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13, Great Marlborough-street. the session will have elapsed. In this period, the cx- 'ought to be paid, as the Legislature contemplated it the Minister of Finance, in formally proposing the r. THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING APRIL 5, 1844
mR. LEVER'S NEW NV olt ii, •
perience of almost every previous - • •
session since the would be, by the wealthy consumers of the products reimbursement, offered the holders 41 in place of 5; 1 •
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No. 1.-An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended sth of April, 184:3, and sth of April, 1841, showing the Increase
" ARTHUR O'LEARY • 1115 WANDER :NG3 AND PONDER- Revolution, has established the fact, that all measures of their labour ? Nothing. Behold the account of and this is precisely what M. GARNIER PAGES requires
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'lb- C Ef'"GE CRUIKSHA.NK, in of administrative eeonomy-all decrees of Parliament , work " done and performed"-of the work yet to be at present. He assigned as a reason for this addition of a . or Decrease on each head thereof.
a vols., post svo. half per cent. that the stock was quoted at 112. It was
IS NOW READY AT ALL THE BOOKSELLERS , which require for their salutary and efficient working , achieved before the close of the session !
i -G. to bonify the interest on what the presesent quota- QUARTERS ENDED YEAR
ended QUARTERS ENDED
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and Libraries throughout the Kingdom. , mature discussion and frequent previous appeals to (-- April ended ......................................mmft, ~........!.....V......... \
July 5, Oct. 10, I Jan. 5, 1 April 5, April 5, July 5, Oct. 10, Jan. 5, 5, Argil 5,
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Wre have only time to express our entire satisfac-tion possesses above the nominal value (that is 100 f.) 1842 IS-11 i 1843 1843 184.3 1843 1843 1844 1844 1814 Increase. 1 Decrease.. Increase. Decreai!.
the judgment of legislators and the feelings of the
tion with the labours of the Select Committee (of the customs. :-
But this fixation has acquired in a certain degree the Consolidated Duties .. 3 120 608 4,647,472 I 3,274,000 3,193,5:-6 -------
3,304,473 ! 4,276,151 3,074,421 3,50,5b1 - .
THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. * i people, whom those legislators purport to represent-!• , , i
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Immense Attraction for Easter. House of Commons) on "Railways," whose " Third force of a matter decided, and we admit it as a con- Sugar Duty Consou.
It is respectfully ani.ouncerl, that the Administration of tIls? i!should e, - - - 262,546 - 1,252,733 - - 420.7536 - •
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Academie Hoye' e, Pa:is, having consented to a p,olotigation of the tived. The remainder of the session, after an Easter Report" we this day present to our readers. It is a cession due to the epoch, &c. Those are the words Ditto to Supplies - 1,226,565 910,089 763;465
---- --'--- - - 1,253,357 1,092,544 654,100 - - r-
,852,681 11,R90,123 Excise ........-.. 474,c07 ....
85.,:ipt .
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Total Customs . 4,422,191 5,943,977 4,214,089 4,219,537 68 4,766,963 4,034,147 -10,45'1,-129 Customs ....... 658,33 i . 38;10 - _
song, I DI. Duprez, this eminent Artiste will sing three Nights in , 7...-----8,79,,794 -.7.--,5570)i -5--x9,5
document in every sense creditable to the enlarged of M. PAssr, in a written speech, assuredly well de-
the Easter Week. ; recess, is always all too brief for an accurate, a care-
MONDAY EVENING, APR ,L B,Excise
Post Office
- liberated on, which he pronounced Jan. 16, 1840, as stamps 2,8 •••, i, 0 3,72,,035 3,022,008 1,767,373 11,405;46 3,1)30,113 3,966,550 3,1130,771 1
1,698,379 1,631,4811 1,561,751 1,593,12 ii 6,484,739 1,659,010 1,650,366 1,523,653 1,:w239:055191 65,,437562.:098710
Property
Stamps
views, combined with a business-like mastery of de
2,,,59, 39 177,437 1,896,10 142,693 4,265,5:17 1,99 t,831 194,10' 1,508,`57 144,685 4 192 473 Take:sort,
Tax
2,900,0, --- -
Will be performed the Opera of GUILLAUME ]'ELL Artio'd, ; ful, or even a conscientious examination of the detailsii,Z9 45,885 •
Takes ....,....
M. Duprez ; Gensler, Mr. G. Horncastle; %‘ illiam Tell, Mr. ;tails, which the gentlemen composing this Committee the exposé des motifs of the budget of the-folloA 1ip).73,064 1,987 .....
Stretr on ; Lutern, Mdlle. Albertazzi; Matilda, Miss Romer • ; 1 which
of fills have been introduced prior to that t, Property Tax 313,844 257,212 1,885,232 2,456,2,58 861,;09 2,047,904 454,415 1. 107,627 --
Martha, iss af.etts ' 1 ' d Now let us see what operations, coming
peno . have brought to bear upon a subject of the nearest year. Let the consequence be drawn from this. If
Crown Lands ; 154,000 168,000 141,009 144,4E0 607,0, N I 145,000 160,001 143,000 171,000 622,000 Post Office ~. 15,P00 4i0,060 . --a'
To conclude with the revived Melodrama of THE TALE OF ' 30,000 12,500 40,000 35 000 117,5':'0 32,5( 0 :0,000 SO,. 0 6:,,, 00 147,500 Crown I ands 30,000 30,000
MYSTERY. Count 3onamo, 51r. Selby ; Count Romaldi, Dlr. within this class of public business, the Administration and deepest interest to the social comfort, improve:. it was
proper to leave a half per cent. above four to sliscellaneous 213,757 2,924 21,53; 541,556 797,774 1,(,524 17,744 11,917 41,212 1,1,4,477 .scellaneous 333,703 :00,264
Cooper ; Michelli. Mr. Harley; Selina, Mrs Stirling. ment, and development of our great country. May the holders, for the motive that the Fives were truly - - ---
Total Ordinary Reveni.e 11,467,666 11,1,94,197 11,143,, 63 10,322,522 44,934,148 ' 1'_+,333,,93 13,1. 86,172 11,829,581 10,513,993 49; ' -_ -................... .......................
Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 39. lid. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55.. of Sir R. PEEL has hitherto accomplished. 262,629 Total ... 4,415,241 85,761 685,725 L 00.264
Second Price 3s. ; Pit 3s , Second Price 1.; DI d•de Glilety VS, -rN oit be allowed to us to add, that having, for some time
Second Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. Dy favour o eHouse
f the of Commons, and a sort of
P more especially since the beginning of Imprest Moneys, &c
and regularly quoted at 112, ought not another half 267,530 111,070 107,197 16,90'7 50 ?,6 ,4 67,150 31,305 50,136 54,244 205,865 Imp. DI ineys ...... 296,739 37,337
per cent. to be left-or nothing taken away-from the Repayments ofAdvances 11 205,, 180211 235,247 124,018 , 642,05 i 138,267 230,932 33'2,0iiii 211,28 t 927,483 Rep. of Am.. 1:85,425 -
-- ----- well-bred acquiescence in the House of Lords, which 102,2:.6 --;
THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. the present session,-very frequently called attention moment that the permanent quotation is about 125 ? - --,- -- - --.
Total Income ... 11,837,748 12,285,478 11, 14-6,1 i ri 10,469,477 46,078,510 I 13,539,2'0 • 13,3 7 i ,409 12,21 ,777 10,791,511 50,396,977 Total ... 4.700,669 380,501 05,298 500,:44
MR. BENJA3IN WEBSTER, LESSEB. is always reluctant to take any course that may have
Return of Madame Vestris and Mr. C. Mathews. to the all-important bearings of future legislation A a ‘l,:
rxt, this quotation of 125, whiCh the holders of the Amount applied to Con- 6,9t0,776 9,047,560 6,850,0_4 9,160,•"69 32,645,659 6,41. ,f,06 10,L2,,636 1,859,803 7,6 f 5,972 32,462,107
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ON EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 8, the appearance to the Court of opposing obstacles to solidated Fund
4,318,167 t
38,,502 I Deduct De- 560 i 64 1 ' Deduct
Will be performed a New Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir on railway management ;we derive a proportion- Ditto, as Advances
Increase on ~,, „„_, S Increase
- t crease ' j Decrease-
Charles Coldstream, Bart., Mr. Charles Mathews; Sir Adonus routine State business, brought forward by the accre- Fives have arrived at, the reimbursement is a vio-
Diotto, as Ways & Means -- ,
Leech, Mr Tilbury; Wurzle, Mr. James Bland; Mary, Miss Julia
dated Ministers of ate degree of satisfaction from the coincidence lence, a revolutionary act. It is only revolution which f the Year 4,1'26,310 :1,061,291 4,626,053 967,830 i 12,884,524 ' 6,901,273 • 3,1.7,773 4,060,393 , 2,g8,539 17,071,968 01l
Bennett; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs•
Humby. the Crown-a great proportion of of the recommendations comprised in this Report - -
After which, a New Comic Drama, entitled GRIST TO THE the annual estimates have been voted. So far as the with Total l4-37,74 , 12,235,478 1 11,186,107 , 10,469,477 t 46,078,810 ; 13,539,2q1 13,851,4031 12,211,777 10,791,511 50,396,977
MIL. !Marquis de
New, Mr. harles Mathews; Francine, those which have thus been
we endeavouring The Constihttionnel, though it has changed pro -
can assert that 100 f. pay 125 f."
Madame Vestris. departments of the service of the country, therefore - - ----
To be followed by a New, Original, Occasional, and Local Extra- to press upon the consideration of Parliament. It No. IL-Income and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the sth April, -
1843, and the sth April, 1844. • .
vaganza, founded on Fact, entitled THE DRAMA AT HOME; or, are concerned, provision may be said to have been
may be remembered by the readers of The Sun, that prietors, is evidently still under the influence of M.
An Evening with Puff. Principal Characters by Mr. C. Mateews, THIERS. In a witty article on French colonization, • Quarters ended April 5
Mr. J. bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mrs. Glover, Miss P. Horton, and made for them at an early stage of the year. It must
we have strenuously urged upon the Legislature the , i Quarters ended April 5.
Miss Lee. be allowed, too, to the credit of Mr. GC/IMBUES, a man it thus ridicules the peaceful policy of the GUIZOT INCOME 1813 1814 CHARGE. ',...--......,-..---..
To conclude with the Extraordinary Performances of Professor propriety of availing itself, efficiently, of the oppor- Cabinet :- Ma In 4
RISLEY and his INFANT SON, surnamed '' I,e Petit 31ercure." of less plausibility and modest pretensions, but, we custems.-Consolidated Duties 3,192,586 3,5;29,55i ''ermanent Debt
The Box-office will be open on Saturday, April 6. tunity afforded by applications for its sanction to nevi' " A report begins to be murmured, that before three Sugar appheable to the Terminable Annuities 534,666 3,532,25 a
Orchestra Stalls, 50. ; Boxes, ss. • Pit, ;:s. ; Gallery, 25.; Upper are disposed to think, of much sounder talent than his
and original lines of railway, or to extensions of old more months shall have elaped vve shall receive the news Consolidated Fund 26 ),546 420,796 Interest on Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund 1,3.9,td8 1,324,03
Gallery, Is. Half-price-Boxes,
_38'..; Pit, ',ht.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper3l,2s9 - 9,3E/2
i,nking Fund
Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at Half pass Six, and the l'erfonnances .0. Hon. Leader,
Right that he lost very little time after of possession having been taken in the name of France Total Customs 3,•5'3,132 3,950 347 the Civil List - 300.82 t;
commence at Seven and. working lines. We have called upon it to brink
,of some far distant island, some remote corner of the Excise
1,7-7,26,; 1,86'7,5.6 Other charges on the Consolidated Fund
Tickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box- his financial project, in proceeding with the Bills, &c.,
into operation some well-matured scheme of general
earth, forgotten by the great colonisers of the world. Stamps 1 593,126 1,6'9,011 For Advances, and to pay off Exchequer Bills issued for Advances
office, from Ten till Five. forming part of the machinery required for working Taxes
, Our Ministers, like true Robinson Crusoes, are always Trope ty Tax -
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THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. his measure for the conversion of the Three-and-a- communication, and plans for the administration thereof
with a view to avoid the errors committed ill former in search of desert islands. They are truly modest; Post Office
HOUSE. Half per Cents. Then, with regard to railway legis- . they ask not for either credit or influence on the Conti- miscellaneousCl r: 35,000 t 5,000 4,328,119 4,214,079
Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. ownds : 6,150
,0
is
9521,,r18.14 The Amount of Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1813,
41,292 ----.....
The Pubic is respectfully informed that this Theatre WILL OPEN ; i.nstances,,by authorising conflicting lines, and neglect-
nent; they content themselves with gleaning some seat- Produce of Silver from China .... 511,406 . 0,825,965 10,155,203
1 tion, badly as we were disposed to augur from the un-
on EASTER MONDAY, April 8, with an A d .rcos by. Mrs. Keeley. , . ing to make any provision for bringing them, here- tered rocks in distant seas, and disperse in small detach- Imprest and other Monies l6. 7 --....--......
After which, will he produced a New Comedietta, in 'lwo ~ cts, meaning, aimless speech of the President of the Repayment of Advances l:4
after, into a system of consentaneous and combined mints the soldiers whom they know not what to do and paid off out of the growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended April 5, 1544, after deducting £200,000
entitled HASTY CONCLUSIOS. l'rincipal Characters by Messrs.paid off out of Sinking Fund
Diddear, F Mathews, F. Vining, Emery, and Miss Fairbrother, and of Trade
Board some weeks ago, the Third Report ofwith. The occupation of the Marquesas has been for 5,262,858
Dirs. Keeley.operation, so as to secure to the public the greatest our Ministry the starting. point of a political system. 9,725,965 10,155,3t8 The Amount issued in the Quarter ended April 5, 1814, in part of the sums granted by Parliament out of the.Consoli
dated Fund for Supply Services
•-r. is. rntinwerl by A New Drama, in One Act, called THE.POS'y the: _e_l_7
tt,,?,orittee on Railways (which, we reprint
practicable advantages that can be derived from a well . To Cash brought to this Account to
be applied to pay off Deficiency Bills 100,010 The Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended April 5, 1814
~-. Shen kept faith with the public, Relying too implicitly on the good-will and moderation
A-n-„,1 -,,a ailfolle organised DT oiection of railway of the English Cabinet, it has fancied that it might make -
• A . The probable amount of Exchequer Bills required to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund, Quarterended
9,8:5,965 10,155,308 April 5, 1814 31 96'7,319
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the judgment of legislators and the feelings of the
people, whom those legislators purport to represent—
, should be, as to their principles, affirmed or nega-
tived. The remainder of the session, after an Easter
recess, is always all too brief for an accurate, a care-
ful, or even a conscientious examination of the details
of Bills which have been introduced prior to that
period. Now let us see what operations, coming
within this class of public business, the Administration
of Sir R. PEEL has hitherto accomplished.
By favour of the House of Commons, and a sort of
well-bred acquiescence in the House of Lords, which
is always reluctant to take any course that may have
the appearance to the Court of opposing obstacles to
routine State business, brought forward by the accre-
dited Ministers of the Crown—a great proportion of
the annual estimates have been voted. So far as the
departments of the service of the country, therefore
are concerned, provision may be said to have been
made for them at an early stage of the year. It must
be allowed, too, to the credit of Mr. GOULBURN, a man
of less plausibility and modest pretensions, but, we
are disposed to think, of much sounder talent than his
Right Hon. Leader, that he lost very little time after
his financial project, in proceeding with the Bills, &c.,
forming part of the machinery required for working
his measure for the conversion of the Three-and-a-
Half per Cents. Then, with regard to railway legis-
tion, badly as we were disposed to augur from the un-
meaning, aimless speech of the President of the
Board of Trade some weeks ago, the Third Report of
the Select Committee on Railways (which, we reprint
to-day) has more than kept faith with the public,
as to any promises made by or on behalf of her MA-
JESTY'S Government) touching the progress of the
Committee's labours on that subject. But with these
items, we fear we must say, our catalogue of the
achivements of the Premier's Government must end.
What are the questions—the iestant, urgent, im-
portunate, vital questions, with which it has not
yet grappled ? What are the classes, burden-
hampered, starving, stern, and desperate, who have
been vainly knocking at the doors of Parliament six
years past, and have announced a common term to
the limits of this session and their own endurance,
whom the sagacity of the Premier has disarmed of
their hostility ? The large amendment of the poor-
law—the present relief of the hand-loom weavers,
and the provisions of some permanent security
against their perpetually recurring seasons of hideous
destitution—which of these objects has the Premier
entertained to the extent of suggesting any remedial
or precautionary measures in reference to them ?
Ireland, he told us, in 1840, as he had before said
in 1835, was his principal difficulty on coming into
power. Did he intend, by the State prosecutions
instituted under his orders against O'CONNELL and
the other Repealers, or in the mode adopted, with
his sanction, by the law officers of the Crown in con-
ducting them, to remove these difficulties ? Has he
yet taken one step to conciliate the estranged
affections of the Irish people ? The whole case of
Ireland —of its accumulated wrongs and their in-
definitely postponed redress—has advanced no further
this session than the revision of the Standing Orders,
and the renewal of their anomalies.
Abortive Bills for extending the jurisdiction of
County Courts, facilitating the recovery of small
debts, reforming the whole system of our Eccle-
siastical Courts and their jurisdiction, and re-
gulating the hours of employment in factories,
have been brought in—with the sanction of Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S Government, or by some one
or other member of it. As they have been
brought in, so, to all appearance, they are likely to be
carried out : that is to say,—" scarce half made up,
and that so lonely and unfashionably" that RICHARD,
Duke of Gloucester, himself would have been ashamed
to stand godfather to them! The obstinacy of Sir J.
GRAHAM on Irish Church, Factory, Prison,
and Poer-law legislation is emulous of the Premier's
on Free-trade, and Corn, Currency, and Banking.
Precious hours were lost in the vain endeavour to
justify the heartless denial of a pension to the widow
of a gallant officer who had fallen in a duel, with the
laurels which he had won in China, in his country's
service, yet green upon his brow. The Premier dili-
gently pressed the authority of official precedents to
warrant the pedantic harshness of the rule to be ap-
piled to the dead ; in forgetfulness of similar delin-
quencies on his own part, and that of other surviving
duellists, his colleagues in the Government of ex post
facto and of individual-persecuting penalties. The
interests of millions of poor consumers, among his
countrymen, of sugar, tea, and corn never broke in
upon the self-complacent flippancy with which he
pronounced judgment against " the widow and the
orphan" for the folly, already atoned in his blood, of
the valian soldier, lost to the country as well as to
them. In the intensity of his zeal to fight the battles
of his party, the Premier permitted the Brazilian
sugar debate to close—so far as his inter-
pretation is concerned—all hope of the British
consumer's being allowed to avail himself of
a market in which that produce could be
available to him. Subsidiary questions as to the
evasion by Foreign Powers of slave-trade suppression
treaties, languished out of the notice paper under the
blight of Ministerial discouragement within the
Lords and Commons, or disappeared in the limbo of
dropped motions, which opens when a " No House"
is dexterously managed to let them slip through to
their untimely fate. The Oregon Territory, which
is the main topic of popular debate, declamation, or
desire throughout the whole area of the United
States, is a " blue chamber," hitherto, of which our
official Bashaws will not trust the key to any of the
indiscreet Fatimas connected with him in Downing-
street or Whitehall. Cominercial treaties, and the
treatment, by our ally, of poor Queen POMARE,—are
subjects which are alike taboo'd. Parliament must
not ask,—the people must • not know,—the Govern-
ment must not reveal,—one tittle about them, " at
present." At any proposition for a vigorous remon-
strance on the part of Great Britain against the exe-
crable tyranny of the traitor NARYAEZ, or the fiend-
ike brutality of the monster RONCALI, in Spain ;
at any proposal to urge the Queen of PORTUGAL to
dismiss from her counsels the incompetent and un-
constitutional Ministry of CABRAL ; our Premier
assumes an aspect of mysterious terror and suppli-
cating wonderment, a's if he feared that by delibera-
tion on the one matter we should find ourselves in
the dungeons of the Inquisition next morning ; and
by going into the other, resuscitate the vengeance of
a PoMBAL against all impugners of the pure wisdom
of the "Most Faithful Majesty."
But if such have been the timid, drowsy, irreso-
lute, and dawdling course of Parliament, under the
correction of such a Premier, on questions nearly
affecting our foreign commerce and our foreign
policy ; it has been more eminently inert, feeble, and
desultory upon matters that touch us nearer home.
On affairs that come home to every man's business—
affect every man's present and future position, or his
social and civil relations--the Government of Sir
ROBERT PEEL, and, therefore, the Parliament, have
been up to this time ominously silent. What has
been done yet for the relief of industrial labour,
whose famishing community is diffusing itself
throughout the length and breadth of the land, vainly
soliciting employment on the one hand, or living
wages, if they be employed, on the other ? Nothing.
What is it intended to do? Will the Premier wait
till that which should be given—and which,
would be received with gratitude and affection given,
affectionate ac-
knowledgment—will be extorted by the organisation
of numbers, and the strong hand of desperation?
It was our purpose to have commented to-day, on What has yet been done in preparing for the re-
the very inconsiderable amount of legislative iusiness newel of the charter of the Bank of England, and the
transacted in the House of Commons from the adjustment of the relations on which joint-stock and
first hour of the present session to its adjourn- icountry banks stand to that establishment ? Nothing.
ment on Tuesday last for the recess. But we should But after the recess Sir ROBERT PEEL intends to
have suspended the commentary we had to offer on look into these affairs. What has been devised for
the sins of omission to be charged against the least the re-establishment of our monetary system on
emphatic of Governments,—(we have no better de- sounder principles, and in anticipation of the repeal
gnation wherewith to characterise its singular lack ,of the Premier's Bill of 1819 ? Nothing. What
of moral force),—could we, even now, in the evi- course has been determined on touching the con-
derice of the past, detect any indications auspicious to
of sayings
the future. But a careful revision the " tinuance of the infamous property and income-tax
" doings" of the profound financier, who, by such devices, sup-
of Ministers evokes no latent
from the an- plements a deficient revenue in the nine- and-twentieth
nals of Parliamentary statements and discussion. By year of profound peace ? Nothing. .What plan has
the time appointed for the re-assembling of the two been organised fur the remodelling of a scheme of
Houses, just two months and a half—almost the taxation which levies thirty millions per annum on
moiety, and decidedly the most precious portion—of toiling artisans and producers, whilst this amount

