The Sun. — London, England, 1840-03-24 00:00:00

EVEN NG EDITION. On Saturday next, 2 vols. Bvo., with Portraits, MEMOIRS OF THE PRINCESS DASCHKAW, LADY WOFRITTE HONOUR T HE O CATHERINE 11. N BY RSELF. To Naiea are subjoined numerous Letters of the Empress • Catherine and other celebrated Per sonays. Henry COlburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Orders received by all Booksellers. THE PINACOTHECA is OPEN for the SEASON, with the VENUS from CORDOVA, and the ZALEUCUS, both by Titian ; the Day of Judgment, by tucas van Leyden ; Michael Angelo Buonarrotti's Venus ; Thorwaldsen's Venus, and numerous other Works of Art, in eluding the recent discovery e Florentine l Oils.-16, Lower Eaton-street , Eaton-squar of th e. Admittance, s. ; Cata logues, 6d. 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UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS , THIS EVENING, MARCH 24. Will be presented Mrs. Centlivre's Comedy of THE WONDER. In which MR. CHARLES KEMBLE, BY SPECIAL COMMAND, Will anear in the Character of Don Felix. Don Pedro, sit. Bartley; Don Lopez, Mr. Meadows; Co lonel Briton, Mr. C,oorer ; Abby, Mr. APlan ; Lisardo, Mr. Harley ; Donna Violante, Nisbett ; Flora, Mrs. Order; Inis, Mrs. Huieby. 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 E. Kendal, Messrs. C. J. Smyth, Ridgway, Gib son. &e. Te conclude with the Farce of THE PRINTER'S DEVIL. Count de Maurepas, Mr. T. Green; Pierre Pica, Mr Keeley ; Cecile, Miss Lee. Dress Boxes, 75. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s._,- Gallery, ls. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances t• commence at Seven .'Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken at the ilex -g ee, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had opens application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bend-street. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. BUTLER. THIS EVENING the Entertainments will commence with THE MUSE AND THE MERCHANT. Edmand Nan, Mr. Holl ; Rosa, Mi s s Fitzwalter. Fourth Week of THE LADIES' CLUB, established at this Theatre. (en every night at half-past 7. and close proceedings at 9. Mrs. Fitzsmith (the Chairwoman), Mrs. Stirling. luime:iately after the Business of the Club, the New Burletta, :•1' the Author of " His Last Legs," entitled THE HAPPIEST MAN -ALIVE. Charles Euston, Mr. F. Vining. To be followed by ANGELINE. _ _ Angeline Le Lis, Mrs. Stirling. To ,?onelude with TIM GENTLEMAN N BLACK. Peter Punctilio, M I . Jones. On Wednesday (under the Patronage of H. R. H. the Duke of Su-sex) the performances will be for the benefit of a Phi lanthrepic Institution. Boxes, 4s. Pit, 2s. Gallery, ls. Semi Price immediately after the Ladies' Club. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Extraordinary attraction.—First appearance at this Theatre of Mr. Fraser, and Mr. and Mrs. Alban Croft, who are en gaged for a few nights. THIS EVENING, lU...tacit 24. Will be performed Barnett's Opera of THE MOUNTAIN SYLPH. Donald, Mr. Fraser; Hela, Mr. Alban Croft; Eolia (the Sylph), Mrs. Alban Croft. After which the new Drama entitled THE POCKET BOOK ; OR, THE TWO FAMILIES. Supported by the entire strength of the Company. To conclude with the Historical Drama depicting England in 1664, Barbadoes in 1665, Old London in 1666, with a re presentation of the Great Fire of London, entitled THE CITY APPRENTICE; or, THE THREE LILIES. TO CORRESPONDENTS. " Quartern Loaf will see that we have taken the course be points out. We are, at the same time, obliged by his quotation. The letter of 66 A Shareholder" from Liverpool having already appeared in the Manchester Guardian, we deem its insertion in The Sun unnecessary. HIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning...... minutes alter 6f Evening it; minutes after 6 Ai c l' -1 2 ritfS tr i •,-- • , ••••:;- A • Zhv '1T11,4 LONDON: TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1841. There was an amusing discussion in the House of Lords on the periods at which the Irish Corporation and Printed Papers Bills should be read a second time. The Duke of WELLINGTON, with some impatience and some warmth, insisted on both being postponed till his friend, Lord LYNDHURST, and the Law Lords, can attend ; and Lord MELBOURNE, with some pertinacity, pressed for the second reading taking place at an early day. Finally, Monday se'nnight was fixed ; but prc bably the measures will then be postponed, and probably will not be proceeded with before Easter. The Lords will be responsible for the delay. It is not enough, it now seems, that the lawyers are to interpret the laws, they are also to make them, and no legislation is to take place till it suits the convenience and the health of Lord LYNDHURST. The whole nation must wait for one man. What he has ever done, besides acting the part of a skilful nisi-prius advocate, to be thus wor shipped like a divinity, we know not ; but the Duke of \Fro.. wizToN worships Lord LYNDHURST, and the nation worships the Duke Of WELLINGTON, and SO is cOMpellel to worship Lord LYNDHURST. A more complete!) , lawyer-led and priest-led people does not exist than our independent countrymen. For our parts we must at once protest against the lawyers being suf ferer! to make as well as administer the laws. Oa Lord MELBOURNE presenting a petition for a tatal repeal of the Corn-laws, Lord ASHBURTON, the laudownqr, who is as forward in opposing the repeal as Mr. BARING was in opposing the enactment of those laws, extorted from Lord AIELBOURNE, by threatening a speech; a declaration that he still remains, as last year, opposed to the repeal of the Corn-laws, and that Ministers neither meant to bring forward nor support any pleasure for the repeal or alteration of those laws. The people, therefore, now know that they must help themselves, or perish. They are put on their mettle, and they must starve, or the bread-taxing landowners be subdued. The destruction of the Exchequer Records was again the subject of a brief conversation, and the Earl of ABERDEEN quoted several instances of papers for which antiquaries would give a good price, which had been ; sold or ordered to be destroyed as waste. The best of the joke is that the public money annually voted to the Museum has c.etually been employed in buying back the papers which the Exchequer had thrown away . Lord REDESDAL E ment i one d that amongst the papers sold as waste was an account of the number of ships and ' men of the Armada, s i gne d by Lord B ur l e i g h. Lord DUNGANNON laid on the table some papers relative to Canada, including the Clergy Reserves Bill. Before the Noble L ,rd could conclude, the Archbish op Of CANTERBURY, smelling the danger to th e pe lf , as vultures smell carrion, pounced on the Noble Lord with a complaint against tho Government for laying the papers on the table without an explanation, and a bitter complaint affainst the Bill for appropriating the reserves to other clergy than those of the Church of England. His Grace was subsequently follosed by the Bishop of LON DON, who took the same line. It was explained by Viscount MELBOURNE that the Min'sters only did their duty by laying the Bill on their Lordships' table, and by Lord HOLLAND, that the Bill originated in the Canadian Le gislature. That is nothing to these arrogant priests, who are resolved to dictate to the Ministers, and to dictate to the inhabitants of Canada what priests they shall pay. This order of men will dispose of the whole world if their arrogance, ministering to their hateful avarice, be not checked. The Bill was ordered to be printed. The Marquis of WESTMEATH made an attack on the Catholic priests for influencing the election of Guardians f the Poor in Ireland, and Lord ELLENBOROUGH ex petted his doubt whether the Rural Constabulary Bill couni be passed, unless the country gentlemen could have l'beir security provided and paid for out of the ge neral taxes. Where is the rapacity of the gentry to stop ? Their ,Lordships adjourned at a little after Seven. I n t h e Commons a great number of petitions were presented for and against the Corn-laws, and for Church Extension. Mr. CHRISTOPHER announced his intention to have a call of the House on the 31st, the day Mr. VILLIERS has fixed for his Corn-law motion. Sir E. SuonEN gave notice that if the Bill for rc fel-mil:1 Equity did not also improve the appellate jurisdiction of the Lords, he would draw the atten . ion of the House to the subject. mesingamwewsiewmily A new writ was issued for Sutherlandbhire, Mr. HOWARD having accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. Lord J. RUSSELL brought down a message relative to Lord SEATON (Sir