The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-29 00:00:00

ON Wednesday, April 3, will be published,
THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN REVIEW,
No. XXXIII. CONTENTS.
1. Coins and Currency.—The Bank Charter.
2. Discoveries in Central America.
3. Books for Children.
4. English Cathedral .3lusic.—State of the Choirs.
5. Louis Blanc's " Ten Years"' Reign of Louis Philippe.
6. Anglo-Catholicism—The Oxford Controversy.
7. The Penny Postage and the Post-office.
8. Sir Charles Bell's Essays.—Anatomy of Expression.
9, Life and Correspondence of William Taylor, of Norwich.
10. Thierry—" Les Resits Merovingiens."
11. The Atmospheric Railway.
Postcripts on the Currency Question and on Penny Postage.
Recent German Literature.
London : R. and J. E. Taylor, Red Lion-court, Fleet-street ; and
all Booksellers.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY LEECH AND ALFRED
CROWQUILL.
The APRIL NUMBER, Price Half-a-Crown, of
BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY,
_Will contain :
THE FORTUNES OF TILE SCATTERGOOD FAMILY",
By ALBERT SMITH.
With an Illustration by Leech.

Chap. XL—Mr. Bolt anxious to visit his Country-house—The Father

and Daughter.
Chap. XII.—" The Lee Shore of Life" Is produced.
Chap. XIII.—A Club of Literary and Dramatic Gents.
Chap. XlV.—The Cloisters ; the Monitors and their Victims.
A Broad Hint ; or, the Horns of a Dilemma. By Hilary Hypbane.
The Bag of Gold, with an Illustration. By Alfred Crowquill.
The Miniature—a Madman's Story. By Paul Pindar, Gent.
Introduction of Tobacco into Europe.
The Gaol Chaplain ; or, a Dark Page from Life's Volume. Chap. 33
Solitary Confinement. Chap. 34—The English Mate and the Rus-
sian Emperor.
Noctes Nectarea.
A. Legend of Revolution. By Alfred Bunn. With an Illustration by

John Leech.
Queen Elizabeth's Visit to Sandwich. By Henry Curling.
The Physiology of London Life. By J. Fisher Murray, author of
" The World of London." Chap. 12—Auctions. Chap. 13—Pic-
ture Auctions. Chap. 14—Shopping.
Meditations at a Kitchen Window. By a Hungry Poet.
The Vetturino. By Dudley Costello. Chap. I—The Chateau de Blo-
nay. Chap. 2—The Chatelain. Chap. 3—Family Misfortunes.
Chap. 4—Murder.
The Divan—" Taming of the Shrew," at the Haymarket—A Song
for the Season—Street Placards—A Theme, with Variations—A
Subaqueous Fair—An Etymological Fable.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 29,
Will be performed Donizetti's celebrated Opera, entitled THE
FAVORITE. Balthazar, Mr. Berrani ; Ferdinand, M. Duprez ;
Leonora, Miss Romer,

After which,
Will be repeated Albert's celebrated Ballet of THE BEAUTY
OF GHEN P. Marquis de San Lucar, M. Albert ; Benedict, M.
Hoguet Vestris; Beatrix, Mdlle. Fleury ; Agnes, Mdlle. Clara
Webster; Julia, Madame Petit Stephan; Diana, Mdlle. O'Bryan.
Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. tid. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55..
Second Price 3e. ; Pit 3s , Second Price 25.; Middle Gallery 2s,
Second Price Is. ; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
MK. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE
THIS EVENING, MARCH 29,
Will be repeated Shakspeare's Comedy of The TAMING OF THE
SHREW. Petrucio, Mr. Webster; Grumio, Mr. Buckstone ;
Katharina, Mrs. Nisbett.

