The Sun. — London, England, 1840-04-24 00:00:00

CPENING EDITION. 1111 E NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF 'PO-.MORROW (Saturday), will contain an Account of the Great City Meeting—Articles on the Sovereignty of New Zealay.d—News, &c. &c. Price 6d. 90 AiNhed by Chambers, 366, Strand, and may be had of all Negri If, en. T7l, - IS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of -t_ AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and i GU E A 4 N - RATEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of 11 ONY PREMIUMS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) :I 74ffer many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, are NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBU . TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase, may receive, PRE VIOUS to giving any order , the PROSPECTUS and PAR TICULARS, upon a ddressing WITHOUT DELAY, a line HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. P. S.—THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains Portions of TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND, FIVE THOUSAND, t TWO THOUSAND, ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED, ONE THOUSAND. EIGHT HUNDRED, SIX HUNDRED, FIVE HUN DRF.D, THREE HUNDRED, TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY, TWO HUNDRED, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY, ONE HUN DRED AND TEN, and ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, &c. &e., amounting to £134,990 Sterling. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS, THIS EVENING, APRIL 24, Will be presented Shakspere's Comedy of AS YOU LIKE IT. Jaques, Mr. Cooper ; Amicns, Mr. W. Harrison ; Orlando, :111r. Anderson ; Adam, Mr. Bartley ' • Touchstone, Mr. Har ley ; Rosalind, Miss Ellen Tree ; Celia, Miss Rainforth ; Plicebe, Miss E. Phillips ; Audrey, Mrs. Humby. After which will be repeated, the entirely New and Original Grand Comic, Romantic, Operatic, Melodramatic, Fairy Extravaganza, in Three Parts, entitled and founded on that popular Nursery Tale, THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. The Principal Characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. J. Vining, Mr. J. Bland, Madame Vestris, Miss Rainforth, Mrs. C. Jones, &c. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. Doors to be opened at half-past six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and plat 93 for the Boxes to be taken at the Box-of- Ce, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. BUTLER. THIS EVENING, APRIL 24, Will be presented, for the fifth time, A ROYAL COMMISSION FROM PARIS. _ _ Monsieur Jollivet, Mr. F. Vining; Alexis Kerbout, Mr. Baker; Madame Jollivet, Miss Fitzwalter ; Causette, Miss Ayres (from the National Theatre, New York) her first ap pearance here. After which, Forty-fifth Night, THE LADIES' CLUB. Open every night at half-past 7. and close proceedings at 9. Mrs. Fitzsmith (the Chairwoman), Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by THE TWO GREENS. J. Green, Esq., Mr. F. VininA; .I... Green, Esq., Mr. Wild ; Mrs. Green, glis. Norton. To conclude with the New end Original Drama (by the author of " The Ladies' Club"), called GWYNNETH VAUGHAN. Gwynneth Vaughan, Mrs. Stirling ; Owen Williams, Mr. Baker ; Evan Pritchard, Mr. Hell; Hugh Morgan, Mr. G. Wild. Boxes, 4s. Pit, 2s. Gallery, Is. Second Price immediately after the Lathes' Club. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The Theatre has been entirely Re-Decorated, and embellished in a novel and tasteful style, during the Recess. Extraordinary and extensive Novelty. Three entirely New Pieces, with splendid Scenery Costumes, and Appointments. THIS EVENING, Ara Will be acted an entirely New Village Tragedy, illustrating Hogarth's celebrated " Harlot's Progress," entitled THE LIFE OF A WOMAN; OR, THE CURATE'S DAUGHTER. After which, a New Comic Drama, called THE WET NURSE. To conclude with an entirely New Romance, entitled THE VENETIAN ; OR, THE COUNCIL OF TEN. The Scenery comprising some of the most splendid Views in Venice. NEW STRAND THEATRE. PROCLAMATION !! ! Be it known to all men by these presents, that the GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH has to our (the Public's) satisfac tion, densonstrated his perfect invulneratility ; we therefore guarantee that he shall RE-OPEN his Te m ple o f Sci e n ce , Magic, Delusion, and Wonder, THIS EVENING, April 24th, 1840, and continue open during next week, to have and to h'ild his unrivalled entertainment of novel and seeming supernatural Phanmaturgy, being retrospectively and prospec tively a complete sinopsis of ancient and modern Necromancy ; concluding with the unfathomable GUN DELUSION. Given under the hand and seal of public approbation, testifying our never failing admiration of the Great Wizard of the North. MOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. minutes after 1I Evening . 2 - 2 minutes after ff. 'The Publication of the Evening Edition of Tux Scri corn, raeneed at alic. - u'tes after Three. ...r. ) . 4,1),, 4 '.77,-.....c . '... 4 ' ...C.I . .> 411 • ' . 4. jr . i, :'l.:-- a - F l.l ,grrA',,,S L :: - .7);;;‘ , -------:.• • ' . to ' x. 4. i t -7 1 ) - LONDON : FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1840. In another part of our Paper will be found the Treasury Minute adopted yesterday, relative to the Stamped Envelopes for letters, which are to come into use on the sixth of May. We understand that the following instructions relative to the Stamps, will be printed at the ends of each cover : PRICES OF STAMPS. At a Post-office.--Labels, ld. and 2d. each. Covers, lid. and 21d. each. At a Stamp Distributor's, as above, or as fol lows : Half-ream, or 240 Penny Covers, 1/, 2s. 4d.— Penny Envelopes, 1/. ls. 9d. Qoarter-ream, or 120 Twopenny Covers, 11.1 s, 4d. —Twopenny Envclopes, 1/. ls. ld. 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In the envelopes, a blue line is placed towards the outside, between two red lines on the inside. A water-mark has been used for the distinguishin g feature of the paper for the i labels. A Crown will be placed on each label, and the sheet which holds 240 labels, has besides the words " Postage '' at each of its four sides. Though each label is alike in design, it has a dif ferent lettering in its two lower corners —by this means, the forger (should forgery be attempted, which is most improbable) will be compelled to have a different plate for every label, unless he sells all marked alike, and thereby runs the risk of creating an immediate suspicion against their genuineness. Earl FITZWILLIAM, with that attention to his duties which distinguishes him, has just published, in the shape of a letter to the Bishop of PETER BOROUGH and the Clergy of England, an admoni tion to that body on the subject of the Corn-laws. It begins thus : Milton March 99 " And the fa m i ne was sore in ' the land - . ' 1840. Such, my dear Lord, and Reverend Gentl emen, were / the acc ents w hi c h t i rst fell from Your lips, l when, thi s morn ing, you op ene d th e Holy Book Nwtoudeclaarrek whatto ~,o ur assem bled flocks th e orac l es of God, ......" And it ca me t o pass w h en they had ru eaten pthe follows which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food." Were ever words more fraught with practical wisdom, I addressed by a father to his children, more calculatedt penetrate to the inmost recesses of the human heart ? Were ever words more worthy of a statesman addressed by a ruler to his people ? And under what circumstances have they this day been delivered to the assembled congre- Ka tions of England ? We can all figure to ourselves th e feelings which these words must have excited in the hear. ors, when they first fell upon the expectant ears of a crowded congregation, assembled to bear the word of God, and listening with anxious expectation to the first accents which fell from the lips of their minister. Well may we conceive the feelings with which these passages of Holy Writ must have been listened to by the hundreds, and by the thousands who have heard them this day. But can we, laymen, conceive the feelings of those by whom they have been uttered ? No, Reverend Gentle men, that power of conception is reserved for you. If, while the lips uttered these sounds, the visual ray of the mind glanced with the celerity with which the rapid mo tions of mind outstrip the sluggish movement of matter, and at a moment brought into one focus—the people's misery—the law of the land—and God's word—surely your sympathies must have been awakened, your hearts melted, your understandings enlightened. —" And the famine was sore in the land." If we are not experiencing actual fa mine, are there not hundreds and thousands, and tens of thousands, in our streets, whose condition test:fies that we are on its borders, and that our people arc suffering many of its evils ? And what says the law ?