The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-13 00:00:00

Nti".sr, 1,014.1349N,i MON DAV NVENIN G. MARC

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

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CORN-EXCHANGE-MONDAY.
Coastwise, as well as by laud carriage and sample,
the arrivals of all kinds of grain of home pro.luce last
week were somewhat on the increase, and of fair
average quality. From Ireland and Scotland they acre
chiefly confined to a few cargoes of Oats. The foreign
imports consisted of 5,039 quarters of Wheat, 2,369
ditto of Barley, 11,844 ditto of Oats, 6,747 ditto of
Beans, 952 ditto of Peas, 1,591 ditto of Tares, 1,734
ditto of Linseed, and 350 barrels of Flour. The duty
on foreign Wheat has advanced to 7s; on Barley, Oats,
Rye, Beans, and Peas it remains at 2s 6d per quarter.
From Essex, Kent, Cambridgeshire, &e., the
supply of Wheat fresh up this morning aas
very limited; and the show of samples of
that grain was small. The number of both town and
country dealers in attendance being large, the demand
for all kinds of English Wheat was somewhat brisk, at
an advance in the quotations paid on Monday last of
from ls. to 2s. per quarter, and a clearance was speedily
effected. The market closed decidedly firm. The
quantity of Foreign Wheat on show was not to say
heavy. Fine Dantzic, llamburgh, and Riga parcels
commanded Is. per quarter more money, with a firm
inquiry. In the middling and inferior kinds, more busi-
ness was doing, at very full prices. Malting Barley
was in good request,and Is. per quarter dearer. Grinding
and distilling sorts were tolerably firm, but not higher.
Notwithstanding the supply of Malt was somewhat on
the increase, that article was held firmly, and, in some
few instances, Chevalier qualities produced a trifle more
money. The secondary sorts were quite as dear. With
Oats we were much better supplied than for some time
past; nevertheless sales progretsnd steadily, and very
full prices were obtained in every instance. The general
quality of the foreign imports has turned out good.
The show of Peas was not large; yet the demand for
most kinds was in a very sluggish state, at barely last
week's quotations. Very few English Beans were in
the market, but the supply of foreign was extensive.
The transactions were trifling, at barely late rates.
Indian Corn and Meal were quite as dear. The best
town-made Flour sold freely; and the finest American
was more inquired for at full prices. Inferior parcels
of the latter commanded very little attention.

99%

CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.
ffheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier •. • .. b7s to 5111
Red. . . . . •• • • 44s to 548 Oats—Yorkshire and
Ditte,White, New 4bs bOs Lincolush., Feed. Its 21'
Norfolk and Lin- Potato .••.•. .. • . 23s 25s
coin, Red.. •.. 44e 52s Yolghal and Cerk,
Ditto, White• •.• • • 46$ 35s Black .• . • ... 16s 198
Irish, Red •••• • • • • —s —8 Cork, White ..• .. las 213
Ditto, White .. •• .. —s —e Scotch, Feed... .. 23s 24s
Rye—Old •••••••. .. • • —s —s Beans—Tick ..• • • .... 33, 44s
New. ••• • • • ...... 32s 34e Pigeons . . 268 428
Barley—Grinding. •• .. 27. 2i's Peas—Grey .. •• • ..... 27.
40541
Malting .•• • . .... 301 21. Maple .•• • • .... 57.
Chevalier •• • • ... 31s 328 White... •• .. 36. 3SI
%fait —Suffolk and Nor- Boilers ••••. . . . . 34e 40e
folk 543 its Floar—Town-nisde .• . 41s 46s
Brown ••• ••—.. .. 411 s 325 Saliba •
Liagston *ad Ware s4s i7s Stock* & liettelk 3iis Hs
SMITIOTIZILD.
Very moderate imports of Foreign Stock have taken
place into London in the past week, as will be seen by
the following return :
From whence. Beasts. be p.
Rotterdam ..... .... 149 ... 289
Harlingen
Ilamburgii
Antwerp

Calvor.
84

••• ..'..

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Total 203
Corresponding week
in 1837

