The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1841

For the landlords the Poor-law was passed, and
the Corn-law, which was also passed for them,
is incompatible with it.
Mr. GROTE, than whom there is no honester
man in Parliament, is a consistent advocate for a
free trade in corn, and for the labourer depend-
ing on himself; he was instrumental in enacting
the latter—the landlords denied the former. He
and the Radical doctrinaires, of whom we take
him as the representative, committed a great
error in contributing to throw the labourer on his
own resources before they had released his loaf
from the landlord's gripe. They should have
made the repeal of the Corn-law precede the
enactment of the New Poor-law. The latter
would then have been just, while the compara-
tive small number of poor, and great public pros-
perity, would have rendered it easy ofexecution.
Now, it threatens to bury Mr. GROTE, as a
public man, and all his friends, under its vast
unpopularity.
The Ministers and the landowners are ter-
ribly inconsistent, for they insist on throwing
the labourer on his own resources, while they
withhold from him both food and employ-
ment. They keep him in slavery, and, more
cruel than a West India planter, tell him
to maintain himself. The two laws are incom-
patibilities, and the three years in which, since
the Poor-law was passed, the Corn-law has been
in active and full operation, have sufficed to make
the public doubt the wisdom of the New Poor-
law.

By itself and abstractedly the Poor-law may
be benevolent and wise in conjunction with the
Corn-law, it is a part of that terrible crusade
which the aristocracy have long been carrying
on by law—bringing all law into contempt and
hatred, by making it the instrument to gratify
their vices—against the democracy. It is said to
be intended to make the labouring classes re-
spect themselves ; but, in conjunction with the
Corn-law, it is only an instrument for starving
them into submission to the idle landowners.
We are less surprised, therefore, at its growing
unpopularity than at the support still given to
it by the enemies of the Corn-law. They make.
themselves thereby the tools of the landlords,
and contribute to support their gigantic and
ruinous scheme of social oppression.

We stated in The Sun of yesterday, on the
authority of private letters from Paris, that
France had agreed to sign the last London Pro-
tocol, and to resume her seat in the Cabinet
Councils of Europe on certain conditions, which
were frankly agreed to by Lord PALMERSTON.
These were :—firstly, that the Porte should mo-
dify the Firman conferring. upon MEHEMET Am
the Pachalic of Egypt, more especially as regards
the line of succession; secondly, that the Straits
of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles should be
open to all merchant vessels, and closed to all
ships of war whatsoever ; which were followed
by some minor points, among which was under-
stood to be implied the recal of Lord PONSONBY
from Constantinople. As the answer of the
Porte to the representation of the Four Powers
demanding a modification of the firman, has not
yet been received, France reserves the affixing
her signature to the protocol till it has been
officially communicated to the London Con-
ference. The French Cabinet Council at which
this wise and dignified resolution was taken, was
presided over by the KING, who has the great-
est reason to congratulate himself for having had
the courage, at a time of such popular clamour
and frantic excitement, to call such a cool-
headed and far-seeing statesman as M. GUIZOT
to the direction of the foreign policy of his
kingdom.
The protocol of London, which is dated the
sth instant, frankly and cordially admits that'
MEHEMET ALI has performed with the utmost
good faith all the conditions of submission im-
posed upon him, and sanctions the return of the
European Consular authorities to Alexandria.
It likewise observes that the SULTAN has kept
faith with his. Allies, by bestowing upon MEHE-
MET Am the Pachalic of Egypt; but it carefully
omits the expression of an opinion that the first
arrangement was such as ought to satisfy the
PACHA. Of thin piutv,..-61 a, copy appears in-the-
Augsburg Gazette of the 17th instant, of which
the following is a translation :

