The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-20 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

Council of State, has written a letter of congratulation to
the Abbe Combalot, lately condemned by the jury, and this
letter appears in print in a journal which very recently pub-
lished seven articles in favour of La Ligne et les ligneurs.
We do not speak of another letter, from the Catholics of
Tours, who assume the air of personsrejoicingthat the Church
is again to be persecuted. It well becomes those persons,
after having procured from the Government of the Restora-
tion the sanguinary law against sacrilege, to call by the name
of persecution the sentence pronounced by a court of justice
for the publication of a pamphlet filled with insult and
calumny. But the letter of the Bishop of Chalons exceeds
all bounds. That a priest and a high dignitary of the
Church should take pride in praising in extravagant terms
of exaggeration what a court of justice has condemned and
punished, amounts to an overthrow of every social law, and
a manifest usurpation of the sovereign power."

The Presse repeats its assertion that the Emperor
NICHOLAS has announced his intention of visiting the
Queen of ENGLAND in May or June next. On Sun-
day the Three per Cents. were quoted at 83f. 15c.

In another part of The Sun will be found a brief
report of a meeting held last night relative to
Annoyance Juries. Some of the complaints of
tradesmen on this subject are well-founded. The
Act was meant only for fraudulent dealers, and not
for honest men ; and it is a great hardship that shop-
keepers who are really guilty of no offence should be
subjected to investigations which were intended only
for egregious offenders. The Act of itself is good ;
but, like most Acts of Parliament, is not carried oat
in the way in which it was intended.

HONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEW S

CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
The English Funds leave off very firmly, Consols
being 98; to 98-b both for Money and Time. The Un-
funded Debt, and the other securities, remained the same
as in the morning.
The Spanish market did not improve upon the value
of the morning, being 24i for the Five per Cents., and
351 for the Three per Cents. Colombian were 144, and
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 57/. Brazil Bonds
were marked 82i.
The additional transactions in Railway Shams have
been thee :—Bristol and Exeter were 2; Edinburgh 14
to 141 ; ditto Registered, 3 ; Hull and Selby, 14 to
it; Brighton, Loan Notes, 11- ; Birmingham, Quarter,
261 to 26i ; South Western, Eighths, 4 ; Manchester
and Birmingham, 8 ; North British, ; to 1 ; Norwich
and Brandon, 5 ; South Eastern, Scrip, 11 to Hi ;
Lancaster and Carlisle; 3 ; York and North blidland,
73i ; ditto, New, 35 premium. London Joint Stock
Bank Shares were 3i; and Union of Australia 11-
premium. _ _

