The Sun.
London, England, 1838-04-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1838

differ from the national-religion-doctors. In their
system, as in that of CHARLEMAGNE, everything
is different from the system of conversion adopted by
the Missionaries to the Pacific Islands. Christianity,
instead of being recommended by benefits, comes ac-
companied by injuries. In the name of the National
Church men are denied liberty, and their pockets are
picked. They suffer injustice from men, and their
indignation extends to religion. The marvels and mys-
teries of which, they are told, only excite suspicion
and mistrust when on them a priesthood founds a
claim to political power, and to extort their substance.
It is, then, the legal injustice comprised in the
very essence of a National Church which has made
that form of Christianity amongst us, which receives
the exclusive support of the law hated in Ireland, and
much despised and scorned in England. In submitting
to laws men acknowledge them to be evils ; but religion
is altogether a benefit ; and, by associating it with
laws—by enforcing it like a conscription, or like obe-
dience to a tyrant—the hateful characteristics of law are
imparted to religion, and it is made, as Dr. CHAL-
MERS now complains, inefficacious in Scotland, Eng-
land, and Ireland. A National Church then is in all its
characteristics the very reverse of that peaceful mission
which made Christianity successful in the early ages,
and now makes it successful in the Pacific Islands.
The laws, we apprehend, of human nature are the same
in distant ages and countries ; and the same principles
which prevailed in former times, and now prevail at
Owyhee, also prevail amongst us. 'We all hate, and
justly hate, those who claim to be our oppressors, and
we love those who confer benefits on us. To make reli-
gion acceptable, she must be associated with advantage.
A National Church inflicts wrong in the name of reli-
gion on all those who do not belong to its priesthood.
This is the explanation of the decay of the National
Church throughout the empire ; and we hope that the
learned Doctor, who is to lecture on the subject, will
prove, in opposition to the examples we have quoted,
that Christianity can be promoted by taxation.
Since this article was in type (it had been prepared
yesterday) we have seen in the Times, of this morning,
an article on Dr. CHA Ls! Erts' lectures, which we
transfer to our columns. 'We shall both report the
lectures when they commence, and comment on them,
being convinced that the question of establishing and
endowing National Churches has now become a vital
question to the liberty, the peace, and prosperity of
the country.

The honest enthusiasm with which the liberal and
enlightened inhabitants of Birmingham have taken up
the cause of the cruelly oppressed coloured population
of our West Indian Colonies, augurs well foi the
speedy triumph of the unconditional Emancipation-
ists. The report of the proceedings of the Anti-
Slavery Meeting, held there yesterday—which will be
found at length in our columns of this day—will find
its way to the tread-mills of Jamaica, and re-animate
with a hope of speedy deliverance, many a now dis-
consolate heart. We are confident that the men of
Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool—the men of
' sound heads, strong hands, and stout hearts—will not
excite hopes only to disappoint them—will not raise
the cup of consolation to the parched lips of the poor
African, only to manifest the excessive cruelty of des-
potism, in dashing it untasted to the ground. It is
not words only, but the sturdy energy of action, that
we want from them ; and we have good reason to be
satisfied that we shall not be disappointed. The
cause in which they are engaged is one of
the noblest and holiest that ever occupied the mind
of man. They have justice—Heaven—the uplif-
ted voice of every great and good man—cheering them
on. They need not invoke the sanctity of the end
as a justification of the means, for both are alike
righteous. Need we say that they shall have all the
support that we can give them? Such a declaration
on our part must he now unnecessary. We are for the
unconditional abolition of Slavery in every part of the
world; and we cannot tax ourselves with ever having lost
an opportuity to take part with the oppressed agaiffst
the oppressor.

We will not here enter into an analysis of the
speeches delivered at the Birmingham Meeting, satis-
fied that there are few of our readers who will not
peruse the Report; but to those who wish to see the
question placed on a proper business footing, we
strongly recommend an immediate reference to the
admirable speech of Mr. STURGE. The statements
made by this gentleman—based as they are upon do-
cuments of unquestioned authenticity—place the dark
deeds of the Planters, and their zealous supporters in
this country, in a stronger light than any in which
they have yet been exhibited.