... 219

Difference ..
The arrivals at hull, and the other large outporte, have
amounted to about 400 head of each kind of stock,
mostly from Holland. There were in the market, to-
day, about 120 Beasts, 130 Sheep, and 40 Calves, from
Holland, in full average condition. The demand was
tolerably steady, at full prices. From our own grazing
districts the arrivals of Beasts fresh up this morning
were seasonably good, and of excellent quality, particu-
larly as relates to the Scots and short horns from the
eastern counties. Although the attendance of both town
and country buyers was by no means large, the Beef
trade was steady, at fully, but at nothing quotable
beyond, the prices paid on this day se'nnight, at which,
a good clearance was effected. A few of the primest
Scots sold at 4s Bd, but the general top quotation for
Beef was 4s 6d per Sibs. By " drift" and railway we
received from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridge-
shire, about 1,100 Scots and short horns ; from the
northern, western, and midland counties, 1,000 Here-
fords, runts, Devons, short horns, and Irish Beasts ;
from other parts of England, 500 of various breeds ;
and, from Scotland, 220 horned and polled Scots. The
numbers of Sheep were again very small, the time of
year considered ; but their quality was prime. The
best old Downs moved off readily, at fully last week's
prices, viz., from 5s 4d to 5s 6d per Sibs ; but there was
not so brisk a demand for other breeds, yet their quota-
tions were well supported. About 800 shorn sheep were
in the market. Downs, out of the wool, produced from
4s 10d to 55 per 81b. For Calves, the supply of which
was moderately extensive, the demand was firm, and the
late advance in the quotations was paid in every in-
stance. Prime small Porkers sold readily, at full prices.
All other Pigs were a dull inquiry.
Per Sibs. to sink the offal.
s. d. to e. d. s. d. to s. d.
Inferior Beasts..... 2 4 3 5 Second quality ditto 4 2 4 6
second quality •.. 3 S 310 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 s 6 2
Prince large Oxen— 4 0 4 2 SoutbdownWetker f 4 5 6
Prime Scots • • •4 4 4 6 Ditto outer the wool
Large coarse Calves 4 • 4 g Large Hogs •••• • • 4 • 4 6
?rime small ditto • . 410 6 2 Small Porkers •—• 4 3 6 I
Suckling Calves ..20 I 2S I Quarter old rigs •. la I 25 0
Inferior Sheep • • •3 10 4 0 Lambs ••• • • ••••• 11 0 0 0
euerer AT MARKET.
Beasts. Sbeep. I Ca
1116 ves. I riga.
301
3.30 I 140 .850
NENTTGATII AND I3rADETCEII3.I.I..
Since cur last report the arrivals of country•killed
meat for these markets have been very moderate, but of
fair average quality. The supplies on offer slaughtered
in the metropolis have been tolerably extensive, it we
except those of Mutton. Each kind of meat has com-
manded a very steady sale, and, in some instances, the
quotations have had an upward tendency, while the
value of other qualities has been well supported. Only
about 200 carcasses of foreign meat have been offering.
At per stone by the Carcase.
s. d. to s. d. I. A. to s. d.
Beet,inferlor•• •• 3 • 3 2 Mutton, inferior 3 a 310
middling ••• • 3 1 3 4 middling •• 4 0 4 4
primelarge 3 6 3a i prime 4 e 4
—. prime small •. 3 8 311 Fork, large • • • .... 3 1 4 4
4 • 5 01 -- small . ... 4 6 5•
Lamb. Os Od to Os Od.
BOROUGH BOP MARILET.
Our market still continues in a very inactive state for
all kinds of Hops, especially for the middling and infe-
rior qualities. In prices, however, we have no change
to notice. New Hops :—Sussex Pockets, 2118 s to 3143;
Weald of Kent ditto, 31 to 31 7s; ,Mid and East Kent
ditto, 315 s to 5l Ss per cwt.
130ILOUGII AND SPITALPIELDS.
A full average supply of potatoes has arrived during
the past week, coastwise as well as by railway, and the
quantity on offer is more than adequate to meet the
wants of the dealers. Prices, therefore, have a down-
ward tendency. The imports from abroad have been
rather heavy, viz.: 200 tons from Rotterdam, 100 ditto
from Ghent, 110 ditto from Ostend, 60 ditto from Ham-
burgh, and 60 ditto from Leer.
WOOL.
Since Monday last :the imports of wool into London
have consisted of 1,913 bales, from Sydney ; 174 ditto,
from Ilamburgh ; 166 ditto, from the Cape ; 35 ditto,
from Monte Video ; and 449 ditto, from Algoa Bay.
On the whole the demand for most kinds of wool, by
private contract, is steady, and prices are well supported
in every instance, although the manufacturing accounts
are by no means satisfactory.
TALLOW.
Although only a moderate business is doing in
Tallow, last weeks's quotations are well supported.
About 1,200 casks have arrived from Sydney. P.Y.C.
on the spot is 50s to 50s 3d. per cwt. For forward de-
livery next to nothing is doing. Town Tallow 49s to
50s net cash;. rough fat 2s 90 per 81bs.

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BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
The swearing in of special constables was continued
to-day, great apprehensions being entertaiuod of dis-
turbances, in consequence of the meting in Kennington
Common. A number of respectable inhabitants of this
neighbourhood were sworn in at the sitting of the Court
before the night charges were entered into.

