The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-22 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Baron Biome, the Danish Minister, has arrived in town
from Brighton. His Excellency visited Viscount Palmerston
yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Earl Fitzwilliam and Lord Milton had an interview with
Viscount Melbourne yesterday, in Downing-street.
The Marquis of Lansdowne entertained Sir Rufane and
Lady Donkin, Col. Colebrook (Governor of Antigua), and a
select party at dinner on Monday evening, at Lansdowne-
house, Berkeley-square.
M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, transacted busi-
ness yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Lord Glenelg visited the Chancellor of the Exchequer
yesterday.

THE FUNDS.-CLOSINU PRICES.

BRITISH
sank Stock 2O7;Y
3 per Cent. Red 5),,34
3 per Cent. Cons 90%
3,4 per Cent. 99;i,
3,4 per Cent. Red..... ..... .
New •.'N per Cent yg
per Cent. Assented

FUNDS.
Omni.im
India Stock ...... ..... ...
Ditto ponds— 29 pm.
Smith Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities i9l:i
Ditto New Annuitie, —
Ex. Bills, 1000/ .V. ... 31 pm
Ditto 500/ ll pm.
Ditto 5011 33 pm.
Bank Stock for Opg.
India Stock for Act.
Consols for Act.
FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent I Portuguese Bonds, S per cent. 01
Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto ,191
ti
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent — , Russian Binds, 5 per cent ..
Chilian, Si per cent ......... ... — 1 Ditto, Metallic .. .....
reilomhian 6 per cent. — i Spanish, 5 per cent..
Ditto, 1t534 .........
D inish, 3 per cent ) French, 5 per cent
Greek Bonds, 1,125, 5 per cent. Exchange ......
Mexican, S per cent. French, 3 per cent —t. —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 ....... Dutch, 2 per cent.
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per cent.... Ditto, 5 per cent. ....... ....... . 11./2;s
SHARES.
I..ondon and Brighton Railway (Candy's! 1;
London and Greenwich Railway'
London, Salisbury, Exeter, and Falmouth
South Eastern and Dover Railway 5%
South Eastern, Brighton, Lewes, and Newhaven
No other variations in the Prices of Shares since our One o elecit
List.

Dissented
Long Annuities to expire
Jri a 1860 ; 5 L.:,
Oct. 1850
Jan. 1860

2 6 N

Lord Ilill, the Commander-in-Chief has arrived at
his new residence in Belgrave-square, late Mr. Kemp's.
The Duke and Duchess of St. Albans will leave
Brighton on the 27th instant, for London. Their graces will
entertain a large party at dinner on the Ist of March.
The appointment of Lady de Lisle and Dudley to
be royal housekeeper of the palace at Kensington, entitles her
ladyship to apartments in that edifice.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—It is rumoured that
the beautiful Lady M--.. N.--- is about to be united to
Captain 11—, of the Guards.
Earl de Grey is making magnificent additions and
improvements to his country scat, Newby Hall, Yorkshire ;
the interior also is being fitted up with great taste and expense.
The Marquis of Waterford has taken Lowesby
House, Leicestershire, the seat of Sir-Frederick G. Fowke,
Bart., for the purpose of enjoying the celebrated hunting in
that county. His Lordship generally has his house filled with
sporting friends, principally his own countrymen.
The Duke of Suaterland's seat, Trentham-hall, in
Straffordshire, is rebuilding on a scale of great magnificence
from the plan of Mr. Charles Barry, architect of the new
!louses of Parliament. The Noble Duke and his family will
chiefly reside at Lilies Hall, until the new mansion is recon-
structed.

Sir Francis Burdett is, recovering from his late at-
tack of the gout. It was the most severe one the worthy
Baronet ever had.
Major-General Lord F. Somerset, K.C.8., as Mili-
tary Secretary to Lord Hill, the Commander of the Forces,
saw officers yesterday at his office in the Horse Guards.
Archbishop Sharpe once replied to a lady who ob-
jected to giving children religious instruction until they had
reached to years of discretion_" Madam, if we do not teach
them the devil will."
Extract of a letter from Malta, dated the 27th
of January, 18:17 :—" Although surrounded with plague and
cholera, the public health here cannot be in a more satisfac-
torystate."

