The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY -MORNING, MARCH 16, 1847

body of landlords similarly situated, than that which
has been evinced by a considerable number of the
landlords in the afflicted provinces. _ _

within the past week which has elicited the just and
indignant reprehension of the Learned Judge : it
appears that a policeman was disguised and locked
up in a cell with a prisoner at Warminster, in order
to enter into conversation with him, and to report
any statement which might be extracted from him to
the superintendent. There is something so repugnant
to every manly feeling in this abominable spy
system—it has been already so often animad-
verted on by many of the judges of the land—
it holds forth such a temptation to per-
jury, and takes such unfair advantage of the
accused, that we had hoped it could not have
obtained the sanction of any English gentlemen at
the present day. NVe regret to find that we were
mistaken. Most seriously, however, do we hope that
a full and searching inquiry may be directed by the
Home-office or the Legislature, and that a warning
may be held out to other occupants of the magis-
terial bench, that they cannot with impunity outrage
the public feelings by a rei•etition of such unconsti-
tutional:conduct.

In honesty, in justice, in self-defence, and for the
general safety of the empire, it was incumbent upon
the Government, however, to put a limit to its
enormous charities. Without the purse of FORTU-
NATUS, or the lamp of ALADDIN, it was impossible for
any power en earth to keep fountains of gold playing
perpetually. A barrier must be marked up, beyond
which no further disbursements of this kind should
proceed from the Exchequer. By its generosity on
the original appearance of the dearth, time had been
gained for a calm deliberation of the plans to be
adopted under the circumstances. That time has
been gained, that deliberation has taken place, thcse
plans have been adopted, and the skeleton of those
plans is the establishment of an extended poor. law
for the relief of poverty and starvation in Ireland.
It is a notorious fact, as demonstrable as the concen•
tric revolutions of the planets, that the present woes
of that portion of the British islands are flowing
entirely and directly from the criminal conduct of
the Irish proprietors themselves. For the result of
their sins we have been paying enormously—we are
still paying enormously—and have promised to pay
yet more enormously, both in loans, in grants, in
gifts, in manual toil, in taxation, and in the exhaus-
tion of the bulk of our legislative energy. If,
therefore, we regarded this matter merely
in respect to its integrity, namely, upon
the principle that every culprit must pay
the penalty of his own offences, the guilty proprie-
tary of Ireland would be compelled by the Executive
to liquidate all those expenses and payments which
have been incurred through the malign operation of
their own evil-doings. But the Government is not
thus inexorable. The Government merely requires
that the Irish landowners shall in future provide for
the destitute population by a judicious imposition
of poor-rates. The Government sees that it
is but fitting that the men who are deriving
their incomes from the muscular exertions, from

A letter from Berlin, of March states that the
trial of the Poles compromised in the events of
February, 1846, is shortly to commence. The in-
dictment divides the prisoners into three categories,
the first of which comprehends all that were led away
by the idea that the Government menaced the
Catholic religion. Against this class of persons the
law officers call for no punishment, considering the
imprisonment which they have undergone as a suffi-
cient expiation of their conduct. It is, consequently
against the other two divisions that the proceedings
are to be directed.

The Frankfurter Journal contains a latter from
Lemberg, of the 25th ult., which states that a conflict
had just taken place between the peasantry and the
soldiers. Great distress exists, and several bands of
peasants were going through the country armed. It
was with one of these that the armed force had come
to a collision. Nothing is said in the letter as to the
result.
The Augsburg Gazette publishes a letter from
Posen, of the 2d, stating, on the authority of some
who had just arrived from Warsaw, that the
reports which have been mentioned of the movements
of Russian troops towards the frontier of the kingdom
of Poland, and which have been contradicted by a
Vienna journal, were well founded.
We learn from Warsaw, 2d inst., that an imperial
ukase has been published there for the formation of a
Council of Commerce and Manufactures.