SMASIIING..—Persons in trade should be on their
guard against parties passing bad coin, at houses along
the road between Shooter's Hill and Dartford. On
Friday one of these offenders went into the Old Fox, at
Bel!grove, neve Welling, and tendered two bad shillings,
which being refused, he pulled out a handful of shillings
and told the person in the bar to take her choice. The
young woman selected two, which proved bad. He was,
however, soon after stopped by the police, at the Rose,
on Bexley-heath, in the act of uttering another piece of
base money. He was committed to Maidstone gaol for
trial.
LINCOLN, SATURDAY EVENING. —The decision of
the Parliamentary Committee against Mr. Seeley's re-
turn was communicated to the chairman of Sir Bulwer
Lytton's committee in this city by telegraphic dispatch
immediately after it was given, and made public within
the hour. Another telegraphic dispatch from the friends
of the unseated Member stated that a candidate in the
Liberal interest would be down by the mail train in the
morning. Meetings of Mr. Seeley's friends and of Mr.
Collet's friends were immediately held. Mr. T. Hob-
house arrived by the mail train as the Liberal candi-
date, and made a brief address from the Black Goats
Inn to a small assemblage of persons, and thence com-
menced a canvass. The Conservative party have hung
out their flag at the Spread Eagle, and sent a depu-
tation to a gentleman whose name has not transpired.
Sir E. Bulwer Lytton's flag was put out at the Monson's
Arms. The city sheriff (Mr. T. J. N. Brogden) re-
ceived the writ this morning, and has appointed Wed-
nesday for the election, in order that the polling may
be over before the market day (Friday).
DARING BURGLARY AT BRAMALL.— Betvieen twelve
and one o'clock on Sunday night last, a most daring
burglary was committed at the house of Mr. Ambrose
Cooke, a farmer, residing at Kitt's-moss, Bramall.
After the inmates had retired to rest the thieves effected
an entrance by getting into the barn which adjoins the
house, into which they forced their way by taking
bricks out of the wall. There were either four or five
of them. They went up stairs to the inmates, who were
in bed, and threatened, if they stirred or made any
alarm, they would blow their brains put, at the same
time presenting pistols at them. They then ransacked
the house, and atter some time decamped, taking with
them two silver watches and some money in silver.
Between three and four o'clock the same morning in-
formation of the circumstanue reached the police, and
they have since been in search of the thieves.—Man-
chester Guardian.

GE A T
AHAJITIST MEETING
OAT KENNI.NGTON COMMON.

(THIS DAY.)

