The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1841

Some of our Contemporaries writing about free
trade, whether they advocate or oppose it, seem
not to be aware, or at least not always to remem-
ber, that free trade nowhere exists, and never
has existed, in modern times so as to supply us
with evidence derived from experience either of
its deformity and mischievousness or of its
beauty and usefulness. It is rather an ideal
state of perfection for which good men strive,
than an actual state of society of which we can
say such are the advantages or such are the
miseries. Free trade, therefore, we wish to im-
press on our readers, is less to be advocated by
facts than by principles, and it is more within
the domain of moral reasoning than statistics.
There are few countries, for example, which
are at present more cursed with restrictions, or
which feel more the restrictions they are cursed
with, than England ; and yet it cannot be denied
that
England, uneasy though she now is, and
dreadfully
hampered as she feels herself, and
suffering as are the mass of her people, has made
greater advances in general prosperity than any

Madrid Papers of the 13th inst.—The Duke
of Y ICTORV was about to confer, on the followin.,
day, the cordon of Commander of the Order of
Isabella the Catholic, on such of the munici.

ether European nation. Arguments drawn from pality of Madrid as took part in the patriotic
statistics, therefore, unless we are also able to manifestations of 1840. Large bodies of troops
discriminate the moral causes of the progress or were in the course of concentration round the
stationary condition of a people, are quite as capital. On the 11th a Cabinet Council was
apt to lead astray as to conduct us to truth. held to discuss the Regency question, when the
The only country of Europe in which an ap- debate grew so warm and so personal that Es-
proximation .to free trade prevails, is Switzerland; PARTERO was compelled to break up the Council
and it deserves to be at the same time remarked , before coming to any conclusion. On the Bourse
that its• prosperity, or the statistics of the ques- on the 13th, the Five per Cent. closed at 271 for
don as exemplified by Switzerland, are not op- cash, and 28L. for -sixty days.
.
posed to the moral conclusions, but confirm and
strengthen them. A similar, though not an equally
decisive argument, may be drawn from the seve-
ral relaxations which have been made in •our
commercial ..ystern during the last twenty years.
For example, the successive opening of-the trade
to India, from a very strict monopoly in the
hands of the East India Company, in 181-1; to
complete freedom, except as to certain import
duties, was followed by an increase of that trade
from less than '2,000,0001. sterling in 1815, to Very
ncaliv 6,000,0001. sterling in 1839. In like man-
ner from 1815 to IS'2O, successive relaxations
were made in our navigation laws, and with those
relaxations at the end of twenty years the in-
crease of otr shipping entered inwards and
outwards, was in the proportion of 30 to
13, or two-fold and one-third. Again, in
1821, some of the restrictions, not all, wore
removed from our silk trade, and since then the
trade has increased threefold, so that we have
now become exporters of manufactured silk to
some extent to France. Similar facts are true of
the linen trade, of wool, of coffee, and various
other articles, on all of which restrictions were
removed or duties lowered, and in all of which a
great increase of trade, of consumption, and of
well-being were the results.
In most of these cases the opponents of free
trade and the friends of restrictions prophesied
the most disastrous consequences from the re-
moval ofrestrictions, and in all, without exception,
they were mistaken. At the same time not a
single example, it is believed, can be brought
forward in which the removal of restrictions or
the lowering of duties has had the effect of
lessening trade, or causing anything worse—and
that generally from over excitement and over
speculation—than a very temporary injury to
some few classes. It is not therefore because
statistics, so far as they go, are not completely
in favour of free trade, that we say that it is a que3-
tion more of principles than facts, but because
the statistics themselves require to he explained,
and sometimes rectified, by moral considerations
to make them safe and sure guides.
The trade of England, we admit—with the ac-
cursed bread tax, the abominable discriminating
timber duties, the scandalous impost on sugar,
levied to enrich, not the State, but the West
India planters—is much hampered and much
restricted; yet, compared to France or Ger-
many, England is a prosperous and flourish-
ing nation. If we look at the increase of her
trade in conjunction with these restrictions, the
conclusion formed is—which was Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S argument—that they do not injure
trade, and therefore they are to be con-
tinued. " Show me," he said, in substance,
"that trade is declining, and I will listen to your
prayers for a repeal of the Corn-laws; but while
I see that the shipping is yearly increasing—that
