The Sun. — London, England, 1840-03-13 00:00:00

IVENINCI EDITION. f (1. OV E N T•GARDEN THEATRICAL A FUND. Under the immediate Patronage of THE QUEEN. ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL of thislNSTlTyh; I appointed for WEDNESDAY NEXT, the 18th, at h Fr- Hall. his ILyal Highness the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE in the Chair. The Musical Department will again be under the direction of ....... GEORGE SMART, who, with his usual kindness, wll prcsde at tae grand piano-forte. The following celebrated vocal and instrumental Performers I have most liberally granted their valuable services on this occa ..-si.3n • Madame Vestris, Miss Maria B. Hawes, Miss Lucombe, Miss Rainforth (by the kind permission of Madame Vestris), Miss H. Cause, and Miss P. Horton, Mrs. Anderson (Pianiste to her Majesty), ands Ir. N. Mori, havinr , liberally granted their valuable services on this cccasion will perform a Duet on the piano-forte and violin. Mr. Sedgwick having kindly offer' d his assistance, will perform on the concertina. Messrs. T. Bellamy, Bradbury, Chubb, Duruset, W. Evans, Elliott, Fitzwilliam, Horncastle, Hawes, Morley, Mears, H. Phillips,. Poniter, Ransford, Jolley, Robinson, Hudson, Brooke, Spen cer, Stoker, and C. Taylor ; Messrs. 13Jrrani, Harrison, and Binge (by the kind permission of Madame Vestris). Hopkins' Military Band will perform several popular waltzes daring the evening. Tickets, One Guinea each, (wine included) to be had of the Stewards, Fund Office, Stage Door, Covent Garden Theatre ; at Mr. Sams's, bookseller to the Queen, St. James's-street ; and at the Freemasons' Tavern. The hall do ri will be opened at Five.—Dinner on Table at Six precisely. COPIOUS NEWS FROM NEW ZEALAND. EXTRACTS from the Report of Colonel Wakefield, extending to ten columns, will be given rXCLUSIVELT in THE NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL, a SECOND EDITION of which will be published TO MORROW, Saturday morning. It will be kept on sale all the week at the office, 366, Strand. Orders received by all Newsmen. THE STATESMAN NEWSPAPER of TO-MORROW and SUNDAY will contain the first part of a FULL and FREE INQUIRY into the OPINIONS cf the SOCIALISTS, with a review of their publications, ani an EXAMINATION of the MANIFESTOof ROBERT O WEN, their Founder. To be had of all Newsmen, and at the office, 366, Strand. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo., rft. COOPER'S " PATHFINDER, A ROMANCE. _ _ " The interest of this romance is unflaggingly maintained." —Athenmum. " The Pathfinder ' is a creation of singular interest. We pronounce this work to be the most beautiful and natural of all Mr. Cooper's novels."—Atlas. The passages of imminent dangers and hairbreadth escapes in The Pathfinder ' are of a breathless interest."—Spectator. "An admirable novel. It is full of scenes of a varied na ture, each good in itself, but still better in combination."— Dispatch. " Mr. Cooper's last novel will nct be considered inferior to his best, whichever the taste of his readers may determine that to be."—Morning Herald. " The Pathfinder' is kept constantly in the foreground of this romance—yet we never tire of him ; but, on the con trary, feel that a light has vanished from our path the instant he quits the scene. He is the gem of the tale. Cooper has, in this work, acquitted himself with signal success."—Sun. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS •f MONEY PREMIUMS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) seer many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAINfBURGH, 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 addressing WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE, BROTHERS, at HANIBURGH. P. S.—THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains Portions of TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND, FIVE THOUSAND, TWO THOUSAND, ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED, ONE THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED, SIX HUNDRED, 'FIVE HUN DRED, 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., amounting to £134,990 Sterling. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS, THIS EVENING, MARCH 13. Will be performed the New Original Play, in Five Acts, written by James Sheridan Knowles, called LOVE. )uke of Carinthia, Mr. Cooper; Sir Rupert of Lerch, Mr. J. Vining; Huon, Mr. Anderson; the Countess of Eppen stein, Miss Ellen Tree; Katherine, Madame Vestris. After which, a Comic Burletta, called PATTER VZRSUS CLATTER. Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews. Ti eopclude with he Grand Allegorical and National Masque, in honour of her Majesty's Nuptials, entitled THE FORTUNATE ISLES ; OR, THE TRIUMPHS Of BRITANNIA. The Music composed and selected by Mr. H. R. Bishop. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second Circles, &s. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances t• commence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and plat es for the Boxes take taken at the Box-of fice from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had Upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Immense success of the City Apprentice, which has attracted crowded and delighted audiences. THIS EVENING, illAacit 13. Will be acted, a Historical Drama, depicting England in 164, Bai badoes in 1665, Oid London in 1666, with a representa tion of the Great Fire of London, entitled THE CITY APPRENTICE; or, THE THREE LILIES. Supported by the entire strength of the Company. After which, LORD DARNLEY. Darnley, Mr. E. F. Saville. To conclude with THE JERSEY GIRL • OR, THE RED ROBBERS. Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Johnson, W. Smith, Mrs. Nisi Grant, Miss Martin, &c. TO CORRESPONDENTS. In The Sum of Monday the odds against Warden for the Two Thousand Guinea Stakes were 11 to 1; on the fol lowing day, in some other papers, 6 to 1, and our Cor respondent F. W., or P. W., or T. W.—for it is im possible to say which—makes them 4to 1. Last even ing the odds were 6 to 1, and as Warden does not appear to rise in estimation, probably our account was ihe more correct. At all events we have our informa tion from tile best authority. HUM WATlin AT LONDON BRIDGE TS-MORROW. morning 25 minutes after 111 Evening f:7 minutes after 11 ) 6ck 17-r ' 444'> Zeb t LONDON: FRIDAY, NIARCH 13, 1840. In the House of Lords List night t wo petitions were presented from West India proprietors against any alteration of the duties on East India produce, which were referred to the Committee sitting on the subject. This was to be expected, and the Lords will find it an impossible task to content the rivals for protection. In truth the whole theory of protecting duties proceeds on tha impossible eupposition that legislation can, by establishicg them, do justice between all classes, and content them all. Lord ELLENEOROUGH brought in a Bill, which was read a first time, to promote vaccination, in compliance, we presume, with the petition of the medical men no ticed a few evenings ago, who wished that sums of money should be devoted to this purpose. Tho Marquis of Nonstaleav explained that four per sons had already been executed for the offence for com mitting which Lynam was recently pardoned. Such an all• sufficient reas' n for mercy, did not, however, quite satisfy the Marquis of WESTMLATH. Their Lordships sat for a wry abort time. For pardon to FROST, WILLIAMS, and JONES, for the aboliti on o f t h e Corn-laws, for the abolition' of Chnrch- ra t es , aga i nst the intrusion of ministers, were re 1 tl , e chief objects o f th e pet i t i ons presented last night in '1:. Commons. (J privilege, there is never, apparently, to be an end. Lord JOHN RUS SELL presented another petitio n troai Mr. HANSARD, informin g t h e H ouse that he had be,:n served with another writ to assess damages, and praying protection. The Noble L or d also stated that another action had been commenced, and the venue laid in Hertfordshire. All these actions are for one and the same libel, and the law, th at bl essed law, which the Tory journals uphold, p erm i ts a ll these actions to be brought in vindication of Mr STOCK DALE'S character. If privilege be a farce, law, as he works it, is a greater farce. If he were so to persecute an individual, the monstrous injustice of the law would be immediately perceived, but applied to the House of Commons, even these continued and successive outrages against common sense find advocates. The House was also informed by the Sergeant-at- Arms, and much surprised, apparently, by the infor mation, that four of its officers had been served with notices of action on behalf of Mr. BURTON HOWARD. Lord J. RUSSELL had only heard of the matter on Wednesday; it is to be taken into consideration this day. Mr. HUME gave notice that he will move, on next Thursday week, to suspend the pension of the King of HANOVER. That will teat the new-born attachment of the Tories to economy. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in answer to Mr. PAKING TON, stated that he had received the Clergy Reserves Canada Bill, and would lay it on the table in a few days. In answer to questions, Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated that Government had no official account of war having been declared against China ; that the Governor-Ge neral had received orders to make certain preparations, which was probably the origin of the report that war was declared ; and Lord PALMERSTON stated that the communications with China would be made in the name of her MAJESTY, and not in that of the India Com pany ; and that no message would be sent down on the subject ; from which it is to be inferred that war is not , to be declared, and that it is expected the exhibition of I force will bring Mr. LIN and his Emperor to terms. It may be inferred, too, from a cautious answer given by Lord JOHN RUSSELL to Mr. AGLIONBY, that the LORD CHANCELLOR is to introduce a Bill for consti tuting two new Judges in Equity. Some other interesting conversation took place, for which we refer to our report. Lord ELIOT, after a short debate, carried a mo tion against Sir F. TRENCH, by 136 to 86, that the Bude Light had not been fairly tried ; that the pre parations for giving it a fair trial after Easter be com pleted in the recess. On the motion of Mr. SLANEY a Committee was ap pointed to inquire into the circumstances which influ ence the health of large towns. Mr. HUME obtained returns to show the increase of beer-shops in Monmouthshire and the amount of punish. went in the navy. The report of Mr. BAINES'S resolutions concerning First Fruits and Tenths was thrown out by 54 to 46. We expected nothing else. It was only a temporary triumph, which the Tories suffered the Hon. Gentle man to gain. To provide for the religious instruc tion of the people by the revenues of the Church would be contrary to the tenor of their whole poli tical existence. They and the priesthood use the Church to take money from the people, and we should have no priesthood, so says the Rev. SIDNEY SMITH, were the Clergy not allowed to revel in the spoils of those funds which our pious but erring ancestors meant to devote to the religious instruction of the people. The Horse-racing Bill was committed, and the Mutiny Bill read a first time. At a Quarter to Seven the House adjourned. At a pro-Corn-law meeting, held at Stratton, in Cornwall, on last Friday, a Rev. Mr. RUDALL appeared as the advocate of the starvation laws. In our Journal yesterday we published the commu nication of Dr. PYE SMITH, to the Secretary of the Corn-law League ; and the Dissenting Clergyman heartily joins the League,and says "it appear s hi g hl y proper t h a t petitions from Christian congregations to the Legisla ture should be set up. If any general measure of that kind could he put into progress, I would immediately propose it to my congregation, and I have no doubt of its being adopted." This contrast between the Rev. Mr. RUDALL and Dr. PYE SMITH may be taken as an index to the conduct of the great bulk of the State-paid priesthood, and the ministers who depend for sup port on the voluntary contributions of their congre gations. The former, with some rare exceptions, like that of Mr. SPENCER, are in league with the country gentlemen to pinch and starve the people ; the latter unite with the manufacturers and the great multitude to demand a change in the most un-Christian law that ever was enacted. The motives of the Dissenting ministers cannot be impugned ; the trifle they would gain by the abo lition is so small that they can have no interest in it except what flows from the desire to see the people prosperous, virtuous, and happy. The in come, however, of the State-paid parsons depends on the price of grain. They tremble for their rent charge ; and they vote for starving the people from motives as purely sordid and selfish as those of the andlords. If there be only ten quarters of wheat to supply the wants of 100 people, its price will be consider ably higher than if there were twelve or twenty quar ters. If by Corn-laws, therefore, the price rises Ito 80s., and the tithe-owner has one of those quarters to sell, or is to receive as a rent charge the price of one, he will have Bs. If, by the abolition of Corn-laws, a plentiful supply of corn which pays him no tithe be brought in, and the price of wheat falls to 405., he still having only one quarter to sell, or to receive the price of one quarter, will get only 4s. Thus the tithe-owners quite as much, if not more than the landowners, hive a direct interest in maintaining the Corn-laws. Just in proportion as the price rises from excluding foreign corn, so is the tithe owner enriched—just as the price falls from admitting'foreign corn is he impoverished. Hence the State-paid, tithe-fed parsons have one and all a strong pecuniary motive for upholding the starvation laws, and therefore they uphold them. It will be in vain that they conjure up reasons to prove the contrary, and assert that they wish to benefit the people ; nobody who knows the power of interest to suggest thoughts and bias the mind will believe them. Their motives must be sus pected, and their religious doctrines and teaching will share the suspicion which their advocacy of the Corn-laws will throw on their sincerity. To the people at large the same facts suggest a consideration equally important, though of a . . different character. The paying a priesthood by tithes is obviously a bribe for them to give, as far as they can, the sanction of religion to legal plunder. The endowment encourages dis honest teaching and dishonest conduct, and to es tablish a priesthood paid by tithes, is like hiring a mercenary army to devastate our homesteads. One of the assertions with which the Rev. Mr. RUDALL and the bribed advocates of the Corn-laws endeavour to cheat their own minds and the minds of their hearers is, that if foreign corn be brought freely in, our own land will go out of cultivation. Why should it ? The expense of cultivation will be reduced to the full extent of the reduction in the price of corn. The whole real necessary expense consists in the payment of labour of one kind or another, and how the reduction in the price of labour could make the land go out of cultivation we cannot imagine. The real ef fect of the abolition would be certainly to make the farmers give a greater quantity of corn for labour than at present. More food would be generally offered for labour, in consequence of the competition ; and the farmer would have to give more, but he would take that quantity from the land lord's rent and the tithe-owner's rent-charge. We admit to Mr. RUDALL that the owners of rent and of tithes would suffer from the abolition ; but they constitute at most one-fiftieth part of the population, and their interest must give way to the command ing interests of the other forty-nine parts. Perish rent ! perish tithes I say we, if they be put into competition with the public prosperity and with the progress of the Nation, and let the people live. To what a fearful combat do those who put up rent and tithes as the obstacles to supplying the people with food expose them. To tell the starving people that rent and tithes prevent them having food, is to spur them on to struggle for the annihilation of the landholders and the priesthood. We must add that we do not believe cheap corn will cause the land to go out of cultivation. If corn will not fetch in the market what it costs to grow it, it wiN not, we admit, be grown ; but corn is sure to raise its own market, and the selling price of it can never be for any length of time below the cost of production. In 1835 and 1836 corn was grown at a great cost, and sold very cheap, a little less was probably, therefore, sown ; but what dis tricts of England were deserted and left untitled ? In those years all the outgoings of the farmer, rent, tithes, &c., were formed on the scale of prices sup posed to be established by the Corn-laws ; all his income was measured by harvests more abundant than mouths, under our restricted system, could consume. Prices fell nearly cent. per cent., and yet no great portions of England were throvm out of cultivation. Nobody expects that the free importation of foreign f oo d w ill re d uce the price of wheat b elow the avera e of 1835 and 1836. Why, then , should the f armers suffer the land to go out of cul tivation, when th e i r outgoings as well . Of all the as their income will be regulated by fl an approximation to natural prices ? as sertion that the land ass d ertions that are made by rent owning landlords,e the farmers and the l e a f b E ou n r g e l r tithe-owning priests, the as asntdo gwoilloubet souffferedb) cultiva tion, because of the free importation . of food from abroad finds the least • justification onfrom experience. Such a thing never did happen, and never will happen. We see, with no surprise, that the trial of HENRY JANIES ) at Maidstone, for stealing thr e e hurdle twigs from Sir HERBERT JENNER, h as ex cited considerable attention. We are surprised, however, to see that one Journal has quoted thi; case as a proof of the necessity of " a discretionary summary jurisdiction, under prescribed limitations, in cases of petty larceny." We should like much to see the " prescribed limitations," before ap proving of extending summary jurisdiction ; f or if such a case as this were tried before two Magis trates of the present race of country squires, it would surely be followed by conviction and punish ment. We are sensible of many imperfections in Jury trials, but they have an inestimable advantage in the publicity which attends them ; and we do THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 13. 