The Sun. — London, England, 1837-05-22 00:00:00

TP.RICES OF I. °REIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. .A ustr• an Bonds .....„...... ..... Peruvian Bonds .... ..... .. ...... .. 15 - ogian Bonds .. —' Ditto Account — Oittl Account....... I Portuguese Bonds — B - sznian Bonds Dil to Account /due los Ayres Bends ............ —1 Ditto Account 4Sli rsitto Account ..... ...... ..... , Ditto, 3 per cent. 30% ZO Caillian Bonds .......... ...... .... - 1 Prussian Bonds Bon ............ Co:umbian 80nd5........—... ..... — t ' Russian Ditto Acc oun t s ~......... ........ Ditto Account f 'oLiguibian Bonds, 1814. —l Spanish Bonds ' — Ditto Account littlish Bonds .... ........ ........ Ditto Bonet', 1834 93%% , Ditto Account —l Ditto Account 0 4 VA% ai °reek 80nd5........ ..... — 5 per cent.......... —f. —c. Ditto Bonds, 1a9.5 —.' -- 4 per cent Ditto Account ..........--.. -- 3 per cent 'Mexican Bands, 5 per cant.... .. Exchange....„ — f. —e. Jitto Account Ditto, ii per cent...„....„.. Ditto Account — Ditto Account .. — Ditto, 5 per cent.... 99% MI 9914 ki dapolitan ......... .... ............. —' Ditto Account ...... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share 4f) 43 2 85 125 8 854 Great Western Railway Company London mid Birmingham Railway Company...— Manchester avid Leelis Railway Company . . 1:olonial Bank , . , Canada Company 24 36 , 4 General Steam Navigation Company Dorlon and Westminster Bank l2O 196% 'National Provincial Bank of England Pt ovinclal Bank of Ireland 25 39 PRICE'. Or' STOCKS THIS DAY Ar ONE O'CLOCK. . sank Stock—„,.. sper Cent. Red 90% %ki I Oitto Fiends s r ,r Cent. Co' At 91 1 4 1 ,y 'South Sea Stock — Il3t per Cent ............. ......... fli • o Old Annuities - t Red... ••• New 3% • per Cent.. 99 % 1 - ' 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751_ Pkw 5 ',ter Cent.. Pink. Long Annuitiestoexpire IDitto ..... ..........500 34 32 pm. :an. 5, 1810 l4 9-16 , Ditto Small Oct 10. MO 14%4 Ditto Commercial 3O pm. Jan. 5, :82i) Ditto Advertised — —Pm jun. 5, 188" April 5, 1880 — India Stock for Acc0unt......... :fan. 5, 1870 — Consols for Account 91 % 1,4 Orunium pm. PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MAY 20. 2 per Cent. Consols ........ —..... 90 Grand Canal Debs. li per cent 89 Ditto Reduced .......... ..... ... Ditto, 4 per cent 5874 34 per Cent. Stock 97% Hibernian Bank iiitto New, 1830 :V.) oPr Cent. Debentures...— 9uK National Insurance Co. — Rank Stock 196 City Debentures, 4 per cent... lioyal Canal Stock - -Ballast O ffi ce Debentures, 4 . .._ . _. ;rand Canal Stock per cent. MAILS. Arrived. Due Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due 0 America.......... 0 2 France.... ...... .. 0 0 Liston 0 0 ilrazil..... ..... 0 1 Guern.&Jersey 0 0 Malta 0 n BuenoS Ayres.. 0 0 Hamburg 0 0 Mexico-- ...... 0 0 rarthagena ..... 0 1 Holland 0 0 Ostend.. ...... ... 0 2 Dublin—. ..... 0 0 Jamaica ...... 2 F anders 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 2 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Mn - ning ..... ....16 minutes after 4. J Evening...... 39 minutes after 4. THE KAFFIR WAR. New ready, in 2 vols. Bvo., with Maps and Numerous Plates, by Major C. C. Michell, K. H. CAPTAIN ALEXANDER'S NARRATIVE of a VOYAGE of OBSERVATION Among the COLONIES of WESTERN AFRICA, in the Flog Ship " Thalia ;" and of A CAMPAIGN in KAFFIRLAND, in 1836. On the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. The publication of THR SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1837. The important question of the abolition of Church rates is to be discussed to-night in the House of Commons, and as the feeling of the country has been clearly shewn to be more deeply embarked in this question than in any that has been agitated since the passing of the Reform Bill, it would be super tluous on our part to urge upon Honourable Mem bers the necessity of being at their posts. The plan who, in such a case, can want any other mo nitor than his own sense of duty, is not likely to be infkenced by an appeal to his understanding. Since the debate which took place on the first in troduction of this question, much light has been thrown upon the subject by the press. The representatives of the people do not approach this second discussion with those embarrassments which were not unnaturally produced in their minds by the uncertainty which generally pre vailed as to the legal part of the question. It has been over and over again proved by the researches of some of our most gifted lawyers, that the support of the fa bric of the Churches, and the supply of the things ne cessary for public worship, fell originally upon those who received the tithe. There is no fact in history better established than this. The next great point to be considered is one no less clearly made out— namely, that neither common nor statute law authorises the:: levyin g o f a Ch urc h- rate, un l ess a majority of the parishioners shall have first agreed to it. Sir J. CAMP BELL has put this point beyond all doubt in his letter to Lord STANLEY. In that admirable production the Attorney-General has produced all the decisions in Courts of Law which properly bear upon the question, and there is not one of them that does not confirm the all-important position that a Court of Law cannotinterfereto compel the Parishio ners to make a Church -rate, though it may enforco the levyin g of the rate after it has been made by a ma jority of them in vestry assembled. Attempts, feeble enough, it must be confessed—have been made to in validate the opinion of the Attorney-General ; but what do general reasonings, or the extra-judicial dicta of lawyers—admitting that such dicta could be found —avail in such a case ? Absolutely nothing. What is wanted by the sticklers for compulsory rating is a decision by a Court of Law, clearly laying down the principle, and carrying out the practice for which they contend. Have they produced such a decision ? They have not—and for the best of reasons—because they cannot. flow the burden came to be shifted from the shoul ders of the clergy to those of the laity is a question cf do great moment. All history bears testimony to the rapacity of the clergy, and to the gradual, sly, and stealthy process by which they contrived to introduce their impositions, and bind their burdens on the necks of the people. It is sufficient for us to kinnv that this Z. an imposition, and that all we have to encounter in resisting it are the now harmless thunders of the Church. The parish Church may, we be lieve be shut up by ecclesiastical law, and the ana thema called " excommunication" fulminated against the impious recusants ; but we are pretty well assured the Church does not feel itself so strong as to venture upon a step that would have no other effect than to make it the laughing-stock of the world. There is one other point which we have to notice before we conclude these hasty observations. In all the clerical petitions, and in almost all the others, - which have been got up against the abolition of Church -rates, it has been insisted upon as leadin g d octr i ne, t h at t h e ma i ntenance of the fabric of the Church, by rates levied on the people, and the ex- Istfnce of the Establishment, are convertible terms. Abolish Church -rates, say they, and you sever the 'ain link that unites Church and State. Now that this is agross fallacy—we might say a wilful deception— ineeds, we think, no other proof than this, that there are .5,000 parishes in England and Wales, in which the Churches are supported entirely by private bequests, land in which such a thing as a Church-rate was never heard