The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 15, 1844.

pay them, not simply the chances of legitimate prices
(that is, such as would represent the natural or gold
price and the taxation cost of raising their produce),
but the chances of all that healthful encouragement
to enterprise, and the extended application of skill, la-
bour, and capital, to improved processes in agriculture
and husbandry, which was extended to the working
occupiers of land, and the breeder and the grazier of
stock, with a wise and liberal confidence, by those
who possessed absolutely, or could otherwise com-
mand, surplus capital for such purposes, before the
Legislature adopted the ill-considered nostrums,
under the administration of which our monetary
system has experienced nothing but convulsion,
derangement, terror, and paralysis ?

The Morning Post is in transports of delight at the
idea of the Emperor NICHOLAS—" Young Nick," as he
has been sometimes jocosely called, in contradistinction
to " Old Nick," who is supposed to be not distantly con-
nected with him by the father's side—visiting this coun-
try in the month of May next. "It gives us sincere
pleasure to learn," quoth our extatic Contemporary,
" that confident hopes are entertained in the highest
quarters of a visit to England of his Imperial MAJESTY.
In this feeling of gratification we are sure that all our
countrymen will cordially join. A Sovereign of such un-
bounded sway—of such high personal qualities—ruling a
kingdom with which we have such important commercial
intrrcouse, inspires general interest ; while his habitual
magnificence, and his generous patronage of art and
science in all quarters of the globe, renders his name
highly popular. We are sure that Englishmen of every
shade of political opinion will unite to give his Imperial
Majesty a cordial reception. We have only further to
state that his visit is expected to take place next May."
As our Contemporary is singularly well-informed on
all matters that transpire in " high quarters,"—for
not a single bottle of wine nor a crust of dry bread
can be given away at Windsor Castle to the
poor, nor a new service of gold plate be placed on
an aristocratic table, without the Post giving the earliest
information ofthe "great fact"—we are willing to believe
that there is some truth in his present statement
respecting the visit of the CZAR. We cannot, however,
sympathise with him in his joy on the occasion, for we
are utterly in the dark as to the claims which the Emperor
of All the RusslAs has on the respect, and confidence, and
good-will of a free, despot-hating country, like England.
Perhaps our Contemporary will vouchsafe to enlighten
us on this point, for we honestly confess that our faculties
are in a state of grievous obnubilation. Is it for
his inhuman treatment of the Poles, expatriated
by thousands to the wastes of Siberia, for no worse
crime than that of preferring constitutional free-
dom to unconstitutional tyranny ; is it for his per-
severing efforts to subject the brave Circassian moun-
taineers to his iron yoke, in defiance of all law, all jus-
tice, all reason ; is it for his restless and selfish spifit of
aggrandisement, which keeps Europe in a constant state
of uneasiness, and which threatens, at one time, the in-
tegrity of Persia, and, at another, the integrity of Turkey;
is it for his underhand intrigues at the Court of Tehran,
which led to the demonstrations against Herat, and
the subsequent disastrous disturbances in the north-
west of India ; is it for his inhuman persecu-
tion of the Jews, driven from house and home,
and compelled to take refuge, like their ances-
tors, in the wilderness, because it suited him to mis-
trust their allegiance without the slightest shadow of
a valid reason ;—is it for these things that Englishmen
are to receive the Emperor of RUSSIA with cordiality ?
Are these the acts that are to recommend him to their
esteem, and secure him a hospitable reception ? But,
urges our: Contemporary, NICHOLAS is a Sovereign
of " unbounded sway ;" moreover, ho is remark-
able for his " habitual magnificence, and patronage
of the arts and sciences ;" and therefore, forsooth,
he is to be received with open arms, and cheered by
enthusiastic crowds whenever he condescends to exhibit
his Royal person in public! We cannot admit the vali-
dity of this plea in behalf of the Russian despot; to our
plain thinking, it seems to be neither more nor less than
sheer cant; and cant, too, of the worst description, inas-
much as it keeps out of sight all considerations of
humanity. What! are we to be called on to give the CZAR
a friendly welcome, because he is a "Sovereign of unbounded
iway;" to forget the oppressor of the Poles in the
" habitual magnificence" of the monarch; and the per-
secutor of the Jews in the "patron of the arts and
sciences?" Are we to be stone-blind to his evil quali-
ties, because he happens to possess some showy, super-
ficial ones? Really this is very lax morality, and we
are surprised that the Post, which is usually so
precise and even prudish in its notions, could
venture to urge it. If NICHOLAS does take
it into his Royal head to visit this coun-
try, we hope that the joy exhibited on the ()evasion
will be confined to those who are of the same wal. of
thinking es :.fusel: —to the I..ioNPONDEERYS., NOETH-
Lr3fBERIANDS, and that class of people, who can Fee
nothing in an absolute Sovereign but an embodi-
ment of all human perfection---a sort of golden image
before whom it is their duty to bow down in abject,
unqualified veneration. Of course our Contemporary
will illuminate in honour of the CZAR'S arrival; he cannot
well do otherwise; and we would recommend, by way of
appropriate device, a full-length figure of a Polish
patriot, loaded with chains, clad in rags, and exhibiting
the squalid aspect of despair and destitution.

