The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-15 00:00:00

PEEL AND THE LANDLORDS.

The following letter of Sir Charles Wolseley,
written some six years ago will be read with in-
terest at the present crisis. It was addressed to the
nobility and gentry forming the Agricultural As-
sociation :

I • My Lords and Gentlemen,—As a man engaged in
1 the same pursuits, and bound by the same interests
as yourselves, and of experience equal to almost any
of you, I have a right to address you, which. makes
any excuse unnecessary. From the nature and terms
of your Association, and from the published senti-
ments of many respectable men of your body, I am
led to believe that you will reap nothing more for
your labour than the pains thereof. An institu-
tion for the attainment of practical good, must not
only have cohesion but unity of purpose, single-
ness of action, and direct and tangible means for
following that purpose out to its conclusion. The
fable of the bundle of sticks has a point which
is all very well in its way. But if you get no fur-
ther than the imitation of sticks in a bundle, I fear
that a waggish and mischievous generation like the
present will be apt to say that you are indeed a pack
of sticks, in no way formidable to any other portion
of the. community. I observe the most strange dis-
cordance in your views, even now, in the days of your
noviciate, and long before that trying. season when
you will be front to front with the crafty enemy,
namely, the monied, mercantile, and manufacturing
interests. In their forces you will find no resem-
blance to your own condition and conduct. Full of
envy and rivalry as they are, one with another, you
will be astonished, and, I fear, confounded by their
firmness, union, and adroitness in the hour of
trial. Already, while you are criticising one another's
sentiments with an acrimony which makes 'Change
Alley shake with laughter at your expense; their
organs in town and country are giving tongue, in most
harmonious yelping, to raise the people against you.
I know that none of us are wiser than our need.
But I cannot help wondering at you when I read of
an organisation which, by its protestations, with re-
gard to debt, taxes, and currency, has nearly bound
itself to complete inaction before a blow is struck.
Can it be possible that men with reasoning heads upon
their shoulders, complaining to the world of the unjust
depreciation f their property, and the ruin of their
tenantry, have published the alleged causes of
their sufferings, with an undertaking that they will
not in any way provoke or allow discussion upon
them, although the catalogue comprises the only con-
ceivable causes that any one can point out ? Yes,
unhappily, it is possible, and it is fact. You give the
world to understand that your Association has nothing
" political" in its object, and many of your members
join the cry of " mad dog," when any allusion is made
to the state of the currency and the taxes, as connected
with prices and rents, as rabidly as any of the cronies
of Sir R. Peel.

If you shut out what is "political" (meaning, ac-
cording to Johnson, that which concerns the commu-
nity at large),—if you shut out the consideration of
a debt contracted and taxes laid on to pay the inte-
rest of that debt in money, 90s. of which were required
to buy a quarter of wheat for ten years together,
and the payment of which is now enforced with wheat
at ss. the bushel,—if you shut out the fact that in
the former period the Government forced upon the
country a vitiated paper currency, and then, when the
whole burden of state profligacy was weighing upon
the shoulders of the productive classes, the Govern-
ment passed laws to prohibit the circulation of paper
money on any terms,—if, I say, you resolve upon the
exclusion of these things from your deliberations,
because, forsooth, they are " political," what, I ask
you, have you left to waste your breath and ink upon ?
Suffer me, with a firm but friendly hand, to re-
move the veil which disguises, without giving any
interest, to the beauty of your designs. In disavow-
ing anything " political, you unwittingly prove
yourselves to be rather too politic. Confess, now,
without blushing, is not this course suggested in
order to shun the politics of the Liberal or Movement
party ? Yes, yes ; you own the soft impeachment.
You cannot do much longer with rents, dwindling
or in abeyance, with lands racked out, fences fallen
down, and drains choked up ; but neither can you
go on, as you believe, without Sir Robert Peel and
his " Conservative principles of government." Ah
Sirs, you will find, before long, who has the best
of Conservatism—you, in the incomes of landed
estates, or he in the receipt of a princely revenue
from the funds, those funds being replenished by
taxes squeezed, in the main, out of the pro-
duce of your lands, that produce being reduced, by
an Act which bears his own name, to the minimum
of value. Why should any of us wish to hide the
fact ? A great, a ruinous blunder has been com-
mitted. You were tempted by the syrens of the
money market. You were warned with more than
the persuasiveness of Ulysses, by Mr. Cobbett, of the
danger of listening to them. You passed the cash
payment Act,-and doomed all bonded debtors, public
or private, to pay treble value to their creditors in
future. This, with respect to the debt called national,
is a deliberate confiscation, without the receipt of any
equivalent by the nation of two-thirds of the products
of all the national industry for ever. This, however,
does not describe the actual nature and amount of the
Peel and Ricardo scheme of plunder. Under the
stimulus of this harassing goad, the industry of the
country multiplies products in a ratio out of all pro-
portion to the money in circulation. The cheapness
of products caused by their multiplication would of
itself be a general blessing. But under the action of
the debt, aided by the increasing disproportion of
money and commodities, that cheapness has no other
effect than pampering the public annuitants with fresh
spoils torn from the sinking ranks of industry. One
illustration may be useful.
I know of an estate which had a mortgage on it
for 4,3001. The interest, 5 per cent., had been paid
for years with about 360 bushels of wheat. At the
present prices it would require at least 800 bushels.
Is it better with manufacturers ? By no means. Mr.
Fielden has proved before Parliament, that, reckoning
the payment of interest by the prices of the cotton
manufacture through the whole of the periods before
alluded to, the fundholders have received back both
principal and interest, and are now indebted to the pub-
lic for an overplus. What has been the fate of the Ba-
ronet himself all this while ? His fortune in the
funds stands at its nominal amount, while yours is
dropping into annihilation. He is at the point of
summer heat, and you are fallingbelow zero. The lower
you go, the higher he stands ; the more he gains. But
I suppose yon will find it necessary to " grin and
abide it." He is your own. He is your serpent of
the wilderness. But he gazes on you without healing
you. There is only one way to safety. You must
go back by the road you came. You must return to
the point at which you departed from justice and fair
dealing with the masses who have to pay the taxes.
Whatever else is suggested is froth or smoke. lam
no paper-currency man. I am no currency doctor.
I will not be hunted by the clamour of Whigs and
stock-jobbers. I know that this country is pay-
ing three times the value due to the fund-
holders. I know that this has been effected by
a gross violation of public faith, and can only be re
medial by. an honest adjustment of the contract, ac-
cording to the terms upon which the money was bor-
rowed. Liberavi animum. I have done my duty. I
wish you better times, or rather, I wish you the reso-
lution, as you have the power among you, to make
the times better.—l am, my Lords and Gentlemen,
your obedient servant and fellow-sufferer,
CHARLES IV OL SELEY.

P.S. Mine will be a lady's postscript : it will con-
tain the whole mystery of the subject. Consider it
well. It was written more than a hundred years ago.
Observe what wisdom, what prophetic sagacity.,
breathes through it ! Where would you be now, if,
instead of mortgaging the soil and the people to the
fundholders, to carry on crusades against the liberties
of mankind, you had acted the part of " natural
guardians," as you style yourselves, and firmly held
to this advice, given by the great Locke ?
" This, by the way, if well-considered, might let
us see that taxes, however contrived, and out of
whose hand soever immediately taken, do, in a
country where their great fund is in land, for
the most part terminate in land. Whatsoever the
people are chiefly maintained by, that the Govern-
ment supports itself on. Nay, perhaps it will
he found, that those taxes which seem least to affect
the land will most surely of all others fall on the rents.
This would deserVe to be well considered in the raising
of taxes, but the neglect of it brings upon the country
gentleman an evil which he will be sure quickly to
feel, but not be able very quickly to remedy; for
rents once fallen are not easily raised again. A tax
laid upon land seems hard to the landholder, because
it is so much money going visibly out of his pocket ;
and therefore as an ease to himself, the landholder is
always forward to lay it on commodities. But if the
rich man thoroughly consider it, and examine the
effects, he will find he buys this seeming ease at a
very dear rate ; and though he pays not this tax im-
mediately out of his own purse, yet his purse will find
it by a greater want of money there at the end of the
year than that comes to, with the lessening of his rents
to boot; which is a settled and lasting evil, that will
stick upon him beyond the present payment."