the toil, and drudgery, and ill-remunerated strug-
gles of the peasantry, should be called upon tor
assistance, when that peasantry has been brought
down to a condition bordering upon starvation.
Hence it is that Lord JOHN RUSSELL proposes the
introduction of the poor-law into Ireland, and there-
upon 107 Legislators adjure the Government to pause
before that measure is forced into an enactment. They
are averse to out• door relief to able-bodied labourers.
Why, what in the name of Common Sense has the
Government been doing for the last six months but
giving out door relief to able bodied labourers ? And•
without doing so, upwards of 3,500,000 Irish must
have died in their cabins, and their decaying bodies
must have bred a plague that would have ravaged the
survivors. But the Irish party, speaking together to the
number of 107, express their abhorrence of all out-
door relief to able-bodied labourers ! Now that
clamour either means that 4,000,000 men shall be
abandoned to death, or that the Government shall
continue to drain its revenues by pampering their
iniquitous and extortionate avarice. Either con-
clusion is as disgraceful as it is criminal and mon-
strous.

The Manheim Journal gives the following account
of the loans contracted by the German States during
the last two years :—Grand Duchy of Baden 14 mil-
lions of florins; Electoral Hesse, 114.; Hanover, 84 ;
Austria, 98 ; and Wurtemberg, 12 ; amounting in
all to 1444 millions of florins (296,250,0001.) To
this must be added loans contracted by Anhalt, Proe-
then, Hatnburgh, and Frankfort. As to Austria, her
loans since 1830 are these :—in 1830, 20 millions of
florins at 4 per cent., at 97; in 1832, two five per
cent. loans amounting to 94,644,000 florins ; in 1833,
40 millions of florins at five per cent., taken at 89/ ;
in 1834, a five per cent. loan of 25 millions at par:
in 1835, a three per cent. loan of 40 millions at 75'
in 1839, a five per cent. loan of 30 millions at par ;
in 1841, a five per cent. loan of 38,461,000 florins at
102; and in 1847, the late loan of 80 millions; mak-
ing in all 368,105,000 florins.

It has frequently been our duty to direct the public
attention to cases in which individuals have been
subjected to serious expense and inconvenience, to a
prolonged imprisonment, and the demoralisation con-
sequent upon the intercourse and communication with
the mast abandoned characters, while detained in
custody, and to the odium and disgrace necessarily
attendant upon a public trial, through the culpable
negligence of the committing magistrate, who too
often receives the informations, and sends parties for
trial, without having such evidence before him as to
afford any reasonable prospect of a conviction. The
Senate has rung within the last week with the in-
dignant remonstrances of Lord BROUGHAM on the
conduct of one of the metropolitan justices, who
committed a child of five years old to prison on a
charge of felony; and on another occasion of another,
who sent three boys, under twelve years of age, to
stand their trial also on a charge of felony, for having
taken the cap from the head of another boy and
flung it into a piece of waste ground, manifestly in
boyish sport. At Chelmsford, on Friday, we
find two persons, a young man and a
woman, /laced at the bar on a charge
of wilful murder, in its most terrific and horrible
form—by poison ; when the first witness, the medical
man who opined and examined the body of the de-
ceased, at once established the fact that there was no
proof whatsoever that the deceased child had died
from any other than natural causes, whereupon the
Chief Justice, as a matter of course, at once stopped
the case, and directed the jury to acquit the pri-
soners. In this case the cause of the child's death
was investigated before the Coroner and a jury, who
returned a verdict, " That it died of convulsions."
The body was opened, and no trace of poison was
discovered ; anti yet, notwithstanding these facts, a
magistrate was to be found, who sent two manifestly
innocent persons to a common gaol, on the most
serious charge known to the law, either from gross
ignorance of his duty, or for some unaccountable
reason. And in another similar case, tried the same
day at the same place, the evidence of the medical
witness entirely negatived the fact of any poison or
corrosive substance being the cause of the death of
the infant, and stated that, according to his opinion,
it might be accounted for by perfectly natural causes.
Under these circumstances the counsel for the prosecu-
tion most properly withdrew from the case, saying
that he could not ask for a conviction. Surely cases
such as these to which we have just alluded are de-
serving of the most grave reprehension. The liberty
of the subject is not to be disregarded in such a
reckless manner by persons clothed with an authority,
for the due and discreet exercise of which they are
manifestly not fitted.

