The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-12 00:00:00

TETF, SUN, LONDON. MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1841.

a higher Tank than that of Lieutenant of Marines,
or Boatswain's-mate. And now that Great Bri-
tain has been for years kicked, and cuffed, and
reviled, and spat upon by the Chinese, we sup-
pose it will be at last [discovered by her
MAJESTY'S Government that the SOVEREIGN
might be more worthily represented in the
Celestial Empire, than by LlN's officious
coadjutor in the work of suppressing
the opium trade. Lord MINTO must by
this time have had a sufficient dose of the
laurels with which his relative and protege the
Plenipotentiary is likely to adorn the family
escutcheon. The best thing the family could do
would be to make the Emperor of CHINA a pre-
sent of the Plenipotentiary. " CHARLEY FRO-
THY," as the Middies call him, would make an
excellent Mandarin, most of whom he at present
rivals in the composition of that grave inflated
bombast which so tickles the ears of the Orientals.

We are happy to see that the debate in the
House of Commons on last Monday, to which
we adverted on Wednesday, is very properly ex-
citing the hopes of the friends and the fears of
the enemies of free trade throughout the empire.
Both parties are fully convinced that it is quite
impossible for the country to go on with an in-
et easing expenditure and a declining revenue.
For that some remedy must be had, and it now
becomes a question betwixt the Government and
all who support Government, and look to it to
secure life and property on the one hand, and the
landowners, sugar planters, and other monopolists
on the other, whether the bulk of the people are
to be taxed for the advantage of these monopo-
lists or the State. The industry of the country
cannot bear any longer the immense burdens
which the Government and sundry classes of
individuals, by means of legislation, have heaped
on it. As the fund-holders have long ago been
warned, the labour of the people is insufficient
to pay them, to pay the expenses of the State,
and to pay the landlords' tax; and while it is
necessary that labour should be relieved of its
burdens, the demands of the State on it are in-
creasing. This is bringing matters to a crisis,
which will task all the energies of all who look to
Government for the protection of property to
carry the Government safely through it.
The public are, perhaps, justly elated at the
success of our arms in Syria and Affghanistan ;
at the bold language our Minister has held at
Washington, and at the victories obtained over
the Chinese ; but every one of these very distant
operations involves, not merely their present ex-
pense, but a continued cost to guard against
danger along a frontier which may be said
to extend round three-fourths of the globe.
The nation, like a tender-hearted matron,
whose feelings are warmly enlisted by chil-
dren, relations, and numerous friends, whose
affections she delights to cultivate, and who is
continually pained by their misfortunes or death,
has spread its political sympathies more than
half over the globe, and is now liable to be
wounded, and bleed, and require expensive
surgery, at every little change, though it be in
the order of nature, which happens through the
wide circuit of all the many States with which
she has placed herself in contact. Our policy,
be it good or be it evil, has latterly extended,
and is now extending, very much the large sur-
face over which the nation may be wounded; and

hence, after many years of profound peace, our
army and navy, and our diplomatic and foreign ser-
vices have all been increased. On this point the
Government seems fully to have carried the
people with it ; a world-wide dominion has grafi-
the public taste, and the Ministers have more
finut•ntly been reproached with the poverty than
the ext .
,•avagance of their armaments. There is
no probab: lity that the expense of the State will
be diminishei2 under these several heads, and
hence will arise 1: necessity, while industry must
ent, the revenue.
be relieved to augur

LONDON:
MONDAY. APRIL 12, 1841.

The more we reflect upon the news received
from China, the more indignant we feel at the
disgraceful, mean, and pusillanimous conduct of
Plenipotentiary ELLIOT. Why such a man,
after the proofs he had given the Government
and the country of his utter incapacity, was ele-
vated to the rank of a Plenipotentiary, is only
rationally to be accounted for by supposing that
Lord PALMERSTON had no choice in the matter
—that the First Lord of the Admiralty and his
family were able to dictate their own terms to
their SOVEREIGN. Captain ELLIOT was not an
untried man.- He had been weighed in the
balance and found wanting. The public
judgment respecting his incapacity was nei-
ther suddenly formed- nor rashly pronounced.
It was the deliberate result of a calcu-
lated series of blunders, in which the feeble-
ness of almost every high and noble faculty
of the mind was successively exhibited. Phy-
sical courage is so common to whatever breathes
British air, that there is little merit in attributing
a fair proportion of it to Captain ELLIOT. A
quality which Englishmen share with their
horses and dogs is not to be denied to any officer
wearing her MAJESTY's uniform. But of moral
courage Captain ELLIOT has throughout exhi-
bited the most deplorable deficiency. The p:,e-
sent generation will never forget the circum-
stances under which Captain ELLIOT consented
to deliver up the opium. We need not now
dwell upon them. But surely they ought to have
at once deprived him of the. confidence of the
Government, and produced his immediate re-
cal ? Why, after that disastrous exhibition of
temerity and tame submission, was he permitted
further to degrade the British name? For it
could not have escaped the penetration of Lord
PALMEW:TON that the Chinese themselves must
have a contempt for a nation represented by
such a nincompoop as the British Superintendent.
From the tone of an Edict of KESHEN, and
of a report addressed to the EMPEROR relative
to our occupation of Chusan, which our readers
will find in another part of The Sun, we have
little doubt that another expedition against
China will he necessary at no distant period.
The edict which was written after the capture
of the forts proclaims the English " rebel bar-
barians"—a style of denomination somewhat at
variance -with the article in the ELLIOT Con-
vention which recognizes the equality of Great
Britain and China. The report demonstates
the folly of our abandoning the fine • central
Island of Chusan for the contemptible Islet of
Hong Kong, and' absolutely recommends the
utmost jealousy of us, and the wheedling us
out of the country. It is impossible to read
these documents and not be convinced of the
blundering tendency of our whole policy, and
of how completely we have been baffled and
bamboozled by the Chinese. This conviction is
general among the British merchants at Macao,
and is shared by the mercantile community of
British India. In a letter from Bombay, dated
the Ist of March, a correspondent of the Times
writes as follows :