cotton factories are building—that the exports of
cotton yarn are increasing, I cannot place any
con..idence in your complaints, and I shall
ma .stain the Corn-law, because I am con-
vir ced. it does riot, as you say, injure trade." The
tro ,h, of course, is, that the increase took place
in spite of those restrictions—that the healthy
and ever-willing spring of industry was strong
enough to rise against them—that the natural
desire in men to improve their condition, and
the natural tendency of population to increase,
are so all-powerful, that they overcome- even
the landlord's tax, though that has been a hea-
vier curse of the community than any barrecess
in the soil, or than war and pestilence
united. The truth is, that the effect of those
changes we have referred to is not at an end, and
the restrictions continued have been, in reality,
rendered bareable, and have been saved, by the
prosperity caused by the removal of those which
have been abolished.
Unless we form, then, a tolerably correct idea
of the natural increase of nations, and of the
beneficial care with which nature has provided
for their sustenance, we cannot reach correct
conclusions as to the enormous evil of com-
mercial restrictions. It has, however, been
undeniably proved, that population has
a natural tendency to double itself every
twenty-three years, and with that doubling
there must be, to preserve the people in the
same relative degree of prosperity, a doubling
of the whole food, trade, and wealth of the
country. But Great Britain at present makes no
such progress. If she did, all classes would be pros-
perous, and there would be marrying and giving
in marriage, children wouli be welcomed as
blessings, and festivity and heart-rejoicing would
prevail throughout the land. But why does not
Great Britain make this progress ? Her terri-
tory is not bounded,—at least its limits are not
known. Our people are better provided with
land even than the inhabitants of the United.
States, for they are as free to settle there as the
natives of New York, and they have at their ex-
clusive service the great southern continent, the
noble south of Africa, and the northern part of
America. The reason why our people do not
increase faster even than the inhabitants of the
United States, and why they do not, as they in-
crease, double their prosperity, is, they are not al-
lowed. The paternal law-giver, thinking himself
wiserthan GOD, prohibits them. Restrictions are
laid on supplying themselves with necessaries and
luxuries. Impediments are thrown in the way
of their emigrating. The land at the South Pole
even is seized by the landowners or their agent
the Government, and a price exacted for reclaim-
ing it from barrenness. In short, the reason why
the great prosperity for which nature provides
such ample means is not realized is, that restric-
tions—unwise, ill-judged restrictions—are laid,
by those who know nothing about trade, and who
never labour except to do mischief, on the en-
lightened industry and trade of the people.
At the same time, though we are hampered
with many restrictions, we are not quite so much
restricted by law as the less prosperous people of
the Continent. Our command of the empire of
the sea is a natural freedom, opening up to us
the whole world, of which it has been impossible
for the landlords wholly to deprive us. With that
our people are more free to go and' come than most
ofthe passport-cursed, police -vs' atched slaves ofthe
Continent. A series ofpeaceful circumstances, such
as the growth and rapid extension of many new-
trades amongst us, and the great extension of
division of labour, has liberated internal traffic
front many of the restraints of guilds, corpora-
tions, and apprentice-laws, and has effected for
us what the French tried, but without success, to ef-
fect by a bloody revolution. In France the Imperial
Government partly succeeded to the privileges of
the guilds, and there, as well as throughout -the
Continent, almost every trader must have a
license, and the Government exercises a kind of
control over every branch of business, - from
which our people are happily free. Here there
are 24,000,000 persons, who have, with the ex-
ception of bank monopolies, bread-taxes,
and a few other still preserved monstrosities,
a complete freedom of traffic. Such a great number
ofhuman beings freely exchanging the produce of
their varied industry one with another, never,
we believe, before existed in the world, and
certainly nowhere else now exists. This internal
freedom, continued with our comparative freedom
to go and come, is the cause of that greater
prosperity which distinguishes England above
the nations of the Continent. She owes that,
therefore, to her comparative freedom, and she
suffers those numerous privations which are felt
by every class of her people, from Corn-laws and
other similar restrictions preventing that increase
of population which is the soul of national pros-
perity. Partial free trade is the source of our
greatness, and the want of complete free trade
the source of our. distress. That is an important
truth, which statistics' confirm, but which they of
themselves can hardly teach.

