The Sun. — London, England, 1837-06-26 00:00:00

1;PIRIT OF THE PU IsLl i; JOURNALS. The .-.vents of last week have all served to confirn ,he impression that-the reign we arc commencing will g lotions in its continuance as it is auspicious in rourmencenicnt. Of the talents Of our young and - ateresting Sovereign there seems but one happy opi don—of the education she has received under her il ustrious parent all respectable persons speak in the 'ig,hest praise ; and though royalty doubtless is usually ,heered by the parties who are yet uncertain on whom 'Fs smiles may be bestowed, we may state fairly that battery could never he less presumed than in the pre :ant instance. And now, the circumstances under which a Queen ascends our throne at this time have n many respects a peculiar interest. There seems a lestiny throughout Europe connecting liberty with the ex under which she is ordinarily personified. In Por ugal there is a Queen, whose throne, based on a .iberal Constitution, is threatened by a bigoted and lawful Pretender. In-Spain there is a Queen Ite ent, governing in the name and on the behalf .f her youthful' daughter, whose title is the bar .;er for freedom on the one side, as that of Don Car (is is for political and superstitious degradation ti l the other. In almost the whole of the western I •ontinent of Europe, then her Majesty may see Prin cesses, toyal in blood and liberal in principles like her- Leif, struggling against intolerant tyrants. It is iin laossible but that there should be in her youthful mind 1 t strong sympathy in favour of the youthful Queen end liberty in Portugal, of the youthful Queen and iberty in Spain I Here, indeed, there is no declared eretender to the throne. There is no person who has )penly erected the standard of rebellion, and placed nimself in arms at the head of those who deem there s no government without despotism, no religion with nit persecution. Neither will there be any rebellion 1 )f this kind. The persons who would join it are too 'ew for any man, however desperate, to place himself tt their head. Still it is one of many coincident eir ' nimstances that the heir presumptive to our crown is a Prince not possessed of the affections of the people of England. It is one of many coincident circumstances .:hat that Prince professes doctrines similar to Don Car los—similar to Don Miguel ; that he feels the same in terest in their cause which we presume her Majesty to feel in the constitutional Queens of Spain anti Portugal. He has his faction, moreover—a faction at present weak and !mpotent, but a faction which is devotedly and entirely his, and which would make use of any power it might possess to further the interests of one whom it regards ,as the representative of its own hateful principles. That this faction will not obtain power at all events du ring the lifetime of her present Majesty, which may God render long and prosperous, is our assured hope And confident belief ; nor will we of an event so dis tant, and as we trust so imaginary, as our youthful Queen's decease, indulge even for one moment in use 'css fear or prospective reflections. On a contingency more immediate, however, we will say one parting word, viz., the claim of his Majesty the King of Ha nover to remain a subject and Peer of England. A Contemporary ignorantly replied to our former obser vations by quoting the example of George I. ; our Contemporary merely made the mistake of confound ing the father and the son—George the First with the Electoral Prince. It was the latter, and not the for mer, who, on stating his intention to reside in England 1 was made by patent Duke of Cambridge—a title changed into that of Prince of Wales on his father coming to the throne of this country. But a more recent example is that of King Leopold, who, on becoming an independent Sovereign, renounced, as a matter of %course, his title and prerogative as a British Peer. It surely is but fair that the two Sovereigns should be considered as having paired off; and if Hanover is to be on one side, we shall be for laying claim to Belgium on the other. But to return to the state of affairs. We have the satisfaction of stating that the new Go _, : vernment, under circumstances the most favourable, is • now fairly launched ; and this we must add, that if it do not now succeed in retaining its hold over the affec . dons of the people and the administration of the country it will be its own fault. We are the first, and always have been the first, to contemn the violent :5 ) ichcmes of rashness, and to defend the present advi sers from the foolish and unjust abuse of those who, !advocating impracticable plans of liberty, are the . 3 . worst opponents of all reasonable freedom. But while we deprecate a violent policy we see the necessity of a lfirm one, such as the people can, and what is equally important, will place confidence in. 'We look forward, then, to Lord Durham at no distant time having a .seat in the Cabinet, and Lord Hill being released from the command of the army, as sure and certain pledges ito the nation that there is to be a Ministry powerful, undivided, and possessing the sympathy of every class of sensible Reformers throughout Great Britain.— Morning Chronicle. iThe Times is at immense pains in proving that the ..iMinisterial declaration read by her Majesty at the '. Council on Tuesday is " the declaration, not of her Majesty, but of her Ministers, and that she is, in fact, no more answerable for a single sentence of thaLde f claration than any one of the thousands of her Ma ..jesty's subjects who like her Majesty have read it, i which is all her Majesty had to do with the matter." 14- As, however, well-meaning but ignorant persons may tie imposed on by the contrary assertion, the Times pre faces a laborious arg u m en t on th e su bj ect b y t h e fol l'owing observation :—" We think it right to demon &ate from the practice pursued in past reigns that . what we have stated relative to the first step taken in 4 he present reign is the plain unvarnished fact, namely, i hat the declaration put into the Queen's mouth on the 3 1:lay of her accession was the declaration of her Ministers, mud not of her Majesty, and that her Majesty is not in ' .4 he least degree bound by it any more than hcrMajesty's ~ meestors were bound by the similar formal sayings which .he respective Ministers of the day put into their ..= nouths on their accession." If the Queen is not in 'the least degree bound by the declaration, any more .;.' Ilan her Majesty's ancestors were bound by similar • ' formal sayings, why all the indignation which the 1 Times expended on the subject on Wednesday last ? !I'The conductors of the Times seem to have lost their -. wits altogether. In its fiounderings it forgets one day , what it said the day before. Formerly there used to I be some little preparation before the Times answered - '-'itself. A month or so might elapse, before it went ,on a new tack. But it seems now to write abso lutely at random. If the declaration of the Queen is the declaration of her Ministers, it is preposterous `.lto suppose that Lord Melbourne should express him , =self like an Orangeman. But, on W e d nes d ay , t h e Times absolutely raved at the insult offered to the Queen. " Let . the people o f E ng l an d b ut ima •4 inc the ho nour and generosity of a Cabinet who i:vould dare to involve their Sovereign at the very `g first hour of her reign, and before she could, by p o s. . i Ability, have learned the force or consequctices of - aich an obligation in an implicit pledge to follow th e ,-" -sample of her predecessor, by lending her name t o !hat series of revolutionary changes which these de , ,Iguing Mi nis t ers h are mas k e d un d er the plausible .