The Sun. — London, England, 1840-04-21 00:00:00

EVEN IN Or EDITION . I HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY PREMIUMS, which (though they are NO LOTTERI ES) I 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 towing any order, the PROSPECTUS and PAR TICULARs, upon addressing WITHOUT DELAY, a line HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. P. S.—THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains Portions if TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND, FIVE THOUSAND, TWO THOUSAND, ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED, ONE THOUSAND, NIGHT HUNDRED, SIX HUNDRED, FIVE HUN / DRED, THREE HUNDRED, TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY, TWO HUNDRED, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY, ONE HUN DRED AND TEN, and ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, &c. &e., amounting to £134,990 Sterling. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS, THIS EVENING, APRIL 21. Will be performed Colman'e Comedy of JOHN BULL. After which will be repeated, the entirely New and Original Grand Comic, Romantic, Operatic, Melodramatic, Fairy Extravaganza, in Three Parts, entitled and founded on that popular Nursery Tale, THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. The Principal Characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. J. Vining, Mr. J. Bland, Madame Vestris, Miss Rainforth, Mrs. C. Jones, &c. &e. Dress Boxes, is. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken at the Box-of ce, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. BUTLER. THIS EVENING, APRIL 21, Will be presented, for the second time, A ROYAL COMMISSION FROM PARIS. Monsieur Jollivet, Mr. F. Vining; Alexis Kerbout, Mr. Baker ; Madame Jollivet, Miss Fitzwalter; Causette, Miss Ayres (from the National Theatre, New York) her first ap pearance here. After which, Forty-second Night, THE LADIES' CLUB. Open every night at half-past 7. and close proceedings at 9, Mrs. Fitzsmith (the Chairwoman), Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by LEGACY HUNTING. Sir Richard Playwell, Mr. Baker ; General Playwell, Mr. Brookes ; Fanny, Miss Fitzwalter. To conclude with the New and Original Drama (by the author of " The Ladies' Club"), called GWYNYETH VAUGHAN. Gwynneth Vaughan, Mrs. Stirling ; Owen Williams, Mr. Baker ; Evan Pritchard, Mr. Hell ; Hugh Morgan, Mr. G. Wild. Boxes, 4s. Pit, 2s. Gallery, Is. Second Price immediately after the Ladies' Club. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The Theatre has been entirely Re-Decorated, and embellished in a novel and tasteful style, during the Recess. Extraordinary and extensive Novelty. Three entirely New Pieces, with splendid Scenery. Costumes, and Appointments. THIS EVENING, APRIL 21, Will be acted an entirely New Village Tragedy, illustrating Hogarth's celebrated " Harlot's Progress," entitled THE LIFE OF A WOMAN ; OR, THE CURATE'S DAUGHTER. After which, a New Comic Drama, called THE WET NURSE. To conclude with an entirely New Romance, entitled THE VENETIAN ; OR, THE COUNCIL OF TEN. The Scenery comprising some of the most splendid Views in Venice. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have not seen what E. D. alludes to. HIGH ".WATER AT LONDON mtwoE Te_meitßow. Nioniing S minutes after 5 Eveninc , 4 minutes alter 5 • 'The Publication of the Evening. Edition of THE SUN corn rnenced at 10 minutes after Three. ..., e ...p_. ;yam ---:,..„., --?7.,:„._,, , 14-, 4 ( L __ . „ 1, '"; I` , "*"'<- , ~.4.%. • . ) .'-'___l,l-_t_:.,-;,.-_:.,46•-zl.-.6:r- , ' c 7- '. _k 4 =' " - r _ LONDON: TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1840. The Journal des Debuts has published a right sensible article on the question of the British dis pute ) with China. Our influential Paris Contem porary has taken so enlightened a view of this 1 question as must put to the blush the ignorant as -1 sumptions of the short-sighted Tory Journals of this country. The Debuts indulges in none of the maudlin sentimental drivel of the Herald, or the reckless unblushing falsehoods of the Times. Jealous as France may feel of our influence in the East, yet one of the , ablest advocates of her sup posed rival interests scorns to take advantage of the Tory outcry in England to misrepresent a , question of such magnitu d e as t h e contest with China. We entreat the earnest attention of the people of Great Britain to the language of our French Contemporary : The great Commissioner Lin is converting Canton into a fortified town, and displaying great vigour and foresight, and all this on account of a few bales of opium. Let it not, however, be supposed that the present question is purely commercial—it is of far higher importance. The prudence of China has been alarmed by the victories which the English have obtained of late in Cal oil, Nepaul, and Ammerapourah. This last district is six hundred leagues from Caboul, which is close on the frontiers of Tartary. The Chinese have so fully felt the dangerous consequence of this advance on the part of the English, that they have laid aside their pacific habits and have thrown into Thibet an armed population, formidable by its numbers, if not by its courage, and which will find in the inacces•ible moun tains of the country natural fortifications against the inva sion of the sepoys, under their British Commanders. Si milar alarm was entertained by the Chinese when England effected the conquest of the Birman empire. They then threw a considerable army into Cochin China, thereby ex tending their natural limits, relieving the empire of five hundred thousand half-starved soldiers, and placing a new and immense obstacle between European usurpation and the Court of Pekin. Certainly this policy on the part of the Chinese is by no means deficient in foresight. The Sublime Emperor and his Minister Lin were well aware of what they were doing when they st ruc k a morta l bl ow at the opium trade ; f or hy their doing so they have anni hilated at a stroke the principal root of British power in the East. This is taking at once a right view of the whole question. The Debats clearly perceives that what in England is called the morality of the opium traffic, never for an instant occupied the attention of the Chinese Government. It is British power, not British commerce, or the produce of British in dustry, that has aroused the jealousy of the Celes tial authorities. This is repeated in the following terms in another part of the same article : It is easy to see by this that our Chinese contempora. ries are not deficient in perspicuity. The Mandarins, Doctors, Commissioners, and Statesmen of Pekin and Canton have attacked their commercial enemy at the most tangible part, and severed the preciou s links which sup ports the vast ensemble of enterprise, profit, and power. Our Tory Contemporaries have not been content with endeavouring to give currency to the base, ma lignant, anti-English calumny that the war with China is a war got up for the purpose of poison ing the Chinese. They have gone still further, and attempted to set forth that the Chinese are a people wholly unacquainted with war, and with whom it is no more allowable to carry on hostilities than with so many women and priests. Here again the ho nest avowal of the Journal des Debats is well wor thy of being attended to. The organ of " our natural enemies," as our ignorant ancestors were wont to call the French, scorns to imitat e the Tory organs, who are so eager to strip our gallant troops of the glory of a successful campaign on the coa s t of China : England will assuredly fight for her trade, for it is her life. But it will be no easy thing to conquer the Chinese. It willebe necessary to overcome three hundred millions of men, who know no other will than that of the Emperor or his agents. The monsoons prevailing off the coast of China d ur i ng a great part of the year will render the suc cess of a naval expedition extremely difficult, and, more over, there are but very few places near the coast which will allow men-of-vrar to advance to the shore near enough : to do any mate r i a l i n j ury to the inhabitants. The Yellow • - • 1 a is very andshallow, and full of sa n d-b an k s. Wh ere w ill o the English find how will they transport their ordnance and soldiers ') The mouth of the river at Can , ton forms a vast tr i angle, intersected by numerous canals. It 1 is with difficulty that the Chinese junks and flat bot tomed boats approaA the coasit,an'd remain safe, in spite of How then will ships of large I their peculiar construction ' e able to navigate? A Eurodpean ship nu r ser vi b e in these shallow canals, a darins, to whom Lord Amherst shOw n eri • man-of-war, told his Lordship that it w avail for warlike purposes. The smallestoubr'sii the Gulf of Pekin barely enough to gain can be of