The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1841.

LONDON:
SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1841.

We lately made a few observations to show
that the priesthood are totally unfit to be en-
trusted with any control over the education of
the people. We should be sorry if it were
thence to be inferred that we think the control
of education should be placed in the hands of
the Government. Our opinion is different, and
we should be disposed to leave education, like
trade, in a state of freedom. We notice the sub-
ject, because we see it broadly laid down by
an E:eaing CJntemporary that

Government has two leading duties to fulfil—first, to super-
intend national education, so as to train up a population to the
enjoyment of rational liberty, and the maintainance of public
order—(we hope to see this carried out on a larger scale than
has hitherto been accomplished ; and, secondly, to frame lass
for the maintainance of both these national blessings, and the
punishment of those that infringe upon them.

We cannot assent to either of these proposi-
tions, and, in paiticular, we cannot agree to the
assertion that it is the chief duty of Government
to superintend the national education and train
up a population to the enjoyment of rational
liberty. Betbre discussing the point we
will venture to notice that the word
Government seems to be used both to sig-
nify the Executive and the Legislative powers,
for it is described as superintending, which
can only be imperfectly done by the Legis-
lature, and, to be effectual, must be done by
the Executive ; and it is described as framing
laws, which is exclusively the duty of the legisla-
tive power. It is more easy to trace the source
of the jumble, which we notice to avoid con-
fusion, than defend it. It is, in fact, a copy from
practice. The Ministers, for the time being,
are the Executive Government, and as they
chiefly submit Bills to the Parliament, which
passes their Bills in preference to all others, as
long as they retain its confidence, they are
also the law-makers. Their double functions
are represented by the word Government. The
definition is of itself valuable, for it at once
warrants the conclusion here in England, what-
ever it
might do in Prussia, that the Minis-
ters for the time being ought not to have the su-
perintendance of national education, and the
framing of laws to ensure that and all other de-
sirable things.
At present the Ministers are the organs of the
Parliament, the Parliament is composed exclu-
sively of the aristocratic classes, and all the de-
mocratic classes would be opposed to in-
.creasing the power of the aristocracy. The
'Globe objects to the Chartists providing for
their own education and the education of
their children and fellow-workmen, because that
would train men in their peculiar opinions ; but
this objection applies with much greater force to
the aristocracy taking by law the control of the
education of all classes into their hands. They
would train up all the other classes to be
'servile to them. In the opinion of the
Chartists both the Legislature and the I

Executive, as now constituted, have already
too much power ; an to win their sanc-
tion to a scheme of national education, planned

by the Legislature and carric 1 into execu-
tion by the Executive, it will be indispensa-

ble first to make the Charter the law of

the land. There may be some reason in the
present existence of a different order of things
why we thould refuse to give effect to the
Charter ; but we have no desire to see a new
scheme adopted, on the recommendation of a
few theorists, which would be sure to encounter
the hostility of all the unrepresented. A
more certain means of increasing the existing
alienation, and of bringing about great disorder,
could scarcely be devised.
When we find it asserted that Government
must superintend education, and frame laws for
the maintenance of public order, we are driven
to inquire into the fitness of the Government for
the task. School education is only a small, and,

in our estimation, the least important part, of the
education which is required for youth of both
sexes. Besides that, there is the domestic
and moral education, and the apprenticeship
to a trade, or the bread-winning education.
What can Government—whether we speak of

the Ministers, or the few gentlemen, all of one
class, who compose the Legislature—know of the
best means of educating the females of various
classes and conditions for household and other
labour, and our males for seamen, engineers,
cotton-spinners, ploughmen, &c. &c.? They can
know little or nothing on the subject, and they
would be led by the nose, as they are now led,
by some strong-willed, dogmatic, quackish, self-
seeking persons under the name of Commis-
sioners. They would fancy, as they now fancy,
they were making laws and giving effect to
their own will, when, in fact, they would be
only carrying out, as very humble instru-
ments, the schemes of some artful or mis-
chievous enthusiast. Government, then, which is
constituted to protect the rights of individuals,
not like a parent to train up subjects as if they
were children, seems to us incapable of superin-
tendiug national education to advantage; and were
it to undertake the task it would only become an
instrument in the hands of some clever schemers.

Perhaps, however, when the word " national"
is used nothing more is meant than the educa-
tion of the poor. The lower classes are to
be trained. That we understand. That we can
se through. Laws are to be framed to punish
them if they are not
,strictly obedient under all
kinds of sufferings, and to whatever may be the
will of the aristocracy. National education
means, then, only the education of the working
classes, and that is to be superintended
by an aristocratic Government to the greatest
possible extent, in order to make the working
classes the quiet slaves of the governing aristo-
cracy. We hope the working classes will have
spirit and wisdom enough to prevent the con-
summation of such a design ; and we take the
Chartist scheme of encouraging the people to
provide education for themselves, as an earnest,
both of their determination to prevent that, and
of their certain success.

We are afraid that our Contemporary, when
he talks of framing laws, confounds obedience to
the aristocracy with public order. There is no
aristocracy in the United States, but there is
public order. The two things are not there-
fore inseparable. A few centuries ago public
order in Europe consisted of feudal sla-
very ; but now another kind of public order
reigns, which seems, in its main features, less the
result of positive institutions than of that pro-
gress which upset the reign of the feudal Barons
and established the present mixed regime of the
upper and middle classes in its stead. What may
be considered public order a hundred, or even
twenty years hence, it is impossible to say; and
how can the Government, which must be igno-
rant of that, train up the people to be prepared
for it?

What would happen, we believe, would be
this. To preserve its own power as long as pos-
sible would be the object of Government, and it
would endeavour to train men up to that end.
If it could wall in the country, the great mis-
chief which it would cause might be unknown,
but a trading community like ours cannot be
so shut up. Our society would and must share
the general progress. It would imitate the good
in other States ; it would outgrow, as it
has already outgrown, the Government; and
the more that extended its power, the more
it attempted to train the people according to the
will of some education-mongers, the greater
would be the mischief when the public order,
forced forward by the progress of society
in opposition to the Government, could no
longer be resisted. We are as little dis-
posed, therefore, to place national education
under the control of the Government, as to
place it in the hands of the priests, and see no
sure hope of peace and prosperity except in
leaving the people—who are, probably, as wise
as the Government—for this purpose to educate
themselves.

