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

~~ ecio' 4 4 3 4 34 TEE INCOME TAX• (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Mr. Gladstone's abominable Budget seems to have been cunningly prompted for the pecuniary benefit of some large fundholding sybarite. For 40 years without rhyme or reason, he is to be ensured 2/. 17s. 9d. per cent. interest upon every 1001. of his Consols. His foreign-built carriage is to be imported free of all duty. At breakfast, he is to daintily satisfy his appetite with duty-free sausages from Bologna and Reindeer tongues from Lapland. After spell ing through the unstamped advertising sheet of the Times, he takes an hour's stroll into his pre serves, and with the help of his keepers and beaters and duty-free foreign gunpowder, he contrives to knock some scores of tame pheasants, orders his un- Aler butler to seal their crowns with free-of-duty fo reign perfumed sealing-wax—and then to his luneb, Which willconsist of sandwiches made from delicious °am imported duty-free from Westphalia, washed down with foreign metheglin, also imported duty fee. He drawls through the afternoon in gos ,,Ping tittle-tattle and at dinner he is served with his soup made fronaltalian macaroni and vermicelli, Which are to pay less than half a farthing per lb. duty. He is then primed for feasting upon foreign - caug h t turtle and salmon, and turbot with oyster sauce, all free of duty. Then he attacks a free-of-duty foreign -truffle stuffed French turkey and Portugal ham, and after filling up crevices with duty-free grouse and ptarmigan from Norway, and canvas backed duck from New York, which he washes down with duty-free champaigned cider and perry :11Ported from Germany, he complacent l y lavers uls effeminate fingers in duty-free foreign rose water, and then exercises the brightness of his intellect by yawning at the foreign duty-free pic ture frames, and pictures, and marble statues, Which luxuriously adorn. his salle-d-manger. At dessert he partakes of foreign grapes, and medla rs , 4 , 11 € 1 quinces, paying only 2d. per bushel duty , and th• e blazin g wax candles, which are to pay o nl y a per lb. duty, exhibit to his foreign-acquired taste the gaudily painted foreign oil-cloth table "ors, imported at the duty of only one penny per square yard. After his claret, which he will endea vour to import at the duty of only 2d. a bottle, he "ill sip his cup of chicory-coffee free of duty, washing it down with a glass or two of duty-free honied. Nuor ; and, if the night be not spent at the gaming , his or in other d'ssipation, he may then ret ire to ma eider-downed bed to sorrowfully meditate upon the hardness of his fate. But the poor striving tradesman, or skilled arti. San, or over-worked clerk, or much-pitied parson, Who chances to rejoice in some hard-earned pittance between 1001. and 1501. a year, is for the first time during the present generation to be unmercifully taxed for seven long years at the rate of sd. in the Pound. He is not to eat rank Holstein butter u nless he pays upwards of a halfpenny a lb. duty , nor the coarsest Dutch cheese without paying a duty of upwards of a farthing a lb. Foreign raw apples and pears he must not touch without paying the duty of 3d. per bushel—if dried, one khilling a bushel— nor dates, a health-promoting and nutritive fruit, without paying more than a ld. per lb. duty. -1 4 -' l B wife is not to make a foreign potato-flour pud ding, or his children eat their foreign-oatmeal Porridge, or foreign bread or biscuit, except by pay ing the duty of lid. per cwt. His humble tallow lip twelves must pay a farthing per lb. duty. If he be a temperate man desirous to indulge in the Wholesome beverage of spruce beer he must pay about 3d. per gallon duty, and he will not even be allowed to brew it himself without paying 2s. 6d. a lb. duty upon the foreign essence. And %f, in the honest pride of his heart, he should wish to make a birthday present of the tinyest silk parasol or a foreign hat or bonnet, however coarsely manufac tured of felt, or hair, or wool, or beaver, to the wife of his bosom or the bairn of his loins, he dare not do 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 born" Budget is impudently called an extension of free trade Query—Would Satan himself ever at tempt to palm off such arrant hypocrisy even among the unhappy inmates of Bedlath ? This [Queen's head stamped on the writing-paper