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EVEN IN G EDITION MR. JAMES'S NEW NOVEL. I This day is published, in 3 vols, post Svo., price 11. 11s. 6d., THE KING'S HIGHWAY : a Novel. By G. P. R. J ARIES, Esq. Author of " Henry of Guise, or the Stat es of Blois," " The Huguenot, a Tale of the French Protestants," " The Robber," I " Life of Edward the Black Prince,* " The Gentleman of the Uld school," &c. &c. London : Longman, Orrne, and Co. IS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of ALA- AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY PREMIUMS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) ager many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HA3IBURGH, 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 HA3IBURGH. P. 8.-. A-THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains Portions of TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND, FIVE THOUSAND, TWO THOUSAND, ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED, ONE THOUSAND. BIGHT 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, &e. &c., amounting to £134,990 Sterling. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. VNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS, THIS EVENING, MARCH 25. Will be repeated Colley Cibber's Comedy of RE DOUBLE GALLANT; OR, THE SICK LADY'S CURE. Sir Solomon Sadlife, Mr. W. Farren ; Atall, Mr. Chas. Mathews ; Careless, Mr. G. Yandenhoff; Clerimont, Mr. 3. Vining ; Lady Dainty, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Lady Sadlife, Mrs. Nisbett ; Clarinda, Madame Vostris ; Wishwell, Mrs. Orger. To conclude with the Comic Pantomime, called MATILEQUIN AND THE MERRIE DEVIL OF ED MONTON ; OR THE GREAT BED OF WARE. Bress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2.5. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past six—the performances to earnmeneo at Seven o'Cloek. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken at the Box-of co, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had epos applieation. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. BUTLER. THIS EVENING, MARCH 25, A. R.H. the DUKE of SUSSEX will Patronize a BENEFIT in aid of the Funds of a Philanthropic Institution—Third Lodge. The performances will commence with the Burletta of, FRENCH POLISH. Monsieur Commode, Mr. Morris Barnett. To be succeeeded by THE LADIES' CLUB. Mrs. Fitzsmith (the Chairwoman), Mrs. Stirling. To which will be added, LOVE AND CHARITY. Julia Amer Louise Bertrand Mrs. Stirling. Phalle Pop To cone ude with GUARDIANS OFF THEIR GUARD. Colonel Feignwell, Mr. Butler. Boxes, 4s. Pit, 2s. Gallery, Is. Second Price immediately after the Ladies' Club. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Extraordinary attraction.—First appearance at this Theatre of Mr. Fraser, and Mr. and Mrs. Alban Croft, who are en gaged for a few nights. THIS EVENING, MARCH 25. Will be performed Barnett's Opera of THE MOUNTAIN SYLPH. Donald, Mr. Fraser ; Hela, Mr. Alban Croft ; Eolia (the Sylph), Mrs. Alban Croft. After which the new Drama entitled THE POCKET BOOK ; OR, THE TWO FAMII lES. Supported by the entire strength of the Company. To conclude with the Historical Drama depicting England in 1664, Baibadoes in 1665, o.d London in 1466, with a re presentation of the Great Fire of London, entitled THE CITY APPRENTICE; or, THE THREE LILIES. NEW STRAND THEATRE. SEVENTH WEEK. The GREAT NI IZARD has already exhibited his incon ceivable Delusions to 50,000 admiring and astonished Specta tors, and hundreds are nightly compelled to leave the doors, in ootrsequence of not being able to obtain admission. CHANGE OF PERFORMANCE. interests - g, and philosophical Transformations. Vegetation imbued with Animal Life. The WIZARD will change an ORANGE to a LADY. THIS EVENING, MARCH 25, And every Evening during the Week, he will open his Necro mantic Cabinet of Natural and Artificial Magic, Concluding with the acme of invulnerability, viz. the astounding GUN DELUSION. Bow, Ste. 61, Sec and Price, Is. 6d. ; Pit, h. 6d., Second Price Is. ; Gallery, Is. No Second Price. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. Morning 25 minutes after 7 I Evening s'; minutes after 7 r: ': '''' ' ' , ..ei. - , k . '• ', . • .-, \`'., <,..,:i,t1t,..,'/,'„=Pi; A ,, 4, ' ' Alt fa ---", ..715::.14. ' ::- '-- .-="-- ✓ ' - he LONDON: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1840. ; The Ninthly Bills were last night read a second time in the Houso of Lords A considerable number of petitions were agdin pre sented for and against the Corn-laws, and on the sub ject of Church Patronage (Scotland). Lcrd itl ELsotrasE brought down such a message, eoncc rning Lord SEATON, as Lord J. RUSSELL carried down to the Commons on Monday evening. A little ccnversatinn took place about the Commer eial Treaty with Austria, which the Earl of ABERDEEN claimed as his work, and the claim was admitted by l i Lord MELBOURNE. It was also admitted that the 4th Article of the Treaty was opposed to the Navigation. laws. Their Lordships adjwirned at Six o'Clock. In the House of Commons, Mr.ViLmeas, on being asked by Mr. CHRISTOPHER, stated that he had no in tention of postponing his motion on the Corn-laws be yond the 31st. - Sir J. GRAHAM hearing that, postponed his motion concerning, China, which stood for April 2, as Mr. VILLIERS' me ion was likely to occupy the House two or three nights, to April 7. Sr R. PEEL sticks to his iniquities. He presented a pet:tion from Lancaster, for the total repeal of the Corn•laws, and declared he did not concur in it. The Vaccination Bill was read a first time. Lord TEIG ti MOUT 11, after a few words, withdrew bis motion for a return of all unappropriated fines levied under the- Factory Act. Mr. CRAWFORD moved for a Committee to inquire into the grievances complained of by the opium mer chants. whose property had been given up on Mr. Su perintendent ELLIOT'S order. Mr. CRAWFORD en terA into a history of the opium trade, which, he said, had existed since 1786, and between 1796 and 1839 had increased from 4,000 to 27,000 chests. The Hon. :Member also showed that the trade -vas long recognised by the Chinese Government The Hon. Member also referred to the well-known facts of Captain ELLIOT having called on the British merchants at Canton to de !icor up the opium in their possession, and of the Trea sury having refused to acknowledge the bills he had drawn on the occasion. Sir G. STAUNTON seconded the motion. He gave no opinion on the validity of the transaction complained of in the petition of the merchants, but he thought an inquiry essential. He spoke of trade in opium not as a smuggling, but as a recognized transaction. Lord PALMERSTON declined on this occasion to enter into any explanations of the policy of the Govern ment, but he stated that the Superintendent had no legal power to compel parties engaged in the opium trade to quit China, and neither was he authorised to encou rage them to continue the trade. The motion was avreed to. - Sir F. BURDETT moved that the prayer of the peti tion of Mr. PEARCE, Mr. HOWARD'S clerk, to have his ease taken into consideration, be granted. Sir R. INGLIS seconded the motion. A little conversation ensued as to the means of Mr. PEARCE to suitain himself while confined, when Lord J. RUSSELL said that the House might order Mr. PEARCE'S bill to be liquidated on his discharge. Thereupon Mr. Recor3er LAW moved the discharge of Mr. PEARCE. The motion was negatived by 98 to 56. The original motion was also negatived by 88 to 63. Mr. LAW HODGE 3 obtained leave, after a few r e . marke, to bring in a Bill to render the ancient Con atabulary of England effective. Various returns relative to Church Patronage, and the number of Churches and Chapels erected, were or dered, on the motions of Mr. HUME and Mr. HINDLEY. 'rhe House, on the motion of Mr. CHRISTOPHER, Wag ordered to be called over on the 31st inst. Some returns, on the motion of Mr. PROTHEROE, Ivere ordered, relative to stopping up thoroughfares during divine service. On this motion, Mr. F. MAULE explained that the Strand on a Sunday was not stopped up by order of the Police, but by order of the Justices, under the 2d and 3d of Will. IV. The House rose at a Quarter past Nine. _r. G ILBART, has just published a pamphlet entitled " An Inquiry into the Causes of the Pres sure on the Money Market during the year 1839," which brings great culpability home to the Bank of England. The very definition which Mr. GILBART gives of a pressure on the Money Market, involves the condemnatio n of the Bank, and the condemnation is amply confirmed by facts. The meaning of pressure is a difficulty of getting money in the London mar k et, either by the way of discounting bills. or of loans on Government securi ties. Now, as the Bank is th e great creator and reaulator of money ; as It raises or lowers the rate of interest to suit -its convenience; as it is endowed ing those c re di t notes with a monopoly of issu payable on demand, which constitute the principal 1 part of our money, it follows inevitably that when ever tb ere is a pressure, or want of money, the Bank :must be to blame. So, when there is an abund2Luce of money, as the Bank creates and re gulates it, and, in a great measure, settles the rate of intevest, the Bank must be the cause of the excess, as it is of the deficiency. On its manage. ment every thing depends, and, as long as it re tains i its present privileges, it will be obnoxious to censure . We formerly took occasion to point out that the rule, said to be adopted by the Bank to regulate its