The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-08 00:00:00

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LONDON:
MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1841.

By the arrival of the Westchester at Liver-
pool yesterday, in eighteen days, from the United
States, we have received New York papers to the
17th ult. Their contents are more than usually
interesting. The Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions of the House of Representatives presented
a report to that House relative to the burning of
the Caroline, and the case of Mr. M'LEon,
which, but for the debate upon it, might pass for
a preliminary step to the declaration of a war
against this country. This report will be found
at length in another part of The Sun, and will be
read throughout with the deepest interest. For-
tunately, however, the debate which arose in the
House of Representatives upon the motion for
printing the Report, served to explain the way
in which it was got up. Of this debate a sum-
mary will be found following the Report, to
which we invite the attention of our readerr.
Mr. GRANGER, one of the Members of the Com-
mittee on Foreign relations, denounced the Re-
port as the concoction of a faction. JOHN
QUINCY ADAMS, ex-President of the United
States, likewise denounced the Report as intended
to provoke a quarrel with England. Mr. EVE-
RETT and Mr. FILLEMORE both condemned the
Report, in the strongest terms. Mr. PICKENS,
the Chairman of the Committee who drew up
the Report alone defended it; and his defence of
it amounted only to an acknowledgent that it
would have the effect of bullying, England into
submission to the demands of the United States.
The Report, then, is not the Report of Congress,
but of Mr. PICKERS and the ex-Cabinet, which
on its retirement from office seeks to bequeath
a legacy worthy of remembrance to the country.
When General JACKSON retired from the Presi-
dency he left his country a national bank-
ruptcy, the result of his currency mania. Mr.
VAN BUREN, more ambitious than old Hickory,
is for bequeathing to his successors the manage-
ment of a war with England. But notwithstand-
ing the gloominess of the political horizon, we
trust the clouds of discontent will pass speedily
away. General HARRISON, the new President of
the United States, is strongly in favour of a pa-
cific conciliatory policy. Mr. GRANGER, who
spoke against Mr. PICKENS'S Report, is Post-
Master-Gene
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bill for murder, by a majority of nineteen votes
out of twenty. Mr. M'LEOD
,was brought be-
fore the Couxt on the 6th ult. to hear the finding
of the Jury, and was then remanded to gaol till
the next
Oyer and Terminer, w
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the 22d inst., when, if the British
Go
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Government do not effectually interpose, his
commencesv
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trial will take place. But as the question has
decided
been brought before Congress it is not unlikely
that the Federal Government will see the neces-
ect, and
It was a bungling sity not leaving such a questioiumtpoe
b according to the caprice of one State of the
Union. If the Constitution has deprived the Fe-
deral Government of any power of interference,
the Constitution is
manifestly
imperfect,
calls for emendation. regula-
tion, which left the peace and security of the en-
tire Union dependent upon the caprice of one or
other of twenty-four distinct and independent
States. _ _

There is very little observable alteration in
the affairsof the United States Bank. Shares were
quoted in New York at 27, and at Philadelphia

from 26f to 27 being about the rate of the quo-
tations by the last arrival. The following re-
marks on the failure of the United States' Bank
from the Courier and Enquirer of the 16th ult.,
are penned in such a fair and moderate spirit,
that we cannot do less than call attention to them :
The unfortunate are always in the wrong, because people
are so apt tomake success a criterion of conduct, and particu-
larly when the party is absent and cannot be heard in his own
justification. This is very much the case with the United
States Bank. Its embarrassments, we have no doubt, are
caused by the heavy losses it has sustained in the Southern
and South Western States ; and yet for a long series
of years previous, investments there were actually safer
than any other—and it was natural they should be, for
they were based on the production of the soil. The
loans to planters or those cennected with them, were regularly
and easily met when the crop came to market. Now, could
any intellect foresee the extraordinary combination of causes
which at once reduced, and afterwards kept down, the cotton
crop to one-third of its former value ? For years before, the
price had been gradually on the rise and consumption on the
increase. The advance was not confined to one market, but
extended to every market in the world,—when, suddenly, the
blow fel!, aimed by the Bank of England at American com-
merce, in consequence of the accumulation of specie here under
General Jackson's absurd notions of public wealth. The
Bank then, from policy not from choice, was compelled to throw
herself in the breach, and thought that the evil proceeding
from a temporary cause, would soon pass away. The conclu-
sion was a just one; though it proved unfortunate, for two
short crops of grain in England followed in succession, which
had occurred but once before in half a century, and compelled
an immediate and continued curtailment there, that prevented
the cotton market recovering ; and thus investments which in
the first instance were judicious—a policy which under ordi-
nary circumstance would have been successful, proved in the
result ruinous.