—Does the law, like the inspired patriarch of old, say, " Go again, buy us a little food ?" Does it not rather say, " Let the famine continue ?" Does it not at this moment refuse the gifts which God in his mercy proffers ? Does it not reject the beneficence of the Creator, and shut the gates of the Divine mercy on your country men ? Let me then entreat that your prayers may be offered for the conversion of our legislators, that, through God's grace, a new light may be kindled in their minds— a new flame animate their hearts. I invoke your aid, not because I am urged on by unreasoning enthusiasm in the cause, not because I feel without reflecting—but because those conditions, which I have long foreseen, are now come fearfully to pass; because I see my countrymen in distress, and my country in danger. Will the Clergy attend to this admonition—will they offer up their prayers for the conversion of our legislators ? No. They will, on the con trary, stimulate tue ignorant and deluded rustics to petition for the continuance of the law which makes the " famine sore in the land," because it enhances the relative value of the tithes. The proof of the increase in the price of pro visions, given by the Noble Lord, we must quote for the instruction of Lord AsmsuaToN, who stated on March 20 that he was surprised the fluc tuations had been so little—only in times of great est scarcity between 60s. and 665. Let Lord ASHBURTON ponder over Lord FITZWILLIAM'S statement, and blush for the error which his selfish ness dictated : Of all proofs of the price of provisions, public con tracts, made upon open tender, arc the best. Those which have just been made in the Poor-law Unions pre sent a vast body of indisputable evidence on this subject. That evidence establishes, beyond a doubt, an increase in the cost of human food far beyond what is exhibited in the averages as stated in the Gazette. In the Peterborough Union, my dear Lord, the increase per cent. in the price of bread, as compared with 1836, is enormous. The con - tract recently made is at 7id. the 41b. loaf ; in March, 1836, one contract was made at 4d., another at qd., show ing in the former instance an increase of 87A- per cent. , in the latter of 57 seventeen - nineteenths, or, at a medium, 72 per cent. Lord ASHBURTON might rely on the averages, though they would not bear out his purposely made remark ; but of the averages Lord FITZWILLIAM justly remarks : If, however, you conclude that the legal average of corn affords at all times the true criterion of the price of human subsistence, you will entertain a very unfounded opinion. In common times it does ; but there are times when it does not, and the present is one of them. If you look at the price of that corn, out of which human food is manu factured, you will find that it -exceeds the average, far more than the highest price exceeds the average in ordi nary seasons. The truth is, that the last harvest w's, in most parts of England, and in the whole of Scotland and Ireland, so unfavourable to the preservation of the crop, that a large portion of the corn hitherto brought to market has been totally unfit for use. The averages, therefore, have been moderate ; not because corn is plentiful, nut because it is bad ; and the very circumstance which ought to make us desirous to obtain foreign wheat, throws fresh obstacles in the way of obtaining it. You are, of course, aware that the duty fluctuates with the average, and that a low aver age causes a high duty. Observe—a low average causes a high duty, but a bad harvest has caused a low average, and, by consequence, a high duty; so that, at the very moment when, owing to the badness of the harvest, y e most need foreign corn, we have so contrived our laws as to hinder its entry into our markets. This you trill ob serve is the result of ingenious legislation—the pride of man leads hin, to think that he can, a priori, devise expc dients for all contingencies—new contingencies arise, h's ingenuity is vain, his contrivances are baf fl ed—a just re tribution upon his pi ide. If he would but have let things alone, if be would but have trusted in God's providence rather than in his own fancied forethought, these baleful consequences would never have ensued. They are the result of unwise legis lation, of an injudicious attempt to regulate the price of provisions by law, instead of allowing it to be determined by supply and demand in a free and unfettered market, in which she entire bounty of God is opened to the enjoy ment of all his creatures. If the market were free and unfettered—unencumbered by the lumber of legislation, the probability is, that prices would neither be extrava gantly enhanced by local scarcity, nor would an abundant harvest depress them so as to deprive the farmer of the just reward of his industry. We must confirm the Noble Earl's observation by quoting a passage from a Morning Journal of yesterday : The London returns were, on the 25th of March. 725. 10d. ; on the 31st of March, 68s. 10d. ; on the 7th of April, 665. 5d ; and on the 14th of April, 725. 4d, Now, the two low weeks originate is a quantity of Irish and Scotch wheat snld in Mark-lane at 445. to 464. —n0t for human food, but for pigs and poultry uses. The sup ply of this stuff having ceased, the average at once jumps up, although the general prices have fallen. In Bristol, last week, 1,000 barrels cf Irish wheat were returned at 255. per barrel—they were bought at this price free on board in Ireland, yet they go into the Bristol averages. This parcel of wheat is even worse than that used here for pigs' meat—it will appear as a sale of 600 quarters, at 425., and thus the duty on human food is now regulated by that for swine 1 And this happens in the year 1840, amongst the enlightened and free-born people of Great Britain The latter part of the paragraph we have quoted from Earl FITZWILLIANI is true wisdom. On no point do our legislators so much require admonition as to leave things alone, as to trust in GOD'S Pro vidence, and not impiously and blasphemously to conclude that they know better than the ALMIGHTY, and can regulate by their fancied forethought the affairs of mankind, together with the seasons and the markets, in a manner far superior to His wis dom. Seldom, very seldom, indeed, do we meet with any passages in the writings or speeches of our legislators, so sensible and so refreshing as the concluding words of the passage we have just quoted. Were there ten Peers like Earl FITzwIL LIAM, peradventure the Peerage might yet be saved ; but we fear that the number is much less, and that they will bring down destruction on them selves by that pride which makes them suppose that they can devise expedients for every contingency, and can rule the world. In what way the advanced prices affect the con dition of the labourers, is exemplified by the fol- lowing passage : In the spring of 1836, as I have already stated, a contract was made for the supply of bread in the Peter borough Union at the rate of 4d. per 41b. loaf—the con tract just made is at 71d., and for flour 2s. 10d. the stone. Now, if 40lbs. of bread is the consumption of a labourer's family of moderate numbers, 40d., or 3s. 4d., would sup ply him at the prices of 1336, and, if his wages were then lOs. a-week, he would have 6s. Bd. left for other pur poses—at the present price, (73d.) he would require 75d., or os. 3d. fer bread, leaving him 4s. 9d., if his wages are Up., and ss. 9d. if 123., for other purposes. Thus, if he has even 12s. a week, he will have 1 Id. less to spend upon other articles, but if he has only I Is., he will have Is. lid. less to spend than when his wages were lower, and bread was lower. If any labourers still remain at los. a week, their surplus for other articles will not ex ceed 3s. od, re This rise o f wages, h owever , i s b y no m eans the ne cessaryf sultolhhe m arise in the price of bread ; it is highly and the honourable to more voluntary. p ra lo b y le e , r, be w c h a e u r s e n v i e t r h i ns t ha b s e b en ee p n er g fe iv c e tl n y , " The squires of Norfolk had dined," says Mr. es might, or gave it rise and fall Burke, " when they as their opinion, of wagwiththatth e t the marketrat e. of provisions." Temporary wages have, in truth, no connection with the price of provisions, though permanent wages have. We will quote yet another passage, and take leave of the Noble Earl, returning him the sincere and hearty thanks of all Anti-Corn-law men for his liberal and enlightened views, and still more for the great moral courage he must possess in express ing such views in the face of his aristocratic brethren. But boldness springs from a conscious ness of rectitude. If the Noble