The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-07 00:00:00

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

BRUSSELS MARCFI 4. —Count Amadec Vilain XVIII.,
Jttached to the Belgian Legation at Vienna, has arrived at
Brussels.

An order from the Minister of War authorises the
Colonel of the 15th R-.?giment of the Reserve, in garrison
in this city, to send to their homes twenty men from every
Company. It is believed that this measure extends to all
ether Regiments of the Reserve.
CHAMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES, MARCH 4. —The Sit-
t irg opened at half-past twelve. Tkere were but few per-
S:MS in the gallery. The Deputies appeared, for the most
part, disposed to treat in its whole extent the question
submitted to them. M. Duquesne spoke in favour of the
Treaty, M. Sehyven protested against the acceptance of it.
M. Nothomb- read a long remarkable speech, which is
listened to (fir he is still speaking) with the most profound
uttention. This speech, the concise and admirable reason-
ieg of which forbids any site rapt to give a summary or
analysis of :, is a kind of Cabinet declaration, and at the
same time an historical account of every thing relative to
the svF.t_etr cohthile,-,nd in all points of view.
`' -*Ts' observed how careluffy- he Deputies of the Opposi-
tion take notes, to refute tha assertions a the MinistPr.
The zppearanee of the Chamber is remarkable for its tran-
r?niility ; it might be called finite passive compared with
the preceding Sittings. However, as far as we cart judge
front certain indications, it appears to us that the Ministry
will b,,,, surportod by a great majority.
A CSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, FEE. '-'3
rive per Cents. Metalliques
Fotarl:te Cents. ... 1(.0.54
Threc par Cents.
Bank shares ... 1455
.....fillelnfineZeitung. March 2
DUTCH FUNDS.—AmsTAnAm, Marten 4
Mrnes. BAN.
Actual P:1-t, 214 per r.nt
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Ati:ert tivadie, 4% per cent "4% s 5
Ditto, ditto, 3';.', per cent 79% 79.54
Cornlnercial Company, 4,:, per cent 175,4 176
Ditto (1532 and Iti33) 5 per Cent.
Ditto 1437, 5 par cent.
Loan 1857, 5 ler cent.. 97% us
Exchange on London, One month ll 97%
Two months . .. 11 90
BELGIAN .1 UNDS—BaussEta, Marten 5
\ll
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cont. 9 04
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent S9'4
3 per Cent......... 694
hat of City, 1832, 4 per Cent Bl
Society of Commerce, 4 ...", per Cent
Tank oi 119
Belgium 5 per Cent.......................... 7
National Society ' "
T?russels Papers, March 5.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.--SERLIN, Fec. 2S.
V,......5chri,_,,Ech., 4 per cent. Bills. Mon .y.
10-,N tk7i,
~:manaecolleLn Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. 102 101%
) —Prussian State 6na.xtehttrece Fey,i
7.8 6 '2614
.....I

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 7,
Will be produced a New Play, in Five Acts, called
RICHELIEU, OR THE CONSPIRACY,
Written by Sir E. Lytton Bulwer, Bart.
The Characters by
Mr. Elton, Mr. Diddear, Mr. Macready, Mr. Warde, Mr. An-
derson, Mr. 'Vining, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Phelps, Mr. G. Ben-
nett, Mr. Howe Miss E. Phillips, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Yar-
nold, Mr. W. H. Payne, Mr. C. J. Smith, Mr. Bender,
Mr. Paulo, Mr. Gough, Mr. Thorne, Mr. Brady, Mr. Bur-
det, Mr. Smith, Mr. Kirke, Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. Wal-
dron, Mr. Ayliffe, Mr. Andrews, Mr. T. Matthews, Miss
Helen Faucit, Miss Charles, Mesdames Reed, Corder, Lee,
Valanduke, Mathews, Mew, and Morgan.
After which,
THE INVINCIBLES.
To-Morrow there will be no performance.

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LONDON:
THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1939

