The Sun. — London, England, 1840-03-09 00:00:00

EVENIN EDI ri ON. LONDON : MONDAY, MARCH 9, 18411. On looking at the speeches made by Mr. Fox MA ULE, and Mr. STEWART, the Liberal Candi date, which appear in another . part of the Paper, and the enthusiasm with which they were re ceived by the great body of the electors, we had strong hopes that the Liberal interest would prevail. In these hopes we have been disappointed. The influence of Tory power and intimidation was too great to be overcome. Perthshire was Tory ; 1 the electors, notwithstanding all the noise that die I non-intrusionists made, have proved themselves Tory still, and have returned a Member hostile to the Government. We have all along had strong misgivings of the honesty of that portion of i the Clergy who have been loudest in their denunciations against patronage, and who seemed prepared to make every sacrifice to oh- i tain their darling object ; and we confess the Perth shire election has confirmed these miAoivings. If they were sincere in their professed suPport of tha 1 Ministerial candidate, or if their plan of Church Reform had taken such hold of the public mind as they infer, how does it happen that the Tory HOME DRUNIMOND—the patron of the party in th e Church that lean to patronaL,e, and the violent op ponent of the Government, that non-intrusionists look up to for protection—had at . the clos e o f t h e first day's poll a majority of four hundred ? Do this party act on the principl e , t h at the end justifies the means ? It is well known that roost of these men are the most violent Tories, and 40 bigoted in their Toryism, that on the Church rate question they did everything they could to turn out the Lib era l G overnment, an d ma i nta i n in ad its idleness and overgrown wealth a Church which the great b o dy o f t h e people of Scotland regard as little better than Roman Catholic. Did they get a pro mise from th e G overnment on the patronage ques tion, and, having bound them hand and foot, did they at the Perth election turn round against them ? These suspicions are strongly confirmed by a letter which we have received from Glasgow, dated Frid a y, i n w hi ch are these e remarl; ) ahle words :--" The Perth s hi re T ory renegads ,w ho pro fess to support STEWART, to serve their present purposes, will de sert hi m b efore the election ;"and deserted him they have.. Mr. STEWART, finding and after - ha could not trust totheir promises, having been severely beaten on the first day's poll, resicnp-c'd without further contest. 0 - Lewes Election is, we fear, likely to be no gain to the Rt.ifolin cause, for Lard CANTELVP having, previously to his vacating Heistone, made all_ right at Lewes, will in all probability be re turned without much opposition. The pure, honest, and independent electors, having received their price, will in due time render a faithful account of their stewardship, by returning Lord CANTELUPE to the House of Commons. And this in a Re formed Parliament 11 Oh, Shame, where is thy blush ? We have since learned that there will be no con test. General TREVOR, having ascertained by per sonal inquiry that Lord CANTELUPE had wade all right on Saturday, announced his determination to retire, and this day Lord CANT ELUPE will pro bably be elected without opposition. We cannot regret that we misunderstood Admiral CARDEN'S intentions as to his first letter, since the publication of it has brought forth a second almost as valuable as the first. The painful anec dote which the Rear-Admiral tells of some seamen who, having served under NELSON, and on board the Victory, were found serving on board the United States, and had named•two of her guns Nelson and Victory, will immediately arrest the reader's attention. Such a fact is of itself an in structive volume. It tells at once in most impressive words of deep inbred love of country and of their profession in the seamen who are driven, by the most grievous oppression, to commit actions which their hearts and souls abhor. NELSON'S barge men serving against their country, foregoing all their honest, well-earned reputation, all their hopes of reward, and all the comforts of old age, which the country holds ready to confer on them, to serve in an enemy's frigate, and fighting for life and death against their own countrymen, is a most melancholy but a most instructive fact. We will not now say any more on this painful subject than to beg our readers will peruse Admiral CARDEN'S second ex cellent letter. On one point Admiral CARDEN seems to have misunderstood a remark of ours. We used the word " nominally," in speaking of the two ships, to mark that though nominally both were fri gates, the United States was in reality almost a line-of-battle ship. Admiral CARDEN now gives the exact armament of the two vessels, as well as the number of thair crews, and it can be no dis paragement to a brave man that he was conquered by a vessel having 182 picked men more than his crew of 297 men and boys, and th►owing a broadside of 3451b5. weight of metal more than the Macedonian's 5321b5. Admiral CARDEN does right in reminding the public of the relative force of the two vessels, as it not only serves as a complete vindication of him, and a proof that he has suffered unmeritedly, but it gives to the public and the Admiralty a most solemn warning. We hope it will not be given in vain. It appears, by the extracts which we gave on Fri day from the Scotch Papers, that the Non-intru sionists, as they falsely denominate themselves, are not to have it all their own way. These people have artfully and actively endeavoured to make it appear as if there were hardly any persons in Scotland of a different opinion from them. But to estimate their numbers by their noise would be to commit a very great mistake. The majority of the clergy, there can be no doubt, are Vetoists, and hence the clamour for the veto. How easy is it for the minister of a parish to get up a petition against non-intrusion, when he can hold out to a select class of his parishioners the bribe that the patronage hitherto exercised by others shall be transferred to them. He must be a bungler indeed who cannot manage to get signatures to such a pe tition ; but when these signatures come to he counted by the Petition Committee of the House of Commons, they will prove, unless we are greatly misinformed, that a very small proportion of the people of Scotland have enlisted themselves on the non-intrusion side of the question. The truth is, they see through the juggle. In the mean time it is gratifying to perceive that the moderate party are on the move. At Glasgow the members of the Church, without distinction of party, Whigs, Tories, and Radicals, are signing a declaration in direct opposition to the claims of the Vetoists, and disapproving of the rebellious course pursued by a section of the Clergy. Reso lutions to the same effect have been passed at an important meeting of the nobility, gentry, landed proprietors, tenantry, and other s of the county of Haddington, and at a meeting of the land holders, commissioners of supply, and justices of peace of the county of Banff. It also promises well for the cause of moderation and honesty, that the friends to the present constitution of the Church, among the Clergy of the Aberdeen district, with Dr. MEARNS, the Professor of Divinity in the University of Aberdeen, at their head, have adopted a temperate but firm declaration of their views on this subject, which has already received the signa ture of upwards of sixty ministers. Similar pro ceedings will no doubt be resorted to in other parts of Scotland, and a check will thus be given to the career of fanaticism and imposture. Lord ABERDEEN made some very just remarks on this question in the House of Lords on Thurs day night. It is not often that we agree with that Noble Lord, but we entirely concur with him in thinking that much more evil is likely to arise from precipitation than from delay in legislating on this subject, and we hope and trust that Lord MEL BOURNE will pause before he interfere with the constitution of the Church of Scotland, which has hitherto worked better than that of any establish ment of religion yet tried, and which we maintain will, upon calm examination, be found to contain within itself such self-correcting powers as render the application of a legislative remedy in this case unnecessary, and not merely unnecessary, but ex tremely dangerous. In another point we also cordially concur with Lord ABERDEEN, and that is in stigma tizing the injustice—not to say iniquity—of that Veto Act which limits the right of objec tion to heads of families being communicants. Can anything be more arbitrary than such a restriction ? any thing more at variance with the professed objects of the non-intrusion section of the Clergy ? "It is fit and proper," say these just and holy men, " that the people should have the power of preventing the settlement among them of a minister to whom they object, even without being compelled to assign any reason for their ob jection—there must be no intrusion against the absolute will of the people—it is enough that they allege they cannot be edified by Mr. Such-a-one, for the Presbytery to reject him." Now, upon what principle are the wives, the sons, and daughters, of communicating heads of families, and the other parishioners, to be excluded from the right to object ? Have they no souls to save ; or, are