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LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1846.

.14:caie of considerable interest, involving the question
of the privileges of the City of London, was heard before
the Learned Recorder on Monday last, in continuation of
proceedings commenced on the previous Monday. It
was an action brought by the Chamberlain of the City
of London, in his official capacity, against a Mr. STUnT,
a highly respectable gentleman, trading as a wholesale
warehouseman, dealer, and chapman, at 90 and 91,
Wood-street, City, to recover certain penalties alleged
to have been incurred by him for carrying on such
business within the City, without having first taken out
his freedom.
Although the amount sought to be recovered was
only 51,, yet the principle was looked on as so impor-
tantithat the plaintiff secured the valuable services of
Sir rruontss WILD; while the defendant was supported
b.
y the Solicitor-cieneral As might, therefore, have
boen expected, all that
o legal ingenuity could possibly
effect was either
was exerted i*r side. The entire of the
fiat day and a considerable
consumed in the considerationpo
of certain
of the second was
ctertain technical points
respecting the constitution of he jury
before whom
the case was to be investigated, and which,
front the ability with which it way argued, a d
the man-
ner in which it was finally pi eed upon tl.e record for
the purpose allaying the opinion of a higher tribunal
taken, in the event of the decision being unfavourable to
the defendant, must be highly interesting to the profes-
sional reader; but, to the public generally, the important
question was, whether au bye-law of the Cor-
poration can take away the common law. right
ct the subject to have a trial by his peers,

' and by those uninterested in the matter
in dispute, of any- question affecting his person or pro-
play, and more particularly so when those proceedings
are of a penal character. We have here the Corpora-
tion of London the complainants., and we have the chse
tried in thOr own Court, before their own officer, who
was appointed by themselves, whose express duty it is
to support their privileges, and who, as he stated him-
self, might have to defend elsewhere, in his official
capacity, the right of the Common Council to pass the
bye-law on which the entire proceedings were founded.
Here, then, in the first instance, we have a Court
which must necessarily be prejudiced, any decision of
which in favour of the defendant might hereafter be pro-
duced when the Learned Recorder was arg:iandgnoas an
w to
advocate fur the very privileges on which he
decide as a judge. Again, the jury, whose
to decide on the evidence, and to return a verdict ac-
cording thereto, were empanelled
from amongst the
duty it was
for "
body of the complainants, and of course
a m
interestedoinenit that
nthae
result. Let it not be supposed t
we impute any partiality
either to the Recorder
who presided, or to the respectable and upright gentle-
o.rtanFcear mfrigohint siaft, ey
ha fe:, el
that
m
gentle-
men
awho
ecoonfstifartutexcilvattheer jimuryp
been left in their hands ; but if the principle be once
admitted, the grand palladium of British liberty, the
trial by an uninterested jury, is infringed upon. The
point might arise under circumstances far more unfa-
vourable to a defendant than in the present instance,
and we must protest against the existence of a power
so contrary to the first principles of natural justice of
the constitution under which we live—it is not because
the practice has existed for centuries that it is to he
permitted to remain in force, when its injustice, its
impropriety is so manifest. Happily of late years the
rust of antiquity has furnished no defence to acknow-
ledged abuses. The Reform Bill, and other valuable
enactments recently passed, show the existence of a dif-
ferent feeling in the Legislature ; and we are quite sure
that, if unfortunately the decision of the Court overruling
the challenge of the jury in this case, should be well
founded, a prompt legislative remedy will be applied
to abolish so mischievous a right ; for the present, how-
ever, the case must remain in abeyance, the decision of
the jury in favour of the defendant obviates the neces-
sity of his taking the case before a superior Court,
perhaps, that of ultimate jurisdiction, the House of
Lords, as we are assured by the Solicitor-General
he would have done if adverse to him. Mr. STURT
deserves well of the public for the spirit and liberality
with which he defended their social rights
when attacked in his person, and we hope
that whenever this question may again arise, the then
defendant may be actuated by a similar spirit.
We are no enemies to the Corporation of London.
We hope they may long possess the immunities and
privileges which they have so long possessed, and which,
for the most part, they have exercised for the benefit,
not only of the citizens, but of the nation in general.
They have in all great questions been gem rally found
arrayed on the side of constitutional freedom. No
voice has been more loudly raised for the re-
moval of all civil and religious disabilities, and
the extension of equal rights to all classes of their fellow-
subjeets. None more loudly called upon the Legislature
to purify one of its branches from the excrescenc.s which
during a series of years had arisen, and which rendered
it not a just representation of the people, as it constitu-
tionally ought to have been. None have more loudly
called for the admission of cheap food, the removal of
all restrictions on commerce, the prostration of monopoly,
the abolition of what has been termed protection to agri-
culture,which we have the valuable authority of the Prime
Minister, supported by the great majority of the intelli-
gence of the country, for designating tie not teen ly im-
politic, but also as unjust ; and why should a body, so
conspicuous for their intelligence and liberality, seek for
their own benefit to furnish an argument to the oppo-
nents of free trade? Why should they, the head of the
greatest commercial body in the world, suffer themselves
to be put forward as desirous of enforcing some
of the antiquatedi:restrictions on commercial enterprise?
If it was competent to one Common Council to
grant such a bye-law it is competent for another to
carry
.its repeal. We trust that the Corporation will
be the first to set the example of rescinding such of
their privileges as may rot be for the public benefit,
and that ere long a motion for such a purpose may be
brought forward by some of the free-traders who are
members thereof ; if not, we trust that the attention
of the Legislature may be called thereto, and that we
shall have the great principles, the adoption of which
by the Legislature has rendered this session so remark-
able, speedily extended to the removal of such privileges
of the Corporation as may be found to press unfairly
upon their fellow-subjects.

