The Sun. — London, England, 1840-04-11 00:00:00

EMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND. In 2 vole. post Bvo., with 90 Wood - cuts and Map , price 165., MANNERS and CUSTOMS of the NEW ZEALANDERS. With Notes corroborative of their Habits, Usages, &c., and Remarks to Intending Emigrants. By J. S. POLACK, Esq., Author of " Travels and Adventures in New Zealand." 1831-7. " His book is both interesting and useful—interesting to all elasses of readers, for the amusement it affords; and to emi grants, or to those who are debating whether or not they shall become such, almost indispensable, if they desire to farm a fair comparative estimate of the various spots which put fcrth claims to their attention at the present moment." —New Monthly. April. " Abounding in instruction and amusement, it is impossible to do justice to such a work in the space we can at present accord to it."—Sunday Times. March 28. James Madden and Co., successors to Parbury and Co., 8, Leadenhall-street. IRELAND and ITS CIVIL WARS By CAPTAIN ROCK. Now Publishing in " CLEAVE'S PENNY GAZETTE," The History of the Civil Wars in Ireland, from the Invasion under Henry Plantagenet till her Union 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." London : Cleave, Shoe-lane, Fleet-street ; and all Book sellers and Newsmen. D E R . n O ,l Rof IS MAJ ESTY havingTßlA A the uT HOERLISFP' GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY PREMIUMS, which (though t he y are NO LOTTERIES) 3ffer many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, are NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase, may receive, PRE VIOUS to giving any order ,the PROSPECTUS and PAR TICULARS, upon cldressing WITHOUT DELAY, a line HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. P. THENS.— NEXT DSTRIBUTION contains Portions of WENTY I E THOUSAND, FIVE THOUSAND, TWO THOUSAND, ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED, ONE THOUSAND. EIGHT HUNDRED, ✓ SIX HUNDRED, FIVE HUN DRED. THREE HUNDRED, TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY, TWO HUNDRED, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY, ONE HUN DRED AND TEN, and ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, &c. &c., amounting to £134,900 Sterling. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVET:ING, Ariur, --- Will be repeated Colley Cibber's Comedy of THE DOUBLE GALLANT ; OR, THE SIG& LADY'S CURE. Sir Solomon Sadlife, Mr. W. Farren ; Atall, Mr. Chas. Mathews ; Careless, Mr. G. Vandenhoff; Clerirnont, Mr. J. Vining ; Lady Dainty, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Lady Sadlife, Mrs. Nisbott ; Clarinda, :Madame Vestris; Wishwell, Mrs. Orger. After which, the New Divertisement, entitled LES CHAMPS ELYSEES. The Characters by Master W. Smith (pupil of Mr. Oscar Byrne), Miss Fairbrother, Miss Ryalls, Mrs. Gibson, Miss Kendal, Miss E. Kendal, :Messrs. C. J. Smyth, Ridgway, Gib son, &c. &c. In the course of the Divertissement, Mademoi selle Luigia Bettoni and Monsieur Saxoni will appear in a new Pas de Deux, and Mlle. liattoni will dance " La Cachouca." To conclude with the Barletta of TWICE KILLED. Mr. Euclid Facile. Mr. Keeley ; Mr. Reckless, Mr. J. Vin ing ; Mrs. Facile, Miss Lee: Fanny Pepper, Mrs. Orger. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, ;33. 6d.; First and Second Circles, bs. ; Second Price, `.2s. (3d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets anti plat. es 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 he had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-M•RROW. Morning '4 minutes after 1 1 Evening `‘ . 2 minutes after 11 The ;Publication of the Evening Edition of THE SUN COM.. meneed at 20 minutes after Three. c? ... 7 1;.a ;.• Zin xit/11,. LONDON: SATURDAY, APRIL ii, 1840. The Marquis of WESTMEATH, in presenting a pe tition last night against the Irish Corporation Bill, called the attention of their Lordships to the language of Father Tom MAGUIRE, as he is commonly called in Ireland. who had said " he would tell the high-born bilious sprig of the House of Derby that in three months he would have two millions of temperance men who would sound the tocsin of Repeal, and effect the liberty of eight millions of people, by driving both Whigs and Tories out of office." At this language the Mar quis appears much frightened, from which we can only infer that his cause is bad. The Irish Municipal Bill is to be postponed Nay The Archbishop of CANTERBURY, though with great reluctance, and after much pressing, withdrew his motion fiir an address to her MAJESTY to reject the Canada Clergy Reserves Bill. Lord MELBOURNE very properly refused to lay the prerogatives of the Crown at their Lordships' feet, by pledging himself not to give the Royal Assent to the Bill, till after it had been on tne table of Parliament thirty days, without counting the recess, That Would have been to degrade the Crown. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY described the clergy as a religious community, claiming for them till the sacredness of monks, while they—well-fed men of the world—will submit to no monkish ob servances or penances. In giving up the motion, because they could not well help it, the Prelates growled out. their displeasure. It does rot, however, tolk ow that the 11‘11 will pass, for Lord ELLENBOROUGII asserted that it is illegal, and cannot receive the Royal Assent. For own parts, we would waive a point to serve the Canadians ; to irritate them continually by noxious, meddling, priestly legislation, will make them throw themselves into the arms of the Americans. Greater folly than that of our Bishops never dismem bered an empire. On the question that the Report of the Printed Papers Bill be received, Lord DENMAN explained the alterations he proposed in the Bill, and instead of the certificates to authenticate publications, he proposed that every publication of either House should bear on the face of it the authority by which it was issued, the same as an Act of Parliament, and he proposed to ex tend protroction to the publication of Parliamentary Papers in the newspapers. He objected to that part of the origin al Bill which stays the action brought by Mr. HowARDA The LORD CHANCELLOR and Lord LANGDALE sup ported the Bill as it originally stood. After sonic con versation the Noble Lord came to a compromise, by which the wording of the Bill was altered to meet Lord DENMAN'S Views, and he withdrew his clauses. Lord WYNFORD moved a clause to prevent the sale of papers by the House of Commons. Lord ELLEN BOROUGH opposed it., The Duke of WELLINGTON sup ported it, because the House of Commons should not be the only authorized libellers in the kingdom. The Noble Duke forg o t th e P eers. After some conversa ti9n the insulting amendment was withdrawn, and the Ripon was agreed to. The Bill is to be read a third time to-day. In the Commons the Cambridge Election Committee was sworn. On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the House agreed to meet to-day to receive the Printed,. Papers Bill, which it was understood would be sent rrom the Lcris amended. ltlr. FRESIIFIELD called the attention of the SPEAKER E 0 it mistake in the printed report of the division ; ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. BUTLER. Last Night previous to the Holidays. THIS EVENING the Entertainments will commence with the New Burletta (by the author of " The Court of Old Fritz," entitled LEGACY HUNTING Sir Richard Playwell, Mr. Baker; General Playwell, Mr. Brookes; Fanny, Miss Fitzwalter. After which, THE LADIES' CLUB established at this Theatre. ----- Open every night at half-past 7. and close proceedings at 9. Mrs. Fitzsmith (the Chairwoman), Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by MONSIEUR JAQUES. Monsieur Jaques (his original character), Mr. M. Barnett. To conclude with the New and Original Drama (Ir . , the authtir of " The Ladies' Club"), called GWYNNETH VAUGHAN. Gwynneth Vaughan, Mrs. Stirling ; Owen Williams, Mr. Baker ' • Evan Pritchard, Mr. Hull. Boxes, 4s. Pit, 2s. Gallery, Is. Secomd Price immediately after the Ladies' Club. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Last Night of the Season. TINS EVENING, APRIL 11, Will be acted the Drama entitled THE POCKET ROOK ; OR, THE TWO FAlllf IE S. Supported by the entire strength of the Company. Davidge will address the Audience on the close of the - Season. After which' LILIAN. THE SHOW GIRL. With all its effective situations. To conclude with the Historical Drama depicting England in 1664, Baibadoes in 1665, Old London in 1666, with a re presentation of the Great Fire of London, entitled ,THE CITY APPRENTICE; or, THE THREE LILIES. hut the SPEAKER informed the Hon. Member that - whatever numbers were announced by the SPEAKER were entered on the Votes. We believe :here was a mistake of one assigned too few to the Tories, which there appears no means of rectifying. Notices and counter-notices of motions were given by Mr. MAXWELL and Mr. O'CONNELL for the num ber of the Catholic and Protestant priests receiving grants of public money in the Colonies. A. new writ was issued for the county of El g in, in the room of Colonel GRANT, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. Sir R. INGLIs made an inquiry about a mysterious steam-vessel which has been at Portsmouth, but elicited no peculiar information. Lord JOHN RUSSELL is to move the Canadas Union Bill on Monday next. The Budget is to be brought forward on Monday after the holidays. Mr. MAXWELL, by dint of an inquiry, obtained the information that it has long been the custom to allow priests vestments, and the ornaments of Churches, to be brought in without paying a duty. Lord STANLEY announced that his Irish Registration Bill is to be proceeded with on May 6, when, for the sake of the peace of the empire, we hope Lord STAN LEY will be defeated. On the motion for a Committee on Lord SEATON'S Annuity Bill, Mr. HUME moved that it be referred to a Select Committee, and made a severe attack on Lord SEATON for his mode of administering the government of Canada. Lord JOHN RUSSELL defended Lord SEATON, and Mr. HuME's motion was lost by 79 to S. After another division in favour of giving the an nuity to the two next heirs of Lord SEATON, the Bill went through a Committee. In a Committee of Supply a sum for Civil Contin gencies was voted, end the House adjourned at Half past Seven o'Clock. It was avowed both by Sir JAMES GRAHAM and Sir R. PEEL, in the debate, that the motion was founded on party or factious motives, and 'rained to suit a factio►►s end. The latter came down to the House armed with precedents to jus tify this factious conduct, and the former thought he made a good hit when he taunted the Ministers with having learned his opposition tactics while serving with the Whigs. Sir ROBERT, too, quoted in triumph some factious conduct of Lord JOHN CAVENDISH and the Marquis of LANS DOWNE, in former times, as supplying the rule fol lowed by the Tories. Such unblushing avowals of political turpitude might perchance abash the Whigs —though we are far from believing that the gen tlemen referred to by Sir R. PEEL had the con sciousness, which he avowed, of acting merely from factious motives—but it can only fill the people, whose interests are sacrificed by self-seeking states men of both parties, with contempt and disgust. They do not admit that the skill of BARRINGTON, the pick-pocket, is any justification of IKEY SO LOMONS, the receiver ; and they will not honour faction in the Tories, because the Whigs were once factious. Greatly, in fact, they lowered themselves in public esteem by their attempts to derogate from the glories of a contest, which, had their better advice been followed, might have been avoided. Unwanted by their fall, it is now the boast of the Tories, that they are following the bad examples of the Whigs. Sir ROBERT PEEL, the greatest orator and artist of his party, selected one only point for ob servation, and that one which he thought would tell most in his favour. He undertook to demon- s/rate to the House—and he repeated the word, as if he were perfectly satisfied of his success—that the Ministers had been culpably negligent in not giving greater powers to the Superintendent. He told the House that the other charges against the Ministers could all be equally demonstrated ; but he selected this as a sample of the whole. Assum ing, then, that what he demonstrated on this point, is a test of the whole case of the Tories, let us look at what it amounts to. We will make large admissions. Supposing, then, that the Superintendent had not sufficient power to control the English at Canton and Whampoa, though no important instances of dis obedience to his authority were quoted ; and, sup posing that it were possible to arm him, a single man, at four months' sail from the seat of power, living in the midst of a motley population of daring and feckless men, unacquainted with that habitual respect for authority which prevails here, with a means of enforcing his orders, as certain as the means exist amidst our people, willing and re solved to obey the law, of enforcing a decree of the Court of Queen's Bench—supposingit were possible to arm the Superintendent with the power of the Chief Justice, which it is not ;—admitting that no Court of Admiralty and Criminal Court had been established—though Sir ROBERT PEEL'S asser tion that they had not, was instantly refuted—ad witting all his assertions that Ministers had made no effort to increase the power of the Superinten dent, which they had made--still we affirm that Sir ROBERT PEEL showed no connection whatever with the want of those powers, and the interruption of our commercial relations, and the hostilities that have since taken place between the Chinese and the English. He failed to prove that a single - outrage committed by the English, con trary to Captain ELLIOT'S orders, provoked the hostilities of Commissioner LIN. If no such out rages were committed, no such provocation given, the want of a power in the Superintendent to pre vent or punish them would have been useless, and the complaint of the Tories, that it was not given, is idle and absurd. Sir ROBERT PEEL could quote only three in stances of mischief arising from the want of the power. He said that the Jardine, passing up the river contrary to Captain ELLIOT'S wishes, was one proof of his want of power. But though ' Captain ELLIOT complained of that, and he might be displeased with the disobedience, the passage of that vessel seems in no way to have in fluenced the conduct of the Chinese authorities. No event in the history of the hostilities grew from or was connected with it. Sir R. PEEL did not say there was, and the amount of provocation which it caused, according to Captain ELLIOT, was some uneasiness in the Chinese authorities. The second instance was a want of subordination amongst the seamen, which made the Navy Captain ask for power to establish a police. Ac customed, as he probably is, to implicit obe dience, to the nicest discipline, and the most complete subordination, he was very likely to be offended with the want of these qualities among the rude crews of merchant vessels. But we should not conclude from this representation of wanting power that granting it would be beneficial. The Chinese authorities complain of the conduct of Captain ELLlOT—they complain of the English gentlemen with whom the Superintendent asso ciated, and of whom Captain ELLIOT makes no complaint, but they did not stop the Superinten dent's supply of provisions, and shut up the fac tory at Canton, because the seamen were turbulent and riotous at Lintin or Whampoa: The third instance of Captain ELLIOT wanting power was, that the Thomas Coutts, contrary to his wishes and order,, signed the bond which LIN required of the English ships. We do not say that it was not disobedient ; but how that which was a compliance with LIN'S wishes can be quoted as a proof that the want of power in Captain ELLIOT to prevent compliance led to hostilities we cannot com prehend. It is contemptible in Sir IL PEEL to allege th e disobedience of the Thomas Coutts, by which the Chinese were satisfied, as a proof that the want of power in the Superintendent led to their dissatis faction. We see in this one evidence of beneficial dis obedience to the Superintendent, and we should like to learn whether there were not more instances. an captains who trade to Can ton complain that Captain ELLI O T has too little power? or too much Where are their petitions? We have se en none, and much better j u d ges o f Mr. ... A LMER thewe infer th a t th e y, who are r. matter th an th e Tories, never wished t o see the superi n t en d ent ' s power in creased. M P t. whi ch sign wCapt.ere matters EL LIOT would not a ll ow the these Captainboncs lstatedEL in th e H ouse t h at of cou rse . Th e exercise of his power, th ere fore, rs rather provoked i than soothed the Chinese. Capt. ELLIOT'S despatches show that he wanted to have power to control the whole trade, and had it been granted it would have been abused. The com plaints of the insufficiency of his power are at once refuted by the readiness with which all the opi um was given up at his command. His authority, great over all the British , bent , indeed, before the au - tho ritv of LrN, and laid the whole British mercantile power at the feet of the Viceroy. Had he received more power he might have been a more convenient instrument for LIN to squeeze. The disputes with the Chinese au thorities be g an, in , fact, from the very moment th at a British au thor-icy ' arrived in their n eighbourhood, and have continued ever since. The quarrel has been be tween the Chinese authorities and her MAJESTY'S Superintendents, not between the former and our merchants, ship captains, and seamen. T hey go to China to trade, and would submit to the Chinese laws. The Superintendents are sent there to en force British laws, and they stand o❑ the QUEEN'S dignity. Sending a Superintendent to China at all was the great error. It established a rival au thority in the face of the authority of the Celestial KING, and has caused all the mischief. Sir R. PEEL then demonstrated nothing but his own wish to find fault. He did not trace the smallest connection between Captain ELLIOT'S want of power over British subjects and the out rageous conduct of the Chinese authorities, to seek reparation for which we are fitting out an expedi tion. It was the conduct of the respective autho rities rivalling each other, which, in the language of Sir J. GRAHAM'S resolution, has caused in terruption in our commercial und inter. course, and the hostilities `with China; and Sir ROBERT PEEL'S laboured, attempt to demonstrate that they were caused, by Cartain ELLIOT'S want of power is a ',roof either of the most obtuse in telleot or t i s.ie most factiou3 conduct. No person will asse - i it to the former, and therefore he must stand convicted of the latter. Petitions we see are frequently sent to both Houses, for the suppression