The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-27 00:00:00

mAs aims at :

" The matters chiefly insisted on by the gallant author,
relatirely to the existing arrangements of the service, are
—that the short period during which each man-of-war is left
in commission, namely, three years, deprives the country of
her service as an efficient ship during too.targe a propor-
tion of that period, inasmuch as a man-of-war • seldom
arrives at a thorough state of efficiency in discipline and
practice before the lapse of eighteen months from the day
on which she has been commissioned, which state of for-
rnidable_es)ravlateness and ust fulners continues for a t el% c_
month, or a little more, when the prospect of paying uff
conics in view, and their discipline, gun exercise, &c ,
13-gin to relax ; and, if at bailie, the ship is paid off at
the end of three years, and all belontiing to her dispersed.'
" Re-commission this ship the.next day, and she is per-
fectly a new creation, and the sante routine to be repeated
already stated to your Lordship. The men who were
lately in her have no more inducement to return to .that
ship than any other, as she is but the shell they formerly
inhabited ; and, although a crew may be co:le..•:ted,
men lately serving in a man-or-war, yet y oil have the
s'me complain from the present as frOM her former cap-
tain, as to their inefficiency and want of union, and the
same discontent will for an equal period exist, and the ship
be in a similar state cf inefficiency for a similir length of
time.
" I have always considered that a peace establishment
was as much a preliminary preparation for war as for any
other service; that consequently your ships thus employed
should be manned with picked men, and that they should
be in that state of training and efficiency that each ship, on
a rupture taking place, could turn over one watch to form
the groundwork ff another vessel to be fitted out, To ac-
complish this much•desired end, allow me to suggest to
your Lordship the following plan '
" That when a ship is commissioned she should never be
entirely paid off—that if the ship herself become unservice-
able, that tit whole he transferred to another of equal
size—let the captain and officers be appointed for the
period they arc now kept in employment, and the men be
entered for a period not under five years, and as much
longer as they please; and, instead of paying off alto-
gether, the captain, officers, and men, be discharged re-
' spectively as their period of service expires ; and that if
the ship be employed on a foreign station, the men whose
time is up,. and who wish their discharge, to be sent
home in the first man-of-war; or allowed 'No find their own
I way."

We agree with the Times that there are many
go0;1 • suggestions in this passage, and the first
sentence, which we have printed in italics, so en-
tirely accords with what we have said in The Sun,
thr t we cannot do otherwise than give it an un-
qualified approval.• We quite agree, too, with',the
suggestion that officers and men be discharged re-
spectively as their period of service expires, and
not altogether, as at present. We must also say,
that if the present rascally system of stealing the
seamen, and plundering them of their labour and
their wages, is to be longer continued, 'or any re-
liance is ever again to be placed on it to get men
for the fleet, we must approve of Sir T. COCH-
RANE'S suggestion to enter the men for a period
not less than five years, and as much longer as
they please. That will serve undoubtedly to
palliate some of the evils of the rascally system,
but it is hostile to the principle of a corn--
pletely voluntary service such as the Navy
ought to be made. Under that, the seamen
should be allowed .to enter for six months,
twelve months, three years, or five years, as they
pleased ; and the means of spreading through the
whole community a knowledge, however imperfect,
of the discipline and service of the Navy should not
be shortened by the limitation of not allowing any
man to serve unless he engage for a period of five
years.

We know that naval officers, particularly young
sprigs of nobility, will object to the continual changes
such a mode of entering seamen will make in their
crews, and exclaim loudly against the inconveni-
ence and trouble to which it will put them. We
beg to say that their trouble and inconvenience
corms no part of our consideration. They are largely
paid, and rewarded with honour for their trouble,
and we insist on their submitting to this inconve-
nience with a good grace, if it be for the benefit of
the service, or the country will find substitutes for
them, who will cheerfully perfotni this necessary
(hay. We shall proceed show that entering men
for short periods, if they liked, would be beneficial
to the. public.
One part of Sir THOMAS COCHRANE'S scheme
is to have picked men in the ships during peace.
But if they be allowed only to enter for five years
the power of picking will be much curtailed. 'Where
one seaman would enter positively for five years,
twenty would offer themselves to serve for a twelve,
month. Our principal reason, however, for allow-
ing men to enter for short periods is to diffuse
through the community a knowledge of the disci.
pline and service of the Navy. A boy who lives
at the water-side and plays in boats is much sooner

made into a good sailor than one who has been

amused by swinging on gates, or gathering daisies
and strawberries. To the latter, everything about
a ship is strange ; to the former it is familiar.
A lad who sees carpenters daily at work, and
handles their tools, on the same principle,
does not need near half as much instruction
to become a "carpenter as a youth- who
has never seen a. saw or a plane. Now
if all the vile trertment to which seamen are, or
have'been exposed, were done away ;:if the sailors
were:as well paid as they ought to be, and persons
could enter for short periods, it is our opinion that
an immense mass of the community would voluntarily
go through the Navy, and make themselves so .fa:.
miliar with the service, that whenever war arose
an abundance of men, even to_pick from, 'might
then be obtained. We would put no obstacle in
the way of nersons entering, and would. not, terrify
them from trying, by making it a condition that
they could only try for a period not less than five
years. •

But Sir THOMAS COCIIRANE must be, re-
minded that at present there is an increasing tie-
.
mand for knowledge of machinery in seamen.