1840. not desire to see the place of Juries supplied by • Magistrates. One great advantage of the assizes is, that the trials are attended by a bar, by reporters, and by a public. We are by no means sure that Courts of Summary Jurisdiction would be so attended. Civil causes, which are most lucrative, have consider able influence in collecting gentlemen of the bar at the assizes. O t h er b us i ness a l so , b es id es th e criminal trials, carries reporters thither, and collects a large multitude to crowd the Courts, to disperse far and wide the knowledge of what is transacted in them, and give a tone and force to public opi nion. All, or most, of these checks would be wanted m Courts of Summary Jurisdiction, and to hand over our peasantry, even more than at present, to the tender mercies of the country gentlemen, would be to consign them to the vilest subjugation, with. out a hope or a chance of redress. Such a man as HENRY JAMES might not then be sent six weeks to gaol before trial ; his case would be summarily disposed of, and he would get six months' or twelve months' imprisonment on felon's fare. To expect that any two or more country gentlemen sitting in their parlour, or in some County Court, surrounded by toady beadles and toady clerks, should acquit a a man charged of stealing by Sir H. JENNER, and I actually guilty of taking away three twigs of the value of three halfpence, is to expect a complete miracle. Why, all country gentlemen stiffer from twigs being stolen. That the wretched half-starved shivering peasantry take away sticks from the hedges, is one of the most fretful sources of anger in country gentlemen ; and if they be allowed to inflict sum mary punishment on all stealers of twigs, GOD help the otherwise helpless beings whom they guide and govern. Before the public can tolerate more summary jurisdiction, the whole Magistracy must be changed ; it must be made elective—taken from various classes, not from one class only—and must hold its office by meriting the public esteem. Summary jurisdiction is, in many cases, good—trial by jury, as in the case of the Chartists in Cheshire and Lancashire, may be most partial and unjust—but to give summary jurisdiction into the hands of our unpaid country gentlemen over the stealers of twigs and hurdle stakes, would be as great a mockery of justice as constituting two slave-owners a Court for the trial of the offences of their slaves. As long as Our landlords keep up the Corn laws to starve the people, with a view to enrich themselves, we beg leave to say that nothing too hard, nothing too severe can be said or expected of them. The men who consign a large population to the slow and lingering death of hunger are capa ble of any thing. That involves all the minor crimes which we believe they could commit when clothed with summary jurisdiction over the liberty and persons of those who may invade their property. But of what they are capable in this way, the committal of HENRY JAMES to gaol may be taken as a specimen. Publicity and a Jury fortunately rescued him from their hands. Another example of what they are capable took place at Hertford on the 19th of February, of which we borrow a description from a Morning Contem porary : This was an action brought by a labourer named Cave, against the Rev. Mr. Mountain, a Magistrate of the county of Hertford, for false imprisonment. The case as stated by Mr. Platt, and afterwards proved, was as folloWs " On the sth of February, 1839, the plaintiff, who was at the time working for his master, was taken into custody, and conveyed to the cage without warrant. He remained in the cage till the next day, when he was taken before the Rev. Mr. Mountain, and a rigmarole story was told by a person named Wilson, to the effect that he had heard a boy say that he had heard the plaintiff say that he had cut down some trees belonging to the Rev. Mr. Butt. Upon this information, without sending for the parties who were re presented to have heard the statement made, the defendant at once made out a warrant for the committal of the plain tiff to Berkhampstead gaol, as the warrant alleged, ' upon strong suspicion of feloniously cutting down some timber trees.' Upon this warrant he was detained in custody until the 13th of the same month, a period of eight days, without'a witness having been produced to speak to any facts tending to implicate him at all in the offence with which he was charged. During the time he was kept in solitary confinement, and fed on bread and water. Wilson was the only person who gave evidence before the Magistrate, and his statement was read over to Cave, and the defendant said there was I quite sufficient evidence to transport him ; and that most likely he should be in Hertford, and would say a good word for hisn there. He then remanded the plaintiff. to Berkbampstead gaol. He asked for bail, and Mr. Moun tain answered, a Phoo, phoo I I shall not allow you any bail ; take him off, take him off.' " At. the Petty Sessions at 'Bernet Berripstead, Cave, for whom the Rev. Mr. Mountain Would not receive bail, and against whom he said there was quite sufficient evidence to transport him, was instantly discharged. The Judge was Lord Abinger and the Jury was special. The verdict was for the defendant. Here, then, is an example of the manner in which our Reverend Country Magistrates administer the law, and of the manner in which they would frequently administer it,with summary jurisdiction, to such men, bein g labourers, as HENRY JAMES and Mr. CAVE. The Corn-law tyrants have qnite power enough already ; and it is no better than folly or madness in the soi disant Liberal press to call for more summary jurisdiction if the country gentlemen are to be the Judges. Our readers, on referring to an article from the Handlesblad, under the head of " Dutch Mail," will be greatly shocked on perusing the following introduction to its melancholy contents :—" We have to fulfil to-day, as Journalists, a very melancholy duty, that of announcing, what we could not hitherto believe, but which is now communicated to us on indisputable authority." We were afraid at first to read on and come to the awful catas trophe, believing that it could be nothing less than some dreadful massacre in Java, or the bursting of a Dutch dyke, causing the me lancholy death of thousands, or some wicked plot of the arch enemy of the house of Orange, King LEOPOLD, to rob the heir apparent a third time, and take from him at last his whole kingdom ; and we were therefore greatly relieved on summoning courage to proceed to the conclusion which is given in these words—" His MAJESTY has come to the positive resolution to contract marriage with the Countess HENRIETTA IYOULTREMONT." Why should the Handlesblad make such a piteous lamentation, and pray with such fervour, that the advisers of the good old KING may succeed in averting a❑ event which gives joy to none but the enemies of the House of Orange ? It is a very old practice, and has been adopted by Jewish, Ca tholic, and Protestant Kings. Old FERDINAND of Naples made a left-handed marriage, so did the pre sen t King of PRUSSIA, and many others, according to high historical authority, have done the same, or something worse ; and why should there be such universal grief in Holland at an event of ordinary occurrence ? Let the Handlesblad answer the ques tion. If this is the only public calamity which it has to lament, Holland must indeed be a moral and a happy country. We have had our attention directed to a pamphlet purporting to be written by Mr. DAVID BURN, a Tasmanian landholder and settler, entitled, a " Vindication of Van Diemen's Land" from cer tain charges preferred against the morality of the free Colonists by a Parliamentary Report, and strictures thereupon by the Archbishop of DUBLIN, and his Grace's domestic Chaplain, Dr. DICKIN SON. The pamphlet consists of seventy-nine pages of letter-press, of which all that i s p er ti nent to the settlement of the real question at issue is contained in ten pages of Appendix. Mr. BURN writes like a man in a passion, and in his eagerness to set his friends right before the world, forgets that it is not allowable for him to employ inferences which he denounces as often as he supposes them to be em ployed by the Members of a Parliamentary Com mittee, an Archbishop, or the domestic Chaplain of an Archbishop. Any attempt to sneer at the exalted moral worth and high literary attainments of a man so universally esteemed for his piety, libe rality, and scholarship, as the present Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. WHATELy, must provoke the pity or the contempt of the well-informed who witness it ; and therefore we are sorry that Mr. BURN did not follow the advice of those really sincere friends who advised him to be more sparing of indirect at tacks in his own person, and in the correspondence of his friends, upon the motives and talents of the NIOSt Reverend Prelate. For instance, a gen tleman named MANN, the author of a book on Australia, discovers a great diffe rence between the scholarly pretensions of Dr. W H &TELY and his late predecessor Arch bishop MAGEE, because Dr. M_AGEE's book on the " Atonement" is more extensively circu lated in the P ena l C o l on i es than any o f the treatises of nIDN,N , HATELY is only th a t h e soug ht to h mode e W o li f AT re E a L s y o . aing T . his T i h s e ra c t h h a e r r ge a against lnt cre diteda t r his ow:sn m ex o c r e e ll w en a t nt l e , d re i a n ti V se a o n n D L i o em gi e c n . 