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LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1846.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at
Five o'clock.
The Indemnity Bill was read a third time and passed.

tia;Cu.rpetitiZMs were presented.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNI then rose, and, after passing
a high eulogium on the officers and troops engaged in the
late glorious war in India, asked if it was intended to lay
before the House the proclamation issued by the Governor-
General after the battle of Sobraon, and also the preliminaries
ler a treaty of peace with the Seikhs on the 17th of February.
He thought the moderation of the Governor-General did
honour to the country. Alqiough he had hoped that some
communication would have been made on the subject of the
rewards to be conferred on the most meritorious servants hew
MAJESTY ever had fur their services, he would not press that
subject.
The Earl of RIPON replied, that the substance of all the
information received had been published. The preliminaries
with the Durbar of Lahere had not yet been reduced to the
form of a treaty, and until it should be in possession of the
Government in a regular form it would be impossible to lay
them before their Lordships. He was not authorised to
state ani thing ern the subject of rewards to the officers, but
he could say that her MAJUSTY had not had the dispatches
in her pos:e.S4on half an hair before she gave directions that
patents of nobility should be made out for Sir H. GouGn and
Sir H. HARDUSTOE.
Lord BEAUmONT, after a most vituperative speech against
Austria, asked if it was true that the Austrian authorities
had instigated a servile war against the landed aristocracy
in Galicia, and had rewarded the peasantry for killing the
nobles by paying a sum of money for the head of every
node, and if any means had been takes by the Government of
this county to express its disapprobation of such conduct?
Tne E. 1,1 of ABERDEEN replied that the subject was one
not affecting British interests, and that the statements
on the stibje,_!', were so contradictory that it was almost im-
possible to ascertain the truth. From his knowledge of
Prince Men:TEL-omit, he felt that it was as impossible
for him to adopt the course alluded to
as it would be for any of their Lordships.
Certainly since Gallicia had been under the Austrian Govern-
ment the condition of the peasantry had been much ame-
liorated, and it was therefore natural that they should be ,
actuated by feelings of loyalty towards Austria. He did
not think it his ditty to interfere in the matter.
The accounts he had received from the British Charge
d'Affaires in Austria gave a very different account of the
transaction, and represented that the nobility had failed in
their attempt at coercing their peasantry to take part in there-
hellion which they so strenuously and successfully resisted.
Now, in all this he saw nothing but what was praiseworthy.
Bat he had received no further information on the subject,
and he could not state how much of the pablished accounts
were true or false.
After a few words from Lord KINNAIIID, the subject
dropped.
Lord DEismAN presented a petition from Mr. Joseph Toul-
min Smith, complaining of the conJiet of Excise officers in
breakinginto his house in search of an illicit still, they acting
on anonymous information ; and praying fur an alteration in
the law on the subject.
The Earl of DALHOUSIE rose and defended the superior
officers of the Excise for the attack made upon them in the
petition. The conduct of the officer who entered the house
was blameable, and he had been punished for it.
The petition was ordered to be laid on the table, and the
House adjourned.

Want of space compels us to omit our usual summary of
the debate iu tke House of Commons.

The tone and temper of Mr. O'Colvwxv.es speech, on
Friday night, on moving his amendment upon the Pro-
tecti“n of Life (Ireland) Bill, were deservedly recog-
nised by Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Mr. SIDNEY HER-
BERT, and likewise well received by the House. We
fear that Mr. O'CoNNEu. has frequently damaged the
interests of which he is so powerful an advocate by
having suffered himself at times to be betrayed into the
loss of that equanimity of temper which governed his
observations on the measure under discussion. But the
forbearing spirit he exhibited on the occasion adverted
to will not, we are sure, be without its due
influence amongst his legislative colleagues. He
handled with great ability every topic that
could be introduced in opposition to the Govern-
ment measure. In this respect he left little for
his country to desire. What he did, he did well. Ths
acknowledged talents always guarantee as much. If he
has failed to prove that the Bill he oppoAes is not fitting
to be passed, this is to be attributed to the strength of the
deplorable materials on which the Ministry grounded
their application to Parliament, and not to any deficiency
on his part. The sum of Mr. O'CoriNELL's advice was,
to let the law remain ai it is ; in other words, to let the
crime of murder rage on (which must inevitably
be the consequence, remembering that the ordinary
law has been declared to be ineffectual for putting it
down), whilst Parliament attempts to root out the
• causes that lead to the perpetration of the most fearful
criminal atrocities. We think the Ministry hold the wiser
language, when they recommend that, by enactments
of sufficient vigour, the law shall first be rendered
supreme over the murderer, and that then, or simul-
taneously, if possible, Parliament should address itself
to the task of endeavouring to remove the irritants that
. 0 maybe horrid
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have goaded the people on to the commission
o tact; recorded against them.
Much
lir
O'CotesELL's speech was devoted to allusions to
different Irish political grievances, and 33 far it was not
very relevant to the matter in hand; fur he himself
joined-/the Minister in admitting that the outra4es set
fort;fir took in no wise of a political or religious

