The Sun. — London, England, 1840-03-10 00:00:00

EVEN'IIsCT CHURCH QUESTION in SCOTLAND• PARLIAMENTARY DI JISION. (From the Morning Advertiser.) TO THE EDITOR. Sta,—Mr.Home Drummond's address to the ele,tors of Perthshire is of a piece with most other Tory pro fessions of faith, meaning little, and that little insin cerely. Tried by this test the utmost latitude might pervade his votes in the House of Commons if he should happen to be elected. But there is a point which be will find some difficulty in e vading, however artfully he may endeavour to turn it. We allude to the question of the General Assembly's Veto Act, as it is commonly called, which has so strongly excited the public mind in Scotland. Mr. Drummond announces in his address that he is favourable to the popular side, but will not pledge himself to any distinct avowal ; this Jesuitical declaration, which would leave him free to vote for any cou rse the Tory party may eventually choose to adopt with regard to this question, will not satisfy even his owa adherents in Perthshire, many of whom, though Tory in other respects, are likely to exact upon the hustings a distinct pledge upon this point. It is seldom that ecclesiastical quarrels are about sub jects favourable to civil liberty. The present division in the Scottish Church is one, however, which may be made eminently conducive towards the interests of re form, if correctly appropriated by the Liberal party, as is evident from the alarm into which the Tories are thrown concerning the effect it may produce upon the election at issue. Essentially Protestant, the Presby terian Church is essentially democratic. Whatever tends to violate its republican form is at variance with its true character. In Scotland the religious feelings of the people are enlisted on the side of civil liberty. Thera, at least, the cause of the Church is the cause of the people, whatever it may be in other countries, and for that reason the Church is sacrificed by the Tories, as she is upheld by them for contrary reasons in Eng land. Ministers, to carry all the county elections in Scotland against the Tories, we arc persuaded, onflict have merely to i.dopt the popula r side in the present c of jurisdictions between the Church and the Courts of Law. The case is briefly thus : It is a fundamental doctrine of the Scottish Church, that a majority composed of not less than three-fourths of the congregation of a parish have the right to object to the Clergyman presented to a living by a patron, pro vided they think fit ; and if their objections be sub stantiated by the Presbytery, the latter will refuse to ordain the candidate, who cannot, until he receives their permission, preach a single discourse in the church to which he is so presented. This limitation of the patron's rights was one which, although it may have fallen into temporary abeyance, was co-existent with that right—no prescription can be pleaded against a constitutional right of this kind, according to the maxim of law nullum tempus occurrit Regi. But here occurred a difficulty. It was admitted that the congregation possessed this right, but pleaded, on the part of the patrons, that they were bound to assign a specific objection to the Clergyman offered to their approbation and that of the contending Presby tery ; of the validity of which specific objection the Court of Session declared itself the judge. Acting upon this view, they overruled the objection of the congregation of a certain parish, and the decree of the iPresbyter, rejecting the individual presented by the patron, and upon appeal to the House of Lords their decision was confirmed. The General Assembly, on the other hand, denied the jurisdiction of the Law Courts regarding their privileges, founding upon the Act commonly called the Veto Act, which they had passed declaratory of their rights. Thus, w hen, the parishes where these questions have originated are at present in the predicament of having a clergyman appointed by the patron, and confirmed by a Court of Law, who nevertheless does not preach under pain of being " unfrocked," for want of the ordination of his own Ecclesiastical Court. Neither can the Ge neral Assembly appoint any other Minister to preach in these parishes, for want of the authority of the Court of Session and of the patron. An immense majority of the Church are in favour of the Non-intrusion principle ; and the few who have so far aided with the Court of Session as to obey its pre cepts, have been suspended by the General Assembly, who decide that the veto being once granted to force the congregation to assign specific reasons for object ing to a candidate, would be to defeat it altogether, it being quite possible that the minister of a parish might be inefficient, and yet exceedingly difficult to assign any reason for his inefficiency, from the very nature of re ligious instruction itself ; also that it would be opening the door to interminable actions for libel were it other wise. Few questions have agitated the public mind in Scotland so strongly as the present. The side of the t congregations is espoused by the most eminent divines, 1 Dr. Chalmers among the number, and enthusiastically supported by the great bulk of the people, whilst it has been as bitterly opposed by the Tories both in and out of the General Assembly, to whom this idea of subject , ing parsons to the approval of their flocks is as distaste ' fal as the voluntary principle itself. ilt might not be unadvisable in the present state of matters for the Government to bring in a measure to settle the right in dispute, affirming to the people of Scotland the right of choice. The Perthshire election I will be an index o f the effect it has produced on the 1, popular mind ; an effect so deep, we are assured, as to merge, for the moment, all distinctions of Whig and Tory. 1 The course will probably be, that Ministers will t bring in a Bill to this effect. The House of Lords i will throw it out, and thereupon the people of Scotland w.ll g o mad. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, London, March 6th, 1840. DUNS SCOTUS 1 MAJORITY— Acland, T. D.—West Somerset I'Court, Captain—Tamworth Alsager, R.—Surrey Atwood, W.—Greenwich Bagge, W.—West Norfolk Baillie, H. D.—Honiton Baker, Edward—Wilton Baring. F. T.—Portsmouth Barrington, Lord—Berkshire Berkeley, Hon. C.—Cheltenhtro Bewes, T —Plymouth Blackett, C.—South Northumber• land Blair, J.- Wigtonshire Blake, Wm. J.—Newport, Isle df Wight Bolling, W.—Bolton Bowes, John—South Durham Broadley, Henry—East Yorkshire Brocklehurst, J.—Macclesfield Brodie, W. B.—Salisbury Brownr;gg, J. S.—Boston Bruges, W. H. L.—Bath Burrell, Sir C.—Shoreham Clay, William—Tower Hamlets Clem, Sir G.—Stamford Clive, R. H. _ South Shropshire Collier, John—Plymouth Copeland, W. T.—Stoke.upon Trent Corbally, Matthew Elias Courtenay, P.—Bridgewater Cripps, Joseph—Cirencester Curry, William—Armagh Darlington, Earl of—Shropshire Davies, Colonel—Worcester Denison, W. J.—West Sussex Douglas, Sir C. E.—Warwick Dowdeswell, W.—Tewkesbury Dugdale, W. S.—Warwickshire Duncombe, T. S --Finsbury Dundas, Frederick—Orkney Egerton, W. Tatton—Cheshire Eliot, - Lird—East Cornwall ' Evans, William—North Derby Farnham, E.B.—N. Leicestershire Feilden, W. J.—Blackbnrn Filmer, Sir E.—West Kent Fitzalan, Lord—Arundel Fitzroy, Hon. Henry—Lewes Fremantle, Slr Thomas—Bucks Glynne, Sir S. R.—Flintshire Goddard, Ambrose—Cricklado Gordon, Robert—Windsor Gordon, Hon. W.—Aberdeenshire Gore, 0. J. R.—Carnarvonshire Goulburn, Right Hon. H.—Cam bridge University Graham, Right Hon. Sir J. R. G Bt.—Pembroke Grey, Sir Charles Edward—Tyne mouth Grimsditch, T.—Macclesfield Grimstow, Viscount—Hertford shire Grimston, Hon. E. 11.—St. Al ban's Raiford, Henry—Leicestershire Hamilton, Lord C.—Tyrone Harcourt, G. S.—Bucks Harcourt, G. 0, V —Oxfordshire Harland, William C.—Durham Hastie, Archibald—Paisley iawkins, J. H.—Newport, Isle of Wight Heathcote, Sir W.—Hampshire Hector, Cornthwaite John—Pe tersfield Heneage, G. W.—Devizes Henniker, Lord—East Suffolk Herbert, Hon. S.—South Wilts Herries, Rt. ROB. J. C.—Harwich) Hodgson, Frederick—Barnstaple I Hope, G. W.—Weymouth Houldsworth, T.—Nottinghamsh. Howard, Hon. E. G.—Morpeth Howard, F. I.—Youghail Howard, Sir It.