The Sun. — London, England, 1840-03-11 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION . L TEST NEWS FROM AMERICA. - By the arrival yesterday at Liverpool of the Hibernia, 1 1 Captain Cobb. and the George Washington, Captain laur:owe, Lem New York, we have received New York Papera of the 7th, and Canada Papers of the 4th, both in clusive. The Message of the Governor of Pennsylvani?, necnimending the Legislature to extend the period for the seep- nsiou of cash payments, was loudly applauded by the teinkers, and as loudly condemned by the populace. We are, howe. , ;er, persuaded that Governor Porter could not, wader existing circumstances, have adopted a wiser course, 111,; only as regards the bankers themselves , but so far as , ' telneerris the interests of the creditors of the banks, both 1 eenseetie and foreign. Care should be taken in the mean i t ml that the banks be not siffered to abuse the breathing time allowed them, by a renewal of the old system of corn- I mere'al gambling. This would only plunge them and the -_-.ountry tete a still deeper abyss of ruin. ! roe New York Evening Star affirms that the British .".3overnenent has authorized the authorities of New Bruns , v4iek, Nova Scotia, and Upper and Lower Canada, to lace the entire boundary line in a strong state of defence. For this purpose barracks were in the course of erection, fertressea litre in progress of repair, and two steam , frig attic wde about to be built at Chippewa. The wrier expresses his conviction that the Government at. Washington is not inattentive to these movements, and that a corresponding degree of activity is to be expected on the part of the States, from the decisils tune of Secretary Forsyth's correspondence. We are in clined to believe the statement in the Star to be either 0 erifnLi.'led, or greatly exaggerated ; but, at the same time, ; we 44:e net indifferent to the grounds existing for an ap p,i:e's.,,a3ier. of a rupture between Great Britain and the I.;:ated States. We sincerely trust that the p eaceable ; removal cf these grounds occupies the joint efforts of the Cabinets of London and Washington. The papers from Canada contain very little news of any zoment. The British and Irish inhabitants of Quebec are powerfully exerting themselves to promote the views of the Governor-General for the early union of the two pro fviaces. The French Canad ians, on the contrary, were I riving el they could to render that measure abortive. The Ir,cpu\larity of the Governor -General continued to increase bstia it, the Provincial Parliament and among the people. To aa address from the t wo Houses at Toronto, request r• k w him to transmit the Clergy Reserves-land Sale Bill to ttre I.looerament here, his Excellency returned the follow- ' ir . g Omar : . lion. Gentlemen, and Gentlemen, ~ t vri'l transmit the Bill for the Sale of tho Clergy Reserves, I. ga cur tho distribution of the proceeds thereof , together with ,sour joint address, as required by law, without any delay, to her s,ajesty's Principal Secretary of State. f " Accept my warmest acknowledgments for the ready atten 1, tion yen ha•se given to this important subject, to which it was my duty to invite your consideration. " I •:%,.;gl-Jtulate you most sincerely upon having thus termi- T ralrA, so far as depends on your exertions, the agitation of a qxastien which has now for nearly twenty years been the fruit ful sarzrtre of disagreement in the Legislature, and of strife and i =AV:el:tit-Ai among the people of this province. " May the great Author of all Peace prosper your work, and t in tle9 restoration of tranquillity to the country, and the exten t, eio2 of the blessings of religious instruction amongst the people, may ;ran reap the reward of your labour." The state of the Money Market on the day previous to i the ;eiling of the above-named vessels will be found de -1 tailel in the subjoined City Article from a New York p:,.m.r. The George Washington has brought on freight IU,OOO/. in specie : ! _. NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, FE R. 7. The transactions in stocks to day, both at' the first and se d. 'lauds, con were to a considerable extent, and at an advance I upcn yesterday's rates. North American Trust, Delaware I and Hudson, Harlem, and Stonington advanced from I to I 6 pr- cent., Ind United States Bank 3 per cent. ; . There was no heavy transactions in foreign exchange for the i yae:si:t, and not many first-rate hills offering. The sales were 1 principally at f..i for sterling, though in a few instances 9 was ! obtained. In francs, the business done was also moderate, at st. Wic. to if. *2.5e. ; guilders, 39 to 40. Domestic exchanges are dull, at the follow ing rates :—Phila i del;4lia, 6i to 6:4. ; Baltimore, 6 to 6i ; Richmond, 7 to ii ; '.. Charleston. 3-1- to 31 ; Savannah, 6to 8; Augu ta, Si to 9 ; MCoile., 7 to 7i; New Orleans, 4 to 4i ; North Carolina, 7 to 71. - 1 (food paper, anti no other is looked at, is scarce and readily 'kufat at i per cent. per month discount. No tr ansactions have taken place in flour, except for city USQ 13:11(iW are, however, more firm, at $6 37-3,-c. to s6soc. ['or ' china of cotton continue at former quotations, and the sales to-e.a-; . amount. to 500 to 600 biles. Igla n tl-street has been filled with rumours for a couple of days ; relat;en to difficulties which have occurred i n th e Man ' ;aattan Balk and they are now so general that it would be fas t tiliwas in fb, extreme not to allude to them. We believe the • 't - ipAl;!• of the matter is this, that the cashier of the institution arl:ar.ct money on the hypothecation of a large amount of. sli,rcit ix lientucky Bank Stock, it is said ,5500,000, on N:hich t7c.re is now a heavy deficiency. ThP eashier says he znatte tie lean for the bank, but the Directors refuse to recog • LiZ , it a, st:•ii, they having had no knowledge of the trarsac t,,e. !_t any rate, it cannot in any way affect the solvency of itt; surplus funit alone being more than adequate to eke: tilt; deficiency. Lngislature of Illinois having refused to legalize the sus of acetic pa)ments by the State Bank, it is presumed ibe , aampellett to s, intl up her afairs. We pity the ett:Lcais al that Mate. • W? e.re happy to close by stating that arrangements are in trßlr. itt PhilAdelphia to pay the holders of Pennsylvania State ek the ,letioirnay in the dividends arising from their pay rat ir. the actual currency of the Stale. RATE OF PRICES OF STOCKS. 30 sio.ee.,:, United State,, Bank SO ... •dn. Mechanic's Bank 50 Phenix Bank !t? Dulatvare and Hudson 7tc. state Bank .. no. American Trost Co 40 ~, ec. Dry Dock Bank eo. Harlem Railroad C;j... do. Stonington FROM MEXICO. leg a gratleroan just arrived direct from Tampico, we learn gat. ticif s are collected from merchants there in advance, Itcurc4ars was surreialered be the fednal army, but had pry Zwieu All communication between the two places WA! v rt oe. PERU AND BOLIVIA. Gcrornment of Peru having made the following de ; a.AtaS lIIXM that of Bolivia, and the latter refusing to corn ply, preparations for war were making at the date of the last , attseuts:— DEMANDS OF PERI% 3. rr...lt thR Republic of Bolivia pay $6,000,000 on account •f iii w.zr nith Chili. 'That the limits of Bolivia be bounded by a line along the Aklaz , mtivca end thw lake of Titicaca to Garata. (This limit 7ranti dt.pri7,t Bolivia of a large extent of territory.) • hat Bolivia return to Peru the flags lost at the battles of ana;:eo)% and Socabaya, and that they be conducted to the I.,•.;:ierlzttlerr; by Bolivian troops with all the honours of war. 4. Ti!at Om port of Cobija be closed, and the commerce of tteerried on throegb the Peruvian port of Arica. (By 1 this ilenta.rie. Bolivia would lose all the duties accruing on her . That Bolivia send to Peru one soldier for every Peruvian is th, battles of Yanaeocha and Socabaya.— Washing :lu:: Gicbt. LONDON J 0 URN EYMEN'S TRADES HALL TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Six,—With many thanks for the insertion of theproCeedings an public meeting on Monday evening. I beg to call your attel'i:int , ) a little error in the Report : the number of shares said to b.. taken amounted to nearly 400 (not 300). I am happy now e siv:, for the encouragement of the working men of London, thui the Oiares applied for exceed by this time 400, with great ;irc , spec.t :4 a rapid increase. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, W VANEN, jun. Secretary. Mirles Hall Office, 16, Old Bailey, Mat:eh 11. P' S. The Corkeutters should have appeared among the Lis of Ddegategs. i LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY. DEAL, MAactt 10.—Wind E.N.E.—Sailed the Francis :litoke•,. Beale, for China ; and Black Cat, Carster, St. Michael's. LlvEr.roor„ MA'RCH 10. —Wind N. to N.N.W.—Arrived the Ct.ar, Davis,from Lima—sailed 10th November ; Hiber as C New York—sailed 7th ult. ; George Washington, ilurrovies, cJo. ; Howard, Mills, Savannah ; and Fairfield, Leon, Aer; Odieans. P•;:r37.loLin, MARcit 10.—Wind N. t o N.N.W.—Ar- . ... _..... ..._...- ' riv , :.d 0 1'41 Gladiator, Britton, from New York. ' ?Ancor.; nt, MARCH 9.—Wind N. to S.E.—Arrived the Eiors, Ldikiois, from Malaga.—Sailed the Iberia, steamer, t'..,:me:', for Vigo, &c. Off port the P or tl an d, dit to . .PENZANCE, MA Rcu 9.—Sailed the Mounts Bay, Hitchini, for St. Michael's. GLosaza ' MARCH 9.—Sailed th e W es t more l an d , B al l , for , t St. Jolla's, New Brunswick. WEY/ICT'TH, MARCH 10.