The Sun. — London, England, 1840-04-15 00:00:00

EVEN IN G EDIT lON . 1 .%w ready, in 2 vols., post Bvo. LIGHTS AMD SHADES OF MILITARY LIFE. Edited by Major-General Sir CHARLES NAPIER, K.C.8., &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ." Orders received by all Booksellers. MR. THEODORE HOOK'S NEW WORK. To-morrow, in 3 vols. post Bvo., with Portrait of the Author, and numerous Illustrations by p RECEPTS AND PRACTICE. BY THEODORE HOOK, ESQ., Author of " Savings y and Doings," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. To be had at all the Libraries. IRELAND an ITS CIVIL WARS By CAPTAIN ROCK. Now Publishing in •° CLEAVE'S PENNY GAZETTE," The Ilistory of the Civil Wars in' Ireland, from the Invasion under Henry Plantagenet till her Unioa with Great Britain, including a number of interesting; Biographical Sketches, with Notes, satirical and historical. Irishmen, and all interested in the fate of Ireland, are earnestly invited to read the history of our " Sister Island." 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Its tilStrimication concerning tl • Lancaster and Preston Railway Cxxipany is an advertisement. -- - _ HIGH WATER AT LONDON BitlD(E TO-MARROW. Mornin , 42 minutes after t I Evening 4 minutes atter '2 The Publication of the Evening Edition of Tres SUN COM.. menced at 20 minutes after Three. t% s •-.1 e „ , LONDON: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1840, The Royal Assent was yesterday given, by commis sion, to a great number of Bills, for the names of which we refer to our Report. The Earl of CHARLEVILLE inquired of the Marquis of NOILMANBY whether lie had heard anything of the disturbed state of Limerick caunty. The Noble Mar. quis replied he had heard that outrages of an agrarian character had been committed, but a reinforcement of police had been sent, and peace had since been effectually maintained. In reply to the Marquis of LONDONDERRY, who is always as busy as a hen with one chicken, Viscount MEL BOURNE stated that Lord JOHN HAY had no precise instructions to act as he acted, and the British Govern. merit was not a party to the Convention of Bergara. A short conversation took place on the Marquis of WESTMEATH moving for same returns, which appears to indicate, we are afraid, that the Duke of WELLING TON ha% lost his temper with his health. That the Irish landlords are terribly frightened, and live, in fact, in continual dread, is evident by the com plaint the Earl of GLENGAI.L made about persons in Ireland havinc , arms. Why should th e y no t ? I s nobody but an Earl or a Duke to carry a gun ? The Noble Earl moved for a return, which was ordered. After transacting some routine business, their Lord ships adjourned for the holidays, at Seven o'Clock, till the 30th instant. In the Commons, after the transaction of much private business, and the presentation of several petitions, notices of motions were given by Mr. PLUMPTRE to prevent further grants being made to Maynooth ; by Mr. EWART, that all subordinate Government offices should be bestowed on the principle of competition ; by Mr. HAWES, for a Bill to establish general affirmation; in room of oaths in Courts of law ; and by Mr. HUME for certain correspondence between_ Lord PONSONBY and Lord PALMERSTON. In reply to Sir C. GREY, the ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated he hoped the decision of the Courts in the case of the Birmingham and Manchester Charters would enable the Government to give Charters to other Cor porate towns. Lord JOHN RUSSELL announced his intention to move to-day that Mr. HOWARD, jun. and Mr. PEARCE be discharged, and that the order for attendance of the Sheriff be discharged. Mr. WARBURTON obtained a return of the rules and regulations observed towards prisoners convicted of mis demeanour, with a view, we believe, of contrasting the treatment of COLLINS and LOVETT with the treatment of the officers at Wig in who resisted the Sheriff's officer. Correspondence relative to the American Boundary was laid on the table of the House by Lord J. RUSSELL. s:r J. FREMANTLE presented a petition complaining of the returning officer for Totness who appears to have been absent from his post, and the Hon. Baronet gave it be understood designe.llyabsent. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL objected to any such case being entered into, unless the Mayor had received due notice. The petition was ordered to be printed. In reply to Mr. AGLIONBY, Lord J. RUSSELL said he should have no objection to lay en the table the plan matured by the Deans aid Chaplains for the better appropriation of ecclesiastical revenues, but the authors of that plan considered parts of it to be private property, and objected to have it produced. The Noble Lord also stated that he had no scheme tq propose to enfran chise ecclesiastical leaseholds. The Bills for any2.nilit:ii and continuing the Poor-law were rend a second time. Mr. HUME, who had given notice of his intention to ask a question of Lord PALMERSTON, relative to the treaty with Turkey, complained with some asperity of the Noble Lord's absence. Lord J. RUSSELL, having refused to answer K.veral questions concerning China , put by Mr. J. PALMER, that gentleman gave notice that on the 30th he would move a resolution that the refusal of the Chi to pay f or t h e cpin-n deliv ere d up to them should not be considered a justification for commencing. - Oa th e mot i on of Lord J. sset it ass ßu or a d a s 4rt.. •.red that aft er t h e Ist of June orders 4 ou ' ld on Thursday, take preced ence of motions. a lu a Committee - en the subject, Mr. NI A ULE passed I a resolution to etto,i e himto brio in a Bill late the trade of Chimney-sweepinig and to p rtettule .an end to sweeping chimneye y means of finally chi u ldren 3 all parties. * The resolution was apple e d e a b y Mr. LAS - I:HOPE tfruught forward the case of NATHA- N' NUL. CAVE, the man whe w as some time ago wrongly vemnakled to prison by a Magistrate of Hertfordshire (Mr. MOUNTAIN), and who could get no satisfaction or redress. Mr, EASTHOPE moved br a Select Committee to inquire into the case. Mr. :eleueE requested it might be left in his heeds.' Mr. T. DUNCOMBE thought that was relying on a rotten Iced ; but Mr. EASTIIOPE, after a short conversation, withdrew his motion. Mr. WARBURTON, in moving for copies of the cor respondence between the Hon. Member fur Warwick, Sir F. • , 1_1.140 T , and Lord J. RUSSELL, relative to the prison regulations of Warwick, made an interesting • statement relative to the treatment which had been re ;ceived by Messrs. C.:I.LINS and LOVETT. The Hon. Member showed that the class of off •nces of which / these gectlemen had been convicted, had never before been so severely and unworthily punished. Mr. Sergeant Teevouen seconded the motion, and ,! quoted several instances of persons sentenced to inepri sonment for libel who had books, music, and visitors al lowed. One such person, Mr. Wi eteeaeoler . on, far from being excluded front the company of a wife. was married whilst in prison. Mr. Fox MAULS admitted the propriety of • • power to the S ecretary of State to order differ ki e g n nitovinregata ment for such off.nd ers wh i ch at present he co; he w'Aild have no o bj ect i on to introduce the clZsi which Mr. WARBURTON wished i nto the Prisonsaßill. VtNeeNT, he admitted, was in the Penitentiary, and would be treated like the rest of the prisoners. Mr. Fox :MULE found an excuse for the Government in the excited st a t e o f t h e country at the time Cowss and LOVETT published their libels, a n d i n Mr. VINCENT'S character, whom he described as dangeious, for the severe treatment to which these so called 1 bellers, who have taken away no man's cha racter, have been exposed. S r E. WILMOT spoke of the unexceptionable be haviour of COLLINS and LovErr, and said they were proper objects for the exercie of the prerogative of mercy. In that recommendation several Members joined. The motion was agreed to, and the recom mendation cannot, we believe, be too soon carried into effect. The House only sat till a Quarter past Eight. The observations which we yesterday made on the " acknowledged inefficiency of a large portion of every class of Naval Officers for service, com bined with the enormous amount of our dead weight, to reward past and secure future exertions, cannot fail to attract. the attention of Mr. HUME and, we hope, of the public. The fact is, and it is known to every man the least acquainted with the Navy, that for many years the aristocracy have jobbed the Navy in the same way as they have jobbed every department of the public service. They sent thei r sons and dependents on board ship, and provided for them by procuring them annuities under the honourable titles of Lieutenants, Cap tains, and Admirals. There were, during the war, twice or thrice as many officers as were employed ; and the number seems very little to have diminished since the peace. The public ought to know that, under the name of veterans, it is really paying an nuities to a large brood of the same class which in flicts the bread-tax on the community. The corro borative proof of this is to be found hi the state ment of the services of the officers given in the Re pert. . _ How many Admirals have never been at sea as Admirals, is not stated, but