The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-15 00:00:00

THE V,UN, LONDON., THURSDA V. APRIL 15, ISII.

that the bulk of the people will allow them-
selves to be experimented on by legisla•
tion in the manner described. by the Times.
That our Contemporary's principle and. re-
marks cannot be circumscribed by the Poor-
law, and apply to a great variety of other enact-
ments, is rather his business than ours. We
have frequently asserted that the experiments
which the landlords have made on the people
were not submitted to as if they Were fowls
and dogs. In truth, their indignation and
their discontent are only surpassed by their
patience and their suffering. The landlords, pro-
bably, will disregard what we say, and, there-
fore, we will take a passage or two from the Re-
port of the Hand-loom Weavers' Commission.

At page 64, they quote the complaint of
JAMES CnomAcx, " that the Corn-laws force
the weaver• to eat his bread dearer than he cu ;ht
to cat it. It takes more," he says, "of his earn-
ings to buy food, and leaves so little remaining,
that he can purchase little else." They also
quote the saying of CHARLES FLETCHER,
" that the weaver is Fteuliai'ly affected by
these laws, because the smaller a man's in-

come the greater the proportion he must spend
in bread." At page GE, we find this passage :

" Distrei,," says Robert Contrill, an aged weaver,
"makes a man hopelels; he beeore4 desperato and preys
upon sccity, careless even of whet hula honest a6vac-
t ges are in his nay, and then comes the last wretched..
,:.s." Such a man is not likely to be a gaud husband,
or a good lather, or a good neighbour, or even a good
subject. Can we woi.der while brooding
rin forced in-
activity Over his miifortunes, he listens t, tie ag;tators,
who tell i.im that LI ey are all owing to bad legislation.
When we comicler how much evil he really suffeis from
the Corn-laws, can we wonder that he exaggerates their
it.fluenee, or that, finding all dteration in ,hem steadily
tefused by the Legislature, he cherishes wild visions of
organic change.
And what are these visions ? " Thvi ion of waste
lands, alterations ot -the standard, universal suf-
frage." " The state ot mind which they indicate,"
say the Commissioners, " deserves serious atten-
TEE GOVERNMENT OF THIS COUNTRY RE-

tion.

SIDES IN A MINORITY, AND A NARROW MINORITY

THE OWNERS OF THE LAND, A SMALL PORTION
OF THE COMMUNITY, CONSTITUTE ALMOST EXCLU-
SIVELY ONE It o usr OF PARLIAMENT, AND FOAM
A LARGE MAJORITY OF THE OTHER. SUCH A GO-
VERNMENT CAN BE SA FE ONLY WHILE IT IS

POPULAR, AND POPULAR ONLY WHILE IT IS BE-
LIEVED TO BE, IMPARTIAL. The first prudential
duty is to avoid even the appearance of selfish
legislation." Those are the words of the Commis-
sioners, and they signify that the very existence
of the Government is endangered .by the cruel
experiments of the legislating landlords on the
food of the people. W ill they be warned in time
by those who have been authorised to inquire
into the condition and the feelings.of the people ?

Madrid Journals of the sth inst. have reached
us. The only subject which occupied the public
mind was the Regency question. The advocates
of the single Regency were increasing in num-
bers and influence. The Five per Cents. were at
25 for cash, and 271 at 60 days.

The only Papers published in Paris on Mon-
day were the Constitutionnel, the Courrier
Francais, and the supplement to the Commerce
—Easter Monday being observed in Roman
Catholic countries as a holiday of the first class.
The Chamber of Deputies, however, met on
Monday, and proceeded to discuss the Bill for
Supplementary credits .for the year 1841. The
speakers, up to post hour, were the Duke de
VALMY, N. GUIZOT, 111. Gouix, the ex-Minister
of Finance, • and M. H UMANN, the present
Minister of that department. The only impor-
tant fact elicited in the debate is contained in
the following extract from the speech of M.
GUIZOT, Minister for Foreign Affairs :