SOUTIIAMPTON, APRIL 13.—The Peninsular Com-
pany's iron steamer Cairo, Captain Moody, left Southampton
Water last evening for Egypt, to run on the River Nile.
The South of England Steam Packet Company's steamer
Monarch, Captain Forder, commenced her summer voyages to
Havre last night, with the Earl of Leven and his family, ant a
large number of passengers on board. The same Com-
pany's steamer, the Atalanta, Captain Babot, commenced
running also between this port and the Channel Islands and
St. Malo. The Oriental it is expected will be detained a con-
siderable time in quarantine at the Mother-bank, in conse-
quence of the virulence of the plague at Alexandria when she
left that port. The Commander of the West India steamer
Medina has received strict orders to leave Southampton for Fal-
mouth on Friday next, at 12 o'clock at noon.
A letter from Rome, in the Leipzic Gazette,
a report that Dc .n Migue' intends to dust the capita'
account of his not being treated with sufficient consideration
by be Cardinals.

THE DISASTERS IN AFFGHAN-
-ISTAN.

The Dublin Evening .Mail of Monday contains the
following interesting communication from the scene of
war, written by an officer high in the confidence of the
late Sir W. M'Naghten, who was with him at the inter-
view with Akhbar Khan, and was an eye-witness of all
the scenes which he describes :

" I take the first leisure moment to give you a few
lines, which will, I trust, some day or other, reach you,
and convey the assurance of my being up to the present
date well, and, I trust, safe from personal danger. What
we have gone through since my last to you can only be
related, should we ever meet, which the merciful God,
who has hitherto protected me, and in whom I trust,
will, I doubt not, if he sees fit, enable me to do so.
" On the 2d of November the insurrection broke out
in the city. I was sent by the Envoy to the King in
the Bala Hisser, and narrowly escaped with my life,
having to run the gauntlet of a heavy fire and the at-
tempts of swordsmen. The result "of my mission was,
that Shelton, with nearly two regiments, and Nicholl's
troops, took possession of the Bala Hissar. I returned
to Sir W. M'Naghten in the cantonments. The day
following the commissariat fort, in which all our provi-
sions were, was taken by the enemy, through the UMW•
countable conduct of the military authorities. This, as
you may suppose,
completely paralysed us in canton-
ments ; we had but two days' tatta. Now became evi-
dent the madness of keeping our supplies out of can-
tonments, as also the folly of having made them co
large as to require the whole of the troops to protect
them. On the 2d Sir A. Burnes, brother, and Brad-
foot were killed—his house plundered and burnt—
Johnson's treasury plundered and burnt—he had
luckily slept in cantonments. Anquetil and Troup
were out riding, and so escaped. Mackenzie, in his fort,
which was also a commissariat depot, most gallantly
defended it for three days with a handful of men, till all
his ammunition was expended, when he brought off his
party into cantonments at night. Trevor remained with
his wife and children for two days, protected by the
Huzerbash, who escorted them all safely to us. Skinner
and Drummond were concealed by friends in the city.
The successes en both sides were various. We took two
forts which were close by, and in which we got some
grain. These were taken at the earnest entreaty of the
poor Envoy, for our unfortunate general was quite unfit,
from sickness and age, to do anything ; and 1 grieve to
say his staff proved utterly incompetent to meet such a
crisis, they being entirely for defensive measures,
whereas our only hopes of safety were in the most vigour-
ous offensive ones. The Envoy is dead, so I may with
safety,
.and free from the supposition of interested
motives, say that he was the life and soul of us ;
that whatever was done of good was done by him ;
and that,
,from his death, cruelly and barbarously
murdered as he was, by the Ghuznees, we may
date the commencement of our misfortunes. Many
officers were killed at different times. was
sent for, and one regiment withdrawn from the Bala
Hissar. The arrival of the troops, however, was not
attended with the success we anticipated. Though brave
as a lion, the Commander had from the commencement
despaired of success, and thought of nothing but defeat
at all risks. This was peculiarly unfortunate, as all his
councils were imbues with the unhealthy hue which had
taken possession of his mind. To make a long story
short, we were once more reduced to six days' supplies.
Up to this we had contrived, through promises and
bribes, to get enough for the men, but little or nothing for
the horses. I had, and so had others, suggested our re-
tiring into the Bala Hissar, which Oniony, who was with
the King, strongly advocated, and to which the poor En-
voy was willing, till told by the General it was quite ins-
impossible, as he dreaded a panic amongthe troops. The
44th had disgracefully abandoned, so had the 37th. with-
out firing a shot, a fort close by ; and in an action on
a hill, which Shelton fought well at first, but in which
he kept the troops under a galling fire for several hours,
they at length broke, and foot and horse ran into can-
tonments, pressed by the enemy, who were only kept
from annihilating them by Osman Khan withdrawing
the soldiers of his tribe under some pretence. He was
then in treaty with the Envoy about the —. The re-
maining regiment, the 54th, was withdrawn &OM the
Bala Hissar, and the King left to his own resources.
For days all the military authorities had pressed on the
Envoy the absolute necessity of entering into terms
Aith the enemy, based on the evacuation of the
7Fountry by our troops. As long as it was pos-
sible for man, the Envoy resisted, but hearing that
the troops lie had written for from Candahar had re-
turned to that city, and that there was no hope
of getting Sale's bfigade back from Jellalabad, or
any aid from Peshawur, he most reluctantly complied,
and two deputies with myself and Trevor were directed
to open communications outside cantonments. A few
days after, the Envoy, myself and Trevor, met all the
chiefs on the same spot, when he produced a Persian
paper contain nineteen or twenty articles fur a treaty,
which he read, and which were all approved. Mahomed
Akhbar Khan seemed to be the chief spokesman. Well,
other meetings took place, and some of the chiefs called
on the Envoy to settle matters.
"On the 22d of December I dined out. Skinner came
into cantonments at night, with a cousin of Akhbar, the
bearer, it seems, of certain propositions from Akhbar,
which I only heard of the following morning, and shortly
before Sir William told me to be ready with Trevor and
Mackenzie, to accompany him to Mahomed Akhbar's.
We went, and had hardly been seated five minutes,
when, at a signal, we were all seized ; self, Mackenzie,,
and Trevor, hurried to horse, and mounted behind
Affghan ; the last, we afterwards heard, fell off, and was
cut to pieces by the Ghazees, as was also the poor En-
voy, who, it seems, resisted mounting a horse. Mackenzie
and I were wonderfully preserved, though the whole
host of Ghazees cut at us as we rode by them ; being
on the same horse with two chiefs, they were afraid to
fire on us. We were put into a house in the Yaghee
fort, where we wore kept till midnight, when we were
taken through the city to Akhbar, first having our
watches, &c., taken from us. At Akhbar's we met
Skinner, and heard for the first time of the Envoy's and
Trevor's death, as up to that we had been told that both
were well. I remained there till the morning of the 26th,
when I was sent for by Naib Ameer Oollah, one of the chief
rebels, and he told me that the General had required me in
the cantonment to settle the Envoy's papers,and that he re-
quired the to tzke some Hindoo Shroff in, to negotiate some
lloondee, &c. Well, I remained till the 260, when I
was sent under a strong escort, much against the wishes
of some of the chiefs, to cantonments. The Naib was
most kind and attentive to me during my stay with him.
On the 6th we marched from cantonments with a foot
of snow on the ground. I was after the advanced
guard, with the escort, in charge of the ladies. We
reached Bagramee unmolested ; but our rear-guard was
attacked, and Hardyman, of the sth cavalry, and some
men killed. The next morning we made towards Bood-
hall, our rear-guard attacked the :whole way, and our
three mountain guns carried off. It now became clear
that we should have to fight olir way on. The fol-
lowing morning, the 7th, we found the camp
nearly surrounded. Skinner had gone in the even-
ing to Mahommed Akhbar, who was on a hill close
to us, and who told us it was all our own faults
for leaving cantonments before the troops appointed
to escort us were ready, and that the chiefs had
not, save himself, power to prevent his being attacked ;
that he was willing still to do this on our giving up six
hostages that we should not move beyond Tezeen till
Sale's brigade had left Jellalabad. Pottinger, who was
still lame from his wounds, said he would go for one
instead of me, who had been particularly required by
Akhbar—so he went. On his arrival he was told that I
must go also, and, with Mackenzie, he would be satisfied
—so we went, and the troops marched for the Khoord
Caubul pass ; but, notwithstanding all the Sirdar's en-
deavours, he could not restrain the Ghazees, who at-
tacked the column at all points. We followed in a few
hours after, and the scene of slaughter was fearful.
One gun was left. Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Boyd had
each a child carried off. Mrs. Mannering was nearly so,
but was saved. Mrs. Boyd's child, a European woman,
and a wounded soldier, were all brought back by Ma-
hemmed Akhbar.