of the opium trade ; and more than half the strength of the Tory cause lies in a popular delusion, that this trade is en couraged by the Government, and by the Govern ment can be put down. The facts are not so. Opium is cultivated in various countries of Asia, over which England has no control whatever. Over part of that produced in India she might fulminate regulations ; but when she tolerates, as she must tolerate, the growth of barley in England, and the manufacture of gin, to attempt to suppress the cultivation of opium in India, would be equally inconsistent and unsuccessful. The same reason, that the product is abused, which would justify the suppression of opium cultivation in India, would require us to put an end to the manufacture of ruin in the \Vest Indies, and to distillation at home. As long, however, as Mr. MACAULAY observed, as there are persons who desire the drug or the gin, and as long as a large profit is to be made by the sale, it is beyond the power of any Government to suppress a trade, or a species of cultivation, which gratifies so many persons. On principle we abhor the interference of the Government with the business pursuits of indi viduals, for we see no limit to its operation. Beer must follow gin, for some people waste their sub tance on it, and with it destroy their health. The use of tobacco must be also prohibited. Tea and coffee are liable to be abused, and must be placed under the same ban. In short, the insidious blow aimed at the opium trade would in time destroy three-fourths cf the manufactures and trade of Britain. If they could suppress the cultivation of the drug in the territories immediately under the control of the India Ccmpany, it would be impossible to suppress its cultivation in the territories of those princes who are only its allies. With all our vast and powerful machinery, it was never possible for our Govyrnment to put down illicit distillation in Scotland and Ireland, till the reduction of the duties made it more dangerous than prof,it able. How then could the India Company prevent the cultivation of opium throughout the whole of India ? If it. could not prevent the cul tivation, as our perfect Preventive Service does not prevent smuggling brandy here, no possible contriv ance, not all the fleets and armies of Britain, cculd prevent opium being exported from India and imported into China. The attempt would be chimerical ; and the petitions pray for an impossi bility. We know not, too, by what right or on what principle the State can interfere. It may withhold its protection from the opium trade's ; it may tell them, as Lord PALNIERSTON told Captain EL LIOT, that they must trade on their own responsi bility : the State may refuse to interfere if they be maltreated or even murdered by the Chinese ; though we do not say that such would be wise policy ; but they commit no vice, they cultivate their fields in peace ; in peace, harming no one, they carry their cargoes, as other ships carry sugar and rum, to their place of dotal nation ; and on what pretext the Government can in terfere with those peaceful pursuits of its own subjects, whom it is bound, as long as they commit no crime, to protect, we cannot imagine. If they violate the laws of China they must take the consequences. But Great Britain is not called on to maintain a Police or a Preventive Service against its own subjects in order to prevent their infringing the fiscal laws of another State. Will those who demand the suppression of the opium trade provide equally profitable employment for those engaged in it ? We ate sure they will not, and they, therefore, have no right, and the State has no right, to sup press a trade which is a violation of no moral law, and by which neither they nor the State is injured. It is due to ourselves to state that this artiee was written before the debate of Thursday night, and was excluded by it. Had it not not been in type we should have contented ourselves with merely referring to Lord PALMERSTON'S masterly observations on the same subject.' Lord JOHN RUSSELL, last night, stated in the House of Commons that on Friday an Order of Council was issued to authorise reprisals against the Chinese. It is on Monday to be laid on the table of the Houses of Parliament. A similar statement was made in the Lords by Lord MELBOURNE. It was added that no letters of 'marque had been issued, and that the principal purpose of the Order in Council was to establish a Court, which should have power to condemn vessels seized by her ;MAJESTY'S cruisers. The I\ladrid Papers received are of the :2(1 inst., but their contents are unimportant. The Address, in answer to the Speech from the Throne, was voted on the Ist inst., and a deputation was to present it to the QUEEN on the following day. The following is the latest news from the theatre of war The head-quarters of General Espartcro are still at Castellote ; the third division is there, and at Las Cuevas. Zurbano is at Ejulve, and the first and second divisions are at Castellote and the environs. Cabrera is at Mora, and in worse health than ever ; for, after having recovered a little, he has experienced a relapse. The insurgents are conveying to Morella the artillery of Cantavieja, with the stores and provisions in that place; which, it is believed, they will abandon on the approach of our troops. They have concentrated their force between Zurita and V'l larluango. Discord prevails among the rebels, especially the officers. The Commander of the Royalists of Santa -o'.ea, as well as the priest of this town, have just made their submission to the third division. It is thought that all the troops will shortly do the same, for the faction is at its last gasp. The French Chamber of Deputies did not sit on Thursday ; the Moniteur brings no official news from Spain, Naples, Switzerland, or Africa ; the voice of faction in the interior of France is for the present hushed ; so that all we find in Thursday's Paris Jour nals consists of repetitions of the rumours about the sulphur contract quarrel, which we notized in Thc Sun of Friday. It may be recollected by our readers, that a few weeks since accounts appeared in all the journals about the sudden disappearance of Father TnomAso, Superior of the Spanish Convent in the city of Damascus, together with his servant, and that seven of the wealthiest Jews of that city were put to the torture on suspicion of hav ing murdered them to obtain their blood to consum mate a pretended religious rite. It is with feelings of indignation and horror that we select from the Alexan drian correspondence of the Semaphore, a Marseilles journal, the following narration of the conclusion of this atrocious affair : " The truth is now known. Of nine accused persons, seven, confounded by the declarations of the barber and ser vant, have confessed everything; and, in the hopes of saving their lives, declared their wish to become Mussul mans. Father Thomaso, being entrapped to the house of the wealthy Daoust Arari, was surrounded by all the brothers, and by some other and more opulent Jews, who gagged and bound him. A Jew barber and a servant of the house having entered, the latter, upon the order of the eldest of the family of Daoust Atari, sate upon the stc mach of the victim; the barber seized him by the beard; and the two brothers Haham held him down by the arms and legs. Daoust Arari then plunged a large knife in his throat, and afterwards his brother, Aaron Arari, Mousse Elafie, and Moussa Salamenah complet<d the execution. Besides these four principal sacrificers, three others were ranged ready to perform their functions. The body was suspended with the head downwards ; one held a bucket to receive the blood, whilst the other two, by pressing on the body, hastened the flowing of it. When all the bloo had drained out, all these madmen rushed upon the body. s ittinhnh n tee d toiihrr c e u gh t nuoi i agr t rrhit i bte n lre t e, o arkm s re m iyee a sdpt l ie l ntr p ghi i ee e csin c .a c r s et , Tfou vv htil h heye ic et h ehlo t er h teh e ace y tosac p zoo u ufv t leat i rht n eee t dd o m b sbo a el g nowko s e , d,r i cf n uoi d tri pieces, were discovered, with the flesh in a state of decomposition, in the sewer. At the departure of the courier of Damascus, the body of the servant of Father Thom3so, also cut up into pieces, had just been discovered in the cellar of another rich Jew, named Thora. . It was generally believed that he had been killed by a second corporation of Jews." _ Is there any man with the slightest pretensions to common sense who can credit one syllable of this pre tended confession of the tortured Israelites ? Is there any man who does not know that they were tortured with a view to make them confers a crime which tvould lead to the confiscation of their property ? These Jews were the wealthiest in the city, and MEHEMET AtA anti. his son could devise no more oonvenient mode of selling their treasures ; trusting to the circumstance of the alleged murder of a Christian priest to ekcitb judices of Western Europe against the tietrew corn triunity. But, thank God, the time When such monstrous concoctions would have obtained credit among us, is for but their ignorant ;;,,jbrU n L o a; ever passed away. is persecutors, t t o h r e s, i t n h n: t c o e u n r t Jeivsindig nation is (I.2.rected. The correspondent of the &ma who furnishes the above account, adds that the fanaticism of the Oriental Christians was roused against the Jews, and that it required all the influence of the Vrench Consul to prevent the wholesale slaughter of the Hebrew race. If such be the fact, it is high time fir the British Government to employ its good offices with the Paella of EGYPT to prevent the Christian name from being further stained with the infamy of shedding the blood of this innocent people. If there be any of our readers so blindly prejudiced against the Jews—so willing to believe any calumny invented to their prejudice, as to pay the least regard to the alleged confession of seven of the accused, we have only to observe that there is not one man in a thousand of the entire male population of Great Britain who would not confess himself guilty of the identical murder above narrated, before enduring the torture of the rack, as administered in Syria, for fifteen minutes. Upon the whole, this affair reflects the deepest disgrace upon the Egyptian Government, as well as upon the Christian population of Syria. BOURSE.