The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-28 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen, attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady in Waiting,
took an airing yesterday afternoon, in an open carriage and four.
Lord Charles Wellesley (Clerk Marshal), Equerry in Waiting, was
in attendance on horseback.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided, yesterday afternoon, at
a meeting of the Commission for promoting and encouraging the Fine
Arts in the rebuilding the Palace of Westminster. his Royal High-
ness arrived at Gwydyr House, Whitehall, at a quarter before three
o'clock, attended by Major-General Sir Edward Bowater.
The Commissioners present were Viscount Canning, Viscount
Mahon, Lord Ashburton, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Bart.; Mr. B.
llawes, M.P. ; Mr. Henry Hallam, and Mr. T. Wyse. The Secre-
tary, Mr. C. L. Eastlake was in attendance.
The Meeting broke up at half-past five o'clock.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the
Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken an airing yes-
terday in an open carriage and four, accompanied by the Downer
Laly Lyttelton. . .

Their Serene Highnesses the Heriditary Prince of Saxe Meiningen
and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, visited his Royal Highness
Prince Albert yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the performance of the
French Plays with their presence yesterday evening. The royal
suite consisted of the Viscount Jocelyn, Hon. Miss Devereux, Lord
Rivers, Lord Charles Wellesley, and -Sir Edward Bowater. Her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augustus
Bruce, Sir George Cowper, Bart., and Captain the Hon. James P.
Murray, also honoured the performance with their presence.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of
Gloucester, and Prince George, visited her Majesty the Queen
Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major
Stephens, honoured the exhibition of the Society of British Artists in
Suffolk-street, Pall-mall East, yesterday, with a visit. His Royal
Highness was attended through the rooms by Messrs. Hurlestene,
Hassell, and Stevens, the President, Secretary, and Treasurer of the
Society.
Count de St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, transacted business
yesterday at the Foreign-office.
The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview with Mr. Secre-
tary Gladstone, yesterday, at the Coloniol-office.
Lord Dunsandle had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie,
yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade.
The Turkish Chargé d'Affaires was present yesterday at the
private view of Mr. Burford's Panorama of Constantinople.
Lord Petre, and Mr. A. J. B. Hope, M.P., had interviews with Mr.
Seesetary Gladstone yesterday.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial.-
, office far the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)

The Cotton market had been dull at Liverpool at previous
rates. Shares were declining.
In the City, among the merchants and others connected
with the Irish trade, and among those desirous of promoting
the prosperity of Ireland, much satisfaction has been ex-
pressed at the fact just announced—that the Lords' Com-
mittee have declared the. Dublin and Galway i'empany to
have passed the Committee upon its merits.
There is a vast amount of fresh arrivals, principally z.•ts a
mercantile character, from the East Indies and the United
Mates. The prospects of trade in Canada and in the Rapublie
of America are stated to be better.

Consols for Account, as well as for Money, have been very
firm to-day, the former at 96 to 96%. The Government
brokers took their usual amount of stock. The premium
upon Exchequer-bills has improved to 30,. this morning.
This shows cash in less in requct. Bank Stock fur the
Account remains at 210.

In Foreign Stocks there has been a very fair sprinkling of
business done this morning. The Portuguese Three per
Cents. have declined to 57, but Spanish Three per Cents. are
a shade higher. Mexican stock commands an advance to
301[A, and the Brazilian Five per Cents. to 113lh. The Equa-
dor Bonds are at 3% only.
The demand for Railway Shares has not been by any
means favourable up to the present hour. The official list of
prices is annexed.

OXIC
•'CLOCK.
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 93ji Pe
Long Annuities, Expire •lan. k, 1660

BRITISIL FITXDS.

CLOSING
PRICES.

. _
- Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 1, 1860 .. .. 19 5-16 % 10%
India Bonds, 1,0001. .. .. .. .. .. 32 32
Ditto, under 1,0001. .. .. .. .. 28
Bank Stock for Account .. .. .. .. 210

Consols for Account .. .. 6614 NI
Exchequer Bills. 1 4d. 1N d.
1,000/. 27 26 30 pm.
5001 .... 27 26 30 pie.
Ditto, Small .... 27 20 30 pm.
01fli
O'CLOCK.

