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THE SUN, LONDON FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1841

tions, we now never have any tsf these sh ort, pithy, and pointed
debates which served formerly both to d elight the people and
promote the public liberties. They ar e still retained in the
Lords, and now that a topic is throws before them which
warmly engages the affections of men ui ,wards of fifty years of
age (touching their pockets), their Lordships seem likely to
have some of those pithy debates night after night. Earl
FITZWILLIAM, on giving notice that he -would to-day present
a petition from Leeds, and on being questioned by Lord
ASHBURTON, said he did not mean to discuss the subject
of Corn-laws till after the expected proceedings of the House
of Commons.

Lord ASHBURTON thought if their Lordships waited till
the Cita:To:m.oa of the EXCHEQUER'S three measures to
obtain money without taxes were completed they never would
have the discussion. The Noble Lord, returning to the
graphic language of his younger days, when he was wont to
speak in favour of honesty, described the Ministerial plan as a
bubble.

not hold together a day without the authority of
human law. Whatever weakens its authority,
therefore, endangers the very existence of so-
ciety. All these protections being unjust in their
own nature, conferring privileges on some of the
people at the expense and to the damage of
others, weaken the authority of law. They make
it contemptible and hateful to those whom it
unjustly injures, and they tend to bring about just
disobedience, confusion, and anarchy.

It is a lamentable mistake to suppose that laws
are to be obeyed, whatever may be their moral
character. If the three Estates should be advised
to pass a law to burn a million quarters of wheat,
or break down the dykes on the eastern coast,
and again cover the now fertile plains with water
and sand, we should indignantly disobey such a
law, and we should have Mr. HANDLEY and Mr.
CHRISTOPHER as leaders in the rebellion. Laws,
therefore, it is plain, are only to be obeyed when
they are in their own nature just and unjust laws,
like the various so-called protecting duties we
have adverted to, provoke and justify disobedience.
They give their own characteristics to the whole
fabric of legislation, and expose society to the
danger of being crushed and dislocated by its fall.
Now one great value in our estimation of the

Earl FITZWILLIAM retorted so happily on the Noble Lord
that we should only mar the retort by abridging it, and we,
therefore, refer to it. The debate is a good specimen of what
the Commons sacrificed by not allowing debates on petitions.

In answer to Lord ELLENBoaouciithe Lord CHANCELLOR.
stated that rules for the proceedings in Chancery had been
framed, but he could not say when they would be in a fit state
to lay before Parliament.
The Duke of ARGYLL brought in his Bill for the settlement
of the Scotch Church disputes, but the Noble Duke was not
successful in making its provisions known to the reporter. The
Peers properly declined, as the Earl of ROSEdERY stated, to
discus the Bill at any length till it was printed, so that we are
in the dark as to its provisions.
The Earl of ABERDEEN indeed objected to it that it legalised
the Vcto Law, and he declared that the Scotch clergy had
taken up a false position, and whether they retired with a good
grace or not, retire they must.

propositions of her MAJESTY'S Ministers is that

they strike at this principle of protection. They
make no pretence to remove it altogether, which
were much too arduous and gigantic a task, but
they are contrary to that nrinciple. They are
the beginning of a just and good system. They,
or something like them, something of their na-
ture and character, gradually to remove protec-
tions, and as they remove protections redress a
grievance, and abolish a wrong, are now indis-
pensable to restore law, by making it just, to its
proper authority over the mind of man.
We do not give her MAJESTY'S Ministers credit
for being actuated by the views we have ex-
pressed. On the contrary, we stated yesterday,
and we repeat to-day, that they have been driven
unwillingly and reluctantly, by the necessities of
the State and the fact that the productive energies
of the country are unequal to supply all the de-
mands made on them by the protected classes
and the State, to attack the principle of protec-
tion. Their conduct, dictated by necessity, con-
firms these views, and demonstrates that it is im-
possible for the productive part of society to stag-
ger any longer under the double burden of pro-
tection and taxation.

The Earl of ROSEBERY !aid that the modifications of the
veto in the Bill were not inconsiderable.

Lord DUNFERMLINE could not give it his support, and he
highly approved of the present mode of appointing the priests in
Scotland.

The Marquis of BREADALBANE approved "of the Bill.
The Earl of HADDINGTON said it gave a power to the
Church and the people they ought not to possess.
The Marquis of NORMANBY reserved the expression of his
opir.ion. The Bill was of course read a first time.
The Bill declaring the abolition of privilege in cases of felony
was read a second time, and at a Quarter before Nine the
House Adjourned.
The Commons were amused by a petition from Sir H. LEES
for the expulsion of the Jesuits.l
Lord G. LENNOX gave notice of a motion on the 12th, for
a Committee on the Naval and Military Report, so far as that
relates to the Marines.

