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LONDON:
FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1841.

The Peers met last night, and the LORD CHAN-
CELLOR presided for the first time since his

illness.

Several Bills and Reports were brought up
from the Commons.

The Earl of CHARLEVILLE occupied their
Lordships' attention for a few moments with re-
butting some imputations which the Marquis of
NORMANDY had thrown on his conduct. He had
been accused of employing and trusting a person
of bad character, but that person had been in the
police seventeen years.
The Marquis of NORMAMBY reiterated his
former assertion, that the Noble Earl had been
imposed on, to employ a person of a notoriously
bad character.
The Earl of WICKLOW found the Noble Mar-
quis's explanation not satisfactory ; and the Mar-
quis of WESTMEATH assured their Lordships that
the Earl of CHARLEVILLE was not a political ad-
venturer. He had a house to live in, and re-
ceived his friends in it.

The conversation then dropped. After the
presentation of a few petitions their Lordships
adjourned.
In the Commons numerous petitions for the
abolition of the Corn-laws, for Church extension,
for the abolition of 'Church-rates, &c., were pre-
sented.

Lord MORPETH announced that the only im-
port mt alteration he is prepared to make in
the Parliamentary Voters' (Ireland) Bill, is
to raise the amount of the franchise from a
6/. to an Si. rating for counties. Mr. O'CoNxEr.r.
subsequently expressed his regret at the altera-
tion, which he said would get nothing from the
other side. It will probably get something from
Mr. O'CONNELL'S own side, as without that alte-
ration it is probable some Whigs would not.sup-
port the Bill.

Mr. C. Woon wished to have some informa-
tion as to the number of persons rated to dif-
ferent sums, which Lord MoRPETH promised as
soon as it can be procured. It has been written
for.

Mr. HAWES gave notice of a motion for this
day for a return of all corporeal punishments in-
flicted in the British army on a Sunday, within
the last ten years. At the same time he asked
if there were any examples of such a punishment.
Mr. MACAUL AY was glad to have an
opportunity of stating that he had not said
that there were precedents for Lord CARDI-
GAN'S conduct, which was both unfortunate
and culpable. He had stated that there
were precedents of punishment inflicted on the
Sunday, but only under some great exigency, on
a march. In Lord CARDIGAN'S case the punish-
ment might have been postponed till the next day.
Sir H. HARDINGE thought the Secretary of
War's explanation perfectly satisfactory.
The Small Debts and Local Courts Bills were
postponed to 10th May.

In reply to Sir G. SINCLAIR, Mr. Fox
MAULE stated that the appointment of Mr.
CANDLISH, as Professor of Biblical Criticism in
Edinburgh, had been contemplated; but that
gentleman, with other eminent ministers of
the Church of Scotland, had performed duties
in the face of an interdict of the Court of Ses-
sion, and till the decision of the Court was
known, and the proceedings at an end, the ap-
pointment could not be persevered in.
In answer to Sir R. PEEL, Lord J. RUSSELL
stated that no official despatches had been re-
ceived from China.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL gave notice of a motion
this day to give
precedence to orders over mo-
tions on Thursday, after June 3d.

Mr. GROTE then renewed his motion relative
to New South Wales, which he brought forward
on the 25th ult , but was uxiable to come to a
conclusion, because the House was counted out.
He moved for a Committee for the purpose of
considering the manner in which the cost of
gaols, &c., is defrayed in New South Wales. The
gist of the Hon. Member's speech went to com-
plain of the improper appropriation of the land
fund, which he said should be wholly devoted
to emigration; of the great increase in the ex-
pense of the colony, from 25,0001. a-year in 1825,
to 100,0001. now ; and of the bulk of that expense
having been thrown on the colony.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER answered
Mr. GROTE. He showed that the colony

already cost the country a great annual sum, and
that the expense of its Government was borne
in a greater proportion by the mother country
than by the colony. The Right Hon. Gentle-
man moved the previous question.
Mr. C. BULLER supported Mr. GROTE'S views,
and strongly urged the claims of the colony.
Lord MAHON said great distress existed in the
colony, and it was caused by the conduct of the
Home Government. He thought a strong prima
facie case of grievance had been made out. He
was favourable to emigration, and rejoiced to see
that the labouring population are eager to emi-
grate. He supported the motion.

Lord J. RUSSELL said that other colonies were
as well disposed as New South Wales to get
their burdens taken off them at the ex-
pense of the mother country. The lonian
Islands demanded relief; Ceylon and Jamaica
paid large sums ; Government had already ex-
pended a considerable sum in adding to the po-
pulation of New South Wales; the colony had
been amazingly prosperous, and had now none of
the onerous duties and taxes to pay that were le-
vied on the people of England. He approved of
Mr. WAKEFIELD'S plan, and the Government
was by no means desirous of preventing emigra-
tion to New South Wales.

Sir W. MOLESWORTII took similar views to
Lord IVIAnoN. Since the establishment of the co-
lony, between 70,000 and 80,000 convicts had been
transported thither. He was of opinion that the
proceeds of the sale of lands ought to be wholly
applied to emigration.
Sir R. PEEL was favourable to emigration, but
opposed to charging the finances of the mother
country with an expense of 50,0001. or 60,0001. to
support it. New South Wales had no equitable
claim on the Treasury of the mother country.
The Right Hon. Baronet complained, and very
justly, ofan unhappy disposition in every country
of Europe to prodigality of expenditure.
Mr. WARD supported the motion, and so did
Sir ROBERT INGLIS, though he was sorry to differ
from Sir ROBERT PEEL.
Sir CHARLES GREY and Mr. HUME both
opposed the motion of their Hon. Friend the
Member for London. On a division Mr. GROTE'S
motion was supported by only 8 and opposed by 52.

