The Sun. — London, England, 1837-06-12 00:00:00

SPIRT'!' (IF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS " in There has been so long what men call " a crisis the country, that it seems stale and hackneyed to re cur to the same term. Besides, we have alwav thought it a terra, rather exaggerated, because we have always clearly seen a sure and a peaceable way through the difficulties by which we may at different periods have seemed beset. - We knew that the Reform Bill would be carried peaceably and quietly, and that it would neither be carried by civil contest, nor followed by' 'evolutionary confusion. We knew that slavery would be abolished quietly and peaceably, and that it would be followed neither by the ruin of our colonies, nor by the insurrection of our subjects. We knew that the mono - poly of the East India Company could be ahrogated without the destruction of our trade, or the subversion of dint body of enterprising mer chants to whom we are indebted for our splendid dominion in the East. 'We knew that the English Municipal Bill would become law, withcnt the gene ral confiscation of property on the one hand, or the erection of a parcel of petty turbulent republics, as was then predicted, on the other. In fact, there are two grounds on which we base all our judgments— the intelligence and the property accumulated by the industry of the nation of which we ate citizens. The one insures our onward progress, the other guarantees us for that progress being safely and tranquilly made. We are not thrown into a state of fury and surprise, because change meets with opposition—it is the natu ral result of change in a free country. llegpotiem effects its great revolutions suddenly and by blood. Thus Peter carried reform in one empire, and Mali moud is carrying it in another. But amidst liberty and civilisation the course of things is different. Prejudice is destroyed not suddenly, because it is act destroyed by massacre, but slowly because it is destroyed by discussion. We do not foam at the mouth, then, be cause every thing has not been done in six years ; but we look behind us and we look around us. By look ing behind us we see what public opinion can do ; by looking around us we see what public opinion is certain to be. Nations do not stand alone in the world. Each era has its ideas, which are uni versal. The ideas of our era are as distinct and as general as those of the feudal era ever were. There are certain notions which prevail amongseall the intelligent men and leading Statesmen in Europe, Every step which is made in any part of the world, every change which takes place, is in favour of those notions. Whatever form of Government is outwardly established, those notions inwardly and practically per vade it. " Out upon the idea of governing men ac cording to their religion ! out upon the idea of esta blishing classes to be marked by creeds, of privileging or oppressing any body of men because they worship God differently from ourselves." This is the language held everywhere ; the course followed is in conformity with it. In Prussia, the Protestant monarchy of Ger many, the Catholic of Silesia stands on the same foot ing as the Protestant of Brandenburg. In Belgium, "the Catholic" state of Europe—the only state, per haps, in which Catholicism is fervently maintained— the Protestant priest finds his salary in the budget by the side of that allotted to the Catholic pastor. At this moment, while we write and look around us, we see nowhere still upstanding those prejudices which we are combating in England. Nowhere throughout Europe at this moment arc there Statesmen, hold ing the same opinions as Sir Robert Peel and Lord Lyndhurst. Can we, then, fear that those opinions will prevail ? Can we believe that human reaL son is to traverse the world with the exception of our own shores—that there is a line drawn round our own land, and our legislature, which says " here religious equality is not to prevail " ? No ; we believe no such thing. Unshaken and unchanged by the terrible wars and great convulsions which for twenty years overspread the rest of Europe, we were not placed in the neces sity, by all old things being destroyed, of - at once establishing everything new. Our old system has been regenerating itself piece by piece, our antiquated prejudices have been dropping away one by one. We passed the Catholic Emancipation Bill ; we passed the Test and Corporation Act ; still our minds could not take in at once all the consequences of those principles which we were forced to acknowledge. But ask any person without the sphere of those feelings which the inveterate prejudices of ages has stamped in our minds too strongly to be at once effaced—ask any man ac customed to study the government and the history of of mankind, and the sequence of events, which by a strange necessity make one circumstance the natural consequence of another, he will tell you that Canute, when he said to the waves, " Stop here I" did not more bitterly mock the flattery of his courtiers than the Tory chiefs are mocking the ignorance and stu pidity of their adherents when they say, " Rest satisfied; we will save you from all the further en croachments of the doctrines of that age you live in." We do not fear the voluntary principle ; it maintains itself nowhere but on the other side of the Atlantic, in a country differing altogether from Europe and ourselves ; but we know that Church-rates will be - abolished, for we know no other country in Europe and like ourselves where, under similar circum stances, they would he for one moment maintained. We do not fear Catholicism in Ireland usurping a civil exclusive power, because in no Catholic country in our times do we find that to have taken place. But we know that municipal institutions must and will be given to Ireland, because they have everywhere—yes, even in Lombardy, under Austria ; even in Rome, under the Pope—been wisely established and eminently successful. We do not fear that Protestantism in England will be uprooted by the attempt to Protes tantize Ireland by the sword being abandoned, because we find the Protestant faith quite as vigorous and as healthful in one part 0, Prussia as if the Catholic faith were trampled under foot in the other. But we knos that the attempt to maintain a hostile Church Establishment, which will make no attempt to conciliate, and seeks every way to irritate, the great bulk of the people among it is placed, must fail ; for there is no friend to civilization and true Christianity who does not deplore, and no person (we meen out of the sphere of mere party politics) acquainted with the means of governing—not only well and justly, but at all—who does not condemn it. We come, then, to the struggle which is now impending with a good courage. The voice of Europe cheers us on, and the voice of the majority of the people of England is in our favour. Against us stands not the aristocracy, but a part of the aristocracy, with that daring man at its head, who, possessing many of the atteibutes of his predeces • sor, Shnfteshury, seems resolved to ruin or to rule the State ; but even in his language is artfully in troduced a quailing tone, though so disguised as to persuade the stupid of his party that he still remains obstinate, while it tells the more intelli gent he is becoming reasonable. More reason -0 able we know tie will become, for the force of events compels it. The Irish Municipal Bill, that great and healing measure, the first stable foundation for social improvement in Ireland, will, eve say it With conviction, be passed this Session. If this Act is the only one ut this Session for Ireland, which we trust it ~ea not oe, still this Act will be a centtuy of ic" . .station. We say we are certain that this Act pa'ss both Houses of Parliament this Session --that the Lo T rds will concede this year, in that s;rit of certain and tranquil progress to which we h ave alluded, and which we constantly predicate, wAiat they refused last. Yet still we may be alloy% :ed to express a regret that Lord John - Russ sell. who speaks, he will remember, not as an indi vidual, but as the leader of a great party, should have taken an occasion the other evening to compli ment, for the words went near a compliment, a body the majority of which, in the person of their leader, Were at that very moment receiving so severe and eo well merited a chastisement from Len! Melbourne. The conduct of that body has been reckless, has been mischievous, not only to the interests of the country in general, but to the interests of their own order in particular. They have evinced a factious and party spirit in all their resistance, and it will be from party motives (for they never, as a party, could govern the country without concessions,) that all their concessions will he made. The House of Lords is not e as a por tion of the State, to be wantonly attacked ; but it is 1NT , 41, ,Tt 4. 