The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-16 00:00:00

ECYI"I'IAN 11.t1.1„ PICCADILLY.

The Irish Registration Bill was last night post-
poned, and an attempt, as atrocious as any that our
times have witnessed, to deprive the Irish people of
their fair share of political privileges, and to fritter
away the little semblance of justice which a Tory Go •
vernment can afford them, is for the present sus-
pended. Never was anything more monstrous than
the Tory notions of justice to Ireland. Justice, in-
deed !—injustice is the English of it—one-sided legis-
lation on every subject ;—law making, with a view
only to the benefit of the party, and with an entire
denial of all equality, or claims to fair dealing. For
years the Tories have been annoyed by the state of
I the Irish representation ; they have cursed the liberal
majority which that kingdom sends and must send to
Parliament, so long as the grievances of Ireland re-
main unredressed, and its cry for justice is unheeded.
But instead of removing the cause, they seek to re-
move the effect—instead of giving justice, they seek to
perpetrate woful wrong—and, regardless of the voice
which proclaims injuries and evils, existent and
pressing, they seek to stifle the power of complaint,
and to smother the complainants. The constituency
of Ireland, small as it is, at present is beyond the
Tories to manage. They have long sought, and they
now seek, to cripple, and to destroy it. Their Regis-
tration Bill is only a continuance of their attempts to
govern Ireland by means of their own ; by the sup-
pression of the public voice, and by the domination of
Tory landowners and Tory tools. But we know
little of Irish perseverance if this Bill, this worthy
follower of the Irish Arms Bill of last session, be
allowed to pass into a law ; and disgraced indeed will
the Irish Members of the House of Commons be, if
they do not in one body join to repel such an insult,
and prevent such an injustice as the PEEL-and-
STANLEY Registration Bill. Registration for Ire-
land, in Tory phraseology, means annihilation of the
constituency ; and no man more bitterly hates in
Ireland, that which in England the Chandos clause,
and the reservation of old and corrupt rights, enabled
him to use for his purposes, than does Sir ROBERT
PEEL.

It is a curious fact, no less strange than true, that
Tory jobbery and mismanagement have been found
out, even in the highest quarters ; and not only found
out, but exposed and corrected. Up to the time of
the Liberal Government quitting office, the QUEEN'S
Household was conducted on a scale of great liberality,
but at the same time its expenditure was kept within
the bounds of the income allotted to it. No sooner,
however, was a Tory Government installed, than, from
some unexplained cause, Tory tradesmen are substi-
tuted for Liberals, and, either from a too profuse sup-
ply of articles, or from a general want of management
and economy, the cost of the Royal household be-
comes alarmingly increased. To such a pitch
did matters get, that the QUEEN herself took
the Matter in hand, and, under the orders
of Royalty, the most searching inquiry took place
into the cause of the very great additional expendi-
ture. Some very extraordinary results of this in-
quiry have reached us, but the summary may be
stated in a few words. It was found that a system
of jobbery, and of something very like peculation, had
been introduced, and that a total want of manage-
ment had been shown by those who ought to have
attended to the details. The dismissals and the
changes in the Royal Household, and the various
other reductions in the Palace expenditure, have all
been done by the express orders of her MAJESTY, who
has shown that she will neither sanction waste in her
household, nor allow her servants to rob their mis-
tress, and through her, the country.

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Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies,
nisei many thousands of the Nobility anti Public ; and the Pro-
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MSS., Works of Art, and a multitude of valuable Relies, and other
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and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS
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sion i• reduced to ONE SHILLING.
The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen only at the " Egyptian
flail," Piccadilly, daily from Ten till Dusk.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 15.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 43; Highest, 60; Noon, 60.
BAROMETER, 30.2.—W1ND, S.W.

NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
f fedng point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

speakers.