Madrid journals of the 6th have been re•eived, and
are chiefly filled with the royal progresses of the two
Queens. On that day Queen IsIBELLA, accompanied
by her sister, left Madrid for Aranjuez. NARNAEZ, at
the head of a division of troops, escorted her to the
Toledo gate, and then returned to take the command
of the cavalry regiment of Leon to meet the QUEEN-
MOTHER at Aranjuez. On their arrival at Madrid a
grand review was to take place.

At Barcelona the Queen CIIMST/NA was received
with every demonstration of joy. The houses were
decorated with flags and tapestry, a Te Deum was per-
formed in the Cathedral, and a banquet was given in the
Town Hall, which was attended by the foreign Consuls
and the civil and military authorities.

On the 6th the Three per Cents. were done at 30j al
60 days, and the Fives at 224.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday and
Tuesday, and it is singular enough that the important
announcement of the Chancellor of the Eachequer
respecting the reduction of the Three-and-a-Half per
Cent. Stock, is very briefly alluded to, or entirely passed
over, by the Opposition papers ; for this measure will
affect Frenchmen as well as Englishmen. The war
journals, however, dislike the news, because it shows
the credit of the country is good and money is abundant.
The Government journals advert to it in rather favonr-
able terms. " The success of the project," says the
Journal des Debats, " must undeniably be a new pledge
for the stability of the PEEL Cabinet. It could only be
carried into execution under favour of the re-establishment
of the financial equilibrium, the abundance of capital,
the consolidation of general peace and public security.
This great work of restoration has been accomplished
in less than three years. The medal has, no doubt, its
reverse, and, as has been said, the House of Commons
medio de fonte leporum, surgit (marl aliquid. This equil-
librium is re-established, it is true, but at the price of
a new tax, producing nearly 150,000,000 f. per annum.
Money is abundant in the market, but this is only be-
cause no sufficient employment for it can be found,
from the check upon industry and enterprise. Another
cause also has contributed to this abundance of capital
in England—the scandalous insolvency of the States of
the American Union, into which large sums had for a
long time been carried, but which now present no gua-
rantees."

The Globe, another Government paper, in adverting
to the important measure, draws a distinction between
England and France, as regards the reduction of interest,
for which we can see no ground whatever. "
it says, " are much more moved by this proposition of
reducing the interest on the English national debt in
Paris than in London. This comes from the fact that
the conversion of the renter in England is a financial
operation, the principles and forms of which have
long since been determined, and which consequently
excites no surprise. In France, on the contrary,
the very principle of conversion, that is to say,
the right to do so, is disputed, ' and the mode
of operating the change is still more disputed than the
right. Add that there is a considerable difference be-
tween the organisation of the public credit in France
and in England, and that that which may have no effect
in London may be very injurious in Paris. It will from
this be seen, that what would be an event, and almost a
revolution in France, may be a regular, quiet, normal and
financial movement in England." After adverting to the
apathy, or rather satisfaction, with which the proposi-
tion has been received by the English public, the writer
adds, " It is probable that this would not be the case in
France. French stockholders are not familiarised with
these operations. The means and the principle are not
determined, as in England. Political circumstances and
habits, the constitution of credit, and several other
causes, would make in France a real revolution of a
measure which in England is the foreseen and regular
consequence of the financial organization of the coun-
try."
The French Five per Cents. are very heavy, having
closed on Tuesday at 121 f. 85c. The Threes were
quoted at 82f. 80c.
Tice
rfeopollorrtvionfg:jazesteAtir:cf..suirraromaiitahoenpatteorsti:r—otii
Loan,

