The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-15 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1844.

Irt the Rouse of Lords, the Marquis of CLAN-
RICARVE gave notice of a motion for Friday, on the
present state of the poor-law in Ireland.
The Marquis of _NORMANDY moved for certain
papers relative to the Irish constabulary force. His
object was to expose that revolting and odious system
commonly called the spy system, and which, he
feared, existed now to a greater extent in Ireland
than it had done for many years. The Noble Mar-
quis adduced numerous instances in which the police
.had acted the part of spies. He then entered at
imi'me length into the case of Mr. GREY, who held a
a sVuation in the police, and who had been dismissed,
shorty after the accession of the present Govern-
ment, for no reason, that he could see, but for fol-
lowing the advice of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL and
Mr. BRIMSTER.

Lord WfianxcurrE defended the official authori-
ties in Ireland, and said, if the Noble Marquis per-
se‘vered in his motion, the papers would be produced.
Alter some remarks from the Marquis of CLAN..
nicA EDE, the Earl of WICKLOW, and the Earl of
worealLsEA, the motion was agreed to.
Thc, Earl of MINTO moved for a return of the
services of her MAJESTY'S ship Queen, built on a
and lately sent out to Malta, which
new print
he contends h.d not had a fair trial.
The Earl (.'f jEADDINoIaS opposed the motion, on
the ground that the object, .f the Noble Earl was to
throw blame on
the _Admiralty, without adducing
sufficient reasons.
After some routine busines.i, the House adjourned
being a dies non in the
till Friday ; Wednesday
Lords, and the following day the Ascension.
the
In ttlie Commons, a new writ was moved forj
Kilmarnock district of burghs, in room of Mr. On,
STONE, dec eased.
Mr. CHRI "STIE postponed for a fortnight his motion
relative to the .universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
In answer to,;a question from an Hon. Member, Sir
It. REEL said it ,was not likely that the Irish Regis-
tration Bill w Dula: come on before the Whitsuntide
holidays.
Mr. S. CEA\ WYORD moved for leave to bring in a
Bill to extend t he Parliamentary suffrage, and to se-
cure the free r epresentation of the people.
Dr. BOWEIN 'G seconded the motion, and, on a divi-
sion, it was rej acted by a majority of 66.
Mr. WATSON 4 moved for a Select Committee to

inquire into the orders for compensation made by the
LORD CHANCELLOR to the persons filling the offices of
clerks of enrolments, riding clerks, six clerks, and many
other clerks in Chancery, under an Act passed last
session. He pointed out the large sums received by
these parties for doing nothing, amounting, annually,
to 78,0001., and mostly paid by the unfortunate
suitors in Chancery. He contended that fees of this
kind should be paid by the public at large, and not
by the suitors.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL admitted that many of
the statements made by Mr. WATSON were correct,
and would not uphold the system as perfect ; but still
the LORD CHANCELLOR was not to blame. If any
party were to blame, it was the Legislature who had
passed the Bill ; but he was not aware that any party
was to blame. The Bill had not passed through
Parliament, sub silentio ; it had been discussed by
Mr. WARD, Mr. C. BULLER, and also by Mr. HumE,
who stated that it was correct in its principles and
details. He could not see any benefit to be derived
by the appointment of a Select Committee, and he
must, therefore, oppose the motion.
After some discussion, in which Sir J. GRAHAM
took part, the House divided, when the motion was
rejected by a majority of 16.
Sir D. NORREYS moved the appointment of a
Select Committee on the Poor Relief (Ireland) Acts,
on which Sir J. GRAHAM moved that the order be
discharged, which was agreed to by a majority of 32.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed
of, and the House adjourned at One o'clock.