Lord J. RUSSELL stated the precise words of the motion he
will submit to-night, for which see our report.

Lord Howtcx objected to the proposed mode of proceeding
as involving two divisions; but after a few words from Sir R.
PEEL, it appeared that the proposed plan will be adhered to.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL will make a statement, and then Lord
SANDON will make his motion ; if that motion be successfu's
then, and only then, as we understand it, will Lord J. RUSSELL
move his resolution.
The Lords' amendments to the South Australian Bill were
agreed to.
In answer to Mr. WALTER, Lord Joux said he should pro-
ceed with the Poor-law Bill on the 17th, and Mr. WALTER
said he would bring forward a motion to stop it.
In answer to questions from Sir R. PEEL, Lord J. Rus-
situ. stated that the preliminary arrangements made by Cap-
tain ELmoT at Canton had not been ratified, and that the
Government generally disapproved of them. Captain ELLIOT
had been recalled. Sir HENRY POTTINGER had received his
appointment, and was about to depart immediately for China.
Mr. Fox MAULE stated in reply to Lord MAHort that it
was true that considerable mortality prevailed amongst the
convicts at Woolwich, but it also prevailed amongst the military
there.

Now, as the bulk of the protected classes are
making common cause in favour of the principle
of protection, or, properly speaking, the prin-
ciple of injustice and oppression and the princi-
ple of plunder, it behoves all the other
classes who are wronged by these various
protections to make common cause with
the Ministers in procuring redress. All the
friends to the voluntary system, all the consu-
mers of bread and sugar, every man who is a
friend to freedom of trade, aye, and every man
who is a friend to freedom of opinion, for all

Mr. HUME'S motion for the production of papers relative
to the destruction of the Caroline, was resisted by Lord JOHN
RUSSELL, on the ground that negotiations were pending, and
no information was elicited by the brief debate which ensued.
The motion was negatived without a division, Sir R. PEEL
supporting Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S views.
Colonel SIBTHORP moved that the appointment of Mr.
VizARD as solicitor to the Home-office, ought to be cancelled,
The motion was resisted by Mr. Ma tiLE, and the Gallant
Colonel declined topress it to a division. The House only sat
till a Quarter past Seven.

liberties go together,—all the industrious classes,
who are the main sufferers by these double bur-
dens, all the enemies of privilege and monopoly
in every shape and form, all the friends of uni-
versal or extended suffrage, should aid the Ali-

nisters in their assault, feeble though it be, on the
principle ofprotection. By carrying them through
the contest, they will secure the quiet and peace-
able redress of many other grievances, and
place the liberties of the country on a firm
and ever-widening basis. A great revolution,
it cannot be concealed, has taken place in the
mind of society ; and if changes in the material
parts of society—in laws and institutions—be not
made, corresponding to that moral revolution, of
which changes the attack on protection is an
excellent commencement, the law will forfeit
all respect, and the glory of England will sink
in bloody violence or brutal despotism.

The West India Proprietors, the British North
American Colonial Association, the General Ship-
owners' Society, and a multitude of other persons
interested in various monopolies, have taken the
field against the Government plan for giving re-
lief to the people. This was to be expected, and
their celerity in hastening to the field shows at
once who are the real enemies of justice and ho-
nesty in the community. Look at the names of
those who attended the West India Meet-
ing on Wednesday. A Nobleman was in the
chair. He is the owner of estates in the West
Indies, and for many years the zealous opponent
of all the efforts made by the anti-slavery party
to ameliorate the condition of the slaves. Than
there were Baronets, Knights, M.P.s, Bank
Governors and Directors, ci-devant Colonial At-
torney-Generals, &c. &c. To them we must add
great shipowners, American Associations, Chair-
man of LLOYD'S, and the bulk of the titled and
moneyed aristocracy. These are the real, living,
active oppressors of the working and industrious
classes; Government is merely a cunningly con-
trived tool with which they work, and legislation
in their hands is little better than parchment, ex-
cept as they animate it by their will.
The great and the unspeakable merit of the
Budget, including the alteration of the Corn-
laws, is that it strikes at the principle on which
rests the power of these oppressors. What do
all the Dissenters and all the enlightened friends
of the voluntary system of Church discipline
complain of throughout the Empire ? A favoured
and protected Church, a Church not springing
from the Gospei but from the Legislature, main-
tained and protected in various privileges in
spite of the rest of the people. 'What do all the
consumers of bread, the merchants and manu-
facturers whose trade is suffering, the labourers
who are reduced to starvation, complain of; but
of the legislative protection given to the
owners of rent ? What do the Chartists say
is the cause of all the evils of society ? Why,
that one class is exclusively endowed with, and
protected in, the exercise of the functions of
legislation and the choice of legislators. What
are the differential or discriminating sugar duties,
hut a protection exclusively granted to the
owners of land in the West Indies? What are
discriminating duties on coffee or timber—what
the duties on silk or iron, and the whole series
which crowd the statute book, except revenue
duties, but protection accorded first to one class
and then to another ? Through the whole of our
fiscal, economical, and political regulations we
find this one principIe—PROTECTION, operating
most mischievously to great classes of the com-
munity, and the object of complaint and vitupe-
ration.