Those three expert mountebanks, Sir FRANCIS
BURDETT, Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR, and Lord
MAIDSTONE, are carrying all before them in the
North, to the annoyance of the Easter-holiday show-
men, who complain of a most serious falling-off in their
business. Though there were an Irish giant, a learned
pig, a salamander, and a calf with a big tail growing
out of the nape of its neck, in the course of exhibition
at Manchester on Wednesday last, yet no sooner was
it known that the BURDETT caravan had arrived,
than all the townsmen flocked off to the Corn Ex-
change where it put up, leaving all the other caravans
in a state of utter, hopeless solitude. Now we must
confess—enemies as we are to all monopolies—that
we deeply sympathise with the legitimate showmen on
this occasion ; and are of opinion that the two Baro-
nets and the Peer hare interfered in a most unwarrant-
able manner with the profits of their brethren in the
profession. That they exhibit themselves gratis is no
answer to our charge ; they have no earthly right—
if the principles of humanity are to go for anything—
to set up an Opposition caravan, which they must be
well aware will take the bread out of the mouth of the
industrious, and far more deserving, proprietor of the
Irish giant and the salamander. If, however, we leav
out of consideration the manifest iniquity of the cas
it is our duty to confess that the exhibition made 0
di
themselves by the two Baronets and the Peer
is worthy of all the popularity it has met with
What can be richer than the spectacle of Sii
' FRANCIS BURDETT preaching an after-dinner
sermon in praise of the high Tory Church ;
of Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR assuring the Manchester
operatives that they are as well off as the aristocratic
classes, because " they have the same prospects of
eternity ;" and of Lord MAIDSTONE enunciating
with an emphasis proportioned to the grand occasion,
that "at Leeds on Monday, and at Salford Tues-
day, he had disposed of O'CONNELL 1" This last
trait of character is irresistible. No wonder it was
received with shouts of enthusiasm by an electri-
fied audience ! It is impossible indeed to over-estimate
the services that Lord MAIDSTONE has conferred on
all good Tories by thus disposing of O'CONNELL.
Henceforth this affrighted faction may sleep in peace.
David has slain Goliah ; the wrongs of years are
avenged ; and Easter Monday and Easter Tuesday—
the days when this memorable exploit was achieved—
shall from this time forward " stand aye remembered"
in the Tory calendar.
C!

onservatism and starvation go hand in hand.
Lord CHANDOS and his Buckinghamshire friends,
those men who bought land at a high price, and have
compelled the legislature to make good their improvi-
dent speculations, had a meeting at Aylesbury yester-
day, and after they had resolved to petition the Par-
liament against Colonel SEALE'S Bill, lest a grain of

flour, not produced by their land, should get into the
people's mouths, they went off to a grand Conserva-
tive festival at Wendover. That connection gives in
one sentence the true character of Conservatism.
Under the hypocritical mask of saving and serving
the people, it seeks to make and keep them slaves,
as wild beasts are tamed by exposing them to
hunger. We could not desire a better exemplification
of the true principle of Conservatism. Colonel
SEALE'S Bill will give employment to our millers, and
the sapient agriculturists of Cambridge tell us that the
corn should only be ground where it is consumed.
The same doctrine applied to the manufactures of
cotton and woollens would soon deprive the agricul-
turists of half their customers, and make their corn a
drug. Those landowners who legallyplunder the
bread-eaters of many millions a year, apprehend that
fraud will be committed under Colonel SEALE'S Bill.
They will allow nobody to cheathut themselves, and they
having the preponderance in the Legislature, do it ac-
cording to law. For our parts we are free to admit
that the smuggling, or fraud, as the agriculturists call
it, which would give bread to the people, by evading
the Corn Laws, is far preferable to the legal fraud
which snatches it from their hungry mouths.

" Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will
learn at no other," is a proverb which JOHN Btn.r.
knows to his cost contains a sad truth. After lending
to all the nations of the earth that would borrow of
him, without receiving back principal or interest from
one half of them, this deal education has at last in-
spired him with a little wisdom, and driven his cre-
ditors to sad shifts to get more money out of his
pocket. Knowing that their paper bonds would be
rejected, the Spaniards offer mines, and the Dutch-
men islands, but to all appearance without effect. The
former, after a great display of words about public
faith and honesty, and their sincere desire to pay their
debts, thought they had at last hit upon an admirable
contrivance to deceive him a tenth time. They now
find, however, that they had reckoned without their
host. Their agent at Paris being aware of the feel-
ings in this country respecting Spanish honour and
credit, has given up the task in despair, and we confi-
dently trust that the Dutchman, with all his maneeuvr-
in, to keep up the funds, and all his promises of rich
returns from the Spice Islands in the East, will find
himself in the same predicament. The condition of
the two countries, as regards their ability to pay, is
alike hopeless. Their debts are enormous—their re-
sources small, and their honour is all that we have to
rely on. Nothing is more easy than to find an excuse
for breaking an inconvenient engagement. Both na-
tions have already broken solemn engagements—the
one compounded with its creditors, and the other is
actually bankrupt—and yet they come again to England
and ask for renewed credit. Sir WALTER SCOTT
thought a destitute widow, with two or three children
to provide for, the most impudent of all beggars ; but
such a personage as he has described is the picture of
modesty when compared with these two applicants.
Holland has a debt equal to a sixth part of the enor-
.nous debt of this country, with about a twelfth of the
population, and not a fiftieth part of the trade and
commerce. Spain has neither trade nor mannfactures,
nor commerce nor credit ; and in this hopeful condition
they present themselves to JOHN BULL for the loan
of a few millions l No. If we risk our money let us
risk it on internal improvements, and not trust it to a
Sovereign who would use it to prolong hostility be-
tween the Dutch and Belgians ; or to a company at
Madrid, who have another object much more at heart
than a speedy termination of the war.

We understand that the Post-office authorities
charged the second number of the Court Gazette with
postage, on the ground that it had not been submitted
to the Postmaster-General for his opinion whether or
not it came under the description of a newspaper.
The proprietor of the Gazette means to bring the mat-
ter to issue, and has accordingly commenced, we are
told, proceedings against the Postmaster-General for
illegally stopping the circulation of the paper. The
clause of the Act of ISt VICTORIA, cap. 34, sec.
32, on which the Post-office authorities act, is as

follows :
" And be it further enacted, That in all cases in which a
question shall arise, whether a printed paper is entitled tl the
privileges of a newspaper or other publication hereby privileged,
io far as respects the transmission thereof by the post, under
the Post-Office Act, the question shall be referred to the
determination of the Postmaster-General, whose decision,
with the concurrence of the Lords of the Treasury, shall be
final."

But we apprehend that when a new periodical pub

cation is entered at the Stamp-office as a newspaper,
and when the proprietors and publishers hare other-
wise fulfilled all the conditions required by the law,
that no question ought to arise, and the Post-office
authorities have no right to interfere. It is very
kind of them to recommend those who publish any
,uch paper for the first time to send a copy of it to
the Postmaster-General for his opinion ; but there is no
obligation on publishers to do so, and their paper, if it
be a newspaper according to law, should not be stopped
by the Post-office, because this kind recommendation
has not been complied with. We demur much to making
any individual, whether nominally responsible or not, for
real responsibility scarcely exists in any privileged peer,
such as in the Postmaster-General—and on principle we
object to publications which are obviously newspapers
being submitted to him for his opinion or approval. He
might gradually usurp on that a power of deciding such a
question by the principles of the publication, and might
stop the circulation of newspapers hostile to his party
or his class. The question, however, will now be de-
cided, and we hope so as to convince the Post-office
authorities that they must neither stretch nor pervert
the law.