In fairness to the United States' Bank, it must
be admitted that it was impossible it could con-
tinue to withstand the all-subduing influence of
the JACKSON and VAN BUREN sub-treasury
scheme. General JACKSON might safely, on re-
tiring from office, prophecy the failure of the
banks. Cause and effect bear no closer relation
to each other than the JACKSON Sub-Treasury
Bill and National Bankruptcy in the then condi-
tion of the currency and banks of the United
States.

We have no important news from Canada or
the South American States.

Slur-BUILDING IN MAINE.—The tonnage of new vessels
built in Maine last year, was 27,705,60 tons, /being more than
any other in the Union, consisting of 26 ships, 48 brigs, 68
schooners, and 3 steamboats.

The late declaration of Lord STANLEY that the
totes of the tenants of England are at the service
of the landlords, and that you could easily tell
the result of a county election by knowing how
the great landlords would vote, though it taught
nothing new, startled the public by its audacity.
Every person acquainted with rural society in
England knows that the bulk of the tenantry,
holding the land at will, generally undertaking
to pay a rack. rent, and, till lately, legally bound
to pay as tithes more than they could always
command, follow their landlord or his agent in
all public matters, as a pack of hounds is guided
oy the voice of the huntsman. But though that is
familiar knowledge, the fact has for the sake of
the tenantry been glozed over, or kept as much as
possible in the dark, and the community was
scandalised by a landlord, one of the authors of
the Reform Bill, declaring in Parliament, that
the votes which the Legislature had nominally
given to the tenants, were in reality bestowed on
the landlords.

Contemporaneously with this assertion of
Lord STANLEY'S, Mr. G. WEBB HALL, a
well-known agriculturist, a member, we be-
lieve, of several Agricultural Societies, and
a gentleman who has laboured assiduously
in behalf of the landed interest, before
Committees of the House of Commons, and
by numerous publications, has sent forth a
pamphlet entitled " The Connexion between
Landlord and Tenant," &c., in which Lord
STANLEY'S doctrine receives some illustration.
He says, at page 20, " Instances were related to
me, from unquestionable authority, at the Eng-
lish Agricultural Meeting at Cambridge last year,
of arbitrary oppression on the part of the land-
owners to tenants.' " " The landords made de-
mands upon the rights entrusted to the tenants
by the Constitution, for the exercise of which they
were responsible, and which they were con-
strained by intimidation to exercise contrary to
their convictions and their consciences." This, he
" was credibly informed," at the Agricultural
Association, " was not an uncommon practice—
not A rare instance ; it was the rule rather
than the exception in some districts." "Thus,"
he adds, " the privileges of the tenantry
are considered to be their bane." " Often,"
Ihe affirms, at p. 21, "have I heard with the
deepest sorrow and disgust the assertion that the
right to participate in sending Members to Par-
liament for the district in which the capital of
the tenants is invested, is converted into and felt
to be a means of bondage and degradation." Again,
he asserts at page 11, that the " tenantry are sub-
jected to gross aggressions on their dearest rights,
calculated to mar the advance of improvement, and
to fix on the class to which they belong a stamp
of servile bondage." All that, and more of the
same kind, is stated by Mr. WEBB HALL, an ex-
cellept authority. It is true he mentions no names,
for that might expose individual tenants to the
vengeance of the landowners. He gives no in-
stances ; but wherefore should he, when he con-
curs with Lord STANLEY in stating that the "ser-
vile bondage" is universal ? But having his
authority, and the authority of Lord STANEY,
we say it is well known, and fully proved, that
the bulk of the tenantry of England are in a
condition of servile bondage.