Madrid papers have arrived.
Another Ministerial crisis has occurred. The
Minister at War, General ORAA, having determined
with the consent of his colleagues to dismiss General
BRETON from the government of Catalonia and to
appoint General PAVIA, Governor of Old Castile, in
his room, at the same time conferring the Govern-
ment of Old Castile on General MANUEL DE Li CON-
cub, presented to her MAJESTY on'the 6th, decrees
for the purpose of carrying out- these arrangements.
Her MAJESTY refused her signature to these, as she
did nit approve of the appointment of General CON-
CHA. On the 7th the Duke of SOTOMAYER is said
to have waited on the QUEEN with the collective re-
signation of the Cabinet. It was stated that NAB,
VAEZ and MoN and PIDAL would be the chiefs of the
new Administration, and that BRAVO Mvaitx.o would
retain his office of Minister of Justice.

The following document, addressed by Don
ENRIQUE to the Cortes, is published in the HeraklG:
"Don Eenrique de Bourb in, with the profound respect for
the Cortes which their national mission and noble and elevated
character inspires, says that, considering himself as isolated
and cast into oblivion since the marriages of Queen Isabella
11. arid her august sister with two illustrious princes, he has
decided in this case, and exercising his free right, to follow
in all things the dictates of his own soul, has imposed upon
himself the obligation of not placing his affections upon env,
but a Spanish- lady. The requests he has addressed to Tier
Majesty the Queen having resulted in obtaining the verbal
permission, with all the assurances be could desire, for con-
tracting a marriage with Donna Elena Castellvi Shelly Fer-
nandez de Cordova, daughter of their Excellencies the Count
and Countess del Castellvi de la Villeneuve y Garces, with the
sole condition ot remaining for some time out of the capital,
lie had decided upon having the public and solemn contract
drawn up, submitting to ad the consequences of this mar-
riage. But on the morning of the 7th, although Ilia health
had been suffering since the end of the autumn, and he had
been ill on the preceding evening, he was arrested le sur-
prise, and carried in his bed with all the apparatus of force,
and surrounded by bayonets, to the palace of his father, and
without having obtained permission to take leave of their
Majesties and present his homage to them, was sent off
ur.der escort for Barcelona, where orders had already been
given to allow him only the time necessary for his meal.
He was there charged, in the came of the Minister of Marine,
with a mission for Naples, which would have been an ho-
nourable one if he had been permitted to prepare for it, and
if the means employed to remove him from the capital, his
family, and his country had been milder, and less public—
a mission which would have been honourable if he had been
allowed the suite befitting his rank in the navy, and still
more so as an Infaute of Spain, and if he had been furnished
with the elements indispensable for such missions, and
for the labours, investigations, pans, models, &c., which
have to be addressed to the Government as the re -ult of
them—an honouresle mission if he had not been allowed
too short a time to become acquainted with the modern ame-
lioration of se vast an arsenal as that of Toulon in all its
branches, and with the present system of organisation of
the French navy, which must be studied with care in
order to be able toprepare a proper report, and if he had not
been required to remain an unlimited time at Naples, from
which is expected the important information which is to
raise our navy front its present low state, and our arsenals
from the ruin and oblivion in which they have been left—..n
honourable mission if any importance were attached to the
results which would ensue from an examination of the
arsenals of England, the great maritime nation of which no
mention is ma !e—an honourable mission, in short, if the mo-
tive of an exile long prepared for could have been better con-
s thoseth -
cealed from the nation; and if; in thus removing Doe Henry
de Bourbon from his mother country, his family, and his effec-
tions, an Infante of Castille, h
theelear relation of kings,i had not
outbe compellednsuite,y
and
top
withoutesent i
amnsye I f
otherin fo rresources
nthan
which in a moment of confusion and surprise, and of very
natural regret for his family, his august fattier had been able to
procure for him for his arrival at Bercelona, and his first
exigencies. Reduced as Infante of Spain, and as commo-
dore, to his sole person this order itself proves the impos-
sibility of any good result, and places it in a grave position,
for it-is there said that her Majesty feels confident that he
will fulfil his mission as he ought to do. It is therefore
far from being honourable. It is thus that he has been torn
from his mother country, from his family, and from the
person whom he had chosen to form his domestic happi-
ness, without having taller, into any fault which had
tarnished his honour, and which deserved the application
of measures so little honourable, so severe, and so far
from conciliatory. Strongly convinced that his enemies
alone could hope for a retractation of his public and sacred
oaths, in order that he might lose his influence in the face of
the world, and be regarded as unworthy of his position, and
exposed, from weakness, to every ungenerous and unworthy
action, firm in his noble design, faithful to his word, re-
solved' to seek in domestic life the calm of which he is so
much in reed, and of which he has been for a long time de-
prided ; disengaged from the superstitions of past days, which
are in opposition to the Constitutional system, he has the
honour to make known to the Cortes and to the nation, that
conforming himself to what is prescribed by the laws and
Royal pragmatic, he is decided as a man ot honour to so-
lemnize his marriage with the above-named lady Dona
Elena de Castellvi Shelly Fernandez de Cordova.
" ENICIQUE MARIA DR BOURBON.
"Toulon, Feb. 24."
On the 7th, TRISTANY, at the head of a Carlist
band, gained possefssion of Tarassa, a small town,
eight leagues from. Barcelona. lie was, however,
shortly afterwards driven out by the QUEEN'S troops,
with the loss of 15 men.