The sums subscribed for the iron railroad between
Venice and Milan are double the amount required, and the
shares, to be delivered at a future time, at seven or eight per
, cent. premium.-- German Paper.
DARING ROBBERY AT SANDWICII.—At Christ-
mas last, Mr. Coleman, of the Fleur-de-Lis here, discharged
a man, named John Sully, who had lived with him as ostler
nearly three years—there was, at the time of his leaving, no
suspicion that he had acted dishonestly, although money and
other articles had been occasionally missed. On Wednesday,
the 15th instant, a commercial traveller arrived at the inn, his
portmanteau, titc,, were deposited in the commercial room. In
the morning, after breakfast, the gentleman had occasion to
open his boxes, when he found that his portmanteau and driv-
ing-box had been broken open, and some wearing apparel and
other articles taken away, A close examination of every per.
son employ:A on the premises was instituted, but still no clue
could be discovered, and it was even supposed that the rob-
bery might have been committed on some previous stage of
the journey. Although every exertion was made, nothing
was elicited till the evening of Friday, when a lad, named
Henry Williams, employed in the stables, heard something
among..the hay in the loft above, to which he ascended, and
supposing it to proceed from some strange cat, went down
again for a lantern ; on his return he saw, to his great surprise,
the man Solly standing before him with a bundle. Ile im-
mediately ran down, and having placed a man to watch the
door, went and informed his master. In the meantime, Solly
escaped at the back of the premises, and proceeded over the
tops of the houses, descending and ascending with the agility
of a monkey, pursued by a great number of persons, and was
at length observed to descend into the yard of D. Hodgson,
Esq., Banker, where, after a diligent search, he was found in
' the dung-heap, completely buried in the dung. On his being
taken to the Fleur-de-Lis, and searched, there was found on
his person three five-pound notes, eighteen pounds eleven
shillings in gold and silver, and seven shillings and eightpence
farthing in copper, also several small articles belonging to the
traveller. The dung-heap was searched next morning, when
a bundle, containing the wearing-apparel, tiLe , were found
near the place he had been concealed in the night before.' He
has since confessed that the money was stolen from Mr.
Coleman. He was yesterday taken before the Magistrates,
and fully committed for trial.
Lord De Roos, a Peer, a kinsman of the only Irish
Duke, has been found guilty of gross and deliberate cheating at
cards. He was a gambler of the meanest, basest sort. Of
such materials are hereditary legislators made, and of such stuff
is rank and title composed. How true is the sentiment of the
immortal Burns—

" A Prince can mak' a belted knight,
A Marquis, Duke, and a' that ;
But an honest man's aboon hi 3 might--
Guid faith, hu raa,unna fa that,"

„, PRIES oF stOCKs 'fits DAY Al 0.. E o'cLock.
illanit Stock.
k rho: U6tit. lie!', (W)Sv a./„.11 litto Yonds 2+3 9.6 '2B pm.
3 per Cent. Cens 40,4 91 if Solid) Sea stock
3.4 •.c• Cent.-- ..... ...... 99,1( 9 ni tild Ann:l:ties
Ditto Red
N2W 3!4 pc; Co t • •061 • 3 pt:r Cbiit. Annuities, 1751 —
1;7e,, l',m 'r Cent...
' -- i Exch. Bills, .£l,tff, 31 23 31 pm.
I!-auk Lolly An i Mit ies to exiiiic Ditto.-- ..... —.500 'II 33 pin.
Jan 5, 1 c.•-• ' •- ”- 1.51.,{3 !Ditto Small ..11 33 pm.
Oct 11:, 1..‘ ti" •. •"I4A I/Itt'p coirunkttial —"' ••:-- w.
.I,li 5; it al) • •" - ' --I. ' Vito AdvettiO • • • —pm
Jah: 5; .FA.-- . = !Link Stock rot Account... ......
Api-11 .5, 1%0 — India Stock for Account ...... ~..
Jan. 5, 1571 — Consols for Account 9oli 90 IA
Omniurn — pm. 1

PRICES OF 101tElON FUNDS
A ikitrian BonclA
lic!;:ian Bonds .

