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THIS EVENING, MARCH 3,
Will be repeated Ehakspere's
MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.

Theseus, Mr. Cooper ; Quince, Mr. Bartley ; Bottom, Mr.
Harley ' • Flute, Mr. Keeley ; Snout, Mr. Meadows ; Snug,
Mr. F. Matthews ; Hermia, Mrs. Nisbett ; Oberon, Madame
Vests i 4 ; Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Puck, Miss Marshall; First
Fairy, :Hiss Railforth.
After which the New Farce, in one act, entitled
THE CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH.

Ca- tain of the Watch, Mr. C. Mathews ; Baron Vander-
.l43ttei-, Mr. Bartley ; Adolph de Courtray, Mr. J. Vining ;
Kristina, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Katryn, Mrs. Humby.
To conclude with
A COMIC SCENE between Mr. CHARLES MATHEWS
and Mr. KEELEY, entitled
TWO IN THE MORNING.

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VIII our Correspondent, who writes from Burton-upon-Trent,
inform us what claims on the Portuguese Government he
refers to.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning 31 minutes after 9 i Evening '6 minutes after 10.

Just so, however, must the people of Ireland
like the meddling of Mr. COLQUHOUN with the
College for the religious education of their priests.
Lord MORPETH, after a sensible speech, in
which he dwelt with considerable effect on the
policy of the Church of England, quoting the
Qdarterly Review as his authority, and begged
the House to allow the Tory party, which has
declared that it is about to seize office to deve-
lope all its mischievous plans, declined to oppose
the motion. The Noble Lord very properly
praised the Irish for their sobriety, their chastity,
and their patience under unmerited sufferings.
Sir R. INGLIS defended the venerable Uni-
versity of Oxford from the charge of Popery
on account of the Popish works published in
her bosom, for which she is no more answerable,
he said, than the Corporation of London for the
books published in the City. From which it ap-
pears that the University has no power over dis-
cipline, and is a mere subterfuge.
The evening was chiefly occupied with this
theological discussion, which will not fail to
make better known than at present the merits of
those equal, similar, and rival Churches, the
Romish and the English.
One great principle was maintained by Sir R.
INGLIS, namely, that a man is bound not to vote,
and, of course, not to pay, a sixpence in support
of a doctrine which he believes to be an error.
We hope the Dissenters will act on this doc-
trine. No opposition was made to Mr. Copau-
noux'a motion, all parties being anxious
to see the new Bill for putting down the
Catholic faith. Mr. O'CONNELL welcomed it
by a vehement and excellent speech, for pour-
ing forth which it was an excellent occasion.
Indeed, if the bigots and the Tories had a grain
of sense, they would see that all their attacks do
but add to his power, and raise barriers against
their own success.

Some Returns were granted after this motion,
and then the House adjourned.
If we thought that the House of Commons
could at any time effect much good, we should
mourn over such a waste of time. The Tories
did good, indeed, by their speeches, which con-
vince the world that they are more than ever
unfit for office.

