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SUN OFFICE, Three ®'Clock.
Iri,,,,ate sadly distressed by the lamentations of the
klits-s, Which flow, in with doleful sounds from all
taitd,°f the country. From John o'Groat's to the
111 g, I.ld there is nothing but weeping, and wail-
tlistt,c-114 eursing--painful regrets for the past, and
Iltote-t;fc'rebodings for the future. They expected
i
the to to agriculture from the Tories, protection
'44; ore and all monopolies, and at the elections
t, they came forward in high spirits, and by-
9rjr, ant majorities secured Sir R. PEEL in his seat
(107 e Minister. They waited patiently, for theyhad
t° atlh-jt in his fostering care, till he should be pleased
thet:linee his plans, their hopes were buoyed up by
11.14 t:enee of the " Farmers' Friend" in the Cabinet,
;4%01'41% the opening of the. Session they became a
‘ll th •-artaed by his secession, but still had confidence
11144;1! Tory patron till the fatal Budget came upon
st:ke the shock of an earthquake, and left them
'lit% 4 of helpless amazement. We have been the
Sir'se3' they, of our landlords, who are the dupes
4 rgCPIRItT PEE we have been betrayed, cheated,hl
t deTLed 133' the Minister, in whom, looking at his
1,4!14c1,, we never should have placed the slightest
lee, who ruined one-half of our brethren by
' QatZe'leY Bill, who swore he would never consent
ated lie emancipation, and in the same breath con-
of rt,h• and who finally came into office on the plea
ktl.l,:ting the encroachments of Lord JOHN Rus-
! the agricultural interests, while he brings in
ItNt.law Bill equally bad, admits cattle, sheep, and
‘.‘ll a variety of agricultural produce, at little more
11Plirial duty • and, to crown all, he loads us
Nl4.l4e;rie?me• tax. These are the general themes
snot cation among those who speak out, but there
elass—the dumb Tories, who are more to
r Qe
cause for shame they cannot give ventto
lq ''ktt to 4kligoation, and are compalled to mourn
bnSelf-interest, however, will compel them at
they resist the proposed measures, and we should
trliq't.‘;`°re be surprised to see more petitions
. .
Whobill than even against the income
ht letter of a well-informed correspondent,
fo of from the far-famed county for the best
eatttiaerilff the kingdom—the county of Here-
N
evN cause no little consternation throughout
at ilg districts. Sheep, he says, are unsaleable,
Witt tc,r,
kthllthe-.::(leed prices; cattle that three months ago,
ttLc s of the breeders
re were still high, and
PEEL
o brill was their idol, were sold at 221.,
than only 151. a head, a reduction o.f
four
a thirty-five per cent., and all other am..
tut 4111tisets. for food are liable of course to nearly
ig IdePreciation. Sir ROBERT PEEL, there-
taced in a nice dilemma. If he yields
441', and en that placed him in the Premier's
buke of RICHMOND said they would
b Yield, or turn him out, he will raise a
indignation among the rest of the
olts-3.' whof o
will charge him with the insidious
lipaving the way for the adoption of the
by a promised reduction on articles
11* 41°11, which he never intended to carry into
I•4th, e must yield to one party or
ttttolib'h, we wish him joy of his choice.
ofirhe inte's ate only commencing. He has deranged
Icliterovi l'ests of the country, without any chance
1110, Rilith trade and commerce, and threatens to
kte llt
„.,4 tax which will more and more cripple
--`4 in the end excite dire hostility to his
at
the ha`e
is beatfoorr: us copies of two diplomatic notes,
'4 1 f
444 dish. Considerable importance. The first
note of the Greek Government,
Eased -IN
,_'44lolEttii eeember, 1841, to the Ambassadors
'ELiti 444 France, and Russia, who had jointly
second the part of the SULTAN, of cer-
is t 11`43r acts of the Greek Cabinet ; and the
,z)
bservations made by the Ottoman Envoy

at Athens upon that document, which was likewise
addressed to the Ministers of the Protecting Poir'ers.
These documents have recently acquired, a more than
ordinary degree of interest from the differences be-
tween Greece and the Porte becoming so great as to
'lead to war preparations on both sides, which have
only been suspended at the particular instance of Sir
STRATFORD CANNING, and the special mission of
Prince 31AvRocoRDATo to Constantinople. The text of
these notes would fill four of our columns, but we can
very well compress the entire substance of
them in less than half a column, with even the addi-
tion of here and there an observation of our own. In
diplomacy the general rule appears to be that the
smaller the quantity of fruit the more abundant the
show of leaves.

The Greek Government states that, in manifestation
of its impartiality towards the Christian and Mussul-
man inhabitants of Greece, it, so early as 1833, pro-
mulgated a decree placing both upon an equal footing.
The observation of the Turkish Envoy upon this is
terse and forcible. He says that the practical value
of this decree is to be drawn from the fact, that not a
single Turk in Greece but resolved to emigrate, and
quit a country in which he was born.
The Greek Government next affirms that it granted
free permission to all Mussulmans to quit Greece
when they pleased. Upon this the Turkish Envoy
remarks, that hindrances were thrown in the way of
Turks disposing of their property, by which they
were detained in spite of themselves; and that an ar-
ticle of the penal code threatened every inhabitant of
Greece with confiscation of property, who should quit
the country without the permission of the authorities.