Every member of society surrenders a certain
portion of his natural liberty; he binds himself
to submit to certain restrictions, and to contribute
to certain expenses for the general benefit ; in return
he obtains protection for himself and property, and
the entire power of the State is bound to
be exercised on his behalf to protect him in the en•
joyment of his rights. In every case of grave sus-
picion he is subjected to arrest, to be brought before
one of these public functionaries, whose duty it is
fully to inquire, and if there should be sufficient
grounds, to remand the prisoner for further evidence,
but if that evidence should not be of such a character
as to afford a fair and reasonable prospect that a jury
will be thereupon satisfied of the guilt of the accused
party, he should at once be discharged from custody
and restored to his family and friends. Injustice is
seldom committed in the final result. Eminent men,
selected for their learning, hold the scales of justice,
who, recollecting the benign principle of the British
law, " That it is better tha ninety-nine guilty per-
sons should escape the consequences of their crimes,
than that one innocent person should be subjected to
undeserved punishment," instruct the juries that if
they entertain any reasonable doubt of the prisoner's
guilt they should give him the benefit of that doubt;
and if, from poverty or other cause, a prisoner
should be unable to obtain professional assistance,
for his defence, he always finds the presiding judge
ready to act as his advocate, and anxious to dis over
and lay before the jury any favourable or mttigt ting
circumstances. In the earlier stages, however, the
principle appears to be reversed. The moment a
party is brought before a magistrate he is treated as
if he were actually guilty; even before he is com-
mitted for trial he is subjected to treatment fitting
only for criminals; he is not allowed free intercourse
with his friends, nor full opportunity of preparing
for his defence; he is locked up in his cell
at the same hours and under the same circumstances
as those who are suffering the punishment due to
their crimes; he is not permitted to obtain, although
willing to pay for them, the comforts to which he
has been accustomed. If he wants to write on the
most private matters to his friends his letters must be
inspected and read by the prison authorities before
they can be forwarded or received. He
is treated as a criminal and punished be-
fore there is sufficient evidence to warrant
an investigation before a jury of his country. The
law authorises his detention and nothing more, but
the regulations of the visiting justices turn th at
detention into a serious punishment. Surely th Jere
should be regulations-for' untried prisoners w'nony
different from those to which we have referrer?,

The following is an extract from a letter from the
frontiers of Catalonia, dated March 5 :

" It is now impossible to disguise the fact that the Carlist
party seriously iritend again to raise the standard of civil
war in
Spain; • great movement may, therefore, be speedily
expected. It appears that it has only been hitherto delayed
by the severity of the weather and the deep snow which
5011 covers t he mountains. The Carlist chiefs have decided
that their tr oops shall all be clothed alike; their dress is to
be the' blow se, pantaloons of olive velvet, with caps of grey
felt. A. :nerchant of Cerdagne, whose name remains no
longor a r nystery, has entered into a contractfor their supply.
A numbe r of packages of caps have already been sent to the
Carlists. I only state facts to you, which I might multiply,
and whit h are of incontrovertible exactitude. The great
expenses i nto which the party enter make
and it to
the be supposed
that they have abundance of money; resolution
to which , they have come to have a regular uniform leads
one to am ion that they intend to carry on the campaign
or' 'v,"