J. COLBORNE), which means that the Commons are to vote him an annuity for life for his services in Canada. The message is to be taken into consideration on Friday. Lord JOFIN RUSSELL presented papers relative to Canada, and Mr. PAKINGTON presented some petitions in favour of the Church of England from Canada. Lord JOHN RUSSELL then proceeded to call the at tention of the House to the important subjects connected with Canada to which the Governor-General's depatches related, and, in a long speech, explained the provisions of a Bill which he asked leave to in roduce to unite the two Canadian Provinces. The Noble Lord, proposes that the United House of Assembly shall con sist of 78 Members, to be elected as at present, but the Representatives are to be in possession of 5001 p-o -perty as a qualification. The House to be elected for four years, as now. The Upper House, or Legislative Council, to be appointed for life, as at present. The Noble Lord also adverted to the Clergy Reserves Bill, to the abstract question of a Church Establishment, and t o the necessity of passing that Bill to satisfy the people of Canada. He said the Ministers, if not overruled by Parliament, were prepared to give their assent to the Bill. He concluded a long speech with a magnificent peroration in favour of civil liberty and the political education of a people, to which, unfortunately, most of the details of his Bill seem opposed. The basis of all good political education is self-government, which can not grow from Downing-street exercising power over Canada, and from constituting in the Legislative Council a permanent Legislature for the colony, inde pendent of the people. The Noble Lord moved for leave to bring in a Bill to unite the two Canadian Provinces. - _ _ . Mr. HUME could not allow even that stage to pass without declaring that he should object to many of the clauses of the Bill. _ . _ Sir R. INGLIs appealed to Mr. HUME'S speech as a proof that the Bill would not content the Canadians, and he protested against the House of Assembly inter fering with the property, as he called the clergy reserves, of the Church. Perhaps the clergy claim, as heirs to the PorE, who formerly disposed of America, the whole of Canada. At any rate, they insist on dictating to the Canadian Assembly. The discussion on the sub ject, after a brief conversation, was postponed, and leave given to bring in the Bill. On bringing up the Report of the Ordnance, a fur ther explanation was given by Sir H. VIVIAN about Mr. FooT, which Sir J. Y. BULLER appeared to think was satisfactory. The Union Workhouses Bill was postponed for a fortnight. The Sewers Bill was read a second time ; and at a Quarter before Eleven the House adjourned. The returns relative to the working of the new postage scheme, which have been for some time expected, are now published, and we propose to copy the results. The first returns are made to shOW the number of letters and the amount 01 postage received in the London district between 6th December, 1838, and 10th January, 1839, be tween 11th January and 14th February, 1839, and the number of letters and the amount of postage received in the five weeks of 1839 and 1849 . , (cor. responding to the first period,) under the four penny postage rate, and received in the five weeks of 1840, (corresponding to the second period,) under the penny rate. Under the old rate, the number of letters re ceived in five weeks, in the London district, was 923,917, including ship and foreign letters (rather more than one-fifth, and excluding all franks. The amount of postage was 57,300/. From this, however, must be deducted 3,6371. paid for Go vernment letters, making the revenue 53,663/. Un der the fourpenny rate, the number of letters was 1,328,993, and, deducting 1,316/. paid by the Government, the amount of revenue was 37,376/. There was, therefore, under the fourpenny rate, an increase of 405,076 letters, or about forty- 'our per cent., and a decrease of revenue of 16,281, or about 35 per cent. Under the old rate, taking another five weeks to correspond with five weeks in which the penny rate has been in operation, excluding franks, and includ ing ship and foreign letters, the number of letters re ceived in five weeks in the London district was 930,215, and the amount of revenue, deducting the sum paid by the Government Departments (4,6241.), was 55,4361. Under the penny rate the number of letters received was 2,286,385, and the amount of revenue, deducting the sum paid by the Govern ment Offices (8581.), was 39,6681. The increase in the number of the letters, therefore, was 1,356,170, or nearly one and a half, and the de i crease of the revenue was 15,768/., or about 32 per These are circumstances which, in the incompleteness of the new system, tell very much in its favour. cent. The great amount of Government correspondence ' which has paid at all times, such as that of the Customs .and Excise departments, feels the advan tage of the reduction in the rate, and is reduced from 4,6241. to 8581. It must, however, be no ticed that the Government correspondence which was heretofore franked, and is now to be paid, ac counts being kept at the Post-office with the former franking departments, is not included in this return. Neither does the return take any notice of any in crease in the expense of the Post-office department, which must, we presume, have been considerable, to carry the new arrangements into effect. There are also returns of the London district post, in which, as comparatively little reduction has been made, and in some cases, in fact, the rates of postage have been increased, there is no correspond ing increase to that in the General Post depart. ment which we have above quoted. The returns from Ireland are confined to the amount of postage collected in the Dublin district in five weeks under the old rate, under the fourpenny and under the penny rates, which were respectively 6,8501., 4,4181., and 2,8431. The returns from Scotland give a similar account of the postage col lected in the Edinburgh district in five weeks under the three rates, which were respectively 4,4161., 3,1321., and 2,4781., so that the increase of the number of letters must have been proportionately greater in Edinburgh than in Dublin, as the reduc. tion of time postage is so much less. The number of letters for the Edinburgh district cannot be esti mated; in the Dublin district they were respectively, under time three rates, 212,000, 280,000, and 444,316. We may infer from this that the bulk of the Scotch are in a better condition to appreciate and profit by the reduction in the rates than the Irish, being a more businesQ people, and education being more diffused amougst them. The total number of letters delivered in the United Kingdom in the week ending the 24th of November, 1839, under the old rates, was 1,585,973 ; in the week ending the 22d of De cember. 1839, under the fourpenny rate, was 2,008,687, and in the week ending the 23d of February, 1840, 3,199,637. As might have been expected, the increase in the London district is much above the average increase in the whole em pire. We consider the returns to be most satisfac tory. The increase in the number of letters has, we believe, fully answered the expectations of the author of the change, while the reduction of the revenue has been less than he anticipated. We have no doubt that when g reater facilities are used for c ollecting letters, which are much wanted, a still greater increase will take place. The , h t a o s close been e u s n r d i i e e r r the h n e fo w r m s) e s r t i e y m , neces sity e receiving-boxes w hich was felt, much complained of, and stifles, we kr i i h o o w, th a e c n o u n m si - - derable number of letters. By increas ber o f receiving,-houses, and by adopting some of those artificial helps to sorting which we have ere whpilt op erecommended, the receiving -houses mi g ht be ke en an hour or an hour and a halflate later than at pre sent , an d a greater nu mber of letters collected without any increase of expense. There is also a want of speed and punctual' ast o the must be time of deliv e r both of which might be, facilitated', by better arrangements and Great complaints are now made both of the late ness of the hour at which letters are delivered, and the variation in the time of the delivery. These are matters of detail which, now that the uniform principle of charge has been hap f ily and most suc cessfully carried into eff ec t doubt, attended to, and theywill mu b .s e t , b w e, e to ha s v a e tis n fy o enve lopes, the public. The present system, i m req s u p t i r te es o n f the carpers and the croakers, is