The Greek Government states, that while it
afforded facilities to Turkish inhabitant: to emigrate,
the Porte refused to make a similar concession to
Greeks living in its territory. To this the Turkish
Envoy replies, that all persons born in the territories
ceded to Greece were allowed to return, and also all
Greeks who took part in the Greek insurrection, or
who were implicated in it at Constantinople, but that
the Porte could not allow its Mussulman subjects to
exhibit Greek passports, or to claim the exemption of
Greek subjects, because King OTHO had chosen to
grant them the rights of Greek citizenship. He ac-
cuses the Greek Government of adopting a system of
kidnapping Ottoman subjects, by means of letters of
naturalization, with which they returned to Turkey
only to evade the laws of the empire.
The Greek Government declares that, with a view
to hasten the sale of Mussulman property, it ap-
pointed a Commission for that purpose, and ordered
that in all litigated cases the causes in which Mus-
sulmans were interested, should be heard first. The
Turkish Envoy objects that the Commission, which
was to have been a mixed one, was composed wholly
of Greeks, and he cites instances in which Turks
were subjected to acts of great oppression.
The Greek Government sets forth that, after all its
sacrifices to the Porte the latter refuses to enter into
a treaty of commerce beneficial to both countries,
The Turkish Envoy answers that the Porte did enter into
such a treaty, that the Hellenic Government refused
to ratify it, and that the negotiations were not re-
newed, solely because Greece conspired against the
Porte in Candia, Thessaly, and Macedonia, thereby
proving that it was not a trade with Turkey, but
the destruction of the empire which she sought.
The remainder of these notes is taken up with
claims to property in Thebes, Zuitun, and other dis-
tricts, by the Greek Government, on the part of Greek
subjects, which are all contested by the Turkish
Envoy. Taken altogether, they represent a state of
things by no means of a peaceful charac-
ter. The preservation of peace between nations
with so many incentives to war is a most
ticklish business. The Porte accuses Greece of
downright swindling, robbery, treachery, and short
of open war, of every crime which a Government can
commit against a neighbouring State. In the defence
of the Greek Cabinet there is nothing decided and
conclusive. The most serious charges it passes over
unnoticed. It does not deny the fact, and challenges
the proof of an interference in favour of the oppressed
Macedonians and Candiotes. Neither does it boldly
confess and defend such interference. The truth
is, that it cannot deny most of the charges
brought against it. But this is not the fault of the
nation. The KING is the person principally to blame,
for his miserable ambitioh soars no higher than to
involve Greece in a war with the Sublime Porte.

Many difficulties, which would otherwise prove
insurmountable, will, however, be overcome by
the presence of Prince MAVROCORDATO and
Sir STRATFORD CANNING at the Porte. Their
long and friendly intimacy, and their entire know-
ledge of the imbecile character of the KING, will
prompt an. unity of Councils which will have the
greatest weight with the Porte. Still great caution
will be necessary to prevent an outburst. A spark
would kindle into a devouring flame, the old hatred
of two of the most hostile races in the world.

DISGUSTING ADVERTISEMENTS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Allow me to add my thanks to those which you
have already received, for having determined to exclude
from your valuable paper a certain class of advertise-
'Dents. I trust that the sacrifice you have made in
favour of morality will be duly appreciated by the
public, and that your example will be considered worthy
of general imitation.
I wish you would commence a crusade against another
kind of advertisements, of which the provincial papers
are full—l allude to the puffs of quack medicines, which
although not absolutely indecent, are abominably false,
and destructive, in my opinion, to the health of the
community. Thousands of pounds are annually ex-
tracted from the pockets of the poor by these vile puffs.
And to this practice the proprietors of papers callinc,
themselves respectable,-lend their aid, and share in the
unhallowed gains.
Again thanking you for your spirited conduct, I re-
main, Sir, yours much obliged,
A MEMBER OF THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
Derby, March 31, 1842.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. _

The Dutch Koff Bernardina, Houtzaayer, from Am-
sterdam, for Constantinople, laden with a general cargo,
put in here on the 26th, with mast sprung, loss of sails,
and leaky, and is come into the harbour to repair ; the
cargo has been landed.
The English brig Baltic, of London, which sunk off
Poole some little time back, was brought into this harbour
on the 27th, nearly full of water, having been raised by
means of spar decks and other assistance, under the
superintendence of Messrs. Thomas and John White,
the eminent shipbuilders at this port. We are informed
that they, with their foremen and shipwrights, had a
very narrow escape of their lives, when being off the
Chalk Rocks were overtaken by a heavy gale from N.W.
on Saturday evening, while proceeding in the brig to
this port, the steamer's tow-ropes broke, and the brig
and lives on board were left for some time to the mercy
of the wind and seas, which latter made a clean breach
over the vessel, and placed her in the greatest danger of
foundering altogether ; their only boat was stove in.
MARCH 31.—As one of the boats of- the coast-guard
was going its rounds this morning about one o'clock, the
deep groans of some one in great agony alarmed the
men, and they rowed to the quay from whence they
proceeded. One of the crew landed, and following the
sound, found a man lying on his face ; he alarmed the
inmates of the house, and on obtaining a light it proved
to be Mr. Joseph Richardson, a retired carpenter and
builder, who was in his 81st year, and resided with his
eau. He had been for a long time in a very weak state
of mind, and precautions had' been taken to prevent his
injuring himself, the windows and doors being nightly
fastene ; it appears he had succeeded in raising the sash
about 14 inches, and forcing himself through, he fell a
distance of about 30 feet, and fractured his skull so
dreadfully that he died before medical aid could be
called in.

