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

THE INCOME TAX. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) 12 11 % Gla , dstone's abominable Budget seems to i" e l'e been cunningly prompted for the pecuniary i rt of some large fundholding sybarite. h e or 40 years without rhyme or reason, he is to e nsured 2/. 17 s . 9d. per cent. interest upon eve ry 1001. of hi s C onso l s . of a i l lB Preign-built carriage is to be imported free lid duty. At breakfast, he is to daintily satisfy an appetite w ith d u t y -f ree sausages from Bologna i n , nideer tongues from Lapland. After spell tee I r u . r engh the unstamped advertising sheet of rimes, he takes an hour's stroll into his pre kid ser►es' and with the help of his keepers and beaters 40 duty-free foreign gunpowder, he contrives to e k some scores of tame pheasants, orders his un der butler to seal their crowns with free-of-duty fo teidn, Perfumed sealing-wax—and then to his lunch, will consist of sandwiches made from delicious dog l i nPorted duty-free from Westphalia, washed freer w ith foreign methegliu, also imported duty drawls through the afternoon in gos hirsPing tittl e -t a ttl e an d at dinner he is served with wh s° , 4 l made from ' I iltalian macaroni and vermicelli, e u are to pay less than half a farthing per lb. duty. t u e rt i p then P r i me d' for feasting upon foreign-caught f : and salmon, and turbot with oyster sauce, ha`e° of duty. Th en h e attacks a free-of-duty e'gt-truffle stuffed French turkey and Portugal gym' and after filling up crevices with duty-free 1 )3 and ptarmigan from Norway, and canvas (lec,L'ed duck f rom N ew Y o rk, which he washes i ria " with duty-free champaigned cider and perry d from Germany, he complacently lavers e uerainate fingers in duty-free foreign rose- Wat er, and then exercises the brightness of his u tar e ect by yawning at the foreign duty-free pia i s 'nles, and pictures, and marble statues, tt„oe,e4 l uxuriously adorn his salle-d-manger. At and r t_ 2 ll e partakes of foreign grapes, and 'medlars the itnces, paying only 2d. per bushel duty, and farti,.7` 4 -ng wax candles, which are to pay only a Cl ete ' u 'e g Per lb. d u ty, ex hibit to his foreign-acquired kv ers th e gaudily painted foreign oil-cloth table hqiia imported at the duty of only one penny per J: Yard. After his claret, which he will endea- Itill;, ° ,i.raPort at the duty of only 2d. a bottle he it ule eup of chicory-coffeefree of duty, washing liq iio " w n with a glass or two of duty-free honied table ; and, if the night be not spent at the gaming hia "; O r in other dissipation, he may then retire to thee6r-downed bed to sorrowfully meditate upon e Ar „ less of his fate. t he poor striving tradesman, or skilled arti ,ltho - , h r O ver -worked clerk, or much-pitied parson, nebi t „ a tices to rejoice in some hard-earned pittance (la z i -e4 100/. and 1501. a year, is for the first time t exe r the present generation to be unmercifully Aou ild fe r seven long years at the rate of sd. in the Re is not to eat rank Holstein butter nor t h a ne Pays upwards of a halfpenny a lb. duty, of u coarsest Dutch cheese without paying a duty 4 44 1 4 vard s of a farthing a lb. Foreign raw apples dot pears he must not touch without paying the 1 44 •P f 3 d. per bushel—if dried, one shilling • a fr iii ,e4 - --nor dates, a health-promoting and nutritive /i iii ") Without paying more than a id. per lb. duty. tlii ir , w ife is not to make a foreign potato-flour pud -1)oi;; or his children eat their foreign-oatmeal 14„tke, or foreign bread or biscuit, except by pay the,,, duty of 4id. per cwt. His humble tallow b a p t welves must pay a farthing per lb. duty. If he Ai in a i temperate man desirous to indulge in the 4, o "%esoute beverage of spruce beer, he must pay olio3d. per gallon duty, and lie will not even be fob We d to brew it himself without paying 2s. 6d. • duty upon the foreign essence. And if, in the Oest pride o f hi s h ear t, h e s h o uld wi s h t o ma k e a i o ( qhday present of the tinyest silk parasol or a t„ r , e ign hat or bonnet, however coarsely manufax ,rd. of felt, or hair, or wool, or beaver, to the n ot of his bosom or the bairn of his loins, he dare * ) t do so without first paying, not a duty of one veriny per diametrical yard, but the enormous duty of one shilling each. And yet, forsooth, this new, this " Heaven :ora" Budget is impudently called an extension of 4 ree trade ! Query—Would Satan himself ever at ,tetept to palm off such arrant hypocrisy even among " 4 e unhappy inmates of Bedlam ? i t .T,bikl [Queen's head stamped on the writing-paper ;7, t, and not a Queen's head postage stamp] is the ea , 14 1) which should be used for the new stamp-re- CPts) and on Bankers' cheques. The Times is j oi e , a raing over his cleverly-concocted advertising t,L,a l 4 his penny-label correspondents are a set of "4udlerB. toiy v . tIOF A LETTER ADDRESSED TO JOHN IC 4 1:11` ; ESQ., M.P., ON THE PROPOSAL TO ,AIiEND THE INCOME TAX TO £lOO ~,„ Patricroft, near Manchester, Apra 23, 1853. litzcii,et,o the parts t 4 tl;'' ,- -1 beg respectfully to entreat your earnest oppc.