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LONDON :
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1839.
EVENING EDITION.

The LORDS did not meet yesterday.
The COMMONS met at the usual time. Mr. HAI!,
v Ey took his seat, and was immediately named on the
Committee to inquire into Mr. WYNN's case. This is
even-handed justice.
A considerable number of petitions were presented
for and against the Corn-laws.
Mr. VILLIERS gave notice that he will move a Com-
mittee of the whole House on March 12, to take into
consideration the Corn-laws. Mr. CHRISTOPHER im-
mediately announced a call of the House for that day, and
Mr. CAYLEY that he would move resolutions that the
Corn-laws had essentially answered the purposes for which
they were enacted. The battle is now beginning, though
the Tories one short week ago were boasting that their
victory was complete. Mr. CAYLEY referred to the
heavy debt and taxation ; and if the landlords were
either honest pr wise, they would bring forward mea-
sures to lessen their burdens, or to equalize them, in-
stead of taxing the people's bread and stopping trade,
which renders the burdens insupportable.
Viscount DUNGANNON renewed his notice of a mo-
tion concerning Maynooth, and Lord ASHLEY gave
one concerning factories.
Mr. MACKINNON, at the request of Mr. P. THom-
lON, postponed his Patents Bill for a fortnight.
The Lord ADVOCATE is to bring in a Bill to give
effect to the recomendations of te Committee on
fictitious votes.
i...ord JOHN RUSSELL admitted, in reply to Mr.
PRAED, that Mr. FROST had been dismissed from the
Magistracy, but did not think it proper to produce the
eorresponance at present. The Tories are satisfied
with the dismissal, and are well off to have others to do
their dirty work.
A. Bill for Canada, Lord Jotiv RUSSELL stated, may
be intreduced before Easter, but' rot. read a second
time till tree weeks after Easter.' The --bject h vine.
boe,e,r,i broached by a question from Sir b‘li. PEEL,a
Mr.°
i UONNELL spoke emphatically against the effusion of
I,lood. Mr. LABOUCHERE, the new Under-Secretary for
the Colonies, denied that there had been any unnecessary
effusion ; sixteen persons have been executed in Upper

Canada, and seventeen in Lower-Canada. We agree
with Mr. O'CoNNELL that one is too many.
Mr. Serjeant TALFOURD moved the second reading of
the Copyright Bill, and made a long and eloquent
speech in support of it.
Mr. HUME moved that the Bill be read a second
time in six months. Mr. O'CONNELL, Sir ROBERT
INGLIS, and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
spoke for the Bill ; Mr. BAINES, Mr. WARBURTON,
and the SOLICITOR-GENERAL spoke against it. The
House divided, and 73 voted for the second reading,
and 37 against it. Mr. WARBURTON is to give all
the opposition to it in his power.
In a Committee of Supply Mr. HUME gave notice
that he would, on an early day, move for an account of
the issue of Exchequerlls for public works, as be ac-
cused the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER of having
added to the debt between two and three millions
without the sanction of Parliament. The CHAN-
CELLOR defended himself from the newspaper accu-
sation of having departed from the old mode
of making out the accounts, and declared that the in-
crease of the debt, which he admitted, was warranted
by the Act of 1827, and was perfectly legal. There
is much hocus pocus about this debt, paying off with
one hand and contracting a fresh debt with the other ;
the fresh debt always, we are afraid, surpassing in
amount that paid off. The House adjourned a quarter
before eight o'clock.

We had forgotten one of the great merits of
Lord EBRINGTON till we were reminded of it by
the Times. His Lordship is a declared enemy of
the Irish Church Establishment, as what man of
sense and honesty, what devout and humble Chris-
tian, what Statesman, zealous for the peace and
happiness of his country, is not ? On July 26th,
1838, he declared in his place in the House of
Commons that he concurred with Lord HowicK
in his denunciation of that Church. " I have
ever," said Lord EBRINGTON, " considered the
existence of a Church Establishment, so utterly
disproportioned to the wants of the people as that
of Ireland, a stain and a disgrace to the Protestant
religion, and a great misfortune to the country."
If his Lordship's mere appointment to the Vice-
royalty could at once extinguish that gigantic nui-
sance, which is a foul blot alike on statesmanship
and religion, we should hail that appointment as
the greatest blessing which any Government could
confer on Ireland ; as far as it goes, we take it as
an earnest of the good intentions of Ministers, in-
capable of subduing the factious bigotted attach-
ment of the Priesthood and the Aristocracy to an
offensive mass of abuses. Rational politicians and
sincere Christians have alike been long convinced
that there will be neither good government nor pure
religion in Ireland till the Church Establishment
be put down. That Lord EBRINGTON is opposed
to it is on his part a great merit.

