The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-26 00:00:00

DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

.-- PRICES OF STOCKS THIS
Bank Stock.. -
3 per Cent Red. --
3 per Cent. Cons.... 91% M
34 per Cent. ........ ........ ..... ._
Ditto Red. ... • ...•
New 314 per ..... ...... ..... 100 99y,
New 3 per Cent —
Bank Long Annuitiestoexpire !
Jan. 5, 1860 ---
Oct. 10, IMO
Jan. 5. 1860 —
Jan. 5, 1880
April 5, 1880
Jan. 5, 1870 —
Omnium pm.

India Stoek •...—
Ditto Bonds 6 8 pm.
South Sea Stock ......... ........ --
Old Annnities —
New Ditto —
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 89%
Exch. Bills, £1,000......... 21 23 pm.
Ditto .500 2l 23 pm.
Ditto Small
Ditto Commercial... .....

Ditto Advertised — —1912.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds
—1
Belgian Bonds

Ditto Account.
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds

Ditto Account ........... —
Cbillian Bonds —
Ditto Account —
Columbian Bonds. —
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds, Mt —
Ditto Account, 31% 14
Danish Bonds .........

Bank Stock for Account
Stock for Account
Consols for Acconnt

THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Peruvian Bonds —
Ditto Account —
Portuguese Bonds 81!li

Ditto Account
79N
Ditto New Bonds 79% 80
Ditto Account
-‘OWA

Ditto Account
Greek Bonds
Ditto Bonds, 1525
Ditto Account
Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent
Ditto Account
Ditto, 6 per cent.
Ditto Account
Neapolitan

Ditto, 3 per cent. ............... 50
Prussian 80nd5.t.,.,,. ........... .

.. ~.....
Russian Bonds, MI ............
Ditto Account ~ ..... . ...........
...

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Ditto Metallic ............. ......

Spanish Bonds ••—•••''''mit ...
Ditto Account
Ditto Bonds, 1834 44% 51/6 4Si
Ditto Account ...44%% 4 5 4%
French, 5 per cent. —t. —C.
----- 4 per cent. —f. —c.
I ----- 3 per cent.
1----- Exchange
f. —c.
Dutch, 24 per cent ts!‘
Ditto Account
Ditto, 5 per cent. 103%
Ditto Account

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PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ON E O'CLOCK.
Paid. P KS hare.
Rhymney Iron Mining Company — 64
I 3Y4 3544
Aylesbury
Birmingham and Derby Railway Company 5 i 65-4
Birmingham. Bristol, and Thames Junction .l 134
Bristol and Exeter Railway Company 2l/4 84 8 1/4
Cheltenham and Great 'Western Railway
Commercial Blackwall Railway Company 2 234
Eastern Counties Beltway 1 1Y)44
Glasgow, Falkirk, and Edinburgh Railway. ...... .. 3 7,4
Great Northern Railway Company 2 21/4
Great Western Railway Company lO 39 8l
Hull and Selby Railway Company 5 314 191 A
Leeds and Manchester Railway Company
Brighton Railway Company 5 21 14 20,4
Brighton (Rennie's)
London and Greenwich Railway Company 2O • 30
London and Southampton Railway Company l- 2454 4
London Grand Junction Railway
Manchester South Union Railway Company ..
Midland Counties Railway Company 5 1/4
Northern and Eastern Railway Company 3 44 4
North Midland Railway Company 5 15 15
Smith Eastern Railway Company 2 854 8 4
York and North Midland Railway Con pang 1 5,4

COURSE OF EXCI-1,
Amsterdam C.F 12 7
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ............ ......2 U l2 7
Antwerp l2 6
1 tamburg M.B. 13144
A Rona l3 14!4
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65
Ditto ....... ............. .t-.., Us 25 90
Marseilles. _ _ _ ‘..'.:? 90

Frankfort OR Maine, Ex. M. 154
Petenibutgh, ruble '3 Us. 10 0
Berlin

.........
Vienna, effective f 1 ...... 12 M. 10 12
Trieste ditto lO 1'.2
Madrid '1714
Cadiz 'l7,
~.... 4

.......
Bilboa
Barcelona l7

LNGE YESTERDAY.
Leghorn l7qi
Genoa 25 95
Mi'so..„ . 3l
Venice 47
Naples 44N
Palermo per oz. 122!4
Lisbon 53
' Oporto 56;4
Rio Janeiro 3ii,i.,
Bahia 26
Buenos Ayres
Dublin, 21 days' sight 1
Cork . 1 1,4

PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ,
Portugal Cold, coin £0 0 0
Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9
New Doubloons

.... ,
‘4.ville 37
Gibraltar

New Dollars

6 i, itsiA

Silver, bars. standard 0 5 0

PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MARCH 24
3 per Cent. Consols ... ..... 9114 !Grand Canal Deb,. ( per cent.
Ditto Reduced — f Ditto, 4 per cent —
3, per Cent. Sloe- 9914 1 Hibernian Vank
Ditto New, 1830 9954 !City ot Dublin :Steam Co I II
314 per Cent. Debentures 9IF4 i National Insurance Co 35
Bank Stock 2(5) City Debenture 4 per cent...
Royal Canal Stock - 3641 ; Ballast Office Debentures, 4
Grand Canal Stock per cent —

lIIG 11 W ATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-1101:110W.
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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING will be performed the Opera of
THE CORSAIR.

Zarnpa, Mr. H. Phillips ; Alphonso di Monza, Mr. Templeton
Dania' Capuzzi, Mr. Giubelei ; Dandolo, Mr. Duruset.
Camilla, Miss Shirreff; Ritta, Miss H. Cawse; Statue of Alice Man
fredi, Mrs. Vining.

After which—THE IRISH TUTOR.
Terry O'Rourke, Young Burke.
To conclude with—CHEVY CHASE.

Henry Percy, Mr. Cooper ; Hermit of Warkworth, Mr. Warde ;
Simon Wardlaw, Mr. Harley.
Lady Neville, Miss Forde ; Lady Douglas, Mrs. Vining; Maud, Mrs.
Hamby ; Alice, Miss Lee.
Stage Manager, Mr. Cooper—Acting Manner, Mr. Yates.
The Box .office is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Parsons, of
whom Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be obtained.
Boxes, 75. ; Second Price, SA. 6d.—Pit, Ss. 6d. ; Second Price, "3.
(I,:lery, 422. ; Second Price, Is.—Upper Gallery. is. ; Second Price. 6,1,

HAMBURGH, MA twit 18, 1833.
T-TEINE BROTHERS, CONTRACTORS
for the GREAT LOTTERIES Published and Drawn by
authority, and under guarantee of the Hamburg State, beg to inform
the Public that the SIXTY-F,IGHTII LOTTERY of 10,000
Tickets will be drawn on the 23d of June next, and Tickets are now
selling at bancomarks 103, or Si. say Eight Pounds, sterling. The
Prizes are :-1 of 100,000, l of 20,000, 1 of 15,000, 1 of 10,C00, 1 of
8,000, 1 of 7,000, 1 of 6,000, 1 of 5,000, 10 of 1,000, 35 of 300,
36 of 165, 234 of 150, and 1,995 of 103 bancomarks; which 2,316
Money Prizes are altogether payable without any deduction what-
ever, and every holder of a Ticket coming up : one of the 2,000
first drawn Blanks will be entitled, after the fourth day of Drawing,
to the receipt of two undrawn Tickets gratis, as per Scheme.
Owing to the Gratis Tickets, the number of Tickets on Sale is a
very limited one, so that of course they will be cleared off very
rapidly, and a rise in price occur very soon. Those desirous to
purchase at the present First Price of 81., are requested to direct
by one of the first mails, but only for whole Tickets, to the above
named Contractors, Heine Brothers, in Hamburg, who beg to de-
cline, as usual, English orders for any thing less than a whole
Ticket. To those remitting a 101. note, Heine Brothers will, on
executing the order, send an order for the balance of 2/. by return
of post. A full Scheme of every desirable information being al-
ways sent with the Tickets ; those giving orders will only have to
write a line ordering the Ticket or 'rickets, adding the money, or
an order for the same, and giving their full and plain directions, to
secure the safe receipt of the communications.
Those honouring Heine Brothers by purchasing, may depend on
their strictest secrecy as to their taking a chance or getting a Prize,
such being the undeviating rule of the old established and most
lucky office.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
We thank " Iota" for his communication, but it is not of sufficien
public interost. We must, therefore, beg leave to decline it.

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 26, 1836.

