The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-10 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Monday next,
the 14th instant, at Buckingham Palace. Summonses were
issued yesterday from the Privy Ccuncil-office, to the Minis-
teas and Officers of State.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. walked
yesterday in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. •
Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal .exkthe Prin-
cess A.ice took a carriage drive yesterday,
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Pringe,Al...
fred, and the Princesses Helena and Li9uisa, took their ac-
customed exercise yesterday in the gardens of Buckingham
Palace.

The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at'Buckingham
Palace. The company included her Royal 'Highness the
Duchess of Kent, his Serene Highness Prince' Edward of
Saxe-Weimar, his Excellency Monsieur Van .de Weyer
(Belgian Minister), Monsieur de Maresca (French
Chargé d'Affaires), Lady Fanny Howard, Viscount and Vis-
countess Barrington, the Right Hon. Sir Charles and Lady
Mary Wood, Colonel Hon. Charles and Mrs. Grey, and Sir
Charles Lyall.
Lord Lyttelton had an interview with Earl Grey yester-
day, at the Colonial-office.
A deputation from the Institute of British Architects, con-
sisting of Mr. Fowler (Vice-President), Mr. Mocatta (Chair-
man of the Committee), and Messrs. Scoles and Nelson
(Honorary Secretaries), had an interview with Lord Seymour
yesterday, at the Office of her Majesty's Commissioners of
Woods and Forests, in Whitehall-place.
Lord Monteagle had an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Down-
ing- street.

The Oxford University Commission met yesterday, at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Down-
ing-street. Present, the Bishop of Norwich, the Dean of
Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke, the Rev. H. G. Liddell,
J. L. Dampier, Esq., the Rev. Professor Powell, the Rev. G.
H. S. Johnson, and the Rev. A. P. Stanley (Secretary).

THE FRENCH REFUGEES IN ENGLAND.
We have been requested to publish the following letter :
" 71, Dean-street, Soho-square, London, April 7.
" We, the undersigned French Republicans, refugees resi-
dent in London, lay before the English people the following
declaration :
" The expulsion of the Republican exiles from Switzerland
on the threats of Russia, Austria, and Prussia is now sought
to be accomplished, as regards England, by trickery on the
part of these Powers.
" But England, who had no idea of such a proceeding,
would be in this case ruled by the foreign rowers.
" There is a coincidence, however, which is very remark-
able. At the moment when the Governments of Europe de-
mand of the British Cabinet that we shall be put out of the
pale of humanity, the mercenary journals of the counter-
revolution in France redouble their accustomed violence
against us; and two individuals (for diplomacy as not
e.butl
official agents) unite to accuse us of the basest and most
testable designs.
" Who are these two individuals? Ono of them i.asas
Frenchman, who is not a political telugee, although
has not
"e
assumed that title, and whose coming to this country has
assumed
to our knowledge been satisfactorily accounted for. This
individual, after having made before a police .magistrate
various allegations of a most odious character agattstusfiassince, in an official examination made by order of the supe-
rior authorities, been obliged to deny their truth, whichi
de-
nial has been duly recorded in a former report addressed to
tee Government.
"The other is a native of this country, who has forfeited
the confidence of the political party whose cause Le pretends
to espouse, and who seeks to recover his lost popularity by
exciting among the masses old and nearly forgotten interns.-
' tional hatreds. The antecedents of this individual were,
however, so well known to us that not one among us would
enter into any communication with him, notwithstanding
all the advances lie has made to that effect, which is no
doubt our inexpiable crime in his eyes; but the English pub-
lic will have no difficult in divining that, without our being
either assassins or incendiaries, we may be fully justified in
regarding with distrust such a false democrat as Mr. Feargus
O'Connor.
" We, therefore, declare in the most solemn manner that
whosoever attributes to us, the French Republicans, refugees,
now residing in London, designs such as those individuals
have attributed to us, or in any manner similar to them, is a
vile slanderer.
" We make this solemn declaration, not' because we dread
to be driven from the refuge we have found in this country,
for the revolution which has had power in France may re-
sume that power, and'm so doing exact, perhaps, too large a
satisfaction for the wrong of which we should be the victims
—an idea which never entered into our minds.
" We make this declaration voluntarily, we make it freely,
we make it without after-thought, without any fear of me-
naces; we make it in the name of the eternal principles of
brotherhood and concord among nations and peoples—prin-
ciples for which we now suffer the pains of exile.
" We may be calumniated, but the world will never be-
lieve that men, the very first act of whose advent to power
was the destruction of the scaffold—men who accoinp.ii.soli_,,u,
a great revolution without shedding a single drop of
rbisoynu.
without committing an act of violence, without
ment, and without confiscation—the world will never ibelieve
that we arc assassins or incendiaries.
" J. P. BEZJEAU. " LUMADD.
" F. BERTRAND. " J. MADAN.
" V. CHUTELET. 64 E. FEByr.E.
E. DE IdoNsrAtT,
" C. DELESCLUZE.
" GUSTAVE NAQUET.
" DJBON.
gc E PAEDIG°N.
" Dt:PONT.
66 pETIT-JEAN.
" TREMOND.
" D. PERZUO. G.
4. EOUSSIER.
" THEODORE KAECHEB.
BIBETROLLA.
" LANGERON.
" A. Ricwrzatt.
" LEDRU ROLLIN.
SUIREAD.
" LIONNE. L. VILLAIN.
" LABAT. " GOMM"
I).a.ncANNITz•