" Tke Plenipotentiaries of the Courts of Austria, Great
Britain, Prussia, Russia, and the Ottoman Porte, have a-scm-
bled in order to deliberate on the reports received from Con-
stantinople to the date of the 4th of February, and on the com-
munications exi.hanged between the representatives of the
four allied Courts and the Minister of the Porte. Frum the
ensemble of those communications it results—
" 1. That Mehemet Ali has submitted himself uncondi-
tionaly to his Sovereign, and that he had asked pardon.
" 2. That, as an evidence of his submission, he has restored
the Ottoman fleet, which, after having been handed over to the
Commissioners appointed by the Porte, has already left Alex-
andria, and entered. Marmorice Bay.
" 3. That ail Syria has been evacuated by the Egyptian

troops.
" 4. That the Sultan's authority has boen legally re-esta-
blished in Syria and in the Island of Candia.
" 5. That his Highness the Sultan has condescended to ac-
cept Mehemet AL's submission. by granting to him, his chi!dren
and his family, entire forgiveness.
" 6. That his Highness, yielding to the councils of his
ales, has at the same time deigned to make known the inten-
tion of reinstating Mehemet Ali in his functions as Pacha of
Egypt, with the heirship (heredite) for his descendants.
The conditions which the instrucions bearing date the
15th of October, and the memorandum of the 14th of Novem-
ber, have laid down, have consequently been fulfilled. The
Paella of Egypt has submitted himself; he has restored the
fleet, evacuated the district of Adana, of Syria, and of the
island of Candia, given the necessary oreers for the restoration
of the holy cities, and, finally, a pardon has been granted to
-him after his return to his duty and to obedience. At the
same time the hope expressed by the collective note addressed
on the 30th of January to Chekib Effendi has heen
The counsels which the representatives of the four Powers have
given have been received by the Sultan with that very friendly
confidence will which the efficacious co-operation of his
allies had inspired him. In consequence of this council his
Highness has expressed the resolution of publishing a fir-
man, by which Mehemet Ali was to be granted the heredi-
tary investiture of the pachalic of Egypt, based on the condi-
tions in the separate act of the Convention of the 15th of July.
This firman has been duly communicated to the Ottoman Am-
bassador in London, and conveyed to the knowledge of the re-
presentatives of the Four Courts, after having received the
sanction of his Highness.
" In this state of things the Plenipotentiaries of the Allied
Courts, consii'ering the circumstances which have given rise
to the departure of the Consuls of the Four Powers from
Alexandria, have deemed it a seasonable opportunity to send
back those agents to their post. The Representatives a the
Four Powers at Constantinople will come to an understanding
with that view with the Porte, in order to fix the period when
those agents shall proceed simultaneously to Alexandria.
(Signed) " ESTE MAZY
______ •

" NIEVAIANN.
" PALMERSTON.
" BULOW.
" BRUNOW.

" London, March 5, 1841. " CHEKII3 EFFENDI."
With the above Protocol we have received ad-
vices from Constantinople, of the 24th of Fe-
bruary, which-bring deplorable, accounts of the
actual state of Syria. The following extract
from a letter of that date contains a summary of
the News from Syiia and Constantinople :

" The Syrian mountaineers, exasperated by the rapacity and
lieentiotisness of the Sultan's troops, regular and irregular, but
particularly of the latter, are everywhere n arms, and will
shortly, it is expected, rise en masse to expel from the country
the lawless and insolent intruders who have quartered them-
selves all over it, conducting themselves with the greatest
brutality, and respecting neither the board nor bed of their en-
tertainers. For most of those ruffians are the Albanian mer-
cenaries, whose excesses are too shocking to be detail, d. One
instance will suffice. A Maronite church at Beyrout was,
during the celebration of Divine service, forcibly entered by a
band of these miscreants. The male part of the congregation
were driven out, and many murdered in the struggle which en-
sued. The doors were then fastened, and the woaien subjected
to every species of cruelty and outrage.
"The head-quarters of the Turkish army are now at Jaffa.
Zachariah Pacha, the Turkish Commander-in-Chief, and
General Joehmus, his military Mentor, are both at that place,
and they have been joined there by Ibrahim Pacha, who was
labouring under severe indisposition, and indeed not even ex-
pected to live. The Egyptian army, according to last ac-
counts, was still at Gaza, under the command of Solyman
Pacha. It was said to be still thirty thousand strong, but in
other respects a mere disorganised band.
"The 'furkish fleet, with the exception of the Mahenoudieb,
bearing Admiral Walker's flag, which is at Lampsaca, is all
anchored off Mytelene. It is expected here with the first
southerly wind. The batteries of the Bosphorus have, during
the last three days, been firing salvos in honour of the birth
of another Princess, already known by the name of Behiye.
"In consequence of some suspicion of the plague having de-
dared itself near the village of Fanaraki, on the Bosphorus,
Constantinople has been placed under certain sanatory restric-
tions by the board of health.
" Hain Pacha s been once more received into the Sultan's
favour. Under the pretext of visiting his sister Saliha, the
wife of the ex-Minister, his Highness admitted him to an au-
dience at his palace on the Bosphorus ; so that his speedy
return to office (much to the confusion of Resehid Park-
his party) is now confidently anticipated bv.•-
vverb d o y." and
The Paris Journals f•'.