Earl be flouted by his brother landowners, and by the writers on their side, who mistake arrogant mockery for discrimi nating wisdom, he will be honoured by all the good and the wise, and almost worshipped by the half-starved people, whose cause he so eloquently and pathetically pleads :-- Under such circumstances, however, the pressure of dear provisions operates with tremend ous severit y , and the guilt of the Corn-laws becomes the more striking, because they are probably cnc of en- ( f that state of things which has been productive of sach extensive dis tress in the commercial word. As a body you may not be generally aware of this distress, but the ministers of every manufacturing town and village in England know, feel, and deplore it. Its intensity admits net of exaggeration— it has exceeded that r.f the panic of 1825-26 ; and if in some quarters the pr os p ec t b r i g ht ens , there are others in which no glimmering of light is as yet perceptible. Money may be somewhat less scarce, but employment is not more plentiful. There are villages in the West Riding of York shire, in which the whole population may be said to have been for weeks and months unemployed. To revive em ployment by any di rec t o pe ra ti o n is not within the compe -1 tence of Parliament. Legislatures are poor movers of in dustry—the best th e y can do is to le av e things alone—not to aim at prosperity by regulation, but to let each man_ each class of men—pursue their own objects in their own way, without let, hindrance, or temptation. The Corn law, on the contrary, is constantly meddling with the transactions between buyer and seller; one while alluring them by temptations, at another deterring them by threats; sometimes exciting hope, sometimes fear ; but never leaving either party to his own unbiassed calculations. There is a weekly interference with the market ; every Wednesday new conditions are imposed in every market, upon every farmer and dealer in England. Mischievous as this sys tem is in ordinary times, it becomes doubly so when the course of the seasons occasions a rise in the price of corn. It prevents that gradual and equable flow into the market, which is the result of perfect freedom, and which is the only true corrective of those advances, which occasion so severe a pressure upon the poorer classes of your flocks. We cannot ensure to them constant plenty; it is wicked to hold out any such expectation. Vicissitude is the common lot of humanity ; prosperity and adversity visit alternately the rich and the poor—pauperum tabernas, regumque tar res—but we may abstain from courses which aggravate these vicissitudes, and it is one of the greatest duties of legislators to practise this abstinence, instead of perpe tually interfering with weights and counter-weights, and vain endeavours, either to adjust the balance of commercial intercourse, or to maintain the profits of some favoured section of the community, at the level which is assumed to be essential to their welfare. At the meeting of the National Association at Dublin, on Saturday last, Mr. O'CoNNELL said that one part of his future policy would be this : Ireland, in the first place, should have the same freedom of conscience conceded to her in religion which is enjoyed by Englishmen and Scotchmen.—( Hear.) The revenues of the Church in England are paid to the ministers of the majority—the revenues of the Church in Scotland are paid to the ministers of the majority, but in Ireland to those of the minority of the people ; and until this is altered we cannot have justice. Who, indeed, expects it from an Im perial Parliament ? Why, Plumptre has a notice of motion on the books of the House to take away the paltry 9,0001 a year from the College of Maynooth. Let it not be sup posed that I am displeased at it, for I declare that if I w ere in the House when it came on I would second it. So im pressed am I with the correctness and efficacy of the volur tary system, and so much opposed to all compulsory pay ment, that if I be in time for the motion, when it comes on, I will second it—but certainly not with the same motives which actuate the mover.—( Hear, hear, and cheers. ) If Mr. PLUMPTRE should not make the motion, we are inclined to say, that Mr. O'CONNELL, ought. Such an example of repudiating State support would be followed by most beneficial effects. It would make the Dissenters of England, the really and conscientiously religious part of the population, look with less aversion than at present on their Roman Catholic fellow-citizens, and it would strengthen that voluntary system, which alone can and must in our community, where many forms of Christianity prevail, be substituted for the Established Church. Mr. O'CONNELL cannot, we believe, pursue a safer course than thus to make common cause with the Voluntaries, as they are called, now very numerous in every part of the empire, and by their help beat down the arror i ant Establishment, which is not less inimical to nil, v classes of Dissenters than it is to the Catholi...; of Ireland. On this point Mr. O ' CONNELL will certainly have justice on his side. No Englishman] we are sure, would for a day tolerate the existenc4 of an Established Church which should be the Church of only one-tenth of the population ; and how can any Englishman ask or expect that the Irish should Submit to such an outrage ? The Scotch have proved that they would not submit to such a Church, and they cannot assist in forcing such a Church on the Irish without branding their brave and honest forefathers, who forced Episcopacy to evacuate Scotland, as rebellious-ruffians. How deep is the feeling which is now gathering in:England ' amongst Dissenters against the Church of England, may be ascertained by the Report which we yes terday published of the meeting at Leeds, and if Mr. O'CONNELL be disposed to strike an effecual blow at that gigantic nuisance the Church Establish- anent of Ireland, the spirit which is now abroad in England and Scotland will insure him a com- manding success, Mr. O ' CONNELL is well aware that the inter::•st of. the Tory party centres in the Church, and he can take no more effectual means to r eaken that party than to attack the Establishment in Ireland. For its behoof Ireland has long been denied tnu nicipal government. For its behoof the Tories wish to disfranchise the Catholics and destroy their legal political influence ; and if it be demolished, the citadel of Tory misrule will be destroyed. Never before was the time so favourable for an attack—never before was an attack more poise veringly provoked. The Anglican priesthood and their tools began the crusade against the Catholics, and degraded the Church into a mere instrument for usurping political power. They have described Dissent to be blasphemy, and have invoked again .t it the arm of the law. They have invited tl,e nation, by their arrogant demands, to inquitt the utility of the Church ; and the fruit and corn with which they have said it enriched the land, however fair their outside show, have proved to be rotten, and, like a mildewed ear of wheat, to be only a heap of dust. While they have thus pro- voked an attack, and thus forced their worthlessness on the public attention, they have presumed to make themselves the obstacles to all improvement. The Rev. THOMAS SPENCER says, in his pain phlet, " The Pillars of the Church of England " Would you remove any abuse? the Church is in danger : for that abuse is claimed by its secular or political friend as one of the pillars on which it rests ! Would you make: fools wise and drunkards sober ? the Church is in danger : for ignorance and intemperance are essential to its sur port ! Would you banish its sectarian bigotry, or bumble its self.sat;sfiecl infallibility? you risk the banishment and humiliation of the Church itself Would you abolish Church -rates, which wrong the Dissenter ; or repeal the Corn-laws, which rob the poor? the Church would be an nihilated : for these constitute the Church I Nay, more; if you let alone the Establishment, if you shake not ti,e pillars of ignorance and intemperance, of bigotry and in fallibility, of Church-rates and Corn-laws, still it will of itself, unless by Church extension, you erect more pil lars ; unless, leaving the wealth of the ecclesiastical trea sury untouched, you persuade the State to Appropriate the property of Catholics and Dissenters to this purpose. The voice of Scripture is, " What doth the Lard require of thee but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk hum bly with thy God?" Whereas the ultra-Protestant Churchman requires that you support laws that are unjust ; that you imprison for conscience' sake, which is unmerciful ; and that you claim superiority over all othar Churches and sects in the world, which is any thing but humble. According to him, to obey the Divine command would put the Church in danger ; and if this be so, Let the Church fall All who advocate the removal r t h the fhce Church uurrseceah w abuses m a e r ni e ti d i e ei s ve c es r r i y b o desc as ribed Church evil, th h e u e r ric h a e m i r e e hey w ho dn s t of th eCh i ur e e h t y but and who use it as a shield to protect every abuse ! They drive into the enemy's ranks 1, All who desire a system of national education with out regard to sect or creed ; and these are the wise and the patriotic of the land. 2. All teetotallers ; and these are two millions. 