Mr. WEBB HALL inqUires into the right
of the landowners to exercise their power,
and correctly observes, that the capital of
the landowners is invested in the purchase
of the soil, and they do not possess the means
or the skill to cultivate it. They are described
as passive possessors of the soil, that is hav-
ing their capital dormant, or locked up in ac-
quiring it. The farmer is the possessor of the
capital which cultivates the land; he must be a
man of education, enterprise, activity, and dis-
crimination, with devotion to his art, to enable
him to brave the vicissitudes and losses arising
from the precariousness of life and health in ani-
mals, against which he has not, like the mer-
chant, the refuge of insurance. Why, then, are
the possessors of the passive capital, which is dor-
mant, in the soil, allowed or enabled to exercise the
tyrannyabove described over those whose capital
and skill cultivate it, and, wanting which, the
passive capitalist would get nothing for his land?
Why, for example, should such a man as my
Lord ASHBURTON, who, while he was Mr. BA-
RING, probably bought and sold every year fifty
or a hundred times more than the amount of his
present rent, without ever dreaming that his bar-
gain gave him a right to dictate the votes of
those he dealt with—why should he, or a money-
scrivener, or a bill-broker, when he invests his
capital in land, and contracts with a man to let
him have the use of a piece of his land, on condi-
tion of receiving 1,000/. a-year, have also the
power to constrain his tenant by intimidation to
vote contrary to his conscience and conviction ?
In such a case—and Mr. BARING, the merchant,
converted into Lord ASH BURTON, the landowner,
represents the great majority of those who now
own the land, they, or their immediate ancestors,
having acquired it by purchase—there are no
ancient ties of family connection, no bond of
mutual and hereditary attachment, but merely a
large lump of money on one side invested in the
soil, and a smaller sum on the other,seeking to
find, in conjunction with agricultural skill, a living
or a fortune by cultivating the ground. Mr.Wxnn
HALL gives no other solution of this important
question than strenuously to deny that this con-
tract ought to give the landlords any such right,
though he shows in some measure how the
land-
lord is enabled-to acquire and to exercise it. His
observationS on this point are worthy of public
attention.

First and foremost comes the competition of
candidates for the privilege. of cultivating the soil,
which is so fierce that it " drives all calculations
to the winds."
"Few, very few are the cases
where an intelligent applicant for a farm can
afford the time and the hazard of making a rea-
sonable calculation of the probable produce
of the estate he may be about to engage ;
he is pressed by a crowd behind forward
into precipitancy, or aside into inaction." i 4 The
tenantry of the county, the possessors of all the
agricultural capital and skill, rush like the fre-
quenters of a theatre, under attraction or alarm,
and crush and cripple their neighbours and
themselves by 'a reckless and uncalculating
zeal,"'
and ,4 thus it is that they sink into de-
pendence abhorrent to a generous nlinct." That

is the condition of the tenantry as attested by this
most competent witness, andagainst such ruinous
competition no Corn-law can protect them,
though there is no doubt that the distress and
decay- brought on by such a competition are
amongst their strongest motives for desiring to
maintain the bread-tax. The merchants and
manufacturers have been repeatedly answered,
when they have made complaints to Parliament,
that the competition amongst themselves,
underselling each other, was the main
cause of their embarrassment, and Parlia-
ment, on that ground, wi3ely refused to
give them any relief. By a Corn-law it haS
sought to protect the agricUlturists from the
consequences of a similar folly, and the' result,
after the law has been in operation, in one form
or other, for twenty-five years, is, that the com-
petition of farmers is compared to the rush of the
frequenters of a theatre alarmed by a cry of fire.

