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THE SUN, LO,NnON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCHI 29, 1844.

than the pittance they now receive, rather we may say,
through the interposition of an East India Company
precedent and minute, than by the spontaneous
act of the Government ? He relied on the defi-
ciency of Government precedents. Find us, said he,
precedents of such services as those of the two
MORRISON& Why are other services, of far more
doubtful character, so much more magnificently re-
warded, in defiance of the practice and precedents of the
public departments on which Sir. ROBERT so much re-

lies? Is it because Dr. MORRISON was not only the
upright, intelligent, and civil servant of the public,—but
a simple-minded, self-denying, conscientious minister of
the Gospel of Peace, which, knowing, he taught, and,
teaching, travelled sixteen thousand miles to disseminate?
Is it that his gifted son was not only—like his father—
an accomplished and devoted public servant, in his own
peculiar sphere; but of such varied capacity of useful-
ness as to have been selected by one of the most remark-
able diplomates of the day as a member of his Council,
and to have had his death recorded, by that celebrated
functionary, as a " public calamity?" Shall the claims of
such men—represented by the widow and her children—

be thus passed over by a Government which acquiesced
in the grant of an hereditary Peerage and a pension of
2,0001. a year, for two or three lives, to Lord KEANE and
his successors, for military services in a sanguinary
campaign, the merits of which services are now as much
matter of doubt to a vast proportion of the British
public, as their utter inefficiency to secure the subse-
quent peace of Central Asia, and the British supremacy
north and west of the Indus, is matter of certain and
disastrous notoriety ? The costly campaign of Sir JOHN
KEANE, destructive and ruinous as it was to the forces
and the commissariat employed, was distinguished by a
few brilliant combinations, but left to the Anglo-British
army the disgraceful legacy of the massacres and eva-
cuation of Caubul, and the wholesale extirpations of the
passage of the Khyber and the Bolan passes; reverses that
could only be, as they were, avenged in blood and desola
tion by the intrepid conduct of SALE and PoLLocx. But
the labours of the man of peace and the man of business

—Dr. Ilionnisoat and his son—enabled Sir HENRY POT-
TINGIR to spare an incalculable amount of human car=
nage, and materially aided the counsels and the policy
which have established for us a powerful and honourable
and respected position of permanent commercial influ-
ence and authority, on the coasts and in the islands of
China, to the mutual benefit of the Chinese people and
the British nation !

Madrid Journals of the 21st have been received, in
which it is stated that the QUEEN DOWAGER would
make her entry on Sunday the 24th, and that great
prepirations had been made for her reception. A tele-
graphic dispatch given in another part of the paper,
announces her arrival on that day, and also the death of
ARGUELLES. Some sharp fighting had taken place in
front of Carthagena, in which several lives had been lost
on both sides.

On the 21st, the Spanish Funds rose considerably at
he Madrid Bourse, and a great deal of business was done.

_ ~......
The Three per Cents. opened at 34, and after rising
to 374, closed at 37i for time. The Five per Cents.
closed at 23i, at 60 days ; Coupons, 304 ; and Pas-
sive, Bi.

In some of the Paris papers it is stated reports we re
current on Tuesday of the following changes in the
French Ministry :—M. MARTIN DU NORD, Keeper of
the Seals, was to be raised to the peerage, and made a
Judge in the Court of Cassation; the seals to be given
to M. DustoN, Minister of Public Works. Count DARU,
President of the Committee of Railroads, was to succeed
M. DIMON ; and M. ST. MARC GIRARDIN to take tht;
place of M. VILLEMAIN, the Minister of Public Wor-
ship. No other appointment is mentioned for M. Vile-
',Einem. Some of these changes are not improbable.
M. GUIZOT now considers himself quite safe in the
Ministry for twelve months, and he may, therefore, be
desirous of rewarding some of his firmest supporters
by conferring honours and lucrative appointments.
The rage for railway speculation is at present very
strong in France, and as a proof of this we may
mention that the subscriptions, opened at M. GAN-
XEROX'S bank, in Paris, on Wednesday, for
the Paris and Strasburg Railway, were filled
up in less than half an hour. According to accounts in
some of the papers, rather serious disturbance had taken
place in the kingdom of Naples. According to a letter
from that capital of the 18th inst., a movement has also
taken place at Cocenza, in Calabria. The people attacked
the residence of the Prefect and the soldiers' barracks.
In making the attack, their cry was "Down with the
Government!" " Long live Liberty and the Constitu-
tion!" Three men were killed on the side of the people,
and a great number wounded. Of the troops upwards
of thirty were killed, among whom was Captain GA-
LIIPPI and an under officer, besides a great many.
wounded. The Government has taken active measures
to put down these disturbances, and great bodies
of troops are now marching into Calabria.
Several battalions have also been dispatched to
Sicily, where disturbances are apprehended. Con-
siderable alarm prevailed at Naples, as the move-
nient had extended over the whole of Italy. Numerous
additional arrests had taken place in the Romagna, and
among others the Canon BRASH. Letters from Leghorn
state that the sentence pronounced by the Military Com
mission on the insurgents, lately tried, had been con-
firmed by the POrE. Many of them had been con-
demned to the galleys for life. These disturbances, of
course, are exciting the anxious attention of Austria,
and as the miserable system of government under the
PoPE renders it impossible to suppress domestic insur-
rections without foreign aid, a good plea will be made
out for marching troops to Rome, and possibly also to
Naples.
The following telegraphic dispatch was received by
the French Government on Wednesday :
" MADRID, Mizell 24.
" Queen Christina made her entry yesterday into Madrid
at. five o'clock in the afternoon, amidst the acclamations a
the population.
"Don Augustin Arguelles died on the 23d."

