The Sun. — London, England, 1837-05-15 00:00:00

BankPRICES OF STOCKg . THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Stock. .. , '206 .India Stock...." ................ „ Pe t 2 .................... 34 32 mr. „Cent. Red. ... 894, 7 " 90 !Ditto Bonds Cent Cons .............. 91 90% South Sea Stock ......... ........ 102% apesr Cent ..... .. ............ ,Old Annnities Newtitt Red ......... . ***. ..... ...... ... 97 6 4 ' New Ditto ••• --- , ew Per Cent:'.... ... 99 .. 8% ' 9 ' 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751... a per Cent....... .......... -. Exch. Bills, £1,900. 34 32 pm. Bstik Loti gAnnuitie - ;t ...... x ‘. l . ); ... Ditto 500.... .....34 32 pm. 91 V pm. J3n . 5 , 1 810 .... 14% 0-16 • Ditto Small ...... ......... - ` - pm. OM 111, WO ............. '2 • Ditto Co:nmercial Jan. 5, 830 .................... Ditto Advertisea — pm Jan. =. . ""•' •• ..... i Bank Stock for Acc0unt......... Alm, S, 18;, , .... - ............ 1 d' Stock for Account i ................. .. ......_ , n ta •-•-- J 5 91 4n• S. ' B7 ' " - Consols for Acconnt thrinium ..... ........... '.. . ......_____ ............. . .............. .... prii. i lIICES Ar tstri " OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Q , an onds .. 10 . )7,,' ' Peruvian Bonds .cg an Bonds .. : ............... --' ' Ditto Account .. .. ............ .. _ buto Accoui,t.. .....' rortugucseßonris 7?: Brazilian Bonds" .". .......... " ' Ditto Accoun t . --, 4814 _ Data Account. ... ..... ........... —.l Ditto New Bond,' urlob Ayres Bonds ............ :.. 4Ski :.? '3ul4 X• „.•.'l,!tr, Account .. ............. Ditto, 3 per cent —! Ditto Account ,n,ilozn Botvis . .... .. —; Prussian Bonds t;41u.... tto Account - .. " —; Russian Bonito, 18 , 2 rubian Bonds ............. " —.' Ditto Account .. .......... •••—• Ditto Accouto...: ..... : .......... —• Ditto Metallic C.l: to 1i 0nd5;! . 8..2 . 4 •......... . Fnanish Bonds ~ Ditto Account ,; Ditto Account ' - ' 3 %M.6 1 •4 u mith Boi l i• """'•• ••••• .. 7 Ditto Bonds, 183 t Ditto Accoll'lll. '''''''''''''' 23!•‘', • alc Greek Boneils.• .......7.: ''''' --- French, 5 per cent........... 11171. . --, Ditto Account DiDitto Rondo ' w) 7 s '''''''''' 4 per ceo' tto Acco'' ''''''''''''' ..ex, , • unt '''''' ''''''''''' osf . 50 .. ... clii IL , nds, 5 per cent.... --' Exchange 3 per cent.. ...... ... —I . - —c. Ditto Account per cent. .. 53% Ditto' --• l" Per cent. " :::: . . .. ....... .. ' Ditto Account . —' Dutch, 2L,', 100 U .. eapDitto Account.,, ......... .... ; Ditto, 5 per cant cr Atan Ditto Account ..... ... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Paid. Per Share Brighton Railway Company (Stevenson's) ...... 5 Brighton (Renni e ' s ) 13% 14 ri(kn and Southampton Railway Company-- 35 12% North Midland Railway Company l5 Ini% Imodun and Wenminster Bank 2O - ------_____ PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MAY 13. 3 per Cent. Consols ............... S9}4 , Grand Canal Debb. 6 per cent. SS tto Re '• ' 59 3 1 - ```'ee(. ............... i Ditto, 4 per cent .'s Per Cent. Stock..... 974 :Hibernian Bank 3; :ierc l'4ew ' i) ......................... 97, 1 -6 City of Dublin steam C 0...— I: ,PN i , :uik ~ ent. Debentures. ..... 90' 4 6 National Insurance Co itp.....,:t..,ek .... ........ . ......... 197 City Debentures, 4 per cent — 4'.1c4"315t " 1 .• 33 , Ballast Office Debentures, 4 Br! ow. Can.! St k ............... -2:4 .7.........._......_ i ,______ . ,. 7 per cent _ MAILS. Due Arrives Due.. Arrived. Due Arrived. 1 0 ‘Crneric a.•.••.•••. 0 2 France 0 0 Lisbon 0 Itratil ..... ....... 0 1 Guern.P.:Jersiy 0 0 Malta ....••• (,), _tluenr.A.yres.. 0 0 Hamburg ..... ... 0 0 Mexico 0 ', ,a , aßenath .. 0 1 Holland , 0 . 2 l ' :)l in... ...... 0 0 Jamaica 0 ~ F,Anders .._. 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 2 Waterford ~tur in MOH W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. g ...... ..55 rnit,,tes after 10 I Evening 22 minutes after 11. - T LIE GARDENER'S GAZETTE ot,s,at urd of SATURDAY Stra E n NXT will speak out about the prizes ay AT d. NEWSPAPER STAMPS. Extract from " Returns of the number of Stamps issued monthly to each of the London Newspapers, from 1 Jan., 18 37, to 1 April, 1537. Titles of Newspapers. January. February. March. 'courier English Chronicle Evening Chronicle Evening Mail Globe and Traveller Shipping Gazette Standard Sun St. Ja mes's Chronicle Tru.......................... e Sun ............. 44,500 12,000 20,000 20,000 90,000 18,000 105,500 76,000 63,000 42,500 36,000 12,000 20,000 40,000 66,000 18,000 90,000 54,000 66,000 45,000 32.000 12,000 20,000 25,000 56,000 23,000 78,000 48,000 73,500 31,000 24e publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. c ").1 4 <0 Pe" ' 4,Vrto. k i r,t ' % 70. ••• • s!Lviiiili.7l;-; :(4 1 -c.) LONDON, - MONDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1837. horne months ago a public meeting was held in Alarylebone, and a Committee was appointed to in quire into the state of the poor in that extensive Parish. The Committee entered into the most minute inquiry as to the state of the inhabitants in one of the lowest districts, atta have made a return, embracing the amount of population, the number of persons inhabit ing each house, and the condition of the inmates gene rally, as regards their habits, state of health, cleanli ness, language, behaviour, and the education of the children. Such au undertaking deserves the highest praise, because it is only by such inquiries that a pro per remedy can be found for the distress, poverty, and debased habits which abound among a vast number of the poorer class in the metropolis. But our chief object in noticing the subject at present is to point out the result of the comparison between the State of the English poor, and the poor of that long oppressed and calumniated nation whom we have for ages debarred from those rights which have contri buted so much to raise the character of the British People. According to the LYNDHURST school, the Irish Catholics are an inferior race of beings and to tally unfit to manage their own affairs—they delight Only in agitation, in domestic quarrels, or in murdering' Protestants, and are almost destitute of the habits and qualities of civilized beings. Now, are such imputations borne out by the result of this minute investigation, conducted as it has been by impartial men connected with both countries ? It will astonish the prejudiced English to learn that the advantage is all on the side of the Irish, whether as regards cleanliness, r eligiou s i nstruction, the management of their little do mestic concerns, their language and behaviour, a nd th e i r charity to one another in distress. It appears from an ab r id gement of the Report (which we quote from the Atheneeum), " that the rooms of the Irish are, on an average, cleaner and in better order than those of the same class of English, and that this arises partly from one or other of the occupants being at lhome d ur i ng the day, while the heads of the English eave ho me too early, and return too fatigued, to at nd to cleaning the rooms. Th e h a bit s o f t h e I r i s h , " 14 0, give them great advantages with respect to rent, and several families receive from lodgers more than the rents