We must again direct attention to the admir-
able tactics and perseverance of the Anti-Corn-
law League. A meeting was held at Manches-
ter, of deputies from the different Anti-Corn-
law Associations, on Thursday, an account of
which appears in another part of The Sun. It
was then resolved to summon a meeting of the
League in London, whenever Mr. VILLIERS shall
bring forward his motion on the Corn-laws. It
was also resolved that the deputies, when they
come to London, shall wait personally on the
Members of the House of Commons, to ascer-
tain their views on the bread tax. If the depu-
ties carry out this resolution, they will ascertain
the motives, as well as the votes of the Members,
and be able to instruct the Anti-Bread-taxers,
throughout the kingdom, to choose proper re-
presentatives at the next general election.
We have no doubt, however, that the members
of the League will work this part of their scheme
as well as the other parts of it. They are zealous,
straightforward men, whose interest in the ques-
tion amounts to a passion ; and they have got
hold of a principle which inspires them with en-
thusiasm. From month to month, from day to
day, the language of the League has become
more direct and energetic. They speak truth
with authority, and their words find an echo in
the human heart, exciting ghastly fear in some,
and glowing hope in others. Mr. VILLIERS said
of the League, with equal truth and justice,—

And if we have been able to make converts and rouse men
from indolence and ignorance upon this subject, when we con-
sider what gigantic power is opposed to us—a power which
derives its influence from its social position, and its pecuniary
means, can you see any reason why our efforts should not suc-
ceed?—(Cheers.) And it is owing to the energy and sacri-
fices of various kinds that have been made in this district, and
by many gentlemen around me, for which we are indebted to
the disclosure of facts—the circulation, and disclosure, and the
impression upon the public mind of facts connected with these
laws—that I believe no subtlety, or ignorance, or clamour will
ever be sufficient to suppress or efface.-4 Hear, hear.) And,
Gentlemen, I am satisfied that if their contemporaries do not
appreciate the services of the League, they will be appreciated
by posterity.
Their services are appreciated now; their op-
ponents confess their power by revilings, and
their friends by their hearty approbation. One
excellent effect has followed their bold, straight-
eoosreedpteoa lte
the
and the Chartists.
forward conduct. It has gone a long way to
procure for them the support of the working
classes, and to reconcilelatthteer Corn-lawar p p
The
Legislature, which is chiefly
honest enthusiasm, which is likely
composed of land-
lords ; and an
have organised ato affect them, will be doubly welcomed, di-
rected against those who
legis-
lative system of plunder. The workmen, we
believe, are therefOre coining over to the Corn-
law
at Repealers, and the Liverpool Operative As-
sociation was appropriately Man-
chesterrepresented by Mr. DUFFY. It is impossible that
the working classes should not be deeply affected
by the bold, moral principles espoused by the
League, and should not become the zealous sup-
porters of the total and immediate repeal of the
tax on bread. They have hung aloof for some
time, because they have mistrusted the League,
but that mistrust will vanish before sincere lan-
guage, and all the industrious classes will, ere
long, unite to throw off the tax, which the idle
landlords have dared to levy on their bread, and
the restrictions they have not been ashamed to
impose on industry and enterprise.

We publish to-day a second letter on the
subject of the tenure of land, and on the rela-

tion between landlords and labourers. Such
letters are a very significant sign of the great
interest which the people take in the subect.
The landlords know best whether their right
so founded in undeniable and eternal justice
that it will bear the strict investigation,
which they are now forcing the suffering
people to undertake. If it be not so
founded, as all property now mainly de-
pends for its validity on the consent of others,
they will rue the day on which they ex-
cited the people, by their arrogant, unjust pre-
tensions, to search into their titles. Those who
have examined the question most will give them
the least encouragement to persevere. That
their property be protected it is essential that
they respect the property of others. From this
golden rule they have departed, and have set an
example of class rapacity, which cannot fail to
beget imitation, and from the imitation of which
they have the most to lose.

The communication from Weymouth, which
appears in another part of the paper, will be read
with painful interest by every sincere friend of
the Established Church. The proper deport-
ment of the defendants, and the very reasonable
plan they suggested for setting the question at
rest, contrasts strongly with the arrogant and per-
secuting spirit of those employed for the recovery
of the Church-rates. Had the proctor and church-
wardens been bribed to throw additional odium
on this harrassing and unjust tax, and make Dis-
senters hate more and more this lordly Church
Establishment, with its wealthy Bishops, rebel-
lious Deans, meddling Clergy, and Popish doc-
trines, they could not have taken more certain
means for effecting the purpose. The imprison-
ment of fifty THOROGOODS could not give such a
heavy blow to the Church, as has been inflicted
by her injudicious supporters at Weymouth. it will
rouse to battle even the mild and peaceable
Quakers. We refer our readers to the report of
the proceedings, that they may judge for them-
selves.

The following important intelligence is taken
from the Augsburg Gazette of the 11th inst. :

CO N STA NTI N PL R 24.—Accounts from Teheran
of the 14th of February, received by way of Trebisond, bring
the important intelligence, " That the differences that existed
between Persia and England are entirely 'ettled, the Shah
of Persia having declared himself ready to restore the fortress
of Gurian, which was taken by his troops in the last war."
In consequence of this the British Ambassador was imme-
diately to return to Teheran.

Madrid Journals of the 7th inst. have been
received. On that day the Senate formed a
House and voted thanks to the army fbr the ser-
vices it had rendered Spain. The report of the
Committee pronouncing the legality of Queen
CHRISTINA'S abdication was also adopted. The
Chamber of Deputies stood adjourned till the
10th inst. On the Bourse the Fives were at
25 13-16 for cash, and 26 5-16 tbr sixty days.