3. All who maintain the unrestricted right of private judgment in matters of religion ; and these arc all genuine Protestants. 4. All who are reviled by ;the Protestant Reformati on Society on account of their creed; and these are the eight millions of Catholics of the empire. b. All Church-rate abolitionists ; and these compreh en d the Society of Friends, all consistent Dissenters, and a large number of liberal Churchmen. 6. All Corn-law repealers; and these include all chants, manufacturers, and operatives, who understand the evils that oppress them ; all wise landlords, who can fore see the dangerous consequences that must follow, if the present system be continued ; all enlightened patriots and philanthropists, who have sagacity to penetrate into the causes of poverty, and benevolence to seek their removal ; and all Christians, who believe that to withhold corn the people and to keep back the hire of the labourer, b y taxing his f o od, are contrary to Scripture. 7. All political Reformers; who, finding the Church standing in the way of every reform, desire its removal, in order th a t t h ey may o b tain an extens i on o f th e Suffrage, and a Reformed Parliament, as the only ratans of obtain ing equitable taxation and just laws. What a catalogue of allies for Mr.O'CoNNELL But some are forgotten. The colonists who can not make roads in their country, nor pay their ov ti THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 24 , 1840. eler ,, yirren, because of the Clergy Reserves, which I the B,shop-i will not allow to be done away, are the enemies of the Church. The great Whig party, which the Anglican clergy have calumniated and endeavoured to destroy, must, since it finds all forbearance useless, be the enemy of the Church. The leaders of that party, not yet seeing in any pubiic demonstration a sufficient reason for declar ing against the Church, may keep on terms with it ; but the alliance must be hollow, and it can only need [a public demonstration to induce them no longer to submit to the insults of PHILPOTTS, CROLY, and Co. The bulk of the people begin to see through the guile of those who preach contentment under poverty to others, while they wallow in wealth and incessantly grasp after more. With so many enemies against her, the time is most favourable for Mr. O'CONNELL to make an attack, and the Church in Ireland being a monstrous mass of abuse, is the most vulnerable point. We hope, therefore, that he will rouse his countrymen to retort Lord STANLEY'S attack on their franchises for behoof of the Church, by an at• tack on the Church itself. So will he obtain sup port from the great multitudes we have just enu tnera►.ed, and insure justice for Ireland, while he pre serves the peace and the unity of the empire. When the spirit of faction is carried beyond a certain point it becomes comparatively harmless. It is only when a faction observes some degree of mo deration in its proceedings—when it disguises its selfishness under the cloak of prudence, and pre tends to act as if it really held in respect the prin ciples of justice, truth, and honour, that it is dan gerous to the public weal. Had the Tories possessed sufficient temper and skill to keep the cloven foot out of view, they might have been successful in deluding, and drawing over to their side, many of those persons who, in this as in all other countries, look no farther than the sur face of things. But happily for the national inte rests they have pursued a different course. Grown desperate by the defeat of all their attempts to get possession of place and pelf, they have thrown off all the restraints of decency, and laid bate to the most superficial observer the unmitigated sordidness of their motives. He that runs may read their character. Whoever does not purposely shut his eyes must see that their sole object is to turn out the present Ministers that men of their own kidney may succeed them. No matter what the means are by ‘i hich this, their surnmum bonunt, is attained —no matter at what risk to the lasting interest and honour of the country—no sacrifice of national welfare is too great to purchase even a few months' lease of the premises in Downing-street. Look at the conduct of this unprincipled faction in regard to the great questions of policy which now engross the public mind. First there is the Chinese question. So long as they thought that Ministers would patiently put up with the insults and out racs of the Chinese authorities, they denounced ;liem as spiritless creatures, poltroons afraid of their own shadows, betrayers of the national dignity, of the interests of British commerce—of everything, in short, that they ought to defend and protect. Are :Len, they asked, in the exuberance of their patriotism, to be tolerated any longer as the rulers of this gr2at country, who suffer a parcel of barba rians to trample with impunity upon all the rights recognised, and all the usages observed, among the nations of the earth? who are so dead to every feclin of duty as to see the imprisonment of our RxpreEentative, and the Zobbery of our merchants, w thout demanding redress at the cannon's mouth ? Had a Conservative Administration been at the helm, .what a different spectacle would have pre \ sentet.l itself ! They would soon have taught the yellow-faced opium-eaters better manners I They would have made the thunder of the British artil lery the messenger of British vengeance to the Ct!cstial Empire ! Such was the language which it was the cue o; the party to hold before they knew what measures the Government had determined upon. But when th e y found that the Ministers had, contrary to their expectations, taken the course dictated by sound policy, as well as in harmony with the sense of the country—when they found, that at the very time when they had been abusing the Government for its supineness and pusillanimity, it had a powerful armament actually on the way to China, their rage kmw no bounds. They saw that a harvest of honour was about to be reaped, in which they could have no share ; that their politic - al opponents wculd acquire new claims to the national confi de•nce, and that the period of their own exclusion from the sunshine of office would, in all probability, be somewhat extended. Then it was that, with a dereliction of principle unexampled, an effrontery of profligacy unmatched in the history of political tergiversation, they turced round and assailed the Government for pursti - ing that very course which they themselves hod recommended as the only one that was con sistent with the honour of the Crown and the wel fare of the country I Then it was that from being barbarians, idolaters, a people addicted, above other notions, to all manner of vice, even whose law allows the practice of infanticide, the Chinese were all at once transformed into beings little short of celestial. Wc arc not sure that their very complexion was not cried up to the skies as the finest specimen of the pure and delicate red and white to be found among the chndrcn of men. At all events, to corrupt the morns of so interesting and innocent a race was iepresented as a crime of the deepest dye. In one column of the Times you might some times find a learned lucubration on the dangers to the Monarchy to be apprehended from the cessation of drunkenness in Ireland, and in another a virulent denunciation of her MAJESTY'S Ministers for in- roducing habits of intoxication into China. The measures that a little before were so essential to vindicate the honour and assert the rights of the Country, arc now discovered to be a most inhuman and unwarrantable aggression upon a people who have committed no offence ; while the pious orator, who is horrorstruck at the enormity of our supply. jug the Chinese with a drug which they themselves produce in immense quantities, sees no immorality, not the least harm, but rather matter of approba tion, in the poisoning of the wells out of which British sailors were to drink ! So consistent is Toryism—so even-handed are your evangelical po liticians in meting out justice. The horrible persecution now raging against the Jews in the East, is not confined to the city of Da. mascus. The following extract from