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little of that freedom of action which you claim for your-
selves,—if your past services entitled you to some confidence
in your sincerity when you took a course opposed by a large
number of your friends, Lord JOHN RUSSELL also, by past
forbearance, and by the zealous support which he has hitherto
given to the Government, has established a claim to confidence
also ; and you should at least wa t till you
see what Lord JoHN RUSSELL does, and hear what
he says, before you condemn the step which
he has taken." It should be borne in mind, also, that Lord '
GREY has given a notice in the House of Lords, similar in
terms to that of Lord JOHN RUSSELL in the Commons; and
there is every appearance of the two Noble Lords acting in
concert.
The surprise excited by Lord Jonn RUSSELL'S notice on
Friday last had hardly time to subside among the Members
of the House of Commons, when Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S unex-
pected proposal of a Bill to mitigate the effeets of ad-
vancing disease in Ireland, excited more seriously
startling reflections. While the protectionists have
been consuming weeks and weeks with their holiday
speeches, famine, whose existence some of them affected to
doubt, has been proving itself by the sad consequence of
wide-spreading disease. The details of disease in Ireland,
furnished by the Parliamentary paper published on Satur-
day, are of a nature to excite the most painful and alarming
apprehensions. Will they have any effect on protectionist
politicians ? Will it induce them to abstain from further
obstruction of measures which they cannot prevent, for en-
larging the supply of food for the famished people of Ire-
land? We are unwilling at this moment to say a harsh word
against Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Government. and have
no great pleasure in agreeing with an orator
from the protection benches; but we must say with
Mr. BANKES, that the advance of disease in Ireland
shows how wrong were these members of the Cabinet who
prevented Sir R. PEEL from taking immediate measures in
November for opening the ports. Compared with what
might have been done then, the best measures now will be
too late. But what is offered us now let us have as soon as
possible, and let Mr. BANK.EI use his eloquence and influence
with his party to dissuade them from further factious delay.
Sir R. PEEL has postponed the second reading of the Corn
Bill from to-night, in order that the tariff may be proceeded
with and, if possible, finished to-night. We trust that the
reading of the sad accounts of disease in Ireland will induce
the protectionists to de what in them lies to finish the tariff
to-night, that the second reading of the Corn Bill may not
be postponed beyond to-morrow.

We recorded last week with national pride the activity
and seaman-like work displayed by the officers and crews of
the ships Rodney and Albion, in fittiag out the Bellerophon,
at Portsmouth, and the Calcutta, at Devonport. At
Portsmouth a rivalry seemed to exist between
the different departments in the dockyard and
the officers and seamen on board the Rodney, which
should do their work quickest and best. On Saturday week
the officers and crew were turned over to the Bellerophon,
and on Monday, they went to work, and on that day the
tops and caps were got over, the lower rigging put on together
with the topmast, crosstrees, and caps, the mainyards got
across—all heavy work, says our Correspondent; next day
the rigging was set up, the bowsprit completed, the topgal-
lant-masts fidded and rigged, a number of the main and
lower deck guns got on board, with many other operations
which the common reader cannot understand, and which it
is needless further to describe. It is enough to say, that ac-
cording to the usual calculations all the fittings could not be
completed before Saturday, and even then it would be called
quick work. What was the result? Had our gallant sea-
men or our brave officers become enervated by peace, or less
active in their operations by having no enemy to rouse them
to exertion ? Quite the contrary. At noon on Wednes-
day the Bellerophon; 78, was anchored at Spithead, li
all ready for sea, completely rigged, royal yards
across, sails all bent, three months' provisions on board, guns
all in, in short, fitted for service, and in condition to go
into immediate action with an enemy, powder being only
wanting, and that the harbour regulations prevented her
from taking in. The Calcutta, at Devonport, was fitted out
with the same rapidity and spirit, for between the
two crews there seemed also to have been a
rivalry, and the officers of superior rank at these
two sea-ports on the occasion, as well as the in-
habitants, were alike surprised and delighted to find that
England can yet use so well that arm which has saved her
in every hour of danger. But foreigners, on reading
the accounts, will be more than surprised,—they
will be struck with astonishment that opera-
tions, which in Russia, or Holland, or France,
would have occupied the same number of men for four-
teen clays at least, were accomplished in England in less
than a fourth part of the time. On looking at feats of which
the country has such just reason to boast, it is natural to
ask what reward and what treatment should sailors like these
receive at the hands of Government. When they are not wanted
should they be turned adrift, and handed over, much against
their will, to our enemies? Should they be paid less than
merchant seamen—be subjected to a severity of discipline,
often needless and injurious to the service, and have mixed
up with them the refuse of gaols and the offscourings of the
people? Should they have forced into their ranks the best
of our fisherman Amur the Coasts. as meves,
and be compelled thus to associate with men detained against
their will, and as fully entitled to their liberty as the first
noblemen of the land ? Such, we blush to state, with the
exception of a retreat in Greenwich Hospital, when maimed
or worn out in the service, were the rewards given to
the brave defenders of their country, to the men who
guarded so faithfully the British coasts against all the
hostile attacks of BONAPAaTF, and finally annihilated the
fleets of France and Spain. Peace certainly has mitigated
to a certain extent these hardships—we should father say
cruelties, but still much is to be done ; and naval reform,
if we wish to maintain our superiority, is absolutely ne-
cessary. Their pay must be increased as well as their
pensions; they must be induced by rewards, not forced by
violence, to engage in the service, and on every cceasiob
when a ship is paid off, or the number in active service re-
duced, should provision be made that the experienced
seaman shall find it his interest to remain in his
native country, and still look to it as his home. Onl v
a few hundred thousand pounds a-year would accom-
plish all this, yet that is refused, and economy seems
always, in the most preposterous manner, to be allowed
first to attack the defenders of their country—the sailors
and soldiers. The pay, and more especially the pensions,
are too small ; sufficient inducement is not held out
to respectable men to engage in the services, and the
consequences are becoming more and more felt every day.
The artillery corps cannot be supplied with recruits from
Scotland ; soldiers, who it appears are entitled by some over-
sight to their discharge, for the same reason decline to
remain in the army, and when any large vessel is to be
manned the greatest difficulty is found in getting able
seamen. The remedy is perfectly simple, and occurs to
every man of practical krewledge.