A negotiation is commenced, for the purpose of terminating
the difficult situation in which Europe and France aLe placed
by the Treaty of the 15th of July. If the aim proposed be
realised, it will produce two effects :—lst, to give France the
place which becomes her, without associating her in the acts
in which she has not concurred; 2d, to consolidate the gene-
ral peace, without injuring in any manner either the policy,
honour, or interests of France. The K ing's Government is
following up this nego'iation with all the care and solicitude in
its power, and assumes all its responsibility. But the more
importance that Government attaches to its success, the more
essential it is not to say one word which may endanger its

success.
These Journals contain no other news of any
interest. The correspondent of a Morning Con-
temporary compensates for the absence of intelli-
gence in the papers by the following important
announcement :
The dissolution of the• Chamber was decided on in the last
meeting of the. Council, and a' new political combination of
the highest importance was settled. It was decided that in
the event of the death of M. Pasquier (it appears that he is
very ill, and given over by his physicians), M. Mole would be
named Chancellor of France and President of the Chamber
of Peers. The reconciliation of MM, Mole and Guizot was
effected by the intercession of the King, who is the author of
the combination ; its result would be to rally the Conservative
party and irrevocably to keep out M. Thiers. A seat would
be reserved for M. de Lamartin in the' Cabinet.
If M. Pasquier should not die, the King and the Cabinet
will do for him what was done for M. de Semonville in favour
of the Duke de Cazes. M. Pasquier would be named Hono-
rary Grand Chancellor.
The importance of this combination is immense.
The Francois I. packet, which has arrived at Havre, brings
no news more recent than which we have received from Lon-
don. The courier of the United States gives the following
piece of intelligence, which is not mentioned by the English
Journals. If we may believe a letter received at New York,
the grand project of cutting through the isthmas of Panana,
and of opening a communication, by means of a navigable canal,
between the Pacific and the Atlantic, is at length with a pros-
pect of being carried into execution ; this great work may very
well be executed by the French and Grenadine Company,
which has been formed under the direction of M. Alphonse
Morel, a French engineer. The agents of the Company write
that the last obstacle that remained to be overcome-namely,
securing the necessary funds, has been surmounted, and the
works will be immediately commenced with vigour.
A letter from Toulon of the 7th says that the Chiniere
steamer, which left our port yesterday morning for Algiers
with the mats and numerous passengers, was obliged by the
bad weather it encountered at sea to return to port. This
morning it was preparing to put to sea again, when it was run
foul of by the Hercule, of 100 guns, which was lilicwte putting
to sea. The collision was violent. The Chiniere • had its
main-mast and mizen-mast Eruken, and suffered other da-
mage. As it cannot put to sea the mails and passengers will
be sent by another steamer.
The Ilercule is going to join the squadron off the Hieres
islands. The Didon frigate and the Fhare steamer went to
join the squadron yesterday.
The Creole corvette, Capt. Despointes, has sailed to-day for
Beyrout, where it will remain.-Le Commerce, Supplement.
BOURSE.--PARIS, MONDAY, APRIL 12.
first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Prier. Prig,'
rench 5 rer Cents ll3 60 ... 113 85 113 69 IN 83
4% per Cents ..... le3 :.. 1(3 ... 1133 ... 1(3
4 per Cents 99 40 ... 99 4') 99 40 .. 941 4 )
3 per Cents '7B .85 - 75 ... 75
Ranh of cranes
1.-.tfitte Bank `,'oof. scares 5160 -516 ..SUO ...5160
I,ooof. Sh 1062 50 ...1052 50 ...1062 51 ...1062 50
Belgian Rank
5 per Cent.
3 i.er Cents 7l 71 ... 71 ... 71
New Loan Jul ... L I ... 10:11 ltlys
Spanish Active r4 24% ;2 .4
Passive 5% ... 5% t% t%
Portuguese 3 per Cents ••• - •••
%eapulitaii
Roman IC4 ... 104% ... 1(4 ...101%
P AIL WA 1. SHARES.
t Cermatr:
Verrailles,R.
250 ... 2')(1
(-weans .
nontpellier to Cette - ••• ••• ••• -
..ourg to hale 5lO ... 260 ... 2a) .. 260
... 455 ... 4Y2 50 ... 4.2 59
AU.STRIAN APRIL 3
I treper Crate. Metalliques
tone! per Cents
... VS%
Three p..r Cents.7l%
I.lArk Zharcs IE32
-41/gemetne i,esittrig, April

... 702 50 ... 70: 50
35'7 50 ... 360
.., 240 2,42 50
... *0 ... 48u

Poor Sir Robert Peel, forsaken by all the ar-
dent Tories, who prefer Lord Stanley to him, is
now snubbed every day, by the only powerful
organ of his party, for experimenting on the
poor. The Times may hate Lord John Russell,
but it treats Sir Robert Peel with sovereign con-
tempt. Deserted or opposed by all that is popu-
lar in the Press, and shoved aside by his fol-
lowers to make way for Lord Stanley, he is one
of the destitute without a political refuge.