The Paris Journals of 'Friday and Saturday
have all been received. Private letters from
Paris- bring the highly important intelligence,
that the St'l4A'sliaving consented to modify the
Firman, t‘TEITEMET Au with the here-
ditary government of Egypt, conformably to the
wishes of Great Powers, France had signed
the Convention of London of the 14th instant.
They further state, that Lord PALMERSTON had
agreed to make such concessions to France as
could not fltil to satisfy that Power that he had
throughout been actuated by the most pacific
motives. One of these concessions was reported
to be the recal of Lord PONSONBY from the Porte
—a concession as much desired by the friends of
European tranquillity in England as by any
party in France. Whether the reports of Lord
PONSONBY'S intrigues against the PACHA be or
be not correct, they are too generally credited in
the East and West to permit his longer residence
as Ambassador at Constantinople to be advanta-
geous either to the honour or the interests of
Great Britain. An Ambassador's good faith and
integrity, like a woman's chastity, must not so
much as be suspected. _ _

M. TITTERS was severely handled in the Cham-
ber of Deputies on Friday and Saturday in the
debate on the supplementary credits for 1840.
Not only was he charged with putting France to

the unnecessary expense of great armaments,
but he was accused of making ruinous contracts
for horses, and brass for cannon. He made a
lame defence, and when pressed hard challenged
impeachment. But the charge which pressed
hardest upon the ex-President of the Council,
was that of Sending as an agent to the colonies
to inquire into the expediency of emancipating
the coloured race, a notorious partisan of the
planters, notorious for anti-abolition principles.
M. THIEus denied upon his honour that he knew
the principles of his agent—a denial which was
not believed, and which, if true, was most dis-
graceful on the part of a Minister of the Crown
discharging a great national trust. The Cham-
ber, however, marked its sense of such disreput-
atle trickery, by disallowing the trifling sum of
500 francs which M. THIERS had paid the slavery
agent, M. CAPO DE FECILLIDE, so that it must
now come out of the pocket of the ex-President
of the Council. This is the severest rebuff that
:. it
thei e s
n.ourse by the finan-
cial M. MIS has yet encountered, and he seemed
to stagger under it. The other items of the Bill
w(,lo.emeadopted
,
fly
exposé made by M. l=umennn during the debate on the
supplementary, credits. The Minister said, that if the Govern-
ment did not bring forward during this session a Bill for the
aygain large
created ntelda j
on
construction of extensive lines of railroads, it was because it
was aboixt to negotiate a loan of 450,000,000 f., and that it
could not think of raising a competition in the market at the
time of its realization : but next year, should circumstances
improve, and the situation of the country be prosperous, then
the Government would see no danger in undertaking those
great works. tie was now providing for the extraordinary
wants of the State with Treasury-bonds. The Minister then
proceeded to describe to the Chamber the deplorable condition
in which the Thiers Administration had left the finances, and
showed that by the wise maaagement of the present Ministry.
the deficit, which would have amounted to 900,000,000 f., had
been reduced to about 500,000,000 f.
'Monsignor Slaximos Mazloum, chief of the entire Greek
Catholic nation in the Levant, Patriarch of Antioch, Alexan-
dria, and Jerusalem, bad arrived in Paris.
The intelligence from Constantinople of the 24th ult., an-
nounces the birth of a fourth daughter of the Sultan.
From 400 to SOO of the labourers employed on
the works for fortifying Paris, struck on Thurs-
day for an increase of wages.
The Journal du Havre, says the journals of the Havanrah
state, that an Engli-h man of war had attacked and destroyed,
by its crew, two factories established by Mr. Blanco and Don
Pedro Martinez, on the coast of Africa. 1,500 negroes belong-
ing to hese factories, fled under this attack, and the loss is es-
timated at no less than 500,000 piasters. This news has ex-
cited great fermentation at the Havannah, and will produce an
equal excitement in Spain against the brutality of the English.
The latter found their right to act as they did on the ground
that these factories were establishments for carrying on the
slave trade.
BOURSE.—PARIS, SATURDAY, MARCH 20.
1 irst Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pries Price
r,eeh 5 ;:cr cents
4% per Cents lOl 50 1"1 50 ... lilt 50 ... lel 50
4 per Cents ...... 98 „.. 01 ... 1)8 .. 1,8
3 per Cents 77 20 .. 77 20 77 15 ... 'll 20
o: France
L .ffitte Bank 1,0001.1. S
slt,)
5000 ares 5160 ...5160
uigian Bank
5 per
New Loan.... ..... 1(11y4 119.11 10114 11 1
Sp..nisb Active.
New Ocferied
..;eapohtan lO2 :0 11)9. ,`).! 50 0! 110
Homan
rAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
385 385 ... 340 ... 380
3. 5 305 31'5 3.5
touen
Strusnurg to Bale 2 '7
Cent.
50... 457 ... 455 ... 455
I ~ 237 50 ... t:36 25 . 2.16 25
Orleans . 487 50 487 s') "' 486 25 ... 486 25
(BELGIAN UN DS—Buu es EL* , Stance 20
ACtUal Debt, 2% per
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per C.:rit 1,8%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. B9
nt. —
SccictLoin oito Belgium, tiC, ygoimulinlBl3ie,2rs,c4iei e'prrl'iCr Ce3lPleell:tiiltrC)---eClei • t 1(1:8:()414
Nati,nalSeciety
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, March 20.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—ViEnts4, 514acii 12
rive per Cents. Metalliques
Fear ice Cent, 233/4
Three p.r Cents.
Bank Shares '652
—4llgemeine Zcitung, Mareh 17