- of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's 1 , 44 44 4 proposing to untax the wealthy man's "men ser f 2 5 8 4 private carriages, horses, and dogs," to the extent of ioe° o /. per annum, and to tax the precrious incomes f e l l i e ll r li eali t y ° l4e ls° /. a-year to supply the deficiency ;or such 0 the c eration of the Chauceilor of te Ex thifopr:ooeVatotl• t l / 4 1, p refaced proposals to rob the compara give more to the already rich. 144 1 , ° 4 B the wil e has thoroughly investigated and under c..e i-Lnatter 'll say, as the Chancellor . of the Ex- 14 1 ine p r f an dl r :"loated wl will e b r -- i'le 1 9th inst. that as " the man with 1201. a year are enta ea % well off under the .proposed changes, on a f b em Potation lu Y own of losses and gams," . as I will show r prop osed caß e, taking the assumed income of 1201. a year. Savingsl t ax, d. in the £. . - . .£2lO 0 rory a '7, the p posed reduction of duties in p i f „ -lII ALY----se - f r f o " *f* and nine children (sup toc'st-b-g the price wl f all e' articles to be reduced t• rT e t e ensumer the o full amount of the reduc -414 , 13 0 ,' : :111 , tY, which I believe very few expect, re s ""tett certainly will not be the case with Pect to all the articles enumerated ; as to , it • deal 18 Well known that the merchants and d um e ja intend to pocket the 41d. per lb. re do -° n in duty, for it is too small an amount %hare with purchasers ' of ounces and 11ba. ° f tea) , COne ---. omption of tea, average 11b per e e ek, duty reduced 5 5 Ditto soap, 31b. ditto ditto l3 0 -...-!.tto butter, 41b. ditto ditto Ditto cheese alb. ditto ditto 2ltto eggs, i doz. ditto ditto 1 3 D itto apples, say a bushel a year 48. 1 , ti - 04 7 the proposed " .. readjustment" of taxa- -- ........: .£0 18 .... ............. . her articles the duty on 44 0 °1 is reduced, is so trifling as not to be worth taking ,Naceount. lg; n p ° B the loss to such as ine would be not less than 4,; ) , (1 - per annum, and probably much more. th c this is not the time for laying more taxation . on eh " e whose precarious incomes, of which there is n o 4 nee of increase, range from 1001. to 1501. per .year— pr:°,that bread is fully 1-10th dearer than during the pr,,.. vt ° 11 4 two years —animal food far above the average 14;"e--butter and cheese high—potatoes, essential in prig: fa milies, enormously dear. The present increased th e 4l °I potat oes a l one over t h e average of years before i Potato di sease made i ts appearance, s, on the quan tniiinwo require, equal to the proposed income tax a-year ; and leather, which forms an important as'" In the s h ape o f s h oes , h as a d vance d i n pr i ce at l east Per cent., an d no p ros p ec t o f th e p r i ce being lower, oa kph few hid es are n ow rec e i ve d f rom South Am h i ,ence until recently, a large proportion of the best 4 e B have come for some years past. ° 4 the whole, it appears by the Chancellor of the v lehequer's statement, that I and thousands of others ` l ° have expended the saved portion of our hard earn tegß in buying bits of freehold property as a qualification ' V ote in the election of M.P.'s, professedly anxious to til l selliote the welfare and comfort of the great mass of (4People, an d t o adjust fairly the burthen of taxation 'doh f ree h o ld proper ty, i n my own and numerous other instances, has not made 3 per cent., the property % e lf being now not worth what it cost by 15 to 20 p e r and who looked anxiously forward to the repeal °is the 4 1 corn l aws , and the removal of restrictionsonthe Portafti on o f art i c l es o f f oo d g enerally, as measures ex , great benefit, which would enable us to ex lir" more orr the education of our children, make " -111 ° raor e comfortable, and save a little a st e l : ln y day," are to be deprived of the anticiparedinbset a ne -4 p e e zeept the miserably small total . calculated saving of butch er not equal to the present increased cost of I• e- . r .te . meat . and potatoes. th e `f i ther, it is most unjust that an income of 10 . 