The Sun. — London, England, 1837-04-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS To your tents, 0 Israel ! The whole town is in a state of commotion—the Treasury clerks meet their former masters with a smile—the Tory press struts forth with well-acted exultation—and the Conservative Club really feels the nervous flutter of a young lady who thinks from papa's looks he may possibly have received some proposal. What is the matter? What that great event which has disturbed the equanimity of Crockford's, and given to Mr. Forrester that grave and statesmanlike cast of countenance ? It is Sir Robert Peel's speech. He has declared that he would accept office. Wonderful man ! Yes, though the King of France cannot find a Minister, the King of England is not to be without one. High are the breakers that will beat upon his vessel (we use the Right Hon. Ba ronet's own metaphor, borrowed, doubtless, from Sir James Graham)—great the dangers of the stormy sea he has to navigate-;- but round his breast, as the Ro man poet would have said, there are " three folds of brass"—he defies everything— " Mercator metuens, otium et oppidi Laudat rura sui : mox reficit rateis Quassas, indocilis pauperiem* pati." It is true he was wrecked in his last voyage—that his skill as a navigator was shown in a series of triumphs upon sandbanks—that he always insisted on sailing against the wind, marvelling that he made no progress—that his crew were an ill-assorted crew—a mutinous crew—that they would do no work, and in sisted upon receiving full pay. But what does all this prove ? The greatness of the man to be sure—thc boldness of the man to be sure—nothing daunts him. He is not the pilot who weathers the storm—but what then ?—he is the pilot who braves it. We remember a periodical writer of the last century, who was speaking of an American captain, a gentleman in the Right Hon. Baronet's own way, and who, like the Right Hon. Baronet, was rather given to boasting. " said the writer, who was commemorating his exploits, " and so he may continue to boast, unless some con trary wind should take him against the enemy's cruisers." This is just what we say to the Right Hon. Baronet. He will see the value and the force of a nau tical illustration. He may boast of his readiness to take office—of his confidence that the country would support him in office—of the courage he could show in stepping into the same boat with the Right Hon. Member for Cumberland, who once shipwrecked even the Royal George in a sentence ; but if a " con trary wind should take him against the enemy's cruisers"—if he saw the smallest probability, the most distant possibility, of his vaunts being verified—if, in the awful crisis to which affairs are being hurried by his blind coadjutors, he saw the remotest chance of being at their head—relying on the soothing qualities of Lord Stanley's character for subduing irritation—on the deep sagacity of Mr. Goulburn's mind for disco vering expedients—on the friendliness of Sir Richard Vyvyan's character for helping him over ditficulties— if, we say, he saw the remotest chance of being Prime Minister under such circumstances, he would sooner have bitten his plausible tongue out of his mouth than hare given vent to the sentence which has procured him such eloquent laudation. No ; Sir Robert Peel is no common • man ; he is not blind ; lie is not bigoted like his former, and now, we are obliged to say, like his recent associates. He feels and fears the force of the times ; he wishes not to struggle with that force. Left to the play of his own prudent character and the sway of his own prac tical common sense, he would make himself a new man for the new times he lives in. He has always conti nued to take the greatest leap he could at every fresh necessity for concession, and to enter as deeply as he was allowed into the system which it had established. After the Catholic Emancipation Bill he said that he accepted, and we believe would now be anxious to accept, all its consequences. After the Reform Bill he placed . himself upon the principles of that Bill with as much firmness as if he had even held schedules A and Bin the deepest veneration. He is not the man, the Tories may depend upon it, who will play their despe rate and reckless game. He may now and then give his hounds an halloo, to cheer them on and to keep them together; he may show them the prey, but lie n2ver means them to hunt it down—and he is wise ; for if they had hold of their game they would soon fall foul of their huntsman. He was honest just when his friends and followers thought him not to be so ; that is, when he said- he was not desirous for office.— Morning Chronicle. * Read, perquisites of office. The following observations of the Examiner on the display of Sir Robert Peel on Tuesday night are cha racterised by sound sense, and are peculiarly season able :—" Sir Robert Peel ended his speech with ob servations in this modest strain : If you look steadily at the state of public affairs, I think that Hon. Gen tleman will agree that no man, but from a sense of public duty, would take upon himself office.