The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-19 00:00:00

NEW ::TRAND THEATRE,

11i. FFiILLIPYI'i 461ItEES and Mu INEES MYSTEIt I ErsES.
Tn-o Morning Performances flitting the WeCi.
At the urgent and reiterated solicitations el many distittgu:sbed
families, and in order to accommodate the crowds who fio it Is,
attend his Morning Performances, M. PIIII.I.IPPE will give his
Grand Jnvenlie Entertainment every Wednesday and Saturday
Morning, at Two o'clock.
M. Phillippe's most Popular Deceptions and Pecilliar Experiments
will be repeated every Evening, ♦aried by the Amusing Per-
formances of the Chlarini ramify, end the astounding Feats of the
American Brothers.—Doors open at a quarter past Sesen, to com-
mence at a quarter before Eight.
Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, is.; Gallery, Gd. ; Pr'vate Boxes,
11. is.. and It. lls.

ASTLEYI6 ROYAL AMPHILTar:ATRK OF ARTS.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
Last Week but Three of the Winter Season, and of the present
brilliant Spectacle, which is acknowledged ley the countless throngs
of admiring Spectators to surpass all previous efforts, in gorgeous
tableaux and magnificence of effect.---Splendid Double Band, Stu-
pendous Perthrming Elephants, &c.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed a New Drama, entitled THE RAJA OF
NAGrORE; or, the Sacred Elephants of the Pagoda. In which the
whole of the Company and beautiful Stud will appear.
Unique Scenes of the Circle, combining the unequalled Feat] of
the British and Foreign Company.
The whole to conclude with a Grand MILITARY BALLET.

DAVIDGE'S RO=. SURREY THE kTRE.
Ratermous hit. Unparalleled attraction. The New Grand Spoctswie
and the Army of Women received with Thunders of Applause.
The New Drama highly successful.

Tills EVENINeI
Will be performed THE KING'S VOW; •r, a Struggle
ler Liberty. Supported by Messrs. Itughes, Rogers, Cowell, May-
ard, Johnson, Lewis, Ihelop, Nlonson; Niesdms. Vining, Daly,
Martin, Miss Glover, and One Hundred Female Warriors.
Alter whirls the New Drama, entitled, THE PASTOR'S
DAUGHTER.
To conclude with THE WARLOCK OF THE GLEN.

THE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, MARCH 19 .
T/lER MOM ETER, Lowest, 29; Highest, 44; Noon, 40.
BAROMETER, 29.64. WIXD W., frosty.

ttT( WITEIi AT LoN1)ON-81:1D0E THIS D.Y.
Morning •. 43 minutes after 3. I Evening .. ryr, minutes after 5

by party jealousy, or sordid views, [what embarrassment
might he not have caused to the Government, what fearful I
consequences not entailed upon the country, had he stood upon
his right of earlier bringing under the consideration of Parlia-
ment his motion respecting Ireland—a motion which, new, by
being well timed, may, regard being had to his well-
merited fame and great abilities, be productive of mach
national good. Hence, we have in an unrivalled
commercial country the leaders of two great parties
in the state such, that were either of them to make
a tour through the principal marts of our land, they
would be everywhere weloomed as men of whom we had just
reason to be proud, and to whose masterly superintendence
we may in future safely canticle the consideration of all our
national interests.
' " " • '