The resolution to be moved by Lord SANDON
.3 a trick. It is solely intended to engage the

opponents of slavery in defence of monopoly.
The Tories dare not take their stand on the
Corn-laws, for which alone they raved and
roared on Friday, particularly my Lord SANDON.
They have pitched their standard on sugar, and
declared that they are to fight for freedom
and humanity. They cannot succeed, for
their professions and their conduct are at
variance, and they only render a profound
:iomage to principles which they have
throughout their political existence essayed to
crush.

Leaving their hypocrisy, however, to its own
punishment, we wish to remind Lord SANDON'S
constituents that were his resolution carried the
trade to the Brazils would go to decay. It is now
comparatively little profitable, because we will
not take for our own consumption Brazilian
sugar, and the spirit of Lord SANDON'S resolu-
tion carried out would also exclude it from use
in our sugar refineries. The object of the Anti-
Slavery people is not to admit slave-grown sugar
into consumption at all, neither here nor in our
colonies.

At present the whole of the sugar refined in
bond for the foreign and colonial market
is slave-grown sugar. Let Lord SANDON
succeed, and the next step must be to
exclude slave-grown sugar from being re-
lined for exportation to our colonies. But sugar
is refined in bond for exportation, without refe-
rence to the market; and to prevent refining
slave-grown sugar for Antigua and Gibraltar,
is to prevent it being refined for Charlestown
and Malaga. How can that which is destined
for Quebec, and must not be slave-grown, be dis-
tinguished from that to be sent to New York,
which may ? The moral curse of slavery does
not impart a physical character to its produce ;
and to distinguish slave-grown sugar from free-
labour sugar, after it has gone through the hands
of the refiner, will puzzle the most acute che-
mist. An attempt to distinguish them in that
state, must, however,be made, if slave-grown sugar
is not to be refined for the inhabitants of Deme-
rara and Jamaica, as well as fur the inhabitants of
Petersburgh and Copenhagen, or the whole trade
of refining in bond must be given up. In either
case the refiners will be greatly embarrassed, or
ruined, and it becomes them immediately to
take the matter into their consideration. They
ought to resist the ridiculous and absurd prin-
ciple announced by the Antigua petition, and em-
bodied in Lord SANDON'S motion.

