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LONDON:
TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1841.

The explosion in the House of Commons on Friday was felt
in the House of Lords last night; and the prodigious haste
the Duke of BIICICINGHAM has made to denounce the Minis-
terial proposition before it be known, is another con-
proof of the exquisite tenderness of that raw in the land-
lords which the Ministers have rubbed. The Duke, on
presenting 120 petitions, principally from places in
Bucks, against any alteration of the Corn-laws, said
that the announcement on Friday had induced the
petitioners to communicate with him and express their as-
tonishment and regret that the head of her MAJESTY'S Go-
vernment should have united with his colleagues in altering
the Corn-laws. The Noble Duke hoped that the Commons
would, by their opinion, dispel the fears of the agriculturists,
and enable them to enjoy in peace their own property. What
a scandal to call a tax property ! Of course the Noble Duke
quoted some words formerly used by Viscount 111ELBDuatix,
describing very happily, certainly, the temporary evils of
changing the law, but also describing the permanent evils of
continuing it, and warned the Noble Viscount that he would
throw the country into confusion.

Viscount MELBOURNE showed by a quotation from a former
speech of his, that he had never declared his adhesion to the
present Corn-law, and had always stated that the alteration in
it was only a question of time, but that it must be altered. He
further declared that the time had now arrived when the exi-
gencies of the State made it impossible to leave that MASTER
GRIEVANCE UNTOUCHED, to which declaration let all the
people say " Amen."

The Earl of RIPON expressed great regret at the speech of
the Noble Viscount, on account of his Noble Friend's cha-
racter. He wanted to know whether the principle to be fol-
lowed was protection or taxation ; if it were protection Corn-
laws were all right and proper,—if it were taxation, it was
such a monstrous thing that it had never been done by any
country to tax the bread of the people.
The Earl of WixcninsrA followed on the same side, and
made a prodigious deal of noise. The proposed measure was
a tax, he said, on corn, a tax upon the agricultural interest, a
tax on the most essential article of food, and he would give it
all the opposition in his power.—(Lord STANnoex gave assent
to this.) It had hitherto been protection, it was now to be a
tax on bread, and, in Gon's name, let their Lordships resist it.
So these Noble Lords delude themselves, and fancy they can
delude the country, by making a distinction, where there is no
difference, between protection and taxation. At present the
tax on corn is about 235. per quarter ; Ministers mean to reduce
it. according to the supposition, to about ss. or is., but it is
to be now kept up for the revenue of the State, and not fur the
benefit of the landlords ; and these foolish Lords suppose that
while the thing remains the same, or rather, its mischievous
effect will be probably diminished, that a change in its name
alters its character. An onerous tax for protection is
a good thing, according to them ; a light tax for re.
venue is to be abhorred by men and Gods. We can-
not see much difference in them ; but the heavier tax to en.
rich the landlords is much the more hateful. In every word
which the Earl of RIPON and the Earl of WINCHILSEA said
against a bread tax in any shape, we cordially agree ; but their
denunciations apply with more force to the present fluctuating
tax than to the tax, if it be moderate, to be proposed by Mi-
nisters. We wou!d recommend Ministers to consider of this
in time, and instead of being parties to continuing the tax on
corn, taking all that odium on themselves, to come into our
views and abolish the Corn-laws altogether. That is the cer-
tain way to give a stimulus to enterprise, and make the altera-
tions in the other taxes which they propose answer their
expectations.

Lord DUNFERMLINE in presenting 'a petition from seven
clergymen complaining that they are deprived of their rights
entered at some length into the interminable difference be-
tween the Scotch Church and the Scotch law authorities,
which he said ought to be stopped, otherwise the difference'
would extend to other parts of the empire. The Assembly
had attempted to enforce its own act in defiance of authority.
Something definite ought immediately to be done, or there
would be two churches in every parish, one the prop of the
State, the other the prop of the General Assembly. The
Noble Lord gently hinted that the patronage of the Govern-
ment flowed over on and fertilized the opposers of authority.
Viscount MELBouarix adhered to his resolution of not inter-
fering, trusting apparently to the rabid party recovering their
senses.

After some interesting conversation, in which 'the Earl of
RODEN took the part of the clergy, the petition was laid on
the table.

