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their profits nearly three per cent., in addition to sub-
I jecting them to a continual inquisition into their pro-
fits, which no tradesman likes, will increase the relative
advantages of other countries, and the disadvantages of
England. It will give an increased stimulus to emigra-
tion. Capital and ingenious workmen, seeking a better
market, will flow faster out of the land, and all who re-
main behind will find less employment and lower wage s.
Some persons think that the more capital and work-
men flow out of the country, the more room there is, and
the more wealth there if, for those who remain. The
room we grant, but if room make men wealthy, the
thinly scattered inhabitants of the northern wilds' of
Anierica should be amongst the most wealthy of human
beings. The reverse is the fact. One man constitutes
the market for the produce of another, and the two
working together produce a great deal more than they
both could, working singly. Wbat is true of two is
equally true of every greater number. Division of la-
bour, which is a prolific • source of skill and ingenuity,
obviously depends on the density of the population, and
will be effective and complete in proportion as the people
are numerous. They will be wealthy in the same pro-
portion. To drive them out of the country by taxation,
iF, in fact, to arrest the beneficial progress of society,
from which the lowest classes are always the first and
the greatest sufferers. To be above the very lowest im-
plies ability to resist destruction for a longer period.
The principle applies throughout, and, consequently, as
the middle classes are made to feel exclusively the
weight of a now tax, privation, deficiency of employ-
ment, and misery, will be the Tot of those below them.
By taxing incomes a large portion of the annual pro-
duce, which is now employed in setting productive labour
in motion, will be perverted to unproductive labour.
There will be more soldiers and sailors. The children
of the working classes may find some employment in
the army and navy, but there they will produce nothing
to sustain life, or add to wealth, and, being so em-
ployed, they will diminish the effective demand for
labour with every succeeding year. Wages must fall,
or must keep down to the lowest level at which life can
be sustained, and the misery which the community has
been suffering for years past, instead of now coming to
an end, will be made the standard of living, and be per-
petuated.

posed before Eastar, and before the holydays are over
there will be time lip: the country to gird on her armour,
and advance to the assistance of the RUSSELL
band in Parliament. Sir ROBERT PEEL threaters resig-
nation if defeated upon his pei nostrum of an income
tax. Let the Right Honourable Baronet retire by all
means. England will contrive to live without his
State-physicianship. In fact, were he to retire now
the Liberals would raise a monument to him in
Palace-yard, for during his short administra-
tion he has done more to expose the utter
fallacy of Tory principles than did JEREMY BEN-
TH AM in all the long years spent by him in forming
free constitutions for all the nations of the earth. Let
him retire by all means, now that his great mission as
a Minister is accomplished.

There is no pc itical topic of any account in the
French Journals. : Rumours arc afloat that a modifica-
tion will take place in the Cabinet previous to the new
elections. If this be so, one of the retiring Ministers
will unquestionably be M. GUIZOT, whose popularity at
present is at the lowest ebb. As Minister of the In-
terior, it is his duty to manage the elections, and
the Court has already decided that his uni-
versal unpopularity disqualifies him for such a
task. We wish that we could add that his
moral integrity rendered him incapable of ade-
quately conducting a series.of disgraceful jobs ; but M.
GuizoT has permitted the KING to drag him through so
much mire already, that we can hardly acquit him of a
willingness to retain office during the bribing manage-
ment of an election. But out he will go if a change in
any branch of the Cabinet takes place. A private letter
assures us that M. TRIERS and Count MOLE have
arranged their differences sufficiently to be able once
more to take their seats at the same Council board.
As Minister of the Interior M. TRIERS would manage
an election faniously. Troubled with no qualms
of conscience upon the subject, he would scatter bribes,
appointment 6, and promises, with the easy beneficence of
the deity of corruption.
The Sentinelle des Pyrenees says--" On Monday last a most
pressing order arrived from the Government, enjoining the
authorities to send forthwith into the interior of France 37
Spaniares who had taken refuge in cur town, in consequence
of the events of October. We are assured that the Sub• t re-
feet has already notified to Count de Monterron, and to Senors
Pedro Egaga and Ribed, that they are to repair to Pau to re-
ceive further instructions from the Prefecture of the Depart-
ment."

