The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-25 00:00:00

BOURSE.-PARIS, MONDAY, MARCH 23.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
rench 5 per Cents — 113 10 113 15 ... 112 03 ... 113 5
414 per Cents lO6 25 .., 106 25 106 25 ... 106 25
3 per Cents B3 25 ... 83 25 83 20 ... 83 20
Bank of r'rance 3165 ...3165 —3165 ...3165
Lathtte Bank I,ooof. Sh 1062 50 ...1062 50 ...1060 ...1 60
Llelgian Bank 895 895 890 890

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6 per Cents . .... ....... 105% ... 105% ... 105% ... 105%
3 per Cents 74.0 ... 74 40 ... 74'35 ... 74 35
Spanish Active..., : 29 ... 29 ... 28 :... 285 e
Passive 7% ... 7% ••• 7q S
New Deferred
Old Deferred 8 ... 8 ... 8 ... 8
Portuguese 3 per Cents 23% ... 23% ... 23% ... 23%
Neapolitan: lO4 50 ... 104 57 ... 104 50 ... 104 50
Roman 103% ... 103% ... 103% ... 103%
RAILWAY SHARES.

-;t. Gen./sail 647 50 ... 6,8 75 ... 647 50 ... C4B 75
Versailles, R. B 545 ... 545 ... 545 ... 545
LB. 355 ... ?Si ... 352 ... 355
Orleans . . 7475 ... 480 ... 475 ... 475
Strasburg to Bale 358 75 ... 358 75 ... 257 50 ... 357 50

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Viantra, Manta 14.
Five per Cents. Mstalliques
Roar per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares lBl2
—Allzenzeine Zcilung. March 19

The telegraphic despatch from Madrid published yes-
terday anticipated the news received this morning from
that capital. A private letter states that on the 14th
inst. CABRERA arrived at Berga, in Catalonia, at the
head of 400 cavalry ; and that his first act was to
arrest seven Members of the Junta that deposed Count
D'ESPAGNE, for whose death he threatens to take a
fearful revenge.

DEFECT OF THE PROTESTANT CHURCH.—In the
Romish Church the vast number of friars, monks, secu-
lar clergy, and nuns, allowed of a division of labour
which is wholly unknown amongst the Protestant priest-
hood. One brotherhood in the Romish Church chiefly
devoted itself to the confessional, another to education,
a third looked after the poor, a fourth attended on the
rich, the sisters of mercy visited the sick, &c., &c. Now
in the Protestant Church there is no division of labour,
and the parish priest has to adapt himself to the rich
and the poor, the infidel and the believer, the Chartist
and the aristocrat, the sick and the healthy, and, from
the multitude of his duties, it may be doubted whether
he performs any one of them well. He is either genteel
and offends the poor, or is coarse from energy and
offends the rich, as Mr. M'Neile yesterday remarked.
For this we see no remedy but that the clergy should
follow the general practice, and divide their several
labours amongst several hands. Let them look through
society, and they will see that in its progress each dis-
tinct trade becomes sub-divided into many branches.
The house-carpenter is not only separated from the ship-
builder and the cabinet-maker, but one house-carpenter
confines himself to making doors, another to making win-
dow frames. In all other occupations but that of the
priesthood there is a continual division and sub-divi-
sion of employment going on, and it deserves their
consideration whether their neglect of the practice which
other men find so essential to success, be not one eause
of their waning influence. We at least consider this a
defect in the institution of the priesthood, and recom-
mend the hierarchy to consider whether their purposes
would nct be served by dividing the priesthood into
sundry classes, with specific duties. Let it be, for ex-
ample, the business of one set of priests to visit the sick,
of another to devote themselves to controversy, and of a
third to study how to pray well. It should be the es-
pecial duty of one set to preach, and of another to teach
the youth of the nation. There should be one class for
political agitation, and another should be appointed to
attend at Exeter Hall meetings and play the part of
alms-gatherers. One set should be bullies, and another
set hypocrites. To point out elderly and opulent gen-
tlemen and ladies who have not led very regular lives,
and may be inclined to purchase heaven by sacrificing
their heirs to the Church, should be the business of one
select and favoured class not too young. A younger set
might be advantageously trained to win ladies of good
property, not so far advanced in life, to the ways of piety
and the Church. We cannot follow out these hints,
but they will suggest to the priesthood, who are now
active and stirring, and anxious to recover their former
power and influence, the true means by which they must
accomplish their ends.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, MARCH 24. —Wind N.N. E., strong breeze and
squally.—Sailed the British Queen. for St. Michael's.
FALMOUTH. MARCH 23.—Wind N. to N: N. E., fresh
gales.—Sailed the Royal Adelaide (steamer), Batty,
for Vigo, &c.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 4. —Wind N.E., fresh.—Sailed
the Warlock, Seymour, for Calcutta; Tuscany, Smith,
Havanna ; Melah, Hammond, New York ; Hibernia,
Cobb, ditto; Magnet, Morton, Montreal ; Betsy Hall,
13arrant, Syra, &c.
DOVER, MARCH! 24.—Off Port, the Paragon, Swin-
ford, from St. John's, New Brunswick.
BRISTOL, MARCH 24.—Sailed the Cosmo, Canning,
for New York ; Wm. Shand, Rutland, Quebec; Hope,
Cooper, Newfoundland.