The march of the GO vernment, and the gene-
ral policy of the Liberals, has latterly been to in-
crease the national expenditt:re. All those mea-
sures for extending the operatio.7s of the Govern-
ment, which it has been the fashiOn of late to
bring forward in Parliament—howe Yer useful
some of them, like the County Cour!s, may
be—necessarily cause an increase of p.nblic
expenditure; and the Liberals, in propCs-
ing Boards of Health, Railway Commis-
sions, large grants for education, &c., &c.,
have been as obnoxious to censure as Ministers
for bestowing the public money on the Niger-
exploring quackery, or for building stables at
Windsor. If these measures be good at a pro-
per season, at present, when the revenue of the
State does not equal its wants, when indus-
try is sinking under its burdens, and not a single
sixpence of the public money should be unne-
cessarily used, they are very reprehensible.
But the public wants, and the inability of in-
dustry to answer all the demands made on it,
bring the State into collision with those for
whose benefit, and not for the benefit of the
State, industry is taxed. Hence the necessities
of the State are working in favour of free trade
principles, and will compel whoever may
administer it, and will compel all who
support the Government, even the land-
lords themselves, to consider of the propriety of
releasing industry from the heavy burdens of
monopoly. Whatever party may be in power,
the ruling classes cannot allow the Government
to fall into decay or difficulties for want of
funds ; and they must do that, or consent to
an expansion of trade which will make the
strength ofthe country commensurate to the public
burdens. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in his speech on
Monday, declared against the monopolies; and
he will be constrained to act on the principles of
that speech. If his doing so offend the Whig land-
lords, they may be assured his successor in office,
be he who he may, will act on those principles ;
fbr it is more than the head of a Minister is
worth to involve the Government in distress and
difficulties for the pecuniary advantage of the
landowners.

The Ministers, and all who claim the character
of statesmen, will remember, though some few
landlords may not, that the whole system of
legislation and government is discredited, that
the peace of the country is endangered, that all
property is perilled by the impossibility of in-
dustry meeting all the demands which legislation
for behoof of individuals, and for be hoof of the
State, makes on it. In fact, the whole parapher-
nalia of the State exists only to protect industry,
the parent of all justly acquired property; and if
industry be not protected, the State no longer
answers its functions, and men will say it
ought to be revolutionized. The Peers
and the Commons, the Ministers, and
the Judges, the Sovereign and the Clergy,
exist as such, not for themselves, but fur the
protection of the industrious community. But
of what avail are the ministers of religion to teach
morality, the Sovereign to wield the sword, the
Judge to decide disputes about property, or the
Ministers to guide the policy of the country, if
industry be ground down to the dust, have little
or nothing for itself, while it is unable to meet
the many demands made on it by the Legislature 9
Some excuse might be found for such a state
of things had the land been exposed to a foreign
invasion, to a succession of famines, or to the d-
vastation of a mighty whirlwind ; but when no
natural disasters have fallen on the country,
when, after years of peace, during which
all the natural principles of great national
prosperity have been in full operation, to
find industry deprived of its due reward, aindtlie
State not fully supplied, reflects id
dis-
grace on the whole system of government.
Statesmen must know, though ignorant parsons
and ignorant landlords may not know, that a
system of government cannot be thoroughly
discredited by such a fact as that with-
out involving the system and all that de-
pends on it, from the crowned Queen to
the little midshipman, in continual danger.
Higher interests, therefore, than merely till-
ing the exchequer, tend to promote the prin-
ciples of free trade. There is an overruling ne-
cessity in this matter which will compel even
the Tories, whatever may be their theories, to
yield; because they wish to preserve a system
that will be destroyed by attempting to make
the people bear the grievous burden of taxation
for the State, and the heavier burden of taxation
for the benefit of individuals.
I -II

The terms accepted by the British Plenipotentiary are
looked upon as unworthy of England. Hong Kong may be-
come a good military and naval station ; but 1,000,000 doII
every sear for six years are considered insufficient even for the
expenses. The opium compensation appears to have been
thrown overboard altogether. 6,000,000 dollars every year for
the six years ought to have been obtained to tio ju-tice
to all parties. The preliminaries do not speak of
any redress for injury, or of any security. tor the
future, except, indeed, the liberty of official in, er-
cour:e be considered such. There arc no commerc'al arrange-
ments, no tariff, and Hong Kong is to be opened to all nations.
The preliminaries may not have been sufficiently explained,
but, as far as they are known, they excite general dis,atisfac-
tion. Captain Elliot's grotesque imitation of European diplo-
matic phraseology has thrown an air of burleique on the whole.
The friends of Captain Elliot say, that his orders were to
make peace at all risks, and he has made one which will have
the effect of prtviueing another war in a very short time.
Similar opinions are expressed in nearly all
the Indian Journals we have received. China
has not made the shadow of a reparation for
the past, nor given the slightest security for
the future. On the contrary, KESHEN openly
and grossly insulted Great Britain by the way
in which he announced the convention to his
countrymen. The English barbarians, he said,
were now obedient to orders—that by an official
document they had restored Tinghae (the capital
of Chusan) and Shaheo, and that they had
earnestly invoked him to beg for them Imperial
pardon and favour. In fact the Chinese Pleni-
potentiary, so far from acknowledging our na-
tional equality, treats us as a pack of barbarian
rebels reduced to obedience, but whom it might
be impolitic to punish too harshly. Poor ELLIOT
was not the man to convince the Chinese of our
equality with them. That is reserved for time
commander of some future expedition, in which
the ill-starred name of ELLIOT will not figure in