MORTALITY AMONGST INFANTS.—On Tues-
day an inquest was held at the Robinson Crusoe, Earl-
street, 1,143,11-E"Ve, before Mr. Wakley, M. P., on the
b ,dy of a female infant, aged 13 weeks, that died on Fri-
day night last. The Coroner obscrted that the number
of suddel deer hi vaiicli occurred amongst fine healthy
ch:ldreis under the ;;ge of eighteen menths was enormouF,
and had I,ttcrly very much increased. He could not st att
account for it. Immediately on an infant being tuund
dead la bed it was invariably rumoured lint it had been
overlaid ;" but no such thing, not one in a hundred met its
death that way ; death was the result of some intone'
complaint.

EXPLOSION OF GAS ATee vTieiiwE operationso
HfdOrUSE OF THE
house of the Rev. Highal i
i naivneg a ri
oe,
ffeNt
en
the
ttel ye,
w—•itSh"nth
Nt :till
et. E.
in Roscommon-stre,t,
water which has lodged beneath '
stagnant it. For some
Saturday last, a very days previous to
caFirrviaedlionMil
been carried
gas
was
perceirei b. the inmates of the Rev. Gentleman's
mansion. On Saturday morning an individual, who super_
intruded the new sewer or drain, was, with his ao
examining the direction of the old sewer.
They bad 4,
candle with tl-em, and had just opened a passage from one
cf the vaults into the sewer, when the pent up gas which
had accumulated in the place exploded. Both individuals
were slightly injured. The explosion blew up several
laige flags ii, a small front yard where a pump had recently
stood over a well of stagnant a ater, and broke three or
four panes of glass in the scullery wintiow.—Liverpool
Courier.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
All continues suspense with respect to the President
steamer. Insurances have be. n effected to-day at 35

guineas.

Some notice has been excited to the le4al proceedings
threatened by Senhor Zulieta against a Morning Con-
temporary for certain allegations against him, in his cha-
racter of finance agent to •Spain, and as having been
privy to Mendizabal's conversion, or rather, ruination
scheme, a few years back. Some curious exposures,
we are informed, would come out in the event of the
matter being brought into a Court of Law.

The Funds closed well. Console for money at 90
to I, or a rise of about a 4 per cent, on the quotations
of the morning. Exchequer Bills at 11 to 13 premium ;
Bank Stock at 1721 ; and the Reduced Three-and- a
Half per Cents. at 971 to 981.
The Foreign Securities became more eniniaied, and
improved slightly in value after the Half-monthly Ac-
count was adjusted. The differences payable an
Spanish Active Stock were about a on Portuguese,
New 14, on Mexican 2, and on Dutch 11 per Cent.
The current rates to-day were 23 to 231 for the Ac-
tive Spanish Bonds; 331 to 33i for the New Portu-
auese ; 198 to 20 for the Three per Cents. ; 304 to
for the Mexican ; 224 to 1 for the Colombian ; 24
;or tLe Buenos Ayres ; 18 to 8 for tho Peruvian ; and
69 to for the Brozilian. Belgian Bonds were lit an
advance to 103 ; French Three per Ceot=. at 78f. 50e.,
and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 511 to 32-i.
The Railway Shares were dl saleable at
.orwer
rates. Great Western brought 29! to 301 ; the Nw
14i-; the Fifths 74 to 8 ; the Ljudon and Birming-
ham 69 ; the York and North M;dland 31 ; and the
South Western 181 premium ; Brighton were 3 to 31;
Blackwell 51 ; and the Eastern Counties 131 discount;
Croydon were at par. Colonial Btolt, Shares realised
9 premium.

(From The Sun of Lan Night.)
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 13. —THE PRESIDENT. —We have
nothing to communicate. Tho opinion of one party and
another cannot be reduced to any tangible shape, and of
which we can form no judgment; all ii uncertain. The
Caledonia is expected this or the next tile.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. APRIL 13.—The sal..s of
Cotton this day amount to 3,000 bales ;' 500 of which have
been taken by exporters, on speculation. There is notliqg
to notice ; prices cf all descriptions are fully maintained.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 13. —But little huai.
news lies been done in the Share Market tc-day. Tr e
transactions are Cheacr and Birkenhead, new sin:reF, ID;
Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 26; GI wid Junction,
211 ; York and North Midland, 81.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 13.—The Market
continues firm, and but little stock offering for F ale.—Manches-
ter and Leeds, 66i ; Bristol and Exeter, 36 ; Lancaster and
Preston, New, 25-,16 Undon and Birmingham, New 32/.
Shares, 24a;-,Midland. Counties, Quarter, 22i ; Manchesttr
and Birmingham, 2.14 ; Lancaster Canals, 2S.