Steam-engines are coming more'and more into use
every year for propelling vessels. In a fature: war,
steam-ships will play an important part, . Tow the
men confined for five years to a man-of-war' will
not 'have an opportunity of fainiliarising them Selves
with steam, navigation. Whereas, if they be en-,
tered for sh ort periods, many of those who go on
board her MAJESTY'S ships May also, for a
change, go on board steam-vessels, .and so fami-
liarise themselves, which is much to be desired,
with both. Moreover, no inconsiderable- num.
ber, probably, of young men, bred up to
working engineers, might like to go to, sea for a trip,
and
,would choose a man-of-war if the seamen were
well treated, well paid, and could return, on shore
at the end. of six or twelve months. To encourage
such men to become acquainted with the discipline
of a man-of-war; allow them to enter for six 'months.
That such changes, in the crews would interfere
with the system of discipline established we have
not the smallest apprehenSion. The men would,
in fact, conform to it whatever it was, and it 'would
not be altered to please them. ,If, indeed, the Navy.
is hereafter, as heretofore, to be sacrificed to. the
aristocracy, the services of the men for five, years,
or for their lives, should, if possible, be obtained
and insisted on.; if, however, the Navy is to be
kept on foot wholly for the public benefit—if it is
to be managed as cheaply as possible in prace;and
be as efficient as possible in war, the whOle popu-
lation of the empire should be, by all feasible means,
invited to enter men. of-war, and no restriction
whatever, not strictly necessary to the ',discipline of
the fleet, should' be imposed on those who .rnight

desire to go to sea.

The opinion of Dr. LUSHINGTON and Mr. RI-
CHARDS in favour of the validity of the Duke :of
SUSSEX'S first marriage has already appeared in. The
Sun. This is high SuOtirity. As a . civilian no
man in England is superior to the former of thcse
Learned Gentlemen, , and, as an equity lawyer,, the
latter is too well-known to require any culogy frOm
us. It is not to he supposed that men of great'erni-
nence in the profession of the la4y would express
themselves so confidently, and thus commit their reJ
potation, unless the case submitted 'to their consi-
chration were clear and strong. On. this ground
alone it might be contended that sufficient cause
has been shown for at least a formal investigation of
the claims of Sir AUGUSTUS D'ESTE.

Weighty, however, as is the authority to which
we have alluded, its value is; greatly enhanced by the
concurring opinion of one whose legal abilities have
never been questioned—even by those who differ
most widely from him in political sentiment—we
mean Mr. O'CONNELL. It will 'be' seen from a
,
document inserted in another part of our Paper,
that, in the opinion of Mr.' O'CONNELL, the
'Royal Marriage Acts as it is erroneously called, is
of no force in Ireland ; that the marriage contracted
at Rome by his Royal Highness the Duke of
SUSSEX, was one of " unquestionable validity"
in Iraland ; that ,the rank of Sir AUGUSTUS
D'ESTE, in that kingdom, is that of a Prince of
the BlOad Royal, the grandson 'of the King of
Iteelnd ; and that, were he to die intestate, pos-
sessed of land in Ireland, the land, Instead of being
escheated to the Crown, as in cases of illegitimacy,
would go to liis sister, as: heiress-at-law.
Mr. O'CONNELL has no misgivings as to the
law of the ease. He says expressly that his opi-
nion is " free from any doubt." What, then,
must the public think of the treatment which Sir
A UGUSTUS D'ESTE has so long endured ? Can
they shut either their eyes or their hearts to that
injustice, that cruel oppression, by which he has
not only been deprived of his rights hitherto, but
even denied the means of recording the evidence
that might assist in subs.tantiating his claims at a
future time, when their investigation can no longer
be warded off ?

But w•e are anticipating. All that we meant to
do at present, was to draw the attention of our
readers to the state of this important case, as re-
gards Ireland. To-morrow we shall lay before them
the opinions of German jurists on the Hanoverian
branch of the question.