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA-
HOUSE.
Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY.
The Pubic is respectfully informed that this Theatre WILL OPEN
on EASTER MONDAY, April 8, with an A d .rcss by Mrs. Keeley.
After which, will he produced a New Comedietta, in 'lwo cts,
entitled HASTY CONCLUSIONS. I•rincipal Chalacters by Mesrs.
Didtlear, F Mathews, F. Vining, Emery, and Miss Fairbrother, and
Mrs. Keeley.
To he followed by 't New Drama, in One Act, called THE POST
OF HONOUR. Characters by Mess's. Keeley, Turner, Kinloch,
J. Collier, Stanton. Varnold, Miss Woolgar (from the heatre Royal,
Adelphi, her first appearance at this Theatre), and Mitis Grove.
To conclude with an entirely new Grand Burle que r airy Extra-
vaganza, called OPEN SESAME; or, The Forty Thieves. l ha-
racters by Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. Woollidge, MIA
Turner, Miss Grove, Wigan, Miss James, Miss Fairbrother,
and Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Mathews, 'turner, Younge, Nigan,
Yarnold, and Chaplin.
PRICES OF AD AISSION.—First oxes, 45.; Upper
Poxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ' • Gallery, fxl. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, zs. ;
Upper Boxes, Is 6e1.; Pit, is. Private Boxes on the Balcony I ier
(holding eight person,), two Guineas Priva e oxes on the Second
Tier (ho ding eight perso,s), i;ne Guinea and a-Half. Private
Boxes on the Pit I ier (holding six permans) One Guinea. Free Ad-
mission Tickets (for the first forty nights), One Guinea. Nightly
Transferrable k ree "rickets (for the first torty nights), three Guineas.
Doors open at Half-past six. Performances begins .t Seven ()Mock.