The British Market openei this mcrniag rather firm, r.
Consols, which left off yesterday at 90 for the Account,
may be quoted at present Nit-, tame for Money; and f;r
the 25tu May next Account, 901 ; Exch^quer
11 13 prem. ; Bank Stock 171, 173 ; India 4e-ick, 254,
236 ; India Bonds, par, 2 prem. as
This is settling-day in the Foreign Market. 'a4e c 1 i f
business doing is pa3ing and receiving their various 13,..

ltnces to tae present time. The prices remain nominal.
The Account is not an extensive one; consequently there
is every appearance it will go af well. Spanish Active,
23k; Def. r. ed, 12i ; Passive, 5 1 ; Portuguese, 331 ;
Tt,ree•per•Cents., 19 ; Brasilia), 69 70; Colom-
bian, 22i 23 ; Mexican, 30 11, Dutch Two-and-a-11 .a
per Cent, 511 52; Five per Cents., 981 ;1.
Shares :—Great Western, 28 30 prem. ; Crewe, 141-
prem. ; London and Brighton, 31 21 dis ; Blackwall,
4 die. ; Birmingham, 67 69 prem; Southampton, 57 .55
per share ; Croydon, -13 i per share ; Greenwich, 8k per
share; Manchester and Birmingham, 15k 14k dis.

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAir AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Great Western
Ditto Fifths
London andßrighton
London and Blackwall
Manchester and Leeds
North Midland
Ditto New
fork and North Midland...

The British Funds continue firm, and money bei
plentiful, investments are daily making by the public, which
causes a vlight improvement in the market. Tomorrow
being settling day in the British Market the brokers and
jobbers are chiefly occupied in snaking up their accounts.
Cousoli we fur the 15th instant, to-morrow, 90 k;
Money, same; Exchequer Bills, 11 13 prem. ; ILek
Stock, 1721; India Stock, 254; India Bonds, 2 prem.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 23k ; Portu-
guese Five per Cent.— nothing done ; Three per Cents.
193-; Columbian, 221 3; Mexican, 301. s ; Dutch Two-
aue-a- Half per Cents., 52 ; Five per Cents, 983
The Share Market has been very buoyant to-day.--.
Great Western advanced from. 92 to 954 ; Firlis, from
11-3 to 111. London and Brighton, from 45f to 47 ;
Blackwall Shares, 191; Manchester and Leads, 66;
York and North Midland, 80 ; Now, 39.

No intelligence to the present time of the Preside t
steamer.

The second train from Liverpool has arrived, and brings
no account of the President.
Consols, Money, 90i -k ; May Account, 90- ; Mt.'s
ican, 31 to 311 ; Portuguese, 331 4 ; Spanish, 231
No news of the President.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock ... 172
3 per Cent Red. B9i
3 per Cent Cons 904-
33- per Cent Red 93A
New 33 per Cent 99i
New 5 per Cent
Long Annuitiestoexpire
Jan. 1860 . . 12i
Oct 1859 123,
Jan. 1860.

India Stock
Ditto Bonds
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities —
Ex. Bills, 1,000/....20 13 pm
Ditto BOW ll pm
Ditto Small l4 pm
Bank Stock for Opg —
India Stock for:Opg 254
^,onsols for Acct 9O

_ .
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent lO3 Ditto, New Ditto 331
Brazilian 80nd5.... 691 Prussian, 5 per cent —
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 24 :Russian, 5 per cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 23i
Ditto, 1824. .. ..... 221 Ditto, Deferred .. 121
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 30g French, 3 per cent 7Bl. 50c.
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 21 per cent. ... 52i
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. 181 Ditto, 5 per cent 9Bl
SHARES.
Cheltenham and Great Western (621 paid) 321
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid ... :.. ..... 91
Ditto Debentures ( 4 paid) 8
Great Western liailway (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 64/
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 Fail)
London and Blackwall Railway (25 pd)
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 159
London and South Western ... ...........
Ditto Tenths .. ... 2i
London and Croydon Railway ( Trunk)
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ...
North Midland Railway (100 paid)
Ditto New Shares (40 paid) .
York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 81

of the 22d speaks of business being resumed in the
principal markets of the island, and concludes with the
following words :—" There are now eight Turkish men-
of-war, viz., two frigates, three corvettes, and three
brigs, with 2,500 regular troops. At Andron, in a e
harbour of Suda, likewise an English ship of the line,
a frigate, and a brig. Three more English mcn-of- war
were expected from Marmorizza or Malta, besides the
Austrian Commodore Bandiera will soon arri‘e with
his squadron ; so that we hope our tranquillity will no
be again interrupted."—Allg,emeine Zeitung, April 9.
DUTCH FUNDS.—ASISTELDAM, APRIL 10
done trli'e.
tctual D4bt, per Cent
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amor t Symtic,4% per cent r-J' 90
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 72%3
Commercial Cmaipany, 4% per cent ,h7
Ditto (1135 and 1637) 5 per cent. ...... ICOX :0114
Loan 1537, 5 ocr ccnt.
Exchange en London, One mouth l2 07%
Two months
Dutch Papers, April 13.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Bcaux, APRIL S.
St. Schn Id. Sch., 4,, per cent 11;4
Prussian English Loan, 1630, 4 pet ccnt 100%,
kactiangc oft Lendon, three months lt .9%
—Prussian Stoic Gazelle. April 9