_n order to keep the subject of the fitness of
the clergy to educate the people before the

public we will now further remark that the
whole body are united together by a corporate
principle which makes them continually struggle
to ensure the supremacy of their order. Other
men strive to get individually to the top of so-
ciety, and, all trying, no one very far distances
his competitors, but all get somewhat up.
The priest, however, strives to secure the ascen-
dancy of his order, and to do that he necessarily
tramples other men under foot. He very natu-
rally desires, in order to attain this end, that the
education of all the youth of the community
should be placed in his hands; but it is
not the business of statesmen who wish to keep
the priestly power in subjection, and still less is
it the business of laymen, to assist the incorpora-
tion of priests in securing such a supremacy. In
Spain and Italy the priests have long used their
power to control the education of the society,and
keep the lay:nen subservient to them ; and un-
less we wish England to become as destitute of
great and skilful men as are modern Italy and
Spain, we shall carefully keep the priests from
controlling education here as they have controlled
it there.
We know that it is supposed that they
can teach morality better than any other
race of men. That supposition is not
confirmed either by their lives or their tenets.
At present the morality which is most required
is a restraint on greediness. We want to have
the doctrine enforced, that wealth to be enjoyed
must be honestly obtained. It is, above all
things, requisite now to teach a, respect for pro-.
perty—not that property which the Sate creates
in favour of one man by taxing another, but the
natural right of property; so that the State, and
all concerned, shall regard it as a deriliction of
duty to take a single farthing from him to whom
it naturally belongs. Now this most necessary
morality it is impossible the clergy can teach,
for their whole lives are a violation of it;
and the State Church, with its tithes, exists in de-
fiance of it. Tithes are a tax which the State
levies on the food of the people for the advan-
tage of the priesthood. They are so much of
the annual produce of industry forcibly--that is
by law—taken from the people to give to the
priests; and, as long as they maintain and incul-
cate the propriety of so endowing them, as
long as they exhibit their present greediness
after gain, it is impossible that they should be
able to teach the people this most necessary
morality.

clear, and on the authority of letters from Paris we hear of an
entire restoration of harmony between France and England,
as well as of the declared return of the former to a participa-
tion in the me urei of the other great powers for the pre-
servation of peace.
The Journw des Debats says, it his the pleasure t announce
that Lord Granville is much bettee, and that he is n longor
in danger.—Le Commerce.
BO URSE.--.PARIS, THURSDAY, APRIL 8.

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' In our former article on this subject we showed
that the education of the priesthood is on grin-
' ciple chiefly directed to acquiring a knowledge
of a narrow portion of antiquity. No man con-
tends that that portion of antiquity comprises a
complete code of morals for modern times.
Though the principles of morality may then have
been laid down, they require to be worked out
and adapted to present circumstances. And it
is to be remarked, that the morality of mankind,
whether it be for the better or the worse, has
continually undergone a change.
Infanticide, that was allowed in antiquity, is now
rigorously and universally condemned. Slavery,
though universally practised in ancient times, is
here no longer tolerated; and so much alive are
we to its odiousness, that we have no toleration
for those who inflict it. In antiquity human life
was disregarded, and almost all the legislators of
the olden time, from MOSES down to the early
Parliaments of GEORGE lll.'s reign, deemed that
they might cut off human beings for any and
every offence. It is a question whether the
laws of DRACO were more bloody than the laws of
MOSES. But now we doubt whether it is just or not
to take away the life even of that very man who
has shed blood. In early times, spoliation was
as common and as authorised as bloodshed, and
but only a few years have passed since lifting
cattle was a kind of authorised species of rob-
bery. It may be supposed, therefore, that a
similar progress is making as to theft, which we
have traced as to shedding blood. Respect for
property is no virtue of the savage or the semi-
savage. Thus the morality of mankind is under-
going a gradual, a successive, and a great
change.
Now the priests, who fix their attention almost
exclusively on the past, cannot be the authors of
this modern morality, and, not being its authors,
must be opposed to it, and be only reluctantly
•Iriven to teach it. Hence we find them slow in
ass: sting to procure the extinction ofslavcry, the
aboliti.On of the punishment of death, or the ge-
neral ame.lioration of the criminal code. Hence
we had them as long as possible the opponents of
educating the people, except teaching them their
catechism. Hence we find them at this day, while
reflecting men are condemning the immorality of
taxation for the benefit orindividuals, also abso-
lutely vindicating the legal plunder of the people.
Because morality, like science, is subjected to
change—we say improvement—the priests are
no more competent to teach it to the people than
they are to teach astronomy, if they believe on
the authority of the Bible that the earth stands
still, and the sun goes round and round it. The
morality which the people require to be taught, is,
if we may so express ourselves, the common mo-
rality—that which is now advocated by those of
our race who have attained the highest eminence
and can see the furthest; and that morality, the
priesthood, who, as a body, insist on remaining
below, and keep down as long as they can, are
not qualified either to discover or to teach.

(From 7he Sun of Saturday Evening.)
The Liverpool letter received this morning, dated half-past
five, P.M. No news of the President.
Another letter from Liverpool, received at the North and
South American Coffee-house, dated eight o'clock P. at., also
states, no news of the President.

The Hamburgh Papers arrived yesterday evening. The
exchange upon London comes at 13 43%, same as per last. post ;
Gold, 428} ; Metal, 106; Bank Actions, 1630.

Accounts from Sydney to the 9th of December, by the Over.
land Express, have been received, and the following are ex•
tracts :

The French Journals of Thursday have
reached us. The following are the observations
of the National on the news from China :

