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unsullied!" That is the language addressed td Russia
by the people of England through the lips of their
representatives.

It was eloquently and truthfully remarked by Mr.
Siurrn.E, that Russia, Austria, and Prussia had behaved
towards Craco w as S EMIRAMIS behaved towards NINES.
" The three Powers suckled Cracow and the:: de-
bauched it; and they went further than SEMIRAMIS,
for they destroyed it." Through the dark tissue by
which these imperial transactions have been shrouded
throughout, is visible the broad and execrable fact,
that Cracow has, ever since 1815, been insidiously de-
bauched into insurrection by the agents of adjacent
despotism. From the moment when they guaranteed
the perfect and perpetual independQnce of the Craco-
vian republic, the CZAR and the KAISER leagued to.
gether for its incorporation in their dominit,us; end
to accomplish this masterpiece of villany they
fomented the local discontents, and drove within the
walls of the free city the revolted peasantry
of Galicia. Under the ominous mask of Pro-
tection, therefore, has this great crime been con-
ceived and consummated, and from the congenial lovers
of a similarly odious Protrdion have alone proceeded
the expressions of its approval. With Lord GEORGE
BENTINCK and his colleagues rests the unenviable
memory of having become the panegyrists of the
destroyers of Poland. Upon the grave of that heroic
nation, as upon the monument of KOFCIUSKO, there
is inscribed, however, one word—a word beaming
with solace and illumined with hope—one word—

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" RESURGAM !"

It is, we would believe, a prophetic contradiction to
the famous "Finis Polonia ;" it is we wouli believe an
assurance that Tyranny, however awful may be its
physical strength, or however consummate may be
its duplicity, can never prove triumphant in the end
—can never escape the sword of retribution—can
never trample upon the liberties of man without
punishment and expiation. If the patriots of Poland
are patient under their sorrows, their ultimate recom•
pense is inevitable; and it the deductions drawn from
experience can be trusted, the indignation of the
English Parliament will not have been expressed in
vain.

The Ameriean intelligence which has reached us
by the mail steam-ship Cambria, includes advices
from New York up to the 27th ult., and from Boston
to the Ist March. The Congressional and commer-
cial news correspond with the impressions which
the former accounts had conveyed to our
mind. The American markets never enjoyed
greater activity than they have of late.
The extreme pressure in Europe, arising from an un-
favourable harvest and the dep:orable destitution of
Ireland and parts of Scotland, having rendered ex-
tensive mercantile operations with America necessary
for supplying the grievous want of food, easily ac-
counts for the buoyancy of her markets. There is no
deficiency in bread-stuffs, but the means of transport
are most limited compared with the demand
for them. Consequently, the price of freight
age is exorbitant, and a healthy range
is completely frustrated. Cotton has declined in
price; and though any the slightest reduction in this
commodity is of infinite importance to the manufac-
turing prosperity of this country, it cannot at present
participate in the advantages of purchasing the raw
material at a cheaper rate with the existing cost of
freightage. Had the principles of free trade been
fostered years ago between England and America,
as they should have been, and our navigation-laws
been laid open to any improvement of which they may
be susceptible, these evils would never have been
experienced.

Congress had nearly reached its constitutional
term. It seems likely to close its proceedings, leav-
ing public matters of great national interest in a
most unsatisfactory state. The Three Millions BilLre
mairkd undisposed of. The House of Repre-
sentatives had sanctioned, by a injirity of 115
to 105, the impor:int proviso of Mr.. WIL•
MOT, of New York, that no slavery shall
exist in any territory annexed to the United States,
by virtue of the appropriation of the above amount,
which the President had asked for to eif,ct a peace
with Mexico. The Senate were occupied with the
discussion upon this amended Bill. We hope they
will adopt the amendment, for the sake of humanity;
but public opinion inclines to the belief that it will be
rtjected. The Tariff Bill, by which Mr. POLK
desires to raise a revenue for prosecuting an ini-
quitous war, chiefly by augmenting the duties on
tea and coffee, is in the same plight with the Three
Millions Bill—that is, nothing is settled. The last
message of the President, begging for "the sinews
of war," has not had the effect of reconciling Ccn-
gress to either the policy, wisdom, or justice of the
aggressions which are being carried on against
Mexico. With their love for territorial aggrandise-
ment, it is manifest that the American Legislature
would neve7 Lave evinced so much reluctance
to assist the President in his hostilities with Mexico,
had they been either just in their origin, or were they
likely to be ciAcluded with honour. Mr. WLBSTER
has offered the two following res.ilutions to the
Senate, which, it teems to us, they could not do
better than confirm :
' First, That the war with Mexico ought not to be pro-
secuted for the acquisition of territory to form new states
to be added to the Union ; and, second, that our Government
ought to signify to Mexico that the United States does not.
desire to dismember that republic, and is ready to treat for
peace, for a liberal adjustment of boundary, and for a just
itidemitit v for claims due by either Governaient to the citi-
zens of the other."

Iu the meanwhile, we learn from the se7.i.t of war
that the forces of the Unitt-d Sates are considerably
harassed by the guerilla tactics of their opponents.
The odious cause in which the former have been em-
barked leads ua to rejoice at any success that may
attend the patriotic resi,tanite of the latter.

