The Sun. — London, England, 1853-04-18 00:00:00

UNITED STATES. By the steamship Asia we have advices from New York to the 6th inst. She has 47,000 dollars in Specie on freight. The steamer Arctic arrived at New York on the sth, and the screw steamer Andes at Boston on the 6th inst. In the United S tates' Sen a t e on the sth, the Secretary of the Treasury was requested to furnish the Senate at the commencement of next session with a statement sh owing the entire amount of United States' stocks and bonds of all kinds held abroad. Quebec accounts of the 2d inst. state that the f ilis p e ctor-General h a d g i ven not i ce o f a mot i on or the reduction of duties on refined sugar to 10s., instead of 145., and on other sugars to 6s. instead o f 9s. per cwt. ; molasses, 2s. instead of 3s. ; salt, ld. Per bush e l ; t h e duty on wines hereafter to be nniform at 6d. p er gallon, and 30 per cent. Caout done and all seeds, to be ad m i t t e d at 21 per cent. ffe also pro- Poses to a ll ow goods going upwards through the St. Lawrence Canal to pass the Welland Canal free, and to allow goods downward passing the Welland liCanal to go through the St. Lawrence free. The ' l oose had not yet voted, but approved of the Plan. FTo m Havannah we have advices to the 29th of March. The papers stated that more slaves had beena)ooo land e d on the island, and sum up the total 3 nded since th e 12th of February at upwards of ~..General S anta Anna arrived at Havannah on the ;:th in the steamer Avon, en route for Mexico ; he cts,as acc ompanied by hi s w if e an d d aug h ter, an d t h e 4_v"legates return who went t o St. Th omas ' s to invite him i,s Havann a h a goo d b usiness had been transacted :: :1 13 i . U 4 gar at p r i ces i n favour of the buyer. Exchange di, "don GO days, 9 p rem i um ; Par i s, 2 / to 3 pint. ' Freights t o G rea t B r i ta i n, 3/. to 3/. s s. i i i t. r° M British Guiana we have advices to the 15th otabl ne weather had been very dry. An extra shaavY plague had made its appearance in the ar eo - eL 3 ef rats, which were doing an enormous of el: `t of injury to the standing canes. Provisions We kind were scarce and dear, and trade dull. 1 8t ", e have advices from the city of Mexico to the of March. Politics were at a standstill, and Ant ul a d probably remain so until the arrival of Santa Boned, The nominati Ministerial combination was aban te Madrid is on of M. Uraga as Minister Of _confirmed by virtue of a recent decree ethe Supreme —overnment. Foreign merchan tl! instead of paying 8 per cent., as imposed by p ' e e r law of October, 1851, will in future only pay 5 h a cent. consumption duty over and above the rr„pertation ditty. Liquors will pay 9 per cent. ° Universal announces that the Supreme Go- With had had sent to General Arista his passports, au order - to l eave th e R epu bli c. Bin,„4-11e a gents of M r . Sl oo h a d pa id i n t o th e T rea - Q . ' the sum of $50,000 as the monthly payment March under the Tehuantepec contract. tr r an advices of the 16th of March state, ‘Aravajal having induced a number of the hi s gen recently employed on this frontier to join Tb ta Btss again meditates hostilities against Mexico. With New York St oc k- mar k e t was generally tame, 'Limited sales. The demand for money con t ued active, and the rates of interest were un ilvt.abnged• The exchange on London and Paris P aris Bills on London, 9k to 9/ premium ; pl--„1 5.13 1 to 5.1. Cotton igood demand, at %Trance of k percent per lb.,' with large sales. bad e in active request, at an advance o f 124 c. p er rrel. "Wheat of good sound quality very scarce, - 1 11 ,,, (1 , Prices h a d a d vance d s c . t o 6 c . per b us h e l. corn 2c. to 4c. per bushel higher. Pro "7:118 were somewhat lower in price in conse- market was " it heut alt nee of large re ceipts. The iron dull ; e p r ice. to London AMERICAN SHIPPING. Arrived at New York.—The Mary Ann Peters, from Bl,stol—the Sir it Peel, the Agnes, and the steamer Atetic, from Liverpool—the Pathfinder, from Bristol. , At Boston.—The steamer Andes and the Pots, from - Liverpool. At Baltimore.—The Julia, from Liverpool. At, Mobile, South Carolina:—The John Raven the Po ttylV 1 Coede, the Pursuit, and the Dublin, from Liver- At New O r l ean s.—The Achieve, the Waban, the R B. Sumner, the J. M. Jarvis, from Jamaica—the Frederick Essex, the Chevalier, the Horizon, the Euro -131,40, the Manilla, and the Costello, from Liverpool— ir Solway and the Henry Nasmith, from Bristol—the f r e o r°, from Dublin—the Carnatic and the Mayflower, ta Glasgow. At Savannah.—The Bolivar, from Liverpool. Ole ship O s b orne, o f K ene b ec k, f rom Li ver p oo l f or "ii e Z Orle ans , w i t h 240 em i gran t s , s t ruc k on th e G ran d p aa a a z ( la on the 17th, and became a total wreck ; crew, pogers, and part of cargo saved. g o i," Martha Viney, from New York for Glasgow, in down the bay, got ashore on the S.W. Spit, and -Noe& •ero for •ley 3 as fish qrs. 018, (119 )een g u ll Well IDO best iVOTO VI 24 1 Of 911 38 , 4" 405 44 5 3 15 365 into din' / >. /' NO' 3 ty both vet, ivitl SUP• 10 0 I 1 ° 0 I (19 'l6 O '1 55 , 3 0j wer 11 0 ' 001 te a ,: °f toe' o 1 11 E, FRENCH EMPIRE. The Constitutionnel of yesterday contains an article on the differences which have arisen between A.ustria and Piedfriont on the subject of the se questration of the property of the Lombard emigres, in which it endeavours to defend the part taken by the French Government in the affair, and attempts to throw blame on the conduct of England. It will be interesting to know that on this side 0 ,,f the Channel the preparations making by the French to be duly represented at the Great In dustrial Exhibition in Dublin, are proceeding with meat activity and success. On Saturday M . •enuld, the Minister of State, threw open his mag tifieent salo n s for the purpose of gratifying a few With a private view of all the magnificent articles ZPared at the Imperial manufactories of Sevres, Exhibition, and the Gobelins, not only for the Dublin pZuibition, but for that of New York. The b , ; , e . r 1341 1 Government has more than fulfilled its pro e7es towards both countries. The Sevres collection : l ists of several splendid china vases of the p g e st size, richly decorated. The shape of these :i B t eB oval, and they are finished and painted that beauty and delicacy for which Sevres has lic 4l. been without a rival. One of these vases, Th h r a , was placed in the centre of the room, at ,A:ted especial admiration by its beauty and ele be% There were also several pieces of minor rtance, but all rivalling the larger objects in ti e ,„ 4t Y and finish. It was mentioned by the gen obiZap• in charge of the articles that several other of a still grander character were also in W as r ct ration for the Dublin Exhibition, which it (l a f eared would not be completed by the opening 48 Y ? but w hi ch wou ld cert ai n l y be forwarded so ai l? arri ve i n Dublin almost immediately after the u s. The selection of the manufactures of Gobelins and of Beauvais are wonderful t as4t s Peeimens of art, and are chosen with great of hud judgment. They consist of a series t ro Pieces showing the progress of these manufactures i n an early period to the present time, and thus i 7 ll vey at one view a graphic histo r y o f th e ar t ; re and a brilliant idea of the perfe c ti on t o w hi c h " has been brought by ages of application and im- Provement.' Among the articles of Beauvais manu facture are two screens, one for each country, on Which are conspicuous the Imperial eagle, with the cipher of the Emperor. Upon the whole, the pri .°ate view, which, by the by, was crowded all day with people of distinction, gave the utmost satis faction, and the feeling expressed was that, even if the • Dublin Exhibition contained nothing else, it Wenld be worth the while going 1 , 13 Y the by, While speaking a the Dublin Exhi ultion w e may mention that arrangements were on N,tt i r ay comple . ted between te managers of the 4D ublinExhibition and the directors of the rai1„,4,3%, „, 4 ,3%, by which the system of return tickets , avail able for two months , will, on and after the I st of MI, next be carried out between Paris and vita Dover, Folkestone,. and Holyhead. This will enable our Gallican friends to visit the --`lpm_oernian capital at a very moderate expense. fp.