" The next day the Sirdar said, after lamenting his
inability to restrain his people, that the only safety for
the ladies would be in their putting themselves under
his charge. This they did. So Captain and Mrs. An-
derson and child, Boyd, Eyre, Waller, Mrs. Trevor,
Ladies Sale and M‘Nagliten, Mrs. Sturt (he had been
shot), Mr. and Mrs. Ryley, Mrs. Mainwaring, Serjeant
and Mrs. Wade, and Troup, wounded, joined our party,
and were receieed with every attention by the Sirdar. We
halted a day or two, and then proceeded towards Jugdul-
luk, the whole road being crowded with our dead and
dying of tke army. More seem to have fallen from the cold
and then been cut to pieces than from the fire of the
enemy. At Jugdulluk we learned that the troops had en-
deavoured to make a stand in an old ruined fort; that after
doing so till only 30 rounds of ammunition remained per
man, they tried to negotiate with the Ghilzies. Ma•
hommed Akhbar assisted them, and asked for General
Elphinstone, Shelton, and Johnson to be sent to him.
This was done towards the evening of the next day. The
troops, from want of water and the loss of their two
chiefs, got impatient, and at night made a rush on the
road to Jellalabad. The only accounts, we have since
learned are, that only one man, an officer, lived to reach
Jellalabad—dreadful to relate. The irregular horse had
gone over to the enemy in a body, and moat of the sepoys
had thrown away their arms. The Sirdar brought us
here with Elphinstone, Shelton, &c., where I fancy we
shall remain till Dost Mahommed is sent back, or some
other arrangement made. In the meantime he does
everything in his power to make us comfortable,
and we feel perfectly at our ease. I know not what
steps Government will take, but in my opinion they
have only two before them, either to send back Dust
Mahommed quickly, or send an overwhelming force to
crush the country ; the latter would most probably co:n-
promise us, and the sick and hostages at Caubul, but that
would be a very secondary consideration. In the former
case they would make up their minds, I fancy, lo retain
the country. From all I hear, there is no man who could
so well or so quickly settle the: country as Dost Ma-
hommed, should peace be their object ; bu these are
subjects for higher powers than we have here. Sale and
Macgregor will not give up Jellalabad.
" Lughnal, January, 1842.
"I omitted to say that, on the 3d, the post at Churbs
was attacked—Codrington, Salisbury, and Rattray killed ;
they held out till they had been without water four
, days—that the regiment became quite disorganised—
that only Pottinger and Houghton got into Caubul."
INDIA.

The remainder of the Overland Mail from India has
been received, and a mass of private letters have of course
been received, some of which throw a little more light on
the events in Aflghanistan, so far as the writers may be
credited and have means of information, than what pre-
viously has transpired. According to one letter, from a
quarter entitled to consideration, it would seem that
Akhbar Khan has been greatly misrepresented in the
general run of accounts. Treachery, and the violation of
the most sacred of international obliwations, have been
freely imputed to him, on account the murder of
, Sir W. M`Naghten, the British Envoy in Caubul, on

occasion of the meeting under the guarantee of an agree-
' merit agreed upon between him and Akhbar Khan for
considering the terms of a convention.
According to the accounts in the Indian papers, ac-
cepted as authentic, Akhbar Khan is represented as
having given the signal for the murder or seizure of
the Envoy and his suite, which on resistance led to their
murder. But the letter alluded to, from a respectable
source, gives quite a different account of the transaction.
It is said, that whilst the discussions for a treaty were
going on between the Envoy and Akhbar Khan,
at le appointed rendezvous, the latter observing
that people were gradually accumulating upon the
place, until at length crowds of Ghazees, or re-
ligious fanatics were congregating there, advisA
the Envoy of his danger, and frankly stated his own
inability to ensure their safety against fanatics over
whom he had no control. He is said to have urged
Sir William and his attendants to retire through the
house, in front of which the conference was held, and
mount their horses at the back, where they were to
make their escape. The Envoy unfortunately re-
sisted all his solicitations, and stood upon the sa-
credness of his character as an Envoy. Iu the mean-
time zees , listening to the exciting language
passing
Akhbar Khan and thb Envoy, became
atghebet Gwlren
enraged like zealots and barbarians past endurance.
Upon a signal given among them, Sir W. M'Naghten
was shot, and one of his officers, upon which Akhbar
Khan insisted with the other two . that they should
retreat through the house to the back part, where
accordingly they mounted their horses, and, under
an escort from him, safely reached the camp. Ad-
mitting this account to be true, and coupling it with
the kindly treatment afforded to the ladies made
captives with their husbands and General El-
phinstone, by which the fact of such freedom from
the intention of treachery on the part of Akhbar Khan
would seem confirmed, it must result that the accounts
before received are not only extremely incorrect, but
grossly unjust to Akhbar Khan. For it appears more-
over that he had so little of the reality of power, how-
ever he might be invested with the appearance of it tem-
porarily, that after the destruction of our Caubul army,
he was left by the co-operating chiefs of tribes without a
shadow of en army or power, whilst Shah Soojah, our
very costly ally, still remained with the dignity, if not
the' authority, of an absolute soverein.

THE FRENCH POET-OFFICE AND
GAL I GNANI'S :NE WS PAPE R.
We give the following paragraph from Galignani's
Messenger of Tuesday, as a specimen of the ill-treat-
ment which everything in the shape of an English jour-
nal experiences at the hands of the French Post office :

" We have once more to call the attention of the
superior authority to the unaccommodating conduct of
an under director at the Post-office, by whom a portion
of our yesterday's journals, which arrived five minutes
after the stipulated time, was refused, thus depriving
part of our subscribers of their journals, containing one
of the 'nest important debates of the present Session of
Parliament. Were there any reason for this extreme
rigidity as to a few minutes more or less, it would be
excusable ; but there is none ! the mails not being
despatched from the Post-office until six o'clock, three
hours after the time they insist upon the newspapers
being taken to the office. What a contrast does this
conduct present with the prompt and business-like
activity which reigns at the same establishment ifn Lon-
don, where the journals are received until within one
hour of their being despatched. The difference is, that
in England the object of the Post-office and its employes
is the service and accommodation of the public, while, in
Paris, that establishment, in the opinion at least of the
sous-directeur, M. Mollard, seems to be kept up, not for
the public service, but merely to supply its heads with
comfortable .berths and salaries at the least possible
amount of trouble. In a word, these gentlemen take
upon themselves to be the masters, instead of servants,
of the public ; and it is high time that this conduct,
which has notoriously given rise to complaints from so
Many quarters, should be seriously looked into by their
superiors, It is stated. the utmost anarchy prevails
throughout the establishment ; however this may be, it
is extremely hard that the inconveniences of such an im-
proper state of things should fall upon journalists who,
as in our case, after making every possible effort to
supply their readers with the fullest and latest intelli-
gence, find all their exertions defeated by a system of
petty despotism like that we have described."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING.
(Continuation of Wednesday's Races.)
Availing ourselves of an opportunity of forwarding our
despatch by a private conveyance, we closed it after the Column
Stakes, leaving the 100 Sews. Stakes, and the dead heat of
the Plate, undecided. Of these we now add the results, with
some additional particulars :
Sweepstakes of 100 sous. each, h ft, for fillies, Bst 71b each.
R.M. (3 Subs.)
Lord Chesterfield's Dil-bar, by Touchstone ( Scott) 1
Mr. Thornhill's Equation
Duke of Rutland's f, by Binrre—Flambeau's dam