Mr. WEBB HALL being a Corn-law advocate,
does not point out the influence of the law in
producing this excessive competition. We will
supply his omission. By impeding the supply of
food, the Corn-law prevents the growth of manu-
factures, and of towns, the employment of capital,
and the increase ofpopulation in them. They, how-
ever, are the natural conduits for carrying off the
surplus population, and,being impeded, though not
wholly stopped by the Corn-law, population and
capital are not drained sufficiently fast from
the rural districts. At the same time the mono-
poly which the right of property confers on the
owners of the soil is rendered much more strin-
gent and narrow by the law which confines our
people for their supply of food to that particular
property. To feed them the landowner's estate
must be cultivated; those who own it know that;
they have made a law to strengthen and enforce
this contingency ; they are therefore enabled
to dictate to the farmer, unable to find anyother
occupation for his capital, their own terms. The
supply of land is not enough for the demand,
and hence arises that ruinous competition of
the farmers, which is like the rush ofa frightened
crowd at a theatre. If the Corn-law be not the
sale cause of this competition, at least it increases
this competition, and gives to it that intensity
which Mr. WEBB HALL has so well described.
To the Corn-law, then, we trace much
of the political dependence of the tenants
of my Lord ASIIBURTON on him, of which
the dealers with ALEXANDER BARING had
never the smallest conception. To the same
Itw we also trace the great disadvantage
which the owners of the capital employed in cul-
tivating the soil, labour under in competing for
farms, as compared to the owners of the
passive capital sunk in the purchase of land.
The Corn-law gives the landowners power over
the tenantry, and favours one class of capitalists
connected with land, who make the laws, at the
expense of another. The landowners get an in-
creased rent by the excessive competition. It
favours the least useful class, too, at the expense
of the more useful class. The passive capital of
the landowners sets no labour in motion, the
active capital of the farmer is the immediate
means of employing and paying the labourer.
What the farmer gives to the landlord more than
he ought, by the forced competition, lessens his
power to employ labour. The Corn-law, there-
fore, by lessening the farmer's capital, and in-
creasing his expense, is as great an injury to the
agricultural labourer as the farmer.
We shall make some further quotations from
Mr. WEBB HALL'S pamphlet, to prove that the
landlords both wrong the farmers in a pecuniary
point of view, and neglect to secure them pro-
tection by proper laws ; but we will reserve these
for another article. We must be satisfied now
with having proved by the authority of an agri-
culturist the degradation of the tenantry, and
with having, in part, traced that to the accursed
Bread Tax.

The Madrid Papers received are of the 27th
ult. They contain no news of importance.
Three of the Ministers, Messrs. Frias, Becerra, and Chacon
were to be members of the Senate ; and three others, Messrs.
Ferrer, Gamboa, and Cortina, were to take their sea's in the
Chamber of Deputies. The Duke of Victory, who was re-
turned for both Houses, had not yet made known his choice.
The transactions in the Five per Cents., twenty-eight in
number, amounted to 21,800,000 reals, one of which was ne-
gotiated for caAt, at 28 3-16, and the rest at 2S at 60 days.

The French Journals of Friday and Saturday
have been duly received. They contain very
little news of political interest. MM. THIERS
and DUPIN visited Lord BROUGHAM at his hotel
as soon as it was known that he had arrived in
Paris.

The Prince of Moscowa, the son of Marahal Ney, was ad-
mitted a Member of the Chamber of Peers on Saturday. The
Prince, before taking the oath, intended to enter into a pro-
test against the sentence of his father, but was sqenced by the
President.

The body of Marshal Victor was embalmed, on Wednesday,
by M. Gannal, according to his process, and was afterwards
laid on a bed, where it was visited by a great number of his
friends. The funeral will take place on Tuesday, when the
body will be transferred to the Invalides, at 11 o'clock, to re-
ceive the last ceremonies of the church: Everything will be
conducted on such a scale as to make the spectacle one of
great magnificence. Detachments from all the regiments of
the garrison will be in attendance.
By the death of the Duke de Bellune, there are now only
four marshals of the empire--viz., the Dukes de Conegliano,
de Da'matie, de Reggio and Raguse.
In the Chamber of Deputies M. Lacrosse addressed some
questions to Ministers re,pecting the condition of the Blacks in
the French colonies. Admiral Duperre replied, that the bar-
barity of the planters towards their slaves was greatly exagge-
rated, and read a report of the Governor of Guadaloupe,
which stated that no rigorous chastisements had been lately in-
flicted in that island.