The Ministers of this country ought to be men
of godlike powers. They are required, for ex-
ample, to govern the empire, to watch over its
Foreign relations, to make head against a power-
ful faction in Parliament, and to devise regula-
tions for the government of locomotive engines
and the sailing of ships. In our judgment this
is tasking any set of men, be they who they may,
too much, -and the consequence necessarily must
be that most of their business will be done in a
slovenly manner.
This remark is as applicable to the Legislature
as the Ministers. It has more business in arrear
than the Court of Chancery, without the least
prospect, by the creation of another Legislature,
of ever clearing off the arrears. A method, in-
deed, has of late been fallen on to help the Le-'
gislature, but the numerous Commissions which
have been appointed seem, like an increase of at-
torneys, barristers, and causes in the Court of I
Chancery, only to increase the embarrassment.
No one of these Commissions of Inquiry has
failed, we believe, to recommend some new law,
without much facilitating its enactment by pre-
paring public opinion. The Poor-law Commis-
sion, the Factory Commission, the Church Com-
mission, the Cifmmission to Inquire into the
Health of Towns, the Railways Commission,
the Hand-loom Weavers' Commission, the
Steam-boats Commission, occur to us at once as
examples of Commissions of Inquiry recom-
mending new and important enactments. In
fact, each Commission may be described as a
subsidiary law-devising body, bound by the very
principle of its appointment to forge some new
regulations to be added to that already over-
whelming mass which puts an end to discretion,
and substitutes abstractions for the use of the fa-
culties of living and acting man.
We admit, therefore, that we are no friends to
these law-devising bodies, by which any clever-
ish kind of person, who can obtain the car of the
Home Secretary, may gratify his crotchet for
making laws, and become the parent of a splen-
did enactment. At the same time we cannot
know that the Times censures the Ministers for
not having alreadS6`.giAn the recommendations
of the Steam-vessel Commissioners the force of
law, without suggesting that the Ministers should
transfer that task to more competent per-
sons. Though those Commissioners recom-
mended the establishment of " some rule of
the road," and the employment of an universal
system of lights by night, we doubt whether
the Ministers and the Legislature are the fittest
persons. for giving effect to those suggestions.
What can Mr. LABOUCHERE, or the country gen-
tlemen who sit in Parliament, know of sailing and
steam vessels ? Personally they know little or
nothing, and they would have to dependon some
one or two naval men. Very probably the
schemes of some plausible charlatan would bey
preferred, from the ignorance of the Minister and
the Parliament, to the recommendations of a mo-
dest man of sterling 'abilities. In truth, the law,
half discussed, would be the progeny of some such
charlatan, and would be only some little improve-
ment of his ignorant suggestions.
Instead, therefore, of calling on Parliament to
give the forte of law to the recommendations of
the Steam-boat Commissioners, we should think
that the preferable method would be for some
gentlemen, members of LLOYD'S, who have great
interest in the safety of ships, some shipowners,
some captains of merchant ships, with one Ad-
miral and a Captain of the Navy, to form them-
selves into a Committee, or be empowered, if ne-
cessary, to draw up regulations for the avoiding
of collisions. They could soon, by their in-
fluence and authority, which would be
willingly and cheerfully recognised; because
it would be beneficially exercised, give to their
recommendations universal currency. They
could communicate with foreign shipowners,
and they could produce a common accord
amongst all shipmasters add owners ; while the
enactments of a Legislature must necessarily be
confined to its own subjects. What is enacted as
law here is more likely to excite jealousy than
obedience amongst Trench and American ship-
masters. Because, the regulation to be effec-,
tual should be as cheerfully obeyed by foreigners
as our own seamen ; we should say that a volun-
tary association of the parties we have mentioned,
Communicating with foreign shipowners, would
be a far better plan than boring the Legislature
for new laws, and. abusing the Ministers, as is
done by the superficial Times, because they who
have more work to do than they can perform, do
not frame a new Maritime Code.

.....We.. _____
regard the question of the navigation of
vessels with a view to avoid collision, as a matter
of the craft, for which the members of the craft
should provide. In truth, we should think it as
recommendation
wise to call on the Legislature to make laws for
interference t
with them o
r
the cultivation of the land,,or the manufacture of
cotton cloth, as for the navigation of vessels. Let
it
tbobu steering
et
rememberede
erng to
light at the bow or the stern, involves no taxes
on
eoirth property;
they altogether concern the ma-
nagement of ships, and should be left, we are thrr persons, no
in-
clined to think, to the shipowners who have a
i I e left
that
or
right,
carrying a
great interest in the property, to shipmasters
who have an interest in. their lives, and to the
underwriters who have a great interest in avoid-
ing disasters.
Circumstances, we must observe, similar to
those which have given rise to accidents on rail-
ways, have led to collisions at sea. Steam-vessels
have been amazingly multiplied. Thirty years
have not yet elapsed since they came into use,
and they are now numbered by thousands.
They move, on the average, with a velocity
three times as great as sailing--vessels ;
and the danger of collision on our narrow
seas, both between steamers and between them
and sailing-vessels, has augmented in the com-
pound ratio of this increase of numbers and in-
crease of velocity. On account of this change,
precautions become more necessary, and pru-
dence and skill of higher value. On this ac-
count, too, shipowners should be more careful
in the selection of shipmasters--and should, pro-
bably, by higher wages—for at present many a

ship captain, entrusted with much property and
many lives, is not as well paid as a gentleman's
butler—bid a fair price for superior service and
superior ability. On them, we think, it rests
much more than on the Legislature, to meet and
provide for the circumstances we have briefly
alluded to.

