The Sun. — London, England, 1840-03-26 00:00:00

EVEN ING ED ITIOIs Just ready, in ..).. V 01 : ,., post svo. LIGHTS ACID SHADES OF M ILITARY LIFE.I Edited by Mejor-General Sir CHA RLES NAPIER, G.C.8., &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. *- 4 Orders received by all Booksellers. A NEW }ALENDAR. Now ready, 'in a pocket volume. with twelve Illustrations y R. Cruickshank, price ss. 6d. bound. COLBITIIN's KALENDAR OF AMUSEMENTS IN TOWN AND COUNTRY, for 1840. Comprising London Seasons and Sights, Balls, Yasquerades, Theatres, Concerts, Public Exhibitions ' • Winter, Summer, and Harvest spo rts ; Cricket, Wrestling, Swimming, Skating, Rowing and Sailing Matches; Races, Hunts, and Steeple chases ; Shooting Seasons ; Fishing and Watering-place Seasons ; Fairs and other Sports. Henry Colburn. Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Tir IS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of Xi._ AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY PREMIUMS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, are NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase, may receive, PRE VIOUS to giving any order, the PROSPECTUS and PAR TICULARS, upon addr B essing WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE, ROTHERS, at HAMBUR GH. P. B.—THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains Portions of 'TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND, FIVE THOUSAND, TWO THOUSAND, ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED, ONE 'THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED , SIX HUNDRED, FIVE HUN DRED, THREE HUNDRED, TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY, TWO HUNDRED, ONF HUNDRED AND FIFTY, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY, ONE HUN DRED AND TEN, and ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, &c. &c., amounting, t o £134,99 0 Sterlin. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE AIA V NA E GEM NET OF MADAME STRIS. THIS EVENING, MARCH 26. Will be performed Shakspere's Tragedy of ROMEO AND JULIET. The Part o Mercutio by MR. CHARLES KEMBLE. Rom eo, Mr . Anderson ; Benvolio, Mr. James Vining Friar Lawrence, Mr. Cooper; Peter, Mr. Keeley; Juliet, bliss EmmAne Montague; Nurse, Mrs. C. Jones. After which ONE HOUR ! OR, A CARNIVAL BALL ! Mr. Charles Swiftly, Mr. Charles Mathews; Miss Dalton, Madame Vestris. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s._; Gallery, ls. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the perfurmances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and pia( 03 for the Boxes to be taken at the Box-of ce, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. BUTLER. THIS EVENING the Entertainment! will commence with THE MUSE AND THE MERCHANT. Edmund Bian, Mr. Holl ; Rosa, Miss Fitawalter. Fourth Week of 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. I mme diately after the Business of the Club, the New Burtette, by the Author of " His Last Legs," entitled THE HAPPIEST MAN ALIVE. Charles Euston, Mr. F. Vining. To be followed by ANGELINE. Angeline Le Lis, Mrs. Stirling. To conclude with TFIE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. Peter Punctilio, Mr. Jones. In consequence of the success of the above selection, the production of " The Bald Head" must be delayed, Boxes, 4s. Pit, 2s. Gallery, Is. Second Price immediately after the Ladies' Club. ----ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Last Threee Nights of Mr. Fraser, and Mr. and Mrs. Alban Croft, and their first appearance at this Theatre in The Beggar; Opera. THIS EVENING, MARert 9 6. Will be performed Gay's BEGGAR'S OPERA. Polly, Nil. Alban Croft; Captain itlacheath, Mr. Fraser. A Song by Mr. Alban Croft. After which the new Dra.na entieed THE POCKL'T BOOK; OR, THE TWO FAMILIES. Supported b r the entire strength of the Company. To conclude with t he Historical Drama depicting England in 1664, Baibadoes in ltilis, O'd London in 1t66. with a re presentation of the C; r :•at Fire of London, entitled THE CITY APPRENTi:';E; or, THE THREE LILIES. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning "0 minutes after 41 ( Ev erring 4 minutes after 9 -47 .„ f(Ti LONDON: THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1840. The Peers did not meet yesterday. The Commons met as usual. A considerable number of petitions were presented for and against the Corn. laws ; one of the latter, presented by Mr. BROTHER TON, deserves honourable mention. The widows and starving mothers of starving families in Salford ear nestly implored the House to abolish the cruel Corn law. There are other widows and other mothers starving, and compelled to behold their families starving, all of wheat ought to petition the Legislature to put an end to the cruel Corn-law. It is a mother's question, and if the mothers of England so put it to the law makers, it is impossible they can resist. Should the women mob the law-makers, we should not be surprised. Indeed, we are now surprised, knowing their intense affection for their off spring, that they have not already actively taken the parts of their husbands, sons, and brothers. Their voices properly raised might command cheap bread for themselves and their families. Mr. ELLIS postponed his motion concerning Cracow till after Easter. On Lord STANLEY moving the second reading of a Registration of Voters (Ireland) Bill, Mr. F. FRENCH said the Bill would curtail the elective franchise when it ought to be extended. It would throw on the elec tors the onus of defending their franchise twice every year, and subject them to heavy costs. The Hon. Member also objected to the increase of duties which the Bill would throw en the Judges, and on these accounts he moved that it be postponed for six months. Mr. HANVE3 seconded the motion. Mr. StIAW supported the Bill, and adverted to the similar Bills which had been brought in and supported by the Members who now opposed this Bill. The present registration continued a man on the registry for eight years, and gave rise to a great deal of fraud, and pro duced a number of fictitious votes. The Learned Gen tleman employed, as usual, the principal part of his oration in attacking Mr. O'CoNNEt.r. and what he had recently said at the Corn Exchange, Dublin, on this subject. Mr. S. O ' BRIEN could not support this Bill, though he had introduced a Bill on the same subject, but his Bill gave facilities for acquiring the franchise, which this Bill would deny. The English system was one of great vexation and oppression, and he did not wish to see it adopted in Ireland. He recommended the Noble Lord first to grapple with the English ,ys tem of registration, relieve h:s own constituency, and then to try his hand on Leland. Lord G. SOIEERSET said English Members had been reproached for not taking an interest in Irish affairs, and, when they did so, they were told to look first at home. The present stage of the Bill did not involve its details, and all parties were agreed that the system of fictitious votes ought to be put an end to. He supported the Bill. Mr. BELLEW opposed it. The Tory landlords now re fused leases to those who registered their votes, and this Bill would add to t h e i r power and their tyranny. Mr. REDINGTON also opposed it, on the grou n d that it would restilet the franchise. A debate ensued, which lasted the whole evening, the Tories speaking in f avour o f t h e second reading the Bill, and the Liberals opp os i ng i t , all of whom it would be useless to enumerate. Mr. PIGoT, the Solicitor-Gener a l for Ireland, showed, by the example of Middlesex, that the Bill would be a source of much vexation. Sir W. FOLLETT thought they ought to read the Bill a second time, unless they were prepared to say that the annual revision was bad in principle. At least the re turns just laid on the table of the :House show that it is very expensive. Mr. SHEIL spoke at considerable length, with great force, against the Bill. It, was then found, and stated by Mr. O'CoNNELL, that the debate could not be concluded that night ; and whet. Lord STANLEY had made a pathetic appeal to the House to allow the debate to close, as he had left unfulfilled, perhaps, his last duty to his parent, had hastened to town, and dare not be absent for above twenty-four hours, the debate was adjourned, with an understanding that it is to be resumed the first thing this evening. The House adjourned at Twelve o'Clock. Of all the tirades in f avour o f t h e starva ti o n laws whi c h we have read or heard of, an article hi the Dubli n Evening M ai l of last Monday is the most prepostero us . S o far as Ireland is concerned, the total and immediate abolition of all the taxes on food would merely b r i ng foreign corn into competi tion in the English markets with Irish in „0: 0 m on ore , than Ireland is an exporting country, grow her limper-fed peasantry are allowed consume, o