of. The Tories, emboldened by the recent success of their pet-candidate for Westminster, are now proposing to thrust in another of the faction for Glasgow. But this time they will find themselves completely out in their reckoning ; for Glasgow is not Westminster, but, on the contrary, is, ever has been, and, we trust, ever will be, distinguished by its staunch adherence to the principles of Constitutional reform, and its consequent abhorrence of Toryism. Between the two proposed can didates for Glasgow, Mr. MONTEITH the Conservative, and Mr. DF.NNISTOUN, the Reformer, there can be nu Snore comparison than there can be between light and darkness, truth and falsehood, liberty and slavery. The former is a thick and thin supporter of the very worst faction, that ever dishonoured and turned to the most interested purposes, the name and influence of States men ; the latter is an advocate of every useful Reform; respected alike for his practical, business-like, habits, and the uncompromising character of his principles. He is, in fact, a Liberal of the best school, just as his rival is a Tory of the worst. Be tween the claims of these two candidates what Glas- I 1 Reformer can fail to make an instant decision ? i3eardless Cantabs are not wantcd for the mercantile metropolis of Scotland ; but men of experience—of foresight—of clear, sound understanding. Such a man is Mr. DENNISTOUN, whom Glasgow accord ingly, if she still holds to her ancient creed ; if she still remains what she was during the reign of PITT and DUNDAS, when she made a gallant stand against the system of espionage and terrorism then in troduced, will not fail to return as her representative. Though we doubt not for an instant of the success of this gentleman, yet we feel persuaded that his friends cannot keep too constantly on the alert ; for over-con fidence, though the result of well-founded anticipa tions, has damaged many a good cause ere now. Therefore we say to the Glasgow electors, be ever at your posts—be incessant in your efforts to ensure a triumph to your candidates, just as though success were more than doubtful, and only to be ensured by each individual elector putting his shoulder bravely to the wheel. To stand still with your arms folded, look ing tranquilly on, while your enemy is day and night at work in all quarters of the city, would, under exist ing circumstances, be worse than folly ; it would be a gross dereliction of your duties as citizens. But we need anticipate no such conduct on the part of the Glasgow Reformers, for we perceive by the provincial journals, that they are fully awake to the necessity of putting a check on this cry of re-action which the Tories are just now so diligently getting up. At a public meet ing, which took place at the Bazaar on Friday last, and at which vast numbers of the Glasgow electors at tended, the feeling in favour of Mr. DENNISTOUN was most unequivocally expressed. Mr. GRA HAM, of Whitehill, a gentleman who has grown grey in the service of Reform, and who was hard at work in the people's cause, at a time when Mr. MONTEITH was yet playing with his coral and bells in the cradle ;—this veteran patriot; after expatiating in becoming terms on the strong claims that the Reform candidate had upon the sup port of his fellow citizens, made some apt, significant allusions to the conduct, some few years since, of that despotic faction, which Mr. MONTEITH was now so anxious to represent in Parliament. " Were there any persons," he said, " who could look back with him to the year 1793, and could remem ber the evils that had been brought on the country, through the insolence, the corruption, the subserviency, and the baseness of the Tory fac tion ? It would be unnecessary for him to speak to such of the tyrannical proceedings of the Tories. But to the young he would say, that for attending such a meeting as the present, many had been sent to Botany Bay for life, and some had been there cruelly mur dered, through ill-usage. He remembered when Ma gistrates of Glasgow, all of them tall, athletic men, kicked out of the public coffee-room an infirm, old man, merely because he had, on the day preceding, attended a Reform meeting." Such as the Tories were in those days of which Mr. GRAHAM here speaks, such are they now—such will they ever con tinue to be. Toryism, whatever it may profess to the contrary, is at heart, unchanging—unchangeable. The interests of the Few in opposition to those of the Many, are the prime objects of its solicitude. If it appear before us just now quiet and crouching in its attitude, it is only because, like the tiger, it is pre paring for its deadly spring. It hates, even more than it is hated by, the People, and would mow them down by platoons, as of old at Manchester, were it again to obtain the power. This is the faction against which the Glasgow Reformers now go forth to combat. They are called on to set an example of patriotism to the rest of the community ; to show themselves good men and good citizens ; to give a wholesome stimulus to the cause of improvement ; and to show that they know the difference between cant and common sense— between the principles of a MONTEITH and those of a DENNISTOUN. We conjure them, as men anxious for the furtherance of their own and their children's inte rests, not to slumber at their posts ; not to take success for granted, however great the chances may be in their favour : not to be led astray, or lulled into indifference by the affected supineness of the Tories ; but to exert their utmost energies, lay aside all trifling differences ; and confederate for the common good. Thus acting, they cannot choose but conquer, and render their vic tory so decided, that no Tory shall ever again presume to rear his head in Glasgow. We subjoin a copy of Mr. DENNISTOUN'S electoral address. It is sen tentious and emphatic, full of sound principles ex pressed in the most lucid and fearless manner : TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF GLASGOW. GENTLEMEN, A public meeting of the citizens having called upon me to come forward on the present occasion, as candidate for the re presentation of the city in Parliament, I willingly accede to their request. As I shall have many opportunities before the election takes place, of explaining to you in detail my political sentiments, I do not think it necessary at present to do more than state, in general terms, what those sentiments are, and how I would act, should I have the high honour of becoming your repre sentative. I am, as I ever have been, a decided Reformer, and a stre nuous advocate for the maintenance and promotion of popular rights. . . . . — I anxiously desire to return to the old Constitutional law of Triennial Parliaments, the adoption of the Ballot, the Repeal of all Regulations which obstruct the Registration of porsons qualified according to the spirit of the Reform Act, and the adoption of measures to prevent the creation of fictitious votes. I am a decided friend to a limited monarchy, and anxious to see the various branches of the Legislature working harmoni ously together ; and would therefore vote for such a Ref or m of the H o use o Peers as would bring about that most desi rable and necessary end. I am of opinion that the present Ministry is the most en lightened and the best that this country has ever possessed ; and I would go into Parliament with an anxious wish to give them my support ; at the same time I differ from them on some important points. And I would on all occasions be guided by what I believed to be for the good of the country at large. I approve of their policy with regard to Ireland, and would cor dially support them in their endeavours to do justice to that unhappy and hitherto misgovered country. I would support the Church of Scotland in the enjoyment of her present revenues ; but I am opposed to any additional grant from the public purse, ai unjust to the Dissenters. I am an enemy to monopolies of every kind, and I shall never cense to urge a total repeal of the Corn-laws. I would maintain inviolate the claims of the national cre ditor, but am opposed to all sinecures and unmerited pensions. In a word, should I have the honour of being your represen tative, I shall ever be found - at my post, and will resolutely and fearlessly do my duty. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your very faithful servant, Bath -street, May 20, 1837. JOHN DENNISTOUN. The Paris Papers of Friday and Saturday, received to-day, announce the capitulation of Fontarabia with out the firing of a shot. The following telegraphic despatch was published by the French Government in the Mon iteur of Friday " BAYONNE, May 18, 5 o'clock, p.m. " Fontarabia offered no resistance, and capitulated at noon The garrison consisted of nearly 300 men (soldiers) and some armed peasants." The same journal of Saturday published the an nexed despatch from Bayonne, communicated by telegraph : " THE GENERAL COMMANDING Trig 20TH MILITARY DIVISION TO THE WAR MINISTER. " BAYONNE, May 19, Two o'clock. " Twenty battalions and twelve squadrons of Carlists passed the Argo at Echarry on the 18th, moving to Arragon. The expedition is in sight of Irribarren, who has left Puente la Reyna with twelve battalions and 600 cavalry. An engage ment cannot fail to take place. The Carlist vanguard was on the same day at noon at Noain, where the Tudela and Sau guessa roads meet." The successes gained by the QUEEN'S Generals, will enable them, without difficulty, to keep open the road from Bayonne to Madrid, so that the army can draw abundant supplies from France. On the 13th Don CARLOS left Estella, but for what place we arc not informed. Great projects are supposed to occupy the thoughts of Don SEBASTIAN, who is presumed to be manceuvring a junction with CABRERA'S force beyond the Ebro. If he succeed, the prolongation of the war, for several months, may be the consequence. But that is by no means probable, as his whole force, on the 18th, was within sight of General IftRABAR BEN, who was prepared to dispute his approach to the river. It is very likely that the next despatches from the North of Spain, will bring the result of a general action between the armies under the command of the Pretender's nephew and the Constitutional Viceroy. On Friday evening the Doctrinaires and their par tizans in the Chamber of Deputies held a meeting at the house of M. HARTMANN, for the purpose' of ascertaining their numbers, and organizing a plan of political operations. A hundred and seventy-seven Deputies attended, and it was stated that the faction could muster two hundred and four Members, who would support the system of policy carried on for the last seven years—in other words, who would labour to establish a despotism in France. The meeting was addressed by M. GulzoT, who very properly was called upon to explain its object. This organization of the Doctrinaires may be turned to excellent account by Ministers, if they exert their influence before the dissolution of the Chambers, which will take place early in autumn, if not sooner. The abettors of tyranny will now become known, and of course can easily be pointed out to the electors in the different Departments. The Chamber of Peers, by a majority of 73 against 28, passed the Bill for converting the site of the Archiepiscopal Palace into pedestrian pleasure grounds for the citizens of Paris. There was a cry of sacrilege and spoliation among the Legitimists and defenders of the claims of the Holy See ; but M. BA RTIIE met it by a bold declaration, that the pro perty of the Church was the bona fide property of the State, which alone had a right to dispose of it as the community might judge expedient. There is no other domestic news of engrossing in terest in these Journals. On Saturday the Chamber of Deputies was engaged with the presentation of pe titions. One from Madame PONTRET, " pro prietress and editress " of the Ladies' Gazette, praying for the suppression of Article 213 of the Penal Code, which enacts that husbands are bound to protect their wives, and wives are bound to yield obedience to their husbands, excited a good deal of merriment. The reporter, M. LIADIERE, com mented upon the prayer of the petition in a speech re plete with sallies of rich humour, which was responded to by shouts of laughter. The Chamber, however, came to the conclusion that the claims of married ladies to independence were not tenable. A petition for the suppression of Stock-exchange gambling was treated with more gravity, and was referred to the Minister of Finance, who pronounced himself favourable to the adoption of its prayer. Annexed are extracts from the Paris papers : The Phare de Bayonne of the 16th, received this morning, can give only news older than the telegraph has brought us. But what is remarkable in that journal is, that the retrograde march of Don Sebastian, and the abandonment of the line of the frontier, have excited dissentions among the insurgents, who now loudly exclaim against the Madrelinos. Guibelalde and Iturriaga, in particular, says the Phare, are enraged at this abandonment, and in their discontent have announced to the inhabitants the approaching arrival, advising them to take such part as they should think fit. These Chiefs had a right to expect that the entrenchments, at which the people have so long laboured, would serve to de fend their homes ; they thought they could com bat, and were preparing to do so, with an ardour which might bare proved fatal to the Queen's troops, when the signal for a shameful evacuation was given. The Guipiscoana are the more disgusted, as official letters from Obanos, of the 14th, announce that General Iribarren had made no movement towards Estella. The departure of the Infante could not therefore be founded on a cause which did not exist, and the report which was .spread to that effect is therefore groundless. Some Carlist deserters who arrived on the 14th, repoited that notice had been published on that day, in all the villages between Oyarzun and Irun, that the inhabitants might take such part as they should think best for them, in consequence of the departure of the greater part of the troops with the Infante Don Sebastian.—Phare de Bayonne, May 20. FRENCH FUNDS.—PeaIe, MAY 19. Five per Cents., Iosf. 10SF. Lc. Four per Cents., 0.1. 90c. rhrce per cents. 79f. sc. 10e. 15e. 20c. Bank Actions, 2,43uf. Rente ae Naples, 90t 55c. 50e 55e. Roman Five per Cents., 101Wi. Spanish Actives, 1.17j,',%8c. Spanish Ditleres, 9%1. Spanish Passives, ti% 4. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 101 101 Portuguese Three per Cents 3_A 14. Ha) tian Loan, 307 f. 50c. 315 f. EXCHANDIt ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 31%c.; money, 25f. 5114 c. hree months, paper, 2.5 f. 12%c. ; inane!. 25f. 12 %c o..rs Autherst,vrc. FRENCH FUNDS —PARIP, MAT 20. Five per Cent._ P Bf. 108 f. !Cc. Four per Cent., WE I hr, per Cents., 79f 2cc. Pa 9k Action., 243 f Dente i4e Sc'' foe. 55c. Roman Fire per Cents., 0;1%54. Spanish Actives, 244 25% 1:6%, Spanish Differed, 54% Spanish Passives, GS . , 0 5% B:!,;ian Loan, lyre per Cents., 101%. Portuguese aan, Three per Cents, 30%%. Finnan Loin, 355 E 3:5E 335 f. 33 f. EXCUANGI, ors LONDON. One month, paper, 25c.. 35c ; money, 25f. 35,, Three months, paper, —s'. —c. ; money, 251: 15e Authenlique• LAST PRICES Five per Cents., 1 , 181. ISe. Three per Cents. 