The Madrid Papers received are of the 18th
inst. Their contents are unimportant. A new
project of an Election Law appears in the Gazelle,
in which a Deputy is assigned to 50,000 souls,
and a Senator to 85,000. An insurrectionary plot
was discovered at Grenada, which the Government
has given orders to suppress with unusual rigour.
General COUCLIA was proceeding to Cuenca and
Guadalajara, which he is to pacify. He is to have
at his disposal eighteen pieces of artillery, 4vith
which he is to reduce the Carlist forts of Caneta
and Belita. Colonel MITCHELL, the English
Commissioner attached to the Catalonian Army cf
Occupation, and acting in that capacity with the
Duke de la VITTORIA, disembarked on the 12th
of April rat Port Vendres, and arrived the follow-
ing day at Perpignan. To be able to reach his
destination he was obliged to travel on French
ground as far as Oleron, in order to pass by
Saragossa. Colonel .MITCHELL is accompanied
by Lieutenant DICKSON of the Royal Artillery.

The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday have
all been received. The Rentes Conversion Bill
was voted on Thursday by a majority of 208 votes
against 163. The holders of the Rentes feel con-
fident that, as the KING is opposed to the Bill, the
Chamber of Peers will !eject it.
In Galignani's Messenger of Saturday we find
the following announcement
A telegraphic despatch announces that the Princess
Victoria entered the French territory this morning. Her
Highness was received on the frontier by General Duros-
nelt aide-de.camp to the King, by the Preftct of the
Nord, and by the commandant of the 16th military divi-
sion. In connection with this subject, the Independent of
Bru;sels states that King Leopold set out for 3t. Ciotid
on Thursday morning, and that the Duke Ferdinand and
Princess Victoria of Saxe- Coburg left for Compiegne at
h
half-past 12 the fAtme day. His Majesty was to reach St.
Cloud yesterday evenings SLllcirerene Highnesses are to
stop t.-Ao days at Compiegne, and arc to a-t put on Monday
morning for St. Cloud, where the marl iaga of the Ninacs;;
to the Puke de Nemours is to be celebrated the same
evening.
Brigadier-GericrAl 74i,TABA NO has obtained
another victory over the CarlisPt3? The 191 lowing
is the telegraphic despatch, communieatiog the ip-
telligence to the Minister of the Tottaior, copied
from the Moniteur of Saturday
BAYONNE, APRIL 24.
" Til E SUB-PREFECT OF a,t‘e,wpot TO THE MINISTER CV

THE INTERIOR.
" On the 19th, at Becuite, Brigadier Zurbal;lP P2P4I.
pletely routed the first battalion of Aragon. Three hun-
dred rebels were killed or taken. A 'groat quantity of arms
and ammunition fell into the hands of Zurbano."
In the Chamber of Deputies, on Friday, the
Conservative Deputy, M. DE REM ILLY, brought

for:lard his motion for excluding pail functionaries i
from the Chamber. Alter an interesting debate,
upon which we may make some observations in t►h
course of a day Or two, the measure was racrred to
a Committee to report upon its practicabilitY.
The l_ctiers from Naples Of tiie 14th, pubished in the
Sud, antiotinced, as our • eciers,kuow. a•report that Pa,
!mu° was blockaded by English men of war. This repert
is likeuise given by the Genoa Gazette of the 18th, which
-says that. according to. accounts brought by the Pliaramond,
the British squadron had already arrived on the coasts of
Sicily.
_

• . All these reports are contradicted by the following lines
of the GL'ettc du Mdi of the 21st of this mon'.ll:-
4! On: Saturday we. heard of a letter from Palermo, which
annotinera that that city was blockaded by the English,
This is an error. There is a line of telegraphs between
Palermn and Naples, by which news is transmitted in
three hours. _ Now at the departure of the Pharamond,
Palermo ,was so far from being blockaded, that the King
was going to send thither the Maria Christina steamboat
with ammunition."

It is 'aMrased that the Genereux of the line is again to
sail from Toulon for Naples.--Le Commerce.
We have letters from Saragossa of the 19th ; they
speak only of the preparations making by Espartero for
the siege of Morclla. They even say that he has already
advanced with forty or forty-five battalions to within a
leigue of the place, while Q'Donnell, with forces almost
as numerous, has taken the road to Car.tavieja. Every.:
thing seems; therefore, to announce events of some iiii-
portanCe. Cabrera is still at Mara, on,the Ebro, from
-which place be transmits his instructions to the several
:cotnmtftelania-of-the army. The illness of this illustrious
chief is undoubtedly the most signal piece of success that
•Espartero has ever obtained. But his great courage
strugg4cs with his bodily sufferAiTntg
yrts,
DAT:
Astrilatiat,n2ims.atcs his
generals and his troops.—La Gazette de France.
BO UR S E.—PARIs, s