The rate of exchange upon most of the continental
cities was steady this afternoon.
The following is the official return of the exports of
bullion from the port of London for the week ending
Thursday last :—Silver Coin to Rotterdam, 29,000 oz.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The Cotton Mirket wore a gloomy appearance again yes-
terday. There was an abundant supply, and prices were *d.
per lb. lower than before the arrival of the Hibernia. Sales,
2,000 bales, viz.:-100 Egyptian, at 7*d. to 71d. ; 60 Per-
nambuco, at 60. to 6fd. ; 100 Surat, at 3fd. to 40. ; 20 La
Guayra, at sfd. ; the rest American, at 41d. to 6fd. The
transactions in Shares were not numerous, but the market,
on the whole, had a steady appearance. Birmingham and
Gloucester, 85* ; Chester and Holyhead, 61 ' • Eastern Coun-
ties, Registered, 13/.85.9d. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 63* ;
Grand Junction, 234; Birmingham, 236; Brighton, 44* ;
South WeStern, 82* ; Paris and Lyons, 21. 15s. 6d. ; South
Eastern; 351.
We-perceive that the progress of railway projects for Ire-
land is more rapid by far than it has been for some time back,
a proof that the prosperity of that country is considered as
likely to advance, and that a mote liberal political policy will
be forced on the Government. From Manchester Messrs.
Railton and Son write in, reference to this subject
On Saturday last we completed and sent off to the Com-
pany's Secretary at Dublin, the subscription list for the por-
tion of shares set apart for this place, towards the capital for
constructing the Great Southern and Western Railway in
Ireland, from Dublin to Cashel, and its contemplated exten-
sions and branches—and had they all been embraced in the
immediate proceeding of the work it would have been under-
taken with equal avidity as those apportioned to
London, Liverpool, and Manchester, as it now stands,
particularly as respects the extension to Cork. The
completion of the Dublin and Drogheda line within the
original time and estimate, and its firmness in general cha-
racter, for public utility and private advantage, gives to Irish
labour and English capital good earnest for rapid improve-
ment to every interest concerned in railway undertakings in
Ireland, and particularly at the present period, when Irish
industry stands so attractingly before the inactive and grow-
ing capital of this country for profitable motion on the very
spot where the advantages are to arise.
" It will be observed that there has been an improvement
in many lines during the past week, particularly in Grand
Junction and North Union, owing to an expectation of an
issue of new shares, to carry forward the line to Carlisle.
There is a• good demand for Manchester and Birmingham
shares, at advancing prices; and on the whole the character
of the market is generally good."
The Funds are very firm to-day, and this notwithstanding
a comparatively limited business is doing. The Commis-
sioners have purchased 30,000/. Consols at 98k, and the
lowest price in general transfers has been 98f. The New
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. • are 1021 to being rather
higher. Exchequer Bills are rather flat at 675, to 695. ; and
India Bonds at 87s. to 88s. premium. Bank Stock for Ac-
count has touched 199 and 200, and India Stock 288.
The Foreign Bonds continue rather flat. Spanish Actives
at 25 to 244, and the Three Per Cents at 35f to *. The
Mexican Five Per Cents have realised 351 to 36 ; the De-
ferred 14-1 to 1 ; Colombian, 14f to * ; Peruvian,
' 30f, and Chilian, 105. Portuguese Converted have been
steady at 47, and Russian firm at 117. Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. are rather quiet, but keep at the high price
of 571.
There is not quite so much doing in the Railway Shares,
but they support full prices.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List)
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities. 98% a
New 3% per Cent. Annuities 10234
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860. 12%
India Bonds,l,ooo
Ditto under 1,000
87 e s
Bank Stock for Account .... . 199 .00
Consols for Account .....
...
....
........ 9674
India Stock .......................... ...
288
Exchequer Bills, Id. ....
1,0001. ........ 69 pm.
500/. .......—. ................ - 69 pm.
Ditto Small
- 69 pm.
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent lO5
Columbian Bonds.. ............ . ... ..
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per cent ....... 36
Ditto for the Acc0unt........... ..
.. ...... 36
Ditto Deferred Stock.
Cents...
er
.... 30%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Com. ..... " ....
34
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pv
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................
...
R u Di; Ditto Peruvian
si son f;3ooßrnnovtdnhesd,e;dAB 622cP .11
....
.............. • 14; 11
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840.... .
25 24%
t.
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EXCHANGE,Cent
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.. .. .....................
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Dutch 234 per Cents.
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to' r.:(hiaaenya::ll,arlik4i,heet.
Dutch 5 Pe,..! Centsg ...........
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—Edinburgh and
nGlasgow,atiEcEn 64 t. o Paciri3s
pamnd...
MaNcVl Ditto
En iest Tzt Three
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is quite firm, andEiaghfatihrs,b4uisitnoe9ss-Ih6as;
sales are in
'Lyons, 2. 13-16; Manchester and Birmingham, 46A to 46*;
CLO_SING
South Western,
S.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
i per Cent. Red.
3 per Cent. Cons.
334 per Cent. Re 1 — IDitto New Annuities.
New 334 per' Cent. 102% Ex. Bills 1,0001. Pro.
New 5 per Cent .
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small
Jan. 1860 ............ Bank Stock for Acct 2OO pm.
Oct. 1839............ Consols for Acct. 9'%
Jan. 1860............ 12% India Stock for Acct 2BB
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per Cent ...... Portuguese, 5 per Cent
Belgian, 5 per Cent...
6 per Cent... ,Russian, 5 per Cent
Ditto New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds 82% Prussian, 5 per Cent
117
.05 Ditto, Metallic
cßhu
aosn Ayres6k,e rC,
Colombian, 6 per Cent. 14% Spanish, 5 per Cent 24
Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, 3 per Cent g
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent 93 Ditto, Deferred
Danish, 3 per Cent
Greek, 18 5, 5 per Exchange —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent 35% French,:; per Cent. —f. —c.
Ditto, fi per Cent., 1837 !Dutch, 2% per Cent 57%
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent... 22 :Ditto, 5 per Cent lOl%

SHARES.