0/. paysif it nothing. be taxed 21. Is. Bd., whilst 991. '8 considered " expedient" that all precarious in then the in only under 1001. a-year should be exempt, ,NellYeeequitable and common-sense cours ewillbe to corn_- Pro, Chargin g f rom 1001. an d not from 11., and lisfeas thus —let 1101. pay 10 fivepences or 4 s. 2 d.; and Pay 15 fivepences or 6s. 3d ; 1201. pay Bs. 4d. ; R• 01 0 8, on charging all parts of Si. as 51. This plan obj ect ' oe simple and so just that I am sure no onewo r u o ld . :er to it, and what is still more important the p n al , inducement to fraud in making returns of income to all be removed, and this an should be extended_ Yo Pleearious incomes under 25 01. or 3001. acyear• ne h n ' t t hese amounts tax on the whole income could be etter afford d e • UndAgain, if the income tax is to be levied on incomes t er 15 °/-, what constitutes the " inexpediency ia reoching " on what the Chancellor of the Exchequer th e l 'j e aßed to call " the territory of labour "—that is 114,2nexpediency of taxing artisans and foremen of arti -241, thousands of whom in England earn from 1001. to longs Per annum, w i t h l ess risk of injury to health and ind,3: v itY th an t h e clerks and others who will be Wh at et . to the p ro p ose d extension of the income tax ? tlau, Is it but th e f ear that a storm of strenuous, indig voilielnosition would b e ra i se d by this class, which other „.. dri ve from office the present Ministry, or any tzatiitieolv-tin_.asnistry, that proposed such a re-adjustment of is now before the public, viz., the untaxing Lan_tve,asremahrrimagaens's luxuries in the shape of " men-ser , horses, and dogs," and to raise an 4 . 1 4 in lent revenue out of the income of the clerk, ar daY: °,ll d i . foreman of artisans, which may cease any • 6 4.11: b,clps to pass ploy_ patts of the -1 11 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. Six,—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 8/. 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 Licensed Victuallers to this extraordinary advance in the tobacco license, that they may at once petition against it. _ I sal, 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. Cutrnore, in St. Ann's-lane, City, that the burglars broke in where Goddard, the gravedigger, kept his tools. This is a misstatement. Mr. Goddard is not gravedigger, but ward beadle and collector of rates for the ward of Aldersgato and the parish of St. Ann and Agnes. Trusting to your impartiality to correct this error in a line or 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—whence 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 80,000 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 long been extinct there ; and palm oil is now largely exported. 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 demand 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 : n 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.— ls. for a letter not exceeding I.alf 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 nothing 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 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, who sought shelter here from the from the fangs 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 disguire, 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- - maiely 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 will be publicly produced :tliimhoEepoaEstnooynnu i ,As n :whi t ta eL h hs e e. course of the ensuing month. projected STEAM e N te a a v m i g a r i Navigation American l—a firstul I n c hv e ee Brazilians, dssaenoldno Gfsaetnthueerr danalaeyBws Steam err line oaeimwn the building yard of Mr. John Laird, Birkenhead in the presence of a large assemblage of the principal mer chants of Liverpool. Her dimensions are :—lengtb, of f3O sparfeet d ; o obke,aBmf,e feet feet; tonnage,dep tholodf measure,hold, 14 f i ee o ll 4 height new rule, about 1,300. She has engines of 200 h o, ; :wer. RAILWAY RETURNS.—On Saturday was rin rs t e ed i) par liamentary document, extending to 36 folio pages,taining returns relative to capital and loans,l co i n ; &c., of all railways. It appears that the capi e ta u l gt an loan authorised to Dec., 1850, amount e d t o 3 62,726,677/, and by act passed in 1851, 6 ,815,1721.. ma ki ng 369,611,8491. The reduction authorised was 9,183,4011. The decrease in 1851 was 1,368,2291. The amount raised by shares and loans during 1851 was 7,970,151/. The amount raised at the end of 1851 was 248,240,897/. 4s. 6d , and the amount which at the end of 1851 the companies retained powers to raise was 113,382,0471. 