was yesterday distributed to the Deputies. Last year, the
Chamber voted a credit of 527,244 f. towards the paytnent of 1'
the first half-year's dividends ft. 1843 •apon the loan guaran II
-
teed by France, England, and Russia. On the 14th Septem-
bel 1843, Greece paid 1,000,000 f. on account of the second
half-year of 1843, and France had to advance 193,901 f. 69c.
towards the completion of this payment. This sum of
903,901 f. 69c. is comprised in the Bill for granting supple-
mentary credits for 1843. The Government recinires a grant
of 527,2441. to enable it to pay its portion of the first half-
year's interest of 1844. The Committee has acceded to the
demand of the Government, which, without ceasing to en-
gage Greece to adopt and follow the most rigid system of
economy, is unwilling to cause any embarrassment to the now
Government.
Lord Ranelagh has arrived in Paris, on his way to London,
from Bourges, where his Lordship has been in confidential
communication with Don Carlos,
Some of the Paris journals have mentioned a report that
his Royal Highness Highness the Duke de Nemours was se-
riously ill We are happy to state that his Royal Highness,
who has been suffering from a severe cold, is now much better.
—Galignani.
" We are assured," says the Commerce, " that the Govern-
ment intends to withdraw the Bill on secondary instruction,
on account of the Committee of the Chamber of Peers being
desirous of separating the Ministry of Public Instruction
from the attributes of the Grand Master of the University."

THE BOURSE-TUESDAY, MARCH 12.
First Highest Lowest Last

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. ex div 121 50 .. 121 70 121 40 .. 121 70
Four per Cents. .... 104 50 .. 105 .. 104 50 .. 104 75
Three per Centg.• •• • 82 75 .. 82 76 .. 62 70 .. 82 75
Bank of France..
. ..... 3260 .. 3260 3260 3260
Laffitte Bank. I,ooof. Shareellos —llO5 ..1103 .. 1105
6,000 f. Sharee6oB7 50 —5087 50 —5087 50 —5087 50
Belgian Bank . ..... •••• • • • • 660 • • 660 .. 660 • . 660
10if .. 1084 .. 108 f .. 1081
Belgian Fives. ...... ••••• •• 1051 .. 105+ .. 1031 .. 10.51
1091 .. 1091 .. 1091
ThreesllBB•44•o2 •••••• •••••• ... ... •••••• 170517 • • 77 • • 77 • • 77
Dutch Two-and-a-Half •• •• • 57a • • 58 • • 571 • • 58
Spanish Active •••••• • • • • • • 34 • • 34 • • 34 • • 34
Passive .••••• • • • • • • 61 • • 64 • • 61 61
Threes • • .......... 36 • • 364 • • 36 • • 364
...
...........
Portuguese Five per Cents • • 47 • • 47 • • 47 .• 47
Neap01itan................ 102 50 .. 102 65 .. 102 50 .. 103 SO
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES.

St. Germain • • ...... ••• • • • 835 •• 835 .. 835 .. 835
Versailles, R. 8.., .• •••• • • • • 380 .. 380 • • 380 380
L.B.•••• •••••••• 175 • 175 .. 175 .. 175
Rouen
....
......
...„..... 890 .. 895 • • 890 • • 695
Rouen to Havre .......... 687 50 .. 687 50 .. 687 50 • . 687 50
Orleans .•.••
..
.• •• 890 •. 891 25 .. 887 50 .. 891 25
SAtvrioasbourngit tcl moßaalrseen le• s
—...• 772 50 773 .. 772 50 .. 775....... 245 .. 247 50 .. 245 •• 246 25
RAILWAY SIIARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
Versailles, R. 13............. 380 .. 380 .. 382 50 .. 382 50
L.B.
Konen •• • • • ..... ...... .... 890 .. 896 25 .. 890 • • 895
Rotten to Havre•• • • • .....• 687 50 .. 687 30 • . 687 50 .. 687 50
Orleans . 890 .. 893 75 .. 887 50 •• 822 50
Strasburg to Bale• •••• •• .. 245 .. 248 75 .. 245 .. 248 75
1 Avignon to Marseilles...••— 773 780 771 25 • • 771 25

ILLNESS of the KING of SWEDEN.
The following are the latest accounts published at Stock-
holm :
FEB. 28, 1 r.M.—His Majesty had some hours rest last
night, but no change has taken place.
FEB. 29.—His Majesty had some hoUrs refreshing sleep
last night, and he is not so faint as for some days past. The
foot and leg are not worse.
MARCH I.—His Majesty has had a restless night, and did
not get any sleep till towards the morning. He is, however,
in the same state as yesterday. The Hereditary Prince
Charles, being now convalescent, no bulletins have been issued
since the 28th of February.