Against whom, too, are the different pri-
vileged classes protected? Who assails the
Church, or is discontented with it ? Not the
French—not the Americans—not the Russians,
nor any foreigners--they care not a straw for
the Church—but large masses of her MAJESTY'S
subjects who do not belong to it, and cannot
share its privileges. Who assails or complains The Paris Journals of Tuesday have all reached
of the Corn-laws ?--the Germans? No; the in- us. The Chamber of Deputies was discussing
habitants of our towns.. Who complains of the the Budget for the year 1842. The speeches
exclusive franchise ? the labouring classes, who were animated, but related only to questions of
are deprived of it. So on throughout; the pro- domestic interest.
tection bestowed by the Government is not The Journal des Debats has a long and violent
against foreigners, not against enemies, but article against the Cabinet for not having in-
against masses of our own countrymen, for whom yoked the September Laws in the late prosecu-
protection means privilege, or monopoly, con- tion of La France. The Debats has no reliance
ferred on some to the injury of others. Those upon the honesty of a French jury.
who demand protection mistake the functions of The following extracts from the Journals con-
Government, and fancy, being led astray by a Lain all the news of any interest in these
misapplied word, that the Government which Papers :_....
Barriereof
exists to protect them from foreign invasion,
taiThe King this morning passed_iin reviewts
astheemtehniendewat btahte-
from crimes and their effects, is bound to protect dtuheTvleset e Cha..seur 'I
and marcheds' to thep court-yard of the
their monopolies against the just claims of the Tuileries and to the'Place du Carrousel.
I rest of the people. At a quarter past des en Louis Philippe, accompanied by the
All protection, so ex lame King of the Belgians, the Duke of Orleans, the Praic : de
pld, is the oppression Jiiiiiville, the Duke 'of Alonliens,er, l rince AlexarAler of
of those against whom the protections are main-
tShVeurlitnemesbienrfit Mar,hal Soult, and a nurnero,iihs staff,iin erwetnt
et
nalzsg
I in,,tinted, and delivuerrt-edvartdheofeett pa
tained. They are violations of that equal justice
rs ace. The
the chefs de'bataillons,
which all classes, and every individual, is en- niaki,T al,propriate addreses to each.
tithd to from the State. If this inequality be The unifo:.ni is green with blue trowsers green epaults,
and yellow facitigs. lie knapsack weighs' about ltilbs.e in
ri,lit, let it be carried out. Let the law which marching trim. The sword fixes to the musket, which haisha
!Ili
fceuvsni- ioilisslock.
however, ' the oaffidc.ers hart white facings.silvderthe _
an ounce of a man's sugar, or a takes away
liated beard
and curled mustachio give
amgy,i y look, at
to the
st
ehravtaltai :131',1, peculiarly ugly appearance
pound of' his bread, also claim his life; and to
universal Instinct of self-pre- men. I saw two men faint from the heat, and it struck me
that they were
longer
owes allegiance, if not adapted for light skirmishing, but as 1 have
not seen them manteuvre, 1 would not hazard a decided opinion
from its power. These upon n this point.
he be capable of escaping
unriodnell'atuhaeny
the last letters from St. Petersburgh announce that the
Autocrat, without combating the travelling mania which have
life does —weaken
protecting laws do, them efore, in part what a law
n.i.ed, which is purely in the form a tax.
directed against a man's at ail times been the predominant malady of his subjects, has
By an
uct''aissecifathri .40t April, the price of a passport to a foreign
authority, and make it only a question of tem- ;
law shall or ; e o e•
porary expediency whether the , country, which was till that time ten silver rubles, is raised to
shall not be obeyed. 1 twenty-five silver rubles. If the passport is for several persons,
' master or servants, the tax of twenty-five silver rubles is
Now this is a very important matter, proper'
charged on every individual, and the pass itgood for six months
for the especial consideration of the classes who I only. The couseauenee is, that a Russian who travels in fo-
c
o. whatever age or station, has to pay,a pe!'
claim and receive these protections. It is a ! reign countries,
i soaal and additoal tax of 200 Imo per =wan, We will
common and general belief that society could 1

frankly own, that this is a trifle in comparison with the amount
of liberty obtained at that price by the temporarly emanci-
pated
slave, and we will praise, without reserve and without
restriction, the magnanimous Emperor for his resolution.
Le Co nstitution,

The Toulonnais of the 30th April, says :—" Several ships
of the line are going to Port Vendres, to take on board the live
battalions of chasseurs of foot lately formed at St. Omer's, and
to be on garrison at Algiers and Oran."
It is said that some ships of the line of Admiral Hugon's
squadron, will shortly return to Toulon. Those others whieh
have not yet quitted our harbour will join the squadron in
their stead.

A letter from Naples says that the young Princess of Salerno
!s going to marry the hereditary Duke of Modena.—Le Com-
merce.

BO URSE.PARDI, TUESDAY, MAY 4.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

f first Highest Lowest 1.20 n
Price Price. Prick. Prie'
French. 5 ntr Cents ll3 90 ... 113 90 ... 1 3 75 ... 113 Sr
4% per Cents
4 ii, Cents 99 20 ... 99 20 ... 99 20 ... 992,1
3 per Cents 79 15 _. 79 20 ... 79 10 ... ';9 20
Rink or r. ranee
Laffitte ..riAr.k i,OOOl. Stares 1,55 ...INS ...1: Si ...10.3j
~,gtan Ilank
1841 ....
5 per Cents.
New Loan lOl% ... 1. 1% ... 101% ... 101%
..;parnsh Aim,. :41,., .., 24% ... t'4% ... :2 %
Passive . 5%,,... 5% ••• f,X, 5%
Nleapolitan
Roman ..... . ;O4 ... 104% ... 104 ... 101%
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain

CITY, THURiDAY EVENING.
The general feature in the Stock market to-day hAs
been an appearance of greater firmness, though as is
natural to infer, tha public are not disposed to operate
until they learn the result of the gran,' questions c)inieg
on before the House of Commons. The West India in-
terests here, with their usual narrow-trinded and suicidal
policy are dtiog all they can to throw obstacles in the
way of the proposed alteration of duties, but we trust with-
out effect. It is curious indeed to watch the party in-
trigues of this body. Some time back they were all apathy
and insensibility to the question of slavery, and were the
first to advert to the advantages, as regards cheap cultiva-
tion and comfort to the negroes, enjoyed by rival States
where the hateful system of slavery still exists.
Now, however, they have become exceedingly phi.
lanthrophic, and discover that an alarming feature in
the modification of the sugar duties would he the enceu•
ragement of slavery, which the people of England have
paid twenty millions sterling to abolish. We suspect the
people of England, for whom they testify such a disinte-
te.ested warmth, will not be disposed to thank them for
their interference in the present instance, since they begin
to perceive that their having already paid so large a sum
for the attainment of freedom to the colonial labourers, is
the very reason why they should now be. permitted. in re-
turn, to bare their sugar on more reasonable terms. If a
statement in circulation, of the basis of a treaty with Br a.
zil baying been concluded, in which some favouj able sti-
pulations are contained respecting the slave trade, turns
out to be true, this will be another argument in favour of
the import duties reform.