-"te übiquitous Mr. Roney, who arrived in Paris r - Hamburg on Thursday, left . again last even fog for Antwerp, where he has made preparations shipping the Belgian produce for Dublin on The morng. Monit ni eur announces that the grand cere -1,13r for the inauguration of the Emperor's tomb, V ll eh was fixed for the 4th of May, will not take `;' 1 ,,,?. The only ceremony to take place at the In the on the 4th of May is a funeral service for repose of the soul of " Napoleon the Great." de telegraphic dispatch announces that Marshal S t. Arnaud, the Minister of War, left Marseilles V si erclay for Avignon. He is to arrive this day at alence, and will be in Paris on Thursday. T he Minister of the Interior, in a circular ad iressed to the presidents of the statistical commis tis°l?B, requests them to remove, as much as lies in power, all apprehension which the agricultu t'a"ti,ponart of the population may feel of an augmen (thie ef t ! %xes. The Government, on . the contrary . t , eMinister declares), would willingly alleviate tiarges now pressing on the agricultural inte git, should. an opportunity be afforded them of ` - ", 1 g so. °lljiLord Brougham has arrived in Paris from Cannes, S way to England. tile tribun a l o f R ennes has given judgment in la,L3aag i e of th e E sperance du Peuple of Nantes. It Zusde the first two cou n t s o f the indictment, lletlYa, that of exciting hatred against the Govern by the nd of false signatures to articles published Journal ; but admits the third—that of giving false news. The journal was condemned to 200 f. fine. The Pays says that a convention relative to a service of French steam-packets to the ports of Greece has just been signed by the King of that country. The Patric says :—" Dispatches have arrived in Paris announcing that the expedition sent against the pirates of the Bissagos Islands, on the western coast of Africa, had taken place, and that they had been chastised in an exemplary manner." The Constitutionnel states that the death of a French political refugee in Jersey had been taken advantage of by the other demagogues in that place to make a demonstration. A most violent speech was delivered, which was terminated by a cry of " Vivo la Republique universelle, democratique et sociale !" This speech was succeeded by another of such violence, that all those who were only present from curiosity left the place free to the actors in this manifestation ; and M. Victor Hugo and M. Pierre Leroux, who had been prepared to speak, gave up the idea. An improvement took place on Saturday in Go vernment securities, and the market was more animated than for some days past. The closing prices were thus. stated :—For Cash—Three per Cents., 80f. 35c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 103 f. 70c. For the Account—Three per Cents., 80f. 30c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 103 f. 30c. Bank Stock, 2,735 f. The demand for railway shares was moderately brisk, at an advance of 3f. 75c. on the shares in the Northern line, and of lf. 25c. in Paris and Lyons. At the conclusion of business, Paris and Rouens had declined 10 f.; O rleans, 2f. 50c. ; and Paris and Strasbourgs, sf. Closing prices : —Northerns, 908 f. 75c. ; Orleans, 1,040 f. ; Paris and Strasbourg, 840 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 945 f ; Paris and Rouen, 1,085 f ; Lyons to the Mediterra nean, 807 f. 50c. ; Western of France, 770 f. ITALY. The loan that has been stipulated at Rome with Messrs. Rothschild is for 26 millions of francs, and the conditions are 83, and 5 per cent. interest. Messrs. Rothschild undertake to pay this sum in four instalments. This money is being raised in order to withdraw the paper currency, which amounts to three millions of scudi. The Govern ment promises the total extinction of -13lio papcx money by the end of next October.' The continuation of the works of the Pialatina Railway from Rome to Frascati, which had been commenced by the company Altieri and Conti, and subsequently abandoned, has been conceded to a French society (Messrs Dupre and Rampon), who have undertaken to finish it by the end of next August. The question of the Univers paper has been sub mitted to a congregation of bishops and civilians for decision. This is in consequence of the solici tations of M. Veuillot, who has had several inter views with the Pope on the subject. On the 2d, the charge of homicide against Duke Sforza-Cesarini was brought before the Roman criminal tribunal. This nobleman had the misfor tune some inonths since to kill one of his servants by accident. Notwithstanding his well-known in nocence, it is to be feared that he will be sentenced to punishment on the plea of inadvertence. Mr. Lyons, the new British unofficial represen tative at Rome, is daily expected there. The annual fireworks did not come off on Easter Sunday, on account of the bad weather. On the 3d they were fired from the Monte Pincio, in the presence of an immense concourse of people. Every thing terminated peaceably. The official journal of Turin publishes the memo randum of the Sardinian Government on the diffe rence with the Austrian Government respecting the sequestration decree. The memorandum ends as follows :—" It is a grave attack, against which we appeal to the conscience, when better informed, of the Cabinet of Vienna, and against which wq. also invoke the good offices of the sovereigns our allies and friends." AUSTRIA. A telelgraphic dispatch, dated Vienna, 17th inst., announces that an Imperial commission, presided over by Count Rechberg, will shortly proceed to Italy._ N. Lackenbacher and General Benedeck will, it is said, be members of it. The commission will not be an acting one. Its duties will consist in examining the definite mea sure of organisation. paid.' Business done this day. 181 100 100 all all all Aberdeen Ambo• Nottng. Bost & Eastn. JiMet.... Birmg. Wolverh. & Stour Valley_ Birkenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Junct. Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £2O Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester & Holyhead. Cork and Bandon , Cork, Blackrock and Passage. ...... Dubliu&BelfastJune Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction Do. New 22 2162 6 2 East Anglian (X 25 L. and E. & L. & D.) Do. Do. (ISI. E.& H.) Eastern Counties Eastern Union, Class A. (late E. U. Sh.) Do., do s IDo., B. and C.. East Lancashire East & West Ind. Dk Birmiug. Junc 1 ,Edinburgh & Glasgow !Edin. and Peebles Edin. Prth. & Dundee Glasgow&S. Western Great Northern Stk Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Great Southern andl 12G 1094 10i 10 92 i Western (Ireland) Great Western Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Lancash. & Yorkshire Do., Fifths Do., Wst. Riding Un Leeds Northern Liv.Crsby.&Southpt London & Blaekvvall Loud. Tilb. & Sthend. Lond. Brigt. & S. Cst. London & N. Western Do., Fifths pm 77i i Sh.M.&B. C London & S. Western Do., £5O Do.; £4O Londeny. &Coleraine Lndndny. & Enuisk. Manch. Shef. &Lineln l Do. , Man. & Lin. Un 1 Midland Do. Birming. & Derby Midland G. West. (Ir.) Do. Shares Neweas'Lle & Carlisle Newmarket Do. Bury' Extension Newp. Aberg. &Hftd Newry & Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint, and itestrevor Norfolk Do., :Jew Northn.Counties Un North British North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do., 1 A Deferred Do., B Guaranteed North Staffordshire. • North Western N. & S. Westrn. June Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton Scottish Central Se o LLish Midland Shrewsbury& Birmg Do., L. & N. Westn uaranteed Stock Shrewsby.& Hereford Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Do. Halves do . Do Do. Oswesti y Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. Yorksh. River Dun Do. Stockton & Hartlepl Thames Haven Dock, and Railway' Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford& Limerick West Cornwall W imbledon&Croydn. Woodford York Newctl. &Berw. Do. Extensions Do. G. N. E. Purchase York & N. Midland 16} 16 91 I 103 b 4i /0 I 120 19 4 20 191} 90/ 1 901 30} 75k 5 4:3 53 A 12i i 21 75 36i 7 106 7 =a 3i 15 1/ Pm 1061 ad x di 1091 101 7 251 7 36 i 27i i if 203 i THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1853. TURKEY. M. de la Cour arrived at Constantinople on the 6th instant. Lord Stratford de Redcliffe had reached that city on the 4th. On the sth he as sembled the English residents at Constantinople : he assured them of the maintenance of peace, and advised them to carry on their commercial opera tions with the utmost confidence. The French squadron remained stationary at Salamis, and the British fleet was still at Malta. SPAIN. The Cabinet is formed. The following are its members :—War, General Lersundi, who is also President of the Cabinet ; Foreign Affairs, M. Aylon ; Justice (provisionally), M. Collantes : Home-office, M. Egana ; Finance, M. Bermudez de Castro. ; Marine, M. Antonio Doval. