The Sun. — London, England, 1840-02-27 00:00:00

!:VENING EDITION STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATES IN JAMAICA. TO TIE EDITOR OF TIE The House of Assembly has just closed its Session without haying passed a single Bill for the improv ement or protection of the negro. Their la te success has inflated them beyond measure, and in the words of thsirmena rable protest, they "do not ;brink from a comparis on wi ththe Commons of Great Britain." Wit h the exception of • conciliatory spirit exhibited in the ve ry necessary mea sure of increasing the salary of the Governor, e making ßh a provision for placing profession al men on the and a Prisons' Bill, the last, however, being an Act of super-legislation on the Imperial Parliament, and all intended as so many sops to the Bri tish Government to permit them to have their own way in everything else, they have driven on in their old reckless course of passing coercive laws, not because there is any occasion, or likely to be any, for such, but because they never will be brought to believe and acknowledge the negro to be a human being, acted on by the same wants, desires, and impulses as ,themselves. They regard with high scorn all propositions to lead their labouring popula tion, which, docile as it is, is easily done, and are deter mined to drive it, which is now au impossibility. The great caution of the new Governor, Sir Charles Metcalfe, which these gentlemen take to be an approval of their views and schemes, encourages them in the experimental course which they are pursuing. Sir Charles keeps his opinion profoundly secret, and is no doubt now digesting his plans at his country-seat during the recess—when he opens himself it will probably be to some purpose. The rope, however, is not yet tight enough to draw him out. In the meantime, a system of anticipa tory legislation has been successfully going on. W e have a vagrant law, without a vagrant on whom to carry it into effect in the island. We have a n armed police fJr the preservation of _w constables kept order ca a and tran quillity among a population which a f during the whole of last year in a statee of subordination and submission to the laws, unknown in any part of Eu rope. We have prohibitory game-law Pefect wilderness. We have a new ejectment -law , and fishery-laws, r in a country two-thirds of ectment-lwaly'ui, and acombination-of-ser eh is a vants'-law, both pressing most coercively on the labouring population, and which must, cum multis aiiis, be disallowed at home. As L h a ve hinted above , the Governor has given them rope, and by d o ing so, he has full opportunity, before declaring himself, of observi n g their antics and vagaries. It is certain that the future prosperity of the Island mainly depends on him. The eyes of almost all our other high functionaries are hankering after the flesh pots of Egypt. They are paid by the House of Assembly, and they reverence their paymasters ; indeed, if they respect their salaries they dare not do otherwise. This wisdom in their generation, too, turns out well with them ; witness his Honour the Chief Justice Sir Joshua Rowe, the very Baal of the planter's worship, who has just had his salary in creased from 4,0001. to .5 8001. per annum. What wonder then that the spirit of planterism is again rampant, and that its representatives should insist on being entitled to full credence when they swear that they are the most moral men, the most loyal subjects, the most humane task-masters, the wisest and most disinterested Legisla- tors on tleis side of heaven ? or that they should insist that the power of adjudication in all matters at issue between master and servant may be safely placed in the hands of the former ? A notable scheme has been brought in by an Attorney-at-law, a Member of Assembly, to effect this desirable end, and to provide for himself and his profes sional brethren in the same Honourable House, by the substitution of six lawyers, whether barristers or attorneys, for the existing stipendiary magis tracy, in direct opposition to the principle acted on in England, which wisely and considerately prohibits attorneys from holding the office of Justice of the Peace. If this should become law, alas poor negroes We shall have litigations, appeals, and certioraris innume rable, and interminable. How convenient the transition from the attorney's desk to the Judge's bench and back again. ltque, reuitTte clam tot its. The fact is, that the scheme is impracticable, and were it not so, it would be unsafe and unjust. The labouring po pulation have no confidence in any but the stipendiary Magistracy, to whom they look a 3 the visible sign and gua rantee to them of the protection of the British Govern ment ; to them do they carry all their grievances ; to them alone do they look for redrew. Remove them, and sue picioe. apprehension, and bad feeling will immediately take the place of the implicit confidence and reliance which they repose at present in the protection of the English Govern. anent. If the peace and tranquillity of this teland—if the industry of the peasantry—if the prosperity of the land owners be objects of importance, the potter of adjudication between master and servant must be jealously withheld from the planting Magistrates. Were it natural to suppose that men may with safety be constituted judges in Naeir own case, that the plantar woula dispense unbiassed justice, inflexibly and invarial.ly, even where to his own prejudice, and where the law may be in direct opposition to his own opinion, still ail this would not suffice ; the late slave will not, for at least this generation, put any trust in his late master. But we have no right to assume that the Jamaica planter is free from the weaenesses and imperfec tions of our nature ; he has sho en that he possesses his full proportion of them. Lupus pet/ern mutat, non naturam, is an old and true adage ; and it. would be just as wise and politic to, put your poultry-yard under the guardianship of th; fox, or to constitute the wolf keeper of your sheep ; fold, as to trust the labouring population of Jamaica to the judicial mercies of a planting magistracy. The professional magistrates proposed by Sic Joshua, the Corypi - imus of the plantocracy, is eight—a number so totally inadequate for the due performance of the multi farious duties entrusted to the present Stipendiary Meeis ! tract' 53 to be no better than none at ail. The whole echerne, in fact, is an almost undisguised attempt to throw the whole power of adjudication between the late master and the late slave entirely into the hands of the former There are on an average two Courts of Petit Sessions held every week by each Stipendiary Magistrate, in addition to two o her duties, maki ng 4,360 ; courts h e ld b y t h e forty ! two paid Justices during the year, for the purposes of ad judicating on points at issue between employer and la hewer. If attorneys and barristers of Spanish Town and Kingston are, as proeoscd, to succeed to these duties, each will have to attend to 540 Petit Sessions of the Peace, in the course of the year, or about two for every line of the working days in the 365. What makes this store preposterous is the fact that places appointed for )folding these are often twenty, sometimes thirty, miles (a good day's journey) distant from each other, in the same district ; to say nothing of the Ministerial duties of the Magistrates, the whole onus of which is thrown on the Stipendiary Justices, and the impartial performance cf which is still more important, as regards the protection of the negro, than even the judicial functions, from the ex treme facility with which they may be abused, to the op pressiou of the ignorant, unlettered labourer of thi s coun try, who has no security whatever, in cases which daily occur, where his late owner is the magistrate who issues the warrant, and his late driver the constable who exe cuter it. AN OBSERVER. DEDICATED, BY EXPRESS COMMAND, TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF KENT. PRINCE ALBERT'S POETRY AND MUSIC. Mr. Colburn has the honour to announce that hi has this day published " SONGS and BALLADS," written and set to music by their Royal Highnesses the PRINCES ALBERT and ERNEST. Translated from the German, by G. F. RICHARDSON, Esq. (of the British Museum), Tramlator of " The Life and Writings of Korner." Imperial 4t0., con taining Foarteen Songs, and Forty-two pages of Music, with a beautifully eagrared Portrait of Prince Albert. Prise 12s. Henry Colbarn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. • ' ' Orders roceired Book and Music Sellers. 13, Great Marlborough-street. RINCE ALBERT'S SONGS AND BALLADS. The principal Music-sellers having declined to sell Copies of the above Work, except at a commission of 50 per cent., the Publisher. Mr. COLBURN, begs to acquaint the Public, that it is to be PROCURED at his OWN HOUSE, No. 13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH -STREET, and (by order), of any Bookseller. Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh ; for Agents : For Scotla nd, Ireland, John Cumming, Dublin. THEATRE IA E R O Y A L, COVENT NTO FGARDEN.MAD.O UNDER H TESTRIS. E THIS EVENING, FEE. 27. Will be presented Ale Grand Allegerisal and National Masque, in honour if her Majesty's Nuptials, entitled TrIE FORTUNATE P ISLES ; OR, THE TRIUMPHS O BRITANNIA. T y e Movie *imposed and velseted by Mr. H. R. Bishop. After which, THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Captain Macheath, Mr. W. Harrison ; Peachum, Mr. W. Farren ; Lickit, Mr. Bartley ; Filch, Mr. Harley ; M rs . Peachum, Mrs. C. Jones ; Polly Peachum, Miss Rainforth; Lucy Lockit, Madame Vcstris. To couclude with the Comic Pantomime, ealled HARLEQUIN AND THE MERRIE DEVIL OF ED MONTON; OR THE GREAT BED OF WARE. Dress Boxes, 75. ; Second Prise, es. ed.; First and Seeonel Circles, as. ; Second Prise, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Deers to be opened at half-past Siz.