After the Comedy Mr. John Parry will sing his New Song, entitled
" The Accomplished Young Lady and her Mamma," accompanying
himself on the Grand Pianoforte.
To conclude with JOSEPHINE.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. 1 • pit, 33. ; Gallery, 25.; Upper
Gallery, Is. Half.price—Boxes, 3.3. ; Pit 25.; Gallery, ls. ; Upper
H
Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at alf.past Six, and the Performances
commence at Seven.
Tickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box-
office, from Ten till Five.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 29,
Will be performed an English version of OTELLO. Otello,
Mr. Allen; Elmiro, Mr. Weiss; Roderigo, Mr. Gardner; lago,
Mr. Burdini; Desdemona, Madame Eugenia Garcia; Emilia, Miss
E. Honner.
After which. THE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE, in which
Mr. and Mrs. Keeley and Mr. Walter Lacy will perform.
To be followed by a New Farce, in One Act, entitled THE
YOUNG SCAMP; or My Grandmother's Pet. Joseph, Mrs.
Keeley; Mildew, Mr. Keeley.
To conclude with a New Grand Ballet, entitled LEOLA; or, the
May.day Bride. Patrick. Mr. Chicheley; Phelim, Mr. Gilbert;
Rhona, Miss Charleton ; Leola, Miss Bailin.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. W. SMITH.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 29,
Will be pe performed Shakspeare's Tragedy of RICHARD THE
THIRD. Duke of Glo'ster, Mr. H. Hughes; Richmond, Mr.
N. T. Hicks; Lady Anne, Mrs. R. Honner.
After which, the burlesque of OTHELLO, ACCORDING TO
AC OF PARLIAMENT, in which Mr. W. J. Hammond, Mr. A.
Wigan and Miss L. Lyons will sustain their Original Characters.
To conclude with THE MEMOIRS OF THE DEVIL
Places and Private Boxes W be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box-
office, from Eleven to Four.

THE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, MARCH 29.

TREI3MOMETER, Lowest, 38 ; Highest, 57 ; Noon, 52.
BAROMETER, 30.6.—W1ND, N.
NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning S minutes after 9 f Evening —5O minutes after 9.

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2:401ND iaDAY, A RCII 29, 1844.

In the House of Lords a brief discussion took place
relative to the late State trials in Ireland, which
leaves no doubt that the subject will be brought
judicially before their Lordships.
The report .on the Ecclesiastical Courts Bill was
brought up and received.

The Duke of WELLING TON gave notice that on
Tuesday next he would move that the House do ad-
journ on that day till the 16th of April.
The Commons did not make a House, there being
only thirty-four Members present at Four o'clock.

Some interesting remarks appear in the Herald of
this morning on the subject of the Caucasus, and the
brave Circassian warriors who occupy a large portion
of that magnificent mountain range. The position
in which these noble-•minded patriots are just now,
and have been for some years, placed, is one that
should awaken the sympathies of every lover of free-
dom in Europe ; but we regret to state that the
interest attached to their proceedings is by no means
so general as it should be ; and as regards the defen-
sive war which they have been carrying on with sur-
prising success and unremitting energy against Russia
for the last fifteen years, few seem to know, or care
to know, anything about its origin. Yet nothing
can be less complicated or freer from perplexities than
the causes which originated this war. The whole
case lies in a nut-shell, notwithstanding the studious
efforts of the St. Petersburgh Cabinet to shroud it
in mystery. By the treaty of Adrianople, forced
upon the Porte during the life-time of the late SUL-
TAN by Russia, it was agreed that the former should
surrender to the latter her claims over the Circassian
provinces. These claims, however, had never been
otherwise than nominal, especially as respects the
Circassian tribes, who had always strenuously insisted
on and maintained their independence. Even when
the power of the Crescent was in its full vigour, and
the AMURATHS, the BAJAZETS, the SOLYMANS, and the
MAHOMETS kept Europe in awe, and exercised un-
disputed sway over a large portion of Asia, they were
never able to bend the sturdy spirit of the Circas-
sians, who, though often worsted in battle, never
failed to rally again ; and in the treaties which they
made from time to time with the Porte, insured
terms favourable to their actual independence, though
they acknowledged—more as a matter of form than
anything else—the supremacy of the GRAND SElG-
moil. Of late years, however, when the reforms
of MAHMOUD had crippled his military re-
sources, and the Ottoman empire was tumbling to
pieces us all quarters, the Circassians had re-
nounced the idea of even a nominal dependency
on the Porte ; and at the period of the signing of the
Adrianople treaty, they were to all intents and pur-
poses as independent a nation as Great Britain
herself. What right,.then, had Turkey to abandon in
favour of Russia cl aims which no longer existed, and
assign over to her the dominion of a country which
she could not possibly give away—for the best of all
reasons—namely, that it was not hers to give ? Th•
transfer was, in every respect, an act of the most
monstrous injustice and absurdity ; and the subjuga-
tion—or rather the attempt at subjugation—of Cir-
cassia by NICHOLAS, is a worse crime, and this is a
strong term to use, than even the partition of Poland.
As yet, however, Russia—to use a Parliamentary
term—has " taken nothing by her motion." Notwith-
standing that for the last fourteen years and upwards,
she has been landing army after army on the shores
of the Black Sea ; notwithstanding that she has built
forts in every accessible place, and garrisoned them
with the very flower of her troops ; notwithstanding
she has had experienced Generals and skilful engineers
at her command; has long held uncontrolled posses-
sion of the Euxine, and has squandered millions of
money ;—nOtwithstanding all these advantages, Russia
has hitherto gained no solid footing in Circassia, and
the heroic mountaineers still remain unsubdued ! It
is impossible, when once their true position is under-