FOREICIN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bends, 5 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 .. 83g
Chilian Bonds, G per Cent .. .
Equador Bonds
Mexican Bends, 1837, 5 per Cent ..

209%

CLOSING
PRICES.
34%
83!‘
99!t
3%

Ditto, for the Account .. 30%%
Portuguese Three per Cents • • .. 57
Ditto, 4 per Cent .. .. • •
Ditto, for the Account ..
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, Passive Bonds 5%
Ditto, Deferred .. 16%
Ditto, Three per Cent .. ..
Ditto, for the Account .. 86%
Dividends on the above payalgo in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent ..
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 9414
CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT
PRICES.
ON O'CLOCK.

26%

DEICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.

Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction .. • 2% • ... %1% ...... 1
Buckinghamshire 425. .... 11,4 di5..... dis
Caleilonian .• 10 .... 734 7•• • • 7%
Ditto, Half Shares .. 2 1%
Ditto, Extension 2% .... 1% ..... .
Chelmsford and Bury .. 1%
Chester and Holyhead .. .. .. 20 .... 17
Cork and Waterford .. .. 1% % ..........
Direct Manchester (Remington's)
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .... 834 3
Direct Northern .. 2%.... 1%1414
Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 10 .... 8
Dublin and Galway .. .. 4 .... 1%%........
Eastern Counties 141. M 5..... 19% 28%
Ditto New .. .. 8/. 165... ..........
Ditto, York Extension 1os.
East Lincolnshire 1% .....
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. ..........
Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1% .........
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 15
Great North of England . ..100 ..........
Ditto, New .. .. 5
Great Western .. 85 ..........
Ditto, Quarter Shares 5
Ditto, Fifths C.. 28
Harwich & Easters Csunt. Junct. 2 i%

90s
p

_
Hull and Selby .. 50 ....100 .. 99
Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth 2 .. • . %
Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 35 .... 46 48
Leicester and Bedford . . 225..... % dis... •• .. N. di.
Leicester, Tamworth, &c.
Liverpool and Leeds Direct .. 2%....
Liverp., Manch., & Neve. Junct. 21% .... .
London ant Birmingham . .100 ....216 214 214
Ditto Thirds .. 16 .... 50 49% •
Ditto Fifths .. 2 .... 22%.. • •
London and Blackwall 161. 13a. 4d. 7% 8..
Ditto, New .. . ....3%......
London aid Brighton .. 50 60% 61 69% 60% 61%
Ditto, Consul. Eighths .. 40 ....
Ditto ditto Fifths .. .20 .... 27% 27%
London and Croydon .. 31. 15s. 9d. 19% 19% • ... 20&
London, Hounslow, & Western .. 2 .... ..........
London and Sonth•Western 411. 6s. 10d. 73% • • •• .. • • • • 94%
Ditto, New . . 12%.... 18% 12 ••• .. 19
London and York .. . ....1%%...
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ..
Manchester and Leeds .. „ 112 ....116 ...... 116
Ditto, Fifths . 2 .... 10 9% 10% .. 10%
Ditto Extension .. . 425. ••••• • • • .. 1 r
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 • .....
Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) • • 2 .... 9 8%
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) 1 .... 7
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .. • • % p par % p i‘
Midland .. .. • • • • ••100 .. • .137 135........ 138
Ditto, New .. la .... 26%% 26 •• • • 27%
Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 25
Ditto, New . 6
Newcastle and Berwick .. le% 16% 15 16%
Newark, stteffleld, and Boston .. X
North British `,3% . .....
Ditto, Half Shares .. • ••••••••