issue::, so as to make the whole quantity of paper and metallic money exactly equal to the quantity of t7retallic money alone, which would be in circulation were there no paper, was unscientific, false, and absurd. Mr. GILBART shows with great clearness that another maxim which the Bank follows, that of regulating its issues by the state of the exchanges , is most mischievous. When the exchange is un favourable the Bank contracts its circulation, the contraction renders money more scarce, an advance' takes place in the rate of interest, and so the Bank assists the adverse state of the exchanges, whenever that arises from commercial causes to distress the mercantile community. When the exchanges are favourable and money comes in from abroad, then the Bank lets out its issues, and also conspires with circumstances to make money abundant and cheap. The rule avowedly followed demonstrates that the Bank must injure the community. But Mr. HORSLEY PALMER and other gen tlemen who have endeavoured to make a scientific theory out of the bad practices of the Bank, have laid it down that the Bank is to be quiescent under the operation of the public, and allow the demands made on it to regulate its issues. It is an excellent principle that bankers should allow their customers to decide how much money they want, the bankers taking care to advance none on fictitious bills, or on any but bona fide commercial bills, which, ac cording to all human probability, will be paid. Bankers should only discount those bills which are drawn against commodities on their way to the market, and which, when they arrive, will suffice to pay the bills. But the Bank of England has by no means adhered to this rule. It con tinually makes advances to the Government, or puts money into circulation on bills drawn against the • produce of the taxes, not against com modities yet to be brought into consumption. If a man have a ship-load of wine which is to be sold to the wine-merchants, he may draw and dis count bills against the whole value of the cargo, including the duty, which he will get from the purchaser or the consumer. Before the tax goes into the hands of the Government all the credit has been taken on the wine which its value war rants ; and for the Government also to get a credit for the taxes is the fact to put two sets of bank notes into circulation, representing the same goods or the same values. The Bank does that when it advances its notes against the produce of the taxes. When it lends notes, not gold, on Exchequer bills, and those notes are put into circulation, it does something similar ; the Exchequer bill in fact re presents money borrowed by the Government ; and the bank-notes put into circulation on its security constitute a fictitious currency, which represent, not values or commodities, but debts. If the theory of Mr. HORSLEY PALMER and the Bank advocates be good, it is a complete condemnation of the Bank practice, which is notoriously the reverse of the theory. Mr. GILBART supplies us with two notable examples of the same truth. In the spring of 1838, he says the Directors of the Bank of England sent nearly a million of gold to America. To send away gold is entirely contrary to the principle of allowing the demands of the public to regulate the issues of and bullion in the Bank. In 1839 the Bank did the very reverse, and probably the false step in 1838 made the other false step in 1839 necessary. In stead of allowing the public to replenish or exhaust its stores, it was obliged to borrow 2,500,0001. of the Bank of France, or do what was equivalent to bringing back twice and a half times as much gold as it sent out the year before. In what manner any individuals connected with the Bank may have profited by this attempt to hide its insolvency we are not aware, but when gold was sent to America, the then low rate of interest caused large sums of money to be invested in American securities. " Several of the Directors of the Bank of Eng land," says Mr. GILBART, " in their individual character of merchants, became agents for the dis t! ibutiort of these securities." This specimen of the manner in which the Directors profited by their own act in making money plentiful, points to the conclusion that the Directors depart from principle, act adverse to their own theories, and work the circulation, now injuring money-lenders by beating down the rate of interest, and then ruining money-borrowers by enhancing it to their own private advantage. We shall return to Mr. GILBA RT . S useful pamphlet. The proceedings at the meeting held on Thurs day at the Freemasons' Hall, are well calculated to rouse the latent energies of the friends of civil aid religious freedom throughout the country. The man who cmn see a member of the Royal Family come forward, as the Duke of SUSSEX has done, to heart a public meeting, called to protest against the extravagant claims of the dominant sect, and will not bestir himself in the same cause, deserves all that Ecclesiastical tyranny can inflict upon him, deserves to have his property plundered, his mind enslaved, and his body imprisoned. Often has the Duke of SUSSEX distinguished himself as the ad vocate of the civil and religious rights of his coun trymen, but never did he render a more signal ser vice either to the Church of which he is a member, or to the Churches unconnected with the State, than that which he performed on this occasion. He will, as usual, be assailed by the virulent abuse of a factious press for opposing what they call Church-extension, but which is in reality Church-extortion. The honest and reflecting part of the community—those alone whose opinions are worth a moment's considera tion to an honest man—will, however, give him due credit for using all his efforts to pre• vent, on the one hand, the perpetration of an act of so disgraceful a nature, that it would weaken the Church by exposing her to obloquy and hatred, and on the other, to protect those who are not of her communion from the unjust and oppres sive infliction of additional burdens for her support. One of the most unpopular features of the State Church is her covetousness. Though she is wal lowing in wealth, she is never satisfied. We can more easily forgive her lust of power, excessive as it is, than her avaricious spirit. There is at least something imposing in the one, the other is insepa rably associated in the mind with all that is mean and base. Who then are her true friends ? Those who foster this degrading propensity, or those who endeavour to check it ? Like all other beggars, the Church pleads poverty in excuse for her importunity. She would do an immense deal of good—that she would—if she had but the means. Now this may be a very cogent reason for the wealthy members of her own com munion to bestow their charity, if they believe her story ; but it is no reason why those who not only receive no benefit from her, but regard her as a nuisance, should be compelled to con tribute to her wants, real or imaginary. Such compulsion, were t h ere n o religious considera xons. involv e d i n th e ques ti o n, would not savour ch.. of justice ; b ut w h en th e matter is viewed in oitsof the rtehleigio po us cke as t p s ect, when money is to be taken out of h the Presbyterians— t for e mi Cth n a ga o l l a i r e g s, e t m he a j D ori i t s y se o n f te t r h s e , people—to extend a system of faith wh i c h t h ey conscientiously hold to be anti-scriptural, then re ligious is added to civil injustice. To civil wrong men may often be bound, or oi may think th emse l ves P bound to submit ; b ut , in a ntsof religi on , i n mat ters where the co nsc i ence of Submission in concerned, such there can be no comp rom i se. casesispritnrneiapsioen ofa against Christianity, Cishrtihstai: every nity,the funda mentalman must be " persuaded in his own mind." Even allowing that the Church i s s she has not wherewithal to co ver her nakedness,poor that would that be any reason for stripping other Churches to clothe her—for oppressing other Churches to minister to her self-indulgence ? Sh e boasts of comprising within her pa - le all that is great and wealthy in the Kingdom. If her boast be well-founded, it is a double shame for her to look for support beyond her own communion. But the truth is, that although she sues in forma pattperis, she has more wealth than she knows how to make a good use of. Her plea of ! poverty is altogether a sham plea• This was very , clearly shown to be the case by Mr. B. HAWES, THE StTN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 25, 1840. on Thursday last, at Freemasons' Hall, and it' cannot be too frequently dwelt upon. Although the profligacy of Bishops, Prebendaries, Canons, &c., has turned into private channels no small portion of what belonged to the public, there still remains the following pittance for the Church : Tithes already commuted for rent-charge, 1,480,000/. ; tithes remaining to be commuted, about 5,000,000/. ; Church leases valued accord ing to the returns, at 570,000/. ; Church-rates, 220,000/. These little pickings, when put toge ther, amount, for England and Wales alone, to up wards of seven millions of sterling money, and, were the truth known, would be nearer nine mil lions. This is the income, allotted by the State, on which the Church of England is starving, while the Kirk, equally a national church, considers it self well off with an allowance of 260,0001., its ministers doing a great deal more work, and doing it better too, than those who, in the shape of lazy pensioners and stall-fed pluralists, consume the greater portion of the wealth of the Church of England. As a specimen, and it is only one of a thousand, of the manner in which the emoluments of this poor Church are distributed—of the propor tion between duty performed and value received, we find the following edifying statement in Mr. HAWES'S speech : Parish. Farnham Bentley Frensham and Elstead Seal cum Tongham Aldershott of A nnual T Value' ithes C .j urate's Stipend. Population. 