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 mar Mr o . , R i s also t R. P. Co o be llie gr,porooo on with ; it mote w d i by the supporters of Mr. is for want of proper qualification ; but the friends of Mr. Collier assert that there are no grounds to sustain i o t r s pmraayye,r.andThthe scoimocimuiitrtyeewwilillliboe asltlruperkobfoarbiolintythoeom3d. mence about the 6th or 7th. The inquiry will be of:all the more public interest from its presumed collateral bearing upon the laboursofofstirheßcooomjammiitoteHe a t l o l i b n e c a o p n: pointed upon the motion ncxion with the dispen qa tiog of, patronage irkthe, Royal D bckyardta. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1853. M. KOSSUTH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Slll,—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 bu tie 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 fou, Sir, they will be thoughts of pain and sorrow, as they are to your obedient servant, MAYNE REID. 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 oan'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- L 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 brothers 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 lace — 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 have never come within the sphere of English law at all ? These fears are not unfounded on fact. Listen yet a little, Sir. Mr. Dunford, printer and stationer, resid ing 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 to 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, previous 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" —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 know, that they had orders to mark every such person, and even 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 carman 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 only 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 proffered refuge. But if you induce us to believe that England is 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 means of betraying my beloved compatriot , ' to the Aus trian hangman ? I used to read that an Englishman's house was his castle, and, according to my Hungarian notions, the stranger who is received among you should have equally sacred rights. But perhaps lam wrong. Those are old fashioned principles of common law, exploded by many a petty "coup d'dtat." Englishmen are contented to be liable to search warrants themselves upon "informa tion," and therefore I must be contented. Is it so ? or are refugees placed under exceptional law, in order to please foreign tyrants ? These are the questions which agitate my mind, I hope you will help me to have them answered, and I have the honour to remain,. Dear sir, yours faihfully, L. KOSSUTH. Captain Mayne Reid, 14, Alpha-road, Regent's-park. A RUNAWAY BRIDEGROOM,—One day last week, says Galignani, some police agents stationed themselves at the terminus of the Strasburg Railway, and on the train arriving, arrested a young man who came by it, and who was about to proceed to Havre to embark for Ame rica. He at first remonstrated, but on being shown a formal order, he accompanied the agents quietly to the Prdfecture. The motive of his arrest is as follows : He had demanded in marriage a young girl in the neigh bourhood of Baden and his offer was accepted. Having gone through all the usual formalities by means of forged papers, the father of the intended bride on the evening previous to the day fixed on for the ceremony handed over to the suitor the lady's dowry, which consisted of a good round sum in gold and silver. Immediately, on receiving the money, the young man decamped by the railway for Paris, but was stopped as above stated through the agency of that powerful auxiliary to the police, the electric telegraph. He had in his possession, when arrested, all the money which he had received, With the exception of what he had paid for his journey. He was gent bacic ciatody to Baden, 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, " Trade was dull at Bombay, and money plenti ful. " According to advices from China, of the 12th t., 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 UNI FED STATES. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.