itself, and not a Queen's head postage stamp] is the Stamp which should be used for the new stamp-re ceipts, and on Bankers' cheques. The Times is dreami ng over his cleverly-concocted advertising ob, and his penny-label correspondents are a set of tvraddiers. COPYOF A LETTER" ADDRESSED TO JOHN BRIGHT, ESQ., M.P., ON THE PROPOSAL TO XXTEND THE INCOME TAX TO £lOO A "YEAR. Patricroft, near Manchester, April 23, 1853. beg respectfully to entreat your earnest oppo sition to the parts of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's J/lidget prop os i ng t o un t ax th e wea lthy man's "men ser oltte, priv a t e carr i ages , h orses , and dogs," to the extent 0 1 90 .000/, p er annum , and to tax the precarious incomes il l° o /. to 1501. a-year to supply the deficiency ; for such hive really be the operation of the Chancellor of the Ex *Ters Plan. Barefaced proposals to rob the compara le Poor to give more to the already rich. sta l ; e rie who has thoroughly investigated and under the ` lB the matter will say, as the Chancellor of the Ex pliprler intimated, and as is stated in th e Times news- WM Qf the 19th inst., that " the man with 1201. a year hr. n , "e as well o ff under the propose d chan g es, on a bare ca 4 ) , — Ltitation of losses and gains , " as I will show from ` ll ease, taking the assumed income of 1201. a year. Ba rop osed . tax sd. in the £. £2 10 0 , vir igs by the proposed reduction of duties in —hi,faalily—self, wife, and nine children (sup posing the price of all articles to be reduced "" the consumer the full amount of the reduc tion of duty, which I believe very few expect, and which certainly will not be the case with respect to all the articles enumerated • as to t ea, it is well known that the merchants and de alers intend to pocket the 41d. per lb. re duction in duty, for it is too small an amount te share with purchasers of ounces and Vbs. of tea) Consumption of tea, average +lb per week, duty reduced 5 5 Ditto soap, 31b. ditto ditto l3 0 Ditto butter, 41b. ditto ditto Ditto cheese Vb. ditto ditto Ditto eggs, doz. ditto ditto 1 3 • Ditto apples, say a bushel a year 1 9 I 11 6 LOBB by the proposed "readjustment" of taxa- -- ti0n.................................................. £0 18 6 Our consumption of all the other articles th e dut y on Which is reduced, is so trifling as not to be worth taking lot° account. Thus the loss to such as me would be not less than Th 40 8. 6d. per annum, and probably much more. And this is no t the time for laying more taxation on those whose precarious incomes, of which there is no chance of increase, range from 1001. to 1501. per year— now that bread is fully 1-10th dearer than during the Previous two years—animal food far above the average tice—butter and cheese high—potatoes, essential in g e families, enormously dear. The present increased Price of potatoes alone over the average of years before the potato disease 'made its appearance, is, on the quan tity we requi r e, e q ua l t o th e p ro p ose d income tax On 1001. a-year ; and leather, which forms an important item in the shape of shoes, has advanced in price at least 20 per cent., and no prospect of the price being lower, as very few hides are now received from South America, Whence, 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 Exohequer'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 the people, and to adjust fairly the burthen of taxation (which freehold property, in my own and numerous other instances, has not made 3 per cent., the property itself being now sot worth what it cost by 15 to 20 per tent), and who looked anxiously forward . to the rep ea l of the corn laws, and the rem oval of restrictions on the importation of articles of food-generally, as measures of great benefit, which would enable us to ex expend more on the education o f our children, make home more comfortable, and save a little against a "rainy day, " are to be deprived of the anticipated bene -I.to, except the miserably small total calculated saving of 4 per cent.