character. It may then be taken as admitted, that, in
respect to the desired security for life, and the causes
that endanger the same, the religious wrongs or political
ills of the Irish are not the points that demand imme-
diate redress. Mr. O'Cossasm. attacked many of the
clauses for their undue severity. This may be per-
fectly just; but they are details for consideration when
the Bill shall be committed. He urged that all
former Coercion Bills had failed, and that the present
was severer in its character than any of its predecessors.
If the previous measures failed, such failure might be
attributed to their inadequacy for their object; and ex-
perience may dictate to us the necessity of a more
powerful remedy than heretofore, if the assassin is to
be brought to his merited doom. But we do not be-
lieve that coercive measures—certainly not the latest
(considered strictly as such)—have failed; on the con-
trary, they have been remarkable for their moral effects,
This was strikingly proved by Mr. SIDNEY HER-
BERT in the official reports: received by the
Government during their operation. In one in-
stance, a return to the Lord-Lieutenant showed that
comparing the year preceding the proclamation against
the county and city of Kilkenny with the subsequent
one, there was a diminution of outrages in 1834 from
1,590' to 331—a difference amounting to 1,259 ! Coer-
cion Acts have not been suffered to expire on account
of any abuses that sprung up under them, but avowedly
upon the representation of the resumption of social
tranquillity. The storm has been lulled, but the suc-
ceeding calm has always been delusive. Such, how-
ever, would not have been the case had the Legislature,
while it prudently stayed the hand of the murderer, care-
fully investigated the vitiated condition of the
country, and provided accordingly by salutary laws.
Inasmuch as this benevolent policy was slighted, and
altogether neglected, the danger and cruelty of which
has been so ardently expostulated upon by Earl GREY
in one House, and Lord JOHN RUSSELL in the other.
so far, it may be fairly said, that measures of coercion
have signally failed. This is doubtless the sense in which
the word failure ought to be applied to all former
Acts, necessarily, under the circumstances, restrictive
of the liberty of the subject. Mr. O'CONNELL asserts that
the poor man will not be conciliated by the measure—
we feel convinced that he will be so. It is for his pro-
tection that we consider the Bill as conducive to the
highest ends of mercy. Of the truth of this Mr. SIDNEY
HERBERT furnished an admirable and statistical expo-
sition. The landlords who have fallen victims bear
an insignificant proportion compared with the unpro-
tected peasants ; when impunity fortifies' the machina-
tions of the midnight ruffian the afflicted and menaced
cottier is alarmed by the weakness of the law
which he is taught he ought to obey, but
which he finds incapable of affording him protection.
And in this way his fear preponderates over his duty,
and thus, we apprehend, he has too frequently become
the facile tool in the hands of the nocturnal monsters.
He is drawn into the vortex from which he would in the
first instance gladly have escaped, had he bee❑ guarded
by an effective, in the place of an enervated, administra-
tion of the law. The chronic emasculation of all whole-
some authority is painfully evident. At first night was
deemed an indispensable shroud, both for the counsels
of the ruthless conclave and the execution of their
fiendish mandates. Emboldened by the success of their
diabolical schemes against the poor, and under the veil of
darkness, they have fearlessly progressed, and in open
day inflict a sanguinary death on members of more
elevated society, violence on whom under such circum-
stances they bad not formerly ventured to contemplate.
And whilst we have to lament that the law has so long
been paralysed, it is not to be doubted that if Parlia-
ment should be wanting in its duty, this frighful state
of things would continue to spread with alarming
rapidity. Viewed in this light, we think Mr. O'CON-
NELL is erroneous in attacking the measure, because
its provisions are principally framed for being
effective at night. True it is that many murders are
committed in the day. Nevertheless, this is, in almost
every case, merely the execution of the terrible sentence
that has been resolved on at the nocturnal meetings of
the confederates. Pursue them to their deadly haunts,
and their designs, both by day and by night, will be most
effectually frustrated. In other respects Mr. O'CoN-
NELL'S speech is most valuable. He traces the causes
of criminal pollution almost entirely to the abuses
of property, to the inadequate state of the
relationship between the landlord and tentte t.
On this branch of the subject he dilates with
the greatest force, and his remarks are entitled to the
u'most weight. He was the first who laboured to bring
this matter prominently before the country. To the
laudable remonstranc. s and startling arguments con-
tained in many of his letters were we indebted for the
appointment of the Commission of which Lord DEVON
was at the head, and hereafter, when Ireland shall be
clothed with the features of real civilisation, posterity
will feel itself deeply indebted to Mr. O'CONNELL. He
advocates the extension of the Ulster tenant right to the
other provinces—demonstrates how well it has worked,
wherever it was recognised as a custom
even though unfortunately it was net the law, and how
lamentable have been the effects whenever it has been
resisted. His remarks are most apposite, and we should
rejoice to see them duly appreciated in the Bill, promised
to be laid before Parliament, for improving the condition
of landlord and tenant in Ireland. We are aware how
difficult it will be to obtain full concession in a Senate
composed almost eßelusively of landowners to these
salutary measures, for eradicating the prolific sources of
crime, where it may seem to intrench upon their own
territorial tights. But we trust that they will be ani-
mated by a lofty spirit, and consider no sacrifice too
great to disarm those who are bound to look up to them
for guidance and protection—whose interests and wel-
fare are committed to their charge, by a judicious course
of kindness and conciliation—of what they have too often
been taught to consider their only remedy—the wild jus-
tice of revenge.

