The Sun. — London, England, 1837-06-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The public had begun to entertain hopes of a fa vourable change in the state of his Majesty's health ; but the latest bulletins are not of a character to afford much consolation. One might at such a time as this expect that there should be a cessation of political brawling. We are sure that it can only excite disgust in all well. constituted minds to see so little respect shown for the situation of his Majesty as to select such a time for discussions which a regard for the most com mon delicacy ought to exclude from consideration, ,so long as King William is the Sovereign of these realms. In a case in which the national interests might be ex posed to injury from an unforeseen conjuncture arising for which provision ought to be made, an excuse might be afforded for a departure from ordinary maxims ; but there is no unlooked-for accident now to be guarded against. If the illness of his Majesty should terminate fatally, the successor is of age, and no apprehension need be entertained of the sovereignty being in abey ance. What demon, then, can possess the Times to pur sue its malignant and mischievous course ? Are the Tories so lost to all decency that they abet the Times in its dirty work ? We have no doubt that if it should please Providence to terminate at this time the reign of King William, the Princess Victoria will fitly discharge the duties of her station. Certain we are that if her previous studies and experience do not fit her to discharge the duties of sovereignty, the vul gar articles in the Times will not benefit her much. Our morning Contemporary will have it, forsooth, that the judgment of the Princess Victoria has been warped by the narrow education she has received, and that its lucubrations are necessary to the enlargement of her faculties. " Our business," quoth the Times, " for the sake of her who is in all human conjecture to reign over us, and of those millions over whom she is to reign, was to hint at the natural sources of such errors of judgment as might be apprehended from a youthful Queen, with out being by any means imputable to her self, but (should error be really committed on her part) to the misfortune of having received a narrow, or jealous, or otherwise ill-framed education." So the Princess Victoria has received a narrow edu cation ! But, then, says the modest oracle of Print ing-house-square, " We trust, and, indeed, have rea son to know, that within a few hours what we say will meet the eye of the Princess Victoria." One leading article of this sage is to supersede all the lessons whice the Princess has hitherto received ! Without the la hours of our Contemporary, the Tories it seems would stand no chance ; and this is to be the apology for the disgraceful insult to the feelings of the nation during the King-'s affliction. " Where a well-known faction are in favour, the great names and real statesmen of the empire would stand no chance of being fairly listened to." Indeed ! So this is the key to this foul attempt partly to slander and partly to intimidate the Duchess of Kent, and to praise the Princess Victoria one day for her strength of mind, and the next to impute to her narrow views and a defective judgment. The object of all this impertinence is as obvious as it is sure to fail of its effect. The Princess Victoria, if she see the Times, can have no other feeling than that of disgust on reading the malignant libels addressed against her mother. It is quite time enough for the Times to in dict the Duchess of Kent Ivhen she is found aspiring to functions to which she has no claim. We presume the iesolence of the Tories and their organ the Times will not go so far as to presume to interdict all inter course between the mother and daughter. It is for the Princess Victoria herself, and not for the Times, to decide on the degree of confidence she may repose in Ler parent. But we will not be seduced by the exam ple of the Times into the prosecution of a discussion sn unsuitable in every respect to the present moment.— Morning Chronicle. Gentle dulness loves her jokes too well to sub mit patiently to their demolition. Thus Lord Palmer ston is perfectly furious in the Album of Saturday last, at the treatment which the " ponderous levities " of the previous evening had met with at the hands of Sir R. Peel. The Right Hon. Baronet is termed " a jester in ordinary to his patty, who has no higher am bition than to raise a laugh by his jokes." If so, then the Conservative leader in the Commons, and the Whig Foreign Secretary are, as to this particular, la bouring in the same avocation, with this material dif ference, however—that Sir Robert's jokes do raise a laugh, while Cupid's ponderous levities but deepen the gloom of the discomfited Treasury benchers. Take the conversation on Friday evening as an instance. The Foreign Secretary commenced his reply to Sir Stratford Canning's question in a tone of most offen sive flippancy. This having failed to disturb the dig niied self-possession of the Right Hon. Gentleman, Lord Palmerston proceeded to say very many things of pompous and unusual silliness. Among others, was the following specimen of philosophic statesman ship:—The Noble Sncretary declared that so far from leave of absence being an improper indul gence to diplomatists who had been long in a fo reign country, particularly a despotic one, he should be disposed to order them home, even were they disin clined, that they might " refresh their English feel ing." We should be glad 5o see this refreshing pro cess begin in Downing-street. But that is beside the present question. The passage we have just quoted contains Lord Palmerston's political doctrine as re gards our diplomatic functionaries abroad, especially in foreign countries. Well, Turkey is despotic enough, we presume, and Lord Ponsonby's English feeling, after his six or seven years' absence, must be in the greatest possible peril. Why, then, not force him home to take a constitutional refresher ? That was Sir R. Peel's question. And what does Lord Pal merston answer ? He answers, that to tell an ambas sador " You shall come home, and be refreshed, re-impregnated with constitutional principles," &c., would be most ungracious. Why, as Sir Ro bert Peel exclaimed, " that is the Noble Lord's own dectrine, and the doctrine of no one else !" Yet hardly has Cupid laid down his doctrine of political refreshment, than he is in a fluster at the ungentle thought, the ungracious proceeding of enforcing it. The ludicrous position in which he had thus placed himself, and in which Sir Robert Peel held him tight till the House had laughed its fill, accounts for the ju venile anger displayed in the Album of Saturday. The Foreign-office print designates the speech of the Right Honourable Baronet the veriest trash, and calls his jokes tiresome. Cupid, we think, must have found them so, for Sir Robert told the Foreign Secretary that he did not wish to press too hard upon him, at the very time that 'he was holding him pinned to an ab surdity, from which there was no possible escape. To poor Lord Palmerston such a joke must have been tiresome indeed, and we are uncharitable enough to Trope that he will be fagged from his office by pleasan - tries equally fatiguing.