.. 10 15% Iq4 15 164 j tGt
2%....
.... 23%. ..... •••• 232

28
14
1%
21M

1(.... 1%j4........
425..... lyi% p..—

Ditto, Carlisle Extension
Ditto, Dalkeith
North Kent and Direct Dover • •
North Staffordshire .. .. • •
Norwich and Brandon ..
Oxlit.,Worcester, & Wolverhmptn.
Portsmouth Direct
Preston and Wyre
Scottish Central ..
Ditto New -• .. • • • • • • 236 •• • • —•••-.. • • ••
234
Scottish Midland .. .. 10 .... 7 6..
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 23i1.... 1 .. •• .. 174
Shropshire Union .. 425..... 11,E die ••• • .. 11f die.
threwebury and Hereford .. .... 14 .
South Midland 425... •.% % % die .• • • % die
South Eastern and Dovor .• 3334
Ditto. New (iss. at 321.) No. 1. 16 .... 16
De., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 2
South Wales .. .. 5 .... 24
Trent Valley and Holyhead June. 2% .... 1
Waterford and Kilkenny 5% .... 3
Waterfil., Wextd., Wick., & Dub. 13i . .
West Riding Union • • .. 425..... Ip.
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 2%.... 34 1
York and Carlisle .. 2%....
York and North Midland .. .. 50 ....
Ditto, Waif Shares .. 25
Ditto. Extension .. 15 .... 29%
Do. E. and W. Riding Exten... 1 • • 736 63t •• • •
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Ilonlogns and Amiens .. .. 12 .... 11% % .... • •
Dutch Rhenish • . • . .. 6 .... 5134 %• •
East Indian . is. y, .
Grt. North. of France Constituted 6 .... 14% ..... .
Italian and Austrian .. 3 ....
Louvain and Jemeppe .. 4 .. . 1 .
Luxembourg .. 4 .... 134 • .....
Namur and Liege .. 4 .... 2 1%
Orleans and Yicrzen .. 10 .... 16543 • • ......
Orleans and Bordeaux .. .. 6 .... 124 ........
Paris and Orleans .. .. 20 ....
Tours and Nantes Constituted .. 6 .... 636 ..........
West Flanders

MINES.

Real del Monte, Unregistered • • • • • • • 319
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam —C.F. 12 9% Gibraltar..
Ditte, at sight • • .... 12 6 Leghorn
Rotterdam 2U. 12 10 Genoa 26 lb
Antwerp • 26 15 Milan .
Hamburgh .... • • M.B. 13 1514 Venice •• • •
Altona .. • • Naples
Paris, 3 days' sight .. • . 25 80 l'alermo, per os ..
Ditto, 3 months...... 26 5 Lisbon.... ••..• • • • .... 52%
Marseilles • .
Bourdeaux. 26 15 Rio Janeiro • • ... ••. • • 24
Frankfort on Maine.... 122% Bahia ... .........
Petersburgh, 3 U 5.... • • Buenos Ayres ........
Berlin ................ New York, 21 days' sight
Vienna, effec. flo ••• • .. 10 1014 Philadelphia •
Trieste, ditto.... ..... . 10 1014 PRICES of BULLION, pza oz.
Madrid ••.. •
Cadiz .. : .... 3614 Portugal Gold Coin • • 3 17 5
Bilbao • • ...... New Doubloons 0 0 0
Barcelona .• .... — New Dollars •..• • • • 0 4 9%
SeYille..

BANK OF
(From last Ni
in Account, pursuant to the Act V
the Week ending on Saturday, tin
Issue DEE
X.
Notes issued • ...... 27,264,475 I

EN GLAND.
ight's Gazette.)
17th end Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for
Le 21st day of 31arch, 1846.
'AR LENT.

Government debt • • 11,015,100
Other securities •• • • 2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 11,554,194
Silver bullion ••• • .. 1,710,281

X 27,264,475

£ 27,264,475
MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the 26th day of March, 18

lEPARTMENT.

