The Sun. — London, England, 1840-04-22 00:00:00

EVENINO, EDITION. TO BE HAD AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. T HE NEW NOVELS, JUST PUB LISHED, By Mr. BENTLEY. The MAID'S HUSBAND. 3 vols. The COUNTESS. By THEODORE S. FAY, Esq., Au thor of " Norman Leslie." 3 vols. The PATHFINDER; or, the INLAND SEA. By J. ENIMORE COOPER, Esq., Author of " The Pilot." 3 vols. ONE FAULT. By Mrs. TROLLOPE. 3 vols. v. FITZWIGGINS. By the Author of " Sydenham." 3 vols. NI. COUSIN GEOFFREY, the OLD BACHELOR. Edited by THEODORE HOOK, Esq. 3 vols., with Portrait of Mr. Hook. VII.' A GOOD MATCH, &c. By LADY CHATTERTON. 3 vols. VIII. CONFESSIONS of a THUG. By Captain MEADOWS TAYLOR. Second Edition. 3 vols. Richard Bentley, New Burlington -street. ILis MAJESTY th e EMPEROR o f AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY PRE.I I ,IIUMS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) )ffer many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, cc* NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBIT ',HONS. Persons desirous to purchase, may receive, PRE VIOUS to giving any order , the PROSPECTUS and PAR TICULARS, upon addressing WITHOUT DELAY, a line HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. P. S.—THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains Portions of TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND, FIVE THOUSAND, TWO THOUSAND, ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED, ONE THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED, — SIX HUNDRED, FIVE HUN RED, THREE HUNDRED, TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY, TWO HUNDRED. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY, ONE HUN DRED AND TEN, and ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, &c. &e., amounting to £134,990 Sterling. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS: THIS EVENING, APRIL 22, ill be performed the New Original F'lav, in Five Acts, written by James Sheridan Knowies, called LOVE. Duke of Carinthia, Mr. Cooper; Sir Rupert •f Lorch, Mr. J. Vining ; Huon, Mr. Anderson ; the Countess of Eppen stein, Miss Ellen Tree; Katherine, Madame Vestris. After which will be repeated, the entirely New and Original Grand Comic, Romantic, Operatic, Melodramatic, Fairy Extravaganza, in Three Parts, entitled end founded on that popular Nursery Tale, THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. The Principal Characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. J. Vinimr, Mr. J. Bland, Madame Vestris, Miss Rainforth, Mrs. C. Jones, &c. Scc. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, '2.s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s._; Gallery, Is. . • Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seve-r o'Clock. Tickets and pla( s 3 for the Boxes to be taken at the Box-of ce, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, I t 37, New Bond-street. ROYAL. OLYMPIC THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. BUTLER. THIS EVENING, APRIL 22, kWiIl be presented, for the third time, A ROYAL COMMISSION FROM PARIS. Monsieur Jo11i•:et, Mr. I'. Vining; Alexis Kerbout, Mr. Raker; Maclaine Jollivet, Miss Fitzwalter; Causette, Miss Ayre3 (from the National Theatre, New York) her first ap i,:iii.-anee here. After which, Forty-third Night, THE LADIES' CLUB. Open every night at half-past 7. and close proceedings at 9. Mrs. Fitzsmith (the Chairwoman), Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by LEGACY HUNTING. Sir Richard Playwell, Mr. Baker ; General Playwell, Mr. Br3okes ; Fanny, Miss Fitzwalter. To conclude with the New and Original Drama (Irt the author of " The Ladies' Club"), called GWYNNETH VAUGHAN. Gwynneth Vaughan, Mrs. Stirling ; Owen Williams, Mr. Baker ; Evan Pritchard, Mr. Hell; Hugh Morgan, Mr. G. Wild. Boxes, 4s. Pit, 2s. Gallery, Is. Second Price immediately after the Ladies' Club. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The Theatre has been entirely Re-Decorated, and embellished in a novel and tasteful style, during the Recess. Extraordinary and extensive Novelty. Three entirely New Pieces, with splendid Scenery Costumes, ' and Appointments. THIS EVENING, APRIL 2,2, Will be acted an entirely New Village Tragedy, illustrating Hogarth'e celebrated " Harlot's Progress," entitled THE LIFE OF A WOy ; OR, THE CURATE'S DAUGHTER. After which, a New Comic Drama, called THE WET NURSE. To conclude with an entirely New Romance, entitled THE VENETIAN ; OR, THE COUNCIL OF TEN. The scenery comprising some of the most splendid Views in Venice. NEW STRAND TREA"I'RE. PROCLAMATION ! H Be it known to all men by these presents, that the GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH has to our (the Public's) satisfac tion, demonstrated his perfect invulnerability ; we therefore guarantee that he shall RE-OPEN his Temple of Science, Alagic, Delusion, and Wonder, THIS EVENING, April 22d, 1840, and continue open during the week, to have and to hold his unrivalled entertainment of novel and seeming scpernatural Phanmaturgy, being retrospectively and prospec tively a complete synopsis of ancient and modern Necromancy; concluding with the unfathomable GUN DELUSION. Given under the hand and seal of public approbation, testifying our never-failing admiration of the Great Wizard of the North. TO CORRESPONDENTS. V a lu7y eceived the communication of G. P. P., from Liver pool, but fear we shall not be able to insert it. In that case the manuscript will he returned. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 7 Wining 4 minutes after 6 Evening 3 minutes after 6-7 The Publication of the Evening Edition of THE SUN COM. menced at 10 minutes after Three. LONDON : WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1840. A number of highly respectable old women, dis guised in the habiliments of the sterner sex, are to gold a meeting at the Freemasons' Hall, on Friday next, to take the part of the Chinese against the " red-bristled barbarians of Downing-street," com monly known as her MAJESTY'S Ministers. These doughty personages have already appointed a Com mittee, which Committee has published a series of " reasons " why the public should declare for them and the High Commissioner LIN, against the " Barbarian Eye," ELLIOT, and Lord PALMER. STON. As an apology, we suppose, for the non sense propounded as " reasons," the personages above alluded to " repudiate all connection with party politics," and are content to claim for them selves the distinction of being a " religious body." It has been said that religion is often more a matter .of feeling than of understanding ; and that what many religions persons advance as arguments upon the morality of political questions are but the im preasiots left upon the mind by a series of foregone conclusions. This appears true of the Committee, whose " reasons" why we should submit to the ty ranny of the Chinese Commissioner have been handed to us. We shall take leave to cite them in detail, putting upon each such a comment as a llregard for truth, and the honour and interest of the British empire, may appear to us to require. The first " reason " for opposing the war runs as fol lows : " Because it is a war in defence of a system of smug gling. The Chinese have, since 1796, punished the opium smokers; and, since 1821, have interdicted th e in troduction of opium into their empire on moral grounds," The first line of the very first " reason" is a downright falsehood—a gross libel upon the Go vernment, the House of Commons, and the British nation. It is not a war in " defence of a system of smuggling," but a war against a system of en forcing Custom -house laws by the starvation of innocent communities of helpless merchants, and the imprisonment of Ambassadors. The punish ment of the opium smokers by the Chinese is about as cogent a reas on ag a i nst op ium d ea li ng , as t h e punishment in En land of gl a man who attempts to cut his throat is against knife -grinding, or the fining a drunkard five shillings by a Police IVlagistrate is against gin distillation. The concluding statement I about the moral prohibition of opium in China ris proved to be false by the memorial of _ IN Eu 70. A ET-SE, presented to t h e E MPEROR in 1 836 . , which" it is affirmed that the poppy was exten sively cuLltivated in six extensive provinces of the empire, and that it was the " leakage of the Sycee" silver that first opened the eyes of the Celestial Authorities to the evils which they apprehended from the trade. Here, then, in the first rea son" of the old women's Copmittee, we have two falsehoods and an absurdity. Now for the second " Because it has been ordered in Council to seize from the Chinese reprisals for the twenty thousand chests of contraband opium surrendered by British merchants.