These indirect effects of direct taxation, making it
fall with great weight on the wages of labour, are known
to Sir ROBERT PEEL, or they are not. If they be not
known, his profound ignorance shows that he is quite
unfit to be the Minister of this great commercial country.
If they be known, which is, we believe, the case, what
can be said for his honesty ? He bids by his Budget, as
we have before said, for popularity ; but he bids for it
by pandering to an opinion which he knows to be erro-
neous, and by fostering a belief which he knows to be a
delusion. He, acts consistently, we admit ; for his whole
political career has been marked with similar dishonesty.
That, however, only makes him more dangerous, for
what security have we that the man who will basely
pander to a vulgar error to pass a Budget, will not ex-
cite public crimes to secure his power?-
The disease which afflicts the industrious classes is
excess of taxation—taxation for the State—taxation for
the Church—taxation for Monopolists ; and the Prime
Minister can find no remedy for this disease but to dose
us with more of the fatal poison. What the country wants
is the abolitidn of the taxation now levied for bthoof of
monopolists, and then it could easily supply the wants
of the State. But the industry of the country has now
become inadequate to answer the enormous demands
which are made on it from many quarters. That the
monopolists, the enemies and plunderers of industry,
should encourage the Prime Minister to lay on more
taxes, is natural ; but for any section of the industrious
classes to encourage him in the same career, from the
foolish notion that the new tax will not reach them, is
absurdly to offer their back to new burdens when they
are already crushed by their load.

The affair of the Creole continues to excite a great
deal of interest in the United States. This interest is
kept alive'by the publication of a series of official papers
intended to be communicated to the British Government,
but of which duplicates fin l their way into the columns
of the New York papers long before the originals can
reach Downing,-str...et. The great inconvenience of
such a mode of conducting diplomatic negotiations
would seem to us sufficient to deter a Government from
it, were it not entirely objectionable on the score of
its indelicacy towards foreign powers,, as the civilized
world has always considered it to be.. But Mr. DANIEL
WEB3TER, American Secretary of State, . appears
to
_be of a very different opinion. Accordingly we
find in the New York Journals of the 12th of
February, a copy of the Instructions relative to the
"slave cargo" of the Creole addressed by him to Mr.
EVERETT, the American Ambassador in London, while
Instructions directed to be communicated officially to
Lord ABERDEEN bear date the 29th of January, 1842
or just fourteen days before the Yankee Public was in-
vited to pronounce judgment upon them ? This exces-
sive eagerness to let all the world know what he is about
may be the result of excessive vanity on the part of Mr.
WEBSTER ; but we are rather inclined to attribute it to
the fear of offending the Sovereign People., He knows
not well what to do, and he invites the newspapers to
help him. Mr. WEBSTER says that he hourly expects
the arrival of Lord ASHBURTON in Washington, to settle
among other, matters of dispute, tthis
,quarrel of the
Creole, and yet he cannot refrain from committing him-
self beforehand by the publication of his views on the
subject !

A Bill has just been brought into Parliament for the
transfer of licenses and regulation of public-houses,
which contains some useful eauses, but is still extremely
defective as a measure including so many interests
It has been prepared by Captain Rous, with the assist-
ance of Mr. GREENE, the Chairman of Committees ; and
though the Gallant Officer is in gratitude bound to give
something in return for the services of the publicans at
the last election, he ought not to have forgotten his
other constituents and the public at large. The
Bill enacts that public-houses shall be closed on
Saturday night at twelve o'clock, and on the night
preceding Good Friday and Christmas-day, and that
they shall remain shut up till one o'clock in the after-
noon of the following day, after which publicans shall
be at liberty to keep them open as they may judge fit.
Now, why not give a little extension to this plan ? Our
lawgivers admit, that opening a house for refreshment is
no desecration of the Sabbath, we can, therefore, see no
reason whatever for closing them on Saturday night at
twelve, the very hour when refreshments are more
wanted than in any of the t vents-four. Thousands
leave the theatres but a few minutes before twelve, and
though many of them have no means of obtaining re-
freshment at home, the doors of all public-houses are
closed against them, as if they were about to commit
some enormous crime. The higher classes, who legis-
late for all the rest, in this instance, as in
most others, forget the public when their own
interests are not concerned. They remain at the Opera
witnessing profane dancing till one o'clock on Sunday
morning, and while thus desecrating the Sabbath them-
selves, under the pretence of religion they sanction a
practice whiCh, without one useful result, causes great
injustice and hardship to the lower classes. If there
were not such places as well-stored cellars and
larders, a clause like this would be thrown out by
general acclamation. We trust, therefore, Captain
Rous will perform his duty impartially, and
mete out the same • law to the poor as to the
rich. But the Bill is only one of those patchworks
which are a disgrace to the Legislature. The whole
system of licensing and regulating houses is radically
bad. A publican has no security whatever for his pro-
perty, and is entirely at the mercy of a few justices, who
seem to delight only in inflicting fines, or withdrawing
the license—the only means which the unfortunate
victim has of gaining his bread.