The Earl of GLENGALL brought the case of Mr. STANLEY,
the Secretary to the Poor-law Commissioners for Ireland, under
the notice of the House. Mr. STANLEY, it will be recol-
lected, was examined at the bar, and proved to have altered a
paper which had been ordered to be laid on the table
of the House. The Noble Earl moved that Mr. STAN.
LEY made the alteration in contempt of the authority
of the House. After a short debate the resolution
iva. carried. The Noble Earl then moved that Mr. STANLEY
be ordered to attend at the bar of the House ; but after it had
been explained that Mr. STANLEY was in bad health, he with-
drew it, and a resolution was passed stating the reason why it
was withdrawn, so that their Lordships might not appear to
waive any of their privilege or power. The minute of the
Board on the subject of the resignation or dismissal of Mr.
STANLEY was also ordered to be laid on the table, and so ends,
we believe, that great Clonmel affair, by which the Earl of
GLENGALL and other Irish Tory Peers were to blow up the
Ministers.
At Half-past Nine their Lordships Adjourned.
In the Commons, a Mr. G. PALMER gave notice that he
would move to postpone the Committee on the Colonial Pos
e °r
ruP
tua amendments r I:d:ms
Deanroetns 1 wagectto:No,dr e ccoe
ses4i"s Bill. That is the beginning of the warfare which the
against the whole system of pro-
posed4R supply the place of
Sirl new writ for Sandwichmasume•daes.riesisaul ec.dodieo.
Lord STANLEY'
night, which look afon Bill for a fort-
night, his Betustr :
s as if it woul i be given IT.
Mr. HANDLEY complained of the Morning Chro, isle. It
had misrepresented If .
•
un to have said, on Frida_y evening, that
he would second the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER in

dealing with the various details of the proposed alteration of
of the Corn-law, wLereas he stated "that. he should do his
duty to his constituents and the public," implying that he
would oppose the Minister's plan. He moved that the printer
of the Morning Chronicle be called to the bar ; but alter a
few words from Mr. HUME, withdrew the motion.
Viscount SANDON gave notice of a motion on Friday, to
take the sense of the House on the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER'S Budget resolutions, including, we presume, the
alteration of the Corn-law, which will at once bring the mat-
ter to an issue. All the friends of free trade and justice must
be present on Friday to support Ministers.
Sir ROBERT INGLIS also gave notice of his intention of
taking the sense of the House on the propriety of allowing any
British subject within her Majesty's dominions to consume
slave grown sugar. The Hon. Baronet will of course, there-
fore, stop the present practice of refining Cuba and Brazil
sugar in bond, and supplying Mr. GLADSTONE'S estates in
Demarara with it at a cheap rate. His West India friends
will not thank the Hon. Baronet for his zeal. It is delightful,
however, to see all the professors of all the purities so eager to
signalize themselves in injuring the people of England, who
long suffering as they are, must now know who are their real
friends. _ _

The House went into Committee on the Punishment
of Death Bill, but interesting as that subject is at other
times it has lost all its interest now when the question is
whether a large number of the people shall be annually doomed
to or saved from starvation to please the protected landlord.
After several divisions on clauses of the Bill, all of which were
against Mr. KELLY, that gentleman said that finding he could
not bear up against the whole weight of the Government, he
would not carry the Bill any further. 'lhe House resumed.
The House then went into Committee on the Criminal Jus-
tice Bill, and were occupied for a considerable time with
some amendment proposed by Mr. W. PATTEN, relative
to compensating the Coroner of Manchester, and the Clerk to
the Peace, and Clerk to the Justices of Lancashire, which was
contested with the vigour of a personal dispute. Mr. Hatt
PHILIPS was the principal opponent.
Mr. PATTEN'S clauses, however, were lost on a division by
128 to 73.

A clause proposed by Lord En rarort to exempt Bolton from
the rim was lost by 75 to 31. The Bill was ordered to be
reported.
At One o'Clock the-I
-louse Adjourned.

We beg to remind the friends of the claimants
for losses in Denmark, that the case stands as
an " Order of the Day" for to-morrow evening.
We cannot understand the ground on which the
CHANCELLOR ,of the EXCHEQUER has so obsti-
nately resisted the repeated decisions of the
House in favour of the shipping class of the
claimants, who are equally, if not more, enti-
tled to relief, than the other two classes who
have already received indemnity. We now
trust that Mr. BARING will have the good sense
to accede to the wishes of Parliament, and do
justice, though tardily, to these poor claimants.
In case, however, of any manoeuvre ou the part
of Government to prevent a House being made,
we hope that Members will be early in attend-
ance to thwart any attempt of this nature.

The old Poor-law was abolished because the
paupers were eating up the estates of the gentry.
But, according to the Standard, and the passage
is well worthy the attention of the landlords, the
Poor-law, together with the Corn-law, cannot
exist, and must be abolished. If the Corn-law
be abolished, the landlords will have a dimi-
nished rental ; if the Poor-law be abolished their
estates will be shared by the pauperg. Either
way the landlords are in a most unenviable po-
sition. But hear our Tory Contemporary :

The Corn-laws do to some extent, though less than is be-
lived, keep up the price of provisions; but the practical effect
of the New Poor-law, and whatever has been pretended to the
contrary, the intended effect, is to bring down the rate of wages.
These are two operations that cannot go, on together without
injustice to the working classes ; and if the New Poor-law is
to remain, the Corn-laws must give way. They who have all
along thought with us can have no difficulty in joining the
people in efforts to get rid of the odious Malthusian law ; and
for the Conservatives from whom we unfortunately have dif-
fered upon this point, we respectfully warn them, that they can-
not save that hateful law. Its doom has gone forth. The
voice of the country has unequivocally pronounced sentence
upon it from the hustings at Nottingham. Conservatives may
damage their own interests, and compromise the interests of
their party, and they have done this teo long, by the attempt
to save this monument of the folly and cruelty of their polltical
antagonists—but save it they cannot.