`. •erm of ' ame li orat i on .' IV e have seldom heard f, 'my political expedient more unprincipled, mare - treacherous or unfeeling than this. It is an actual 1 trepanning of their innoe;;nt Sovereign into a course )f policy subservient lo their own selash interests, arid an abuse more glaring than we have ever before wit nessed of that confi pe_" (. I .enee which a helpl ess P r i ncess has been cog .ied to place in a band of unworthy advisers." We have som e cause f or comp l a i n i ng o f :heerap;,;ity of the changes of our Contemporary ; for It Is cutting up our trade. We cannot answer the I'times so soon as it answers itself. Having thus lashed itself into a furious passion on Wednesday, on the Sa turday it tells us that there was not the slightest occasion for all this expenditure of indignation, that there wLs no treachery in the case, no pledge imposed on the Queen, in short, nothing done to which the least objection folld be taken. " Upon the accession of his late :lamented Majesty Ki ng Willi am IV. t h e Mi n i ster o f .the day made his Majesty i n ti ma t e th at h e s h ou ld take both his father and his b ro th er as hi s mo d e l s . , g I am fully sensible,' said William IV. ' of the diffi culties I have to encounter ; but I possess the ad vantoge of having witnessed the conduct of my re 'vered father and my lamented and beloved brother,' &c. Well, the Ministers who wrote that declaration went out of office, and the successors carried the Reform Bill—a measure which George IV even, and much more George 111., would not have entertained for a single moment. Was this consistent with the declaration ? Assuredly not ; but does any one re proach either George IV. or William IV. with in consistency for sanctioning, the one the Catholic Re lid Bill and the other the Reform Bill, after the de clarations they had respectively made on the occasion ? Once more, certainly not ; and for this sim ple mason, that the declarations were those of the Ministers of the Monarch and not either constitutionally or, in fact, their own decla rations." To use a homely adage, the Times when it breaks a head has always a plaster for it. We have no doubt that we shall have a strong answer to its ins vectivc against the Duchess of Kent, in which no mercy will be shown to those wicked spirits who en deavoured to produce discord between parent and child. The Queen must by this time be aware, if she read the Times, that this " best possible public in structor" is very rapid in its circumgyrations. Her Majesty has probably been taught to attach im portance to principles, but she has yet to learn that a person may have the strongest attachment to the most opposite principles at the same time. The Times, however, which informs us that the education of her Majesty has been too narrow, will, no doubt, enlarge her constitutional views, by teaching her that the highest wisdom in a Sovereign is to be " everything by fits, and nothing long." One feature of the Times no doubt remains unchanged amidst all its changes, a feature which Cobbett only had in an equal degree — an astounding confidence. No writer in the Times ever doubted his own infallibility.—NforningChronicle. We call upon our countrymen in all directions of the empire to rouse and gird themselves for an approaching contest of principles—such as has not been waged for a considerable time. A new reign has commenced, which we are willing to hope is, like the vernal season of life at which England's young Sovereign is called to the Throne, about to be imbued with the fresh hopes, brilliant promise, and generous anticipations of youth. A new era in the legislature is also about to com mence ; and it will depend upon the people them selves whether its auspices and its tendencies shall be converted to the benefit of the people, and to the tri umph of popular institutions, or to their injury and de gradation. An election is at hand—on the result of which the most serious interests of the country depend. That result will give a permanent tone to the succeed ing politics of the Government. It will decide whether the Tories have been right or wrong in their clamorous assertion that a reaction in favour of their political opi nions lias been latterly engendered in the public mind. It is our conviction that no tendency to such reaction has been produced. We believe that the people are quite as resolved upon gathering the fruits of the Reform Bill as they were upon attaining the Reform Bill itself. They will hardly stultify their own acts. If they are not, they might as well have spared themselves the trouble and excitement in which the nation was plunged dur ing the transition process of that acquisition. What is the use of a harvest without produce ? or of a fruit• tree without fruit ? The six letters which com pose the word " Reform" have no magic in them. They do not constitute a talisman or charm. Reform has no virtue in its mere name. It was never dreamt that it could be useful but as a means to an end, as an implement for improving the popular institutions —a lever for raising and establishing the great de sideratum of the age, "cheap and good government." The coming election will decide whether the Reform Bill is to remain with or without fruit. The great ques tion which will be brought to issue duiing the impend ing struggle is between two principles which never before were placed id such marked and decided oppo sition. The principle of obstructiveness is on the one hand—on the other, the principle of political improve ment. Never were the parties by whom these con tending principles were advocated distinguished by a line of separation more decided than they are at pre sent. The Tories, with the whole of the exclusive faction, including the greater part of the Peers and the whole Bench of Bishops, are in one camp—in the other, all the friends, without exception, of civil and religious liberty, by whatever name they have hitherto been distinguished—Whigs, Radicals, Liberals, or Reformers. Such is the aspect of the field of battle on the verge of the momentous contest which is im pending—such is the immeasurable importance—direct and indirect—of the stake for which the battle is to be fought. Such is the order of battle—such the op posing standards under which the conflicting parties are marshalled and drawn up. Shall the interests of the many be sacrificed to the few, as it has hitherto ? or shall the interests of the few be rendered subser vient to the interests of the many ? Shall we have the functions of the Government palsied—an anarchy instead of a Government ? Is the " greatest happi ness principle" to prevail, or are the great body of the people to continue, as they have done for ages, " hewers of wood and drawers of water " for their im perious and contemptuous masters. These are the questions at issue. LoOking at the contest in this point of view, the fate of England for half a century may be said to hang in the balance of victory or defeat. May God, in the warlike phraseology of chivalry, defend the right I But the people must be up and stirring. The Tory enemy is active, vigilant, and already at his post. All the wheels, large and small, of their electioneering organisation are already commencing their mischievous activity, and will soon be in a state of indefatigable de velopment. The people must be as active on their side. They would do well in this respect to take a " leaf out of the book" of their adversaries. Fas est ab hostedoceri. Above all, they must be united as those ad versaries are united. The Tories place (and justly) their chief strength in the union and unity of their perni cious purposes. When bad men conspire, good men must unite. Let union be the watchword of all classes of Reformers I Let them agree to sink ail minor causes of difference—all minor jealousies—all minor objects of acquisition. Let them recollect that their success in the approaching great contest entirely depends upon their indissoluble union. Again we say, let them recollect the prize for which they are about to contend—the immense stake which is hazarded upon the results of the ensuing election. The eyes of all the freemen of Europe and m all parts of the world are fixed upon them. Not England only, but the whole civilized world, will be influenced by the issue of the contest. There will be hope for liberty, or triumph for despotism, as it may be determined. Nor is it the temporary destinies of the civilized world that are involved in the issue, but the weal or woe, the improvement or non-improvement of generations yet unborn.