The Sun. — London, England, 1832-04-24 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING. APRIL 24, 1832. The country, as we suspected would be the ease, is again on the stir. The Glasgow Re form Association met on Wednesday,last for the Purpos e of addressing the KING, and petition ing the House of Lords to preserve the integrity of the Ministerial Bill in its fullest extent. On t his -occasion Sir D. K. SANDFORD well ob served, 4 , he must state his belief that at no pe riod in the history of this vital measure—elated 48 he was at its present advancement--did there min gle with his joyful feelings so many mis glivings, so much alarm, lest those hopes sould after all be disappointed." The ap prehensions of the Learned Knight, which we hope m ay prove unfounded, are not without rea sOn, and have evidently originated in the fol -I°wing remarks of Lord GREY, in his reply on the Second Reading, as respects schedule A, and more particularly the ten-pound franchise. that a numbe r of boroughs should be dis franchised, or that the ten-pound qualification should be altered, still they formed no part of the principle of the Bill, and both might be altered with perfect consistency. For himself, he certainly should resist any alteration in consistent with the main object of the measure. He would certainly oppose any Proposition for reducing the number of boroughs to be disfranchised, or for raising the lot, franchise much higher." These are the observations that have alarmed the Glasgow Re form Association, and drawn forth the comments of Sir D. K. SANDFORD. And truly not with out good cause. Lord GREY'S allusions to the 101. franchise are, to say the least, unsatisfactory. He even hints that it may possibly be raised higher, on the plea that the principle of en franchisement will still remain virtually unvio lated. Wh y , so it would remain inviolate were the franchise to be raised to twenty, or even twenty-five pounds ; but what, we ask, would then become of the integrity of the measure ? What, of its adaptatio n to the taste and temper of the times, by which, as it at present stands, it is so eminently distinguished ? So far from ap- Proaching in the slightest degree to universal suffrage, the ten pound franchise is, in many parts of the kingdom, a ban of exclusion to thousands, to hundreds of thousands of the intelligent and deserving classes of the community. In North and South Wales—in Devonshire— ur Dorsetshire—i n many of the populous towns of 'Yorkshire, it partakes rather of an aristocratic than a democratic qualification. Indeed, throughout whole districts in `Vales for miles and m il es toget h er, scarcely twenty individuals will be found, possessing it, while in De vonshire, it descends no lower than to t he respectable gentry and yeomanry. We hope the people will bear this steadily and constantly in mind, and demand in respectful, but decided language, that the Bill be allowed to pass the Lords unemasculated, unadulterated ; and more particularly that no alteration, not even the slightest, be made in the ten-pound franchise. We look on this as the keystone of the Bill, deprived of which, the whole edifice tum bles to pieces. Sir D. K. SANDFORD'S argu ments on this point are worthy of attention. " Cut off the 101. voters of this very place, Glasgow, and you lose more than one-third of those who would otherwise get the franchise. If you make it 15/. the franchise will be lost to 2,500 men. If you raise it to 201. your voters tvill lose two-thirds of their number. He was certain he would be borne out by every landlord in saying that the 101. householders were a class every way as respectable, intelligent, and inde- ' Pendent as the householders of 151. But, after all, the best argument in favour of the 101. fran chise is, that it has been promised to the country." We must confess we entertain more apprehen sion for the safety of this portion of the Bill than any other. Lord GREY alludes to it not in a bold, uncompromising spirit, but with hesi tation—with reluctancewith timidity. He seems to thi n k i t scarcely worth battling for, notwithstanding it is that very portion of the measure, which has most caught the people's fancy. Under these circumstances, there is but one thing to be done, and that is, for the country to bestir itself, and express its opinion boldly and unanimously on the subject of the ten-pound franchise. Otherwise, we fear, it will be thrown overboard. A comical article, fraught with a copious ca talogue of the virtues, talents, and all that sort of thing, of the Bishop of EXETER—who, not withstanding his Anti. Catholic and Pro-Ca tholic predilections, was unlucky enough the other day to lose his thirty talents, the fat Rectory of Stanhope—will be found in an other part of The Sun. For this queer pro duction a grateful public is indebted to the "horning Post. Our contemporary is not addicted to joking, or we should con clude that in so vehemently insisting on his popularity, he was quizzing the good Bishop. Dr. -PHILLPOTTS " popular!" Dr. PHILL POTTS,—" the most respected, the most in fluential, of all the Bishops of the Church of England ! " Can such things be, And overcome us, like a summer-eoud, Without our special wonder ?" We can imagine the chuckling self-satisfac faction with which the wag of the Morn ing Post penned his eulogium on Dr. PHILLPOTTS. How his sides must have ached in anticipating the astonishment of his readers, when the precious effusion met their eyes ! Above all, what Herculean difficulty he must have found—the incomparable wag— in sobering down his style to the requisite gra vity ! The Post, we repeat, is seldom guilty of a quiz, but on this particular occasion, it has put forth a specimen of irony worthy of SWIFT him self. There is nothing in the " Tale of a Tub" superior to our cotemporary's defence of Dr. PHILLPOTTS. What can be more delicious than the following sly inuendo ? It is really quite a tit-bit :—" We hope and believe the Bishop of EXETER is not subject to be elated beyond measure, for to a person of light and unreflecting character, the notice he has re ceived would be dangerous." Notice forsooth ! Any such a notice as the poorest—the humblest —the most insignificant member of the commu nity would justly shudder to have drawn down on himself. Notice ! Aye, the notice bestowed on the Anti-Catholic Pamphleteer—the Pro-Ca tholic Oxford Elector—the advocate of the Man chester massacre--the opponent of the Reform Bill ! This is, indeed, a notice to be proud of ; and well may our cotemporary ironically supplicate the Right Rev. Prelate not " to be elated be yond measure" by it. It would have been as well, however, if he had also conjured the good Bishop not to be too much " elated" by the loss of his rich Rectory of Stanhope. German Papers, received this morning, con• tain the following news from Italy, which how• ever is not of much importance : FRONTIERS OF ITALY, APRIL 13.