-the performances to commence at Seven **Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Netter, at the Box-cdee, from Ten till Four, where Seassa Tickets may be bad upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bend-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Mr. Haekett';l;;;T;;lVigct;ofperioiming in England. THIS EVENING, FEB. 2J. Will be performed HENRY THE FOURTH. Falstaff, Mr. Hackett; Hotspur, Mr. Saville. T• conclude with VIDOCQ, THE FRENCH THIEF-TAKER. Vidocq, Mr. E. F. Smille. THE ROYAL "WEDDING SUN" OF MONDAY, 10TH INST., CONTAINS TWO BEAUTIFUL MEDALLION PORTRAITS OF THE QUEEN AND PRINCE ALBERT, EXECUTED IN THE VERY FIRST STYLE OF THE ART. THE LIKE NESSES ARE PRONOUNCED BY COMPETENT JUDGES TO BE AD MIRABLE. THE EXPENSE OF PRODUCING THESE PORTRAITS HAS BEEN VERY GREAT; BUT THE CHARGE IS ONLY UNE SHILLING. IHE SUN, CONTAINING THESE PORTRAITS, MAY BE RECEIVED BY POST IN ALL PARTS OF THE KINGDOM. PARTIES IN REMOTE PLACES CAN REMIT A SHILLING OR TWO, HALF A SOVEREIGN, OR A SOVEREIGN,---FOR ONE PENNY BY THE POST ; AND THEIR OR DERS WILL BE PUNCTUALLY AT TENDED TO. I'HE SUN ALSO CONTAINS A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE AUGUST CERE MONY, WITH ALL PARTICULARS APPERTAINING TO SO INTERES TING AN OCCASION. )RDERS FOR THE ROYAL WED DING SUN" WILL BE RECEIVED BY ALL NEWS-AGENTS AND POST MASTERS THROUGHOUT THE KINGDOM, AND AT THE SUN" OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have received Mr. CARNE'S letter from Fraddam, near Hayle, Cornwall. We deeply regret to learn that the kind-hearted and well-disposed working men of Hayle have been deceived by those in whom they confided, We regret, still more, to understand that there is reason to suspect the prudence, if not the honesty, of some of those who offer themselves as leaders and guides of the working men. At the same time we cannot publish the letter, even to put other working men on their guard, charging certain parties with mis appropriating funds entrusted to their care, because that might bring us into a Court for a libel, or would involve us in a 7,ersonal contest, which it is not our duty to undertake. Will Mr. John 51‘Gloin, 90, Great Britain-street, condescend to give us the name of the town in which he resides. We have now received three letters from him, but in neither is tho town written, and we cannot discover it from the post mark, in consequesice of its being illegible. 111011 WATER. AT LONDON NRIDGI TO-MORROW. Horning-- 14 minutes after 10 1 Evening 49 minutes after 10. ISUMONOERS' AND POULTERERS' SOCIETY. --W e understand that it was the most Honourable Robert Grosvenor, Marquis of Westminster, who generously gave twenty pounds in aid of the funds of this Society, and not the Marquis of Westmeath, as stated in our paper yesterday. His Excellency Earl Granville had, on the 25th, a private audience or the King and Queen, at which ,he deli vered to their Majesties letters of notification of the marriage of her Britannic Majesty with his Royal Highness Prince Al bert of Saxe Coburg Gotha. Lieut.-General Sir Lionel Smith, Bart., K.C.8., the new Governor-General of the Mauritius, is expected to take his departure for that colony on Saturday or Sunday next in the Andromache frigate. The Hon. Mrs. Charles Fox, relict of the great statesman of that name, has taken a villa at Chertsey. In ad dition to her subscription towards the purchase of coals, she The Peers did not meet yesterday. gave away 6/. worth of meat to the poor around her mansion, in order that they might celebrate the marriage of the Q ueen . The Commons occupied some time with a debate on THE POST-OFFICE.—A London correspondent a motion brought forward by Lord G. SOMERSET, that informs us that the Post-office stamped covers for letters are in th a Cr9ydon Railway Company should have permission a state of great forwardness. The penny cover is of a blue co to, proceed with their Bill, notwithstanding the Report lour, th e h eav i er ones b ro w n i s h, a nd th e d e t ac h e d s li p ( w hi c h may be att ac h e d t o an y co v e r) is s q uare s hap e d. Th e engrav - o 1; the Standing Orders Committee. It appears that a ing on all of them is a medallion of the Queen's Most Excellent Croy- Majesty. The P os t- o ffi ce , by wa y o f secur it y f or va l ua bl e par- irg,at c, iation which had r b e e n e , n a e a n d te D re a d re in r to ß b a y ilro tlLe i C C r o o m y -. eels, is to g ive a rece i pt f or any suc h, w h en requ i re d , on pay. n, u ment of one h a lf penn y s t er li ng; an d f orms o f t h e receipt are Uo palsies, eaellnwoi of which h ß ie r h il, to be f urn i s h e d, to b e - filled up by parti e s taki ng th e l etters to rail roads at London are to have the end of their Bridge, to settle that in common, the office.— Caledonian Mercury. The Hon. Captain Howard, M.P., arrived at had failed, and the Croydon and Greenwich Railway Lord Carlisle's, in Grosvenor-place, last evening, from Mor- Cs unpanies had each proposed to introduce new mea perth, for which borough the gallant officer was elected on Sa- su res. The Greenwich Railway Company had complied, ttirday last. W e are happy to state that the th a other had not complied with the Standing Orders, Cowper,Kient is convalescent. Her Royal Highness, through Colonel D uc h ess of a d the motion was to enable the latter to proceed in has been obliged to decline r res ec t e o i r n e in dg. adresses of e - p li . it . e . of bthye,rsulteas4,thine favour of I t t be wa c s r d ay ee d i e d n ed c o e n na- a eqogratulation until her health is quite clii ;ision 'TRINITY COLLEGE, --THE NEW FE an L , L I O ,O I m V- - settPs.—l n our paper of Wednesday we published pa n is, yi r , . ii which u bi E thus ve obtained no tice leeafveento proeee amendment d' to Mr. ing Sir JonN NEWPORT, to mented upon the memorial addressed to the Lord Lieutenant on 'LLDDELL's motion concern the subject of the eight new fellewsh a about to be established the praye r of in Trinity College. Our readers will the memorial. It is asked that the remember competitio n for these new i t i ii i e e effectivil List,that the and a peas i o o a l s hcoausled be e e withdrawn submitted t to the fellowships shall be open to persons of evertyhepersuasion—to the members of 11 0 use. obtained Dissenter s to the Roman Catholic, andspecs Establishment. We are sure that this memorial has s e t a ted a sl t d so Tn ri O o tNh result, sub the very warm concurrence of our readers. Indeedt,aswc ann o t t b l a at the reply negotiations toLd -Ni A w il i th N' o Lord there P ou A n i t t m ri b E e conceive that it could fortune otherwise. Its justice je et of International Copyright had ye portance entitle it to the support of every liberal and intellige nt ini- these negotiations before the House this man. It will be the cause of much gratification to know t ac count d o h u e nt h ao d r n o hope of being able to lay any satisfactory the exertions that have been made to procure signatures have at been as successful as they were prompt and well-timed. M with influential members of the legal and other professions havean t 1 me report of the conclusion of a commercial treaty S'l ucn T m o e L r. ord SANDON the Noble Viscount replied that already affixed their names, and zealously undertaken the task IN :epics was not correct. The sulphur monopoly, he of canvassing for signatures.—Freeman's Journal, a mid, was a violation of existing treaties, and he hoped QUEEN-SQUARE.--PEROCCHI'S CASE. --On sc on to be able to announce that it had been rescinded. Tuesday Antonio Peroechi, an Italian courier, surrendered to The Summary Jurisdiction Bill, a pet of Sir E. Wm his bail to undergo a further examination relative to the char ge efes l ' i, was read a second time after a short debate, and preferred against him of stealing some very valuable diamond a .0 c lvisionof 48 to 16. The Bill goes to d o awa y with rings, and ot h er art i cles of jewellery, the property of Messrs. ,lie ;eel si in the case of juvenile offenders, and extend the Mortimer and Hunt, of New Bond -street. There was also another cha rge w hi ch had been subsequently preferred against ju: r isdietion of t wo M ag i strates. Several country gen him, of s t ea li ng some articles belonging to the Marquis of tle .n.sen were opposed to it, a n d M r . M ILE . suggeste d Clanrica r d e , hi s late master. The circumstances attending the th it it should be referred to a S e l ect C ommittee, apprehensi on and examination of this man have beers so re- Su 4 , estion Sir EARDLEY WIL MOT seems likely to peatedl y bef ore the public, that it i s not necessary to repeat ad ,o'pt. In BUJ:JCR's time th e p reva l ent fashion was to them. Th e su b ject of Perocehi's being set at large was re • DE batwing laws, and then it was some " topping newed, and, after a long conversation of no public ''interest, it l ' a . was settled that Pe ' ' roceni should be discharged ; but, to prevent wyer," ss or' " some great manufacturer," who had interest