On Wednesday the French Funds had recovered from
the depression of the previous day. The Three per
Cents. closed at 82f. 95c., and the Fives at 122 f. 90c.
THE BOURSE—WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27.
First - Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents l2l 35 .. 121 70 .. 121 35 .. 121 70
Four per Cents • • • • 105 30 • • 105 30 • • 105 30 • • 105 30
Three per Cents... 82 75 82 95 .. 82 75 .. 82 95
Bank of France...• .. ••• .• • 3080 —3090 ..3080 • • 3090
Latlltte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesll2o • • 1120 .. 1120 • • 1120
5,000 f. Bharessl2o ..5120 .. 5120 ..5120
Belgian Bank .. • • • • • 657 50 .. 657 50 .. 657 50 .. 657 50
1841
Belgian Fives,••....
1840...• •. 108 .. 108 .. 108 .. 108
1842 •• • • 1091 • • 1091 .. 1091 .. 1091
Spanish Active .•• • •• ..... 331 • • 34 .. 331 -• • 34
Threes 361 • • 361 • • 36/ . • 361
Old Deferred.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half 5B/ • • 581 • • 581 • • 581.
Neapolitan ......
Roman ..... .....
RAILWAY SHARES.
St Germain ..
Versailles, R. 11..
L. 8........ ..... 220 .. 235 • • 215 • • 235
Rouen •...........•• 912 50 .. 915 912 50 .. 915
Rouen to Havre • 690 .. 690 • • 690 .. 690
Orleans ..... • • • • . 895 • • 902 50 • • 895 • • 902 50
Strasburg to:Bale • ..... •• • • 290 .. 290 • • 280 • • 290
Avignon to Marseilles •••• • • 765 . • 765 . • 760 .. 760

RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. -
Versailles, R.B •.• • • . 390 • . 390 .. 390 • • 390
L.B 225 .. 235 • • 220 .. 235
Rouen 915 . 920 .. 915 .• 920
lteuen to Havre-- ... •• . 692 50 • • 692 50 .. 692 50 .. 692 50
Orleans 895 .• 905 .. 895 .• 905
Strasburg to Bale—. ... •• • • 285 .. 290 285 .. 288 75
Avignon to Marseilles.... • • 765 • • 765 • • 760 .. 765

We direct attention to an abstract which we have
given, elsewhere, of certain Post-office returns ordered
last year, and recently distributed from the Printed
Vote Office, with the view of remarking upon the
large amount of the payments made by the depart-
ment in question for the conveyance of mails by rail-
way in Great Britain. For this i
service alone—in
Great Britain only—there was paid n the year 1842,
no less than 85,6441. Last year this amount was
75,1831., showing a reduction of 10,4811. But in
either case the aggregate is enormous. Knowing,
as we do, that on some lines these mails are
carried at fair and reasonable rates, we infer, from
the very heavy nature of this charge, that there must
be many other lines on which the charges of trans-

