The Sun.
London, England, 1838-04-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1838.

sum for a Coronation banquet ; yet they are too poor
to raise one-tenth part of the amount for the Spital-
fields weavers, who are starving by hundreds under

their very nose I It is clear to us, from the stirring,
heart-felt zeal with which the Aldermen are taking up
the subject, that should no Coronation-dinner take
place, some of them, from sheer spleen and disappoint-
ment, will turn Radicals ; and others adopt the convic-

tion that nothing but a Republic can save the country.
ThiN is a serious . consideration ; but, thank God, we
have still the Bcef-eaters, and the City light-horse-1—so
called, because every man i❑ the squad weighs upwards
of twenty stone, averdupoise weight—left to protect us ;
and so long as this is the case, and these fiery and intrepid
warriors hold firm to their allegiance, we need appre-
hend nothing from the effects of Aldermannic rage
and disappointment, even through the banner of re-
publicanism be unfurled by a COPELAND and a Pr R

We see by an advertisement that the Post-office pro-
poses to contract with stage-coach and omnibus proprie
for conveying two-penny post bags, once a day, to
tors several towns and villages within the sphere of the
two-penny post. We hardly know what improvement
is to be effected by this change, but we presume it is
to convey an additional bag each day, at a cheap rate
to all the places mentioned. If it be intended wholly to
supersede the riding boys, it will probably be eonomical,
as well as more efficient, and will lead the Post-office
to extend the plan. Places within forty miles of Lon-
don, even now, and within eighty miles of London,
with rail-roads, can easily receive letters from London
and send an answer on the same day; and we know
not why the Post-office, which will not allow coach-
men to bring letters, should not contract with
the coaches which pass daily to places within forty
miles of London to bring and carry a mail-bag. The
revenue would be thereby improved, and the public
conveniency promoted. We beg leave to hint to the
Managers of the Post-office, that it is their duty, as
the law will not allow individuals to carry letters, to
watch the various improvements which are taking
place in communication, and extend the sphere of the
Post-office accordingly. If, in establishing more
frequent communications with different places, the
Post-office would charge only a moderate rate of
postage, it would benefit both to the Government
and the public.

There are many things which are continually de-
scribed to us as most beautiful and most useful, be-
cause it is supposed they ought to be beautiful or were
intended to be useful, which when examined are found
not to answer to the description. To have, for
example, one class of well educated men set apart for
the purpose of instructing the community in religion
and morality, ensuring them against want by an ade-
quate income, and enabling them to command respect
by throwing around them all the adventitious aids of
opulence, is generally supposed to be one of the finest
inventions of statesmanship. We conceive at once
how numerous must be the advantages of having a
body of well educated men scattered through the
country, acting in every village as a check on the
grasping avarice of the rich, and encouraging the
humble, and honest labours of the poor. The mind is
immediately convinced that such a body of men,
embued with the principles of Christian charity, and
standing up with a mild, but firm and commanding
countenance for the rights of the poor, acting as their
protector and guardian, gaining their confidence and
deserving their esteem, must be invaluable, both to
secure their rights and teach them their duties. Such
in fact is generally described to be the office and effects
of the labours of the Clergy. \\re easily conceive, too,
that such men, meriting the character assigned them
of being the " salt of the earth," should watch over
the changing morality of the community, and warn it
daily and hourly against all its prevailing vices.
Standing up with a bold front to admonish rulers of
their duty, and subjects of their interest, we think of
such men as the chosen advisers and counsellors of all
classes, sent on the high and noble mission to warn,
guide, and improve the whole. A great body of men,
endowed with a religious character, selected from the
whole society, and placed in a state of pecuniary inde-
pendence, having for theirduties to warn and counsel the
community, and be the advocates of the poor, the lowly,
and the oppressed, such as the clergy of the Church
of England are described, would seem to be, of all in-
stitutions, one of the best that the wit of man ever
devised. Such in fact is the character given of the State
Clergy by those who sound their praise in reviews,
magazines, and newspapers.
What is the fact ? The great bulk of the Clergy
are divided into two classes, the rich and the poor.
The rich Clergy are the associates and friends of rich
men. They live with nobles, and have a common in-
terest with the landowners and opulent classes.
Instead of standing up as the protectors of the
poor, they are the great helps in oppressing
them. Adding to their ecclesiastical functions
secular duties, they make laws in the House of Peers
and execute them in the country. They are benefited
like other landowners by those Corn-laws which starve
the people, and the so-called protectors of the poor
both make these iniquitous laws and enforce them as
Magistrates on their hungry flocks, telling them too
that it is a religious duty to submit to the poverty and
starvation which the unrighteous lawgiver imposes on
them. It is not a part of our case that the New
Poor-law is injurious to the people ; but the Tory
Journals say that the law is grossly oppressive, and it
was concocted and recommended by one Bishop, and has
been supported by nine-tenths of the opulent Clergy
of the country. With one or two exceptions the great
bulk of the Clergy have been amongst the most zealous
supporters of the law. The reason is plain. It was in-
tended to lower the poor-rates—to make the burden of
supporting the poor less—to take something from them ;
and all the opulent Clergy having a common interest with
the landowners, have, nearly one and all, joined with
them on this, as on all other questions, against the

