The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-31 00:00:00

TI-1 E SUN. LONDON, W EDNESD Y. MARCH 31, tg 11

a useful or even a safe substitute for parental
care. We have great doubts, therefore, whether
the scheme of education, beautiful as it looks in
some of its details, is what wise lawgivers should
enact, or a wise public sanction.

An amendment, the most 'important of all, is
about to be proposed in the new Poor-law Bill—'
important, because it will greatly conduce to the
benefit of the destitute poor—important, because
it will be the first step toward that sound com-
mercial policy which will do more than anything
else to prevent poverty altogether;- and import-
ant because it will unmask those pretended
humanity-mongers, who, after oppressing and
impoverishing the people under PITT and CASTLE-
REAGH, during their long continuance in power,
affect, forsooth, to be mightily indignant at the
"cruel" operation of the new Poor-law sys-
tem. This amendnient is to the effect that all
the corn required for the Poor-laW Unions
(about 800,000 quarters annually) shall be allowed
to be imported free of duty. If this be carried
there need be no complaint of insufficiency of
the " staff of life" at least, in our workhouses,
for nearly double the present quantity may be
had for about the same amount of money. There
are abundant precedents for such an enactment.
Thd rum required for the Navy is allowed a draw-
back to the amount of the duty. The Baltic
timber for building churches is imported free of
duty. The Legislature in both these cases has
recognised the principle, and surely, such a
principle . being recognised, none have a
greater right to its application than the
starving poor. What say you Mr. WILLIAM
MILES? What - say you, Mr. HODGSON
lIINDE ? It is boasted that you and a hun-
dred other Tories vote against the Government,
and against your own leaders, solely from your
compassion for the poor—your indignation at the
treatment to which they are subjected. Here is
a golden opportunity to proVe your honesty,
your consistency, your public and unfactious
motives ! You may never have such another
opportunity during the whole of your political
lives.. Be honest for once. Let no quibble or
quirk, or real or affected apprehension of letting
in the wedge upon your darling Corn-law system,
diVert you from the straightforward path. You
do hot wish to " grind the faces" of the poor—
not you—and you will show it. You will let in
those 800,000 'quarters of wheat per annum for
those destitute objects of your loudly expressed
sympathy. You will not subject yourselves to
the otherwise well-founded charge of hypocrisy—
of political trading in spurious humanity—en-
trapping votes, and shout's, and cheers by false
pretences, which will assuredly be your 'fate if
you refuse to vote for this motion. No, no, you
are honourable men, " all honourable men," and
you will prove it upon this occasion, or else upon
Poor•law Bills, Poor-law Commissioners, Poor-
laW severities, Poor-law cruelties, you must " for
ever after hold your peace."

The Madrid papers received are or the 21st
inst. At a meeting of the Deputies to deliberate
on the Regency question, sixty-one Members
declared themselves in favour of appointing three
Regents. In filet, the dread of intrusting all
the power of the State to the hands of ESPAR•
TERO was becoming general. •
The condition of Spain is truly deplorable. A
country which, if properly governed, would teem
with wealth is declared too poor to defray the
ordinary expense of administration. And yet
nothing is done or proposed to be done
which is at all calculated permanently to
improve the finances of the country. The civil
war has not thrown up one really great man in
Spain. It has brought some clever men into
notoriety, but it has not produced a single states-
man capable of elevating Spain to her proper
rank among the European family of nations. In-
stead of introducing agricultural improvements
of which Spain is in tad want, and fostering into
profitable growth the little commerce that is left
to the Kingdom by the abolition of restric-
tions on imports and exports, Spanish patriots
employ themselves in devising wire-drawn theo-
ries about the first principles of Government.
It was rumoured on the 21st that the Spanish
Government intended establishing a line of tele-
graphs from Madrid to Cadiz, Badajoz, Barce-
lona, and 'Bayonne.

The Paris Journals of Sunday have all reached
us. The Chamber of Peers was occupied on Sa-
turday with the Fortifications Bill. The only
speakers were MM. GAUTIER and DUPIN, who
spoke against the Bill, and MM. LEBRUN and
BRESSON, who supported it. The speech of the
latter, who is Ambassador at the Court of
Berlin, will have great weight with the Peers.
The 'Court calculates on having an absolute ma-
jority of twenty-five votes on the Bill.
The following account of the conspiracy at
Marseilles, which formed the subject of the tele-
graphic despatch which appeared in The Sun of
yesterday, is from the Sud, a Marseilles paper,
af the 25th inst.
For several days past the coming and going of groups of
men attached to secret societies attracted the notice of the au-
thorities. Several circumstances gave reason to expect an at-
tempt at insurruction. Anonymous letters, or half-confidential
communications, made it understood that the conspirators pro-
posed nothing less than setting fire to the shipping in the port,
with the intention doting the agitation caused by such a ca-
tastrophe of getting hold of the Bank, the Receivers General,
and other public and private places of deposit.
The conspirators were informed that assistance would be
given from Avignon, Nismes, Carpatras, Montpellier, and Car-
..
ea ssane.