" The most important clause of the new treaty is that
which stipulates for the cession of the Island of Hong-Kong
to Great Britain. England thus realises her dream of two
centuries. In 1760, after several fruitless attempts in the
Chinese seas, she established a factory at Formosa. She
then attempted to dislodge the Portuguese from Macao, and
to create an establishment in the Island of Amoy ; but this
project failed. The authority given to England in 1689 to
establish a factory at Canton did not satisfy, and, conse-
quently, she never ceased intriguing at Pekin in order to
obtain permission to instal herself more solidly on the territory
of the Chinese empire. In 1755, the English appeared at
Ningpo, and, in the course of the same century, they set
foot on the soil of Tchou-Chan (not Chusan) but they were
soon compelled to abandon both. From that time they
were unable to succeed until they called opium to their aid,
and now they triumph. Hong-Kong, or more properly speak •
ing, the archipelago of Hong Kong, is situated in the bay of
Canton, opposite the river of that name, and about three
myriametres (rather more than six English miles) to the
east of Macao. This group occupies so small a space in the
possessions of the Chinese empire, that we only find it in very
large maps, and even there only the two largest islands are laid
down. fhe largest of the two, that which gives its name to
the archipelago, is only two myriametres long, taken at
its longest part, and its mean breadth is about a
myriametre and a half. These islands are barren, and
are scarcely inhabited; their position constitutes all their
importance. The English are not the first to appreciate
the advantages which they offer in a military and commercial
point of view. They have long served as a nest of smugglers
and pirates. We can easily conceive the value of this new
acquisition. In future the English will be no longer com-
pelled to place their ships under the protection of the Portu-
guese guns. Whilst nominally within the dominions of the
Emperor of China they will be at home; this is all they
wanted. In 1611, they obtained permission from the Great
Mogul to found an establishment at Surata. This served as
their point d'appui for the conquest of India, and the Em-
perors of Delhi soon learned to their cost, that to surrender a
single inch of ground to the English, is to furnish them with
the means of stealing an entire kingdom. What the English
did on the Banks of the Ganges, they will do in China. They
know, to use the words of Lord Napier, that they have to do
with a people who are without the means of defence, and they
will lay hold of the first favourable opportunity for throwing off
the mask. In the meantime they will continue to gain round
and strength according to their praiseworthy custom, until some
fine day the anger of the Emperor will break forth, and give
rise to a new war and new concessions on the part of the Chi-
nese. This is the history of all the invasions of the English."
We are not quite so sanguine in our views as
the National, nor would that Journal, did not
the occasion afford an opportunity of strengthen-
ing French prejudices against this country.
The France has a sensible article on the oppo-
sition of the English press to the fortification
of Paris, but want of space prevents our quot-
ing it.

There is no news of general interest in the
French Journals.

A letter friqn Bilogna of the 30th of Mardi announces
that Prince Bacciochi, the husband of Ells' a (the sister of Na-
poleon ) is dangerously ill. There was a report. in circulation
in the same city that the Duke Modenaoff int, nded to retire
Nismes for Pau, where he will arrive
Algiers of the 30th of March, which
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GGCtnzecdratie de the day after to-morrow.
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The continued says :_6. We are all in motion to-day.,
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nccoomnmsisatnsdeof of the Lieutenant
—General-rg
A letter from Vienna of the 28th of March says,—.6'l
take
et opflaPeetinacee Aalee„tnteaarn
hadieh tboeJeonhasntnatiesbde.
ex-
change of couriers and the evident press of business at the
Prime Chancellor's office, indicate, the activ. correspondence
of our Cabinet with those of the other Powers, and the Prince's
journey cannot be seri ou.ly thi.ug, t of till the political questions
now pending are decided to tt e sati.taction of all patties
Meantime the political horizon is becoming more and more

" Trade continues dull. Salt provisions received a very
heavy shock on Saturday, on account of there being such
large quantities sent out from England to Singapore. Tea re-
mains steady, a cargo being daily expected.
" PORT PHI LLIY.—By an official notice in this day's paper
it will be seen that so much of the Supreme Court Act, which
was passed last Session, as regards the appointment of a Judge
for Port Phillip, is to be suspended until atter the Ist of March,
18.11. Flour, first quality, 21s. ; second ditto, 16s. per 100
lbs. Wheat, Bs. 10d. per bushel ; first quality, 21s. ; iecond
ditto, 16s.

SYDNEY MARKET, DEC. B.—Fine Flour, 21s. per 1001 b,
second, 18s. ; Ration, 15s. ; Bread, 6d. per 21bs Loaf; Bar-
ley, 6s. 6d. per bushel; Barley, Cape, 7s. per bushel ; Oats,
6s. to 7s. ; Hay, 91. 10s. to 121. per ton ; Straw, 21. to 21. 10s.
per load.
. _

Provisions—Fresh Butter, 25. 6d. to 3s. per lb. ; Salt, Is.
to 2s. 6d. per lb. ; Irish, is. to Is. 6d. per lb. ; Cheese, I ld.
to is. per lb. ; Bacon, 10d. to Is. per lb. ; Eggs, 2s. to 2s. 6d.
per dozen ; Lard, 10d. Beef, per carcase, 3d., per joint,
41/2d. per lb. ; Veal, 10d. per lb. ; Mutton, per carcase, 30.
per lb., per joint, 41/2d. to bd. per lb. ; Pork, Iod. to Is. per lb

•
Although we are now in possession of the particulars, and
official accounts, of the Chinese news, it has not had any fut Cher
effects on the British Funds this morning. Consols, which
left off on Thursday at 90 fur the Account opened this morn-
ing at 893 90 ; same for Money, with scarce a bargain doing
as yet. Exchequer Bills, 10 12 prem. ; Bank Stock, 170 172 ;
India Bonds, par 2 prem.
In the Foreign Market the prices are nominal at present,
Spanish Active at the leaving off prices of Thursday, 23k;
Deferred, 123 %; Passive, 53 ; Portuguese same as they
left off, 193 20 ; Brazilian 69 70; Colombian, 22i ; Mex-
ican, 34 ; Danish, 78 79; Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cents.,
513 523 ; hive per Cents., 983 4.
Shares—Great Western, 28 29 prem.; New, 133 14 prem. ;
London and Brighton, 41/2 4 dis. ; Blackwall, 5 3 dis. ; Bir-
mingham, 6s 70 prem. ; Southampton, 56} 573 per shire ;
Croydon, 13i :4 per share; Greenwich, ti 3 per share ; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 153 15 dis. ; South Eastern and
Dover, 15A 14 di..
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Great North of England ... ..... 70
Ditto Fifths
London and Greenwich
London and south Western 3Bl 57i..... to 57
Ditto Tenths
Northern and Eastern
Accounts have been received at St. Mato from Mon e
Video, stating that Rosas was preparing a squadron to attack
Monte Video, which has caused great inquietude there ; and
the private letters state that he has issued an order that no
vessel shall proceed beyond Buenos Ayres without his per-
mission.

