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London, England, 1841-03-23 00:00:00

COMMIS'sION OF LUNACY.

Monday a Commission of Lunacy was opened befare Com-
mis:ione"rs Witisrow, Blount, and Murray, and a jury of sixteen
freeholders of the county, at • the Gray's Inn CC4fee-house,
Holborn, to inquire into the state of mind of John Turner,
Esq., of No. 13, Huntley-street, Bedford-square.
Mr. G. A. Young attended es Counsel in support 'of the
Commission, and Mr. Boteler to watch the proceedings 'on
behalf of Mr. Turner. _ _

VI,A. .... ...
Mr: Commissioner Wilistow charged the Jury.
Mi. YOUNG then observed that Mr. Turner's intellects had
become impaired in consequence of the advanced age which he
had attained.' Mr. Turner was now newly eighty-seven years
-of -ar,-e , and,so-long ago as the year 1780 he was a ch•rk in
the. Ordnance, and the Private
,Secretary of Sir Challes
Frederick, who was one of the Ministers of the day. In 1786
Mr. Turner accepted an appointment in the Sun Fire-office,
where he remained up to 1823, discharging his duties with
honour to himself and satisfaction to his employers, as was
abundantly testified by their giving him a retiring allow-
ance when he left the office. Mr. '1 urner, it appeared, was
Worth considerable property,-having a balance of 22,0001. in
the hands of. Messrs. Coutts, the bankers, and also a sum of
10,0001. 13ing idle at Messrs. Drummond's. In addition to
this he possessed large leasehold property and London Dock
t
stock, besides having several sums of considerable amount
hdat no
ohe
laid out in various ways upon other securities. Mr.
brettiii'en veerd had
n. relationsus a
ntahtautr
al could be
A
n diis o
it wasld
and personal friends, however son.
, who were exceedingly anxious .
for his 'welfare, had' ad of
surroundingg
the opted the'e proceedings for the purpose
lastii stage of his life with those as,ocia-
tions and providing
dreadful
with those comforts which would
visited him with, and
With
affliction which Providence had
days.
With
this
view promote the peace of his remaining
was held on the 4 1 a meeting of Mr. Turner's friends
t i of April at the office of Messrs.
Delmar and Wing, and the
r
uilit was, that an en inent
Medical gentleman was called
engaged.to look. after the unfortunate
an extra servant waste
bankers were apprised of his situation
Alr.
Turner gentleman, and hisworse, on the 22d of September fol owing- becoming
his friends took place, and Dr. 'Munroe w- a
was called
meeting of
the decision of that gentleman this commission in, and upon
Id friend of M was applied for
f by'.3lr. Prescott, an o r. Turner. It atter
axed in evidence his unsoundness of mind wai:ds
appe did not arise
illness, but it came on gradually,
from any particular
thathe refused
. had much increased;
to pay any of
terly it
collector demanding the his
bills, and upon the Queen's taxes he
assigned
said he would not pay them, and as a reason that the
.father, and that he had not lived in •
house belonged to his
himself the last
fortnight; that he had not dressed ni
who brushed his
twel-e• months. To his servant,
. . _ wortlvour acceptance
sail, " My good friend, .I-have nothing. .
.. King or a rince 1 will do
at present, but when I am made a
something good for you.
Dr, Munroe had visited Mr. Turner four times, and was
per-uaded that his mind was decidedly unsound.
'i he COMM thenISSIONERS en expressed a wish to see Mr.
Turner, and he was led into the ro.m. In appearance he is a
remarkably fine, healthy-looking old gentleman, considering his
advanced age; and, upon being quessioned by the Learned
Commissioners, , he gave ready, and, in some instances, witty
answers ; but it was quite evident the unfortunate gentleman's
mind was worn out.
Ihe Jury stopped the examination, and, after Mr. Turner
ha.,l left the room, they found that he was of unsound mind,
and was incapable of managing himself or his property, and
that he had been so since the Ist of July, 1840.
Among his papers has been found a kind of testamentary do-
cument, the legality of which is doubtful; and, in the event of
its beingpronounced invalid, the wh'ole of his property, amount-
ing to upwards of 50,0001. will pass to the Crown.