The petty disputes between Lord ABERDEEN and W.
GUIZOT about the affairs of Greece are below the dig-
nity of great states. Of so little importance are they to
the balance of power, or to political influence in the East,
that we must class them among those personal quarrels
in which even grave statesmen occasionally indulge. What
is Greece to France or England ? What part could
she play in a contest for Constantinople or
Egypt, or any other bone of contention ? She
cannot exist upon her own resources, much less pay her
debts; she is constantly disturbed by civil or military
factions ; her King is a non-entity, and her Ministers
are guided by their own selfish or party interests, and
seldom or never attempt to elevate this beautiful and
classical country to the rank so fondly anticipated b)
the nations of Europe. Many years of slavery have
impaired the energies and morality of the people,
and a long period, we fear, must elapse before they can
defend themselves, or be of service to either of the great
powers that took them under their protection ; yet these
powers are constantly at variance with each other re-
specting her internal policy. One considers it a master-
stroke of statesmanship to get COLETTI substituted for
MAVROCORDATO, a second works into the hands of Ma-
TAXAS or MAVEOCORDATO, and a third rejoices in sedition
and bankruptcy, with a view to obtain more power in the
south of Europe. And as if to render these disputes
more ridiculous, Sir 11. PEEL and Lord ABERDEEN give
importance to them by speaking at M. PISCATORY or
rather M. Gunar, and by reproaching and even me-
nacing the Greek Government while under the direction
%,5 col.wr-ri, the favourite of Trance. M. GUIZOT returns
the compliment, and though he, professes not to discuss
words which “ might have been spoken in another
House of Parliament," he condemns them as improper,
and considers it unbecoming to use similar language.
It would be %ell for England and France if an end were
put to these unseemly contentions; they only tend to
weaken Greece and encourage a third power, who occa-
sionally assumes the functions of a protector, that she
may in due season come in for a share of the plunder.

Like many other notions upon the principles which
- should regulate states, the opinion that penalties are
necessary for the suppression of crime, and for the pre
servation of social order, is gradually fading from the
popular mind, and at the present moment is a 1 but ex-
ploded. The grand law of nature, that a truth must
ultimately develope itself before the gaze of the million,
and become proportionately recognised; is in this,
as in various other instances, meeting with its
realization. Flaying, disembowelling, scourging, broiling,
decapitating, and divers other equally ferocious punish-
ments, were employed in former times for the suppres-
sion of vice : the remedy proved ineffectual after long
practice—it was slowly abandoned. More recently, nay
up to our own generation, expiatory means have been
used by the Legislature with the same hopes, the same
intentions, and the same ill-success : hard
labour, the penitentiary system, solitary con-
finement, fines, transportation to penal settlements,
and strangling by the hangman. These measures—
comparatively more lenient, but actually severe—have
been adopted.; criminals have &aced, session after ses-
sion, to the treadmill, the colonies, and the gibbet ; and,
notwithstanding all these efforts to purge crime from the
principality, the calendar has been stocked with a fear-
ful catalogue of offences, the list of felons has increased
with our multiplying population. Having had these
faces impressed upon us by the experience of past
ages, and beholding in them the._ insufficiency
of any expiatory method dont to eradicate the evil, it