Another great boon is about to be conferr,d on
insolvent debtors by the new Bill, in addition to
those we have already mentioned. Heretofore,
although the conduct of the petitioner may have
been entirely blameless although he may have
h„d considerable assets to distribute amongst his
creditors—made the fullest disclosure thereof, and
exerted himself in the most praisewm thy manner to
realise his property—he merely obtained a protection
for his person and personal property from any
individual creditor, but the weight of his
debts still remained a clog and incumbrance,
preventing him from entering into any business or
enjoying the fruits of his labours at any future time.
In fact the position of the most meritorious insolvent.
was as bad as that of the uncertificated bankrupt. Ile
could never hope to be free except by the payment
of every single shilling due by him, and he was con-
sequently prevented from taking the steps by which
he might possibly be enabled on a future occasion to
liquidate every demand. Were he labouring with assi-
duity and effect, any creditor might step in, and by an
application to the court compel him to surrender the
fruits of his industry, and give up everything for the
payment of his former debts. This provision para-
lysed the Efforts of the unfortunate man, and pre-
vented him from availing himself of his own powers
to earn more than a bare subsistence, or to lay by a
provision fir a future day, a provision of which he
might at any moment be deprived, or else it induced him
to make use of unworthy evasions and subterfuges to
guard the property so acquired. It was practically of
little value to the creditors, because the instances in
which their demands were satisfied were rare indeed,
while it kept the debtor depressed, and with
scarcely a prospect of emerging from his difficulties.
A strong feeling has for some time existed of the pro-
priety of assimilating the bankrupt and insolvent law
in this respect; this will now be accomplished. Lord
BROUGHAM proposes to enable the court or judge,
before whom the debtor has been examined, it. satis-
fied that he has made a full disclosure, and has ap-
plied in full time for protection, and not unduly
delayed making a distribution of his property
among his creditors—having regard to such con-
duct of the petitioner and to the amount
of dividend which he has given the means of
paying to his creditors—to add to the final order an
order protecting the future acquired estate and effects
of the petitioner from all process of his schedule cre-
ditors, such order to [discharge all debts con-
tracted previously to the date of his petition, as fully
as if he had become bankrupt and had obtained his
certificate. Every inducement will thus be held out
to the embarrassed man to act fairly towards his cre-
ditors, and, what ought to be the great object of every
law, a full and entire surrender of. property will be
attained.

In either bankruptcy or insolvency the court or

judge may at any time suspend or withdraw the
protection granted to any bankrupt or insolvent,
• either as to person or property, or either of them,
and may again renew or suspend from time to time,
as he may think proper, and the as:ignee or assignees
shall from the time of such bankrupt's or insolvent's
accounts becoming records of court, be deemed
judgment creditors for the, total amount for which
he shall admit himself to be indebted to all his cre-
ditors, and if the protection shall be suspended or
withdrawn, a certificate is to be granted to the as-
signee or assignees, which shall have the force and
effect of a judgment in the Court of Queen's Wadi.
Every individual creditor is also to be considered a
judgment creditor from the time of proving his debt,
and should the protection be suspended or withdrawn,
a similar certificate may in like manner be granted to
him, which will have a like effect. On obtaining such
a certificate the assignees may procure a ca. sa. or
ft. fa. against the person or property of such bank-
rupt or insolvent, and the Court may order his re-
lease after he shall have undergone such imprison-
ment, not exceeding one year, as to the court shall
seem a sufficient punishment for the offences of which
he may have been guilty. These are valuable
provisions. The reproach to our law will be
taken away, that allowed every creditor to be judge
in his own case, and to avenge limself, whether the
debtor was deserving of punishment or otherwise; the
fraudulent debtor will not escape, but the court
must first decide that it is proper that he shall be so
to the court for an
paptlyhis own risk, for his
punished.
order
to authorise A ny creditorhi
m to mayseiz
ea,
own benefit, any property of which a bankrupt whose
certificate has been refused or suspended, or an in-
solvent whose final order has been refused, may
appear to be in possession, and to apply the pro-
ceeds in discharge of his own debts and costs,
and render the overplus, if any, to the official
assignee. And if any unprotected bankrupt or in-
s- lvent shall be in possession of goods or chattels,
whereof he is the reputed owner, they shall be liable
to be seized under a writ of fr. fa., for the
benefit of the person who may have issued the same.
The above are the chief provisions of the new Bill, so
far as they relate to the public, and we doubt not that.
they will be received with general approbation. The
other parts relate to the constitution of the Courts
of Bankruptcy and Insolvency; the Court of Review
is to be abolished, and appeals are to be heard before
the Chancellor or one of the Vice-Chancellors.

M. lIEBERT Minister of Justice and of Public

Worship.

Letters have, it is said, been received from St.
Petersburgh which make mention of acts of murder
and pillage having recently been committed in
the Government of Alohilef, in White Russia—
massacres which call to mind those of which the en-
virons of Tarnow, in Gallici2, were the theatre during
the last year, and which have ensanguined several
villages. These disorders, according to the accounts
given, commenced from a banquet given. by' the
officers of a Russian regiment, about to. Change its
quarters, to the inhabitants of the place it was about
to leave. At this banquet toasts accusing the.
Government of hostile intentions, and even reflecting
upon the EMPEROR himself, were given and drunk
with acclamations. The report of this occurrence,.
made to the authorities by an official personage
present, made no other accusation against the party
than that of having been too copious in its libations
and too turbulent. NevertheleSs, several officers of
the regiment have been reduced to the ranks.
The news of this punishment, on reaching Mohilef,
was followed by the rising of the peasants on the
estates of several lords of the soil, who were known
to be animated with a spirit of opposition to the Go-
vernment. These peasants, gorged with brandy,
assembled in bands, plundered the houses, and killed
the inhabitants, while shouting " Long life to the
Emperor," even citting the throats of such men
of their own class as refused to join them in their
excesses. Troops sent from the chief town stopped
this scene of devastation, which, however, was after-
wards renewed at other points.