Bristol and Exeter ("0 paid)
Eastern Counties (23 paid)
Ditto Registered (816 s 8d paid)
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid)
Hull and Selby (50paid) 6l
Lancaster and Carlisle ( 5 paid).
London and Brighton (50 paid) -1%
Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid)
London and Birmingham (Stock)
Ditto New Quarters ( 2 paid) 2834
London and Greenwich (ht. !Ls. 4d. (paid)
• uitto, Preference or Privilege (13/. 17s. 2d. pd) 17%
London and South Western (ill. 6s. 10d. paid) tli
Ditto Eighths Ms. paid)
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) 1163
Ditto Half Shares (30 paid) 5056
Ditto Quarter Shares (2 paid) 93(
Manchester and Birmingham
Norwich and Brandon ( 2 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 353(
Ditto Scrip (25 paid) 36
York and North Midland (50 paid) 123%
Ditto New Shares (20 paid)
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.
Amsterdam CF. 12 6h Gibraltar
Ditto, at sight l2 4h Leghorn
Rotterdam 2U. 12 7 Genoa
Antwerp 26 0 Milan —
Hamburgh M.B. 14 0 Venice ........ .......... 47
Altona l4 0 Naples 3Bl
Paris, 3 days' sight... 25 75 Palermo, per oz ll7
Ditto, 3 months 26 0 Lisbon 53
Marseilles 26 5 OportO - 53
Bourdeaux 25 5 Rio Janeiro 23
Frankfort on Maine.. 122 k Bahia 23
Petersburgh, 3 Us... 361 Buenos Ayres —
Berlin 7 NewYork,2ldys sight
Vienna, effec. fi. 3 M 958 Philadelphia —
irieste, ditto
Madrid 361 Foreign Gold, bars..X3 17 9
Cadiz
Bilbao, 36 New Doubloons..... 0 0 0
Barcelona 36 New Dollars 0 4 91
Seville Silver in Bars 0 4 11

30 65
26 5

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" Who runs may read."

ron,z3EGN.

LAW AND POLICE.
At the Mansion. house, William Sanders, the brother-in-
law of Mrs. Dorey, and the husband of the woman who is
supposed to have represented Emma Slack, the counterfeit
relation of Ann Slack, was brought before the Lord Mayor in
the custody of John Forrester, the officer, charged with having
been concerned, with others, in plundering the Government.
After the examination of several witnesses, the prisoner was
remanded until the day on which the other prisoners should
be brought up.
At Queen-square, William Henry Cook, a mechanic, Wil-
liam Cook, his father, and George Crawley, a youth not more
than seventeen, were brought before the magistrate, the first-
named defendant being charged with having threatened to
stab a police-constable, and the two latter with having very im-
properly interfered with the officer in the execution of his duty.
Mr. Bond said that whenever prisoners were brought before him,
charged with having threatened to use a knife either against
the police or any other person, he should treat them with
severity. The younger Cook must pay 505., or be impri-
soned a month, and the two other defendants 20s. each, or
fourteen days.
Thomas Hawkins, a tradesman residing in Leonard-street,
Shoreditch, was brought before Mr. Alderman Gibbs, charged
with driving a phaeton furiously through Addle-street, and
damaging a barrow, and injuring a boy who was in charge
of it. He was ordered to pay a fine of 20s. for furiously
driving, 20s. to the boy, and the surgeon's bill for attending
the boy.