79f. 20c. Bank Acti;nts. 2 ,> 311 f , Rente de Naples, WE Mc. Roman Five per Cents., 101. Brussels Bank, 1,425 f. Portugucse Three per Cents., 30 , 4. Haytian .Loan, 330 f. Spanish Actives, 26 1 4. Spanish Passives 5%. • Spanish Dificres, 7%, New Differes, As the political prospects of Spain begin to brighten in the Northern Provinces, the gloom which pervades the social atmosphere of the interior proportionably deepens. Barcelona, Reuss, Tarragona, and Cartha genti, are in a state of open insurrection, the Repub lican leaders having actually flung off all obedience to the QUEEN'S Government. In a letter of the 12th inst., which appears in the Messager of Saturday, the proceedings at a secret sitting of the Cortes on the preceding day, relative to the insurrections in Cata lonia, are denounced as scandalous in the extreme. The Deputies from Barcelona actually set the autho rity of the President at defiance, and one of them was only prevented by force from striking the Presi dent of the Council, whom he openly stigmatised as a venal, perjured wretch, who deserved not to live. MENDIZABAL was assailed with similar violence of language and gesture ; and in repell ing the insulti:rg epithets showered upon him, is said to have shed tears with rage. CALATRAVA, notwithstanding the bullying of the Republican fac tion, took the affair very coolly, and with the most provoking nonchalance assured his calumniators that he would not resign his seat in the Cabinet till he had subdued revolt and opposition. The same authority states that six duels, arising out of this. scandalous dis cussion, were to have been fought on the 13th inst. by Deputies in the vicinity of the capital I If anything is wanted to show that without the ac tive intervention of France the pacification of the Pe ninsula is all but hopeless, the following cor respondence—which we copy from the illestager of Saturday—will supply it. The King of the FRENCH must see at a glance that if lie de cline to interfere in the Spanish quarrel now, an oc casion for his interference will arise, when he will be compelled to perform a part which must procure for him the hatred of the French Republicans. If he persist in refa,iag, to free the QUEEN from the terrors inspired by the bloed-polluted bands of Don CARLOS, with what face can lie unsheath his sword to deliver her MAJESTY from the clutches of the ultra-demo crats ? And yet the latter he must do if the Repub licans triumph—or quit France. The following is the correspondence referred to : " BARCELONA, MAY 11.—We are living in the utmost anxiety. The Place d'Armes, the Alarasanas, the Citadel, the Montgony, the Rambla--all are threatened with artillery. At the corner of each street a cannon is placed. Yesterday Xandero was executed. To sacrifice one single man a display of 14,000 bayonets was necessary, and yet it was feared that the victim would be rescued. The market women never ceased during the execution to insult the execu tioners, and to cry for vengeance. On the other hand, the fishermen, the labourers, and a number of young men, have deserted the city, and gone over to the insurgents at Reuss and Tarragona, although the perfidious Parreno has spread a report that order is re-established in these two cities. The Vapor and the Garde National, in the pay of Parreno, en deavour to spread a report of peace. The following decree of the Provisional Government of Catalonia presents a true pic ture of the:state of affairs. Parreno, in fact has his alarms; he knows that the people of Barcelona will not allow the slaughter of upwards of 360 citizens without vengeance ; either the city will remain encumbered with cannon, or the least change will produce a terrible result. In the mean time the town is deserted ; nearly 10,000 persons have quitted it ; and all the shops and manufactories are shut. "` PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENTof CATALONIA. ..-,.- 4 ,...... , ,fi.... , ..- met ?Ms e , _____ 4 - Ar b-it' ' Vii., ...-rl.-----,,,--..,7,-',. .4611,e g;inio THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 22, 1837 “tDECREE. " The sad scenes which have taken place in the capital of the principality of Catalonia have had a great effect on the people, who have succeeded, in spite of the dangers which sur rounded them, in planting the tree of true liberty, by the es tablishment of a popular Government. This Government, persuaded that one of its first duties is to endeavour to prevent a recurrence of similar horrors, has, in consequence, decreed— " Article 1. General Parreno, and the civil authorities, which, of his own accord, he established in January last, are declared guilty of high treason, and condemned ro death. " 2. The Commander of the Artillery, who attacked the Town-hall in the night of the 4th inst., is liab!e to the same penalty. " 3. Every man, from the age of 16 to 50, is a soldier, and as such liable to give assistance to the Provisional Go vernment. " 4. Evcry s;iati enlist uotlw . the 1148 vi l , ~uity shall receive bof. bounty, and if. 50c. per day. " 'b. The leaders of the Christine detachments who are scouring the principalities will continue to fulfil the functions of their present rank, and will be entitled to promotion to su perior rank if, by the 15th inst., they shall have taken the oath of fidelity to the Provisional Government; beyond that term they will be treated as enemies. " 6. The same privilege is allowed to all tile Carlist chiefs who shall give their aid to the regeneration of the country. " Done at Reuss, May 8. " RAMON WALLS. " IGNACIO CARVONALLO. " JUAN ROIG. " SEBASTIAN COLLg. " FRANCISCO RUIT. " ANDREAS PUYCERDA.'" We learn from Perpignan, under date of the 14th instant, that the republics of Reuss, Tarragona, and other cities, still hold firm. On the Bth they displayed considerable ac tivity, and sent a force of 2,500 men to Monthlane to watch the movements of Baron de Meer, to whom the Commandant, Don Jose Zulueta, one of the members of the Junta, wrote to the following effect :—" The duties of a military man are bind ing only so long as the Government shall promote the coun try's happiness. The people have discovered the tendency of the late Government to be quite the reverse. We invite the Baron de Meer to join the cause of the liberators, not by capi tulation, but by devoting his services and sword to the cause of the people. Should his Excellency refuse to join us, ho will find us ever ready to give him a warm reception. Let him take care, lest the cry of liberty be more fatal to the cause of despotism than our arms." On the Bth, the whole forces of Alcoban, Arbes, Combril, Lleveria, Belmont°, Surana, La Figueiras, Villalonga, and several other towns, were concen trated at Reuss. Emissaries had left Tarragona with despatches for Carthagena, which city had declared itself independent on the sth. German and Brussels papers have been received, but their contents are uninteresting. M. V. Kos- T, Editor of the Hungarian Manuscript Gazette, was arrested early in the present month at his country house, and confined in a barracks at Pesth. All his papers were seized at the same time, and forwarded to the Government for examination. This monstrous violation of the liberty of a Hungarian, convicted of no crime, nor even accused of any, has roused the in dignation of the nobles, who proposed a meeting to be held on the 22d inst. (this day), for taking measures for resisting such a flagrant violation of the Constitution. BELOT AN k UNDS—Baussece, MAY 19 Actual Debt, 2!4 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. 