Vergailles,lt. B 365 361 ... 365
L. 8.. ............235 2.'a 50 ... 133 1,37 50
Rouen 456 23 4c.6 ... 455 ... 45.5
458 75 484 75 ... IEB 75 48S 7:

Mulhausen to Thann ..... 44.) ... 440
i,r.tstAtg co bale l:',6 25 ... 2.5 ... 2.35

... 440
2: 5

sEL6IAN ' UNDS.ASRUINELD, MAT 4.
Actual Debt, 2}‘,, per Cent. ., 51
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent IU iki
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.
--- 3 per Cent.
--.Thirty.seven---- _____
.. Tut
..--.--__-_-(14,n)1, 0%
Loan of City, IS3‘2, 4 per Cent H; X,
Society of Commerce, 4 ,2per Cent lOO
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent „ 7.. i
National Society.
Exchange on 1.011d014 (11110 a)
Brussels Papers, May 4.

The Volage arrived yesterday at Ports-
mouth, with Admiral Elliot and family, all well.
We understand that Admiral Thomas is to
have the command in the Pacific, vice Ross,
whose time is up.
THE ACTIVITY OF THE PRIESTHOOD.—TIII3
seems to be quite a thriving time with the priest-
hood. Exeter Hall is hallowed and glorified by
their presence. The walls of the metropolis are
placarded with announcements of sermons to be
preached by a great Puseyite vicar in one church,
and a great Simeonite rector in another church.
The Votes of the House of Commons are filled
with the names of parishes scarcely ever before
heard of beyond the parishes themselves (though
of course each has a clergyman who can write a
petition), petitioning for Church extension. Alto-
gether this is a most reviving month fbr the
priesthood, who seem, in common with the lower
animals, to feel the genial influence of the season.
NEWSPAPER PRESS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIA-
TION.—The annual festival of this Institution is
fixed for Saturday, the sth of June next, on
which occasion the chair will be taken by the
Right Hon. Lord Viscount Sandon, M.P. The
rich and select musical treat always provided at
this festival, together with the recent and suc-
cessful innovation introducing ladies at public
dinners (an experiment first made by this insti-
tution), renders it the most attractive of any
which take place in the metropolis.

The public se.rurities were not very atima•ed to-day,
bet they supported their value. For immediate transfer
Consols realised 891 tti 90, closing at 89. to 1,
arid for the Ace Anit, 891 to 90, which were tie current
quotations up to the close of business. Exchequer
B Ils were at a premium of 8 to 10, and India
Bonds 3. Bank Stock rallied 2* per cent, viz ,
from 1651 to 168. So little is doing in this security that
when a sale or purchase is effected, the party coming to
mat ket is compelled to " pay the piper," and submit to
the rates offered him, whichever way he may be operating.
India Stork was dull at the depression to 250. The New
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. realised 98/ tot, the Three.
and-a-Half per Cent. Reduced 97* to 1, and the Three
per Cents. 88} to
The chief business in the Foreign Market has been in
Spanish Stock. The Active Bands were quoted 231 is
24, Portuguese New Five per Cents. improved to 341 to
34f, Mexican Stack was at 291 to I, Colombian at 22* to
2.2 f, Belgian at 1001 ex-div., and Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. at 521.
The Railway Shares did not vary in price. Great
Western Railway Shares were marked 291 to 291, the
New 14, the Fifths 71, and the Birmingham Thirds 211
prem. Brighton were 21, North . Midland 25, the New
41, and the Great North of England 15 dis. London and
Westminster Bank New Shaier were 2 prem., and NJ.
tional Provincial Bauk of Eugland New e prem.