The debate, if such it may be called, which took
place last night in the House of Commons, on the
Copyright Bill, was one of those in which all the
argument is on one side. The Learned Sergeant,
to whom the cause of literature is so much in-
debted for his able and persevering efforts to
give to authors the same rights in their property
which all other men enjoy in theirs, intro-
duced the motion for the second reading of his Bill
in a truly splendid speech. Though he necessarily
went over ground !which he had trodden before,
yet such is the variety of illustration, such the power
of eloquence and argument combined, which he
brought to bear upon the subject, that he seems
absolutely to have invested it with the charms of
novelty.
The first part of the Learned Gentleman's speech
was taken up with a plain and unadorned statement
of the position in which the important question un-
der discussion at present stood. Having shown in
the most satisfactory manner that it was impossible
to proceed with the Bill last Session with any chance
of success, he next adverted to the objections which
had been urged against the measure. A petition from
certain printers, pressmen, &c., was subjected to the
severe ordeal of Mr. TALFOURD'S criticism, and
much amusement was afforded to the House dur-
ing the operation. These sapient petitioners, will
it be believed, had the modesty to assert, as a se-
rious objection to placing authors on a footing
with other proprietors, " that the profits de-
rived from a book depend not on the art of
writing, but on the art of printing I" Did
any one ever expect to see so happy a realiza-
tion of the story told of the fool; who fancied that
he was playing upon the organ, when he was only
blowing the bellows?
Having disposed of this part of the subject, the
Learned Gentleman, in a high tone of eloquence, en-
larged upon the injustice to which authors are subjected
under the law of Copyright as it exists at present,
and appealed to the testimony of WORDSWORTH,
SOUTHEY, and other writers of the first eminence,
who all concurred in condemning the present sys-
tem as one which pressed upon them with undue
severity, and in demanding its immediate alteration.
On the conclusion of his speech Mr. Sergeant
TALFOURD was loudly cheered from all parts of

the House.
We need only refer our readers to the speech of
the gentleman who holds the office of her MA-
JESTY'S SOLICITOR-GENERAL for a specimen of
the reasoning which the opponents of the Bill em-
ployed against it. This Learned Personage could
not, for the life of him, see the least analogy
between real property and a property in so
incorporeal a thing as thought I No. How can
a man, who never possessed an original idea him-
self, set any value upon the possession of such a
commodity in others ?

In another column will be found an address from
Mr. EWART to the Electors of Wigan, which we
recommend to the attention of the Reformers of
that Borough. Most sincerely do we regret the ill-
ness which has deprived the Electors of Wigan of
the services of their old and tried Representative,
Mr. POTTER ; but seeing that there is no
hope of the Honourable Gentleman being
able to resume his Parliamentary duties during the
present Session, and appreciating the importance
to the nation of the votes given upon the number
of questions likely to be brought under the
consideration .of the Legislature, we know of no
public man more worthy to succeed Mr. POTTER
than the present candidate for the representation of
the borough of Wigan. Mr. EWART has proved
himself on occasions of no ordinary moment the
sincere friend of civil and religious liberty—so that
we need no pledges to assure us of the course which
he will pursue in the event of being returned to
Parliament. We deeply regret that the health of
Mr. POTTER. is not adequate to the enabling
him to recommend his friend, Mr EWART, to the
honest Reformers of Wigan, which we are sure he
would have pleasure in doing.
Since writing the above we perceive that Mr.
POTTER has actually resigned, and that a new
writ was last night moved fox Wigan. We cannot
doubt for a moment that the patriotic electors will
return Mr. EWART.

