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London, England, 1845-03-29 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1845.

whose object is the destruction of domestic institutions
existing in other sections—institutions which existed
at the adoption of the constitution." Would any
honest man believe that this stout Republican, who I
freely invokes the blessing of GOD upon his adini •
nistration, and talks glibly of the mercy of PRovt-
DENCE, was in these set phrases disguising se
atrocious a practice as negro slavery, and excusing, '
in .this boasted ark of human liberty, forsooth, the
damning pollution of wholesale, natural slave-trading?
Why, we shall look to the next overland mail for a me-
morial to the Governor-General of India from the per-
secuted " Thugs" of Mysore or Rajhpootana, pray-
ing that their highly respectable " institutions" may
not be put down, in compliance with the wishes of
other " sections" of the Penersales. But this hypo-
crisy is of a piece with the colouring at-
tempted to be given to the Texas affair. " The
Republic of Texas has made known her desire
to come into our Union —to form a part
of our confederacy, &c. Fortunately for the truth,
President TYLER had " made known " the " desire
of our confederacy" to filch and kidnap Texas from
Mexico at any hazard; and it will require a better
casuist than J. K. roue to show that it was not the
United States' Government which took the initiative
in the matter, and resorted to such means for the at-
tainment of its object, as will for ever 'elect infamy
on that Government, and, in all probability, at no
distant period, dissolve this perfidy-cemented " Union."
We know that. in Washington a man taking office
would sometimes, wi bout scruple, commit himself to
parties who had avowed in the heat of party and elec-
tion contests very extravagant designs, but we never
did expect to find a President prepared to maintain from
his official chair, as courses to which his Govern-
ment would feel itself pledged, the wildest and most
monstrous fallacies that had ever been spouted to
credulous mobs from municipal hustings. Of this
kind, however, was his grave reiteration of the over
and again exploded notorious fallacy that Texts had
ever formed part of the Federal Union. But really
the most impassable medium we have ever heard of is
a new PRESIDENT'S conscience. It is impervidus to
any given set of recollections which might inconve-
niently disorganize a preconceived statement shaped
to a particular end. But recollections, on the other
hand, wl.ich if they escaped would blow away
the whole effect of such a statement, it smothers
" sub ino pectere." The PRESIDENT, talking compla-
cently of the enterprise which American citizens
have shown, under the auspices of their free Go-
vernment, in exploring the wi!d countries about
the banks of the Mississippi and the Missouri, says,
" The titles of numerous Indian tribes to vast tracts
of country have been extinguished." Why did he
pause at that point, and forbear to touch upon the
" tribes of Indians," as well as their "titles," ex-
tinguished by the exterminating operations of the
force employed by the United States ?
But enough of this sorry composition, in that
character. The inferences it suggests are of a nature
so grave, that we cannot trust ourselves to follow
them out to the point they seem to tend to, lest we
should seem to ,desire rather to insist upon than
to mitigate the mischievous construction which pro-
jects thus crudely enunciated are tiectesarily liable
to. If the political morality upon which it is
sought to justify the annexation of Texas, were
to be acquiesced in by this country, we cannot see
how we could dispute its application to Mexico.
Does the.. PRESIDENT imagine that the United
States ss ill he permitted to absorb into their Federa-
tion the Empire of the Aztecks? If Great Britain
could be induced to tolerate the execution of the de:
signs of the States on the Oregon territory, with what
reason could she resist the incidental passion that the
model republic will assuredly conceive for the pos-
session of Canada ? If the PRESIDENT finds Texas
on the southern boundary with such happy pre-
dispositions to join the Union, wia he be at any loss
to discover similar longings equally evident in Ca-
nada on the northern frontier ? But be the intended
future march of territorial avarice what it may, it
must be stopped in these first steps of its actual pro-
gress. We begin greatly to fear that the moral foible
of the natural character of America, her intolerable
passion for boiscrous vaunting, must be checked by
something more than a great moral lesson. But how-
ever much we shall deplore the necessity, whenever
that may arrive, we have nothing, thank God, to fear
for the result. It \via be the felicity of Great Bri-
tain to put forth her irresistible, power in the most
disastrous issue that may follow these portentous
indications, in vindicating the triumph of her un-
sullied character and her indefeasible ri6hts, authority,
and possessions.

The inaugaral address of the new Pre:if-lent of the
United States contains some passages that should not
be allowed to pass unnoticed at the period of their
first promulgation to the British Public. In the
rapid notice we have already taken of this document,
such passages have been, perhaps, too lightly touched
upon, not to make it desirable to subject them to a
more particular notice, before dismissing the paper
from our view. It is but too probable that the " Ad-
dress," however humble its pretensions as a State
Paper, tried by our European standard of political
criticism, may hereafter be found to possess an ad-
ventitious value and notoriety, from its shadowing
forth of events that are in rapid progress to develop-
ment, to which its intrinsic merits would never en-
title it.

done at Saint Maur, where they are establishing two
arsenals, a manufacture of arms, a foundry, ke. The
Chambers have consented to some forts supporting
the fortifications of Paris, but they have never dreamed
of placing Paris under the guns of a great fortress,
and of stationing at that fortress an army beyond the
reach of the people and laws; yet this is what has
been d no at Vincennes." The National, one of the
original supporters of the measure, joins in the cry,
and calls upon the whole population of France to re-
sist a scheme for overawing the friends of liberty.
The Courrier Francais can attribute this act of the
Ministry only to insanity. This question, it is an-
ticipated, will excite war discussions in the Chamber
of Deputies, but in vain. They have sanctioned the
measure ; it is one of the hobbies of the " Chateau,"
and besides it would be utterly absurd to erect forts
without guns. The discussion in the Chambers on
railway c.ompanies and the Customs Bill were still
going otb, but they possess no interest to the English
reader.