—Times. Our gracious Sovereign, William IV., is, we regret to state, in that condition, as we previously informed our readers, in which there is but small hope for con tinued life. We could have most cordially wished that his days had been prolonged, and that, in addition to the title of the Reform King, which he has justly earned, his days and hours would have been sufficiently long to have earned that also of " Liberator of Ire land." But it happens to few to accomplish all that they could wish, and all that they deem necessary ; and we fear, according to the latest and most authentic accounts that have reached us, health and life will not be so long to his present Majesty as to enable him to add the latter to his former title of glory. According to all the accounts which have reached us, his Ma kity's health and strength have been decreasing—the disease under which he labours not less urgent—and continued feebleness superseding- the vigour and energy which once characterized him. This is a matter of strong regret with us ; for if ever a King deservedly earned applause from his subjects, it is he who is now in a state of mortal affliction, and, at the moment at which we write, may have passed -" that bourne from which no travAer returns." His reign, if its termination be now come, has been one of great anxiety, and of great difficulty ; but, in a national point of view, as a national benefit, and as a national hie!;sing, there is none in the history of England which can be compared to it I What, in fact, except justice to Ireland, has not been accomplished during it ? The Civil List has been reduced, with one exception, within something like proper limits—free trade be tween this country and all the nations of the world has been established, so far as prudence would permit—the Criminal Code has been stripped of its greatest atroci ties—the poor of England have felt the benefit, not only of earning their own independent livelihood, but of finding their way to honest industry and moral con duct; and, finally, the African slave has had the dis graceful menacles by which he was bound, severed from his wrists, and the certainty given to him that that freedom which he originally enjoyed should again 1 o his birthright. If these be not titles to popular esteem and to popular regret, should his Majesty now pay the debt of nature, we know not, as men and as Christians, what ought to constitute them. The triumphs in his reign have been triumphs of peace—of additional free dom, civilisation, and extension of knowledge—and farther, these triumphs have been accomplished, not only with the expenditure of a small portion of trea sure, but without the loss of one drop of blood. What a contrast with the reigns of other Monarchs, who, from obstinacy of temper, or perverseness of in tellect, have arrayed subject against subject in civil warfare, and instead of promoting that community of good feelling which ought to exist between every mem ber of the human race, have, for the dastardly and selfish purpose of taking care of their own peculiar in terests, promoted animosity and warfare amongst those who, but for them, would have had no contention 1 We speak this with the utmost cordiality and affec tion ; and nothing could gratify us more than to learn that his Majesty is in that state of health which would enable him to appreciate this unbiassed expression of the sentiments, not only of an individual, but of a very large portion of his subjects. If he has not been the author of all the measures, and all the benefits accruing from a liberal Administration, he has nevertheless most nobly aided and supported them ; and we trust that there is not an Englishman living who, if nature shall take its course with Royalty as it does with all others, will not come forward and inscribe upon the pedestal of his monument the ever-glorious and endearing title of " The Reform King."—Morning Advertiser. In politics they who begin with mere audacity are likely to end with mere weakness. Such has been the career of our present Ministers. They obtained office by an act which combined desperate political depra vity with unparalleled meanness—they had the hardi hood to set aside for the occasion every feeling but one, namely, that of intense desire to rega'n the places from which their Sovereign had dismissed them. The audacity of this conduct was attended with success— they regafned office ; but there they stick—helpless, incapable, ridiculous, the scorn cf every human crea ture who has sense to comprehend, and a heart to feel, what British statesmen ought to be. Like some silly climber who has gained a crag from which he is afraid to descend, and unable to proceed upwards, they stand conspicuous in their feebleness and stupidity. They make grievous complaints, sometimes of the people below them for not coming more actively to their as sistance, sometimes of the House of Lords above them, for being in the way of their progress ; but they do nothing. It is needless to dwell in detail upon the national injury which is the result of having such a wretched set of characterless incapables in the administration of the Government. We are Conser vatives, and therefore we do not particularly mourn over the present state of things, because some of the most important laws of the country are not altered. It is not because we pant for change, that we are filled with disgust at the ineffectual attempts of the Admi nistration in the cause of revolution ; bat we are im pressed with shame and regret to see the monarchy it self brought into contempt, by the imbecility and pal triness of its servants. The King's Government ought always to be an object of respect. It is not so now, and it cannot be so while such persons as the present Ministers hold the reins of Government. They are leaders of nothing. They are but the subordinate members of a dirty conspiracy of dullness, which seeks to overthrow everything in England with which manly hearts . and gentlemanly spirits are associated. The Ministers are not the leaders and managers of a system of policy emanating from the monarchy, and supported by Parliament and the public—they are nothing but partners in the scheming political transac tions of such disreputable speculators as Mr. O'Con nell and Mr. Hume. They have no patty of their own. The country party and the King's party are both in opposition to the King's Ministers. This is the result of an attempt to govern the country by men who, from the beginning, had no manner of just pre tension to undertake such a task. From one end of the Administration to the other there is not one man of highly distinguished talents in any one department of human exertion. Not a single man of them ever held a foremost place in any great transaction. Not a single man of them is there who, if he were not a Minister, would be of any considerable importance. Is not this dis graceful and absurd ? When before was there an Ad ministration in England of which this could be said ? What affairs have these men ever distinguished themselves in ? At their head is a frivolous volup tuary, whose every step, as a politician, and every word, are in direct contradiction to the principles