Admiral Sir EDWARD CODRINGTON presented
in the House of Commons a few days ago, a peti-
tion from Mr. BAKER, Assistant Honorary Se-
cretary of the " Shipwrecked and Distressed
Sailors Asylum," Ratcliffe Highway, praying the
Legislature, to adopt measures for the erection of
Hospitals for old and disabled sailors in the Merchant
Service, similar to that of Greenwich for naval vete-
rans in the service of the Crown. The subject of this
petition is too important, and the allegations which
it sets forth are too grave—too deeply interwoven
with the standard interests of the country—to
allow us to pass it over with the matter of course
announcement that it wa;,, duly referred to the ex-
amination of the Committee seesionally appointed
to read over such documents. We 55 suck the
orange, but throw away the rind," has been too
long the axiom upon which the national conduct to-
wards the sinews of our marine greatness has been
modelled. Sound policy, no less than a generous
humanity, dictates al. directly contrary course.
The situation of many old mariners at the ex-
piration of a long period of active service is truly
deplorable. Hundreds, after serving many years
on board Queen's ;hips, are discharged b efore they
arc entitled to a pension, They enter the Mer-
chant Service, as a matter of coiirse, and after toil-
ing so long as they can find employment, are,
without any fauit of their own, cast naked, heipless,
and unbefriended on the world, to beg the shelter of
a parish workhouse.
To remedy this crying evil, many highly praise-
worthy efforts have been made, but by no means on
a scale commensurate with its removal. By an Act
pass&l. In the reign of George IL, entitled " An
Act for the relief and tupport of maimed and di4-
abled seamen, and th widows and children of such
as shall be killed, slain, or drowned in the Merchant
Service," all seamen were compelled to contribute
one shilling a month out of their wages ; one

moiety of which went to Greenwich Hospital, and
the other to the " Merchant Seamen's Corpora-

tion," incorporated by this very Act for the relief of
disabled sailors in the Merchant Service. The
erection of an hospital for old and disabled seamen,
or the granting them adequate pensions for their
support, were among the duties which the Act of
Incorporation imposed on the Governor and Di-
rectors of the Merchant Seamen's Company.
Under various pretexts, however, the Corporation
neglected to perform the two main objects of its
institution. It neither built hospitals, nor granted
adequate pensions. The plea of the Directors was
want of means—the naval contributions being
stated to be inadequate to such a purpose.
This being representeCto Parliament in 1834, an
Act was passed to amend the former Act, and
granting for the use of the " Merchant Seamen's
Corporation" the moiety of the fund previously
paid towards the support of Greenwich Hospital.
The new Bill further enacted, that in addition to
the monthly contribution of the humbler class of
British seamen, all masters of ships afloat should
be obliged to pay two shillings a month into the
common fund.
No steps having been taken or proposed to be
taken by the " Merchant Seamen's Corporation"
for the erection of an hospital or hospitals, a Com-
mittee of the friends of distressed mariners was

formed for the express purpose in 1835, but after
several meetings, reports, proposals, and interviews
with Ministers, the affair fell to the ground, owing
to the lukewarmness of the majority of the Mem-
bers. The object of Mr. BAKER'S petition is to
pray the Legislature to take speedy measures for re-
medying this evil, by instantly authorizing the
erection of a Merchant Seaman's Hospital in Lon-
don, and one in every out-port of the United Kingdom
where such an asylum may be judged necessary. The
mere cost of building he proposes to defray out of
port dues, and as to the expense of maintenance he
is satisfied that the seamen's proper fund, now in the
hands of the " Corporation," would be amply suffi-
cient. He represents it, not only as a hardship, but
a national disgrace, that a great body of men com-
posing the most useful members of the commercial
community, should be thrown helpless upon the
cold charity of a board of Parochial Guardians ;
particularly as their poverty results from casualties
over which human prudence could exercise no
controul. And he adds, that from a long experi-
ence of the habits of seamen, and from an intimate

acquaintance with the causes of their frequent dis-
tresses, he is satisfied- that they are by no means
the luckless, improvident description of persons
which they are so generally represented.
The prayer of this petition is of too
much importance to the country to war-
ant a neglect of it on the part of the Legis-
lature. That the prosperity and safety of the
United Kingdom, and of the Colonies thereunto
appertaining, are dependant upon a constant sup-
ply of able seamen is a truth as obvious as that it
is the interest of Great Britain to attach such sea-
men to our own shores, instead of compelling them,
from a dread of absolute want, to seek for an asylum
in a foreign country. Were we as prudent as it
behoves us to be, there are no classes of men of
whose voluntary expatriation, in consequence
of their pecuniary difficulties, we ought to
be so jealous, as sailors and artizans. The
bread-tax, by forcing thousands of Glasgow
and Paisley silk and cotton weavers to emi-
grate to the United States, has raised against
us a host of competitors in the markets of the
East, while the starvation of our mercantile
Navy has served to man and discipline the Navies
of France, the United States, and Russia. In the
wantonness of our strength, we have ungratefully
flung away what we must now recognise as the in-
struments of the elevation of other nations to a
maritime rank hardly second to our own. But we
cannot afford to maintain such a system of extra-
vagance—for of all extravagance, that is the worst
which converts the sinews of our own maritime
greatness and glory into a commodity which any
nation may purchase for the cost of maintenance.