It will no doubt be within the recollection of our
renders, that the meeting which followed the abortive
one of Mr. Charles Cochrane, in Trafalgar-square, on
Monday last, broke up, or rather the speakers left the
arena, on the understanding that a great demon-
stration should take place this day, at twelve
o'clock, on Kennington Common. At the meetings
since held in various parts of the metro-
polis and its suburbs, it was announced that
the meeting to-day was to be an aggregate
gathering of the Chartists of London, for the treble
purpose of considering the best means to be devised to
obtain the passing of the Charter and the repeal of the
income tax, and to congratulate the Parisians on the
great and glorious revolution they have so successfully
accomplished. The neielibourle od OF the common by
nine o'clock evinced unmistakeable signs that something
out of the ordinary course of things was on the eve of
enaction. Streams of people, the neil rity of whom
were working men and boys, from that hour until twelve
o'clock kept pouring towards the scene. The majority
of the shops in the vicinity were closed, and business
was altogether suspended.
Pending the hour of the meeting the crowd—rend
amongss it there were thutmtads of the lowest elsises
not the hardworking man, but the coarse, brutal ruffien,
too idle to labour, eager enough to steal, and pleased at
any time to play a dangerous part in any crowd, whether
it be a brutal fight or a great nation :1 demonstration,
and with just power enough to make a respectable con-
gregation disreputable—pending the meeting, we say,
these persons committed themselves in the most dis-
graceful way. First of all, a baker's shop in a street
running out of the Camberwell road, we heard, was
stripped of its contents, terrify ing the inhabitants almost
cut of their lives. An innocent pieman or two were
knocked down on the common by 50 or 100 scoundrels
who joined hands, and ran them down, scattering their
ware far and wide. The bread in the one case and the
pies in the other were soon devoured by the hungry
multitude. In order to keep themselves warm, for the
morning was cold and damp, the mob ran to and fro
with much rapidity and humour—now running down a
baker-man, and quickly employing his basket, anon
bonneting a respectable person, plucking off his hat,
and sending it high up in the air amidst boisterous
cheers and laughter.
At twelve o'clock about 5,000 persons had stationed
themselves outside and inside the Common, send at half-
past twelve—the hour at which the proceedings were
placarded to commence—there were between 7,000 and
8,000, including those in the streets in the vicinity.
The utmost exertions were used on Saturday and
yesterday by the Commissioners of Police, in order to
devise the best means to prevent a breach of the peace,
it having been currently reported that the parties pro-
moting the meeting would march to the Common in
procession. Constant communication was kept up with
tke Home Office, and at length the following arrange-
ments with respect to the police were come to :
"1. All the mounted men who are not at present attached
to the head divisions of their respective quarters, are to
repair to them on the 12th (this day), at which places
the superintendents are requested to arrange for the men
and horses being properly quartered for the night. On
Monday morning the several parties, under the direction
of an inspector and sergeant, will proceed to take up
their post at Ball's livery stables, Kennington cross, at
9 A.M.
"2. The officer in charge of each party will report his
arrival to Superintendent Williamson, of the T division,
who will be there to take command of the whole, and
wait for further orders.
"3. The superintendents must be particular to ob-
serve that men and horses sent from each division are
properly equipped.
" 4. The number of mounted men from each division,
at present ordered, will be as follows:—H 8, R 13, 08,
N 10, T 15, V 14, I' 12.
" 5. The several detachments will move forward from
the different stations at such an hour as to enable them
to arrive at their destination at nine a.m.
" 6. Superintendents Rutt of the L, Robinson of the
P, and Bicknell of the V divisions, are to communicate
with the churchwardens and other authorities in their
respective parishes, in order that steps may be taken to
swear in as large a body of special constables as has
been done in other parishes.
" 7. The magistrates will attend at the several police
courts at nine o'clock on Monday morning, and have re-
ceived instructions from the Secretary of State to swear in
those parties willing to became special constables."
These instructions were carried ;out to the letter, and
with the greatest secresy. A detaohment of the 1)
division was stationed in Mr. M'Kelly's school room,
Bowling-greee-lane, and detachments of the other
divisions were kept in ambush in the unfrequented
streets immediately adjacent to the common. The
churches and chapels in the vicinity were also called
into requisition. We were informed, on good authority,
that a detachment of the Foot Guards were quartered in
Kennington Church, and a detachment of the Life
Guards (horse regiment) in the vitriol works adjoining
the common. Our reporter passed round the sacred
edifice, but the gates of the churchyard, and the doors
of the church, were closed. There was nothing to denote
in the exterior that there was a living soul inside. The
same remark applies to the manufactory. The gates
were closed, and the works, except from a meagre
quantity of smoke, appeared suspended for the nonce.
There could be no doubt about the presence of the mili-
tary in the immediate neighbourhoo 1: at half past
twelve, about fifty of the horse, each armed vvitti a
brace of pistols and a cutlass, passed by the common
and took up their position near the church. Altogether,
there were one hundred mounted police in readiness,
and about two hundred and fifty of the military, and
four thousacd policemen in attendance. Many were
dispersed about the common in disguise.
It is right to mention that the following placard was
posted about in all directions:—
" CAUTION.—KIacNINGTON•COMMoN.
" Whereas a meeting is called to assemble on Kenning-
ton-common on Monday next, the 13th instant, and
certain information has been received that large bodies
of persons intend to proceed there from place to place,
whereby the peaceable subjects of her Majesty are
likely to be alarmed, and the public peace to be en-
dangered.
Notice is hereby given,
that persons will not be
permitted to march or move in procession through the
public streets in large bodies at any unseasonable hour.
" And caution is hereby given to all well-disposed
persons not to attend or join any such procession.
"And notice is further given, that all necessary mea-
sures will be adopted to prevent persons from marching
or moving about in large bodies, and effectually to pro-
tect the public peace, and to suppress any attempt at the
disturbance thereof.
" By order of the Commissioners of Police of the Me-
tropolis.
iletropoliian Police Office, Whitehall,
March 11, 1848."
The meeting was called by the following placard:—
pEACE—ORDER—MORAL AGI I'ATION.
" A grand meeting will be held on Monday, March
13, at Kennington-summon.
"The chair will be taken at 12 o'clock by G. W. M.
Reynolds. Objects of the meeting:—Sympathy with
the French, Universal Suffrage, Total Abolition of the
Income- tax.'
Mr. G. W. M. Reynolds, and some other persons
acting with him, appeared on the scene at half-past
twelve, and were loudly cheered. They immediately
took up their position in one of the two waggons which
had been provided, in the middle of the common. Im-
mediately after, a van full of people arrived from the
direction of the Elephant and Castle. A tricolour flag
was borne by one of them and was loudly cheered. The
vehicle was driven on the common alongside the others,
and the tri-colour was placed at the back of the speakers.
Mr. REYNOLDS then opened the meeting, and after
declaring
its object, implored those present not to com-
mit any act of violence, he proceeded to say, that the
presence of so vast a number of police showed that
those who had sent them there knew that the people
were in the right, and that they wero wrong, for they
intended to put them down by force.—(Cheers.)
Ile addressed the meeting at some length on the French
Revolution, universal suffrage, the rights of labour, and
concluded amidst loud cheers.
Mr. JOSEPU WILLIAMS moved the first resolution—
" That this meeting expresses its meat heartfelt sym-
pathy with the brave people of France, who have anni-
hilated the throne of a tyrant. and established a form of
government founded on natural and national rights."
Mr. ALEXANDER SUARPS: seconded the motion, whick
was agreed to unanimously.
The second resolutions was to the effect " That this
meeting demands that the Ministry will immediately in-
troduce a measure for the extension of the suffrage to every
male adult having attained the age of twenty-one years,
and who is in the enjoyment of his intellects, with such
provisions for securing the efficient working thereof as
was contained in The Peoples Charter.' "—Proposed by
Mr. JOHN CLARKE, seconded by Mr.
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Mr. DUNN proposed the third resolution—. That this
meeting requires at the hands of the Government the
immediate recognition of the rights of labour, and the
princip
le of a fair day's wages for a fair day's work,
and of every man who is able and willing to work, hav-
ing work found for him.'
speech of considerable length,
Mr. M`GRATM, in a
seconded the motion, which like the previous ones was
carried unanimously.
moved the appointment of a
Mr. STILLMAN then
committee to communicate these resoluticws to the Mi-
nisters, with a demand that in case the Ministers shall
refuse to accede to th© propositions set forth in the
th be
second and third resolutionns ',
ewer ito requesteroth hands.
P
diately to surrender the rei of e
A WORKING MAN seconded the resolution, which was
also unanimously agreed f
mo-
Some person, whose nae we could not catch, then
G. W. M. Reynolds, henry
proposed, that Messrs.
as Plume, Joseph Williams,
Walker, John Clark, Thom
Edward Stillman, and Nathaniel Braham be nominated
a permanent committee, with power to add to their
number, for the purpose of communicating with her
Majesty's Ministers, in pursuance of the preceding re.so
lotions, and likewise for the purpose of organizing any
future meetings
which the sense and objects of these re-
lutions may render necessary.
(The mover had not concluded his address when our
report left.)
Some of th" mormn-------' -----
papers have the following. The
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statement is in some degree correct:—lndependent of
the following regulations, the Commissioners have cent
an order to the several oilmen in the metropolis that
they will abstain from selling powder or shot to any
person to-day, and by so doing they will ma-