When the Times implies, very brutally, that
the 122 lives lost on board the Governor Fen-
ner were sacrificed by Mr. LABOUCHERE'S
negligence, it has not surely attended to the
fact, that the collision was the consequence
of the existence of two dissimilar rules, one of
very long standing, and the other rule recently
established by the Trinity Board. The Go-
vernor Fenner was on the larboard tack meet-
ing a ship on the starboard tack, and, in obedi-
ence to the rule comprised in the third para-
graph of the instructions we republished yester-
day, she put her helm up. But the Nottingham
was a steam-vessel, and was bound according to
the fourth paragraph to make way for the sailing
vessel, and in obedience to that, put her helm to
starboard, and alSo bore up. Both vessels follow-
ing a rule prescribed endeavoured to pass to lee-
ward of each other, and a collision ensued. It may
be said that the captain of the Governor Fenner
should have kept his wind though on the lar-
board tack, because the steamer was bound as a
steamer to run to leeward of her; but was he
bound to distinguish in a dark night a steam-
vessel from a sailing vessel, that steam-vessel
having sails set? We opine not, and we are
bound to believe, from what we have heard, that
the fatal collision was mainly the consequence
of the conflicting if not contradictory regulations
we have pointed out.

Let it be remembered, too, that the new regu-
lations are in some sort the result of the Com-
mission for Inquiry into Steam-boat Accidents;
they are of the newest coinage, and the highest
authority. They bear date Oct. 30, 1840, and
are issued by the Trinity House, so that Mr.
LABOUCHERE might honestly think that the
danger of collision was guarded against by such
rules. The disaster is far too terrible to be
made the theme for party warfare, and we can-
not enough condemn the vile spirit in the Times
which has founded on it a most unjust attack on
as assiduous and industrious a Minister, if he be
not a man of gigantic talents, as ever presided
Over the Board of Trade.

Some of our Tory Contemporaries exclaim bit-
terly against Lord MELBOURNE as a careless,
pleasure-loving man, indifferent to the fate of
the Monarchy, who wants energy to stem the
onward march of democracy, and who, from
pure idleness, is sacrificing the best interests of
the State. We are not of opinion that Lord
MELBOURNE has shown any peculiar readiness to
yield to the democracy; on the contrary, he
has shown much quiet energy in resisting it,
though he has not bustled and bounced like Lord
STANLEY, nor pretended, like Sir R. PEEL, that
it was to be frowned down by the son of a cotton-
spinner, drilled through all the routine of an
underling statesman. But, supposing our Con-
temporaries' estimation of Lord MELBOURNE be
correct, we wish to afford them all the consola-
tion in our power.

Let then; remember that M. DE TOCQUEVILLE
has asserted that the progress of democracy is
irresistible. Let them look into the pages of
history, and see its dreaded onward march. Let
them look at the nature of man, and find in
that, if they can, a reason for the few being lords
and the many slaves. Let them look across the
Atlantic, and behold the bright and encouraging
example held out to democracy in the prosperity
of the United States, and they must, we think,
be convinced that M. DE TOCQUEVILLE has an-
nounced a great truth. In fact, democracy—
that is the mass of society—must be starved or
trampled out of existence, or numbers will pre-
vail. Now, just supposing for one moment that
the progress of democracy is irresistible, we beg
our Tory friends to be comforted by the fact, that
the • yielding Lord MELBOURNE will keep
the system rubbing on much longer than
the stubborn, fretting, resisting Lord STAN-
LEY. He and the democracy would come at
once into collision, and the old State, like
the Governor Fenner, rotten with age, heavy
with unskilful repairs, would be sent by
one crash with the vigorous and youthful de-
mocracy instantly to the bottom. Democracy
is, in fact, the steam power of politics—the
latest and grandest invention—and woe to them
who know not how to manage it, and wilfully,
like my Lord STANLEY, put themselves in its
way. Woe also• to the State which shall submit
for a time to the rule of a man or a party who
despise this mighty power, and think that it is to
be controlled by the hot-headedness of a few
youthful, and the imbecility of a few grey-
headed statesmen !

The Herald and Post, we see, exult at what
they describe as a failure of the Anti-Corn-law
League, a report of whose meeting on Monday
appears in The Sun. Suppose that all which
the Tory journals imagine to be strictly true,
that no Tories influenced or packed any part of
the meeting suppose that the Chartists were
resolute in resisting the repeal of the Corn-laws;
suppose that they bitterly reproached, as the
Herald says, the masters with desiring to have
the Corn-laws repealed for the purpose only of
lowering wages, we are at a loss to know what
consolation Conservatives can find in the exist-
ence of such an avowed and terrible animosity
between the different classes of society. The
Chartists, however much opposed to .the middle
classes, are still more in conflict with the aris-
tocracy, and the Charter which they demand,
though it should give power to the middle
classes, will be the legal extinction of the aris-
tocracy.