—Morning 4dvertiser. The debates of Friday evening on her Majesty's Message, in S 9 far as they had reference to the state of public l ousineFil, or to the functions of Ministers, or the raideney of the Legislature, under their gui dance, have shed an encouraging and agreeable light not merely on the history of the last session, but on our propccts for the future. The value of Lord L) tidhurst's attack upon the " do-nothing" Cabinet wa s his precise specification of chapter and verse for each and all of the criminal or despicable acts and Qtnissions which he enumerated. At the close of the fifth month of the session, the Melbourne Ministers had scarcely left a single trace of one legislative foot step behind them—" not one important measure had been passed." The Bills "for the improvement of the Criminal Law"—a subject emphatically (like that of measures for giving " stability to the Church") recommended by his Majesty at the opening of the last session—where were they ? Nine Bills, in the month of May, were introduced by Lord John What has become of them ? They were read a first and second time, and a day was ap pointed for committing them ; but what happened ? Why, on that day, when it was Sir John Camp bell's business, more particularly, to secure a full at tendance of the friends of Government—on that late and most important day—viz. 19th of June— the House at a quarter-past four o'clock, was carefully counted out ! There was then the Imprisonment for Debt Bill—the grand, ostentatious, long-boasted hobby of the Whig Attorney-General. 'What happened with it ? He brought it into the House of Commons on the 6th of February. The Bill was read a first time and a second, but the committal was, on one pretence or other, postponed until the 18th of May ; and we repeat the question, what happened then ? Why, at a quarter past seven (;'dock the House was counted out ! So with the TL ene fi ce Plu rality Bill, which had passed the Lor(!is in the former Session. It met a sham support from the (sham) . Whig Government ; but, encountering also a real opposition from the Radical masters of that Go vernmsnt, that wholesome Bill was abandoned another being introduced by Ministers on . the gd of Match ) but had had beeii heard ofsince I The Irish Church Bill, the professed sheet anchor of the Whig O'Connell Cabinet, was read a second time in the House of Commons on the 16th of June, more than four months after the mettin , of Parliament, and it it+ there is now, we guess ) an en d of JO ever. We need follow Lord Lyndhurst no further in his cata logue raisonee of the legislative exploits of Ministers, remarking only on the logical method adopted by Lord Melbourne of replying to this plain statement of facts viz , that the Learned Lord had brought " no arpu merits" to support them i As for Lord John Rus sell's statement of what he and his colleagues meant to do during the remainder of the session, and which, to say truth, contained merely an enumeration of those things which for divers weighty reasons they would not do, it amounted to a pretty long list. They are to go no further this session with the English Church rate Bill, but just to propose a Committee (not a Parliamentary one, of course), to inquire, with instructions to report hereafter. They arc to dismiss the Irish Poor Law Bill, which ought to have been promoted into a " vital " measure, but was not, because Mr. Daniel O'Connell super seded it by two other " vitalities" more to his own enlightened and disinterested taste. They drop the ap propriation clause, that first or fundamental " 4 vital," by which their whole system of Government was to be tested and supported, and on which, as an axis, it was to revolve I They drop that second " vital," the Irish Popery Corporation Bill, introduced with so much pomp, and persevered in with so much sham tenacity. They are, in fact, to do nothing at all. They postpone even the Civil List, which naturally ought to have been the first object of attention, and its set tlement the first homage of respect to their new So vereign, on her accession to the. Crown. But for this there was abundant reason. The splenetic democrats are pushing for a curtailment of that provision out of which have been hitherto furnished the means of com fort, of munificence, and external dignity to the Sove reign. What could the Ministers do with such a knot as this ? Quarrel with the Radicals by re fusing to cut down the Queen of England below the starvation point ?—quarrel with the country by sub mitting to the Radicals, and that, too, on the eve of a dissolution ? No—neither. They leave the matter, therefore, as they find it—shirk the difficulty, and put off the evil day. One virtue, we acknowledge, is dis coverable in this new course, which the former policy of Ministers did not boast of. In the preceding part of the Session they professed to move onwards, but after prancing furiously did not gain an inch. Now they advertise to do nothing, and will keep their promise. Their acts, therefore, in the latter period, will cor respond with their professions, which they never did before. But the reason assigned by the " Leader of the House of Commons" for all this suspension of public business is characteristic of his faction, and, therefore, not a little amusing. He abstains (worthy man) from bringing forward his pet measures, because " on the eve of a general election," they " might throw the whole country into a fever of excitement." Say you so ? But your Lordship never scrupled to agitate the country when you and your colleagues could gain anything by it. Yon never were at all tender about get ting up the steam when it helped on your own favourite projects. When the " fever of popular excitement" was likely to be on your own side of any question, who ever administered stimulants so boldly ? What, then, is the plain conclusion from the present conscientious alarm of Ministers about " throwing the country into a fever ?" Why, that that the storm would rage against themselves. That it is in resistance to their political quackeries and Church robberies, the rage of the people would show itself, and that the ranks of their partisans would be wofully thinned in the next House of Commons, by a further perseverance in those measures which have already revolted so many thousands of sincere but penitent electors, who dreamed not of the lengths to which factious innova tion was driving them, and are now tired of that capri cious and treacherous movement on which they had ignorantly entered. The Ministers, therefore, mani festly knew not how to meet the consequences of this involuntary dissolution, yet were ashamed to tell her Majesty frankly that they trembled to accept the peril ous honour of her service. It is clear as light from what quarter the wind blows, by the desperate, but silly, at