The accounts from Switzerland, of the 24th inst.,
are not favourable. The country is in a very excited
state, both from the spirit displayed by the free corps
and the attitude taken by the neighbouring powers.
The Basle Gazette states that Switzerland is threatened
either with a civil war or a foreign intervention, and
all the battalions of the canton of Lucerne were sum-
moned to arms on the 23d. Orders, also, had been
given for reinforcing the Austrian troops in the Tyrol
in the event of a civil war breaking out. The following
is the intelligence from Argau, dated March 23: -
"Important events seem to be impending. Last week
the free corps were convoked in all the districts where
there were any. They have been organised into com-
panies, and have received orders to keep ready to march
on the first signal given them. The officers have been
appointed. festerday orders were given by the Com
mittee to the Chiefs of the Communes to provide
vehicles for the conveyance of the free corps to
a rendezvous, and, perhaps, fur the conveyance of the
wounded. The free corps have thirty-eight pieces
of ordnance at their disp-s4l. It is affirmed that they
are commanded by a Lieutenant-Colonel, sty led in-
spector of the cantonal militia. Despite, however, the
effort made by influential persons to increase the effec
tire force of the free corps in our canton, their numbers
will not amount to above twelve hundred men. The in-
cursion into the canton of Lucerne is fixed for the 26th
or 27th of tiiis ink r th. Eight hundred men from Lu-
cerne were yesterday expected at Sursee."
The Paris Constitutionnel, which is supposed to re-
ceive correct infamation from head-quarters, says :

" I cannot," says Mr. Porx, " disguise the diffi-
dence with which I am about to enter on the dis-
charge of my official duties." This mealy nzouthedness
is really pretty well for the head magistrate of a
Republican Government, who proceeds to announce
such schemes of territorial spoliation, and to become
the apologist of such wholesale aggressive encroach-
ments on the rights of independent States, as
have probably never been publicly preached
since the days in which SAroR or GENGHIS KHAN
used to exhibit the ferocious courtesy of dispatching
heralds to the remote monarchs whose dominions it
had occurred to the mighty conqueror (after the
fashion in which similar projects suggest themselves
to JAMES K. PoLK) that it would be highly expedient
to unite to his own—on what day of what month and
year, and in what city of the world, they would do
well to be prepared to surrender their sceptres and
their lives into the hands of the all-conquering King
of the Kings of the Universe. This diffident gentle-
man, accordingly, begins with a measure for taking
from Mexico, against her consent, a portion of her
dominions, about as large as Great Britain, and an-
nexing it, contrary to the protests of its own de facto
Government, recognised by " J. K. I'." himself as an
"independent one," to the overgrown dominions of the
Union. He proceeds, in a parenthesis, to assume for
granted—insdefiance of history and fact, prior right of
discovery, and stipulations of treaties—and with about
as little recognition of the purposes and objects of the
British Minister, Mr. PAKENHAM'S mission on the
subject, as his predecessor had shown of the reclama-
tions and protests of the Mexican Mini3ter against the
fraudulent attempt upon Texas—to assume forgranted
the title of the United States " to the country of the
Oregon," as " clear and unquestionable." Such an
impudent perversion of facts could never have entered
the mind of a State officer who had not, from the
habit of dealing with, for, and in slaves, acquired
the had habit of supposing it unnecessary to consider
what amount of qualifying truth ought to be infused
into any statements he might vouchsafe to make. As
to the annexation of Texas, it had been clearly. shown,
as we remarked in a former article, by the best
authorities in the American Councils, that the project
was contrary to the federal Constitution —a positive in-
fringement of express and declaratory articles in that
instrument. Mr. POLE, who is of that faction among
his countrymen who are for " going the whole hog,"
throws that ugly recollection overboard, and sets up
a false colour in its steal. " It will be his first
care," he observes, " to administer the Government
in the true spirit of that instrument, and to assume
no power not expressly granted or clearly implied in
its terms." This was already done to his hands by
that very honest person, Mr. Joni TYLER ; and he
adopts an.l gives operation to TYLER'S act. We pass
over the large demands he makes upon the good na.,
ture or simplicity of mankind, for all credit to the
manifold practical as well as theoretical excellences of
the form of government enjoyed by the subjects of
the Union. These paper virtues' have been for some
time past at a considerable discount in all other parts
of the world, like the Pennsylvanian bonds; and we
see no likelihood of J. K. POLK'S patting them on
any better footing, as to foreign circulation, than
had been effected by J. TILER. " In some sections
of our country," says Mr. Posaa, " it is a source to
me of deep regret to observe that misguided 'personshave occasiolially indulged in schemes and agitations