nearly one-half of the Captains and Commanders have never been at sea in their present capacities. As we yesterday mentioned, 530 Lieutenants have never served as Lieutenants, 386 have served less than one year, and 656 less than three years as such. But while there are so many officers who have never served afloat in the ranks they now fill, it is an "ano maly," says the Report, " peculiar to the Nava! service, that by mere seniority on the list, without the slightest reference to the service performed, an officer acquires a right to an increase of half-pay." The first 300 Lieutenants on the list receive 7s. a day, the next 700, 65., and the remainder .ss. ; so that 530 persons who have never served as Lieutenants, and may now have ss. a day, as they outlive the others will receive first 6s. and then 7s. a day. The Commissioners propose a slight cor rective of this anomaly, but one of their recom mendations we are inclined to think will add mate rially to the existing evil of supporting, for the I presumed behoof of an inefficient establishment, a considerable number of inefficient persons. The Commissioners nowhere propose to place any additional restrictions on the power of the Ad miralty to employ volunteers and midshipmen, the number of whom is the great souree of having too many officers of a higher rank to provide for. Nor do the Commissioners recommend any restric tions on the power of the Admiralty to promote officers from the d:fferent ranks beyond those which already exist, and which have not been found suf ficient to diminish the dead weight, though they have not secured, as the Report states, efficient officers. They propose, however, to establish an other class of officers to receive half-pay. They recommend the institution of what we shall call a body of Sub-Lieutenants. The Mates are to re ceive commissions or warrants, their sea pay is to be increased to 51. per lunar month, and after three years' service as Mates they are to be entitled to half-pay at the rate of 2s. 6d. a-day. After an actual service of twenty years they are to be allowed to retire with a pension of 2s. 6d. per day. These are the recommendations of the Report, which in fact create a new class of half-pay officers, while every page and every line of the Report bears testimony to the ser vice being already swamped by them. The Mates should be provided for by promoting them to be Lieutenants. While they, however, go on serving eight, ten, twelve, or twenty years, after they have proved, by passing their examination as Lieutenants, that they are capable of filling any station in the Navy, they see four, five, six, or ten broods of youngsters, who bear a noble name, or have some aristocratic connections, successively promoted to be Lieutenants and Captains. The influence of the aristocracy jobbing the Navy is the root of the evil, and it will only be strengthened by providing a retreat for the deserving Mates on half-pa ) and pensions, who ought to be promoted instead of the striplings of the aristocracy the in stant they have served their six,years. Our readers will see that our remarks are dic tated by a desire to serve the best interests of the Navy. For the veterans who have borne aloft our meteor flag "amidst the battle and the breeze" we have the highest respect, and it is only by un masking the usurpers of their honoured name that they tan be secured in their just rewards and in the national esteem. The public may be compelled by an imprudent Legisliture to pay a multitude of persons as officers of the Navy, who have never been at sea as such--but no art, and no Act of Parliament, can shield such usurpers of the rewards and honours of veterans from public contempt. We take up this subject not only because the Report of the Commissioners gives us an occa sion, and furnishes facts, but because we are given to understand that the present practices through out the Navy tend to confine every superior situa tion to the members of the aristocracy. At pre sent, by the practice of buying commissions, &c., no person can well become an officer of the Army except one of the upper classes It has been proposed, in order to keep the Navy select, that commissions in it shall likewise be sold ; but though the proposal has not been agreed to, there seems to be a practical ten dency to confine the office of Lieutenant, and con sequently of Captain and Admiral, exclusively to one class. Tu us it appears that the recommenda tion of the Commissioners to give half-pay to Mates, by which that meritorious class will he pen sioned off and excluded from promotion, is intended to throw all the Lieutenancies into the hands of the aristocracy, and so promote that object. We trust that our remarks may awaken public attention to the subject, and nip the design we have indicated in the bud, for so sure as all the honours and rewards of the Navy be mo nopolised by the aristocracy, while all the work is left to the lower classes, so sure will it be ruined. The very reverse ought to be the practice as it is the theory. The highest offices in the Navy ought to be freely opened to all, and the enterprising and ardent of all classes should be enticed to enter the service by a certainty that merit, and merit only, should receive promotion. Both to lessen the de mands for half-pay, and to entice well- educated Voting men from the merchant service into her MA JESTY'S service, the Navy, we repeat, ou g ht to look to that service, on the breaking out of war, for a large portion of its officers as well as for a supply of men. WAR WITH NAPLES. The foll ow i ng i n t e lligence relative to the dispute be tween Engl an d an d Naples, arising out of the Sulphur Monop o l y Contract, is copied from the Semaphore, a Mars e ill es J ournal, of the 10t h i nst., f rom w hi c h ex tracts yesterd a of a similar pu r port appeared in The Sun of Y. It w as rumoure d i n P ar i s on Monday, that the Briti s h A mbassador at Naples was ordered to quit the country in so many hours. Nevertheless the im pressionwithstan prevailed in the highest political circles, not -1 quarrel wdoinugldthhee amicablysudlen adjusted s o t e t dt without t h f o u u n t d a s, ny t h b a u t rn t i I n i; of powder on eithe r sll politan Envoy Extraorddine. ar S y uc t h o a ti t le le c as o t ur w t as o t r he Lolp con viction of the Princ e d don who on Saturday mo d w CASTELCICALA, the Nea -1 FRENCH and his family. The gravity the King 1 to i3 , ri however, tish m heightenederchan themerchants , th the British subjoined circular . addressed to nsul at Naples, of the aff lir is, from which the inference, that the Government has made up its mind upon the course to b e pursued, i s clet.rly deducible. The Ki ng o f NAPLES isrepfresented as determined not to yield a j ot i n t h e wa sion, relying upon the support of Austria and ia France ': while England on the other band insists upon the ex' plicit abolition of the ricvnopoly, as an absol u t e ( neces s a ry preliminary to tie adjustm en t o f all diffly.- rences. If we must come to blows with Naples, let US look to the realization of some higher object than the mere abolition of an unjust fiscal regu lation. Oppressed Italy has claims upon our sym pathy only one shade less than those of unhappy Po land. To moot this point may rouse the suspicions of Austria, but it cannot fail to have a contrary influence in France. M. THIERS would not dare to countenance tile arrest of a constitutional movement in Italy, on the sordid plea of accepting a monopoly in lieu of liberal insti tutions ; and even were he so far to abandon the prin ciples of th at R evolu' i on o f w hi c h it i s his just pride to tlahe considered as the leaitimate offspring, we feel assured puti es at he would be abandoned by the Chamba. of De and th e nation. We are here putting a hypo thetical case. If war can be honourably avoided, in Heaven's name let us have peace —peace with Naples and all the world, if possible. But if we must fight at all, then let us aim at something which may hereafter entitle us to the gratitude of our enemies. The end of all wars is peace, and the best guarantee for peace is to be found in the free institutions of the countries once in a state of hostility. Had Naples and the two Sicilies enjoyed a free constitution, England would not have to complain of the sulphur monopoly contract, nor of those violations of a mercantile treaty, which now en danger the peace of Europe. (From the Semaphore de Marseilles of the 10th instant.) The steamer sally, which plies between Naples and Marseilles, entered the latter harbour on the 9th, with in telligence from Naples of the sth. The arrival of this vessel . was looked f or w i t h t h e utmost anx i ety. T he note tran:mltted3esterday by the Prefect of the Mouths of the Rhone to the Chamber of Commerce had excited consi derable uneasiness among the merchants, and everybody was naturally desirous to obtain infcrmation with regard to the rupture of the negotiations between England and Naples. The following is the summary of the news brought by this packet : Thc Neapolitan Government had been apprised in all probability of the secret instructions which Mr. Temple had received from his Cabinet, and of the orders for warded to Admiral Stc pford to bring before Naples, or the harbours of Sicily, a