The poor landlords then are doomed, as well
as the Poor-law, and whether Tories or Whigs
govern us they may prepare to see their wealth
depart and their order decline.

Our Contemporary has another passage which,
being found in its pages, deserves consideration.
The Standard habitually insists on maintaining
the enthroned magnificence of a mitred priest-
hood, that the splendour of its wealth may im-
pose on our senses, and continually demands
more gold for that body ; it supports the injus.
tice of taxing Dissenters to enrich the Church ;
and above all it advocates zealously the Corn-
law, in order to add to the wealth of the idle
landlord at the expense of the i.l-iitustrious
bourer yet it, last night, contained the following
words :

For ourselves we cl, not conceal the opinion, that it is not
only possible, but easy, to render the working classes in Eng-
land the most contented and loyal people upon the face of the
earth, and 'the most attached to the laws and institutions of
their ewantry ; but to do this we must treat them as citizens,
and n'Jt as slaves. We most restore to them an interest in
the institutions which they are to defend; renounce the wor-
ship of Mammon as the deity of our national policy ; and
ensure to every man a fair share of his own earnings. It is
a mistake to suppose that the mere labourer alone suffers by
the tyranny of wealth; the grievance ascends to classes who
never dream of the real cause of their sufferings—it meets the
shopkeeper, the professional man, and even the scholar, in
the weight of gold thrown into the scale against him, what-
ever the object of his pursuit. But the reform must begin at
the foundation ; raise the condition of the humbler classes—of
men living by labour—and by the one act you elevate all the
sons of industry, whatever their rank.

We delight to see such sentiments in the Tory
papers, and rejoice to think that the Corn-law
proposition of the Ministers is the parent of the
Standard's wisdom, begotten on the Standard's
wrath. How raise the condition of the labourer,
—how treat the working classes as citizens, not
as slaves ?—how ! but by not plundering them, and
by admitting them into all the privileges of the
State. At present, because a man is not able to
live in a ten-pound house, he is disfranchised;
because he is not the owner of 3001. or 300/. a
year from bricks and mortar, or from clods, he
is not fit for a representative. At present our
whole political system, as worked and carried
out by the Tories—who have substituted property,
as we showed on Friday, the sign of freedom,
for freedom itself—is founded on the worship of
MAMMON. The great objection, repeated
over and over again by the Standard, too,
as well as the bulk of the Tories, to the Parlia-
mentary Voters Bill, was that the proposed class
of voters had little or no wealth. They might
be the most honest, the most religious, the most
patriotic men in the world, but they had not M.
beneficial interest in the land, and were held to
be justly disfranchised by the Journal which
now denounces the worship of MAmmoN. The
Standard hits itself as hard as it hits the land-
lords ; and, while it generally advocates the ex-
clusive aristocratic constitution, proposes, by giv-
ing the labourers wealth and full liberty, the
destruction of the aristocracy. It sacrifices its
own consistency, hoping to gull the Chartists;
but they will not be deluded by such a barefaced
trick.

The Corn-law was passed, and is now upheld
in the true spirit of MAmmolv worship, solely
and exclusively by the landlords, in opposition
to the people, to keep up rents. If it was sus-
pected to diminish rent, it would be totally abo-
lished as soon as the forms of Parliament would
allow a law to be passed. At the same time,
the worshippers of MAMMON hypocritically pre-
tend that it is for the good of the poor. They
dare to clothe their low-minded avarice in the
garb of philanthropy, and usurp, while they
Practise the vices of a money-scrivener, the cha-
racter and attributes of a benevolent Deity.
Such a jumble of hypocrisy, cant, inconsist-
ency, and fraud, as make up the character of
Tory politicians, whether they be writers or
speakers, is prodigiously disgusting. That men
should be enslaved by a valiant conqueror, at the
head of a powerful army, seems deplorable
enough ; but that they should be similarly de-
graded by such hypocritical worshippers of MA 31 -
MON as our Tory aristocracy, and not by any
valour or wisdom on their part, but by the unin-
telligible balderdash of Acts of Parliament, would
not be credible were the fact not so familiar as
no longer to excite astonishment. However, we
have the authority of the Standard and its prac-
tice for asserting that the system is doomed. In
common with the Times, and the rest of the To-
ries, it courts the Chartists. We begin to think
they were right, for their ends, in not agitating for
a repeal of the Corn-laws, for they have, by their
acquiescence, infatuated the aristocracy to keep
up those execrable laws, and so have brought on
a financial and political crisis, in which they are
courted as arbiters of the fate of the Ministers and
the Constitution.