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. SPORTING NOTES.—No. CCCCXII. The past week's racing at Newmarket has given us but a very partial glimpse into the future. It has only let the cat out of the bag in the instances of Constantine, Filbert, Talfourd, Ethelbert, and King of Trumps. The performance of William Rufus, for very potent reasons, must be set down as naught. Estrella's defeat by Phrygia likewise goes for nothing, as she was far from being up to the mark. I almost doubt whether we are to take Ethelbert's running in the Newmarket Handicap as a true performance, considering the tying up he got the week before at Epsom. Speed the Ploughs victory was a negative sort of win, as he won but cleverly from Nut pecker, who carried 31bs more than him. Defiance, com pletely run off his legs, was not within pounds of his earliest form this year. King of Trumps won the Port Stakes easily enough, but still, in my opinion, has not the smallest chance of winning the Chester Cup, for which they backed him at as little as 20 to 1. Filbert's running was somewhat curious, after his groggy-look ing sort of spin with William Rufus on Monday ; by making the pace good the following day, he won with ease, but only from three very inferior animals. but seemingly squared his account satisfactorily, by winning the Column from Defiance, the latter looking anything but as blooming as he did at Northampton. These three races of Filbert's, with the two which it is intended he shall run for in the First Spring Meeting, will, I have no doubt, take the steel out of him completely for the Derby ; for which, in my estimation, he stands not the ghost of a chance of winning. Talfourd, at last, has justified the confidence I placed in him last year by winning the Newmarket Handicap, and giving great promise of winning another handicap or two ; but, not withstanding all this, he is not capable of getting a place in the Derby. Constantine's Derby pretensions—if he ever had any—were completely settled by his exhibition on Monday for the Riddlesworth, for which he travelled so gingerly from beginning to end, notwithstanding the splendid condition of the ground, that it is evident his legs will not stand training. The fillies Comfit and Hybla both looked improved upon their last year's form ; and Scandal also seemed well. " Permit me to forward you a brief statement of the facts of the case relating to the seizure of arms and war like stores at Retherhithe. "The premises and property alluded to belong solely • to my father (Mr. Hale), whose private residence is at Chelsea, and not to M. Kossuth, as alleged by that des picable Austrian organ the Times newspaper. On Wed nesday evening last a superintendent of police (Evans by name) came down to Rotherhithe with five or six men, and took forcible possession of the premises, as also of a cottage near by, in which one of my father's men resided, producing, as their authority, a search-warrant. The man hastened immediately up to Chelsea, to inform his master of what had taken place. My father then has tened down to Rotherhithe, and, finding three men in possession of his manufactory, demanded their autho rity. One of them coolly pulled from his bosom a staff. Is that your only authority ?' demanded my father ; because, if so, I shall bundle you all out.' They then told him they were acting under the orders of Superintendent Evans, and that if (Mr. H.) went to Wapping, the superintendent would explain it all. My father then hastened to Wapping, but found that Superintendant Evans was at Scotland-yard, to which place he immediately went, and upon seeing the superintendent, demanded of him the reason of the un pardonable outrage that had been committed (for I should have stated that one of the men before alluded to took away with him two of my father's rockets). The superintendent referred him to Commissioner Maine. He (Mr. H.) at once sent to the commissioner, request ing to know the reason of what had taken place. No answer' was contemptuously sent as a reply. " My father again appealed to the superintendent, when he was informed that the Custom-house authori ties had reason to believe that Mr. Hale had more than 501bs. of gunpowder on his premises (501bs. being the extreme quantity allowed by law within three miles of London), and that a warrant had been obtained to search them—the superintendent at the same time producing the warrant, which was distinctly to search for gun powder. Mr. Hale then asked him why he still retained possession of the premises, no gunpowder having been found ; but no explanation could be got from him—while another batch of men were sent down there, making al together six—in possession of the said premises ; and they absolutely refused to allow anything to be taken from the building. Next morning appears a leader in the Times, stamping with ignominy Kossuth and his ad herents. Now Kossuth, so far from being connected with the premises, has never entered them, and knew nothing of the matter till the Times publicly slandered him. Not one ounce of gunpowder was in the building, and no arms of any kind, with the exception of rockets. " I should here state that my father is a well-known inventor, and has been, for some years past, engaged in perfecting his newly-invented war-rocket, which, rotates on its axis like a rifle, and carries no stick. After an outlay of 20,0001., and after numberless experiments had been made, and those perfectly satisfactory, as can be proved, and, finding that his own country only laughed at him for his pains, he sold the patent to several foreign powers—America, Denmark, Switzerland, and others ; but having a great number of rockets by him, he ear nestly appealed to this Government again and again to purchase them, and also his invention. He met with nothing but disdain from them. " They now seize upon his place and his property, on the pretence of searching for gunpowder, refusing to allege any cause for doing so. The rockets in question were manufactured upwards of three years ago. The Government have been well aware of the existence of his manufactory (which was formerly close to Woolwich Arsenal), and also of the fact that he was possessed of those rockets, and further, that they were intended by him for the British Government. "No gunpowder was found, and not an arm of any kind, except the rockets ; 'Lord Palmerston boldly as serting that arms were found, and 500 lbs. of gunpowder, been sent to watch some premises belonging to at which is a gross fabrication. MEMORIAL TO KOSSIITH.—Some time since a lar ge " Six men still occupy his premises, and others have Chelsea. Mr. buncombe intends to makeitthe subject l of inquiry in the House of Commons. My father • determined, also, upon immediatelbody of the working men of England entered into a sub scription for the purpose of presenting to M. Kossuth a ceedings against the Government, an y d some g o f our lead ourpre- ing counsel will be retained to conduct testimonial of their esteem for him, and the cause in l has akin which he is engaged. The testimonial is now completed, trial. I cannot but think it is aquestion which • and consists of a splendidly-bound copy of the works of prove of no small moment to the present Government. his o sid o e ur of the greatest English author, with the arms and crest of You are perfectly at liberty to make Kossuth placed upon each volume, and a bookcase will carved in imitation of Shakspere's house, at Stratford on-Avon. The testimonial will be presented to Kos-what use you like suth in the course of a few days at a p ublic meeting, of this it49rmatien, which I ha ve sketched out in great over which Mr, Douglas Jerrold will preside,—Sunday " Aprillath, 1853." Timm haste. The present week, from to-day until Saturday, is en tirely devoted to sp or t ; th e C oven t r y meeting being marked for to-day, York Spring to-morrow and Wed nesday, Malton Thursday and Friday, and winds up with Stretford on Saturday. There are five events to be decided to-morrow at York, the first of which—the Craven Stakes, one mile —will come off at half-past one o'clock. The entries include the name of that great Derby nag, Honeywood, who, I take it, would win if he was started, but I under stand his first appearance will be at Epsom. I am in clined, however, to look to his stable for the winner. I do not know exactly the which horse they will settle their affections upon, but should HUNCA MUNCA be the animal selected, I have not the slightest doubt of her capability of winning. The Zetland Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 50 added, T.Y.C.