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ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
EASTER MONDAY, APRIL S.
The RE-OPENINt4 of ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHI.
THEATRE of Alt IS (under the management and sole proprietor-
eahnT g"aminra.tießplecltlic)ieswiatnhd iut s Trebleld Rs.:,!nateison
of tohfe ficriculeeetraiild
Batty's Matchless Stud of beautiful Horses, Fairy Ponies, &c.
Mr. Batty, in announcing the Re-opening of Astiey's for the se-
cond season of his management, begs respectfully to .cquaint the
Nobility, tilentry, and public that, encouraged by the flattering
success during the past year, and wading the i hedre not. suffi-
ciently commodious for its numerous p tons, he entered into an
extensive arrangement sv,th Messrs. Haward and Nixon, the emi-
nent builders of Lambeth, for the re-cons. ructing on a magnificent
and novel principle, the whole of the interior of the Theatre,
which has been rebuilt, dress boxes entarge,l, upper boxes wi
and pit and galleries ext nsively improved Fourteen glass lustres
are added, and a Urecian dome ceiling, with et.tirely new sp encid
classic decorations, and gotgeous apppantments, which, with the
first-rate talent to be offered, he presumes cannot fail of obtaining
that support so liberally bestowed on his endeavours during the
last season. The grand Easter national Spe:qacle will combine all the
splendid historical effects of the Nni roan Conquest of England,
produced by Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. The Cirque Olyripique will its.
'traduce un quailed equestrian tale.it, and the don ,le company com-
prise talent of the highest older.
The door will open nightly at six o'clock, and the performances
tommence at s ven. Box-office will beopened on Saturday, April 6,
and continue so daily from ten till four. The private boxes have
been reconstructed and decorated with care :ind splendour.
Acting and stage.manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot.