If we see much in the conduct of the people
at that meeting to regret, we see nothing that
ought to give either pleasure or confidence to our
opponents. The meeting was unanimous in con-
demning the Corn-laws; the difference was as to
the mode of getting them repealed. The Anti-
Corn-law League proposed to rely on the present
Legislature, and endeavour to influence it to
do justice; the Chartists derided that idea, and
demanded the destruction of the Legislature.
as the best and only means to Rbtain the repeal
40 6e Corn-laws. Against the moderation of
f League they carried their tack to the Report,
and the meeting at which the Tories exult, re-
solved both that the Corn-laws ought to be re-
pealed
and the present Constitution abolished.
We envy not their exultation.

It is remarked by one of our Tory Contempo-
raries that Mr. VILLIERS was more favourably
heard than any other Anti-Corn-law speaker. In
fact, he was the only person on that side who was
listened to with patience. But Mr. VILLIERS is
known chiefly to the public by his hostility to the
Corn-laws; and the attention paid to him is a
convincing proof that the meeting was favour-
able to his views. They expressed their dislike
for masters, they probably regarded some of the
other speakers as having some sinister object in
view, but they recognised the uprightness and in-
dependence of Mr. VILLIERS. Though they re-
fused to hear some individuals, they one and all
expressed hostility to the Corn-laws.
The meeting should be'a lesson to the middle
classes. The latter never stepped forward to in-
terfere in favour of the Chartists when unjustly,
though legally, imprisoned. On the contrary,
the Chartists were in a great measure persecuted
by the instrumentality of the middle classes, and
;hpir Journals in the manufacturing districts
were the bitterest enemies of the erring people.
Hence it is that the hostility between the middle
and lower classes has increased, and hence it is that
the latter will not allow the former to hold apub-
lic meeting, even for the attainment of an object
of which the Chartists approve. Probably the
fear of giving a triumph to the Chartists is the
reason why the City of London hold no meeting
to consider of the Import Duties. What Mr.
MARSHALL dreads has already come to pass. The
aristocracy and the middle classes have stood
aloof from the democracy. They have treated it
as their enemy, and they have made it their
enemy. Whatever power some persons may
attribute to Government, we cannot ascribe to it i
sufficient means to hold classes together long n
political union which are socially at variance.

We yesterday inserted in the columns of The
"Sun an ably-reasoned, convincing answer to the

statements -of the Treasury manifesto• on the
Danish Claims, which must have satisfied all who
read it of the great injustice done the claimants
in delaying to comply with their righteous de-
mands. That the Treasury manifesto should
have closed with a threat that the decisions of
the House of Commons in favour of the claimants
"may place in an attitude of mutual opposition
the House of Commons and the servants of the
Crown" certainly startled and astonished us.
What! has the Government forgotten that in
every minute of the Lords of the Treasury
relative to these claims it is left to " the
House to decide whether any or all of
such classes of claimants will be admitted ?"
And has it forgotten likewise that so lately as
the years 1838 and 1839, and again in 1841; the
House did decide in favour of this very class of
claimants? Will the" Treasury then, after re-
ferring the whole question to the decision of the
House of Commons, now dare to call in question
its right of jurisdiction ? Will it presume to set
itself up in opposition to the decision of that
House ? Let the Government beware of dis-
gusting by its coalition with the Tories upon this
question the most conscientious of its Liberal
supporters. We tell Ministers frankly that they
cannot afford to be dishonest. With such majo-
rities as the old Boroughmongering Parlia-
ment placed at the disposal of a Minister,
the Government could do as it pleased. It
could cheat, and _ did cheat the nation with
the most perfect impunity. But with a purer
representation of the people necessarily must
come a more honest circumspection on the part
of the Ministry. If the Government, therefore,
be so ill-ad Vised as to oppose the claims on the
strength of the support which, whenever evil is
to be done, they are sure to derive from the
Tories, we candidly tell Ministers that they will
not fail to disgust some of their staunchest friends.
But we cannot credit the reports in circulation
upon this affair. Neither Whigs nor Tories can
be so utterly indifferent to the character of the
House of Connnons as to make a mockery of its
votes in the way said to be contemplated by the
present CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER.