ter ally aid in carrying out the regulations of the
police. Orders have likewise been sent to lirtve the
whole of the broken granite that has Ia en
down to repair the road in the immediate
vicinity of Kennington-common removed. An extra
number of swords and fire-arms have been sent
off to the rural districts, so that the police may be well
prepared to act in case any attempt at riot is made in
these places. The military are ordered to be all under
arms; the different public offices, as well as the Bank of
England and Buckingham Palace, have an extra guard
to remain on duty the whole of the night. The
Metropolitan and City police arc to be placed
in companies in such quarters as to prevent
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barrels
of all fire arms in their possession, so that in the event
of a seiaure being made by the rabble, the weapons will
be perfectly useless. The military will also be placed
in such positions that in case of any entergency they will
be ready at a moment's notice to assist the police and
civil powers.
It is not the intention of the Commissioners to prevent
the meeting taking place, but nothing in the shape of
processions or large bodies of people Hill be allowed to
pass through the streets of the metropolis. Should the
meeting last beyond the hoer of six in the evening, the
same will ho declared illegal, and the ground will be
cleared of the populace.
It is expected that the meeting, which had not broken
up when we went to press, would march, en masse, to
I).lwning-street at its conclusion.
In the event of their doing so, a conflict with the
police, and failing, then the military, is unavoidable.
We shall give further particulars in cur Third Edition
at seven o'c'ock.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early

walk on Saturday.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty on Saturday.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back on Saturday, attended by his Equerry in waiting.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Roi al, and the Princess Alice, took their accustomed

airings on Saturday.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent dined with
her Majesty and Prince Albert on Saturday evening.
Yesterday morning the Queen walked out in the
garden of the Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, the Ladies and Gentlemen of
the Court, and the domestic household, attended divine
service yesterday, in the private chapel in the Palace.
The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated.
His Royal Highness the Duke Augustus of Saxe
Coburg visits d her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent yesterday, at her residence, Clarence House, St.
James's.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and
the Princess Mury attended divine service yesterday
morning in St. Michael's Church.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge attended
divine service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon,
at half past two o'clock, at the Foreign-office. The
Ministers present were, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir
George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Aucklar.d, Sir
John llobhouse, Lord Campbell, the Marquis of Clanri-
carde, the Right Hon. 11. Labouchere, Viscount Mor-
peth, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay. The Lord
Chancellor arrived at a quarter before four o'clock and
joined his colleagaes. The Council broke up shortly
before five o'clock.
Mr. Robertson, Consul. General of Ecuador, had an
interview with Viscount Palmerston, at the Foreign-
office, on Saturday.
A deputation from a meeting of Irish Members and
Members of Parliament possessing property in Ireland,
consisting of Sir Lucius O'Brien, Major Blacken, Mr.
John O'Brien, and Lieutenant-Colonel Dunne, had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on
Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-street, to
ascertain whether it is the intention of Government to
bring in a Bill to amend the Act 2d Victoria, chap. 1,
for the purpose of getting the unfinished works in Ire-
land completed.
Also to ascertain whether, in re• advancing whatever
repayments may be made of the advances of last year,
under the relief Acts, this object will be kept princi-
pally in view.
A further suggestion was made to'the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet, by the deputation, that counties making these re-
payments should have a prior elaim for readvances,
whether for public works or for actual drainage, or
under-land Improvement Acts.
The Murquis of Chandos had an interview with Sir
George Grey on Saturday. Mr. Charles Cowan, M.P.,
had also an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet, on
Saturday, at the Home-office.
Lord John Russell left town on Saturday morning fur
St. Leonard's, Hastings.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Pendarves, Sir W.
Snow Harris, Mr. John Taylor, and Mr. Carpenter
Rowe, had an interview with Viscount Morpeth, on
Saturday, at the office of her Majesty's Commissioners
of Woods and Forests, in Whitehall-place.
The Royal Commission for inquiring into the Mer-
chant Seaman's Fund held a meeting on Saturday, at
the Board of Trade. The Commissioners present were,
the Earl of Ellenborough, Admiral Sir Edward Cod.
ringtou, Sir William Clay, M.P., Mr. Lock, and Mr. En,
derby. Sir John Peily was examined at the meeting,
which sat three hours.
Di,patches were received on Saturday at the Colonial
Office from the Governors of the North American Pro-
vinces ; and also from the Governor of Malta • and from
the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a
Committee Meeting on Saturday.
The Duke of Wellington and Sir Frederick Trench
attended the early service yesterday in the Chapel
Royal, St. James's. The Rev. Dr. Wealey officiated
and preached the sermon. The Bishop of London offi-
ciated at the Communion service. At the daily service
the prayers were re-ad by the Rev. T. Helmore; the
lessons by the Rev. J. Knapp, and the Communion ser-
vice by the Bishop of London. The sermon was preached
by the Bishop of Manchester. The anthem was " Bow
thine ear" (Bird). The Marquis and Marchioness of
Salisbury, Ladies St. Germs's, Palmerston, and Ebring-
ton, the Bishop of St. David's, Lords Devon, St. Ger-
mans, Spencer, Fortescue, Ebrington, Grey, and Cauti-
.upc, were among the nobility present.