Trice
jiirrilcs
4te,oi
.......11..
11.:118rg1.34i4hc
ee450:0:
.1.7:
irt4Bl L0we5ti:33,.49.05 .........
PI
01:•344inc54e4:000
•
4
Creech 5 per Cents '
-•- 4 per Cents ..
3 per.Ccnts
3snl; ct , lance 3400 ...:110; _3393
_3,93
Lattitte Hank I,o(Xii. Sh l9's ...0*45 ...!.(85
...I 83
5,0001. -sh 5197 50 ...52t1) ...5!97 50 —5200
.
:Belgian Mull, 9.,5 ... 907 50 ... 900 ... ui 0
s.l;er Cents
New York ... - ... 99 .., 9 I ... 90
i on 6
State of New York
5,....:sti Ac. ,ve

.
Portngitese 3 per Cents 24?4' ... ... In% ... 24%
1(3 7C 103 JO ... 113 65 103 65

• - • • •
RAILWAY SHARES.
'it. Gcrmai
Versaillm R, l 3 607 50 607 50 ... 007 50 6' 7 50
L B a9o •167 5) ... Ode
tiAMBURG BOINENII.ALLE, APUIL 24.

Bills. Monet
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank 6flares
An lo.ltussian Loan lt SI
/itt,!si4rit) per Cent: Ist semi', Certificate 101 103/i
Inscription, Ist Series 1U.1% ..
.Russian 5 per Cent. Hop.: and Co. 3d and 4th

- .
Se, L.s —
Ditto in Certificates ' Pt)
'hitch ctual Debt, Nye Cent -52
Ditto ...... ....... a per Cell' 9B
Eoli..h Bowl..
New ; icket
an
;
Anglo.san 3 per Cent
._ih Lo
75
Not wegi an, Loan, 1034, 4 per Cent lt2
Scantih, New .1 per Cents. 2lj4
. ' EXCHANGES ON: LONDON.
flAmauno, APRIL ..-13. tit/—Two months, 13 4.i.
STotAnot.m, Amur. 16.—Seventy-five days. 12 0.
PET,rtsnumnt, APRIL 14. .I.Two months, 38% pence.
BREMEN, APRIL ,3--'l'.o months,. n 2 '.
VILNINA. APRIL 10.—Three months, P. 50.

'7414

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK

New York papers to the 7th inst. have,been received by
,he packet-ship Roseius, arrived LiVeipool in nine-
,een days: -

Her MHjesty's ship, Cleopatra, Captain Lushington, on
the 3d January, off the south-side of Cuba, captured a
slavi•r with 379 slaves on board. They were lculded at
Long Island on the.north-side of Jamaica.

Exchange '8 to 84 ; .United States Bank Shares 75.
We refer our re;-akrs for further extracts prom the Amc-
ican papers, to another part of our paper.
We have received the Hamburgh mail of the 24th April.
exchange on London 13 64 ; Short Gold 429 ; Metal.,
108 ; Bank Shares 1802.

From Central America, by the brig Blount, advices have
been received of the 29th February, that General Guzman,
at the head of GOO Liberals, had been "routed by General
Caneva. The British
.have got,a foothold on the 11los.tplito
coast, to cut,mahogany.
The Republic of Central America is virtually broken up,
and all the provinces are fighting among themselves. Ge-
neral:Montt:ran had defeated 4,000 rebels in San Domingo.

The British Consul at Belize has been treated Kith
-
• -
Since writing the above we have received New York
papers one day later, to the Bth April, by the packet-ship
North America See extracts in another part of the paper.

. . .
Our chief arrivals this morning arc two packets from
New York, the Ruseitts and the North America—the
latter is a day later, to the Sth inst. They do not bring
any news of •importance respecting the Maine question.
Congress was to atijouth in the mouth of May.
The feature of most importance in the paper of the
7th is as follows :—.-'• We are sorry to add that a consider_
able—number of dry goods houses, of high standing
hitherto, I.lve been protested since Friday last."
The Exchange comes the same as received by the
R.Acius :—United S:ates Bank Shares 751- '.-t.

THE FUNDS.