„ The best reason that could he given for support ing the Government. Ministers display great mo deration in not ordering reprisals to twice the amount of the opium illegally seized by LIN. Had they interpreted the law of na tions strictly, they might have proceeded against the Chinese as pirates, but they are content with insisting upon the illegality of the seizure, and the consequent right of the merchants injured to full compensation. Proceed we to the third "reason :". " Because fraud and violence have been used in convey ing opium along the coasts, and up the rivers of China. This reason is as conclusive against the impor tation of French brandy and Brussels lace into England as opium into China. The concoctor of such a novelty, in the way of argument, would make his fortune as a lecturer upon international law. How do we prevent " fraud and violence" on our coasts ? By the prohibition of trade ? Oh no, we are nut such noodles. How then ? By the establishment of an efficient coast-guard of course. Hear the fourth " reason" of the wise ones who eschew political partisanship • Because the very parties most zealously urging on the war, on the ground of the Chinese having infringed the rights of our merchants, are still by force of arms son tinning the traffic—although they signed bonds—declaring most positively that they would never again be engaged in it." This happens to be untrue from beginning to end, so far as regards British merchants. Only two captains of British vessels signed the opium contract, and neither the one nor the other ever had an ounce of opium on board. Before the il legal seizure of the opium the merchants offered to pledge themselves to abandon the traffic, but the Chinese Government having a very different object in view than the mere destruction of one branch of the trade, the proffered pledge was contemptuously refused. Here is the next " reason " Because this traffic in opium has long been a great: hindrance to, and, unless stopped, must be the utter de struction of our fair trade with China." This is merely a political blunder. Our " re gular trade" as it is called has only been turned into a newer and more profitable channel. The goods formerly freighted direct to China are now disposed of at Bombay for the consumption of the ityots, and the produce of India carried to China, where it is exchanged partly for tea, and partly for the pure silver of the Celestial Empire. Besides, every other consideration apart, it has never been regarded by any sound politician as either wise or expedient that one branch of trade should be in terfered with because it may manifest a tendency to swallow up such as were less profitable. But to come to the next specimen of " religious" logic : Because the Chinese have long warned those engaged in this contraband traffic to desist from their iniquitous proceedings ; and their being compelled to surrender this opium was the result of their contempt for these warnings." A capital reason this in the mouth of a pick pocket at the Old Bailey, who had shouted to the prosecutor, before purloining the good man's snuff box, to take care of his pockets. Had not the prosecutor had fair warning ? And if he had taken care of his pockets, what is more certain than that he would not hava lost his snuff-box ? But to warn men to desist from any traffic at the peril of the lives, not of themselves but of their fellow countrymen, may do very well in China, but will hardly pass current in England. Fair warning is no justification of an act which in itself is contrary to every principle of law and justice. We come to , the next " reason :" " Because this war is in support of those who have acted in direct defiance of the laws of England, which require the British Consul at every foreign port to take especial notice of all prohibitions, that he may prevent smuggling and its consequent hazards." The war is in support of the principle, that Consuls cannot be held responsible with their heads, and the heads of all their countrymen living under ►heir protection, for infractions of Custom-house regulations. Again hear the venerable allies of Commissioner LIN : " Because mental, moral, and physical destruction, immorality and crime, are the results of the production of opium in eastern India, and of its introduction into China." This is but a parody of a " reason," ever y day repeated by Temperance Societies against wine and beer-bibbing. Has the Committee ever turned its attention to the " mental, moral, arid physital" destruction of Aldermen, resulting from an im moderate appetite for callipash and callipee ? Is it not disgusting to hear men bewail the demoraliza tion of the Chinese by the use of opium, whose organs are at this moment deploring the progress of temperance in Ireland ? Is the opium pipe more destructive of morality than the whiskey bottle, that we should be thus stunned with such cant? But toproceed with the'sapient "reasons":— Because if this war proceed—if the Chinese be com pelled to trade with us on our own terms—the opium traders will push their murderous traffic to the uttermost. Opium, at the last sales of the Company, rose at least forty per cent., on the speculation of its being forced into China at the cannon's mouth." This is a mere assumption, and we leave our readers to form their own conceptio❑ of the Chris tian charity of the " religious body" by whom it is made. If it be well founded our merchants are the greatest pack of scoundrels and poisoners that ever existed. But we are as much at liberty to denounce such a foul, and, we believe, scandalously false insinua ion against the reputation of our merchants as we were to expose the falsehood of the preceding "reasons" upon matters of fact. We have now gone through the whole list of " reasons" but two, and these we shall give together : "Because this traffic disgraces the name of Christianity, and has already fearfully prevented its spread amongst the heathen. " Because this war must be to the eternal disho.iour and disgrace of England. It is a declaration that because the Chinese will not have our opium we will hare their blood." -- Here we have as many falsehoods as lines. In the first place, one of the reasons_ad n whyext on the Chinese Authorities prohibit opium—and in importance with themtnotacretnn the leakage of the kag homeeofthe 14 SyCee silver," and the encouragement poppy-grower—is, that it hasol)eneda d in oor cn to i t n h a e , lab ours o f the Christian missionaries who contrive to smuggle tracts intoChrinintaedwiin the with the contraband drug. These tracts are p Chinese character, and as every man in China can read, their distribution along the extensive shores of the Yellow Sea by opium-clippers has long greatly alarmed the high-priesthood of Fo, and the College of Sacred Mandarins at Pekin. The EMPEROR is not ignorant that the State Government could not survive any blow given to the State religion, and consequently innumerable have been the ordinances addressed to the Chinese on the coast to hold no intercourse, and pay no homage to the " Gods of the outside barbarians." These "reasons " are unique. They begin with a falsehood, and they conclude with one. But what we have said of the first will suffice for the last. The Tory Journals continue to assert that it was nothing but Lord STANLEY'S love of truth and justice which made him bring in a Bill to strengthen and perpetuate , if he can , that big lie which is called the representation of the Irish. His love of truth, and his admiration of justice, consists in this—he wants to make that system a more COM pieta fraud than it is at present. NN hatever opinions the prejudices of the English may dispose them to swallow on this subject, the Irish are not to be cheated by Lord STANLEY and the Tories. From long experience they know the men, and no more trust them than a Greek would trust a Turk. The bigoted hatred to their faith in which Lord STANLEY has been bred—the arrogant spirit nursed in him by success in the House of Commons—the hazed which his failure in Ireland has inspired— all combine to make Coercion-STANLEY and the Irish as determined enemies as in the present state of civilization man can be to man. What nation ever allowed its enemies to give it laws till it was completely subdued ? Lord STANLEY should first co nquer I re l an d — h e once tr i e d i t — an d t h en he might impose laws on her. Sorme of • the Tories mock at the idea of Lord STANLEY not being called on to make laws for Ireland. That is consistent with Toryism, of which the principle is, that its own self-will, what ever wrong it may dictate, is to be the law for the whole community. Such doctrines, however, are not now held in honour; and when the Scotch are carefully consulted before any attempt is made to legislate for their rebellions Kirk—when a Bill for sewers or under-drainage cannot become a law for Eng land till after all the landowners in every part of the country have been consulted on its provisions— when every