THE LATE EARL OF MUNSTER'S GRANDFATHER.—
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)—The father of Mrs. Jordan
was Francis Bland, Es-q. He died at Dover, on his way
to France. Mrs. Jordan was his natural daughter, but
he left two children by his wife, the late Colonel
Bland, of Killarney, and Mrs. Hewson, relict of the Rev.
Robert Hewson, of Kilcolman, Kerry. Sir F. Lua!),
Bart., his cousin, erected a monument to his memory in
the church of Killarney. '
ILLICIT DISTILLATION.—The proposed increase of
the duty on Irish spirits has, it would appear, already
revived in this province the pernicious system of illicit
distillation to a consideiable extent. About Ballinasloe,
Ballinrobe, and Oughterard, we learn that seizures of
stills and large quantities of malt are daily being made
by the revenue force. In fact, unlicensed potteen dealers
are everywhere actively engaged preparing an inferior
substitute for genuine Parliament whiskey, knowing
right well that the public will Purchase the " mountain-
dew" at six shillings per gallon, a remunerating price,
in preference to Irish spirits subject to the advanced rate
of duty.--Mayo Telegro ph.
We find the fol)o-,ving in the Jourhal of Bourges :
" On Holy Thursday the weather, tl oagli cold, was fine,
and the usual procession of the Cross was attended by a
very great crowd of people. The Infante Don Carlos,
the Princess of Beira, and the eldest son of the Prince,
accompanied by a cortege lof our purest Legitimists,
walked devoutly on foot, and made their stations at all
the churches and religious houses of the town. The
clergy met Don Carlos and his fmily at the doors of the
churches, and presented them with the holy water." .

S Cvl rig V F r:

AND
IttatlC puiton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The French and Spanish mails have not arrived this

! morning.
A letter from the Hague, of the 27th ult., states that
by a Royal resolution of the 24th instant, the Minister
of Finance is authorised, conformably to the law of the
27th of December, 1840, to capital sum of seven mil-
lions of florins, bearing interest a t the rate of five per
cent., to be inscribed in his name in the second great
book of the Active National Debt, with interest from
the Ist of April, 1842. The Minister of Finance is
further authorised to tranfer this capital to other names.
These seven millions are the still disposable portion of
he twelve millions florins, after deducting the five mil-
lions, which, by a resolution of the 14th of February,
were inscribed for the purpose of the iron railway.
His Majesty the King of Holland has authorized the
War Department to call out the Militia-men of the levy
of 1841, who are in the reserve of the several corps of the
army; to be clothed and exercised for three months, say
from the 25th of May to 25th of August this year.
The police of Brussels was on Wednesday set in mo-
tion, by news received from Parii, that the cashier of a
mercantile house had absconded with a sum of about
300,000 francs.
Letters from the frontiers of Poland, of the 18th of
March, express a belief that no insurrection has taken
place at St. Petersburg.

LA W INTELLIGENC E.

INSOLVENT CO ItjRT--(TIIIS DAY)

RE THE REV. LIONEL DULLER.
In this case the insolvent had been already before the
Court for hearing two;or three times, and the facts re-
ported in The Sun, when it was adjourned for the pur-
pose of causing him to amend his schedule.
Mr. COOKE, who appeared in opposition to the insol-
vent's petition to be diScharged, on behalf of Messrs.
Scott and Jackson, of Golden-square, said the Court
was aware that the insolvent was a Senior Fellow of
King's College, Cambridge, and that it transpired at the
former hearing that he was entitled to a certain sum of
money from the College. The official assignee had,
since the last examination, written to the parties bound
to pay that sum to the insolvent, and had been answered
that he (the insolvent) had ordered nofperson to receive
the money save himself; as if such were the case he
should compel its second payment to himself.
Mr. Commissioner HARRIS said that upon looking
over the schedule he found the insolvent had not amended
it according to the order of the Court, nor made the
slightest allusion to the money to which he was entitled
from King's College, Cambridge.
Mr. WOODRUFFE, who appeared in support of the in-
solvent's petition, said there were certain amendments
which ought to have been made in the schedule, and
which could be done in a very short time.
Mr. CooKE (to the insolvent)—Did you write, for-
bidding the payment of this.money to the official assig-
nee ? Insolvent—No.

Mr. CooKE—We will call that person into Court, who
will prave the fact.

Esolvent—l wrote to say that I was the only person
to whom it should be paid.

• Me. Commissioner llAnuts---Don't swear by the card.
You have acted in such,.a warmer as to totally disentitle
you to any relief.under the Act. I think from the in-
solvent's conduct the case should begin de novo ; and I
shall, therefore, adjourn it generally.
The further hearing of the case was then adjourned
generally, with an order for 10 days' notice to creditors.
A number of unopposed petitions, of no general in-
terest, were disposed of during the morning, and the ap-
plicants ordered to be discharged forthwith.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY).
Three boys, varyiT g from about 14.t0 17 years of age,
named Smith, Barret, and Cassidy, with the most vil-
binous casts of countenance which one would meet with
in a day's march through the mighty Babylon, were
charged with stealing some cigars from the shop f Mrs.
Cecille Lewis, in Clare-market. The fair complainant,
whose tongue declared her to be a native of La belle
France, stated that yesterday_ evening, the three boys
at the bar went to her shop and asked for a penny cigar,
which she supplied them with ; almost immediately
afterwards a little boy informed her that the three boys
had pushed aside a small piece of wood from the inside
of a broken window, and had decamped with some cigars;
she immediately gave chase, and in company with a police-
man succeeded in capturing the yo u thful depredators, when
the little boy who had informed her of the robbery, at
once recognised them as the offenders. She had seen
the two prisoners, Smith and Barrett, lurking about her
shop on a previous occasion.

little boy next entered the -witness-box, and swore
most positively that he saw the boys take the stolen
property.
Tyrrell, the gaoler, said that the two prisoners, Smith
and Barrett, were well known; the former had been con-
victed more than once, and Barrett had been convicted
about six times.

Barrett—No, no, that won't do, old feller, stick to the
truth ; only three.

The policeman said that he had seen Cassidy often in
the company of thieves, and he was in the habit of going
dancing about Jim Crow on his head.
At this juncture the prisoners all three commenced
setting up a defence, and as they all spoke at once, the
following is the combined harangue of the three which
we collected :—" Yer wertship the good lady never see
me near her shop ; no, yer wertship, nor me neither ;
I never goes there. Did you, good lady, see me near
the shop ? I'm innocent, yer Lor'ship, of the crime ;
when I wants a couple o' ha'pence I sings and dances on
my 'ed. I was never up afore—l've on'y been conwic-
ted three times, yer wertship ; him and me's been here
afore, but this one (pointing to Cassidy) vos never hup
before ; he sings on his 'ed—the good 'lady never seed
none of us."