In Lord JOAN we recognise a mental structure of that pro-
minent capacity which has always enabled him to take his
place in the van of civilisation, and of its own strength to evolve
sound schemes of policy, justly anticipating the public
wants, and judiciously paring away the various defor-
mities which, with the progress of time, are apt to
he constantly incrustating the different institutions
of even the best of states. In his great rival
we have another mind of equal largeness—but not by nature
so prone boldly to grapple with wholesome theories, so as to
launch them in time to attend upon the march of public
events. Yet, as a practical man, which is a valuable feature
in the statesman of a country like ours, where such great
' and complicated interests have so artificially sprung up for
winnowing their hurtful ingredients from new and
daring schemes, pregnant with the seeds of exten-
sive alteration and reform in cur body politic, and
for accommodating them in a safe and cautious
spi▪
rit, in nicely poised accordance with the surrounding cir-
cumstances, which have evoked the necessity, Sir R. PEEL
presents to us a combination of admirable qualities and at-
tai▪
nments suitable for the high position to which his talents
have so justly elevated him. Sir ROBERT PEEL
has had the disadvantage of being hitherto con-
nested with men who have ever lagged behind the
growing enlightenment of their compatriots ; while, on the
contrary, Lord JOHN has had the benefit of being in com-
munion and action with minds kindred to his own. Lord
Joint has, no doubt, by his intellectual superiority,
braced up the minds of his colleagues, and thereby accele-
rated the extraordinary improvement we have effected in
our institutions within the last twenty years. Sir ROBERT
PEEL has, with equal certainty, by his firmness and comy
mending powers, given a healthier tone to his official
associates, and through the attempering their feel-
ings, and moderating their prejudices, has succeeded
in saving the nation from the rude shock of many a
civil convulsion. It is impossible that with other than
feelings of warm and grateful admiration we can regard
two such pillars of the State, securely upholding, as it were,
by their united exertions, the graceful pediment of our
matchless Constitution, and keeping its portals thrown
widely open for the introduction of the riches of
civilisation, in addition to the inestimable treasures
already within the ancient walls of the noble
edifice. May these two great statesmen long be preserved
to us ; and may we from their joint wisdom derive many
additional benefits to the benefits that we have already re-
ceived at their hands.

The question as to how the destitution in Ireland is to be
alleviated, as it is the most importunate subject of the present
Parliamentary session, has elicited an extraordinary number
of propositions. Among these maybe particularised Govern-
ment loans, railway measures, fever hospitals, the elle-
. Lion of fishery piers, extension of public works, cum
• ceteris paribus. Yesterday other plans were propounded
. by Mr. P. SCROPE and seconded by Mr. CRAW •
FORD. Altogether, the discussion consequent upon the
introduction of these schemes was remarkable for
its array of facts, and for the earnestness with which those
facts were enforced and applied. The proposal of Mr.
&ROPE amounted simply to the following :—" That the
guardians of the several poor-law unions in Ireland be re-
quired to relieve with food all such destitute persons within
their unions as may be in danger of perishing from want, or
from disease the consequence of want ;" and upon this motion
the Hon. Gentleman built up a further recommendation, to
the etiect that the entire social fabric of Ireland should
undergo an immediate transformation, by incorporating
with the Irish institutions the system of compulsory charity,
through the medium of which our English paupers have
been fed during times of scarcity, or whenever they might
be unable or incompetent to obtain employment. This pro•
position contains in itself the germs of a vast and daring
system ; and, although we are desirous that permanent
as well as temporary benefit to Ireland may redound
from whatever enactments are passed during this session in
behalf of that country, we cannot but feel with the
Home Secretary, that it would have been advisable for the
Hon. -Member to have reserved it until the time appointed
for the Noble Lord, the Member for the city of London,
to introduce the question of Ireland and her various exi-
gencies in all its entirety. Until that moment
arrives, it is scarcely advisable to retard the pro-
gress of those measures from which immediate
assistance could be afforded to a starving and debilitated po-
pulation—it is, we say, scarcely advisable to retard those
more necessary measures, by mooting questions of the most
! subtle complication and of the most gigantic character, when
neither the Parlimnent nor the multitude are prepared for
their reception. It is evident, however, from this very preci-
pitancy, as well as from the sagacious arguments adduced by
Mr. P. Soloos!, that the Hon. Member was induced to bringfor-
ward his motion yesterday from sentiments of the deepest
commiseration for Ireland and her unfortunate people ; nor
do we despair for a moment of seeing some great and prac-
tical measure advanced when the right time comes! A mea-
sure built out of the accumulation of the experience and
wisdom among our legislators—a measure by which
the Irish labourers may be henceforth protected from starva-
tion by having a readier access to employment and greater
facility in the purchase of economical and nutritious food.
According to the assertions of Mr. SCROPE, the eviction of
tenantry is still carried on with all those adjuncts of
wretchedness which have attracted the sympathy of the
philanthropist for years past: this of itself would be sufficient
to demand some official effort at alleviation; but when it is
remembered that it forms only one amidst a number of
equally lamentable abuses, the necessity for some attempt at
their eradication on the part of Government becomes doubly
apparent. Nor can it possibly be a matter of a moment's
question whether the men of authority should wrest
assistance to the local destitute from those who
are capable and (from their relative position) are
bound in conscience to afford it, when that assistance
does not flow forth spontaneously. Simultaneously with the
formation of the grand measure by which the whole fabric
of Ireland might be remodelled upon a firmer, more
comprehensive, and more natural plan, the recant-
mendation of reclaiming and draining waste land
should on no account whatever be overlooked or
forgotten. Increase of health, increase of useful employment,
' and increase of profitable territory, would be the necessary
and not unimportant consequence of such a clause. We
cannot but feel satisfied, from the behaviour of Mr. P. SCROPE,
Mr. CRAWFORD, and Mr. S. o'l3llllex, during the debate
yesterday, that those Honourable Gentlemen will not allow
the matter of destitution in Ireland to subside until some
rational means be adopted by Parliament for its removal; at
the same time, however, s+ e cannot but acquiesce in the
opinion uttered by Sir JAMES GRAHAM, that it were advis-
able to delay the introduction of such comprehensive mo-
tions until after the evening stipulated by Lord Joins Rus-
SELL for the thorough consideration of the actual condition
and the positive wants of the Irish multitude.