been thus important. Mr. MORRISON, in talent, zeal,
assiduity, and usefulness, rivalled his father, and died
in the discharge of his duty. The widow of his father
and the surviving five children must feel his loss
severely ; but he was his father's son by a
former wife. Therefore the widow cannot suffer
sol imaterially, nor her children be so afflicted,
that I ought to recommend her and them for a pension
in respect of their double bereavement." The Jesuitry
of all this consists in the irresistible inference, from Sir
ROBERT'S own admission, that if the widow had been
Dr. MORRISON'S first wife, and Mr. MORRISON her son
by him, the Government would have equally refused a
pension to her. What possible ground, then, could Sir
ROBERT assign for having mooted the fact at all ? The
Premier went on to show that Mrs. Mountsort was
already allowed 2001. a-year, as widow of the Doctor,
and 25L for each child till they should have respectively
attained the age of 18. Sir GEORGE STAUNTON reason-
ably asked, why, since the utmost permanent provision
secured to the widow was but 2001. a-year, another 200/.
per annum should not be given to the family?
But we have another question to ask Sir ROBERT
PEEL. Here is the case of a widow and surviving fa-
mily, left, as it were, sacred claimants on the bounty of
a country which has been, by the universal admission of
all parties, so admirably served by the husband of
the one and the father of the other. Why is not
some more adequate allowance to be made to them,

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The return for
the week ending, Saturday, March 23, is very favour-
able, showing a-decrease of 8 as compared with the pre-
vious week, 28 less than the average. The total number
was 981, while but a few weeks since it exceeded 1,200.
In epidemic diseases, including small-pox, meifsles,
typhus, and scarlatina, the number was 190, average
170 ; diseases of the brain 167, average 163 • of the
lungs 309, average 330. Of the latter the following is
an analysis :—Bronchitis 34, average 19 ; pneumonia
78, average 91 ; asthma 26, average 45 ; consumption
147, average 146. Only four died of influenza ; old age
carried off 79, average 88 ; and 23 died from intempe-
rance, privation, and violence. Of these seven were from
burns and three from suicide ; and of the 22 persons
who died of small-pox 17 had not been vaccinated. The
thermometer was highest on Friday, the 22d, 49•4 de-
grees, and lowest on Thursday, the 21st, 29•0 degrees.

A Cabinet Council is appointed to be held this after-
noon at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. All the
Ministers are expected to attend.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALVS--YESTERDAY.
WEEPSTAKES AT EPSOM-THIS DAY.
Some small sums were laid out on Akbar at 4 to 1, 3 to 1,
and finally at 5 to 2; and on Emma at 7 to •2, and 3 to 1 ;
2,000 to 15 was laid against Akbar winning this and the
Derby

CHESTER CUP.
11 to 1 agst Mr. Bristow's Pharaoh
15 to 1 agst Col. Cradock's Pagan
15 to 1 agst Mr. Collett's Cattonite—taken
17 to 1 agst Lord Eglintoun's Jamie Forest
23 to 1 agst Lord Miltown's Scalteen—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Milbank's Sir Robert
25 to 1 agst Mr. Plummer's Alice Hawthorn
30 to 1 agst Mr. Speed's Everton
If our list had been governed by the business actually
transacted, it would have been minus two-thirds of the horses
contained in it ; our purpose in quoting the market prices is
simply to show the altered feeling with regard to Pharaoh
and Pagan—the latter was friendless.

TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
6to 4 agst Mr. John Day's The Ugly Buck--t. 7to 4
DERBY.
9 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's lot
6i to 1 agst Mr. Crockford's Rattan—taken
6i to 1 agst Mr. John Day's The Ugly Buck
15 to 1 agst Mr. A. Wood's Running Rein
16 to 1 sgst Col. Peel's Orlando—taken
20 to 1 agst Lord Maidstone's Cockamaroo—taken
22 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's T'Auld Squire
25 to 1 agst Col. Peel's lonian
40 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Campunero
50 to 1 agst Mr. John Scott's Sister to Grey Momus colt
66 to 1 agst Mr. J. Osborne's Mount Charles—taken
66 to 1 agst Mr. Etwall's Mainstay
100 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Akbar—taken
1000 to 15 each agst Mr. Scott's Sister to Grey Momus
colt and Mainstay in one bet—taken.
625 to 100 agst Rattan, and a fraction between that and
13 to 2 agst Ugly Buck (the only bets that came to our
knowledge) served to prove how very little there was be-
tween them—a ten-pound note for a thousand even would
not have been refused. Orlando regained his position, of
course to the prejudice of lonian, against whom 25 to 1, laid
once, was repeatedly offered. Campunero rose to 40 to 1,
taken, and the debateable horse in Scott's lot, Sister to Grey
Momus colt, went almost out of the market.