they pay to the landlord. Of children above eight years of age, in a population of about 440 eshildren, 64 go to school, and of those between and 16 years of age, 114 do not, and nearly 80 per cent. can repeat the Lord's Prayer. This Proportion (the Report adds), it is to be feared, Will be found much smaller among the English Pro testants. A large proportion of the inhabitants bear a good character in the neighbourhood many have been found in a distressed state ; but less wretchedness exists among the Irish than the English poor, from the greater readiness of the former to assist one another, and the small quantity and cheap quality of the food which they consume. The result of an impartial com parison between the habits of the two countries is, that the Irish, on an average, are more comfortable and healthy, have better bedding, are more cleanly and more decerous in behaviour and language than the cor responding class of English." It is gratifying to find itnpartial and inquiring Englishmen bear testimony to s uch facts, because it is a proof that our mischievous } ‘ rational pre j u di ces are beginning to wear off, and it lor ds out the hope that the time is not distant, when In Place of treating our Catholic fellow-subjects as aliens and outcasts, we shall see the necessity of ad mitting that they are equal to us in all those qualities that constitute greatness and goodness, and the justice of imparting to them those blessings of self-government ilhich Englishmen value so highly. 1 "e public organs of Toryism are labouring bard, ut .--- th"ut very s uccess f u ll y , to extr i cate t h e P eers f rom e embarrassment into which their short-sighted fac zousu_ uss has b e t raye d t h em w i t h respect to t h e I r i s h Nrporation Bill. L or d L ANSDOWNE ' S rep l y to L or d 114111 NcLIFF E , on Friday night, when the latter ° ble•Lo r d expressed his surprise at the retaliatory Policy of the Commons, is now discovered to` have been 101 - ogetical," and thi:i discovery seems to be made , Iv at t . a certain degree of complacency, if not of gratu ith ton. Now, we defy any impartial person to read &e observations of the Noble Marquis on the occa n of to, without being satisfied that nothing k:tould b e farthe r from his thotAits than to apologise for i .:the postFonement of the second reading of the 13 1 .- All that the Marquis of LANSDOWNE stated amounted to this, that if the Commons had postponed the second reading, they had a much better reason for doing so than the Lords had for their postpone ment, inasmuch as the second reading, involving as it does the principle of a measure, ought not to be brought on before ample time for delibera tion has been allowed ; whereas the Lords, after assenting to the principle, postponed the consideration of the details for six weeks, for no conceivable purpose but that of defeating the measure by delay. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE very properly remarked that the course adopted by the Commons could not have been intended to prevent an examination of the Tithe Bill by their Lordships, as they would have an opportunity of examining it when printed by the Commons. We have here the plain fact stated, and it is quite unanswerable. The course pursued by the Commons is in strict accordance with established usage and common sense—that followed by the Louis is in opposition to both—and it is to be particularly remarked that the Commons, Without subjecting their proceedings to the charge of any departure from constitutional form, have completely stultified the unconstitutional proceedings of the Lords. If the Lords had merely wished to be put in posses sion of the provisions of the Tithe Bill, their object was easily attained. " There is the Bill," says Lord LANSDOWNE, " read, ponder, and inwardly digest its contents." To this there is no reply—for it is none to say that the Bill may be altered. It will net be altered for the worse whatever it may be for the better—taking these terms in their Lordly acceptation. Madrid Papers received to the 7th inst., announce the triumph of MENDIZABAL over the Finance by a majority of one hundred and two votes against sixty •ne. This is tantamount to a vote of public confidence in the Finance Minister, and has upset the dishonest schemes of the Opposition. Brussels and German papers of the latest dates have been received. On the recovery of the ARCHDUKE PALATINE, a family congress of the chief branches of the Imperial House of Austria will be held at Vienna. The will of the late Emperor will be then formally taken into consideration. The Emperor FERDINA ND has presented to the city of Vienna his magnificent private library, together with the choice collection of the late Emperor FRANCIS. This, in deed is a royal boon, worthy of the ENIPEROR and his people. The Emperor of RUSSIA is about to make a tour of his dominions. A German Paper says it will be the most extensive ever undertaken by a Sovereign ; as his MAJESTY proposes not to leave a hamlet from the most Northern part of Siberia to the Caucasus unex plored. Germ'❑ Journalists ought to know better than give credit to the bombast of the .St. Petersburgh Gazette. The advices from Belgium are unimportant. The same may be said of the accounts from Stockholm and the North of Europe generally. BELGIAN } UNDS—Baussai.s, MAY 13 Actual Debt, 21 , ,i per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, I per Cent. 100; '3 Loan of Thirty Millions 9l Loan of City, 1532. 4 per Cent 9014 Society of Colmaerce, 41:, per Cent 13114 Bank of Belgiton, 5 per Cent 1/1391, —Brussels Papers, May 14. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Visissa, Mal 6. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bask Shares l3l 7-411gemeine Zeitung, May 11. ri A 111BDRIII :O r R ce S n E t. isi HALLE, MAY 12. M Austrian etol'iques, Bills. Money. 10334 1034 Ditto ditto 4 per cent, — Ditt _ ditto 3 per cent. Ditto Bank Sh ares 135'1 1:i55 Anglo-Russian Loan lOll4 10414 Paper Inscription, 6 per cent — Russian 5 per cents, Metal. Russian I ascription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series Ditto, Certificates Portuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent 46 Ditto, 3 per cent. 214 9.71,', Dutch 11 2 t ier Cents. Ditto 5 per Cents — Polish Bonds, 3 per cents. New Tickets 154 15334 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 7034 70 1 4 Norwegian Loan of 1R.34, 4 per cents. Spanish ' in piastres, 3 per Cents — Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent greek 4 per cents. 1833, guaranteed by France 93 5238 EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMIIVIIO, MAY 13.-13 9% ; two months. 13 8. CHRISTIANIA. MAll3.