Saturday and Sunday were gala ilay4 in Paris,
the first being the KING'S birth-day; the second

the day appointed for the haptirnit or the Count THE MARKETS.—(THIS DAY.)
of PARIS. The joUnals -of Sunday, which we COLONIAL MARKET.
There was very little business donee and prices were un-
havc rrteived, record no disturbance of the ' steFdy. liritish.Plantatidii Siigir Was scarcely. Intitirt'd for'
public tranquillity on these days.
of the Tuileries the incon.venient custom tifeirtin§ vdiiii by
At the Courtii
iale,, arid the bikk o tti Pateeli Ltotight tG pol?lic s,3:l•e
th y, he -reicers Or refiner=, and so little was done that
i 1 '6l' teimii Coca pc-
eiiiceri,l)w the
fiqmiriall ih ' sarhe as no Friday last. Coffee
glected. . Rice a dull sale, an
of presenting Addreeet to fhb govereign on the were bought in. tholfg o Bred d (airnrheeipiimi
ay
prices
ni,:
annual celtbl`afion of his birth-day, and as it ex-
tends to the diplomatic body, it is not difficult to TEA MARKET.
ther declined 6d. per cwt. (.1094 Wti, ite Beengasl 13s. per cwt.
discover in the introduction or the omission of
ciiiiiion Congou offered at Is. 51d. pef iti. Ccilipafty's
. Few sales Wete tilde bit pfidel weis.firatt lula the precis of
certain topics, ground for poiititai Speculation. Congou was sold at ls. bid. per lb. cash.
The Austrian AmbaSsadt% Count D'APPONY, TALLOW MARKET.
who, as the oldest of the members of the diplo- Prices were firmly sustained but the market was dull, as the
trade were disposed to purchase for actual want only. P. Y. C.
matic body, is the mouth on such occasions, thus 48s. on tho spot.
addresses the King of the Fitt N WHIFECHAPEL HAY MARKET.
tli : We had a good supply of Meadow Hay, the demand pretty
" Sire,—You you know the sentiments of the Corps Diple• good, fine qualities were much in request, and fully realized
matic for your Royal person. We earnestly avail ourselves of our last quotations ; the middling and ordinary sorts heavy of
the anniversary of your Majesty's fete to have the honour to sale. Of Clover the supply was moderate, the best sorts met
renew our homage. Faithful to our wishes for everything a quick sale at 6/. pr load. Of Straw the supply plentifu',
that can contribute to your Majesty's happiness, we congratu• the demand brisk, and an advance of full 2s. p r load was
late ourselves to be admitted to exprets them under such realized. Clover 4/. to 6/., Meadow Hay :33. 12s. to 4/. 18s.
solemn circumstances so dear to your paternal heart. • The
baptism of the Count of Paris will be for you and your august
family a lively subject of hope and joy, and for us a security
for the continuance of the benefits which Providence has pleased
to impart up to this moment. Such, Sire, are, on this occa-
sion, our wishes and desires, and we beg your Majesty to ac-
cept them with our respectful congratulations."
Not a word is here said about the blessings
of peace, or the merit due. to the King for its
maintenance. Nor is there more than a hope
expressera that the blessings enjoyed up to the
present moment may be continued. Altogether
the Wddress beSpeaks an altered state of rela-
, tlons with France. It loses sight of the Sove-
reign, and confines itself to the feelings of the
individual. The King is sunk in the grandfa-
ther, and the Royal heart gives place to the
paternal. Nor was the King's answer less guard-
ed. It is as follows :
" The Diplomatic Corps knows the value that I attach to
the sentiments you have just expressed in its name. It is
very agreeable for me to hear them at the moment when, as
you say, the celebration of the baptism of my grandson is for
ins and my family a new proof of the divine protection of
which we have had so many testimonies. In thanking 3ou for
the goad wishes you express, I beg you to receive the expres-
sion of those which I form far the happiness-of the Sovereigns
whom you represent."

But his Majesty felt the necessity of being
more explicit, respecting the past and present
policy of France. Accordingly, in answer to
the address of the Chamber of Peers, read by
Baron PASQUIER, its President, the King said
with strong emphasis " I have the happiness to
have ensured to France for eleven years the
blessing of peace. Your assistance will aid the
maintenance of this state of things, which is the
best guarantee of liberty, and the surest means
of resisting those illusions of the spirit of con-
quest, which so often cast nations into an abyss cf
evils." And in his reply to the Address of the
Deputies, the KING further said I hope,
with the support of the Chambers, to preserve
France from all the ills which result from poli-
tical errors."

These sentiments are exceedingly praiseworthy.
We wish the Chambers were influenced by them
when debating the propriety of continuing the
war in Africa. For ourselves, we never doubted
the desire of the KING to maintain peace in Eu-
rope—never once called in question his opposi-
tion to the hair-brained and dishonest policy of
M. THIERS.