The battles on the Sutlej, and the policy adopted by
the Governor-General previous to the invasion of the
Seikhs, for a short time formed topics of discussion in
the public journals, but the rapidity of successive victo-
ries, the happy result of the highest military skill, com-
bined with the bravery of the Britiph army, and its
auxiliaries, and the unexpected occupatibn of Lahore,
completely silenced the murmurs of thii disappointed,
and, taking all circumstances into account, the
conduct of Sir HENRY HARDISGE met at last with
very general approbation. The themes, however, are
again brought before the public in the reviews
and magezines, and the main topic for discussion is—
was the Governor-General just;fied in maintaining only
a small force on the banks of the Sutlej, unequal to
repel a large army of .seilds, who might or might not
invade the British territory on the left bank ? Witl‘
one exception, as far as has fallen under our observa-
tion, the question is decided in the affirmative, on the
ground that we bad no right to invade the Punjanb.
and that the assemblage of a large force between Feroae-
pore and Locdisnah would have been an immediate
challsnge to batt!e, which the Seikhs could not refuse.
This appears so evident, that the parties hostile to the
peaceful policy of the Indian Government, but whose
ire is entirely directed against their distinguished re-
presentative in Hindostan, cannot deny the conclusion,
and therefore have recourse to another ground of ac•
cusation, and blame the Governor- General, because
he is not a prophet, and could not foresee, what to
these wiseacres appears, after the event, a fact
about which a sound statesman and a prudent general
could not possibly have had any doubt. Sir HENRY
HARDINGE is, therefore, denounced by this party as the
most dangerous Governor ever sent out to the East, as
totAly unfit for his situation, and the India Board as well
as the Home Government are, with all due solemnity.
warned that to them will he owing the loss of our Indian
possessions, if they do not forthwith supplant this Quix-
otic ruler. These attacks, made in a periodical that occa-
sionally obtains correct foreign intelligence, would hardly
require any refutation ; but as they, possibly, may lead
those who will not, or cannot, form an opinion themselves,
to adopt those of the accuser, we are happy to give s
brief quotation from another periodical of high cha
racter—the IVorth British Review—which disposes of the
question in a very concise and conclusive manner.
" The whole case," says the writer, " 48 between the
Governor-General and his assailants, may be thus
briefly stated. It was desirable above all things to pre•
ara
Serve peace. There was nothing to warrant the supposi-
tion thate army, peace could not be preserved. To have posted
a lg
y, sufficient- to prevent the Seikhs from
crossing the river at ilia, 'point on the immediate banks
of the Sutlej, would have provoked the collision which
it was so desirable to avoid. Therefore, .r
r
ITARDINGE did not move up the main body oif -h1}1•"li•
s-
posable troops to the immediate banks of the Sutlej. 111
other words, he did not, to avert an evil which
there was
no just cause to anticipate, bring down upon himself
another of far greater magnitude, as certain and
as present as the other was conjectural and remote."
But if this does not satisfy the assailants, and if the-%
are capable of attaching any importance to the opinion
of a military man, when running counter to their owe:
preconceived opinions, they may, perhaps, doubt tin
soundness of their own arguments, when they learn that
Major BROADFOOT, le.s than a month before the first
battle, stated distinctly that the "frontier was too long to
be defensible on all points by any force Re can move,
and that our two posts on the frontier are strong
enough to maintain themselves till relieved." The
latter point is the main one at istue. and experience
has prpved that they could maintain themselves. Had
Sir HENRY HABDINGE adopted the policy recommended
by such warlike writers, he wo&d, by the middle of
October, have posted fifty theucand men on the Sutlej.
There, they could not remain idle ; they could do no-
thing eke than invade the Punjaub. In other words,
the Governor-General would have disobeyed the specific
instructions of the India Board and the Government, and
must, like his predecessor, have been recalled before his
time. There was no alternative. We cannot close
these remarks without giving another extract from the
quoatecd,hrbeistciaaunseit
spirit,c oanntdat
becausen smtuhcihs
truth,revie w conveyedalready
in
periodical, established by the leaders of the Free Church in
Scotland, may be supposed to express the sentiments
of a very large portion of the religious community,
not only in the north, but in England. It adopts not the
absurd principle that all
wars are unjustifiable, but ad-
-11148 that they are consistent with Divine authority, when
undertaken in self-defence, and thus pays a high com-
pliment to one who, thom,h accustomed to battles from
his youth upwards, and still desirous of military glory,

could sink his own pers.)nal prepossessions in the accom-
plishment of a great Christian principle:—
"The British possessions in the East are already suffi-
ciently extensive. We shall do well to avoid further exten-
sions.' Whether it lies in our power to say this or that line
shall be our boundary, and saying it, to go no further, God
alone can declare. We have nothing to d 4 with 'infyitatele
teratencia—nothing to do with those doctrines of inherent
expansiveness which some writers are so !ond of preaching.
Such tendencies, such doctrines, are beyond our control—be-
yond our comprehension. But human duty is clear and in
telligible. In resolutely abstainingfrom measures calculated
toptunge the ccuntry into war, at a time when the pros-
perity of the empire imperatively demanded the continuance
of peace, Sir Henry Hardinge did his duty as a Christian
statesman; and when the unpnlriitsnicovinpiewletohdriciesphrehsheuawmciaspptailoannczeoidofutoluteor
sanveomidi,es had precipitated
,er iesoftriutmhepchoal
Punjaub at his mercy, he declared that he never bad been
actuated by lust of conquest—that he had never sought to
extend the limits of our British posseseions in the East, and
that now, in the hour of victory, he was determined to prove,
by his actions, the sincerity of his professions, he placed him-
self in the proudest position ever occupied by a Governor-
General, and nobly vindicated the character of Great Britain
from the charge of over-weening cupidity, as evidenced in
the
aggressive spirit which has too often characterised its
dealings with neighbouring states. To such forbearance—
just, generous, and politic, equally Christian and stateman-
like—history will d 3 ample justice. Of such forbearance,
Eng7isluneu have reason to be proud.""