none but " heads" to be edified ? In the matter of edification, may it not happen that the wife may find spiritual nourishment in abundance in the food distributed by the man whom her husband nas denounced as an incapable ; or that, on the contrary, the seed sown by the man of the husband's choice may be nothing better than dry husks to the wife, having in it no germ of fructifica tion? For SAUNDERS and JANE T, thoug h they twain be one a rc, be it reme mbered, not one conscience, much less one soul. They doubtless have their spiritual differences as well as other little bickering!. May not als o the sons and the daughters have pre dilections on the score of edification, clashing with those of the " head," and indy not others who are not heads, think it a hard case that they should not be allowed to judg e who is fit to edify them , and wh o un fi t? But your thorough-going Vetoist leaps over all these considerations at a bound. He, so anxious and rights of Christian c" pertin ac i ous a st i c kl er f o r the t allow a mi n i ster to be.s, intruded" the will of ic etha t o h n s‘ e a c • o o u n l g d r g n a o people " has not the tion lea t a o l b : j a e il e i t s i t " the on that on l y a f ew of the people should enjoy the rights belongin g to all, and that the wills and the consciences of the nine -tenths should be ever-ridden by the one-tenth. According t o his new light views, will, and conscience, and edification arc worthy of all respect, of all tender regard in the head of a family, but in no one else do they deserve a moment's consideration ! The dishonesty of Governments was perhaps never more shamelessly e,:hibited than in the nec,o ciations which have ben carried on for the last two years, between the Cabinets of London and Hanover, for the reduction of an arbitrary and un just impost upon vessels navigating the Elbe, under the denomination of the " Stade Duties." The Stade is a town in the Duchy of Bremen, situated on the left bank of the river Elbe, about twenty live miles below Hamburg, which became by a collusive and dithonest purchase, the property of ! GEORGE I. who, in 1716, bought the Duchies of Bremen and Verden from the King of DENMARK, who had violently wrested them from the King of SWEDEN. This purchase is indirectly extolled as an act of consummate Statesmanship, by Mr. WILLIAM HUTT, M.P., the author of a clever pamphlet on the Stade Duties now before us ; but had it not been for the sudden death of CHARLES XII. of Sweden, and the execution of his Minister Baron GORTZ, which put an end to the Congress opened at Abo, and prevented the designs of Sweden and Russia in favour of the Pre tender, not only would GEORGE I. have lost, as he deserved to lose, the two ill-gotten Duchies, but in all human probability his crowns Royal and Electoral. Nor, as it happened, was the acquisition of the least value to Great Britain, but, on the contrary, the fertile source of many annoyances and immense io,ses. SMOLLETT, whose account of this transac -1 tion is generally lucid and impartial, concludes it with the following just observations :—" Thus Bremen and Verden were secured to the House of Hanover, an acquisition towards which the Eng lish nation contributed by her money as well as her arms—an acquisition made in contradiction to the engagements into which England entered when King WILLIAM became guarantee for the treaty of Travendahl—an acquisition which may be con sidered as the first link of a political chain by 1 which the English nation was dragged back into expensive connections with the Continent." But the advocates of the acquisition (Lord TOWN SIIEND and Mr. WALPOLE) contrived to gull the English Parliament, by representing that in the year 1691-2 the King of SWEDEN had esta blished by treaty a right of exacting tolls on all vessels navigating the Elbe (the shipping of the merchants of the city of Hamburg only excep ted), and as the exaction of such tolls was felt as a grievance by British merchants trading with Hamburg, relief was only to be expected from Stade being declared a part of the territory of the King OfGREAT BRITAINas Elector of HANOVER. Such a representation could not fail to make the purchase of the Duchies a popular measure in England ; but no sooner had the continental Powers acknowledged the validity of that purchase than the Elector of HANOVER, without any op position on the part of his British Ministers, not only continued to exact the Stade tolls, as regulated by the treaty of 1691-2, but such tolls have gone on increasing in numbers and multiplying in amount from 1730 to 1836, a period of upwards of a cen tury I These tolls, being considered as a personal perquisite of the Hanoverian Sovereign, no Cabi net, whether Whig or Tory, ever had the virtue to insist upon their reduction, although such a re duction would have been of the utmost advan tage to British commerce, and would have ren dered the establishment of the German Commer cial League almost impossible. In the inva sion of the rights of the people British Cabinets have always shown themselves uncom monly daring and adventurous, but few of them have ever had the virtue to insist upon de priving the Crown of the least defensible of its un just and plundering prerogatives. But now that Hanover is separated—we trust for ever—from the Regal sway of the Sovereign of Great Britain, an abuse of some hundred and twenty years' stand ing has began to appear intolerable in the eyes of the British Cabinet. The Ministers are no lon ger in fear of bringing the Court about their ears, for attempting to open the navigation of the Elbe, which may be said to be blockaded by Hanoverian Custom-house regulations, and therefore there is some hope that effectual steps will be taken before our trade with Hamburg is entirely destroyed, to modify, if not entirely abolish tolls, which are as unjustifiable in principle, and as misapplied in effect, as the tribute exacted in the Algerine waters, by the corsairs of Barbary. The ability with which the details of this ques tion are grouped together, and the moderation with which they are discussed, in Mr. HUTT'S pam phlet, can scarcely be made apparent here from the brevity of the extracts, which, in the present crowded state of our columns, we can only afford to make from it. "At present," he observes, " the King of HANOVER collects, not for the benefit of the State, but for his own private emolu- 1 ment, tolls and duties on all ships and their cargoes, (those under the Hamburg flag alone excepted) passing the town of Stade, proceeding upwards. And these duties on merchants' goods amount,, in some instances, to five per cent..on their value: By requiring certificate° of return, also, he obtains nine rix-dollars two schillings from every vessel passing Stade, proceeding towards the sea. Under the title of ship's expenses, another tax is imposed on all vessels arriving off Stade, of seven rix-dollars forty-six schillings per ship ; and the King of HA NOVER'S officers at Stade exact, as their perqui site, a sum equal to six and a fourth per cent. on the whole amount paid to the King I" The enormity of this system of piratical plunder is established by the fact, that while eight distinct taxes are thus levied upon shipping in the Elbe by the King of HANOVER, the whole charge of lightage and buoyage, and all other expenses in cidental to the safe navigation of the river are defrayed by the citizens of Hamburg. Ob jectionable in amount and mode of exaction as are the Sound Duties, it is to be borne in mind that the King of DENMARK sustains the whole charge of buoys, lighthouses, and beacons, from the Catiegat to the Baltic. But the King of HANOVER not only pockets his plunder, but, the better to increase it by every fraudulent and pettifogging pretext, grants his officers a commission upon whatever amount they can contrive to turn into his coffers. " Like mas ter, like man," is an old adage, always true of the inferior officers of a Government. When the fountain is corrupt, the merest rill proceeding from it will participate in that corruption. Hence the cause that more scandalous impositions have been practised upon merchant vessels navigating the Elbe, than nearly all the other navigable rivers in Europe. Mr. HUTT's pamphlet supplies several cogent, well-authenticated, and by no means re mote examples, to which we promise an early in sertion in The Sun. Much as we are opposed to the despotical views of the King of HANOVER, let not our readers suppose that we discuss this question with the re motest view of making any attack upon him. The parties really to blame are the past cabinets of Great Britain, from the Ministry of WALPOLE to that of Lord MELBOURE. This is a view of the i question, indicative of the moral turpitude of past Governments, wholly overlooked by Mr HUTT, and yet it is this view which is alone calculated to teach the people of England the necessity of a wholesome distrust of the morality of Princes, and the patriotism of hireling Statesmen. The Con gress of Vienna declared the navigation of the great rivers of Europe free, and authorised the ap pointment of a joint commission for regulating on an uniform basis the dues to be collected on them to defray the necessary expenses of buoys, lighthouses, and harbours ; but the SID MOUTHS, the CASTLEREAG HS, the PEELS, the Corn-law ROBINSONS, and the other Tory idols then at the head of affairs in England, entered into a