The further consideration of the Railways'
Bill is deferred to F.iday, 2d of April.
Sixteen war-steamers are ordered to be built,
six of tie fast class and tan of the second, all to bo
armed with guns of ten-inch caliLre. Several of these
will be laid down iraraddiLtely, and the frames of the
whole, converted without delay, so as to be ready against
th-Q engine'; are prepaied,—Naval and Military Gazette.

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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDkY, MARCH 23, I 8

posed to Lie moral conclusions, but confirm and
strengthen them. A similar, though not an equally
decisive itrgument, may be drawn from the seve-
ral relaXations which have been • made in our
commercial system during the last twenty years.
For example, the successive opening of the trade
to India, from a very strict monopoly in the
hands of the East India Company, in 1814, to
complete freedom, except as to certain import
duties,. was followed by an increase of that trade
from less than 2,000,0002, sterling in 1815, to very
nearly 6,000,0001. sterling in 1839. In like man-
ner from 1815 to 1826, successive relaxations
were made in our navigation laws, and with those
relaxations at the end of twenty years the in-
crease of our shipping
entered inwards and
outwards, was in the proportion of 30 to
13, or two-fold and one-third. • Again, in
1824, some of the restrictions, not all, were
removed from our silk trade, and since then the
trade has increased threefold, so that we have
now become exporters of manufactured silk to
some extent to France. Similar facts are true of
the linen trade, of wool, of coffee, and various
other articles, en all of which restrictions were
removed or duties lowered, and•in. all of which a
g of consuniption, and of
wreelal-tbie nzalsve e
io.ef trade,the
results.
ts.

In most of these cases the opponents of free
trade and the friends of restrictions prophesied
the most disastrous consequences from the re-
moval ofrcstrictions, and in all, without exception,
they were mistaken. At the same time not a
single example, it is believed, can be brought
forward in which the removal of restrictions or
the lowering of duties has had the- effect of
lessening trade, or causing anything worse—and
that generally from over excitement and over
speculation—than a very temporary injury to
some few classes. It is not therefore because
statistics, so far as they go, are not completely
in favour of free trade, that we say that it is a ques-
tion more of principles than facts, but because.
the statistics themselves require to, be explained,
and sometimes rectified, by moral considerations
to make them safe and sure guides.
The trade of England, we admit----with the ac-
cursed bread tax, the abominable discriminating
timber duties, the scandalous impost on sugar,
levied to enrich, not the State, but the West
India planters—is much hampered and much
restricted; yet, compared to France or Ger-
many, England is a prosperous and flourish-
ing nation. If we look at the increase of her
trade in conjunction with th; S 3 restrictions, the
conclusion formed is—which was Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S argument—that they do not injure
trade, and therefore they are to be con-
tinued. " Show me," he said, in substance,
" that trade is declining, and I will listen to your
prayers for a repeal of the Corn-laws; but while
I see that the shipping is yearly increasing—that
cotton factories are building—that the exports of
cotton yarn are increasing, I cannot place any
confidence in your complaints, and I shall
maintain the Corn-law, because I am con-
vinced it does not, as say, injure trade." The
truth, of course, is, that the increase took place
in spite of those restrictions—that the healthy
and ever-willing spring of industry was strong
enough to rise against them—that the natural
desire in men to improve their condition, and
the natural tendency of population to increase,
are so all-powerful, that they overcome even
the landlord's tax, though that has been a hea-
vier curse on the community than any barreness
in the soil, or than war and pestilence
united. The truth is, that the effect of those
changes we have referred to is not at an end, and
the restrictions continued have been, in reality,
rendered bareable, and have been saved, by the
prosperity caused by the removal of those which
have been abolished.