Saturday and the morning of Sunday, as we
before observed, passed over peaceably in Paris.
But there was almost as little enthusiasm as out-
rage in that capital. The people seemed indif-
ferent to the spectacles prepared for their amuse-
ment. The fireworks were magnificent, but the
loudest admirers of them were foreign residents
in Paris.

The Louis-PHILIPPE correspondence con-
tinues amidst the fetes and. festivities to occupy
the Paris Journals. When they once get hold
of a subject they stick to it like leeches. In
this respect their columns present none of the
variety of topics found in English newspapers.
The French Journalists never hunt singly or in
couples: At the first scent of the game the
whole pack are in motion. Nor is their zeal
at all regulated or affected by magnificence or
Insignificance of the object to be achieved. They
are as ferocious in the rabbit-warren as in the
jungle, amid the roaring of the lion, and the
growling of the tiger. M. TRIERS says the
French people cannot live without a passion, and
the passion of the French Press is to ba always
in a fury about something or other.
(From the Gazette de France.)
The sentence condemning us to a fine of .5,000 f. and to
posting 3,000 copies of the sentence, is a new instance which
we shall refrain from characterising ourselves. Nothing shall
make us deviate from the moderation which has always been
our rule.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

Le:4l)ot, MAY 4.—Wind this day at. noon fresh breeze
from S., rather cloudy.
STANGATE CREEK, MAY 3.—Arrived the Chandos, Hayes,
from China; William, Brown, .Mogadore.
DEAL, MAY 3,—Wind N.E., fresh breeze.—Arrived from
the River and sailed the Margaretha, for Batavia; George
Marsden, Quebec ; St. Lawrence, ditto; Ed.nburgh, ditto ;
John, Palmer, Cape Coast Castle; Adonis, Cape de Verdes.
Sailed the outward-bound, except the Penelope, for the River
St. Lawrence ; Ariel, Morris, Greenock, not Mauritius as
before .reported. Sailed the Strathfieldsaye, for Port Philp ;
Urania, Monte Video; Liverpool, Quebec.
OFF THE LIZARD, Aran; 30.—A ship from Newf ,und
land, with loss of top-masts ; Sir Wm. Scott, Sierra Leone ;
Edward (Sw. Bry) ; Nelson, Malta for Rotterdam.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 3.—Wind N.E.—Sailed her Ma-
jesty's ship Cockatrice, for Rio Janeiro.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 3.—Wind S. W.—Arrived the Adolph,
-Groman, from Cette to Riga, dismasted in a gale on 20th ult.,
lat. 45, lon. 11; Essex, MtLeod, Calcutta.
__

FALMOUTH, MAY 2.—Wind S.W. to N. 5.. W., fresh.—
Arrived the Courser, Olivard. from Gallopili ; Nocolai 1.,
Krant, Marseilles, with loss of bulwarks; Crane, packet, a
cruize ' • Lotus, Head, Barbad .es ; Glory, Messina, Caw-
halton Park ; Dove, Sierra Leone ; Swallow, St. Michael's.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 8.--`hind N. N. W.—Arrived the Iris,
Bouchem, from Wilmington; Lord Nel on,, Quinton, St. Mi-
chael's; Sarah, Nailer, Smyrna ; Caroline, Walters, Galli-
poli; Salopian, Bell, Batavia ;.Isabella, Demerara ; Virgi-
nian, New York ; General Wiltshire. ditto. A sloop from
St. John's, New Brunswick, was wrecked near Cape Sable, the
latter end of Marcia—crew saved. The fleet of the Oriental
Republic, Mente Video, was at anchor' off Buenos Ages, Feb.
16, with hostile intentions.
BRISTOL, MAY 2.—Arrived the Tareline, from Alexandria,
not 'Jones, as before reported. -
BEERHAVEN," MAY 29.—Sailed the Kangaroo. Prosser,
from St. I,hn's, New Brunswick. Arrived off—the E.ciu-
maux, Place, from Barbadoes.
WHITBY, MAY 3.—The Prince of Wales and Harinday,
which were on shore, have been got off,—the la-ter proceeded
without apparent damage, the former also proceeled with extra
hands.

The Exchange, of Lynn,eosi latien,ran on Katheness Rocks,
during a fog, but was got off and brut:ght 3n Ilere leaky,

MONEY and COL MENCiAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

LIVERPOOL COTTON :MARKET, 1111 Y 3.—The sales of Cot-
ton this day have b,en limited to 2,000 hales wholly to the
trade. The Market continues exceedingly fla..
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MAY 3.—The transactions at
the Stock Exchanga this day are limited, but the market is
steady. Chester a;:d Berkinhead New Shares, 19i ; Glasgow,
Paisley, and Greenock New Shares, 2* ; London and Birming-
ham Quarter Shares, 234 ; New ditto, 25i ; London and
Brighton United CompanE4,34 ; Midland Counties, 90.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 3.—The market
to-day has been dull ; prices generally are steady :—Manches-
ter and Birmingham, 25)i 26 ; Manchester and Leeds, 58 ;
London and South Western, 58 59; Lancaster and Preston,
33 33k; Ditto, New, 234 24; Union Bank of Manchester,
71,165. 6d. ; Peak Forest Canal, 74.