tempt of Lord John Russell to " soap" the Radicals in the latter part of his speech. His vague and hedge-school declamation about carrying out the principles of the Catholic all, the Reform Bill, &c., into what he termed their just and natural " fruits," was meant to catch the Democrats ; but it was only so much salt on their tails. It was a total failure. For Queen Victoria, we trust it will not have been a failure. We trust her Majesty will regard the words of Lord John Russell as a fair construction of that fine " declara tion" which Lord Melbourne in the Council-room had prevailed upon her to deliver ; and that by the " ame liorations" to which his Lordship aimed at pledging her Majesty he meant to signify, though she herself did not, an indefinite series of democratic experiments on the Constitution. But, as we have already said, the Democrats were not caught by it. They came to the point with the rhetorical Secretary of State. "It is all mighty well, my Lord ; but how much will do for us ? Down with the ready. Will you give us uni versal suffrage and the ballot, and redress all the griev ances of all the Papists and Dissenters? and will you transfer the army from the hands of the Crown to those of the House of Commons, a Democrat House of Commons ; and will you, or will you not, bind yourself to all these things &yore the dissolution of the present Parliament ? If not, you and Queen Vic toria may go whistle for the Radicals. So a fig for you Lord John Russell." Now, we know not whe ther the Melbourne Ministers had reflected on the cer tainty that Messrs. Hume and Roebuck would take the first opportunity of preparing for them the downy pillow which both those gentlemen offered Lord John Russell to repose his head upon, in return for that in sipid solfffle with which his Lordship attempted to stay their hungry appetites. We know not truly whether the Ministers had thought of that, or of any other equally agreeable incident to their condition. But they will think of it now, and we shall, from time to time, endeavour to help their reflections.— Times. Never did any person descend from a public to a com paratively private station with more universal and well merited attachment and applause than the amiable con sort of our departed Sovereign. It has been the good fortune of this country, where female excellenc e so largely abounds, to witness, for a series of years, its influence and example in the highest station, from Queen Charlotte and her daughters to the exemplary Queen Adelaide. If the domestic virtues, and above all, that of soothing the hours of affliction, constitute the peculiar ornament of woman, no one can haveat tended to the undeviating conduct of the Queen Dowa ger, and to the touching account given by the Arch bishop of Canterbury of her untiring attendance upon the death-bed of her departed King and husband, but must feel convinced that in her these virtues have, from first to last, shone most brightly and conspicu ously. May these virtues, when her Majesty's pre sent sufferings are abated, bring with them that reward and consolation, which conscious virtue, founded on religion, can alone bestow I_Morning Herald. We congratulate the Conservatives of the United Kingdom on the prospect which ()pens before them. If the approaching general election should not give them a decided majority in the House of Com mons , the fault, we are persuaded, will be their own. Th at they have power to rescue themselves and their coun try from the degrading thraldom in which both have been held so long, and to avert the dangers w hi c h king over our national institutions, is a fact which does not admit of doubt. But we cannot too earnestly ex hort them, if they mean to accomplish this great, and important, and glorious triumph, not to lose time. Every day, every hour, is now of incalculabl e value. The retainers of the Administration are hurrying awa y from town in every direction, carrying with them all the influence of the Treasury, redolent of the rich scent of I,7ltronage, fraught deeply with projects of forthcoming coliznissions, affluent of places for es innumerable board s , an d o f quires and gentlemen a: clerkships, messengerships, &c.. &c., without stint or limitation, for the sons, nephews, and cousins of more humble voters. Nothing on the part of Ministers is to be , spared in the way of promises, or AT herepromises ore not enough in any other way that is likely to proire more eltiaCiotis. mandate has gone forth from Whitehall, end the elec tions are to be carried by the Ministerial candidates route qui route. Ministers are determined if possible to succeed, for they re and success at the approaching elatidii as a iflattef of lire of death, and the oily hope of success which they really cherish is founded upon the means of corruption at their dis posal. But there is, we hope and believe, a spirit at work in this country which will frustrate their hopes and defeat their machinations. They have been tried in the balance and found wanting. The people are weary and disgusted with their everlasting professions and their unvarying failures. A Ministry which has lived for years, and which still strives to live, upon the sympathy and support first of one class of the people and then of another, and which seeks that sympathy and support by promises which it neither intends nor has the power to realise, is not a Ministry that an intelligent and high-spirited nation can be expected to tolerate. The system of sacrificing the general good in order to catch the support of detached portions of the people by ex citing in their minds irrational expectations, and wedding them to impracticable projects, which has characterised the Parliamentary career of the pre sent Government, will be appropriately succeeded by that system of more direct corruption upon which Ministers rely in the approaching crisis of their fate. But, if the Conservative party be true to themselves and to their country as Ministers, they have failed in one case will also fail in the other. In attempting to bribe particular sections of the people by dangerous and pernicious laws, they have made few friends and many enemies, and the same result will attend the coarser and more vulgar bri bery upon which their calculations of success at the general elections are chiefly founded. The subjects of the Queen of England will do so much justice to their youthful Sovereign at the commencement of her reign as to place her at the head of an honest, an intelligent, and a patriotic Parliament; and not of a Parliament in which fraudulent and un principled Ministers may carry on an open traffic, offering to surrender one by one in exchange for the votes of revolutionists, the most precious institutions of the country, and to knock down in succession, for the gratification of various classes of their supporters, every prop and bulwark of the national Throne and the national altar. We have the happiness to announce to our readers with the utmost confidence, and after having had recourse to the best sources of information, that the approaching general election promises to yield to the cause of the Throne and the Church an un equivocal triumph, and to place in a position of lasting security those valuable and inseparable institutions of our country. In a great majority of the counties and towns of Great Britain the Conservative constituencies are fully arrayed for the encounter with the enemies of the Constitution, and eligible candidates are in most cases ready to come forward to present them with a fair occa sion for their patriotic exertions, and to secure them the full benefit of their success. It is fortunately needless for us to say much to stimulate exertions