portion of the British naval forces in the Mediterranean. This fact was obvious from the extraordinary activity imparted to the preparations of de fence, as similar measures were taken as on the occasion of the appearance of Admiral Lalande's squadron before Naples some years since. The King himself directed the works necessary to repel aggression. Fear ing lest an attack might be made upon Sicily, 12,000 men had been embarked for that island. All the commercial steamets lying in the harbour of Naples had been put into requi salon to convey these troops to their destination. On the sth instant the rupture was universally known ; a certain agitation prevailed in the public mind, but tran quillity bad not been disturbed. Mr. Temple had ceased all intercourse with the Government, an i the Congil of England had addres-ed a circular letter to British mer chants residing in Naples, cautioning them against shipping goods on board vessels navigating under Neapolitan colours, lest circumstances should oblige the British naval forces to teeur to reprisals against the vessels of the kingdom of both Sicilies. A British steamer had arrived at N.iples. and was to remain at the disposal of Mr. Temple and of the English Consul. It was reported that the King of Naples intended to proceed in person to S cily, there being little doubt that England would endeavour to foment disturbances in the island, where there exists a strong party who might be tempted to avail itself of circumstances to detach the coun try from N spies. At the above date it was expected that the fleet of Ad miral St , pford would shortly appear in the Bay of Naples. It was calculated that it might arrive on the 11th or I‘.:!h instant. The stocks continued to decline on the 51); the ducats were at 99 1-5. The oils were offered at one moment so low as 24 60, but got up to 25 35. The following is a circular of the Consul of her Bri• tannic Majesty to the English merchants residing in Naples : " NAPLE4, APRIL 2. " Gentlemen,— I am charged by Mr. Temple, Envoy Extraordinary of her Britannic Majesty at the Court of Naples, to inform the English merchants residing in this kingdom, that circumstances have arisen vvhich may very probably oblige the naval forces of her Majesty to exercise ref t.sals against vessels navigating under Neapolitan co lour,, in order that they may be guided by this notice in the re:erve which it may be expedient to observe in ship pingmt rchandise on board such vessels. - "I hasten, in consequence, to communicate this infor mation to yon, and should ulterior measures, tending to impede British trade, be necessary, or chance to occur, you may rely on my apprising you of them. "T. GALWAY." A letter from Marseilles, published by the Courricr de Lyons of the 12A1 instant, confirms the above intelligence. It states that the British diplomatic agents had received orders to quit Naples and Sicily, and that measures had been taken in order that the squadron under Admiral Stopford should lose no timc.in blockading the Neapolitan and Sicilian harbours. The latest accounts from Madrid are of the 6th inst., but, they too, are barren of intelligence of any interest. From the theatre of war no additional news has been received. CABRERA was understood to be resolved to carry the war into Catalonia, of the Carlist army in which province Don CAttLos had declared him Commander-in-Chief. The head-quarters of E6PAR TEno continued at Mas de las Matas. There is no news of any importance in the Paris Journals of Monday, with the exception of advices from Naples, copied from the Marseilles Journals, which we have given elsewhere. As disturbcnccs were appre hended, in consequence of the starving condition of the working classes in the manufacturing districts, the Prefects in Paris received orders on Sunday, from the Minister of the Interior, to repair to their respective departments, and take measures for the maintenance of public order and tranquillity. • The marriage of the Duke de NEMOURS' will •talte , place at St. Cloud on the 24th instant. Immediately after the marriage the Duke and Duchess will set out on a avelling tour through Germany. The ceremony, in revenge, we suppose, for the niggardly economy of till honest Deputies who rejected the Do tation is to be strictly private. We doubt the policy of such conduct in u King so person illy rich as Louts PHILIPPE, especially as he cannot plead that his wealth is devoted to the relict of his starving subjects. The debate on the China question in the House of Commons is the subject of comment in all the French Journals. The Debats regards it as demonstrative of the shameless dishonesty of the 'Forks ; the I.Vational denounces it as a farce, in which all the actors per fectly understood one another ; and these several views are more or less adopted by all the Journals. The pre vailing opinion is, that the British Government has acted with dignity and courage in this affair, and that it deserves the confidence and support attic British nation. It is known that the Prinees . embarked at Toulon on the 10th ; but the telegraph despatch did not state whether they were accompanied by the squadron of reserve. It was not exact:) , knonn at Toulon on the Bth, what was determined on this subject. It was said that the squadron would not go any farther than the ilieres islands; yet several of the vessels of which it is composed have taken their bills of health, which is never done for a mere cruise. Five ships of the line were in the roads of Toulon on the Bth, and three in the basin under repair or arming. The Duke d'Aumale, who bad not before visited the port of Toulon, saw it at a favourable moment. It is affirmed that the Prinn de Joinville has asked to retain, at least for a time, the command of the Belle Poole; and that when the King goes to Eu, as he does every year, the Prince will cruise with this vessel off Tre port. Hie Royal Highness intends to visit Plymouth at the same time. The Dike de Serra Capriola, the new Neapolitan Am bassador, has arrived at Paris, and has taken up his resi dence in the hotel of the Legation. Count Pahlen, the Russian Ambassador to the Court of France, arrived at Frankfort on the 9th of April. The Swabian Mercury, in a letter dated from the Frontiers of Russia, March 30, ascribes the return of the Count to Paris to very satisfactory overtures made to Foreign Courts by the new Cabinet. It is said that the loss of men in the expedition against Khiva has been considerable. That all the camels have perished, and that so great a number of horses have died that it has been necessary to abandon part of the artillery. It is said that General Perowiky would go direct to St. Petersburg, to make his report in person to the emperor,— Le Commerce. VIENNA, AFRIL 3.--On the 31st of March the Cham ber of Magnates of the Hungarian Diet adopted, aft er an animated d.sbate, the law allowing the Jews to acquire landed property, and to be Members of Guilds. The law will be immediately presented to his Majesty for his sanc• tion. On the Ist the Diet made an offer of •130,000 fr., for establishing a national theatre. The Hest discussions in the Chamber of Magnalcs related to vtry favourable stipulations for creditors to the affairs of the Unitarians, and the bridge at Pesth. VIENNA, APRIL 4.—His Serene Highness the reigning Duke of Nassau, accompanied by his younger brother, the Prince Maurice, arrived here to-day. BO UR S E.--PAras, MONDAY, APRIL 13. f irst Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price Price • rench 5 per Cents ll3 10 ... 113 W.., 112 130 ... 112 e 0 4 per Cents lO6 55 .., 106 25 ... 100 25 ... 100 25 3 per Cents B4 • 84 5 ... 83 60 ... 83 60 Bank of trance 3190 ...3190 ...3185 Laffitte Bank I,oool'. Sh 1075 ...10:7 50 ...1c75 ...I 77 51 5.900 f. Sh 511,0 ...52 0 ...5190 Belgian Bank 875 ... 877 ... 871 ... 8;7 51 31,er Cents 3 per Cents 75 ... 75 ... 75 ... 75 New York Ohio ......... ......... ........ lO2 i 5 ... 102 25 ... 102 25 ... 102 25 Sounsh Ake we Passive '7l4 ... 7 3 i, ... 74 ... :3 A Portuguese 3 per Cents 24 ... 24' ... 211 ... 24i, Ne.i, olitan Roman 1(4...4 ... 104 ... 10444 ... 1 e4-,y, lE SUN, LONDON. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1840, NEWS FROM SPAIN and ALGIERS. (From a Second Edition of the Morning Post.) A telegraphic despatch from Madrid appeared in the Moniteur Parisienne of Monday night, dated Madrid, the 9th inst. This despatch announces that the Minis ters of War, Marine, and of the Interior, had resigned, and that their resignation had been accepted by the Queen. Two telegraphic despatches from Toulon also ap pear in the Moniteur. These communicate the in telliaence that a corps of: the army of Abd-el-Kadcr had fallen into an ambuscade, formed by a native chief, and lost 500 men in killed, whose ears were sent to General Galbois. It appears by this that some native chiefs are opposed to Abd-cl-Kaaer. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT (THIS DAY). OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron ALDEasoN and Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE.) Albert Bohn was indicted for stealing a security for the ply ment of 271. 