THE EX-ROYAL FAMILY OF
FRANCE.
The ex-King and Queen of the French remain in re-
tirement at Claremont, surrounded by the members of
their family circle.
During tho past week the ex-King has received visits
from very many of his personal friends, these including
several members of the British aristocracy.
M. Guizot has been to Claremont more than oace
since his arrival in this country. The Duke de Monte-
bello and M. Duchatel have also paid personal visits to
their late royal master in his retirement.
Both the ex-King and Queen are said to be in good
health. The terrible change in the fortunes of the
royal pair appears to affect them less (as far as may be
gathered frem outward appearance) than might have
been expected. The ex• King takes occasional airings
in a private carriage in the vicinity of his retreat, and is
everywhere res,eirtd with the most marked respect by
the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. This remark
also
applies to the younger branches of the illustrious exile's
family, the Duke de Nemours and the Duke de Mont-
pensier, both of whom frequently walk in the vicinity of
Claremont.
The Countess Granville paid a visit to the ex-King
and Queen on Saturday.
Yesterday his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador
was among the distinguished personages who visited the
es-nonarcb.
The Count snd Countess Jarnac were also at Clare-
mont several hours yesterday.
The ex-royal family attended divine service yester-
day, at the Catholic Chapel, Weybridge.

HER MAJESTY'S TuEATRE.—The Queen's box was
occupied on Saturday evening by Sir Henry and Lady
Wheatley, and tho Misses Wheatley; that of her Ma-
jesty the Queen Dowager by the Countess of Jersey,
Lady Clementina Villiers, and Lady Cowley. Among
the general company we observed the Baroness Brunnow
and Madlle. Olga de Lechner,: his Excellency the Ha-
noverian Minister, his Excellency the Swedish Minister,
his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, the Duke of Wel-
lington, the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke and Duchess
of Leeds,:the Prince Louis Napoleon, the Prince Lowen-
stein, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, and
Lady:Emily de Burgh, the Marquis of Aylesbury, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare, the Earl and
Countess Granville, the Earl of Falmouth, the Countess
of Blessington and Miss Power, the Earl Aboyne, the
Countess of Cardigan, the Countess Poulett and Miss
Dormer, the Earl of Munster, the Viscount Enfield, Lord
Dundee, Lady Cowley, Lord Harry Vane, the Ladies
Tollemache, Lord Paget, Count de Berke, the Count
d'Orsay, M. C. de Koudriaffsky, Lord Adolphus Fitz-
clarence, the Baron Nicolai, Sir Balph'and Lady Howard,
Sir Henry Willoughby, Sir John Bayley, Sir Alexander
and Lady Woodford, Gen. the Hon. C. Cavendish, Hon.
R. Curzon, Captain and the lion. Mrs. Ryder Burton,
Captain Reynolds, Mr. Packe, M.P., and Mrs. Packe,
Reading; Mr., Mrs., and Miss Trelawney, Mr. B.
Sheridan, M.P.; Mr. Broadley, Mr. Drummond, Mr.
Hardwicke, Mr. Stafford, M,P.
FIRES.—Yesterday morning, shortly before three
o'clock, a fire, attended with considerable damage, broke
Out in one of the large warehouses in Wheeler's-yard,
edcross street, Borough. It commenced in the ground
R
floor occupied by Mr. E. Lywood, a skin dealer and
furrier. The cause of the disaster could not be ascer-
tained, but the flames, when first discovered, bad on-
b-
tained a firm hold of the property. Fortunately i
stant and abundant supply of water was obtained
from
the Southwark Company's mains, and the engines were
set to work, but the fire was not extinguished until a
serious amount of property was destroyed. Mr. Lywood
was insured in the Atlas Fire-office. On Saturday
afternoon a fire which,l bad it occurred in the night time
would doubtless have been attended with the most din
s-
astrous consequences to life and property, broke out
the mansion belonging to the Right Hon. the Earl of
Kinnoul, situate at 58, Green street, Grosvenor-square.
It proceeded from the oven flue in the kitchen, which set
the large beams, bressimers and flooring of the
dining-room on the ground floor in a blaze. Timely
information was sent to the fire stations, and very
speedily the London Brigade and parish engines arrived,
and the firemen having set to work most vigorously,
.
they succeeded confining the fire to that part of the
premises in which it originated. The property was
insured fur 10,000/. in the Sun Fire-office.
Mr. Antody Schrock is appointed Registrar of the
Supremo Court of Demeraraand Essequibo, British
i
Guiana, n the place of Mr. Wilday, deceased.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—On Wednesday, the Bth, the principal de-
bate was in Committee on the Catholic Relief Bill.
There seems to be a determination to remove an
external signs of humiliation, which in hours of
victory may have been imposed upon the Catholics.
And the Catholics, on their side, appear to he cnntent
with this, and not to desire anything but admission
to the common privilege of doing as they like so long
as nobody else is injured by it.
On one point there will perhaps be room for them
to exercise a sound discretion, and not incur the risk
of alarming those who are in the main their friends.
Where Catholic powers have seen a necessity for
legislating against certain religious fraternities by
name, or interfering in a minor degree with their
regulations and mode of recruiting, it would seem
but common prudence that, in a country where the
majority are Protestants, any dispute on such points
should be avoided, by taking care it is not raised. if
Catholics cannot comprehend this evident Jule of
policy, they of course are prepared nut to complain if
the consequences should be unpleasant to them.
Three divisions were come to in the course of the
