The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-08 00:00:00

'TILE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6, 1844.

racter of the nation. There call bb no mistaking the
evidence which this manifestation supplies of John
Bull's inherent/detestation of trickery And fraud in the
working out of any end, however strongliy-its expediency
may be pressed upon his notice. This love of fair
play—this contempt for all recourse to artifice and
deception in the management of public business—i 3
only another type cf that probity and principle,
which, despite his occasional selfishness, and his con-
stitutional surliness is the salient point of his cha.
meter in all the connexions of private life. Let us
hope that it will long continue to be so. It is, in any
case, a noble and redeeming influence, which is
sure to infuse itself, more or less, into the policy
and business of his goverment at home, and
of his political associations with foreign States.
With regard to the transactions we have above
alluded to, we doubt not that the opinions of
the English public—although they may be some-
what modified by the " _Reports of the Select Com-
mittees on the Post-office," which the Houses of
Lords and Commons have severally appointed, will
continue to run in the same course of decided repro-
bation which they took from the first statement of
M. MAZZINI'S case.

We have perused both these " Reports," and not-
withstanding the dispassionate and calm tone in
which the Commons' Committee appear to justify
what has been done in this matter, on a reference
to the statute of Arm ; and the more eager
and decided verdict of " acquittal " with
which the Lords' Committees have absolved
Sir J. GRAHAM from the charges brought against
him; we venture to affirm that the finding of neither
of these tribunals is justified by the evidence taken
before it, or the conclusions it has founded on that
evidence. The report from the " Lords" is so meagre
and jejune, that we do not feel called upon to discuss
it at all. That from the Commons is a much more
carefully compiled document, and entitled to a much
higher degree of consideration. In justice to Sir
JAMES GRAHAM himself, we should premise the ob-
servations we are about to submit, by stating
that he was certainly justified in pleading,
in debate-1. That he had not exceeded
the powers vested in his office by specific statutes
in granting warrants for the opening of " suspected
letters in their passage through her MAJESTY'S Post-
office." 2. That be had done no snore than most of
his predecessors in office had done by issuing such
warrants. (We blush to state, that in the long list cf
Secretaries of State, Home and Foreign, who have
so granted them, from 1712 to 1844, we find ti e
names of the staunchest Whigs side by side with
those of the staunchest Tories—in 1756, indeed, we
have the Right Hon. H. Fox; but we have not "the"
WILLIAM PITT (afterwards Earl of CHATHAM), who
succeeded him in the same year. In 1782 we find
the Right Hon. C. J. Fox, consenting to the same
practices which seem so much more appropriate in
1812 to 1821 to Lord SIDMOUTH ; in 1822 to 1830
to Sir R. PEEL; in 1834 to the Duke of WELLING-
TON; and which we grieve to find equally sanctioned,
between 1835 and 1839, by Lord J. RUSSELL.) 3
The blame of using M. MAZZINeS correspondence, it
is indispensable to state, now appears to have rested
with the Earl of ADERDE.EI4—not with Sir JAMES
GRAHAM; the latter took out the hot chesnuts, and
" burnt his fingers," but the former " digested their
contents."

We have no room to-day to do more than direct at-
tention to the careful manner in which the Select
Committee of the house of Commons (whose " Re-
port " we print elsewhere at large) haire discharged
their task. They seem to have been animated by a
determination that, inasmuch as lawyers were
carefully excluded from their body, they
would do the best that in laymen lay
to supply the deficiency of members of the
long robe. They set out by inquiring "into the con-
dition of the posts in this country at various periods
of our history, and into the connexion that sub-
sisted between them and the supreme authorities of
the country"—inquiries in which they acknowledge
the assistance received from " Sir F. PALGRAVE, of
the Rolls-office; Messrs. LECHMERE and LEMAN, of
the State Paper-office ; and Mr. REEVE, of the
Council-office." At first sight this part of their re-
port may be thought to assume too antiquarian or
perhaps too technical a character ; but it leads to
important results. It establishes, as we shall show in
a future article, the absolute viciousness of anything
like a general warrant for the opening of several, or
an indefinite number of letters, such as we apprehend
Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S warrants will be found to have
been.