Again has the Prime Minister of England given evi-
dence of the noble liberality of reason and of heart with
which he is actuated in the exercise of his political in-
fluence. Again has he displayed the excellence of his
title to popularity ; and so full and generous are the
principles of his policy that that popularity will be
genuine and enthusiastic—it will be for the present
age and for posterity. It should be so, and
it will be so. Sir ROBERT PEEL has no little
felicity in disproving the calumnies and repuls-
ing the aspersions of his antagonists : and he
possesses this felicitous capacity for refutation, because
he also possessea a vast moral valour. His escutcheon is
integrity—his motto is " Open to conviction." We are
not uttering an eulogium upon the Premier ; adulation
would be as inapplicable to him as the exercise of it is
abhorrent to ourselves : we are simply recording a Par-
liamentary fact, and endeavouring—as an organ of that
people whose interest have been so daringly and ad-
mirably consulted by the Ministry—to render a tribute
of applause to one to whom such a tribute, in its most
earnest, and comprehensive, and heart-born sense, is
due. Affected panegyrics are for the party man ; but
words indicative of honest estimation and plain-spoken
regard are some amongst the almost innumerable re-
compenses of legislative probity. Sir ROBERT is now
no party man—he has flung personal considerations to the
winds—he has regarded selfish interests, when compared
with public interests, as only something to be trodden
into the dust and wholly contemned. What may be
considered as the noblest prerogative of a statesman's
power is the prerogative of acting boldly, with an eye
or ly- to the welfare of the multitude submitted to its
government. That prerogative has been gloriously
exercised by the great statesman now presiding
over the council of our gracious SOVEREIGN.
Through " good report " and " evil report,"
through the jeers of a disappointed . and
avaracious faction, and the confusion of vituperative
cries incident to great political revolutions, he has had
the courage to proclaim the exigencies, not of the mo-
ment, but of all time, not of this, but of esery nation.
Nor is this the only signal of his moral intrepidity: he
has proceeded further in the denouncement of a vil-
lanous abuse, and the substitution of a bold remedy—he
has spoken the whole truth—he has grasped the old
wooden-headed idol before which many generations
had bent with reverence and submission—he has un-
cloaked its juggles, divulged its impotency, and de-
nounced its malign influence. The Juggernaut of Mo-
nopoly has been rolled into the mire, tied by his
mediation a more wholesome and rational commercial
creed has been substituted. But it is nut alone upon its
commercial effects that the merits of suck a proceeding
are based : its excellence eonsists more in the fact that
by its instrumentality a humanising spirit will pervade
society; assistance will be afforded to the helpless; Go-
vernment will be regarded in its true light, not as the
stern enforcer of penalties, but as the guardian and
protector and cherisher of the million; and men of all
religious tenets, of all complexions, of all countries, will
be blended together in one harmonious system of amity.
It is for these reasons that the courage ref the Premier
is neire worthy of admiration. It is because such were
the assured consequences of his measure, and not be-
cause his own individual interests were bound up in its
adoption ; it was because he saw in that measure an
assurance of the general welfare, and not because he
recognised in it the promise or any personal emolument,
that Sir ROBERT PEEL dared to defy the aninaosity of a
faction and to brave the convulsive opposition of a
despairing " party." He sacrificed the most fostered
associations of his career simply because ha perceived
such was an imperative debt to stadety, because the age
required such a movement. He had climbed the Chim-
borazo of Experience, and his survey was consequently
unclouded end enlirged. That was the motive of his
behaviour ; those were the principles to whcse united
mpulse he became obedient ; that was the innate bra-
very of soul consequent upon a sense of rectitude,
which has already acquired for him the admiration, and
will ultimately acquire for him the love of his fellow-
countrymen. And yet inuendoes have presumed to
question the solidity of those principles, the unswerv-
ing determination of that courage, and the actual per-
manency of that extraordinary alteration of policy.
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S emphatic rebuttal of those charges,
uttered on Monday night, amidst an incessant interrup-
ti,u% of cheers, is a matter of the most lively satisfaction
to all interested in the furtherance of the free.trade
principles, inasmuch as it leaves the belligerent few no
single peg upon which to hang their imputations. 'nu!
last unstable inch of ground is struck from under their
feet ; they are now abandoLad to a state of the most
powerless incertitude. Nothing could be more resolute,
or undaunted, or unprevaricating than the language of
the Premier. In allusion to the assertions which had
been made as to his insincerity, and particularly the one
imputing to him the motive of retarding the progress of
the Corn Bill, by interposing a first reading upon the
Irish Coercion measure, Sir ROBERT exclaimed—" Sir,
in answer to that statement, I will only say, without any
unnecessary boast, that I shall be prepared to give what-
ever proof may be required of the sincerity of my in-
tentions." Surely such a declaration was sufficiently
clear and decisive I " I will not deny," however, he
continues, " that during the debates on the question my
opinions on the subject have undergone a change, and
it is this—that restrictions which I at first believed to be
impolitic, I now believe to be unjust 7. —(Cheers.)" An l
nobly were those acchstnations deserved ; for the sen-
tence then crowned with applause was at once a testi-
mony of tile real excellence of the liberal principles
adopted, and a fresh instance of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S
moral bravery in a great political emergency—and a
bravery which is exercised in one of the noblest causes
upon which statesman ever ventured. It is this triumph
of truth which we are anxious to commemorate, and it
is to this new token of the Prime Minizter's magnani-
mity we are desirous of rendering some tribute.