" The news received from Switzerland wculd seem to
give warning 'of grave events. The Government of the
canton of Lucerne, of this canton subject fur more than
three months to a system of terror, of which there
has been no example in that part of the world, ap-
pears a prey to a feverish excitement, and rushes into
extreme means, thinking to supply by violence the
elements of life which are wanting to it. It only re
strains itself through fear of foreign intervention, in ease
of a domestic struggle. On their side, the populations
of liberal Switzerland, which form the immense ma-
jority of the nation, support with difficulty the tone
adopted in certain diplomatic notes. They Is ould pro-
bably have submitted without too much of jection to an
adjournment, seeing the impotency of the Diet to decide
the Jesuit question at present ; but they are exasperated
by this intervention to such a degree, that on many
points it is impossible to restrain the expression of their
discontent ; so that it may be said that all the steps taken
by the Powers to prevent, as they say, the popular out-
Creak, have only served to accelerate it. The men
who enjoy the confidence of the nation, such as the
Avoyer Neuhaus, of Berne, M. Wieland, of Arau, and
M. Drury, of Lausanne, exert all their influer ce to re-
strain the resentment of the masses. What has raised
to its height the indignation of the Liberal party
it M. de Metternich's note, less violent in form than
M. Guizot's, but not at ottom less offensive.. We
understand that the Prussian Minister has just taken,
with the President, a simi'ar step to that of his col-
leagues. Thus, tiers is only wanting in the concert of
representatives, of which Switzerland is the object, the
co-operation of Russia. It is nevertheless possible, ac-
cording to shat our correspondent writes us word, that
the crisis, which appears inevitable, may be confined to
the overthrow of the unnatural state of things which
prevails at Lucerne, and that the question of the Jesuits,
the sole cause of the state of disorder in which Switzer-
hind is p'unged, may at last receive a solution by the
change of the vote of this canton in the Diet. In the
midst of the grave circumstances which agitate Switzer-
land, M. de Pontois quitted Zurich on the 23d, to repair
to Paris, where he comes, no doubt, for directions."

TIIE BOURSE--Tuunspey, MARCH 27.

First Ilt. h• st Lowest

Last

Price. • Price. Price Price
Frisch Five per Cents. •••• 117 85 .. 117 85 • • 117 70 .. 117 80
Three per Cents•• .. 85 80 .. 8i 85 .. 85 70 .. 85 80
Loan . •• •••• •• •• 86 GO .. 86 65 .. 86 60 .• 86 65
Bank of France • • • • • • • • •- 3210 ..3210 ..3200 ..3200
Count Eatik I,ooof Shares ..10•5 ..1n95 ..1085 .. 1085
Belgian Bank . •••• •••••• •• 670 .. 670 .. 667 50 .. 667 50
Be giaif Fives, 1840-- •• •• •• 1"5% .. 105% .. 105 .. 105
1842........ 107 .. 107 .. 107 107
Four and-a-Half ••• 103% • 1„3%
Two-and-a-Half. 62 60 .. 62 85 .. 62 60 .. 62 65
Spanish Active •••••• • • • • • 4 / .. 40 .. 41 .. 40
Threes •••••• • • • •• 41 .. 41 .. 41 .. 41
Passive .• ••••• •• •• 71S • • 71,6 .. 7N ••
•• •• • 102_ .. 102 .. 102 .. 102

Roman .•• •• •••• •••• •• •• 1053{ .. 1 5.74

RAILWAY SHARES,

10.5% .. 105%

St. Genoaln .• •••• •• ••••••1217 50 ••1217 50 .•1217 50 ..1217 50
Versa'lltt% R. 11•••••••••••• 660 G'o .. 647 50 .. 647 tO
L. 14•••••••••••• 412 50 . 4'2 50 .. 410 .. 410
R0uen•...•........•••••••1170 . 1171 25 ..1170 —ll7O

Rouen to Ilavre•• •
Orleans ..--.-.•.••••••••••1332 •`.O ..1332 50 ..1332 50 ..1332 50

Strasburg to Pale.• •••••• •• 245 •• 243 - 343
Avignon to Marseilles.• •• •• 1:50 "1150 —1147 50 • 1147 50
Pordeattx to Teste •• •• •• • • 2 0 .. 235 .. 230 .. 232 50
Paris to Seeattx . • • • • •••• •• 702 50 .. 702 50 .. 7f:2 5) .. 702 50
RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, Arita. 3