The labour of the Lords, like diamonds, is of great
price, and they give us very little of it. They did not
meet yesterday. About 200 hours of their inestimable
time in the year, or about 24 working days, suffices with
their extraordinary legislative skill to keep the country
in order. The Commons must labour at least four times
as much. They met yesterday at the usual hour, and
after receivinr, a number of petitions proceeded to put
questions and give answers.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER having been
asked, announced that Ministers proposed to leave the
salaries of the Lord President and Lord Justice
Clerk as at present, and raise the salaries of the
other Scotch Judges to 3,0001. a-year. Sir
GEORGE CLERK was for giving the Chiefs
5,000/. a year. We have before protested, and we again
protest, against this Scotch principle of considering no-
thing but money. The just complaint of the moralist
is that our people think only of wealth, and their vice
is eornecrated and hallowed by the Legislature.
In rt ply to Mr. WILSON PATTEN, Mr. M. PHIL-
LIPS so-lit he was undetermined whether and when he
should move for the abolition of the duty on raw cotton.
Lord MORPETIL, without consulting Lord JOHN
RUSSELL, could not inform Sir ROBERT PEEL whether
the Report of the Irish Railways Committee would be
brought- up on Friday ; but Lord JOHN afterwards
stated that it would not be brought up on that day.
Mr. ROBERT GORDON informed the Right Hon.
Baronet that the papers relative to the north-west
frontier of India will be laid on the table on Friday.
Mr. T. DUXCOMBE charged the Ministers with hav-
ing used extraordinary measures to defeat the resolu-
tions of the House relative to the Theatres, the Lord
CHAMBERLAIN having interdicted Mr. BUNN's per-
formance last night. Lord JOHN RESSELL denied the
charge and consented to produce the correspondence on
th a subject.
Mr. BA RNEBY moved the Committee on the Highways
Bill—Sir G. STRICKAND opposed it, and the House de-
cided by 196 to 23 for the Committee. Several of the
clauses were got through after two more divisions.
In a Committee of Supply Sir GEORGE CLERK made
a long speech in reply to Mr. WOOD, which we shall
to-morrow subject to examination. He was followed
by Admiral ADAM, who defended the Admiralty. Sir
JAMES GRAHAM defended himself. A discussion of
considerable interest was the result.
A Committee on the motion of Mr. ROBERT STEU-
ALT, was appointed to inquire into the Caledonian
Canal.
At One the House adjourned.

However loudly the Lords of the Admiralty may
complain of the unwarrantable attacks made upon
the administration of the Navy, by Journalists and
Flag Officers, it is evident from the complexion of
the debate on the Navy, in the House of Commons
last night, that these attacks will never be repeated
airLi i with equal justice. They have alreadypaved the
way for reforms which the leaders of every party ap-
pear most eager to see introduced. Of one thing the
country may be certain, and that is, that whatever
changes may take place in the Cabinet, our shores
will never again be left exposed to the chances of
an invasion by a Russian squadron. We shall
not stand indebted for our lives and liberties to the
merciful forbearance of the Czar of Muscovy.
This is one of the effects of the outcry raised about
the inefficiency of our Navy, which has so stirred
the gall of Sir JOHN BARROW and his masters of
the Board. The debate last night was tem-
perate, and is altogether calculated to make
a salutary impression on the public mind
throughout the country. The speech of Sir
GEORGE CLERK, though a failure as regarded the
justification of the conduct of Tory Boards, bore
out the statement of Captain NAPIER as to the
defenceless state of our own coasts. We have no
space to-day to enter at length into the details of
the debate, but we shall endeavour to do justice to
it to-morrow. It is far too important to be passed
over without an endeavour to bring its bearings
before the country.

It appears, from a statement made by the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER last night,
that the plan originally proposed for increasing the
salaries of the Scottish Judges has been somewhat
modified. Instead of augmenting the salaries of all
these learned persons, the Government intends that
the increase shall be confined to those of the Judges
whose salary does not exceed 2,0001. The
others, namely, the LORD PRESIDENT and the
LORD JUSTICE CLERK, who, We believe, have
each 4,5001., are to remain in statu quo.
This, we think, is a judicious compromise on
the part of Ministers. These are not times for
an extravagant expenditure of the public money
on functionaries already sufficiently remunerated ;
which we contend the two Judges above-men-
tioned are. With regard to the others, the case
is different. We do not think that they are
overpaid if they receive three thousand pounds
Per annum for their judicial labours, which have
been much under-rated. It has been attempted to be
shown, from certain returns laid before the House
of Commons, some time ago, that the Scottish
Judges are employed only about two hours every
day on an average. This may be true enough if
the calculation be limited to the time they actually
sit on the bench. But that would be a very un-
fair mode of estimating their labours ; for
as the business of the Court of Session
is carried on by means of printed as well as
oral statements, the time of the Judges is necessa-
rily occupied out of Court by the perusal and con-
sideration 'of documents which are often very vo-
luminous. It will be seen that Sir GEORGE
CLERK, that great patron of jobs, was much dis-
satisfied with that part of the arrangement which
prevents a needless outlay of public money on the
superior .Ariclges.