poor, of whom they are in theory said to be the guar-
dians and the protectors. All the richer Clergy being
closely allied with all the opulent classes have in fact
the same interest as they have ; and as far as the poor
have anything to dread from the oppressions of their
richer brethren, they can only look on the Clergy as
the close friends and allies of their oppressors.
Now, as to the poor Clergy. They have no means
to help the people. They are without power or influ-
ence, and look up to the Bishops and their richer
brethren, or to the rich landowners, in whose hands

are nearly all the livings of the country,
for their
means of subsistence and advancement. If the rich
Clergy are the allies, the poor Clergy are the servants
or the toadies of the opulent classes ; and it turns out,
in fact, that the theory of the Clergy being the friends
and protectors of the poor, is wholly false. The
State Clergy derive their power and their reve-
nues from the law-making classes ; they look up
to them exclusively for the continuance of their income
and their honours; and though it may be very useful
for the upper classes to have such a body of auxiliaries
scattered through the country, it is a mockery of the
public understanding, and a mockery of the bulk of the
people, to describe them as the friends and guardians of
the poor.
Looking at the Clergy in their character of public
guides, as watching over the viciou',
counsellors and
tendencies of the community, and warning it against
them, how can they act efficaciously when they are
themselves deeply tinctured with the prevailing vices ?
Avarice, extortion, money-getting in all its forms, are the

plague spots of the community. Not from jealousy, not
from revenge, not from boiling passion of any kind,
but from low, sordid, calculating avarice, spring nearly
all the crimes which the laws have to punish. But
how can a Bishop teach the people the dangers of
greediness, when he declares that it is not posssible for
him to live on less than 5,0001., and many
Bishops call themselves poor with six, eight, or ten
thousand ? Or how can a Rector with his 1,000/.
or 1,500/. a-year, and spending half his time away
from his duties, succeed in convincing the pa-
rishioners, of the propriety of being contented with
the small pay of 12s. a-week, for never-ending toil ?
The petitioners for increased endowments, the men
whose great aim is to rival the landed aristocracy
and the opulent manufacturers, can never warn the
community, effectually, against the besetting sin of
avarice. If the State Clergy are the salt of the earth,
the salt has lost its savour. Admitting then, on the
whole, the beauty of the description which is given
by the admirers of a State Clergy—of their offices and
duties, we must say, that the facts contradict the de-
scription, and the beautiful theory of our Tory writers
is not confirmed by experience.

Owing to an unusually heavy press of domestic
intelligence, we were prevented, day after day since
Thursday last, from reverting to the rather extraordi-
nary intelligence which we then stated had been re-
ceived from St. Lucia—a small but not unimportant
possession of Great Britain in the West Indies. St.
Lucia was taken possession of by the English in 1639,
but in 1650 it was seized by the French, who held it
till 1763, when it was formally ceded to that Power.

In 1803 it again fell into the hands of the English,
and in 1815 was ceded to Great Britain by the Con-
gress of Vienna. As France colonized it, the bulk of
the inhabitants, like those of Lower Canada, speak
the French language, and in that language have the
proceedings of the Civil and Judicial Courts of the
Island been hitherto conducted. These preliminary
observations must be borne in mind by those who
would fully understand the merits of the question
which we are about to submit to them.

The Royal Court of Jamaica is composed of three
judges, of which only the principal, or Chief Justice,
receives a salary. The others are styled " Puisne
Judges," but the constitution of the Court is such

that no legal proceeding can take place unless the
three judges are present on the bench. It appears,
from the Barbadian of the 7th of February, that some
time in October last, one of the Puisne Judges re-
signed ; but for some unexplained cause, the Gover-
nor, Colonel BUNBURY, declined to appoint to the
vacant judgesh;p, in consequence of which the legal
business to be disposed of fell into arrear, and litigants
were put to the greatest inconvenience. In fact, the
course of justice was completely suspended. During
this period several petitions were presented to Colonel
BUNBURY praying the appointment of a Judge,
but no regard was paid to them, till a gentle-
man named CH RICHLOw, threatened that in the event of
an action in which he was engaged not being disposed
of, he would appeal for protection to her Majesty in
Council. This threat had the desired effect. A
Judge was appointed, but solely for the especial dis-
posal of that one case. This was objected to by the
Chief Justice REDDIE, who stated in open Court,
that it was not competent to the Governor to appoint
a Judge, subject to limitations, tantamount to a denial
of justice to the QUEEN'S subjects. The language of
the Chief Justice on this occasion,' was worthy of his
sacred official character ;