collusion with the profligate representative of an idiot Monarch to cheat the merchants of Great Britain out of the boon granted them by the Con gress. The Stade Duties, instead of being reduced, were greatly and otipressively increased ; nor was it till the King of HANOVER ceased to be Kiwi; of ENGLAND that the enormity of such imposts ex cited a murmur within the walls of the British Council Chamber. Our commercial readers will easily see that this article is merely introductory. In our next we shall endeavour to find room for extracts from Mr. I I UT T'S very clever and interesting, pamphlet. By the arrival of the Braganza steamer at Falmouth on Saturday afternoon from the Tagus, we have re ceived the important news of the dissolution of the Portuguese Cortes on the 25th ult. The advices brought by the Braganza from Lisbon are of the 2d o f March ; and up to that date the sudden dissolution of the Chambers was disapproved of by nobody but the faction interested in the maintenance of the slava traffic. We subjoin the Report of the Ministers, recommending the dissolution, which is an extremely temperate docu ment, and well calculated to make a favourable impres sion on the electoral body. The QUEEN was again known to be in that way " which ladies wish to be who 'the ehe Presidentse servicesun mindful of theof their Chamberfriends i t n tle l ate Cortes. of Deputies, Senhor G. H . DE CA avALHo was promoted to the Bishopric of Leiria ; the Archbishopric of the 11i5hoprics of Algarve , Aveiro, and Be,ja, have re warded the services of other bees ecclesiastics, while the bn civil promotion s h ave proportionately still more numerous, Portugal was gradually becoming more NEW NAVAL NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF 1 " RATTLIN THE REEFER." Just ready, in 3 vols. post Brik. JACK A S H O R E. By the Author of " Rattlin the Reefer,"- " Outward Bound." Henry Colburn, Publisher,l3, Great. Marlborough-street. To be had at all the Libraries. _ A NEW KALENDAR. Just ready, in a pocket volume, with twelve Illustrations by R. Cruickshank, price ss. &1. bound. COLLIURN'S KALENDAR OF AMUSEMENTS IN TOWN AND COUNTRY, for 1840. Comprising London Seasons and Sights, Balls, I%7asquerades, Theatres, Concerts, Public Exhibitions ; Winter, Summer, and Harvest sports; Cricket, Wrestling, Swimming, Skating, Rowing, and Sailing Matches; Races, Hunts, and Steeple- Chases •, Shouting Seasons ; Fishing and Watering-place Seasons ; Fairs and other Sports. ' Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. MR. WILLIS'S NEW WORK. This day is published, in 3 vols. post tivo., 41s. 6d., ILOITERINGS OF TRAVEL. By N. P. WILLIS', Esq., . _ _ Author of " Pencillings by the \%ay," &c. '" Who that has read Mr. Willis's Pencillings,' will not welcome his re-appearance in the world of literature? To say that he is a pleasant writer, is to say nothing to the pur pose; he is a charming author—an anchor whose pages are • never dull, and with whom the reader is loth to part."— Grant's London Journal. London : Longman, Orme, and Co. NEW VOLUME OF THE " STANDARD NOVELS." 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Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 33. 6d.; First and Second Circles, es. ; Second Price, %. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. • Gallery, ls. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to ceremence at Selves o'Clock. Tickets and plat es for the Boxes to be taken at the Box-of fice, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, beekseller, 167,. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Immense success of the City Apprentice, which has attracted crowded and delighted audiences. THIS EVENING, MAnest 9. Will be acted, a Historical Drama, depicting England in 1664, laibadoes in 1665, Old London in Iti66, with a representa tion of the Groat Fire of London, entitled THE CITY APPRENTICE; or, THE THREE LILIES. Supported by the entire strength of the Company. Aftcr which, LORD DARNLEY. Darnley, Mr. E. F. Saville. To conclude with THE JERSEY GIRL; OR, THE RED ROBBERS. Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Johnson, W. 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AND DELIGHTED AU DIENCES " " Th• GREAT WIZARD •f the NORTH, by his individual and wind-astonishing performances, having congregated crowded, astounded, and pleasure-electrified audiences, will perform his wonderful feats of philosophical and necromantic magic, on THIS EVENING, MONDAY, MARCH 9, And every evening during the week, concluding with the ori ginal a»•1 mysterious GUN DELUSION. Boxes, 24. 64., Second Price, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 61., Second Price Is. ; Gallery, Is. Dears open at Half-past Six—commencing at half-past Seven. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The letter from Glasgow by a Liberal" will appear to morrow NISH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 0 minutes Aftor 6 I Evening 3 minutes after 7. , -s:4l;t4AttctirliilWl Ainiak • " :wow. 4, TIIWSUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 9. 1840 tranquil. A few parties of straggling guerillas still in fested the roads in the remote provinces, and particu larly on the Spanish frontier, but the authorities were daily reducing their numbers, REPORT OF THE MINISTERS TO THE QUEEN. " Senhora!—Two months have almost elapsed since the day that your Majesty's Ministers so anxiously awaited, in order to appear before the national representation with the programme of Government approved by your Majesty as the rule of conduct of the present administration. :In fulfil ment of it, the Ministry busied itself in the formation of various projects of law, to remedy the evils complained of throughout the country, and which chiefly arise from the ge neral disorganization, and the want of harmony between the constitution of the state and the administrative regulations which, some derived from times of despotism, and others detec tive and made in times of disturbance, and based more upon untried theories than upon a knowledge of the circumstances of the country, deprive the nation of the immense advantages of the constitutional system. The chief of these projects were forthwith offered to the Cortes ; the general opinion of the nation seemed to receive them with enthusia,m, and your Majesty's Ministers had conceived the flattering hope that the actual Le gislature would co-operate with your Majesty in satisfying the wishes of the nation, which desires order, peace, reconciliation between the Portuguese of all parties, harmony between all the laws, security fur all the citizer.s, and toleration for all opinions : . " Unfortunately, Senhora, this did not take place ; expe rience has shown that it is impossible for your Majesty's Ministers to realize what they conscientiously believe to be the desires and wants of the kingdom. The evils increase, the remedy is called for, and two-thirds of the ordinary Ses sion have already passed away without a single provision being made. In the Chamber of Deputies only the two first paragraphs of the reply to the speech with which your Ma jesty deigned to open the Session, have been discussed, so violent are the debates, so agitated the discussions upon points the most simple and obvious, and which, appearing in conformity with the opinions of the nation, might be expected to unite the suffrages of their representatives. Your Ma jesty's Ministers therefore believe, and, compelled by their obligations, solemnly declare to your Majesty, that the pre sent Chamber of Deputies is not in harmony with the gene ral wishes—does not represent the true national opinion. They would incur a severe responsibility, would be wanting to what they owe to your Majesty and your people, if they were longer to delay the declaration that the case has arrived which is prescribed by the Constitution, Art. 81, sec, 3. ; and that your Majesty ought to consult afresh the opinions of the nation, subjecting to their votes the proceedings of the Ministry and those of the Chamber. the programme of the Government is explicit—the two months' discussion has at least had the salutary result of causing it to be well under stood—the nation will pronounce. If your Majesty's Mi nisters are mistaken as to the wants of the public and the means of providing for them, their error will become known, and your Majesty will be able to carry out the beneficent wishes of your heart by better counsels ; and if, on the contrary,_ the Ministers have, as they believe. truly understood the wants of the people, their efforts, and the anxious desires of your Alajesty and the people, will not be in vain. Your Majesty's Ministers waited till the conviction should become general, and sought rather to be taxed as remiss and tardy than too precipitate. They are persua,led that public opinion has done justice to this proceeding, but they are strongly convinced that, especially after the last occurrences, it is impe riously necessary to defer the parliamentary question to the public votes. This conviction is so powerful in their minds that, in spite of some formal though unfounded and insignificant accu sations brought against some of them in the Chamber of Deputies, they prefer to appear before the electoral urn with this advan tage, and renounce the certainty of seeing those charges de spised by the majority of the Chamber, which has pronounced itself decidedly enough on the few