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Another magisterial practice has Con'44 io light

ligious Worship. He is succeeded in his offices by MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
M. HEBERT. I (From The Sun of last Night.)
The high price of bread continues to produce vr There is a dull market for Cotton at Liverpool on Satur-
day sales about 2,000 bales. Buyers had an abundant
considerable alarm in Paris. On this subject the ehoice, and prices were rather in their favour. The Railway
National says- Share Market was very flat.
The accoants received to-day from the Continental grain
"At this moment it would be useless to dissemble the' markets, notice continued purchases for exportation to Eng-
gravity of the state of the country. The crisis has become land, with much firmness in prices. Up to the 9th inst., the
general, and more than two months must elapse before any weather was milder, and the ice was breaking up, but the
reduction in the prices of corn can.restore activity to Inni_ navigation is not expected to be free again for some time.
ness, or security to Its dealirgs. On every side the rise In Belgium about 100 waggons laden with grain had been
continues to go progressively on. From the end of January seized by the authorities when about to pass the frontier
to the end of February, in different regions, this rise wa into France, contrary to the recent law prohibiting exports.
from 2f. 79c. to 61. 9c., being upon the average 3f. 86e ' Nevertheless, a largo quantity was known to have been con-
or more than double the increase of from December to veyed since the law came into operation.
January. The average price of corn at the end of February The Corn Market dtu not appear to have assumed any
was 33f. 78c. the hectolitre. Since the beginning of March very decided feature this morning. Some parties call it a
this rise has been universal throughout France. In the shade dearer fur wheat than on Friday, but at least it may be
circle of Paris, during the first week, wheats have reached quoted firm, in lb. absence of extensive dealings, for which
from 41f. to 431. ; in the Nord from 38f. to 411.; in Nor- the quieter state of the markets at Liverpool and in Ireland
mandy from 28f. to 401.; in the West from 32f. to 36f. ; will partly account.
in the Centre from 40f. to 411. In the East, in Alsace. i Accounts from the fair of Frankfort-on-the-Oder, dated
Franche Comte, Champagne. and Lorraine, it is still worse. the 21 inst., stated that the quantity of goods brought there
In the Vosges, at Raon l'Etape, wheat has been sold at was 75,000 cwt. The market falling earlier in the year than
45f. 80c. the hectolitre. There has been no fall except at usual, and the scarcity of money and dearness of food being
Marseilles, and there it cannot last. At Dijon there have felt also, caused business to be rather slack. The chief
been no variations of prices. Since that period the state of transactions were in Berlin calicoes, mousselines de laine, and
the markets has become still worse. At Paris, flour, which single dyed woollens. In cloth, buckskins, and other similar
was field at 107 f. to 108 f. the 157 kilogrammes from Satur- articles, there was not much done. Silks were dull of sale,
day to Monday rose between 3f. and 4f., and on Wednesday as also iron and steel fabrics, porcelain, glass, lie. In raw
the dealers demanded front 116 E to 117 f. Certain cheiee products, such as skins, furs, bristles, &c., a fair business was
marks were even held up to from 118 f. to 120 f. the 157 kilo- done
grammes; thus the rate for the assize on the 10th was There is no news yet of the steamer from Boston, but she
671. 27c., which makes bread come to 57c. the kilogramme, ' is hourly looked for.
or neirly If. 15c. the 2ki ogrammes, or 41b. loaf, being four 1 The fineness of the weather. was expected to have operated
centimes higher than for the present fortnight. Out of favourably upon the English Stock Market, aiid at the
Paris, but at our very gates, as in Champagne, for instance, opening there was rather a firmer appearance, but buyers do
the price of flour is from 120 f. to 122 f. the 157 kilos. In the ' not come forward freely, etespite the impression in some
Allier, at the last market of Montlucon, rye was quoted at quarters that the operations for a decline in prices
41f. the hectolitreand wheat at 49f. and 501. And this is the have been carried too far. The continued export
case in all other parts. What should most particularly of the precious metals and the firm state of the corn
occupy our attention is the fact, that we can no longer rely market act very injuriously still upon the value of
upon the home produce for the general supply. Our harvest funded property, because few can predict the extent of the
of 1846 is consumed, and if there be any reserves at all, they drain or the rise that may take place. Evidently from the
are in very small quantities, purchased by individuals at the increase shown in its "other securities," the Bank of Eng-
beginning of the winter for their personal wants. Private land was tolerably liberal in its discounts up to the 6th inst.
granaries are exhausted, and the dealers have no resource Consols after being 881/8 to 14, have just dropped to 87',78
but foreign countries. As we have often observed, the for transfer to-morrow, and time bargains have been effected
nature of things will not permit us to hope that the at 88% to 88. Consols Scrip has been done at Ito PA dis-