(From The Sun cf Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 5.-1 he market still
continues depressed ; the sales scarcely realise 2,000 bales to
the trade. In speculation or export nothing has transpired.
Prices for all de,criptions remain stationary.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MAY 5.—A very limited
business has been transacted in the Share market today :
Eastern Counties, 9; Edinburgh and Glasgow. 37 ; Edinburgh
and Leith, and Newhaven, 34 ; Glasgow, Pai,ley, and
Greenock, new Shares, 2}; Grand Junction, 208; Great
Western, 114.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY s.—The Share
market to-day has not been very animated, but prices u: on
the whole are steady :—Manchester and Birmingham, 25i
254 ; Manchester and Leeds, 54 55 ; London South Western,
b7i 581/2 ; Ditto, Tenths, 41 45 • North Midland, 764 774;
Ditto, New, 38 39 ; Great Western Halves, 64% 6j
Banc of Manchester, 7i.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS

We have received, by Extraordinary Express,
intelligence from Paris of Wednesday's date.
The debate on the Regency commenced at
Madrid on the 28th. Gomes Becerra, hitherto its
most rigorous opponent, spoke in its favour
This created surprise.
The Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday con-
tinued the vote of the Budget of 1842. M. Guizut
declared he had nothing definitive to communi-
cate as to the settlement of the question pending
between Egypt and the Porte.
Halil IPacha was to be the new Seraskier.—
Morning Paper.

Her Majesty's packet Ty rian, has arrived from the West Indies,
but brings no intelligence respecting the President. She sailed
from Barbadoes the 16th of march, St. Lucia and Martinique
on the 17th, Dominica on the 18th, Guadaloupe and Antigua
the 19th, St. Kitts the 20th, Tortola the 21st, St. Thomas
the Ist of April, Porto Rico the 2d, and Hayti the 4th. She
brings a freight of 80,000 dollars.

Nire may still cling to some hope, as the above dates are
not late enough to hear of her arrival in any of the above
islands, as the President sailed from New York on the 1 lth
of March, and must have encountered the storms on the 12th
and 14th of March.

We have received Jamaica papers to the Ist April. State-
ments of the debts and assets of the kianka of Jamaica on the
31st December, Ih4o, as also of the amount of its Notes pay-
able on demand, in circulation December 31, 1840.
Notes in circulation
Other Liabilities

TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.—On Wednesday the
annual meet rig of the British and Foreign Society for the sup-
pression of Intemperance, took place in Exeter Hall, at which
the Right Hon. Earl Stanhope pr,sided. From the Report it
appeared that the temperance cause was making extensive pro-
gress, there being at present in London and the suburbs fifty
societies, with 20,000 total abstaining members, 3,000 of whom
were reclaimed drunkards. In the country are 90 auxiliary
societies, and 40,000 members, out of which 4.000 are re-
claimed drunkards ; 200 are clergymen of various denomina-
tions, and 1,000 are actively engaged in propagating the prin-
ciples of temperance societies. In Scotland there were 15':,000
members; and in Ireland, through the instrumentality of Fa-
ther Mathew, five millions and a half of persons have taken the
pledge of total abstinence. The funds of the Society were in
so &pressed a cnnditioa that many important stations would
have to be given up and useful agents dismissed, unless more
liberal efforts were made by the friends of the cause. The re-
ceipts were 818/. 17s. 4d., and the expendi'ure J.1;65/. os. 9d.,
leaving a balance of 3461. 3s. sd. against the Society. On the
p!aCorm were Mr. J. S. Buckingl'am, and several clergymen.
The meeting was most numerously attended, in which were a
large number of sergeants and privates of the Scots Fusilier
Guards.

£257,465 18 1

December 31, 1840.
Specie and other A55et5......... £440,976 3 8

Her Majesty's schooner Pickle arrived on Friday from,Santa
Martha and Larthagena, and the circumstance of that vessel
having brou.4ht a large amount in specie, viz. 67,000 dollars,
was hailed as a harbinger of good news, and led to an expec-
tation that peace and order were resuming. These hopes
however proud, vain as the contest between the hostile parties,
continued unabated.