—Count St. Aulaire has received instructions from Paris to annul the contract entered into by General Cubieres for the subsistence of the French troops in the environs of Ancona. It is said, too, that he is particularly recommended to take care that no cause for complaint be given to the Roman Government, and that the French commanders conduct themselves in such a manner that the same justice may be done to them as to the Austrians. The enthusiasm with which the French were at first received by the restless inhabitants of the marches gradually abates the longer they remain in Ancona ; the people are undeceived, and become sensible that their deliverers, as they are called, have nothing better to bring them than that what has been already pro posed to them by their lawful sovereign, the Pope, and consequently that it would be advisable to come to an understanding without the aid of foreigners, whose inter vention, which has become unnecessary, must con sequently lead to an increase of their burdens. It is therefore not impossible that we may soon hear of deputations being sent to Rome, in the name of the revolted marches, to solicit the departure of the foreign troops ; and it is said that such a step has been spiken of at Ancona itself. It seems doubtful whether this request could be complied with till their return to obedience should be secured by the presence of a sufficient number of troops in the pay of the Government, that may be depended upon ; for there are very good reasons for arming the citizens, though they would very willingly, for the present at least, perform military service to restore tranquillity'. The King of Bavaria, travelling under the name of Conte d'Augusta (Count of Augsburg), arrived on the 9th instant at Florence, and, after a short stay, proceeded on his journey to Rome. ANCONA, Amt. S.—Though we are without a Go vernment, things go on in their usual course, as the people are very docile. Yesterday we thought we were blockaded, as the Papal troops stopped the peoplewho came with provisions. The object of such a step did not appear, as the sea is open, and we could suffer only a temporary inconvenience from it. However, this proceeding soon ceased, and to day the market is supplied as usual. In the whole of the Papal States, however, p issports to Ancona are pretty generally refused. Entire tranquillity continues to prevail here, which is not disturbed by the persons who go about the streets with the French and Italian flags, singing pa. triotic songs. The news of the assent of Austria to the Belgian convention, which was received the day before yesterday, and confirmed to-day, though not yet offici 1 1, has caused a degree of surprise in the Anti-Liberal party, and put them in ill humour. Last week the chief of the staff of General Cubieres arrived here in seven days from Paris, and brought pro motions tor several officers of the 66th regiment of the line. An aide-de-camp of the Minister of War arrived here a few days ago. We are in daily expectation of the Bellorsa fr igate, which some say will be accompanied by two transports. It is reported here that the French are to occupy the five delegations of the March, the legations of Urbino and Pesaro, and the Austrians the four legations, Bologna, Ferrara, Forti, and Ravenna. The appearance of a may-of-war off Cenna induced the French General to send the Elifa brig on Friday evening to reconnoitre. The Roman Court, it seems, will not yet hear of conces sions, and issues notes and protests. One might almost believe that it must have no good accounts of the real state of affairs. AUSTRIAN FUNDS. April 12. April 13. Five per Cer.t Four per Cent ...... Bank shares 1,14331 —Allgemein e Z e it ung , A pr il 18. 1,148 TRIESTE, Aran, 7.—An E gypt i an b r i g of war of 20 guns, arrived in our roads yesterday, and saluted the city with 21 guns, which was returned by the pert. This brig is come, it seems, to procure ammunition, through the house of Peter Jusiutff, and an express has been sent to Vienna to obtain permission. Many persons affirm that it has brought articles of value, which the Vi ceroy d es i res to lodge in a place of safety, in case his exp e di t i on to Syria should have an unfavourable i ssue. We are in daily expectation of the arrival of 90 pieces of he avy ar tillery, as our road is to be defended by 10 batteries, for which preparations are commenced. This is, however, considered to be only a prudent precaution, anti by no means as indicating any thoughts of war on the part of our Government.—Frankfort Papers, April 17. Operas were first set on foot by a set of gentle men, who acted, not for ►noney, but for their own diver sion—there were abous thirty at them. When they first came to be acted for money there was one of the actresses who had one hundred and twenty crowns for acting for one season. This was then looked upon as such a vast reward fora linger, tbdt she gat the name of La Cento ulna by it. LAMIII!TH VESTRY MEETING. (THIS DAY.) This being Easter Tuesday-, the day appointed for the election of parcchial officers, a vestry meeting was held at the Boys' Sch( of-room, Hercules-buildings, for the pur pose of electing officers for Lambeth pari,h for the year ensuing. The attendarce was more than usually numerous, and the room was crowded to excess. Owing to the enor mous amount of rates collected and money expended in the parish, an ;Association of the more humble rate-payers was some time ago formed, at the instance of a parishioner named Fall, the avowed object of which was to operate as a check upon the parish expenditure. The mem bers of that association mustered in great num. bers at the present meeting, to endeavour to eject the present Vestry Clerk, Mr. R. Watmore, who has been in that situation eighteen }ears. He is strongly supported by the wealthier classes in the parish ; thus the parish is divided into two powerful bodies. From a paper that was circulated in the school-room, it appeared that from Ettster, 1824, to Easter, 1825, the amount raised by the poor rate and expended was 62,1201. 