At Union-hall Henry Coe, a policeman of the L division,
was brought up in custody, on a charge of embezzling vari-
ous sums of money, the property of William Freeman, Esq.,
the mayor of Norwich. The prisoner had been in Mr. Free-
man's service at Norwich, some years ago, which service he
quitted and came up to town. Subsequently to the prisoner's
leaving his situation, various sums of money were found to
have been received by him, of which he gave no account to
his employer. Mr. Traill, on the application of the Mayor of
Norwich, sent off the prisoner in custody to that city.
A well-dressed youth, named Sidney Smith Thomas, was
charged at the Thames Police .office, with maliciously stab-
bing Thomas William Dixon, a mariner, with intent to
murder or do him some grievous bodily harm. Mr. Broderip
said he held in his hand a certificate, stating that Thomas
Dixon was in such a state that he would not be able to at-
tend Court this day, through loss of blood, and remanded the
prisoner until Tuesday next.
COURT —PASELIONAR
The Queen Dowager and suite are expected to arrive at
Marlborough House, from Witley Court, the week after next.
The Earl and Countess of Jersey received the gratifying
news of the safe accouchement of the Princess Nicholas
Esterhazy, of a son, on Monday. The interesting event oc-
curred on the 9th inst., at Vienna, and when the courier left
the Austrian capital the Princess and infant son were both
progressing favourably.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland and the Ladies
Leveson Gower are expected on a visit to the Duke and
Duchess of Norfolk, at Arundel Castle, in the course of
the ensuing week. Their Graces will see company at the
Castle at Easter.

The Earl of Aboyne, eldest son of the Marquis of Huntley,
is about to be married to Miss Pegas, daughter of the
Countess of Lindsey, and half sister to the Earl of Lindsey.
The Noble Lord is the widower of Lady Elizabeth Conyng-
ham, sister to the present Marquis Conyngham.
Lord Brougham is expected to leave Grafton-street at the
close of the ensuing week, for Paris.
Lord Seaham is confined to his apartments at the Cavalry
Barracks, at Windsor, by an attack of measles.

MISCELLANEOUS.
An Anti .League Meeting was held at Aberdeen on Friday,
the 15th inst., when a number of country gentlemen made
speeches and voted resolutions against the free-traders.
The first experimental trip on the Dublin and Drogheda
Railway—the whole route—will be made on Monday next.
Cards have been issued to admit a thousand persons in the
carriages. The engineer, Mr. M'Neil, will entertain a portion
of the company at Drogheda at luncheon. There has been
great anxiety to procure tickets, as this line of country is
almost unknown to the generality of Dublin citizens.
The following frightful exhibition of the state of crime in
North Tipperary is presented by the calendar at the present
assizes :—Murder, 21; aiding in murder, 5 ; conspiracy to
murder, 3 ; homicide, 1; assaulting habitations by night in
arms, 14; assaulting habitations and firing at the inmates,
5; attacking a house in arms and robbing the inmates, 5;
robbery of arms, 5 ; grievous assault, 2 ; forgery, 2 ; per-
jury, 1; embezzlement, 1; cattle stealing, 2 ; sheep stealing,
3 ; abduction, 2 ; receiving money under false pretences, 1;
highway robbery, 1 ; base coin, 1; riot, 3.; child desertion,
2 ; setting fire to turf, 1 : total, 81.