The whole of the Paris Journals of Wednes-
day have reached us. The only political news of
importance found in them is embodied in the fol-
lowing paragraph, which we copy from the
Temps:—
,4 We give the following fact a.; official :
" The Five Powers who signed the Convention of London,
prepared a treaty of defensive alliance against France. Lord
Palmerston wished that it should be signed immediately. Lord
Melbourne, more prudent, communicated it to King Leopold,
his habitual mediator in those kind of communications. Leo-
pold, in his turn, informed the principal person interested.
This put an end to all irresolution, and we re-enter the Euro-
pean concert, on condition that the other Powers will renounce
the idea of forming an alliance against us."
if the debate in the Chamber of Deputies
failed to elicit the secrets of the Cabinet, it
helped Europe to another exposition of the po-
licy of M. TRIERS. N othing more remarkable
has appeared for many months in the columns
of the Journals, than the speech delivered by
that gentleman on Tuesday. Crowded as are our
columns, we must endeavour to make room for
the substance of this remarkable speech, in
which the ex-Minister so well depicts the
dishonesty of his policy : _ _ _

M. Thiers rose and said—The Hon. M. Guizot has declared
that he never concealed his policy, neither did I ever conceal
mine. Therefore it is the more necessary now to put an end
to what 1 call a comedy.—(•' A comedy on your part, indeed,"
exclaimed a voice.) some people have denied that we had in-
terests in the east.

Marshal Sebastiani here observed that they were right.
M. '1 hiers thought, on the contrary, they were wrong. A
Foreign Minister, who was as good a judge of the French
interests as the French themselves, said to a French
Ambassador, " We see what at bottom is the true policy
of France on the Eastern question ; this policy is not
European. France possesses the north of Africa ; she has
an army there of 70,000 men. Close to her are the Pa-
chas of Tunis and of Tripoli—poor Mussulmen Princes who
tremble before France. And a little farther there is the
Pacha of Egypt, who possesses the Red Sea and the Euphrates.
This France commands, directly by the north of Africa, indi-
rectly by her alliance with the Pacha of Egypt, from the en-
trance 01 the Mediterranean and the Straits of Gibraltar to the
Red Sea and the Euphrates. Such a state of things cannot suit
us." There were three lines of conduct to pursue in this ques-
tion. The first was to propose immediate war on the Eastern
question. The second was that of the note of the Bth of Oc-
tober, so much blamed. In what consisted this polie/ ? The
policy of the note of October the Bth, was first for lc ranee to
get time to make her war preparations. During this time the
Pacha might suffer reverses ; the note provided for them. It
did not abandon Syria ; but it foresaw that while France
remained quiet, the Pacha might suffer. But the French
Cabinet wanted to save the chief portion, the foun-
dation of the Egyptian power. The loss of yria certainly
hurt French pride. But, in reality, the Pacha lost therein
a position much more considerable for France than fur himself
—that is, a position commanding the passage of the Euphrates
and the Persian gulf. But, for the Pacha himself, Arabia
and Syria were sources rather of weakness and expense than
of power. The Pacha, if he remained true and real sovereign
of Egypt, despite of the vassality, that is, having a fleet, army,
Sze. was still a useful ally for prance. And h knew this so
well, that he was rejoiced at the note of the Bth of October.
But what did we want? To negotiate with serious means
for the object demanded by the note of the Bth October.
We knew that two of the fuwers were supporting interests
not their own, and yielding merely to anti-revolutionary
prejudices. It was therefore we resolved on a serious armament.
With this force we should have obtained some concession, but
you, with your four hundred thousand men, have obtained no-
thing. For the Pacha, instead of being Sovereign of Egypt,
is degraded into the situation of a dependent functionary. I
comprehend that Syria is set aside. I would blame your sign-
ing any condition with respect to Syria, since it would be shar-
ing with lour other Powers a protectorate that France pos-
sessed alone. As to interdicting the passage of the Dardanehes
to armed vessels, it was nonsense. For time out of mind it
was forbidden to traverse internal waters, and this prohibition
is a law of nations. If anythini, was meant by the Treaty
it meant to prevent the English from going to attack Se-
bastopol, and the Russians from going to attack the lonian
Islanus—events that we should desire, not prevent: It was
wrung at this moment to prejudge what alliance France would
attach. I regret the bream) of the English alliance-1 am
disinclined to the Russian alliance. But were it wise to re-
turn to the English alliance, it is neither wise nor dignified to
say so or do so now. There was evidently a league forming
against France, in case France refused to sign ; and to en•
force it, the Treaty is signed. This 1 deprecate. The mo-
ment that one Cabinet says to its predecessor, " You were for
war and we for peace," from the moment that such means
were used fur procuring a majority—from that moment all force
is lost to the country.
So Turkey was to be dismembered for the be-
nefit of France ! The patriotic TRIERS had re-
solved upon declaring MEHEMET ALI King of
Egypt, provided he was prepared to recognise
in the person of Louis PHILIPPE the virtual
Sovereign of Syria! Oh; M. THIERS ! M.
THIERS ! You have made a sad business of it.
You are, after all, but a clever political moun-
tebank.

In a few days M. Humann, the Minister of Finance, will
present to the Chamber of Deputies a project of law for the
suppression of the six mints which still remain at Lille, Rouen,
Nantes, Bayonne, and Strasburgh. The same project of law
will ask, it is seen, for a special vote of credit for four millions
to enlarge the Mint at I-aria, and to add to the machinery.
It seems to be decided that all the coin is to be coined in
future by means of steam-engines, by presses with plan of
Thonnelier.

It seems that the fetes on occasion of the baptism of the
Count de Paris, will be deferred for some days. The grand
concert in the gallery of the Louvre will not take place till
after the 10th of May.
The Prince de Joinville set out last night for St. Omer.