r. no corn would be imported into Ireland. F or e i gn corn would come into England, and the Englishelgn would not have to pay the Irish Landlords (for neither the tenants nor the peasantry get a farthing of the extortion) so much for corn as at present — the English would be relieved from an odious tax levied on them by Irish landlords—and of this alteration the Editor of the Evening Mail writes thus : "We are disunited enough on other subjects—let us at least be unanimous in this, that we will not be robbed. Let the owner and the tiller of the soil put their backs to gether and declare that they will not part with their com mon interests. Between landlords, middlemen, occupiers, and labourers, there are thirteen hundred thousand families —husbands, wives, sons, and daughters—directly and im mediately concerned. It is affluence or penury, comfort or misery, lire or death, to two out of every three of them, that is at issue. Divided as they are on other questions, they can all sympathize with one another in pecuniary loss, in a want of the comforts of life, in the actual sense of privation. Though they worship at different altars, they pay their debts in the Queen's coin. Though they are actuated by different political motives, they obey a common impulse in desiring food when hungry, and warmth when cold. On these common grounds they are now called to act together—back to back—shoulder to shoulder—for the protection of their hard-earned and scanty means of sub sistence. Hold fast by what you have, Irishmen. Ask no man's goods or substance from him, but hold your own wi-h the grip of eight millions of vises. You are now fighting the battle of the belly : the most momentous con test you ever were engaged in. Fight it, tooth and nail, and may Heaven defend the right." The reasoning to which the passage we have quoted is the tail-piece, is worthy of it Here is one passage to show what sort of garbage the Evening Mail thinks worthy of its readers. The italics are the Mail's:- 6. The annual value of the present agricultural produce cf Ireland can be nothing short of forty millions ; it was estimated at thirty-six millions in 1833. Strike 25 per cent. off that, and for a moment calmly consider what the consequence would be The amount struck off would greatly erreed the whole of the earnings of all the agii cultural laoourers in the country ! These, in 1836, were estimated at no more than 6 F 44.600/. In 1831 there were in Ireland 567,441 males of twenty years of age, employed in agriculture, as la bourers, and 564,274 small occupiers, who laboured their own lands, having dependent on them, in all, 884,339 families. Strike 25 per cent. off the value of Irish agri cultural produce, and you either bring downright starvation to every one of these eight hundred thousand doors, or else reduce us to the necessity of a general division of property. The whole rental of Ireland is not equal to '25 per cent. on its agricultural produce." Badly as the Irish are fed, or rather cruelly as they are starved, under the present system, all that pa:t of the agricultural produce of Ireland which is consumed at home, amounting probably to four fifths of the whole, would not be affected by the abolition of the Corn-laws. It would be only that portion of it which is exchanged for English manufactures. We take the quantity so ex changed at one-fifth, so that the presumed reduction of 25 per cent., which is a gross exaggeration, would not be on 40,000,0001. but on 8,000,0001. The dreaded loss, therefore, instead of exceeding the earnings of all the labourers and all the rental of all Ireland, would not be snore than 2,000,0001., to be deducted from rent and tithes, even adopting the exaggerated statements of the Evening Mail. The quantity of aericultural produce in Ireland wculd not be diminished by abolishine. the Corn laws, anti among a people who live almost exclu sively on their own produce, it is of no consequence whether its price in the foreign market be as one or as ten. If the Corn-laws were abo lished England would obtain supplies from other countries, and there would be less temptation to import from Ireland. The probabilities, there fore, are, that more would be left in Ireland for the use of her own people. All the rack.rented, lumper fed peasantry would keep a portion of that pi oduce they must now send away to pay the landlords ex orbitant rents, and though the Protestant land owners and tithe-owners might suffer—as we believe and hope they would, because they most richly deserve to suffer—for the poor half-starved people nothing better could possibly happen than an in crease in the quant.ty of food remaining in Ireland, and a great fall in its price. So far as the interest of the people of Leland is concerned, the article in the Mail better deserves the name of raving than of reasoning. The writer begins the article by saying very oracularly, " The poor man's means of livelihood consist in his earnings, and these earnings are wore or less, according to the state of the market." The state of the market for those who have chiefly labour to sell, is the quantity of food, or means of purchasing food, which those who want labour are willing to give for it. However the question may be disguised, the real things exchanged, or bought and sold, are labour and food ; and it would i nuzzle any person but an Irish Edi tor to find out how' an increase in the quantity of food and a re duction in its va ue or price should be disadvanta geous to t...lie labourer. In fact, no class have suc h a strong pec7lniarY interest in the repeal of the Corn-laws as the labourers, though it pleases some ()gland to excite them to forego of their leaders in 1... the chance of obtainic' that advantage, to the f: chance of obtaining the Charter. We eu meetingt e xcelle tat presume that the re for the abolition of the Corn-lacFs, held Dubli has frightened the Editor of the Evening Mail out of his senses. Of the great advantage which the total and immediate repeal wou ld be to . Catholic Ireland, the language of the chief organ of the Protestant parsons and the Orange landowners of Ireland is a strong proof. Now that the Mail takes such a decided part, we are sure that we shall have the co-operation of the Catholic priesthood and the Catholic peasantry to procure the total and im mediate abolition of the Corn-laws. The Morning Post of yesterday, discovered that Mr. M'NEILE was treading, in his last lecture, on very dangerous ground. The Rev. Gentleman, whatever he might wish, could not disguise the truth. He seeks popularity and power after his own fashion, and is a formidable rival to Dr. CROLY and Bishop PHILPOTTS. According to report, he is extremely popular in Lancashire, and he has acquired his popularity by mixing much with the people, uniting the two characters of a most attentive pastor and a political leader. His swelling self-satisfaction made him condemn much in the Church, which is not according to his own practices. Making himself the great examplar, from which he drew, he dwelt with much energy on the necessity of clergymen devoting themselves with zeal and sincerity to their duties as clergymen, and to their duties as politicians. All other pursuits he de nounced. A love of gardening,of 'arming, of art and science, fell under his anathema, as well as the whist • table and the race-course. He did not even tolerate school keeping in beneficed clergymen, and rebuked his reverend brethren who, as pamphleteers, writers in Reviews, and Editors of Newspapers, weaken the respect of the people for the pastoral character by engaging in lay occupations. He would have the priests confine themselves to preaching, praying, visiting the sick, and denouncing an anti-Protestant Government. He would have the clergy devote their undivided energies strictly to their ecclesias tical duties, and so give them intense and papal zeal to achieve a dowinion over their fellow creatures. Considering the legislative occupation of the Bishops, and the pursuits of our most re nowned clergymen—the head-mastership of a high school being the road to a Bishopric—we are not surprised that our Tory Contemporary should have discovered . that Mr. M`NEILE was treading on dangerous grcund. He did something worse than this, when he described the mode in which the Church performs the baptism of infants as a profanation of that holy rite. The election of Bishops by the Chap ters, who are obliged to elect the persons recom mended by the Conge d'Elire, under the penalty ol a premunire, he regarded as a degrading piece 01 hypocrisy, and wondered with what kind ol prayer the venerable men could begin their i mock election. College education, he made out to be pastoral character.w°futlY art of subdui ng the souls of men. T d h e e fi e e l. l e e n r g t y i are n n form in . g the vated, but n o t e l ocut i on, to which Mr. Greek taught the art of subduing the souls of men. Greek is culti owes so much. The ,b much-vaunted, venerated Liturgy, too, he wi s h e d to h ave passages e tatsesd,ge"ss of it, oth a t those clergymen who dislik e manyr ek might omit them, if they pleased. We infer from this, and so will the public, that there are many clergymen who object to parts of the Liturgy, and yet who are obliged, for the sake of retaining their , livings, to read and profess what they regard as erroneous, or even as irreligious. Mr. WNEILE himself must, of course, be one of those who ob ject to parts of the Liturgy, and the freedom of his strictures on the ordinances, discipline, and practices of the Church, as long as he remains in it ; does a great deal more honour to his judgment than to his honesty. We must draw one moral from Mr. M.NEILes " dangerous " animadversions. For the sake of this Church, which he describes as •so ~ imperfect, so inefficient, so hypocritical, peace is to .. 