priest must be consulted before a Bill for the regulation of the Church can be carried through Parliament, it is not reasonable to expect that the Irish should submit to have a law altered which materially affects their interests without being once consulted on the subject. The overbearing insolence displayed in bringing forward such a law, while such tender regard is shown to the most trifling wishes of other parts of the community, and the still greater insolence with which the first inso lence is defended, will undoubtedly stimulate the Irish to resist it. If the law be ever so just and righteous, they cannot now take Lord STANLEY'S Bill without acknowledging that they are the de spised and scorned slaves of Scorpion-STANLEY and the Tories. In the Esser, Hells, and Kent Mercury we find the following further illustration of the manner in which country gentlemen administer the law to the poor. We will not profane the sacred name of jus tice by applying it to the English laws and the mode of administering them : HERTFORDSHIRE ADJOURNED EASTER QUARTER SESSIONS—MONDAY, APRIL 13. The Marquis of Salisbury thought it desirable to call the attention of the Court to a circumstance which had Ltely occurred with reference to a commitment by two of the Magistrates of the Liberty of St. Alban (who were also Magistrates of this County). The case he alluded to was that of Henry Tofield, for sheep-stealing, who had been committed for trial at the assizes, the consequence of which was that the prisoners would have to remain in gaol five months, and their support would fall upon the county ; whereas if they had been committed to the Sessions, they would have been tried within a week or a fortnight. It was well known that the general practice had been to send such offences for trial at the Quarter Sessions, but what had induced the two Magistrates, Mr. Capel and Mr. Hib bert, to follow a different course, he did not know. Lord Verulam said—When the commitment was made out, the 'Magistrates in question thought that considerable difficulty would arise from a want of the requ i site evidence, and they thought it better to let the case be decided by the Judges of the land, more especially as the offence was one of a serious nature. The Marquis of Salisbury held it to be a very important point to bring prisoners to trial as quick as possible, in jus tice to the prisoners themselves. He thought this man ought not to be in gaol for five months before his trial. There being a want of requisite evidence, is a reason why the man should be set at liberty ; the Justices make it a reason for sending him to prison. It is not said that more evidence was expected to be obtained by delaying the trial, but the Magi strates, though they had not evidence enough, as they supposed, to convict him at the Sessions, could not find it in their hearts to allow him to escape. They punish him by imprisonment, with out a trial. Such is the manner in which the law is made by the gentry an instrument of oppreOion,. and then they complain that the,.iieoPle !g4,pxone to disobedience and sedition, amino longer resp - et. them or honour the law. If they did, it would' be a miracle—as complete an interruption or violation of all the regular laws of matter and mind, as any on record. We learn, moreover, from this case, and that of NATHANIEL CAVE, that it iS Cus tomary for the Hertfordshire Justices to commit men to trial when there is a want of the requisite evidence. If they act from no malicious motives, the law gives the imprisoned victim of magisterial suspicion no redress. Such is the law, and the law, therefore, authorises Justices to commit a man to gaol for five months, because there is a want of requisite evidence to convict him of the crime of which said Justices suspect him. On one of the last days before the House of Commons adjourned for the holidays, Sir ROBERT INGLIS presented a petition, complaining of great distress in the Highlands. Some of the latest news received from France states that several riots had taken place in that country in consequence of the dearness and scarcity of provisions. Shall we be accused of straining a good cause, if we say that both these circumstances may in part be traced to our Corn-laws? We shall at least make the attempt, and our readers will decide at the end of our remarks. The Highlanders want food and want employ ployment. Now, the operation of our Corn-laws is, as Mr. BARING expressed it, " to cut down our population to suit our own supply of corn." It does a great deal more, however, than " cut down our population "—(thank you, Lord Asrisult- TON, for those just and precise words)--to that supply of corn which our country is capable of pro ducing; itcuts down population to that supply which pays rack-rents and heavy tithes. The real or natural price of producing corn is the quantity of labour necessary to bring it to market. There are thousands of acres of land in this kingdom which would abundantly reward the mere labour of tillage, but which will by no means in addition pay tithes and pay the average rent of land. Moreover, as all the food consumed by labour in breaking up new land must pay the Corn -tax, rent, and tithes, so even such land, though itself rent and tithe free, must yield enough not only to reward the labour, but to pay the tithes and the tax-raised -rents levied on the food consumed while bringing it into cultivation. Thus the Corn-law cuts down our population to that point at which the produce of cultivation will reward labour, pay the bread-tax rent to the landlord, and the bread-tax-enhanced tithe to the priest. If the Corn-law did not so cut down our popula tion, it would increase by all the supply of food purchased from abroad, and by all the supply of food which could be raised at home were there no tax to pay. In the twenty-five years during which s our Corn-law has been in operation, it ia continually cut down the population. Had it not been cut down periodically, as at present, havinc , an abundant supply of food obtained from all the world, that population would have had a higher standard of comfort than our Corn-law -starved people. The plain consequence of a greater num ber of people having more food, and a higher standard of comfort, would be to extend the demand for animal food. The hills of Scotland have already been turned to a most profitable use by the growth gr i ow l Glasgo w , Li ver p oo l, an d Alanchester, w have not only drafted away their surplus hands, and found them profitable and even wealthy employment, but have extended cultivation over them. The pro gress of improvement, which has already carried cultivation to the Highlands and provided profitable employment for their surplus hands in the low countries, would have been more rapid thin it has been but for the Corn-laws, and we should now not have heard any complaints of destitution in the Highlands. We charge that distress, there fore, of which Sir R. INGLIS presented the peti tion, on the Corn-laws, which have cut down our population, limited the cultivation of our own soil, shortened the demand for the produce of the hills of Scotland, and stifled employment for the people in the manufacturing towns. Whether our reasoning be admitted or not, the fact that great distress, arising from want of food and want of employment, exists in the Highlands in conjunction with the Corn-law, cannot be denied. save, as is said, our people e. from n o n t g h e e r r therefore, e suffering. We believe that it causes hunger and suffering, and that its slow but sure operation:is continually " to cut down" the population to that standard which the landlord sup poses to be most advantageous to his pecuniary interest. Its effect in' producing riots in France may be thus traced. England has a great purchasing power. Prices are made by her Corn-law hig her here than in other countries. Whenever we require a supply, therefore, and have recourse for it to foreign mar kets, r to give for it snore than however, prevents us wea people.rea able and being regular customers in the Continental markets, and when we go thither, we take away by our de • mand and our higher prices, the supplies growl: ra ther for them than for us. Thus our demand during the last two years has so rained prices on the Conti nent, that a temptation has existed to export corn from France, and no corn could be imported into that country. Our Corn-law has, therefore, cur tailed the supply of food in the present markets, and been a remote cause of the riots in Fiance. The mission of England, we would fain hope judging from her advanced civilisation, her eminent success in establishing political freedom, and in the mechanical arts, is to " teach the nations how to live." In conformity with this destiny she is car rying her arts and her government into every quarter of the world. But while she is thus qualified to be the