—( Cheers.) If his Majesty's Government wish to seek a pretext for abandoning 9flice, and escape from the difficulties with which they ale surrounded, I do not hesitate to say that I believe there is energy enough in the coun try to find compensation for their loss. If the crew choose to abandon the vessel, I do not believe but that the country would lend its support to those who would make an effort to protect it for the country's interests, and save it from dangers which appear to threaten to overwhelm it.' He here fairly puts the pretensions of his party as a pis aller. If no other Government can be had, he makes bold to say that the country will put up with his administration. And this brings us to the question of the policy of a resignation upon the Irish Corporations Bill. If the public were prepared to support a measure for the reform of the Peerage, and if Lord Melbourne were prepared to lead the country upon that all-important question, we should see the fitness of instant resignation upon the King's re fusal to grant the necessary powers ; and upon the failure of the Tories to form a Government, or upon the overthrow of any Government it might form, the next Administration would come into office with the means of conquering the existing obstacle to good go vernment in the House of Lords. But if Lord Mel bourne thaws up the Government before things are ripe for the reform of the Lords, it seems to us that any defeat of the succeeding Tory Ministry will only bring us back to the present state of things, and with the a dvantage to the Lords of a respite from the ordeal of popular measures. The value of the move, after the next overthrow of a Tory Government, depends upon the sorundness and decisive nature of the ground upon whick this Ministry resigns. Observing the rule of chess, we are against an useless check to the King. According to this view, the resignation should! be upon the demand and denial of the means of conquering the dead lock—the essential preliminary to which must be an appeal to the country against the conduct of the Lords in a general election—or it should be postponed till, by further exhibition of the obstinate vice of the House of Peers, the necessity for the means of conquering the dead lock is recognized by those who now hesitate, entertaining vain hopes of altered effects from unaltered causes."—Morning Chronicle. The events of the last week, and the eagerness of op posite parties to anticipate from them those political consequences which respectively they must desire, have produced a restless and feverish hurry in the minds of numbers, both amateurs of bustle and actors in it, which we do not consider justified by the real posi tion of things, and which indeed we should, looking far on towards faturity, be loth to think well founded. 'We deprecate any premature, that is to say, any immediate change, in the persons of those who are ostensibly Ministers of the Crown. It is obvious t o us, and this is not the first time we have said so, that the longer Lord Melbourne and his colleagues defer that step, which they as well as we know to he at last inevitable, the more apparent will the ne cessity for it have been rendered in the eyes of :the English nation ; 'the more glaring the inca pacity of a w re t c h e d b ro k en d own f ragment of a faction, we will not say to manage the difficulties, but to' uphold the mere d ecen t common - p l aces o f o ffi c i al . station, times like thes e , th e more man if est the impossibility of their ever being recalled to pow.'r within the age of men now living, and the more secure and unassailable the hold which Conservative statesanen will then have taken of the British Govern ment. It is a strange remark, but a sound one, and throws a strong light upon the morality as well as wisdom of these adventurers now in office, that their whole scheme of action has been contrived upon the one principle of calculating, not what measures are best in themselves for the whole people—not what is just as between Crown and subject, or landlord and tenant, or producer and consumer, or between clergy and laity—the only standard by which any one who deserves the name of " statesman" would adjust his political views with regard to those several great interests of the community ; but, on the contrary, these Ministers, from their first of the Irish appropriation clause, down to their last, the Eng lish Church-rate Bill, have been decided by the single rule of fixing upon some point beyond which the Con servatives would not go—some point which their con scientious honour and deep reverence for the Constitu tion, without regard to party, would deter the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel from conceding, but the insisting on which might be taken by the revolu tionists for an earnest, on the part of the official Whigs, that they would proceed further when the op portunity offered, and establishing that point being one which lay beyond the limit of Conservative policy, as the hinge or pivot of their own Ministerial ex istence. This has been the praiseworthy law of the rump Administration ; they did not measure the wants of the country that • they might fairly supply them. They took measure of the conscientious scruples of their political opponents, and wherever such scruples of conscience presented obstacles to the progress of Conservatives in the path of change, there stood the band of Whig desperadoes, pledged to them selves and to each other to overleap those obstacles, whatever they might be ! It was not any particular aversion to the great principles on which Church or State was founded that induced the Melbourne Whigs to attack the Church of Ireland. They would just as lief have left that ancient establishment undisturbed. 