The manufacturer and merchants of Glasgow
are resolved not to give up the idea of obtaining the
repeal of the Corn-laws. They held a meeting
on Monday, at which one pact of the resolutions
adopted runs thus :
" That, undeterred by the difficuties which have been
thus interposed, this meeting pledges itself to proceed with
unibated zeal and vigour in its efforts to accomplish, at the
earliest period, the total repeal of the Corn-laws, as the
only means of maintaining and promoting the commercial
pre-eminence of this country.
This is as it should be ; and a similar resolution
will no doubt be adopted in all the manufacturing
towns. Nine gentlemen were deputed to attend the
meetino. at Manchester, which is to take place this
day, and at which no doubt wise and energetic reso-
lutions will be adopted. For this country, the great-
ness of which depends on commerce, the prosperity
of which springs from its hitherto unrivalled
skill in manufactures,- which derives even its means
of sustaining twenty-four millions of people from
its trade and manufactures—freedom of industry and
free access to all markets are indispensible. They
are like the air to animal life. If trade have not

freedom it chokes and dies.

The manufacturer

must, therefore, for the sake of the poor enthralled
agriculturists, and the besotted landlords, as well as
for their own sakes, continue to labour persever-
ingly and incessantly to procure the repeal of the
Corn-laws. To what a state of degradation a
mere agricultural population, such as the Herald,
Post, and the landlords desiderate, will fall, may
be known by the present condition of Ireland and
Poland. In both those countries, especially the
former, which is the beau ideal of a country unconta-
minated by the vices of the factory system and by a
dense town population, the people live in all the
sweet innocency of rural life ; there are few or
no merchants, or manufacturers, no great mo-
nied capitalists, nothing but the virtuous owners
of the soil, their kind tenants, and their moral
peasantry, with two sets of clergymen sprinkled
amongst them, and certainly a nation more de-
graded in the scale of civilization, more impo-
verished, unskilful, and miserable, is not to be
found in Europe. Three centuries ago, Eng-
land was not much better, and all tire arts that
have since adorned her, all the sciences, and ail the
literature which have made her eminent amongst
nations, all her wondrous mechanical skill, which
has so multiplied the conveniences and enjoy-
ments of life, even the life of the a„,,,ri-
culturists, have all sprung up among her
new and her town population, the growth
,of which the Corn-law advocates seek anxi-
ously to restrict and suppress. Their princi-
ples, properly followed out, would reduce England
to the condition of Ireland, and fill it only with
the same sort of clearing landlords and insurrectionary
peasantry as exist in Tipperary. To enable England
to continue her progress and prevent her from be-
coming filled like Ireland, with a mere agricultural
population, the manufacturers must continue to de-
mand the unrestricted growth. of their skill and their
own people.
The Glasgow Meeting, of which an acceount ap-
pears elsewhere, does not, happily, stand alone. A
meeting took place on Monday at Manchester which
the Chartists were unable to disturb, and which
passed resolutions worthy of the cause. Already,
according to the sixth Report of the Petition Com-
mittee of the House of Commons the number of
signatures to petitions for the abolition of Corn-laws
amounts to 385,436, while the opponents' petitions,
notwithstanding the exertions of the landowners, of
agricultural societies, and parsons, is only 121,963.
Fortified by such support, and by the proceed-
ings of such towns as Manchester, Glasgow, and
many others, Mr. VILLIERS will bring forward his
motion on the 12th with a considerableAanceof suc-
cess. We do not see how the Ministers, who, as one of
the Glasgow resolutions say, professedly act on
Liberal principles, and trust for their support to
public opinion, can refuse to support his motion.
At least, as we have said before, we cannot com-
prehend how Mr. P. THOMSON, Who regards this
as a vital question, can lend his support to a Ca-
binet which opposes him on this point. A free
trade in corn is the basis of his policy, and if it be
not the policy of the Cabinet, he cannot with con-
sistency remain in it. He is the Minister of
Trade, and he will be disgraced if he remain res-
ponsible for the trade policy of the Cabinet,
and it be different from his. Looking
then at the influence which the towns can exercise
over the Ministry, if they follow up their late and
present demonstrations, by an intimation that sup-
port must be mutual—that no one of their repre-
sentatives shall vote for a Ministry which supports
the Corn-laws, we are inclined, to hope for a
large minority on IVINVILLIEns' motion. And let
us once more remind the Ministers and the Legis-
lature, and the county gentlemen, of the awful re-
sponsibility they incur, and the danger they run by
upholding the Devil's laws. They are weakening
everywher e the attachment of the people to the
Constitution, till, if justice be denied them,
the cry that went up at the Glasgow meeting,
" Down with both Houses of Parliament," will
be universal in the land. Late changes in the
constitution of the country have destroyed all the
hold which prescription had on the mind ; the con-
tinual condemnation by the Press of almost every
part of our institutions has weakened the public
respect for them as a whole, and there is no longer
the least chance of the Legislature preserving its
authority, or of the law being much longer obeyed,
unless justice, not extortion, be embraced and held
fast by Parliament.