occasions when it has been possible to come to a vote. They prefer rather to subject them selves to the judgment of another Chamber, whose more com pact opinion may give, nevertheless, a majority less favourable to the actual Ministry, than to see longer pratracted:a state of things whica renders all Government impossible, which is insupportable to the nation, and which your Majesty is called on to terminate in virtue of the prerogatives of your Crown. Your Majesty's Ministers have the honour to submit to your Royal approbation the following project of decree : ( Signed) " CONDE DE BOSIFIN. " R. DA F. MAGALHAES. "A. B. DA COSTA CARRAL. CONDE DE VILLA REAL. " " Dated Palace o f N ecess id a d es LFORID()FERRAZ. , Feb. 24,1840." DECREE. " Using the prerogative conferred upon me by the consti tution of the Monarchy, article 81, paragraph 3d, I have thought proper, having heard the Council of Ministers, to dissolve the present Chamber of Deputies ; and I convoke the General Cortes of the nation for the 25th day of May next, the election for Senators and Deputies commencing on the 22d March of the current year, observing as to the re newal of the Chamber of Senators what is ordered by tke single paragraph of the 62d article of the same constitution. And this I communicate to the Chamber of Deputies for its intelli gence. (Signed) " THE QUEEN, (Couuter-signed) " CoNDE DE BoMFIN. Palace of Neeessidades, Feb. 25, 1640." The French Journals of Friday and Saturday have all been received. On Friday the Queen of the FRENCH, the Dukes of ORLEANS and NEMOURS, and the Princess CLEMENTINE, arrived at Paris from Brussels. It was understood that the Duke of ORLEANS would embark at Toulon for Algiers between the 13th and 20th inst., where his Royal Highness will take the command of the first division of the projected expedi tion against AIID-EL-KADER. The marriage of the Duke DE NEMOUIIO with the Princess VICTORIA of Saxe Coburg, is to be cele brated in Paris after Easter. The Pri3cess will remain during the interim at the Court of Brussels. in the Chamber of Peers on Friday the debate on the Vactorieis Bill was resumed. The following article, which had-been opposed by the SOULT Cabinet, was, -after a good - deal of - oppcisittati, adopted : Art. 2. No child under eight years of age shall be admitted into any of the establishments specified in Article I. From the age of eight to twelve children are not to be employed for more than eight hours of t e day in labour, and they are to be al lowed time for repose once within that period ; from the age of twelve to sixteen they are not to be employed in labour more than twelve hours, and are to have two periods for repose. The hours of labour are not to commence before five in the morn ing, nor to end later than eight in the evening. Children an not to be employed, no matter what their age, on the holidays fixed by law. In the event of extraordinary and temporary night labour, arising from . the stoppage of the moving power. repairs, &c., children are not to be employed unless they he at least twelve years of age, and not then for more than eight hours out of the twenty-four. In order to prevent the necessity of night labour, the manufacturer is to be permitted to add one hour to the day labour, but without exceeding the number of hours lost during the preceding month by stoppages, accidents, and other important causes." On Saturday the question of the late corn riots at Foix was brought before the Chamber of Deputies, 13) M. DUGANE, who denounced the sanguinary precipi tancy with which the P REFECT had ordered the troop& to fire upon the people. The discussion was not closed when the mails left Paris f or London. Of political news of interest we find nothing in these Journals, with the exception of the intelligence from the East, which will be found elsewhere in our columns. Espartero's despatch of the fall of Segura states that it sur• rendered on the 27th ult., the garrison remaining prisoners of war, consisting of the Governor, 13 officers, an almoner, a commissary, and 274 soldiers. There were six pieces of artil lery, 80,000 cartridges, 25 quintals of powder, and plenty of provisions and military effects. BOURSE.--PARIS, SATURDAY, MARCH 7. - - 191st Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price irench 5 per Cents lll 70 ... 112 ... 11l 6.0 ... 112 4 per Cents lO2 20 ... , 02 20 ... 102 20 ... 102 2n 3 per Cents B2 75 —. 82 85 ... 82 75 ... 82 95 Bank of trance 3140 ...3140 ...3140 ...3140 Laffitte Bank I,ooof. Sh lO6O ...1060 ...1055 ...I 55 5,0001. Sh 5200 ...5200 ...s'oo ...5200 1 Belgian Bank 9 ,0 ... 90, ... 895 „, 900 5 per Cents lO4B ...1014 ... 1004 ... 10454 ` 3 per Cents 73 71 ... 73 70 ... 73 70 ... 7.1 70 United States Bank Loan .. 98; , 6 .., 9E 2 ... 981, ... 9,) , .. Spanish Active. Passive Old Deferred 8 ... 8 ... 8 ... 8 Portuguese 3 per Cents 24 ... 24 1 4 ... 24 ... 24 Neapolitan Roman 1t13% ... 10354 ... 103% ... 1144, RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Versailles, R. B 547 50 ... 547 50 ... 547 50 ... 547 50 LB. KO ... 37 , i ... 367 50 ... 370 Strasburg to Bale OFFICIAL INFORMATION. - The Sun never lays claim to exclusive information, but it does lay claim t, something like correct intelligence. An Evening Con temporary, boasting its peculiar sources of knowledge, on Saturday last announced that on Thursday next the Queen would hold a Drawing-room, when, in truth and fact, no Drawing-room will be held till the 9th April. We have beard great complaints of such carelessness and imperfect acquaintance with fact before, but we did not expect to sec so flagrant an in stance of blunderir g in an Evening Journal of the pre sent day. Sir Robert and Lady Peel entertained Baron Brunow, Baron Bulow, M. Dedel and Madame Dedel, M. Gmzot, Count Bjornstjerna and Countess Bjornstjerna, Baron Bourquen a y , D u k e d e R eg i na , Sir Henry and Lady Emily Har dinge, Captain Begot, Sir Walter James , Sir Alexander Gr an t, Lord Fit zroy S omerset, L or d J o hn 'Manners, Baron Gersdorff, Viscount G r i mston, H on. M r . Grimston, Mr. Manes, &c., at dinner, o n Saturdaylast, at their residence in Whitehall Gardens. The Speaker of the House of Commons gate his fourth Parliamentary dinner, on Saturday evening, in Eaton square, to the Earl of Surrey (Treasurer of the Household), the Earl of Darlington, Hon. Colonel Anson, Hon. H. T. Liddell, Si r Charles Lemon, Sir Charles Burrell, Sir Harry V erney , Hon. It. U. Clive, the O'Conor Don, Mr. Rumbold, Mr. Paulet St. John Mildmay, Mr. Wilbraham, Mr. Bram ston, Mr. Cripps, Mr. Baring Wall, Mr. Tatton Egerton, Mr. Pusey, Mr. Sanford, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Byng, Mr. J. A. Smith, Sir John Pollen, Mr. John Young, and the Right Hon. Sir G. U. Rose. At ten o'clock the superb new drawing rooms were illuminated, when the Right Hon. Gentleman held his last l evee f or t h e season ; i t was attended by the Duke of Wellington (who w as l oo ki ng we ll), the Marquis of Lans downe, Marquis of Normaribv . , Sir Robert Peel, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord George Bentinel, Lord Hill, Colonel Peel, Lord Palmerston, and upwards of 150 Peers and Members of Par liament. GRAND DINN ER ON WEPNESDAY NEXT. —The di nner t o G eorge B yng, E sq. , on Wednesday next, ex cites a very l arge share of great d es i re i s manifested to get seats in any sit uation ; but the stewards, adh er i ng to their or i g i na l intention not to issue tic kets for a greater number than ran b e co mfortably accommo dated, have refused to allow any issue of tickets beyond the fair limits of the theatre. Finding the demand for places to be view the splendid so general, they have made a new arrangement of the tables, by whic.h 163 additional seats will be gained. They have also determined to is sue to be at the disposal of the stewards,persons will be enabled to ityd tshc g ies a n l em le .e r a y nN t s i , c i k r i e , manyts s rve will be made after twelve o'clock this da:, anti any person furnished with a steward's order may get a ticket as far as the 100 additional numbers will supply. The committee have been most assiduous in the discharge of their duties ; and from the preparations mark and making, we ant cipate a most triumphant demonstiaqpn of Liberal gratitude to the Representative of fifty years' standing. Lord Holland, Lord John Russell, Lord Clarendon, and other Cabinet Ministers, will be present, from whom, and from Mr. Shid, Mr Duncornbe, Lord Howick, Sir E. L. Bulwa-, and others, speeches will be listened to with great interest. The musical department is most complete, and the ladies mill have a treat in the various now compositions to be performed. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY. DEAL, MARCH 7.—Wind N.E.—Sailed the Charles Kerr, Arnold, for South Australia ; St. Vincent, Dawson, Sydney ; Wat”r-lily, Port Philip ; Charles Hammer, South Seas ; enturion ' Manger, for Ri o J ane i ro ; Ri c h mon d Hill , S pragge, Berbice ; Thomas, Bank , ditto; Don Giovanni, Hawn, Ja maica. B.—Wind N.N.E.—Sailed the Ocean Queen, Dixon for Hobart Town ; Swallow, Withycombe, Mauritius ; Emma. Mann, Cape and Ceylon; Star of the West, Demerara; brat . - ton, Smith, Havannah. LIVERPOOL, Maitcx B.