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

14 - VF,NING EDITION. ErEA" A 'RE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. • cot , aequence of the announcement in our paper of 7e a -nat the company would, last evening, perform a ',llea. own account, and Com Mac? eady would gratuitously play lee them, we attended the performances, which were MccSetia and 13/ides. fh' house tray be rnd to hav been at good one et half price, and if those engaged in this new roqculation could every night secure such a receipt, it would is the end turn out profitable. It was announced as the last night that Macready would appear in the part of Macbeth, and when be came upon the stage he was greeted very on thualastically, the audience doing ample justice to the dig isiterei4ted nature of his exertions. Perhaps the sacrifice is hardly to be expected at his hands, that he should con. time ED play for nothing ; but, as the Haymarket , eees not oven until the 15th instant, it might be worth while for the Committee of Management at Drury-lane pay for nis services for a few more nights, if they could he obtained. Certainly they can hope for nothing more attractive ; and looking round the beautiful theatre last night, we could not but think what a pity it would be that it should be closed. We earnestly hope for better things, and trust that, as there is abundance of room for two great theatres in this metropolis, when properly con dtictAd, the public will not fail to encourage the efforts of thole who, at least, are most anxious to please, and who, to a certain extent, unquestionably possess the power of pleasing. The applause during the performance of the tragedy last night was by no means so warm as we have beard it, and as the ecting cf Macready, Mrs. Warner, Paelps, G. Bennet, and others, deserved, for we never Maw them perform better and take more pains to produce a favourable impression. At the fall of the curtain Ma :ready waa called for, and appeared, to re-receive the gra tulation of his numerous friends and ardent admirers. Ari4b4o al/lowed, in which Mrs.' Waylett sustained her fa vourite character of Apollo She sang just as sweet as ever, but hardly, as i,t seemed to us, with as much force, and kicked as if she were still labouring under the effects of ill health. She obtained all her usual share of applause. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. STa.—le the Sundae, Times Newspaper of yesterday , er we ia, under the hca't " Extensive Frauds on the Re vealue,'• the following paragraph : " On the discz,very of the fraud, a person named Grant, n confidential servant of the London Deck Company, ab soonded, and several others followed his example." I beg the favour of you, to allow me, through your me rlinm to state that I am the only person in the London Dock Company's service named Grant, and that, as re ,gards me, there is not in the said paragraph one particle .of truth, or anything approaching to truth, directly or iadirectly. I hag leave also to add, that no person in the service of the London Dock Company has absconded, or is known to be implicated n the said frauds on the revenue. I am, Sir, your obadient servant, London Docks, March 2. WM. E. GRANT. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (MONDAY EVENING. TIMES.—Money not being at all in demand tc-day at the St , Exchange, is tf course eel ; but any new opc rattans eel magnitude would probably bring on the same difficult* which was experienced last week. The principal traasaction in the English market was a purchase fcr the Court of Chancery, of which, however, the exact amount was cot stated. Very little other busicess was done, and that confined to Consols, the other stocks, in which there :era hardly ever any time dedings, having closed for the April dividends. Consols have rather improved, and 7'rkving been in the morning 9011- to ;} for money, left cif at 90} to at 91 to for the account. Exchequer ;3 , 11s are rather lower, leaving off 3s. to as. premium. The news of Mairid being in "a state of siege" alarmed home of the speculators in Spanish stock, and at once tau " a f .ll of 1: 1 ; per cent. ie the price of the Actives. However, io many persons arc interested in keeping up the value of thee securities, that the fall was but the signal for extended purchases, and the stock, had it not Wen for a slight reaction at the close of the day, would have re-ached the quotation of Saturday. There is a ge neral notion that something will be done for the foreign eveditor, and this continually buoys up the h"pes of the ispzcuiators ; but, at the same time, every attempt to give twition a definite farm is looked upon with suspicion, tesp....ei; , ly as of the many rumours which are abroad none are sulE , nently accredited to command any serious atten tion in respectable quarters. SUN.—There was as entire dearth of news in the City tbis afternoon, and there were no arrivals throughout 0.n.: day, The value of Consols was rather higher this afternoon, but there was not much business doing. For transfer to-morrow the price was 901. to 90:3-, and for time 91 to 91i. Exchequer Bills were heavy up to the elm, at 31. to 3s. premium. Sank Stock was done et 178, and the New Three aral a Half per Cents. rea lised 984 to 99. India Sock rose from 248 to 249. serious decline in Spanish Bonds which occurred early in the day, was recovered to a great extent before ate termination of business. The Actives bad at one time touched 29k, hut the latest prices were 281 to 29. Portuguese New Five per Cents. remained at 3h to b ; Brazil Stock was worth 781 ; Dutch Two and a Halt per Cents. advanced to 53 ? f , and the Five per Cents. to 1011-. The Share Market was not buoyant, nor was any alteration perceptible in the value of the prncipal It ill way Shares, but many of the Joint Stock Banking Shares were in more request at improved quotations. POLITICAL SUMMARY OF TH•HE MORNING JOURNALS. The Morning Advertiser, speaking of the ConFervative clinker which took place at Merchant Tailors' Hall on Saturday, says Since the Church %aunts so mire:, of its power and indepeedence, it cannot reasonably rot:1101in of the State leaving it to stand on its own merits. If its basis he so just and firm, what has it to fear from the education of the people ? But the whole proceedings were each a weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable repetition of common place Tory fallacies, that they have not pun gency sufficient to excite any feeling save nausea." —The Morning Chronicle again refers to the Corn law question in the following terms :-4"The reac tion amongst the working classes on the subject of the Corn-laws goes on rapidly ; they are becoming generally alive to the necessity of postponing other considerations to this practical and pressing qu,!i hon. From agricultural and from commercial neighbour hoods arises conjointly the cry for the repeal of the hate ful mooopoly ir. food."—The Morning Post thus alludes to the Pearly Postage schem e: —" F rom w h at h as ta k en piece sa the House of Commoes we may reasonably infer , .'hat nothing very cons o l a t or y can b e avowe d b y respon sible persons upon the subject of the new postage plan. When Miniaters are pressed for information they do not afford it ; and, when unfavourable views of the result are taken by their opponents, they have nothing to say in refutation of those views."—The Times Nein endeavours to raise the No-Popery howl, an will be eetl by the follow ieg extract :—" In Ireland, as all the world knee's, the professois ef Popery carry all before thorn. If a c indidate for a Government appointment in that country be neither a member of the O'Connell family nor a worship per of the blessed Virgin, his merits cannot possibly be listened to. Indeed, Popery may almost be said to be at a premium among ourselves. On this side of the Chan nel the Whig's . have elevated at least one Roman Cntlan! is ( Lord Levet) to the Peerage ; and another has been made a Master in Chancery. Adhe rents of . the same lei* have been promoted to high situetions in her Majesty's household. We have,l more. over, rapists in the 'Treasury, Papists in the Admiralty, and Papists at the Beard of Trade."—The Morning Re. chserves, in a leading article recommending the abo litien of capital Punishments :—" On Thursday evening riv, Mr. Evart will move, in pursuance of notice, a re. svlntioe to the effect, that it is EXPEDIENT TO ABOLISH CA PITAL enetstimetrs. Will Government oppose this IDO- L on? It so, Minteters will pass a severe sentence of con demnation on themselves for recommending the Crown t extend its clemency to Frost and his fellow-convicts at M outh. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(T11111 DAY. Livzraolt-, 3.—Fresh brem, from the North. —Sii;ed the Tamerlane, APKenzie, for Calcutta; Ma- Ceneforth, Bombay; Harriet, Duthie, Pernam eueo ; Governor, James, Jlmaica; Sorceress, Bryce, Tri nidad; Stephen Whitney, Thompson, New York. FALMOCTU, Maxon I.—Wind E. to E. N.E., fresh brevaes.—Arrieed the Antelope, Pitts, Teneriffe ; Fire brand, Le Crawl, Smyrna. PlAstourn. MARCiI 2.—Wind E.N.E.—Sailed the Oc.ao. fur Jamaica. POILTSMCCTII, MARCH 2 . —Fresh breeze from the cast ward.—Arrived the Victoria, Osborne, from Terceira. V astsLA vPOK ta.—The Advocate, from Bristol to Calcutta, Jan. 15, let. 3 N., lon. 23 W. ; John , Gibraltar to Monte Vid eo , J an. 16, lat. 4, lon. 23• Rua sity., of Boston, Jan. 22, 1at.113, l oa . 