an immense improve ment ve.. on the old system, and only • lopes, and facilities for collecting and delivering th e letters, to enable it to fulfil every just and reason able expectation. We believe, also, that considerable advantage will be found by ex t en din g the s p here of the Post office. Mr. WALLACE recently called attention to a district in Roxburghshire, In which there are about 800 persons destitute of a post-office. As the benefits of education are diffused, correspond ence will be increased„ and the Post-office ought, proportionably, to extend its operations. We know a district in Kent, not above 40 miles from town, in which the services of the post for four considerable THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDA Y, MARCH 24, 1840. parishes, containing many scattered farm-houses, is petformed by a man on foot, who walks daily not less than twenty miles. We know another place, i❑ Norfolk, where the people send ten miles for their letters, and generally get them only once, or, at most, twice a week. Doubtless there are many sitbilar districts in every part of the kingdom, and it is very probable that, by a little attention on the part of the local members of the Post-office De partment, facilities for delivering and collecting letters in such places might be devised, which would be of great use to the inhabitants of those places, if they added nothing to the revenue. For several days past the Tory Press, and par ticularly the Times—which is still the leading Journal in all that is rascally in journalism—have been amusing and misleading their readers by foul and libellous charges against the Duke of SUTHER- L AND. They—or at least the Times—have as serted that he has improperly used his influence in Sutherlandshire to cause Mr. HOWARD, the pre sent Member, to resign his seat, in order to place in the representation some one more disposed to vote with the Ministers. The men of Sutherland have been appealed to not to submit to the degra dation, and the empire has been warned against the disgrace of submitting to a Government which required for its support the degradation of its noblest friends. To give a complete answer to and refutation of these Tory lies (we like plain words), Mr. HOWARD has written the following letter : TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Goldings, March 21. Sir,—l feel it necessary to send an answer to some observations which have appeared in your paper, relative to my intended resignation of my seat in Parliament. Im mediately after the decease of the late lamented Duchess- Countess of Sutherland, I intimated to many persons with whom I am connected my determination to resign my seat in the House of Commons, and among others, to the pre sent Duke of Sutherland. It was a spontaneous act of my own, and totally uninfluenced by any human being. I remain your obedient humble servant, W. HOWARD. In this case, the Times has grossly and falsely calumniated the Duke of SUTHERLAND. By the falsehood the Post told of Lord CANTILUPE, that journal falsely calumniated the Ministers. The assertions all the Tory journals lately made concerning Mr. FOOT were of the same character. A London solicitor changed his country agent, and out of that the Tories trumped up a charge of intimidation and corruption against the Ministers. Such are the vile arts, worthy, we admit, of the Tory cause, by which the Tory journals endeavour to mislead the people and restore Tory statesman to the possession of that power they so long and so shamelessly abused. Since the moment it became known here that the Government had adopted hostile measures against China, our patience has been unceasingly put to the severest trial by the perusal of the nonsense daily written about the inviolability of Chinese laws, the simplicity of Chinese manners, the purity of Chinese morals, the refinement of Chinese tastes, the intellectuality of Chinese pursuits, and the benevolence of Chinese Governments, by per sons knowing no more of China or the Chinese than they do of the pedigree of the White Ele phant of Thig-ya-Men with its seven heath, each head having seven tusks, each tusk seven tanks, each tank growing seven lilies, each lily having seven blossoms, each blossom seven petals, each petal bearing seven palaces, and each palace containing seven wives of the said Thig-ya-Men, King of the Bhooddhist Paradise, and one of the Chinese divi nities. To talk in a Christian country about the high morality of a Government and a people among whom infanticide is not regarded as criminal—who punish the slightest offences with strangulation— who, in seasons of great scarcity, anticipate the consequences of famine by " stopping the wind," as our Transatlantic neighbours would say, of the surplus members of the commu nity and whose judicial administration is mainly supported by the application of the brand and the torture—appears to us to argue the most consummate ignorance on the part of the talker, or the most unbounded reliance upon the ignorance of those to whom he addresses him self. Not that in the present case it matters one jot whether the Chinese be habitually better or worse than ourselves. We are not going to war with them either on account of their morality, their reli gion, or their learning. Their criminal code, which dooms a traitor to be cut into ten thousand pieces, and a smoker of opium to be strangled, may indi cate to Tory scribes a higher grade of civilization that we have vet reached ; but, as we said before, this has nothing to do, one way or the other, with the appearance of a British fleet in the waters of China. Still we must confess that it is trying to the temper to hear ignorant boobies, day after day, talking about the pacific character of a people, at war among themselves from the middle of the fifteenth to the close of the seventeenth century ; and who, during the seventeenth century alone, put upwards of one hundred thousand persons to the most cruel deaths for professing the Gospel of CHRIST. Had the Tories the reins of power, to what different language would we not be obliged to listen ! How many :godly homilies should we not hear in that case about the Chinese persecutions of the Chris tians How many impious applications would we not then have repeated to us about GOD hardening the hearts of nations to bring clown upon them the chastisement of his just wrath I GOD forbid that any Liberal writer should have recourse to such poi soned weapons against any enemy ; but it is proper that we should let the country know the line of ar gument that the Ministerial Press would have adopted had Sir ROBERT PEEL and his faction had the conducting of the expedition against Canton. But the logic of the Tories is on a par with their ignotance and their impudence. Only mark the precious specimen of ratiocinative humbug— for it deserves no other name —put forth by some purblind scribbler, in a leading article in the Times of yesterday : " Suppose that a certain number of merchants of France or of the Netherlands had attempted some years ago, before the laws were changed, to land a million worth of silks, gloves, or lace on the shores of Kent, and that after the goods had been seized and sold at the Customhouse for account of the British Government, the Government of France should have sent a fleet and army to get back by force the value of the articles thus dealt with—what would the people of England, what would the other States of Europe, have said regarding such an atrocious outrage on the rights of all political communities For our parts we see no difference between that case, and the present one of our warfare on behalf of the smuggler at Canton." We will comet the supposition of this booby. Suppose that instead of seizing directly this million worth of silks, gloves, or lace on the coast of Kent, we had seized the persons of all foreigners in London, deprived them of food, fire, and water, and given them the alternative of either procuring tl.e simple delivery of the contraband goods, then beyond the control of our Custom-house authorities, or dying of starvation, would we have provoked the just hostility of the nations whose innocent subjects we had threatened with death ? What would be said of the nation that would submit to such an atrocious violation of the law of nations as such a mode of enforcing Custom house regulations would exhibit ? Is the writer in the Times such a dolt as to suppose that were we to attempt to seize French contraband goods b 3 starving the American Ambassador, well aware that he had nothing at all to do with the contraband gloves, silks, or laces of French smugglers--we could escape for twenty-fours