actions being brought against the constables, who were ordered CC ough with a Member to get him to introduce a Bill to detain certain articles, the decision th of the Magistrate was to Puaish some particular depredation with death. not to be considered as final, but in against the defendant, vent of no claim being afternoon, or made in a month, or charge establisheei the whole of the property was to be - delivered up to him. De-, c Members, . ill u a: Bills were passed of a Wednesday ter dinner, by a dozen or a score of just as ~., , but be he left the Court he • S: fondant was then dischareed been most harshly and un• 4' Adeelared, in Italian, that he had present fashion being for the country MlDary Jurisdiction, or Sale of Beer Bills, are now Y dealt with. take the morals of the lower classes appears that ti le undo, ' jusd , :j . l da _ed ; the g, eri , 'lemen to Be a letter from Calais it French Government, having in contemplation a railroad to protection, o. and promote morality, mutheation between Paris and the metropolis of this count ry, l'oli' orderly habits, religion, - io- , _, th , e x i c r ts c: 1 e Beer Acts, Juvenile De- Pc , j ci a a i l e and all that, by Prison Acts, have commenced considerable improvements ' Cilais, by constructin g a newer oatis g basin f-,r the port of r c '' ' Acts, ~-„i n, ql. . .ents of modern legislators seems, we own, elation of shipping, and by terming a large reservoir corm of to b e fill , ci , and Summary Jurisdiction Acts. at high water for deepenin g the entranc e of the h f shion of their predecessors, arbour. Ti is stir than the a 6 , t , the more important, as competent parties, after mature c 1 , le humane ;. I that is only seeming, and we doubt • sirferation of the situation of the three ports of Boulryr n D u 1- '. at we are atra. (-- it much derided and condemned ki,k, A nd Calais, have asserted, that even supposin g che e 'l' al 1- . 4 a' e fashion 1 making fashion of 1760 me of whether it t he 1 - anging—a"' rajway to be complete, the communication between Lend n 2 before 1940 as fashion only seem s and Paris could not be made regular, unless the ports of Dr . e l. •? , derided. We say, the modern. . and Calais were so irdprovel as to be accessible in every f ,t, ' '/- is low • will ta. , t be as e i ~. .4 he ancient, 1 es - The tide. annihilated according to t of the law to be more humane, inastnu I -s it is better to the victims 1 Wc atm. LONDON: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, lite. than to be restrained and tortured according to the modern practice. The Resolutions for a New Sale of Beer Bill were reported, and at Seven o'Clock the House adjourned. Mr. LIDDELL iS to-night to move the following Resolutions, on the subject of Sir JOHN NEW PORT'S pension in the House of Commons : That it appears, by a copy of a Warrant on the Table of this House, that a Pension of 1,000/. a year has been granted by her Majesty to the late Comptroller of the Ex chequer on retirement from that office, on the ground of " zealous and efficient services rendered to the public during a period of nearly half a century, in which interval of time he filled the offices of Chancellor of the Exche quer for Ireland, and Comptroller-General of the Ex chequer for the United Kingdom." That it appears that the said Comptroller-General filled the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer for Ireland dur ing the period of thirteen months only, viz. from the month of February 1806 to the month of April 1807. That it appears, by reference to the Act 4 and 5 Will. 4, c. 24 (by which the granting of Pensions for political ser ►ices was regulated), that no person is qualified to re ceive any Pension on the ground of public duties per. farmed in the highest offices of the State, unless he shall have continued in the performance of such duties for a period of two years at the least. That it appears that it was also specially provided by the said Act 4 and 5 Will. 4, c. 24, that the holders of the office of Comptroller of the Exchequer should be precluded, on his retirement from that office, from all claim to any of the Pensions which the Crown was thereby empowered to bestow for civil or political services. That it appears that the person holding the office of Comptroller of the Exchequer now constitutes the sole check (in lieu of all others formerly existing under the ancient regulations of the Exchequer) on the expendi ture of all public monies issued through the Exchequer by the authority of the Commissioners of the Treasury; and it is specially provided that he should be incapable of hold ing any other office under the Crown in conjunction with such Comptrollership, and should be irremevcable from his office, except in pursuance of an Address from the two Houses of Parliament ; this officer being thus with drawn from the exercise of any influence of the Crown over him in the discharge of his functions. That it appears that provision was made in the Act 1 and 2 Vic. c. 2, that the sum which her Majesty might be em powered to grant in pensions on the Civil List, in any cne year, should not exceed the sum of 1,2001. ; and that, in conformity with a previous resolution of this House, such pensions should be granted "to such persons only as might have just claims on the Royal beneficence, or who by their personal services to the Crown, by the perform ance of duties to the public, or by their useful dis. coveries in science, and attainments in literature and the arts, had merited the gracious consideration of the Sove reign, and the gratitude of the country." That, considering all these circumstances, and more especially the great importance of keeping the Comptroller- General of the Exchequer independent of the influence of the Crown, as also of ensuring a strict adherence to the spirit of the resolution of this House on the subject of Civil List Pensions, this House deems it expedient to ex press its decided opinion that the grant of 1,000/. a-year to Sir John Newport, under the warrant before-mentioned, ought not to be drawn into a precedent. Lord MORPETH is thereupon to move the follow ing amendment:— To be proposed before the paragraph of Mr. Liddell's Resolutions regarding the Civil List Pension— ' That by an Act of 22 Geo. 3, c. 82, it was declared, " And whereas much confusion and expense did arise from having Pensions paid at various places, and by various persons, and a custom hath prevailed of granting Pensions on a Private List during his Majesty's pleasure, upon a supposition that in some cases it may not be expedient for the public good to divulge the names of the persons in the said List, or that it may be disagreeable to the persons re ceiving such Pensions, to have it known that their dis tresses are so relieved, or for saving the expense of fees and taxes on small Pensions; by means of which said usage secret and dangerous corruption may hereafter be practised; and whereas it is no disparagement for persons to be re lieved by the Royal Bounty in their distress, or for their desert ; but on the contrary, it is honourable, in just cause, to be thought worthy of reward, &c :"—That this limita tion to persons in their distress, or for their desert, not having proved a sufficient check on the grant of unmerited Pensions, this House, in the year 1834, entered into cer tain Resolutions concerning Pensions. To be proposed in placti - of the last paragraph of Mr. Liddell's Reicsiutions—. That it appears to this House that the Right Hon. Sir John Newport, in his official capacity of Chancellor of the Exchequer in Ireland, exerted himself to the utmost to restrain useless expenses, to promote Education, and to improve Trade and Intercourse between Ireland and the other parts of the United Kingdom; that while in the said office he directed, and after leaving office suggested, various inquiries, which led to the adoption by Parliament of measures, highly conducive to the better administration of the lsw, and beneficial to the Revenue ; that after serving for five years in the honourable office of Comp troller of the Exchequer, being then upwards of eighty years of age, and afflicted with bodily infirmity, he with drew from public life, respected for the unblemished in tegrity of his character, to pass in retirement the remain• der of his days. That, considering that Sir John Newport was not in affluent circumstances when he thus withdrew from office, this House is satisfied that the grant of a pension to a re tired Comptroller of the Exchequer, in circumstances so peculiar, cannot be drawn into a precedect in favour of persons who have not " jest claims on the Royal benefi cence," and are not distinguished by " the performance of duties to the public." This is another party fight, and will cause the benches of the House of Commons to be crowded. It is another specimen of the mode in which the Tories are determined to carry on the war against the Ministers. For economy they do not care a rush ; they habitually deride it. Pensions, when they had the power, they bestowed on the most mischievous, crawling, and worthless creatures, They even pensioned Mr. CROKER, and some of Mr. CRoKER's family. They must be completely changed if they object to establishing precedents for giving pensions to anybody, or to everybody, who could perform those base services the Tories require. It is all fudge, then, for them to attack Sir JOHN NEWPORT'S pension on the ground of economy, or patriotism, or principle ; at the same time they will