—not equal to the present increased cost of butchers' meat and potatoes. Further, it is most unjust that an income of 1001. should be taxed 21..15. Bd., whilst 991. pays nothing. If it is considered " expedient" that all precarious in comes under 1001. a-year should be exempt, then the only equitable and common-sense course will be to corn blenee charging from 1001. and not from 11., and progress thus—let 1101. pay 10 fivepences or 4s. 2d.; 115/, pay 15 fivepences or 6s. 3d ; 1201. pay Bs. 4d. ; and so on charging all parts of 51. as 51. This plan Would be simple and so just that I am sure no one would object to it, and what is still more important the prin cipal inducement to fraud in making returns of income Would be removed, and this plan should be extended to all precarious incomes under 2501. or 3001. a-year. Be yond these amounts tax on the whole income could be better afforded. Again, if the income tax is to be levied on incomes under 1501., what constitutes the " inexpediency " of trenching " on what th e Chancellor of the Exchequer Pleased to c a ll " th e t err it ory o f l a b ou r "—that is the inexpediency of taxing artisans and foremen of arti ,ll),!B, thous an d s o f w h om i n England earn From 1001. to ot• per annum, with l ess r i s k of injury to health and .„ ° n gevity th an the clerks and others who will be *object to the proposed extension of the income tax? \ Aut. is it b u t th e f ear that a storm of strenuous, indig ricon t opposition would be raised by this class, which ultk dri ve f rom off i ce the ' present Ministry, or any Other _Ministry, th a t p ropose d such a re-adjustment of ",Xation as is now before the public, viz., the untaxing t he rich man's luxuries in the shape of " men-ser 'l4, ci ‘rriazes horses, and dogs," and to raise an teisacluivalent re - ver ' me out of the income of i the clerk ar day!) and forerhih of -- arlisa" cepse 'any -4113 ' 141 ,..P. 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. - - - - SIR,—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 81. ls. 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 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 OP 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 misstatement. Mr. Goddard is not gravedigger, but ward beadle and collector of rates for the ward of Aldersgate and the parish of St. Ann anti 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 : 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 Newt. 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 1 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 Excelle nc y 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 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 will be publicly produced in the course of the ensuing month. STEAM TO THE BR AZILS . —The Braziliana, a screw steamer of 1,100 tons, the first vessel of the new line Navigation Comp d any, projected by the South American and General Steam the presence oy;''was launched on Saturday from the building of Liverpoo yard largec. Mr. John Laird, Birkenhead, in ; ' assemblage of the principal mer chants23o feet • beam, 30 feet • Her dimensions are ;—length, of spar deck, 8 feetdepth of hold, 14 feet ; height rule, about 1,300. She tonnage, la old measure, 1,014 ; new RAILWAY RETURNS. — On engines of 200 horse-power. par liamentary document, extending was printed a con taining returns relative to capitalo 36 folio pages, &c., of all railways. It appears and l loans, lengths, loan authorised to Dec., 1850, amountedtls the capital and and by act passed in 1851, 6,815L773,672,726,6771, 369,611,8491. The reduction authorised' " --.making The decrease in 1851 was 1,368,2291. was 9,183,4011. raised by shares and loans during /851 Was 7,970,1511. amount The amount raised at the end of 1851 was 248,240,8971. 4s. 6d , and the amount which at the end of 1851 t. companies retained powers to raise was 113,382,0471. e 19s. 2d., making 361,622,945 1 . 3s. Bd. The capital authorised previous to December, 1851, was 361,428,448/. 17s. The difference which has been raised by compa n i es in excess of their parliamentary powers is 194,4961. 6s.TBHCIE 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. R 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 hearing upon the labours of the committee, to be ap. m otion pointed upon the of Sir Benjamin Hall in eon. nexion with the dispensation of patronage in the Roya Dockyards. r, T THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 25. 