—Three months, 5 2. —Hamburg Papers, May 12. The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday have been all received. The Moniteur of Saturday con tains the following official intelligence : _ _ The following telegraphic despatch has been received by Government : " PERPIGNAN, MAY 9, P. m. —On the 4th some detachments of the Royal Marine Artillery landed at Barcelona, and served some pieces against La Rambla. On the 6th fresh disturb • ances were regarded as imminent—the impunity of the anar chists could not but elncourage them. This morning (the 9th) Figuieras was in a very unsettled state." Letters from Barcelona of the Gth represent the con dition of the city as then tranquil. The insurgents to the number of 300 men, had been resolutely attacked on the night of the 4th by General PARRENO, assisted by some companies of Royal British Marines, who took charge of the fort. In the first discharge of musketry the insurgents had seven of their number killed on the spot, and fourteen mortally wounded ; and after hold ing out the greater part of the night in some fortified houses, they were obliged to surrender at discretion, being deserted by their leaders in the heat of the com bat. Great praise is bestowed upon the British Consul for hi§ intrepid conduct on this occasion. To his zeal was owing the preservation of much valuable property belonging to English merchants. The same official organ contains the following Mi nisterial Report and Royal Decree, relative to the re opening of the church St. Germain L'Auxerrois, de stroyed by the mob of Paris in February, 1831, during the celebration of a solemn high mass for the repose of the soul of the Duke de BERRI " Sir—Your magnanimous heart has wished to obliterate the last vestiges of our civil discord. From the height of that Throne, erected seven years ago for the maintenance of our institutions and the defence of the laws, your Majesty, by a grand act of clemency, has just given to all Frenchmen the signal of oblivion ; but the closed doors of St. Germain l'Auxerrois still recal one of those recollec tions which your Majesty has resolved to efface. A dis trict of Paris must not remain any longer deprived of its parochial Church. " I have the honour to propose to your Majesty to de cide that the Church of St. Germain l'Auxerrois shall be immediately restored to Divine service. " I have the honour to be, &c. " BARTHE. " Approved at Paris, May 12, 1837. " LOUIS PHILIPPE." There is no other domestic or foreign intelligence in these journals of any moment. The Courrier Francais states that a supplementary act of amnesty will usher in the nuptials of the Duke of ORLEANS, and that so much is wanted to complete what the KING has so well begun. Other papers doubt this, arid hint that the KING is not unlikely to take advantage of the mo mentary popularity obtained by the amnesty to introduce to France her future QUEEN, after a fashion little dreamt of by the heroes of the " three glorious days." On Sunday the Duke DE BROGLIE was to proceed to the frontier to meet the Princess HELENA, accom panied by her Highness' stepmother, whose itinerary is published in the Paris papers of Saturday. The following extract from a French P.cper is re markably illustrative of the rapid advances made by the Royal Family since 1830 toward‘ the usages of aristocratical Courts. It is an outward and visible sign of the inward convictions of the SOVEREIGN ; and its publicatio n is an experiment upon public opi nion. If it pass without remark, a second step, more decided still, will be taken, and so on, till Frenchmen will have cause to wonde r for what did they expel the elder Bcurbons : " The object of the late visit of the King and Queen to Fontainhleau was to choose apartments for the Duke of Orleans and his future Duchess. The next care of their Majesties was the lodgings of the Aides-de-camp and Or KING'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.) The COURT was occupied the whole of the morning in disposing of cases—all of which were destitute of general interest. EXCHEQUER COURT-(THIS DAY. No case of importance came on for hearing in this Cunt up to the time of going to pres 2. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. George Young, 14, and Edward Skinner, 13, were in dicted for feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling-- house of Joseph Usher on the Bth of May, in the parish of St. Luke's, Chelsea Market, and stealing therefrom a pair of women's boots, value 6s. Alfred Usher, aged nine years, the son of the prosecutor, stated that about three o'clock on the evening of the day in question, he was passing from the parlour into the shop, when he saw both the prisoners outside the window, which was then open, but which was shut about half an hour before. He observed the prisoners in possession of a boot and endeavouring to get out another. He knew the pri soners about twelve months, and having come to the door to see what they were about they both ran away taking the boots with them. He immediately ran and told his mother, and did not see the prisoners again until he identified them in the custody of Bradley, a policeman. The wife of the prosecutor corroborated the testimony of the last witness. The Jury found both the prisoners Guilty. The RECORDER sentenced them to hard labour in the Penitentiary for twelvemonths, and at the expiration of that time to be transported for seven years. John Board, 29, was indicted for stealing a cab and horse, a nose-bag, a set of harness, and a cushion, the pro perty of John Bateman. On the 30th April, about 12 o'clock at night, a cab-driver named Rushbrook, had charge of the prosecutor's horse and cab on the stand in White chapel ; and having gone into a public-house for ten minutes to get refreshment, on his return he found his cab and horse had been driven away by a man, as he was in formed, who was acting as " buck" upon the stand. He afterwards found the cab in Lambeth-street, and the horse was taken to the Green-yard. The prisoner was met in Plicenix-street, Spitalfields, by a policeman of the H divi sion, with the harness, &c. upo❑ his head, and perceiving that he was the worae for drink he questioned him, and not being satisfied with the account he gave of his load he con veyed him to the station-house. Guilty of stealing the harness only. The REcoßoLa sentenced the prisoner to'be transported for seven years. NEW COURT. The COU!ZT was occupied all day in disposing of several Mint prosecutions. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. In the past week the arrivals of all descriptions of grain were tolerably good, and of Flour considerable. The trade throughout the week manifested more firmness than on Mon day, and Wheat vas rather dearer. This morning the fresh supplies of all descriptions of Corn are short. The quality of the Wheat samples continues middling, and the selected par cels have obtained Is. to 2s. per quarter advance on the terms of this day se'nnight ; other sorts have not sold freely. Barley remains firm in price, with a slow sale. Beans remain at the terms of last Monday. Pease are unvaried. In the Oat trade transactions have been to a fair extent, and prices may be quoted ls. per quarter higher than this day se'nnight. The trade for Flour remains slack, but, the Millers have not de cidedly consented to call the top nominal price 50s. ; the Flour-factors, however, have no reserve about it. PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP. Wheat, Red (old) ...... —.SAN. 60. Beans, Small (new) 37,40,. —White (01d)....... 56, els. --- (old) --Red 1836) -1 is. 43. Tick (new) 3k 335. ---- Fine 46,. 52s told) -- Sulierti..e... ..... r):14. :i5,. Harroiv (new) 34t ?tit N'Ch to (lii26) .......:4s. 50t. -- (old) 4 3 ,.44s Fine ......... ......52s 16s. Brant: 11.1.35 t. -- Superfine ...... —534. 