The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-15 00:00:00

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[PRICE SD.

BArna.—Channel for orders to the United Kingdom, 60s.
to 625. 6d.; Channel for orders to Havre and Hamburgh, 655.;
Baltic, 755.; Liverpool, 60s. to 625. 6d., and :Yid. per lb.
cotton ; London, 575. 6d. to 60s. ; Hamburgh, 60s. ; Trieste,
bss. to 575. 6d. ; Havre, GO francs.
Exchange-60 days' sight ;iLondon, 3G per milrea; Paris,
320 per franc; Hamburgh, 592 real per mares binco.
Sugar is dull, and prices flat, a few sales having been made
at 1,600 for browns, and 2,000 for prime whites, with con-
siderable abatement on inferior cases, at which rates they
stand in 168. 2d and 30s. per cwt., free on beard, exclusive of
freight.

Coffee and Cocoa, but small quantities in the market; the
inquiries, however, are brisk.
PERNAMBUCO.—ChanneI for orders to the United King-
dom, .575. 6d.; Channel for orders to Havre and Hamburgh,
655.; Genoa, 505.; Havre, 65f.; Liverpool, 355. to 40s. ;
ditto, Cotton, to 14 per lb. ; Marseilles, 70f. to 80f. ;
Trieste, 575. 6d.

Exchange Sixty days' sight: London, 30d. ler milrea ;
Paris, 320 rest per franc.
Cotton, first quality. 6 700 to 6.800 per arroba; second
ditto, 6 300 to 6.400. Sugar, first quality. 2.700 to 2.600
per arroba; second and third, 2.100 to 2.500; fourth, 1.950
to 2.000; fifth and sixth, 1.100 to 1.750; yellow Muscovado,
1,600; brown, 1,500. The news per Teviot caused a decline
in cotton and sugar, and as both articles are now arriving
freely to market, prices may go below the present rates,
particularly if vessels continue scaace.
Movements of her Majesty's chips and foreign men-of-
war—At Rio de Janeiro—Her Majesty's ships Southampton,
Thetis, Tweed, Crescent, Spider; steamer Harpy; French
brig-of- war Aloutle, and screw frigate l'omone ; Prussian
frigate Mercur, the Brazilian frigate Constitution, and several
small vessels. At Bahia—Her Majesty';, steam-sloop
.Cor-
m,---0. At Pernambuco—The Brazilian war-steamer Thetis,
at tij till smaller vessels. At Madeira—The French war-
st Graet Man, sailed for Martinique, 6th March, 2.15 A.M.
At I—won—Her Majesty's ships Arrogant, Encounter, and
Retribution ; French steamer Caffarelli.
The Sharpshooter was passed about 200 miles to the south-
ward of Rio de Janeiro, where she was cruising on the 12th
February. The Conflict and Geyser both left Rio for a cruise
on the 10th February.