1 But as the destruction of the Irish Church happened to be that specific price which O'Connell and his Popish tail demanded, and which the Conservatives were too honest to pay, the Whigs cried " We must at any rate buy the tail by outbidding our op ponents." "It was not that they loved the Church of Ireland less, but that they loved the support of O'Connell more." So in England. The Whig Ca binet cast about. for some concession to the demands of the disaffected, which the Conservatives would not make, and they found a thumping one in the old con tribution of Church-rates. This, like Irish tithes, comprehended the double condition of being a thing which the enemies of the State exacted, and which its friends refused. Very well. The Rump went upon the same system with the English Dissenters, which they pursued with the Irish Papists. They sacrificed the Church-rates here as they had sacrificed the tithes in Ireland, not because they had any love for Papists or Dissenters, or the smallest antipathy to Church rate or to tithe ; but because they wanted votes as the raw material of a Cabinet, and they knew they were so far safe, in offering for the commodity that which men more upright than themselves would re fuse, at the risk of a perpetual exclusion from office. Had Sir Robert Peel, instead of manfully declar ing that he would uphold the principle of Church pro perty, said " I will grain the appropriation clause, and welcome," and had then a proposal been made to O'Connell that lie should support Sir Robert Peel, what would have happened ?—Why, the Agitator would have bawled out—" Gentlemen of the rump, the ap propriation clause is offered. There are 40 of us Papists. Who bids more ? The appropriation clause, once !—the appropriation clause, twice—going, for the appropriation clause, the third and last time— go,”—whel my Lord John with a languid nod half whispers " the voluntary principle down on the nail," and away flies the Church in a tangent. In England, and with regard to Church -rates, precisely the sanie cards have been played, but against more powerful antagonists. The bidding here was to be for the turbulpit Dissenters. Had those political sectaries required an immediate attack upon the tithes of England, instead of on Church-rates, and had the Melbourne rump been persuaded that the votes of the Dissenting faction could have been got on no cheaper terms, who can doubt that, in their desperate circum stances, these Ministers would have been deterred from closing with the modest proposition, solely from a fear of being kicked out of office by the country, instead of being maintained there ? There is, however, one thing more to be considered by these men, and in relation to them. Have they in either of the above cases paid the price which they so readily offered ? Have they actually given the appropriation clause to the Papists ? Or to the factious Dissenters the Bill for dragging Church-rates henceforth out of the pockets of the clergy ? No; and they are moreover conscious that they never will. They knew from the first hour, that neither their Irish Church Robbery Bill, nor their English Church Robbery Bill, was worth more than a sheet of blotted paper. They knew that neither would be passed into a law, and that neither the Irish Papists nor the English intriguing sectaries would during the present generation obtain in practice any real fruits from their respective bargains. It is clear, therefore, that the Whigs have either knowingly cheated the respective factions whose sup port they pretented to purchase, or that they are in the situation of other parties, frequenting auctions of fur niture advertised for sale, who affect to bid for what would suit them ; but, on being called upon to pay, are unable to realize their biddings. In that case, ac cording to the regulations of every sale-room, the Whig competitor proving insolvent, the next bidder, being the Conservative, carries home the goods. We hare no doubt that if Sir Robert Peel came in to morrow, both Dissenter and Papist would put more confidence in him than in any of those mountebank Whigs, who have actually done nothing for the last two years but clamour against Conservatism, and pocket their own salaries of office. As for what they will do, or will not do, either re specting their Irish Tithe Bill, or their so-much-talked of resignation, we know nothing about the former, and about the latter are no otherwise anxious than that it should not take place sooner than might be desirable for the cause of Conservatism, understood with refer ence to its solid and enduring interests. We are - hourly gaining strength throughout the kingdom— moral ascendancy, which is the infallible stepping stone to numbers—and of numbers we have, even now, sufficient for success, though not for unresisted victory. With respect to the Irish Church Bill, whether the Whigs make it more or less outrageous against the Clergy than it was last year, is of little consequence to any but the Whigs them selves. In either case it must be fatal to them. Were their asseverations worth anything, we should guess from those which they have made within these few days, that the forthcoming Bill (if it ever do come forth) is to out-herod the by-gone flagitiousness of the appropriation principle. Lord John Russell and Lord Morpeth have both declared, that the Bill which they offered as " satisfactory" to the Irish Pa pists in the last Session, "will not satisfy them now." The argument, therefore, which was most dwelt upon in recommendation of their former measure, viz., that it would tend to tranquillise Ireland ; will not, on their own showing, be available for the new one, unless the latter should contain clauses more immediately destruc tive of the Church of Ireland than those which have heretofore by the House of Lords been rejected, and been looked upon with increasing indignation and hos tility by the Protestant English people.