Sunday have been duly
1r e regret to state that the serious
-.mess of one of M. GUIZOT'S children is a source
of great affliction o that distinguished Statesman.
Few who know the private life of that eminent
man can refuse him in his sorrow the tribute of
their sympathy,
Of political news there is nothing of imppr-
tance in the French i-Journals. The Natio/fa/
reproducesfrom the traitorMncx•ExzlE'sGazette,
published in New York, the litany for a war
with England which, during the ill-starred Ad-

received. "7

'ministration of M. THIERS, appeared in its co-
lumns. This litany, which runs in the follow-
ing fashion :—" In the name of Waterloo
war with England," recounts eleven de-
feats of France by Englpd! Happily for
ourselves, the National may safely defy us
to retort upon France the composition of such a
litany. The materials are wanting to us. We
must, therefore, leave to the National the undis-
turbed glory of singing and re-singing such
litanies, as long as it indulges a humour for such
outpourings of patriotic piety.
Count St. Aulaire is expected at Paris to-morrow.
The sub-prefecture of Alais (Gard) 'has been ♦acant for
eight months. Letters from that place inform us that this cir-
cumstance has a very bad effect there.
The movement of the Sub•prefects continues to be effected
without any publicity. Great changes are announced. All
this indicates a project to dissolve the elective chamber, which
is in vain disavowed or disemb:ed, but which becomes more
and more evident even to the least clear-sighted.—Le Consti-
tistionnel.

A letter from Berlin of the 14th March says:—" A courier
of the Russian Court has just brought to our King the official
notice that the Empress of Russia will arrive at Berlin in the
first fortnight of the month of May, that is after the cele-
bration of the marriage of the Imperial Prince Alexan-
der. The King desiring to receive himself his beloved
sister has deferred his journey to the Rhenish provinces till
the end of the same month. Orders have been given to deft r
till the autumn the grand reviews which were to have taken
place in the southern provinces of the kingdom in the month
of April. The solemnity of doing homage in the Rhenish
provinces will take place at the end of May.
A letter which we have received from Frankfort of the 16th
of this month rays—" The German Diet, struck with the in-
conveniences in the composition of the army of the Confedera •
tion which consists of about 40 contingents, all different in
their uniforms, their arms, and many other particulars, has just
brought forward a proposal to arm and equip these different
corps in a uniform manner. This proposal was unani-
mously approved by the Members of the Diet, and in order to
carry it into effect with as little delay as possible, it was re-
solved to begin immediately with the eight corps, which is to
be assembled in the miring on the Rhenish frontiers for the
grand reviews.—Le Commerce.

Madrid Journals of the 15th instant have come
to hand. The Gazette of that day publishes the
following decree of the Regency :

" Art 1. The revenue-of the different administrative branches
of the department of the MiniSter of the Interior will be com-
prised in the general chapter of the rentei cf the State, on
which the Minister of State will receive 20 per cent.
" Art. 2.—The altninstration of offices and corporations
comprised in the Department of the Interior nil render
monthly a legal amount of receipts and expenses.
" Art. 3. '1 he printing of documents relating to the retri-
bution of the Department of Protection and Public Security
will be at the expense of the general direction of the rentes,
which will render a statement to the Minister of the Interior
of all the accounts of that administration.