Government securi-
ties (including Dead

Weight Annuity).. 13,136,440
Other securities • • 21,806,194
Notes ••• • • ... 8,033,665
Gold and dim coin.. 700,222

£43,676,521
MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BRIGHTON SPRING RACES—Fnmmr. _

The Trial Stakes of 10 sows each, 5 ft, and 50 added. One
' mile and a quarter. (5 Subs.)
Mr. E. Haworth's John Davis, 4 yrs, 7st lllb ( Brown, jun.) 1
Mr. C. Dorrien's Sensation, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b .
Mr. Davis' Pimento, 5 yrs, Bst 61b
Mr. G. Dodson's The Rejected, 4 yrs, 7st 111 b (Bst)
Won cleverly by a length.
The Hunters' Stakes of 3 sows. each, and 40 added ; the second
to receive 101. Hears, nearly two miles. (6 Subs.)
Mr. Brown nd Jack, 6 yrs,lst 41b.. (Mr. E. Haworth) 1 1
Mr. Coppard's Agility, lOst lllb
Mr. Matthews'Rushlight, lOst 111 b. 3 dr

Mr. Taylor's Flora FaLbri, lOst 111 b
Mr. C. 'Bates's The Baron, lOst 111 b .. 0 dr
Lord Paget's Camilla, lOst 1Ilb

First heat won easy, and second heat won cleverly by a
length.
The Hurdle Stakes of 2 soya. each, and 20 added, for all
horses, list 71b each, gentlemen riders; winner to be sold
for 1001. Three-quarters-of a-mile. (9 Subs.)
Mr. Horn,by's Donald Caird (Mr. Haworth) 1
Lord A. Lennox's Barnaby Rudge
Mr. Bated' The Baron
_ _

The following also started, but were not placed
Ricardo's. The Orphan; Mr. F. Thomas's The Ugly Buck,
4. lbs. over; and two others.
The Hack. Stakes, of 2 sovs. each, and 15 added; list.
Three-quarters of a mile ; 5 subs, were won in tw o heats by
Mr. Matthew's Rustilight, llst 71b; beating •Mr. Draw-
bridge's Rob Roy, easy.
The Hurdle Sweeps, of 1 soy. each, and 10 added; list 71b
eeach. Two miles; 6 subs; were won easily by Mr. Jen-
kins's Bob Booty ; beating The Rejected, The Orphan, Crisis,
and Cereto.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Herefordshire lids., Mon., Wormelow Trump--10.
Albrighton hds., Mon., Wassell Top-10.
Wheatland hds., Tues., Buildwas Bri
Duke of Beaufcrt's hds., Mon., Hawkesbury Upton.
Earl Fitzwilliam's hda., Mon., Moorhay Lawn; Wed.,
Walcot Park-10. _

........_ ... ....... .....
Burton Hunt, Mon., Nocton ; Wed., Bardney; Sat.,
Blanknev.
-- - - -

Mr. Hellier's hds., Mon., Tothill ; Tues., Wood Enderby ;
Fri., North Willingham ; Sat., Greenfield-10%.
ssex Union lids., Wed., South Wood; Sat., Aslingdoa
W ants-10%.
Lord Galway's ;h&j., Tues., Sparken Hill; Fri., Bossing-
ton Bridge-10%. •
East Kent hds., Tues., Street End ; Fri., Tyler Hill-101.
Tiverton hds., Tues., the Plantation on Hawkridge Com-
mon ; Wed., Withypool Village ; Thurs., Baron's Down.
Devon hds., Mon., Powderham-11.
Mr. Horndon's lids., Mon., Trebartha Village ; Thurs.,
Chapman's Well-101/2.
Ledbury hds., Mon., Codington Cross.
Mr. Roe's lids., Mon., Worsell-10.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