CROOKHAVEN, MARCH 22.—Arrived the Jane and Bar-
bara, Coleman, from Odessa ; Penrith, Lacy, from ditto.
CoRK, MARCH 23.—Off Port the Lucretia, Haynes,
from Lagu3yra ; City of Durham, Beuthain, Odessa;
Cunningham, Gladstone, ditto.
HULL, MARCH 24.—Wind N. N. E.—Sailed the Bee,
Mitchell, from Quebec ; Johanna, Robertson, ditto. A
galliot is reported to be on shore on the Banks.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 24.—The Hibernia, Cobb, bound
to New York, grounded this morning off the Wicklow
Dock, but came off on the flood and proceeded, with damage.
. .

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GRIMSBY, 111Ascii 24.—The Tees, Bcswick, from
Stockton, put in here yesterday, very leaky, and with loss
of boats, bulwarks, &c.. bound to Hamburg.

VESSELS SPOKEN wyru.—Henriette Louise, from Ma-
tanzas to Antwerp, 3d inst. ; Christian, Peterson, Rio
Janeiro to Ilamberg, 10th inst., by the Johanna, arrived at
Helvoet. Bristish Tar, Liverpool to Demerara, 25th ult.,
lat. 46, lon. 23 ; Helen, Galway to London, 9th inst.,
lat. 52, lon 14, by the Vcnsha, Sutherland, arrived in the
Clyde. Euphrosyne, Bordeaux to New York, 21st ult.,
lat. 14, lon. 24, by the Noveau Tropiquc, arrived in the
Gironde. A packet ship, with a black ball in her topsail,
standing to the westward, 29th ult., lon. 43, by the
Nlerimac, arrived at Liverpool. Alexander, bound to New
Orleans, Jar,. 25, off St. Jago da Cuba; William Rath-
bone, Africa to Liverpool, 11th inst., lat 50, lon. 14, by
the Julia, arrived at Swansea. Lavinia, Clyde to St.
Vincent's, lst inst., lat. 54, lon. 15, by the Delight,
arrived at Limerick. Salazes, Bourbon to Nantes, Jan. 4,
lat. 32 S., lon. 12 E. ; Pacific (whaler of London), out
251 months, with 1,800 barrels of sperm oil, off Christ-
mas Island, by the Willem, arrived off Torbay.

OLYMPIC THEATRE.—The Muse and the Mer-
chant was produced last week at this theatre ; its construction
is slight ; it turns upon the distaste manifested by Edmund
Irian, one of the ardent spirits of la jeune France, toward* the
trammels of trade, his aspirations inclining not towards wealth,
but fame, in the shape of poetical reputation. In The Ladies'
CM, which succeeded,
admiring house in favour of her election to the chair; and in
The Happiest Man Alive, Mr. Vining made every one
happy about him. Mrs. Stirling secured the votes of an
HAYMARKET THEATRE.—The Ransom was
played here last night, introducing to us in the part of Pauline,
the principal character, a debutante by name Mrs. Edwin
Yarnold. This lady, who has that within which passes out-
ward show, evinced considerable feeling, and the talent which
she displayed was acknowledged in a manner that cannot fail
to flatter her as well as to convince Webster that she is not a
valueless accession to his company.
TROUBLESOME HANDS.—At the Dewsbury
Petty Sessions, on Thursday, Peter Charlesworth, a mari''pos-
sessing considerable property, and entitled from his information
to move i 2 a respectable sphere of life, was convicted fur the
fifth time of dishonestly milking his neighbours' cows, and was
sentenced to six weeks' hard labour in the House of Correction.
On the Magistrates expostulating with him upon his dishonesty,
and the necessity for a man in his station to show a better ex-
ample, he exclaimed—'" Gentlemen, I have as honest a heart as
eve beat in a human breast, but my 71''%\',
tray me."

