The Sun. — London, England, 1837-05-18 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE. yesterday a Special General Meet:stet of the Proprietors eras neiti at the East India House far the purpose of laving before the Meeting three which are now before Par liament, with a ‘iew of ta' a i ng their opinion thereon. The their was taken by . Sir J. R. CARNAC, Bart., and the nu- Lutes of the last Co ur t having, been read, The Criareata N said that the Court had. been specially summoned to submit to the consideration of the proprietors " A Bill to authorise the Commissioners for the Affairs of India to suspend the subsisting enactments concerning the fourfold system of nomination of candidates for the Eat India Company's College at Ilaileybury, and for providing during such suspension for the exammation of candidates for the said College." The SECRETARY read the Act which authorised the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India to appoint examiners during the suspension of the enactments referred to. A clause has been added to the Bill in Committee, annulling the regulation that writers sent out to India should not be under 22 years of age. The CHAIRMAN said the Court of Directors hail ob jected to the clause which had been added to the Bill, leav ing it orsn for persons of all ages to become eligible to be sent out as writers, as destructive to the best interests of Ine.ia, and they had addressed the Board of Controul in objection thereto, trusting that it would he abstracted. It was the unanimous feeling of the Court of Directors that the clause should not be adopted, and he had the most san guine expectations that Sir John Hobhouse would not in sist upon its insertion in the Bill. Sir C. Forums objected to the course, and said he might be e l .igible to go out to India under it. Mr. WEEDING considered the age of 22 an incorrect limit for writers to be sent out to India, as in the Govern ment of that great extent of empire young men might be called upon to act as Judges andPlagistrates —(" No, no,' . from the Chair.) He thought that the limit ought not to be under 25 years of age. He concurred in the Bill, set ting aside the fourfold system of nomination. • Mr. FIELDER said the Court ought to act consistently and procure the abolition of Haileybury College altoge ther, as the system had not worked well, and occasioned great expense. In 1833 that. Court had adopted a peti tion to Parliament for the abolition of the College, in which it was stated that the charge on India was 10,0001. a year for the education of less than 30 students. A sum of about 9,600/. had been laid out on the foundation of the establishment, which was contained in a domain not exceeding fifteen acres. • In 1832 there were 31 students in the College, with 43 officers and servants, at the cost of 8,025/. In 1833 there were 33 students, at an expense of 7,898/. In 1834 there were 40 students, and the ex pense, was 7,172/. In 1836 there were 32 students, and the cost 7,172/., independently of certain College expenses, and from 4,000/. to 5,000/. expense to the parents of the youths. The question was, whether the natives could bear this expense ? It appeared by the published returns that, in 1834-5, there was a deficiency in the revenue of India of .578,3361., and was that a time for the Company to incur an annual expense of 8,000/. for the education of 32 boys ? He hoped the Court of Proprietors would act consistently by following up the petition of 1832, calling for the aboli tion of the College. Mr. GOLDSMID expressed himself in favour of the College. Sir C. FORBES hoped that, if there were any additional expenses in the examination under the Bill, it would not be placed on the revenue of India. Mr. Lawnre asked if the Bill had been brought forward with the sanction of the Court of Directors i With re spect to the College of Hailey bury, he felt confident it had been of the greatest possible utility to India, and he, there fore, hoped no step would be taken to alter the system. Mr. HODSON (late of the Civil Service in India) could state from experience that the Colege had been of the greatest possible service CO India. The CHarttsraet, in reply, said it was not correct, as represented by an Hon. Proprietor (Mr. Weeding), that the youths sot out were soon raised to Judges and Ma gistrates. They were well trained before any important duties were assigned to them. With respect to the clauses introduced into the Bill, giving latitude to persons of any age being sent out to India, there were a thousand objec tions to it. With respect to the age of twenty-five years being fixed upon as the limit, he (as we understood the Hon. Chairman) had agreed with the proposition of the Hon. Proprietor (Mr. Weeding). The Court of Direc tors would protest against the expediency of the clause in question. The discussion of the maintenance of the Col lege, though not strictly in order, had been productive of one beneficial result—the expression of one of the civil servants of the Company who had not long been in India, that it had been of the greatest benefit to India. He (the Chairman) must join in the encomiums passed upon it. The Hon. Proprietor (Mr. Fielder) had, in speaking of the number of students, taken the years which best suited his purpose. From 1823 to 1830 there were at greater number of students in the College than those referred to ; and under the operation of the Bill he hoped they should again see the establishment filled with students. With respect to the statement of a deficiency in the reve nue in India in 1834 and 1835, he was happy to inform the Court that, from the latest official information, there would be a considerable surplus. The Court of Directors, in obedience to the wishes of that Court, had remonstrated against the continuance of the College ; but Government were not disposed to grant the request. Mr. FULLER asked if a portion of the commercial assets of the Company had not been brought into the revenue ac counts to make up the surplus alluded to ? Mr. HENRY ST. GEORGE TUCKER (a Director) replied that such was not the fact. The deficiency in the revenue of India in 1834 and 1835 had been overrated. It had not beert more than 310,000/. Mr. TWINING said—ln his opinion the College at Hai leybery had been productive of incalculable benefit to India. Here the matter dropped, and The CHAIRMAN called the attention of the Court to the second Bill, to-consider which the Court had also been specially convened. The SECRETARY read the title of the Bill. It was " a Bill to repeal the prohibition of the salaries and allowances of the Last India Company's officers during their absence from their respective stations in India." Sir C. FrmBES had listened with great satisfaction to the reading ex the Bill. which bad his entire approbation. THE EXCLUDED MARITIME OFFICERS. The Secretary tnen read, by direction of the Chairman, the title of the third Bill laid before the Proprietors. It was a Bill for amending the Act passed for the better Go vernment of India, " so far as the same relates to the granting of t empensations,superatinuations, and allowances to otheer s , sno may be affected by the discontinuance of the said Company's trade." air. FIELDER inquired whether the Bill was to extend to the St. Helena officers? The