Betting-5 to 4 ast Equation, and 5 to 2 agst Dil-bar.
The Duke of Rutland 's filly cut out the work until half-way
down the hill, and was then passed by Equation, who went on
with it half way up the cords, where, in her turn, she was
headed by Dil•bar,and beaten in a canter by two lengths.
PLATE. —Patchwork made the running, followed by the
Wiseacre colt, behind whom were Eringo and Garry Owen.
Patchwork resigned at the dip, and Garry went on with the
lead, Eringo waiting on him. A few yards from the chair
Robinson rushed in, and, in the last stride, made it a dead
heat; Patchwerk third, and Wiseacre colt fourth. In the
deciding heat Eringo made all the running, and won in a can-
ter. 5t04 on Garry Owen.
COLUMN STAKES.—It was not declared, until within ten of
fifteen minutes of starting, that Chatham would not run, the
odds having previously been even on him, and 3 to I agst Fly-
trap. The declaration advanced Flytrap to sto 4, and in some
cases even betting, greatly to the mortification of those who
had laid the 3to I, the bets about Chatham being off. The
Clearwell filly made play at starting, followed by Flytrap, the
others lying well up ; at the new ground Flytrap took the lead
from the filly, and, with the Acacia colt and the Souvenir filly
in close waiting, tarried on the running at a steady pace, the
-Souvenir filly pulling hard, and looking more like a winner than
anything elt,e in the race. In the bottom Archy tried for the
front, but failed, and the race was left to the three leading
horses, who contested it so gallantly to the end, that Flytrap
barely pulled through by a
head, and the other two made a
dead heat for second: Archy was fourth, and Lord Chester-
field's filly fifth.
The Column Stakes materially improved the day's sport,
which otherwise would have been meagre and unimportant.
A glance at the results of the three days will show that the
Derby and Oaks nags, which have hitherto appeared, have
made no impression whatever on the betting for either of
those events.

BETTING AFTER THE RACE'.
Sweepstakes on Thursday—Chatham was backed heavily
at 2 to 1, 7 to 4, and 6 to 4, p p. ; and 1,000 to 10 and 1,000
to 15 taken that he wins it and the Derby.
THURSDAY.—Sweepstakes of 100 sous. each, h ft, for foals of
1839 ; colts Sst 71b, fillies Bst 41h. D. M. (15 Subs.)
Duke of Grafton's Canadian, by Jerry
Mr. Gregory's Barrier, brother ti Bulwark
Mr. Pettit's Espartero, by Emelius 3
Colonel Peel's Chatham, by the Colonel
,Jr. Goodman's Rover, by Muley Moloch
Bet ting---6 to 4 agst Chatham ; 5 to 2 agst Barrier ; 4 to 1
agst Canadian, and ti to 1 agst Espartero.
There was one false start, in which Chatham fell, rolled over
Nat, and broke his collar bone ; unaware of the extent of his
injury, Nat re-mounted, and rode him in the actual race. Bar-
rier made his running at a steady pace, followed by Canadian
and Chatham to the T. Y. C. post, where the latter was beaten,
and Espartero took the third place. Canadian challenged at the
ropes, and after a tolerable race, won cleverly by a length ;
Esparter• was a bad third, and Chatham beaten off. Rorer
gave in before he had run half the distance.
The batting was heavy. Offers to take 15 to 1 about Cana-
dian fur the Derby.

Sweepstakes of 200 BOWL each, h ft, for colts, Bst 71b; arid
fillies, Bst 41b; then three yrs-old. D. M. (7 Subs. )
Col. Peel's Archy, by Camel (Chapple) 1
Duke of Beaufort's cby Camel, out of Miss Craven's dam 2
Lord G. Bentinck's Flytrap
Lord Eketer's Albion

Lord Chesterfield's Johnny Faa

Betting-5 to 4 agst Flytrap, 3to 1 agst Johnny Faa, 3to 1
agst Duke of Beaufort's colt, and 5 to 1 agst Archy.
The Duke's colt made all the running, followed by Flytrap
and Archy to the ropes, where Archy passed Flytrap, caught
the roan halfway up, and won cleverly by a length; Flytrap a
good third.
Subscription Plate of 501. for three-yr-olds, 6st 121 b ; four-yrs,
B.t 71b ; five-yrs, 9st ; six-yrs, and aged, 9st 31b. D.M.
The winner to be sold for 3001., &c.
Mr. F. Clarke's Curricome, 5 yrs ••• •( Sly) I
Lord Orford's Young Quo Minus, 4 yrs...
The following also started but were not placed:—Lord Lyne-
dock's Jeffy. 5 yrs ; Mr. Goodman's Miss Fidget, 4 yrs ; Lord
Exeter's Abydos, 4 yrs; Mr. H. Clarke's ch f by Ishmael
out of Balance, 3 yrs; Mr. Clarke's b f by Sir Hercules
out of Octine, 3 yrs; Mr. Beresford's Indolence,
3 yrs ; Mr. Rogers's Bridegroom, 3 yrs ; Captain Colquitt's
Astronomer, 3 yrs ; Mr. Pettit's Michaelmas Day, 3 yrs ; and
Capt. Daiotree's b c by Mulatto, dam by Middleton, 3 yrs.
Betting-3 to 1 agst Young Quo Minus ;3to 1 agst Bride•
groom; 6 to 1 agst Miehaelma.,day ; 10 to 1 agst Astrono.
mar; and 10 to 1 agst Currycomb.
The Balance filly cut out the work at a great pace, fol-
lowed by Abydos, Kkhaelmas-day, and Currycomb, the
whole keeping together till within sixty yards of home,
when the leader tired, and Currycomb went up with Y. Quo
Minus, the former winning by a length; Michaelmas-day
third, and the Balance filly fourth.
The Vacillation Stakes of 100 Boys. each, h. ft., for colts set
71b, and fillies, Bst 31b, &c. R. M. (8 Subs.)
Lord Chesterfield's c by Muley Moloch, out of Dirce 1
Mr. Petit's Espartero...
Lord Geo. Bent ick's Tedworth 3
3tol on Dirce colt (taken). Won in a canter.
THURSDAY.
BETTING BEFORE THE RACES.
2,000 Guineas' Stakes.-5 to 2 agst Meteor—taken
DERBY.

A report was circulated this morning that the Lord of Hol.
denim had broken down, but not until 25, 28, and 30 to 1 had
been taken ;40to l was betted afterwards. Tiptoe has been
backed freeiy at 1,000 to 10, and 1,000 to 15; and Barrier at
40 to 1. No other change.
A match is made for Monday in the First Spring Meeting
between Lord Albemarle's Ralph, 4 yrs Bst 10Ib, and Lord
G. Bentinck's Proof Print, 3 yrs, 6st 4lb ; 200, h ft. A.F.
Departures—Duke of Portland and the Marquis of Nor-
manby, Earl of Albemarle, Hon. G. S. Byng, Mr. Gre-
vale, &c.
Nearly all, if not all, the races in the list for Friday are
likely to end in forfeits.
SOUTH AM STEEPLE CHASES—Toasneir.

The Sweepstakes of 2 cove. each, and 10 added, four miles,
were won by Mr. Matthew's Bellina (Mr. Lamplugh), beating
Commodore, and three others.
The Sweepstakes of 5 'ors. each, and 40 added, four miles,
were anon by Mr. Robertson's Legacy (Mr. A. M'Donogh),
beating The Moor, Perfection, and three others.