St. GermAin ~ • • 1212 50 •.1222 50 .•1112 50 .1215
Versailles, R. R.....• ••• • • 661) 660 .. 055 .. 053
Las.. ........•• 412 50 .. 412 50 .. 410 .. 410
Rouen • .... ....•• •• •••• —ll7O ..1170 1167 50 . 1167 50
Rouen to ljarre •• •• 9 0 982 50 .. 980 .. 980
Orleans •• •• •••• ! 335 ..1340 ..1332 50 ..1333 75
Strasburg to Bale• •••• • • • 343 75 .. 346 25 • • 343 75 .. 345
Avignon to Marseilles— •• •• 1152 50 .• 1152 50 ..1142 50 ..1142 50
Bordeaux to Teste 232 50 .. 232 50 .. 232 50 . 232 50

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

LLOYD'S SIIIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MARCH 29.—Wind westerly, fresh breeze and fine.
DEAL, MARCH 28.—Wind W.S.W. to W.—The Ronemais,
from St. Domingo to Havre, got ashore at Dungeness, but
was assisted off, with loss of rudder, &c. The Anna, Smith,
from Shields to Carthagena, which put back to the Downs
yesterday leaky, and with loss of rudder, having been ashore
at Dungeness, was abandoned early this morning, and, after
driving several miles, saiik at 8 45 A.m., about three miles
off shore, in the fairway of shipping, passing through this
Roadstead.

YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, MARCH 27.—The Siam,
from Calcutta to London, which was ashore in Compton
Bay, has broken up; part of cargo saved.
WHITSTABLE, MARCH 28.—Wind blowing hard.—The
Countess of Liverpool, from St. Michael's to London, has
taken shelter in the East Swale. A large boat with ten oars,
coppered inside, has been picked up below the Note, and
brought in here. The pump of a large ship, covered with
spuuyard, has been picked up at Reculver.
DARTMOUTH, MARCH 28.—The Thomas Lowry remains in
the same state—cargo discharginr, at low water.
DEAL, MARCH 28.—The -Amphitrite, in the Downs, re-
ports that on the 17th inst., lat. 47 N., lon. 23 W., observed
a ship to leeward apparently in distress, having nothing more
than a mizen-topsail and the remains of a main-topsail set,
bore away S.S.E. direct for her, and when three miles off
she went down head first. The master is of opinion that the
crew were saved; and the weather had been fine for two days
previously. •
YARMOUTH, 'MARCH 28.—A schooner, of about 100 tons, is
reported to have foundered in Robin lood Bay 22d inst.,
after being in contact with a light brig the same evening.
HARWICH, MARCH 28.—Wind blowing hard.—The Ed-
ward, of, and from South Shields, for London, foundered in
deep water off Bardsey, after being in contact with the John
Burrell, of Stockton ; two men drowned.

TOTAL ABOLITION OF CUSTOMS AND OTHER
DUES AT AUCKLAND, NEW 'ZEALAND.

The following is an extract of a letter received at Lloyd's
this morning from their agent at Auckland, dated Sept. 27,
1845 :

"A very great and important change is to take place in this
colony on the Ist proximo. All customs dues, harbour dues, &c.
are to be abolished—the Bill has passed the second reading
of the Colonial Legislative Council. The removal of these
restrictions will operate greatly in favour of the whaling-
ships refitting here."

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

COVENT-GATLDZN.

The favourable change in the weather having produced
rather an extensive supply of Vegetables for market, the
trade was in a sluggish state, on lower terms. In Fruit
comparatively little business was transacted.

NEWGATE AND X.E.ADENHALL.
We had rather an extensive supply of each kind of Meat
offering, owing to which the general demand was heavy, on
the following terms :—Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 6d; Mutton,
2s Gd to 3s Gd ; Lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 10d ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ;
and Pork, 2s 8d to 4s 2d per Sibs by the carcase. We had a
fair average time-of-year supply of both Game and Poultry,
while the general demand was heavy, and prices were not
supported. Turkeys were selling at from 3s to 8s; and Geese,
,
4s in 6s each ; owls, 4s to 7s ; and Ducks, 4s to 7s per
couple.

NEWPORT.
For prime Mutton and Lamb the demand was steady, at full
prices; otherwise the trade was in a Very sluggish state.
Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s 8d ;
Lamb, 43.10 d to 5a 10d; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 8d; and Pork,
3s to 4s 2d per 81bs.
SIMI.INGBGATE.
per
r Whitings,s; and Cod Fish 3s
4d to 8d
each.
There was only a moderate supply of Fish, yet the general
t o tradeBs
s eachruled;
Sole inactive.s, d t o
T2usrb3odtsp, 7rs

I:I773XTECUAPEL.
A very limited amount of business was done, at drooping
currencies. Beef from 2s 6il to 3s 6d; Mutton, 28 8d to
3s 6d to 4s 8d; and Pork,
BUNGERFORD.
23: 88 dd ;t
to 4a sm 21) A 4
pser
For most articles of produce, the supplies of which were
8d to
5s 8t1; Veal,
s
moderately extensive, we had an inactive, inquiry, and the
quotations had a downward tendency.
BREAD.
The priceS of Wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are from
7d to led ; of Household ditto; 5d to 64d per 41bs leaf.
EIDE MILIMET

Raw Hides, at per stone of 141b7:711e;t Steers and Heifers,
5s 6d to 5s 101; Middling Hides, 4s 10d to 5s 4d ; Inferior
and Calf Skins, at per skin :
sditto,ark e; 4t. s
Short tod
Calf,
ts 6
ditto,
3s. 6
to 4 Sheep
d SthoB
s; Ling-woolled Sheep, 4s to
5s 6(1
6d; Larch Skins, is 8d to 2s 2d;
and Shearlings, 6d to 8d each.