took 7,030 head of cattle. One of the French prisoners who
has had the good fortune to make his escape from the deira
of AND-EL-KAMM has furnished some information as to the
comrades in captivity. They are in good spirits, but are
fatigued by the long marches that they undergo. Those
who remain in the rear from weakness or sickness are exe-
cuted by order of Boy HAMEDI. Six of our poor fellows
have been already thus massacred by this ferocious Ka-
byle. The same journal publishes the following proclama-
tion, addressed by ABD-EL-KADER to the Arabs

"Oh !
ye Mussulmans! Shake off from your eyes the blindness
into which you have been plunged by your commerce with the infi-
dels I Recognise their perfidy, of which you can judge by the follow-
ing facts :—When the French wished to seduce you to submit to
them, they said—Become subject unto us, and we will guarantee to
you your religion, your property, yoer women, and your children.
We will leave you under the rule of your own chiefs. We will sot
interfere with your customs, and we will respect your laws. We will
only watch that you may be justly governed, and that you do not
become the victims of the exactions which weighed so heavily upon
you when you were under your Sultan Abd-el-Rader. You believed
their lying words, and submitted to the Christian. As soon as the
impious man believed he had strength enough, and I had for a
moment disappeared from among you, he hastened to violate all
his promises. He applied your mosques to profane uses. He took
your best lands and gave them to his own people. He has purchased
the virtue of your women. He has enrolled your children in his
abominable cohorts. He has enfranchised the slaves which God had
given. He has arrogated to himself the rights of justice. He has
persecuted your most noble fernlike. He has changed your chiefs,
replacing them by infamous Mussulmans, who have sold themselves
to him. Your nobles and your marabouts, whohave been so insensate
as to serve him with fidelity, have had for their reward an eternal
prison in the country of the Christians. You are-now commanded
by Boum!, judged by Roumi, administered by Roumi. And to render
his perfidious designs the more evident, he comes and reckons your
warriors, your women, and your children, as the master counts the
sheep which he wants to send to the market for sale. In spite of the
mission I have received from God to fight against the Infidel, to the
last drop of my blood, I have allowed kim some repose. I have de-
parted from the theatre of war, because I was certain that the Chris-
tian would destroy himself by his own misdeeds. The day of your
awaking is come ! Rise all at the sound of my voice I Oh, Mussul-
mans, God has placed in my hand his flaming sword, and we will
go forth and fertilise the plains of our country with the blood of the
Infidel !"