COL RS AuTHENTIQur..—PARIS, 111Ancir 15.—French Five
per Cents.; 115 f. 50c.; Four per Cents., 101 f. 75c.; Three
per Cents., 77f. 40c., 50c., 55c., 50c., 55c. ; Bank of France
Shares, 3,301 E 3,23 Cf. ; Obl. cf the City, 1,315 f. ; Neapolitan
(Rothschild's Detinitives), 101 f. 25c.; Romans, 1011Af.;
Belgian Five per Cents. (1840), 1011/2f.; Ditto, (1812),
102 f. ; Ditto, Four-and-a-Half per Gauls., 94f.; Sdanish
Three per Cents., 344 f.; Exchange ore London—one
month, money, 251.2;X. ; three months, money, 25f. 71,4 c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, 3.lAacu 16.
Boulogne and Amiens, 14 -East Indian, ?H—Northern of France,
12"4—Paris and Lyons, 6%—Paris and Strasbourg, 2%—Sambre
and Meusv. 6%.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of last Night.)
The Cotten market at Liverpool yesterday was very dull
again, the sales being only 1,200 to 1,500 balei, and chiefly
American de,cripti.ms, all to the trade. Prices were %d.
per lb. lower than on Friday last. There was but little dune
in shares.

Railway Shares were quiet and flat in price generally.
Much interest has been excited by the tenor of the advices
from the United States, and although in some
respects not of the importance anticipated, they are
still of a character to excite attention in the present state of
the Money-market. The Americans were amply supplied
with cash, and in excellent spirits, the grower, merchant,
and shipowner being all benefited by the extraordinary de-
mand from Europe. A great deal was tioing in grain, but
the high rates of freight were sufficient to keep down the
rates, as in the event of a rise in the American ports, prices,
with charges, would be relatively higher than in Europe.
The exchange bad declined again, the quotati n given by
a Morning Contemporary, 6 percent., being about 1 per cent.
too high. There will be large supplies of grain, and pro-
bably lower prices when the canal navigation re-opens.
Tne latest report of the Quebec market states that the
spirit of speculation was beginning to decline, but that
prices would greatly depend upon the accounts received out
by the mail of February 4. The weather at Quebec con-
tinued cold fur the season. The thermometer had been at
10 degrees below Zero, and the depth of snow in the bard
wood lauds was about four feet.

From FrecLricton,New Brunswick, we are advised tha

" Considerable activity will be manifested during the en-
suing spring, in, the most profitable branch of our domestic
industry—shiptliking. No less than fourteen large ships
and barques are at present building in this harbour, some
almost ready for launching, and others in a forward state,
many more, we belieVe, are building at Quaco and other
outports. Several are building on the river, at the Oroniocto,
and other places. The largest slip ever built in this province,
which will measure about 1,500 tons, is now on the stocks, at
Messrs. Owens and Duncan's ship-yard, Portland. The
splendid new steamer building at Courtenay Bay, to run on
the river, is fast approaching completion, and will be
launched and ready at the opening of the navigation. She
is owned by Captain Akerly, and Messrs, T. Barlow and
Co., by whom her engines and machinery are entirely con-
structed."

The fine weather, which would certainly have further as-
sisted the Money-market, has had its influence counteracted
by the decline in the exchanges yesterday afternoon, and
also by the rate coming lower from America. The uncer-
tainty as to whether the Bank of England will further ad-
vance the rate of discount to-morrow is also felt. Consols
for Transfer have been 88% %, and for Time, 88% %. Ex-
chequer-bills have realised par to 3s. premium. 'the Consols
Scrip is 3/4 discount.
The Foreign Bonds are quite neglected. Mexican Stock
was worth 2114, Equador 2')4, and Grenada Deferred 3 to 3 t/s.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 573/4 to 58.
Railway Shares have not varied particularly. Business is
duller.
BM I SII FUNDS.

ONE

O'CLOCK.
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 88%%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus.
India Bonds, 1,0001. .. 5 d:s

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Intelligence from Constantinople to the 27th ult.
has been received.

The•SuLTAN, acting, it is said, under the advice of
the Ambassadors of the Great Powers, has given the
' Greek Cabinet one month for compliance with his
demands; after which all diplomatic intercourse will
be broken off, unless proper concessions be made by
the Government of Greece. A firman has been
issued, prohibiting the exportation of corn from
Salonica. The Circas3ians have nearly exterminated
the Achenes, a native tribe in alliance with Russia.
The Achenes were at Casaban, where the Circassians
fell upon them, and put 5,000 of the men, women, I
and children to the sword.

It is reported that a conspiracy had just been .lis-
covered, in which HAFJZ PACIIA, lately Minister of
Justice, and a great many influential Pachas, were
compromised. Numerous arrests had been made,
but no particulars Lad got wind. Great excitement
pervaded all classes.

Madrid papers of the 10th have arrived._
In the Chamber of Deputies, on' the 9th, Senor
SaGasTo moved for the production of the documents
relating to the property left by FERDINAND VII. to
his children. The Hon. Deputy alluded to the re-
ports which were in circulation on the subject of the
disappearance of no less a sum then 37,122,000 reals.
The honour of an illustrious personage was con-
cerned in having this matter cleared up, and
it was on that account the Hon. Deputy
said that be asked for the production of
these documents. The motion was negatived by a
large majority.
Some r;oting took place at Saragossa on the 9th,
but the rioters dispersed before any force could be
brought up against them. A Carlist band had en-
tered the town of Balehing, where they remained
some hours collecting arms and ammunition, and
levying contributions. They subsequently left Bale-
hing and advanced to Manresom.
The Duke DE RIANZARES, in announcing to the
President of the Senate his departure for France,
stated that his absence would not exceed four months.
MADRID BOLSA, MARCH 10.—Three per Cents.
for cash, 301; Fives, 19i. Exchange on Lon-
don, 37i.