Mr. D--- calling himself homme de lettres had come
some time ago to inhabit a lone house in the com-
mune of Montrciuge. Yesterday Mr. Gabelateau, Com-
missary of Police of that commune, went to the house
of Mr. D—, where he seized a chest containing pis-
tol bullet moulds and some powder. A letter from Mont-
pelier says that the preliminary proceedings against Numa
Raymond, on account of threatening letters addressed by a
secret society to a rich merchant of 31ontpelier, requiting him
to remit the sum of 50,000 francs, are going on without inter-
mission. .Several persons have been arrested at Montpelier,
Nismes, Marseilles, and other towns in the south.
The Journal of the Eure and Loire of the 15th says, it is
reported that the three companies of the centre of the National
Guard of Evreux are disbanded, and that the Royal ordinance
his been received at the prefecture. We shall wait for the
official account to judge of tins measure. —Le Commerce.
A SCENE IN TILE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIt:S.
The National observes that during the debate on the supple-
mentary credits in the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, when-
ogisi,Ledw deG
harmoniouserecnritees,
when-
ever M. Titters criticised the feeble policy of M. Guizot, the
his
gave
his
totheirLebreelblvorweinj
alone upon his bench, flourished his wooden knife in token of
defiance, and M. Jacques
in chorus with his colleagues. M. Dangerville passed through
centres
_ he centres from top to bottom screamed
several fits of frenzy. T
Piscatory turned round in a rage to
out " Order, order !"
a stout rioter with white hairs, and by no means a white pocket
handkerchief, who repelled the interference with indignation.
The conqueror of Austerlitz alone, leaning on his elbow, was
wrapt in meditation in the deaf
man midst of the confusion, like a
around
man who is unconscious of a stormraginghim. M.
Guizot found it necessary to ascend the tribune, and give the
with unbounded torrent another direction, and was received
fatigued. The
plause, until the Chamber was completely actors,
like the chorus singers, had exhausted the drama. The debate
the items
was declared to be concluded, and they passed to
A few members alone re-
composing the credit, demanded.

mained, and millions upon millions were voted without a- tingle
otFervation. At length a slight dismission arose between AIM.
'niers and Dufaure relative to the artillery. 2.1111. and
Dufaure two artillerymen . . . . We IYeAt
at the traAedy and the , omedy ; the representation a l'
' ..:4,-
neratint, into a farce, and w e retired.
BO UR SE, PA.MS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14.
f.irst Highest Lowest .j ,Ast
Price Price. Prici. Pric,,
French 5 Der Cents ll3 85 ... 113 85 113 70 ... 113 70
4% per Cents
Der Cents 99 40 99 40 0:4 41 99 41
3 per Cents 7B 00 . 01 74 93
3 , I, 0 trance
LABtte .`tank 5,0001. Stares '455
1,0001. Sh.. lOB5 ...1 65 ...110 —1(135
Belgian Bank
S per Cents lOl 101% 101 501
3 per Cents •••
New Loan... ...... .• )nll4 ,„ 1,1% 0,14
ip.inlsh Active '.35% az% :3N
Passive ,.. SY,
Portuguese 3 per Cents 2O ... ... 20
Ne,:olitan
104 104 ... 15)4 ~. 101
Autch 2% per Cents.

ItAILWAY SHARES,
St. Germain
Versailles.U. B 365 ... 665 ... 362 50 .. 365
L.ll IT, ... 238 75 .. 231 '4.'.• ..:38 75
rlrl..aric ..
1 ..
Mulhausen to Kann ... 435 ... 435 ... 435 .. 415
qontpellier to Cette :6O ... 26(1 ... 2.0 ... :61
Sir sting ... Bale 535 ... 530 25 ... '235 .26 25
!town - ••• -

4F..;LG1A1.1 . u NDs—nituessur, APRIL 14.
Actual Debt, 23. per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent IOO
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 9O
3 per Cent. —
.----.Thirty.seven---- _ 7AIN
---- (I AO) lto
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent Hi %
Society of Commerce, 4 %per Cent 9B
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent .. t 0
National Society . —
Exchange oil London (short)
—Brussels Papers, April 14.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.-.Arrenna, APRIL 6
five per Cents. Metalliques . 107%
Four per Cent 5..•..•.........•. ***** ..•..".•..... 00000000000000 98%
Three plr Cents.
Bank Shares
---Alieetneine Zeitung, April IL
HA MBU RG BORSENHALLE, APRIL 13.
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 1614 1640
Anglo.ltussian Loan
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Ci•rtificate
Inscription, Ist Series lO4
Russian 5 per Cent. Hop,: and Co. 3d and 4th
Series 97 9(44
Ditto in Certificates
Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) 8;;;, SI ,A,
Dutch :actual Debt, 2% pe Cent 504 50
Ditto 5 per Cent —
Polish Bonds
New fleket
Anglo. Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 75 74%
N..v wegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cirri:... -
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. 164
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, APRIL 13.-13 6%.—Two months, 13 4N.
PETRIISBURGII, APRIL 2.-1 wo months, 39jt, pence

MONEY and COMMERCiAL NEWS

CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.

The private letters from America give rattier an un-
favourable view of monetary inara:ter;, but no:ice in some
branches of trade a slight increase of activity. No perm.-
nent and extensive improvement in this respcct is expected
befcre the political questions now pending beween the
two countries are in a fairer train of settlement. Money
continues very easy in the City, from sheer want of em-
ployment ; but there are said to be some symptoms of a
revival in our export trait..
The Public Securities fat the influence of the indefi-
nite character of the advices from America. Consols frr
immediate transfer were marked 904 upon the opening of
the market; but subsequently gave way to 90, closing at
906 to For May, the higoest and only value was 901
to 4 Bank Stock was steady at 172 to 4, and India
Stuck at 2544, but each of these rates was a shade below
tlin.e of yesterday. Exchequer Bills were worth ISa. to
13s. premium, and India Bonds 2s. premium and par.
The New Three-and-a- Half per Cents, were at 99/ to 4.
The Foreign Market was exceedingly dull all day. Toe
Active Spanish Bonds realised 23 too, the New Portuguese
334, being -,f per cent. lower; the Colombian 224 to 4,
and the Mexican 304 to The accounts from Mexico
to-day are not at all favourable iu a political point of view.
Peruvian Bonds were at 174, Dutch Two-and-a- Half per
Cents. were firm at 52, and Belgian Old Bonds were
marked 1024, or 4 per cent. below the previous quotation.
There is so little doing in this stock, however, that it is
almost nominal. Danish Bonds were at 774 to
There was sonic disposition to realize profits on the im-
provement in the value of the Railway Shares that has oc-
curred within the last day or two, and the consequence
was a slight re-action on yesterday's prices. The bargains
effected to-day were most currently on the following
terms :—The Great Western 294, the New 14g, the
Fifths 74; the London and Birmingham 69, and the South
Western 184 premium. Brighton were 34, Blackwell 54,
Eastern Counties 131, South Eastern 15, Manchester and
Leeds 4, North Midland 21, and Birmingham and Derby
30 discount. Colonial Bank Shares rose to 10, and Lon-
don and Westminster to 3 premium.
The Foreign Exchanges were firm this afternoon, the
accounts from Hamburgh being still favourable as regards
the rate on London, which was on Tuesday last at 13 4,1.
Here bills at ninety days were negotiated to-day as fol-
lows :—Paris, 25 674 to 70; Amsterdam, 12 4; Ant-
werp, 12 3-4- to 4; Hamburgb, 13 94 to ; Frankfort 150,
and Trieste, 10 14 to 24.