This historical resume has some omissions which
we think might have been supplied, if it was worth
while entering into such details at all. We do not
mean, of course, that it should have remounted to
the re- establishment, by CHARLEMAGNE, throughout
his vast dominions, of those " posts" which had been
so well organised by AuGusTus from one extremity
to the other of the Roman Empire, about 830 years
before. The report well distinguishes between two
relations of the office of posts, which our historians
are too apt to confound ; namely, that in which it
was governed and discharged under the immediate
authority of the Crown, for its own exclusive purposes,
and that in which the Crown delegated its duties
and responsibilities to some other competent autho-
rity, for the purposes and use of its subjects. "It
does not appear," say the Committee, "at what pre-
cise period the Crown undertook to be the regular
carrier of letters for its subjects. The Crown, doubt-
less, found it necessary at a very early period, to the
exercise of the functions of Sovereignty, to be able to
convey with speed and security its own dispatches
from one part of the realm to another, and from and
to parts beyond the seas ; and for that purpose it ap-
pointed certain messengers, or runners, called the
posts.' These posts were also employed for the
personal convenience of the SOVEREIGN, and the indi-
viduals composing the Royal Court. In course of
time, a Master of the Posts' was appointed, and the
first of these on record was BRIAN TURE, Knight
who held that office in 1516.' " We would here
venture to remark that the plan of letter "posts" may
be fairly said to have an earlier origin among us. In
1481, EDWARD IV. (in emulation probably of his
rival, Lotus XI., whose solicitude for early informa-
tion from Burgundy, and all parts of Europe, had in-
duced him, in 1470, according to HENAULT, to
establish " post houses" throughout France), instituted
a body of runners, or riders rather, on post-horses,
who went each of them, throughout the whole dis-
tance from London to Carlisle—(not then represented
by any " Sir JAMES GRAHAM")—in constant relays
stages, severally, of twenty miles, so as to keep the
KING and his Barons perpetually informed of what
was passing in Scotland and on the Border. We shall
return to the " Report" to-morrow.

We doubt whether a more important debate has
been raised in the House of Lords, since the com-
mencement of the session, than that which ensued
on Monday on the motion of the Earl of MiNTo for
the production of certain returns connected with the
present condition of her MAJESTY'S navy, and with
the amount of our naval force from September,
1842, to the latest period to which such accounts
could be made out, at Otaheite. The object of the
Noble Earl, in moving for the former of these classes,
of papers was to demonstrate the dangerous extent to
which the reduction of our efficient strength had been
carried in the peace establishment of this service,
settled by the present Government. The latter class
would have illustrated the weakness of the armament
which has at any time, since the departure of the
" Vindictive" from that station, represented the naval
strength of Great Britain, and upheld our national
dignity in the Society Islands. It is almost needless
to premise that both these motions were negatived.

But Lord MINTo is entitled to the best thanks of
the country for the powerful address which he de-
livered, and the important facts it had accumulated.
It was temperate and statesmanlike in its tone, to
the utmost verge of sustained abstinence from
inflammatory declamation, in dealing with topics
eminently calculated to provoke it. Whilst
he deprecated all unnecessary agitation of any hypo-
thesis which must assume a rupture of those friendly
relations at present subsisting between this country
and France, he soberly and gravely argued the duty
such a contingency fully in the face,
of looking
though it might be (as we believe it is) rather to be
viewed as a possible than a probable one. But for
our own parts, we see in our foreign intelligence of
every succeeding day, only additional reasons for
betaking ourselves calmly to the consideration
of the best means of consolidating, improv-
ing, and fortifying our own position and re-