Thirty.sQven•

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, MONDAY EVENING.
The belief that the new Treaty for the settlement of the
Eastern question, including France, has really been signed,
had a favourable effect upon the public securities to-day.
Consols far money brought 838 to and for the account
88i to a. Exchequer Bills were at ss. to 7s, premium,
and Edits Bonds at 20g. to 15s. discount. The New Three-
and-a-Half per Cents were worth 97 to k. The improve-
ment iu prices was about per cent.
The Foreign Stocks were more dealt in, but did not
improve in price. Portuguese Stock was dull at about the
previous value—viz. 31 for the New Five per Cents, 60i
to 62 for the Old Five per Cents, and 18i- to 4 for the
Three per Cents. Spanish Active Bonds realised only
231 to *; Mexican were heavy at 294; Colombian at
22+ ; Chilian advanced to 631 for account ; Cuba were at
70 ; aid Braz Fan at 714 t. Danish Bonds brought 78+;
French Th,ce per Grits, 76f. 75c. ; and Dutch Twc-and-
a-Half per Cents. 301 to j-, rather higher.
The Railway shares are generally very steady. Great
Western Railway (New) brought 10} to 11, the Fifths
si, the Birmingham 61, the Thirds 184. York and North
Mioland 30 to 28k, and the South Western 16k to 161
premium. Brighton ware 7to 6i, and the North Mid-
land 29i discount. Colonirl Bank Shares were at 9, and
Provincial of Ireland at 181 premium.
Our Evening Contemporary the Globe was quite in
error in supposing that the Rochester packet, from New
York. brings later accounts, as her dates are only of the
2bth übimo._ _

We have news from Rio to-day to the 23d January, via
Dieppe, but which is 'not of importance. Stock was as
before, viz. 30i. The cor3nation was to be celebrated in
the month of June. Tbcre was no change in the affairs of
Rio Grande. _