upon which he acted before his mind sunk to its present state of weakness and waspishness. Yet this man is the least inconsiderable of the set : his colleagues are made up of the subordinate clerks and secretaries of Lord Grey's Government, together with one or two scrubs of all work in all Governments—such as Lord Palmerston and Lord Glenelg. How can any man of common sense expect bold or dignified government from such dregs as these ? The thing is impossible. If we expect a first-rate administration of affairs, when tenth-rate people are suffered to try to administer them, we expect a thing which is absurd. It is like starting a dozen hacks to run for the St. Leger. If the revo lutionary current were running so strong that it would carry all before it these people might do as well as any other faithless guardians of the Monarchy to give way to the rushing destruction, and call themselves the leaders of the popular mind ; but, thank Heaven, there is no such power now in action of which to avail themselves, and, as they have none of their own, they stagnate, or make a small fuss, which ends in no thing : " In a dull stream, which, moving slow, You hardly see the current flow— If a small breeze obstruct the course It whirls about for want of force, And in its narrow circle gathers Nothing but chaff, and straws, and feathers." Such is the course and such the achievements of the present Administration. We wonder how much longer Great Britain is to submit to this disgrace. We think it is Coleridge who has divided the pursuits of a true Statesman into three great ends, which, he -says, the politician ought to propose to himself in the Government of a nation. These are-1. Security to possessors ; 2. Facility to ac quirers; ; and 3. Hope to all. Whoever will take the trouble to consider these several heads will find that they do, indeed, embrace to a great extent the duties of good Statesmanship, but they exclude such wretched attempts at political government as those to which the present Ministers have been partners. As to the first, we leave the owners of Church property to settle the matter with Lord Melbourne, Lord John Russell, and Mr. Spring Rice, while the persons who were induced to embark their pro perty in the public funds of Spain may address that very satisfactory and puissant gentleman Lord Palmer ston upon the subject. As to the second, the same gentleman may be referred to—Mr. Spring Rice will show all those concerned in Exchequer bills and Bank accommodations how much he has helped them in making their fortunes, and the owners of the Vixen and its cargo will, of course, speak for the eminent ser vices of Lord Palmerston in giving success to foreign mercantile speculation. As to the third—let the Pro testants of Ireland answer. When Lord Melbourne announces the necessity of inflicting a heavy blow and a great discouragement upon Protestantism, he can hardly (unless he forgets) suppose that his Adminis tration is one which gives " hope to all." We are driven to these remarks by the continued procrastina tion and utter frivolity which the course of this Ad ministration in Parliament presents. It is wearisome and humiliating to see the great concerns of this great nation made the subject of perpetual fiddle-faddle, or the sport of a paltry irritability—the vile humour of a petty and vitiated mind. We cannot think it is in human patience that public affairs should go on, or stand still, in this manner. Men who have weight with the public must rouse themselves, and do Some thing decisive.—Morning Post. The heaviest waggon between London and any other part of his Majesty's dominions in the olden time moved not more slowly than Lord John Russell's Bills of " Criminal Law Reform." Like the lun.ba•- ing vehicle to which we have alluded, they have I ad so many stoppages that a question may fairly arise whether they will ever arrive at their destination. Even though they should not, it would not grieve us much, for they are but a miserable compromise between the worse than useless cruelty of a code of blood, and the principle of enlightened legislation. If we accepted these Bills now as a reform of the Criminal Law, we might be hereafter told that we had accepted them as a final settlement of the question. On the contrary, as fruits of the Criminal Law Commission, whose mem bers have already received 15,0001. of the public money, we say they are not worth the purchase. To show the opinion that the Whig Attorney-General, Sir John Campbell, entertains of them, he has got a clause inserted, exempting Scotland from the operation of four of the Ministerial Bills. If he supposed them beneficial measures for England, why should he deny the benefit of them to the country beyond the Tweed, the land of his nativity ? Are we not to infer from this that he considers them worse than useless ? The Bills which Sir John Campbell prevents from being wafted on the wings of Reform beyond the Tweed are those relative to robbery, burglary, arson, and (fences against the person. When Lord Den man's Forgery Act was under discussion in the Com mons, if we remember rightly, Jeffrey, then Member for Edinburgh, and Lord Advocate, had a clause in serted extending its operation to Scotland. Campbell, also Member for Edinburgh, adopts an opposite course. Is it because he is adverse to diminishing the black catalogue of offences punishable witk death in Scotland, or because, while he is an accomplice in the deception attempted to be practised upon England, he thinks it too bad that his Majesty's lieges of the north should be cheated by a measure of mock Reform, while they have called out for a real and substantial one ? We know not which horn of the dilemma the Attorney-General prefers, but, whichever it be, we leave him to his choice.- Let us once more impress upon the public mind that the speech of Lord John Russell, when introducing his Bills on the criminal law, if good for any thing, was good as showing, by unanswerable argument, that the punishment of death ought to be entirely abolished, as worse than use less —or, if retained at all—only retained for the crime of murder—though certainly the scenes which took place at the executions of Pegstvorth and Green acre, and the atrocious murders which immediately followed each execution, pretty strongly go in aid of the reasoning of those persons who advocate the total abo lition. Of one thing we are quite certain, and that is, that neither Whig nor Tory Statesmen can long pre vent the proposition of Mr. Ewart, for restraining the punishment of death to cases of actual murder, from becoming the law of the land. Why then should we take any interest in such Bills as those proposed by Lord John Russell, which are obviously intended to prevent, rather than facilitate, a thorough and efficient reform of our Criminal Code ? While upon the sub ject of law Reform, let us ask . Sir John Campbell whether his Bill for the abolition of imprisonment for debt has been quietly strangled by the hands of its un natural parent, or whether, as in a former year, it is to he sent up to the House of Lords, at the close of the Session, a scarcely-breathing bantling, to undergo the process of easy suffocation and speedy interment ? It will not do to practise this ingenious manoeuvre too often, or Sir John may hear of it again, even at the hustings of Edinburgh. The reform of the Criminal Law is closely connected with this question, for our prisons are in general so conducted as to make many criminals, and imprisonment for debt is a prolific source of demoralisation and crime.