2s. 2d., the rate being 4s. 4d. in the pound, white in the year ending this Easter 58,7371. 6s. Id. was raised and expended, the rate being Is. 2d. in the pound. The Rev. Dr. DOYLF, the Rector, took the chair. In alluding to the great numbers present, he:said he hoped for their assistance in preserving order, and he trusted that no person who wished to address the meeting would resort to personalities, but would proceed to the consideration of the questions to be submitted to them with that calmness and decorum which were necessary to enable them to decide in the best way for their own interests.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. FALL wished, before they proceeded to the business for which they had met, to put a question to the Chair man, as to whether it was his intention to proceed in con formity with their local act, or whether they intended to resort to that infamous act called Sturges Bourne's Act. He was of opinion, that in the election of parish officers, they were bound to proceed according to the local act by which every rate-payer would have one vote, and not by Sturges Bourne's Act, by which some persons would have as many as six votes. The CHAIRMAN declined to answer that question, but said he should proceed in the regular way. Mr. FALL finding be could not get an answer, said he would at a future stage contest that point with the Chair man. At the last election he proposed a reduction of the Vestry Clerk's salary, from 500 to 300 guineas, but by the operation of Sturges Bourne's Act, in giving so many votes to some persons, he failed in his desire—though, if the election had been under the Local Act, the reduction would have been effected. He now stated his intention to propose some other person as Vestry Clerk, a situation which Mr. Watmore was unworthy to fill.—(Cheers and hisses.) The society to which he (Mr. Fall) belonged, had, after some difficulty, fixed on Mr. O'Grady to be put in nomination as possessing every necessary qualification for the office. He knew that every species of falsehood and misrepresention had been resorted to by Mr. Watmore and his friends to secure his 19th election, and to depre ciate Mr. O'Grady in the estimation of the parishioners. It was said that that gentleman had held forth at the Rotunda, and that he was not a member of that beautiful and amiable institution, the National Church.—(Loud hisses and a great uproar.) But the office was purely a lay office, and bad nothing to do with the Church; there lore, an Irishman was as well qualified to fill it as an Eng lishman. Besides, Mr. O'Grady had been the foremost in getting rid of the ab iminable fourpenny church-build ing rate. Last year Mr. Watmore had been assisted by his friend, the Chancery barrister (Mr. Moore), in rendering an account of the expenditure of the money be received from the parish —an account that was grossly incorrect.— (Hisses and cheers.) Mr. MooßE—lf you mean to say I advised him to put forth a false statement, you are telling a gross falsehood.— (Loud uproar aga n.) Tke CHAIR9IAI7 requested Mr. Fall not to indulge in personalities. Mr. FALL said the Chairman assisted Mr. Moore and Mr. Watmore, and they formed the trio. He then went into a variety of details to show that Ur. Watmore was greatly overpaid for his services ; he received the following salaries and allowances : as Vestry Clerk of St. Mary's Lambeth, 5251. ; summonses for poor's-rates 2541., from the burial ground Trustees 31/. 10s., and sever il annual salaries from the district churches and the Walcot Charity, in the whole, amounting to 10041. Ws. a year. He was proceeding in his details and comments upon them, when o , ,r reporter left. The contest for the election of Vestry Clerk is expected to be a very severe one. PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH, (THIS DAY.) This being Easter Tursday, pursuant to Act of Parlia ment, a most numerous Vestry of the Inhabitants of this parish was held in the Parish Church, for the purpose of electing Churchwardens, 32 Commissioners under the Local Act, a Guardian of the Infant Poor, Commissioners of the Court of Requests, Auditors of the Parish Accounts, Trustees under the Burial Ground Act, Workhouse Com mittee, Vestry Clerk, Organist, and Beadles for the year ensuing ; and also to vote an additional grant to the Rec tor of the parish for his services and that of his Curate; to make a Minister's rate, and on other general parochial business. The Chair was taken by the Rector, shortly after nine o'clock. Messrs. M'Ewen and Hobson were proposed by Mr. Hawes, seconded by Mr. Smith, as churchwardens ; to which an amendment was moved by Mr. Hobbs, se conded by Mr. Meeke, that Messrs. M'Ewen and Giles should be placed in their stead. A long discussion then ensued, as to the merits and de merits of each respective candidate; and upon the question being put to the meeting, the show of hands was declared to be in favour of the two latter gentlemen. A poll was then demanded on behalf of Mr. Hobson, and was agreed to be proceeded with at the termination of the meeting, and to close to-morrow, at five o'clock. The next business prcceeded with was the appointment of Commissioners under the Local Act. Mr. DAVEY proposed thirty-two gentlemen agreeable to :he Act of Parliament. Mr. DANIEL objected to the wholesale manner in which these gentlemen were proposed, and moved as an amend ment, the proposal of sixteen