The course of the administrationlf justice, the powers an 3
duties, and obligations, devolving orrthe Chief Justice and the
first Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of this Colony, un-
der the Royal Order in Council cannot be contingent on, or
restrained, or limited by the terms of tyre Commission of any
second Puisne Judge or by any power or authority in this
colony. The governor or officer administering the govern-
ment may suspend the judges, but he cannot alter the order hi
council, or constitution of the court, or abrogate the judges'
functions and duties as regards the public of this colony, or
appoint or direct what causes shall be heard, and what shall not
bc heard by the Royal Court. We have accepted Mr. Agostini
bearing his Excellency Col. Bunbury's commission as second
puism. judge : as second puisne judge Mr. Agostini has been sworn
into that his office. The Court is now complete, and we are
now to proceed, as by law directed. We are bound to make
no distinction of persons or cases, we cannot select some
causes for decision and reject others, grant justice to some and
refuse it to others. We dare not do so.

_ .
This Court must be open to_ all and for all, and we are
bound by the law to proceed as heretofore with the causes ai
they have b?en enrolled, according priority or- advantage to
none.—[Here Mr. Agostini, Second Puisne Judge, left the
bench, saying he had already stated his motives for declining
to hear the causes now before the Court, but that he was pre-
pared to sit and hear the causes mentioned in his Commission,
as soon as they were called. The Second Puisne Judge then
took a scat below the Bench, but within the bar.]

His Honour the Chief Justice then added :—Mr. 2nd
Puisne Judge will leave the Bench or will stay as he pleases,
on his own responsibility, and at his own peril ; if, as 2nd
Puisne Judge, he is here to form part of the. Court and to
discharge his functions and duties as such and according to
law, we can proceed as a Court, not otherwise ; for us, for the
Ist Puisne Judge and myself, wo are determined with loyalty
to hold to the law, and the Royal Order in Council of 20th
June, 1831, while by her Majesty's favour we are continued
in the high trust now committed to us. God defend us from
doing otherwise ! We have no power to do otherwise, and we
have no other security, no one has any other security, for all
that is binding, for all that is great, or good, or sacred
amongst us.
The Royal Court of Supreme Jurisdiction in this Colony is
by the Charter of Justice open for all, and will be so, and re-
main so, as long as we are its Judges.
The very next day the 20th of December, Colonel
BUNBURY, in the plenitude of his power, dismissed
Chief Justice REDDIE, and First Puisne Judge
LAFFITTE from the Bench, and appointed Messrs.
GOVAN, Cox, and FERGUSON in their room. The
dismissed judges protested; against this proceeding,
and we believe their complaints are now under the con-
sideration of her MAJESTY'S Government. But the
disgrace of two able and uptight judges did not satisfy
the vengeance of Colonel BUNBURY. The bar of

St. Lucia—disgusted at so wanton an act of despotism
—refusing to plead before the new Court, Colonel

BUNBURY, by a proclamation dated the 22d of
February of the present year, abolishes the use of
the French language in the legal proceedings of the
island after the Ist of March, substituting English in
the stead thereof. By this means the Governor hopes
to take vengeance upon the bar as many of its members
are but imperfectly acquainted with a language
which
they can only know from books ; few of the native in-
habitants ever having any occasion to speak it. To
make the proclamation as insulting as possible, Coionai
BuN unY goes out of his way to remind the inhabi-
tants of St. Lucia that they are our colonists by right
of conquest, and therefore he, as Governor,
has power
to deal with them as he pleases.
We have stated this affair with all possible concise-
ness, and we believe with impartiality ; and we shall
await patiently the decision of the Government and
the people of England respecting it. That Colonel
BUNBURY ought to be recalled, and his proclamation
abrogated, no honest Englishman will dispute for an
instant. But what reparation shall we make to the
Judges and inhabitants of St. Lucia for the ;rose
insult offered them ?

By the packet-ship Horatio, which arrived at
Liverpool on Saturday, we have received New yotk
Papers to the 26th ult. inclusive, from which copious
and interesting extracts will be found in another part
of The Sun. By a second arrival we have received
New Brunswick Journals to the 18th ult.,
with the
Governor's speech on dissolving the Legislative As.,-
sembly on the 9th. This document will also found
in mother column. In the meantime we insert here
as more appropriate, the loyal resolutions adopted
the Assembly immediately before its dissolution.
These resolutions were preceded by a grant of 10,000/
out of the Provincial Treasury, to defray the expense
of the war in Canada :