Lord C. FITZROY then moved for a Committee
to take into consideration the papers relative to
the lonian Islands. The Noble Lord said his ob-
ject was to obtain for the inhabitants of those
islands an impartial administration of justice.
After a short debate, in which Sir HOWARD
DOUGLAS was accused of various pieces of mis-
conduct, and defended, the House divided, and
the motion was lost by 28 to 10. The House Ad-
journed soon after One o'Clock.

The Times yesterday had a long article on the
question, " Why should the Chartists not sup-
port Mr. WALTER ?" It began its answers by
stating several reasons why the Chartists should
not support the Ministers. We agree with the
Times that the Chartists have no reason to like
the present Ministers. We admit, and we de-
plore, that they have done little or nothing to
satisfy the people. They have not taken
off the bread-tax, they have increased the
expenditure, and they have not allowed the
people to gain political power, so that they might
obtain justice for themselves.
Nay, we will admit, for we have before stated
it, that they on some occasions treated the people
harshly ; and very needlessly and unwisely, in
our opinion, consigned a number of them to
prison for what old Tory judge or boroughmon-
ger made laws set down as political offences,
which were very often no offences at all. The
Chartists, therefore, are under no obligation
whatever, to support the Ministers, or a can-
didate who will in general vote with them.
Are they therefore under an obligation to sup-
port a Tory ? Whenever the Whigs outraged
or injured the Chartists, they only acted on
Tory principles. Whenever they did any good
for the people, they acted on their own princi-
ples. Which, let us ask, of the deeds charged
against the Whigs as offences by the Times, was
opposed by the Tories ? Did they exclaim
against the law being cruelly enforced against
the Chartists. Did they make any objection to
the Poor-law and other Commissioners ? Did
they oppose the creation of a rural gendarmerie,
or the law for converting • poor-houses into pri-
sons ? Not they. On the contrary, the Tories
on all occasions hounded on the Whigs against
the Chartists, and whatever protection they have
found, they have received from the Whigs.
The Tory journals teemed day after day with
reproaches against the Government for pusilani-
mity, and for encouraging sedition. If the Tories
had had their will, the Chartist Convention,
whose proceedings we regularly reported, would
have been dispersed by the police, or arrested
by the orders of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL. If
the Chartists have no cause to love the Whigs,
they have reason to hate the Tories.
What then is their duty in the contest for
Nottingham ? We answer, to stand neuter. It
may appear hard to disfranchise themselves, but
that is better than to vote for an enemy. But
will they disfranchise themselves by not voting?
We say no. They will exercise their own
will. They will be able to say, " Neither
of these men is my representative. I will have
neither, I will acknowledge the authority of
neither. I may be compelled to obey the ma-
jority, which I shall at any rate be compelled to
do, but I will protest solemnly against the elec-
tion of either, and for neither will I vote." That
will be rational and high-spirited in the Chartists.
They may, if they like, put up a third man ; that
will mark their reprobation of the principles of
both the Whig and the Tory ; but to vote for the
Tory will be to sanction principles which they
detest more than they detest those of the Whigs.

We do not ask the Chartists to vote for Mr.
LARPENT, unless they approve of his principles;
but they cannot vote for Mr. WALTER, an ac-
knowledged, undisguised hater of democracy,
without branding themselves as dishonest and
the Charter as a trick. Mr. LARPENT
has declared in favour of a total repeal or the
Corn-laws, of free trade, of the ballot, of a prac-
ticable extension of the suffrage, of shortening
the duration of Parliament, and of a plan of na-
`tional education independent of the State priest-
hood. To all these Mr. WALTER is unfavourable,
and all of these are approximations to the objects
sought for by the Chartists. To vote for Mr.
LARPENT is to vote for a Reformer, if not a
Chartist. To m
vote for Tv v(7. ALTER iS to vote for
a declared enemy of the Charter and of de-
mocracy.

The Times tries hard enough to make out a
case for Mr. WALTER, but all it can say for him,
which is all he can say for himself, is that he is
the opponent of the New Poor-law. His great
objections to that are that it deprives the peoplei
of self-government, and denies out-door relief to
the poor. But the Chartists are not paupers.
Though many of them—honest, intelligent work-
men—are numbered amongst the rate-payers,
there were very few parishes under the old law,
in which they had, in consequence of STURGES
BOURN E'S Act—or some otherTory..4.ct—the smal-
lest control over the disbursement of the rates they
paid. What the Times means by the self-go-
vernment which the New Poor-law destroyed,
was the government of a very narrow oligarchy
in every parish ; from which, though the change
be to a despotism, the bulk of the smaller rate-
payers are happily relieved. The revival of that
oligarchy in every parish, composed of errant
jobbers, is what the Times advocates.
Now, as to relief out of doors. The practice of
giving that was made the means of de-
grading all the workmen into paupers.
Wages were mingled with Poor-rates, and
the oligarchy we have mentioned, paying
their workmen's wages out of rates, paupe-
rized the industrious classes. That was a
most nefarious system, -and it was supposed—
whether correctly or not—that it could not
be wholly suppressed but by forbidding relief