a letter ad dressed by the Hebrew community at Rhodes, to the Grand Rabbi of C o nstantinople, satisfies us that the persecution—unless vigorous steps be taken to prevent it by the enlightened Governments of England and France —is intended to be general. lie object of this persecution is plunder. As w e n.tv e aga i n an d aga i n s tated, in their wealth consists the only crime of the innocent Israelites. No less clumsy mode of plundering them of their property could be devised by the s emi-barbarous Govern. ment of Egypt, because by no other could the prejudices of the ignoran t and su pe r stitious Oriental Ch r i st i ans be enlisted against them. We pity the Christian capable of believing that the Jews were ever guilty of the horrible crime which the Pacha of DAMASCUS has laid to their charge ; and when we bear in mind that this highly_ favoured land has yet to atone for setting an ex ample of th e persecution of the Israelites, we feel surprised that no Christian meetings have been held to denounce the revival of an exploded fable of the monks for the fiendish purpose of shedding the blood and confiscating tht property of an innocent community: We had extracted ftoni the Journal des Debats the details of the cruelties td which the Damascus Jews haiie been subjected, but want of space prevents ns ffotn insuring them in our columns of this day. We shall entleaoni to make room for them to-morrow, or Monday at the The following is the extract from the letter from Rodes above alluded to : .• We hasten to infortil yot of the: unhappy position in which our community arc placed, o*ilig th vome calumny of which they are the victims. • • - " A Greek child, ten years of age, son of a peasant, is stated to have hung itself a few days since, and we are accused by the Christians of having sanctioned this child's death. The European Consuls assembled to demand the true explanation of this affair, and the only one absent was the:Austrian Consul. They assembled at the Pachri's to demand of him the process which was given to them, in consequence of which they caused to appear before them two Greek women of the environs of the town, who stated that the Jews went on Tuesday from the village to the town, and that one of them was followed by a Greek boy ; in consequence of which the Consuls caused the Jew to appear before them immediately, end questioned him on the subject. He answered that he could prove that he was on the same Tuesday in his village, and he only went .o town on the Wednesday, but his de fence was not listened to by the Consuls ; the accused was put in irons, he received the bastinede, hit nostrils were pierced with iron-wire ; they put burning bones on his brains, and a heavy stone on his heart, which reduced their victim to the last extremity ; their intention was to make him confess by these tortures that the rabbiu was implicated in the affair, as well as the whole of the community ; this unfortunate Jew being at the point of death by the agonies he suffered from the tortures, he was obliged to implicate several Jews, most of whom were found to be absent some days] from Rhodes. They arrested those who could be found.; seven of them were put to the torture, and their lives despaired of. During three days we have been refused the necessaries of life for our families, and it was only with the greatest efforts we could obtain the favour to have some salt fish and black bread at a very high price. All that we can learn is through the Europeans who have busi ness with the Pacha, who knows nothing of our sufferings, but that all that has happened is through the Adjutant of the Pacha, who agrees with the Consuls. The Austrian Con sul, who wanted to defend us, was at length obliged to follow the example of the others. The Hamburg papers of Tuesday received this morning, bring the annexed intelligence from Alex andria, Copenhagen, and Hanover : ALEXANDRIA, MAacii 27.—The English steamer, the Gorgon, which lately arrived, remains stationed here, as well as the Daphne corvette, which has arrived since. Most of the Consuls have applied to their courts for ships of war to secure themselves and their countrymen, in case an attack should be made. Accordingly a Sardinian and an Austrian corvette are expected. In all probability they will not be wanted. A French corvette has been lying in the harbour for :hose two months. M. Cochelet, as usual, waited on the Pacha after the arrival of the packet. It is not yet known whether he had any particular communication to make to him from M. Thiers. In August next a direct communication with England by steam-packets will be opened ; four large steamers will perform the voyage in fourteen or fifteen days, twice in a month. As passengers by these steam-boats have not to perform quarantine in England, this will be the most agreeable mode of travelling, not only back to England, hut to France, and the North of Germany ; for the per formance of twenty-one days' quarantine at Malta is a severe trial on the patience of those who have come in twenty-nine days from Bombay to Malta. COPENHAGEN, APRIL 14.—The thirtieth half-yearly payment in discharge of the Danish English three per cent. Loan has been again made for the last half-year, with the sum of 40,0001. It seems, therefore, that the Finance Department means to continue to pay off largor sums than stipulated by contract. HANOVER, APRIL 15.—The Chamber sat to-day for the last tune before the holidays. It is understood they will meet again on the 27th inst. It is to be hoped that by that time the number of Deputies, which has hitherto not exceeded 40 or 41, will be increased. The elections that have lately been made are-1. Harbourg (the person elected is said to have declined); 2. Luneburg, M. Albers, w e hear, has accepted ; 8. Hoya and Diephele ; 4. Furstenau, which has chosen M. Stuve, Burgomaster of Osnaburg ; and L. Schultorf, which has elected Dr. Dilmold. The Brussels Papers of Wednesday state, that at the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on that day, the new Ministers presented themselves in their official capacity, occupying the benches of their predecessors. The attendance of Members was inconsiderable, and but few strangers appeared in the galleries. The Secretary read a Cabinet Message, acquainting the Chamber with the com position of the New Ministry. After which M. CHARLES LIEDTS, Minister of the Interior, spoke to the following effect in the name of himself and his colleagues \Vo must lay before the Chamber a statement of the line of conduct which the new Cabinet intends to follow. ' The new Cabinet thinks that it shall be able to satisfy allmoderate opinions. It will make a point of hastening the impatiently expected discussion of the law on primary instruction, which the Cabinet will endeavour to get adopted on the most liberal basis. Penetrated with the most pro found respect for the Parliamentary prerogative, the new Ministry will, however, never consent that the respect due to the Royal prerogative shall be forgotten for a moment. The greatest zeal will be shown in promoting public works, agriculture, the arts and manufactures. The new Cabinet considers it as its duty to present as soon as possible a law on indemnities ; it will be absolutely independent with rep and to its powers; it will never deviate from the faith ful observance of the treaty ; its policy will be conserva tive; not stationary, but progressive, of which the Cabinet desires to take advantage to ensure the prosperity of all classes." AnploiH—l find only one thing wanting in the pro gramme of the new Cabinet—it is a declaration that it will exert itself to introduce the greatest economy into the budget. The Hon. Member took the opportunity, as he was ❑ow speaking, to say that his opposition had never been systematic, and would not be so in future, if the Cabinet follows a line of conduct conformable to all interests. _ _ _ The Minister of War presented a project of law asking for a vote of credit for three millions of francs for the ex penses of his department. The Prince of SAXE COBURG was to set out for Paris with the Princess his daughter on Wed nesday. King LEOPOLD will not be present, as was expected, at the marriage of the Duke DE NEMOURS, the celebration of which is fixed for Sunday. DUTCH FUNDS.—AWSTERIAM, APRIL 21 Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 23( per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Amert Syndic,4si per cent - U('% Ditto, ditto, 3yti per cent 7534 75 3 4 Commercial Company, 4 per cent ISO IWy.i Ditto (1ft.92 and 1033) 5 per cent. Ditto 1 , 437, 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cent. -Y74 1177.4 Exchange on London, One month ll 97. Two months —Dutch Papers, April 22. BELGIAN k UNDS—BRUBSELS, Aram 22. Actual Deist, 2,4 i per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lt Qsy Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 3 per Cent. 74N Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 94% Societyof Commerce, 4!iper Cent llO Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ............. National Society . Exchange on London (short) _Brussels Papers, April 22. HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, APRIL 21. Bills. Money, Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares Ando.liussian Loan 1('8. 