The day chosen for this abominable project was the 23d
or 24th instant. The conspirators calculated on their receiv-
ing substantial aid from the workmen on the canal, who had
been treated with.

The authorities took their measures in consequence.
Gendarmes were placed on the roads leading to the canal, and
agents of the police in disguise watched the house known as
the rendezvous of the leaders. This house is a tavern knoWn
under the name of the Polonais. At II at night the leaders
commenced assombling in groups of five or six, and soon after
at least 300 were united in the garden in the house.
The police proposed, by means of a large sumunding force,
to catch the who!e of the conspirators as in a net, but in con-
sequence of a gendarme being tired at point blank by a group
of five or six of the people, the order to act was obliged to be
given sooner than was intended.
As soon as the report of fire-arms was heard, a general pa-
nic seized the conspirators, and before the troops of tl:e line
could come up, a general panic had taken place, and the
greater part attempted to escape. The troops found the door
of the cabaret closed, and by the time that admission was ob-
tained, the conspirators had contrived to get off. The gen-
darmes and troops, however, did not relax their activity, and
they laid hold of fourteen of the band, all armed with pistols
and poniards, and provided with an abundant supply of am •
munition.

—.....-...
While this was going or. at La Villette, the police arrested
three individuals forming part of a large band that had sought
admission at the Ginguette of the Ascension, the .whole of
whom were armed in the same manner a ith those taken at the
Villette. Yesterday morning further arrests were made, and
in all 21 persons, belonging to the lowest classes of society,
have been taken up. The examination of the prisoners is now
going on. One of them is 54 years of age, the others are
under 30. One only is a native of Marseilles, the others have
'iced here for some years. _ _

•
A majority of the Commission of the Chamber
of Depu:fres appointed to examine the commer
cial treaty -
~yl.l-ti Holland have approved of it. •
There is no pollaral news of any interest in the
Journals of Sunday. The Chamber of Deputies
rejected on Saturday a petition for restoring the
effigy of NAPOLEON 011 the Cross of the Legion
of Honour, and praying that his family might be
allowed to return to France.

CURIOUS ARREST OF A SOI-DISANT ASSASSIN OF TUX DUKE

OF WELLINGTON.

The Courtier du Midi states that the police had arrested at
Beziers an individual who according to his account was the
sub-officer Cantilion, who was tried at Paris in 1815 for an
attempt to assassinate the Duke of Wellington, and was ac-
quitted.

tie-pretended Cantillon was thd
d t opinion that Cantillon had
bearer of an extract, said
Napoleon bequcatheilii
Ney • contrary
tperebseseta_ktien from. Napoleon's will, in vi,L'Ali the Emperor ea-
t is oligarque had to send smate Wellington as h. • as much no ~,,,,
keine pretender Cantillon had forged General
to
the the rock a St. Helena, or to shoot Marshal
leon) to perish on
capitulation of Paris, and for this reason
lhi
itßmet oita,a_sns a,
dos,
,-.
from the Emperor in the he
be-
longing to the Mayor of Ch
et
the
e other ,
,documents
name to this extract.
which he had affixed to th
session of a decoration
hundred days. The official seal whichhis individual was likewise in pos-
session
to have received
alms was found in his possession,
~ nis affair," continuesCourierdu A i ifdoiu, n,,dpirnomh his
~promises to
produce interesting ievelations.
The bpanish Generals, who
sequen 1 t.y to the abdication a Q emigrated from Spain sub-
ueen
Christina,
to Xing Louis Philippe on Friday eve a, Here presented
was unusually formal. They were attired in Their reception
forms, and decorated with all their orders. their grand uni-
• • • hed were Generals Count de Q
distinguished Amongst the most
de Meer Francisco N onard, O'Donnell,
Espeleta, Baron , arvaez, Ramon Nar
vaez, C. uz Pavia, Ste. The presentation took place at the
express desire of the King.
According to official returns, published by the Minister of
Marine, the people of colour emancipated from 1830 to the
latter end of 1840 in the four French colonies of 'At
--artinique,
Guadaloupe, Guiana, and BouFbon,.amounted to 37,186_,,i,
20,575 in Martinique, 11,016 in Guadaloupe, 1,696 Mman
G • "
Guiana,'
and 3,869 in Bourbon.
The Moniteur has spoken of a printed circular of the
Ministir of Finance, dated 25th February, 1841, which orders,
a general and immediate re-assessment in all the communes of
the kingdom, of buildings, doors, and windows, as well as a