How long this jumble would have continued it is im-
possible for us to say, had not Mr. JARDTNE here cut
short their orations by asking them if they thought it
likely that he believed what they were saying, when it
had been distinctly sworn that they were seen to take
the cigars from the shop window. He should commit
Smith and Barrett to three months each, and Cassidy to
one month's imprisonment in the House of Correction.
The prisoners were then removed, apparently pleased
with having got off so easily.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)

Charles Redhead, a dissipated-looking young man,
was charged with unlawfully pawning certain materials
entrusted to him by his employers to make up.
Mr. George Scott, of the firm of Scott and Edward's,
of Conduit-street, Bond-street, tailors;, stated that the
prisoner had been in their employ for ,Many gears past,
and was entrusted to have his work out. on Monday
last a number' of doe and chamois skins, toge-
ther with trimmings, were, given to him to
make up by Wednesday, to complete an exten-
sive order the firm were executing. However, in-
stead of going to work,on them, he directly proceeded to
Westminster and pawned part of the property, and on
the following day the remainder, and spent the produce,
145., in drunkenness, and afterwards had 'the impudence
to call at witness's house, while in a very intoxicated
state, and demand money on account, which being re-
fused him, he made a great disturbance, and used very
abusive language.
Mr. HARDWICK inquired what was the value of the
property pawned.by the prisoner.
Mr. Scott said at least 61., but through the prisoner
not executing the work in time, the injUry done was
irreparable, as he had,; that morning sent hchne a part of
the order, of which Pie articles in questien formed a
part, and they had been returned on his hands.
The property having been produced from the shops of
Messrs. Roberts and Harding, of York-street, West-
minster, pawnbrokers, was ordered to be given up to the
hisc paying the amount advanced
considered that such property,
aocnnornditpiolaasisnoNir
alna.trcieNi‘alrntitlaowmuitOli(int, should not haiTe, been taken
in from a person of the prisoner's appearance.
Mr. HARDWICK said he should make an example of
the prisoner, for the sake of masters generally, and
therefore fined him 4/., in addition to the value, 61., andin
default of payment six weeks' imprisonment to hard
labour.—The prisoner earnestly implored forgivenness,
but of course without avail.

UNION HALL—THIS DAY.).
George Walker, a pawnbroker, was summoned for
taking more than the legal interest on a pledge.
The information against the defendant was laid by a
common informer who sent t boy to the shop to pledge
an article, and in the hurry )f business a farthing more
than the legal interest was demanded and taken.
The pawnbroker said that the information was laid
by the informer out of revenge, owing to his 'not giving
him an annual allowance, as many of the pawnbrokers
did for not laying informations against them.
The MAGISTRATE condemned the conduct of pawn-
brokers and said, that if such a system prevailed in the
trade it was scandalous, and he fined the defendant 20s
and costs.

SMUGGLING.—A French sailor was charged with
smuggling. lie wag taken into custody on landing from
a Boulogne steam-vessel, and a bladder containing half
a gallon of cognac brandy was concealed in the waist of
his trowsers.

The defendant was fined 101., and in default of pay-
ment was committed for a month,

Thirty.seven.

WORSHIP-STREET-7-(THIS DAY).
A young man, named Henry Furn, was charged before
Mr. BiNGuAm with having been found carrying a bladder
containing upwards of a gallon of spirits, without having
a permit. _

The offence was fully established by the evidence of a
policeman, and of Whisk-in, an officer of excise.
The prisoner rested his defence upon the old story,
that he was employed to convey spirits to a given desti-
nation by a strangor, who promised to give him a shil-
ling for his trouble.
The prisoner was amerced in the mitigated penalty of
251., or three months' imprisonment.

All the other night charges were wholly uninteresting.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)
GREAT MARLOW.
The Committee met at the usual hour.
Mr. Austin proposed to go into a new class of objec-
tions. This was opposed by Mr. Sergeant Wrangham,
and the Committee decided that one class of objections
should be exhausted or abandoned before counsel should
proceed to another.
Thomas Kirby, jun., was then objected to by the
counsel for the sitting Member, who was proceeding with
the examination of witnesses when we went to press.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRTL 1., 1842.

RUSSIAN. UKASE:

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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
Several purchases in Consols have given great firm-
ness to the markets, and the prices are 89k 90 for Mo-
ney, and 90-h- for the present Account ; Exchequer Bills
have experienced a rise since the morning, and are 30 to
33 premium. The New Three-and-a-half per Cents.
994- to 994 ; and India Bonds, 9 to 11 premium.
The prices of Railway Shares are better • the transac-
tions, however, are small, having been confined to Mid-
land Counties, 791 ; South Western, 591 594 ; New
Thirds London and Birmingham, 29 to 294 ; New Great
Western, 641; and Brighton, 368.
Some doubts even now are expressed as to the cer-
tainty of the payment of the dividend on the Three per
cent. Spanish Stock ; and there appears but little
hesitation in expressing an opinion that the sales
which have been made of these securities have not
been wholly on account of the holders of the coupons.
The extraordinary rise in the quotations, and the
eagerness to sell the scrip, are in themselves quite
sufficient to warrant suspicion, especially when
coupled with an uncertainty as to where the money
may be, which is necessary to be forthcoming
on the 11th inst. The most guarded silence is observed
on the subject, and all that can be learned is that some
bill, are in the possession of an eminent and highly re-
spectable capitalist who refuses to give any guarantee,
as do also the announced agents of the commissioners.
This stock opened yesterday at 20, left off at 221, and were
sold to-day tit 221-, 24+, 23*, and 25 successively, which
is the present quotation. The Old Bonds are nominally
24k 2411. Mexican, 401 404 ; Columbian, 268 27; Por-
tuguese, 35 351; and Brazilian, 661 67.
The proceedings under the bankruptcy of Messrs.
Wigney, at Brighton, are creating some interest in the
City. It is stated that legislative enactments are ab-
solutely necessary to prevent a recurrence of similar
transactions, affecting commercial affairs so greatly as
this and others of a like nature have done.
These numerous failures of late among private banks
had caused public attention to be directed towards Joint-
stock Banks, and if the former find the number of their
accounts diminishing, it is to this cause alone that it
must be attributed. The public do not understand the
possibility of a banker failing, who carries on legitimate
business only, and it is now thought that when such
occurrences take place, the parties should be made amen-
able to law far more strictly than an ordinary trader.
The present instance it is urged affords a fair op-
portunity for the Legislature to interfere.
Papers to the Ist February have been received from
the Cape of Good Hope. The want of labourers is still
complained of, and two vessels had been dispatched to
fetch a portion of the captured negroes from St. Helena.
The colonists were anxious that Government should make
Table Bay the rendezvous for such unfortunate individuals,
in preference to the former island. Trade, it would ap-
pear, had not revived, although sanguine hopes were
entertained that an improvement would shortly take
place, but, according to the accounts which have from
time to time been sent home, some time must elapse
before such expectations are likely to be realised.
The burden of the merchant vessels which arrived
at the various settlements was 9,271 tons more
in 1841 than in 1840 ; of which English ships had
almost the whole, the increase on these being 6,877 tons,
and the remainder divided between the Dutch, the
French, and the Americans. The whalers had decreased
2,037 tons, of which our own vessels bore but 574 tons,
the Americans 1,251, and the French 367 tons.
The Dee steamer arrived at St. Thomas's on the 17th
February, and upon the arrival of the Acton, from
Turk's Island,. with the mails from the Northward and
Westward, would proceed 'with them to La Guayra,
Porto Cabello, Curacoa, Trinidad, and Grenada ; then
return and go to the United States and Halifax. , The
Actaeon had not reached St. Thomas's on the 19th.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
R A ILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Bristol and Exeter 7O 39
Great Western
Ditto New SO
London and Brighton
London awl Birmingham 9O -
Ditto New ...
London and South Western 3Bl 5911 ... to
Midland C aunties lOO
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 31.—N0
improvement has taken place, and business remained ex-
ceedingly dull, without any further alteration in prices.
The sales were 300 Surats, 38 to 44 ; 80 Maranharns,
5i to 54 ; 20 Egyptian , 78; 50 Bahia, 61 to 6i; and
3,550 American, at 4f to 6f.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH 31.—Edinburgh
and Glasgow were in request at improved prices. South
Western were also in demand, and the market generally
was tolerably steady. The sales were—Eastern Coun-
ties, 8k ; New, 4 1-3 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 454 ;
Gieat Western, Halves, 64 ; Ditto, Fifths, 105 ; Liver-
pool and Manchester, Quarters; 414 ; London and Bir-
mingham, paid up 321. Shares, 58i ; London and South
Western, 604 ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bttry, 538 •,
Manchester and Birmingham, 274 ; Manchester and
Leeds, Quarters, 41. ss. 6d.; Midland Counties, 79; North
Midland, Halves, 34.1, and York and North Midland,
Halves, 52.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 31.—The
market continues bare of stock, with a good inquiry for
Manchester and Leeds, LiVerpool and Manchester,
Edinburgh and Glasgow, andliristol and Exeter. The
sales are, Manchester and Leeds Halves, 341 ; ditto
Quarters, 41 ; Bank of Manchester, 48.
HUTCH FUN OS. —AlfirrEltuaM, MAUR 29.
Monet • ills.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent.
Anis, t Svadic,4 percent-- " ..... 94% 9.i
Ditto, ditto, 314 per cent 76, 77
Commercial Company, 4,14 per cent 15544 1:4%
Ditto (1835 and 1H37) 5 per cent. .....« 100)4 100%
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 96% 5:9
Exchange on London, One month l2 IN
Two months ..... 12 05
Hamburgh, One month cc 50
Two months 3B 25
Dutch Papers, March 30.
BELGIAN ►UNDS—BaussaLe. Maack; 30.
Actual Debtothi per Ccnt.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per cent............. , 102%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent Y3.
Sper Cent.
72%
(1840) 103%
Loan of City, 1V32, 4 per Cent. ........ 1.7
Society of Commerce, 4 %per I+2
Bank of Belgium, b per 79%
Natiooal Society .......».......» .....
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, March 30.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Visiona, Mann 23.
fire per Crate. Metalliques • 1073
Four per Cents. lOO%
Three per Cents.
Hank Shares 1616

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, APRIL I.—Wind this day at neon, N.W. to N.
RAmsoATE, MAnctt 31.—Arrd. Eleanor, Sunderland,
for lionfleur, leaky, and stern stove, having been in con-
tact ; Elizabeth and Mary, Shields, for Abbeville, as-
sisted in with stern store and other damage, having been
in contact.

DEAL; MARCH 31.—Wind S.W., strong breeze.—
Arrd. Amelia, Brown, Sydney, New South Wales ;
Josephine, Smith, Singapore ; Owen Glendower, Foller,
Christopher Rawson, Little, and Dundee, Patrick, Cal-
cutt. Arrd. from the River, Wellington, for New York ;
Rainbow, Quebec ; Packet George, Halifax.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 31.—Wind W., fresh.—Arrd.
Covenanter, Pattison, Abbotsford, Everhead, Sir Charles
Napier, Pear' e, and Globe, New Orleans ; Anthony
Anderson, Spratt, Savannah ; Mary Bliss, Philadelphia;
Jessie, Horn, Charleston. A Danish brig-of-war was
wrecked on the north side of Porto Rico, crew and pas-
sengers saved.
DOVER, MARCH 31.—The Liberty, Jenkins, hence to
Newcastle, was wrecked on Hensbro' Sand, 25th inst.—
crew saved.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 31.—Wind W.S.W. to W.,
strong.—Arrd. John Pink, Thomas, Jamaica, sld. 19 alt.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 31.—Wind S.\V.—Arrd. Hannah
Booth, Best, Palermo.