—Wind S. to S. S.E., light breezes. —Arrived the Treasurer, Hutchings, from Bermuda, sailed the 10th ult., with part of the cargo of Williamina, from Bar badoes to this port, condemned at Bermuda ; Marion, Martin, Tampico; Panope, Alexandria; Sir John Harvey, Cuthbert son, Malaga; John Denniston, Barker, Calcutta; and Roches ter, Woodhouse, New York, sailed the bill ult. Sailed the Rebecca, Longford, for New South Wales ; Blair, Newby, Barbadoes ; John Horroeks, Berbiee ; Columbus. Cropper, New York ; Cotton Planter, Dane, ditto ; Governor Troup, Butman, ditto ; Ligonia, Hamilton, Baltimore; Shannon, M'Alpin, Halifax; Nemesis steamer, Hall, Odessa; Yare, Macartney, Demerara; Conair, Howland, Savannah ; Dub lin, Schofield, Philadelphia; Gazelle, Lakey, Azores ; Teazer, Airth, St. Michael's ; and Martha, Compton, Africa. PLYMOUTH, MARCH B.—Arrived the Talisman, Roberts, from St. Michael's. Off port the Ellen Gillman, Steer, ditto. FALMOUTH, MARCH 6.—Wind S.S.E. to E. S.E., fre h breezes. 7.—Strong breeze from eastward.—Arrived the Braganza, steamer, Lewis, fe,,m Gibraltar and ( 2adiz—left 28th ult., Lisbon 2d inst., Oporto 3d, and Vigo 4th ; Niekerie, Nan nermeyer, Batavia—sailed 4th November, and St. Helena 31st January; Ellen, Oakley, Taganrog ; Active, Hutchinson, Odessa ; and Ajax, Thortip , on, Smyrna. Sailed the Pigeon, packet, for Madeira, Tcneriffe, and Brazils ; Swift, packet, Halifax ; her Majesty's steamer, Meteor, on a cruize, with supplies for the homeward bound. Off port the Pera, Smyrna. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK The ship Rochester has arrived at Liverpool, from New Yoik, bringing papers to the 6th of February. The papers do not contain any news of importance. All remains tranquil in Canada. Rate of Exchange, 8 to B,i. Pennsylvania State Loan—Yesterday the State Loan of 800,000 dollars was taken by the following Ranks—United States Bank, 100,000 dollars, Girard Bank, 200,000 dollars, ! Bank of Pennsylvania, 200,000 dollars. The late message of the Governor to the Legislature meets with a cordial approval by the entire business portion of the community, without distinction .if party, and hence the desire of the Banks to sustain the credit of the States. We have received Montreal papers to the 31st of January, and Quebec to the 28th of January. The former states that Digby and Archoit have been de clared free ports in the province of Nova Scotia, on the 3d inst. The Hon. B. Uniacke moved in the House of Assembly of that Province for a Committee to take into consideration the state of the fisheries. On the 11th instant, says the Halifax Times, agreeable to notice, previously giv e n, th e sa l es o f 5 0 0 s h ares i n th Stock of the Bank of Nova Scotia, took place at the Bask, when the whole was disposed of at an advance on the price of the Shares of 30 per cent. There was a very extensive conflagration at Wilmington, North Corolina, on the morning of the 7th inst. ; 150 houses were totally consumed. We are happy to inform our readers that the Montreal and City Banks have declared that they will continue to receive the English shilling for fifteen pence, and the English sixpence for sevenpence-halfpenny. The Quebec papers state that the Kingston Chronicle of the 22d instant repeats that his Excellency the Governor General would leave Toro n t o s h or tl y , to b e at NY w York, to embark for England the Ist February in the British Queen. Montreal, Jan. 25.—Our Banks have advanced the rate of Exchange to 3 per cent. on New York, and 12 per cent. on London; the Montreal Bank has accommodated those who could not " down with the dust." We have received Port Louis Gazettes to October 3. " On Tuesday, the Ist of October, his Honour Charles Joseph Latrobe, Esq. landed from the Pyramus, under a salute of nine guns. " Th; town of Melbourne now consists of 35$ houses and 2,000 inhabitants. It has sprung up from a solitary wilder• ?less. Landed property continues to rise ; two allotments in the town, of the usual size, sold by Government, were disposed of this week for 1,2241. ; the original cost was 231. ; the ground was divided into twelve building sections, which brought from 601. to 1901. A public meeting was held at Mr. Murray's Station, Lake Colac, on the 23d ult., for the purpose of taking into considera tion the necessity of petitioning his Excellency Sir George Gipps to adopt some measures for the prevention of the aggres sions of the Aborigines." Cape of Good Hood Hop Papers to the 22d of December have been received. " It appears by the accounts reeeived from the frontier, that heavy rains have been experienced throughout the colony. On the 9th a shower of hail fell near Graham's Town." In the above papers there is a very long account of the exa mination of Panda at Port Natal, before the Assembly of the Emigrants. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date. EXCHANGE OF AMSTERDAM, MARCH 6.—The Dutch funds have in general maintained the prices of yesterday, and there was a demand for Integrals. The Spanish funds also improved, and active operations took place in them, owing to the news from Madrid being more favourable. A great deal of business was done in Ardoin's Spanish at 23 15-16. We have several arrivals this morning, the most important is that by the Lisbon mail of the dissolution of the Cortes, which v..e gave several days past in our City article from a pri vate letter. The contents of the New York Papers, which are not of much importance, will be read in another part of the Paper. We have also accounts from Alexandria by the Malta mail, which has not brought any overland express from India, which was generally reported in the City on Saturday to have ar rived—great anxiety prevails for its being received, as it is ex pected it will convey important intelligence from China. The intelligence from New York, received this morning, is looked upon, in respect to the financial state of Pennsylvania, as favourable. THE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning at the leaving off prices of Sa turday, 903 Money, and 9 for the Account, with very little doing as yet ; Exchequer Bills, as they closed on Satur day, 16 19 rem. ; India Bonds nothing done ; Bank Stock shut; India Stock, 250. In the Foreign 'Market, the only operation at present is in Spanish Active, which hal improved a little, left off at 28i at present 28i 29 ; Portuguese closed at 34i„ not quite so good, owing to the intelligence by the Lisbon Mail this morning, and may be quoted at 33i 34 ; Columbian, 25i 26 Mexican, '29 ; Spanish Passive, 7)1 a ; Deferred, 131 143 Dutch Two.and-a-Half per Cents„ 534 i; Five per Cents. 1001 101*. I'iat:l,s OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCE. lank Stock — ' India Stock 3 per Cent, Red. ; per Cents. C0n.... . — South Sea Stock llO% Der Cent — i Old Annuities — 'Rt . ° Red. — ; New Ditto 4cw 3% percent 'J9 Sc 9 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 'qew 5 per Cent. dank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 . 17 21 pm. Jan 5, 1860 ........ .... ..... Ditto Sm a ll —2o pin. Oct. 10, 1859 — Ditto Commercial....,, dis. Jan. 5, 1860 11 13-16, Ditto Ad vertised ..... 16 19 pm Jan. 5, 1860 — Bank St oc k for Account ... Aprils, 1884 — India Stock for Account . • Jan. : 5.1870 — Consols for Account ......... 91 ti PRICES OF FOREIGN 1.1.) N DS THIS DA). AT ONE 0 CLOG h Austrian Bonds — , Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account 3razilisn Bonds Ditto Account 3uenos Ayres Bonds ... ...... ' Ditto, 3 per Cent......... Ditto Account Chilian 3ond I — Prussian Bonds ....... ....... Ditty taco'. nt —; Russian Bends, 1 . 822.... ...... Columt ian Bids — Ditto Account.... ........ ... Ditto Acco int — Ditto Metallic — Columbian 1: 7 d 5,1824 - ( Spanish Bonds , SA, Ai 9 S% Ditto 4= - 4 it —, Ditto Account. 24 ii 343 Danish Bonds Ditto Ace:: nt —l Deferred l4 Greek 80nd5........ ....... . ..... ! French, 5 per cent....,..111f. 50:. Ditto Bonds, ins. _ . _____ 4 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto Account — 3 per cent. —f. --r. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — , ----- Exchange. 2sf. 40c. Ditto Account — , Dutch, 2i4 per cent. ..,,.,,.. 53% Ditto, 6 per Cant. Ditto Account Neapolitan. — Ditto Acc0unt........ ..... PRICES oh SHARES THIS DA i AT ONE O'CLOCK, Paid, Per Share. Eastern Counties Railway 21 9 % Brighton Railway London and Birmingham Railway Company ... 90 154 5 Ditto New Shares . ..... e4 43% London and South Western ..... ........ ..... 38/. 17s. 9d. 435;, Colonial Bank 25 32 %% PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MARCH 7 par Cent. ---Consols 3 1% per Ceia. Stock Ditto Reduced Ditto New, 1830 ...... .. 931 > City of Dublin Steam Comp, 3 1 ,3 por Cent. Debentures... 9i% ~ National Insurance Company Rank Stock Grand Canal Stock Royal Canal Stock - lIALF-PAST ONE. We copy the following from a Philadelphia paper of the 4th of February::— " We are informed that I'. Dunlap, Esq., the President of the Bank of the United States of America, yesterday made ar rangements for an advance to the State of 870,000 dollars on behalf of that Institution, and the other Banks that might unite in it; and, to maintain her faith untarnished, full provision is thus made for the payment of all interest due on the public debt at home and abroad. Private letters received from New York state that the George Washington, packet-ship, of the 7th of February, Vas on board the remittance to pay the interest duo on the deben tures negotiated in this country. TUE FUNDS. In the British market, little or nothing has been done during the morning, and Consols may be quoted 9lb for Account, for Money same ; Exchequer Bills improved to 17 20 prem. ; India Bonds, nothing done 1 India Stock, ditto. In the Foreign Market, Spanish and Portuguese Stocks have been the chief operations during the morning ; the former rr ay be quoted at present 28:4 8 ; they were done at '29 ; Por tuguese improved to 341 . Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. f.. 31 : Five per Cents. 1001, 101. The Earl of Mansfield has placed in the hands:of the Vicar of Leamington 201., to be applied to any charitable purpose which the Rev. Gentleman might deem proper, and the Vicar has presented it to the Leamington National Schools. TEAZLES._A Commercial Traveller writes to acquaint us that "the apprehensions which were entertained respecting this plant, from the unheard of continuance of wet weather, followed by a frost, arc but too well founded. We are informed that more than half of the plants are quite destroyed, and that more of them are going daily. It is feared that the injury will be greater than it was two years since. Bath Hel old. T HE SANATORIUM.—On Friday a meeting took place at the City of London Tavern, to consider the pro priety of forming "a self-supporting establishment for the lodg ing, nursing, and cure of sick persons of the middle classes of both sexes." CHECK REIN.—The streets of London were never more slippery than they are at present, in consequence of the surface being perfectly dry and clean. Horses of all sorts are slipping up and receiving most violent falls. In many instances their legs are broken, and on Blackfriars-bridge, Holborn-hill, and indeed on every descent, it is most painful to witness the exerticas required from them to keep their fret. In general the horses fall f om the old custom of bearing them up too tight being still continued. If the bearing rein was loose, or entirely dispensed with, not half the number of acci dents would occur. Mr. Sullivan, Deputy- Secretary at 'War, and Miss Sullivan, gave their first ball and supper, in Grosvenor street. The ball-room, and the two saloons on the drawing room floor, were brilliantly illuminated ; the dancing corn menced at eleven and closed at four. Present, the r.arls and Countesses of Brecknock and Powis, Dowager Countess Cow per and Lady Fanny Cowper, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Lady Braybroke and the Hon. Misses Neville, and Lord Bor ingdon. THE MARKETS.—(T/Ifs DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The prevalence of contrary winds still keops the supplies of Grain small. The finrst English Wheat rather exceeded the terms of this day se'nnight, and other qualities have maintained their value. In Foreign no alteration. The best Barley rather dearer, while other descriptions sold slowly. Beans and Peas unvaried. In the Oat trade a little animation, at former prices. Flour met a fair sale at last quotations. rRICEs ON BOARD OF SFIP Wheat, Reci (old) to,. 745. Beans, Small, - White (old) C63. 82s. - Red (,18:39) Cis 635. - -Fine - Superfine t As. 745 White c 6!. Fine 66.i. 725 -- - Superfine 74s 18,. - Foreign free Ryc 4(h 40s. Barley 30, 38, Grinding 3os :164. ---- Malting :is 455. Nlalt .565, 65s - Fine New Cis, 745. Pease, Grey, New 3Lis. - Maple New ',Cs. 42, - White 38s. 40,. - Boilers 4os. 42 ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LC Wheat. English ...... 4,383 qrs. 'Nish Foreign (old) --- Leh ,'new) '6s 33_ • ---- (old) Harrow (new) :38, 41's (01d),., 445. 466 Bran! , Oats, Feed -s.--c New °3- 27 , -- Poland ---New of, .28s . POtAtile .9.325. NY • tw "5, 325. - Scotch _ Irish 225.... 255.27, . Flour Town per sack).... 5Ss 62.. - Seconds 54,56 s -- North Country 50, 52 . Bran l2 .13:. INDON DURING LAST WE! F. :artey. ~. r. ~43 qrs. !0,0!3 .rs 3,704 sack. - 1,4c0 ,233 160 1 ------ rls 'HFIELD. - `,' 05 S MIT A large supply of Cattle, but the attendance being scanty, the sale was heavy at a decline of 4d. a stone on the primest Scots, and fine Downs barely maintained last Monday's prices, Veal very dull sale, and 4d. per stone lower. The finest young Porkers ad vanced 4d. a 6d. ; the coarser sorts of Pork unaltered. Beef 3s• 2d. a 4s. Bd.; Mutton 4s. a ss. Bd. ; Pork, 4s. a ss. Cattle at Market —Beasts, 2,904 ; Sheep, 22,110 ; Calves, 74 ; Pigs, 680. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Good supplies except of Lobsters, Turbot, ss. to 215.; Cod, 3s. to 10s.; Soles, 6d. to 4s. per pair; Whitings, 4d. to Bd.; Had. docks, Bd. to Is. 2d. ; Good Salmon, 2s. 6d. to 3s. per lb. ; Oysters, 9.45. to 60s. per bushel ; Mackerel, 6d. to Is. BERMONDSEY WATERSIDE POTATO MARKET. No Wisbeach Potatoes at market. Supplies of other Sorts very large. Although the holders were inclined to submit to a reduc. tion, still but very little business was done. All besides Scotch and York Reds were but nominal, the former at 60s, to 665., and the latter at 625. to 68s. HOP AND SEED MARKETS. A steady business, and prices firm, but the show of samples was scanty. Inferior sorts dull, but not lower. Seeds very quiet, and prices much as last quoted. TEA MARKET. There was nothing whatever doing, either for money or credit. The trade are anxiously looking after the overland mail. Nothing dor e in Colonial produce. TALLOW MARKET. The market quiet, and P.Y.C. about 51s. 6d. to 51s. 9d. The stook is 16,700. Fine Tallow 555. • UNIVERSITY NTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, MARCH 7.-- At a congregation on Monday last, a grace passed the Senate to present the addresses of congratulation to Prince Albert and thc Duchess of Kent. At a congregation on Wednesday last, the following de grees were conferred:— MASTER OF ARTS.—Thomas Cc eliburn DAWCS, Corpus Christi College. BACHELOR IN THE Civn, LAw..—Henry White, Trinity College. BACHELORS OP Anrs.—Charles Reginald Burnet, Tri nity College; William Evans, Trinity College; Frederick Russell Mills, Trinity College; John Mason Nb al, Tri nity College; Conway Lucas Rose, Trinity College; Ju lius Lucius Brenchley, St. John's College; Colin Camp bell, St. John's College; John Watson Hepworth, St. J..hn . s College; Thomas William Hulkes, St. John's College ; George Henry Ray, St. John's College ; Henry Charles Seller, St. John's College ' • Robert Charles Willy, St. John's C o ll ege; Gardiner Guion Guyon, St. Peter's Collcge ; Alfred Lambert, Pembroke College; Henry Annesley Hrbtchkin, Clare-hall ; Hugh Weight man, Trinity-hall; Joseph Lawson Sisson, Jesus College; Edmund Stanley Stanley, Jesus College; Charles Wil liam Selby Lowndes, Christ's College ; Joseph Spence, Christ's College; Walter Allnutt, Catharine-hall ; Ben jamin John Armstrong, Caius College • John Bir c h R e y. nardson, Corpus Christi C o ll ege , and lames Young, Cor pus Christi College. Newcome's Prize, at St. John's College, for the best proficient in Moral Philosophy among the commencing Bachelors of Arts whose names have appeared on the Tripos, was adjudged on 'Wednesday last to Dr. Calder. The subjects of examination were Paley's Moral Philo sophy, Whewell's Foundation of Morals, and Nevi!e's Defence of Paley ag a inst th e o bj ec ti ons of Whewell and Sedgwick. The Rev. C. M. Arnold, 8.A., of St. John's College, in this University, has been presented to the perpetual curacy of Lower Darwcn, Lancashire. Patron, the vicar of Blackburn. Marmaduke Cochin, Esq., B. A., of Queen's College, in this University, has been unanimously elected to the third Mastership of the Collegiate School, Sheffield. On Monday last the Rev. Henry Cooper, M. A. was instituted by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol to the rectory of Willersey, Gloucestershire, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Benjamin ?reedy. Patroness, Mrs. Cooper, of Bengeworth. - On Saturday last, the Rev. John Gay Girdlostone, S. C. D., was instituted to the rectory of Kelling with Salt house, Norfolk, on the presentation of Mrs. Phoebe Maria Girdlestone, of Kelling aforesaid. The Earl of Bradford has given the benefice of Blym hill, in Staffordshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. T. Pigot, to the Rev. H. Dickenson. M. A , of St. Peter's College, in this University,who has been curate of the parish more than twenty years. On the 27th ult. the Rev. Henry Straham Dickinson, M. A., of Trinity College, in this University, was insti tuted to the Vicarage of Chattisham, in Suffolk ; on the presentation of the Provost, Fellows, and Scholars of Eton College. The Rev. Wilfred Lawson Jarrett, B. A., of St. John's College, in this University, has been instituted by the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells to the Rectory of Camerton, vacant by the death of the Rev. John Skinner. Patron, John Jarrett, Esq., Camerton- Court. On the 14th ult., the Rev. Sir Geo. S. Robinson, Bart., M. A., of Trinity College, in this University, was insti ,uted by the Lord Bishop of Peterborough to the Rectory of Cranford St. John, Northamptonshire, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Daniel Baseley ; on the presenta tion of the Bishop of Lincoln. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) P ORTSMOUTH, MARCH 7.