1€55:3 tirtirb vtottoit NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SWEEPSTAKES. Ephesus Nervous HANDICAP. Petrel .. Julien.. SWEEPSTAKES, 50 Sovs., A.F. Alamode Diomedia £5O. LAST THREE MILES B.C. Ariosto John of Berwick M. KOSSUTH. TO THE EDITOR OP 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 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 politicid 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 atfleast 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 I 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 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 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 t o wa tch 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 ke 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 you then give me 'no security that, in using this common privilege, I shall not become the means of betraying my beloved compatriotH to the Aus ctsorairnclairnpneudagisineeaninlg, w g h t wm h o t ia : l . ln read ? that an Englishman's house was his s c;:stle, and, according to my Hungarian notions, the is received i v e e r d h a among m youshouldwrong. Thoseh v e e a q r u e a o l y d fashioned principles perhaps corn s mon law ' exploded by many a petty ' ° coup d'et a t." En g li s h men 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 Tiie sforeignl etyrantsquestions ? stions which agitate my mind, I hope you will help me to have them answered, and 1 have the hopour to remain, 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 12 th 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 oould 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 Stata ; 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. MARBETS.—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 109 f 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 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., 1031. Bank Shares, 1091 Exchange on London, three months, 6.22i.—russels (Satur day)s Belgian Four-and-a. Half per Cents., 98i ; Two-and-a-Half per Cants., 55 13-16. Austrian Five per Cents., 84#. Spanish One per Cents., 23k. Tournay to Jurbise Railway shares, 320 ; Charleroi to Louvain, 507 ; Dendre to Waes, 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 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," Arc. 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, 24i ; Redeem able Debt, first class, 11* ; ditto second class, 6• ; Coupon Certificates, 4. Exchange on London, 51 20. SWITZERLAND. A dispatch from Friburg, bearing date April 22, announces that the city of Friburg has beenin 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. THE PENINSULAR MAIL• The Peninsular and Oxlental 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 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 15 knots per hour. It is stated that scientific men consider the fate of paddle-wheels now certain. Lisbon exchange on London 541 for bills at 90 days' date. The Lisbon exchanges are 54a 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 32i ; little doing. Bank of Portugal Shares, 190 to 185 milreis discount. Stock and shares, prices subject to current discount of 2i 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 mas terl y 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 reputation, and materially advanced his professional position. He takes rank henceforwaid 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. DOCKYAThe 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. —POrtBMOUth Tilllo. THE SHARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Closing Prices this day. 28f— 29f 5i 61 10 —10 f 7i 6id 21 22 d 3f 2fd 104 105 64f 65 21 —22 i 20f 24 4 -5 pm 8 -- 9 ... - . 5 5§ 3 4 13 i —13 a 10 11 7 - 7i 72 - 74 55 - 57 73 - 75 32 - 34 63 - 65 86 - 811 53 - 55 128 -,--130 1091 —llO 91 -- 921 7 -- 81 92 -- 94 13 -13 p; 77 -- 776 1 -- 46 d' --333 d 1 -- 164 92 6 it pm 771 i 15i 16} ... - ... 1 li 2 91 - 9i p 1 91 1 • 1 I 104 —1054104145 119 120 1191 if 2 3 p I 1 —ll3 p 90 ni 5 4 4 3Ad 12 13 19 21 24 34 3 — 3 0 d 74t 75 43 - 45 30* 75 4j & 50 52 Par 4 P 4 3 d 3 34 52 8 -= 54 3 -- 2i d 34i -35 i -.d! 811 44 8g 2 - 3 501 -- 5 4 99 -- 100 I 62 -- 63 64 -- 661 73 -- 76 lt -- Oid 17 -- 19 8i 13 -- 15 31-3 d 20i.-- 211 75 -- 76 36i 37 13 -- 14 4 -- 41 19 -- 21 3 -- 34 15 -- 16 9i -- 91 31 -- 32 10i -- 11 d par .. 61 - 69i7 7 d 2 2id 58 591 1 Paid.l `Aberdeen Ambg. Nottng. Bost & Eastn. Junct Birmg. Wolverh. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lanesh. Cheshire Juliet Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £2O Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Blackrock and Passage Dublin&Belfast June Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction Do. New East Anglian. (£25 L and E. & L. & D.) Do. Do. (181. E.