PRICES.
88%
ex div 8814
5 die

.-,•• • : Ditto, under 1,0001. .. 5 dig par
'Bank Stock for April 14 .. 205 205
Consols for-Account, April 15. • .. • 88% 881 i
India Stool; fvt,Account, •." .. • • 249
Consols; Scrip . 0j dis d
Ekcheeiner Hdlg. 2d.
1,13001: is -- ' 3 p par 3 p pm.
.5001. ..r -•-• 3 p par pm.
Ditto, *Mail ' "
. 15 p pm.
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• .
ONE
O'CLOCK.

_ FOREIGN FUNDS.
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent .. .
Equador
Grenada, 1 per Cent .
Ditto,Deferrefl 3! 3
Mexican Bonds, 1846, b per Cent ..
for the Account .. 211 21%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-111411 per Cent 58 57% 57%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 91% % 91%
PRICES OF BUSINESS cLosi3O
E
RAILWAY SHA PAID. DON ATRES. PltICEt;.
ONE O'CLOCK.

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Aml,er., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction • 2% .. .• .... ••• • • • 2%
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 5 .... 13% 13 • • . • 13
Caledonian .. 30 .... 26% .... •••• • •.. 26%
Ditto, Half Shares .. .... 2% •• • . 2%
Eastern Counties . .. 20 . 19% % .... •• .. 19%
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 61. 13s. 4J. .. •• • •• ..
Ditto, ditto.. .. No. 2. Gt. 13s. 4d. % p•• •• •• %
Ditto, York Extension .. .. 4 .... 3% % •• •• 3%
East Lancashire .. 17 .. • • . ..... •• • •
•
Ditto, ditto New Scrip .. 1 u .... 2% .• • • •
Exeter, Yeovil, anti Dorchester .. 238 ..
Great Northern (London & Yolk
Regd.) .... 214% • • 2nd
Do., do (Direct Northern Regd.) &% .. .. •• • .....
Great North of England . ..100 .... .......... 231
Great Western .. 85 .• ..110% %111% .. II I%
Ditto, Ilalf Shares .. 50 .... 6434 •. ...... 64%
Ditto, Quarter shares 12% .... 17% .......... 17 %
Ditto. vim,* 20 .... 26 .. ....... 26
Ditto, Xew .•
Ilull and Selby .. •. 50 .••
..102 ........ 102
Ditto, 11al t shares 25 .... 51% 51%
Leeds and Thirsk • . 22% ..........
Ditto, Preference G per Cent. .. 3%.... 5 •. •....... 5
Liverp., Mauch., & Newc. Junet.. 2%.... •.........
London and Blackwell .. 161. 138. 40. ..........
Ditto, New, No. 2 .. 1/. 13s. 4d. 78 p.... •• • • p
Lonoon, Brighton, and S Coast • . 50 .... 53% 83 534
London an North-Western ..100 •. • • 177 175% • • 175
Ditto, Quarters . .. 2 .... ..........
D tto ditto, New Shares • • .. 2 .. • • 13
Ditto, 10/. Shares 31. &P. (C) 1 • • 7 7
London and York Extension Scrip 2% •• .. 2 .......... 2
Lynn and Derchain .. •• 15 .... ...... •• .. 16%
Manchester and Leeds .. 82 •• .. ..........
Ditto, Fifths .... 10 a div...... 10
Ditto, Thirds (Reg.).. •.71. 45..... p.......... p
Ditto % (late Bud to:s. 8; Shelf.) 23 .... 2 %
Midland 100 ... 115 116 • • 116
Ditto, New .. .. 30 .... .. •• .. 33%
Ditto, New .. .. 2 .... ..... 5
Ditto, Birmingham and Derhy 100 .... 89 .. • • ...... 89
.111.11 and, Binning. & Gloueest.• . 100 ....123 ..... 123
Se W..:a.Stle and fierwics .. •• 20 .... 29% x • • 29%
Northern Counties Union .. .... .. •
Nort.i British .. • • 25 .• • • 32% x div •• • • 32%
Ditto, Halt Shares .. •• 12%.... 15% ....... 15%
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 2LA 3 . . 4
Ditto, Thirds .• .. • • • • 1 .... 3% 3%
Northern and Eastern .. 50 .... b 5
North s.atiordshire .. 5 7 .. 7%
Preston and Wyre .. • • • • 25 .... 34% • • ...... • • 341
Ditto, Half Shares (A) 8%.... 12% ...... • • • • 12%
Ditto. ditto (10 .. • • .. I • I% ..
Heading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 .... x int • •
Scottish Central • • .. . 15 .... 23 .. •••• • • • • '‘3%
Shrewsbury and Itiriningharn .. 3 .... 3% • • .... •• • • 330
Shropshire Union .. 425..... 1 (Rs.
South staffordshire Junction .. 1/.138.4d.. % p .... •• • • % p
South Eastern and Dovor 33%..•• 37% % % • • • • • • 37%
Do., New (do. 33/. 68.8 d.) No. 2. 12 , ... 13
Do., New (do 1510 .. No. 4. 3% .... ••.. • •
4 nth •• •.11 •• •• 10 •••• •••••• •• •• 7%
Vale el Neat .. 2 .... % 1
Waterford and Limerick .. 27%.... 15
West ROO og Union • • .. 4/. vs n•••••••• p
Windsor. Staines, &S. Western.. 428. .. • • .... • • % p
York and Newcastle 25
Ditto, New.. .. 10 ... 15% •• ....• 151/
Ditto, Preference .. 4
Ynrk and North Midland .. 50
Ditto, Extension • • • • •• 20 •• • • 36% ..
Ditto. Preference,. • • .. .. 2 .... 11% % %•• •• • • 11 !L
Do. .E.and W. Riding Eaten... 10 •• • 21% .. • • • • 21%
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Central of France (Orleans and
Vierzon) • • • • • • • • 12 .. •• 14% • ... ••• • .. 14%
Great Indian Peninsular ss. .. • • %..........
Luxembourg
Namur and Liege .. • • .. 10 .... ........
Northern of k'raitee • • .. • • 8 .... 12% •• • • • • 12%
Orleans and Bourdeaux .. 6 .... •
;Paris and Lyons .. 8 .... • .
Sambre and Meuse .. 12 .... 6%
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Australasia • • • • .. .. 40 .... 22 .... .• 22
Provincial of Ireland • • • • . • 25 •. • 45 •••••• • . • 45

