The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVE

THE WEATHER.-SuN OFFICE, MARCH 22.

THERMOMETER, Lowest, 33 ; Highest, 42; Noon, 45.
BAROMETER, 30.48.—W1ND, W.

Nom—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and
" Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the
Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All
!he other observations are made at noon.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning .. 58 minutes after 0 I Evening .. 19 minutes after 1.

Accounts from Madrid, of the 14th inst., state that
the court •martial, held at Vittoria, on the prisoners
implicated in the conspiracy at that place, bad deli-
vered its judgment. Several of them were con-
demned to imprisonment fur ten years, but none had
been capitally convicted. We, therefore, hope the
a
reign of terror is passed, and the law is to be admi-
nistered as in civilised states.

The Three per Cents. closed at 351 at 60 days ;
the Five per Cents. at 251 for cash, and 261 at 60
days ; and the Coupons at 28i at 30 days.

The articles in the Paris papers relate chiefly to
the Bill for preventing abuses in the formation of
railway companies, and the abolition of vote by
ballot. The Bill on railways, which has been con-
siderably modified in Committee, does not appear to
give very general satisfaction, but its object is good,
and, if carried into effect, will check fraudulent
schemes. According to the Bill, any number of spe-
culators may issue prospectuses and deliver shares,
but these must be genuine, and not got up for frau-
dulent purposes, otherwise they become liable to im-
prisonment for not exceeding twelve months, and a
fine of from 500 f. to 10,000 f. The new mode of
voting in the Chamber took place on the annual
grant for military pensions, when the PRESI•
DENT announced that the vote on the ensemble
of the Bill would be made by the new plan
of division. An usher then ascended the tri-
bune, and placed a black urn (for rejection) on the
marble ledge on the left, as the Members generally
ascena for the purpose of voting, and laid a white one
(for adoption) on the opposite side. The two urns
were thus separated by the whole length of the
tribune, or by a distance of about eight feet. The
Members then crossed the tribune to vote. As each
passed the Secretaries, he received a ball which he
dropped into one of the urns. The result of the
division was-238 votes fur the Bill, and 4 against
it. This new plan is generally approved of. The
ballot will be resorted to only on particular occasions.
The intelligence from Zurich is to the 18th instant.
It appears from the New Zurich Gazette of that date,
that the Committee appointed by the Diet to examine
the questions respecting the amnesty, the Jesuits,
and the free corps had made their report. They were
unanimous as regarded the amnesty, and came to the
following resolution :—" The cantons of the Valais,
•of Tessino, Argovia, and Lucerne, are invited to
grant an amnesty to the authors of political offences
committed of late years." With regard to the
Jesuits they were divided, and proposed that the
Commissioners should be deputed to address a
friendly invitation to Lucerne, for the reception of
which the Grand Council of the Canton should be
convoked before the termination of the sittings of the
Diet. Upon the question of the free corps the Com-
mission are agreed, with the single exception of M.
DRUEY, who, contrary to the opinion of the majority,
maintains that the Federal Act is sufficient of itself
to repress any illegalities which they might commit.
The result is unanimity with regard to the amnesty ;
condemnation of the free corps by six to one ; and ex
pulsion of the Jesuits by four to three.

A letter from Zurich of the 16th gives a statement
of the population, military force, and revenues of the
different cantons ; distinguishing those against and
for the Jesuits, from which it will be seen that the
strength and numbers of the former far predomi-
nate:—

" Cantons which demand the complete expulsion of
the Jesuits :—Berne (Vorort Canton), population in
January last, 451,000 ; Zurich, 245,000 ; Vaud, 198,000;
Argau, 192,000 ; Tessino, 120,000 ; Thurgau, 89,000 ;
Grisons, 88,000 ; S?leure,67,ooo ; Schaffhausen, 33,000;
Glaris, 30,500 ; Bale Country (half Canton), 45,000 ;
Inner Appenzell (half Canton), 44,000. Total, 1,602,000
souls. These ten Cantons and two half Cantons furnish
for the Federal army a contingent of 46,007 men, and
contribute to the Central Treasury, 752,000f.—Cantons
opposed to the Jesuits, but whose instructions hitherto
have gone no further than that a recommendation should
Gall, population, 164,000 ;
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Bale town (half Canton), 25,000.
Total, 253,000 souls. These two Cantons and one half
Canton furnish a contingent of 4,455 soldiers, and
140,000 f. to the Federal Treasury.—Cantons opposed to
the expulsion of the Jesuits, or wishing to call them in
—Lucerne (Vorort Canton, 127,000 souls ; Friburg,
95,000 ; Valais, 76,000 ; Neufchatel, 66,000 ; Schwytz,
41,500 ; Unterwald, 23,000 ; Zug, 15,800 ; Uri, 14.200;
Outer Appenzell (half Canton), 9,850. Total, 468,350
souls. These eight Cantons and one half Canton furnish
to the Federal army only 13,517 men, and their contri.
butions to the Central Treasury amount to no more
than 150,000 f."