The elevation of Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK to the
Chief Barony of the Exchequer, and of Sir WILLIAM
FOLLETT to the Attorney-Generalship, was posi-
tively stated by The Sun on Saturday last. We have
now to announce that Mr. THESIGER is to be the
Solicitor-General, in place of Sir WILLIAM FOLLETT.
The legal appointments are now complete, and
vacancies in Parliament for Exeter and Wood-
stock are thereby caused. The appointment
of Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK will give general satis-
faction to all parties. As a lawyer, his attainments
are great, whilst, as a man and gentleman, he merits
every praise. Sir WILLIAM FOLLETT requires no
laudation from us ; barring his politics, he has our
highest admiration. As to Mr. THESIGER, if Mr.
KELLY might not be Solicitor-General, we know
nobody better that could have been takan
from the Tory bar ; which, at this moment, is
singularly devoid of talent. But we do not think
that Mr. THESIGER will add much to the strength of
the Government. As a debater he is a failure—as a
lawyer he is not above mediocrity—and why Sir
ROBERT PEEL chose hitn'to be Solicitor-General, to
the exclusion of Mr. KELLY, we cannot tell. The
giant mind of Mr. KELLY is as far superior to that of
Mr. THESIGER, as the stature of the latter is to the
former. But Cambridge was unsafe, in fact, cer-
tain to be lost, and PEEL'S majority, great as it is,
.cannot bear reduction. Here lies the secret of Mr.
KELLY'S non-appointment. Mr. THESIGER is no fa-
vourite of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S. Ever since the cele-
brated Evesham Committee, in 1838, when Cocx-
smug, hereafter to be one of the greatest men at the
English bar, made the proud heart of THESIGER quail
before his talent and energy, in the presence of Sir
R. PEEL, who sat as Chairman, and unseated PETER
BORTHWICK, THESIGER, has been no favourite. And
in the House of Commons the perpatual we of the
Treasury side annoys a Premier who delights to say
Ido this, I refuse that. However, Mr. THESIGER is
now Solicitor-General, with a good chance for a
Judgeship at no distant day, and talent has been re-
jected in the person of Mr. KELLY, with the promise
that he shall hare the next vacancy.

A' OH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TICS DAY.
Moniing ' B minutes after SI I Evening ... '27 minutes after 1.
- • - -

At the great Anti-Corn-law banquet, which took
place on Friday night at Liverpool, Mr. Regain.
made some apt, ironical comments on the equivocal
conduct of Ministers as regards the question of free-
trade. "If profession is to be relied on," said the
Hon. Member, " the Premier is a free-trader, for to
borrow an expression from a candidate fbr the City
of London, he is for free trade in the abstract.' If
profession is to be relied on, the Right Hon. Secretary
for the Home Department is for free trade in the
abstract. If the President of the Board of Trade is
to be measured, not by the profession of his principles,
but by what he has already published, he, too,
is a free-trader in the abstract. These men only
want moral courage. to carry out their prin-
ciples
they would only
come
some
saycomprehensive measure, such
f;o r
w and a
forward
w I
with must
if
as a bold spirit like Lord CHATHAK would'have pro-
duced, they would carry with them all the sympathy,
as well as support, of the present generation, and
would command the gratitude of all posterity." There
is sometimes, as has been shrewdly observed, great
virtue in an "if," and here is a decided case in point.
"If" the Premier, "like Lord CUATUAM," w
come forward with some "comprehensive measure
there is no doubt, as Mr. EWART states, that he
would be an inestimable benefactor to the existing
"command the gratitude of poste.
generation, and