's TLand circulation in D u bli n that a book on the " Atonement" of books in certain quarters is no proof of the sur passing literary abilities of their authors, otherwise the author of " Reading Made Easy" would bear away the palm in all the village schools in Great Britain from BACON, LocK, PALEY, and HUME. Book circulation in infant colonies is a slender test indeed of literary merit. But we shall not press farther such an hypothesis. No person in the kingdom except Mr. MANN would think of com paring such a puny bigot as Archbishop MAGEE with his distinguished successor. Another gentle man named MURDOCH, one of the witnesses before the Parliamentary Committee, clenches an asser tion substantiative of the pure morality of the people of Van Diemen's Land, by adding that they have got rid of " dominant and tyran nous episcopacy. ' Now we do not dispute the importance of this measure, hut we may be allowed to express our conviction that this, per se, will not be accepted with a good grace in England, as a proof of the immaculate purity of the Van Diemen's Land population. No doubt the object of the writer was to annoy the Archbishop, but as a witness on behalf of several thousands of aspersed Colonists before the bar of British public opinion, it was his duty to have repressed the idea of per sonal annoyance. These remarks apply to the form and tone of the " Vindication," and not the subject of it, upon which we honestly confess ourselves incompetent to sit in judgment. Having drawn much of our acquain tance with the moral condition of Van Diemen's Land, from the Report of the Parliamentary Com mittee now impugned by Mr. BURN and his friends, and from Hobart Town, and other Colo nial Journals, we conceive that it would be unfair towards highly respectable Colonists, to question the impartiality of their defence, without still more decisive testimony on the other side. We are as well aware as the Colonists can be of the little re liance to be placed upon much that appears in Parliamentary Reports of Inquiry. We are sen sible that were the Colonists to judge of the vir tue and the intelligence to be found in London, by the Report of a Committee of Inquiry sitting in Hobart Town, before which only the Governors of Coldbath-fields, Horsemonger-lane, Newgate, and the Fleet Prisons, with two or three Police Magis trates were examined, they would find it difficult to believe that either virtue or intelligence was prac tically known within the bills of mortality. This fact should lead us to be cautious how far—on the mere report of the prevalence of vice in communi ties—we attempt to represent them as especially and singularly corrupt. But whatever may be the Future decision of the public respecting this con troversy, it will be conceded by all that Mr. BURN'S object is as generous and as praiseworthy as his manner of giving it effect is reprehensible. Irony is a dangerous weapon in the hands of a dull man ; and personal allusions, when the object of them is alike distinguished for piety, learning, and rank, do more injury than good to the best causes. We invite the attention of our readers to an article from the Glasgow Chronicle, which we have inserted elsewhere. It appears that at the Perth shire election, which has terminated so unfavour ably for the Liberal interest, the success of the Tory candidate is to be attributed in no small degree to the offence taken by the Dissenters and Radicals at the Non-intrusion principles professed by Mr. STEUART, and by his backers Mr. FOX MAULE and Mr. ROBERT STEUART, who, from their connexion w►th the Government, were supposed to speak the sentiments of Ministers on that question. Few of the clerical Vetoists supported the Non intrusion Candidate, and even the Rev. Gentle man who holds t:te situation of President of the Perthshire Non-intrusion Ministers, could not so far overcome his Tory scruples as to vote for the man whom he had recommended to the support of others. So much for attempting to conciliate the inveterate antipathy of the Tory clergy of Scot land at the expense of the Dissenters, who have hitherto been the fastest friends of the MEL BOURNE Administration. The result of this ill adVised concession to the Non-intrusionists, has proved that the Tory landholders, who are opposed, almost to a man, to the Veto Act, have arrayed themselves against the Government with a more than usually active hostility ; that the clergy, thonkh' Vetoists, are still more Toriei, and, with a few disc-makable exceptions, will not sink their po litical prejudices, even in the " independence' of the Kirk ; and that the good-will of almost the whole body of the- Dissenters is in a fair way of being permanently alienated from the Government. The Madrid Journals received are of the 3d inst., but their contents are utterly unimportant. Madrid was tranquil, but still in a state of siege ! It would have been more honest in the Spanish Ministers, to de clare the Cortes in a state of siege, as it is the Cham bers only that are menaced by this violation of the con stitution. Contrary to the general expectation, M. REMUSAT the new French Minister of the Interior, introduced the project of law for authorising the Government to set apart a portion of the revenue as a secret service fund, it the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on Wednes , day. M. TIIIERS displayed a good deal of tact on this occasion. Well aware that no portion of the public expenses is voted with so much reluetance as the secret service money, he prevailed upon his colleagues to re duce it from one million two hundred thousand francs to one million of francs, in consideration of the tranquil state of the country. By this mea sure, it was considered on Wednesday, that he would be able to command a majority of fifty votes on the Secret Service Bill, and this would enable him to set the intrigues of the Court at defiance. The "2 9 1," or MOLE section of the Chamber, is reported to have split on Wednesday, and, if this be true, the success of the new Premier is certain. The Project of Law, after having been read, was referred to a Com mittee, with orders to report upon it on Saturday. The debate wiN not, therefore, commence before next week. The Chamber of Peers, on Wednesday, adopted the Infants Factory Bill, by a majority of 91 against 35. Every humane mind must rejoice at the adoption of so merciful a measure. We find the following in a letter from Toulon, dated the 7th inst., quoted by the Commerce of Wednesday . _ . . . . _ . We have received the official notice of the arrival of the Dukes of Orleans and Aumaile, who will embark here for Algiers. It is even said the Prince de Joinville will come to resume the command of the Belle Porte. Colonel Cadaignar, appointed to the command of the 2d battalion of the infantry of Africa, leaves Algiers on board the Coryte, which will also take M. Plenent, Alayor of the city of Algiers, and a great number of officers. There is no other news of the least interest in the Pans Journals of Wednesday. There are to be great doings in Africa in the spring. BOURSE.--Pmds,_ YEDNESDAY, MARCH 11. first Highest Lowest Last Price Piice. Price. Price rrench 5 per Cents ll2 50 ... 112 50 ... 111 35 ... 1 2 45 4 per Cents lO2 20 ... 'C2 20 102 20 ... 102 '2O Bank of Prance 3150 —3;55 „.3150 Laffitte Bank 1,0001: Sh lOO ...1015 5,000 f. Sh 5190 ...5190 .;.5190 ...5100 gelgian - Bank 912 50 ... 012 59 ... 905 ... 905 5 per Cents ...... 3 per Cents 74 60 ... 74 60 ... 71 50 ... 74 50 United States Bank Loan 98% ... 95% ... 98% ... 995 ip.tnish Active trasbur 29 1, "' 29 :4 «• 29 '4 ... •29 Passive 7% ••• 7 41 .. • 7i' ... j I,L Old Deterred B% ••• B '4 ... 8% ... 8"; N eapo li tan R oman lO4 ... 104 —. 104 ... le4 RAIL WAY SHARES. Versailles, R. B 555 .- 55.5 ... 552 sn ... 553 50 L.B. 3O 25 ... 3 66 25 ... 362 50 ... 365 Orleans 4eo ... 400 ... 460 ...460 .. gto Bale 345 ••• 345 ••• 345 ...3d5 55% BELGIAN k lINDS -45aus9ELs, MAncu 11. Actual Debt, '2 per Cent. 101% Rothschild's Loan , 5 p er CGnt Cent .... Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per 3 per C 74 Loan of City, N ---------....--- Cent 91 181 =+ 4 p ercent 99 Society of comm''rce 454 per Cent 90% Bank of Belgium, 5 p er Cent National Society . Exchange on Londo n ( short) 1 •—Brussels Papers, March 11. MARINES.