THE BOURSE--THURSDAY, MARCH 20.
First Highest Lowest I ast
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five pereenta•••••• 117 70 .• 117 70 .. 117 55 .. 117 55
106 50 •• 106 50 .. 106 50 .. 106 50
Three per Cents.— •• 85 GO .. 85 GO .. 85 50 .. 85 60
New Loan •• •••• •• 86 10 .. 86 55 .. 86 40 .. 86 50
Bank of France••.•• •• 3lBO ..3180 ..3580 ..3180
Gouh, Bauk, I,ooof. Shares • • 1090 . • 1090 ..1090 . • 1090
Belgian Bank 652 50 .. 652 50 .. G 52 50 .. 652 50
Belgian Fives, 1840 •••• •• 105% .. 105% .. 165% .. 1(5%
1842 •••••• 107 107 .. 107 .. 107
Two-and-a-Half— •• 62 30 .. 62 30 .. 62 30 .. 62 30
Spanish Active •••• •• •••••• 39% .. 39% .. 3934 39%
Threes... .....•••• 41 .. 41 .. 41 .. 41
• Passive•••••• ..... 7 .. 7 .. 7 .. 7
110601 75
110061 75
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61 7 5
110061 75

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain ..... ....•• ••••1190 —ll9O ..1190 .•1190
Versailles,
.. 400 415 .. 400 .. 412 50
1172 50 ..1177 50 ..1172 50 ..1172 50
R:
LBI3 ..... .
... . 670 .. 670 .. 665 .. 665
Rouen to Havre
Orleans
...„ „........ 1335 ..1340 ..1330 ..1330

Strasburg to 347 50 .. 347 50 .. 346 25 .. 347 :0
Avlguou to Marseilles•• •• •• 1150 ..1150 ..1142 50 ..1142 50
Bordeaux to Teste •• • • •• •• 235 .. 235 .. 230 •• 230
Paris to Sceaux 725 .. 725 .• 725 •• 725

RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT. APRIL 3.

St. Germain • 1092 50 ..1192 50 ..1190
•• .• .• 665 .. 675 .. 665
L.B.•••• •••• • • •• 400 .. 420 .. 400
Rotten 1175 —1175 —1165

..1190
.. 665
.. 410
..1165

Rouen to Havre• • • • • • •• • • • • 980 997 50 .. 977 50 • • 985
Orleans • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1325 ..1342 50 ..1320 ..1325
Strasburg to Ea1e...... 346 25 .. 350 .. 346 25 . 347 50
Avignon to Marseilles 1150 ..1155 ..1132 50 ..1132 50
Bordeaux to Testa

IR ELA N NOTB RE STATE PROSECUTION.—Our
Dublin correspondent assures us very positively that the
Irish Government have it in contemplation to institute
another state prosecution, and mentions, very circum-
stantially the facts on which the statements rest. The
most material are these, namely, that the two Govern-
ment reportors who attend the meetings of the Repeal
Association, and the two policemen wbo are also in
attendance to identify the speakers and corroborate the
reporters, have been sent for to the Castle; and certain
strong passages from the speeches of Messrs. H. Grattan
and W. S. O'Brien have been laid before the Irish law
officers of the Crown; that, in the opinion of these
gentlemen, there are grounds for a prosecution, if not of
the association as a body, at least against some of its
members; and that a communication to this effect has
been forwarded to the Government in London. All this
is very likely, and it is not less likely that the fighting
Attorney-General should wish to try another fall with
the Repealers; but that. Sir R. Peel will hazard another
prosecution on the eve of the Queen's visit, unless, indeed,
he means to keep her away from Ireland, is most un-
likely. We say, with our correspondent—impossible!
absurd !—Liverpoe/ Mercury.
TROTTING FOR TEN POUNDS A-SlDE.—Yesterday
afternoon a good number of persons congregated near
Manor-house, Tottenham, to be present at the race be-
tween Holcroft's pony and Harwood's grey pony, which
was to trot five miles under saddle; but an arrangement
was subsequently made upon the ground to limit the
contesting distance to three miles, and, all preliminaries
being adjusted, the race was commenced, the grey
taking the lead, and performing the first mile in three
minutes and a half, and being twenty five yards a-head.
At the conclusion of the second mile the grey still main-
tained the lead, and the time occupied was seven minutes
eighteen seconds; and when within half a mile of the
goal, the grey was a hundred yards in advance, and its
opponent was pulled in, the grey. pony coming in the
winner, and trotting the three maestri eleven minutes and
thirty-three seconds.
DEATH OF LADY GAAIRIER.—We have to record
the demise, at an advanced age, of Lady Gambier, which
took place on Monday last, at Iver, Bucks. The deceased
lady, who was second daughter of the late Mr. Daniel
Matthew, married, in March, 1788, the late Lord Gam-
bier, Admiral of the Fleet.