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.
The speech of Sir ROBERT PEEL in the Cracow
debate has roused the ire of La Presse. It says—
" Sir Robert Peel has mingled in his speech protestations
of devotedness and respect for the three Powers of the north,
the least haughty possible. He went• so far as to declare
that he should not have maintained the entente cordiale
bs-
tween France and England, if he should thereby have been
obltg-d to sacrifice the good relations between England and
the other Powers. I maintained this entente cordiee,'
said he, and I regret that it has been so unfortunately
broken on the occasion of the Spanish marriages, because I
consider it of the greatest importance to the came of civiliza-
tion and the peace of the world; but I should never have
consented to this intimate intercourse, if it had given um-
brage to the three great Powers, which have shown such
kintine a to Great Britain.' . Thus, we do not yet know to
what point th., entente cordials was a dupery, and this avowal
of Sir Robert Peel was necessary to show us what support it
would have given us, had a struggle occurred between the
continental Powers and us. The moment that the northern
Powers should have taken umbrage at this intimate con-
nexion, it would have disappeared, and France would have
found herself alone."
The debate on the proposition of M. LIIERBETTE,
tam .
for doing away with the title of Excellency as applied
to Ministers, was resumed in the Chamber of Dept'.
ties on Monday. M. LIIERDETTE, however, ulti-
matelypwaiettedtreßwillhwisas agreedmotion ;
to.and
the Transatlantic
s
A further rise in the price of bread in Paris, for
the 16th,
is (says the Constitutionnel) now certain.
It was with this prospect that the Municipal Council
at ifs last sitting voted new funds to provide fur this
constantly increasing expenditure. The supplement
r for a loaf of two kilogrammes, now costs the city
30 centimes, and it will probably cost 40 in a few
days. The expenditure on this head, for the first
quarter of this year, will exceed 2,800,000 f. ; it will
amount to nearly a million of francs for the month of
March alone.
By a circular from the Minister of Commerce and
Agriculture the Prefects are called upon to make a
daily report to the Government of the state and pro-
mise of the growing crops of corn.
Algiers journals to the 7th inclusively arrived yes-
terday. The Akbar announces that Marshal Bu-
GEAUD was to leave on the 16th for Paris, to take his
seat in the Chamber of Deputies. The same journal
informs us that. General MABEY had effected some
razzias amongst the Ouled Aissas, and received the
submission of several tribes. Similar accounts had
arrived from different points.
The Moniteur contains the ordonnance appointing

WINES.
Real del Monteb Unregistered .... 3% •••••• • • • • 3%

M. Matagrin, a wealthy manufacturer of Tarare
(Rhone), has given orders to a house at Marseilles to lay
out 50,000 in the purchase of corn, which is to be sold to the
poor of Tarare at cost price. In the meantime, he sends
weekly to Lyons for 2,000 kilogrammes of corn, which lie
sells in like manner at prime cost, without any additional
charge for the carriage.
ESCAPE FROM CHELMSFORD GAOL.-011 Friday
morning, it was discovered that Charles l'ye who had been
convicted the evening previously at the assizes of burglary,
bad effected his escape from the gaol at Chelmsford. The
prisoner had been found guilty on Thursday of entering the
house of an independent old couple named Hockley, in com-
pany wi h others, and not only ransacking the house, but ill-
treating the inmates in on atrocious manner, so that the life
of the old lady was for months despaired of. He was sentenced
to 15 years' transportation, and was taken back to the gaol, in
which extensive alterations are going on. part of it being
pulled down for the purpose of introducing the separate sys-
tem of discipline; and it would appear, that, in the confusion
of putting down a van full of prisoners in the interior yard,
he managed to conceal himself amongst some of the works
or bulldogs. Having thus contrived to evade observation,
he found little difficulty, from the state of the walls and
the various scaSildiegs about the building, to make good
his escape when all became quiet. As soon as his escape
was discovered the county , police were moving after him in
all directions, and the metropolitan force were notified of it
by electric telegraph, but lie has not yet been retaken. This '
is the third prisoner who has effected his escape from the
gaol during the progress of these works, which were under-
taken through the Government pressing. for an improvement
in the discipline of the prison. and will cost more than
30,0001.—Ipswich Express.
Ma. ADAMS, THE ASTRONOMER. The traveller
who has come into Cornwall by the north road mast re-
member a long moorland tract b,tween Launceston and
Bodmin. If his journey was performed on the roof of the
coach, against a sleety, biting south-wester, his memory will
not need any refresher. The recollections amid! an excur-
sion are not to be effaced even by the consolations of th_.
e
Jamaica Inn. A more desolate spot can scarcely be found.
Yet nature sometimes grows men where she grows nothing
else; and on this bleak moor she has produced at leastl one
such man as, with all her tropical magnificence, she never
produced within ten degrees of the equ.a.tor A few years
ago a small farmer, named Adams, rest
a , who 'an on the moor,
had a boy, if we are correctly
informed,
of
dis-
appointed his father's hopes
agriculturist of him. His fits making a good
of abstraction anti
dreamy reverie were held
to be very unpropitious.
He somehow got a taste
for mathematics, and this
passion so grew upon him
that he was at length abandoned
to take his own way, in de-
spair of a better. It
to its impulses, and allowed
clear that he would never pick up
prizes at a ploughing wasmatch or a cattle-show—that the lot d
of the manor or squire of the parish would never have to
stand up and make a solemn oration over hire, showing him
to wondering spectators as the man who had improved the
breed of rams or fattened bullocks to a distressing obesity.
Yet as the path to such fame was closed, there were still
some small honours awaiting him. After a school training,
he entered at St. John's College, Cambridge, where at the
end of his undergraduateship he became senior wrangler.
He is now one of the mathematical tutors at that college,
and the discoverer of the planet Neptune.— West Briton.
• WOOLWICH ACADEMY.—WiIIiam Racater, Esq.,
M.A., has been elected to supply the vacancy occasioned" by
lie resignation of Professor Barlow..