We have received the whole of the French
Journals of Sunday. The Secret Service Bill, or
rather the Vote-of-Confidence-in-the-Cabinet-
Bill, passed the Chamber of Deputies on Satur-
day by a triumphant majority of 93 votes !—the
numbers being for the Bill ..‘2,35, and 145 against
it. The political death knell of M TIMERS is
thus rung in France. The bell-ringer was M.
JOUFFROY. The professor has extinguished the
historian. We do not forget that M. DUFAURE,
who voted for the Bill, delivered a powerful
speech in favour of thearmaments and the policy
of isolation. We are moreover aware that M.
DUFAURE'S speech was loudly and enthusiasti-
cally cheered by the . majority of the Cham-
ber. But it was a momentary spirit of na-
tional enthusiasm. M. DUFAURE had touched
a chord which never ceases to vibrate in a French
bosom. But it does not follow that those who
cheered a speech representing France isolated
as the mighty mistress of the destinies of the
world—unassailably by land, unconquerably by
sea—bestriding the world like the mighty angel
whom the Evangelist saw standing with his
right foot upon the sea and his left upon the
land—it does not follow, we emphatically repeat,
that those Deputies would support such a policy.
On the contrary, is not M. TmEns's exclusion
from office proof sufficient that the policy of iso-
lation is not the policy of the majority of the
Chambers. Of this there can be no doubt, in-
asmuch as all M. TRIERS asks for his support of
the Cabinet is that France shall continue iso-
lated. This he distinctly stated in the Chamber
of Deputies on Friday last, and the refusal of
M. GUIZOT to accept his co-operation upon such
a simple condition, is in itself an indirect pledge
to Europe of the pacific intentions of the French
Ministry. This is evidently the conviction of the
Journal des Debats, in which we find the fol-
lowing pertinent remarks upon the division in
the Chamber of Deputies :
What is its signification ? In a few words it is this. The
Chamber rejects and condemns the policy of the Ist of March.
Some differences on secondary points may exist amongst the
various shades cf opinion composing the majority, but on the
present question; the majority is unanimous and decided. Proper
name* always render questions more explicit. The majority
does not mean to try the experiment a thi:d time of M. Thiers
and his policy. Hence we have no hesitation in saying that
was the question to be resolved. Why did M. Thiers, to the
great surprise of his friends, and even of the Left, become
so moderate all of a sudden? Why did he endeavour to
lessen the &stance which separates him from the present
Ministry by representing- himself as the innocent victim,
the martyr of the infatuation which France allowed herself
to entertain for the Pacha of Egypt? How is it that in his
mouth the Eastern question, which has agitated Europe for
the last eight months, has ,been. suddenly reduced to the pro-
portions of a national prejudice which M. Thiers' lias respected
without being the dupe thereof, which he respected so far
as to to arm n'ne hundred thousand men, and even to
threaten the world with a general conflagration ? Three
months ago, in a debate on the Address, M. Thiers was not so
humble. He boldly opposed his warlike policy to the pacific one
of the Ministry. But the Paris Fortification Bill had not been
voted. It is the vote on that Bill which has propped up M.
Thieis's hopes. All his tactics from that moment have been to
cut off that majority, and to set one fraction at loggerheads
with the other. In the Secret Service Money Bill Ai'.Thiers
expected to have the auxiliary assistance of M. Passy and M.
Dufaure, as he had the Ministryitself, in the Fortification
Bill. This is the calculation which the debate and vote of
Saturday have completely dispelled. To whom is that result
due ? lt.is due especially, and we persist in saying so, to M.
Jouffroy. What would have happened if M. Jouffroy had made
an insignificant Report? There would have been no debate.
The Chamber, the Ministry, and the country would have re-
mained in the obscurity of the vote on the fortifications. M.
Thiers, through his Journals, would have continued to under-
mine the majority. We have not obtained all that we wished
for, we candidly confess it. We have got the principal—a vote,
which, in the present day, clearly separates the Opposition from
the majority.
M. DUFAURE stated that the external condi-
tion of France could not remain what it is, but
that to change it with honour and dignity it
would be necessary to increase the army, aug-
ment the fleet, and improve the finances of
the country. The improvement of the finances
of a country is hardly compatible with an enor-
mous increase in the national expenditure. But
we are more sanguine than M. DUFAURE. We
are confident that the Great Powers of Europe
will readily afford France an honourable and
dignified opportunity of joining their councils,
without exacting front her the display of a single
ship or soldier, beyond what she already
possesses. Those sacrifices which M. DUFAURE
requires to uphold the dignity of France are not
required, and being unnecessary we can hardly
persuade ourselves that the Government will be
at the trouble and expense of making them. M.
THIERS'S organs mayrave on about the conditions
upon which the Ministerial majority can be kept
together. The vote of the Chamber has inflicted
a death-blow upon the war faction.
Marshal Victor, Duke de Bellune, is on the point of death.
From official returns in the Moniteur, it appears that in the
French Colonies the Governors have emancipated, by ordon-
nance, the following number of slaves in 1840:
Martinique
Guadaloupe
French Guiana
Bourbon
Total -782
The price of bread in Paris is fixed for this month at twelve
sous (sixpence per 41b. loaf) for the best quality; but as the
bakers in the French capital set the authorities at complete de-
fiance, by giving false weight, the real price is about 25 per
cent. more. The system is this, the bakers who sell adulte-
rated bread give good weight, and those who sell good bread
give false weight.
All that we have said on the authority of letters from Ma-
drid of the ambitious designs of Espartero is confirmed; by a
passage in a letter addressed to the Memorial des Pyrenees.
" Espartero is surrounding himself with troops, and calls to
Madrid all those resolute men who may assist him in case of a
crisis. Diego Leon has been sent for, as well as other well
known Generals, and Zurbano, that daring partisan chief, who
is devoted to the Duke, likewise arrived a few days ago. All
this gives reason to believe that an 18th of Brumaire is not far
off. A review of the troops will take place, and the new Pre-
terian bands will proclaim the dictator. The bayonet will do
the rest."