out of doors. The object was most wise. It
separated at once wages from a pauper allow-
ance, and restored the labouring man to a chance
of independence.
If, since the New Poor-law has been in exist-
ence, we had had a free trade in corn,
and our country had been prosperous—as the
ALMIGHTY, by endowing our people with great
skill and industry, intended it should be
had no persons been required to take
refuge in poor-houses but those whose re-
latives and friends, though well to do, declined
to support them, or who had no relatives and
friends, the condition of not giving relief out of
doors would never have been found onerous,
while the great reduction of rates consequent on
a more prudent management would have en-
abled and encouraged the rate-payers to take
ample care of the few poor that were thrown on
their hands. Most of the workmen with
whom we have conversed on the sub-
ject, have approved of this change on prin-
ciple, and nothing could have made it
work ill but the wide-spread distress and want of
employment which have been caused by the
Bread-tax, and other similar restrictions on
trade. But for the Corn-law the New Poor-law
would have been a blessing to the lower class of
rate-payers, who under the old law never had a
voice in the management of parochial affairs.
Whatever may be its characteristics, it is quite
as much a Tory as a Whig measure, and Mr.
WALTER would be as little able to procure it!,
repeal in Parliament as out of Parliament. The
Times knows both these circumstances ; but Mr.
WALTER is tired of labouring in obscurity, and
therefore he is anxious to address the public
from the floor of the House of Commons. To
attain that end, the Times does not hesitate to
misrepresent both men and things, describing
the Poor-law as a Whig measure, and Mr. LAR•
PENT as a nominee of the Treasury. It is, how-
ever, so notorious for its assertions, that the
Chartists will not, for one moment, be taken in
by the lip homage of the avowed champion of
the Church and of the aristocracy.

If one of the red men of the American forests,
exposed as they all are to continued privations,
and obliged to go through all the wearisome toils
of the chase to procure food and clothing, could
be put down in Mr. MAUDSLEY'S machine manu-
factory, and made to comprehend the vast utility
of the beautiful and polished works he would
there behold ; if he could be made a spectator of
the many processes which intervene between
lifting a few dingy, brown, or yellow-coloured
stones out of the bowels of the earth, which are
to be converted into iron, and the perfect steam
engine as it went forth from Mr. MAUDSLEY'S
hand ; if, after comprehending all these, and
tracing all the thousand works which, after many
months, result in the beautiful piece of mechan-
ism, he could afterwards see that at work pro-
pelling a great ship across the Atlantic, or spin-
ning millions of yards of twist, or weaving scores
of webs of cloth, or turning twenty pair of stones
to grind corn, and if he could learn to compre-
hend the ease by which a great multitude of
human beings, by the help of this machinery, at-
tain in abundance and comfort, that food and
clothing he struggles through night and day to
win, and then rarely has enough—he must be
struck with wonder, approaching, we think, to
that sublime awe with which a HERSCHEL con-
templates the immeasurable phenomena of the
skies. For the due appreciation of the vast power
created, he need not pass from under Mr. MAUDS-
LEY'S roof. He will there see a steam-engine as
neat and polished as a lady's jewellery, giving
motion to several lathes, and he may see the
solid metal in which, with all his art and strength
he could not make a dent, shaved or sliced off as
if it were no harder than putty. If he were
afterwards to visit the atelier of CHANTREY or
the studio of LANDSEER, and there see the
finest works in marble, and the finest pictures
which these admirable artists have produced, we
fancy, however much he might be pleased wits:
these perfect works, that his admiration and won-
der, remembering that he himself had rudely
executed some likenesses in wood, and daubed
them over with colour, would fall far short 04
the admiration and wonder he felt at the works f
the mechanist. If such a man could be made
comprehend all the beneficial results of machi-
nery, and see how limited was the utility and the
enjoyment conferred by sculpture and painting,
he would undoubtedly conclude that machinery
was ten thousand times more important and more
valuable to society than statues and pictures.