Money
lOL%

TIIE FLOGGING PLER :
OR, HOW TO OBSERVE THE SABBATH,

" The Earl of Cardigan cannot allow the public to for-
get him f.ir an instant. On Sunday last, the 11th Hussars
were marched into the Riding-school for div no
Prayers were read, and a sermon was preached. On the
conclusion of divine service the Trumpet-major vvas or-
dered to make things rea ly for corporal punishment ; and
in this Riding-school, and on a Sunday, where, not an hour
before, the whol.t regimeot was eageged in prayer, private
R'-g^r; was tied up sod fkgpd, reeiliag sae hundred
laahe ."—Morning Chronicle of yest,trday.

Hi; Lordship goes to the Hou:e of Praycr,
Tu offer, no doubt, his dcv3tions there ;
Ha hears the Preacher lay sclemn stress
On acts of mercy and gentlei:ess ;
He hears I i n enforce the doctrines high
Of pure, unlea‘c.led humanity ;
How man should bear with his fellow-man,
And hit faliogst as Burns says, "elit!y seen ;"
Abjure fal,e pride and n:a'ignant
With all that tends to embitter life;
The Saviour's command of Love of ey,
And ate keep hely the Sabbath day !

Hii Lordship hears these truths divine,
And to show that he ti irks them wondrous fine,
He hurries from church with flying feet,
Bris the trump to sound, and the drum t,) beat,
And—just as his troop are towardi him jogg;ng—
Orders a man to strip for a flogging !

Oh virtuous decd, in a Peer who's come
Ili;si3g-hot from a Christian dome!
How strongly the tortured wruteh's cry
Attests his genuine riAy
How Fr.)ves that the Chief of Mercy's clan
Is Cat-o'-nine-tails Cardigan!

'Tis deemed a sin in the lowly- poor,
To bake on the Sabbath day, he sure ;
But to torture a wan, till his glazing eye
Stiffens with mortal agony,
Is ecerned—alas, for the mournful fact l--
In the lordly rich a religious act

STANZAS
WRITTEN UPON HEARING OF THE INTENTION TO
ERECT A MONUMENT TO BURNS' S HIGHLAND MARY.
By Mrs. CIIAitLES TINSLEY.

Raise on that hallowed spot
No proud, vain stone;
Leave the young dead with her pure renown,
alone, alone !

Alone with the crowning love
Of one true heart ;
The love to earth like a glory sent,
Not to depart.
Alone with the glowing youth
Time may not wrung;
With her heart's own touching record, kept
In deathless song.
With the murmur of the stream
1% he• a last they met,
With the glancing of the star that shone
On his regret.
O shrined for aye in these,
With him, thine own,
Still be thou with true glory left
Alone, alone !

Back, man cf pride ! thou tread'st
On sacred eirth—
Where is the honour thou canst bring,
What is its worth ?

Let no intrusive hand
Break on the spell,
Own'd by true, changeless hearts so long,
And lov'd so well.
Raise on that hallow'd spot
No proud, vain stone—
Leave the young dead with her pure renown,
Alone, alone!

Rotheram.

LINES ON THE DEATH OF

AIOOII,E.

We copy the folowing from the Boulogne Gazette
as a curiosity. It appears tLere will be no end of
claimants to this celebrated ode. The French verses
below arc word for word the same as those attributed
to Wolfe, who cc:tsinly left his right to the honour
which has been heaped upon him very doubtful :

