinople, sunk in lat. 42, long. 50 ; crew saved and arrived here. LISBON, April 18.—A derelict vessel, said to be laden with timber, and her storm washed awry, bas been passod on the coast. H.M.'s st. Firebrand has gone in search of her. ARREST OF DRS. TTLIATHORNE AND MOORE.--We re. gret to say a very painful instance of banking liability has occurred during the last few days to two gentlemen of this town and neighbourho od. The Right Rev. Dr. Ullathorne, and Dr. Moore, president of Oscott College, have been arrested under the following circumstances, which cannot fail to excite considerable sympathy in their regard. Some years ago, when the Right Rev. Dr. Walsh was bishop of the midland district, a Catholic gentleman named Brown Mostyn was desirous of en dewily, a mission in Oxfordshire ; an d havin g selected Radford b as the locality most in need of assistance, he transferred eighty shares in the Monmouth shire and Glamorganshire Banking Company into the names of the Vicar Apostolic of the Mid land District and the President of Oscott Colleges for the time being , wh oever the y might be, as t r ustee for the charity. In this way the trudst became they devolved upon ex , Dr. Ullathorne and D r. Moore, osse ssing officio trustees of the pr o p ert y , but without p an one farthing beneficial i n terest in b a the transa failed cti with on. • Ab ou t two years ago , however, the nk heavy liabilities, and Dr. Ullathorne and Dr. Moore entered into 'an arrangement to pay 1,000/., which they borrowed for that purpose, under the expectation that no further claim would be made upon them. Notwithstand ing their hopes, a call of 60/. per share, minus the I,ticooo/ , was made upon them, amounting to 3,800/, e 01 . 1 payment was served, and answer returned that it was utterly impossible to meet the demand, that the money already paid had been raised at the in inconven friends ; and that all that could be done was toesucrerenof der the actual personal property ,am o o f u w n b ti i n cb g to theywere2OO/. pos sessed, T . oceedings were taken, an d eventually, mao residence refused. includ ing TuesdayinßathProceedings street, library, a t last, r D r Ullathorne was arrested, at proposalhis Mr. Badh am and yesterday Dr. Moore was arrested y ,• at Oscott C o ll ege . These two gentlem en are now in custody, received one farthing consideration for the ne On ' n w e h a ic lt h er t n l a ie t y ive, unconsciously incurred. They therefore, but means oepf never onerous lia bilityge Insolvency Court, as the only re a e s h s ta t i h n r i o n u g gh th t e h ir e discharge. —Binh; IMPORTS tng tam Journal . ORTS OF SPECIE. —The England during the past e arrivals of specie into From New York, per Nveek have been as follows : City of Glasgow, $5 Asia, o $47,000 ; Philadelphia, per 78,114 oz. gold ; ) . _OO ; Port Philip, per Ballarat, per Great West mils, per Tay, 350/. ; West Indies, Western, $808,853. NEWSPAPER SUPPLEMENTS. TO THE HON THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OW GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. The humble Petition of Charles Anthony, Proprietor of the Hereford Times Newspaper, Slieweth,—That your petitioner, in common with the proprietors of the newspaper press of the United King dom, heard with gratitude the proposition of her Ma jesty's Chancellor of the Exchequer to repeal the half. penny stamp on supplements to newspapers; but that they afterwards with surprise and concern learned, from the official copy of the resolutions, that the said repeal would apply only to supplements " containing wholly advertisements." That such limitation could only have arisen from the circumstance of the right hon. gentleman being unac quainted with newspaper compilation ; inasmuch as it would practically exclude nearly every newspaper in the kingdom, with the solitary exception of the London Times—(thereby giving to the proprietors of that paper an exclusive privilege, to the damage and injury of the rest of the London and provincial proprietary : a civil wrong which your petitioner sincerely believes was never contemplated by the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer)—not any other publication having regularly a surplus number of advertisements equivalent to the filling of such supplement. That the compiler or editor has no control whatever over the number, length, or quantity of his advertise ments ; one day a few hours before publication he might have two or three columns ; the next day five or six ; the next ten or twelve ; and vice versa ; therefore, it is obvious that constraining him to fill his supplement with advertisements wholly, would cause inextricable contrary, confusion, thei n fact newsl,v o would columns bot o taarlely entirely impracticable.under theo n c the trol of the editor ; he: can shorten or lengthen them at will, the fluctuating number of advertisements influencing their extent. 6 . n ou stamp to all news nn th e se la l) i r e e s te o u n s a e b t o o e apply That apractical ppgeeart grounds, petitioner n d e f ts he 2 s :r e fs q p u 3 e n t ; I fettered, npi t .sesemnt i , at t s h o o ev j e u r d ,:i m ea e v n i t n a g nd fr a ce isc a re n t d ion un o - f the paV eerdistuopisalesln:teo the nature or description of matter he shall insert in the newspaper and supplement ; in fact, entitled e n a t:t i g de to editorship, st o him r that f inpy,otherr underee dm profession, itsre f o e f se a is c op t n i o o ,n n to sbibuislwh business, ntyeis, is thetar a,s news papercifeaelyr cal -i i r iz o lg u ' r petitioner therefore prays your honourable house to grant the said u nres t r i ct ed repeal, thereby doing equal justice to all newspaper proprieto rs , allow ing the suppleme n t, i n the apt and forcible la nguage o f the right hon. th e Chancellor of the Exchequer " to go free throu r g ft h e th e e ff p e o e s t t, ot as part such and parcel of the con scientiouslynews- ocfreainsetedliaenetdu b uals el e i af e un v id e paper."t h the character - of the w imperialwill l u r p e r p e e s s . to al your petiti onerextend its sphere e to strengthen and elevate i s n m f o o r r m a l a t i i n on f u a e s n well a a n s d ra t t o i ona ffor in. enjoy ment to the great body of her Majesty's faithful subjects. And your petitioner will ever pray for your honour able house.. CHARLES ANTHONY. HOSPITAL.—A Parliamentary paper, in return to a motion from Mr. Butt, contains copies of the charter of King Charles 11., incorporating the Go. vernors of Kilmainham Hospital ; of the fresh charters granted by King George 11. to the governors of the hos pital ; of the Royal letter of King Charles 11., dated 19th of April, 1681, assigning a portion of the Royal demesne for the building of the hospital ; and of the warrant of the Lord-Lieutenant and Privy Council of Ireland, dated the 23d of December, 1681 ; of the Royal warrant of her Gracious Majesty, dated the 16th of De cember, 1845, -regulating the establishment of the hos ' prtal, and of the correspondence between t he Right Hon. Fox Manic, late Secretary-at-War, and the governors of I the hospital, prohibiting the furt her admission of (116- Icharged soldiers. 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