However violent and unconstitutional the proceed-
ings of the COSTA CABRAL Ministry in Portugal have
lately become, we cannot refrain from expressing our
gratification at the evidences which we perceive of an
ameliorated tone and feeling in the mass of the Por-
tuguese population. The domiciliary visits, the vexa-
tious arrests, the seizures of private papers, the vio-
lation of letters by the authorised but most abject
agents of a most contemptible Government,
the suppression of all liberty of the press,
the arbitrary confiscations of property, the
treacherous kidnapping of individuals obnoxious to the
miserable faction in power, and especially of the pro-
prietors and editors of journals that have signaligod
their opposition to the tyrannical follies of the Court ;
these are, undoubtedly, deplorable excesses. They
bespeak the establishment in the capital of the Por-
tuguese Monarchy of a system of terror and brute
force that must presently bring on a reaction terrible
to the very institutions for the security of which
these excesses have been, professedly, resorted to.
The stability of the throne which they have been
perpetrated in order to strengthen, will be shaken by
that reaction, to its very foundations. The attachment of
the Portuguese people to that Sovereign in whose behalf
they have been invoked and vindicated, will he weakened
and even annihilated by them. Yet all these viola-
tions of the Constitutional Charter of the kingdom,
these outrages on public opinion, these insults and
njuries upon a devoted and sensitive people, have
been resented hitherto with varying success, but with
a sparing of human blood most honourable to the na-
tion at large. This abstinence bespeaks a great ad-
vance in social and civil virtue in a people who have
been too lightly ranked among the most vindictive
of Europe. They had innumerable wrongs to com-
plain of at the hands of those in authority over them,
from the Regency of Dom MIGUEL, in 1828, his
speedy violation of the Charter of Dom PEDRO (of
1826), and his subsequent acts of political treachery
and personal baseness, to the abortive attempts
of the Duke of TERCEIRA and the Marshal SALDANHA
to restore the Charter in 1837, and all the more recent
troubles which have agitated the kingdom down to
this period. To pass over all the exciting events of
the " War of Liberation," from the sailing of Dom
PEnao's squadron from Belleisle in February, 1832,
and the taking of Oporto, its triumphant defence
against MIGUEL, and the capture of the Miguelite
fleet by our gallant NAPIER, to the death of Dom
PEDRO; we perceive in the history of these convul-
sions an honourable contrast of Portuguese abstinence
and forbearance, even in the season of success and vic-
tory, to the unbridled abandonment of Spain, within
the same interval of time, to the brutal intoxication of
that remorseless vengeance and insatiable appetite of
blood which have so disgraced her national annals at
all times, but never more so than within the last
twenty years.
If we recur to the history of that interval in both
countries, how immeasurably greater do we discern
the political, moral, and social guilt of Spain to have
been than the delinquencies of Portugal. In the
latter, the suppression of the Constitution by the late
Joao VI., in 1828, was followed by sanguinary dis-
turbances, no doubt; and the insurrection of the Mar-
quis of CnAvEs at Lisbon in 1826 ; and all the duplicity
and violence of the Miguelite faction, which, both before
and after the arrival of the British troops at Lisbon under
General CLINTON, in 1826-27, convulsed the whole
kingdom with factions and cabals, were not unpro-
ductive of sanguinary feuds. But the insurrection in
favour of Donna MARIA, of August, 1831, in which
300 lives were sacrificed, and the tumults of Lisbon in
1834, in which, perhaps, as many more were massacred,
are the only salient examples of popular movement
determining in wholesale slaughter, which we can
recal to mind, independent of the more frightful and
extensive, but " legitimate" (if we must so far com-
promise the rights of humanity to conventional
opinion) casualties of the civil war that ravaged Por-
tugal from the departure of the British troops in
1828, to the expatriation of Dom MIGUEL, by his em-
barkation at Evora for Genoa, in 1834. But let us
turn to Spain, and we must be horror-struck at the long
catalogue of crime and revolt, blood and treason, which