6s. 6d., the property of John G. Smith. It appeared from evidence that the prisoner had got pos ses:ion of the security under pretence of ascertaining if it were genuine, but it had never been re:urned to the owner. The Jury returned a verdict of Gu'lty, and the prisoner was sentenced to seven years' transportation. At the sitting of the Court, the following prisoners, who had been remanded, and upon whom judgment was r. - spited, worn brought up to receive sentence : Richard Saunders and Richard Bird, who were con victed of burglary, were sentenced to be transported for fifteen years. George Squince, Martha Hodgson, and Sarah Buyers, for coining, were sentenced to be transported for ten years. John Prockter, for forgery, with intent to defraud the Receiver -General of her Majesty's Customs, was sen tenced to two years' imprisonment and hard labour. Samuel Hanson, for robbery, seven years' transportation; Thomas Savage, for burglary, ten years transportation ; James Lawrence, for embezzlement, while in the employ of the General Post- Office, six months' imprisonment. RAILWAY SHARES, St. Germain Versailles, Rl3 605 ... 815 ... 6# 5 ... 610 LB 395 ... :9i ... 390 ... 300 Orleans .. StraFhorg to Bale ..._ . _ Nfontpellier to Cette Mulhawien to 1 hann ASPDA LTES AND 81111 ENS. tarn (31aberly's) DUTCHFUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, APRIL 13 Money. Bills. Actual Debt, c 23 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. A mort Svntlic,4!i per cent...... ............ 4 in Ditto, ditto, 354 per cent 75-'i 7554 Commercial Company, 4 , , per cent lBlli D'tt - , (1531 and 1833) 5 per cent. Utto 1537. S per cent. Loan 1857, 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month ll 974 Two mon tha —Dutch Papers, April 14. AUSTRIA N FUNDS.—VIENNA, APRIL 4 fire per Cents. I‘l , :talliques - llO4 Fens per Cents Three per Cents. Bank Shares ./I`3B —..Aagenaine Zeitung, Ap r il 8 DESTRUCTION OF THE CORK THEATRE.-- A private letter, received this morning, states that the Theatre Royal of Cork was burned to the ground, at half-past three o'clock on Sunday morning. The writer says that the house is a complete skeleton, and that, at half-past two o'clock p. 31., the wel timbers were blazing. Four engines were quickly on the spot, and, by wonderful exertion, aided by a plentiful sup ply of water, prevented the fire communicating to the adjoin ing houses. Th e loss of property is very great . - Mr. and Mrs. Wood had their farewell benefit the Saturday night previous. Lord Ileadly died at his estate in Kerry last week; he i s succee d e d in his title and estate by his nephew, Mr. Wino. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of Corn and Flour since Monday have been small, and the weather having been remarkably fine, dull ness has prevailed in the sale of every article, at Monday's prices._ The demand for Flour very limited, lOr r tour very n 0... NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. The demand was languid and the supplies good. A small quantity of Lamb sold at 6s. 4d. to is. lid. per stone. Beef, 3s. to 3s. 101 ; Mutton, 3s. to 3. 10d. ; Veal, 3s. Bd. to ss. ; Pork, 3s. Bd. to ss. Game and Poultry in large supply, but the trade bought very sparingly. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Supplies fair, and prices stationary—trade not very brisk. Turbot, 6s. to 20s. ; Cod, 3s. to 10s. ; Soles 10d. to 3s. 6d. per pair ; Lob s t ers I s . to 4s. ; Mackere 4d. to Bd. ; Salmon Is. 4d. to 2s. per lb. ; Whiting 6d. to Bd. ; and Haddocks 6d. to Is. Halibut. cheap and plentiful. TEA MARKET. Very little business doing, and the nearest price of Compa ny's Congou was 2s. 6d., for cash. In prompt nothing done. COLONIAL MARkET. - A moderate quauitv of business done. British Pl an t a ti o n Sugar firm, at 56 5 . to 60s. for brown ; middling, 61s. to 6.35. ; and fine, 535. ; 82s. for Refined Standard Lumps; 3,700 bags Mauritius sold at last pric, s ; 2,700 bags Bengal sold at 50s. to 655. Coffee still ruled by the Tea Market, and the lower p.ices must be accepted where sales are made ; 402 bags Bengal Rice went at 13a. to 13s. 6d.; 100 chests Cassia sold at 825.; Black Pepper at 31d. per lb. for common quality. - INDIGO SALE.—SECOND DAY. The attendance slender, and the sale progressed heavily ; prices on the average 3d. per lb. lower than last sale. The sorts most in demand were the shipping sorts and best consum ing kinds. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, 'TI#ELVE O' CL OCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TIASDAY.—The market is firm, and the sales arc 2,000 bales, without alteration in prices. Our arrivals this morning are the French mail, and ship letters from the Brazils. The usual official ieturn has been published by the Customs of the exportation of precious metals from the Port of .Loudon] to foreign and colonial ports, for the wed( ending 9th of April :—To Rotterdam, silver coin, 8,000 ounces; to Hamburg, silver coin, 10,000 ounces ; to Ceylon, silver coin, 800 ounces; to the British West Indies, silver coin, 15,000 ounces; to Gibraltar, silver coin, 40,000 ounces; to Ceylon, gold coin, 335 ounces ; to Rotterdam, gold bars, 330 ounces. The intelligence of most importance has been received by the exprPss from Paris, by which it is stated thata very serious turn has taken place in our affairs with the Nea politan Government, in respect to the sulphur question. It was generally expected that a British squadron would soon make its app•:arance off the island of Sicily. THE FUNDS. The British Funds at the opening this morning were a little flit on the above uffiir. Consols left off at 911 i Money ; and 9li 1 for the Account ; at present may be quoted 91 to It for Winey. and are 91i i for the 26th of Ni..-iy; Exchequer Bills 24 . 26 premium s)- Indio. Bonds, 2 4 premium ; Bank Stock, 1751; I India stock 249 k 2501. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 281 1 ; De -1 ferred, 141$ ; Passive, 71 i ; Colombian, 251 ; Brazilian, I 761 ; Mexican, 271 di ; Portuguese, 351 36 ; Three per i Cents., 244. 25 ; Dutch Two-aud-a- Half per Cents., 54; F.ve per Cen:s 99,1 1001 The British Queen is hourly expected. This being iettling.day in the Foreign Market, the chief business doing is paying and receiving the various balances. Up to the present hour all is going off well. Money being plentiful, not the least difficulty is expe -1 rienced in adjusting the account. The extreme fluctuation in Spsnish and Portuguese have been, in the former, about 3 per cent,, and the latter 1 2 per cent. ' The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon were much the same as on last post day, with little doing. PRICES OF STOCKS Tills DAY AT ONE o'CLOCN. Bank Stock 1 75t4 India Stock 3 per Cent. Red, Ng Ditto Bonds 3 per Cents. C0i1... 3 ner Cent ... Old Annuities — Ditto Red. 98%1qs , New Ditto New 3;i ? pet Cent 9`J•4 ' 3 Per Cent. Annuities, I - Pil New 3 per Cent. • — Exch. Bills, £l,OlO ... 21 2fl pm Bank Long A nnuities toexoire Ditto 500 . 21 :Ai pin. Jan 5, ISO)) 13% 9.06 Ditto Small 'l 2ci pm. Oct. 10, 18.50 —/ Ditto Commercial dis. .1: n. 5, 1860 13 13-16% ( ' Ditto Advertised ...... pm. Jan. 5, ISM — Bank Stock tier Account ... April 5, 18.80 — India Stock for Account .. Jan. 5.1870 --, Consols for Account 9 1% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Tills DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK Austrian Bonds - ) Peruvian Bonds — Belgian Bonds .. Ditto Account — Ditto Account 3raz ilia n Bonds 7SN 6 Ditto New Bonds ... 33%% Ditto Iccount - 35% 3uenos lyres Bonds —; Ditto, 3 per Cent. ........23 4% Ditto Account :::::_tian 50-id Mtn .tcac. nt — ' Russian Bonds, IS:21 II3M :c%trntian Ec:ids Ditto Account • Mtn tact, ut Columbian 3 • ds,lS24 ...... —; Spanish Bonds ' B % I ti Etta 1t . :3 lit ..lanish Bonds Ditto A.:Li int — , Del.-Tred Greek Bond' — French, 5 per cent.... —f. —c Ditto Bonds, 18:25 — ---- 4 per cent. • Ditto Account ...... ......... ----- 3 per cent. —f. —c Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent, ' ----.. Exchange. —f- —e. Ditto Account ......... ..... Dutch, 2i4 per cent.... 54 31i %.'4 Ditto, 6 per Cent. Ditto Account Neapolitan — Ditto Account ........... PRICES OF SHARE 1 THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. . Per Share, Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Company 81 65 Great Western Railway Company 65 ':5 7 Ditto New London and Birmingham Railway Company. , , 90 .. __— Ditto % S h a r e s 25 23% London and South Western ... London and Croydon Railway Company l4!. 18s. 6d. " Ditto Scrip N 1 inchester and Leeds Railway Company 6O . s Ditto New Shares NAn Mid land Railway Company • lOU ... Ditto New ..... 10 South Eastern pnd Dover Railway Company... 19 COURSE OF EXCHANGE YE‘h,'ERDAY Amsterdam - C.'''. 12 46: 'iibrA:ta ~..:,.. '''''' :. '' ... .. p Jitto, at sight ltsaterdam 2U. 12 5 :',ienol... ...................,..... 2: 75 kntwerp... Honburg. kltona .. ...... ..... 1'..1 12,i I S-ples ~. ..... 40 1 4 Paris, 3 days' 5ight......... 25 40 !lal.:rrno ......,,,....,,,,per oz. 1 3 Uitt0....... ........... 3 Ms. 15 B 5 lAsbnn ~..,.. „ ..... ...„,..... t,4,,,i Vlarseilles. • 25 ,u 1 0r0rr0.......... •, .... 4 i.;ollldeaUX Frankfort on Main; E'.3l. 154..%! ia1.1a.......................—..... Vti I 'eterAbuitrh, ruble... 3 Us. 37) % -, Buenos Ayres ...........„.., Berlin Vienna, effective (1...3 M In n i Philaac:pnia,......”‘ ........