ACCIDENT AT HYDE PARK.---At a little after four
o'clock yesterday afternoon a gentleman was thrown from his
horse in the ride called Rotten-row, in Hyde Park. He was
conveyed to St. George's Hospital in a state of insensibility.
The usual surgical assistance was immediately afforded, but
without any results which leave a hope of his recovery. His
name and circumstances are unknown. Prince George of Cam-
bridge witnessed th. 3 accident, and made repeated inquiries at
the Hospital respecting the unfortunate gentleman's condition.
In Auvergne and the Allier, says a letter from
Gannat, the weather, during the first week of this month, has
Leeen most severe, and moresi ow and sleet fell than is within
the recollection of the oldest inhabitants.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
SHERIFFS' cOUR7; April 14.
NORMAN V. MILLS.

The defendant in this case is a gentleman of fortune,
living in Hertford-street, May-feir, and at Blandeston
Hall, in Suffolk. The action was brought for the re-
covery of 151. 12s. 2d. for service rendered by the wife
of the plaintiff, from September, 1840, to the 16th of April,
1841, and also for eleven weeks' beer at 14d. a week,
for meat at 3s. Gd. a week, and for 51. is. 10d. laid out
by the plaintiffs wife, then Miss Kendal, for sundries
for the use of the house, such us letters, cat's-meat,
chops, steaks, cheese, cakes, Congreves, candles, starch,
tea and sugar for herself and her masters. The defen-
dant pleaded that he was only indebted to the plaintiff
six guineas, which he had tendered, and which she had
refused, and which was paid into Court.
Mr. V. LEE, for the plaintiff, said, Miss Kendal was
employed to attend upon Mr. John Mills and Mr. Mills.
while Mrs. Mills was in the country. Her wages were
12 guineas a year, but she had to feed herself while her
mistress was in the country, for tha gentlemen used to
dine oat, and nothing was left in the house
for the servant, except she could feed on the
atmosphere. In fact., nothing eatable came into
the house during several weeks except what was
paid for by Mrs. Norman ; but she had to pay also
for washing for the family and other imPspensables. Eln
fact, she had fed the family herself for some time.
Ann Brittle proved many of these details. - She heard
Mrs. Norman say, all the money she had received for
the use of the house from Mr. Mills was 55., She always
complained that she could not get money from Mr. Mills.
Cross-examined by Mr. C. JoNEs—The gentlemen
used sometimes to come home late for dinner, and dine
on chops and steaks. This is a receipt for the 55., but
here is another receipt for 10s. Mrs. Mills did come
to town in January, and then she paid what Mrs. Nor-
man had laid out. It was proved that Mrs. Norman had
ordered several of the above articles.

Mr. C. JONES, for the defendant, said, Mrs. Norman
had been employed to take care of the house while the
family were in the country. Her wages were at the
rate of twelve guineas a year, but she was to board her-
self. She had received 11. 10s. on account of wages, and
41. to pay for sundries, of which she had applied only a
small part. She had also left her place suddenly. Bat
when she came and asked for a settlement, 61. 6s. were
tendered as her due, but she refused it.

Witnesses were called in support of these statements,
when the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, for
91. 6s. 2d., to be added to the six guineas paid into Court.

THE QUEEN V. TATLIN.

Mr. DERANY, solicitor for the Crown, stated that her Ma-
jesty's writ had been issued to inquire what goods, chattels,
&c., Edward Taplin, sugar manufacturer, of Back-road, St.
George's in the East, was possessed of on the 12th of March
lost, at which period Excise duties were due to the amount of
591/. 17s. 4frd. He understood Mr. Taplin was net the real
proprietor, but was registered as such with the Excise, and
therefore liable, as were the implements, &e., on the premises,
and also the stock of sugar of whatever materials composed ; all
were liable under the Act of Parliament.

•
Mr. FAANCS, solicitor, said, he appeared on behalf of a
party who was materially interested, but as he could act as well
in the Court of Exchequer, he should merely watch the pro-
ceedings. Mr. France, at length, in answer to a question
from the Under-Sheriff, said he appeared on the part of the as-
signee* of Mr. Isaac Newton Wigney, banker, of Brighton.
William Hemp, sheriff's officer, proved the seizure of the im-
plements, &c., under the extent, and also the furniture in the
dwelling house. There was then, and still is, a messenger in
possession, under Wigney's commission of bankruptcy.
Edward. Atkinson, assistant to Mr. Crook, appraiser, deposed,
that the plant, implements, and about 80 tons of sugar in a raw
or unmanufactured state (principally syrup), together with
household furniture (20/. ), had been valued at 6001.
William Jerard, au officer, deposed that the defendant car-
ried on business as a manufacturer of patent sugar, which is
made from potato flour. There is at present a large quantity
of sugar on the premises, chiefly in concrete vessels, but net
dried off; and also about 2} cwt. of flour not worked up.
That in the concrete vessels is nearly dry. The duty was
charged between the 13th of August and the 11th of March
last on all the sugar in a syrup state. The last operation was
on the Bth of January.
Cross-examined—The duty is usually charged when in the
syrup state, and then estimated by gauging and the saccharo-
meter. Fifty per cent. is allowed for waste ; but the duty is
again estimated when finished, and if it then comes to more,
the greater duty is charged. The duty is not payable before
the sugar is finished and comes to scale to be weighed, and he
had never before made the final charge.
Edward Taplin was then examined, and stated that although
the premises were entered in his name, no part of the pro-
perty but the household furniture belonged to him; nor was
the sugar manufactured under his direction. He was merely
engaged to keep the books.
The Jury, under the Learned Undet-Sheriff's direction,
found—" That defendant was possessed of household furniture,
&c., of the value of 201. ; and that the utensils and materials
seized were used in the making of sugar, on which duty had
accrued, and were of the value of 5804—in all 6001."
ilt is understood that this sugar is made from potato flour,
wth an admixture of whiting, bones, &c.. and when manu-
factu. ed contains only about three-fifths of the properties of
genuine sugar. It is chiefly used in making confectionery.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Yesterday the Directors of the Blackwall Railway
Company appeared by their Secretary, upon a summons
for tithes due to the Rev. Mr. Betts, the Rector of St.
Olive's, Hart-street, for the houses pulled down in that
parish for the accommodation of the Company in con-
structing their railroad.
The case came on before Mr. Alderman Gibbs, Sir
Peter Laurie, Mr. T. Wood, and Mr. Hooper. Mr.
Buckle appeared upon the part of the Rector of the
parish, and Mr. Bodkin attended for the Directors of the
Railway Company.
Mr. Buckle stated that several parishes in the City of
London having had disputes with their clergy on the
subject of tithes, it was fixed that certain annual pay-
ments should be made in lieu of tithes, and many cases
had occurred, in all of which it had been uniformly de-
termined that the statue, 37 Henry VIII., was continued
in operation, and judgments had been enforced upon it
in the Courts of Law. Amongst the parishes alluded
to was that of St. Olive's, Hart-street; and the Railway
Company, by their 2d Bill, required that a portion of the
houses in that parish should be pulled down. At first the
Company made no objection to the payment of the
2s. 9d. in the pound demanded in lieu of tithes upon the
houses so pulled down, but after having legally acknow-
ledged their liability they subsequently refused to pay,
and they were in arrears three-quarters of a year's tithe,
amounting to the sum of 3161. 3s. 111 d. Mr. Buckle
having concluded a very long argument in favour of the
claim.
Mr. Bodkin said that the whole business was an
attempt upon the part of the Rector to obtain from the
Company 9d. in the pound more than the occupants of
the :twines had been in the habit of paving. It was
true the Company had agreed to pay the demand in the
first instance, believing that the regulation was precisely
the same as that by which the occupants had been go-
verned; but finding out their mistake; and that
so much more was required of them than they
ought in justice to pay, they were resolved
to resist the imposition. The occupants had paid
no more than 2s. in the pound, and while the Company
were determined that the Rector should be completely in-
demnified for the loss sustained by him by the pulling
down of the houses, they would certainly take care to
protect themselves.
Mr. Buckle said that the tithe paid by every other
Company amounted to 2s. 9d. in the pound, and that the
Rector was by law entitled to that sum. He also con-
tended that if the Rector, from charitable feelings, abated
his just claim in some instances, advantage could not be
taken of the indulgence to deprive him of that to which
he was entitled. •

Several other arguments were used upon both sides by
the Learned Gentlemen, and
The ALDERMEN unanimously decided that the Com-
pany should pay according to the amount assessed upon
the occupants of the houses on the last quarter of occu-
pation, namely, the quarter ending the 25th March, 1839.
An odd-looking man, who said he was a tailor, and
that his name was John Grovenor, was charged Is :th
having bilked a coffee-stall in Bishopsgate-street, and
caused much confusion by his drunkenness.
A policeman stated that he was called to the assistance
of the woman who kept the stall, and who complained
not only that the defendant despatched five cups of
coffee and five slices of bread and butter without paying
for them, but abused and insultad her daughter and
her: Af.