C'H AIRMAN replied in the negative. Mr. ]'IELoER asked whether it extended to the excluded offiesrs and servants ? The CHAIR MAN said it did extend_ to all of them. The CHAIR MAN felt it his duty to call the attention of the Court of Proprietors to the very serious effect on the Corepany's affairs which would be produced by the passing or the Bill. The Bill made it compulsory on the part of the Court of Directors to take into consideration the claims of certain excluded rfficers of the Company. He felt the deepest sympathy for many ei those officers ; and, co far as they were concerned, the Court of Directors had a plan for relieving such of them as were in distressed or embar rassed circumstances. With respect to the object of the fresent Bill, the question had already undergone a full and l'air discussion, a ballot had been subsequently demanded anti taken, and it had been decided that the claims-of the persons excluded ought not to be taken into further consi deration. Since then those individuals had appealed to the House of Commons, and the House of Commons had taken upon itself the passing of a Bill rendering it compulsory, on the part nf t.he Cou r t o f Di rectors, to appropriate the revenu e of India to the payment of a compensation to those persons. Such a proceeding, he contended, was a viol it ion of th e compact made between the Government and the East lodia Company. Almost all his colleagues con cur:et', y. tali him ; and, therefore, he should propose a reso lut.on, that the Court do present a petition against the Bill, :mil praying to be heard by their Counsel at the bar of the House of Commons. The petition having been read by the clerk, The CHAIRMAN moved th a t it b e a d opted b y the Court. he motion having bean seconded by a Director, Sir C. FounEs hoped the Court would not entertain the motion. He concluded by moving as an amendment the following resolution :—" That the Court of Proprietors will not offer any opposition to the East India Company's :Maritime ( Ayers Bill in its progress throu g h Parliament, and do earnestly recommend the Court of Directors not to offer any oppositio n thereto." Mr. WF.EDI NG seconded the motion. Mr. LINDSAY, a Director, agreed that those who were afloat at the time of the alteration in the Company's affairs ha'a a right to compensation, hut when gentlemen came for ward and made claims on the Company who had been for 23 years out of its service, and who had no more intention of returning to it than if they had never been in it, he did nat see how the Directors could acknowledge the justice of their claims. Mr. MIDDLETON objected to the Bill. Mr. TWEEL said that all the arguments urged against the Bill were equally applicable to the cases of those officers to whom compensation had already been awarded. Mr. MANCOTT said if once the prerogative of the Court __ate • d with, the House of Commons, and not that Wessestraly,:' ; 4 l l have the management of the COmpany's affairs. Ix.' • - G said, should the question be pressed to . slisf;:f—A a jw4ool'etantl4 ‘ ll(l feel it hi s d u ty t o support t h e Di rectors. f - Ti svosds of the Act are, " Th a t t h e a • ' t)at a -'- sr e 77 - 1-es: aatki 0 S . , Directors are hereby authorised and required to take the claims of 5k...0: cfllccrs into their consideration, and to grant such enmpensatiGn as should appear reasonable " Mr. ROBINSON, M.P., would do ell in his power to in sure the passing of the. Bill. After scrim further discussion the question was put, and, Pn slow of hands, the original resolotien was decided in the afrimative. A division ' , vat raked for. Sir Charles Ferbt , s and Mr. Goldsmid were appointed teller,, There appeared— For the original motion—Directors ., Proprietors ad Total —s6 For the amendment—Directors Proprietors 3O Total —3l . . . _ Majority in favour of the original motion— The Court then adjourned. BRUSSELS, DUTCH, ANI) CiErtMAN PAP! R, BRUSSELS, MAY 15.—The character of the Government of the Grand Duke of Luxemburg manifests itself more and more decidedly. A decree of the Grand Duke has just prohibited M. Bievce, a physician of Luxemburg., from exercising hiR profes s i on i n th a t c i ty , on pa i n o f being ex pelled from it. This measure 1-11 , ! been adowed towards M. Biever because he had some differences with the Grand Ducal administration. Such then is the condition of the inhabitants of Luxemburg. King William arbitrarily de cides their fate ; he pronounces by virtue of his sovereign authority condemnations agiinst them ; he exercises a more despotic authority than any Sovereign in Europe, and our statesmen an eager to deliver us up to so detestable a do mination.—Echo. On Monday and Tuesday snow fill at Arlon as in the midst of winter. In the sitting' of Saturday, which may perhaps be the last of this Session, the Chamber of Representatives voted in rapid succession four projects of law : at another time a week would hardly have sufficed for what was done in a few hours. The Chamber is weary, and the country is equally so. The Chamber adopted the project of law re lative to international reciprocity in respect to inheritance and donations. The following is the tenor of it : Art. I. A foreigner is allowed to succeed to the property which his relative, whether a foreigner or a Belgian, has left in the kingdom, in the cases and in the manner in which a Belgian inherits of hi. relations possessing property in the country to which that foreigner belongs. Art. 11. A foreigner is entitled to dispose and to re ceive by donation inter vines, and by will. Articles 11, 726, and 912 of the Civil Code are repealed. Art. 111. This reciprocity must be proved either by the treaties, concluded between the two countries, or by the production of laws or Acts which show its existence. Every enactment contrary to the present law is abro gated. __ Art. IV. The present law shall be in force after its pro mulgation. THE HAGUE, MAY 15.—Her Majesty the Queen se out yesterday at noon for Berlin. AMSTERDAM, MAY 16.—A bulletin, dated Berlin, May 13, has been received, which announces that her Royal Highness the Princess Albert, and the young Prince, are doing extremely well. WERLIN, MAY 7.—The grand review of Russian cavalry, which his Majesty the Emperor intends to take place in his presence, during his tour to the souther n p rov i nces o f t h e empire, is to b e in the environs of Nicolazef, where 200 squadrons will be collected. Then the Emperor will pro ceed to Sebastopol, to review the fleets of the Black Sea. The Imperial Prince is expected at Tobolsk in the course of the summer. FRONTIERS OF SERVIA, MAT 2.—On the 22d April, a Tartar from Constantinople arrived at Kragosevatz, and brought to Prince Milosch intelligence from his agent in the capital, that the Sultan, in pursuance of the plan which he has entertained for some years, will, in the course of the month, come to Varna, and then to Silistria. Immediately on the receipt of this news, which was before looked on as incredible or impossible, Prince Milosch sent to Bucharest to Prince Ghika, probably to agree about the presents, which, in case the Sultan should really come to Silistria, the two Princes, according to ancient custom, must offer him. This journey, which, as the Turks say, the Ghiaour Princes of Bucharest, Jassy, and Kragosevatz must pay for, excites an incredible sensation on the frontiers ; and the Turks at Belgrade do not yet believe it. Even before the receipt of this news, there was a report at Bucharest of an interview of the Sultan with the Emperor Nicholas ; and this report is now spread on the frontiers.