Simultaneously with the progression of the Customs and
Corn Importation Bill, two official documents of the utmost
interest and importance, bearing, as they do, upon the pre-
valence of disease and the scarcity of provisions in Ireland.
have been issued, one by our most gracious SOVEREIGN, and
the other by order of the Commons in Parliament assembled.
And with the publication of these very remarkable papers.
the last rags of hope to which the moat visionary sceptics
had clung are fur ever scattered to the winds ; the great.
haggard truth stands out with hideous prominence befors
them ; the miseries which have been mentioned as propa-
gating among, t the wretched populace of Ireland are not
fictitious in one solitary tittle—not to the extent of a single
diseased potato—not to the extent of a single case of dy-
sentery—not to the extent of a single empty pocket, or a
stomach minus nourishment. On the contrary, the picture:
which have been hitherto drawn of Irish destitution and
Irish wretchedness prove to be anything but over-coloured :
the oratorical allusions through which the English public
acquired their first inklings of the moral hurricane brooding
over our sister island are corroborated by the unanswerable
logic of statistics; the visions which had been evoked by our
statesmen as persuasives to a vast movement, are realised by
these numerical figures, and that with a rhetoric more
stirring and more solemn than could be enunciated by the
most accomplished scholiast—the rhetoric of fact! Never
within the limits of any appreciable record has Ireland been
visited with a more dire accumulation of suffering during a
period of confirmed tranquillity than that under which her
children are now writhing, without solace and without hope.
Committed, for some inscrutable reason, to the spoliation of
a vegetable pestilence, without an opportunity of acquiring
by additional toil wages enough to compensate for the de-
ficiency, their frames emaciated by hunger, or burnt up with
contagious maladies, the Irish multitude are plunged into
one of those woful plights from which extrication is impos-
sible, unless through the interference of the more fortunate and
less embarrassed among their countrymen. We have, how-
ever, so repeatedly viewed the matter in this par•
ticular light, namely, as an incentive to the sympathy, the
generosity, and the justice of Government, that we are fain
to believe any further enforcement of this point to be super-
fluous, the more particularly as our legislators are giving
eve indication of their anxiety to administer comfort -where
it is so urgently required, and are descending from the ex-
pression of sentiment to the performance of acts. Looking,
however, at the two documents before
tions of anything that may have appeared us,
as
Pal".
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tteahi:let;P:Marbyienidsvitrhl3ii-c—khe
over-precipitation on the part
or rather as direct evidence of the
their conduct bas been guided—theyn
importance and require a yet closer examination. The one
presented by command of her MAJESTY is a full exposition of
the rapid and gigantic strides already taken by disease
way of sequence to the tainted esculents with which the lay
bearers had been compelled to appease the cravings of nature,.
in defiance alike of their poisonous qualities and the nausea
produced by their odour and their flavour. From the re-
ports condensed into this abstract it appears that each of the
four principalities partake, and in a great measure, of
the infections arising exclusively from the murrain,
or from the actual non-existence of either nutriti
or unnutritious provisions. The greatest caution, -ow
over, has been observed by the Commission t* more-
their exertions—and this circumstance is con. .areughout
care with which the different medical scat- ~picuous in the
selected. A mere glance at these eight meats have been
fice, in all conscience, to penet• folio pages will suf-
with feelings of commisse,
,tate the most obdurate
and with a real anzietx.
.ation for the sufferers,
to behold thoir penury

E STYN, LONDON. MONDAY EVEN!

alleviated, and their pangs of body assuaged. Colic, typhus
fever, intermittent and low fevers, dysentery of the most
violent description, diarrhoea, and negative indisposition,
such as debility and spasmodic seizures, are rife in almost
every district throughout the length and breadth
of that unhappy land. Only a single county, in
fact, in this mournful catalogue, has attached to its
name the brief, satisfactory and emphatic corollary—. Nil"—
, and that county is CARLOW. That ailments of this acute and
contagious character should be thus prevalent, is, however
matter of little astonishment on turning to the other docu-
ment of which we have already made especial mention—
being a return of the average price of potatoes ix the various
market-towns in Ireland. Comparing the price of that es-
sential commodity during the January of the last five years
—a contrast which testifies in many instances the extraordi-
nary fact, that potatoes are selling in 1846, in
many towns, at snore than double the sum re-
quired during a corresponding date in 1840 ; that a
yet greater number of markets average exactly double that
amount; and that the majority show a vast increase of price
with a correspondingly greater decrease of quality in pota-
toes at the present season as compared with the seven
years preceding. After a perusal of these documents, it
becomes incumbent upon every right-thinking max to strive
individually, as well as in concert with his neighbours, to
further the wishes of the Prime Minister as far as private co-
operation in his measures is concerned : this, in short, is not only
incumbent upon us as members of a body politic, it is our
solemn and bounden duty as men and as Christians. Hence
it is, that we are filled with a more particular anxiety than
ever to witness the proposition that the House form itself
into a Committee for the purpose of taking the condition of
Ireland into consideration, as promised by Lord Joint Rus-
SELL, and the yet earlier movement of a similar character,
as promised by Lord GREY. Sentiment will not suffice any
longer—action, action, action is necessary I