--The command on the Brazil station has been offered to Rear-Admiral Sir James Alexander Gordon, K. C. 8., and no flag officer will in future be sent to the Cape. How far the Brazil command will extend, or who will have charge of the African coast, we are not aware ; but it is believed that Commodore Sulivan's successor would have charge of the Cape. We further understand that a Commo dore is to be sent into the Pacific, and that another Commodore will have charge of the African coast ; if the latter is deter mined on, it is as it should be, as no officer having charge of this coast, with his attention distracted by duties either at the Brazils or the Cape, can do his duty effectually. We have strong reasons for believing that the Hon. Admiral Fleming will immediately assume the command in the Medi terranean, giving up in the meantime the emoluments of Green wich Hospital, but with the right of returning to the situation whenever he relinquishes his services afloat. Precedents can be found for this, and which precedents will also show that Gallant Officers formerly were not so nice, but thought themselves en titled to the pay of both situations. The Druid, 46, Captain Lord John Churchill, and the Alli gator, Capt. Sir J. J. Bremer, are to meet the Hon. Rear- Admiral Elliott, in the Melville, at Singapore; and by a letter from Madras we find that several regiments are ordered for embarkation, amongst which is the 24th Native Infantry, which was to proceed to Penang immediately. The Pique, 36, Capt. Boxer, and Andromache, 28, Capt. Baynes, went out of harbour this week, and remain at Spit head for orders; both ships have been paid wages. The Wasp, 16, was at Gibraltar on the 20th ult. ; the Trin cu.° at Cadiz ; the Donegal, Revenge, and Espoin, were at Lisbon on the 24th ; also the French frigate Juno. The Vanguard, e 4, Captain Sir Thomas Fellowes, was at Malta, on the 16th February, and was to sail on the 24th for England, via Gibraltar and Lisbon. She was shortly to be followed by the Rodney, 92, Commodore Parker, and Asia, 84, Capt. Fisher. The former is to come into this harbour to ba paid off. The Rodney goes to Plymouth for the same purpose, and the Asia to Sheerness. The Meteor steam-vessel sailed from Falmouth on Sunday, for Channel Soundings, to relieve the homeward-bound ships detained by easterly winds. The Stromboli steamer, was taken into dock to-day, to see if she sustained any damage by getting on shor..! in the Clyde River; she is ordered to be got ready for sea in this port. The Cyclops steam frigate, with the 24th depot on board, reached Cork Harbour in thirty-six hours, from Spithead, a distance of 320 miles. She had not embarked the 61st Regi ment on Thursday noon. The Raven cutter sailed on Tuesday for Sheerness, with supernumeraries, for her Majesty's ship C am b r id ge ; an d pro cee ed as far as the Ower's light, when she encountered a fresh easterly gale, with a very heavy sea, having had her jib blown to atoms and sustained other damages, and not being able to make headway, bore up again for Portsmouth, and came into harbour on the following day. AVP O I NTMENTS.—ChapIain—The Rev. P. P. Smith to the Thundcrer. Second Masters—F. F. F. Taylor, to the Magicienne ;G. W. Beaumont, to the Dolph:n. Purser.—Mr. John Ward (1821) to the Pique, vice Ker. rigan, who resigns from ill-health. Clerk-in-charge.—W. D. Howe, to the Dolphin. Clerk.—W. H. Harris (additional) to the Cambridge. Mate.—H. Vernon Craven, to the Thunderer ; Thomas Carmichael, from Larne, to the Wellesley ; B. J. T urner, T. A. Alldridge, and W. d. Forsyth, to be chief officers of the Coast Guard ; the latter to the Selsey Station, vtee Lieutenant Lavingt on, removed to Bognor. Mr. Grenville's dinner party on Friday evening in Hamilton-place, consisted of the Archbishop of York, Earl of Carlisle, Earl of Burlington, Lord and Lady Mahon, Lady Dover, Lady Elizabeth Howard, &c. OMNIBUS INJUNCTION.—III the Court of Chancery on Wednesday, Mr. Wigram moved for an injunction to restrain ‘lr. Pearce, a proprietor of omnibuses running be tween Paddington and the Bank, from using the name of " Con veyance Company" on his carriages, and from clothing his ser vants in coats trimmed with gold lace, to resemble those of the plaintiff. More thaii two years ago a similar application was made to the Court, and it was allowed to stand over on an un dertaking by the defendant that he would abstain from imitat ing the plaintiff's carriages, and use silver lace. Since then the parties who were plaintiffs have ceased to form part of the company, and circumrtances now rendered it necessary to renew the application. Mr. Parry, on the other side, said he had ad vised his client to adhere to the agreement, and he was now ready to do so. Mr. Wigram accepted this assurance ; and the application for the inj unc ti on was not persisted in. The continuance of easterly winds preventing the arrival of the homeward -bound merchant ships has caused very great distress to dock and river labour; rs and their families. This, combined with the privations to which bricklayers' la bourers have been for some time subjected, owing to want of employment, has increased to an mormous extent the number of applicants for relief at the office of the Mendicity Society, which, during the past week, has been necessarily kept open till near midnight. he meals given away in the above period were no fewer than from 5,800 to 6,00, of which number up wards of 1,600 were distributed on last Saturday alone. Re lief has also been afforded by the society in various sums of money, and hundreds of poor creatures have been furnished with work at the mills, stone-yard, and oakum-rooms belong ing to the institution in question, for which labour proper re muneration has been made. _EVENTING _EDITION-. PERTEISHIR:: ELECTION. STATE OF THE POLL—FRIDAI, Fir,sr Drummond. St , ; •wart. Perth Bridge of Earn... :... 161 Blairgowrie Crial 277 Duiteld 179 we 125 Deune 1,586 1,127 Majority for Drummond Mr. ,Stewart, sin ce the announcement of the first day's poll, has reigned. EASTERN INTELLIGENCE. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. lei.—The language of the French 31inistei s, of 31. Thiers, and of the principal orators of the Chamber, and the favourable comments of the press, which on/ accounts sta, e had produced so agreeable a sensation in Alex andria, had had a contrary effect in Constantinople. The Divan had become seriously alarmed, and the leading Turkish Ministt rs lost no time in waiting on the re presentatives of Great Britain, Russia, and Austria. "If be rightly informed," says the correspondent of the S'emaphore de Marseilles, " M. de Boutenieff declared that he was authorized by his last intructions to offer the Porte an army of :10,000 men, and a considerable naval force, to co operate with the troops of the Sultan. He proposed that the Russian army, united with the garrison of Constantinopl , ' , should march together against Ibrahim Pasha, attack him in his intrunchments, and drive him out of Syria. In order to give a proof of the disinterested views of the Russian Government , he proposed that the places taken from the enemy should be garrisoned by Ottoman troops. lie observed moreover, that it was incumbent on the Divan to adopt immediate energetic measures for fear of being surprised; that the other Powers could only aid the Sultan with diplomatic notes ; and that their geographical situation did not permit them to afford him active and timely assistance, and that his Highness s hould not hesitate an instant to accept thei offer of the Emperor ; that in less than a month a Russian auxiliary army could be landed in Asia Minor, and that at the first intimation of this movement he was certain the intimidated Pasha would yield and crave mercy. " This conference took place on the 6th, and the Russian steamer which was to leave on that day was detained for twenty four hours, to convey to Odessa the results of the iw , ervieW, together, it was believed, with other important despatches. " On the 6th, Lord Ponsonby had likewise a conference with the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Redschid Pasha com plained of the apathy of Great Britain, who, he said, hitherto addressed sterile menaces to Mehemet Ali. His Lordship re plied, that he understood that his Government would shortly resort to more efficient means, that another and last nctification would be addressed to the Viceroy, to apprise him of the per feet understanding subsisting between England, Russia, Aus tria, arid Prussia ; France,' he added, neither could nor would undertake anything against England and Russia.' He then assured Redschid Pasha that the British Cabinet would not oppose the landing of a Russian army in Asia ; that Eng land would send a naval force to blockade the harbours of Syria and Egypt ' • and, if necessary, to land troops, to favour a rising among the Turkish troops and crews in Alexandria,' &c. " The Austrian internuncio held more moderate language , and gave Redschid Pasha to understand that the five Powe rs would see the necessity for adjusting themselves the difference between the Porte and Egypt, and devising together such means as would bring about a pacific solution of the affair." The well-informed portion of the inhabitants of the Turkish capital could not (say these letters) believe it possible that so monstrous an alliance as that reported to have taken place be tween Great Britain and Russia had actually been concluded. The former could not, in their belief, be so blind to the real interests of England and of Europe as to deliver uY Turkey to the exclusive protectorship of her natural enemy' and thereby not only bring about a