Mr. O'CONNELL has addressed a letter to the Re-
formers of Hull, in which he announces his acceptance
of their invitation to a public dinner on the 6th of
April, and observes, inter alia, " it is delightful to see
that the principles of public liberty have so triumphed
in Hull, that even the admixture of a partially se-
lected constituency has not enabled the friends of pecu-
niary corruption to succeed a second time in returning to
Parliament a partizan of that Tory faction, whose
object is to rule the land for the benefit of
the few, and to the oppression of the many." The
Hon. and Learned Gentleman adds, in allusion to the
present Ministry, " a wise and patriotic Government,
acting with strict impartiality between all parties, are
beginning to consolidate all the parts of this great
empire into one combined union of freedom and
prosperity." This well-merited compliment to the
MELBOURNE Administration will, as a matter of
course, be galled and wormwood to the Tories, and
set them upon abusing O'CONNELL with more
recklessness and malignity than ever. Little, how-
ever, need he care for their stormy denunciations,
so long as he has the whole of Ireland, and a consi-
derable portion of the influential, middle, and the in-
dustrious, intelligent, working classes of England in
his favour. By the bye, we are glad lo see that the
Reformers of Nottingham, as well as those of Hull,
have announced their intention of inviting the Hon.
and Learned Gentleman to a public dinner. How
many of the Conservative party will be honoured in a
similar manner during the Easter recess ?

We feel it our duty again to exhort the Reform-
ers to be all at their posts on Monday night, when the
Third Reading of the Irish Municipal Reform Bill
comes on for discussion. The Tories are, we under-
stand, beginning to pluck up a little courage ; and
though it is impossible that even the most sanguine
among them should anticipate a majority, are not
without hopes of being able to make such a show of
numbers as may serve to confirm the House of Lords
in their resolution, if not absolutely to throw out the
Bill, at least so to emasculate it, as to render it wholly
valueless. It requires very little to induce their Lord-
ships to adopt this suicidal—for we can call it by no
other name—course of conduct. A stray vote
more or less subtracted from the late majority
against the Conservatives will be quite sufficient
for the purpose ; and enable that reckless sophist
LYNDHURST to declare it as his belief, that the
measure in question has lost much of its popularity

with the more reflecting portion of the Reformers,.
The Tories are well aware of this ; hence their de-
termination to " try once again the fortune of the
fight." But this tenacity of purpose will not serve
them. Struggle and persevere as they may, they
cannot do more than they have already done ; they
have no fresh recruits to bring into the field ; no
fresh stores of argument wherewith to bolster up
their cause, and confirm a waverer ; their utmost exer-
tions have been used ; and if they could make no-
thing of a fight when they first took the field,
at the commencement of the Session—a compact, com-
bined, and well disciplined phalanx—how will they be
able to make one now, when they are routed at all
points, with nothing but the sheerest phrenzy of
desperation to support them under their reverses ? We
by no means regret the resolution of the Tories to
oppose the Third Reading of the Irish Corporation Bill,
for it will give the people another opportunity of con-
trasting their deplorable weakness, with the overwhelm-
ing strength of the Reformers ; and convince all men,
who are worth convincing, that the Conservative
dynasty is fast passing away, never again to be restored.

In another part of our paper will be found the
Resolutions passed by the Ministers and by the De-
puties of the Presbyterian Denomination, on the with-
drawment of these bodies from the General Bodies of
ministers and deputies of the Three Denominations.
The reasons assigned by the Presbyterians for thus
dissolving a union, which could no longer be main-
tained without degradation on their part, and the
principles of which had been so often violated by the
two other denominations, cannot fail to convince every
unprejudiced mind of the propriety of the course which
has been pursued in this case.