Unless we form, then, a tolerably correct idea
of the natural increase of nations, and of the
bkeficial care with which nature has provided
for their sustenance, we cannot reach correct
conclusions as to the enormous evil of com-
mercial restrictions. It has, however, been
undeniably proved, that population has
a natural tendency to double itself every
twenty-three years, and with that doubling
there must be, to preserve the people in the
same relative degree of prosperity, a doubling
of the whole food, trade, and wealth of the
country. But Great Blitain at present makes no
such progress. Ifshe did, all classes would be pros-
perous, and there would be marrying and giving
in marriage, children would be welcomed as
bleSsings, and festivity and heart-rejoicing would
prevail throughout the land. But why does not
Great Britain make this progress? Her terri-
tory, is not bounded,—at least its limits are not
known. Our people are better provided with
land even than the inhabitants of the United
States,. for they are as free to settle there as the
natives of New York, and they have at their ex-
elusive service the great southern continent, the
noble south of Africa, and the northern part of
America. The reason why our people do not
increase faster even than the inhabitants of the
United States, and why they do not, as they in-
crease, double their prosperity, is. they are not al-
lowed. The paternal law-giver, thinking himself
wiserthan GOD, prohibits them. Restrictions are
laid on supplying themselves with necessaries and
luxuries. Impediments are thrown in the way
of their emigrating. The land at the South Pole
even is seized by the landowners or their agent
the Government, and a price exacted for reclaim-
ing it from barrenness. In short, the reason why
the great prosperity for which nature provides
such ample means is not realized is, that restric-
tions—unwise, ill-judged restrictions—are laid,
by those who know nothing about trade, and who
never labour except to do mischief, on the en-
lightened industry and trade of the people.
At the same time, though we are hampered
with many restrictions, we are not quite so much
restricted by law as the less prosperous people of
the Continent. Our command of the empire of
the sea is a natural freedom, opening up to us
the whole world, of which it has been impossible
for the landlords wholly to deprive us. With that
our people are more free to go and come than most
ofthe passport-cursed, police -notched slaves ofthe
Continent. A series ofpeace Cul circumstances, such
as the growth and rapid extension of many new
trades amongst us, and the great extension of
division of labour, has liberated internal traffic
from many of the restraints of guilds, corpora-
tions, and apprentice-laws, and has effected for
us what the French tried, but without success, to ef-
fect by a Moody revolution. In France the Imperial
Government partly succeeded to the privileges of
the guilds, and there, as well as throughout the
Continent, almost every trader must have a
license, and the Government exercises a kind of
control Mkr every branch of business, from
which our people are happily free. Here there
are 24,000,000 persons, who have, with the ex-
ception of bank monopolies, bread-taxes,
and a few other stilly preserved monstrosities,
a complete freedom of traffic. Such a great number
ofhuman beings freely exchanging the produce of
their varied industry one with another, never,
we believe, before existed in the world, and
certainly nowhere else now exists. This internal
freedom, continued with our comparative freedom
to go and come, is the cause of that greater
prosperity which distinguishes England above
the nations of the Continent. She owes that,
therefore, to her comparative freedom, and she
suffers those numerous privations which are felt
by every class of her people, from Corn-laws and
other similar restrictions preventing that increase
of population which is the soul of national pros-
dete free trade
greatness, and the want of comp
pros-
perity. Partial free trade is the source of our
the source of our distress. That is an important
truth, which statistics confirm, but which they of
themselves can hardly teach.

We stated in The Sun of yesterday, on the
authority of private letters from Paris, that
France had agreed to sign the last London Pro-
tocol, and to resume her seat in the Cabinet
Councils of Europe on certain conditions, which
were frankly agreed to by Lord PALMERSTON.
These were :—firstly, that the Porte should mo-
dify the Firman conferring upon MEHEMET Au
the Pachalic of Egypt, more especially as regards
the line of succession; secondly, that the Straits
of the Bosphorus and the *Dardanelles should be
Open to all merchant vessels, and closed to all
ships of war whatsoever; which were followed
by some minor points, among which was under- I

stood to be implied the recal of Lord PONSONDY
from Constantinople. As the answer of the
Porte to the representation of the Four Powers
demanding a modification of the firman, has not
yet been received, France reserves the affixing
her signature to the protocol till it has been
officially commupicated to the London Con-
ference. The French Cabinet Council at which
this wise and dignified resolution .was taken, was
presided over by the KING, who has the great-
est reason to congratulate himself for having had
the courage, at a time of such popular clamour
and frantic excitement, to call such a cool-
headed and far-seeing statesman as M. GUIZOT
to the direction of the foreign policy of his
kingdom.