—Wicklow Co. T ELLE RS. CIFIURCH-EXTENSION-CHURCII -- AND THE ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. (From the Liverpool Mercury.) A public meeting, convened by public placard and advertisement, was held yesterday in the Music Hall, Bold-street, to petition Parliament against any grant of ' the public money for the erection of additional Churches, for the abolition of Church-rates and the Ecclesiastical Courts, and for the release of John Thorogood and all other persons imprisoned on account of Church-rates. The placard invited the attendance of "all persons friendly to the objects of the meeting." We mention this in the outset, because an attempt, very discredit able to the persons with whom it originated, and very disgraceful to the tools whom they employed, was made to defeat the objects of the meeting ; or, at all events, to prevent discussion by clamour and confusion. After an attempt to disturb the meeting had failed, which is said to have heen promoted by the followers of Mr. M'Ncile, resolutions favourable to the object for which the meeting was called were unanimously agreed to, and a petition, of which the following is the substance, was adopted : That the petitioners strongly but respectfully deprecate any Parlianientary grant or allowance for the building of churches, as evidently unjust to t hose numerous bodice of professing Christians who not only erect and maintain their own places of worship, but likewise provide fdr their own religious services, and who cannot, therefore! without manifest wrong, be compelled to contribute to the exten sion of a form of worship from which they conscientiously dissent. That the petitioners protest against the compulsory sys. ,• tem of Church Rates, as founded on principles of gross injustice, and against its further continuance, inasmuch as the exaction of such rates is frequently productive of scenes of discord and strife, alike dishonourable to re g.on, and fatal to peace and Christian charity. That the petitioners view the Ecclesiastical Courts as engines of tyranny and oppression, disgraceful to the na tion and the age ; and they regard it as a striking proof of the correctness of their views, that many upright and wor. thy men, who conscientiously object to Church-rates, have been recently subjected to cruel imprisonment by the au thority of these Courts, and that John Thorogood has been confined in Chelmsford gaol, in consequence of his neglect ing to appear to a citation to show cause why he did not pay the sum of five shillings and sixpence assessed upon him as a Church-rate. The petitioners therefore pray the Honourable House to refuse any grant from the public Treasury for the build ing of Churches; and speedily to adopt such measures as in its wisdom may be deemed best for the removal of the national grievance of Church-rates—the abolition of the criminal jurisdiction of Ecclesiastical Courts—and the in,. 1 mediate liberation of John Thorogood and all other persons iclprisoned on account of Church-rates. On Monday evening last, the house of Thomas Lewis, gardener, of Fishpool, parish of Christchurch, took fire, in consequence of sparks from the chimney falling on the thatched roof, when the devouring element progressed with such rapidity, and with such destructive effect, that Mrs. Lewis and her four children, who were in bed, with difficulty escaped with life from their burning tenement. The house, all the little property, implements of gardening, clothes, &c., were destroyed. Poor Lewis was making a few little purchases in Bristol, when this misfortune took place.—Merlin. • The splendid vessel, the United States, the largest ever built in the town of Liverpool, was launched there last Saturday. CHURCHMEN !—ln the night of Friday last, some villains broke into Northwingfield Church. Their object seems to have been to steal the communion plate, but they were not able to force open the chest. Failing in this, they took two surplices from the vestry, and a curtain from one of the windows; they also cut away the fringe from the pulpit. Derby Reporter. Mr. Macready commenced an engagement of fi ve nights, last evening, at the Bristol Theatre, in the character of 13acbetb ; Mr. Webster was the Macduff. Sir Edward Bulvicsr's play of The Sea Captain, and Mr. Haines's success of Mary Stuart, will b e produced during Mr. ful tragedy b r ief engagement. The animal exhibition of the works of modern ga an lle d rie o s th o er f artists opened on Thursday at the Louvre , the pictures s s they were whieh were most densely thronged. Th works of art are not quite so numerous this last, but there are 6ome capital things among Lord Robert Grosvenor's eldest son, .wh h as been seriously indisposed, is , . we rejoice to say, co n valescent. CHARTISAI.—Luring the last week, two pikes and twenty-six pike-shaqa have been found secreted in a dung heap in Lidget-green, is the township of Horton. Many of the shafts afford proof that there has been no time lost in forcing the pikes away from their . handles or shafts, as they are L'y the effort...—Raltfax Express. lit and torn b: !Frogs the rehss and Proceedings of the House .1 Command.) TeVASPAY, MAIICH 5. CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS. Motion made and question put, " That leave be given to bring in a Bill for the abolition of Cap:tal Punishments :"..... (Dr. Lushington :I—The House divided:— MINORITY—AYES, 90. Aglionby, H. A.—Cockermouth James, William—Cumberland Aglionby, Major F.—Cumberland Jervis, S.—Bridport Ainsworth, I'.—Bolton Kelly, Fitzroy—lpswich stminster Alston, Rowland—Hertfordshire !Leader, J. Temp le Archbold, Robert—Kildare lister, E. Cauliffe—Bradford —We Bainbridge, E. T.—Taunton Lushington, Charles —Ashburton Baines, Edward—Leeds Ntelgund, Viscount —H y the Barnard, E. G.—Greenwich Milnes, R. Nl.—Pontefract Barron , G. W.—Waterford City Itfuntz, a F. —Birmingham , e. Barn', 'G. S.—Cock Co. M us kett, George A. —St. Alban Bolden), Henry G.— Cnippenham O'Connell, Daniel- Dublin Brabazon, Sir William—Mayo Co. O'Connell, John—Athlone Bridgeman, Hewitt—Ennis O'Connor Don—Roscommon Co. Briscoe, J. I.—Westbury Paget, Frederick — B eaumaris Brotherton, J.—Salford \ Pattison, James—London Bulwer, Sir E. L.—Lincoln Pechell, Captain—Brightoner Busfield, W.—Bradford Rice, Edward Royd— Dov Rurelle,John—Tavistock Castlereagh, Visct—Down Co. Roche, William—Limt rick ‘.,Tve, Edward B.—Hereford Craig, W. G.—Edinburghsh ir e salwey, Lieut.-Col.—Ludlow Currie, Raikes—Northampton Sanford, E. A.—Somersetshire Denistoun, J.—Glasgow Scholefield, J.—Birmingham Divetz, Edward-1111:e. er Smith, J. A.—Chichester Duke, Sir James—Boston Smith, Benjamin—Norwich Easthope, J.—Leicestsr Stanley, W. Massey—Pontefract Eliot, Hon. J. E.—Roxburghshire Stanley, W. o.—Anglesea Ellis, Wynn—Leiceste r Stewart, James—Honiton Fielden, John—Oldham Stock, Dr.—Cashel Felton, John—Roehdalc Strickland, Sir G.—W• Yorkshire Finch, Franc , s—Wal2a ll ; Tancred, H. W.—Banbury Fitzroy, Lard C.—Bury St- Elm. Thornely,Thos.—Wolverhampton Fort, J.—Clitheroe Turner, Edmund—Truro Fre.hfield, James Wm.—Penryn Turner, \V.—Blackburn Greg, R. H.—Manchester Vigors, N. A.—Carlow Co. Greig, Daaid—Perth Villiers, C. P.—Wolverhampton Hall, Sir Benjamin—Nlarylehone Wall, C. Baring—Guildford Hawes, B. -Lambeth Wallace, Robert—Greenock .Kayter, W. G.—Wells Warburton, H.—Bridport Hill, Lord A. H. C.—Evesham Ward, H. G.—Sheffield Hinde, J. Hodgson—Newcastle- White, Andrew—Sunderland upon-Tyne Williams, William—Coventry Piindley, Charles--A..hton Wilmot, Sir J. E.—Warwickshire Hobhouse, T. Benj.—Rochester Wood, Benjamtn—Southwark Hodges, T L.—West Kent Yates, J. Ashton--Carlow Hodgson, Rd.—Berwick-en-Tweed TELLERS. Hume, Joseph—Kilkenny Ewart, William—Wigan ,E.Jo J. — pe t r u; n hwark I.ushington, Rt. Hen. S—Tower H iu u n tch Ph in e s rY , Hamlets -NOES, 161. Howick, Viscount—Northumber. land North Hurt, Francis—South Derby Hutton, Itobert—Dubun Ingestre, Viscount—Staffordshire Slrß. H.—Ox. University Jones, John—Carmarthenshire Kemble, H.—Fast Surrey Knight, H. G.—Nottinghamshire Lascelles, Hon. W. S.—Wakefield Law, Hon. C. E.— Cambridge Uni v. Lemon, Sir Chas.—W. Cornwall Liddell, Hon. H.—North Durham Loch, James—Kirkwall Lockhart, A. M.—Lanarkshire Macauley, T. B. Edinburgh Mackenzie, Thomas—Ross-shire M'Taggart, John—Wigton, &c. Mahon, Viscount— Hertford Martin, John —Tewkesbury Maxwell, Henry—Cavan Mildmay, P. St. John —Winches ter Miles, Philip W. Skynner—Bristol Mordaunt, Sir John—Warwicksh Morpeth, Lord—Yorkshire Morris, D.—Carmarthen Neeld, Joseph—Chippenham Nicholl, J.—Cardiff O'Ferrall, R. M.—Kildare Co. Ord, W.—Newcastle.upon.Tyne Packe, C. W.—Leicester, South Pakington, J. S.—Droitwich Palmer, Robert—Berks Palmer, George—Essex Parnell, Sir H. Dundee Peel, Col. Jonathan—Huntingdon Pemberton, Thomas—Ripon Pendarves, E. W.—W. Cornwall Pinney, W.—Lyme Regis Plumptre, John r.—East K'brit Polhill, Frederick — Bedford Powerscourt, Viscount—Bath Praed, W. T.—St. lees price, Richard—New Radnor Protheroe, Edward—Halifax Pusey, Philip—Berksblre Rae, Right Hon. Sir Wm.—Bute Richards, Richard—Merionethsh. Bickford, W.—Aylesbury Round, Charles Gray—Essex N. Rushbrooke, Colonel—Suffolk Rushout, Geo. Bowles—Evesham Russell, Lord John—Stroud Rutherfurd, Rt. Hon. A.—Leith Sheppard, Thomas—Frame Shirley, E. J.—Warwickshire Smith, Abel—Hertfordshire Smith, R. V.—Northampton Smyth, Sir G. H.—Colchester Somerset, Lord G.—Monmouthsh. Spry, Sir S. T.—Bodmin Stanley, Lord—North Lancashire Stansfield, W. R. C.—Huddersfield Staunton, Sir George Thomas Strutt, Edward—Derby Stuart, Lord J.—Ayr Sturt, Henry Chasi—Dorsetshire Style, Sir Charles —Scarborough Sugden, Sir E.—Ripon Surrey, Earl of—West Sussex Sutton, J. H. T. M.—Cambridge: Teignmouth, Lord—Marylebone froubridge, Sir E. T.—Sandwich Tyrrell, Sir J. T.—North Essex Vere, Sir C. B.—East Suffolk Vernon, G. H.—East Rettbrd Wakley, Thomas—Finsbury Williams, Robert—Dorchester Wood, Charles—Halifax Wood, Sir Matthew—London Wood, T. J.