10N Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Series lo:*i Russian 5 per Cent. Hops and Co. 3d and 4th - • 8110/ Series — Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 2y , per Cent 52 Ditto 5 per Cent 9B Polish Bonds ....._ New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 75 74% Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent. lO2 101% Spanish. New 3 per Cents. 21;4 EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, APRIL il.-13. 6—Two months, 13 Oi. STOCKHOLM, APRIL 20. —Seventy-five days. 12. 0. PETERSBURGH, APRIL 10.—Two months, 38 % pence. BERLIN, APRIL 18.—Three months, 6. 19%. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—MIRLIN, Arm 18. Bhls. Money, St. Schuld. Sch., 4 ,, ,, per cent. ....•••••••••1044 103% Prussian English Loan, 101 I 830, 4 per cent. 1035 ~, Nxchange on London, three months... 6 19} —Prussian State Gazelle, April It?. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, APRIL 11 Five per Cants. Met a lli q ues - ION 101 Four per Cents. .. ....................................... .•".. Three per Cents. . .......... . . •••••••"'" ..... 1'2.4 Bank Shares ...... ........ .. .. ........ ........... ................. 1831 ...Allgemeine Zellung, April 19. There is very little news of interest in the Paris Journals of Wednesday. In the Moniteur of that date we find the following telegraphic despatch from the Spanish frontier : " Bayonne, April 20. TIIE SUB-PREFECT TO THE MINISTER OF T UB INTERIOR. " There were in the fort of Aliaga four pieces of artil lery a n d a great quantity of ammunition. 260 officers and soldiers have been taken prisoners." The same official organ confirms the statement of the Constitutionnel of Tuesday relative to the sulphur question, in the following paragraph : " Several Journals have announced that France had offered her mediation to England in the affair which divides the Cabinets of London and Naples. This an nouncement is true. It is very true, as they stated, that the mediation offered by France has been accepted by England, that hostilities are to be suspended during the negotiatior and that a steamer has been despatched from Toulon with a similar offer to the King of Naples." The Semaphore of Marseilles of the 19th inst. publishes a mass of correspondence from Naples, representing a war between Great Britain and the King of the Two Sicilies, as inevitable. This correspondence is rendered worthless by the more authentic pacific intelligence from Paris. A commercial house at Lyons had received the following news from Naples, brought by the Ph a . ramond steamer, which left Naples on the 14th instant :--" The sulphur monopoly is a b o li shed. Everythin g is on the point of being amicably settled. The Neapolitan Rentes have in conse quenec risen from 98 to 104." The Conversion of the Reines Bill occupied the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday. The Bill was opposed on Tuesday on the ground of expe diency by M. DUPIN 7 and on principle by M. GAISNIER PAGES. M. TIMERS ascended the tlibtirL.l itnd made a good speech in favour of it, in which he tiii - M3f4sttd a determination to carry the measure. When he 1-at flown the first article of the Bill was put to the vote, alxi carried by a maiority. The second was under discussion when ttiti left Paris on Wednesday. The following St4i titttrwts from the Papers : The British Cabinet, says cke Courrier Francais, hesitated during two months to re3art- , 1 the commercial n"gotiations with France, which had been :,..4.4os,Trded. At last; cv , :t., the opinion of liberal and cornp.ltelit men has triumphed o'it:t that unexpected resistance. It arpeara that the bases of the ifeeti have been approved by all the members of the Cabinet, and that :he Commissioners who commenced the negotiations have been fUllj empowered to conclude an arrangement. Mr. Porter, the 2etrer of those instructions, arrived to-day in Paris. It is t& Le hoped ditt the French Cabinet will not now throw any obstacle in the 1 , 10.7 of the settlement. The Customs 13111 is to be presented to tha Chamber of Deputies in a few days. It is incumbent on the Ministry to hasten the conclusion of the negotiations, so as to be able 5 e embody in the Bill the reforms about to be stipulated by the trts..ty." The last feturne from the corn markets, within the cir cuit of Paris (says The (frioniteur Parisien), announce a tendency towards a fall. 'the prices have given way at Beaugency, Nemours, Nogent-sur-Seloc, and Fevers. At Melun, Nantes, and Noyon, they have been maintained, but with difficulty. They have sunk at Arcis, Bar.nt2r. Aube, and Sezanne. The stock of flour in Paris was augmented on Monday by 400 sacks. The entrance of several vessels laden with wheat into the port of 'Dieppe caused a fall in the last market of the town of lf. 20c. the hectolitre. Several ships with cargoes of corn were, on Sunday, in sight of Havre. On the 15th, at Damburg, the price of corn experienced an additional fall, in comes quence of the same state of the English markets. The National states that as M. Cormenin has refused to accept of any present from the Committee of the sub scription got up to celebrate his triumph in the affair of the Dotation Bill, beyond a small copper medal, it has been resolved to appropriate the amount raised, 7,500 fr., to the marriage portion of five poor girls, to be taken from each of five large towns, and to be drawn for by lot. M. Cormenin has stated his intention of adding SiOofr. to the above sum. The accounts from Madrid of the 14th, contain riflthing of much importance. Tho Royalist chief, Balmaseda, whose name has become illustrious in the events of this war, completely defeated, on the 6th of this month, the column commanded by the Christino Colonel, Redriquez, and almcst entirely de stroyed it. The action took place in the province of Gua dalaxara. The Christinos fled along the road to Madrid. It is said that Balmaseda is in close pursuit of the remains of that division. Another Royalist chief, Arnau, after having passed in triumph through the province of Cuenca, has returned to Morella with immense booty. CONsTANTINE.—On the 2d of this month a Batancelle coming from Collo arrived at Philippeville, which had on board a sailor and a cabin boy belonging to La Formigala. An English schooner from Malta, laden with wheat and printed calicos, which was wrecked about six leagues from that port, on the strand called:Bon-Jakar, from the name of the Cabyle tribe, inhabiting that coast, near Cape Bon.. prone. These two individuals were the only persons saved; all the others perished in the waves. The old Sheikh Mourbyck sheltered and took cr,re of them for three days, and then conducted them to Collo, from which place the principal inhabitants brought them to Philippe ville. This conduct of the Cabyles deserves encourage ment. The inhabitants of Collo behave well, and begin to be accustomed to us. —Le Constitutionnel. BOURSE. —PARIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price trench 5 per Cents ll2 15 ... 112 15 ... 111 90 ... 1 I 1 95 4i per Cents lO7 25 107 25 107 25 ... 107 25 3 per Cents B3 45 8.3 45 83 30 ... 83 30 Bank of trance 3150 ...3250 ...3250 ..,3250 Lattitte Bank 1,0001. Sl). 1052 50 —lOB5 ...1082 50 ...1 85 5,000 f. 583 5195 ...5197 50 —.5193 ..5197 50 Belgian Bank BBl ... 8-5 ... 880 882 50 514er Cents 103% ... 103% 103% .., 103% New York Ohio lO2 102 25 102 'l5 ... 102 25 State of New York vanish Active . 2914 ... 2914 ... '2E% ... 25% Passive 7 7% ... ... Neapolitan Roman 104% 10454 104% ... 104% RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Versailles, It. 1' 6lO ... 610 ... 607 50 ... 607 50 L.B. 391 25 :91 25 ... 390 ... 390 Orleans . Montpellier to Cette Strasburg to Bale 420 ... 420 417 50 ... 417 50 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have received by the Hamburg Mail papers to the 22d of April ; they do not bring any political intelligence of consequence. Exchange on London 13 41 short ;13 6 comes higher schelling ; gold, 429. We have received Halifax Papers four days later, to the sth of April. The abovo papers are void of interest. A. hoax was played off in the town that an express had ar rived from New Brunswick, informing the Governor of a skirmish between the citizens of the State of Maine and the British Force on the disputed territory. We have received New Brunswick Papers to the 29th of March. It: was expected that the Legislature would be prorogued to-day or early in the ensuing week. These pa. pers are also void of interest, and chiefly filled with English news. We have received the Journal du Commerce of An' werp of yesterday's date. BOORSE OF AMSTERDAM, APRIL 21.