FALMOUTH, MARCH 30.—WilEld N., strong breezes
and squally.—Arri. Pasha, Laggett, Monte Video ;
Famileurs llaab, Sandefurd, for Paimbeuf, leaky, and has
been placed on the ground ; Theresus, Fawcus, Genoa.
SUNDERLAND, MARCH 30.—Sailed Snowdrop, King
William, William llippon, and Maria and Elizabeth, all
for Quebec.

HULL, MARCH 31.—Wind S.W., strong.—The Francis,
Cook, from Lynn, to Leeds, was wrecked near Skegness,
on the 2Gth instant.

BRISTOL, MARCH 31.—Arrd. Ferlmia, Taylor, Messina.
GREENOCK, MARCH 29.—The Hind, from Campble-
town, which was ashore,.was got off this morning, also
the Eliza Gray, of Obau.
OnAu, MARCH 28.—The Swan and Isabella, from
Campbletown, put into Esdaile, on the 25th inst., drove
from her anchors during a gale on the same night and
capsized, her mast cut away, when she righted.
STRANRAER, MARCH 30.7-The Mary Anne, of Work-
ington, which was ash Ore on the 25th inst., has been
got off, after discharging. The Catherine, Nicholson,
was got off after throwing overboard thirty tons of tuba.
The Bee and the Scotia have been got off with very little
damage.

TORBAY, MAncil 30.—Arrd. Her Majesty's ship
Alfred, Portsmouth, for Brazils.

The Augsburg Gazette of the 24th inst. publishes, un-
der date St. Peterburgh of the 11th inst., the following
ukase of the Emperor of Russia relative to the conver-
sion of Israelites to the Christian religion :

" 1. When Israelites shall conform— to the Christian
religion, the holy baptism must also be given to their
children under seven years of age. Nevertheless, if the
father or mother alone become convert, the sons shall
be baptised in the first cases and the daughters in the
second.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS

The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in
the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes
Registered in the week ending March 26,1842." The Table is
issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:—
Weekly
Average
1838-940-1
CAUSES OF DEATH. Total.
our Four
WinterslYears
Epidemic, Endemic. & Contagious Diseases 111 199 190
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 139 160 149
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
ii.seases of the Heart and Blood-vessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidnays, &c.
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 4 11 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 2 7 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c
Diseases of Uncertain Seat llO 115 104
Old Age, or Natural Decay
Deaths by: Violence, Privation, or Intern-

perance
Causes not specified
Deaths from all causes. 770 ---
Average Weekly Deaths lOl7 912
Population Average Deaths
term. Weekly in
merated Deaths the
lbll. 183-9-4°:-I. %Seek.
West—Kensington, St. George r--"—_---1
( Hanover-square), Westmin- Four
I Four
ster, St. Martin in the Fields, Ye n. Wint:rs.
St. James
North—St. Mary-le-bone, St
Pancras, Islington, Hackney 355,660 162 182 146
Central—Saint Gilea and Saint
George, Strand, Clerkenvvell,
Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon-
___

DISTRICTS.

don, West Londo'n, City of
London
.373,806 188 213 121
East—Shoreditch,Whitechapel,
Bethnal Green, St. George
in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392;493 206 228 152
South—St Saviour, St. °lave,
St. George( Southwark ),Ber-
__

motb4, Newington. Lam-
beth Camberwell, Bother•

hithe, Greenwich .... ...... ...438,060 221 243 221

Total 1,870,727 912 1017 770
It is slated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the
32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon-
don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of
Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality--
and the parishes of St. Maryiebone, St. Pancras. Kensington,
Fulham, Hammersmith Cbspelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), .Pad-
dinon, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (Brom-
ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas
and St. Paul (Deptford), and ‘Voolwich. The population, as
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890; and in June 1841, was
1,870,727. The weekly average for 1833, 1839, 1840. and
1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the four years by
208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52.
TEMPERATURE IN TIIE WEEKS ENDING
March 19. Match 26.
Highest
Lowest 39 34
Daily Mean ......... 49 42
General Register Office, Marc 31. 1842.

" 2. The converted Israelites who shall enter into holy
orders are to be exempt from the taxes to which they
were formerly liable. Every convert, without distinc-
tion of sex, will receive, on his or her conversion, from
15 to 30 rubles, and the children will obtain one half of
the allowance granted to their parents.
" 3. The baptised Israelites will be entitled to em-
brace a commercial profession, on declaring that they
possess the required capital, and proving that they pay
the gildes rates ; they are likewise to be admissible into
the corporations of tradesmen and manufacturers, and
into the agricultural communities.
" 4. The settlement, as well as the first agricultural
organisation of the baptised Israelites, on the domains
of the Crown, are to take place, agreeably to the laws
regulating the establishment of Israelites, in the Govern-
ment of Cherson.
" 5. Baptised Israelites admitted on the domains of
the Crown, and on private estates, are to be exempted
from taxes, during several years, as is the case with
regard to the Israelites embracing the agricultural pro-
fession."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
CATTERICK BRIDGE RACES—WEDNESDAY.
Two-year-old Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each ; h. ft.
One Mile.
Mr. Jaques' Colocynch (Holmes) 1
Capt. V. Harcourt's Sir Abstrupus
Won easy.
The Claret Stakes of 10 sovs. each, for three-year-olds.
Two Miles.