In the Calcutta papers we have accounts from New Zealand
to the 22d November. It appears that the Colonists were
active in exploring the country, and the Gazette from time
to time publi,hes the result.
Government were offering mechanics from 7s. 6d. to 9s.
per diem, with provisions at cost price, and a piece of land
to dwell on.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER OFF
AIORTLAKE.— On the afternoon of Tuesday last, a melancholy
accident occurred on the River, between Hammersmith and
Kew, which proved fatal to one, and nearly so to two others of
the students belonging to the Royal College of Civil Engi-
neers, at Putney. Tuesday was a holiday at the Institution ;
and, in the course of the forenoon, three of the young gentle-
men, whose names were Short, Scott, and Jones, without the
knowledge of Colonel Hutchinson, the resident Director, hired
a small sailing boat to go to Richmond. On their return, they
had to contend with a strung southerly wind. Having become
tired of holding on the sh- et, they affixed the rope to the sid
of the boat ; and, about four o'clock, when off Mortlake, they
were met by a sudden squall; and being unable to let go the
sheet, the boat instantly upset, and the whole party became
immersed in the water. Two boats put off to their assistance,
and succeeded in picking up Messrs. Scott and Jones, and they
were conveyed ashore in a state of great exhaustion. The
drags were then used, and in about eight or ten minutes the
body of Mr. Sharpe was found, and conveyed to the Ship pub-
lic-house at Mortlake, when every means for restoring anima
tion was adopted for two hours by Mr. Brown, a surgeon, but
without effect, The deceased, who was much beloved by his
fellow students, was a fine young man, about 17 years of age,
an orphan, but highly connected.
EFFECTS OF LIGHTNING.—A correspondent
writing us from Dorchester, Lower Mills, informs us that the
effects of lightning were wonderfully and awfuly displayed in
that village on Friday evening, 2d instant. The shower was
very severe in that vicinity, the lightning remarkably vivid,
and in several instances followed almost instantly by the report
—leading every one to suppose it struck near by. This has
since been ascertained to be the fact. Two oak trees, from
one foot to eighteen inches in diameter, standing about six-
teen feet from each other, in a grove of woods owned by Gen.
Moses Whitney, were struck apparently by a horizontal shaft
of the lightning, and from the height of fifteen feet to the
roots, were .iterally torn into basket-stuff; the tops of the
trees were thrown upon the ground entirely uninjured. From
the base of the trees it spread in four different directions, two
id which were from east to west, through two ledges of rocks,
one of which is about three rods in thickness ; a small rent is
visible where it entered the ledge, and a very large one whet e
it passed out—large fragments of rock having been broken off
and thrown to a distance. From the ledge it passed on seven or
eight rods, tearing up the ground, and forming a furrow
varying froth six to twelve inches in depth ; where trees ob-
structed its path it went two or three feet into the earth, arid
came out again on the other side.—Mercantile Journal.
THE LATE CALAMITOUS FIRE IN WHITE.
CHAPEL.—On Wednesday it was very generally reported
that Mr. Berlin, the unfortunate man whose house in Church-
lane, Whitechapel, had been totally destroyed by fire on the
morning before, had breathed his last at the London Hospital
from the effects of the injuries he received, but on making in-
quiries at that institution last evening it was feund.that he was
still alive, but with taint hopes of his surviving much longer.
On an examination of his person on being carried to the hos-
pital it was found that both his legs were broken close to the
ankles, that his left wrist was sprained, one or two of his ribs
on the left side fractured, and his back and spine seriously in-
jured. He is perfectly sensible, and states that at eleven
o'clock he put out the gas in the shop, and retired to rest in a
small parlour behind, when everything appeared perfectly safe.
On being awoke, and seeing the shop in flames, he rushed up
etairs to where his sister and housekeeper slept, and taking
the former in his arms, jumped out of the window with her.
Rachati. Shore, the young woman who lived as housekeeper to
Mr. Berlin, and who was to have been married to him in a
month, has been a good deal injured. Mr. Berlin, who is a
Jew, had not been residing in the house more than our or five
months, and he states that the 4001. for which he has been
insured in the Sun Office will not cover his loss, though his
stock appeared to those in the neighbourhood to be exceed-
ingly light.
DREADFUL OCCURRENCE AT GREENOCK.—
Monday, about twelve o'clock noon, as Mr. Ludovick Giant,
manager of the new cotton mill, was in the wheel-hOuse, show-
ing a party of gentlemen from Glasgow the magnificent water-
wheel employed in propell ng the machinery of the mill, a
small bit stone felt at their feet. Mr. Giant picked up the
stone, but the Glasgow gentlemen being alarmed ran to the
west side of the wheel, and in a moment afterwards the east side
of the wheel-house gave war, and fell with a tremendous
crash, and Mr. Grant, and another man, a mason, named An-
thony M'Leod, were buried in the ruins. As it was known that
a number of other individuals were also lying under the ruins,
measures were instantly taken to rescue the unfortunate suf-
ferers. In the course of two hours, J. Pollock, mason, and
James Boyle, labourer, and a junior clerk of the name of
M'Leod, were taken out alive ; but it was about two o'clock
ere the bodies of Mr. Grant and Mr. M'Leod were dug out.
The cause of the accident is understood to have arisen from
the immense pressure of fire-proof brick arched vaults for cot-
ton stores, which rested against the Wan o the wheel-house.
A vast deal of rubbish amt soil had teen deposited on the roof
of the arches for affording them protection from the v -feather,
and the weight had, theri•fore b?come tar greater than the
wall could support. The accident will be the nit ans oi' throw -
ing out a great number of people who are and were about to
be employed in the mill.— Glasg )W Chronicle.
INGENIOUS DISCOVERY._ qtr exhibition of a
new patent has lately been made at the Adelaide Gallery and
other scientific institutions, for the purpose of uniting lead
without solder ; this being done with a
portion of its own
metal, and the novelty of the process has attracted m.uch at-
tention. The principal agent i 3 a jet of flame, quite manage-
able, similar to a blowpipe, and of the most simple construc-
tion. To vitriol-
makers, manufacturing-chemists, and all
works where solder will not bear the test of the materiajl manu-
factured, the invention is of great moment. This dis cover}',
likewise, not only saves the comparatively heavy exp ease of
solder, but enables the manufacturer to have his leaden vessels
and chambers of one entire piece of lead, whatever may be
their size.