6.'s. Oats, Feed --Foieigti free ...... ...-1 —s. New 'lt ' , 55 lye 0 43. 345. Poland s —' Marley Grinding 2tis 2St Potatoe , 7s. .29 , 5. --- Malting .30s. 32. M.,lt 4l3s. 54, Scotch 2Bs. 30 i. Fine New •os. .5.3 s Irish 17s. Pease, Grey, New 32s 31s. Flour 'lown (per sack) ..... .. 4tis. ;Lis. Maple New : ,45. 363. --••• Seconds 44., 43 s. -- White 'At. 575. North Country 40s 42.. ---- Boilers li - is. :kis Bran ARRIVALS GP' - 'N - _ GRAIN L. LONDON DURING LAS I' WEEK Nv litrAt I Batley. Oats. rdigiish Irish Fi•ireimn 2•;0 s,•l'_';) SMITHFIELD MARKET This day's supply was very good, and the sale was dull at little alteration from the prices last quoted: PKICYS PER e IoNE OF 8L TO 81X1 TUE OFFALS. s. el. to s. ltilerior Beasts 9 8 2 8 Second quality ditto.-- 3 n 3 4 'Crime large Oxen 3 3 3 10 P' - irne Scots, ...... 4 ii 4 6 I.arge coarse Calves „ 4 2 4 (S ,• rime small ditto .Yiekling Calves ,each it 34 0 s. 1, to s.l Inferivr Sheep...... Second quality ditto 3 6 310 ditto 4 4 410 Sou'.hdown Wethers „4 10 5 6 Large Ilogs 3 (1 4 :e Small Porkers 4 11 5 Quarter old I'ig ,each; 12 e 2u f . 53 d. to 7i. Od. SUPPLY AT MA It/CET. Beasts. Sheep Calves. I Pies 2,5,20 I 49,1:20 I 303 398 About 300 of" the ilca.t. came up the St. Alban's road; about 170 up the other northern ro.i.is; .0 nut 20J (ine , ,,iing Irish) from the western and midland districts air: t 1304 rum Nor f_ilk, Sulll,llt, Essex, and Cam bridgeshire; about I'2 from Ken! anti Sussex ; and most of the remai,dor fen the marshes, tt,c, in the heighbourimmt of London. DENHALL MARKETS. by the Carcass. NENVGATE AND LEA At per stone, I s d. tos d Ceef, infurior L S 3 0 Mutton, inferior ...... - middling 3 2 3 4 middling -- prime lari;e -- prime -- prime sicall 3 is 3 3 Pork, large Veal ......... - Lamb 3s 0.1..t0 his. 06. $ 4 tos cl. 3 6 310 44 4 4 46 4 8 36 4 4 4 4 410 NEWCASTLE-UPON.TYNE CORN MARKET.—May tn. Our supply of Wheat to-day from the Growers was very small, which was to be attributed to an annual fair of some importance held in this neighbourhood; and the coasting arrivals this week base also been modcrate, yet the sale was slow, at similar prices to last Saturday. Barley is in very limited demand at our quotations, the maltipg season being about over. Oats were in fair supply, and taken off at the rates of last weak. Malt still continues a dull sale. Beans and Pease support their price. The arrivals of Flour are still large, yet prices are without any further alteration. New. OA. Wheat, Northiineeerland Norfolk aul 5wi0te......... 54s 57i Berwick and Scotch 454. s —s bby. Rye, Nort , 4ll(and Suffolk Foreign Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Stanlk 3os. 34s —S. --s. Grinding and Feeding .275. :Mk ..... —a. —s. Malt, Noriolk and Sonia 3la t/Si -fi. —s. Beans, Small 38.. 41s —s. —s. Tick 373 396 -3. —s Pease, White 19, 43s —a --c • -- Gray 33s 36, — S. Oats, Northumberland, l'otatoe 2:o. nf;s 27s. 31s. Foreign Flour (por sack) —s. —s 3ls. 411. We regret to bear of a very extensive failure in Glas gow, with which a Member of Parliament is said to be con nected. MISER MOULD.—An illiterate personage, who al ways volunteered to go round with the hat, but was suspected of sparing his own pocket, overhearing, one day, a hint to that effect, made the following speech :—" Other gentlemen puts down what they thinks proper, and so do I. Charity's a private concern, and what I gives is nothing to nobody."— Thomas Hood. THE LATE BISHOP OF NORWICH.—The pub lic will, we think, be gratified to learn that the universal feeling of attachment which the many amiable qualities of our late benevolent Bishop excited throughout the diocese, is not likely to remain unrecorded, as a subscription is about to be raised for the purpose of erecting, a monument in the Cathe dral, in token of the affection and respect with which all par ties regarded his private virtues. —Norfolk Chronicle. Mr. Ilitchens, the Coroner of Lincoln, has received a letter from the Secretary of State for the Home Department, stating that a Bill is now preparing, and will be immediately brougha before Parliament, for the purpose of paying the ex penses of Coroner's Inquests, as formerly, out of the poor re tes. —Lincoln Mercury. Saturday morning, between six and seven o'clock, a labouring man, named Pullin, in proceeded across White Conduit-fields to Maiden-lane, discovered in a ditch a bundle, wrapped in a woman's check cotton apron, which was found to contain the body of a new-horn female child, enveloped in a piece of stair carpeting, and tied round with some clothes' line. Proper assistance had not been rendered at the time of birth, and from marks of compression about the throat there is little doubt that death was caused by strangulation. he trustee of a number of cottages in a township within the Halifax Poor-law Union, who had experienc the mortification of defeat in the late election of Guardia is, re fused, at the last rent-day, to return the usual shilling t, those tenants who had not given him a vote 1 Surely this will en sure him better success in future I—lidifax _Express. Recently there has been discovered at Darley Bridge, near Matlock, a large and beautiful fossil bel, the strata of which is firmly fixed in an immense rock composed entirely of limestone. The specimens consist chiefly of the oyster and cockle, interspersed with different species of the eel. These fossils are in the highest state of perfection, and upon inspection well worth the attention of those who turn their pur suits to the minutiae of antediluvian remains. Both the oyster and cockle shells have ct different times been detachel from the limestone in such a perfect state as to be scarcely distin guished from those newly taken from the ocean. —Derbgslure Chronicle. The state of the weather in this neighbourhood , during the present week, has been far more congenial than that of its immediate predecessor. Much rain fell during Sunday and Monday ; and the wind was very chill. In the course of the Tuesd Ly- morning a sight fall of snow tcok place, and in the afterno a severe hail storm passed ovar the town. The consequent.: has been that the progress of vqetation has been again much retarded. —Doncaster Gazette. derly Officers of the King and Princes, the Ladies of Ho nour and attendants of the Queen and Princes, and the rest of the Court. Accommodations were also pointed ow for the several personages of distinction : their Majesties were engaged in this task from 11 o'clock in the morninc till half-past 5 ; nor then were the arrangements finally settled : the Queen will go again to Fontainbleau before the arrival of the Princess of Mecklenburg. Certain high' personoges will, it is said, he l o dg e d i n th e mos t sp l en did style. Among others, Prince Talleyrand, who will oc cupy a suite of apartments superior in magnificence to those of the Prince Royal himself. Prince Talleyrand's are fitted up in the style of the empire, representing . that peculiar grandeur which Napoleon loved to display, while those of the Duke of Orleans are in the taste of Madame Pompadour, in which luxury is expressed in fancy. The apartments of the future Duchess are distinct from those of his Royal Highness, and the same arrangement will be observed at the Tuileries, after the marriage. The suite appropriated to her Royal Highness at Fontainbleau is rich beyond description, particularly a boudoir adorned with paintings, sculpture, and gilding of most exquisite art and taste, in the arrangement and design of which the talent and exquisite judgment of the Princess Mary has been fol lowed. Rumours have been in circdlation that the guests were to be dressed in a new and peculiar costume. This, however, is unfounded ; the same mode of dress will prevail as at the late grand receptions at the Tuileries. The Prince Royal will appear during the ceremony in the uniform of a general officer. The Court will take its departure for Fontainbleau on the 27th. The preparations are being carried on with incredible activity, and are on a scale not easy to be conceived. 