31, b y the John Den rsioon, arrived at Falmouth ; Champio n , Z ante to Liver - - pool, and Nis, Ancona to Liverpool, Jan. 28, off C a p e Paesaro ; Eliza, Zante to Falmouth, Jan. 31, off Licata ; Gertrude, Leghorn to Dublin, 10th ult., lat. 38, lon. 3 E. • Norfolk Hero, Ar.cona to Glouceste r , an d N ora Creina , bound to Malta, Jan. 16, off Cape St. Vincent ; Jordeser., Leghorn to Liverpool, Jan. 29, off Valez Malaga, and Hector, Aricartc to Liverpool, 2d ult., by the Courier, Plank, arrived at Cork ; Reward, Marseilles to London, 19th ult., lat. 39, lon. 11, by the Pactolus, arrived at Cork ; Aid, of Sunderland, from Odessa, 17th ult., let. 39, lon. 11, by the Vulcan, arrived at Cork. OLYMPIC THEATRE.—The management of this eetablishment bids ia'r to obtain not merely temporary ap plause, but permanent success, under the judicious manafgee resat of Mr. B u tl er , t h e l essee. Th ere is every prospect oltfh theatre provi ng qu i te as success f u l as it W 8.3 in the days of a dame Vestris, when it become generally known that all the minutia of stage effect is attended to with the most scrupulous exactness. Mr. B u tl er cannot be too highly praised for his discrimination in the selection of a dramatic authorship, a proof of which is supplied by the " Ladies' Club," the writer of which, Mr. Mark Lemon, will undoubtedly take his stand among the first-rate play-writers of the day. The" Ladies' Club" is equal to anythi ng o f the kind that: has been produced . for many year s ; will be a Source of popularity to the author, and, we hope, a mine of wealth to the concern. To give any detail of the plot would be useless. Wives should see the piece, to correct their htLtbands, and husbands should see it, to correct their wives. SURREY MEETING. —On Saturday a county meetiness her g was hel at Guildford before th e H igh Sheriff to ad dr Majest d y and her Royal Spouse on the ha, t her marriage. ppy even of LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE. -MTh, betting on the general event continues very animated, Lottery i s backed at 6 to 4 ; the Nun and .Seventy-fou r are becornii, great favourites.. The weather .. is beautifully fine, and thZ ground is in excellent condition. LONDON: TUESDAY, MARCH 3, MO. The Dules of Weeetsterox appeared last night in the House of Lords, ned seas warmly congratulated by all his friends. The Noble Duke looked thin, but hi excellent spirits. The Bishop of EXETER in presenting some petitions from the Clergy of his diocese against any measure altering Church Discipline. by which the jurisdiction of the Church might be affected, ennounced that the B shops had come to an understanding on this point. and expected to lay a Bill before Parliament which would satisfy all parties. The Bishop of LONDON con firmed this announcement, but what satisfies the Bishops may be expected to terrify the people. Several petitions were presented on the non.intrusion question, which now agitates the Kirk of Scotland ; anti several N-eb:e. Lords expressed a wish to see that subject settled. Viscount MELBOURNE reiterated his essuranee that this subject occupied the serious atten tion of the Government, which was well aware of the evils caused by this state of things. Some conversation took place, in which the Earl of MINT° deprecated discussing the question. The Bishop of Lotenoss seems bolder and readier than Lord 'MELBOURNE, and stated that he hoped in a short time to offer to the Noble Viscount a measure which would settle the question of patronage both in the Scotch and English Churches. It never yet went well with England when the priest hood took an active part in directing its affairs, and at present they seem to be more active than for many years. Lord LYNDHURST presented a petition from mer chants of London interested in the sulphur trade with Sicily, and he understood that similar petitions were to be forwarded from Liverpool and Glasgow. The Noble Lord pointed out the great increase in the consumption of sulphur, the importation of which in ten years had increased from 4,000 to 44,000 tons. This was principally imported from Sicily, where our merchants, under the faith of a positive treaty, concluded in 1816, had established themselves, and employed a consider. able capital in procuring the sulphur. In 1837, how ever, the Neapolitan Government had granted a mono poly of the right to export sulphur to a company of merchant adventurers, thus placing the English mer chants at their mercy, causing them great losses, ren dering them unable to fulfil contracts they had entered into, deranging the trade, and openly violating the ex isting treaty. He called on her Majesty's Government to exact justice for the petitioners, and with that ob ject he had presented the petition. Viscount MELLOURNE admitted that it was an infraction of the treaty of 1816, and that we had a right to call on the Government of Sicily to fulfil its obligations. Remonstrances had been made, and the Government of Naples in formed that we should insist on the observance of the t reaty. Mr. MsGeeoon, who had been sent to Na ples on business connected with the Tariff, had gone beyond his instructions, and had negotiated a treaty w 1 oi which the dl he ai Government had refused to ratify. Lord L YNDHURST said that t h e l oss a mounted to y, ,andstohnatttto :Maples,hesi xline-of-battle e businesssh ipsly n a lying at Malta, would if week. adjourned re ceiving a Commons few Half-past petitions, met itions at Ho m u lf s_e pa t s r t an s sa ix ct o e , d clo e c o k. other business, and Three and after , decided by 54 to 5 that the Commissioners of Pay of Canterbury, who had not complied with the ;t7erirCi The debate on the Ludlow rd ers, should not be allowed to proceed with their n til? 2on Election i‘rlare w h as l2 re b sumed, and the motion put that the order , of the panels, Fos. 1 and the attendance dis charged. As far as we can understand the 12, be th parties petitioning to be allowed to defend the return o of Mr. ALCOCE received no notice to a tt en d the Commit. tee, which vitiated the whole proceedi ngs , and nneithernait the Standing Election Committee nor the House seemed to know how to proceed. The S OLICITOR! GENERAL thought the case should be suspended till the proper notices were given. Sir W. FOLLETT did not construe the Act as his Learned Friend construed it, and thought it only necessary to postpone other election petitions till the notices could be given, and the case of Ludlow decided in its proper turn. The ATTORNEY. GENERAL was sure that the House had got in a hobble from which it would require an Act of the Legislature to release it. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Sir ROBERT I PEEL, and Mr. KELLY seemed to ag r ee t hat the diffi culty should be got over by the Committee rather than MR. TC , ORE ON THE PROPOSED ALTERATIONS IN OUR BANKING SYSTEM. Tnis day is published in Bvo., price 1.25. cloth, N ACCOUNT of PRICES, and of the 17 1 A.. S TATE of the CIRCULATION in 13811 and 1839 ; w - th Ret narks on the Corn-laws, and on some of the Alterations pr)oposed in our Pannin g Sy s t e m. By Ti - 10MAS TOOKE, Esq., F.R.S. '.The above forms a third volume of Mr. Tooke's " ;HISTORY of PRICES," vols. Bvo., 265. London : Longman, Orme, and Co. II ow ready new p3.a• , with important Additions, beautifully printe d on a a, in one lar,ga vouine, with an emblazoned Title- Pager t nd upwards of 1.500 Engravings of Arms, &c., price 3Ss. b Auld, C. BURKE'S NEW PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE FOR 11340, Cole wining all the New Creations, and much other New Matter the result of great research , a nd of Communications with t ae various Noble Families; forming the most complete, the zn , .ist convenient, and the cheapest Work of the kind over offer& dto the public. CONTENTS: - 1. The Peers and Baronets of England, Scotland, and Ire land, alphabetically arranged, with their Pedigrees, Armorial Pear asp, &c., coming down to the Present Time. This de par ts vent of the Work has now been so far enlarged as to em re c e the whole collateral connexions of the Peerage and Ba ro, s: gage-2. Spiritual Lords-3. Foreign Noblemen, being N ative-born Subjects of the British Crown-4. Peerages C' .aimed-3. Garter's Roll--6. Peers, in order of Precedence .7. Baronets, in order of Precedence-8. Knights of the di Terent Orders-9. Privy-Councillors —lO. Daughters of ?ers married to Commoners-11. Mottoes, translated and ell scidated-12. Tables of Precedence. ilenry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlhorcugh-street. '. 9 Orders received by all Booksellers. N. - I ATL I N'S NORTH AMERICAN J INDIAN GALLERY, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, C pa :staining 500 Paintings, made by his own hand, during seven yt ars' travel and residence amongst the wildest Tribes of Indians in North America. And also an immense Collection of Indian Cu: iosities, Dresses, Weapons, Scc. ; and a Crow Wigwam, twe sty-five feet high—a magnificent specimen. Ope n from Ten A. M. to Six r. m.—Admittance, One Shilling. (. in the fore part and middle of the day the light is best, and the Rooms least crowded.) [1 S MAJESTY the EMPEROR of I AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA _ STEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY PRI !:MIUMS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE 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 DR ED. THREE HUNDRED, TWO HUNDRED AND FIIFTY, TWO HUNDRED, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY, ONE HUN DR ED AND TEN, and ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, &c. Sze., amounting, to £134,990 Sterling. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS, THIS EVENING, MARCH 3. Will be repeated the New Original Play in Five Acts, written by Leigh Hunt, Ear to be called A - LEGEND OFFLORENCE. Franc:Fen Agelanti. Mr. Moore; .AntAorno Rondinellt, Mr. Anderson ; Cesare Colonna, Mr. G. Vandenhoff ; Fulvio Da Riva, Mr. Bartley ; Giulio, Mrs. Waiter Lacy ; Ginevra, ]ldles Ellen Tree. After which the popular Farce •f HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. Motley, 1 1 .11:Charle;liiattilew;;bijkYDariing, Mr. ?Ica doves ; Reeky Morgan, Mrs. Orger. To condo& with she Grand Allegorical and National Masque, in Lemur •f her Majesty's Nuptials, entitled TIE FORTUNATE ISLES; OR, THE TRIUMPHS OP BRITANNIA. Me Magic oaf:arise(' and selreted by Mr. R. R. l'ii611•?. Drew Bomw, 7s. ; Second Price, 35. 6d.; First and Second. Cireles, 55. ; Second Price, f2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, Doors to 1)c opened at half-past Sint—the performances to eonsmeneo at 6even o'Clock. Tickets and place= for the Boxes to be taken at the Box-of fice, from Ten till_Four, whir* Season Tickets may be Iliad upon application. Private Boxes t• be had solely of Mr. Andrews, imekseller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Novelty of extraordinary inapitncle—New Historical Drama tic Legend, in Ater extraordinary depicting England in 1664, Baibadoes in 1665, 04 London in MX, with a representa tion of the Great Fir* of Linden. TIIIA EVENING, NlARcir 3. Will Le acted, 2d time, a Historical Dramatic Legend, called THE CITY APPRENTh'E; or, THE THREE LILIES. Supported by the entire strength of the Company. After which, a Gmedietta, from the French, entitled FAMILY JAItS MENDED. Pnnhoname, Mr. Smith ; Chapinet, Mr. Saville ; Madame Tionhomnae, Mr,. Daly ; Theroria, Mil= Martin. To conclude with the Nautical Drama of BEN THE BOATSWAIN. Ben, Mr. Saville. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot. -meddle with the first subject adverted to in the letter of a " Churchman" (Ireland), and the interest cf the other is fast (lying awns. 1 , 1114 K WAI En. Al LONDON' lIIIDGE TO-1 4 .40RR0W. Morning 'o-7 minute: after 2i Evening 47 minutes after 2. ,4%-t .4./Z r• - • - - *,;v•-•:o dryit 7 4 '.. .9 "7 - .7,4,7'?"•,‘..2i.r , 4 „2,- , ‘. 171 )e Cts -11) . 312- ) .4) THE SUN, LONDON TUESDAY. MARCH 3 1 1840 by the House, and finally the motion was agreed to, by which we presume the Ludlow ease is hung up till the Committee has decided what can be, or ought to be done to get over the difficulty. Mr. GISBORNE presented a petition from Mr. AL cock against reviving a petition which had been put an end to by due course of law—namely, by ❑ot fulfilling its injunctions. On the opinion of the SPEAKER, being adverse to receiving the petition, Mr. GISBORNE with drew it. Amongst the notices given, we must notice one by Mr.HUNIE, to call attention to the war encouraged in the East, on Friday next, when Lord JOHN RUSSELL is to prove that our interference has been calculated rather to prevent than provoke hostilities. In a Committee of Supply the Navy Estimates were proceeded with, and, in reply to some questions from Mr. HUME, Mr. MORE O'FERRALL explained that the increase of the price of flour :it home in 1839, as com• pared to 1838, was 18 per cent. This was meant to show in what way the Corn-laws tax the State, the landlords cunningly getting back, in the increased price of wheat they sell to the State, all the taxes they pay. In reply to Mr. WARBURTON, Admiral ADAM said he had heard nothing before of a reef of rocks having risen up on the coast of Dorsetsbire, so as to form a natural harbour, and the Admiralty had of course not ordered any survey of it. There ensued again a long discussion on the state of the Navy, which was begun by Captain PECHELL, and continued by Mr. PLUMPTRE, who wanted a large navy ; by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who stated that the po licy of keeping up such large armaments in peace would ruin the country, and who contended that the Navy was in an efficient state ; by Sir ;G. CLERK, who dissented from the Noble Lord ; by Mr. WooD, who repeated his former statements ; by Lord INGESTRIE and Admiral ADAM, who had a little sparring about the mode in which promotion was conducted ; and by Mr. A. CHaPstaN, who, though a Tory and a shipowner, praised the manner in which the administration of the Navy was conducted. Several votes were agreed to, and several subordinate discussions took place—one on the lightning conductors recommended by Mr. SNOW HARRIS, which led to no conclusion. After the House had resumed, Mr. LABOUCHERE stated that he should have no objection to refer the Inland Warehousing Bill to a Select Committee. The House adjourned at a Quarter before One. It is sometimes said by the advocates of the Corn•tax, that it falls so lightly on the masses. being not more than half a farthing a loaf, that the people don't feel it, and it makes no difference to them. At the same time, these advocates, when they have anothet purpose to serve, cry out with some bitterness against the Malt -tax, because it raises the price and diminishes the consumption of malt. We do not profess to reconcile these contra dictory arguments, and must state our belief that the Corn-laws injure the farmer by raising the price and diminishing the demand for his produce in the same manner as the Malt-duty. One en hances the price of the loaf, the other the price of the pot of beer, and of that increased price none of it goes into the pockets of the farmer. He collects it for the landlords, as the maltster collects and pays the tax to the exciseman, but none of it remains in his posiession. The tax on malt is about 205. Bd. the quarter ; the average Corn-tax on every species of grain, with the fluctuating scale, may be taken to be about the same sum. The revenue raised from malt is about four millions ; the increased rental catned by the Corn-tax is at least five times that amount. The far mers and their psuedo friends, therefore, are extremely anxious to remove from them a weight of four pounds, and as anxious to burden them with twenty. In both cases their landlords profit by the humbug ! They put the twenty millions in their pockets, and if they can they wish to pocket the four millions additional. The increase in the price of malt ma k es persons have recourse to substitutes for malt-liquors ; so the increase in the price of the produce of our own soil makes persons substitute whatever they can get cheaper. They eat positively less bread—they consume more rice, fish, sugar, tea, coffe, and whatever can be used as food, than t h e y would if the p r i ce o f t h e pro d uce of the soil were lower. If, indeed, all edibles, other than that produce, could be ex cluded—if the monopoly could be made as strict as the landlords wish it, there could be no substi tutes used ; the farmers would only suffer by less being consumed in proportion as the price is high, and the people would only suffer the trifling pangs of hunger and starvation. 11 the 20s. Bd. tax on a quarter of malt be in yurious to the farmers, the 16s. tax on barley, when the price is at 305., must also be mis chievous, it not to the same extent. Of what con sequence is it to the farmer, whether he have to pay the tax to his landlord, in the shape of rent, or to the State, as a tax ? He is indeed supposed to get something from the State, namely, protection ; for the tax from his landlord he gets nothing whatever. In both casks the selling price of the article is much enhanced by the tax ; in both cases the tax diminishes the emi r sumption, and causes other articles to be consumed in preference to the taxed article. If, therefore, the tax on malt be injurious to the far mer, so must be the tax on bread, whatever benefit it may con fer on the landlord. Mr. VI lAA ERs will bring forward his motion on the Coin-laws before the end of the month ; and we must, in the mean time, occasionally throw out a few remarks, to revive in the recollection of our readers some of the many enormities of this ini quitous impost. The mode in which it injures and impoverishes the tillers of the soil is, in our opinion not the least, mischievous of its operations. The City of London Conservative Association, which is noticed elsewhere, seems shorn of many beams of glory. It could find no more distin guished Chairman than the promise and pledge breaking M.P. for Sunderland, and had no more distinguished guests than Lord TEIGNMOUTH and the RECORDER. No present wearer of lawn sleeves honoured it with his company, and the Church was represented by no greater man than Dr. CROLY. The company was made up of per sons bearing_ such names as M ACKILLOP , P IRIE , PRIME LUCAS, GRIMSDITCH, AL SAGER, BUCKLE, TWINING, PODMORE, and others bet ter known possibly to the " dungs" of the Guild than to the public at large. The Tories of the House of Commons were represented by the smallest talking lawyer and poorest statesman of that Assembly, not even excepting Mr. DA RBY. We, however, are less solicitous to notice the in significance of the assembly than the sentiments of one of the speakers, and we pass at once to call attention to something said by that would-be Bishop, :he Rev. Dr. CROLY. . _ . . He denied that the Church was the creature of the State, and boasted that it would exist without the State, while the State could not exist without the Church. Will he graciously advise his brethren to put that to