-Off port the Mediator, Pratt, from New York. ! .E untms roN, MARCH 9.—The Fenwick, Walmsley, from Shields to London, was wrecked near Flamborough Head last s night ; crew and part of stores saved. SHIELDS, MARCH 9.—The Hebe, from London, was driven on the Nerd Sand last night, but got off after discharging part i of ballast. SHZE3NYSS, MARCH 10.—The Ewen, of North Shields, i Irons London, which was on s h ore on t h e Nore Sand, has been g3t off and towed in here. clA:iico, MA ncit 7.—The P ers i an, of S underland, bound .. for T.re;and, reported yesterday as having b een on s h ore in Sin u(air's Bay, and proceeded to Stromness, is now in Ackergill Poadstead, tieing lightened, very leaky, and will proceed from theme to Wiek. We ut.derstand that Mrs. Anderson and Mr. N. t; Igil.l perform a duet upon the pianoforte and violi n at names Hall, on the 18th, the Anniversary Festival o f Covent Garden Fund. In addition we find the names of etr esz muck of lir leading vocalists ; gallantry induces our particu larizing We ladies who have volunteered upon that cccasion. Liadame Vestris, Miss Maria B. Hawes, Miss Lucombe, Miss E. Cawse, Miss Rainforth, and Miss P. Horton. The list of gWitlemen vocalists is unusually strong, so that a concert equal, 11 'nut superior, to any in London may be expected. Mr. E. Solomons, Optician, Patentee of the amber Spectacles, Inventor of the Improved Voice Conductors fbr the relief of deafness, No. 36, Old Bond -street, and No. 1, Old Jewry, City, considers it necessary to call particular atten • taco to his Address, in consequence . of the mistakes arising from a similarity of names, and the means thus afforded to there who may wish to derive advantage thereby • as a proof of which, he submits for public perusal the Post following advertise , - ~,,„,t , whi c h appeared in the Morning vesnber, 18W, from the Messrs. S. on the sth of I\ o- Piccadilly From Dr. F. and B. Solomons, of Albe rnsrle-street, M.D. The newly-invented spectacle. H. Ramsbotham, lenses of the Messrs. Solomons appear to lift the veil of indistinctness thrown over the beauties of nature an d the page of love, by dim or d e f ec ti ve 1 eyesight, is an acquisition of no comm ouus , thou sands who require them ! I have bee n time i and say, from experience, that they interest to the m_ost astonish in. relief to persons thus circumstanced. —F. it M.D., New Broad-street." It will b e see, Ramsbotham, I tizne of nonsense never emanated from Dr, RamsbOtltiabe above rn from a Eernsal of the following advertisement, which a eased f t h e sam e parties in the Post and Courier, Nov. 9, 1839 :_...„ from .„, t mresars. Solomons take the earliest opportunity to state that lie name of Dr. F. H. Ramsbotham has been used in an a dvertisement by mistake, and without authority." As f ro the scrupulous omission of initials or address to the latter re luctant advertisement, it might naturally be *tributed to the above established houses, bearing the name of Mr. E. Solomons, he therefore disclaims all knowledge of it, and is no way con. aected with the parties who inserted it. • . 101 PRINCIPALLY WITHOUT RESERVE. F _ OR SALE by PUBLIC AUCTION, at the Hambro' Coffee-house, Water-lane, Tower-street, on THURSDAY, 12th, and FRIDAY, 13th March, at Twelve for One o'Clock precisely .- 113 butts, 65 hhds., and 17 quarter casks Sherry. 57 pipes, 14 hhds., and 4 quarter casks Port, Madeira , Calca vella, Bucellas, and Claret, in wood. 378 cases and baskets Champagne and Claret. 748 dozens old bottled Port and Sherry. 4 hhds., 6 quarter casks, and 20 cases Brandy. 5 hhds. and 24 cases Hollands, Batavia Arrack, Whisky Punch, Sack, &c. &c.—Duty paid. Particulars and Catalogues of Samuel Lancaster, Wine and Spirit Broker, 59, Mark-lane. ALGIERS, EGYPT, PALESTINE, TYRE, &c. On Monday next will be published, in 2 vols. Bvo., with thirty illustrations, price 28s. cloth lettered , NARRATIVE of a VOYAGE to MA DEIRA, TENERIFFE, and along the SHORES of the MEDITERRANEAN ; including a Visit top Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, Tyre, Rhodes, Telmessus, Cyrus, and Greece. With Observations on the Present State and Pros pects of the East ; and an Appendix on Climate, Natural His tory, Antiquities, &c. By W. R. WILDE, M.R.I.A. London : Longman, Orme, and Co. Dublin : Curry and Co. RUSSIAN JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY. Just ready, in 2 vols. Bvo. THREE YEARS IN SIBERIA : Being a NARRATIVE of ADVENTURES DURING AN EXPEDITION THROUGH THAT COUNTRY to the NORTHERN COAST of ASIA, UNDERTAKEN BY ORDER OF THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT, WITH A VIEW TO THE DISCOVERY OF A SUPPOSED POLAR CON TINENT. Ay ADMIRAL VON WRANGEL, Of the Russian Imperial Navy. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. 13, Great Marlborough-street. MRS. TROLLOPE S « WIDOW MAR RIED,' :A SEQUEL TO " WIDOW BARNABY,"' IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES, :n 2 vols. post ivo., with Twenty-one humourous Illustrations by R. W. Buss. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY PREMIUMS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, ?MINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, are NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase, may receive, PRE VIOUS to giving any order, the PROSPECTUS and PAR TICULARS, upon addressing WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. P. S.—THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains Portions of TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND, FIVE THOUSAND, TWO THOUSAND, ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED, ONE THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED, SIX HUNDRED, FIVE HUN DRED, THREE HUNDRED, TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY, TWO HUNDRED, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY, ONE HUN DRED AND TEN, and ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, &c. &c., amounting to £134,990 Sterling. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS, THIS EVENING, MARGIE 11. Will be performed Sheridan's Comedy •f THE RIVALS. To conclude with the Comic Pantomime, _called HARLEQUIN AND THE NIERRIE DEVIL OF ED MONTON ; OR THE GREAT BED OF WARE. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second Circles. ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. Doors to he opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seve-2 .'Clock. Tickets and pls.( ea for the Boxes to be taken at the Box-of fice from Ten till Feur, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. mmense success of the City Apprentice, which has attracted crowded and delighted audiences. THIS EVENING, MARcH 11. Will be acted, a Historical Drama, depicting England in 1664, Baibadoes in 166.1, 0!d London in 1166, with a representa tion of the Great Fire of London, entitled THE CITY APPRENTICE; or, THE THREE LILIES. Supported by the entire strength of the Company. After which, LORD DARNLEY. Dernlev, Mr. E. F. Saville. To conclude with THE JERSEY GIRL ; OR, THE RED ROBBERS. Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Johnson, W. Smith, Mrs. Vining, Miss Grant, Miss Martin, tic. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Lord Palmerston announced in the House of Commons on Monday evening, that the Portuguese Government had con sented to refer the claims of British subjects on it to a com mission, to sit in London. Whenever that commission is opened, we presume that Angelo's claims will be taken into consideration. HIGH WATER AT LONDON MUDGE TIII-MORItOW. Morning 57 minutes after 8 I Evening 39 minutes after -k‘ te.7"c!l:k 2 ; 7e i 1 , • 44 t)J, A§S) t .;17. fsr dieL 4,,, 44 1 " t 4P - it- 1 4-4.4 • 71. LONDON : WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1840. Petitions against the intrusion of ministers and against the abolition of the Corn-laws were last night presented in the Lords. The Municipal Bill for Ireland was read a first time, and the second reading fixed for the 30th inst. A little further explanation of the numbrr and respectability of the petitioners in Newport on behalf of Feos•r and his companions was given by Lord TEYNIIAM, who difftrs from the Marquis of Non- MANLY on this fact. Lord TEYNIIAM said the petition contained the names of five of the present Town Councillors. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a petition from medical men, praying for medical reform. One object of the petitioners was to promote vaccination, 500 persons having died of the small po x i n one year in the south of England, and they recom mended that persons should be employed to vac cinate the poor. The idea seemed to please the Lords, and Lord ELLENBOROUGH recommended a short Bill to enable the Guardians of the Poor to contract for vaccinating the people. At. a Quarter before Six the Lords adjourned. In the Commons, the Taff Vale Railway Bill nar rowly escaped strangulation. It was read a second time by a majority of three only. Mr. PRY MME postponed his motion for gradually put ting an end to the Corn•laws, for a fortnight. Sir E. SUGDEN gave notice that he would move in Committee on the Printed Papers Bill, to omit the clause which puts an end to pending actions. He will probably, on the same principle, stop the Race Horse Bill, which does the same thing. The same thing was done when the late Lord STOWELL brought in his Bill to stop an informer who had brought a number of qui tans actions against Clergymen for non-residence, and at a much later period when a similar series of actions were brought against newspaper proprietors for a little informality in printing their names. We see no reason for the Legislature being more tender to Mr. STOCICDALE than it was to these informers. Sir JOHN WALSH withdrew his motion for a reso lution to settle the privilege dispute by legislation. The Bill introduced by Lord JOHN RUSSELL has ta ken the matter out of his hands. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in a speech remarkable for fairness and candour, in which he indi cated with great clearness ample reason for inquiring into our banking system, without casting a slur on any one establishment, moved for a Committee to inquire into the effect produced in the circulation of the coun. try by the various banks issuing notes payable on de mend. Mr. GISBORNE wished to have Joint Stock Banks which did not issue notes included in the inquiry. n ot Mr. J OHN E LLIS wou ld o ppose any measure for Placin g t h e Bank of Ireland on t h e same f oo ting as the Bank in of f England. Mr. H um , . required b as is of ethe currency.inquiry should France ex tendedwas perfectly settled ; not five pamphlets had been pub. l o i f sb c e o d r o nh n it t i, the subject sold since 179 . M r . R IC HARDSON, The Hon. Member 2,000 in the course of two years. also expressed an opinion favourable to a metallic G Ro r currency. t hg oui t the B an k o f E ngland had b een unjustly Mr condemned, andlitehaatdavneritneriry would set her thinetoixcan right with the public. to d several topics ought thec t i o utN la c e EL in L q o u ß ire d o compli mented justly compli- HEQUER. Mr. M. ATTWOOD wanted not modelling of the currency. inquiry, b u t a re- Mr. CLAY approved Of the terms and limitation s of the inquiry proposed by the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQUER. Si; R. PEEL wished the Committee to be limited_ t o practical inquiries, and pointed out several, as, for ex ample, what ought the Legislature to do when the Bank Charter expires, to which he wished the Commit. tee to be confined. He could never consent to an inquiry into the basis of the currency, be cause that would indicate that the Parliament had not made up its mind on the subject. But we should like to know what business. Parliament has to make up its mind in ignorance, when 2,000 pamphlets are pub lished in two years on the subject? Is it not possible that the mind of Parliament can be made up when that of the nation is not ?----and if it be, the sooner it be 11 1:made, or set loose, like the mind of the con stituen cy , she better. It will then inquire freely, and may learn the truth. Nobody opposed the motion, which was accordingly agreed to. FIIE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 11, 1840. Mr. LEADER moved his address to her MAJESTY to pardon FROST, WILLIAMS, and JONES. Mr. HUME seconded the motion. Mr. Fox MAULE opposed it. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE and Mr. WAELEY spoke in its favour, Sir S. LUSHINGTON against it. On a division the motion was supported by only five Members, and sixty-eight voted against it. The House adjourned at a Quarter before Eleven. We did not err when we supposed that Mr. THOMASSON'S communication from Bolton, which appeared in The Sun of last Friday, would excite great interest in the country. We have received several communications on the subject, and in answer to one Correspondent we would recommend him, in order to attain his object, to have Mr. THOMASSON'S communication printed on a half sheet of paper, and sent to all the Members of the Legislature, and to all the Journals, with a request to re-publish or notice it. The public dues not now so much want a knowledge of facts on this subject—for they are well known—as to kindle moral indignation against the unfeeling and unrighteous men who doom their fellow-creatures to misery —just like the slave owners of the West India Islands—to enrich them selves ; and Mr. THOMASSON'S letter, though also full of facts, is well calculated to answer that end. We trust that this and similar communications will be circulated through all the Anti-Corn-law Jour nals of the empire, and that the resolute upholders of these barbarous laws will be made to suffer as well as the poor and the industrious. The question of the repeal is exciting, we per ceive with satisfaction, very general interest ; and the demand for a total and immediate repeal is equally general. There is no longer any Jour nals of influence which ask a bit-by-bit re peal. Nobody now advocates the continuance of half this legal felony. Last year, at this time, our demand for total and unconditional repeal was regarded as wholly unattainable. Now, that alone will satisfy the Anti-Corn-law party. The landlords then, perhaps, might have preserved a rag of their usurpation to console them, by still keep. ing on the other classes the mark and sign of their mastership, and our slavery ; but now they have outraged patience too long, and will not be suf fered to retain a single penny of their annual plunder. We are quite aware, indeed, both from the ob servations we see in the provincial papers, and from the number of petitions presented to Par liament, that there is yet amongst the working agri culturists a strong feeling of attachment to the Corn-laws. They are, in general, ignorant of the political bearings of the question ; in general, too, they take their opinions from the landowners, and have been deluded by these deceivers into a belief that the Corn-laws are as beneficial to the agriculturists as they are supposed to be to the landowners. For our parts, we hare so much veneration for the art by which society is fed, that if we supposed agriculture and the agri culturists would be injured by the abolition of the Corn-laws, we should certainly not advocate that cause. We contend for the abolition because it would enrich all classes, except the receivers of rent and tithes, and it would humanize and benefit even them. There is one great fact which the agriculturists, we believe, overlook, namely, that their produce— food—contrary to the produce of the loom or the anvil, is sure to create its own market. Half the community are now under-fed, and would eagerly purchase and consume much more food than they can now obtain, were it within their reach. The farmers would not require, therefore, to wait for the increase of population, which has always followed from abundance of food, to provide a market for any increased supply, which they or the whole civilized world could furnish to England. 'We may doubt whether the power of producing silks and cottons will not be more than sufficient to supply the demand ; but that population will keep pace with the supply of food, and that it conti nually presses upon the supply, is one of the best established facts in the whole range of moral science. The farmers, however, ignorant of this, are frightened lest the repeal of the Corn-laws should so augment the supply of food, that time would be no persons to buy and consume their pro ductions. Vain and silly delusion ! _ _ The farmers arc well ;mare that the farmers of Germany, or of other countries, will not give our people corn for nothing. They will get for every grain they supply as high a price as they can, and 'the price which they can get here, as they have to send their bulky commodity some thousand miles to our market, ought surely to pay the English farmer. Is he who boasts of his skill, who hears at every market town ordinary, at every cattle show, of ,the vast supe riority of English agriculture, afraid to enter into competition with Polish serfs and German bauers His implements are of the first description and the cheapest make ; manure is, .in our country, most abundant ; conveyance is, in every part of Eng land, beyond comparison, cheap and easy ; all the . advantages are on his side, and he suffers himself to be made a fool of a degraded fool—when he believes, because the land lords tell him so, that he cannot compete in the London market with those who grow wheat on the plains of Poland. What would he, and what would the landlords say if our seamen or our sol• diers were to shrink from a fight with the Russians or French because they are not as good sailors or soldiers as their enemies? And why should our fanners ask for a law to protect them against the competition with Russian and French farmers ? It is a disgrace to our boasting agriculturists to dread a contest with foreigners, and they fighting on their own dung-hills. But the farmer wrings his hands in despair, and says, " I am so much burdened, my tithes are so heavy, my rent is so high, the wages of labour are so exorbitant, I must pay such vast sums for poor-rates, county-rates, for seed corn, for stock, for agricultural implements, for harness, and all other things, that I cannot meet the Russian or the Polish farmer on equal terms ill the London mar ket." Does he suppose then, that landlords and parsons in other countries do not extort from in dustry all which it can spare ? Is he such an ignorant dolt as to fancy for one moment that the Continental Governments have not acquired the art of fleecing their subjects to as great an extent as our own Representative Legislature ? Let him not so vilify our most glorious Constitution, for it is by no means the only Government in Europe under which industry is ground to the earth by excessive taxation. The foreign farmer, we can assure the growers of wheat in Lincolnshire, Essex, and other counties, has to bear the burdens of a plundering aristocracy, a rapacious