On Monday Louis PnimPrz reviewed, in the court of the
Tuilleries, four regiments of the line, one of dragoons, and one
of hussars, with two batteries of artillery, forming the garri-
son of Paris and the banlieue. After riding along the lines,
attended by the Dake de Nemours, the Prince de Joinville,
the Duke de Montpensier, and the Duke of Wurtemberg,
his Majesty distributed numerous Crosses of the Legion of
Honour to officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers,
of the different corps, after which they filed off with the
utmost precision. The King was hailed with repeated accla-
mations.

The Funds continued to improve. On Tuesday the Three per
Cents. *based at s4f. 55c. ; the Five per Cents., 120 f. 80e. ; the
Orleans Itailread shares, 1,337 f. 50e.; Irenan. 1.1172 f. 50c.: Wavre.
757 r. boc. ; Great Northern, 795 r. ; Avignon, 1,000 f.; Ylerzon, 760 f.;
Bordeaux, 687 f. 50c. ; Boulogne, 535 f. ; Troyes and Montereau, 430 f.;
Beale, 241 f. ; Famponx, 462 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 545 f. ;
Tours and Nantes, 677 f. 50e. • Paris and Lyons, definitive, 621 f.
50c. ; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 17 ; Spanish Three per
Cents., 37% ; Ditto Passives, 5%.
The other quotations were :
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BANK OF ENGLAND.—(THIS DAY.)
A general half-yearly Court of the directors and proprietors
of the Bank of England was held this day, in the large room,
for the purpose of declaring a dividend. A considerable
number of proprietors were present.
Precisely at twelve o'clock the Governor (William Heath,
Esq.) and a number of directors entered.
The SECRETARY (John Knight, Esq.) having read the
minutes of the last meeting,
The GOVENOR said—This is a half-yearly general meeting
of proprietors, appointed to be held by law to declare a
dividend. It ie, therefore, my duty to acquaint you that the
Court of Directors, having considered and examined the ac.
counts, are of opinion that a dividend may be made of
31 10s. per cent. on the interest and profit of the half-year
ending the sth of April next, without any reduction for
income-tax.—(Cheers.) It is probably agreeable that I
should state toyou the amount of " the rest." The gross rest at
the last meeting, on the 31st of August,lB4s, was 3,688,887/.
which was 15,363/. more than at the previous meeting. The
rest on the 24th of February, 1846, the period when
the accounts were last made up, was 3,689,430/.,
showing an increase of 100,543/, and a. net increase
in the year of 115,906/.—(Cheers,) I therefore beg to move
that this Court do order the payment of 3/. lOs per cent. for
the half-year ending the sth of April next.
Mr. lemma was about to call the attention of the Go-
vernor to some discrepancy in the levying of the income tax
on money received by persons from the Bank, but he was
called to order by
A PROPRIETOR, who said the Court had not been called
to listen to the dispute of Income -tax Commissioners with
persons receiving money from the Bank , but to declare a
dividend.
The GOVERNOR said he should be happy to answer any
questions Mr. Fielder might think proper to put to him, if
he would call on him at his room privately after the meeting.
As the Hon. Proprietor had stated, the question was one
which ought not to be brought before a general meeting.
The motion was then carried unanimously.
The GOVERNOR said the document warrants would be
ready on the 6th of April.
I )AVID SALOMONS, Esq., said they ought not to adjourn
without giving expression to their approbation of the con-
duct of the Governor and directors. It would be 'Offing
to the respect and dignity which that Court held to allow
that occa,ion to pass by without announcing their
opinion of the communication which the Governor had
made to them respecting their affairs, especially as
they met, for the first tune, under new circumstances.
When Sir Robert Peel introduced his measure respecting