1 be denied to C a nada, and that colony e ar s be THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY , MARCH 26. 'so), driven into the arms of the United States. Toe 1 priesthood, ever alive to pelf and power, by the aid 1 of the Tories, are to oppose the Bill which has been sent from Canada, appropriating a part of the clergy reserves to other purposes than the uses of the priests of the Anglican Church. In the colony , as well as in the mother - country, contention is to be kept alive by the avarice of the priesthood of what Mr. iVPNEILE described as an inefficient Church. To those who have endeavoured to make the clerical demagogue a tool, he will be found in deed a dangerous man. Lord ASHBURTON was again anxious on Tues. day night to exhibit his new-born landowner's zeal, in favour of the starvation laws. The Noble Lord had acquired, by diligence in Parliament, the re spect of his countrymen. His long, and in many cases, able advocacy of free trade principles had even won for him much admiration. He was by far the most popular teacher of those doctrines, to be found in the whole empire, between 1815 and 1828. Many young men imbibed them from his speeches, and he is in no small degree respon sible for much of the fierceness with which the starvation law is now attacked. Though he may have changed, they adhere to his maxims, and see with regret and vexation their teacher forsaking the truth he had taught for a profitable error. We can conceive no more humiliating spectacle than an old gentleman sacrificing the respect and esteem of society for the gratification of sordid ava rice. For a man beginning life we may find some excuse. His advocacy of plundering the poor by a bread-tax may supply him with the fruits of en joyment for many years ; but when the day of en joyment must be almost gone, for an aged man wilfully to forfeit the public regard and pass his last days amidst the just execrations of his former admirers, seems like the fatuity which sometimes precedes dissolution. Poor old man, whom it would be eruel to notice, were not his different conduct as a merchant and a landowner an excellent illustration of those personal interests which are suffered to usurp the important functions of legislation. If the breeches pocket may be thought to have inspired the merchant With his ideas of free trade, it is quite palpable that the breeches pocket has inspired the landowner with his affection for a law which Mr. BARING demon strated was passed to keep up rent by men who made itender rt,bias in their own favour. Amongst our legislators there is another ex ample of breeches-pocket influence. Sir ROBERT PEEL, the father, was a cotton-spinner, and an op ponent of Corn-laws. Sir ROBERT PEEL, the son, is a landowner, and an advocate of them. Every body supposes that the breeches pocket is the source of the contrast, and that if the present Baronet's property were yet all in cotton mills, he would be as staunch an advocate for the repeal as he now is for the reten tion of the Corn-laws. If it be said that many of the opponents of the Corn-laws are also influenced by the breeches pocket, we will not deny it ; but what an impure source is that of laws which are to preside for ages over the destiny of the nation ! That the great body of the Peers, who live on rent, when they are not pensioners, have a strong breeches-pocket influence in keeping on the bread tax, cannot be denied. That the greater number of the representatives of the people act under the same sinister and selfish interest is also certain ; and if it be averred that those who seek the abolition of the law, are prompted by simi lar motives, what other conclusion can be drawn than this—that every existing source of legislation is impure and vicious ? If that be so, to what other conclusion are we driven but this, that the in terest of no one class or description of persons ought to have more influence than that of another in making laws, and that the only way to secure just and honest laws, is an unlimited compe tition of ail classes in making them. Breeches pocket legislation will certainly force on Universal Suffrage. man race. But we are travelling out of our record. Al though on the subject of missions, we have much to say in connection with the question of African civi lization, we intend at present to confine ourselves to a review of the leading facts set forth in Mr. FOWaLL BUXTON'S excellent Treatise. Experience for which the nation has paid so dearly, cannot be too extensively circulated. We shall, therefore, revert to this question from time to time, till we have ex hausted such details as are requisite to place it in a clear light before the country. One appalling fact, it may not be out of place to conclude with,— namely, that after a most careful calculation, Mr. BUXTON reckons the victims of the African Slave Trade at one thousand daily I It will be seen from an article in another part of the Paper, as well as from a Bill which has been read a second time in the House of Lords, that some alterations are to be made in the obnoxious clauses of the Police Act. It is high time cer tainly for something to be done to remove the odium which the HOME SECRETARY labours under on account of the absurd enactments embodied in this Act, with regard to the powers which it gives to in formers, and still more to the Police Cotntnissionets. These Commissioners have actually shut up public houses during the Sunday afternoon at Hampstead, Highgate, and other rural districts, which the bald working tradesman and his family had been in the habit of resorting to for fresh air from time imme morial ; they have broken up clubs of long stand ing in London, or caused the landlords to be fined large sums ; and for five hours each Sunday they stop public thoroughfares, and divert all public and private carriages into unusual routes, as it were to disturb the quietude of persons who, from bad health, are unable to attend Church. The power assumed by the Commissioners, hacked, fortunately, by only a few of the Police Magistrates, has caused the greatest irregularities, end, consequently, tended to bring the law into COineillpt. Even Sir ANDREW AGNEW was not so bad as the legislator who framed this ,tyrannical Bill, which applies exclusively to the middle and lower classes. Sir ANDREW, when he shut up the public-houses, would also have shut up the clubs and the parks, and closed the toll-gates ; but the framer of this Bill, as interpreted by some of the , Magistrates, leaves all the wealthy class out, and directs the whole force of the law against hard working tradesmen and poor artizans, who have j only Saturday night and Sunday to refresh themselves after the toils of the week. It is only astonishing that Chartism is not more general, and that the middle and lower classes do not com bine to put down this invidious and selfish class legislation. We have not seen Lord NoRNIANBY'S amended Bill ; but, knowing his impartiality in Ireland, and the well-earned - popularity which he obtained in that country for his regard to the rights of those who had none to help them, we confidently trust that he has removed those anomalies and,ab surd penalties which disgraced the original Bill. This is the more necessary, because the public will now place Mr. HAWES and every other Member out of view, and lay the whole blame or merit on Lord NORMANBY. It is now a Government measure. _ We are glad to see that the Dissenters are be. coming alive to the humiliating position in which they are at this moment placed—chiefly, if not entirely, by the supineness which they have exhi bited when they should have displayed decision anti energy. They have found out at last—what we should have thought it required no very great depth of sagacity to discover—that a timid, subservient co urse of action i nv i tes con t em pt and encroachment that those who b en d an d craw l, w hen they