6,000 £2,000 £lOO 800 1,000 28 2,000 1,000 80 400 350 23 700 650 15 9,900 I £5,000 I £248 Here we have 5,000/. set apart for a certain amount of clerical work. This work is actually performed for 2481.—and how ? The dignified (I ) clergy who bold these benefices—too dignified to preach the Gospel of CHRIST propriis personis—employ journeymen, at the lowest wages that can keep soul and body together, to do the laborious part of the business, while all that they themselves condescend to do is to pocket the 5,0001. With the evidence before the world of such superfluity, what must be the impudence that can ask for a grant of the pub lic money, to pamper the grossness of an overfed corporation ! It must be obvious to every person that just now the clerical body and their friends are making pro digious exertions. They are calling into operation ail the instruments they can command. To see one large body of men animated by such a deter mined ambition to rule and control the mind of the community, and employing all sorts of arts to at tain their ends, would be a fearful thing, were the success likely to be equal to the determination. One" of these men is to be planted, according to the system now partially in operation, and which the Church Extensionists are to make complete, in every little district and amongst every few persons. All these separate clergymen are expected to teach the same or similar doctrines, and all are to aim at control ling the mind of the society. They are to have all education placed in their hands. None of the re lations of life can be formed or sanctioned but by their blessing. To the sick they alone are to be the dispensers of hope ; and to the dying they alone are to be the messengers of peace and comfort. Ambassadors of Heaven—Ministers of GOD—are the astounding titles they lay claim to. " Super natural terror," which they fashion the mind to feel, is their means, and " superstitous slavery" in the people their end. The admirable philosophy of BACON and LocKE, coincident in fact if not in expression, teaches us to look for the correction of all our thoughts to the material world. Our ima ginings are brought to it as a test, and what ex perience does not confirm is rejected as false. Facts common to all, or what all may be conversant with, is, according to these great men, the ultimate test of truth. On their system our thoughts, when most correct and most profound, are only the copies or reflection of external nature, on which and by which the mind is continually moulded. Such is the main principle of all the philosophy of Eng land, since the days of Lord VERULAM. But the order of men whose wide-grasping am bition we have adverted to, and whose present ac tivity fills the land with their deeds, labour conti nually to thwart and oppose this philosophy, and substitute for it supernatural terror—a terror of what never can be brought to the test of the seises—as the means of fornimg the mind. From their opposition to the course of na ture, in spite of their present activity, we look for their defeat. We already see symptoms of their decided failure. They have no one infalli ble standard to walk by, and their present activity, rousing into exertion slumbering genius, and kindling the fires of latent individual ambition, will excite so much friction that they will destroy each other. Dr. CHALMERS is for abstracting the Church wholly from the control of the State ; Mr. M‘NEILE thinks the Bishops should be openly :appointed by the Crown. Dr. CHALMERS would have the ecclesiastical authority wholly indepen dent of the State ; Mr. M'NEILE warns the State to dread ecclesiastical usurpation, and recommends restraints and restrictions to keep down fanaticism and preserve the liberty of the subject. When we find the priests, though all alike grasping, inculcating,' such contradictory doctrines, we rejoice in their acti-i l vity. Go on, we say, gentlemen ; give your annual! lectures, hold your monthly meetings, write your Journals, get hold of the Times and other mis chievous Newspapers, stir up the community with your eloquence ; the more you exert yourselves the, more you will rub against tach other, and the sooner will you kindle a fi re th a t w ill consume you • all. If we did not anticipate this as the natural' result, we should behold the great activity now dis played by the priests and their party, and their vast ambition, with dismay. We have given in another part cf the Paper the petition of the London Grand Junction Railway Company relative to the advan tages to be afforded by that line, when completed, to the manufacturing districts of the North of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the heart of the metropolis, and recommend it to public notice. To London, and also to the country, it would be of great advantage, as letters and papers might be put into the Post-office here fully half an hour later than at present, if the proposed plan were carried into effect. The doubts entertained on Sunday in Paris respecting the stability of the new Cabinet, had assumed on Mon. day the semblance of a reality. Oa Sunday night the Royalists held a meeting, and came to an agreement, but whether to support or oppose 1111EAS was kept a profound secret. On Monday night the Mole section, or " 221," were to meet, and decide upon their course 3f action. It was understood that a Ministry consist ing of SOULT, MOLE, DUCIIATEL, PASSY, &C., was actually in the course of formation, and that the KING had offered to support it with all the influence of the Palace. The moment which will decide the political fate of TRIERS is at hand. It is by such junctures that the highest order of political genius is determined. The news from Africa ►s far from being encouraging. A summary of it is subjoined. The Semaphore of - Marseilles gives the following statement of the naval force of France in the Mediter ranean : Squadron of the Levant—The Montebello, of 120 guns, Rear-Admiral La Susse ; the Jena, of 90, Rear Admiral Lalonde ; the Suffren, of 90 ; the Diadems, of 86; the Santi Petri, of 86; the Neptune, of 86; the Jupiter, of 86 ; the Trident, of 80 ; and the Alger, of 80. The corvettes—Brillante, of 28, and Diligente, of 18. The brigs—Bougainville, of 10; and Argus, of 10. The schooner Mesange, of 6. The steamers—Lavoisier, of 220 horse-power; and Veloce, of the same. On the Coast of Africa—The brigs Dragon, of 18; Euryale, of 16 ; Volage, of 10 ; and Liamone, of 4 ; the Emulation tender, the xebecks, Boberoch, and Maza fran ; the balancelles Ssybouse, Tafna, Rachgoun and Celembe ; the transport corvettes, Tarn, Agatha, and Menagere ; the mail steamers Sphinx, Crocodile, Fulton, ofo f! 1 10 Chimere, Styx, Vautour , Phare, Tartare, Etna, Cec yte , Phaeton, Tonnerre, Ramie r, Eu p hrates, Castor, Gron deur, Pepin, and Acheron. On guns ; the of 2SO ; paisno—rpTrihsee, corvettesof ffo; F io E oh g e le , Cigogne, of 10 ; Dupetit Thouars , o f 10 ; the li g hter Me 1 e Coast agre, of Lamproie. On the Coast of Italy—The brig Grenadier. Squadron of Reserve in Toulon.—The Ocean, of 120 guns, Vice-Admiral Rosamel , the Hercule, of 100 guns; the Merengo, of 80 guns; the Triton, of 80 guns ; and the Genereux, of 80 guns. In the Roads of Toulon, without any destination.—The frigates Belle Poule, of 60, and Amazon, of 52 ; the cor vette Bergere, of 20 ; the brigs Palinure, of 20, the o C f omote, of 10 ; t h e sc h ooners E to il e, o f 6, a nd Legere, port 2 p r ; ce op t r h av e rei nt e tg u e t s t f e o m r r sa F er u an r .e lt a ; Tn d t h l i cE e s x ie. e ti). l3 si c e k ac pd C i o h an a s, m t oe Chamois, steamer r t g h cu e ne sr b; e trans-trhe e Soiiverain, of 120 • and the Vale de Marseilles of 80. Total -17 sail of the line two frigates, four corvettes, 17 brigs or sch ooners, eight sMall7rrs V corvettes ; j e l ' i s a el l , seven 77,if. transport OriendQrs, 22 steamers; A letter from Vienna, dated the 14th of March, pub lished by the Universal Gazette of Leipzig, speaks of a report current in the Austrian capital of the arrival of the Emperor Nicholas as to be shortly expected. The same letter announces that the Archduke Frede rick, who is at present at Smyrna, has given up his inten tion of visiting Constantinople, though the presents to be offered to the Sultan have already been sent from Vienna to Smyrna. It is supposed that this resolution has been caused by some change in the political relation of the two countries.--Le Commerce. AFRICA. (Private Correspondence of the Constitutionnel.)