The Dublin Pilot, in common with several other
Irish papers, is a vehement opponent of the repeal
of the Corn-laws. We are not much surprised at
that, because our laws secure the English markets
for the Irish, to the exclusion of the Russians,
Prussians, and Americans. Such a state of
things is very advantageous to the landlords of
Ireland. On that principle, a considerable number
of Irish Members, including some of the most
boisterous of her patriots, voted against Mr. VIL-
LIERS' motion. Whether intending it or not,
they are revenging on Englishmen the in-
juries the latter have, during many ages,
heaped on their country. Most cruelly, we admit,
have they tyrannized over Ireland, and now she
pays them for it by combining with others to
doom them to incipient starvation. The connection
with her was originally formed on such a barbarous
principle, it has ever been continued on such
similar principles, that it has been aperpetual source
of misery and weakness to both. England rooted
out her woollen manufactures and destroyed her
rising prosperity, and has been obliged ever since
to waste her resources in preserving in submission
her agrarian and pauperised people. Ireland has
long been in conflict with England, and the
last blow she gave us was when her political
strength was united to that of our gentry to con-
tinue the starvation laws. Now we are inclined to
think that the interests of Irishmen would be as much
promoted by the repeal of the Corn-laws, as the
interests of the English ; and it seems to us
that the old enemies of the Irish, the
Saxon and Protestant owners of the soil, have
been once more misusing their power against those
they call their countrymen.
The persons in Ireland interested in keeping up
the Corn-laws, are the Protestant landowners ; the
clearing landowners who are doing what they
can, not to civilize, but to weed out the
people. They know that if the corn of Russia
and Poland come freely into the English market,
they would not get such high rents, and could not
live so extravagantly. But if we could get plenty
of corn from other sources, there would be less
temptation to bring it from Ireland, and more of it
on cheaper terms would remain at home to be ob-
tained by the Irish peasantry themselves. The
Corn-laws, to the extent of the duty, are a bounty
on importing corn from Ireland into England ; and
to that extent they injure the Irish peasant.
The sum which can be obtained for the corn of
Ireland in the markets of England influences and
determines the price in Ireland, which is by these
laws raised to the people, while the quantity appro-
priated to them is diminished. If it were cheaper
in Ireland there would be a corresponding tempta-
tion to set manufacturing and other labour in mo-
tion, which would contribute greatly to the improve,
ment of the country. Perhaps it may be said that the
Irish eat potatoes, and the price of corn is nothing to
them. But the price of corn influences the rate of rent,
which is higher in Ireland than it would be but
for the Corn-laws. The Irish would eat potatoes
cheaper were there no bounty on the exportation
of corn, enhancing the rent of land in every part
of irel4nd, If the Dublin Pilot be the organ of
the Protestant landlords, we must admire its zeal ;
if it be not, it argues as zealously in their behalf,
and as zealously against the best interests of the
Irish people, as if it were bribed by the Earls of
RODEN, CfIARLEVILLE, WICKLOW, and Co.
wouldould be
beneficiall fthe abolitionto thelrish, the
the Corn-lawsgg
ofi
benefited, we think, by less Irish corn being
brought hither. There is, in fact, one circum.
niQh w
we
stance connected with it, which would make
the English labourers regard it with peculiar Ells,
favour : Russian or Prussian corn brings no Rus-
sians or Prussians here to eat it. Irish corn coming
here brings after it labourers from Ireland who
compete with our labourers, and contribute to beat
down the price of labour. A repeal of the
laws, which substituted Russian and Prussian corn
for that of Ireland, would be beneficial to the En-
glish labourer by lessening the competition of la-
bourers in our market, and beneficial to the Irish
by keeping corn in Ireland, and feeding them better
than at present at home. The landlords of Ireland
might suffer by it, but we know of no race of men
who have so little right to require sacrifices on
the part of the rest of society as the Irish landlords.
We are glad to see that the Irish peasantry take
a sound view on this important subject. At several
meetings, held in the county of Cork and other
plates, they took part against the landlords, and
in one or two cases defeated them. The peasantry
petition for the repeal of the Corn-laws, because
'they
,A,re wpll acquainted with 'the designs of the
landlords,