instructress and the benefactress of other nations, her short-sighted legislation repels them from her shores. There is not a market of the civilised world which has not felt the disastrous effects of the derangement in our own Money Market, caused by the Corn-laws. When the heart of com mercial credit is affected, the blood staonates in the the distant members of New York and Rio Janeiro. Our Corn-laws derange the Money Market, and derange commerce throughout the ci vilised globe, and while they inflict indescribable misery on our population, they make England, in stead of a benefactress, a curse to other nations. It appears from a letter inserted in another column, that the Chelmsford persecutors do not think they acquit themselves of their duties to the Church, unless they add insult to injury. Most people will think it quite punishment enough to immure a man in a damp dungeon for fifteen months, because he would nut pay a Church-rate of five shillings and sixpence in support of a sys tem of religion of which he cannot conscientiously approve. Not so the ecclesiastical authorities of Chelmsford. They cannot consider the triumph of the Church complete except they add the bitter ness of mockery to the other sufferings of the pri soner for conscience-sake. Worthy officers of an Apostolical Church 1 Easter Monday being observed as a solemn holy day in Paris, only three Journals—the Conslilutionnel, the Courrier Francais, and Galignani's Messenger, were published. A supplement to the Commerce appeared, but it -contains merely a few paragraphs of news gleaned from different local and London Journals. The Courrier Francais speaks with confidence of the pacific settle ment; of, ; the, sulpbui question. France has, •we are led to believe, offered her mediation, and the Britigi Go ,verament bas frankly accepted it. The. follOwink:sc ount,Of '%his affair is from the Supplement of the:, cum- I 'tierce The news received from the Mediterranean states that, on the arrival of orders from the British Government, the English Admiral despatched ail the ships of war that were at La Valette to •sea, sent a steamer to Ourlac, near Smyrna, with orders for the naval forces stationed there to join him immediately, and despatched the Hydra steamer for Mr, Temple's final instructions: On the arrival of the steamer at Naples, the Envoy Extraordinary summoned the King in due form to annul in twenty-four hours the contract which violated the treaty of 1816, and to recog nize the principle of the indemnity due to the subjects of Great Britain for the injury done them by the aforesaid contract. The King, having advised with his Council, according to the Gazette du Midi, sent the following reply to the British Envoy ‘, The treaty of 1816 is evidently' not violated by the sulphur contract: The British subjects, instead of being injured, have derived considerable profit through it. I have, consequently, God and justice on my side, and I place greater reliance on the force of right than on the right of force." The diplomatic body then thought proper to interfere, and proceed to the King with a project more respectful and less exacting in its tone than that of the British Envoy. The King refused to accede to it, and on the evening of the ith the Hydra, which was waiting for the result of the steps taken by the Ambassadors, left for Malta with orders for the Adm,ral to blockade instantly the ports of Naples and of Palermo, and to seize all vessels under the Noapo litanflag. _ _ The — discussion of the Five per Cents. Conversion Bill commenced in the Chamber of Deputies on Mon day. MM. LABORDE and LIADERES, both Royal Aides-de-Camp as well as Deputies, spoke against the all. The Minister of Finance addressed the Chamber in faveur of it, pronouncing it to be at once a legal and expedient measure. _ The following a: title on the subject of the contem plated Paris and Rouen Railway is from the Cowrie?. Francais " Some months since certain English capitalists, having caused the line between Paris and Rouen to be surveyed by a celebrated engineer, offered to contribute a conside rable sum towards the execution of a railroad. The capitol required was estimated at fifty millions of francs. M. Dufaure, considering the intervention of foreign capital in such an enterprise a most fortunate event, encouraged it by promises that Government would take shares for seventeen or eighteen millions. The chiefs of the four great English Companies agree to furnish half the capital, being twenty-five millions of francs. Everything is ready for the execution of the scheme. The ground had been minutely surveyed, and plans prepared by a company no longer in existerce. Inquiries by the State were also made. The adhesion of the Government is alone wanting. M. Jaubert. Minister of Public Works, is too enlightened to refuse his consent. He must comprehend that French ca pitalists wanting the courage for such works, it would be madness to reject the offeri of foreign capitalists. But M. Jaubert insists that in return for the 17 millions which the State is ready to furnish, the Company ought to undertake to extend the line as far as Havre. No doubt this would be a great advantage to the country which would connect Paris with the sea, and place Southampton within 12 hours of the French capital. But the addition demanded is se rious. If 50 millions be required to execute a road from Paris to Rouen, 50 millions more would be required from Rouen to Havre, so difficult is the ground ; and the com munication between Havre and Rouen is made by means of the river and steam-boats with great facility, in a very short space of time. Now, instead of raising difficulties in the way of a railroad bet Ween Paris and Rouen, we would rather remove some. We would rather see the Rouen railroad take the terminus of the St. Germain road, which would economise ten millions. The extension to Havre might afterwards take place. The unseasonable exigencies and conditions of the Administration des Ponts et Chaussees may obstruct the railroad altogether. M. Jaubert's making those conditions is natural in him, from a Minister's wish to do much and do well; but there are other motives and influences behind the Ministers ; and the public can never believe the Administration des Ponts et Chaussees favourable to cotnpanies." The following paragraphs include what little there is in the shape of news in the Paris Journals : The Moniteur Parisien says :—" According to the ac counts which we have received from the departments of the Eure, Oise, Dome, CUtes du Nord, Mayenne, and the Ardennes, the most perfect tranquillity reigns in every point of those districts. In the Allier, some disturbances were breaking out in the corn-market of St. Pourcain, through alarm entertained by the small consumers at a rise in price; but the corn-dealers having agreed not to bid against each other, and so raise the prices, the market terminated quietly. In the department of the Sane et Loire, the rain which had fallen, sad which had been fol lowed by heat, had put an end to all dread of a rise in the trice of corn." The Minister of Finance, in concert with the Minister of Comm erce, and on the r epresentations of several Chambers of Commerce, has issued a custom- house cir. cular, stating that henceforth, whenever a French vessel coming from a country out of Europe, or from the French colonies, shall have touched at any port, whether in England or elsewhere, this circumstance shall not be considered as an interruption of direct transport, when it shall he certified, either by the French Consul at that port, or if there be no consular agent, by the 10-al Cus tom-house authorities, that no shipment or landing of merchandise has taken place there. In default of such certificate, rti fiicn frc ateo,the..._Gaig estanding a ce z . ulations in such case are to re. m The Edo de Aragon relates the curious fact that THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 840. when the Queen's troops entered the village of Las Cuevas de Castellote, a short time since, they did not find a single man in it, every one having fled or followed the Gq-lists. The General in command conceived the strange fancy of appointing an ayuntamiento, composed entirely of women, with an alcadesso, or female alcade. The latter accepted the office with all due acknowledgments, and has 'u - filled its duties to the perfect satisfaction of all parties under her authority. The best of the joke is, that when the men returned to the village they were compelled to submit to the female authorities. The following from the Rhine appears in the Courrier Francais::—" It appears that the Emperor of Russia will certainly, at the end of the summer, come into Bohemia to take the waters. No Congress, however, will be held. Prince Metternich will not listen to any proposals for such meetings. He has made a formal declaration to this effect, and has repeated that made by him when last at Johannis berg, not to treat upon the Eastern question without the concurrence of France. The instructions given to M. de Neumann on his departure for London were to that effect ; M. de Neumann is not to take any part in the conferences between England and Russia, but is to remain in obser vation." A letter from Saragossa of the 14th says:— " Serious dissensions have broken out among the i sur gents respecting the defence of Morella. The result has been that the battalions drew lots to decide which should remain. The lot fell on a Catalonian battalion, which has refused to shut itself up in the town. An Aragonese bat talion quartered in the village of Boreal() was then fixed upon, but on the following night almost all the men com posing it deserted ; fifty of them have come over to our troops, and the remainder are gone to their homes." The Castor, which sailed from Tan g icra on the 6th, anchored at T ou l on on t h e 1 6t h ; a ll t h e rumours of war which have been spread are contradicted. The Emperor of Morocco is very well disposed towards France. HEILBRONN, APRIL 11.