We have received communications from several
highly respectable quarters, expressing regret that we
have not advocated the reduction of the Spirit
Licenses. To one of these, from an old subscriber at
Colchester, which will be found in another part of
The Sun, we beg to direct the attention of our
readers. With all proper respect for the judgment of
our correspondents, arguments much more convincing
than any we have yet heatd will be necessary to
convince us that it is of more importance to the
great bulk of the people of this country to have
cheap Gin than cheap Newspapers. But even were
we to admit so much, such a result could not be ex•
petted from the reduction of the present rate of License
Duty. We admit that it may be oppressively felt by
a few, and we regret that a grievance should fall to
the lot of any ; but the Stamp Duty upon News-
papers is an impost which falls with a morally
blighting influence upon all. As the Stamp Duty
upon Newspapers and the duty upon Spirit Licenses
cannot, in the present state of the revenue, be both re-
duced at the same time, we must contend for a priority
of claim to reduction on the part of the former.
Most of our correspondents have fallen into a mis-
take respecting our opinions on the expediency of re-
ducing the Duty upon Spirit Licenses. They seem to
think that we are opposed to the reduction of the duty
on principle. Now the truth is that we are no such thing.
We would recommend the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER to reduce the duty to 10s.. to-morrow, if the
revenue could afford such a reduction without injury to
the public service. At the same time we would observe
that in the reduction of taxation, precedence ought to
be given to those burthens which press most heavily
upon the people. It is upon this equitable principl,2
that we have maintained the right of Newspaper pur-
chasers to the first relief. Consistently with that prin-
ciple we are prepared to render the Licensed Victual-
lers and every other class of tax-payers all the assist •
ante in our power.
The Licensed Victuallers seem not to be aware of
the fact, that one of the principal objects of Govern-
ment in the reduction of all License Dutics will be to
open the trade. With a lower rate of License Duty there
will, as a matter of right, be a corresponding increase
of competition. Were this result not to follow the
reduction of such duties, the parties engaged in the
trade would put the sums remitted by the Go-
vernment in favour of the consumers into their
own pockets. The Licensed Victuallers seem to think
that the high rate of License Duty of which they com-
plain falls exclusively upon their own shoulders. This
is a mistake ; the Duty is paid by them, but in reality
every farthing of it is extracted from the pockets of
their customers. It is true that the reduction of
the Duty would benefit them exclusively, as the reduc-
tion would be too trifling to enable them to lower the
price of beer or spirits ; but this benefit would be coun-
teracted by the increased facilities of entering into the
trade, by which the custom of the present Licensed
Victuallers would be materially diminished. Now,
there are few Licensed Victuallers, who, if they were
seriously to examine the question, would not prefer pay-
ing from one to five pounds a-year more in License
Duty, rather than witness a rival establishment opened
next door to them.

With respect to the agricultural districts, we are
decidedly of opinion that every person ought to be at
full liberty:to brew his own beer, without being subject
to any Excise Duty v:hatever. Beer, in England, is
a necessary of life—and as it is produced in the,
country, ought not to be subject to any tax, except in
time of war, when every thing is liable to taxation.
But every arrangement required for the good govern-
ment of this country cannot be made in a moment.
Changes for the better might be made so precipitately,
as to become changes for the worse. The Licensed
Victuallers must have patience. They must " bide
their time," as well as every other class of oppressed
tax-payers. We have the greatest confidence in the
financial projects of the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER ; and if allowed to develope his plans
gradually and in order, the Licensed Victuallers will find
that their just claims to redress have not been over-
looked.

We have received a communication from Mr. Tiny-
NYSON D'EYNCOURT requesting us to correct an
error, into which we were led by a correspondent, on
the subject of his proposed amendment on Mr. WAK-
LEY'S motion for the repeal of the Septennial Act.
The error to which we allude appeared in a leading
article in this Journal of the 22d inst., and consisted
in saying that the Right Hon. Gentleman's amendment
substituted a Quinquennial for a Septennial Bill—which
we repudiated as an abandonment of a great political
principle. Mr. TENNYSON refers us, for his opi-
nions upon the duration of Parliaments, to his
speeches in the House of Commons when moving the
repeal of the Septennial Act on the 23d of July,
1833, and the 15th of May, 1834, as reported in the
Mirror of Parliament,—opinions from which lie
never swerved. We have read over these speeches
with considerable care ; they advocate not Quinquen-
nial, but Triennial Parliaments ; and therefore we freely
express our regret at having misrepresented the senti-
ments of the Right Hon. Gentleman. It will be seen, by
referring to our article of the 22(1, that Mr. TENNY-
SON's reported change of opinion surprised us, and
that we particularly dwelt upon the fact, that no cir-
cumstance had occurred to justify it. The mistake
then originated in paying more regard to the commu-
nication of a correspondent than, in justice to Mr.
TENNYSON and to ourselves, we ought to have done.
But in future we shall be more cautious.