Mr. EVERETT, the American Ambassador, here, is a
gentleman of extensive literary acquirements, and no
indifferent theologian and lawyer—for he early in life
appeared in the pulpit, and at the bar—and one of the
most judicious Members of the Federal. Legislature of
the United States. Yet upon the question of the Creole
dispute, Mr. WEBSTER schools him as if he were some
sucking vice-consul of twenty, who might be called
upon to answer intricate questions touching doubtful
points of international law. He tells the Ambassador
not only what to say, but how to say it, and in addition
to the facts to be stated, and the threats to be employed,
he supplies hith with the logic and the requisite number
of hypotheses, which are to be carefully and impressively
cited. The Ambassador is a duller person than we take
him to be if he could read some of them in Downing-
street without smiling in the face of Lord ABERDEEN.
We will cite one instance :

suppose that by the law of England all the blacks were Blanes,
and incapable of any other condition ; if persons of that colour,
free in the United States, should, in attempting to pass from
one port to another in their own country, be thrown by stress
of weather within British jurisdiction, and there detained for an
hour or a day, would it be reasonable that British authority
should be made to act upon their condition, and to make them
slaves ? Or suppose that an article of merchandise, opium, for
instance, shou'd be declared by the laws of the United States
to be a nuisance, a poison, a thing in which no property could
lawfully exist or be asserted ; but suppose that an English ship
with such a cargo on board, bound from one English port to
another, should be driven by stress cf weather, or-by mutiny of
the crew, into the ports of the United States, would it be held
just and reasonable that such cargo should receive its character
from American law, and be thrown overboard and destroyed
by the American authorities ?

These hypotheses are not worth a brass button, and no,
More apply to the question, at issue than does the dome
at Washington to the mechanical law which governs;
the suction of Aldgate pump. .The slave-trade is piracy
according to the laws of England and the United States,
and all vessels found at sea with slaves on board are
prima facie slavers. But we may safely leave the ques-.
tion in the hands -of our Government. Sir ROBERT
PEEL will certainly not incur the infamy of de-
claring the " British people slave dealers by
paying the Americans fur a cargo of run-a-way slaves.
But Mr. DANIEL WEBSTER asks, How do we know that
they were slaves ? The question is a proper one. We
had a right to assume that they were not, and so had
no right to prevent them from going about their busi-:
ness. He admits that none but those actually arrested
by the British authorities were guilty of insubordination.
What nonsense then to talk of our detaining them if
they were neither criminals nor the property of
United States REPUBLICANS I