more complete statement of all persons liable to the personal
tax ; the tax on house rents, of those paying the tax in
licences (patentes), &c., which serve as the basis of the pro-
portional tax, and which rnii=t be taken out to enable a person
to exercise any profession or trade whatever.
'You have seen from the statement which accompanies the
project of law for the budget of 1842, that the revenue is not
equal to the ordinary expenditure, and that it is absolutely ne-
cessary to take measures to obtain from the existing taxes the
revenue which we have a right to expect from them according
to the laws by which they are regulated. With respect to the
direct taxes, it appears from the information received by the
'Ministry, that there is a considerable number of new buildings
which escape the tax, for a large or shorter time.
It is also certain that the law on licenses is very unequally
applied, and that the proportional tax is levied in some com-
munes en the real value in others on values more or less re •
duced, which leads, to disproportions equally contrary to equity
and to the interest of the. Treasury,
Another circular, dated 26th February, and signed by the
Director-General f the administration of the direct taxes,
prescribes the mode of executing these measures, and impresses
on the collectors of taxes that the state of the finances requires
that the_existing taxes should be made as productive as by the
laws they ought to be.
This is what we are come to.—La Gazette de France.
(From the Courtier Francais of Sunday.)
Yesterday the King sent for M. Auber, the c,tmposer, and
gave him an order to prepare for the Ist of May, the day fixed
for the christening of the Count of Pari.t, 400 musicians, to
fartom4o3f.opteor annum.
execute a concert monstre in the great gallery of the Louvre.
Four thousand persons are to be invited to this fete, which will
take place in the midst of the exhibition of paintings of our
modern artists.
The rate of discount, at the Havre Bank, upon the paper
mfroomne9o days to run, is fixed,
It is announced that the will of INladame de Feucheres is
yMoofndPaayl,isilarch havingd,
definitively declared invalid. Some time before her death she
wrote it and signed it, but forgot to put the date ; in conse-
qw•nce of which the succession, which amounts to nine millions
of francs, will be divided into three parts.
The Indicateur de la Correge of the 24th of March fore-
tells a new incident in the tt ial of Madame Laffarge. It an-
nounces that on account of certain words spoken by the witness
Denis, a complaint has been made to the procureur du roi, and
that the first information taken by this Magistrate will bring
on searches. The Indicateur adds, that the inventory made
at Glandier has caused the discovery of incredible facts of such
a nature, as to attract the attention of justice.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.

We have still no news from America, and many parties
think the next advices will bring us intelligence of the
amicable adjustment of all difference=.
The public securities have been brisker to-day. The
current value of Consols for immediate transfer was 884
to 884, and .for time 884 to 89. The Nlirket closed
firmly. The New Three-and-a Half per Ceti:F. were at
974 to 974, and Exchequer ails at 7s. to ss. premium.
East India Bonds advanced to 7s. and 103. discount. A
tew dais back they were as Law at 20s. discount. The
speculators, in the absence of any later intelligence from
America, arc quite at fault as to how. they shall operate.
Money was easy to-day.
• The Foreign Market was heavy. Spanish Active Bonds
were marked 23 to 23*; Portuguese New Five per Cents.
33 to 323 ; the Three per Cents. 19k to 191 ; Mexican
Stock 294 to 291 ; Colombigr, 22 to 221 ; Brazilian 714,
and Dutch Two-and-a- Half por Cents. 504.
In Shares a good business was done. The Great Western
brought 241 to 25; the New 12 to 111 ; the Fifths, 64 to
64 ; the London and Birmingham 64 ; the Quarter, 17:.
tt.e Thirds 20; the New, 214; the Greenwich Scrip, lf ;
and the South Western, 163- premium. Brighton Shares
were 54 ; Cheltenham and Great Western, 214 ; Croydon.
1 ; Mar cheater and Birmingham, si; Midland Count le),
17 ; Northern and Eastern, 23 ; North Midland New 24 ;
and Birmingham and Derby, 284 dis. ; Colonial Bank
Shares ware 81 to Bk, and Union of Australia, 74 prem.
Tire Fore.go Exchanges were well supported this after-
none. We may give the rates for three months paper
ihug:—Hamburgh, 13 91 ; Paris, 95f. 65c. to 70c. ; Am-
sterdam, 12 3a ; Antwerp, 12. 24 ; Frankfort, 150 to 4:
and Trieste, 10 14 to 10 2.
The following are the official returns of the exports of
bullion from the port of London f. r the week ending
Thursday last : (.5.
Silver coin to Hamburgh 289,800
Belgium
Calais
Mauritius 84.300
Bars Hamburgh
Gold coin to'Ccy lee 250