a war with the United States? And yet, this was what the Com missioner Liw actually did in the case of an American merchant, Mr. KING, and several Bri tish merchants, whom he officially acquitted of all participation in the opium traffic. No, no; such puerilities as the Times indulges in will not do. If they were suffered to pass current out of Bedlam, we would have come back to that period when the gabbling of g eese sufficed to save the greatest nation in the world We direct attention to a letter, headed " Steam Ships for Defence," which contains propos - hi s : K m well worthy of public c onsideration, and app a _ ren tly calculated, if honestly acted on, to save a mint of public money . One great advantage o f our insular position, and our extensive mercantile navy is that, with due precautions and acting justly, it may at all times be, and heretofore was, the basis of national defence. Nor are we satisfied that the plan followed in latter times, in imitation of those countries which had not a large avai lable mercantile marine, like Spain and France, of con structin g a great numb er o f l ar ge ships exclusively for the pur poses of war, than bmeoerne a wise h half one. the T which lie by rotting--caus in g , ever, a how continual expense to look after t h e m, time ttheylate Sir a j are in o HN sN existence,cL A h i a ß s traced the national debt of the existence of men-of-war. But whatever lesson the past may teach, as the growing importance of steam will, as our Correspondent says, make that the great means hereafter of con ducting and terminating a naval war, it is incumben on the Government to look to that, and found the plan of national defence on the exis tence of an immense number of steam-ships, such as are suitable to the purposes of trade, and em ployed by the merchants. We trust our Corres pondent's suggestions will elicit further informa tion, by setting to work an hundred minds. The propriety, however, let us observe, of the public bearing any part of the expense of con structing merchant steam-vessels, unless some se curity were taken that those vessels were not sold to foreigners, may be questioned. Perhaps, even, it may be unnecessary to do more than suggest that the construction of the steam-ships should be of a particular form ; or, if it be necessary, to prescribe the form without giving the merchants any remune ration for the constraint; that will not be, as our Correspondent observes, a greater interference with private property than is ordained in many other cases for the public good. We are sensible that there are many difficulties in the way, but, neverthe less, we regard our Correspondent's suggestion, in principle, to be well worthy of public attention. The clergy of the Established Church are oc cupied in signing requisitions for calling meetings, and getting up petitions in favour of the Devil's laws. They only act in their vocation. Their cursed avarice, stealing endowments from the poor, and appropriating to their ow n use t h e wea l t h which our God-fearing ancestry set apart for in struction, has for upwards of a century weighed heavily on the land. By giving both the religious and the legal sanction to such worldly vices, the clergy have nourished in the land a vast crop of plunder, which stifles all the good seed they or others can sow. They only act consistently with their whole cha racter and conduct in striving most zealously to keep up the Corn-laws, which appear to enrich them, and certainly starve the people. When they are active on one side it is incum bent on their sectarian opponents to be active on the other. The Dissenting ministers led the way in promoting education, in meliorating our crimi nal code, in abolishing slavery, and now again they are showing the State priesthood the path of Christian duty. In addition to Dr. PYE SMITH, whose letter we have already adverted to, our jour nal yesterday contained a notice of a meeting at Arnesby, in Leicestershire, for the abolition of the Corn-laws, at which two Baptist ministers took an active part. From the Manchester Times, too, we learn that a Mr. ROBERT BAXTER, who is daily employed on behalf of a congregaticn of Evangelical Presbyterians in visiting the habitations of the poor, afflicted by the scenes of distress which he continually beheld, and justly ascribing much of it to the Corn-laws, has petitioned the House of Commons for the abolition of them. Other visitors of the poor, and Dissenting minis ters, will, we trust, follow these excellent ex amples, and make the whole land resound with a demand to repeal the starvation laws. They must be prepared, like all good men engaged in a good cause, to encounter all the calumnies and vituperation which the Tory press can heap on them. The State priesthood are to be permitted to exert themselves to fix the starvation laws on the community ; and if Dissenting ministers take the other side they are called political Dissenters, and asked what imaginable connection is there between Corn-law repeal and dissent ? Just as much as there is between Corn-law preservation and Church of Englandism. The real connection is not be tween Dissent and Corn-law repeal, but between this and Christianity—between this and justice ; while Church of Englandism being neither justice nor Christianity, naturally allies itself with laws that are iniquitous and unchristian. The Dissenters did not advocate education, the melioration of our criminal code, and the abolition of slavery, as Dis senters, but as just men and good Christians. In the same noble character they are now ranged on the side of Corn-law repeal, and they leave to the unjust and unchristian State priesthood the odious ,ask and odious character of defending the Devil's aws. We see that the Protestant landowners of Ire. land—the Lord LORTONS, and other widow- 1 expelling Christian men, who doom the Catholic peasantry to lumpers, rags, and slavery—are getting up meetings in Ireland to petition the Legislature in favour of the Corn-laws. If ever there were a useless, worthless, and, for the bulk of the Catholic Irish, mischievous class of men, the Protestant landowners of Ireland are such a class. The pre sent condition of the Irish is an irrefragable proof that they are not benefited by the Corn-lav:s. At the same time, the income of the Protestant parsons of Ireland, as well as those of England, is•kept up by the Corn-laws. They are a tax on the poor peasantry for the rich landowners, and on the Ca tholics for the Protestants. It is a religious duty, therefore, on the part of the Catholic priesthood, to follow the example of the Dissenting ministers, and aid the Corn-law repealers in putting an end to this unchristian impost. Mr. O'CONNELL is a declared repealer, and his warm desire to benefit Canhdta curb the rampant h hi his powerp 0 0 0 fr t h c e o u d n o t m r y i m n n a e nt , urch, should prompt to give the cue to the Catholic priesthood, and in cite them and their flocks to petition against the Protestant landlord's tax. In conclusion, we call attention to two com munications, one from Manchester and the other frotn Liverpool, one describing the great fall in the the price of weaving within twenty years, and the other the great distress which at present prevails amongst the poor of Liverpool. Both these com munications were produced by Mr. THomAssoN's excellent letter from Bolton, and both add proofs of the terrible injustice of the Corn-laws. When the price of weaving, an art which supplies the corn growers with clothing, has fallen to a fifth of what it was, without any effort on the part of the Legis lature to sustain it, why should the payment for agriculture, the art by which the weaver in turn is fed, be bolstered up by the law ? The lesson which the Mancliegter letter teaches, is the gross injustice of a law to enhance the price of food to the weaver. The second letter enforces the important truth that wages do not rise with the price of corn. The great bulk of the artisans and day-labourers of the empire are paid daily or weekly wages, and the rate of their remuneration has not risen five per cent. since 1836, while the price of food has risen cent. per cent. That peat distress pervades the nianu factoring districts is testified by both letters, and by all the journals which come to us from that part of Cie empire. We are afraid that it is not yet at its height. The community has borne up against the Corn-laws by successive reductions of taxation during the last twelve years, each of which has set capital free from providing for the wants of the State, and has given a stimulus to one branch of trade or the other. Those reductions have now ceased. There is a talk of new taxes, which will place additional burdens on our people, and make it impossible to bear both the taxes of the State and the tax of the landlord. .