which there is every reason to expect will generally be made with a promptitude and vigour proportioned to the urgency and the magnitude of the occasion. If we offer one word of advice it will only be to urge the friends of the Constitution in every county, and city, and bo rough, to lose no time in taking their ground, and placing their candidate in the view of the electors. Delays are proverbially dangerous : and there is no case in which procrastination may be attended with more disastrous consequences than on the eve ' of a general election. Our enemies are on the alert, and in cases where the result will depend upon a few votes on one side or the other, all may be lost by permitting them to pre-occupy the ground. We do not call upon the Conservatives, therefore, to be zealous or determined, for we know they are both ; but we caution them of the danger of inactivity and delay. An hour should not be lost. If in any case there be hesitation as to which of two Conservatives shall stand we do not scruple to say that the less fit of the two will have a better chance to succeed if he be brought forward to-morrow, than the more fit if his presenta• tion to the electors be deferred until to•morrow week. We exhort the Conservatives everywhere, then, to be up and stirring. Our impatience does not arise from diffidence in our cause, but from anxiety that its triumph should be decisive and complete. Why have we not yet in the field the two Conservative Candidates, whose election for Middlesex may so easily be made secure ? When are the Constitu tional Candidates for Marylehone to be defi nitively announced ? What are the loyal people in the City of London about ? We could men tion, at least, a dozen men in the City, emi nent in commercial life, and not less distinguished for their loyalty to the Throne, and their rational and virtuous attachment to the institutions of the country, for any two of whom, at the very least, the prompt ' and active exertions of the Conservatives of the City of London would secure seats in the House of Com mons. Why, again, are the Conservatives of the county of Surrey not yet in motion ? We implore the loyal men in the different places to which . we have re ferred, and there are many others which we might also mention—not to let their disloyal opponents steal a march upon them. We would rouse them to imme diate action, in the name of Victoria and the Consti tution of England.—Morning Post. An American Paper describes a lucky man to be one who turns two corners without being accosted by a dun, or meets a sheriff's officer without receiving a tap on the shouldcr. The Bristol (Rhode Island) Gazette of Saturday last has the following :—" Captain Blye, of the brig Clyde, which arrived at this port yesterday from Mantanzas, saw on Sunday last, in lat. 38, long. 73, about 10 o'clock, a.m., a queer-looking fish, in the shape of a snake, under the lee of the vessel, of a grayish colour, and about the size of a ship's mainmast ; his head had passed under the vessel's bottom ; about 100 feet was on the surface of the water. Captain Blye thinks he must have been at least 200 feet long. The body was perfectly smooth, without the appearance of any hump or prominences. As he passed very near the vessel, he was distinctly seen by all on board for a very considerable time. No doubt one of the sea serpents so often seen on our coast." —New York Paper, May 27. The claims for relief at Paisley stand at upwards of 2,000 men on the work list, and 1,143 applicants on the soup kitchen list, who have dependent on them as many as 3,769. Many of these individuals receive only half a portion per day, which again reduces the number of portions to about 1,800. We are happy to add that, though the expenditure has now reached the alarming sum of 1201. per day, there is now some prospect of the suffering having attained its climax. The num ber of applicants has been gradually diminishing for the last four days.— Glasgow Chronice. On the morning of Saturday last there was found, in a pasture field to the north side of Annan, a gentleman's morning dressing-gown, carefully wrapped up. A sight so unusual, the locality considered, excited some surprise, and the feelings of the finders were of a stronger nature when they dig ovcred that the parcel was not only smeared with, but contained large quantities of coagulated blood. That a name had been sewed or stamped on the right corner was evident from the pains which had been taken to obliterate every mark of ownership. The gown, which is made of the best white flannel, and rowed with white horn buttons, is of the largest size, and nearly new. Appearances strongly point to the sus picion that a child has been murdered ; and although the ma gistrates of Annan have exerted themselves to the utmost in investigating the afflir, no traces of the parties implicated have as yet transpired. In the same field, and pretty near the same spot, the fragment of a letter was picked up in a gen tleman's handwriting, complaining of the party to whom it was addressed, for not answering certain communications, and particularly one inclosing a bank draft for 201. —Dumfries C.) urier. A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE.—A St. Louis paper says, that the anthracite coal found lately in Missouri looks like coal, feels like coal, and smells like coal—all the difference is, that coal burns, but that will not—American Paper. Forty fine orange-trees arrived at Rouen from Paris on Sunday last, on their way to England. They arc under stood to be a present from the Duke of Orleans to the Duke of Sutherland. -• ------ --- A fact rare (if known at all) in this country occur red the other day in Derbyshire. A boy fishing disturbed a nest, the birds from which flew in different directions, one with a bird in its bill. The boy followed the weakest looking, and discovered it to be a young woodcock, which is now in posses sion of Mr. l3urgoine, gamekeeper to the Duke of Devon shire, at Chat worth. The bird which the boy first saw was one of the parents conveying its offspring from the impending danger across the river at Ashford. Hopes are entertained that the other three %yin be found : if so, it will form one of the rarest possible incidents in the history of those birds, viz., their breeding in England.— Derbyshire Chronicle. R EA PRICES OF CANALS, DOCli_;k OU.h.S, ASSURANCE COMPANIES,&c. &c. LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 23. Number Dividend _ . Price of pct per ilintes. Annum. Paid. Share. 1,70"1 pet cent. Ashton and Oldham...Average 97!. 18s. sh. 135 11 1 `.4 41; itpii:l-&,le-Zot!ch Average 113/. sh. f 5 1,260 Ilasitygtdke .. .Ittit . Mi. !OW. oh. 51 1,005 N. Brecknock and AberVatene7,......lsl . sh. 106 8,000 1-16 sh 9!. 9s. Illirmingliarn, 1-16th share ~...."1 .Pr 711. 218 4,000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct...1251. sh. lint pd 31 600 . Bridgewater and Taunton -.1001. sh. all pd 64 400 4/. Cheliner and 13lackwater lON. sh. 102 500 481. Coventry 1001. sh. WO 4,545 Croydon Average 31/.28.10d. sh. 3 2,01;31' 4/. Os. Dudley lOO/. sh. 65 600 71. Deilif 20,000 3,57 a: 3/. Ellesmere and Chester Average I;D/. sk. 611 231 40'. Erewash O lll. an. 610 1,297 241. Forth and Clyde Average 4111/.lta.. iii. 610 11 ,00 12/. Grand Juncti - 1001. sh. 201 28491 1/. Grand Union 1001. sh. 24 1.501 Grand Surrey 120,000 r. I/. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOO/. 70 3,096 Grand Western 1410 13/. 12s. Bd. Glamorganshire, Average cost 1721. 13s. 4d. 2? 749 104. Grantham 1501. sh. 7 6,234 1/. 153. fluddersth Id Average 57/. (is. 6d. sh. 100 Kensington 25,324 1/. 2s. Kennet ; ncl Avon, Average 39/.188.10d. sh. 2,4971 201. Leeds and Liverpool 101 , 1. sh. 5151. 