COMING EVENTS.
(From the Times.)
Our Premier must be positively enamoured with calamity.
No chief of a fallen cause ever bared hie breast to the dagger
or tossed off his cup of hemlock with more grace than Lord
John Russell shows in preparing for what we fear must be
his doom. The whole session threatens to be consumed in
the solemn but rather tedious preliminaries of the final ca-
tastrophe. Among other rocks ahead, Mr. Baillie has given
notice of a motion equivalent, if carried, to a vote of censure
upon Government for the administr Ition of affairs in Ceylon,
to come off on the 23th, next Tuesday week. There can be
no doubt that Ceylon is about the last spot on the face of
the earth on which Lord John would desire the public atten-
tion to be concentrated at this moment, and if the Cape of
Good Hope were not unluckily on the way to Ceylon, even a
Kafir war would be hailed as a timely diversion. But his
Lordship does not attempt to suppress the horror mecited
by the name. He might have treated Mr. Baillie's mo-
tion as a matter of course, as a poisoned shaft of faction, as a
weak invention of the enemy, as a challenge which he will
meet without flinching, or in whatever manner it might be
expo -tient to describe it, but he adopts the very course to
make the most of Mr. Baillie and the Ceylon accusation.
Everything is to make way for it. The ever-impending
budget,lain, jam lapsura, which was fixed for the 21st, is to
be indefinitely postponed. Window-tax, income-tax, are to
stand aside, while the lists are prepared for the mortal com-
bat. We could almost believe that he had oontrolled the
elements to drive back Sir Emerson Tennent, who arrived
vesterday to contribute his ominous presence at this juncture.
Either Lord John Russell must feel that he and his are clad
in triple brass, and proof against all ordeals, or he must have
made up his mind to ascend the pile and offer himself as a
martyr to faction.
We must be permitted to doubt the wisdom of this course,
and still more its justice. In the first place it is very unfair
to Lord Duncan, Mr. Hume' and Mr. Herries, the three
pri,cipal candidates for the honour of immolating the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, and, through him, the whole Cabi-
net. Here is Mr. Disraeli, who can boast, by the admission
of the foe himself, that he has inflicted an all but mortal
wound. Mr. Locke King can say more, for he laid the
Ministry prostrate. Why is Lord Duncan not to have his
opportunity of earning a little fame? Why is Joseph Hume
to be denied a last chance of extinguishine• a Government ?
Why is Mr. Herries to be equally defrau,led? In fa• t, there
is an over fastidiousness in Lord John's selection. Were it
left to the natural course of events, and supposing him to
survive a Protestant amendment on the altered Ecclesiastical
Titles Assumption Bill, he might not improbably
die of the income-tax, or of the window-tax. He
teas to die of Ceylon. should that b 3 his eutha-
nEsia' his name will go down to posterity associated with
LerdTorrington,Tichety Banda, Captain Watson, and other
nemes of Cingalese story. He will figure as the British sa-
crifice for the manes of the priest who perished in his one
sacred garment, and of the corpulent gentleman who was
not the Pretender. There is no accounting for tastes, but
few people like unpleasant or grotesque associations. We
would rather be beaten in the person of Sir Charles o' ood
than of Lord Torrington, and would rather figure in an his-
torical tableau with a Cardinal and a l'ope than with a half-
naked Pagan impostor. But Ceylon is to be the scene.
Some animals at the approach of death are observed to roam
about looking for a remote and quiet placeevheee they may lie
down and breathe out their souls; Lord John, disgusted
possibly with faction at home, betakes himself to an island in
the Indian Ocean for the scene of his political exit.
Surely this is a mistake. Considering the utter confusion
we are in, and the serious fact that on the 15th of March we
have not yet begun the session, and are further from brgin-
ning it than we were on tits 4th of Februhry, the first ob-
jects a Minister should have in view, even in the f .ce of the
greatest difficulties, are order and dispatch. Lord John's
only chance of doing anything this session, and surving it, is
to make his own programme and stick tu it, leaving upon
others the responsibility of disturbing his arrangement, ren-
dering the session abortive, and spoiling the year of the
Great Exhibition. But instead of impressing his own mind
on the House, he is content to receive
impressions. He is the
rasa tabula on which everybody is invited to write his malice
or his caprice. An antagonist flourishes an indictment before
his face, and all the Ministerial arrangements vanish before
the phantom. With great force Lord John might ride through
the Cingaiese jungle. It' be shut his eyes and dashrd on, he
might probably impart some of his blindness and recklessness
to a majority of the Commons, but wo to him if he invites
a more solemn pace and more wakeful scrutiny. if
we must notice, perhaps we must condemn ; and if our scru-
ples are appealed to, we must be conscientious. Unlike the
hypocrites who blew a trumpet before their alms, Lord John
blows his trumpet before his errors, and the attention of all
the world is fixed ten days beforehand to the misdeeds of a
noble Whig, closely allied to several members of the Cabinet.
There have been statesmen who, with such a scandal in
prospect, would have created a diversion by some means or
other. Lord John had several diversions ready to his hands,
but instead of hailing them, he begs that they may be put
off and the scandal blazoned out. Was there ever such mor-
bid humility? There is not an ascetic in all Christendom
who is keeping Lent like Lord John. It is hard to know
what to desire for him. If we are to wish for him what he is
actually working for, we shall wish him most ignominiously
beaten; but as that would be just about the greatest misfor-
tune, at this particular moment, that could happen to the
country, we must hope that he will yet be spared the honours
of martyrdom.
(From the Advertiser.)
So then the new Budget is again postponed. Will it ever
be proposed? The odds are certainly the other way. Lord
John Russell last night advanced a strange argument for
deferring the new financial plans of the Government. The
reason he assigned was that a motion was pending which was
to be considered a censure on Ministers, and until that mo-
tion was disposed of, he did not intend to bring forwar 1 the
new Budget. If a pending vote of censure deters the Noble
Lord from proceeding with the new financial statement, we
may regard it as postponed till an indefinite period. Votes
of censure are not'only always impending, but always being
passed on the Whig Cabinet. Hardly a day pasess, cer-
tainly not many days, in which the Noble Lord does not
find himself in a minority. And, but for his ingenuity in
postponing " ugly" questions, his defeats would be still more
frequent. What the result is to be of Mr. Baillie's motion,
on the 25th instant is not for us to say; bur. this we can
say with confidence, that if Ministers are to be in a majority
on that day, they will be in a minority before the week is
out. And as there can be no censure more decided than to
be left in a minority, and as Lord John must live in the
daily apprehension of finding himself in this predicament,
it will be better for us at once to give up all idea of ever see-
ing another Whig Budget.