TO THE EDITOR OF THE " BOULOGNE GAZETTE."
Sir,—Having observed in a recent Newspaper that
a new claimant had started his pretensions to the au-
thorship of tl.e beautiful " Lines on the death of Sir
John Moore" (improperly called au Ode), which has
been generally ascribed to the late Rev. Chas. Wolfe,
1 am induced to send you for insertion in your Journal,
should you find sufficient space for the purpose, the en-
closed copy of verses in French on a distinguished
officer, who met a similar fate to General Moore, but
in a more distant clime from his native land. The
subject of the lines herewith sent was Colonel Beauma-
noire, a native of Britany, who was at the siege
of Pondichery in 1749.
As a sitnilir idea pzrrades the two poems, one of
which was published long before the other, it is reason-
able to suppose that the spirit was caught by the
English author, and embodied only in different lan-
guage ; at any rate, it is rare to find such a coincidence
as to originals so approximating each other in their
ideas, as the poems in question present, without either
the one or other incurring the charge of plagiarism.
The French verses are to be found in the " Memoires
de M. Lally Tolendal" in the appendix, but if 1 am not
mistaken a notice of them has been lately made by a
writer in one of the London Magazines.
Yours obediently, SCRUTATOR.
Ni le son du tambour, ni la march funebre,
Ni le leu dot soldats, no marqua son depart,
Alois du brace, a la hate, a travers lea tenebrea,
Murnes, nous portanres le cadavre au rempart.
De minuit c'ttait l'heure, et solitaire, et sombre,
La lune a peioe offrait un debile rayon ;
lanterne luisait peniblement dans l'ombre,
Quand de la bayonet e on creuza le gazon.
D'inutile cercuci!, ni de drap funcraire,
Nous re daignames point entourer le heros ;
11 gisait dans lea pHs du manteau militaire
Comore un guerrior qui dort son hcurc de repos. -
La priere qu'on fit fut de courte duree ;
Nul ne parla de deuil, bien que le cceur fut
Mais on fixait du niort la figure adoree;
Mais avec amerturnc, on songeait au demain.
Au demain I quand ici ou sa fosse s'aporete,
Ou sun humide lit on dresse avec sanglots ;
L'enncmi orgueilleux marchera sur sa tete,
Et nouP, ses vete:ans, serons loin sur les Hots.
Its terniront sa gloire, on pourra les entendre
Nommer wort, d'un ton artier ou fol :
I► les laissera dire— Eh ! qu'importe asa cendre,
Que la main d'un Breton a confiee au sol.
L'ceuvre durait encore, quand retentit la cloche
Au sommet du befiroi, et ►e canon lointain
'lire par intervene, en annoncant l'approche,
Signalait la fierre do l'cnnemi hautain.
Et dans sa fosse, alors, le mimes lentement,
Pres du champ cu sa glorie a ete consommes;
Nous ne mimes a l'endroit, pierre, ni monument
Lc laissant scut a seul avec sa renommee.

At the last meeting of the Croydon Bench of
Magistrates, a pauper belonging to the Croydon Union,
named James Adams, was charged with the followirg of.
fence, under the New Poor-law. It appeared, from the
statement of the relieving officer, that the defendant had
been chargeable to the union, with his family; and, upon
his representing that he could not get work, a letter was
given to him for a person named Hutchins, who is an over
looker upon the Brighton Railway, and who has an a--
rangement with the union authorities to employ the able-
bodied paupers when he is able to do so, r: questing him
to employ him. The defendant returned„ and said that he
had made the appflcati ,n to Mr. Hutchins, and that these
a ere no more hands required ; and from this statement he
was again taken into the house. It svas-afrerwards ascer-
taineu that his story was &the, and that he bad never
made any application to the person to whom the letter
was addressed. Mr. Andrews, the clerk to the Board of
Guar,lians, said the fact vas, Adams did not like railroad
work, and he hid, therefore, attempted to deceive the
Board, who considered that it was a case they ought not
to pass over. The Magistrates at first expressed their
doubt whether the case came within the Act as miscanduct
in a pauper, but they ultin.ately convicted the defendant,
and ordered him to be imprisoned for seven days.
TRIESTE, APRIL 2.—The accounts, so many
letters spesking of the breaking out of the plague at Malt..,
arc to be looked upon as reports but little entitled to
credit. At Athens (from which city we have accounts to
the 27th of Mach) eight bankruptcies (some of. them
considerable) have taken place. Accordirg to accounts
brought by the steamer which arrived yesterday at Dal-
matia, a sanguinary conflict has taken place between the
Montenegrins and the Austrian troops on the fr, oitier, in
which an Austrian Captain was mortally wounded.
ANTRIM ELECTION.—The Dublin Mad of
Monday eve Ling publishes the formal resign on aI M.
IVI•Donnell.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY:—The Queen and Prince
Albert walked as usual this morning- for some time on
the Terrace of the Castle and in the Little Park.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal took her
accustomed airing this morning.
The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anne Maria
Dawson, also engaged in walking exercise this morning.
About twelve o'clock to-day Prince Albert, attended
by Colonel Bouveric, Mr. George Edward Anson, and
Colonel Wemyss, rode into the Great Park to meet her
Majesty's Stag Hounds, and enjayed a smart run.
Viscount Melbourne arrived in the afternoon on a
visit to the Queen.