The protocol of London, which is dated the
sth instant, frankly and cordially admits that
MEHEMET Am has performed with the utmost
good faith all the conditions of submission im-
posed upon him, and sanctions the return of the
European Consular authorities to Alexandria.
It likewise Oserves that the SULTAN has kept
faith with his Allies, by bestowing upon MEnr7
mizr ALI the Pachalic of Egypt; but it carefully
omits the expression of an opinion that the first
arrangement was such as ought to satisfy the
PACHA. Of this protocol a copy appears in the
Augsburg Gazette of the 17th instant, of which
the tiillowing is a translation : • -

Ihe Plenipotentiaries of the Courts of Austria, Great
Britain, Prussia, Russia, and the Ottoman Porte, have assem-
bled• in order to deliberate on the reports received from Con-
stantinople to the date of the 4th of February, and on the com-
munications exchanged between the representatives of the
four allied Courts and the Minister of the Porte. Fmm the
ensemble of these communicant ns it results—

" 1. That Mehemet Ali has submitted himself uncondi-
tiooa'ly to his Sovereign, and that he had asked pardon.
" 2. That, as an evidence of his submission, he has restored
the Ottoman fleet, uhich, after having been handed over to the
Commissioners appointed by the Porte, has already left Alex-
andria, and entered Marmorice Bay. •
" 3. That ail Syria has been evacuated by the Egyptian
troops. _ _

"n 4-. That the Sultan's authority has boen legally re-esta-
blished in Syria and in the Island of Candia.
try. That his Highness the Sultan has condescended to ac-
cept Mehemet AL's submission. by granting to him, his children
and his family, entire forgiveness.
" 6. That his Highness, yielding to the councils of his
has at the same time deigned to make known the inten-
tion of reinstating Mehemet Ali in his functions as Paella of
Egypt, with the heirship (heredite) for his descendants.
The conditions which the instructions bearing date the
15th of October, and the memorandum of the 14th of Novem-
ber, have laid down, have consequently been fulfilled. The
Pacha of Egypt has submitted himself; he has restored the
fleet, evacuated the district of Adana, of Syria, and of the
island of Candia, given the necessary orders for the restoration
of the holy cities, and, finally, a pardon has been granted to
him after his return to his duty and to obedience. At the
name time the hope expressed by the collective note addressed
on the 30th of January to Chekib Effendi has heen fulfilled.
The counsels which the representatives of the four Powers have
given have been received by the Sultan with that very friendly
confidence with which the efficacious co-operation of his
allies had inspired him. In consequence of this council his
Highness has expressed the resolution of publishing a fir-
man, by which Mehemet Ali was to be granted the heredi-
tary inve7titure of the pachalic of Egypt, based on the condi-
tions in the separate act of the Convention of the 15th of July.
This firman has been duly communicated to the Ottoman Am-
bassador in London, and conveyed to the knowledge of the re-
presentatives of the Four Courts, after having received the
sanction of his Highness.
" In this slate of things the Plenipotentiaries of the Allied
Courts, considering the circumstances which have given rise
to the departure of the Consuls of the Four Powers from
Alexandria, have deemed it a seasonable opportunity to send
back those agents to their post. The Representatives f the
Four Powers at Constantinople will come to an understanding
with that view with the Porte, in order to fix the period when
those agents shall proceed simultaneously to Alexandria.
(Signed) " ESTERHAZY.

" NIEUMANN.
" PALMERSTON.
" BULOW.
• • " BRUNOW.
" London, Marchs,lB4l. " CHEKIB EFFEND/."
With the above Protocol we have received ad-
vices from Constantinople, of the 24th of Fe-
bruary, which bring deplorable accounts of the
actual state of Syria. The following extract,
from a letter of that date contains a summary of
the News from Syria and Constantinople : ,