—Middlesex Worsley, Lord—Lincolnshire Wyse, Thomas—Waterfore . Young, John—Cavan Co. iStanley, E. John—North Cheshire Parker, John—Shetfield TILE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Supplies good, except Lobsters, with a brisk demand: Turbot, 7s. to 213. ; Cud, 3s. to 12s. ; Soles, 9d. to 4s. per pair ; Oysters, 245. to 60s. per bushel; Mackerel, 6d. to Is. ; Salmon Trout, 2s. per lb. ; Salmon, 2s. 6d. per lb. ; Whitings, 4d. to Bd. ; and Haddocks, Bd. to Is. PROVISION MARKET. A steady business in this market, and prices firm generally, and for some commodities looking up. Prime Irish Bacon, 465. to 475., and Irish But M ter 795. to 955. HAY ARKETS. . Fair supplies, a goad demand, and prices much as before Hay, 60s. to 90s. ; Clover, 80s. to 120 s. ; Straw, 365. to 44s per load. TALLOW MARKET. This market was very quiet, and the price of P.Y.C. was 51s. 61 to 51s. 9d. TEA MARKET. A good business done, hut the prices did not transpire. The Overland Mail is anxiously looked for. COLONIAL MARKET. The operations have been of the most trivial description. B. P. Sugar sold slowly at the prices of Friday. A public sale of 100 hhds. Barbadoes went at 50s. to 655., and rather higher. West India Molasses at 325. to 355. for good quality. There was a small parcel of damaged Brazil Coffee in the market. Lord and Lady George William Russell and their suite have left Soutn-street for Berlin, via Brussels, where his Lordship will resume his diplomatic duties as resi. dent Minister. The Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol has purchased Stapleton House, the late residence of Isaac Elton, Esq., of the latter city, and we hear that he intends to convert it into an Episcopal Palace. Sir William Foulis, Bart., who for some time past has been suffering from total blindness, is now in a fair way of recovering his sight through the successful treatment of Mr. Alexander, the eminent oculist. Sir William had both eyes couched last week, the result being most successful. CORN-LAW MEETING AT ROTHERHAM.— Thursday a public meeting was held in the Town Hall, Ro therham, convened by Benjamin Badger, Esq., the Greave of the Feoffees of the Common Lands in Rotherham. A peti tion to Parliament was adopted 's' to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning the two Houses of Parliament for the repeal of the existing Corn-laws, which we (the requisitionists) consider to be unjust and injurious in their operation to the ma jority of the people of these kingdoms." DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.—On Wednesday a little boy named Simpson, about seven years of age, acciden tally fell before a cart, at the head of Constitution-street, Leith ; the wheel went over his head and crushed it in the most shocking manner. He only survived a few moments. Mr Thesiger has issued an address to the Elec tors of Woodstock, soliciting their suffrages to become their future representative in Parliament, in the room of the Mar epis of Blandford, called to the Peerage by the death of his father, the late Duke of Marlborough. The Duchess of Leeds coach was overturned on Thursday evening week, near Wibsey Bank Foot ; but no one was injured. —Halifax Ezp; ess. On Sunday morning last, as a man named Henry Price, a cabinet maker, was passing along Carden-street, in this city, he suddenly dropped down , and the force of the fall caused a fracture of the thigh. The man having been removed home, Mr. Turley was called in, who found that amputation was ne cessary, which operation he skilfully performed in less than a minute. It appears that the unfortunate man has had a bad leg from infancy, caused in the first instance by cold, ultimately resulting in decay of the bone.— Worcester Herald d . at the ORANGE PROCESSIONS. --Ott Thursday Cavan Assizes, thirteen Orangemen pleaded guilty to a charge of walking in procession, on the 12th July last, at Ballyjames duff. Baron Foster sentenced thorn to one month's imprison. ment each, and to pay fines of 40s. each to the Queen. EXTRAORDINARY SKEW BRlDGE.—Work men are now actively engaged in the erection of one of the n\fuost, perhaps th e mo st, extraordinary i ron viaducts connected any railw ay , either finished or in the course of completion, in Great Britain. The viaduct in question will cross Fairfield street, bette r k nown per h aps as T r avis-street, Manc hester, on the Manchester and Birminham line of railway . The great mass of anythingsubstant masonry m ial ore against which the six ribs that compose the arc h are intended to abut, is surprising to behold; cannot be exhibited in the an k h i iron consumed in this mason, 111 r. substantial, andor w work bie b b r e e t W e r e executed , reflects infinite credit on the master m six ribs of the span of 128 viaduct li r ees . a ebbPh4eliotnti tons,s eT2hn viaduct in T add h u e i cs to oiweightsm also comprised e f vd t e h roy e f or e a ol 4 ,:i B t g e f n e remarkable for its acute an the street being only 16 yards, at all approaching to this, in the acuteness o d feTgi The its e; angle, only n th g l e e ,w erection d s t hone f y and iron m e o s n e r tyh correct o L r r o e n o d t London sa thed Birminghamasonr which is i 8 deg. So works tl been executed to the plan and specification, that on fixing te n ctly that the a s.l j t ' t o segment joints—i. e segmentswas foundofe tmh p li o rs s t si r b i l b e , to it i N n V t a r s nd p u r n O n Ve a d s t i o xi tt n s c o e co b r e r at t i o i n tl% last segm en tin be foretightened. In attempting, that however,two the first rib, before referred to, at noon on the previ ous was found to be fully 3-Bth s of an inch too lo ng , caused, as day ' it was afterwards proved , b y ex p ansion arisin g from the heat o f it the sun—for on the followin g mornin g earl y , and befo re the sun's rays could have any decided effect on the iron, it was found to fit its destined place with the utmost possible pre cision.— Liverpool Mercury. C E LIBACY STATU TR.—The petition to her Majesty for the repeal of this statute has been forwarded this evening, and seldom has the enlightened public given such strong indication of their feeling in favour of any measure. The petition in less than a fortnight has had upwards of 800 names attached to it ; of these between 200 and 300 are Cler gymen, nearly one-half of whom are beneficed; 90 Doctors, in various departments, and about 170 Masters of Arts. The remai n i n g signatures are chiefly composed of Graduates of the University, and members of the learned societies, and amongst them we noticed some who either are, or have been, Members of Parliament ; also Baronets , Q ueen's Counsel, and many of the mo s t i n fl u ential gentlemen and Magistrates in the country. —Dublin Evening Post. There h as b ee n at Cork a miserable Orange meeting to address the Queen on her mat riage. THE StIN, LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, IS4O. lIIINNER to GEORGE BYNG, Esq., M.P., ' THE DINNER to GEORGE BYNG, Esq., in eom memoration of Fifty Years' uninterrupted services as Member of Parliament for the County of Middlesex, takes place to morrow, WED NESDA Y, the I Ith inst, at Drury-lane Theatre. Lord CHAS. JAMES FOX RUSSELL, M.P., Chairman. Dinner on table at Six o'clock punctually. 'I he entrance for the dinner and for ladies to the boxes, will be at the principal door of the Theatre in Brydges-street ; for the private boxes, and for the gallery, in Little Russell-street. Doors open at Five o'clock. Tickets One Guinea each, may be had at No. 3, Cleveland row, St. James's. No money will be taken at the doors. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Erarnense sum's of the City Apprentice, which has attracted crowded and delighted audiences. THIS EVENING, MARCH 10. Will be acted, a Historical Drama, depicting England in 1664, Barbadoes in 166.8, Old London in 1666, with a representa tion of the Great Fire of London, entitled THE CITY APPRENTICE; or, THE THREE LILIES. Supported by the entire strength of the Company. Aftcr which, LORD DARNLEY. Darnley, Mr. E. F. Saville. Te conclude with THE JERSEY GIRL; OR, THE RED ROBBERS. Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Johnson, W. Smith, Mrs. Vining, Miss Grant, Miss Martin, &c. STRAND THEATRE. AMBIDEXTROUS .PRESTIDIGITATION! ! ! MAGNIFICENT PARAPHERNALIA !! ! AWE THRILLING NECROMANCY!! ! OVERFLOWING! WONDER-STRICKEN ! AND DELIGHTED AU DIENCES The GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH, by his individual and mind-astonishing performances, having congregated crowded, astounded, and pleasure-electrified audiences, will perform his wonderful feats of philosophical and necromantic magic, on THIS EVENING, TUESDAY, Mmtcx 10, And every evening during the week, concluding with the ori ginal and mysterious GUN DELUSION. Boxes, 2s. Bd., Second Price, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d., Second Price Is. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six—commencing at half-past Seven. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TCMORROW. •Morning 39 minutes after 7 1 Evening 17 minutes after & LONDON: TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1840. In the Lords a considerable number of petitions, some for Church Extension, some to exempt workhouses from rates and taxes, some against, and some for, the Non-intrusion principle, were presented. The Churches Building Act Amendment Bill went through a Committee, and the Horse-racing Bill was read a third time. ... The Marquis of NORMANBY called their Lordships' attention to the petition from Newport in favour of Frost, presented on Friday evening, and controverted many of the statements then made relative to the num ber of persons who had signed it, and their respectabi lity. Their Lordships adjourned Twenty minutes be fore Six. . The petitions presented to the Commons were also numerous, and on various subjects. On Lord NIORPETH moving the third reading of the Irish Corporation Bill, Sir G. SINCLAIR opposed the motion, and moved that the Bill be put off for six months. He complained of the advance of the Catho lies, and condemned the Bill, because it would strengthen the Catholic I;lction. It was a Bill to make DANIEL O'CONNELL, Esq. Lord Mayor of Dublin. Mr. TENNENT supported the amendment, in doing which he wished to read an ex:.ract of a newspaper, but was called to order by the SPEAKER. An intercalated discussion took place on this point, in which Sir R. PEEL and Lord JOHN RUSSELL both agreed that the rule, as laid down by the SPEAKER, would be too strin gent. The SPEAKER did nor. sustain his objection, and Mr. TENNENT read his extract, to prove that the Bill would throw the whole power of the town of Belfas into the hands of Catholics. Mr. SHAW deprecated the amendment being pressed to a division as it would place him and his friends in an invidious light before the Irish. He voted for sending the Bill to the other House, not to pass it into a law as it now stands. The Bill, on a division, was read a third time by 182 to 34, and passed. Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved the second reading of the Printed Papers Bill, the Bill for securing the right o file House to publ'sh its papers. Sir EDWARD SUGDEN referred to his motion for a Committee to inquire into what check should be placed on printing papers, and suggested that Lord JOHN RUSSELL should take that Committee out of his hands. In order to prevent libels being circu lated in petitions presented to the House, he meant to propose that no petition should be printed till it had been read at the table and approved of by the Speaker. As to reports, he would suggest that every Committee should state whether there were any reason why the report should not be generally published. H e would also pi opose that there should be a Committee of publication, as there:now is of printing, to see that no thing wrong is published. He approved of selling the papers. With respect to the Bill he thought the clause concerning pending actions ought to be withdrawn, and if it were not withdrawn in the Commons it would be struck out elsewhere. Mr. WARBURTON approved of the Bill, but disapproved of the check on publication, particularly the Commitee which the Right Hon. Gen tleman proposed to establish. Mr. HUME was quite rejoiced that Sir E. SUGDEN approved of selling the papers. _ The A TTORNEY -G ENERAL co ncurred with Sir E. SUGDEN as to t a ki ng precau ti o ns about printing the papers, but not as to w i t hd raw i ng t h e c l a use concern. ing pending act i ons, which only he considered brought to forbe essen tial,as those actions had vexa tious .. purposes. 3ir . ROBERT INGLIS strongly objected to the Bill; but it was read a second time without a division, and ordered to be committed on Friday. In answer to Mr. GISBORNE, Lord J. RUSSELL said that the funds for sending out emigrants to Australia were exhausted. but operations were not therefore sus pended. In answer to Mr. HAWES, the Noble Lord stated that the Church Courts Bill was postponed, till sonic provision was made for Church discipline ; and that the County Courts Bill was postponed at the request of the LORD CHANCELLOR, till the Bankruptcy Commis sioners bad made their report. In answer to Lord SANDON, Lord PALMERSTON stated that he had given orders to lay Dr. BowalNG's report on the table ; and that he understood from Lord HOWARD that the Portuguese Government was willing that a Commission should sit in London, to decide the claims of British subjects on it. On the question that the Speaker leave the Chair to go into a Committee of Supply on the army esti mates, Mr. HUME condemned the extravagance of ex penditure, which began to increase in 1836, and had since gone on increasin g . The revenue was pro gressively increasing, and the net revenue of the last year exceeded the average of the last seven years, but the expenditure increased faster than the revenue. The Hon. Member urged on the Government the ne cessity of satisfying the people by doing them justice, and se removing the necessity for maintaining large establishments at home. Colonel SIBTHORP was surprised that Mr. HUME found so many faults with Members, and yet would take no steps to turn them out. Lord JOHN RUSSELL defended the estimates as ne cessary to insure a system of relief for troops abroad, and thought Mr. HUME should have made his objec jections to the increase of the army in last August, when that was voted. The Noble Lord gave a brief explanation of the present state of the negotiations as to the Boundary question. In the Committee Mr. MACAULAY moved the esti mates. The increase of the army would not give the Government any increase of patronage. In Australia, the dearth and increased price of provisions had been so great, that the officers had been constrained to allow the men 2d. a.day each wore pay. The Right Hon. Gentleman entered into a multitude of details, and concluded by moving a vote for 93,471 men, exclusive of the force maintained by the East India Company. Mr. HUME, after adverting to the number of men which would be required at home, and professing his liking to a standing army, moved that the vote be reduced to 81,319, the number of men voted in 1837. After a brief discussion, the Committee di vided, and the original vote was carried by 100 to 8. A little discussion afterwards took place on the vate assigned to the rupee in paying soldiers-2s. when the money is remitted to England, and 2s. 6d. when paid in India. The East India Company propose to pay the troops the same in all the Presidencies, which will get over the anomaly. The House then resumed. The Workhouse Bill and Prisons Act Amendment Bill were forwarded a stage, and at One o'Clock the House adjourned. Some of our Contemporaries are speculating with more ingenuity than discretion on the possible imposition of new taxes, and inquiring, with more malignity than uprightness, how, after twenty-five years' peace, such a fresh demand can be necessary. They jump at once to the conclusion that the liberal policy pursued by the Whigs is the cause of the increased expenditure, and they attribute the proportionate scantiness of the revenue to Re form. We are not disinclined to examine the question, and can at once state that we do not adopt the conclusion of our Tory Contemporaries. We agree with them in considering that it will be a most calamitous circumstance, should our people,oppressed as they now are with the weight of the taxes imposed on them by the Government, be exposed to still heavier burdens. Already the Government, which is constituted to protect and to serve the people, is compared to the heavy armour which, in tended to defend the warrior, wears him out and destroys him by its weight. To increase the burden while the masses are discontented will be a hazardous experiment. To allow the revenue to remain permanently below the expenditure would be pregnant with danger. To make available re trenchment does not seem to be very practicable, while large armaments are required, and warlike operations must be provided for in North America and in the Chinese seas. Undoubtedly all prac tical reductions should be made, but from the real wants of the public service, joined with the demands of our extensive commerce for protection, and the necessity of being on our guard against secret or avowed enemies, we do not see the possibility of much reducing the public expenditure. There are many indications which an observer may notice, that the policy of England—not Whig or Tory policy, but those general principles—aggran dizement abroad and coercion at home—which have been followed by the statesmen of both parties, has run its course ; and these circum stances, that the nation already feels oppressed by the burden of taxation, that at present the revenue does not equal the expenditure, and that there is no hope of bringing down the expenditure to our existing means, imply that the machinery of Go vernment is getting clogged, and will, before long, come to a stand still. A judicious, but neither factious nor party, investigation into the matter, which is one of the main parts of the Condition-of- England question, ought to be undertaken, and our few remarks may be taken as hints, or con- tributions, to those who may have the spirit an wisdom to undertake it. We do not infer, because Tyre, Carthage, empires, y,a bn oeebxts a hac n emn d rfpiatl t t yee l e aoa n nfi dEbarinlog,bkvli warning, oblivion, d o ni .nn pis, i t e c , e a s t , s a n n c dn all acquired d Athens, Rome, Venice, Genoa, &c., d s e mi tile ! e sikr i t i s nihn i , W an e d have s e e : e ns decay, y e a c r as a i l y may have wisdom enough to avoid their errors. Never theless, when such has generally been the case— when there is very little in the mode in which our territory was extended to give us assurance of permanency—when no one can tell, a priori, why the fate of England should be different from the fate of those once renowned empires, every check, every approach to a stationary condition, every symptom of retrograding, should excite our watchfulness and stimulate our energies to overcome it. Looking at the fall of other em pires, we regard the responsibility now cast on our Statesmen as nothing less than awful ; and when we find them wasting the public time with mere factious disputes, while the masses are wholly alienated from the