Madrid journals of the 7th and Bth have been received.
We find no facts in them, but as usual plenty of rumours.
Among others, says the Clamor ?üblico, "A personage be-
longing to the Government has received a letter from M.
GUIZOT, in which that Minister signifies that, in the event
of the Trapani match not being accomplished, LOUIS PHI-
LIPPE has determined to promote the QUEEN'S marriage with
the Count DE MorrrxmoLlN." This royal marriage appears
to have been the cause of the divisions in the Cabinet. It
broke up the last, and will probably have the same effect on
the present. All reports agree that the existing Ministry
cannot hold long together, and that the QUEEN-MOTHER and
NARVAEZ are resolved on another change. It was said that
the QUEEN would, in the course of the summer, visit
Andalusia.

On the 7th the Three per Cents. closed at 29% cash, and
2974 at 40 days; the Five per Cents. at 2134 for the 30th
of April.

would not forget the duty imposed on them, not to compro-
mise 1
the hospitality they received. What would be the
feelings of the Chamber, were it to learn that Abd- el- Rader
was receiving assistance from a foreign power? Was there
any one in that assembly but would feel that the interests of
France were thwarted by such a proceeding? He begged
the Chamber not to lose sight of those facts, and of the posi-
tion in which they placed the Government. He was anxious
that those who claimed and obtained the hospitality of
France, should find so good a rule for their conduct. France
wished to be a place of refuge for misfortune, but not a re-
sort for conspirators."—(Approbation from the Centres.)

An interesting discussion took place in the French Cham-
ber of Deputies, on Friday, on the insurrection of Poland,
but, as might have been expected, led to no result. The
question was brought forward by the Marquis DE LA ROCIII-
JACQUELIN, belonging to a family that had displayed the
utmost bravery, and made the greatest sacrifices in the
cause of legitimacy. Often had the people of the West
of France risen under their guidance against the Govern-
ments that had occupied the place of the Bourbon dynasty,
and in several, if not nearly all instances, when success was as
hopeless as the present unfortunate attempt in Poland. The
Marquis, therefore, probably thought he had a right to
take the lead on the occasion, but his principles amalga-
mated ill with those of MM. MAUGUIN, ODILON BAR-
ROT, and other Deputies of the Left; from this cause,
as well, perhaps, as the conviction that nothing
could be clone by the Government, they made but a faint at-
tempt to force on a discussion. The Marquis DE CAs-
TELLAN, though agreeing in the policy of non-intervention,
and admitting that Prussia sought to benefit the peasants
under her rule, complained of the conduct of Austria, which
was quite the reverse, for that power sought to keep up a
spirit of division between the different classes of the people,
the nobles and the clergy on the one hand, and the peasants
on the other. He said nothing of the conduct of Russia;
the remarks made by M. ODILON BARROT were extremely
mild, and formed a strong contrast to the violent attacks
made on iL GUIZOT by the Opposition journals.
"He felt convinced beforehand of the answer
that would be given. He would net make any
remarks to the contradictions .(alluding to M. GUI-
ZOT'S speech, given below) given to acts which, for the
honour of humanity, he would fain hope might prove un-
true, but he would ask what had been the result of the
wish expressed every session, for the last fifteen years, on
behalf of the Polish nation ? Was not, he would ask, tha
conduct of the Government a reproach for that wish, so
solemnly expressed ? It had been said that the spirit
of conquest might lead them too far, but that theory
was not at all applicable in the present case. They had
suffered sufficiently from the consequences of the treaty
of 1815, to be permitted now to claim its execution in
favour of nationality without being taxed with being am-
bitious. It had been said that their protest would be vain,
but it should however be made. He had faith in Polish na-
tionality, and he hoped for its ultimate triumph." M. MAU.
,T,TIII was the only miler epssieer on that side of the ct....ther,
and said that it wits the duty of the Chamber to express its
opinion on the subject, and censured in the strongest terms
the cruel policy adopted towards Poland. M. GUIZOT was
the principal speaker on the occasion, and in order to under-
stand his remarks we give the following brief ques-
tions pat to him by the Marquis DE LA ROCIIEJACQUELIN
" For the last fourteen years," said the Marquis, " the two
Chambers bad expressed their wishes, had manifested their
formal intention to maintain Polish nationality. He would
ask whether those wishes were to be mothing more than an
annual epitaph written on the tomb of the Polish nation?
Had the Government been able to do what had been desired?
lie thought not; and felt convinced that the wishes so often
renewed by the two tribunes had been useless.—(Murmurs.)
He considered there was some instruction to be gained from
what was passing in Poland. Could it be believed that in a
monarchical Government orders had been given by which a
price of 251. had been offered for the head of every noble, priest,
or landowner that might be brought in. He must protest
against such horrors, and would now ask the Government
what it had done towards the accomplishment of the wishes,
fourteen times repeated by the Chambers? What can it do
to fulfil them, now that the remnant of the Polish nation was
suffering under a long and painful agony? What measures
would it adopt ? Would it guarantee that the independence
of Cracow shall be respected and maintained? Would it
guarantee that the action of political vengeance shall not be
substituted for that of regular justice? In a word, what
has the Government done, what will it do, and what can it
do ?"