1100 1 4 Loan of Thirty Millions .... 91 1 4 Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 9814 Society of Commerce, 4c4 per Cent ln Bank of Belgium, 5 per ('ent llO Brussels Papers, May 20. - 4, AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, MAY:I3. Five per Cents. Metalliqucs Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares —Ailgemeine Zeitung, May 18. DUTCH FUNDS— ANMERRAM, MAY 19. Money. Bills. Actual Deht, 214 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. A wort Broths, 414 per cent 9214 92% Ditto, ditto, 314 per cent 7O 76 Commercial Company, 4' per cent 1761 177 N Ditto (132 and 1833) 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month ll 971, Two months LLOYD'S SiiIPPING.-( THIS DAY. DEAL, MAY 21. —Wind N.N. E., light breezes.—Arrived the William Lockerby, Metcalf, from Canton ; Helena, Bloom, from Batavia ; Pelzila, —, from Pernambuco; Lady Gordon, —, from Berbice ; and Oranil, —, from St. Thomas's. Dovea, MAN 21.—Off port, Matilda, —, from Alexandria. RAMSGATE, MAY 21.—Off port, Economy, —, from Newry. PLYMOUTH, MAY 20.—Wind N. W. FALMOUTH, MAY 20. —Wind N. N. E., strong and squally. Arrived the Ellen, Coster, from Corfu. PORTE:NIOUTII, MAT 21.--Wind N. W., stormy. GUERNSEY, MAT 20.—Arrived the Serrogel, —, from Rostock ; Phoenix, illoack, from Rostock ; and Cordelia Sophie, from Stettin. SWANSEA, MAY 20. Arrived the Lavina, Kirt, from Chili. LIVERPOOL, MAY 20. —Wind N. W.—Arrived the Ranger, Strickland, from Valparaiso ; Quicksilver, —, from St. Mi chael's ; and Fanny, —, from Manilla. Cones, MAY 19.-Arrived the Neptune, Nagle, from Barba does ; and Kingston, Purdie, from Bristol, very leaky—bound to Quebec. BELFAST, MAY 19.—Arrived Ranger, Davis, from London. . _ LIMERICK. MAY 19.—Arrived Emn;,Thomas, from London LEITH, MAT 19,--Arrived the Coventry, Purdy, from Canton ; .Jane and Helen, —, from Grenada : Morgan, Dunn, from Dantzic ; Margaret, Miines, from Dantzic ; Caledonia ; —, from Dantzic; Integrity, —, from Dantzic ; Mary, Blues, from Pillau ; Hermes, Gray, from Pillau ; Sovereign, Fer guson, from Pillau ; and Ware, —, from . Quebec. , ItMOUTII, ROADS, MAY 20.—Arrived the Racehorse, frcm Messina. The Jane, from Poole to Liverpool, struck on a ledge near the Rundlestone. on the 19th inst., and sunk. The Snow, Margaretta, from Lisbon to Rotterdam, was wrecked on tile Saintes on the 12th inst.—crew sawed. 1 he Diligence, of London, was on shore near Marbella, on the 29th ult. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. It is generally stated that the United States Bank of America has objected to the proposal made by the Bank of England, to open a credit for the merchants of New York to the extent of two millions sterling. The objecti in by the United Slates Bank was, that one-half was to be paid in gold. It is expected that this failure in the negotiation will have some effect on the American merchants. It is also ascertained that America is a debtor to this country on the balance of trade from seven to ten millions sterling, and the liabilities are calculated at the amount of 160,000,000 of dollars. Consols were buoyant during Saturday, with a brisk demand for some of the heavy Stocks ; and it is expected that a fur ther improvement will t.lke place in Consols, which closed at 91i i; for July Account J 1 ; and opened this morning at the above prices ; Exchequer Bills 32 34 prem. ; India Bonds 32 34 prem. ; Bank Stock 206 207 ; India Stock 260 261. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active is heavy, owing to its coming from Paris 1 per cent. lower. Spanish Active closed on Saturday at 25i ex. Coupons, opened at 234 24 ex. Coupons ; Passive 64 ; Deferred 94 ; Portuguese closed at 494--at present 48. 49 ; Three par Cents. 30 to 34 ; Co lombian 231 241 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 531 f. HALF--PAST ONE. The accounts received this morning from Manchester and Liverpool are not of a cheering description. In the former town, trade is exceedingly dull ; and in the latter we hear of some more failures of American houses, but it is expected that two or three of them will be assisted by their friends, and which will enable them to resume their busiucss. Consols have been during the morning 911 for the Ac count and Money, with little doing. Exchequer Bills lower, 32 premium ; India Bonds improved, 37 35 premium ; Bank Stack, 2061; India Stock, 2601. In the Foreign Market there was a good deal doing in the early part of the morning in Spanish Active ; since which the market has become heavy. Spanish Active, 23k, Ex-Cou pons ; Passive, 0 4 -; Deferred, 9; Portnuese, 484; Three per Cents., 30; Dutch Two-and-Half per Cents., 531 ; Spa nish Coupons, 53 54. - THREE, 0' CL 0 CX. Consols for the Account, 911 i. THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 0 06% Oinnium . 3 per Cent. Red. 90N India Stock 26ON 3 per Cent. Cons 9 1 ,14 Ditto Unnds 35 pm. 3y, per Cent. 34 per Cent. Red 98 ! ,1, Ditto Old Annuities New 3 per Cent 99} Ditto New Arnuitie.; — I per Cent. Assented Dissented — Long Annuities to expire Jai. 1860 l4 0-16 c 0.,. Ir3o Jan. 1860 Ditto 5001 34 pm. Ditto 5001 3 pm. Bank Stock for Opg. . - 1.16% Incita Stock fur Act. Consols for Act. FO li EIG Austrian, 5 per cent FUNDS. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent Br.lzilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per cunt Gillian 6 per cent Colombian, 6 per cent. Ditto, 15.34 Danish, 3 per cent Gieck Bonds, 1825,5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent. Ditto, 6 per cent., 1625 - Ditto, New Ditto 4914 Prussian. 5 per cent. — Russian Bands, 5 per ce►it Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per cent — Ditto. Consolidated. 2: French, 5 pei cent Exehange French, 3 per cent Dutch, '2i per cent. ....... ........ s.l s i - Perw:riati, 1825, 6'per cent. ... 77 Oitto, 5 per cent.................. aEs. London and Southampton Rai No other variations in the Prices Tway l7 of Shsres since our One o'clock The estates of the late Mr. Nash, the architect to George the Fourth, are announced by Mr. Robins for abso lute sale next Tuesday, under a decree of the Court of Chan cery. The property is in Regent-street and its vicinity. It includes Mr. Nash's celebrated gallery. The rental exceeds 3,0001. a-year. MR. THEODORE HOOK'S " JACK BRAG."— " ' Jack Brag' is a work drawn after Theodore Hook's own heart, abounding in wit, originality, and ludicrous incident. The hero, who may be considered as the head of a very nume rous class..-the Brags—is brought into a variety of whimsical and distressing scrapes by his boasting propensity. This is the outline of the history, but it is worked out in Hook's best manner. Jack is of ♦ery humble extraction, being the son of a tallow-chandler; but he disdains the uncongenial profes sion ; and being, perhaps, like Othello,' unused to the melting mood,' he determines to become a gentleman. There are several characters sketched with a raciness peculiar to Hook, and we can fairly recommend a perusal of Jack Brag' to every one [who loves a frolicsome and laughable story." — Courier. On Friday morning the wife of a respectable man, of the name of Rodbard, residing in Watling-street, City, was safely delivered of four children, three girls and one boy. The mother and infants are doing as well as can be expected. The first importation of cotton destined to be manu factured in Hull arrived on Wednesday. It consisted of 150 bales, and was brought by the Railway Company's boat. A more interesting import has not been entered for many years. It is like the discovery of a new world; and if good begin nings are a criterion of success, an ample harvest must result from the experiment.