Wednesday night the Chapel of
the Holy Evangelists, lately erected by Sir Thomas
Dyke, Acland, Bart., M.P., at Killerton, was broken
into, and the burglars stole the cloth which covered the
communion table, and the velvet which covered the
cushions, with the curtains and fringe from the desk.

Mr. Bell's Eboracum
Col. Cradock's The Prior

(Heseltine) 1

Mr. Gill nd b c by Liverpool, Maid of Avonel

- A goodrace.
CROXTON PARK RACES--THURSDAY.
The Farmer's Plate of 501., and 10 sovs. for the second.

Heats Two Miles, over hurdles.

Mr. Hallam's Wiverton, 5 yrs, list 71b
Mr. Finder's ch gby Rothelan, 6 yrs, 13st 0 2
Mr. Sprigg's bg by Norton, 6 yrs, 13st 0 3
Mr. Stokes's gr gby Hawker, 5 yrs, list 71b
Mr. Hardy's bg by Stapleton, 5 yrs, llst 71b 3 0
Several others started. IVon easily.
'The Scurry Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added, for all
horses but winners. A little less than the third of a
mile. (5 subs.)
Col. Anson's Wayward, 12st (Lord Wilton) 1
Mr. White nd Twin, 12st 2
Lord Chesterfield's Fakeaway, 12st 3
Mr. Raworth's Railroad, 12st
Mr. Coke nd Fly-by-Night, 12vt ' 5
2 to 1 on Wayward, who won in a canter.
The Hunters' Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each. One mile.
Mr. Lindsay's Colworth, aged, 10st 71b ... 1
Lord Wilton's Sister to Ghuznee, 5 yrs, llst 31b 2
Count Bathyany's Wirrestrew, 6 yrs, list 81b 3
Hon. A. Villiers' Battledore, aged, llst 11b.
Won by a length and a half.
The Granby Handicap of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 only,
&c. Once round and a dis. (51 subs, 77 of whom de-

dared.)
Mr. Spriggs's Chance, 5 yrs '(Mr. Scobell) 1
Col. G. H. Thompson's Hamlet, aged, list
Mr. Heseltine's The Shadow, 6 yrs, 12st 71b .
Mr. Moore's Magic, 4 yrs, 9st 81b 4
The following also started but were not placed :—Duke
of Rutland's The Genius, 5 yrs, I Ist 41b ;
The Maid, 5 yrs ; Lord Chesterfield's All Fours, 6 vrs,
lOst 91b; Capt. Pettat's Caliph, aged; Mr. J. llay'S
Rail-
road, aged, lOst 71b; Mr. Osbaldeston's Camp Follower,
4 yrs, aged,
71b; Lord Rosslyn's Cornuto, 5 yrs ; Mr.
Jones's Henley, 5 yrs, lOst 21b ; and Lord Ravensworth
nd b f by Lamptontan, 4 yrs, 9st 81b. Won by half a
length.
At the Abergavenny races on Wednesday, the Mon-
mouthshire Stakes were won by Mr. Langley's Rancour;
the llavannah Stakes by Mr. Jones's Forty-Two ; and
the Llandillo Hurdle Stakes by Mr. E. Herbert's
Tommy.

FATAL COLLISION ON THE MIDLAND COUNTIES'
RAILWAY.—On Easter Monday a fatal accident hap-
pened near Leicester, on the above railway, in conse-
quence of the want of proper caution on the part of the
engine-drivers. A coal train was proceeding at a slow
pace towards the above town, and when just past Syston
it was overtaken and run into by a luggage-train,
drawn by two engines, and travelling at a speed o nearly
twenty miles an hour. Many of the carriages were de-
stroyed, others thrown off the line, and the tender of
the coal-train engine fell upon its unfortunate stoker,
whose name was Thomas Day, crushing his head and
chest quite flat, tearing his thigh out of the socket, and
otherwise much injuring him. He was killed on the
spot, and an inquest was held upon the body the follow-
ing day, when a verdict of "Manslaughter" was returned
against Hilton and Taylor, the drivers of the engines
attached to the luggage-train, who were forthwith com-
mitted on the coroner's warranted to take their trials at
the next assizes for the county of Leicester.
A Madrid journal gives a horrible account of two
recent murders at Valencia. They were excited by
some of the provincial militia, whose duty it was to pre-
serve the public peace, but who a fortnight before had
been accused of killing a man of the republican party.
A body of these provincials, without any officer, went to
a public-house near one of the gates, called out two per-
sons, and, marching them to a distance of not more than
200 paces, shot them in the face of a crowd rendered
mute by surprise.

