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

lexicographer of the veritable antiquity f,f the poetry
and the integrity of its translator and t ditor, by
triumphantly offering to produce 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 dieproof 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. O'BatErt'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 fr:l37lA illir7to 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 f&Reient
nunaber 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-
ever, are still violent against the Protestants. The
New Zurich Gazette 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-
loi;ing words :—" Those who are not for the Jesuits are
against them and against holy religiGn ; the faithful who
meet such ought to rip them up and finish them, and
the Jesuit fathers accord to them absolution beforehand.
Berne wants to overthrow our churches, and Protestantise
Switzerland." The same journal contradicts the charge
against Berne and adds :—" The Catholic cantons most
ardent for civil war are by ginning already to cool, be-
cause of the bur:len 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 uut of the quarrel.
We now find that Lucirne, the foremost in the fight, is
in a similar predicament. The news from that canton is
to the 10th. At that time the troops were disbanding
only four companies being retained both for town and
country. So drained hal 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 for civil war will expire of itself."

Madrid Journals of the 9th have been received, but
they bring RO 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 ro.siority
of the Chamber of Deputies arc 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. MunET no; BOaT, that they will be signally
defeated. The Bureaux had 1 lected a Conun'Atee to con-
sider and report on the Bill, and of the nine Members
chosen, only 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 (Ain), BF.NOIST, AGLIES, POULD, LESTIBOUDOIS,
BAUDE, BINCAU, RIHOUET, and DE TRACY. Several Mem-
bers, though formerly opposed to the measure,had come flo-
wer Ito support it. M. DELASSERT, one of that class
said the question must be settled one way or the other:
he thought the adoption of the proposition of M. MURET
DE BORT would be desirable as regarded 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 mete
sure as any other. M. MoaxY was against
the principle of conversion, bat if it was to be
done at all, the sooner the better. The compromise had
been made between the Conservatives and the Opposition
on the Bill relative to voting in arrondissements, and
twenty-five francs of direct taxes, in place of fifty, as ori-
ginally proposed, had been fixed as the amount necessary
to give a vote. The Bureaux were also engaged in examin-
ing M. LEDRU ROLLIN'S proposition to abolish the pro-
perty qualification necessary to hold a seat in the
Chamber, and to allow a daily stipend to each- De.
put 3. It was energitically opposed in all the'
bureaux, and eventually rejected, eight bureaux being
against it, and only one in its favour. A Committee
had been appointed to consider and report on the Bill
brought in by M. REMUSAT, relative to public function-,
aries sitting in the Chamber. Five of the Members, are
in its favour, and tour against it. A motion was
also made by M. DE MONTLAVILLE for the
total abolition of the duty on newsparer,, and,
after some discussion, referred to the ijtmmittee,
That Committee had proposed to rede.,:e. the present
duty to 4 centimes per sheet, for all ournals and ..
tiodical publications apraring in the
..epar.me,-,,t3 of the
Seine, the Seine-A-Marne, the c:jeine.et. rojan, and
all
arrondissements containing a t Jwn of :,0,000 souls ; d
to 3 centimes for all journals, olsewhere.journals,
0-tiDoaed by the Paris journAs.
proposition is generally
THE 80UR5....q
..,AT'URDAY. MARCH 15
;rifirst Uiptillesi Lowest Lam.
fronell Five per 117 90 .. 118 ".
117 80 Ille:6 Foars ••• • ••....... •• 106 50 .. 106 50 .. 106 50 106 50
Three P'..eCents.•-•• 85 15 .. 85 15 .. 85
.. 85
•iman •• • • • • 86 .• 86 10 .. 1.6 .. 10
Bank of .r,eraucc, ...•... 3165 ..3165 .• 3160 ..3160
lungt.. Rank. ..... ........ 652 60 652 50 .. 652 50 652 .1.0
13.4iftrarives, 1840 ••.• .• 1c54 .. 1(5% .. 1c504 ics%
1842...••••• 107 .• 107 .. le7 .. 11.7
Fonr•and-a-Half... 103 .. 103% .. 1(.3% ••• 103%
gpardsh. Active ••• • • r 9 .. 39 .. 314 i .. 284
Threes •• •• 41 .. 41 .. 41 .. 41
Passive .. •• • • 6% .. 6% .. 6% .. 6%
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 69 .. 69
.. 69
litosnari •• • • ••• 116 106 • 106 •• 1, 6
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, .. • •
L. 8....... ••• • • • 393 .• 395
Rouen.. •• • • •• "1150 ..1170

.. 630 .. 645
• 395 .. 395
..1150 ..11

.65
Rouen to *Havre .... . •.. • 965 .. 975 .• 965 .. 975
Orleans.•• •• .• •••• • - .... • • ••1300 ..1320 ..1297 50 —1315
Strasburg to Bale.. •• .• .. 337 50 .. 340 .. 336 55 .. 340
Avignon to Marseilles•—• •• 110 J .. 1120 • • 1100 .. 1112
90
Bonleaxx to Tcste ...... 2+,0 ,• 232 50 .. 230 .. 232 50
Paris to Sceaux • 692 50 •• 692 50 .. 692 50 .. 692 50
JcAILIVAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT. MAncit 16.
Versailles, 1.1.13.
L. 8.• ••••••• • • • • 3:45 .. 395 50 395 .. 397 50
Rouen ••••••••
Rouen to Havre.• ••••.• • • .. 965 ~ 980 965 .. 974 75
Orleans • •
Strasburg to Bale .• •••• •• 336 25 .. 349 • 836 25 . 338 75
Avignon to Marseilles 1100 ..1130 •.1100 ..1130

DWELLING HOUSES and WINDOW
DUTY.

A Return of the Tctal Number of Dwelling Rouses in the United
Kingdom at the Census of 1841, distinguishing those in England,
Ireland, and Scotland ; and the Number of Houses Assessed to the
Window Duty in that Year;—also, the Amount of Duty for
Window-tax received iu that Year, and the Amount received in
the Year 1844.