BAT PtIAILIMMTS.
smininELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 4,14 s ; use-
ful ditto, 41 15s to 5/4s ; fine Upland do., 515 s to 5/10s ; Clover
Hay, 4/ 10s to 61; Oat Straw, 11 18s to 2l; Wheat Straw,
21 to 212 s per load. Trade tolerably steady, at late rates.
CUBIBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 15s to 4/ 148 ;
useful ditto, 41 14s to 5/ 5s ; 'fine Upland ditto, 5l 6s to 5l 12s;
; Oat Straw, 11 18. s to 21 ;
'load. A moderate supply, and
a
. WIIITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ lOs to 41 14s ;
CloverW
readylat Hay,
terSdamw demand, d 24, 11
pricestol 3f
Sis
fully IPyl
e 6r
fine Upland ditto, 51 5s to
61;
good, and
Oat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ ;
51u sir
hi el foeusal i ditto,Straw,Clover
H a 21316, , s
t4t
oon
20515/
24t
oss ;
pr load. Supply
trade rather dull.

•
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—FRIDAY.
We have had large arrivals of Grain to this day's market,
and consequently dull of sale. Wheat and Barley may be
quoted a shade lower in price. Oats and Shelling remain
the same. Beans bad to sell at a reduction of 6d. to Is.
per quarter.
Per qr. of 60Ib. to the bushel.
EXTRA.
Wheat—Suffolk, Essex, and Kent .... Red.... 47 to 48 -- to 49
Ditto ditto • ..... White— 50 51 53
Norfolk
Ditto • ditto •. • •
Lincolnshire and Cambridge
Ditto ditto
Yorkshire Red.. •. 43 45 46
Ditto ditto .• • ... White•• 47 50 52
English, Old . ..... .......... Red • ... 43 47 48 51
Foreign ••••• ...... ........... Red.. •.41 . 47 48
Ditto ditto • White.. 48 50 52
. Per quarter imperial.
Barley—Norfolk and Suffolk 31 33 35 _
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire •••.• . • • • • 28 31 34
Grinding.. Per qr. of 21260853,11,b.132:070dt_dhe3—b::251f1d.
Foreign .
Beans—Small fine ..... .... .. .. .••••••• • • • • • • 36 38 42
Ticks ........ .
Foreign
Oats—Mealing, per Stone
Feeding .
Foreign
Shelling, per Load . • • ' ,25s 20527 s
—s,

Malt, per Load of 6 Bushels ••••••• • • • • • • •
Per qr. Imperial.
Pease—lllue and 'White Boilers ..
Crey r, nit Feed .• . • • ...... .•• 35 38
Rapeseed—English, per Last Imperial .•••• • • • • 271., 281.
Foreign ••••• • • • • ......... •••• • • • • 261., 271.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAY.
CIIESTER CUP.-30 to 1 agst St. Lawrence (t)-300
to 10 and 625 to 25 agst Celeste.
Nothing done on the Derby.
COURSING.
THE LYTHAM (FINISH) MEETING, MARCH 26 AND
27. —The Great Clifton Cup, by 16 dogs, at 51. 10s. each,
as won by Mr. Clark's Young Lilt ; Mr. Ardern's
Matchless ran up.—The tham Cup, by 16 puppies, at
3/. 10,z. caeh, was won by Mr. Rodgett's Gin ; Mr.
Brook's Bonnet ran up.—The Talbot Stakes of 3L 10s.
ea. h, 20 cbgA, were won by Mr. Clark's Lune ; Mr.
Thomas's Topperran up.—The Trial Sapling Stakes were
won by Mr. Clark's Shropshire.—The Hopeful Sapling
Stakes by Mr. Dickinson's Fylde.—The: Fylde Cup, 8_
dogs, was won by Mr. Ardern's Monsoon.—The Ribble
Puppy Cup, Os dogs, by Mr. Robinson's Phwbe ; and the
Westby Hall Stakes by Mr. Ring's Silk.
MORPETII (SALTWICK) MEETING, MARCH 27.—The
Ogle Stakes, 20 dogs, were won by Mr. Tinley's Le
Mi,urtrier ; Mr. Arthur's Sligo ran up.
OLD HOLLY (NEAR LANCASTER) MEETING.—The
Sweupstake.s of 1 guinea each, for 10 dogs, were won by
Mr. H. Gardner's Patalina; and the Eight Dogs' Sweep-
stakes
by Mr. Woodburne's Cossack.
CALEDONIAN (COURSING PICTURE) MEETING, MARCH
25, 26, 27,28, AND 20.—The Michael Angelo Stakes, 16
dogs, were won by Mr. W. Ramsay's Rector ; Mr. H.
Dundars's.Ould Harry ran up.—The Leonardi da Vinci
Stakes. 16 dogs, were won by Mr. A. Graham's"- Cura-
tore ; Mr. W, Sharpe's Mercury ran up.—The Rem-
braudt Stakes, l 6 dogs, were won by Marquis Douglas's I
Drift ; Capt. Wivanhoe ran up.