1,500 principal beds are ordered, and a proportionate number of secondary accommodations for the officers of the household. FRENCH FUNDS -Pants, Mar 12. Five per Cents.. 107 E 00c. 95c. 85c. Four and a Half per Cents. MI 611 c. Four per Cent., 98f. 60c. 70c. Three per Cents., 791 I,c. 15c If Rente :le Naples, NE fOc. s"c. 55c. Roman Five per Cents., 102%, Spanish Actives, 24 %35!,,',. Spanish Differes, 9. Spanish Passives. 5%%%. Portuguese. Loan, Five per Cents., 46. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 29% 33 30%. Haytian Loan, 310 f. axcHA NOR 0* LONDON. One month, paper, 25c. 3>c.; money, 251. 3214 c Three months, paper, 25i. 15c.; money, 25f. 12%c -fours Authenticue. FRENCH FUNDS.-Psats, MAY 13. Five per Cents., lOSE 'o7f. 90c. Ssc. Four and a Half per Cents. 100 E 60c. Four per Cents., ME gee. - Three per Cents. 79f. 15c. 10c. sc. Bank Actions, 2,425 E 2.433 f. Bente tie Naples, 991 60e s`,c. 60c. Roman Fiv eper Cents., 101.1% Spanish Actives, 24T,, 25 251 h. Spanish Passives, 5%%%. Belgian I.oan, Five per Cents, 101. Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents. 46%. Portuguese Three per Cents. 3 ,1/4 30. Haytian Loan, 307 E 50c. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 31c. ; money. 25f. 32,4 e. Three months, paper, 25f. 15c. ; money, 251 12 -tOurs Authetei2ue. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents., IoSE Three per Cents. 79f. Isc. Bank Actions, 2,43i1f. Heine de Naples, Sif. 70c. Roman Five per Cents., 100 X. Belgian Loan, 101. Brussels Bank, 1,425 E Portuguee Loan, Five per Cents., 4.6%. Portuguese Three per Cents., 30. Haytian Loan, 307 f 50e. Spanish Actives, 25%. Spanish Passives SU. NpiniNh Differes 7. United Belgian 4ociety, 1,050 f. TIIE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The following is posted at the North and South Amok.: rican Coffee-house : " LIVERPOOL, MAY 13.—8 y the Pocahontas Phila- delphia packet of the 20th, just arrived off this port, we have received Philadelphia papers of that date. Their contents have been mostly anticipated by the previous ar rivals. Affairs continue in a gloomy state. The Poca hontas brings 100,000 dollars, and 5,000 sovereigns in specie —the greater part for the house of James Brown and Co., of Liverpool. She brings 21 cabin-passengers and .51 steerage." A Lisbon mail has arrived by the Iberia, sailed on the Gth inst. The private letters do not bring any news of consequence. It appears, according to the return of the exports of the island of Jamaica, of sugar, rum, and coffee, from the year 1772 to the end 0f1836, that Jamaica does not now export one-half the quantity of produce which she did 20 years ago. THE FUNDS. Consols were steady during the whole of Saturday. To wards the latter part of the day a repoz t prevailed that the B ink Directors had resolved to contract their circulation by the sale of a portion of their securities ; also that the dead weight is to be offered again for sale. Money still continues in the Stock Exchange easy, but not plentiful, for commercial affairs. Consols, which closed on Saturday at 91 for the Account, opened this morning at 91 to 91ii- ; for Money, 91—little doing as yet. Exchequer Bills, 32 34 prem. ; India Bonds, 32 34 prem. ; Bank Stock, 20G 207 ; India Stock, 259 k 260 i. In the Poreign Market, Spanish Active rather improved ; done at 224 24, with Coupons ; ex Coupons, 224 ; Passive, 54 6i ; Deferred, Si 9 ; Portuguese improved, owing to the report that the Portuguese dividend will be advertised to-morrow—done at 471 484 ; Three-per Cents., 29i 304 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half pe Cents., 534 53f. HALF-PAST ONE. The accounts from Manchester, received this morning:, state that the arrival of the American Packet last week, with the disagreeable intelligeuce of further failures in the United States, and the state of uncertaincy as regards the operations of the Bank of England with the American houses that have applied to it for assistance, have rendered the transactions in the manufactured market fewer this week than was ever recollected. As to prices, nothing can positively be stated, as literally speaking, there has been no business doing. During the course of the morning Consols have conti nued steady, with little doing, at 91 for the Account, alter nately buyers and sellers ; Exchequer Bills, 34 32 lower ; India Bonds, 34 32 ; Bank Stock, 203 ; India Stock, 2594- 260. Spanish Active improved to 234 Ex-Coupons ; Coupons, 48 50 ; Portuguese improved to 484 ; Three per Cents., 304 > ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 53i. A Hamburgh mail has just arrived of the 12th May. Metalliques, 1034 ; Bank Actions, 1,355 ; Spanish, 22. THREE O' CI. 0 CI: Coutols for the Account, 01. THE FUNDS.-CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. park Stock 906 • Urania/is — 1 per Cent. Ilcd. 'V fniiia Stock ... ............... 3 per Cent. Cona VI ;)itto 'kinds 11 p.a. 3 per Cent 3'Y per Cent. Red , r% Ditto Old Annuities New :ii per Cent O9 Ditto New Aonnitics...„ ....... I per Cent. Assented Dissented !lino 500/ 31 pm. Long Annuities to expire Ditto SVII 34 pm. Ja a 1560 l4 0-10 dank Stock for Opg. — Oct 1850 Lidia Stock for Act. Jan. 1860 Consols for Act. ro it El G N FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent 102 7 ,4 Pz.rtaguese Bonds, 5 per cent. 71 helgian, 5 p •r cent , , Ditto, New Ditto 4l) firvziiian Bonds - Nuent.s Ayres, 6 per c,nt. — : Russian Bolds, 5 per cod ... CMlian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 per cent Ditto, 1834 I kinish, 3 per cent — French, 5 pci cent Gieck Bonds, 1825.5 per , rnt. Exchang, Mexican, 5 per cent. - Pi ench, 3 per cent 7S' 1.0, Ditto, 6 per cent., P. 325 ....... Dutch, 2 0 per cent. 54 '2 Peruvian, 182:4 6 per cent.... -- Ditto, 5 per cent .. lOU SHA _L ES. • Birmingham and Derby Railw.ty 3% Eastern Counties Railway . O% London and Brighton Rally:ay (Stevensoh's) London and Birmingham Railway London and Greenwich Railway 'Manchester and Leeds Railway 6 North Midland Railway 12% Yo other variations in the Prices of Shares since our:One o'clo6 List A wretched looking hors:, 17 years old, fired in all his legs and lame before, went, four days ago, from the Bar riere St. Danis to Chantilly and back again, a distance of 42 miles, in 4 hours and 40 minutes, rode by a jockey. The owner, it is said, won 2,000 f. ; the horse cost him 50f., and the poor animal was, after his