—Hull Packet. On Whit-Tuesday the Kendal Auxiliary Tem perance Society celebrated, for the second time, their Annual Festival amidst the romantic beauties of Pine drags. ~r.~5:...~., ~- CHANCERY COURT.--(THIS DAY.) This being the first day of Trinity Term, the Lord Chan cellor did not take his seat in his Court at Westminster tin nearly two o'clock. His Lordship, on taking his seat, was accompanied by the Master of the Rolls, the Vice-Chancellor, and two of the Masters. His Lordship proceeded to hear mo tions of no general public interest. VICE-CHANCERY.--(THIS DAY.) His Honour the Vice-Chancellor did not take his seat to day until shorly before two o'clock, it being the first day of Trinity Term, and his Honour having to breakfast with the Lord Chancellor and the other Judges, Masters in Chancery, and King's Counsel. The Court proceeded to hear motions, but no case of public interest occurred before our Reporter left. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) This being the first day of Term, their Lordships took their scats with the usual formalities. Nothing of public interest occurred up to the time of going to press. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) Mr. Justice COLERIDGE took his seat on the Bench at half. past one o'clock. THE POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS V. THE GUARDIANS OF THE POOR OF EAST PRESTON. Mr. WIGHTMAN moved for a rule to show cause why a man damus should not issue against the Guardian s o f the Poor of East Preston, who had refused to appoint an auditor of their accounts, pursuant to an order which had been issued on the 6th May by the Poor Law Commission,rs.—Rule granted. KING'S BENCH-(THIS DAY). This being the first day of Trinity Term, the Court was opened with the usual formalities. The Judges presiding were, Lord Denman, Justices Littledale, Patteson, and Williams. At twenty minutes to two o'clock, when the Judges took their seats, there was only one King's Counsel (Mr. Alexan der) present, and the Court went through the Bar, but none of the gentlemen had any motion to make. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL shortly afterwards entered the Court, and said he had been instructed to apply to their Lord ships for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against Thomas W. Hall, Esq. a merchant of the City of London. The application was on behalf of a gentleman named Woodward, carrying on the business of a solicitor in the county of Worces ter, and filling several public situations of great respec tability. It appeared that twelve years ago Mr. Wood ward had married a lady of good family and connections in the county of Stafford, with whom he had since lived hap pily, and had several children—that in the year 1835 he had entered into partnership with another solicitor named Annesley, and on the lith of April last he had received an anonymous letter by the post, signed " Veritas," and dated from the " Tavistock Hotel, Covent garden, April 15, 1837." That letter contained a great deal of abuse of Mr. Annesley, and also the most abon.inable and unfounded charges against Mrs. Woodward, and referring Mr. Woodward to a Mrs Devenish, the keeper of a brothel in Hereford-street, Oxford-street, for the truth of the statements contained in the letter. On the same day Mr. Martindale, a grocer, residing in the same town with Mr. Woodward, received a similar letter, writ ten by the same hand, and signed " Veritas," in which the charge of an improper intercourse between Mr. Annesley and Mrs. Woodward was repeated. It was not known for a day or two from whom these letters came, but Mr. Mar tindale in the course of his business received a pro missory note for 151., which appeared to him to be in the same handwriting as the letter signed " Veritas," which note he obtained from Mr. Galloway, the brother-in.law of Mr. Hall. Mr. Woodward, in consequence, posted off to London, and the result of his inquiries was to show that both these letters were in the handwriting of Mr. Hall. There was this further fact, that on the day they were written, the 15th of April, Mr. Hall was seen to write two letters, in the counting-house of a merchant in Fen -court, Fenchurch street, and he used the seal of the merchant, on which was the letter " D," and both the letters in question were sealed in a similar manner. He (the Attorney-General) had the affidavits of Mr. Woodward, Mrs. Woodward, and Mr. Martin Annesley, denying in the most explicit terms each and every of the abo minable and wicked slanders contained in these letters. The Learned Gentleman was proceeding to read extracts from the affidavits, when The COURT observed that it was hardly necessary to go fur• they. R ule granted. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The past week's arrivals of English Grain were small, of Flour good, and of Irish Oats considerable,. The trade im proved on Friday for every article, as the weather had again become cold. This morning the fresh supplies of every ar ticle were inconsiderable, and the weather continuing un favourable to vegetation, the factors demanded much higher prices for all sorts of Corn. The best panels of Wheat sold readily at 2s. to 3s. per quarter advance on the terms of last Monday, and other qualities dearer in the same pro portion. Barley is full Is. per quarter higher than this day se'nnight. Beans and Pease are scarce, and each of these articles are Is. per quarter dearer. The quality of Oats now here is chiefly inferior, and the trade for good parcels has been brisk at a further advance of Is. per quarter, at which they were nearly all sold; inferior parcels also partake of this improvement. There was a fair demand fur Flour last week, and the millers are disposed to adhere to 525. as the nominal top prices. Ship parcels are rather higher than of late. Fitters ON BOARD OF SNIP. Wheat, Red ,old) sos. 60s. -White (01d)... 56.. 6.is. Red (IS‘36) 4os. 455. - Fin•diz 5uperi1ue.........535. 573. Wh to (1P36) 44s. 50s. Fine s2s. L6s. -- Superfine 5Ss. 625. Beans, Small (new) 375. 40e. (old) 426.43. - Tick (new) 3ls 345. (old) :i's. 423. - Harrow (new) 346.17 s - (old) ..... 40s. 41 ; Drank Oats, Feed Foreign free aye 'Ms. Marley 0 1.3. '166. - Grinding 2(35. 2Ss. --- Malting ,..305. 335. Malt , flis. 545, Fine New SGs. 58s. New "26.2(4 - Poland s New 23..`23. - Potatoe 13,.3 0. New - Scotch 2O .32•. - Irish l7s. Pease, Grey, New 345. 36,. - Maple New . 975. 335, Flour Town ;per sack) Vg. 5' si.econds 44. 45 • 3.s 38, NVIi ite ---- Boilers :IS:. 40.. - North Cuuntry 40 42 Bram ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAS!' WEEK Wheat Harlef. Oats. 1 Fitiiii e;ngtish Irish - 577 18,2-17 l - Foreign 3,000 .1.040 1,390 I - SMITHFIELE This day's supply was very good alteration from the prices last quol 3 MARKET d, and the sale was dull at little Ited PRICES PER STONE OF LIL I. TO SINK THE ()PEALS. s. A. to s. A s. si. to s.si Interior Beasts 2 4 2 6 Inferior Sheep 2lO 3 0 Second quality ditto 2lO 3 2 Second quality ditto 3 4 3 F Prime large 0xen......... 3 6 3 6 Coarso-ws.olled ditto_ 4 2 4 8 Frime Scots, &c. Large coarse Calves 4 2 4 6 Laige Hogs 3 6 4 2 irime small ditto . 4 8 5 2 , Small Porkers . Slckling Calves each —l4 0 33 0 1 Quarter old Pig each, 13 si 200 0. Lamb ss ed. to 6s. Id. SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I ties 2,8i5 92,030 ' 252 396 About 300 orthe Beasts came up the St. Alban's road ; about 170 up the other northern roads; about 201 (including Irish) from the western alit rritiland districts , about 2200 from Norfolk, Sit Milk, 17,sex, and Cam bridgeshire ; about* from Ken'. and Sussex ; and most of the remainder front the marshes, ite, it) the neighbourhood of London. NEWGATE AND LEA. At per stone, b, a d. to s d, s d to 5 Beef, inferior 2 8 3 0 Mutton, inferior 3 B 310 - middling ...... 