dates from the dissolution of the Cortes under the
faithless and execrable FERDINAND VII. in 1823.
Then, the scaffolds began to reek with the blood of
patriotic and devoted Spaniards, worthy of a nobler
fate. Then perished RIEGO ; and then commenced
that struggle for the succession of CARLOS, and the
disinheritance and dispossession of the QUEEN, which
resulted in one of the most bloody and perfidious
struggles recorded in history ; a struggle which
leagued father against son, brother against brother,-
which violated the ties of kindred, the sacredness of
hospitality, the sanctuaries of religion, the obligations
of oaths, the pledges of private honour. That civil
war was a calamity which Portugal had equally to
encounter with Spain ; but in Portugal it was never
disgraced by that studied and demonlike aggravation
of its horrors which rendered Spain and Spaniards
the reproach of civilisation and the disgrace of Chris-
tendom. On either side were ranged master fiends
who offered up, on every possible occasion, whole
hecatombs of human victims in cold-blooded, wanton
sacrifice. Their's were the laurels, plucked like fire-
brands, from burning villages, and desecrated churches.
Prisoners led out to be murdered by sections, or set
apart and maintained for awhile, in revelry and en-
joyment, only to be murdered afterwards, with more
impressive effect (like the Mexican victims of
the old Aztec sacrificial priests), amused

the moody ferocity of ZUMALACARREGUE. The
yet more infamous and atrocious MINA, having
information that a whole detachment of Carlists, who

had escaped from the field wherein he had defeated
their comrades, had taken refuge in a particular quar-
ter of a town to which he had pursued them, de-
manded of their relatives that they should surrender
to him these unhappy refugees within a given time.
This infamy being declined, he actually set fire to the
quarter, and the poor fellows were consumed in those
lofty and ancient houses, in the highest chambers of
which, wounded and famishing as they were, they
had vainly barricaded themselves. Their fate of
being burned to death they had not antici-
pated. The cowardly butcheries of MAROTo,
the bloody retaliations of CABRERA, have within
these few months, aye weeks, been rivalled,
by r
NAR vmak
REEZ
a, R ODIL, and that contemp-
tible ruffian DE
who " managed" the last
butchery exercised on the prisoners taken at Gerona.
In short, in Madrid alone, more blood has been
shed in the course of one emeute, than has been
poured out, in a whole campaign, in Portugal. In
the latter country, contending parties, after the ter-
mination of their conflicts, have sat down in peace
and good-will, returning into the ranks and occupa-
tions of private life, or abandoning, with hat
w __ grace
they might, the honours and emoluments of public
service, of which the successful side has deprived
them. In Spain, the sole alternative in the most sacred
or the most sordid struggle—under circumstances
of the greatest or the least justification of the cause
embarked in—appears to be, complete success or im-
molation ;—on the one hand a savage and sanguinary
triumph; on the other, ignominious death. Contrast,

in short, the infamous avowal comprised in the re-
port of DE MEER to the Spanish Ministar at War,
announcing the execution of the Gerona prisoners
of war, with the conduct of the Portuguese authori-
ties in allowing the insurgent officers and garrison of
Almeida to retire into Spain (the one appears in The
Sun of the 4th, the other in The Sun of the Bth
instant); and the more manly and civilised bearing of
the Portuguese, as comparel with that of the Spa-
niards, must be at once admitted, to the great honour
of the former.