• A
WouArr KiLLED BY DER lITADAND.-111 the
case of the unfortunate woman, Esther Curtis, who died near
Gloucester, on Saturday evening, from the effects of brutal
ill-usage from
her husband, a gardener, as mentioned in this
paper of yesterday, the coroner's jury ive returned a ver-
dict of manslaughter.. The man has consequently been cow.
mitted for trial.

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SHIPPING.
Return:; have been puhibled relalive to the .s 1
registered during the year ceding December 31,
In Ecretlaud the Dumper of availing-vessels regisfe

was as follows: - Under 50 tons 6.675, tonnage 202,424;
above 50 eels 11,718, tonnage 2,410,160. In Scotland
1,978 aailiegevesscis under 50 tons were registered,
amounting in tonnage to 38,531; and above 50 tons 2,154,
equal to a total tonnage of 452,864. In Ireland the
numbers were 1,037 under 50 tons, tonnage 29,570;
above 50 tons 1,098, tonnage 204,183. In the Isle of Man
the sailing.vessels registered were, under 50 tons 315,
tonnage 7.471; above 50 tons 37, tonnage 2,515. In
Guernsey Limier 50 tons 31, tonnage 949; -above 50
tons 110, tonnage 15,547. In Jersey, under 50 tons 158,
tonnage 3,881; above 50 tons 188, tonnage 28,396. The
steene vessels registered were-in England 470 under
50 tons, total burden 11,423; above 50 tons 425, total
burden 97,283; in Scotland 38 under 50 tons, total bur-
den 1,064; above 50 tons 131; total burden 29,763; in
Ireland 12 under 50 tons, total burden 398; above SD
tons 102, total burden 27,281; in the Isle_ of Man and
the Channel Islands 7 steamers above 50 tons were see
gistered, amounting in tonnage to 1,130.
The number of vessels that entered and cleared coast-
wise, including their repeated voyages, is thus enume-
rated :-Inwards-Ia England 101,361 sailing-vessels,
tonnage 8,009,631, and 10,782 steamers, tonnage
2,313;664; in Scotland, 16,766 sailing-vessels, ton-
nage 1,042,971, and 4,467 steamers, tonnage 983,760;
in Remand, 16,403 sailing-vessels, tonnage 1,191,243,
and 4,340 steamers, tonnage 1,303,489 ; ih the
Isle of Man 1,337 sailing vessels, tonnage 40,094, and
225 steamers, tonnage 35,448. Outwaraa-In
117,073 sailing, end 10,447 steam-vessels, tonnage
9,124,135, and 2,264.026. In Scotland 17,322 sailing
and 4,603 steam-vessels, tonnage 1,028,376 and
1,018,634. In Ireland 7,360 sailing and 4,534 steam-
vessels, tonnage 438,532 and 1,338,732. In the Isle of
Man 740 sailing and 172 ateata-vessets, tonnage 19,621
and 24,517.
The movement of sailing vessels engaged the colonial
vessels trade in o
enteredu r port s
iwnawsaarsdf,o ltloonwnsaze, 1,258,478, andß u gland, 4,264 British
214
foreign, tonnage 72,178; cleared outwards, 3,912
British, tonnage 1,135,734; and 233 foreign, ton-
nage 73,233; Scotland entered inwards, 514 British
and 8 foreign,: tonnage 178,574 and 3,778; cleared
outwards, 508 British, 12 foreign, tonnage 171,626
and 3,029; Ireland entered inwards 318 British and
15 foreign, tonnage 90,012 and 6,129; cleared outwards
248 British and 57 foreign, tonnage 68,626 and 16,082;
Isle of Man and Channel Islands entered 30 British yes.
eels and no foreign, tonnage 4,004; cleared 73 British,
tonnage 9,482. The total number of steam-vessels en-
gaged in the colonial trade, entered inwards at our ports,
was 399, tonnage 73,249, and of those cleared outwards
369, tonnage 72,267, all being British vessels,
The number of sailinge/es.sels engaged in foreign trade