DAV IDGE's ROYAL SURREY THEA'III.F.
The most splendid Easter Entertainment ever prerented—Everything
New—Suptorted by the First Talent iii the Woild.
EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 8,
Will be produced an entirely New Drama, embracing all the
strong effects of the celebatid work, eutitled WHITEFRIABS,
in which the entire Company will perform.
After which (First Time) THE SCAPEGRACE OF PARIS, sup.
p• rtati by all the It ading Favourites of the Establishment.
To which wi.l be added the Wondeiful Performanc_. of Herr
HENGLER on the Corde Elasuque, and the Carlo Family in their
Unrivalled Gimnastiques.
To conclude with (never acted), a Drama of peculiar construction,
entitled BARAK JOHNSJN; or, The Blind Witness.
Pisces and Private Boxes to oe had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.
o tee, from Eleven To Four.

—LOVE'S POLYPH,iNIC ENTERTAINMENTS,
CROWN AND ANCHOR TAVERN, STRAND.
Mr. LOVE has the honour to announce that he will RESUME
HIS ANNUAL POLYPHONIC EN PER PAINMENTS, and
LEC URES on LIFE and CHARACTER on EASTER MON-
DAY, and will continue the same on the following WEDNESDAY
and FRIDAY. He will introduce much Novelty, which has been
long in preparation, with entirely New, and Appr•priate Mutative
Costumes and Appointments.
Total Change of Entertainments Every Evening.
On MOND April 8, MIRTH AND MARVELS; with A
WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHINO; and other Entcrtainme ts.
On WEDNEiDAY, April to' LOVE'S REMINISCENCES;
with MINE HOST'S DI LE d NIAS ; and other E,tertainments
On FRIDAY, Ap:it 12, LOVE IN ALL SHAPES; with LOVE'S
LABOUR'S LOST; and other Entertainments.
Particulars in Handbills. Duors open at Half-past Seven; begin
at Oglit. Admission, Is. 6d.; Reserved Seats, 2s. 6d.

THE WEATHER.—SCIN OFFICE, APRIL 4.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 44; Highest, 65; Noon, 61.
BAP-031ETER, 29.78 —WIND, S.W.

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.

H WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TIES
Morning C minute after 3 I Evening ...21 minutes aft rS.