VISIT OF PRINCE ALBERT TO
THE ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
CowEs, MAttcx 18.—The Black Eagle steamer came into
our roads about eleven o'clock this morning from Portsmouth,
having on board his Royal Highness Prince Albert and suite,
who landed, attended by Lord Liverpool, Major-General
Sir Edward Bowater, and E. Anson, Esq.A salute of twenty-
one guns was fired from the R.Y.S. battery as they pro-
ceeded up the harbour; they were heartily cheered, the pro-
perties on the shore being decorated with flags. Two car-
riages belonging to Mr. G. H. Ward were ready in front of
the Medina Hotel, in which the Royal party proceeded to
Osborne House, in examining which and the grounds, with
the surveyors with their maps and plans, the Prince spent
two hours, then returned by the same route (the old road by
East Cowes Castle) to the Royal barge, on entering which
he was again loudly cheered and a salute fired ; as he pro-
ceeded to the steamer another salute of twenty-one guns was
fired from the R.Y.S. House. The day might be said to be
fine for the season, the sun shining brightly; but there was
a keen north-easter blowing, enough to pierce one (sharper
indeed than we have had before this winter), attended with
such a thickness of the atmosphere that the opposite shore
could not be discerned. The Prince, therefore, viewed the
place under very disadvantageous circumstances. Had the
wind been from any other quarter he would probably have
landed on the beach in front of the house; hundreds would
then have been deprived of the pleasure of seeing him ; but
he would have been better aware of its capabilities. It is well
protected from the prevailing winds, lying only open to the
north-east. The grounds and house are so shut in from the
pnblic, that few know their beauties or extent. In conse•
quence of her Majesty's approaching visit several houses have
been taken. Beach Villa, Gothic Hall, Grantham House,
and Trafalgar House were let last week ; and we hear Har-
net Loolge and Egypt House have both been applied for.
There is every prospect of a very full season.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.)
It appears tha on the Prince embarking at Gosport in
the Admiral's barge, a young man stepped into the barge
also, and was brought to Cowes in the Black Eagle, where
he again embarked in the barge for shore with the suite ; that
when near East Cowes, the Prince inquired who he was,
when all being ignorant, he was asked by the officer in com-
mand, who had previously thought he was one of the suite ;
the stranger offered his card, and said he was a reporter for
the press, when he was handed into the custody of two of
the boat's crew, He attempted to land at East Cowes, but was
prevented, and was taken on board the Black Eagle in one
of her boats which had followed the Admiral's barge. A
Commissioner of the Woods and Forests arrived early this
morning, to make the necessary arrangements; he returned
with the suite.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
The Earl and Countess of Belfast, from Brighton ; Lady
Charlotte Bertie, at Grafton's Hotel, Albemarle-street ; Cap-
tain and Mrs. Dalton, at the Burlington Hotel, Cork-street ;
Mr. and Lady Charles M. Stuart and family, in Portman-
square; Colonel Wade, Assistant Adjutant-General, from
Dublin; Gregson, Esq., at Christie's Hotel; Colonel
Munro, R.A., from Dublin ; J, Gladstone, Esq., from Brighton ;
the Earl of Longford, in Grosvenor-street, from Madresfield
Court ; Lord Delawarr, in Upper Brook-street, from Vale
Royal, Cheshire; the Duchess of Marlborough and Lady
Louisa Spencer Churchill, at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-
street ; Sir ;Edward and Lady Butler, from the Continent ;
Charles P. Leslie, Esq., in Harley-street, from his seat, Mo-
naghan; Mrs. Edward Romily, in Stratton-street Piccadily ;
Major-General Reeves, C.B.

CHA NGES.
Lord Sidney Osborne, at his seat near Marvborough,
Queen's County, from Dublin ; Sir Richard Robinson, at
Cheltenham, from his seat in Ireland ; the Marquis of Water-
ford, at Curraghmore, from Mallow, near Cork; Lord Somer-
ton, M.P., from Florence, on a tour In Italy; Sir William K.
Ball, Bart., to Brighton, from a tour ; Lady South and the
Hon. Thomas Plunket, at South Hall, Ardee,from Dublin.

DEATH FROM OVEREXERTION.--On Monday, at
a late hour, Mr. Baker held an inquest at the White Lion,
- - High-street, Shadwell, on the body of Mathew Brady, aged
AMERICAN SLAVERY.—CASE OF JOHN L. BROWN. forty-six. It appeared by the evidence that deceased was a
—On Thursday evening one of the most numerous, and, at ballast-heaver, and on Friday morning, after partaking of a
the same time, most interesting. meetings of the members hearty breakfast, he proceeded, in company with hls brother,
his exertions in the way of his
and friends of the Glasgow Emancipation Society, which has to St. Katharine's-docks, where he was employed for several
taken place for many years, was held in the Rev. Mr. Ander- hours in lording a vessel with 40 tons of ballast. Qn ills
Natural death."
son's church, John-street, for the purpose of remonstrating return hame he complained of sickness, aecompanio will}
against so flagrant a violation of the rights of humanity, as is violent pains in his stomach. Mr. Arthur, a surgeon, was
involved in the conduct of the authorities of South Carolina, in sent for, but deceased expired on the following morning.
sentencing John L. Brown to be hanged for the crime of aiding Mr. Arthur attributed his death to a rupture ofthe intestine's,
for
re escape peeeomfma
efnemceamleensltaveef.
hPureeinvieoseus(thoetlhf-ephaeoutrsanevnenoptchede
hinuediiinceesed.b_yytherediseev4er,i,tLotuf
church was crowded in every part by a highly respectable audi- It will be recollected that Inspect I`
ence, and shortly after the numbers increased so much as to Thames Police, was charged with being or Fogg of 04
cause, by the pressure, very much inconvenience. There gling a large.quantity of tobacco. He was concerned in
Mug-
were upwards of 2,000 persons present, and, at least, an equal proceedings in the Court of Exchequer fornsuspended, and
number had to go away from want of accommodation. Indeed proportionate penalties were instituted the recovery of
the interest manifested in the proceedings on this occasion trial the jury found their verdict • against him. On the
exceeded anything which has been exhibited in connection favour of Fogg. The removal against the Crown and in
of Ills si4spenaion did not,
with this Society for many years past. There has been no however, follow this yard. t. His ease was referred to the
anti-slavery meeting equal to it in Glasgow since the cele- Rorie-eftlee, and thence to the
brated discussion between Messrs. Thompson and Borthwick, Treasury ; the result of all this proper department in the
and it most pointedly demonstrated the Intensity of the public just been dismissed alto ether
consideration is, that Fogg tae
feeling in this city on the subject for which the meeting was had been for man ge er from the polic9 ftuvo• -ragg I
convened.— Glasgow Argus. I y ears 4 41ast aetive anci respectable officer
94 VII 944121441ei1t of the old Thames Police.— 06 scrim-.