If he were so struck with wonder and admira-
tion at what we may call the master-art of civi-
lized life, were duly penetrated with a con-
viction of its immense importance to society,
and were at the same time aware that Govern-
ment is constituted to promote the welfare of all,
he would conclude that it was impossible for the
Government to do too much—provided all it did
were judicious—to improve and extend this
useful and, in its results, most elegant art. If
he were aware of the academies formed, and
bounties bestowed, and honours and rewards
showered by Government to encourage painting
and sculpture, he would naturally expect that
colleges for the education of engineers, museums
for the storing up of models, apprentice work-
shops for drilling the next generation of workmen,
provided with drawing, chemical, and mineralo-
gical schools, and all that could contribute to the
success of the art of the founder, the smith, the
wheelwright, &c., &c., should abound in every
town. His astonishment at the conduct of the
Government would probably be commensurate
to his admiration ofour machinery, when he learnt
that there are no such things; that the Govern-
ment which has established, at a great expense,
a national museum of nicknacks, and a national
gallery containing some" doubtful works of
art, has done nothing whatever for the edu-
cation of engineers and mechanics, and the
improvement of machinery. It has established
and supports colleges for the education of casuis-
tical and arrogant priests, whose great business
is to enrich themselves; it has established acade-
mies for encouraging painting and sculpture, but
it has not even patronised mechanics' institu-
tions, nor bestowed any honour on the makers of
machinery. The painter of a picture is made a
Baronet or a Knight, and ushered into the ranks
of nobility ; the maker of a steam-engine ob-
tains all his reward from his customers. Our red
friend, when he came to understand this, would
suppose that Government had totally misunder-
stood or neglected its duties.
Now suppose that our red friend was carried
to the House of Commons, and introduced into
the Committee-room where Mr. M. PHILLIPS
presides over some fifteen gentlemen, including
such renowned lawmakers as Sir R. PEEL, Lord
F. EGERTON, and Viscount SANDON, and there
learnt from the evidence of Mr. J. D. HUME,
Mr. ASHTON, Mr. RIDE, Mr. DEAN, Mr. Wr-
TinriEtßhse, 1‘,41,Ta.y
of those
FELKIN, &C. &c., that the Go-
veleili•nnenrieyn, thadhpaadssesdtudiously laid impediments
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chinery to the best advantage, and had by the
prohibition driven out of the land many of the
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ingenious and skilful men who make this ma-
chinery, in
Belgium, France,d a
Prussia, so as to supply the market there, and
ucing
Switzerland,
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ands
enable them, when working abroad, to supply
North and South America,—suppose our red
friend, filled with admiration of our machinery,
were to learn that the Government had most
unjustly, as well as impolitically, interfered to
prevent the machine makers from selling their
produce to the best advantage, and had,'
in fact, plundered them to enrich others,
he would conclude, not that the Govern-
ment were ignorant or negligent, but that it had
been diabolically active, and the great enemy

of the best interests of society. Such, however,
is the case. It has been proved before the Com-
mittee that the most ridiculous and absurd leis-

lation prevails on the subject—that some ma-
chines cannot be exported, and others can—that
sometimes permission can be obtained from the
Board of Trade, and at other times it cannot, to
export different articles—that Custom-House
officers have to examine and stop machinery
about which they know nothing—that the Board
or Trade, which gives or withholds permission,
knows little or nothing about the machines it
allows to go or retains—that the laws, like all
such stupid laws, are evaded—and that the great
object contemplated, a selfish and nasty object,
of not allowing the knowledge and use of this ma-
chinery to extend to other countries, has complete-
ly failed, and that the Government has only done
injury, without even obtaining the Qnd it sought.
It is, indeed, amusing to read the account of the
manner in which the smuggler corrects the
errors of the Legislature ; it is amusing to see
the panting, struggling lawmaker endeavouring
to counteract the smuggler; and it is amusing to
see him fail, and the smuggler undertaking to
export even " Edinburgh Castle, if any body
would pay him for it." It is not merely amusing,
it is satisfactory to see such miserable peddling
legislation rendered utterly vain.

On some future occasion we will quote parts of
the evidence,—at present it behoves us to remark
that we are not desirous that the Government
should interfere to encourage the progress of ma-
nufacturing machinery, exceptby setting the trade
entirely free. It will not, and cannot otherwise
do any good. The evidence makes it abundantly
clear that English workmen have become, with-
out the encouragement of the Government, the
first in the world—we• doubt if as much can be
said of our artists and we therefore have
no wish that the Government should under-
take the patronage of machinery. It has
struggled through many difficulties to great su-
periority, and we are not sure that the patro-
nage of Government might not have been more
injurious even than its prohibitive legislation.
One fact is perfectly clear, from contrasting the
perfection of our machinery with the imperfec-
tion of legislation. That which the people do
by themselves, and for themselves, is in a man-
ner perfect. What the Legislature pretends to
do for them is the veriest botch that imagination
can conceive. Yet the wise people, wise at least
in all that concerns the works of their hands,
blindly submit to have their best interests de-
stroyed by unthinking men, who, without know-
iag the use of machinery—perhaps having never
seen much of it—undertake to make laws to
regulate its exportation, and prevent the skilful
makers from carrying their products to the best
market.

We must do Mr. MACAULAY the justice to
notice that he spoke last night in somewhat
stronger terms of reprobation of Lord CARDI-
GAN'S conduct than previously. He styled it
culpable. He admitted, too, that the only ex-
amples to be found of punishments on Sundays
were cases of great exigency, and they are very
rare. We are glad to see that the t ,ight Hon.
Gentleman has got a new light, which has en-
abled him to see a portion of the gross error he
committed.

The conduct of Lord CARDIGAN, by the Right
Hon. Gentleman's admission, is now without the
shadow of a justification. No such enormity, we
may safely assert, was ever before practised. As
yet, too, it has been unrebuked, save by the
press. The military authorities seem to approve
of it. Surely the public will not allow it to pass
io into oblivion. Those who think the Sabbath
aught to be kept holy, and who petition Parlia-
nent to pass new laws to prevent it being dese-
.rated, ought, in consistency to petition Parlia-
nent, to address the Crown to dismiss Lord CAR-
DIGAN from its service. If the public allow his
conduct tupass without some such proceeding,they
-vill sanction a more odious and wanton desecration
,fthe Sabbath,byau thori ty, th an was probably ever
before heard of. Now that the public have Mr.
IfACAULAY'S authority for pronouncing the Earl
Of CARDIGAN'S conduct to be wholly unwarrant-
able, and without precedent, they are bound
to get him removed from the army. His presence
contaminates and degrades the whole service.
Let the reader only study the table of punish-
ments in Lord CARDIGAN'S regiment, which ap-
pears in another part of The Sun, and he will be
at once convinced that this Noble Earl is as
great a martinet as he is regardless of the public
feelings.