taihee Chinese Man_ of a large ghb:anoefntnior coast. That gulf is but a vast bank of sand an g d clay, tof t I' , 1 i the mouth of the Yellow River is little better. HL . I then, will thl English manage to attack this erapir:: which is the most vast in the globe, end so well defended o nature ? Beyond the reach of the cannon of England, the ....r......,........... Chinese Mandarins, merchants, and great Commissioner Lin, will care but little for the anger of their enemy. -- _ The contest,:then, is not one of England's provok ng. It is a contest which China has long foreseen, and for which, before she ever inspected one of our ships of war, she had made extensive preparations. There cannot be a doubt but that the breaking up of the East India Company's monopoly was re presented at the Court of Pekin, as it was at the capitals of Burmah, Nepaul, and Ave, as a break ing-up of the power of Great Britain in the East. Happening as it did, so near the time that the Tories prophesied the immediate downfall of Eng land, in consequence of the passing of the Reform Bill, and represented in that light by the creatures of the Company in the East, who failed not to employ the last moments of their ill-used trust in doing us all the petty mischief in their power, it is not surprising that the Government of China should direct all its energies for involving our mer chants in one tide of common ruin. In England the egregious blunder is dwelt upon, that because the Chinese are bad geographers, silly astrono mers, and indifferent navigators, therefore they can know nothing at all of our condition, or of the opinions of parties among us. This savours more of the ridiculous than the pretensions of KWANG, the Chinese Admiral, to be reckoned the lineal descendent of a god. It is quite possible to corn prehend the power and policy of a State as regards her foreign relations, without being accurately ac quainted with her statistics, or the entire scheme of her domestic economy. This is well exempli fied in China, where the aggressive policy hitherto pursued by Great Britain in the East is fully un derstood, whatever mistakes the Six Supreme Col leges of High Mandarins have fallen into respecting the geography of the British isles—or rather island —for at Pekin they have thought proper to dispense with St. George's Channel altogether—which, if we could do the same thing, would, in truth, be mighty convenient, as it would put an end to the cry about repealing the Union. We now come to the concluding paragraph in the article in the Debats. It, too, is worthy of serious attention : In the presznt situation of things, England must either lose the opium trade, the main support of the Indian re venue, or strike a great blow and obtain manifest satisfac tion. What is, what will be the part of Russia in the midst of all those movements ?—of Russia, whose flag can no longer be seen in the port of Canton ?—of Russia, ever so clear sighted and skilful in her manceuvrcs, so vigilant in every thing connected with her interests, and so susceptible re specting the affairs of the East and the domination of England ? Will not Russia, the neighbour of China. here find a new part to perform? Will she allow the Tartar kings of the Mantchou dynasty to bend the knee to E.ig land ? When England marched on Afghanistan, Russii discovered the road to the Oxus ; and whenever any ne.v British movement has taken place in Asia, Russia has never remained motionless. The first sentence in this passage does not state the case fully. The loss of the opium trade is not all that England has to apprehend from not striking a decisive blow in China. It would be nearer the truth to say, that without striking a decisive blow in China, there remains nothing for England but to break her sceptre, and abdicate her dominion in the East. She has no temporising,—no middle course to follow. To temporise in China is to stand convicted of defeat in Burmah, Ava, Siam, Cochin China, Thibet, and all the independent states of Central Asia. Even our cherished ally, the slave-dealing Imaurn of MUSCAT, will soon learn from Canton that the representative of our Sovereign was glad to purchase the clemency of the Celestial Emperor by the performance of the nine prostrations, or, more properly, paying Divine wor ship to the Tartar Sovereign of the central flowery land. In the mean time, does not the intelligence yesterday received from St. Petersburgh, and pub lished in our columns, entirely confirm the sagacious view of the Journal des Debats with respect to the hostile policy of Russia ? We shall return again and again to this important subject. The Tories are all practical politicians. They continually deride what they call abstractions Theory they despise. Political science is nick. named free-trade nostrums, or Malthusian visions and the practice of their predecessors is the onl) [ rule they condescend to follow. They perpetually tell those who recommend the abolition of san guinary laws, of monopolies and restrictions, on the ground that society is a series of progressive phenomena to which such enactments are not suited, that they must take man as they find him, a selfish, criminal, fallen creature, who must be coerced into decency and righteousness. They seem, however, to be theorists in their practices, which are unfortunately, too, founded in error. Their predecessors governed society by co ercion, they conclude that they can do the same. Their predecessors treated the multi tude as mere accessories to their triumphs, who could be bribed, when it suited their master's purposes, to bawl Church and King, and who could be easily driven by a crack of the whip back into their places, like well-bred hounds, when the To ries had no further occasion for their chorus. But these things are changed, the people no longer reve rence the clergy and the aristocracy, they no longer honour the law and the Judges ; and, though they may be chastised by it, they are far from crouching before it, or slinking afraid and ashamed into an obscure retreat. Mankind have outgrown the system of coercion ; they laugh at the vast preten sions of puny Statesmen ; they ridicule the absurd claims of the divine-right men ; and Toryism, as a scheme of Government, has become a complete Utopian plan. 1 The Tories, however, act on their own visions of the past. Lord STANLEY, because the Tories wholly disregarded the Irish except to plunder them, disregards them now, and without consulting them, or even troubling himself to ascertain what they think—treating them, in short, as the To-ies of old treated them, like dogs, who were to be frightened to their kennels by their master's voice— brings forward a measure to restrain, under the pre tence of correcting, their franchise. If the measure were one of unmixed benefit, and the Irish were not consulted before-hand, they would reject it. Even if it own N e v r e e r e e brought ad fo , rw t a h rd roug b h y a a s l t o a n te g sm l a if n of their life, shown himself eas t t he attentive compliment to their of wishes, being they a s k wouldasked expect whether at l such a measure would be acceptable to them. But when the measure goes to take away their limited franchise, and to harass them with a continual inquisition into their title to vote—when it is brought forward by one of the most rabid of their opponents, whose conduct towards their great leader has been marked more by paltry personal spite than great views of national interest ; and when such a measure is not only brought forward without consulting them, but is thru s t on them in spite of their opposition, by their avowed opponents, for the avowedpurpose of b ea ti ng d own their politica power, it is not in human nature that the Irldi should peaceably submit to it. They would not have accepted such a Bill from such hands before they had proved their power by the Emancipation Act, and for Lord STANLEY and the Tories now to ex pect that the Irish would quietly receive such a measure, is to reason from men as they were, not as they are. Unless Lord STANLEY and his friends could restore the first half of the eighteenth century, no legislative measures they can propose, without first asking and obtaining leave of the Irish and their representatives, will ever be received by tin An. In consequence of their own language and the language of their press, they are justly regarded as the enemies of Ireland. They have avowed them selves the enemies of her priesthood and her faith, and as enemies they must first subdue Ireland, or re conquer it, as sometime ago was recommended by the Times, before their laws will be accepted and submitted to by the Irish. We do not feel at all surprised, therefore, to find the journals of Dublin using language like the following, which we find in the Freeman's Journal : " The policy of the last five years