With his characteristic perspicacity, Mr. COBDEN, on
Friday night, unravelled, in a few simple observations,
many ideas which had become entangled in the course
of the present protracted discussion. He interposed
between parties mho were on the eve of coalescing, or
of quarrelling amongst themselves without refketing
up.)n the rationality of their behaviour ; he carried
back the wandering attention of the debaters to their
original starting point, and reverted to the grand
question of this session, the commercial altera-
tions, and the effect which the Corn Bill as
es the Co< rcion Bill would have upon
Ireland. Above all, however, he reminded Pro-
tectionists, Ministerialists, Free-traders, quondam Opp° •
sitionists, and representatives generally, of the relative
position in which they stood with regard to each other.
That point, indeed, appeared for the moment to be al-
most forgotten by some Honourable Gentlemen, particu-
larly when the Noble Lord, the Member for Lynn and
the Honourable Member for Limerick seemed about
to join issue, with a thorough oblivion of the
ab) ss of opposite sympathies which otherwise prevented
the coalition of their principles. For that timely inter.
position on the part of the representative of Stockport
all sections of politicians should entertain towards him a
reeling of thankfulness, as in the event of such an unna-
tural compact having been consummated, confusion must
have become even " worse confounded." Mr. Conn Est
seized the diffioulty just at the critical moment ; he re-
ns4ided the gentlemen from Ireland, that the
legislators on their own side of the House
were as anxious for the welfare of Ireland
as the Noble Lord opposite (Lord G. BENTINCK) and
his colleagues cmli possibly be—a reminder which we
feel had merely to be uttered to be acquiesced in by
those to whom it was addressed. He insisted that many
Hon. Representatives who had spoken that evening had
deviated considerably from the necessary line of the
matter then under the consideration of Parl;aitunt—viz.,
the policy to he au pted in our commeret.l relations
with each other and with our neighbours. It was
absolutely incumbent upon the Legisl,tture to impinge
its faculties upon this point, as in it was visible, not only
elf
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v, closed. This, he ,seid, was a most illusory scheme, end
(he fully densonstrsoes its insufficiency, even if it were
capable of being-accomplished, and its impractical.Lity, if
it were atiempt.d. Suppose, continued th.) lion. Mem-
ber, thst this project were realised—that the ports of
Ireland were free to import the corn aed provisions of
foreign countries, and those of England denied that
same importation—how could a secondary introduction
of this frets trade grain into England, be
prevented, since the mercantile intercourse be-
tween this island and her sister Ireland was unres-
tticted ? While supposing this secondary introduction
were obvisted by obstructing that traffic across St.
George'., Charnel, how would the millions of people,
subsist:ng on the millions of Irish provisions,
which were acknowledged by the Noble Lord,
the Member for Lynn, to be exported annually
from Ireland for home consumption—how were
those millions to dispense with their accustomed
supply? The !mope ition was thus analysed by reason,
and its delusive character most logically divulged. The
question then arose, what was the next proceeding to be
taken in order to remove the different embaras.sments,
of the Legislature, and to bring the great clifficulb s
of Government to a satisfactory issue ? Food, not
money, was the must fitting remedy for Ireland--.-that
was obvious enough in itself : -but the ion. Member
for Stockport placed it beyond the possibility of contra-
diction, when he remarked that " if the people of Ire-
lar.d had gold in equal proportion to their perishirg
potatoes, it would not supply them with provisions !"
With England, on the other hand, impediments must be
removed from her commerce ; a state of pernicious
stagnation and incertitude must give way to activity
and animation if a revival of her prosperity
were required. Both these very desirable, and, indeed,
absolutely necessary things, might be assursd and
achieved by expediting the final acceptance of the fres.
trade measure ; and by enrolling the free-trade princi-
ples on the 3:mute-book as among the most prominent
features of the constitution. By acting thus, the
Legislature would realise its two most ardent
wishes—a restoration of peace and plsrity to
Ireland, a revival of commercial activity and
confidence in England In endeavouring, by such argu-
ments, to Wait, a greater cekrity into the inovetnen::,
of Parliament, Mr. COBDEN gave an additional evidence
of his statesmanship, and of his capacity for legislation ;
while he demenstrated in the seam breath his unceasing
anxiety for the happiness and comfort of his fellow-
, men. This is,' indeed, a noble spirit of philtie-
thropy with which to be actuated, in aiding
the political operations of a great empire ; arid
even during the Easter recess the Hon. Member for
Stockport has given evidence that such a spirit of phi-
lanthropy is undeviaticz in his instance. "During that
recess," said he, "I was called upon repeatedly to hold
great public meetings in Manchester and in London, in
order to remonstrate upon the delay occasioned by this
debate, but the question I asked myself was—
Who shall we . remonstrate with ? I did net-
know who to blame, nor do I now ; 1 can't blame the
Governor, at. because if I were disposed b I see
they are already • blamed so much that I carnet add to the
load the might of my censure. Then ngaie, I have no
right to blame the embers foe Ireland, for it is net fur
me to judge as to tie extee,t to which they deem it to be their
duty to oppose the jir,t reading of this Bill. , I leave them
to be the sole judges, because I she uid chins the same
right mysslf, of the course and policy which they ought
to adopt." That is a view of the actors in
the present sessional interlude most creditable
to the disposition of Mr. COBDEN, and
fully in accordance with his lofty reputation. There is
no acerbity io his nature ; he hopes that, notwitbstand.
ing all the bickerings and squabbles going forward in
the Commons, gentlemen on Ha side of the Hous'i
" may,manage to pressrve good humsur." Ile cannot
precis, y discover the motives by which certain
Members are influenced in certain proceedings,
and, though he deplores the coasequences of those
proceedings, he cannot arrogate to himself the privilege
of uttering their condemnation. Those are, in fact;
the only rational lights in which the still pending dis-
cussions ought to be regarded. We must, perforce,
lament the procrastinaticrt which is goading Ireland on.
possibly to fresh outrages, and certainly to more ex-
cessive privations ; but we must also endeavour
to believe in the thorough integrity of the various par-
ties concerned until time and circumstances shall morn
fully divulge their unseen influences and latent motives.
Such moderate and lucid speeches as the one delivered
by the Hon. Member for Stockport, we weleeme with
extreme pleasure, because we see in them arguments cal-
culated to spur our legislators ow in their Parliamentary
effort; and language eminently suited for smoothing some
of the asperi, ies of debate.