Accoutrt...
Elia titian Bonds

Ditto Arcot nt.
Buenos A y res 'Bonds

Ditto Accot•nt
Bo is

Ditto Acco,nt
Columbian Romig .....

Dit!o Act,ul.,
,'nlLitnliiati Bonds, ,2

Ditto Account
1) Wish 80nd5.... .....

Ditto Account
Greek Bonds..
Ditto Bonds, 1,3 •5
Ditto Acco,rit
Bones, 5 per my. _
Ditto Account
Ditto, 6 per cent . .....
Ditto Account .........
Neapolitan

THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Peruvian Bonds .

I'RIUES OF SHARES THIS

o•eat Western Railway Company
B h ton Railway Company ......
N. ighton (Cuml,,ls)
1.,,ir10n an I Birmingham R dlway Cc
Colonial Bank

i,,,ndon end \Vesttninster Bank..,

COUBSE (;F EXCH
Amsterdam C.F. 12 5
Ditto, at sight

~nttcrdam 2 U. 12 5

,tntwerp...
Hamburg. M.D. 13 12
Altona
(lays' sight 25 55
Ditto ....... .............. Us 25 S 5
Marseiflei.
Frankfort OH Manic, Ex. M 153
Petepthulgh, ruble 'I Us. 11l 0
Berlin
Vienna, effective 11 ...... 2 31 lO 15
10 17
Ntadrid
Cacti. 31%
Kilboa

lian:clona

Seville
(;ibraltar

Ditto Account ..
Portuguese Bonds
Ditto Areptii.t
Ditto New Bonds . ..... 49
Ditto Account 4W.;
Ditto, 3 per cent 917;,
Prussian Bonds
RUS3iail B ode, 1.21
Ditto Account ........... ~,,„
Ditto Metallic
Spanish Bonds
Ditto Account ......

Ditto Bonds, 1834 96
Ditto Account ?t,V(r%N
French, 5 per cent.-- • —t•
4 per cent
1 per cent.
Exchangc ..... .••••• —f
Dutch, l!,, per cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto, 5 per cent.
Ditto Account

DAY AT ON[•: O'CLOCK

Paid.

Per Share

4714 7
6Y,

Ipany 75 114 15 Irl
10 ( 7
pl 1

INGE YESTERDAY.
f.egtiorn 4714
Genoa 5
Ifilav 31
Venice .
40
Palermo... ............her Oz. 1201„
Lisbon .1 5:34(

Oporto 5:56
Rio Janeiro 326
Bahia
Buenos A y res
Dublin, 21 days' sight l6
Cork l6

PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Portugal Gold, Coin £0 0 0
Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9
New Doubloons
New Dollars
Silver, bars, standard 0 5

MAILS.

Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due Arrived. Div
0 America.... ..... . 0 I France ..... ....... 0 0 Lisbon I
0 Prazil ....... ..... 0 4) thicrii. &Jersey 1) 0 Malta
0 1311010 S Ayres.. 0 0 Hamburg ...... .. 0 II Mexico .......
0 Carthai.ena . I) 0 Holland
I Dublin.— ..... 0 0 Jamaica
0 Flanders ......... 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 1 Waterford 0

HUM WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE 10-MORROW.
Nlorning..—.....s4lminutes after 3 Evening...—. 4 minutes after 4.

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The publication of THE st., N R wsPA rER commenced this day
at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, 1837.

In the House of Lords, yesterday, several petitions,
differing in their objects, were presented, on the subject of
Church-rates. Out of one of them, presented by Earl
FrrzwiLLlAns, praying for the abolition, arose an interest-
ing discussion, which we have noticed in a separate article.
The Report of the Irish Grand Juries Bill was brought
up. The Births, &c. Registration Bill was read a third
time, and sent to the Commons. The House then adjourned
In the House of Commons, the new Members, Mr.
IlmtcouitT, for the County of Bucks, and Mr. POWER,
for the Borough of Dungarvan, severally took the oaths
and their scats.