—PArtts, TIMISDAY, APRIL 9. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price tench 5 per Cents ll3 30 113 .53 113 30 ... 1,3 51 4 per Cents 102 s'l ... 072 50 ... 102 5 , 1 102 30 3 per Cents 84 5..84 10 ... 84 5 ... 84 5 3ank el r'rance ."3190 Lattitte Bank I,ooof. Sh lO7l ...10%0 —.11170 _1 70 5,000 f. sn„ „ 5185 —5185 ...5180 Belgian Bank B7O ... 870 ... 871) 870 S 7er Ccnt.s 103% ... 103% ... 10;34 103% Dutch 2% per Cents 54% ... 54,‘ 5t% ... 5 , N Ohio lO2 ... 102 s') 102 ... 101 01) United States Bank Loan OB ... 181 ... 18 ... 1 / 8 Spatiish Active ......... 2818 29% ... 28%4 ... 29% ........ 14 t ; ... 7 4 a ; d irt Portuguese 3 per Cents 24% ... 24% ... 24 , A, 24% :•cat , olitan Roman 104% 104% ... 104% ... 104% RAILWAY SHARES. it. Germain Versailles, R. 1 ' L.P. 582 50 ... 587 50 ... 382 50 ... 3 - 7 Orleans .. Strasburg to Bale 425 ... 430 ... 425 ... 439 Montpellier to Cette ‘lulhausen to Thann .. BELGIAN k UNDS—llatissELs, Aram S. Actual Debt, 2!4 per Ccnt. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cant lf .214 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. Os ------ 3 per Cent. 7 4 14 Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent OIN Society of Commerce, 45.4 per Cent llO Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 8 7 ,4 National Society. Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, April S. HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, APRIL 7. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares I51:1 An lo- Russian Loan II!) 1014 Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Curtiticate Inscription, Ist Seri e s IO3U, Russian 5 per Cent. Hop.: and Co. 3d and 4th SelLs 93li 99 Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 21;, pet Cent 52 Ditto 5 per Cent 9B - • Po!i,li Bond New I icket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 75 7494 Norwegian Loan, IN3I, 4 per Cent... - lO2 101 Spanish, New 3 per Cents. 9.lNi EXCHANGES 0 , 7 LONDON. HAMBURG, APRIL ;.--/3. 6—Two months, 13 4!4. STOCKIIOLSI, MARCif 31.—seventy-five days, 12 2. CdRISTIANIA. MARCH ::...1 —Three months, 4 11t. LElpeiC, APIIIL 2.—Two mo ths, 6. 14. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Maned 3! Eire per Cents. Metalliques . llO Fear per Cents. - IOIN Three per Cents. Bank Shares —4ltgenzeine Zeitung, April 5 MR. GLADSTONE'S ZEAL AGAINST OPIUM.—A cor respondent inquires whether the Mr. Gladstone, M.P., whose warmth against the opium trade we praised as an evidence of his sincerity, be any relation to the Gen tleman who introduced Coolies into Demerara, and if' he have !.rived any advantage from slavery ? The Hon. Member is, we believe, the son °lobe great merchant of Liverpool of the same name. He was a great slave-owner, and was, we believe, the first to profit by what Lord Brougham called a new slave-trade, the exportation of Hill Coolies from India to the West India Colonies. Report says that the Glaclstones owe much of their fortune to slavery, and to the immense sum by which Great Britain generously redeemed Mr. Gladstone's slaves. The elder gentleman has since subscribed largely to Church building. The son is a quasi saint, who has written a mystical book about the Church, and now denounces with much vehemence the trade in opium, though what there is in it sinful compared to the slave-trade we cannot see. Mr. Gladstone's fortune, however, has,been made partly by slaves, and he can afford to censure the vice in others which he no longer requires to practise himself. It must be very gratifying to the public to sec such a be neficial change,and, if the progress continue, the Glad stones in a generation or two will be archangels, if they do not turn arch-hypocrites. POST-OFFICE.—A return has been made to Parlia ment of the additional clerks and assistants placed on the establishment of the General Post-office, since the .sth of October, 1839, to the .sth of February, 1840. The total number for England and Wales is 111. clerks or assistants, for Scotland 15, and Ireland 13, and the extra annual charge for such appointments is 8,216/. 10s. LEGACY DUTY.—A return has been made to the House of Commons, showing the amount of capital on which the several rates of legacy duty have been paid in Great Bri tain in the year 1839, and also an abstract of the total amount of legacies which paid duty since 1797. The latter amounts to the enormous sum of 1,081,468,000/. ; the total amount of capital on which legacy duty was paid in 11139, was 42,052,2971. and of that more than four millions sterling paid the ten per cent, duty, and '21,604,065/. paid the one per cent. duty ; the former being the per tentage payable by distant relatives or strangers in blood, and the latter by children or parents, or any lineal descendant or ancestor. The total legacy, probate, and other duties of this description paid into the pubic treasury since 1797, was about fifty-eight millions sterling. SHOCKING ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, as the daughter of Mrs. Bishop, baker, Middle-street, was toasting some bread for her mother who was ill in bed, :he poor girl suddenly fell forward in an epileptic tit, and set fire to her cictlies. She has endured great agony from extensive burns about the chest and throat, and remains in a very precarious state.—Briyhton Guardian. TALKING BIRD.—A man named Kershaw, residing at Canghill, in Clayton, by long perseverance has tu tored a starling (vulgo, Sheepstar) to repeat the following phrases very distinctly, " Walk in ladies and gentlemen ; take your places." " A pot of beer for Jacob, and look quick." " How do you like it ?" " Pretty well." " What will you have to your freakiest ?" " Tea and cake for Susy, and a pomet for Jacob," with a great number of other phrases. It can also whistle very distinctly, " Over the water to Charley." —Leeds Times); EXTRAORDINARY LIBERALITY. Persons suffering under any dreadful external disease, which may be con sidered as incurable, may, I,y applying personally at the Esta blishment of Mr. Holloway, 13, Broad-street-buildings, City (the Proprietor of Holloway's Ointment, andthe External Disease Pill), be supplied with any quantity of these two wonderful remedies. After a proper trial be given to them, if it can be proved that they have not performed radical cures, the amount p Lid for them sha l l be returned. Ten thousand cases of Erysi pelas, Ringworm, Scald Heads, also of Scrofula, Cancer, and Bad Legs, have been cured by their joint means, within the last twelve months. They rrast always be used together. All respectable MOdi,:ine Vendors sell them. HUNGERFORD.—A Dumber of fami;ies and individuals have emigrated from Hungerford and its neighbour homi for Australia. We hope success will attend these poor people, who have torn themselves away, more by necessity's supreme command than their o'wn free will, from their friends and acquaintances, and from the scenes which are dear to them, with the laudable purpose of bettering their condition. The expense of the passage of these emigrants is borne by the parish to which they belong, and each person is provided with a suit able supply of apparel. A van loaded with them st.rted off on Monday ing last for London, tram whetice they will sail. Bruce e N i T s AatTplrOesNenOtFeiVanl,OasßsiAng the electors of theYSH llt E.—Major county o. Moray, or Elgin, as it is understood the Hon. Cot. Grant, of Gra nt , w ill i mme di a tely retire from Parliament. No candidate on the Liberal interest is mentioned as likely to come come forward. A correspondent writes us=" Major Cumming Ilivoe's friends are getting the voters to subscribe a requisition. No opposition is expected. Lord Cawdor leans to the side of the Major. The Duke of Richmond leaves his tenants to vote as t hey please. Lord Moray's Commissioner has made no decided intimation. ' Were General Duff to start he would run Major up for trans tirCm. eag Bruce o,a h pa che ard."—lnverness Courier. THE FR UITS OF CLERICAL EXAMPL E. —A short poacher, "the la'' what care g I for the la'? We needna mind • I'h the la' neo ; the mi n i s t er frae Edinbro' brak th e la' yesterday', d ,, e Str h a e th r b , a t n h d e and he says he'll b rec k it again the morn : wh a cares for the OnasgasrsiNn Vas the apprehended r l e a h v‘ eed la' noo?"—snapping his fingers in the Justice's face.—Scotch Paper. FURZE OR WHlNs.—The system of feedin g horses and cattle from whins cut or bruised is ver y p reva'ent in the Highlands, as well as in other parts of the country, and the animals, it is well known, relish this description of out door food, and find it wholsome and nutritious. A SINK CHlEF.