sources in the event of such a calamity.
'We believe, as the Marquis of CLANRICARDE
happily phrased it, last night, " that we have
not sufficient naval force afloat to have the effect of
maintaining peace by presenting that ready front for
war, which on many occasions had prevented the
having recourse to war itself." And we cannot
understand that refinement of political delicacy
which should withold statesmen or journalists from
examining, with a prudent and anxious forecast,
the relations which the attitudes, offensive and defen-
sive, of this great country would present to certain
conditions of circumstances that we do not suggest
or invoke, but which are perpetually paraded before
our eyes, and suggested for our contemplation, by
the significant, not to say offensive, proceedings of
our neighbours and—allies. The enthusiastic re-
sponse to an anti-English appeal in an histo-
rical opera at Paris, on Friday last, we
are much disposed to think would have been as cor-
dially given in the Chamber of Deputies, in a barrack
on the Marquesas Islands, at head-quarters in any
part of Algeria, at the new " Government-house" in
Otaheite, or in the ward-room of any of the ships
forming part of the Prince Ds JoiNviuds expedi-
tion against the coast of Morocco. It seems to us
high time—especially after the overt acts of the French
authorities, to which we thus lightly allude—to
look about us. And in this feeling we rather
marvel—not at the assurance of the Prince DR
JOINVILLE, but at the facility of the British Go-
vernor of Gibraltar, in reference to the modest
request of the former, that the latter would not
allow any English fleet entering the Mediterranean,
to appear off Tangiers, whilst he, the Prince, is
attacking that town and fortress. In the
name of British seamanship, and British in-
dependence, why should not our fleet sail to any desti-
nation that its Commander-in-Chief may deem it pro
per to make for ? Have there been, of late years, any
such high principles of public honour—any such nice
regard for national rights—any such respect for the
usages and observances of civilised nations manifested
by officers in the French service, or by their Govern-
ment at home, that we should trust anything to their
generosity, their sense of justice, or their forbearance?
Have we forgotten the profligate falsehood
and duplicity—worthy of the worst days of the exe-
crable Directory—under which Algeria was " occu-
pied," and finally, in the teeth of their own solemn
promises and declarations, retained and annexed to
the French Crown ? Is it in their conduct towards
our Consul, Mr. PRITCHARD, or their chivalrous
bearing to the defenceless PoMARE, that we have
guarantees for the respect to the rights of nationality,
which they will show towards Europeans or other neu-
trals who may be established in public or private capa-
cities, at Tangiers? Or, in the petulance and arrogance
of the young commander—whose temerity in taking
away a Mexican pilot out of an English steamer, not
properly punished at the time, has intoxicated him
with a silly vanity ever since ; are we to hope for a
dignified vindication of an asserted insult upon his
own country, without trespassing on the rights and
authorities of others ? The statement of Lord MINTO
has astonished us. It would appear, for the Earl of
PADDINGTON did not attempt to deny his facts, that
we have but nine sail of the line in commission
—two of these in the East Indies, two in
the West, one about to sail for the Pacific (the flag-
ship of the Admiral commanding at Cork), two others
in our home ports, and one more, forming the whole
unit of our fleet in the Mediterranean Well might
the Noble Earl ask whether this, in reference to the
aspect of affairs on the coast of Morocco, or Algiers,
was a safe, a fitting, or even a respectable strength for
our Mediterranean fleet, especially seeing that, though
one other, a first-rate, was on the point of being sent
out to join it, it was impossible to provide reinforce-
ments for that station without taking our guard-ships,
and so leaving our coasts and harbours defenceless.
The " 'Queen," on her recent arrival fromtheMedi-

- ,
terranean, had been immediately paid off. He re-
minded the House that when the late Government
retired, we had a fleet of twenty-six sail-of-the-line,
seventeen of which were stationed in the Mediter-
ranean. This was a force on which retrench-
ment, if such was the object of the pre-
sent Board of Admiralty, might have been
largely practised, without dismantling and dis-
organising the entire fleet, and then commission-
ing a few other ships. "It was much more easy to
keep up a fleet when once formed, than suddenly to
raise up one, when required." Adverting to the
Otaheite case, Lord MINTo said the native Govern•
ment had been deposed by an usurpation not recog-
nised " by France, and certainly not by us, by the
Captain of a French ship, who deposed the QUEEN,
and seized the island in the name of France." But here
we beg the reader to observe, that Otaheite remains in
the possession of France : that whilst the disavowal of

thatofficer's act is feebly and jesuitically made by
M. GUIZOT, the Chambers—Baron Durex, of the
foremost among their members, especially—uphold
and applaud it ; and the Parisian public sanctions
and rewards it by the gift of a magnificent sword.
What we wish to know is—where is this principle
of territorial seizure and occupation on the part of
France to stop ? When are we, or other States,
to interpose effectually to restrain it ? Or
is it • to be left to a subordinate (secretly
instructed probably, beforehand) to take forcible
possession of whatever lands he can get in what-
ever hemisphere; to a French Cabinet to can-
vass the feelings of the Chambers on the proceeding
and the acquisition; and to a French Minister, in the
event of finding that favourable, to go through the
formalities of a disavowal on paper, unscrupulously
false in intention—a fraudulent correspondence with
our Government, based on its asserted concurrence
in our reprobation of the measure—and in due
time, after a change or two of Ministry,
a diplomatic note, announcing the fact of the territory
so purloined being, by an irrevocable decree of the
KING and the Chambers, annexed to France. By the

time our honest friends have established themselves in
some of the finest countries of the ancient Numidia,
the Earl of HADDINGTON, the Duke of WELLINGTON,
and even the Earl of ABERDEEN, who impounds sealed
correspondence in our Post-office, and the findings
of courts-martial on too vigilant and spirited officers
like Lieutenant GRAY, on the application of our
excellent Allies; will begin to have their suspicions,
we suppose, aroused. We have only room to direct
attention to this passage, towards the close of Lord
MINTO'e speech :