instead of thirty-two. Mr. NVIItTi seconded the amendment. Mr. DAVEY thought that such a course would be llegal. The CHAIRItAII t after putting the amendment to the meeting, declared it to be carried. Mr. DANIEL then read his list of the sixteen gentlemen he proposed, but to which rilr..Hoans objected, and proposed sixteen other gen tlemen. A good deal of discussion then took place as to which list ought to be adopted by the met t ng, and The CHAIRMAN, after putting the question, declared the meeting to be in favour of the gentlemen proposed by Mr. Hobbs. Mr. DANIEL then demanded a poll. Mr. DAVEY then rose. He proposed the appointment of 16 other gentlemen, to make up the 32, but the majo rity of the meeting aremed unwilling to hear him, and a good deal of uproar and confusion prevailed. When order had in some measure been restored, Mr. WEBS stated that the Act was imperative, and that the meeting must elect 32 gentlemen. Ultimately, however, a new list was formed, and agreed to. On the motion of Mr. Foal., seconded by Mr. JAMES, Mr. Henry Taylor was appointed Guardian for the Infant Poor for the ensuing year. On the motion of Mr. HAWES, five gentlemen were ap pointed Commissioners for the Court of Requests. Mr. HAWES then moved the appointm, nt of fourteen gentlemen as Auditors of the parish accounts. Mr. Nouns said that this was the most important part of the business which the meeting bad that day to transact. The persons now proposed as auditors of the parish accounts, with the exception of one op two, were the same as those which were appointed last year.— (Cheers.) One of them had been auditor eleven times, another ten, another seven, and so on, and he could not see why they should again be put forward unless they were found extremely convenient in passing aceounts.—(Lnud cheers.) He thought many of them extremely improper persons, for they had in some instances been so neglectful of their duty, that the greatest difficulty had been expe rienced to get five of them together to audit the accounts, and in more instances than one, the auditing of the ac counts was obliged to be deferred in consequence of the non attendance of some of these gentlemen..—(Cheers and hi sses .) He thought many of the names ought not to be introduced. Mr. PERRIN thought the auditors ought to be elected individually ; and made a motion, which w,is carried una nimoudy, to that effect. Each auditor was then pro posed singly, and there was hardly any name put to the meeting, which it was not proposed to erase and in sert another. This took up a great deal of time, interspersed now and then with long and tedious discussions as to what had taken place at the last vestry. Ultimately it was agreed that the vestry clerk should e x punge all the names that had been proposed, and a new list was agreed to una nimously. The meeting was proceeding with the election of Trustees, under the Burial Ground Act, when our re- porter left. The proceedings of the 'meeting were conducted with such irregularity as almost to render it impossibie for any person to understand what was goin, on. A sharp contest is expected in the election of Vestry Clerk. It was anticipated that the Hon. Member for Preston, wh o is a parishioner, would have been present, but at the time of our reporter leaving, he bad not made his appear• anee. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ... [ 'RICER OF STOCKS THIS Band, Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 Per Cent.ConQ 95 I,e 47i 30 per Cent. - tto Red ()17 2 1% New Cent. Cent 93!i 1 4 2 , 7 i, n per Ann. 17:26 .... - 4 per Cent 18'al lOl % % tnnk Long Ann. to expire Jan. 5, 1863...16 11-16 9-16 Oct. 10, 1859 Wy e Jan. 5, 1860 Jan. -- 5, 1830 - Aprils, 1880 -- Jan. 5, 1870 - PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Bclgian Bonds Ditto Scrip — Ditto Account 2 pm. Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account...4s7 6 1 „i 6 'A Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto ,Account _ Chilian Bonds l6 Ditto Account _ Columbian Bonds o'4 10 Ditto Account — Ditto Bonds, 1824 1174 Danish Bonds 67 Ditto Account Greek Bonds 23 Ditto Bonds, 1825. Ditto Account 3O 3lexican Bonds, 5 per cent — Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent ;114 Ditto Account 325 1 Neapolitan New 5 per Cent ------ • ....... ..... India Stock Ditto Bonds 3 2 pm. South Sea Stock 93 Old Annuities — New Ditto — 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 EL Bills, .Cl,OOO l2 11 Pm. Ditt0...........500 l3 12 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial pm. Ditto Advertised — pm. Bank for Account — India for Account Cons. for May 23 a 5 !.c 4T THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. j Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account 11 ;Portuguese Bonds Ditto Account. Regency Scrip — Ditto Account Prussian Bonds Ditto Account — Ditto Bonds, 1822 ... Russian ponds, 152 9 48% Ditto Account 9 5 1 .4 New Loan 43 q Spanish Bonds, 1821 — Ditto Account l4 Ditto Bonds, 18‘.n Ditto Account l3 French Rentes, sp. c. I.if 7sc. Exchange 2sf 50c. —3 per cent........—f. —c. .--- Exchange - —f —c. Dutch Scrip Ditto Account 44 4{ 3% French Scrip — PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONI O'CLOCK. Melo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) XPaid. 10 Per Share. 0 7% B olanos Mining Compan) £lso 125 Brazilian Imp. Alin. Co. (iss. at 5!. pm.) £2O 45 Ditto St. John Del Rey Ditto Cocaes British Iron Mining Company £5O 8 C olumbian Mining Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) 47 314 English Mining Company 12)4 22 General Mining Association £l'2 211;_ Real del Monte Mining Co. ..., -- United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 2/. cm.) 40 Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO Protector Insurance Comp. Canada Company l7 General Steam Navigation Co. Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 Van Dieman's Land Agricultural Co l2 9 !;, £1 7 6 4234 Due. Arrived. HAILS. 0 America . 0 Brazil , ************** 0 0 Due. Arrived. 1 Hamburg 0 0 Buenos ** ******* 0 Jamaica 0 ******** 0 0 Holland 0 Cart hagena 0 0 Leeward Islands ... 