—which is five furlongs and 44 yards—has the brilliant name of RUBY among the entries, who, if he runs, will undoubtedly win, but it is said that be will be reserved for future events. In his absence I feel in clined to look to Waiplot or the Jewess for the winner. The Champion Handicap, one mile, is about a cer tainty for the starter from Stebbing's—that is, Wintring ham's—stable. They have three in it—Hungerford, Timid Fawn, and Lady Agnes—and, not improbably, will attempt the win with the first named. The Flying Dutchman's Handicap, two miles, lies entirely with Hobby Horse, Talfourd, and the represen tative of Osborne's stable, HOBBY HORSE seeming to have a little the best of the weights. Last week it looked pretty clear that Lord Fauconberg would be Osborne's horse ; whether they have changed their in tention since I have not been able to ascertain at the time of writing. The Selling Stakes has yet to close and name. Any information that may come to hand between now and half-past five o'clock will be published in the seven o'clock edition of The Sun. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. ." WILLIAN HALE ; jun, all 100 all all 111 100 100 all 10(1 5 174 all St. St. St. St. 26 13i 20 20 50 20 20 50 20 St. • 5 St. 10 6 123, 124 12. 100 100 100 100 all 100 all luasl 100 20 100 all 100 5 100 all all all 8 ; 100 100 RAILWAYS. 33 2 351 4i 51i 2 62i 3 69 i 12fi 59i 9 PREFERENCE SHARES. 'Aberdeen . .... Do., No. 2, 7 p. c Eris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO Chester & Holyhead Guar. 54 per cent. Cork &Bandon 5a p. c. Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction E. Ang. (705.) 0 p. c. Do. (£5), 7 per cent. Do. (.£7 17s), 7. pet. 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 East Lancash. 6 p. cts Edinb. Pith. & Dund Glasgow &S. Western Guar. 5 per cent Great Northn. 5 p. e Do. 5 p. c., Redeem at 10 p. c. prem , Gt.S outhn. & Westn. (Ireland) Eights Gt. Westn. (Berks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c.) Grea;•, Western, fixed 4. per cent Lan. & York. F.£2o Do., 6 p. c., Stock Loudon and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. e Do. Pref. 5 p. c., St Do. Convertible, 6 p c 1852 Do. New Guar. 6 p. c, London dt S. Western Con. Thirds Londonderry & Coler Shares. ......... Londndu. & Ennisk. Shares Manch. , Shef. ,& Lin. Sitres, No. 1. Do., New, £lO Do., £6 Ma"ypt. & Carl. 4 p, c, Do. 4i per cent Do Mid. Consol. 6 p. c. St. Do. Cousol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent.... Do. Pref. 4A percent. Norfolk Extension... Do. Guar. 5A per ct. Do. Wavcney Valley 5 per cent North British • North Staffordshire Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh. X15,6p. c. Do. Sbrewsbuly & Birm. New Guaranteed Shrewsby. & Chester Nor.W. (Min), 3 p.c. Do. 5 per cent. South Devon Do. New S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) f£l Os. 6d. S. York sh. 4p. a. Guar. Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c. York, Newcastle and Berwick, 4 p. o. Pref Do York & N. Midland, K. & S. Purchase... FORE: 128 9 149 5i rii Ant wrp . &Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. Junct. Charleroi & Erquelin Dijon and Besangon Dutch Rhenish East Indian Do. Extension Gt. Indian Peninsula Gd. Junct. of France Gt. Westn. of Canada Shares., ............ Lucca and Pistoja, 5 per cent. pref., Luxembourg . Do. (Railway) Do : . Do. (Canal) Do. 6 p. cent. pref Lyons & Mediterran Madras Maria Antonia Do. New Namur & Liege (with interest Do. (ex interest) Northern of France Do. 201. 3 p. c. Bds (fmy. B. & Ams. Shs.] Norwegian Truk. Pref Paris and Lyors Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg Paris Caen &Cherbrg. Quebec & Richmond Rouen and Havre ' Sambre and Meuso Do.s t i per cent. pref Southern of France Upper India Scrip West Flanders Do. 54 per c. Western of France,. West. of Switzerland ,New Zefilgaitit ..,.10 re* " THE TIMES" AND M. KOSSUTH. [The following letter from Captain Mayne Reid, ad dressed to the Times, in relation to the Kossuth affair, bas just been forwarded to us for publication.—(ED.] TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. SIR,-It is written—whom the gods would destroy, him they make mad. Your doom then seems inevit able ; for if an utter abandonment of the laws of mo rality, a reckless disregard of the laws of honour, a desperate determination to court the contempt of your countrymen—if these be symptoms of madness, then are you mad, indeed—mad as moon can make you. But the gods are guiltless of the act. The demons have done it. Your own vile passions have crazed you. Once more you have assailed M. Kossuth ; once more you have shot your envenomed shaft ; and once more, glancing back from the pure shield of that gentleman's honour, your poisoned arrow has recoiled upon yourself. Unscathed stands he. His escutcheon is unstained. Even your foul ink has not soiled it. It is as pure as ever ; spotless as the pinions of the swan, as the wing of the wave- washed albatross. _ You have created an abysm of infamy. Into this you designed to drive M. Kossuth. You essayed to push him from the cliff. Headlong you rushed upon him ; but, blinded by bad passiol.s, you missed your aim. You have staggered over yourself; and your intended victim stands triumphantly above you. From the declarations of the gentleman himself, from my own personal knowledge of facts, I pronounce your whole statement regarding M. Kossuth and his Rother hithe arsenal, a web of wicked falsehoods. But the cold-blooded audacity, the harlotic abandon, with which you have uttered these falsehoods; and commented upon them, are positively astounding. It is difficult to be lieve you in earnest ; and one is inclined to fancy you the dupe of some gross deception. But the palpable animus that guides your pen will not permit this charitable construction, and we are prevented from giving you even the benefit of a doubt. We have no alternative but to believe you guilty, with deliberate forethought, with "malice prepense." But, Sir, if you are to be suffered to drag innocent men from the privacy of their hearth—to charge them with imaginary crimes—to support your charges with not a shadow of evidence, but, upon the contrary, to substitute coarse calumny, and vengeful vituperation —if all this be permitted to you with impunity, it is full time iwe nquire, in what consists English freedom? There are tyrannies besides that of despotic Govern ments. There is the tyranny of a + en i _ours press ; and, 11. ~., y part, I would rather submit me to the rule of the sabre and the knout, than live at the mercy of a conclave of dissipated adventurers who sneak around the purlieus of Printing House-square. I shall not condescend to repeat the slanders you have lately uttered. lam saved the necessity of refut ing them. The pen and the tongue have already ac complished this. Higher names than mine have endorsed the refutation. In the House of Commons, Duncombe, Walmsley, Bright, and Dudley Stuart have nailed the lie to the wall. I know not what course M. Kossuth may puisue towards you. Doubtless he may treat you with that dig nified silence he has hitherto observed. He can well afford it. He need not fear to be silent. He shall not lack defenders. You may double ycrur staff of facile scribes, and arm each of them with a plume plucked from the fetid wing of the Austrian eagle. You will find among the cham pions of truth, brains as clear, and pens as clever as your own ; and though you may stuff your columns with wordy sophistry, it will be scattered like chaff be fore the heaven-born wind. I repeat it, M. Kossuth can afford to treat you with sublime silence ; but I, who am gifted neither with the divine endurance nor Christian forbearance of that noble man—l cannot help telling you the contempt I feel for you and yours. I feel the paucity of language to ex press it, and I doubt not but that every Englishman will experience a similar difficulty. True, we might get over that by borrowing a little from your vocabulary, but I shall not condescend to do so. Even now I feel that I am sinking the gentleman, in coming thus forward a second time to call you to aicount. But as the citizen of a country by you disgraced—as the friend of a man by you injured—l cannot submit myself to silence. When you charge M. Kossuth and other Hungarian leaders with a violation of our hospi tality, I cannot do otherwise than pronounce your statements false. You perhaps do not know how much you yourself are indebted to the high respect which these gentlemen have for the laws of English hospitality. But for that, Sir, I can assure