' ..SPIP a

COURT CIRCULAR. LITERATURE.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the ! THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS. Third Series.
Prince of Wales, Prince Aimed, the Princess P.oval, the
Princess Alice and the Princess Helena, and atrende'd by the ;
coiTnpitriendisof Countess of 'Desert, lion. Miss Napier, Major-General facetiousness in this vanity
boino7zrtlalipnigty inexpressiblyand melancholy in thee.
Bowles, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grew, and Colonel It brings to our recollection at once the beautiful Pen'
Bauverie,left Osborne-house at twentysfourininutes before two siveness of the tatnous "Last Lay of Thorn°
o'clock yesterday afternoon, crossed in the Fairy to Gosport, ; Ingoldsby"—those dainty verses which are appended t°
and proceeded
t Railwayto town by a special train on the South- 1 the third and final series of his inimitable "Legensis'
I and it brings especially to our recollection that One
The august party was escorted by a party of Light
mournful and touching stanza:—
Dragoons from the Nine Elms terminus to Buckingham
Palace, where her Majesty and her Royal Consort arrived at "But I have a-thykynge, a-thynkynge,a-thynkvnget
twenty-five minutes befare six o'clock. And sadly sang the Birde as it perched upon a tier;
The Queen and Prince Albert were received at the Palace That joyous smile was gone,
by the Hon. Miss Murray, the Master of the Horse, the Earl And the face was white and wan,
of aferley, the Vice-Chamberlain, and General Sir Edward As the doevne upon the Swan
Bowater. Doth appear,
Her 'Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the performance As I laye a-thynkynoe—oh ! bitter flow'd the tear!" for
of the French Plays with their presence last evening. The It is much " too late in the day," as the phrase is' re
royal suite consisted of the Countess of Desert, Hon. Miss us to presume upon any critical remarks upon
Murray, Earl of Morley, Colonel the Han. Charles Grey, and humourous compositions of Richard Harris Barbs'
Colonel Bouverie. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent Those compositions are now as familiar to the aPP,hers.
also honoured the performance of the French Plays with her
presence yesterday evening, Her Royal Highness was at- ciatora of tae witty and the ludicrous in poet.r,,w,Lansii;
.adventures Hudibras, the 'poem on the Bad Duo',
tended by Lady Fanny Howard, Sir George Couper,and Lord
the burlesque lines of Somerville, the nonsense-songs,
James Murray.
1
Rol.lg
.
Their Rosen Highnesses Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the Duke O'Keefe, rind the memorable horse exercise of J
of Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yester- Gilpin. They are as familiar, and we would wager :a
day at Marlborough House. with the majority they are as much prised as the,v i(t
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam- beat of those grotesque writings. Deep and caustic
ro
bridge, :Weeded by the Lady Augusta Cadogan, honoured is the retire of Samuel Butler, we are not fisher` ea
the French Ambassador and the Countess de St. Aulaire acknowledge, and we are satisfied that we are nia"ia
with their company at dinner yesterday evening, at the resi- means alene in ecknowl, dging that there is irnmeasuraU
dance of the Etnbasey, in Manchester-square. more of the comic, of the pleasant, and (in every sense)
tealav, at the Celonial-offitte.
Viscount Faiklana had an interview with Earl Grey yes- the readable in the versification cf Mr. Barham. 144'
A Deputation from the Statibrdshire Potteries, consisting the latter dewn one page of any one of his legends, an,df.,,(4
of Messrs. Enoch Wedgwood, Edward \Valley, Samuel are irresistibly borne away by the glibness of his rb?
Keeling, and Benjamin S. Brough, had an interview with the felicity of his language, the extravagance of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official illustration, and the outrageous absurdity of his pia
residence in Downing-street, to obtain a reduction of the you are carried off helter-skelter through the versa
stamp duty on apprentices' indentures where no premium is your breath is almost taken away by the perusal "r'ith
paid. The Deputation was accompanied by the Member for single sentence—page after page he is pelting you ".'be
Stoke-upon-Trent, Mr. 'Alderman Copeland, and Mr. Ricardo. the most impossible rhymes, and he brings you to et
Lord Carrington had an interview yesterday with Earl end at full gallop, and with explosions of laughter. .1"
Grey. Mr. Bowen had also an interview with his Lordship, • •
is literally the effect of his metrical.preces. It vr.
at the Colonial-office.
effect in the " Black Mousquetaire," in his tale by
Sir John Hobliouse gave a dinner to the Cabinet Ministers -
' •
yesterday evening, at his residence in Berkeley-square. Sticklethumkin, in his anecdote from Mr. Simplon
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office his Legends of the Dark Entry, of the Bishop of )31' '
from the Governors of the North American provinces. of the Execution, and of the Ghost. But apart fr.;f
The Marquis and Marchioness of Queensberry and Lady the mere manner of his muse, he is by no means infello
Georgina Douglas, have left Farracee's Hotel for Brighton. to Butler, or Hood, or Somerville, or Canning, in PIO
Lord John Browne has left for Devonport. and drollery. To him we are indebted for the ;ha
execrably good pun that man ever dreamt of.
can forget it? When the monks and abbots with sr.