—Frankfort Ober Post. Ama. Zeitung, May 13. RELO lAN 1. UNDS—BaussEts, MAY 16 Actual Debt, 2% per Ccnt. ItothschiliPs Loan, 5 per Cent. lOO% Loan of Thirty Millions 9l q Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 9 9 14 Society of Conmerce, 4 s‘per Cent 13159 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 139;4 Brussels Papers. May 17. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vtemirs, 3IAY 13. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares —Allgeinrine Zeitung, May 16. DUTCH FUNDS—AMSTERDAM, MIA' 16. ney. H oi Actual Debt, 2% per r..nt M 59 til ls. l l ki Ditto, ditto 5 pet cent. A wort Syndic, 4% per cent.— ............ Ditto, ditto, 3Y 2 per cent ni. .. 7.N 614 Commercial Company, 4!:, per cot 17 6 14 17S Ditto (1632 and 1833) 5 per tent. Exchange on London. `.;ne month ll 91 1 / 4 Two months PRUSSIAN FUND3,-13ERtirs, Mar IL Bills. Money. St. Schuld. SO, 4 per cent IO2A 101% Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 103 99 Exchange on I endon, three months .., 6 24% —Prussian State Gazette. May IV. The Marchioness o f Downshire has issued cards of ' invitation for a splendid rout on Tuesday, the 30th, at her house in Hanover.square. The Countess of Minto has a grand full dress arty on Monday, the 29th, at the Admiralty. The Earl of Wilton has issued cards for a grand dinner on the 22d inst., in Grosvenor-place. The Earl of Roseberry has a grand dinner patty to morrow, at his house in Piccadilly. "lie Alarquis of Lansdowne will entertain a distin guished party to dinner this day, at Lansdowne-house, 13e - rke, lay- square. CIIIIIICII-RATES.—At a meeting at OsWeStry on the evening of the 21st ult., in favour of the Ministerial mea sure for the abolition of Church-r,.tes, resolutions and petitions to that effect were agreed to without a dissentient reiet, and the petitions immediately put in a course of signature. PASTIMES ON THA StOOK-ExcliANGE.—The first impression of a attlnaer on entering the Stock-Ex change, were ho hot previously otherwise informed, would naturally be, that instead of beinc , met to transact important bull:Less, they had assembled fur the express purpose of having a little fun and frolic together. You not only hear them uttering alt sorts o f soun d s , some o f w hi c h portake a gaud d ea l of the zoological character, but yost see a large proportion of them playing all mennet ur tricks at each other's expense. One of the most approved of these tricks, if we are to judge that the extent to which it is practised, is that of knnnaing one's hat over one's eyes. This pastime, I be lieve they call " eclipsing," or " hennetting." if the hat only goes down so far Pt lot la prevent altogether the use of one's luniinarie% It Is, I presume, called a partial eclipse ; but e I.n:t.tt the application of one's hand to the crown of the bat Is given with such signor es to force it tlltlill over the optics of the party who chance. en. h at the time the person played on, it is ealled a total eclipse. How far can it be so called with propriety, is at last a debateable point ; for I have been assured by those who have enderenne tilt Somewhat un pleasant experiment ef se - sljpsSlng, that if they saw nothing else, the severit! , and suddenness of " the whack," to use Stock Kat:hat - 14e phraseology, has made them see stars innumerable. How many crowns of " best beavers" have been so completely " knocked in," as to render the hats ever afterwards unweat able, by means of the proteas of eclipsing, is, I suspect, a question whieh the tiltelt skilful calculator in the House would not undertake to decide. The cases from first to last of the destruction of hats in this way, must be innumerable ; but the ingenuity of some of the Members has discovered other means of assisting the hatters, where the eclipsing plan fails of effect. The Members in question are remarkably expert at knocking the hats of other Members off their heads altogether, and then kicking them about the floor until they are shattered to piece's. So marked indeed are the hat-destroying propensities of some of the Members, that a stranger would come away with the impression that they were in the pay of the leading City hat manufacturers. Query —Are they so ?—The Great Metro polis—Second Series. . In the month of September last band-hills were sent from England to this country, offering" a reward of 5001. for the arrest of a young man named George Francis Burn, clerk to Mr. Wm. Jackson Taylor, stockbroker in London, who had absconded, taking with him 4,0001., chiefly in gold, the property of Mr. Taylor, in the month of August previous. Half the police officers were on the qui vine for- Burn for a long time, and they watched every vessel that came from England with an earnestness proportioned to the reward of fered. He was, however, not discovered there, and it was declared by some knowing ones that he was not to be taken. They have been most egregiously deceived, much to their cha grin, for on Sunday, officers A. M. C. Smith and Gilbert Hayes arrested the gentleman at his lodgings in the upper part of the city, and with him the greater portion of the money which was immediately secured. He was taken to prison, and the documents concerning his arrest, &c., will be forwarded to the British Minister at the city of Washington, who will pro bably take such measures as will ensure to Mr. Burn a safe passage back to England, and to the vigilant officers the re ward which their ingenuity has merited.—New York Paper. Few are ignorant of the efforts that have ken made to reclaim portions of the Solway moss in Dumfries-shire, the Drummond moss in Stirling-shire, and waste land generally, unsightly but hccessible, over the whole length and breadth of Scotland. The spirit of enterprise is everywhere at work, and even the hills themselves, in place of a dusky summer hue, are being arrayed in robes of the loveliest green, under the foster ing influence and extreme portability of Woe manure.-,-Dutn fries Courier. rlle , •' , tit' STO K. 'llll , DAY Al' 63NE O'CLOCK, 13 ink 5:cck...... 1 per Cr rit, „..,-.1 • • - 0,.,, , :!,%; , L ji tt , !,::.i I s . '7', , ' •` "u - 63 ,in. i l wr cent. COll. ' • ,) 1 I'7A t:,, a0,..h 3c,'. S ,, ork ...... ......• •.. 3 -.. ner (ert...... - ' •' , 's 7.7 t ," Old AnnrnheA ... ...... ~„„ ...... •—•- :/ttto Etc,' rt.. OVA, New Dit'o . .. tiew n 4 p:yr Ccr t 99 1 ,t1i 2 per Cent. Ann.l!,,s, 1 , 51... -- Sew 5 per Cent.. B tr.!: I , enßAnnuitiestoev pire Ditto .. 5 . 0,...... .,, 0,1 V* I.th, Jan. 5, 18;10 l4 7-16 1")‘.1to !ir!‘,lll ~,,•,... ;.. ;;; g 2 lis pm. Oct. .'', 1859 lf A;Bl'it 414(1 Sis,lliiro...iF:'=! ...... ::: -.•;;„ - OP. Jan. 5, '9 10 ...,,..ttt...14 11.03 r l t t;') . ; .‘6!1z• ,, . , ~:, , - rill Jln. 4, I A '-...-. -.. ...:-..:-... .. ;... !Nil!: t'e.,t!. Nt rl;..tVaht... ...... i'51 , 1 4 .1 5, ,188..., , , --.lValPittt Zr-:-;• 1 .f. - lua Stock for Account.. '... an. 5, triTlil•ltm .. Consols ler Accor.nt . ... 91 1 A (bliillillll - pm . 