becomes apparent that we have hitherto proceeded upon
false premises, that our regenerative efforts have been
aimed in a wrong direction, that we have battled solely
against the results of social disorder, and entirely, or
almost entirely, neglected the application of any correc-
tives to the region in which that social
disorder was propagated. These opinions, main-
tained at first individually, are extending
themselves throughout society ; new lights are stream-
ing upon the mind of the people ; normal schools are the
first indications of a vast moral revolution ; the sole re-
liance upon penalties, as a means for the expulsion of
vice, is becoming equally obsolete with the reverence for
a protective system as a means of benefiting agriculture.
That offences against the laws both moral and social
originate generally in the mental incompetency re-
sulting from ignorance, is a fact authenticated
by the official returns of the kingdom. That thousands
would be reclaimed from a state little, if at all, elevated
above the brute creation, by a wholesome instruction in
the plastic period of childhood, is beyond a moment's
cavil. This cumulation of evidence consequently re-
solves itself into the belief that the education of the desti-
tute multitude would be far preferable to the present
criminal policy, in a charitable point of view, while
it would the more effectually prevent that dissemina-
tion of villany which now throngs our gaols, aid hulks,
and a fair portion of our colonial possessions. Many
have advocated this principle, more have awarded it an
expressed or tacit approbation. Mr. HILL, of Birming-
ham, and Mr. C. PE ARSON, of the city of London, have
endeavoured to expedite the adoption of such measures,
and Government, by the words of its Home Se-
cretary, as well as by its proceedings in our gaol
administration and with reference to Ireland, appears
to intimate anything but a hostile feeling towards the
doctrine. Our attention has been just directed to a ser-
mon delivered before Mr. Baron PARKE and Mr. Justice
MAuLz, during the Lent assizes, 1846, at Bury St.
Edmund's. As the expressions of a clergyman of the
Church of England upon a question so liable to en-
counter opposition among the ministers of different
religious tenets, as being likely, in their opinion, to
interfere with the promulgation of their several creeds,
the language contained in this discourse is deserving of
some especial notice. In the ideas as to the preferable
character of education over punishment, the reverend
gentleman fully acquiesces ; but he expressly stipulates
that it be " an education large, comprehensive, generous,
and unexclusive r This is a declaration most creditable
to the liberality of the clerical speaker, and the more
creditable to him, possibly from his discarding all anxiety
for "the proselytizing activity of rival religioxists." He
arrogates not to himself any right to propound a scheme
suitable in all particulars to the great exigency of the
nation. He contents himself with exposing our own
direct participation in the crimes committed every
year by allowing thousands to grow up in the most
blind unconsciousness of right or wrong, of re-
leard or retribution from GOD or from man.

He stigmatises all previous efforts in the cause of the
ignorant multitude as mire " palliatives and make-
shifts," and endeavours by all the powers of rhetoric
and argument to enforce upon us the necessity which
exists for some comprehensive interference on the part
of our legislators. No plan, however, must be adopted
without the most mature deliberation. The
following things must he kept in view during
its concoction, according to this philanthropic
clergyman :—" We must show to the economist
that it will be cheap, to the utilitarian that it
will be of incalculable benefit, to the paliticia❑
that it would strengthen the bonds of society, to the
moralist and the philosopher that it will purify the
mind, and to the Christian that it will chasten
the soul." That these qualities are necessary
we feel assured—that they can be harmonised and
combined we are sanguine. In alluding in this particular
manner to the sermon from which we have just quoted, we
are actuated by two wishes ; first, to acknowledge a ge-
nerous effort in a generous cause, and coming from an
authoritative quarter ; secondly, to hold out an ex-
ample to other ecclesiastics who are desirous of benefit-
ing their fellow-men.

Madrid journals of the 28th ult. have been received. The
Gaze of that date publishes two royal decrees—one abo-
lishing the tax on house-rent, and the other modifying the
tax on trade and professions. These interfere materially
with Senor MoN's new system of finance, and will cause
considerable loss to the revenue, but, according to the official
organ, they were levied in such an objectionable and unfair
way that open rebistance to them could scarcely be prevented.
There is still, however, to be a fixed duty on trades, but to
be levied in a less objectionable way. It was confidently
stated that NAZVAEZ had invited both MON and PEDAL to
enter the Cabinet, but that for the present they had refused.
It is not unlikely, however, that Most will be found neces-
sary for the very existence of the Ministry. No Spanish
Minister for many years has shown such skill and honesty
in financial reforms. It was said that, after some difficulty,
Generals CoxotA, COTONER, CORDOVA, and ARAOZ had ob-
tained permission to travel into foreign countries.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Madrid Stock Ex-
change on the 28th ult. at 321% cash, and 321, for the 30th
April ; the Five per Cents. at 22 for the 30th April.