9 the other hand, lo o ki ng a t it s c o n d uct o f l ate _yeAtisiato be unnecessarily defend e d ; an d we must ex --., 4$ - Ige&Q as\our opinion that Lord John Russell went out • of his way the other evening to say that which might just as well have been left unsaid.— Morn. Chro:iicie. The couwry will have seen with sa kn tiefetei ; and with increased confidence in the tutelary wiedom of the House of Lards, the steady, consistent, and sagacious vote of that statesmanlike assembly on Friday everng, when Lord Melbourne, ie obedience to the commands of his taskmaster, moved the committal of the Bill for vesting the government of all Irish Corporations in those sworn conspirators against Church and State, the Popish hierarchy and the vassal priesthood. The House of Lords, on the last occasion when the Bill abovementioned - was before them, having decided against the inexpediency of a hasty decision, and on tic necessity of waiting until they should see with what other schemes of Irish Radical policy it had been as sociated by the O'Connell Ministers, were prepared to consider the fitness of a project of municipal govern ment for Ireland, in conjunction with one fur the set tlement of the Church question, and for the establish ment of such a system ofexating„ under an expected Bill of relief to the poor, as might equally serve for a scale of qualification with a view to the, municipal fran chise. Long since we felt it our duty to impress upon the public the good sense and integrity of those precau tions which had been adopted by the House of Lords. Nothing surely could have been more precipitate, or inure perilous, than an irrevokable shaping and finish ing of one which it was announced by those who had introduced it, was to constitute part merely of a whole, and to be placed from the onset in a state of reciprocal action and reaction with other laws, before any certain index had been afforded of the nature and operation of thosT others. The Whig O'Connell Ministers, and their daily organs, however, became sulky upon this, and treated as something heinous the simple proposi tion, that no workman can safely turn out of hand any one portion of a complex instrument without possessing a complete knowledge, arising out of a simultaneous inspection, of those correlative members of the entire machine, to which each single one must be adapted. It was impossible for the House of Lords to judge how any Municipal Bill for Ireland would work, and con sequently how it ought to be constructed, without a pre-knowledge of the materials upon which it must operate—viz., the Church of Ireland, as modified and determined by the provisions of the Tithe Bill, and the description of municipal franchise to be created by those of the Bill for " Corporate Reform." Having once, on grounds of unquestionable policy, so chosen their course of proceeding with regard to the above Bill, and postponed the consideration of it until they should be able to examine it in context with its sister measures, the House of Lords, when the 9th of June arrived, had as a preliminary point for their decision to ascertain whether the requisites called for by their previous vote at the end of February or the beginning of March had since been furnished by the other House of Parliament, and to resolve whether, in pursuance of that former vote, they were yet at liberty to canvass, or compelled for some time longer to lay aside, the de tails of the Popish Corporation project. The case, unfortunately, admitted of no shadow of doubt. No progress, of which their Lordships could take cogni zance, had been made by the King's Ministers in bringing forward the promised- Bills, or submitting them to their Lordships' notice. The means of col lective legislation for Ireland were, on Friday last, no more abundant than between three and four months ago, and nothing, therefore, was left for the Peers— having respect to their own honour and consistency, or the essential interests of the nation—but a second postponement of the Committee on the Bill, with the same object and on the same condition as had dictated their original adjournment of it. The speech of Lord Lyndhurst in support of an amendment to the above effect was characterized by all that ability and energy which distinguish the address of the Learned Lord beyond those of most contemporary statesmen. A system of Conservative policy, being in its nature one purely defensive of the Constitutional monarchy against wanton and daring aggression, might, in common keeping, partake of the languid colour of most defensive operations, and thus commu nicate to its supporters a taint of feebleness and dis couragement. But there is no mischief of that kind to fear when the protection of a State devolves on such champions as Lord Lyndhurst. If assailants at his hands have little hope of success, they have as little of impunity. They are not defeated only, but thoroughly chastised. The scourge employed by the Learned Lord on Friday swept round the ill-fated Lord Mel bourne and his colleagues, and did not leave an inch of the official carcass free from the most pitiable ex coriation. The helplessness of the Prime Minister, and the straits to which he was driven, were shown by the awkward and mortifying line of deprecation (for of argument there was none) to which the unhappy Viscount resorted, when he whom an inexperienced foreigner might imagine, from the position which he holds, to be especially charged with the guardianship of our monarchical institutions, had no better means of meeting - Lord Lyndhurst's attack upon his prin ciples than, by taking up the cause of a rebel society, endeavouring to palliate the vicious character of its composition, and to apologize for having lavished the patronage of the King's Government on its members, by avowing that he disapproved what, nevertheless, he permuted his Irish subalterns invariably to practise-- the exclusion of all Irishmen of a true loyal stamp .and breed—namely, all who were or had been Orange men—from the most insignificant share of office or emolument under that Crown of which they are the best, if not the only, devoted protectors now in Ire land. Save his allusion to O'Connell's rebel asso ciates, and his shameful sneer at the recent interrup tion of Lord Lyndhurst's attendance in Parliament, the speech of Lord Viscount Melbourne was " nil." It was alike devoid of fact and reasoning, and resembled the whole history of the Ministeaial course, or rather anchorage (for he has never yet got fairly under sail), of the noble speaker, in being a perfect copra mor- Mum. The majority of the British Peerage against Ministers has increased since the preceding division to 63—a nuMber greater by 12 than the whole aggre gate of Ministerial Peers who could he scraped toge ther for a contest so important.