1 RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CI.OOK. Austr an Bonds Re'gian Bonds ln c, Hitto Attiniii ... ••••-•- Ditto Accounts:. Briti”Att Willdi . • '' - - - - - 7 : 1 3 ,11,,t0 A . C . 0(7,1ti t. ' , , ... ,. , . ,—, Ditto Account ....... .. -.•...•....... 2..) ylN o /kk: i ltdlid, .15:,i t i c.,% 9 Buenos Ayres Bondi • • -., - .1 Hato Account 49% 9 Ditto Accoout....•.•Atit... ..... —' Ditto, 7: iwer cent •I'N N Chillian rrdllAs... ...... .......... —; Proysirm '.f0nd5............... . Ditto Account ..... ..... : ... .. —' Itu,sinn 80n.1.1, 184 . 2.......... .. ._ .... Cfliimbian Bonds -. Ditto Account ......... Ditto Account .. , :olionbion Booth, :821 Ditto Account - Domicil Bonds ... 7 1 14 3 t Cairo Bonn ' s. M. 31. .... ........... 21 1 ,4 1 , 4 Ditto Account Greek 80n.45......._. ............ - I i i i 4 Ditto Bands, 1 , '9.5 4 per cent —l —c , Ascrecornncttot.......... —i• —• , Ditto Account - 3 per cent.. _l -- %lexicon Bs nth, 5 per cent Ditto Account , Ditto, ti per cent. ........-.. —, ihtto Account 535, Ditto Account .... Sleopolitor .......... ........ ...... —' Ditto Account PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Great Western Railway Company London and Birmitigharn Railway Company London and Greenwich Compvny liindon and Westminster Bank N stional Provincial Bank of Ensrland Paid. 85 2.1 20 35 Per Share 42 I% 17% !:144 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, num IN, MAY IS. 'I per Cent. Consols 8 9 34 Grand Canal Deb.. ( per cent 88 tktto Reduced — i Ditto, 4 per cent 39 3 1 4 per Cent. Stock 9 7 1 4, Hibernian Itank Ditto New, 1830 I , ‘ per Cent. Debentures 9 u 1,4 National Insurance Co ...... ... Rank Stock l97' City Dybet - mires, 4 per cent... Royal Canal Stock — Ballast (Alice Debentures, 4 Grand Canal Stock — ' tie , cent — MAILS. Arrived. Due Arrived. • Duc. 0 America 0 I France... ..... .... 0 0 Brazil 0 Buenos Ayres 0 0 Hamburg ..... ... 0 0 Carthagena 0 (1 Holland I Dublin... ...... 0 0 Jamaica 1 Flanders ...... ... 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 Arrived Due 0 Lisbon 0 0 Matta 0 Mexico 0 0 Ostend.. ....... 0 0 Sweden 0 1 Waterfurd 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE 'ID-MORROW. Morning 9 minutest after 1. I Evening...... 35 minutes after I Next week will be published, i n 3 vo l s . p os t B vo . FUREKA : a PROPHECY o f th e FUTURE By the Author of " Mephistophiles in England." London : Longman, Rees, Orme, and Co. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. = ' - • Zf)t :.,,'lt.ll. V'Y LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 18, 1837. The Lords did not sit yesterday. In the House of Commons, but little of the business of the country was transacted, and that little possessed not much of interest, if we except the rejection of Dr. Bow- RING'S motion to omit that clause in the Glasgow, Kilmar nock, and Ayr Railway Bill, which prevents railways from being used on Sundays. On the motion of Mr. STANLEY, a new writ was ordered for Glasgow ; Mr. OSWALD having accepted the Chiltern Hundreds The House went into Committee on Mr. CHARLES BuLwEß's Controverted Election Bill, which has for its object to reform the mode of trying controverted elections. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, who, with Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET, Mr. POULTER, and Mr. WYNN, expressed some doubt as to the efficacy of the proposed measure, moved that the Chairman should " report progress and ask leave to sit again." The discovery was subsequently made that there were not 36 members present—the House was conse quently adjourned. The. Saints were at work again last night in the House of Commons, and committed as pretty a piece of Agnewism as we ever remember to have heard of. On the motion for the consideration of the Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill, a clause was proposed, and carried too ! for the purpose of preventing all travel ling on the Sabbath, on the plea that it would give a shock to the religious feelings of the community. Sir ANDREW AONEW, of course, was warmly in favour of this clause, which was as warmly opposed by Mr. ROEBUCK, who observed that the " question was merely an affair of pounds, shillings,. and pence, and that the Sabbath had nothing to do with it. He should like to know how many mails tra velled on the Sabbath ?" The Honourable Mem ber should not have confined himself to this single question, but should have put a few others to the Parliamentary Puritans, He should have asked how many fashionable clubs are kept open through out Sundays at the west-end of the town ? How many aristocratic dinner parties are given on that day ? How many carriages roll along to the crowded Zoological Gardens on that day ? How many great men's cooks, and valets, and grooms, are kept hard at work on that day ? We have no patience with that cant which would make religion a mere matter of form and ceremony ; and the abstaining from harm less amusement the sole test of godliness. Is Christianity injured, because the poor man, who cannot afford the luxury of a caiage, feels a disposition to travel by a railway ? Is there heresy in the quiet motion of the steam-car, and the - strictest orthodoxy in the rattling wheels of the chariot ? Out upon such maudlin cant ! It is worthy only of those days when men sat for years in one position, with heavy chains about their necks, as the surest means of propitiating the favour of Heaven. For all their pretension, we do not find that our modern Mawworms are one whit better than the other sons of Adam. If they be regenerated, it is only iu their own opinion. They can see the mote in another's eye, but they cannot detect the beam in their own. It was but the other day that one of the most notable puritans in the House of Commons, was caught travelling on the Sunday in his own private carriage ; vet here we find his fanatical brethren ind►gnantly denouncing the poor man's journey by the Railway, who, perhaps, on no other day in the week has an opportunity of taking the slightest recreation, But this is what is called show ing one's regard for religion ! This vexatious med dling with the amusements of the people, is your only true sanctity I Well, we have always protested against such cant, and always shall do so, taking as the ground work of our objectio❑ the Divine Command " Do unto others as you would they should do unto you." The uncertain state of the law of Parliamentary Election, as administered by Election Committees of the House of Commons, has long been felt as a great evil. These Committees are so chosen, and their decisions so contradictory, that no reliance can be placed upon them. If a Committee happen to consist of more Members from one side of the House than from the other, the leaning is in favour of the candidate whose political sentiments accord with those of the majority. Thus, party motives usurp the place of justice and honour ; six individuals forming the majo rity of a Committee arbitrarily set aside the choice of a numerous constituency ; and the character of honour able Committees, if not of the Hon. House itself, is brought into discredit and contempt with the public. Nor is it difficult for those Members who evince this partiality towards men of their own party to find a plausible enough