Advices have also come to hand from Bahia up to the
27th. Trade was extremely dull there, and, in fact, nothing
stirring but the slave trade. Two schooners, one belong-
ing to Pedrozo with 450, the other to Joa. Joze Pa-
chula with 350, and a yacht belonging to Joa. Pacheco with
about 300, had coma in within a fortnight, and many more
were expected. Captain Franklin, cf the Pearl, was said
to be lying quietly in the harbour, while everybody knew
these slavers were off, and discharging at ease. All the above
three owners were Portuguese, but two of them lately
naturalized for the purpose of getting the protection of
both Governments in their nefarious pursuits. Some of
the English house; at Rio had latterly lost much by
failures of the smaller class of slave dealers, who, not
being able to go on a; before, were trying to make their
money thus at the expense of the British, who interfere
with them in the trade. Slave dealers such as the above-
named, who were able to rig out a vessel entirely at their
own expense, were doing a better business than ever.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 20.—There is
no change to notice in the Cotton Market since yesterday's re-
port. Ihe sales to-day are about 3,500 bales, principally to
the trade, at firmer prices.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH 20.—We have had
a very dull Market at the Stock Exchange this day, the only
transactions to report are in Eastern Counties Debentures, ;
Grand Junction, 201 ; Great Western, 20/. Shares, 98 ; Lan-
caster and Preston Junction New Shares, 238, and North Mid-
land Half Shares, 354.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 20.—We have
no particular inquiry for Railway Stock to-day, but Banks,
are heavy. Manchester and Leeds, 70k 71k ; Ditto, Halves
30k 31, London and South Western, Tenths, 2 1-10th; Bank
of Manchester, 72 and 74; Manchester and Liverpool District
Bank, 101, ; Union Band of Manchester, 71,-; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 284 29.

The Lisbon Mail has arrived, brought by the Royal Tar
steamer, which sailed on the 15th in-t.
We have received the Jamaica Papers to the 16th of Fe-
bruary, but they are without interest.
'1 he North American, from Turks Island, brought intelli-
gence that a brig from Greenock, bound to the Havannah,
was wrecked on the Caieas ; part of her cargo was saved, and
taken to Turks Island. It appears that several other vessels
have been wrecked off the same place; among them a brig,
laden with timber. No lives were lost. _ _ _

We have received Demerara papers to the I lth of February.
To-morrow Sir henry George Macleod, whom the Colonial
Secretary of State sent hither to endeavour to obtain the set-
tlement of the Civil List question, which Mr. Light had failed
to effect, leaves our shores, on his return to his own Govern-
ment cf Trinidad.

Rio Janeiro Papers received to the 14th Jan. Exchange
upon London, 30i, Stocks 75.
The French Papers received this morning contain later ar-
rivals from Rio Janeiro of the 23d Jan. stating that for several
days past Coffee has been in less demand, and the superior
quality is very scarce ; the stuck is reduced to 15,000 sacks.

Consols opened this morning at 881 for the Account ; Money
88* a, since which they may be quoted at 881 / ; Haney 881 1,
with an appearance of a thin market at present; this may be
attributed to the final settlement of the Egyptian affairs. Ex-
chequer Bills, 6 8 prem.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active opened at the leaving
off prices of Saturday, 23* a ; Deferred 12k; Passive 5a 1 ;
Portuguese as they left off, 301, 31 ; Three per Cents. hi
19 ; Brazilian 71 72 ; Colombian 211 22*; Mexican 291 30*;
Chilian 62 64 ; Buenos Ayres 20 22 ; Dutch Two •and-a-Half
per Cents. 501 i ; Five per Cents. 991 100.
SIIA RES.—Great Western 23/ 241 prem. ; New 11* i
vrem. ; London and Brighton 7161 dis. ; Blackwell 51 * dis. ;
Birmingham 60 62 prem. ; Southampton 55 56 per share ;
Croydon 121 per share; Manchester and Birmingham 16 15 dis.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Bristol and Exeter ..... ... 6O ...... 35 .. ... to
Great Western
•
Ditto New 50
Ditto Fifths
London and Brighton
London and Birmingham
Ditto I,- Shares
London and South Western 3Bl 554..... to
Ditto Tenths
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto New Shares
North Midland