Two cases were heard at the Middlesex Sessions
yesterday, which exhibit the justice and humanity of
the Guardians of the Hackney and Lambeth Union
workhouses in no very enviable light. The first
case was that of ALFRED MATHEW, who pleaded
guilty to having stolen two pounds weight of pork ;
and when called on for his defence, alleged that dis-
tress had driven him to the commission of the act,
that he had not a bed to lie on, and that on applying
to his parish of Hackney for relief, he had received a
ticket admitting him to the stone-yard to break
stones, together with some bread, and had been
told that he was never to apply for further re-
lief. The prisoner added—and his statement
was not disproved—that he had formerly been en-
gaged in an extensive way of business, and had
maintained his wife and three children in comfort and
respectability ; but latterly misfortune after misfor-
tune had fallen on him, and "in a fit of desperation,
created by the fact that his wife and children had been
deprived of anything to eat for more than a day and
a half, he committed the theft of which he had been ac-
cused." A policeman who had visited the poor man's
abode, said that " there was not anything left in the
room, and the family slept on the bare jpards.
The prisoner had been obliged to part not
only with his bed, but with nearly the
whole of his children's clothes as well as
his own. In fact, they were all in a state of the
greatest distress." The magistrate, after commenting,
in just and forcible terms, on the want of " mercy
and consideration" evinced by the Hackney Board of
Guardians, sentenced the poor fellow to a week's
imprisonment, with hard labour. The second case
was that of Jo.s: rlnnnurru, an nirl man, duty_ nn
years of age, who was found guilty of having stolen
a putty-knife, of the value of one shilling, and or-
dered to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in
the House of Correction for one month. It
appeared, from his own statement—which, as' in
the preceding case, was not contradicted—that,
being unable to obtain a livelihood, he had gone into
the Lambeth workhouse, and, after being there some
time, was told by the Board of Guardians, in common
with several other paupers, that they had been there
long enough, and must therefore go out and work.
He had, upon this intimation—we quote his own
words—" said that he was very willing to work
for his living, but he thought that an old man
like himself had not much chance of obtaining an
engagement. He had in former days kept a house
in Lambeth, and had paid rent and taxes until mis-
fortuneshad compelled him to give up his establishment.
When he left the workhouse, he received one shilling
to carry him on his way, and, after wandering over a
considerable portion of Surrey and Middlesex, in the
vain hope of obtaining employment as a house painter
—during which journeyings he had frequently gone
forty-eight hours without a morsel of bread to eat—
he reached the neighbourhood of Hanwell, where
some persons, taking compassion on his exhausted
state, gave him somethiug to drink ; it was not much,
but took an immediate effect on him, in consequence
of long fasting, so that, when he arrived at
the prosecutor's house, the cravings of hunger,
coupled with what he had drunk, drove him
to the commission of the theft." Now it will
be observed that in both these cases, the prisoners
were the victims of misfortunes, to which all classes,
the highest as well as the lowest, are liable ; there
was no proof that either had ever been guilty of rash-
ness, negligence, or 'extravagance ; they were simply
unfortunate, and being so, no one can deny that they
were legitimate subjects for the kindly consideration
of the Boards of Guardians of their respective
parishes. In fact, the new poor-law—if we
are to place any reliance on the philan-
thropic asseverations of its originators—was ex-
pressly intended to meet such cases as those
which we have just been detailing, and to deal with
them in .a lenient, charitable, and forbearing spirit.
It is a law whose avowed object is to protect and
cherish the pauper, made so, not by his own fault,
but the iron pressure of circumstances; while it repu-
diates the claims of the idle, the dissolute, and the
extravagant. And how has this object been followed
up in the two instances before us ? Has it been
carried out in a proper spirit ? Far otherwise.
It has been wholly lost sight of, and ALFRED
MATHEW and Joux GOODWIN have both been treated 1
as if they were unworthy to receive workhouse pro-
tection, as if, in fact, they were no better than lazy,
incorrigible scamps, whose legitimate• destination is
the treadmill. Even the years and grey hairs
of the latter produce no effect on the in-
exorable Board of Guardians ; he is turned out of the
work-house with as little ceremony as if he were a
dog; and the natural consequence is that, driven to
desperation by his circumstances, he, as well as
ALFRED MATHEW, have recourse to theft. We do
not defend their act; but this we will say, that they
are much more to be pitied than blamed; and that
the prime offenders have been the Hackney and
Lambeth Union authorities, whose brutal inhumanity
drove the prisoners to that state of reckless despera-
tion which induced the commission of theft. A
month's imprisonment with hard labour, or the disci-
pline of the treadmill for a week or two, would do a
prodigious deal:of good to some of these heartless,
upstart Boards of Guardians, by quickening their
discretion and discrimination, if not their sense of
humanity.