— Times. One of the accusations urged by Lord Lyndhurtt against the Ministry, in moving the postponement of the Irish Municipal Reform Bill on Friday night, was, that the Government evinced a dispoSition to concede to and conciliate the Roman Catholics of Ireland, and also the Dissenters of England, both of whom the Noble Baron—seeking to justify pers ecu ti on b y un j ust accusations—most gratuitously was 'leased to desig nate as " the declared enemies of the Establish - ed Church." Now, as this disposition to concession and conciliation is made the subject of accusation by the Tories, tl le Tories, we might reasonably suppose, if not already convinced of the fact, that, should they by any chance succeed to °lice, they would immediately attempt t o close the doors against all furth er concessions titj parties wh om th e y th us en d eavour to. g i ng the deed, th e honest—we beg inate ; in on, the candid—por tion of th e .I —we ee such - to be their intenti o n ; so I t t . th . e (j ."..lst . ion between a Tory and Liberal Admi eaatton is thus reduced to the simple query—are we to have laws extending equal privileges of citizen ship to every class of subjects, whatever their reli gious creed, or are we to have the great bulk of the community ',hindered and oppressed, in order that a sect may maintain an iniquitous and tyran nical ascendancy ? On what grounds, save to screen the wicked by assuming the language , of a party aggrieved, dare the " Alien" Baron stigmatise the Ca tholics and Dissenters " as enemies of the e s t a bli s h e d religion ?" Wherein have they shown hostility ? Have they attempted to levy contributions on the orthodox sect for the support of their own Churches, Chapels, or Ministry ? No ! Have they attempted to exclude the orthodox sect from a full and fair participation in all the rights of citizenship ? No ! Have they incarce ' rated, shot, and murdered members of the orthodox sect for refusing to pay an impost against which their conscience revolted ? No ! Have they, even when vi lified and assailed, retorted the acrimonious language used against them ? Have they called members of the ascendant Church hypocrites, atheists, infidels ? No ! Wherein then have they shown hostility ? Simply in this—all these atrocities and abominations have been practised against them—they have been robbed for the support of a religion which they repudiate—they have been excluded From political enfranchisement—they have been incarcerated, shot, and butchered, for refu,-, sing to pay an odious impost—they have beetk nounced as hypecrite , l, atheists, inntleis—nay, they hare !wet np , ,lhied as beings of a different race, and marked for prosecution as " aliens ;" and, forsooth, because they do not remain passive under such unparalleled inflictions, because they have the pre sumption to scck a mitgation of this perscctuion, they ate denounced as " rebellious rabble," enemies of the tttahlished religion ;" and Lord Lyndhurst, cuistnn- jug the tom: of an npred nmerent, ex;' - lain:rs, Where is t!entettiott to cease—where will the Noble Viscount stop in his reckless career ?" He might more appro pelately have asked, " Must the Church disgorge all its plunder—shall Catholics be finally admitted to the perfect enjoyment of their civil rights ?" Let the question be put in this form to the people of Ireland, and the Nob!c Baron shall not be long left to wait the reidy. A simultaneous affirmative would burst in ei;, , ht millions of voices fro:n Ireland, and the emphatic yes would find an echo in more than eight millions of bosoms in England and Scotland. Lord Melbourne,. as on many former occasions, ably d:ssected and laid bare the duplicity of the wily Baron—proved that it was the number of Protestants connected with the General Association which made that body more for midable—and that resistance to the just claims of the Catholics would not tend to increase the security of the Church, for which the Nolik Baron professed so much apprehension. The Noble Premier observed that— " The Noble and Learned Lord in his speech had stated that it would be dangerous to give the required power to the people of Irciand, and that the proposition could not be safely entertained without endangering the Protestants of that country. lla also said that he was anxious and de sirous that this Bill should be carried. Now be (Lord Mel bourne) must take leave to express a doubt of the Noble and Learned Lord's sincerity, after the speech_ which he had just made. After all the delAy, he would defy the Noble and Learned Lord's ingenuity and skill to escape from the difficulty ; and therefore he (Viscount Melbourne) would beg leave to say that the Noble and Learned Lord had acted inconsistently in giving his countenance to this Bill at all." It is nothing unusual with Tory leaders to find them, selves impaled on dilemmas of this kind. Lord Lynd hurst expressing his feigned conviction that the Bill would be dangerous to Protestants, and at the same time professing a desire that it should be carried, is no more than what the Duke of Wellington did with regard to the Catholic Relief Bill, and Sir Robert Peel with regard to the Reform Bill, both which measures were denounced as involving the certain ruin of the empire ; and yet the parties so denouncing them had no scruple of conscience in volunteering their services to carry these destructive measures into effect. From this, by their own showing, it appears that the Tories care nothing far the safety of the State when placed in com petition with the good things of office. The following observations of the Noble Premier leave the Torie 3 but little cause for exultation in provoking a contrast between the conduct of the General Association and that of their own secret societies and clubs : 7 " It was well known to, and in the recollection of, Noble Lords, that he had given an opinion adverse to the exist ence of the latter body (the General Association), and it should be taken into consideration, that if there were more danger attending its existence than that of others, it would be found, in the fact, that it is the great body of Protestants belonging to it which made it the more formidable as a General Association. But, looking at it as compared with other Societies, it was harmless. The Orange Society was entirely secret, and bound together by secret oaths, and which none but the members could understand, and from what he had heard, were of an awful nature.—(lnterruption from the Duke of Cumberland.) There was another club to which he would allude (the Carlton, we believe, to which the Noble Duke and Noble and Learned Lord belonged), which had given encouragement, and sent down persons to assist in electioneering contests ; but he (Lord Melbourne) denied that either himself or any portion of his Majesty's Ministers had given any encouragement to the General Association, or any thing which could be considered under the head of encouragement by impartial persons. The Noble and Learned Lord had thrown out more than one allusion to which he could not agree. He hail in effect said that the Roman Catholic religion was gaining the ascendancy. If it was so, he (Lord Melbourne) regretted it ; but if it was, it was not by objecting to it, or attemptin g to exclude them from their civil rights, that they would find their remedy. During the debate on the English Corporation Bill, many predictions of an unfavourable nature hiid been made by Hon. Members and Noble Lords, which he was happy to say had not been realized ; the last two years the Bill had worked much better than was predicted, ,and he still confi dently expected that he should have an opportunity of say ing, that it worked better this year than before."—dllorning Advertiser. The speech of Mr. Roebuck, in moving for a Com mittee of the whole House upon the state of the na tion, was principally a dissertation upon the following theme-.