you that you would long since have been dragged from your incognito, and treated in a manner I will not describe ; and although I for one should not approve of such ti proceeding, I could not deny that you have done all in your power to deserve it. But if the laws of our country protect you, they also protect the stranger from insult. The host has duties as well as the guest, and may equally violate the laws of hospitality. You, Sir, have been guilty of that violation. I call upon you, then, to make some atonement for the wrong you have done, to apologise to the man you have wronged—to your countrymen, whose honour you have compromised, whose intelligence you have insulted. I counsel you to this course, which you will find the most prudent. Do not affect to despise my counsel. Do not imagine, like Macbeth, that by " becoming worse," and keeping up a meretricious swagger, you may extricate yourself from your unhappy, position. This, be assured, you can never do. Powerful as you fancy yourself, you are not strong enough to defy public opinion. You may flounce about the lobbies of a theatre- —you may frown upon the manager and frighten the trembling debutante —you may, now and then, make merit for yourself, by holding up to public execration some unfortunate wretch, who, having miscalculated the amount of black-mail, has made you an inadequate offer ; but fancy not, for all this, that you are omnipotent ; you cannot annihilate ono atom of truth. The humblest gentleman in England may contemn and defy you. _ _ _ .. . MAYNE REID. 14, Alpha-road, Regent's-park, April 16. The following letter from Mr. Hale, whose father is the proprietor of the premises at Rotherhithe, in which, it has been alleged, arms and munitions of war had been discovered by the police, has been forwarded to sever a l of our Sunday contemporaries : THE Sli ARE•MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. Closing Prices this day. 29 - 30 5i - 6 10 -10 i 7i-- 6d 21 -- 22 d 3i -- 2id 103 -- 105 22 64* -- i -- 64 22 -- 23 43 - 53pmi 8 - 9 5 - Oi 34 —4 13b —13 i 10 11 7 - 7i 72 - 74 55 - 57 73 - 75 U. 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Leasing Compans, Closing Prices this day. RAILWAYS. Bedford and Bletchley Birm. & Oxfd. guarantee Do. without gr Birm.Wolv. & Dudley guar. Do. wtht guar. Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. E.Lincoln. gr. 6 p. cent Glstr.&Dn.Fr lirtlpl. Dk. Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares Do. Shares Lon.& Greenw Do. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent Do. 6 per et Maneh.Bxton and Matlock Middlesbro' Redear 30j 304 30 304 St. 50 St. 1211 20' 12 20 London dc N. West. Gt.Westn Do all 100 all 100 Do Do L. &N.W CaWon 106 -108 52 - 54 Gt.Notrhn Gt. Westn. Yk. New. dt Berw Y.dIN.Md Do 148 —lsoxd 324 —33 i 112 - 114 56 - 57 27A -28 i 131 - 144 26 - 27 Do S. Eastern Do Norfolk Do Ln.&N.W & Midld Stckton & Darliugt. Midland 19i -19 i 26 -- 27 Midld.Bradfd. Northern and Eastern sp.c. Do. 6 per et.. Do. Fixed sp.c' Prest. 41; Wyre E. Count Do Do . L. dt/;. W &Ludi Yk Do Gt.Northn I Do Laucash.dt Yorksh MrMelean Stockt. di i Darling Do ~Gt.Westa 2i - 3i iiii - 107 64 - 66 12i St. St. 25 11 100 100 180 Do. 1 Shares. Roystn. di Hit. Do.Shepth.St. Shef. Roth. & Goole g.5.p.e S. Staffordsh wearValleygr 6 per cent Do.. ... --.". . 149 - 151 149 - 151 Business this day. Wilts dr,Somrst ad 334 1 -6• J ...... ai —33 A 103§ 104 33 101 MINES. 1 all Agua Fria 108 all Anglo Californian i 4 p 1* 10 2 Australasian — 1 p 1 20 5 Australian 1 all Australian Cordillera o— i p Ili • 1 all Australian Freehold. 4 d par 1 all Ave Maria - d l, 1 all Baden(Gd. Duchy of) par p 1 all British Austrin. Gold i p_ 11 20 13.5 British Iron 6 8 7 a 35 24k Brazilian Imp.(issued at £5 pm.) s:* —6/ 5 61 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiaba 5a -- _ 6 6a 115/ a 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 30 —3l 1 i Carson's Creek s — 4 p i 40 all Cobre Copper 46 —47 a 5 . 1 Colonial Gold l4 —2* p 3 1 14 Copiapo 6 7 St. all CopperMiuersof Eng — 25 all Do. Preference — —— p 5 all English and Austin • Copper Smeltg. Co ll —l4 d 20 all General l7 —l9 176 2 all Great Nugget Vein lfi —l4 p 34 4 3 all Great Polgooth a— 1 p 1 all Lake Bathurst I 4 d 8 1 all Liberty — i p 1 4 1 all Lond.&Californ.Gold Quartz Crush. Co 4 4 1 all Mariquita 4d par 10 9 Mexican &S. Americ 7 84 8 4 74 1 all New Granada —l p 1 1 all Nouveau Monde l— 1 p 2 ifi 5 1 Port Philip par— p 1 1 all Quartz Rock par— p 1 50 all Rhymney Iron 25 —27 15 Do. New 7 8 30 loi Santiago de Cuba 1 all South Australian par— ipxn 1 10 7 Tin Croft ll —l3 28k all United Mexican 6 64 1 all Waller 1 all West Granada..,., - p 1 all West Mariposa ar p I 1 all Yüba JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia B9 -- 90 896 990 ad 50 all British N. American ... ... 20 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China 4 lip 34 100 25 Colonial . 100 20 Commercial of Lou don— ... •.• 4 English Scottish and Australian l6 lip 20 7i Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 36 3ip 16 154 bO 20 London and County ... ... 50 10 London Joint Stock ... ... 100- 20 Lond. &Westminster ... ... 20 2 London Bank of Aus tralia and India 50 224 Nationalof Ireland ... ... 25 all Oriental Bank of Corporation. 54 55 25 5 Do. New — ... 100 25 Provincial of Ireland ... ... 10 all Do. New • --- ••• 5 1 Royal Australn.Bkg & Gold Imp. Co 4 dis— par 25 25 South Australia 49 51 494 25 all Union of Australia 77 78 77 ... 2 2 , Do. New 8 9 50 10 Union of London ... ... 40 all Union of Madrid — ... MISCELLANEOUS. 100 35 Australian Agricult 185 88 87 5 6 20 6 Austrlaso.Pcific.ltaill ... ... 10 5 Australn. Royal Mail . . ... 381 Brit. Americo. Land 8 2 - 84 83 56 2 100 324 Canada — • - 5 5 Crystal Palace .. 6, 3 a 4 2 Crystal Pal. of France ... ... 31 20 1 Eastern Steam 1 1 Electric. Teleg. of Ir ... 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat.. ... ... 304 100 50 General Screw Steam. ' ... ... 20 24 Irish Beetroot Sugar ' ... ... 1 all - Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel' ... ... 10 2 Netherlands Land....l ... ... 20 2i Nrth.ofEuropeSteam ... ... 50 all Peninsular & Oriental ... ... 83 50 25 Do. Do. .•• ••• 100 60 Royal Mail Steam..,, ... —. 25 25 South Austral. Lan, 49 51 494 1 1 Submar. Telegraph... ... ... 1 5 2 Universal Emigration 10 and Colonisation... . 100 284 Van Diemeu's Land.. 20 21 21 LLOYDS' SHIPPINO-(THIS DA Y.) LONDON, April 18.—Wind this day- at Noon, W.N.W. ; light airs, and cloudy. LIVERPOOL, April 17.—Wind, W. N. W. Arrived-- Martin Frederick, Aux Cayes • Tamaulipas (s), Tampico ; City of Glasgow, Philadelph ia; Colonist, New Orleans; Motrongo, ditto ' • John Campbell, ditto ; Hercyna, New York ; Asia (s), ditto (freight, 47,300 dollars) ; Cambria, Sydney ; Dankbaarken, ditto : New Asmarili (s), Mel bourne ; Chrysolite, Hong Kong , Harvey Galbraith, Ma ranham ; Moslem, • Demerara ; National Eagle, New Orleans •, Marshfield, New York ; Canada (s), Boston ; United Kingdom , Boston • Sisters; Mobile ; William, Bal timore ; Norval, Newfoundland. Off Liverpool—Maid of Athens. The Martha (s), from Glasgow, got ashore in New York Bay, April 5, but would pro bably be got off at high water, and proceed. The Robert was run down last evening in the Victoria Channel, by the Trafalgar (s), hence to Kingstown ; crew saved. The Nimrod (a), from Cork, has been run ashore, off Crosby, leaky. The Os borne, of Kennebeck, hence to New Orleans, was wrecked on the Grand Bahama, March 17 ; crew, passengers, and nearly all the cargo saved. DEAL, April 17.—Wind, N.W. by W.N.W. Arrived— Cheverell, Madras ; Batavier, Belge. Arrived from the River—Huntley, Port Phillip ; Chowringhee, Melbourne ; Hindoo, Calcutta; Thecla, Jamaica. Arrived and sailed. —Kinnear, Sydney; Sagittarius, Port Philip Susan, To ronto ; Calypso, Port Philip ; Hamlet, Adelaide. Sailed —Doggersham, Sydney. SOUTHAMPTON, April 17.—Wind, S.E. Arrived—Tay (s), Brazils,diamonds and specie on freight, 12,350/. PLYMOUTH, April 15.—Sailed—Carnival, New Zealand. NILFORD, April 17.—Arrived—Matilda, Clyde, for Mel bourne. to discharge part of cargo, being overloaded. BELFAST, April 16.—The Elizabeth, of and from Glas gow, for Melbourne, ran ashor on the rocks S. of Donag hadee ; is leaky, and must be docked. SCILLY, April 16.—The Friends, Newport to South ampton, is leaky, having been on shore, and must dis charge part of cargo. PORT TALBOT, April 17.—The Jersey Tar , of Youghal, has received much damage, having been on at, . DUBLIN, April 16.—Wind, W. Sailed—Xariffa, Bar bacloes. LIMERICK, April 16.