stood, to contemplate the struggle now going forward
between these patriotic tribes and their barbarian
9pEe Aithout feelings of the liveliest sympathy.
OtVilte.. -- , opulation of Cireassia scarcely amounts
`
, _ 2 ed thousand souls, which is little more
•...1, tietAthe population of London ; while
kC4c.-Alit `,... ' ~ • time to time, bring her millions into
7, icr-'"?:_ifielifielk:4 jet despite this-enormous disparity of
\v'..-Iri_ ,gii_ ~4:4. tar hitherto has been on the side of
• u lehe- %gn' ta#eers .Now, however, as the Herald

informs us, NICHOLAS is resolved to make up for lost
time, and crush the presumptuous Circassians by
overwhelming masses of troops. "An immense dis-
play of military force is to be made, a hundred thou-
sand men at least are to be assembled in the Cau-
casian provinces ; and some accounts go so far as to
state that the EMPEROR will repair in person to the
seat of war to encourage the troops by his presence."
Most devoutly do we hope that this new campaign
may have as inglorious a termination as its prede-
cessors ; and should a random or well-directed shot
chance to pick off NICHOLAS himself—that celebrated
warrior, whose military prowess at reviews and on pa-
rade is so remarkable—we are by no means persuaded
that our grief for the loss of so renowned a hero would
be either deep or lasting. We should instantly think
of Poland, and that thought would enable us to re-
ceive the tidings of his death with true philosophical
resignation.

The claim preferred in the House of Commons, on
Tuesday night, by Sir GEORGE STAUNTON, in his mo-
tion on behalf of the widow of the late Rev. Dr. MOR-
RISON, and of the Doctor's eldest son, the late Mr. JOHN
ROBERT MORRISON, is one which ought not to be
allowed to expire under the cold official negative and
special pleading of Sir ROBERT PEEL. Neither should
a just and generous public accept the shabby discharge
from obligations to which it is bound by all the prin-
ciples of equity and humanity, that the ingenuity of a
Prime Minister has suggested. There should be no
compromise in national ethics between honesty and
revenue. Public servants, of no more than an average
elevation of character, may rely on this middle term
"expediency," as a convenient and safe retreat from the
occasional pressure of " eternal principles." The pub-
lic itself cannot afford to prejudice its reputation by
sanctioning doctrines which, in the social intercourse of
private life, individuals of loftier views and sounder
morality would reject with scorn. In short, public jus-
tice will disdain to peer through precedents and Acts of
Parliament for statutable grounds on which to repudiate
the claims of public servants upon its bounty, where it
admits those claims to be founded in truth and justice.
Sir GEORGE STAUNTON was the mover, on Tuesday,
of an address to her MAJESTY, praying that, in consi-
deration of the eminent public services rendered by the
two lamented individuals in question—the father and
the son—in China,—(by the former, in a career of six-
and-twenty years of indefatigable study and exertion ;
by the latter during a shorter but equally well sustained
and admirable discharge of the same public duties)—
and because both the one and the other had successively
fallen victims to the effect which those duties had pro-
duced on them in an exhausting climate—" Her MA-
JESTY would be graciously pleased to direct a suitable
provision to be made for the widow of the late Doctor
MORRISON, and for the other surviving members of his
family ; and to assure her MAJESTY that the House of
Commons would make good the same." In the advocacy
of a claim which had so properly devolved upon one of
the mostprofound of living Orientalists whom Europe can
boast, Sir GEORGE STAUNTON delivered himself with
that habitual modesty which has won for him the
respect of all parties. He alone seemed to be uncon-
scious of the authority with which he must be speaking
on such a question in the House of Commons, in refer-
ence to his own long residence in a portion of the
Chinese empire, to his extraordinary proficiency in the
Chinese language, and to that peculiar knowledge of the
Chinese people and the policy of their Government, which
he had evinced, under the most trying circumstances
that could test his judgment or tax his discretion.
Now what was his testimony ? That the Rev.
Dr. MORRISON, the father, went out to China, simply as
a minister of the Gospel, with no desire for public em-
ployment ; but being, from his peculiar qualifications,
selected, by the unsolicited act of the East India Com-
pany, for their confidential service as Chinese interpreter,
he had given them, for more than a quarter of a century'
the full benefit of his prodigious attainments, still pursuing
the discharge of his high spiritual mission, which hadbeen
his original exclusive object. In this period he had ac-
complished two of the most stupendous undertakings ever
achieved (we venture to remark) by the Oriental scholar-
ship of an European. He produced his English and
Chinese Dictionary (which the Honourable Company ap-
preciated so highly as to expend 10,000 L upon its
preparation, and printing) ; and he produced a transla-
lation of the Holy Scriptures—" a labour," added Sir
GEORGE, with no less eloquence than truth, " which,
under DIVINE PROVIDENCE, would be the means of ulti-
mately spreading the blessings of Christian civilisation