—" On what principles it is that Ministers have governed, do govern, or are resolved to govern, the nation ?" Now, we hold that any one of the ingenious philosophers who prescribes to h imse lf th e task of dis covering the longitude,'squaring the circle, or dragging from the arcana of nature's laboratory that golden se cret, popularly' called the " philosopher's stone," does not undertake a more difficult labour than the poli tician who generously devotes his hours of patient in vestigation to ascertain what principles our present " all round the hat" Government ever had, babe, or will have. Yet let it not •be said, as Mr. Roebuck seems to say, that Ministers have occupied the high places of the State in vain. Setting aside the high degree of perfection to which they have brought that branch of the science of Government which consists in Commission-jobbing, and in extracting as much as possible of public plunder for their connections and supporters out of the greatest imaginable amount of " purity of profession"--setting all that aside, we say, have they not made a discovery of first-Tate im• portance in political science ? We think we hear the public eagerly inquire, what discovery have they made except how to stick to office if they stick to nothing else ? We will tell the patient public. There is a certain class of ingenious mechanicians who may be called philosophers of " the movement," and with whom it is an object of eternal solicitude to discover the " perpetual motion," We have a class of politi cians in this country of the same stamp, but the Mi nisters are not of that class. Their cfrorts seem to have been directed to the discovery of the opposite principle in the political system, and we think Mr. Roe buck himself will allow that in that object they have been perfectly successful. They have, in fact, disco vered what we may+ . take the liberty o f ca lli ng t h e perpetual stoppage' system—not the " stoppage of , supplies ; uut the Stoppgiie of everything- else. There is, indeed, the " going on of salaries--the go mg Wi 01 " jobs"—railway and others—and the going on of long-winded speeches of Lord John Russell and Mr. Spring Rice l I.5Ut there IS the stoppage of' all impi - ovemeni, Their government, like that of some of the old machines thee fofmerly lumbered along our roads, i 5 it " jolif nu of stoppages." The vis inertia. of I;:gitaiton is the oil; vie it exhibits. In a ga me o f cricket, if our Ministers could do nothing dee, they would make excellent stoppers. Their Speak.‘r of the Commons may sum up the whole business of the 9es . sion (except as to the supplies for the aforesaid sala ries, conimiesions,and other jobs), by stating that he occupied the chair, while Ministe , :s p t e a l l . : e e t d ua a i n s d to d p i p d aagne ~ i nfinite deal of nothing," so many months, wee k s , Lys, hours, minutes, dtid SetOnti6, by him stop-wa tc h. Now the grot advanta,'e of the system" is, that it th.;es not require that Ministers should possess possess any principles whatever. Why old] (tieB Mr. Roebuck prescribe to himself the impracticable task o f endeavouring to asecr!ain what their principles are Mr. Hume can tell him that he need not trouble him self About the matter ; for the trite prinCiple of Whi g . Radical morality and patriotism is to vote white is black, and black is white, whenever Ministers insist that it shall be so. Neither does the " perpetua l stoppage sy s t em " requ i re that Ministers should h ave any States man lik e talents., or knowledge, or capacity for business. Every thing can stand still as well, or perhaps all the better, for the want of them just like Sir J. Campbell's four-years' Bill for " the abolition of imprisonment for debt," or Sir John Campbell's zeal for the reform of the Criminal Law, which can remain in a torpid state to the end of the Session, without tasking his legal ingenuity, or draining very dry the . sources of generous emotions in his heart. Mr. Roebuck thinks the Ministers have done nothing for Ireland.- Mr. O'Connell thinks otherwise, and for this simple reason, that the said Ministers have done a great deal for Mr. O'Connell, which is a far better thing. They have placed him in a paradise of patronage, with to L all the t ordMulgral r T al e i as jgi the grand-almoner of his bounty agitators and sedition-mongers nu] SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 18: i. of Ireland. Thus the perpctnal stoppage system works very well for him of the, forty-jointed tail. He would probably prefor it very much to any " movement" that would move him out of that patronising position Where he greatly desires to stop. The chief ingenuity of the eternal stoppage system is, to bring in such 13111 s as it is known the House of Lords, supported be the great mass of the enlightened aid Protestant people of I Ind, will rdect while all r i nt;ons of real reform and improvement are either eiLirelV tirtglectetl, or treated tu—stich a manner as to insure their failure. As to their foreign policy, it degrades and disgraces the country almost more than that of the peNsioned Ministry of Charles 11. The truckling submission to Ru-•sia in the case of the Vixen, the other day, is as base and cowardly as their slaughtering, intervention in the civil war of Spain is unprincipled an:l criminal. The longer they stop in offioe, the longer-the groat in terests of the country most be neglected, all the hopes of all enlightened and Constitutional Reformers disap pointed ; for, while the no-principle Ministry exists, the wheels of national improvement must stand still.— Morning Herald. The marriage of the Princess Marie de Savoie, Mdlle. Cari,gnan., cousin of the King of Sardinia, with his Royal H►ghnees the Prince of Syracuse, was celebrated at Turin on the 28th ult. The nuptial benediction was given by the Archbishop of Turin, in the presence, of the Royal Family and the gram: officers of the Crown. Prince Eugene de Carignan stood proxy for the Prince of Naples. A grand dinner afterwards took place at the Cuurt, and before mid night the Princess started on her journey for Genoa, where a frigate was ready to convey her immediately to Naples.— Paris Paper. KNOCKING AT LONDON DOORS.—A dozen no blemen may have laid their own patrician hands on my knocker within a fortnight. As I use the dining-room to write in, I am within fifteen feet of the street door, and no favour of this sort escapes my cars. Ridiculous as it may seem, there N a species of etiquette established, by which a peer shall knock louder than a commoner 1 I do not mean to tell you that parliament has passed a law to that effect, but I do mean to say, that so accurate has my car become, that I know a lord by his knock, as one would know Vel luti by his touch. Now a loud knock may be sometimes useful as a hint to a loitering servant, but it was a queer thought to make it a testof station.—England; with Sketches of Society in the Metropolis, by the Author of " The Pilot," Letter from Washington to Lafayette, on his resig nation of the Presidency :—" Mount Vernon, Feb. 1, 1784: —At length, my dear Marquis, I am become a private citizen on the banks of the Potomac, and under the shadow of my own vine and fig tree from the bustle of a camp and the busy scenes of public life. lam pleasing myself with those tranquil enjoy ments of which the soldier, who is ever in pursuit of fame—the statesman, whose watchful days and sleepless nights arc spent in devising schemes to promote the welfare of his own, perhaps the ruin of other countries ; as if this globe was insufficient for us all ; and the courtier, who is always watching the coun tenance of his prince, in hopes of catching a gracious smile, can have very little conception. I am not only retired from all public employments, but lam retiring within myself. I shall be able to resume the solitary walk, and tread the paths of pri vate life with heartfelt satisfaction ; envious of none, I am de termined to be pleased with all ; and this, my dear friend, being the order of my march, I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers. * • * I thank you most sincerely, my dear Marquis, for your kin 4 invi tation to your house if I should come to Paris ; at present I see but little prospect of such a voyage ; the deranged situa tion of my private affairs during these few years will not only oblige me to suspend, but perhaps for ever hinder me from gratifying this wish. This