The Sun. — London, England, 1840-03-27 00:00:00

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F.—Rosscommon ISomerville. Sir Wm.—Drogheda THE STATESMAN NEWSPAPER of TO-MORROW will contain the Concluding Article on the FALLACIES of SOCIALISM, together with the usual full Digest of the Parliamentary Debates , Comments on Polities, and all the News of the Week. A Late Edition of the Statesman, containing all the News of the Metropolis, up to the latest hour of Saturday night, is published on Sunday morning. Statesman Office, 366, Strand. MR. THEODORE HOOK'S NEW WORK. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., with Portrait of the Author, and humourous Illustrations by Phiz, -1 13RECEPTS AND PRACTICE. BY THEODORE HOOK, ESQ., Author of " Savings y and Doings," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. To be had at all the Libraries. NE"W NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF RATTLIN THE REEFER." New ready at all The Libraries, is 3 vols. post eve., with Por trait of the Author. jACK A S H 0 R E. By the Author of " Rattlin the Reefer," " Outward Bowed." 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Smyth, Ridgway, Gib tee. &C. _ _ To conclude with SECRET SERVICE. Driss Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 34. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price, 2s. Gallery, Is. Foors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to ty,lnmer.ce at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and plat ?,3 for the Boxes to be taken at the Box-of co, from Teo till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had salely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. UNDER TiIF. MANAGEMENT BUTLER. THIS EVENING the Entertainments will commence with THE USE AND THE MERCHANT. Bian. Mr. Hoil; Rosa, Miss Fitaeralter. Fourth Week of TIIE LADIES' CLUB, established at this 'Theatre. Open every right at half-past 7. and close proceedings at 9. Mrs. Fitzsmith (the Chairwoman), Mrs. Stirling. Irrmediately after the Business of the Club, the New Burletta, by the Author of •‘ His Last Legs," entitled THE HAPPIEST MAN ALIVE. Charles En4on, Mr. F. Vining. 'lO I c f tllowtsci by ANGELINE. At;gf•lino Le Lis, Mrs. Stirling. To conclude with THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. Pet, r Puwitilio, Mr. Jones. 1,0 rm.:sequel - Ic. of the.access of the above selection, the • p V - o•.!CPet;Ort The .):o{l Head " must he debyed, hose ,7, 4s. Pit, 2s. Gallery, Is. Second Price immediately after tne Ladies' Club. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Las• Two Nights of Mr. Fraser, and Mr. and Mrs. Alban rort. and their second appearance at this Theatre in The Beggar's Opera. THIS EVENING, MAnett 27. Will he performed Gay's BEGGAR'S OPERA. Polly, Mr?. Alban Croft; Captain Macheath, Mr. Fraser. . A Song by Mr. Alban Croft. After whieli the riPw Drama entit'ed 'CITE POCKET To c,ticlurle with the Historical Drama depicting England in 16,54, Baibadoes in 1665, 0 d London in It'66. with a re preseittation of the Great Fire of London, entitled THE CITY APPREN ricE ; or, THE THREE LILIES. 111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. minutes alts 9 Evening lO minutes after;lo 4` ~4 ' ''9 , V -. '7 - , -C , . ~..: ... 4 . 1 . .... , 4.1 b.. ' i I , l' , ' , .' 4, ; ,. .. ~ ' l, )e . 2 .5 . • , r 'ir _,„,,,„:.... qt'l: "i e ,111%* LONDON: FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1840. hi the House of Lords, after the presentation of a iei Trtitions, the Marquis of WESTMEATH, who is, unfortunately, very often misrepresented by the press, because his Lordship's elocution is none of the clearest, complained of a Whig Morning Paper having made him say that the Catholic priests in Ireland were making themselves a nuisance. What he had said was, that their interference in the election of GuarUian3 of the Poor would become a nuisance. Such are the correc tiens of the press made by the Peers. L}rd REDESDALE gave notice that he would move. this day, for an inquiry into the Exchequer records whi , ih had been sold. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY had given notice that he would present a petition from Londonderry aga i nst the Irish Municipal Bill, and their Lordships had been summoned in due course to hear the Noble Mar quis expatiate on this important petition. On unrolling 111 , 2 petition, however, he found that it had not been agree.l on at a public meeting, was not numerously signed, and that his sage Lordship had either been hoaxed himself, or sought to hoax the Peers. He was obliged to give up presenting the petition, though he did not escape Lord HOLLAND'S jibes. Their Lordships had no other business of importance to perform, and therefore adjourned. In the Commons, again, a number of petitions for and against the Corn-laws was presented. Mr. PAKINGTON gave notice that on the 30th inst he would move for a return of the Religious Bodies which, under the Clergy Reserve s Bill, would receive a there of the proceeds of the land sold. Mr. PRYME gave notice of an amendment to Mr. ViLLIER'S motion on the Corn laws. Mr. COLQUHOUN gave notice of a motion touching the British trade with Java. In reply to the Hon. Member, Lord JOHN Rus sALL, stated that he was not prepared to give notice of any measure with regard to the Church of Scotland. Several orders which stood for Friday were post poned till Monday, and amongst them the consideration of her Majesty's Message relative to Lord Seaton. The adjourned debate on Lord Stanley's Bill for inflicting a bad Registration law on Ireland was re sumed, and o c cupied the House the whole evening. The principal speaker; were Mr. WARBuriTos, who properly pointed out the vexation of the English system of registratio n ; Si r J AMES G RAHAM , w h o expatiated at large over the evils of the present system ; Lord MOR PETII, who proved that the Bill would cause a half yearly registration and half-yearly battle, and would, moreover, cut down the franchise very much ; Lord STANLEY, y who w as more than ordinarily diffuse in mag nifying the p e tty evils h e sets about curing ; and Mr. O'Cot.vsELL, who forcibly point I Bill would inflict on the constituoeet;( ey o , ut the injury the disfranchising the real voters, as well as striking but who was impatiently heardthe fictitious voters, and even rudely as sailed by the exclamations of the a To l ries. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman m a d e and earnest speech, but, on a division, the majority was against ll to '234. ! him. The second reading was carried by over, what h y e - C j a , (1, C9lonel SIBTHORP exulted tho defeat of the Ministers—but we can tell him Lot the long battle is not yet won. The House adjourned at Half-past One o'Clock. Mr. HUME'S motion to stop the payment of the King of HANOVER'S annuity, comes on to-night. We hope it will be successful. Prince ERNEST 'holds the annuity from the grace of Parliament ; it is pressed from the people's earnings ; it is in no wise necessary to the dignity of the Throne, or the ' protection of the people ; the payment in no man ner contributes to the preservation of order or the carrying on the Government, and justice to the people, therefore, by whom and for whom the Par liament exists, requires that the annuity be stopped. There can be no question that some dower to Queen ADELAIDE is essential to the dignity of the Throne I —no question that an independent income to the QUEEN'S husband is due, both to him and her— these are parts of the necessary price of Royalty— but an annuity to a foreign Sovereign is required neither for the comfort nor the splendour of the Monarch. The Tories say that the Duke of CUMBERLAND, is the favourite son of the good old King GEORGE 111. To all the Catholics of the empire, to whom the Good Old KING was a determined enemy, like his son, that is no recommendation. The priests whom he sustained, the tyrannical Tory faction which he nourished and honoured, all the lovers of jobbery, corruption, and misrule, by which his Government was carried on, may properly honour the favourite son of their favourite King ; but the hulk of the people, remembering his obstinate hatred of freedom, which gave rise to two great and expensive wars, groaning still under the debt which was so much enhanced by his malignity, bearing still in mind the invasions which he and his servants made on the liberties and properties of the people, their obstinate resistance of all