ought to standerect, on must lay when theyytheiraccmouignhtt have with been . respected and feared. being kicked andtrampled What are the insulting airs which have been lately played off in the House of Commons on the Church-rate questio n —the unmitigated and brutal persecution of the martyr for conscience sake, JOHN THOROGOOD—the insolent claim set up by the State Church to the undivided education of the people—the impudent attempt now making by the same Church to extort, by clamour, from the Le gislature large sums of the public money for ex tending its baneful influence—what are all these things but the natural consequence of that luke warm and pusillanimous policy which the Dissen ters have been for some time past pursuint , ? We trust, for the interests of civil and religious liberty, that this disgraceful apathy is now at an end, and that such an impulse has been given to the spirit of the Dissenting community, as may not only repair the mischief which has been done, but lead to the speedy removal of the many grievances which still distinguish the Non conformist from the professor of the State creed. In another part of The Sun appears a document which inspires us with good hopes. It is a series of resolutions pass!Al at a late special meeting of a once-powerful, and still highly respectable body— the Protestant Dissenting Ministers . of the Three (more properly Two) Denominations in and about the Cities of London and Westminster. e hail, as a good omen, the appearance—late as it is—of this body in the field, and although their resolu tions might perhaps have been expressed in stronger language, we are quit© sure that they will produce a deep impression on the minds of the Dissenters throughout the kingdom. Inteiligtmce from Ai B iers, dated the. says" that, in increased efforts at sea, and in reducing the following 1, Portug,al to the tit:ces-,ity of executing I-LT es,qat. - 14t1; inst. : Sioce the clepr rture of :he Pbw,eton with d o i i ,atelLt.i f r om with , - irctLitereined‘.—,va, tc, . of and that little more than these would be required t t . . GOV h , a 7or tor a ii . ie iThnistee or co War.ll,- ni . ovei . itet e ( itz for the gratification of the ardent desire felt b) the • British nation for the abolition of the Slave Trade. i ° o ° ,o P ri s ary ar the -a n 12 o t r B t o n eff.:riC ' ti, hi&l it quilted on Wednesday light. P The Camp of But a closer scrutiny into the facts of the case has Boutigrich Bledah and Coital, have furnished the 22d and 24 h li,gim ,- ,ntsuf the lsr Ii giatetit of Li g ht conducted me to a dill; , rent conclusiw , . There 14antry, commanded by Colonel Ciinga! wiser , the G are, I now think, reasonable grounds for believing luavys, and the Sharpsi;noters of Africa ; the two laver that we should still be disappointed, althoug h we cor p s Were assembled at Coleah, under the command of were to double our naval force engaged in that the brave Lamoricicre, C o l one l of the Re g iment of branch of service , and although it were' resolved to Guuaves. At this moment, therefore, all is in motion in this place ; troops from the camps nearest to Algiers are take the most peremptory measures with Portug al." ,ne to Bouffarich, Btedah, and Coleah , to take the p lace Is this monstrous evil , then, without a remedy ? g‘ of those that are gone to Ch. rcheil. Mr. BUXTON, and the Society for the Extinction The occupation of Cherchell is resolved upon—this of the Slave Trade, do not think so. While Mr. place, to which the grand expedition may go to revictual. is g oing to be put in a state of defence. Three merchant- BUXTON is not disposed to relax mit , men, ;he St. Jean Baptiste. the Marie Angelique , an d the jot of the activity at present employed by the Louisa hired by the Govererevit, have just sailed for that British Government to supp ress the inhuman with cannon, ammunition. &c. Cherchell will, there traffic, while he maintains th e right and the tore, be one of the bases of the great military operations justice of seizing all Portuguese slavers, and sub- which are going to be commenced shortly in our province. Accommodation will, likewise, be prepared for the . sick jetting the crews to the severest secondary punish - and wounded of the great expedition. .There will be, likewise, ment, he is for opening extensive commercial at Cbe:chell a depot of provisions and ammu relations with Africa, and the propagation of union. Christianity there, as the only effectual means of Very few troops remain in the city. An order of the uttin M a rshal Governor-General expressly forbids civilians fro m p g an end both to the Slave Trade and to do mestic slavery. The interior of Africa abounds in g oing, to Cherchell by land accompanying the expedition, or by sea. This order has very much discontented a num produce more profitable for exportation than human her of amateurs and some merchants.—Le Constitutionnel. flesh, and Mr. BUXTON is for creating in Europe a demand and a market for this produce, ade quate to the supply of the wants of the African race. In a few years he expects that we will be able to look to the West Indies for an invaluable body of native Mission aries, and thus Providence will make them institi mental in repaying us for the sacrifice of twenty millions sterling made to obtain their freedom. To do away with all international jealousies, Mr FOWELL BUXTON propoies that in our ne406,1,- tions for obtaining a freedom of trade with the lode ', pendent kingdoms of Africa, we shall include with ourselves all other Christian States choosing to carry on such tifide, and otherwise to co-operate with us in the civilization of that great continent. We are ourselves inclined to think that a great deal might be done through the instrumentality of Missionaries from the West Indies ; and since we began first to turn our attention to this important subject we have frequently been struck with surprise, that the friends of African freedom and civilization never appear to have thought of founding a college in London, for the education of Blacks for the African Mission. The expense of an establishment, which, after a lapse of five years, would be capable of sending out ten young Mis sionaries annually, would he a mere trifle compared with the enormous sums now wasted in an inefficient coast blockade. These Missionaries might be all, in addition to a proper course of religious instruc tion, taught the elements of surgery and physic, practical husbandry, and, when sent out, supplied with the requisite tools and implements for tilling the earth, as well as with books for inculcating religious and scientific knowledge. Perhaps, in the whole world, a class of men are not to be found less calculated to promote the object for which they are selected than the persons usually appointed by British and American So cieties for Heathen missions. Being for the most part narrow-minded intolerant bigots, brought up in ignorance of the world, and inacquainted with the application of the leading doctrines of Chris tianity in ameliorating .the physical condition of man, they rarely do more than inculcate a jargon of sounds, substituting as food for the heathen the husks instead of the rich and nutritive grain of the Gospel. Even in their journals they effect a mys ticism of speech, which only the initiated can under stand, thus manifesting their utter incapacity to give a true expression to principles and doctrines meant to combine in amicable fellowship the whole hu, Cancow.—Mr. John Ellis (Newry) gave notice, that in consequence of the discussion relative to the present state, political and commercial, of the City of Cracow, still occupied by foreign troops, having been last night unavoidably postponed upon important grounds of public policy, he should decidedly bring that question under the consideration of Parliament early after Easter. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HUNGERFORD AIMIKET. The market thioly atten !ed, and prices were mostly on tbe adv •nee. Beef, 74d. to 84a. ; AluttOn, 74d. to 84d ; Veal, 8d to 9d. ; Pork, 74d. to 84d. per lb. Vegetables scarce and dear. Turbot, 7s. to 215.; Cod, 3s. to 12s. ; Soles, Is. (id. to ss. per pair; Lobsters, Is. 6d. to ss. ; and Salmon, 35. per lb. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. supplies not very abund , nt ; trade good ; prices rather high. Tin but, 6s. to 205. ;• Cod, 2s. 6d. to 125.; Soles, Is. 6d. to ss. per pair ; Salmon, 23. 