In general the terms made with the Chinese Government
has not met the approbation of the public and speculators,
which, report says, is attributed to the circumstance that when
our Aliiiisten expected a war with France in September la t,
they sent out orders to bring the Chinese affair to an imme-
diate settlement on the most reasonable terms.
The British Market continues inactive, and the only feature
worth notice is a sale of about 20,000 Consols during the morn-
ing for Money, at 89i. Consols at present may be quoted as
in the early part of the day, 90 for the Account; Money 89i ;
Exchequer Bills lower, 12 10 prem. ; Bank Stock for opening
175 ; India Stock 254 ; India Bonds 2 prem. par.
In the Foreign 2,larket very little business; Spanish Active
a shade lower, 23 ; Belgian lower, 33i ; Mexican, lower, 30i ;
Colombian, lower, 22k; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,
511 f 52 ; Five per Cents. nothing done.
In Shares not much doing—quotations higher; Great North
of England 67 ; Great Western Fifths 11 g ; South Western
57 ; Northern and Eastern 301 to 31.
Consols Account, 90 ; Ditto, 25th May, 90i ; Mexican,
30i ; Portuguese, 34 ; Spanish, 23i.
CLOSING PRICES.

BRITISH FUNDS.
Bink Stock ... 172 k India Stock
3 per Cent Red. BBi Ditto Bonds 0 pat
3 per Cent Cons 9O Ditto Old Annuities ...
3i per Cent Red..
New 3A per Cent 99 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2id 10 pm
New 5 per Cent I Ditto 500/ lO pm
Long Annuities to expire ! Ditto Small ll pm
Jan. 1860 l2 13-16 Bank Stock for 0pg....175
Oct 1859 l2 9-16 India Stock for 0pg....254
Jan. 1860. — Consols for Acct 9O
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto 33i
Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, letallic
Colombian, 6 per cent... 'Spanish, 5 per cent —
Ditto, 1824. .. ..... 224 Ditto, Deferred
..
Danish, 3 per cent 7Bi French, 5 per cent.ll3f. —c.
Greek, 18.45, 5 per cent — Exchange . —f. —e.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent. 78f. 50c.
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 514
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent 9Bi
SHARES.
Great North of England Railway (20 paid) 67
Great Western Hallway (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (a 0 paid) 634
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd)
Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) ...
Ditto New Shares ( 2 p.iiil)..
London and Greenwich Railway (20 pd).. Si
London and South Western
Ditto Tenths ..
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid)
Northern and Eastern (50 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (33 paid)... lab

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL

LITERATURE.