—Sailed—Eden, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Adriana, ditto ; Jane Black, Quebec. YARMOUTH, April 17.—The Commerce of Newcastle, got in collision with the Eden, of Whitby, and received considerable damage. •" EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF BIGAMY AND ATTEMPT AT MURDER.— SHEFFIELD, SATURDAY MORNING. The greatest possible excitement has prevailed here during the last 48 hours, in consequence of the following atro cious case of bigamy, and the attempted murder of the father of one of the wives, having been made by a man named Stephen Brown, a most repulsive-looking fellow. The facts of the case may be derived from the following summary of the evidence taken on Friday by the magis trates (H.Wilkinson, Esq., and G. P. Naylor, Esq.) : It appeared that a young woman, the -daughter of a police-officer; had, unknown to her father; an ac quaintance with Brown, not knowing that he had al ready several wives. She was induced, by the false statements made by the prisoner, to accompany him on Sunday morning last to Rotherham, where they were both married. At a late hour on that day the father having been made acquainted with what had occurred, he proceeded to a house of questionable character, whereßrown pretended he had taken apartments, but, being denied admittance, he broke open the door, and claimed his daughter. He was repulsed by the fellow, but he succeeded in bringing her away. bubsequently Brown took out a summons against Mr. Stocks, the father, for au alleged assault, and on Thursday morning the father, accompanied by his daughter, was proceeding towards the Town Hall, when the scoundrel, who had followed them, seized hold of Stocks, and before he was aware of his intention drew a pistol from his pocket, and holding it to his head pulled the trigger. Providentially, it, missed fire, and Stocks snatched the murderous weapon from his hand. The villain then drew forth a second pistol, and was in the act of presenting it when he was seized and disarmed. On examining the pistols they were found to be heavily charged with powder and ball, and had not the first missed fire Stocks would have been inevitably killed on the; spot. The prisoner was remanded. SUDDEN DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN. _The Rev. James Hutchinson, head-master of the Grammar School,' Chelmsford, fell down dead on Friday morning, The rey, gentlemaa ixt IN year, ABOLITION OP THE ADVERTISEMENT DUTY (From the Examiner. ) The House of Commons has condemned the tax on the wants by a majority of thirty. On the other hand it has opposed a repeal of the stamp duty by a majority of eighty, and also the repeal of the paper duty by a majority of seventy-five. Thus have Mr. Milner Gibson's resolutions been disposed of. In these divisions the house has manifested a discri minating sense of the merits of the proposals. Not being prepared to assent at once to the three proposals, it has selected the most desirable, and has negatived the other two more or less strongly, according to their place in the order of importance. It would have been good if financial circumstances had allowed of sweeping all the three duties away ; but as that could not be done, the right preference was given to the repeal of the adver tisement duty, after which, in the graduated opposition to the repeal of the other two, is marked th e o pi n i on that the ab o liti on o f t h e paper duty stands next, and last the penny stamp. The order of the importance of the objects is here justly observed. The majorities have signified clearly enough, "This we will have at once and of these two other proposals, which we must nega tive at present, we will mark an opinion by opposing least the one we should prefer if practicable." This course completely accords with our view of the question. We have always contended that the abolition of the ad vertisement duty or tax on the wants should be urged first, next the paper duty, last the penny stamp. Of the objections to the advertisement duty it is hap pily now unnecessary to say a Word. The paper duty sins doubly: it sins against literature, and it sins against industrial policy. As the soap duty operates with re gard to the persons of the poor, so the paper duty operates as regards their minds ; but here the parallel ceases, for the soap manufacture does not recommend itself by any peculiar graces or incidental circumstances, hut the paper-mill, while it turns the most worthless thing to account, plants a little thriving manufacturing colony on the banks of some pretty stream, combining for the workpeople the advantage of the wages of the factory with the residence in a pleasant rural scene and with wholesome air. Seldom indeed is a paper-mill found in an undesirable spot, and many of them give life to charming localities. And both sexes and all ages find employment in them. But alas 1 the operation of the duty has closed many of these mills, which stand de serted, with their clusters of closed cottages about them, reproaching the law, and signifying what happy things might be if the fiscal: hand would relax its oppression, and let rags be turned to thrift and life, feed the poor and cherish intelligence. For the abolition of the stamp duty we toiled in sea son and out of season for many weary years. We advo cated the entire abolition, and only accepted the penny stamp as a postage. Experience has satisfied us that its merits as a postage have surpassed our calculation. The effect of it has been that the best papers are circulated through the country, the same copy supplied to several readers at a very cheap rate. This fact was stated in evidence before the Parliamentary Committee by Mr. Smith, of the Strand, a news agent in a very large business, who, from his own dealing, must know the distribution of a very considerable portion of the daily and weekly newspapers. Hundred of thousands of the middle classes in the country rea d th e Ti mes i n t h e i r leisure hours' for a penny a day, and there are few in deed, if any, of the artizans and better labouring classes who have not access to newspapers in reading clubs, or other associations. The railway circulation of newspapers is now enor mous, and the traveller who buys a newspaper to amuse or inform him on his journey, does not treat it as waste paper when it has served its ephemeral purpose. No, as it is postage free by virtue of the stamp, he bethinks himself of some one to whom it will be acceptable, and transmits it accordingly, an d b y so muc h the circulation of papers is considerably extended. We take no Protective view of the penny stamp. We do not regand it as a means of upholding the character of the Press by enhancing price. We do not look upon it as a guarantee for morality and moderation. We scout the notion that fiscal legislation can form the character of the Press. The operation of the stamp as a postage, has given an advantage indeed to the London journals over the provincial, but as one of the London journals it is not for us to insist on this as a benefit to the community. But on the other hand we protest against Mr. Cobden's argument for abolishing the stamp in order to assimilate the Press of this country to the Press of the United States. We do not contend for the stamp, to maintain the character or the Press, and still less can we assent to its abolition for the express pur pose of lowering the character of the Press. The one is untenable Protectionist ground, the other purely destruc tive. It by no means follows as certain that a cheap thing must be bad ; but the cheap thing which Mr. Cob den proposes as the model is bad, and at its low price less worth its money than the higher priced article in this country. An honourable exception will be found here and there in the enormous territory of the Union, but generally the American newspapers are contemptible, void of literary talent and acquirement, vulgar in senti ment, and meagre in the intelligence. They are indeed mainly advertising sheets, and deserve the character of a Press little more than the vans perambulating our streets. One part of the newspaper stamp duty might be re mitted with great advantage to the public, and with little •r no loss to the revenue, namely, the stamp on supple ments. As the supplements of the weekly papers in case the circulation, they would by so much increase the number of penny stamps consumed, if the duty cir cumscribing the. resort to them were abolished, which renders little to the revenue, while it checks that spread of information which is desirable to encourage. The defeat of the Government on Mr. Gibson's first resolution is a subject which we must