6d. to 33. per lb. ; Oysters, 245. to 4,03 per bushel ; Lobsters, Is. 6d. to 4s. 6d; Smelts, 40s. per 100; and Mackerel, sd. to 10d. HAY MARKETS. The supplies were moderate, but the demand was good. Very good Hay was Si. and higher ; good Clover, 1103. to 120 s. per load ; Straw, 365. to 445. per load. Prices are lo,k ing up for all kinds of dry provender. TALLOW MARKET. This department was very languid, and prices were merely nominal. TEA MARKET. The market was very flat indeed, and what little was doing was for cash only. Company's Congous 2s. 9.4(1., and free trade Congous 2s. lid. cash. COLONIAL MARKET. This market was very flat indeed. British Plantation Sugar sold to a liin ted extent at last-quoted prices. About 6,000 bagh Mauritius were sold at 625. to 68s. for good qualitie No other Sugar in the market, and no Coffee, nor any other kind of Colonial produce. By private contract there was very little done indeed. MONEY and CONIMERCIAL NEWS CITY, 7'IVEL TAE O'CLOCK Our arrivals this rfljl fling arc tho French and Jamaica mails, the latter by the Star—sailed from St. Thomas's Feb. 13, and Cape Henry Feb 18 No ship let ers. th, above conveyance we have received Jamaica Papers to February 9. SIR CHARLES METCALFE.— Ili4 Excellency left this city fur Spanish Town at 11 o'dock yesterday forenoon. We understand he was quite del , gieted with his reception at the ball on Thursday night. Our north side Papers by toe Post do not contain a single paragraph which we can extract, as conveying any intelligence that is new or interesting We mentioned yesterday the arival and location in St. Ann's of 140 emigrants from Ireland, procured and sent out at the instance of Miss Mitchels. ‘Ve stated in our last that his Excellency the Governor had determined upon visiting the several parishes of this island, for the purpose of making himself acquainted with their localities, and the state of things generally ; since then we have ascertained that his Excellency's intention - is to proceed by land. Ton WINDWARD ISLANDS.--We have already laid be fore our readers such items of intelligence from Barbadocs and Trinidad as promised to inform or interest them. The Antigua Papers do not furnish a single paragraph by which we can judge of the state of affairs in that colony. D7MINICA.—In this island a Bill to authorize the sus pension of the Militia Law, and - their revival when occa sion requires, has passed the Legislature, and been pro- claimed, Her Majcsty'i brig Ringdove came into port yesterday • with a slave vessel, her prise, having, we are informed, a great number of unfortunate negroes on board. It is, we imagine, unknown to the majority of the inhabi tants of this city that General Merino is at present a resi dent amongst us. By her Majesty's steamer Heels, which arrived on Sa turday afternoon, we arc in receipt of copious Wes of Bri tish par,rs from Lmdon. Their dates are to the 16th ult. in the evening. W, have received Demerara papers to the 2ith January. TRINIDAD.-260 snore emigrants have arrived, 42 ‘l3.)s from Havre, in the barque La Jeune, France ; 121 emi grants arrived on Satin - thy in the French barque Sultan. The meat of them have found employment. From Dominica we learn that the most favourable ac counts of the orderly canduct of the labourers, And of their general industry, continues to be received. Those from the windward districts are the most encouraging. The negroes there are said to have entered into an engagement to secure the permanent residence among them of a medical gentleman, by a moderate poll contribution. We have received Trinidad papers to the 29th January. They do not contain any news of consequence. We have also received Barhadoes papers to the 30th January ; they aro void of interest. The Batavior Dutch steamer has arrived with Dutch papers of the 24th March. Prices from Amsterdam, March 23.—Two-rnd-a- Half per Cents., 52a; Five per Cents., 981 to i; Ardoin's Spanish, 2öi to 3-16. The above pap .rs do not contain any particular intelli gence worth noticing. Our only arrivals this morni,;g are from the West In dies by the Jamaica mail, by which we have received seve ral files of papers from fIIOAt parts of our possessions in that quarter, and the only news of consequence they con tain is the con. inued tranquillity and good working of the labourers in the various islands. TILE ruril)s The British Marketcontit:u(: inactive, and Consols opened this morning at the leaving off quotations of yes. 901 for Money ; and 901 for the Account; Exchequer Bills. 16 18 prem ; India Bonds. par 3 prem. ; Bank Stock, 178 179; India Stock, '248 249. Money continues in th, house at yesterday's rate, 5} to 6 per cent. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active remains heavy, owing to the uncertainty of Thiers's Administration colt tnuing- for any length of time. The decision of the de bate in the Chamber is anxiously looked for by the Spanish Bondholders. Spanish, which left off 274 1, may be quoted at 271 3 ; Deferred, 13 4 ; Passive,7l ; Portu uncse same is they closed 331 344 ; Three per Cents.. 23:1 1 241 ; Columbian, 244 25 ; Mexican 28. k ; Brazilian 78i ; Dutch Two-and-a• Ralf per Cents. 53ii ; Five per Cents, 101} 102. ruck:a oF STOCKS THIS DAY ATONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock — , India Stock . — 3 per Cent. Red. --; Ditto Bonds 3 per Cents. Con 90., 46%% ' South Sea Stock. — 3t2 nor Cent — ()Id Annuities — Ditto Red —l New Ditto New 3% per Cent 99 8 7 4 9 i 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 -- New 5 per Cent. Bank Lon gAnnuities toexpire Ditto 500... 16 18 pm. Jan 5, 1860 .-- Ditto Small l6 18 pin. Oct. 10, 1859 — Ditto Commercial tits. J.,.n. 5, 1860 — Ditto Advertised ...... pm. Jan. 5, 1850 — Bank Stock for Account ... April 5, 1880 • — India Stock for Account .. Jan. 5.1870 — Consols for Account 93% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK Austrian Bonds - Peruvian Bonds .... Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds .......... Ditto Account ............... Ditto Accoun. 34 tIN, 4 Buenos Ayres Bonds ...... ... Ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto kccount Chilian 3crad 1 .... Prussian Bonds Ditto Acso . . Tit — Russian Bonds. 1821 _ Columt: ian B c rids — Ditto Account ...... ......... Ditto A.coc‘.nt — Ditto Metallic Columbian 3t: d5,18'24 1_1;,- t.c7mrit ..~, Bonds :limy—' I),forred 133*.7,, Greek Bonds — French, 5 per cent Ditto Bonds, 1825 — 4 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto Account — 3 per cent....... —f. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — Exchange. —f. —c. Ditto Account .— Dutch, 2N, per cent. 5314 4 1 Ditto, 6 per Cent. Ditto Account Neapolitan Ditto Acc0unt........ PRICES OF SHARES TB Is DAY' AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Bolivar Copper Mining Company 20 Ditto Scrip lO Si I.•ndon and Blackwall Railway 15 , A aii on and Birmingham Railway Company Ditto New :Shares 4354 Northern and Eastern Railway Company 25 13 N. rth ,lidiand Railway Company lOO Ditto New London and Westminstillßank 3O 23 Provincial Bank of Ireland... ......... 44 . PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MARCH 21 3 per Cent. Consols 1% per Cent. Stock ' Ditto Reduced Ditto New, 1830 1 per Cent:Debentures... 9. 3 4 NatiimalinsuranceCompauy Bank Stock pn City Debentures, 4 per cent. grand Canal Stock -- Ballast Office Debentures, 4 ...... Royal Canal Stock - per cent _ 11A LFPAS T ONE. A ship from China , wh ich left Tonkoo Bay on th e 9th DeeeMbe:, is reported to he off Liverpool; her name is the John of Gaunt, supposed to have a quantity of tea on board, Consols are a shade lower than in the early part of the mc.rnmet, and may be quoted at 904 for the Account, and , 90i for .tloney. iVloney, in the course of the morning, was in great de ',nand at 6 per cent., Fince which it has become more easy, and loans may be obtained at an easy rate in the house. Exchequer Bills, 18 16 18 prem. ; India Bonds, 1 3 prem. In India and Bank Stock nothing doing. The chief business in the Forei g n Mar ket during the course of the morning h as been in S p anish Active ; with various fluctuations, it receded from 27,} to 261, at present 264 27 ; Portuguese, 33i 34 ; Three per Cents., 24 ; Columbian, 24k ; Dutch 'F WO. and-a-Half per Cents, 531; Five per Cents., 1011; in other Foreign Securities scarce a bargain doing. After the immense sacrifices made by this country to abolish the accursed Slave Trade, it is enough to cast a gloom over the national mind to learn that all our efforts have been unavailing—that the horrors of the slave traffic, which we naturally ex pected would have decreased in consequence of our ' The important debate on the French Ministeria. humane exertions, have, on the contrary, increased, Confidence Bill, as it may not inaptly be termed, and are increasing, to an extent frightfully incredi- commenced in the Chamber of Deputies on 'Fues ble. The abolition of slavery has already cost day, and was expected to occupy sev eral sittin g s. Great Britain — in m one y alone—the enormous sum of thirty-five millions sterlin g , inde p endentl y of the A summary of the debate u p to the hour of post pecuniary sacrifices made by Anti-Slavery Societies will be found in a nother part o an f T attenthe Sun, and will