In the French Chamber of Deputies, in a discussion relative
to the Greek loan, M. DE HAURANNE took occasion to
blame the policy of the French Government, as well as that
of England, towards that country. The three Powers were
divided. "In 1840," be said, " the Pacha of Egypt was at-
tacked by England and Russia, because he was suspected of
being too favourable to France. In 1846 M. Col.rrn found
Russia and England opposed to him, because the same fault was
imputed to him. He did not suppose that the Minster of
Foreign Affairs could be stall suspected of uniting with either
England or Russia to combat the friends of France ; but
every one must remark that, wherever the interest of France
prevailed the entente cordiale disappeared— it was only
practised wheri the English had the advantage."
M. GLTIZOT said he " would not undertake to justify
the conduct of the English Government relative to
Greece; it was evident-that France considered it objection-
able, since she supported the very contrary line to what
England had adopted. Since M. Colarrri had arrived at
power, England did not follow the same course as France had
done, and in that he considered her to be is rong. He had
several times represented to the English Government how
injurious such conduct was to the Government of Greece; he
had not been able to convince ber of the fact, and he had
continued to pursue the policy of France in Greece. Before
the revolution of 1843 France, England, and Russia had been
(kf the same opinion as to the consequences that ought to
emanate from that event, and their counsels had much con-
tributed to give Greece a constitutional and regular Govern-
ment; England and Russia afterwards began to follow sepa-
rately their own line of conduct. But what was the result ? was
it the policy of England which prevailed in France? No, it
was the friends of France who were at the head of affairs ;
so that the reproaches of the Hon. Deputy who had just
spoken seemed altogether misplaced. He should content
himself with declaring that the French Government would
persist in its friendly conduct towards Greece, and that the
Minister of France in that country should persevere in the
conduct which he had adopted, in the counsels which he hat,
given, in the support which he had lent, and that he shouli
be approved of and upheld in such conduct by the Freud
Government." This, together with the strong remark
made by Lord ABERDEEN and Sir R. PEEL in Parliament,
shots at least that the entente cordiale does not prevail in
the entire policy of the two Governments. The Journal des
Dtbats announces that the Commission on the navy esti-
mates had made their report, according to which it is recom-
mended to reduce the effective strength of the navy, as pro-
posed by the Government. The Government plan was to
fix the effective strength at 40 ships of the line, 20 afloat
and 20 on the stocks ; 66 frigates, 40 afloat and
26 on the stocks ; 160 schooners and brigs all afloat, making
with transports a total of 286 vessels. The Commission pro-
poses that the fleet should consist of 36 ships of the line, of
which 20 are to be afloat and 16 upon the stocks ; :55
frigates, 40 afloat and 15 upon the stocks; 130 schooners and
brigs, all afloat; and 16 transport ships; total 231 vessels.
Besides 100 steamers, it recommends a steam force of 3,800-
horse power, to be applied "upon four ships of the line, four
frigates, and four schooners; a steam force of 800-horse
power for two floating batteries, destined to defend the en-
trance of the rivers ; and reduces the supplementary credit of
93,000,000 f. demanded by the Government to 73,000,000 f.
The Gazette de France announces, from certain information,
that " the general election will take place before the 15th Of
July. The Chamber of Deputies will have finished its opera-
tions by the 28th May, and the Peers by the 10th June.
The session will be closed on the following day, and the
Chambers .dissolved immediately after. Acsording to all
appearances, the elections will commence on Saturday, the
11th July."

The following are miscellaneous extracts from the other
papers:—

"It is stated as certain," says the amstitutionnel," that in
consequence of a convention between the Holy See and the
Austrian Government, troops belonging to the latter are to
be directed towards the legations."
According to a letter from Rome in the Observer of the
Rhine, the Grand Duke Constantine has received instructions
from St. Petersburgh to proceed direct to Palermo, instead of
embarking, as he had intended, at Genoa and Toul-on. The
writer adds, that in all probability the Grand Duke will not
visit Toulon at all, as the Emperor of Russia is said to have
taken new offence, under the supposition that the accusation
against Russia by the Abbess of Minsk was sent to Paris by
M. Rossi, the representative of France at the Court of
Moms.

Amongst the persons arrested in Poland, in connexion
with the late outbreak, is M. Wiznieski, who is stated, in a
letter from Vienna to have been an active agent of the
Polish Committee in Paris.

A letter from Cracow of the 23d states that the number
of persons now imprisoned there on charges connected with
the late revolt is 570, and that a reward of 1,000 florins has
been offered for the apprehension of Dembroski, who was
secretary to the Dictator, but who, according to some ac-
countr, was killed at Podgorze.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Friday at
831. 70c,; the Fire per Cents., 119 f. 85c.; the Orleans Ballrttad
shares, 1,3V2f. Ogg.; itoueui 1,043 E i Havre, 747 f. No.; Great

Northern, 772 f. 59c; Avignon, 947 f. 50q. Viezron, 698 f. ' • Bordcanx,
645 f.; Boulogne, 515 f. ; Troyes and Montereau, 430 f.; Mole, 236 f.
25c.; Dieppe, 460 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 531 f. 25c. ; Tours and
Nantes, 552 f. 50e.; Paris and Lyons, 590 f. Spanish Passives, 5
The following were the quotations on Saturday :
Five per Cents., 119 f. 9ic ; Four-and-a-Balf per Cents., 113 f. ;
Four per Cents., 106 f. 50c. Three per Cents., sn. 60c. ; Bank
Actions, 3,405 f.; Belgian Five per Cents., 1842, 102% ; Belgian Four-
and-a-Half per Cents., 981,4 ; Rente de Naples (Rothschild, 101 f.
52c. ; Belgian Bank, 1835, 900 f. ; Spanish Passives, 5% ; Spanish
Three per Cents., 1845, 36% ; Romans, 101.11. Exchange on Len-
dcn, one month, money, 25f'. 65c. ; throe months, money, 25f. 47%c.
Cif-NESS DONN IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT Til
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 4.

Soulogne inelAutietis, 12—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Espeleta), 2-IJutch Rhenish, § —E as t Indian, 34—Great North-
ern of France Constituted, 147i—Louvain and Jensappe, 114—Lux-
embourg, I%—Namur and Liege, 13;—Orleans and Bordeaux, 1114
—Paris and Rouen, .1034 —Paris and Strasbourg (Constituted), ON
—Sambre and Meuse, 314 —West Flanders, 3.