So much by way of an apology, which we have

great pleasure in making. In fact, we would rather
be called upon to make twenty such apologies, than
that one of our denunciations of apostasy, on the part
of liberal members of the legislature, should receive
confirmation. We are only zealous in the cause of
Reform and the country ; and we should rather be
blamed for an excessive watchfulness occasionally be-
traying us into groundless suspicions, than be taxed
with a supine indifference to the conduct of the peo-
ple's Representatives in Parliament.
When Mr. WAKLEY brings forward his motion for
the Repeal of the Septennial Act, which now stands
for May, we shall do ample justice to the recorded
opinions of the Right Hon. Member for Lambeth.
The present is not a fitting time to re-open the ques-
tion, and we, therefore, defer it till the first opportu-
nity which promises to present itself. As the Repeal
of the Septennial Act is necessary to the legitimate
operation of the Reform Bill, the Liberals ought to
bestir themselves in exerting that " pressure from with-
out" of which the distracted Tories stand in such ap-
prehension. Meetings ought to be held in every town
throughout the kingdom, and petitions got up, praying
the Legislature to carry out the great principle of Par-
liamentary Reform by the re-enactment of the Triennial
Bill of 1694. Now is the time to effect that
measure, for should the Government become so
strong as to be under no necessity of recurring
to frequent dissolutions, the difficulty will become so
great as almost to be insurmountable. With Tri-
ennial Parliaments, and those reforms in the Repre-
sentation, and in the organization of the Civic Insti-
tutions of the country which have recently been effected,
the nation would go on peaceably and prosperously.
The Legislature Would re-echo the opinions of an
enlightened constituency, and the MONARCH would
learn from the mouth of his Parliament the real
sentiments of his people. Thus the KING would not
be misled by a corrupt faction, whether in the Upper

or Lower House, into the fatal error of opposing the
will of his devoted subjects by an unfortunate stretch
of the Royal prerogative ; and, on the other hand,
the people seeing that all power in the State was
really exercised to promote their welfare and honour,
would cherish a spirit of devoted loyalty for the person
and dignity of their SOVEREIGN.

We have received the whole of the Paris Papers of
Thursday. They bring no intelligence of any im-
portance.
PARIS, MARCH 23.—A report has been spread during the
day that General Alava was to be succeeded by the Duke of
Rivaz. The person who gave this news pretended to be well
informed.
MARCH 24.—The Moniteur has nothing official this morning.
If we may believe private letters from Algiers, it had been
announced to the army that the Duke of Nemours will take
part in the expedition to Medea, Aliliana, and :Chirchell, and
that this expedition will take place within a month. The same
letters announce the appointment of Youssouf as Bey of
Constantia.
The Marquis de Strada, first Equerry to the King, has very
suddenly left Paris for England, on a special mission, it is said,
the ostensible object of which is to purchase horses. Some
persons believe that his journey has some political object.
Madrid or Cracow may have given occasion to correspondence
which it may not be thought proper to intrust to mere Cabinet
Messengers.
Orders have just been issued in the army to send home on
furlough all the subalterns and privates of the Class of 18 30.
They will set out immediately on the return to their Corps, of
the men now absent on furlough.
A letter from Lyons says that the daughters, wives, and
sisters, of the persons of that City condemned for political of-
fences, have sent a petition to the Queen of the French, to oh-
tahi the pardon of all the political prisoners without exception.
A Ministerial Journal of this morning, confirming the de-
struction of the Trocadero, of 120 guns, by fire, says that the
lois will be 3,000,000 f. —lllessagir, March 24.

FRENCH FIINDS.—Pa MAitcit
Rye per Cents., RM. Site. 85c. 75c. 70c.
Four and a Half nor Cents. 102. f. 75c.
Four per Cents., 101 f. 75c.
Three per Cents. 81f 40c. 37,c. 40c.
Rank A ctimis, 2,224 2. :24f. 2,235 f. 2,245
Bf. ente de Naples, 10iS0e.
Roman } ive per Cents., 104 104341.
Spanish Actives, 443!.4 4541 54 'A •
Spanish Passives, I:, 14N34.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 1..f5 1n434 105.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 5014%14.
Haytian Loan, 395 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONEON.
One month, paper, :25f. 45c. • money, —t. —c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 301%; money, 25f. 30c.
—Coors Authentique.