not being the case with you, come with Madame Lafayette and view me in my domestic walks." An extraordinary phenomenon, presented in the Southern Ocean, may render our settlements in New South Wales of still more eminent importance. A sixth contine.r.t is in the very act of growth before our eyes. The Pacific is spotted with islands through the immense space of newly fifty degrees of longitude and as many of latitude. Every one of these islands seems to be nearly a central spot for the forma tion of coral banks, which, by a perpetual progress, are rising from the lulled o:nasle depths of the sea. The union of a few of these masses of rock shapes itself into an island ; the seeds of plants are carried to it by the birds or by the waves ; and from the moment that it overtops the waters it is covered with vegetation. The new island constitutes, in its turn, a centre of growth to another circle. The great powers of nature ap pear to be still in peculiar activity in this region ; and, to her tardier process, she sometimes takes the assistance of the vol cano and the earthquake. From the south of New Zealand to the north of the Sandwich Islands the waters absolutely teem with those future seats of civilization. Still the coral insect, the diminutive builder of all these mighty piles is at work ; the ocean is intersected with myriads of those lines of foundation ; and when the rocky sub-structure shall hare excluded the sea then will come the dominion of man. Friday night a singular spectacle presented itself at the West-end of the town; about twelve o'clock the whole of the street lights, from Charing-cross down to the Houses of Parliament, and very large proportion of the streets in the neighbourhood, were suddenly deprived of the supply of gas, and total darkness succeeded. There being neither moon nor stars visible, great perplexity was occasioned to all passengers, whether in vehicles or on foot. A singular concomitant was, that whilst the street lights were all extinguished, the lights in private houses at intervals were observed burning as bright as usual. The House of Commons breaking up at half-past twelve o'clock, great inconvenience and much risk was in curred, by the endeavours of the Members and others present at the debate, to reach their homes in the dark. We are not aware to whom blame attaches, but it is highly necessary that some precaution should be adopted in the proper quarter to prevent a recurrence of so dangerous a nuisance. On the afternoon of Thursday week three majestic wild swans were observed floating quietly near the shore, in the basin of the Esk, by Mr. D. Leichton, while engaged in cultivating his fields at the Braes of bossie. Quickly throw ing aside his implements of husbandry, he loaded both barrels of his fowling piece, one with ball, the other with small shot, and hastened to the beach. The alarmed swans rose grace fully on the wing from the bosom of the waters. Their flight, however, was destined to be short; for two of them were dropped right and left, in true sportsmanlike style. The other, loathe to forsake its fallen friends, and still lingering near the spot, was also wounded with ball by the same un erring aim, and, thus disabled, was afterwards killed by other hands at a short distance from the spot where its companions fell. The length between the tips of the wings, when ex tended, measures six feet and a half, and five feet from the bill to the extremity of the tail. They have been presented to the Montrose Museum.—Monfrose Review. Mr. Towneley, influenced, we believe, by considera tions of a private nature, has, we regret to observe, withdrawn from the contest for the North Division of Durham. The Hon. H. T. Liddell and his brother Tories are, in consequence, in a state of rapturous anticipation.— Tyne Mercury. ECLIPSE OF TILE HONEY-MOON.—Brewer, of Baddow, some twenty years' old, or thereabouts, was charged at the Chelmsford Petty Session, May 30, by his spouse, a , lady with the flippancy of the teens in her face, with having violently kicked her over the reatri4ionial traees. Some few months—a few short months—since Mister Brewer put on his best Sunday clothes, and walked forth with the lady at his side, to lift a large load of little responsibilities to his shoul ders ; but, alas ! he soon found—for lovers are sometimes out in their calculations—that all the sunshine he had expected came a day before instead of a day after the wedding. The honey-moon rose eclipsed—and before the first quarter was out, frowns flew- across the connubial horizon, and low mut-,, terings were heard in the distance. He looked about for Love to assist him, but the deceitful little urchin, after all his pro inises, had slipped out of the back door without being missed, while the parties were eating the nuptial dinner. The matri monial glass continued to fall—first to peevish—then to sulky _very sulky—quarrelsome—very quarrelsome—and soon af ter, according to Mrs. Brewer's statement, it came to blows and starvation, where. with a few short intervals, it had re mained ever since. It appeared, however, that the lady had laboured dili g ently to bring about a consummation so devoutly to be avoided; and the Bench dismissed the complaint, ad- . _ vising the parties to bind' up their old wounds , and take a fresh and more friendly start over the matrimonial course—advice which there seemed, from the knitted brows of the bridegroom and the pertness of the bride, as much probability of their a'lopting as there is of vinegar returning to sweet wine.— Essex Herald. - Monday -Mrs. Wilson, wife of John 'Wilson, fish monger, Bolton, put a period to her existence. She had of late years been much addicted to drinking, and her husband and she lived most unhappily together, and have frequently summoned each other before the Magistrates. On Monday Wilson procured a warrant against his wife for some alleged misconduct, and between 7 and 8 o'clock in the evening she was lodged in the Star-chamber. Mrs. Borrow, the wife of the deputy-constable of Great Bolton, had occasion, about 9 o'elncit, to' go into the room where Mrs. Wilson was confined, and found her hanging from one of the iron bars of the win dow. It appeared that the deceased had acted in the most determined manner, having tied a silk handkerchief to one of the top, bars of the window and the other end round her neck ; her feet being upon the floor, she must have completed' the act by pressing her whole weight on the handkerchief. She was a woman of about thirty years of age, and has left two young children. A few years since she was much re spected in the town, and gained much custom by her cour teous manners.—Manchester Guardian. BIRMINGHAM. —In our last we announced that a Sub- Committee was appointed to draw up a declaration, and the following was agreed to, and is in the course of signa ture :—" We, the undersigned bankers, merchants, manufac turers, and traders, and other inhabitants, having been called upon, in a memorial addressed to us by upwards of 13,000 of our fellow-townsmen, the workmen of Birmingham, to take into consideration the present state of the trade of the town and neighbourhood, deem it our duty, in confirmation of the facts alleged in the said memorial, to declare that for some months past the customary operations of trade have been as tended with the severest losses ; and the result has been a ge neral want of confidence, and suspension of business, which has deprived the labouring classes of employment, and caused among them a state of distress rapidly approaching to starva tion. That in such a state of things every principle of huma nity and of prudence equally requires the united and energetic efforts of all classes of the community, for the purpose of ob, taining prompt and adequate relief` Birmingham Paper, PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, AS:..; :TA NCE CO:4II'A NIES, Lite. &c. LONDON,• FIIIDAY, JUNE 9. • Nurt•Vier Dividend Price of i Cr , CAN Al S. - per 'ill lies. Animal. Paid. Snare. 