bishop at the head of them, to the number of thirty,
to
seated round the refectory table,
.debating 01)0.4v
probable cause of the disappearance of one of ;fo°
number—when the dead body is jumping piecemeal le
the neighbouring well, head, legs, arms, and VOL,
when it has rolled ar.d tumbled and hopped to the ,7,0
of the monastery—bounced into the room of audlese;
and stood erect upon the council-board a ghastly col,
"The Prince Bishop's jester, on punning intent,
As he viewed the whole thirty, in jocular tering,
Said they put him in mind of the Council of Trent,
Engaged in reviewing the Diet of Worms!" Lie
Then, again, for the ludicrous arrangement of
dsbr
scenery, his character, and " situations," Tom Dig°i etye
has no equal. His characters especially are destrou d.
ea the gravity of the very sourest of all sour cilrtn...bea
geons' and the carelesSness with which they are sis.,,trie•
off only renders them the more grotesque. Take "Pw'
!need Dick," for instance :
" Hairy-faced Dick had a swarthy hue,
Between that of a gingerbread nut and a Jew,
And his queue was long, and bushy, and thick,
Like a pump-handle stuck at the end of a stick."
Or take, again, the companion picture :
" There's an old yellow Admiral living at Bath,
As grey as a badger, as thin as a lath •
Thin old yellow Admiral goes to the Rooms,
And he plays long whist till he frets and fumes, ,
For the ace, and the king, and the rest of the town'
Get into the hands of the other old frumps." jDg
One of the most felicitous peculiarities in the s 11„,
~,011
of poor Barham was that of iterating and chiming "Iftse
a word, not inertly as a tag throughout a long POl 0.
graph, but intermittently and oddly in the rue
single line. As this wise :
"In Ratcliffe highway there's an old marine store, -
And a great black doll hangs over the door;
There are dusty bones, and fluty rags,
And rusty lucks, and musty bags,
And a lusty old woman, called Thirsty Nan,
And her crusty old husband's a hairy-faced Wan' tbal
Upon this wonderful facility of rhyming,. a
appeared to be absolutely inexhaustible, Torn Petiole!'
built up his reputation as a comic writer, almost a°, he
as upon the richness of his humour. It would one
fallacy for any one to rate Mr. Barham 61-00se
the ephemeral humourists of the day whorecli
605 a
for a se_ and are . forgotten, simply Dec the
he . resembles inasmuch as he indulges To we
popular slang. The reason goes for nothing ne'_„ead'e
turn to the Hudibrastic couplets of Charles the or ions
time, and find them interlarded with the cant exprees_stee
then in use, or if we look into the char ers of GnergeSed
and Pantagniel, and find that immortal work dflies
iu a similar manner. The perishable nature of ltel___s,ol
facilitYloof
cannot destroy the amber, they are themselves trs.7nd
and enveloped by that amber. Between legoda
Rabelais, however, there is not merely this resemblance'_..othe
they are kindred in many other particularsi Like
great French droll, Mr. Barham very frequent
sometimes
his fun by gratuitous snatches of impiety that .at
expand into the blasphemous. The fault, however, is al bled
inevitable when matters and men ecclesiastical are jurn°4,,J
up in burlesque narretive ; when- friars and saints, L,
" goblins damn, d" are made the habitual dramatists P
senor. Like Rabelais, egain, Barham occasionally rsth
off into extravagancies, that render the works of bisie•
anoinalies—admixtures of wisdom and folly. Like_of
belaie, he at times seizes hold of ideas so uttllY,.,v..ce,
,Y disfigurei
that they are " insults to your understanding..
victims
for instance, the devil is carrying a sackful of vett
his shoulders for his own particular repast in his_ ,
particular locality. By an adroit slit in the saaco.krint"of
victims are liberated and scamper away
the demon. After expatiating upon the rthunPuots his
a little fat monk," who is making the best use orate'
legs, the devil laments his escape with the exclans
" Oho! he'd have made a delicate roast, rot.°
Dressed like a wood-cock and served on a t° essary to
It would be as hopsless, however, as it is unneticsoateries
attempt any very accurate delineation of the ef the
to the ch resa
of
ties and merits of the two preeeding series (' „ the fore
goldsby Legends"—ftoll2 which two series a? hots en'
going quotations are made from rnernory---wit s octet'
croaehing upon our space to a most superfluous soh!
Besides which, as we have already intimate"' erne
delineation is altogether as uncalled for as a forin:ne,o bi
cism upon the " Battle of the Frogs and M:criy.ls
Homer. The present volume is rendered pecu"siehr
teresting by the elaborate and brilliant biogrberotaer•
paper upon the late Thomas Ingeldsby by his oar(
The memoir is written in a strain of appropriate Z'rellt:
ness, and is brimming over with anecdotes, not n 3 nf big
Mr. Barham himself; but relating to the wittiestiidael
contempararies—such as Theodore Hook and 004
Smith. We will not mar the unity of this °to Of;
and delightful biography, by transcribing an ° iidepth
rnent : we refer the read. rto it cordially sari eon ace te
as a sonrce much pleasantness, and as a a:IC.1:011;
much laudable curiosity. - From the miscellane°,sue deed
logs from the hitherto uncollected writings of tines tie;
'Wit—writings hitherto scattered through rtiagnntoaltin°,
other periodtcds—we shall content ourselves by ‘ielsit''
but a single selection. And we quote this el:etibs'
little love song, because of its sapphic elegance, .-ontel
cause Mr. Barhatn's power in the tender and plain And
less recoenized than his power in the colli`c
satirical:—