dismemberment of the empire, but also kindle a general conflagration in Europe. The people in Constantinople, well aware of the wily policy ° f , Russia, were even beginning to su s pe c t th a t th e rumo ur 0 , the success of M. Brunow's negotiations in London, whist' was for an instant credited at Fera, had been designedly cir culated by M. de Boutenieff. This Machiavelic intrigue, got up by that diplomatist with a view to persuade the Divan that Admiral Lalanoe had favoured the desertion of the Capita° Pasha, had succeeded to his satisfaction, and f or the last, month a coolness was observable between M. de Pontois and the Ottoman Cabinet. The Grand Vizier, desirous to rid himself of several of his colleagues, had given out that his late illness had been prochieed by a dose of poison, administered to him by some political enemy. Bahl Pasha, his adopted son, was doing all in his power to induce a belief in the supposition, which had al ready caused the removal of several public functionaries and officers of the Seraglio. The Porte, terrified at the extensive preparations making by Mehemet Ali, had presented a fresh note to the Representatives of the European Powers, entreating them to labour to maintain the existing status quo. The Mahomedans celebrated on the 14th the Bairam of the Sacrifices. The young Sultan immolated a lamb in the mosque of Ahmet, and on his return to the Imperial palace was com plimented by all the civil and military authorities. The :easts lasted four days. The Grand Vizier having insisted, contrarY to the opinion of his medical advisers, on being present at the ceremony on the 14th, had taken co ld, an d h a d b een ever since confined to his apartment. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, FEB. 16. If the least attack is made on Egypt, Mehemet will oppcue force by force, should he and all his family perish in the strug gle.." Many persons con s id er th e war lik e preparat i ons W in Mehemet is making as a feint, but they are greatly in error. He is taking every precautionary measure to repel an attack he is concentrating large bodies of troops in Eypt and Syria. and he has sent orders to th e diff eren t corps in the Hedjas and Yemen to return to E g ypt i mme di a t e l y ; every point suscep tible of defence has been or is being fortified, and everything announces an energetic resolution to resist till death. The sailors of the twn fleets can be relied on, for the attachment of the Turks for Mehemet increases daily. The greater part 01 the officers belonging to the Turkish fleet went spontaneon4lY few days back to the Pash a , t o so li c i t b eing attached to his 'ser vice. This certainly d oes not seem to savour of defection. The monstrous project of an Anglo-Russian alliance on the Eastern questi on , seems so irrational that it me ets with little credit. PERSIA. According to the last advices from Persia, received in the Turkish capital via Trebisond, it would appear that the French officers enlisted in the service of the Schah by Hussein Khan , had little reason to be satisfied with the reception given them on their arrival in Teheran, and that they would have already set out on their return to France, if they had not deemed it ad visable to await the arrival of M. de Sercey, their Ambassador , through whose interference they hoped to obtain at least the payment of the arrears due to them. M. de Sercey had been received in the most brilliant manner by Hafiz Pasha on his arrival at Erzeroum. All the troops of the garrison were un. der arms, and the Ambassador was accompanied to his palace by the military band. Hafiz Pasha presented him, on his de parture, with 15 fine Ara'sian horses. It appears certain that the wife of a Frenchman of the suite of Hussein Pasha died at Tabriz of :he brutal treatment she had experienced from the Persian Ambassador. The British Legation continued to reside at Erzeroum. Co' lone' Shed would, it was thought, be appointed Minister Ple nipotentiary of England to the Court of the Schah. The Zibayiski Tidjiaret steamer, which had last arrived from Trebisond, was immediately put into quarantine in consequence of the plague having manifested itself in that city on the lith of January. The Semaphore de Marseilles contains a paragraph whic h we shall here introduce, and which, although brief, merits par ticular attention. It states that the Russians were making immense preparations at Odessa, and freighting a great nun', ber of transports. A strong division of Russian troops had crossed the Caspian Sea, and been landed at Asterabad, on the Persian territory, with the sanction of the Schah. It wa s thought that this corps would march thence against Khiva. POLITICAL SUMMARY OF 1105 MORNING JOURNALS. The Morning Post of this day, speaking again of the Privi lege question, says The privilege question, to which so much time, that might have been better employed, has been devoted by the House of Commons, since the commencement of the se ss i on , a lth oug h not yet in the state we could desire, is certainly placed in a le ss unsat i s f actory position than be f or e by the proceedings of Friday night. And, if that Honourable As sembly have not got quite into the right road, it is gored to find, from its most recent proceedings, that, at least, a visible ap proximation towards the right road has been made." The Morning herald recurs to the Privilege ques • Lion in the following terms:—" The 'tyrant ma jority' is doing what we always anticipated it would. be compelled to do, eating its leek' with due discretion a nd diligence. But although the said ' leek' is wrapped up v ery neatly in a legislative bill, it is not eaten without much awkwari gesticulation, and many wry faces. Lord John Russell puts g 5: smirking and jaunty an air on his humiliation as he can. Being pretty well accustomed to take a beating with as little wincing as possible, lie resigns, not his office and salary, but himself and privilege to the laughter of the world. As to Sir Robert Peel, he suffers for the company he has chosen. He endeavours to take his share of the degradation which 'is divided among them, with elaborate composure, not sufficient, however, to conceal the chagrin of conscious defeat, which ' looks and sighs unutterable things.' "—The Morning Advertiser thus alludes biiefly to the subject of the Coin-laws :—" Of all the classes in the country who will benefit by a repeal of the Corn-laws, th e working class will benefit the most ; and of all the enermeo' falsehoods which have emanated from the Landocrat factieo, there is none half so huge as the assertion that cheap bread will lower wages."—The Morning Chronicle.. allud" ing to a p e titi on t o t h e H ouse of Commons from the Guardians of the Bolton Union, for the immediate and total repeal of the Corn-laws, observes :—" The Bolton Guardian s have just seen that which all other guardians of the mono 11114 also see, if they also look. They have seen the corn lY at the bottom of the labourer's privations. They have found i t diminishing the amount of his wages, and diminishing the siz e of his loaf. They have, therefore, petitioned Parliament on behalf of both classes of their clients—the ground-dow n payers and ground-down receivers of the poor's-rate . I'o do the like will well become all faithful guat•dian' of the pa r i s h purse and of the parish poor. "—Tlh4 Times reaaults in a leadieg article on the subject of copt: holds :—" One of the grievances conjured up of late years, is that said to arise from copyhold tenure, a tenure possessing COn: sideeable a d vantages, in which the poor cottager partielpates in the ease and cheapness with which the title is investigated or the property transferred from hand to hand." AGRICULTURAL PEI'ORT FOR WEST CUM RE MLA N D. —Within the last fortnight a most important chang e has talen place in the weather, from extreme wetness to pierc ing frost, without a,y of the common attendant—hoar-fro st; and so far, without snow below the mountain peaks. We h ave t gone over a few wheat fields of various soils th is week, and net without apprehensions of evil—the moisture in the drier sous being frczc out, and leaving the earth so loose that. the pla nts in late sown fields seem to have very little root hold, and the lively green has changed to a sickly dun. Should the drv.f ros continue without a covering of snow the effect may be . di l3s- trous. The strong soils do not seem to be so loose, a nd Or, plants are firmer in the ground, but ve r y s i c kly in colour, an in need of a snow blanket.— Carlisle Journal. Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint Ali'. J. Storey Penleaze to be British Consul at Amsterdam. THE AUSTRALIAN GOLDEN FLEECE.--Th was in the year 1812 that Mr. John APArthur had consigir" to him a number of merino sheep. By a singular coincidence; these were conveyed out by the ship Argo, and the conse quences that have followed seemed t o h ave rea li se d the fable of the golden fleece, for such has been the rapid increase in the exports of fine wool, the produce of these flocks, that froth 92,4151b5, imported in 1820, the ouani itv last year had increased to 7,o6o,s2slbs.—Australian Chronicle. Sir John and Lady Williams pave a grand din' ner in Grosvenor-square on Friday evening, to Lord and Lady Holland, Lord an d Lady Clarendon, Lord ana Lady IC P k er it ale; and the Rev. Sydney Smith. The Learned Judgelp town on Saturday for the circuit.