arrivals will be sufficiently numerous, and the wheats inn- count. Exchequer-bills are par to 4 premium.
ported considerable enough to put at once a stop to the rise, The Foreign Market has been very dull, and there is no
and then cause a fall before the middle or perhaps the end speculation going on. Spanish Five per Cents. realise 2234,
of June. Two days ago, bargain, were made- at Havre for . and the Three per Cents. 34%. The Deferred have been
the delivery of American flour, at the period we have 16. Brazil Stock is marked 851/e, and Mexican 21%. Dutch
mentioned, at 52f. the barrel, while in January the price Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 57%.
was from 46f. to 48f. London follows in the same progres- Shares are affec!ed by the heavy condition of the Stock
sion. In Belgium we are forestalled, the northern store-, Market, but the sales have not been to any extent, and thus
houses are inadequate to the demands, upon them, and as the decline is rather checked. The settlement is going on
long as this fereign competition shall keep up the prices, it favourably.
will be impossible to stop the rise here. Nevertheless, the BRITISII FUNDS.
arrivals are becoming multiplied, and the Mayor of Havre
has just published an encouraging list of ships laden with
E corn shortly expected in that port. We eagerly accept these
promises, but we must not delude ourselves in the anticipa-
tions of their consequences. The wants of France are un-
questionably very great, though they may be exaggerated by
fear. Many municipalities and private associations, more
alarmed for public order and security than frightened at an
apprehended dearth, have formed themselves into mercan-
tile corn companies, and make purchases at the ports. From
this it results that the quantities of wheat imported, though
presenting an important mass, disappear the moment
they are landed and disseminated throughout the country.
Hence arises a natural consequence ; speculation not being
affected by the importations, as it would be if the corn re-
mained for a time at the port of its arrival, the prices do
not give way, the demands are made in quick succession,
and the high price continues. This clearly explains why,
notwithstanding the numerous arrivals, the prices have not
been reduced, nor probably will be reduced yet. In the
lest case the population is fed, the imported corn is
brought into general consumption, only it is paid dearly for,
more dearly even than it is really worth. We have a pro-
found' conviction that there is no real danger of a dearth-it
has, indeed, become impossible; but we may expect that the
prices will become excessively high. In a word, the
country will have all the wheat necessary for its sustenance,
but it will cost enormously dear. Let it not be said, that
it did not depend upon any one to save France from these
sacrifices. If the operations which have been practised
within the last one or two months had been commenced
in October or November, we should have receives before the
seas were shut up by the ice all the corn we have need of,
and even more, instead of being embarrassed and distressed
in March and April, and even until June, and then find our-
selves in July encumbered with a superabundance. The
dealers would have had enough to supply all demands,
and the prices could not have risen beyond a certain
limit. Corn would have been undoubtedly sold at a
high price, but to the natural causes of the dearness there
would not have been added that panic which creates
factitious prices, and deceives all foresight. If the Ministry,
better informed or more sincere, had not kept up too long,
by imprudent circulars, a deceitful security-if it had taken
the initiative in such energetic measures as provident minds
advised them to take, the evil would have been considerably
alleviated. It is its inexcusable want of care and its igno-
rance which have brought on the crisis. Nothing now re-
mains for the country but to bear the consequence of the
faults committed by its Government. May this be at least
a profitable lesson to all ; and when the evil days have
pas Led may it please Almighty God to teach us to seek
from an experience so severely taught to take all due means
to prevent their return, which would be worth more than
incessantly talking of repression. It is legitimate, no
doubt, to take precautions against disturbances, but the
first duty of a Government is to prevent the causes which
provoke them, and sometimes give them the semblance cf
justification."
From the provinces the accounts of the scarcity
are deplorable. At Bayonne five bakers have been
compelled to shut up their shops, from inability to
procure flour.
Queen CHRISTINA, whO arrived at Bayonne on the
11th, was to leave for Paris on Sunday. .
The Moniteur publishes a dispatch of Marshal
BUGEAUD, dated Aurnale, the Ist inst., confirming
the previous account of the submission of the cele •
brated califa of Ab-del-Kader, Thaieh Ben Salem, of
Ban Chareh, of Medeah, Sid Abderrehaman, former
chief of Dellys, Bel Kussem and his brother Ahmed
Ben Salem, &c. " The arnan claimed by those chiefs
who had hitherto given proofs of the greatest fidelity
to the Emir, cannot fail," says the Marshal, "to pro-
duce a strong moral effect over all the native popu-
lation, who must now renounce the hope of seeing
ABDEL KADER again at their head. The eastern
frontier of the province of Algiers was but 18 leagues
distant from that city; it is now removed to 50
leagues."