—Morning Herald. We take no part in the controversy going on re specting the mock Poor-law Committee of Inquiry, for the reasons which induced us to enter our protest against it in the beginning, regarding it as a packed Jury, whose verdict would have no influence upon public opinion. We said then, and we repeat it now, that we care not one straw about the Committee and its proceedings. We have indeed published the vo luminous evidence from day to day, because it should not be said that we had any desire to suppress the whole or any part of the examination which has taken place into the working of the Malthusian law, even before such a tribunal. We also thought it expedient that the public should have an opportunity of seeing, as far as our columns could afford it, the one-sided mode of inquiry which the great majority of the Com mittee have adopted, and which is calculated to show, not the real character and working of the union-bastile law, but the animus of the tribunal appointed by the Whig Government to prevent the malignant operation and distressing effects of that grinding measure of op pression from being too clearly elucidated. Even this ob ject Ministers, like unskilful workmen, as they are, bungled. The deception that deceives nobody it is hardly worth while to practise. Ministers, in their eagerness to deceive, made their intention too manifest. They placed but four Members on the Committee who were known to entertain any doubts of the wisdom, justice, or policy of the Malthusian law. Thus, while the Ministers were most anxious to silence public opi nion as to the operation of that law by the decision of a Parliamentary Committee, they acted in such a man• ner as to make the public not care a fig for that deci sion. The four Members who constituted the minority of that Committee ought, in our opinion, to have de clined acting. What has now happened they ought to have foreseen, and allowed the Poor-law Commissioners, and their advocates on the Committee, to have the whole of the affair to themselves. But the thing is of little con sequence either way. The " masses" whom the Whigs flattered until they got into power, and whom they have insulted and oppressed ever since, are not to be duped or blinded by any one-sided,inquiry into the work ing of the Malthusian law in Parliament, while that law is working its grinding effects upon them and their families out of Parliament. Let the Committee publish as many ponderous volumes of evidence and com mentary as they please, we set against it all the written law itself, which introduces a triple-headed despotism into our free Constitution, by giving to the central So vereigns at Somerset-house the power of making laws for all the parishes of England and Wales ; thus unit- Inc , in themselves the power of King, Lords, and Commons ! This novel and irresponsible delegation of the legislative authority to three Commissioners we denounered all along as a monstrous principle, and as a precedent fraught with the greatest danger to our constitutional system. Again, we say, let the Commit tee publish as many ponderous volumes of evidence and commentary as they will, against it all we place that odious, cruel, and anti-Christian principle of this worse than pagan law, which makes it the prime canon of the public charity of England that poverty shall be treated as crime ! Never will the great, enlightened, and benevolent community of England be reconcil e d to this serpent principle of Whig legislation, that, wrapped in the folds of seeming chari ty, , sti ngs t h e poor, while applauding " philosopher calls its slow torture relief—that relief which is only afforded even to the most deserving poor upon condition of submitting to perpetual imprisonment hi the Bastile dungeons-- where the heart's best affections are turned into a source of poignant anguish by the separation of the victims of misfortune from wife and child, and where they are forbidden to seek for the conso lations of religion at the Sabbath altars of their God. Again we say, let the Committee and the Commis sioners, the Whig Government and the Whig- Radical philosophers, who are fond of appealing to the " masses" whom they imprison or starve, publish what they will of th e M a lth us ian law, according to th e i r view of it s wor ki ng ; we t a k e the law itself, and place its principl es i n t h e i r na k e d deformity before the e y es of the pe o pl e o f E ng l au d. There we show a cr ue lty of legislati on , a bi tterness o f oppression, Which b y no sophistry can be made to pass current for a well-regu lated system of public benevolence. Will the voice of the vast population that assembled at Huddersfield the other day, to denounce this tyrannical la*, be stifled by the voluminous report of a Government Committee ? The Whigs, who transported the Dorchester labour ers, may make it high treason to denounce the law ad ministered by the " three kings ;" but the manly heart of England must wither—its Christian spirit depart for ever—before public opinion shall cease to denounce a law so opposed to the dictates of justice and the in terests of humanity.—Morning Herald. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, ASSURANCE COMPANIES,&c. &c. &c. LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 16. Number Dividend Price of Shares. Annum. Paid. Share. 1,766 7 pea cent. Ashton and Oldham.... Average 97/.lBs. sh. 135 1,482 41. Ashby.de-le-Zouch Average 1131. sh. 65 1,260 Basingstoke lOO/. sh. 5; 1,005 51, Brecknock and Abergavenny 150 . sh. 100 11,000 1-1601. 91.95. Birmingham, 1-16th share 8.1/. & 711. 218 4,000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct...l2s/ sh. 100 pd 31 600 Bridgewater and Taunton ....1001. sh. all pd 64 400 4!. Chelmer and Backwater 1001. sh. 102 500 481. Coventry 100/. sh. 700 4,545 Croydon Average 31/.25. 10d. sh. 3 2,060; 41. Os. 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Si. pd 54 24,000 1/ per sh. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 1:31 1,200 ish. 5/. Birmingham l ire 0 50/. sh. 55/. pd 105 20,000 4/ percent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 41 12,000 61. per cent. British Comin , :rcial 50/, sh. 5/. pd 61 5,000 5/. percent. Clerical, Medial, &c. Life, ICO/ sh. 12110 s pd 4 4,000 2/ lOs County 100/. sh. 101. pd 42 20,000 ss. Eagle 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 5; 200 / r and 30/ bs. 5 per cent.l Economic Lite lOOOl. sh. 250/. pd 275 2,271 225. percent. European Li. • 0 0/. sh. all pd 22 50,000 Os. Ditto, New 0 01. sh. 21. pd If 1,000,008/. 7/.per ct. Globe Stock 147 20,000 5/. Guardian lOO/. sh. 2741 pd 23 10,000 6s. fid. Hope 50/. sh. 51. pd 54 2,400 5/. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fire 500/ sh. 50/. pd 121 7,500 95. Imperial Lilt. 100/. sh. 10/. pd 10 13,158 12s. perch. Indemnity 51..rine 100/. sh. 8/. psi Ir 4 2,020 31 108 Kent Fire 501. sh. all pd 82 3/. Ditto Life. 79 10,000 I6s. Law Life 100/. sh. 101. pd 26 5,000 10s. London, Fir .. 