1,7ii.3 7 pet ccht Aslitin .and (?nlham....Average 971. It.s. sh. 1,5 1, 1 92 41. Asbby Ale-le:Lime!) Average 1131. sh. 65 1,2::1 ..... ... Ba,l;7',V.)ke . •.. 1 lioi. ,h. 5,4 1,0 , 5 • ht. ilreeke:) , :lc ..m.l .11,rgiivenny... -150 .sh , II , C 0 , 00,) '' , l63:i 'X. 9s. I:lllii...ght.i - n, t. 161,11 ',hale .. ..... ` - '.l . & 71/. 218 o' o o .. . - 00 . .9 2 , ...1 IA VOF pt,./1 .1.111:::... 1 .'N. i`. lli , . vi fil (::1;(::1;...... Briti.o2Water :rid IMintnii ....10 , i. : -ii. ail pd €4 -91,) 41. Clieliner and I.3!tieli..A•aler ... 101. sh. lot: . f - . 00 181. Coventry • 00/...h. 7.0 1 .5'5 .....,... Croylon a verk:c 311.25. 10.1 sh. .1 2, '';' , l 40 Os. Dadley 1i , 8) 71. i 12 . , ,, - 100/. sh. 1:3 20,0 . . Danube aital.‘. - e :301. l'ds. 4d. :"`l/. I.d 24 1 0 1) vit :1,5751 - 3'. Ellesmere and Clu..*Stet...... A verage 133/. sh. 80 231 40% Erewash . ' „„.. ... 'OO4 c,. 670 1,•.'07 29/. Firth and Clyde .--A•; 0 craye 44-.1•;.....a. 1110 11 ,:0 0 I-1. (:rar.) .Tor, .:••- In , ' Sh. 201 2.1491 11. Grand Union 4, 1. sh. 24 15'l1 ... 6 ca..(l Surt.y 12'),O00'. 11.4cer een r_ t. Olt a (eional) Loan . luet 711 3,003 Grand W este r n CVO 13/. Hs. 9.1. Ulan •rgaindlire, Av.:rage cost 172/. 13s. 4d. 230 749 .oa. 1: anthem . ..150/ sh. 202 6,234 1/. 15s Iludt4.l , fit Id Average 5 . ./. 0,. Ott sh. :I3 101) 25,3.29 11. iS. Kennet . nil Avon, Average 391.185. 10d. SO. ..i! 2;4971 201. Leeds ;001 Liverpool lOO/. sh. 570 5)51 131. Leicester •.... . . 110/. sh. 01 1, , 197' 4/. 104. Leicester an•-t Northanip.oo..,Aver. t'l/. its. 85 2,400 101. Mturnothhshire ....0,11/.sh. 200 1.10 10/. ' Molt oti illowbray IMt. ell. 200 50') 251. Mersey mod Irwell l3Ol. sh. MA 3,000 11. 103. blacciczfleld PM. sh all pd. 54 217 17/. Neath )00/. sh. 325 1,786 3al. Oxford lOO/. sh. 524 2,400 5!. Peak Forest . Average about 79/. sh. 154 21,113 12s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 154.E:...1. sh. 16 5,669 6/. p-r vent. nochdale Average: l -V.511. 114 5110 8/. Shropshire • 15/. sh. 138 SOO 9t. Pls. Somerset Coal L.U. sh. 14S 11,000/. 4,1 p , ..r cent Ditto I F , inct Stock l2/. 10, sh. 11. 700 40/, StalP , rd anti Worcester 1 Pl. sh. 710 500 SM. lehrewslaii y 125/. sh. 213 300 91. Stourbridge 3,047 21.. s. &lAgora-on-Ay n ...Average 791. Os. tld. sh. 50 533 12/. Swansea 101/. sh. 221 3,7;i2 1/. Ils. Severn and Wytt'anot Railway ...Av 351. sh. 26 2,6 0 Is:, 321. 10s. Trent an•l Alctsey, + share 101)1. sh. 550 8,119 Thames .0 INgedway...A.rer. 19/. ss. `;:l. sh. V 1,000811.1 11/. W a rwick a.id l'Arminghatn 100!. sh 2.1!'. 1,00045 h. j ' 9 4 10 11., Warwi , ..k and :.Capton IOW. sh. 186 6,000 4/ Os. Worcesl i a 11...! Ilirminghain...Av. 78/.84. sh till 5, 0 00 - 225. Wilts an . Ilmns .. Average 071. 10s. Bd. sh. f;:t 800 31. Wyrley and Ei , :ington 1251. sh 7.'; 1.•0 W i s b eac l i lO5l. sh. 4! 905 1/. Wey and Aron llOl. sh. 2.: DI.P.'KS. 2 1 ,.6 06 00 4 % is 3p. c. Commercial 100/ . sh . 55 114,037 V. 6 per ct. East India Stock 119 3.234,3101/. 595. p.ct. London - Stock 54 Ditto Bond . 1,340,000/. 5/. per ct. West India Stock 1 0 31 2:20.1 2/. :Os. Bristol 65,324/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts 1,332,752 4p r cent. St. lisithatioe Ssock 91 5110,01.111 43 per cent. Ditto Bonds 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds icr 10 years 953 Shoreham Millions 2.500 .... .... Deptford Piel ' , N. sh. 31. B. Rh /GES. 1,600 ks, Hamtnersin t+ 5Ol. sh. 221 s 7,231 Southwark, 01.1 Av. 631 . '2s. SO. sh. 2 1,700 1/. 15s. Ditto, Now, of 73 per cent. 5O!. sh. 14 5,000 - 100/ sh. 41 5,000 18s. 80. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81.... 6O/. pd 183 5,000 Ifis, 40. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 401. pd 151 00,000/. 5/. per cent. Vito) Bond IIS 5,818 14s Vauxhall Av 'rage 7el. 10s. 3d. sh. 163 AS , URANCIs COMPAN:ES. 2,000 3110 s Albion 500/. sh. 501 pd 80 50,090 [ s z l)er l r i r c t l Alliance, British & Foreign 100/. sh. 10$/. pd 12: 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. p 51 24,000 1/ per oh. Atlas 501. sh. 51. p d 10, 1,200 ;sh. 5/. Birmingham 1 ire 9 30/. sh. 55/ pd 105 20,000 4/ per cent. British Fire 230/. oh. 50/. pd 41 12,1100 61 percent. British Commercial 501. sh. W. pd 64 5,000 5/. per cent. Clerical, Medi al,&c. Lite, Kash. 12/1080 4 4,000 21 lOs County 1001. sh. 10/. pd 42 20,000 ss. Eagle 200 fa 3 n pe d r3ocisbnst.l conomic Lit lOOOl. sh. 2501. pd 375 . E 2,271 225. per cent. European hi. • 2Ol. sh. all pd . 21 59,000 2s. Ditto, New ... 2O/. sh. 21. pd 1: 1,000,000/. 71. per ct. Globe 20,000 51. Guardian lOO/. sh. 2731 pd 33 10,000 Os. ed. Hope 501. sh. 51. pd 51 2,100 5/. 7s. Od. Imperial lire 5001. sh. 501. pd 121 7,500 9s. Imperial Lite 1001. oh. 101. psi 10 13,458 Ns per sh. Indemnity Maline 1 0 01. sh. 8/. pd 104 2,020 3/ 101; Kent Fire 50/. sh. all pd 82 31. Ditto Life 10, 0 00 I6s. Law Life 1001. sh. 10/. pd 215 5.000 10s. , London, Firs 25/ sh. 12/. 10s. pd 133 3,900 10s. London, Ship 251. oh. VI. 10s. pd 151 30,0 1 0 51. per cent. Palladium 1 its 50/. sh. 21. pd 21 Ss Od 50,001) Protector Fite 2O/. sh. 21. pd 18. Cd 2,500 1/. Provident laic 100,000 5/. per cent. Rock Life... 0 0/. sh. 21. pd 63 re 59,220/ N. percent. Royal Exch.s.ce • Stosk... 223 6,000 5 per cent. University Lite lOOl. oh. 5/. pd. 51 50,001) 4 per cent. United Kimplom Life :2l. pd JOINT STOCK BANKS 25,000 A gric and Cumin. of Ireland 25/. sh. 101. pd 14 5,000 Australasia 4O/. sh. 401. pd 56 10,006 10 percent. Bank of Bit mingliam 5 O/. sh. 10/. pd 13 10,000 19 per cent. Birmingham Bank .... 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 14 3 0 ,000 5 per cent. London and Westminster...loo/ sh. 201. pd 19 3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster 100/. sh. 20/. pd 30 25,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. IN. pd 19 50,000 '73 per cent. Manchester and Liverpool] 100/. sh. 151 pd 21} Discount 20,000 7 per cent. Manchester. 100 /. sh. 25 ! pd 9.6 20,000 Provincial Busk of Ireland...loo/. sh. 25/. pd 31 1 - 20,! CO National Bank of Ireland ...5+./. sh 171/. pd 131 10,000 1 per cent. National Provincial Eng. ...lOU eh. 331. pd 29 :9,000 Gloucestershire 5Ol. sh. 10/. pd 20 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 50/. sh. 5/. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 1/ Ss 60 Bath 2O/. oh. W. pd 21 5,000 British 4Ol. sh. 161. pd 21 5, ,,„ r5/.percent.l Ditto Provincial 2Ol. sh. 19 pd 23 '''''" tand Bs. ss. 928 5/ 10s Birmingham 5Ol. sh. 91 4,250 21 Os Bristol 2o'. sh. 3111 1,500 31 101 Brighton 750 3/ les Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 181. pd 11 2,471 5 per cent. Brighton General 20/. oh. all pd 11 4,000 4/. Continental Consolidated lOO/. 621/. pd 81 1,000 10/. City of London lOO/. sh. all pd 18. 1,1100 6/. Ditto, New 1,000 4/. les. Equitable 10, 0 00 21 per cent. Imperial 'Ol. sh. 4! 800 5/. per cent. Isle of Thaset 251. sh. 20/. pd 2 2,350 61. per cont. Independent 3O/. sh. all pd 4 9,000 3/. per cent. Phoenix 50/. sli. 39/. pd 2 1,000 4/. per cent. Ratcliff 1001. sh. SO/. pd 5 4,000 South lq.stropolitan 5"l. sh. 10/. pd 1 8,200 51. per cent. United General 5Ol. sh. 461. pd 5 21)) 5/. per cent. Warwick 501. sh. I 400 81. per cent Wakefield 251. sh. 5 12,000 31. Westminster Chartered 6,009 12s. Ditto New . 511. oh 111/. pd SCO Yarmouth 2Ol. sh. 18/. pd WATER Wall.liS. 1,800 Os. Birmingham 25/. sh. 25/. pd ‘, 1,434 6/. East London lOO/. sh. 1 5,500 21100 Grand Junction ....Average 11/ 13s. 441. sh. 2,1100 2/. Kent lOO/. sh! 1372 10/. Liverpool Bootle . .20/. sh. 3 1,500 2110 s New diver London Bridge Water Annuities 6,486 1/ IN Manchester and Salford 1,000 4 per cent. South London 1001. sh. 8,294 sit. West Middlesex ....Average 63/. 12s. WI. sh. 1,360 1/ 14s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 100/. sh. IRON RAILWAYS. 0000 ..... ~.. . Birmingham and Derby lO/ p d 9 , 51)1) Birmingham and Gloucester IP/ pd 7,500 liirrtiltigharn, Bristol, and Thames Junction 15,010 ... 660 Calcutta and Saustur 5O/. sh. 7,500 ••• ••• Cheltenham and G. Western...!oo/. sh. 731. 