The Corn-law Delegates inform us last night
--that a German agent is gathering numerous orders
in our country for German and Belgian woollens.
They also state that the farmers in Northumberland
are beginning to demand a repeal of the Corn-
laws. Both these are important facts. The agri-
culturists are the greatest employers of labourers
in the kingdom, and the greatest sufferers by the
high price of food. Of them there is one parti-
cular class whose interest we must protect. The
market-gardeners and the fruit-growers of Kent are
exposed to a very severe competition since the duties
on foreign fruits were lowered. They are still ex-
posed, however, to pay high prices for their food. It
will not be practicable, we apprehend, to re-enact
the restrictions on the importation of foreign fruits.
Raisins and currants can scarcely be re-taxed, and
in behalf, therefore, of the fruit-growers of the
country, we demand the repeal of the taxes on their
bread.

A letter from Mansfield, headed " Movements of
the Police," inserted in another place, excites some
painful apprehensions. The Duke of NEWCASTLE,
it appears, lives in a fortified and garrisoned palace,
and yet he cannot sleep in peace. Are other
Dukes equally apprehensive ? Are some counties
of England already approaching the condition of
Tipperary ? Who can doubt or deny it, recollect-
ing the scenes of 1830, and recollecting the re-
ports we continually insert from the agricultural
districts ? For upwards of a century, we believe,
no nobleman, and scarcely a gentleman has perished
by violence in England. Numerous as were
formerly, that is, down to the Revolution, the
executions of the upper classes on the scaffold,
within nearly a century not one has so been put to
death. It is almost a hundred years since the au-
thors of the rebellion in 1745 expiated their failure
by their death. Such an unexampled exemption from
violence, both legal and personal, seems to have ex-
cited in noblemen and gentlemen too great a
confidence in their continued safety. The Duke of
NEWCASTLE being more sensitive than the gener-
ality of his fiicnds begins to feel alarmed, and he
will provoke danger by displaying precautions. Ano-
ther Duke in the House of Peers the night before
last referred to the people arming: does he too begin
to feel alarmed ? What is the meaning of these
questions, and these preparations ? The Chartists,
too, at their meetings talk of arming. One of the
persons at Manchester brandished a dagger at the
late public meeting. According to what trans-
pired at the meeting of the National Convention
yesterday, some of the people are arming privately,
as the Duke of NEWCASTLE and some others are
publicly. W hat, we ask with our Correspondent,
do these things mean ?

The Journal des Debuts, in announcing the
hearty welcome which awaited the Prince DE
JOINVILLE on his return to France, after his late
chivalrous expedition against Mexico, is pleased to
give the world a new version of the circumstances
attending the insult offered by his Royal Highness
to the British flag. As these circumstances are not
of an extenuatory tendency, and but little calcu-
lated, whether true or false, to mollify the irrita-

tion upon the subject felt in this country, wn should
confine ourselves simpl) to their •4„( I:
not for some remarks which our Gallic Contem-
porary makes upon the motives by which Parlia-
ment was. actuated in pressing the Admiralty for
explanations upon the subject. The following is
the L)ebats version of the story, which, it will be
remarked, throws the whole weight of the respon-
sibility on the French Admiral who commanded
the seizure of the pilots. The distinction attempted
to be drawn between English merchant vessels and
ships of the line is clearly inadmissible :
" When the French frigates were laid in front of St.
Juan d' Ulloa, all the merchantmen in the harbour of Vera
Cruz were compelled to sail away. The Prince tie Join-
vine received orders to take their pilots for the service of
the squadron. This was a delicate, difficult task. 'The
Prince, however, executed it. He launched all his boats,
and, in a short time, seized nine pilots, and had them on
board his ship. What the Prince did was within the laws
of war. It should not be forgotten that a part of our
squadron was at th;s time engaged in effecting a difficult
and bold operation, in bringing to upon spring cables,
within gun-shot of the Mexican fortress; and the Prince
was forced to act with the utmost energy and promptitude.
In his eagerness it seems that he mistook for a merchant-
man an English packet, which neither belonged to the navy
nor to the merchant-service, and which, according to all ap-
pearance,was merely a carrier of letters. '1 his is the height of

his offence. We should have been glad to tell those Members
of the British Parliament, who spoke with so much acri-
mony and rage about the pretended inadvertence of the
Prince de Joinville, that they only sought an opportunity
for attaching France, decrying her Navy, of holding ttp to
the mistrust of the world her _Revolution and her King—in
a word of giving a check to the Ministries of Lord Mel-
bourne and Count Mole. But the English Government,
through Lord Minto, has in this affair given to France toJ
many pledges of its good intentions, loyalty, and courtesy,
for us to resent those violent tirades to which every man of
good sense has already done justice. As to cur adversaries
in France, we have a repugnance to defend against their
attacks one of the sons of our King, an ,fficer of our
Navy, a young Prince who has conducted himself with
honour, who has fought with courage, and who, throughout
the Mexican Expedition never solicited but one privilege,
that of being in the fr:.nt rank to meet the fire of the