COURT CIRCULAR.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Mr.
George Edward Anson, and Major-General Sir Edward
Bowater, presided yesterday at a meeting at the office
of the Duchy of Cornwall in Somerset House.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited ber
Majesty yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge on Wednes-
day at her residence at Kew.
Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister, was
prevented from attending her Majesty's Levee on Wed-
nesday by severe indisposition in his family.
At her Majesty's Levee on Wednesday the Rev. Ed-
ward James, Chaplain to the Lord Mayor, was presented
to the Queen by the Lord Mayor.
Mr. Somes, Governor of New Zealand, and Mr. Ag-
lionby, had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday,
at the Colonial-office.
Lord Sandon, M.P., Sir Howard Douglas, M.P., Mr.
Pakington, M.P., Mr. Hawes, M.P., Mr. Gill, M.P., and
a Deputation of the Soap Manufacturers of England, had
an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday, at his
official residence in Downing-street.
Mr. Norman had an interview with Lord Stanley, on
Wednesday, at the Colonial-office.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office, from the Governor of New South Wales, South
Australia, and New Zealand. Dispatches were also re-
ceived yesterday from the Governor of the North Ame-
rican colonies.

- -
SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
CHESTER CUP.
8 to 1 agst Col. Cradock's Pagan
14 to 1 agst Mr. Milbank's Sir Robert
500 to 30 agst Mr. Collett's Cattonite---taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Stephenson's Freedow-25 to 1 ta. once
25 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Red Deer—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Tuting's Tacita
30 to 1 agst Mr. Dawson's Merry Andrew
30 to 1 agst Mr. Heseltine's The Prior
33 to 1 agst Sir W. W. Wynn's Rowland—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Speed's Everton—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's General Pollock—taken.
The little of novelty in the business transacted on the above
race, with the exception of Pagan, whose promotion is a con-
sequence of the Manchester quotations of Tuesday, and
Merry Andrew, the odds returned were taken in every in-
stance, to amounts varying from a pony to 601., and, as
against Red Deer, The Prior, and Freedom, were afterwards
currently offered.

- TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
Offers to take 2 to 1 about the Ugly Buck
DERBY.
11 to 2 agst Scott's lot—taken to 150/.
13 to 2 agst bin Crockford's Rattan—taken
17 to 1 sgst Col. Peel's Orlando—taken
22 to 1 agst Lord Maidstone's Cockamaroo
30 to 1 agst Mr. A. Wood's Running Rein—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Ongley's King of the Gipsies—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Apprentice—taken
50 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Campunero
55 to 1 agst Mr. Scott's Sister to Grey Momus colt--
1000 to 15 taken twice
1000 to 15 agst Mr. J. Osborne's Mount Charles—t. twice
1000 to 15 agst Mr. S. Herbert's Delightful c—t. thrice
1000 to 15 agst Lord 'Westminster's Lancet—t. twice
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Copeland's two—taken
1000 to 10 agst Lord Orford's Boots
1000 to 10 agst Mr. Sadler's Johnny Broome
1000 to 10 agst Sir G. Heathcotebs Akbar—taken.
1000 to 10 agst Mr. Peek's Corodino
500 to 1 agst Mr. Bradshaw's Sir Isaac
1000 even between Corodino and Akbar
2000 even on Akbar agst Johnny Broome
500 even on Akbar agst Imaum
1,000 to 20 agst each of the following, in one bet :—Mount
Charles, Apprentice, Delightful colt, Lancet, Icing of the
Gypsies, and Bebington. No others mentioned. 320 to 250
agst Scott's, Day's, and Rogers's lots (taken). More busi-
ness was got through on this race than, from the flatness of
the market, we had ventured to calculate upon. As it re-
garded the two favourites, we have nothing new to dilate
upon-650 to 100, 335 to 50, and two or three other bets at
were laid against Rattan. 200 even between
Buck, and 3 to 1 to 2001. against them
t e
him saanmde
tfihgeu figure T y
coupled—the Buck's actual price did not transpire. Orlando
was backed in one quarter at 17 to 1, Cockamaroo at 25 to 1
(the layer refusing to go on), Running Rein at 30 to 1, and
the King of the Gypsies at 1,000 to 25. 1,000 to 20 was laid
once, and afterwards offered, against Campunero ; Akbar, as
a set off, having plenty of backers at 1,000 to 10, taken at
least ten times, besides a bet of 3,000 to 25. The
other outsiders mentioned above were backed at
the prices quoted, which, against all but Akbar,
and Mount Charles were subsequently offered. The most
curious feature in the afternoon's proceedings was an offer to
bet 3,000 to d against Sir Isaac, who, a few days ago, was in
considerable request at 1,000 to 15, and was said to be des-
tined to join Dockeray's string—it is now doubtful whether,
at any period since he appeared in the market, there has been
such a horse in training.