— Times. To-night Sir Henry Hardinge will move in the House of Commons, " That an humble address be presented to his Majesty, praying that his Majesty will be graciously pleased not to renew the order in council of the 10th of June, 1835, granting his Ma jesty's Royal license to British subjects to enlist into the service of the Queen of Spain, which order in council will expire on the 10th of June next ; and praying also that his Majesty will be graciously pleased to give directions that the Marine forces of his Ma jesty slur!, not be employed in the civil contest now prevailing in Spain otherwise than in that naval co operation which his Majesty has engaged to afford, if necessary, under the stipulations of treaty." These are the terms of the motion upon which the House of Commons will have to express its judgment. They involve no decision upon the relative merits of the titles put forward by the two claimants of the Spanish Crown ; they suggest no controversy upon the questionable expediency of the Quadruple Treaty. They simply pronounce an opinion that British subjects ought not to be stimulated to shed blood in a quarrel with which Britain has no con- , cern ; they merely convey a recommendation that the framers of the Quadruple Treaty should not defraq the people, the Parliament, and the King, by doing, under its provisions, what its provisions neither con template nor authorise. We believe that Sir Henry Hardinge's motion will be carried. Lord Palmerston , will smile his most triumphant smile as he reads these words ; and Mr. Stanley will refer exultingly to- his ready list. But, nevertheless, we believe that Sir H. Hardinge's motion will be carried. We know, indeed, that Parliament, to use the words of a French jour nalist, " has for some time abandoned the foreign po licy to Lord Palmerston, as if it referred merely to the government of a district of Australasia--to an affair of so remote and unknown a nature that it is neces, sary to leave the utmost freedom of action to the functionary charged with its management." We know too that, inasmuch as the present Ministers are favourites with the mass of their supporters, because, being unprincipled, incapable, and fond of place, they are easily led and driven, Lord Palmerston may expect from them an especial degree of favour, because he is of all most easily led and driven, being of all the most unprincipled, the most incapable, and the most fond of place. We know, moreover, that there may be some half-dozen of respectable gentlemen whose intel lects may not be sufficiently clear to separate the sub stantial merits of the matter before them from the ex traneous garbage with which it will be studiously over loaded ; and who, instead of applying English reason to English interests, will fancy themselves called upon to vote upon the Durango decree, or to testify their dislike of the inquisition. But conscious as we are of all these obstacles to a right verdict, we believe, once more, that Sir Henry Hardinge's motion will be carried. Of course the mere Whigs, the officials, the cousins, and the private secretaries, will support Lord Pa!merston in his extremity. But they form an incon siderable minority of the majority of the House. 11l as we think of the larger proportion of those by whom Ministers are ordinarily aided, we cannot yet suppose that in their love of the ballot or their zeal for triennial Parliaments, they have wholly forgotten their concern for our national interests, or their regard for our na tional character. It is now two years since Lord Pal merston began the experiment which we say has been sufficiently tried. Two years ago we were told that the loyal subjects of Spain, if theylhad but arms in their hands, would drive the Pretender in ignominy from his fastnesses ; and we supplied arms and muni tions of war with a liberal profusion. Two years ago we were told that the first appearance of a British uni form on the shores of Spain would produce a moral effect which would in a month's space terminate the war ; and we encouraged the idle and the ambitious of Westminster to enlist in the British legion, and to share the labours and the laurels of their adored representa t. ve. The process of the experiment lai not been in terrupted by any factious interference on the part of the Conservatives. They have abstained, with almost more than constitutional scrupulousness, from any notice of Spanish affairs, beyond an occasional in quiry, which Lord Palmerston alternately could not, and would not answer. What has been the result of the experiment ? The war is still raging with undi minished ferocity ; the muskets which we kindly pre sented to our allies are pointed against us by their enemies ; and on the scene of our proudest achieve ments English soldiers have been seen " flying like sheep" from a band of