& H.) Eastern Counties Eastern Union, Class A. (late E. U. Sh.) Do., do Do., B. and C East Lancashire East & West Ind. Dk & Birming. June 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow) 1 Edin. and Peebles 100 Edin. Prth. &Dundee 100 Glasgow &S. Western 100 Great Northern Stk 100 Do., A. Stock 100 Do., B. Stock 100 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 100 Great Western 11 Irish South-Eastern all Lancaster & Carlisle ni Do., Thirds 100 Lanc a sh &Yor k s h ire 15 'Do., Fifths 11i Do., Wst. Riding Un all Leeds Northern :IT o b :t s hN . &&.mS W es ter n Blackwell s t ut Be h n d t 12100 : 0 a 11 1 11 3 DD lAL f oo o oo v u n n u .. :d d d d e : Fo o . . f tr ihg: & S. Cat. 100 'London & S. Western 42i Do., £5O 34 I Do., £4O 25 all Londerry.&Coleraine 25 all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. St. 100 i Manch. Shef. &Lincln 41, Do., Man. & Lin. Un. St. 100 Midland St. 100 Do.Birming. & Derbyl 60 47i Midland G. West.(lr.) 25 17 Do. Shares 100 all Newcastle & Carlisle St. 100 Newmarket 6 3i Do. Bury Extension 25 16 Newp. Aberg. &Hftd 60 7i Newry & Enniskillen 20 a ll Newry, Warrenpoint, and Itestrevor Norfolk IDo. , New St. Ii , ; ( INorihn.Counties Un L North British L 3 North Devon, No. 1 6i Do., No. 2 i ll Do., A Deferred .' • 5 Do., B Guaranteed r North Staffordshire North Western ,0 N. &S. Westrn. unc K 1 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton )O Scottish Central )0 Scottish Midland )0 Shrewsbury & Birmg Kt Do., L. & N. Westn Guaranteed Stock. 10 8 Shrewsby.& Hereford 26i all Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Dfin.) 13A all Do. Halves do . 20 all Do Do. Oswestiy 20 sj Shropshire Union ill South Devon )0 South Eastern dl South Wales L 5 S. Yorksh.River Dun 5 Do. L 6 Stockton & Hartlepl L 9 Thames Haven Dock and Railway' 7 Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford& Limerick .4 West Cornwall .1s Wimbledon&Croydn 1 Woodford 10 York NewctL&Berw. O Do. Extensions 1 3 / 4 Do. G. N. E. Purchise York & N. Midlard 1 50 a St. 10 50 a 20 1 20 25 I li 2011' 20 a] 20 1 , 10 1/. 10 St. rl 25 21 25 1 St. 10 PREFERENCE SHIRE , Aberdeen I [1 Do., No. 2,7 p. c 10 Bris. & Es. 4 p. c. St 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares )0 Caledonian £lO 611 Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5i per cent. al Cork &Bandon 51 p. c. ,11 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 11 E. Ang. (705.) 6p. c. 11 Do. (5). 7 per cent. 2 Do. (.£7 17s), 7. p et. 11 Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l 11 Do., No. 2 11 Do., New 6p. c. St 11 Eastern Union Scrip Gust. 6 per cent 0 East Lanc,ash. 6p. cts 11 Edinb. Prth.&Dund K) Glasgow &S. Western Guar. 5 per cent K) Great Northn. sp. c 10 Do. 5 p. c., Redeem at 10 p. c. prem , 11 Gt.S outhn. & Westn (Ireland) Eights 6 Gt. Westn. (Berke & Hants Ex. 5 p. c ) )0 Great Western, fixed 4 3 / 4 per cent 6 Lan. & York. F. £2O 30 Do., 6 p. c., Stock .00 Londonand Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. e St. 1100 Do. Pref. 5 p. c., St 50 I all Do. Convertible, 5 p c., 1852 X) Do. New Guar. 6p. (3 5 London &S. Western, Con. Thirds .0 Londonderry & Coler Shares . 11 Londndry. & Ennisk Shares 11 Bla,nch.,Shef. ,&Lin , Shares, No. 1 11 Do., New, £lO 3 Do., £6 11 Marypt. & Carl. 4p. c, 11 Do. 4 3 / 4 per cent..., 8 3 / 4 Do .._ 5 I al St. 10 20 15 I a] " I a: 5 a] St. 11 5 I St. 1, St. 11l St. 111 16 St. 11 St. li St. I li 50 12al 1 12.1 al 12?,1 Mid. Consol. 6 p. c. St. Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent.... 5 Do. Pref. 4A percent. 11 Norfolk Extension... 11 Do. Guar. 5A per ct. 11 Do. Waveney Valley 5 per cent........ ...' )0 North British ..... 11 North Staffordshire.. )0 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh. £15,6p. c. 9 ,Do. 16 20 1 al 5 al St. 10 20 al St. 10 U Shrewsbury & Birm. New Guaranteed 11 Shrewsby. & Chester Nor. W. (Min), 3 p. c. .0 Do. 5 per cent, El South Devon Do. New 11 S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) f£l Os. 6d. 11 S.Yorksh.4p.s.Guar. 3 Waterfd. & Kilk. 6p. c. O York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref '5 Do 10 1 25 a] 16 10 a] 2 0 I a] st. IF 17 I •. 25 1 l 0 'York & N. Midland, H. & S. Purchase... ... .