York and North Midland
The private letters received this morning from Bahia, of
the 27th of January, state that business was quite at a stand
still there with the exception of the Slave Trade, which was
continuing very brisk. Two vessels had arrived there, one
with from four to five hundred slaves, and the other with
from two hundred and fifty to three hundred.
The Oxford packet from New York has arrived at Liver-
pool ; the papers by her are of the same date as those previously
received.
We have received the Antwerp journal of the 21st March.
BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MARCH 19.—The Foreign Mar-
ket presents but little variations, and the national funds have
been very calm to-day—also remain without variation. At the
closing of the Bourse sales were tried to be effected, which
causal a slight depression. A great deal of business was done
in the Actions of the Society of Commerce, which improved
to 1623 1623. Ardoin's Spanish was animated, and more
sought after; they remained at 20 11-16ths to Coupons,
205%h to 11-16ths.
'I he British Funds are Rot quite so good as in the early part
the morning, when they were asi a for the Account, at pre-
sent may be quoted 883, money 883 3. Up to the present
hour there is not a feature in either of the markets worth no.
tieing. Exchequer Bills, lower, 6 5 prem ; India Bonds,
20 15 dis. -
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, a shade lower, 233 ;
in Portuguese nothing done; Colombian, 22k ; Mexican,
30 • Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 503; hive per Cents.
993' 3. The above market has been in an inactive state dur-
ing the course of the morning.
Some business has been doing in the Share Market, with a
slight improvement in Saturday's quotation. Bristol and
Exeter, 35 ; Great Weitern, 613 3 ; Ditto Fifths, 93; Lon-
don and Brighton, 433; Birmingham 3-Sharer, 22; Lon-
don and South Western, 553 ; Manchester and Leeds, 703 ;
Ditto New Shares, 303; North. Midland, 703; York and
North Midland, 80.
Consols, Money, 883 3; Account, 88% 34 ; Mexican, 29%
303 ; Deferred, 93 3 ; Portuguese, 303 31; Spanish, 233 3.
Not the least transaction going on.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

By the Royal Tar steamer, which arrived at
Falmouth on Saturday, we have received ad-
vices from Lisbon of the 15th inst. The new Mi-
nister of Finance, Baron TOJAL, experienced
great opposition in the Cortes. Baron MoN-
CORVO, Portuguese Ambassador in London, has
been invited by the Government to accept the
office of Minister of Foreign Affitirs. The Mi-
nister of Justice has resigned, and the Bishop of
LEINA was spoken of as his successor. The fol-
lowing extract from a letter is the only piece of
general news brought by these Papers
A gang of robbers who had long infested Upper Beim a, and
who not long since murdered and stripped a magistrate of
Gouvea at mid-day, has, by a notice in the Diario, dated
Midoes. sth inst., been entirely destroyed by a detachment of
soldiers and the neighbouring peasantry. The daring im-
punity of the gang may be Judged of by the way in which
they accomplished the above murder. They went, eight in
number, armed, to the neighbourhood of Gouvea, where
six concealed themselves, and the two others went to the house
of Magistrates, and presented him with a petition to read,
which he took in both hands, and while doing so they shot
him. Theme were a body of labourers at work, eighteen in
numbt-r, who rushed in at the noise, but the other robbers
making their appearance at the moment, the workmen ran
away, and left them to complete their work of plunder. One
of the gang ultimately informed against the rest, who were
surrounded in a detached house by twelve soldiers and a
number of peasantry, but refusing to surrender, a regular
siege took place, which only ended when they were all shot—
resisting to the last, and killing, xi: of their assailants, among
whom were four soldiers, and several others being more or less
wounded. 'I he robbers had perforated the walls of the hotise,
and kept up a constant fire on the soldiers, who contrived
at last to throw in combustible materials and set it on fire,
notwithstanding which, however, they resisted till they were
all shot.