" Art. 4. 'I he revenue of the branches dependent on the
department of the Minister of the Interior, will be included in
the general amount of the funds which ate distributedmonthly,
only reserving to itself the sums absolutely necessary to meet
its special engagements, in conformity with the dispositions
of Art. 2.
" Art. 5. It will be the same for the revenue of the dif-
ferent branches dependent on the department of the Minister
of Public Instrue:ion.

Art. 6,7, and 8, are relative to measures of a purely regu-
lating nature.
" The Ministers of the Interior and Finance are charged
with the execution of the present decree.
" Given at the Palace, March 13, 1841.
(Signed) " Duke de la VITORIA.
" To Don Manoel Cortina."

The following account of a disgraceful scene in
a church in Madrid is front one of the Journals
of the lath :

Yesterday the church of the convent of the Carmelite Friars
was profaned by unheard of scenes of violence and disorder. It
being the funeral service for Senor Safont's family a:consider-
able number of persons, bent on curiosity, gained admission to
the church. Towards evening it became necessary to send for
a detachment of troops, in order to restrain the multitude. But
the five or six soldiers placed in the church were not sufficient
to keep down the crowd which was increasing every minute,
and it was necessary to send for some National Milit►a. But
the latter could no more keep within bounds the dense mass,
than prevent the cries and vociferations. When the service
for the eead had reached the second stanza, the music was
obliged to stop, the people having begun to cry out that music
was not necessary, that tor Safont the sound of the ♦oices alone
was sufficient, and it became imperative to finish the service in
a hurry. Senor Posadas, Archbishop elect of Valentia, who
presided at the ceremony, was so frightened at this disturb-.
ance that he fainted away, and he was obliged to be carried
to the Sacristan. It is needless to add that numerous rob-
beries were committed in the church. At the hotel Safont,
distributions cf alms are being made in the name of the son
who escaped him.

Hamburgh Papers of the latest dates have just
reached us. We subjoin extracts from them :
HAMBURGH, MARCH 17. —The Leipsic Allgetneine Zeitung
publishes a circular issued by Baron Von Bodel Schevingh,
Chief President of the Province of the Rhine, in which he an-
nounces officially to the censors of political jonrnals, that his
Majesty (the King of Prussia) has been pleased to allow the
proceedings and results of the Provincial Assemblies to be suc-
cessively.published during] the session, by means of official ar-
ticles in Journals qualified for the purpose, in the place where
the Assembly meets, or in some place in the neighbourhood.
Though the ordinance of the 12th of May, 1826, by which no
communication whatever of the proceedings of the Provincial
Estates is allowed to be considered as hereby revoked, it is,
however, to be understood, that except those official articles
and thust-wtrtermay appear-I-tribe- drum- eari-etec, tirc prititing-
of all other unauthorised accounts of the!discussions in the As-
semblies is strictly prohibited, and the imprimateur is in no case
to be given to such articles.
FRONTIERS OF GALICIA, MARCH 4.—Emigration still
continues from Russia to Galicia, on the froniiers nearest to
Limburg. There unauthorised emigrants often succeed in clan-
destinely conveying their, property, even their cattle,
across the frontier. The Russian Government has complained
of these irregularities to the Austrian Government, which is no
more aisle to prevent them than itself. One of the most recent
notes from St. Petersburgh states the number of these emi-
grants at 3,000, and very earnestly prefers a remedy for th's
abuse. But such persons have been frequently arrested and
sent by the Austrian authorities to the frontier, where the Rus-
sian authorities have refused to receive them.
HarlsuKGH, MARCH 19.—The obstacles occasioned by the
ice are as geod as removed, and the navigation is open ; for
yesterday, besides the steam-boats, some merchantmen came
up to the Cite, for instance, the Eliza, Captain Breckwoldt,
which was the first this year ; twenty-seven sail weighed an-
chor this morning at Cuxhaven, and a little fleet may be ex-
pected to reach the City to-morrow morning. Two Green-
land whalers, and the Hamburgh Packet, Gillespie, bound to
Leith, dropped down the river this morning ; the first that have
sailed this year.—Hamburgh Papers,'March 19.