—Rajah Soocket Sing, or Ma lek Adhel, as he was named by the ladies of Sir Henry Fane's camp, is the brother of the minister, Dhecan Sing, and one of the handsomest of the Sihk chiefs, who are all eminently good-looking. He is high in Runjeet's favour, as well as much respected and admired by all the Sihks, and about twenty-eight years bri ht olished steel, nificent ; a helmet or scull cap of g p of age. His dress was mag inlaid with gold, and a deep fringe of chain mail, of the same material, reaching to his shoulders, three plumes of black heron's feathers waving on his crest, and three shawls of lilac, white, and scarlet, twisted very round and tight, inter laced with one another, and gathered round the edge of the helmet, a chelenk of rubies and diamonds on his forehead. Back, breastplates, and gauntlets of steel, richly embossed gold and precious stones, worn over a rich, thick-quilted jacket of bright yellow silk, with magnificent armlets of rubies and diamonds on each arm, a shield of the polished hide of the rhinoceros, embossed and ornamented with gold, a jewelled sAbre and matchlock, with his long and glossy black beard and mustachoes, he looked the very beau ideal of a Sihk chief.— Osborne's Court and Camp of I?unjeet Sing. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCX. LivEfipook, COTTOI4 MARKET, FRlDAY.—Although WO name had a rah' extent of business doing this week. There has been little ahlitiatioli in the market. The demand for comnion qualitks or American descriptions under bid. for middlingy has been freely filet ttitli, and for %Welt sellers have Conceded A-d. per lb., but for any thing above this glass ['rims aft very firm, the better qualities particularly so. The Very limited stock of Brasil has enabled holders to obtain an adVance bi d. to id per lb., and this has sotiAiwilat enhanced the price of Egyptian, and causes ' !!ca ind to go off at very full rates. No change in the I price of India. Speculators have taken 2,000 bales of I American, an , l exporters 1,500. The sales to.day arc from 4,000 to 5,000 bales of all kinds. Arrivals this morning —French mail, ship letters from Rio Janeiro and Sierra Leone, old dates. The Bordeaux Papers contain the following from Monte Video to the I.s!ii January : The blockade still continues (off Buenos Ayres), but a favourable change Is soon expected, to the interest of comtticrtial afraitS, o*ltig to the Advantage 013‘.ained by the troops of Monte Video over those of Rosas, commanded by General Echaque, who was completely defeated on the 29. h December. On the Monte Video territory this event is considered as the termination of the war, for in the State Urugay already affairs are brightening." THE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning at the leaving off prices of yesterday, 9l -i f both for Money and the Account ; to the present hour there is not a feature worth notice in the above ma ltet. Hschequer Bills, 24 2i ; Indian Bonds, A 4 prtmillth dank Stock, 1141 1151 ; India stock, 249 A 2301. the Forcign market Spanish maintains the price, 281 owing to their coming higher from Paris, and a report in the French papers that Cabrera is still ill at Mora; Portuguese, 331 ; Three per Cents., 24i i; Colombian, 251 ; Mexican, 284 ; Brazilian, 7.54 76-4-; Dutch Two-aud•a-Half per Cents., 531 i 54 ; Five per Cents., 99:1 rittuEs of STOCKS I't-Its Bank Stock 3 per Ccnt. Red. S per Cents. Con PI DAY AT ONE U'CLOCIC. India Stock Ditto Bonds South Sca Stock 3' net Cent ~ , , —,.. ..... Old Annuities - (lido Red. ' 1 81 4 '; I New Ditto . .... ~,,, — New 3t4 per Cent 99 14 'A 1 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New S per Cent. -• Exch. Bills, £l,OOO ... 23 25 pm Bank Long Annuities toexpire I Ditto 500 .21 ,•5 pm. Jan 5, IMO.. .. Oct. 10, 16513 (b, Sit ••••••.... ' Ditto COMMerelal 441." dis. .1:n. 5, IF .60 1... Ditto Advertised ..... -‘,. pm. Jan. 5, ISA() — Bank Stock for Account ... Aprils, ISSO - India Stock for Account .. Jan. 5.1870 —, Consols for Account 91% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOC h Austrian Bonds • --- Peruvian Bonds __. Belgian Bonds Ditto Account • ditto Account 3razilii yi Bonds Ditto Account 3ttenos -Ayres Bonds —, Ditto, 3 per Cent......... Ditto toco , .:nt (Milian lold E ..— Prussian Bonds Ditto :keno. nt — Itu:sian Bonds, 182'1 — caunt ian Bt - ids — Ditto Account — Ditto tcso. nt Columbian 3: d 5,1824 I; rt..) kr;fL.) It .... .. 2 . Ditto Account. -- • 'B'4N anish Bonds ~ Ditto 4:cc : nt — Deferred 14 kVA • 'reek Bond French, 5 per cent. t. —.. Ditto Bonds, 18'25 — 4 per cent. -f. Ditto Account — ---- 3 per cent. f. —e _. Texican Bonds, 5 per Cent liitto Account Eichange. —c Dutch, 9.!4 per cent. Ditto, ( per Cent. Ditto Account Neapolitan — Ditto Account PH ICES OF' SHAPE; THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share, Coore Copper. Brighton Railway London and Croydon Railway Company IV. P3s. 6d. S% Ditto Scrip South Eastern and Dover Railway Company iS Ili Union Bank of Australia , I 7 y 4 23p, COURSE 01. EXCOANOF. YES. ERDAY. ... ‘insterdam ..... v 1.... F. it? 5 '(4lbra 3.„ Ditto, at .tght R9u,......n 2U. LI s,i'ueiloa ... ... ...,... 'a, 75 Autwctp.„ tio - nburg. M.E. 13 12x, , Venice ..... „.........„„.......... 47 Altotta...„ .....,...... .. .*, Pari,, .. 3 days' 5ight......... 25 45 1 1r ap.rnio .. ..........per oz. 1'..2y, Ditt0....... ...........3 Ms. 25 70 Lim,nn ....... ..... ............. ••. 54 y, Nl:rseille:. - BotirdQaux Frankfort on Mains, Ex.M. 15414 8ahia.......••••—...........•••••••• Vti ": tershuigh, ruble... 3 Us. 37x, Buenos Ayte5.................••• -- Berlin Vienna, effective 11-3 M IC 6 Philarit :pnia .... ........... It Trieste ditto tn 7 1'H1C.... it' E1L.a.h.,,, Pe" 02. I;.ittrid 9614 Portt“a 4 is!l, viin....l„i; 0 0 C.idiz.... - ......... ..... ...... t , lbea .... 'IN Nc - v Doub , acpig ...«.... 0 I'ls Rreclon^ ierille IR 'Silver _.. Bars ............ 0 5 (IA PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS. DUBLIN, APRIL 9 3 )er Cent. Consols per Cent. Stock Ditto Reduced Ditto New, 1830 ...... .. 98!,,', ' City of Dublin Steam Comp. - 314 por Cent.ebentures... 9; , d National insurance Company - Bank Stock .... - grand Canal Stock - Royal Canal Stock - lIALF-PAST ONE. We continue in the same dull state as on the early part of the morning. Both speculating in the British Funds and commercial transactions are at a stand still. The wind having changed to the south west, we are in expec t tt ion that on Monday next we shall have numerous arrivals `rom all quarters. The British Queen steamer may be looked for on Wednesday or Thursday next, from New York. Her day for sailing was on the Ist inst. The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon were a trifling shade lower. The fineness of the weather causes many of the mem bers of the Stock Exchange to return to their country re sidences, particularly as there is so little doing in the House. Consols have been the whole of the morning at 9 I*,:both for money and account, with scarce a bargain doing. Exchequer Bills, 25 3 5 prem. ; India Bonds, 4 prem. In the Foreign Market Spanish and Portuguese Stock have been the favourite speculation ; the former may be quoted 29i. and the latter 251 ; Three-per-Cents. 24i ; Mexican, 29. ; Danish, 77 ; Spanish Deferred, l4:1; Dutch Tivo•and-a-Half, nothing done; Five per Cents., 991. Some stamping vagrants have this week been as semblaig the people in various places of thiscounty, on pretence of exhibiting their skill in pugilism, but in reality to gather dense crowds together, on whom their thieving associates might levy contributions to pay the expenses of their tour. The parties tried Hadnal, Hodnet, and Ternhill as the scenes of their plunder, but in each place were defeated by the county police, who, in the Queen's name, commanded every well-dressed person to assist in keeping the peace, and thus dispersed the crowds. The pugilists have escaped into Flintshire.— Shrews bury Chi onic e. The first locomotive engine on the line of the Eastern Counties Railway reached Brentwood on Tuesday last, and we learn there is every fair probability of the Company being enabled in about six weeks to open the line from thence to Shoreditch. Richard Wrightson, Esq., of Warmsworth, near this town, qualified as a Magistrate for the West Riding, at the sessions held at Pontefract this week.—Doncaster Gazelle. SINGULAR VERDICT.--At the Devon County Sessions, a private in the Marines took his trial on the charge oc stealing a saw at Plymouth. The Jury after a short con su tation r t r. ed thea lowing verdict—We fii d the prisore: guilty of taking the saw, but he didn't steal it. THE CIIEFFONIER.—The Parisian Cheffonier is one of the most disgusting creations of civilization and im perfect social institutions. 'I here are 4,000 of them in the French metropolis, to which they seem peculiar. The Bucks Chronicle is defunct. FATAL ACCIDENT AT SEA.