Government, and the expendi ture exceeds the revenue, we cannot help our fears preponderating over our hopes. It behoves the thinking people of England to be on their guard, and not to allow the national greatness and the national safety to be sacrificed as were those of Rome, Venice, and Genoa, to the brawls of selfish factions. The occasion of these reflections is the assertion that new taxes are to he imposed in the twenty-fifth year of peace, and the assertion of the Tories that the Reform policy has created the necessity for impos ing them. But whatever else Reform may have done, it has not extended the bounds of our empire. The necessity for crossing the Indus, and pene ttating into Affghanistau, grew out of former con quests. Now it is the vast extent of our empire, combined with the heavy burdens permanently im posed on the country at former times to enlarge or defend it, which is the great cause of all the pecuniary demands made for the service of the Government, and the Tories had quite as much hand in extending the empire as the Whigs. The extent of our empire, requiring an immense military and naval force to de fend it, and the heavy expense, or dead weight, which the employment of such a force past times entails on us now, is a source of expenditure to which all others are trifling. Of twenty-five years which have elapsed since the peace, the Tories were in office fifteen, and we have more than once directed public attention to the admission of Sir R. PEEL, that the great reform called Catholic Emancipation, to carry which into ef fect he was a most unwilling instrument, was inevi table. The progress of humanity, of sound political knowledge, and the increase of population in Ireland, rendered it impossible for the Goverment, though then in the hands of the Tories, and armed with all the power of an unreformed Parliament, to oppose the demands of the Catholics for justice. The Tories resisted as long as possible, and only gave way to external pressure. Talk of the Whigs as com posed of squeezable materials, why the very heart was then squeezed out of the Tory policy I That event may, however, be assumed as an index to their general conduct, which consisted in maintaining abuses, in resisting useful reforms, and preventing all ameliorations in the moral and political condi tion of the people as long as possible. The con sequence was that the Administration which suc ceeded them found it impossible to accomplish the immense mass of reforms which time had made ne cessary. From this circumstance arose two foun tains of expense, for which the Tories are much more to blame than the Whigs. First, the Tory neglect of the Poor-laws, and their resolute adherence to corporation abuses, com pelled official and costly inquiries into those subjects in order to substantiate the necessity of reform and suggest the means of effecting it. We may extend the remark to various Commiss;ons for Inquiry into the administration of the law for in quiring into the state of the factory population and working of the Factory Act. In fine, the fifteen years' resistance to reform by the Tories caused air accumulation of abuses which they ought gradually to have swept away, and which occasioned, alter their retreat, a great expense. But secondly the impossi bility of achieving needful reforms, and perhaps some injudiciousness in setting about the work, to ' gether with the determined resistance which the Tories made out of office as well as in office to every such reform, have served very much to disappoint and embitter the bulk of the population. Hence for several years a great military force was ne cessarily kept up in Ireland, and though a compromise between the parties has at length allowed of an approximation to justice, and enabled the Government to withdraw a large body of troops, vet the same causes which formerly operated there have continued to operate here, and the wide. spread discontent in England compels a vast ex pense for troops, police, and all the costly instru ments of continued coercion. Next to the extent of oar empire, the resistance to reform at home, and the coercion supposed to be necessary in con sequence of too well-founded discontent, is the con tinual cause of our greatest public disbursements, and keeps up the expenditure of the country. The Tory policy and the exertions of the Tories are solely to blame for that. We may, perhaps, on some future occasion ad vert to Canada—the disturbances in which were prepared by the neglect of the Tories ; to our Corn-laws, which have much diminished the income of the country, and severed our commercial ties with other nations, decreasing the national means, and augmenting the Government expenses, and to other causes, why the national expenditure has outgrown the income ; but we must now stop. In conclusion, we again say that the present financial condition of the country, combined with the alienation of the people from the Government, ought to awaken reflection and excite statesmen to devise measures to increase the means of the country; and diminish the home expenses of the Government. The expenses caused by the extent of our empire can scarcely be much curtailed. We know of no one measure so likely to give satisfaction to the people, and increase the national resources, so certain to extend our trade, and diminish our charges, as the total abolition of the taxes on food. They cut up employment by the roots, they cause poverty and discontent, and they impoverish the nation, while the object of their supporters is to preserve that superiority to. the owners of the soil which nature has destined shall come to an end. The letter which appears in The Sun of this day, under the head of " Church Patronage in Scotland," deserves the attention of those who are anxious to settle this agitated question. It is the second on the same subject which we have pub lished, both evidently written by men well ac quainted with public feeling and religious politics in that part of the country. Though they come from counties distant from each other in point of locality, and still more distant in point of religious and political feeling —we mean Aberdeenshire and Lanarkshire—they agree on this important point, that the Government would play a most hazardous part in supporting the CHALNIERS party against the great body of Dissenters, and the great body also of Church men who are opposed to the plan proposed by the men who at present rule almost undisturbed in that nondescript body, the Commission of As sembly. The Perthshire election has confirmed their statements to an extent which we believe no Member of the Government ever anticipated. The defeated candidate made declarations with regard to the veto question which were admitted by the great majority of the Perthshire clergy to be " perfectly satisfactory ( and yet, according to the Edinburgh Evening Post, which the Standard readily quotes, " marry of them afterwards voted in favour of his opponent." How can a Whig Government expect to conciliate men like these ? They may pay court to the Go vernment on the question of patronage, and make promises which, as the Perthshire elec tion shows, they never intended, to perform— but what an absurdity to trust to them I They want many things which they know they never can get from the Whigs. They want Church extension, the supreme control of education, the supreme control also of Church patronage, and the power of crushing the whole body of Dissenters, the best supporters of the Government. If the Government yield to them in the question of Non intrusion, this very party, on gaining their point, will be their roost vind;ctive opponents, and turn round upon them on every religious and political question. And can the Government, under such circumstances, look to support from the Dissenters ? The Central Board has already an nounced that if Lord MELBOURNE and Lord JOHN RUSSELL interfere in behalf of the Non intrusionists, they will alienate the affections of their most zealous supporters in Scotland. Of this, independent of the two excellent letters which we have published, we had no doubt, and we therefore trust the Non intrusionists will be made amenable to the law as the Chartists have been, and that, if a measure for Church Reform is introduced, it will be one which will not gratify the opponents of Government—the clique who would grasp the whole Church patron age of Scotland for their own selfish purposes, out which will be extended to the great body of the people. Though we have been disappointed in the result of the Perthshire election, we rejoice at the cause which has led to it, because it will teach Lord MELBOURNE and Lord JOHN RUSSELL a salutary lesson. - There is no news of any political interest in the Paris Journals of Sunday. In the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday, M. DtJGASE'S motion for inquiring into the conduct of the Prefect of Ariege in ordering the sol diers to fire upon the people at Foix, when twelve per sons were killed and fifty wounded, was negatived with out a division. MM. TRIERS and REMITS AT took part in the debate, and in their speeches evinced less sym pathy for the victims of so atrocious an exercise of mili tary power than their ultra liberal supporters had a right to expect. But the Premier can recover the ground he is in danger of losing by his vote upon this occasion by advising the KING to issue, in the R3yal