3,031 Clarence lOO/. oh. 100/. irl . 12,04 4 . .) .. a 8,000 60,000 Zattern Counties '2sl sh. *2l. psi Grand Junction lOO/. s!1. 50/. p 1 Great North of England 23.1;01 Great Western VW sh. 451. pd 1,010 ...... ... Hartlepool 100/. sh. 1001 pd 0000, Hull and 'clby so.•'h. 51. pd 10004 I,eils and Manchester 10:S/ sh. N. pa 7,100 Leeds and Selby l6O sh. 1,530 Leicester and Swatinington -.51'1. sh. allpd 5,109 10 per cent. I.iverpool and Manchester...lo(l.sh. 1001. pd Ditto Quarter Shares "3/. pd London and Brighton lOO/. sh. 51 pd Ditto ditto (Gibbs') ...'2Ol sh. 11 pd Ditto ditto (Rennie)...so/. sh. 31. pd Ditto ditto (Cundy)...loo/. sh. 3/. p 0 toistiott and P.lackwall 50/ sh. 31 pd Londoll amt Greenwich 2O/. 014. 'lO/. pd London and Ilitmiogham -100/. sh. 85/, pd London and Snuthampton __MIL sh. 40/. pd London and Croydon 2f/. sh. 201. pd London Grand Junction... ...... 5 1 sh. :1/. psi M ncliester and Bi.mingham...so/.sh. 51. pd North Midland 100/. sh. 15/. pd Northern and Eastern loq. sh. :V. pd Preston /Ws; Vs' yse 5O/. sh SI. pd South Easterii and Dover 7l. pd Stockton and Darlington lOO/.615. Thanes !Liven 5O/. oh. '21.105. pd Westminster and Greenwich 59/. sh. 21. pet York and North Min': rid 5O . sh. :21. pd MINES. Albion Copper 31/. pd Alter 15 z ~,. 12/. 10s pd Anglo Mexican, iss. Si. pm.... 100/. s.: all pd Ditto Subscription 0 3; 00 Rol .nos 1501• oh all pi; ___ . -. 10,000 45,000 ...... 16, 0 00 8,0,0 ...... 12,000 20,000 3 per cent. 25,000 00 7,000 12.00 2,f4X1 ‘8,0(K) ...... I,foo Cl. per cent. 0,000 1,100 6,00) Pl,OOO 4,000 I/. 55.. 10,000 ..... 2,000 10,000 1 1. 10i 0,0 0 11,000 ...... 10,000 10,000 20,001 Brazilian Imp. iss. 5/. pm. 15/. sh. 20/ Pd Nlacatiltas tic Cocaes United 25/. sh. 2`3!/. pd Ditto St. John Del Rey 201. sh. 111. pd Ilolivzr Copper Company '0)1. sh. 20/. pd Ditto Scrip IC/. sh. 51. pd P.ritiah Iron .. 5Ol. sh. 5l pd British Copper Cata Branca... 6i/. pd Candouga Copiapo '2ol. sh lei/ NI Co',milli:an, iss. 51. pm. English l2l 1(.8. ixl General Opining Association...2U sh. 151. rd Mexican Company 1001. sh SW. pd Polberon Consols lOl. sh 81. pd Real del Monte, Unregistered Ditto Loan NOtes l5Ol. ix' United Mexican, iss. 2 pm ....40/. sit. all pd Dit t. Scrip Ditto New Scrip ,i r d West Cork 50/. sh. 501. pd LITERARY I NSTIT UTI ON S. London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs, 5h.... London University 100/. sh. all pd Russell 2.5 gs sh. King' College 1001. pd MISCELLANEOUS 10,000 Iss. Australian Agricultural....loo/. sh 27'“. pd 6,000 (V. per cent. British American Land Company 2 ,;/. pd 10,11)5) 61 per cent. Canada Company lilt/. sh. 24/. pd 200,000 5/ per cent. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent 15,000 1/. (is. General Steam Navigation -151. sh. 13/. pd 104 per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 11. London Corn. Sale Rooms. Av. 751. sh Caoutchouc Company ..251. s! - .. 2il. pd New Brunswick Land Company . ..... 43/.. pd 2,754 51. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/. O. 100/. pd '2,633 Si. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 701. pd 4,000 'Shames funnel . 501. sh. all ;ad 10,000 6,000 o,nno 1 r. F1,5G3 2,850 20,000 11,155 3,000 11,500 20,000 1,000 1,500 700 ...... ... 2,000 8,000 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. MAY 26. 1837. BANKS. /,500,00V. 6/. p. ct. Ban': of Scotland Q3l. 6s Sd. sh. all pd 10Q/. 2,000,0 X/. 51 p. et. Royal of Scotland 1001. sh. all pd 1551. 500,0X'1. 6p. ct. British Linen Company 100/. sh. :.11 p.l :::36/. 3,000,00 e/. 6/. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 100/. pd 175'. 1001. sh. 101. pd 1531. 2 5 :( 30 ,:04 1... -. 1. l .1,. ct.e. t Glasgow wal Union 250/. sh. 501. pd 67i/. 4,000,00/. 4 p. ct. IWNSURANCEestern ot Scotlandtland NI OO E S. sh 30/. pd 36-1/. COMPA 250,0005 h. 61 p. ct. Scott;sh Union 20/. sh. 1/. pd • 9 . 5, ,5a.) 61 p. ct. Hercules 100/. sh. 101. ptl 13! 15s. i n e , ooo sp. et. Insurance Co. of Scotland ....10/. sh. all pd Sit, 5 0 , 000 6p. ct. North British 200/. sh. 10/ : pd 1:: 1. . _ . 1,0 00 sp. ct. Caledonian Fire NU sh. Iv/. - pd 16/136 6 et. Edinburgh life .., mg p. lOOl. sh. 104 p.,1 14110 s inoup 31 p. ct. West of Scotland lOl. pd 71 vs MISCELLANEOUS. Edin. mai Il' is Un. Cana1...50/. ch. all pd 2.21. . Ditto A11 , a;:u , "41 pc/. sh. all pd 65/. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb."Joan Stock Water 25/. sh. all pd 31/, Carron Iren Company 2501. sh. all pd 43/. 2,0005 h 15 per cant. Shotts Iron Founder, 501. sh 3q. pd 46 t t ! 1 0,000 3 per cent. Edinburgle Sc Leith Glass 2O/. sh. 16/. pd &/. 4,500 10 per cent. Edinbur3h Coal Gas 25/.6h. all pd to: 4,450 10 per cent. Gla.F.f.,:ow Gas • 251. sh. all pd - MI _ 750 •ii per cent. Leith Coal (las 201. sh.al Ipd - 451. . . ._. 4,910 - 1,113 Edinburgh andDalkeith Hallway—MA. 55/. 3,000 5 per cent„ tiqultable Loan Company...2s/. bh. W. pd 104. SHIPPING riTELLIGENCE ENTERED INWARDS AT TIIE CUSTOM HOUSE, JUNE 10. The Leda, Tape, from Rlttorililrl; ; Fueliaris, Lund, hristiviia; Strannack, Dantzie; G UStaVe, 'olgash ; Wvlze, Sehiem; William, Alaclovooci, Dantzlc. ENTERED OUT The Ghika, Hunter, for Campeachv ; ll,,tbn, Calais; FArne, Hall, Sierra ; Kent, 'T,tine' ,:),flo g ne ; Jeune Caroline, Bermev~er, w er, Anterp ; John NNOOOt Voudruff, CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO. The Batavier, Dunlop. f,,r Rotterdam ; Chieftain, Dournce, Hamburgh ; Princess Victoria, Britten, Antv‘erp ; Kent, Tune, Boulogne; William Jolliffe, Middleton , Calais; F..illant, Calais ; Ovan, Morfee, Antwerp ; Hope, Boxer, Rotterdam ; C.llynFo, Coward, So - I%lml ; George a nd Wiry, Mauritius; Dart, Block, Ostend ; John Wco . a , Woodruff, Havre; Maas, Blake, Rotterdam ; nail, Dunkirk; Rebel, Spriggs, Corfu. # CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLA ST. The Diana, Walters, for Memos; Eole; Lavalle, Gravc lines ; La Felix, Merlin, ditto; Cather ine, Glasgow, Arch angel ; Milton, Smelair, ditto; Henrietta , Weschurson, Me mel ; Driam, Patterson, Archangel. Pink, Whit- EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals.—June 10, the Mary Ann, Tarbutt, from Madil!' off Plymouth, sailed Feb. 7, and Cape April 6, the Tigris, Fotherington, from China, off Holyhead. Arrivals at the Cape.—The - Frances Charlotte, Well bank, March 30, from Portsmouth and Rio Janeiro; March La 1.4 y 31, die , March 30, from Bourbon ; the London , 'Lam b, from Torbay ; the Alciosse, Bennett, March 31, from China the Skerne, Rice, March 30, from Algoa Bay ; the Reich" mood; M`Leod, April —, from Calcutta, and s ailed Apl 7, for D L ondon. epartures from the Cape.—The Robert Small, April 2 ' Tigris, April 4, D..ke of Buccleuch, April 5, and Carnatict April 6, all for London. Departures from Madras.—The Alfred, Tolley , Feb- 6 ' for Pondicherry and London. Arrival at Calcutta.—The Isabella, Brown, from Loud° and the Cape. Ships Loading at Calcutta, Feb. 10, for London.--Tbe Georgiana, Thorns, to sail Feb. 14; the Royal Saxon, Re" . ner, Feb. 14; the Orator, Terry, Feb. 20; the Marion, Pope; the Fergusson, Young, Feb. 20 ; the Bolton, Cooproston, March 5. For Liverpool. The Syria, Cunie; to sail Feb. 14 ; Alexander Johnstone, Auld , Feb. 14 ; the Oriental, Sales, Feb. 22. For Bristol.—The Victoria, Wilson, Feb. 16. For the Cape and London.—The Broxbourneb ur y • Chapman, and the Duke of Northumberland, M`Carthy, sail Feb. M. For Bombay.—The Juliana, Driver , to 1' March 1. For Bordeaux. The Oriental, Piganeau , to.so Feb. 13. Passengers per Mary Ann, from Madras.—Mrs. Mrs. Baines (died at sea 10th April), Mrs. Minchin, Crawley, Civil Service ; Colonel Ogiivie and Captain Mi chin, Native Infantry ; Mr. Repper, Master Reece, Mr' Baines, Miss Baines, Miss J. Baines, Miss Minchin, and tiro servants. From the Cape—Mrs. Rowles, Master John Kec k " evick, Master B. Keckevick. Passengers per Richmond, from Bengal (expected).