The appointment of Prince MAVROCORDATO
to the office of Prime Minister of Greece, has
excited a hope in the breasts of the long-
neglected creditors of that country that their
claims will be early taken into consideration by
the new Cabinet. M. MAVROCORDATO has re-
sided too long among us—he is too well ac-
quainted with the injuries which a want of finan-
cial credit must inflict upon any country not in a
state of absolute barbarism, not to be sensible
that the prosperity of Greece is in a great mea-
sure dependent upon her observance of good
faith towards her foreign creditors. To what
but dishonesty on the part of their Governments
towards the State creditors, can we attribute the
low ebb to which the once powerful king-
doms of Portugal and Spain have fallen ?
Would the wildest foe of this country compare
them for an instant with England; and yet what
have been their wars in comparison with those
waged by Great Britain against half the world
in arms ? Financial good faith is the basis of our
commercial prosperity, and without such good
faith no people ever can be commercially pros-
perous. Now Greece has hitherto been lament-
ably deficient in the manifestation of any regard
for the pledges made by her to her foreign cre-
ditors. For this a faction of Foreigners who have
hitherto swayed her councils are chiefly to blame.
The bulk of the people of Greece, we have no
doubt, repudiate the dishonest, short-sighted
policy which since the establishment of King
OTHO on the Greek throne, has found ff6-our
in the eyes of that Royal compound of arro-
gance, obstinacy, and imbecility. Western
Europe (and England in particular), expects that
with the appearance of Prince MAvaoconnATo
at the head of the councils of the KING, the
little knot of hungry Bavarian adventurers who
heretofore swayed the destines of the kingdom
will be dispersed, and such measures introduced
as shall render Greece not only more politically
free in her own eyes, but more honest in the
eyes of the rest of the world. Lord PALMER-
STON'S influence with the new Greek Premier is
known to be very great, and as his Lordship has
faults in the East to atone for—grave faults as
we have ourselves proved—we know of no
atonement which he could make, apart from the
affair of China, which would prove more gratify-
ing to the people of England than to insist upon
justice being done to the British creditors of
Greece.

The Paris Journals of Tuesday haVe all reached
us. Their contents are of no political import..
ance. Some commercialists from the Isle of
Bourbon having applied to the Government to
establish a line of steamers between that island
and Suez, which, by being connected with the
line plying between Marseilles and Alexandria,
would shorten the time of communication be-
tween the Isle of Bourbon and France from four
months to one month and five days, the Journal
des Debats has the following remarksyponit
" In the proposed plan three steam-boats of 220 horse-power
would be quite sufficient for a regular monthly service, which
would cause an expense of about 2,000,000 f. for the first out-
lay. The yearly expense would be about 300,000 f., to defray
which a considerable sum would be raised from passengers
letters. This plan is nothing more than the natural
completion of the Bill passed last year for establishing trans-
atlantic packets. The Government felt that, from the mo.,
anent England established a regular communication by means
of magnificent steamers, France could not remain in
the back ground without throwing into the hands of the
English the whole of the French communication with the new
continent. The Chamber voted 32,000,000 f. for the transat-
lantic steamers, and the delegates from Bourbon ask but for
2,000,000 f, to establish a regular service with the Arabian Gulf.
It is
_evident that the 70,000,000 f. or 60,000,000 f. of trade,

which we carry on each year with Bourbon and India, must
pass into other hands, if we continue to follow the long circuit
of the Cape of Good Hspe. The late events in the East show
what importance the English attach to the route by Egypt to
the Red Sea, and our political as well as commercial intere-ts
demand that the French flag should be permanently dis-
played in the Red Sea. All the nations of Europe will find
it proper to keep Egypt an'open route, and a geographical posi-
tion so important as Suez should remain the common
resting place cf all commercial bodies. These considerations
induce us to suKort warmly the proposed plan, particularly as
the colony of Bourbon, in its own interest, wia feel itself
obliged, should the Government not promptly accede to its
request, to have recourse to English capitalists, and thus throw
the communication between the colony and France into the
hands of England. As to a private company undertaking the
line as a speculation, we look on it as highly improbable. The
Government saw last year that it was with State money that
the line to America should be carried on, as sacrifices were to
be incurred, which private speculators could not sustain. The
same arguments prevail with respect to the proposed line to
Bourbon."