The editor of the journal called La France, and; the mana-
gers, Messrs. Lubis and De Menton, who were thrown into pri-
son, charged with having forged the letters attributed to Louis
Philippe, were liberated on Thursday list. These gentlemen
have been in prison for a month, on a charge which it appears
is now abandoned; and their case is the more severe, beca 'se
the law affords them no remedy for so grievous a wrong.
'1 lie last accounts from Wilna state that the Emperor Nicho-
las had laid an extraordinary contribution of a silver ruble per
head on all the inhabitants of the two principal governments
of Lithuania, those of Grodno and Wilna. The population
amounting to upwards of a million of souls, it is calculated
that the proceeds of the tax will exceed 4,000,000 f., which,
according to the imperial ukase, are to be applied to
the foundation of a school of cadets at Vi ilna. The
Emperor had, moreover, ordered that a permanent capitation
tax of one ruble in paper, or 10d. per head, be levied on the
people of those two Governments for the maintenance of that
establishment. " The regular taxes being lf. psi head (says
our private letter) the public burdens will thus be doubled at
the caprice of the Czar, who, from the wording of the ukase,
seems to threaten a similar visitation on the other govern-
ments of the empire."

The Independent de la Moselle gives in its last number the
following news extracted from a letter addressed by a person of
distinction in St. Petersburgh, to an ecclesiastic of the diocese ;
it appears to us the more remarkable from its having been pub-
lished by that journal :
" Tell me if it is the same with you as in Russia, great num-
bers of Jews are converted ; the population of entire places em-
brace Christianity. lam delighted with these conversions, even
should they announce the end of the world, the approach of
which, according to the prophecies of the Bible, is to be indica-
ted by the conversion of the remnant of Israel."—La Gazette
de France.

The Messager contradicts the statement of the Journal de
Havre, that the Auhe frigate is coming home from New Zea-
land, and affirms that if it has left, it can be only for a time, to
take in provisions at Sydney. Very well ! but we are not told
whether the Government is resolved to enforce the claims
arising from contracts] made by Frenchmen for the posses-
sion of certain portions of the territory of New Zealand, and to
dispute the seizure by the English Government of the whole
territory.
The Committee of tho Chamber of Deputies on literary pro-
perty has decided that the right of the Academies, and other
learned bodies, to writings published in their name should con-
tinue thirty years ; but it gives the state only ten years pro-
perty in the writings published by its order and at its expense.
The Count de St. Aulaire is detained at Vienna by indispo-
sition ; it is doubtful whether he will be able to be at Paris to
attend the debate and give his vo'e on the Fortifications Bill.—
La Presse.

BO UR SE......PARIS, SATURDAY, MARCH 6.
lint Highest Lowest last
Price Price. PriCt, Price
F. erch 5 per Cents
4 per Cents lOO ... 103 ... 100. 1(0
.
3 per Cents 76 90 .. .7 5 ... 76 90
... 77 5
Busk or trance
L ,flitte Bank 1,0001. Sh..
50001. Stares 5155 ...5155 ...5155 ...5155 •
Oelgian Bank
5 per Cents...
3I er Cents 7O 35 ... 70 35 ... 70 10 ... 70 10
New Loan .....
Spanish Active £s% ... 25% ... 25% ... 25'4
Passive 6 ... 6 ... 6 ... 6
Portuguese 0 per Cells 19% ... 19% ... 19% ~. 19%
Neapolitan lO2 5 ... 102 30 ... 102 5 ... ,02 20
Rernan ... .... 101% ... 101% ... 101% ... 101%
PAILWAY SHARES,
Ve7sailles,R. 11 405 ... 41,7 50 ... 465 ... 407 50
L.B. 312 50 ... 313 75 ... 312 56 ... 313 75
Orleans ..
chmg,e [hale
louen

We observe from the Courier of this morning,
a paragraph announcing an extensive failure of a Liver-
pool house in the drysaltery and distillery busiucce. We
know it upon the most unquestionable authoii,y, that the
stoppage ii merely of a temporary nature, and that the
assets arc sufficient to meet al their engagements, and
the busicess will be carried on as formerly.— Renfrewshire
Reformer.