We copy from the Dutch Papers received this day,
the annexed address of the Minister for Foreign Affairs
to the States-General on the 13th ult., on the bighly
important subject of the relations at present subsisting
between Holland and Belgium. The late hour at
which this document reached us prevents us from
offering so much as a line of Comment upon it :
AMSTERDAM, APRIL 14.—We are enabled to publish the
following communications, made to the States General on the
13th March, by the Minister for Foreign Affairs :—" Noble
and Mighty Lords,—Before I enter on the chief subject of my
communication—viz., the present state of the Belgian ques-
tion, I must acquaint you with an incident, insignificant in its
origin, but which has acquired iotne importance, in conse-
quence of the attitude assumed by Great Britain and France.
" Within the rayon of thejortress of Luxemburg, which
belongs to the German Confederation, in the limits of which
the Confederation has always asserted the principle of not
tolerating either a military force, or any act of authority
on the part of the Belgians, h situated in the forest
known by the name of the Grunenwald, which, accord-
ing: was
the o p
disposalposd.
of Thetha
to the negociations in the conferences at London, are
to remain under the administration of the Grand Duke.
The Belgians having attempted, in 1831 and 1833, to fell and
sell
design
nom meddling with the
forest, and left the timber
r in timber
an
Diet in that
forbidh forest,t e e a
itrheaidr Belgians de
from
felled
officers of Luxemburgh, enjoining the military authority in
e
German
Luxemburg to support this measure. In 1833 the Belgians
having renewed the attempt, relying on the convention, con-
cluded on the 21st of May In the same year by the Nether-
lands with France and Great Britain, the Diet by a new de-
cree Frepeated its prohibition, and sent fresh orders to the
Commander-in-Chief at Luxemburg to see to the execution
the
htyerr theit territory of it. The result was that no timber was felled.
This decree announced in explicit terms the object
not
of Luxemburg,
not to e
updeer d m
Belgian troops, any
occupiedin
act of authority not yet recognised and exercised, nor to admit
the very dangerous principles advanced by the Belgians re-
included
nt
the Belgium
part
re-
specting the meaning of the Convention of the 21st of May,
1833, and to secure for the fortress the means of providing
itself with the necessary fuel, by the exclusive cutting of the
wood situated in its rayon. To guarantee the administration
of this forest, the Grand Ducal Government immediately re-
moved the officers of tne forest who had been unfaithful, and
put others in their place, who have been constantly engaged
in renewing the title deeds that had been withdrawn, or in

' inforcing them against the persons answerable to the Trea-
sury of the Grand Duke. In the Communes within the
rayon, the forest officers though discharged by the Belgians,
have continued to send in their reports, and to repress, as much
as possible, trespassers in the forest. The civil and military
government of the fortress, on its part, has always acted in
conformity with this state of things. Thus, at the beginning
of 1834, thirty persons pointed out as trespassers, and taken in
the fact, were arrested by patroles sent from the fortress, and
tried at Luxemburg, where in 1837, four persons were tried in
the Court of Assizes for similar offences. If Belgium has
desired to make some individual pass for officers of the
forest, they can exercise functions in name only, because the
Belgian soldiers and gendarme? are excluded from the Rayon,
and consequently cannot arrest .any person there. Besides,
the German Diet has not only forbid even the Belgians all
access, and the military conscription in the Rayon. but has
expressly prohibited them from exercising any authority over
the forest.