The accounts from Spain, which are to the 7th
inst., hold out little prospect of peace or security for
Spain. The new Cabinet leave the public in
ignorance as to their plans of governmetit, but these
may be guessed from the feelers put forth by their
organs. The Heraldo, for instance, says that the
principle of the NARVAEZ Ministry is legality, while
the only principle of action is military despotism.
After this statement about " legality," it then pro-
ceeds to state what course the Cabinet probably will
pursue, which is simply this—to call the Cortes to-
gether, to register the unconstitutional acts committed
by the BRAVO Ministry, and also to sanction a
system of organic laws such as NARYAEZ and
his party may consider necessary. If the
Cortes obey these modest commands, they are
afterwards to be dispensed with, all their work ofla w-
making being accomplished. If they refuse, they
will be abrogated at once, so that either way their
fate is sealed. Of this there can be little or no
doubt, judging from articles in the Ministerial papers,
both French and Spanish, as well as from the line of
policy pursued by the various Cabinets since the
downfal of ESPARTERO. In the meantime the Funds
continue to fall, there is no money in the treasury,
and the country is bankrupt.

On the 7th the Three per Cents. had fallen to 28i
foreash, 291 at sixty days ; and the Fives at 20 9-16
for cash, and 211 at sixty days.

Some of the Paris papers, for want, probably, of
domestic subjects of more importance, have lately
been discussing the affairs of their neighbours. The
Journal des Debals has an article of four columns, on
the recal of Lord ELLENBOROUGH, and the appoint-
ment of his successor, which is not without in-
terest, as it shows the view taken by foreigners of
the management of affairs in the vast British Em-
pire in the East. The Globe, another Ministerial
paper, has an article on the Spanish Ministry, of
rather an ominous character. M. GUIZOT, of course
knows what is the intended policy of the new
Cabinet, and that journal, which is said to be almost
exclusively under his influence, intimates, in rather
plain language, that there has been such a rapid suc-
cession of new Cabinets, and affairs have succeeded so
ill under a Constitutional Government, that her Allies,
including France among the rest, may begin to think
that such a system is totally inapplicable in Spain. Tfie
history of the seven last Cabinets, which had
all been formed within the last year, is curious.
" At the moment," says that journal, " when a
new Cabinet
mayine
thas assumed the direction of affairs in
new Cabinet has assumed the direction of affairs in
Spa
dthuerivnVo one
y
s Ceaabri,nien that unhappytswhiehhave country.sucoeeded each
TThey aree other,
seven in number, without including the Provisional

Government installed at Barcelona under the Presi-
dency of General SERRANO. The first was the RODIL
Cabinet, which was overturned on the 9th of May,
1843, and replaced by that cf M. LOPEZ, which lasted
only ten days. Next came the Cabinet of GOMEZ
BUENA, which lasted sixty-fi"e days. This was suc-
ceeded by the reconstitution of the LOPEZ Cabinet,
which lasted four months. The fifth Cabinet was
that of M. OLOZAGA, which kited, like that of RODIL,
only ten days, and was replaced by that of GONZALEZ
BRAVO, which had fifty-foar days' existence. We
have now the seventh Cabinet, viz., that of General
NARYAEZ. How long will this last ? Let us hope
that Spain will at length 2omprehend that, of all
countries, she has the greatest need of stability.
Changes of Ministry, when too frequent, usually
lead to anarchy in public afairs, but in Spain they
present another danger ; they may cause her allies to
think that the constitutional principle, so vigorous
with them, is totally inapplicable to the Spanish
nation."

The following is an extract from the article in the
other Ministerial journal, on the appointment of Sir
HENRY HARDINGE, and the character of his pre-

decessor :