tion of the Company's exclusive privileges in China, the
Doctor's services were transferred, of course, to the Bri-
tish Government. Entitled as he would then have
been to return to his native land upon an ample
pension (his' salary was 1,2001. a year) after twenty-five
years' service, he responded to the call which the press-
ing exigencies of our position in China then made upon
him. He remained ; his labours were signally success-
ful and beneficial ; but—he speedily became a sacrifice
to them. The son of this amiable, and good, and gifted
man, succeeded (as Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE remarked, on
warmly and ably seconding Sir GEORGE'S motion) to the
father's mantle. At the almost incredibly early age of
fifteen, he was called (said Mr. HUGH LINDSAY) " to the
responsible situation of interpreter to the East India
Company in China ;" and discharged all its duties from
that period (in the year 1832) to his death, with the
most extraordinary ability and merit. Our excellent
Plenipotentiary, Sir HENRY POTTINGER, derived from his
counsels and his services—in addition to the indispensable
aid of his masterly acquaintance with the Chinese
tongue—so much advantage that, in acknowledgement
of Mr. MORRISON'S eminent capacity and usefulness, he
appointed him a Member of the Legislative Council of
Hong-Kong. Within a few days after this appoint-
ment, Mr. MORRISON, who had not hesitated for the
good of the public service to abandon the two years'
leave of absence in Europe, which his declining health
had compelled him to ask for, and which he had ob-
tained—perished in the prime of manhood, a sacrifice to
the zeal and the intensity of his exertions. Let it be
observed here that Sir GEORGE STAUNTON, Sir HENRY
POTTINGER, and Mr. LINDSAY, were all personally cogni-
sant of the talents, the spirit, and the devotion of these

distinguished civilians. But, as if to crown and confirm
their eulogy, and to prove the consistency and strength

of the spirit in which Dr. MORRISON had never ceased
to labour in the original mission he had assumed—the fact

incidentally transpired, that this truly Christian labourer
had "employed a considerable part of his salary in
founding a college at Malacca, for the education of per-

sons in the Chinese language, with r view to disseminate
the Gospel in China."

Sir ROBERT PEEL resisted the motion for an address
to the Crown, with every minute, microscopic atom of
an objection, which he could detect amidst the worthless

dust of his official depositories. With that callous and
profound egoisme, however, which makes him, to our
thinking, the most Frenchified of any English Minister of

our times, he evidently thought he was pouring balm and
consolation into the cup which he refused to commend to
the bounty of the State, by assuring the House " in the
first place, and he did it with the greatest pleasure, that
he would admit the justice of the eulogium which Sir G.
STAUNTON and Sir J. HOBHOUSE had passed on the cha-
racter and services of the late Dr. MORRISON and his
son." Admit it ? He could not dispute it ! The be-
reaved widow and her five children may turn, with
honest pride, to the affecting and conclusive testimony