-Friday aftr rn)on an irquest was held at the committee-room, St. Katharine's, on the body of Richard Flaher, a seaman, aged 31 years, wha was killed on board the Sir William Wallace, a schooner, during her voyage from Scotland to London. Alexander Laing, the mate of the vessel, stated, that on Tuesday last, about 1 o'clock in the morning, it was blowing a heavy gale of wind at sea, and the deceased was assisting to jibe the mainsail. While he was endeavouring to pass the mainboom al mg, a heavy sea struck the vessel, and broke it as it was in the act of jibbing. The deceased was directly wader the boom, and both parts fell down, one piece striking him on the head in its descent, and forcing him on the deck. The man's head was crushed, and his death was instantaneous. He considered the occurrence was purely accidental. Verdict, " That the deceased was accidentally killed while in the discharge of his ordinary duty." On the decease of the late Provost of Eton College, Dr. Goodall, her Majesty nominated the Rev. Francis Hodgson, vicar of Bakewell, late Fellow of King's College, Cambridg,e, and well known in the literary world as the trans lator of Juvenal. Eton College has, however, rejected this nomination, and chosen the Rev. John Lonsdale ' 13. D., on the pretence that Mr. Hodgson was not qualified by the college statues, from his riot having taken the degree of Bachelor of Divinity On Monday last, a young woman, named Har riet Powell, living in Pound's Ground, Wotton-under-Edge, put a period to her existence, by hanging herself to a beam by a small piece of cord. TH. WEATHER.—By the Meteorological Re gister kept at Chiswick Horticultural Gardens, from 17th of March to the 7th of April, there . appears a very considerable fluctitatiort Its the state of the atmoThere. The barometer, which was highest oil March 21, was 30,443 inches, whilst on April 7it was but 29,560 inches. The highest range of the thermometer was 59. F. on the sth of April, and the lowest, on the 21st of March, was 25. The quantity of rain during the three weeks was but seventeen-hundredths of an inch. FIDE IN RATCLIFFE.—On Friday morning a pre broke otit art the premises of Mr. Solaman, druggist. It commenced in the shop, and was discovered by police constable No. '203 of K division. The inmates, consisting of five per sons,were awoke by him, and their escape being cut off by the staircase, they got out of the window and descended a ladder into the street in safety. During the confuiion a valuable gold watch was thrown out into the street, and was not found till daybreak, when it was discovered in the carriaze -road covered with mud. It is a singular fact that hundreds of persons had passed by and over it during the morning. Mr. Solaman is insured. THE WHALE FISHERY.—The total number from England and Scotland will be about thirty ships. Last year the number was 41. The decrease in this trade during the lust ten years is very striking, and in twice that period still more so. In 1832 Hull sent 30 ships, Peterhead 11, England 30, and Scotland 42 ; total 81. In the four years from 1818 to 1821, not less than 140 ships sailed from the United King. dom in each year, with about 6,000 men on board. The greatest number of ships was 142, with 6,137 men, in 1820, when Hull sent 62 ships, and the greatest number of men 6,291, in 140 ships, in the year 1819, when Hull sent 68 ships. The average number of ships sent from Hull during the 11 years ending 1820 was 55 4-11, and the average number leaving the United Kingdom each year during the same period 133 4-11. The average number of men in each ship was about 45, those leaving Huil beir - of a large class, carrying 48 to SO, and up wards. Should the ensuing season be prosperous, it may have the effect of encouraging more owners to send their vessels in the following year; but the Government bounties, formerly so great an inducement, having long since been abolished, there is no probability of this trade becoming again that which it was long celebrated for being—the most famous nursery of British seamen.— fort of Tyne PL'ot. POST CONVEYANCE.—A clergyman resident in Bath bad lately sent him, through the medium of the Post o'fice, a tinnel waistcoat from Ireland; the cost was Is. 10d. Instances such as this, of which there are no doubt many, must prove a serious injury to the coach proprietors, and vindicate their claim to the consideration of Government. —Devizes Gazette. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON. ) John Turner Flynn was indicted for " feloniously utter ing a forged order and certificate to obtain money, with intent to defraud the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital." The case had not closed at the hour of our going to preSF. NEW Cu URT. _ . (Before Mr. Alderma n Pim.) Elizabeth a fr eslnwallt urns found guilty of stealing six yards of challi, the property of James Davy, and her mother, Maria IVestmore, was found guilty of stealing twenty-three yards of linen, the property of Cornelius Harris and another. Both prisoners received excellent chiractcrs, and it was proved that they were driven to theft by necessity. The mother was sentenced to three month,', and the daughter to one month's imprisonment. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COVENT GARDEN. The supplies were large and the trade good at the following prices : Foreign Grapes, Is. to 3s. pr lb ; Hothouse, 15s. to 20s.per lb. ; Pines, Bs. to 20s. per lb. ; Asparagus, 4s. to Bs. per bundle ; Rhubarb, ss. to 12s. per dozen ; Sea Kale, Is. 6.1. to 33., per punnet ; Old Potatoes, Whites, 60s. to 655. ; Devons, 6.55. ; Yorks, 70s. ; Scotch, 60s. to 655. per ton ; New Potatoes, 23. 6d. to 3s. ad. per lb. French Beans 2s. 6d. to 3s. per 100 ; Peas 10s. to 145. per half score ; Spinage Is. 6d. to 35., per sieve : Savoy Cabbages Bs. to 2s. per dozen ; Cucumbers ss. to 10s. per brace ; Appl es 4 s . to 20 s. per half sieve ; Lemons 4s. to 10s. per hundred ; Oranges 6s. to I Is. per hundred ; Turnips 2d. per bunch ; 13rocoli Is. 6d. to 4s. per bundle ' • Carrots 4d. to sd. per d o z en ; O n i ons ss. to 7s. per s i eve ; Celery 3s. to 4s. per bundle ; Plants 4s, to ss. 6d. per dozen. HUNGERFORD MARKET. Fair supplies, and a good trade-prices much as last stated. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Supplies good and a fair trade-prices generally as last quoted. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. There was a good demand for Game and Poultry, and prices looked upwards. HAY MARKETS. Goad supplies and moderate demand. Prices continue stead;•. TEA MARKET. Although the pressure of the prompt may now be regarded as over, still t here has been no spring in tne market. All that can he said of the market is, that prices were rather firmer. Company's Congous, 2s. 31d. to 2s. 4d. for cash. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) Din. Ar.sit. 10.—Wind. N.E.—Arrived the Carribean, from Mauritius; awl Harriet, Cape of Good Hope. Sailed the Calebaugos, for South Australia; Albion, Crosby, Hali fax ; British Tar, Keyser, Quebec; Vestal, Mosey, ditto; Iberia (steamer), Cooper, Lisbon. Livearoot, Aran 10.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Thetis, Brown, from Savannah. Sailed the Harriet Rockwell, Prescott; Russia, Elliot; Lucy, Murphy; Caledonia,:Masscoot, and !liars Winsor, for Mobile ; Napier, Sandford, Phi ladelphia ; Belinda, M'Nicol, Montreal ; Independent. Morris, Quebec ; Benjamin Morgan, Johnson, Charleston ; Nile, Fer guson ; William the Fourth, Cleal, Melma, Buller, Nancy, Wilson, and Hope, Sheridan, Newfoundland. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 10.—Wind variable.—Sailed the Cato, Smith, for Quebec. FALmouyir, APRIL 9.—Wind N.E. to N.N.E. fresh breezes.—Off port the Admiral Tromp, Kirkhaven, Batavia. DOVER, APRIL 10.—Off port. the Numa, Le Man, from Bermuda; Margaret, Smith, Halifax; Camilla, Wattington, ( harlcstun. flAsTincs, APRIL 10.—Off port the Wilhelm Ludoig, from China ; and Vanguard, Sabeston, Sierra Leone. TUSK A R, APRIL 7.—Off port the Old England, from New Orleans. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 10.—Sailed the Thomas Green, Stewart, and Portia, Clark, for Quebec. SCILLY, APRIL 3.—Off port Mars, Le Galle, Monte Video BRISTOL, APRIL 10.—Sailed the Mary and Joseph, Fayal. CLYDE, APRIL B.—Sailed the Rowley, Alexander, from Trinidad; Miramiehi, Greave, St. John's, New Brunswick; Sarah Ann, Taylor; Ardgowan, Martin, and Cruckston Castle, inley, Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 10.---Wind W. to N.N.W.—Sailed the Janet, Mildridge, for Quebec. Off port the Antelope, l'rom iJerbice. SALCOMBE, Aran 9.—Off port the Victoria, St. Michael's. CORK, APRIL B.—Sailed the Sarah and Nancy, Hughes, for St. Andrews, Ncw Brunswick; Majestic, Tate, Quebec; Tryagain, Sleacock, ditto; and Percival, Robson, St. John's, New Brunswick. DuNnEK, APRIL 7.—Sailed the Monarch, Marshall, for Quebec; and Atlantic, Morton, ditto. Hum., APRIL 10.—Wind W.N.W.—Sailed the Vixen, Clarke, for Malaga. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.—Her Majesty, with Princes Albert and Ernest, honoured this theatre on Fri day night with their presence. It was of course crowded, for independently of the attraction of Royalty, a desire to see the last of the Kembles for the last time was extremely general. Hamlet was the character (perhaps the most eiflieult of all others) in which Kemble on Friday night took his leave of the stage. He achieved his trying task with consummate ability. And so thought the admiring audience, whose enthusiastic plaudits were as loud as they were well merited by the object of he demonstration. The works of the Dundee and Arbroath Rail nay were so far completed on Thursday morning last, as to admit of its being opened to the public. The opening train consisted of twenty carriages well filled with passengers, with the Queen engine in front, and the Dart in the rear. There was an immense concourse of spectators present to witness the starting of the train. Yesterday morning a person named Gearing, said to be an artist, attempted to drown himself in St. James's Park. He is sixty-eight years of age, has a family of ten chil dren, and at an early hour yesterday morning a man was put in possession of his few trifling goods for an arrear of three quarters rent. About four o'clock on Tuesday morning a woman was observed by two men to throw herself into the river by the New Mills. She sank once, but on her coming up she was caught by one of the men (Thomas Brown) and taken in a state of insensibility to the Unicorn, in St. Mary's, and by proper attention speedily recovered. It appears that ,he was addicted to drinking, and bad dose this rash act in a fit of despair, lest her husband should find it out, several per sons having threatened to take their bills in to her husband that (lay. After the matter was fully made known to him she seemed more reconciled.