enemy."
We have marked the words in italics which we
olject to as conveying au impression as erroneous
as it possible to conceive. Neither jealousy of the
greatness of the French Navy, dislike of the
King, nor hatred of the Revolution of July had one
iota to do with the excitement occasioned in Eng-
land by a report that an insult bad been wan-
only offered to a flag the honour of which is in-
rerwovcn with the independence of England.
Neither in Parliament nor out of it, did the idea of
France in any shape, but as the insulter of our flag,
present itself to the minds of Englishmen. We were
roused by the sense of .supposed injury—of injury
the most heinous that could be offered us; not sti-
mulated by envy or jealousy of the Power by whom
we fancied ourselves injured. As previous habits
of intimacy aggravate the guilt of seduction, so in
like manner the zeal with which we supported the
Revolution of July ; the cordiality with which we
hailed the accession of the King ; the sympathy
which we manifested on the triumph of the French
arms in Africa, though in violation of a treaty with
England ; the readiness with which our Govern-
ment, to the great satisfaction of all parties here,
acted as a mediator between France and the
United States--are all so many aggravations of any
insult offered to our flag, having the semblance of a
premeditated act. We have no doubt that the affair
will be satisfactorily cleared up ; and we shall re-
joice as sincerely as the Debuts when it is settled ;
but while the shadow of a doubt exists about it we
cannot regard it in the light of an accident, about
which it would be a waste of time to institute a
regular inquiry.

We last night received Dutch Papers to the sth.
The section of the second Chamber of the States
General met on the Ist., but their recorded doings
are of no importance. The Avondbode has a letter
from Brussels of the Ist., announcing the reduction
of the Belgian army to the extent of 15,000 or 18,000
men. On the 4th the Minister of Foreign Affairs
communicated to the Chamber the notes and treaties
relating to the affairs of Belgium, already pubished,
and accompanied the communication by a flourish-
ing eulogium on the publicity now required in the
affairs of nations, particularly their negotiations.
The Chambers adjourned to the 7th.

The Paris Journals of Tuesday have all been
received. By four o'clock in the afternoon the tele-
graph had made known to the Government the re-
turn of 442 Deputies, of which number 219 be-
longed to the opposition—thus giving Ministers
only a doubtful majority of four. Very few new
candidates have been returned ; so that on the
meeting of the Chambers, it will look rather like
assembling after a prorogation than a dissolution.
The Ministers will certainly be defeated, though
the Journal des Deba!s affects to regard
their triumph as no longer doubtful. Still they
will be at the head of a strong opposition,
and supported by the sympathies of the Court,
they will be able to modify every measure which
their successors may bring forward. The fol-
lowing article which we copy from the Debats,
shows the impression which the recent Carlist
butchery at Estella has made upon the French
Government :

The news from the Carlist head-quarters, brings the
denouement of the bloody drama of Estella. Don Carlos
approves the executions of Maroto: he revokes the pro-
clamation in which he proscribed that general ; orders it
to be burned publicly, wherever it has been published ; and
substitutes for it the expression of his royal satisfaction at
the conduct of Maroto. This croclamation is an incredi-
ble monument of cowardice. Several generals and chiefs
who bad bravely served Don Carlos, were shot withotit
form of trial by Maroto. The Pretender first utters a cry
of reprobation against the rigorous act which his despot-
ism secretly approved, trembling to see the count.),
rise against the sanguinary deed. But Maroto appears
the master, and full of fearful energy. Straight the
Pretender bows before him, declares that he was right,
changes his Ministry, and issues whatever decrees Maroto
pleases to dictate. Maroto henceforth reigns over the
faction--Carlos is but a well-born piece of baggage.
Maroto had announed to Don Carlos, on quitting him
to go to Estella, that he would deliver him from a factious
opposition, and consolidate his royal power for ever. Since
the blow was struck, Don Carlos feared a reaction, and sa-
crificed Maroto to his fears. He reckoned on at once pro-
fitting by the bloody deed, and at the Name time getting
rid of the executioner. By this means the absolution of
Carlos, and the subaltern tyranny of his nominal court,
would have been founded on a solid basis. But Maroto
sax through and defeated the machiavelian combination.
Forced to make his own position sure, he was obliged to
go further, and punish his master's duplicity by imposing
on him the most humiliating retraction—the dismissal of
his friend and Minister, and the proscription of all his
( 'Maroto's) enemies. The Pretender has paid the just pe.
unity of his 111 pocritical cruelty to his victims, and of his
bad faith to the instrument of his secret wishes.