aZhievement, sent to the Mont faucon shambles to be killed. In this opprobious transaction several members of the Paris Jockey Club are said to have had bets. On Saturday afternoon, at four o'clock, a Jury was empannelled at the Britannia public-house, High-street, Is lington, to investigate the singular circumstance attending the death of John Philip Wilmot, a gentleman of high respectabi lity, residing in the neighbourhood, whose premature decease is detailed in the following evidence : —Sarah Harris, the ser vant of the deceased, deposed that on the night of the 12th instant, she was summoned by the housekeeper (Mrs. Warde) to come immediately up stairs, as her master had fallen in a fit, and she (the housekeeper) was afraid he had expired. She accordingly did as desired, and on entering the room saw Mr. Wilmot upon the floor, his face very red, and without exhibit ing the least sign of life or motion. Witness proceeded to state that she immediately summoned a physician, who tried every means in his power, but without producing any good re sult, as the vital spark was extinct long before his arrival. By the Coroner—Was the deceased of intemperate habits ? Wit ness —He usually drank to excess when irritated, but had not that day finished his usual bottle after dinner. When he was seized with the fit he was reading, as always was his custom in the evening, and closing the book rather suddenly, he heaved a sigh, and immediately expired. Deceased was about forty years of age, and unmarried. Evidence corroborative of the above was entered into at considerable length, and after a long discussion, the Jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased came by his death in a natural manner, having died from apoplexy." LITERATURE. SOCIETY IN AMERICA. BY 111RRIET 31.4RTIXFAU. In 3 Vols. Saunders and 011ey ; London, 1837. This is the most philosophical work that has ap peared on the subject of American civilization since the publication of M. Tocqueville's « Democracy in the United States," which has already acquired for its author a European reputation. We anticipate for it an extensive popularity, especially in the Unitec] States, where we doubt not such a compound of philo sophy and fact—of principles and deductions—of theoretical speculations and anticipated practical re sults, will be canvassed with a freedom and a zeal un known to the less interested communities on this side the Atlantic. Miss Martineau tells her readers in the introduction to her work, that at the outset two expedients occurred to her for the communication of her impressions on American society, without arro gating a pretension either to teach the English or to judge the Americans, both of which she adopted. The first was to compare the existing state of society in America with the principles on which it is professedly founded ; thus testing institutions, morals, and manners byan indisputable instead of an arbitrary standard, and securing to herself the same point of view with her readers of both countries : The second expedient was to submit to her readers her means of obtaining informa tion, and thus enable them to judge for themselves the worth of her testimony in all matters of fact. To the first of these rules she has adhered throughout, with a fidelity which is not so strikingly exemplified in the case of the second. Of her actual journeyings through the United States we learn very little, except in the summary of her travels included in the introduc tion ; so that, in point of fact, her work may be more properly classed under the head of philosophical dis sertations on the government, the social and political economy, the laws, the religion, and the moral culture of the people of the United:States, than a journal of events and occurrences during a tour of observation in that country. Miss Martineau is both a bold and original thinker, and an enthusiastic admirer of demo cratic institutions. Her standard of morals and reli gion is higher, perhaps, than that of any other writer of the present day ; and therefore it is not surprising that she found much to shock her previous conceptions in the discrepancies between many of the fine philanthropic theories, and the semi barbarian practices of our Trans-Atlantic brethren. Nevertheless we know of no writer that has done such ample justice to all that is good and great in the cha racter, the conduct, and the institutions of the Ame ricans. There is no tawdry sentimentality in the groundwork of her censure ; no vulgar affectation of prim purity in her repudiation of the immoralities of her Republican neighbours. But as she is above wilfully misrepresenting or undervaluing the good qualities of the Americans, so she is equally in capable of hiding their faults, or concealing the senti ments with which they inspired her. Throughout she has told the whole truth, putting the best construction on whatever seemed doubtful ; and what is more, she has so told it that the people of England and America will profit, without either being offended, by it. We quote from the introduction a summary of Miss Martineau's travels, and the length of her stay in America : " At the close of a long work which I completed in 834, it was thought desirable that I should travel for two years. I determined to go to the United States, chiefly because I felt a strong curiosity to witness the actual working of republican institutions ; and partly because the circumstance of the language being the same as my own is very important to one who, like myself, is too deaf to enjoy any thing like an average opportunity of obtaining correct knowledge, where intercourse is carried on in a foreign lan guage. I went with a mind, I believe, as nearly as possible unprejudiced about America, with a strong disposition to admire democratic institutions, but an entire ignorance how far the people of the United States lived up to, or fell be low, their own theory. I had read whatever I could lay hold of that had been written about them ; but was unable to s,itisfy myself that, after all, I understood any thing what ever of their condition. As to knowledge of them, my mind was nearly a blank : as to opinion of their state, I did not carry the germ of one. " I landed at New York on the 19th of September, 1834! paid a short visit the next week to Paterson, in New Jersey, to see the cotton factories there, and the falls of the Passaic ; and passed through New York again on my way to stay with some friends on the banks of the Hudson, and at Stockbridge, Massachussetts. On the Gth of October I joined some companions at Albany, with whom I travelled through the State of New York, seeing Trenton Falls, Auburn, and Buffalo, to the Falls of Niagara. Here I remained nearly a week ; then, after spending a few days at Buffalo, 1 embarked ou Lake Erie, landinc , travelling in the back of Pensylvania, and down through Meadville to Pittsburgh, spending a few days at each place. glen, over the Alleghenies to Northumber land, on the fork of the Susquehanna, the abode of Priest ley after his exile, and his burial place. I arrived at Nor thumberland on the 11th of October, and. left it, after visiting some villages in the neighbourhood, on the 17th, for Philadelphia, where I remained nearly six weeks, hav