—Norfolk Chronicle. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—On Friday a little girl, named Latham, fell through the railing into the area, of No. 15, Lower Seymour-mews, aud, pitching upon her head, fractured her skull to such a degree as to render it doubtful if she will recover. PLATE ROBBERY.—On Friday morning, be tween nine and ten o'clock, the residence of Lady Beauchamp Proctor, No. 1, Hertford-street, Mayfair, was entered, and a quantity of plate stolen from the butler's pantry. The thief got in by the area gate. WEAVING.—We regret to state that the manu facturers of this city have found themselves under the unplea sent necessity of reducing the previously low rate of wages to the extent of another farthing per yard on light cotton goods. A good many hands are, besides, out of employment. —Perth Advertiser. On Friday last the toll dues on the Irvine road were let at Ayr, by public roup, for the ensuing year, and brought 939/. Last year the amount obtained was 1,1781. — showing a deficiency of 2391. on this year's dues, compared with the previous year. This decrease can only be attributed to the opening of the Irvine branch of the Glasgow and Ayrshire Railway. HANOVER, MARCII 31.—We have for some (lays been under great anxiety. The King was very seriously ill; and the more pains were taken to conceal the danger, the more uncertain people were respecting the real state of the King, who is still so active at his advacced age, and the greater was our alxiety and uneasiness. Every day we were assured the King is mueh better to-day, but he was very dangerously ill yesterday." But as we had . heard the same thing the day before, and were certain of having a similar statement the next day, it was natural that people were not satisfied, and especially as the door of that part of the palace in which the King's apartments are, and which was always open, is now closed, and the carriages of the physicians were almost the whole day at the palace. The one hundred an second anniversary festival of the Royal Society of Musicians was held on Friday in Freemasons'-hall. The Royal Society of Musicians holds a very high place among the benevolent institutions of this country. It was established in the year 1738; and, for more than a century, every great name of which English music can boast has been enrolled in the list of its members. In its in farcy it was zealously supported by Handel, who not only exer cised his genius in composition and performance expressly for its benefit, but, at his death, bequeathed to it the munificent legacy of 1,000/. It has always been liberally supported by the public, on account of its excellent character and extensive u a ulnes DISTURBANCES IN FRANCE.—A corn, Or rather a potato riot, has taken place at Lens le Saulnier, in the department of the Jura, caused by a great miller, M. de Vanois, buying in the market-place several cartloads of potatoes, and considerably raising the price. The populace seized on the carts, notwithstanding the military were called out, and then attempted to set fire to the mansion of M. de Vanois. The public peace was at length restored. A corn riot, on a small scale, has also taken place at Daubigny, in the department of the Clue. RURAL POLICE.—At the Surrey Quarter Ses sions at Reigate on Wednesday the Committee appointed to in quire into the expediency of applying the provisions of the Rural Police Act unto those portions of the county of Surrey that are not comprised within the metropolitan police district, made a report to the Court, which, after an ineffectual opposition on the part of the Rev. Air. Courtenay, and some discussion, was con firmed, and the subject dropped. FATAL ACCIDENTS THROUGH DRUNKEN NESS.—Friday evening an inquest was held at St. Lartholo mew's Hospital, on the body of Catherine Devine, aged 48. Mr. M. Knight, house surgeon, said the deceased was brought in with a severe scalp wound on the back of the head on the night of Sunday week, but she refused to stay, although she was told her life depended upon her stopping. On the follow ing day she was again brought, the wound having opened anew. She went on very well for a day co• two, when delenum tremens, accompanied by erysipelas, ensued, from the combined effects of which she expired on Wednesday last. Verdict—" Acci dental death."—On the same evening an inquest was held at the Grapes, Great Marlborough-street, on the body of W. H. Jones, Esq., aged 44. It was given in evidence that on Thurs day %leek the deceased was seen at about half-past twelve lying on the footway in 13edford-street. The police took him to the station, where he was locked up. He was quite insensible, and unable to give his name or address. There was a wound on his head, and the son of the landlord of the Grapes, in Bedford street, said he saw the deceased stagger and then fall down. A surgeon attended him*at the station-house, and in the morning the Magistrate discharged him, and he went home. He was very ill, and died on Sunday, in the surgeon's opinion, from the rupture of a vessel of the brain, probably caused by the fall. The Jury returned a verdict to that effect. SEVENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT.—By accounts from Tobago, up to the 19th of January, we hear with much regret that the yellow fever was raging in the detachment of this regiment stationed on that island. The fever began on the 17th and 18th of December. The first five persons attacked were Lieut. Hawker, his best sergeant, two privates, and a soldier's wife; and on Christmas.day Lieut. Hawker was the only one of them left alive ; and his father, Colonel P. Hawker, from accounts up to th e 19th o f J anuary , h as gr eat hopes of his convalescence, and return h ome on s ick leave. The fever abated a little after Christmas, and then returned most severely, insomuch that half the detachment were in hospital when the Hon. Capt. packet left the island. The officer in command, thea slight attack, O'Grady, we are hal,py to say, escaped with from which he had recovered, LI TERATURE. THE NEW ANNUAL ARMY LIST, WITH AN INDEX, Corrected to the 7th of February, 1540. By H. G. ILinr, Lieutenant 49th Regiment. London, John Murray. This is a publication of great merit, and will be studied with interest, not only by military men, but by all who have taken delight in reading the accounts of the gallant deeds of the British army for the last forty years. It is, in fact, a summary of the actions in which the different regiments have been engaged, with his torical details of the services of all the officers who dis tinguished themselves during a career of victory un equalled in the annals of the c-. , untry ; and what adds great credit to the work, the author does not confine his biographical notices to the Field-Marshals, Gene rals, and Staff Officers, but gives at equal length the distinguished services of those of inferior rank, even down to thQ rank of Lieutenant. At the head of every regiment is placed the names of the battles in which it had been engaged, then the Colonel, with all the dates of his appointments, and in the same way all the other officers of every description in the regiment. To the names of those who have distinguished themselves figures or letters arc affixed, pointing to marginal no tices of their merits. Many of them, even in the brief space allotted to them, are full of interest ; and, in order to show that the work is such as we represent it, we give two at random as a specimen. Among the Colonels we find Sir Archibald Maclaine, whose ser vices arc thus described : " Sir Archibald Maclaine's services :—Mysore cam paign of 1799 against Tippoo Sultan, including the battle of Mallavelly, siege and storming of Seringapatam, where he received three wounds, from the effects of which he wag confined in hospital for upwards of .1 year. Capture of the Danish settlement of Tranquebar ; and the Patiger war to 1801, including the battle of Ardingy, and affair of Se rungapore, where he was wounded. Mahratta war of 1802,3, and 4, against Scindia, Holcar, and the Bera Rajah, including the storm of Jalnaghur, siege and storming °f Gawilghur, siege of Asseerghur (wounded), and battle of Argaum. Ordered home in 1804. in consequence of severe wounds received in the different actions from 1799 to 1804. Peninsular campaigns 1810, 11. 