"Instead of the navy being in the condition in which it
was when we quitted office, the Government have left our
own shores completely defenceless, so that there was nothing
to prevent the French from sweeping the Mediterranean,
sweeping the Channel, and cutting off all our trade to the
West Indies. God forbid he should talk of such a state of
things as probable, but he talked of it as possible, at a time
when the state of affairs abroad forbade us to live in blind
security."
To this fearful remonstrance Lord HADDINGTON, in
effect, replied only by contrasting the amount of former
peace establishments of our navy with the present; as
if former periods of peace necessarily resembled the
present : and the Duke of WELLINGTON, by expres-
sing his conviction tliat "somebody" would be made
responsible, some day, by some French Government,
for that outrage on our Consul, which the Gallant
Duke facetiously called "an eccentricity."

Accounts from Madrid, dated the Ist inst., state
that the decree suspending the sales of national pro-
perty, and restoring the unsold property to the
clergy, subject to the approbation of the Cortes, was
daily expected to be published. According to a letter
from Cadiz of the 27th, nearly all the French inhabi-
tants had been allowed to leave Tangiers, and all the
foreign consuls had left, except the English; 200
persons of all nations had arrived at Gibraltar. The
British squadron was lying there on the 26th.
Senor HERRERA, formerly Minister of the Interior,
died at Madrid on the 29th ult.

Madrid Bourse on the 30th, Three per Cents.,
26i, at 60 days; Treasury Bonds, 54'1 at 60 days.

The French Chambers were prorogued on Monday
by a Royal ordonnance. On the assembling of the
Chamber of Deputies M. DE LA ROCHEJACQUELIN ad-
dressed the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and said he
trusted the Assembly would not separate without re-
plying to the insulting language used by the Prime
Minister of England in speaking of two naval officers
of France. The Government was in a delicate posi-
tion, but had it acted with more firmness Great Bri-
tain would not have dared to ask for reparation. M.
BILLAULT and M. BEERTEE made similar remarks,
when M. GUIZOT observed that the question at issue
should be left to the decision of the two Governments ;
that he would attend to it carefully, and that the
Chamber might rest convinced that be would do

everything in his power to uphold the honour and
rights of the French navy. The Royal ordonnance
was then read, and the Chamber separated with cries
of " Vive le Roi."

The opposition journals still comment with much
bitterness on the PRITCHARD affair, but they do not
advance one new argument or fact. The following
statement relative to the affairs of Morocco appears in
the Journal des Debats :
" We believe that the news received from Morocco leaves
scarcely any doubt that hostilities have been commenced.
Letters from Cadiz state that the French Consul at Tangiers
was obliged to use the utmost precautions in effecting his em-
barkation, and the authorities of Morocco have detained the
Chancellor of the Consulate and a great portion of the French
residents. It has been said that the first act of the war will
be the bombardment of Tangiers by the Prince de Joinville,
but this we think to be an error. Tangiers 'ought to be con-
sidered a European town, being the centre of Christian com-
merce, and its bombardment would inflict an immense injury
upon the resident foreigners, without doing any harm to, the
Emperor of Morocco. We are informed that the Prince de '
Joinville has instructions to attack the ports which are purely
national, such as blogadore, Mazagan, Salee, and Larache."
The Siecle says :
" The accounts from Morocco published by the Govern-
ment extend to the 23d ult., whilst a private correspondent
of a Spanish journal writes as follows from Gibraltar on the
25th—the facts, however, require confirmation All that
has been reported relative to a sanguinary action fought be-
tween the French and the Arabs is true. The French had
the advantage, but they lost among their killed a general
officer. Yesterday a vessel arrived from Oran, with pressing
dispatches for the Prince de Joinville. The commander of
the Danish fleet, who proceeded to Tangier, announced to
the Emperor that Denmark would no longer pay tribute. He
has since returned to Gibraltar with his fleet, where he is
waiting the result of the affair with the French. A report
prevails of a fresh and more sanguinary action having been
fought between the Moors and the French. It is moreover
stated, that whilst the Moors proclaim war against France,
they appear to wish to remain at peace with Spain.' "
The Constitutionnel justly observes :

" The affair of Morocco occupies much more attention in
London than that of Otaheite. If a rupture were to take place,
it is much less likely to be caused by the events which have
occurred in the South Seas, than by those which are prepar-
ing on the north-west of Africa."