BUENOS AYRES, FEB. 18.-The 9e.•t of the Oriental Re-
public of Monte Video is at anchor off the port, apparently with
hostile intentions.

THE FUNDS.
The British Funds are firm and oteady this morning, with
an improvement on the leaving off prices of yesterday. Consols
left off at 89& sellers for the Account, and ''B9tl 4 for Money,
opened at 89/ 90 for Account, and 894 I Money; as yet no
operations of consequence have taken place. The determina-
tion in the House of Lords last night to oppose the measure s
of Ministers in respect to the Corn-laws, has caused a buoy-
ancy in the Funds this morning. Exchequer Bills 10 12
pre,n ; Bank Stock 166 163 ; India Stock 251 253 ; India
Bonds 2 4 prem.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active much the same as
it left off, 23b ; Deferred 12* A ; Passive 5a 4; Portuguese
334 34 ; Brazilian 68i 694 ; Buenos Ayres 23 25 ; Colombian
22%; Mexican 284 29* ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
52h 4 ; Five per Cents. 994.
SHARES.—Great Western 30 31 prem. ; New 144 15* ;
prem. ; London and Brighton 24 4 dis. ; Blackwell 6 54
dis. ; Birmingham 71 73 prem. ; Southampton 58 59 per
share ; Croydon 14i 4 per share ; Greenwich 8/ 4 per share ;
Manchester and Birmingham 15 14 dis.
Since the opening of the Market a reaction has taken place,
and Console have receded to the leaving off prices, 894 sellers
for the Account ; Money 89a 4, owing to money being in de-
mand—no doubt for electioneering purposes.

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Cheltenham and Great Western. 62i 33 ...... to
London and Brighton

Manchester and Leeds
HALF-PA S 7 ONE.

Since the re-action, which took place in the early part of the
morning, in Consols, when they receded from the opening price
of 89% 90 to 89i, sellers, for for the Account; a slight im-
provement has taken place, and they may be quoted at present
89i 90 for the Account. No operations of consequence has
taken place during the morning. Money continues in demand.
Exchequer Bills, 10 11 8, rather lower, prem. ; India Stock,
nothing done ; Indian Bonds, ditto ; Bank Stock, 16.51, 166.
In the Foreign Market little doing ; Spanish tActive, ;
Colombian, 22i ; Mexican, 29 ; Portuguese, nothing done;
Russian, 1134 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52h ;
Five per Cents., 99g.
In the Share Market nothing doing : Cheltenham and Great
Western, 33 ; London and Brighton, 47i; Manchester and
Leeds, 57.

We have felt confidence in the justice of our cause, we
slia;l therefore oppose this instance as soon as it shall he noti-
fied to us, and we shall appear with the most respectable testi-
monies, and provided with the most authentic documents to
prove our sincerity and the probity of our conduct in all this
affair.

The Gazette will be defended by Messrs. Benyer and Du-
fougercies. The- case will be opened by Mr. Dufougerciea,
Mr. Benyer will reply.—La Gazette de France.
A letter from Rome, of 17th April, says—" Viscount Car-
reira, the Portuguese Ambassador, has just been authorized by
his Government to sign the Concordat, and accept all the con-
ditions of the Holy See. The Bishops nominated by Don
Miguel will be recognised, and the Papal Bull come into effect.
Viscompt Carreira will be appointed Minister Plenipotentiary
of Portugal to the Holy See.'
And the letter from Rome says, that the dome of St. Peter's
having been illuminated on the 12th, a misfortune happened
on that occasion. The Pontifical carbineers having attempted
to prevent carriages passing before the church, the people, as
usual, hissed and hooted them. The soldiers drove back the
crowd, and several persons were wounded.—Le Commerce.

No reports nor news to the present hour.
QUARTER TO THREE.
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Consols, Account, 89 ; Mexican, 29k; Dutch Two-and
a-Half per Cents. 521- ; Portuguese, 34k ; Spanish, 2.3 A