LIVERPOOL, APRIL 15.—The British Queen, from Ports-
mouth, at Halifax, with paddles damaged by the ice, had
sailed for New York 2d inst. Barrels of flour, with the ap-
pearance of having been burnt, were passed in lat. 36, lon. 72.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 15.—The sales 0
Cotton to-day amount to 2,000 bales only, at steady prices.
Speculators and exporters have been altogether inactive.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 15.—The following
are the transactions at the Stock Exchange this day :—Bir-
mingham and Glasgow, 79k; Eastern Counties, 9i; ditto,
Debentures, 7i ; Glasgow, Paisley,and Greenock, 27k; Grand
Junction, Chester and Crewe, 594- ; Great Western, 94; ditto
201. Shares, 3lidland Counties, 89.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 15.—There con-
tinues to be an inclination to invest in Railway Stock, which
is rather kept in check by the rise aimed at.—London and
South Western, 58; Great Western, 95i.; Manchester and Bir-
mingham, 24a ; Manchester and Leeds, 65 ; Chester and
Birkenhead, New, 194: Manchester and Salford District
Bank, 101. 18s. 9d. ; Bank of Manchester, 7a; Ashton and
Oldham Canal, 110; Rochdale Canal, 86.

We have received Halifax papers to the 4th April. On
Tuesday last a lively curiosity was manifested among the inha-
bitants of the town by the arrival of the steam-ship British
Queen, from Southampton, bound to New York. On Wed-
nesday evening she again departed for Boston, with sixty-four
passengers on board.
COMMERCE OF HALIFAX.—There have been, exclusive of
coasters, 152 vessels cleared out for foreign voyages, and about
100 entered at this port since the Ist January last, making an
excess of 41 vessels outward, and six or seven inward, over
the report for the corresponding quarter of last year.
'I he mail of Saturday brought accounts of another melan-
choly and disastrous fire at St. John's, New Brunswick. Ac-
cording to the accounts, it appears it had laid waste eight fine
stores on the east side of Prince William-street, with several
buildings in the rear, and, melancholy to relate, has resulted in
the loss of several lives. _ _ _

The Ha mburgh Mail of the 13th April has arrived with
papers of the same date, bringing the Exchange upon London
13 144, same as per last arrival. Gold, 428, also the same.
Metal, 106. Bank Actions, 1,640.

MExico.—The advises from Mexico, received by the
schooner Emblem, indicate the general state of affairs in that
Republic to be in any but a prosperous state; efforts, how-
ever, were making to raise sufficient means to enable the Go-
vernment to sustain itself. A law was passed on the 14th of
January, imposing a personal tax, by which all males over the
age of 18 years are to he divided into five classes, according to
the value of their property ; the first class are to pay two dollars
per month, the others less, the lowest sum being one bitt per
month. The army has been without pay.

The British Funds opened this morning a shade lower, left
off at 90i, ; for the Accopt at present, 904 ; Money soi
with little doing as yet. This being pay-day for the :settling of
the Account, yesterday the brokers and jobbers are chiefly em-
ployed in paying and receiving their various differences, and
there is no doibt that their checks will be duly honoured. Ex-
chequcr Bills, 13 15 prem. ; Bank Stock, 171 173 ; India
Stock, 254 2)6 ; India Bonds, par 2 prem.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 234, same as they
left off; Deferred, 12a i; Passive, 5,1 Portuguese rather
lower, left off 33a at present 33/2 %; Three per Cents.,
204 ; Colombian same as it left off, 22i 23 • Mexican, 30} 1.
a shade lower ; Brazilian, 69 70 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 54 i; live per Cents., 95% 99*.
Shares.—Great Western 29, 30 prem. ; New, 141 15
prem. ; London and Brighton, 3* 3 dis. ; Blackwall, 5.54
; Birmingham, 67 69 prem. ; Southampton, 57% 58 per
shace ; Croydon, 13i 14 per share ; Greenwich, 8i per share ;
Manchester and Birmingham, 15i 14i dis. ;.South Eastern and
Dover, 144 a dis.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Trmingham and Derby lOO .. 70

Great Western

Ditto New
Ditto Fifths
London and Brighton
London and Greenwich
Ditto Scrip 3 ...... 4-4- ... to
London and South Western
Ditto Tenths ... ........ .. li tli to
North Midland

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
lonian State

20

London and Westminster . .. 20

The British Funds are not quite so good as in the early
part of the morning, but money still continues plentiful in the
house. Yesterday a large amount of Stock was taken in by
Messrs. Rothschild and two other gentlemen, consequently
little was carried over for the next account.

Up to the present time there is not a feature worth notice
in either of the markets.