131. Leicester l4O/. sh. 1,°317 4/. 103. Leicester anti Northampton... Aver 531.105. 2,400 lot. Monmouthshire lOO/. sh. IA 10/. Melton Mowbray 1001 sh. 500 251. Mersey and [moll lOO/. sh. 3,000 1/. 10s. Macclesfield 100/. sh. all pd. 217 17/. Neat li 100/. sh. 1,786 30/. Oxford . 100/. sh. 2,100 5/. Peak Forest Average about 781. sh. 21,413 12s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 161. ed. sh. 5,669 6/. per cent. f.ochdale Average AV. sh. 500 81. Shropshire P 251. oh. SOO 9/. Ills. Somerset Coal l5O/. sh. 3,600/. 41 per cent. Ditto lan Fund Stock l2/. 10s.. sh. 700 40/, Stafford and Worcester l 4 O/ sh. 500 91. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 300 91. Stourbridge 3,617 2/. ~ s. St rit.ford-on. Av. 4 t ...Average 79/. 9s. sal. sh. 533 12/. Swansea 100/. oh. 2,762 I/. Ps. Severn and Wyc an-1 Railway ...Av 351. sh. 2,60 ital. :12/. lUs. Treat and Mersey, i share lOOl sh. 8,149 Thames .n I Medway...Aver. lin. ss. Std. sh. 1,0005h.1 ~.5 / Warwick aid Birmingham . 1001 oh I,ooolsh.j ' 950 I It. Warwi,.4c. and Napton lOO/. oh. 6,000 4/.03. Worcest .r ane Birmingham... Av. 78/.Bs. sh 5,000 225. Wilts an a Berks .. Average (171. 10s. Sti. sh. 800 3/. Wyrley and Essington 125/. sh 126 . . Wisbeach . 105/. oh. _ 905 I/. Wey and Arun llO4 sh. DOCKS. 2,600 Er i 3 Commercial 1,06515 h. j p. c. 100/. sh. 498,667 V. 6 per et. East India Stock 3,239,3101/. 50s. p.ct. London Ditto Bonds 1,380,000/. 5/. per ct. West India 2.M1 21. 19s. Bristol 64,324/. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts 1.352,752 4 p •r cent. St. Katharine Stock 500,000 4i per ocnt. Ditto Bonds 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds Icr 10 years Shoreham ILit hour 2.500 ........ Deptford Piet 2Ol. sh. 31. BRIDGES. 1,600 les. Haminerstn,tl . 5Ol. sh. 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 63/. 2s. Bd. sh. 1,700 1/. Iss. Ditto, New, of 71 per cent. 5Ol. sh. 5,000 Waterloo lOO/. sh. 5,000 18s. Bd. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/. 6Ol. pd 5,000 16s. td. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 401. pd 60,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto Bond - 5,816 14s Vauxhall Average 701. 10s. 3d. oh. AS 'URANCF COMPANIES. 2,000 3/ lOs Albion 500/. sh. 501 pd 50,000 [ 3 l::i e n en c t ' l Alliance,British& Foreign 100/. sh. I ov. pd 50,000 ti per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. Si. pd 21,000 11 per sh. Atlas 50/. oh. Si. pd 'l,2oolsh. 5!. Birmingham F ire .... ...... 2501. sh. 551. pd 1 20,000 4! per cent. British Fire 2501. sh. 50/. pd 12,000 61. percent. British Commercial 50/. sh. Si. pd 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical, Medi :sil,&c. Life, ICol.sh. 12110 s pd 4,000 2/ 103 County 1001. sh. 10/. pd 20,000 ss. Eagle ,),-. S 5 per cent./ Economic Lite lOOOl. sh. 2501. pd 2' '''''' land 30/ bs. 2,271 225. percent. European Li t 0 0 01. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 21. pd If 1,000,0001. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 147 20,000 Si. Guardian lOO/. sh. 2711 pd 33 10,000 6s. 6d. Hope 50!. sh. 51. pd sf, 2,400 5/. 7s. M. Imperial Fire 500/. sh. 50/. pd 121 7,500 9s. Imperial Lite 100/. sh. 101. pd 10 13,158 128. per sh. Indemnity Marine 100/. sh. 8/. pd 161 2,020 31 10, Kent Fire 50/. sh. all pd 82 3/. Ditto Life. 79 10, 0 00 los. Law Life 100/. :h. 10/. pd 26 5.000 10s. London, Fir:, 25/. oh. 121. 10s. pd 151 3,900 10s. London, Ship 251. sh. 12/. 10s. pd 151 30,000 5/. per cent. Palladium I,itt 5O/. sh. 21. pd 2/ 8s Od 50,000 Protector File 2O/. sh. 2/. pd Ns 6d 2,500 1!. Provident Lite lOO/. sh. 101. pd 2)) 100,000 5/. percent. Rock Life 20/. sh. 2/, pd 6i 589,220/ 51. per cent. Royal Exchange Stork... 225 6,000 5 per cent. University Life lOO/. sh. 5/. pd 51 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 2/. pd JOINT STUCK BANKS CANAL S. 25,000 Agric and Comm. of Ireland 25/. sh. 10!. pd 5,000 Australa'ia 4Ol. sh. 401. pd 10,008 10 per cent. Bank of Biimingham 5Ol. sh. 10/. pd 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5Ol. sh. 5/. lid 30,000 5 per cent. London and Westminster...lool sh. 20/. pd 3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster 1001. sh. 20/. pd 25,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 101. pd 50,000 74 per cent. Manchester and Liverpool} 1001 . sh. 151 pd Discount 2 0 ,000 7 per cent. Manchester 100!. sh. 251 pd 20,000 Provincial Bank of lreland 1001. sh. 25/. pd 20, CO National Bank of Ireland sq. sh 174/. pd 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. lOO/. sh. 351. pd 19,000 Gloucestershire 5Ol. sh. 10!. pd 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 50/. sh. 5/. pd GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 I/ 5s 6d Bath 2O/. sh. I)!. pd 5,000 British 4Ol. sh. 16/. pd nr , 5/.percent./ 's, `" - '" tand Bs. ss. j Ditto Provincial 20/. sh. 19 pd 928 5/ lOs Birmingham 5O/. sh. 4,250 21 Os Bristol 1,500 3 , 10 s Brighton 2Ol. sh. 750 31 les Ditto, New 2,471 5 per cent. Brighton General 20/. sh. all pd 4,000 4/. Continental Carisolidated lOOl. 6211. pd 1,000 10/. City of London lOO/. sh. all pd 1,000 61. Ditto, New 4,000 41. 10s. Equitable i 0,400 24 per cent. Imperial 5O/. sh. 800 5/. per cent. Isle of Thanet 25/. sh. 201. pd 2,350 61. per cent. I ndependent '3O/. sh. all pd 9,000 3!. per cent. Phsenix .... 50/. sh. 39/. pd 1,000 41. per cent. Ratcliff 100/. sh. 80/. pd 4,000 South Metropolitan 5 O/. sh. 1411. pd 9,200 5/. per cent. United General 5Ol. sh. 461. pd 240 51. per cent. Warwick 501. sh. 400 10/. per cent Wakefield 25!. sh. 12,000 3/. Westminster Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto New 5(l. sh. 10/. pd BGI Yarmouth 20/. sh. 181. pd WATER W.)It.KS. 1,500 Ds. Birmingham 251. eh. 25/. pd 1,434 61. East London lOOl. sh. 5,500 21 10s Grand Junction ....Average 41/. 13s. 4d. sh. 2,000 2/. Kent 100/. sh. 372 10!. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 1,500 2/ lOs Now River Loudon Bridge Water Annuities 6,486 Il Iss Manchester and Salford .lOO/. sh. 1,000 4 per cent. South London 100!. sh. 8,294 341. West Middlesex ....Average 034 12s. 9d. sh. 1,360 11 14s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 1001. sh. IRON RAILWAYS. 6,000 Birmingham and Derby 9,51)0 Birmingham and Gloucester lel pd 7,500 Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction 13,1100 Bristol and Exeter 100/. sh. 10 pd 660 Calcutta and Saugur 5Ol. sh. 2/. pd 7,500 Cheltenham and G. Western...loo/. sh. V. 3,009 Clarence 100!. sh. 1001. pd 12,000 8,000 Dublin and Kilkenny 100/. sh. 24 pd 60,000 E"stcrn Counties '2sl sh. 21 pct Grand Junction 1001. sh. 501. p I Great North of England 7l. pd 25,',00 Great Western lOO/ sh. 451. pd 2,0)0 tlartlepool 100/. sh. 100/ pt 8,000 Hull and 'elby 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 10,001 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 5/. pd 7,1110 Leeds and Selby 1,500 Leicester and Swannington ....501. sh. all pd 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester...lo(l.Bh. 100/. IA Ditto Quarter Shares 25/. pd London and Brighton lOOl. sh. 51 pd Ditto ditto (Gibbs') ...201 sh. I/ pd Ditto ditto (Rennie)...so/. sh. 31. pd Ditto ditto (Cundy)...loo/. sh. 31. pd London and Blackwall 50/. sh 31 pd London and Greenwich 2Ol. di. 20/. pd London anti Birmingham ...WO/. sh. 854 pd London anti Southampton. _SO/. sh. 4 0 /. pa London and Croydon 20!. sh. 20/. pd London Grand Junction... .5 1. sh. 3/. pd M nchester and Bicmingham...so/. sh. 5/. pd North Midland 100/. sh. 151. pd Northe ,- n and Eastern lOO/. sh. 6/. pd Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. Si. pd South Eastern and Dover 7l. pd Stockton arid Darlington IOW. sh. Than es Haven 5Ol. sh. 21. 