The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-16 00:00:00

pon ventilation, cleanliness, and cheerfulness, in favour
of dark dwellings, infected atmospheres, and all the
other facilities" for contagion—it is now but the
reaicnable " complement" of such legislation to impose
a total prohibition, to the utmost practical extent, on the
luxury of pauper ambulatory locomotion ? Where is
the system to stop ? Is the reversion of every heath to
be secured to the neighbouring landowner, to the irre-
parable loss of the village hind and the town
artizan, their wives and their children, but under
some such empty pretence of compensation as we ex-
posed the other day in the case of the Nottingham
inclosure job? There is surely no wisdom—to pass
over the higher considerations of Christian humanity
and moral justice—in thus carefully extinguishing all
the tangible interest, so to call it, which the poor man
has in the place of his birth. How many a deed of noble
daring has been devised and accomplished under that
species of holy possession which invests the remotest
regions, and under circumstances of the most desperate
extremity, the meanest soldier or sailor, whose first
breath has been drawn, haply, on some wild common,
some lonely glen, some locality, however rude, barren,
savage, or desolate in
.its aspects, with the invincible
resolution to triumph over every present obstacle, in
order that he may once more revisit that spot—sacred
beyond all else in the wide world to even the roughest
bosom—the home of his infancy. Let us be in no hurry
to extinguish this most generous and powerful of attach-
ments, by desecrating its objects. Away with these in-
closures which you propose to facilitate. Let them be
permitted only where the case of necessity, or of pre-
ponderating advantage to those whose rights on such
wastes and commons you would abrogate, is self-evident
and irresistible. But, as a general rule, leave still to the
use and benefit and healthful refreshment of the poor
the largest possible margin of the yet uninclosed wastes
and commons of England.

Madrid journals of the 7th instant announce that a
bull of the Holy See, reeognising Queen ISABELLA, and
ratifying the sales made of church property, will be
published in Rome on the 26th. This is considered a
step of vast importance to the reigning family, and a
heavy blow to the Carlists. Austria, it is understood,
will also acknowledge ISABELLA as Sovereign of Spain.
The Three: per Cents. closed at 351 for cash and
351 at sixty days ; the Five per Cents. at 25i at sixty
days ; and the Debt, without interest, at 81- for cash, and
81 at sixty days.

The French Chamber of Peers have passed the Bill
for mitigating slavery in the colonies by a majority of
103 to 59. This is a large minority, when it is consi-
dered how small the boon is which the unfortunate slave
is to receive. But something more will be done. Slavery
cannot long exist in the French West India colonies
amidst those of England, where liberty prevails. The
Paris press too, generally, is favourable to the measure,
and it is understood that a proposition of the Duke
DMARCOURT, for granting a certain sum out of the
Treasury to enable slaves of good character to purchase
their liberty, will be brought forward in the Chamber
of Deputies. _ _

The accounts from Zurich are to the 10th inst., on
which day the Diet was to meet. In the meantime the
Commission had made a report, recommending the Fe-
deral Commissioners to give efficacy to the resolutions
agreed to by the Diet against the free eorps, and for the
preservation of the public peace, insisting especially that
the refugees from Lucerne shall not fix their resi-
dences within a given distance of that canton ; and, in
the second place, the Vorort is called upon to see the re-
solution regarding the free corps executed in all the
cantons, and to make a report on the subject at the next
extraordinary Diet. The Catholic cantons had held a
general council at Lucerne, and a general amnesty had
been granted to all persons under twenty years of age.
M. Guzur had addressed another note to the Count
DE PONTOIS, French ambassador to the Cantons, in
which he states that the KING'S Government is anxious
to maintain the independence of Switzerland, whilst at
the same time it must protest against revolution or a
civil war. The following are the only contents of the
note of the slightest interest

"So far from wishing, by the conduct that I prescribed on the
3d of this month to the King's Ambassador, to affect this lode.
pendence in the slightest manner; our intention was to offer
Switzerland a fresh proof of our esteem. if anything could com-
promise the external situation, as well as the internal prosperity of
Switzerland, it would be the breaking out of civil war and anarchy
in her bosom. Was it a normal and regular state of things that
the violent action of troops, illegally armed and raised, should
endeavour, in the canton of Lucerne, to impose by violence their
will on a legally constituted Government? Is the revolution
accomplished in the canton of Vaud,. by insurrection and mate-
rial force, a normal and regular state of things ? Should not the
friends of Switzerland see in such facts an imminent danger,
not only for the peace and security of the country, but even for
the existence of the Confederation, so unfortunately affected in
the inviolability of its compact and the sovereignty of It, cantons.
As long as the question of the Jesuits was discussed regularly and
pacifically in the canton., the King's Government, faithful to the
principles which have always guided it, abstained from any mani-
festation ; but when the gravity of the situation revealed itself by
disorders that affected the whole of Europe, the French Govern-
ment deemed it their sacred duty to call the most serious attention
of the Diet to perils as evident as they were grave; and it con.
jured it, in a friendly manner, to take prompt and efficacious
measures for remedying the evil, to prevent renewed attempts, and
re-assure at the same time both Switzerland and Europe. These
are the affectionate and disinterested motives which have alone
guided the King's Government."

The French Three per Cents. were dose at Ton
TONI'S on Sunday at 85f. 70e.

COURT CIRCULAR.