is full of deep in struction for Irishmen. Anxious to prove that simple justice was all they sought, they consented to the condi tional abandonment of a question on which the national heart was set, in which alone all their hopes of improve ment were centered. The result it is unnecessary for us to state ; every Irishman knows it. It needs not to tell the people—still labouring under all the disadvantages of an insulting inequality, that no good has been gained— that no advance in Irish improvement has been made. They are now well convinced that England has selected her side of the conceded alternative—that from her no justice is to be expected--that their hopes must now de pend upon themselves alone. Every Irishman is now per fectly aware that from the cold and stern Saxon spirit, which will be content with nothing less than iron supre macy, wherever it is allowed to interfere, there is no hope of constitutional equality. With this conviction pervad ing our community, we shall now take counsel for our selves. Our sole aim now shall be the re-establishment of our nationality. The one object of all our struggles must now be the regaining of our legislative independence." ‘. But yet we feel no discouragement—the Irish millions are able to achieve their demands as long as these de mands shall be regulated by justice. The country which has furnished such multitudes of the hardy warriors who have borne the English flag triumphant through the world cannot be trampled on with impunity. The ardour—the energy—the perseverance by which they have been dis tinguished in many a hard-fought field, they have also exhibited in attaining moral conquests, such as that which we must now aim at. In such a struggle we have before succeeded ; the same means will again insure our triumph. In the great struggle for emancipation it was often said that it was a hopeless strife ; O'Connell told you other wise ; and, Irishmen, did he not tell you true ? Now, likewise, will many say to you that your efforts are in vain ; but heed them not, O'Connell tells you you can succeed. Remember your numbers—remember your strength and your resources, and call to mind the vast capabilities of your country. Remember, too, that your spirit is young, and fresh, and vigorous—that the decrepitude which is creeping over England, and the rottenness and decay en gendered by the foulness of her aristocratic system, are not corrupting and corroding the heart of Irish society. Call to mind, likewise, that this Irish nation has not to answer for those awful crimes that draw down Heaven's wrath on nations as well as individuals. Ireland has no retribution to fear for the misgovernment of other lands. " Let Irishmen then be strong of heart and high of hope ; their cause is that of justice, and God will defend the right.'" _ _ We repeat for the instruction of the Tories, that their practice of governing mankind, and making laws for them without consulting them, and in spite of them, is no more applicable to the present condi tion of society than the visions of the Laputan philosophers ; and if they persist in acting on their proved errors, they will involve this goodly kingdom in much calamity. Instead of setting up their own self-will as the rule of national poliey and legislation they must consult the millions. If they do not, the policy of the Government and the millions will be hostile to each other, and the result must be extGn sive mischief. The most numerous meeting of the inhabitants of Leicester," says the Leicestershire Mercury, " ever assembled, was held on Thursday last, to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament for Household Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, and Triennial Parliaments." The MAYOR was in the chair. Resolutions and a petition in favour of Household Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, and Triennial Parliaments were agreed to; and we beg the atten tion of the landlords to the beginning of the first resolution, which lays the ;round-work of the whole proceeding. It said, " That the conduct of the House of Commons in reference to Mr. VILLIERS' motion on the Corn-laws is a practical proof that the Reform Bill is a failure, that it has greatly dis appointed the reasonable expectations of the people." Most of the speakers echoed this sentiment, and we shall quote a passage of Mr. WINKS' speech, in corroboration of the remark : The recent motion of Mr. Villiers in reference to the repeal of the obnoxious Corn-laws had been burked by the House of Commons. And what, he would ask, was the conduct of the Members opposed to the repeal of the Corn-laws when Mr. Villiers' motion was thus burked— why loud peals of laughter ?—( Cries of " Shame.") The conduct of the House of Commons on this question, had convinced hint more than anything else, of the necessity for its immediate reform.—(Hear, bear.) Wbat was the benefit Ishich man expected to derive from a state of society, but that he should enjoy protection of person and property. In a savage state man takes the birds, and beasts, and fish for his subsistence, as best he can, but when he becomes civilized and connects himself with society he does so for the security of property. But when people want food in a state of society, it became a serious ques tion—he would not say they should plunder, but he did wonder at their not doing wrong.—(Hear, hear.) There was a book which said oppression carried too far made men mad.—(Cheers.) He had heard of demons leading their victims into quagmires, and when he saw the British Le gislature laughing at the defeat of such a measure as the repeal of the Corn-laws, he thought their conduct as bad, and that it was the duty of every Christian to leave no constitutional means untried to turn them out, and send men in their stead who would conscientiously discharge their duty and promote the true interests of the country.— ( Loud cheers.) It was a question of home or no home, of happiness to themselves, their wives, aad children." Such sentiments and language the Corn-law landlords will make common in every town of the empire, and words must become utterly powerless, the sympathies of mankind must cease to be excited by language if the result be not a general and irre sistible demand for further reform. 'We are threatened, therefore, by the Corn-laws with a more extensive and memorable change in the constitu tion than that of 1832. Even property will scarcely be safe, and the so-called Conservatives, by their obstinate and wicked adherence to the system of legal plunder, will convert the agitation for the repeal of the bread tax into one for the over throw of the aristocracy. At Sunderland, and we have no doubt at other places, similar sentiments are embraced. A circu lar we have received begins thus : As it appears from recent proceedings of the House of Commons, that a large majority of that House of Parlia ment is not only resolutely opposed to a repeal of the Corn laws, but absolutely unwilling to listen to any proposition on the subject, and deems the humble and earnest petitions of the people for permission to buy food where they can get it cheapest, as worthy of contempt only, and the whole question a fit theme for jeers and merriment ; the Commit tee of the Sunderland Anti-Corn-law Society deems it right respectfully to request, &c. The landed gentlemen, by their conduct on Mr. VILLIERS' motion, have given a text to the Anti- Corn-law League which will everywhere be preached on to kindle indignation. It will be of no use invoking the law, as the Herald has recommended, to put down this agitation, for it cannot be so put down, and were that attempted it would only produce an instant coalition between the Chartists and a large part of the Anti-Corn-law League, which would give leaders and organization to the great multitude. The landed gentlemen, after Easter, will have another opportunity given them to repent. For their own sake, and for the sake of the public, we hope they will profit by it, and not persist in sa crificing, to their stupid avarice, and more stupid desire to keep their tenants in a state of political dependence, the interests of the whole community. The poor Times is entirely out of its element. While the community is ringing from end to end with the Corn-laws, and with the Chinese war, the Times engages in a nice discussion about a clause in the Bill for amending the Irish Poor-law Act. It cannot batter its Conservative and landlord patrons, it cannot thwart the great town interests by which it chiefly lives, and so it is forced to stand neuter in our great civil discussion. But though SitTAbNe passive,Ey, s i agitation will not cease. The Poor-laws w ill not care about Poor -l as while Lord Bill is .