-- 1105 - 107 07 16 19 —2O d d 6 64xd 34 3i 4 44 1 - 161 -2f p 1 1 41 ---- 1&}- 184 31 - 3g I ... xd 1.29 —;131 12 -1114 88 - Si 61 - 74 :06 —IOB d p .51 153 1111 ..... • •• 1851 3 4 -- 4 pi 10i -- 11 13i —l3Bxd i 8 9 lot --ipad ••• '''". L4B - 150 - i -23 p - 64 -2; 109 - 111 25i - 26! 2 -2i p 161 - 114 17 -- 18# t -- lip 14# -15 i par -- # p 261 26?, 19 —20 A par . 102 104 5i Par FORE: 3 Antwrp.&Rotterdani 3 Belgian Eastn. Junct. 11 Charleroi & Erquelin 8 Dijon and Resangon 8 Dutch Rhenish all East Indian 1 Do. Extension ... . 11 Gt. Indian Peninsula 7 Gd. Junct. of Fiance ;Oi Gt. Westn. of a.nada Shares 2 Lucca and Pistoja, % per cent. pref Luxembourg Do. (Railway) 2 Do. 3 Do. (Canal) 2 Do. 6p. cent. pref 7 Lyons & Mediterran 74 Madras 9 Maria Antonia .0 Do. New U Namur & Liege (with interest 11 Do. (ex interest) 11 Northern of France 11 Do. 201. 3p. c. Bds (fmy.B.&Ams.Shs.] 11 Norwegian Truk . Fret LO Paris and Lyons .11 Paris and Orleans 11 Paris and Rouen 11 Paris and Strasbourg 4 Paris Caen&Cberbrg. 5i Quebec & Richmond 11 Rouen and Havre 11 Sambre and Meuse.. 4 Do. 5:1 per cent. pref 4 Southern of France. N. Upper India Scrip.. I West Flanders 6 Do. 5 per c. Pref 9 Western of France 2 West. of Switzerland S New Zea1and......... :GN. r _ id [3i 14 lt 3 3fp 11—o d 5 —6 p 1 p 2i 2 p 3 3 4 2 -- 1p .t 7i P 11 - 1 - 2 d- p 21 - 2S pi .. - ~. "''' ••• 7f - 8k 36i -36 i 141 --142 1 -- 9 1 8 7 -- 17ip' 414 --42. 44i -- 45 35 -35 i 5 -- - 5i p 204 9 -- 90 35i 5 5 - Gip 46 - 5 ha —l4p': - g ti Business done this day. 29i i St. 20 181 100 100 all all all St. 1 16 1 16 1 20 17 20 a 10 11 St. 10 St. 11 St. li St. li 5t..11 20 20 20 20 a' 20 5 al 20 ' 20A 2 20 ' 20 ' 33A 2' 10 1 20 a] 16 a] 20 a] 10 al 20 1 1 20 al 20 al 20 . 21 21 5 i 13} i i 86 54i 8k 6 3',1 i 69 I 591 9 1,1 P 15i 15m 184 18 25& 21 I i 1 i 1 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS, Leasing Compans. Closing Prices this day. Pakt RAILWAYS. Bedford and Bletchley .... Birm. & Oxfd. guarantee ... Do. withoutgr Birm.Wolv. & Dudley guar. o.wthtguar. Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. E. Lincoln. gr. 6 p. cent..... Glstr.&Dn.Fr. Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway __ . __ Hull dr Selby. Do. Shares. Do. Shares. Lon. dr Greenw Do. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent... Do. 6 per et... Manch.Bxton. and Matlock Middlesbro' dt Redcar. ...... Midld Bradfd.l Northern and Eastern sp. c. Do. 6 per ct.. Do. Fixed sp.c Prest. & Wyre Do. Shares. Roystn. di Hit. Do.Shepth. St. Shef. Roth. & Goole g.5.p.c S. Staffordsh WearValleygr 6 per cent Do.. Wilts &Somrst Badness this day. London &I N. West. Gt.Westn. Do Do Do L. 6; N.W CaMon , Gt.Notrlin Gt. Westn. Yk. New. dz Berw Y.&N. Md Do Do S. Eastern Do [ Norfolk [Do Ln. &N. W. & IVlidld. Stckton & Darlingt. E. Count Do Do 107 -109 53 - 55 149 —l5l ad 33 —33 i 112 - 114 56 - 57 27i -28 i 14 -14 A 26 - 27 19i -19 i 26 - 27 3 - 3i L. ,SIN . NV dtLn& Yk Do to == 108 65 - 67 Gt. Northn Do Lancash. Torksh MrMClean • Stockt. di , Darling ,Do L,Gt.Westn • •. ...... ... 149 - 1%1 1 149 - 1511 1— 4d 324 -33 i 104 - 105 MINES. 1 all Agua Fria 103 all Anglo Californian — 1 P 10 2 Australasian 1 1 p 20 5 Australian 1 all Australian Cordillera ar— p 1. all Australian Freehold. 1 all Ave Maria 1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) par p 1 all British Austrin. Gold * pll 20 13.5 British Iron 8 1 35 241 Brazilian Imp. (issued at X 5 pm.) 5l 6 51 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiaba 5 - 5* 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 30 —3l 301 1 1 Carson's Creek.. . 40 all Cobre Copper 461 471 5 1 Colonial Gold l— 2 p 321 3* 14 Copiapo 6 71 St. all CopperMinersof Eng 75 85 25 all Do. Preference 9 —lO p 5 all English and Austin Copper Smeltg. Co la —ll d 20 all General l5 —l7 2 all Great Nugget Vein 1 - 2 p 31 3 all Great Polgooth — P 1 all Lake Bathurst 1 all Liberty —7 pd 1 1 1 1 all Lond. &Californ. Gold Quartz Crush. Co 1 1 1 all Mariquita ld par 1 10 9 Mexican &S. Americ 7 81 1 all New Granada 1 all Nouveau Monde 1 p 2$ 5 1 Port Philip par- p 1 all Quartz Rock par— p 11 50 all Rhymney Iron 24 —26 15 Do. New 7 8 30 101 Santiago de Cuba - i 61 1 all South Australian ld iPxn x new 10 7 Tin Croft lO —l2 xd x d 281 all United Mexican 6 61 61 a 6 1 all Waller 1 all West Granada par -- p 1 all West Mariposa par p 1 all Yuba p p 11 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia B4 -- 86 86 5 7 x d 50 all British N. American 20 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India,l Australia, & China' 1 p 3 100 25 Colonial — 191 100 20 Commercial of Lon don — 4 English Scottish and Australian ll lap 20 71 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 2l - 3 p 151 1 50 20 London and County 50 10 London Joint Stock 100 20 Lond. &Westminster 351 20 2 London Bank of Aus tralia and India ... Id par 50 221 National of Ireland... 