State Church, a standing army, a national debt, and a huge police, just as our agriculturists have to groan under those burdens. The landlords may tell him differently, but they speak falsely ; and whatever may be the burdens of which our agriculturists complain, the agriculturists of other nations are not exempt from similar burdens. If they be, a stronger argument for overturning our much praised Government, and having recourse to the republican system of the United States, or the despotic system of these now despised Continental States, will not be found in all the books and news papers of the Chartists and the Socialists. In fact, however, the burdens of which the farmer complains are all enhanced by his beloved Corn-laws. Tithes, indeed, now fall not on hint, but rent is enhanced 30 per cent., or even doubled, by the Corn-laws. The nominal price of labour is kept high by the same cause, and raises the price to him of all the implements and stock he purchases. The Poor -rates, the County rates, and the bulk of the taxes , go to pay labour of and one k ta i x n e d s o a r r are e another,han enhanced the f" Co Corn-laws. d ; and all these rat es -laws. The high mannerprice of n ‘v provisions, hieh the aristocracy combined w i t ih hlive,, s e e r x v t e r s a extravagant a t e t to all the servants of the State , an w ou or t k o h f ou th s e e pretext and the justification fo r givindg ltioigthhesawlahroieles rs, b C e o e u n n m ty ad a e n b n r ia o s o t d ers o , f ga su ol r e v r er &c. measurers, a c re ler p t i o d f theP Poor-rates. a Act, but nearly one half of the sum necessary to expense te s . f Gat t r h e ene c l o v m e ; ) o la n i s n t t a s bu h l a a v ry e pay an efficient police is caused by the Corn-laws enhancing prices, and the other half is made necessary by those laws depriving the people of em ployment and setting them an example of plundering their neighbours. When the farmer tells us that his heavy burdens prevent him meeting the Rus sian and the Pole in a fair open competition, we will t h o reply r in pul much that h whatever reduced hm by allowing ayb e his thburdens, supplythey the manufacturer, the labourer, the tax and rate t w h i e t c o l l i e ea o p u f m o o o c r l . e "['hat he may meet the Russian and equal eatcr, and the rent extortioner terms than at present, his outgoings should be !.e -duced by the price of food being lowered. He re sists the free importation of corn, however, and must in consequence pay higher rent, higher rates, higher taxes, and higher prices for everything he uses or consumes. The foolish farmer earns the contempt and hatred of his fellow-men by making himself the collector of the most odious of all taxes for other people. Amongst the arguments which the CHANCEL LOR of the EXCHEQUER used last night to jus tify inquiry into the influence of banks of issue over the currency, he adverted to " the rapidity with which commercial events had followed each other of late years." Not only commercial events, but others have followed each other of late years with great rapidity, so as to make the best accredited political and economical theories appear foolish ness. It is not, therefore, to be wondered at that the " House requires (as the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said) to instruct itself and the public on this question," though we are surprised at his honesty, so different from that of the general run of politicians, in making the confession. But if events now follow each other with unexampled rapidity, because men are more numerous, and they communicate much more with each other than for merly, and because their thoughts are the parents of all moral events—and if the House now require in struction, is there not good reason to suppose that its former legislation on this subject has been based in error, and that its next legislation will, ten years afterwards, appear to be founded in igno rance ? The genuine modesty of Mr. BARING is one of the first symptoms we have seen of cgrrect thinking in our legislators. We hope it will be carried out, and that doubt and hesitation will come to supply the place in Parliament of dogmatism and rash resolve. We highly approve of the inquiry proposed ; but as banking is altogether a modern business, the bear ings of which on the public welfare in future can not be known 'to statesmen, while bankers can only judge of it as it affects themselves, and not as it may affect the public, we would venture to sug gest the utmost caution in recommending any new laws. To get rid of monopolies, to do away with re strictions, to abolish laws founded in ignorance, seems on general principles to be safe policy; while maintaining monopolies enacting restrictions, and passing laws in ignorance is the reverse of either safe or useful policy. It has not been customary in England for the Legislature to interfere with the management of traders, and the less it has in terfered, as in the cotton manufacture, the more the trade has flourished. We would have the Com mittee, therefore, remember that banking is alto gether a trade, a branch of business, like making shoes or weaving cloth, which is much better pet formed when left to private interest than when in terfered with by public regulations. In our report of the Assizes at Maidstone is a case worthy of public attention. Sir HERBERT JENNER, the very highest of our Ecclesiastical Judges, prosecuted a man for felony, his crime being stealing three hurdle poles or twigs, value a penny or three half-pence. The offence was committed on the Ist of February, and we presume that HENRY JAMES has since that period been in prison. Such is the mode by which our Judges and the law teach morality and kindness to the peasantry, and such is the way that gaols are filled, that the people are corrupted, and the land gets the character of great criminality. The events of almost every day add to our astonishment at the wonderful forbearance and patience of the hunted and oppressed commonalty of England. The Morning Herald is in fits at the defeat of Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR'S attempt to throw out the Irish Corporation Bill. It represents the ar guments of the Caithness paradox-monger as " al together unanswerable," and pours forth, after its own anile fashion, lamentation upon lamentation at the approaching destruction of Protestantism in the Emerald Isle. " The next demand," exclaims our venerable Contemporary, " will be for the sub version of the Protestant Church." We are quite sure that no such demand as this will ever be made by the Catholics, nor have the enemies of that powerful community the least grotind for the charge thus preferred. That the Catholics will do all that they can to favour the spread of their own system of faith, we not only be lieve, bzt know for a certainty ; and we give them all credit and honour for their zeal in the cause of what they hold to be the truth. But it is to be borne in mind that while they are instant, in season and out of season, in their endeavours co extend their religion, they deny not to others the rights which they claim for themselves ; they adopt no measures to propagate Catholicism, which are not equally in the power of all other sects. They even repudiate the means for strengthening, themselves as a Church, which the Church of Eng land regards as the most effectual for that purpose —connection with the State. Their priest hood will not become the pensionaries of the State. And why ? Because they have before their eyes, in the decay of State-protected religion, a beacon to warn them from the rock which has been so fatal to others. If a religious sect could have been rendered pros- perous by walls of partition, by fences, by penal laws against other sects, by the possession of ex clusive privileges—in short, by every mode of pro tection and encouragement which the State can confer—the Irish portion of the Church of Eng land would have been the most flourishing on the face of the earth. Yet what is its actual state ? In numbers it is, when compared with its op pressed and persecuted rival, altogether contemptible. —so contemptible, indeed, that this very disparity of numbers is the reason why its advocates are compelled, on their own confession, to surrender privileges to which they have clung as long as it was possible under any pretence to maintain them The Irish Catholics ask for no advantage as the professors of a particular faith. All that they demand is an equality of civil privileges with their fellow-citizens. It is now too late to deny them this ; it is dangerous to delay it ; and it is, above all things, absurd to refuse it on the ground that the Protestants would be swallowed up in the greater numbers of the Catholics ; for whether it be a question of civil or religious privilege, the more numerous the excluded are the greater is the dan ger arising from their exclusion, and the more press ing the necessity for a change of system. We return to the question of the Stade Duties, to which we invited the attention of our commercial read ers in an article in The Sun of Monday. We stated in that article the extraordinary fact, that British ships navigating the Elbe were liable to pay eight distinct taxes to the King of HANOVER, and his officers at Stade, for which no benefit whatever,—not so much as a sin gle buoy or beacon—was pretended to be given. Now, as great Britain carries on a more extensive naval trade w i t h H am b urg t h an a ny other nation in the