The communication which we have received

from Manchester, and the information furnished
us by the Corn-law Delegates, are both important.
The Delegates at Manchester have done well by
passing a vote of thanks to Colonel THOMPSON,
the most indefatigable and most able of their nu-
merous advocates. They cannot de better than
encourage him to persevere in his lectures, and
they may be assured, notwithstanding the numerous
petitions, the Squires and Parsons have in-
duced the serfs to sign, that a great number
of intelligent farmers are ready to unite
with them in asking a repeal of the Corn-
laws. We believe that the Scotch farmers are
almost to a man favourable to the repeal, and we
hope to see them send petitions to Parliament. The
-communication on that subject from the Delegates
is worthy of attention. From Manchester the ac-
counts of the state of trade are deplorable, though
only what might have been expected. The effects
of the high prices are only now beginning to be
felt in the demand for our manufactures. Only
now the orders have slackened, and only now the
mills have come almost to a still stand. If the land-
lords, wraps in a state of fancied security, can con-
template the future without alarm, they must be
more stupid than the bird which, plunging its
head in the earth, and incapable of vision,
fancies that darkness is universal. The lamb
doomed to slaughter, frisking and playing at the
moment of death, which " licks the hand just
raised to shed its blood," has been selected by the
poet as a contrast to man endowed with reason ;
but our landlords instead of being reasonable beings
seem to have less foresight than the lamb, and to be
eager to provoke destruction.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday have all been re-
ceived, but they contain no local news of interest.
From the Spanish frontier accounts have reached
us confirming the reports current in Paris on Mon-
day of the execution of four Carlist Generals by
command of that cowardly, bloodthirsty tyrant DON
C A RLOS. The Carlist correspondent of the Morn-
ing Herald thus describes the execution of these
unfortunate partisans of the Royal Rebel :

" Elisondo, Feb. 22, Eight o'clock, p.m.
" With grief I can but little express do I this day con-
firm my news of yesterday; those brave And patriotic
Generals, Garcia, Guergue, Sanz, and Carmona, are no
more; they are numbered with the dead, not fallen on the
glorious field of action, but from the hands of those brave
volunteers they have so often led to victory ; their crime,
a want of confidence in Maroto, a desire to march forth
and face the enemy. Their names will be cherished by
all good Carlists when that of their—l durst not trust
myself to give utterance to my feelings—when that of
General Maroto and his virgin sword shall be detested.
All the unfortunate beings mentioned in my despatch of
yesterday were shot at Estella on Monday morning, the
18th, at ten o'clock by order of Maroto. The next day
the work of slaughter continued, and amongst the victims
sacrificed were the Chaplain of the General Staff, Don
Rarmn Dalin, and Colonel Ojer, a distinguished officer,
cousin to General Garcia."

The organs of DON CARLOS all express doubts
of his participation in these murders, affecting to
believe them the sole acts of General MAROTO.
This is an impertinent assumption. IVIARoTo is
the very slave of the tyrant whose livery he wears ;
and though after these butcheries CARLOS may
find it necessary to discard him, in order not to
shock Europe too much by his atrocities, yet so well
was it known that he had commanded these mur-
ders, that several of the Carlist chiefs issued bulle-
tins to the soldiers previous to the execution, in-
forming them that such was the Sovereign will, and
that any attempt to revenge the slaughter of the
condemned chiefs would be punished with instant
death. When enough of blood has been shed to
sate the appetite of CARLOS and his consort, he
will himself appear on the scene to exercise the
Royal prerogative of mercy / But they must be
infatuated, who can be imposed upon by a proceed-
ing so farcical. _ _ _

The accounts from Madrid are of the 19th inst.
On the 17th the QUEEN-REGENT attended an
extraordinary Cabinet Council, but the business
thereat transacted did not transpire.
We subjoin extracts from the French Papers :
MEXICO.
TO THE PRINCIPAL EDITOR OF "LE COMMERCE."

One of our friends who has recently arrived from
Mexico informs us that the French who hare command in
that capital, as well as those who are settled in the inte-
rior of the country, enjoy all security as well on the
part of the authorities as of the population, who
have never manifested any hostile feelings towards
such of our countrymen as, having accepted, without hesi-
tation, the decree of expulsion, had proceeded to Vera
Cruz, had arrived there quite safe, and without having had
on the road any cause for complaint. We beg you to pub-
lish this note, in order to dispel the apprehensions of the
relations and friends of the French who are settled in
Mexico.