"M. Guizot in reply said, among the questions that had
been put to him by the Honourable Deputy, that on which he
most particularly insisted related to the policy and acts of a
foreign Government, and not to those of the French Govern-
ment. For that reason he should confine himself to the line
of conduct be had always adopted in that tribune—to speak
of what he knew.—(llear, hear.) If the acts which bad
been reported were true, he would not hesitate to designate
them as deplorable and guilty. To provoke a social
overthrow as a defence against a political danger would be
a criminal act. Revolutionists were sometimes guilty of
such acts—but regular Governments never.—(Approba-
tion from the Centres.) From the information which
had, however, reached him, he had seen nothing to con-
firm the facts of which he spoke, and far from admitting
them to be true on the faith of the journals and the cor-
respondence which had been quoted, he should be more in-
clined to deny them. In order to explain the part which
the peasants of the Grand Duchy of I and of Gallicia
had just been playing, there was no necessity to bring for-
ward guilty suppositions and hypotheses of prizes being
placed on the heads of certain parties which the Hon.
Deputy had alluded to. Since the Grand Duchy of Posen
and Gallicia have been united, the one to Prussia, and
the other to Austria, both those Governments have
used their utmost exertions to ameliorate the con-
dition of the peasants. In the Grand Duchy of Posen,
as in all the provinces of the monarchy, the Prus-
sian Government had constantly endeavoured to improve
the condition of those people, and they had a right to hold
land ; they had obtained special jurisdictions instead of those
under which they had been formerly placed. When, there-
fore, an attempt was made to excite them to join in the
revolt, they had refused, because their situation was no .v
better than it had ever hitherto been, The same had taken
place in Gallicia, where, since the laws of Maria Theresa
and Joseph 11., the condition of the peasants had been
much ameliorated. That was the true reason which had
influenced the conduct of the peasants of Gallicia. There
was not the slightest necessity to bring forward these odious
suppositions of the setting a price on the heads of the nobles
and the clergy; they had stronger motives for their con-
duct, in the improved condition in which they had been
placed. At the very moment when these events were threat-
ening, before the results of the insurrction were know;,, the
Austrian Government foresaw all that happened, and it had
expressed its fears that a revolution among the peasants
would break out simultaneously with anothet insurrection ;
and it feared that fresh difficulties and fresh causes of ens-
barrassment might arrive. This is what was foreseen
by Prince de Metternich, who communicated it to the
French Government. The Chamber might form is opi-
nion on these assertions. He was not charged to defend
from that tribune such or sueh a foreign Government; but
he considered himsel( called upon to dissipate false ideas
and erroneous op;,:alons. lie might refrain from entering
into any furth.'er explanation on the subject; but he we,•„la
not quit the tribune without tkplaining the ideas of the Go-
vernment.—(Hear, hear.) It was not without a deep feeling
of grief, and without a serious conviction that his friends
and himself had, in 1831, adopted and supported, with regard
to Poland, the line of policy which had been followed. The
Chamber would permit him to remind it of tho motives of
their conduct and of their policy--the non-intervention of
France in the affairs of Poland. The interest of France
called for this policy. They thought that after the revolu-
tion of July, France should establish her own government,
and cover with her buckler not only her own independ'en 18
but that of those countries which were closer- ' c-
with her—Belgium, Switzerland, and Pi." .1 conected
tional interest of France imposed tho- -"T.:Aunt The na-
other motive influenced them-jib •
further that •
accepted the state of Eurr`;pe - -'4 policy on them, An=
right of nations. France
maintain good relation. " ~ and it, was a inatter of faith to
the motives which ' . vet en its Governments. Such were
frombe adopted by l' A l'a3t 'determined the line of Pe"; 1.
,refee, and they had betil too often discussed
.sitlake to make it necessary for him to allude
andcelling:itteyellabSrroelad"--
aft, , 9S them on the present occasion,. and now when
abandon it, on motives lets
hthee:ylidwneorte
consider it
the hweasfruia
n.ltsoomfenthteior
PdttcY—ProllnetitY and security at hP mg, and consideratiotu
the first, was not to hold out
r ave and less imperio.,-
those which led to its adopti 'n 1 rid p "e(Sy Ilan
posed on them two duties t:WI ...' 183
htir4n ' - ate
Polesini-
hopes, and the second, to renderthe
patible with the interests of F
such it would continue to be;
of nations. Such had always beenrailti
them every relief cora-
and with the law
to Chet Inheariiilllsohilryateor false
faithful to this line of duty, they , '. whilst they remained
an,: r Une of conduct, and
mini Who Plated themselves .- iiad a right to hope that
alder the protection of France,

The Opposition press, as we have stated, expresses indig-
nation at this reply. The Constitutionnel, more mild than
the rest, thus characterises the Ministry :
" They are Conservatives no longer, as they might be at
London or in Paris, but as they are at St. Petersburgh and at
Vienna. They are of the Holy Alliance and quite Absolutists.
We shall soon see its effects at home. After this fine defence
of the Austrian Government, M. Guizot replied to the
second point, that he intended without any reserve to
pursue the policy of non-intervention, and that he con-
sequently wished to remove all illusory hopes from the Poles
by promising them nothing beyond hospitality. A deep and
painful emotion penetrated the Chamber at this pitiless
declaration."