The Queen held a Privy Council at half-past two
o'clock this afternoon, at Buckingham Palace, which was
attended by most of the Cabinet Ministert.
-

The Court will, it is expected, leave town on Wed-
nesday or Thursday next for Windsor Castle, to spend
the Easter holidays.

:HONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The San of Last Night.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool, on Saturday, were about
3,000 bags, including 500 American for export. The market
was quiet, at previous rates.
The Share market continued very dull, and in consequence of
the scarcity of money, most descriptions of shares were lower.
In the opinion of the mercantile classes of the City, the
" Protectionists" in the House of Commons have taken the
best means in their power to retard the passing of the plans
of W,ir Robert Peel. But scarcely one of our merchants were
prepared to see such a falling off in the receipts of the Cus-
toms and Excise, as is apparent in the official returns
made public in The Sun of this afternoon. The diminution
in the receipts of the two all-important branches of the reve-
nue is solely and entirely to be attributed to the anxiety of
the trading interests to see the measures of Government
passed into law before new operations, on their part, are en
tered into—till, in fact, they are enabled "to see their way
clear," as the almost every-day phrase is when wholesale
and retail dealers throughout the country are solicited
for orders. It is, therefore, held to be of the
most pressing importance that the final decision of the Le-
gislature upon the corn and other measures of the Ministry
should be announced at the earliest possible period. In the
event of the Corn Bill being rejected by the House of Lords,
and an appeal to the country being made by Sir Robert Peel,
the delay that will inevitably occur must prove as prejudicial
to the revenue returns in the present as it has been in the
last three months.
Accounts of February 7th, from the Cape of Good Hope,
state that there had been some extra detachments of troops
sent to the frontier, in consequence of an apparent disposition
on the part of the Kafirs to prevent our building a fort on the
neutral territory. All, however, seems to have passed off
well. There is nothing interesting from Natal.
There has been an increased amount of business done in
Public Securities this morning, as the several stocks, the
transfer-books of which have been for some time closed, are
now open fur "private withdrawals," by paying the cus-
tomary fee. In a few days the banks will open in the regular
course of business. The Three per Cents. Reduced opened at•93ljs
If, with the dividend taken off. Relatively this is a higher value
by one-half per cent. than the stock bore before the closing
of the books at the Bank. The Three per Cent. Consols too
are now quoted at 96% 14. The value of Long Annuities
have been purchased at 10% 3-16 with the dividends also
deducted. Consols for Account are very steady at 961. ,
The premium upon Exchequer-bills has just been quoted at 255.
Business has been rather brisk in the Foreign Stock
Market to-day, but the variations have been slight. The
Brazilian Five per Cents. have been taken at 8014, ex-divi-
dend ; Austrian at 113 ; Chilian at 96 ; American at 32 ; the
Portuguese Converted at 57%; Spanish at 25%; and the
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 591,4 for the Account.
The Share Market is in a dull state this morning at the
quotations annexed.
BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. .. _ .. _ _ .. 205% 206% ex d 2061,.
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. • • 95% t 4 ox div 951 i
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. • • 961.4 % 9614
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 97 96% cx div 96%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10% 3-16 ex dlO 3-16
Bank Stock for Account •• •• •• 2091,4 209%
'ionsols for Account • . .. _ .. . • 964 06,A
Exchequer Bills. I%d. 13,4 d.
1,000/. .. .. .... t 5 —— Pm• 26
5001... .. .... 25 27 Pm. 26
Ditto, Small .... 25 28 pin 28
ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS, O'CI,OCK. PRICES.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent _ .. 113 113
Grenada,
orrpvtnzi,tiiaigtdiors:Ber
polte.nhi
ricrel seeit:s per Cent ....80 %4 ex dig Saili
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent .. • • • 96
Mexican
Ditto,
Deferredito' Bonds,
1837,
2214
5 per Cent • • 22 32
31%
el::: z
CI i...t.. n t
sl. ... .... 1:
.l.
....
52.....- 2-7 :
16%
57%
Ditto, for the Account .. .. , . • 58'* sFc'k4
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent . • 25%
2025%
• • Ditto, Coupons .. .. • •
Ditto, Passive Bonds .. .. • • —5%
Dividends on the above payable in Landon.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent • • 99 99
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent • •
Ditto, for the Account .. • . .. 59% N
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates • • 9215 4 9214
BUSINESS
PRICES OF CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT PRICES.
RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen .. .. .. .. .. .. 10 .• .. 21% 1 1
Birmingham and Gloucester.. ..100 .. —124 •••• • • • • 124