FRIDAY, M %RCN 9.
Mr. Partelow moved the following resolutions, which we,
adopted by the House :
" 1. Resolved, that this House is duly impressed with the

forcible appeal of the Constitutional Association of the city of
Montreal, in Lower Canada, on behalf of the loyal inhabitants
of British and Irish origin resident in that province.
" 2. That this House cloth most sincerely sympathize with
these loyal brethren, and doth unfeignedly regret the unfor-
tunate position in which they have been placed by a revolu-
tionary French faction, professedly bent on the dismember-
ment of that valuable and important colony from the British
empire.
"3. That the accomplishment of such daring and wicked
design would not only be destructive of the rights and interests
of the British population of that Province, but would also
endanger that strong connexion so happily existing between
the other American Colonies and the mother country; and,
in the opinion of this House, would be regarded as a grievous
calamity by every virtuous and enlightened citizen of the neigh-
bouring Republic.
4. That is bile this House cloth freely admit that suffi-
c'ent causes may have heretofore existed to have justified an
_ippeal to the Home Government for an enlargement of the
vonstitutional powers of the representative of the people of
that province ; yet it cloth at the same time entertain the
opinion that the extravagant claims made by the Assembly,
And so perniciously reiterated, were such as could never be
complied with, without giving up to the French dominant
party the absolute control of the Provincial Government,
and thereby inevitably inducing an entire prostration of Bri-
tish interests, and the abandonment of the province by British
inhabitants.

5. " That being deeply impressed with the relative im-
portance and value of that province as an integral portion of
he British American possessions, it is the opinion of this
i louse, and one which it is called upon at this time to express
—that prompt and effective measures should be adopted by
Her Majesty's Government to reform the Constitution and
customs of that important Province, by assimilating the laws
and usages thereof to those of the neighbouring Colonies, and
by abolishing the French language from all Legislative and
Judicial proceedings.
" 6. That this House cannot venture to recommend the re-
union of the Canadas, without having first ascertained the
views of the Legislature of the Upper Province, on that im-
portant question.
" 7. That this House entertain a high sense of the inflexi-
ble Loyalty which has distinguished such of the French in-
h ibitants as have adhered to the Royal Standard through the
late rebellion.

" 8. That an bumble Address be presented to his Excel-
lency the Lieutenant-Governor, praying that his Excellency
will be pleased to transmit the foregoing resolutions to her
M-jetty's Government, to be laid at the foot of the Throne."

The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday have
all been received. They confirm the advices received
*rom Bordeaux on Saturday relative to the defeat of
the Carlists in the vicinity of Barbastro on the 6th.
The rebels who escaped were attacked a second time
on the 7th, and again defeated, with the loss of three
hundred prisoners.
Extracts from the French Journals will be found in
another column.

We have received advices from Lisbon, of the 10th
inst., by the Tagus steamer, which arrived at Fal-
tnnuth on Saturday. On the 4th her Most Faithful
Alajesty ainna MARIA solemnly accepted the New
Constitution and dissolved the Cortes. The whole
line from the Palace of Necessidades to the Hall of
the Cortes was guarded by regular troops and lined
vith spectators ; but though there was firing of guns,
and ringing of bells, and waving of flags, and a goodly
host of heralds, pursuivants, kings-at-arms, led-horses,
and state-carriages, there was no real enthusiasm
among the spectators. The QUEEN and her Royal
Consort went through the ceremony very well, and
greatly to the satisfaction of the Cortes. Having on
alighting at the Hall of the Deputies been met and
conducted to the Throne by a deputation of thirteen
Members, the QUEEN received from the President of
the Council, and read to the Chamber, the following
Address :

" Gentlemen—l come to the bosom of the national repre-
sentation, to take a solemn oath to the political Constitution of
:lie monarchy, which the constituent Cortex have decreed. I
sincerely congratulate myself on the arrival of this so greatly-
desired day. The work of the national wisdom, the fruit of
four long and assiduous labours, is about to supply the first of
our wants by cementing the union of the Portuguese family—
,n union which I am firmly convinced will restore order,
peace, and public prosperity.
" At this solemn moment when (as God is my witness) I
.nn about to bind myself irrevocably to the fundamental law
hich you have decreed and I hare accepted, I feel the
sweetest consolation in announcing to you that I will begin
'o carry it into effect by the exercise of one of the most pre-
cb)us prerogatives it concedes to me—by enjoining perpetual
oblivion of all the fatal dissensions which have afflicted the na-