Consols which were in the course of the morning at 90& for
:1-
the Account, have receded to 90a ; Money, 90;Exeliequer
Bills lower, 15 13 prem ; Bank Stock, 174 also lower; India
Stock, 254 L, ditto; India Bonds, 2 prem., par.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active receded to 23, have
been24:l,- ; Deferred, 12a; Passive, 5i ; Portuguese, 33i,
lower ; Colombian, 226 ; '\lexican, 301, lower ; Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents, nothing doing ; Five per Cents, 99k.
In Shares little doing. Birmingham and Derby, 70; Great
Western, New, 644 ; Fifths, 111 ; London and Brighton,
; North Midland, 29.
. Extract of a letter from Baltimore, March 29 :
" Estimates of the Chairman of the Committee of the Ways
and Means of the House of the Delegates of Maryland, to
meet the deficiency of the States as follows :-50,000 dollars
par annum, to be raised by a tax on factors, exchange, and
lottery brokers —increased tax on tavern-keepers and notaries
put lie for serving protests-750,000' dollars per ann. by a di-
rect tax of 30 cents. per 100 dollars on all real property and
negroes, and personal and mixed, comprising every species of
property held by the population of the State, which is be-
lieved will produce the above sum of 750,000 dollars, the
estimate of tax upon property in the State varying from 250 to
350 millions of dollars. Meetings have been held in all the
wards of the City by the most respectable citizens, calling
upon the Legislature to impose a direct tax, and at the same
time expressing their disapprobation of an increase in the
State debt. _ . .

Consols, Account, 90a ; Colombian, 24 ; Mexican,
goi ; Spanish, 23b ; Portuguese, 33i

CLOSING PRICES.

BRITISH
Bank SI osk 1721
3 per Cent Red. B9
3 per Cent Cons 9os
31- per Cent Red 93
New 3i per Cent 99b
New 5 per Cent
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860 l2 15-16
Oct 1859

[ FUNDS.
India Stock 254k
Ditto Bonds „p„
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities —
,Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2id 13 pm
Ditto 5001 l5 pm
Ditto Small l3 pm
Bank Stock for Opg —
India Stock for Opg —
Consols for Acct 9Ol
4 FUNDS.
Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto
;Prussian, 5 per cent.
!Russian, 5 per cent
Ditto, Nletallic
Spanish, 5 per cent
Ditto, Deferred ... 121
French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Exchange —f. —c.
French, 3 per cent —f. —c.
Dutch, '2l per cent. 52
Ditto, 5 per cent......... 98/

Jan. 1860.

FO REIG:
Austrian, 5 per cent —
Belgian, 5 per cent lO2l
Brazilianßonds
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent
Chilian, 6 per cent
Colombian, 6 per cent —
Ditto, 1824.
Danish, 3 per cent 77.4
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent.
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 —
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et —

SIIA RES.
Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd) ... 70
Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) ••• .. 361
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid ..... 91
Great Western Railway (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 64i
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
Gosport Junction Railway (40 pd)
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Blackwall Railway (25 pd)
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 159
London and Greenwich Railway (20 pd)..
Ditto Scrip. (3 paid)
4
London and South Western ... ...........
Ditto Tenths ..
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ... .... 66
North Midland Railway (100 paid) ... 79
South East,in and Dover (33 paid)... 18
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY).
Amsterdam CF. 12 7 Gibraltar 4B
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 71 Genoa
Antwerp l2 61 Milan
liamburgh 11.8. 13 12± Venice
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 55 Palermo, per oz 119
Ditto, 3 months 25 80 Lisbon
Marseilles
Bout Beaux 25 85 Rio Janeiro 27
Frankfort on Maine... 1501 Bahia
I'etersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres —
8er1in.....
Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M lO 3 Philadelphia 46
Trieste, ditto
Madrid
Cadiz
Bilboa 35 New Doubloons 0 0 0
Barcelona
Seville

Schiller's drama of William Tell was performed
at Berlin a few nights ago, after an intardiction of twenty-
four years.

LiTERATUA E.

13 ELLS AND POAIEG RA IVA 'LE ,N
Maxon, Lor,c6,n, 1841.

Brownin,,, the, ataboy " Parace,”
will not, we Teal, add inueh tt) iii, repinaion by
this dramatic atewpt, which he entitles " Pippa
Passas "—why or wherelbre, we are utterly at a
loss to determine—and which, it seems, is the
first of a series of plays intended to be carried on
under the equally enigmatical title of " Belts and
Pomegranates." The best, or at any rate the
most intelligible, account we can give of the pre-
sent dramatic effort is, that it is a collection of
scenes, strung together without rhyirie or reason ;
and that at the termination ofeacli scene, a young
Italian girl, by name " Pippa" is heard singing,
or talking in a dialect which, in places, strongly,
reminds us of the late Mr. Irving's " Unknown
Tongues." The play, in fact, is throughout a
quaint riddle, and as we are not (Edipus, but
simple Dawns, we cannot undertake to solve it.
Yet there are some fine things in the drama; one
scene in particular, between a woman and her
paramour, after the murder of the furmer's hus-
band, exhibits a play of the passions of alternate
tenderness and remorse, which satisfies us that
the author possesses sterling dramatic powers.
There are also several poetic passages in the
piece—a few of which we proceed to extract at
random. And first, here is a speech of a roman-
tic youth to his mother, the descriptive touches
in which are excellent
Last year's sunsets and great star s
That had a right to come first and see ebb
The crimson wave that drifts the sun away--
Those crescent moons with notched and burning rims
That strengthened into sharp fire, and there stood
Impatient of the azure—and that day
In March a double rainbow stopped the gorm—
May's warm, slow, yellow moonlit summer nights—
Gone are they, but I have them in my soul."

There is much simple truth and force in the
following apostrophe addressed by an enthu-
siastic young sculptor to his mistress, who is sit-
ting with him in his studio, while he is endea-
vouring, but in vain, to proceed calmly and me-
thodically with his statue of Tydeus :
" Oh, my life to come?
My Tydeus must be carved—tis there in clay--
But how be carved, with you about the chamber?
Where must I place you ? When I think that once
This room, full of rough block-work, seemed my Heaven
Without you! Shall I ever work again ?
Get fairly into my old ways again?—
Bid each conception stand while, trait by trait,
My hand transfers its lineaments to stone ?
Will they, my fancies, live near you, my truth?
The live truth—passing and repassing me—
Sitting beside me ?" •