debate, with constant majorities in favour of the Bill
as it stood; and the further consideration was finally
adjourned.
Ata later period of the evening the Bill for "Killing
Hares" was read a second time. There seems to have
gone forth a calm on the violent spirits of this side the
water. A Bill which would once have roused the
energies of the landed interest, and have been con-
tested as the certain inlet to the destruction of both
Church and State, was allowed to pass with something
very much like the assistance of those who might have
been expected to oppose it.
On Thursday the evening was consumed in debate
on a Bill proposed to be brought in by Mr. Sharman
Crawford, to amend the Irish Poor Relief Extension
Act. The object was to repeal the 10th section,
which prevents giving workhouse relief to any person
in the occupation of more than a quarter of an acre
of land. The telling argument against the repeal was,
that the law acted as a check upon the Irish land-
lords paying their rents out of the poor-rates. The
Bill was refused by 114 against 21.
On Friday the question was renewed on Mr.
Hume's motion that the income-tax be limited to one
year. Mr. Wilson (Westbury) opened the night's
debate, and displayed much of the knowledge which
became the editor of the Economist. But on one
point he amusingly disappointed the expectations of
the economists within the House. After saying
that wherever a few Englishmen chose to esta-
blish themselves on a commercial speculation,
there a frigate was to be sent to protect
them,—and leading everybody to suppose he
was going to quote the celebrated description of our
"perching a Governor and Deputy-Governor upon
every rock large enough to hold them,"—he turned.
round with the conclusion, that because the frigates
were sent they must be paid for, and therefore the
Government must have the income-tax for three
years. So that the argument seems to be, that
wherever there are three cats to chevy, a frigate must
be sent to do it ; whereas some might have concluded,
that the cats should be let alone. As was intimated
on the other side, ambitious yachters may play the
" illustrious stranger" in Borneo or where they please ;
but it does not follow that frigates should be paid for,
as the consequences of their movements.
The Economist said a great deal in favour of a
properly regulated income-tax, which was entirely
true. But the struggle at this moment is, not to pay.
On one point his defence struck me as incomplete.
He said an income-tax did not take employment from
the working classes more than any other tax. Is not
the real answer, that no tax either takes from or adds
to the employment of the working classes in the
aggregate, inasmuch as what is not expended by the
payers of the taxes is expended by the Government,
and vise versa P It may be true that the Government
expends on musquets, and the taxees would have
expended on fowling-pieces. But in this it is the
taxees that lose, and not the working classes. They
lose to the extent of going without the fowling•
pieces which they say they wanted, and getting
nothing for their money but the musquets, which they
say they did not want at all.
A remarkable instance came out in the course of
the debate, of the spirit of inaccuracy and unreason
which possesses the Protectionist benches. It was
stated a few nights ago by a leader on that side,
that when the duty on French brandy was taken off,
the price of brandy in bond rose from 4s. 3d. a
gallon to ss. 11d. The clear inference and understand-
ing from which was meant to be, that when the
duty was taken off no important diminution of price
to the consumer was the consequence; being another
form of the assertion we have heard in the case of the
corn-laws and elsewhere, that the import duties on
foreign produce are paid by the foreigner. But
upon examination, how do the facts stand ? It ap-
, pears that when seven shillings of duty were taken
off French brandy, the brandy which used to cost the
English consumer eleven and threepence, plus any
remaining duty, came to him for five and eleven-
pence, plus the same sum. So that the fact pro-
claimed under the title of the benefit going to the
foreigner, proves to be that a fourth of the benefit
went to the foreigner in the shape of the natural rise
of the price abroad consequent on the increased demand
for the commodity. And how should it be otherwise ?
Did nut every grocer's apprentice always know that
this must be the case? And did not he equally
know, that one reason why nobody likes to see a duty
laid on his own produce by foreigners, is that there
will not only be less sold of it to foreigners, but also
at a lower price ?
The Member for Buckinghamshire (Mr. Disraeli)
was convicted of the same kind of mistake by Mr.
Gladstone in his reply. The Member for Bucking-
hamshire announced, as matter apparently for statis-
tically determining the consequences of removing
duties, that after a duty of so much per pound on
American cotton was removed, the price of cotton in
America rose to more than the former price and the
duty too. Which Mr. Gladstone effectually disposed
of, by pointing out the simple fact, that in the in-
terval there had been a " cotton-famine." So useful
it is to have a place like the House of Commons,
where the supporters of fallacies can be trotted out.
And strange enough it is, that men so incompetent to
explain the simplest phenomena of trade, should main-
tain pretensions to make the Government of a com-
mercial cnuntry.
In the course of the evening Mr. Disraeli acted as
Master of the Ceremonies to the League for the Re-
vision and Adjustment of Taxation, and introduced
it to the House. The debate was finally adjourned
till Monday ; so that Mr. Hume's motion still lies over
for decision.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
Blackheath, London, March 13,1848.