reform, and ' their continual attempts to crush the rising freedom of mankind, both in the old world and the new—the bulk of the people, remembering these circum stances, which recommend the King of HANOVER to the Tories, will find in them the strongest of all reasons to put an end to his pension. GEORGE 111. was no better than the chief of a fac tion, the head of a narrow and dominant sect, and ERNEST, as he was the favourite so he walks in the footsteps of his father. The Par liament is bound to appropriate the public re sources to the encouragement of public virtue, to reward public services and public merit, and it will be guilty of a gross dereliction of its duty if it con tinue to vote money to a man, who, while he was in England, was an enemy of the people, and since he has left it, has been diligently employed in op pressing the Hanoverians. But it is said that the nation made a bargain with GEORGE 111., on his accession to the throne, by which he surrendered all his hereditary revenues to the State for a provision, including a pro vision for his children. Admitting that (though it was completely optional to the Parliament to vote 1,0001., or 40,0001. to the Duke of CUMBER LAND, and what is optional cannot be an impera tive condition), if the Duke of CUMBERLAND had entered into the service of BONAPARTE, would the nation have been still bound to pay him his annuity ? Every man will at once answer No. Then the annuity is not the property of the King of HANOVER, of which he cannot with justice be despoiled, but a salary contingent on good behaviour. Now, neither as a Prince re sident in England, nor as a foreign Sovereign, has he so behaved as to merit the continuance of the an nuity. If the nation would not have been bound, by a presumed contract with GEORGE 111., to have continued the annuity of the Duke of CUMBER LAND, had he taken arms against England under BONAPARTE, neither is it bound by that contract to continue it, now that he has become a foreign and independent sovereign, who may go to war with England. We maintain, further, that the State has com pletely fulfilled its contract with GEORGE 111., so completely, as to be entirely at liberty to deal with his son's annuity as is just to the people of Eng land. It not only paid him the Civil List agreed on to the end of his life, it augmented the Civil List. It paid the debts of the Crown, and the debts of his sons. It provided incomes for their wives, and has been for many years far more munificent than was necessary. There is not a shadow of obli gation on the House of Commons to abstain from repealing the Act of Parliament which confers a sum of 21,000/. a year on the King of HANOVER, but a strong obligation on it not to squander on such a man the money of its constituents. Finally we will conclude by putting the question on this issue : Would the grant have been made uncon ditionally had it been foreseen that the Duke of CUMBERLAND was to be King Of HANOVER? We believe nct. The accession of the daughter of the Duks of KENT to the throne could not then possibly have been contemplated, or the present King of HA HOVER would only have been endowed with 21,000/. a-year as long as he remained an English subject. By now repealinr , the law the Parliament will fulfil the intention of the grantors, and do its duty to the public. `We are perhaps unfortunate or singular, but we have no sympathy with the present pursuits of Par liament. When we say Parliament, we mean the House of Commons. The Lords are nonentities, and do nothing. The long discussions on the pri vilege question seemed to us, in the present condi tion of the country, a miserable mockery of the public feelings and public expectations. Again, when so much is demanded of the House of Com mons, it has occupied two nights with a debate on a Bill of Lord STANLEY'S concerning the regis tration of voters in Ireland, and is as intensely-in ' terested with the subject as if the fate of the empire depended on it. Let us look calmly at the evil about which the Tories have written, spoken, and published many volumes, and which th!) arc anxious to put down by legislation. That a great deal is said or written on a subject is no proof of it s i m p ortance . Th e C oc k-l ane Ghost in its time produced as much fine writing as the Irish fictitious voters. The Tories complain that many names are on the registry that have no business there—that many persons vote who have no right to vote, and that false swearing and misre presentation are the consequences of the present sys tem of registration. For the Tories, who at the Universities smile at perjury, and are taught to smile at perjury, to pre tend to any great sensitiveness as to what are vul garly called white lies, is a piece of humbug ; but they make a great fuss about it, because those whom in their wrath they accuse of telling white lies ge nerally vote against them. We set down their holy horror of electioneering perjury as mere hypocrisy ; but, if they wish to extinguish it, let them remove the legal restrictions on the franchise. They are the causes of all the atempts, whether involving perjury or not, to circumvent them. So much for the terrible crime of electioneering perjury in Ire land, which, in the midst of unbounded distress, suffering, and discontent in all parts of the empire, absorbs the whole souls of the Tories. Besides the perjury, the Tories complain that persons vote at elections who have no right to vote. Who are they ? Are they Turks, Frenchmen, Chinese, or Russians, seeking insidiously to overthrow our power ? No ; they are our fellow citizens. In almost all cases they are inhabitants of the towns or counties for which they vote. They have naturally a good right to a full share of the representation, though legally a faction, a sect, or a th s e etef plunderers have succeeded in takin g awa y right. Th ere ma y be, as Mr. E. TENNENT says ( t h oug h we p l ace very littl e reliance on the assertion), only 1,900 persons in Belfast legally entitled t o vote , w hi le on the reg i ster " t h er e are no less than the names of 6,000 ostensible electors ;" still they are all Irishmen, mostly inhabitants of that town, and by their votes the Hon. Member sits in Parliament. NOW though the Tory Members of the House of Commons make a prodigious fuss about poor Irishmen voting for a crMember of Par liament, who have n o lear right to o vote, we cannot instant see that the least injury is thereby d pub lic, or that the evil is so monstrous thatne t o an the remedy must be applied. What, too, is the remedy ? Lord S TANLEY proposes to transplant to Ireland, with some tri fling alterations, the English system of registra tion. That which Englishmen consid er as the curse of the Reform Act, the mischievous, costly, unnecessary system of registration, the wise Lord S TA NLEY IS anxious to inflict on the Irish, there with to vex them as the English are vexed. Be twixt the public evil of a few Irishmen illegally voting for Members. of Parliament, and the enor mous public evils felt En everyola England, arising rinev from oureryborougli and every county of vexatious system of registration, there is the same sort of resemblance as exists between a chilblain on a finger, and a scaly' leprosy over the whole body. Our State doctors, however, bawl continually against the chilblain, and wish to supply its place THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1840. Among the Members were to be found the names of MM. ROYER COLLARD, CASSIIIIR PERRIER, and General FOY. M. BERRYER, the celebrated Royalist lawyer aucl orator, next rose, and recalled the debate to the question before the Chamber. He could di - cover very little difference in the Cabinets which suc ceeded each other since the Revolution. There was no change of policy ; there was merely an increase of un certainties. He condemned the foreign policy of M. Tamils. The English alliance was injurious to France, and ought to be abandoned. It was England who put arms into the hands of the Moors and Arabs in Africa to make war on France. England bore down French influence in Spain, England circumvented France in Turkey ; and England was hostile to the true policy France in Egypt. M. THIERS rose to reply to M. BERRYER, and was speaking when the mails were made up for London. With respect to the Journals of Wednesday, they appear quite unprepared for any result. The Court organs, however, make open war upon THIERS, whose speech on Tuesday has greatly displeased the KING. The Univers asserts that the Ministry is in no danger, as SOULT and MOLE have come to no agreement, and that neither DUCHATEL nor PASSY will consent to such a coalition. Advices from Spain mention that CABRERA. has suf fered a relapse, in consequence of the fatigue to which he was exposed in travelling to Berga. In Catalonia, the Carlists were greatly divided. The Junta of Berga, which deposed Count D'ESPAGNE, has likewise passed sentence of death on the Canon TRISTANY. The Madrid Papers received are of the 18th inst.