—The prices re ceived from London on Saturday were favourable, and our Market took the same course. The National Funds were more firm thaa the two last days, the Syndicats only were flat, owing to some heavy sales. A great deal was doing in the Actions of the railway of Harlem, which improved to 111 and 1 The Spanish Funds c:ntinue to follow the fluctuations of the Exchange on London, which has come lower. Ar doin's Spanish has lowered 4 per cent., and the bui.ness was not animated. Dutch Funds, April 21.—Two-and-a-Half per Cents,, 52i ; Five per Cents., 99 5-16 ; Ardoin's, 25. THE FUNDS. To the present hour the British Funds continue inac tive, and opened at the same quotations as for several days pass at the leaving off prices of the previous day, 901 for Money ;91 to for the Account. Money continues abundant, and great difficulty is experienced to employ it on a solid footing in commercial affairs. Exchequer Bills, 21 23 prem. ; India Bonds, 3 5 prem. ; Bank Stock, 175}; India Stock, 2491 2501. In the Foreign Market: Spanish Active, although they came lower from Paris, maintain the leaving-off price of yesterday, 29h- 4 ; Deferred, 1 , 11 ; Passive, 74 ; Co lombian, 25i-; Mexican, 281 ; Brazilian, 761 ; Belgian, 104/ 1051 ; - Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53i i; Five per Cents., 1001. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 175 8 per Cent. Red. 8 9% •% 3 per Cents. Con 9G% 'c 3 ner Cent Ditto lied. (131 4% New 314 per Cent 9,0 4% New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Jan 5, 1860 13% Oct. 10, 1859 13% 7-16 Jan. 5, 1860— ....... 13Mi 13-16 Jan. 5, 18S0 Aprils, 1880 Jas. 5.1870 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCE. India Stock Ditto Bonds South Sea Stock Old Annuities . New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, 17.51 Exch. Bilk, £l,OOO ... 21 23 pm Ditto M 0.,. 21 :23 pot. Ditto Small 2l 23 inn. Ditto Commercial dia. Ditto Advertised -- pm. Bank Stock for Account ... -- India Stock for Account —.— Consols for Account 91 HALF-PAST ONE. The quarterly sales of indigo ended yesterday. The total quantity which was put up was 6,060 chests, and there was a good demand for shipping qualities, particu larly for the good and fine sorts, and the prices were nearly equal to those of January. For the home consumption sorts, except the finest, there was a great heaviness. Upon the whole the sales have gone off with more firmness than previously expected. We have an arrival this morning from Canton, but of an old date. The United States Bank Shares have a sombre appear ance in the British Market yesterday, and were 14i to They are not in demand by the public, as it is very uncer tain when the above Bank will resume paying a dividend. LIVERPOM, COTTON MAIMET, TIMRSDAY.—The sales to-day are 4,000 bags at yesterday's prices. No business of any importance has taken place in either of the markets. Consols are a shade lower than in the early part of the morning, 91 for the Account ; Mon e y, 901 i ; Exchequer Bills 21 23 prem. ; India Bonds, 5 prem. ; Bank Stock, 175. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, which was in the morning 29i, has receded to 28i ; Portuguese 316 ; Three per Cents. 243 a ; Colombian, 25 i 1 ( ; Dutch Tit). and- a-lialf per Cents. for Money improved, 531. CLOSING PRICES. BI'IITIS /1 FUNDS "ask Stock 175 India Stack 3 per Cent. Red 3 per Cent Ctns. 9oli Ditto Old Annuities 3% per Cent. Red 98% Ditto New Annuities .... ..... New 3% per Cent 99% Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 21.1 23 pm New 5 per Cent — Ditto 500/ Wpm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 23 pm Jan. 186'1 0ct.1859 Jan 1860 FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian, 5 per cent Portu,guese Bonds, Spec cent, Belgian, 5 per cent 104% Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian Bonds 75 Prussian, 5 Per cent — Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent — Russia a Bonds, 5 per cent..., Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic — . Colombian, 6 er cent ..... ..... , ' Spanish., 5 per cent...,........ Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred Danish, 3 per cent _ French, 5 per cent.... ...... 1111. 25c. Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct — Exchange f. Mexican, 5 per cent — French, 3 p er cent ~,......' —r. s3e. Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 Perityian,lB2s,6 per cent, — Ditto, b per cent. ............ ...100% SHARES. Great North of England Railway 52% (ircat Western Railway I)ittn New Shares London and Brighton Railway 25% London and lllackwall Railway London and South Western Railway 45% London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l O l4 Manchester and Leeds railway Ditto New Shares '36 Midland Counties Railway 94 North Midland Railway ,... 10234 Ditto New Shares South Eastern and Dover iN Viscount Canterbury has arrived at the Adelaide Hotel, London-bridge, from Paris. DEATH OF VISCOUNT GUILLAMORE.—We regret to state that Lord Guillamore died at his residence, in the county of Limerick, on Monday last. LUSUS NATUR/E.—An ewe, the property of Mr. Everson, of the Unicorn Inn, Hodnet, lately had two lambs, one of them with two heads, perfectly formed. The other had nothing extraordinary to distinguish it, and survives; but the bi-headed animal lived for only a short time.— Saiopian Journal. _EVENING EDITION. INSOLVENT DEBToRs' COURT. (THIS DAY.) IN RR MARTIN SMITII METCALFE% This insolvent, the late publisher of the Morning Chronicle, applied some ten days ago to be liberated on sureties till his hearing, and the application stood over until this morning. It appeared that the insolvent, before his at the Central Criminal Court for embezzlement, at the .;nstance of the proprietors of the Morning Chronicle, mt•de am . assignment of his furniture, whi c h was wor th 2501., and' a lease, to his son, for the benefit of his family. H e was• convicted, and had undergone twelve months' imprison- , ment in the House of Correction. He was liberated lag. month, and vas soon afterwards taken in execution by a , creditor, on which he petitioned the Court, and applic ,4 to be admitted to bail. Mr. Commissioner BOWEN said the son had no right to retain the furniture, and it must be given up before the Court discharged the insolvent on bail. The case stood over till to-day. The officer of the prison reported that the insolvent was not in attendance, he was in custody.—The matter will be inquired into on the day of hearing. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY. CORN EXCHANGE. This vcoles arrivaTa of English Grain have been moderatt, but of Foreign Wheat considerable: A slack trade for most articles, and Monday's prices supported. Flour still dull. The duty on Foreign Wheat is likely to be reduced to 13s. 3d. nest week, which will probably be paid for such as is on ship-board. The London average to come into the return of next week 14 6,679 qrs. M 72.3. 10d. SMITHFIELD. The Lamb trade has improved very much since last week; full Is. per stone advance has been freely paid. Other arti cles barely maintained last week's currnicy. Veal has declined abort 3d. per stone; Pork stationary; Beef, 3s. to 4s. 4d. ; Mutton, 3s. 63., 4s. 4d., to 4s. 83. ; Veal, 51. to ss. Bsl. ; Pork, 4s. 4d. to ss. :Id. Beasts. 433; Sheep and Lambs, 5,310 ; Pigs, 572 ; Calves, 143. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. _ . Good supplies, and a fair demand ; prices steady. Turbot ss. to 21s. Cod 2s. 6d. to 93. Soles 10d. to 4s. per pair Lobsters ls. to4s. ; Mackarel 4d. to Bd. ; Haddocks 61. to 15.1 Salmon 23. to 2s. 6d. per lb. TALLOW MARKET. _ _ This department quiet* and the price of P. Y. C. 523. 3d. to 525. 6d. COLONIAL MARKET. Not much business done, and prices steady. B.P. Sugar sold at 595. 6d. for brown to 635. for middling, and 71Is. for fine. Refined standard Lumps, 80s. to 81 s . N o o th e r kind of Sugar in the market. Coffee languid, and some parcels of Java, Mocha, and Ceylon, put up, were most bought in. What sold went at lower prices. 716 bags Bengal Rice fetched. 13s. 6d. for fine quality ; 3,300 robins Black Pepper fetched 4d. to 41d. per lb. for good quality ; 2,500 bags Bengal Ginger so :4 at 21s. Imports continue light. TEA SALE—CONCLUSION. The Sale closed with spirit, and Hyson sold at 2s. 71,id. to As. 2d. ; and free trade Congous, 2s. sid. to 2s. 7 1 / 0. cash. Company's Cm. ous, 2s. sd. to 2s. 5 1 / 2 d. cash. INbi r ,P o SALE—CONCLUDED. Out of 6,060 chest: put up, nearly 4,200 sold, three fourths of vi:iich were bought by exporters. Prices through out have been lower than those of last Sale, say full 3d. P er b. lower. 