SUMMER MORNING.
Hayward, London, 1841.
Mr. Miller is a poet who has studied in the
best school—that of nature. All his images are
drawn fresh from life, and suggested by his own
feelings, instead of being gleaned, second-hand,
from ideas supplied by his poetic predecessors.
This is particularly the case with his descriptions
of natural scenery, and the various emotions they
excite, in which it is plain to see that the author
has himself witnessed and felt all that he so.
simply and forcibly paints. His " Summer
Morning" is a poem wholly of a descriptive cha-
racter ; it is a series of homely rural pictures,
selected with great skill; vividly, but not taw-
drily, coloured; and finished with the care of
Newton's miniature paintings. We give a few
passages, which will serve to impress the reader
with a• highly favourable idea of Mr. Miller's
poetic powers :
On the far sky, leans the old ruined mill,
Thro' its rent sails the broken sunbeams glow,
Gilding the trees that belt the lower hill,
And the old thorns which on its summit grow.
Only the ready marsh that sleeps below,
With its dwarf hushes, is concealed from view ;
And now a straggling thorn its head cloth show,
Another half shakes off the smoky blue,
Just when the dusty gold streams thro' the heavy dew.
And there the hidden river lingering dreams,
You scarce can see the banks which round it lie ;
That withered trunk, or tree, or shepherd seems,
Just as the light of fancy strikes the eye.
Even the very sheep which graze hard by,
So blend their fleeces with the misty haze,
They look like clouds shook from the unsunned sky,
Ere morning o'er the eastern hills did blaze—
The vision fades as they move further on to graze.

What varied colours o'er the landscape play I
The very clouds seem at their ease to lean—
And the whole earth to keep glad holiday.
The lowliest bush that by the waste is seen,
Hath changed its dusky for a golden green
In honour of this lovely summer-morn :
The rutted roads did never seem so clean,
There is no dust upon the wayside thfirn,
For every bud looks out, as if but newly born !
The tines which we have marked in italics,
possess infinite poetic beauty. The word
" dreams" as applied to the river, is quite Spelt-
serian ; and the line, " The very clouds seem at
their ease to lean," conveys as perfect an idea of
repose as could possibly be suggested by the
imagination. The freshness, too, and the beauty
of the early morning landscape are happily il-
lustrated by the image of the buds looking out,
"as if but newly born." We quote one more
passage, which is remarkable for its cheerful,
animated character :
How sweet those rural sounds float, by the hill !
The grasshopper's shrill chirp ring's o'er the ground,
The jingling sheep-bells are but seldom still,
The clapping gate closes with hollow bound,
There's music in the church-clock's measured sound.
The ring-dove's song, how breeze-like comes and goes,
Now here, now there, it seems to wander round;
The red-cow's voice along the upland flows,
• His bass the brindled bull from the far meadow lows.

HINTON CHARTER HOUSE

ALLOTMENTS.

There are few places in which the allotment system has
flourished so vigorously as in Hinton Charter House. On
Monday last, April 5, the tenants sat down to the half-
yearly dinner, given to them by Mrs. Symonds, of Hinton
Abbey, the proprietor of the land. The rents were
punctually paid, and the dinner displayed a plentiful
supply of roast beef, veal, and mutton. At one table
presided Harold Brooke, Esq., and at the other the
Rev. T. Spencer. After dinner Mr. Spencer proposed the
healths of Mrs. Symonds, and of Mr. and Mrs. Brooke,
which were received with the utmost enthusiam and
drunk with long continued cheers. Mr. Brooke re-
turned thanks in a suitable speech, and proposed the
health of the Allotment Tenants. One of the tenants
then proposed the health of the Rev. T. Spencer, the
tried friend and well wisher of working men. Atter the
hearty cliceiing with-which the toast was recived Lad
subsided, Mr. Spencer said he was much gratified with
the kind manner in which they had drank his health,
for which he returned them his sincere thanks. He had
also been pleased with the term well- wisher," used by
tha person who had proposed hi. health. His conscience
told him that it was an appropriate term, for he did most
heartily wish them well. But he was glad, after so many
'years' trial of the allotment system, that there were sub-
stantial advantages as well as good wishes ; for several
years be had tried to introduce the system without suc-
cess, but at length it was introduced, arid, at that tone,
he promised them that as long as they kept the rule,,
they would find that Mrs. Symonds would keep her en-
gagements with them which were of the most liberal
nature. She had engaged that they should have the land
at 30s. an acre, without rates or taxes :—had she kept
her promise ?—( Yes 1 yes I from all parts of the room.)
She had also promised, what was probably peculiar to
this parish, that as long as a tenant observed the rules
and kept his ground in cultivation, he should not only
keep the land without danger of losing it in his own
lifetime, but should, at his death, transfer it to his widow
or son, so that all the labour and manure bestowed upon
it should be for the benefit either of himself his
family, otherwise one might sow and another reap; one
family might labour/ and another receive the fruits of
those labours. After making a few remarks upon the
importance of cultivating their minds as well as their
gardens, Mr. Spencer requested Mrs. Spencer to read
some extracts from a book describing some admirable
schools, for the working classes, on the Continent, to which
they listened with great interest. Mr. Spencer concluded
with assuring them that, before ten Scars were gone by,
there would be means provided, in England, for every
working man to obtain for his children an education as
good as that of which they had just heard. Though the
tenants exceed 60 in number, there has never b en any
ailui e in the payment of rent. Wiltshire Independent,

MUSSELBURGH.—On Tuesday evening a pub-
ic meeting of the inhabitants was held in the Town-

Hall, Musselburgh, to petition Parliament for the modifi-
cation of the duties on corn, and other articles of import.
James Wilson, Esq., was called to the chair by accla-
mation, who shortly stated the object of the meeting,
after which resolutions recommending a reduction of duty
on corn, timber, coffee, sugar, &c., were proposed and
unanimously agreed to. The principal speakers were
Mr. Kemp, merchant, Musselburgh, and Mr. Millis, Pres-
ton-pans. The mce:ing was very numerous, the Town-
hall being completely crowded, and the audience were
most orderly and attentive.