the Bank, many doubts as to its probable effect were ex-
pressed, both in and out of that Court. Peculiar drum.
stances had marked the first year of its trial, and he must
say that, out of that Court, a general feeling of satisfaction
prevailed as to its working, and as to the conduct of the Go-
vernor and directors with respect to it. If this feeling of
approbation at the conduct of the directors prevailed
out of doors, surely a similar expression of feel-
ing ought to be made in that Court. He
should not have ventured to come forward to make these ob-
servations, but when he saw so marked an improvement in
the affairs of the Bank of England, and when he knew that
that improvement was one quite consistent with good
management, which offered proper accommodation to the
commercial world, and that no attempt had been made to
take advantage of circumstances by which their profits
might have been probably increased—(Hear, hear)—he
thought that this feeling should not only be expressed there.
but conveyed through the aid of the press elsewhere.
As one of the proprietors of the Bank of England, as one
whose capital and energies were enlisted in the commerce
and energies of this city, he felt mush pleasure in stating
that great satisfaction was felt at the way in which the
affairs of the Bank were managed by the Governor and di-
rectors. As no other proprietor had come forward, he pro-
posed " That the thanks of that Court be given to the
Governor, Deputy-Governor, and Board of Directors, not only
for their able management of the affairs of the Bank of Eng-
land, but for the assistance they had afforded to the commer-
cial world during the last half-year."
Mr. Manntorr said that he certainly thought that the
meeting should not separate without expressing its satisfac-
tion at the way in which the governor and his colleagues
had attended to the interests of the proprietors, and also their
satisfaction for the way in which they had net the late mo-
netary emergency of the public.
Mr. BAILEES HAMMOND said, that it had been his inten-
tion to propose a resolution similar to the one proposed by
his friend, Mr. Salomons. He saw that a great alteration
had taken place behind the bench during the last few years.
Every shareholder who now asked a question had it an-
swered immediately, and without reservation of any kind,
showing that both management and manners were very
much improved.—(Laughter.) He knew the labour and
unwearied attention given to this corporation by the Go-
vernor and his colleagues. The whole time of the Governor,
and his whole talent (which was not small), were devoted
stouptplic,eneintdertret of the Company; and he, therefore, cordially
proposition, that the thanks of this meeting be
expressed to him and the directors also.
Mr. LEVI said that he thought, as 8 per cent. dividend had
formerly been paid, that a similar amount ought to be paid
at present, as the affairs were in a flourishing state. The
sop of no reduction being made was not sufficient to make
up the difference between Si. and 71. 10& per cent, being paid.
The resolution for a vote of thanks to the Governor,
Deputy-Governor, and Board of Directors were then put to
the meeting and carried unanimously.
The Govaallox said that he felt that on the part of the
Deputy-Governer and Board of Directors, that if anything
could reward
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Lyons and -Avigion Railroad (Talabot), 512 f. ; ditto (Le-
eointe), 5051; ditto (Compagnie Meridlonale), 504 f. ; lordeaax aid
Cetta (llackeazie), 104 f. ; Charleroi, 5001.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MA's* IS.
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Bottleful' and Amiens, itri —Dutch Rhenish, 6—East Indian,
%—lireat Northern at France Constituted, 16%--Great Western Ca-
nada, 3%—Jamaica South Midland Junction, l —Jersey, 34
Namur and Liege, 3—Orleans and Bordeaux, 12% —Paris and Or-
leans, sl—Tours and Nantes Constituted, 7 West Flanders, 3% .