(From 'The' Sun of List Nigh.)
By the Bamburgh mail; arrived, the exchange upon Lon-
don comes a quarter of a shilling higher, 13 4 ; gold same as
per last arrival, 425 ; Meta.l3, 105; Bank Actions, 1,610.
Liv Elt POOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 28.—The sales
of Cotton to-day amount to 3,500 bales, of which 500 have been
taken on speculation. Prices remain steady, and the market
quiet. _ _ _

LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.-The following are the
transactions : —Eastern Counties 7 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow,
344 ; Grand Junction, half shares, 1021 ; ditto, quarter shares,
28 ; London and Birmingham, 172 i ; ditto New Shares, 234-;
London and South Western, 55i ; ditto W. shares, 42.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 29.—Our
market is firm, with a fair inquiry. Edinburgh and Glasgow
34 3-16ths ; London and South Weste• n, 55i ; do. Tenths
2/. Is. ; ; Lancaster and Preston, Ndw 24 ; London and
Birmingham, 171 172 ; Ditto, New, 321. Shares, 21 ;
South Lancashire Banks, si.

By a private ship from Rio Janeiro we have received Pa-
pers to the 24th January. Exchange upon London, 303 to ;
Stock, 743 to 75. We had accounts via. France of same date.
'1 he Paper by the above conveyance contains a private letter
from l'ernarnbuco of the Bth January :—.
• The object of this is to give you
.the disagreeable news of
the risng of one rsf the principal towns, Parahyba, in which
a fam ly of the first distinction of that province is at the head,
'and their obiect is against the President. If the Alinistry does
not change the present system, the whole of the north will be
in flames.

" P.S. The news from Ceara very bad, and we are afraid
of a general insurrection against the President." _

Consols, which left off yesterday at 89 for the Account,
opened this morning at 881 89 ; for Money 881 ; Exchequer
Bills 5 7 prem.
In the foreign market SpaniQh Active as it left off, 231 1;
Deferred 121 1 ; Passive 51; Portugues also as it closed 321
33 ; Three per Cents. 19 20 ; Brazilian 71 72 ; Colombian
211 22i; Mexican lower, 291 8. left off 291 30i ; Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents. ; 50/ ; Five per Cents. 991 1008.
SHARES.—Great Western 24 25 prem. ; New 111 121
prem. ; London and Brighton 651 dis. ; Blackwall 6 51 dis. ;
Birmingham 61 63 prem. ; Southampton 54 per share ;
Croydon 128 1 per sh re ; Greenwich 74 81 per share ; Man-
chester and Birmingham 16 15 discount.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
London and Brighton
London and Birmingham ...... ....90
Ditto Thirds
London and South Western 3Bl 551 .. to
Ditto Tenths
11anchester and Birmingham ... 40
To the present time we have no intelligence of the arrival of
the President steamer from New York, or the Britannia, from
Boston and Halifax, which are anxiously expected.
The British Funds were 'firm during the most part of the
morning at 89 for the Account, alternately buyers and sellers.
Since which an influential broker sold some Consols, which had
the effect rather to flatten the market, although the sale was
not to any great extent. •
Consols may be quoted at present 881 for the Account. No
other feature in the market worth notice. Money, 881 a ;
Exchequer Bills, 7 5 premium; Indian Bonds, 7 10 cLs.
In the Foreign Market Sphish Active 23i, have been 231 ;
Passive, 51 %; Portuguese, 321 33 ; Three per Cents. 191;
Columbian improved, 228 ; Mexican, 301 ; Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents., nothing chine; Five per Cents. 991.
Deferred,
Account, 888 Scarce anything doing in the Shares—Great Western, New,
62; London and Brighton, 44/ , South Western, 551; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 241.
81trtuguese, 32% ;
MeC:incasonl,s,2,4Mon3eoy,; Columbian, 22* 1;
Spanish, 231 1.
No intelligence from America at Liverpo4 by the afternoon
train. $•

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
India Stock
Ditto Bonds lO dis
Ditto Old Annuities
,Di tto New Annuities —
Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d spm
Ditto 500/ 6 pm
Ditto Small.-- 9pm
Bank Stock for Opg• •••
India Stock for Opa —
Consols for Acct 89
FUNDS.