justification for their conduct ; for they can adopt no course for which they will not find a precedent in the decisions of pre ceding Committees. It was only the other day that two Election Committees, sitting at the same time, came to a directly opposite conclusion on the very same question. Th e one d ec id e d th a t th e reg i ster was not to 6e opened—th e ot h er th a t it was. Wh en , such a latitude of p roce d ure i s allowed, it is q u it e clear that each party in a Committee will think them selves absolved from every other consideration than that of how they may most effectually advance the political cause to which they have attached themselves. A Committee was lately appointed to inquire int() tt:1) ttlbt , tl than dying tms cvi!, "!nil bill was brought in by the Honourable Mem ber. for Liskeard founded on their Report. It was discussed in the House last night, and did nut Beetii to meet encourage- For ilk.; M6fits d the 1111 *e refer our readers to Mr. BULLER'S speech, in which they will find its provisions briefly stated. For our own part, although there me many of his suggestions or which w tarthdt apprdVe, 1,t6 think the Hon. MeMbel' d'es'efie§*ell df tof the attedipt he has made to improve the constitution of Election Committees. It is always a great point to have•made a beginning in a good work. The Paris Papers of Tuesday have all readied us. They contain no news from Spain of a later date than the advices published in the London Evening Journals of yesterday. What is very extraordinary, neither the Charte of Monday night nor the Moulteur of Tuesday morning—both official organs of the Governtrient— contain a line relative to the capture of llernani by ESPA RTERO. This omission has given rise to some doubts of the authenticity of the despatch announcing the capture of that important position, which, in common with our Evening Contemporaries, we copied from a Morning Journal into our impression of yesterday. We cannot speak positively upon this point ; but the probabilities are all in favour of the accuracy of the despatch i❑ question. The Paris correspondents of all the other Morning Journals admit that a rumour prevailed in the political circles of that capital at a late hour on Monday night, that the Chris tinos had taken Hernani ; and one of them writes that he was only prevented from sending an ex traordinary courier, with the intelligence to London, by the apprehension that the report might prove un founded. The London journal that first received and gave insertion to it, has also on several occasions, pub lished advices received by the French Government pre vious to their appearance in the Moniteur ; and though their authenticity was at the time questioned, a few days served to remove every doubt upon the sub ject. It is, therefore, barely possible that our Contem porary may for once have been misinformed ; but the probabilities are all against such a supposition Nevertheless there is dishonesty in some quarter. I the French Government have really suppressed the publication of such intelligence, the motive for silence must have been a dishonest one. We pretend not to know what such motive was, because we 4 can not possibly imagine that the members of the Government have their hands full of Carlist stock, or that they would prostitute the telegrO to th e advancement of the Pretender's causi, l . If, on the contrary, the despatch communicating the capture of Hernani prove unfounded, we shall receive with caution every future communication from the agents of the Madrid Government. Lying may Serve momentarily the purposes of Stock Jobbing specula tors ; but in the end the practice will prove ruinous to the parties having recourse to it, as the truth cannot be concealed. Besides, it is disgraceful on die part of any Government, either to sanction or to permit a system of misrepresentation to be carried on in its name, or by the agency of any official over whom it can exercise any controul. The following intelligence from Spain was commu nicated by telegraph to the French Government on Tuesday evening : " PERPIGNAN, MAY 15.—Xandero, the Chief hf the late insurrection at Barcelona, was shot in that city on the 10th, according to his sentence, and on the 12th BarCelona was tranquil. " At the date of the 10th Valencia was in some fear of the Carlists, who were around it ; but one gate of the town was left open. Gen. Oraa was on the banks of the Lema with Cabrera before him. " A republican attempt at insurrection had failed at Malaga. " The fort of Canadella, abandoned by its garrison on the sth, when they, with their Captain, joined the revolu tionists of Reus, was destroyed on the 6th by the insur gents. I3enicarlo has been pillaged by the Carlists." Letters from Bayonne of the 12th inst. state that the Christinos have now a force of 32,700 men at San Sebastian, including 4,000 British troops ; while the Carlist force is variously estimated at from 18,000 to 28,000. Of the Pretender's plans nothing certain is known. His troops are in great want of proviSions and annnunitioti, The French Papers announce the arrival in New York of Prince Lours BONAPARTE, on the 501 of April. Annexed are extracts from them : The functions of Commandant of the troops in Africa having been suppressed, Lieutenant-General Baron Rapa tel has received orders to return to France. He embarked on the 6th May. On the sth May an Envoy from Abd-el-Kader arrived at the head-quarters at Algiers, with a letter from the Go vernor-General. The Algcrinc ilfouileur of the Gth, which gives this news, gives also an account of the excursion which General Damremont had made towards Bledah. There is nothing interesting in the account, since the enemy could not be overtaken. A letter - from Bayonne of _the 11th, says that the Car lists fear they shall be short of ammunition if the contest, which is on the point of commencing, should continue several days In fact, the Custom-house officers have seized a grea t quantity of lead and saltpetre.—Le Commerce. The Gazette of Languedoc contains theJfollowing parti culars of the late events in Catalonia : " From the Frontier, 10th May.—Another disturbance is every moment expected at Barcelona, and will certainly take place if Baron de Meer does not return, or if he re turns completely beaten. " In the morning of the 4th, the English landed about 400 men, who repaired to Fort Alabaganas, and the citadel, hoisting their colours ; in both an immense number of peaceable citizens emigrate. Heaven grant that in the new struggle all the French may not be murdered the first!" The 112111 C Journal has the following reflections : " England follows with perseverance its system of occupa tion in Spain. It possesses Gibraltar ; it has long secured its influence' in Portugal ; it has established itself at St. Sebastian and Passage ; and now its soldiers are in the citadel of Barcelona. Thus the Peninsula is invested by ten battalions of Great Britain. What will the partisans of the English Alliance say ? Is the disgraceful and ridicu lous part which we are made to act sufficiently clear ?" Gazette de France, May 10. FRENCH FIINDS.-PARTS, MAT 19. Five per Cents., Io7f. 90c. 05c. Me. Four and a Half per Cents. 100 f. 65c. per Cents., 9.q. 9 . c. 99f. Three per Cents. 