The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-17 00:00:00

lexicographer of the veritable antiquity of the poetry
and the integrity of its translator and editor, by
triumphantly offering to pyoduce to the learned author
of the " Rambler," the very box in which the poems
were found. Just so much relation to the real issue
between the. public and the Board of Trade has Lord
DALHOUSIE'S attempted refutation of the charge
against the Board of Trade Railways Committee.
If there were no possibility of Commissioners indivi-
dually communicating one to another, prior to the
meeting of the Board, what was the opinion or re-
port upon a given line, which he should be disposed to
concur in—if there were no possibility that others,
more or less in the confidence of such CoMmissioners,
should communicate to parties out of doors, for their
own purposes, the ascertained resolutions the Com-
missioners would come to in any such given
case, and which resolution they would thus
have had the means of certainly arriving at—
then there might have been some force or reason in
Lord DALHOUSIE'S explanation, and some ground
for the inference he so complacently founds upon it.
But since there were these, and, by possibility, many
other such means, through which this official intelli-
gence might clandestinely transpire, the Noble Earl's
intended disproof of the charge announced by Lord
BROUGHAM amounts to an utter failure. It is a shot
which, so far from hitting its intended object, is ab-
solutely fired in another direction. It is a clumsy
plea of an alibi which leaves the case it was meant to
support ten times more damaged than it would have
been had no such plea been offered. We have never
been satisfied with the explanation in Mr. °Tam's
case, in all its bearings. But if that could scarcely run
on all fours, this of Lord DALHOUSIE:S is absolutely
lame and crippled. We have no doubt that Lord
BROUGHAM will soon find an ample case for the mo-
tion he pledges himself to bring forward, at an early
day, for the revision and extensive modification of the
present constitution and powers of the Board of Trade
Railways Commission.

The accounts from Zurich are to the 11th inst. On
that day the Diet was chiefly occupied with a debate on
a general amnesty for those engaged in the late disturb-
ances, when the question was referred to a Committee.
The Diet next entered upon the decree of Lucerne,
on the subject of the estates and property of the persons
involved in the late events ; but in each of these ques-
tions no decision could be come to for want of a sufficient
number of members, and there being no more business
before the Diet, it adjourned sine die.
According to the latest intelligence, all apprehensions
of civil war or any serious disturbance had ceased. The
cantons in general are too poor to maintain extraordi-
nary troops, and most of those raised for the occasion
have been disbanded. The disciples of the Jesuits, how-
ev, r, are still violent against the Protestants. The
New Zurich Ggzttte publishes an account of
a review which took place at Fribourg, a
Catholic canton. The Chief Baillie addressed the
landsturm in a furious speech, in which he used the fol-
lowing words :—" Those who are not for the Jesuits are
against them and against holy religinn ; the faithful who
meet such ought to rip them up and finish them, and
the Jesuit fathers aceord to them absolution beforehand.
Berne wants to overthrow our churches, and Protestantise
Switz2rland." The same jaurnal contradicts the charge
against Berne and adds :—" The Catholic cantons most
ardent for civil war are beginning already to cool, be-
cause of the burden of supporting troops, which they
cannot afford to pay. It is on this account that the poor
little cantons of Schwytz, Uri, and Unterwalden, have
already shown a disposition to back out of the quarrel.
We now find that Lucerne, the foremost in the fight, is
in a similar predicament. The neas from that canton is
to the 10;1. At that time the troops were disbanding'
only four companies being retained both for town and
country. So drained had the State been that they were
obliged to have recourse to the issue of bonds. If the
Committee of the Diet only act with ordinary prudence
the thirst fur civil war will expire of itself."

Madrid Journals of thJ 9.h have been received, but
they bring no news. On the preceding day the three per
Cents. were quoted at 35, and the Fives closed at 261,
both at sixty days.