name, a Commission of Inquiry relative to the massacre at Foix. This is what he will not do, and yet no act could more conduce to his own popularity, to which he is not indifferent, and to the popularit:, of the KING, with whom he has chosen to identify his political system. The Chamber of Peers was occupied on Saturday with the Factories' Bill. The following is the only news from Spain in these Journals : " The Eco de Aragon of the 3d instant states that Es partero's head-quarters were on the Ist at Mayeas, a vil . lage between Seg.ira and Muniesa, whilst the other Chris tino divisions were at the two last-mentioned places, and at Pelon and Cortes. It was reported that the Carlist fort of Aline. on the road to Cantavieja, bad been occupied by the Christinos. Accounts from Huesca of the Ist instant announce that Upper Aragon was in possession of a Cata lonian expedition of 3,000 men and 200 cavalry, and that the Christino forces were too weak to impede their progress." Letters from Malta of the 26th February state that, on the 22d, two French ships of the line and a brig had been seen to pass the island, steering from the Levant. They are the ships which left Toulon on the 12th. The Consul of the Two Sicilies at Malta having caused a notice to be served on two Maltese masters of ships to appear before the tribunal of Catania. The Governor of the island has suspended the notary, and dismissed the officer who served the notice, and whose conduct is de clared in a proclamation of the same Governor to be ille gal and without example. It is thought that reparation will be demanded of the Neapolitan Government. The Armoricain (a Brest journal) says —" According to recent orders of the Minister of Marine, the Magi cienne frigate is finally commissioned, under the com mand of Captain Roy, Aide-de-Camp to Admiral Du. perre. It is said that it is destined for the Chinese seas, to which the English are sending a considerable force.— Le Commerce. The Organs des Flanders has the following letter from the Hague :—" If it has been said tkat the King would renounce his marriage with the Countess d'Oultremont, it a mistake. It would besides show a great want of know ledge of the King's character to believe that be would ever abandon a resolution once taken. The honeymoon will be passed at the Palace of Loo ; where orders, it is said, have already been given to prepare for the recep tion of the Princess of Nassau, this being the title which the King, it seems. intends to give his second wife."—La Gazelle de France. BELGIAN k UNDS—HaUssns, )lanes 7. Actual Debt, per Ccat. Rothschild's Loan. 5 per CGil` Loan o: Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent... 3 Der Cent. ------- . ,—. Loan of City, 13'32, 4 pee C - ..1' 9 l— Society o! Comweree, 4 '.,,p,.r Ce lt lO9 Bank of Belsiwn 5 per Cent l%O National Society . Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, March 7. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.•—•VIESINA, Fes. i'S rive per Cents. McZalliques • ...... .......”. ........... ... lON For per Cents. Fors Three per Cents. Bank Sharc , s —4llgemeine Zeittng, liarcii,.! .. ''' ...f ... T. , ,'''''. ' ' ~-.."'' ' x"'' 4 1 0. - 4 ,-- ... ......ez• , f em u - , . , ( , - -4 1 ippok,ef t ix' e fek, - , 4 . 4111 pr, ,r -. - 0 41111. -,, '- • --•., e tn. MR. COOPER'S NEW ROMANCE. Now ready, at r'l the Libraries, in 3 vole , post Bvo., T HE PATH FINDER; Or, THE INLAND SEA. By the AuLhor of " The Pioneers," " The Prairie," " Last of the Mohicans," &c. " The passages of imminent dangers and hairbreadth escapes in this romance are of a breathless interest."—Spectator. " We have very little hesitation in pronouncinc , the 'Path finder' to be the most beautiful and natural—the simplest, the truest, and owing the least to mere art—of all Mr. Cooper's novels."—Atlas. "In the Pathfinder' we prepared to meet another escape through the woods, like that in the Last of the Mohicans' — another race over the waters, as in former sea romances—or another land siege, like the fearful leaguer of the blockhouse, described in the Wept of Wish-ton-Wish.' But in place of any one of these stirring passages, Mr. Cooper gives us all three. The interest of the story is unflaggingly maintained."— , Athenaeum. _ . Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VEST RIS, TNTS EVENING, MARCH 10. Will be repeated the New Original Play in Five Acts,lwritten by Leigh Hunt, Esq., to be called A LEGEND OF FLORENCE. Fransieso Agolanti, Mr. Moore ; Antonio Rondinelli, Mr. Anderson ; Cesare Colonna, Mr. G. Vandenhoff ; Fulvio Da Rive, Mr. Bartley ; Giulio, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Ginevra, Miss Ellen Tree. After which, the New Divertisement, entitled LES CHAMPS ELYSEES. The Characters by Master W. Smith (pupil of Mr. Oscar Byrne), Miss Fairbrother, Miss Ryalls, Mrs. Gibson, Miss Kendal, Miss S. Kendal, Messrs. C. J. Smyth, Ridgway, Gib son, Scr. Scc. To conclude with THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Captain Macheath, Mr. W. Harrison ; Peachum, Mr. W. Farren ; Leekit, Mr. Bartley ; Filch, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Peachum, Mrs. C. Jones ; Polly Peachum, Miss Rainforth ; Lacy Lockit, Madame Vestris. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 61 ; First and Second Circles, fss. ; Second Price, 9.5. 6d. ; Pit, Els. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, IS. Doers to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven .'Clock. Tickets and places for tke Boxes t. be taken at the Box-of dee, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon applioatien. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New 14ml-street. ROYAL OLYMPIU THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. BUTLER. THIS EVENING the Entertainments will commence with a Burletta, in one act, entitled A DAY AT AN INN. Buskin, Mr. G. Wild. At the request of numerous Fashionable Parties who are de. sirous of watching the progress of THE LADIES' CLUB, Established at this Theatre by general consent, The hour of opening will be changed from Seven oieleck to Half-past, every night; Mrs. GLOVER in the Chair. After the business of the Club, a Sketch (front " Boz "), that has been received with shouts of laughter, entitled HORATIO SPARKINS. Minter Horatio Sys:kills, Mr. Wrench. To conclude with the interesting Musical Piece of FLORIAN. Florian, Mrs. Anderson. Boxes, 4s. Pit, 2s. Gallery, Is. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, MARCH 9.—Wind N.E., thick fog.—Sailed the Emma de Gories, for Gibraltar ; P. B. Dean, Promeril, Cape t oast Castle ; Eagle, Stephenson, St. John's, New Bruns wick ; Pekin, Pree, ditto. LtvEaroon, MARCH B.—Wind variable.—Sailed the Aus- tralia, Blanshard, Maranham ; Astrea, Stoley, Monte Video ; Lochenvar, Allan, Vera Cruz ; Bombay packet, Africa ; Terra Nova, Dennison, Newfoundland; Manchester, Butler, ditto. PowrsmouTH, MARCH 9.—Wind N.—Arrived the Wa tei lily, Swydon, from Port Philip. PLYMOUTH, MARCH N.E.—Arrived the Eliza beth, Reed, Taganrog ; Nora, Mercullux, Tarragona. F A LM O UTH, MARCH B.—Wind E.—Arrived the Charles Carrall, Russell, from New York, sailed the 11th ult. CORK, MARCH 7.—Arrived Pearl, Christmas, Valparaiso. STA RCROSS, MARCH S.—Arrived the Amy, Toogood, from Monte Video. . . . SUNDER LA ND,MARcif B.—Arrived the Dalston, Davidson om Odessa _ _ _ STAXIGO, FEB. 6.—A brig, reported to be the Persian, from Sunderland, got on shore this morning in Sinclair's Bay, but came off on the flood, and proceeded to Stromness, with _ two feet water in her hold. SHEERNESS, MARCH 9.—The Thomas and Margaret, Steele, from London to Sunderland, has put in here with da mage to her forerigging, and bulwarks carried away, having been in contact on the 7th inst., in Sea Reach, with the Per fect, of Greenock. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Sydney Papers have been received to the 15th of Oc tober. The following are extracts :-- NORFOLK ISLAND.—H. M F. Alligator, arrived from Norfolk Island yesterday. Before the frigate arrived the bland had reverted to its usual state of quietude, the mutineers, as our readers are already aware, having become awake to the consequences of their disobedience of orders. Major Bumbury and the officers and soldiers under his com mand embarked on board the Cornwall on the 3rd inst., for Sydney. On the same day, in company with the Alliga tor, she may be hourly expected. The ships parted com pany on the sth instant. COLONEL WlLsoic —The investigation into the charges preferred against Colonel Wilson was commenced on Friday last before the Executive Council, and lasted several hours. The charges which have been preferred are numerous, and chiefly touch upon his employment of the police force for his private business. Yesterday the quotations of the price of flour, &c. were as follow : At the mills of Barkers and Hallen, fine flour, 555. ; seconds, 40s. ; and ration, 35s.per hundred pounds; at the mill of Messrs. Gerard, fine flour, 665. ; seconds, 50s. ; and rations, 451. per hundred pounds ; at Messrs. Hughes the prices are, fine, 755. ; second, 50s. ; rations, 655. per hundred pounds ; bran is quoted, Messrs. Barker and Hallen, at 2s. 6d. per bushel; best biscuit at 583., and seconds, 50s. Survey Department.