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The account of the execution of Bonet and twenty-three
of his companions at Alicant is confirmed by intelligence
from Madrid of the 11th inst. The Madrid Gazetle contains
a dispatch to that effect from Roncali, and also a proclama-
tion calling for some members of the rebel junta to surrender
themselves, and decreeing the punishment of death on any
one found guilty of concealing them. A new municipal go-
vernment has been chosen at Alicant.

Queen Christina was not expected to reach Aranjuez be-
fore the 19th. There were current rumours at Madrid of a
general amnesty being contemplated, and of its not being in-
tended to assemble the Cortes before October, the period at
which the Queen would have accomplished her 14th year.
M. de Saint Priest has submitted to the Chamber of Depu-
ties a proposition for reducing the general postage to four sous
the letter. The net revenue of the Post-office, under the
present system, amounts to 25,000,000 f. or 1,000,0001. The
motion was to come on for discussion on Monday.
Letters from Malta, of the 6th inst., mention the receipt of
intelligence from Athens, announcing the resignation of the
Ministers Metaxas and Skinas. Their successors were not
known.

Accounts from Constantinople, of the 27th of February,
state that the greatest excitement has been caused at the
Porte by the demand of the English and French Ambassadors,
that the Sultan should give a formal engagement to forego
hereafter all religious executions. After the arrival of
dispatches from the English Government for the Legation,
a conference was held between Sir Stratford Canning and
Baron de Bourqueney, the Minister of France, subsequently
to which, the first interpreters of the British and French Le-
gations proceeded to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, with a
new communication relative to the subject. On the following
day the principal Ulemas met in council, under the presi-
dency of the Sheik-el-Islam, the head of the religious De-
partment, to consider the contents of the communication.
Two other Councils were held at the Porte for the same pur-
pose, but the result was not known at the departure of the
mail.

COURT CIRCULAR.

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The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday morning,
in Claremont Park. His Royal Highness Prince Albert
afterwards rode out on horseback, attended by Sir Edward
Bowater, Equerry in Waiting. The Prince returned to
Claremont to lunch.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken airings yesterday,
in the grounds in Claremont Park.

At ten minutes past three o'clock, yesterday afternoon,
her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by her Royal
Highness the Princess Royal, left Claremont, in a carriage
and four, for town. Their Royal H;ghnesses the Prince of
Wales and the Princess Alice, accompanied by the Dowager
Lady Lyttelton, were in the next carriage ; and Colonel the
Hon. Charles Grey, Equerry in Waiting on her Majesty,
and Major-General Sir Edward Bowater, Equerryin Waiting
on his Royal Highness, occupied another carriage and four.
The Royal party arrived at Buckingham Palace, escorted
by a party of Light Dragoons, at twenty minutes before five
o'clock.