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's Inn Hall to-day.
WILKINSON V. nanwoon.
This case came before the Court upon the petition of Miss
Hannah Keningate Wilkinson, presented under rather singu-
lar circumstances. The object of the petition was, that part
of a fund to which she was entitled, amounting to between
2,0001. and 3,0001. stock, might be sold, in order to pay the
costs of certain proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Courts and
in the Court of Chancery, rendered necessary in consequence
of the following circumstances :—lt appeared from the state-
ments in the petition that Miss Wilkinson, who was of rather
imbecile mind, became possessed of the amount in question
under the will of her grandmother, and that by an
order of the Court she was placed under the guardian-
ship of her father, who sent her to the house
of two ladies of the name of Revell, living at
Sudbury, with whom she had ever since resided. It ap-
peared that in May last she came to town, accompanied
by one of the Misses Revell, on a visit to a gentleman named
Fenn, who resided at Blackheath ; and that on Saturday,
the 24th of May, a young seafaring man, named Watts
Wilkinson, the cousin of the petitioner, came there, and
stated that he had come for the purpose of taking Miss
Wilkinson to spend the day at her aunt's, in Brudenell-place,
Hoxton. Mr. Fenn and Miss Revell, believing the truth
of the statement of young Wilkinson, hesitated not to
let the young lady go with him. Instead, however,
of taking her to Hoxton, he persuaded her to go with him to
Stepney Church, under the pretence of viewing it, and when
there (having previously obtained a license), after consider-
able objection and reluctance on the part of the young lady,
the marriage ceremony was performed, the young lady for
some time declining to sign the contract, but ultimately
doing so. Both parties then went to the aunt's at Hoxton,
and, upon the petitioner threatening to inform her of what
had taken place, young Wilkinson, left—no cohabita-
tion having taken place, and the marriage being
unconsummated. Miss Wilkinson informed her aunt,
Mr. Fenn, and Miss Revell of all that had taken
place, and ultimately returned with the latter lady
to Sudbury. A suit was then instituted in the Ecclesiastical
Court and a decree of nullity of marriage obtained against
Wilkinson, who, it appeared, had gone to and was totally
unable to pay the costs awarded against him. Such being
the state of the case, the present application became neces-
sary in order that the costs might be provided for.
His Lortnsiiip made the order as prayed.

Madrid journals of the llthhave been received. No busi-
ness was done in the Cortes on that day, the anticipated
change of Ministry, which we announced yesterday, having
put a stop to all business. The Funds continued to decline.
On the 11th the Three per Cents. closed at 29 3-16 at 30
days, and 29 for the 31st inst. The Fives were not quoted.

In the French Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday the debate
on the motion of M. RZMVSAT was resumed, when M.
Tin Eris made a long speech in support of the motion for
excluding salaried Deputies from the Chamber as well as
those who received pay from the civil list. The debate
began to excite some interest, not on account of the subject,
but as a trial of strength between the Government and the
Opposition. The dissolution of the Spanish Ministry is
noticed in several of the papers, and they seem to agree in
the opinion that the change has been brought about by
NAIWAEZ, and that he will be called upon to form a new
Cabinet. MARTINEZ DE LA Rosa had left Madrid
before the downfal of the MIRAFLORES Cabinet, and arrived in
Paris on Tuesday. These papers contain no later news from
Poland. It appears from one of them that a diplomatic com-
munication had been made by the Austrian, Prussian, and
Russian Ministers to M. GuIZOT, intimating a resolution
came to by the three Powers to interfere in re-establishing
order in Cracow, and declaring their intention to occupy
the city and territory as long as may be re-
quired to suppress the present spirit of the population.
M. Guzzor returned an answer, stating that the
Cabinet of Louis PifturrE should make no objection
to this intervention. The answer was the subject of discus-
sion in the Council of Ministers, after a private audience
thecommunicationofthesame
ilarrepresentatives three
e
northern powers at London, but the answer of his Lordsh;-,,
had not transpired. Some of the journals yet en
tertain the
vain hope that the insurrection may
YA succeed.
alf the Polish insurrection had been
says the Refornie, " the Northern Govtiminsuppressed,',
I have hastened to announce it IVit:t Bnat ants would
the insurrection was suppressed, the. Austrian wetillmrin.ot be
f
obliged to send 40,000 men into If the insurrection
had been suppressed, we Skould have been told what had
become of the insurrectionary columns, whose march is at-
tested by their bold action. We should have been told that
one column was defeated on such a day, or that it had been
compelled to lay down its arms. The names of the victorious
generals would have been announced, and we should have
known the number of victims. The organizers of the mas-
sacres at Tarnow would not have scrupled to terrify the po-
pulation by sanguinary executions."
Accounts had been received in Paris from Algiers, dated
the 10th instant, according to which ABD-EL-K.A.Dan had
quitted the Kabyle country as soon as he heard of the ap-