undisciplined moun taineers. Let the Queen-Regent of Spain be the most chaste and immaculate of women ; let Don Carlos be the most brutal and bigotted of men ; let Mina, who shot a surgeon for dressing the wounds of a Carlist, be remembered with veneration ; let Zumalacarregui, who did but execute the policy his adversaries had taught, be stigmatised' with curses ; in short, let us believe all the Foreign Office asserts, and doubt all the Foreign Office denies. Still the question is unan swered—whet has England gained b y your sac r ifi ce of English fame, your expenditur e o f English trea sure, you waste of English blood ? Thus far the Fo reign Secretary is responsible for the evil he has done. But a vote against Sir Henry Hardinge's motion, will be a vote of indemnity to him. Such a vete will trans fer the future culpability of repeated disaster and re doubled disgrace from Downing-street to the House of Commons. Let the Members of that House, possi bly on the eve of a dissolution, look well to their course. The people may not scrutinise nicely the morality of our foreign policy ; but they are likely to be moved by its events. It may be safe to back an injustice, ,but it is dangerous to defend a failure. Morning Post. It is with feelings of deep regret we are, at length, compelled to notice a subject of painful interest, which has excited very general observation, and which pre sents at one view, a domestic affliction to our Gracious Sovereign, and a violation of the usages of civilised society.. We allude to certain events recorded in the Court Circular of last week, which placed in unex pected and infelicitous approximation, mirth and mourning—the banquet hall of festivity, and the chamber of death I To this subject a Correspondent called our attention on Thursday last, but anxious to avoid being led into error, in a matter in which it was only charitable to suppose there had been some mis take, notwithstanding the apparently official authority the Court Circular, we waited to see whether any contradiction would be given to the statement of the Court Newsman, who, having, on Wednesday, an nouncod the death of the King's daughter, Lady de L'lele and Dudley, at Kensington Palace, at 11 o'clock on the preceding Monday night, did, von, Thutsday, give the public—the astonished public 7 thi7, following intelligence :—" The Duchess of Kent eltres tained a large and distinguished party yesterday," " Mr. Rosenhain, the pianist, who has just arrived in this country, had the honour of performing at ier Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent's yestterd4 evening"—thus,. as we hoped, slanderously imputing to that illustrious lady, the bad taste, to say the Least. of it, which could induce her to cultivate the gay hos-. pitalities of the table, under that roof beneath which death had just struck its victim, and to waken the voice of music where the sound of lamentation '.was _ ', heard. Pale and cold in an early shrowd lay the mented object of a husband's love and a father's af fection—the mother of an infant bereaved of a mo, ther's care before it was conscious of its own existence. Such an instance of mortality is thought capable of subduing even gay and light tempers into at le.st ,a temporary reflection upon the transitory nature of all that engages the affections, cherishes the pride, or eon: stitutes the earthly happiness of man. "It is better,"' says holy writ, " to go into the house of mourning than into the house of feasting, for that is the end of all men, and the living shall lay it to heart ;" but to turn to the house of mourning into the house of feasting—to disturb the sacred sorrows of those who weep over the dead by the sounds of music and joyousness, is as little in accordance with the ems reflections which such scenes ought to inspire, as it is in unison with the conventional usages of, civilised life. We have always given the Du c h ess o f' Kent credit, not merely for strict moral propriety, but for those kind and amiable qualities of the heart which are no less the grace and ornament of a distinguished station. Was it strange, then, that we preferred doubting the correctness of the Court Circular to believing that she could have listened to any advisers who were so ignorant of what was due on such an occasion—we will not say to the Kiag, but to the British nation, and to civilisation itself, as to induce her to depart from the respect which in this country is ever paid not only to the feelings of bereaved kindred, but to the place which the sorrows of death have sanctified ? No contradiction has been given to the statements which have called forth these remarks, and in reference to which we had hoped the Court Newsman was misinformed. On the contrary, it has been admitted by a Ministerial journal that the enter tainment given by the Duchess of Kent did ac tually take place in the Palace of the King at Kensington, while his daughter lay dead thetie, and on the second day from the melancholy event. We may now presume that the announcement of her Royal Highness, with the heiress presumptive, having . vi sited the opera the very night succeeding that ev en t i s also true. However disp ose d we might be to censure such conduct on account of the want of respect which it seemed to evince to the King's feelings, we cannot look upon it in that limited -point of view. English habits, public manners, the decencies of societyiv- quire