We announce, with great sorrow to our friends, that the
health of the Marshal Duke of Bellurio, who has been suffering
severely for some months, is now in a very alarming state.
The illustrious Marshal could not fail to close his glorious ca-
reer by a manifestation of his Christian sentiment. The Abbe
de Breze, in.compliance with the request of the patient and his
family, hastened to administer to him yesterday and this morn-
ing the consolation of religion.—La Gazette de France.
PA als, FEB. 28.—The Moniteur of this morning has no
official part. The National of this morning says that Mr.
Delaroche is considerably better. He will doubtless have tsos
suffer for a considerable time from the effects of thFsevehreo ne•
with which he has been attacked. The physicians? wever,
think that a salutary crisis has relieved him from immediate
danger. —Le Constitutionnel.
0000 00000 52
Rothschild's Loan, 5 Per Ccnetr-Cent..
r Cent ..... 89
Actual Debt, DleAbtN, 214UplerDCS;St.j.U....l.g. ll' "B. 27.1ispii
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 p
pe • 00000
69%
Cpernteent.. .... .... ....... 19880264
Cent ........... 8%
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Exchange on Londom (shoit)
—Brussels Papers, Feb. 27.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vienrca, FEB, 19
Five per Casts. Metalliques • 10554
roar per Cents. .......... .
Three per Cents. .....
Bank Shares .......................... 1•(3.32
—4agemeine zettung, Feb. 24 '

THE BISHOP BRIDGE MURDER.—We are
happy to say that, through the persevering though unseen
exertions of the authorities of the Sheriff's department
in this city, Patrick Redding or Aitken, a person deeply
implicated in the murder of John Green, the gauger, on
tie Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, has been taken int)
custody, and was safely
lodged, on Saturday night, in the
prison of Glasgow. He was seized in England.—Glasgow
Herald.