The Government paper, the Journal des Debate, writes in
a more sober strain :

G, IWA ft CI3 l6, 1848.

mate, and a carman in Mr. Mabley's employ mtrved her goods,
but she could not identify the prisoner. When the goods
had been removed she missed half a dozen spoons, which
were the same produced.
Mary Ann Appleton, living in the same house in Princes-
street that the prosecutrix formerly lived in, identified the
prisoner Trevitt as being the man who removed the goods,
and said that she saw a box with a drawer in it in his
hands. He opened it several times, and she saw that it
contained some silver articles.
Policeman, F SS, spoke to a conversation between himself
and Trevitt, which took place before the latter was taken in
custody, in which he (Trevitt) asked him whether any thing
had been found on Turner? and said that he had given him
some silver spoons to take care of for him. Witness asked
him why he gave them to Turner? and he said, because he
was in a mess about a box which had been lost in moving
some goods, and he did not wish the spoons to be found on
him. He added, that he supposed it would be a Bow-street
job, and he would lose his place and hischaracter.
The prisoner Turner said that he had received the spoons
from Trevitt, who asked him to take care of them for
him. He denied that he attempted to throw the spoons
away.
As the policeman, whe arrested Turner, said that other
charges might be brought against Trevitt, if time was given.
the prisoners were remanded to next Thursday.

" We have just heard the questions addressed to the Go-
vernment by M. de la RochejacqueLn on the subject of the
deplorable events which are taking place in Poland. We
shall not conceal the painful feeling which has been caused
us by this discussion ; the whole Chamber seemed desirous
to bring it to an end. To what have the interpolations of
M. de Larochejacquelin led ? To what could they have led ?
For our own part we did not require to hear the noble lan-
guage of M. Guizot to be assured that the French Govern-
ment would fulfil towards the unfortunate Poles all the
duties imposed en it by humanity and policy. What more
is wished for ? Is it desired that France should interfere
in favour of the insurgents of Cracow, and that she should
go, arms in hand, to act the part of the police and of pro-
pagandism in Gallicia and in the Duchy of Posen ? No—the
only wise and generous conduct to be adopted is that pointed
out by M. Guizot. You cannot, you will not interfere in
favour of the Poles. Do not, then, hold out vain hopes; do
not trifle with their heroic rashness. All illusions may be
excused in them. They are proscribed and exiled ; they
have lost their country. Nothing can be more natural than
that at the slightest movement they should consider it ready
to revive. If they deceive themselves, no one has a right
to reproach them with an error for which they pay with
their blood. But you—what do you desire ? To push them
into dangers which you will not share with them ? To en-
courage them in esterprises, the success of which even in
your own eyes is but chimerical? We beg pardon of M.
Odilon Barrot, but that would be barbarous conduct, anti as
contrary to the dignity of France as to the law of nations. We
shall not dwell on the details of this discussion, which was,
to say the least, inopportune. We shall not recur to the
frightful massacres of Tarnow. We choose rather to refer
our readers to the speeches of M. Guizot and M. de Castel-
lan. Discussions do not take place when events are scarcely
known—when, perhaps, blood is still flowing. The misfor-
tune of the Poles is too great, and even in their illusions they
deserve too much respect, for their cause to be given over to
party dispute. Let it be sufficient for us to state that not a
voice was raised, even on the Extreme Left, to call for an
armed intervention. The moment will arrive to determine
whether the best means to be adopted to pacify Poland will
not be to restore to her the remnant of national existence
guaranteed by treaties, of which force has deprived her, but
to which she is entitled by right."
The following are the only other extracts from the papers
lof interest :

" A letter from Vienna of the sth, in the German Journal
of Frankfort, states that the French Ambassador there, the
Count de Flahaut, had used his good offices with the Austrian
Government to induce it to show clemency to the insurgents
of Cracow, and had so far succeeded as to receive an assur-
ance that, if they submitted in proper time, an amnesty
should be granted.
"A Berlin letter of the Bth, in a Frankfort journal, states
that the three protecting Powers will keep up the force which
had been sent into the Polish provinces, until the revolt is
entirely put down. Prussia, Austria, and Russia will, it
adds, act with the greatest leniency towards the individuals
who have been led to take part in the movement, but will
adopt the severest measures against the leaders of the revolt.
"The National says :--‘ \ire have received through a channel
on which we can place confidence, news which is very favour-
able to the insurrection. A division that had advanced into
the Carpathian mountains, entered into communication with
Hungary ; and two important Comitats of that country have
risen. The movement continues to penetrate into Lithuania,
and presents to Austria a character so general, that the most
extreme measures are taken to prevent the real state of things
from being known.'
" A letter from Coblentz of the 11th states that the reign-
ing Duke of Saxe Gotha will set out in the course of the
month for Spain and Portugal. The King of Naples, it
adds, has broken off all negotiation relative to the marriage
of the Duke de Trapani with the Queen of Spain, in conse-
quence of the protests on the subject which have taken place
in the Spanish Cortes.
"We learn from Rome, 28th ult., that the Grand Duke
Constantine of Russia visited the Pope on that day. The
interview was exceedingly cordial, and after the usual cere-
monies of reception, the Pope and the Grand Duke were
closeted for nearly half an hour. At the close of this con-
ference, to which only the Count de Boutenieff, the Russian
Ambassador, was admitted, the Grand Duke presented the
gentlemen of his suite to his Holiness."