Madrid papers of the 21st instant have arrived. The
Gazette puidisivm a dispatch from the Political Chief s 4
Orease, iiated the 17th, announcing that the expeJitionary
column of the commander of the province entered the town
at eight in the evening, and that some hours after a column
of insurgents, about 700 strong, made its appearance at thi.
bridge; The advance guard of this column and the National
Guards of Guadalajara and Murdinedo exchanged some
shots, after which the insurgent body retired, leaving an
advance-post at some distance from the bridge. A second
dispatch of the 18t.b, from the same Political Chief; states
that the insurgeMs, finding their attempt to be without any
chum of success, had withdrawn towards Vigo. Gr.ners!
CoNcira was within seven leagues of °cense. The Politica;
Chief of OvieJo announced, on the date of the 16th, an at-
tempt at pronunciamiento on the part of the sergeants of the
provincial regiment of Salamanca. The attempt was unsuc-
ceasful, and the sergeants were arrested.

It was reported that Corunna and Ferrol had ronouaced,
but it does not appear that there is any good foundation t:4r
the rumour. Nothing has been heard of General PVIG
SAMPER since his entry into Santiago on the 11th, and tlo:
consequent retreat of the insurgents upon Vigo and Ponte-
vedra. On the part of the insurgents this retreat was a well
calculated and prudent movement, as at Santiago they
were in an open town, while at Vigo and Pontevedra they-
were defended from attack on the laud side by strong forti-
fications, and they have the sea in their rear, by means of
which they can either' obtain supplies or escape.
It was feared in Madrid that ESPALTERO would make his
appearance either in Galicia or the Basque Provinces, which
latter are now almost bare of treops, and place hiresdf at the
head of the movement, and in a letter from Val lad, did, received
in Madrid on the morning of the 21st, it was stated that
General NOGUERAS had entered Pontevedra, with a rein-
forcement of 180 men, and that the insurgents, both there
and at Vigo, were daily receiving supplies trem Portugal by
sea. Four ships of war have been ordered to cruise off
have
e- larding, and the ay ho-
• rVi
ti
igen; inat order
sa Ibeen ordered to observe
the utmost vigilance in regard to all foreign vessels,
toSebparset
and likewise to be very strict in examining the passports
of travellers. The guns upnn the batteries facing the sea
are kept loaded, and every precaution is taken to prevent a
descent being made on the coast.

Symptoms of a revolt had otanVed.:4d themselves, it was
said, both a Malaga and Carthagend, and a letter from liar-
celona, dated 21st, states a military conspiracy had been dis-
covered there, and a number of sou-commi,.sioned
arrested in consequence.

The garrison of Mldrid waa reviewed on the 21st by the
Minister of War and Gene' al PEZUELA, the new C.Ttain-
General. All the Ministerial differences have been arrange?.
MADRID BoLSA, APRIL 21.—OtEciU Bulletin.—Neither
the Three nor Five per Cents. are quoted. Exchange on
London, 37%. Out of doors the Three per Cents. were done
at 31%
,for cash.

We have received the Paris pipers of Monday. Th..
Monitew of that day publishes the following:—
"Yesterday the King received a deputation commissioned
to present the address voted by the English now residing at
Paris, on the occasion ot the attempt ot ths) 16th April. The
deputation consisted of the Duke of Montross, Lord Grey.
Lord DociP the flight Hon. 111. Ellis, Licuten9nt- General
Sir John Dovet,;n. and Lientenant-Colonel Saunderson The
King vxpres-td. Ws sense of the step they had adopted, and
requested them to convey his thanks to the subscribers of the
add refs."

Ills MAJESTY addressed the deputation in Engli,h, and
was visibly much affected. His MAJESTY, in the coure of
his address, alluded to the hospitality that bad been shown
to him in Engd, and to the cordial reception he bad met
with from all chases in that country, which could nevor be
effaced from his heart and memory. The satisfaction of the
gentlemen who presented the ad,ress was much increased by
la"
the following circumstance :—His MAJESTY having noticed
that the QUEEN'S name was included in the address, had
commanded the aide-decamp
in waiting to repair to her
MAJESTY, and make this known to her. The QUEEN gra-
cloudy condescended to appear, and the committee were
presented to her b 3 the KING, individually. After the reply
of the Ives, her 11AJEsTy addressed the committee, ex-
pressing
to them, in tile most feeling manner, the high grati-
licatioft that she derived from the cordial sentiments con-
tained in the address.
The Queen of the Fiutsctt entered her 65th year on
Sunday.