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 •• • • 1% ••••• • • • • • 1%
Bristol and Exeter .. .. .. 75 .... 84% -•••• • • • . 84%
Buckinghamshire .. .. .. .. 425. •• • • 1 dis. •••• • • • • 1 dis
Caledonian .. _ _ _ _lO .. • . 76%••• • • • • • 6%
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. .. 2% —• • 14 %•••• • • • • 1%
Derby and Crewe .. .. .. .. 2% •• • • —•-••• • • • • • 3%
Direct Manchester (Remington's) 2%. •• • Ti li • li
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .. 514 .... 3% li ••• • . • 3%
Direct Northern .. .. .. .. lye .. .. 1% 14 ••. • • • l%
Eastern Counties .. .. .. 141. 165..... 20% %••• • • • - 20%
Do Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 61. 13s. 4d. %p • • 54 p
Ditto, ditto, .. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. 14 pex div li px d
Ditto, York Extension .. .. les. .. .. 11.4 1. ..... 1
East Lincolnshire .. .. .. .. 11% .... % • %
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 71 ... 7l
Goole, Doncast., and .• hetteld,&c. 425..... % die % dia.
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 15 .... 20% 21
Great North of England . ..100 .. .. 210 211.
Great Western .. .. .. •• 85 .... 144 % •
Ditto Halt Shares .. .. •• 50 .... 83 84% ...... 84%
Ditto, Quarter Shares • • • • 5 .... 15% ...... •• .. 15%
Lancaster and Carlisle • • • • 35 •• •
Ditto, New • • • • • • ' • 5 '• ' • ..... ••• • • 914
Leicester and Bedrord •. •••• • • • • 225..... •••... .• .. % d.-
Liverpool and Leeds Direct .. 2% _„u 2 ......... 2
14
Liverp., Manch., & Newe. Junct. 2% .... —'•
....
...... 1%
London an 1 Birmingham . •100 .. • . 219 218 220.... 220
Ditto Thirds .. .. .. .. 16 .... 52% ...... .... 52
Ditto Quarters .• • • • • • • 2 .• .. 2714 .... __ .. 2714
London and Brighton . • •• •• 50 •••• 62 61% ...... 6134
Ditto ditto Fifths • • • • • •
20 17 27
London and Croydon • • • • 131. 155. 9d. 20% % _ 2014
Ditto, Guarant. Five per Cent. 9 _- -2% . 9%
London and South-Western.. 411. 6s. 10d. 761,4 .......... 77
London and York .. • • • • • • 24 •• • . 1%1434 , . 1%
Ditto, Half Shares • • • • • • 2% • • . 154% .. _
.... 1 .i
London, W arwick, & Kiddermins. 2% .... 1%
..........
1%
Lynn and Ely • • • • •••• • .....
6
Manchester and Leeds . • • • .. 82 .... _
........ _
Ditta, Half Shares • • . • •• 39 .•• . 54 .......... 54
Ditto, Fifths .• • • • • • .. 2 • ... 10% . .. 10%
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 „ •
..
..........
Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) • • 4 •••• 11 .• .. ...... 11
Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) • • 2 •.. _ 81z gz B%
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) • • 1 .... 4
....... 7
: :141 143..
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: it., P. . li.
.a r.
...
....
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.5A Manchester,
jaani cah.., ed ete. r.
. u.t 11 . . . . . .
Ditto, New • • • • • • '•18• • • • 25% .... _ .... 23%
Ditte, Birmingham and Derby 100 ....11514.
7!'S
Neuwitetaos,tlNeeawnd Dar.ling.t.on.J.une.t.. 27 .... .... 4V;t
i.i...: ......:
:: 1 -14344
Ditto, New, Brandling •• •• 25 •• 42%
Newcastle and B.:I-wick • • ••10••..17 t 4 _ .. _ .... 1714
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston . • 2% ..,. 1414
........
1%
North British .. • - • • • • "29 •• • • 244 •• ...... 2414
Ditto, Carlisle Extension 114 ...,. li,
.... . .
1%
North Kent and Direct Dover • • 2% _ _ 11 %
...
.....
1%
North Staffordshire • • • • ' •
Norwich and Brandon .. • • • • 18s .... ...... _ _ 2234
Gald.,Worcester, & Wolverhinptia. 12% .. • • 814 %....... 854
Perth and Inverness • • • • • • 24 •• • • 1% __ _ 1.. 1
Portsmouth Direct • • •• .. 3% _..
.. 1%
Reading, Guildford, & Reigate • • 425. ....
.......... 1% dis
Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester 425..... 1% di5....... 1% dis
Scottish Central . • • • • •• 10 ....
..........
___
Ditto New . . • • • • • • • 24 •• • • 5% • • ........ 5%4
Scottish Midland • • • • • • .. 1? _ _ .......
.......... 6
Shrewsbury and Birmingham ..
.IN, •
.... IN
.......
1%
Shropshire Union . • •• ; • • • - 4.71., •• . • 114 dls... _ 1% dis.
1
425. _ _ %,i.e. cue__ , die.
South Eastern and Dover • • • • 3:11,i •• 34 .. _
... -1%4
sturethwsubuidrlyanari ll.e.refo..rio
..... ....
422:: ~...... 11%..p.
..
1% p
1%
oath....
50 25 y i ... i. I. ...
9%71 3 )i' . . . . . . . . . .
97
1%
'HuthVal e o fWN alest
, Heath h ..
4
WWilers,RSidoimngetU•senti°, Union
Do. E. and W. Riding Exten•• • 1 .... 7%
........ IN
Yojurkittaan.deNaorrbt,hroM:g.i.t.hdi,launlienYulc..h..
..
25
..
..
46
....
.. . _
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Arnica' . • • • • • 12.
Dutch Rhenish • • • • ' • •• j •• • • 2%% •• • ...... 5%
East Indian .. • • • • • • ' "I' •• • • 'A %%•- • • • • Ye
Get. North. of France Constituted 5 _ _ la yL
-- /5 •• •• •... 14%
l,;orneavtinv
and est e r 3
en
iepCanadape .. ..
.•
.• 31i ••••—... . • • . . . . 4
i ai 1%
Luxembourg •• •• •• 1%
1
Namur and Liege • • • • • • 4 .... % . ... • • 2
Orleans and Bordeaux • • .. 6 .. .. 11% .. ...... • • 11%
Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 6 .. .. ..... .. .. 834
Sambre and Meuse .. .. .. 6 .... ..
MIXES.
Real del Monte, Unregistered .. .... 3% •• •• ••• 33,4