25/. sh. 12/. 103. pd 154 3,900 10s. Londco, Ship 251. sh. 12!. 10s. pd 154 30,0: , 0 5/. per cent. Palladium Lit, 50/. sh. 21. pd 2/ Ss 00 50,000 Protector Eli e 0 0/. sh. 2/. pi 18s 6d 2,500 1/. Provident Li i e 100,000 5/. per cent. Rock Life 0 0/. sh. 2/. pd (4 , V 0,220/ 51. per cent. Royal Excli..l;re Stock... 225 u 6,000 5 per cent. Untversity Lute lOOl. sh. 5/. p 54 50,000 4 per cent. Unite! Kint. , loin Life 2l. pd JOINT Si•OCK. BANKS 25,000 A gric. and Cumin. of Ireland 251. ill. 101. pd 14 5,000 Australa'in 4Ol. sh. 401. pd 56 10,000 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham 5ll. sh. 101. pd 13 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank .... 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 14 30,000 5 per cent. London and NVestmi lister —lOOl sh. 201. pd ISI :3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster 25,000 Lives - pool 1001 sh. 10/. pd 19 50,000 71 per cent. Manchestes and Liverpool] Discount lOO/. sh. 151 pd 211 20,000 7 per cent. Manchester 100/. sh. 25/ pd 201 20,000 Provincial Mink of 1 reland 100/. sh. 25/. pd 401 20, CO National Bank of Ireland s'l. sh 1711. pd 1:1 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. lO O l. sh. 3.51. pd 291 19,000 Gloucestershire 5Ol. sh. 10/. pd 20 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 501. sh. 5/. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. . _. 2,500 115; 6d - Bath 2O/. sh. 10/. pd 24 5,000 British 4Ol. sh. 101. pd 21 . r ercent.l "i' ,v " , '' Land Bs. ss. j Ditto Provincial 20/. sh. 19 pd 23; 928 5110 s Birmingham 5O/. sh. 94 4,250 21 0s Bristol 1,500 3 , lOs Brighton 2Ol. sh. 12 750 31 lOs Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 18/. pd 10 2,471 5 per cent. Brighton (leaeral ' , Ol. sh. all pd 17 4,000 4/. Continental Consolidated lOO/. 621/. pd 85 1,000 10/. City of Loudon lOO/. sh. all pd 180 1,000 6/. Ditto, New 4,000 4/. 10s. Equitable ... 10,000 2 per cent. Imperial 5O/. sh. 42 IiOU 51. per cent. Isle of Thauet 25/. sh. 201. pd 20 2,350 6/. per cont. Independent 3Ol. sh. all pd 49 9,000 3/. per cent. Pheenix .. 5Ol. sh. 39/. pd 201 1,000 4/. per cent. Ratcliff 4,000 ...... ... South Pletropulitan 5O/. sh. 19/. pd 17 8,200 5/. per cent. United General 5O/. sh. 46/. pd 25 240 5/. per cent. Warwick 501. sh. 50 400 101. per cent WaKefield 12,000 3/. Westminster Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto New 800 Yarmouth 281. sh. 18/. pd 9 WATER WORKS. 4 ,800 9s. Birmingham 25/. sh. 25/. pd 241 4,4.34 6/. East London lOO/• sh. 1401 .... __ . 5,500 21 lOs Grand Junction ....Average 41/ 13s. 40. sh. 2,000 2/. Kent ' 1001. s h. 372 10/. Liverpool Bootle 2'201. sh. 1,500 2/ lOs Now River I .ondon Bridge Water Annuities 6,186 1115 s Manchester and Salford lOO/. sh. 1,000 4 per cent. South LotalGn lOO/. sh. 8,294 35/. West Middlesex ....Average 031. 12s. 9d. sh. 1,360 1114 s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 100/. sh. IRON RAILWAYS. 6,000 Birmingham and Derby lO/. pd 9,509 Birmingham and Gloucester 10/ pd 7,500 Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction 15,000 Bristol and Exeter 1001. sh. 10 pd '.. 660 Calcutta and Saugur 5O/. sh. 2/. Ix - I 0 7,500 Cheltenham and G. Western-1001. sh. 731. 5 3,000 Clarence lOO/. sh. 1001. p 0 40 12,000 8,000 Dublin and Kilkenny 100/. sh. 21 pd Of 60,000 Eastern Counties , 51. sh. 21. pd 01 Grand Junction 1001. sh. 50/. pd 1(7 Great North of England 7l. pd 55 25,000 Great Western lOO/. sh. 45/. pd 491 2,000 Hartlepool 100/. sh. 100/. pi 100 8,000 Hull and 9elby 5Ol. sh. 5/. pd Of 10,00 k) Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 51. pd 14 7,100 Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 45 1,500 Leicester and Swannington ....50/. sh. all pd 70 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester...lo(l.sh. 1001. psi 202 Ditto Quarter Shares 25/. pd 61 10,000 London and Brightol 45,000 Ditto ditto (Gibbs') -.20/ sh. 1/. pa Of 16,000 Ditto ditto (Rennie)...so/. sh. 3/. pd 15 8,000 Ditto ditto (Cundy)... WU sh. 31. pd Of 12,000 London and Blackwall 501. sh. 3/. pd Of 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 2Ol. sic '2O/. pd 15f 25,000 London and Birmingham -100/. sh. 854 Ixl 139 20,000 London and Southampton 50/. sh. 401. pd 181 7,000 ... ...... London and Croydon 20/. sh. 20/. lid 140 12,000 London Grand Junction 5 1. sh. 3/. pd 01 10,000 AI inchester and Birmingham 501.5 h. 5/. pd 3i North Midland 100/. sh. 151. rid 121 Northe'm and Pastern MI/. sh. 31. pd 4 2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 24 p 0 28,000 South Eastern and Dover .71. ixl 4 1,000 6/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/. sh. 240 9,000 ... ...... Thames Haven 5Ol. sh. 2/. 10s. pd Of 1,400 Westminster and Greenwich 50/. sh. 2/. pd Of 6,000 York and North Midland 5O . sh. 3/. pd 2; 3: - ...6 58 0 rr ( 1 "tor Orr tollguAro THE SUN, LONDON, MONbAY, JITNI.I 19, 1837. MINES. 3,000 Albion Copper 5/. sh. 3k/. pd 12 4,000 1/. ss. Al ten 151. sh. 121. 103 pd 111 10,000 .... Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. prn....100/. sh. all p 0 lii Ditto Subscription 95/. pa 4 2,000 Bolanos 150/. sh all pd 7; k • lO,OOO 1/. lOs Brazilian Imp. iss. Si. pm ..... . 351. sh. 20/. lxi 'l2 6,0i'0 Macaubas elz Cocaes United...2s/.sh. 23k/. pd 7 11,000 ...... ... Ditto St. John Del Rey '2Ol. sh. 1)/. IA 2k 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 0 01. sh. 201. pd 5 10,000 .......... Ditto Scrip 10/. sh. Si. pd 6 20,001 British Iron 5O/. sh. 501 pd 411 6,000 British Copper 5/. sh. 41. pd 0& Cata Branca... . 64/. pd 6 Candonga 7l/. pd 61 10,000 U. Copiapo 2O/. sh 12k/ pd 14 8,500 Colombian, iss. 51. pm. 2,850 31. English l2l Ks. pd 22 20,000 General Mining A ssociation...2o/. oh. 154 p 0 § 6,155 Mexican Compmy 1001. sh 552/. pd 01 3,000 Polberou Consols lO/. sh 81. pd 7 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered Ditto Loan Notes l5O/. pd 112 k 30,000 United Mexican, iss. 2 pm. ....40/. sh. all pd 1.4 Dittt. Scrip 4 Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd 2! West Cork 5O/. sh. 501. pd 38 LifERARy .INSTITUTIONS. 1 ,000 ... ...... London, with Bronze Ticket .... .. ...75gs. sh. 201 1,500 London University 1001. sh. all pd 2 - .*l 700 Russell 2sgs sh. 8 King' College lOOl. pd 32 MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 15s. Australian Agricultural....loo/. sh. 26e/. pd 34 6,000 6/. per cent. British American Land Company 23/. pd , 121 10,000 61 per cent. Canada Company 1001. sh. 241. I,kl 36 200,000 51 per cent. Upper Canada Loan lOO City Bonds, 4 per cent . 15,000 I/. 6 s. General Steam Navigation ...15/.5 7 . 13/. pd 241 . ... 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,000 11. London Com: Sale Rooms Av. 75/. sh, 19 8,000 Caoutchouc Company 251. sh. 2il. pd 11 New Brunswick Land Company V/. pd 13 2,754 51. per cent. Reversionary Interest 5ac...100/. sh. 1001. pd 126 2,633 Si. per cent. Ditto New 1001. sh. 701. pd b 5 4,000 .... ..... 1 flames Tunnel 50/. sh. all yd 71 10,000 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. MAY 20. 1837. BANKS. g 5, - o,ooii, 01. P. ct. Ban': of Scotland Q3l. Cs. Sd, sh. all pd 19°l. 2 , 000,0)(/. 51- p. ct. Royal of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd Ins/. 