-.n lg n 'ooomvseratileien:taossatasrcvoautirogn. scourge, nor the E ng li s h a b out the County Constabulary Bill whil e t h e Corn-law dooms ---------- ln its z ea l, yesterday, to turn public attention from real grievances to petty faults in the Ministry, it seems to have found a mare's nest. Such re- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1840. wards are very likely to be the result of the present pursuits of our Contemporary. Through a great number of sentences the Ministers are censured for their conduct in relation to a clause which they introduced last Session into the Bill for amending the Irish Poor-law. They are accused by implica tion of wilful deceit, the gist of which is that the clause substitutes "liability to poor -rates in place of actual payment of them, as the qualification to vote for Poor-law Guardianship," and the Duke of WEL LINGTON was not informed of this important change. But the Times has forgotten to explain to its readers, and the Duke forgot to explain in Parliament, how the actual payment of rates could, by any possibility, be the qualification of voting for Poor-law Guardians before any rates were made. Has our Contemporary forgotten that there are Bo Poor-rates yet in Ireland? There can be none, we apprehend, till Guardians are elected ; and the liability to payment as the qualification to rote for Guardians was substituted for actual payment, simply because there could be no actual payment till the Guardians were elected. That the Marquis of WESTMEATH should have blundered on such a mare's nest would have sur prised nobody, but that he, of all men, should have led the Times to shout out with delight " I have found it," will long be considered a memorable ex ample of the ease by which clever men are made by their own evil passions the dupes of men who are not clever. It is with great reluctance that we make any ani madversions on the conduct of the Commissioners of Police, or of the men under their command, because in many respects the police arrangements and the order and regularity with which they are carried into effect, are entitled to commendation. It cannot be denied, however, that within the last twelve months these Commissioners have been mak ing attempts to establish a system which is known only under despotic Governments, and which, they may rest assured, will not be submitted to in this free country. Almost every Act that has any re ference to the police of the metropolis has been strained to the utmost. They have attempted for some time to clear all public- houses on Satu day nights at twelve, in direct opposition to the opinions of some of the most re spectable Magistrates of the metropolis; they have by their own authority closed up Temple Bar during church hours ; they have shut up places of refreshment in the afternoon of Sun day, at Highgate, Hampstead, and other places under their dominion ; and within these few days they have issued an order that the amusements which from time immemorial have been permitted at Greenwich on Easter week, shall cease at the hour they prescribe. This is an interference with the amusements of the working classes, with the profits which the publicans and shopkeepers of that place have long enjoyed, and with the old established customs of the country, which we are confident will not be endured, and which will lead to results that the public authorities ap pear not to anticipate. The police are sufficiently , strong to suppress any violent breach of the peace without making regulations which are abhorrent to the feelings of the people, and which are more adapt e d to Russia or China, where there are only two classes, tyrants and slaves, than to the inde pendent and moral community of England. The Police Commissioners, we regret to say, are confirm ing the worst suspicions of those who attacked them on the establishment of the force ; they are making the men spies and informers, establishing a system of military dictation hitherto unknown in the coun try, and rendering the whole body hateful in the eyes of the public. Should any disturbance take place on the enforcement of their coercive system on them must rest the responsibility. The Commerce of Sunday publishes a long letter from Naples, dated the 9th inst., on the question of the dispute between King FERDINA and the British Government. According to the writer, troops to the number of 40,000 had em barked for Sicily, with equipments rather for op posing a military than a naval armament. The King's great dread is a revolution in Sicily, in favour of his brother the Prince of CAPUA, who is already talked of as the future Sovereign of that island, under the protection of Great Britain. To maintain his power in Sicily the King has stripped Naples of every means of defence, so that a single ship of war might lay waste his Capital. France is represented as not indifferent to the danger by which the infatuated King of Naples is threatened. M. TRIERS has written a note to the French Ambassador, charging him to recommend to the King the immediate abolition of the Surpliur Monopoly, subject, of course, to a demand for full compensation on the part of the French Contractors. This is the part of the business that the King cannot stomach. His ava rice is so i n s a tiable, that it is as painful to him to think of refunding the immense sums himself and his Ministers received in bribes from the French merchants, as to reflect upon the probable los of his kingdom. His ruling passion is a love of money, and though the most capricious and tyrannical person in his dominions, all his faults are subservient to the acquisition of gold. The expense at which the Sulphur Monopoly was purchased was enor mous. General FILANGIERI, now at the head of the army in Sicily, pocketed 15,000 ducats, ST. ANGELO, Minister of the Interior, 40,000, and all the other creatures of the Court in proportion. This proves that the monopolists were not at first fully acquainted with the character of the Neapoli tan Sovereign. So much delicacy in tendering a bribe was useless. They might have dispensed with purchasing the good-will of the courtiers by advancing, in the first instance, with their bags of ducats, to the foot of the Throne. Now if the resto ration of the gold which has found its way into the Royal coffers were obligingly dispensed with by M. TRIERS, no doubt King FERDINA ND could not have the least objection to abolish a monopoly by which he already loses to the enormous amount of 70 per cent. But he does not like the refunding principle ; and mayhap he has sense of shame enough left to feel that the disclosures, to which the abolition of the mo no p o ly must give r i se , cannot but reflect i n d e libl e di sgra ce upon him se lf an d hi s Court. The Paris Journals of Sunday are a good deal taken up with the sulphur monopoly contract. Contrary to a statement in the Semaphore of Mar seilles, that " all hopes of a direct arrangement be tween the English Government and the Govern ment of Napl es see med to have vanished , " the bestinformed of our Parisian Contemporaries ex press their conviction that no hostilities will take place. The KING, who is no Falstaff, has none of the fat knight's horror of compulsio n . In the meantime th e appearance of three English ships of war and two steamers was momentarily expected on the 9th on the coast of Sicily. The Journal des Debats publishes the following correction of an article which recently appeared in its columns, reflecting on the political conduct of the English C onsu l at Monte Video. The frank spirit in which thi s correc tion of an unintentional error is conceived, is creditable to our Gallic Con- temporary : " In an article published some months since, on the affairs of Buenos Ayres, we ascribed the visit of M. Man deville, the English Consul to Monte Video, to motives unfriendly to France. We now receive letters from Bue nos Ayres, of I he 24th of December, with more exact in formation, which allows us to rectify what we then asserted with reluctance. It now appears certain that the journey of M. Mandeville to Monte Video took place to the :he Argentine N i V n e e subjectr.an noyance of th e B uenos Ayres G Reove rnment, and had for it s object m ere l y the conclusion of a trea ty w ith Rib era on the are happy to be able to add, th a t t h e intervention of the British Consul in the affairs ais of of France the andslal,e trade Republic has alway s been of the nature to be expected from the representative of a friendly nation." The removal of the remains of NAPOLEON from St. Helena to Paris is said to be the subject of a a negotiation bet ween AL T ILLERS and Lord PAL MERSTON. We frankly admit that we have long felt suprise that such a negotiation was not termi- nated years since. It reflects little credit on France that the ashes of the EMPEROR should be allowed to repose on the cold rock of St. Helena, so far from the scenes of his glory—for we cannot