tion. Thus, Sirs, the new social compact, by uniting all my
subjects, will form the happiness of a generous nation, by so
many titles deserving of it. Thus united around my consti-
tutional Throne, the whole Portuguese people will concur
towards the consolidation of the fundamental law of the mo-
narchy, which I freely accept and swear to maintain."
The form of the oath was then handed to her by
the Minister of the Interior, which she signed without
hesitation. The President of the Cortes then pre-
sented her MAJESTY with a Bible open, upon the
the text of which she laid her hand, and repeated aloud
the words of the oath. When she had concluded,
she took the Bible in her own hands, and administered
the oath to the KING. This done, the PRESIDINT
addressed their MAJESTIES in the name of the
Cortes congratulating them upon the bright prospect
which their acceptance of the Constitution opened to
the Polluguese nation. When he resumed hiS scat
the QUEEN dissolved the Constituent Cortes in the
following words :
" Messrs. Deputies of the Portuguese nation ! By my ac-
ceptance of and oath to the Constitution of the Monarchy, the
form of the Government has been definitely fixed. Sirs, you
have discussed and decreed laws of the greatest importance,
and the repeated proofs you have constantly given of the inte-
rest you take in the stability of my Throne, of your fidelity to
me. and zeal for the good of my subjects, claim my sincerest
acknowledgments.
The Session of the General Extraordinary and Constitu-
tional Cortes of the Portuguese nation is closed."
The QUEEN then retired in the same order in
..vhich she entered the Chamber.
On the Gth the amnesty promised by her MA-
JESTY appeared in the Diario. It is couched in the
following terms :
Every political event which shall have taken place since
the 10th of September 1836, shall remain in perpetual oblivion
and absolute silence. All pending proceedings arising from
the same shall be considered as null and void. All such per-
sons who in consequence of those events are out of Portugal,
may return to their country. Such military men as took
part in the said events shall be restored to actual service after
they take the oath to the Constition of 1838. This amnesty
does not include the restoration of civil employes.
PAMELLA, TERCEIRA, SALDANIIA, and all refu-
,,ees involved in the late Chartist rebellion may now
return to Portugal. We have no doubt but that the
KING, Constitutionalist though he now be, will be
very glad to see them. There was a distribution of
Royal favours on this occasion. Viscounts. DAs AN-
TAS and REGUENDO were created Counts, as was
likewise the Baron BOMFINI. JOHN D'OLIVIERA,
the Financier, was created a Baron ; and on retiring
from the Ministry, SA DA BANDEIRA is to have a
dukedom.
The following is a copy of the project of law, sanc-
tioned by the Cortes, and signed by the QUEEN, re-
establishing the Oporto Wine Company for a period
of twenty years. As it is of great importance to Bri-
tish merchants, we give it entire :
" Article 1. The general company for the culture of the
vines in Upper Douro, suppressed by the law of the 30th May,
1834, is again established for the period of twenty years. This
company will, however, merely have the right of proving and
lotting the wines of Upper Douro, marking the casks, and
issuing transit permits, according to the laws of the 17th May
and 20th December. 1822, modified by the resolutions of the
6th December, 1824, and 11th November, 1825, by which
the mode of proving the wines was prescribed.
" Art. 2. Such wines only as shall have been approved of,
Ind furnished with a permit by the company, will be allayed
to be exported throughout the bar of Oporto.
" § The wine at present in store at Oporto, Villa Nova da
Gaia, and in the Douro, shall be manifested immediately after
the publication of this law ; and if previously qualified. may
be exported through the bar of Oporto either with or without
a permit. _ _

" Art. 3.
As a compensation for the expenses to which the
Company
will be put in proving and lotting the wines, brand_
,ng casks, and issuing permits, they shall be entitled to levy
400 refs upon each pipe of wine receiving a permit. This
sum of 400 rein shall be deducted from the amount of duties
,ayable for consumption or exportation ; and the Company
shall be cbliged to render an annual account of the receipts
and expenses to Government, and to band over the balance, if
there should be any.
" Art. 4. The Company may promote the augmentation of
'ts stock by means of shares, for which purpose the necessary
authorization is to be applied for to Government, to whom the
Company shall also propose whatever else may be necessary
for the execution of this law.
" Art. 5. All legislation to the contrary is hereby revoked.
(Signed) " THE QUEEN.
(Countersigned) " ANTONIO FERNANDES COELHO.
" Palace of Neccssidades, 7th April, Ina."

We have advices from Madrid to the Bth inst. in-
clusive. They are of no politicalrimportance. Fears
were entertained in the capital that some of the Carlist
bands would take possession of the palace of the Es-
curial, which it appears is oply guarded by some thirty
or forty soldiers !

PROCESSION IN HONOUR OF THE

DORCHESTER LABOURERS.