which entered inwards and cleared outwards at our
ports (including repeated voyages) is as follows:--
England entered inwards 10,811 British vessels and
11,244 foreign, tonnage 1,868,086 and 1,767,567;
cleared outwards 11,076 British and 13,159 foreign,
tonnage 2,110,924 and 2,041,295; Scotland entered
1,510 British and 1,834 foreign, tonnage 228,278
and 185,578; cleared 1.738 British and 1,799
foreign, tonnage 282,752 and 195,793; Ireland entered
1,016 British and 871 foreign, tonnage 155,000 and
169,288; cleared 433 British and 704 foreign, tonnage
96,497 and 130,588; Isle of Man and Channel Islands
entered 1,148 British and 330 foreign, tonnage 43,529
and 24,720; cleared 1,230 British and 278 foreign, ton-
nage 40,260 and 19,709. The steam-vessels entered
and cleared at our ports to and from foreign ports
were : -Inwards, 3,877 British, and 959 foreign; tonnage,
853,520 and 204,759; outwards, 3,705 British, and 936
foreign; tonnage, 803,919 and 202,133. These numbers
• xclude the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. The
firat receive no steamers engaged in foreign trade, and
for the latter the numbers are 194 British and 9 foreign
entered, tonnage 18,430 and 639; cleared 195 British, 5
foreign, tonnage 18,593 and 355.
'rite nuinher of sailing vessels built and registered
during- 1850 was 610 timber, tonnage 117,033 and 11 iron,
ton nerve 2,078; and of steam-vessel 4 18 timber, tonnage
3,862; and 50 iron, tonnage 10,722. There were sold
and transferred 2 261 sating and 95 steam-vessels,
amounting in tonnage respectil/4ely to 351,012 and 15,148.
The number of British vessels wrecked was 692, tonnage
127,183, four of which were steamers, whose total
burden amounted to 1,462; and there were broken
up 119 sailing-vessels, amounting in burden to 4,850 tens,
and 10 steamers, the tonnage of which equalled 946.
The number of colonial-built vessels register el in the
ports of the United Kingdom was 33, amounting In
burden to 19,382. The colonies furnishing them were
Newfoundland, Gareth), Now Brunswick, Nova Scotia,
and Prince Edward's Island. There were also 57 foreign-
built vessels registered in cur ports, amounting in ton-
nage to 10,499.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Return of
Traffic for the week ending April 6 :
Passengers, parcels, &c. £23,833 16 10
Merchandise ... ... 18,291 17 8
Cattle ... 901 17 9

Total ... ... ... £43,027 11 10
Corresponding week last year 44,019 la 8

Note.—The returns as published are exclusive of the
traffic of the Huddersfield Canal and Shropshire Union, North
Union, Preston and Wyre, South Junction, Manchester and
Buxton, and Buckinghamshire Railways, and of the propor-
' tion of traffic deducted under agreement with the North
Staffordshire Company.
ICOS.TH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY.— (Miles op en, 112.)
Return of traffic for the week ending April 8:
Railway and canal .- ... £1,813 0 0
Corresponding week last year ... 4,401 0 0
Note. The above is exclusive of the receipts available
under the ngreement with the London and North-Western
Itailway'COthliaby:

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. (260 miles
open.)—Traffic for week ending April 6 ....£16,154 9 3
Corresponding week in last year, (224
miles open) .. ...£11,827 19 11
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RsnwAr.--Traffie for the
week ending April 6 :

MAIN LINE.