—On Friday last three vessels sailed from the canal of this city with 245 persons emigrat ing to America ; among them was a man 70 years of age, and several persons with considerable property. MAYENCE, APRIL 11.—Permission has just been re ceived from Darmsdadt to open the section of the iron railway from Kastel to Frankfort ; next Monday, there fore, the whole of the railway will be open for travellers. The convention between the Committee and the Direc tors of the Past-office of the Prince of Tour and Taxis is concluded for the present for one or nine months. WIESBADEN, APRIL 11.—Official news was received here yesterday of the death of D. J. N. Bausch Bishop, of Limburg, on the 9Ji of this month, after a long illness, at the age of 66 years. Apartments are preparing at Ems for the reception of the Empress of Russia, who, recording to the account cf the Russian Messenger who has arrived here, will lone St. Petersburg on the 15th of May. The Grand Duchess Helena is expected on the Ist of May. BO UR S E.—Pattts, MONDAY, APRIL 20. first Highest Lowest laf t Price Price. Price Prii c rend) :, per Cents lll ...!5 ... 111 70 ... 111 2i ... 1 1 70 4 per Cents lO4 50 ... , N f - 0 ... I('4 50 ... IN 50 3 p.m' Cents B3 35 83 45 ... 83 30 ... 83 a 3 3anl: or prance Lallittc Lank 1,0011 f„ Sh lO5O ...1080 ...1( SO _1 8.) 5,000 f. Sh 5200 -.52 0 ...5197 50 ..51 , 7 50 ;3elgian Rank E3S ... 8 5 .., 880 ... 890 5 tier Cents 3 per Cents 74 70 ... ;4 70 ... 74 70 ... 74 .0 New York ... State of New York Ohio. 1 0 .2 50 ... 109. 54 ... 100 50 ... 102 50 Sp.iiiish Active 29!,(, ... . - 9 , , ... t:91,4 ... 29 1 4 Passive 7% ... 74i, ... 7% ... ; '!,'; :;ea; , olit. n Nionan 1314% ... 104% ... 104% ... Ihl% RAILWAY SHARES, - -- - ..„ A. Cermai6 rersailles, IS. B 617 59 ... 6;7 50 ... 615 ... 615 1,. B ' , ,...N 7. - 1 ... :.91 ... ~ 75 .. 5S ( 7535 Orlearr. .. 505 ... 510 ... 51 , 5 ... 511 i Nloticuellier to Cette `lta,Uur , , , , to Bale ~..,. ........- ...._ ASPHALTES AND BI i U farn (MaLerly') 4 W ) CAMBRIDGE ELECTION COM MITTEE.-(THIS DAY.) This morning the Committee proceeded with the ex amination of Mr. Brown, when a discussion arose on the admissibility of evidence as to treating in public-houses, o hick had not been mentioned in the opening speech of Counsel, and with which those professional gentlemen characteristically occupied the mornin4 up to the period of our guing to Press, when the examination of the witness was continued. ROLLS COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The MASTER of the ROLLS resumed his sittings this morning at Westminster, and was occupied the whole of the day with a petition in re Wood, which related to a soli citor's bill of costs. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) (Satinga, in Banco.) FRANKIS V. FRANK'S. This was a case involving a question of considerable in terest as regarded the stamp laws. The case had been tried at Gloucester at the last assizes. Mr. Sergeant LUDLOW moved for a rule to show cause why a new trial should not be granted on the ground of the rejection of an important document by the learned Judge. During the course of the trial a document was sought to be put in.. purporting to be a memorandum that Jonathan Fraukis held a farm under his brother Thomas Frantis, at Afeucctf.6Pl, a year. The learned Judge re fused to aamtt this document, on the ground that it was not stamped. The learned Sergeant contended that this document had been improperly rejected, as it did net require a stamp. If it required a stamp, what stamp would have been the proper one ?—a deed stamp, or an agreement stamp ? It was merely a memorandum tied therefore ought to hale been received. The Court held that the document in question was the counterpart of a lease, and therefore it had been rightly c jected.—Rule refused. EXCHEQUER CO uRT.-THIS. DAY. (Sittings in Banco.) Mr. Armstrong was this morning called upon to talc his seat within the bar, upon his appointment to the dignity of Queen's Counsel. MAYER V. ISAACS. • This action was tried before Mr. Baron Gurney, at the sittings after last term at Westminster, when a verdict passed for the plaintiff, damages 2001. Mr. WHATELEY now moved for leave to set that verdict aside, and to enter a nonsuit, pursuant to leave given him by the Learned Judge. The action was upon a guarantee in these words—'. In consideration or your supplying my nephew, Mr. Vogel, with china and earthenware, I will guarantee the payment of any bills you may draw upon to the .amount of 2001." Tne delivery of the goods was ad mitted by the defendant—the only question was whether the guarantee was a limited or a continuing one. He (Mr. W.) contended that the guarantee was limited to 2001., and to bills to that amount, given for goods as above, and it was proved that bills had been paid to that amount and more. He • had made another point of the trial. The business of the pkintiff in London was car ried on by a person of the name of Rennick, to whom the guarantee was given, andin whose name it was directed, that gentleman representing that he was the party liable to the plaintiff. The COURT considered that enough of doubt had been thrown upon the docu.!.ent to require that it shuuld be further considered.—Rule granted. THE CORPORATION OF TIIE BORCT:GII OF LUDLOW V. LECHMERE CHARLTON This action wts tried before Mr. Baron Gurney, at the lste Shremsbury Assizas, when a verdict passed against the defendant for 3001. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD now moved for a rule to enter the verdict for the defendant. The action was brought to r.!cover 375/. for rent due for an estate leased to the defen d.int by the Corporation. The rent was admitted to be due, but the defendant pleaded a set-off for work and lab]ur done by the consent of the Corporation under the following circumstances :—lt appeared that a public. house, called the Charisma Arms, the property of the defendant, stood rear, and formed an obstt uction to the bridge at the entrance to Lud!ow from Shrewsbury. It was considered a nuisance, and the Corporation agreed to give Mr. Charlton 5001., for taking down part and re moving the other further from the road. Mr. Chariton agreed:to acceit the sum ,with an addition of 751. for making a road to the House. This was minuted in the books of the Corporation, and a vote of thanks passed to Mr. Charlton upon the occasion. It was proved that the work had been done, but on the defendant proposing to put in the books of the Corporation it was found they were in Chancery, and the Vice-Chancellor did not think Mr. Charlton had such an interest in them as to be allowed to produce them. That having been proved, secondary; evi dence was given of these entries, but two points of objection were taken against the allowance of the set-off. First, that the entry in the book could not be used without beirg stamped, and secondly that the Curporatioa had no power to enter into such an agreement, except under their common seal. He contended that the last objection was disposed of by tho agreement having been fulfilled. The defendant's right of action had accrued, and consequently the set-off was good. He further contended that the agree Lent in the books was not a contract, but a mere memorandum of what the Corporation had done, and therefore did not re quire a stamp.