ing very extensive intercourses with its various society. My stay at Baltimore was three weeks, and at Washing ton five. Congress was at that time in session, and I en joyed peculiar opportunities of witnessing the proceedings of the Supreme Court and both houses of Congress. I was acquainted with almost every eminent senator and re presentative, both on the administration and opposition sides ; and was on friendly and intimate terms with some of the judges of the Supreme Court. I enjoyed the hospi tality of the President, and of several of the heads of de partments : and was, like every body else, in society from morning till night of every day ; as the custom is at Wash ington. One day was devoted to a visit to Mount Vernon, the abode and burial-place of Washington. " On the 18th of February I arrived at Montpelier, the seat of Mr. and Mrs. Madison, with whoM I spent two days, which were wholly occupied with rapid conversation ; Mr. Madison's share of which, various and beautiful to a remarkable degree, will never be forgotten by me. Hi s clear reports o the principles and history of the Consti tution of the United States, his insight into the condition, his speculations on the prospects of nations, his wise play fulness, his placid contemplation of present affairs, his abundant household anecdotes of Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, were incalculably valuable and exceedingly delightful to me. The intercourse which I had with Chief Justice Mar shall was of the same character, though not nearly so copious. Nothing in either delighted me more than their hearty admiration of each other, notwithstanding some wide . differeeces in their political views. They are both gone ; and I now deeply feel what a privilege it is to have knorn them. " From Mr. Madison's I proceeded to Charlottesville, and passed two days amidst the hospitalities of the Profes sors of Jefferson's University, and their families. I was astonished to learn that this institution had never before been visited by a British traveller. I can only be sorry for Bri tish travellers who have missed the pleasure. A few days more were given to Richmond, where the Virginia legisla ture was in session ; and then ensued a long wintry journey through North and South Carolina to Charleston, occupy. ing from the 2d to the 11th of March. The hospitalities of Charleston are renowned ; and I enjoyed them in their perfection for a fortnight ; and then a renewal of the same kind of pleasures at Columbia, South Carolina, for ten days. 1 traversed the southern States, staying three days at Augusta, Georgia, and nearly a fortnight in and near Montgomery, Alabama ; descending next the Ala bama river to Mobile. After a short stay there, and a residence of ten days at New Orleans, I went up the Mississippi and Ohio to the mouth of the Cumberland river, which I ascended to Nashville, Tennessee. I visited the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, and spent three weeks at Lexington. I descended the Ohio to Cincinnati ; and after staying there ten days, ascended the river again, landing in Virginia, visiting the Hawk's Nest, Sulphur Springs, Natural Bridge, and Weyer's Cave, arriving at New York again on the 14th of July, 1835. The autumn was spent among the villages and smaller towns of Massa chussetts, in a visit to Dr. Charming in Rhode Island, an:', in an excursion to the mountains of New Hampshire and Vermont. The winter was passed in Boston, with the ex ception of a trip to Plymouth, for " Forefather's Day." In the Spring I spent seven weeks in New York ; and a month in a - farmhouse at Stockbridge, Massachussetts • making an excursion, meanwhile, to Saratoga and Lake George. My last j o urney was with a party of friends, far into the west, visitin g Niagara again, proceeding by Lake Erie to Detroit, and across the territory of Michigan. We swept round the southern extremity of Lane Michigan to Chicago : went a long day's journey down into the prairies, back to Chica.:o, and by the Lakes MiLligan, lit ron, and St. Clair to Detroit, visiting Mackinaw by t way. We landed from Lake Erie at Cleveland, Ohio, the 13th of July ; and travelled through the interior Ohio till we joined the river at -Beaver. We visit . Rapp's settlement at coaonty, on the Ohio, and return, to New York from Pittsburgh, by the canal route throe: Pennsylvania, and the railroad over the Alleg - LaHes. sailed from New York for England on the Ist of Aug:. 1836, having then been absent just two years. " In the course of this tour, I visited almost every kiz of institution. The prisons of Auburn, Philadelphia, al Nashville : the insane and other hospitals of - altntA eve: considerable place : the literary and scientific institutions the factories of the north ; the plantations of the south, the farms of the west. I lived in houses which might : ca!led palaces, in log-houses, and in a farm house. I tra• yelled much in wagons, as well as stages ; also on 1.0 back, and in some of the • bet and worst of steatn-b.-at, I saw weddings, and christenings ; the gatherings of the richer at watering places, and of the bumbler at country festivals. I was present at orations, at land sales, and in the slave market. I was in frequent attendance on the Supreme Court and the Senate ; and witnessed sonic or the proceedings of state legislatures. Above all, I was received into the bosom of many families, not as a stranger, but es a daughter or a sister. I am qualified, if any one is, to testify to the virtues and the peace of the honk, of the United States ; and let it not be thought a breach of coc filence, if. I should be found occasionally to have spoken of these out of the fulness of my heart. " It would be nearly impossible to relate whom I knew, during my travels. Nearly every eminent man in politics. science and literature, and almost every distinguished wo man, would grace my list. I have respected and beloved friends of each political party, and of nearly every religi ous denomination ; among slave-holders, colonisationists, and abolitionists ; among farmers, lawyers, merchants, pro fessors, and clergy. I travelled among sevend tribes of Indians ; and spent mouths in the southern States, with negroes ever at my heels. " Such were my means of - information. With regard to my power of my making use of them, I have hut a few words to say." We intended to have given in our own words a sum mary of the convictions at which Miss Martineau had arrived on concluding her tour in the United States. On reflection, however, we consider it more just to the author and the people of America to end our notice of a work unsurpassed in the force and originality of its strictures on the theory and working of democratic in stitutions with the following concluding and recapi tulatory extract from the last volume:— " My book must come to an qad ; but I offer no conclu- sion of my subject. Ido not pretend to have formed any theory about American society or prospects to which a finishing hand can be put in the last page. American so- ciety itself constitutes but the first pages of a great ltook of events, into, whose progress we can see but a little way ; and that but dimly. It is too soon yet to theorise ; much too soon to speak of conclusions even as to the present en tire state of this great nation. " Meantime, some prominent facts appear to staz,l out from their history and condition, which it may be useful to recognize, while refusing to pronounce upon their positive or comparative virtue and happiness. _ " By a happy coincidence 0 . 