.______
BRUSSELS, APRIL B. I lie avera:e price of .-ii ,i at FLY FISHER'S BOOK.
last week was 17f. 96c., and that of rye, 10:. 78r. per ' Ackermann London, 1841
eectrolitre. Notvithsta d il_ing DI% oomins,,,, s .v,.!.-,, ~ mm
General Baron Hurel will quit the Belgian service detiniton of angliti!):, that th. is; •• i. e,
to return to France on the 'tut ,of this lisolilll. string, with a worm Lt iiete a.,..t.1 -,:ax : ~,,, .._ ._ ,_
We learn that for som . iteys comp• tent per-ons bee other,' some of the most Cilllilt'tit:lleil ei le . _ e
been busily engaged in ealufne the ci• y 1 brirv, wiil, . times 'lave been anglers, ..ad ie ei ~ek ,
view to the sale of it to the Government. These per for their enthusiasac atm-mem:we... m 0 ~...-! -1, ,i'
sons, we understand, were extremely surprised t., h. if Without going so far back as the days en o.ie
that the library contained so many rare and curfoes Izaac Walton, and his witty son-in-law, Cotton,
books, we may mention the philosqlfic Paley,
We (i. e. the Courrier Beige) were right in thinking Mackenzie, author of the "Man of feet-
that the Crown would not hasten to come to a decistoit ing," Nalter Scott, Sir Humphrey Davy, ,b antes
before it was thoroughly intoraued of time situ.itieh aid Hogg; Professor Wilson, and several others,
wishes of the country. whose names do not at present occur to us,
BRUSSELS, APRIL 9.—The chief instruction to b all of whom were as zealous " fishers," as eves
derived from the addresses in favour ot the retaining ot Zebedee himself. We cannot say that we ex-
the Ministry, is the disapprobation of that system of in- actly sympathise with their enthusiasm for this
stability which is so prejudicial to France, and which pastime. To us, angling seems to be about as an-
destroys all confidence in the representative system. promising a pursuit as a rational being; can
We were astonished to learn that M. Nothomb re- well engage In; for what can be more dull—
fused to return to the department of public works ; but what more deplorable, than to sit or stand for
on reflection we feel that it would be very difficult for hours by a river's side, exposed to heat, cold,
him to remain neuter and impartial between his own or rain, watching an artificially floating upon the
system and that of M. Rogier. M. Sublankoff, a water, in the hope that some time or other,
Russian General, has just arrived here from St. Peters-
a big fish may jump up and swallow the bait !
burgh.—Courrier Beige, April 9. There can be no process of thought going on
during this tedious period to beguile its int,,lera
The Moniteur Beige, of April 9, has not been re-
ceived. The Courrier Beige of this day does not even able weariness. The angler must have his atten-
give any report respecting the change of Ministry, and tion exclusively fixed on his fly, or he will lose
the Journal du Commerce, of Antwerp, which gives a every chance of Success. If he venture to cast a
list of the persons reported as likely to be members of stray glance at the landscape about him, to look
the new Cabinet, decleres, in its No. of Saturday the up at the shifting clouds overhead, or admire the
10th, that it is not confirmed. bright emerald green of the grass in the mea-
THE HAGUE, APRIL B.—The Sections of the Se-
dows where he may happen to be located, lie
cond Chamber of the States-Geueral having examined must be content to sacrifice to his love of the
the project of law for the organisation of the Courts of picturesque every hope of " a glorious nibble."
Justice in North and South Holland, and Limburg, a Angling is a fine thing to read about, especially
new draft of it has been sent by the Government to the in the eloquent pages of Professor Wilson; but
Chamber, divided into three separate projects of law. woe to the novice who, seduced by such in-;
AMSTERDAM, APRIL B.—We have learned with the sidious eloquence, hurries away to the water's
side with his " stick and string," expecting to
greatest pleasure the election of M. A. W. Huide
Roper, as Member of the Second Chamber of the realise all the pleasures which a poetic fancy has
States-General. conjured up! Ten to one he will be bitterly
It is said that a squadron will be shortly fitted out to disappointed; catch nothing but a cold ; get
go on a cruise as of late years. His Royal Highness no bite but a gnat-bite ; be gored, pera qms,
Prince Henry will accompany it on board the frigete by an indignant bull in his transit through an
Rhyn. The squadron is to go to Russia, and the enclosed meadow; be taken up for poaching in
Prince will then make a tour in that empire. a private stream ; and, not improbably, finish
his day's enjoyment in the stocks or the black-
The 17th anniversary of the birth-day of her Royal
hole! Thinking thus disparingly ot the art of'
Highness floe Princess Sophia was observed yesterday
(the 7th) in the usual manner. angling, we took up the volume before us,
AMSTERDAM, APRIL 9.—We hear that we may flit
which discusses it at lengt i, with great indiffe-
ter ourseh es with the expectation of a visit from tie Fence; but had not hurried through many pages,
King and the Prince in this city, perhaps on Moaday before we found teat it was realty well worth
evening next.
reading—not so much for the practical know-
TURKISH FRONTIERS, MARCH 22.—We 1 •arn from ledge that it brings to the subect, as for
Comistantineple that the Punta has communicated to tee its lively, picturesque descriptions, at.d nu-
R.epresentativ ea of the Four Powers the remonstrance :herons characteristic anecdotes. Time au..11,r,
of Meim met Ali, transmitted by Mubih Effendi, arid it is clear, is an angler of Cie most zea-
has asked their advice. Tne Council lind on the suo-
ions order, and resents, as little stuL t of
-
,joct Was not unanimous, and intended to leave the do-
blasphemy, a my ;id., tie that may be cast upon
eision to the London Conference, a result at which trig art. be seems to think it the nobtest and
most fascim a Lig of all rural sports ; and lays
there is certainly reason to rejoice, because the imtruc-
'ions on the point are doubtless on time way• down h s directions for pursuing it skitfuliy,
The capital was illuminated on the 10th in the even-
with all the grave earnestness of a Sul in,
. with more miuuteness and precision.
trig, on account of the return of the Turkish fleet.
IN'o zoologist could detail the " habits of
Nothing is decided respecting the retirement of R-s-
fish '
chid Pacha, which has been so much talk'd of'. It is lie is never weary of chauating the praises
said that be has hit, ly three times tendered his restge of salmon ; eulogizes a trout with zeal
nation, which the Sultan has not accepted, being un-
and discrimination ; is considerate towards
able at present to do without him. a chub ; and can even say a good
It was reported at Conatantinopl' that Baron Stur-
word for a pike, notwithstanding its astonishing
mer, the Austrian Internuncio, wished to be removed resemblance to an attorney ! As a specimen of
his maimer, we subjoin his account of a trial of
to anwher post. As his probable succeasor, 11e. yen
Rokesch, itie Au titan Minister at Athens, was spoken skill and strength between a Welsh fisherman
and a salmon, which o amrred in one of' the
oi, or else Baron Neumann, woo has letely been en-
mountain rivers 0: JN orth Watt•s :
trusted with importaiit missions.
As well as I can remenfbee it aas aeout five yews
Peace his been concluded better en Montenegro and
taig::,,ivhert FT.tirnouodsthfiohfirst point of tre land on tois side
Herzogeivtna, after a conference bet .ten M •jago Mu
sopdi sch and Petro Petroelitsch at Grabowo. There gettilig loose, °"'i'"lde to‘thieugdro: le. :s:tte),frntohoti, and his real
ew.,01
poor e sthrdinglmbeyd whichh
is a great fermentation among the inhabitants of' Spizza, it teas bound tee Lie roil (for hej
neighbours of the Montenegrins, in cons. (pence a tee dim el it, rod ago eh, into the wive! to iiicreas:e irls)t'eue
eion ey moisture; and davit g fee operation, a little b..li;
appearance of a Turkish tax-gatherer. They seem
disposed to throw off the Turkish yoke, and to join the him, can; •up at his fly a nioester of a sal'. il 1 A complete
Montenegrins. At the end of February, a place bear levi• than I and to bit (not the salmon's) gieat joy, Tom
found his hook fast if, him. Away flew the fish, our ale!,
Rodgouzza was surprised by the Montenegrins, but the
red .he line, and ells arted Torn after them. Both fuuglit
attack was repulsed ; twelve men were killed on both
shins. with di seeration; one for life mud liberty, the other for
CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 17.—The Porte, in an
defha,,,,d glory. Long, too, they wrestle d. At last, " Sir
ffi oci .1 note of the 14th of March, s
arch, announces to the m,
as Tom had breath, arid turned to sulking—ouch sulk-
ingr verbei k
liire, in all his experience, net
Representatives of the Four Powers that the Pacha of er?
,111 The fish lath not e a neont ee Irega,libufte.aamrdfckthl. amid
Egypt has refused to accept the firman of' investiture. for such a length tit time, th t T
Strictly speaking, the Porte is not in the wrong, and it was gone, le
.veng his honk fist in a srnyP tu a't the bottom
cannot well be doubted that the conduct of Mehemet of the !Ler, mini a sight moion told him .. all was right."
Ali must be con-idered by all the great Powers ass Again he pulled and tut p,: with all the force his ma, kle
formal refusal. But it is another question whether it weuld bear; and et last, •If ,terted old silver-sides agsitt.
will be acknowledged in Europe that the Pacha Again was the battle reeewed, sometimes in water, some-
has by this step retracted his previously declared sub-
times high in aim ; sometimes he imik to the profundity ;
mission to the authority of' the Porte, and that
anon he was awakened front his awful slumber, and off he
sta tcd again ; then was he •• bitted" under the very tip
consequently the condition of the concessions made to
ofn tit., rod ; and at last Tom " worn' him round the point,
him no longer exists. The Porte does not indeed ex-
se,ar to. yon small boat. Tee shades of averting at we then
pressly draw this conclusion but merely announces the
yards
seal their_it: hazy maetles over the valley. E gitta en
fact of the refusal, anti asks what advice the Four
gaff
was brought
ut)huenhtwt,izz-d out, and were .e pod" back.
Powers Will give, on this new incident. But a jeiut The
wit.ett ulgethcr; four:, ea
act of the Ambassadors is not to be expe led, as it is riot yards more were wiantednulbs:i wm..r;
ciagrogigiogi) ; a,,_
'probable that any of them have instructions for this case ; other turn or two—end .he fish floated on his eug , slues
they can therefore only art severally ace iidieg to their as Tom wound hint hack—w eund him back t, ~-tathin a
respective opinions. Add to this th it it was ye stela ay single yard of the g ffl On 1 %het an layout moo get !
Tne monster gave one i.ifiguld struggle— nd th it rho !lacreported in the best informed circles, even in the D.
! hung loese to the too; the hook i.a t slipped its bold,
van, that the London Conference h el broken up, con
e,ielading to the intte'!st• presser • ; ati,t font steak exhausir d
ceiving the Egyptian question to be settled.
h e
tSimitolittinl!
off t2,,pihiti,t. .rss oni:
_ti,e, :;round 1 Thus t Illifialt d a sale. g e
wt.. be
this report be confirmed the Porte II
~,b‘tt,tue.4(lslstertiyheeollu e- 1 and the fish Teen e,ti„.
opposed to the Riche, and the question w Duet be wile- ma ed at (tbrough) appeared about
ther it feels itself strong enough to mair ton tee finnan thirteen if.c i s and. iiisisidrPtbhabout four feet ,* but he
of investiture and enforce its decrees. Tne mend. sof has never se ea it, I,ka t efuerebgOr siece.
Mehemet have in feet eagerly laid hold of this report,
and declared without reserve that the erasing of lot eien
intervention is desirable for the Porte, as it can now
free!y prosecute its own plans, and enforce its sore