This morning, according to previous arrangement, the Com-
mittee of the Trades appointed to conduct the procession
which was to escort the Dorchester Labourers to the dinner
given them by the London Trades', met at the Horns' Tavern,
Kennington, for the 'purpose of allotting a space for the form-
ing of each Trade, which was done by boards, on which was
the number of the company or trade.
By eight o'clock, a great number of persons had arrived,
those intending to join the procession being distinguished by
wearing a bit of crimson silk ribbon on their left breast. By
nine o'clock, there could not be fewer than 10,000 persons
assembled, and more were pouring in from every quarter.
The Dorchester Labourers, five in number, arrived soon
after that hour in an open landau and four ; they were received
with deafening cheers, which lasted for a considerable time,
and which they acknowledged by taking off their hats and
bowing.
The men are good looking middle-aged men, with one ex-
ception, and he is a respectable looking old man ; they were
well dressed, but not at all in an ostentatious manner.
At 10, the various trades had arranged themselves in their
allotted places, and the landau was driven up and down be-
tween the open spaces; they were loudly cheered by each class
as they passed.
That ceremony over, a rocket was fired as a signal for tine
march. The men then formed into a line according to the ar-
rangements previously made —each trade being preceded by
a band of music and their flags. Many of them were very
splendid silk flags, with the arms of the trade beautifully em-
blazoned on them. One beautful little flag had the inscrip-
tion on it, of "The Queen's Guards—The People."
The procession was an enormously long one, and though the
men walked four abreast and close, the leaders of it were at
the distance of a mile before the Dorchester Labourers, who
brought up the rear, had started. It was calculated that not
less than between 6,000 and 7,000 men were in the procession.
From Kennington-common, they proceeded by Kennington-
cross, \Valcot-place, Westminster-bridge, Whitehall, Char-
ing-cross.
When the bead of the procession had reached this point the
laudau of the labourers was still on Westminster-bridge.
Along the whole line of the procession, the crowd anxious to
witness it was immense, and loudly cheered the labourers ts
they passed.
From Charing-cross they proceeded along Pall-mall, up
Waterloo-place, through Regent-street, Oxford-street, and
Tottenham-court-road into Bedford-square, then through Rus-
sell-square into Gray's- Inn-road, and thence through Penton-
ville to Copenhagen-fields, where marquees had been erected
for the dinner.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY ( THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The Dutch Government have opened a negotiation for a
new loan for 8,500,000 florins, at 5 per cent. interest, to be
inscribed at par; the payments are to be made at 50 0-1 on
the 15th June, and 50 0-6 on the 15th September ; the inte-
rest commences on the Ist April.
Consols opened this moaning at the leaving off prices of
Saturday, 934 i for Money and Account; Exchequer Bills,
67 prem. ; India Bonds, 73 ; Bank Stock, 205 k 206 ; India
Stock, 2681.
In the Foreign Market, it is settling-day, but the chief
part of the Account was wound up on Saturday ; consequently
there remains little to be done this day, and there is no doubt
that the settlement will pass off well. Although Spanish Ac-
tive comes higher from Paris, 2 l:, it is heavy this morning;
opened at 201, afterwards was done at 20k, at present, 20i- 4.
This being Easter-Monday, very little business is doing in
either of the Markets.
Portuguese, 301 31 ; Three per Cents. 201 21 ; Brazilian.
76 77 ; Colombian, 261 27i; Danish, 74k; Mexican, 271 I;
Dutch Two-and- Half, 544.
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock ... «. .« - I ddia Z-,•.7i.r: a.. - ..,. ................ - 269%
:3 per gent. :el - 72 p:n.
3 per Ct,tt. C0n5....... 93%% South Sea 4!,,tk -
3i4 per Cent..... -.Old Ann:lines ..« -......-
-
D tto Pel - . . -
New 3% per Cent 101%% 3 per Cent. Anndltie,;, :761_ -
New 5 per Cent... ........,..,.... - Exch. Biiis, .£1~1a
Bnilc I,:mizAtinuitlestoexpire Ditto 3(' 6l 67 pm.
Jan. 5, 1.8.10...
Oct. 10, 145 l4 13-16 f' Ditto CoMin,irctal
Jan. 5, 1530 - I Ditto As:vents-al 55 pm
Jan. 5, P4lO -1 Bank Stock fcr Acc0unt........ -
April e. 1680... ..... «.... - Indla Stools for Acc0unt......... -
Jan. 5, 1870.«.. ....... .•• - , Cor.ols. for A.ccennt. -
PRICES CF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
A ustnan Bonds - Peruvuo: BCRICIS .....- ....... ..... --
Busman Bonds Ditto Account ~..... -
D.tto Account . , Portuguege Bonds -
13,anliaria,mdc
-
Oat, Account Ditto Nra I.li,rnlt-, 30%
It ',no., Ayres Bonds Ditto Account
Dot, Account -... .......... ... - Ditto. 3 per cult 20 "a -(a
riirn.. Tiand. . t'n.siati ii:onds
. .... . -
[lnto Accoant ....- ....... .. - Ituseom Bonds, 1922 ......... •
O burni,:•,,,,,, bonds ~.„.„._„...... - Ditto Acccunt ........
;I,itt Acooo..i. ... - Ditto) Metallic
'3lumbian Bonds, 1821
.o.:i Account

i) rr,:h :.30:uts „ , „,„
,Jttt AceOuT.lt
i)tro 13*-1:13,
Ditto Accour.t
klexicali itarda' 5 per
!At) Accoant ....
er ctsr.t. .274 7
_Atte Account
.... •
P!...ICE:i OF SHARES

Dim, Bond 13: 5.
than AceannL. .2()%
L French, :..• per —f
-- -I per cent.. ... —± —c.
3 per mat ..... •. —,•
------ Exchange
Dutch, rer,cer,t ..... X 37 0,4
' D do Acco,lnt .........53% 4
Itzr cent... 99 1001 A 100
Uitto .ke:tount
LS DAY Al' ONE O'CLOCh
Paid. Per Share.