_ ORAN, MARCH 10. My preceding letters have prepared you to expect an alliance between the Sultan of Morocco and Abd-el-Kader. I am now able to state positively that a treaty has been con cluded between the Emir and the Sultan on the measures to be taken for the holy war till the complete 'ex pulsion of the French. Many of the conditions of the treaty were already known, but the negotiations of the Emir were stopped by a formality which the pride of the Emperor would not allow him to abandon. The partizans agreed on the effective force of their re spective contingents, and other main points ; but the Emir insisted on having the honour, the prerogative, and the command with the Emperor himself. Muley Abd-er- Humann would not enter into open war with us except he gave to Abd-el. Kader, with the command of the combined troops, the title of Kalifat. Such is the cause that has delayed the coalition of the two most powerful persons of Africa against us. The Emir has obtained what he desired : he is on an equality with the Emperor. The French Govern ment must have been long since warned by the press of the secret intrigues of Morocco; it has con tented itself with the evasive answers and false protesta tions of the Government of Tangiers ; now we are obliged to act, for the province of Oran would be in danger if we did not boldly interpose between the two allies. Marshal Vallee is thus compelled to act with vigour in the west of our possessions; it is with difficulty that he will abandon his system, and nothing less than a new war could attract his attention. Great preparations are making at Nedroma, the frontier town of Morocco. Abd-el-Kader is at Tlemeeen ; he is remounting his cavalry. We are still without reinforce ments. _ _ _ .._,...... The partisans of the Emir highly extol this young chief, who by his able policy has succeeded in conquering the vast territory which extends from the frontiers of Con stantine to the frontiers of Morocco. The alliance which has just been entered into clearly shows the ambition of Abd-el- Kader. Two years ago the Consatutionnel, study ing the loss of this remarkable man, predicted that he would overthrow the dynasty of Abd-er-Humann, to unite under his sole government the twe empires of Syphax and Massinissa. —Le Constitutionnel. BOURSE.-PARIS, MONDAY, MARCH 23. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price rench 5 per Cents — 113 10 113 15 ... 112 03 ... 113 5 414 per Cents lO6 25 .., 106 25 106 25 ... 106 25 3 per Cents B3 25 ... 83 25 83 20 ... 83 20 Bank of r'rance 3165 ...3165 —3165 ...3165 Lathtte Bank I,ooof. Sh 1062 50 ...1062 50 ...1060 ...1 60 Llelgian Bank 895 895 890 890 _ .......... 6 per Cents . .... ....... 105% ... 105% ... 105% ... 105% 3 per Cents 74.0 ... 74 40 ... 74'35 ... 74 35 Spanish Active..., : 29 ... 29 ... 28 :... 285 e Passive 7% ... 7 % ••• 7 q S New Deferred Old Deferred 8 ... 8 ... 8 ... 8 Portuguese 3 per Cents 23% ... 23% ... 23% ... 23% Neapolitan: lO4 50 ... 104 57 ... 104 50 ... 104 50 Roman 103% ... 103% ... 103% ... 103% RAILWAY SHARES. -;t. Gen./sail 647 50 ... 6,8 75 ... 647 50 ... C4B 75 Versailles, R. B 545 ... 545 ... 545 ... 545 LB. 355 ... ?Si ... 352 ... 355 Orleans . . 7475 ... 480 ... 475 ... 475 Strasburg to Bale 358 75 ... 358 75 ... 257 50 ... 357 50 AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Viantra, Manta 14. Five per Cents. Mstalliques Roar per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares lBl2 —Allzenzeine Zcilung. March 19 The telegraphic despatch from Madrid published yes terday anticipated the news received this morning from that capital. A private letter states that on the 14th inst. CABRERA arrived at Berga, in Catalonia, at the head of 400 cavalry ; and that his first act was to arrest seven Members of the Junta that deposed Count D'ESPAGNE, for whose death he threatens to take a fearful revenge. DEFECT OF THE PROTESTANT CHURCH.—In the Romish Church the vast number of friars, monks, secu lar clergy, and nuns, allowed of a division of labour which is wholly unknown amongst the Protestant priest hood. One brotherhood in the Romish Church chiefly devoted itself to the confessional, another to education, a third looked after the poor, a fourth attended on the rich, the sisters of mercy visited the sick, &c., &c. Now in the Protestant Church there is no division of labour, and the parish priest has to adapt himself to the rich and the poor, the infidel and the believer, the Chartist and the aristocrat, the sick and the healthy, and, from the multitude of his duties, it may be doubted whether he performs any one of them well. He is either genteel and offends the poor, or is coarse from energy and offends the rich, as Mr. M'Neile yesterday remarked. For this we see no remedy but that the clergy should follow the general practice, and divide their several labours amongst several hands. Let them look through society, and they will see that in its progress each dis tinct trade becomes sub-divided into many branches. The house-carpenter is not only separated from the ship builder and the cabinet-maker, but one house-carpenter confines himself to making doors, another to making win dow frames. In all other occupations but that of the priesthood there is a continual division and sub-divi sion of employment going on, and it deserves their consideration wheth er their neglect of the practice which other men find so essential to success, be not one eause of their waning influence. We at least consider this a defect in the institution of the priesthood, and recom mend the hierarchy to consider whether their purposes would nct be served by di v idi ng th e p r i es th oo d into sundry classes, with specific duties. Let it be, for ex ample, the business of one set of priests to visit the sick, of another to devote themselves to controversy, and of a third to study how to pray well. It should be the es pecial duty of one set to preach, and of another to teach the youth of the nation. There should be one class for political agitation, and another should be appointed to attend at Exeter Hall meetings and play the part of alms-gatherers. One set should be bullies, and another set hypocrites. To point out elderly and opulent gen tlemen and ladies who have not led very regular lives, and may be inclined to purchase heaven by sacrificing their heirs to the Church, should be the business of one select and favoured class not too young. A younger set might be advantageously trained to win ladies of good property, not so far advanced in life, to the ways of piety and the Church. We cannot follow out these hints, but they will suggest to the priesthood, who are now active and stirring, and anxious to recover their former power and influence, the true means by which they must accomplish their ends. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, MARCH 24. —Wind N.N. E., strong breeze and squally.—Sailed the British Queen. for St. Michael's. FALMOUTH. MARCH 23.—Wind N. to N: N. E., fresh gales.—Sailed the Royal Adelaide (steamer), Batty, for Vigo, &c. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 4. —Wind N.E., fresh.—Sailed the Warlock, Seymour, for Calcutta; Tuscany, Smith, Havanna ; Melah, Hammond, New York ; Hibernia, Cobb, ditto; Magnet, Morton, Montreal ; Betsy Hall, 13arrant, Syra, &c. DOVER, MARCH! 24.—Off Port, the Paragon, Swin ford, from St. John's, New Brunswick. BRISTOL, MARCH 24.—Sailed the Cosmo, Canning, for New York ; Wm. Shand, Rutland, Quebec; Hope, Cooper, Newfoundland. CROOKHAVEN, MARCH 22.—Arrived the Jane and Bar bara, Coleman, from Odessa ; Penrith, Lacy, from ditto. CoRK, MARCH 23.—Off Port the Lucretia, Haynes, from Lagu3yra ; City of Durham, Beuthain, Odessa; Cunningham, Gladstone, ditto. HULL, MARCH 24.—Wind N. N. E.—Sailed the Bee, Mitchell, from Quebec ; Johanna, Robertson, ditto. A galliot is reported to be on shore on the Banks. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 24.—The Hibernia, Cobb, bound to New York, grounded this morning off the Wicklow Dock, but came off on the flood and proceeded, with damage. . . . . GRIMSBY, 111Ascii 24.—The Tees, Bcswick, from Stockton, put in here yesterday, very leaky, and with loss of boats, bulwarks, &c.. bound to Hamburg. VESSELS SPOKEN wyru.—Henriette Louise, from Ma tanzas to Antwerp, 3d inst. ; Christian, Peterson, Rio Janeiro to Ilamberg, 10th inst., by the Johanna, arrived at Helvoet. Bristish Tar, Liverpool to Demerara, 25th ult., lat. 46, lon. 23 ; Helen, Galway to London, 9th inst., lat. 52, lon 14, by the Vcnsha, Sutherland, arrived in the Clyde. Euphrosyne, Bordeaux to New York, 21st ult., lat. 14, lon. 24, by the Noveau Tropiquc, arrived in the Gironde. A pac k e t ship, with a b lack ball in her topsail, standing t o t h e wes t w ard, 29th ult., lo n . 43, b y the Nlerim ac , arr i ve d at Li ver pool. Alexander , bound to New Orleans, Jar,. 25, off St. Jago da Cuba ; William Rath bone, Af r i ca to Li verpoo l, 11th inst., lat 50, lon. 14, b y the Julia, arrived at Swansea. La vinia, Cl y de to St. Vincent's, lst i ns t., lat. 54, lon. 1 5 , by the Deli g ht, arrived at Limerick. Salazes, Bourbon to Nantes, Jan. 4, lat. 32 S., lon. 12 E. ; Pacific (whaler of London), out 251 months, with 1,800 barrels of sperm oil, off Christ mas Island, by the Willem, arrived off Torbay. OLYMPIC THEATRE.—The Muse and the Mer chant was produced last week at this theatre ; its construction is slight ; it t urns upon t h e di stas t e manifested by Edmund Irian, o ne o f t h e ar d ent sp i r i ts o f l a j e une France, toward* the trammels of trade, hi s a s pi ra ti on s inclining not t owards wealth, but fame, in th e s h ape o f poet i ca l r eputation. In The Ladies' CM, which succee d e d , admiring h ouse i n f avour o f h er election to the cha ir ; and in The H app i est M an Ali ve , Mr. Vining made every one happy about hi m . Mrs. Stirling se cured the votes of an HAYMARKET THEATRE. — The Ransom was played here last night, introducing to us in the p art of Pauline, the principal character, a debutante by name Mrs. Edwin Yarnold. This lady, who has that wi thin which p asses out ward sh ow , evinced considerable feeling, and the talent which she displayed was acknowledged in a manner that cannot fail to flatter her as well as to convince Webster that she is not a valueless accession to his company. TROUBLESOME HANDS.