Consols opened :his morning a shade h'ghcr than they
1, ft tiff on Saturday, and may be quoted-90i 91 fur the
Account ; Money 90i i, with littiu doing to the present
time ; Exchequer anti 21 23 prem. a shade lower ;
Bank .St ,ek 1744 1754; ludia Bonds 3 5 prem. ; India
Siock 2494 250 c.
~
In the Foreign Market there is also a slight improve-
ment in Spanish Active, which may be quoted at. 29E'T.;
Dthey kr, off on Saturday, 351 ;>t; Three per Cents.
24c:rir-e4
;.C1(4,1 l. b -P4s6ive 7/ -.1 ; Portuguese the same in.
.Columbian 25 i;
Mexican 28 A.
751. 761; Dutch Two-Half-1-I.lf per - ; Br/a:llan
Cents. 53i i ;
Ft vs 3 per Cents. 104 .
Railroad Shares h-ve improved.
.rult. Ls uk 5T0C14.,. Ti iis im S AT ONE O'CLOCK.
'auk Stock
3 per Cent. lied.
f'per Cents. con.. - 9,.?6 I - South Sea Stock —
3,a tier Cent - Old Annuities —
iiitfo lied. 489=d% New Ditto
New 3%.per cent 99;,,i i's . 3 per Cent. Annuities. 17,1
New 5 per Cent.
Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 .. :21 :3 pin.
Jan 5, ISM "lq 54 ' Ditto Sinai; - 2l :13 ;,TM.
Oct. le, 4359. 13% 7-:6' Ditto Commercial din.
Jot. 5, 154;0 . •• Ditto Advertised
Jan. 5, .ISSO - Bank Stock for Account ..
April 5, ISSO. ' - India Stock for Account ..
Jan. 5.1870 --7 Consols for Account .. . ... .. IP MI,
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUN DS THIS DA] AT ONE 0 -CLOt i.,
Austrian Bonds —, Peruvian Boni.ls —
__.

B 3
:Dal gziitiattinca>
.AB:cgioiotdnsitst

i , Ditto Account. -
- , t'ortuguee Bonds
—;
Dii to New Bonds
...

Ditto ter,kount
Ditto Account...— ......... . 35
3uenos byres Bonds
Ditto I,cco:Lnt — Dato Account ..
Chillan .30a3 t :',8,,, ' Prussmn Bonds
Ditto lctc. la — Russian Bends, 182,1
—.._ llj

Cohnratian Et !,)ds —. Ditto Account
DiM Icz, of — Ditto Metallic —
Columbian 3. ' d5,15'.2.1
Dtt.l laTra ,..251% ' ' Ditto Account.
~.
...:

:anisli Bonds
7S Passive , 714
Ditto i.:.:.: , lat — Del,rreil $ l4
Greek Bonds.— — French, 5 per cent....... —f. —c,
Ditto Bonds, 15'2.3 — ' 4 per cent. -f. —c.
Ditto Account — 3 pci- cent.
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. —; ------ Exchange. 2sf. 40::.
Ditto Account — 1 Dutch, d'-., per cult.
intro, ti per Cent.
Dittci Account
Neapolitan I -
Ditto Acc0unt........ ......

t'lliCES OF SHAREi THIS DAY AT ONE O'CIAICK,
Paid, Per NI are,
rol.ire Copper.
Great North of England Railway Company r;:1 s`.:', 3
(treat WeAtern Itlaiway Company 65 S:lyy
Ditto New • .. al .38h
Biignion Railway
1,,n00n and Black wall Railway 2O LL, 19
London and South Western ...
Loia,ow mid Croydon Railway Company l4/. 18s. 6d.
Ditto Scrip
' nehestvr and Birmingham Railway ....... ,25
Midland Counties RaUway Company. lc 0
smite Ea,terii and Hover liailway Company iS
I.,lndon and WoAminster Bank a/
hasam Company

15%
:256
• 9.3

HALF-PAST ONE.