COVENT-GA It DEN TII EA TRE.—Her Majesty
and Prince Albert and a limited suite vi-i.tcd this theatre
on Saturday night to witness the representation el the
new comedy of London Assurance, which went cff with,
if anything, increased estimation from the audience, and
seemed highly to delight the Royal ra'r, %Om were quite
hearty in their manifestations cf amusement and apprc-
Intion. The Queen, and Prince Albert, with their
party, left the theatre immediately afxr the termination of
tho comedy.

LLOYD' SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, MARCH S.—Wind this day at noon, W., warm.
DEAL, MARCH 7. —Wind W. N. W. , moderate. —A rrived
the Isabella, Gale, from Demerara; British Queen, St. John's,
N.B. ; Surprise, Smith, South Seas ; African, Free, Africa ;
Princess Victoria, Ellis, Cephalonia ; Iceni, Wests Card. Ar-
rived from the River and sailed, the Dundee, Patrick, for
Calcutta; Supply, Deslie, Rio Janeiro; British Isles, Muir-
head, Demerara ; Glouce,ter, Brooks, Matanzas ; British
America, Pritchard, St. John's, N.B.
SOUTH FORELAND, MARC H 7.—Arrived off port the
Byron, from Charleston, fir Bremen.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 6.—Wind W.N.W. 7 W.—Ar-
Dived the Claudine, Brewer, from London, for Madras; Sophia
Margaretha, Haesloop, Hamburgh ; Bolina, Brown, New Zea-
land, sailed 19:h October, and Rio Janeiro 7th February. Off
port the Johanna, from Batavia, for Amsterdam.
A jolly-boat, marked in the inside " Creten," was passed off
the Need:es by the Bolina, arrived at this port.
Meg of Meldon, of Liverpool, for Bombay, cn. :he Equator
by the Bolina Frown.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 6.—Arrived the Susan, Collins, from
London, and sa led for t. Michael's ; the Shannon (steamer),
from London fur Dublin. Sailed England's Queen, New Yolk,
DARTMOUTH, MARCH 6.—Arrived the Frar-not, Cox, St.
Michael's, with lass of anchor and chain ; Mary, Herring,
from London for Waterford.

SOUTHAMPTON' MARCH 6.—Arrived the Resolution, Gib-
bon, from Youghal. Sailed the Tagus (steamer), for Gibraltar.
FALMOUTH MARCH s.—Wind W. to N.W., strong
gales. 6, N. W.,strong breezes.--A-rived the Merlin,
Richards, from t. Michael's ; Isabella Wood, Dunn, Shields
for Constantinople. Sailed Star Packet for Madeira, Tene-
rife, and Brazil. Off Port, Perseverance, Large, from Shields,
for Alexandria.
YA RMO TIT, ISLE OF WIGHT, MARCH 6.—Put back, Glen-
lyon, Crickson, St. David's, for Monte Vedcs, with loss of
stern boat.

SUNDERLAND, MARCH s.—Arrived the Percy, Collins,
from Bordeaux.

NEWHAVEN MARCH 6.—The Mary, Winter, from
Alderney, to London, was totally wrecked last night eastward
of the pier. Crew saved.
COWES, MARCH 6.—Sailed Iceni, Steele, for London.;
Maria Francesca, for Antwerp.
JERSEY, MARCH s.—Arrived the Arid, Clement, Deme-
rara. Put back the Ocean, for Cadiz.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 6.—Wind W. S.W., moderate. 7.
N.W., fresh.—Arrived the Isabella, Rymer, from Per-
nambuco, sailed 27th Jan. ; Columbia, Flack, River; (Jane),
Indefatigable, Savannah ; Tallahasse, New Orleai s ; Grace,
Pearson, ditto ; Plymouth, Fuller, obile. ; Recovery, Black-
.den, Terceira; Pomona ditto ; oung Queen, Calcutta ; Re-
becca, Lon; field, Valparaiso; Brigand, Evil; Antigua, s fled
ISth Jan. ; Planter, Laguna; Westchester, Ferris, i\ ew York,
sailed 16th ; Alexander Leeds, Baltimore ; Pallas, Sinclair,
St. Andrews ; Heroine, B'ythe, St. Michael's. Off the Aus-
tralia, suppo ed from Bahia ; Helen iVar, Savannah. The
Cessnock, bound to Berbice, has put back, leaky. The Bri-
gand, Evill, arrived here from Antigua, on the 21st, fell in with
a long low schooner, supposed to be a pirate, of about 80 tons,
and with upwards of 60 men on board, but af'er moving about
the brigand a short time, sheered off. On the 19th was struck
by a heavy sea lost jib-boom, sprung bowsprit, &c. The
Bonne M. re. from St. John's, New Brunswick, to Cork, was
Mien in with waterlogged, and the crew and one passenger
taken off by the Helen Mar, arrived here.
BRISTOL, MARCH 7.—Arrived the Sprightly, Newton, from
St. Michael's. •