For the Committee of French Merchants in Mexico,
The Secretary,
(Signed) VINCENT.
ALGIERS, Fxs. 16.—1 t is announced that the 11th Re-
giment of the Line will return to France immediately. It
will, doubtless, be embarked on board the Larne and
Egerie (corvette of burden), the Diademe (of the line) which
are hourly expected. The preparations for the expedition to
Beban will soon be terminated, and it is thought that the
troops will set out in the beginning of the month of March.
PARIS, FEB. 26. —The Tribunal and Chamber of Com-
merce, and the principal inhabitants and shipowners of
Cherbourg, have just petitioned for the reduction of the
sugar duties by an ordonnance. The Chamber of Com-
merce of Bayonne had just sent a letter dated 20th Feb.,
to the Ministry, to call on the Government to issue an
ordonaance for the reduction of the sugar duties from Ist
May, 1838.—Le Commerce.

BOURSE.--.PARIS, TUESDAY, FEB. 26.7
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French 5 per Cents
3 per Cents 7B 55 . 78 6) ... 78 55 ... 78 60
Bank of P ranee ...
Lattitte Bank I,ooof. Sh lOlO ...1010 —.1005 —.1005
5,006 f. Sh 5165 ...5170 ...5165 ...5170
Belgian 5 per Cents lOO 4 ... 10 a ... 100 ... iOO
Belgian Bank 565 ... 565 ... 565 ... 565
Si.anish Ac ive l9 ... 19% ... 19 ... 191 E
Passive 4% ... 4% ... 4% ... 4%
Neapolitan O9 5 ... 99 10 ... 99 a ... 99 10
Roman . lOO% ... 1001,4 ...100% ...100%

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THI6 DAY.)

DEAL, FEB. 27.—Wind W., moderate.—Came down
from the River and remain, the Clifton, Wenborn, for
St. Kitt's ; New Express, Tulloch, Cadiz ; Vulture, Gil-
bert, Newfoundland ; Grasshopper, Hamkien, Malta ;
Medora, Bunting, Jamaica ; Ellen, Potter, St. Michael's ;
Apollo, Melson, ; Mina, Tulloch, Sierre Leone ;
Arrived the Beau Ideal, Forbes, Altea.
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 27.—Wind W. N. W.—Arrived her
Majesty's ship Wolf, from Madras—sailed from Ceylon
27th October, Cape of Good Hope 4th ult., and Ascen-
sion 22d. Sailed her Majesty's ship Pantaloon, ftr Vera
Cruz ; Palermo packet, Hamburg.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 27.—The John and Marian, Crystal,
from Lynn to Ballina, was totally wrecked in Broadhaven
Bay on the 22d instant. Master and five of the crew
drowned, tw• saved. The Thomas Naylor, bound to
Boston, has put back, leaky. The Peru, Porteus, arrived
at this port, from Laguna, sailed thence on the 11th ult. ;
she met with no obstruction from the French squadron,
and did not see a single French vessel of war off the port.
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 27.—Wind W.—Arrived the Der-
went, Addison, from Newcastle ; Juno steamer, Cork.
FALMOUTH, Fan. 26.—Wind S. W.—Arrived the Ar-
row, Scadden, from Tarragona for Hull, with loss of fore-
mast and jib-boom ; Mary Barry, Tewkesbury, Odessa,
totally dismasted, towed in from Tarragona; Selmer,
Evans, Leghorn, with loss of bulwarks and sails split ;
Cork packet, Young, Cork. Sailed the Adder, Wells, for
St. Michael's.

Cowan, FEB. 27.—The Harmony, Le Payn, from
Shields to Guernsey, which was on shore near Brook, has
been got off and brought into the harbour.
The Liden, Boohaer, which sailed hence 28th inst. for
New York, put back to-day very leaky, having experienced
very heavy weather, and must discharge to repair.
STRANREAR.— The wreck of apparentl.7 a large vessel,
no masts standing, and only part of her stern, about six
foet long, above water, was passed off Laggan Point, near
Corswall, by the Adelaide, of Dampier.
RAMSGATE, FEB: 27. —A mast, painted green, about
six feet above water, apparently belonging to a vessel of
100 tons, sunk, was passed on the 23d inst. ; the Galloper,
bearing W. N. W., about 14 German miles by the Perle,
arrived here.