ING, MARCH 22,

prevent the sober from drinking three glasses of
wine, or one glass of gin, because drunkards will
( SUMMARY OF NEWS
swallow three bottles of the former, and one of the
latter—is the very verfection of tyranny. " But,"
say the new moralists, using the most offensive
epithets for houses of refreshment—" the gin. shops,
beer-shops, and taverns, into which so many thou-
sands who have homes of their own, congregate on
the Sundays, are not necessary for such refreshment,
and may therefore fairly be put on the same footing
as all other shops where provisions, goods, or wares
are sold." This is mere assertion, for others can
reply that they are necessary. A man cannot carry
his home with him if he goes with his family
to see the green fields and bright flowers at Putney
or the environs of Gravesend, and if he carries re-
freshment he makes a toil of a pleasure, without serv-
ing one good purpose. Punish the guilty, but let the
innocent go free. The law, as the poor know to
their cost, is sufficiently strong, and the
distinctions between them and the rich
are already sufficiently odious without these
new-fashioned schemes for making men reli-
gious by Acts of Parliament, and sober by forbidding
them the rational enjoyments of life.

AND
Vubltr 0313tntou♦

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The Copenhagen Gazette confirms the account given
by the Madrid journals relative to the arrangements of
the chief points in dispute between Morocco and Den-
mark and Sweden, and adds that all the minor points are
likely to be settled in an amicable manner.
In the French Chamber of Deputies, on Wednesday,
M. Lasny and 13oissy d'Anglas laid the following Bill on
the table :—" From the next general election, no person
can be named a Deputy, or remain a Member of the
Chamber of Deputies, if he be interes'ed in any contract-
treaty, or sub-treaty, posterior to this present law, for
any supply or undertaking, or any other service which
may ig.ve rise to any payments or accounts with the
State, or with any Administration having at its di?posal
any part of the funds of the State."

The health of M. Latour Mauhourg appears so deli-
cate, says the Revue de Paris, that it is feared that lie
will not be able to support the journey from Rome to
Montpellier. _
_ _

Th; Minister of Commerce and Agriculture has placed
at the disposal of the Royal and Central Society of
Agriculture a prize of 1,500 f. for the best paper on the
contagious typhus of horned cattle. The prize is to be
awarded in April, 1847.
A new Company, at the head of which is Vice-Ad-
miral de Rosamel, has just been formed, to tender for the
railroad of the North, from Paris to Lille, Valetciennes,
Calais, and Dunkirk.

The Bishop of Nancy and the Archbishop of Sens,
and all the Bishops of his province, have signified their
assent to the pastoral letter of the Cardinal Arch-
bishop of Lyons. The Bishop of Rennes has also sent
his declaration of assent.

A Vienna letter of the 14th states that Prince Au-
gustus of Saxe-Coburg, the husband of Princess Cle-
mentine, will, in the course of the summer, visit London
and Lisbon, with the Princess.
The Universal German Gazette announces that the
Prussian Government intends to lay a tax on the receipts
of the Prussian railroads, but says it will be of small
amount.

Letters froth Rome leave no doubt upon the marriage
of Count Trapani with the Queen of Spain, The King
of Naples was expected in the Roman capital to an•
nounee the fact to his brother, and to prepare for the
ceremony.

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