use all these as pretexts to justify the party attack they are to make to-night. It is clearly a portion of that obstructive warfare which Lord STANLEY announced in the No-Confidence debate. Such a proceeding is worthy of Mr. LIDDELL, and worthy of the Tories. Amongst the gentlemen who lately met to f grin an Anti-Corn-law Association there was very gene rally expressed a feeling of apprehension should the present alienation of the working classes from the other classes, and from the institutions of the country, continue. We have repeatedly ourselves drawn at tention to that circumstance, and it is now so pro -1,-rinent that nothing, it is plain, makes the masses pay taxes, submit to the Courts, or prevents them from breaking into open revolts but prudential consi derations. They have lost all respect for the laws; they mock at the Constitution ; they are familiar with the words treason and rebellion as they are familiar with their own powerful machines, and have the same feeling towards them. They know that both the law and the revolving wheel will remorselessly crush them to death if they get in their way ; but as they know how to master the wheel, so they are studying how to master the law, and they are merely kept in obedience by the conviction that they have not yet attained knowledge and power sufficient. All the magic influence which the words treason and rebellion once had over the mind of the masses has passed away ; the bugaboo scheme of govern ing has come to an end, and the first inoment of embarrassment in the Government, when it has to appeal to the masses for help, will be the last of its power. It is under circumstances such as these that the Opposition, from whom the people were wont to expect aid in obtaining redress, when it was denied by the Ministers, engage in the supremely ridiculous and contemptible party warfare which Lord STANLEY announced, and of which Mr. LIDDELL'S motion is one of the operations. We have no hope, no wish, that the Tories should act differently. If they did, we should think they only meant to beguile and betray us; but we mark their proceedings at this particular moment as a proof that while the vital interests of society, while the Constitution itself is in jeopardy, they have no eye, no heart, no soul, but for the meanest and most paltry personal considerations. They care nothing for the nation, their whole object is to get office. Thus, if the masses must have seen reason of late unhappily to give up most of the hopes they had placed in the Whigs, from the Tories it is plain they have nothing to expect but a repetition of insults, contumely, and oppression. Six weeks has the Parliament now been assem bled, and not one measure has yet been proposed by either party which has the smallest relation to the oft !site, strength to N t k b ' e l t c ca n r - i p arise e 'f-Irtoslvna this a b n d tu feelings additional viction, already loudly ann ounced, that the whole schem e o f Government is a c ontrivance to aggran dize the few at the expense of the many ? Lord STANLEY is to give more power to the IriSb land lords ; Sir ROBERT INGLIS iS to get more money for the Anglican priesthood ; and the Ministers are benevolently inclined towards the Hill Coolies ; but 110 party thinks the powerful and wild-run masses of E ng l an d an d S co tl an d worthy of con sideration. T he i r bread is to b e taxe d, they areßu Lu ll -rin g t s o ur g e iv i e s t t h o e l m )e even g be and driv o e t t i t ier apa p r la t ce i s f , b tl u re t y u n u ree % t vis n in t e l a ie Constitution so worproposedreliefredress. b s e v r v t i h n e g p s o u l c i t h i c i a )p leas. c e appears little better than the mule of the Assassins' , ~.,-*:• A ~_ ) - " T .„. o fr th.•,. .- 1-44.1V•F Ak, ,:- 3 4 - --•-, :), . 40— ..f,:w i.. , , , ' 4 ''. -,. wr - A , - - ..v , e.-- ~:..... _• i. THE SUN, LONDON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1840. King—a contrivance for depredation and oppression. It violates their feelings, it is contrary to their na ture, and can only be preserved in safety and peace if they can be permanently subdued, or their nature completely changed, by the united exertions of the police and the parsons. _ Mr. HuME'e motion to obtain returns of the number of registered electors in the different coun ties and boroughs of the empire in the years 1839- 1840, was successful the night before last, in spite of the Tories. They made all kinds of futile ob jections. The returns would be costly, they would give the Clerks of the counties great trouble, they would put sundry small officials, who hold office for its emoluments only, not to perform its duties, to inconvenience, and, therefore, the Tories opposed them. On a division they were defeated. Their real object was to conceal the truth. Lord STAN LEY, on the same evening, mentioned, with no little exultation, the various classes of e l ec t ors whom the Reform Bill had disfranchised, and he was anxious to apply his amputating knife to Ireland. It is not enough, however, for the Tories to curtail the franchise, and to resist every motion to extend it, unless they can also suppress the evidence of the limitation. This they aimed at, and in this they were defeated. In due time the returns will be made, and every year the public will be se r i ous ly reminded of the impossibility—(as was proved by the inevitability of Catholic emancipation)—of main taining a system of government which excludes from its benefits, and marks as a slave-class, four fifths of the people. The marriage of her MAJESTY has furnished a theme for the pulpit as well as for the press. To the great bulk of the endowed clergy the QUEEN i s an object of hatred, because she is liberal in poli tics and tolerant in religion, while they are the very reverse—ultra-Tories in the one, persecutors in the other. They, therefore, gladly embrace any opportunity of railing at " JEZEBEL"—as one of them, in the exuberance of clerical loyalty, lately called her—and of throwing doubts upon the Pro testantism of her Royal Consort. They find their reward in the disgust of all decent and tight-thinking persons, and in the public odium which they draw towards the Church which fosters them. There are, however, we are happy to find, a few honourable exceptions among the ministers of the hierarchy. There are some in the corps of twenty thousand priests of all arms— constituting the staff of the Church-militant in England and Ireland—who have not bowed the knee to BAAL, but are animated with the mild and holy spirit of the Christian religion. Such men consider it no point of duty to revile their Sovereign, because she is young and inno cent. They regard her with affectionate loyalty, admire the fine traits of character which she has already exhibited, and while they earnestly pray that her union with a " scion of a noble stock" may be attended with all the personal happiness which such a union is calculated to produce, they joyfully take advantage of it to inculcate a general spirit of harmony and good will among all classes of men, and sects of Christians. We have been led into these remarks by a Sermon entitled " the Royal Marriage," which has just been published by RIDGWAY. It is from the pen of the Rev. Dr. GREGORY, Chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland—a gentleman already fa vourably known to the public as an author. It breathes a spirit of charity which we cannot too highly commend, nor too publicly hold up as an example to others, whether clergymen or laymen. How must the bigots on each side of St. George's Channel be shocked at the following confession which Dr. GREGORY does not hesitate to commit to the Press I have felt happiness, and derived instruc tion from men of all creeds, and confess that, while I endeavour from my pulpit to expound and up hold the doctrines of my own faith, I am, in pri vate life, ever ready to stretch out the right hand of fellowship to Churchman and Catholic, Pres byterian or Methodist, to Trinitarian and Unita rian, allowing to each the liberty which I claim for myself, and feeling bound to attribute convic tion as the ground of every man's belief." The Sermon is accompanied by " an Address to the Deluded and Disaffected," which may be read with advantage in these turbulent times. It would he a thousand pities to deprive the Rev. Forgery M•GHEE" and his Exeter Hall admirers, of the pleasure which they must derive from the most ex tensive circulation of the following characteristic address to the Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin. To our Christian readers we recommend an attentive perusal of this beautiful embodiment of the pious and peaceful spirit of an Irish Orange Parson. They cannot fail to observe that it is conceived in the Apostolical spirit of the Epistles of the Founders of Christianity. What fraternal love breathes in every line! How exhaustless is the charity of this Reverend disciple of Him who teaches that the smitten on the one cheek shall meekly and silently expose the other to the smiter. The Reverend FORGERY M'GHEE's address to Mr. O'CONNELL, exhibits a specimen of an Irish Orange Parson's commentary upon St. Paul's injunction to the early Christians, " when they revile you revile not again," which cannot fail to edify British Protestants. How the Catholics of Ireland can continue to resist the heavenly appeals of a man who appears before them clothed with such attributes of an humble confessor of the meek and lowly REDEEMER, as are displayed in the following letter, we leave to wiser heads than ours to determine. The Rev. Mr. I\FGLIEE is no stirrer up of religious strife—no reviver of forgotten slanders----no fomenter of sectarian divisions—no brawling reci procator of coarse personalities. With the Bible in his hand, love in his heart, and the words of peace dropping like honey from his lips, he ap proaches the sanctuary of the laws to infuse into all therein assembled, like the departing ELIJAH, a treble proportion of his beautifully peaceful spirit. The ap pearance of the Apostle PAUL before FESTUS, the Roman Governor, was nothing to Forgery M'GrrEE's appearance before the House of Commons, if the SPEAKER will be only polite enough to call him to the bar of that Assembly. He even defies Mr. O'CONNELL in the name of—who does the reader suppose ?