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRI 'ES.
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. ex div 87%
Timm, I:er Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 88%14 87% 88%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. ex div 89
I ong Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 ..
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5. 1860 .. .. 9 3-16 9 3-16
Consols for Account, April 15 .. .. .. 88%% 88 88% 88%
Consols, Scrip • • .• • • . 11% dis 1 dis
Exchequer Bills. 134 d. 114 d.
1,000/... .. .... 4 p par pm. par
5001. . .. .... 2 4 1, pm. 1 p
Ditto, Small •—• .. „. 2 5 pm. 5 p
ONE CLOSIN I ,
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'Ci.OOK PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 851 85
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent .. 21% 21%
Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 21%
Portuguese Four per Cent
.. .. Ilk—
-33
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 22% 22%
Ditto, for the. Account • • • • .. 22%
Ditto, Passive Bonds .. .. .. 5
Ditto, Deterred .. • • .. .. 16 16
Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. .. 34% 34%
Dividends on the above payable in Landon.
Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cent .. 57% 57%
Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 5714
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 91% 14 91
PRICES OF BUSINESS CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. DONE AT PRICES
ONE O'CLOCK.

Don ENRIQUE remains at Toulon.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Satur-
day at 77f. 70c.; the Five per Cents., 115 f. 65c. ; the Orleans
Railroad Shares, 1,263 f. 75c.; Rouen, 857 f. 50c.; Havre,
672 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 6131. 75c.; Avignon, 8101. ;
Vierzon, 5601.; Bordeaux, 510 f. ; Boulogne, 4001. ; Troyes
and Montereau, 3001.; Basle, 20,tf. ' • Dieppe, 3251 ; Paris
and Strasburg. 4431. 75e.; Nantes, 442 f. 50c.; Paris and
Lyons, 455 f ; Lyons and Avignon, 4751.; Cette, 451 f. 25c.
MARSEILLES, MARCH B.—Marseilles and Avignon, 825 E ;
Northern, 622 f 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 4901.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TILE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAICU 13.
Boulogne and Amiens, 13. i —Orleans and Bordeaux, 6% —Paris
and Lyons, 7—Paris and Orlean', 481,4 —Paris and Strasbourg, 2%.

THE WELLINGTON STATUE.
70 THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—ln the pending controversy respecting the position of
the Wellington Statue, I beg very respectfully to suggest to the
gentlemen forming the committee of management of the same
the propriety of exchanging the respective sites of that and the
statue of Achilles—a pedestal to be formed on the spot of the
latter of corresponding size and proportion to the colossal di-
mensions of the former.—l am, Sir, &c., W. A.
Furnival's Inn, March 11, 1847.