M ORN ING EDITION.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

' CITY, TUESDAY EVRNINQ.
There was a film market to-day for the pUblic securities,
but the business done was not extensive. The advance in
prices was equal to about 3-16 per cent. For immediate
transfer Consols we:e marked 88 to 831, closing at to
and for the Account 89 to f . Bank Stock was ad-
vanced again I per cent., namely, 167 to 1684 and India
Stock was firm at 247 to 248 ; the New Three-and-a-
Half per Conte. realised 97k to 97i ;_ and the Three
Cent,. at 88-k to 861 ; Exchequer Bills tuuchei 9 and 12
premium, and India. Bonds 15 to 10 discount.
The transactions in the Foreign Market were exc,.red-
ingly utAimpor ant, and there was not the sligh eat move•
meat in prices. Spanish Active Bondi were heaiy 24•;
Portuguese New Five per Cent,. at 31i; Mexican at
28 ; Colombian at 23k, and Brazi isn at 72 ; French
Three per Cents. Reutcs were at 76f. 50c., and Dutch
Two-and-z- Half per Cents. at 501.
The Share Market was tolerably active, and the quota-
tions were without much alteratier. Great Western Rail-
way were 22} to 23; the New 101, the Fifths 51 ; the
London and Birmingham Thirds 25, and the South-
Western 17i prem. Brighton were 7, Blackwali 6, South
Eastern 15,et, North Midland 30, Midland Counties 22, and
Manchester and BirMingham 15f discount. Colonial Bank
Shares were 10/1 prem.
In the Foreign Exchanges there was rather less firm-
ness perceptible, but the rates were not materially different
from those of last post day. On Paris bills were nego-
tiated at 25f. 60c. to 62fe. ; on Amsterdam at 12 31; on
Anteerp at 12 2f to -; on Ilamburgb et 13 7i to ; on
Frankfurt at 149 f ; and on Trieste at 10 1 to 10 2.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY. —The Cotton
mat ket to•day has been animated, and a good inquiry has been
made for American and other description.. The sales amount
to 7,000 bales, 1,500 of which have been taken on speculation.
American descriptions realize 6d. to Bd.• but in Egyptians,
Surats, and other kinds there is but little variation in prices
since Friday last. •
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH I.—A very limited
business has been done in the Share market to-day, the trans-
actions reported at the Stock Exchange are as follow ; —Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, 29 ; Great Western, New Shares, 5934 ;
London and South Western 5/. Shares, 175.6 d. • North Union,
811/2. In Bank Stock we notice the sale of shares in the Li-
verpool Union at 11A.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH I.—Manchester
and Leeds, 76; North Midland, 64 ; Stafford and Rugby, 3 ;
London and Birmingham, 170 to 172 • Ditto, New, 32/.
Shares, 2.04 to 21 prem. ; Midland dounties, 79 to SO ;
Eastern Counties, 84- to 81; Manchester and Birmingham,
24 to 25; Bank of Manchester, 9to 9it ex div. ; Manchester
Assurance, 9h.

A letter from St. Croix, dated 30th December, states as fol-
lows I beheld this morning, in company with several gin.
tlemen, one of the most horrible sights my eyes ever encoun-
tered. An English be ig• of-war, which cruises in the vicinity of
Porto Ilico, while running from St. Thomas to this island, ob-
se:ved at a considerable distance a small dirty-looking
craft, which would not have been suspected as a slaver,
but from a number of men seen on deck. After a short space
the brig came up to her, and from her appearance the Com-
mander of the brig was satisfied. She was no slaver,buthe con-
cluded, after having taken the trouble of giving her a chase,
they might as well search her. On opening the hatches they
fousid the hole crammed with negroes, from eight to twelve
years old, stark naked, with their heads shaved. The
crew of the slaver was immediately taken on board the brig,
and the slaver manned and brought into port. Several of the
little sufferers were very ill, and one died last night.
Accounts from Mexico, of Dec. 14,state, that since our last
July revolution, business has been in a most deplorable state.
Instead of purging the body politic it seems to have had the
effect of consolidating the abuses and corruptions of men in
office. The excessive Customs'-house duty, 15 per cent., is not
only continued, but even a backwardness is shown to return the
money unjustly levied during the six months allowed by law.
The foreign Ministers are enormous in their demand; the
Treasury are in too low a condition to cash up. We have an
overwhelmirg circulation of copper raging, from six to eight
millions of dollars issued at 'about one-third of its value,
which is operating to the preju-dice of the trading community ;
at present it is at a discount of 7 per cent.