delivery of letters in the Midland Counties, when Sir ' rity ;" but alas that " if"—that chilling, insuperable
ROBERT PEEL stated that the Government were most "if"—is a terrible stumbling-block, and forbids
anxious to afford every facility to the speedy trail!. us to cherish the pleasing conviction. Sir
mission of letters, but they were hampered by the ROBERT PEEL, were his days to be lengthened
great expense to which the public were put by making even to those of MEW:SALEM, would never find it in
terms with railways. He at the same time intimated his nature to project a measure that should in the
that railway proprietors would best consult their own slightest degree remind his countrymen of a CHATHAM!
interest by facilitating communication through the He would never, for instance, in the cause of the
Post, office. I people, beard the whole power of the Court and the
Mr. WILLIAMS said if railroad companies refused aristocracy ;he would never dare to throw himself on
to give every reasonable facility for the transmission the masses for support. Such a stretch of magnanimity
of letters, and every other communication, they ought is far beyond his reach ; he is a mere conventional
to be compelled by law to do their duty. Minister—the slave of precedent and etiquette ; who,
After some questions and notices of motions, the if he move at all, must move according to estab-
House went into Committee of Supply, and on the lished forms and proprieties, and at the well-regulated
motion that a vote of 59,350/. should be passed for pace of a trained official, who has graduated in the red-
salaries and other expenses of the officers of the two tape school. Lord CHATHAM, though he wielded the
Houses of Parliament, Mr. WILLIAMS objected to it, destinies of England at a period when the people were
on the ground that the House of Lords did not give infinitely less powerful than at present, and the aris-
in an estimate, like other establishments, for what tocracy a ere infinitely more so, yet set the whole
they might want. After some discussion, Mr. HUME body of the latter at defiance, and ruled in spite of
moved that the vote be reduced by 15,0001., and, on them. Sir ROBERT PEEL, on the contrary, truckles
a division, there were for the amendment 13, and unconditionally to rank ; a single frown from the
against it 69. A number of other votes were agreed Dukes of RICHMOND and BUCKINGHAM is quite suffi-
to, and the House resumed. cient to scare him from his good resolutions ; and he
On the motion of Sir J. GRAHAM, the County makes it a point to strengthen his Cabinet by as many
Courts Bill was read a second tii e. aristocratic accessories as possible. Here is the great
A new writ was ordered for the borough of Wood- I secret of his lamentable vacillation on the subject
of free trade. He would be a free-trader
stock, in the room of Mr. THESIGER, appointed
Solicitor-General. if he dared ; but the cold, stern, haughty eyes of the
aristocratic monopolists are on him, and he quails
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed
of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter to Twelve. beneath their glances, and is compelled to take refuge
in vague professions. "A free-trader in the ab-
stract !" Such is the Prime Minister of the first
commercial country in the world—a man who sees
the one great want of the age, who has more than
once timidly and indirectly acknowledged it, yet who
fears to act boldly on the convictions of his under-
standing ! Would a CHATHAM have thus humili-
ated himself—thus acted in defiance of his better
judgment, at the command of men immeasurably
his inferiors in all the qualities of statesmanship?
We are by no means sanguine, when we bear in mind
the majority which the Premier has at his back ; but
we do hope shortly to see the day when he will not
only be a " free-trader," but a Minister also, " in the
abstract"—that is to say, supporting the interests of
the country, without fee or reward, except such as
his own conscience may supply him with, on
the front seat of the Opposition benches. At
the great banquet to which we have been
alluding, Mr. COBDEN archly observed—" Some of
our opponents are not very learned. The other day
one of the free-trade newspapers in Herts, in an able
article on the Anti-League movement, spoke of the
defection from the right cause of Lord DACRE,
and quoted the well-known phrase, Et tu, Brute ! '
Next day a long letter came from his Lordship's
land-steward, denouncing the editor for calling Lord
DACRE a brute!" Ignorance like this is by no
means confined to the land-stewards of the mo-
nopolists, for we have read, of late, not a few
Anti-League speeches delivered by titled and wealthy
Protectionists, which abound in proofs of block-
headism quite as egregious as that which we have just
quoted, and which would really seem to have been
delivered with no other view than to exhibit in full,
uxuriant perfection, the amazingly long ears of the

Madrid journals of the 6th and 7th instant have
been received, but they bring no news. The Bourse
still remained closed on the 6th.