The French Funds still remain depressed. On
Monday the Three per Cents. closed at 81f. 30c., and
the Fives at 120 f. 50c.

THE BOURSE-SATuRDA.Y, AUGUST 3.

First

Highest Lowest

Price. Piice. Price. Price.
French Five per Cutts l2O 15 .. 120 25 .. 120 15 120 20
Four-and-a-flair ll3 .. 113 .. 113 113
Four per Cents. a lO6 .. 106 .. 106 .. 106
Three per Cents... 81 20 .. 81 20 .. 81 10 .. 81 20
Laflitte Bank, 5,000 f. Sharesso7o ..5070 .. 5070 —5070

Bank of Franca • • 3075
Belgian Bank.. ..... 67S

..3080
.. 675

•• 3075
•. 675

-3080
.. 675

Belgian Fives, 1831.. ....... 1031 • • 1031 .. 1031 .. 1031
1840

1842 - .. 108_
Spanish Threes
Active .......
Portuguese Five per Cents 431 .. 43 .. 42f .. 43

Neapolitan :....... 98 50 .. 98 50 .. 98 50 .. 98 50
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES.
365 .. 365

.. 365

230
Rouen .• ••.•••.. • • • • • a •• • • 960

.. 234
.. 965

.. 365

Rouen to 11tv.e...... ..... . 740

•• 232 50 .. 230
.. 955 .. 965

.. 745

• 740

•. 742 50

Orleans .... ... . . .... - ..... 957 50 .. 961 25 .. 957 50 .. 961 25

Strasburg to .. 233 75 .. 235 75 .. 232 50 .• 232 50
Avignon to 730 .. 750 • 743 75 .• 750

RAILWAYSIiiiiii FOR THE ACCOUNT, 15Th OF AUGUST.
St. Germain
..... 870 .. 872 50 .. 870 .. 872 50
Venal R.B.
L.;
R0uen......
Rouen to Hrs. 740 745 • • 740 • • 745
Orleans 955 .. 963 75 • • 955 .. 963 75

Strasburg 8a1e•..•....•• 232 50 .. 233 75 .. 232 50 . 233. 75
Avignon to 3tat:e`l'es.....• 747 5O • • 750 ••• 745 .. 750

HONEY AND COMMERCIAL NE W S
CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

At the termination of business this afternoon Con-
sols were scarcely so good as yesterday, but seemed
firmer than in the morning. They were 99i to for
Money, and 99/- for Account. The Reduced Three-and-
a-Half per Cents. were 102 k to and the Three per
Cents. 994 to par. The Unfunded Debt, Bank Stock,
&c., continued the same.
The Foreign Bonds remained dull. Spanish Actives
at 24-1, and the Three per Cents. at 32a- to 33. Bra-
zilian were 84 to I; Belgian 1034; French Five per
Cents. 120, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
60-} to 61i.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been. these :—Birmingham and Gloucester, New, were
101 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarter, 31; Great
North of England, 11; Great Western, Half, 324 to 331;
Ditto, Fifths, 121 to 13; Birmingham, Thirds, 361 ?,-;
Brighton Loan Notes, 2; Greenwich Preference, 2 ;
South-Western, 45a; Ditto, Eighths, 3i -a; Manchester
and Leeds, 49; Manchester and Birmingham, 14; Mid-
land, 6 to :1; Northern and Eastern, 14; Ditto, Quarter,
tp; South Devon, to 1; South Eastern, 5a ; Ditto,
ew, 8 to -a-; Yarmouth and Norwich, 14; Paris and
Orleans, 171 i; and Paris and Rouen, 171- s premium.
Brighton hare been 2+ to 2 discount. Australasia Bank,
New Shares, were 9 premium; and British North Ame-
rican, 94 discount. _ _