The change in the Turkish Cabinet gives um-
brage to the French Liberal Press, which now
discovers that RESCHID PACHA was eminently
French in his feelings and habits. Had this dis-.
covery been made sooner, it is probable that the
Press, which so triumphantly upheld M. TRIERS,
would have borne aloft, in true Frank fashion,
upon the shield of victory, the now disgraced
Pacha. But it is ridiculous to tax Lord PoN-
SONLY with the humiliation of the late chief of
the Divan. Than Lord PONSONBY, RESCHID
PACHA had not a more strenuous supporter—a
support which the late Reis Effendi well me-
rited by every part of his conduct, save and ex-
cept his implacable hostility to MEHEMET ALI.
But now that he is disgraced, the very members
of the Divan, who, oniy a few days before his
downfall, proposed that whenever he enter 7
ed the Council the members should rise and
reverently kiss the hem of his garment, are
the first to cast dirt upon him He is de-
nounced by the men whom he loaded with
honours, as au equivocator in politics, an athe-
i;t in religion, and a foreigner in manners.
The ulemas, or priests, are the deadliest enemies
of the ex-Minister. They now accuse him of
the horrid impiety of having trifled with the ana-
thema or curse pronounced by them against
MEHEMET ALI and his family—of having de-
nounced the doctrines of the Koran on the sub-
ject of marriages—of having promoted unbe-
lievers to posts in the army and navy—of employ-
ing foreign engineers to fortify the castles of
the Dardanelles and the works on the Bospho-
rus, which, by the help of ALLAH, could be
better done by true believers—and of having
by the establishment of quarantines vio-
lated the precepts of the Koran respect-
ing predestination. It will he seen from
this that the Bishop of EXETER, Dr. WHALE,
and the SHEIK-AL-ISLAM, are equal adepts at
fixing upon the chiefs of Cabinets charges of
atheism and impiety. Such charges form the
bow and the spear of the ecclesiastical armoury
in all countries.

Two important operations are about to take place in every
part of France, and the Prefects have received the most pre-
cise instructions to attend to them :-Ist. The Minister of
Finance has ordered a general account to be taken of build-
ings, doors, and windows, as well as of the number of per-
sons paying rent and personal taxes. 2d. The Minister of the
Interior, as has been already mentioned by us, has ordered
the general periodical census to be taken of the population of
the whole kingdom.
Monday, at two o'clock, the King, attended by the Inten-
dant-General of the Civil List, Generals de Rumigny and
d'Houdetot, and Messrs. de Cailleux and Fontaine, left Paris
for Fontainebleau. His Majesty stopped at Alfort to inspect
the fort of Charenton, the excavations for the foundations of
which are already well advanced. The King was received by
Generals Dode de la Brunerie and Vaillant. After surveying
the whole, and laying the first stone of the facing of the
scarp, his Majesty reentered his carriage, and continued his
journey. The people of the neighbourhood, the workmen, and
the soldiers of the engineers, repeatedly hailed the King with
their acclamations. His Majesty ordered that I,ooof. should
be distribltted among the workmen.

Surctnx..—As a workman was crossing the Pont de la Con-
corde two mornings since, about five o'clock, he found on the
parapet a letter or note, on which was placed a key, to keep it
from being blown away, addressed to Mme. Ferriere, the wife
of a retired notary, with a direction to her to pay sf. to the
person whir might bring it to her with the key. He went to
the address indicated, but the porter desired him to say where
he lived,- and the family would send for it. When Mme.
Ferriere was dressed, the letter was sent for, and delivered. It
was from M. Ferriere, announcing that he could not continue
bear the miseries of his life, and that when she received the
letter, he would be no longer in existence. M. Ferriere,
though still young, had long been suffering from a painful
complaint, which had compelled him to give up his profes-ion.
No doubt of his having made away with himself is entertained.
He was in easy pecuniary circumstances, and much esteemed.
—Galignani.

The Government has two official and avowed organs—the
Messager and the Moniteur Universe!. How comes it that
the last telegraphic despatches from Toulon, took the wrong
way, and that it wa from the Moniteur Parisien that we learn
on the 16th the arrival of t e Crocodile on the 14th at Tou-
loo, with the first news of the expedition to Medeah, and that
to-day it ii the Journal des Debats which informs us from
another despatch that the expedition returned to Algiers on
the 10th, after having had on its way back a serious engage-
ment with the Arabs.

The Journal and letters brought by the Crocodile are no later
than the 6th.

When the steam. boat left the Moniteur A tgerien had not
appeared, and nothing official had been published. There could
therefore be no news of the expedition which set out on the
30th of March, except from private communications. of the
first operations, favoured by extremely fine weather, were per-
fectly successful, and the main body of the expedition, which
left lllidah on the 3d, must have arrived without obstacles at
Medeah.

No recent news have been received at Algiers an the 6th,
from Oran or Constantine ; but it was known at Toulon
that the division of Oran had just received reinforcements to
the amount of 6,000 men. The regiments which were already
in that province have received numerous detachments to com-
plete their full war establishments, and two fresh regiments
have just been landed at Oran, so that the entire force of the
division in that province is above 12,000 men.
It seems certain that a strong column setting out from
Oran, or Mostaganen, under the command of General Lamori-
ciere, or some say, of the Duke of Nemours, will ascend the
valley of the Cheliff, and effect its junction with that of the
province of 1 ittery, commanded by the Lieutenant-General in
person beyond Medeah. Hospitals, are preparing at Medeah,
Miliana, and Mostaganen, to receive the sick and wounded
of the projected great expedition. Lieutenant-General Bu-
geaud does not disclose his plans to anybody, but nobody doubts
that he intends to destroy Mascara, Tazza, and Tedekempt.
The expedition, which will take place in May, wi' I be the
mo ,t important that has yet been undertaken since our occu-
pation of the country. It will be a decisive blow in the west
part of the Regency, which is Abd-el-Kader's central point of
action ; he will be pursued to the edge of the desert, and it is
not possible that he should attempt to penetrate into the pro-
vince of Constantine, where the French influence predominates.
These are the hopes entertained at Toulon.—Le Commerce.
BRUSSELS, APRIL 19.—The King and the Royal Family
have gone to the Palace at Laeken for the summer.
It is said that Baron Stassart is to succeed M. Northomb at
Frankfort.