and individuals. As man y y ears as we have s p ent well repay the trouble of ive perusa millions have been unceasingly devoted, by a large M. THlErts was the first to address the Chamber. party, in this country to the amelioration of the suffer- He repeated what he had said before about there rugs a nd the bieaking of the bondage of the African being now no dHerence of opinion between the race ; a nd yet the most indefatig a b le and u p ri g ht KING and himself. differen He adm t itte political ingredients. confess that the Slave Trade has not been put He acknowledged that he was, when summoned to down, and that it never can be put down by any Court, willing to enter a Ministry with SOULT or hostile force which Great Britain has the power of MOLE, or with Duke and that he had sought a re employing for its suppression. In the second part union with the a nd that to no purpose. of Mr. FOWELL BUXTON'S book on the ~ Slave H e con t en ded that no Ministry but a coalition one Trade," entitled "The Remedy," which has just could stand, and that if they drove him from office, been published, that excellent labour in confidence abo- the KING, and not himself, would be the sufferer. lition vineyard says r—c , With all we This was certainly a most curious declaration, in may affirm, that nothing permanent will be effected volving as it did an admission of the unless we we raise Me native mind. It is possible to tional personal influence exercised by the SOYE conceive such an application of force as shall REIGN. With respec v t to the foreign policy istration, Very little can be gathered blockade the whole co ast, and sweep away every of the Admit slaver ; but should that effort relax, the trade in from the President of the Council's s p' eec h. man would revive. Compulsion, so long as it He merely stated that the Eastern question would lasts, may restrain the act, but will not eradicate the be settled without war; that the inviolability of the motive. The African will not have ceased to de- Turkish Empire woud be ma of intAlEtiEmET A ained, but withouLLt sire, and vehemently to crave, the spirits, the am- prejudice to the just.lrights munition, and the article s of finer y and commerce Upon the whole, the speech of M. THIERS will which E uro pe alone can supply ; and these he can , not increase the public confidence in his political obtain by the Slave Trade and the Slave Trade Integrity ; and if not redeemed by the explanations only, w hil e he remains what he is. Traffic in mart which he will be called upon to give in the course is, th ere f ore , t o him not a matter of selection but lof the debate, must p rove fatal to him. The only of neces s ity, and after any interval of constrained ' thing remarkable about it is t hat hpossibl e appears to drag deter abstinence h e w ill revert to it as the bu siness of his mined not to fall alone, buif e, lmhifeea.k':eckitn have the preface to this volume Mr. FOWELL LOUIS PHILIPPE cloy' n with him. BUXTON expresses the same convic tion in lan- Great commercial distress exists in Paris. In guage st i wlee l a t vmdagore exp li c i t , an d what will tend to the course of t wenty-five days there were no fewer acknowledge thatreate tirelffi evce t ry u l p a o te n ly th h e e public mind, a dif. than seventy-five bankrup tcies. There is no other new s of an y im p ortance in the ferent opinion. "My original impression was," he French Journals of Tuesday, with the exception of THE MURDER AT JST.;NGTON ADJOURNED INQUEST. ATTENDANCE OF THE PRISON; RS. The ingtnry into the co.t*e of the death of Mr. John Temple,; an, who wa3 found murdered in his cat irge in Pocock's-ti-his, hlington, on the nwtning of Tue,day, the 17th instant, was this morning. resunnel at the Barns bury Tavern, Wilson -street, Isltttgtt - ,n, before Mr. Wak- I c y, M. P., and a respectable Jun,. Mr. WAley entered the inquest room about ten o'clock, which was crowded to excess. The prisoners, Gould and Mrs_ Jarvis, bad previously been brought up from the New Prison, Clerkenwell, in the prison-van. followed by an immense crowd of persons. Mr. WAKLEY said he would commence the proceedings by relating a hat had occurred relative to the production of the prisoners. The proceedings on the last occasion had been mast accurately reported.—( Hear, hear. ) It was a very great mistake to suppose that he ( Mr. Wakle) ) was averse to publicity ; tar from it But what he objected to was, that reports should he fabricated in order to serve po litical purpo: es. Ile had an interview w'th the Marquis of Normanby on the subject of the production cf the pri soners since the adjournment of the inquest. lie had also received a letter from the Noble Marquis on the aubject, in which the Noble Marquis expressed an opinion that it ,could not be a proper course for the Alagistr;tes at Hatton- garden to pursue to commit the prisoners until the Coroner and jury on the inquest had had an oppoi tunity of seeing them. The ohjcct of the Coroner's inquisition was a most import- ant one. It was neither niore nor less than to ascertain if a fellow-creature had lost his life by violence or in a proper manner. The functions of the Coroner had, for some time past, been allowed to sleep, but it was not his fault ; and he would take care that they should not be allowed longer. Ho could not understand why the Ma gistrates should attempt to interfere with the functions of the Coroner. Formerly it was the custom for Magistrates to put off the consideration of similar cast's until after the Coroner's inquisition was terminated. He did not seek this conflict, and he felt assured that he should come out without any injury to the dignity of his office. He re ferred to v% hat had taken place on the occasion of his holding the ibquest at Hayes on the body of Mr. Joseph Alsop. The Coroner's Jury had returned a verdict of wilful mur der against Mr. Medhurst, and he had been committed by the Ceroner', , warrant. The inquiry had, however, subse.. quently been t,lc.q. up by the Magistrates, who committed Nledhurst for trial for manslaughter. He had not quar relled with that, because the accused had not been before the Jury. There was, however, some difference in the expense of the two inquiries. Of that before the Coroner the expense was trifling, while the cost cf the inquiry before the Magistrates amounted to 531. 15s. This might have been saved. if the matter had been left in the hands of the Coroner, and he did not think th.tt any person could thereby have been injured. In the precut ease elm party ii.td been discharged without a stain upon his character— he might perhaps have been able to prove all connected with the murder, but he was not at large. He trusted that such a circumstance would not occur again. For the future he hoped that the police would give their earliest information in all cases of murder, and that such inquiries would hereafter be conducted on those grin ciples which had been acted on in this country long before Magistrates were appointed. He had seen these parties at the Station-house before they hal been eonveyed to Hatton Garden, and he might then have de tained them there, in order to have them produced before the inquest, but he had abstained from doing so because he thought that persons in authority should always act towards each other with kindly feelings, and endeavour to aid each other by every means in the performance of their duties, so as to forward the ends of public justice. He hoped that what took place since this subject had been under the consideration of the Marquis of Normanby would !educe the Magistrates not to interfere to prevent persons '1•0111 coining before that Court. He did not wish to claim anything like a triumph on the present occasion, because the only object he had in view was the forwarding the ends of public justice. Do all the witnesses who spoke to Gould speak also to the woman? Inspector Miller—No, Sir. Mr. WAKLEY—Then the course - f proceedings I pro pose to adopt is, that Gould should be first introduced alone, that all the witnesses Alta depose any facts in which Gould alone was concerned should be examined in his pre sence ; that Gould should then retire. and the woman be called in, and the witnesses who deposed to facts connected with her, should be examined in her presence—that then she should retire—that the two should then be called in toge ther, and the witnesses who deposed to facts in which the two were supposed to be connected, should be then exa mined. Gould was now about to be introduced, and he trusted that all present would feel the propriety of abstain ing from giving expression to any feeling, either on his introduction or in his presence. Gould was then introduced, and was accommodated with a chair at the foot of the table, opposite the Coroner. On his taking his seat, he was addressed by Mr. WAKLEY, who told him he was brought