771 chests w elTithdrawn during the sale. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, ArßlL23.—WindW. S. W.—Arrived the Elizabeth Cullitin, from Halifax; Isabel, St. Michael's; Rambler, ditto. Sailed the Superior, Bell, for Launceston ; Vel° 3l ' Falconer, Cape of Good Hope. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 23.—W.;nd W. S. W.—Arrived the John Horton, Cunningham, from China ; Wm. Badger , New Orleans ; Octorara, Deccan, ditto ; Propontis, ditto; Frances Depot, Forbes, ditto ; Francis Lawson, Clepper, Mobile ; Courtney, Brown, Savannah ; Burns, Messenger, ditto; Ben Nevis, Burns, ditto; Ern e ; raid, Ellis, ditto ; Aurelius, Crowell, ditto ; St. Cloud , Colair, Charleston ; Dido, Baltimore ; Pearl Cov e, Ma ' laga ; Harriett, Carrell, Civita Vecchia ; Lady H arve l o ' r Santander. Sailed the Lord Dobbin, Carponter, Bombay ; Alexander, Leeds, Mobile ; Isaac ..Nn wt° o n if Spalding, New York; Lloyds, Blandford, Quebec' . Port the St. Helena, from the Cape of Good ' lo p e Cheshire, Barbadoes; Katharine. Pulsford, New Orl.''rgin MARGATE, APRIL 23..—Arrived off the Tobago , Trinidad. R o bert. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 23.—Wind S. S. E. to S. W r • - "" Sailed the Philadelphia, Morgan, for Now York ; Jain" and Ann, Walker, Miramichi. IRELAND. The Pilot of Wednesday publishes additional e videne : v of the spirit abroad on the subject of " Scorpion" StanleY ag gre- . ; Registration Bill. On Tuesday there was a great unit r ,eu n, gate meeting in Drogheda. On Monday the parishes of Moncoin, Carrigern, and Kilnaspig met- On to ic e : the piae. same A d t ay a la these public demonstration at meetingsth towne tthe of Nen ag attendancetr no less numerous than was the denunciation of Lord Sta,n... ley's Bill loud and emphatic. Strong resolutions , e dunning the meditated mischief, were unanimou I adopted, and petitions to Parliament for the complete jection of the " infamous Registration Bill" were, in eve r y case, carried without a single dissentient voice. The Drogheda demonstration is reported to have beheeil the largest and most respectable public meeting ever ,„i n z there. The Pilot refers to it with exultation., as ar gui ng the energy of the public mind. This mectink-,,qaken in connexion with the others proves that the scorpion has stung the Irish into agitation with a vengeance. DEATH OF THE WIDOW MURPHY.-We have learned from a Longford correspondent, that the poor wid ow hag gone to where care and pain can reach 'ner no more. It is remarkable that a few days before this event took i elacea Lord Lorton moved for a new trial in the case already f a miliar to our readers and the world. We will not trust ourselves with any comment on the subject. —Pilot. VACANCY.-Mr. Forde, the chairman of Roscommon, no more. Several are named t, succeed him, of "'Thi s : among them we are happy to hear Mr. Shea bider' 1 - co : is t'ae more creditable to the Government, Mr. Lalor has not been one of the plagues of the C" tic.. " . Ibid. Ors , 1 "-4 MR. O'CONNELL AND THE ANTI-COEN-LAW TIVES.-Mr. O'Connell has published a letter, address,ein;. Mersrs. Warren and Nightingale, who presided es C I . a ve , s opera of at the Dinner given by the Anti-Corn-law of the Town of Manchester. ne - W e shall probably advert to this address on a. futures 6 casien. For the present we subjoin only the foll o A in e t. geforrn sentences as a sample of its spirit :—" But the has proved a total failure. as we be te disvn "Above all, the bread tax is pertinaciously contin ji l , ' combination of the Whig and Tory parties—wi then i t he least hope or prospect of its repeal! The burthe n% n oor er State press too heavily upon the working a nd r ion! classes. Long-continu e d labour with small remtinera- Great misery—want of adequate subsistence. " But are the people of Britain to despair? " No ! no I—a thousand times—No r an d " Up, then, Engli s h men ! up ! Arise, slave-cfass' wi • fling from you your f e tt ers . A r i se , not in t u mult i ; legal' lance, in outrage, or i n bl oo d ! A r i se i n p e aceful' w ill constitutional combination ! Stand up as men vg" but commit no offence against the law of God or of mane too who, in their moral strength and peaceful vigour, many and too good t o rema i n any longer classed agl- s nd the willing sl a v es o f t h e world, but who arc entitled determined to be freemen " I think you ought to be thoroughly convinced that tbe the political evils that afflict this country flow fronif, Corp want of adequate re p resentat i on i n t h e H o use of see' mons; from that House not being the organ of pu."-d that timent ; from that House representing but a class, an class but a small one, of the British people:" AGRICULTURAL SHOD• The Spring Show of the Stranraer and Ruins of 6all o way Agricultu ra l A ssoc i ation took lace at S tra nraer , hil t - Friday last, th e 17th instant.. The show of horses was et'' small, the fa me o f M r. R o b ert Anderson ' s horse " Far: - a having prev ente d several from competing g The P f r il 'd;es. silver medal, was awar d e d to Mr. Anderso ' n, by the "- Messrs. King, o f S tranraer, and Al ic, of Glendri'adio The membe rs o f t h e Association having agreed t° etc together in th e Ki ng ' s A rms Inn, prepar ations ei t i o made accordingly. I t h a d b een understood th at t i t le Earl of Stair, who h as lately succeeded to the.n tits and extensive est a t e o f that family, would arrive i : v ia course of the day; but an uncerta i nty as to the bogr ",:j e to arisen, it was. not known whether he w ould t he attend the dinner. Indeed his Lordship only arrived a b " co lodge leadin g to C u lh orn a b out four o ' c l oc k, bevin.,g, die detained a c ons id era bl e t i me at B allantrae (is °ile- that " taut), in Ay rs hi re , b y t h e tenantry of his esta tes i, r9 eg county, who met hi m t h ere, and having taken the " A from the carri age d rew hi s Lordship through the to" his deputation from the Agricultural Societ was wai tin fi g of Lordship's arrival at the Lode, to request the h° ° , ° ,: his by his nephew, his attendance at the dinner - ; and his Lordship E d w ard H a t r b e carriage, and, accompanied man, Esq., M. P., walked into Stranraer, and jej o , ed ha fe party, which was highly respectable, but weak . o n beer. much more numerous had it bee n generallY " a mp le that Lord Stair had arrived. Sir Ja - mes Hay, Bart., was the Chairman on the occasion, Joel, Maitland, ported by Lord Stair and Mr. Horsman ; and P a was I I and patriotic toa.te'r removed, the Chairman - gave to ; et' which were • d receive the greatest enthusiasmr ft he Treasure to Esq., of Freugh, croupier. When the cloth 3 . _, which, Alexander M'Neel, Esq., the our Society, craved a full and flowing bumper to d° tw luce the Right H on . t h e E ar l o f Stair, Lord Glen Stranraer.—( Loud cheers.) e speeches were made, which we are unable, from wan t e space, to notice. ie x lle o n f t Many other appropriate toasts and several annually to be held at Easter and Whitsuntide on a plot °_,, Till within the last two or three years a fair use d ground facing the Maid and Magpie public-house e Steplile!ei and was known as Stepney Fair. The police have Teo, an d in s tructions to exercise their authority to su p press the fair, t " in this in a great measure they have succeede d in doing, hu_.at holyday-time there still exists a vestige on the same spot of iv . ; ii of was wont to be the favourite resort of the tag-rag and bobtr n the east nd o town. Betwen four and five o'clocg . % Tuesday evening a man named Hutchinson, a journeg . r n a brazier, was swinging in a sort of car erected on the gr°.' os alluded to, when in endeavouring to vie with some compa°' . 0 as to who would swing the highest, he was suddenly t wo:, _ afternoon sku11, his sustained death ,s.aos momentarilyma many out with such violence that he received a severe fracture ofdh: London Hospital. interna e l expected. London We understand that the • • opinions of tvo joint of the most eminent men at the bar has been taken on the q ue'.. tion whether attorneys are liable coroners ' juies+ to serve on 1.... k. and the zini °n ;being that they are not liable, Mr. N , has Icy, the . oroner for Middlesex acquiesces in it, and given directions to the summonin ' fli t ' nun°P them g o cer not to su in future. t h i a i t e l y i ee fractures t a c t !' t t 2 e Heaviside TIE LARDNER AFFAIR.—Capt• has returned t o Briehton, having left his wife w ith her fa ther at Boulogne; but he has not yet made his appearance in public. ___.—.....0.