Petitions embracing a variety of subjects were presented.
Two, on the subject of the Deptford and Dover Railway,
presented by Mr. WARBURTON, contained statements af-
fecting more than one Member of the House, who had in
some sort connected themselves with the Joint-stock Com-
pany to which the petitions related.

Petitions for and against Church-rates poured in again
last night abundantly.
Sir R. PEEL presented a singular petition from Dundee.
It related to certain vessels which were confined in the ice
at Davis' Straight ; and the petitioners prayed the House
to take the case into its consideration, and grant a sum of
money sufficient to fit out an expedition to go in search of
the missing ships. They also stated that a communication
had been made to the Treasury and to the Admiralty ; but
they complained that they had not received that encourage-
ment which they considered they had a right to expect.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER having intimated
that certain papers connected with the subject would
prove that the Government ought not to interfere, Sir R.
PEEL withdrew the petition, promising to take an early op-
portunity to move for the production of the papers alluded
to by Mr. S. RICE.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated, in reply
to Mr. GLADSTONE, that lie felt confident he should be
able to bring forward the measure of Church-rates at an
early period on Thursday evening.
Mr. Fox MAULE stated, in answer to Major BRUCE'S
inquiry on the subject of the distress in the Highlands and
Hands of Scotland, that the attention of Government
had been directed to the distress which was said to prevail
in Scotland. An inquiry had been instituted on the sub-
ject, and as soon as the result was known, measures to
to meet the extent of the distress would be adopted.
The adjourned debate on the Irish Municipal Corpora-
.

tions Bill was then resumed by Mr. Sergeant JACKSON.
After Mr. O'BRIEN, Mr. 13oLwER, Mr. G. YOUNG,
Colonel PERCEVAL, Lord Howicx, Mr. Romcic, and
Mr. SIIAW, had severally spoken, the Houso adjourned at
a Quarter past Twelve.

The arguments employed by the party, who deny that
the Irish are competent to manage their own affairs were
last night, it will be seen, as devoid of novelty and as destitute
of interest, as they were found on Monday. An exceedingly
narrow view of the question was taken by Mr. Sergeant JACK-
SON and hisparty, whose arguments turned mainly on isolated
cases of persons who had been tried in Ireland. As was
remarked by an Hon. Member, not one of the advocates
for destroying Municipal institutions, dared to argue the
subject on the question of good government. It will be
seen by our Parliamentary report, that the intrinsic merits
of the question were not approached by the Tory orators,
who throughout evaded the real point at issue.

The discussion on the Irish Municipal Reform Bill was
again adjourned last night. The earlier portion of the de-
bate was intolerably heavy ; and no wonder, for Mr. Ser-
geant JACKSON kept repeating, with little variation, for
nearly three hours, the same trite charges against Govern-
ment, which he had brought forward a few nights previously.
It is clear, from the remarks of the Honourable and Learned
Gentleman, that the Tories cannot at all digest the cle-
mency lately exercised by the Lord Lieutenant, in the
course of one of his progresses through Ireland. Had he
sinned on the side of severity, they could have borne with,
and even eulogised him ; but a sinning on the side of mercy
is what they cannot by any means be brought to en-
nf erey the
en-
dure. It violates the very first article of their creed
—it is abhorrent to all their notions of good Go-
vernment. It is an audacious deporture from
wisdom of their ancestors—an irrevererLt attempt to
dissipate the halo that encircles the head .0f Toryism.
Talk of mercy, indeed ! A Lord-Lieutenant .not only
talk of, but actually exercise, the prerogative of n
Was ever such a thing heard of? Well may Mr. Serfietx.nt
JACKSON take fire at such a flagrant infringement, Q f the
,! .
fundamental principles of Toryism ; well may Colonel int, ,
PERCEVAL wax quite hysterical on the subject i illl is up
possessions u ,