THE NEW POEM " KING ARTHUR."
By the Author of " The New Timon."
Skillfully arranged and unfolded; marked by passion,
imagination, and unostentatious hut redundant know-
ledge; everywhere evincing the influence of the best
taste, the poem of " King Arthur is likely to win the
admiration of all who have poetical feeling and know-
ledge. It takes up a great subject and promises to treat
it worthily; evolving its national interest. The author
has incarnated the dim ideas of a legendary period in
flesh and blood beings drawn from his own experience.
Two of the prominent characters in the poem will at once
be recognised, with a strange interest at the present
moment, as Louis Philippe and his Minister; and keen,
as well as merciless, though in the light and laughing
guise of wit, is the writer's exposure of the qualities that
have dethroned and degraded them. This is clearly
such a writer's privilege. So Ariosto wrote ;so our
own Spenser.—Examiner.
RESPITE OF ANNETTE MEYERS.—The sentence of
death passed upon this wretched woman has, as was gene-
rally expected would be the case, been respited. Yester-
li
day (Saturday) evening, at five o'clock, Mr. Cope, the
Governor of Newgate, received from the Right Hon.
Sir George Grey, through the hands of a special mes-
senger, an instruction that execution of the wretched
woman was to be respited during her Majesty's plea-
sure. This is, of course, equal to a reprieve of the
capital sentence altogether. The Rev. Mr. Davis, the
ordinary of the prison, having left the gaol when the
mitsive arrived, Mr. Cope, the Governor. lost no time
in communicating the gratifying intelligence to the
unhappy woman. We understand she was but little
moved by the intelligence, retaining the sullen and
indifferent manner which has peculiarly characterised
her since her confinement. Annette Meyers is sup-
posed to be the daughter of a well-known baronets—.
Surkday Times.
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that a few doses taken in time is an effectual preventa-
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has an attack of either should use Holloway's Ointment
also, the powerful properties of which, combined with
the effect of the Pills, ensures a certain cure.—Sold by
all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's establishment,
244, Strand, London.
PosT-OFFICE NOTICE.—On and after Monday,
the 6th of March, letters and newspapers will be received
at the railway station, Euston-square, to be diepatched
by the night and day mail trains to all towns, the corre-
spondence of which is conveyed by the London and
North-Western Railway, or by the lines branching from
it. A list of these towns may be seen at the station. A
fee of sixpence, in addition to the postage, will be charged
upon every letter, and a foe of sixpence upon every
newspaper; this fee, as well as the postage, must in all
for the receipt of these
letters will be suspended at the station, from 7 30
to 9 50 A.m. for the day mail; and from 7 30 P.M. to 8 35
P.M. for the night mail. No letters will be received on
Sundays.
SACRED HARMONIC SOClETY.—Mendelesolues fine
oratorio, St. Paul, will be performed at Exeter 11511
Wedneedsy net