_ lb Trieste ditto 'o 7 i PRIC . 2. et 13 I-1-Lit, "., pe 02 Sladrid '.36li s Portu4a. 11511. L:'nri ...t( ii 0 Cadis...... ...... ............ 30%, ! 1 areiin G0 , .2 ...oats..., 517 9 ti.lboa ..., iircelona 3 6 ! N '.,V7 1.11%1S ••••• •••• 0.•*• U 4 I ieville 36 i Silver _.. ears ........... C , 5 ('h lIALF-PAST ONE. There was a good deal doing in the dom estic F u n ds , also a great sp ecu l at i on i n th e N a pl e s Funds, at lower prices. Spani s h S toc k rather d epress ed. A report prevailed yesterday afternoon in the tea market that the cargoes of the Pekoe , and one or two other vessels recently arrived from Hong K on g , would not be admitted for home consumption. The reason assigned for the stoppage of these teas is, that they were brought from the coast of China contrary to the orders of Captain Elliot. The British and Foreign Markets arc not quite so good as they were in the early part of the morning. Our affalrs with the Government of Naples in some measure causes a heavyness in the Market. Consols are at present 911. for the Account, and 91 for Aloney, ; Exchequer Bills 24 26 prem. ; India Bonds, 2 4 prem. ; Bank Stock, 175 f. the Foreign market the settling of the Account is going off well to the present time. S,)anish Active rather lower. 284 ; Deferred, 141 ; Passive, 71-; Portu guese, 353- ; Direr , per C en ts., ; Mexican, 28/ . ; Brazilian, 75i 6; Dutch Two and-a-Half pe r Cents. 53 / rather lower than in the morning ; Five per Cents., 991 We are requested to state, lest Mr. Sanford vote on the adjournment of the debate on Mr. Villiers's motion should be misrepresented, that though Mr. Sanford voted for the adjournment to Monday :nstead of to Monday week, which he did because he would not be a party to au unfair and discre ditable trick, he should have voted, and whenever the decision is taken he wilt vote, against Mr. Villiers 's motion for an in quiry, being entirely opposed to any alteration in the Corn law. Holding very different opinions from ,Mr. Sanford upon this question, we cannot but regret to find him ranged among the uncompromising advocates of the Corn-laws as they are; but respecting his opinions and admiring his general political career, we should not therefore the less zealously support him as Member for West Semerszt —Somerset County Ga zette. FIFTY-SIX MILES AN H O W - I.—The ten-feet wheels attached to the locomotive engines employed on the Great Western Railway not being found fully to answer the expectations of the directors, they have altered their plan, and i n future wheels of seven fret diameter only arc to be em ployed. • The result has been the attainment of the speed of tifty-six miles an hour. CAMBRIDGE ELECTION COM MITTEE.--(THIS DAY.) The Committee met at the usual hour, when, after a short consultation, the Chairman announced the Com mittee were satisfied with the evidence given on what Counsel termed the collateral issues on the conduct of Mr. Cannon, and wished to proceed to try the validity of Mr. Manners Sutton's return. After some conversation it was resolved to continue the cross examination of Mr. Cannon. Mr. Cannon, cross-examined by Sergeant WRANGIIAM. —I am the agent for the petitioners. I think the petition was presented 31st January. Long removed the trial by certiorari, which postponed the trial. I made an applica tion to have the venue changed from Cambridge to Mid dlese x. That would have postponed the trial until the sittings after this term. Ido not know the day the rule was moved for. A rule nisi was obtained to be disposed of by a Judge in Chambers. It was late in term when I received this information. The rule was discharged on the 19th February, at the instance of Long, the defendant. The trial of the petition was appointed fur the 16th March ; therefore if the rule had been made absolute, the petition would have been tried before the indictment. The compromise with Long commenced, I believe, on the 2d day of March. I have not heard that the prosecutor had taken any steps before that time. lam riot aware that Brown had taken part in elections before that time. He is an assistant overse e r o f S t . A n d rew-t h e L ess, an d, I think, a grocer by trad e . I rece i ve d t h e f i rst i nt i mat i on o f this . compromise from hi m t h roug h C ooper. I n t h e course o f the negotiation, it was settled Long was to be taken from Cambridge. This and every part of the negotiation was to be conceal e d f rom every b o d y connecte d w in ' him. I do not know that it was thought the bail would be alarmed. The bail was 7001. I don't think I suggested what I would do if the bail became alarmed. I did not witness any excitement from Long's disappearance. I heard his disappearance was attributed to me. I also heard it attributed to the other party. I did not contradict the rumour that the other party had removed him, nor sanctioned it except by silence. Mr. Foster made the information. Have seen it. I appeared as attorney for the prosecution. All the Magistrates of Cambridge are members of the Liberal party. Professor Ilenslow is a Liberal. One of the Magistrates told me he called out ''Hear, hear," during the examination. When I left Carnbridge for London Mr. Cooper came too. Mr. Cooper came first. It was known I was gone to London, but not the object of my visit. Scott told me , Long would say to the S eans he was going to see his mother in Essex. I said nothing against it, though I knew it was to mislead them. I commissioned Scott to look after Long. I thought, this case being of a peculiar character, it was necessary. I had sonic doubt he would speak the truth. It was nut on his evidence I sought to affect the scat and character of Mr. Sutton. I meant to employ it for that purpose. It was understood by the other party he was in my hands. Mr. Rance, his soli citor, called to know under what circumstances the plea was withdrawn, and where Long was, and I declined to give any information. If the scheme had succeeded I cannot say whether it would have been a sarprise on the opposite party. I know young Mr. Serie. He went with me to Basingstoke the other day, He is an artich d clerk to Mr. Francis Gunning, the Town Clerk of Cam bridge. I had not acquainted him with the circumstances. We arrived in town about eleven o'clock at night. Long was anxious not to enter town before dark. We dined at Besite e stoke. I paid the bill there, and at the other places. He is not a person I have been in the habit of dining with. While they were having refreshments the d,scussion was going on. I dined, &c., with him because I thought it the best way °feeling under the circumstances. He is a person in humble circumstances. I supplied hint with money to bear his expenses. Unless he had come forword to give information I should not have treated hint in the inenner I did. Oa the first occasion we did not return from Basingstoke directly. We went to Reading to preclude communication with his friends. It did not seem to me improper to put the prisoner into the hands of Mr. Parkes, h.s legal adviser. I saw Mr. Preston when going to the Judge's Chambers. I ',believe he did not say we had better keep the thing among ourselves. He referred me to Mr. Parkes, he being unacquainted with the business. Mr. Rance waited on me on the sub ject of this retraxit. I know Mr. Broen to be a person of repute ; he is in town. By Mr. COCKBURN—The Magistrates of Cambridge, with one or two exceptions, are Liberal. I had forgotten the heads of houses.—( Laughter.) I need not have men tioned them. Mr. Rance is an Attorney of Cambridge, and an active partiean ; he called on me, and appeared to understand Long was in my hands; he said it was all 'A mystery to him. I thought if I told him he was, they would try to get him out of the way. I thought we should have a fairer trial in London than in Cambridge, on account of the excitement, and therefore I changed the venue. Scott having said Long would be obliged to leave his situation, I gave as my opinion he ought to be protected or indemnified. I had no person's authority for saying so. By Sergeant WRANGIIAM—I don't know whether Mr. Richard Foster subscribed to the petition or not ; some of his friends did. I consulted some of the mem`;crs of the Committee to this petition, as to reducing the Jury on the prosecution. I think Mr. Fetch and Mr. Allop were pre sent. Mr. Richard Foster was not. I consulted Mr. E. Foster about it. I don't know whether Mr. Harris was present ; he was in the habit of attending, as also Mr. Ashy. By the •Committee.:—l Was not entirely free f rom d ou b t as to the integrity of L o ng's ' communication.. I particu larly requested him to state nothing but the truth. On his introduction to me I stated the terms arranged with Scott. He stated they would be placing altogether in our power, and declined making any statement unless the prosecution were abandoned. My impression then was he would not accede to the terms, and it w Add come to nothing. The money supplied them would have been larger had they been stationary, but they were constantly moving about. I should think 253. a week was about the sum Long's wife was in the habit of receiving. I should think his earnings are about 255. or 30s. a-week. M , s. Long has three children. When in town I took Long and Scott to the Haymarket Theatre. I took