the Minister of Finance, in formally proposing the
reimbursement, offered the holders 41 in place of 3 ;
and this is precisely what M. GARNIER PAGES requires
at present. He assigned as a reason for this addition of a
half per cent. that the stock was quoted at 112. It was
:)onify the interest on what the presesent quota-
.ion possesses above the nominal value (that is 100 f.)
But this fixation has acquired in a certain degree the
force of a matter decided, and we admit it as a con-
cession due to the epoch, &c. Those are the words
of M. PASSY, in a written speech, assuredly well de-
liberated on, which he pronounced Jan. 16, 1840, as
the exposé des motifs of the budget of the-folloA ing
year. Let the consequence be drawn from this. If
it was proper to leave a half per cent. above four to
the holders, for the motive that the Fives were truly
and regularly quoted at 112, ought not another half
per cent. to be left—or nothing taken away—from the
moment that the permanent quotation is about 125 ?
At this quotation of 125, which the holders of the
Fives have arrived at, the reimbursement is a vio-
lence, a revolutionary act. It is only revolution which
can assert that 100 f. pay 125 f."
The Constihdionnel, though it has changed pro-
prietors, is evidently still under the influence of M.
TRIERS. In a witty article on French colonization,
it thus ridicules the peaceful policy of the GUIZOT
Cabinet :
" A report begins to be murmured, that before three
more months shall have elaped we shall receive the news
of possession having been taken in the name of France
of some far distant island, some remote corner of the
earth, forgotten by the great colonisers of the world.
Our Ministers, like true Robinson Crusoes, are always
in search of desert islands. They are truly modest;
they ask not for either credit or intiuence on the Conti-
nent; they content themselves with gleaning some scat-
tered rocks in distant seas, and disperse in small detach-
ments the soldiers whom they know not what to do
with. The occupation of the Marquesas has been for
our Ministry the starting point of a political system.
Relying too implicitly on the good-will and moderation
of the English Cabinet, it has fancied that it might make
a show in the eyes of the French of braving the jealousy
of England by extending our maritime possessions. It
expected to obtain some little popularity in France
by making this display of ability, and the toleration of
England by the modesty of its enterprises. It is evident
that we have statesmen who are determined to deprive
1 France of all freedom of action by exhausting her re•
sources. We formerly saw our Government determined
to have peace at any price, but also preserving the
means of action in case of being called upon to make
legitimate defence. The system is now perfected, and
the stability of the country is insured by reducing it to a
state of impotency. Certainly there is no man in France
who thinks of war. Lord Aberdeen and M. Guizot have
recently raised a fanciful accusation against their adver-
saries, but which destroys itself by being made simulta-
neously on both sides of the Channel. If we listen to
the two Ministers, the Whigs on one side and our
Liberals on the other have ceme to an understanding for
provoking a war between the two countries. They con-
spire together to gain the liberty of fighting each other,
but not a man in France thinks of war, and the dispo-
sition of men's minds was never more pacific. Neverthe-
less, the :Ministry is not sufficiently assured of a continu-
ance of peace. It carries its fears to the extent of pas-
sion. Like Moliere's Miser, who hung himself in the ex-
cess of his apprehension of being robbed, our Government
disarms the country, and renders itself naked of defence
from the excess of its fears. Is the Army Bill to be dis-
cussed? We learn from its journals that the Ministry
does not wish the army to .be too numerous, nor too
well prepared, in order that the country might feel itself
too weak to go to war, Are the ways and means to be
brought under consideration? The Ministry exagge-
rates them beyond all measure; it burdens the Treasury,
at one stroke with immense public works, and, instead
of applying the whole of the disposable resources to one
great object, it disperses them among many, in order to
compromise them for the future. We have seen how,
abroad, it has multiplied our bonds, and is still seeking,
at all points, the means of restraining the motions and
embarrassing the resolutions of France. Thanks to the
perseverance with which this system has been pursued,
our country will soon be like Gulliver, whom the Lilli-
putians fastened down in his sleep with cords, so numer-
ous, that, when he awoke, he found himself incapable of
stirring, and obliged to yield to the mercy of his enemies."
We find no later intelligence from Italy in these
papers.
The Funds on Tuesday had advanced, the Three per
Cents. to 83f. 20c., and the Fives to 122 f. 65c.
TIIE BOURSE—TUESDAY, APRIL 2.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents— •• 122 40 • • 122 40 .. 122 20 .. 122 20
Three per Cents 83 .8310.• 83 .. 83 10
Bank of France..... 3160 .3160 -3160 -3160
Latlitte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesll4o .1140 ..1140 ..1140
5,000 f. Sharessl3s .5135 ..5135 -5135
Belgian Bank..
... 660 ..
660
Belgian Fives, •. •• • 1051 •. 1051 . 105 .. 1051
1840. •• • • 108 .. 108 .. 108 .. 108
1842.• •••• lO9l .. 1091 •• 1091 •• 1091
Dutch Two-and-a-Half .• •• . 591 .. 591 • • 591 • • 591
Spanish Active •••• • • • 341 • • 341 .. 341 .. 34,1
Threes .•• • • ... 371 .. 371 .. 371 • • 371
Passive ...... 61 .. 71 .. 6i • • 71
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 46 .. 46f • • 46 .. 46f
Neapolitan... • •.•• • ....... 101 40 ~ 101 40 .. 101 25 .. 101 25
Roman •• •• • • .... ..
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, R. 8... ...... 400 .• 405 .. 400 405
L. 11.• •• •
Rouen .. •• •
to Havre •••••• • . • • • . 700 • • 764 75 .. 700 768 75
OrleansO ....................910 • • 911 25 .. 910 .. 910
Strasburg to Bale ..... 300 .. 303 75 300 .• 302 50
Avignon to Marseilles• • • • • • 767 50 • • 767 50 .. 76G 767 50
RAILWAY SILARES FOR MARCH ACCOUNT.
St Germain 820 .. 820 .. 820 • 820
Versailles, R. 11.• •
390 • 400 .. 390 ••400
L.B.
..... ....... 273 75 .. 286 25 • 273 75 .. 286 2.5
Rouen
......... 907 50 .. 912 50 .. 907 50 .. 912 50
....................922 50 .. 922 50 • 922 50 .. 922 50
Rouen to llavre 697 50 •• 700 .• 697 50 .. 700
Ostrrlaseabnusrg.: .......
to Bale.. ...... 300 .. 302 50 • • 300 .. 302 50
Avignon to Marseillcs• ••• .. 765 • • 767 50 765 .. 767 50
RAILWAY 5HAR:357F5001i.A,P3171115.0A.C.C97030U00NT.....
973000
R.B ...... 390 .. 405 .. 390 •.. 405
L.B. ....... 275 2BB 75 .. 275 25 75
Vet -Mlles,
•.: 970102 50•
: 970125 50 910 .• 915
ORrolueeannsto
Strasburg to Bale ••••• • • • • • 305 •• 305 300 .. 300
Axiom to Marseilles• •• • 767 50 .. 770 . • 767 50 • . 770

We have only time to express our entire satisfac-
tion with the labours of the Select Committee (of the
House of Commons) on " Railways," whose " Third
Report" we this day present to our readers. It is a
document in every sense creditable to the enlarged
views, combined with a business-like mastery of de-
tails, which the gentlemen composing this Committee
have brought to bear upon a subject of the nearest
and deepest interest to the social comfort, improver
ment, and development of our great country. May
it be allowed to us to add, that having, for some time
past,—and more especially since the beginning of
the present session,—very frequently called attention
to the all-important bearings of future legislation
on railway management; we derive a proportion-
ate degree of satisfaction from the coincidence
of the recommendations comprised in this Report
with those which we have thus been endeavouring
to press upon the consideration of Parliament. It
may be remembered by the readers of The Sun, that
we have strenuously urged upon the Legislature the
propriety of availing itself, efficiently, of the oppor-
tunity afforded by applications for its sanction to new
and original lines of railway, or to extensions of old
and working lines. We have called upon it to bring
into operation some well-matured scheme of general
communication, and plans for the administration thereof,
with a view to avoid the errors committed in former
instances, by authorising conflicting lines, and neglect-
ing
to make any provision for bringing them, here-
after, into a system of consentaneous and combined
operation, so as to secure to the public the greatest
practicable advantages that can be derived from a well
defined and skilfully organised projection of railway
lines connecting together the most remote points of the
two islands, the intermediate districts, and especially
their great cities and towns, and these again with the
metropolis of the United Kingdom as with a common
centre. More lately we expressed our conviction
that these truly national objects might be attained
without disparagement to the proprietary rights
already invested in railway undertakings. And,
finally, we have argued that in very many cases the
interests of the public might be better consulted, both
as to economy and accommodation, if the Government
were to take some large portion of the future railway
investments into their own hands and management.
We especially noticed the hardships affecting the
poorest class of passengers—those who travel by the
third class—and we commented on the enormous
charge appearing on certain Post-office returns, for
the conveyance of mails by railway—about 85,0001.
per annum, in 1841.
The "Report," which we publish to-day, consists of
twenty paragraphs and sixteen resolutions. If our
readers will refer to the commencement of the " Re-
port," they will see that the Committee, adverting to
the greatly increased number of applications for Rail-
way Bills, as compared with those of former years—
the much diminished opposition (not to say the grow-
ing favour) shown to them by the owners of landed
property—the enormous and redundant capital in the
country, which it is of so much moment should be
appropriated to domestic investment—and the dis
tressing experience of late times, which has rendered
capitalists little disposed to lay out their money in
foreign securities ;—declare their conviction that the
time has now arrived fur attaching, beforehand, to
the legislative sanction which is asked for by the parties
to such new Bills, on their own behalf, the conditions
which may be deemed necessary for the public good
The Committee, at the same time, suggest that it
would be to take an unwise and erroneous estimate of
the public interests in this matter, to regard
railroad interests as exclusively opposed to, or even
distinct from, those of the public convenience. These,
propositions are well illustrated in paragraphs 7, 8.
and 9. The latter is particularly to be commended
for the solicitude it manifests to give a just and libe-
ral consideration to the interests of the railway pro-
prietaries, in advocating a better security for those of
the public. Par. 10 sets out the remarkable fact that
in this country, the " high fare system" generally
prevails on our working railway "lines ; fares being,
for the most part, much higher than are demanded in
other countries having similar lines of communica-
tion. The Committee recommend that upon par-
ties applying for new lines of railway, there
should be attached " certain immediate liabilities
with regard to the accommodation, trains, minimum
expedition of travelling, for third-class passengers
The contingency under which the Government (upon
the Committee's proposition) should interfere, in the
case of extant and working companies,—say at or
after the lapse of fifteen years from this time,—to
regulate the fares, administer the profits, and even
exercise the option of purchasing up the concern ; and
the principles upon which the rights and interests of
the proprietary shall be assessed and guaranteed, are
set forth at length in Resolution No. 111. We con-
ceive that they are equitably devised. They pro-
vide—" That if, at the end of a term of years to be
fixed, the annual divisible profit upon the paid-up
share capital of any such line shall be equal
to a per centage to be fixed—it shall
he in the option of the Government either,
Ist, to purchase the line at the rate of a number of
years' purchase, to be fixed, of such divisible profits ;
or, 2dly, to revise the fares and charges on the line
in such manner as, in the judgment of the Government,
shall be calculated to reduce the said divisible pro-
fits (assuming the ad interim continuance of the same
quantity and kinds of annual traffic) to the said per
centage; but with a guarantee on the part of Govern-
ment, to subsist while such rate of fares and charges
shall be in force, to snake up the divisible profits to
the said per centage."
Resolution No. XI. has especial reference to the fares
chargeable by third class, and for children, &c.
No. XIV. stipulates what shall be the maximum charge
for conveyance of troops, for police constables on
duty, and fur their luggage, &c.
We claim for the whole the most careful perusal
of our readers.