—At the Dewsbury Petty Sessions, on Thursday, Peter Charlesworth, a mari''pos sessing considerable property, and entitled from his information to move i 2 a respectable sphere of life, was convicted fur the fifth time of dishonestly milking his neighbours' cows, and was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour in the House of Correction. On the Magistrates expostulating with him upon his dishonesty, and the necessity for a man in his station to show a better ex ample, he exclaimed—'" Gentlemen, I have as honest a heart as eve beat in a human breast, but my 71 ''%\' , tray me." Supplies good ; prices stationary. Turbot, 6s. to 21s. ; Cod, 2s. 6d. to lOs ; Salmon, 3s. to 3s. 6d. per lb. ; Lob sters, Is. to 4s. 6d; Whitings, 4d. to Bd. ; Mackerel, 6d. to Bd. ; and Haddocks. Bd. to Is. 2d. PROVISION MARKET. Little done in Irish Butter and prices, little better than usual, at 100 to 102. Fine Dutch Butter sold slowly at 1111 to 112. Bacon quiet but firm. For prime Indian Beef, 81., was paid, and all kinds of Navy Beef and Pork were in good demand. TALLOW MARKET. P.Y.C, very quiet, prices nominal. TEA MARKET. The market was very quiet, and very little doing. Com pany's Congous 2s. 4d. for cash. COLONIAL MARKET. Very little done, either publicly or privately. British Plantation Sugar sold steadily at last-quoted prices. Only one public sale, and that was 1,600 bags Mauritius Sugar, which went at—mid. and good mid. bright yellow, 645. to 655. 6d, MONEY a❑d COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 24.—The sales of this day are 4,400 bales at yesterday's prices, mostly to the trade. The Papers from the north side of Jamaica state that the late heavy rains in the interior have done considerable damage to property, and injured the roads so materially as to render travelling over some of them dangerous. The following account has been received by a gentleman : " On Friday evening last, 3d inst., at four o'clock, a heavy cloud collected over the high hill of Kent Estate, and soon spread itself over the adjoining property (Orange Valley). The rain then commenced to descend in heavy torrents for nearly two hours, doing great damage to the cane pieces of the above estate, and carrying away several parts of the Saltmarsh Road ' • the walls and pates of Kent were com pletely destroyed by the force of the current. The walls of the pen of the late Roger Davies, Esq., as well as those of Leithhfield, were severely injured, and it will require at least 8001. to repair the damages on the Saltmarsh-road. Such a tremendous rain has not been witnessed since the year 1826." Kingston House, Dec. 28. The Governor being inclined to believe that it is desir able to abolish throughout the island the punishment of the treadmill, and to substitute more useful kind of labour for convicts, and to obtain the space now occupied by the treadmill for additional accommodation to prisoners, is desirous of obtaining your sentiments on these points, and I am accordingly directed to request you to communicate them for his Excellency's information. Your obedient servant, J. M. HIGGINSON, Secretary. A company is forming in Jamaica for the culture of the silk worm, for the manufacture of silk —the capital 50,000/., in 5,000 shares, of 10/. each—the deposit 1/. per share. We have received the Baltimore Sun, which states that the committee in the Florida Legislative Council have re ported against the division of the territory, and go for Laving one entire state. We have no other arrival to announce this morning, than the usual French mail ; consequently we are badly off for intelligence. A report is again on the tapis, and which gains some credit, that Commissioners are on the point of departing for Madrid, to bring to a conclusion certain proposals on the part of the Spanish Government to liquidate the debt of the Bond-holders in this country, the particulars of which has not as yet transpired ; but it is supposed, by giving them a certain portion of land and other securities fur the Spanish Bonds they hold. The usual official return has been published by the Customs, of the exportation of the precious metals from the port of London to Foreign and Colonial ports, for the week ending 19th March, as follows : Silver coin to Rotterdam, 112 ounces ; silver coin to Calais, 62,000 ounces ; Silver bars to Calais, 40,000 ounces. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The fresh arrivals have been small of both Grain and Flour. Wheat firm at Monday's prices. Barley, Beans, and Pease also maintained their value. In the Oat trade there was a fair sale at last quotations. Flour sold heavily. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Good supplies, and the demand was lively. Former prices ruled. Beef, 2s. 10(1. to 3s. 10d. ; Mutton, is. Iod. to 3s. 10d. ; Veal, 3s. Bd. to 4s. Bd. and 4s. 10d.: Pork, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 10d. per lb. Larks, is. to ls. 6d. per dozen ; Capons, 7s. 6d. to 12s. ; Gold Plovers, Is. to 2s. 6d. ; Ducklings, 3. 6d. to ss. ; Wild Ducks, Is. to 2s. ; Pea Fowl, 7s. to 10s. ; Pin Tail, Is. to Is. 6d. ; Black Game, 2s. 6d. to 45.; Turkeys, 4s. to 7s. 6d. ; Guinea Fowls, 3s. to 4s. ; Goslings, Bs. to 105. ; Eggs, 4s. 6d. to ss. 6d. per 120. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. TYE FUNDS Consols opened this morning at the leaving off quo tations of yesterclay, with little spirit in the market at pre sent for speculating, Money, 901 1 ; Account 90i 91 ; Exchequer' Bill's,. 17 19 prem. • India Bonds 1 3 prem.; Bank Stock 177'9; India Stock, 247 9. In the Foreign , Market Spanish Active, which closed N esterday at 281 f, receded to 271 28, since which may be quoted at 27i 28i ; Deferred, 131 i ; Passive 74 i ; Portuguese 34i ; Three per Cents., 24k; Colum bian, 24} 5 ; •Mcijcan 29i ; Brazilian 78i; Dutch Two and-a- Half per Cents. 534.1 ; Five per Cents, 101 i 102. PIttCES,OFwTQCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCA. flank Stock. lndia Stock . 3 per Cent. Red. ' Ditto Bonds I per Cents. Con .90% $4% South Sea 5t0ck........... ..... 11--- 3'>. ucr Cent-- ...... Old Annuities — Dia° Red. — New Ditto New 3% per Cent 99% 8,4:9 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500... 19 16 pm. Jan 5, 1860 ... t , — Ditto Small l9 16 I , m. Oct. 10, 1859 . Ditto Commercial die. J: u. 5, MO ' Ditto Advertised Jan.' 5, IMO — Bank Stock for Account ... Aprilsi 1800. — India Stock for Account .. Jan. 5.1870 — Consols for Account 9l nali FiI,ICES OF SHARES THIS DAY" AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share, k;raat Western Railway Company .... 65 Ditto New_ 10 :30% 1 .... Brighton Railway N •rth Midliind Railway Company , 100 Ditto iiew HALF-PAST ONE. We have just received Papers three days later from Halifax,. to the 2d February : News from England has reached us this winter with regularity unexampled in corresponding seasons of the by-gone years. Almost every week of the three last months has brought us at least two days' later intelligence, by way of the States, from London or Liverpool. Since the early part of the morning both the British and Foreign Funds have become depressed. Consols have been done at 90i for Money, and for the Account 901 Money is much in demand in the House at 6 per cent. The speculators arc very anxious to ascertain the result of the important debate in the French Chambers respecting the Secret Service money, on which depends the fate of Thiers's administration, which, in all probability, will ;be known to-morrrow by telegraph. Consols may be quoted at present 90i i Money ; 901 for the Account; Exchequer Bills, 17 16 18 prem. ; In dia Bonds, par. In the Foreign Market very little doing, except in Spa nish Active, 27k; Deferred, 131 : ; Passive, 7/1 4 ; Por tuguese, 33i ; Three per Cents., 24,; in all the other Foreign Funds nothing doing as yet. The defendants denied that they had been the aggressors, and had they been allowed, they would have gone to the cage without making any resistance. 'Mr. HALL said that, as the Act empowered him, he had a great mind to send them, without inflicting a penalty, to hard labour for a limited period, but as they were not known to have transgressed in the district of the Court on any former occasion, they should pay the fine. Anne Fowler and Eliza Fowler, mother and daughter, were remanded for a week on a charge of robbing Mr. Chadwick, auctioneer, 35, St. Martin's-lane, with whom the last-mentioned prisoner had been in service, of a 201. Bank of England note, three Si. notes, some cash in gold, and a quantity of jewellery. It appeared that on the night of the 9th instant the younger prisoner had been sent on an errand, and, not re turning, the family became very much alarmed, but on re tiring to bed, the prosecutor discovered that his drawers had been broken open, and the property taken away. On the next morning, having given information of the rob bery, and a description having been given in the Police Gazette, the prisoners were apprehended in Liverpool, by the Inspector of Police of that town, who found them in lodgings furnished in a superior manner, and which they had recently purchased. He also found part of the pro perty upon the prisoners, which the prosecutor instantly identified as the same which he had been robbed of. The prisoners, after denying the charge, were removed from the bar. FIRE IN LIVERPOOL -ROAD, ISLINGTON.