3 2 3 4 - middling -- prime large - prime 4: 6 4 8 - prime small ...... 3 51 3 8 Pork, Veal Lamb 4s. 6d. to Os. Od. DENHALL MARKETS. iy the Camas. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE CORN MARKET.—}Iay '2O. We had again a very small supply of Wheat from the country at this day's market, with moderate coasting arrivals, and the sale was brisk at an advance of 2s. per quarter on the prices of this day se'nnight. The demand having ceased for Malting Barley, the sale was slow at our quotations. Oats were in moderate supply, and is. per quarter higher than on last Saturday. There is still an improvement in the value of Malt, and our quotations are barely supported. Rye main tains its price. In Pease or Beans there is no change. Flour is in more demand than of late, at an advance of 2s. per sack. new. Ole. Wheat, Northunikerland Norfolk am: Suffolk '36s 605.,..... 59.. 52.. Berwick and Scotch 413. —........- - Foreign Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk Foreign ... ,• —5....... —s• —s. ...? Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk Vs. :323 ...... —s. —s. ?.. Grinding and Feeding 'Si. 3s. ..... — 3 . — a , n Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk sls 58s ...... --6. Beans, Small '37s. 405....... —a. __... s . Pease, White 403 443. . ... ...a. ....6. ----- Gray n3s Ni 5....... —s. —s. Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe ...... ... 27s 2 9 0293. 313. Feed Foreign Flour (per sack) —s. s 4ns. 455. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET—May 19 Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Sutlhlk 46s. 435. to —s. fine 55,. Lin. and Cam. -- Yorkshire 415. 4155. to —s. fine 55,. NV /lite -- Foreign, ited —s. —s. to —s. fine -6. White —s. —s. to —s. nne —s. Barley, Norfolk and Suffhlk Lincolnshire -- Yorkshire Weld Foreign Beans, Old 4( s to 495. tine —s. ------ New 165. to 40s. fine —s Oats, Potato 2Bs. to 308. fine 346. Poland —s. 288. to 30s. fine 345, Friezland and Small -- Waling Shelling Malt ..... 31/. Ts s 3:•3.28/!.osfine 1 4 . 0 0 ' s . . p p e e r r I L ' a a sT. Rapeseed MINING INTELLIGENCE. Ttns.Cwt.Qrs Quantity of Coppes Ore sold '2 534 21 (1 Ouantity of fine Copper lin :2 Average Produce Amount of Salt s 12,1521. 3s. ed.—Averag e St an d ar d 1001 . I s . Od. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS TO-MORROW. T. Ellson, wine-merchant, Henley-upon-Tharnes 2 at 11 T. Raine, perfumer, New Bond street 2 11 S. C. Hall, bookseller, Kensington 1 lc , T. B. Drury, printer, Fleet-street 1 1 J ll'. IVllt..ans, ci..tper, Stutic!tstu, t t, 1) t , v0i14; ,,., : 1.. IL Ciood4ll, upholsterer, Ilathbon-place I M. L. Langrouber, tailor, Soho A. Dunn, chemical-manufacturer, City-road , 1 1 J. Wilson, warelibuternan, Lawrence-lanv. ........ .......... ......... ~,. 1 2 RUSSIA. LUBECK, MAY 9.—Letters from St. Petersburg say Will' Lord Durham has made communications to the Russian Go vernment respecting the Vixen, which were received by it very amicably, and the reply to which is said to have been . equally well received by Lord Durham. Hence it is inferred that the affair of the Vixen is as good as settled to Ow sati . sfa c " don of the two Governments concerned. The Emperor Nicho las will shortly set out on his tour to the interior of It,ussia. Lord Durham likewise intends to leave St. Petersburg dt the end of this month, and will go first to Carlsbad, and then fes a short time to London. It does not seem probable that the Noble Lord will give up his post as ambassador at the lilts.' sian Court, as some English Journals affirm, for in the first place he likes St. Petersburg, and then it might not be easy to find a successor ; for notwithstanding his rather radical poli tical opinions, he has the confidence of the Russian EmiT'orf and knows how to take advantage of it for the general inte rest of Europe. It does honour to Lord Durham that he un derstands how to support the cause of his nation without an)' sacrifice of its integrity ; and, on the other hand, it is but doing the Emperor Nicholas justice to allow that he has no such despotic prejudices as some would willingly , impute to him, but that he duly appreciates talents, uprightness, And manliness of character, wherever they may be found. The Emperor appears to take very great interest in the, making of iron railroads in Russia. Though the means 0' communication in the empire are considerable, he looks on iron railroads as an additional means of favouring the Russian manufactures, which are constantly improving, and of the more rapid conveyance of passengers and merchandise. In the well founded supposition, for instance, that the assembling of bodies of troaps, which, in consequence of the great disturbances in Russia, is now effected very slowly, will be greatly facilitated by iron railroads, the Emperor seems particularly anxious to do everything to encourage the introduction of them. W c know what the effect is in Russia when the Sovereign has ex pressed his will, and may therefore take it for grantesl that the making of iron railroads will shortly be carried on witi: m ore activity in Russia than in any other country. Taglioni makes her appearance at Drury-lane, in new ballett, composed by her father, this evening. St. Leonards is beginning to assume the appearance of spring, after a long and dreary winter. The houses and hotel; are filling with families of distinction. Amongst the recent arrivals are—Lady Burghers!' and family, Lady Georg° Clarke and family, the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Turnour, Sir Charles Chadd, Bart. ; Sir T. Winnington, tf. P. ; Captain H. Winnington, R.N. ; T. Shepherd, Esq., M.P. ; Colonel and Mrs. Lixdsey, and family ; Sir W. Farquhar; the Rev., T. and Mrs. Pennant; Mr. J. Dawkins; Captain Laurie and Captain Macartney; Major Waguelin ; Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Teake Martin ; Mr. and Lady Georgians Codringron. Ge neral and Mrs. Sharpe, and Mr. Godfrey Higgins have left us. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch are daily expected at St. Leonard's, to sisit their children, who have been there home time. The Duchess of Somerset intends giving a splendid fete champetre at Wimbledon Park, in June. Sir Francis Head, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, has keen created a baronet. We understand his Highness the Duke of Bruns" wick has taken a mansion for the season in Bryanston-square , and has given orders for its being fitted up in a style of superior elegance, for the purpose of entertaining the fashionable world with a series of concerts, balls, and dinner parties. Last week we mentioned the horrid circumstance of several of the inmates of the Hull workhouse having been shockingly mutilated by a man named Matthew Noble, for merly a dissenting preacher. Thomas Hart, one of the four, persons stabbed on Sunday last, died of the wounds received by him. On Monday an inquest was held at the workhouse; when, after hearing the evidence of the three survivors and others, the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" a gainst Noble, who was committed to York Castle on the coroner l warrant, to take his trial at the next assizes. We are sorry tc say that very faint hopes are entertained of saving the other sufferers.