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, MARCH 14.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness walked early
this morning in Osborne Park.
The Prince of Wales and the younger members of
the Royal Family walked and rode as usual.
There was no addition to the Royal dinner party yes-
terday.

Baron Koller, Chargé d'Affaires of Austria, had an
interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-
office.

Sir John Herschell bad on interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official resi-
dence, in Downing-street.
Monsieur Zohrab, Consul-General for Turkey, and
Commissioner from the Ottoman Government for the
Great Exhibition, has arrived with his family at Bryan-
stone-square, from Constantinople.
Mr. D. R. Ross had an interview with Earl Grey yes-
terday, at the Colonial-office.
Tha Marquis of Lan.downo (Lord rresident) left
town yesterday for his seat, Bowood-park, Wilts.
Sir Edward N. Buxton had an interview with Sir
George Grey at the Home office yesterday.
Colonel Lindsay had also an interview with the Right
Hon. Baronet.
Mr. Divett, Mi'., had an interview yesterday with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Dispatches were sent off tor
Colo Governor of the Cape
of Good Hope, from hoe nial-office, yesterday
evening.

MADAM DORRINGTON OF THE DENS; THE
STORY or A LIP& Br WILLIAM Howtrr.—We have here
a story of English country life—a chequered, lively, natural
picture of romance—drawn by the poet of fields and flowers.
There is in the novel much to engage our attention, the
principal character, Madam Dorrington, being the true
centre of attraction. She is nobly conceived, finely deli-
neated, and individualised throughout by the most beautiful
characteristics of a woman's nature. Many of the subordi-
nate personag • a are also invested with considerable character.
The career of Hinchliffe— the a ory of young Delmey, who is
compelled to fly to America, from the pursuit of the law—
the Vicar the old servant at the Ucne - young Vincent—
and many others —engage our sympathies or excite our.ia-
terest, and lead us along with thorn through their various
careers, deeply curious to know the result. Many
shades
l:
human nature are painted—some soft, winning,
stweet
the dam-
eels, eels, there hot, high-spirited young men. lit
and crown of the whole performance is, the character of
Madam llorrngton —a model of womanly beauty, dignity,
1i
tendernezs, and truth,—Sunday Timm