LERWICK, FEB. 20.—The George: Gordon, Primrose,
from Altona, put into Skeldvar (west side of the island)
during a heavy gale, with loss of boats, bulwarks, &c., and
is on shore and must discharge part of her cargo, but is not
expected to sustain any further damage. Feb. 25.—A ves-
sel, supposed to be the Harriett, Watts, bound to Bristol, is
lost near Tralee, with all hands.
ST. HELENA, JAN. 14.—The Norfolk, Gildoron, from
the Mauritius in 20 days, passed this island 13th instant,
and reports a destructive fire to have happened at Port
Louis.

SWANSEA, FEB. 27. Arrived the Arrula, Laing, from
St. Jago da Cuba.
TORBAY, FEB. 27.—ArriVed the Violet, Smallridge,
from Ballina.

The Harriet, Rockwell, late Jewett, bound to Boston,
has put into Tobermony, leaky, and with loss of sails, &c.,
the Master, second mate, and four of the crew drowned,
off Burra Head, in endeavouring to obtain assistance from
the shore.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

TWELVE O'CLOCK.
We have received Cape of Good Hope Papers to the
30th December.

By the latest intelligence from Port Natal (Nov. 17),
we learn that the distresses of the emigrant Boers in that
quarter are daily increasing, nor does there appear the
slightest chance of alteration in prospect. The whole of
the wheat sown by them is said to have failed. They have
no stock for slaughter remaining, nothing being left but
their draught oxen and mulch cows. Mr. Jonbert had
reached them with the Governor's invitation to return to
the colony ; and it seems probable that they
will in the end comply. The report alluded to
some time ago of the destruction of the camp still pre-
vails; but it is said that this blow was struck by Matsilli-
kateze. No information has been received respecting the
arrival of troops at Natal, nor could it be expected, as the
detachment only sailed from Table Bay on the 27th Nov.
There is no public news of any moment from the frontier.
The horse sickness, we are sorry to observe, prevails pretty
generally, and considerable numbers of these valuable ani-
mals have died. Wheat has been for some time back at
the Cape as high as 230 R. per load, about 88s. per
quarter. In the eastern province the price is enormous ;
at Somerset meal is about 60s. per muid ; at Fort Beau-
fort, 455; at Port Elizabeth, 41s. ; at Graham's Town,
48s. 9d.

DUTCH FUNDS, FEB. 25.—Two-and-a-Half pox Cents.
55i ; Five per Cents. 1004 ; they are i per cent, higher
than the last prices.
(Commercial Remarks from the Penang Gazette to the

14th October.)
IMPORTS FROM EUROPE.

Cotton Manufactures.—The Malacca brigs have im-
ported from Singapore 500 pieces Long Cloths, 500
pieces Madapallams ; and 150 Fancy Prints. The two
former articles are offered at low cash prices.
The demand for the White Cottons of suitable qualities
for dying blue, is steady, though not extensive.
Turkey Red Cloth, of good quality and lively colour, is
in demand.

Marine Stores—Anchors and chain cables, the W. S.
has imported a few, but there is little demand.
Canvas—Stock decreasing, but there is scarcely any
demand.

Tar—Very small supplies of ie.te.
Beer, Wines, and Spirits—For the present well supplied.
Gold Thread—Heavy stock, and very low.
Gunpowder—Current at quotations; common American
enquired for.
Muskets—Continued imports from Singapore, and the
market for the present being well supplied, the article is
dull sale.
Musket Locks—Saleable.

Exchange on London—Navy and Treasury Bills, 33
days, at 4s. 3d. pet dollar; Private Bills, 6 months 4s. 4d.

THE FUNDS.

Consols, which closed yesterday rather buoyant, at 93
to f for the Account, and 92j- to 93 for Money, opened
at the above quotation this morning, but up to the present
hour there has been very little doing.
Exchequer Bills, 63 65 ; India Bonds, 63 65 : Bank
Stock, 204 i 5f ; India Stock, 2561 71.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active closed 181 19,
at present 19f t; Portuguese 34+ 5-1 ; Three-per-Cents.
211 22 ; Belgian improved to 100+ 1+ ; Brazilian, 80
81; Colombian, 28+ 29+ ; Mexican, 231 24+; Dtiteli
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 55i f; Five per Cents,,
103 i

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ON O'CLOCK
Austrian Bonds Peruvian 8011,32
Belgian Bands -
Ditto Account
Brazilian Bonds SOY, 1 I Ditto New Bonds ...351i y, 41
Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Ditto Account
Chilian Bonds

Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds 27
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds, 1824 294
Ditto Account
Danish Bonds