— Yesterday afternoon a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Fennell, residing at No. 6, Felix-street, Liverpool-road, Isling ton. On the firemen entering the upper room a most appalling spectacle presented itself, by the discovery of Mr. Fennell's three children lying on the floor lifeless, having been suffocated and partly burnt. 'lle mother having had occasion to quiti her residence, locked her three children in the room, in which a fire was in the grate. It is supposed that they must have com menced playing with the fire immediately after her departure, and set some of the bed-furniture on fire, but, from the door of the room being locked, they could not effect their escape, and unfortunately all fell a sacrifice. _ _ A very shocking accident occurred on Friday morning in the railway tunnel now forming at Balcome. It appears that some men had descended for the purpose of setting up a " centre" ready for the bricklayers, and after doing so came to the foot of a shaft for the purpose of being drawn up again. Two of them, named Bates and Berry, entered the , kip, and had been wound about half way up, when the rope broke, and both the unfortunate men were instantaneously pre cipitated to the bottom of the shaft, falling a distance of 90 ft. Berry was killed on the spot, and Bates has been so shaken by the fall, that although no bones are broken, his life is despaired of. It was reported that the rope had been purposely cut by some maliciously and wickedly-disposed person, but of this no satisfactory evidence has reached us. A Mastership in Chancery is vacant by the death of Master Connor. Of course there are candidates enough when a lawyer's place is vacant ; and even where law yers themselves do not seek, the public supply the place with speculations. We have only heard of two names mentioned— Mr. Plunket and Mr. Lyle. Either of these gentlemen, as times go, would be highly eligible. Mr. Lyle is now Deputy Remembrancer, and has given much satisfaction in that office. The Hon. Mr. Plunket has an excellent character as Barris ter of Meath. Since .writing the above we have heard a ru mour that the Attorney-General will accept the office ; and that Sergeant Curry will be the Solicitor-General in the room of Mr. Pigot, who will be then Attorney-Gencral.—Dublin Pilot. IRISH REGISTRATION BILL.—A meeting was held on the 22nd instant, at the Corn Exchange, Dublin, to receive the Report of a Committee appointed to examine Lord Stanley's Irish Registration Bill. J. M. Carew, Esq., presided. The Report, which extended to a great length, was read by Mr. O'Connell, and pointed out in strong terms the injustice which the Bill, if carried into a law, would inflict upon the great body of the Irish constituency. It does nothing," the Report states, " to extend and make definite the existing franchises in Ireland—it removes no doubt—it facili tates no favourable decision—it is totally silent as to the prin ciple grievance, and deals, as it were, with the leaves and branches, where the core of the tree is hollow and rotten." A petition was unanimously adopted, praying the House of Commons to reject the Bill. AN OLD PEDESTRIAN.—There is a person now living at Horton, near Bradford, of the name of John Priestley, who, during a period of forty-five years has travelled to his work every morning a distance of three miles, and re turned home again the same evening, being in the whole 100,740 miles.—Halifax Guardian. LISBON, MARCH 10.—M. Avrillon, the Astley of this place, contrived a very good expedient yesterday to fill his house, which was quite successful. He announced his in tention of giving away one of his best horses by raffle on the occasion ; and all that purchased tickets to any part were to have a gratis ticket for the raffle. Several thousand people •sere present. The performances were at the large Circus, Campo St. Anna, and M. Avrillon is supposed to have cleared at least 700 or 800 milreis, the charger in question being worth about six or seven moidores. SINGULAR SUICIDE OF A GENERAL OFFICER..—At Durham, on Wednesday last, Sir William Wilkinson, a retired general officer in the army, committed iuicide during the previous night. Sir William had attained the advanced age of 85 years. He was very deaf, and had for a long period led a secluded life, never mixing in society, and taking such exercise as his health required invariably alone. His manners were strongly marked by eccentricity, but no part of his conduct had ever excited suspicion of insanity. A Coro ner's Inquest was held on Wednesday, when it appeared that he shot himself with a pistol. The housekeeper thought he was mad, and the Jury returned a verdict of Temporary de rangement. Sir William was one of the oldest of our Gene rals, and served with distinction in the American war. He is understood to have died immensely rich. The Company of the Paris and Orleans Rail road have come to an arrangement with the Minister of Pub lic Works which will secure the completion of the enterprise. The 80,000 shares of 500 f. each, which represent the capital, are to be reduced to 300 f. shares, so that the shareholders will only be called upon for 24 millions, instead of 40 millions, the remainder being contributed by the State, but power being reserved to the original shareholders, to enlarge their in vestments, if they wished to do so, for any portion of that amount, or to call in the aid of small capitalists, if the cost of the line should exceed forty millions. It is also agreed that the State is not to have any ;hare of the profits until the share holders shall have received 4 per cent. interest upon their in vestments. If there be any surplus of profit the Government will take only one fourth of it. The amount already paid up upon the shares is 14 millions, so that ten millions more only are required to complete the capital, with the 16 millions sub scribed by the State.— Galignani's Messenger. The Prussian State Gazette announces, under the head of Warsaw, the 13th instant, that fourteen persons who had not applied for the benefit of the amnesty, and have taken refuge abroad, have been condemned to the confiscation of all their property. THE TYRIAN.—The magnificent carriage in tended as a present to the President of Chili, and which was packed up in a wooden case, was taken out of the hold early yesterday morning. It is much damaged by the water and soft mud, the case in which it was enclosed not being sufficiently water-tight to prevent the entrance of the wet and soil. A great many bags of pepper, boxes containing bars of steel, battles of quicksilver, cases of bottled wine and porter, and an immense quantity of sailcloth, bales of linen, paper, cottons, and other merchandise, were taken out of the hold in the course of the day. The pepper is not spoiled, but a quantity of cin namon has been rendered worthless. The provision and wine casks are in excellent order, and were all water-tight when shipped. The bales and cotton and bundles of paper are much injured by the mud and water ; but, on the whole, with the ex ception of the carriage, the gildings and trappings of which are in a sad plight, the injury done to the cargo is not so great as its appearance would lead observers to expect. Everything brought out with a coating of soft mud, which the labourers had to serane off before the goods could be warehoused. The whole of the cargo will be sold by auction for the benefit of the underwriters. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS Bank Stock ............ ........... India Stack 3 per Cent. Bed Ditto Bonds ..... ....... 3 per Cent Ccns 9O Ditto Old Annuities.... ...... .. 3b per Cent. Red Ditto New Annuities ... ...... New 3y.', per Cent 99 Ex. Bills, 1,0001 2d 18 pm New 5 ner Cent Ditto 500/ 18 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small Jan. 1861 1 Oct. 1859 Jan 1860 FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian, 5 per cent Bclgian, 5 per cent ilrszilian Bonds. X.. 78% roienos Ayres, 6 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 or cent 22% Ditto, 1824 Danish. 3 per Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct — Mexican, 5 per cent.... Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 — Pernvian,lB2s,6 per cent — Portuguese Honds,sper cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent. Russianonis, 5 per cent — Ditto, Metallic - Spanish, 5 per cent. 27t 4 i Ditto, Deferred French, 5 per cent .... ..... —f. —c Exchange f. —c French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Dutch, 2% per cent 53% Ditto, 5 per cent.... ........ — A.RES. Great Western Railway — Ditto "lew Shares .... 3l London and Brighton Railway 24 London and Birmingham Railway 156 London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 97i Midland Counties Railway 76S, Northern and Eastern Railway l3 North Midland Railway Ditto New Shares York and North Midland Railway 52 THE LATE EARL OF STAIR.—The late John William Henry Dalrymple, Earl of Stair, who died at Paris on Friday last, was the seventh Earl. He was Earl of Stair, Vis count Stair and Dalrymple, Lord Glenluce, Stranraer and Newliston in the Peerage of Scotland, and a Baronet of Nova Scotia, and was born the 16th November, 1784. In 1821 he succeeded his cousin, the sixth Earl, to the title and estates. His late Lordship married, in 1804, Miss Johanna Gordon, eldest daughter of Mr. Charles Gordon, which union was an nulled in June, 1820; and on the 3d of June, 1808, his Lord ship married the late Lady Laura Manners. This marriage was declared void in 1809, in consequence of the previous Scotch marriage. _ _ _ LEECHES IN FRANCE.