The British Fund!, which left off yesterday rather heavy
opened this morning with an improvement at 89k 90 for the
Account ; Money, 69a since which they are hot quire so
good, and may be quoted ti 9.4 ; Money, 89i 4 ; Exchequer
Bills ti 10 pre.ii ; India Stock 250 251 ; Indiatlonds 2 4
prem. ; Bank Stock 165 i 167 i.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active has improved, left
off 23i 4; at present 23g ; Deferred 14 ; Passive 54 ;
Portuguese. same as it ciosvd, 34i ; Three per Cents. 20i ;
Brazilian, 688 69i ; Chi;iati 60 62 ; Colombian, 2214 34 ;
Mexican, 284 29* ; Dutch Two- and.a- Half per Cents., b2h ;
Five per Cents. 99i.

GLASGOW COLLEGE —The installation .of the
Marquis of Rreadalbane, as Lord Rector, took place ox Satur-
day
occasion.
last. His Lordship delivered an animated addren „..on the

SH.A RES.—Greai: Western 28 29 prem. ; New 14; 4
prem. ; London and 13: ighton 24 dis. ; Blaekwall 65%
dis. ; Birmingham 70 72 prem. ; Southampton 5711 588 per
share ; Croydon I;s4 14i- per share ; Greenwich ti per share
Manchester. and Birmingham 15 14 dis.

PRICES OF SHARES This DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Pi.id. Per Share.
Great North of England ... ..... 90
Great Western
Ditto New
North Midland .. -
JOINT STOCK BANNS.
lonian State
National Provincial of England... 35
Ditto New
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MAY 4.
3 per Cent. Consols
Three and Half Stock 96a ( Grand Canal Stock ...... ...
Ditto Reduced ...... ... -= 1 Ditto Debs. 6 per cent...
_.

Ditto New, 1t330 ...... 97i Ditto 4 per cent —
Si per Cent. Debs. s9g I Royal Canal Stock
We have received Demerara papers to the 23d March, Bar-
badoes papers to the 25th Mal ch, and Trinidad to the 17th
March. None of them contain any intelligence worth extracting.
We have received the Journal of Antwerp, of yesterday's
date.

HAGUE, MAY 3.—By a Royal decree, of the 29th April, it
is decided that a Chamber of Commerce shalt be established at
Bar le Duc, to be composed of nipe members.
BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MAY 3.—Little bwiness has
been done in the National Funds, still tl e prices remain firm.
A rdoin's being more in demand have got up * per cent ; Two-
and-a.Half per Cents., 51 13-I6ths ; Five per Cents, 991 ;
Ardoin's, 22 3-16ths.
Although the news from China is not of a favourable nature,
as nothing of a decisive nature has taken taken place in regard
to the negociations, still the British funds continue firm, and
have imptoved to 90 for the Account ; Monev, 89,i 90 ;
Exchequer Bills, 810 prem. ; Bank Stock, 168; India Stock,
250 ; India Bonds, 3 prem.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active has been the favourite
speculation this morning, and has improved to 24i ; Deferred,
12 ; Portuguese, 34i; Colombian, 22% ; Mexican, 2.9 i *;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 524.
In Shares little or no bwiness doing, only four quotations.
Great North of England, 75 ; Great Western, 934; Ditto,
New Shares, 64; North Midland, 75.
Consols, Account, 89& 90; Mexican, 29 4 ; Portuguese,
346 ; Spanish, 24 h.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS
Bank !dock l6B India Stock 250
3 per Cent Red. BB4 Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons 894 Ditto Old Annuities ...
3l per Cent Red..
New 3i per Cent 9Bl Ex. Bills, 1,000/....9.id 10 pm
New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001 lO pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small lo pm
Jan. 1860 ... 12 11-16 Bank Stock for Acet...167
Oct 1859 l2 9-16 India Stock for Op—.
Jan. 1860.