' --_-- ----.. ,
3,120,608 4,647,472 1 3,274,000 3,193,5.6 - 3,304,473 4,276,151 3,4174,421 3,549,551 -
1,301,583 - - 262,546 - 1,252,733 - - 420,796 -
- 1,296,505 910,089 763,4e5 - - 1,253,357 1,092,544 654,100 -
-- - - -----. -- ---
4,422,191 ;,943,977 4,214,089 4,219,537 18,799,794 4,557,201 5,529,568 4,766,6)63 4,604,417 19,453,129
2,841,1, 0 3,72,,035 3,022,098 1,767,373 11,405,:,161 3,030,113 3,966,550 3,030,171 1,853,681 11,6.80,123
1,698,379 1,631,4841 1,561,.51 1,593,1214 6,484,739 1,659,010 1,650,366 1,523,653 1,4 39,011 6 472,010
2,,;59, 39 177,437 1,886,14.3 142,693 4,265,5:47 1,984,831 194,100 1,868,, 57 144,685 4,197,473
313,844 257,212 1,885,232 2,456,258 861,709 2,047,904 454,415 1,992,859 5,356,887
151,600 168,0110 141,008 144,48)0 607,000 145,000 160,00 4 143,000 174,000 622,000
30,000 12,500 40,000 35 000 117,000 32,5( 0 `O,OOO 30,0 0 6:,,, 00 147,500
213,757 20,924 21,537 541,556 797,774 1,06:3,524 17,744 11,917 41,242 1,1.14,477
,----- ----
, )
11,467,666 11,1,94,197 11,143,,63 10,322,522 44,934,148 , 1:4,333,,93 13,186,171. _1,829,581 10,513,983 49,262,629
267,530 111,070 107,697 16,907 507,6'4 67,190 31,305 50,136 54,244 205,865
142,55.: 180,211 235,247 124,049 1 642,054 138,267 230,932 33•2,031) 211,281 927,483
- - ----- , --- -
11,837,748 12,285,478 11,0011,11" Z 110,469,477 46,078,810 1 13,539,2,0 13,314,409 12,21,777 10,191,511 50,396,977
-- -- ----
6,9t0,776 9,047,560 6,890,0.4 9,160,269 32,644,659 i 6,41.,506 10,1,21,636 1,859,803 7,625,972 3'2,462,107
290,622 173,6:7 141,378 114,627 i 161,501 140,000 :91,501 24",004 863,002
4,626,350 0,064,291 4,626,053 967,830 i 12,894,524 1 6,905,273 . 3,1.7,773 4,060,393 2,5•18,539 17,071,968
-- -_ -- --
_. - .., ~.„ .”.,-, , ~, ...Q QIII 13 539_2,0 13.851.499 12,211,777 1,4,794,511 50,396,977

no less. than 132,815 acres of common or waste land out
of 1,867,592.
On Wednesday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when Mr. John Pollard Willoughby
was appointed a provisional member of the Council of
Bombay.
The freedom of the City of London has just been con-
ferred on Lord Dudley Stuart, as a testimony of admira-
tion for his incessant and noble exertions in behalf of the
cause of Poland. The act is honourable alike to the
citizens and to his Lordship.

DUTCH MAIL.
THE HAGUE, APRIL 3.—The Staats Courant of

this date contains the following :

" PROCLAMATION.

MORTALITY TABLE.—The returns for the week,
ending Saturday 30th March, show a considerable
increase as compared with the previous week. In
the former the number was 1,080 and in the latter
981, making a difference
it is caused
The increase, how-
ever, is not material, as
dents, of which the results had not been stated in the
former rln
eturns. all the specified causes of death
the amount with one or two exceptions is below the
average. There is a slight increase in the first class
' including measles, hopping cough, scarlatina, and
croup, the number being 280, last week 190, ave-
rage 170. In diseases of the lungs there is a de-
crease, the number being 294, last week 309, average
330. There is a great increase from sudden and
violent deaths. In the former the number is 51, ave-
rage 19, and in the latter 71, average 25, but in a
note the cause is stated.
.The present return contains
a number of inquests which had been held at former
periods but which had not been received from the
coroner when they took place. Of the 18 persons
who died of small-pox 13 had not been vaccinated.
During the week the thermometer was highest on
the 29th,57.6 degrees; lowest on the same day 33.7
degrees.

Increase. 1 Decrease. Increase. Decrease.
--.— OMIIIMI...•=1IMIlle
....
••••• •••. •••••
..... ......
..... r'..
... ••••• . ...'' .....
658. Ali ...... 384,010 --.
474,C07 -- 85.30 -
12,699 45,885 • ,
73,061 1,987
2,90t),:.99 ' 107,627 ....
15,1'00 :'O,OOO --•
30,000 30,000 ...-
3.3,,%703 :00,264
_ ..........4.—, ..........---..
4,415,241 85,761 685,725 100.284
-...,
...... 296,739 37,337
:85,425 . ..... 102,2..6
—.-- ---....
4.71'0,669 382,501 b 25,08 500,:64
,
" 1 crease --,:' Decreaec.
38, 50.2 c Deduct De.,,, i 64 r • Deduct
/
4,318,167 I ...,—
Increase on ~,,.. ,-,„_, S Increase' °a
the Year. '''''""'" 1 the Quarter

are that an attempt will be made to excite speeule-
tion in foreign grain ; the more so, as in other de'
partments of commerce a more open field scared,'
exists. Fine weather we have now, it is true, but the
probabilities are that it will not last. The more wealth,'
farmers are keeping the supplies back.
The Commissioners took 30,0001. Consols to-day, et
9”; and this is now the current value for money et
well as for the Aecount. The Three per Cent. Annuitie,e,
of 1726, have realised 991; the New Three-and-a-0V
per Cents., 1031; South Sea Stock, 1121; India Stock,
for Account, 2931; and Bank Stock, for the opening;
201. The premium upon Exchequer Bills has advance'
to 735.
For Dutch Stock there is at present a fair demand, es,
the progress made by the Government of Holland, r
respect to the new loan upon the voluntary princle,
is very satisfactory. The Two-and-a-Half per Celli
have advanced to 611 s ; and the Five per Cents.
1837) to 100* ex div. Spanish Stock has fallentP'
Five per Cents. from 27* to 264, the Three per COI;
from 38 to 37, and the Deferred to 16. Tor Frenet
Five per Cents. an improved rate has been paid, 121;
75c.; Exchange, 25f. 60c. Portuguese Converted Stockli
steady. Mexican a shade lower. Colombian Bon
were steady.
The quotations of the Railway Shares have not varied
much to day.
MANCIIESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 3.—Our matga4
continues firm ; some of the new lines are in greater recpn,
Eastern Counties, 11; ; Manchester and Birmingham, 47;
Manchester and Leeds, 111; Paris and Lyons, 21. 16s.
Sheffield and Manchester, 74 13
and 71; Manchester, 1.1',1
and Rossendale, 7i; Dublin and Cashel, 6; Blackburn il!ics
Preston, 31. 18s. 9d. ; Manchester and Liverpool Diet to
Bank, 91. 18s. 9d. ; Huddersfield Canal, 17k; Manch°
Assurance, 10k.