The Queen and Prince Albert were received at Buck-
ingham Palace by the Lord Chamberlain, the Master
of the Horse, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Viscountess
Jocelyn, Lady in Waiting; the Hon. Misses Murray and
Liddell, Maids of Honour; the Marquis of Ormonde, Lord in
Waiting; and Sir Frederick Stovin, Groom in Waiting.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and Lady Fanny
Howard, Lady in Waiting, dined with her Majesty and
Prince Albert yesterday evening, at Buckingham Palace.
A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock yesterday after-
noon, at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir Robert
Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke
of Buccleuch, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James
Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Had-
dington, Earl of Ripon, Mr. Gladstone, Sir Henry Hardinge,
and Sir Edward Knatchbull.

The Lord Chancellor arrived at the Foreign-office soon
after three o'clock, and joined his colleagues.
The Council sat two hours.

His Excellency M. Dedel, transacted business with Lord
Aberdeen yesterday at the Foreign-office. His Excellncy
Baron Brunnow also transacted business at the Foreign-
office yesterday. •
Earl Delawarr had an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence, in Down-
ing-s reet.

The Ecclesiastical Commission for England had a meeting
yesterday afternoon, at the office, in Whitehall-place. The
Commissioners present were the Archbishop of Canterbury,
the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Bangor, the Bishop of
Chester, the Bishop of Hereford, the Bishop of Lichfield, the
Bishop of P( terborough, the Bishop of Rochester, the Earl
of Besborough, the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse, the Right
Hon. Sir George Grey, and the Dean of Westminster.

A deputation of the Anti-Slavery Society, consisting of
Joseph Sturge, Stafford Allen, Joseph Cooper, J. H. Hinton,
and Henry Sterry, had an interview with the Right Hon. W.
E. Gladstone yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, and Mr. Higham,
Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commissioners for
the Reduction of the National Debt, had interviews with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday.
Sir E. Knatchbull arrived in town on Monday.

NEWS FROM PORTUGAL.
SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 19.—The Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamer Lady Mary Wood, Capt. Cooper, arrived
this morning at half-past nine o'clock, from Gibraltar, &c.,
bringing the following mails :—Gibraltar, Cadiz, Lisbon,
Oporto, and Vigo.
Her dates of departure are as follow :—From Gibraltar,
March 9th, Cadiz 10th, Lisbon 13th, Oporto 14th, Vigo 14th.
Ships of War lying at Gibraltar—The Locust steamer;
at Cadiz—the Cigne (French) and Volage brigs; at Lisbon
—her Majesty's ship Albion, French steam-frigate Gomare,
and one brig.
Passed the Lord of the Isles schooner, of Scilly, steenng for
Lisbon, 13th inst., six miles south of the Rock of Lisbon ; and
the brig Beeswing, near Oporto, 14th inst.
Suecie on board-12 packages.
The Lady Mary Wood narrowly escaped destruction on
Monday night. A large vessel, supposed to be an East India-
man under full sail, without lights, bearing down upon her.
Captain Cooper, who happened to be on the paddle-box, imme-
diately gave orders to turn the ship astern, which
order was with alacrity obeyed. Had not this been the case,
no doubt the vessel and every soul on board would have pe
rished, as it was blowing a gale at the time. It appears that
no look-out whatever was kept on board the vessel, while the
Lady Mary was steaming easy, and had her proper look out.
LISBON, MARCH la.
On the Sth instant a telegraphic communication to the
following effect was received by the Government, from the
Civil Governor of Coimbra, the seat of the University, viz.:--.
At. half-past three this morning a part of the students
broke out into open insurrection. The detachment of the
14th Infantry, and the police-cavalry, assembled, and, at six
o'clock, A.M., after some firing, the rebels fled in different
directions. In the course of the forenoon this telegraph was
attacked by the rebels, who, after obtaining possession of
the arms, went away, leaving the glassei And the dictionaries,
and all the papers.
This news was confirmed by the post of the 10th,
which brought a dispatch from the Civil Governor of
that city, giving the details of the affray, and stating
that two soldiers and three students had been severely
ounded in it. Since then it has been reported that the-
students have re-entered the city and overpowered the ,
troops, after a short conflict, in which same lives were lost.
This, however, wants confirmation.—Herald.