sup pose the British Government so wanting in magna nimity as to desire to continue the imprisonment of the remains of the illustrious dead. No event likely to take place during the Ministerial career of M. THIERS will redound more to his honour than his restoring to France all that now remains of the hero of Austerlitz. The Madrid journals of the 12th inst. have been re ceived. Immediately after the arrival of Brigadier Concha in Madrid, a report was ciculated that the Cortes were again to be dissolved. Although not credited, the ru mour excited some uneasiness in the public mind. It would appear more probable that this officer had been sent to Madrid by General Espartero, to concert measures with the Government for pacifying the provinces of Cuenca and Guadalaxara, of which he had been appointed military commander. A letter from Saragossa, dated the 11th of this month, has the following news;_. " This morning the prisoners taken by Zurbano and General Ayerbe arrived in this city. They are about 600 in number. They were immediately sent to the Castle of Aljaferia. The troops are still in the same cantonments, and will probably remain there till the taking of Aliaja. In proportion as the troops advance into the interior of the country, desertion becomes more considerable from the Carlist ranks. It appears that in the course of this month the General in-Chief will advance to Morella, the army of the centre to Cantavieja, and Brigade -General Concha to Beteta. It is said that measures have been concerted to make these three places fall on the 27th of this month, which is St. Christina's day. The Recherch frigate was sent from Cherbourg on the 17th, for the coast of Iceland. —Moniteur. Cabrera, who is still sick, has confided the defence of Morella to General Palillos. —Le Constitutionnel. A journal bas pronounced the word amnesty. This would be a step in a better cause. The compliment to tho pretended amnesty of Count Mole has been long delayed. Will M. Thiers, who pretends to have had the first idea of this measure, have at least the honour of completing ity Nothing would be more agreeable to the public wish; for it is notorious that almost all the Juries have acquitted the out-lawed accused of 1832. The condemnations under which the accused of that time still labour have no connec tion with the prevailing policy which has followed a dif ferent course. It is therefore a rigour without an object.— La Gazette de France. The Munich Political Gazette, of the 12th, has an ac count of a duel between Prince Von Oeltingen Wallers tein and Herr Abel, the Minister of the Interior. The Prince had the first fire, and missed; Herr Abel then fired, and was equally unsuccessful. The latter then advanced, and declared that, in his opinion, the Prince was in capable of committing such a shameful act as he ( Abel) had attributed to him in the last sitting of the Chamber. Herr Abel gave this declaration also in writing. The duel took place in an English garden, belonging to a distinguished personage. The seconds were two Bavarian Peers. After the affair, Prince Von Oeltingen Wallerstein was visited by Prince Charles and several Court dignitaries; and in the even ing the Prince Royal, at the dinner, paid marked atten tions to the Prince combatant. Herr Abel and his second wore not at the dinner, but all the Councillors of State at Munich were present. Prince Maximilian proposed the toast of " The Chamber of Peers," which had energetically protested against the violent attacks of which Prince Oel tingen Wallerstein had been the victim. It was rumoured that the political portion of this affair was to undergo the investigation of a committee. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Supplies fair, and the demand tolerably good; prices much as before. Turbot, ss. to 20s. ; Cod, 2s. 6d. to Bs. ; Soles, 6d. to 4s. per pair ; Lobsters, Is. to 4s. 6d. ; Salmon, is. to 2s. 6d. per lb. ; Whitings, 3d. to 6d. ; and Haddocks, Cid. to Is. Very few Mackerel at market. HUNGERFORD MARKET. Supplies were good, and so was the demand, prices steady. Turbot ss. to 205., Cod 2s. 6d. to 10s., Soles ls. to 4s. per pair, Lobsters Is. to 45.',6d. Beef 74d. to sp., Mutton ild. to Bid„ Veal Bd. to 9d., Pork 71-d. to Bid. per lb. HAY MARKETS. Supplies good, end demand brisk, prices much as they were. Hay, 50s. to 9Os. ; Clover, 90s. to 113 s. ; Straw, 325. to 425. per load. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY,—The sales o this day are 6,000 bales, prices looking up. Arrivals this morning. —French and Halifax mails; the latter by the Seagull; ship letters from Honduras, Ja maica, and Philadelphia. We give an extract of an address of the inhabitants of Port Philip to his Honour Charles Joseph Latrobe, Esq., Superintendent of the district of Port Philip:— " Sir,—Wo the inhabitants of Melbourne and the coun try adjacent, beg leave respectfully to offer to Mrs. La trobe and yourself our hearty congratulations on your ar rival in Australia Felix. Your coming, Sir, has been ear nestly looked for by the whole community here ; for we regard you as the harbinger of our increased prosperity. " The present position of Australia Felix is a very pecu liar one, her career of prosperity having been hitherto quite unparalleled in the annals of British colonization, and this not only without any efficient aid from the mother country, but we might even add, without her knowledge. It now scarcely exceeds four years since a few:enterprising individuals from Van Diemen's Land first landed in this district; they at once discovered the advantages of the country, and, as soon as these became known, settlers from all the neighbouring colonies crowded to it. Already Melbourne, which eighteen months ago possessed only three brick houses, is a flourish ing town, with a population of between two and three thousand souls, and containing most of the appendages of an advanced civilization. It has four places of worship of different denominations 'of Christians, a Court of Justice, two schools, two banks, one club, with sixty members, a fire and marine assurance company, and two newspapers, one supported by the learned professions ; there are six clergymen, twelve medical men, and five lawyers. Such is the present state of Melbourne. Of wool, our staple commodity, there were exported in 1 837, 60,512 pounds; in 1836, 213,233 pounds; and in 1839, 860,877 pounds, independently of large quantities shipped coastways to Sydney. Meanwhile we beg to state that we view your arrival here at this crisis as a most important event; for being convinced that the Government has legislated for us without sufficient information of our state, we confidently entertain the hope that as you will have to communicate with a Governor so enlightened as Sir George Gipps, the regulations which have been recently put into operation here will be soon altered, and Australia Felix put on a footing of equality with the other Crown colonies of Australia." Our arrivals this morning are very few. It is stated that the affair of the sulphur dispute has been left to be settled by the King of the French, and agreed upon by both parties. Consols continue to have a firm appearance this morn ing, and may be quoted 9] for the Account ; Money 90i i. Exchequer Bills, 22 24 prem. ; India Bonds, 2 4 preen. ; Bank Stock, 175 k; India Stock, 249 k 2501. In the Foreign Market Spanish Activa rather improved, 29/ ; Deferred, 141 i ; Passive, 71 f ; Portuguese, 35 . 1 i ; Three per Cents., 241 4 ; Colombian, 251 ; Mexican, 281 a'. Brazilian, 76f ; Dutch T wo - an d- a- Half per C en t s ., 4. , 53a a; Five per Cents., 991 i. ritlOES OE SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bissoe Bridge Paid. Per Sh are , 5 .!354 Brazilian Imperial Mining Co. (Issued at 51. pm.) 2 0 11 United Mexican (Issued at 21, pm.) Ditto New Scrip 5 6}6 Birmingham and Derby Railway Company 100 82% Edinburgh and Glasgow 3O G 25 Groat Western Railway C ompany 65 62% Brighton Railway '35 —7::: 2 eN !O North Midland Rail way C ompany lOO 103 2 Ditto New 10 South Eastern and Do ver R a il way Company lB 2.lh N HALF- PAST ONE. We have a complete blank day for intelligence and no arrivals of consequence. The Halifax papers have not been received, owing to the mail having started just as the packet was coming into Falmouth ; in consequence of which the merchants are deprived of their letters, and complain that an express was not sent to overtake the mail. We hear that the money advanced by the Bank of France to the Bank of England has all been paid by the latter establishment. Money at present is in abundance ; so much so, that the capitalists and bankers cannot find empl o y men t f or i t. The American packet ship President, has arrived off the Lizard. She left New York on the 31st of March. As signments not of so late a date as previously received. Consols continue firm, but they arc a shade lower than in the early part of the morning, and may be quoted 91 ; they were 91 to 91k for the account, and for money 90 ; Exchequer Bills rather lower, 21 23 prem.; India Bonds, 4 prem. ; Bank Stock 175. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 29k; Deferred, 141 ; Portuguese, 35 ; Three per Cent s ., 24i ; Co lumbian 254-; Dutch Two-and-a-Half p er Cents., 53i; Five per Cents., nothing done: CLOSING PRICES. Brill'lSll FUNDS Bank Stock 175% India Stock 250 3 per Cent. Red 3 per Cent Ccns. 903 Ditto Old Annuities 3% per Cent. Red 98% Ditto New Annuities ......... 88 3 4 New 3% per Cent 99% Ex. Bills, 1,0001 "d .3 pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001 "3 p Long Annuities to expi re Ditto Small 21 inn Jan. 1890 Oct. 1859 Jan 1860 .. FOREIGN FUNDS - , Portuguese Bonds,sper cent 69% Ditto, Ncw Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent Russian Bonds, 5 per cent...3l3 N Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per rent ............... 23% Ditto, Deferred .................. 14% French, 5 per cent. .....,.. 1121. 1121. —c Exchange —l. —c French, 3 per cent —r. —c. Dutch, 12% per cent. .........., 53% Ditto, 5 per cent. .......... ... 9,9 a A ItES. ilway Tway 25 !way 5l Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent.... Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent Colomb,an, 6 or cent — Ditto, 1824 Danish, 3 per cent — 0 rook Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct — Mexican, 5 per cent 24% Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 Pernv ian ,1525,6 per cent..." SD , Birmingham and Derby Rai. Ettaburgh and Glasgow Rail Great No.i.h of England ltail Great Western Railway . Ditto New Shares Hull and Selby London and Brighton Railway 2 5 1.„ London and Blackwall Railway London and Birmingham Railway 161 London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 104; Ditto Scrip . . lO% Manchester and Leeds l':iilwaY Ditto New Shares Q t . % North Midland Railway Ditto New Shares South Eastern and Dover 2Y, FOOD PROSPECTS.—The present quantity of land about Barnsley sown with wheat exceeds, by nearly one bird, that of any season for the last six years. PAROCHIAL ELECTIONS: (THIS DAY.) ST. MARY'S, LAMBETH. This day, at eleven o'clock, a Vestry Meeting was held at the Boy's Parochial School-room, Lambeth-green, for the purpose of choosing Churchwardens, Overseers, and other officers for the ensuing year. There was at an early hour a remarkably numerous attendance of ratepayers, and soon after the Chair was taken this large room, which holds about 2,000 person, was nearly filled. In consequence of the litigation commenced by the Church party against the Liberal Churchwardens, the animosity between the Reformers and Anti-Reformers rages at present with greater virulence than ever, and the walls of the parish have been for the last few days covered with the placards of both parties; in which as much, if not more, reference is made to personalities than to the public affairs of the parish. In the School-room, the Church party, (of whom a strong muster was indicated by the number of car riages before the door) gathered themselves in a knot to the right hand of the chair, and seemed to be in the propor tion of about one-fifth to the mass of the rate-payers assembled ; but their unity and strength of lungs in a great measure compensated for the disproportion of their numbers, in the contests of noise and vituperation► which occupied a great part of the day. The Rector (the Rev. Dr. D'Oyley) took the chair at eleven o'clock precisely. Mr. John B. Clerk was re-elected to the office of vestry clerk without opposition. The Rector then nominated Mr. Laurence Redhead, of Kennington -green, as his warden. Mr. GRADY moved that Mr. George Fall, Mr. John Ham, and Mr. John Barton, be the churchwardens for the ensuing year. Mr. ROGERS proposed Mr. Charles Evans, Mr. Thomas Grissel, and Mr. John Bright, to serve the office. Mr. GRADY wished to address the vestry before the ques tion was put, and in the first place he exhorted the rate payers to preserve order, and to give every one a hearing. The society, which called itself the Parochial Protective Society, had circulated the most gross falsehoods against the gentlemen whom he had the honour to propose for re election as churchwardens. One of those calumnies was that when they were in office they had made a church rate. The persons who told that lie knew it was a lie.-- (The meeting had not concluded when we went to Press.) LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY DEAL, APRIL 20.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived the Per severance, from the South Seas. Sailed the East Lon don, Lewis, for Port Philip; Courier, Plunk, Trinidad; United Kingdom, Allen, Jamaica; Margaret Thompson, Forrest, St. Vincent; Favourite, Blenkensop, Barbadoes. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 20.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Helena, Dunning, from Charleston ; St. Andrew, New Orleans; Surprise, Grant, Bilboa ; Princess Victoria, Ferguson, Smyrna. Sailed the Urquart, Gibb, for Cal cutta ; Mary, Duncan, St. Domingo ; Iris, Dixon, Charle ston ; Lloyd's, Blandford, Quebec. Off port, the Blenq, from Laguna. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 20. —Wind W. to N. N. W.— Sailed the Samarang, Robertson, for Madras. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 20, Wind N. E.—Off port, the Hebe, Flott, from Honduras. Mem.—The Eleanor and Sophia did not sail yesterday, as reported. FALMOUTH, APRIL 19. —Wind variable.—Arrived the British Queen, from Laguna, sailed the 21st February; Samuel and Sarah, from Odessa; and Donor, Kettle, from Alexandria. Off port the Brockett, Nixon, from Odessa. Arrived in the Channel the Seagull packet, from Hali fax, sailed the Ist instant. DOVER, APRIL 20.—Arrived the General Baron Van Gein, from Batavia. COWES, APRIL 20.—Sailed the Urania, Robson, Quebec, MARY PORT, APRIL 18.—Sailed the Transit, Braith• waite, for Quebec. WHITEIIAVEN, APRIL 19.—Sailed the Margaret, Mitch son, for Jamaica. CORK, APRIL 18. —Off port the St. Mary, Jamaica. HULL, APRIL 20. —Wind N.—Sailed the Endymion, Pearson, for Miramichi. MARYPORT, APRIL 19.—The James, Shedding, from Belfast, is aground at the entrance to the harbour, but is expected off with the tide without damage. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 20. —The Jacob, Pennel, from hence to New York, and Robert Bruce, hence to Cork, struck on the Long Bank, near Wexford, 17th inst., but got off; the former proceeded, the latter was lightened, and car ried into Wexford. The Helena, Dunning, arrived here from Charleston, experienced a hurri cane f rom W. S. W. to N. N. W. on the 14th ult., in lat. 37, lon. 59, lost fore. sail, jib-boom, &c. DINNER AT THE MANSION HOUSE. Yesterday the Lord Mayor gave the accustomed Easter entertainment at the Mansion -house. Among the distin guished guests who were present we observed his Excel lency the French Ambassador, the Count Reuss, the Bishops of London and Llandaff, the Attorney and Soli citor-General, Sir T. Neave, Sir W. Heygate, Aldermen Sir P. Laurie, Sir J. Cowan, Venables, Lucas, Fare brother, &c. Mr. Toole officiated as toast-master, and gave " The Loving Cup," with great eclat. The Health of " Her Majesty the Queen," proposed by the LORD MAYOR, was given upstanding, with three times three, and followed by the national anthem. His LORDSHIP next gave the health of " Prince Albert," which was drunk with three times three. The LORD MAYOR then proposed the health of " the Queen Dowager and the other Members of the Royal Family," which was received with acclamations. The next toast was " the Army,"i and acknowledged by Lieutenant-Colonel Gurwood. The Loan MAYOR next gave the health of his Excellency the French Ambassador, and the other representatives of Foreign Powers.—(Cheers.) M. GIJIZoT ( French Ambassador) begged, in behalf of the whole diplomatic body, in the name of Europe as well as of France, to express the warmest feelings of gratitude for the kind manner in which the last toast had been drunk. Not many years ago their ancestors would no doubt have been much astonished if they had been told that so many representatives of Foreign Powers should assemble and sit in amity and enjoy ment in that convivial hall; but we had lived to see the reign of peace established among the nations—( Cheers)—a peace at once the noblest and most secure, achieved and guaranteed by the power of civilization, of justice, and of liberty.—(Cheers.) We should not be unmindful of that Providence which had bestowed such blessings on our ago, nor cease to hope that the blessings of peace might be ren dered lasting. At all events, it should never be inter rupted but for just and unavoidable causes.