—We learn from a return recently laid before the Council by his Exc2llency the Governor, that from the Ist July, 1837, to the 30th June, 1839, 1,561 portions of land, comprehending an area of 873,302 acres, 2 roods, 36 Perches, have been surveyed in the in terior, and 1,867 allotments, comprehending 941 acres, 3 roods, 25 perches, have been surveyed in the various townships of the Colony ; the actual cost of the Surveyor- General's department, during these two years, has not been less, we should imagine, than 36,2801. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAT.—The sales this day are 2,300 bales at Friday's prices. Extract of a letter from St. Jago de Cuba, Jan. 16 :- 44 The other day a slaver, under Portuguese colours, be longing to the island, with 350 Africans on board, destined for this port, was captured by the English, about fifty miles from the coast. There are two other slavers expect- ed to arrive at this place soon. Negroes just from the coast, that brought a year or two ago 300 dollars, now sell readily from 400 to 450 dollars." The accounts from Sydney are favourable. The fine weather commenced on the 29th ult., which day was very fine, and the appearance of the country was beautiful, and the crops arc very healthy. It was expected there would be an abundant harvest. Provisions were dear. Butter is now 2s. per pound; Poultry and Eggs plentiful; Pork none ; Beef and Mutton (very good) from 6d. to 60. per pound. We have but two arrivals this morning to announce the French Mail and Sydney Papers, both of which do not communicate any intelligence of importance. THE rnwns. Consols opened this morning at the leaving oft prices of yesterday, 901 1 Money ; for Account, 911. Exchequer Bills, 20 22 prem. In India Bonds nothing done as yet. Bank Stock, shut; India Stock, 250. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, which closed at 281, 9, are not so good this morning,: 281 1; Por tuguese, same as they left off, 341; Three per Cents., 231 24 ; Spanish Passive, 71 1; Deferred, 131 141; Colombian, 25k 26 ; Mexican, 291 1 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 531 ; Five per Cents., 1001 1. • - - - PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock — India Stock — S per Cent. Red. — Ditto Bonds par 2 pm. S per Cents. C0n...........933i 6 4 T 4 South Sea 5t0ck................5t0ck................- 3'4 Der Cent .-- Old Annuities — Ditto Red. — New Ditto New 3% per Cent 99 574 9U 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 --... New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toe•cpire Ditto 500... 20 22 pm. Jan. 5, 1860 — Ditto Small 2O 22 pm. Oct. 10, 1859 ..- Ditto Commercial dis. Jan. 5, 1860.........«........ -- Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, 1880 — Bank Stock for Account ... April% 1880 — India Stock for Account . . Jan. - 5.1370......-- ... • — Consols for Account 91% PRICES OF FostElON ... NDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCKAustrian Bonds — . Peruvian 80nd5...... ... ..... Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds ....« 'ld , Ditto New Bonds — Ditto Account ... . .... ........ , Ditto Accoun' 3uenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto, 3 per Cent......... Ditto Account ... ...... -• Ditto Account — Chilian Bond t — , Prussian Bonds . .... ........ Ditto Imo: nt — Russian Bends, 1822.......... Cotimt ian Bc - ids — Ditto Account — Ditto tcco nt Columbian 3: • d 5,1824 Ciao Acco - .) it Canish Bonds Ditto At cc :nt — Deferred l4 Greek Bonds French, 5 per cent.... —f. —c. Ditto Bonds, 1825 — ---- 4 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto Account — ' -- 3 per cent. —f. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — ---- Exchange. —f. —c. Ditto Account — Dutch, 214 per cent. .531414 Ditto, 6 per Cent Ditto Account Neapolitan — Ditto Account.... — PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share, - tirsat Western Railway Company ......... ........ 65 Ditto New 30 304 London and Birmingham Railway Company 9O Ditto► Shares .15 2 34 London and Westminster Bank 20 24% lIALF-PAST ONE. This morning, though we have no intelligence from any quarter to the present time upon which speculation can act, Consols continue firm with some improvement since the early part of the morning, and may be quoted at 911 Buyers ; money, 90i ; money also is at an easy rate of in terest in the house. Exchequer Bills, 20 22; Bank Stock, shut ; India _ . Bonds, par, 2 prem. In the Foreign Market the only business doing of con sequence is in Spanish Active, which was in the early part of the morning 28k, at present may be quoted 281 ; Portuguese, 34 ; Three per Cents., 23i; Brazilian, 78; Dutch Two-and-a- Half, 53i. CASE OF HARDSHIP..—A letter has been addressed to us from Birmingham, with the writer's name, giving an account of a transaction which, if fairly stated, re quires investigation. It appears the complainant and another person were travelling on foot, some months ago, from Birmingham towards Kidderminster, and, being overcome by fatigue, entered a paddock by the road-side to rest themselves. They had not been there more than ten minutes before they were arrested by a constable, and, with the assistance of his father, another const.ble, were taken to the house of the latter, imprisoned in his kitchen all n;ght handcuffed, and next day marched in that disgraceful condition into Kidderminster, and placed before a Magistrate, a relative of the constables! who committed them to Worcester gaol, with hard labour for a month, as rogues and vagabonds. No attempt was made to prove a case of trespass or fishing. On being taken to the gaol they were stripped, examined by the Doctor, and then clothed in the prison dress with the letter Von the back of the jacket. One of the sufferers had been in one situation for seven years, and in another for four ; and both of them were men of good character. This is an ex parte statement, but it has all the appearance of truth. We would therefore recommend the two parties to draw up a statement of the whole transaction, and transmit it, properly attested, to the Homo Secre tary, who would lose no time in attending to it. Country Justices, it is but too well known, are not always influenced either by mercy or justice. Sir Frederick and Lady Bathurst left Mivart's Hotel on Monday, for Clarendon Park, their seat in Wilts. Sir Frederick and his Lady have been staying some weeks at Ceombe Abbey, on a visit to the Earl and Countess Craven. The marriage announced between the Hon. Captain Bertram Wodehouse and Miss Macdonald, niece to the Dowager Lady Suffield, will take place at the close of the pre sent month. The marriage announced between the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere and his cousin Miss Baring, daughter of Sir Thomas Baring, will be solemnised during the Easter recess. The Right Hon. Gentleman has disposed of his beautiful estate, called Hylands, in Essex, to Mr Attwood, the great capitalist, who is now making great improvements there. ABERGAVENNYCWMREIGYDDION.—Sir John Edwards, Bart., M.P., of Machynlleth, has written to request his name may be added to the list of subscribers (friends of the late lamented Lady Coffin Greenly), for the sum of 51. towards the prize to be given for the best ode to her memory, adapted to the old Welsh air of " Cwmpiad y Dail" (the fall of the leaves),—to be sung to the harp. It is expected that it will be very we 1 contested, as the name of Lady Greenly is well known and highly respected in different parts of North and South Wales, besides the subscriptions, amounting now to about thirty pounds, will ensure a handsome premium as well as prize to the victor, at the meeting of the Abergavenny Cwmreigyddion, this year. —Merlin. On Monday night last, as Mr. Willcox, of Cole. ford, was returning from Newland to the former place, he was waylaid by two fellows who presented pistols to his head and demanded his money, and took upwards of 9/. from him. They even cut his shoe-strings and took the shoes from his feet, in order to discover if Mr. W. had secreted any money therein. After securing their booty the desperadoes made a precipitate retreat.—Merlin. IMPOUNDING WAGES.-- At the Kingston Petty Sessions, on Monday, Mr. James Jessopp, an extensive farmer in the neighbourhood, attended before the Court to show cause why he should nut impound a portion of the wages of one of his men, named George Pearce, as payment of arrears due to the parish of Wimbledon for the maintenance and sup. port of an illegitimate child, which had been duly affiliated upon him before the Magistrates in Petty Session, under the amended Act, which enables that proceeding to be taken. Mr. Jessopp, much against his will, was ordered by the Magistrates, who admitted that it was a hard case, but that they could only administer the law as they found it—to impound the wages already due, and to step half-a-crown a week from his wages in future. EVENING EDITION. SINGULAR SCENE. NO. 3, CLEVELAND-SQUARE V. N 0.3, CLEVELAND•ROW. Advertisements have appeared for the last few days in the public papers, announcing the grand dinner to be given at Drury-lane Theatre to GEORGE BYNG, Esq., the venerable Member for ;Middlesex, on an occasion which may never occur to any individual vet unborn—the celebration of Isis having sat FIFTY CONSECUTIVE years in Parliament I! ! Why, the like has never occurred before, and in all human probability will . . _ never occur again, if we take into account the pro bability of Triennial, and the radical improbability of Annual Parliaments. George the Third had a Jubilee of fifty years' reign, which he could not enjoy, but it was reserved for George Byng to see and enjoy the celebration of a Jubilee far more wonderful and interesting. Just fancy a man to sit in Parliament fifty long years ! The very idea is quite enough to strike ladies dumb —a miracle in itself. But to suppose any gentle man could outlive all the talk, good, bad, and in different, uttered in the House of Commons both before and (far worse) after the Reform Bill, is beyond crediblity. But so it is, and in exact pro portion to the wonder is the curiosity of the public excited to behold, not the Lion of the Day, but the GREAT PARLIAMENTARY LION of hay a cen- fury ! Nor is the curiosity confined to natives--fo reigners protest they cannot believe it !