The British Market opened this morning at the leaving off
prices of yesterday, 891 for the Account ; Money, 881 ;
with scarce any thing doing to the present time. Exchequer
Bi11r,:8 10 prem. ; Bank Stock, 167 168 ; India Stock, 247 248.
In the- Foreign Market Spanish Active, 24A ; Deferred,
121 4 ; Portuguese, 311 4; Three per Cents., 191 • ' Bra-
zilian, 711 721 ; Colombian, 231 ; Mexican, 281 f Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 501 ; Five per Cents. 991 100.
Shares.—Great Western, 22 24 pre.n. ; Ditto, New, 10 11
prem. ; London and Brighton, 7 61 Blackwall, 61 5;-1
dis. ; Birmingham, 79 81 prem. ; Southampton, 55 56 per
share ; Croydon, 11.1 121 per share ; Greenwich, 81 per
share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 16 15 dis.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Cheltenham and Great Western. 621 27/...... to

Great Western
Ditto New
London and Blackwall
North Midland
South Eastern and Dover
Since the earlier part of the morning the British Funds
have improwd. Consols, which were 8$ a fur money, ad-
vaneed to BS-* 7 ; for the Account 89h *, at present may ho
quoted 89* ; Exchequer Bills also improved 10 9 12 prem. ;
Bank Stock 167 168; India Stock, 247 248; India Bonds
15 10 dis.

In the Foreign Market very little doing ; Spanish Active,
24k ; in Portuguese nothing done ; Brazilian, 72 ; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 50%; Five per Cents., no-
thing effected. In the other foregn prices same as left ff.
In the Share Market some business has been done. Chel-
tenham and Great Western, 2.711; Great Western, 871,-, ;
New, 601- ex. die.: London and Blackwall, 161,4 ; North
.Midland, 70 ; South Eastern and Dover, 174. We still re-
main without arrivals.

AIESSR,. MONTEFIORE, BROTHERS.—A very numerous
meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Montefiore. Brothers, was
held this morning at the George and Vulture Tavern, at which
a s:atement of their affairs was exhibited, showing assets to the
amount of 125,000/. to meet all outstanding engagements.
Their debts amount to 94,000/. A Committee was appointed
to report to a general meeting of creditors, to be held en
Friday, the 12th inst., the best method of winding up the
receiptconcern,
and a
o f very
large confident"ietnitexpectationremittances
from
the
Australian expressed
housess to the
in
the course of a fewcm.L.o.onts:s6l.NB7
India PRICES.stoek ............ ..248
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank stock
3 per Cent. Red B9l Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 881 Ditto Old Annuities
3i per Cent Red. ..... .. 981 Ditto New Annuities...
New 3} per Cent .. ... 97i Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 12 pm
New 5 per Cent , Ditto 500/ l2 pm
Loa} Annuities to expire Ditto Small lO inn
Jan. 1860
(let 1859 ... ...... India Stock for Acct ...
Jan. 1860 ... ...... Consols for Acct B9l
FOREIGN FUNDS.
A ustrian, 5 per cent.. Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto..... _
Brazilian Bonds .. .. 72 Prussian, 5 per cent.... _
BuenosAyres, 6 percent Russian, 5 per cent. . _
Chilian 6 per cent
Colombian, 6 per cent ... 221 Spanish, 5 per cent 244
Ditto 1824
Greek,lB2s, spercent. Exchange f. —e.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 28 French,3 per cent 761. 50z.
Di to, 6 per cent, 1625 Dutch, 2-, per cent
Peruvian,lB2s,6 per et. Ditto,s per cent..... ,
SHARES.
Cheltenham and Great Western (62k paid) 271
Great Western Railway (65 paid) BB
Ditto New Shares (50 paid)
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) 94
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Blackwall'Railv‘ ay (22i pd) l6}
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) -
Ditto Thirds (.32 paid) ..

PHAarnarati'vsb:u3rrPgdhas.;
....:IL, , -,4 pat..,
London and South Western 561
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid)... 241
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
Ditto Quarter Shares (10 paid) . 14i
North Midland Railway (100 paid) 7O
South East:•rn and Dover (33 paid )... 17*
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAVO
Amsterdam C F. 12 6 !Gibraltar..
Ditto, at sight
5.i.5..h1:1. B 1325
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12 3 'Leghorn.
Rotterdam
13 Ili Naples .0.:
2 U. 12 Gi Genoa
per oz 3l
Altona
: 113 i ail ns 40
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Ditto, 3 months
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Marseilles 25 80 Oporto
Buenos
Janeironiao.s.
Bahia...
Ayres
27
52i
23
Berlin...
Vienna, effee. 1 3 M lO 3 Philadelphia
Trieste, ditto.
Madrid
35A Portugal Gold Coin. E. 3 17 6
Cadiz 3si Foreign Gold, bars.. 317 9
Bilboa
Barcelona 35 New Dollars ............ 00 0
Seville 35 'Silver in 1:1 .
in ar5•......... 0 0
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