—M. Huzard has pre sented to the Societe d'Encouragement a proposition for grant ing prizes for the best methods of preserving and increasing the number of leeches in France. He states that about 23,000,000 of these useful creatures are annually consumed in France, but their price is raised to an enormous rate on account of the difficulty of keeping them alive. The objects of the proposed prizes are :—The stocking of such pieces of water and streams as are fit for the propagation of leeches but at present have none in them ; for the best means of making them disgorge after an operation, without injuring them or diminishing their powers; and introducing a new and effec tive species hitherto unknown in France. THE KING OF HANOVER.—The Hanover Gazette of the 18th instant states that his Majesty received all the Court on the day before, the fifth anniversary of his enter ing the army, and distributed numerous decorations to officers on this occasion. A letter from Hanover gives the following particulars of the reception, &c., at the Court :—" His Ma jesty has created twelve Grand Crosses, eight Commanders, and eleven Knights of the Order of the Guelphs. Prussia, Brunswick, and Mecklenburg have had each their share in these Royal favours. The promotions in the army are nume rous. At twelve o'clock the King reviewed the troops of the garrison, and afterwards received the congratulation of the re sident Foreign Ministers, his own Officers of State, and the other principal authorities. At four o'clock there was a grand military Court at the Palace. A deputation from the officers of all the different regiments presented in their name an eques trian statue of his Majesty in silver, in testimony of their grati. tude and attachment. After the Court the King gave a grand dinner of 500 covers, including all the officers in the capital. The Prince Royal proposed his Majesty's health, which was drunk with enthusiastic acclamations, accompanied with a salvo of 21 guns. Prince Frederick William Louis, the Queen's son, was present, h av i ng com e expressly from Berlin." The Limerick Reporter states a horrible threat ened case of extermination—namely, seventy families, on the lands of Portrain, the property of a Rev. Mr. Lloyd, about to he ej ec t e d. C an i t b e t r ue ? We shall watch such d eL d s as thine with tuvre—than nrainarrattwtttiou, THE RUSSIAN EXPEDITION TO KHIVA.— A letter from Berlin, in the Augsburg] Gazette, states, on the authority of accounts from Russia, that the corps under Gene ral Perowsky had, on its march to Khiva, met with serious and unexpected obstacles. The Khan had destroyed all the bridges over the rivers and ravines, and as wood is.very scarce in that country, the expedition, which was harrassed by a numerous cavalry of Usbecks, was much delayed in re-establishing the communications, and consequently advanced but slowly. On Monday afternoon a respectable young man named James Booth was drowned in the Thames, off the Dun dee wharf, at Wapping. He had called upon his brother, a proprietor of the wharf, and was crossing a plank, when he slipped and fell into the water, and when taken out was dead, although h e h a d b een submerged a few minutes only. THE LORTON CASE,--.At last our repeated taunts have extorted from the agent of Lord Lorton something which he calls an explanation of the ante-dated copy of lease, as previously only made public through the statement of Widow Murphy's counsel. The letter is signed "Thomas Courtenay." It consists of a long rigmarole, going over agLin the old ex ploded allegations against the widow Murphy, but not one word of compassion or repentance. The following contains all the defence of the ante-dated copy ; and it is right to give every party the benefit of their own story The facts as to the lease produced at the trial, on the part of Lord Lorton, are simply these :—Sir Thomas Featherstone, who owned the estate in question, in the year 1795 agreed to give each tenant then in occupation of the lands of Fardromin (of which the holding in question forms a part) a lease for one life or thirty years (not eighty), and proposals for such leases were accordingly put in by the several tenants, and accepted by Sir Thomas Featherstone, the then landlord, at cer tain rents—a proposal for a lease being considered almost as good as the lease itself, and being a document upon which a 40s. claimant for the franchise could register his vote. Matters so remained, and the intended leases were not executed at the time ; but in the year 1804 Sir Thos. Feather stone having determined on selling the estate in question--and with a view to preparing a correct rental, and being anxious that the tenant should have the full benefit of the previous agreement for leases, before handing them over to another, had the leases prepared ; but as the proposals iv ere accepted in January, 1795, it was deemed right that the leases should be antedated to that year, and the term to spring from thence." Here now is the explanation ; and not one word need be said of its nature. The document was a falsehood : it purported to be what it was not, and that is enough. The public will judge for themselves.—Dublin Pilot. QUIETNESS AT LAST.—A bickering couple, residing near Manchester, were recently overheard in high con troversy, and the repentant Benedict exclaimed, " I'm deter mined I'll have one quiet week with thee ! " " But how wilt thou get it? how wilt thou get it? how wilt thou get it?" said his taunting spouse, with that " d—d iteration " which mar ried ladies so provokingly practice—" I'll keep thee a week after thnu'rt dead ! " was the tender rejoinder. Great activity prevails in the Royal Dockyards at Chatham and Sheerness, and several line-of-battle ships are in a state of rapid forwardness. The London, 90 guns, it is expected will be launched from the%former establishment early in the month of June next. Orders from the Admiralty to that effect were/ received on Friday last. The Duke of Wellington had an audience of Prince Albert yesterday afternoon, at Buckinghaea Palace, to present to his Royal Highness the Diploma of a Doctor in Civil Law, conferred upon his Royal Highness by the University of Oxford. Viscount Melbourne had an interview yesterday with her Majesty. The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the perform ance of Mr. Charles Kemble in The 'Wonder, at Covent Garden Theatre last evening, with their presence. The Royal Suite included the Dowager Lady Lyttleton, Earl of Fingall, Colonel Wemyss, Colonel Wylde, and Mr- Francis Seymour. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by several Ladies and Gentlemen of her Suite, rode out on horse back in the Parks yesterday morning. The Duke of Cam bridge and Prince George visited her Majesty yesterday. Lady Anna Maria Dawson has succeeded Lady Fanny Howard as the Lady in Waiting on her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. Prince George of Cambridge visited the Princess Au gusta yesterday at Clarence House, St. James's. The Rev. John Becham, the Rev. Dr. Alder, and the Rev. Elijah Hoole, as a deputation from the Committee of the Wesleyan Methodists, with a Congratulatory Ad dress to her Majesty, had an interview with the; Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home Office. Mr. G W. Wood and Mr. Macivar, had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Colonial Office. M. Guizot, the French Ambassador, honoured the Raleigh Club of Travellers and Geographers with his Como pany at a dinner, which was given on Monday,- to comme morate his Excellency's services in promoting geographic science, while Minister of Public Instruction in France. Mr. Murchison occupied the Chair, and among the Mem bers present, were the Earl of Ripon, Hon. Mountstnart Elphinstone, Sir John Barrow, Lord Prudhoe, the Vice- Chancellor, Sir Woof'bine Parish, Mr. Hallam, Mr. Greenough, Mr. B. Frere, Mr. H. Hamilton, Sir J. Ren nie, and Captain Warlington. The Attorney-Gencral and Mr. Osborn, had interviews with Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Colonial Office. Sir M. Wood. and Mr. Sanford, with a deputation, bad an interview with Mr. Labouchere yesterday, at the Board of Trade. The Marquis of Lansdowne, had a dinner party OP Monday, at Lansdowne House. Despatches from the Right Hon. C. Poulett Thomson, Governor of the Canadas, were received yesterday at the Colonial Office. kASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Lord and Lady Petre, Captain Sir Thomas Fellowes , Lieut.