500,0)(1. sp. ct. British Linen Company lOW. sh. :di pd 2101. 3,000,00 e/. 0/. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. lOW. pd 175/, 5.00,0)0c ,o. ct. National lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 151/. 9,00,0001. 5/. p. ct. Glasgow Union 250/. sh. 50/. pd 671/, 4 , 000.)01. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 30/. pd 361/. INSURANCE COMPANIES. 9 5' , .000511 61 p. ct. Scottish Union 2O/. sh. 1/, pd ' 25s - ,5N 61, p. ct. Hercules lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 13/ 15s. pir,ono op. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland ....101. sh. all pd 81/. zw ,o oo 6p. et. North British 2OO/. sh. 10/. pd 17 1. 1,000 sp. ct. (7a1, -, donian Fire 100/. sh. 10/. pd 10/15s 5,000 op. ct. Edinburgh 1,10 , 100/. sh. 101. p 4 14/ lOs 160,000 31 p. ct. West of Scotland lO/. pd 71 es MISCEL L A NEO US. 4,010 ...... ... RIM. on,: (Vas Un. Cana1...50/. ch. all pd 22/. Ditto A Ilucated -00/. sh. all pd 651. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb.:JMnt Stock Water.... 25/. sh. all pd 311. Carron Iron Company '2so/. sh. all l' 43/. 2,0005 h 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery 501. sh 3S/. pd 461/7 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass -.204 sh. 10/. pd 8/. 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 9 5/. sh. all pd 51! 4,45 e 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas 95/ sh. all pd 611 751) 71 per cent. Leith Coal Gas 9 0/. sh. all pd 45!. 1,901 Edinburgh :out Oalkeith Railway...so/.sh, 551. 3,000 5 per cent. no:table 1 Atan Company 25/. sh. VI pd 101. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 17.—The Hercules, 74, Captain Berkeley, will proceed to sea in about ten days—destina tion uncertain, but presumed to be Lisbon, from whence she will proceed on a trial cruize with the Pique, Castor, and Inconstant frigates. The Pique will go out of har bour on Monday, and the Castor is daily expected from the eastward. • The Sparrowhawk, 18, Commander Shepherd, went out of harbour on Monday, and will proceed in a day or two to South America. The Atholl troop-ship, Mr. Kerley, Master, arrived on Thursday from the Cape of Good Hope, with the service companies of the 98th Regiment on board. They were landed yesterday, and joined the depot companies at Haslar Hospital. The Parmelia transport arrived on Sunday last, from Corfu, sailed the same evening for Dover, and returned yesterday. The Messenger steam-vessel arrived to-day with the de pot of the 24th Regiment, from Cork. The Cornwallis, 74, Captain Sir Richard Grant (with Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Charles Paget's flag on board), was spoken with, all well, on the 29th ult., in lat. 42. 40. N., long. 11. 23. W. She had a fine breeze at N.E. The Beagle, surveying vessel, Commander Wickham, ar rived on Thursday, from the river, and is waiting for orders. The Columbia steam vessel sailed for Woolwich, with the Marines of the Revenge, attached to that division. The Revenge, 78, was paid off to-day. On Thursday, the Ward-room Officers gave a parting dinner on board, to their worthy and much respected Captain (Sir W. El liott). Lady Elliott, being on the spot, kindly honoured the officers with her presence. The Romney, Hazard, and Ariadne, were moved out of the basin ; the Partridge brig, and Seaflower cutter, were taken into dock ; and the Edinburgh, 74, was undocked yesterday. On Tuesday arrived the Royalist yacht, Jas. Brooke, Esq., from nearly a twelve months' cruise in the Mediter ranean, the principal ports of which she has visited. She remained under quarantine till Thursday, when she was released by a special order in Council. She left Malta on the 9th of May, at which time the following men-of-war were lying there, under the command of Sir J. Rowley : Caledonia, Asia, Vanguard, Russell, Rapid, and Medea and Confiance steamers. The Orestes was the only man of-war here. Yesterday arrived the Torn and Jessie, Fleming, from Leghorn, with a general cargo, bound to London ; and the Saladin, M'Kenzie, from Palermo, with a cargo of sulphur, wine, and fruit, bound to Newcastle—they were released from quarantine, and proceeded. At Spithead.—Princess Charlotte, Hercules, Seringapa tam, Sparrowhawk, Beagle, Athol!, Sparrow, Indepen dence, American frigate. In Harbour.—Britannia, Victoria, Excellent, Royal George, Pique, Hazard, Partridge, Romney, Seaflower cutter, Prince Regent and Perihelia transports, Messenger steamer, and Cracker tender. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Commander John Meredith is promoted to the rank of Captain ; Mr. R. L. Atkinson, Mate, to the rank of Lieutenant ; Corn. C. H. Seale, to the Ordinary at Plymouth ; Lieut. Birch, from the Scout, to command the Lynx, vice Huntley, invalided ; Lieut. Lory, to the Delight pocket ; Lieut. R. Phillips, to the Sparrowhawk ; Mr. E. G. Cree, Assistant-Surgeon, to the Royal Adelaide ; Lord A. W. Beauclerk, Mate, to the Excellent ; Mr. John Cashman, to be extra Mate, and the Hon. Oliver W. Lambert, Volunteer First class, to the Hazard ; Mr. William Sidney, Master-in-charge, Mr. Thomas Walsh, Boatswain, and Mr. James Ingles, Car penter, to Ariadne coal depot ; Messrs. Rainback, Lane, and Elwin, are appointed Schoolmasters of the Excellent (probationary) for the service. The following Midshipmen passed for Lieutenants at the Naval College, on the 13th instant :—Mr. Willoughby Lake, Princess Charlotte ; Lord A. Beauclerk (jun.) Royal Adelaide ; Messrs. J. A. L. Wharton, H. L. P. Parson:and C. F. Hillyer, (of the Revenge ; Messrs. F. J. Millman (Sparrow), W. A. Manton, A. A. Villiers, F. L. A. Selwyn, and W. Barrie. GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. ( From the Ga rdeners'Gazette.) SHADE MELON FRAMES in the hottest time of the day for two or three hours. Plants under hand glasses should be carefully trained out ; prop up the glasses with four small pots or bricks, and let the plants ramble out, merely laying them equally over the space. CUCUMBERS in frames must be freely watered, and have plenty of air—shade them while the heat of the sun is vio lent. Plants may be put out for pickling. Seeds for this purpose may be still sown. _ (.ELERY may be transplanted for main crop in trenches three feet apart, a spade deep, and a foot wide ; let the bottom be forked loose, and well dunged, one row four or six inches apart in the middle of the trench, freely water. ENDlVE.—Transplant a foot apart every way for early use. Sow seed for main crop, all the sorts will do well, but the green curled and the Batavian arc the best. LETTUCE.—Transplant the first opportunity after rain, for the convenience of watering draw drills a foot apart, and plant a single row in each. RADISHES AND SALADS.—SOW for successive crops. CAULIFLOWERS.