reign rights unembarrassed by the thousand conflicting
interests of Europe. I scarcely oe.Nl to s,iy who is at

the head of this party ; it cook:4es that the 13.arte must
make some concession, and spedts of the order of suc-

crssion, and the amount of tribute, but not (which M.
Pontois especially dwblt upon in his note to the Porte)
the nomination of the officers of the Egypt4in army mid
the other parts of the Erman objected to by Meh: met
Ali. Those who are impartial between those who con-

tinue for and against the Peeha agree in team; it-1.:1-t
Mehemet by his military prowess, and especially the
immense riches which he has amassed, aili a.)le at

d:staut period to resume his projects, which are only
defetred, and renew the war in Asia. Th, poc.t is to
limit the cireunast ince in the situation of Egypt, which
in:ght make it more easy for the Viceroy to recover
his former position, and yet to modify the fiinann, iu
such a manlier that the Paella, in case of his refusal,
shall be mantiestly iu the wrong. Ail depends on the
extent of these niociifin,itions. It seems that the idea
that the intervention of t e Powers in the ilfairs

of Egypt has already eeised, or soon Nill,
ground to the Palace, as autograph letters Item tk:e
Sultan were yesterday di,patcheit from ti.e Seraglio to
the Queen of England, the King of Prussia, and the
Emperors of Austria and Ru slit, thanking ti:em for the

assistance they have gi%en li.m againA Egypt. I►. ►F,
how ever, flipetted that same conce.sio►►s must b • more

to *atisly France, on which tie Egyptimi questioti%4lll
be.come a purely Turkish o..e.—Adgemeine Zeihazg
April 6.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AmeTcanAN, APRIL 9.

* Since this an'cdote vk as related to rre, I have, by calcula-
tion upon a geiei.,l scab., proved that such would be about ti►e
wtight of the fish here oliu,.ed to.

LEE 011 ENGLISH MINIiI?AL SPRINGS.

Whitlak, r, London 1841.
There is s,:rviceauie, practical inform&
tion packed up in a small compass in this little
voiume, which treats cleverly and concisely of
the different mineral springs in England, of their
peculiar properties, the circumstances under
which they snouid be taken, and the regimen
that should be adopted while taking them. The
clia,:ter on baating, however, is the best, for it
is tile mos,. in detati, and the subject is one in
which the majority of readers are greatly inte-
rested.

MitTISEI MUSEIJ vi AND INA

du..., :,, s
%anal Debt, '234 per Cent
Jilt°, ditto 5 pet cent.
Alliwlt synclic,44 per cent 1936 80%
Ditto, ditto, 35 per cent.... ..........
Commercial Company, 4 per cent . 111,114 67
Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 1637, 5 per cent. y, n;34
Exchange en London, One month l2 c 734
Two months •••••••I II I 1 9, j. 6
Dutch Papers, April 10.
BELGIAN k UNDS—Bausenr, APRIL 9
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per C,:nt 1,9%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. tO
—.-- 3 per Cent.
Thirty.seren— --
—...--....-----.0 49 L 0
Loan of City, 1632, 4 per Cent 6.34
Society of Commerce, 434 per Cent 9B
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.... ........
NationalSemety . .„
Exchange on London (shot t) ... .......... „ ll 1/5
—Brussels Papers, April 9.
AUSTRIAN kUNDS.—Vivina, APRIL 1.
I Leper Cents. Bletalliques
roar per Cents. •••••«••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ......... •
Three per Cents. ... ...........
Bank Shares .....•...„..... ..... •••••••••••••••••••••••
..411gemeine &tieing. April 6

PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Beaux, APRIL 6
Mils, Mooie%
St. Schuld. Sch., 44 per cent ............lu4 Iftlyi,
Prussian English Loan, 1839,4 per cent 100/4 In A
bachange on Landon, three months... 6 ,9%
—Prussian Slate Gazelle. April 7

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.— Mr. Macready
evneluded an egiee,nent with the Suh.Coninil e on
ThuisCay evening 16a, to tike Drury-Line Thtarre for a
iimAed number uf years (report says riine years), and, in
pursuance of this sgieement, has en, ered into engagementi
with Mrs. 61 v,•r, Mr. arid Mrs. Keeley, Mrs. Ne:birt,
Mr. Elton, Mr. W. Bennett, Mr. &Tit: manag r),
Mr Marshall (scene la:titer), and rep, ri ands Mr. Ai,-
demon and Mr. Payne. Mr. Macready is compelled to
leave Loudon for the purpose of fulfilling severa! provincial
e,gagernents, at the termin.tion of which be returns to the
Haymarket Theatre for a limitad number of nights; but is
is riot expected that he will enter on his arduous Mules a
Drury-lane Theatre until the latter end of Ocioter nexi.

A- number of Liverpool merchants have formed
themselves into a G.ml ail for bui:d.rig ,hips in .he lele o
Man, where Baltic timber can be imported at a dul. of
s'. per load, and plank at Bs. pet load, wt, le in E klawl
the duties are 21. 15s. and 41. per load. A.I v,,,st,ela built
in the Isle of Man are entitled to be r, gist, r, lirrti
vessilt. The Lverpool and :.underta,.d •I. u I r•
hate, therefore, petitioned Peoli.tment to qua z h tim-
ber (tildes in England and the Isle ;,f Mau. --411atichest•r
Guardian.
ANCUENT TEMPERATURE OF CHINA.—M.
E. Blot ha, compared the aaitent sod modern teuit.e.,,.
ture of the 35th degree. By uscertan•itz the plants usually
cultivated, the epoch of the training of ;the silkworm,
that of the arrival and departure of birds of passage, and
the meteorological phenomena. he has come to the con-
clusion that the temperature has not
.vtrted from the
greatest p ri«id of antiquity. He has dotty •i I l.s c,
for modern time: front the tray. Is ,! 'lanes
Eurt,p, an tray..ll,rs ; and f ,i,,1 1
sacred books Chi k aau Cnnu-kli,B, irons th.:
Tcheou ohou....Atheneum.

TIONAL GALLERY.

TO 7'HE EDI7O-H OF THE SUN.

Sir,—The spirited uhd lluerai teeinig with
which you nave advocate:a the right of the poor
L.; have access to tne .pr.. erty, Liuuris
me to trouble )ou with ,his, struthil Sou
deem it worth a notice in .your .ourinti, it may
possibly lead some one more qu-,,tinea than my-
self to strive to ifbulish the ui:jast treatment
which t and others have experienced.
Being desirous of affording my children an
Opportunity (if possible) of seeing tne britisn
iviuseum, I went there during the last Christmas
holidays, but. was told by the porter at the en-
trance-gate in ()treat Russell-street, that I could
not be admitted with my two children, one a
boy, and his sister. My wife, with au infant in
her arms, was in the court-yard, waiting in case
of a refusal to admit my daughter, being the
youngest; she would take charge of her whilst I
entered with my son. On presenting myself at
the hall, I was peremptorily told by the at-
tendants, of whom one was a police (beardless)
officer, that I could not enter (to view the
• people's property). I demanded to know the
reason, and was told it was in consequence of
the children not being admissible. 1 further re-
quested to know why? The reply was they had
not acquired sufficient age. I then requested to
know what limit was specified for the age for en-
tering?
and was told eight. I then said that
my son was of the required age,* but was told
in a peculiar haughty sneer by the man in blue
regimentals, that my son did not appear so, and
therefore could not be admitted. During this
brief period my wife was peremptorily ordered
to quit the outer court (by the gate porter) be-
cause her infant, then at thie breast, became uneasy
and cried.
.She was told to quit, as such a dis-
turriance would not be aliuwed. I have been
thus ~.irate in order to contrast it with the re-
ception I expei:ienced at the :National (iallery,
to which I straightway directed my way, and at
which, after a fatiguing jouiney for my little
ones, we arrived. Lsl
had the most agreeable
access; not the ,lighest objection or even notice
being made. Why • this difference' should be
created and permitted to exist, appears to me in-
explicable, but I entertain an opinion that it
cannot be too soon abolislied. As far as the ex-
elusion is acted on, I shah feel gratified if this
narrative should preveutothers being vexatiously
disappointed like myFei:.
I have had opportunity visiting many
public inAAttion i.,• Pans \‘ flit einali-en equally
youtt:2: ;•. bit uLver omcious
Ls;l given, so uti to hi:ue(' a
of ci &gust, as+l experie.acc u at the
Must:Aim.
J am, Sir, you
ONE O.E'T.LIZ

)ustant, re:l4er,
SAPPOINTED

1- 1.
* I .•fre—,l to certify my ion's az.e

oath

How TO GET Hill OF (1111110EI-EtAl Es.
Let The V 1 a Pri i. be t,
Pelt, t e b.M,s ~) 1 c., • c • •
_ g
mate ;caul!, the separatwn of Cl:ute at,a Std.e, be t6affe
the prominent feature of their demands, instead of being
kept out of hearing by an undue clamour about Church-
rates and other minor evils, of.whieh it is th(; patent, and
which must fall with it. Let this course be adopted tuid.
P ie. end fury years will not 'elapse efore the
ireor:;:e.kr" e,,1 to, (1 nr: Ct:ureL "' ill
d .i• t'

,~~. a !

; sLuuld Ileac beeu su il/44,6 uuu etweutly 4(111e. —Laces-
Sirshire Mercury.