BOURSE, TIIREE o'CD:lMi.—There has been a complete stag-
nation to-day at the Bourse. The three per Cents. were 81f.
35c. at Tortoni's, but they improved to 81f. 40c. at the open-
ing of the Bourse, and remained fixed at that price without
any business. Notwithstanding the announcement in the
Madrid Gazette of the 16th, relative to the payment of the
dividends on the Ist of April, the Active has fallen to 46
and 4* No reason is mentioned for this depression, except-
ing perhaps the favour granted to the home Spanish debt
without interest.
QUARTER TO FOUR.—Five per Cents., 107 f. 75c.; Three
per Cents., 81f. 40c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three
per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, —; Gucb-
hards, —; Differes, 164- ; New Loan, —; Actives, 451 ;
Passives, 14i ; Ducats, 101 85 ; Romans, 1041 ; Pedros, —;
Belgians, 105 ; Dutch, —f. —c. ; Haytians, 395 f. —c. ;
Miguels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, —; Con-
tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, —; Five per Cent. Perpc-
tuelles, —; Royal Loan, —.

Letters and Papers from Madrid to the 17th inst.
have been received. Most of the newly-elected mem-
bers of the Chamber of Deputies have already arrived
in the Capital. Of the last Chamber only fifty-eight
members have been re-elected. The new members are
ninety-seven in number, and all are stated to profess
the most liberal opinions. A Morning Contemporary
notices one remarkable fact in the constitution of the
new Chamber—namely, that of the majority who voted
against the 17th article of the Electoral Law, and se
compelled the President of the Council to resort to a
dissolution of the Cortes, only one member has been
returned again to the Chamber. This is strikingly il-
lustrative of the immense popularity of MENDIZABAL,
and proves how well his policy harmonizes with the
electoral spirit of Spain.
The vacancies in the Cabinet remain to be filled up,
and it is probable that no appointments will be made
before the opening of the Cortes. MENDIZABAL
wishes to consult the Chambers, and to ascertain the
precise views of the majority before taking any steps
towards the re-organization of the Ministerial body.
Several meetings of the newly arrived deputies have
been held, and every means have been adopted to bring
the majority to act in unison. In the mean while
public credit is rather at a low ebb. Many persons
are alarmed at the power assumed by the Minister
through the means of royal decrees, which have
the force without the sanctity of laws, and
which are liable to be capriciously promulgated,
and as capriciously revoked. Besides the
public
mind, labouring under such a long course of violent
excitement, is not in a condition to relish mild and
conciliatory measures. The republican spirit of the
country has been roused, and nothing is now talked of
by the peasantry but the re-establishment of the con-
stitution of Cadiz.

By private advices, we learn that the French Go-
vernment has decided not to interfere in the civil war
in the Basques, and that this determination has been
officially communicated to the Governments of London
and Madrid.

The news from the North of Spain is unimportant.
The belligerents are more eager to avoid each other
than to meet in the field of battle.

We have received advices from Lisbon to the 20

instant. The Ministers, though beaten upon every
question, and plunged in difficulties from which they
find it impossible to extricate themselves, still
desperately cling to office. The QUEEN supports
them, so that their retirement will not take place
before the arrival of the Prince of PORTUGAL. The
following extract from the private correspondence of a
Morning Contemporary, embodies all that is important
in these communications :
" The Administration goes on much the same ; even the
packets to the Colonies no longer run, because they cannot be
paid; the Madeira Prefect or Civil Governor is still here for
the same reason. The certificates receivable in payment of

national property were the other day at 27 per cent. cash, and
now at 32 per cent. In Silva Carvalho's time they were 63
per cent. The tobacco bills, which used to be discounted at 5
per cent. per annum, cannot now be done at 22 per cent ; and
lastly, the members of his famous treasury committee of in-
quiry declared, yesterda,y, that they had found one item, of
3,000 contos, or 740,0001., which they had improperly included
in their famour deficit.
" The Essex steamer sailed for Constantinople on the 16th,
and the Liverpool steamer, from Cadiz, came in the same
morning, and proceeded in one hour for England. His Ma-
jesty's ship Espoir, with the London mail of the sth instant,
anchored on the same day ; but the Scorpion, with that of the
27th of February, only came in late list evening, and the let-
ters will not be out till noon. His Majesty's ship Pearl was
at Vigo on the 12th, together with some East Indiamen, out-
ward bound, waiting a favourable wind. The Dutch brig
Agenoria, from Rotterdam to New York, out 40 days, was
driven in here on the 15th, in consequence of severe damage
and the loss of one man, experienced at sea on the 7th instant.
The Lord of the Isles steamer, whose name has been changed
to Terceira, starts on the 21st for Oporto, wind and weather
permitting, -and M. Campos granting the necessary funds in
order to pay the crew."