—Pule granted. BOW-STREET-(THIS DAY). John Thomas Bullins, whose real name was said to be Montague, a student of Cambridge, was brought up with a nymph of the pave, charged with assaulting several po lice constables in the execution of their duty last night, in Exeter -street, Strand. The facts of the case being fully proved, and the assault being admitted by the male prisoner, Mr. JARDINE said that such offences were of late too frequently committed by young men, who considered they could escape by the payment of a fine ; but in the present case he would avail himself of the power he was invested with by the Metropolitan Police Bill, and ordeied the pri soner to be committed for one calendar month ; and as his companion had acted under his instructions, she should also be committed for a fortnight. Mr LAING, the ex-Magistrate of Flitton-garden, ap. peared to prefer a charge against James Constable, a clerk is the employ of Messrs. Le Blanque and Rook, so licitors, of Bi.dges.street, for using offensive language to him in the public streets. The complainant, it appeared, was proceeding home to his chambers in the Temple last night, about half.pl.4 eleven o'clock th:ough Carey-street, Chancery-lane, and on passing the defendant and another man, both of whom were drunk, the defendant turned round and said the r • g- s , s that damned old fellow Laing, several times. On asking him why he used such offensive expressions, the def, nian b t moved his arms, and complainant thinking that he was about to assault him, he'd up his umbrella to protect him self, when the defendant happened to fall against it. The constable, who came up at the moment, swore that he saw the complainant strike the defendant a blow with his right hand in the face, after which he gave him into custody, but on coming. to the station the complainant asked what charge was against him, and if there was trine he had a charge to prefer against the defendant. The complainant repeatedly denied that he ever as saulted the defendant, or gave him into the custody of Cie constable, and after a great deal of contradictory evidence the defendant was ordered to be discharged. LLOYD'S SHIPPIG-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, APRIL 21. —Wind W. S. W., moderate.—Arrived the Albion, Valpe, from St. John's N. B. ; Catherine, Sierra Leone. Sailed, the Robert Watt, Jones, Cape of Good Hope ; Ocean, Patterson, Bahia ; Mountaineer, Caskill, Calcutta; Hebe, Wright, St. John's, N. B. ; Providence. Peacock, Quebec. Mern.—The Perseverance, from the South Seas, re ported as having arrived yesterday, is incorrect. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 21.—Light brecze from W. N. W.— Arrived the Patriot Queen, from Calcutta, sailed Dec. 30, and St. Helena, 2d ult. ; Vestal, Graham, Monte Video; Louisville, Allen, New Orleans ; Anna Liffey, Stewart, Savannah; John and Robert, New Orleans ; Edwin, Natchez; Mischief, Jones, Palermo ; Trinity yacht, St. Michael's. Off port, the Victoria, Charleston ; Montezuma, from Philadelphia. Sailed the Yazoo, Trask, for New York. PORTSMOTH, APRIL 21.--Wind W. N. W —Arrived H.M.S. Dolphin, from Sheerness, having been in contact v i h the I3raganza (steamer), on the 19th inst., off Folk stone, with bows stove, loss of cat-head, and anchor broken. DOVER, APRIL 21.—Arrived the Edward, Zeplica, from Pernambuco. COWES, APRIL 21.—Arrived the Colon, Vexualia, from Havannah. POOLE, APRIL 21.—Sailed the Olive Branch, Rogers, for Newfoundland. DARTMOUTH, APRIL 19.—Sailed the Fox, Fox, for Newfoundland. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 21.—Wind W. S. W.—Sailed the Lady Clarke, Laurence, for Sydney. FALMOUTH, APRIL 20 —N. to N.W., fresh breezes. —Arrived the Elizabeth. Phelps, from Odessa. Sailed the Tagus (steamer), M'Leod, from Vigo, &c. Off port the Liverpool, Rowe, from Bahia; Mary Bulmer, Cant, Mauritius, sailed Jan. 1, from Cape of Good Hope, Jan. 29, Tobago; Dinah Maria, Surinam. THE MARKETS—(THIs DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. There have been small fresh arrivals of English Corn since Monday, but a good quantity of Foreign Wheat. There has not been much business transacted, but Monday's prices were firmly maintained for every article. Flour unaltered. NEWGATE AND LEADENIIALL MARKETS. Supply moderate, but equal to the demand. Prices much as lad quoted, but where altered rather lower. Trade for Poultry very heavy, and only for good things ; and a great quantity of Wild Fowl at market. Capons, Gs. to Bs. ; Fowls, 4s. to ss. ; Chickens, 33. to 4s. ; Pigeons, 4d. to 6d. ; Goslings, ss. to Gs. ; Ducklings, 3s. to 4s. ; Tame Rabbits, Is. 3d. to Is. 9d. ; Guinea Fowls, 3s. to 45.; Wild Rabbits, 8(1. to 10d. ; Leverets, 2s. to 4s. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. A good supply, particularly of inferior sorts ; prices reason able. Turbot ss. to 21s. Cod 2s, 6d. to Bs. Salmon 2s. to 2s. 6d. per lb. Mackarel 4d. to Bd. Whitings 3d. to 6d. Haddocks 6d. to Is. Lobsters 61 to 3s. Soles 6d. to 3s. 6d. per pair. COLONIAL MARKET. But very little business transacted, although there was a con siderable attendance. B. P. Sugar sold slowly at previous rates. The stock is now small, and the show of samples scanty. 220 bags h. P. Cocoa fetched about 50s. for fair red. There were two small parcels of Coffee, but they were second-hand parcels. TEA SALE, At the public sale consisting of 12,971 package;, containing 915,7751b5., there was a good attendance. of the trade, and a pretty goof feeling shown to purch ase —p r i ces rat h er h igher than before the holidays. Free trade Congou 2s. Bd. to 2s. BP., and Twankays 2s. Sd. Verylittle done in Company's Congou. INDIGO SALE—SEVENTH DAY. There was no new feature . in this sale. But a small pro portion of what was put up sold, and prices still 3d. per lb. lower than those of last sale. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK Our arrival; this morning are the French mail, and ship letters from Bahia, Antigua, St. John's, New Brunswick, Calcutta Nov. 19 and Dec. 28, Mauritius Jan. 1, and the Cape Jan. 29. We have received the Halifax Papers to March 31. PROROGATION OF THE LEGISLATURE. Friday afternoon his Excellency Sir Colin Campbell came down in state to prorogue the Legislature. In obedience to a summons from the Lieutenant-General, the Members of the Assembly repaired to the Council Cham ber, and his Excellency closed the Session with the fol ',wing speech : " Mr. President and Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, " Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly, " A 3 the public business is now brought to a close, I have great pleasure in releasing you from your legislative labours. It would have afforded me much gratification if the important business which it became my duty to bring under their consideration at the commencement of the Seinion, in obedience to her Majesty's commands, had been satisfactorily, arranged ; and I cannot but express my re gret that a subject of such interest to the tranquillity and prosperity of the province should remain unadjusted. I have to convey to you my thanks for the liberal supplies which you have granted to her Majesty for the public service, and you may rely that they shall be applied with the utmost care to the objects to which they have been appropriated." An Address was presented t 6) his Excellency the Lieu ter:ant-Governor, signed by 3,700 inhabitants of the county of Pictou, expressive of their loyalty and attachment to the Queen. The following is his Excellency's reply : " Gentlemen,—l accept the expression of the confidence and favourable opinion contained in this Address from the respectable and numerous body of the inhabitants of the county and town of Pictou, which you represent, nith a due sense of the honour conveyed to me, by this public tes timony of their approbation." The Legislature was prorogued at three o'clock on Friday last. We regret most deeply the proceedings of the House of Assembly, which marked almost the close of the Session—the passing of an Address to her Majesty the Queen, praying the removal of his Excellency Sir Colin Campbell from the Government, conchal in terms not very courteous to her Majesty, and highly disrespect ful and insulting to his Excellency. We are, however, quite sati:.fiA that Sir Colin has not been treated more unjustly by the Legislature than any other officer would have been as Governor of this Province, if he adhered to the spirit of his instructions, and acted as a faithful servant to his Sovereign. The opinions entertained of this proceeding of the As, sembly by the inhabitants of Halifax, was fully pronounced at the public meeting which took place on Saturday, a feeling which we are confident will be responded to by all parts of the province. —From the Papers of March 30. We have received New Brunswick papers to the 22d of March. On Thursday the House went into consider. ation of a Bill in Committee for the payment of the Members of the Legislative Council. Mr. Taylor was in the chair, who has given the casting vote on two of the most important measures introduced during the Session. (The above papers are void of interest.) We have received Prince Edward Island papers to the 26th of February. ST. JOHN'S, NEW BRUN'IWICK, FEB. 15. —Her Majesty's