The Duchess of Bedford, HOP. Mizs Devereux, Lady
Isabella Wernyss, and the Hon. Mrs. G. E. Anson
took a carriage airing.
Lord and Lady Kinnaird and Major Trevellyan w:11
have the honour of dining this evening with her Majesty
and she Royal party at the Cast Li.

Treir Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester
and the Duke of Cambridge, left town yesterday morn-
ing for Wimbledon Park, to pay a visit to the Duke
of Sussex. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset re-
ceived their Royal Hiehnesses on their arrival at Wim-
bledon Park. The Duchess of Gloucester and the
Duke of Cambridge returned to town id the afternoon.
The books emdpoking the library of her late Royal
Highness Cie Princess Augusa, at Frogmore Lodge
near Windsor, and et Clarence House, St. James's,
and also the plate of the late Princess, have been pur-
chased by his M,j,:sty the King of Hanover, and were
conveyed a short time ago to the apartments of his
Majesty in St. James's Palace. Within the last few
days the books and Watc have been removed from St.
James's Pelace, and have been put on board a steam
packet, in order to be conveyed to Hanover.
Viscount Melbourne took his departure from Wim-
bledon Park, the residence of the Duke of Somerset,
yeterday afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty at Wind-
sor Castle.

Judicia Committee of tie Privy Council sot
yesterday, and resumed the hearing of the great wll
cause " Wood and others v. Goodlake and others."
Sir W. Follitt concluded his address, and Sir F. P9l-
- er:mmeoced his aldress for Hitchings, one of the
next of kin. At four o'ellek their Lordships adjourned.
The appeal will come on for further hearing on the
17th -Atty.

GRAND HOWiNci MATCII.

CAMBRIDGE AND OXFORD.

Yesterday was fixed for the decision of the fourth
great rowing match on the Thames bet %yea the students
of Ca abridge and Oxford Universities. The Cam-
bridge men Laving wen in the three former contests,
the greatest interest was excited amongst the lovers of
this manly exercise as to the issue of this struggle, in
which the Cambridge men were either to establish their
superiority, or to give the Oxonians an opportunity of
retrieving their lost honours. Last Wednesday was
originally fixed upon as the day of the race, but the
authorities of both Universities interposed, and forbad
the young men to engage in a contest upon which large
sums of money were staked in Passion Week. Tne
uutavourable state of the weather yesterday would have
induced the managers on both sides to a further post-
ponement, but for the near approach of the Easter
Toren, when the gentlemen must present themselves at
their respective Colleges.
Notwithstanding the rain and cold of yesterday, the
bridges front Westminster to Putney were crowded even
to the tops of the lamp-posts, Lefore the time of start-
ing ; and at the former bridge there was as large a col-
lection of boats of every kind—skin, cutters, and
steamers—as ever were seen there upon any similar oc-
casion. At six o'clock the rival boats took their plAces,
above the middle arch of the bridge.

The crews were as under :
OXFORD. CAMBRIDGE.
COLOURS—TRUE BLUE. COLOURS—LIGHT BLUE.
CREW. CREW.
No. 1. Mr. Bethel—Bow No. 1. Mr. W. Croker—Bow
2. Richards 2. L. Denman, Hon.
3. Mour.taire 3. Richie
4. Royds 4. Puddley
5. Hodson 5. Pubbald
6. Lees 6. Penrose
7. Aleynall 7. G. Denman, Hon.
8. Cocks—Stroke 8. Vials—Stroke
Cockswain—Wooßaton. Cockswain—J. Croker.
The average weight of each crew was list. 51b.
The length of the boats was each 52 feet 7 inches—
breadth 3 feet 10 inches.

At twelve minutes past six o'clock they started fairly,
when Cambridge drew a-head directly, and soon got up
to about six boats length, keeping the distance with
apparent ease the whole way. In Chelsea Reach, the
distance was considered by the best judges to be lull
200 3ards.