proach of the troops under BUGSAUD. General CAVAIGICAC,

acotgdiag to tho Able' Journal, ha 4 sada a raads, Ana

.EDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—Yesterday
the price of bread fell in various parts of the metropolis, from lid.
to 7d., and some to 6id. The highest price of bread is now 9d., and
the lowest Old. per four pound loaf.
Colonel Voisin, who was implicated in the affair at
Boulogne, but was reoently pardoned by the King of the French, died
two days age at Passy, after long illness.
THE POTATO CROP IN IRELAND.—The accounts re-
ceived in this town from Ireland, as to the state of the potato crop,
are worse te-day than they have ever been before. The demand for
Indian corn for that country is rapidly !normally, and ba mini a
tosilder4M. tin In rice.—"pgiordr fora*.

7.11_,E SUN, LONDON, TiitritSDAT lIVINING, MARCH 10, 1816.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS,
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,000
bags, including 500 Americans on export. 1,500 Americans
were sold on Tuesday, after the usual hours of lousiness, for
exportation. Prices were firm. Shares were dull, and lower.
There are no later arrivals to-day, but the Indian over-
land mail seems to be expected.
The memorial of Lieut. Waghorn, presented to the East
India Company, and praying for the grant of a pension, has
excited attention in the City, where it is deemed well en-
titled to the most favourable consideration. Lieutenant
Waghorn expresses himself somewhat bluntly in his
memorial, but he evidently writes his thoughts
witheut disguise, and tells all he thinks too.
Some of the readers of the memorial think probably that
there might have been lees frankness—but so think not we.
It is characteristic of the man, and those who read the letter
at *nee know him. We regret much to hear of that gentle-
man's having incurred heavy pecuniary liabilities on ee-
-1 count of his overland experiments, which no remuneration
he has received could be expected to cover. In
fact, as far as private interest is concerned, Mr.
Waghorn must have been a great loser by quitting
his original profession, to say nothing of the harrass of mind,
and constant unsettled state which the career he has since
pursued, must necessarily have occasioned him.
From the New Zealand papers to November 22, we take
the following account of the progress of the colony :
" In last year's return, the quantity of land in cultivation
was given at 1,262 acres, of which 237 were in wheat. This
season we have no doubt there will be over 2,000 acres, of
which not less than 600 will be in wheat. Taking 25 bushels
to the acre (which is not at s4l too much to expect, consider-
ing what the crops were last Av., and how much better they
ought to be every year, as the-land is better cleaned and
worked), this will give us about 300 tons of flour. We be-
lieve our consumption is not above 200, so that we shall have
100 for exportation, which will go to pay, not our debts, for
in Nelson we owe none, but fir various necessary imports
which we shall receive in return.
" Our potatoes also will probably form an article of export.
Last year we had 288 acres. Probably the quantity will not
be doubled this, as more land will be put into wheat and
barley in proportion to other crops. We had*, however,
more than enough for local consumption, and some probably
will therefore be exported in the coming year. Of barley,
last year, we had 182 acres, and should have had much more,
but when the sowing time arrived it was discoved that no
seed was to be had, and potatoes, oats, and other crops were
put in instead. This year there is seed enough ; and,
as a second brewery is to be started at the be-
ginning of the new year, there is every encourage-
ment for the agriculturists to grow a larger quantity, which
we understand is being done. In 1848 our sheep amounted
to only 1,130 ; last year they were 5,782 ; this year we ex-
pect they will not be less than 10,000. Horned cattle last
year were 918; allowing one-third for increase, they will be
about 1.21.10 of this. Of minor stocir, such as goats, pigs,
and poultry, we can only say that, early in the spring as we
yet are, fowls have been retailed at ts. 6d. a couple, eggs at
6d. a dozen, and pork, as usual, in the carcase, at about 2d.
a pound."
The Stock Market is flat again this morning. Consols
realise 95% for present transfer, and 95% to 96 for Ac-
count. The premium on Exchequer.bills has been reduced
to 295. and 245. There is very little doing.
In the Foreign Market the transactions are very circum-
scribed, not extending to half a dozen bargains. Spanish
Five per Cents. are 26, and the Three per Cents. 8614.
Dutch Four per Cents. are 9434.
For Railway Shares there is scarcely any inquiry.
SZITISI TENDS. 01111 S CLOSINft
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Three per Cest. Consols Inanities 05% %7i os
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 6,1860
Ditto, 30 years, Jan, 5, 1860 .
Bank stock fbr Aeceuxt
Consols for Account ..
Exchequer Bills. I%d.
1,0001...
50111.
Ditto, Small