—why, the Roman Catholics of Ireland 1" to move that ho be called to the bar of the House. And what does the reader suppose he means to do when he gets there ? Something more than we find recommended as a Christian duty in the Sermon on the Mount ; but nothing more than is undertaken to be done, every Sunday throughout the year, from the Orange pulpits of the sister kingdom. Parson M'Giia will " exhibit the guilt," the " villainy," the " tem poral tyranny and sedition," the " iniquity," the " system o f anti-social guilt, of persecution, and sedition," and the " cruel tyranny" of the Roman Ca tholics, to the execration of the Legislature ; and this for the charitable purpose, not of converting, or seeking to convert, the Roman Catholics from their errors, but in order to vex, and mortify, and insult the Papists, by throwing out the Irish Corporation Bill I This Bill, parson M'GHEE has discovered, is wanted only to " facilitate the crimes of the Papacy"—to give effect to the" mandates of that foreign tyrant, the Pope," of whom the Rev. Gentleman's horror seems to have increased since the discovery of the forgery of the Papal Bull. As the Times has joined the " Holy League" of which Parson M‘GriER is so worthy an ornament, we expect to experience i t o the colhaving antdhiscoanrstisictelenteocpoiet:-.1 um t n h s e of courtesy our scrupulous of temporary. Our venerable neighbour, Old Granny, of Shoe-lane, has been before hand with us in proclaiming the merits of the subjoined meek effusion of godly zeal, a copy of which we dare say might be found pasted between the leaves of her family Bible. Nothing so beautifully consistent in all its parts as the following address, ever appeared from the pen of a writer who mode s tly p re t en ds not to inspiration. With what force the t ru th o f the closing paragraph is establis hed by the Christian-like statements that precede it Who that has remarked his previous challenge to O'CoNNELL, in the name of the Roman Catholics of Ireland can doubt that parson Al' Gillis: is a " friend to truth ?" Who that has noticed his charitable sneer at the " morality of Father MATHEW," who has devoted his life to the inculcation, by precept and example, of habits of universal temperance, can question his being a " friend to the Bible" and its morality ? And who will dare to dispute FORGERY M`GHEE'S being a friend to " liberty of conscience," and to " temporal freedom," that has attended to his vituperation of the most blameless hierarchy in the world, and the shameless object of such vituperation, the depriving the Catholics of Ireland of the benefits of a Corporation Reform Bill ! But our disgust will not allow us to say more. Here is the letter of the Orange Apostle of Ireland "TO DANIEL O'CONN EEL, ESQ. , M. P. " What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel, and her witchcrafts, are so many ?"-2 Kings, ix. 22. _ _ Sir,_l told you that the resolutions, of which I sent you a copy, should meet y ou on the floor of the House of ornmons. It w as h onest in you (and lam glad to have it in sny power to apply the terra to any act of yours) to confess you could not meet them, either before the constituency of the University or the Irish bar. I shall now t r y w h et h er , in your anxiety for jus. tice for Ireland, you will venture to meet them at the bar of the House of Commons. I am about to send over a petition to the members of our University at present, requesting to be allowed to lay the facts bc(ore the House of Commons in any way that honourable assembly may be pleased to direct; and I write this before to give you timely notice. Now, I bid yeu, in the name of the Protestants and Roman Catholics of Ireland, public defiance to move that I be called to the bar of the House of Commons, and granted full liberty of speech to prove the facts specified in my petition before that honour able House; and do you, if you are able, examine ine at their bar, and disprove the documents and facts that I adduce, and deliver your Bishops out of the exhibition of their guilt that I shall make, if I am given liberty of speech in the House of Commons. And now I tell you, before the British Empire, you dare not do it; you know the villany of your hierarchy too well —you know too well the system of criminal temporal tyranny and sedition that they practise over the poor Roman Catholics of Ireland, under the mask of religion ; and you know too well your own profit, as their tool, as their agent, as the automaton of their will— the puppet of their power, to dare to let the mystery of their iniquity and your own be openly and boldly developed in such an authoritative form as it must be by an honest witness for truth at the bar of the House of Commons. You know, as well as you know your existence, that, if Lord John Russell's Administration was to depend on the result, he could no more stand up in that house and intro duce your Municipal Corporation Bill than he could dare propose to make England a republic—if the facts of papal villainy in Ireland—l mean the villainy of your Bishop and priests in the system of antisocial guilt, of persecution, and sedition—which they inculcate—and the cruel tyranny they exercise to enslave the males and females of the Ro man Catholic population were once laid bare by au thority before the nation. You know that Sir Robert Peel could no longer be so imposed on as to speak for one moment of assimilating the institutions of the two countries by British legislation, or think of settling the question by any sort of policy or compromise, when it was proved to demonstration before him in the House of Commons that the Roman Catholics of Ire land are placed under a system of foreign law that not only supersedes the operation of British law over their consciences and their conduct, but suspends the protection of it over their persons, properties, and liberties, if they dare to resist the mandates of that foreign tyrant, the Pope, or not to carry into effect his persecuting, exterminating system against the Protestant inhabitants of Ireland, and his seditious movements against the Protestant Govern ment of England. I say you know this quite well ; you know the Irish Municipal Corporation Bill is only sought by you and your hierarchy, while the people are made your tools in it, to faci litate the crimes of the Papacy; and you know that my evidence would stop that Bill in a moment in the House of Commons. I tell you this to establish my assertion before the British public—that you dare not move that I be called to the bar of the House to prove the statement in my petition ; and I tell you so, to show the men who re present the Protestants of Ireland, that when they are compromising and parleying with you, and making con. cessions of political power to the Papacy, instead of bringing you and that system of perjury, cruelty, sedition, and slavery, in which you are trained, to the bar of public justice, they are compromising the blessings of the British Constitution, the honour of their Sovereign, the safety of the Protestants, the freedom of the Roman Catholics of Ireland, the liberties, the laws, and the religion of their country. Your common cant, as to your dignity and Exeter Hall, cannot avail you now. If I am a liar and a forger, now make a public example of me if you dare. Examine me on Mr. Todd's Bull at the bar, and I'll tell you all about it ; but don't take this letter into the House and pretend to laugh it off, as you did my last letter at the Corn Exchange, and call me Forgery IM'Ghee." Don't pretend that you would be very happy if I was called to the bar, but take sweet counsel privately with Lord John Russell that he should come forward to prevent it. Don't use any Jesuitical tricks to evade the exposure of the villainy of your hie rarchy, but stand honestly forward and confess you are afraid to meet the case. The Hon. Member for Shef field will cover your retreat with an apology for falsehood and a panegyric upon charity, and Lord Morpeth will deliver a lugubrious h o mily on the morality of Father Mathew, the piety of your priests, and the " evangelical grace," as his Lordship was pleased to call it, of Dr. Murray. Justice, indeed, for Ireland ! Peace for Ireland ! What a mockery is it to compromise with Papal traitors, and talk of justice and peace for Ireland ! Prima dicte mihi summa dicenda, CamEena. " What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel, and her NV itcherafts are so many ?" I am, Sir, a friend to truth, to the Bible, to liberty of conscience, to spiritual and temporal freedom for the Roman Catholics as well as for the Protestants of Ireland. R. J. INI‘GHEE. `We have received