handle in Touch stone's fashion. Inasmuch as it is a defeat of the Ministry, it is bad ; but inasmuch as it is the abolition of the tax on the wants, it is good. Mr. D'lsraeli's share in it no one will envy. lie is like the sign in Algebraic equations plus or minus as lie changes sides IA the House. Two defeats of the Ministry in one week cannot but feelingly remind that it is a Coalition Government, too often likely to find arrayed against it for the nonce a Coalition Opposition, There is now but one mode of managing the House, and that is by the management of measures ; but even this method is not always success ful, as has been shown in the divisions on the Attorney Certificates and Kilmainham Hospital. (From the Weekly News and Chronicle.) Of all the taxes on knowledge, the most utterly in defensible is the Advertisement duty. This bad impost sins against all the principles which have ever been laid down as leading axioms in the science of taxation. It is unfair in its pressure, and unequal in its relative ap portionment ; it is largely and easily evaded ; it falls with special weight on particular species of property ; it is a great impediment to trade, literature, and lab our seeking a mark e t, through publicity ; its amount is trifling—only about 178,0001. per annum ; finally, it is a tax the repeal or reduction of which would be so much clear gain fully realised by the public. A few illustrations of some of these points will place the matter in a clear light. The unjust pressure of the tax, and the facility with which it is evaded, are both shown by the rigour with which each separate adver tisement is taxed in every newspaper and periodical, while no tax whatever is or can be assessed on the vast masses of collective advertisements which line our streets and roads, on blank walls and boardings and in shop-windows—"go with us wherever we go," in omnibuses and railway-cars —or terrify our horses, block up our ways, try our patience, and imperil our necks in those most dangerous of street nuisances, the advertising vans. The injustice and unfair incidence of the tax are sufficiently shown by the fact, that the same duty is paid by the Joint Stock Company on its elabo rate prospectus, and by the maid-of-all -work on her modest intimation that she wants a place. The conse quence is, that the latter is placed at a very consider able relative disadvantage, and can only enjoy the ad vantages of publicity by the payment of a price for it so high as to be almost prohibitory. In fact, it tends to create a monopoly of the advantages of publicity in the hands of those who already possess the advantages of capital. The best illustration, however of the degree to which the duty acts as a prohibitive check on the facility of ad vertising, is the condition of the advertising columns of the public journals in those countries where no such duty exists. No one:who has ever seen the broadsheet of an American newspaper enjoying any degree of circulation, will be at a loss for arguments of the most practical co gency in behalf of an abolition of this most impolitic duty. . _ _ The above principles in relation to this odious text were on Thursday night pressed on the attention of the House of Commons by Mr. Milner Gibson in one of the ablest and most statesmanlike addresses that has for a long time been heard within the walls of that assembly. Its effect upon the house was correspondingly great, and the result was most gratifyingly shown in the affirmation of the resolution for the repeal of the tax by a majority of 31, the Ayes being 200, and the Noes 169. We re joice that on this occasion the independent members did their duty ; the divisions, indeed, on the other two reso lutions—those for the repeal of the paper duty and the stamp tax were discreditably small ; but it was under stood that the strength of the friends of the measure was to be put forth in supporting the first resolution, in re gard to which unquestionably the case for repeal was most unanswerably strong. With a view to giving all the prominence in our power to the admirable arguments by which Mr. Milner Gibson achieved his decisive victory, we print, in extenso, the following extract from his speech, in relation to what he justly styles this "barbarous tax " If a man advertises in a newspaper, one would suppose that he is adopting the most obvious and rational mode of making known his wants ; because it is the news paper, of all things, from its frequent publication, that gives that frequent publicity which is so de sirable for advertisers. But when he does this in ionbfaaribnsao.erma6:nutsi.s. paper m ade n w (hear, i there thheoalri w t. )ht this I st says that n t nb a eo x iuu . ngeel i an Sh in eers.) Is there anything so essential to to society as that all should be capable of communicating to each other their mutual wants Does it not lie at the very root of all our progress —at the ve root of all commercial ernunication that, transactions ? (Cheers.) For e rery you prevent by this toll, is it not ro able that you pre vent some commercial transaction th ati) might be beneficial to those engaged in it, and also beneficial to the .Stale ! (ftoChamaeeiievs: t)apnudßbliiivitheewanthtiatetnista ino m ence on tossa str r i an Amazoti steam-shiplS lost u b s o r l whenthing it' there th a is t j a i n w i h r Irish arrest repeated advertisements man requires that there sha ll ose calamities, the excise be is. 6d. paid upon every one of these announcements ; thus converting the adver funds of subscribers, who tisement duty into a tax to an Irish famine, or to th ucy lost in the Amazon, to contri, and to pay a portion of their zpon calamity, and causing the that they are contributing the orphans and widows of men ute to your State necessities, lall4 venue I AN%) t m arpiars ili to t° ma 4 : that a thisboard l I ti Ilt; kind of tax which we ought not to encourage in a commer • cial country; for is it possible to conceive anything more unwise than to stand in the way of communications be tween men that• cause commercial transactions, and that operate favourably upon the Customs and Excise revenue. Talk of the inequality of the tax,—l know that it has been frequently mentioned that a poor servant maid has to pay as heavy a toll to the State for making known that she wants a place as a peer of Parliament has to pay to the State for making it known that he has an estate to dispose of. (Hear, hear.) Everybody is aware of this gross inequality ; but the strength of the argument, I contend, lies against the tax altogether. I say it is tax only worthy of a barbarous nation. (Cheers.) It is a sort of short sighted attempt to get a little revenue at the expense of the most valuable interests of the country, and probably destroying, in other ways, a great deal more revenue than it creates. I call upon the house to record their vote that the advertisement duty is an unjust tax—is an unequal tax—and strikes at the root of those communications of mutual want which are necessary for the progress and the welfare of the country. I call upon them to vote that it is a tax upon calamity ; that it is a tax which is not capablo of being enforced even as it now stands upon the statute book; and that it ought to be repealed. (Hear, hear.) No reduction do I ask for. (Cheers.) If you merely re duce this tax, you leave these inequalities and this unfair competition completely unredressed. (Hear, hear.) You will find it impossible to impose your reduced advertise ment duty upon the man who paints the pavement of the streets with his advertisement, or the man who goes about with his advertisement van, or the man who advertises in these catalogues. You cannot enforce your tax, however small, against these classes ; therefore I call upon you, in justice to the newspaper press of this country, which ought not to be exposed to this unequal struggle, to repeal this tax. The advertisement fund is the fund which forms the legitimate support of the newspaper press. The news paper supplies publicity ' • the advertiser buys publicity, and has the arti c l e w hi c h he requires. Therefore, I say, do not take hi m awa y f rom th e newspaper press.On the contrary, for the sake, I should say, of the independence of the newspaper, for the sake of those men who are strug gling against great difficulties to give valuable organs of intelligence to the country, relieve them from this unequal t exposed, s that probably te contest. L ong as thi s t ax h as l aste d , i t is not too late to do the m an act of justice ; though many of them, I believe, are been s o hr. farhouseinjured to by thethem