" The Syrian mountaineers, exasperated by the rapacity and
licentiousness of the Sultan's troops, regular and irregular, but
particularly of ;he latter, are everywhere in arms, and will
shortly, it is expected, rise en masse to expel from the country
the lawless and insolent intruders who have quartered them-
:elves all over it, conducting themselves with the gieatest
brutality, and respecting neither the board nor bed of their en-
tertainers. For most of those ruffians are the Albanian mer-
cenaries, whose excesses are too shocking to be detailed. One
instance will suffice. A Maronite church at Beyrout was,
during the celebration of Divine service, forcibly entered by a
band of these miscreants. The'male part of the congregation
were driven out, and many murdered in the struggle which en-
sued. The doors were then fastened, and the women subjected
to every species of cruelty and outrage.
"The head-quarters of the Turkish army are now at Jaffa.
Zechariah Pacha, the Turkish Commander-in-Chief, and
General Joelimus, his military Mentor, are both at-that place,
and they have been joined there by Ibrahim Pacha, who -was
labouring under severe indisposition, and indeed not even ex-
pected to live. The Egyptian army, according to last ac-
counts, was still at Gaza, under the command of Solyman
Pacha. It was said to be still thirty thousand strong, but in
other respects a mere disorganised band.
"'I he Turkish fleet, with the exception of the Mahmoudieh,
bearing Admiral Walker's flag, which is at Larnpsaca, is all
ant.h,red off Alytelene. It is expected here with the first
southerly wind. The batteries of the Bosphorus have, during
the last three days, been firing salvos in honour of the-birth
of another Princess, already known by the name of Behiye.
" In consequence of some suspicion of the plague having de-
clared itself near the village of Fanaraki, on the Bosphorus,
Constantinople has been placed under certain sanatory restric-
tions by the board of health.
" Halil Pacha h• s been once more received into the Sultan's
favour. Under the pretext of visiting his sister Saliha, the
wife of the ex-Minis.er, his Highness admitted him to an au-
dience at his palace on the Bosphorus ; so that his seedy
return to race (much to the confusion of Reschid Pacha and
his 1 arty) is cow confidently anticipated by everbody."

The Paris Journals of Sunday have been duly
received. We regret to state that the serious
illness of one of M. GUIZOT'S children is a source
of great affliction to that distinguished Statesman.
Few who know the private life of that eminent
man can refuse him in his sorrow the tribute of
their sympathy.

Of political news there is nothing of impor-
tance in the French Journals. The National
reproduces from the traitorMAcKENziesGazette,
published in New York, the litany for a war
with England which, during the ill-starred Ad-
ministration of M. THIERs, appeared in its co-
lumns. This litany,' which runs in the follow-
ing fashion :—"'ln the name of Waterloo
war with . England," recounts eleven de-
feats of Trance by England ! Happily for
ourselves, the National may safely defy us
to retort upon France the composition of such a
litany. The materials are wanting to us. We
must, therefore, leave to the National the undis-
turbed glory of singing and re=singing such
litanies, as long as it indulges a humour for such
outpourings of patriotic piety.
Count St.bAulaire is expected at Paris to-morrow.
The sub-prefecture of Alais (Gard) has been vacant for
eight mon hs. Letters from that place inform us that this cir-
cum,tance has a very bad effect there.
The movement of the Sub.prefects continues to be effected
without any publicity. Great changes are announced. All
this indicates.a project to dissolve the elective chamber, which
is in vain-disavowed or disEembled, but which becomes more
and more evident even to the least clear-sighted.—Le Consti-
tgtionnel. ti

A letter from Berlin of the 14th March says :—" A courier
of the Russian Court has just brought to our King the official
notice that the Ermiress of Russia will arrive at Berlin in the
first fortnight of the month of May, that is after the cele-
bration of the marriage of the Imperial Prince Alexan-
der. The King desiring to receive himself his beloved
sister has deferred his journey to the Rhenish provinces till
tl:e end of the same month. Orders have been given to defer
till the autumn the grand reviews which were to have taken
place in the southern provinces of the kingdom in the month
of April. The solemnity of doing homage in the Rhenish
provinces will take place at the end of May.
A letter which we have received from Frankfort of the 16th
of this month says—."'l he German Diet, struck with the in-
conveniences in the composition of the army of the Confedera •
tion which consls's of about 40 contingents, all different in
their uniforms, their arms, and many other particulars, has just
brought forward a proposal to arm and equip these different
corps in a uniform manner. This proposal was unani-
mously approved by the Members of the Diet, and in order to
carry it into effect with as little delay as possible, it was re-
solved to begin immediately with the eight corps, which is to
be assembled in the spring on the Rhenish frontiers for the
grand reviews.—Le Commerce.