0 1 Dublin 0 0 Lisbon I 0 Flanders 0 0 Malta 0 1 France 0 0 Sweden 0 Guernsc &Jcrsev.. 0 I Waterford --...._ HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning.,, 4.2 minutes after 9.1 Evening...l3 minutes after 10. nit flsL THE ARMY. (Flom the Limerick Chronicle.) Two troops of the 3 , 1 Light Dragoons marched on Mon. day from Piershill barracks, for Hamilton ; two troops of the 2d or Queen's Dragoon Guards have relieved them. Major Scarlett's troop of the sth D;rtg•oonGuardshave received a letter of readiness to march from Baltarbert to Newbridge. Tuesday two troops of the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards arrived at Belfast per the steamers Fingal and Bt/fast from Glasgow. They marched immediately after 1 ending to Dundalk. Lieutenant General Sir J. Fuller, from the 96th, is ap pointed to the command of the 75th Regiment, vice Lieutenant-General Dunlop, deceased ; and Major- General Sir L. Smith succeeds to the 96th Regiment. Ciptain Hancock and Lieutenant Reade, of the 97th reserve at Clonmel, have received orders to join the service companies of that regiment at Ceylon. Lieutenant O'Hara's detachment of the 50th Regiment has moved from Maryborough to Mountratlt. Captain John O'Connor, lately Barrack Master at Spike Island, has taken charge of the barrack at Waterford, in the room of Lieutenant-Colonel Lisle, C. B. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, T WEL VE 0' CLOCK. W e have no arrivals of importance, except Hamburg and French mails. By the French mail this morning, accounts from Brussels state that a fracas took place at Antwerp between the chasseurs of the 6th of the line, in which several persons were wounded. It is also stated that the Dutch troops are assembling in great force on the frontiers of Campine, as well as artillery. From Breda they state that the preparations for war continue. The Dutch are provisioning their strong fortresses. Accounts from Paris state that the exchange of the ra tifications with Prussia and Austria had not produced any sensation on Change. Since Perier and his colleague have been ill, the diplomatic conferences have ceased, and extraordinary couriers are less frequent than before. Letters from Port-au-Prince to the 6th February say that President Boyer has addressed a Jett-r to the Minister of France, with proposals to settle their differences. . . We observe in a Canton Gazette the following of the 9th of December; that on the 21st of November one of the cutters of the Company's ships in returning to the se cond bar from Macao was capsised in a gale ; nine men and the mate were drowned, and fourth that some Chi nese who were near the sufferers, instead of rendering them assistance, absolutely pelted them with stones. Accounts from Guatimala to the middle of January state that martial law had been proclaimed there, that seven thousand men were within a tew miles of the above place, and that an attack was expected. The Government was going to remove to St. Salvador.— The country is so divided, that it is h trd to conjecture who will triumph—the aspect is another year of civil war. A letter from Washington mentions that the Secretary of the Treasury is seriously indisposed, which will delay the presentation of his report on the reduction of imports. Secretary Ingham is also dangerously ill. THE FUNDS. All the evil reports which were afloat yesterday have vanished this morning like smoke in the air, in conse (pence of which we have an improvement in the Funds. Console, which left off yesterday at 841 to 85 for the Account, opened at 85 to k, since which they have been done at 85k to and for money 85 to k. The new protscol mentioned in a morning journal this day seems to give satisfaction in the City, as it leaves a door open to the King of Holland to arrange all difficulties with Belgium in an amicable way, giving him an op portunity of making, as it were, an honourable retreat. In the Foreign Market Dutch stock has improved to O ak. In other foreign securities nothing doing as yet. The estafitte from Paris still brings distressing accounts of the deaths by the cholera; 370 died on Saturday. HALF-PAST ONE. The Funds, which were on the improvement in the early part of the morning, have within an hour taken a change, and receded from 851 down to 84i for the Ac count. The real cause of the heaviness of the Market is not as yet known, but is supposed to be owing to a pre vailing opinion, that a change must take ,place in the French Administration. O:her persons who are well in formed seem to think that persons will be appointed to manage the affairs of Perier and his colleague until they are entirely recovered. According to the last accounts received from Paris, Perier's health has much improved. In the Foreign Market little or nothing doing at present. The following bulletin is from the first authority : " Paris, Sunday Evening. " Certain news which I have this moment received, in regard to the health of the President of the Council. in forms me that be has passed a very quiet night. He has taken some food which did hint much good." Extract of a private letter by the estefette this morn ing from Paris, dated April 22 :—" The mortality, although much diminished, is still frightful ; there were near 400 deaths yesterday, according to the returns, which are still suspected of being far from the truth. It is meladcholy at present to meet a person you have not seen for a few days, the first question asked is, ' Has any of your family been attacked ?' In some cases whole fa milies have been swept off. There are several streets nearly deserted, the greater part of the inhabitants being dead." 7 ILREE 0 CL 0 CK. Consols for Account Sq. RHAMPSINITOS, King of Egypt, is recorded by the " Father of History" to have gone down to hell in his life-time, and played a game of hazard there with CEREs, of whom be won a gold hand-basin and took it home with him. A gentleman seeing a clergyman, whom he knew to have been a non-juror, in a better gown and cas sock than ordinary, asked him if he had swallowed the oaths ?—" Yes," said he, " I have ; but I staid until I had nothing else to swallow." CHOLERA.