1 outward plenty with liberal institutions, there is in America a smaller amount of crime, poverty, and mutual injury of every kind, than has ever been known in any society. This is not only a present blessing, but the best preparation for continued fidelity to true democratic principles. " However the Americans may fall short, in practice, of the professed principles of their association, they have realized many things for which the rest of the civilized world is still struggling ; and which some portions are only beginning to intend. They are; to all intents and purposes, self-governed. They have risen above all liability to a he reditary aristocracy, a connection between religion and the State, a vicious or excessive taxation, and the irresponsibi lity- of any class. Whatever evils may remain or may arise, in either the legislativepr executive departments, the means of remedy are in the hands of the whole people ; and those people are in possession of the glorious certainty that time and exertion will infallibly secure all wisely desired objects. " They have one tremendous anomaly to cast out ; a deadly sin against their own principles to abjure. But they are doing this with an earnestness which proves that the national heart is sound. The progress of the Aboli- tion question within three years, throughout the whole of the rural districts of the north, is a far stronger testimony to the virtue of the nation than the noisy clamour of a por tion of the slave-holders of the south, and the metchant aristocracy of the north, with the silence of the clergy, are against it. The nation must not be judged of by that por tion whose worldly interests ate involved in the mainte nance of the anomaly ; nor yet by the eight hundred flou rishing abolition societies of the north, with all the sup porters they have in unassociatcd individuals. The nation must be judged of as to slavery by neither of these parties ; but by the aspect of the conflict between them. If it be found that the five abolitionists who first met in a little chamber five years ago;to measure their moral strength against this national enormity, have become a host beneath whose assaults the vicious institution is rocking to its foundations, it is time that slavery was ceasing to be a na- tional reproach. Europe now owes to America the justice of regarding her as the country of abolitionism, quite as emphatically as the country of slavery. The civilization and the morals of the Americans full far below their own principles. This is enough to say. It is better than contrasting or comparing them with Euro pean morals and : which contrast or comparison can answer no purpose, unless on the supposition, which I do not think a just one, that their morals and civilization are derived from their political organizat'on. A host of other influences are at work, which must nullify all conclu sions drawn from the politics of the Americans to their morals. Such conclusions will be somewhat less rash two centuries hence. Meantime, it will be the business of the world, as well as of America, to watch the course of re publicanism and of national morals ; to mark their mutual action, and humbly lea► u whatever the new experiment may give out. To the whole world, as well as the Americans, it is important to ascertain whether the extraordinary mu tual respect and kindness of the American people gene ' rally arc attributable to their republicanism ; and again, how far their republicanism is answerable for their greatest fault—their deficiency of moral independence. " No peculiarity in them is more remarkable than their national contentment If this were the result of apathy, it would be despicable ; if it did not co-exist with an active principle of progress, it would be absurd. As it is, I can regard this national attribute with no other feeling than veneration. Entertaining, as I do, little doubt of the ge neral safety of the American Union, and none of themo ral progress of its people, it is clear to me that this n itional contentment will live down all contempt, and even all won der; and conic at length to be regarded with the same ge nial and universal emotion with which men recognize in an individual the equanimity of rational self-reverence." LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, MAY 14. —Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Thomas Grenville, from Calcutta ; Martha, Robson, from Sierra Leone; Tobago, Bull, from Tobago ; John Poynter, from Youghal ; Limerick Lass, from Limerick. PLYMOUTH, MAY 14. —Wind W.—Arrived the New Jane, from Palermo. FALMOUTH, MAY 13.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Bra zilian, White, from Pernambuco—sailed March 24; Scipio, Wylie, from Port-an-Prince; Iberia, from Malaga—sailed 28th ult., Gibraltar 29:h, Cadiz May Ist, Lisbon May 6th. DOVER, MAY 14.—Arrived the Romulus, Garson, from Faro; Two Brothers, from St. Vincent ; Broxbornberry, from Calcutta. GUERNSEY, MAY 13.—Arrived the Auguste and Ch&rlotte. from \Voolgast. JERSEY, MAY 13.—Arrived the Charlotte Frederick, from G BRISTOL, MAY 14.—Arrived the Ada, Faro, from Hon duras; August, from Demerara; Ire, Stanton, from Cha rente ; Neptune, from Memel. LIVERPObL, MAY 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrived, the Port land, from Bombay ' • the Urania, from Bombay; the Fair Barbadian, from the Cape of Good Hope; the Thomas Bat tersby, from Paraiba ; the Superb, Cook, from Jamaica ; the Sarah, Trotman, frum Barbadoes ; the Emulus, from St. Vincents; the Mohauk, from New Orleans; the Lotus, from New Orleans ; the New England, Grozier, from New Or leans; the Avis, from Mobile; the General Hodgman, from Mobile ; the Russia, Manna, from Mobile ; the Medora, Budd, from Chatleston ; the Maria Dorothea, from Rostock ; the Auguste Matilde,. from Strasland. Off, the Collingwood, from Calcutta ; the Elizabeth, from Demerara ; the Silas, Richards, from New York ; the Trafalgar, from New Orleans ; the Adrian, from Mobile; the Chatham, from Savannah. 'CLYDE, MAY 12.—Arrived, the Elora, Blair, from Canton; the Commerce, from Trinidad ; the Arethusa, Boyd, from Trinidad; the Clydesdale, from Antigua. The Meitrc frum Embden to London, is on shore, near The Ottoman, from Aalbou - g, arrived at Christiana Sad very leaky, nod must di:el.arge, having struck on a bank, bound to Newcastle. In consequence of the fatal termination of a duel that took place last year between M. Prestat, now a sub• Lieutenant in one of the regiments in Africa, and M. Hans, both at that time in the Polytechnic School, and in which the latter was killed, the mother of M. Hans, a widow, brought r. action aguinst his adversary for a compensation for her loss. the case was heard lao: week before the Tribunal de Pre tniere Instance, and Lieutenant Prestat was adjudged by di Court to pay the widow, an annuity of eight hundred franc; f i or her life. This example might be happily followed in oar law Courts. S N, MO DAY, MAY 15, 1837