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10%

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

10%
218

96 95% 96
1%1.
.... 29 24 29 •- Poi.
.... 29 Put.
.... 39 24 Pal.
ONE
O'CLOCK.
2}i

COMMITTER ON BILLS.
The following Irish Bills were grouped to be heard before a Com-
mittee of their Lordships, which opened its sittings this day : - The Sligo
and Shannon Railway, the Galway and Kilkenny, the Irish Great
Western (Mullingar to Galway), and the Irish Great Western
(Dublin to Galway).
The Committee consisted of Lord Falnaouth, Lord Byttin, the Duke
of Beaufort, Lord Aylesford, and the Chairman (Lord Selkirk).
The first case sailed on was
THE IRISH GREAT WESTERN (DUBLIN
TO GALWAY).
Mr. AUSTIN opened the proceedings on behalf of the promoters
of this Bill, which he said was opposed by the Mullingar Company.
The Learned Counsel in the first instance stated that the
opposition to the Company was most unjustifiable, and entered into
with direct violation of a written agreement entered into between
the direetors of both Companies, that the opposition should be
mutually withdrawn, and that each line should be allowed to obtain
their respective Acts without farther opposition. Now, in direct
violation of that solemn agreement, the Mullingar Company at-
tempted to obtain a line frora 3lullingar to Galway. He trusted that
their Lordships would repudiate this attempt in violation of an
agreement which would be binding in a court of law.
The following is the contract which the Learned Counsel com-
plained of having been violated :
" That both parties waive all opposition on the standing orders in
consideration of the several matters hereinafter mentioned, viz.,
" let. The Mullingar Company giving up their line from Mullingar
to Athlone.
" 2d. Mr. French undertakes for himself and the other peti-
tioners against the Mullingar line, to withdraw all opposition to the
said Mullingar and Longford line, and to give this latter undertaking,
and the branches to the northward connected with it, all the support
in their power. •
" 3d. Mr. Perry undertakes for himself and the others cencerncd,
to withdraw all opposition to the Galway line, and to give it, and
its branches to the southward, all the support in their power."
Dated.this 4th April, lii4s.—And Signed,

FITZN. FRENCH.
JAMES PERRY.
" If Mr. Perry shall be unable to prevail on the Grand Canal
Company to wits draw their opposition, and that they shall not suc-
ceed in throwing out the Galway Company, this agreement shall
exist the same as if the opposition had been withdrawn"
Signed by

E. FRENCH.
J. PERRY.

The engineers and agents are the same as in the former Bill.
The Bill, as in the last case, was unopposed, and formal evidence
having been adduced, the standing orders were declared to be corn-
plied with.

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