•••••.- From the Report .... of the proceedings in the Con sistorial Court of Norwich on Tuesday last, inserted elsewhere in our paper, Mr. CHILD'S Church-rate suit seems to grow interesting as it proceeds. Gross partiality in apportioning the amount of the " ne farious exaction" among the parishioners has been the ordinary practice in the parish of nungay St. Mary ; and those who have been the foremost and the most active to lay the burden upon the Dissenters, will be found, if we are not mistaken, to have been the readiest to escape from it them selves. Mr. CHARLES CHILD ' S appearance to the citation in the Ecclesiastical Court appears to have taken the leading persecutors of the locality by surprise. They doubtless imagin ed that he would act as another member of his f amil y had done, and refuse an y r e cognition of the Ec clesiastical jurisdic tion. But in this they have b een wofull y mistaken, and in ord er to prepare thems elves for the conflict into whi c h th e y saw, when too late, that the y must enter, what did these worthies do but actuall y alter and i n t er polate the docum ent on which the rate was f oun ded, and which had b g e n s anctioned and adopt e d by the Vestry at a r e g ular meetin g j They d are d no t lodge the evidence of their ini q uit y in the Registry of the C onsistotial Court, and therefore t h e y eominittgd a greater iniquity to conceal it I But why should we wonder 0 this? Church -rates rest on a foundation of injustice and oppression. Fraud and robbery are part and par cel of the system. _ _____ The Paris Journal P4nday contain no domestic news of interest, Nothing is talked ot, Whin spews to be thought of, but the debate which is fixed for this day in the Chamber of Deputies on the Secret Service Bill. The stability of the THlr•.Rs-Cabinet is still doubtful ; and it is our firm opinion that unless he adopt a bold and decided policy—unless he abandon altogether the Juste-Milieu system of Conservati_m— unless he give up coquetting with the leaders of the extreme Right and Left, and the partisans of the Court, all at the same time—unless, in short, he throw him self boldly and confidently upon the nation's support of his foreign and domestic policy, M. Thans will soon be driven from office without carrying with him in his retreat either the respect or the gratitude of any party. The bolder and the more decisive his policy, the more ground be have for hope and the less for fear. He may, it is true, be at first defeated ; he may be unable to retain the reins of Government in the present disposition of the Chambers, but he can render the formation of any other Cabinet impossible, and by compelling the KING to have re course to a dissolution, he will be borne into office upon the shoulders of the people. THIERS ►s mistaken it suppose that he can ever cut a figure as a courtier. Persons like him can only influence the conduct of Kings through the medium of their fears. Louts PHILIPPE fears and hates him, and only seeks to detach him from the people, to despise and trample upon him. At present M. TIMERS is paving the way for a coalition between the ex-Cabinets of the 12th of May and 15th of April, or in other words, the SOULT and MOLE Administrations, and should such a coalition take place his official death-warrant is signed. All will depend upon his grand exposition in the Cham ber of Deputies this week of the policy of his Govern ment. If he be but true to himself, to the principle of the Revolution of July, and to the French people, by whose sympathies he reached his present elevation in the State, he may laugh at the intrigues of the Court, and even make its hostility administer to his own great ness and glory; but it, instead of this, he affect a tone of great moderation, and assume a task of accomplish ing the fusion of parties, we shall regard his downfall as certain and irretrievable. The French Journals report that the Emperor of MOROCCO has declared war against France. A semi- Court organ has made the discovery that France is in debted to the good offices of Lord PALMERSTON for the hostility of the Mauritanian Monarch ! It would be offering an insult to the common sense of our readers gravely to refute so vile and pitiful a calumny. The Gazette de France has the following paragraph " A report is current that the Emperor of • Morocco has declared war against the French Government, and that he takes part with Abd-el. Kader. We are assured that, in consequence, orders have just been transmitted by the Minister, of Marine to Admiral Rosamel, to send a force to the coast of Africa."—Le Conslitutionnel. The Eclaireur de Toulon, of March 18, has the follow ing paragraph : " All the ships of the line now in the roads are com pleting their repairs, in order to be ready to put to sea at the s.rst order. This squadron, as has been already stated, will very soon sail to cruise on the coast of Africa, from Algiers to Morocco, during the whole time that the expe dition against Abd-el-Kader shall last. " It is nearly certain that the Emir receives ammunition and men from the dominions of Morocco, notwithstanding the vigilance which we exercise on the coasts; but all these supplies come to him by land, and we have no power to binder this incessant contraband trade. Our Consuls receive only evasive answers to all the remonstrance! they make on this subject."—Le Commerce. The Moniteur Parisien of Sunday Evening publishes the following telegraphic despatch from the Spanish capital. It it not a little surprising that the two facts of any moment which it announces—namely, the raising of the siege, and the election of ISTURIZ to the Pre sidency, were stated in The Sun of yesterday : " THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. " Madrid, March 18. " The Congress of the Deputies is at length consti tuted. Senor Isturiz has been named President by a large majority. The other members of the standing Com mittee are of the same party. Madrid is tranquil. The news from the provinces is quite satisfactory. The state of siege has just been raised." The Phare des Pyrennees of the 19th inst. states, that in the reconnaissance made on the 12th in the direction of Castellote, General Espartero had traversed during five hours a mountain road of the most difficult character. 0• reaching within a short distance of the place, he found the Carlists strongly posted in a narrow gorge, where he did not think it prudent to attack them, and retreated in the evening on Mas de las Matas. This road not being found practicable by the artillery, the General-in Chief resolved on proceeding to Castellote by Ejulva and La Meta, in which last village ho intended establishing his head-quarters on the 16th. The Memorial des Pyrennees states that the Carlist force opposed to General Espartero, near Castellote, consisted of eight battalions, and that two officers of his escort bad been wounded in the reconnaissance. PENITENTIARY, MILLBANK.—The Report of the Superintending Committee of the General Penitentiary at Milibank has just been published, and represents the state of the prison as very favourable. The number of prisoners in the Penitentiary at present is 501, who are thus classed :—males 270, females 101 ; for transpor tation 15, and soldiers 115. The total number of sol diers received in 1839, under sentences of Court martial, was 697. The daily average number of pri soners employed at different trades is about 3:36, the majority of whom are tailors, amounting to no less than 263. These people work six hours a day, and the net profit for the year, after deducting 6071. 4s. Bd, for salaries to manufacturer, clerk, and charges for coals, stationery, &c., is 1,4721. 3s. I I d., the sub sistence money received for soldiers is 1,0911. 18s. 3d., and the total net expense for the whole establishment for the year amounts to 13,394/. ls. WAIL wax CHINA.