THE WEATHER.—.IN 00N, MAY 4.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE—STREET.
Barometer
Thermometer ...66 I Highest 66 Lowest .. 4.4
Wind S.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—Between 11 and 12
o'clock on Thursday night, the 29th ult. a very serious acci-
dent happened to Mr. and Mrs. Jackson and daughter, of
Horell's Farm, Great Coggeshall. Mr. J. was returning from
Hightields, the residence of H. White, Esq., driving a pony in
a four-wheeled chaise, and had not proceeded more than 100
yards when the pony, from some unknown cause. became un-
managable ; on arriving at the turning into the high road from
Coggeshall to Braintree, such was the velocity of the animal
that despite of the stenuons exertions of Mr. Jackson to re-
strain its course it ran against and the shafts penetrated through
the wall of a cottage nearly opposite the turning. The in-
mates whe had retired to rest were greatly alarmed at the
shock, but made all possible haste to render assistance. The
party were by the violence of the concussion thrown from the
ehaisE, mricl.tYc regret to add. Mrs. J. was taken up in a state of
insensibility, her jf w bone being broken in two places, and one
rib fractured, besides being ::‘therw:se bodily bruised. Mr. J.
and daughter were stunned and fac...7.lated in the !are, but they
happil suistained no other material inju;l7: An omnibus was
home, and an
speedily procured to convey the party to itheir
at,Cogges-
expres3 was despatched to Mr. Strowger, surge.2.n'
hall, who very promptly attended, and under his' ski,.. 1d treat-
ment we are happy to say the whole are, it is hoped, gradu...,lY
recovering.—Essex Herald.

By the schooner Ariei, which arrived at Hali-
fax from Bermuda, we have accounts from that
isl ind to the Bth of Aptil. We regret to state
that the Ariel heard no news whatever of the
President.

The Madrid papers are of the 25th ult. They
leave little doubt of the appointment of ESPAR-
TERO to the sole Rezency.
The provincial deputations of New Castile had
presented an Address to the Cortes against the
POPE'S allocution.

A Commission to inquire into the claims of
Spanish subjects against France was appointed
to the Cortes.

ADDRESS OF THE METROPOLI-
TAN ANTI-CORN-LAW ASSOCIATION,
FELLOW-COUVTRYMEN-Our course of peaceful agitation
has now arrived at' its crisis. We have sown the seed—the field
is white unto harvest—shall it be reaped and garnered, or left
to rot upon the ground ? The Cabinet has transferred the re-
sponsibility for the existence of the bread-tax from itself to
you. The struggle now lies betwixt thirty thousand land-
owners and the people of England. Be up, then, and doing.
Convene public meetings in every city, town, village, and
hamlet throughout broad Britain. Let every di.triet have its
wardmote. Where parish officers do net of their own ac..
cord assemble the - inhabitants, let them be called upon
to do so by requisition. The citizens of London
have on all suitable occasions protested against the
Corn-laws. Common consistency dictates that tht; livery
should now act both collectively told in their several wards.
Let all branch Anti-Corn-law Associations redouble their
efforts. Carry petitions from house to home ftir sign4Vire, and
send them to Parliament for presentitifth by thousands. Let
every man act as if ;the issue depended on himself: Scorn In-
timidation, let ordinary business look after it for the
This is business. Make but one mighty effort, and victory is
certain. By order of the Committee,
FRANCIS PLACE) Chairs-ban.
SIDNEY BMlril, Secretary.
Every information and asAstaitet will be afforded on appli-
cation at the office, 448, Strand. Funds are of the utmost int-
portance. Subscriptions, as liberal as possible, are earnestly
entreated, and are absolut•ily
necessary
the office, or left at Messrs. Prescsatt, Nte, and Co,'s Thread-
needle-street. .0 may lit sent to

ERICSSON'S PROPELLER.--Steamer Clarion
is off. She started yesterday, at one o'clock, for Hatiannab.
This is her first trip to any distance at sea. If she answers
expectation in going hence to Havannab and back, several
of our packet-ships will have the Ericsson propellers ap-
plied to them. They will then be on a par with the Eng
lish steamers. She went down the bay against a six-knot
breeze at the rate of seven knots an hour. About twenty
passengers have gone in her.—New York Morning Herald,
April 18.
STATE OP MRS. JENNER.—This lady was
yesterday morning reported to be somewhat better, though
she is still considered in extreme danger. The ball, it is
stated, Still remal.is within the bead. The reply to our
inquiries list night was, that no perceptible alteration had
taken place since the morning.—Liverpool Albion.
PENALTY.—On Thursday, at the Old Session-
team, William Green, beerseller, of Heaton, was charged by
the eoutity jiolii a wilt having company in his house on Sun-
day last, dttring the hours of Divine service. He pleaded guilty,
and, in extenuation, said a party from this town had taken re-
flip in his house from the rain; and that he had a " great
wire and a Mgt family,"—(Laughter.) Fined 20s. and costs.
—.Dolton Free Prem.