The Carlist journals raise doubts and give denials—deny
the authenticity of documents—and cannot credit that their
worthy King could be so vile. But is it not notorious that
most of his generals had long since been condemned to
death by the influence of Carlos, the mutiny of the troops
alone preventing the execution ? Have they not remained
confined in the dungeons of Guevara? If the late execu-
tions were not done by order of Carlos, his approbation of
them is the very acme of all that is vile, opproJrious, and
cowardly. What man of honour could ever devote himself
to such a Prince ? The insurrection now seeks out other
interests than Carlos's, and will end, we repeat, by treating
for peace without him.
Colonel Beshowski, whose arrival at Paris we an-
nounced, was attacked on the road to Saragossa by eight
Aragonese horsemen b?.longing to Cabrera, who were car-
rying despatches from that chief to Don Carlos. The two
Christino postilions and the Colonel's baggage were taken.
He himself owed his safety only to the fletness of his
horse, and to his good fortune ;in dismounting, lay a pistol
shot, the Aragonese horseman who was nearest to him.
The Regiment of Polish Lancers which has rendered
such service to Spain has experienced the same fate as the
Foreign Legion ; it is disorganizA and dissolved. The
mounted horsemen have been incorporated with the Guides
of Espartero. The greater part of these breve men are
preparing to return to France, The Commander, Krage-
%iski' has been appointed supernumerary Colonel, and at-
t ached as Aide-de- Camp to Leon el Conde.
A letter from Madrid of the 25th announces that hews
had been received there, that Cabrera, having discovered
at Morella a conspiracy the object of which was to deliver
that place to General Van Halen, had caused 450 persons
to be shot. Among the victims are officers and privates,
and citizens of Morella. This news requires confirmation.
--Le Constitutionnel.

BOURSE.—PARts, TUESDLT, MARCH 5.
I irst Highest Lowest Lest.
Price. Trice. Price. Price.
French 5 per Cents lll 5 ... 111 5 ... 1i 0 b 0... 110 96
4 per Cents lO2 50 ... 102 50 10::.0 ... 102
3 per Cents 79 10 ... 79 10 ... 79 5 ... 79 5
Bank of r ranee
Latlitte 13Jthk 11,00 f. SO lO2O ...'022 5) ...10.0
_ .

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5,0011 :h 5 95 ...5195 ...:,125 ...5195
Belgian 5 per Cents lOl ... 101 % ... 101 ... 10111
3 per c ents . CO 35 ... 69 45 ... 6:1 35 ... ((9 45
Bank
S. a:.ish Ac ive :0,4 ... 21% ... 20% ... 20%
Passive 4% ... 4% ... 4% ... 43,
Neapolitan
Roman
RAILWAY Sl-IAItE-.
St. (;ermai,
Versailles, R. B .. 375 ... 575 ... 572 50 ... 575
L. 8.165 ... liis ... 162 56 ... 105
Orleans .. 435 ...43.E ... 435 ...435
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We recognise in a leader on the affairs of Hano-
over, in the Times of this morning, the hand of one
of Prince ERNEST'S most obsequious adherents;
we recognise him, if by no other sign, by the sove-
reign contempt for truth, which his statements be-
tray. If, with all the aid which the father of lies
can render his followers, this be the best case that
can be made out for Prince ERNEST, then we may
congratulate his ontrad subjects on the prospect
of a speedy attainment of t!eir object. The Times,
or rather Prince ERNEST'S Aide de Plume, says—
" These differences," alluding to the refusal of the
Hanoverians to recognise the abrogated Constitution
of 18alc9t,io‘u,s iweniteraignui,eso
grewf
aouftev,o lawyers, who, inf the discontents
and
Hanover, as nearer home, pursue agitation for
business or pleasure."
Now, till we read this, we did not think it pos-
sible that the Times could lend its columns, for we
acquit it of having composed the article, to the
perpetration of such a barefaced falsehood. The
differences between Prince ERNEST and the
Flenoverians are of vital importance not only to
the latter, but to all Germans, as this miserable
scribbler must know, for he cannot have failed to
read the Protocol of the Diet at Frankfort on this
subject, and instead of being confined to a few fac-
tious and intriguing lawyers, they are widely spread
among all classes ; and the lawyers are only more
conspicuous there, as elsewhere on similar occa-
sions, because- they are the mouthpiece of the great
body of the people, and give words to the public
feeling ; which is unfortunately more necessary there ',