Bink Stock ...
3 per Cent Red
3 per Cent Cons B5l
31 per Cent Red —
New 34 per Cent 971
New 5 per Cent
Long Annuitiesto expire
Jan. 1860 ...
Oct 1859.
Jan. 1860.
FOREIG

Austrian, 5 per,cent Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — ;Ditto, New Ditto 32i
Brazilian 80nd5.... ..... . 711 Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent ,Russian, 5 per cent
Chilian, 6 per cent.— Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per cent... 22 'Spanish, S per cent 23
Ditto, 1824. 221 Ditto Deferred -
Danish, 3 per cent 791 ;French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — (Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 29/ :French, 3 per cent —f. —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 501
Peruvian, 1825', 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per. cent 991
SHARES. _

Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd)... 711
Cheltenham and Great Western (62/ paid) 41
Great Western Railway (65 paid) .... 9O
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 6ll
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 154
Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) ... ...... 22
Ditto Thirds (32 paid) .................... 52
Ditto New shares ( 2 paid).
London and Greenwich Railway (20 pd)
Ditto Scrip. (3 paid)
London and South Western ... ...........
Ditto Tenths .......
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 12/
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid)
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
CONvoßrthieErn; Eastern (50 paid) ......
.• - North Midland Railway (100 paid) •
•••
11,;:. New Shares (40 paid) . ........ ... 37
Amsterdam- (nibraltar ...... — ........ 48
Ditto, at sight
12 3 !Leghorn .................. ,
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 4' Genoa —. ...... ........ ... 25 85
. C
Ff.'cia:Nis...GE--( YESTERDAY).
31
Antwerp
Paris, 3 days' sight
12 0 5111P4) „ ... ,r,, .
it" • . • 47
Hamburgh M.B. 13 12 ,- enieg ?1•12 Wittft MI, 1
Altonall9
Ditto, 3 months 25 80 Lisbon
Marseilles ............25 85 Oporto 521
Bourdeauz 25 85 Rio Janeiro 23
27
51521
Palermo,
(.)., .
per..... 0„; .. •• .. „. 4(4
Frankfort on Maine... 150/ 1414 ••,,,,,, .
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos A yrgs ..„~
Perlin.—
Vienna, effec. 11. 3M. 10 3 Philadelphia
Trieste, ditto ditto lO 6 ?RACES OF BULLION, FEB. OZ.
Madrid ............. ....
Cadiz , . - 351 Foreign Gold, bars... 3 17 9
Bilboa Now DOubloolo r tt•••0 0 0
7 0 New York, 21 days sight 44
Barcelona
Seville ...,„
......
____—.......---,.._

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.--IL is not, perhaps, so
gcitann Independent.ertsailyk
uowoft ought to be that all persons can pro-
cure,copies o re '
stared lists of sharchcleers in any of
the joint-stack banks, for a nominal gum, applyinii at
the Stamps and Tax Department of Somerset House,
I.

NEW INVENTED PROJECTILE.

Since the invention of gunpowder, which ef-
fected such an extraordinary revolution in
modern warfare, nothing has been produced for
the destruction of human life, the reduction of a
fortress, or the explosion of a ship of war, equal
to a projectile invented by a French nobleman,
which was subjected to examination on Monday
at Woolwich, under the direction of a Com-
mittee of Military Officers appointed by the
Master-General of the Ordnance for that pur-
pose. It consists of an explosive composition
enclosed in a ball, which being discharged from
a shell or cannon, produces the most destruc-
tive effects the moment it reaches the object
against which it is directed. Such is the terrific
character of its explosive qualities that a single
ball properly directed i:7; capable of damaging
or even destroying the largest ship. The test to
which the invention has as yet been submitted.
has been conducted upon a small scale, which,
however, was so satisfactory, as to induce the
Committee to direct arrangements to be made
:or trying its capabilities in a manner to enable
the inventor to display its extraordinary power,
so as to leave no doubt of its efficiency as a mi-
iitary engine of destruction. In the present
stage of the investigation we abstain from pre-
senting to our readers the details of the experi-
ments which took place on Monday, further than
to state our opinion, from what we witnessed at
the initiatory examination, that the further
trials will realise all that the clever originator of
this extraordinary invention has alleged of its
stupendous force and power of destruction.