. _.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The transactions in Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
moderate being 4,000 bales, but at steady rates. A fair bu-
siness was done in Railway Shares, but prices generally had
a downward tendency :—Birmingham and Gloucester, 114 ;
Bristol and Gloucester, 57 ' • Cheater and Holyhead, 5/. I ls.
3d. ; Eastern Counties, 124 ; Do., Perpetual (5 per cent.), 21. I4s.
4d. ' • Liverpool and Manchester, New, 35 prem. -, London
and Birmingham, 230; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 274; Lon-
don and Brighton, 494 ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 112 ;
Midland Counties, 110; North Union, 134 ex-dividend;
Sheffield and. Manchester, 824; South-Eastern, 39*; Ditto,
New, 124; Trent Valley, 94; Paris and Lyons, V. I Is. Gd. ;
Ditto and Orleans, 384; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 2 1-10.
Accounts of April 7th from Van Diemen's Land report no
new feature in mercantile affairs, but the colony was evi-
dently not going back, or we should have heard fresh com-
plaints. The Bushrangers continued to be troublesome.
There are no other arrivals to-day.
The English Stocks have been rather less buoyant to-day;
the n x i
ea
tc;o.
untsfr°m Paris are still looked at with some
Consols for immediate transfer have ruled at
a
994 to 99, and for the Account at 99a to 99. Ex-
chequer Bills have been 775. to 755. premium; and East
India Bands 945. premium ; Bank Stock has been firm at
200 to 200/-. The New 'Fbree•and-a-Half per Cents. have
obtained 1611 to i ; the Reduced 102 a to 1; and the Three
per Cents. 934 to 1004 ; Long Annnities are 12 9-16 to 7-16.
The transactions in the Foreign Stocks have not been nu-
merous to-day, and prices are rather flat. Mexican have
and the Deferred to 154 4. Colombian
are aSL4; Brazilian 834. Portuguese Old Stock has
; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are
recededl3i; 3 to
The Railway Shares have been again rather in favour of
parties making investments, but there is no general disposi•
tion to sell.
61 to m
i a
; rkaendd Russian 120,
PirANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 6,—We have had
a rather quieter market, without any particular change in
prices. Barnsley Junction, 34 ; Eastern Counties, 124 ;
Ditto Perpetual, 2/. 135.; Manchester, Bury. and Rossen-
dale, 54 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 544 ; Ditto Quarters,
511; Sheffield and Manchester, 83 ; Trent Valley, 10.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bask Stock 2OO i Indian Stock --.
3 per Cent. Red lOO !Ditto Bonds 94 pm.
3 per Cent. Cons.
1)6 per Cent. Red 102% Ditto New Annuities ...
New 334 per Cent lOl% Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 13(d ... 75 pm.
New 5 per Cent. — I Ditto 5001.
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 77 pm.
Jan 1860............... 12 7.16 IBank Stock for Acct —
Oct. 1859. .......... .... 12%
'Consols for Act...„ 99%
Jan. 1860 ..... .... ..... 12% 'lndia Stock for Acct —
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per Cent .........
._ ;Portuguese, 5 per Cent ..... 81%
Belgian, 5 per Cent 103% Ditto, New Ditto —
Brazilian Bondi ... ........ .... 841,4 Prussian, 5 per Cent ..»
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent.., 'Russian_ 5 per Cent 119%
Chllian, 6 per Cent ... ..... ... --Ditto, Metallic.... ..........
...... 13% Spanish, 5 per Cent 22%
............ ... Ditto, 3 per Cent ....... ......
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent ...... Ditto, Deferred............
Colombian, o
Ditto,r'
Danish, 3 per Cent . ........... ;French, 51,er Cent......120t. —c.
Greek, 18.5, 5 per Cent...... Exchange ........ ... ..... —f. —e.
Mexican, 5 per. Cent ......... French,,3 per Cent. —f. .--c
Ditto,
1825, 6 per Cent... ;Dutch,
5 per Cent ........101 %
;Dutch, 2% per Cent...... 61%
SHARES.
Peruvian,
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) ll4
Ditto, New Shares, 17% paid ..... .........
Edinburgh and Glasgow, sii paid
Ditto Quarter Shares (12% paid)
b6llB:2en4r,..Cr'ent,C-83nt7. ......
16
Great North of England, 100 paid ... ...... ...
Great Western (75 paid;
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid 8334
Ditto Fifths, 12 paid
London and Birmingham (Stock)
Ditto, New 'I birds, 2 paid
Lonion and Brighton (50 paid)
Ditto Loan Notes, 10 paid l2
London and Greenwich (121. 15s. 4d. paid) ......
Diito. Preference or Privilege, .E; 8 17s 2d paid 4036
Londooand South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid)
Ditto Eighths (15s. paid)" 3%
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Manchester and Birmingham
Midland Counties (100 paid) ..... .... ............ ...- 10634
and Eastern (45 paid)
59
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid)
Ditto New Shares, 4 paid
Yarmouth and Norwich (18-paid)
York and Scarborough Branch (2),, paid) .......
Paris and Orleans (20 paid) ........ ............ ..*
Paris and Rouen. 20 paid
___