TO. THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Stn,—l request your permission to insert my reply to the
letter which appeared in the Times of yesterday, signed
"Edward Jennings."

" 11, Fitzroy-square, March 15, 1847.
" beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter,
dated the 13th instant, and have only to observe, that on
receiving the orig.nal letter from Madlle. Lind (addressed to
me), which you state to be in your hands, and of which you
have inclosed in a copy, I will instantly reply to it.
"I any, Sir, your obedient servant,
" A. BUNN.

" E. Jennings, Esq." &c. Ice."
Mr. Jennings waited upon me, and showed me a letter,
not written by, but signed ." Jenny Lind," which he refused
to leave with me, although addressed to ine. To that letter
I have sent au answer, giving a negative to the professional
points therein sought to be maintained ; but making a pro-
position, which, if Madlle. Lind has that sense of disinte-
restedness and good faith claimed for her, she will not hesi-
tate to accept.
As to the non-existence of any legal claim, from opinions
alleged to have been delivered by the Law Officers of the
Crown, I beg to say I have acted upon the judgment of the
first lawyers in England and NrussiA, and feel assured that
no such offer as 2,0001. would be made, if their opinion on
the contract signed at Berlin, in the presence of the British
Minister, were questionable.—l have the honour to be.
Sir, your much obliged servant,
London, March 17, 1847. A. BUNS.

There sits a bird on yonder tree,
More fond than the Cushat Dove ;
There sits a bird on yonder tree,
And sings to me of love.
Olt ! stoop thee from thine eyrie darn 1
And nestle thee near my heart,
For the moments fly,
And the hour is nigh,
When thou and I must part
My love
When thou and 1 must part.
In yonder covert lurks a Fawn,
The pride of the sylvan scene ;
In yonder covert lurks a Fawn,
And I ant his only queen ;
0:t ! bound trom thy secret lair,
Fur the sun is below the west ;
No mortal eye
May our meeting spy,
For all are clos'd in rest,
My love
Each eye is clos'd in rest.
Oh, sweet is the breath of morn I
When the sm,'s first beams appear ;
Oh I sweet is the shepherd's strain,
When it dies on the listening ear ;
And sweet the voice which speaks
The wanderer's welcome home ;
But sweeter far
By you mild pale star,
With our true Love thus to roam,

My Dear !
With our own true Love to roam ! IVO 15
We are leased with the introduction of •
iss
goldsby's "Last Lay," immediately before the„,pileA
his last work. In its sorrowful tone we r„el'a, en"'
similarity to those beautiful lines of,the poet JO
ing—

"I smethe roe above the muld." c
50/6
oe 0
As Hamlet says of the King's jester,o and as wte r
tog
of the poor elergyarin—as lovingly too and as :,itios
they did—may we say of Thomas Ingoldsbf'
poor Yoriek."

t
A BULL Is A U vir39
IIINA-SHOT.—As a drover WICg(
ing a herd of bullocks up the City-road, towards Isliag.iop
half-past eight o'clock on Friday evening, the attenieg
one of the animals was attracted by the red shawl dal gs it
ir.
short distance in advance of it, and to which it instantio
chase. The lady fortunately perceived her danger behor
became too imminent, and fled precipitately into the,,%ther
Mr. Berry, a glass and chinaman, at the corner of 000
stone-street, through which she ran into the back tor if3O,
and there sank down in a state of exhaustion. The u, °cif, Pk'
instantly closed, but only just in time to save the 111,40eir
the bullock was so close in pursuit of her that it was tP ia
the shop and entering the parlour when the door was shatter up
its lace. Mr. Berry, who happened to be behind his c,fa
at the time, in great consternation at the inevita; ives.
struction of his tragible wares, seized the first
he could lay his banns on, and began to belabour the.,ll;ionr;
come intruder over the head and sides with great ;,.7, dS'
but, as this course was certain to involve an exteas," or in
mage to the crockery, which was strewn about the 'lf 4
profusion, he desisted, at the vehement entreaties "Alit
drover, and the animal, glad to escape from kingsa .7, WO
reception, turned itself round and, apparently pi !,° iota
amongt the plates, pans, and dishes, walked back sa,hgain id/
the street, without the fracture of anything. J'er clO
shortly after recovered sufficiently to proceed to be of
residence, but the singular intrusion of the bullock et? it
such excitement in the neighbourhood, that then ecelle—neit
was surrounded for some time after by a mob f Ps—tbe
whoin it was found ultimately necessary to disPerse nth
assistance of Hayward and other officers from the =
boos actjoiavg.
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