25 all Oriental Bank of Corporation. 52 54 531 25 5 Do. New — 100 25 Provincial of Ireland ... 491 10 all Do. New — 5 1 Royal Australn.Bkg & Gold Imp. Co a id _25 25 South Australia 25 all Union of Australia 751 761 21 Do. New 8 9 50 10 Union of London — 40 , all Union of Madrid — MISCELLANEOUS. 100 35 Australian Agricult 1 81 83 82 3801 80 2 20 6 Austrlasn.Pei fic.Mail 10 5 Australn. Royal Mani 38R Brit. Americo. Land 80 -- 82 80 1 100 324 Canada — 5 5 Crystal Palace l4 1i 66 4 2 Crystal Pal, of France 1 3 20 1 Eastern Steam 1 1 Electric. Teleg. of Ir — 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat —110 i 100 50 General Screw Steam — 20 26 Irish Beetroot Sugar, 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel,' ' 10 2 Netherlands Land 20 2i Nrth.of Europe Steam 50 all Peninsular & Oriental ... 83 50 25 Do. Do. 11 •• • 46 } 100 60 Royal Mail Steam — 25 25 South Austral. Land 47 49 1 1 Submar. Telegraph — 5 2 Universal Emigration 10 and Colonisation — 100 28} Tan Diemen's Land l9i 20A, i'oi iOi' BRIBERTAND 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, every-where, and especially in our great cities and towns. The hugest "sop " to traitors to the public weal, is that to the Lon don Tinges; but the Liverpool Mercury, the M anches 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, 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 wee k , the House of Commons by a decided majority, by an unexpected doubled vote, by an additional 100 voters, formally decided that th e advertisement duty (mg' ht to be repealed. No doubt of it. N ext morning, the. leading journal, in a most lugubrious ar ti c l e, which caused many a laugh at its trembling monopoly, ventured to " congratulate" the public on the repe a l, " accordingly. " The following morning, Saturday, there was an evidently reluctant admission : `.‘ We do not f or a moment doubt that with the duty abol i shed there will be much more advertising." But this was, seemingly, at a later hour, accompan i e d with a paraded list of "factious" Tory members, who had impiously resisted pledges as to the repeal of an, tax last spring ; but who (pursuant to Earl Derby a pledge last Christmas) deemed the advertisement duty ought to be abolished at the earl iest 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 he 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. 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," 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. ? 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! ! 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. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(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. TO THE HON. THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OP GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. The humble Petition of Charles kiiihony, Proprietor of the Hereford 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 Tines—(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 ARREST OF DRS. ULLATHORNE AND MOORS.—We re- confusion gret to say a very painful instance of banking liability contrary, t h e news co lumns are entirely under the con hasin fact would be totally impract icable. On the , occurred during the last few days to two gentlemen trol of the editor ; he can shorten or lengthen them at of this town and neighbourhood. The Right Rev. Dr. will, the fluctuating number of advertisements influencing Ullathorne, and Dr. Moore, president of Oscott College, their extent. have been arrested under the following circumstances, That your petitioner c onsequently, on these reasonable which cannot fail to excite considerable sympathy in learnteigsesewntattsboeev judgment g l m ea e v n i t n a g nd fr d ee isc a re n t d ion un o - f and practical grounds, prays your honourable house to their regard. Some years ago, when the Right Rev. a pply the repeal of the halfpenny stamp to all news . 