—A Return, which was moved for by Sir Robert Peel, has just been laid on the table of the House of Commons, of the number of British Marines employed on the Coast of Spain, value of stores ad vanced to Spain, and sums received from Spain on ac count of such advances, of which the following is a sum mary. The number of Marines employed ashore is 703 —afloat 50, total 753. The total value of stores of all descriptions &I vanced to Spain by the Admiralty under the provisions of the Quadruple Treaty is 6,692/. 14s. 9d. In addition to this there have been supplied from the Medical Department for the use of the Forces of the Queen of Spain, " Surgical instruments and materials" to the value of 5721. 2s. Gd. The total value of all de scriptions of stores furnished by the Ordnance Depart ment under the provisions of the Quadruple Treaty amounts to 567,239/., making altogether 574,5031. The sums received for such advances are all classed under one head--Nil, and the security for the payment is contained in a note from Count Toreno to Mr. Vil liers, dated August 6, 1835, which states in answer to an inquiry which Mr. Villiers was instructed by the Duke of Wellington to make, that " as soon as circum stances will permit, the Queen of Spain will hasten to act worthy of the noble and disinterested sacrifices which the generous British nation has made." REJECTED LETTERS. ---We have received another letter from nur indefatigable correspondent at Notting ham, who has now assumed the name of " Seneca." We will, for once, ,gratify him by quoting a part of his letter—the first and the only part which we understand. The philosopher thus commences : " It is some little difficulty to raise the Ideas above the occur rences of the day A wisper of new taxers flys about are they to be put on the Rich and taken of the Poor or is it the Salt and Malt Liquor Tax" Thus ends the sentence, and, we fervently hope, also our correspondence. Another correspondent, equally inde fatigable, writes from Paddington, under the signature hasof a " Middle Class Chartist," and though he been informed that his letters cannot be inserted, he still per severes, and, so late as Sunday, wrote a letter, nearly a column long, addressed to Sir Wm. Molesworth, whose radical principles by no means come up to his mark. Since the injunction was issued against his epistles, at least ten have been received ; but as perse verance is a most useful qu ility, we feel bound also to find room for an extract from his correspondence. After blaming Sir William for many omissions in a speech delivered at Leeds, to " celebrate the triumph of the Liberal (sham) party," he adds, , " vou make no mention of sergeants receiving several guineas a day to entrap all the able-bodied labourers into the thou shalt do murder' standing army. You make no mention of the several millions that is voted annually for the maintenance of a corpulent, well dressed, unconstitutional, odious, degraded, detested, and Frenchified police, which, in reality, is but a Government establishment for the encouragement of common informers.' This is a very mild specimen of our Paddington friend's political feeling, and we trust he will rest satisfied with it. Another writer of the same description, and who holds up Bronterre O'Brien as the god of his idolatry, thus proclaims his intentions—" No more fooling with petitions to the House of Incurables, no more humble solicitations. No, no—we are going to send in such a swarm of honest men, as will rout the clotted set of serpents out at one fell swoop." This is to be done at the next general election, by the Radicals holding up their hands for their candidate (if he is an honest man). The proviso is a good one, and when the Radicals can point out the way to ascertain this, we shall believe our Correspon dent a prophet, and no longer doubt that all sham Re , fortners will be banished from Parliament. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We had a very late delivery of letters this morning, owing no doubt to the arrival of a great quantity of letters from India, New York, and other quarters of the globe. It appears, according to the intelligence from China, that no declaration of war has as yet been made by Lord Auckland against ,the Chinese. Indeed it was expected that negotiations would take place, particularly when the imposing British naval forces made their appearance. The ship Scotland, not a regular packet ship, has ar rived at Liverpool, sailed from New York on the 15th ult., bringing American Papers of the above date. United States Bank Shares quoted 75 ; Prime Bills exchange at 9; Cotton Bills, 9s prem. ; not much doing in the exchange. The Bombay Gazette, of the 31st January, says : " We receive most unfaveurable accounts of the state of the crops in and about the Cuttarh and Balascore dis tricts. About two-thirds have been totally lost from drought, and grain is consequently rising every day in price in the town of Bulsaore. The last quotations were 24 seers the rupee. MONEY MARKET. Hurkaru Office, Calcutta, Jan. 10. The overland mail of the 15th ult. carried with it a fairer business than we were led to expect. At the time of our writing our last, it cannot be suprising, when we state that the active preparations did not com mence until about the morning of its departure, that we are again placed in an equally, it not more awkward position ; here we are within a day of the safest day, and nothing doing ; we may attribute this slowness to the non-arrival of the November mail, which is expected to bring favourable intelligence. We do not see any prospect of change until the arrival of the mail. Our malt market has been stationary, and the transactions since our last have not been extensive. Bank Bills, 2 oi, Company's rupee ; Treasury Bills, 1 11 ; Bank Post, 2 Os. ; Bank Shares 10 to 10 4 ; Private bills without documents,t2 ; Government Se curities--the only change that we perceive in these se curities is the Four-pet-Cents. which have been gradually coming down in discount. We quoted them in our last, 4 12 to 5, they now stand at 4 to 4 6. The operations of Bank Shares hare been very limited, the near approach of the time for the declaration of the past half-year's dividend will deter any immediate change. We perceive the Bank of Bengal has declared a dividend of 71. per cent, per annum or 145 rupees per share; The Union Bank will not declare any before 15th Jan. next, when it is expected it will give 8 per cent. per annum. Money in great abundance—perhaps more than there is ready employment for ; we are led to believe so from the circumstance of the large capital still invested in the pro hibited and baneful opium trade. Discounts remain unchanged. Interest on loans vary from 4 to fl per cent., according to the respectability of the party borrowing. In bullion we have no transactions. Sovereigns have been selling at 10 2 to 10 4; and Bank of England notes, 10 2 to 10 3. Commercial Report—Our market, with few excep tions, may be considered as still in a, depressed st a te, ow i ng chiefly to the derangements in the opium trade, in which almost all 'the up country traders were engaged, and fr o m the last accounts received from the Upper Pro vinces, the markets at those places do not appear to have as yet recovered from the effects of this trade. In indigo our market has been somewhat quiet, by the holders being unwilling to sell at any reduction, and shippers showing no disposition to purchase, anxiously waiting the arrival of the overland mail. There have been seven public sales held since the departure of the last mail, at which the buyers were principally French, Americans, and Arabs, at prices showing a reduction of five to seven rupees par maud on good middling consuming qualities. A few lots were purchased for the English market. We have received the Antwerp paper of yesterday's date. HAGUE, MARCH 10.—The King and Royal Family re turned yesterday from Amsterdam. EXCHAXGE AT AMSTERDAM, MARCH 10.—The market for the national funds has not been more animated than yesterday, owing to some sales being effected. A calm prevails in the foreign funds. Ardoin's Spanish ; a little done, at lower rates. TfiE FUNDS. Consols may be quoted at present 90i 1 Money ; for the Account, 904 Up to the present hour the con tradiction of the declaration of war against China has not had any effect on the British market. Exchequer Bills 20 22 premium ; India Bonds, 1 3 premium ; India Stock, 248 250. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, which left off at 29i may be quoted 291 ; Portuguese, same as they closed 33i ; Colombian, 251 ; Mexican, 291 30; Spanish Deferred, 141 ; Passive, 71 ; Dutch 'Fwc and-a- Half per Cents., 52i 53k; Five per Cents., 1001 1011. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. tank Stock 1 India Stock - 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cents. Con 1110 N i% South Sea Stock ner Cent = Old Annuities Ditfo Red. - New Ditto New 1N per Cent 93% 9 Sy s 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 .. 21 20 pm. Jan 5, 1800 ....... . .... ..... Ditto Small 22 20 pm. Oct. 1 , 1, 1959 — Ditto Commercial di.. Jxn. 5, 1500 ..... ........ ..... Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, 1850 — Bank Stock or Account ... —. April 5, 1890. — India Stock fur Account .. Jan. , 5.1970 .