791 79f. sc. Bank Actions, 2,435 f. Bente de Naples s 991 6 0e 50c. 55c. Roman Five per Cents., 102 101 1 4. Spanish Actives, 25% '2O 261 4%%%. Spanish Diff'eres, ii iq y. Spanish Passives, 6 6 , 4 1,4. Belgian Lean, Five per Cents, 104. Portuguese Three per Cents. 31% 1 A. Haytian Loan, 31:2f. 50c. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 32%c. ' • money, 251 321,:c. "Fnree months, paper, 25f. 1234 c.; money. 25f. 12'i e. Authentivre. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents., 198 f. Three per Cents. 79E 10c. Bank Actions, 2,435 f. Rente de Naples, 99f. 65c. Roman Five per Cents., 101%. Belgian Loan, 101. Brussels Bank, 1,430 f. Portuguese Three per Cents., 30%. Haitian Loan, 312 f 50e. Spanish Actives, 26%. Spanish Passives 6 1 4. Spanish Differes, 74. New Differes, United Belgian Society, 1,035 f. We have received advices from Madrid to the 9th instant. The Government was never in a more cri tical position. The Catalonian bands had attacked two columns of the QUEEN'S troops near Lerida,_and defeated them with the loss of the Commander-in- Chief, who fell in the attack. Lerida itself was threatened with immediate destruction, unless speedily reinforced with men and a supply of money — the latter a scarce commodity in Madrid. The muni cipality of Reuss, in Catalonia, had- also published a decree re-establishing the Constitution of Cadiz, and declaring the QUEEN'S Government illigitimate and guilty of treason. The National, Church, and Con ventual property was all declared confiscated, and was to be divided among the people ; and a Junta of five ptrl3ns bearing the name of " Regency of the King dom," was appointed by tlletd tettellions plunderers to carry their schemes of treason and spoliation into t'f , feet. This decree—of which we have received a copy signed by six of the leading inhabitants, and dated the 4th insts The P 1 Timm, Cadit journal, announces the arrest of an individual supposed to be the Infante Don MIGUEL, on his way to Portugal. The French Ambassador was to have left Madrid for Paris o❑ the Bth inst. HOUSE OF LORDS.--(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief-Justices of the King's Bench and Common Pleas, Mr. Justice Pattison, Mr. Justice Park, Mr. Justice Vaugham, Mr. Justice Williams, Mr. Justice Littledale, Mr. Justice Coltman, Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Baron Ourngy, Mr. Baron Rolland, and Lords B roug h am an d Wynford, sat in the House of Lords to-day to hear IVrits of Error. GARLAND V. CARLISLt. 1112 wag a Writ of Error brought from the jucignicnt of the Court of Common Pleas upon a special verdict found in an action Of Oct by the defendant in Error, as assignee of a bankrupt named Leonard, to recover from the plaintiff, who in 1824 was Sheriff of Dorset, the value of certain goods of the bankrupt which were taken in execution by him under Vied facias, after the commission of a secret act of bankruptcy. The action, which was brought in June 1825, and to which the Sheriff pleaded not guilty, Was tried at the Summer Assizses for Dorset before Mr. Justice Littledale, and under his direction a verdict was found for the plaintiff fur the full value of the goods. In the fallowing Term the Court of Common Pleas set aside the verdict, and directed a new trial, which took place at the next assizes, when the special verdict complained of was found. Upon that verdict the Court of Common Pleas was of opinion that there was a sufficient conversion by the Sheriff to sustain the action of Troter, and that he was liable for such conversion, notwithstanding his total ignorance at the time that any net of bankruptcy had been committed. The judgment, therefore, was given against the Sheriff, who brought a writ of Error in the Court of Exchequer. Of the eight judges forming that Court, four were of opinion that the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas should be reversed, and four that it should be affirmed. The consequence therefore was, that tha judgment of the Court of Common Pleas was allowed to stand, and against that judgment the present appeal was brought. Sir F. Pollock and Sir Wm. Follett appeared for the plaintiff in Error, and Mr. Sergeant Bompas and Mr. Ball were Counsel for the defendant. Sir F. Pouncx was addressing their Lordships on be. half of the plaintiff when our reporter left. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, MAY 18.—Wind N. W., light.—Arrived the Eliza, Gallon, from Grenada ; Flora, from Tobago ; Myrtle, Couch, from St. Michael's ; William, from Faro. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 17.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived the Caledonia, Martinson, from Pernambuco, towed in dismasted, having been run foul of, bound to Stockholm. FALMOUTH, MAY 16.—Wind W N. W., fresh breezes—fine. PLYMOUTH, MAY 17.—Wind N. W. STANGATE CREEK, MAT 17.—Arrived dila Maria, Collings, from Corfu. DOVER, MAT 1 7.—Arrived the Vigilant, from Pernambuco; Frederick, from New York. " PENZANCE, MAY 16. —Arrived the Golden Spring, from London, assisted in leaky, having struck upon the Seven Stones ; cargo discharging—bound to Liverpool. JERSEY, MAY 13.—Arrived the Anna Margaretha, from Rostock. GLOUCESTER, MAY 17.—Arrived Echo, Lakey, from Lisbon LIVERPOOL, MAY 16 —Wind N.N.W.--Arrived the Shan• non, —, from Savannah. WATERFORD, MAT 15.—Arrived the Integrity, Thompson, from Memel. HULL, MAY 16.—Arrived Johannes, Heldt, from Memel. HOLYHEAD, MAY 16.—Arrived the Ambassador, —, from New Orleans. BREST, MAY M.—A piece of board, 8 inches long and 9 wide, painted black, and apparently part of the sailing of a large ship, has been picked up at Audierne, the last three letters of the ship's name being painted on it, CE L. On the Isle of Saintes a panel of a door has been found, painted black, with a red streak at the bottom, with " Rapid" cut in it, painted yellow. The Robert Kers, bound to Liverpool, has put back to Mobile, leaky. The hull of a large vessel was fallen in with by an Ushant boat, and towed to within two miles of the island, when the cord was cut, it coming on to blow, and a piece of board of the stern was all they brought away. It is painted black, with the last syllable of the vessel's name, TION, painted yellow, about 4 inches high. A number of pipes of brandy, 15 pipes of brandy, marked MC 8. M'Lean Alexandre, Dandeville, 2 L H Bernard's Melle 11 PS. P Sareand 3, IQ, Chatones Jenne, 2 P Robin Andry, also many hogsheads of white and red wine, some papers in German, have been picked up at Andierne, accounts of grocery and supplies at Tonning to Capt. C. J. Hooge. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, T W ELVE O'CLOCK. We copy the following from the New York papers, re cently arrived :—" The commercial hurricane which is sweeping over our devoted city uf New York, furnishes to the lawyers as rich a harvest as the fetalsgourge of the cholera did to the medical faculty.. Spite of the utter ina bility of either profession to stop in the slightest degree the progress of the mischief, the shoals of protests are yielding to the notaries from 50 dollars to lt7o per diem ; and to carry the analogy further, the hourly and anlious question every morning now is, as in the cholera times, How many victims yesterday ? who goes next ?'