The declaration of Lord JOHN RUSSELL in the House
.of Commons on Monday night, that he will oppose
the income tax at every stage, is hailed with delight
by the commercial and professional classes in every 'part
of the metropolis. From every district in London letters
are already pouring in upon us, expressive of the general
joy which so straight-forward and patriotic a course on
the part of *the Noble Lord, has diffused. This
delight will not long be confined to London.
The country will participate in it. The people'
tongue-tied by surprise at the boldness of
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S schemes of taxation, are only be-
ginning to recover themselves so far as to perceive that
the income tax is meant rather as an act of Tory ven-
geance than of State necessity. All that is wanted from
their friends in the House of Commons is a little time
to allow them to speak out before the passing of this
most inquisitorial and oppressive impost.
We have now arrived at a time when we can
test the patriotism of the Liberal party in Parliament.
If that party perform its duty to the public, no majori-
ties on the part of Sir ROBERT PEEL, without suspending
the forms of the House, can carry the income tax for
this season at least. We know the Tories will raise a
great outcry about a factious opposition, a resistance to
the clearly expressed will of the majority in ParEa;
meat ; but there are occasions when no opps-
4tion can be factious, and the present is one of
them. Resistance to wrong can never be factious, be-
cause it is the duty of every man collectively and indi-
vidually. TIAmPDEx and PvM were not factious when
they resisted ship-money, although the tools of the
Court stigmatised their conduct by that epithet.
Looking at the question in a party light, it offers
facilities for recovering the confidence of the country of
which the Whigs could not have dreamt at the com-
mencement of the Session. Had Sir ROBERT PEEL
proposed, instead or an income tax, a property tax
barely sufficient to make up the deficit in the Budget,
and pruned the tariff with a bolder application of the
knife, his tenure of office was at once secure. But to
spite the mercantile and trading classes, who
carried the Reform Bill and who, during the
last eleven years, kept him out of office, he
has had recourse to the odious, inquisitorial,
and vexatious scheme of an income tax, while his pro-
posed new tariff is meant more to linixkhug or insult than
to benefit them. These are fatal errors,- as most errors
are which spring from the gratification of vindictive
feelings. No blindness is so absolute as that of passion.
Lord JoBN RUSSELL appears to have had the quickness
to perceive them at the right moment.

INQUEST ON THE 'EARL OF MUNSTEII.—WO sent a
gentleman on our establishment on Monday to attend
the inquest, in order to furnish our readers with a cor'r
rect account of a deplorable event which comes home to
every family. He gave his card, and civilly asked per-
mission to attend the inquest, and while the butler or
one of the upper servants left to make inquiry, a large
powerful coarse-looking man came into the hall and
rudely accosted him with the words" What's this ? Whb
are you ?" No time was given for expostulation, for he
was instantly ejected by great force into the street. Any
remarks •on such a violent and unprovoked assault
would be thrown away on a vulgar menial like this, and
we have therefore only noticed the brutal act in order to
call the attention of Colonel Fox, or some of the rela-
tives of the deceased to the subject. Other reporters
were admitted, and we would therefore suggest the pixie-
priety of an inquiry to ascertain the reason why one was
excluded and others admitted.
TEE TORT INCO3IE TAx.—As the Tamworth Quack's
chances of persuading the people into a belief that the
Income Tax is the best of all possible taxes, diminish, his
" buoyancy and alacrity of spirit" diminish in like-pro-
portion. He is now becoming quite pensive, with.a
dash of spleen to' diversify his melancholy, and ex-
presses a truly pathetic astonishment that there should
be.the slightest difference of opinion on the subject of
his pet Nostrhm. He cannot understand what pos-
sible objection there can be to a standing army of tax-
gatherers; and is horror-struck at the fast increasing
unpopularity of his pick pocket system of legislation !
The Income tax, he says, is the impost of all others most
likely to suit the delicate sqnsibility of John Bull's poc-
ket ; and therefore he is resolved to make him happy and
comfortable, in spite of himself. Egregious Quack !
His patient is suffering under atrophy, and he treats him
for plethora.. He is weak, languid, and exhausted, and
by way of recruiting his strength, he claps horse-leeches
on him, in the shape of tax-gatherers ! When Chan-
cellor Oxienstern said, two centuries ago, to his son,
"My child, see with how little wisdom a country is
governed !" it is evident to us thathemusthare
thathada
Petitions prophetic eye to the administration of
in
rRe agriculturalobertl
eel.e ooie
are LtL
over, AssEh —elrVe g
e leansettln getting up
good authority
the
districts against the proposed reduction of duty on Co-
lonial 'Asses, as it will tend to depreciate the value of the
home-growth of Buckinghams, Knatchbulls, &c.
When Sir Robert Peel was asked what was his prin-
cipalwountsts
ofd s
e
reason for reducing the duty on Colonial Asses, he
long-earedreplied, thast
supporters
waso r
te tors
ng gratify
Parliament,
a t ify
fi
tlai et
ten attention
why
to the fellow-feelings
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iai,
such
shbrethren.or