CITY, THURSDAY EVENING,

TIMES.—The purchases of the Government broker to-day
amounted to 21,0001. Consols on account of the Commissioners
for the Reduction of the National Debt, and 5,000/: on
account of the savings-bunks. The anxiety and excitement
among the holders of railway shares are such as to make it
difficult to convey a just idea of them to the public at large.
To sell any shares connected with the new lines has become
almost impossible at any sacrifice, and that only relief that
the greater part of holders now hope is, the throwing out of
the Bills before Parliament, and the rendering an account of
the funds that remain unappropriated. This feeling exists
even with respect to those lines which a few months back
were regarded as the most promising, and the men of pro-
perty who happen to have embarked in such undertakings
find themselves considerably worse off than adventurers
without capital, since they foresee that in the event of
Bills being obtained, the weight of the whole concern
must be thrown upon them. Probably there is
not a single new Company at this moment—and this is
the opinion of some of the most experienced brokers of the
Stock Exchange—in which the majority of the shareholders
would not vote for abandonment. This opinion has nothing
to do with the merit of the respective undertakings, but
arises from the persuasion teat too much has been attempted
at once, and that sufficient capital is not to be found In the
country for this mode of employment. By a singular revo-
lution in public opinion connected with these undertakings,
even the illegitimate and doubtful schemes, which were so
plentifully brought forward at the close of last year, are
looked at. comparatively with envy, for in these is seen at
least the limit of loss, while in others of a different class,
if they are forced on in the present adverse state of
the money market, the prospect is but one of ruin and con-
fusion spread over a long series of years. The public of this
day have probably forgotten what occurred with the build-
ing of Waterloo-bridge, for which purpose a first, second, and
even third capital was raised (since the undertaking, once
begun, could not be abandoned), now all annihilated except
the last, and that producing a very small and inadequate
return indeed. Something akin to this must happen with
railways which are imprudently urged on in the present
situation of affairs, and this is the apprehension which is
now producing so very unpleasant a feeling with.all con-
cerned. They now look to Parliament as the only source
of relief, end to Mr. Morrison's Committee, in particular, for
an early introduction of the subject to the consideration of
the Legislature. Members of Parliament who are also
members of railway committees, cannot be too strongly im-
pressed with the fact, which we now desire distinctly to
convey to them, that the boon most desired on ther part by
the parties connected with railways is, that their Bills may
not be passed, but may be strangled in the birth.
There is a rumour in the City that the Government are
about to send 3,000 troops to India, and that the tenders for
their conveyance will appear in about a week. Several of
the smaller shipowners have for some time past anticipated
an event of the kind, and hence it is said that more ships
are in readiness for the service than has generally been be-
lieved.
A statement has been furnished of file exports of the
Brazilian provinces during the year 1844. The total value
of these is about 7,500,000/., nearly two thirds of which may
be assigned to the items of coffee and sugar. On account,
however, of the heavy differential duties on the former, and
the total prohibition of the latter, very little of either reaches
this country, the coffee being principally shipped to the
United States, and the sugar to the European continent and
the Mediterranean. The result is, a considerable lois to the
merchants, manufacturers, and shipowners of this country.
For the exports of British manufactures to Brazil the returns
Are mostly received through indirect channels, which on the
one hand are very expensive, and on the other are to the ex.
elusion of British shipping.
It may not be generally known that several commercia
bodies in England have sent addresses to similar paities
America, on the subject of the threatened interruption to the
peace of the two countries. Some of these have been an-
swered from the United States; and we subjoin one sent
from Plymouth in Massachusets, to Plymouth in Great
Britain :

"RESPONSE FROM NEW ENGLAND PLYMOUTH.
"Te the Hon. the Mayor of Plymouth, England.
"Plymouth, Massachusetts, Feb. 27, 1846.
" Sir,—l have the honour of transmitting to you a copy of
a response to the Friendly Appeal from the Inhabitants of
Plymouth, Great Britain, to the citizens of the United States
of America, for the purpose of averting war between the two
countries,' adopted at a large and general meeting of our
citizens. Your address, with others, reached us on a day
when we had proposed a public discus-ion upon the general
subject of peace, and the possibility of a pacific settlement
of all national controversies; and it was a sign of hope, boti
for the present and the future, to hear these voices of love
sPe.l4ng to us across the ocean. We rejoiced in them all,
but to youxtown we were impelled to give an immediate re-
ply. Nothing s's...s to us more beautiful, and nothing can
do more to insure amity btween us, than these interchanges
of friendly feeling and Christian .ympathy. Your addres,
bears date one month ago to day, and 11..Acho to its friendly
pleading in a few days will return to you. L t the olive
branch be thus carried from both sides of the Atlantic by the
quick messengers traversing its waters, and the rumours of
war which have startled us shall only become the means 01
cementing U 3 for ever in the bonds of peace.
"I transmit also a copy of one of our papers, containing
a brief notice of the proceedings of our meeting. And as no
paper has reached me, giving the names of the signers to
your appeal, I am obliged to address yourself solely as the
magistrate of your town, instead of directing to you also
personally by name.
" With must ardent wishes for the triumphs of the pacific
principle, now and at all times,
" I am, Sir, with great respect,
" Very truly yours,
" GEORGE W. BRIGGS.
" His Honour the Mayor of Plymouth, Great Britain."