A Pamphlet has just been published by Ridgway,
entitled " Remarks on the present State of the Bri-
tish Museum, by H. S. Peacock, Surgeon," which is
well deserving of public attention. We are not disposed
to give any decided opinion upon this Institution, before
Parliament has concluded its inquiries respecting its ma-
nagement and utility ; and therefore we shall content
ourselves with quoting Dr. PEACOCK'S account of what
the British Museum is, and what it ought to be. The
present state of the Museum is thus described :
" On entering the building the first object we observe is a
statue of Shakespeare—a fit ornament certainly for a theatre ;
but quite inappropriate for the vestibule of the Museum. To
this succeeds the further incongruity of an Indian idol.
Various stuffed animals occupy'the staircase, and the collec-
tion commences with the productions of savage art, which
should more properly find a place at its termination. The
rest is an heterogeneous display of objects in great confusion ;
most of the specimens are without names or references, and
some names without specimens—upstairs and downstairs
----elephants with sponges. The fossils which, since the
advancement of Geology, have become, so interesting a
study, are dispersed all over the house, and you might as soon
expect to find a certain specimen by searching in the earth
itself, as en the shelves of the British Museum. Many of the
fossils have been coloured, which must certainly obliterate any
delicate markings of structure ; and a fine specimen of meteo-
ric iron stands out in the passage by the coal-scuttle. The
portraits in the apartments, devoted to the Mineralogical col-
lection, are quite out of place. They should be transferred
to the National Gallery. In the midst of all, the workmen
employed on the alterations ply their noisy labours. The cha-
racter of the exhibition may be discerned by its effect on the
visitors, who wander over it melancholy and bewildered.
"The Library next demands our attention. Though large,
it consists chiefly of old books, and is very defective in recent
publications. The catalogue is very inefficient. There is
no collection of music. The reading-room is exceedingly ill-
contrived, badly lighted, and badly ventilated. It is situated
in an obscure corner of the premises, and approached by a
labyrinth, leading along a. gutter and over two drains. There
is a great want of accommodation in -the interior; and the
space is very confined. The library is not single, but con-
sists of several distinct collections of books and manuscripts.
We have thus the King's Library set apart in the same man-
nn. as in the Mineralogical Collection ; there is a separate
Case appropriated for some minerals procured from the Hartz
mountains, and presented by his late Majesty George the
Fourth. Whatever view may be taken of the circumstance by
courtesy, Science would decide that a greater object would be
fulfilled by incorporating these with the rest of the collec-
tion. There is in our systems no class for Royal Specimens."
What the British Museum ought to be
A national Museum to be complete, should, as far as prac-
ticable, be constituted a repository for all the available pro-
ductions of nature and art, esteemed as objects of admiration
or study, According to this plan the National Gallery of
Pictures would be included, and not constitute a separate in-
stitution. Antiquities should not constitute a distinct section ;
but by arranging the artificial productions according to their
dates, the antiquities will precede the modern specimens, and
the order will be altogether more definite and exact.
" One condition is above all essential to the perfection of
tha Museum, a strict and compehensive arrangement. The
whole should bespeak a " Lucidus ordo," by which separate
parts of the collection explain each other. Artificial systems
may be serviceable in many respects, but a natural arrangement
is far more suitable for such a collection, commencing with
the simplest productions of nature, and concluding with the
library of books, the most perfect productions of man. Every
production of nature, from tlx simplest mineral to the noblest
animal, acquires its organization by passing through all the
inferior 'phases of development, beginning at the lowest form
of matter, and proceeding through each intermediate link
till it arrives at its most perfect condition, when again
it becomes resolved into its original elements. Thus

a mineral may be considered an -organized element; a
vegetable, a 'vitalized mineral ; and an animal, an ani-
mated vegetable—the gradation from the lowest to the
highest, arising from the super• addition of new faculties. To
develope this is the main object of classification, which, in the
Musoum should typify the aspect ofinature, enlarging our con-
ceptions of the universe—the -o Trav and showing how crea-
tion is single, connected and influenced by one law. An ap-
propriate building is also essential, a mere dwelling-house
being, however large, quite unsuitable. The apartments and
galleries, the shelves, cases, and, as far as possible, every spe-
cimen should be numbered and. named. A complete catalogue
is requisite, which might be published in parts or divisions,
for the convenience of those interested in particular subjects ;
and a synopsis might serve to convey a general idea of the
whole."