(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
CROXTON-PARK RACES—THURSDAY.
The Farmers' Plate of 50/., and 101. for the second. Heats,
two miles.
Mr. Stokes' Sister to Whitefoot, 5 yrs, 12st 41b (Owner) 1 1
Mr. Vincent's Unfortunate, 6 yrs, 13st 0 2
Mr. Hilton's Father Mathew, 4 yrs, list 101 b 0 3
Mr. Vincent's Pedlar, 6 yrs, l3st 2 0
Mr. Kirk's Madeline, 4 yrs, list 71bs (dis.), and several
others also ran.—Won easy.
The Scurry Stakes, of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added. 12st
each. (7 Subs.)
Lord Granby's Gazelle (Captain Oliver) 1
Mr. Palk's Billy Button, aged 2
Forget-Me-Not, Christopher Sly, Locomotive, Giovanni
filly, and Leonidas, also started.—Won by a neck.
The Granby Handicap of 20 sovs. each, 10ft, and 5 only if
declared, with 50 added. (50 Subs., 27 of whom declared.)
Lord G. Bentinck's Naworth, aged (Lord Maidstone) 1
Mr. Gilmore's nd Fox, 4 yrs, 7st 10Ib 2
Thirsk, list 51b—Tamburini, lOst 121b—Ameer, lOst 121 b
P —Robinson lOst 101b—Quilt Arnold, lOst 101bArnagill,
lOst 81b—Delamere, lOst—Johnny Faa, lOst—m byßeveller
out of Clipsham, 9st 101 b—and Donna Quixota, 9st 101 b, were
not placed.—Won by a neck.
The Billesdon Coplow Stakes of 25 sovs eaeh, &c., were
won by Lord Chesterfield nd Humility, 6 yrs (Mr. White),
beating Haworth's Giovanni filly, 4 yrs.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—Mr. Bunn's benefit came
off last night, and the very alluring programme put forth by
him had the desired effect of filling the house literally to the
ceiling. In the concert which took place between the first
and second acts of The Bohemian Girl, M. Duprez sang two
songs, the first of which, " While I gaze on those dear eyes,"
was rapturously encored. The performance of the little
Hungarian violinist, Master Joachim, and the concertante
for three pianofortes played by Madame Dulcken, Mr.
lloscheles, and Mr. Benedict, were also features in the con-
cert. Immediately after the opera was concluded a general
cry was raised for the appearance of Mr. Bunn, to receive
the compliment due to his very spirited management during
the closing season. After a short time he Caine forward, and
having in a few words thanked tha audience for their support,
retired amidst renewed shouts of applause. The evening's
entertainment concluded with a divertisement, in which
Mademoiselle Fleury danced the Guaracha, displaying the
utmost grace and suppleness throughout all its varied move-
ments. No benefit could go off with more éclat, or prove in
every way more creditable to the beneficiaire, than that of
last night.
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Donizetti's opera of
d 'Amore was performed for the first time last night.
Correlli appeared as Nemorino, and it would be superfluous
t.) say one word in praise of Persiani's Mina. At the con-
clusion of the opera, Mademoiselle Favanti gave the last
scene of La Cenerentola, and fully maintained the favourable
opinion elicited by her former performances. " Non piu mesta"
was loudly encored, and upon the fall of the curtain the ap-
pearance of Mademoiselle Favanti was required to receive
the usual tribute of approbation.
POPULAR EDUCATION.—A meeting was held on
b ehalf of the great cause of popular education, last evening,
at; the spacious Independent chapel, Cambridge-heath. Mr.
Hindley, M.P., took the chair. He was supported by David
Williams Wire, Esq., the Rev. Dr. Collison, the Rev. Dr.
Andrew Reed. the Rev. Josiah Vinez, J. Motley, W. Morley,
H. Althans, J. Davis,.N. garrelt, C. R. Dexter, Esqs., and a
large number of other gentlemen. The following resolution
moved by Mr. D. Wire, was carried :—" That this meeting
desires to be deeply impressed with the awful state of ignor-
ance and depravity in which thousands of children are grow-
ing up around them, and would feel it their bounden duty,
especially at the present juncture, to put forth prompt, vigo-
rous, and increased efforts for their instruction." It was re-
solved to establish a boy's school on the British and Foreign
School Society's principles, in Bethnal-green, towards which
large subscriptions were announced. The Rev. Dr. Andrew
Reed, the Rev. J. Carlile, and other gentlemen also addressed
the meeting.
DREADFUL SUICIDE IN A FIT OF PASSION.-011
the evening of the 18th inst., a married woman, named Jane
Blackford, was admitted into the Middlesex Hospital under
the following circumstances :—She resided with her husband,
a tailor, on the second floor of the house, No. 7, Carnaby-
street, Golden-square, and on the evening in question she
quarrelled with her husband, and being a woman of very ex-
citable temperament, she rushed, pending the quarrel, to the
window and jumped into the street. She was picked up by
police-constable 24 C, in a state of insensibility, and conveyed
expeditiously to the above hospital, when it was found that
her injuries consisted of a fracture of both legs, of injury to
the spine, and extensive internal injuries. Though the sur-
geons of the hospital had no hope of her recovery they paid
her every attention their skill could suggest, but she kept
gradually sinking, and died on Tuesday evening last.
EXTRAORDINARYABDUCTION.—Last night, at eleven
o'clock, an extraordinary sensation was created in the neigh-
bourhood of Clerken well Police Court, upon three cabs
driving up to the poliee-station adjoining the Court, and
several elegantly-dressed ladies and gentlemen, accom-
panied by Mr. Duke, the Chief Usher of the District
Court, and Mr. Inspector Penny alighting therefrom. It
soon became known that William Burton Newenham had
been apprehended for unlawfully carrying away and
taking possession of Miss Frances Louisa Wortham, a
young lady of considerable property, whose mother
resides at No. 39, Gerard-street, Coburg-row, Islington.
The young lady only attained her fifteenth year in
December last. On reaching the station-house a dis-
tressing scene ensued between the young lady and her
mother. Through the indefatigability of the officers the
parties were traced to have gone to Gretna-green, and re-
turned from thence to London, where they took apartments
in Carlisle-street, Soho-square. Mr. Boyce Combe, the Ma -
gistrate, granted a warrant for the apprehension of Newen-
ham, and after much vigilance, the officers found out the re-
treat of the parties, at ten last night, and had considerable
difficulty in effecting an entrance into the room. The ab-
ductor was forthwith conveyed to Clerkenwell Police Sta-
tion, where he was locked up on a charge of misdemeanor,
and the lady was takon to Inspector Penny's residence, pre-
paratory to going before the Lord Chancellor, being a ward
in Chancery.