Sir Robert Peel had an audience of the Queen yesterday at
Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel
Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting, honoured the Water Colour
Exhibition in Pall Mall East with a visit yesterday.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Queen yesterday, and remained to lunch with her Majesty
and Prince Albert.
The Duchess of Gloucester was better yesterday. llis
Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Bonve-
rie, visited her Royal Highness at Gloucester House. The
Members of the Royal Family sent to learn the state of the
Royal Duchess.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and
the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz
visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marl-
borough House.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by
Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Col. Sir George Couper,
honoured the Italian Opera with her presence yesterday
evening. The Duke of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand
Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz also honoured the perform-
ance of the opera with their presence.
llis Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar
visited the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden yesterday,
at the Duke of Hamilton's residence in Portman-square. The
Grand Duchess paid visits yesterday to their Royal High.
nesses the Duchess of Kent, at Clarence Hous-, St. James's,
and the Duchess of Cambridge, at Cambridge House.
The French Ambassador and the Austrian Ambassador
paid their respects yesterday to the Grand Duchess Stephanie
of Baden.

Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Stephanie of
Baden, attended by Baroness de Strumfeder and Baron
Roth de Schreckenstein, honoured the Italian Opera with her
presence last evening.
Mr. Parker and a deputation had an interview with the
Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the Board of
Trade.
Mr. Mayers, agent for Barbadocs, had an interview with
Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a meet •
ing yesterday afternoon, at the office in Whitehall-place.
There were present the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Bi ihops of London, Winchester, Bangor, Chester, St.
David's, Ely, Hereford, Lichfield, Llandaff, Ripon, Roches-
ter, Salisbury, and Worcester; the Lord President of the
Council, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of
Devon, the Earl of Besborough, the Earl of Chichester, Lord
Ashley, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, and the Right Hun.
John Nicholl.
The Lord Advocate of Scotland had an interview with the
Earl of Dalhousie yesterday.
Dispatches from the Governor of South Australia were re-
ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
There was no change in the Cotton market at Liverpool
yesterday. The sales were 6,000 bales, including 600 baits
of American for export. The crop is reckoned in the ac-
counts from the United States, per Cambria, at 21%
to 21A
millions of bales, and the receipts into the cot-
ton ports had been large. A good business was
done in Shares, at improving rates : Aberdeen
Railway, 514 ; Barnsley Junction, 8% %; Ditto, Half
Shares, 414 ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire,
141,4 151,%; Birmingham and Gloucester, 139; Ditto, New
Shares, 4% ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5% ;
Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 14% ; Caledonian, 131, ;
Cambridge and Lincoln, 934 10 ; Chester and Birkenhead,
501/ ; Ditto, New Shares, 4514 1/2 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 2514 ;
Chester and Holyhead, 11% ; Churnet Valley, 10% 114 ;
Clitheroe Junction, 5 434; Cork and Waterford, 3 ; Coventry
and Nuneaton, 3% ; COventry and Leicester, 2% ; Dublin
and Belfast Junction, 10% ; Dublin and Galway, 5,4 ; Dublin,
Mullingar, and Athlone, 735. 6d. ; Dundalk and Enniskillen,
86s. 3d. 41,% ; Eastern Counties, 21% ; Ditto, Perpetual,
No. 1, 534 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 62 621,% ; Edinburgh
and Northern, 2% ; Ely and Bedford, 61s. 6d. ; Glasgow and
Dumfries, 11. Bs. IL 6s. ; Glasgow, Paisley, awl Greenock,
183/4 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 9%; Grand Junction, 225 ; Ditto,
Half Shares, 113 ; Ditto, New Quarters, 4414 ; Great
Southern and Western Extension, 11% 12 ; Goole and
Doncaster, 1% ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 4% ;
Huddersfield and Sheffield, 8% ; Inverness and Elgin,
445. 2%; Kendal and Windermei e, 5 ; Limerick and Water-
ford, 6% ' • Liverpool and Manchester, New Shares, 3734 %;
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% 3; London and Bir-
mingham,
and York, 3% Bs. 9d. ; Direct Northern, 51,4 ;
mingliam, 321. Shares, 45; Londonderry and Enniskillen, 3% ;
Leeds and Thirsk, 5 995.; Leeds and West Riding Junction,
; Lynn and Dereham, 565. 6d. ; Lynn and Ely, 63% ;
Manchester and Buxton, 514 6 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Midland Junction, 10 ;_ Midland Railway, 155% 3/4 ; Ditto,
401. Shares, 191% % • Ditto, Fifth Shares, 795. ; Newry and
Enniskillen, 5 as. 6:1. ; North British, 191 ; Ditto, Half
Shares, 5% ; North Wales Mineral, 15% ; Ditto, New
Shares, 5',74 ; North Western, 4 ; North Wales, 33/4 ;
Oxford and irmingham Junction, 4 i Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton, 2 ; Preston and Wyre, 33%% ; Sheffield
and Manchester, 1251,4 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 15% ;
South Wales, 6%._ 7
Sheffield and Lincoln, 1/. 9s. ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry,
and Cheshire, 4%; South-Eastern and Dover, New Shares,
No. 1, 16%; Ditto, No. 2, 11% 1/4 ; Ditto, No. 3,8% 854 ;
Worcester and Tring, 41.165. 3d. •
; Trent Valley,- 1914 ; Ditto, Extension,
434 5 ; West Yorkshire, 414 ; Wexford and Carlow, 4;
Midland, New Half Shares, 1614 ; WA2uh; er
;haanv eann
dand Furness,dil.a n
4 ; Yarmouth, Diss, and Beceles
, 4- York and North
tits. ; Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cett
Avignon (English), ; Northerne' of France
6d. ; Lyons and
Lyons, English, (Laffitte's),
5/. 165.; Ditto, Rosamei's, (English), 2%
3% 3 ; Paris .a.nd Lyons, ;
21. lls , (English
sahn)d