The Three per Conte. closed at $4l. sc. ; the rive per Cents., 1191.
95c.; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,322 f. 50c ; Rouen, 1,065 f. ; Havre,
757 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 787 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 9901.; Viertoa, 7651.;
Bordeaux, 676 f. 25c. ; Boulogne, 5221. 511 c. ; Troyes and ISiontereau,
442 f. 20e. ; Bade, 2471. ioc. ; rampoux, 4601. ; Dieppe, 4801.; Paris
and Sts•asbnrg, 546 f. 25c. ; Tours and Nantes, 575 f. • Paris and Lyons,
definitive, 622 f. 50c.; Spanish Three per Cents., 37( ; Spanish Pas-
sives, 5%.

The following are the quotations for other lines :
Lyons and Avignon, definitive, 566 f. 25c. ; Bordeaux and Cette
(Mackenzie), 503 f. ; ditto (Espeleta), 509 f. ; Charleroi, 496 f. 50c.
Maitszti,Lgs, bream 10.—Marseilles and Avignon, 9951.; North-
ern, 785 n _ .

i:Y.11;. MARCH 12. and kvignnn. 9G5r. Paris and
Orkans, 1,224 f. 75c.; Ronan, 1,023 f. 75c.; Lyons, 616 f. 75c.;
ti lemon, 740 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 14.

Dutch Rhenish, 6% —East Indian, %—Great Northern of France
Constituted, 1614—Great Western Canada, 3%—Luxembourg, 1
—Orleans and Bordeaux, 12%—Goer Yeeel, 24 dia.—Sambre and
Meuse, 41/2.

HOUSE OF LORD-S.-(THIS DAY.)
The House sat to-day in a Committee for Privileges. The
Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftes-
bury, Lord Brougham, Lord Hood, the Earl of Ranferly, Lord
Byron, the Earl of Redesdale, the Earl of Falmouth, Lord
Colchester, and the Earl of Selkirk.
_ _

Idiateu 13.—Ths Mary Hudson has stopped her leak, and
will proceed.
SCARROROVOU, MARCH 14.—ths Britanffia, Brewis, of South
Shields, &Ili i 4 Gironde, Moon, of SuadeflMisd, Were in contact this
nadtiiihg tO the southward ; the former was abandatiod In a sinking
state, and the latter subsequently foundered off Scarborough Castle ;
both crews sated.
JEasinr, Meatit 12.--Slcl. c: T. Sutton, j4e Beutelleir, Pernam-
buco. 13. Pallas, Langlers, Ne*fotiridland.
3laacn 15.—Wind "W., light.—Acrd. 14. George Can-
ning, Nay James Ray, Hanford, Valptifaito ; Leone, Redmond,
Jamaica ; Unicorn, 'rouge% Jamaica ; Isabel, Griffiths, New Or-
leans ; Sardinia, Crocker, Mobile; Mary Havington, M'Fee, Charles-
ton; Wsterlilylphtin, Newfoundland ; Cambria steamer, Boston.

GENERAL ANNUAL LICEI4BINO DAY FOR THE CITY.—
, This morning a general annual licensing meeting for the City of
London was held at Guildhall, before the Lerd Mayor and Aldermen.
There Wad a ldng list of houses against 'which complaints had been
made, but the nature Of Which did not transpire, the parties being
told as they applied that titeY ittilat come up again on the adjourn-
!VlM dafvf Wt,el the petitions for tleW licenses will be heard. The
actiournmeni Clias;; Axed for Monday next, at ten o'clook.
SACRED HARMONIC eQVIETt,—A selection of an-
- ^athedral music is to be Performed on Friday next. The
themi arts.necimens of the Werke of the beat English
programme comprise+. 1800.
masters, from the Reformation . -The Right Honour-
PRINTER/4 PENSION SOCIETY.— 'lnn made to him
able Lofd t'udley Coutts Stuart has, upon applica.—. - ^onsent to
by the Cothrnittee of this excellent society, intimated kin ' ",e
take the chair at the approaching tuntiVeriary dinner in aid Ot
funds of the institution, Which is announced td be held at the London '
Tavern on the 18th of May next.
ROYAL ARTILLERY.—WOOLWICII GARRISON', MARCH '
14.—Major-General Sir Robert Gardiner, K.C.8., will, it is rumoured,
succeed Lord Bloomfield as commandant of this garrison.
TIIE DRITRY.LANE MURDER.-,William Wicks, who
was found guilty of murdei, and eentencad to suffer the extreme
penalty of the law, was not executed this morning,
was generally
expected. It is stated that a strong memorial, coupled with evidence,
as
has been presented to Sir James Graham relative to' the previous
upon the
state of the convict's mind, and that a searching twill,'
00400 t Ia i 0 Mina goialg OR.
•