-- the date of the telegraphic despatch published on Monday. M. IsTtutil has been elected President of the Chamber of Deputies, and Monsieurs ARNIENDa- BIN, RIVA HERRARA, the Duke de GDR, and M. ME DRA SSA, Vice-Presidents. The accounts from the Theatre of War are of no importance. B 0 URSE.—PARIs) WEDNESDAY, MAgen 25. f irst Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price French 5 per Cents ll3 10 ... 113 2U ... 113 5 ... 113 .`,.0 4 per Cents lO2 ... iU2 ... 102 ... 102 3 per Cents B3 25 8 3 25 ... 83 20 ... 83 'l5 Bank of France 3165 ...3165 ~,3 165 ...3165 Latfitte Bank I,ooof. 5h..., 106.250 ...1065 ...1062 50 ...1 65 5,000 f. Sh 5190 ... 51 9 5 ...5190 ...5190 Belgian Bank B9O ... 840 ~, 890 ... 890 5 per Cents 1055(, ... 105% ... 105% ... 1 05 % New York BB 75 ... 88 75 ... 88 70 ... 83 70 Spanish Active 28% ... 2831 ... 20% ... k 8; Passive 7% ... 7% ... 7% ... 7 52 Old Deferred S ... 8 ... 7% .„, 77 4 , Portuguese 3 per Cents 24 ... 24 ... 24 ... 24 Neapolitan Roman lO4 ... 104 ... 104 ... 194 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain 652 50 ... 652 50 ... 632 50 ... 651 50 Versailles, R. B 550 ... 550 ... 550 ... 550 LB. 357 50 ... 362 50 ... 357 50 ... 357 50 Orleans .. 472 50 472 50 ... 472 50 ... 472 50 Strasburg to Bale 360 ... 360 ... 360 ... 560 It appears from the evidence given at the Coroner's Inquest on the bodies lost in the Tyrian, that it is a common occurrence for a wheel to get foul, and that no prudence or foresight could prevent such an acci dent. This of course must acquit the Captain and mate on this score ; but the circumstance only points out the more strongly the necessity for the owners and captains of steam-vessels to act with caution, especially in rivers crowded with vessels. After the Jury returned their verdict, the foreman addressed the reporters pre sent, and said, " they wished it to be publicly understood that the practice of sending large steam-ships up and down the river during the night, was, in the opinion of the Jury, extremely reprehensible. The majority of the Jury were well acquainted with the business of the river, and had long regretted the mischiefs arising from that prac tice. Steam navigation in the river, at night, was ex tremely dangerous at all times ; and, it nothing else could put a stop to it, the Legislature ought to interfere. The owners of the Manchester were, however, no more to blame in this respect than other steam-boat compa nies."—We cannot concur in this remark. There is in general less danger at night than in the day time, be cause there are fewer vessels in motion, and to the best of our belief' the greater umber of accidents have happened in daylight. Besides if steam vessels were prohibited from starting much valuable time would be lost, without serving any useful pur pose. This accident points out most effectually the necessity for Mr. Labouchere's Bill to regulate the speed of steam-vessels at night in rivers—to appoint in. spectors at every principal port, and to provide that no vessel shall go to sea unless in a manageable and sea worthy condition. Had such a law been in force, in all probability, this melancholy loss of life and property would not have occurred. CANTON.—Mr. Wyld has just published a chart of the Canton River, with the entrance and islands, com piled from the latest surveys. It is on a large scale, more than an inch to five miles, with all the soundings and the numerous islands that lie between the Macao Roads and Canton, a distance of 80 miles. It is beau tifully executed, and will be found extremely useful in reading the accounts of transactions i n that quarter. TABLE OF MORTALITT. — The Weekly Return, pub lished by the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriagei, makes the total number of deaths in the Metropolis, for the week ending the 21st of March, amount to 946 ; of these 471 were males, and 475 females. The number who died under IS years of age was 396, and of these 59 died of convulsions, 41 of pneumonia, 23 of scarlatina, 19 of measles, and 17 of hooping•cough. Consumption carried off the greatest , number, 148, and of these 116 died between the ages of 15 and GO. More deaths occurred below the age of 15 than between 15 and 60, the numbers being respec tively 396 and 348. THE THEATRES. COVEN7' GARDEN. This theatre was crowded to excess last night at the opening of the doors, from a natural desire on the part of the play-going public to witness Charles Keinble's Mercutio, who played this very difficult character with all the grace, if not with all the buoyancy, of his earlier years. His recitation, in particular, of the famous speech " Oh, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you !" was delivered with an archness and delicacy of humour every way worthy of it. There was nothing strained—nothing overwrought in his manner—he spoke simply and naturally, as though under the prompt ing of a spirit whose tendency to the fantastic and the imaginative arises from its healthy exuberance of gaiety. His mode of treading the stage—no slight matter—was equally in keeping with the character. Age seemed for a while to have let go its hold upon him. and he moved about with nearly as much agility, and certainly with as much grace, as when we last saw him in this character. When we add, that he gave adequate expression to the subtle and fanciful wit which Shak speare has lavishly bestowed upon Mercutio ; that he was lively, but not boisterous ; and never, even in his most mirthful sallies, lost sight of the high-toned and urbane demeanour of the gentleman ;—we have said all that need he said, to convey our. sense of the consum mate excellence of his acting. Miss Montague played Juliet with feeling and delicacy. Her balcony scene, more especially, had a depth of sentiment to recom mend it, that reminded us of Fanny Kemble. Nor did she fail to give due effect to the more stormy passions that rack the soul of Juliet, just before she drinks the narcotic draught. Throughout, this young lady was warmly applauded, and most deservedly so. Anderson made an intelligent and spirited Romeo, but a little less violence of manner would not have been amiss. To be impassioned is one thing—to be noisy, another. The more level portions of the character were those which he played best. As a whole, how ever, we may venture to say that his Romeo is decidedly the most efficient we now have on the stage. Her Majesty and Prince Albert witnessed the performance ; and the audi e nce, with great good taste , which we nope to see repeated on such occasions, allowed them to pre serve the incognito which the) seemed evidently desi rous to maintain. HAYMARKET. give y- ofill i , t. we Of perceive, plot,eie, strictly speaking, there is none ; but there is a good deal of ill-contrived incident, and much breadth of humour, which amuses, in spite of its manifest absurdity. So far as we could understand the subject, which is most gloriously perplexed and confusing through out, it turns upon the jealousy of three London grocers, each of whom is married to a lady who has a strong spice of coquetry in her composition. As a matter of course, each wife contrives for awhile to blind her husband ; but eventually they are all three detected in an empty house, whither they have gone for the purpose of meeting an amorous young apprentice, by name Valentine. While they are waiting for this impassioned youngster, who has contrived to persuade each that he is in love with her, and her only, their husbands make their appearance , accom panied by two policemen, when a general explanation takes place, and the adroit ladies manage, by some means or other, which the audience are in a great degree left to guess at, to reconcile themselves to their astonished and indignant spouses. Such is a slight outline of this grotesque production, which, however, contains one or two good points ; and among them, a supper scene, the inci