i3olanos Mining Company l5O 15 '3',
British Iron Company
Polberou Consols Mining Company
Crtgliton Railway Company
Asphalte, Claridge's Patent
Ili nisi) North American Bank
Colonial Bank
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS. DUBLIN, APRIL 14.
3 per Cent. Censols 92% Grant Canal Debs. ft per cent. 91%
Ditto Reduced ...... .... -1 Ditto, 4 per cent. ... ....... ... 61%
:.1!, per Cent. Stock lOO Hibernian Bank
Ditto New, 1530
314 per Cent. Debentures -
Bank Stock -
}loyal Canal Stock - Ballast Office Debentures, 4 per
tirand Canal Stock -- cevit -
HALF-PAST ONE.

Both the British and Foreign Markets arc in an inactive
state, and there is so little doing in Consols, that up to one
o'clock there was not a bargain done in Consols for the Ac-
count ; fir Money they may be quoted at 931 r 4 ; and for
Time, 934 4. Exchequer Bill, 69 67 premium ; India Bonds,
72, premium; Bank Stock, 206; India Stock, 2696.
In the Foreign Market, the only business transacting is in
Portuguese and Spanish Active ; the former may be quoted at
30A- 31. Three per Cents., 204 21—the latter still heavy at
204 to 4 with Coupons. Colombian, 27 ; Mexican, 271 ;
Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 514.
In the Share Market little doing. Brighton 24 premium ;
Aqphalte fallen to 13i. premium. In British Iron nothing
doing. Letters have been received from Rio Janeiro to the
27th January, but they do not contain any political news of
consequence.
We have received a Montreal Paper of the 17th March,
which states from the Burlington Sentinel, from good autho-
rity, that Papineau is residing in Albany, and has been in con-
stant communication with Governor Marcy, and other United
States officers, for the last three weeks, maturing plans for a
Canadian rebellion, but his success was considered very
doubtful.
Exchange at Rio Janeiro, 27 to 271-, on the 28th January.
THREE O'CLOCK
Consols for Account, 93i I.

Mr. Sergeant Adams, DTs. T. Barber Beaumont,
and Mr. Conant, had an interview with Lord John Russell, at
the Home Office, on Saturday lnst, on the subject of the re- '
solutions agreed to at the recent Special County Courts of '
Middlesex Magistrates, upon the subject of restraining the
sale of spirituous liquors in the night time, and on Sunday
morning.
Young Adams, who was acquitted at the last Bucks
Assizes of the charge of murdering his father, is again an in-
mate of Aylesbury gaol, being committed for threatening the
life of the old shepherd who gave evidence against him on the
trial. He was examined also on Saturday on suspicion of
robbing his late father, and remanded for a week. —Herts
Reformer.
At the meeting of the Norwich Town Council on
Friday, it was announced that the Lords of her Majesty's
Treasury had awarded to Mr. Fitzroy Kelly an annuity of
481. a year, as a compensation for the loss of the office of
Steward of the late Corporation.
Miss Cooper, who will appear this evening at the
Haymarket, belonged to the Pavilion Company some seasons
ago. Miss Elphinstone comes immediately from Sunderland,
and though her advantages may be heightened by the excite-
ment of provincial criticism, yet, in point of face, form, stature
and power of expression, she gives great hopes of adding
largely to the resources of iour metropolitan drama.
Harley has transferred his valuable and popular
services from Braham to Macready, and will appear on Satur-
day next as Mawworm in the Hypocrite, and Sir Harry, in
High Life below Stairs, both being parts that no actor of the
present day can more judiciously or effectively perform. We
hail this engagement as the most desirable that could have
been made for filling up a marked and serious void in the
comic strength of the Company.
REVIEW OF THE LIVERPOOL SIIARE MARKET
FOR THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 12.—The business of the pre-
sent week opened very languidly, and during Monday and
Tuesday and the greater part of Wednesday there was scarcely
a transaction of importance effected in any'clescription of
stock, though London and Brighton and Manchester and Bir-
mingham were offering on lower terms. Towards the conclu-
sion of the last-mentioned day a better demand was felt for
Great Western and London and Brighton, but as holders
were endeavouring to regain the reduction previously submit-
ted to, very little business was done. This morning's market
was considerably brisker, and fully the prices of this day week
were obtained, and in some instances an advance was realized,
Great Western being I, and London and Southampton (new)
11 per share higher.
STATE OF TRADE.—The home demand continues
dull. Worsted goods are moving very slowly, and stocks will
increase, if the present policy which the London houses ate
adopting is persevered in, as they are buying very sparingly.
Wools, it is thought, will maintain their present prices.
Little is doing in shipping business, except by consignment.
The demand for spring gloves is tolerably brisk.—Leicester-
shire Mercury.
RUNAWAY MATCH.--Married, at Gretna Green,
ScOtland, the Bth of April, Guildford Onslow, Esq., son of
the Hon. Colonel Onslow, and nephew of the present Earl of
Onslow, of Alresford, Hants, to Rosa Anna, daughter of Ge-
neral Onslow, of Stoughton House, Huntingdonshire.—
Morning Post.—[The parties passed through Carlisle at nine
o'clock in the morning in a carriage and four, post horses, and
returned in the same way about one o'clock, changing. horses
on each occasion at the Bush Hotel. It is said that the parson
got SOL for his fee.]:—Carlisle Patriot.