—( Cheers.) He could at least say it was the earnest wish of his coun try, as well as this, that a long and happy peace might still continue. The LORD MAYOR then gave the " Health of her Ma. jesty's Ministers." :The ATTORNEY- GENERAL briefly acknowledged the com pliment. He was sure if any of the Cabinet Ministers had been present, they would most cheerfully have echoed the sentiments expressed by his Excellency the French Am bassador. The LORD MAYOR next gave the " Health of the Bishop of London," who shortly returned thanks, and proposed the " Health of the Lord Mayor." His LORDSHIP returned thanks, and gave tho " Health of the Bishop of Llandaff, Dean of St. Paul's." M. GUIZOT then gave the " Health of the Lady Mayoress," which was received with great applause, and acknowledged by the Lord Mayor. The ladies then retired. Several other toasts were given, and the company separated shortly after eleven o'clock. THE CHURCH-IRELAND. Count de Salis, to whom thanks were voted at the Corn Exchange meeting in Dublin, on Saturday, in his letter to the Newry Examiner, writes.— . In the name of common sense and justice, can anything be conceived more oppressive than to force the Catholics of Ireland—eight millions —to support a gorgeous clergy, whose docrines they conscientiously disbelieve ? Would England, would Scotland suffer the like insult and injury for one week? Certainly not. " Let England, with all my heart, support the church of the people. " Let Presbyterian Scotland maintain its kirk, ala bonne heure.' But Ireland—let her support the clergy of the people, and that clergy only I Until those evils—and particularly the list-mentioned—a re removed ; until justice be the principle that Ireland is to be governed by—until every man shall pay his own priest, as he pays his own physician cr lawyer—lreland cannot be said to be in a state of perfect tranquillity. It is, then, I think, the bonnden duty of every friend to this country to put his hand to the good work at once for the attainment of this most desirable object." The Mail raises a great outcry about this communica tion, protesting, with all the emphasis of its largest letters, that it is a most damnable" Proposal for the Establishment of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland I!" - --_---------- - THE JARVISES AND THEIR CHILD. --Since the dismissal of Jarvis, who was charged on suspicion of having been concerned with Gould in the murder of Mr. John Templeman, of Pocock's-fields, Islington, he had possession of his child, with whom he was living with some relatives at No. 4, Chad's-place, Gray's Inn-road. On Saturday night, however, on his return home from his work at Greenwich, he discovered that his wife had been there, and by stratagem got the child away. He immediately proceeded with some friends to the residence of her mother, with whom she is living at Kensall_green, for the purpose of getting back the child ; but a violent resistance was made, and Jarvis was threatened by his wife that she would have his life if he ever dared to show himself there again, and he was necessitated to return home without his infant. Gould, we understand, is still in custody on the charge of having stolen a watch belonging to one of his comrades, at Canterbury, when he deserted from his regiment. It is said that Gould's parents are in South Australia. The officers arc still pursuing active inquiries relative to the rob bery and barbarous murder of Mr. Templemaa. TOTNES ELECTION._.. Jr. I'. G. Gisborne, the son o f th e H on. Member for Carlow, has taken the field. On Wednesday evening he addressed the electors. Mr. Blount does not stand. The Tories are trying hard to get in their man Nlr. Baldwin. The Texas Sentinel of the 25th Janary - tains th e copy of a treaty of perpetual peace and am u ity entered into between France and Texas, of date the 25th day of Sep tember, 1839, establishing the formal recognition of Texas on the part of France, and giving to the French and Texians, in the entire extent of their respective territories, the same rights, privileges, and exemptio ns which are or may be granted to the most favoured nation. By article 16 it is provided that the cottons of Texas, without distinction of quality, will pay on their entry into the ports of France, when they shall be im ported directly in French or Texian vessels, a uniform duty of 20jranes on 100 kilogrammes. All reduction of duties which may hereafter be made in favour of the cottons of the United States shall b e equa ll y applied to those of Texas—gratuitously, should the concession be gratuitous; or with the same .i compen- sation, if th e concession is conditional. The Termn s have made v ar i ous e ff orts to obtain their recognition from .13,i -taro, Gvcst which, although claimed on the pr neiplp, t. 1 3;.,C ' 6l 9' make a c on t r ib ut i on of 1,000,0001 , aterlipiclowarda payment of I the Mexican debt = have hitherto been unsuccessful. _EVENING EDITION. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY...—. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode from th e C ast l e this morning attended by Colonel Bouverie, and Mr. Anson, and a short time after her Majesty, in a pony phaeton and pair driven by the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Coburg Gotha, the Duchess of Kent, Duchess of Sutherland, Countess of Charlemont, and Lady Anne Maria Dawson in another pony phaeton and four; Viscount Melbourne, the Duke of Sutherland, and two Ladies in a third ; and the rest of the Suite and Visitors in carriages and on horseback ; all the Gentlemen in ,he Windsor Uniform left the Castle for Ascot to wit ness the turn-out. His Royal Highness followed the chase. Her Majesty and the Visitors and Suite returned at half-past three o'clock. Prince Albert made Mr. Davis, the Royal Huntsman , a splendid present in plate, received this morning from Mortimer and Hunt. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland took their leave this afternoon soon a ft er f our o ' c l oc k ; with this alteration, the Royal Dinner Party this evening will comprise the same company as yesterday. Her Majesty, and Prince Albert, and part of the Royal Suite, walked for several turns yesterday afternoon on the East Terrace of the Castle. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, Her Serene High ness the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, and the Prince and Princesses of Saxe Weimar, took a drive round the Park in open carriages yesterday. The Queen Dowager and the D uc h ess Id a o f S axe Weimar afterwards visited the Princess Sophia at Kensington. The Duchess of Cambridge visited the Queen Do% va ger and the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar yesterday at Marl borough House. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, and attended by Baron Knesebeck, left town yesterday after noon on a visit to the Duke of Wellington, at his seat Strathfieldsaye, Hants. The Princess Augusta and the Duchess of Gloucester took an airing together yesterday, in a carriage, to Ken sington. Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, attended by Sir David Davies, left Marlborough House yesterday for the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. His Excellency Andrew Stevenson, the American Mi nister, and M. Guizot, the French Ambassador, trans acted business at the Colonial -office yesterday. Despatches from the Lieut.-Governor at Malta, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING —Homes. The Craven Stakes of 10 eevs each ; for three years old 6st. ; four, Bst. 41b. ; fire, Bst. 131 b. ; six and aged, 9st. 51b. A. F. (9 subs.) Mr. Boyce's Scroggins, aged (Conelly) 1 Duke of Grafton' s M on t rea l , 4 yrs 2 Mr. Bowes's Epirus, 6 yrs... The following were not placed Mr. Osbaldestea's Auburn, 4 yrs : Lord Exeter's brother to Romania, 3 yrs ; Duke of Portland's c. by Glencoe, out a Ruth, 3 yrs ; Mr. Howes's ch. c. by Belshazzar, oat of Jenny Sutton, 3 yrs ; and Mr. Goddard's br. c. Columella, 3 yrs. BETTING. 7 to 4on Montreal, 3 to 1 agst Epirus, and 6 to 1 ar t Scroggins. Won by a head. Handicap Sweepstakes of twenty sous. each, 5 ft. if declared', &c. ; for three a n d f our yrs old. D.M. (11 subs, three 01 whom declared. ) Lord Orford's c. by Clearwell, 3 yrs, 6st. 71b Lord Exeter's c. by Sultan, 4 yrs, Bst 41b Mr. Key's Marialva, 3 vrs, 7st 41b Th© following al so s t ar t e d : —L or d Miltown's Medea, 4 rs 9 Bst 31b; Lord George Bintinck's Capote, 3 yrs, 7‘t 101 b; Worrall's Reindeer, 3 yrs, ist 10lb ; and Lord Albemarle 3 Exit, 3 yrs, Est 71b. Betting.-7 to 2 a g st Velvet c o lt, 3to 1 agst Exit (taken)' 4 to 1 agst Capote, sto 1 agst Medea, sto 1 agst Reindeer, and sto 1 agst Marialva. Won by a head. Lord Albemarle's f. Olive-branch, Bst. (Cotton), beat the Duke of Grafton' s chc Ottoman, B s t 71b, D.M., 100.