12, including the siege Of Cadiz ; the defence of Matagorda (an outwork of Cadiz , and a ruined redoubt when taken possession of from the enemy) from 22d Feb. to 22d April, 1810, during which long period Sir Archibald (then a captain in the old 94th regiment) with a very small force under his command, most gallantly kept at bay B,ooo' 'of the enemy under Marshal Soult, who conducted the siege, and did not evacuate until ordered to do so by Lieutenant• General Sir Thomas Graham, his men being nearly all either killed or wounded. Served also at the battle of Barrosa (dangerously wounded, and his horse killed), and capture of Seville." We may add an anecdote respecting this gallant officer, highly creditable to his late Majesty, William IV. Colonel Maclaine, while at Brighton, was invited by the King to dine at the pavilion. After dinner be • called for wine round,", and addressing Earl Bathurst, said, " Bathurst, I think you were Secretary-at-Wa r when our gallant friend, with a handful of men so noblY defended Matagorda against the French. Let us drink to the health of Sir Archibald Maclaine ;" and that evening he conferred on him the honour of Knighthood• Matagorda, however, was not the only place on that part of the coast where Sir Archibald resisted the French. He was also engaged in the memorable defence of Tariff'a. The following is the note attached to the name of the author of the " Peninsular War" :—" Colonel W. F . P. Napier was an actor in many of the soul -stirring scenes which he has described with so much ability his admirable history of the Peninsular war, and was se verely wounded in the action of Casal Nova, 14 th of March, 1811. He commanded the 43d Light Infa ntry at the battles of Salamanca, Nivelle, and Nive, for which he has received a medal and two clasps." On looking over the notes to the Lieutenants it is painful to find several still in that inferior rank that thirty y ears ago served in most of the desperate sieges and battles in the Peninsula. Lieut. Blood, for instance, served from June, 1811, to the close of the war—was engaged in the sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz, the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria, and the storming of St. Sebas tian, the battles of Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, and was twice severely wounded. The work also contains similar references and notes to the Royal Artillery and Royal Marines, together with lists of the officers of the " foreign half pay," and a complete list of officers to whom honorary distinctions have been granted, in commeo n " ration of their services in battle, concluding with an ample Index to the whole. Lieutenant Hart deserves great praise for the arrangement of a work which is ful l of interest, and which may be regarded as the most useful book of military reference yet published. MONTHLY MAGAZINE. terms Sore six or eight months since we spoko in ich of praise of a dramatic poem, entitled " Festus, d had then just made its appearance ; and w sequel to it in the present number of this gag a ker , In this sequel. Festus, as before, is the chief sea mo l , * , and propounds his opinions on poetry, religion, &c., to two eager listeners, Helen, and a young student. Much of the dialogue is vague and mystical, as it the author had no very clear or definite notion of what be was saying ; but there is much also thu Nt shows great fertility of thought, and imaginative powors of a high order. More attention, however, should hav c been paid to the structure of the blank verse, which, i.l far too many instances, is harsh, rugged—in short, utterly wanting in euphony. " Iona" is the continuation of 8 tale " founded on facts," so we arc assured, the first); art" of which appeared last month. It is pleasingly writteo± but the infusion of a little more vigor would no' have been amiss. " Syncretism, or the Science of Coalition, may be briefly described as being " Much ado about Nothing." DEARDEN'S MISCELLANY. . 1 A light, amusing Miscellany, in which we seldom fa" of meeting with such poetical criticisms as e vince 1 a hearty love of the f 0 vision and the faculty divine." I n the Number before us there is a brief notice of Worde worth's Sonnets, some of which are justly pronounced to be among the finest in the language. GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.—PARr 2 . A careful, pains-taking compilation, which may be relied on for its accuracy. The editor is Mr. Macon' . loch, and we incline to think this the most setsible --- certainly the most useful—work he has yet undertaken. He is quite at home in the manufacture of Dictiozoics• LITERARY WORLD.—VoL. 2. A little weekly Miscellany, price twopence, contain ing amusing extracts from most of the modern periodi cals, together with anecdotes, odd stories, and scraps of criticism. The present volume, which is the second , s embellished with several wood-engravings. ROGER WILLIAMS IN BANISHMEYZ Simpkin and Marshall, London, 18t0. This is a poem by an American bard, founded on the circumstances of the banishment of Roger Williams , from the State of Massachusetts, for his liberal opinion§ on religion, and his subsequent founding of the State of Rhode Island. The poem is introduced by a " recom mendatory preface," from the pen of the Rev. Mr' Giles, of Leeds, and deserves praise, if only for the graphic energy of some of its descriptions of transatlanti c. Jorest, and mountain scenery. THE MOREA. Saunders and Otley, London 1840. The chief poem i n thi s co ll ect i on is on the fruitful subject of Greece, on which the author expatiates with all the ardour of an e n th us i as t. Hi s s tanzas, in gen eral, are melodious, not wanting in appropriate imagery, an d show much skill in versification. Among the fle es we find some sensible remarks on the encroaching character of Russian policy, which we would gladly time and space permit. The author is a gentleTac named Cochran; who, it seems, has spent some Ow n Greece. quote child We have heard that illicit distillation h as latelY f the been finding its way again into the glens and recesses ° ,„ parish of Gleneig, adthat several scenes of violence hav e --- f theveninumerouse settlin g ; ne d are s p u caused e b s o , d ayn ofd by curred in the streets of Kirkton. The e . eig hteenth district of d y e t e h i poor e cotters, n parties the ounty stands much in need of some ig p r ompt Ine t " tl ,i o d here.—lnverness Courier. An au • • Ci nc i nnati ..,1 he auctioneer in has outstripp ed t most inventive genius (this side the Atla ntic) in the a hat s abs b e i e gn t rg w e • a e bt e r n p eoxu t phgeehn- brought a ea c klnsdimhiaennci can a ti _ ; Post , puffing. He announces in the Cincinnati E verting the se" he has recently worn out two hammers, and is now o n cond end of the t ird. EXTRAORDINA RY FOOT STEEPLE CH A SE "....' End, neir The ground fixed upon for the disp lay was at Brid g e Woodside, over a mile and a hal f of a real sporting countgi which was chosen by the umpires. When w e sal that which most of the leaps encountered by these biped s'eple ki ss e rs, were nearly as great as those met with in the one ' soe run by horses over Aintree, we do not exaggerates ~ a of them requiring a clear bound of three yards 101 Tha half over drain and fence, to reach the alighting scii to put majority of them were teazers, and such as could not fat the physical capacities of the various competitors tints to s v' J a severe trial. When stripped for action the partY P r , e _ o d, o f a very imposing appearance, all of them being young hw The run racy calibre, and apparently as fresh as two year olds. all sides was accomplished in 11 minutes, which is ad mitted on ~ in to be a first rate performance in the way of " sttunpin e g o • a the consequence of Bucknell and Kearney having ;on . _ m r . wrong side of one of the flags, the stakes are in disput7. __, a _ Aspinall fell at the last fence, and was helped out eu" 'I ucknell quently he loses all claim to the stakes. 17 startes was the winner.— Liverpool Chronicle. 31St of GOTTINGEN, APRIL 9.— ,, On the .., - Second Sebeers. last month, the electors met to choose a Deputy to the " Chamber. The Electoral College consists of thirty mem Deputy To make an elrction valid twenty must be present ; the ee d, mt st have an absolute majority. The election did not succ at. the legal number not being personally present ; eighteen hav e tended, of whom ten voted for Professor Reichert who . ~ manifestly declared that he could not accept the election, being an invalid. Wo ol' The Cygnet was launched last Tuesday at , with. She is pierced for ten guns, was decked with e s "; ha b . ee to and her appearance on the river was imposing. She built within the last six months, and was instantly hauled to dock to be coppered and fitted out for immediate conlinistin. The large war-steamer, the Locust, will be ready for laun c hing Ire falgar, in the ensuing month, and the line-of-battle ship I re falgar, 120 guns, about July next. —.om , $ NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES, In 3 vols. post Bvo., with Twenty-one humorous Illustrations by R. W. Buss, R. A. MRS. TROLLOPE'S << WIDOW MAR RIED," A SEQUEL TO " WIDOW BARNABY." OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. " A most excellent sequel to Widow Barnaby.' The illus trations are admirably executed by one of the most ingenious and humorous artists extant."—John Bull. "We look up:m the Widow Al arried' as one of the best and truest portraits in the whole range of modern fiction."—Sun. Decidedly the most amusing of all Mrs. Trollope's stories." —Parthenon. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. EVEN EN EOl VION THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, ADAM 11, 1840 EVENING EDI rioN i