" The new Governor-General is held in high considera-
tion by all parties. He has been well characterised as the most
proper man for carrying into execution the plans of others,
perfectly comprehending what he undertakes, and under-
taking nothing but what he comprehends. This choice
also indicates the policy which the English Government
wishes to be adopted in India. It indicates an attempt at
re-action against the system of invasion and aggrandisement
by which Lord Ellenborough, like all his predecessors, suf-
fered himself to be carried away. Sir Henry Hardinge is
a perfect contrast to Lord Ellenborough. He is prudent,
reserved, and wise, as most men are who have long been
engaged in service. His military career was chiefly under
the orders of the Duke of Wellington, who has been the
least adventurous general of the age. He, therefore, will
never commence a war without absolute necessity, nor,
consequently, engage the Government of India, and with
it the mother country, in useless enterprises. It must
at the same time be allowed, that Lord Ellenborough
had his good qualities as well as his defects. In England he has
been frequently the subject of personal ridicule, but no
one could deny his having great capacity. Smiles were often
raised against certain peculiarities of his toilet. His head of
hair, for example, is quite a Parliamentary notoriety. With
all this, however, no one has denied him remarkable intelli-
gence and great aptitude for business. Once in the East, in
a sphere to a certain degree independent, he found his
arms at freedom, and gave the rein to those wild imagina-
tions which he was abliged to curb in the circumscribed
£rol of +h. House of Lords 11. .hown minsor
capricious, fantastical, prodigal, but has always been
fortunate; and, if he has net on all occasions had justice
on his side, he has met with success, which the
English value as highly in the East, and sometimes in
the West. His imagination has given him boldness, and
his boldness has brought with it promptitude of action,
and determined resolution. During his administration, ten
pitched battles have been fought, and, in the two years, the
Anglo-Indian empire, already so vast, has been enlarged by
the addition of entire provinces. It was evidently this dan-
gerous political aggrandisement that alarmed the Company;
and, in order to keep this within bounds, it has sent to Cal-
cutta a man of cooler temperament and less vivid imagina-
tion. But events may disappoint the calculations of men,
and Sir H. Hardinge may be compelled to follow the current,
as, in spite of themselves, all his predecessors have been."
There are fresh rumours in some of these papers
of serious disturbances in Calabria, as well as in
Sicily, but from all accounts they are greatly ex-
aggerated. The French Funds continued firm. On
Monday the Three per Cents. closed at 84f. 40c.;
the Fives at 122 f. 35c.
THE BOURSE—MONDAY, MAY 13.
_

First Highest Lowest Last

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents.... • 122 50 .. 122 50 .. 122 10 .. 122 10
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents B4 45 • • 84 45 • • 84 30 • • 84 30
Bank of France... ....... 3117 50 ..3120 • 3107 50 ..3120
Laffitte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesll67 50 ..1167 50 • • 1167 50 .• 1167 50
Belgian Bank. .....
680 .. 680 • • 680 .. GBO
1841....
Spanish Active
Threes ............36 .. 361 • • 36 • • 361
Passive 6l .. 61 • • 64 .. 61
Old Deferred ...... 71 • • 71 • • 'a • • 7}
Portuguese Five per Cents •• 47 • • 47 • • 47 • • 47
Neapolitan lO2 25 .. 102 25 .• 102 25 .. 102 25
Roman, ex div......,.• .... 1041 .• 1041 .. 1041 • • 1041

RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, R. 8... .... .. .. .. 377 50 .. 377 50 .. 375

•• 377 50

L. 8.. ..... 247 50 247 50 .. 242 50 .. 246 25
Rouen •••••••••••••••••• •• 977 50 .. 977 50 .. 977 50 .. 977 50
Rouen to Havre 738 75 .. 740 .. 737 50 .. 740
Orleans ........ .. 985 •• 986 25 • • 983 75 .• 985
Strasburg to Bale .... •• • 273 75 .. 275 .. 272 50 • • 272 50
Avignon to Marseilles... 765 • • 765 765 • • 765
RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
Varailles,R.B

• • 375

- - - -.-
L. 8............. 247 50 .. 247 50 242 50 .• 246 25
Rouen 978 75 .. 978 75 .. 977 50 . 977 50
Rouen to . 740 .. 740 .. 737 50 .. 737 50
Orleans •. • ..... ........ 982 50 .. 987 50 • • 983 75 .. 985
Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 275 .. 275 .. 272 50 .• 272 50
Avignon to Marseilles-- 765 • • 765 . 765 .. 765

THIS DAY'S NEWS

AMERICAN NEWS.

(EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL.)
ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIA.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
We have received by the steamer Acadia, which left
New York on the Ist, papers of the 30th of April, being
thirteen days later than by the lastpacket. The Tariff Bill
and the Annexation of Texas, formed the principal topics
of discussion both at Washington and New York. In the
Senate, on the 24th, remonstrances against annexing Texas
and amending the tariff were presented and referred, with
a protest from the Legislature of Rhode Island, against
the right of either House of Congress to interfere in the
domestic concerns of that State. The subjoined letter
from a correspondent of the New York Sun, dated
Washington, April 28, gives the latest intelligence from
Congress:—
The House adjourned yesterday without definite action on
the Tariff Bill. Mr. Van Buren's letter on annexation has
appeared, and has received the approbation of Southern men
generally, while Mr. Clay's letter is denounced by Southern
Whigs. Mr. Van Buren is in favour of annexing Texas,
whenever the Mexican claim is extinguished or relinquished.
So is everybody, and I am utterly astounded at the position
assumed by Mr. Clay.
The Virginia election returns give the State to the Demo-
crats by a fair majority. The Whigs have gained five and
lost two members of the State Legislative Delegation. The
union of the Whigs and their old friends, the Tyler men, ap-
pears to have given two Whig Congress men—Goggin and
Carter—in Tyler districts. Goggin is no doubt returned in
Gilmer's district and Carter in Wise's.

It seems to be settled, says another paper, that there
of
Representatives in favour
of adjourning onthe May. If nothing is to be
i s
donea majorityNvithth e itnar theift
; house
tt7h of
etre
a p
pears to be little remain-

ing to be finished. The Post-office Bill, first in im-
portance, is to be passed—appropriations for the ex-
penses of Government, and several minor points, remain
to be adjusted, and we can then see no reason why Con-
gress should not adjourn at an early day, unless indeed
events growing out of annexation should require a
longer session.
Another fight has taken place in the House of Repre-
sentatives, which is thus described in the New York
Sun

DISGRACEFUL SCENE
TARIFF, IN
.THE HOUSE—
&n.
WASRDIGTON, APRIL 23.
A most disgraceful scene took place on the floor of the
House of Representatives to-day. It grew out of a discus-
sion on the Tariff Bill, in Committee of the whole, and
was the only business done. Mr. Wright of Indiana
had the floor first this morning, and defended the Bill.
Mr. White (Whig), of Kentucky, replied to him, and went
on to denounce the charge that Henry Clay had sold him-
self to J. Q. Adams, &c. After Mr. White had consumed
his hour, Mr. Kennedy, of Indiana, remarked that the
charges were all true. Mr. White rejoined that he had
refuted them as far as his time permitted. Mr. Rath-
bun (Dem.) of N. Y , said the charges were trae, and would
be proved. White, being thus contradicted, made a pass at
Rathbun, and both clinched. The younger members all
rushed to the conflict, and separated the combatants.
While this conflict was raging inside the bar, one William
S. Moore, a cripple, who has been here for several weeks
to obtain a claim from Government, attempted to intrude
within the House, was prevented, and discharged a
pistol at Mr. M'Causlin, of Ohio, a Member. The
ball missed the mark of the would-be assassin,
and wounded an officer of the Capitol. Moore was
taken into custody. The whole affair was referred to
a Committee of five for investigation, with instructions to
report a Bill for the punishment of offences committed
within the House. At the solicitation of friends, Mr.
Rathbun and Mr. White shook hands, amid the ap-
plause of the House. Thus that affair ended. Moore
was !stained in custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms of
the House. The officer is not mortally wounded. The ball
entered the thigh. His name is John L. Whirt.
The Senate referred the Annexation Treaty to the Foreign
Committee, and then read the Western Harbour Bill twice.

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A Bill for the reduction of postage had been read a
third time in the Senate, by a large majority, and there
was no doubt that it would become law. American
stock had been considerably depressed by the proposed
annexation of Texas, but at the departure of the mail
a favourable turn had taken place.