world, Preece not excepted, these taxes operate most inju r i ous l y upon our commerce with Ger many, now menaced w i t h destruction by th e German Commercial League. The taxes we speak of are thus enumerated in t h e ex cellent pamphlet of Mr. HUTT, aLP., f rom w hi c h we promised to make some extracts in ou r art i c l e o f Monday, namely :-1. Tax es on the ship ; 2 - Taxes on t h e ca rgo, every article being charged i n d eta i l ; 3. C omm i ss i o n to the Customs' officers o f 6 Taxes styl e d " ship ' s expenses ," o bj e ct not kn own ; 5. ' Commi ss i on thereupon • 6. Eventualiter interim cer tificate i per cent. on the above pay ments ; 4. ; 7. Certificate of return ; and to crown this long list of piratical exactions, an eigh th tax on passing Stade outward-bound ! These taxes were not paid by the merchants without frequent mur murings. Mr. HUTT assures us that the Foreign-office and the Boa r d o f T ra d e are cramme d w ith the " peti tions, memorials, and remonstrances of British mer chants against the proceedings of the Stade-tax collec tors—proceedings which the sufferers denounced as il legal in themselves and ruinous to commerce." The complainants might as well have spared themselves the trouble of making any noise on the subject. Tho Stade duties were a person al perquisite of the Kings of G rea t B r i ta i n as S ov ereigns of Hanover, and their complaisant Mi n i sters never troubled themselves about p revent i ng them f rom filli n g their private coffers at the expense of t h e i r su bj e cts. But now that the M onarc h' s pr i va t e interests no longer stand in the w ay , step to redress the evil may be ca -1 pet ted to be tak en b y the Government. Mi n i ste rs can be just without pe r itli ng t h e d e arest objects of Ministe rials solicitude —namely, the smiles of their Sovereign and the retention of their places. We are not here speaking of any Cabi ne t i n particular. We arc alluding generally to the scandalous conduct of all Cabinets since that of WAL POLE upo n this di sgrace f u l affair. But heavy as are the taxes levied by the King of HANOVER at Stade, they are still more objectionabl e on a ccount of their uncertainty, and the penalties u n d er w hi c h, even when notoriously , u Just, they are enforce:l. The mode of e( ilection pi reganis British shipping is singularly huntilktivg. " When a ship under the British nag," says Mr. l Hurr, " arrives at Stade, she is compelled to lie to, while the Captain goes ashore and executes a bond, in which he engages to pay absolute obedience to the dic tates of the Hano7erian Custom-house. He then de livers his ship's papers over to the Stade officers, by whom they are sent to Hamburg, where the King of HANOVER has his own Customs' establishment, and ee access to the books of the Custom-house of the city. By these means every facility is acquired for ascertaining whether the ship's cargo corresponds in the minutest particular with the manifest and bills of lading ; and, on unloading the vessel, should the smallest irregularity be discovered, no matter how unimportant, or how ab solutely unavoidable, the ship, and all she contains, fall immediately under the tender mercies of the Hanove rian Custom-house, by which seizure, fine, confisca tion—penalties awarded without any fixed principle, and levied without appeal—are dealt out as caprice or rapacity may suggest." Here is a state of things happily unknown to the Imperial Commissioner at Canton, other wise his Excellency would have hardly contented himself with so flimsy a trap for British ship-catching, as the pro posed opium bond. LIN is not so covetous of mer chants' goods as the King of HANOVER, or else he falls far short of his Majesty in devices for the enriching of the Celestial Exchequer at Pekin. Notwithstanding the noise we are every day making about Chinese rapa city, the Canton River is more open to the trade of Eu rope than the Elbe. But it remains to be proved that the King of HANOVER has ever rivalled the injustice of Litv's seizure of the smuggled opium. This, however, is fully, we think, established by the following four instances, quoted in the body of Mr. HUTT'S pamphlet. Several others of equal magnitude are given in the Appendix : " Some time ago, Mears. Gee, Loft, and C0.,:0f Hull, merchants of great wealth and of the highest integrity, shipped for Hamburg by the Fairy, Captain Gell, a vessel which was loaded by them with a general cargo, " three bales of cottons or merchandise." In the bill of lading the articles were inadvertently entered " bales of cotton twist" —the difference of the Stade duty was about 7s. only. All the ship's other papers described the goods with tech nical correctness, and in no other respect was there any informality. For this error alone in the bills of lading the Fairy was seized by order of the Hanoverian Custom-house, to be released only on Messrs. Gee, Loft, and Co. paying to the King of Hanover the sum of 2151. 17s. 6d. This enormous fine was paid, and all applications for re-con sideration were unavailing—not a farthing was ever restored I " All suspicion of fraudulent intention must, in this case, be out of the question : the undoubted honour and inte grity of the parties on the one hand, and the miserable benefit attainable by an act of smuggling (75.) on the other, alike preclude the possibility of such a construction of the irregularity. It was, in truth, one of those trifling inaccuracies in the ship's papers, which may be detected in the clearance of most of the ships that enter our ports with a gene' al cargo, yet it was punished like an act of outrage and criminality, with a fine of 2151., and expenses in the Law Courts of Hanover. " The second illustration is of very recent occurrence. It is a case in which the Stade authorities seem to have been actuated by the mere gratification of wanton power, such as suggested to a whimsical tyrant of other days the amuse ment of appointing his horse to the Consulate. " In the course of last year, as the Severn steam-ship, Captain Knocker (which plies between Hamburg and Hull), was proceeding on her homeward voyage, she stopped, as usual, off the guard-ship at Stade, to render the certificate of return. A gun was fired at the Severn by the guard-ship, and a, boat sent alongside. It then ap pear, d that the officers of the guard-ship had been pleased to determine that, on her last voyagc,the steam vessel did not stop soon enough. They demanded, in consequence, as a fine for the offence, the sum of eight marks, and prepared to detain the packet, because the captain, knowing there was no foundation for such complaint, hesitated to comply with so arbitrary an exaction. The captain, to avoid the detention of his ship, paid the money, but did so under protest, and made application to Mr. Canning, the British Consul-General at Hamburg, for its restoration. For this act of contumacy towards the authorities of Stade, the Severn was condemned to an additional fine of 50 dollars on her return to Hamburg. As in the former case, re monstrance was fruitless. There was no redress. The fine was paid. • " Take another case from the port of London. On the 19th of September, 1835, Captain Golder, of the ship Crosby, cleared from London for Hamburg. Among other articles shipped on board his vessel were certain bales of deer skins, of which the cscket* was endorsed thus— Shipped Not shipped 6 ditto, 6069 ditto. Shipped - 1495 shipped. " The duty at Stade was paid, according to the cocket, on 1409 skins. The merchant at Hamburgb, to whom the goods were consigned, observing that tine invoice stated the goods to consist of sixteen bales with 6054 deer skins, sent notice of it to the Comptroller of the Stade Custom house at Hamburg, in order to rectify the error made by some clerk in the Custom-house of London. What fol lowed? The ship was immediately seized by older of the Court at Stade, and a fine of 1121. imposed on her, pay ment of which was mado by Captain Golder before the ship was allowed to return home. It is really astonishing that the commerce which is exposed to such hazards and to such penalties, continues to maintain itself. " One instance more. In 1834, Captain Rayner, of the Elbe packet, left the port of London for Hamburg, having on board his vessel, which was a regular trader, a general cargo. Among the packages were five, which i►, the cocket and bills of lading were marked " stationery." The captain and the owners of the vessel were, of course ignorant of their contents. The goods were paid for at Static; as five packages of stationery. The Stade officers at Hanover, having free access to the books of the Ham burg Custom-house, discovered that, although the pack ages consisted chiefly of stationery, there were other articles put up with it, such as scissors and razors. The Eibe packet was immediately detained. In vain Captain Rayner protested that he could have no cognizance of the irregularity, that it was impossible he could know, in ac curate detail, the contents of every particular parcel put on board his trader. The vessel suffered five months de tention, and was then released, on the captain paying a fine of five dollars, and law charges to about sixteen times that amount. And it is by proceedings such as these that the collection of the Stade tax is constantly accompanied !" Here is not one instance of an unjust seizure of pro perty, as in the case of the opium at Canton, but a series, developing what we can only properly denominate a system of