With the ConserVative catise; if btice the Mtatikaiit sys,
teiii is allowed to bb substituted for the PETERLOO system,
of legislation
It is the fashion of the clay to vaunt the it-1.141664y of
the Tories. Now we must honestly acquit them on this
score, at least as fsr as their condemnation of Lord Mur.-
)Irtait'l3 clecrvitpolicy is concerned ; for we firmly believe
that in condemning LIM fkif cletcl,ling fhb prerogative of
mercy, they speak out right from the heart. No mere part j,
feeling prompts them here. " Out of the abundance of
the heart the mouth speaketh ;" and the Tory nature being
essentially tyrannical and cruel, the faction cannot, even if
it would, disguise its natural instinct. Hence the lavish
severity—the unappeasable virulence—of its abuse of Lord
MULGRAVE—abuse which has been repeated every night of
the Session, and was last night urged with more rancour,
if possible, than ever.
Mr. BULWER'S remark that the Tories defended one
crime by another—that is to say, " defended an unequal
Protestant Establishment by depriving the people of Mu-
nicipal Corporations,"—was adroit and pertinent to a high
degree. But indeed his whole speech was full of close,
pithy reasoning, seasoned by piquant sarcasm, and made an
evident impression on the House. What could be better
than his query—" are wo to legislate for a nation, or are
we to legislate against a man ?" The Tories felt the full
I force of this hit, and showed that they felt it, by their fre-
quent attempts at interruption.

Lord HOWICK disposed of the STANLEY sophistries in
very summary style. If, observed his Lordship, it was sup-
posed that the granting Corporation Reform would be in-
jurious to the Protestant Establishment, because all the
members of Town-councils, &c., would make a point of ex-
erting their influence against the interests of that
Establishment, such a supposition was tantamount to
a conviction on the part of those who entertained
it, that the Protestant Church was held in general
detestation throughout Ireland, which of course it would
not be, without some good and sufficing cause.
But the Tories and the Dilly driver hold an opinion
directly the reverse. They consider the Irish Church
every way suited to the wants of the inhabitants ;
and yet at the same time they take for granted that all the
Members of all the Reformed Corporations in Ireland will
make a point of striving their utmost to injure it ! What
absurd inconsistency is here ! We arc almost sur-
prised that Lord Howlck. should have thought it

worth his while to reply to such drivelling sophistry.
It is with great pleasure that we point attention to the
speech of Mr. RoE Buck:. It was bold, lucid, convincing,
especially that portion of it wherein the speaker exposed
the utter fallacy of the Tory hypothesis, that the Protes-
tant religion would die if the Protestant parsons were not
paid. Mr. ROEBUCK also made several happy allusions to
Sir R. PEEL'S political sagacity—allusions with which, the
Right Hon. Baronet will, we suspect, be more edified than
pleased. On the whole, the debate was a heavy one, which
is chiefly to be attributed to the persevering oratorical
efforts of Messrs. SHAW, PIZACEVAL, and JACKSON.

Earl FITZWILLIAM delivered a speech last night in the
House of Lords which is calculated to produce, and which

we are sure will produce a powerful effect throughout the
country. The Noble Earl, in presenting petitions from
Newport and Yarmouth, in the Isle of Wight, praying for
the abolition of Church-rates, took the opportunity thus
afforded him to tell the Right Rev. Bench some home truths,
which may perhaps not be less salutary, although obviously
less pleasing, than the flattering accents which are too often
addressed to Episcopal ears. The Bishops were frankly
told by the Noble Lord, that the hostility of the Dis-
senters to the Established Church was the natural result
of the intolerance exercised towards them by the clergy, and
that as these reverend persons had sowed the wind, they
must be content to reap the whirlwind. "It was impos-

sible," said he, " for the Dissenters not to recollect that
so long as there remained a chance of maintaining those
laws by which the Dissenters were excluded from the full

enjoyment of the civil privileges and rights of their fellow-
countrymen, the hierarchy of the Church of England did not
join with those who sought to relieve the Dissenters from the
stigma under which they so long laboured, and those disabi-
lities under which they could scarely be said to enjoy the rights
of Englishmen. On the contrary, they stood to the very
last in the gap, and endeavoured to prevent the Dissenters
from participating in the enjoyment of those privileges to
which all the rest of their fellow subjects were entitled."
These are memorable words. They aro the words of truth