COMMERCIAL NEWS.
NEW YORK, APRIL 29.
A large amount of business was transacted. in Stocks this
morning at a (considerable advance on Saturday's rates.
Pennsylvania Fives improved 24 per cent., United States
4, Ohio Sixes 14, Kentucky Sixes 1, Illinois Bonds 1/, In-
diana 14, Norwich and Worcester Railroad 4, Harlem Rail-
road 34, Canton Co. 4, Farmers' Loan 4, Long Island Rail-
road 14, Stonington Railroad 3, Paterson Railroad 14, and
Mohawk Railroad 4 per cent.
At the Public Stock Exchange, Ohio Sixes advanced 14 ;
Long Island Railroad, 24 ; Canton Company, I ; Norwich
and Worcester Railroad, 3 ; Harlem Railroad, 3 ; and Mo-
hawk Railroad, 54 per cent.
Exchange on New Orleans and Mobile has fallen—other
descriptions remain steady.
Foreign Exchange was in demand to-day for the packets
of the first proximo.
London is at lOB4 to 1084
Paris 5.274
Amsterdam ....... ..... 394 to 39
Hamburgh
Bremen
8 to 79
TONAWANDA RAILROAD.—The business upon 74 thisroad is
now rapidly increasing—last year the receipts of the road
during the months of January, February, March, and April,
were 5,400 70-100 dolls. This year from the same time, with
only part of the month of April, amount to 15,338 55-100
dolls. N. G. Ogden, Esq., cashier of the Phenix Bank, has

received the appointment of Transfer officer for the stock of
the road.

The Cotton Market is steady at Saturday's rates, with a
fair demand—the sales this morning reach 1,500 a 2,000 bales.
Flour is taken freely at 4,94 dollars for Genesee and 4,874
and 4,94 dolls. for Ohio and Michigan, receivers now generally
demand 5 dollars ; Georgetown is held at 5 dollars ; Common
Southern kinds 4,874 dollars.
2,200 bushels North River Corn sold at 51 cents weight, in
the slip. 1,000 bushels Rye 684 cents ; 1,000 bushels Barley
from store at 62 cents ; 3,000 bushels North River Oats
324 cents, and 3,000 bushels Canal Oats 33 cents.
Pot Ashes are active. 200 bbls. were taken this morning
at 4,50 dolls., and 150 ditto at 4,434 dolls. Pearls are in-
active at 4,94 dolls. or 5 dolls per 100 lbs.
PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 29.

A very large amount of business transpired at the
Stock Exchange to-day, and at decidedly improved rates ;
rising 100,000 dolls. 'Pennsylvania s's changed hands at
an advance of 4,4 i, 41, and 5 per cent. ' • 26,000 dolls.
sold at 72 ; 62,000 dolls. do. at 72A ; 200 shares Wilming-
ton R.R. at 17A ; 129 shares U.S. Bank at 4-A ; 600 do. at 5 ;
15 shares Kentucky Bank at 75 ; 100 Girard at 7A ; 650 dolls.
Pennsylvania Sixes at 75 ; 5,000 dolls. Reading R. bonds at
684 ; 4,000 dolls. Tennessee bonds at 84i ; 3,000 dolls. do. at
85 ; 5,000 dolls. Indiana bonds at 39.
At the second Board 9,000 dolls. Chesapeake and Dela-
ware Canal loan 49A to 50 ; 5,000 dolls. Pennsylvania
s's 72A ; 6,500 dolls, ditto 72* ; 5,000 dolls. ditto 724, s sds ;
10,000 dolls, ditto 72A ; 2,000 dolls. Reading Railroad
Bonds 68A ; 2,000 dolls. Illinois Bonds 42A ; 1,200 dolls.
Wilmington Railroad 6's, 1858, 79; 50 shares Girard
Bank 78 ; 50 Wilmington Railroad 18. U. S. Bank closed
at 5 to 5 ; Girard Bank 7i to 78 ; Wilmington R. 17A to
181 ; Reading R. bonds, 68A ; Pennsylvania s's at 73.
There is but little business doing along the wharves.
Light sales of flour, at 4 62A dolls. ; corn meal 2 50 dolls ;
rye flour, 3 25 dolls. ; sale of Pennsylvania wheat 107 dolls.
John Donnavan, a fugitive from justice from New York,
was this morning apprehended in this city, charged with
robbing Mr. Bannan of 150 dollars.
FoR THE CONVENTION.—A large number of persons, dele-
gates from the other States as well as many of our citizens,
left the city this morning in the cars for Baltimore.