The King transacted business yesterday with the Minister of
the Interior, and afterwards gave audience to the Russian and
British Ambassadors, Baron Amen and Sir G. Seymour.
The King and Queen will set out for Paris on Thursday
next. 'Fhe young Princes will remain at Laeken.
The Prince de Joinville set out yesterday morning by the
railway for Ostend, where he intended to embark for Cher-
bourg. Among the many foreigners of distinction in this city
are sir Donald Campbell and family, who have come from
England to visit Belgium.
THE HAGUE, APRIL 20.—1 n the sitting of the Second
Chamber of the States General to-day the following letter was
read from the Minister of the Interior to the President of the
Chamber :

" The Hague, April 19, 1841.

" Conformably to the declarations made by me in the sitting
of the 23d of December, last year, negotiations have been
opered, by the King's directions, with the Netherlands Com-
mercial Company (the Handel,maatschappy), for the purpose
of making some alteration in the contract entered into with
that body by the Cobtnial Department, in 1840, and then to
ob.ain an increase of the disposable means in 1842 and the fol-
lowing years :
" 1 have now to inform you, Sir, with the request that you
will acquaint the Second Chamber that these negotiations have
led to a satisfactory result, and the particulars of which will be
found in the copies of the additional stipulation of the 25th and
31st of March last, which I have the honour to transmit to you.
" The Minister of Marine and Colonies.
J. BAND."
BOURSE.—PARIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 20.

firs'. Highest Lowest last
Price Price. Prick Price
r,e .4.:11:: ver Cents
4 per Cents l;9 25 .. 99 25 ... 119 25 ... 99 25
3 per rents 79 20 . 76 30 ... 79 1U ... 79 30
~iii.. 01 France
I,:ttitte ?,aiik %%11. Stares 51611 ...516: .4157 50 ...5157 50
1,000/. Si area PM .. le4o ..1180 ..101.,0
i,iwan /Sank
5 her (7f.iit, ... ION ~. 101% ... 1111
.. jui%
3I er Cents 7l ::5 .. 71 25 ... 71 05 ... 71 25
New Loan..., .....
,•ti AcLiv. . t,41,4 ... 2,4 i, ... 454 ... '2
i'orulgitese 3 per Cents 2,1 .. 20 ... 2,0 ... 20
~,, ,'h 103 95 ... 11'3 93 ... 03 95 ... 03 95
Roman l(4 ... 104 . ... 104 ... 101
i'fAILWAY SHARES.
5t ~erinato,
Versalllcs,R, 13 1,82 50 ... 382 st) ... 375 ~. 375
1,.8. '‘ss ... 255 .. 245 .. 159
'touen ,05 ... 453 ... 455 ... 45i
Mulhausen to Thann .....
"itr.is.wrg :.... bale 237 50 ... 238 75 ... 237 50 . 2.-.8 75
urleaus .. 485 ... 485 .. ;85 ... 483
. .-_

__. ...... .. ~.. ...
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTEEDAid, APRIL 20
51mlec :.i ,s.
ictual D;:lit, ‘2%, per Cent
3itto, ditto 5 per cent.
A. mwi tS% mile, -IY,i per cent 90% 91
Ditto, ditto, 334 percent 73 .s, "i 33
Commercial Company, 4,q percent 1(5% 1:0
Ditto (1623 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 1037, 5 Ler cent..... 95 93
Exchange on London, One month l2 05
Two months
Dutch Papers, April 21.
HAMBURG 13(3.11.ENHALLE, A p oi 17.
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 163
A ii,,10-11.ussian Loan lO 34 ,0,4
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Selies 101".',,
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series 9' 964
Ditto in Certificates
New 4 per Cent. (1840) 8744 1-71%
Dutch actual Debt, 934 per Cent 50% 50%

Ditto 5
p ...
er CenL ._
Polich Bends
New ticket
Anglo.l)anish Loan, 3 per Cent 7534 7534
N -. wegian Loan, 1831, 4 per Ceo:... —
Sp.:nish, New 5 per Cents. 1(
PRUSSIAN FUN US.— lineup., APRIL a
Biits. Money
St. Schuld. Sch., 4i, per cent. 10:37;6 103%
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 101 10:14
Exchange on London, three months 0 19%
—Prussian State Gazette, April 18.

SABBATLI FLOGGING.—The difference between
real religion and state religion seems well illus-
trated by the dill: rent effects of the preaching of
a geiiuine. clergyman .and a regimental chaplai,..
Of tile 'fori.ier it is said, " those who Came to
scoff remained to pray." The effect of the
preaching of the latter is that " those Who came
to pray remain to flog." Genuine piety converts
the scoffing spirit into the humbled" praying
spirit, —grimacing piety, hired formula, pre-
tended piety, has the reverse effect. It fills the
heart, that should be humbled, with pride,—and,
being itself a mockery, it generates scorn and
cruelty.

THE WORSHIP OF MoLocll.—A Correspondent
asks whether the religion of the Riding-school be
that of Christ or Moloch, and he suggests that it
must be the latter, as the altar was besmeared
with human gore." We are afraid our Corre-
spondent is right, but Lord Cardigan has not the
merit of reviving amongst us the worship of the
" Horrid King." In consigning our people to
death by starvation, the aristocracy all worship
Moloch ; and the flogging on the Sabbath, like
the bread-tax, is only a part of the same brutal-
izing system of superstition. The blood-besmeared
" Horrid King" is the deity of those who degrade
the people by flogging, and starve them by a Corn-
law.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.