Madrid Journals of the 15th instant have come
to hand. The Gazette of that day publishes the
fo!lowing decree of the Regency:—
" Art 1. The revenue of the different administrative branches
of the department of the Minister of the Interior will be com-
prised in the general chapter of the renter of the State, on.
which the Minister of State will receive 20 per cent.
" Art. 2.—The adininstration of offices and corporations
comprised in the Department of the Interior wid render
monthly a legal amount of receipts and expenses.
" Alt. 3. '1 he printing of documents relating to the retri-
bution of the Departme,,t of Protection and Public Security
will i.e at the expense of the general direction of the rentes,
which will render a statement to the Minister of the Interior
of all the accounts of that administration.
"Art. 4. The revenue of the branches dependent on the
department of the Minister of the Interior, will be included in
the general amount of the funds which are distributed monthly,
only reserving to itself the sums absolutely necessary to meet
its special engagements, in conformity with the dispositions
of Art. 2.
" Art. 5. It will be the same for the revenue of the dif-
ferent branches dependent on the department of the Minister
of Public Iqtruct ion.
Art. 6,7, and 8, are relative to measures of a purely regu-
lating nature.

" The Ministers of the Interior and Finance are charged
with the execution of the present decree.
" Givem at the Palace, March 13, 1841.
( Signed) " Duke de la VITORIA.
" To Don Manocl Cortina."

The following account of a disgraceful scene in
a church in Madrid is from one of the Journals
of the 13th :

Yesterday the church of the convent of the Carmelite Friars

was profaned by unheard of scenes of violence and disorder. It
being the funeral service for Senor Safont's family econsider-
able number of persons, bent on curiosity, gained admission to
the church. Towards evening it became necessary to send for.,
a detachment of troops, in order to restrain the multitude. But
the five or six soldiers placed in the church were not sufficient
to keep down the crowd which was increasing every minute,
and it was necessary to send for some National Militia. But
the latter could no more keep within bounds the dense mws,
than prevent the cries and vociferations. When the service
for the dead had leached the second stanza, the music was
obliged to stop, the people having begun to cry out tlipt music
was not necessary, that for Safont the sound of the voices alone
was sufficient, and it became imperative to finish the service in
a hurry. Senor Potadas, Archbishop elect of Valentia, who
presided at the ceremony, was so frightened at this disturb-
ance that be fainted away, and he was obliged to be carried
to the Sacri,tan. It is needless to add that numerous rob-
berks were committed in the church. At the hotel Safont,
distributions of alms are being made in the name of the son
who escaped him.

Hamburgh Papers of the latest dates have just
reached us. We subjoin extracts from them :
HAMBURGII, MARCH 17.—The Leipsic Allgemeine Zeitung
pallisi,es a circular is,ued by Baron Von Bodel Schevingh,
Chief President of the Province of the Rhine, in which he an-
nouncec officially to the censors of political jonrnals, that his
Majesty (the King of Prussia) has been pleased to allow the
vroceedings and is cults of the Provincial Assemblies to be suc-
cessively published during; the ses,ion, by means of official ar-
ticles in journals qualified for the purpose, in the place where
the Assembly meets, or in some place in the neighbourhood.
Though the .rdinance of the 12th of May, 1826, by which no
c(minnunication «hateser of the proceedings of the Provincial
Es,tates is allowed to be conside•ed as hereby revoked, it is,
however, to be understood, that except those official articles
and those which may appear in the State Gazette, the printing
of all-other unauthorised accounts of theViscussions in the As-
semblies is strietly.prohibited, and the imprimateur is in no case
to be given to such articles.
FRONTIERS OF GALICIA, MARCH 4.—Emigration still
continues from Russia to Galicia, on the froniiers nearest to
Limburg. There unauthorised emigrants often succeed in clan-
destinely conveying their property, even their cattle,
across the frontier. The Russian Government has complained
of these irregularities to the Austrian Government, which is no
more able to prevent them than itself. One of the most recent
notes from St. Petersburgh states the number of these emi-
grants at 3,060, and very earnestly prefers a remedy for this
abuse. But such persons have been frequently arrested and
sent by the Austrian authorities to the frontier, where the Rus-
sian authorities have refused to receive them.