the test, and demand the abolition at once of all laws by which indivi,:uals are con strained to support the Church against their incli nations? A Church can exist without the State, but not the Anglican Church of which the Rev. Doctor spoke, and which is, from top to bottom—from the head of it on the throne to the lowest beadle whose gilded cocked-hat is paid for out of parish funds the creature of Acts of Parliament. The Reverend Doctor probably knew his com pany when he ventured to affirm, because the Christian Church and religien exist independent of the State, that the Church of England can so exist. But what has the Church of England to do with the Christian religion, except by its worldly splendor to mock at the profound humility and poverty of its founder ? The Rev. Gentleman took an opportunity of re minding the democracy of what it had formerly done. It had plundered the Church, or resumed its own. It had seized Archbishops and Chan cellors—broke down the whole State, and estab. lished a democracy. Under CRomwELL, how ever, who was its child and champion, and when the Church was extinguished, England was safe at home and triumphant abroad. OLD NoLL, wielding the power of the democracy, was the arbiter of Europe. Under his predecessor, when LAUD was in the ascendant, England was the sport of both France and Spain. Under his successor, when i the Church was again rampant in the land, Eng land became the degraded vassal of France. Both her morality and her power sunk as royalty and the priesthood got the upper hand, and the period be. tween the Restoration and the Revolution is the most disgraceful of our history. Did Dr. CROLY, by reminding the democracy of their former glo rious successes, wish to renew such scenes, taking care that a secon d R estorat i on , then of the kingly power, now blight the —shall no of the aristocracy—for the kingly I power i s on l y a name in Eng l an d hopes of the aspiring people ? The Rev. Dr. CROLY exulted at the loyalty cf the Church. We do not like that indiscriminate loyalty preached by the priesthood, which equally I adores vice and virtue in the wearer of the Crown. To speak more correctly, it honours vice and scoffs at virtue ; worships GEORGE IV., and satirizes Queen VICTORIA. Our people must have discri minating loyalty. The I intes of yesterday praised the energetic re solution of a dozen citizens of the United States who had protested against Captain ELLIOTT'S blockade of Canton. That was the action not of dependent Ministers trembling for their responsibi lity before a truculent aristocracy, but of indepen dent individuals defending their own interests. None of the Governments of the civilized world could be so prompt or energetic, or could use such language, because they must take many matters into c onsideration, which keen private in terest, going straight to its object, wholly disre gards. Those men, too, were members of a demo cratic community, accustomed to think and act for themselves. Their manliness was not the result of loyalty such as the Rev. Dr. CROLY, and the Church preach, which must consult the Sovereign, or the Sovereign's servants, before it dare either to think or to act. Those who are best acquainted with Prussia and France, are probably most convin ce d th a t the excessive indiscriminating loyalty recom mended by the priesthood, is almost fatal to individual energy. If our statesmen, like the Dictator FRANCIA, prefer slaves to freemen, they will encourage the priesthood in incul cating a loyalty which would prepare the commu nity, could it be successful, to imitate the inhahi sants of Paraguay. Even now it seems to us, at times, as if eur people were becoming, like the Prus sians and the French, unable to take any step ex cept under the directions of a Government Com- Times praises missioner or a police sergeant. For our people to i have n t h e that ya n k e Yankee robust Captains,energy their which minds the mu s t no t b e formed by what the Rev. Dr. CROLY and the Church call loyalty. The doubts whether the Church can ever incul cate that virtue with effect, should make enlight ened statesmen look with some suspicion at her ' means and power of promoting the morality and happiness of the people. We cannot, at the end of an article, enter into such a subject, but we mast say, that when the wants of the State are considered such as good soldiers and sailors, good farmers, merchants, and bankers, honest, in dependent men, averse from chicane, humbug, and fraud—it may be doubted whether the Church be a suitable instrument for nourishing into vigour the moral qualities which constitute the greatness and happiness of nations. Lord JOHN RUSSELL gave notice last night that on Thursday he will wove for leave to bring in a Bill to give summary protection to the publishers of Parliamentary papers. By that means the Noble Lord proposes to ;:rovide for the exercise of the publishing privilege of the House in future ; but we see nothing in the notice which leads us to suppose that the Bill will clear away the present difficulty. How the Sheriff is to be released, what is to be done with Messrs. STOCKDALE, HOWARD, and PEARCE, we shall not now endeavour to con jecture ; but we may say that such a Bill will not remedy the real evil which the contest has brought prominently into notice. The Judges, by their decision, told the House of Commons—the guardian of our rights, the authority to which we look to have our grievances peacefully redressed —that the law declared it to be an offence, for which damages might be recovered, or punishment inflicted, for an individual or a public body in the performance of a solemn duty, to tell the truth of a bad man, or in fit and appropriate terms to describe the performer of an improper deed. The Judges declared to the House of Com mons that such an honourable performance of duty is by the law a libel. That is a scandalous and clic:graceful state of the law ; and Lord J. RUSSELL, after inducing the House of Commons to enter into a disgraceful squabble with the subordinate officers of the law, now proposes a Bill which is ❑ot to reform or abolish this unjust and scandalous Law, but to exempt the servants of the House of Commons from its jurisdiction. We must take leave to say that such a measure will only add an other had law to the bad legislation for which the people exclaim against the House of Commons. The law-makers declare by their conduct that the law, as interpreted by the Judges, its authorised ex pounders, is a bad law, and, instead of altering it, they IA ithdraw themselves from its jurisdiction, !caving the constituency exposed to its full force. This the public will call paltry, peddling law malting. The Moniteur of Sundav, which we have received together with the other Paris Journals of the same date, does not publish officially the list of the new Cabinet, but it was confidently asserted that it would appear in the Moniteur Parisian of that night. The Journal des Debuts, the mouthpiece of the KING, pub lishes the list, so that there is no longer any reason to suspect that it will undergo any modification. It is precisely the same as appeared in The Sun of yesterday, except that M. GOEIN is the new Miaiser of Finance, instead of M. LACAVE LAPLAGNE, who was first offered the Finance Portfolio, but declined it. The ultra-Liberal Journals are greatly dissatisfied with the political complexion of the new Cabinet. After ten days' travail, observes the National, the KING ipplie:l to the Duke DE BROGLIE, who thanked his MAJESTY, but stated that he preferred the education of his children to the duties of a Premier. M. MoLE was next invited to accept the Premiership, to which he before stuck so tenaciously ; hut his seat in the Academy had so reconciled him to the loss of his seat in the Cabinet, that he declared himself averse to the honour intanded him by his Sovereign. Seeing that nothing better remained to be done, Louts PHIL uppE found himself constrained to invoke the incon testable talent and the suspicious devotedness of M. 'NIERS, who, according to the same organ, has an swered the appeal by forming a Cabinet better calculated to display his attachment to Court interest than politi cal skill. The Ministry of the 12th of May was called a body without a head ; the Ministry of the Ist of March may be called a head without a body. For this reason the National refuses confidence to the New Cabinet ; and yet it is from the weakness of the body, and the strength of the head, that we derive hopes of its success. It is precisely because M. TmEtts is the Alpha and Omega of the New Cabinet that we con gratulate France on its formation. We admit that it consists almost entirely of a coalition of opposite parties, but it is a coalition of ciphers, severally of no value by themselves. A coalition which would have included the names of DE BROGLIE, MOLE, MAGUIN, ODILLON BARROT, PERSIL, GUIZOT, and TRIERS, OS members of one Ca binet, would indeed have augured well for the strength of the Cabinet, dree irgantio interests so f but v eoar, f I a unfavourably regards rnafanvcoe.o ruAb talent ycfoarb a i ntehn Cabinet ocifo personal mtvehsitcihe ca M. fo 'Dimas is the very soul, the guiding principle, the un controlled and uncontrollable director, is what is now wanted in France. Jn choosing Admiral Roussin for the Marine Department, THIERS al ready evinces a sympathy for England upon the Oriental question ; as, notwithstanding the Admi ral's frequent bickerings with Lord PONSONEY, it is very well known that his opposition to the claims of MEHEMET ALI, after the battle of Nezib, led to his recal from the Turkish Embassy. It is further evident that M. TRIERS wishes to avail himself of his expe rience, which he will be enabled to turn to profitable account. Having said this much of the composition of the Cabinet generally, our readers, no doubt, will be pleased t o l ea r n the National's political appreciation of the several ;Members individually. M. Tut Ens, the President of the Council and Minister for Foreign Affairs, is passed over in silence, his parts and claims to distinction being too well known to require particu lar notice on such an occasion. MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR.—M. de Remusat, adoctri naire, is connected by ambition with every combination, and has hitherto passed for a man of talent and of form, but has never been known as an administrator or man of business. M. Thiers intrusts to his discretion the mini nation of the prefects, and the election department. Does not this confidence savour of rashness, or d oes M. Thiers think that the surveillance of M. do Malleville, Under Se cretary of State for the Interior, will be sufficient to keep M. de Remusat within proper bounds ? MINISTER OF JUSTICE.—NI. Vivian is a third-rate orwor, and cannot flatter himself that ho possesses any influence in the Chamber or on the judicial body, either as a judge or a political character. MINISTER OF COMMERCE.—M. Pelet de la Lozere is a Peer of France, but this is not a sufficient title to intrust him with the improvement of our finances, which are de creasing daily. . MINISTER OF P UBLI C INSTRUCTION. —M. t,OUSII, of all the Ministers of Public Instruction that could be ap pointed, is certainly the one that will give least satisfac tion to those placed under his control. Will his popula rity in the tw o Chambers counterbalance this inconve nience? We doubt it much. It appears certain, how ever, that the disciple of Kant, the translator of Plato, the possessor of five or six different salaries, and the despiser of vain titles, occupies a high rank in the dornesticite of 11. Thiers. MINISTER OF Wan.--M. Cubieres is a court general, having no other title to the confidence of the country and of the army than his pusillanimous negotiations with the Pope respectin g the occupation of Ancona, his desertion of the tri.colour Aug, the persecutions directed against the Italian patriots, the shameful evacuation of the town so boldly taken by Admiral Gallois and Colonel Combes. the I favouritism, servility, and shower of decorations which , marked his administration of the war department during the Ministerial interregnum in April last. MINISTER OF MARINE Admiral Roussin is a clever and brave sailor, hut he has the misfortune of hcing syste matically opposed to Egypt, and his forced recal from 'Con stantinople augurs badly for the part that the naval force of France will have to take in the eastern question, wbieli wears such a threatening aspect. MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS.--M. Jaubert is a very smart orator; he interests himself much respecting the material interest of his department, and a little, occasion ally, respecting the general interest of the country. 711. Jaubert lately proposed that the Louvre should be termi mated at the expense of the State. This will assuredly procure him the favour of the civil list, which intended, at least so it was said, to take on itself the expenses of this construction. M. Jaubert has another merit ; he will be an active dissolvent for the new Ministry. MINISTER OF COMMERCE.—M. Gomn has made himself known by his endeavouring to obtain the conversion of the Five per Cents., but has never to our knowledge had any thing to do with commercial matters. It is for this reason, probably, that he is placed at the head of the commerce department, instead of being made Minister of Finance. Such is the body of the New Cabinet. It is weak enough, in all conscience, but it could hardly be made stronger without the introduction of elements likely to thwart the views of the head. M. TRIERS is the po litician of an emergency, and France is in the midst of one. In a calm and in smooth water M. DE BROGLIE and M. MOLE would be a thousand times safer State pilots, but in a storm, off a lee shore, the bold decision, bordering on rashness, of M. TRIERS, offers a kind of guarantee for the safety of the vessel. The following telegraphic despatch, dated 25th ult., is addressed from General CASTELLANE to Gene ral HARIsPE " The Consul of France at Valencia writes me, that from the reports of the commanders of the vessels sent in pursuit of the Barbary corsairs, said to have been seen off the coast, it appears that the statement respecting them was without foundation." _ _ The French Government pays dearly enough for in telligence not to be fooled in this way. A telegraphic despatch received at Marseilles announced that two Bar bary corsairs were cruising off the Spanish coast. Two days subsequently another despatch said the statement was untrue. Five days later another despatch asserted that the first statement was true, and that two French vessls of war were sent in pursuit of them. Here we have a fourth despatch repeating what was said in the 5 mud ! Tho Indicateur of Bordeaux of the 28th ult. states, that at a public meeting held there that day, a Committee was appointed to conduct the establishment of steam communi cation between that city and New York. M. Guestier, junior (late Deputy for the Depart of La Gironde), sub scribed 200,000 f. towards the proposed undertaking. The latest news from Madrid is contained in the Paris Papers of Sunday. The Moniteur Parisien of Saturday night contains the following telegraphic des patch, which is copied into all the Journals of Sunday : Baycnne, Feb. 29, One,p.m. THE GENERAL COMMANDING THE 20TH DIVISION TO TIIB MINISTER OF WAR. The Ambassador writes to me on the 25th that the emeute was confined to the environs of the hall of the Cortes, sad had no ramification amongst the population, which remained tranquil. The 25th had passed over without disturbance. Madrid was perfectly quiet. We confess that those despatches following one ano• ther in such succession have something of a stock jobbing appearance. What other intelligence has reached us from Spain will be found embodied in the annexed extracts from the French Journals : NEWS `FROM SPAIN. The Univers contains the following lines respecting the disturbances which have caused the capital of Spain to be declared in a state of siege " It is affirmed that the Government have received from Madrid other despe.tches besides those published to-day, and that they have brought news of a still more serious nature." With respect to the army, a letter from Saragossa con tains what follows : " The Duke proceeded yesterday from Muniers towards Segura with the flying artillery and a battery of howitzers. To-day he is to reconnoitre the place. The battery can non are ready. " O'Donnell left Teruel on the same day with the escort that accompanied him to that place. Segura was on the point of capitulating ; a spy has spoilt all; but the death of the Governor and of two other officers is confirmed. " The capitulation of Segura is expected : as soon af, that fort has surrendered, Aliaga arid Castillote will be at tacked at the s:me time."—Le Commerce. MUNIERA, Fsn. 22.—N0 news. It is affirmed that the garrison of Segura has r.ffercd to capitulate, and that thi, teas what has delayed the movement of the troops.—Con stitutionnel. There is a report on the Spanish frontier of a great vic tory, said to have been gained by Cabrera, over a strong division of Espartero'e army. Our private letters mention the fact, without at its truth, and without giving any details. The news, though very generally st , read, therefore in need of confirmation.—Le Gazettede France. tiIBURG 1301tiEN HALLE, Feu 221. Bills. Money. Austrian 0 per. Cents. ...... . .... - IOS% 103% Bank ',Mares iT A n Russian Loan lO9 „ . !.). Russian S per Cent. Ist series, C6rtiticate Inscription, Ist Seri.; Russian 5 per Cent. Holy: and Co. 3d and 4th Set ks 99 933,4 Ditto in Certificates Dutch ~ _ ctual Debt, 2% pe. Cent. s'2 Ditto 5 per Cent 9B - Polish Bond New 1 icket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Ceti' 74 ..i 71 1 ,1, Norwegian Lnati, 1•-3-1, 4 per Cent....... lO2 S i ,anish, New .I per Cents. •1 % EXCHANGES 0 N LONDON. ILisinuao, FEB 28.-13. 7—Two months, 13 5%. CITY ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN.—About one o'clock this afternoon the Lord Mayor proceeded from the Mansion-house in great state to present the Ad dress to her Majesty on her marriage. He was accom• panned by a number of Aldermen, Common Council men, and all the chief City dignitaries except two— the unfortunate Sheriffs. His Lordship was in the civic state carriage, guarded by City policemen, drawn by six horses, richly caparisoned, and followed by long train of splendid equipages, amounting to son), twenty or thirty—almost rivalling Royalty itself. the authorities were , in their state robes, and wore• white favours, and some of them of a vast size to repre sent their loyalty. The drivers and footmen also wore the same emblems. The day being uncommonly fine, the procession had a good effect, and was followed and gazed at by hundreds.• MR. SIDNEY SMITH'S LECTURES ON THE Cosa-LAws.