In consequence of the late debate in the House of
Commons upon the treatment of the convicts at Woolwich,
Sit George Grey has appointed Captain Williams, the In-
spector of Prisons, as Commissioner, to inquire into the
charges then made by Mr. T. Duncombe, and to report upon
the general treatment and condition of the prisoners in the
hulks. The inquiry commenced on Friday last on board the
lastitia hulk, Mr. T. Duncombe being in daily attendance
for the purpose of substantiating his charges, and Mr. C. M.
Babington, the surgeon, is employed as medical referee. It
is expected that the investigation will occupy some time.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges the
receipt of 631. from " G. H. I." for " six years' income-tax,
ending April, 1848." The amount will be paid into the re-
ceipt of the Exchequer.
STATUETTE OF O'CONNELL...—.We understand that
the celebrated Count D'Orsay has just executed a beautiful
statuette of the Lib. rator; it is an exquisite specimen of the
noble artist, and will be sold in this country, arid the pro-
ceeds appropriated to the funds for relief of the Irish poor.—
Tip/sr.:iv Free Press. .
MARIIKAGE IN HIGH LIFE.--Viscount Ebrington,
eldest son of the Earl of Fortescue, was on Friday married
at Came, in Dorsetshire, to Miss Darner, eldest daughter of
the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Dawson Darner. After the cere-
mony, which was attended by a large circle of relatives of
both the noble and distinguished families, the noble pair left
for Dropmore.
CROCKFORD'S CLUB HOUSE.—OH Saturday, at the
Special Sessions fur granting new licenses, held in the board-
room of the workhouse, Mounr-street, Grosvenor-square, ap-
plication was made for a license for the St. James's Assembly
Rooms and Club House, late Crockford's, in St. James's-
street. Mr. C. Clarkson read the petition of the applicant,
which was to the effect that he had taken the premises for
many years, which he bad refitted at a great expense. It
had been constructed for public balls and concerts, for the
amusement of the upper classes, from whom he had received
very extensive patronage. The applicant said that it would
be his constant endeavour to maintain order. He, therefore,
trusted that he should receive the countenance and support
of the b--nch. The chairman said, after some consideration,
that as it was intended to have public balls and concerts,
they must refuse the license, which they did unanimously.
ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY, REGENT'S PARK.—At
a meeting, of fellows held on Saturday, at the gardens of
the society, George Bishop, Esq., in the chair, a lollot
took place, and the following ladies and gentlemen were
placed upon the list of the society :—Viscount Templeton,
NVrn. Sewell, Esq., H. Blanchard, Esq., 11. Wilson, Esq.,
R. Wheen, Esq., W. Thornthwaite, Esq., Henry Goodf,rd,
Esq., Lieut. Fletcher Compton Hayes, Mrs. Levein, Mrs.
Cafe, W. Hutt, Esq., M.P., J. Tullock, Esq., George
Chapman, Esq., J. D. Peels, Esq.. B. Kennedy,
jEswijouC.
Morgan Smith, Esq., Joseph Sykes, Esq. C
nriilge, Esq., Mrs. Grunieg, Miss
S. E.
'A
, A.
J.
Yalpy, Esq., J. Fergusson, Esq,, E. Budd, Esq.. IV. Fin
nellv, Esq:, Ed. Cane, Esq., S. Kennedy, Esq.. E. Bilke,.
J. Mike Esq., George Paton, Esq., J. Williams, Esq., Mrs.
George and Mrs. Basch. The most interesting fea-
ture of the gardens, and, indeed, a novel one in the me-
tropolis at this season of the year, is the large conserva-
tory, which throughout the -winter has exhibited a con-
stant succession of flowers, and has proved a most agree-
able resort for the fellows.
A PUZZLE.--A letter last week passed through the
Halifax post-office, directed to" Mr. John hie Cabegs lane, a le-
fackes." Notwithstanding the novelty of the orthography,
the letter was duly delivcred—according to the direction.
ESCAPE FROM JAIL —On Friday morning it was
discovered that Charles Pye, who had been convicted the
evening previously at the assizes of burglary, had effected
his escape from the jail at Chelmsford. He has not yet been
retaken.