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were
2,000 to 2,500 bales, including 350 American for export, and
700 on speculation. The market was steady. There was
considerable activity in the Share market, and a good busi-
ness was done. The Scrips were advancing.
The letters and papers delivered this morning from the
United States, brought by the Cambria steam vessel, are,
upon the whole, considered satisfactory. Great expectations, the
mercantile writers say, are entertained that war would be
avoided upon the Oregon question, the more so as the intel-
ligence received oat from England of the propositions of the
Premier to reduce the tariff so materially, especially in favour
of the produce of the republic, continues to be applauded to
the echo. From Canada we learn that much interest was
felt for the opening of the United Legislature. A change in
the Council was fully anticipated. The weather had again
become very mild. The ice on the St. Lawrence was just off
in the vicinity of Quebec, but the channels opposite were
clear—a most extraordinary circumstance—the season
of the year being considered. In all the principal districts of
Canada, and other British North American Coloiies, the pro-
jection of railways was a topic of most earnest consideration.
In the year 1844 and 1845, it appears from official returns
that the number of vessels built at Quebec was 17, of the
aggregate tonnage of 11,770 tons.
Contrary.to the expectation entertained at the commence-
ment of business in the English Stock Market this morning,
Consols have receded in value. The first impression was that
the news from the United States would have lifted up prices.
The opening prices were similar to those which were paid on
Saturday afternoon, but soon afterwards the Bear party com-
menced operations, and the result was that for the first
transfer to-morrow the quotation of Consols fell to 95%, and
for the Account from 96% to 964. India Stock is quoted at
260, and Exchequer Bills at 375. premium. There have not
been any other prices noted this morning.
In the Foreign Stocks there has not been any feature of
importance this morning, if we except a rise in the value of
Portuguese from 56 to 57. We have not heard of any infor-
mation from Lisbon to account for this change. Spanish
Actives remain at 26 to 261,i, and the Three per Cents. at
36%. Brazilian Five per Cents. have been done at 83 ;
Mexican at 31% •, and Peruvian at 364.
The Railway Share Market is rather more firm this morn-
ing. The accurate list of prices are annexed.
BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 96% 95% 96
Bank Stock for Account .. 211
Consols for Account • • • • .. 96% % % 961
India Stock for Account .. .. 260 260
Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%cl.
1,0001. .... 37 pm. 34
Ditto, Small .... 34 37 pm. 37
ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 pet Cent .. .. 83 83
Mexican Bonds, 1837, per Cent .. 31% 31
Ditto, for the Account .. • . 31% 31%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent. .. .. 36
Ditto, for the Account • • • • .. 36% 36%
Portuguese Bonds, b per Cent .. 78 78
Ditto, 4 per Cent .. • • .. • • 56% 57 57
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 26% 261,E
Ditto, Coupons .. • • • • .. 21
Ditte, Three per Cent .. 36% 36%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentee, 5 per Cent .. —f. —c. Il9f. —c.
Exchange —f. —c. 25f, 70c.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent ..
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certiticattli .• 95
PRICES OF BUSINESS PAID. DONE AT CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.

Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction .. .. .. 2% .... 1% .
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 2% .......... 214
Bristol and Exeter .. .. .. 70 .... 83 ........ . 83
Ditto New .. .. .. . . 5 .... 9% 10 ...... 10
Buckinghamshire .. .. .. .. 425. .... % % db 1.... • • % die
Caledonian .. .. .. .. .. 10 .... 11% 4N.. . . . . 11%
Ditto, Half Shan .• .. .. 2%.... 2% • 2%
Ditto, Extension .. .. .. 2% .... 1 li lli
Cambridge and Oxford.. .. .. 1% .. .. .. • • ...... ii
Chester and Holyhead .. .. .. 20 .... .. ........ 19%
Churnet and Blythe .. .. .. 2 .. .. Ili ..... ..... 1M
Direct Manchester (Remington's) 2% A 7's
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .. 514( .. ..
Direct Northern ~ ~ .. .. 2% .. . . 24 2 2%.... 2
Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 5 .. .. 3 .......... 3
Dublin and Galway ......4 .. .. 2 . . 2
Eastern Counties .. .. 141. 165. .... 21M 21 .... - 21
Ditto New .. .. .. 81 Ns.
Ditto, York Extension .. .. 10s. .... 11,E %
East Lincolnshire .. .. _ 1m.... — ,
... 1%
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester —2% .... Ili.. . . .
Glouc., Aberyst., & Cent. of Wales 1% ;t ......... - %
Goole, Doncast., and :•hefileld, Ace. 425..... p % p
Gt. Grimsby, Louth, flora., &c... 42d. .. .. % dis ...... % die.
Great Western .. .. .. .. 85 .... 145 .... .... 145
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. .. 40 .... _ ..... ... 82
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 5 .... 16% ...•• • . . . 16%
Guildfbrd, fareham, &Portemoth 5 .... 4% .......... 4%
Hull and Selby .. _ .. $O ....101 . • 101
Ipswich, Norvvich, and Yarmouth 2 .. • • A
Lancaster and Carlisle .. 4, 35 ... . .53 ... . 53
Ditto, New .. .. .. ~ 5 .... 9% io M .... t 0 4
Leicester and Birmingham .. 225. .. .. % die ...... N dis
Leicester, Tamworth, &c.
Liverpool and Leeds Direct .. 2% .... 2% lA • • ...... 21,4
Liverp.. Mauch., & Newc. Junct. 2% .... ••• • • .
London an i Birmingham ... .100 .. .. 219
Ditto Thirds .. .. .. .. 16 .... 49% . 49%
Ditto Quarters ........2 —.. 26% .... .... 261%