—As they advance, and the flowers open, break down the leaves to cover them from the sun. Prick out those sown in May. To save seed sacrifice two or three of the earliest and best. BEET AND MANGLE WLTRZEL—Get in for general crops. KIDNEY BEANS—Continue to plant. PEAS AND BEANS—Continue to sow and plant. CABBAGE—Savoy, &c., plant out, and still sow. STRAWBERRIES, if the weather prove dry and hot, should be watered freely. Net Wall-fruit Trees, to preserve them from birds. TULIPS—As the bloom declines, give them all the weather ; take off all cloths, or other protections, watering them with lime-water will destroy any larva of insects that would otherwise attack the bulbs. Autumnal flowering bulbs should now be removed, if desired. RANUNCULUSES—Shade and water daily. Keep every thing clear from weeds. CARNATIONS, PICOTEES, or PINKS, as they rise, should be carefully tied to proper sticks—plant out seedlings of all the dianthus tribe.—Clip and dress box edgings. RosEs—.-Bud and lay to propagate. Shade the bursting blooms intended for exhibition. GERANIUMS—PIant cuttings under a hand-glass. On Saturday morning, at eight o'clock, three bat talions of the Household Infantry, consisting of the Coldstream Guards, Fusileer Guards, and second battalion of the Grena dier Guards, marched into Hyde Park, and were brigaded. The brigade went through numerous evolutions, marching and counter-marching, charging, at the point of the bayonet, the supposed enemy to a considerable distance. Afterwards they commenced firing by companies, then by divisions, and finally in extended line, which was performed with astonishing precision. The Duke of Nassau has adopted a new method of ingratiating himself with the people of Berlin. He is dis tributing here gratis thousands and thousands of bottles of Seltzer or soda-water to the poor. " Give me Venice Preserved," said a gentleman, last week, on going into a celebrated bookseller's at the west. end. " We don't sell preserves," said an apprentice newly im ported from the country, " but you will get them next door, at Mr. Brown's, the chemist." The late genial rains have been a blessing to the country, and every description of vegetation grows luxuriantly, and the grass lands are particularly benefitted, but the hay harvest will be unusually late. At present the hop-yards ge nerally look well. The orchards will produce most abundant crops in most situations.—Hereford Journal. MONOMANIA.-The subject affected with the mo nomania is a fine youth of a sanguine temperament, robust and elegantly formed, about twelve years of age, the son of a re spectable Italian broker, residing at present at one of his rela tion's country seats, in the neighbourhood of Campo Grande. This beautiful boy, perfectly tractable, and sound in all his mental faculties, will not allow any one to touch him, or even to touch the bed where he lies, or the chair upon which he sits. If by chance (and no demonstration of mania is other wise evinced) any one should put his finger upon him, he im mediately shrieks aloud, strips off all his clothes, washes him self all over, and will not use the same again, except they are previously, like himself, submitted to a libation. This ex traordinary mania secludes himself from the approach of every person, except a woman, I believe a relation, who can do everything she pleases with him, and, as she herself expressed, even make his bed. On being desirous to see this tortured youth, we applied to this woman, who very kindly introduced us to him, and we were admitted without any difficulty, and conversed with the boy, on our pledging our word to him that we would not touch bins. We found him exceedingly interest ing, and, in spite of his appearing still mistrustful to us as strangers, nevertheless he conversed very freely with us, and perfectly coherent in all his replies, evincing the most polite manners and perfect good breeding. We endeavoured to obtain from this woman, whom we may justly call his bosom friend, the history of this extraordinary aberration, and the information we could collect was, that about four years ago a gentleman, who seems to have been the boy's godfather, re turned from Pernambuco,_ after a long residence in that place, but unfortunately affected with a polypus in his nose in a state of ulceration. This youth, who was then eight years of age, being often caressed by his godfather, conceived at the time a natural disgust for that horrible malady, and, as we suppose he had been urged to express his: gratitude for the attention thus showed to him, lie smothered his disgust, and had frequently recourse to washing after the dreaded pollution imparted by his unwelcome sponsor. The gentleman died shortly after, and from that time this monomania commenced, which afflicts both the youth and his friends whenever any meeting takes place.—Lisbon Mail. STATE OF TRADE (From the Leeds Mercury.) TRADE OF LEEDS.—There has been a little more busi ness done at the Cloth-halls this week than last, but at much below remunerating prices. In the warehouses there has been little or no improvement, although an opinion pretty generally prevails that we have now seen the worst, and that goods having fallen as low as in all probability they will be, an improvement must take place ere long, particu larly for the home market, as the drapers gene rall y hold • light stocks, and the present opportunity is so particularly favourable to their purchasing to advantage. fIat, HUDDERSFIELD MARKET.—The market was very and scarcely anything was done during the day ; all kinds of goods partook of the depression. BRADFORD MARKET.—More business was done to-day and last week in the piece market than for many weeks past ; but at miserably low prices. The yarn market on tinues in the same languid state. In the wool market there is now a very limited supply of good super hogs and we thers ; also fine shafty matchings, which are most in rpr est and, notwithstanding thiS, the market is more dull and flat than it was last week, and we see no immediate pros pect of improvement in prices. HALIFAX MARKET.—Our piece market has again been dull in the extreme ; prices continue to fall ; indeed some manufacturers accept almost any offer for money, in ail shape that is available. The yarn market is equally bad. There is a further reduction in the price of wool. bl il _ die wethers are now being sold at 11/. to 111. Ios. per p aa ; ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—We had a ve r y to d l l market to-day. Some little business was done in and finer sorts, and a few low qualities were passed off; yet very low prices were obtained. The attendance vias more numerous than usual. YORK WOOL MARKET.---The supply of wool at this day's market was very small, but the attendance of buyers was large. This, however, has caused no improvement in the price the market being heavy, and last week's quotations could hardly be obtained. A few lots were left unsold. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, JUNE 17. The week opened with rather a moderate demand for Cott en ' and in the middle and lower classes of American, some concession in price was submitted to, not, however, exceeding 1 / 8 (1. per lb' , whilst all other qualities are stationary, though not in general de' mand. We have to• day had a pretty good attendance of the trade , and the market had a greater appearance of steadiness. Brazils ar e rather heavy of sale at previous rates. In Pernams a large basil! has been done, but prices are barely supported. Egyptian is ; cult of sale, and, with Sea Island, is rather lower. Surat has been neglected, buyers reserving themselves for the public sale yesterday which was well attended, fair prices being obtained for those vibe sold ; nearly three-fourths, however, were withdrawn, the holders not being prepared to go on at current rates. 