- -
laisu REGISTRATION BILL. —Well—the
Ministerial Bill hel beefi„ ultimately, by a majority of eleven,
thrown otit----the malcontents havi,g lost ten votes during the
four-and-twenty-hours preceding the division.• The Irish pub-
lic were'repared feir this result. It is the first decisive effect
of OW 3-llPirli 9f Sly R914'.11, ?fel and his angry leader. The
unfortunate ilaro,let headed did 01111 fin—but a few other vic-
toties of this kind will put him, as a statesnn_ hurl de com-
hiit ; for, observe; .by the course which he adopted— '2'111.6
e was Stimulated and ederced by the Impiger 'tumulus.
of his Aairty-,lts .Wll, :14 Sliollti of , hungry
tiff...k.igtl7,en in the hat benehes—lie bas falien a depldetf,
tor the first tittle, *e wili ray, since ,the Catholic Bill, an
intellik.ible and distinct iyititldii Of tdtllP Pecipie of
thi* 'ebiltitivyi He has resuified the command of his party, oh
the express tirideiStantlitig
the
he is witifig W lead them, come
what come iney—Ohn to the gateS ,:trtntfk: rt Wfid shall
lead?" lifilfAti.. The riddlgla fad: There is rid lthiett an
doubt that Stauloy if, the leader. Thbtigh he cannot 'Teat Mil
flislers oat Of office; h/s bcdOtt his Chief jrito submission.
fleto jtrigiikiipla • . Du&in 13VtitiOy Posts
EkEttITIOg.•7--The axe titian of John White;
for Vie naiiidWdt iotin Olenii 41m 1i-hi-Oki.; took pla,
ieithrday near the corner us
Way. He was 'sentenced during the last sitting, on criminal
busines:, v,ine JefferfOriTireuit; to be- executA on Thursday,
the Bth of this month% between the hours of 6 A. m. and 3 P.M. u.
At his own request he was taken thit at the earliest hour as-
signed, ittid at_ ten minutes past six, he was launched into eter-
nity. His eihr.llan lir throtightitit his ttifl, imprisonment, and
last rnomerts, was markcd by reckle sne•s or assumed indiffer•
ence, if not real W hite was a large man—tall,
and of gieat Muscular power—and ginned to suffer dreadfully
during till first five minutes after the drop fell. In twenty-.
minutes more his body was out down, and taken to the Medical
Institute, where, we understand, a, few galvanic experiments
were successfully-performed on it.:--Louisville Advertiser.
AMERICA AND ENGLAND.--M. Guizot yes.!
terday received despatches from the French Minister in the
United States. lam a ble to assure you they are considered
very satisfactory as to the dispute between England and
• America,. The 7e V Pr' ”i(14:1-1t iv thOlig:l to be even-more re-
-4,t cc with Great Esitar., thau
Harrison was. The cc, mmgreial and financial accounts from
New York are very RI o, any Several American citizens resi-
e.Bllt
here have Math', up 'diva minds to return immedigelT.

I. RAILWAY CHASE E'rittAtlitblisTAßY.-011
Thursday last, a person 'wiled trkk)rge Comley (havipg with
him his wife and six L.4kilstrtit) took places for himself anti fa*l.7y
by the eleven-e'cleek railway train from GlektcfNtZr fe b:r-
minghtm. Sbon after the train had startbk Mr- W. GMtla
of
:North Nibley, arrived at the statiott-lrontte, in the of intercepting Mr. Comley, who, Ire; stated. hkiti."±ncuted a for-
gery upon him to the amount tf 4IA :.lid had also cerinnitted
other fraudulent delinquencies, and was then en 3'60.1 f(A'
Liverpool, where it was understood he had 640,00'.h passage
for America. After a short consultatiWi With Mr. Walker,
police superintendent, on the best ttellS to be adopted, a pur-
suit was resolved upon, an fot a payment of 10/. an enghte
was immediately got ready, with which Mr. ind
Mr. Walker started, at high pressure speetl tttt of overtaking the train, which, by that tiftit had had the
advantage of about twenty minute.' tb.rt. After
a fine
chase, they succeeded to getting sq;lilt Of the trln lt
Ashchurch, ar.d followed dose in irs wake ft!) the ?if p?..e.ll'oey sta-
tion, whero, much to the stirprisetnd eclk&ernation of the fu-
gitive, ~is pursuers came no
*ith hirn, and sadly deranged the
plat he had so cleverly laid for his escape. The remainder of
W.s journey to Rirminiham was performed in the company of
Mr. Gillman) who, on arriving in that town gave him into the
custody of the police oii the charge of forgery. On Mr. Wal..
kee's return to the Gloucester station, he found that the pri-
toner's landlord had a little too late sent a distress, in the hope
inafpeaarn
that
on the business of a tenant's luggage. t
lovf lo
u
clothier at North Nibley, till he suddenly decamped as above
' stated. Yesterday afternoon he was brought to this city in the
custody of Mr. Stephens, Superintendent of the Birmingham
Police Force, and will this day be conveyed
before the Ma•
gistrates of the dist'ict where the offences are alleged to have
been committed. His wife accompanies him bark to Nibley,
but his large arid unfortunate family are left behind at BirrniDg-,
ham.— Gloucester Journa-
BREAD IN PARIS.—The price of bread for the first fortnight of the present month is fixed at 27 centimes
this kilogamme—about 51(1. the 4.b, loaf.