ship. Vestal, has arrived at Halifax, whe:e we understand other tessels of war are soon expected, for the purpose of bringing troops aged munitions of war to this province in case they should be required. We learn, also, that the twenty-third fusileers now in garrison at Halifax, instead of being about to proceed to the East Indies, is the first regiment for service in this province, and has received orders to be ready to move at the shortest notice. We are also inforrnod on good authority, that the erection of bar racks at Woodstock, in this province, fur the accommoda tion of a lar g e military f o rc e , h as b een d eterm i ned upon, and the work is to commence immediately. The Halifax Paper of the 30th March gives an account of an important public meeting held at Masons' Hall, for the purpose of recording a public expression of disappro bation of the censure contained in the Address of the As sembly upon the conduct of his Excellency Sir Colin Campbell, and its regret for his removal from the Govern ment of Nova Scotia. The business was commenced by S. W. Deblois, Esq., who was called to the Chair. Extract of the resolutions submitted to the conside ration of the meeting : Resolved—That, apart from the consideration of the several..questions. of Colonial Reform agitated by 11 party in this province, this meeting severely deplores the Ad dress of the House of Assembly, proposing to censure the administration of the Government by his Excellency Sir Cohn Campbell,- a censure as unfounded in reason as it is inconsistent with the feelings of the majority of the respec table and influential inhabitants of the province. Resolved —That it is the opinion of this meeting that the administration of his Excellency Sir Colin Campbell, surrounded as it has been with difficulties, and requiring the exercise of a sound and vigorous m!nd, in the situa tion of the respective Council, to meet the charges intro duced throursli the influence of the House of Assembly, has been conducted, and the measures of Government car ried out, by his Excellency, with an anxious desire to meet the true interests of the people, consistent with the duty of his Excellency to our Most Gracious Queen and her Government. Resolved,—That it is the opinion of this meeting, that it is the bounden duty of every wellwisher to the paternal Government to rally round his Excellency at this time, and by an expression of their dissent from the opinions of the Assembly, to evince to our most gracious Queen, that although there may be determined spirits in the House of Assembly, ever ready to find grievances where few, if' any exist, yet that the majority of the people not only duly appreciate the conduct of his Excellency ;n the adminis tration of the Government, but are satisfied with the ma ternal care of our most gracious Queen, and will be ever ready to support her throne, and mainta'n the connection between, the Province and Parent State." The resolutions were received by the meeting with much applause, and being main read b y t h e Secret.ry, Mr. FAirsnitoTnErr moved the first of them, when The meeting proceeded to the Government House, and were ushered into the levee room, and were received by his Excellency, when the address passed by the meeting was read by the Chairman, to which his Excellency re turned the following answer:—(Extract " Gentlemen,—lt is most gratifying to me to find that my condu c t i n t h e administration of this Government has obtainedtained f or ine the approbation, respect, and confidence_ i italof of so numerous a body of the inhabitants of h this provin ce . I h ave not language to thantkye-o capital which r hioh the , honour y ou h ave d one me, and f or the ki n d terms u you have b een p l ease d to ex press y to wards m e . I t h as b een my most de sire to p romote t h e we lf are of thet anxic rsoilvos peopleus of Nova S c oti a , an d t o conce d e to them every just and ETT.NiNG tVi)TTIONT liberal measure that would promote that end, has been the anxious object of my solicitude and duty, but at the same time firmly to support the honour and dignity of the Crown, and to resist any attempt to encroach ❑pon its prerogative , is a paramount duly I owe to my Ssivereign, and in which it is most gratifying to see that you coincide. I again re peat my Ls aralcst and best acknowledgment for the flatter ing testimony of your approbation, as conveyed in your Address." On returning from Government HL,use three times three cheers were given for his Excellency. THE FUNDS. Consols may be quoted this morning a shade better than they left off yesterday; at 91. buyers, for the Account; Money, 904 ; Exchequer Bills, 21 23 prom ; Bonds, 2 4 prem. ; B an k Stock, 175 A-; India Stock, 2501. In the For e i gn M ar k et S pan i sh Act i va the same as they left off, 281- 29 ; Deferred, 14i ; Passive, 71 Portu guese, 351 1; Three per C ents ., 24a ; Colombian , 25 i ; Mexican, 274 281 ; D utc h T wo-and-a- H a lf per Cents., 53L- Five per Cent s ., 99i 100. We underst an d t h at t h e public are now l en di ng money on the Railro a d D e b entures at f i ve per cent. Thi s causes an improvement in the sh ares . India The Foreign Exchanges yesterday were much the tame as last post day. Pit ICES OF' STOCKS Tl-118 Bank Stock 175 5 3 per Cent. Red. 89% %ya 3 per Cents. Con 96%.% 3N, tier Cent I /ill° Red. 98 4;04102 New 314 per Cent 90 40's New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Jan 5, 1860 1395 i Oct. 10, 1859 .1;:n. 5, 1860 Jzm. 5, MO Aprils, 1880 Jae. 5.1870 I'ItICEs OF FOREIGN FU NDS Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian i.onds Ditto Account 3uenos :Ayres Bonds Ditto kccount Chinon 3ond k :39T4 * Ditto A.c.ccr, tit Co ion Bcnds Dittc it Columbian • d 5,1824 Dr.to Zanish Bonds Ditto .I.:.tt ; tit Greek Bonds DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock .................. ra Ditto Bonds ............ 53 P South Sea 5t0ck........... ..... Old Annuities .................. New Ditto ..................... 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 Exch. Bills, £l,OOO ... 2 1 ' 23 P in Ditto 500... :21 ' 23 O n ' Ditto Small 2l 23 lon' Ditto Commercial pm Ditto Advertised Bank Stock for Account India Stock for Account .. 91 Consols for Account rs PHIS DAY AT ONE CLO., Peruvian 80nd5.... ........... Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds . .......... Ditto New Bonds ..... s,; Ditto Account 35% 72 Ditto, 3 per Cent. 0 44 I+ltto Account ............... • Prussian Bonds ... ............ Russian Bonds, 152 - 2. ...... Ditto Account Ditto Metallic ............... Spanish Bonds ................. Ditto Account. ............ 261V4 Passive Deform! 11% 54 French, 5. _ ....,,,, 5 per cent....... .....- f. ....e . Ditto Bonds, 1825 — , ---- Ditto Account _ t . . ....c. ------ 3 per cent. ....» ,„ .....,, Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. ----- Exchange..... -- "5,. , t„ Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per Cent. Ditto Account Neapolitan — Ditto Account...» ...... eitiClAb iii. sliAitEi TtiiS DA IL Al ONE sycLua'• ~, Paid, Per Sh 3r " Birmingham and Derby Railway Company ....RP) 80,4 I itreat Western Railw a y C ompany 65 19S II Ighton Railway '•s 251' 5 %I L , ntion and "Rockwall Railway Loudon and South Western .... ,inchestor B- - • ._ I qinchester and Birmingham Railway 25 N rth Midland Railw a y C ompany lOO 10214 Ditto New lO 213,,i203( ~ South Eastern and Dover Railway Company IS 12$ London and Westminster Bank 2O ... COURSE OE EXCLfA... Amsterdam C.F. 12 4%: Ditto, at :fight liottcritsan 0 U l2 5 Antwerp... hamburg. A1t0na..... Paris, 3 days'sight... 0itt0....... ........... 3 518 :25 7t/ Nue. a ha(.1)A:• 4P (iinra:ta • ... 50 Le"'":0111,.. ••••••••• ,25 75 btitan .••••••••••••••••••••••, ...... Venice ..... •••••••• ..... • ••••••••.... 40% plea .06 ••••••••••••• • • ..... alerrno oz ' 5 44 Li3OGTI ....... ..••••.. • 4 - . Nlancilles. Bourduaux Frankfort on Main.*, Ex. M. 15(% ?cterNiiingli, ruble... 3 Us. :37y%, Berlin Vienna, effective 11...3 M ln 6 rricAe......ditto l4l 7 Madrid : -,674 Cadiz ... '3 6 , , ,, Billial ...., B.ircalon r tieiille 36 OFOrto ...... 0.11 4. • ILI :••• ••••••• Rio Jancirr ..... ;lab • •••.•••••• ••... ..... ••• 13iietios Apes 414, New York, `41.,1ay,..ivi.t • OZ. Ml(' fit MA:l4u N. it Portuya. 17 9 Goid ) Nc , v Doub;Jogs 4 N",w Silver -.1 tar ••••••.•.e.. HALF-PAST ONE. f :ET, TUESDAY,—The sale s 0 Ts looking up. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARK this day are 6,000 baler, pric( The New York packet ship Oxford, of the 24th 01 March, has arrived, old date. The Mauritius papers received at the Jerusalem Coffan !louse, to the 20th January, state that a French two decker passed there on the 19th of January, going to the island of Bourbon, but its after destination not known ; it was believed bound to New Zealand, where the French intend to form an establishment. A report has been mode to the Governor in Council that there is daily and pub-, licly sold in the co l ony a cons i dera bl e q uantity °I tho opium, which causes amongst the Indians most pernicious eff e ct s , an d o f ten exc i tes t h e m to dio: i l order ; in consequence of w hi c h t h e G overnor in Counc has forbidden the sale of opium in the colony, as well as laudanum, on the penalty of its being seized and confis cated, as well as the destru c ti on o f t h e above plant. The following are the official returns of the export okr the precious metals from the port of London for the we' ending the 16th instant 7,000 ounco s Silver coin to liamburgh Ditto to Canton 65 000 ditto Ditto to Rotterdam.. 4,000 ditto Ditto bars to Rotterd am B,OOO ditto Gold bars to R o tt er d am 450 ditto The Batavia Dutch s t eamer h as not as ye t ar rive deal In the Share M ar k et f or severa l d ays past.g ga° of business has been done. In the British F un d s li tt l e d o i ng, and we have no t a fea" ture worth noticing to the present hour. h Lb e a ot b g ee u n, e o ria 9 t ; t Ex,csheelqleuresr, Bills for t 1.3 A 2 e 23 aO pr il ero nt . ; : A ln io d Cn ia oeny l3o 9o n l is n:a rather lower, 5 3 pr em. ; Bank". Stoek 175.. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active rather 1001 than in the morning, 28 ; Deferred,l4f ; Portuguese , ' 35 ; Three per Cents., Il.q; Chilian, 39.; Dutelt. - Tw e and-a. Half per Cents., 533- ; Five per Cents., 100 We have no further arrivals or reports to commUnieate., HE QUEEN'S STAG - HOUNDS.—The meet 011 ' Monday morning at Ascot was one of the most brilliant :the season, att en d e d b y h er M ajesty and her Court, Prince :Aler t c , joining in th e c h ase, attended by V a the elite of the st" r C li t world. The c h ase was super i or to what usually takes c" such occasbns. MYSTERIOUS C ASE OF DROWNING "the t Monday night an i nques t was h e ld b e f ore M r. Higgs, an the George the Fourth, Gilbert's-passage, Clare.market, 00 d body o f J o h n Hargreave, Esq., aged 40, whose body was"f at ca . on Sunday mornin g . The deceased, it appeared , l ived ,h e Woodford, and was p ossesse d o f 9001 . a year. Th e last tiraeds, was seen was on the 20th of March, when he left Mr. Sp , " a , a friend in Cull u m- s t ree t, Ci ty, to ta k e a wa lk, but,he was w never seen after w a r d s . O n Sunday morning the bo d Y w or i found in the ri ver , an d a 51. note and 2 1 . 19s. G d . was found .on him. On the ni g ht h e was m i sse d hi s cloa k was p i c ked uli i i Southwark-bridge. The deceased's friends said that he wa s iit very nervous m a n ; b ut one t h ey s h ould never f or a Inurnbeis think guilty of ha v i ng comm i tted su i cide. E very inquiry to been made, but not the slightest clue could be obtained 29 d, how the deceased g o t i n t o t h e water. Verdict " Found des ,, but no evidence to sho w b y w h at means he got into the river . On Monday afternoon a barn at Wittle, Cha n ' s .; ford, in the occupation of Mr. Jones, was set on fire by a sq2l , discharged by a b o y, an d i n a s h ort time was tota ll y cons mil d_ together with t wo s t a bl es, cow- h ouse, and severa l sma ll btu' ings, the property of Mrs. Catley. , SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN AND MARINERS f Committee s ° ... BENEVOLENT Socirry.--At a meeting of the Management held at the offices of the Society, 26, Buckler et, bury, on Thursday, the 16th April, the Rev. Thomas Burnet, D. D., F. R. S., in the chair, a petition forwarded bythe D ul burgh Auxiliary, from ninety fishermen, of Sarclet (C aith li s t s re shire), was taken into consideration. The applicants had, ch . of their boats totally destroyed, and eleven others severely wed maged by a storm, and they with their families had been niu n b o f into the greatest distress, and were now without any M ean i s ea t resumin , r their fishing pursuits, upon which they are d e pen• .. dera h, for a livelihood. It was resolved, that, takino- - into consi tion theextretne distress thus occasioned by a storm, by whi t ; a destitution, thelas t t h eCe paragraphn tralßoard , theira c ti p n r g i n o tc n .d th the though no lives were lost, ninety families were thrown into iw. rp inciP - s authorized tate()f do hereby vote the sum of 1001. to assist the unfortunate fevers. A letter was read from Lieut. Medley, 11• N" hone' rary agent at Freewick (Caithness-shire), stating that six fish-: ermen of that place, some of the earliest members of the society'' . had their boat lost in a storm on the 6th inst., and it was r i d , solved that 101. be transmitted to Lieut. Medley, 1t,. 14 ' , 1 „ li f the of this case, in consideration of the men being_ meinn„ ers i 4" of society. A letter was read from Lieut. Harvey, A . ' .. t i list Culdaff (Donegal), stating the loss of three fishermen of ived , place, leaving widows and four children ; and it wa s res° the most be forwarded to Lieut. Harvey, to be applied ju most effectual way for the benefit of the sufferers. .---- THE NORTHERN S UBURBS OF LON.- rinl.T - , o f The fineness o f th e weat h er on Monday attracte d thousanl i , - . people to th e severa l h ouses of eniertainment in three adj ,. tricts. Th e R egent ' s - par k , P r i mrose -hill, and the At cent fields, presented one mass of animated beings' jOia- Chalk Farm there was a perfect fair—a Greenwich in ", r . ture—with swings and roundabouts, ups-and-downs , 1 1 ' 1, 1.1 / 4 6 ,1, e bread-stalls, a theatre, whose boards were graced wit r " aot e h s ; usual dramatis personae, &c., &c. There were donkey and A rerv Queens i:ray ' l oetf A h l ep a r r r r ia i n a tet g er e a , cA ' t ' pony chaises, shows containing representations O f , the Jones, and Williams, the Chartist o t the e horsemanship fastidious. ,, t.h re-wheeled rioters," te in haPPY i u „V s te n ary, a u ", h r— the attraction Albert," , t aa b lnl e udr e ` t ( h l e s 1 i , n , g p to e n par ill a ti r r e d o e f r, F,.. e st : Hampstead-h ea th uausiasseliens ni.g Copenhagen emi tssh: al w ar7 - n a eed s sn_ up with ielniarwoyo House d egt e hv i d t eha eswit:ca:r awes 11 - ; evv_ed de. featsnj. youth and beauty of the surrounicz.4 villages, exhibiting liti,) as usual, u li s t u ti a e l town, the efives, archery. it a e nd con(t ve, ' la° all ' uhouse,it er h and A the de Adam le, City-road, r othe had their fair shareofwith each company, and emulated in providing , • suitable entertainments for their guests. bout t° The " T II; _,,-totaists" of Worcester are a -„ County Courts a grand demonstration. The use of the Hall at the `, - ' o ° , ll ig ht Courts has been applied for for the purpose, as it is not thought and ag E . the Guildhall will be sufficiently spacious. ' THE DEVIL DEFEAE IN NEW Y° lllC. - us the:S e For some time past the struggle between Satan and Ministers of religion in this city has been truly despe!ae .s ee ple Devil had such a strong hold on the affections of th .n Y, __„ d here that it was with the utmost difficulty be could be i_ 01 . '", He wa to relinquish his grasp upon any portion of them' in Wall greatly assisted by his pious and indefatigable agentsdone to ex ialreteoilneesdjecaihm. street • and all that human exertionilllould do was strengthen its tend his ' kingdom, to lengthen its stakes and strengc.t,e_tin. (is were cords. Seductions, murders, trim. cons., riots,kint 3 ''' bank-suspensions, post notes, and robberies of all Devil =aeme ,f d resorted to ; and, for a time, the children of the disinterested, to be on the 'increase; but at last, owing to the and Brother pious, and gratuitous exertions of Brother Kirk usuess and Knapp, godliness hash triumphed over sin, righteo turned t° peace have kissed each other, and many have been righteousness, to shine as the stars for ever and ever. era Among the forthcoming novelties at the Op __ aro. House are, II Turco in Italia, Ines di Castro, Il Or and II Giuramenti, which will be produced with a very s trong cast. Gemma di Vergy and Elen a di Feltry are also sP° ..n , of. We have lost Fanny Elssler ; a very short interrega."3.. will, however, exist before the appearance of Taglioni• e i ' ven porte is now in Paris in search of a " talent" to suPP I L e de this short space, and a new ballet, founded on Auber's ith. Fees, is in active preparation, and will be produced f°lllv bre, Taglioni appears early in May in the new ballet O L' OM __,.. peter.__ produced as was the Guiana of last year, at St. burgh. Other novelties are in store. Grisi makes her appear ance ance next Saturday in I Paritani. The subscription, ‘7_., understand, is very full, and includes nearly all the eristociatu and rank of the country. *ns Mt. Thorogood, of Chelmsford, is still in-P", so f having bee n incarcerated Sixty-five Weeks for non-paym en t . J a Church-rate of ss. Gd. 4Re' 1.1.4 cer ) ; • . ,:-.• f• . „ " ))/