550 Babies were also brought forward, and the whole disposed of. During thew e e 4,000 American have been taken on speculation, and 600 Amer ic a * 200 Surat, and 30 Bengal for export : d. d. d. d• 40 Sea Islands l6 to 25 60 Dcmeraras to / 2 Stained ditto 0— 0 Peruvians 0-- ° 5,560 Uplands —7 ii 220 Laguayras 5 7i 3,670 Mobile, &c. 43 '4,1,190 Surats 33 4/ - 4 3 1 7,570 New Orleans... 4i 8 110 Bengals - - 520 Egyptians 8 12 1,730 Pernams, &c 74 91 1,200 Bahias 440 Maranhams 7* 81 Sawginned 54 The sales to-day are fully 4,000 on speculation, and 1,000 Amer The market has been freely suppl shown to meet buyers at current n the imports heavy, preclude all tc - Cari - hagenas 0 Manila 0 -- 120 West India 4i- --- - Barbadoes Smyrna 0 -- bags, of which 200 are American ican and 250 Surat for expor t ' ied with cotton, and a disposit►on ites. The stock being large, 331 , ndency towards advance in Price' Bales. Taken on speculation this-year ... Same in 183 G ... Forwarded to the country unsold this year Same in 1836 Increase of import this year compared with the same date last year - ... 124,78 3 Increase of stock Decrease of quantity taken for consumption 9,200 Decrease of quantity taken for export Comparative View of the Imports and Exports of Cotton into an d from the whole Kingdom, from the Ist of January to the 16tA t inst., and of the Imports and Exports for the same period year : Into the Kingdom this year. American South American West Indies, Demerara, &c. East Indies Egypt, &c, Bags . 496,136 68,61 6 2,63 9 75,9 91 .... Total of all descriptions ... 654,7 72 Same period last year. Bags. American South American West Indies, Demerara, &c. East Indies Egypt, &c. / Increase of Imports as compared with same period last year Exports in 1837. American, 16,760; Brazil, 790; East India, 25,136; West India, —; Other kinds, —. Total in 1837 Same period last year 42,686 37,616- Stock. ...,.._. June 16, 1837 _ . Same time, 1836 D'ISRA ELI'S " VENETIA.”—Having once taken up this story, it is very difficult to break off and lal down the book. We cannot treat it as a romance.— we can; not treat it as a reality. It is impossible not to recognise rye events—we cannot help owning the identity o f c h ara cter --t situations are, in a great measure, such as the world are ilac quainted with—the personages filling them are for the o° l part identified with our glorious literature ; their histories „, s be long a source of deep and fruitful inte re st, an d their will outlive many generations ; yet these persons and sit,. ° Yl tions are so changed, and the author has e mpl o y e d such s'‘ l ll and delicacy, that we can but confess to the experience of m u ' enjoyment, and some bewilderment, many surp r is es , and CO tinual excitement, in the progress of the story. THE HAWK'S NEST.—We issued suddenly froth the covert of the wood, upon a small platform of rock i"" springing from the mountain side, without an y v i s ibl e suPP, ° e rr , lookingand sheer down upon an ang l e o f th e roar ing 111 " between eleven and twelve hundred feet below. Nothing whatever intervenes. Spread out beneath, shooting' around, are blue mountain peaks, extending in boundless coy panse. No one, I believe, could look down over the edg e a this airy shelf, but for the stunted pines w hi c h are f a st Not e , in it. With each arm clasping a pine -stem, I 1001-9 cl °Ye re " . and saw more, I cannot but think, than the w or ld nits in serve to show me.—Miss Martineau's Society in Aanerica• , A few days ago, as a poor wido w woman, eel Ann Edwards, residing on the Wellington-road, Heaton ris, was in the act of adjusting her grand-daughter's a rc he r she fell suddenly forwards towards her chair, int°,, h i. daughter's arms, and ii - Etantly expired, without having bited any signs of previous indisposition, and without a s 'b c , o The inquest was held on the body, at the George-inn'i c t Tuesday se'nnight, before W. S. Rutter, E sq ., an d a ver",, of " Died by the visitation of God" was retu r n e d by the J ' ir j . —Stockport Advertiser. ri' Nothing can bear a stron ger t es ti mon y t o the U . ee , [ gt vote and public virtues of any man than the universal into felt ever since the illness of our beloved Monarch. Whil e n d barometer of public feeling in the city vibr a t es , a s hope e sc , despair alternately present themselves, in every priva te o irf ciety the King's state is the first object of every one's jag and solicitude. PATENT LEVER WATCH F. ' Price, at T. COX SAVORY'S, 47, Cornhill, LUndol2- SILVER CASES. With double-bottom cases 0 0 . 1.:0 6 With hunting cases ...... ' 0 GOLD CASES. . 11 il 0 Size for ladies, with elegant gold dial '''''''''''''''''''' :: • : 6 4 ' . th i Size for gentlemen, with ename l di a l ...... 1I filiC i t l l ! i This celebrated construction (th e most accura t e on , watch can be made) is now offered a t th e a b ove price, N,,,a 0 latest improvements, i. e ., the det ac h e d escapement, jey' r ..., ei t ,,jula four holes, capped, hand to mark the secor ,d s , a nd Ina 4" C power to continue going while winding, up. T. COX SAVORY, „ cernb illi Working Silversmith, Goldsmith, a n d W a t c h ma k er , 47, London. ....."'°°°s BIRTHS. On Sunday, June 18th, at Hare wood House, Ha toyers. ciusrei Lady Louisa Cavendish, of a daughter. go', On the 17th i ns t., i n H enr i etta - street, C aven di s h- ,square` ' Lafont, of a son. ------* MARRIED. On the 15th i ns t., at B rom l e y, K en t, M r . Win- Sne or Sutton, Surrey, to Miss Dennis, of Bromley-common, „ ler 5 01 i On the 15t1; inst., at St. Luke's Church - , Alexander, Tabei of James Morrison, Esq., of Kelso, North Britain, c),!"o,burr the eldest daughter of the late Win. M. Porter, Esq., of square. At St. Andrew's, Thomas C row d ace , E s q., to e daughter of C. Vign o ll es , E sq ., C.E., o f Trafalgar-splare. soit! On the Bth of May, a t Ki ngs t on Church, Kings Col, gad 5 ' Roper Barrett, E s q., o f hi s Majesty's Ordnance , to 9 J ca der'') . ' only sister of T. Bi c k er dik e , E sq ., o f B a r rage Hou , near Woolwich, Kent, and neice of the Rev. John 13 Southampton House, K en ti s h -t own , L on don. t he 0141 f W' DIED. On the 13th inst., at Bayswater, Margaret Brtutet wife ( l l 3. ' " l'' F. Hume, Esq., of Humewood, county of Wicklowy ,eldoSt Gre en, ter of R. Chaloner, Esq. On the 15th i ns t., age d 33, Eli za b e th, wife of Darnto 0 . . On the I Ith of April, in Jamaica, G tEstl ' wood, Esq., of Clapham-common. Georg' tie eldest son of Mrs. Oates, of Bath. f lint , On the 15th inst., at St. ,Margaret's,Rochester, Car beah youngest daughter of W. Nicholson, Esq. ' -5 Et ' lla ses" On the 15th inst., at Suzey-cross, Fulham, a g ed ß l for , I I relict of the late Rev. Thos. Martyn, many yea" - ec of haven, Sussex. , FA ll. ' . Hibbert O r te s ' On the 15th inst., Lleanor, daughter of H. Hallam .000 Wimpole- street. ••••• -- / -- rio• __............ ----- ~. _ London: Printed and Published by AMID° YOUN 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand,n of Middlesex,-51onday, June 19, 107.