dents in which are so contrived as to cause considerable laughter, notwithstanding their flagrant improbability. The language of the play is exceedingly bald and common place, and some of the puns are, without exception, the by a leprosy. We should scout their conduct at any time as errant and mischievous quackery, but to be now so engaged, when a disease is preying on the vitals of the State, when starvation is - leading on rebellion and revolution, is madness. We have no sympathy with the pursuits of the Commons. The Tory Journals complain of the Liberals because they oppose the Bill on the ground that it is Lord STANLEY'S. If they were to do so we should praise them. To snub that arrogant change ling, who fancies himself a great statesman because he is a great talker—" the heir of all his mother's tongue," is the duty of every reflecting moderate Member. Whatever such a HOTSPUR proposes should always be looked on with suspicion. Of Catholic Irishmen he is the open and declared enemy, as he is the open and avowed servant of the Anglican bigots. All the M embers for Ireland, therefore, should rise against him when he interferes with its concerns. He has merited the suspicion and the enmity of the Irish, and common sense cau tions them not to trust their opponents. They do right, therefore, in resisting Lord STANLEY'S Bill. Those Journals which have asserted that the Anti-Corn-law party bring no evidence of their as sertions, and only seek by unfounded representation to get up a clamour, are now likely to have more evidence than they will like. Last year the House I of Commons, under the influence of the landlords, refused to inquire into the facts of the case. This year the Delegates are going to inquire for them selves, and publish their inquiries. Their blue books will not be protected by privilege, but their : reports, widely circulated in The Sun, and other truth-spreading Journals, will effect as much public i benefit as if they were printed by Messrs. HAN SARD, and had the certificates of the SPEAKERS of both Houses. At their meeting yesterday, the Delegates examined an agricultural la bourer from the neighbourhood of Taunton ; and his evidence, though not given on oath, will be as valid all over England as if it were taken before the LORD CHANCELLOR. We will not abridge that man's examination here ; we earnestly implore our readers to peruse the account, to be found in another part of our Paper, which WILLIAM HALMAN gives of the condition to which the bold peasantry of England are reduced under the Corn-law. 'Whoever else may prosper under it, the English farm-labourer starves. Al ready his condition is as bad, or worse, than that of the lumper-fed Irishman, who can enjoy life on his poor fare, while the Englishman is daily exhausted by continuous and unbroken toil. The evidence to this important circumstance will now be laid distinctly and authoritatively before the public, as well as the evidence to the other evil effects of the Corn-laws, though the landlords, in the arrogance of their hearts, supposed that they had by" their votes burked the investigation for ever. Mr. BAINES'S speech supplied an excellent illustration of the fact, that a high price of corn at home causes a great diminution in the consumption of manufactures. We recommend the illustration to the Post and Herald, and those Journals which continually require proof upon proof of the assertion that the Corn laws are mischievous. Mr. BAINES also explained the true bearing of some late statisti cal returns ; and his speech ought to convince the most sceptical that the Corn-laws are as inexpedient as they are unjust. That great distress now prevails in many parts of the country, notwithstanding the Corn-laws, which if good for anything should always insure us an ample supply of food, is certain. We yesterday mentioned that great distress prevails in Edinburgh— how is that, if the Corn-laws be so universally be neficial ? Our Journal has teemed, in fact, with evidence to the miserable condition of the people in all parts of the countr). Why is this, when the Corn-laws secure us, as is said, an ample supply ? " Oh," say the Tories, and the bread taxers, " the harvest failed, you are suffering from a visitation of Providence. " We say that the assertion is false. The harvest of the Manchester spinners has not tailed. The fields of the Bolton men have not been blighted with barrenness. At Wolverhamp ton and Birmingham the yield was as great last year as the year before, and might have been much greater—might have been indefinitely greater, but the landowners of England arrested the industrious hand of our skilful people ;they put the , cotton mills on short time—they shut up the fac tories—they blew out the furnaceS, and closed up the mines. Abundant evidence that the godless lace of avaricious law-makers have effected all this mischief, will be, or has already been, brought before the public, and a vote of Parliament will have no power to shield them from public indigna tion. They are mistaken, grievously mistaken, ii they deem Parliament to be omnipotent. It can n3t reverse the laws of rig ht and wrong, it cannot change the essential characteristics of the human mind, and their results must be to consign the wrong-doing landowners to general execration. We oppose these laws because they are vicious in principle, not because we have a peculiar in terest in manufactures, which we have not ; they were passed from bad motives—they aim at an improper object. In the landlords' avarice they have their origin. The intention in passing them was to tax all the eaters of bread to enrich the land owners. They are contrary to the principle on which laws ought to be made, for they impose a heavy penalty on the many for a small benefit to the few. They arc a violation by the legislator of the poor man's rights of property, and endanger all the institutions of the country. They inflict poverty on all classes, disable them to bear the present load of taxation, and threaten the empire with ruin. If the evils which society cannot now throw off be not caused by the Corn. laws, their existence allows all the blame to be thrown on them, and thus they enlist all the vast discontent and all the vast distress which now pre vail against the landowners and the clergy, who, by advocating these laws, give most terrific auxiliaries to their opponents. We copy from the 114i.rning Herald of this day a letter from Constantinople dated the 4th inst., announ cing the march of a Persian army against Bagdad. This intelligence, if true, is exceedingly important. ALI PAcita, the present Governor of Bagdad, is a a man of no abilities ; and as the city has not yet re covered from the dreadful ravages it sustained since 1830, from the almost simultaneous visitation of the plague, the inundation of the Tigris, and the being sacked by the Arabs, to whom the leading neighbour ing tribes are still hostile, it could offer no resistance to a Persian army. DAOUD BEY, the former Pacha, had put not only the city, but the Pachalick, in such a complete state of defence, as to be able to bid defiance to any enemy. He held constant commu nication with MEHEMET ALI, and was about to declare himself independent of the PORTE when the plague made its appearance in his c• pital, and in the course of a few weeks swept away upwards of one hundred thousand of the inhabitants. What the pes tilence spared the sword of the Arab destroyed without mercy, and the ambitious DAOUD found himself in debted for his life to the fidelity of a poor cobler and an old woman! In another letter we find it stated that the Governor of Herat has expelled the English Resident, Lieutenant POTTINGER, from that city. This is also highly im portant, if true. • With so much gall we have one drop of honey. The PORTE has actually yielded to the threats of Lord PoNSoNBY, and dismissed GREGORIAS, the Greek Pa triarch, for his participation in the lonian Islands' con spiracy. The French Journals of W ednesday are all occu pied with the debate on the ministerial confidence Bill. In the outline of the first part of Tuesday's debate, which we published yesterday, we left M. BECIIARD, a Royalist Deputy, declaring that ho would neither syste matically support nor oppose the THIERS Cabinet. The Hon. Deputy was followed by M. DE LAMAR. TINE, the poet, formerly an ultra Royalist, but at pre sent one of the " .221," or MOLE section, who main tained that M. Tunas was not correct in saying