-General Huskisson, the Rev. Robert Grosvenor , the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Phipps ' the Hon. Miss Spring Rice, the Dowager Lady Petre, Mr. Sloane Stanley, Co lonel Peel, M.P., Mr. M. Arcbdall, M.P., Colonel Ver ner, Major and Mrs. Compton, Lord Kinnaird, at Fee ton's Hotel ; Mr. and Mrs. Crookenden, at ditto; the Lord Provost of Glasgow, at ditto; the Hon. Mr. Walde grave, at ditto; Mr. and Mrs. Duff Dingwall, at ditto; Count de Courcy, at the Brunswick Hotel; the Hon. Miss Louisa Noel, Colonel Angerstein, and Colonel Selo' ley ' • Lord and .Liady Ingestrie ; Lord George Paget; Lord and Lady Lilford ; Lord Kelburne, at the Clarendo n Hotel ; Sir Charles Grey, at ditto ; Lord and Lady Wil liam Fitzroy; General Sir H. and Lady Campbell; Lord Bexley; the Bishop of Ely; the Earl of Thanet ; Lora St. Vincent, at Ellis's Hotel ; Lord Dunsany ; the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, and the Marquis of Beaunaont. BOW-STREET-(THIS DAY.) Lord Grim..ton, the Honourable Mr. Fitzroy, (both of whom gave the name of Egan), and a south who was called by them little Jack Johnson, were fined in penalties of 41. each for assaulting and resisting the police, last night, in the execution of their duty, in St. Martin's-lane. It appeared that about ten o'clock five others, with the defendants, sallied forth from a chop house, and not knowing how to amuse themselves, Little Jack thought proper to lay hold of a ladder which stood against a house, but which he was unable to remove, as it was fastened at the top. On proceeding further, he met with a poor Italian boy, who had pitched his images on a railings, to rest himself ; and two of the images being sent into the middle of the road and dashed to pieces, the poor boy ran off with the remainder to save himself and his property. The police then interfered, and the defendants showed such resistance as to give them great trouble in conveying them to the station. EVENING E! COURT CIRC ULAIL. DEPARTURES. Viscount Mountnorris, for Flower Grove, near DubDo; Rear Admiral Sykes, for Bath ; Mr. Harley Drummond , for Leamington Spa ; Lord Waldegrave, for Melton Mow bray, the Prince de Montford and suite, for the continent; Rear-Admiral Sir F. Austin, for Portsmouth ; Colonel Pennefather, for Dublin ; Connt Derrindoff, for Paris; Rear-Admiral Thirling, for Hampshire ; the Hon. and Rev. Edward Moore and family, from Crawley's Hotel, for the Cloisters, Windsor Castle; the Hon. Mrs. Lind sey Burrell, for Ryde ; Lord Cosmo Russell, for Dublin; the Earl of Cassilis for Dublin ; Lord Dunraven, from the Burlington Hotel, for Windsor; Captain Stanley, for Paris ; Colonel G. Wyndham, for Brighton ; General Crosbie, for Sussex ; Lord Alexander Russell, for Weedon Barracks ; the Mayor of Limerick, from Morley's Hotel , for Liverpool ; Lord Lauderdale, for Thurlestane House , near Dunbar; the Marquis of Kildare, for Carton Hous e, near Maynooth ; Lord Ducie, for Woodchester Park, nea r Minchinhampton ; the Hon. Edward Stanley, for Knows ley Park; Lord Forester, for Belvoir Castle ; Lord Her' borough, from Stevens's Hotel, for Stapleford Hall ; C° l * Alexander, for Dublin ; Lord Leigh, for Stoneleig b Abbey ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, O r Strathtieldsay ; Earl Spencer, for Leamington Spa. The Duke of Wellington has surpmoned meeting of Conservative Peers, at Apsley House, to c onside r the Irish Municipal Bill. The Earl and Countess of Surrey will pass the. approaching recess at the Rookery, near Dorking, where Lo ra and Lady. Fitzalan, and a family party, will assemble. Mr. Labouchere entertained his Excellency the French Ambassador, M. Guizot, and a select party at dinner , at his new mansion in Belgrave-square. The Earl and Countess Cadogan entertained a select circle at dinner, on Monday evening, at their residcoe° in Piccadilly. In the evening her Ladyship had a small even" ing party. An ne, Countess of Newburgh, entertained a dis tinguished party at her beautiful residence, Slindon "louse , Sussex, on the 19th inst. There were present their Graces the Duchess and the Dowager Duchess of Richmond, and the Ladies Lennox ' • the Bishop of Chichester, M r . and L a dy Cecil Delafield, Sir Thomas and Lady Reynell, &c. The con ' servatory of the Countess of Newburgh is considered the finest in the country. The Duke of Leeds has arrived at HorobY Castle, from Melton Mowbray. The Countess Dalberg Acton has returned W the Clarendon Hotel, from a visit to the estates of her son il l Staffordshire. Baron James Rothschild arrived at Mivart's Hotel, on Monday last, from Paris. Viscountess Sidmouth has arrived at the Royal Hotel, St. Leonard's-on-Sea, from Richmond Lodge, 0 0 visit of condolence to the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Norwich and Mrs. Pellew. Viscount Sidmouth, now one of the most aged Members of the House of Peers, is staying t Early Court, near Reading. Mr. Tatton and Lady Charlotte Egerton ente r " tained a select party at dinner on Saturday evening, in Wilt on Crescent. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence and Mr. Womb' well left town yesterday, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess °' Beaufort, being among the guests invited to meet the Heredita r y Prince of Saxe Coburg Gotha. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridg e will give a grand dinner to-morrow even i ng at Carribril House, in honour of the birth-day of P r i nce Ge or ge, who not return to Brighton until the close of the wee k. The venerable Archbishop o f Y or k w ill give,' dinner this evening, in Grosvenor-square, to he r Majesty ti Queen Dowager, the Duke of Wellin g ton, E ar l H o we, Lot Burghersh, Sir Gore Ouseley, Mr. Vernon Harcourt , B 'l'. His Grace, and his noble and illustrious visiters, will afterwarn' honour the Queen's concert of ancient music with their pre sence. The Archbishop, who is director for the evenin_g, bb engaged Madame Carad or i Allan, M rs . K n y ve tt, Miss Vire' Messrs. Harrison, Phillips, Hawkins, &c. The Marquis of Lansdowne had a dinner par t y on Monday at Lansdowne House. Lord Tenterden gave a grand dinner to a selec t party at the Clarendon Hotel, on Monday evening. LORD LYNDHURST.—HiS Lordship, we are happy to state, continues to impr.we in health. Yesterail the Duke of Wellington called to make inquiries after the health of his Learned and Noble Friend. His Grace via!, ° 1 foot, and walked with a fi rm s t ep . Th e N o bl e an d Ga" e '; Duke has called pe rsona lly every d ay s i nce hi s Lordship 4 lord Stanley, M. P., with Lady Stanley, a re detained at Lathorn House, the seat of Lord Skelmersd ale, in consequence of the illness o f h er L a d ys hi p ' s mother , Lad! Skelmersdale. His Lordship was expected in town this week' to attend to his parliament a ry d u ti es , b ut h as been oblige(' t° defer his corning to town for a few days. Lord and Lady Canterbury are expected to re turn to England this season. Earl and Countess Grey, accompanied b Lady Georgiana Grey, are expected dailyin town from liew le Hall, Northumberland. Viscountess Burghersh left Harley-street, ye s ; terday, on a visit to the Earl of Westmorland, at Bright ° e The venerable and Noble Earl, although rather infirm, i s excellent health. BADMINTON.—Great preparations are bejog made for the reception of the Hereditary Prince of Sal e . ne ke burg Gotha, who stays during the week on a visit to them ee and Duchess of Beaufort. The hounds meet on the law n tryt Thursday ,when a very strong mu s t er o f th e N o bility, 6e . n „,, e nt and yeomanry will, in all pr o b a bilit y , t a k e p l ace , i n comFai' - to the young Prince. MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW N OVEL , " - rr 11 WIDOW MARRIED," A SEQUEL TO "WIDOW 8AR•144131.f(i; sNeoritphtiinognsc7shbee m is o a r l e w s a h y a s r o p ri a g n in d al fr a e n sh d than Mrs; T rT o b ll o o n2 lie rr 'i le4._. t volumes give us the history of the Widow Barnaby re sHe t e career , r forth. H m e a r nceu husbandy r es, and and maternal dauzhter plaortetianlgsos rarear admir the wittiness of the former is excellently contrasted P w ic i ttlui e r e et t h e d e exuberant naivete of the latter. The quiet sarcasm th r f ith against the prevailing f. - ,llies of society, the quicknessd. the which the features of the world of fashion are seized, an s he cool way in which Mrs. Trollope hits off the characters _ e we introduces, are all alike very striking. We know not when have have been more amused with incidents, or pleased with sn' d. boa' observations, than with those with which these volumes 8 , 05 ,...0 The numerous illustrations are very skilfully drawn by P Age. AD' 1 " STAFFORD.—COUNTY MEETING 7 DRESS THE QUEEN, &c.—A public meeting, called bylisl sition to the High Sheriff of the county, was held in tue se o f Prins Court at Stafford, on Wednesday last, for the pure the presenting addresses to the Queen, Prince Albert , s wh i c h Duchess of Kent. The High Sheriff read the address; after , __ reor e.- it was seconded by Lord Hatherton, who in a brief a11 .. ° 0 .2' 0 5 to hensive speech said that every argument brought i Would be establish the propriety of a meeting like the present . shop understood, while all the nation was pressing forivar,_l cho ice its attachment to the throne, and its gratification in u t"Z ee d e et made by our youthful Sovereign ; this count could t o u repo se amid the general feeling.—Lord Talbot again rose t t e W e" the address to Prince Albert, and observed that after us merited eulogy that had been passed on the illustrious d but h e , to by his Honourable Friend, little was left for him tr wisely both for herself and the interests of the con S togeth er would say that her Majesty, in his opinion, had chosen rb s ; trusted that before long they would again be cal e interesting t n he Mr.. than the present. This address is to be presented the t Lieutenant, and the High Sheriff. Mitch am CORN-LA WS.---A meeting was held at to a on numerousll l ond audience, Monda y e_T u yevice‘nuieneT andwhetnh e fir. following P au t Poultondelivered resolution w a a s ag lecture.riece to i ated —" Th at t hi s meet i ng considers all laws w hi c h are le an d to enhance the price of th e l a b our er's food abornill uademo wicked, unchristian in th e i r p r i nc iples, and impolitic ni'd ralizing i their defects; and be totally . and inn that as they are bad j e n dralelY and in inju n stice, they ought to _.....errmsly pedietl," A ,Chienll.e total repeal is already % II"' '4 . 11f2 ti .