According to the Cahalanlionnel, the basis of a new corn-
mere's! convention had been agreed on between France and
Ru.sia, the object being to introduce modifications in their
respective taritr.i.

In the Chamber of Deputies the debate on the Bordeaux
and Cette Railway Bill was resumed OR Monday, and had
not been brought to a cov.clu,:ion when the post left.
The Juiernal des Dants states that the Parliamentary ses-
sion is at I.resent so tar advanced, that it will be impoaale
that the nineteen Bills Wore the Chamber of Deputies can
" It is probable," adds the .Debate:, " that the
Chamber may vote nine projects of' law—viz., the WeAern
Railroad bill, which Is on the order of the day, and on which
the discussion may commence on Tuesday next; the Dijon
and Mulb..ttgee,
Elikoad Mil, which is likewis, on the orders
of the day ; the extraortliHary Aot supplementary credits;
the extraulikary credit; of Almeria; the fatificAtious of

Havre; the improvement of the ports of France; the Bill
relaticg to political refugees; and, in fine, the definitive re-
gulatiet of the public accounts. The report on the budget
of expenses will not be distributed to the Chambers until
Wednesday or Thursday, the 30th of April. It is probable
that at the same period the Chamber will be summoned to
to fix the last day for the conclusion of the session."

IDAAMM PAcit.t was received by the KING and Royal
Family, at the Tuileries, at one o'clock on Dl4,nday. Four
carriages of the Court conducted the Turkish Ambassador
and his suite. The Turkish Ambassador presented IBRAHIM,
as he is not considered as a a prince of the blood, but as a
Pacha, vassal of Turkey. It is said that 'BRANDI feels highly
flattered by being lodged in the Elyge Bola bon, the favourite
Palace of Napoleon, and being permitted to repose in the
Emperor's bed.
Lord and Lady PALMEESTON were to leave Paris on Tues.
day morning.
It is finally arranged that the Duke and Duchess DE Na-
stouts will pay a visit to the English Court in the course of
the ensuing manth.

The French funds and shares opened on the Paris Bourse
on Monday at a rise, as compared with the closing prices on
Saturday, but declined towards the termination of business
without any alleged cause.
The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 55c. ; the Five per Cents.
1191. 80c. ; the Orleans Itailr,ad shares, 1,2351. ; Rouen, 1,037 E 50c.
Havre, 7551. ; Great Northern, 765 E ; Avignon, 920 E ; Vlerzon
6721. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 6201. ; Boulogne, 5001. ; Basle, 2321. 50c. ;
Dieppe, 4651. ; Peris and Strasburz, 5181. 75c. ; Tours and Nantes,
542 E Sec.; Paris and Lyons, 5721. 50c.; *Vanish Domestic Debt,
30%.

The following are the quotations for other lines :

Lyon, and Avignon Deflnitives, 560 f.; Bordeaux and Cette
Definitives, 5401.; Charleroi, 495c.50e.
31ARsa1LLEs, APRIL 22.-3laiseilies and Avignon, 902 f. 50e. ;
Northein, 7551.; Paris and Lyons, 572 f. 50c.
LToNs, APRIL 25.—Ilarseilles and Avignon, 925 t.; Paris and
Orleans, 1,2361. 25c. ; Lyons, 572 f. 50c.
BUSINESS PONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 2s.

Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Mackenzie), 2 —Dutch Rhenish,
6►.4 —East Indian, %--Great Northern of France Constituted, lb%
--Great Western 'amide, 4—Luxembourg, 2% - Namur and Liege,
—Orleans and Bordeaux, I 1 % —Paris and Lyons Constituted, 8.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
• (From The Sun cf last Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 7,000
bales, including 2,000 for export. Oi this quantity 1,300
bales were American and 700 Surat. The market was steady
and prices were well supported. The Share market was
pretty ge.od, and prices were more encouraging than for some
(lava. Good stock was in improved demand.
There are no arrivals today from any quarter.
The Public Securities have been steady, and there iA no
:Alteration in the quotations. Go 'sots are 93% to 96 for pre-
sent transfer, and 96% for Account. The premium ou Exche-
quer-bills has been 235. to 265., and on East India Bonds 295.
to 31s. The New Three and-&-Quarter per Cents. have been
963/4 to 97. Batik Stock is worth 2051/
The Foreign Investments have been very quiet. Spanish
Three per Cents. realise 36% ; Mexican Bonds are 313%;
anti Dutch Ikur per Cents. 9i % to 9214.
In Railway Shares there is a steady business doing, and
prices are rather buoyant.
BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock . .. • • 205% 205%
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 95', 947, 94%
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 96 95% 95%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Aims. 97 96% t 6%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, IstiO .. 104 3-16 10 3 -16
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1849 .. 9 15-16 9 15-16
Ditto. 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 . • 10 7-16 10 7-16
India Bonds. 1,0001. 29 32 30
Ditto, under 1,000/. .. 33 El 29
Consols for Account ' .. 964 964
Exchequer Bills. I%d. •••• • 14d. •
1,0001... .... 26 23 26 pin, 26
5001. 26 23 26 pw. 26
Ditto. Small •—• • .... 26 23 26 pm. 26
ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent .. 39
Equador Bonds 31,4
Mexican Bonds. 1837, 5 per Cent .. 31% 31%
Ditto, Deterred 164% 16%
Ditto, Debentures .. 6 • • a
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent •
Idtto, for the Account •• •.. 25 tq
Ditto, Deferred 16
t)itts, Three per Cent .. 36% 37
Ditto, for the Account 36%
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent ..
Ditto, Deferred 12% 12%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. 98 96
Dutch Two-and-a-Hall per Cent ..
--
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 92% 91% 91%
BUSINESS CLOSINGS.
PRICES OF PAID. DONE AT PRICE
RAILWAY SHARES. ON E O'CLOCK.