there for the purpose of hearing anything that might be said against him ; and that he might ask any questions he liked, and afterwards make any statement or explanation he thought proper, which would be taken down as his deposition, but that he was not obliged to make any statement unless he thought proper. The Hon. Gentleman likewise told him that he might, if he wished, be furnished with pen, ink, and paper, for the purpose of taking notes. Gould thanked the Coroner for his kindness, but de clined taking any notes, as lie said he could recollect it all, and he could easily explain all the evidence against him. Inspector Miller was then examined, and repeated the evidence respecting the capture of Richard Gould, which has already been given to the public in our Hatton-garden report. He produced the cord with which the wrists 'of the deceased hal been bound, and also a velvet waistcoat and can hAonging to Gould, the former of which vva• marked with blood. Gould remarked that the waistcoat had frequently been sprinkled with blood during the time that he had wore it, and that the cap had been given him by a gentlemen at the house in which they now were. Mr. WaxLEv asked Inspector Miller if there was a warrant out against Gould for an assault ? Inspector Miller said there was Mr. WAKLEY thought it important that that circum stance should be particularly mentioned in the depositions, and also that the person at whose suit the warrant had been obtained should be named, as that might account for Gould's being out of the way, and also for whet he had said when Inspector Miller had first arrested him. It vas then entered on the depositions that there was a war rant out against Gould for an assault on the potboy of the William the Fourth. Sergeant King, of rh- N , livision of pollee, deposed to the circumstances attemiinf.;* the feitline the money in Gould's stocking secreted on the rafter of the privy, at Allen's cottage, where Gould lodged, and produced the stocking and money. Mrs. Allen, with whom Gould lodged, deposed to the feet of hie having been feehed by tlrs. Jarvis on, Monday, M a rch le—of his goirse nut, and o f his not having. return-fl until an early hour off Tuesday morning. In answer to questions from Gould, the witness seated teat on a fo - Ever occasion, when Gould was in employment and lodged with her, he had been in the habit of keeping late hours, and sometime: of staying out all night, but that since he had lodged with her mi the lust oeca sion, that is to say, during the week preceding the murder, he had always kept very early hours. •He rose about half-past seven on Tuesday morning, and went into the wash-house, where she saw hire doing something to:his trowsers ; he looked out of the window, and said that they were putting up a fence to keep people off the ground. She saw no more of him until he asked her for a towel, arid be then put his coat on, and left the house. The witness then proceeded to detail the circum stances which occurred from the time of Gould's return to the cottage at a quarter past seven on Tuesday evening up to the period of his arrest, during which time he told wit ness that he had been to his aunt and cousin that morning, and had had some money given him by his aunt, and a pair of shoes by his cousin. This witness's evidence has al ready been given et great length in our proceedings before the Magistrates. Gould asked her if that was the whole of the conversa tion ? Witness—All, except private conversation, which I will relate, if you wish it. Gould—No, I do not ; only you said it was all the con versation. The CORONER said that the whole of the conversation must be detailed if Gould wished it. What was the subject of it ? Witness—Principally on religious subjects, but not con nected with the present inquiry. As Gould did not wish that the conversation should be detailed, the subject was not gone into further.—After his arrest the policeman showed her the money in the stocking, which was similar to the one she had washed for Gould last summer, but there was no mark on it by which she could identify it. She had washed two odd stockings for him, which he was in the habit of wearing, lied she thought the stocking produced was one of them. She had seen them on his box, on the Monday, but they were rolled up, and she had not unrolled them to examine them. She has not washed them since last November. - He had four stockings, which had been misplaced. Had not seen them in any other form since, except in the bundle, which she did not open. She concluded there were twa stockings on the Monday, from the manner in which they were rolled up. When the stocking was shown her by the policeman, she at once said it was Gould's, be cause she had seen it in the box on the Monday. She had missed a dessert knife from the Sunday previously. Gould had paid her no rent, and she knew he had no money on the Sunday, The inquiry was proceeding when we went to press. DEATH OF THE VENERABLE THE PRO VOST OF ETON.— We announce with great regret the death of the Learned and Venerable Provost of Eton, whose useful and highly honourable life was closed at an early hour yesterday ( Wednesday) morning. This distinguished scholar was bo rn on the 2(.1 of March, 1760. Until within a few days of his de cease he continued to enjoy the society of his friends, though for some years his constitution had become gradually decayed. [lt is understood an Address to the Crown will be moved for to investigate the administration of the funds of Eton College. The funds are understood to be very large, and escaped the inquiry of the Charity Commissioners on the ground that the office of visiter was vested in the Crown.] DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—This morning, a few minutes before ten o'clock, a fire broke out on the extensive . premises belonging to M essrs . H owe an d P arsons , printing nk makers, oil boilers, and varnish-makers, Orange-street, IGravel-lane. The numerous workmen belonging •io the establishment endeavoured to extir.guish the flames, but without effect. The fire engines were immediately sent for, and promptly arrived with the brigademen, and a good supply of water was procured, but so furious was the flames that in less than an hour nearly the whole of the interior of the premises, with the stock, was destroyed. The fire originated by a quan tity of oil and rozin boding over into the fire from the copper. SHOREDITCH NATIONAL SCHOOLS. —CA Sunday last, two sermons were preached on ofbehat. behalf b H y ea thd portant institution, at the district ChurchJof ohnth,iiliomx-- m to a n st ; er th o e f o c n h e r i i n se t s h s e no m sp o i r t n al i mornin g by otherthe in the Rev.D e r v . cn ß : i n e g e : e s on the t ß o e w v n . Hen Both ry preachers Taylor,incumbent e o d f e A I 0 1 l tiu S e a n i t n t d s Is iN e o hl u ;ti e nd New ; occasion, _:VESTING E111T10N._„..,, COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. -....,J,Qu.---- REVIVAL OF THE DRAMA. I - Icr *Majesty conferred a great. and lasting obli gation on all tlw lovers of our National Drama in having commanded the reappearance of Eagland':,, great comedian on the stage. But there is another Charles —tvi;ll reverence be it spoken—as great as he. IS Mr. Young altogether inexorable ? Is it quite impos sible to induce him to follow the example of his great compeer ? And are we forbidden to cherish the ho2e of once more witnessing the Brutus of Charles Young, and the Mare Antony of Charles Kemble? Suob a conjunction would go far towards a revival of t!De palmy days of the Drama—when genius, chastened and disciplined by severe study, was justly appreciated, and honoured by applauding thousands. Mr. Youeg appears to be in as good health as he ever was, and if he has recovered his voice, we cannot see why Ile should not come forward with another actor older thin himself, to gratify not only the national taste of our youthful Queen, but of all those who look with regret to the blank caused by the retirement of the last of the Kemble school. COURT CIRCULAR. The Marquis of Normanby and Viscount Melbourne name audiences yesterday of her Majesty. The Royal Dinner Party at the Palace last evening i 4; eluded the Earl of Uxbridge, the Earl of Surrey, Viscouo or, Melbourne, Lady Fanny Howard, Lord Robert Groove and the Hon. Charles Howard. The Band of 62 First Lifc Guards was in attendance durinr , the evening. The following Noblemen and Gentlemen presente d Addresses of Congratulation to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, yesterday afternoon, at, Buckingham Palace The Duke of Buccleuch—From the County of Edin burgh. Mr. Sanford, M P., and Mr. Acland, M.P.—Froth Yeovil. The O'Conor Don and Mr. French—From RoscOmni on ,' Mr. Mackinnon, M. P.