—At the Hall of Science, in the City-road, a very large and intelligent audience last evening assembled, 'for the purpose of hearing an address by Mr. Sidney Smith upon the evils of the Corn-laws. The lecture was delivered under the auspices of the Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law Association. It was very favourably received throughout, and at its conclu sion many questions were asked by Socialists, Chartists, and others. The meeting lasted for three hours and a half, and the lecturer continued to defend his positions and to answer all in quiries, until the audience themselves declared that they were satisfied, and that they would permit no mere questions to be put. At the termination three cheers were given for the lec turer, and three cheers for the total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws ; and a petition embodying total and immediate repeal was very numerously signed by the audience. MR. BEULER'S CONCERT.—Last evening this gentleman gave a Concert at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, which was well attended. The first piece of entertainment was an address from the chief pet former, which made allusions to • many subjects, and was delivered with that humour and fervour peculiar to Mr. Beuler. It concluded with the following no• tice of that wonderful personage the " Wizard of the North," who, we are glad to see, continues to draw full houses :—" My neighbour, the necromancer of the' Strand,' has be-gun with a gun, and in imitation of his gun-trick, I have procured confe derates of talent to assist this evening, who to me will prove great guns,' and will go off with good report, provided you be kind enough to load them with applause." The performers had no reason to complain of want of praise. Mr. Beuler's song, " The lamed butcher," produced roars of merriment, and the beautiful air " Hours of Sorrow," by Mrs. Aveling Smith, was loudly and deservedly applauded. The concert al together went off well. Pious FRAUD.—The article " Aberdeen," in the number of the " Statistical Account of Scotland," just published, contains, under the head " Newspapers," a number of misrepresentations which, so far from being accidental, seem obviously dictated by a spirit of paltry spite against this journal. The principles of the Herald are calumniated in a manner for which the responsible parties may, perhaps, be made +o answer in another place. But this is not all; with a meanness which only some professing saint could be geilty of, the circulation of the Ilrrald is represented at one-third less than its actual amount, while the circulation of the Journal is given pretty correctly, and the circulation of the Constitutional is rather exaggerated.—Aberdeen herald.—[ln looking over the last number of the" Statistical Account of Scotland," we observed a malignant insinuation thrown out against this spirited paper, but refrained from any remarks, because we believed the insi nuation was made by some pious but mistaken individual of the six gentlemen who drew up the account. When it turns out, however, that not only the political and religious principles of the paper are impugned, but that the writer has wilfully mis-stated the circulation of the Herald, we can only say that it must be a subject of regret that an article in that useful work should be debased by such a wicked and uncharitable imputation.] SURREY THEATRE.—Last night a new piece was produced at this house with entire success, which in the language of the play bill is styled " An historical dramatic legend, illustrative of the manners, customs, and superstitions of London in the olden time," entitled the City Apprentice; or, The Three Lilies. The drama appears to be founded on an ancient superstition which is supposed to have prevailed at the time when the belief in astrology was general, and was to this effect, that the marks which appeared on the body of a child at its birth were types of its future fate, and mainly influenced its destiny. In corroboration of this general theory, the author has selected, as an instance, the legend of the " City Appren tice." The piece, on the whole, has been got up with great care and attention to scenic effect, and was well supported throughout by the whole of the dramatis persona. We cannot but express our admiration of some very beautiful scenery, to the introduction of which the piece gi7es occasion —viz., a pic ture of the city of London in the reign of Charles 11., of Bar badoes by sunset, passing the Granadian Islands by moonlight, thence to Carthagena and the Leeward Islands, and the bay and town of Panama. The drama was most favourably received, and was announced for repetition every evening amidst the plaudits of a very crowded audience. On Monday Mrs. Hannah Dodgson, of Herod well, died, aged 105 years and seven months ; this venerable lady has left eight children, 63 grandchildren, and 161 great grandchildren.—Lincoln Chronicle. A very lame otter was lately caught in the river Isis, a short distance from Iffleymill, by Mr. Wyatt, of Utley pound. It was four feet eleven inches in length, and upwards of 26 inches in girth, and is considered to be the largest ever found in this neighbeurhood.— Oxford Herald. CRIMINAL COCE.T.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.) DARING ATTEMPT AT HIGHWAY ROBBERY.— William Tanner, aged 23, and William Brown, aged 19, were indicted for feloniously assaulting William Usher, upon the Queen's highway, with intent to rob him. It appeared from the evidence that about twelve o'clock on the night of the 24th of February, the prosecutor was on his way home, across the St. George's-road, Lambeth, when he suddenly received a severe blow on the head from the prisoner Brown, who, it appeared, had been following him. At the same moment the prisoner Tanner tripped him up, and threw him with great vio lence, on the ground. The prisoners then both threw themselves upon the prosecutor, and Tanner attempted to snatch n bundle that he was carrying from him, and Brown began to rifle his pockets. A person named Lees proved that he saw part of the transaction, and laid hold of Brown and tried to secure him, but he made a violent resistance, and hit him on the hand. A policeman came up, and, after a severe struggle, the prisoners were secured. It now appeared that there were three other men with the prisoners at the time, but they succeeded in getting away. The prisoners, in their defence, denied the charge. The Jury found the prisoners Guilty. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS sentenced the prisoners to be im prisoned, and kept to hard labour, for twelve calendar months. NEW COURT. Mary Ann Hari was indicted for stealing a purse con taining 6i. 6d. on the 24th of February last ; and John Cooper stood indicted for having feloniously received the same, knowing it at the time to have been stolen. Julia Nelthorp swore that on the Seth of February last, while walking in Leadenhall-street with a young lad, she felt the prisoner Mary Hart slip her hand into her pocket, and perceived that she had stolen her purse from it. She laid hold of the hand, but the prisoner walked away, after having turned round and abused her. The boy, with whom Julia Nelthorp hcd been walking, appeared to prove the case. He had followed the prisoner, and asked her for the purse, which he saw her hand over to the other prisoner John Cooper. Another witness, named Houdon, came forward to prove the case, but his name had not been in the indictment. He had been in the crowd at the time the transaction had taken place, and had seen the purse in Hart's possession. Messrs. Phillips and Doane defended the prisoners. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against both parties. A policeman here came forward and swore that the pri soners had been implicated in various acts of felony. The COURT sentenced them to ten years' imprisonment. E VENING EDITION. COURT CIRCULAR. Ht..r Mjesty held a Dinner Party, last evening, at Buckingham Pala"e. The Company consists , d of their Rot al HighneFses the Duchess of Cambridge, t. he Princess August- of Candyidg - e Led the Due of unsex, his Sorene Highness the Ileri..diary Prince of Saxe Cobourg- Gotha, the Cuuntess of Lichfield, the Earl of Urrol, the Earl of thibiiige, Earl and Countess of Surrey and Lady Mary H . oward, Earl of march, Visuoutit Mel bourne, Lord and Lady Cowley and the Bore. Miss Wellesley, Lord and Lady Kinnaird, L,,rd Lord Robert Grosvenor, Baron de Heringen, Lady Barham, Lady Fanny Howard, Miss Kerr, Hon. Miss Lister, Hon. Miss Murray, Baroness Lehzen, Marquis of Headfort, GenrTal the 1-::n. Sir William Lumley, Colonel \Vcmvss, Colonel Wylde, Mr. Seymour, Baron de Lowenfels and Baron de Gruben. The Dilner was served iu the State Dinner-room., This apartment, since last season, lies been greatly im proved; it has a vaulted ceiling divided into pannals enriched with carved stucco work of a very elegant and tasteful design, having three large circular compartments in the centre. Many of the mouldings or ornaments in relief have been gilt, and the entire ceiling and walls have been fresh coloured. Pier-glasses or the largest dimen sions occupy the spaces between all the windows ! the draperies also are new, and of the richest description, the effect of the whole being very magnificent and striking. At the end of the room is a square recess not extending to the full height of the apartment, and•over it is an ante room, where the band of the First Life Guards were sta tioned last evening during dinner. The back of the recess is fitted up with large mirrors in gold fraincs. The style of the room is now in unison with the other State Apart ments.wit'i which it communicates. The Grand Hall and Sculpture Gallery have also been embellished since last year. All the capitals of the numerous Corinthian columns have been gilt, and some of the mouldings in the entablature, the soffitas of the architrave, and the ovolos of the ceiling, have been gilt, thus relieving the whole of the ceilings. In the Grand Hall four new lanterns, furnished by Messrs. Perry, have been introduced, of a very hand some design. The Queen gave audiences yesterday to the Marquis of Normanby and Viscount Melbourne. Col. Wemyss has relieved Lord Alfred Paget in the duty of Equerry in Waiting on her Majesty. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visited the Princess Augusta yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's. Her Majesty honoured Messrs. Copeland and Garrett with a visit to their manufactory yesterday. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, and also the Princess Augusta, at Clarence House, St. James's. Mr. Emerson Tennent, M.P., Mr. Dunbar, M.P., Mr. Townley Parker, M. P., and Mr. Mulholland, a De putation to present a memorial from the flax-spinning in terest of Belfast, on the subject of the French duty on linen-yarns, had an interview with Mr. Labouchere yester day at the Board of Trade. Baron Bulow. the Prussian Minister, had an interview with Viscount Melbourne yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. His Excellency also pa;d visits to Viscount Palmerston and other Cabinet Ministers, on his return from the Continent. Sir De Lacy Evans, Mr. Leader, and a Deputation from St. George, Hanover-square, St. Anne Soho, and St. James Westminster, had an interview with the Marquis of Normanby, yesterday, at the Home Office. A numerous Deputation connected with the Silk Trade had an interview yesterday with Mr. Labouchere, at the Board of Trade. Sir Thomas Phillipps had an interview yesterday with the Marquis of Normanby, at the Home Office. k ASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Earl and Countess Somers, at Thomas's Hotel, frosts , Brighton ; the Hon. Mrs. Augustus Craven and family, . at the Clarendon Hotel, from Nice; tL•e Right Hon. Chales Arbuthnot, at Apaley House; the Earl and I Countess of Wilton, in Grosvenor-square, from Strath fieldsaye; Viscount Belgrave, at Grosvenor House, Park lane, from Motcombe House, near Shaftesbury ; Captain Cumming, 90th Light Infantry, from Dover Castle ; Mr. and Mrs. Wildman, in Park-street; Lord and Lady In gestrie and family, in Belgrave-square ; Sir J. and Lady Hamilton, in Gloucester-place; Lord William Powlett, from Bath ; Mr. and Mrs. Estcourt, in Bond -street, from a Continental tour; Lieut.-General Sir Charles and , Lady Doyle, from ditto ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury and family, in Grosvenor-square, from Dover; Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Errington, in Hill street, from Italy ; Colonel Pemberton, from Dover ; Sir Wm. Heatbeete, from Hinsley Park, Hant- ; the Countess of Norbury and the Ladies Toler, at the late residence of the Duchess of Gordon, in Belgrave-square ; the Misses Beresford, at the Archbishop of Armagh's, in Charles street, St. James's: Lord and Lady James Hay, at Craw ley's Hotel, Albernarle.street; the Earl of Wiltshire and Lieut.-Colonel Paget, in .iohn•street, Berkeley-square; Mr. and Mrs. Norton, in Harley-street, from Elton Manor, Nottinghamshire.. DEPARTURES. Major-General Dickson, for Berkshire ; Capt. Cald well, 90th regiment, for Dover; Lord William Compton• 45th regiment, for Plymouth; Mr. Fleetwood; Lady and . Miss Pellew, from Grafton -street, for Paris; the Duke and Duchess de Rovigo and suite, for Dublin ; Captain Gorden, from the St. James's Hotel, for Paris; the lte° Dr. Taharn, from tha Burlington Hotel, for Cambridgeil the Rev. Lor 1 A. Fitzelarence, from ditto, for Oxford shire; Lord Barrington, from Cavendish-square, . for Showenham Hall, Berko; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jacob, from the Diehop or Saltstmrrs, Portman. square, on a tour; Lord Andover, for Wiltshire ; Mr. Charles Fel towes, for Winchester; Mr. Manners Sutton, for Naples;. Mr. and Lady Mary Vynor, fur West Park, Beds. Monday being the anniversary of the Queen of Hanover's birth-day, the King of Hanover gave inatructiona ,, that his household should have a dinner, ball, and supper, at his Majesty's apartments, in St. James's Palace, and also them of Ketv Palace are to have similar entertainments at his Ma— jesty's expense. Ref CROXTETH HALL, LANCASHIRE.—The -- of Sefton will entertain a large party at his hospitable seat, oni Thursday. Covers will be laid in the grand saloon for al elegant dinner to 40 noblemen and gentlemen, after the aunt- 1 , steeple-chase at Liverpool. . . WYCOMBE ABBEY, Buc xs.—Lord Carrington , the new Lord-Lieutenant of the county, will give a sumptuous, entertainment, on Friday next, to the Judges going the Nor folk Circuit (Sir J. Parke and Sir Edward H. Alderson), the High Sheriff ( H. Hippisley, Esq. ), the Grand Jury, and a dis tinguished party. Ihe Noble Lord has also invited a fashion; able circle to rass the Easter recess at the Abbey, which, the period, will be full of Company. The Earl of Uxbridge, Lord Chamberlain, w e ' understand, has determined, on the return of the Court to Wind' sor, that tickets shall be issued to poor families resident hi tu e toisn, who are to attend daily at the Castle and receive what commonly termed the waste." This plan, we learn, is to adopted in consequence of one or two suspicious circurnstal e i ! having transpired with the servants, who have hith er t o been lowed the privilege o: taking it themselves. The Earl and Countess of Jersey, and LRdi Sarah Villiers, were among the fashionables at her MajestY A : B soiree dansante, l as t even i ng , at B uc ki ng h am Palace. Laui Sarah is to make her debut in the beau monde this season. Baron Oscar Bjornstjerna, of the King of S% den's Guards, the eldest son of the Swedish Ambassador, arrived at the Swedish Embassy, in Belgrave.slreet. Lady Beresford leaves Paris on Thursday next for Boulogne-sur-Mer. DOVER, MARCH I.—This day, about noon+ her Majesty's packet Myrtle, Captain Lyne, arrived with hio Excellency Baron Bulow, the Prussian Ambassador, and suitO who, on landing, went to the Ship Hotel, from whence he dr': parted about one o'clock for London, under a salute from tit' guns at the heights. ROYAL FAMILY OF RUSSIA.—We learn from St. Petersburg th a t th e H ere di tary G ran d D u k e o f R u ssia 4,, set out for Germany to war d s th e en d o f M arc h. Aft e r make short visits to Warsaw, Weimar, and Darmstadt, his Impel Highness will go to Ems and Baden, wh e r e he will be f lowed by the Empress. In the mean time the Emperor will {l O to Moscow, and probably to Odessa, to inspect the troop6l" the south. On Friday evening Prince George of Canibrid, o honoured Sir Matthew and Lady Tierney by dining with the: at the residence of the Hon. Baronet. His Royal High°,. e i, was accompanied by Colonels Stawell and Barton, and the lowing distinguished persons also joined the party at dinner Lord and Lady Oxmantown, Hon. Lady Noel Hill, the BIS of Worcester, Sir James liesnett, Mr. P ee l, an d Mr. 13 al Hamilton. In the evening a large party of fashionables w'r invited to meet his Royal Highness. The Duke of Wellington arrived at Arl e f House, Monday, from Strathfieldsaye, and at four o'clock pn ceeded in a close carriage 'o attend in his place in the Hous e ; Lords, where he was congratulated by his Noble Friends on restoration to health. DEATH FROM MACHIN ERY .—OiI We— att - er ' 0 day afternoon a young m an , name d Th omas Rid ya rd, 11 .0 killed by the machinery in the car di ng roam a t th e cotton of Messrs. Bolling, in Bridge-street, Bolton. HERRING FISHERY.—The curers here NI apeiebnlrnielogegeya. EXTENSION egedt n xea: g dkl.Tsa a_ eost g Ennt: e A,N d yafi bet: aaeh t isrtr h odht; oeeeNineearr creased.—. Aberdeen hodta b HO:hbv o hiFeeis a atnr t asd s a:nl atdii f stt o . prwnnr would w t eut h ti,l e lsdbl. forthcoming ehbeaneveTituhhhileacytenenn queeui rmo:nlb h ss etti e ador r te r itr i ooha n nfab g st ; io; THE SUFFRAGE.--We. RA GE.—We, a a f t : glad to state that, as soon as Mr. Hume brings in a / 3) ," A "to r the extension of the franchise a public meeting will be h'';i4e this town, in support of household suffrage, when the " Points" will be fairly discussed, with those who adhere to th e ': —Leicestershire Mercury. NATAL ACCIDENT.—This morning, betwe en ten and elev en o ' c l oc k , a gent l emen of the name of Clit ller° r e •• ' about t wenty- f our years of age, and who resided at Citelbep, well, was drowned in the Surrey Canal. The young n' o with some friends, was skating on the canal, when the ice f a ll way, and he unfortunately got under it, which renderso assistance hopeless. in An occasional correspondent states that aVO g c ity, man, the collecting clerk of a wholesale d..uggist in the. t was robbed this forenoon in Paternoster-row, w hile loo l e"ne0 the fire, of a pocket-book containing bank-notes and co e f „ g S " t he to the amount of 8501. but he gives neither the name 0 ' firm nor of the clerk. art , PRE-PAID AND POST-PAID.— A traues.- ar t a few days since, complaining to another that the gre ate o r ibi s of the letters he received were not pre-p a id, w hile thou n eat friend were so, the latter replied, "I thi n k y ou have n O reason to complain, for your letters are paid as well as rf o a re the only difference being that mine are pre-paid and yo°. post-paid." IS, $ CURIOUS FAMILY REGISTER.