—and, in proportion to their disbelief, do they run or send for tickets to behold such a phenomenon displayed on the boards of old Drury on Wednesday night. It has often been found - very awkward to live near people of similar names, but still more awkward for strangers when the names of places located near each other are somewhat similar. It was thus with Cleveland-square and Cleveland-row in respect to the tickets for Mr. Byng's dinner. Why, every one thought that such a man as Mr. Byng must live in a square, and not in a row, and so they posted to No. 3, Cleveland•square, for tickets. But as luck would have it there were no tickets to be had, and the hunters after strange sights were most strangely bewildered ! Some insisted that they were right, and others wondered how they could be wrong ! The beauty of the mistake was not a little heightened by the circumstance that as some were coming away from Cleveland-square, gloomily pondering over their mistake, others were hastening thither with bright faces to make all right for the Jubilee ! Now, No. 3, Cleveland-square, is the mansion of a Nobleman who was hourly expected to arrive from the country, and the servants were busily employed putting things in order for his reception. But in this laudable duty they were sadly inter rupted by the constant applications for tickets to the dinner I Those who went away-empty handed did not of course repeat the visit ; but there was no lack of new visitors, who were far more numerous than welcome. At last the thing became so intoler able that the servants at the square resolved not to answer any more knocking. But this resolution had not long been put in force, when one of the servants fancied that a particular rat-tat was "my Lord's I" and the door opened not to my Lord, but to some twenty ticket hunters The scene was ludicrous in the extreme, for Cleve land Square was for the time turned into Cleveland Row. At last it was deemed more advisable to leave the door open to prevent the confounded knocking ; but here another dilemma arose, for the ticket men walked in without asking any questions, and crowded the hall. The only alternative now left was for a servant to go to the Row for some ex planation of so extraordinary a visitation, when something like the following_ dialogue ensued : C. Square—l want to know what is the reason you are sending all the people to us for tickets, when we have no tickets to give them ? C. Row—Well, you had better get some tickets, I think. C. Square, (in a rage)—But we don't want them. C. Row—(calmly)—Very well, leave them alone. C. Square—(still more incensed)—But why do you send the people to us ? C. Row—(very mildly and smiling)—We do not send people to you ; it is a mistake, no doubt. C. ubt. C. Square (rather subdued) Well, i t is very strange that everybody should mistake, for from morning to night there is nothing but. knock, knock—and " I want tickets ;" and the worst of it is they wo n 't b e li eve us , say i ng they were quite right, for they saw it advertised in the Times. C. Row—Oh I the Times is full of advertise ments. C. Square—But they say they saw it in the other papers also. C. Row.—Not Cleveland-square ! It is a mistake. C. Square.—Yes—No I that's what we tell them, but they won't believe us. C. Row.—lt is very odd. C. Square.—Odd I I tell you it is very hard. What business have we to be bothered so? C. Row,—l'm sure I don't know ; but had you not better direct them here ? C. Square—So we do ; but they continue com ing as bad as ever. All Friday and Saturday last it was bad enough, but this day it is quite intoler able. We can't get on with the work at all, and my Lord is expected home every minute. What's to be done ? (By this time several persons canie to the door ask ing for tickets, and among them one who stuttered so much, that he could not be understood. " Oh, that's the gentleman who bothered us so much half an hour ago," whispered the Square to the Row ; " and here comes the deaf one, who would not take No for an answer, for the deaf gentleman stared so at the stuttering one till the bye-standers burst into a horse laugh, and then walked away." Finally, it was arranged that the Police should be stationed in the Square, to point out the dif ference between Cleveland-row and Cleveland• square, and the stream of visitors was tutned in the proper direction for tickets to the Grand Dinner. ANTI-CHURCH EXTENSION MEETING.—The meeting of Thursday, at Liverpool, to petition Parliament against the Church Extension job, was marked by one of those contemptible manoeuvres at which the Tories are so successful —hiring a number of low ruffians for the purpose of " kicking up a row," as it is elegantly phrased, to drown, if possible, an expression of opinion unpalatable to the dissentients. AN OLD DEBT.— A. few days ago, a shop keeper in this town received, by post, from Ireland, a post office order for 1/. 6s. which had been due to the estate of his father, who has been dead nearly thirty years. The father was in business in Dublin ; and the party who has thus honestly discharged his obligation, had been una')le to ascertain where the debt could be paid—Halifax Express. Indications, of which the following, from the Leicestershire Mercury, is a specimen, of dissatisfaction with the Ministers for not going either far enough or fast enough, are by no means rare among our country contemporaries :-- " Parliament continues to sit and—do nothing. The apathy of both houses appears, if possible, to increase rather than to diminish as weeks roll on. Precious, irredeemable time wasted in party squabbles. The Ministry continue to take UP positions front which they invariably retreat. Uncertainty vacillation political imbecility, seem to b e th e or d er o f the day ; and the people, whose interests these Senators are chosen to represent and to promote, are left to shift for them selves." Hard words these, and not to the full extent, per haps, quite fair and fully justified. But, at all events, they are signs of the times, as well as of the state of public opinion, in some of the provinces. We give the following monstrosity, head, tail, and all, just as we find in the Dublin Evening Mail, became: among other purposes, it may prove a provocative to laughter " MINISTERS AND THEIR PROSPECTS—DISSO LUTION OF PARLIAMENT—RETIREMENT OF LORD MELBOURNE. " All these topics—the least of them most interesting and ire' portant—are treated of in the subjoined letter. None of the London papers, received last night or this morning, have at' al lusion either t o the approaching dissolution , the retirement 0, Lord Melbourne, or the acceptance by Lord Clarendon of the unenviable office of Prime Minister. We have it, however, from good authority, that Ministers are in a state of such perplexity, that they are unable to give a decisive anew 'r to their own re porters as to the probable time when Government measures are likely to be brought on."—lf London news be wanted, go t° Dublin for it ; the Mail manufactures the article. MAIL AND STAGE COACH PROPRIETORS , " - : The introduction of the penny postage appears to have seriouslf affected the interests of this useful class of the public, by de r e iving them of the advantages they formerly derived from t, conveyance of small parcels, and which, until the sth of April next, when their mail contracts expire, they are compelleo carry free of extra remuneration as regards the payments s` " fo r conveying the mails. The present contractors have 00 quently pres.entod a memorial to the Lords of the Treasurld• praying that the operations of the Post-office may be co nfine . as heretofore, to the transmission of letters only, or that in W I thereof some other relief may be afforded to the memorialists- So great have been the losses of the mail and coaclt proprietors in the past year, occasioned by the unprecedented bad weather, high price of corn, &c., and other untoward circumstances, that many of the minor partners in coat h establishments t 0.," declined horsing the mails, &c., thereby throwing the Irb7.: risk of the concerns on the larger capitalists. tinder t ": above circumstances, a further remission of coach duties, or considerable increase in the cost of carrying the 111a1151 may b° anticipated after the sth of April next,—.Nuth jounicii• • li r FACTORY ACTS.--.Th e o t istirt, l aw is cert 9lll out of favour with parties intet.•%ted, and, in s° g ; places, 1(10;4 to greater hardships than were entailed u l s ' n paw( children by the old sytera.— Leeds Intelligences. 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