In the French Chamber of Peers on Friday, th•
Duke de BROGLIE brought up the Report of the
Committee on the new Education Bill, and read it at
_ .

length. The Committee agreed in reoomtnending
the adoption of the measure, with a few slight altera-
tions, and the Chamber seemed to be of the same opinion.
On leaving the tribune the Duke was loudly cheered.
The debate on this important measure was fixed for
Monday, the 22d, and a number of Members had an-
nounced their intention of speaking; among others,
MM. DUPIN7 CAUSIN, DE MONTALEMBERT, and
BARRENTE. The Rep"rt extends to great length, the
reading of it having occupied the Chamber for two
hours, and is spoken of in high terms by all parties,
except those who side with the rebellious clergy.
The first paragraph, which lays down the principles
on which the Bill is founded, runs thus

" In entering upon the examination of the project of law
submitted to their consideration, the Committee has found
two decisive questions solved :—The: State gives and should
give instructions; the State offers to the public an instruc-
tion suited to their wants ; but the State does not exclusively
exercise the right of instruction ; private individuals have
the right delegated to them ; what is done by the State may
be done by every Frenchman, qualified by his acquirements
and his character. Such is the public right as laid down by
the Charter. It is the duty of the State to spread far and
wide the advantages of instruction, and to satisfy the solici-
tude of parents for the welfare of their children."
In the Chamber of Deputies, on Saturday, Marshal
SOULT brought in a Bill for granting a sum of
5,880,000 f. towards improving the fortifications of
Havre. On the same day M. LEDBU RoLLIN was to
bring on a motion, of which he had given notice,
relative to the dispatches brought by M. REIMS from
Admiral DUPETIT TROUARS. Up to the hour of
post, however, no discussion had taken place, owing
to the absence of Ministers. We are glad to find that
some of the Paris papers are showing a just indigna-
tion against the Court, though they nominally throw
the blame on M. GUIZOT, for conferring the Order of
the Legion of Honour on such men as BRAVO and
NARVAEZ. We extract from the Siècle the following
just remarks on this shameful prostitution of an

Order which Frenohmen had hitherto regarded with
such veneration :