that such conduct should not pass unnoticed or unreproved. The higher the rank under which an ex ample of this sort is given, the more necessary it is that it should receive the admonition of public opinion. To us it matters not whether Whigs or Tories, or both, were present at the banquet and music in Kensington Palace. Let party writers treat questions of public ethics and manners with party feeling. We have none to gratify. Whether they be Whigs or Tories who violate propriety, we care for' neither of their Houses," so that "We should assert black to be white out of preference to either. As far, indeed, as the King is concerned, the Ministers of the Crown would be more culpable than any other politicians in attending a banquet under such circumstances, because of the official ties by which they are connected with his Majesty. But, upon the part of the British public, we protest against all such deviations - from our established usages—all such violations of our English manners—all such shocks to the public sense of propriety, as was exhibited by the unseasonable scene of festivity in Kensington Palace, on Wednesday evening last. It has been rightly remarked that no such scene ought to have occurred, if the corpse of a domestic servant lay under the same roof. It has been no less truly stated that the Duchess of Kent, not very long ago, consulting her own sense of propriety, con sidered the death of a menial of her household a suffi cient cause for postponing certain entertainments for which she had issued invitations. In the Court Cir cular of Thursday, the same that spoke of the " large and distinguished dinner party" of the Duchess of Kent of the evening before, there was the following announcement:--" In consequence of the lamented death of Lady de L'lsle, Reschid Bey has felt it pro per to postpone his two remaining dinner entertain ments, from Monday the 17th, to Monday the 24th inst., and the one of the 24th inst., to Monday the Ist of May next." We need scarcely add that the enter tainments for which the Turkish Ambassador had sent out invitations were not to have taken place under the roof beneath which the corpse of Lady de L'lsle re posed ; but whether it was out of respect to the King, who had postponed the grand dinner which their Majes ties were to have given in St. George's Hall on Saturday, or whether his mark of respect for the King was blended with a polite deference to the usages of the British people, certain it is, that this Mahomedan chief con ducted himself in a manner that his Majesty's " Chris tian" Ministers would have done well to imitate. Has it to come to this, that in almost the highest places of the realm, we are obliged to call attention to Turk ish examples of civility to prevent the deterioration of the public manners ? We enter not into the question why the Duchess of Kent thinks proper, both as re gards herself and her illustrious daughter, to have but little intercourse with the Court of William IV. We quarrel not with her taste therein, or with the indul gence of feelings as to certain . personages, which if rightly ascribed to her, it would be hypocritical to conceal ; but the subject which has called forth these remarks is quite a different question. It is a question affects us, as a civilised people—a question in which the national manners, and, in some degree, the national character, are involved—and upon such a question we shall never shrink from expressing our in dependent opinion.—Morning Herald: ARISTOCRATIC CAPERS at MELTON The Marquis of Waterford, who, now that there are no longer, through the innovations of the age, any " Charleys" to floor in London, occasionally takes a provincial tour to enjoy this manly and much-admired sport in the usually peaceful and quiet country towns of England, has been again getting himself into a scrape, with a number of his aristo cratic friends, at Melton. The Noble Marquis, with his friends, the Hon. Mr. Villiers, Mr. Reynard, Sir F. John-. stone, and another, described by some of the suffering watchmen and special constables as the " tall gentleman," had been attending Croxton Park- races, and at the con clusion of each day's sport the Marquis of Waterford and his party slept at Melton. There were large dinner par ties almost every evening, either at the New Club or at Lord Rokeby's. At an early hour on Thursday morning they sallied forth bent upon mischief, when sundry watchmen were jostled and " floored," and a great many special constables sworn in on the occasion worsted in the tight. The next scene in this Tom and Jerry drama was a visit to the Grantham toll-gate-house, where they screwed up the door and win dow-shutters, and, as soon as they had accomplished their laudable object, sang out " Gate 1" and made as much noise as they could to astonish the gatekeeper. He, however, required not this to awake him, for the noise of the screws had broken his slumbers, and thinking that . thieves wore forcing the shutters, he had loaded a large horse pistol, and but for the accident of his not being able to find powder to prime it with, it is more than probable that some one or more of these worthies would have received its deadly contents. They then proceeded towards the mar ket-place, one carrying a large can of red paint, and others bearing the brushes, and no sooner was the Old White Swan perceived than the " Noble" Marquis was raised upon the