OAKS.
500 to 30 agst Lord Westminster's Fanny Eden—taken.

WETHERBY STEEPLE CHASES.
Sweepstakes of 5 sous., 12st each. Three miles. (18 Subs.)
Mr. Brown's Jacob Faithful (Mr. Wilson) 1
Mr. Brown's Birthday
Mr. Reynard's The Hawk 3
Mr. Brown's Yorkshire Lass
Colonel Thompson's Hamlet and nine others also started,
but were not placed. Won easy, by two lengths.
The Farmers' Steeple-chase, four miles, was won by Mr.
Downes's Charles O'Malley (Scott), beating Mr. Mewburn's
Clementine. and several others.
CASTLE HOWARD STEEPLE-CHASE..—.TUESDAT.
Sweepstakes of 7 sous. each, 3 ft., with 25 added. Four miles.
Mr. J. Simpson's Aggravator (Mr. Johnson) 1
Mr. Mewburn's Clementina 2
Mr. Nicholson's Perambulator 3
Five others ran. 'Won in a canter.

DUELLING.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—If Sir Robert Peel is sincere, and really wishes to
prevent duels, let him pass an Act, that the debts of any
man who is killed in a duel, shall be paid by the person who
shot him ; the creditor's own oath to be proof of his debt.
Bath, March 13. W. T.

SRRIOUS ACCIDENT.-011 Tuesday afternoon It
serious gig accident occurred in Deptford Broadway-. It ap-
pears that a gentleman front London had left a horse and
gig standing in the Broadway unattended, about four o'clock
in the afternoon, when from some unseen cause the animal
darted off at a furious rate to' ards Greenwich. Just before
it reached Deptford-bridge, the animal took to the paver
ment, running up against several shop windows, and at
length dashing against and smashing in the whole of the
double-front shop of Mr. Matthews, straw-bonnet ware-
house, and thence against a lamp-post, by which the gig was
nearly shattered to pieces, and the' animal pursued its im-
petuous course into the Greenwich-road, where it fell on the
pavement, near the White Swan, and was severely wounded
in the flank. Notwithstanding the time of the day, and
although the horse kept the footpath for more than a quarter
of a mile, only one person was hurt, and that not seriously,
nTLaihonme
ipnlryitvhbaeatue:lykreetn theinnwtimheh!ruonad,wwasherae the brewers were e
t Mr. Jutsum's, the Red
mak-
ing ready to lower scene beer. The animal there took a fly-
ing leap over three beer butts, and fortunately missed the
men. The gentleman to whom the horse belonged gave his
parties complaining, and undertook to
defray all expenses.
EXTRAORDINARY LONGEVITY.—WE some time ago
mentioned the fact of a female, an idiot, residing in Strath-
glass, having reached the extraordinary age of upwards of a
century. This human link between the past and present has
within the last few days yielded to the stroke of death. One
old neighbour, aged 96, and several who have reached 90
years, remember "Fronagal gorach, or " Foolish Flora," as a
grown-111, woman when they were children, and estimate
her age at 120 years at least. She retained her conscious-
ness to the last, and was aware of her approaching dissolu-
tion. For many years she migrated through the country,
obtaining a pittance by-carding the wool belonging to the
country people whom she visited. During the last ten years,
she has 'been supported by the assistance and sympathy of
her neighbours; and after her case became known to Lord
and Lady Lovat, Foolish Florah wanted none of the neca-
-6440 of life,—lnverness Herald.

AMERICAN NEWS

FOURTEEN DAYS LATER FROM THE UNITED

STATES.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.

The Royal Mail steamer Hibernia, Captain Jud-
kins, arrived in our river this afternoon, after one of
her usual quick trips across the Atlantic. She left
Boston on the Ist inst., and has therefore been only a
little orer twelve days, including stoppage at Halifax.
She has brought papers from New York fourteen
days later than those last received by the England.
A most awful calamity occurred on board the
frigate Princeton, by the explosion of her long
gun, during a pleasure excursion, when several hun-
dred guests were on board. The Secretary of State,
Secretary at War, and several other men of eminence,
were killed on the spot.
Mr. Nicholas Biddle, the once celebrated banker,
died at his house near Philadelphia.
We regret to announce the sudden death, on the
Bth instant, of John Everleigh, aged twenty-four, the
second mate of the Hibernia. The deceased was the
son of the late Captain Everleigh, R.N.