" In consequence, when the lapse of some years made it ne-
cessary to fell some timber for the preservation of the forest,
and for the use of the fortress, a decree of the Diet of the 12th
October, 1837, authorized the Governor of the fortress to
protect, if necessary, the officers of the Grand Ducal domain,
in the regular management and felling timber in the forest of
Grunenwald, against any infraction or interruption.
" No person had the most distant idea that a measure so
simple, so conformable to the nature of the case, and which
besides did not in any way prejudice Belgium, which was ex-
cluded from the use of the forest, and from all prospect of
ever possessing it, would give rise to the difficulties raised
against it by England and France. They have given occasion to
the exchange of the following notes,* in which the two powers
have endeavoured to represent the measure as an infraction of
the convention of the 21st May, 1833, touching, besides, on
the material point. Whereas, on our side, it was thought
proper to prove, that the felling of timber in the Grunewald,
had nothing to do with that convention, and that the natural
question was entirely German, and did not concern the
Netherlands.
" On the 16th December last year the French Minister at
Frankfort addressed a note on this subject to the German Diet,
but as it was adjourned at that time, and has not yet resumed
its sittings, no answer has yet been given to that note. Mean-
time the Members of the Diet present at Frankfort took a
provisional resolution that the question should remain entire.
I come now to that part of my address which is especially
worthy of your attention. Its importance determines me to
refrain from all circumlocution and all argument, to confine
myself in the execution of my task exclusively to facts,
and to speak only the strict language of history. The
object of the confidential overtures to the Courts of
Berlin, Vienna, and St. Petersburgh, announced in my
last communication, was the following combination :.- The
Government of the Netherlands, after having again scrupu-
lously examined all the possible issues, had fixed on the idea
of a provisional execution of the twenty-four articles recom-
mended by the Conference of London, in the first year of the
negociations, as containing equitable terms of separation, the
provisional execution to take place without prejudice to the
rights of either party, and with the reservation of a final nego-
ciation with the powers, in order to come to a definitive ar-
rangement. But, before it made a formal overture on this
point to the five Courts, the Cabinet of the Hague wished
first to communicate confidentially with those of Austria,
Prussia, and Russia. This time, as before, the Govern-
ment has failed in its efforts, and has not reaped the
fruit which it confidently expected, for this project, which
was so well calculated to propose a final arrangement. Russia
it is true shewed itself nobly to support the proposal at Lon-
don, but at St. Petersburgh as well at Vienna and Berlin, it
was unfavourably thought of as likely to lead only to a new
provisional state of things. Accordingly Austria and Prussia
declared they were not inclined to co-operate in it. These
powers desired besides that the question of territory in Lim-
burg, should be first decided in favour of the German Con-
federation. The Government seeing itself thus deprived of
this resource, also once more weighed all possible chances and
endeavours. Then strong in the consciousness of having in
the midst of unmerited difficulties raised against the
Courts by ingratitude and violence, by the infractionand the
annihilation of the most sacred treaties, and by the sacrifice
of the dearest in'erests of Europe, fulfilled with firmness, but
likewise with discernment, the duties imposed upon it, the
Government resolved on the step contained in the following
note addressed to the Envoy of the Netherlands in England,
to be delivered to the Conference of London. (This note we
have already published.) At the same time, the Government
has caused it to be declared at Berlin and Vienna, that with
rsspect to the first seven Articles, the King consents to admit
them in the sense of a territorial indemnity for the German Con-
federation at Limburg, which shall be the subject of a special
negotiation of his Majesty with the Confederation, on the prin-
ciple that this indemnity shall not extend to the ancient pos-
sessions of the Republic of the United Provinces in Limburg,
nor to the equivalent, which shall replace the ceded portion
of those possessions, the whole without prejudice to the idea
suggested at Vienna in 1834, according to which the high
contracting parties would endeavour to agree on a double
union with the kingdom of the Netherlands, and with the
German Confederations of the territory destined to constitute
the territorial indemnity in favour of the latter.
" Such, Noble and :Mighty Lords, is :the statement which
hard necessity has commanded me to make to the Represen-
tatives of the Netherlands. I have too much respect for the
emotion with which this communication must have been heard,
to interrupt it by reflection, and how should I venture to over-
leap the interval, beyond which alone great everts can be
judged. Posterity will not mistake the character of those,
the fatal consequences of which have so severely shaken the
kingdom of the Netherlands and the equilibrium of Europe.
They bear the fatal and indeliole stamp of that enervated and
unprincipled policy of our age, and of the misfortunes which
it has produced." _

The liandlesblad, which likewise gives the above article,
copies and criticises an article of the Journal des Debats,
which shows that Belgium is not bound to accept the 24
Articles.

* A Letter of Sir E. C. Disbrowe, of 20th Dec. 1837.
B My answer, 22d Dec. 1837.
C Note of Sir E. C. Disbrowe, 22d Dec, 1837.
D My answer, 25th Dec. 1837.
E Note of Sir E. C. Disbrowe, of 30th Dec. 1837,
F Accompanied by a further protest, and
G By a letter from Lord Palmerston.
H My answer 2d January, 1838.
I Note of Baron Monier, 30th Dec. 1837.
J My answer, 2d Jan. 1838.
K Note of Sir E. C. Disbrowe, 16th Jan. 1838.
L My answer, 24th Jan. 1838.
M Note of Sir E. C. Disbrowc, Ist Feb. 1838.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, APRIL 17.
Actual Debt, 2% per ^,mt Money. Bills.
54)4 514
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
A limit Svadie, 4N, per cent .. 95 95%
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. 79% 80
Commercial Company, 4':, per cent 18414 1:•5!‘
Ditto (Isl 2 and 1K33) 5 per cent.
Loan 1536, I per cent.
Ditto 19:37. 6 per cent.
Exchange on London, One month l2 17
Two months
BELGIAN t UNDS—BRUBSELS, APRIL 19.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. IW
Loan of Thirty Millions 1.... 933 i
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 98%
Society of Commerce, 454 per Cent .. 169
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 113%
National Society
—Brussels Papers, April 18.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, APRIL 10.
Five per Cents. Slatalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares 1456