--. Consols for Account 90% PRICES OF FOREIGN 11../ Nos Tills DA] AT ONE 0 CLOCK Austrian Bonds — Peruvian iloniis Belgian Bonds Ditto Account 3razili. n Bonds Ditto Account - l...iienos /lyres Bonds Ditto kczo:Ln t 7.11111:,:i loud I — Prussian Bonds atto ::cc. lit — Russian Bonds, IS•.1 — 7olamt WI .9( 7 RIS — c Ditto Account — Ditta kcz,o. nt Columbian 3: - ti5,18:24 I.: f.:o kcco - .) it anish Bonds Ditto i.t t: : nt — Deferred Greek Bonds — French, 5 per cent....... —f. —,. Ditto Bonds, 1825 — 4 per cent. Ditto Account — 3 pee colt. —tl —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — -- Exchange. Ditto Account Ditto, 0 per Cent. Ditto Account '' , 9: 8 % Ditto, 5 per cent ...... Neapolitan — Ditto Account.... — PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Es'tern Counties Railway 2l S Hull and Selby Railway Company 35 ISN Brighton Railway London and Birmingham Railway Company on Ditto 4f Shares 25 23 1 4 ',mon And Greenwich Railway Company...... 20 9 Australasia Bank Ditto New 2,1 1 29 1 U % Landon and Westminstergiank 2O 23% HALF-PAST ONE. Private letters from Hong Kong state that the Alexan der Baring, Cordelia, and Han were loading there with Tea brought down by the Americans. The intelligence from China being of a mote favourable nature than was anticipated, has not had much effect on the British market to the present hour, indeed none. The price of Consols remains as in the early part of the morn ing, 90 for the Account; Money, 904; they have been done at 901.; Exchequer Bills, 20 prem. ; in India Stock and Bonds nothing done. Money is rather wanted in the house, owing to the ap proaching day for the settlement of the Foreign Account, which takes place on Monday next. In the Foreign Market they arc making up their ac counts against the settling day. Spanish Active 29 ; Portuguese nothing done ; Spanish Deferred 141; Pas 'ive 7i; Colombian nothing done; Mexican rather lower, 293-; Dutch Two-and-a• Half per Cents. a shade 101.vcr, t 53 ; Five per Cents. 1011. Very little doing in the above Market. WHISKEY DHINKING IN DUBLIN. The following occurrence took place in the Phoenix-park, on Satur day. A man named John Foy, the proprietor of a public-house in the park, known as the " Hole-in-the-Wail," with other persons, commenced drinking whiskey for a wager ; they con sumed about half a gallon, when they became drunk, and fell asleep—this sleep was Foy's last, for he was discovered dead in a watch-box belonging to the workmen who are employed in re building the wall of the park, in about two hours afte he had commenced drinking. John Paisley, Esq., senior coroner of the county, and a iespectable jury, he'd an inquest on the body, about ten o'clock on Saturday night, when the above facts appeared in evidence ; and the Jury returned a verdict " that the said John Foy died of suffocation, which was produced by his having taken an over quantity of whiskey." The deceased was about 40 years of age, and it was stated that he was a hard drinking man. One of the persons who had been drinking with him stated, that he (the deceased) had taken nearly three pints of whiskey, and that he (the speaker,) after three or four glasses, was so stupified that he did not remember what oc curred afterwards, and when he became conscious he learned that Foy was dead. He also said the whiskey was extremely bad, for were it pure spirits three or four glasses would not have stupified him in such a manner. CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's Inn-hall this day. TIDMAS ROBERTSON. The Loan CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in this case, which was argued before his Lordship a few days ago, relative to the construction of the will of a gentleman nimed Robertson. The two questions arising upon the words of the will were, first, whether the gift to his son was absolute, in which event the plain tiff would have no title ; and, secondly, whether the gift over to the plaintiff was void for being too remote. His Lordship was clearly of opinion that the gift over bad taken effect, and that the plaintiff was entitled. WOOD Y. HUTCHINGS.—GOODLAKE U. WOOD. This case came to-day before the Court upon two appeal motions, one from the decision of the Master of the Rolls, in Wood and Hutchins, appointed a receiver of the property of the late James Wood, of Gloucester, and the other from the decision of the Vice-Chancellor, refusing to appoint a receiver in the cause of Goodlake and Wood. All parties admitted that a receiver was essentially necessary, but a question was raised in which of the suits that officer ought to be appointed. His LORDSHIP was clearly of opinion that the decisions of both the Learned Judges were correct, inasmuch as the suit instituted by Sir Matthew Wood being first filed, was entitled to priority, and therefore that in that suit the receiver ought to be supported. The appeal motion must, therefore, be dismissed with costs. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) Short causes and unopposed petitions occupied his Ho nour the VICE-CHANCELLOR the whole morning. DESTRUCTION OF ELLIOTT'S ROYAL HOTEL, DEVONPORT, BY FIRE. This morning, at five o'clock, an alarm of fire was given in the Royal Hotel, proceeding from the room occupied by Major and, before effectual assistance could be given, the flames had spread so rapidly, that all efforts to save the building were ineffectual. Despatches were sent off for the various engines; those of the town and dock yard were quickly on the spot, and were succeeded by those belonging to the Naval Hospital and Marine Bar racks, and also the engines from the town and citadel at Plymouth. Notwithstanding the united exertions of these, worked by drafts of men from the Marine corps, and aided by a strong military force, the whole interior of this fine pile of buildings was gutted within three hours of the alarm being given ; and the fire is still unsubdued. It is feared that Major has perished in the flames, the report being that he went to bed in a state of and it is supposed fell asleep without having properly ex tine uished the light. Plymouth, Thursday, March 12. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. About half-past four, this morning, a fire was discovered at Elliott's Royal Hotel, in this town. It is now raging, but we are in hopes soon to get it under. A retired Colonel in the army is burnt to a cinder—name I do not know. No other lives Lost—upwards of eight engines are now playing upon the premises. One half of the hotel is completely gutted. ANOTHER ACCOUNT SAYS, An old gentleman, said to be a Major in the army, has perished. The fire is still raging, and great fears are en tertained that the bank at the corner of King-street will share the same fate. There is no water but what is brought from the dockyard. The towns are in a dreadful state of alarm at this awful calamity. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The wind having been more favourable, many vessels laden with Grain have arrived this week. Wheat at Monday's prices, with little doing. Barley met a slow demand. In Beans, Pease, and Oats no variation. Flour more plentiful, and sale heavy. SMITHFIELD. A short supply, and few buyers in attendance ; little varia tion in the prices from Monday last. Price per stone of Blbs., sinking the offal—Beef, 3s. to 4s. 4d. ; Mutton, 3s. 10d. to ss. ; Veal, 4s. Bu. to ss. Bd. ; Pork, 4s. 4d, to ss. 4d. Head of Cattle at market—Beasts, 318 ; Sheep, 2,670 ; Pigs, 384 ; Calves, 87. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Supplies good, except Lobsters ; trade lively.—Turbot, ss. to 21s. ; Cud, 3s. to 12s. ; Soles, 6d. to 4s. per pair ; Lob sters, 2s. to 6s. ; Oysters, 245. to 60s. per bushel ; Mackerel, 6d. to Is. ; Whitings, 4d. to Bd. ; and Haddocks, 6d. to Is. SEED MARKET. But a moderate amount of business done in every kind o! Seeds—no varietion in price since Monday. TALLOW MARKET. P. Y. C. quiet at 513. COLONIAL MARKET. British Plantation Sugar sold slowly. Low' brown at 565., mid. 625., and fine 68s. Some very small parcels of Bengal, Siam, and Brazil Sugar realized their previous value. 207 bags of black pepper, went at 34d. The Coffee market is pnet, being just now affected by the state of the Tea Trade.i TEA MARKET. The market was in an state, of excited perplexity, and bu siness was limited to small transactions. Prices uncertain. POLITICAL SUMMARY OF TEE MORNING JOURNALS. The Morning Chronicle of this day, alluding to th e question of a war with China, says :—" It is far from be yond the range of probability, that not only will there be no declaration of war against China, but no war at all. The presence of the very formidable armament despatched against China may operate on the prudence of the Govern ment, of that country, and obtain for us that reparation and means of security against furthur aggression which we re quire. This country has no covert object in view. It cannot be our wish, as it is not for our interest, to make conquests from the Celestial Empire."