them into the gallery. We made statements at three dill rent times. I observed no discrepancy between them. Long never made any communication to me respecting his want of money. Scott stated Long was without money. Charles Henry Cooper (by Mr. AUSTIN)—I am the managing clerk of Mr. Cannon. I know Ali. Brown. I had communicated with him about Long, on the 2d March. He told me he had seen Scott, and that Long had told him he was anxious to make a communication to me, to avoid prosecution. I told this to Mr. Cannon. The result was an interview at Brown's house between Scott Brown, Mr. Cannon, and myself, about Long. I remem ber a summons bein g; taken out, to enable Long to with- draw his plea of not guilty. An authority for thet pur pose was given 4 Long. It was to Messrs. Parkes and Preston. When taken to the Crown-office, I be lieve Scott attested it. I had seen Mr. Parkes in the morning before the authority was actually signed. Nut finding Mr. Hatton, his clerk, I went for the summons myself. The plea was withdrawn pursinef,ce of the order obtained. A summons was taken out to set the order aside. I was present when Long was at Mr. Parkes' office to give his evidence. I found from Long that Mr. Parkes had explained to him the circumstances in which he stood, and that the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas had made an order on the subject. Cross-examined by Mr. ANDREWS —I went to Lord Denman's chambers once for the summons, and once for the orer. The clerk did not say the attorney for Long must be present. I said I came from Messrs. Parkes and Preston, and that the attorney for the prosecution would consent. The authority had beer, taken by us first to Messrs. Parkes and Preston's. The prosecution was to be abandoned on Long's making a true statement. There was nothing said about remuneration. Something was said at Cambridge about Scott's being remunerated and Long protected. I did not contemplate Long's losing his situation. I swear I did not contemplate his receiving money under any circumstances. I presume he was to be protected from pecuniary loss, but I do not call that remuneration. The contingency put by Scott was,:that Long would be obliged to leave Cam bridge. I meant nothing more by his being protected, than he should have the expenses of removal. I think it was not clearly ascertained be would be obliged to leave the town. I led him to understand he was to be supplied with money up to the inquiry, if he left the town at our request. I did riot give him to understand he was to be supplied with money after the inquiry. I believe he was supplit d with money for his maintenance up to the time of the in quiry, and . : for travelling expenses. Long is: an:har ness-maker. They were to live decently, as people do at inns. I believe Brown is a great friend of Scott's. Brown is my next door neighbour, and we have had fre quent communications. I was mainly instrumental in get ting him the situation of assistant overseer. I never heard of any compromise of the proceedings against L ong t i ll in . formed by Brown of the communication of Scott re specting it. By the COMMITTEE—Nothing was , said to Long about . getting him a situation, ho Cambridge. To tell you the truth, I never could form any opinion of the cha racter of Long. I believed the truth of his statement. I did not consider it very extraordinary. I was inclined to credit. Scott. I have known Long acting at previous elections for the Tory party. I believed his reason for making the communica6an was to avoid prosecution. Mr. BLOXHOUSE, Clerk of the Crown Office, proved the withdrawal of Long's plea of " Not Guilty," which left judgment for the Crown, and that it was competent thought not common for the Attorney for the prosecution, upon consent, to withdraw the plea. (LEFT SITTING.) STRANGE ANOMALY.—The Tories of Wol stanton parish, Staffordshire, in order to annoy two notable Reformers, Mr. Thomas Huxley. end Joseph Capper (a Chartist leader), have appointed them to the office of overseers of the poor for the ensuing year. What the results will be only time can determine, but certainly the Radicals have a right to expect an improved mode of poor-law relief. SUDDEN DEATII.—AII inquest was held on Tuesday evening last at St. George's workhouse, Mint-street, Borough, on the body of George Gillham, about filly-five years of age. The deceased was passing through St. Gcoige's Circus, London-road, ahout two o'clock on Sunday afternoon, when he suddenly fell.. Mr. Brady, surgeon, of Blackfriars, happened to be passing by at the moment, and immediately opened the veins of the neck but without effect. He died in a few minutes. Verdict—" Died from natural causes." Fanny Elssier lea-•es England to-day, per Great Western. Laporte made several proposals, but the tenure of her engagement prevented her accepting them. There is, how ever, every possibility of her returning to England next season. Among the very rare collection of foreign and tropical plants in the conser,atories of the Colosseum, a mag nificent " Dracana Fragrans" is at present in full bloom. The plant is sixteen feet high, and the perfume strongly resembles the " Tuberose," but is much more powerful, the whole air being impregnated with its fragrance. THE LATE EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF JEWEL LERY, &C., AT Loan COLCIIESTEICS.—It is believed that tho police have at length suceeeded in eliciting some very impor tant facts relative, not only to the robbery at Lord Colchester's, but also two other very mysterious abstractions of plate and jew &fiery which have recently taken place at the:West-end. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held a Privy Council yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. • It was attended by the Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home and Foreign Departments, the first Lord of the Admiralty, the President of the India Board, the First Commissioner of the Woods and Forests, the Secretary at War, and the Lord Chamberlain. Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in waiting. for Majesty gave audiences to the Marquis of Lans downe, the Marquis of Normanby, and Viscount Melbourne. The Court was attended by the Countess of Charlemont, Lady in Waiting, the Comptroller of ale Household, and the Hon. Colonel Cavendish (Clerk Marshal), Equerry in Waiting. Lord Byron and Sir Robert Otway were the Lord and Groom in Waiting. The Judge Advocate-General had an audience of the Queen yesterday afternoon, and submitted to her Majesty the proceedings of some Courts Martial. The Queen and Prince Albert drove in the Parks yes terday morning in pony chaise, and also in the afternoon, attended by the Hon. Colonel Cavendish. The Royal Dinner Party last evening included Vis count Melbourne, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Lady Fanny Cowper, Lord George Lennox, Right Hon. Sir John Hobhouse, Right Hon. Thomas B. Macaulay, Right Hon. George Stevens Byng, Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, and the Hon. John Ponsonby. The band of the Coldstream Guards was in attend ance at the Palace during the evening. The Duchess of Kent and the Hereditary Prince of Sim Cobourg Gotha drove out in a pony phaeton yes terday, Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, visited the Duchess of Cambridge yesterday at C ambridge House. Her Majesty and her Serene Highness inspected the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's-park in the afternoon. On Monday her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent did Mr. Hayter the honour to sit for the picture of the Royal Marriage, and yesterday morning his Serene High ness the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Coburg and Gotha conferred the same honour on him. Mr. William Henry Hayter received the high honour3t her Majesty's most gracious approbation of the set of Quad rilles which he has been permit.ed to dedicate to her Ma jesty, entitled " Le bois de Is Lorraine." The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, dined with her Majesty the Queen Dowager last evening, at Marlborough House. The Princess Augusta visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House. Prince George of Cambridge left town on Monday even ing for Brighton. The Countess of Charlemont has succeeded the Mar chioness of Normanby as the Lady in Waiting on the Queen; and Lord Byron and Vice-Admiral S:r Robert Otway have succeeded the Earl of Listow and Mr. Rich as the Lord and Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. The Education Committee of the Privy Council had a mee , ing yesterday afternoon at the Council-office. The Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl of Clarendon, Viscount Dun cannon, and Lord John Russell, were among the Members present. Lord Fitzalan. Mr. Strutt, and Commander Wood had interviews with Viscount Me bourne yesterday in Downing itrect. Toe French Ambassador transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. Mr. George William Wood, M.P , had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Down ing-s treet. Mr. Justice Williams, Mr. J. Shaw Lefevrc, and Mr. Sheriff Wheelton, had interviews with true Marquis of Normanhy yesterday at the Home Office. Lord Dinorben had a dinner party last evening at his re