unjust from y thm to whichposition. t h e (Hear have sit would be beyond the power eir hear.) rec over His a matter of real congratulation to all the friends of true progress, that the house was not to be diverted by the plausibilties of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who did his utmost more rico to mystify his hearers—from doing, as far as in them lay, an act of substantial justice to the great bulk of the tax-payers of this country. We trust that may be a lesson for the Coalition Government ; it surely must strike the most obtuse of their supporters, that for a paltry amount of 178,000 per annum, it is bad policy to have lost the opportunity of conferring on the country a great and beneficial change, and t o h a y incurred, what they are not so strong as to be well abl to bear, a mortifying and ominous defeat. LITERATURE. The Diary and Iloures of the Ladye Adolie. Edited by Lady Charlotte Pepys. Addey and Co. This is another of those volumes which have lately been published in the old style and ortho graphy, such as the "Life of Mary Powell," dm. The present work commemorates the life and death of " a faythfulle childe," three centuries ago. In the days of Queen Mary she suffered martyr dom for her faith. The diary is very interest ing, and the collection of " Houres" at the con clusion is curious and instructive. It consists of prayers and meditations, carefully arranged. The Ladye Adolie and her friend Una having disputed respecting the colour of a fish, Una falls into the water in her attempts to secure it. She is wits difficulty recovered, and Adolie, on moving her kirtle, finds the fish entangled in its folds. "I putte it into fresh soft water and it did begin to revive ; I did carry it to the light to see it better, and the Evening Sun just sinking gave it a golden hue on one side, but left it brown on the other. " Ah, Chaucer 1 Chaucer I we, too, had been like unto thy Knightes of the Gold and Silver Shield. " We had meant the same fishe ; but Una, down on the banke, cast it into shade, while I, standing, had seen the other side lit up. This was poor Una'a fishe. " She was still sleepinge, and I still on the watche be side her, when sleepe came over mee too, and I dreamed. I did dreme that there were manie men trying to catch fishe, for they were starving ; and there were manie fishe of divers sortes in the deep waters. But as soon as their nets caught anie, one man did call this a poisonous sorte, and another did call others bad and un eateable, so that with one and another assurance all were rejected. Then I wepte, and said, ' What will ye then do ?' Then I heard a voice say, 'Have ye any meate ?' and they made replie ' Nay.' Then, said the voice, 'Come and dine.' And we saw one who from His hande did give us some of all kindes of fishes to sate, and they were verie goode. " And He vanished out of oure sighte. Then these men fell to discoursing wherefore all were goode from his hande ? and, once more beside the waters, did dispute eagerlie which were of the sorte that He had taken and given unto us. Then saide It was not the sorte but because they were in His hande.' Whereat all did turne and looke angrilie upon mee and fright mee, and drive me tear the waters, so that I cried out for feare. And methoughte one caught me to His bosom, and the same blessed voice sayde, Faythefulle witnesse ! none shall pluck thee out of my hande,' whereat I trembled with exceeding joy and I awaked." This dream was illustrative of Adolies's fate. The type and binding are characteristic of the time of the narrative, and combined with its peculiar orthography, render the illusion com plete, and were it not for the freshness of the paper and colouring, we might fancy it had emerged from some ancient library to give the modern readers " a glimpse of the days that are over." The Diary of Martha Bethune Baliol. Chapman and Hall. This is the Chronicle of an eventful year, from 1753 to 1754. It is supposed to be written by a young lady of the Baliol family, the sister of Sir Richard Baliol, and the granddaughter of Lady Bethune, -of Lincluden. It is written in a very impressive manner, and cannot fail to attract in terest of the deepest kind. The hero is the young Earl of Derwentwater, the son of the unfortunate earl who was executed in the civil wars. The ill fated Martha was' engaged to him, and they were forming plans for their future lives abroad, as he could only remain in Scotland in disguise, when a party of soldiers came to search the house. By a miracle the Earl escaped, but alone, and before Marth a cou ld re j o i n hi m i n France he had engaged in the war at Haaover, and the awful news came that " the young Earl had given his soul up to Heaven, still fresh with the brightness of youth." He died on the field of Hastenbec. His end is thus described :—" When the battle was over, and the day ours, we thought the victory dearly purchased when we saw our young Colonel's place empty. We found his body lying in the midst of the slain at the battery which he had so bravely carried, which he was the first to mount, and where he had been cut down. He was quite dead, and his sword broken in his hand, but he held it so tight that I could not unclasp it, and so we buried him, the broken sword in his hand. Australia Visited and Revisited. By Samuel Moss man and Thomas Bannister. Addey and Co. Among the numerous works of every description recently published on this universally attractive subject, this volume presents at least the novelty of a double authorship. It is a narrative of " Recent Travels and old Experiences in Victoria and New South Wales." It is justly observed in the preface that nothing likely to mislead should be stated at any time by travellers, but at the present period accu racy is especially important, as from the vast number emigrating misinformation is peculiarly prejudicial. The authors therefore have given us simply a nar rative of facts, and present a picture of the colonies as they actually are under the influence of the gold mania. The details of ordinary life, and the ad vice to emigrants, are the result of long experience as settlers and otherwise. Au extensive map is g. wen of New South Wales, and a chart of the world, by A. K. Johnston, geographer to her Majesty. 570 tons register, Captain Jamieso n , sailed to day for Adelaide, South Australia, taking 257 emigrants, equal to 198 statute adults, from th e G overn- EMIGRATION..—SOUTHAMETON, April 17 . — The ship William Stewart, of the General Post-office auth or iti es, has hail ment depot here. The William Stewart, a t th e re quest placed on board of her the 39 bags of mails brought home from the 'Orestes, which vessel put into Lisbon l ea ky on the sth inst., and, in consequence of exten libseritoa. hoThedeieth sive repairs being required before she could. proceed on the voyage, the mails were returned in the Peninsular s a t n e d am O e ri r en A ta u l Company's Australian, ian a nd shi i p t In a t .l the werepraeii originally made up for the unfortunate Royal als M sent effort to convey them to their destination will be more successful than the four previous attempts to dis patch them have been. With reference to the emi grant ship Orestes (now in th e b agua, it appears that thi s s hi p was not sent out T and Orient a l Steam Company. Sh y e was e Penins purchasedular by that assoc i at i on, deliverable in Adelaideand the company had no thi ng whatever to do with 'the outfit or dispatch of the ship, or with her cargo or passen gers. All this was as much in the hands of the owners as if the company had never looked at her. A minute survey of the vessel showed that she would be well adapted for the company's purpose,—viz., a coal-hulk and store-ship at Adelaide ' • and they theref ore ma d e ar rangements that s h e should become their property on the completion of the voyage out. This explanation is ne cessary to exonerate the Peninsular and Oriental Cora pa,ny from any responsibility that may arise out of the occurrence. The ship Moultan, 611 tons ! burden (Cap tain'Ofiiielrs); will, leaxe on Tuesday or' Wednesday for Geelong, with a full complement of emigrants. The Elizabeth, 569 tons, sailed on - Wednesday last for Mel bourne. The Calabar, 754 tons, will leave for Adelaide about the end of the month, and the Lady Kennawfq 1 1 Southampton Ban the' beginning of May. The Port of Sout the Gipsy t , , sof gration Company are about to dispatcl s i , o f 1,000 on 650 tons, for Adelaide, and the Leonidas , for Port Philip and Sydney. Both t hes e vessels will tale their departure in MAY. 25 25 St. 50 20 20 33A 10 20