—The royal mail steam ship Niagara, Capt. Laing, arrived in the Mersey to-night, with 120 passengers, but no specie on freight. NEW YORK, APRIL 12. There has been a rupture in the Cabinet at Washington. Mr. Marcy has resigned the Secre taryship of StA ; 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 Lull 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 ma - de 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. The Moniteur announces that the French Go vernment, desirous to wait for the result of experi ments which are likely to effect a most advantageous alteration in the condition of steam navigation, and judging it to be imprudent to engage the financial responsibilities of the country, in the pre sent state of uncertainty, to the extent of the subsidy of 15,000,000 f., demanded by the various steam navigation companies, has resolved to adjourn the 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 23d 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 represext 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. Closin F auotations—Cash : Three per Cents., 80f. 25c. ; ur-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., 103 i. Bank Shares, 109 k Exchange on Five 23 i. per To u C r n e a n y t s . t , i h l w O ay n e sh p a e r r es C: 3 n 2 t o s . 2; London, three months, 6.22/. —Brussels (Satur day): Belgian Four-and-a. Half per Cents., 981'; Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 55 13-16. Austrian 84g.0 rb i sSellaßn Spanish Charleroi to Louvain, 507 ; Dendre to W aes, 536. 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 bo 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. 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 named Governor of the province of Madrid. The following are the prices of Stocks :—Three per Cents., 43 9-16 ; ditto Deferred, 241 ; Redeem able Debt, first class, 11* ; ditto second class, 5g- ; Coupon Certificates, 4. Exchange on London, 51 20. 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 remamed masters of the ground and captured many of the insurgents. Tranquillity is restored. THE PENINSULAR MAIL• The Peninsular and Oriental Compaq' steam ship Tagus, Captain Joy, arrived at South am p ton yesterday, at twelve o'clock. s Her dates are Gibralter 14th, Lisbon 19th, and Vigo and Oporto 20th. She brings sixty-six passengers, seven packages specie value 2,400/., 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, 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 sittings. The Bengal, which did not reach Gibraltar until the 10th, was delayed by contrary winds in the Channel, and other causes. She, however, made during portions of her voyage as much as 15i knots per hour. It is stated that scientific men consider the fate of paddle-wheels now certain. Lisbon 'exchange on London 544 for bills at 90 days' date. The Lisbon exchanges are 5411. on London for bills of 90 days ; Paris, 528 ; Amsterdam, 45i.; Portuguese Stock at Five per Cent. was 40 to 41 ; Four per Cents., 32 to 32k ; little doing. Bank o f 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 Teviot arrived on the 13th, and proceeded to Rio on the 14th. 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 to Mr. Walter Lacy. The Macbeth of Mr. Ryder produced no ordinary im pression on the audience, who testified, by cordial 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 and lasting credit upon him as a tra gedian, eminently enhanced his histrionic reputati He on, and materially adva nced his professional position. 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 concluding 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 -Chiefs 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 according to the new Admiralty regulations promulgated on the 18th instant,—Portsmoutl4 Time. THE SHARE MARKETS, BRITISH RAILWAYS. ICloslng Prices . Saturday. Business done this day. ihr. I Paid it. 1100 to I 8 .4 I all Cl 1 28 :7il all 2 184 ;t. 100 3t. 100 i 0 all 0 all * all 5 1 all 5 all ;5 all .8 all 0 all 5 all 5 8 5 all it. 100 i 0 all ;t. 100 .0 1i ;t. 100 ;t. 100 ;t. 100 ;t. 100 ;t. 100 ;t. 100 'it. 100 L 2 11 50 all Lei 111 100 L 4 1 114 50 all . 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Bristol & Exeter.-- Caledonian..... ....... Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black. & Pass. Dublin&BelfastJunc Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction ....... Do. New East Anglian (X 25 L. & E. & L. & D.)..... Do., (XlB E. & H.).. Eastern Counties..... Eastern Union, Class A. late E. U. 5h.... Do., B. & C........... Feast Lancashire ...... East & West Ind. Dk. & Binning. June—. Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edinb. Prth.&Dunde Glasgow & S. Western Great Northern Stk Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock 1 Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire. ) 1 Great Western. . Leda South-Easters. Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Lancash. &Yorkshire Do., Fifths Do., Wst. Riding Un Leeds Northern Liv. Crsby. &So utbpt. London & Blackwall Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. bond. Bright. dr S. Cst. London N. Western Do. Fifths Do. ,10/.5h.,M&8...0 London & S. Western Do., £4O. ...... Lndndrry. &Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Mauch. Shef. &Lindn. Do., Man. & Lin. Un. Midland ..... Do. Blaming. & Derby Midland G. West. (Ir. ) Do. Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Newmarket. ...... Do. Bury Extensions Newpt.Aberg.&Htfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoint & Rostrevor N0rf01k......... Do., New ...... Northn.Counties Un North British North Devon, No.l Do., No. 2.......... A Deferred Do., B Guaranteed North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. June Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton Scottish Central ... Scottish Midland Shrewsbury & Birmg Do., L. & N. Westn Guaranteed Stock Shrewsby. & Herefd Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Do. Halves, do Do. Oswestry Shropshire Union South Devon. South Ea5tern......... South Wa1e5......... ..' S. Yorksh. River Dun Do . . Stockton & Hartlepl. Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limerick West Cornwall , Wmbledon &Croydon Woodford York Newctl. &Berw. Do. Extensions. Do. G.N.E. Purchase York & N. Midland.. PREFERENI 100 Aberdeen .......... 5 all Do., No. 2,7 p. c.. it. 100 Bris. & Ex. 4p.c. St 9 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares .. it. 100 Caledonian £lO ..... .5 all Chester A Holyhead Guar. 51 per cent 6j 34 Cork&Bandon 51 p.c 6all Dundee PertlidtAber demi Junction DastAnglian (.C3 10s) 6 per cent. Do. (25) 7 per cent Do. (t 7175) 7 p. ct Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l Do., No. 2 Do., New 6 p. c. St Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent EastLancash. 6 pets Edinb.Prth.&Dunde 5i per cent.......... Glasgow & S. Western guar. 5 per cent Great Northn. 5 p.c Do. 5 p. c., Redeem., at 10 p. c. prom . Gt. Southn. &Westn (Ireland) Eighths Gt. Westu. (Berke & Hants Ex. 5 p. c.) G. West. fixed 4i p c Lan. & York. F. £2O, Do., 6 p. c., Stock London and Brightoi, Guaranteed 5 p. c Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. Do. Convertible, sp. c., 1852 Do. New Guar. 6 p.c . London & S. Western Con. Thirds Londonderry& Coler iShares .........„ , Loudy. & Ennis. i SF Manch. ,Shef. , &Lin., i Shares, No. 1 Do. Now, £lO.. ..... Mary pt.&Carl. 4 p. c. Do. 4i per cent Mid. Cousol. 6 p.c. St Do. Cousol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent Do. Pref. 4 per cent Norfolk Extension Do. Guar. fiA, per ct:. Do. Way. Val. 5 p c; North British .. North Staffordshire Oxford Worcester & Wolverh. £15,6 p. c. Do.. Shrews& Birm. IN . G. Shrewsby. & Cho:.' -r (Nor.W.Min),B p. c. Do. 5 per cent South Devon Do. New S. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of £1 Os.6d. S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c. York Newcastle and Berwick,4 p.c.Pref Do 341 all 5 all 74 2 6S all 6i all LO all !O all ;t. 100 5 1 all ;t. I 100 JOO t. l t 6o 64 all A. 100 L 6 6 3t. 100 3t. 100 It. 1100 of) I all >t. 1100 i 0 I 5 1.2al 10 12 1 all 35 I all 6I all 3 I L2A all L2i all I L2l 8 St. 100 St. 100 01 5 all 5 all 2 all ;t. 100 all St. 100 .5I 9 8 all LO all 10 10 25 all 10 14 .0.6 all ;0 all 5 3 3t. 100 ;5111 5 10 York& N. Midland H & S. 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Pref Western of France West. of Switzerland Zealand.. ........... i - 1 -- S A I 4 I.ok id it In £ i Pm 77i i 144' 4 119 i i 75 4i i d d f dI 151 1 15 pm 251 vii i 41 i pm LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS, Leasing Compans. Closing Prices Saturday. Business this day. RATLwATB B iford and Blotchley.... Birm. & Oxfd. guarantee.... Do. withoutgr Birm. Wolv. & Dudley guar. Do. wtht guar. Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. Glstr.& Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. A Shares. Do. Shares. Lon.&Greenw Do. Preference Low.;stoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Mauch. Bxtu. J and Matlock Middlesbro' & Redcar. Aidld. Bradfd. Northern and Easternsp.c. Do. 6 per ct. Do. Fixeds p c, Prest. Wyre. Do. shares. Roystn.& Hit. Do. Shcpth. St Shef. Roth.and Goole g. 5 p. c. S. Staffordsh. Wear Valleygr 6 per cent Do i W7ts&Somrst !London k N. WestH Gt.Westn Do Do Do L. &N. W, Caledon., Gt.Nrthn. Gt. Westn Yk. Now. & Berw. Y. &NMcl Do Do S. Eastern Do Norfolk Do IL &N W ! & Stekton & Darlingt. Aidlantl.. E. Count, Do Do L. &N.W &Ln&Yk 11)o Gt Northn Do Lancash & Yorksh. M. MClean Stockt. & I Darling* I( l ?fWestn: 107 - 109 53 - 55 149 —lslxd 33 —33 i 112 - 114 56 - 57 274 - 283 14 - 143 26 - 27 19i -19 i 26 -- 27 3 - 34 .06 - 108 6 4 - 66 49 - 151 Ll 9 - 151 1 - 3(1 33 2 11 ,1011 - 1052 MINES. 