Extract of a private letter received from New York, be
the North American packet of the 7th instant:—" A
Resumption Bill has been passed by both [lenses of the
Legislature, and has received the signature of the Go-
vernor, making it incumbent on all the Banks in the
State to pay their notes in specie on or before the 15th
of January, 1841. There are mans pointe in this Bin
which are considered very favourable to the United States
Bank ; she is allowed to declare a dividend not exceedina
6 per cent. during the suspension, and is relieved
from the necessity of marking her notes, when called upon
to do so, which at the expiration of ninety days had to be
paid in specie, with interest, at the rate of 12 per cent ,
As a bonus for legalizing their suspension. All the banks
have to unite in a loan 0f.53,000,000, to be psid to the
State in proportion to their capital, and a proportion of the
said loan to be appropriated towards the completion of in-
ternal improveme: ts. Indeed, of such imporaece was
the Bill considered by the Bank, that a friend of
this institution (a Mr. Thomas Fla)es), as soon as
it was signed, started from Hairisbourg by express to
Philadelphia, from whence be proctre'cleti.to Nev
and is now a passenger on board the British Queen, as
bearer of the news to Mr Jaudon. Among the well-in-
, formed it is confidently stated that the Bank will psy a
dividend in July ; this is doubted, but I must nevettheless
admit the cotnpletion of her affairs has materially changed
for the better, and it must have a corresponding effect on
your side on the securities.
From the Quebec Mercury, which gives a report of the
proceedings of the meeting held at the Exchange, on Fri.
day 27th March
The objects of this meeting arc threefold :-
Ist. The opening of an uninterrupted navigation for
large vesspis from sea to the great lakes in the upper parts
of the valley of the St. Lawrence.
2d. The opening the navigation of the River Ruholca
or Chambly, for vessels fit for the navig-tion of the St.
Lawrence and'Lake Champlain.
3. The effecting a ship navigation by the canal from the
GuiNh of at. LawrPTIPP tP Or Pay Pf
The Liverpool papers received this morning slate :
" Leicester Trade.—We have nothing favourable to report
this week, and we are still without any improvement.
Workmen continue to be thrown:. out of employment.
have been two or three London buyers during the
week, nnle,s;; ppor4 coujd VbFl atA releoes •ceduption,
there was little inelinatiOn to'purcliase.P
Consols have improved this morning, and the market
appeanz firm at 91 to 91i for the. Account. The chief
feature this morning is in the Share Market, which has
been very lively to the present time, and a good deal done
iN them. Consols or Money, 90i 91; Bank Shares,
175 ExchequeF Bills, 21 21 23 prem. ; India Bonds,
3 5
prem. ; India Stock '240 ; OPillllO ;
Deferred, l 4;; Portuguese' 521'; Three peruents.: 2i •
Colombian improved, 254 ; Mexican, 28.4-; Puteh
and-a- Pall per Cents., nothing done ; F:veper Cents, 11; .

QUEEN'6 DA II

-

(Sittings in Btoco.)
POSTPONEMENT OF .it'IMMP',NT IN THE
CASE OF MR FEARGUS O'CONNOR.
THE QUEEN V. FEARGUS O'CONNOR

The Court was croaded nt en early our this morning
in cense queace of its havicg been understued that Mr.
Feargus O'Connor was to have been called up for judg-
Ir. will be in the recollection of our readers that
Mr. Feargus O'Connor was convicted at the last York
Assizes before Mr. Justice Coleridge, of the publication
of a seditious libel contained in a report of one of his
speeches in the .Nerthern Star.
At the sitting of the Court, Mr. Feargus O'Connor,
who looked.exceedingly ill, appeared on the floor, and
said that perhaps their Lordships would, as he was now
suffering from severe illness, and in the hands of his phy-
sician, postpone judgment until this day week. lie could
nut at present cloak without severe torture, as he was
suffering from inflammation of the chest, and, if necessary,
be could shortly procure an affidavit of his physician
to that effect. He was ready to go on if required ;
but he knew be could not now do that justice to
himself which he felt he should be able to do
if his application were granted. The Attorney-General
was aware that lie was under no reeognizances to appear in
Court to-day, and that lie need not have done so, but
might have sent down the affidavit of his physician, which he
dounied not their Lord-hr pa would have thought sufficient.
He trusted, under all the circumstances, the -Cohn would
grant the application. Mi. O'Connor was proceeding
with his argument, when he was interrupted by, •.
Lord DENMAN, who said—You are showing cause against
yourself by speaking at such length. .The best Way would
be to read the affidavits and the notes of the tr:al new, "ar.d
postpone any further proceedings to. this day veek ; and
if Mr. O'Conn-r is not then able to speak for himself. he
must procure some assistance.
The ATTORNEY- GENERAL acquiesced, and said he had
been about to propose a similar course.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE then proceeded to read his
notes of the trial, at the conclusion of which the Clerk of
the Court read several affidavits on the part of the defen-
dant. Tire first was a very long affidavit made by the de-
fendant bireself, in which he stated that he had .been for
eighteen years a ppblic man, and durirg the whole period
of his career had been an advocate of mural, as.coutradis-
tinguished from physical, force. That he had always en-
deavoured to expose the folly of any attempt, on the part
of the people, to obtain a redress of wrongs by physical
force ; and that, as proprietor of the Northern Star, he
had invariably given orders to the sub-editor, and other
persons connected with that paper, never to insert any
article calculated to excite the people to a breach of the
peace. The affidavit then proceeded to set forth, several
extracts from the I.2ading articles of the Northern Star;
also from the speeches of the defeadantdelivered at various
public meetings in support of the above allegations. The
next was an affidavit from le-eph Chilton, who stated that
he was a reporter to the Northern Star newspaper, of
which the defendant was proprietor—that the• deponent
had attended the meeting at which the defendant had de-
livered the speech which was the subject of the present
prosecution, but which speech Ire -had' nut been
chic to report accurately, in coasequence of the rapidity
with which the defendant had spoken on that occasion ;
and that cons. quently the deponent had only been enabled
to furnish a condensed statement of the speech, the object
of the defendant in the delivery of which seemed to the
deponent to be, not a recommendation to the use of physical
force, but dissuasion from it. Another affidavit from a
I gentleman who w,is a professional shorthand-writer, and