The Bill presented to the French Chamber of De-
puties by Marshal SOULT, requiring a vote of
17,750,0001'. to provide guns for the fortifications of
Paris, has raised a violent outcry from rearly all the
OppoAtion journals, but the time for such a display
of patriothin has gone by. Most of these papers
cordiz.lly supported the plan when M. TLIERS' party
raised the war-cry against England; they now find
themselves sadly mistoken, and exclaim against mea-
sures of their own seeking. The Commerce, how-
ever, is au exception. If we remember right, it has
been constantly opposed to these fortresses, and may
therefore show that its anticipations were well-
founded. " Extensive barracks," it says, " are
about to be erected in the very capital, which
will convert each bastion into a citadel - im-
pregnable to the citizens. In raising the
forts the Chambers never intended perpetually to
concentrate round Paris the greatest militavy estab-
lishment in the kingdom, or to collect there all the
attirail of au army; yet this is what is about to be

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURD A Y EVENING, MARCH 29, 1845.

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)
Mr. Commissioner Fane, a d Mr. Commissioner
Goulburn sat in their respective Courts this morning.
There were no casts of any interest brought before them.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FINE.)
IN RE VANDEAU AND CO.

In this case the bankrupts, wholesale flower manu-
acturcrs, in Wood-street, had come up on their ad-
journed examination. Several debts, amounting in all
o above 400!., were proved against them.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET-.
(TBIS DAY.)
Henri Thoma,, a young mnn, who stated himself to be
a sailor, living in Charles-street, Hampstead-road, was
charged with burgliriouhly breaking out of the dwelling
house of James Smith, Esq , of No. 14, Soho square,
rving stul.n therein► a quantity of plate, and wearing ap •

- Johanna Callaghan, servant to Mr. S,Lith, stated that
about eight o'clock last evening the prisoner brought a
note, addressed to her master, which she tuck to him

tip' stairs, leaving the prisoner standing in the hail,
waiting for an answer. Having received one from
Mr. Smith, he went away, but returned again
in a short time, and asked leave to wait in
the hall, as a gentleman would call there in a few
minutes respecting the note he had brought. Witness
c nsen:ed to his remaining there, and went down stalls.
Shortly aft( rwards she noticed that he was not in the
hall, and concluded he had gone away. It however ap-
peared that he had managed to secrete himself in one of
the apartments in the house, and remained there all
night. .13,-tween five and six o'clock this morning, as she
was coming down stairs, she thought she heard
the footsteps of same one in the passage Lad-
ing to the street-door, and on hastening there saw
the prisoner in the act of going out at the door. He
shut it after him, and, on her opening it, she found him
on the step, putting on a pair of her master's boots. He
had also a coat belonging to her master on his arm, and
a bundle tied up in a silk handkerchief. She seized
hold of him, but he broke from her, and set off running.
Although she was only half-dressed she pursued him
for a considerable distance, calling " Stop thief !" and at
length he was suizA by police constable No. 118 of the
C divisicn. The hurdle was found to contain two frock-
coats, five silver gravy spoons, two silver forks, four
silver soup lades, and two silver tea-spoons, Mr. Smith's
property, and which he had taken from different parts
of the house.

Mr. Smith said the note the prisoner brought pur-
ported to be from a person he knew nothing of, respect-
ing some publications, and was evidently a ruse to get
into the house.