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 selected the editor as to the nature or description of matter he Radford as the locality most inj need of assistanc e, shall insert in the newspaper and supplement ;in fact, f p e a t p te e r r ed s , uP a P s him that he transferred eighty shares in the Monmoyntth,-, leavingto f reedom of action to which the news" shire and Glamorganshire Banking Company Mid- paper editorship , under its responsibility, is entitled as any y, is as fairly the names of the Vicar Apostolic of the_ ~. other pro fession , b • land District and the President of Oscott u a g t osteeees calling. business, trade, or for the time being, whoever they might be,s rll Your petitioner therefore for the charity. In this way the trust d e v ol ved _ upon house to grant the said u prays your honourable they became ex unrestricted repeal, thereby Dr. Ullathorne and Dr. Moore, a nd d o ing equal justice to all possessing officio trustees of the property, but withoutthe trpansactiong ing the supplement, in the newspaper proprietors, allow one farthing beneficial interest in the right hon. the apt and forcible language of however, the bank failed with en. Chancellor About two years ago,l free through the of the Exchequer " to go and Dr. Moore heavy liabilities, and Dr. Ullathorne . post, as part and parcel of the news- Ft er " entered into 'an arrangement to pay 1,0001., which they paper The The effect of such repeal our ) stationer con entered for that purpose, under the expectation that no scientiously believes will be tostrength en con borrowed and elevate further claim would be made upon them. Notwithstand- the character of the imperial press ; to extend its sphere ing their hopes, a call of 601. per share, minus the 1,000/ , of intellectual and moral influence ,• and to afford in. was made upon them, amounting to 3,800/, Notice .f creased and useful information as well as rational enjoy. payment was served, and answer returned that ' it wa s ° meat to the great body of her Majesty's faithful utterly i m possible to meet the demand, that the subjects. already paid had been raised at the inconvenience money And • • • y our petitioner will ever pray for your honour friends ; and that all that could be don of able )louse. e was to surren- . e louse. der the actual personal property of which CHARLES ANTHONY. & c., amo un ting sessed, including librar y, they wer e p os - i to 2001. Ti ' - - ' proposal was refused. Proceedings This eventually, on Tuesday last, Dr. were taken, and KIL M AINHAII HOSPITAL.—A Parliamentary paper, in at his residence in Bath st Ullathorne was arrested, I return to a motion from Mr. Butt, contains copies of yesterday Dr. Moore - reet, by Mr. Badham ; and the charter of King Charles 11., incorporating the Go• These two gentlemen was arrested at Oscott College. vernors of Kilmainham Hospital ; of the fresh charters received one farthin g are now in custody, never having granted by King George 11. to the governors of the hos consideration Unity which they have for the onerous Ea- pital ; of the Royal letter of Kin.. Charles 11., dated unconsciously incurred. They 19th of April, 1681, assigning a po b rtien of the Royal have no alternative, therefore, but to pass through the demesne for the building of the hospital ; and of th e Insolvency Court, as the only means of obtaining their , warrant of the Lord-Lieutenant and Privy Counc il o f discharge.—Birmingham Journal . I reland, dated the 23d of December, 1681; of the Royal , 1 IMPORTS OF SPECIE. —The . of specie into warrant of her Gracious Majesty, dated the 16th of De . England 'during the arrivals 1 . past week have been as follows : comber, 1845, regulating the establishment' of the hos -1 From New York , per Asia, $47,000 ; Philadelphia, per pital, and of the correspondence City of Glasgow, b e tween the Right Hon. asgow, $5,000 ; P or t Philip, per Ballarat, Fox Maule, late Secretary-at-War, and the governors of 78,114 oz. gold ; . B raz il s, per T ay , 3501. ; W es t I n di es , ' the hospital, prohibiting the further admission of die per Great Western, $808,853. charged soldiers. 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 discharge. 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 24.—Arrsved—H.M.'s s. Hastings, India, Szc. 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 ; Mon 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 (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; crcw saved and arrived here. 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