- - -
HAMBURG BO'ISENHALLE, MARCH 19.
Bills. I%,""eY
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares. ........• ..
Ainclo-Russian Loan 1063 106(
Russian 5 per Cent. ha series, Curtilicate
Inscription, Ist Se:les lOl3 101%
Russian 5 per Mut. Hopc and Co. 3d and 4th
Sei ins ».96%
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pe. Cent 49
Ditto - 5 per Cent ,
rob!) Bonds
Ncw ticket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 133 73.4
14.-twegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent....... —
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. lSli
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, MARCH 19._13 514.—Tw0 months, 13 3%.
PETEnsimitan, MARCH 9.--Two months, 3S pence.
BERLIN, MARCH 16. —Three months, 6. 1834.
VIENNA, MARCH 9.—Three months, 9. 45%.

TRIALS FOR MURDER IN IRELAND.—The
verdict of the jury iu the ease of Hughes, who was teed
last Tuesday at•the Armagh Assizes for the murder of Mr.
Powell, is freely commented on and condemned by the
Mail; while the acquittal of the notorious Sam Gray at
the Monaghan Assizes is regarded with equal disfavour by
the Dublin Evening Post, the Mail's political antagonist.
Speaking cf Hughe,'s trial,
the Mail, amongst a mass of
angry sayings, has the following :—" Another farce, similar
to diet enacted at Tullamoore. has just been played off at
Armagh, and another person, charged with a most re-
volting murder, has been enabled, for a time at least, to
frustrate the ends of justice, through the weak and per-
nicious policy of the Crown. Mme. Powell was murdered
in cold blood, at his own door, in the presence of his daugh-
ters, ore of whom clearly identified the prisoner as being
act;ve in the perpetration of the foul deed. • Another wit-
ness saw the same man retiring from the scene of slaughter
immediately after—and, on his capture, his clothes _were
at first donie to be his. The conclusiveness of the case may be
found to Lear the traces of recent blood,tind these clothes he
jugged of from the fact that, although the Crown, as usual,
declined to exercise their right of challenr, one individual
only was found true encugh to the popular system to hold out
against the conviction of his companions, The construction
of the Jury, however, was sufficient to make it notorious,
from the moment it was sworn its, that there would be no
verdict. Before a word of evidence was given, it was
known to every one in the Court-house that a conviction
was hopeless. We do hope and trust that this gross case
will have the effect of compelling the Crown to return to
their old and constitutional exercise of the right of chal-
lenge. It is the grossest case that has yet occurred. The
Government should send down special commissions for the
trial of those cases in which the Julies will be selected
front the grand panels of the country. This we say will
be the duty of the Goverarneet ; but, at the same time, we
are bound to declare our conviction that, unless the Jury-
boxes cf the country be purged cf itibbonism, no case that
human testimony can make will ever be sufficient to prom
cure a verdict in prosecutions of this description."
In a letter to the Bolton Fi ee Press, Colonel
Thompson, one of the earliest and most efficient opponents
of the Corn-laws,
says the opinion of your correspondent
that "there is no scarcity of food in England or Ireland,
but there is a scarcity of work and wages,
wheressi h to:
purchase the food," I fear may be likened to the same .as-
sertion made in the ease of a beEi ged town, or one where
the gates were voluntarily closed with the patriotic mot've
of raising the price of corn. Of the corn that should be
grown on the house-tops or in boxes at the windows,there would 'always be a f urt..,er quantity which would
be grown if men would give an increased price for it.
Whereon your correspondent would say, the want was
is the work or in the waged. It was some defeat of
management on these points, which did not give men as
much abundance off flagstones as out cf a ploughed
field. For it is clear
"'item,
is soma work and some
wages, which ifsr". 'item, Would enable diem to pay
our raising cern on ilag.stones; what more plain therefore,
than that if it is not done, it is for want of taking measures