than here, as the people want the more cffectivt
organ of their opinions and complaints—a free
press. Let us look at the ease of the Hanoverians,
The Constitution gtanted by King WILLIAM IV.,
in 1833, had been loudly called for—the people
had felt themselves aggrieved, and demanded
the redress which this new Constitution was
calculated to give it was not thrust upon them,
it was a -boon which they obtained after hav-
ing struggled for it, and they excepted to reap,
as the fruit of their past trouble and agitqtion, a
long series of peaceable and prosperous years in
the enjoyment of this Constitution. Under such
circumstances Prince ERNEST succeeded his bro-
ther, and his first act was to overthrow, as far as
he-had the power, this Constitution, and to do all
that in him lay to refix on the people those shackles
from which they had freed themselves by its means.
This he attempted to do ; and bow when, after
having tried all gentle means to secure their rights,
the people begin to rouse themselves—when
they refuse tamely to submit to the tyranny
of ERNEST, and HERR VON SCIIELE,
who is one of the intriguing lawyers of
the Times—when they call upon those whom the
Constitution of Germany has appointed protectors
of the people against the oppression of their Sove-
reigns—when their representatives refuse to meet,
and thus to sanction Prince ERNEST'S inroads
upon his people's rights, now forsooth the Times,
or rather Prince ERNEST'S scribe, says that " a
few lawyers pursue agitation for business or plea-
sure, and create by factious discontent and in-
trigues the dfferences' between King ER-
.NEST and his people, of which, in the next
sentence, he denies the existence I We are
aware that many of the representatives of
the Hanoverians in the Lower Chamber, regretted
having met at all in the beginning of the last ses-
sion, a step which would not have been taken, had
they had more time for deliberation. As it was,
they met under a formal protest, and confined their
labours to the indispensible business of the country.
We might say much more on the subject, but we
must conclude by expressing our satisfac-
tion at seeing the anger and abuse of 'Prince
ERNEST'S man, which is a sure indication
of his master's alarm. He calls the Deputies who
refuse to minister to the ruin of their country,
traitors ; but Prince ERNEST will find, whenever
he makes an appeal to. the Hanoverian's, that
the approbation of the constituencies of Messrs.
CHRIsTIANI, DEBMOLD, and the others, will
stamp their conduct as fearless and high-minded
patriotism.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Li V KRFCOL COTTON MARKET, NV EDNESDAY, —WC have
had a most extensive speculation. The demand for cotton
to-day reached not less than 30,000 bags, 20,000 of which
have been taken on speculation, and very full prices have
been obtained. By accounts from Manchester this morn-
iag, it appears that the improved demand which has recently
manifested itself on the Liverpool Cotton Market has caused
a decided increase of demand at Manchester, both for
goods and yarn; and a very considerable business was
cone in the course of yesterday, at advanced prices on
almost every article in the market ; notwithstanding the
improvement, the spinners and manufacturers are placed by
the advance of cottons in about the same position as that
in which they stood last week; the business of both is
still unremunerating, and without a further improvement
in goods and yarn ; there will be no temptation to recom-
mence working full time.
Accounts from Amsterdam, this morning, state that the
subscriptions to the New Loan of 14 millions Florins Eve
per cent Stock, have considerably exceeded that sum.
We have received the Journal of Antwerp, of yester-
day's date. It states that an action has been brought
against the Directors of the Belgian Bank for nineteen
millions of francs, for mismanagement, and as having ex-
ceeded their powers.
The great sale of Cotton yesterday at Liverpool, of
thirty thousand bags, twenty thousand of which were
taken on speculation, has caused some excitement
and observation among the merchants in the City
trading with the United States. There is no doubt
that the crop of cotton has fallen short in America
this season, and it is expected that on learnir'i the loss of
their three packet ships, which had on board about 1,000
tons of • dry goods, that the Great Western steamer, which
is expected by next week, will bring very extensive orders
to replace the goods which they expected by the three
packets. This is generally supposed to be the cause of the
speculation at Liverpool yesterday.
It also may be added, that the great speculators in
cotton at Liverpool, may have some fear that the Boun-
dary question which is still in dispute, may lead to un-
favourable measures, on the part of the United States.
Consols opened this morning at the leaving off prices
of yesterday, 92i 93 for the Account ; Money, 92:i with
scarce anything doing as yet ; Exchequer Bills, 63 65.;
India Bonds, 64 66 ; Bank Stock, at the opening, 205 k
2061 ; India Stock, 256, 257.
In the Foreign Market there is no alteration in the
price', and they remain at present at the leaving l.ff prices,
with_the exception of Spanish Active, which is rather
better, closed at 194 20, at present 204 ; Portuguese
34i 35; Three per Cents., 21i 22 ; Belgian, 101
Brazilian, 80i ; Scrip premium ; Colombian, 29}
Mexican, 23t 24i; Dutch Two-and-.a-Half per Cents
.5524 ; Five per Cents., 103 k
No arrivals of importarce.
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS
Bank Stock

DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
India Stock

3 per Cent. Red.. . i Ditto Bonds 64 pm
3 per Cent. Conk,.. .. .... . ... .92% ii South Sea Stock —
J!, per CenL —l Old Annuities T"..
Ditto Red. — i New Ditto
New 3 per Cent ..........10o)4% 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751
New 5 per Cent - Exch. Bills, £l,OOO ... 63 f,e pm.
Bask Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 ... 03 63 pin.
Jan. 5, 1560 .. Ditto Small 63 60 pm.
Oct. 10, 1159 — Ditto Commercial — pm.
.17.11. 5, 1860 . — Ditto Advertised
Jan. 5, IMO — Bank Stock for Account ...
April 5, 1880 — India Stock for Account ...
Jan. 5. 1870 — Consols for Account 927i
PftICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK-
Austrian Bonds : Peruvian Bonds —
Belgian Bonds
Ditto Account -1
Portuguese Bonds ...... ......
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Ditto Account —; Ditto Account
Chilian Bonds
I) tto Account
Columbian Bonds 27 Ditto Account —
Ditto Account — Ditto Metallic... —
Columbian Bonds, 1824 — Spanish Bonds
Ditto Account — Ditto Account _
Danish Bonds
Ditto Account — Ditto Account •ofi ko
Greek Bonds — French, 5 per cent. _f

Ditto Bonds, 1825 — i
4 .per cent.
Ditto Account -- 3 per cent.
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. ' ----- Exchange. —f. —a..
Ditto Account — ' Dutch, 2,,,, per cent.
Ditto, 6 per Cent —! Ditto Account 55
Ditto Account
Neapolitan — Ditto Acc0unt......... 100%!4
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. rer Share.
Edinburgh and Glasgow
I;.lghton Railway
U.n :on and Birmingham Railway Company... 90 101 7
HALF.PAST ONE O'CLOCK
In the Antwerp Papers, received this morning, there is
an official communication from the Belgian Minister of
Foreign Affairs, respecting the Anglo-Belgian Bank, to the
following effect:—

" Gentlemen—After a strict examination of the pro.
ject of the Society that you submitted for the approbation of
Government, under the title:Anglo- Belgian Bank, and after
having consulted the Finance Department, as well as
the Chamber of Commerce of Antwerp and Brussels, on
its object, I have the honour to inform you that I cannot
agree to it ; as dprincipal motive, that I cannot consider by
its creation, it is in harmony with the wants and interests
of the country.

" In making to you this communication I must express,
gentiemen, my regret that it did not take place sooner,
and that this affair was kept until the present time in suspense."
Consols may be quoted at present 92; 93 for the Ac-
count ; Money 921 i; Exchequer Bills, 63 65 ; India
Bonds, 64 66; Bank Stock Shut; India also.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active continues at
2(4; Portuguese, 341 35 ; Three per Cents., 214 22 ;
Belgian, 1014 ; Brazilian, 801 ; Colombian, 201;
can, 231 244 ; Dutch Two-and- Half per Cents. 553,1 ;
Five per Cents. 1031
We have no further arrivals, or any reports afloat.
Shares are heavy.

The petition against the return of Mr. I3ruen,
for Carlow, has been forwarded to London for presentation.
General Sir R. L. Dundas has come forward as
the Reform candidata in Richmond. Miles Stapleton,
Esq., has also announced himself as a candidate. Both
are Reformers.
The Countess of Clontnel was safely delivered of
a son and heir, at the seat of her father, Viscount Down►,
Bert House, Ireland, on Saturday last. The Noble mo-
ther and her infant son were going on favourably when the
last accounts left for town.
The Dowager Countess of Montalembert died
on Monday last at rather an advanced age.
The Dowager Countess of Aldborough, who has
been passing the autumnal months in Italy, has arrived in
the French capital.
THE THEATRES AND THE LORD CHAMBER-
LA IN.—lt was expected, after the result of Mr. Duncombe's
motion last week, that the Westminster Theatres would be
allowed to give entertainments on Wednesdays and Fridays
in Lcnt, as well as those situated without the jurisdiction
of the Chamberlain. Indeed Mr. Bunn hsd announced
performances for last night at Drury-lane, but he is
obliged to withdraw them, having beer► unexpectedly in-
terdicted by authority. It is not unlikely that some ex-
planation of the matter will be given in the theatre to-
night, on the occasion of that gentleman's benefit.
THE STUARTs:—On Tuesday week se'nnigltt,
two strangers alighted at the Star Hotel, in company with
Lord Lovat, from the top of the Inverness mail. They
were completely attired in the Highland costume, and
richly accoutred. They were of handsome stature, and
apparently athletic frame, with thick bushy mustachios and
whiskers. Both are scions of the unfortunate royal race
of Stuart—Charles Edward Stuart and Soheiski Stuart
—grandsons of the last Pretender of that line to the crown
of these realms. After dining here they proceeded to
Edinburgh, by the Defiance coach. They seem well
inured to our Scottish climate—for, notwithstanding the
inclemency of the weather, the philablsg and hose were the
only shield from the .‘ Norlan blast." The strangers at-
tracted much attention.—Perth Paper.