HAYMARKET THEATRE.—On SA.turday Mrs. Glover
took her benefit at this theatre, and the admirers of legitimate
comedy assembled in overwhelming numbers to do honour to the
genius of our greatest comic actress. The entertainments consisted
of " the Beggar on Horseback," " A concert," and the comedy of
" the Love Chase," In which last a young lady, understood to be a
daughter and pupil of Mrs. Glover, appeared in the character of
Lydia, and made a most successful and promising ckbfit.
THE COURT.—WINDSOR, SUNDAY MORNING.—
Agreeably to the instructions received by Mr. Roberts, the newly
appointed Inspector of Palaces, her Majesty and the Prince Consort,
accompanied by the royal family, will take their deiptairstuerxepecfrotemd
Buckingham Palace on Wednesday next, for the purpose of spending
twhhe
ich will nhoetllbdea yes. at
et
ntdheed Castle.beyond
a Duringperoi the e
ten
d sojournays of the Court,
that her Majesty the Queen Dowager, his Serene Highness the Here-
ditary Prince of Saxe Meiningen, and several distinguished per-
sonages, will join the the royal and illustrious party at the Castle.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent will leave Clarence House,
St. James's, for Frogmore, on Tuesday or Wednesday next.
The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Com-
mons gave his last Parliamentary entertainment this session, on
Saturday, at his mansion in Eaton-square. The following noblemen
and gentlemen constituted the dinner circle :—Viscount Alford, Vis-
count Eastner, Viscount Ernlyn, Lord Charles Wellesley, Lord Claud
Ilsunilton, Hon. William A'Court Holmes, Sir John Trollepe, Bart.,
alSca.tionrlAdoinoseAhilenlyßdßeenaiden,Reld, Bar t., Sir Charles Douglas, Bart., Captain A'Court,
aCiiellonoeilnpllsuognh, I3liairllniee,nCraypt3aliinnTrnaayylo, r3,lAlr.dLeormngan,
Mr. B.
Botllar. Lockhart, Mr. Barry Baldwin, Mr. Lyall, Hr. Barkly,
Mr. Montagu Gore, Mr. Knight, and Mr. F. 11. Dickinson.
Lady Charles Wellesley was safely delivered of a son
House, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon yesterday.
The remains of the late Hon. Mrs. Norton were re-
moved privately from Abbeyhill House, on Wednesday the Ist, to
be interred according to the English ritual, beside those of the late
Baron Norton, in the family mausoleum at Wonersh, near Guildford,
in Surrey.

The Duke of Wellington will leave Apsley House on
Thursday next for Strathdeldsaye, Hants, for the Easter recess.
The Noble and Gallant Duke will not be absent from town beyond
tett days.
Lord and Lady Stanley were to leave Belvoir Castle,
where they have been visiting the Duke of Rutland, on Friday last,
for the Earl of Derby's, Knowsley Hall, Lancashire, with the inten-
tion to pass the holidays with the Noble and Venerable Earl.
friovrmera, nwcheeirne
tP;smblrotidi-gwe eoefkboisati
The Society for the Encouragement of Arts in London
have awarded their silver medal, fora design for cedilla, to Mr.
Henry A. Darbishlre. of Greenheys, late pupil of Mr. John E. are-
gnu, of Manchester.—Mancheeter Guardian.
SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. The annual per-
about 1,200 feet, or abont the
Hall, on Wednesday next.
is
rloo.
THE SUTLE.7.—According to a sketch of the battle of
Bannon, published by 011ivier Pall-mall, the breadth of this
announced to take place at Exeter
Waterloo-
bridge.
:cat Harrekee,
Wate
7raesadtthuroownf
the
eoviehamr it n

The Poor-law Commissioners have appointed J. T.
Graves, Esq bardeter_ot_iiive, or the Inner Temple, to be an
Assistant Your-law the plate Of MT. rtutell, Irtm
reatipsca. •