and soberness. They come not from a rampant enemy of the
Church, hut from one of her most enlightened and devoted
adherents—from one who considers it no part of his duty
to give her that false support which arises from concealing
her faults, and bolstering up her abuses, but who desires,
above all things, to see her established on the strong
foundation of Christian benevolence—of universal charity.
The intolerant spirit of the Church of England has been its
ruin. The fact is, it never was properly reformed. It
threw off a few of the doctrines, but it retained the prin-
ciples of the Church of Rome. Above all, it clung to
that principle which is the key-stone of the arch—the
principle of infallibility. Where such a principle is backed
by the power of the State, it is impossible that it should
not be the prolific source of persecution. The persecuting
principle may indeed be held in check by the growing in-
telligence of the people—it may be overawed by public
opinion so as to prevent those outbreaks which its natural
working would produce ; but where it can, whore it dare
show itself, it will. Do we not find that it has been so in
fact ? Look to history, and it tells you that from the
Restoration down to the present day, the spirit of clerical
intolerance has been constantly at work, only with more
or less energy according to the political aspect of the
times. From 1662, when the Church of England expelled
froM her bosom upwards of two thousand of her ablest
and most pious ministers, because they would not violate
their consciences by conforming to what they considered
unscriptural practices, down to the present moment, when
relief from the grievance of Church-rates is opposed by
the Established Clergy, the most careless inquirer can
not fail to recognise in the conduct of Churchmen towards
Dissenters a uniform and undeviating career of intolerance,
that intolerance, too, always carried to the utmost point
that the circumstances of the times would allow.

The Archbishop of CANTERBURY attempted to vindi-
cate the Clergy from the charge, but the Bishop of
LONDON, with an honesty and a regard to truth
which sv• were not prepared to expect from
that quarter, confessed that it was so. The Clergy
he said had been intolerant, and continued so longer than
the Protestant clergy of other countries, but they were im-
proving. This is some consolation.

The state of affairs in Lower Canada is deplorable. No
?concessions short of fundamental changes in the constitu-
tion of the Colonial Government will now satisfy the House
of Assembly. By command of his MAJESTY, copies of the
despatches which passed between the Colonial Secretary,
Lord GLENELG, and his Excellency, the Governor-in-Chief
of Lower Canada, Lord GOSPORD, from the 12th of No-
vember, 1835, to the 20th of November, 1836, have been
submitted to Parliament ; and we need no other evidence to
convince us that the question at issue in the Canadas will
not be setAat rest by any measure yet seriously contemplated
by the Constitutional advisers of the Crown. We rather
fear that there are some members of his Majesty's Govern-
ment who lack the courage to cope manfully with real dif-
ficulties, and that on the part of the Cabinet generally there
is a strong leaning towards a perpetual recurrence to tempo-
rary expedients. This is a most mistaken policy. The
reforms which would entirely eradicate the abuses com-
plained of this year, must be quadrupled to prove effectual,
if these abuses be allowed to exist undisturbed till the next.
Wherever recourse is had to temporary shifts and expedients
to satisfy the just demands of a suffering people, the most
humble solicitations will be succeeded by remonstrances,
and remonstrances by menaces. Governments should re-
member that it must ever be a sybilline bargain between
them and the people. Popular demands increase, in propor-
tion as the amount of service and gratitude which they offer
in requital decreases. Had the measures which we know
to be now contemplated by the British Cabinet for the tran-
quillization of the Canadas been adopted in 1824, they would
have permanent!) secured the peace and happiness of the
Colonists ; but the delay in their application renders them
entirely nugatory. Even so late as 1832 it was in the power
of Lord STANLEY and his colleagues, to have taken decisive
steps for restoring harmony between the local Governments
of the Canadas and the Mother Country, without having
recourse to the extreme measures which are now become
"-nensable to our further retention of our only valuable
North America. But it will serve no good

nstant.