The defendant said that the charge of intoxication
was altogether groundless, for he was a teetotaller, and
had not taken as much as a pot of beer or a couple of
glasses of spirits for the last four months. The reason
he objected to settling the bill was that the landlady had
charged him the extravagant price of three-halfpence
for a saucer which had fallen between them, and which,
therefore, ought to have been paid for between them.
Alderman GIBBS—What have you to say about the
abusive language you are accused of having used ?
Defendant—l never thought of such a thing as using
bad language. Those who say so mistook their own
voices for mine.—(A laugh.)
The daughter of the complainant here stated that the
defendant called her a fiddler's she-dog, in uglier words.
Alderman GIBBS (to defendant)-1)o you call that
civil language ? Defendant—l never heard it before, I
assure you.
The policeman—He certainly used it.
Alderman GIBBS—And you swear that he was drunk?
The policeman—Certainly, Sir, he was full of drink.
Defendant—Aye, of coffee, but not a drop of any-
thing else.
Alderman GIBBS —I must believe these witnesses
against you upon their oaths, Mr. Teetotaller, and I fine.
you five shillings for being drunk.
Defendant—Five shillings I I won't pay it.
Alderman GIBBS—You must, or you must go to
Bridewell.
Defendant—l certainly won't pay it, although I have it
in my power.
Alderman GIBBS—Then you must go to Bridewell
for a month.
Defendant—Very well. To Bridewell I shall go.—
(A laugh.)

The following are the details of the death of Gen.
Lavalle, while prosecuting the war against Rosas:—After
several days, forced marches, with 300 men with whom he was
retreating to the frontiers of Bolivia, he entered a peasant's
hut to rest himself. A party of the enemy passed shortly
after, and one of them, through mere wantonness, fired his
musket at the closed door, totally unaware that any one was
inside. The ball wounded the unfortunate General mortally,
but he lived long enough to recommend his men to conceal his
body, that Rosas might not have the satisfaction of having his
head. His last wishes were executed, and his soldiers succeeded
in transporting the body to Potosi, where it was interred.
" AsSESI IN PARLIANIENT.—The Times suggests
as a curious subject of physiological inquiry, what it can be
that makes the whole House of Commons go off into violent fits
of laughter on the slightest mention of an ass—as if it were
some newly-discovered animal, which had never before entered
their imagination—some lususnaturm—some startling and ori-
ginal phenomenon, asyet unheard of within or without the
walls of their House." Certainly an ass can be no such novelty
to Members of Parliament ; can it, Colonel Sibthorp ?—Punch.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Royal Dinner party at Buckingham Palace, on
Wednesday evening, included the Earl of Liverpool,
Viscount J ocelvn, and the Hon. Mrs. Anson.

The band of th© 2d Life Guards was in attendance
during dinner.
The Hon. Miss Murray and the Hon. Miss Lister
have succeeded the Lady Caroline Cocks and the Hon.
Miss Cavendish as the Maids of Honour in Waiting on
her Majesty.
The Royal Dinner party at Buckingham Palace, yes-
terday evening, included her Royal Highness the
Michaels of Kent, Lady Anna Maria Dawson. the Eaal
Delawarr, the Earl of Jersey, and Sir Henry Wheatley.
The band of the Grenadier Guards attended during
dinner, and in the course of the evening performed the
following pieces :—March, Rudolph Sibold. Duetto,
" lin tenure," Roberto Devereux, Donizetti. Valme,
" Rosita," Jullien. Cavatina, "A to dine," Roberto De-
vereux, Donizetti. Quadrille, " St.. Cloud," Musarl.
Tarantella de la Garde Royal, Mr. Charles Raper.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert received Addresses
of Congratulation on the birth of the Prince of Wales,
yesterday, at Buckingham Palace, which were presented
by the following noblemen and gentlemen :
The Mayor of Chichester, Dr. M'Carrogher, M.D.,
accompanied by Lord Arthur Lennox, and Mr. J.
Abel Smith, M.P.—from Chichester.
Mr. William Craufurtl, Deputy Paymaster-General of
her Majesty's Forces, from the Magistrates of West-
minster.

The Mayor of Bedford and the Members for the Bo-
rough, Messrs. Polhill and Stuart, from Bedford.

A Deputation from Newcastle.
Mr. Cartwright, late High Sheriff, and Mr. R. W.
Hand, Under-Sheriff, from the County of Stafford. An
Address was also presented from the Borough of Stafford.
Mr. William Warrington, Mayor of Congleton, Sir
Philip Egerton, M.P., and Mr. Tollemache, M.P., from
Congleton.

Captain Manning, 2d Royal Surrey Regiment, from
the Royal Manor Portland.
Mr. J. M. Coley, the Mayor, from the Inhabitants of
Bridgenorth.

Mr. Alfred Daniell (Mover) and Mr. Waymouth (Se-
conder), from the Vestry of Marylebone.
Mr. Wilshere, M.P., from Great Yarmouth.
Mr. B. P. Wilts, Prime Warden, Mr. J. Weston,
Renter Warden, from the Fishmonger's Company.
Sir Charles Douglas, M.P., from Warwick.
Mr. N. Earle, Mayor, Mr. E. L. Sidebotham, and Mr.
Legh Richmond, from Ashton-under-Lyne. .
The Mayor, from Newport
A Deputation, from the City of Exeter.
Mr. T. Stear, Mayor, Mr. J. Usell, and Mr. E.
Jackson, from the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of
Wisbeach.

Sir Allan Jil‘Nab and Dr. Rolph (3) from Canada.
The Mayor, accompanied by Mr. M‘Lean, M.P., and
Mr. Langton, M.P., from Oxford.

The gairl of Bandon, from Bandon.

A Deputation from Lymington.
The Mayor, and Mr. W Patten, M.P., from Preston.
The Duke of Beaufort and Deputation, from Bristol.
Sir J. Hanster, Sir J. Williams, and Mr. Tubbs, from
the Magistrates of Middlesex.
Prince Albert was attended by the Marquis of Exeter,
Groom of the Stole ; Lord George Lennox, Lord in
Waiting; Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting ; and
Colonel Godwin, Gentleman Usher in Waiting.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the
Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Cambridge, and
Prince George of Cambridge visited her Majesty the
Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent received
Addresses of Congratulation yesterday from the follow-
ing places and public bodies:—

-Staffordshire—Presented by Mr. Cartwright, late High
Sheriff. and Mr. Hand, Under-Sheriff.

Chichester Corporation—Presented by Dr. M'Ca-
rogher, M.D., Mayor ; Lord Arthur Lennox, M.P. ;
and J. Abel Smith, M.P.

Oxford Borough--Presented by Alderman Browning,
Mayor ; Mr. M'Lean, M.P. ; Mr. J. Hunt, Sheriff; Al-
dermen Sadler and Thorp.
Westminster Justices—Presented by Mr. Pownall,
mover, and, Mr. Craufurd, Deputy-Paymaster-General.
Middlesex Magistrates—Presented by Sir J. Williams,
Mr. Tubbs, and Sir J. Hanster.