But what are our great provincial towns about ? Are
the merchants and tradesmen there prepared to disclose
their post private affairs to the tax-gatherer—to make
their rivals in business acquainted with the real 6tate of
their circumstances ? And if they are not, why do they
not now rise as one man to resist this most urt-English
espionage tax ? Silently to petition is not enough,
They must address themselves in decided language to
their representatives. Let them look to the divisions,
and set about the rejection of every Member who votes
for this Tory spy tax.
We repeat, the country will now have an opportunity
of testing the metal of which the Liberal party h. Par-
li.ament is composed, The battle to be fought is one of the
most important which has been fought in England since
the Peesiegof the Reform Bill. The tax trot be ial" . -

Lady Peel and family left town yesterday morning for
Brighten. Sir Robert remains in town, but is expected
to join her Ladyship and family at the end of the week,
and to remain during the holidays.
THE ARMY.—Consequent upon the augmentation of
six Regiments, the following corns are to Le brought
borne from North America, viz., tie Foot Gua drs, he
44th, 67th, 69th, and 70th Regiments.

Thomas Forster, Esq., of Adderstone House, near
Alnvvick, a gentleman of coniderable landed property, com-
mitted suicide last week by hanging himself on a tree in a
plantation on his estate at Ratchwood. The lamentable event
has caused a deep sensation in the neighbourhood.
A very numerous deputation of timber merchants
had a long iuterview yesterda; morning with Sir R. Peel, at the
Right Hon. Baronet's official residence in Downing-street,
on the subject of the proposed alteration of the duty on timber.
The. price of bread in France, for the remainder of
the present moth, is fixed at 34 Centimes the kilogramme.

" Who runs may read."

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, 1842,

PAV OF MEWS

AIND
Viiblit (Opinion.

portraGN.
The Paris Opposition journals continue to make objections
to the proposed treaty of commerce between France and Great
Britain, and which, it would appear, would encounter catch
difficulty and delay.
The National discredits the reported impending break up of
the present Administration, "because," says the National,
" the Ministry would only be changed for a worse, and there
would be great difficulty in finding for it such a successor."
A return of the commercial navy of France is published
in these papers, from which it aprears that the total number of
merchant vessels afloat is 15,U17 ; of this number 133 are
stesmers. These returns show that there are in the commer-
cial navy of Frar.ce only 24 ships the tonnage of which exceeds
500 tons.

Al Benjamin Delessert, Prrsid( nt of the Administration of
the Savings' Banks of Paris, presented his recoil of the ope-
rations and situations of tho.e banks during the year 1841, on
the 19th inst. According to that document, the investments
amounted in the year to
.... 40,041,548 f. 30c.
and the re.mbursements'o 26,911,458f. 78c.

leaving an increase of
which, added to the sums deposited in tie
Treasury on Dec. 31, 1811.

13,130,09 f. 52c.

constituted a total of 83,485,427f. 30c.
invested in the savings' banks •of Paris. As compar'd with
1840, the investments showed at, increase in 1841 of 5,215,000 f.,
and the reimbursements a diminution of 6,883,000 f.
The Committe of Deputie4 on the Budget heard on Satur-
day the explanations of the r for Foreign Affairs respect-
ing the increase of salaries to diplomatic agents, and the new
Cunsulats proposed for that department. '1 he Committee
agreed to the nomiLatien of Consuls for Canton, Mazatlan
(Mexican * vort), lioscow, Belgrade, Jerusalem, Mon-
terey (Mexico), Newcastle, Panama, Erzeroun, Mossoul
(Mesopotamia), and Port. Louis (Mauritius). These for
neiro (Ottoman Empire), and Djedda, were refused. The
Committee also declined to increase the salaries of the Marquis
de Dalmatia, it 'furls, and M. Chasseloup Laubat, Minister at
Frankfort. The creation of a diplomatic post at Buenos Ayres
was approved of, as also an increase of salary for Monte Video.
The increase asked for the Consul at Edinburgh was accorded,
but refused to I) üblin and Liverpool.
The Patriots states, under date Algesiras, the 7th instant,
that a Dutch schooner, having on board 250 musket-biro-els,
and bound for Marseilles, had put into Gibral:ar, but that the
Governor, at the request of the Spanish Consul, had ordered
her to weigh anchor and disyart. The insurrectionary Junta
existing at Gibraltar had lately received remittances amount-
ing, it was said, to $13,000.
The Eco del Comercio publishes a notice from the first
Alkalde of Xtmena de la Frontera, dated the 4th instant, an-
nouncing that 2,700 muskets -and a quantity of ammunitiim
had been seized by the B. itish authorities, in the Bay of Gib-
raltar, on board a vessel belonging to the enemies of SpaniSh
liberty.