—Hull Packet. The Registrar-General of births, marriages, &c.. a i l the solicitation of the parochial authorities, has been please , to appoint Mr. George Alexander Macphail superintendent , registrar of the parish of Clerkenwell. On Friday evening, a man named Cropper left s public-house at Waddington, and was so drunk that he fell in the middle of the road, where a waggon passed over his aril cutting it off close to the shoulder; the poor wretch lay ther e until the morning w ithout assistance, and consequently bled to death.--Lincoln Gazette. On Saturday last a young man named Stowe, re' siding at Trowbridge, had a quarrel with his wife, which tor; minated in a fight, in the course of which the wife wound& him in the neck. The mother of Stowe, who was sf.andiug by, on seeing the blood flow copiously from her son's threat' thought him dying, and expired from the effect of fright-' Wiltshire Independent. On Sunday, during the tempest, a fire-ball wo: observed coming over the town from the West direction, foul passing over Mr. Parker's house, fell in the church-yard of s l ' Paul's. Fortunately no damage was done, it not having coola in contact with any part of the edifice; two ladies, who were I!t the sacrament, in the chancel, at the time, distinctly s aw 11 through the windows. The report was like that of a canna' —Saturday's Bedford Beacon. The action brought against Alessrs. Dundas and Kelly. in the Court of Exchequer, for the expenses o f tilt Ipswich election petition, has been compromised by the de; ) fendants, paying 4,5501. in full of all demands.—SuP Chronicle. Mr. Cooper, a gentleman farmer, most highly' , respected by a numerous circle of friends, and who had resid ed for many years on his estate at Studley, Warwickshire, was 5 d affected by the death of his mother, to whose funeral he been on the previous day, that he put a pistol to his head e Sunday evening, and blew his brains out.—Coventry Heral d ' FIRE BA L LooN.—A young gentleman of the nanle of Sneath, residing at Mansfield, has made a large fire balloo ll ', of fire- proof canvass. O n Wednesday evening, he was ansio u : to try its buoyancy, and, infl a ti ng it, took it a t nine o'clock to the Bleak Hill, where he thought he had secured it to fb ic e i earth. He got into the car to see what' weight it von carry, when the sudden bounds given by the machine dise ti :, gaged the cords, and he rose in th e a i r . H e r em a in e d in th e balloon, floating about, until eleven o'clock, when the O P chine began to descend, and the grappling caught in a hedg e d near Spondon. Here, however, another difficulty presenf e . itself ; if he got out o f th e car th e b a ll oon wou ld r i se , so b; determin e d t o k ee p hi s seat unt il t h e next morn i ng , w hen, t o his great joy, he r ece i ve d t h e ass i stance o f some countrylueo about half. past four, when he packed up his ponderous mach° and conveyed it to th e neares t t own (D er b y ), w h ere it r e ' mains.—/Vot'ingham Journal. On Tuesday morning a young man named P I Grouchy, who had b een sentence d t o tw el ve mon th s ' i m prisou' ment for felony, mad e hi s esca p e f rom t h e R o y a l gao l o f P r ; sey in broad day-light, and, strange to say, returned t o priO d the same evening, and demanded admittance. When as k if why he broke pris on , h e sa id h e mere l y w i s h e d t o c h an ge 1 1 1 4 best for his working clothes, having done which, he thoug he might as well return to the gaol.—Jersey Patriot. On Friday evening three collegians started on horse; back from Huntin g d on on t h e i r re t urn t o Cambridge. , of the young gentlemen put his hors. into a gallop, wheuv, he came up to the W oo lp ac k I nn , a t Fennest on , th e b r idl e 1 0° , 4 4 and he was precipit a t e d w i t h d rea df u l v i o l ence f rom hi s hc, upon his head, f rac t ur i ng hi s s k u ll i n th e most s h oc ki n g O b i nor. His companions immediately went for a surgeon, bu t as was a corpse on th e i r re t urn . W e h ave b een una bl e to eV° . the name of the deceased.—Huntingdon Gazette. The annual dinner of the noblemen and gentler il ti el ; educated at Chri s t c h urc h C o ll ege t oo k p l ace on Satur-b% evening, at the Cl aren d on H o t e l, Vi scount M orpet h d, chair. There w ere a l so present th e E ar l s o f Ch es tern,, ew l Dunmore, and Craven ; L or ds Castl ereag h, S eymo ur, ‘i ments, Grimston, Andover, and Mahon ; Hon. 'ri ft Vesey, Hon. J. C. Talbot, Major Cumming Bruce. 1 .0 Pemberton, M. P. ; M r . E. J. St an l ey , M. P . ; Mr. V. S re / ,:ir: M. P. ; Mr. Baillie, Mr. Wildman, the Hon. H. Corry, e s Copley, Hon. Rob er t D un d as , M a j or B ar i ng , M r . Stu' Wortley, &c. le' The Duchess-Countes s o f S ut h er l an d gave An ebel gent dinner o n Friday evening, in Hamilton-place, to t o Earl and C oun t ess of Clarendon, the Earl and Cooto, Grosvenor, the C oun t ess o f B r id gewater, Si r John reiche,e, u Lord Alford, an d M rs . H ar b or d . A t ten o ' clock the '" a „ e . ing-rooms were th rown open f ur t h e recept i on of a fasio ble circle. na ti THE GENE RAL ASSEMBLY.— For some time fo ' r it is well known that there has been a keen competitionbo, the chair of Moderator in the present General Assembly h la tween the two candid a t es , D rs . G ar di ner an d Lee--h° t b iels every respect qualified to fill the office. This question , yr re la has created a considerable sensation in the Scottish Ch u r of was, on Thursd a y l ast , d ec id e d i n t h e A ssem b ly i n faveu,ioo, Dr. Gardiner, by a ma j or i ty o f 26 2 to 59. T h e discs' of was, at the outset, somewhat stormy; but the great bow ir the Assembly evinced a firm determination to prevent th e b ielt troduction into the debate of that tone and temper in ' T off the controversy was carr i e d on out o f d oors; an d h e nce e approach to any of these topics which were calculated f. O of cite angry passions, was checked by the strenuous oppoe y ?' s iorl the great majority on both sides, and finally by the " e t c 's& d of the Moderat or , th at suc h statements were disorderi,di• irrelevant, th e on ly quest i on b e i ng, wh i ch of the two c o s, dates nominat e d it was expedient, under a ll th e circurus tso e red to appoint to th e chair. The debate being thus restrc`/00 within thes e narrow b oun d s, was soon broug h t to a fi s d $ being termin a t e d b y a di v i s i on about five o'clock. t te greater latit u d e b een g i ven, i t would have been pr otraa „ _ e „, o f a much later hour, and certainly with little benefit to the parties concerned.—Edinburyh Courant. 8 5 THE BALLOT.--This question strikes Tr' c od fou r practical, and not a theoretical, one ; and, as I have St° .t. contested erections, I may be so allowed to look upon the t be do not think any arrangement can be made for ta k bi r i g to vote by ballot which would give you anything aPPiT ae ro na a security from the concealment of the vote, u nless by ' _deo' risks and embracing evils much greater than those : I ' o ll voured to be avoided. It is easy to say Leta ma n b e le ° ballot as you do in a club-room ;" but nothing can opens like the fact when you come to put the system into ° P e —Opinions of Lord Brougham. . It will be seen by the report of the m eeting let took place at Newport on Saturday last, that the H oo. _ o f tb`; Pelham is the accepted candidate of the Reformeol7_,ion 0 : county of the Isle of Wight, in the event of a diss ,. lo ;i l f a e: , Parliament. We sincerely wish him success, ,ai tbd happy and p rou d in affording our aid in his battle a.i7 irle 0 tyrannical, the mer cenary , and deceitful Tories of t° Wight.—Re of Wight Advertieer. ''w..a~: .~