Warwick Corporation and Inhabitants—Presented by
Mr. G. C. Greenway, Mayor, Mr. Greives, Town Coun-
cillor, Sir C. Douglas, M.P., Mr. W. Collins, M.P.
Great Yarmouth—Presented by the Mayor and Depu-
tation, and Mr. Wilshere, M.P.

Exeter Inhabitants and Corporation—Presented by Mr.
C. H. Turner, Mayor, Mr. W. Kingdon, High Sheriff,
and Alderman Furlong.
Fishmongers' Company—Mr. B. P. Wilts, Prime
Warden, and Mr. J. Weston, Renter Warden.
Bristol Corporation, and Inhabitants—Mr. Franklyn,
Mayor, the Duke of Beaufort, Mr. Jones, High Sheriff,
Messrs. George, Haberfield, and Phippen.
Ashton •under-Lyne—Mr. N. Earle, Mayor, Messrs.
Sidebotham and Legh Richmond.
Newport, Moumouth—Presented by the Mayor of
Newport.
Lymington—Presented by Mr. Hicks, the Mayor.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent was at-
tended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Lady in Waiting,
and Colonel Sir George Couper, Bart., Comptroller of
her Royal Highness's Household.
Sir Thomas Ackland, Bart., and a Deputation con-
nected with the Mining districts, had an interview with
the Earl of Ripon yesterday, at the Office of the Board
of Trade.

Earl de Grey had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-street.

Despatches from the Governor of the Cape of Good
Hope, were received yesterday at the Colonial Office.
The Marquis of Anglesey, and Mr. Berkeley Paget,
visited the Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo yester-
day.

The Konigsberg Gazette has a letter from Poland,
stating that the statue of Joseph Poniatovrsky, the model of
which had been been made by Thorwaldsen previous to the
Polish revolution, has lately been oast in bronze, with the in-
tent of its being erected at Warsaw. A decree, however, was
sent from St. Petersburgh forbidding this, and ordering it to be
sent to Russia. Against this disposal of the statue, the Coun-
tess Tyszkiew, the sister of the Prince, who had contributed
2,000 ducats, protested, in behalf of herself and the other
subscribers, claiming the work as their private property. To
this claim no answer was given; but the Russian Cabinet
transmitted an order that the statue should be melted down,
and the model by Thorwaldsen, which had long formed one of
the greatest ornaments of the collection of plaster-casts at War-
saw, be broken up and destroyed.
LIVES OF THE. QUEENS or ENGLAND.—We con-
gratulate the public that Miss Strickland has at length been
enabled to produce the fourth volume of her highly interesting
work, comprising the Lives of Elizabeth of York,surnatned the
Good, Queen of Henry Vll.,—and Katharine of Arragon,
Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, and Katharine
Howard, consorts of Henry VIII. It is rather singular that in
the best written histories of this country scarcely any notice is
taken of the Queen's Consort, although most of them exerted
considerable influence over public affairs and society during
their reigns ; and to Miss Strickland the reader is indebted for
the first effort that has hitherto been made to give them the his-
torical importance to which they are entitled . Her learned and
entertaining volumes, therefore, have become indispensable
campanions to every history of England, and are deserving of
no less respect from the scholar than admiration from those who
feel a proper interest in the annals of their country.
We learn from Bastia, by a letter of the 31st tilt.,
that there had been committed at Ajaceio four atrocious mur-
ders, all within a week of eack other. The first victim was
a relation of the commandant of the citadel, who rsceived se-
veral gun-shot wounds in the open market-place, in the pre-
sence of at, least thirty persons, all of whom immediately fled
to prevent their being called upon as witnesses, and thereby
subject themselves to the vengeance of the murderers and
their families. The second was precisely a similar attack, in
the same public situation, upon a defenceless woman, who
was repeatedly stabbed with a stiletto by a single ferocious as-
sassin, who was afterwards suffered to go off to the moun-
tains without the least impediment from the numerous
people who were spectators of the scene. Afterwards one
man was shot, and another stabbed to death in the middle of a
frequented street by a single bravo, who was quietly suffered to
make his escape.
TIIE MONTROSE BURGHS.—The nomination takes
place on Saturday. Mr. Carnegy, of Craigo, has withdrawn,
and the candidates are Mr. flume, the Hon. E. J. Stanley,
and Mr. Jobson. As the latter had never the shadow of a
chance, the contest, if it take place, will lie betwixt Mr.
Stanley and Mr. Hume. No Conservative has dared to show
himself. The Hon. E. J. Stanley is on a visit to the late
representative for the burghs.
Two days ago the attention of the inhabitants of a
house, in the Rue des Enfans Rouges, was directed to a room
in the upper story which had been for a long time shut up, by a
strong and fetid effluvia proceeding from it. They apprised
the commissary of police, who arrived, and broke open the door,
where he found the lifeless body of a man named Lemarie, who
had been long a lodger in the house, but who, in his occupation
as a cook, was frequently absent for several months. The last
time he was seen alive was nine months ago, but, as he always
paid his rent, neither his neighbours nor his landlord were un-
easy at his non-appearance. The body was only partly decom-
posed, the rest being like a mummy. The skia was hard and
dry like parchment. The remains were carefully removed for
interment, and, to prevent contagion, the commissary had
every thing the rooms contained, burnt to ashes in the middle
of the market place. The house seems to have a fatality attend-
ing it, for a few years ago, a poor woman died in it, under
similar circumstances, and when found, her body was half de-
voured by her dog and cat, which were shut up in the room
with her.

A lady of honourable station in society, wealthy, a
wife, and mother of two daughters of marriageable age, was
on Saturday brought before the Tribunal of Correctional Po-
lice of Parie, on a charge of purloining a piece of gold tissue
from the rooms of Mme. Barenne, the dress-maker' in the
Place Vendome. She afterwards endeavoured to sell what
she had taken to another establishment on the Boulevard des
Italians. On being accused, she at once acknowledged her
offence, and repeated the confession in Court, with every mark
of contrition. In consideration of her family, the President
would not condemn her to imprisonment, but imposed a fine
of Zioof.
The Piedmontese Gazette, of the sth inst., publishes
an amnesty granted by the King of Sardinia, on the occasion
of the marriage of his son, the Duke of Savoy. It compre-
hends only the persons condemned for political offences in
1821, who are divided into two categories—the first relates to
those who have already received temporary permissions to
return to Sardinia, and in their case the amnesty is complete ;
the second cate,Tory refers to persons in whose favour there has
not hitherto been any act of Royal mercy, and who are to make
formal applicatioa for the benefit of the amnesty, which orders
the restoration of civil rights and confiscated property to both
categories.
During the fair at Vichy, in the Allier last week,
the ferry-boat to Charmcil, li/rich was overloaded with pas-
sengers and cattle, was upset in the middle of the river, and
eleven human beings were drowned. The boat was known to
be very crazy, and the water was very rough, yet these unfor-
tunate persons ventured in it to save the trifling difference it
would have cost them by paying the toll of a bridge, to cross
which would have taken them but a very short way round.
A correspondent writes from Alexandria to the
Leipsic Gazette that, in the early part of March, several wo-
men in the harem of Mehemet Ali died, and were buried
without being subjected to the inspection of the physicians cf
the Board of Health'; a proceeding Which led to a conclusion
that the plague had not ceased its ravages.