piracy, which we are astonished that our merchants have so long tamely endured. Had they combined together to resist such tyranny, they never could have been for so long a period sub jected to it, especially as the piratical chief was, up to the period of the demise of WILLIAM IV., their own Sovereign. Had the facts been properly brought before the Parliament and the country, no regard for the personal convenience of the King could have been allowed to prevent the remedying of such a monstrous abuse. That the reigning King of HANOVER will cling as long as he can to this bad inheritance of his brother is what may be expected from his character and his anti-British sentiments. Prussia of course will support him, as whatever diminishes British commerce with Germany must tend to promote the ob jects of the Commercial League, But firmness on the part of the British Government will soon overcome these obstacles. In the meantime, while the negocia tions are pending, it would be well to station a couple of ships of the line in the. Elbe, just to enforce a little mo deration on the part of the Stade officers. Unless we get rid of the present Stade Duties we may expect, in the course of a few years, to witness the complete ex tinction of our trade with Germany. * A cocket is a document made up at the Custom-house of the port from which a vessel departs. It consists of an enumeration of the articles forming the cargo as they appear entered in the Custom-house books. The German Papers received this morning state that the Grand Duke Alexander of RUSSIA is to set out immediately after Easter to Darmstadt to see his affi anced bride, and that his Imperial Highness is to be received there by M. de BRUNOW, Extraordinary Envoy at the Court of London. We find repeated in these Journals the reported threat of RESCHID PACHA, the Grand Vizier, ad dressed to the Ministers of the Five Powers, to the effect that the Porte would call in the armed aid of Russia, if steps were not immediately taken to settle a question so ruinous to the Empire as the continu ance of hostile relations between the SULTAN and the ViCEROY. The credit of this threat is given by the German correspondent to Lord PONSONBY, with a view to alarm France and accelerate the tardy movements of the other Powers. We are, however, of opinion that his Lordship had nothing at ail to do with the insidious proposal ; that it originated with M. DE BOUTENIEFF, who doubtless sought to familiarize the minds of the Turks to such a contingency. The tranquillity of Turkey is endangered on more sides than that of Egypt. This will be seen from the following article in a German Paper : " Great fermentation prevails in Bosnia and Herzegowma, between the Governor of the latter province and the Montene gros. There will, in all probability, be a renewal of hostili ties, for the inhabitants of the disputed territory of Grabowa instigated, it is supposed, by the Vladika, lately drove away the tax gatherer sent by Ali Pacha. The Vladika of Montenegro has lately had deputies from Podgoritza and other Christian dis tricts, proposing to unite with Montenegro, and asking for arms and ammunition to throw off the Turkish yoke. The Vladika received their proposals favourably, and dismissed the deputies with great promises and large presents. He continues to be very friendly towards Austria. He has caused gallows to be erected in the heights of Pastrovichi, and proclaimed in the ad joining districts that every one shall be hung who breaks the peace with Austria." There is not a word of news, except the little con tained in the subjoined extracts, in the Paris Journals of Monday. The Constitutionnet, the supposed organ of M. THIERS, will not admit that the assertion of the Journal des J)ebats, that the KING was forced against his will to make choice of that Minister, ought to be assumed as a fact by the English pro's. It is curious, however, to find the Constitutionnel joining issue with us upon all the inferences which we drew from it, and thus indirectly admitting it, while pretending to protest against it. It is reported that the SOULT Cabinet had prepared the heads of a Bill for preventing Protestants in France from erecting Churches, without the express permission of the Minister of the Interior, or the Prefects in whose departments it was propose.' to erect them. If this report he true, it is exceedingly distzraceful to the boasted hberality of the French G Th 6parture of 111.. Sain 4 A.uiair€, from i 5 art _ nouneed by the Frussraait Stake Gazttte in teima Wisicis de serve to be remarked. We find in this paper the following statement, dated Vienna, February 23 : " The Count de St. Aulaire. the French Amhassador, will leave Vienna in a few days; M. de Langsdoiff, his son-in-law, will act during the Count's absence as Charge d'Affaires. How ever, as M. de Langsdorff has already, several times, filled this office, it is very evident that those persons would be very greatly mistaken who should consider the departure of M. de Saint Aulaire as an indication of the stagnation of the diplomatic ne gotiations respecting the affairs of the East." A letter from the frontier, published in the Sentinelle des Pyrennees of the 6th instant, has the following paragraph : " The conduct of the French Government is truly inexplicable. It is but a few days ago that, by a measure as brutal as it was iilegal, unhappy refugees, peaceable persons, fatigued with political intrigues, were ordered to quit Bayonne, and either to return to Spain or to the interior of France. Yet on our fron tier, where intrigues are really carrying on, men are suffered to remain unoisturbedly, who are openly labouring to rekindle the civil war in the provinces. We cannot conceive how the agents of the French Government should have two weights and two measures ; how it can treat the one with so much brutality and injustice, and the other with such culpable forbearance. Le Commerce. The Moniteur has no official part. A letter from Toulon informs us that since the arrival of the Phaeton the telegraph is constantly at work. This vessel brought important despatches from Marshal Vallee. The letters of July 25 say that hostilities bad recommenced in the plain. At the same date all was tranquil at Koliah. The Phaeton was ordered by the telegraph to return imme diately to Algiers. It left on the sth with despatches for Marshal Vallee, and a great number of officers belonging to dif ferent corps.—Le Conetitutionnel. BOURSE.—PARIS, MONDAY, MARCH 9. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price t rench 5 per Cents lll 95 ... 112 5 ... 111 90 111 90 4 per Cents lO2 20 02 20 ... 102 20 ... 102 20 3 per Cents B3 83 5 ... 82 80 82 80 Bank of .Vance 3140 ...3 ;40 ...3140 ...3140 Laffitte Bank I,ooof. 1055 ...1060! ...1055 ...1 , (10 Belgian Bank 905 910 ... 905 ... 907 50 5 per Cents 104% ... 104% ... 104% 104% 3 per Cents 74 ... 74 30 ... 74 ... 74 30 United States Bank Loan... £9 ... 99 ... 99 99 Dutch 2% per Cents 5334 53% ... 533 y ... 536 Spanish Active 29% ... 29% 29% ... 29% Passive ... 7% ... 7% ... 7 % Old Deferred 8 .. 8 4 8 8 . Portuguese 3 per Cents 23% ... 23% 23% ... 23% Neapolitan Roman 103% .. 104 ... 103% ... 103% RAILWAY SHARES. it. Germain Versailles, R. B 550 ... 550 ... 550 550 L.B. 372 50 ... 372 50 ... 36/ 50 ... 370 Strasburg to Bale 347 50 ... 347 50 ... C 45 ... 345 Bordeaux to La Teste 375 ... 375 ... 375 375 HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, 51Aacit 6. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1822 1820 An ,10-Russian Loan .. 109 108% Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Series 103% Russian 5 per Cent. Hop,! and Co. 3d and 4th Socks 98(4 93 1 4 Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 234 pe- Cent 52 51% Ditto 5 per Cent 971 - Polish Bonds New i icket Anglo..nanish Loan, 3 per Cent 74 74 Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent.... l(2 Spanish, New 3 per Cents. '‘ 2% 22% EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, MARCH 6.-13. 7%—Two months, 13 534. STOCKHOLM, FEB. 2i.—Seventy-five days, 12. 2. PETERSBURG'', FEB. 25.—Two months, 39 pence. VIENNA, FEE. 27.—Three months, 9. 18. BERLIN, MARCH 3. —Three months, 6.21. CHRISTIANIA, FEB. 26.—Three months, 4 112. BREMEN, MARCH 3 —Two months, 615. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, FEB. 29. Five per Cents. Motalliques Fear per Cents. three per Cents. Bank Shares 1836 —Augemeine Zeitung, March 5. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. By the ship Charles Carroll, bound to . Havre, and put into Falmouth on the Bth instant, American papers have been re ceived to the 1 I tit, which do not contain any news of importance. United States Bank Shares are quoted at 75 3 4 at New York, and 81 at Philadelphia, being a shade in advance on the pre vious prices. Since the above has been written the New York packet ship, George Washington, arrived at Liverpool, but not of so late a date from New York as received by the ship Carroll, left on the 7th ult. She brings the Exchange at 8 3 / 4 9, and United States Bank Shares at 79 1 1 80 ; and twenty thousand; pounds in specie. Extracts from the American Papers will be found in another part of the Paper. • The Hibernia packet-ship, from New York, has also arrived at Liverpool; sailed on the same date as the George Washington. Arrivals this morning—French mail, ship letters from Cal cutta Oct. 10, New York by the Gladiator. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKIT OF TUESDAY.