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ELECTION OF CHURCHWA • a ~
This morning a Vestry of this parish was a, Ai: pit>,
election of Churchwardens, who were nomilat
day last. aft V 1 S IV4 '
Mr. PAYNE proposed Mr. Staunton,
A question having been raised as to the possibility of 41eing
a poll now,
The VICAR (the Rev. H. Dukingfitli) t-a:d, by a (7ecision
of the King's Bench, a day's notice wr.,;icquired for a poll.
Mr. HAYWARD proposed Mr. Cuff.
Mr. EVANS proposed Mr. Fincham.
Mr. WILSON proposed Sergeant Mereweathor.—(A laugh).
Mr. PEARCE withdrew his name from th'e List. of nomi.
nations.

ST. MARTIN'S IN THE
(THIS DAY.)

Mr. POUNCEY regretted much that Mr. Peanee had with-
drawn his name, because he wished all the evils of a poll—
including the plurality of voting to be avoided by a: compro-
mise—and he thought Mr. Pearce would unite all pas ties.
Mr. ABBOTT wished to propose Mr. G. Pouncey, lou't that
gentleman's brother declared positively that he could not st. rye.
Mr. WESTERTON proposed Mr. Simpson.
Mr. PEAkCE proposed Mr. Lang.
Mr. James' name was withdrawn..
Mr. SIMPSON said he wished sincerely his name to be with-
drawn.—(Cries of " No, no.")
Mr. WILES recommended a compromise, that Messrs.
Simpson and Staunton should withdraw and settle it among
themselves, to preserve the peace of the parish.—(No, no,
and Hear, hear.)
Mr. PITT would strenuously oppose all co rpromise. He
made a violent attack upon the New Poor-law, anti said be
should determinately resist the election of any gentleman tee
Churchwarden who advocated that abominable measure.
The VICAR read the list of gentlemen who bad been pro-
posed, which was as follows :—Mr. Simpson, Mr. Staunton,
Mr. Cuff, Mr. Fincham, Mr. Sergeant Mereweather, and
Mr. Lang. Of these gentlemen only two ( Messrs. Simpson
and Lang) arc of Liberal politics; the. remaining four are
Tories. A long discussion ensued as to the possibility of ob-
viating the necessity for a poll, by effecting a compromise.
Both Mr. Lang and Mr. Simpson declared (as did their
movers and seconders) that they would, one of them, withdraw,
if the opposite party would withdraw all but one, on their side.
The proposal, however, was not acceded to.
The VICAR said Ire should have been most happy could any
compromise have settled the business amicably, without in-
volving the parish in all the inconveniences of a disputed elec-
tion. As it was he had only to take the show of hands, which
he declared to be decidedly against Mr. Sergeant Mereweather
and Mr. Staunton.
A poll was demanded on b:half of each gentleman proposed.
The meeting then proceeded to the election of the other
parish officers.
In respect to the office of beadle,
A VEST:IYMAN asked what duties the beadle had to perform?
The Clerk read an extract from the report of a Committee
which had been appointed en this subject in the following
terms :—" The duties of the beadle are to give notice when
and where a vestry is to be held, to attend it when met, and to
execute its orders—to act in a subordinate capacity in assisting
tile churchwardens, guardians of the poor, overseers, and con-
stables, when ordered so to do, and generally to execute the
orders of the vestry. They shall also attend the church half
an hour before and during divine service, and take care shat no
disturbance shall take place in or about the church, and do any
parochial services required by the churchwardens."
Mr. PITT moved that the election of one of the beadles (a
vacancy having occurred) be deferred, arguing that there
no necessity for more than one.
The motion was, however, decidedly negatived.
Three candidates were proposed for the vacant beadleship.
named Smith, Stroud, and Cust. The show of hands was
in favour of Smith.
A poll was dereendA for Cust, hut the sense of the meet-
ing was loudly expressed against it.
On the question of the Organist, Mr. DAVENPORT proposed
that the salary (which had already been rcduced irons 90/. to
751.) be further reduced.—The proposal was unardinoesiy
rejected.
The Rev. CHAIRMAN bore high testimony to the chant( t .•r
of the Organist, who had filled the effi,:e forty years.
Thanks having been voted to the Vicar, for his gentlemanly
conduct in the chair, the meeting separated.