Russian Bonds, 182
Ditto Account. ............ ,
Ditto Metallic ..
Spanish Bonds.
Ditto Account
1314 Q Bends, 1634 ...18i 191 19

Ditto Account
Greek Bonds le/PM
Ditto Bonds, 18Y5 —
Ditto Account
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Account

Ditto Account. -,9q 19
French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
4 per cent. —t —e
S per cent. —f. —c
--- Exchange. —f.
Dutch, 2S per cent 55 %

_ .
Ditto, 6 per Cent. ...... ...... ' Ditto Account ....55%,
. ...5,5%%
Ditto Account
Neapolitan —l Ditte Acc0unt...,..... .....
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT O,NE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Shale
Cobre Copper.....
London and Blackwall Rally/ay
London and SoutirenlPton Railway Company nr 17s. 9d. 44% 5
I,olldon and Croydon Railway Company,
N ath Midland Railway Company.,. 55 55
National Rank of Ireland
Provincial Bank of Ireland.
HALF-PAST ONE.
The Cape of Good Hope papers of the 29th Dec., con-
tains the following ;-...,
PoRT NATAL.—By the return of the Leveret, from
Pert Natal,t on Friday (yesterday), the malicious ru-
mours circulated respecting the proceedings of the detach-
ment sent to take military possession of that port, with the
sole view of putting an end to the miserable warfare be-
tween the emigrant Boers, and the native tribes, have re-
ceived a full contradiction."

LIVERNOL COTTON-MARKET, FEB. 26. —The demand
for Cotton continues to be very limited, and we have no
alteration to note in prices. The sales are about 3,000
bags.

This is settling day the Foreign Market, and the
heaviest to adjust are Spanish and Portuguese. To the
present time we do not hear of any failures, and there is
every appearance it will, go off well, as the chief specula-
tors have been among the money interest in the House.
Consols continue steady at 93i- for the Account, Money
; Exchequer Bills improved to 66 67 ; India Bonds,
6s; Bank Stock, 2054; India, 2561.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish not so good as in the
morning, 19 ; Portuguese also lower, 35 ; Three per
Cents., 211; Brazilian, 80-a 81 ; Scrip, 1i prem. ; Co-
lombian, 29i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half pet Cents. higher,
55i ; Five per Cents., 1031.

The following notice has just been posted at the Ex.
change

Bank of England, Feb. 28, 1839.
The Governor and Company of the Bank of England do
hereby give notice, that on and after the 28th inst. they will
be ready to receive applications for loans upon the
deposit of Bills of Exchange, not having more than six
months to run. Exchequer Bills, East India Bonds, or
other approved securities, such loans to be repaid on or
before the 23d of April next, with interest, at the rate of 3}
per Cent. per annum, and to be for sums of not less than
2,0001. each.

THREE O'CLOCK

Consols for the Account. 113 i.
THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank 5t0ck................... ....20.5% India Stock 257%
3 per Cent. Red 93% Ditto Bonds 65
3per Cent. Ccns 93 Ditto Old Annuities
3% per Cent. Red 101% Ditto New Annuities
New 3% per Cent 100% Ex. Bills, 1,0001 2%d....68 pm.
New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001 66 pm.
Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 6g
Jan. 1860
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Asturian, 5 per cent — !Portuguese Borts,sper cent. 7.1%
Belgian, 5 per cent 'Ol% Ditto, New .Ditta
Brazilian Bonds Bl Prussian, 5 per cent .............
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent —, Russian Bonds, 5 per cent__
Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic
ColombAn, 6 per cent 27,4 'Spanish, 5 per cent. ............ .. 18%
Ditto, 1ft,14 294 Ditto, Consolidated . '
............
Danish, 3 per cent 76% French,' 5 per cent. ......... —f. —c.
Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct — Exchange ................. .. --,r..„..i
Mexican, 5 per cent — French, 3 per cent .... ~..„' —t. —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 — Dutch, 9_,V,55%
p Cent. ..
Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent..,., ..... iLtittci, 5 per cent. 10354
SHARES,
Gmai Vvestern Railway ~,. ~...
London and Brighton Railway 12.4
London and Blackwall Railway 7
Landon and Birmingham Railway .............. -- —l7i
.
Ditto Quarter Shares .
London and Southampton It:.i4-ray " 4414
London and C.',.toy;lcm Railway (Trunk) 12%
Manchester and Birmingham Railway ... —
Ditto ditto Extension 5
North Midland Railway