II ER MAJESTY'S SIGNATURE TO THE COMMISSION.
—Her Majesty signed the Commission for giving the Royal
Assent to various Bills yesterday morning about five o'clock,
scarcely three hours before her accouchement ! The Com..
mission was dispatched by the Lord Chancellor to her Ma-
jesty by a special messenger, who went by the nine o'clock
train from Paddington on Monday evening. It was men-
tioned to the Queen that a Commission requiring her signa-
ture had arrived, but that she need not sign it until the
following morning. About five o'clock, however, feeling that
her accouchernent was fast approaching, and with that pre-
sence of mind so characteristic of her recollecting that an
important public document was in the Castle awaiting her
signature, she immediately directed it to be brought, and
although not free from pain and anxiety, affixed her signa-
ture with the same freedom of hand as usual, to the Com-
mission, and.the sheets of parchment upon which the names
of the Bills were inscribed. As there were seven sheets of
parchment, the signature of the Queen was required to be as
often repeated.
PARSONS AND WIDOWS, BY THE AUTHOR OF "PETER
PurcciNs."-We are requested to state that Mr. Col-
burn, of Great Marlborough-street, has this day pub-
lished the new work by the Author of "PeterPriggins,"
entitled " Parsons and Widows," in 3 vols. post Bvo.,
which can now be had at all the Libraries. Mr. Colburn
has also just published the following novels :—The Wil-
fulness of Woman, by the authoress of " The History of
a Flirt," &c., 3 vols. Hyde Marston, by " Craven," 3
vols. Whitefriars ; or, the Days of Charles the Second,
third edition, 3 vols. The following are just ready :
Arthur Arundel, a Tale of the English Revolution, by
Horace Smith, Esq., Author of " Brambletye House,"
&c., 3 vols. The Victory •, or, the Ward-room Mess,
by M. H. Barker, Esq. (" The Old Sailor"), 3 vole.; and
The Roman Traitor, a True Tale of the Republic, by the
Author of " Oliver Cromwell," " Marmaduke Wyvil,"
&c., 3 vols.
MR. DYCE SOMBRE.—We were enabled to an-
nounce the Lord Chancellor's intention to give judgment it
this case on the sitting of the Court yesterday. His Lordship
having been summoned to Windsor, at an early hour in
the morning, was, of course, precluded from attending to
his official duties, and judgment is now appointed to be given
to-morrow morning, at eleven o'clock, in the Court of Chan-
cery, Lincoln's Inn.

IszliirtgApv (lc rim
121 i•

AN 1)

;i'utilit pUdon♦

Who runs may read.'

FOREIGN.
The French Chambers were prorogued on Monday.
Louis Philippe has sent an autograph letter to the King of
Prussia, congratulating him on his late escape from assassin-
ation. His Majesty very naturally sympathises with his
brother of Prussia.
The large worsted-spinning manufactory of M. L. Gouvy,
near Verviers, was totally destroyed by fire on the 28th ult.
The damage is estimated at more than 100,000 f., but the
building was insured. Two brothers employed on the. pre-
mises, and who were asleep in the garret, were burnt to death.
M. Darcet, Member of the Institute, and Commissary-Ge-
neral of the Mint, died at Paris on Friday.
A letter from the Marquesas Islands, dated March 4, given
in the Memorial Bordelais, states that Governor Collet has
been replaced by M. Favereau, Chef de I3ataillon of the Ma-
rine Artillery. The state of the island was not very satisfac-
tory. The garrison had been compelled to subsist on salt pro-
visions, procured from the vessels froirt Valparaiso. The
troops were under canvass, as no barracks had yet been
erected. The roadstead of Taiohae presented an animated
scene. The Charte frigate, the Somme transport, a brig of
war, two French merchantmen, and three American whalers,
were at anchor there.

M. Camille de Pietro, Archbishop of Bertye, and Apostolic
Nuncio to the Court of Portugal, has arrived at Paris from
Rome, en route for England, whence he will embark for
Lisbon.

Sir George Hamilton, acting as the English Chargii
faires during the absence of the Earl of Westmoreland, is
negotiating with Baron Bulow a treaty, whereby the mutual
piracy of literary works published in each kingdom will be
prevented.

The Polish Colonel Radzizewski, one of the leaders of the
insurrection of 1831, died on the 31st ult., at Mentz.
A letter from Genoa states that the King of Sardinia has
given his approbation to the company formed for executing
the railroad between Milan and that port.
The small town of Chimay, in Belgium, where the remains
of the celebrated historian Froissart are buried, having re-
solved to raise a monument to his memory, the King of the
Belgians has granted 1,200 f. towards the cost.

rawvi sum POLICE.
The case of Herbert v. Day, tried at Guildford, was brought
to a close on Tuesday, when a verdict was entered for Mr.
Day, on the ground that Bloodstone was three years of age,
and therefore not entitled to the stakes run for at the last
Ascot Heath races.