—From the W estern Highlso ni of Scotland. Mr. Griffiths—From Haverfordwest. Sir Hesketh Fleetwood and Mr. Townley Parker-- From Preston. Lord Melgund—From Hyde. His Royal Highness was attended by Lord Ro be„ Grosvenor, Groom of the Stole ; Lord George Len" ° ' „ ' Gentleman of the Bedchamber; Colonel Wylde, Equerry; and Mr. Francis Seymour, Groom in Waiting. An Address of Congratulation to the Duchess of ge llt ; , on the marriage of her Majesty with his Royal Hig hn°s Prince Albert, was presented to her Royal Highness Yesd terday—From the Inhabitants of the Town of Yeovil ro its vicinity, in the county of Somerset, presented by M r ' Sanford, M.P., and Mr. Acland, M.P. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent was att ende t by Lady Anoa Maria Dawson and Lady Fanny Hop et Ladies in Waiting, acrd Colonel Cooper, C. 8. , F ir % Equerry and Comptroller of her Royal Highness Household. The Archbishop of York, Director for the evening °f the Concert of Ancient Music, gave a grand dinner y e a terday, at his residence in Grosvenor.square, to the Qu ee „ Dowager, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the 0 1 ,": of Wellington, and the Directors. Her Majesty Iv" tended by the Viscountess Barrington and Earl flo vv "' and their Royal Highnesses by Miss Kerr and 131 : (°° KNesebeck. His Grace and his Illustrious Guests afterwar;s went t° the performance of the Concert at the Ilmover-square RooMs. His Royal Highness Prince Albers honoured the ' l° g cert of Ancient Music with his I , : esenco l ast night. --it lc , Royal Highness arrived at 24 mi nu t es b e f o re 10 & e ' er a attended by Lord Robert, Urosvenor, Colonel WyWe' an Mr. Francis Seymour. ; ri es s Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, the r c be Augusta, and the Duchess of Cambridge. Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester 1 -1 " 8 f,',„ of Prince George of Cambridge dined with the Duke Sussex last evening at Kensington Palace. Her Majesty inspected yesterday, and was pleased to 0 press her approval of a lithographic Print, by Mr. Lane' r „ r re . a miniature in her Majesty's collection, by Mr. ROSS' re a n d senting their Highnesses the Princes Ernest h ., Edward of Leiningen, submitted by Mr. Martin Cel nag in i . Sir M. Wood and the City Remembrancer had 8n t he terviow with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday s' t Home-office. of The Commander of the Forces, the Master-Gene,' (0, the Ordnance, and the Military Secretary to tbe l' jo j h o visited t mander of the Forces, had an interview with Le rd Russell yesterda at the Colonial-office. roue, A Deputation y respecting th sale of liqueurs anL' consisting of Mr. Barnes, Chairman, Messrs. Ar"icitb Currie, Ruck, Taber, and Trowcr, had an interview ifi g. the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, in D °v/P street Sir . irate De Lacy Evans and a Deputation had an inttiorae with the Marquis of Normanby, yesterday, a t the '- office. ' -9 coan t Sir Alexander Johnstone had an interview with Melbourne, yesterday, in Downing -street. Captain Strong had an interview yesterday w• -11 ; t Lor d John Russell. ej tl lB° Mr. A'Court, Mr. Flemmi ng , an d t h e Eal l o f had interviews yesterday with the Marquis of NormaBbr t ASITION ABLE INTELLIGENCS' ARRIVALS. s e The Duke and Duchess of Buckingham; the CoonttbCe of Darlington ; L or d Middl e t on ; t h e Earl of Rosie; f .. Hon. Captain and Mrs. Stanley ; Lo r d a nd Lad!' Dac ite the Earl of Kingston : Colonel Verner, iVf• P ' ; ,ier Duke and Duchess of Marlborough ; the D ° t he Duchess of Bei,ufort ; Mr. and Lady Louisa Fin c qord Earl of Tyrconnel ; Colonel and Mrs. Montague& 5 40. Powerscourt ; Mr. Fort, M P., at Fenton's Hotel; litt• Irving and Walton Roberts, at ditto; Lord A. Esq .,l clar..nce, at ditto, from Badminton ; E. B. Farnhanit to p M. P., at Lon.4's Hotel, Clifford-street ; Mr. Ma c4r , g . al; ,i at ditto; Lieutenant-General Sir Loftus and Lady Sir Colonel Douglas 'Mercer ; Lord Clarence Pflg r e h ",,' 1 51 Archibald and Lady Maclaine; Mr. Harvey. at Howl ; Col. Sir Robert Gardiner; Lady Desa rl l. an d Egerton, at Lord Hill's, in Belgrave.square; Lady Mary Townley. DEPARTURES. Capt. Canning, 30th Light Infantry, for Chester ; -'c o aut ley, Esq., for Northampton, from Jermyn-stree t ; Nesselrode, for Badminton ; R. G. Townley. Es§',: to n for Cambridgeshire ; Mr. E a ton, M. P., and Mrs. 7 iv ' ,„ ffe: l ' Sketchworth Hall, near Cambridge; Lord Browney Hall, Nottingham ; L o rd C ran stown , for Lord Mowbray ; Sir Walter Riddell, Bart., for Ke nt ' Tullamoie, on a continental tour ; Lord and L a "' „ so' t ; ington, for Y a t e s' Cou r t, n ear Mercworth, Ken lyn Shirley, Esq , M. P., for Monaghan ; Lord Cale or Castleborough, near Waterford ; the Hon. an OA; Neville Grenville, for Bath ; Earl Stanhope, I°r tt stO ly Lord and Lady Dungarvon, for ditto; Sir Edward i o telt bull, for Kent ; Mr. Sanford, M. P., from Lengl i s • t to,f °r l for Somerset ; the Hon. Oliphant Murray, from Co lon Leamington Spa ; Colonel A'Court, from ditto; Lindsay, from ditto, for the North; Colonel Vernon, the Albion Hotel. ei siV , Her Majesty has signified her intention f p ubl ic ing Christ's Hospital, on Sunday next, to witness the supping of the children of that Royal Foundation. • v jog Her Majesty, we understand, intends g', o O s series of twelve State balls at the new Pala ce , the fi re " t place immediately after Easter. are" Her Majesty the Queen Dowager 1 '1;01 Covent-garden Theatre with her pr esence on Tues da y - Of to see Mr. Charles Kemble in the character Of 1:)°° The If onder. ft°f MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS Or BERG.—The marriage of the P r i ncess F r ederica "_,TCIiaL• " t b Wirtemberg, daughter of the Ki ng , w ith Count Affr cs ihe Francis de Neipperg, took place at Stuttgardt , Tp r otes,"ihe instant, according to the rites of the Catholic s a " „d • d religions, in presence of the King and Quee n a p r inc e 7 e o Royal Family, the Ministers, and the Court. Thief CO to retain her present title and rank, adding th at de Neipperg., a gr The Earl and Countess of Jersey ha v _ e gi dll e d. dinner party this evening. The Duke and Duel l e ip • eS ingham, Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch,&c- hs", The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, 1 41. t he foe" ' his next Parliamentary dinner on Saturday nex t , 0 hirer residence in Whitehall-gardens. ow ns e u The Marquis and March'oness of g oof ~o 4 accompanied by Lady Charlotte Hill, returned t ° c e lone h gar Castle in the course of the week from a visit 0 ; . a nd Mr. Close at Drumbangher Castle. The Marques be, chioness do not come to town until after Easter. S O; It is circulated in the fashionable eirc le l e fill e .,o • visit of Baron Rothschild is not connected w ith pee arrangements of his wealthy house, but has re' i e : — . ° lll o a - re' matters, the marriage of M. Rothschild with I‘l 4 - we re sh o THE EARL OF DERBY.—ACCO Un rh rel o4 ceived yesterday morning from Knowsley, 'c hic- Noble Earl to be going on very favourably. I,oos Lord Stuart de Decies is expect ed at st Hotel, Clifford-street, to-morrow, from Muniel'•,, a rt e' The Duke and Duchess of Beaufcriborthe Badminton is to break uon Saturday nea t ' t w o to V a ' reditary Prince of Saxe Coburg -Gotha returns „oteooo, Lord Stanley, M.P., arrived in 0 o itl morning, at six o'clock, by the railroad, from" Loril abi cning . Lord Skelmersdale's seat, in Lancashire. Lilac trace°,,, a vis;t to Sir Robert Peel in the c ourse e e n ' at e e ': Lady Stanley remains at Latham in a tt ,, t to st a ,, he mother, Lady Skelmersdale, who, we rig left for very seriously indisposed when Lord Stanley las t tropolis. • telois ° Viscount Villiers, M.P., arrived „ he & ' m Sate ul di e ev n ezi o n r g d , s f t r a o o m le) N ., l s el m to o n ti ll o l o rbray, to be present ornb Cunt Othon de Lust and —• „ fac iuri a t Hotels o Li y v e o s r t p e o r o d l a t y h f e o y r j a m t tour in the 1 . 0 disv • f r Mr. Leader has bee ra m obliged, through en te tion, to leave town for a few weeks- it s be r 3., ' Major-Gent al Etphinsto_ne , pointed second in command in the Benga l , At• •-,,, 5 ar.- Tlic Earl of Minto and the Boara ;O the d°e' jro have ordered the establishment the sh i P 9 tee P *l(/' at Chatham to be increased considerably - , -- an d 16 , a 400 to 500, and other trades iu proportion o , a ir Itose also to be hired during the summer months , t o l e r es tabn h ' ifi i, ings, &c., in the yard, so that the men °°_, .. e „ e ir of!. of workmen .n. va igt' B re may be wholly employed in the building anu nio ti c i oe cra to DEATH OF SIR JOHN PHIL' , an t 0 lo t at O' al This venerable Knight died on Saturdaand to de k i e vi e age. He was Companion of the Bath. al Navy ..0, io the Queen, and was a Captain in the Ro n ) c, 1 ,0 1 made Captain in 1807, or was one of the tm Majesty's service. -al