Aberdeen 10 . • ......
Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush 1% .... %••.•• • •• • •
tin-nitigham and Gloucester.. .. 100 .. .. 125 .. _ 125
lirlstol and Exeter .. .. 75 -.. 74 .. . 74
Buckinghamshire .. . 425. .... ••%% Ws • . par
Caledonian •,, _lO .... 6i%• • • • .... 7
Ditto. Extension .. • • • • 2% •• • • 1% %•••• • • • •
Chester and Holyhead 22% .... 21 IA 22% • . 22%
Cornwall and Central Devon .. 2% - • • •• 1%
Direct Manchester (Remington's) 2% 1 1% %
Direct Manchester (ltastrick's) .. 54 ....
Direct Northern .. `2%..,. 1%%
Eastern Counties 141. 165...., 24% 24 24% 2414
Ditto New .. 81. If ;5... .. 14 p • .... p
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 61 I 3s. 4d. - -
Ditto, ditto, .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 44. %4 p• ••• • • 14 p
Ditto, York Extension. 2% 2 2% ....
Eastern Union .. .. 25 .... -
Do. Ipswh h & Bury St.Edinunds 6% ....
East Lincolnshire 114..., ..........
Ely and Huntingdon 7% - .
Goole, Doncast., and Sheffield, &c. 425..... % 4 (us. ... • 1i dis.
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 20 .... 25 25
Great Western .. 85 151 150 152
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. h .... 18% ...... • •
Lancaster and Carlisle .. 40 .... 55% 58
Ditte, New . .. 5 .... 10 • •
Leicester and Bed ord .......... 225. -
Leicester, Tamworth. &c. 425. • ... dis. •
Liverp.. Mauch., & Nrwc. Juliet. 2% - • • ... •
London an . •.• 00 .... 226% . ..... •• • • 227
Ditto Thirds 24 .... 6234 .. 62%
Ditto Quarter?, 2 . 29 ......... 29
Ditto Fifths .. 2 .... 25 .... .... 25
London and Black wall .. 161. 13s. 4d. S • • ........ 8
Ditto, New .. •• 2%•... .• ........ 3
London aad Brightoi. .. 50 .... 651 64% 65% 66%
Ditto ditto Fifths 20 ...• 30% 31 ..... 314
London and Croydon .. .. 131. Iss. 9d. 22% 23% ... • 23%
Ditto, Guarant. Five per Cent. 9 9% ••••• • • • • • 9%
London and South. Western.. 411 6s. 10d. 80 81 81
Dilto, New . 12% 24% 234( • 2:1%
intto, New 10 .... 19
•• •• •• ••
London and York .. .. 2 1% .... 2%
Ditto, Half Shares .• • .. .......... 1%
London and Windsor .. • • • • 1% •• • ; • ...
‘irtneliester and Leeds .. .• .. 82 .... -
Ditto, Quarters 2 .... - 114
Ditto. Finns .. • • .• 3 .... 12% 12%
Ditto, Sixteenths .. GM ....
Ditto Extension - • .. • . 4.25..... p.... t
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 _ _ 80 .......... 80
Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) .. 4 13 13
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) .. I .... 8% .......... 8%
r‘f aneliester, Buxton, & Matlock 425... 1‘,54 p...... 1 p
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 1% • ........
..100 ....152 153........ 153
Ditto, New . •. .. 18 .... 33 31% •• .. 3514
Newcastle and Darlington Juliet. ng
.... 47 .• ........ 47
Ditto, New . • • • • • • I .... 10% ......... 10%
Ditto. New, Brandling .. 25 •• .. 46 45%
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 10 .. •. 21 22% 21% • • 21%
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. 2% 1% ..... I
North ltri 20 .... 27 28% •• • •
Ditto, Half Shares .. i 10
Ditto, C•irlisle Extension .. ..
Ditto, Da ikeith • • .. .•
.25 •• • . - -
Ditto. ditto .. • • .• • • 5 .... 6%
Northern and Eastern .. .. •50 .... 73 714 ..
North Kent and Direct Dover • . .. • . 1% • 1%
North Staffordshire 42*. •• 2% 3% p i•
Norwich and Brandon 18 .... 26
Sorthmpton,Banbury,&Chelthm. 2 ....
Oxfd., Worcester, & Wolverhmptu. 12% .... 8% • • .... • • . 9
Perth and Inverness .. 24 -
Portsmouth I •Irect .. • . .. 3%.... 3% 2% ••• • • • 31/4
Scottish Central .. . 10 .... 14% . ..... 141 A
Ditto New . .. .• .... 6 •.. • • •• • 6
Scottish Midland .. .. 10 ........ .
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2 2% 3% 3IA
Shropshire Union .. 421..... % dis I dis.
South Midland 425. 1 2 p 2 p
youth EAstern and Dovor 33% .... 391 ••. • • • 39 'A
Do., New (do 33/. 68.8 d.) No. 2. 10 .... 13 12% . •• • 12%
New (do. 30/.) .. No. 3. 15... 15% ..... . 15%
New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 2%. ~ 214 %.....• • • 234
Vale of Neath 2 .... 1% .• • •
Welsh Midland 2% .... 11.4 ••• • • •• • • lin
West Riding Union .. 425..... 2.1: % 21,(
York and Lancaster 1% • • 1 it
York as.l North Midland .. 50 - ••••• • • • • • --
Ditto, Half Shares .. 25 .... 50 • •
Ditto, SAny .. 30 .... 75 ••••• • • • • • 75
Ditto. Extension .. 15 .... - ••••• " • • • 35%
Do. E. and W. Riding Exten.• •• .. 10% . lO%
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. 12 ••• • 12 ••••• • • • . 12%
Boni.. 'foul., Ss Cette (Mackenzie) 2 ....
'Nit°, ditto (Espeiete) • • 2 •• • • - ••• • • .....
Deinerara • • • • • • • • ••2 - • •
Dutch Rhenish .. • . • • • • 5 •• • • 6% %•• • • 6%
East Indian .. • • • • • • • 55. ••• • % ••• • • • •
[rt. North. of France Constituted 5 .... 15% 15%
Great Western Canada .. • . .... 4
Louvain and Jeineppe .. 4 ..
Luxembourg 4 .... 214 % 214
Nautili and Liege .. • • • • 4 •• • .
Orleans and Vierzen .. 10 ....
Orleans and Bartle:tux .. • . 6 .... 10% 11% .... 1114
Paris and Lyons Constituted .. 5 .... 714••• ••g
Paris and Orleans .. - ...... •• .. 484
Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 5 .... 5% % .... 5%
Boners and Ilavre . .. 20 .... 30 29%
Sambre and Meuse, .. . .. 8 ...• 5% •••-• • .• • • 5%
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster .. .. 20 .... 26% %..•. • . • . 26%
3I[N Es.
British Iron .. .. 10 .... . ...... 19
ilea! del Monte, Unregistered 3%