TNho had been connected with the Northern Star from

1837 to March 1839, stated that the deponent had fre-
qui:ntly been in the habit of attending pttlidic meetings
with the deft n trait far the purpose of reporting his
speeches, and that from the rapidity with which the de-
fendant spoke it was impossible to report him accurately;
that no two reports of the Fpeeebes of the defendant in
diff,reot publications were ever precisely alike, and depo-
nent gave it as his opinion, that in the present state of short-
baud writing it was impossible toreport verbatim such speeches.
as the def, n,lant we in the habit of making. Several affida-
vit; were also read from persons residing in different parts
o the kinploin, all of v,horn had been in' the habit of hear-
•iog the defendant address public meetings, and viho all
testified that he had invariably dissuaded the people from
the employment of physical force. The reading of the
rffidavits having been concluded; the further consideration
of the case was postponed to this day week, and -Mr-O'Con-
nor having bowed to the Court, withdrew:

COURT OF EXCfIEQUEP..

(THIS DAY.)

The Court postponed the Special Riper till Wednes-
day in order to teko motions for new trials heard before
the Lord Chief Baron.
The cases argued involved. no point.but of tho most tech-
nical na ure, therefore of no interest to the, public.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, APRIL 26.—Wind E —Arrived the Comet,
front St. Ander. Sailed the John Garrow. for Bombay ;
Cassandra. Falcon. St. Domingo ;. l-kbel Ruse, Havannah ;
Ann and Mary, Cunningham. Maltreat; Thames, Wells,
South Seas ; 'Latta Rbokh, Kern,...- South Australia.
'Llvitroeer-Avart)2l3!'....l.Wind N-W', moderate.—Ar-
rived the Richtnorid, Andrews, SlOttilv • Lady Harvey,
Leader, St. Aiider'i..-A;in' `Ann, dhiek;Simannah ;
'Charlotte, Abbenett,- -Ri za, E:na, ditto ;
H;,rding,, St. Michael's; koseius,- Collins, New
York, sailed the OW inst. ;' North America, ditto ; Lyolen,
Snow, N-w Orleans; Lagoda, Foster, ditto; Indcpen,
denee, M'Alpin, ditto; James, Acoin, ditto; Robert
Sayers, Luna, Porto Cabello ; 31i1;e Branch, Savannah ;
Leopold, M'Donald, St. JoSepli's; Leike, Higgins, Bain_
mon,. Sailed the John Campbell, White, for Bombay ;
Isabel, Green, Valparaiso ; Permian, Smith, New
0: ; Sarah Porker, Davi4, N,w Yoik ; Cab
ditto; Telernache, Chad( n, Havannall; Bet Fey Black,
Joro.s, Trinid:d ; Teesdale, Sterling, 'Halifax ; Ap AL,
Jackson, Newfound:4Ni ; Panope, Candler. Odessa; For-
mosa, New Orleans ; Harmony, Que'bec ; Chatham, Africa.
The Mutidison, from City Point to this port, put into
Norfolk, Virginia, in distress, having eight feet water in
her hold ; had been on her beam-ends, 'and thrown over.
bOard a quv.ntity of flour. The Samuel, from Hamburgh
to Newfoundland, was spoken with on the 19;l1 inst , had
dismasted on the 14th inst., in lat 47, long. 34, but
required no' assistance, by the North American, arrived
here. The Mogul, Gallagher, Apalachicola to this port,
was putting into Bermuda on the 29,1), with loss of sails,
bulwarks, &c., having experienced a hurricane. The
014VP11, from this port, was on the b.:r of Mississippi on
the 26th ult.

CORK, APRIL 23.—The Robert Bruce, Tilley, from
Liverposol to St. John's, New Brunswick, has put in here,
having grounded inside of Luskar, and will be docked.
Apart, 25.—The 13,11, Simpson. from Riga to
this port, was totally lost in the Gulf. of Riga, on the
breaking up of the ice.

TILE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

The arrivals of all de.criptions of English Grain last week
were moderate, but of Fmeign Wheat and Barley considerable.
The fresh supplies small, but the weather being remarkably
fine, caused all buyers to hesitate about doing business. The
quality of the runs of Wheat being. chiefly indifferent, they
sold very slowly, while the few tine samples obtained Is. uer
qr. advance. Barley very dull, and Is. to 2s. per qr. lower.
Beans and Pease unaltered. Good Oats rather dearer, and

other qualities firm in value. I
The duty on Foreign Wheat is
day next, and will probably go

fe the Flour trade no ululation.
likely to be 13s. 81 on Thurs-
still lower.

ritloEB ON Bo
Wheat, Red (old)
-White (old)
Red 18;39) sfis.
-- Fine t; Is. (;ti:.
Superfine t:Ss. 70,
White (18311)....fi 2s. (ids.
--
Fine t';Ets. 7.2 s
--Superfine 71s
--Foreign free Ms EO,.
ttyr .365. 411 s.
Barley 104
- Grinding '5), 345.
- Malting 43,1
Nlatt
- Fine New 13 is. 7)s.