A meeting of the Kent and Sussex Agricultural
Asscciation took place on Wednesday last at Penhurst, in
Kent. The ploughing match, which was vigorously con-
tested, was held in Lord Dc Lisle's Park, and the ploughs
were numerous and most ably and skillfuhy worked.
After the labours of the day the party retired to the Lei-
cester Arms, where they dined, Da‘id :SalomonF, Esq , in
the chair, the Earl of Delawarr, who was to have presided,
hawing sent an ap!ogy expressing his regret at his un-
avoidahlk! absence. A number of agricultural gentle-
men and the farmers of the two counties supported the
Chairman. In the course cf the evening, which was spent
most convivially, a great deal of ag icultural information
was elicited and many oth r proofs were given of the
utility of agricultural associations.
EPIGRAM ON MISS ANNE BREAD.
" Toast any girl but her," said Ned,
With every other flutter—
I'll be content with Annie Bread,
But won't have any but her."
—American Paper.
`r Makes me
" Talking of law," says Pompey,
tick of what de mortal Ca o, who lib more dan a tousand
year ago, say. Hit. D, law is likt)agrouli glass airoow
dat give I.gl}t noeui I, light us poor trrin mortals in do
dark passages of dis life ; but it would puzzle de debit I
himself to see trop it."—Supplement York Herald.

MORNING EDITION.

LINES ON THE BURIAL
JOHN MOORE.

TO THE EDITOR OF TII.E SUN!
secil by you:. J real, that the qui,!,,
again ieviveti a, to the autii,,,r,b,p of the beautiful
the burial t,f Sir Job:, MoJrc, I think i. nay be istel
ink; to stare wird I r,,member on this subject, as tee
confirm Wolte's claims to be the iuthrir. tol
I( was, I think, about the year 1810 or 1811,'
euthua,a,tic lie. d, Toni Sie:de, recited to me 11441 04
siwt of genius, stating at the same time that i;-"°111
compositiin of his tiiend Wolfe (not Woolfe,,111!/,10
WA' Baron, who was also a friend of Svele's)i. di
was tee first time I ever heard the lines, but I never hfifili
doubt raised as to their bciug Wolfe's, who WAS reirsoLo
designated as " the author o the lines on °/I.'
Moore." At a kter p,.riod I became acquainted
Wolfe himself, bring invited to meet him by his friel'a P 1
biographer, Archdeacon Russell, who is brother-it,V°
the present Protestant Bishop of MLa b. th t the
I mention particulars as to persons, as showing est
controv,:rsy may he easily set at rest during the Prseef
generation, by referring to individuals of high c 191."
and errinenee, still Lying. h
Knowing tree circumstances Lawn I was futici,"
prised when I first saw a ili.ubt started in a vr(3'
nected with the lie of Lord Byron. oSerIP
With respect to the Frerich lines adduced by t
tatoi,, in your las: number, though re:truing to ap tt
which took place long before the Battle of Cortinlark
will be necessary to prove that they are found in ludo
of earl er publication before we have a right to 0'
that the English lines, whic:i'appear to have all thec-
recur of an original, are only a translation.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, y,
W. S. VILLIERS SANK,

TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SUiv„'Di Of
SIR,—I see in your paper of this evening B,y. itc,
some French verses taken from the Boulogne
hied
which are unquestionably the source of the verseB
jobs
have been called an '• Ode," to the mensory of Sirpnd of
f
Moore. You say "it appears there will be 00 10"„ s
c.annants to tbis celebra•ed ode ;" perhaps so, at '—ugbl
shall mention one who has long been dumb, and be t"riitte
himself as little entitled to any merit for haying ,
the lines as the table on which they were first WO tot
After the death of Sir John Moore, it was b°!l)„aftlie
that the unhappy event, the bravery, and the mer'tsn",sod
departed hero should be much talked of by the YetiZfb/
ardent then in service. Perhaps little else was tbour, fal
hich 4_
them, and they could little brook the obloquy W be"'o. g
anticipated would be attempted to be thrown %cc! et-
mory of toe fallen hero. lecke a short time ele,,P—OP:
some of the ill-natured or interested began to sb°"ri-r bil
toms of kicking at " the dead lion." onic time e' ships
decease, a young midshipman of one of his Majestebjofteg
lying in the Tagus, was ashore on leave, and
his full teat of mirth, frolic, and mischiefs by sea;
he was eminently capable, though possessed al' io '1;
sitive feelings, and as ardehtly poetical irnago,'(.ol ~
I%t
was quite a boy —his education imperfee4,,,itt
judgment immature, of course . There wasslittiod
time, at Lisbon, an old Frenchman, named
am not sure tha: I spell,his name correctly), in"-;.'t
e;
50r se;
fond of the lively boy, who evinced a resPe'"
which be perhaps never sh,iwed for anything elee:cd s° ~c;
ing the softer sex. The French veteran repeie;)
parts of the lines (quoted in your paper of this °ay 0
could remember, for the conversation had been °tired the
John's death, and the observations of the boy -alma
verses to the old man's memory. I was presen"t- ble
lad borrowed of me a pencil, with which, on tbe,,,-asel,Pl
the tavern where vie were, be wrote, or rather ••',sli
in his youthful enthusiasm, the lines which l'e 0004
~ The Warrior's Burial," and those lines are the ~ se
save a few words, which have been since ealleci„i',ooo,/,
We to the Memory of Sir John Moore." I viali; youllo
take a copy of them, but was assured by tit folle'v
author that I should have a corrected copy ork_trhis
ing morning, which he gave me on a leaf °' 10°'
book, and that very leaf, I think (at least I 1100' , for
if necessary produce. But it is cf little consequeinc;; be
tl e real author of theta is long since dead. I belle Of'
was killed iu the Mediterranean, in his M4°119 135
vice, and he never thought half so much of them ;bit°
did of some of Dibdin's ballads, though I have be'shroali'
sing them at the request of his messmates in eIAY Irish
fully soft voice, and with great feeling, to an I Ogg
air, the name of which I forget. Many eoPle':1000
lines were given away by him. have been 61,,iins
io
from England that I have heard nothing of the e—d tbs'
the verses until I saw The ,Sun of this evenings
on
is the only apology I have to offer fur trespassing
time. Your most obedient servant,
vi. ,
April 15, 1841. •", are°,
[The writer of this letter has given his name and address
aid also they name of the young officer. We borleg
oblige us still further, and produce the leaf of tbe
book.]