—TILE LAW COURTS.—We re gret to state that a clerk, named NYSELL, employed in one of the King's Bench offices, died at an early hour yesterday of cholera; and that another, named PARKER, belonging to a Common Pleas office, died on the preceding evening of the same disease. They were both, we have heard, of intemperate habit+. We understand that these deaths led to a deliberation among the Judges whether they should not adjourn the business of Term until the disease had subsided.— Cgrk Constitution. CAMPAIGN IN GERMANY.-Lord Towns end, who commanded one of the brigades, as is usual with Generals on a march, gave a dinner to his officers. When the soup was served up an universal complaint was made of its horrid taste. An inquiry was instantly made into the cause, when it was found that the French, by whom the place had been occupied as an hospital but two days before, on retreating, for the purpose of expediting the interment of their dead, bad thrown many of them into the wells. The company instantly broke up in disorder; but old Major Humr, of the 25th Foot, who had been a soldier from his infancy, and often, no doubt, fared on viands not the most delicate, proceeded with characteristic indifferenc e to finish his dinner ; exclaiming, with an oath, that the soup was good, and that it would have been better if the whole French army bad been in the water of which it was made.—Memoirs of Sir James Campbell. PATRONAGE OF LITERATURE.---.The Rus sian Chamberlain, P. N. Drminov, has assigned during his life-time, and for 25 years after his death, the annual sum of 20,000 roubles, to be distributed in prizes of 5,000 roubles each, to the authors of the most distinguished works in Russian literature, which may have appeared in the course of the year, and another sum of 5,000 roubles yearly to ass i st i n th e pr i nt i ng o f approve d M SS.—t h e 'Academy of St. Petersburg to make the selection of the works. Among these works excluded from competition are poems, novels, tales, dramatic writings, &c., " on ac count of the facility of finding publishers for such writinp, and the sale which they generally have being sufficient to reward their authors, even to a greater extent than the amount of the prizes."—Athenceum. CONVERSION OF THE JEWS...—It is a very common opinion that when the Jews are converted the millennium will commence, and the world hasten rapidly to its close. Such it would appear was the impression of a certain old lady in Spitalfields-market, when finding fault with her son for attending a meeting held some time ago in behalf of the Society for Promoting Christianity among th e J ews . What is this you have been about now ?" said she, " Converting the Jews ! a fine story in deed. If you go on at this rate the world will be at an end before we know what we are about." The objection is somewhat singular, and may amuse where it does not Convince. SOCIETY of ANTIQUARIES of LONDON Yesterday being St. George's Day, the Suciety of An iquaries met at their apartments in Somerset-place, i iursuance of their Statutes and Charter of Incorporatiun , o elect a President, Council, and Officers of the Soviet. fur the year ensuing. Whereupon George Earl of Aberdeen John Gage, Esq. H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex Hudson Gurney, Esq, Thomas Amyot, Esq. Henry Hallam, Esq. Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. W. R. Hamilton, Lsq. Henry Ellis, Esq. W. Y. Ottley, Esq. Right Hon. C. W. W. Wynn. Eleven of the Council, were re-chosen of the new Conn c-il ; and Nicolas Lord Bexley Edward Hawkins, Esq. John Buckler, Esq. Francis l'algrave, Esq. John Caley, Esq. S. Smirkc, Esq. Bishop of Chichester W. Sotheby, Esq. C. P. Cooper, Esq. Sir W. Woods, lint. Tea of the other ',Umbers of the Society, were chosen of the new Council, and they were severally declared to b, the Council for the year ensuing; and on a Report made of the Officers of the Society it appeared that GEORGE Earl of ABERDEEN, K.T., was elected President, TiroNtAs Astro; Esq., Treasurer, JOIIN GAGE, Esq., Director, NICHOLAS CARLISLE, Esq. Secretary, and HENRY ELLIS, Esq. 8.C.L., Secretary, for the year ensuing. The Siciety afterwards dined together at the Freema sons' Tavern, according to annual custom. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.' FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, Aram 23.—Wind S.S.E.—Sailed the outward bound ; also his Majesty's ships Investiga`or and Tender, for the westward. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 23.—Sailed the Parmelia trans. port, eastward. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 22.—wind S. S. E. , fresh bre.-zes. —Arrived the Lyra, Warren, from Sierra Leone; and Bus— tler, Leader, from Figueria. FA LMOUTIT, APRIL 22.—Wind S.W.S., strong breezes and squally.—Arrived off the Start the Maria, Palmer, from Mauritius. Locar RYAN. APRIL 21.—Arrived the Clifton, Light body, from Mauritius. LivcarooL, APRIL 22.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Hut.. chinson, from Barbados; Grace, Davis, from Antign, ; Augusta, Johnson, from New Orleans ; Queen Adelaide, Gaddon, from Savannah ; Berbice, Lalla 2E..ellylius, from Alexandria; Crescent, Benfellow, and Hunter, Shepherd, from Trieste; Earl Grey, Dogherty, from Tinnanora; Commerce, Primer, from Leghorn ; and Blair, Thompson, from Lisbon. Off port the Lim. packet, from Trinidad and St. Thomas's; James, from Africa; and Matilda, from Cadiz. GREENOCK, APRIL 21.—Arrived the Mary, Burnett, from Trinidad ; Albion, from New Orleans ; Her. , Potter, from Charleston ; Exile, Blake, from Marseilles ; Aries, Scales from Palermo ; Glitter, Nicol, from Siesta; and James Wesley, Briant, from Trieste. BRISTOL, APRIL 23.—Arrived the John Cabot, Potter, from Africa. Cowes, APRIL 23.—Arrived the Cameo, Siger, from, Bremen, with damage, having been in contact with a Norwegian brig bound to Havanna. STANDGATZ CREEK, APRIL 23.—Arrived the Charles Sanderson, from Afars da. HASTINGS, Aram 23.—Arrived off this port the Mar garet, Ormond, from Malaga. DARTMOUTH, APRIL 22.—Arrived the Mary Alney. Burrough, from Savannah ; was •truck by lightning 2d inst. and last sixty bales of cotton, spars, &c. MILFORD, Aram 22.