The prisoner made no defence, and was committed for
,rial at the Central Criminal Court.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was not brisk.
The quotations of the Shares were as follows :-Aberdeen
Railway, 3% ; Barnsley Junction, 7% Bs. 9d. ; Ditto, Half
Shares, 3%; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire, 9% % ;
Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 6 18s. 6d.; Black-
burn, Darwen, and Bolton 4% 3s. 9d. 3s. 6d. ; Bolton,
Wigan, and Liverpool, 10. 11; Caledonian, 10; Cam-
bridge and Lincoln, 71%s a ; Chester and Birkenhead,
47% 4814 • Ditto, New Shares, 41 ; Ditto, Half Shares,
24 2414; Chester and Holyhead, 8%; Chester and Preston
Brook, 5% 1/2 ; Churnet Valley, -7%; Clydesdale Junction,
1011; Cork and Bandon, 78s. 9d ; Dublin and Belfast
Junction, 7% %; Dublin and Galway, 61s. 6d. ' • Dundee
and Perth, 3%; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone, 2 ; Dun-
dalk and Enniskillen, 565. 31. 555.; Eastern Counties, 21%;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarter Shares, 5% % ;
Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 18% ; Ditto, Half Shares,
91/ ; Glasgow and Ayr, 62; Grand Junction, Quarter
Shares, 55% 56 ; Ditto, New Shares, 44.; Ditto, Eighth
Shares, 18%; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 3%; Great
North of England, 30/. Shares, 22%; Huddersfield Canal
and Railway, ; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 4% ;
Lancaster and Preston, 54% •, Limerick and Waterford,
4% -4%; Liverpool and Manchester, 51; Liverpool, Orm-
skirk, and Preston, 765. ; London and Brighton, 631,4 ;
London and South-Western, 80%; -London and York, 31%
61s. 6d.; Direct Northern, 4% ; Lynn and Ely; 7 ;
Manchester- and Leeds, 145%; Ditto, Half Shares, 65%;
Ditto, Quarter Shares; 19%; -Midland Railway, 146 148;
Ditto, 401. Shares, 161 ; Newai k and Sheffield, 4% 5%;
Newcastle and Berwick, 141 ; Newcastle and Dar-
lington, ' -New Shares, 32; Newry and Enniskillen,
2% I3s. 60. ; North British, 17%; Ditto, Half
Shares, 4% %; North Wales Mineral, New ,Shares 5%;
, Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton, 1/.165. 6d •, Preston
and Wyre, 34% %; Runcorn Gap, • 24%; Sheffield and
Manchester, 113 1A..; Ditto, Quarter- Shares, 14% ;
Shrewsbury and - Grand unction, 5% ; Shrewsbury,
Oswestry, and Chester, 4% 41. Iss. 6d.; South-Eastern and
Dover, 42%; Ditto, New Shares, No. 1, 16%; Ditto, No. 2,
11% ; Ditto, No. 3,• %; South Wales, 6%; Ulster;
45 ; Wexford and Carlow, 21. 18s. 9d. ; Worcester and Tring,
4/. Is. 3d., 41.; Austrian and Sardinian, 60 , 7s. prem. ;
Bordeaux and Cette, 2% 2/. I Is. 6d. ; Northern of France
(Laffitte), 6% 6 ; Paris and Lyons, Laffitte's (English),
21. 18s. 6d. ; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 21. I Is; Paris and
St. Quentin, 21. 4s. 6d.; Sa übre and Meuse, 614 ; Tours
and Nantes, (Mackenzie's Co.), 31. ls., ; Verona and
Ancona, 1/ 135., 1/. 18s.
There are advices from some of our southern colonies, but
they have been anticipated by the overland accounts.
The amount of the Bank of England's circulation during
the week to the 22d inst. is 29,213,555/., being 65,495/. over
the previous week. The " rest" is larger by 2,4551. and the
bullion by 55,8431., the amount of the former apportioned to
the issue department being 15,213,5551. and to the banking
department, 786,8691. The other items also show a general
augmentation.
• Funds are rather vacillating to-day, but the effect of
the Texas affair is wearing off. Consols have been 99% to
99% for Transfer next week, and 99% to 1/, for the Account.
Exchequer-bills have been 595. to 575. premium. The
premium on East India Bonds is 68s.
The Foreign Investments are slack.- Spanish Five per
Cents. realise 301,1, and the Three per Cents. are nominally
about 40,%. Mexican Stock realises 35% to %, and Colom-
bian 15% to %. Dutch Four per Cents. are 99%.
Railway Shares have been firm upon the settlement, which
has been the principal business of the morning.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
3 per Cent. Consols -Anns
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 99 %
-
Ditto3o Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860
India Bonds 1,000/ •••
Ditto under 1,000/ 6B
Consols for Account -
Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%d.
1,0001.
500/. ... • ... - 57 59 pm.
Ditto Small • - - pm.
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Columbian Bonds. l5l/,r4
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 353/4%
Ditto for the Account
. . Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 3Ol .
Ditto Passive Bonds 714
Dutch 2% per Cents -
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
PRICE OF SIIARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE
Armagh, Coleraine, P3rtrush 1% l3/4 to
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 134
Ditto, New...
Bristol and Exeter
Bristol and Gloucester
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln ... 1%
Chester and Holyhead 5 ...... 8%%... to --
___ _. .. .

Churnet Valley - 2
Cornwall ...
l'irect Northern
Dublin and Belfast Junction 2% 7% 8... to 73/4
Dublin and Galway 2% 3% to
Eastern Counties
Eastern Union
• Ditto Extension
Great South and W. (Irish)... 5
Ditto Extension
Great North of England 100
Ditto New
Great Western BO — to

Ditto IA. Shares 5O lOl
Hull and •Selby . 50
Kentish Coast
Lancaster and Carlisle l5 ...... 37% to
London and Birmingham ...100 233 ~... to
Ditto Quarters
London and 8right0n.......... 50
London and Croydon... 131. 15s. 9d I 7%.. ... to 18%
Lc,ndon and Greenwich... 12/. 15s. 4d — ........o
Ditto Preference' 18%..... 24% to
London and South Western.. 41%...... 79% to 80
London and York... .... 2%...... 31AVA to
Lynn and Ely
Mancheitei and Leeds 73 .. ...
Di tto -Hal f Shares
Ditto % Shares
Midland 100 l4B 151—, to 149%
Ditto Fifths
Ditto New
Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100
Newcastle & Darlington ;i unc. 24 ...... 461 A
Newcastle and Berwick
Newark and Sheffield
North British
Northern and Easterr
North Wales lIA
Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2% SA to —1
South Eastern and Dover ... 33% 42% to
Ditto New, No. 1 8
Ditto New, No. 2 . 2 .. . 11% to
South Wales
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... 3% to
West Cornwall
_l_l4 4% to