" We refused before now to believe the news which we fin
confirmed to-day in the dispatches front Madrid, and by the
testimony of our Ministerial papers. The Grand Cordon of
the Legion of Honour has been sent in the name of the King,
by M. Bresson, the Ambassador of France, to General Nar-
vaez and M. Gonzales Bravo. Thus our Government ren-
ders itself officially responsible for all the violences by which
these political adventurers had signalised their dictatorship.
M. Guizot ought, in fact, to feel a lively sympathy for a
Minister who has brutally practised in Spain the same sys-
tem of intimidation that he himself, it will he remembered,
glorified among us, It is not enough to characterise as the
French party, a party which, after having glided into the
rank of the Spanish Liberals, from whom it asked an asylum
on the ground of being an auxiliary and of amnesty, all at
once threw aside the mask, dismissed the COrtes, proscribed
the men whose plain dealing it had deceived, and multiplied
military executions, but the chiefs of that faction are to be
decorated with the Cordon that Massena, Ney, Brune, Da-
voust, Montebello, and their rivals in ory, paid for with
their blood, and acquired by scores of victorious campaigns.
To honour perjurers, to recompense senility—audaciously to
replace in the ministry of public affairs magistrates who had
been turned oat of it after a solemn investigation—these are
the acts which characterise the system."
We subjoin additional extracts from tip papers.
We read in a letter from Milan, April 2, i* the _Augsburg
Gazette :—" We have received a letter from Malta, informing
us that at the present moment there are at most but twelve
Italian refugees in. the island, so that the retorts in circula-
tion relative to the designs of the refugees are necessarily ex-
aggerated. On the other hand, letters from the Lombardo-
\ enetian kingdom announce that several regiments have re-
ceived orders to hold themselves in readiness to march, in
case an intervention should be deemed necessary."
In a letter of the 2d inst. from Milan, quoted by the
Cologne Gazette, it is said—
" The negotiations for a marriage between the Duke de
Bordeaux and Princess Maria Carolina of Naples, are so far
advanced that their union is now beyond all doubt: The ill-
ness of the Duke d'Angouleme is the only cause for delaying
the nuptials. The two sons of Admiral Bandiera have gt ne
from Corfu to Malta, where Mazzini, the Chief of Young
Italy, was expected from London."
" We learn from Munich that the King of Bavaria has
published a decree, in virtue of which Protestant soldiers are
to be no longer forced to be present at the service of the
Roman Catholic church, or Catholic soldiers to attend on the
occasion of religious ceremonies in Protestant churches. In
cases of religious processions, however, they are still to be
called upon to form the line, that being considered a service
of public order, and not identifying them in any way with
the religious character of the proceeding."
THE B 0 SE--SATURDAY, APRIL 13.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents•• •• 123 30 123 30 • 123 18 .. 123 10
Four per Cents.... • • 106 38 .. 106 30 106 30 • • 106 30
Three per Cents,. • • 83 50 .. 83 50 .. 83 30 .. 83 50
Bank of Franee.• .• • 3100 .•3105 —3lOO —3185
Laftitte Bank, 5,000 f. Sharesslss —5155 • .5155 —slf 3
Belgian Bank. •
1841..
Belgian Fives,lB3l. •• • ••• 102/ .. 1021 .. 1021 1021
1840 •••••••• 1061 .. 100/ •• 106 •• 106
Spanish Active • • ..
Threes ........ 371 .. 27f .. 371 .. 37f
Passive .• • ... ...... 61 .. Gi • • 6/ • • 6/
New Deferred ••.• • 151 •• 151 • • 131
• • 151
Portuguese Five per Cents • • 47 47 .• 47 • • 47
Neapolitan.. ••••••• • • • . • • • 102 .. 101 .'• 101 76 • • 101 73
.... 106 .. 106 .. 106 •• 106
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, R. 8... 382 50 .. 382 50 382 50 382 50
L. 8.• •.• • • 250 255 .. 250 253 75
Rouen ••• • • • •• 977 50 .. 977 50 •• 977 50 .. 977 50
Rouen to Havre .••• • 710 .. 720 .. 710 .. 715
Orleans .. 955 .. 960 •• 955 .. 960
Strasburg to Bale 292 50 • • 293 75 .. 288 73 290
Avignon toplarseilles. .
Mulhausen to Thann • • 380 380 • • 380 • • 380
RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
Rouen •• •
Rouen to Havre •.•.• • ••••• 707 50 721 25 .. 707 50 715
Orleans
Strasburg to7Bale .. 292 50 .. 295 .. 287 50 • . 291 25
Avignon to Marseilles• ••• .. 765 • • 777 • • 765 • • 771 25
'ould -

The Irish State Trials will now again occupy public
attention. On Thursday next Counsel will move, in the
Court of Queen's Bench, in Dublin, to set aside the ver-
dict, and for a new trial, on tho grounds of unfairness
and error in the proceedings.- What the result of this

THE SUN, LONDON, TUES D

application will be it may not be difficult to guess; but if
it meet with a refusal, and sentence be passed, then the
appeal to Ihe House of Lords will be prosecuted. Sir
Thomas Wilde and Mr. Kelly lead for the applicants.

The elections for Exeter, Huntingdon, Horsham,
and Woodstock, are not to be mere walks over. At
Exeter a gentleman named Briggs raises the standard
of free trade, and contests the palm with Sir William
Follett; Mr. George Thompson, Mr. Moore, and a
numerous staff of the League are at his side, and a
good fight will be made. At Huntingdon, and the
other two places, League candidates will be named,
and not a chance lost of enlightening the electoral
mind. Whatever may be said or thought of the po-
licy of the Leaguers, it is quite certain that their
energy and diligence go far to deserve success, and
must, sooner or later, achieve it.