Bank Stock
3 per Cent Bed
3 per Cent Cens B9i
3' ^r Cent Red

Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares
Anglo-Russian Loan.
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series,
Inscription, Ist series..
Russian 5 per Cent. llOpe and
Series .
Ditto in Certificates —
New 4 per Cent. ( £4O)
Dutch .%ctual. Debt, per Cent.
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Polish Borth
New Ficketr
Anglo-Dan,sh Lo..n, 3 per Cent.
Spanish, New 5p r Cents.
EXCHANGES 0!,7 LONDON.
HAMBURG, MARcH IS —ln :,%.—TWG months, 13 Pia, .
STOCKHOLM, MARCH 11.—Sminty.tive days.:l2. 16.
PRUSSIA N FUNDS.-..BERLIN, hI %BCH Pl.

Pitta. Money
St. &Mild. Sch., 46 per cent. lO5 164 4
Prussialt English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 163 102
Exchan"on Landon, three months — 6 2•2 t)
—Prernizzu Stale Gazette .March 16

I COURT CIRCULAR.
• WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the.
Prince of Vs and the Princess Ro; al, and the Lat:ies and
Gentlemen of the Royal Suite, arrived at the Castle from town
at half-past five o'clock this afternoon, escorted by a party of
the Royal Horse Guards, under the command of Lieutenant
1 Banter,'.
,The Royal party occupied five carriages and four.
The Royal Standard was hoisted en the Round Tower on
her Majesty:, arrisal,,
The Queen and Prince Albert left town yesterday afternoon,
at half-past:three o'clock, in a carriage and four, escorted by a
party of Hussars, for Windsor Castle.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were conducted to their
carriage by the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse,
the Vice-Chamberlain, and Lord olville, Lord in Waiting on
the Prince.
ITheir Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, and the
Princess Royal, and their attendants, occupied another carriage
and four.
The Equerries in Waiting, Colonel Buckley and Sir Ed-
; ward Bowater, were in a chariot and four. The Royal Suite,
consisting of the Counte-s of Charlemont, Lady Carolina
Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Baroness Lehzen, Viscount
Hawarden, and Sir Frederick Stovin, followed in two car-
: iages and four.
The Royal dinner party at Windsor Castle, yesterday even-
ing, included Mr. George Edward, and the Hon. Mrs. Anson.
The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Buck-
-1..y and Sir Edward Bowater, the Equerries in Waiting on her
Majesty and his Royal Highness, visited her Majesty the
Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough House, and re-
mained an hour with her Majesty, and afterwards returned to
Buckingham Palace.
'Sir Robert Peel bad an audience of her Majesty yesterday.
Prince George of Cambridge visited his Royal Highness
Prince Albert yesterday, it Buckingham Palace.
I The Duchess ef Gloucester visited her Majesty the Queen
Dowager at Marlborough-house, on Monday.
A Deputati m of the Wood Trade of London, consisting of
Mr. Joseph Don son, Chairman ; Messrs. Churchill, Simson,
Gough, Wallen, Bott, Robinson, Byron, Browning, Cosner,
Gabriel, and Peache ; and Mr. J. C. Sim, their Seen tery,
accompanied by Mr. Juhn Masterinan, M.P., had an interview
with Sir Robert Peel yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing street.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent took an airing
yesterday, in a carriage.
-The Countess of Munster and her daughter re••
moved on Monday to Albemarle street. In the evening
a cour er was des-atched to the Earl Munster, who is
DOW in Belgium. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cam-
bridge, and Prince George paid a visit to Lord Adolphus Fi•z-
clarence on Monday, in St. James's Palace, and their Royal
Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Sussex
sent to make inquiry after his Lordship and the Countess
Munster, on their bereavement. Yesterday the Queen and
Prince Albert sent to make inquiry, and Lord Adolphus Fitz-
clarence went to attend her Majesty at Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager also sent yesterday to learn
the state of the Countess and his Lordship. Among the Nobility
and Gentry who paid visits of condolence yestei day
and on Monday, were his Excellency Count Kielinansegge, the
Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, Earl Howe, Earl of Denbigh,
Ceuctess of Jersey, Earl of Pembroke, Earl of March, Earl of