- - M rs : Macleod, Mrs. Ellis, Captain Sandy, Lieut. French, Lieu" Shephard, Lieut. Morgan, Lieut. Cornish, Lieut. Su land, F. Ross, Esq. ; Master and Miss Brown, Miss Ell* Miss Cornish, Master Crump. Passengers per Scotia, from Bengal (expected. )—Mesdanle° Watson, Vamenin, Brandon, Beckett, Thomson, and Downe s ; General Watson, Major Davis, Captain Brandon, Watson' Esq. ;J. 0. Beckett, Esq. ; Lane, Esq. ; Dr. Downel° Robert Lyall, Esq. We are opposed, for reasons which we have ofte.o stated, and which we believe are generally felt by the pu led at large, to the principle of courts of justice being supp ort by those who have the naisfortuae to be litigants, and there: fore conceive all fees of Court to be inexpedient, e xcept t.P., such a petty amount as may insure civility where there _l' more than one officer to perform the same duties. Th e fe d charged in the Sheriff-Court offices have long been pecG" liarly objectionable.—Scotsman. Sir Everard Home, in delivering his introduct or y lecture on the physiology of the blood, at St. George's lit' s ; pital, explained a discovery made by him on the compooe° parts of the blood, in the year 1818, a fact which is knee but to a few of the profession. Sir Evcrard's new theory that carbonic acid gas forms a large proportion of the blo o d and that this fluid is of a tabular structure. The immortli Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation, and Hewson so Hunter, who have most studied the composition of the V ita fluid, failed to make this important discovery; and should time' the only test of truth, prove the justness of this new tbeorl' Sir Everard will be ranked amongst the first physiologi ,ts i He asserts that carbonic acid gas exists in the p ro portion two cubic inches to an ounce, and is given out in quantities from the blood of a person after a full meal, and very little from the blood of a feverish person. Thelact of the appear anced of the tubes passing through every particle of the bloo Sir Everard was led to discover by observing the growt h of e. grain of wheat daily through a microscope ; he then ""! „- blob, and then a tube passing from it ; the blob was th e Pl c - of the plant, and the tube was formed by the extraction of cat. bonic acid gas. Reasoning from analogy, h e exam i n ed aet bule of blood, and found it composed of similar tubes, tvbi c " he was enabled to inject under the exhausted receiver of &noir' pump. His discovery will probably lead to important results. THE STREETS OF LONDON.—When we first of rived here from Paris, I was disposed to deny that the streer t of London were as crowded as it is usual to pretend. 34 0 opinion was formed too soon. What was then true is f 0 longer. London, or rather Westminster, in the height o f tPe season, and Westminster out of the season, so far as the rne,e t ment in the streets is concerned, are not the same town. Wr I was here in 1826, I saw no essential difference between D e : gent-street and Broadway, as regards the crowd; but now tha t we have passed the Easter holidays, every one appears to b: at his post ; and so far from ever having seen any where eI 6 the crowds of people, the display of rich equipages, the incest' sant and grand movement that adorn and bewilder the str eet of London, I had never even pictured such a sight in my I° l o v gination. They who have not been here at this season 01 , t year know nothing of the place. There is a part of the °"/:, between one and six, when it is actually a matterof risk f° l. 4 - pedestrian to cross the streets. I live near Piccadilly, w ij ' () is not wider than Broadway, if as wide, and have occasion t t cross it frequently. You know lam no laggard, and off n° ,, deficient in activity, and yet I find it convenient to make °'; first run towards a stand of coaches in the middle of the stre e , protected by which I take a fresh departure for the other Regent-street is still worse; and there is a place at Chsri tl bi cross that would be nearly impracticable, but for a statue ° Charles the Second, which makes a capital lee for one on M l ', As for Broadway ,and its pretended throng, I have been io ", current of coaches, in what is called the City here, for an I T u. , at a time, when the whole distance was made througi l bc jam as close as any you have ever seen in that street for space of a hundred yards. Broadway will compare with t ill more crowded streets of London, much as Chesnut-stree t compare with the Broad way.—C'ooper's England. In consequence of the depressed state of the nial facturing interest, the lace factories in Barnstaple are s ell. A great number of industriouS mechanics are out of et 0 13 17 „ /,: and have no means of supporting themselves and families; t o some time past their wages have have been barely suflici en meet their daily wants.—Devonshire Paper. pis ui ---- _______-----=;:s, 1 3 1 SECOND-HAND SILVER 3' WATCH ! ' . 4 A variety of some dozens may be selected from, price Two Gam e 2 each ; some rather more modern, Two and a Half Guineas caVbe in and an assortment quite equal to new, Three Guineas each . C O o h whole have been carefully examined, and are warranted. T. ‘-' J. of SAVORY, Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London. N.B. Sec -' hand Watches purchased in exchange. ___.......ww""° 1111?7'11S. o On the 6th inst., in Brunswick-square, Mrs. James Pea`-he), a daughter. ct , nidi On the Gth inst., at St. John's Wood, the wife of F. •vccl Esq., surgeon, of Oxford-street, of a daughter, which only sun', two days. On the 9th inst., in Albion-street, the lady of Win. Macl=ol' El., of a daughter. MARRIED. f . Cs' On the Bth inst., at Hurley, Berks, 11. P. Crellin, Esq. , tharina Warrand, only daughter of d, Esq. On the Bth inst., at Kensington ` Church, Mr. Gloyne, of f sington, to Anne, only daughter of the late Henry Papps, the Island of Aollgua. 30119 On the Bth inst., at St. James's Church , Dove r, the Res' ..is, Puckle, B. A, of Brasenose College, Oxfotd, to Anna o f eldest daughter of R. Shearman, Esq., of Grang e House, collo Kilkenny. On the Bth inst., at-East Wellow, Hants , Cap tain George ---c,/ficcr. it. N., of Wilton-crescent, to Mary, youngest d au g hter of Admiral Giffard. On the Ist inst., at Fid,lown, near Besborough, county I s kenny, David. Cox, jun., Esq., of Coward, Yorksh ire, to Rogerson, late of London. 121 36 100 1(11 241 DIED. , <r' On the 6th inst., at Loraine-place, Holloway, aged ;ix Yel i r f . (j, months, and seven days. Henry Nuthall, s'xond son tf . ' Brightman, Esq., late of Calcutta, merchant. Sal lii On the 7th inst., in Hart-street, Bloomsbury-square, ithes Letitia Weedon, aged-26. i i 6. On the 9th inst., at Dalston, Wm. Staniland, Esq. age - B Asulf On the Bth inst., at Woolwich, Dinah, wife of Mr. ' G• 1 1 .- 31 at builder and auctioneer, relict of Mr. J. C. Taylor, of his jty's ship " North Star," aged 46. late , es On the 23d ult., at Guerney, James Campbell Barton, E sq'' Ciptain, 87th Regiment. of M r. On the Bth inst., Alice Catherine, youngest daughter o f Elgood, of Wimpole-street, aged 7. jsi. p., On the 9th ult., in London, James Macintyre, Esq„ Newcastle7th -upon-Tyne. l'i n ' e' On the inst., Mr. Robert Stephenson , o f Church-rov, on, il l house, aged 81. go On the 7th inst., in Shacklewell-lane, M r. Thomas his 61st ear. P_ ria ett ' On the sth inst., at Burlington, :Yorkshire, Marmaduke ]sq., abed 72. fiff, aged 65 ' . On fie 7th inst , Mr. Wm. Mat. Catterton, of Rate ijani ptcoo ith O d dn n t l e st t h h eex e B, t 2 Ah d iri ns i .s n tA s . ? a , Ar y a l t i eNe t i t l ec c haot r lhi e se s: r d ai n e g n ee:d e 3.6oB o u f .n ge h e r son, l''''''' ~. t daughter of Mr. ° o ' f of j. good, Wimpole-street, a. , cd 7 months. On the 31st ult., at gan Sebastian, aged 33, s: " 3l.l ':: . l c a l l.. r g i°n' aCriatlilaenhdicasrt,dEalsiqgi,kt daughter Medical e w a 1 . Inspector- , G e n eral of tbo li rlii .! a re. on On the 6th inst. aged 16, Ralph, liit'''tshi.:oonf3°;llec.n-t-141°141't 1 of the Wandsworth ' -road. - vo c o:ttl London: Printed and Published by MUIWO - the 112, Strand, at The Sun . Office, No. 112, Strand, of Middlesex.—Monday, June 12, 1837.