—Arrived the Cybele, Heckler, from Bridgewater, after being in long. 34, leaky, bound to Quebec. CoRK, Aran. 21.—Arrived the Brothers, Woodley, from Civita Vecchia. CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT, CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH. COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL.—(THIS DAY.) DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES. 4 ° c 9 6 .= E E r e) t, t 2 cE•*ef,E 7; u :ig` 2— E2 is t go. z oo E Total 1190 65 19 35 201 2396 1213 Total from places where the disease has ceased and from which no return has been this day received 6172 1825 Grand Total 8566 3036 LONDON.—APRIL 23, at FIVE PM. :4 • • I t c , - Er' L . ' kl E . o 74 E 0 E . toE E z A ° Total 74 4 6 11 161 2063 1040 Cases from places before reported 452 284 Grand Total 2516 1324 'otal [ACLEAN, (Signed) 2516 I 1324 Secretary. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 31; Trusses.) CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.) Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 10 to £2 15 Kew Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto 3 0 5 15 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 0 4 15 Clover Hay 4 5 fi 0 Oat Straw £l 12 to £1 141 Wheat Straw... 1 IS 2 0 Clever Hay from ss. to 10s. per load higher than last quoted ; prices otherwise stationary. A moderate supply, and a brisk trade. SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay .£2 15 to £3 0 New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto 3 0 3 15 Fine Upland Meadow and nye-grass Hay 3 15 4 10 Clover Hay (extra fine)...£6 O... Generally o,t Straw .£1 14 to .£1 16 I Wheat Straw 1 18 2 0 Supply moderately good, trade rather dull, and prices stationary. CITY MARKETS—TWO O'CLOCK. In consequence of the Easter holydays, the SUGAR and other Colonial Markets will remain closed during the greater part of the week; but few public sales have been declared. A few sales of Sugar have been made by pri vate contract at rather better prices. Business is expected to become more brisk on Friday, as there will be an in creased quantity of British Plantation on show, the arrivals being now more numerous. The deliveries last week from the West India Docks were 1,125 hhds. and 36 trees., and the stock there is now lower than it has been for some years, viz. only 4,100 hhds. Brown Ja maicas are steady at 525. ; and fine at 565. to 60s. per cwt. In Mauritius there is no variation; brown samples are taken at full prices. In Foreign and Refined Sugars there has been nothing done. The COFFEE Market at the close of last week was rather more firm; nothing has been done to-day. Rum Atm BRANDY.-Tbe export demand is rather better--the deliveries last week for exportation were not above 210 puncheons; but about 320 were taken for the home trade. The stock of Jamaica in the 'West India docks is 9,170 puncheons—other British plantation, 4,322 puncheons; and of llemerera and Berbice, 5,882 puncheons. Leetvards cannot be sold freely at Is. 7d. per gallon. The demand for brandy is not brisk, but prices are firm. TEAS.—The demand is much less brisk, but both Boheas and Congous still command one half-penny per lb. profit. SlLa.__.The East India Company have declared 2,460 bales of Bengal Raw Silk for their June sale, being 200 bales less than the quantity declared at the last March sale. These descriptions of Silk have not, however, been influ enced, as the demand is very slack for all Silks. INotao.—The purchases are few ; but the last Com pany's sale-prices are maintained. T.►LLow.—The deliveries last week exceeded 1,080 casks, and the market continues to look very firm at 435. per cwt. The stock in the port of London is now re duced to 10,800 casks against 41,640 in the same week of last year. Haar and FLAX are rather more film. SPICEP.—The declarations for the Company's May sales hare neen commenced. At present only 100 bags of Cloves have been announced. Corrox.—The demand bath here and at Liverpool is rather less active, but the former prices are given for small quantities. TOBACCO.—Very little is doing. The accounts from Manilla state that the tobacco crop had failed there. Hors ♦ND Ssens.—The highest prices are paid for choice pockets. In Seeds a few purchases continue to be made. IRISH PstovistoNs.—There is rather a better demand for Butter. Other articles remain the same. THE HALIFAX PETITION IN FAVOUR OF MR. SADLER'S BlLL.—Tbis petition arrived at the Cen tral Committee-room on Wednesday evening, containing 10,000 signatures. Thus completely contradicting the assertion " that tie Factory Bill was very unpopular in Halifax."—Leeds Patriot. The fine packet-ship Elora, from Bombay, arrived on Thursday night at Port-Glasgow, having the voyage in nine months. The following is a list of the passengers :—Brigadier- General ROBERTSON, Mrs. Major MOKRISON, Mrs. PRICE, Lieut. GAAYIAM, and Mrs. HINAT RODZATSO24. SPIRIT OF TI4F, PUBLIC JOURNALS] We have been favoured with the substance of he 57th Protocol of the conferences, which was ,igned on Wednesday last. It begins by stat• lig that the Austrian and Prussian Plenipoten •iaries have received instructions from their Courts to exchange the ratifications of the treaty if the 15th of November, 1831, but that the Russian Plenipotentiaries have not received :heirs, which are, however, daily expected. The Austrian and Prussian Plenipotentiarie s express a wish to delay the exchange of the rL 6fications, in order to enable Russia to join ; bt t he Plenipotentiaries of France and Englai d having stated their reasons against such delay, earnestly entreat the Plenipotentiaries of Aus tria and Prussia to proceed at once to the ex change of the ratifications. This having been assented to, the Plenipotentiaries of Rus. sia request the Protocol to be left open for them until the arrival of their instructions. The Austrian and Prussian Plenipotentiaries then exchanged the ratifications with the Belgian Minister, and added to the present Protocol, by express desire of th e ir Sover e i g n s , th e following declaration : " That the said