In thirty. two minut...'s from the time of starting, the
Cambridge men shot through Putney Bridge amidst
great cheering, and were rapidly followed by their com-
petitors, fully fourteen boats length behind.
The event has disappointed not only the numerous
friends of Oxford, but some of the most experienced
men upen the river, who have been of opinion for the
last two or three days that the Cambridge men were
overtrained, although the rowing of the latter in their
recent exercises upon the riser has been universally ad-
mired for their skill, precision, and strength.
It was said last evening in Putney, that although the
stakes were but 200 guineas, the losses on the beaten
side amount to some thousands, as there was every re-
liance on the determination of the Oxonians to regain
their reputation. It is admitted on ad hands that they
did their best, and their failure is by some attributed to
the fact that two of their men were hurt in the band be-
fore the race, and rowed with pads.
The two crews, with their friends, dined together at
the Star and Garter, Putney, where the table, spread
for 110 persons, wa4 found insufficient, and all the
apartments in the house were filled. We have been
informed that, before the dinner was brought in, nego-
tiations were in progress for a fifth match, to come
off in the next vacation, and that there is same like.
lihood of such an early renewal of the contest being de-
cided upon.
The crowds upon the bridge and river at Putney
were even greater than upon the metropolitan bridges
and the river between them ; and we have heard it
asserted by many of the oldest inhabitants of Fulham
and Putney, that, in the whole of their experience, there
never were assembled at one time so many craft upon
the water, or so many people and equipages in the
avenues of their hamlets.

THE PRESIDENT.—The following are the
t mnage and dimethions of the steam-vesse► which now
excites so much interest, as compared with those of a
man-,f-war built about the same period :
Tonnage
Length 268 feet
Breadth (within paddle-boxes) 42 feet
MAN-OF-WAR—(I2O GUNS.)
Tonnage
Length
Breadth

Captain William Higginson Duff, to- whose ex-
pl it in half murdering a single and unarmed policemar,
with the aid of three fashionable companions as dastardly
as himself, we alluded to in our last, is no longer in the
army. He appears to be one of those featherbed soldiers
who enter the army solely for the purpose of wearing a
red coat, and being dubbed " captain." He served a
short time in the 23d Fusiliers and 10th Hussars, and had,
probably, good reasons for retiring altogether from the
army, by the sale of his lieutenant's commission, in 1839.
Lord George Loftus is in pretty much the same category.
lie entered the Grenadier Guards in September, 1834
and gaited the service by the sale of his commission
(net without a substantial motive, we dare say), in De-
cember, 1839. We may fairly congratulatethe army on
the fact that these sprigs of fashion can no longer dis-
greca it.— United Service Gazette.

MARRIAGE IN Low LlFE.—Married on Mon-
day last, John Osmotherley, aged 73, to Isabella Gardner,
65 ; both of whom have been for several years inmates of
the Alms-houses at Stockton. John had had two wives
previously, the last of whom was buried a few weeks since,
but Isabella had only had one husband. The wedding was
celebrated with great spirit—rum was in profusion, and
when Juhn was rendered incapable of toddling about, the
veteran pedagogue (for Jahn bad been both a mariner and
a schoolmaster) would call upon his new made spouse to
come and give him another kiss, a request with which
Bella often complied, to the no small amusement of the
wedding guests.-7'yne Mercury.
OLD LONDON.--One of the most ancient pic-
torial representations of London which exists, is found in
a n anuseript preserved in the British Museum, and repre-
sents the capt►vity of the Duke of Orleans in the Tower.
The manuscript itself, which consists of the poems of the
royal captive, was probably copied in the time of Henry
Vf. ; but the illumination purports to represent the Lon-
don of an earlier date, with its bridge, its lofty-spired
cathedral, its numerous churches, its gabled houses. Un-
der these wale we may imagine the poet and his patron to
have glided, amidst crowded wherries and attendant
barges, and the merry sound of song and clarion, and the
shouts of the people. Often had the " imaginative" king
so passed between his palace of Westminster and his Tower
of London. But the state was to end in misery, and de-
gradation, and a solitary and mysterious death. The
Prologue" of Gower, in the true spirit of the romantic
times, tells us of the tow❑ which was
_founded by the
Trogan Brute. Here was the fable which the middle-
age minptrels rejoiced in, and which history has borrowed
from poetry without any compromise of her propriety.
The origin of nations must be fabulous ; and if vie would
penetrate into the dark past, we must be satisfied with the
torch-light which fablo presents to us.—Charles Anigla's
London.

The King of Hanover has given directions for
the dismantling of his apartments in St. Jamey's Palace ;
waggon loads of valuable articles arc daily sent off.
TAFF-VALE RAILWAY.—This undertaking
has been brought very near to completion. The entire main
line from Cardiff to Merthyr will be opened on 21st inst.
By a letter from Monmouth, we are informed
murdered
ofth&,,
of a brutal murder which was committed afew days since
at a village near Ross, in Herefordshir
e. The
man is a travelling- packmau, and the perpetrators
horrible deed a-e two colliers,
. who having beat avail- victim -
on the head till I,fc was extract, fi:-,t rz,1)1);d Lire. i;tlcl cLe t.
threw him into the Wye. Tut: inquest on the body to was
be held on Tuesday.