'Alt") OF SFIP
SOlali knew) 44, 4151
(old)
Tick (new) 36: 38.
(old) . . .... 42,44 i
harrow (uew) 4os
-------
Bran k
Oats, Feed
------ New
- Poland
-- New 2f;,. 2s
Potatoe 29. 325.
vtnv
- Scoters 2O 325.
lriih ..205. 14 ..2flt

['ease, Grey, New 36. ,T,',. Flour Town ,per hack).— 5Ss 62,.
Maple New ,e.. 4'2, Seconds 54-.58s
-- White 3Ss. 40s.i ----.,.-- N.irth Country .... 50 -52.,
—. Boilers .40s. 41i, 1 Ban lO 114.
ARRIVALS OF G:I.AIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK.
v% heat. harley. ~A. n, hi... r.
Enlist)
lrish
F. reign

- -
SMITHFIELD.
A pleasant trade, and in some instances an advance hi prices,
the supply of Cattle being moderate. Beef had a fair demand
at former quotations. The coarse sorts of Mutton advanced
4d. per stone, other descriptions unaltered. Fine young
Lambs sold steady at 7id per stone—Park unaltered. Beef,
3s. 2d. to 45., 4d. ; Mutton, 3s. 10d., to 4s. Bd. ; Veal,
4s. Bcl., to ss. 6d. ; Pork, 4s. 4d. to 3s. 2d. ; Lamb, 6s. 2d.
to 7s. 4d. Beasts. 2,442; Sheep and
,Lamhs, 20,(130; Pigs,
480; Calves, 86. • , . .
BILLINGSGATE, MARKET.

The supplies were conside-able, and tie demand fair; price
steady. TurLot, ss. to 21s. ; Cod, 2s, 64.•t9 Bs.; Soles, 94.
to 3s. per pair ; Lobsters 104. to 3s. 6J. ; Whitings, 31 t., 61;
Salmon 2s. to 2s. 64. per lb. ; Mackerel, 44. to bd. ; Halibut
plentiful and cheap; Haddocks, 64. to Is. • - •
13EIBIONDSEY WATER-SIDE POTATOE MARKET.
Trade dull ; prices stationary. Suffolk, Kent, and Essex,
555. to 655. ; Devons, 555. to 60s. ; .Seotith Reds, 555. to
655. ; York Reds, 58s. to 68s. tin Wi•beach.
SEED MARKET. •

The business done was very trivial, except in Linseed. Price
for crushing, 445. to 465. ; and for sowing, 40s. to 475. Rape,
375. Prices of other kinds nominal. Arrivals--Linseed,
5,811 qrs. ; Rape Seed, 675 qrs. ; .nd Tares, 688 qrs.
HOP MARKET.

,This market remains very quiet, and inferior qualities wire
slightly lower.

TALLOW MARKET.

This market quiet, the season being nearly over ; the price
of P.Y.C. 51s. 6d. to 525. ; Town Tallow 52. The stock is
16,500.

TEA MARKET.
Nothing done but in Company's Congou, at N. 41/l. each.
Until the arrival of the next overland mail from Canton, which
is expecten ahnut the 10th of Abv. there will not be zny
pulse. Free Trade Congou, 2s. 71/2d.
COLONIAL MARAgt,
Yothing done worth public notice.

A curious case is about to be'pleaded before the
Tribunal of Commerce at Bordeaux. A person of that city
gave a promissory note, payable at sight. When it wag pre,
sented the debtor had an enormoui pair of green spectacles on
his priv = apcl, haying informed the huissier that his sight was
very bad, asked him the nature of the bill. The huissier re.
plied that it was payable at sight. '• In that case," 'aid the
debtor, " I cannot pay it until my eyes get better; for I do not
see it !" The holder of the bill not being' satisfied with this
view of the question, has commenced his action.
Lord Stanley will leave Lath= House* the,
seat of Lord Skelmersdale,•at Ormikirk, to-day (Monday) for.
Knowsley, to visit the Earl of Derby, who is going on well,.
To-morrow the Noble Lord v, ill Vrneed .11), rajiway 6
Chiaei• races, where" he has several horses to run, and on
Wednesday or, Thursday he will -return to town with Lady
Stanley for the season.