—Thefe _ o s family in Bolton, that have a Bible con t a i n i ng a ll their.slroe entered by their father and grandfath er , w h o us ed to c hl 'illi s with dates by the following plan : "Eawr Jem wur bon frost' America war. Eawr !Teary wur born in that great Eaprt Eawr Bill wur born when Ostler wur killed i'th' delPh" favir Sally wur born when Gorsley Meadow wur mown' when Peggy wur born i'th' great wind. Eawr John wur born coo' Holland wur hung. E awr R o bb ut wur b orn w hen th e w ur run at my mother i'th' Hedger Lones. Eawr Jenny n ieces born when Longworth win gibbeted, un owd peroli rt r re ace wur made. Eawr Ch ar l otte wur b orn w h en the s. b , 00 DIY trzlr Il z 1 ma d, o f a }evrit,,v,, ref ..g. aver you t•vcti in year 10 , ":"-- :;')/ tiler ' BOW-STREET-(THIS DAY.) DUEL PEEVENTID.—Prince Napoleon, with Le Colin , Leon, his cuusin, were brought up in the custody of several constables of the A division, on a charge of attempting a breach of the peace, by fighting a duel this morning on ‘Vimhledon Common ; and Count D'Orsay, Charles Parquin, a foreigner, Colonel Ratcliffe, and a man named Keon, who appeared to be a servant, were charged with aiding and abetting in the same. It appeared from the statement of Inspector Pierce, that he pursued the parties to Wimbledon Common this morning at six o'clock, and on arriving on the ground he found the seconds consulting whether the dispute shoald be decided by fighting with swords or pistols, and on telling them under ,what authority he acted, he was suffered to take charge of the implements of death, and they were conveyed to the station-house. The combatants are first cousins, but the cause of the quarrel did not transpire. Mr. JARDINE ordered the principals to be bound over in 5001. each, and two sureties in 2501. each, to keep the peace fur the next twelve months. • The seconds were ordered to put in bail, themselves in 100/. each, and two sureties in 50/. each, to keep the peace for the same time ; but the defendant, Keon, was allowed to enter into his own recognizance?. The required sureties being in attendance, the parties went through the usual forms, and left the Court. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) E UNGERFORD MARKET. Fair supplies, and a brisk trade—prices as last quoted. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Supplies good, trade brisk, and prices reasonable. Turbot 64. to 20s. ; C.d, 3s. to 12s. ; Salmon, 2s. to 2s. 6d. per lb. ; Oysters, 245. to 60s. per bushel ; Whitings, 4d. to Bd. ; Haddocks, Bd. to Is. 3d. ; Mackerel, Bd. to Is. ; good Smelts 60s. per 100; and salt fishery cheap. HAY MARKETS. Supplies moderate, and demand good; prices rather looking up. Hay, 60s. to 905.; Clover, 90s. to 118 s. ; Straw, 34s to 425. per load. TALLOW MARKET. But little business transacted, and the nearest price of P. Y. C. vas 51s. 3d. to 518. 6d. TEA MARKET. There was scarcely any business done, and the regular trade did nothing. _ _ _ _ _ COLONIAL MARKET. There were but few public sales of produce, and by private contract„ S not any important operations. The imports continue -lender. In British Plantation Sugar no uariation, and the Market very steady. We had public sales of 100 hhds. Barba loes, and I,OSO bags Bengal ; the former damaged, and the latter a mixed parcel, and their prices continue for the Market. 100 puns. West India Molasses went at about 325. for good. Coffee very quiet, and prices a trifle easier. The only pur chase worth notice was 1,700 bags Java, which realized about its previous worth. 2,100 bags Bengal Rice realized about 13s. for fair _quality, MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL' COTTON MARKET, MONDAY. —ThaI sales of this day arc 2,800 bales, at no improvement of prices. Market very flit. Owing to the north-easterly winds, we continue with• out any arrivals, with the exception of the French 'nail and Express from Paris. The general opinion is, that the first telegraph de spatch from Bayonne relative to Spain was a stock jobbing manoeuvre, in consequence of which the Spanish Active has improved this morning from the leaving off price of yesterday, 28i 29i to 294. Although them: is no official intelligence from Paris of the appointment of the new French Ministry, neverthe. less there is no doubt entertained of Thiers's Adminis tration. ?HIE FINDS. Consols continue firm at the leaving off quotations of Yesterday, 904 Money, and for Account 91 to 91k, ;vith little doing ; Exchequer Bills 3 5 premium ; India Bonds. 2 dis , par ; Bank Stock, 178 179 ; India Stock, 248 249. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active is the favourite speculation at present, and may be quoted at 29 i. Spanish Passive, 7- -I,- ; Defer , ed, 14/ ; Columbian, 25 . / 264-; Protuguese, 34 35, Three per Cents., 23i 24* ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half pet Cents. b3l i; Five per Cents.. 100 101/.. All the Foreign Funds to the present time, with the exception of Spanish, continue at the leaving off price of yesterday. PRICKS OF STOCKS TIIIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Sank St•wk rifix. 9 e% , India Stock - 3 per Cent. Red. — Ditto Bonds I unt I per Cents. C0n.... ......90% X i % South Sea Stock 3!y per Cent — Old Annuities 85% • • )itto Red. PoN%% New Ditto New 3V, per Cent 99 bh 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. Sank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Ditto Advertised ..... 5 a pre. erci c al no.. 5 3 put. Jan, 5, 1800........ ...... ... D D i i t t t t o o c S o m m a m li Bank Stock for Account ... ---- dis• ..1 0: , ! . . 1 5 0 , , 1115(14)............................ .. .... .... = pm. Jan. 5, I I S ;i ( f ) ; ***************** . --_, c lo o r n li s a o s: f o o e r k a fo c r e A otin ceru n t .. ~ .1 Jan. :5.1570 PRICES OF FOREIGN FU NDSItiIS DA 1 AT ONE 0 CLOCK Nustriaii Bondi — Periivi•An iloi,ls Belgian Bonds Ditto Account 3razilisn Bonds Ditio New Bonds Ditto Iccount 3uenas yres Bcnds Ditto Account ............ Ditto, 3 per Cent. ........ 7,:sltto . ACco un t Ditto Icso:tnt .3o d r, t atto nt lttizsian Bends, i 82........., Columtian Bc 'ids — Ditto Account ............... Dittz iC.I2, nt Columbian i: d 5,1824 ... 291 k , k 1.11:,10 icto IA —, Ditto Account. 29% 80 29 zSi Janish Bonds Ditto Act.tt• nt —, Delcrred ...................... Hy, Greek Broibis — French, 5 per cent. f. c. Ditto Bonds, 1825 _ ' --_ 4 per cent. Ditto Account — , ---- 3 per cent. ...... ...f. -c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — ----- Exchange, —f. —c. , Dutch, 2% per ce n t. 53% 1.,, Ditto Account _ ; Ditto, 6 per Cent. Ditto Account oN% Ditto, 5 per cent 11 0 34 Neapolitan — Ditto Account."... — PRICES OF SHARES THIS DA sr AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. British Iron Company London and Westminster Bank 20 24% HALF-PAST 0117.11. Accounts from Hanover of the 25th February state that his Majesty the King is reported to be unwell ; on the preceding Sunday the King held a meeting with several Generals, but was obliged to leave the meeting, and retired to bed at four o'clock in the afternoon ; but no bulletins have as yet appeared. In the British Market little business has been done during the morning. Consols continue firm at 91 for the Account ; Money 90i ; Exchequer Bills 5 3 prem. ; India Bonds 1 dis. 1 prem. ; Bank Stock 1781 ; India Stock nothing done. In the Foreign Market no business doing in any of the Funds, with the exception of Spanish Acive, which con tinues buoyant, and reached, in the course of the morning, 30. We understand that the rise is not only attributed to Thiers being Prime Minister, but to a scheme in agita tion in the Stock Exchange with the Spanish Bondholders, which will furnish them better security than the y hold at present for the payment of their dividends. Spanish Active 29{; Deferred 148 ; Passive, 78 i; Portuguese, 34f Three per Cents., 238 ; Colombian nothing done ; Mexi can, 29f 8 ; Dutch Two.and.a-Half per Cents., 53i; Five per Cents., mi. PENALTY OF POPERY.—UpOII an atten dance of the Irish at the race course of Assolas, in Clare, their horses were all seized under the Elizabethan law, that no Irishman should have in his possession a horse of the value of more than Si. : and this was carried half a century later into execution, as it is not more than forty-seven years ago that a Catholic's horse in this county having won a heat from some of the Protestant gentry's nags, the beast was claimed by one of them, according to the law ; but, it was successfully resisted upon the part of the Catholic gentlemen by the rest of the Pro testants assembled there. FATAL ACCIDENT.-- On Saturday morning last about the period when the colliers of the Erwfawr colliery, Llanelly, had commenced their work, six of them were in the act of being let down in the basket, when it came in collision with another a hich was ascending at the same time, the con cussion was so violent that three of them were thrown out, and precipitated to the bottom, a depth of 50 or 60 yards. One of the poor fellows uttered a few groans before he expired, but the other two w ere qu it e d ea d . Had the p i t b een furnished with conducting r o d s , th e acc id ent wou l d not h ave h ap p ene d . Welshman. Lord Tenterden will give a grand dinner to-day, in Portman. , quare, to the Princ , .! an Princes'.;r.f Captia, Lord and Lady Dinorben, and a select party.