—and thus we have daily recorded those who have succumbed to the convulsion, and a list of those whom the finger of busy rumour has marked out as suspected cases, and whose turn probably comes next." The express from Paris this morning does not bring ac counts confirming the capture of Hernani by the Queen's troops, which was generally looked upon in the City yester day as being correct. Still in Paris it had the effect of improving the Spanish Stock one per cent. THE FUNDS. Consols closed yesterday firm at 91- to 911 for Money and Time. The Money Market did not present any new feature of consequence, and it was abundant in Money for commercial purposes. _ _ The transactions in the New American paper was very inked. Consols opened this morning at 91b for Time and Money. Exchequer Bills, 32 34, premium ; India Bonds, 32 34, premium ; Bank Stock, 206 207 ; India Stock, 259, 2601. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active closed at 241 ex-Coupons; Passive, 64- ; Deferred, 9i ; Portuguese, 491 ; Three per Cents., 301; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 531 ; Colombian, 23$ 211 ; Mexican, 23$ 245. HALF-PAST ONE. We hear that a private letter from Paris received this morning, states that the confirmation of the taking of Her nani was received in that capital on the 16th in the evening, and was to be published on the following day. The Queen's troops entered on the 13th. The British Funds have improved since the early part of the morninr , from 91i 4 to 91i for Account ; Money same ; Exchequer Bills 33 to 35, improved ; India Bonds, 35 to 33 premium ; Bank Stock, 2064 ; India do., 2594 to 260. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active is not so good as in the previous part of the day, when it was 251 with the Coupons, at present 25 ; Passive, 6 ; Deferred, 9i Portuguese, 49 ; Three per Cents., 301 ; Dutch Two and a Halt, 53 THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account 911 THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH Bank Stock 20 6 ,4 3 per Cent. lied. . ,3(44 3 per Cent. Cons 9 1 1,4 3y, per Cent. 3 4 per Cent Red 9B New *,/, per Cent 99% 1 per Cent. Assented a Dissented Long Annuities to expire Jas. IRCO Oct. 1830 14% Jan. 1860 n .11—:6 ',DREW FUNDS. Omni.im Int.ia Stock Ditto ....................33 South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuitic - Ex. Bilis. lOW/ .3 4d....: 6 pm Ditto CYJili 3 . pm. Ditto 51101 3; pm. Bank Stock for Opg. 20614 India Stock for Act. Consols for Act. N FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent — Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent lOl Ditto, N,iw Ditto 49 Brailian Bonds .. 84 1 A Prussian.. 5 per cent.. — Buenos Ayres, 6 per cant — Russian 13 , iids, 5 per ces.t ... Chilian, 6 per cent...—. Colombian, 6 per cent. Ditto, 1834 Danish, 3 per cent 72% French, 5 pet cent —E —c. Greek Bonds, 11925.5 per cent Exchange —t. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent. — I French, 3 per cent f —c. Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 ....... Dutch, 24 per cent. 53 s Peruvian. 1825. 6 per cent.... j Ditto, 5 per cent ' .. ...... 19A, SH A iIES. Birmingham and Derby Railway 3% Great Western Railway 42 London and Birmingham Railway Manchester and Birminghain Railway 4% North Midland Railway ' South Eastern and Dover Railw a y 254 South Midland Railway O% No other variations in the Prices of Shares since our One o'clock List Every real improvement must, in the very nature of things, benefit sooner or later, the human race—despite the partial evil, which guide it as we may, is unfortunrely inse parable from a state of trans7tion. Al ODD FACT. C. Bur..LE.E. LOQUITEr.g. " Mr. C. Buller begged to state that if the Bi ll of Sir An drew Agnew should ever get into Committee, be should MOVe the insertion of a clause to shut up the Carlton Club 00 tbo .Sabbath, as he had been very much shocked of late by observ liig. as he passed on his wal to church, soeral eminent Con servatives reading not the it Bibles or their Prayer-books, bt l , t the Jain Bull or the Age."—Vide Buller's Speechlest night in the House of Commons. On my road to St. James's Church, as I past The Carlton Club on Sunday last, Sighing to think, despite St. Andrew, What wicked things Humanity can do ; Profaning the Lord's own day by grinning Oe'r Sunday Prints (that worst of sinning) And cherishing from morn 'till night An Atheistic appetite,— I saw, as I glanced into the room, A vision that filled me so with gloom, And made me so with horror wince, That I've been in hysterics ever since I saw (just think I) two Heaven-sent, Astringent Members of Parliament, Well known for their speeches grave and sly, And the costive turn of their piety, Poring, with eyes of laughter full, O'er the jokes of that ghostly print, John Bull; And grinning away, from ear to ear, At its ribald rhymes, to Tories dear ; Then sobering down to a pious smile— The church-bells tolling all the while I I A few nights after, I saw this supple, And well-matched Puritanic couple, Rise in the House their spleen to vent On all who patronize merriment ; On all who drive, or cross the back Of an unbaptized, abandoned hack, On all who commit that deadly sin • Of allowing a barber to trim their chin, Or walk, or talk, or smile, or play, Or eat baked pork on the Sabbath Day ! Sick of such Vaaddle, " and this," said I, " Is what men call, true piety This that gives the Quail: dominion O'er an unreasoning world's opsnion Well, be it so; despite the schools, This world was ever swayed by fools ; So, hey, for each modern Saint's endeavour— Down—Down with Reason—Cant for ever I I" Last week some symptoms of disorderly concluck!, were evinced by the cotton-spinners now on the strike at 01! bank Factory, where a number of new hands, unconnected i'fi_at the despotic union, have recently been engaged ; and Ili% that time the police have been constantly in attendance. " Friday night Cowcaddens was the scene of great disorde r ' Between seven and eight o'clock, a crowd of at least five bud' dred idle fellows assembled in the vicinity of the factory, lint' while the new hands were retiring from their emplor l i e L: were with the greatest difficulty prevented by the police pressing on and maltreating the workers.—Glasgow _Hera. MODERN JUSTICE.—The following prisoners -- n' victed at the late assizes for this town, and against whom o ,tence of death was recorded, have been sentenced as follow Daniel Walton, with stealing a shirt and a pair of drawn: not having been previously convicted, to be transported : 0 life I Charles Eyre, for having assaulted and beaten Burrows, with intent to do her some serious bodily har m,t be imprisoned to hard labour in the House of Correction wr eighteen months ; and William Lowe and Solomon Bing ba°l ; with burglary, the former had been previously confined for less than seven offences, and had been once convicted of re' lony, to be imprisoned to hard labour in the House of Corte; tion for one year each!! What a contrast do these sea wa ll exhibit. We have frequently, of late, imsgined that it wog s be a good plan if our Judges were to write a Kist of senten ce c i clip them up, throw them into a lucky bag, and give to ors, culprit the benefit of a draw. Chances would be equal in o s your of transportation or imprisonment, and fortune coni d P o t possibly play any vagary more passing strange than WTI we have above recorded.