Supplies good ; prices stationary. Turbot, 6s. to 21s. ;
Cod, 2s. 6d. to lOs ; Salmon, 3s. to 3s. 6d. per lb. ; Lob-
sters, Is. to 4s. 6d; Whitings, 4d. to Bd. ; Mackerel, 6d. to
Bd. ; and Haddocks. Bd. to Is. 2d.
PROVISION MARKET.
Little done in Irish Butter and prices, little better than
usual, at 100 to 102. Fine Dutch Butter sold slowly at 1111
to 112. Bacon quiet but firm. For prime Indian Beef, 81.,
was paid, and all kinds of Navy Beef and Pork were in good
demand.

TALLOW MARKET.
P.Y.C, very quiet, prices nominal.
TEA MARKET.
The market was very quiet, and very little doing. Com-
pany's Congous 2s. 4d. for cash.
COLONIAL MARKET.

Very little done, either publicly or privately. British
Plantation Sugar sold steadily at last-quoted prices. Only
one public sale, and that was 1,600 bags Mauritius Sugar,
which went at—mid. and good mid. bright yellow, 645. to
655. 6d,

MONEY a❑d COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK..

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 24.—The sales
of this day are 4,400 bales at yesterday's prices, mostly to
the trade.

The Papers from the north side of Jamaica state that
the late heavy rains in the interior have done considerable
damage to property, and injured the roads so materially as
to render travelling over some of them dangerous. The
following account has been received by a gentleman :
" On Friday evening last, 3d inst., at four o'clock, a heavy
cloud collected over the high hill of Kent Estate, and soon
spread itself over the adjoining property (Orange Valley).
The rain then commenced to descend in heavy torrents for
nearly two hours, doing great damage to the cane pieces
of the above estate, and carrying away several parts of the
Saltmarsh Road ' • the walls and pates of Kent were com-
pletely destroyed by the force of the current. The walls
of the pen of the late Roger Davies, Esq., as well as those
of Leithhfield, were severely injured, and it will require at
least 8001. to repair the damages on the Saltmarsh-road.
Such a tremendous rain has not been witnessed since the
year 1826."

Kingston House, Dec. 28.
The Governor being inclined to believe that it is desir-
able to abolish throughout the island the punishment of
the treadmill, and to substitute more useful kind of labour
for convicts, and to obtain the space now occupied by the
treadmill for additional accommodation to prisoners, is
desirous of obtaining your sentiments on these points, and
I am accordingly directed to request you to communicate
them for his Excellency's information.
Your obedient servant,
J. M. HIGGINSON, Secretary.

A company is forming in Jamaica for the culture of the
silk worm, for the manufacture of silk —the capital
50,000/., in 5,000 shares, of 10/. each—the deposit 1/.
per share.
We have received the Baltimore Sun, which states that
the committee in the Florida Legislative Council have re-
ported against the division of the territory, and go for
Laving one entire state.

We have no other arrival to announce this morning,
than the usual French mail ; consequently we are badly
off for intelligence.
A report is again on the tapis, and which gains some
credit, that Commissioners are on the point of departing
for Madrid, to bring to a conclusion certain proposals on
the part of the Spanish Government to liquidate the debt
of the Bond-holders in this country, the particulars of
which has not as yet transpired ; but it is supposed, by
giving them a certain portion of land and other securities
fur the Spanish Bonds they hold.
The usual official return has been published by the
Customs, of the exportation of the precious metals from
the port of London to Foreign and Colonial ports, for the
week ending 19th March, as follows :
Silver coin to Rotterdam, 112 ounces ; silver coin to
Calais, 62,000 ounces ; Silver bars to Calais, 40,000
ounces.