11 all Is. all .0 2 Agua Fria Anglo Californian Australasian Australian Australian Cordillera Australian Freehold Ave Maria Baden (Gd. Duchy of) British Austria. Gold British Iron —l 3 4i 5 par— 1 all 1 all 1 all 1 all 1 all !O 13.5 15 24 i d P .. P —lO par 4 Bmzilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm Do. Coeaes & Cuiada' Do. St. John Del Rey Carsons's Creek Cobre Copper - 5 — 65 i 30 31 par— 4 p 46,E —47 A 1-1 6A 7A 75 85 9 10 p 'Colonial Gold.. it. all 5 all 5 all Coniapo Copper MM. of Eng Do. Pref. 74 p. cent English and Attstin Copper Smeltg. Co General ?,0 all 2 all 3 all 1 all 1 all 1 all 1R 1i dl 15 17 11 2 p Great Nugget Vein Great Po'gooth. Lake Bathurst Liberty Lond. &Californ. Gold Quartz Crush. Co Mariquita Mexicau&S.Amerien New Granada f pil l 1 P R 4 par 7 i 8 i - P I 11p 1 par— I p par—. 4 p 24 26 p 7 8 6 7 * d pxn 10 12xci 6 —6} par-- p par— p par— p 1 all LO 9 1 all 1 all 6 1 1 all Nouveau Monde Port Philip 'Quartz Rock ... Rhymney Iron Do. New ;CI 10i 1 all LO 7 !fik all 1 all 1 all 1 all 1 all Santiago do Cuba South Ausldal'ln Tin Croft United Mexican Waller (West Granada. I`Vest Mariposa.• Yuba JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia B5 87xd 86 50 all British N. American ... 62 20 2 Chrtd. Buk. of India, Australia, & China 1 p 3 100 25 Colonial —19 A 100 20 Commercial of Lond — 10 English Scottish and Australian 1 lip 20 121 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 2il— 3 p 50 20 London and County — 50 10 London Joint Stock — 100 20 Loud. & Westminster —35 i 20 2 London Bauk of Aus tralia and India ... d— par 50 22 National of Ireland.. 25 all Oriental Bank of Corporation. 52 54 25 5 Do. New — 100 25 Provincial of Ireland 10 all Do. New — ••• 5 1 Royal Australn.Bkg & Gold Imp Co — d 25 all South Australia 4B 50 25 all Union of Australia 754 764 ... 2), I Do. New 8 9 50 10 Union of London 40 all Union of Madrid • MISCELLANEOUS 100 35 Australian Agricultd 83 85 82 3 20 4 Australsn.Pcitic.Maill ... ... 10 5 Australu. Royal Mail .. _ ... 50 383 Brit. American Land 78 80 100 323 Canada — ... 5 5 Crystal Palace l} 1..} 4 2 Crystal Pal.of France ... ... 3 20 1 Eastern Steam — ... 1 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir ... ... 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat ... ... 100 50 General Screw Steam ... ... 20 21 Irish Beetroot Sugar ... ... 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel ... ... 10 2 Netherlands Laud._ ... _ ... 20 21 Nr'•.ofEuropeSteam ... ... 50 all Peninsular& Oriental ... ... 83 50 25 Do. Do. ... ... 461 100 60 Royal Mail Steam ... ... -- 25 25 South Austral. Land 47 49 1 - 1 Submar. Telegraph.. ... ... 5 2 Univeral Emigration and Colonization.... ... ... 100 281 Van Diemen's*Land 191 201 LLOYD'S SHIPPIAG-(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 21.—The James and Emma, Antwerp to London, is sunk on the Kentish Knock ; crew saved. PLYMOUTH, April 21.—The Kinnear, London to Sydney, N.S.W., has put in. leaky, and must discharge. FALMOUTH, April 21.—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 24.—Arrsved—ri.m.'s a. Hastings, India, Sze. Off Port—Camperdown, Calcutta. LIVERPOOL, April 24.—Wind, N.W. Arrived—Ore gon, New Orleans ; Tyrrell, 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, New Orleans ; Lucy Thompson, do. ; Asia (a), do. ; Comoz, do. ; Lord Maidstone, Quebec ; Anna Dorot'lea, New Orleans. April 25—Arrived—Nia gara (s), Bos.on. 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; crcw saved and arrived here. LISBON, April 18.—A derelict vessel, said to be laden with timber, and her stern washed awpy, has been passed on the coast. H.M.'s st. Firebrand has gone in search of her. ARREST OF DRS. ITLLATIIORNE 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 neighbourhood. 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 dowing a mission in Oxfordshire ; and having relected Radford 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 tr Colleg s e for the time being , whoev er the y might be, as ustee for the charity. In this way the trust devolved upon Dr. Ullathorne and Dr. Moore, and they beeame ex officio trustees of the property, but without possessing one farthing beneficial i n terest in th k e transa failed ction. About two years ago , however ' the ban with heavy liabilities, and Pr. Ullathorne and Dr. Moore entered into fan arrangement to pay 1,0001., 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 601. per share, minus the 1,0001. , wa s made upon the m, amountin g to 3,8001, Notice of payment was served, and answer retnrned that it was utterly impossible to meet the demand, that the money already paid had been raised at the inconvenience of friends ; and that all that could be done was to surren der the actual personal property of which tloie2yo\o7.re This proposal Nn tu al l y wase,pos sessed, &c , amountl as, r D o c r. eeditlgs ing. t were taken, a n d including d. library, Pt. on e sTrufTuesday sde ay Mr. Badh am •, an d e was arrest e d, e at his residence in Bath-street, yesterday Dr. Mo ore was arrested by at Oscott Coll ege . These two gentlemen are now in custody, never having received one farthing consideration for the onerous lia bility which they have unconsciously_ incurred. They have no alternative, therefore, but to pass through the Insolvency Court, a s the only means of obtaining their discharge.