—Nottingham On Tuesday morning a poor man, named Jun Wi t: a whitesmith by trade, was found at his house in the Me ci e ; near Melton-street, Euston-square, in a fainting state Ag e loss of blood, occasioned by an incision he had himself 0 11 tis in his throat. He was immediately conveyed to the I° U London Hospital, where he was promptly attended to, but Sh' s ; in about an hour afterwards. One of the medical gentle to present was of opinion that his death was rather attributab l l the excited state of his frame, than to the wound itself, Wh ic 4 was not so severe as to be highly dangerous. We regre t ' add, that he has left a wife and four chileren, in a state h er is ; dering on destitution. Ho is understood to have been a Y e e ; industrious man, but has been recently much distressed f r° want of work and the increased expences of a sick family In September last four tench were taken o ut C u a mere, at Playford, in Suffolk, in the morning, and Wel packed in dry straw. They arrived in London on the Ft!, evening, and two of them showing strong signs of life, t he 's were put into river water, and soon came round. At ha - 5h ten on the following morning they were packed again, half- 5b the dead ones, in dry straw, slung to the lamp iron of a coe rr and so carried to Sudbury, whence they were wheeled barrow, with other luggage, to Upper Halliford, Middleseo On their arrival, about two r.w., one only was living. It ir bs put into a tub of rain water, recovered in the course of t.te day, an _I on the next morning was turned into a pond q u n l d lively and well. The four tench were much of a sise , es e , weighed together about five pounds, but the survivor wss th e r the smallest.— Quarterly Review. .1 Octo b er Prince I , IADAGASCAR.—About the end of last Oetove - Prince of Madagascar, brother to the Queen of that Islau l f arrived at the Isle of France in a French corvette, on his is to Europe, and more especially to France and England. Highness was remarkable for exalted ideas of state and nity. Fifa attendants were decorated, and wore splendiu - t se forms of blue and scarlet. He PM 0 1 saluted .from one oc l bstteries with thirteen guns, and on his landing was condue by the authorities to an hotel, at the door of which they ! t e l t tioned a guard of honour. It was understood that his 1 1 0 , Highness came on a conciliatory mission to the British 0 rernment, the Queen of M a d agasca r having r e f u sed foreign e o r the liberty of advancing into the interior of her dominions' i s o of forming colonies on th e coas t: After leaving Port Is° 0 , he stopped at the Isle of Bourbon ; but, tenacious of the t s nours due to his rank, refused to land until he was saluted h ' s the French garrison with the same number of guns fire d 11 1 '4 the English at the Isle of France. The circumstanced f t h e foreigner being connected with commercial interests will s ty him distinction both in France and England. STEAM PLOUGH.—Our readers have heard of th e steam-plough which has been performing such marvels glu e ./ the mosses at Bolton. Well, the said machine has bee ° s i d, spatted by a Committee of the Highland Society of Scodsoi, accompanied by an engineer, and as their report is exceediego), favourable, it is not improbable that it will be exhibited h er ons the great meeting which takes place in October nest. eo f if you plough by steam, what, it will be said, is to becoel the ploughmen ?—Golaetnith's " Bold peasantry, thss'e country's pride, When once destroyed, ean never be supplied." n it Bnt the change from animal to s‘eare-power, happen wh e „ may, will be extremely gradual, eve were we to suerase, which we arc far from doing, that the invention is alike P e r o t ticable in all situations. Locomotive engines, which " w oe so well on railways, seem to be of little value on C O . roads, and, wonderful as is the progress of the mecha nic a the period must still be distant, should it ever Arrive , Wh e n op. power which stops not, nor readily turns aside, cart O at ll o sibility exert the same supremacy over precipitous or v ole heights, that it has done, and still is doing, over imS 3 r e po es moss, and other descriptions of land of the same level.-- fries Courier. • life THE SPARTAN WOMEN.—In their the Spartans, like the rest of the Greeks, has but 1 4 ; 1 ! s P ba ed sure in the society of their wives. At first the young " 1 . 1 , w ith only visited the bride by stealth—to be seen in coillPa n -T res ter her was a disgrace. But the women enjoyed a mush s isr freedom, and received a higher respect in Sparta the' s , see where; the soft Asiatic distinctions in dignity between tIS spective sexes did not reach the hardy mountaineers ohs Up daemon ; the wife was the mother of men l Broug ht n es robust habits, accustomed to athletic exercises, her persp ° r t he posed in public processions and dances which, but for dances—which, but custom that made decorous even indecency itself, wo he olyr been indeed licentious—the Spartan maiden, strong , d t he domestic 10, and half a partaker in the ceremonies of public life, share, b e habits, aided the emulation, imbibed the patriotism .41 and future consort. And, by her sympathy with his habi ts over pursuits, she obtained an influence and an ascenclaneleised him which were unk nown i n t h e res t o f Greece. D i g os serr on public occasions, th e Sp ar t an ma t ron w as deemed , h ° _ for a a virago in private life ; an d s h e w h o had no sorros;b101, slaughtered son, had very little deference for a living WI —Bulwer's Athens. oked THE SEA DEVIL.—A fi sherman had 11 0 ok cod-fish, and while drawing it up he felt a heavier well 0 larg e tech itself to his li ne : thi s prove d to b e an ang'te-ee blow size, which he compelled to quit its hold by a heavY i n sew its head, leaving its prey still attached to the hook. sen the ther instance, an angler seized a coner eel that bad w' ortn aee hook ; but after the latter had been enwulphed in thelt.ser jaws, and perhaps stomach, it struggled through th e I va tie to i t ture of the angler, and in that situation both were drbaall of &sr ; gether. I have been told of its s-vallowing a large sd t he employed as a buoy to a bulter or deep-se:line ; a n d r ed this implies of its mounting to the surface is further c it 055 by the evidence of sailors and fishermen, who have see,_ o _ oo o . 6 " ing, and t a k en i t w i t h a li ne at m id -water . These fi c : ch: elr times abound ; an d a fi s h erman w h o i n f or med me t o r al cumstance, found sev e n o f t h em a t one time on t he , Its ti trawl-boat . On expr ess i ng hi s sur p r ise at the n um be r, Wh e told that it was not uncommon to take a dozen at once' s its It' this fish is taken in a ne t, it s capti v ity does not d estr g Seib" pacious appetite, b u t it generally d e vours some of cio ,tlis.et o especially have been taken from their stoma for t after specially fl oun d e r s . It is not so m uch sought, e s in c is, ,wn flesh, as for the fist, generally to be wu ssi , its r stomach : thus, though the fishermen reject the " rose they do not reject those that the fish has collecte d ' -- British Fisheries. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1837.