—The sales to day, 1,500 bales, without change in prices. We have received Cape of Good Hope Papers to the 29th December. Prize Negroes.—The distribution of the Prize Negroes, brought by the Modeste into Simon's Bay, BO slaves on board and a valuable cargo, has excited intense interest in the town and neighbourhood. They are set down upon our shores naked, and, no interpreter having yet been found, speechless ; a large portion of them are children under ten years of age. The captured vessel was manned by Spaniards, but under Por tuguese colours • she is a fine sailing vessel. Trade and Commerce.—Under the title " Exports and Im ports," in M. Van de Sandt's " Cape Calendar and Annual Register for the years 1838, 1839, and 1840," we find the fol lowing statement:—" Amount of duties, fees, store-rents, and wharfage dues, collected by the Custom department of the several ports of this colony in the years 1f 3.35 1836 .. 1837 . . 1838 T lose sums have been paid to Government by the importing , rchants ; there is, therefore, nothing speculative, no open ing for error in assuming that the trade and commerce of this colony have been more than doubled in value in the course of the last four years. In a few weeks we shall have the Custom-house returns of imports and exports for the year 1839 completed, and we ven ture to predict, from what we already know, that this year will exhibit a corresponding increase. The chief arrivals this morning are from New York—three regular packet-ships and a trader ; the latest date is by the Carroll, which put into Falmouth, bound to Havre ; she left New York on the 11th ult. Previous to her sailing the United States Bank Shares got up to SO, but on the 10th ult. they receded to 751. The Exchange may be quoted at 8-1 9. The French accounts state that the despatches by the over land Express from India had arrived on the 7th inst. at Mar seilles, and was expected at Paris yesterday. In all probability we shall have the letters and papers to-morrow. THE FUNDS. Both the British and Foreign Markets are inactive as yet. Consols opened thisimorning at the same quotations they left off at, 904 i Money, and for the Account 9lb *; Exchequer Bills '2O 22 prem. ; India Stock, 2.50. In the Foreign Market the prices are as yet nominal, Spanish Active, 21:4 / ; Deferred, 13i 14/ ; Portuguese, 33/ 4/ ; Three per Cents., 234 24 ; Colombian, 25 ; Mexican, 29% %, rather lower; Brazilian, 78/ ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 53 1 / s i ; Five per Cents., 100' i 1. P.i ICE:, oF STut_;Ka 'POLS 0A Y AI ONE J'CLOCIS. •cank Stock —' India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. - Ditto Bonds 3 per Cents. C0n.... ......90N% % i South Sea Stock .lOO 31„ ner Cent — Old Annuities ntfo Red. — New Ditto !stew 35; t pet Cent 99% 4 4 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 , iew 5 per Cent. flank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500. 20 2 . 2 pm. Jan 5, 1861) ....... .... ... Ditto Small 2O 22 ~ i n. Oct. 10, 1859 — Ditto Commercial dia. Jan. 5, 1800 1.3., 13-16 Ditto Advertised ..... 18 pm . Jan. 5, 1810 — Bank Stock for Account ... Aprils, 1680 — India Stock for Account .. '251 Jas. , 5.1870 — Consols for Account 31% prucEs OF FOREIGN FU NDS THIS DAI AT ONE 0 CLOCK kustrlan Bonds _ -H Peruvian ilonyis — Belgian Bonds : 10 3% ? Ditto Account _ Ditto Account 3razilil n Bonds Ditto Account LICIIOS Ares Bonds Ditto Account 3oad DAt3 loco. nt r:olunizian Ec•ids Ditto nt Columbian 3: - ds,IS24 255, vanish Bonds Ditto Act:: nt Ureck Bonds Ditto ACCOLIII" : Ditto, 3 per Cent. ........ Ditto Account Prussian Bonds Russian Bends, 182'2 Ditto Account Ditto Metallic Spanish Bonds 23 'N Ditto Account. Passive 8 731, 3 ,i Defvrred l4 French, 5 per cent. —f. —r. Ditto Bonds, 1825 Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto ACCOUIit Ditto, 6 per Cent.......... Ditto Account Neapolitan P.tiCES UP SHARES THL • I ---- 4 per cent. • , --- 3 per cent. _f. —c. •; Exchange. —f. —c. .1 Dutch, 2!-4 per cent. 5 3 14 ' Ditto Account ( • ( Ditto, .) per rent lo l li . Ditto Account IS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. 24 17Xi 1510 Brighton Railway London and Blackwall ondfm and Greenwich Railway C , London and Greenwich (New) Hai London and Croydon Railway Coo Acsam Company ;ompany 2.0 apany l4/. 18s. 6d. 5 Olbralt. ...... le , P.orn ..... ..... 55 Venice - 47 1:.2% Liatxn 55 0&orto Rio Janeiro ....... 26 BUCIIO6 Ayres New York, 21 days'bleht 161. .. . . . lb PRIC k 131‘; . " Li1t.7.4, per OZ, Portusa. Geld, c0in....,t0 0 0 I oreign Gold bug., 1 ali New Doubloous 0 0 0 .1 10 Silver ..•1 Bars 0 0 0 lIALF-PAST ONE. Quebec Papers to the 29th of January state that a meeting was held at the school-house, at which the Anti-Union Peti tions addressed to her Majesty and the two Houses of Parlia ment were adopted. That to her Majesty will be found to differ only in the style to that to the Parliament. They are in sub stance the same with the resolutions published already. From the New York Papers of February 10: " NEW ORLEANS, JAN. 27.—Yesterday middling fair Cotton declined fully one-fourth of a cent., one lot of that quality going at 7/ cents. The transactions of the day were about 2,200 bags. Three houses have failed, dragging in with them the soa-in-law of Mr. Clay, and others, to the large amount of one million of dollar , . It was stated there, on good authority, that there will be other and heavy failures among the cotton houses, particularly thosewhich have accepted largely on Planter's account in the early part of the season, at a price then deemed low. The money medium of our city is in daily course of contraction, and the distress is felt in all quarters COURSE OF EXCEL Amsterdam C.F. 12 5 :)itto, at sight ....... ........ 12 2 RotterdArri '2 U. 12 5% Antwerp... 1 - I.4.mburg. A1t0na..... Paris, 3 days' sight 25 40 0itte....... ........... 3 Ms 25 70 Marseilles. Bon nloau x Frankfort on Mains:, Mx. SI. 150% "etersbutgh, ruble... 3 Us. 37y4 Berlin Vienna, effective M lO fc frieste ditto 1 0 7 kl• drld 3GN C..diz..... 3iibea 16 Seville In consequence of the report in the French Papers of the despatches having been received from India at Marseilles, and expected yesterday at Paris, the City during the morning has been in constant agitation. Inquiry after inquiry has been made at the Jerusalem Coffee-house, owing to a general report that the despatches were in town, in consequence of which the India House gentlemen sent round to the various Morning Journals to ascertain the fact ; and the answer they had not as yet received. We have this moment a report that two expresses from Paris have passed the turnpikes, which requires confirmation. Consols at present 91 for the Account; they have receded since the morning ; Money, 90%; Exchequer Bills, 22 20 22 ; India Bonds, 1 3 prem. ; Bank Stock shut. Very little business doing. Spanish Active, 28%; Porta i.cuese, 33% 34; Three per Cents., 23% ; Dutch T vv-and-a- Half per Gnts., 53a ; Five per Cents., 101. HANOvER, MAitcH 4.--Ttw el, et,trs of the capital just declined to eWet a Doputy - to tl , o AviernWy of the Estates. EVENING _EDITION l'flE MARKE'FS.-(THI:n DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. Still small arrivals of Grain, but a fair quantity of Flour. Wheat as on Monuay, with little doing. Barley. Beans, sod Pas unvaried. '1 he Buyers of Oats have made very few pur chases, as they prefer waititig for further supplies. In Flour no alteration. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies were good ; but trade was dull, and prices somewhat lower. Beef, 2s. 10d. to 3s. 10d. ; Mutton, 2s. 10d. to 10d. ; Veal, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 10d. ; P"rk, 3., 2d. to 4s. 10:1. per stone of 81b. ; Larks, Is. to Is. Bd. per doz.; Pin Tails, Is. to Is. 6d. ; Surrey Capons, ss. to 6s. 6d. ; Turkeys, ss. to I Is. ; Gold Plover, Is. to Is. 6d. ; Pigeons. Bd. to 10d. ; Snipes, Is. to Is. 6d. ; 'real and Widgeon, 9d. to Is. 6d. ; Wild Ducks, 2s. to 2s. 6d ; Guinea Fowls 3s. to 3s. 6d.; Fowls, 3s. to ss. ; Chickens, 2s. to 3s. ; Hares, 3s. to 3s. 6d. ; Goslings, 8s R. 9s. ; Eggs, ss. to 7s. per 120. BILLI GSGATE MARKET. Supplies plentiful, except Lobsters.-Turbot, 7s. to 21s. ; Cod, 3s. to 12s. ; Soles, 6d. to 3s. 6d. per pair ; Oysters, 245. to 60s. per bushel; Salmon, 2s. 6d. to 3s. per lb. ; Mackerel, 6d. to Is. TALLOW MARKET. P. Y. C. Tallow quiet at Ms. 9d. to 525. COLONIAL MARKET. So much is the attention of the mercantile world occupied with the expected news from Canton that this market is utterly devoid of interest. B. P. Sugar 58s. 6d. for brown, 635. 