10s. pd Westminster and Greenwich 50/. sh. 2/. pd York and North Midland 5O . sh. 3/. pd MINES. Albion Copper 5l. sh. 31/. pd A lten 151. sh. 121. 10s Jr I Anglo Mexican, iss. 5!. pm.... 1001. sh. all pd Ditto Subscription 9.5/. pa Bolanos l5Ol. sh all pd Brazilian Imp. iss. 5/. pm. .35/. sh. 201 pd Macaubas & Cocaos United 2 5/. sh. 234/. pd Ditto St. John Del Rey 201. sh. 9/. pd Bolivar Copper Company 201. sh. 201. pd Ditto Scrip... lOl. sh. 81. pd British Iron 5Ol. sh. 5 0 / pc' British Copper 5/. sh. 411. pd Cats Branca... ll4l. Pd Candonga 741. lid Copiapo 2Ol. sh 1241 pd Columbian, iss. 5/. pm. English l2/ Ks. pd General Miiiiiig Association...2o/. sh. 154 pd Mexican Company 100/. sit 554!. pd Polberou Consols 10/. sh 81. pd Real del Monte, Unregistered Ditto Loan Notes 150!. pd United Mekican, iss. 2 pm ....401. alt. all pd Ditto. Scrip Ditto New Scrip 5l pd West Cork 50/. sh. 50/. pd LITERARY 1 NSTITUTION S. 1,000 . 1500 London University 1001. sh, all pd 700 King' College lOOl. pd MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 153. Australian Agricultural....loo/. sh 214/. pd 6,000 61. per cent. British American Land Company 2:3/. lxi 10,000 61 per cent. Canada Company 1001. oh. 241. pd 200,000 51 per cent. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent ... 15,000 1/. Os. General Steam Navigation ...151 sh. 13/. pd 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,000 11. London Corn. Sale Rooms Av. 751. sh. 8,000 Caoutchouc Company 251. sh. 241. pd New Brunswick Land Company 411. pd 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...1001. sh. 100/. psi 2,63.3 5/. per cent. Ditto New 1012. oh. 701. pd 4,1)00 Thames Tunnel 501. sh. all pd 10,000 10,000 45,r00 ...... 16,000 6,0 .0 12,000 ...... 20,000 3 per cent, 23,000 20, , 00 7,000 12,000 ...... 10,000 2,600 28,000 1,000 0/. per cent. 9,000 1,400 ... 6,000 6,006 4,000 1/. bs. 10,000 ..... 2,000 10,000 IL 10s 6,060 11,000 10,000 10,000 20,000 6,000 114 1:38 148 111 710 24:3 280 10,000 1/. 5,500 2,W,0 31. 20,000 6,155 ...... 3,000 11,500 30,000 4; ISI 15; 118 161 4 240 I;: 34 121 35 100 10t 23; LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, MAY 20. 1837. BANKS. /,500,604/. 61. p. ot. Tank ot Scotland 93/. N. Bd. sh. all pd Ma/. 2,000,0 X/. 5k p. ct. Royal of Scotland 100/. sh, all pd 158/, 500,0)C1. ap. ct. British Linen Company 1001. sh. :ill pd 2361. 3,000,0001, 6/. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001 pd 175/. 5. srlo,onOr. ,'o cc. Niztional lOO/ sh. 101 . pd 15“. 2,00'),0001. 51 p. ct. Glasgow Union 250/. sh. 50/. pd 674. 4,000,001. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland 2001. sh 30/. pd 3614 INSURANCE COMPANIES. —. . 250.0005 h . 61 p. ct . Scottish Union 20/. sh. 1/. pd " 25s " - ,509 65 p. ct. Hercules 100/. sh. 101. pd 131 15s. 11r,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland ....101. sh. all pd 851. 50,000 6p. ct. North British 2001. sh. 10/. pd 151. 1,000 sp. ct. Caledonian Fire 1001. sh. 10/. pd 16/15s 5 , 000 ep. et. Edinburgh l.ife 100/. sh. 101. pet 14/10s 100,000 35 p. ct. West of Scotland lO/. pd 710 s MISCELLANEOUS 4,810 Echo. and (Vas. Un. Cana1...501. oh. all pd 22/. Uitto Allocated 961. sh. all pd 651. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb,:Joint Stock Water 25/. sh. all pd 311. Carron Iron Company 250/. sh, all pd 431. 2,0005 h 15 per Cent Shot( i ; Iron Founctery 501. sh 3QI. pd 46117 10,010 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith G lass 2O/. sh. 16/. pd 6/. 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 25/. sh. all pd :,61 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas 25/. sh. all pd 611 750 71 per cent. Leith Coal Gas 20/. sh. all pd 45/. 1,2011 Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway...so/.sh. 55/. 3,000 5 per cent. Ent.attble Loan Coin pany 25/. sh. 9/ pd 10!. MARKET INTELLIC;E:isiCE. (Prom the London New Price Current of June 23.) SUGAR.-There bas been less animation in the British Plan tation Raw Sugar Market this week, and the demand from fr o both the grocers and refiners has been very mod erate, but the importers continue firm in their demands, and t he bu y ers have been compelled to pay fully former rates. Barb adoes went o , without spirit at a reduction on Tuesday's sale of Od. to 1i..: - mid. to fine yellow sold at 60s. 61. to 665. For refined goods , lumps entitled to the double bounty have been t aken at 7 03, . fine 775. ; those rather below the standard at 735., and fine 7 loaves at 88s. Melting Goods have been sold at Is. advance.; ! small lumps at 725. to 735. ; and large at 7 1 s. to 725. This ..,., afternoon ther is less bsiness doing in grocery goods; pr n ices -,•; continue firm ; e for some u small parcels of double Crushed 0 2s. - has been again accepted. Mauftt ries went off at a reduction on former rate s of 6d. a F Is., good foxey brown selling 435., low dry brown 475. 6d. to 305., ord. greyish yellow Ms. 61., good mid. yellow 565, to. 575., good dry with strength 595. to 595. 61., and fine 60s. W r 61s. ; inferior heavy browns were bought in at 39 5. to 405. :, EAST INDIA.-This afternoon Bengal continued much in , demand by the grocers, and 260 bags duty paid at public sale . went off with much spirit at 61. advance, good white at 665. ,-, 6d to 675. 6 , 1., damps 545. 6d. to 555. 64., wet 625. 6d. ~ FOREIGN. -For white Havannah there are still co nsiderable' . : inquiries. Of yellows there have been several arrivals off the coast, a small cargo of 900 boxes of which have been taken for Antwerp at 295. 64. ; others arc offering at the same prices.: but without meeting with buyers. MOLASSES.-West Indies arc still much inquired after, and.`. fine Demerara would readily bring 295., but the supply con tinuing short, business to any extent is prevented. This after noon, at public sale, 122 puns. of Dominica Syrup were taken: in at 39 , . to 40s. for good quality, being their full value. C . OFFEE.-The importers have liberally supplied the m arket with the clean descriptions of British Plantation this week; the grocers have purchased freely, paying an advance on pre viout rates of Is. to 2s. for the mid. and fine qualities. This afternoon the prices of British Plantation were fully niaie taieed. Unclean Berbice was refused by the trade ; clean descriptions sold briskly, Dominica at 2s. 6d. advance on the last sale, fine and fine ord. went at 2s. 6d. a 965. 6d. ; Jamaica fully supported former rates, mid. selling at 100 s. 6d. a 1045., fine and fine fine ord. 87s. to 955. 6d. ; of 375 bags Sumatra offered, only a part sold at its full value, good ord. at 29a. 6d. to 30s. 6d., very ord. brown country damaged taken in at 28s. Cocoa-Although the importers of British Plantation have sub Littcd to a reduction of Is., still there has been only a limited business doing. Trinidad good gray at 345. to 38s. ; inferior to fine red, 395. a 465. 6d ; Grenada good bright red, 425. 61. ; middling rather dull, 395. Rem.-The transactions in Jamaica Rum have been agair' limited. 30 to 33 per cent. over proof at 3s. 6d. to 3s. 7d. ; and 34 to 38 over, 3s. Bd. to 3s. 10d. Demerara the de mand has been moderate at 3s. 4d. for 34 per cent. over proof in puncheons ; and 3s. 6d. in hhds. SALTPETRE.-11l rough a good business has been transacted privately. Calcutta at 6d. to Is. advance ; refraction, 9, rather damp, and yellow went at 225. ; and refraction 7.1 225. 6d. to 235. for good fair quality. British refined has been much in request at 6d. advance; sales in barrels having been made at 285., and in hhds. at 275. 6d. per cwt. This afternoon a further advance of 6d. was obtained, and 499 bags Calcutta ; refraction 7 to 4i public sales sold readily at 235. 6d. to 245. for good quality. STICES.