rendered to the faithfulness, the services, the abilities of
their lamented relatives, by such practical judges, and
personal witnesses as Sir GEORGE STAUNTON, Sir
HENRY POTTINGER, and Mr. LINDSAY ; but the " ad-
mission" of Sir ROBERT we should think they will esti-
mate at the value of the smallest Chinese coin ; a price
not very flattering to a Premier's vanity. We pass over
the extravagant encomiums with which he proceeded to
come to his buts :—" But there are certain duties imposed
on public men which they could not shrink from," &c.
&c. (the usual common-places, and trite platitudes of Sir
ROBERT'S didactic pieces, which we need not repeat, for
anybody can supply them). "In the civil service the
grant of pensions had been discontinued to widows and
female relations of public servants dying in such depart-
ments. A First Lord of the Treasury, as he was, was
constantly having the strongest claims for pensions of
this kind urged on him in cases of the highest merit ;
and in cases of widows, &c., of clerks in public offices.
It . was true that in the case of the army and navy a
power did exist of granting pensions to widows of
officers; but then, they were very limited in amount.
Public civil servants were paid large salaries, with the
view of enabling them to make provision, after their own
deaths, for their wives and children." (The Right Hon.
Baronet never thought of Dr. MORRISON'S noble dona-

tions, yearly, to the College at Malacca.) " Even of go-
vernors of colonies, the widows now get no pensions.
Then, the only fund left at the disposal of the Crown for
new pensions was 1,200/. a-year, and this was at present
appropriated." Again, "Mrs. MORRISON was the widow
of Dr: MORRISON, who died in 1834, but she was not the
mother of the Mr. MORRISON who died lately in the
performance of public duties at Canton !" We are
almost ashamed to bring such quibbling, unworthy
casuistry as this before our readers. What does it
amount, to? If it mean anything, it amounts to this--

" Dr. MORRISON was, I allow, a great and good man;
an invaluable public servant. This lady is his widow.
I deeply regret that our practice does not allow us to
grant a pension to her, her husband's services having

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
Snd 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 tmaterially, nor her children be so (0 icted,
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. MORRISON was
already allowed 2001. a-year, as widow of the Doctor,
and 251. 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 2001
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,
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
2,000/. 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. MORRISON and his son—enabled Sir HENRY POT-
TINGER 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
preparations 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
the Madrid Bourse, and a great deal of business was done.
The Three per Cents. opened at 35L and after rising
to 374, closed at 37i for time. The Five per Cents.
closed at 23i, at 60 days ; Coupons, 30:1 ; and Pas-
sive, Bi.

In some of the Paris papers it is stated reports were
current on Tuesday of the following changes in the
French Ministry :—M. MARTIN DU None, 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. DUMON, Minister of Public Works. Count DARU,
President of the Committee of Railroads, was to succeed
M. DIMON ; and M. ST. MARC GIRARDIN to take the
place of M. VILLEMAIN, the Minister of Public Wor-
ship. No other appointment is mentioned for M. VIL-
LZMAIN. 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. Geri-
NERON'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-
LUPPI 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-
ment had extended over the whole of Italy. Numerous
additional arrests had taken place in the Romagna, and
among others the Canon BRASA. Letters from Leghorn
state that the sentence pronounced by the Military Com •
mission on the insurgents, lately tried, had been con-
firmed by the POPE. 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, MARCH 24.

" Queen Christina made her entry yesterda'y into Madrid
at five o'clock in the afternoon, amidst the acclamations of
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, MARCEL 27.

First Highest Lowest

Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents •.• . • • 121 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

Lailitte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesll2o 1120 • • 1120 ..1120
5,000 f. 6haressl2o .. 5120 5120 5120
Belgian Bank • 657 50 .. 657 50 • • 657 50 .. 657 50
1841 .• • • —lOB5 ..1085 ..1085 ..1085
Belgian Fives, ••••••• • . • • • • 1051 • . 105} • • 105} • • 105/
1840...
1842 ••.• • • • • 1091 .. 1091 . • 1091 . • 109/
Spanish Active 33} • • 34 . • 33/ • • 34
Threes
Old Deferred• • •..•• 7} • • 7} •• 7} • • 7
Dutch Two-and-a-Half .• •
Neapolitan ....... . 101 50 • • 101 80 • • 101 50 • • 101 75
Roman lo6} • • 106/ • • 106} • • 106}

RAILWAY SHARES.
St Germain

.. 850

Versailles, R. 8...

- ' L. 8... • . ••• • • • • • 220 .. 235
Rouen . 912 60 .. 915

Rouen to Havre.. .. . ..... .. 690

• • 698

Orleans ... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 05

.. 902 50 .. 895

850

.. 390

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