Wiltshire, Lady Charleville, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Lord
Arthur Lennox, Lord Somerton, Colonel and Baroness North,
Sir George Seymour, Sir J. and Lady Whatley, Sir A. Grant,
Sir David Davies, Hon. Colonel Dawson Darner, Sir Andrew
Barnard, Sir Horace Seymour, Sir Augustus d'Este, Sir John
Shelley, Sir W. Bulkeley, Sir Robert Wilson, Mr. H. Baring,
Colonel Paget, Colonel Mcntagce, &c.
be Russian Minister transacted business yesterday at the
Foreign-office.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
Consols closed heavily at 893 to 89% for Money, and 893 4
for the Account; Exchequer Bill?, 28 to 30 prem.
The meeting of the Spanish Bondholders to-morrow is
viewed with some anxiety by parties connected with the Foreign
Market. '1 he number of Stocks for really sterling value now
quoted in the official lists has become exceedingly small, and
speculation has for some time been confined to those of chubtful
character. Business has been very limited—Spanish was last
quoted, 2411 to 244; Portuguese Five per Cents., 34% to 344 ;
the '1 hree per Cents., 20% to 2ei ; Colombian, 26 to 26i ;
Brazilian, 69 to 71 ; and Mexican, 41 to 41%. The closing
prices of Dutch were—the Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52%
to 523 ; the Five per Cents., 103 to 103%; Belgian; 103
to 1(4.
More inquiry existed for Railway Shares, and a greater
disposition to invest money in these securities was shown to-
wards the latter part of the day ; but holders being firm in
their demands, only a few limited transactions have occurred.
The nominal prices remain precisely as yesterday.
Exchanges were again good, with an upward tendency, and
a lam, r amount was negotiated than on last post day.
The rates (three months) were, Ilambtirgh, 13 12% to 12%;
Antwerp, 12 44; Rotterdam, 12 5 ; Frankfort, 151%; Paris,
25f. SJc. to 83c. ; Vienna, 952 to 53 ; Madrid, 36% to 3613;
Lisbon, 52%.
Letters from Hamburgh mention the failure of a house there
whose liabilities arc stated to be large. It is much to be re-
gretted that the greater part of the amount will hate to be
borne by this country ; but if satisfaction can arise from such
an event, it is from the statement that their dealings were so
multifarious that no particular trade will suffer very materially,
although two or three manufacturers in this city are, it is
non'ioned, likely to be heavy losers.
(Eroth Tie Sun of L st Night.)
Money has become exceedingly scarce, and for-a loan for a
day or so, eemmands the rate of 8 per cent., and for a week
4 per cent. This is to be attributed to the necessity of pledg-
ing a quantity of -Stock which had been privately pur-
chased for money, and is now to be taken up. Under
the pressure of these sales, prices hay declined still more, and
Consols are marked 89% 896 for Money, and 89% for the Ac-
count. Bank Stock has been sold at 169% for the opening ;
New Three-andra- Half per Cents. at 99, and 99% for immediate
transfer. India Bonds bear a prcm:unt of 95., and Exchequer
Bills, 28s. to 30s. •
The •Foreign Market is comparatively neglected, and hardly
a purchase has been made. The price of 13razi ian is 65 • of
the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52 to 52,i; of' the
Five per Cents., ;0:16, to 103 i. Th 3 quotations for Mexican
are 41 for Money, and 411 for the Account; Spanish, 24%
to 24.

From the state of the English Stocks, Shares have been neg-
lected, and the only sales have been a few Brighton, at 361 g,
and the Croy don Trunk, 13k.
The Ilamburgh Mail brings the price of Gold, 434, and the
Exchange an London, 13s.
The course adopted by the French Ministry in postponing
the alteration in the Sugar Duties, has caused great discontent
in the various commercial ports.
By the arrival of the Loa from New York, which sailed on
the '26th February, some further information relative to the dis-
pute between the French authorities, and those of St. Domingo
is obtained. Nothing decisive has occurred on either
side, the foimer power having a strong fleet in the roads
consisting of a frigate, two corvettes, and three smaller vessels,
while the latter had strengthened the fortifications, armed the
batteries, and made every preparation for repelling any attack
which might be made. Matters bore an outward appearance
of tranquillity, but it was to be feared that beneath this appa-
rent quiet, cause for serious alarm existed.