-Black Pepper is held for fully former rates. The market has been supplied with Pimento at i- to i per lb. under former prices ; middling and good middling at 21 to 2i, and a few lots at 3h-. Cassia Lignea, moderate; but to purchase fully previous prices must be paid. Mace is neglected, and 9 casks amboyna at public sale were taken in at 3s. 3d. for very inferior dark and mouldy. Some workmen who ate employed pulling down an outbuilding contiguous to the Roebuck Inn, in Bradford, have discovered two coffins, containing the relics of two human beings. The coffins were not buried in the earth, but ha( been placed in a crevice between two buildings, and then co vered with rubbish, which by successive accumulations lisui reached a considerable height. About six feet below tin summit of this rubbish, a coffin, two feet in length, was disco vered, and still lower, one of much larger dimensions, each of which contained the bones of a human being, the one of a child, and the other of a full-grown person. The skeletons were far from being entire, for in consequence of exposure to air and water, the process of decomposition would necessarily be very rapid. No inscription could be traced on the c )ffins About a yard below the larger coffin, the workmen d'scoverec a tin cannister, containing nearly 300 ccunterfeit shillings dated 1818 and 1820, and a button with the Bradford coat of-arms on. The coins were speedily distributed amongst th( crowd—one man purchased a hundred for 2s. 6d., observim. that he would soon make his money by them.— York Courant The Bath Conservative Association held a spew meeting on Thursday evening. Sir NV. S. R. Cockburn ane other members made speeches. A few days ago, Mr. Scott, of Strid Cottage, new Bolton Abbey, caught a trout-fish, in the river near the Strid which weighed 81b. 60z., and measured two feet two inches long, and fifteen inches round. The following critique has been given by one o the guests at the inauguration of the Museum of Versaille• upon a very remarkable production in one of the galleries Among the busts of marble observe that young country girl at once a shepherdess and a warrior; with the face of ; woman, the heart and arm of a hero. Her attitude is calm and full of dignified repose. Her noble countenance beam with courage and hope ; it is impossible better to delineate th courage of a lion borne within the heart of a woman ; yet th, artist who has so well understood and embodied the characte' of the heroic maid of Vaucouleurs (Joan d'Arc) is herself young girl, who is content with the simple title of Mari , d'Orleans." It is not generally known that sculpture reckon' the Princess Marie, daughter of his Majesty, in the number o its most distinguished votaries.—Galignani. Two individuals, a woman named Hiron, 48 years of age, and a mai named Pelletan, aged 42, were tried a the last Assizes of Tours, under a charge of poisoning. At adulterous passion, according to the bill of indictment, led t' the commission of these crimes. Towards the close of las ye ir the wife of Pelletan and the husband of the woman Hiro' died within a short period of one another, and it was observe' that the same symptoms and (the most excruciating) suffer ings had preceded the death of each. Those circumstance being made known to the Attorney-General, he caused th• bodies to be disinterred, and on examination a great quantit . of cautharides was found in the stomach and intestines of boti the deceased. Pelletan and the woman Hiron, denounce( by public opinion as the authors of this double crime, we' accordingly arrested, and their guilt fully proved on the trial which lasted two entire days. The Jury returned a verdic of guilty, with attenuating circumstances in favour of th woman, who was sentenced to hard labour for life. Pelletar was capitally convicted and condemned to death.—Gazette cb Tribunaux. TAME GROUSE.—The Right Hon. Lord Prudhdt presented to the Surrey Zoological Gardens, a short time since a brace of grouse ; they have this season hatched a fine young brood, which seem remarkably healthy, arid are a source o' great curiosity to the admiring cockneys, who have very seldon an opportunity of seeing those birds alive which they so =el almire on the table. T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, &c., 47, Cornbill. London, informs the Public, that he offers SILVER WATCHES , I on the celebrated PATENT LEVER CONSTRUCTION, (thfl most accurate on which a watch can be made) for SIX GUINEAS EACH, with all the latest improvements, i. e. the detached escape. mcnt, jewelled in four holes, capped, hand to mark the seconds, hay enamelled dial, and maintaining power to continue going while wind- inn up. N.13.—1f in Hunting Cases, 10s. 6d. extra.—Second-han ( Watches purchased in exchange. B 11i7'11 S. On the 20th inst., at Bro:PtOn, 111;s1 J. B. Buckstone, of a NI On the 23d inst., in Gloucester-terrace, Regent's-park, the lad) of C. D. Archibald, Esq., of a daughter. On the 22d inst., in Everett-street, the wife of the Rev. TVs. Maude, of a son. On the 23d inst., in Salisbury-square, Mrs. Edkins, of a daughter. On the 23d inst., in Torrington-street, the lady of the Rev. W. Wilson, of a son. On the 20th inst., at Bath, the lady of the Rev. A. Crofton, ‘;) a daughter. On the 22d inst., at Brixton, Surrey, Mrs. Thos. Browne, 0111 daughter. On the 19th inst., at Osidge, Southgate, the wife of A. Boon quet, Esq., of a still-born daughter. On the 20th inst., at Harrowgate, the lady of Captain Boss, 11.11* of Otterington Hall, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 21st inst., at St. Swithin's, London-stone, J. Cooke,i 4P " . of Cannon-street, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Joseph Rice , ° the same place. On the 29th inst., at Erith, John Tennant, Esq., of Will' heath, to Eliza Laura, youngest daughter of the late W. H. Stec Esq., formerly of Hampton Court-park. On the 22d inst., at Leamington, Thomas Edwards, of Hertford street, May-fair, to Hester Magdalene Penelope, second daughte' of the late Rev. W. Wilson, of Harrington, Northamptonshire. DIED. On the 20th inst., at Ipswich, aged 74, Colonel Dupuis, form of the 24 Dragoon Guards. On the 23d inst., in Whitehall-place, Eliza Maria, wife of Der Sergeant Mereweter. On the 19th inst., at an advanced age, George O'Brien, Esq. late of Cheshunt, Herts. On the 224 inst., aged 26. Benjamin Francis, the last survivinf son of Mr. J. Powell, of Hand-court, Upper Thames.street. On the 19th inst., at Kilkenny, aged 19, Charles Vere Levi ngeinge ' ESCI Ensign 71st Regiment, son of Sir It. and the Hon. Lady Lev On the 21st init., at Chase-side. Enfield, Joseph Seward, in his 78th year. On the 22d inst., at Barnes, Mr. Thomas Eglinton, aged Bo , 'Ar On the 224 inst., in London, Colonel Francis Smith, iter' tillery, aged 66. On the 21st inst., in Hill-street, aged 6 years, and 7 'Vt. Adelaide, youngest daughter of Mr. and Lady Charlotte My' Grenville. daughter On the 21st inst., at Kensington-crescent, Lou isa, only of Mr. R. oward of Fenchurch-strect, aged 22. On the 2 H lst inst. , , Florence Eliza, infan(laughter of C. J. Eas t ' Esq., of Sloane-street. On the 18th inst., at Dallicott House, Shropshire, aged 65, Ek i _t Castle, zabeth, relict of T. W. Grazebrook, Esq., of Stourton Staffordshire. On the 22d inst., at Peckham-rye, Mr. Robert Fleet, late Aldersgate-street, aged 52. of On the 15th inst. at Carlisle Dorothy, eldest daughter late G. Heysham, 'sq., of Lancaster. of DIC• London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG. 112, Strand, at The Sun Offic e, No. 112, Strand, in the c ut ' of 3liddle‘es. —Monday. June 26. TJ-1,14] SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1837.