The Norwich assizes terminated on the sth. In the course
of the day the four prisoners, English, Fary, Powing, and
Potter, were placed at the bar to receive sentence for the
crime of arson, of which the three first had been severally
found guilty, the last having pleaded guilty. Mr. Justice
Williams went into an explanation of each case then before
him, and concluded by sentencing English to fifteeen years'
transportation, and the other prisoners to terms of imprison -
ment varying from three months to two years, according to
the peculiar features of the case.
The Shrewsbury assizes commenced on Monday. The fol-
lowing is an analysis of the calendar, comprising 38 cases and
42 prisoners :—Burglaries, 5 ; bigamy, 1; horse-stealing, 2 ;
rape, 1; concealment of birth, 1 ; stealing from the person,
3 ; maliciously wounding, 2 ; larcenies and minor offences,
27. No cases of interest was tried during the day.
The Chester assizes commenced on the same day. The
calendar contains 46 prisoners, of whom there are charged
with arson, 1 ; bigamy, 2 ; burglary, 6 ; cutting and maim-
ing, 3; shooting with intent to murder, 1 ; highway robbery,
6; horse stealing, 5; housebreaking, 1; manslaughter, 6;
perjury, 1; rape, 3; stealing from the person, 2 ; unnatural
crime, 1; and various offences, 9. This does not include a
charge of a very serious nature, preferred against the Rev.
Mr. Cresswell, of Stockport, whose case excites the most in-
tense interest.

John Weaver, aged 21, pleaded guilty to an indictment
charging him with having fired a pistol at John Coyle, at
Hampton, with intent to murder him. The Learned Judge
ordered judgment of death to be recorded against him, with
an intimatiyn that he would certainly be transported for life.
At Worship-street Police-court a young man of respect-
able appearance, who gave the name of Joseph Walker, but
whose real name was ascertained to be Joseph Ingham,
was brought up for final examination before Mr. Bingham,
charged with having feloniously uttered two forged cheques
on the London Joint-stock Bank, with intent to defraud Mr.
James Samuel, a bootmaker, in East-road, Hoxton. *He was
fully committed.
Amelia Alsery, the young woman who stands charged with
attempting the murder of her two children and her own de-
struction on the 29th ult., was brought before Mr. Clive at
Wandsworth for final examination. The Magistrate felt it
to be his duty to commit the accused to Horsemonger-lane
gaol, but he said she should see her children. She was evi- .
dently deranged when she committed the offence.
At the Thames Police•court Jane Skelton, the wife of a
blacksmith, residing at No. 2, Bromley-place, Bromley, was
committed to take her trial for cutting and wounding George
Skelton, her husband, with a poker. _ _

COUILT-31141.a810N.d8X.Z.
The Duke of Richmond, who arrived in town from Good-
wood on Saturday evening, left Portland-place on Tuesday
morning for Glasgow, on his way to Gordon Castle. Lord
Henry Gordon Lennox accompanies his noble father to
Scotland.

The Duke of Beaufort has left town for Brighton, to at-
tend the races at that place. His Grace returns on Thursday,
and will proceed, with the Duchess and other members of his
family, to the Isle of Wight immediately.
The Archbishop of Canterbury arrived in town early on
Tuesday morning from Addington Park, and was proceeding to
Windsor Castle, but having met the Bishop of London on his
return from the Palace, his Grace did not pursue his journey.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn came to town
on Monday evening from the Priory. The Marquis and
Marchioness are expected to proceed to Scotland in the
course of the present month.

The Marc:lids and Marchioness of Ailesbury and Lord
Charles Bruce have left Grosvenor-square for their seat, Tot-
tenham Park, near Marlborough, Wilts, where they purpose
remaining about three months, at the expiration of which
time it is probable that the Marquis and Marchioness will
proceed on a continental tour.

The Earl and Countess Delawarr and family are expected
o leave town for Buckhurst early next week

Count Nesselrode has accepted an invitation from the
Marchioness of Londonderry, and will be present at her Pk
at Rosebank to-day. •
Sir Thomas Wilde gave an entertainment on Tuesday at
his villa, Bowes Manor, near Southgate, Middlesex. to Lord
Campbell, Baroness Stratheden, Mdlle. D'Este, and a distin-
guished circle of visitors.