Ditto Fifths 2 .. .. 33 33
London and Black wall .. 161. 13s. 4d. 8% • • . 8%
London and Brighton .. 50 .... 64 63% 6414 .. 641
London and Croydon .. 131. 15s. 9d. 22 21% 22% 21%
London and Greenwich 12/. 15s. 4d. 9%%.
London and Solith-Weeern.. 411. 63. 10d. 77 75% ...... 75%
London and York .. 4... 34% ........ 3%
. Ditto, Half Shares • • .. 2% . I • 25 .•••• • • • • • 2%
London, Warwick, & Kiddermins. 21/9 .4 ..., .. 1
Lynn and Ely .. .. 10 .... 9% • ,
Manchester and Leeds .. .. 82 ....130 ...... 180
Ditto, Fifths .. 2 .... 12% •• • • ...... 12%
Ditto Extension 425..... 351 p... .
Manchester and Birmingham 40 ....
Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) .. 4 .... 12 4.•... • .. . • 12%
Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) . • 2 .... 10 ~
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) 1 •• • • S .. ••• • • •
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .. • • 1% % p• •
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 ....
Midland ..100 ....146 145
Ditto, New .. .. 18 .... 305/9 . 31
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 108 .... 117
Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 25 .. •• • •• • .
Ditto, New . 1 .... 91,{ %
Ditto, New, Brandling .. 20 .... 30
Newcastle and Berwick .. 10 .... 19% %••• • ..
North British . .• .. 20 .... 27 26%
Ditto, Half Shares .. 6 _
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 114 2% %.. •
Ditto, Dalkeith .. 25 .... 30
Northern and Eastern .. 50
Ditto, New • - • • • • .. 1 •• .. 13 ...... •• • • 18
North Kent and Direct Dover • • 21,1 ...• 214 2.. 2
North Staffordshire • • .. • • 425. • 3% % p.. • • 3% p
Northinpton,Banbury,&Chelthm. 2 .... ... 1%
Oxfd.,Worcester, & Wolverhmptn. 1231 12% % 12%
Perth and Inverness • • .. 2% 1%
Portsmouth Direct! .. • • .. 3% 314 • 3ki
Preston and Wyre .. • • •• 25 .... 34%4 ..... 34%
Scottish Central .. . 7%.... 14% 14 .... 13%
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 231 .. . • 3 ••.. • • • • 21
South Devon 35 .... 33
South Midland 425. .. • • 14P.•• • • • • • 114 p
South Eastern and Dovor 33% ...... • •
Do., New (do. 331. 65.8 d.) No. 2. 10 .... 11 ...... 11
Do., New (do. 30/.) .. No. 3. 15 15%
South Wales 5 .... 45¢ 4• •
Tean and Dove Valley— .. • • 1% •• • 34% •••• • • • •
Teing, Reading, and Basingstoke.. 5%
Vale of Neath 4, .4 , 2 .... 2
Waterfd., Wexfd., Wick., & Dttb. 154 , • •
Welsh Midland .. 251 . . l5l
West Riding Union • • • • .. 425. •• • • Bp. •.•• • • • • •3 p
York and North Midland .. .. 50 ....
Ditto, Scarborough Branch .. 25 ....
Do. E. and W. Riding Exten... 1
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. 10 .......... 11
Bord., Toni., & Cette (Mackenzie) 2 .... 2 ..
Ditto, ditto (Espelete) .. 2 .... 2% • •
Dutch Rhenish .. .. 5 .... 634 6
East Indian .. . ss. %
Grt. North. of France Constituted 5 .... 16%54
Great Indian Peninsular .. ss. • • 54
Great Western Canada .. .... 3% % .......
Jersey .. 1 5 54
LuxeniboUrg 4 .... ..........
Madrid and Valenti& , 2 . 1
Orleans and Bordeattit .. 6 .... 12% ........ 1231
Sambre and Meuse . 6 ,• .4 4% .
JOINT-STOCK 11A.NK8.
London and Westminster .. .. 20 .... 2651 27 x.d 27x.d
Provincial of Ireland • • • • .. 25 .... 4814
ALINES.
Real del Monte, Vnreglitered , . —3% ••• • • • •• • 3%
United Mexican 281. 2s. 814 d.. 4% .. •••• • • • - '434

LLOYD'S SHIPPINti-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MARCH 16.—Wind s.S.W., frets!' gale, and cloudy,
DRAL, Melton 15.—Wind N.N.W. to W.S.W.—Arrd. Charles
Kerr, Hart, Honduras; Cynthia, Goldsworthy, —; Concordia.
Bahia ; Antwerp, New Orleans. Arrd. from the River, Pysche,
Irving, Hobart Town • Lady Clarke, Lawrence, Madras; Trafalgar,
Richardson, and Arnalo,Carnich, Rio Janeiro. 14. Put back, Druid,
Barbadoes ; Ellen, Demerara.
Conk, MARCH 12.—Arrd. Ohio, Ellis, New York ; Clenelg, Martin,
Liverpool, Charleston, out 32 days, leaky, and rudder damaged.
Sld. William J. Romer, M`Guire, New York.
KINSALE, MARCH 11.—Wind E.—Arrd. Winipiac, Mitchell, New
York, with cargo shifted, loss of bulwarks, and with a list.
DUMFRIES' MARCH 14.—The Belle, Knight, of Padstow, from
Newport to Ardroonian, put into Carsethorn, yesterday, after being
on shore near Soatherness Light-house, and throwing "part of cargo
overboard.