"A RESPONSE TO THE FRIENDLY APPEAL FROM THE IN-
HABITANTS Or PLYMOUTH, GREAT BRITAIN, TO THE
CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, FOR THE
PURPOSE OF AVERTING WAR BETWEEN THE TWO COUN-
TRIES, BY THE INHABITANTS OF PLYMOUTH, MASSA-
CHUSETS. •

"Friends and Fellow Christians,—More than 225 years
ago, pilgrims from England gave the name of Plymouth to
this spot, because Plymouth was the last town they, left in
their native laud, and because they received many kind-
nesses in their need from some of the Christians there.
Your friendly appeal at this juncture of public affairs, read
at a large meeting, convened for the discussion 'of the prin-
ciples of peace, convinced us that the sympathies of feeling
in that former generation have suffered no decay by the
lapse of time. A kindred spirit beats in the heart of Ply-
mouth, in Old England, and its daughter in Massachusete,
at this day, and although your appeal was not particularly
addressed to us, we are impelled to give it an immediate re-
sponse.
" We respond with unfeigned fervour of heart to all your
words of love. We deem war in every case as an unutter-
able calamity. But a war between two nations so advanced
in civilization and Christian feeling, as your country and
ours, we should regard with especial horror and anguish of
soul. We are descendants of one stock, children of the same
household. We have been nourished at the same great
fountains of literature and learning. We have been baptised
in the same great faith. We are brothers in the flesh—
brothers in mind—brothers in Christ. Both nations, too, are
plainly called to great duties and great destinies, in the un-
foldings of Providence—duties and destinies which can alone
be fulfilled in the reign of peace. The only strife between us
should be the noble emulation to see which may do most for
the advancement of civilization, the progress of the world, by
diffusing and perfecting the arts, the knowledge, the freedom,
the purer religion, possessed by the Anglo-Saxon race. For
two such nations to fail to settle amicably a controversy like
that now existing between our respective Governments, and,
therefore, to become desolated by the calamities, and cor-
rupted by the countless crimes of war, seems to us a sin alike
against natural affection, the leadings of Providence, and the
Redeemer's law of love, without defence or palliation. It
Great Britain and the United States cannot amicably settle
their present controversy, the friends of peace in the world
may almost despair.
"We rejoice that it entered the hearts of our brethren in
England to send these friendly addresses over the ocean. We
hail a movement so eminently Christian as full of promise.
The boundary lines of nations could neither alienate nor
separate them in heart, were the friends of peace thus to ex-
tend to one another the hand of fellowship and love. Nations
would begin to see and to flow together.' Surely no war
could be possible between our respective Governments, now
or at any time, if the lovers of peace in either land would
continually send the olive leaf across the waters is these
appeals and responses of Christian feeling and Christian
sympathy. The ambitious and wickedly-aspiring in both
countries, who attempt to stir up strife, would be met by a
moral power they would be compelled to obey, even though
it did not remove the evil purpose from their hearts. We join
you in your prayer, and your labours, to avert war between
our respective Governments, and to secure a present and an
everlasting amity.
"'ln the hope that our response to your address,and through
d
you, to all our brethren in England moved by a k
spirit, may contribute something to the end ssn-d frieeamefuptueaale,
ley
desire to secure, and that the labours of the
here and there, may be crowned with entire success,
"We remain your friends,
"GEORGE W. BRIGGS. Committee
"JOHN RUSSELL. of the
“ItII6SELL i'ol‘ll.l SON.
" W. THOMAS, Chairman.
" Plymouth, Maoachusetts, Feb. 26,1846."