purpose to dwell now upon the errors of former Govern-
Merits, The present Ministers must make the best they
tan of existing circumstances, The Canadians demand a
LeFislative Council, in the appointment of which the prin.
tilde of free election shall be exercised. Well, what is
there that ought to dfitight rid honest Administration in
this? No man in his senses would cddipare the Legisla-
tive Council of Lower Canada to the British flolti4t of
tieeti=---1104 as that House is ; and the demand which
seeks only td vtitify and controul the acts of such
a body, is equally just and Constitutional, The Bri-
tish Constitution admits the existence' of a House of
Lords, but it recognizes no mock shadows of that
Assembly. Now, it is notorious that the Legislative
Assembly of Lower Canada, even since that colony was
ceded to England, has been, and continues to be, composed
of place-men and pensioners, and every individual of any
rank remarkable for subserviency to the dictates of the
Crown. It is, therefore, impossible that the honest re-
presentatives of the people should everlastingly suffer
themselves to be bearded by the mere tools of a Governor-
, in-Chicf. Most of the other demands made by_ the
Canadians are not less reasonable, and ought forthwith to
be granted with a good grace. Concession—full and entire
concession—is the only effectual remedy for the discontent
that prevails in the Canadas, and we do not hesitate to con-
demn before-band„a recourse to any other. All further in.
vestigations into •the cause of the disaffection can only ter-
minate in the useless waste of time and money.

The Paris Papers of Monday, the whole of which we
have just received, contain an official account of the dis-
covery of another plot to assassinate the King of the
FRENCH. The head of the conspiracy, was a journeyman
mechanic named CHAMPION., who had planned the con-
struction of an infernal machine for the accomplishment of
his purpose. In consequence of information given to the
Police, he was seized at his residence on Sunday morning,
and conveyed to prison. Proofs the most ample of his
guilt were discovered in the apartments occupied by him.
When interrogated, he made no mystery of his designs, and
it is said, gave such evidence as will lead to the discovery
of his accomplices. The momentary absence of the keeper
of the prison, afforded him an opportunity of committing
suicide, of which he availed himself'. When the keeper
returned he was quite dead, having strangled himself by
means of his cravat. His death has greatly disappointed
the officers of justice, who hoped to be furnished
by him with a clue to all the secret associations in the
capital. One of the papers before us states that CHAm-
PION was a dissolute, determined scoundrel. He had be-
longed formerly to a French corps, and served under Don
PEDRO, in Portugal. The troop to which he belonged
committed so many outrages and robberies, while in Por-
tugal, that it was found necessary to surround it
with an English division, and forcibly convey it on
board a vessel to remove it out of the Kingdom.
Two of the Neuilly regicidal conspirators were members
of this hopeful corps. Latterly CHAMPION employed his
leisure hours in constructing an infernal machine similar to
that of FIESCHI, but instead of one row of gun-barrels, he
mounted three, in the form of a semicircle, so that it would
have been impossible for the KING to have escaped the dis-
charge of such an instrument. The barrels were so le-
velled that if simultaneously discharged, each row would
tell within a certain distance. The way in which the Go-
vernment was made acquainted with this affair was by
anonymous letters addressed personally to the KING and the
Prefect of Police. The letters were traced to an old clothes-
man residing in the same house with CHAMPION. When
first found out by the police, be was in the very act of writing
another monitory letter to the KING. He knewbut little
personally of CHAMPION, but he had heard enough from
his servant, who was CHAMPION'S mistress, to suspect him
of a design against the KING'S life. The villain had confided
his secret to the woman, and even pointed out to her the
house on the road to Neuilly in which he intended, living
when his plot was ripe for execution. The police found
the machine, and seized CHAMPION, who offered no resist
ante. His first exclamation was that he was lost—that his
hair was long enough to allow the executioner to hold up
his head to the people—that he only regretted having so
long delayed the murder of the KlNG—but that as a last
consolation he left those behind him who would not fail to
strike the blow that would rid France of a tyrant. Before
the Commissary of Police he repeatedly expressed his
sorrow that be had not killed the KING, and appeatd to
glory in his wickedness.
This affair, dreadful as it is, has excited very little inte-
rest beyond the gates of the Palace. The people are so
weary of plots, and so indifferent to the subjects of them,
that they no longer trouble their heads about them. The
care of her Kings is becoming too much for France. The
more intelligent among the middle classes are convinced
that the KING only wearies out the people, that he may
seize upon the occasion which their lassitude will afford
him to re-establish the old corps of Royal Guards. If,
like PISISTRATUS, he can but obtain a sufficient guard for
his person, he will soon throw aside the Constitutional
mask in which he is now constrained to appear in public.
The advice: from the North of Spain contained in the
French journals represent Don CARLOS as making every
preparation in his power to defend himself in Guipuscoa.
The loss of that province would be a death-blow to him,
as it contains the foundries that supply his soldiers with
arms and ammunition. In his anxiety to maintain his pre-
sent positions, the Pretender has condescended to visit the
works, and to encourage his men in person, to persevere in
their mad resistance, while they have heads upon their
shoulders.