York and North Midland ... 50 ......
Ditto Sea rboro' Branch
Ditto Selby
Ditto, Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Bordeaux and Toulouse
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette 2
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 •••••• 91.(46... to
Paris and Lyons (Laffitte) 2
Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's ) 2 21/...? to
Paris and Orleans... ... 20 -
MANCHESTER STOCK ExtmaxGE, MARCh 28.—The sales
are :-31arizliester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 20 ex div. ;
Ditto, Sixteenth Shares, 7%; Manchester and Birmingham,
571% ex new and ex div. ; Ditto, New Quarters, 5/. 6s. 6d.
5 5-16 prem. ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 163 ex div. ,•
Midland Railway Consols, 401. Shares, 16% ; Preston and
Wi•re % ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares,
13. A 14 ; South -Eastern, No. 3,8% 8/. 6s. 6d. ; Birkenhead,
Manchester, and Cheshire Juliet ; Blackburn, Darwen,
and Bolton, 4% ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 10% %;
Churnet Valley, 7 3-16 ; Direct Northern, 4 11-16 ;
Erewash Valley, 151/1 ; Huddersfield and Manchester Rail-
way and Canal, ; Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction,
5 1-16; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 6%; Llvezpool,
Orniskirk, and Preston, 3% ; London and Worcester, Ox-
ford and Rugby, 4 1.16 ; -London and York, 3 % „- Man-
chester and Buxton, ; Scottish Central, 51 ; tiheffield
and Lincolnshire Junction, 245. ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry,
and Chester Junction, ; Southport and Euxtola, 3% ;
West Yorkshire, 3%; Great Northern of France (E'iiglish),
6% 3-16 ; Paris and Lyons (English), 3 1-16 es-. new ;
Union Plate Glass, 1634.

MUNIFICENT BEQUEST.—The late Charles J 3 ennet,
Esq , if Clapham, in the county of Surrey, h&3 be-
queathed to that exct'llent charity, the Royal Free
Hospital, in Gray's Inn-road, the sum of 1,5904 lb, the
general purposes of tie Institution.

WILL d fthe MARQUIS of SLIGO.
The original will and codicil or the late Marquis of
Sligo has just been proved in Ireland. The -,;ersoital
estate in that country is vwrn under 60,0001. ; the per-
gonallty in tnglatid is ..bout a third of that amount.
The executors are the Mara f M 49, tbq lict
the present Marquis, the Marquis of Clanricarde,
Brown,,, Esq., of Killeskea, in G-,:lway; John Browne,
Esq., of Mount Browne, in Mayo ; and Mr. George
Hildebrand, of Westport; who are also the guardians of
the minors. lie charges his real rnd perEonal estate
with the paylnont of all debts, llequeathcs to his wife
his leasehold house and utltcea in Mansfield street,
Cavendish square, also the use fot Itt lire Of all the
furniture, &v., ()wept plate and otter articles spear:di
leaves to her all diamonds, jewellery, and trinket-, the
diamond star and badge of the order of St. Patrick ex
cepted, which he gives to his son, George John, then
Earl of A:tamont, as al,o the plate and furniture, after

the decease of the Marchioness. Leaves to Join Browne
his large gold repeater and its appendages; and to Robert
Browne his small gold repeater and appendages, as me-
mor:als of affection for them. To tieorge Hildebrand,
his steward, he bequeaths 1001. Leaves to the Marchioness
all wines, liquors, and other stores, and the horses
and carriages at MansSeld•str, et, er elsewhere in Eng-
land. All the horses and carriages of every kind in
Ireland he bequeathes to his son, the present Marquis,
With regard to his younger children (excepting his
daughter Louisa, in whose favour he had already made
an appointment under her marriage settlement), he
charges his real estate with the payment of such sums
as shall, with the respective portions appointed to them
under a power reserved to the former Marquis over
30,0001., to make up to each of his children the following
amounts:—To his sons James and John Thomas,
10,0001, each; to his daughters, Elizabeth and CAthe-
rine, 7,000/. each; to his sons Lliek and Richard, and
his daughters Harriet and Emily, 5,000/. each; and to
his daughters Hester Augusta aad Mary Ann, and any
after born children, 4,0001. each. The residue of his
personal estate he leaves to his son, the present Marquis.
It is his wish and desire that his children's fortunes may
not be thrown into a Court of Chancery. The will is
dated 7th Sept., 1840 (signed), " Sligo." His Lordship
died on the 26ih of January last, at Tunbridge Wells,
aged 56. He was Lord Lieutenant of the county of
Mayo, and formerly Governor of Jamaica.