sidence in South Au:llcy.strect. Lord Thomas and Lady Sophia Cecil left Farrance's Hotel yesterday morning for Dover, en route to Paris, FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS The Earl and Countess and Lady Georgiana Grey; Lord and Lady Southampton ; Lady Hervey and Miss Paulet ; the Bishop of Norwich and Mrs. Stanley ; the M.sses Tylney Long and Miss Long Wellesley ; the Hon. Captain Keith, R.N., at Mivart's Hotel ; Lord Ashbrook, at Patterson's Hotel ; Lady Hutton Cooper, Sir Walter and Lady Stirling, Lord Templetown, Sir W. Ahdy, the Hon. Somerset Maxwell, the Hon. Mrs. George Villiers, Colonel Howard V) se, at E;Trall's Hotel (late Gordon's), Albemarle-street; Mr. Horace St. Paul, M. P , Mr. Os wald (Grenadier !juards), Lord, Forester, the Earl of Cardigan, the Hon. Captain de Roos, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Chetwynd Talbot, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. William Hamilton, Mr. Charles Brett, at Farrance's Hotel ; Lady and the Misses Hard, Captain Mundy, at the St. James's Hotel ; the Baroness Le Despencer, the Hon. Captain Grey, at the Clarendon Hotel ; Lord Boscawen, the Dowager Lady Dillon, Sir James and Lady Flower, Mr. Townley, M. P., at Limmer's Hotel; Pryse Pry-se, Eq., M. P., at ditto ; Lord Wynford and the Hon. Mr. Best, at Beattie': Hotel, Conduit-street; Lord Walsing ham, in Upper Portland.place ; Mr. and Mrs. H,sket'a, at Fladong's Hotel, from Raiford Old Hall, near Orms. kirk ; Hiilesden Colquhoun, Esq., at ditto, from Bedford; Ut..v. Mr. Cole, et ditto, from Great Missenden, Bucks; Edward Griffiths, Esq.; at ditto; Saehcveral Bateman, Esq , at ditto ; David Harmer, Esq., at ditto; Sir Tray ton and Lady Flit Drake, in Upper Brook -street, from Nutwell-court, Devon ; Mr. and Mrs. Farquharson, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's -street, from Langton, Dorset shire ; Captain Drummond, Grenadier Guards, at ditto, iron. Scotland ; Colonel Abercromby, M.P., at ditto, from Leamington ; the Hon. Mr. Juetice Ball and family, at the Burlington Hotel, Cork-street ; Mr. Sitwell, Ist Life Guards; Colonel White, M.P., and Mrs. White; Lord Dunraven and Lord Adore; Mr. Miles Stapleton, at the Clarendon Hotel ; Captains Henall and Fraser, at Long's Hotel ; Major- General Sir John Ross, K. C. B. ; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Lennox Butler; the Hon. Mr. Byng; the Hon. Edmund Byng; Major. General Sir James Caldwell; the Dowager Lady Colchester; Lord Hawden. DEPARTURES. Vice-Admiral S r Richard Hussey, K. C. B , for Hunt ingdon ; Admiral Sir D ividge and Lady Gould, for Bath; the Dowager Lady Arundel, for ditto; the Hon. Newton Fellowes, for Devonshire; the Rev. Lord Decies, for Leamington Spa; Captain Main Waring, R.M., fur Bath; Miss Sc. Leger, for ditto ; the Right Hon Henry and Mrs. Lahouchere, for Roehampton ; Lord Monson, for Gatton Park : the Earl of Darlington, for Dorking ; the Hon. Captain Fred. Spencer, for Hampton Court ; Baron and Baroness de Blome, for the Continent; the Earl and Countess of Brecknock, for Bayham Abbey ; Lord East nor, for the Priory, near Reigate ; Lady Caroline Mase, from the Carlton Hotel ; Sir John and Lady Edwards, and Miss Stapylton, from Fladong's Hotel, Oxford-street, for Bath ; Lord and Lady Ongley and Miss Ongley, from ditto, for Old Warden, Bedfordshire ; Hon. George and Frederick Ongley, from ditto, for ditto ; W. Wells, Esq., from ditto, for Redleal, Kent ; John Fane, Esq., from ditto, for Wormsley, Oxfordshire; P. H. Clarke, Esq., 9th Lancers, from ditto ; A. Cockburn, Esq., from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's -street, for Scotland ; M. E. N. Par ker, Esq , from ditto, for Whiteway, Chudleigh ; General Sharpe, M P., from ditto, for Leamington ; John Fort, E,q., M. P., from ditto, for Read Hall, Lancashire; Sir Thomas and Lady Whicheote, from ditto, for Aswarby Park • Lord Amiens, to join th e I s t D ragoon G uar d s; the Rev. Sir George Burnard, Bart., for Hants; Major. General Sir Neill Douglas, for the north ; Sir John Boileau, Bart., for Paris; Lord Foley ; Colonel Burdett, on a Continental tour ; Lord Fitzgerald and Vesey, for the Continent ; Mr. Bailey, M. P., for Glanusk Park ; Mr. Bailey, M.P., jun., for Leamington Spa; Rear-Ad miral Bouverie, for Portsmouth ; Sir Edward and Lady Sugden, from Crawley's Hotel, for Boyle Farm ; Sir John. Lady, and Miss Shelley, for their villa, on the banks of the Thames; the Marquis of Granby, from the Bur. lington Hotel, for Belvoir Castle. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with their re spective suites, left Buckingham Palace this afternoon, for Windsor Castle, where they are expected to remain until the close of the ensuing week. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent will take posses,ion of her new mansion, in Belgrave-square, this day. The whole of her Royal Highness's baggage, and also her valuable service of plate, from Kensington Palace, were removed on Tuesday, by the Messrs. Snell, of Albemarle-street. The Earl and Countess of Harrington have ar rived at Harrington House from Derbyshire, for the season. Lord and Lady Hatherton and the Hon. Miss Littleton came to town last week from Teddesley Park, Staf fordshire. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn arrived on Tuesday at Dudley House, from Bentley Priory, for the season. The Dowager Lady Blantyre and the Hon. Misses Stuart are expected at their new residence, in Eaton place, on Thursday, from Blantyre Castle, North Britain. Viscount Chelsea is staying at the Earl Cado gan's in Piccadilly, his Lordship's mansion, in Wilton•creseent, not being ready for his reception. The Duke of Wellington leaves Apsley House to-day for Stratlifieldsaye. The Marquis of Westminster left Grosvenor House yesterday morning by the railway for Eaton Hall, where his Lordship will entertain a party during Chester races, and return to town in three weeks. Lord and Lady Robert Gros venor will not be of the party, having been Invited to partici pate in the splendid hospitalities of her Majesty and Prince Albert, at Windsor Castle, during the recess. Earl Talbot has returned to ingestre Hall, Staf fordshire, to attend the Assizes. Lord Thomas and Lady Sophia Cecil left Far rance's Hotel yesterday morning for Dover, en route for Paris. Sir Robert Peel left town yesterday morning for Drayton Manor, for tip, Parliamentary recess. Lady Peel, ac companied by her youthful latnily, took her departure on the previous day. The Marquis of Hertford is suffering severely from an attack of gout, at Dorchester House. The Count and Countess Emanuel Tray will remain on a visit to the Marquis until the close of the season. Lord Castleman) continues in a hopeless state. His demise is momentarily expected. Lieutenant Sir Archibald Keppel Macdonald, Bart., of the Scots Fusileer Guards, grandson of the Master of the Horse, has been appointed Equerry to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, in the room of the late Harrison Gordon Codd, Esq. Mr. Miles Stapleton gave a splendid dinner at the Clarendon, on Monday evening, to ce:ebrate hi s es t a blishing his claim t o the Barony of De Beaumont, to Lord A. Fitzcla rence, Count D'Orsay, Lord William Lennox, Lord Loftus, Lord C amoys, L ord Frederick Beauclerk, Sir Robert Dallas, Mr. Quintin Dick, M.P., Mr. D'lsraeli, and Mr. Broad head, M.P . Lord Lyndhurst is daily approaching conva lescence, and it is expected will be able to attend in the House of Lords after the recess. Lord and Lady de Roos will entertain a party during the holidays, at their villa on the banks of the Thames, near Richmond. 14.11 7: 141N1NG EDITION. A CAP FITS. We copy from the Standard of last night the following amusing proof of painful sensitiveness in the friends of the Church : DR. LARDNER. FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) In last evening's Sun there appears, in a very prominent place, and distinguished by a very attractive heading, a Pa ragraph commencing thus : " The Reverend Dr. Dyonisius Lardner [the italics and spelling are copied strictly], who so recently abused the confidence and destroyed the happiness of a family in Brunswick-square, Brighton, has met the punishment he so richly deserved." In the remainder of the article Dr. L. is twice stiled " Reverend Doctor," and the writer's drift evidently is to cast, by implication, the odium of this dreadful transaction upon the clergy of the Church. Now this cannot be done in ignorance or mistake. Dr. Lardner is a well-known personage, an eminent man among the Useful Knowledge and London University peo ple ; a man never suspected even of Christian, much less of clerical habits or tendencies: All this is, and must be, well known to the editor of The Sun, who is himself a bit of a literati,—writes plays, reviews books, &c. All this, I repeat, must be well known to him, and yet he delibe rately inserts an article imputing the offence of this " libe ral" Doctor to the Church I An act of baser falsehood, of more perfect scoundrelism, I never saw perpetrated in the columns of a newspaper.