ratifications have been exchanged with the reservation of the rights of the Germanic Confedera tion with respect to the part of the treaty of the 15th of November that relates to the cession of a portion of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, being one of the States of the Confederation." The Austrian Plenipotentiaries further declare, that taking into consideration the necessity of a future negotiation between Holland and Bel gium, on the basis of the twenty-four articles, with such modifications as the Five Powers shall consider advisable, the Emperor of Austria de clares that the conditions which the two con tending parties may agree upon shall be of like force and value as the treaty of the 15th of No. vember, and shall be ratified by the Five Powers, The Prussian Plenipotentiaries further declare, that it is the King of Prussia's wish and expecta tion, that the Conference should consider of the modifications in favour of Holland, which might he introduced into the 24 articles, and that, with the consent of Belgium, these alterations should become part of the treaty. Prussia insists the more on this, since France and England have all along declared that it would only be after the ra tifications that any modifications could he made ; and that (Prussia adds) it would he more pru dent to devise some means of terminating the affair, than to use coercive measures in order to execute the treaty as it is.— Times. A letter has been sent to us upon the West India question, to which, although upon a sub ject of that very public nature, the word "private" has been improperly prefixed,—improperly for two reasons :-Ist, Because the writer has no pretence or excuse whatever for employing to wards the editor of the Times an indirect con , rivance for screening himself personally from the animadversions due to his presumptuous, dictatorial, and absurd address. 2d, Because he calls upon us, in the very letter so marked " private," to take the sort of notice, which he thinks fit to prescribe to us, of the subject upon which, in a tone of grave and official but ex tremely laughable coxcombry, he pronounces, ex etehedrel, our conscientious r pinions to be " er roneous," and our deliberate views to be " false." Under the perverse restraint imposed upon us, we can only state in general terms, that we have read, long since, the paper which lie sends for our edification—viz., the A nti- Sloven, Reporter of November, 1830 ; and that at the time Y 76 were thoroughly satisfied, as we still are, that it would be difficult to imagine any system of reasoning less conclusive in favour of its pro fessed object than is exhibited in that publica tion. We ate, and ever have been, advocates for the abolition of slavery, civil and religious,— agricultural and commercial,—political and per sonal,—black and white. But we cannot baud ourselves, and we will not assist in blinding others, to the possibility—nay, in some cases, the infalli ble certainty—of making the unskilful removal of that grievance productive of others even more ter rible in themselves, and more deplorable, inasmuch as by a little temper and discretion they might be altogether avoided. The gist of the argument in the Anti-Slavery Reporter above alluded to is, that because in the British islands and other co lonies 100,000 free blacks are to be found, who were either manumitted themselves, or in herited liberty from their emancipated parents, and yet that the peace of society has never been disturbed by such persons in consequence of their free condition ; it must therefore be a safe experiment to let loose at once, and by a single act of the Legislature, above 700,000 negroes, at present in a state of bondage. This is the outline of the argument. We take it for granted that much is not necessary in the way of an swer. The free negroes who now exist in the West Indies have become so by virtue of in dividual and separate manumissions. They have been the growth of more than a cen tury. The annual emancipations were few : the slaves thus enfranchised were absorbed in a moment by the general mass of th e com munity, the spirit, interests, and character of which could in no degree be disturbed by such minute and insensible accessions to the number of free inhabitants; whereas in the case of a sudden and universal abolition of slavery, th• great, however vicious, structure of society in its most important and active relations would be subverted irretrievably. The slaves would re semble a multitude of untaught children turned adrift from school, without parents to direct or receive them, and without the superintendence of authorities to whose control they had been accustomed. Colour would soon become a ral lying point for mutual hostility. The whites— too numerous not to provoke jealousy—too weak to be secured against outrage—and per haps inflamed to violence by the loss of all com mand of labour for their estates—would find it impossible to exist on terms of entire and uni versal equality with the disorderly mass of their recent bondsmen. The result must be on alt sides confusion and wretchedness. We should naturally desire to prevent such disasters, by compelling the whites to facilitate the practice of manumissions, and thus greatly to hasten the effective, though still safe and gradual, pro gress of free population in the colonies.— Saturday ought to be made over " in full sovereignty and for ever," so the negro, un l ess when in crop time he might himself be willing to , accept wages from his master fo r vo l untary wor k. The mere acquisition of this additional day would enable the slave to lay by some further portion of the fruits of his own indus try, and 50 to insure his ultimate manumission by purchase; t nor do we s ee w h y t h e a d m i ra bl e us age of the' Spanish col on i es m i g ht no t be authorized or enjoin e d by A ct o f P ar li a ment,—viz. th e pur chase by the n egro , atl e li e s k , ow forna discretion,spec ifie., of su onen , day's liberty in the week, when he had not yet saved enough to pay for his entire emancipation ; then proceeding to a second day, and to a third, &c., as his increasing