6d. mid., and 68s. line. No Coffee worth notice. Good fair white Bengal 14s. per cwt. TEA MARKET. The rumours that there was an express in from Paris of the overland mail from India caused this department to be all ex citement. Parties were running in all directions to gain in formation. No business done. The stock of Tea in the port of London on the Ist March, 1840, was 39,003,710 lbs. SILK MARKET. Silk quiet but firm in price. The stock of East India Silk in London the Ist instant, was 2,400 bales of China, and 4,500 bales of Bengal. EXTENSIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE FIRES. On Monday morning a tire broke out in Portman Market, and did great injury. A large body of the D di vision directly proceeded to the spot, and discovered that an immense quantity of hay and straw was on fire, and, notwithstanding their exertions, coupled with those of the firemen who had flocked thither with their engines, a laige amount of property was consumed. The place where the fire originated was at the upper end of a covered shed, about fifty yards long and twenty in breadth, supported by numerous iron pillars. The building is rented of Lord Port - man by Mrs. Ellis, corn-dealer, in an extensivapway of busi ness, at the corner of Salisbury-street, and by whom cart anti waggon loads of bay, straw, clover, &c., purchased from the farmers attending the market, are regularly placed for sale in vehicles belonging to the parties. In the show-room were eight carts and one waggon, all of which were laden. At ten o'clock yesterday morning John Crawley (Mrs. Ellis's foreman) disposed of a load of straw, which was taken away by the purchaser, and at that time every thing appeared perfectly safe. In about ten minutes afterwards, Mrs. Ellis, who was standing by one of the carts; exclaimed, " Look, look, the place is all on fire I" at the same time pointing to some smoke that was issuing from a mass of loose straw within a few yards of her. She had scarcely uttered these words when the straw burst into a flame, and communicated to a load of bay. In less than five minutes the whole of the vehicles, with their content were in a blaze. Several firemen in their ineffectual attempts to save the property, were severely injured by the'molten lead which fell from the roof of the shed. In less than an hour the whole shed, with the exception of the iron work, was at heap of ruins. The strenuous exertions of the firemen, aided by a plentiful supply of water, prevented the flames from spreading to the other buildings There is reason to fear that the fire was the work of an incendiary. The shed is insured is the Union for 1,600/. Mrs. Ellis, whose loss amounts to near 4001. is uninsured. About half-past Aix o'clock on Monday evening a fire was discovered raging in the parish church of Hanwell, which is situated on the outskirts of the village. It ap pears to have been seen by one of the police, who, after raising the alarm, started off on horseback to London for the assistance of the fire establishment force. The en gines of the station in King-street, Golden—quare, were the first to reach the spot, followed by several others, and, fortunately, in time to prevent the total destruction of the sacred edifice. The fire was not subdued until consider able damage was done to the interior, a portion of the organ gallery being burnt. Its origin was through the hot air pipes that warmed the interior being overheated on Sunday. The damage is at least 2001., and the church is not insured. _ _ _ About one o'clock on Sunday morning, a fire broke out in the Decken Mill, near Hertford. An alarm was imme diately given, and Mr. Knight, the superintendent of the Hertford police, with his men, were soon upon' the spot, and rendered all the assistance they could in endeavouring to extinguish the flames. The sre had, however, attained to such a pitch, that it was evident that all attempts to save the mill from destruction would be unavail ing. There were several ricks of hay very near the mill, and it was at one time feared that they would also be destroyed, but, owing to the very great exertions made by the police and the Hertford and Ware firemen, they were ultimately saved from destruction. The mill was principally used as an oil and flour mill, and being principally built of wood, it burnt with the most fearful ra pidity, and in less than two hours it was completely de stroyed, and a mass of the burning materials fell with a tremendous crash into the River Lea, by which the mill is worked. The occupier of the mill is Mr. W. Mason, but the estate of which it forms a part belongs to Lady Townahend, who is at present resident at Brighton. It is said that Mr. Mason is insured, but not to one-half th e extent of his loss, in th e Phcenix Fire Office. The origin of the fire has not been ascertaiped. CELEBRATION OF COBBETT'S BIRTHDAY. —On Monday evening the friends and admirers of the late Wm. Cobbett, to the number of 150, dined together at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, in celebration of the birth day of that departed politician. Mr. Fielden, M.P., was in the chair, and among the company were Dr. Wade, Mr. Alderman Scales, Messrs. Geach, Wells, Rogers, Smith, Lytchen, &C• AFRICAN Roscius.—This celebrated repre sentative of some of the leading tragic characters of Shakspearo —the only actor of colour who has displayed histrionic talent of the highest order—made his first appearance here in the Thistle hall last night, and we were glad to observe that the talented performer had the countenance of a " bumper house." He 15 to appear again this evening in a variety of other characters, and we have no doubt but the excellence of his personifications will draw a crowded house.—Dundee Covrier. ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY OF LONDON.-- The first meeting of the Fellows of the Royal Botanic Society of London, for this session, was held on Tuesday evening at the apartments of the Society, No. 49, Pall-mall. The . 1 / a rquis of Northampton, V. P., in the Chair. After the preliminary business a ballot for the election of Fellows took place, when 189 noblemen, ladies, and gentlemen were added to the list. At the next meeting the designs for laying out the gardens in the Regent's Park, far which there is a great competition, will be exhibited to the Fellows and their friends. The plans a re to be sent in on Saturday. the 4 th of next month, and the ex hibition of them will take place on the Wednesday following. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland will give a grand banquet at Stafford House this evening to a distin guished circle. The Marquis and Marehim , ess of A ileshury have issurd cards for a dinner party on Tuesday next in Gros venor-square. Lord and Lady Msryborongh have dinner par ties this evening, and on Friday next, at their residence, in Saville-row. The Earl and Countess Cadogan entertained the Marchioness of Ailesbury, Lord Redesdale, Lord Louvaine , Lsrd Leveson, Lady Acton, Mr. E. Drummond, Mr. M.Don nell, Captain Bagot, &c., at dinner on Monday evening at their residence in Piccadilly. The Earl and Countess of Jersey and a small party cause after dinner. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge's gran:l dinner, this evening, will be to the Archbishop of Yorit, and Miss Vernon Harcourt, Lord Howe, Lord Burghersh, Lorid Cawdor, and the Duke of Wellington. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY—EXETER' ifALL.—His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has sig nified his intention of honouring the performance of "Israel in Egypt" with his attendance on Friday evening next. A new Juliet is aliout to make her appearance at Covent-garden, in Miss Jsne Mordaunt, sister to Mrs. Nis' bett. The debutante will come out after the close of Miss Tree's present engagement. The Duke of Wellington had a select party to dinner last evening, at Apsley House. Lieut. •General Sir Willoughby Gordon gave his first grand dinner at Chelsea College, on Monday. Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor have just lost their youngest son, who died at Eaton Hall, Cheshire, on Sunday last. SETS of PLATED CORNER DISHES, with or without Warmers. The price of the Set of Four Dishes and Covers, without Warmers, varies from Eight to Ten Guineas. The Warmers are from Five to Nine Guineas the Set. Engravings of the various patterns will be forwarded, post tree, if application is made, post paid. The dishes are complete 10 themselves without warmers, and the handles take off, th e covers thus forming four extra dishes when required. T. COX SAVORY, Silversmith, &c., 47, Cornhill ( Seven doors from Grace church-street), London. BIRTHS. On the 6th inst., at Over Ross, Lady Head, the wife of S ir Edmund Head, Bart., of a son. On the 7th inst., at Manydown-park, Hants, the lady of Sir Richard lt,), croft, Bart., of a son. On the 6th inst., at Tunbridge-wells, :Yrs. Righton GI% sr° , of a son, still-born. On the Bth inst., in Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square, 3 14 ' Dimond, of a daughter. On the 9th inst., the lady of W. E. Cullen, Esq., surge' Southwick -street, of a daughter. On the 9th inst., at Tottenham, Mrs. Stobar! - , of a AiAI?RIED. On the 10th inst., at St. Cieore's Church, Hanover-W are ,' Daniel, youngest son of John Hut, Esq., of Twuifield Hou'" Bristol, to Louisa, only daughter of the late Francis GOVIef t of Brussels. On the 10th inst., at St. Martin's-in-the-Fiels, Mr. Wll - Holden, of Dublin, to Mary, second datk;litcr of the late Mr. Power, of the Strand. DIED. On the 6th init., at Dover, Emily, the wife of G. R. Esq., aged 25. On the 6th inst., at Kensington, Anthony Browne, F- 5 , 1 ;',: for ma. y years a Member of Par am, ni, an i r n early 1141 , • century, and down to the per cd f ihs deceA , island of Antigua, aged 73. On the 6th inst., at Finsbury-terrace, Lydia Wright, wid ovr of the late Joseph Palmer, Esq., aged 90. On the 7th inat., at Borden, Kent, Airs. V, sey, relict cs'ib43 late Captain Vesey, R.N., aged 68. tain On the Bth int., in Smith-square, Westminster, --ft George Kendall, R.M. He had seen much service• an"d in the memorable engagements of Copenhagen, the Nile, an Trafalgar, aged 58. eslogg° of I a . cut for tne London Primed a:at Publish-2d :ti tit; f.tO YU` ".' No. 11.2, Strand, at Ihe Sitit Otl:Ze, No. if '2.trailo' r.:cunq of ikliddleicz.--Weduesc,ay, :March 11, 1640.