-4111gesneine Zeitung„7April 13.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN. APRIL 12.
Bills. Aloney,
St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent ................1025% 102%
Prussian English Loan, 18.10, 4 per cent. 103 102,E
Exchange on London, three months ... 6 23%
—Prussian State Gazette. April 13.

We have received a letter from Lima of the Ist of
December 1837, giving an account of the signing of a
treaty of peace between the Peru-Boli►ian Confedera-

tion and Chili. We have not space for it to-day, but
as its details arc interesting, it shall appear, if possible,
to-morrow•.

The Paris Journals of Wednesday are filled with
the debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the reduc-
tion of the Five per Cents. Up to the hour when the
mails started for London, no member of the Cabinet
had addressed the Chamber. The contest was en-
tirely between the fifth-rate orators and politicians,
whom the leaders of the Ministerial and Opposition
parties rather suffered than encouraged to take the
lead upon this question. The debate was in conse-
quence unusually animated, lack of argument being
supplied by warmth of tamper and vehemence of
declamation. M. DE LAMARTINE, the poet, made
a florid speech against the reduction of the inte-
rest, which he denounced as an act of national
robbery. As if to throw oil on the flames, M.
LAPITTE proposed, as an amendment upon M.
GOWN'S plan, that the interest should be reduced to
three-and-a-half per cent. at the price of eighty-
three francs thirty-three cents.—a scheme highly ob-
jectionable, were it only for its complexity, and to
four-fifths of the holders of the Rentes, utter unintelli-
gibility. To increase the nominal amount of Stock,
which, reducing the interest, is only perplexing the
simple process of enriching oneself by taking out of
one pocket to fill the other.

The news from Spain is rather unimportant.
Rumours were afloat that the Carlist Chief BASILIO
had penetrated to Almaden, and flooded the quicksilver
mines there—the last strong-hold of the Spanish
Treasury. The negligence of the Spanish Govern-
ment is such, that we should not be surprised at any-
thing that could happen. If we feel anything like
astonishment, it is that the Carlists have not long
since plundered the Escurial. We must observe,
however, that letters of the 10th inst. from Madrid,

received to-day, make no mention of the flooding of
the mines ; but, on the contrary, represent BASILIO
as flying before the QUEEN'S Generals.

FRENCH FUNDS. -PARIS, APRIL 18.
Five per Cents.. 108 f. 55c. 50c. 60c. 75c.
Four and a Half ver Cents. 103 f. 50c.
Four per Cents., 101 f. 9.5 c,
Three per Cents., PK 80f. Ole. 81f.
Bank Actions, 2,670 f. 2,r40f. 2,670 f.
acute (le Naples, 100 E 100 f. sc. 100 E
Roman Five per Cents., 103.
Spanish Actives, 21%.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 1012 .
Belgian Bank, 1,415 f.
Hzytian Loan, 475 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 55c.; money, 251. 55c
TMee months, paper, :25f. 40c.; money, 25f. 40c.
LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents. JOS& g!c.
Three per Cents., 81f. Sc.
Bank Actions, 2,670 f.
Romans, 103.
Belgian Loan, 1021 ii.
Belgian Bank, 1,415 f.
Havtian Loan, 3'75f.
Spanish Actives, 21)4.
RAILWAY SHARES.
Paris to St. Germains, 1,00 f. I,ooof.
Paris to Versailles, R. B. 800 f. 807 E 50c. 805 f.
Paris to Versailles, L. B. 670 f. 6721.50 c. 667 f. 50c.
Mulhausen to Thann 650 f.
ASPHALTES AND BITUMENS.
Seyssel, A. 5,860 f. I,ooof.
Ditto (English) 870 f. Biisf. 870 f.
Des Maurell, B. 2,050 f. 2,06 q.
Guibert, 650 f. 665 f. 640 f. 645 f.
Bastenes, 2,600 f.
Polonceau, 945 f. 960 f. 940 f. 945 f.
Colonne, B 1,420 E 1,500 f.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY

DEAL, APRIL 19.—Wind N. N. E.—Sailed the whole of the
outward-bound on their respective voyages. Also came down
from the River and proceeded the Gem, Grozier ; Latona,
Sutton ; John, Jackson • and Joseph Hume, Richmond, for
Quebec ; Romulus, Head, Barbadoes ; Betsey, Harvey,
Cibraltar ; Philadelphia, Morgan, New York ; Hector,
Crisp, Constantinople ; Caroline, Home, Bordeaux. Arrived,
and remain with the rest of the homeward-bound, the Marquis
of Chandos, Keyser, from Demerara.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 19.—Wind N. by E., fine.—Sailed,
the Stakesby (Transport), Goble, tor Quebec.
FALMOUTH, APRIL 18.—Wind N.N. W. to N, strong
gales and squally.—Sailed. the Goldfinch (Packet), Lieut.
Collier, for Havana, Belize and Alexia ; Nightingale
(Packet) for the West Indies.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 19.—Wind N. E., fresh, fine weather.—
Sailedy the Rival, Whinfield, for Rio Janeiro; the Agenoria,
Harland, for Dalhousie.

DOVER, APRIL 19.—Arrived off Port, the:Aurora, Boer, from
Genoa; the Barbadoes, Travis, from Trieste ; the Robert and
Henry, Tregarthen, from Limerick.
SALCOMBE, APRIL 19.—Arrived off Port, the Concordia,
Surinam, from Surinam ; the Vesta, from Santa Cruz.
GUERNSEY, APRIL 17.—Arrived, the Arago, Mellarvilla,
from Carmen; the Caledonia, Gifford, from Havana.

LOWESTOFFE, APRIL 19.—A quantity of raffle was picked
up this morning in these roads; they are supposed to belong
to a small coaster, as the spars are of that description. Up-
wards of one hundred and fifty sail of vessels are riding in
the South Roads.

ST. MICHAEL'S, APRIL 3. —The Secret, Gates, which left
London on the 22d of February, from this Island, has not ye
arrived.

LIVERPOOL, APRIL 19.—The Scotia, hence to Demerara
which sank 15th inst. off Beaumaris Bay, has been broken up,
cargo washing ashore.

The Scipio, Campbell, from Demerara to the Clyde, was on
shore near Troon, 17th instant.
The Intrepid, from Mexico to London, was spoken 20th
ult. in lat. 30 to long. 64 W. ; had encountered a heavy gale
from N. N. W., in long. 70, which had carried away sails,
&c., by the Lady K. Barham, arrived in the Downs.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL MARKET

CITY ( THIS DAY), TWELVE 0' CL OCM
We stated two days ago that the New York Evening Post of
the 26th of March, one day later than previously received,
was in town. This morning it has been received at the North
and South American Coffee-house, from which we copy the
following

" PHILADELPHIA.-Our sister city is crowded with Western
merchants. New York merchants sell a piece of calico a-
week. Pennsylvania has sustair,ed her sound banks ; New
Yorks has crushed all her's. Philadelphia flourishes. One
New York landlord offers a row of stores on a lease of ten
years, free of rent for the first year."
" We learn from the Journal of Commerce that the Lon-
don packets lately arrived have brought out the following
amount of golden sovereigns :
Ship Toronto 96,000
Ship Ontario
Ship Westminster 146,000

Total amount 338,000
" FRENCH INDEMNITIES.—The proceeds of the 6th instal-
ment will be paid to claimants at the Bank of America on or
after the 2d of April.
We have received the Journal of Commerce of Antwerp, of
yesterday's date. The Dutch papers of the 18th April state
that his Majesty has ordered a general inspection of every corps
of the Dutch army, which is to commence on the 3d May and
to finish on the 31st May; and the review of the troops in
Zealand, and others not incorporated in the field army, is to
commence on the Ist June. Amsterdam prices—Two. and-a-
Halt per Cents., 54e ; Five per Cents,, 1014.