to secure this work and wages ? Whether after all, the. e
is not excuse for thinking, that the wages and the hours
worked for them, will have some connexion with the quan-
tity of corn to be divided, is what must be left, as hereto-
fore, to the judgment of the public. In despite of your
correspendeat's barring the plea of impossibility, there are
tougher, when once effectually set up. The fact is,
few thatafter
after all, that it is as impossible the gates of the
besieged town are opened, wages. should be reduced till
men starved as before—as it was that they should rise when
the gates were shut, till they gpe every man as much out
of no corn as out of an abundance. The impossibilities
are preCisely'the counterparts of oue another."
The furthpr consitierati9n of the Railways'
, , Bill is deferred to F! idly, Vd Qf April.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
The Funds were depressed all day, owing, it was gene-
rally believed, to the avowal of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer last night with respect to his having made sales
of Savings Bank Stock to cover the deficiency in the re-
!enue. The jobbers are much annoyed at this course, as
it destroys their hopes of any nice pickings and commis-
sions that might otherwise be got out of a new loan. Tho
expedient on the part of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
is, in this respect, no doubt a good one, as he creates a
certain amount of floating debt which he is empowered
to do, and which he can at any time fund without disturb-
ing or acting violently upon the market for the Public Se-
curities. Mr. Hume, do doubt, looks only to the evil pre-
cedent that might be established. Money Stock receded
k per cent., while the Account price went down / per
cent. ; the former being marked 88i to 88k, and the latter
being at 88i to 88k. Exchequer Bills were dull at ss. to
7s. premium, and the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents.
at 97k to 961.
ry little business was done either in Foreign Stocks
or Railway Shares, which were heavy in value. The
Spanish Active Bonds brought 23-,k to 23 ; Portuguese
New 301 ; the Three per Cents. 181 t, i; Mexican 29k ;
and Colomb'an, 22k ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
were a' 50i.
Great\Vestern Railway Shares were at 23 ; the Fifths
at 5f to 11;; and the Birmingham Thirds 191 prem. Brigh-
ton have been 7 to 74 ; Eastern Counties 15 ; Midland
Counties 211'; Manches'er and Birmingl am 15 to 15k,
and North Midland 28k discount. Australasia Bank
Shares woe 14, and London and Westminster 2k prom.
National Provincial Bank of England New Shares were
at par.
The Foreign Exchanges were firm this afternoon. The
rates for three months' Sills were these :—.Paris 25t. 65c.
to 67kc. ; Hamburgh 13 84 to II; Amsterdam 12 31 to k ;
Antwerp 12 24 to 3 ; Fiatalif)rt 149.1 to s ; and Tricete
10 1 to 2.
'1 he following are the official returns of the exports of
bullion from the port of London, for the weak ending
Thursday last:—
Silver Coin to Cuxhaven 32,000 oz.
Silver Coin to Hamburg!),
Silver Coin to Canton 46,600 oz.
Silver Bars to Cuxhaven 4,000 oz.
Silver Bars to Hamburgh 26,000 cz,

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LtvEaroor.
_COTTON MARKET, MARCH 22.—The sales
of Cotton ibis day have been entii-ely confined to the trade, and
the Market is reported firm at Friday's prices. Upwards of
3,000 bales have changed hands. Speculators and exporters
are inactive.

LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH 22.—The prices in
the transactions reported at the Stock Exchange th s day—
Birmingham and Gloucester, 781/2 ; Chester and Birkenhead,
New Shares, 16% ; Lancaster and Pre,ton Junction, ex. div.,
31 ; London and South Western, 5/. Shares, 40s. ; Midland
Counties, 78; North Midland, Half Shares, 35.1.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 22.—Hu1l and
Selby, 441 ; Manchester and Leeds, Halves, 30i , Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 28 29 ; Manchister and Birmingham, 24a;
Eastern Counties Debentures, tip 6i; Bank of Manchester, 71,
7 3-16ths 7 1-sth and 7; Manchester and Liverpool District
Bank, 10L ; Manchester Assurance, 9.