Supplies of money, clothing, and provisions for the use
of the QUEEN'S army reached Pampeluna on the 10th

There is little else of importance in the French Papers.
The greatest disaffection prevails in the army, and on all
sides appearances indicate the approach of serious troubles
in France. Accounts from Africa represent ADD-EL
KADER as disposed to enter into a treaty of peace with
France on terms highly advantageous to the Citizen KING.
As conquest is no longer the object of the French Govern-
ment, such overtures will be received favourably.

FRENCH FUNDS.-PARII, FEB. 20.
Five per Cents., 109 f. 65c. Hit.
Four per Cents., 101 f.
Three per Cents. 79f. 55c. 60c. 50c.
Bank Actions, 2,410 f. 2,415 f.
Rente ae Naples, 981. 55c. 50c. 55c.
Roman Five perCetits., 102%.
Spanish Actives, 9.73(%%%.
Spanish Differes, 114.
Spanish Passives, 7%%.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 10?
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 503(.
Portuguese Three per Cents. 32364%.
EXCLI•NOR ON LONDON.
One month, paper, -f. -c.; money. 25f. 30c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 10c.; money, 25f. 10c.
-(our: Authentigue.
LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents.. 109 f. 65c.
Three per Cents. 79f. 60c.
Bank Actions, 2,415 f.
Rente de Naples, 981. 70c.
Roman Five per Cents., 102%.
Belgian Loan, 102%.
Brussels Bank, 1,445 f.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 50k.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 32%.
Spanish Actives, 27%.;
Spanish Passives. 7%.
Spanish Differes, 9.
New Differes, 1114.
HAMBURO:BORSEN HALLE, Fan. 17.
/Sills.

Austrian Metaltiques, 5 per cent.
Ditto ditto' 4 per cent. —
Ditto ditto 3 per cent. 74
Ditto Bank Shares 1349
Anglo-Russian Loan lO5
Paper Inscription, 6 per cent 75
Russian 5 per cents. Metal.
Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th

Moicy;
lU':

7334
13 l 7

101 %
74%
99

Series
Ditto, Certificates
Portuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent 4754
Ditto, 3 per cent. 30,4
Dutch .23., per Cents.
Ditto 5 per Cents
Polish Bonds, 3 per cents.
New Tickets... 157%
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 72
Norwegian Loan of 1834, 4 per cents.
Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents...... .......
Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent 23%
Greek 4 per cents. 1833, guaranteed by France 93
EXCHANGES ON LONDON,
Hamitic°, Fels. 17.-13 8 ; two months, 13 6%.
STOCKHOLM, Fzn. 10.—Two months, 11 38,
ST. PRTERIBURGII, Fen. 7 —Three months, 10 9-16.
CHRISTIANIA, FEB. B.—Three months. 8 5.
BERLIN, FEB. 14.—Three in 6.23%.
—hamburg Pavers, Feb. 17.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, FEB. 6.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent ..............102%1 101%
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. 1003( 99%
Exchange on London, three months ... 6 2314
—Prussian State Gazette. Feb. 16.

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The last published number of the Portfidio contains the
opinions of a writer, whom the Editors of that work
describe as " one of the most eminent jurists in Germany."
On the legal question of the capture of the Vixen by
Russia, those opinions are entirely opposed to those
advanced by the Imperial Cabinet. The writer, on a careful
examination and review of the main facts—having first
proved by authentic documents that Circassia neither
did nor could belong to the CZAR—has arrived at
the conclusion, that under no possible circumstances
could the Vixen have been seized and confiscated by Rus-

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