that there was no essential difference between the opinions of his friends and his opponents. There was all the difference between revolutionary instincts and liberal ideas. He called upon the Left to explain why they supported such a Ministry, and upon his own party not to entail repentance upon themselves by giving it an existence. M. ODILLON BARROT, as the organ of the Left, co n t e nded that his friends supported the Tfituas Cabinet because it was progressive in its ideas. Electo r-i 1 Reform was with it only a question of time, and by supportin g it he obtained for France a real Parliamen tary Government. This closed the debate of Tuesday, On Wednesday M. REmusAT, Minister of the Interior, was the first to ascend the tribune. He complained that without cause the Government, while exhibiting the greatest mode ration, was assailed w ith ang e r , an d even with hatred. lie DR LA next entered into v ar i ous d e t a il s to show that M. the mAR Ltt c TiNE' ;ientcrhe. This charges were euof t o h u o n t d e e s d ty . e r D e E_ CARNE next rose, and opposed the Cabinet, and ridi culede sident DUPIN upon his legs, who claimed for the Left Centre the main • triumph at the Revolution of July. most villanous we ever remember to have heard perpe trated. Webster, Strickland, and 0. Smith, played the parts of the three Grocers, and did all the justice to the characters of which they were susceptible. At the close of the play the audience evinced no slight marks of disap probation, whence we infer that it will very speedily be gathered to the" tomb of all the Capulets." In the next piece, Born to Good Luck, Power played his favourite cha racter of Paddy O'Rafferty in a first-rate style of excellence. In parts like this he may claim to be considered as clas sical an actor as John Kemble himself; for there is a chasteness and accuracy in his conception—a finish and harmony in his execution, which is every where under the guidance of a strict judgment that strengthens rather than enfeebles his keen sense of humour —that long and diligent study could only have supplied. We never desire to see a more perfect representative Of the Irishman than Mr. Power. His loose, shambling gait, ' his devil-may-care recklessness of nature, his self-posses sion in difficulties, his soft, oily brogue, so rich in its lower tones, his round, laughing face, and even his mode of handling his inseparable shillelagh ; all these characteris tic traits are preserved with exquisite tact; while the purely gross and revolting ones are either kept out of sight altogether, or just discreetly hinted at. There is a sentiment, too, in Power's Irish humour that redeems its extravagance, softens off its vulgarity, and renders its way at once to the heart. Most assuredly, in his own parti cular line he is the greatest artist now on the stage, for even is his most eccentric flights, there is a certain tem perance of manner that never forsakes him. The House was full, but not crowded. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Srn,—The statement of the fire which appears in The Sun of yesterday as having taken place on the premises of our Printing Ink Manufactory yesterday morning, we beg to inform you, is very much exaggerated. The total loss of stock and premises will fall much short of 1001., and indeed the affair altogether is so inconsiderable th it our business will not be impeded beyond a few days. We are, Sir, your obedient servants, HOW and PARSONS. 35, Orange-street, Southwark, March 27. THE MARKETS.---(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. This week's arrivals of all descriptions of Grain have been moderate. Wheat firm, at Monday's prices, with some demand for good free foreign. Barley supported its value. Beans and Peas unvaried. A free trade for good Oats at Monday's prices. The quantity of Flour for sale was moderate, but there was no briskness in the demand. SMITHFIELD. A short supply, and the trade generally brisk. The primest descriptions of Beef and Mutton maintained last Mondsy's prices. Veal and Pork were more in request, the former at an advance of 2d. per stone. Beef, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 10d. ; Mut ton, 4s. 4d. to ss. 2d. ; Veal, ss. 6d. ; Pork, 4s. 6d. to ss. 4d. Cattle at Market—Beasts, 421 ; Sheep, 5,910 ; Pigs, 356 ; Calves, 130. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Supplies pretty good and demand brisk ; prices steady. Turbot, 6s. to 21s. ; Cod, 3s. to 103.; Salmon, 3s. per lb. ; Soles, 10d. to 4s. 6d. per pair ; Lobsters, Is. to ss. ; Mack erel, sd. to 10d; Haddocks, Bd. to ls. 2d. ; and Whitings, 6d. to 10d. SEED MARKET. Red Clover rather lower. Other kinds unvaried. Trade generally dull. TEA MARKET. This department was in a very depressed state, and there were rumours of one or two great stoppages. There was literally nothing doing, and no certain price could be given. COLONIAL MARKET. Rather more business done. The Sugar market flat, prices unaltered, top quotation 70s. The state of the Tea market has thrown a damp over the Colonial Market. 2,000 bags Company's Java Coffee, 2,000 Padang, and 2,500 St. Domingo, with a small parcel of Ceylon were advertised; not much was sold, and prices where altered were lower. 2,200 bags Mau ritius Sugar went at 625. to 635. 2,500 bags Bengal Rice, at 13s. to 13s 6d. 1,400 bales Surat Cotton sold in part at lower prices, 4d. per lb. LOCO bags Saltpetre went at •235. 6d. to 255. 6d., a good parcel. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CR'. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKIT, MARCO 25.—The sales of to-day are 3,500 bales, at yesterday's prices—market very flat. The Hamburg mail of the 24th March has arrived, by which we have received papers of the above date. Ex. change upon London 13 si; Gold 430 ; Metallijues 108 :1 ; Bank Shares 1830. Our art ival this morning are a French and Ostend mail ; also a Hamburg. We have received ship letters from St. Helena, and the Mauritius, of the 16th December : and from the Cape of January 7. We have received the Journal of Antwerp, of yester day's date. EXCHANGE OF AMSTERDAM, MARCH 24.—The national funds in general have been less sought after, and the prices had a downward appearance. In Integrals a good deal of business was done, the Syndical Actions came to market, and fell per cent., caused by the unfavourable appear ance of the other national funds. Some speculations in the Society Actions of Commerce having realized their Profits, also caused a fall in that Stock. Ardoin's Spanish was sought after, owing to the receipt of good news ; al though they fell at Antwerp, the prices here were better. The letters have been received this morning by the John of Gaunt, from India, but they are not so late by five days as the overland express previously received. j The Hamburg mail brings accounts from Warsaw of the 4th iVlarch, which state that a great excitement prevails in the above capital in consequence of the new levies for the Russian armies, and although the Jews had been allowed to purchase themselves off from service, by payment of a certein sum of money, the Christians to the number of 10,000 men, arc drawn every year, and compelled to serve in distant parts of the empire. The Jewish profession had much increased in influence, in consequenc.3 of which an ukase has been published to put a stop to this evil by making the Jews liable to military service, but it had not the de sired effect. There appears to be at present a general stagnation in commercial affairs, b)th in this country as well as on the Continent, the cause at present is not exactly ascertained; by some it is attributed to the capitalists refraining from entering into speculation during the unsettled state of affairs in the East, as well as our difference with China. TUE FUNDS In the funds scarce anything doing to the pre:ent hour, but Consols have a heavy appearance, left off at 90i Money ; for Account, 90;/ ; and opened this mo r ni ng a t 90, 1 Money ; for Account, 903- i; Exchequer Bdls, 16 18 prem. ; India Bonds, 1 3 prem.; Bank Stock, 178 9 ; India Stock, 248 249. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active as they left off, 27+; Deferred, 13i- 14; Passive, t 34 7k ; Portuguese also, 334 34; Three per Cents., 23a 24k ; Colombian, 24i ; Mexican, 28:i- ; Brazilian, 78+; Dutch Two.and-a-Half per Cents., 5,3+ -A-; Five per Cents., 101/ 102. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Bristol and Exeter Railway Company 4O 934 Eatern Counties Railway 2l 8% London and Birmingham Railway Company 9O 155 London and Greenwich Railway Company 2O sm London and Croydon Railway Company 147. Hs. 6d. 9% National Provincial Bank of England 15 35 Ditto New .. 10 9% lIALF-PAST ONE. Mauritius Papers received to the 17th December. . A Proclamation has been issued there cautioning all strangers arriving at that colony making a temporary re sidence, that only one year shall be granted to them, after the expiration of which they must renew the permission. Graham's Town Journals have been received to the 3d January, bywhich it appears that some misunderstanding had taken place between the Caffres and Fingoes in the neigh bourhood of Fort Peddie, and the latter were threatened with an attack, in consequence of which an express was sent to the head-quarters; on receiving the information the Lieutenant-Governer ordered a supply of ammunition, and a r einforcement of fifty men to Fort Peddie, which had the desired effect, and all fear of hostile measures had sub sided. The accounts from Caffreland were very satisfactory. Civilization was progressing. Wheat has suffered greatly from the rains, but what will be lost on that head will be gained in Indian Corn, the crops of which were abundant. The British market, which had a heavy appearance in the early part of the morning, has since improved a little, from 901 to 901 for the Account; Money 901 1 ; Ex chequer Bills, 16 18 prem. In India Stock and India Bonds nothing doing, Money continues much the same as yesterday. In the Foreign Market scarce a bargain doing to the present time. Spanish Active 27/, have been done at 27i in the course of the morning; Dutch Two-and-a• Half per Cents. 831; Five per Cents, 10If 1. I❑ all other Foreign securities nothing has been done. It is just reported that a failure has taken place at the \Vest-end in the Tea trade. CLOSING PRICES. BIITISEI FUNDS. Bank Stock ... "a... 00000000000 India Stack — 3 per Cent. Red — Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cc.ns, 90% Ditto Old Annuities — 334 per Cent. Red — Ditto New Annuities New 334 per Cent 99% Ex. Bills, 1,0001 2d 18 pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001 18 prn Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small lB pm Jan. 1860 Oct. 1859 Jan 1860 FOREI n N FUNDS Austrian, 5 per cent ...... Portuguese Bonds, sper cent. Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, Ncw Ditto Brazilian Bonds Prussian, 5 per cent — Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent..... Russian Bonds, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 er cent Spanish, 5 per cent 27% Ditto, 1924 24% Ditto, Deferred Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct — Exchange —f. —c Mexican, 5 per cent..... ........ French, 3 per cent --r. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 — Dutch, 2% per cent.... ...... ... 53% Peruvian,lB2s.6 per cent Ditto, 5 per cent. lOl% SHARES Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Bristol and Exeter ... Eastern Counties Railway , 94 Great Western Railway London and Brighton Railway 23'g, London and Blackwell Railway London bnd Birmingham Railway 155 Ditto Quarter Shares 24 Ditto New Shares London and Greenwich Railway B l4 London and Croydt a Railway (Trunk) 9 % Manchester and Leeds Psilway North Midland Railway _____ GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—This morn ing, at an early hour, Mr. Brunel, and other gentlemen con nected with the Great Western Railroad, made a final experi mental trial from Twyford to Reading, with heavy trains, for the purpose of trying the solidity of the new road, which is now completed, and will be publicly opened on Monday morning next. The railroad was found to be in most excellent order, and proved perfectly satisfactory to those gentlemen connected with it. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the perform ance of Mr. Charles Kemble as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet at Covent-Garden Theetre last evening with their presence. The Royal party included the Hon. Miss An son, Marquis of Headfurt, Hon. William Cowper, Colonel Wemyss, Colonel Wylde, and Mr. Francis Soymnur. Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of her Majesty. Yesterday was the birthday of Prince George of Cam bridge. His Royal Highness Prince Albert paid a con gratulatory visit at Cambridge House in the afternoon. Prince George visited in the coure of the day her Ma jesty the Queen Dlw•ager at Marlborough House, the Princess Augusta at Clarence House, and the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House. The Foreign Ambassa dors and Ministers, and many of the Nobility, left their names at Cambridge House during the day. in the evening the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had a select party at dinner at Cambridge House. The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Prin cesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, visited her Ma jesty the Queen Dowager yesterday. The Members of the Naval and Military Commission had a meeting yesterday afternoon at the official residence of Viscount Melbourne, in Downing•-street. There were present the Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Minto, Lord Hill, Sir Hussey Vivian, Viscount Howick, Sir Henry Hardinge, and Sir C. Adam. Mr. Dunlop and the Rev. R. Buchanan had an inter. view with Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Colonial Office. Mr. Briscoe and Mr. Pigot had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Home Office. The Bishop of Ely had an interview with Viscount Mel bourne yesterday, in Downing-street. Lord Adolphus Fitzelarence left his residence in St. James's Palace, on a visit for a few days to the Duke of Beaufort, at his seat, Badminton, Gloucestershire. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Mr. and Mrs. Maewell Hinds and family, at Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square ; G. L. Finlay, Esq., at ditto, from Edinburgh ; Walter Jollie, Esq., at ditto, from ditto ; Hopkirk, Esq., at ditto, from ditto ; Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Bold, at ditto, from Worthing; Walter Ewer, Esq., at ditto, from ditto; Miss Williams Wynn, at Northumberland House ; S►r Richard and Lady More ton ; Mr. and Mrs. H. Baring ; Lady Rodd ; Major- General Fraser; the Dowager Lady Brownlow and the Hon. Misses Cust ; Lady Granmore and the Hon. Miss Browne ; Lord Drumlanrig, at Thomas's Hotel ; Lord and Lady Orkney and the Hon. Miss Irby, at ditto; the Hon. Capt. Villiers ; Sir George and Lady Mackenzie ; Mr. Hugo Mildmay ; Baroness de Braye and the Hon. Miss Otway Cave, at Thomas's Hotel ; Captain Garth, R. N., at ditto. DEPARTURES. Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bart., for Gloucester; Lord Gifford, fur Manchester; the Hon. H. T. Liddell, for Cheltenham; Sir James Carmichael Smyth, for Dublin; the Hon. Lady Hope and Sir Harry and Lady Verncy,for Brighton; Mr. and Mrs. Watts Russell, from the Claren don Hotel, for Sussex ; Count and Countess de Montegias and family, for Brighton ; Captain Forbes, R. N., for Worthing ; Mr. Monypenny, M.P., for Rye; the Lord Mayor of York, for 'Yorkshire ; Lord Chichester for Sus sex ; the Countess of Rosse, for Brighton ; Major-Gene ral Wyndham, for Sussex ; Major-General Sir James Money, for Herefordshire ; Lady de Clifford, for Rich mond ; Colonel French, for Dover ; Sir William Dunbar, for Cheltenham ; Lord Lovelace, for Ockham Park ; the Messrs. Littledale, from St. James's Hotel, for Liver pool ; Mr. and Mrs. Bevan, from Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square, for their scat, Stapleton-road, near Bristol ; Sir George and Lady Mackenzie and fa. milv, from ditto, for Edinburgh ; Lieut. Weems, from ditto ; John Richards, Esq., from ditto ; Mr. Horlock, from Long's Hotel, Clifford-street, for Gloucestershire. Earl and Countess Cowper have grand dinner parties on the the 2nd and Bth of next month. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon have is sued invitations for a grand dinner on the Bth of the ensuing month. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset gave a sumptuous entertainment to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex on the 15th of next month. The Duke of Wellington will give a grand dinner to the Directors of the Ancient Concerts on the Bth of April. His Grace, who is Director for the evening, has engaged the talents of Miss Romer, the late prima donna of Drury-lane theatre, as principal singer at the third concert. _ _ _ . . The Lord Chancellor's dejeuner to the Master of the Robs, Vice Chancellor, Judges, &c., is fixed for the 15th of April, the first day of Easter Term. The Earl and Countess of Jersey's dinner party, last evening, in Berkeley-square, consisted of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, Marchioness of Ailesbury, his Excel lency M. Guizot, his Excellency the Netherlands Minister and Madame Dedel, Earl of Clare, Lord Ellenborough, Sir Alex ander Grant, Earl of March, Baron Rothschild, Lady Alice Peel, Hon. Hugh Cholmondeley, &c. The Countess de Sails entertained at dinner, in Carlton Gardens, on Wednesday la , t, the Earl and Countess of Kinnoul, Lord and Lad) Maryborough, Lord Ossulston, Vis count St. Vincent, Hon. Hugh Cholmondeley, Mr. Theodore Hook, Mr. Lockhart, &c. In the evening her Ladyship held an assembly, which was attended by the principal members of the corps diplomatique and the elite of society now in town. Mrs. Douglas Halford's party, last evening, in Grosvcnor-square ' was numerously and fashi ona bly atte n d e d. Sir Robert Peel and Lord Haddington had long conferences with the Duke of Wellington, yesterday afternoon, at Apsley House. The day for the meeting of Conservative Peels at Apsley House will be fixed as soon as Lord Lyndhurst is able to attend to i.ublic business. Lord and Lady ‘''Vliarncliffe arrived in Curzon street on Wednesday, from the villa of Lord Francis Egerton, Oatlands, for the season. The Earl and Ccuntcss Mayo have arrived at Palmerston House, near Naas, Kildare, whero the Noble Earl and Countess remain for a few weeks. The Earl of Moray, the Ladies Stuart, and the Hon. George Stuart, have a-rived in Stratford-place, for the season, from Scotland. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Wylde, honoured the Society of British Artists by visiting their exhibition in Suffolk-street, Thursday afternoon. Prince Albert walked with Mr. Seymour, one of the Grooms in Waiting, to Tattersall's on Tuesday. His Royal Highness remained about half an hour in this rendezvous of the sporting world. Lady Antrobus's ball to-night is fully antici pated to be a most brilliant r e union. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, and Princess Augusta of Cambridge, are understood to intend honouring her Ladyship with their company. Rail and Countess Cadogan entertained the Marquis of Douglas, Earl and Countess of Rosebery, Viscount and Viscountess Fitzharris, Lord Louvaine, Lord- Foley, Lady Ann Primrose, Hon. Captain Forester, Hon. Colonel Dawson, Darner, and a select party, at dinner on Wednesday evening, in Piccadilly. In the latter part of the evening her Ladyship received a small party of about fifty fashionabics, including the Countess of Jersey, Lord Fitzgerald, Lord J. Manners, Lord Clarence Paget, Lady Acton, Hon. A. Liddell, Lady Adelaide Paget, Captain Bagot, &c. THE MARCHIONESS OF LANSDOWNE'S SoißEE.—Last night the Mar !Maness of Lansdowne had an evening party at Lansdowne House. The company was far from numercus, owing probably to its being an opera night, and the debate in the House of Commons. Several of the foreign ministers, the Marquis of Normanby, Lady Elizabeth Fielding, Miss Fielding, Lady Anna Maria Donkin, Lady Jane Stuart, Miss Stuart, Countess of Rosebery, Lady Anne Prim rose, Countess of Minto, Ladies Elliot, Viscount Leveson, &c. were among the visitors. DEATH OF LADY MARY HUSSEY.—We have to announce the demise of .the above highly respected Lady, which took place on Wednesday last, at her residence in Chesham-place. Her late Ladyship, who was born the 22d October, 1754, and had consequently arrived at the great age of 86 years, was the only surviving daughter of Horatio, first Earl of Orford, and aunt of the present Earl, and in 1777 married Mr. Thomas Hu.sey, who has been dead some years. The Hon. Captain and Lady Emu-Attie Stuart Wortley have postponed their departure to the Continent, and are staying on a visit to the Duke of Rutland and Marquis of Granby, at 13elvoir Castle. _ _ _ Viscount and Lady Margaret Marsham leave Montague House to-morrow, for Mote Park, Kent, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Romney. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence left his residence in St. James's Palace on a visit, for a few days, to the Duke of Beaufort, at his scat, Badminton, Gloucestershire. The Earl and Countess of Munster and the Ladies Fitzclarence are still sojourning at Paris. The Noble Earl has been indisposed, but was much better when the last letters were received from the family. LORD ABERCROMBY.—It was with much re gret we learned the sudden illness of Lord Abercromby, who upon Thursday last was seized with apoplexy. It is said that there exist but slight hopes of his long surviving, and as the present Member fur the county will, i❑ case of his father's de mise, be called to the Upper House, the Tory party are all agog with what they are pleased to deem will be another victory. We leave them to their premature fish catching, and have only to hope that the Liberal electors will not allow themselves to be taken unawares, but by a vig)rous exercise of their powers go ahead of the long-concocted designs of their enemies.-- Scotsman. COURT OF SESSION.—A case of great interest and singularity was decided on the 6th curt. The parties were John Kerr, of Stonykirk, in Wigtonshire, his daughter Agnes, and her mother, Mary Bone.—Agnes Kerr was the illegitimate child of her parents, who were subsequently mar ried, but in the interval between her birth and the marriage of her parents, her mother had married another man, to whom she bore several children. This man died, and the question to be determined was, whether this marriage prevented the legiti macy of Agnes Kerr, by the marriage of her father and mo ther. First the Lord Ordinary-, and then the Judges of the Inner House, have decided that it did not.— Glasgow Chro nicle. The Antwerp Company's steam ship Princess Victoria, Captain Woodruff, arrived yesterday morning off the Tower, having effected her passage in 21 hours, notwithstanding the violence of the weather. FIRE IN DRURY-LANE.—Thursday evening, about seven o'clock, a fire broke out in the secerid floor of the house of Mr. Beaumont, a baker, in Drury-l ane . O w i ng to the quick arr i va l o f t h e engines the fire was extinguished with out extending beyond the floor where it broke out, the whole of the contents of which were consumed. The property is in sured in the Protestant Dissenters' Fire-office. CASE OF MADAME LAFFARGE.—The health of Madame Laffarge, instead of improving, is stated by the Phare de la Correze to have become seriously worse. She Las, it says, been bled several times with leeches, and in the foot with the lancet. She keeps her bed, and suffers from indigestion. She has been twice visited by the cure of Uzerche, and has also received an advocate of Tulle. It is expected that she will be brought to trial at the next Assizes for the Correze. BRUSSELS, MARCH 25.—The average price of Wheat during the last week was 22f. 0 4e., and of Rye 13f. 82c. No alteration is made in the duties. Miss Ellen Tree performed in Knowles's play of Love, on Friday and Saturday, to fashionable audiences, at the Bath Theatre. EVENING E Dr; IGic. DECLARATION OF WAR BY PER SIA AGAINST THE PORTE, AND MARCH OF A PERSIAN ARMY AGAINST BAGDAD. (From the Morning Herold.) CONSTANTINOPLC, MARCH 4 p --The movement a t. 1 1! Shah upon ',ha P i se which seemed so incompatible tn the designs he was supposed to harbour against Herat, bas now been fully accounted for by the late inteingenee Persia. After quelling some disturbances in Kerman, he has suddenly changed the direction of his army, and is pow in full march upon Bagdad. The strength of the Shab a army is not known, but without doubt it is more than suf ficient to overcome any resistance which the Turks can op pose to him, for Ali Pacha of Bagdad, a man without capa city or conduct, has not more than 5,000 regular troops un der his csmniand, and possesses no for ified points capable of checking the progress even of a Persian army. If we add to this deplcrable account of the military fo r ce the recent dis turbances among the Kurds, who in all struggles h etweerithe countries generally side with the strongest, and the disor ganised state of the pachalick—we arrive at the ca