Passengers
Parcels, H. C. and D. ...
Goods, eattle, &c.
Mails ... ... ...

... £904 14 5
... 5S 7 7

... 468 10 2
... 575 0 0

Total

•..
MOLD.

Passengers ... ...
Pfircels, H. C. and D. ...
Goods, cattle, &c. ...

... .£2,006 12 2

... 1:33 18 2
1 19 2
... 70 11 10

... £lO6 9 2

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S (TN OF F 7 c7,' E, Seven o' Clock.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS EVENING.)

ROUSE OF LORDS.
The Loam CHANIELLOR took his seat upon the Wool-
sack at Five o'clocMk.
UTINY BILLS.
On the motion of the Duke of WELLINGTON the
Mutiny Bill and the Marine Mutiny Bill were respec-
tively read a third time and passed.
APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS BILL.
On the motion of the Earl of CARLISLE this Bill
was passed through Committee.
PETITIONS.
Lord CAMPBELL presented several petitions against
Papal aggression.
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY presented several
petitions to a similar purport.
The Marquis of BREADALBANE presented a
petition from various British subjects in India, com-
plaining of the law of marriage in India.
Lard BROUGHTON announced his intention to in-
troduce a Bill to remedy the evils complained of by the
petitioners.
EQUITABLE JURISDICTION OF COUNTY
COURTS.
Lord BROUGHAM presented several petitions in
favoar of an extension of the power of the county courts.
He would now introduce a Bill giving these courts
original jurisdiction in equity, as was prayed for by
some of these petitioners. The most respectable soli-
citsirs and the members of the Law Incorporated Society
had stated that they could not advise a suit in equity
where the matter in dispute was under 1,0001., and
therefore this was proof that some such extension of the
jurisdiction of count courts was necessary.
DESIGNSACT EXTENSION BILL.
On the motion of Earl GRANVILLE, the Commons'
amendments to this Bill were agreed to.
PATENT AMENDMENT BILL.
Earl GRANVILLE introduced a Bill for the amend-
mut Of the law of patents.
AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.
Lord STANLEY presented several petitions from
various owners and occupiers of land complaining of clis-
tress;
also a petition from Preston praying that the rate-
payers soght have a control over the expenditure of the
county rates. The Nuble Lord then postponed the pre-
sentation of the petition from Guisna until Monday. The Evil, of MALMESBURY presented several pe-
titions complaining of agricultural distress. The Noble
Earl complained nose nothing toad been &toe to relieve
this distress, and complainei that the Chancellor of the
Exchequer had withdrawn even those effers of relief
which were included in the repel of the auty on clover-
seed, and of relieving the couni,'s of a portion of the ex-
pense of maintaining lunatic asylums, thus aggravating
the feelings of the egricrilturil community.
MERCHANT SEAMEN'S BILL.
The Earl of ELLENBUROUGH wished to know
whether it was the intention of the Government to in-
troduce any measure for the amendment of the Mer-
chant Seamen's Bill. That Bill had given great dis-
satisfaction, and he wished to know whether any further
measure was to be introduced to amend the Ace, or to
regulate the distribution of the Merchant Seamen's
Fund. He had understood that some measure of amend-
ment was to he introduced, but it had not yet been
proposed, and he believed that if such a measure were
even now introduced there would not be time to consider
it. He wished to know whether any measure of the sort
would be intronneen, and if it was intenOed to press it?
E.rl GRANVILLE said that he admitted the neces-
sity for alteration in the laws reaulating the Merchant
Seamen's Fend. The Government intended to inti mince
a Bill on this subject immediately after the recess. The
subject of the amendment of the Act of lest session had
occupied the most etteetive cioosideration of the Govern-
ment.

The Earl of ELLENT3OROUGH thought that in all
those discussions the Government had given an undue
weight to tho representaiii us et the shipowners, and he
thought they might have carried the Bill last session.
Eigrl GRANVILLE explained, and the subject
dropped.