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.

LATER FROM the UNITED STATES.

By the arrival of the New York packet-ship Roscivs,
Captain Collins, at this port this morning, we are put in
possession of New York papers to the 26th ult. inclusive,
three clays later, which, however, do not contain any
political news of interest. The rate of exchsnge was
advancing, and stood at 1071 to 1081. The following
are extracts from the papers :

The old questions which have been agitating the country
for years past—" bank "—" currency —" distribution
"tariff"—appear to begiving way under the influence of new
questions, and a new impulse which begins to prevail exten-
sively all ever the country, in relation to the recent springing
up of the Texas annexation question, and also the negotiation
relative to the Oregon territory. These two questions have
sprung up during the last two or three months, to an im-
portance that no one would have anticipated a year ago.
Almost every paper that we see is now discussing with more
or less excitement the annexation of Texas question, and
many of them also the negotiations on the Oregon question.
In the Legislatures of the various States, movements are
made in reference to these questions ; and we perceive in the
important Legislatures of Pennsylvania and New York reso-
lutions directly affecting the Texas question have been intro-
duced. In every part of the country the discussion ine:easos
and the excitement widens.—New York Herald.
Fnom CAMPECHY.—A gentleman who came passenger in
the schooner Magnet, Captain Coffin, arrived here yesterday
from Campechy, informs us, when the Magnet left, it was
currently reported that Laguna would be evacuated by the
Mexican troops on the Bth instant, at which time the Cam-
pechians were to take possession. One hundred Mexican
troops left Laguna on the 27th ult. in the steamer Petrita, foe
Vera Cruz.—..Vew;Orleans Tropic, 16th inst.
Fort OREGON.-The Western Expositor says some of the '
Oregon emigrants have already arrived at Independence in
this State, fur the purpose of making preparations to depart
for that territory this spring. There are from 300 to 400 per-
sons in Jackson county who contemplate emigrating this sea-
son.—St. Louis Republican, March 16.
WASHINGTON, MARCH 24, 1f344.
The Hon. John Y. Mason, Secretary of the Navy, arrived
in town to-day, Sunday.
Nothing is vet heard from Mr. Calhoun, except that he is
expected in the city to-morrow.
This day has been unusually pleasant and spring-like.
People are beginning to think of summer clothing.
To-morrow, in the Senate, Mr. Benton is expected to
make a speech upon the tariff.
The debate upon the Oregon question will soon be renewed
again in the Senate, upon the Bills to protect and occupy the
territory.
In :he course of the week, too, the new Post-office Refortn
Bill will also be discussed. Its fate is very doubtful.
MONEY MARKET, MARCH 25.

The stock market opened rather heavy this morning, and
ffices experienced a decline. Long Island fell off per cent.,
Mohawk . Ohio 6's 1, Kentucky I, Illinois 1, Farmers'
Trust 1, Pennsylvania s's 1, Norwich and Worcester
Harlem improved 1 per cent., Paterson Vicksburgh
North American Trust The sales were only to a mode-
rate ex teat. Money continues very abundant. The ruling
rate in Wall-street is sto 6 per cent. We bear of a loan of
a large amount on bond and mortgage, at five and three-
fourths per cent. per annum. There will doubtless be more
employment for money in the course of thirty or sixty days,
as trade will in that time increase very much.