—Birming pE l e t l a z :___ IMPORTS O F ' England during the From New York, per City of Glasgow, 5 per Great Woetern Brazils, 78,114 oz. gold;past n j B l7.:l:e n a a l r n . *vals of specie into A week have been as follows :-- From $47,000 ; Philadelphia, per ,000 ; Port Philip, per Ballarat, per Tay, 350/. ; West Indies, i 3 • 2i i WI all KI4 all ;Oi all ;t. 100 0 all it. 100 .),5 all )0 all $0 all ?,5 all 2. all 3 all !O all ;0 all ;0 all 5A all O all O all ;5" all 2 11 ft,. 100 ;t. 100 5 18g 5" all 3t. 100 3 2i a ii i 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 ee Guardiao, the Leeds Mercury, and all such like S , icinian, 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, and see what Gladstone will send you." We proceed to the proofs of our own grave impeachment. We take first and foremost the case of that vile and most unprincipled print the London Times. 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 opiinons. Mr. Gladstone, to favour some 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. On 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 1" 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," he de scribes himself—a lyarister, 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 t Q. 2016. You are connected with the Times? A. Yes, I am the Manager of it. Q. 2028. You say the " Times" paid 66,000/. 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. ? A. Yns. 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 !! ! 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, remembering how 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 ! NEWSPAPER SUPPLEMENTS. TO THE HON. THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. The humble Petition of Charles Anthony, Proprietor of the Ihreford Times Newspaper, Sheweth,—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 Tights—(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 confusion, in fact would be totally impracticable. On the contrary, the news columns are entirely under the con; trol of the editor ; he can shorten or nthFn t em . a their extent. sequently, on these reasonable will, the fluctuating number of a dvertisements ehnotnoaun ra bdi i i n esc fl hr u oe e tu n iso c en in t g oof That your petitioner con or description of matter he halfpenny stamp to all tellyseerfosession, business, trade, or news paperaapnpdlyp r t a hs c ue t p i ca pire l p :ro t supplement ; discretion tsuonfdwtshbatsoev.e,dle:ping free and lin. uy a dgu t inr ion to which the news responsibility, is as fairly eplstfeniehaiattpaetvi news paper lren r ei e dg f iest ot , deoimrrt a tob s arii nnss any nt t itthpyoh p :a r tnot e hute s fehn e wr n deesner t ep e , dai p .atpo r a t puimr l calling. Yoiir petitioner therefore prays your honourable house to grant the said unrestricted repeal, thereby doing equal justice to all newspaper proprietors, allow ing the supplement, in the apt and forcible language of the right hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer "to go free through the post, as part and parcel of the news paper." The effect of such repeal your petitioner con scientiously believes will be to strengthen and elevate the character of the imperial press ; to extend its sphere of intellectual and moral influence""; and to afford in creased and useful information as well as rational enjoy ment to the great body of her Majesty's faithful subjects. And house.n(l y)ur petitioner will ever pray for your honour able CHARLES ANTHONY. KILMAINHAM 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, 1631 ; of the Royal warrant of her Gracious Majesty, dated the 16th of De cember, 1845, regulating the establishment or the hos pital, and of the correspondence betwe en the Rightrnors of Hon. Fox Maule, late Secretary - at - War , and the gove the hospital, prohibiting the further admission of dis charged soldiers. I 64i 224 d 3i dis P 6 P 86 i 92 151 Og .1 30 i 69i i 11031 1p 2 p 2 p 1 11 i ip l id