DUBLIN ELECTION COMMITTEE.
(THIS DAY.)

In consequence of the absence of one or two of the Mem-
bers, the Committee did not sit to-day until half-past twelve
o'clock.

Mr. THESSIGER complained that the agents for the sitting
Members had acted unfairly towards the petitioners, in not
giving them information as to the course they intended
to pursue, respecting two list of voters which had been fur-
nished to them yesterday, and up to that moment they had
not stated whether they would consent or object to have the
rates struck off.
Mr. MURPHY, agent for the sitting Members, disclaimed the
imputation of the Learned Gentleman, and said that it was
only at twelve o'clock last night that one of these lists were fur-
nished to him. If a short time was allowed, he would give
the Learned Gentleman an answer.
This proposition having been assented to,
Mr. MURPHY after some time agreed that nine votes should
be struck off.
Mr. TNESSIGER then objected to the vote of James Cava-
nagh, upon arrear of water-pipe tax ; and was proceeding to
prove the identification by reference to the poll-books.
Mr. HUTTON objected, as being in opposition to a rule of
the Committee, that the poll-book should not be produced in
evidence, unless where it had been referred to in the individual
instance before the Commissioner in Dublin.

CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY.

The LORD CHANCELLOR satin Lincoln's Inn Hall to-day,

IN THE MATTER OF NORRIS, A SUPPOSED LUNATIC.
Mr. BETHELL some days since applied in petition on behalf
of the only daughter of a person named Norris, residing in
Union-place, Lambeth, for a Commission de Lunatico lnqui-
rFndo against that gentleman. Mr. Cooper upon that occa-
sion opposed the petitioner, and after considerable argument
it was suggested by the Lord Chancellor that the parties should
appoint some mutual friend to visit the supposed lunatic, who
was residing with strangers to him, at his own house at Lam-
beth. His Lordship also suggested that that friend should have
the care of his property, and that in case any of it was made
away with, then that an application should be made for a Corn-
mission.
Mr. BETHELL this morning stated, that in pursuance of the
suggestion of his Lordship, the parties had appointed a gen-
tleman, named Bright, to take care of the supposed lunatic's
property ; that he proceeded to the house, but was perempto-
rily refused admission several times. Mr. Bright, therefore,
now applied for a commission, but as some days must neces-
sarily elapse before that commission could issue, he trusted his
Lordship would make some order for the care of the supposed
lunatic and his property till the commission issued.
Mr. COOPER, who was instructed to oppose the application,
said that he was not aware that Mr. Bright had been refused
admission. His clients had made several affidavits, which,
after reading, he considered it to be his duty to advise
them at once to let the Commission issue. Some care, how-
ever, must be taken of the supposed lunatic between the pre-
sent time and the issuing of the Commission ; he trusted,
therefore, that a small balance which was in the hands of
Messrs. Coutts, belonging to the supposed lunatic, would be
ordered by the Court to be drawn out for that purpose, espe-
cially as several tradesmen to whom Mr. Norris owed small
sunis were threatening hire with legal proceedings.
Mr. BETHELL objected to the adoption of that course, but
stated, that if his Lordship granted the protection of the
Court by Commission, he would undertake that the gentleman
employed should take care that Mr. Norris's comforts should
be attended to in every respect.
Mr. COOPER expressed himself satisfied with this ararrangement.The LORD CHANCELLOR directed the Commission to issue
forthwith.

Yesterday was anniversary of the birth-day of
Prince George of Cambridge, when his Royal Highness com-
pleted his seventeenth year.
On Sunday his Royal Highness Prince Ferdinand
of Portugal will leave town for Portsmouth.
The Prince Edward of Carolath is son of the
Duchess Amelia of Saxe Meiningen, aunt to her Majesty the

Queen.
The opera of The Jewess was represented at Vienna
for the first time on the 3d inst., in presence of the Emperor
and the Archduchesses Theresa and Sophia.
A Court of Common Council was held yesterday,
for the purpose of considering the report of the City Revenue
Committee, as respects the Mayoralty expenses, when, after
considerable discussion, but of no great public interest, the
further consideration of the report was adjourned,