ARRIVAL OF THE CALEDONIA.
LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING.
By the Caledonia, which left Halifax on the 4th inst.,
we have received American papers and letters, of the
contents of which we proceed to lay before our readers
some miscellaneous extracts. She brings 94 passengers.
The Texas question and the occupation of Oregon
continur, it is said, to absorb public attention throughout
the wh.)le Union ; and the conflicting interests of the
Northern and Southern States are discussed with ability
and fairness. The policy of Mr. President Tyler, in propor-
tion as it developes itself, may bo assumed to exhibit
a strong tendency to increase the influence of the
Southern Members of the Federation, in Congress. It is
to be expected that this fact will excite considerable
jealousy among the more determined of the old Demo-
cratic party, who are little inclined to concede any degree
' of preponderance which may disturb the fair " working
balance" of the American Constitution—a balance
which their efforts have been devoted, at all times, strictly
to maintain.
FROM Mnxico.—Dates from Vera Cruz to the 11th, and
from Mexico to the 7th, have been received at New Orleans.
Business was dull, but public affairs quiet. A new tariff is
in contemplation. Joseph Greenham, formerly of this city,
died at Vera Cruz on the 6th. He owned several cotton-fac-
tories, and was worth several millions of dollars. The Picayune
says that serious difficulties are anticipated with the
French Government by the Mexicans. One of the points at
issue is the claim of indemnity for 3,000,000 of dollars from
Mexico for the expenses of the war which ended with the
capture of San Juan de Ulloa, in 1838. In express arrived
from Mexico on the 7th inst. from the French Minister, with
dispatches for the commander of the Brillante, the purport of
which, it is said, is to request him to delay his projected de-
parture, and to assemble his forces now in the Uulf at Vera