THE FALExm BURGHS.— Lord Lincoln arrived from
Dublin Castle at Hamilton Palace yeiterday. lie drove into Glasgow
at an early hour this morning (Saturday), and proceeded by railway
to Falkirk and Linlithgow. A respectable d-putation, headed by
the Provost or Falkirk, arrived in Glasgow this morning, and had a
.vng Interview with Mr. Wilson, and at eleven o'clock Mr. Wilson
tarted for Kinneil, Falkirk, &e.—Scotch Reformer's Curette.
A GooD buoT.—The otter day, as the gamekeeper
at Janetown was taking his rounds, he observed a salmon rising to a
tly. and ,Nith the greatest a'acrity he levelled his guts and shot the
salmon dead.—lnremess Courier.

PE VEST ftfAmsm —On `fuosiay the one-mil.e race be-
tween Marshall, of Brixton, and Baker, of London, came off in the
Vassal-rottl, Brixton. The men were matched for 101. aside. At
the start the former took the lead, and at four hundred yar.ls was at
an advantage ; his opponeti pressed him closely, and the halt mile
was performed in two minutes and thirty-three seconds. Baker
then showed in front, and a spirited race took place. Both men
struggled hard, and after a close contest, Baker ran in the winner
by five yards, and accomplished the one mile of road in five minutes
and ten seconds.
_PRICE of GOLD.—The prercinm on gold 11,1 Paris
is 15 per nulls, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 1034 d.
;er ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange Of 25 52% ; arbi
the exchange at Paris on Loudon at short being 25 75, It ft•t-
lows that gold Is 0.87 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburg!' the price of gold is 43.; per mark.,
which, at the English 3lint price of 3'. 17s. 10%d. per ounce let
standard gold, gives an exchange oil 3 10 !,¢ ; and the exchange at
Ham-
burgh on London at short being 13 11 4, it follows that the ".rice ut'
gold is 0.46 per cent. dearer in London than in llamburgh.
RowiNct ATCII. —I. he smillors' contest, between
Thomas Cook, of liungerford, and Frederick Lett, of Lambeth, for
211 a-side, came oft on Tuesday, but was a very hollow affair through-
out. The men contended about two years ago, when Lett was de-
clared the conqueror, but the race was so even throughout that the
friends of Cook determined to give him an opportunity of retrieving
his lost laurels, and the match of yesterday was accordingly deter-
mined on, the distance being from Battersea to Hammersmith-
bridge. Betting was sto 4 on Lett. The men made a beautiful
start, after ono endeavour to get away. They continued scull and
scull, or nearly so. and both at good work, until off the Malt-house,
bear Battersea Church, where Cook gradually showed in advance.
Ills opponent tried a rapid spurt to overhaul him, but in vain. Cook
gradually improved his advantage, an, won: by ,upwards of 150 yards.
HATING of THE GREAT NV EziTERN RAILWAY COM-
raNT.—The effect of the late decision of the Court of Queen's Bench
on the appeal against the rating of this company In Tilohurst parish
has not been clearly stated. he original appeal was against an us
sessment of 1.2001. per mile, and this was confirm, d. The second
appeal was against an assessment advanced to 1,5001. per mile, and
th:s w is the case wit eh went tenure t e Court of Queen's Beoch upon
, the merits. Atte, a letigliteued nearing the k'ourt redu rti the ossess.
mom, a Welt was calculated trion the compaw 's profits tor 1543 to
1,3531. per mile, which amendment wail made at the lasi Quarter
essioll3.—berkfhin cluvniett.