Major--General Sir Robert Sale is to be Quarter-
master-General to the Queen's Troops in India, vice
Churchill, deceased.

mission are exorbitant. Nothing can be more pro-
per or equitable than that railway proprietaries, to
whom the public are indebted for the invaluable be-
nefits of the present rapid transmission of correspond-
ence and communications between all parts of Great
Britain, should be well and even liberally rewarded
for the arrangements which have been made to ac-
complish objects so desirable. But it must be re-
membered that, however desirable in themselves, these
objects were not the main or original ones proposed by
the projectors of railroads, in those magnificent con-
structions. The carnage of the mails can be re-
garded simply as an incident, for the purposes of
which their scheme of operations, and the materiel
and service of their roads, were quite available. In
like manner, in the case of each railroad, the amount
received from Government for carriage of mails can-
not be legitimately considered in any other light than
as a mere subsidiary head of income. The direct
expenditure and contingent charges incurred for mail
carrying by any railroad company, will form but a
very inconsidera'3le proportion of their general outlay,
in the first instance, even. After these arrangements
and details are established and in working order, the
current expense of them will be but fractional, com-
pared with the returns on that total expenditure, of
which their provision forms a part. Thus the act of
conveying mails by railways is a very different affair
from that of their conveyance by the highways and
roads on the old system, under which every incidental
expense is special and continuous—as, relays of horses
for the mail coaches, exclusively, forage, wear and tear
of carriages, harness, carriage-lighting, &c., &c. We
apprehend that, in France, the Government contract
with the railway lines for transmission of mails is on
very moderate terms indeed. Whether we look to
this analogy, or to the nature of the negotiations
which Mr. Labouchere, when in office, opened so
properly and carefully with various railroad proprie-
taries on the subject, we cannot repress our astonish•
ment at finding in the returns in question, so vast an
annual charge, for the carriage of mails by rail, is
I
85,0001.