We learn from the Paris papers that a large majority
of the Chamber of Deputies are in favour of the imme-
diate conversion of the Five per Cent. Stock, and it is not
at all improbable, if the Ministry should resist the mo-
tion t f M. MURET DX BORT, that they will be signally
defeated. The Bureaux had lected a Committee to con-
sider and report on the Bill, and of the nine Members
.chosen, on'y one M. DE TRACY was opposed to it. All
the rest were in favour of immediate conversion. The
Deputies appointed to form the Committee are MM•
PERIF.R (Mn), BENOIST, ACMES, FoULD, LESTIROUD3IS,
BAUDE, BINCAU, RIIIOUET, and DE TRACY. Several Mem-
bers, though formerly opposed to the measure,had come fur-
wari to support it. M. DELASSERT, one of that class
said the question mu.t be settled one way or the other;
he thought the adoption of the proposition of M. NIURET
DE BORT would be desirable as regard. d the country,
the Legislature, and even the holders of stock them-
selves : and he considered the present as fa-
vourable an opportunity of carrying the mea-
sure as any other. M. MoemY was against
the principle of conversion, but if it was to be
done at all, the sooner the better. The compromise had
been made between the Conecrvatives and the Opposition
on the Bill relative to votirg in arrondissements, and
twenty-five francs of direct taxes, in place of fifty, as tai.
ginally proposed, had been fixed as the amount ne,ces, ary
to give a vote. The Bureaux were also engaged. in examin-
ing M. LEM.; ROLLIN'S proposition to al-,ol,ish the pro-
perty qualification necessary to hold, n seat in the
Chamber, and to allow a daily r,cip-md to each De-
put. . It was energitically opposed in all the
bureaux, and eventually rejected, eight bureaux being
against it, and only one 4.CL its flavour. A Committee
had been appointed to consider and report on the Bill
brought in by M. Rre.MUSAT, relative to public function-
aries sitting in the. Chamber. Five of the Members are
in its favour, and four against it. A motion was
also made by M. DE MONTLAVILLE for th'e
total abolition of the duty on newspapers, and,
after some discussion, referred to the Committee.
The.t Committee had proposed to reduce the present
daty to 4 centimes per sheet, for all journals and pe-
liodical publications appearing in the departments of the
Seine, the Seine-et-Marne, the Seine-et-Oise, and all
arrondissements containing a town of 50,000 souls ; and
to 3 centimes for all journals published elsewhere. This
proposition is generally opposed by the Paris journals.
THE BOURSIIi—SATIIRDAII, MARCH 15

_rTst Highest Lowest Last

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents .. • • 117 90 • • 118 .. 117 80 .. 117 80
- Fours ••• • .. 106 50 .. 106 50 106 50 .. 106 50
Three per Cents.— • 85 15 .. 85 15 .. 85 .. 65
New Loan •• •• • • 86 .. 86 10 .. 86 .. 86 10
Bank of France . 3165 -.3165 .•3160 —3160
Belgian Bank ••• •••••• • • • .- 652 50 C 52 50 .. 652 50 • • 652 00
Belgian Fives, 1840..
1842 107 .. 107 .. 107 107
Four-and-a-Half . 103% .. 103% • . 103% • . 10318
Spanish Active ••• • • • 39 .. 39 .. 38% .. 38%
Threes.-- .• •• • • 41 .. 41 .. 41 41
Passive •• •• 6% .. .. .. 6%
Portuguese Five per Cents • • 69 .. 69 .. 69 .. 69
Rowan •• • • • • 116 106 .. 106 .. 106
RAILWAY OHAREEL

Versailles, LB. •• • ••. • • • 630 . • 645 • • 630 .. 645
L.B.
Rouen •••••••••••••••• 1150 ..1170 ..1150 —1165
Rouen to Havre.• ••••• ••.•• 965 .. 975 .. 965 .. 975
Orleans . ..... .......•• •• 1300 ..1320 ..1297 50 ..1315
Strasburg to Bale 337 50 .. 340 .. 336 56 .. 340
Aviznon to Marseilles.... 110) ..1120 ••1100 ..1112
13ordealx to Teste
Paris to Sceaux 692 50 .• 692 50 .. 692 50 .. 692 50
ICALLWAYS FOR THB ACCOUNT. Maacu 16.
Versailles, R. 8... .. • • 630 .• 647 50 630
L. 8... •• •• .• • . 3,5 .. 395 50 .. 395
Rouen ......•• •••••• ......1150 ..1170 ..1150

.. 645
.. 397 50
1170 5f

Rouen to HAM" •• •• •• •• •• 565
Orleans .• • •

.. 980
••1320

- 965
.1300

..1 .a 50
.. 978 75
..1320

•• 336 25 . 338 75
••1100 ..1130

LOUSES and WINDOW
DUTY.

Cumber of Dwelling Houses in the United
of 1841, distinguishing those in England,
and the Number of Houses Assessed to the
t Year ;—Also, the Amount of Duty for
it that Year, and the Amount received in