- 2 to 1 on Ottoman, who w as d e f ea t e d eas il y. The Riddleswo r th St a k es o f 2 00 soya. each, h. ft., for the pro duce of mares covere d i n 1 836; colts, Bst 71b; and fililes, Bst 41b ; untri e d s t a lli ons or mares allowed 31b, if both 51b, Ab. M. Nin e su b s . Lord Chesterfield' s bf b y P r i am, out of Arachne... ..Scott 1 Mr. Thornhill's c h f E met i c, be Emilius, o u t o f M us tard... 9 Lord Exeter's c R aym0n d ...... , ,,. 3 ........... . ................. 4 Lord Jersey's c G1en0rchy............ Betting-6 to 5 ags t Gl enorchy, sto 2 ag3t Arachne f ; (taken), and 7to 2 ags t E met i c. Just before starting 2 to was offered agst Gle norc h y . Sweepstakes of 50 so vs . eac h f or t h ree yr-olds ; colts, Bst 7113, and fillies, Bst 41b ; th e pro d uce of mares which, at the time of naming, have bred a winner of the 2,000 Guineas States. Derby, Oaks, or St. Leger, 71b extra. D.M. (8 subs.) Duke of Cleveland's Theon, by Emilius, out of Maria (Lye) Lord Albemarle's b c Janus, by Jerry, out of Destiny...... „ General Grosvenor's ch f Diploma ............................. 4 Lord G. Bentinck's ch f Half-caste 5 Mr. Prince's gr c M er l e ................................ 5 Betting-5 to 2on Th eon , sto agst Janus (taken), and to 1 agst Diploma. Won by a length. ACCIDENT TO PRINCE ALBERT.—Yesterdayd an accident, which m i g ht h ave proved serious, happteo n w e ard ei s his Royal Highnes s P r i nce Alb ert, while journeying Ascot-heath, th e s p o t se l ecte d for the turn-out of theoun stag for a the royal hunt. Hi s R oya l Hi ghness, who was ' t e d on Clock, and high- s pi r it e d h orse, left the Castle about n i ne o and in coming d own t h e H ome-park, the animal took f r i g ht and ran away. Hi s R oya l Hi ghness, notwithstanding he is 3 good rider, was p rec i p i tate d trom his saddle to the ground, but for' tunately wa s not muc h hurt, and having mounted another horse, which was spee dil y b rought to him, proceeded on to the " meet." H er M a j esty, who was driven in a phaeton 121 t the Prince Ernest, had not quitted the Castle gates when the occurrence alluded to took place. The Earl and Countess of Camperdown, accom panied by the Lady Elizabeth Duncan, arrived at Bath o° Thursday last from town. Viscount and Viscountess Dune° are expected home from Italy early in the ensuing month. The Duke an d D uc h ess of Leeds are expec t e d at the Clarendon, the week after next, from Yorkshire. Count and Countess Woronzoff are ex arrive in this cou n t ry ear l y i n the ensuing month from Russia, apartments ha v i ng b een ta k en for their reception at Hotel. expected to Sir William Cumming Gordon is expected a t the Clarendon from Scotland. 43 Count Charles d e M ornay an d su i te are ex pected to leave the Burlington Hotel, at the end of the week, for Stockholm. Lord Cloncurry left for Lyon's Castle, Ireland' in the past week, but purposes being in town by the 4th of MAY' The Hon. Newton Fellowes left his seat in De vonshire last week, for Dublin Castle, to join Lady Catherin e t Fellowes and Mi sses F e ll owes, who have been visit i ng he Lord Lieutenant, Viscount Ebrington. We understand Lord Leveson, eldest sort of the Earl and Countess of Granville, will shortly conduct to the hymeneal altar Lady A c t on, w i dow of the late Sir Dulb!rg Acton, Bart. The preliminaries are already arranged, an d e a . mansion has been taken and furnished in a style of elegane; The ceremony, it is expected, will be performed in Paris at the English embassy. The marriage of the Hon. Mr. Grey, son, 0 1 Earl Grey, and L a dy Eli za b eth Howard, daughter of the Da r of Carlisle, w ill no t b e so l emnised until next month, altho u g h a Morning Contemporary announced the marriage to take pla t on Tuesday or Wednesday, with the names of several members of family who were to b e present at the d e jeune a - fourc/sette. The family of Lord Carrington is plunged into the deepest grief by the alarming indisposition of the No n ' Miss Carrington. The illness of this youn g lady is sa id to have proceeded from a cold caught at the Royal wedding' which has brou g ht on a rapid decline. On Saturday the answer to inquiries was less favourable, and although an imme diater dissolution was no t expected, not the slightest ho her sixteenth `her e given of her ulti ma t e recovery. Miss Carrington sir " -r sixteenth year. The Earl of Eglintoun, Sir Charles Lamb, an d Lady Montgo mer i e, are staying at Beaufort Castle, near Leonard's-on -Sea. PA NSANGER, HERTS.--The circle visiting the Earl and Countess Cowper at this beautiful seat since Th" rs ' (lay last h as i nc l uded Viscount Melbourne, Vi sco unt 11loyet h "' Lord and L a d y A s h ley, Viscountess Palmerston, Lady , Cowper, Captain and Lady Mary Vyner, Hon. W. Cowper , M -1-• OPERATIVE CONSERVATIS AT A `-- couNT.--It is reported that certain of the newly-formed he terogeneous c or p s o f T ory ragamuffins who have assum ed o designation of " Operatives," in order th e more co nvenient to do the di r t y wor k of the " A'Court" f ac ti o n, have t e ir hinting to Sir R o b er t th e d es i rability of attending some o f meetings during his stay in Staffordshire, but that his Ea h premiership declines openly connecting himself with gentry, on the ground that, there being no probability 0 .4 1 , immediate election, he is not at present prepared to Illo' n _ rry gold dust amon g the fragrant tobacco smoked at their mosey meetings. Sir Robert's hint to this effect has, it is said, Gauged no little disappointment to many of those gentlemen wh° , jo ceived presents of Drayton game last 0f b and w ho ive r- C.O er,hopes har.- of gettin g somethin g more substantial than tough f h i s on the occasion of their master's return from the scene of mighty victories over her Majesty and her Government. FORGERY A few ON THE BRECON BANK.--- f ,n an days since a genteelly-dressed mita, who g e the , 11 , 3--e Henry Jackson, called at the bank in Brecon - a S v outhl ls : e „ s 'd a i n 3 presented an order for 600/., the drawer of the order pre.e i .g to have effects at Taylor and Lloyd's, that London firm being " 1 . connection with the Brecon old bank. The clerk, aft er "avail' ing the order, doubted its genuineness, and d cashi n g t it. Jackson then left the bank, but returned decline in a Vat time, and made a second tender of the order, observing „ I re Mr. Lucas, the Mayor of Brecon, had attached his sig na d to it. The signature was very like that of Mr. Lucas, an in clerk made no further hesitation in paying the tenderer the o ld. required, which sum was paid partly in notes and partlY in gold. With this sum Jackson got clear off, for it was not dii,co Lucas until some hours afterwards that the signature of Mr. had been forged. vnglish an d PORTENDIC CL AIMS.—A mixed commission a l n 'r d en d e e h tail so f and Mr. H. L. Bulwer, Secretary to the embassy in these claims, i b n e s been T a h pp e o E in n t g et i l is t i o i c di o s m cu rn ss iss th io e lisea p rr r si i o n : c r i e t c A e f e r d . ißnoittlsierlyab. labouThers f co m missi on ortiith. A i i s r. to s o i t t h i e n ry P l a e r a i v s e , Paris on the 22d instant. which TANNING.—A discovery has been made i n g seems likely to revolutionize the trade. By means ef,., "nt,nbo machine or pair of horizontal rollers fixed over l' li r by tween which is introduced a belt o r band of hides attached.and by ligatures to each other, to the Slumber of 50 to 100, . a s ar e which the rollers are constantly fed or supplied, the hide 5, they I lifted out of the pit on one side of the machine; as uor is between the rollers, the exhausted ooze or tanning 19. it , pressed out of them, and they are deposited in folds in the p santdestsonprfoer. s o u n p t p h ly e uoftlfireersislidoeuzoef.theTmheacfilrisinteh,idwe'hheurvei having e h y ee a u bs i tween the rollers, the others follow in succession, and uPe - ar riving at the end of the band the motion of the roller is re-iers.cur and the belt is returned throu g h the machine to recei‘:e anoth e r squeeze. This alternatin g motion is constantly r e peated, _, pit being replenished from time to time with f;esh solutions ".! t t.. l -t u n e , e t d il b l y th t e h o is pe; l a a t t i i r sh`fr: cenin g ect t s he said to h e pro time of tan ning to one-fourth of that gener'xi) required. 2d. Th e r g Pro duction of a c0n.1,4 1.1 inerease - Of - wel ht. 3d. The t ea t t i r by 7 tanned tis tAk.s : 'resists water lon g g er than that tanned tilV , Oecegs. 4th. The new method is cheaper to Mort °n oursberatneu:thnee:r than the old. sth. That it is applicable to the existing L n n . yards, at a comparatively trifling expense, with a capability of working in rounds or series, and of expending tan and (Al. That it is available for all sorts of leather.