Rink Stock
3 per Cent Red
3 per Cent Cons BBa
3i per Cent Red —
New ai per Cent 97
New 5 per Cent
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860.
FOREIG7

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

FATAL AcclDEriT.—On Monday, the Bth cur-
having had occa-
sn t
rent, Mr. David Wilson, a gentleman residing at Castle-
e act of putting it
to the utter consternation a all within hearing
Sioanciuoha much
crr,der il
new attachedto
ramrod, field sport,
wae in
th
into its place, when, by some inadvertency, the butt-end of
the fowling-piece came in Contact with the floor, and
being loaded at the time, primed, and cocked, a discharge
denisstuaendc,e.
The shot passed between the root of the left
band thumb and fore-finger of the unfortunate gentleman,
and from thence entered his breast opposite to the left
ventricle of the heart. The shock was which hens
and
severe, and, having the parlour in which tood, he
entered another apartment, exclaimin-
g to his wife and two
children .. I sin a dead man 1" Shortly after this be sunk
on the floor, and although medical aid was promptly pro.
cured, it was of no avail, life iu the interim having Lecome
extinct.—Scotsman.
kSSIZES. T
MONAGHAN • ---.RIAL OF SAM
GRAY FOR MURDER, FRIDAY, MARCH 19.—At the sitting
of the court this morning, Samuel Gray, who was yester-
day arraigned " for having, en the 26th of November last,
maliciously and feloniously caused the death of Owen Mur-
phy, by shooting him 4
wit a loadedpistol in the right side
of the chest, of' the effects of which he instantly died,"
was placed at the bar. In the course of the jury being
formed, Gray objected to eight or ten persons —some
generally, and some hecalse they had expressed their
opioi ins decisively on tie matter. For tho defence
several witnesses proved an alibi, and the jury, after some
coesultatiJn, returned a verdict of_Not Guilty,
MILDNESS OF THE SEASON.—There is now
i a robin's nest, with six young ones just hatched, in the gar-
!
den of Mr. Goodchild, at the Cavalry Barracks, Windsor,

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CHURCH-YARD OF CILLIE•CHRIST.—An in-
closure is much wanted for the solitary and beautiful bury-
ing-ground of Cillie-Christ, parish of Urray, Ross-shire.
The church-yard of Cillie-Christ (Christ's Church) was the
scene of a very sanguinary and cruel occurrence in the days
of' feudal violence, which is thus described in " Anderson's
Guide In the early part of the seventeenth century,
Angus, eldest son of Glengarry, had made a foray into the
Mackenzies' country ; on his way home, he was intercepted
by a gallant little band of Mackenzies, and slain, with it
number of his followers. Sometime thereafter a strong
party of Glengarry's men were sent, under the command
of Allan Macßaonuill of Lundy, to revenge his death.
Allan led them to the parish of Urray, in Ross-shire, on a
Sunday morning, and surprised a numerous body of the
Mackenzies, assembled at prayer, within the walls of Cillif=
christ, near 13eau1y, for so was their little chapel called.
placing his followers so as to prevent all possibility of es-
cape, Allan gave orders to set the building on fire. The
miserable victims found all attempts to escape unavai!ing,
and were, with a single exceptipn,man, woman, Wid
child—sw4llowed up by the ile-youring clement, or indis.
criminatnly massacred by the swords of the relentless Mac.
donells, whilst a piper marched round the church, playing
an ex!emporary piece of music, which has ever since been
the pibroch of the Glengarry family."—lnvernessCoFfcr.
ficl4litl has subscribed
The Lord Lieutenant of
200/. to the furtherance of the project for improving the
apiculture of Ireland. It was inclosed to the Duke of
Lcinster, as Chairman cf the Committee appointed at the
late rneetino held in Dublin,