The Hamburgh mail has arrived of the 19th instant, n•i,h
papers of the same date. Exchange upon London comes the
same as per last post, 13 3i ; Gold, same, 425 ; Metal, 105 ;
Bank Actions, 1610.

We have reeei‘ed Cape of Good Hope papers to the 17th of
January.

LOSS lIT FIRE OF THE BRIG AUSTRALIA, FROM DUNDEE.

—" Clanwilliam, Jan. 12.—A communication has been re-
ceived to-day from Field-cornet Frazer, that a party of men
(twenty-six) had been shipwreeked, and landed in two boats,
16 miles on the north side of the Oliphant River's mouth ;
they had been nine days in the boate, and said they belonged
to the brig Australia, from Dundee, which had taken fire
about 600 miles to the westward of the Cape, and was con-
sumed in two hours and a half."

(Front the Graham's Town Journal.)
GREAT MEETING OF THE CAFFRE CHlEFS.—Several of
the Chiefs again expressed their approval of the new arrange-
ments, hoping they would have a better effect than the old
ones ; and Umkye declaring his willingness to sign the amend-
ments, the other Chiefs signed with him. His Excellency
hereupon again addressed them in a short speech, at the close
of which the Chiefs signed the treaties, and the meeting
broke up.
The papers also contain an extract of a letter from Swan
River, giving a favourable account of the coleny. It is dated
Feb. 5, 1840, and therefore possesses no interest, as we have had
intelligence irom that quarter much later.
The British Funds this morning are not quite so firm as they
left off yesterday, IA 88i buyers for the Account, opened at
881 3; Money 88* left off 88a I. This may be attributed
to the anxiety for the arrival of the President from New York,
which may be lookod for on Saturday or Monday next. Ex-
chequer Bills, 5 7 prem.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, which left off 23k
is a shade low, r, 23k i; Deferred 12i; Passive 511 ; Bra-
zilian 71 72 ; Portuguese same as they closed, 30} 31 ; Three
per Cents. 14- 19 ; Colombia* 21i 22i ; Mexican not quite
so good, left off at 291 30*; at resent, 29k 30; Dutch Two•
and-a-Half per Cents. 503 ; live per Cents. 99i 100.
SHARES.—Great Western f23i 24k prem.; New 11
prem. ; London and Brighton 7k 61 dis. ; Blackwall 5 dis. ;
Birmingham 60 62 prem. ; Southampton i 44 55} per share ;
Croydon 12i per share; Greenwich 8 per share; Man-
chester and Birmingham.l6_ls die.

PRICES OF—SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. P.id. Per Share.
Great Western
Ditto Fifths
London and Brighton

Narth ~

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
National Provincial of England... 35
Ditto New lO -
MINES.

Copiapo
The British Funds have become heavy since the earlier part
of the day, in consequence of the question of Mr. Ilume to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he was applying money
belonging to the Savings Banks to carry on the expenses of
the country; to which the Chancellor of the Exchequer said
that a portion had been taken by Government. fills has
rather alarmed the Stock Exchange speculators, ending that
the Chancellor of the Exchequer has other means of cbtaining
money than making loans.
Consols which were 88% for the Account had receded to
88ii. at present ma) be quoted 88i ; the Money Market also
appears heavy. The business done during the course of the
morning has not been to any extent ; Consols for Money, 88t,
have been 88i ; Exchequer Bills 5 7 prem.
In the Foreign Market very little doing, Spanish Active,
rather lower, 23 ; Portuguese 303 ; Three per Cents. 181;
Mexican 29a ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. nothing
done ; Fivd per Cents. the same.
The Share Market continues inactive ; Great Western
Fifths 9i ; London and Brighton 43 ; North Midland im-
proved to 7l
Consols, Money, 88-1; Account, 134 ; Mexican, 29i i; De-
ferred, 9i ; Portuguese; 30% %; Spanish, 23 I.
CLOSING PRICES.

BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock lndia 5t0ck...... —
3 per Cent Red 'Ditto Bonds dis
3 per Cent Cons BBl Ditto Old Annuities ...
36- per Cent Red — Ditto New Annuities...
New 3i per Cent 96i Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d spm
New 5 per Cent ' Ditto 5001 7pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 9 pen
Jan. 1860 Bank Stock for Opg. ...
Oct 1859
Jan. 1860. — Consols for Acct BBl
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — !Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian 80nd5.......... :Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayrei, 6 per cent 'Russian, 5 per cent
Chilian, 6 per cent...... Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per cent... 22 'Spanish, 5 per cent 23
Ditto, 1824. 22h Ditto, Deferred
Danish, 3 per cent French, 5 per cent. —f. -c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per rent.... 2911 French, 3 per cent —f. —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 24 per cent. ... 503
Peruvian, 182 b, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent

SHARES.
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid ... 8
Great Western Railway (65 paid)
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd)
Ditto Thirds (32 paid)
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ... 24fr
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) ..... 78;
North Midland Railway (100 paid) 716
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—( YESTERDAY).
Amsterdam CF. 12 6fr'Gibraltar 4S
Ditto, at bight-- l2 3i Leghorn
Rotterdam ...... ...2 U. 12 7 Genoa 25 65

Antwerp l2 6
Hamburglt hl. B. 13 H
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight
Ditto, 3 gionths 25 75
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 80
Frankfort on Maine... 1501
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37i
Berlin... 6 26
Vienna, effec. il. 3 M lO 2
Trieste, ditto lO 5
Madrid ...
Cadiz
Bilboa 35
Barcelona
Seville

Milan
Venice
Naples 4O
Palermo, per oz 119
Lisbon
Oporto s2}
Rio Janeiro 2B
Bahia
Buenos Ayres
New York, 21 days' sight 461
Philadelphia 46
PRICES OF BULLIOPt, PER oz.
Portugal Gold Coin £0 0 0
Foreign Gold, bars... 3 17. 9
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 10
Silver in Bars 0 5 0

It is stated, in quarters. likely to be well in-
formed, tint, in the event of a military exi edition being
required to proceed to America, the command of the troops
will be intrusted to Sir George Murray. We, however,
hope that the next accounts from that country will be of a
nature to obviate the necessity fa this or any similar or.
pointment being made.—. Glasgow Argus.
HIBERNIAN MILITARY SCHOOL.—The ma-
terial alterations are three. First, all children who do not
belong to the Established Church are exempted from at-
tending public worship in the Institution. Secondly, the
children of Catholics and Dissenters, in case of illness,
certified by the medical attendant of the Hospital, can be
visited by the Clergymen of their revpective communions
within the Hospital. Thirdly, Catholics and Dissenters
will be at liberty to attend their peculiar places of worship
on all fitting occasions. —Dublin .Evening Post.
The Times is on the qui vive for mares'-nests ;
and has found one in the arrangement by which Sir W.
Parker, one cf the Lords of the Admiralty, proceeds to
Chins, as successor to Admiral Elliot, to whom our Con.
temporary assigns the seat at the Admiralty, to be thus
vacated. We have authori.y to contradict this statement.
—Evening Paper.:
13AD MI NT 0 N, MONDAY.—The Duke of Beau-
fort, AC are happy to hear, hal nearly recovered from 'the
effects of hi 3 accident last week. His Grace purposes
staying here unt.). after the 15th of the ensuing mouth,
with his amiable Duchess and family. There is to be a
meeting of the Noble Duke's hounds on the lawn on Wed-
nesday next.
Dutinitli, HERRING FISHING, MARCH 13.---
The take of herrings this morning was still successful,
some of the boats having about twenty crans, Several
curers from Leith igtve taken up their residence in the_
town, in the expectation of reaping a good harvest; and,
in consequence, prices have risen considerably since yes..er.
1
day ; 20s, to 255. per crap having been given. Tnere are
no beats incepting atm bolongng to Dunbar at thy fishing.