- [Our Correspondent's language is much too strong, an& in our opinion, unjust. We do not know whether Dr. Lardner is in orders, but he certainly has been in the habit of styling himself "the Reverend," which has naturally led the Editor of The Sun to consider him a clergyman of the Church of England; that the wretched man never acted in this country as a clergyman of the Church is, how ever, certain ; and it is, therefore, impossible to acquit The Sun of acting most uncandidly in ascribing his con duct to the Church. As well impute the misconduct of the Rev. Robert Taylor to the sacred Establishment, to which he has never been more malignantly disposed than the Rev. Dionysius Lardner has been.—Editor of the Standard.] Now though the head of the Church, unfortu nately for Churchmen, fits,the cap which The Sun manufactured, there was no intention of imputing Dri t Lardner's peccadillo es t o th e Ch urc h. The devotees of that worm-eaten institution naturally expect that others should mete to them the same measure they mete to the Socialists, and impute to the doctrines taught by the Church every crime committed by Churchmen, as Dr. Philpotts imputed to Mr. Owen's doctrines the suicide committed by one of his followers. With the sad fate of Castlereagh and Bishop Jocelyn still fresh in the publicmemory, we were surprised at Dr. Philpotts imprudence , and we can assure both the Editor of the Standard and his learned Correspondent that we disdain to imitate his bad habits. We meant no reflection on the Church, but inserted the article as we received it. In fact we demurred to giving Dr. Lardner the title of Rev., he not being so well known to us as he is to the Editor of the Standard, till we were shown an official paper in which he is designated by his clerical title. The Correspondent of the Standard is evidently not a reader of that nor any other Tool journal ; he must confine his reading to our pages , or he never would have spoken of our paragraph as an act of base falsehood, and, as he ungrammatical ly calls it, " more perfect scoundrelism'." Infinitely worse paragraphs than ours, if that which was in no sense bad can be susceptible of such a comparison, appear every day in the Standard, Post, Herald, Times, and Co. The virtuous Editor, too, of the lying Standard, cannot acquit us of being uncandid, though he is obliged to con fess that Dr. Lardner has been " in the habit of styling himself the Reverend." We only assigned him his usual title, rank, and dignity, and for doing that, without hinting that his culpability was the consequence of his station, the painfully sensitive Editor, and his painfully sensitive Correspondent , abuse The Sun, as if it had coined one falsehood, and then coined half a dozen more to give it cur rency. The Standard alai its Correspond‘int are t not angry, we admit, without a cause ; but whet her cause be their own consciousness of the effe ct of the doctrines and practices of the Church, or our words, the impartial reader must determine. CHINA-REPRISALS. ORDER IN COUNCIL. PRESENTED TO PARLIAMENT BY COMMAND OF HER MAJESTY, 14TH APRIL, 1840. At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 3d day of April, 1840. Present, the Queen's Moat Excellent Ma j.sty in Council. Her Majesty having taken into consideration the late injurious pi oceedings of certain officers of the Emperor of China towards officers and subjects of her Majesty ; and her Majesty having given orders that satisfaction and re paration for the same shall be demanded from the Chi nese Government ; and it being expedient that, with a view to obtain such satisfaction and reparation, sbipq and vessels and cargoes, belonging to the Emperor of China and to his subjects, shall be detained and held in custody ; and that if such reparation and satisfac tion be refused by the Chinese Government, the ships and vessels and cargoes so detained, and others to be thereafter dctainel, shall bo confiscated and sold. avid that the proceeds thereof shall be applied in such manner as her Majesty may be pleased to direct : her Ma jesty, therefore, is pleased, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, that' the commanders oilier Majesty's ships of war do detain and Ming into port all ships, vessels, and goods belonging to the Emperor of China, or his subjects, or other persons in habiting within any of the countries, territories, or do minions of China ; and, in the event of such reparation and satisfac ion as aforesaid having been refused by the Chinese Government, to bring the same to judgment in any of the Courts of Admiralty within her Majesty's dominions : and to that end her Majesty's Advocate - Geheral, with the Advocate of the Admiralty, are. forthwith to prepare the d ra ft o f a co mmission. an d present the same to her Majesty at this board, authoris ing the Commissioners f or execut i ng th e office of LPr el . High Admiral to will and require the High Court o : Admiralty of Great Britain, as also the several Courts of Ad miralty within her Majesty' s d om i n i ons , t o ta k e c ognizance of, and judicially proc ee d upon all, and all manner of cap tures, seizures, prizes, and re p r i sa l s o f a ll ships, vessels, and goods, that are, or s h a ll b e ta k en , an d to hear and determine the same according to the course of Admiralty, and the laws of nations, to adjudge and condemn all such ships, vessels, and goods, as shall belong co China, or sub jects of the Emperor of China, or to any others inhabiting within ary of his countries, territories, or dominions ; and that such powers and clauses be inserted in the said Com mission as have been usual, and are according to former precedents; they are likewise to prepare, and lay before her Majesty at this Board, a draft of such instructions as may be proper to be sent to the Courts of Admiralty in her Majesty's foreign Governments and plantations for their guidance herein ; and the said Commissioners are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. C. C. GRE VILLE. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY•) DEAL, APRIL 14.—Wind S.S. W.—Sailed the Elea' nora, Bruce, for Montreal. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 14. Wind S. E.— Arrived the Forester, Parker, from New York, sailed, 3 1 st „ f ait " Canton, Gibson, N ew O r l eans; A nge l o , M o bile; ina r Y Mirk, Payne, Charleston. Sailed the Royal William, Smith, for Calcutta; Glencira, Newby, Calcutta; Jessoh, Putnam, New Orleans ; Sydney, Cawan, ditto ; Ellen Brooks, Lindsay, Baltimore; Shinandore, 'West, Phila delphia; Matthe w B e ll, J am i eson , Q ue b e c ; Garriell Palmer, New York; Loyalist, Skinner, Pietou ; Hudson, Newfoundland. Off port the Rose, from Mobile; Beltona, Odessa. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 14.—Wind variable.—Off p ort the Christian a , Purdy, Sierra Leone. FALMOUTH, Ann. 13—Wind S.—Arrived the Milton, Anderson, from Port au Prince. Sailed the William Glen Anderson, Murray, Quebec; Iberia, Cooper, Vigo, 86c. Off port the Fl ora , D e Pi etrom, from Monte Vide)/ sailed 26. b January. Rs E r APRlLQuebec. l 3 JERSEY, BRISTOL, APRIL 14. — S a i led the Sir F. B. llea Revel;, Arrived the St. George, from Bahi a . S a il e d the Susan, Truen, for Sbi SWANSEA, APRIL 13..—Arrived the Wodon, from C o pi o p o . WGEKINGTON, A PRIL 1 3.—Arrived the Hero, Harrison , from Quebec. ppiSgAhanie.re, CORK, A PRIL 12.—Ar r i ve d t h e I sa b e l , Savanilla. S a il e d t h e Marion, Bo n n for Quebec; William Parker, S w ill , Montreal. Yula ' SHIELDS, APR IL 13 . — S a i led the John Garrow , Wilson, for Bombay ; Albi on, Brecon, Quebec. I the , PORTSMOUTH, A PRIL 14. Wind S. .E. Sail a Quebec, K e l car d , f or New York • Nancy, And erson, Mi amichi. MARYPORT, A PRIL 1 3. Off port , the Wiascales , Conelly, from Si erra L eone . Cape, fr om r LYNN, APRIL 4 —The Glsgow, from London to In verness, got on shore in the Roads, 7th inst., came off to day, and will c , ,trie up to tLie harbour. MILFORD, APRIL 13.—The Hope, of Glasgow', monad to Quebec, was spoken with yesterday, westward of the Smalls, in command of the mate, the master being dan gerously ill, by the Adder packet, arrived here. NEW EDITION OF MR. BURK E'S EXTINCT PEERI.GE OF ENGLAND, IRELAND, AND SCOTLAND.--W. are t equested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Mar lborough street, has this day published a new and enlarged edition of Mr. Burke's " Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the PeeragFa of England, Ireland, and Scotland, Extinct, Dormant, and in Abeyance," a companion to all other Peerages, in 1 vol. of 800 pages, closely printed in double columns, with an em blazoned title-page, price 28s. bound. Principal contents :- 1. Extinct Peerages of England, alphabetically, by the sur name of each Peer-2. Peerages of England, alphabetically , according to the titles-3. Charters of Freedom —Magn a Charta, Charter of Forests-4. Roll of Battel Abbey- 5 . Extinct Peerages of Ireland, alphabetically, by the surname of each Peer-6. Irish Baronies by Writ —7. Peerages of Ire land, alphabetically, according to the titles-8. Extinct Peer ages of Scotland, alphabetically, by the surname of each Peer —9. Peera , es of Scotland alphabetically, accrding to tho titles. It 7hould be obser , ved, that the Extinc o t Peerages of Scotland and Ireland have never before been published. M ULLET.—Tuesday evening 2,100 remarkably fine silver mullet were caught by the Bognor fishermen, and sold at four or five for b.-Sussex Advertiser. } SA~ ' ~ ka