nclusion, that All Paella's means of defence are nearly null, and consequently that the Shah of Persia will soon be master of that important city. This invasion of the Turkit ter ritory has not been provoked by any act of the Porte, and was not preceded by either com pl a int or exp o stulation ‘,! for imaginary wrongs, much l e ss by a ny f orma l d e clarat le e of war against Turkey. The Persian Ambassador at the Porte left Constantinople a few months ago, under th' e pretext of going on leave of absence, but no misundei standing whatever existed between the two Powers, unts I the Persians took possession of Bayazed and Vau, lying been Lake Vau and the Kurd frontier—an aggression which, however, drew forth no measures of retaliation on the part of the Porte beyond the cool reception which Hussein Khan experienced on his arrival from France and passage through Turkey. The' defection ?f Khamran, Prince of Herat, from the British alli ance has, no doubt, secured to him the protection of Russia, and of course, turned away from him the wrath of the Shah ; who, probably also on the sugget tions of the same power, has determined to indulge his martial propensities in another direction. A body )I Persians has already taken possession of Suleymania without resistance, and the city of Bagdad, fortified only . with a mud wall, and that, too, thrown down in many places by late torrents, cannot be expected to hold longer out. Here is another call for European intervention In the affairs of Turkey, which the inactivity of Ibrahim Pacha, since the battle of Nejib, seemed to render less urgent than was at first supposed. Will Russia use this as an additional argument to obtain the concurrence of the other Powers in sending an army into Asia Minor; or will she command the Porte to declare the existence of a casus fiederis under the Treaty of Unkiar Skelessi, and proceed to act according to the stipulations of that treaty, without the participation of the Powers ? Whatever may be the final determination of the Cabinet of St. Peters burg, that Power, with a prevision (be it foresight orfore knowledge) for which she is so remarkable, has already prepared a formidable force on the frontiers of Georgia, ready to act on a moment's notice. At Sebastopol great preparations are making. In addi tion to the land force of 40,000 men, which has been long in readiness, a reinforcement of 15,000 more has been marched into the Crimea in spite of the severity of the season. The fleet is also in readiness, es well as trans ports for the troop;, while no ships arc allowed to enter the port, lest information should be conveyed of the ex tent and object of these mighty preparations. Perhaps Russia may expect a favourable result to the negotiations of Baron Brunow at London, and is preparing a suitable force to carry into effect the regulations of the treaty con templated. For my part, for reasons which I have fre quently advanced, I consider the success of these negotia tions to be very doubtful, or rather that they must inevit ably be abandoned ; but supposing that such a result should ensue, I am not prepared to say that Russia will give up her belligerent intentions. On the contrary, I would say that Russia is now prepared to act—in what way is not to be doubted--for the occupation of Constantinople , and if England and France be not ready to interfere on the first alarm, by seizing upon the Dardanelles, and push ing forward to Constantinople, her object will speedily be gained. An English fleet in the Bosphorus would ensure the safety of Constantinople, but should our Ministers net wish to take so decided a step, it would at all events be desirable to see our fleet at their old anchorage in Bcsika Bay. The Turkish empire is evidently fast verging towards a tragical conclusion. The position of the Sultan beconses every day more critical and dangerous—attacked by the Shah on one side, and threatened by Mehemet Ali on the other, in Asia Minor—his European provinces, through the intrigues of Russia, or priests in her pay, disaffected- -- his finances exhausted, without army or fleet or administra tion—possessing all the elements of dissolution within' and exposed defenceless to the attacks of enemies front without—certes, a clearer case of decline and fall could not well be made out, and our Gibbons of the day may safely prepare their pens to record the close of the empire of Othman. The Porte has at length given assurances that satisfac tion will be given to the full extent demanded by Lord Ponsonby in the affair of the patriarch. This promise wa s given on Saturday, and to-day I have been informed that it has been religiously performed, by the expulsion of Gre gorias from the patriarchal dignity. Thus the honour of the British Government has been vindicated, and the p . oa tical crime of Gregorias expiated by the severest punish' ment which the Porte could inflict—but farther this tri umph of our diplomacy does not extend. Aristarehh one of the Logothetes of the Greek Church' and a well-known creature of Russia, bas, by or d er s o' , the Synod, presented to the Porte for confirmation the appointment of Anthinos, a Greek prelate, no less devoted to Russia than his predecessor. The new patriarch will no doubt follow the steps of his precursor in that dignity, though probably he will act with more caution, and abstain from violating openly the rights of Great Britain in the lonian Islands. Since the former negotiations of M. Zographos have been broken off, a new attempt has been made to carry through a commercial treaty of a different mi,turo to that formerly demanded. This has been more successful, end a treaty has been finally concluded an the principle of per feet reciprocity, the Porte consenting to waive some of the objections formerly made. The paper currency project Las. I am informed, been finally abandoned, a proof that the Divan still retain some gleam of prudence and common sense. We are requested to contradict the statement which appeared in several of the papers of her Majesty's inten tion to visit Christ's Hospital on Sunday next, to witness th e public supping of the children of that Institution. It appeal that there is no foundation whatever for the report. TIIE SINKING OF THE TYRlAN.—Yesterda,Y morning, at ten o'clock, the adjourned inquest on the bodies 0 f the unfortunate pe:sons who lost their lives on board the barq ue Tyrian on the night of the 12th u lt., w a s resume d before Air; C. C. Lewis, at the Theobald's I n n, G ra y s . The pilots an d others deposed to those facts w hi c h h ave a l rea dy been ma de a,.. de known to the public. The C or o ner th en summe d u p, and tn e Jury, after two hours' delib e r a ti on , re t urne d th e following e re :—" Manslaughter against Captain Polwart, with a deo dand, of 800/. on the vessel in each of the four cases, namely that of Wm. Henry Sheen, James Smith, Robert Mason, a" George Walker—Total deodand, 3,2001." The Coroner then issued his warrant for the apprehension of Captain Polwart, and his commitment to Chelmsford Gaol. The witnesses were all bound over to prosecute and give evidence. CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS.—The Second Chain' ber of the States of the Grand Duchy of Baden has just re jected a motion for the abolition of the penalty of death by majority of 36 to 19. GLASGOW AND AYR RAILWAY.—The ltne from Ayr to Glasgow was opened as far as Kilwinning e" Monday last, when a public dinner to celebrate the event w as . given in the Maso n s' Hall. About eighty g e n tle m en assembl e ! on the occasion. The Rev. Archibald Campbell, 'Minister of Kilwinning, was in th e Ch a i r , an d made some excellent re marks on the advantages of railroads in general, and on that line in particular. A number of toasts were given, among others " The Church of Scotland ;" when the Rev. Chairman returned thanks, and made the following speech I h°l 3 " to see less noise and more godliness in the Establishment." ___ LADY'S FLAT GOLD WATCHES, Gold. dials, Ten Guineas each. Hi g hl y -fi n i s h e d HORIZONTA" GOLD WATCHES, with engraved or engine-turned Gold dials, jewelled in four holes, and .-ither engine-turned or ell' graved cases are offered, price Ten Guinea s each. These ele` gant little Watches will be found to perform very correctly, and a printed warranty is given with fixed terms, on which will always receive any attention required. T. 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