—We have received a letter under this head from a Correspondent, who designates himself " an English Whig," and also gives his name; but we cannot subscribe to his doctrine, or even believe that he is a Whig. The Whigs, in general, are a shrewd people, and their principles are favourable to liberty and the independence of the electoral con stituency ; yet "an English Whig" contends that the Duke of Newcastle was justified in the remark, that he had " a right to do as he liked with his own," that is, that he was justified in turning out every tenant who would not vote against his conscience ; and he also contends that the Chinese are justified in making the English submit to their laws, however cruel, and, consequently, that an English sailor who had never seen the " Killed Chinaman," ought to have been given up to be banged for an offence about which he knew nothing ! His words are—" They also had a right to demand the person of the sailor who killed the Chinaman, for when in a foreign country we must submit to the laws of that country, though they may. not be in accordance with our ideas of strict jus tice.' We only wish that this " English Whig" and some of those ignorant philanthropists who take the part of the child-murdering Chinese, were submitted for a week to the tender mercies of a people who chop off the hands of a smuggler for the first offence, chop off bis feet for the second, and hang him by the neck till he is dead for the third. They would then know some thing about these immoral scoffers at Christianity. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY. DEAL, MARCH 23.—Wind N.E., fresh breezes.—Ar rived the ?.!argaret Parker, Emit, from Calcutta ; Eras mus, Marks, Batavia; and King Alfred, St Michael's. Sailed the William Lee, Sheppard, for Calcutta ; Forth, Lamb, Sydney, New, South Wales; Premier, Ware, ditto ; Maitland, Baker, ditto ; Francie, Hobart Town ; Margaretta, Barcham, Batavia; Elizabeth and Jane, Hurt, ditto ; Centurion, Heppenstall, Quebec; and Jane Graham, Thornton, Rio Janeiro. FAT.mouTH, MARCH 22.—Wwd N. to N.W.—Off the Adelaide, Manser, from Rio Janeiro. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 23.—Wind N.E., fresh breeze.— Arrived the Garrick, Palmer, from New York ; Merinal, Pike, Mobile ; Leander, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Martha Harrison, Newfoundland ; Mary's, Blany, Licata; and Teesdale, Stirling, ditto. Sailed the Erin, Man for Trinidad ; Shcrbroke, O'Brien, Mobile ; and Monon. gahela, Philadelphia. POLITICAL SUMMARY OF THE MORNING JOURNAL& The Morning Chronicle of this day, reverting to the question of the Corn-laws, says :—" The Corn-laws, by their operation on expenditure, are a tax on the State as well as on individuals. They cost the nation more than the Monarchy. And for what end ? To exhibit " a bold peasantry, our country's pride" competing for work at 9s. a week, and manufacturing thousands out of employ alto gether. An able and dispassionate observer across the Atlantic, of European policy, says that the whole system of British policy is to preserve old markets free from competition, and to open new ones; the agricultural cha racter of Great Britain is now of second-rate import.' But let it be of first-rate import, the policy remains the same."—The Morning Advertiser, commenting on the question of international copyright, remarks as fol lows :—" It is the home market which is rapidly closed against the author by foreign piracy. Not only owing to the increased facility of communication with the Continent does almost every Englishman who visits the Continent purchase copies of the cheap foreign editions, which do not benefit the author, b u t wholesale importations of those pirated copies are regu larly shipped for this country, and supply half the provin cial circulating' libraries."—The Morning Poet, in a lead ing article on the subject of the Church revenue, ob. serves :—" The Morning Chronicle of yesterday has th e ignorance to refer to the income of the Church in England as between six and seven millions' a-year. Upon this point there exists the most minute official information. The income of the Church of England is, in round numbers, three millions a-year, or about 6t. a-year for each indi- Muial pf wllopt the National Church has the eharge,"_,Th e orning !Jerald thus referi to Vie po r n-Jaw quesoon:—.,, "In the House r Lords, last night, Lord Melbourne de. clared that Government does not intend to bring forward, or to support, any motion for repeal or chant 0 t h e existipg P,PrklaYfs 1 NP, Mini4tecs will apt brin g for. 4'arfi Rny spell niptipp. They will poly encourage their most zealous supporters to attack the' Corn-laws ; and they will, by making'' open questions' of schemes to subvert the whole industrial system of the country, exhibit Practi. eally their utter disregard of those duties Ahieh are especi. ally imperative upon every Government pretending to the 11,gtitt share of holiqty:l THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) HUNGERFORD MARKET. The market was but slenderly atten,led ; the supplies good, and prices little varied. Vegetables dear. Beef, 7d. to ; Mutton, 70. to Bd. Veal, Bd. to 9d. ; and I'ork, 7d. to 84d. Turbot, Bs. to 21s. ; Cod, 3s. to 12s. , Salmon, 3s. to 4s. per lb. ; Soles, 10d. to 4s. 6d. per pair ; and Lobsters, Is. Gd. to 4s. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Good Fish were not very plentiful. 'Turbot, ss. to 20s. ; Cod, 2s. to 10s; Soles, 9d. to 4s. per pair ; Lobsters, 9d. to 4s. 6d ; Salmon, 3s. to 3s. 6d. per lb. ; Crimped 6s. ; Mack• erel, sd. to 10d. ; Whitings, 4d. to Bd. ; and Haddocks, 6d. to Is. HAY MARKET. The holders do not bring much dry provender to market just now, and this keeps up prices, the demand being good. Hay, 50s. to 100 s. ; Clover, 90s. to 115 s. ; Straw, 325. to 445. per SPIRIT MARKET. Prices of Rum firm, but very little passing. Brandy little better than nominal. In British Corn Spirits a steady busi ness, at 10s. ; and Geneva at Is. Bd. to Is. 9d. TEA MARKET. But little business doing, and that mostly for cash. The market attracts but very little attention just now. COLONIAL MARKET. This department, which embraces such a variety of commo dities, was very bare of business. Of B.P. Sugar a very scanty show indeed, and the eltent of sales but very moderate. Prices very firm, varying between 555. and 635. A damaged parcel of Cassia Lignea, in second hands fetched market prices. Of 4,785 bags Mauritius Sugar, the greater part sold and fetched full prices, the bulk varying between 365. and 565. 940 bags Saltpetre fetched 21s. to 235. A small parcel of damaged Brazil Coffee sold, as also 230 bags Ceylon. The quotations of good ordinary Ceylon was about 105 s. COAL M 6, d Burdon Main l9 0 Holywell Main )9 6 Walls End Hilda 2O 9 Walls End Northumberland 20 0 Walls End Percy Bensham 19 6 Walls End Westgato .. l5 ii Walls End Walker 2O (, Walls End Belmont Walls Endßraddyll'sHetton 23 3 Walls End Hetton Wzi's End Limbton 23 9 Walls End Pemberton Walls End Russell's Hetton 23 C Walls End iitewart's 24 6 ARK ET. s. d. Wails End Whitwell 6 Walls End Hartlepool 23 9 Wahs,End Kelloe lWalls End Barrett 2O 9 ' Walls End Clarence Helton 18 6 Walls End Coundon Wall 3 End Evenwood H 0 Walls Eud New Tees `2l 0 Wa Is Endßichardson's Tees2l 0 Walls End South Durham 251 9 Walls Ind West Tees l7 6 Blythe l5 6 Elsicar l7 Ships arrived since fast market.day, Si. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 1O;id for the 411'. Loaf. Good Bread may be had at 9d. PRICES OF SEEDS. Per Cwt. Per Quarter. New English Red C10ver...503.985. St. Foin -s. 50s 70s Old Ditto Ditto -s. -s. -s. Rye (Irass -s. 295. tiOs New Foreign Ditto ...-s. 60s. 90s. racoy Grass s. 45;. 6Cs Old Ditto Ditto -s. -s. -s. Linseed, for feeding -s, 4ss. 52$ New White Clover sos. 603. 70s. Ditto, for sowing -s. 545. 56s Old Ditto Ditto -s. -s. -s. Ditto, for crushing...-s 42:, 41 , s New Trefoil -s. W. 34t. Canary -s 100 s. I^ss Old Ditto -s. 16s. 255. Hemp •-b. 335. 40s Trefoil= s. 30s. 365. Per Bushel. English Carraway -s. es. 525. White Mustard...lls. N. 14s. Od. Foreign Ditto -s. 50s. sfis Brown Ditto l6s Od. 21s. Od Coriander -s. 14:. 20s Tares 65.0.1. 06. 1 11. Rapeseed, English One (per Last) 211.201. Foreign ‘2.1?. 2bl. PRICES OF HOPS. Farnham Pockets (per cwt.) Ol Os. 01. Os. to 01. Os. East K...nt Pockets., Ditto Bags 'l.los. (11.' Os. to V. 4s. Mid Kent Pockets Si. 10s. 4/.los. to 5/. 12r. Ditto Bags SI. 10s. 01. Os. to 4,:. Os. Sussex Yearlings Ol. Os. 31. 3s. to 31. 10i. Old 1/Ids MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have received Montreal Papers to the 19th Feb. LOWER PROVINCES.—We can state upon the very best authority that Mr. Paul Beardsley, one of her Majesty's subjects in this province, was arrested at a Lumber Camp, near Presque Isle, by the Maine authorities, and thence conveyed to Houlton, and there committed to custody, to take his trial, a bill of indictment having been found against him, for having participated in the arrest of the Land Agent of Maine last winter, an act which was sanc tioned by the Provincial Magistrates and Government at the time. W e have just heard that Mr. Beardsley has given bail for his appearance next Session at Hamilton. We look with the fullest confidence to his Excellency the Lieut. Governor's taking the most active steps to have our fellow subject discharged, and having ample redress afforded him. The Finance Committee has reported, the Supplies have been voted, and the Session is fast drawing to a close. The state of the finances of the province has been for some time looked upon as desperate; there appeared to be a sum of about 90,0001. unprovided for, but instead of this it is made to appear, by the Report of the Finance Committee now before us, that there is a surplus of 30,1221. 