" We, William It., by the grace of God, King of
the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau, Grand
Duke of Luxemburg, &c., &c.
Looking up gratefully to God, we address these
words to you, beloved fellow-countrymen and sub-
jects, to express to you our most heartfelt gratitude
for your united co-operation in effecting the volun-
tary loan. The rich and the less opulent have the
greatest claim to it, but those also, and how many are
they, who though totally exempt, yet animated by
the noblest feeling, have offered their savings on the
altar of their country.
" Fellow-countrymen,—The motto of our fathers,
" Concord is power," is again realised among us.
Attachment to the old Dutch fidelity in fulfilling, at
whatever price, every engagement. We may hope
that a blessing will rest on this fidelity. Let every
one who has contributed to the prospect before us,
enjoy the pleasure of consciousness of having done his
duty.
" Netherlands —Let us pray to God, to pre-
serve and increase the good spirit by which the
nation has now again proved itself to be animated,
that remote posterity may enjoy the fruits, and that
the people of the Netherlands may continue to be a
patriotic, unanimous, and religious nation.
" Herewith, beloved fellow-countrymen and sub-
jects, we recommend you all to God's holy keeping.
"This proclamation shall be immediately published
and posted up in the usual places, and printed in the
Stoats Courant.
" Given at the Hague, 2d April, 1844.
(Signed) " 'WILLIAM.
" By his Majesty's command,
"The Director of the King's Cabinet,
"A. 0. M. VAN 11 APPARD."
" The Minister of Finance, conformably to
Art. 19. of the Law of the 6th of March, 1844, in.
forms the public in general, that the inscription of
the loan and voluntary contribution (30 florins of the
latter being reckoned for 100 florins in the loan)
amount to 127,000,000 florins, and that therefore
the extraordinary tax on property will not take
place.
" The result has been obtained by an addition to
the King's original share, after the inscription
amounted to about 126,000,000.
" The Hague, April 2, 1844.
(Signed)
—The Stoats Courant, April 3.
TILE HAGUE, APRIL 2.—The Law of the 6th 0.
March has raised Holland from a crisis, the fatal con•
sequence of which might have been incalculable. This
law has consolidated our credit abroad, has restored
confidence at home, and removed obstacles which pre-
vented the Government from proceeding with calm-
ness and firmness in the course of improvement and
economy. Accordingly the Arnheinz Courant pro-
poposes to open a subscription, in order to strike a
medal in honour—of whom do you suppose ?—of two
of the Members of the States-General, who voted
against the law ! Can we wonder, after this, if the
public treat certain
AGoveil 3rnments with contempt ?
Journal de la Hoye, pr.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
~'"'' 0,
per Cent. Red — Ditto Bonds ....... ...... i
3 per Cent. Cons
3% per Cent. Re! — Ditto New Annuities... -- ,40.
New 3% per Cent. 102% 'Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 1%d... --' Vs'
New 5 per Cent. — Ditto 5001
Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5ma11.... ....... .... ••• '
Jan. 1860 Bank Stock for Acct.... 201
Oct. 1859 Consols for Acct 99
Jan. 1860.... ...... .. ;India Stock for Acct 29934

FOREIGN FUNDS.' ...i
Austrian. 5 per Cent — Portuguese,s per Cent ..... .-
e,
Belgian, 5 per Cent.. ....... - , it
Brazilian Bonds — Prussian, 5 per Cent .. ... .••• IP,
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Ce .t — Russian, 5 per Cent..........• ,
Mlian, I per Cent ... ......
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, 3 per Cent .. ...... ....... 16
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent 93 Ditto, Deferrei'........ ......... IP
13 nish, 3 per t ent
Greek, 18 5, 5 per Cent — Exchange
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Ditto, is per Cent., laa . - Dutch, 2M per Cent 6„„1,S
Perizvian, 1825, 6 per Cent... 31 Ditto, 5 per Cent ltiv7'

" VAN HALL."

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.

SHARES.
Bristol and Gloucester (30 pain)
Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) l's
.
Great Western (75 paid) 110
'
Ditto Half Shares (50 aid). 7O
. . 170 - - 112

Manchester and Leeds (10 paid)
Ditto Half Shares ( 0 paid)
Norwich and Brandon ( 2 paid) l%
Newcastle and Darlington Junction (15 paid)
Paris and Orleans (20 paid)
Paris and Rouen (0 paid) !6#
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)...........„ 35
Strasbouig and Bale (14 paid) ll ..4)
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.--(YESTERDA)
Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Gibraltar ' ...- 65
Ditto, at sight l2 4 Leghorn 305 0
Rotterdam 2U.12 6i Genoa 0
Antwerp 26 0 Milan --
Hamburgh M.B. 14 0 Venice
Altona l4 0 Naples • s 9
il7
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 75 Palermo,'per oz -..,,i
Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Lisbon O,l
Marseilles .... 26 0 Oporto 531
Bourdeaux 25 0 Rio Janeiro 0
~.2

Madrid journals of the 27th ult. have been received.
An aide-de-camp of RONCALI had brought intelligence
of the surrender of Carthagena. The inhabitants, as
stated in the French telegraphic dispatch, had sur-
rendered at discretion, and trusted entirely to the cle•
mency of the QUEEN. A report prevailed at Madrid
that a general amnesty would speedily be published,
excluding only ESPARTERO, Dos CARLOS, OLOZAGA,
the Bishop of LEON, and CABRERA.
The Three per Cents. were done at 368 for cash,
and 37i at 60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at 231
for cash, and 24 at 60 days.

Frankfort on Maine.. 1224
Petersburgh, 3 Us... 364
Berlin 7

Vienna, effec. f 1.3 M 957
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 36i