HAMBURCH Mallen 19.—The obstacles occasioned by the
ice are as good as removed, and the navigation is open ; for
yesterday, besides the steam-boats, some merchantmen came
up to the City, for instance, the Eliza, Captain Breckwoldt,
which was tize first this year ; twenty-seven sail weighed an-
chor this morning at Cuxhaven, and a little fleet may be ex-
pected to reach the City to-morrow morning. Two Green-
land whalers, and the llamburgh Packet, Gillespie, bound to
Leith, dropped down the river this morning; the first that have
sailed this year.—Hamburgh Papers,:Alarch 19.

HAMBURG BO!LiENHALLE, MutCu 19.
Bills. IV,,,ey
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares - . l6lO
Anslo.Russian Loan lt'6% 106%
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Cartiticate
Inscription, Ist Se/iRS lOl% 101 h
Russian 5 per Cent. Hop., and Co. 3d and 4th
Se. Ls 9(3
Ditto in Certilicktec
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pe, Cent 49
Ditto 5 per Ceti. —
Polish Bonds
New 1 icket
Anglo- Vanish Loan, 3 per Cep* 13% 73
N iwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per C. 11:... —
Spanish, New b per Cents. lB4
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, MARCH ,9.-13 s's.—Two months, 13 3
PRTRRsBURGII, MARCH 9. Two months, 353 pence.
RunLipl, MArten 16. —Three months, 6.48%.
VIIINNA, MARCH P.—Three months, 9. -5%.

MARKETS.

HAMBURG
GR
Wheat. Marts '33 to S(O
-- Magdeburg :33 to 361
Antialt, white 3 3 to Lt;o
tel 3:33 to 3(CO
Iltunsr. kit 233 to WO
31erklenburg 2O to
-- Polish
-- Holstein
Ry-, Mecklenburg
- Dantzic ....... 2 Bto 249
- Elbing rid Ko •
niiisburg
---: Uphold
-- '2lo to 225

COll
Carolina an.l Tennessee 7t4 to 9%
(:eorgia, Ist suet 8
2d 7% '7%
:id and 4th 6% 7
COF
'1 to 13%
•

Bataviz.,
Sumatra —

Rio VI; 54
Bahia 4% S%
SUGAR.—(Wit
liavannp.h, White ...., 6 to 9
Brown 5 64
Rio' White 514 64
Brown - -44 i —5%
•

Barley, Mecklcubtugh 157 to 171
1 -- Magdeburgh 193 to 2e4
-- Holstein
,---- Summer 132 to :5;
Oats, Eider
-- 51ecklenburg
Holstein - to 14.1
-- Ent FrieJland l, 5 to 124
yease, Mecklenburg .., 216 16 240
Beans
Buck WN,IN't t'7:. 163 to 11'2
ltopeseed, 114-ilover
Malt
Tares 3OO to 414
I'ON.

Alaianham
Madras 714 toS
51 r 1,4
Surat- f,,k 0
Domingo .....
FEE.

Domingo
La Guavra
Porto Rico
413,4 6
54 t .
Havannah 4% 65:

LI 8% Discount.)
' Bahia, White 5% t071,i,
Brown 5 5%
Pernambuco, White 5% 'i%
Brown 5 5,4

Manda. Bi)in, 5 to 6%

BELGIAN. k UNDS—Bitusaatie, MARCH 20.
Actual Debt, 2 per Cent.
Rothschild's Lean, 5 per Cent t,B4
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. B9
3 per Cent

-Thirty-seven.

-- .. 6934
.(1:40) OS%
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent
Socicty of Covnin rce, 4y.•:per Cent.. .......
Bank of llclgiin, 5 per Cent...... ...... . SO
National Society .
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, March 20.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIR'INA, MARCII 12
Five par Cents. Metalliques
Font per Cents 98%
Three p9r Cents.
Bank Shares 1052
Allgemeine Zeitung, Mareh 17.

THE TORIES AND THE POOR-LAW.—The Tory
Papers are all loud in their praise of Sir Robert
Peel's humane and sensible speech on the Poor-
law. He condemned the harsh language of the
Commissioners, was the advocate of alms-giving,
and bespoke the kindest treatment of the poor.
He and his party mean, therefore, to back out of
the unpopularity of the measure. They are per-
plexed, and mean to leave the odium of it to the
Whigs and the country gentlemen.
SUDBURY ELECTION COM-