Alexico by the latest ace.unts had become settled, but was
doubted if lobatee had returned to its dependence on the Fede-
ral Government.

LIVERPOOL. SHARE MARKET, MARCH 2I.—A very poor
demand was experienced for Railway Shares•this morning, and
the safes were few, without material aleration in prices.
Manchester and Leeds Quarters, 41. ss. Bd. ; Morth Midland
Thirds, 22 2-3rds, ex dix ; Great Western Halves, 63k ;
Western, 17i.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 21.—Was without
animation ; but a fair quantity was sold at the former prices
The sales comprised about 4,000 bales, including 200 good fair
American for export; and 600 Swats at 3i-d. to 4d. ; 150
Bahia, 6/d. to 7d. ; 30 Maranham, at 6d.; 50 Egyptian, and
2,970 American, at 4id. to bid.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 21.—Our
Market to-day has been again very quiet. Pric sof Railway
Stock are generally firm, but for Banks the tendency is down-
ward. Manchester and Leeds, 79i to SO ex. div. ; Ditto Half-
Shares, 354 cum. div. ; Ditto, Quarters, 4i ex. div. ; Midland
Counties, Quarters, 20 to 201 ; North Midland, 69 to 71.
CLOSING PRICES
BRITISH FUNDS.
India Stock
Ditto Bonds
Ditto Old Annuities
D

4 Pe' •
New 3i per Cent
New 5 per Cent.
Long Annuities ;,oexpire Ditto Small 2B pm
Jan. 1860............_- Bank Stock for °pg....169i
Oct 1859.....,... India Stock for Acct....
Jan. 1860. ........ Consols for Acct B9l
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 int vent.— Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, spm cent — Ditto, New Ditto —
Brazilian Bonds.
Buenos Ayres 6 percent Russian, 5 per cent. •....
Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic . ....
Colombian, 6 pet cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent. 24/
Ditto, 18`24........ ..... 26 Ditto, Deferred ~ .
Danish, 3 per cent B2 French, 5 per cent. ----. —c.
Greek, 18:25, 5 per cent — Exchange f •c.
Mexican, 5 per rent.... 41i French, 3 percent Bl . —c
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1637 Dutch, 2i per cent.. 521
Peruvian, 1825, fi per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. .. 103 g
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railgvav (100 p)
Ditto New Shares (17i paid) lsi
Great Western Railway (65 paid) 9li
London and Brighton (50 paid) ' f:6l
London and Birmingham (90) ...... ....• .. 176
London and South Western
- London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) Jai
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Ditto New Shares (30 paid) 36
Northern and Eastern (40 paid) ......
North Midland Railway (100) -
Ditto Thirds ( paid)
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—( YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam CF. 12 8 Gibraltar...
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam .........2 U l2 8 Genoa . ... 25 95
Antwerp
Hamburgh M. B. 13 15i Venice 47
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 70 Palermo, per oz 120
Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Lisbon
Marseilles
Bouldeaux 26 0 Rio Janeiro '27
Frankfort on Maine... 152 Bahia
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres
Berlin... . .
Vienna, effee. 11. 3 M 955 Philadelphia
Trieste, ditto .. 957 PUICES OF BULLION, FEB oz.
Madrid ...
Cadiz
Bilbao
Barcelona
Seville .. 35), 'Silver in Bars 0 41l 4
HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, Maacii 15
Lilts. Money.
••• .WO 11)9 A, 10:)
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U) 109%
Certificate 103%
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CO , 3d and 4th

Iftwovraz, IMALcH 15.—We hear on good
authority
that tt:u ootroj;ttpitt wi'll the, (3,,ve,timent of 13 f; ,‘r
the uwistructloa of au aut., ladq:..y iroal 'lawyer to liruiovtlut
is concluded on the terms proposed on our part.