LADY SI3GDEN'S BALL AND SUPPER.—Lady Sug-
den gave her first ball and. supper for the season last
evening at the residence of the Lord Chancellor, Ste-
phen's-green, to the principal nobility and gentry of the
city and suburbs, ,on which occasion the splendid suite
of rooms, tastefully decorated, were thrown open. The
company began to arrive about ten, and continued to set
down until after twelve o'clock. Dancing commenced
shortly after ten, and was kept up with spirit till near
one o'clock, when supper was announced. Upwards of
400 persons partook of the splendid repast. Dancing
was resumed after the social meal, and was kept until
four o'clock this morning.—Dublin Evening Packet of
Tuesday.l
A MILITARY OSTRICII.—A correspondent, alluding
to the pet elephant of the 78th Regiment, says, that fine
corps, the 77th, received, a few months ago, from Colonel
Warrington, our Consul at Tripoli, a remarkably fine
young ostrich. This bird walks at the head of the regi-
ment, and keeps good time with the music ; and should
the band be playing in the square or garden, he walks
round and round the musicians, keeping all the little
boys away. He was obliged at first to be muzzled, as he
had a curious fancy to eat the music books.
THE TORY INCOME TAx.-7The income tax still
continues to be, and until it takes its place among the
other pleasant imposts with which this nation is so pre-
eminently blessed, will continue to be, the one great
absorbing topic of thought and of conversation. It
is not supported by any party. Neither Radicals,
Whigs, nor Tories like it. Even those of the
metropolitan Ministerial papers, which do not de-
nounce it, merely give it the sanction of bare tolera-
tion, while, of the provincial press, all, with the excep-
tion of a few Tory, or, we ought rather to call them,
" Peel-pledged " papers—which are so placed as hardly
to know which way to turn themselves for fear of giving
grave offence to some of their patrons—unite in depre-
cating a measure which is alike uncalled for, unequal in
its pressure, hateful in its operation, and, above all,
manifestly unjust.— Wiltshire Independent.
Four of the unfortunate pilots who were drowned
in Bideford Bay, on Sunday, the 13th inst., have been
picked up, and were buried in Northam Church-yard on
Sunday last. The funerals were attended by the princi-
pal merchants, ship-owners, masters of vessels, and
mariners of the port. The procession from Appledore
consisted of nearly 2,000 persons, and bore a truly me-
lancholy aspect.—Plymouth Journal.
We learn from Marseilles that a number of sailors,
with their officers, and some engineers, have arrived
there from the Pontifical States, to go in the Amsterdam
steamer to Havre, thence to England, to receive three
steam-boats, which have been purchased for the Pope.
Several of the sailors wore insignia conferred upon them,
it is said, on account of their having been to Egypt, and
brought hothe the alabaster columns presented by Mehe-
met Ali to his Holiness.

THE HINDOO GIRL.—The New' Haven Register
states, that Mr. Pierpoint made the following interest-
ing statement in his lecture before the Norwich Ly-
ceuml:—" At the present day, the uneducated Hindoo
girl, by the use of her hands simply, could surpass in
delicacy and fineness of texture the production of
the most perfect machinery, in the manufacture of cotton
and muslin cloth. In England cotton has been spun so
fine that it would require a thread of four hundred
and ninety miles in length to weigh a pound—but
the Hindoo girl had, by her hands, constructed a
thread which would require to be extended one thousand
miles to weigh a pound; and the Daccale muslins of her
manufacture, when spread on the ground and covered
with dew, were no longer visible."

THE FARMER'S FRIEND.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
STR,—I have attended the fairs held in this county
during the last twenty years, but never have I expe-
rienced such a sudden and totally unexpected deprecia-
tion in the value of stock as at this fair to-day. The gene-
ral observation among the farmers was, .‘ This is Mr.
Peel's promised benefits to the farming interest : will
our landlords again compel us to vote for the Tories ?"
If 1 had not seen several lots of cattle sold at prices so
ruirous, I could not have credited it. A dealer was
marking a lot of good steers he had bought at 151. each;
a friend of mine, who stood by at the time, and who is
known to be a judge of stock, assured me the price was
under 4d. per lb.—the greatest part of them now good
meat, fit for the butcher, and, three months since, would
have sold at 22/. each I ! The prices offered being
generally so low, caused large droves to be driven home
unsold ; fat sheep also were nnsaleable even at consider-
ably reduced prices. I rent a large farm, which has
been in my family many years ; under present prospects
my only course will be to give notice to leave, and take
my family to some other` country (probably the United
States), where I shall not be compelled by my landlord
to vote for Tories, nor to pay a tax upon my income,
which is every day decreasing under a real " sliding-
scale." AN OLD FARMER.

Easter fair-day, Herefird, March 30, 1842.
P.S. My brother has just told me he has purchased
190 head of Herefords, within the last three months, and
now he would gladly sell them at a loss of 6001. I ! !

THE INCOME TAX.
The following memorial has been agreed to at Shef
field, and signed by great number's of the inhabitants :
TO JOHN PARKER AND HENRY G. WARD, RSQRS., MEM-
BERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR THE BOROUGH OF SHEF-
FIELD.

The memorial of the undersigned Bankers, Mer-
chants, Tradespeople, and other Inhabitants of the
borough of Sheffield ;
Sheweth,—That the merchants, manufacturers, and
tradespeople generally of Sheffield are suffering under
extreme commercial depression, their concerns being
almost unprofitable ; and it being a question with many,
whether they should continue, in the hope of an improve-
ment in trade, or put up with the first loss by wholly
closing their undertakings ; and that this distress is
rapidly increasing.

I'hawt your memorialists have heard with extreme con-
cern, that it is in contemplation to impose an income tax
on the people of this country, as a means of raising a,
revenue,

That such a tax is sufficiently burdensome in prospe-
rous times ; but, under our present circumstances, will
be felt with peculiar hardship by those who are strug-
gling for a subsistence.

That many whose families are large, and whose expen-
diture is necessarily heavy, must abridge themselves of
the ordinary comforts of life to pay this tax.
That we believe it will induce not a few to withdraw
from business, entirely to avoid the vexatious and un-
constitutional exhibition of their commercial affairs,
which must of necessity exist under such an impost.
That in the manufacturing districts, where much pres-
sure now exists, the tax will in numerous instances be
paid, not by sparing the superfluities of life, but by
ceasing to consume manufactured articles, and by the
dismissal of servants and labourers, thus causing the tax
to press heavily on the working classes.
That such a tax is a direct premium on fraud and
•
perjury.

That very many are now carrying on trade without
profit, whose success will depend on their credit ;
and that such dare not risk the exposure of their actual
condition, but, to keep up appearances, must pay much
beyond what justice requires ; and that such payments
will, in many cases (it' the Bill come into operation) be
made out of the property of their creditors.
That whilst we admit the necessity of providing for
the public wants of the country, and whilst we deprecate
all taxes which fall peculiarly on the industry of the
community, we regard the present vexatious and unequal
berden as utterly uncalled fir, and as the price paid for
the maintenance of the bread and sugar monopolies.
Your memorialists therefore respectfully, but urgently
request that you will omit no opportunity of resisting
the imposition of this unjustifiable tax.