Cadiz
Bilbao 36

The following is the House List of Governors and
Directors of the Bank of England for the year ensuing :
FOR GOVERNORS.
William Cotton, Esq., Governor.
John Benjamin Heath, Esq., Deputy Governor.
FOR DIRECTORS.
Edward Henry Chapman, Esq. James Morris, Esc.
Arthur Edw. Campbell, Esq. Sheffield Neave, Esq.
Bonamy Dobree, Esq. George Warde Norman, Esq.
Abel Lewes Gower, Esq. John Horsley Palmer, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, jun., Esq. .James Pattison, Esq.
John Oliver Hanson, Esq. Henry James Prescott, Esq.
‘KirkmanDaniel Hodgson, Esq. Sir John Henry Pelly, Bart.
Henry Lancelot Holland, Esq. Christopher Pearse, Esq.
Thomas Newman Hunt, Esq. Sir John Rae Reid, Bart.
Charles Fredk. Huth, Esq. William R. Robinson, Esq.
Alfred Latham, Esq. William Thompson, Esq., and
Humphrey St. John Mildmay, .Alderman
Esq. Thomas Tooke, jun., Esq.
The Election for Governor and Deputy-Governor will be
held at the Bank on Tuesday, the 9th, and for 'Directors on
Wednesday, the 10th inst., from ten o'clock in the forenoon
till four in the afternoon.
TILE NAPOLEON MusEuu.—We see by looking
over our advertisements that the spirited Proprietor of this
most instructive and very interesting Museum, has reduced
the price of admission to ONE SHILLING, and we must con-
gratulate our readers and the public in general on the subject,
for we thought before the recent additions that have been
made to it, the NAPOLEON MUSEUM contained enough to form
many one shilling exhibitions, all of them enough to amply
gratify and amuse the visitors. We perceived among the
additional pictures one of NAPOLEON at St. Helena, life size.
Seated on that rock, his earnest and impressive look seems to
speak volumes. It is a masterpiece of art, which the Em-
pEnon's faithful, favourite Painter has painted in his very
best style. There are also very fine paintings of FREDERICK
TILE GREAT, STANISLAUS AUGUSTUS IL, the last King of
Poland, Prince ADAM CZARTORYSKI, the eminent Pole, &c.
We are sure that our country readers.will be delighted to see
this magnificent Museum, which we hear was-not formed
with any idea of its being a public exhibition, but that the
Proprietor considered it would be selfish to keep so much
historical information from general inspection; and we have
no doubt that our town readers also will take care their sons
and daughters do not return to school after these. Easter
holidays, until they have all accompanied them to the NAPO-
LEON MUSEUM. "
THE WATER MONOPOLY.—The inhabitants of the
Southern Districts of the 'Metropolis are bestirring- them-
selves on this subject. Petitions have been presented to'both
Houses of Parliament from Lambeth, Bermondsey, .Black-
friars-road, &c. In the House of Lords, the Marquis of Nor-
manby has given a conditional notice for a Committee of
Inquiry ; and in the House of Commons, Mr. Ewart, a night
or two since, gave an unconditional notice for a Committee.
Meanwhile, acting upon the French proverb "aide toi, et le
ciel t'aidera," many of the inhabitants are forming themselves
into a self-supplying " Filtered Water Company" which pro-
mises the alteration of 10 per cent. profit, or good water at
50 per cent. less than is now paid for bad. We shall see how
far these promises are likely to be redeemed.
Professor Risley and his talented son, le petit
Mercure, arrived in town yesterday morning from the pro-
vinces. They are engaged at the Haymarket, where they
appear in a new ballet on Easter Monday.
SUDDEN DEATHS —On Wednesday Mr. G. I. Mills,
Deputy-Coroner for Middlesex, held no fewer than
three inquests, at the Wheatsheaf, High-street, Camden
Town, on the bodies of persons who had died in a most sud-
den manner. .

Barcelona 36
Saville

Bahia
Buenos Ayres
NewYork,2.ldpsight-

The English Funds leave off very firm, Consols having
been as high as 994 though last quoted 994 1. The
New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. rose to 103 to 1.
The disposition to sell Spanish Stock continued this
afternoon, parties being anxious to take their profits in
case of a re-action. The Five per Cents. were 26,1 to .1;
and the Three per Cents., 368 1. Mexican, Deferred,
were 16a; Russian, 117 to 1; and Portuguese, Con-
verted, 461.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these:—Bristol and Gloucester were 19:12; Great
Western, 35; Ditto New, 20; Ditto Fifths, 68; Man-
chester and Leeds, 42; Ditto Half, 18; Norwich and
Brandon, 5.i3,-; Newcastle and Darlington, 204; Paris and
Orleans, 16; Ditto and Rouen, 16,1 to:l;and South
Eastern, ex New, 21 premium. Eastern Counties, 114; .
and Strasbourgh and Bale, 21 discount. London and
Westminster Bank Shares were 41 to 34 premium.
The Foreign Exchanges did not vary to any extent
this afternoon, either as regards an advance or decline.
A pamphlet has been sent us headed " Reasons
against Legislative interference with the present system
of Circulation, submitted to Sir R. Peel, by the Commit-
tee of Private Country Bankers." As this is a topic of
the deepest importance we may give an analysis of the
reasons stated. They were thus given in the shape of
resolutions passed at a meeting of the Committee held
very recently :
" First, That under the present state of the law, the
private country bankers enjoy no privilege, which in
practice is inconsistent with the maintenance of a sound
and wholesome state of public credit.
" Second, That the agricultural. commercial, and ma-
nufacturing-.classes of all descriptions throughout the
kingdom are mainly interested in the continuance of the
privileges which the law now confers on private country
bankers, and will be immediately and seriously embar-
rassed by any legislative measure which shall interfere
with or limit the exercise of :hese privileges.
"'Third, That the present state of the law, as it regards
private country bankers, has not been made the subject
of public complaint or petition; nor has it been alleged on
authority against them that they have abused their pri-
vileges, or been in any degree accessory to the recent
depression or the sudden alternations in the state of
trade.
" Fourth, That the anticipation of an alteration in the '
law relating to private country hankers, combined with
the want of all information as to the nature and extent
of such alteration. if contemplated, is calculated to inter-
fere with the ordinary operations of business, and to
shake confidence and credit.
"Fifth, That this meeting being earnestly desirous to
avert the excitement which has hitherto always accom-
panied the agitation of questions connected with credit,
and impressed with the due sense of the magnitude of
the consequences involved in the discussion, consider it
to be their duty to take such steps as may tend to re-
move all uncertainty regarding the intentions of her
Majesty's Government."
(From The Sun of Last Night )
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,000
bales, prices on the whole being firmer. The trade were
the only buyers.—There was again a good markot for
French Railway and other light Shares, at about
previous rates. Birmingham and Gloucester were
924 ; Eastern Counties Registered, 13i; Edinburgh and
4mGH9il
;nal
fsg: ghN7oaow, 54; Grand
North
t;
hT6Chmailriedddsirni4dao,ni,9.
;26J4;
mu;
Parisn
aic)ntuincobhiealsinit °de 3r
L 2;
and
and
y nodnCashel,s, Great 2
Birmingham,
1. Western-
Half,
se; sßt6e rr. n.;
Ditto and Orleans, 36; Ditto and Rouen, 364; South-
Eastern New, 6i ; North British, 31. 4s.
The commercial letters received to-day from India
and China do not say much as respects the state of the
trade in British manufactured goods, still, the quantities
of our fabrics finding their way into the interior of the
Celestial Empire, were on the increase. The system so
long adopted in respect to the East India trade, of hai-
ingdirect agencies, has been commenced, with regard to
Victoria, Hong-Kong. .
Despite all the endeavours of the deputies of the pri-
vate and joint-stock banks of the United Kingdom now
assembled in London, in anticipation of the discussion in
Parliament on the " Bank Charter Renewal Question,"
the current of feeling among the proprietors of the Cor-
poration is, that they will-obtain favourable terms, else
the stock of the establishment would not continue to ad-
vance.

The Journal des Debats of Tuesday has an article
on the motion before the Chamber of Deputies for the
conversion of the Five per Cent. Stock, and de- •
nounces the scheme as an attempt to rob the public.
This may be taken as the opinion of the Government,
who have also announced that they will oppose to the
last the proposition of M. GARNIER PAGES. Thus,
while on this side of the Channel the Government has
reduced the interest of an amount of stock equal to the
whole debt of France, on the other the KING, the
Cabinet, and the fundholder, say no reduction can
take place, and the people must, therefore, continue
to pay an interest of five per cent., though the rate of
interest in the market may not exceed two-and-a-
half per cent. The Government paper thus
reasons on the subject :—" The nature of the
French Five per Cent. debt is different from that of
other nations, and the cruel phases which our Fires
have undergone at a period of spoliation forbid
applying to France what is lawful and uncontested
in England and in some of the continental States. It
is besides incompatible with the policy of care and
consideration which the Government of 1830 has
adopted, which has produced its strength, and to
which it ought to remain imperturbably faithful. Not
only would reimbursement be contrary to justice and
opportunity, but it is useless in face of the only object
which its supporters can with any appearance of reason
aim at attaining, namely, the general lowering of in-
terest in business transactions. The measure is contrary
to a policy of conciliation, because the people will never
be made to believe that a title which is regularly
abuortned bbeartyl.2sWis
hoennl y
the w • o r
fit hr
sltoaot—t e int wvt iI l bwa e takene foi
nr
1840, the partisans themselves of reimbursement
made use of such terms that it would be sufficient to
cite them at present, after the rise experienced by the
Fives, to demonstrate that they ought not to be
touched. When the budget of 1841 was presented,

Philadelphia, -
PRICES OVIIIILLION, FN.:: 9
Foreign crold, bars. 79 9

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