_... The Morning Herald observes, with reference to the Chinese question :—" We have truckled to Russia and France—because France and Russia are strong; we seek to bully China, because China is reported weak. Yet it is far from improbable, that we may meet strong foes, when we anticipate only a feeble one; it is not by any means unlikely that, having quailed before the armaments of France and Russia in other quarters of the globe, we may yet be doomed to encounter them in the Chinese seas. The French Government has actually directed a fleet of observation to follow our squadron to the coast of China. The navy of England was not wont to be ' dogged' from hemisphere to hemisphere I"—The Morn ing Advertiser, in a leadisig article on the Corn-laws, re marks as follows :—" It behoves the people to be up and stirring. The Tories and all those who wish to support the impost, decry the agitation of the Corn-law repealers. They, good easy souls, are content with things as they are and would not have matters disturbed—in other words, the law works well for them. The hypocrisy is at last disco vered, and with it the bright prospect of the repeal of the Corn-laws is now before us." LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, MARCH 12.—Wind N. E.—Arrived the Eu rope from the Cape of Good Hope; and Triton, St. Domingo. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 12.—Wind N. E.—Arrived the Rainborough, Arnold, from Ancona ; Robert Tilaire, Mar tinique; her Majesty's ship Pique, sailed for India. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 12.—Wind N. N. W.—Arrived the Standard, Pcele, from Demerara; Jersey, Jamaica; Ring methon Castle, St. Domingo; Sclitland, Robinson, New York, sailed the 15th ult. ; St. George, Halifax; and George steamer, Harrison, Newfoundland. Sailed the Arica, Dawson, for Arica; Horsburgh, Craig, Valparaiso; and Brothers, Daniel, St. John's, New Brunswick. Off port the Richard Anderson, from New Orleans. FALMOUTH, MARCH 11.—Wind S. E. to N. E.—Arrived the Cypress, Neals, from Odessa ; Somerset, Cleft, Mar sala ; Patriot, Neals, ditto. Off port, the Marys, Bra very, from Sicata. SCILLY, MARCH 10.—Arrived the Ilarehill, Chudleigh, from Odessa; Ludviq, Carl, Rio Janeiro; Ruby, Horns, St. Kitt's ; Munro, Munro, Barcelona, having experienced heavy gales, and been thrown on her beam-ends. ROBBERY OF A COUNTRY BANK.—It will, no doubt, be recollected that an extensive robbery was com mitted at the Horsham Bank on Friday night, the 7th, or early on Saturday morning, the Bth of February last. The sum lost amounted to nearly 7001., all in gold and silver; notes to the amount of many thousand pounds, hills, and other securities, being left untouched. The utter absence of all marks of exter nal violence, coupled with the extraordinary appearance the house and bank presented, created a great sensation. The proprietors of the bank, upon being made acquainted with their loss through their clerk, who resides on the premises, lost no time in informing the police, and Sergeant Otway went down from London and made a minute inspection of the premises. This inspection, however, did not furnish the slightest clue to the detection of the thief. A partial examination was imme diately gone into before the Alagistrates, and in the meantime every exertion was made to discover the perpetrators of the robbery, but nothing of any moment was elicited. In conse quence of another communication made to the local Magis trates by the proprietors of the bank, they agreed to appoint a day for a full inquiry into the subject. and this inquiry was fixed for Tuesday last. On Tuesday accordingly the Magis trates met, and every person who slept in the house or was known to be near it on the night of the robbery, was called before them, but no light was thrown upon the matter. ISLE OF MAN.—The take of cod fish on Thurs day night last was prodigious. Immense quantities were for warded by the Queen of the Isle to Liverpool, and there was afterwards remaining more than sufficient to supply the whole island. Fine fish were sold as low as one penny per lb.—. Manx Advertiser. Lord Macdonald arrived at Mivart's Hotel ves :erday from Lancashire. MISS HELEN FAUCIT.—We regret to learn that the friends of this young and gifted actress have been com pelled, by the extensive circulation of a most wicked slander against her, to obtain and put up in the green-room of the Haymarket Theatre, certificates from Dr. Babington, Elliotson, and Mr. Duke, respecting the cause of her ill-health. Success is a most unpardonable offence, and it was scarcely to be expected that an actress who, though under twenty years of age, at once succeeded in securing for herself the very first rank in her profession, should escape calumny—the common lot of distinguished women. But in this case, we doubt not, the amiable and most irreproachable domestic life of the in tended victim will make the calumny hurtless. The certifi cates of the highly respectable medical gentlemen wh3 have attended Miss Helen Faucit since the commencement of her illness to the present hour, furnish a complete and most satis factory chain of evidence regarding he r , w hi c h , were i t i n t h e least degree n ecessary, could confirmed by many additional proofs. The following is a copy of Dr. Elliotson's certificate : "Dr. Elliotson certifies that lie met Dr. I3abington in consul tation in the case of Miss Helen Faucit, on the 2d and 13th of January last. Her complaint was a morbid sensibility of the nerves of the outer part of the chest, and of the air tubes of the lungs, so that. the slightest touch of the chest with the point of the finger gave it exquisite pain, and occasioned a sudden inspiration and cough ; there was very frequent dry and loud violent cough, independent of these exciting causes. The case was one of a nervous character, such as he has seen in several persons of Miss Helen Faucit's age, of both sexes, and unmar ried. The affection was induced, he has no doubt, by great profes s i ona l exer ti ons an d anx i ety. This w as the whole of the case, and there was no cir eums t.. nce in it calculated to excite even a suspicion of anything more. " Conduit-street, Hanover-square, March 6, 1840." EVENING EDTTION'._, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin—Permit me to oiTcr a few words on Lord Jobn Russell's letter to the Dissenters of Stroud. His Lordship's expressions of respect for dissenting Mi' nisters are much too vague to neutralize the bitter con tempt which pervaded his speech on Mr. Duncombe's Bill. My present purpose, however, is to point out a fallacy which his Lordship at'empts to palm on the Dissenters, for high constitutional integrity. His words are " I cannot admit that John Tborogood, or any other person, is to decide for himself what laws be shall obey, or what courts he will attend." The impression intended to be made is, that public duty requires every man to attend a Court to which be may be summoned. Lord John knows this is not the fact. He knows that an individual summoned before Justices for any de mand on which they have jurisdiction, or to a law court in an action, may consult his own pleasure whether to attend or nct, and in default of his appearance a verdict on the matter at issue is taken against him. will This is just and sensible ; but Lord John says he will not admit such discretion. In the Ecclesiastical Court a man declining to appea r will be imprisoned for his whole lifetime, though the mat ter in dispute be but a single penny. This is barbarous and unconstitutional ; but Lord Jolla declares it is " neither cruel nor unjust." Dissenters denounce Ecclesiastical Courts, as founded on a monstrous claim of jurisdiction by one religi ous sect over other sects ; and that, too, in the name of Him wh o declined all earthly jurisdiction, and said, " Man, w l3° made me a judge or a divider over you ?" This is their pi imary complaint. It is an additional grievance that in these Courts the Judge is a Churchman , and so interested in the question at issue; that the deci sion is wholly in himself without control by a Jury ; thati witnesses are secretly examined ; that the expenses 0" proceedings are drawn out in a way which amounts to a denial of justice ; and that neglect of its antiquated fora° is visited with the most atrocious punishment. But Lord John Russell says, the present state of law i s " neither cruel nor unjust." Bungay, March 12. JOHN CHILDS. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty, attended by the Ladies of her Suite, took equestrian exercise yesterday in the Riding School, nea r Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by Lady Charles Somerset, visited the Queen yesterday. H er Majesty afterwards visited the Princess Augusta at Oa' rence House ct and the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House. Viscount Melbourne and Lord John Russell had audi ences yesterday of her Majesty. The Royal dinner party at the Palace last evening in cluded the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs. Howl*, Earl and Countess of Tankerville, Earl and C o untess O T, Reseberry, Earl of Cardigan, Earl of Uxbrid g e, Earl 01 Listowel, Earl of Surrey, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Boringdon, Hon. Colonel Anson, Hon Edward and Mrs. Stanley. The band of the Ist Life Guards was in attendance at the Palace in the evening. The Duchess 'if Kent, accompanied by the Heredital Prince of Saxe Coburg Gotha, took an airing yesterday in a carriage. His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Mr. George Patten, A.R. A., with a sitting yesterday for a full leegth Portrait of his Royal Highness. Prince George of Cambridge visited her Majesty t he Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. The Princess Augusta took an airing yesterday in $ carriage and four. Captain Pringle had an interview with Lord John Rus sell yesterday at the Colonial Office. The Earl of Roseberry and Mr Campbell, of Islay, h aa , an interview with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday 8' the Home Office. Despatches from Colonel Cockburn, Governor of the Bahamas, were received yesterday at the Colonial Office' FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE• ARRIVALS. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Law, at Colonel R o fib' ford's, in Sta n h o p e - s t ree t ; th e H on . C apta i n H oo d, o Grenadier Guards, at the Marquis of Downshire's, Ha"; ver-square ; the M essrs . C arr , L une n, and St. Vinea' Wilson, at Fenton's Hotel, from Dublin; Lord Ongr from Warden Hall, B e df or d s hi re ; M a j or Vi v i an , M.' at the Ordnance-office, in Pall-mall ; Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, K. C. B. ; Colonel Clive, of the Grenadier Guards, in Grafton-street, from Whitfield -court. near Hereford Mr. Myddleton Biddulph, from Chuk Castle, Devonshire' the Hon. Francis Charteris, at Lord Wemyss's, in Stafford' place ; Major Cadogan, in St. James's-place, from W r i peth ; the Hon. Captain Frederic Pelham, at the Earl o Chichester's, in Grosvenor-place ; Sir Henry Bayley, fr °ltt Dorsetshire; Lord Mount Cashell, from Moor Park , Ir e " land ; Lord Blandford, in Belgrave.square, from Ca stle Bromwich, near Birmingham ; Lieut.- Colonel Hare, jA South-street ; Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Bradford, 1 ? Harley-street ; Captain Wynne, at the St. James's H otel t , from Brighton ; Colonel Sir James and Lady KeYn e i t d , from Brighton ; Admiral Sir Davidge and Lady Goul, e from ditto; Colonel Hugh Baillie, M. P., from ditto; Bishop of Clogher and Lady Tottenham and family, fr ° the Palace, at Clogher. DEPARTURES. of Colonel Verner, M. P., for Dublin; the Countess `r Durham and the Ladies Lambton. from Cleveland-row, i(3„. Putney; the Earl of Harbury, for Bri g ht on ; C a ptal" Baynes, R.N. C. 8., to join the Andromache frigate at Portsmouth ; Mr. Saund ers S o b r i g h t, on a Continen tal tour; Sir Francis Stanhope, for Elvaston Hall, Derby shire ; Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell, 97th Regiment, for o C - many ; Sir Cliff or d an d Lady Consta bl e , and Miss Chichester, for Burton Constable, near Hull ; Sir John Edwards, Bart., M.P., for Welsh Pool, Montgomery shire ; Viscount Clive, for Powis Castle, Welsh Pool the Hon. Percy Herbert, to join the depot of the 43d Light Infantry; Sir Robert Adair, on a tour; the Bish°P of Carlisle, and the Hon. Miss Percy, for Lose Castle, Cumberland. S p,.• -- 0 :is ~erene Highness the Hereditary 'since Saxe Coburg Gotha intends, previous to the termination:. the hunting season, to honour the Duke and D u chess of Be au " fort with his company at Badminton. It w as expected ais a , Serene Highness would have left this week ; but the fros t .v n prevented his Serene Highness, it being so sev e r e as to do" o ' all sport. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston had a din ner party on Wednesday evening on Carlton House-terrace: The guests included nearly the whole of the corps diplonga i q ue Count D'Orsay entertained the Duke of Beau: fort and a distinguished circle at dinner on Wednesday last, 3 ' his residence at Kensington -gore. The Duke of Devonshire, Earl and Countess °f Jersey, Earl and Countess of Tankerville, Viscount Lec e ' °n ,' and a select party, dined w ith th e D u k e an d D uc h ess o f Sut'e l. land on Wednesday evening at Stafford House. His Excellency Baron Brunow paid a visit to t 1 1: Earl of Durham on Wedn e sd a y l as t, at t h e N o bl e E ar l's c" , 1; on Putney-heath. The Nobl e E ar l, a l t h oug h not conva lesce' ," is progressively recovering. A marriage is talked of between the Hon. M is d 9 , Plunkett, eldest da ug ht er o f th e L or d Ch ancellor o f Irelau and a gentleman of great wealth in the sister country. The Duke and Duchess of Roxburuh have take" Sir John and Lady Shelley's mansion, in Belgrave-square, fer the season. HAREWOOD HALL.--The venerable --- T, °ad Harewood, since his domestic bereavement, haabeen surrea nt a d : e ; by a family c i rc l e , i nc l u di ng th e H on. G. H. and Lady L° tee Cavendish. Hi s L or d s hi p w ill procee d to town a t Ea s . e e . Lord and Lady Portman have left for their seat in Dorsetshit Lord and Lady Wilton, Lord and Lady Mah ° ' Lord and Lady Burghersh, and the Right H o n. C. Arbutlittu,i; composed the Duk e o f Wellington's dinner party the eYe nin before last at Apsley H ouse . Hi e G race, we have the pleas„'re , to state, continues in th e en j o y ment of good health, an d Nla present at the Italian Opera on Tuesday evening. The Marchioness of Queensberry and Lady , Georgiana Douglas hav e arr i ve d a t th e Brunswick get" Hanover-square, from a tour. The Bishop of Exeter and Mrs. Phillpotts a' arrived at the Episcopal P a l ace f rom town. W e regret to S that the new Dean of Exeter is alarmingly indisposed. e s The Duchess of Bedf or d, an d t h e Lad:di Georgianaand Rachel Russell, are ex p ec t e d a t C ana pden w"- , early in the ensuing week, f rom Baron's Court, Tyrone, t s her Grace and d aug ht ers h ave b een res idi ng w i t h the Marg."„' and Alarchioness of Abercorn during the winter. Lord Devon and Lord Courtenav will visit th ei extensive estates in the South of Ireland, previous to th eir re turn to town. The Duke and Duchess o f B eau f or t have de' ferred their departure for Badminton until next week• rev , Grace would have lef t h a d no t th e f rost cont i nue d , so a s to der huntin g impracticable. pre s r? FRAUDS UPON THE PRESS.—The " figc,eiars. eei appears o,nriueb:toy. of unenviable is: a .oipn t ineetvsiyi adopting ahl h ietod a h a v es e thiht, ol a oeti, t om,e r rut a bihr e tice t to e iy-sr d ri simepoetefeheasttpeshuefeorc measures eh: policy r;hpti newspaper ico c phi e f ea the the f ; seaett:hce:risheeteinho ty Devonshire under contribution lately, in a manner vi .f a l, there is reason to fear, was in too mans instances sttee ° 7 his A few days before the time fixed for biingin on Sir Jo Yarde Bulle r ' s mo ti on f or a vote of want ot co g n fidence i n ;;; i t nisters, an advertisement appeared in one of the the respectable of the South Devon papers, announcing Tie rs opening o f an o ffi ce i n London for furnishing ue"Psirne for any r equ i re d t i me, on the mere transmission of the n t . - t he of the pe rson t o whom they were to be se nt, and-- -e e to money which was to cover t h e t i me for which t h e y art , be supp ied. In the following case it happened that th e h a lf oeuvre miscarried. A gentleman sent a letter containing a en ,' sover. ign to the .‘ Penny Post Newspaper Office, L on pro" requesti ng th a t h e m i g ht b e f urn i s h e d w i t h t h e English _office sidle f or t wo mon th s . Th e l e tt er was put i nto t h e pust„ ag e, in th e coun t r y by a f r i en d, w h o f orgot to pay the I'f• ce in and it was, consequently. refus e d a t th e news paper o " yr iser London. Notice of such rejectio n was sen t to the s the from the Dead Letter Office ; and, during this delaY . ' lLre d. parties at the " Penny Post Newspaper Office" disall et sce, 'Through the attention of the persons at the ne", ieeia n the half sovereign has seen returned to the ger` let ter who sent it ; but had the postage of the originalove'reiga been prepaid, there is little doubt that the halt , e de would have disappeared along with the parties at t he funct " Penny Post Newspaper Office." The public Dew , have forgotten either that other systematic frauds upon aha paper proprietors and their readers were exposed bel: hicb it gistrates in the Justice-room of the Guildhall; _: ur ,_ abo ut apt eared that it is a common practice for fellows to e,. bo ys the hall of the General Post-office, and incite the " h n e e liver to purloin newspapers from their bags before they (I , , us Tar papers , nciee cl bags to the clerks at the window, and for the loiued the scoundrels give the boys half. price, or less ; ! dov .a we have heard of one instance in which a boy sold half - a . ' ev ery' of his master's papers for a shilling ! Of course, for e i n tecl , paper thus purloined a subscriber in the c 'wary is th sa P,P. be- CHILD EXPOSURE.—On Tuesday olg a '„ing tween nine and ten o'clock, as police constable - 42 E w as a : 4) in his rounds, lie observed something lying on a dungn ia _ i Jockeys-fields, Gray's Inn-road. On examination it fur 70 I! , a i to be a living male child, wrapped up in a piece of di rt Ui 'l and to all appearanc e not many hours old. tie a ro I conveyed it to the workhouse, and the parish a uthor" using every exertion to trace out the unnatural mother, I 1