SWANSEA, MARCH 6.—Arrived the Ellen Hardy, Cuba.
CLYDE, MARCH s.—Arrived the Sterling, Isaac, from St.
John's, New Urunswick ; Stillman, Allen, ditto. Sailed the
Britannia, Bruee, for Rio Janiero ; William Campbell, Ha.
vanna • Mars, Barclay, Demerara ; Matthew, Johnston, Bos-
ton ; thargaret, Craigie, Charente.
DUBLIN, MARCH 6.—Sailed the Royal William, Drisc&s,
for St. John's, New Brunswick.

CORK, MAncx 4.—Arrived the Celia Large, Meran, from
Jamaica; Ayrshire Lass, Nicol, Aux Cayes; Lady Mary Fox,
Sowerby, Martinique. Sailed Caledonia, Fanning, Jamaica.
STROMNESS, MARCH I.—Arrived the Susannah, Chapman,
from Sunderland for New York, leaky, and with loss of her
jib-boom.
SHIELDS, MARCH s.—Arrived the Gustat, Oldenberger,
from Harlingen ; Trende Sostre, Bedmark, Bot'erdam ; Fo-
rentine, Clark, Dunkirk. Sailed the Ambassador, Elliot, for
Constantinople ; Giraffe, Clarke, Madeira.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY.— A moderate
business has been done in the Cotton Market to-day, the sales
comprise 4,000 bales, 500 of which have been taken in specu-
lation ; prices for all descriptions remain at Friday's quotations.
LIVERPOOL SNARE MARKET.—A good business has been
transacted at the Stock Exchange to-day, but there is no al-
teration to notice in the rates. Eastern Counties debentures,
4 8 6; Grand Junction Half-shares, 102 i ; Great Western
New Sharet, 61 ; Lancaster and Preston Junction New Shares,
191 ; London and Birmingham, 169, Ditto, New Shares, 21 ;
Manchester and Leeds Half-shares, 29i ; Borough Bank ex-
dividend, 14; Commercial and Liverpool, 17i; Manchester
and Liverpool District, 10,1,2 the above prices were at 4 prem.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 6.—We had
ra her more busine:s to-day. The sales ai e—Manchester and
Leeds, 70i, 704, 69k, 69 and 139 ; .Ditto. New, 2111, and 2.9 i ;
London and South Western Tenths, 17, 17 prem. ; Stafford
and Rugby, ai; Bank of Stockport, 41. Os. 6d; Manchester and
Liverpool District Bank, 10k.

We have received the Journalof Antwerp of yesterday's date.
BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MARCH s.—The transactions in
the National Funds have been more animated to-day, and in
general were sought after ' • the prices have obtained a favour-
able impulse ; the rise in London has contributed to this re-
action. The Actions of the Society of Commerce were 161.
Ardoin's Spanish ma'ntained the rates of yesterday, and re-
mained at 22 1-16th to A ; Coupons 2ti 7-16thi.
The Gazelle of Carlsruhe states from the Danube, of 25th
February, that there is no truth in the movement of the Rus-
sian troops towards the eastern frontiers of Poland.
The only arrival this morning of any consequence is that
from New York, to the 17th February, three days latter than
the last accounts. In general the Report of the Committee
on Foreign Affairs is looked upon as being of a warlike nature,
but an opinion prevails that the new President, who takes
office on the 4th March, will do all in his power to prevent a
war with Great Britain. The above unfavourable intelFgence
from the United States has had the effect to dimp the British
Funds. The particulars respecting the Report on the State of
the Banks and Funds, will be found in another part of the
Papers.