Cruz.
MURDER.—Hon. Benjamin P. Major, who was stabbed a
few days before by Elijah Cherry, at Warsaw, Missouri, died
about the 10th instant. The quarrel took place at a Loco
Foco meeting, both men being members of that party, bet
taking opposite sides in the two factions into which it has
split in Missouri. Major was a Senator in the Missouri Le-
gislature. Cherry was examined before a magistrate, and was
discharged.
TEXAN PRISONERS DT Maxico.—The Richmond Enquirer
announces that, encouraged by the success of his applica-
tion to Santa Anna for the release of Mr. Bradley, one of the
Texan captives in Mexico, and stimulated by a hundred let-
ters from friends of other prisoners, soliciting his interven-
tion, General Jackson has written again to the Mexican
President, "appealing to the spirit of the age, and to his
own best feelings as a brave and magnanimous man, to libe-
rate the prisoners on their parole of honour."
The Hon. S. S. Prentiss, of Mississippi, arrived in town on
Thursday, and has taken lodgings at the Astor House.
The three-story woollen mill of Mr. Joseph Day, in Ux-
bridge, Massachusetts, was entirely destroyed by fire on
Saturday night last, together with the machinery and fix-
tures. Insured in Worcester for 4,000 dolls. Loss of the
owner, 1,500 dolls.
The grand jury of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island have
found true bills of indictment against the three Gordons, for
the murder of Mr. Sprague—Nicholas and William as prin-
cipals, and John as accessory before the fact. The trial is
fixed for the Bth of April.
A large meeting was held at Charleston, S.C., on the 25th,
to make arrangements for the reception of the Hon. J. C. Cal-
houn, on his way to Washington. A committee of 100 was
appointed for that purpose.
STEAM-BOAT BBRNED.—The steam-boat:Rowena was en-
tirely destroyed by fire a few nights since, while lying at a
little distance from the wharf at Mobile. The crew and pas.
sengers had just time to escape without their clothing, and
the cargo, consisting of cotton to the amount of 473 bales,
with twelve or fifteen cattle, &c., was destroyed. There
was an insurance of 7,000 dols. on the boat, and the cargo
was partly insured.
A coloured man named Charles Alsep has been committed
to Queen's County Gaol for stealing two waggon loads of fur-
niture from the house of Mr. E. F. Sanderson, at Jamaica,
during the absence of the family, some time last month.
We understand that the Delaware and Hudson Canal
will be opened for navigation on the 15th of April.
Capt. Hewett, of packet-ship Utica,which arrived here last
evening, from Havre, brings out a chronometer for Captain
Peabody, and a circle and sextant for each of his officers,
being a present from an insurance company in Paris, and one
in Havre, for saving 50,000 dole. from ship Constitution of
Portland, foundered at sea.
The summer arrangements of the New York and Erie
Railroad line commence on the first of April, (Moralay next.)
The fine steam-boat Eureka leaves the foot of Duane-street,
every morning, at seven o'clock, and every afterr.oon, at four
o'clock, Sundays excepted. Passengers by the morning line
can have five or six hours in Goshen or Middletown and re-
turn to the city the same evening.
MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(Correspondence of the Courier and Enquirer.)
PHHADELPHIA, MARcii 29.—The-Stock operations to-day
were to a fair extent ; prices of most descriptions, however,
receded. Pennsylvania s's,l* to per cent. ; Vicksburg 1 per
cent. ; Readiniß.R. to 1 ; 12,500 dols. Pennsylvania s's fid.d.
at 64 ; 2,000 dole. do. at 631 ; 1,000 dole. City s's at 10511; 1,000
dole. Reading R. R. bonds at 67 ; 200 shares Wilmington R. R.
at 17 to 16i ; 5,000 dole. Phila. county s's 1860, (old) at 99 ;
50 shares Mer. and Mechanics' Bank at 25 ; 123,Girard Bank
at 7* ; 50 Reading R. R. at 211 ; 33 Kentucky. Bank, at 72i.
At the Second Board, 7,000 dole. C. and Delaware Canal
Loan, to 45* ; 3,000 dols. do. to 45 ; 1,000 dole. Lehigh
(mortgage loan) a 59 ; 130 shares Wilmington Railroad 161 ;
2 Pennsylvania Bank a 246 ; 7 Southward Bank a 65 ; 10
Girard Bank 7}; Vicksburg closed at 9 a9l ' • Wilmington
Railroad 16i a 161; City Five per Cents. 106 ; Pennsylvania
Five per Cents. 63 a 63* ; U. S. Loan, Six per Cents. 113 ;
Do. Five per Cents. 102 a 1021.
American cotton and woollen goods are in active demand, ant
prices well supported. Considerable business hasbeen done in
bread stuffs during the past week, at full prices. Bark, over
100 hhds. No. 1. Quercitron changed hands at 22 dell. a
22 dols. 50 cts. Coffee holders have advanced prices about
cent per lb. and the only transaction reported is 1,200 bags
Rio, at 7 a 8 cts. Cotton—The transactions unusually limited,
barely to supply immediate wants of spinners. Flour—
There is not much activity shown in the mai ket, about 3,000
bbls. for shipment have been taken at 4 dols. 62i a 4 dole. 75.
For exports 11,453 brls. Moderate "sales of Rye Flour at
3,25 dole. Sales of Corn Meal at 2,43 dols. a 2,44. Wheat
—about 5,000 bush. Penna. sold at 103 a 105 eta. Southern
at 95 a 100 cts. Hides--1,500 Buenos Ayres dry, price not
reported. Sales of 300 bbls molasses, New Orleans, at 30
cts ; 200 hhds .Matanzas at 34 cts. A cargo of Trinidad
at 26c. and 70 hhds. Porto Rico at 28c.
RATE OF SALEM AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 29.
$5,000 U. S. 53 '53 .......................................... 1021
600 U. S. 6s '62 .......................................... 113*
10,000 States 6s '62 oP'g 1091
2,000 Pennsylvania 5s ....................................... 631
2,000 Indiana Bonds .......................................... 36*
5,000 Illinois special .......................................... 40
50 shs. Farmers' Loan,
20 Equitable Ins loli
50 Firemens' Iris lo7*
fi
7 Boston and rm R -104 i
SECOND BOARD.
100 shares Nor. and Wor 36*
25 shares Long Island
50 klarlem ....................................................s 30 63
100 Vicksburg ...................... . . , 9i

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