The public securities were rather heavy during the
greater part of the day. Consols for immediate transfer
realised 901 to 901. and for the Account 901 to 901, being
rather lower for the former only. Exchequer Bills were up at
one period of the day to 16s premium, subsequently rece-
ded to 14s. premium, and closed at that quotation ; East
India Bonds were worth 3s. to Is. premium • Back
Sta.ek improved to 173 i. The Three and-a-Half per
Cent. St, cks were generally rather heavy, and the turn
lower. The New brought 991 to 99k. and the Reduced
98 to 98k. The Three per Cent. Annuities were at
891 to 891, and Long Annuities at 12 13-16 t 121.
The Active Spanish Bonds have to-day been qut.ted
231 to 1, which is a shade better ; Portuguese New Five
per Cents. have been dull at 34 to 33i, and the Three per
Cents. at 201 ; Mexican Stock remained at 301, and
Colombian 22k; Peruvian were at 171; Dutch Two-sod-
a- Half per Cents. were firm at 521 to ; and Neapolitan
Bonds were marked 102 to 1021. '
The market for the Railway Shares roamed its
elasticity to a certain extent to-day. The business
done in the Great Western Railway Shares has
Leen .at 30 to 291. in the New at 141 to 144;
the London and Birmingham 70 ; the York and North
Midland 35 ; the South Western 191 ; and the Croydon 1
preen ; the Brighton Shares have been at 2i to 2 ; the
Greenwich at 11 ; Midland Counties at 101 ; North Mid-
land at 17 ; and the South Eastern at 14 dis. ; Glasgow,
Paisley, and Greenock were at 41 premium ; and the
North Midland New at f prem. Colonial Ban Shares
were at 101 to 11, and the Union Bank of Australia 91 prem.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 21.—The market
to-day has been again very languid ; the sales comprise
scarcely 2,000 bales to the trade; for lower descriptions of
American a decline of id. of per lb. has !taken [place, but in
other kinds the rates remain at Friday's quotations.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 21.—During the
last few days we have noticed a tendency to advance the rates
in many descriptions of Railway Stock, attributable, it is said,
to the absence of any immediate means for safer investment of
capital. The transactions this day are, Eastern Counties, 9i,
deb. 7/ ; Edinburgh and Glasgow 37 ; Glasgow, Paisley, and
Greenock, 264 ; Grand Junction, 211; London and Brighton
United Company, 474 ; London and South Western, 58i ;
ditto 51. Shares, 21.
No news of the President.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 21.—Prices con-
tinue firm, and there is a fair demand for most kinds of Rail-
way Stock :—Hull and Selby, 45 ; Manchester and Leeds, 651;
' North Midland, 81 • London and Brighton, 48 ; South
Eastern and Dover, 19i; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 36k;
Manchester and Salford Water Works, 53i.
We have received Barbadoes papers to the 11th March.
We have received our exchange paners from Jamaica and
St. Kitts,' Dominica and St. Lucia, but we get no news of
importance from any of them. The Jamaica papers mention
an attempt to burn the town of Lucia, which was fortunately
discovered.

In the legislative proceedings of the St. Christopher House of
Assembly, we read that a despatch from the Colonial Secretary
of State to his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, announ-
ing the intelligence that the Act some time ago passed by the
Legislature for enforcing the stipends of the clergy, was spe-
cially confirmed, and finally enacted by her Majesty.

We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date.
Bouiste OF AMSTERDAM, Aram I9.—The tendency of the
nationa!funds continues favourable; the wise measures takenby
the Minister of Finance have had a good effect, and confidence is
daily gaining ground.
The Actions of the Society of Commerce did not maintain
their prices.
The favourable aspect of the national funds had an effect on
the foreign securit.es, aided by the rise at Paris and Antwerp.
Ardoin's Spanish has also improved, Two and a half per Cents.
511 ; Five per Cents. 10A; Ardoin's 20 1-16.

The British Funds continue firm, pith an improvement on
the leaving-off prices of yesterday, which were 9O for the
Account, at present may be quoted 90a ; Money 9oi i; Ex-
chequer Hills, 13 15 prem..; Bank ~tock, 172 173; India
Stock 255, 256.

In the Foreign Market Spanish Active left off at 234 ;
at present 233 ; Deferred, 12g I; Passive, 5g i; Portuguese
333/ ; Three per Cents., 201 ; Brazilian, 69 70 ; Co-
lombian, 224 23; Mexican, 301,x; Dutch Twe.and-a- Half
per Cents., 52i ; Five per Cents , 991- 100.
The Duteh mail has arrived of the 21st April, bringing the
prices from Amsterdam of the 20th April. Two-and-a-Half
per Cents., 52 1.16; Five per Cents., 100; Ardoin's, 20 1-16.

. . , . . SHARES.—Grpt Western, 29i 30i, prem., New, 14i 15
prem. ; Lonslon and Brighton, 2 14 dis. ; Blaekwall, 5i 5
dis. ; Birininghatn, 68 70 prem. ; Southampton, 58 59 per
share; Croydon, 1334 14 per share; Greenwich, 8i i per
share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 15 14 dis.

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