DUTCH MAIL.
AMSTERDAM, APRIL 12.—The King arrived hero t 511
morning at nine o'clock, and alighted at the Pall
appearing at the balcony :he was enthusiastica ny
greeted by the assembled multitude. The Queen 4 d
LT ncess Sophia, and the Prince. , did not arrive till t 4
afternoon. His Majesty's Levee to-day wit,: very 1-= .
merous and brilliant.. '1 he Consuls of fords-11 Po" ers
being first presented, Mr. Bence`, Ale Russia st:!,
the senior o the C.mstils at Amsterdam, address
Majesty, chiefly to eongratultte him on the a7pi .oacA
ing marriage of the Princess Sophia and the ileretli.ta
Grand Duke of Saxe Weimer, hoping that the happiuos
of the august couple would indemnify his Majesty for th
painful seperation from a beloved daughter. His 31
jesty replied to this address with much feeling.
It is said that their M t'esties will
remain here abe Lti;
a week.
THE HAGUE, APRIL 11.—M. Dedel, ot,:. Minister a
London, has just arrived here.
FRANKFORT, APRIL 9.--Accounts front
Ser.ta a 2
that the choice of a successor to Baron Balow a. t Prr t
representative in the German Diet, is not 3•1-. t "et el.- •
mined on.
A letter from Berlin, in the Oleon Duitsche Zeitt.'ll.9
the 4th of April, says that General Gret:en is spokei.
The same accounts say that the Emperor of Inssia
expected in August in the Rhein an, where the E-epr2s
and her daughters will arrive bef ,re him. His Moje it:
and the King of Prussia will visit the Prussian cam;
together, and thus refute (this seems to be chiefly in
tended) all the maNcious reports of a coolness bet •Yeel: ,
them, which have been promulgated by the Emlidit an
French Journals.—Dutch Papers, April 13.

DUTCH FUND3.—AurnlilDmm, Aram 12.
Money. tsars;

J°9.% 1`;

Anhui! Debt. 2% per Cent
Alto, ditto 5 per cent. ••••••••••••••..
Arnett Syndic,4% per
Ditto, ditto, 3)4 per CORL••••••••••••••••••••• 77 • •
Csunmersdal Company, 434 per 156 1563 E
Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent.........„.. 10034 100%
Loan 1837, 5 per cont. ••••••••••••••••••••••.... 99 10(4.11
Vachange en London, One 12 1234
Two months ......... 12 05
Hansburgh, One month 35 4334
Twomonths
Dutch Papers, April 13.
BELGIAN IF UND3-13stimme „ Apart N.
Actual Debt 134 per Cent. ......
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent ......«......«» 102%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per
3 per Cent. —_• _

Thirty4evi

--------.—_.(1,40) 14.-
Loan of City, 193'2, 4 per Cent.. ......
Society of Commerce, 4;i per Cont.
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent........—.. 7c34,
Nctional Society ...... ••••••••••••••••••••••••• —
Exchange on London (stnt) ...........„ -
-Brussels Pagers. April 12.
HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, Aram 9.
bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents. ....•••..... ..... 110 IRI
Bank Shares 1&
Anglo-llussian Loan 119% WI%
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate 103% 13.,,,,,,
Inscription, Ist series lOl
Russian 6 per Cont. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series 5936
...
Ditto in Certificates l.h
New 4 per c ent. (1840)
Dutch Actual Debt, :46 per Cent.
Ditto S per Cent.
Polish Bonds 154
New Tickets ... 1(0 1611
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent i9 ;8,4
Spanish, New 5 p,r Cents. -- , It%

SOU.
LI%

MONEY MARKET a.t.i.d CITY NEWS
SUN.—The English Stecks are again better, upon tho:
certainty that the market is not likely to be interfered
with by a proposition for further loans, or such like.,
means of raising supplies. It has been before stated.,
that at the time the plan of an income tax was brouglit.
forward, the state of the monetary interest was such,
no difficulty would arise if the whole of the outstanding!
Exchequer bills were funded, and such an amount re
issued as might be necessary for the public exigencies_
Had such a proposition been carried into effect, on,l
great result would have been achieved of giving to.
future holders a far more secure document than
they have at present, as well as relieving the mallet:
of the whole of the unfunded debt. The strange,
sight is now presented, of a Three-and-a-Half pair
Cent. Stock being above par, Exchequer Bills bear-
ing a premium of 2 per cent., and the Bank of Englarnt
discounting at 4 per cent.
The settlement has passed off very quietly, and Con-
sols left off at 911 1 for Money, and 911 1 for the Ae •
count ; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., loos ; Banc
Stock, 166 167 ; India. Stock, 242 244; Exchequer Bilis.
38 40 prem.
The quotation of Foreign Bonds were much as yester-
day. Portuguese Five per Cents., 36 36-+ ; the Threo
per Cents., 21 21+ ; Colombian, 271 271 ; Mexican,
41 411 ; Spanish Active Five per Cents., 241 the
Three per Cents., 251 25*. The price of Belgian Stock
was 1031 10.1 ; Brazilian, 67+ 68 ; Danish, 80 81
the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 231 231 ; and thy
Five per Cents., 1001 100+.
The prices of Railway Shares are as yesterday, ex-
cept Brighton and Great Western, both of which haves
improved, the former to 36+ 37if, the latter, wholts
shares, 29i 30i, and the Half-Shares, 15+ 16 premium.
London and Birmingham are 176 178 ; Birminghana
and Gloucester, 56 58 ; South Western, 60 61 ; Gos-
port, 60 61 : North Midland, 69 71 ; the New Shar:.:,
341 35+ ; South Eastern and Dover, 29+ 30 per Shan,.
and Eastern Counties, 13+ 13f discount. In Banks, th•t
Shares of the London Joint-stock bear a premium ee:
21 per share, and those of the London and County,' 6 tk)
4 discount.

There have been no foreign arrivals.
The indigo sale is still proceeding steadily, at prices
quite equal to those of Tuesday.
North and South American Coffee-house,
Thursday Evening, 7 P.M.
By Watson's Te!eg,raph :—The Beulah, with troops
for India on board, is on shore cn Dungeness Point ;
two steamers hare gone to her assistance.

THE MARKETS
COUNTRY CORN MARKETS.

Wheat. Barley. l Oats. I Beans. Pease.
Per Quarter. a. to s. s. to a. a. to s. a. to a. a. to s
Boston ..... ' 70 '22 38 18 22 35 38 39 43
Urainttee 32 70 27 34 93 29 33 39 35 4.
igkton CO t 8 28 37 22 .28 37 44 36 3,4
Cambridge.
Chichester :6 65 25 33 20 23 40 42 24 3
Dunmow
Grantham
Grimsby 56 74 29 33 lb 21 36 40
Hallsham 66 72 20 33 10 21 32 34 27 fi2
Ilitchin ...... 50 67 27 114 f:.O 30 34 45
Ipswich ' 54 60 22 24 21 0 21 SO 29 30
Lewst 53 60 27 18 21 r 2 34 33 33 3 ;
Lynn
Maidstone 59 t. 7 NI 39 i 26 32 38 40
Norwich
Pc: worth
Bamford t: 62 24 20 18 T 6 z 4 34 25 3,
Sandwich 6l 71 VI 34 t 5 30 33 :9 36 33
Tnetford
Wishech 57 63 28 Si 14 21 31 39 34 35
Witham 2l 61 21 26 19 25 '24 31 26 30
Yarmouth (11) C,4. 92 24 31; 38 40 39 40
L. V Ell POOL CORN MARKET.—ApriI 12
Willful', English, White, per 701 h. wa
Red
Scotch Welch, and Manx • ............ 0 0 0 4.
-- Irish, White 6 9 7 ti
--- Rea .............»....« 7 4

0 0
1•••• 6 9
•.... 0 •
MOO* a s

to 10+ 2t
10 0
0
7 6
7 4
10 0
3 2
2
0
32
4 0
:t 10
40 u
36 ti
SS 4
42 0
40 0
b 3 0
47 v
:16 0
4i.i c
36
t 3 0

OATS, B iplith, Welsh, an
-
- Foreign
nARI.FY, ,halting, per Imp. quarter
- Scotch and Irish, pet (Wan.
Feeding
BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter
-- Irish, 6,c .
- Foreign
Pease, English, per I ini,erlal quarter
---- Foreign
Ft.otta, English, per 2t4lib.
--- Irish
0 cruast,, English and Irish, per 24111hs ,„
INDIAN CORY, Iltr 45011).
RYe, per Imperial quarter
MALT, per Imperial quarter

it Scotch, per 4511).....:
....

2 11
2 4
it
14
3 8
3 6
38 0
34 0
e 6 o
40 0
31 0
48 0
...- 45 0
24 0
...••• 38 0
0
4b 0