letters from Constantinople and Alexandria of the ith, and from Athens and Smyrna of the 9th instant. The Forte was gradually proceed ing with the establishment of various institutions for realising to the people the reforms promised by the great Constitutional Act of the SULTAN. One of these respects the Municipal Councils, which are henceforth to consist of thirteen Members, of which six are to be elected by the inhabitants indiscriminately, and seven are to derive their title from certain offices, as those of Mufti, Cadi, Collector of Taxes, and the like. In all towns where there is a Christian Bishop, he is to be, es officio, a member of the Municipal Council, and to sit next the chief of the Ulema, This is an excellent measure, and must gradually produce in the minds of the people an appreciation of the benefits of Representa tive Government. Prince MICHAEL of Servia had his leave of audience of the SULTAN on the Ist inst. His Highness created the Prince a Muchir, which places him on an Equality with the Hospodarir of Wallachia and Moldavia, and pre sented him with the decoration, a cap with a sun in dia monds. When retiring, the SULTAN recommended the people of Servia to his protection, telling him to watch over their welfare as if they were his children. From Alexandria the news is not important. The VICEROY was still busily preparing for war. France, it was said, secretly abetted this fatal determination. The Persian Envoy had arrived at Alexandria with costly presents for MEHENtur AEI, and instructions for con cluding a treaty of friendship with the Ruler of Egypt. We suspect that the friendly reception given by MEHE MET ALI to the Persian Princes, whe claim the right of replacing the reigning SCHAH, when they lately visited Alexandria on their way to Mecea, whither they were making a pilgrimage, has alone occasioned this embassy, of which so many ridiculous surmises have appeared in the French Journals. On that occasion the VICEROY hinted at the facility with which he could give a Sove reign to Persia, and the instant this was whispered at Constantinople, MIRZA DJAAFER, the Persian Ambas sador at the Porte, communicated it to the Court of Teheran. Hence the friendly embassy and the rich presents for the VICEROY. The only brisk trade at Alexandria was the trade in corn, of which there was a great demand as well as an abundant supply. The letters from Greece represent that country as in a condition truly deplorable. Bands of brigands in vested the highways, plundering all travellers not pro tected by an armed escort. Private houses were robbed in open day, and, in the event of opposition, the occu pants were inhumanly murdered. As for the Russo- Greek conspirators, the Government was doing all in its power to screen them, for fear of implicating the agents of Russia in any design against the KING, who trembles like an aspen at the idea of provoking the dis pleasure of the Emperor NICHOLAS. We have received Lisbon Papers of the 19th inst. On the 17th, the Minister of Finance introduced his Budget, which presented a no flattering picture of the state of the national finances. The new plan for liqui dating the claims of the Foreign creditors will be found detailed in our city article. Whether France is to have a Mole-Thiers, or Thiers-Broglie Cabinet, is the leading topic of dis cussion in the Paris Papers of Tuesday. The KING' as usual, was coquetting with the leaders of every party and was reported to have said on Monday evening that the Ministerial interregnum would not continue for three days longer. This relieves us from the necessity of mooting probabilities as to who has the best chance of succeeding SOULT, the sincerity of whose resignation is no longer doubted. The Courrier Francais asserts positively that a treaty of alliance offensive and defensive has been concluded between Great Britain and Russia, the pretext for which is the unsettled state of the Oriental question. If such a treaty has an existence, France cannot better annul it than by placing M. THIERS at the head of the Ministry. Of all the public men in France, THIERS best comprehends the importance of the English alliance, and as it is well known that his sympathies with the popular feeling in this country has kept him so long out of office, his re-apperrance as Minister for Foreign Affairs would be regarded by those in England who alone have the power of giving effect to treaties, as the expression of a wish on the part of the French nation and Government to cultivate the most friendly relations with Great Britain. On Monday evening Earl GRANTILLE, at a private audience, delivered letters to the KING, notifying the marriage of her Majesty Queen VICTORIA. The ex pedition of the Noble Earl must have startled and astonished the Citizen Sovereign. NEWS FROM AFRICA. (Private Correspondence of the Conststutionnel.) The Castor steam-boat, which left Algiers on the 15th of February, has arrived at Toulon. The following is a summary of the news which it has brought:-- At the date of the 15th, a great movement was observed among the troops of the division of Algiers. The African Militia did duty in the place. Some battalions were sent on the 13th, 14th, and 15th to the camp in the envi rons, and it was said that the Marshal was at length preparing to put himself at the head of an important expedition on the 17th. It was intended to go first to re cover from the Arabs encamped at the foot of Mount Atlas a part of the cattle which they have carried off ; it is said that our troops will then go to revenge the insult offered to our flag by the inhabitants of the port of Chert shell ; though the latter have already made an excuse tha the brig Frederick Adolphus was captured by the Be douins of the mountain, and that the inhabitants of the town had no share in this act of piracy. It is, neverthe less, true that they fired on our seamen when they went to the spot to endeavour to retake the captured vessel. We learn, from good authority, that the town of Churchell, justly alarmed at the preparation for the expedition against it, has offered to the Marshal to pay the value of the cap tured vessel, and to deliver up the principal persons con cerned in the affair. This reparation has been deemed insufficient, and with good reason : at a moment when we hear of the appearance of some corsairs, severity must be shown towards those who give the signal. I t has been reported at Algiers that several vess,li armed as corsairs, and manned by Maroquese, had ap- peared, and the merchants were much alarmed. The Euryale brig left Algiers on the 11th, with orders to watch the coast, and returned on the 15th with a Maroquese barque, with four natives on board, who could give no rea son for their being at a distance from the coast. Rear- Admiral Bourgainville has given the necessary orders for the protection of merchantmen. It is said that a strong column of troops was to leave the environs of Algiers on the 17th, and proceed to Bledah, where there are obstinate combats almost daily. An at attempt will then be made to make an incursion among the hostile tribes encamped beyond the Chiffa. The column will afterwards march to Cherchell, of which it will take possession ; that place will be attacked at once by sea and land. Abd-cl-Kader, we hear, is in the desert with his best troops, besieging a town called Beniguel, belonging to Tedjini.— Constitutionnel. BOURSE.—PARIS, TUESDAY, FEB. 25. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price French 5 per Cents ll3 50 113 50 .. 113 30 ... 113 30 4 per Cents lO3 80 it)3 80 ... 103 80 ... 103 80 3 per Cents B2 30 _. 82 30 82 15 82 30 Bank of France 3160 ...3160 ...3160 ...3160 Lattitte Bank I,ooof. Sh lO6O ...1060 ...1060 _ 5,000 f. Sh 5195 —.5200 —.5195 ...5266 Belgian Bank 950 ... 950 ... 045 .., 945 5 per Cents 3 per Cents 72 80 ... 72 80 ... 72 80 ... 72 80 United States Bank Loan 994 ... 994 ... 99 ... 99 Spanish Active! Passive 7 ... 7 ... 7 ... 7 New Deferred Neapolitan Roman lO 3 l /2 ... 10314 ... 103 1 / 2 ... 193 1 4 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain "650 ... 650 ... 650 ... 650 Versailles, R. B 552 50 ... 552 50 ... 545 ... 547 50 L.B. 375 ... 377 50 ... 370 ... 370 Strasburg to Bale 345 ...245 ... 342 70 ... 342 50 Brussels and German Papers of the latest dates have reached us this morning. On Saturday evening, M. de FALCK, the Dutch Minister at the Court of Brussels was seized with a fit of apoplexy, which for a time greatly alarmed his friends. M. de FALCK had had a fall a few evenings before while at a party at the Duke of OREMBERG'S, when he received a violent blow on the head, and having afterwards paid no attention to it, the consequence was a fit of apoplexy. On Monday, however, M. de FALCK had so far recovered as to be able to sign his despatches as usual. No fears were entertained as to his speedy recovery. A letter from Cologne of the 22d says that the Em peror of Russia has given to Mr. Cockerell, who is now at Warsaw, an estate belonging to the Crown, situated in the vicinity, on which there is a considerable manu factory. The buildings, which are already very consi derable, will be enlarged. The funds are already pro vided to meet the expense. Mr. Cockerell has chosen Mr. Robert Lantz, of Cologne, to direct the establish ment, and has given him 600 workmen. The QUEEN arrived at Vienna on a visit to the Im perial Family on the 13th inst. The King and Queen of NAPLES will visit Vienna in the course of the en suing summer. BELGIAN UNDS—BRUSSELe, FEB. `.26. Actual Debt, 254 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lOll4 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. -------- 3 per Cent. 72% Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent Society of Commerce, 4). per Cent lO7 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 94% National Society. Exchange on London (short) - -Brussels Papers, Feb. 26. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, FEB. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 2)4 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Ainort Syndic, 4 % per cent 92 92% Ditto, ditto, 3!,4 per cent 76 76)4 Commercial Company, 4.!..j per cent 17 6 1,', 177% Ditto (1632 and 1833) 5 per cent. Dtto 1837, 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 96% 97% Exchange on London, One month ll 9714 Two months ...... 11 81% —Dutch Papers, Feb. 25. HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, FEB. 22. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents Rank Shares Anklo-Russian Loan lO9 108% Russian 5 per Cent. lst series, Certificate Inscription, lst Series IO3X, Russian 5 per Cent. Hop and Co. 3d and 4th Series Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 254 per Cent 51% 51)4 Ditto 5 per Cent 9ll ' Bonds New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 74 73% Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent..., lO2 101 Spanish, New 3 per Cents. 51% AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, FEB. 17. Five per Cents. Metalliques Foss/ . per Cents Three per Cents. Bank Shares leenteine Zeitung. Feb, 22 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Bileuri, FEB. 23. Blue. Money. St. Schtild. Sch., 4 i v per cent. 10 4 14 1031, Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 103.3 i 103 1 4 lixcliange on London, three months-6 —Prussian State Gazette. Feb. 23. ORDNANCE ESTIMATES.-It appears from the Esti mates laid before the House of Commons, that the amount to be voted this year is 1,885,0001. Last year the amount was 1,732,240, making an increase of 152,7601. MERCHANT SEAMEN.—According to a return made to the House of Commons, the total number of ap prenticed seame❑ registered from the 31st of July, 1835, up to the 14th of February, 1840, was 27,722. Of that number the indentures of 3,374 ba ,, e expired, or their death been ascertained, leaving the total number of apprenticed seamen now existing 24,348. The total number of registered seamen serving in British vessels up to the same date was 202,160. STATE OF TRADE. ( From the Manchester Guardian.) MANCHESTER.—There was no improvement whatever in our market yesterday. The demand both for yarn and goods was exceedingly limited, and prices continued to droop. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, FEB. s4,_ There has been some little improvement in the market to-day, as compared with last Monday's ; rather more pieces have been sold, but there is no change in the prices. The wool market has been rather flat, and prices stationary. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, FEB. 25.—This market has been much the same as for two or three weeks past--dull and inanimate. Buyers were more numerous ; but the demand was very limited, and prices still ruinously low. Generally speaking, we seldom knew the prospects for spring trade so discouraging. IRELAND. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) DUBLIN, FRP. 25. A rigid and minute investigation of the manner in which the business of each divisional office of police in this city is conducted will take place by order of tie Govern ment in a few weeks, when Mr. Hatchell, Q. C., and Mr. Monahan, Q. C., before whom it is to occur, shall re turn from their respective circuits. Such a course was absolutely necessary in consequence of the manner this important branch of the administration of justice was here tofore dealt with, arising from the advanced ages of several of the Magistrates, and the total incapacity of others. Shortly after the introduction of the new police force, and when Lord Normanby was Lord Lieutenant, one office, over which the Chief Magistrate presides, and must from its nature be the direct organ of communication with the Government, was found to be conducted in such a way that his Excellency offered Alderman Darley and Major Sirr their full pay, if they retired, in order that others better qualified might be appointed more capable of dis charging their duties. This generous offer was positively refused by Major Sirr. No doubt whatever exists that the result of the Commis.. sion will be a complete triumph on the part •f the Govern ment, because an opportunity will be afforded his Excel lency of compelling those functionaries to retire whose incapacity is so detrimental to the public service. Although the inquiries will be conducted privately, yet the earliest intelligence will be afforded you of every matter which will be brought fc:ward, as well as the final decision of the Exe cutive. Rumours are afloat to-day that Symon, who is under sentence of execution for the murder of the unfortunate sawyer, Hanlon, ten years ago, will be transported for life, as the Jury who tried him have memorialized the Go vernment to spare his life, on the ground of four others having already been executed for the offence, and that the ends of justice have on that account been amply satisfied. LLOYD'It SHIPPINGL(ritIIi DAY.) DEAL, Fan. 2el.—Wind E. S. E., fresh breezes.—Sailed the Plating, Wycherley, for New Zealand; City of Edin burgh, Sydney, New South Wales; Elizabeth Walker, Crawford, and Lord Auckland, M'Donald, Bombay ; Emily, Wardle, Pernambuco ; Woolsington, Falconer, Dominica ; Paragon, Curtis, New York ; Elizabeth Bailly, Hunt, St. John's, New Brunswick; St. Law rence, Huggup, Gulf of Dulci. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 26.—Wind S. E., fresh breeze.—Ar rived the Eliza Saunders, Airth, from Smyrna. Sailed the Geralamo, for Rio Janeiro; George the Fourth, Brownless, New Zealand ; Eagle, Bell, Monte Video ; Maria, Palmer, Havannah ; Nimrod, Mauncey, Charleston ; Roscoe, Huttlestone, and Chanticleer, Thomas, New York. PORTSMOUTH, FEE. 26.—Wind E.—Arrived the Fanny, Wills, from St. Michael's. Sailed the Lord William Ben tinck, Ord, for Bombay. DARTMOUTH, FEB. 25.—Sailed the Pole (tender), for Vivins, for Terceira. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 26.—Wind E. N. E.—Arrived the Velox, Falconer, from Savanilla. FALMOUTH, FRB. 25.—Wind E., fresh breeze.—Ar rived the Juno, from Kragerol ; Emerald Isle (steamer), Main, Gibraltar ; left, 15th ; Cadiz 16th ; Lisbon, 19th; Oporto, 20th ; and Vigo, 21. BRISTOL, FEB. 26.—Sailed the Charlotte, Keith, f or St. John's, New B r u nsw i c k. WATERPOIiD, FEB. 23 . —Sailed the Eagle, Buchanan, for Barcelona. CORK, FEB. 2 4.—Arrived the Amicus, Orange, from Rio Janeiro; Charles, Harris, Taganrog; Severn, Parker, from St. John's, New Brunswick. YOUGHAL, FEB. 24.—The Medora, from Yarmouth to Swansea, on shore in Ardmore Bay, went to pieces yes terday. DARTMOUTH, FEB. 25.—Two pieces of moulding, marked " Antonia 18, E. Spielman 35," in white letters on a black ground, were picked up on the 20th ult. to the westward of this harbour. A cask of tallow, apparently a long time in the water, was brought in here this morning. TIIE PRINCK kND PRINCESS or CAPUA.- The statement of their Highnesses having taken a mansion in Milton -crescent, near their former residence, now• let on lease to the Duchess of Kent, is not correct. The Prince and his family still occupy a suite of apartments in Alivart's Hotel, and we believe it is not his Royal Highness's intention to take another mansion. EVENING EDITION. BANK OF ENGLAND. The following Notice was posted at the Bank of England this day : " The Governor and Company of the Bank of England do hereby give notice, that they are ready to receive applications for loans, upon the deposit of Bills of Ex change not having mere than six months to run, Ex chequer Bills, and East India Bonds, such Loans to be repaid on or before the 24th April next, with interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, and to be for sums of not less than 2,000/. each. " Bank of England, Feb. 27, 1840." BOW-STREET 7 (THIS DAY.) A number of pickpockets were brought up this morning, charged with stealing from the person, on the occasion of her Majesty's visit to Drury-lane Theatre last evening, and adjudged to various terms of imprisonment. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) HUNGERFORD, Supplies fair, and a good demand; Fish scarce and dear, other prices steady. Beef, 7 1 / 2 d. to 814 d; Mutton, 7 1 . d. to 8 1 ,./ t d. ; Veal, Bd. to 9d. ; Pork, 7d. to 8 1 ,-V. per lb. Turbot, 6s. to 21s; Cod, 3s. to 20s. ; Soles, Is. to ss. per pair; Lob sters, 2s. to 6s. ; Salmon, 3s. per lb. BILLINGSGATE. Supplies short, prices higher, aid trade fair. Turbot, 6s. to 20s. ; Cod, 3s. to 20s. ; Soles, 10d. to 4s. per pair ; Lobsters, 2s. to ss. ; Oysters. 245. to 60s. per bushel; Whitings, Bd. to Is. 2d. ; and Haddocks, 10d. to 2s. TALLOW MARKET. P. Y. C. very quiet, at 51s. HAY MARKETS. Supplies moderate, and demand good—prices stationary. Hay 50 , . to 90s. ; Clover 70s. to 118 s. ; Straw 325. to 428. per load. TEA MARKET. Very little business done, but prices were firm. COLONIAL MARKET. Very little done in Colonial produce, either publicly or pri vately. British Plantation Sugar sold steadily at 575. to 595. for the browns; 61s. for middling. No fine in the market. At public sale 760 bags Mauritius fetched 50s. to 635. There was no other public sale of Colonial produce. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY T IVEL YE O'CLOCK. Arrivals this morning_ French and Ostend mails ; also a mail from Lisbon, by the Emerald Isle, of the 19th February ; from Cadiz, 16th February ; Gibraltar, 15th February; Oporto, 20th February ; and Vigo, 21st Feb. No ship letters have been received. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—The Cot ton Market has been very depressed to-day. The sales amount to 3,000 bags. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yester day's date. Accounts from the Hague of the 24th February state that the Handelsb:ad confirms the offer made by Bel gium of a partial payment, and that Belgium will com mence paying the arrears from the Ist July, 1839. The rest of the arrears will be paid when a general liquidation takes place. A note sent by M. Verstolk de Zoelen to Baron Falk, appears to have made a great impression on King Leopold, which caused the above arrangement. Exchange of Amsterdam, Feb. 24. There was great activity in the transactions of the Integrales, and the ex changes were more firm than yesterday. All the other Funds had also a favourable appearance. Amsterdam, Feb. 24.—Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 521 ; Five per Cents., 98i; Ardoin's, Spanish, 24g. By the Lisbon mail this morning we have the intelli gence that the Portuguese Budget had been read in the House of Deputies by the Finance Minister, and the prin cipal point it contains relating to this country is a new plan to pay the dividends due to the Foreign Portuguese Bond holders, by funding all the arrears of dividends up to the present time in a Six per Cent. Stock at 83; after which period the illinister of Finance intends in future to pay, one-half of the dividends in cash, out of the proceeds ci . some new taxes.—( For further particulars we refer ou',. readers to another part of the paper.) The above proceeding on the part of the Minister of Finance is looked upon i❑ a favourable light by the 1-Jortu guese Bondholders, and has likewise had the effect to im prove Portuguese Stock about 2 per cent. this morning. This being settling-clay in the British Market the chief business doing is arranging their accounts, We hear that a great deal of Stock is being carried over to the next account, the contango or continuation being 7-16; and money is rather more in demand than it was yesterday. Owing to the settlement of the two accounts to-morrow, the foreign one takes place. T* FUNDS. In the Consol Market no spirit for spezulating bin taken place as yet, and they may be qu'Jted at the leaving off prices of yesterday at 901 but;, for Money and Ac co unt, and for April, 91i ; Exe..tiequer Bills 3 5 pram. ; Bank Stock 178 179 ; Indio Stock 248 249. In the Foreign Market the chief operations have been in Portuguese Stock, owing to the favourable proposal of the Portuguese Finance Minister towards paying the foreign, 2 : i4 p ; a m nis e h x A je c a t a iv , c 2apit,;:ne .; Bondholders (we app re h en d t h at h e must raise :the first). Portuguese st oc k i mprove d t hi s morning from 3 c 4 o t i o ura 3sl3 n 6 $ of , closing leaving o p ff ri c p e r , ie 2 e 7 2 3 81 ; Brazilian, 78i ; Spanish Deferred, 13i ; Passive, 71 Dutch Two -and-a-Half per Cents. igi " • ; we. per Cents. 100 i PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock ..................... 3 per Ce n t. R ed 91% VON, 3 per Cents. C0n......., 14 314 per Cent Ditto Red. aylti New 3;4 per Cent yg New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities tottpire Jan, 5, MO,. l4 1-16 14 Oct. 10, 1859. .. 5, 1860 13 11-16 Jun. 5, 1850 Aprils, 1880 Jan. 5.1870 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilis n Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chilian Bond t Ditto Accos nt Co. l .urnt lag Be rids Ditto Accel.nt Columbian 3:7 d 5,1824 Ditto Acco.-olt ....... Danish Bonds Ditto AtttC nt Greek Bonds... Ditto Bonds, 18 25 — Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 p er Cent — Ditto Account ...... Ditto, 6 per Cent. Ditto Account Neapolitan PRICES OF SHARES THI DAY AT ONE, O'CLOCK. India Stock ..-. ............... 348 ii 9 Ditto Bond s South Se , . Stock --- Old Araluities -- New bitto - 3 per Cent. Annuities. 1751 -- F.xch. Bills, .£1,000....... 3 b prr • Ditto 500..... 3 5 plal• • Ditto Small 3 5 Plef• Ditto Commercial di a. Ditto Advertised Bank Stock for Account ... India Stock for Account ~. ---• Consos for Account 9 1 1,6 THIS DAY AT ONE O,CLOCN Peruvian 80nd5....... Ditto Account -- Portuguese Bonds. Ditto New Bonds 35% 'xi jy Ditto Account...3s% 8 5%% /sr Ditto, 3 per Cent......... 24% Ditto Account -- Prussian Bonds — Russian Bonds, 182'2 — Ditto Account — Ditto Metallic — Spanish Bonds 27% 8 Ditto Account Passive Deferred 1.3 French, 5 per cent. —f. --c. ----- 4 per cent. ---- 3 per cent. --- Exchange. —f. _C. Dutch, 2% per cent. 53%% Ditto Account — Ditto, 5 per cent lOO3l Ditto Account — ___ DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. P er Sh are . Ditto New (kart Western Railway Company Paid. P er lIN 3d 30% Brighton Railway ' lO BM% ' London and Birmin g h am R a il way C ompany Ditto New Shares London and South Western ...... .. ........ .... 38/. 17s. 9d. 44 Union Bank of Australia ... IN Ditto of London A PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, FEBUARY 25 3 per cent. Consols - 3% per Cent. Stock Ditto Reduced Ditto New, 1830 - 3;4, par Cent Debentures... National Insurance Company -- %lank Stock lll% City Debentures, 4 per cent. --- „ Grand Canal Stock Royal Canal Steck ONZ. The settling of the Account in the British Market i going off well, and the business done during the course the morning has been on a limited scale. Money is ver tight, at the rate of sto 6 per cent. Continuation froi Account to Account may be quoted at per cent., giver 4 , and from the appearance of the market the great body capitalists are apparently given to a large amount in ex 7 pectation of events that may greatly depress the market At present it has every appearance of being a Bull Accoun The Consol Market has turned heavy since the earl f i part of the m orn i ng . Consols, to 9li for the Apt 11 Account ; Money, 90i; Exchequer Bills 3 5 premium India Bonds, 2 dia., 1 par; Bank Stock, 1784 ; Ind Ia Stock, 2484 249. In the Foreign Market the chief fluctuation has be( .0 in the Portuguese Stock ; they reached 36, at present ms be quoted 35f 4.; Three per Cents., 24i- ; Mexican, 29 1 Spanish Active, 28i ; Passive, 71; Dutch Two-an, 4- a- Half per Cents. 53i f ; Five per Cents., 1008. The Dutch Mail brings a confirmation of the settleme n t of the Belgian debt, due to the King of the Netherlan.d 1. We have no f urt h er arr i vals at present. The overla n A express from India is not expected until the 6th or 7th March. BANK OF ENGLAND. —This morning a cial General M eet i ng of the Governor and Directors S e th Bank of England was held, at which Congratulatory Address , to her Majesty; Prince Albert, and Duchess of Kent, my t' occasion of her Majesty's marriage, were unanimously agreed t t " A MODERN DR. CANTWELL—Mrs. Trt lope's novel, " The Vicar of Wrexhill," is perhaps the Try able satire on sanctified hypocrisy published in our days. T crowds of admirers of a kite metropolitan popular lecturer ail find in " The Vicar of Wrexhill" a chronicle of the say . ingi and rb,ings of a worthy, the very prototype of their oracle. This piquant novel is, we perceive, about to re-appear as th. ! new Volume of " The Standard Novels." THE WEATHER.—Yesterday morning tile ther mometer stood at 28 degrees, but during the day the wind shifted more to the northward of east, and last, evening it sunk to 2.6 degrees. During the day the parks were much - crowded by fashion a bl e company , an d on the i ce there was a l t o a numerous attendance. The wind to-day remains in the salvo quarter, and the temperature is unchanged. Captain and Mrs. Elrington have left Portt' land-place, on a visit to the Right Hon. Lady Susan Hothaot Woolmers, Herts. 7 PERTHSHIRE ELECTION.—The C a / ea on ;777/ Mercury of Saturday morning states Vial Mr. Geo. Stewart, of Grandtully, is to be the Reform candidate. Mr. Stewart i 3 well known to be a staunch advocate of Civil and Religinu, liberty, and was Chairman of M r . F ox M aule ' s Comm i ttee 1837. The Tories are certainly at loss when they have res' Js citated Mr. Home Drummond as a candidate for Parham , n' tv whom they themselves had lo ng s i nce shelved. We w il 1 be, much surprised, however, if suc h a se l ection will go down , r Itil , Perthshire, or with any modern constituency. Mr. H. Drumm j ot goo as a depute Advocate, was one of the principals in the spy pl ., C : tires carried on at GlasgoWr in 1616, 1817, and in that Japae he afterwards acted as one of of the public p rose cutot .s for di e Crown, in endeavo ur i ng to depriv e those victims 1 ,f Castle reagh's infamous espionage system, of their li',e s . A a Member of Parliament, he was the father of 0, 2 1 bung 9 piece of legislatio n th e Ti pp li ng Act, which has ra i se d and w continue a ferment i n th e country till its aboli don. Ann t"'' hol r singular thing connected with Mr. Drummornl's candidate di. —lie goes forward to support non-intrusion, witla the assist:st of the Tory Earl of Kinnoul, the greatest oppr,nent of the ft °D— intrusionists.— Glasgow Chrogiele. .„.......„„, -T