19s. 4d. The Committee has given in the first place a comparative statement of certain revenues for the years 1838 and 1839, showing an increase of nearly fifty per cent, in favour of 1839, and that is taken as evidence that the country is recovering from the depression of the past few years. The revenues thus compared comprise im ports at Quebec, imports from the United States, duty on shop-till and tavern licences, on hawkers' and pedlers' licences, auctioneers' licenses, and sales on tonnage on British vessels. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, MONDAY.—The sales of this day are 5,000 bales, without any alteration in prices. The New York packet ship Garrick brings 4,700 chests of Tea ; her freight will be 2,7501. Thirty-three vessels now building at Quebec are in a forward state, and are expected to be sent to sea early in the ensuing season ; their tonnage amounts to 18,093 tons. We have the New Orleans Price Current to the 13th February :—" We have yet but little improvement to notice in the general business of our city, though the wea ther since Saturday has been favourable to our out-door transactions, and the levee has been rendered more active by the arrival of several large class steamboats from the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers, with full cargoes of cotton, tobacco, &c. No further boats, however, havecome in from Louisville and other ports on the Ohio River, still ample supplies may be looked for soon, when an active trade will take place. Money remains extremely scarce, and the prices of most descriptions of merchandize have a downward appearance. On Monday there was again a pretty fair inquiry for Cotton, some 4,000 bales having changed hands without any very perceptible change in the rates. The demand far all kinds of exchange has been limited since our last report ; but the rates for sterling bills are still maintained, at 91 to 101 per premium ; there is a slight decline on bills on France. THE TU'NJIIS At present there does not appear any spirit for specu lating either in the British or Foreign Markets, and Con sols may be quoted at the leaving off prices of yesterday, 90a Money, for the Account, 90/ 91 ; Exchequer Bills, 16 18 ; India Bonds, 1 3 prem ; Bank Stock for opening, 177 k 8 ; India Stock, 2471 Bi. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active is a shade higher than the closing price-28a a; Deferred, 13/ 14/; Pas sive, 71 ; Portuguese, 341 ; Three per Cents., 244 ; Colombian, 241 25 ; Mexican, 291 ; Brazilian 78- ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 534 i; Five per Cents., 100 2. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share, Brighton Railway -'5 24 3 4 %14 N ,th Midland Railway Company IOU iO7 Ditto New lIALF-PAST ONE. The Bahama Royal Gazette to the Bth January, al luding to the conduct of a majority of the Assembly who had consented to give to the General Revenue Act, whic h had always been an annual act, a duration equal to that of her Majesty's life, and also consented to grant for the like period a sum of money equivalent to the sum-total of the salaries of the whole of the public officers of the Colony, says " This monstrous—this suicidal proposition, embracing nothing less than the formal surrender of the most valuable privilege—the very vital principle of a representative Government—we grieve to say, was adopted in a House of twenty-six Members by a majority of 15 to 11, and thus by the act, the free and voluntary act, of those chosen to be the guardians of the privileges and constitutional rights of the people, the champions of our liberties, and the defenders of our free institutions, have those rights and liberties been trampled upon and sacrificed." The New York packet-ship Quebec has arrived at Portsmouth, but not of so late a date as the Garrick ; sailed 23d ult. She brings a quantity of specie. This has been again an idle day for speculating in the British Funds, and we are apprehensive that no great ex tent of business will be done until it is ascertained, in an official shape, the amount required by Ministers, as well as the particulars of the new taxes ; reports arc afloat on the subject, but not to be depended upon. Consols may be quoted a shade better than in the early part of the morning, 91 for the Account ; Money, 90i ; Exchequer Bills, 16 19 prem. ; in India Bonds and India Stock nothing done. In the Foreign Market very little doing. Spanish Ac tive, 28} ; Portuguese Three per Cents.. 24 ; Russian, 113 4 ' ; Dutch Two-and-a. Half per Cents. 53 ; Five per Cents, 1014 102. CLOSING PRICES. BRIT'S!' FUNDS: Pank Stock — ; India Stock — 3 per Cent Red — Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cuts. 90% ' Ditto Old Annuities.. ........ 3' per Cent. Red — ' Ditto New Annuities New 3 1 ,4,. per Cent 99 , Ex. Bills, 1,009/ ..... 2d 19 pm New 5 per Cent — 1 Ditto 504 ................. 19 pm Long Annuities to expire i Ditto Small ........... 9pm Jan. 1860 Oct. 1859 Jan 1660 EVENING EDITION LECTURES ON ECCLESIASTICAL ESTABLISHMENTS. (From the Christian Wormer.) CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE EVANGELICAL VOLUNTARY CHURCH ASSOCIATION AND THE CHRISTIAN INFLUENCE SOCIETY. Bedwell Park, Hatfield, March 2, 1840. Sir,—l have the pleasure to transmit to you the annexed Resolutions, to which I shall be obliged by receiving as early a reply as possible. Trusting that all our discussions may be so conducted as to conduce to the glory of God and salvation of men, I am, Sir, your faithful servant, CULLING EARDLEY SMITH. To the Chairman of the Christian Influence Society. (ENCLOSURE.) At a Meeting of the Committee of the Evangelical Vo luntary Church Association, held 2d March, 1840, Sir Culling Eardley Smith, 13.;rt., in the Chair, the following Resolutions were agreed to : This Committee having learned with great satisfaction that the Christian Influence Society have determined again to bring the subject of State Establishments of Religion before the attention of the public, in a forthcoming course of Lectures, Resolved,—That a communication be made from this Committee to the Christian Influence Society, suggesting to them the desircableness of a Public Meeting for the discussion, in a fair, open, and Christian manner, of the question of State Establishments of religion, by one, two, or three individuals on each side ; the convenience of both parties being consulted, and the expenses equally shared between them. ..........,.....„.... Resolved,--That the Chairman do immediately transtnit this Resolution to the Chairman of the Christian In fluence Society. Old Broad-street, 9th March, 1840. Sir,—l have received and laid before the Committee of the Christian Influence Society your letter of the tad inst., with the resolutiins annexed to it; and beg to in form you that it appears to the Committee that the plan already adopted by them, in arranging for the delivery of successive courses of lecture, deliberately composed and subsequently printed, is that best calculated for the ad vancement of the cause of Divine truth. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your very obedient servant, A. GORDON, Hon. Secretary. Sir Culling Eardley Smith, Bart, We can now state that a Lecture on the Voluntary Principle will be delivered by the Rev. G. Redford, D. D. and LL.D., Minister of a Voluntary Church at Wor cester, on Wednesday, the 25th inst., at Freemasons' Wall. We understand that his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex has signified his intention of being present. Strongly as we have been impressed with the amiable and candid tone of Mr. M'Neil's lectures, our sincere re., spect for the individual must not prevent us front saying how deeply we regret that such a man should have misw presented as he has done (unintentionally, we are rured the meaning of Scripture. We rejoice, therefore, fl a t the Voluntary Church Association have determined not to al low a day to elapse after the conclusion of Mr. M'Neil's series, without vindicating the truth of Goa, and placing before the public what they deem to be right and scriptural views on the subje A of National Establishments. As it will be impossible, at so short an interval, for Dr. Redford to undertake a formal answer to Mr. M'Neil, We believe it will be very shortly in our power to announce that one or more further lectures will be delivered in direct , reply to that gentleman. For the present, the treucheg will be opened on Wednesday 1 Or rather, might we not say, a flag of truce will bese t out? For such is our vi ew o f t h e quest i on. It is 011'11 incidentally that our p r i nc i p l es are hostile to any s e`. of men, or rather to any class of principles. Our direct aim is the reconciliation of Christians, and the restoratio n of the purity of the Church of Christ—" peace on earth and good-will towards men." If in order to attain these, and in obedience to the great Head of the Church, it b e necessary to assail an existing system, we ought not, we trust we shall not, be accused of mainly desiring the sub version of what is dear to others. We wish to subvert, only because we wish to establish. We desire peace- - but it must not be a hollow one. It must be founded on truth. We wish to be peaceable,—but we must hav e purity first. We earnestly hope that the attendance of persons who occupy influential stations may be numerous. No °ne will be in the slightest degree implicated by attending' We have ourselves attended Mr. M.Neil's Lectures with out feeling that we at all committed ourselves to an aPPrt bation of his principles; and it will be well that those who are constantly called upon to legislate upon questions mor e or less connected with this great discussion, should know, if only as a matter of fact, what are the views really en tertained by voluntaries. . In the meantime we would shortly state, I. That the ruling motive of voluntaries is the desire that the Bible should be obeyed. They believe that Es tablishments involve disobedience to God. .. if a 2. That voluntari es d o not contemp l ate touching hair of the head" of a s i ng l e veste d r i g h t. In a ll th eir arguments they presupp ose th at every life-interest Will be preserved, and every patron compensated. FUNERAL OF JOHN TEMPLEMAN.--(T his day. )—This morning, at a quar t er b e f ore seven o'clock, tbeis mortal remains of this unfortunate man were removed fronl late residence for interment in the new burial-ground belo n6 ing to the Chapel o f E ase to S t . Mary's Church, Isling; situate a short distance f rom th e H o ll oway-road. The in fer• ment at so early an h our was arranged for the purpose of Pr:d venting a crowd assembling. The grandson of the decease was chief mourner. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.--It appears that MT. Beale's proposition was 3,700/. Upon a calculation lately made, it seems that 5,0001. a year will only yield to the shareholders (after paying the ground-rent, taxes, and other unavoidable ea penses) the poor dividend of about sd. per night. They are , by arrangement made some years since, entitled to is. 3d. rr night, each night the theatre remains open. This even n" reduction from the original dividend; for in the high an / palmy days" o f th e dr ama, w h en Elliston paid his 10, 00. a year, and for y ears a f ter t h e erect i on of the present theatre, they invariably received 2s. 6d. per night. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.-MISS IVb rita. gue, who, it will be recollected, recently appeared at Drer h t u lane in Juliet, play e d th a t par t a t t hi s t h eatre l a st nigh t ' Having before expr esse d our op i n i on o f h er mer it s , we " now only to observe that we are confirmed in the correetner the place which we assigned her. Her deficiencies are suell_! . time and practice will supply, w hil e h er great na tural ear' s tares require nothing but the aid of study to secure to h er distinguished position on the s t age . W e think her infil l ' e more successful in the gentler than in the more storMY an tragic scenes. FATAL ACCIDEN T IN H YDE YCS st , terday afternoon an inq ues t was h e ld i s t h e B oar d- roo m 0 7 iowt George's hospital, on th e b o d y o f Eli za b et h T u lly, vii" aged 36. On the afternoon of Monday, the 9th inst. , ceased was in Hyde P ar k, w h en a groom came along on hors:i, back at a rapid rate. Wh en w ithi n a f ew yar d s o f decess e ..ek ho called to her to get ou t o f th e way, b ut s h e seeme d str n "„ p with terror and incapable of moving, and before he could puD hi his horse she was u n d er it s f ee t. O n Th urs d ay l a st she O no bited symptoms of ab scess on th e brain, and died the ga night. Subsequently, on a post mortem examination, a (I°R„, tity of matter was f oun d sprea d over t h e sur f ace o f the bra' _ which circumstan c e was su ffi c i en t t o cause d eat h . Verdict - i Accidental death," with a nominal deodand on the horse ° one shilling. 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Patent detached Lever Watches, jewelled in four holes, seconds, and double-backed gold cases, war- 14 14 0 ranted Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, jewelled in s;x holes, seconds, double-backed gold cases and l7 enamel dials, warranted Patent deta c h e d Lever Watches, canned, jewelled in six holes, seconds, double-backed gold cases and 0 ° golddials, warranted Either o, the Gentlemen's Watches may be bad in gold hun cases, for 31. 3s. each extra. N.B. Second-hand Watches purchased in B IRTIIS. Aro, the On the 22d i ns t., i n M ontagu-p l ace, B ryans ton-scla lady of Henry James Wheeler, Esq., of a son. , D p ur too , On the 22d i ns t., a t H amps t ea d , th e w if e o f William . Esq., of a son. On the 22d inst .at U. Claptr Mrs. Neilson, of al -- •'- 'er lapton, daughter. On the 22d inst., a the wife of the Rev. C. H. Gar' of st" James's parish, of a daughter. R olan d On the 20th inst. in Hyde Park-terrace, Mr !. Brandreth, of a daughter. _...-----------'-‘ • —__—__ AA RR lED. p W" On the 21st inst., at St. Mary's Church, Paddington t „„A tree' ilam Nem , ton, Es q., of King's Arms-buildings , WudiCalf to Mrs. Hobbs, of Mortimar-street, Cavendish-square, an green, Sortlls re, G e org° On the y t inst., at St. Mary's, Bryanston-squaref goy, too Cu n. Nan Call, Esq., of her Majesty's 84th Regimen t, unngast daughter of Bonamy Dobree, Esq. , o f G re e erland-street, Hyde-park _____-------------- iJID. On the 12th inst., Mary An R n, the wife of Abrahern F..ii"ni.. be late more, Esq., of Peckatn-t ye. o On the 13th inst. hat Amsterdam, Catherine, relict ft , Rev. Alexander Macintosh, A D., aged 68. 4 ,' wick° On the 18th inst., at K ens i n t on , Louisa Sara of Bellevue h o An n "? Salta of the late William Whit e , for p bury, E5q.................../- - " ° ss.s....ssaiu , London : Printed an d Published 1',,) , MURDO , it 11 No. 112, Str aus i, a t 77e Ettic Office, No. 112. Strsnyit }luse ! c()1411111Y c ''' :tlickil :csex.—T ues day, March 24, 18_2:.01001‘pioOls FOREICIN FUNDS Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent Btazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Milian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 er cent Ditto, 1824 Danish. 3 per cent 78% Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct — Mexican, 5 per cent. Ditto, 6 per cont.. 1 8 25. Peritvian,lB2s,6 per cent Portuguese Bonds, sper cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 6 per cent — Russian Ronda, 5 per cent 113 N Ditto, Metallic ..... .... ........ Spanish, 5 per cent 2Sy, Ditto, Deferred French, 5 per cent. —f. —c Exchange f. ....e French, 3 per cent —f. _ c Dutch, 9.54 per cent. Ditto, 3 per cent. in N A RES. Sti B►rmingham and Gloueesta; Eastern Counties Railway 6reat Western Railway London and Brighton Railw London and Croydon Railw North Midland Railway Ditto New Shares • Railway 63 vay vay (Trunk) . lB " 1 .".Q5,5. Of LIRE ON TEIE RivEß,Yesterday an inquest Was held before Wm, Carttar, Esq., Coro:ler for Surrey, at the Bells Tavern, Putney, on view of the bodies of Air. St4uAtoil ; Aged as years, and Mr. Pratt, aged 22 year!, vlm, with Mr. Abbott, a proctor of Doctor's-commous was drowned from a galley on Friday last. The An vetwned verdict, in both cases, of " Accideplal cleath.' , ' The bodies of the unfortunate gentles wi Aa ip a t the Bell Uvern. Up to a 17,ta ;kour last viglilt the body of 1* Mllciet had not been fotiriif. 1‘1;:. Pratt, Who was t r A 4eal student at St. d_t; . fir,, , ie's * Hospital, remarked ;; - , 1 a t ' friend, on leaving home on ..4riday afternoon,' that if )se did not return home that higttt,, he might make 'up his mind that he was drowned, 14 11 e tbink, ing that his jocular remark would prove a fesAf4 reality. •.„ I