shoulders of his companions, an immediate trans formation of colour was the consequecce, and then was to be seen that rara avis, a red swan. This feat having been performed and greeted with shouts of laughter, the gentle men proceeded to overturn caravans, throw signs into the canal, smash lamps, wrench off knockers, and break down or screw up doors as to their fancies might seem most de sirable. Among the doors and windows which underwent the fate of being screwed up was the Post-office, which was also facetiously daubed over with pigment from the can be fore mentioned. One of the party(Mr. Reynard) after giv ing chase for a long time, was run to ground, and locked up in the watchhouse ; but his friends soon came to the res cue, and four or five doors having been forced, and about double the number of heads broken, the captive was once more set at liberty. Such riot and confusion was never before known in Mel ton, and the Marquis could not have had such a feast of -intellectual enjoyment, since his return from New York. It !.is stated that nothing was in request, on the early part of Thursday, but mops, turpentine, and screwdrivers. Mr. Reynard was secured a second time, and has since been fined five shillings for being drunk by the magistrates. No other offence could be directly made out against him. War rants have, however, been issued for the apprehension of the Marquis of Waterford, Sir F. Johnstone, and the Hon. Mr. Villiers. It appears there were eleven persons en gaged in the riot, but only Sir F. Johnstone was a resident at Melton.—Morning Paper. Mr. Scholefield has been confined to his own house •in the country, by severe indisposition, for some time back, which has caused him to be absent from numerous recent im portant divisions in the House of Commons. Our columns of this week report the perpetration or the legal punishment of several murders and other heinous crimes here, for the commission of which we can discover nct adequate provocation or suffering, as is generally known to exist in the sister country. The question properly prefatory to any discussion upon the means of reducing the crime with which the country seems at present to abound in a very fright ful degree, is—the cause or causes by which this unusual quan tity has been produced. On this question a considerable number of politicians have attempted, and still hold themselves prepared to prove, that the cause of the crime in the country is the poverty. We presume this is to be understood in the particular as well as in the general sense ; and that it instigated Bartlett, a hale young man in the prime of life, to murder his mother-in-law ; that it impelled the three stout young naviga tors to beat out the brains of a poor, lone, and defenceless old woman, at Denver, and afterwards pillage her dwelling of its few silver valuables ; that it also induced the wretched Green sinith to strangle his four little children in their sleep, and urged on Greenacre and his woman to the murder of Mrs. Brown. We presume that poverty, in these particular cases, is to be considered as the impelling cause, as much as in the more extended cases of " the incendiary Swing," which de stroyed so enormous an amount of agricultural produce and property. Now, this seems to us to be, in England, a very fallacious theory ; and we arc quite sure that—if fallacious—it is also a mischievous and dangerous one. No doubt the crime under which the country suffers proceeds from a variety of causes—of which poverty will be one. Part of it is inseparable from the constitution of society ; another part will be attribut able to imperfect or defective legislation ; a third part will proceed from the temptations and facilities which the peculiar circumstances of a densely populated, rich, and commercial country afford. A fourth cause may be found in the general pressure of national distress, upon the lower and poorer classes. But, practically, we belive that this last portion is the smallest of the whole ; and we are sure that the very worst conse quences are likely to arise from any attempt to give too much importance to it.—Bath Herald. CHURCII-RATES.—We are glad to see that the eloquent speech delivered by Mr. Northhouse, at the Lambeth Meeting for the Abolition of Church•rates, has been published in a cheap form, for general circulation. We highly approve of this mole of enlightening the minds of the ignorant, and removing the prejudices of the bigoted, on the Church-rate question. It is a powerful auxiliary to the newspaper press at a moment like the present, NS hen Church-rate meetings crowd so fast upon each other, that it is scarcely possible to notice them even slightly—much less to give at length the speeches delivered on these occasions. Mr. Northhouse's address will well repay perusal. The author enters into the very marrow of the subject, bringing to bear upon it the united artillery of reason, religion, justice, and authority—array ing against the unholy impost both the law and the Gospel, denouncing in it the venerable names of Latimer and Barrow, of Burn, Milton, and others.—Nottingham Review. of Shares. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, ASSURANCE COMPANIES, &c. &c. &c. LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 14. Number Dividend CANALS. per Annum. Price per Paid. Share. ______. __.......... 1,760 7 per cent. Ashton and Oldham.... Average 971. 18s. sh. 135 1,482 4/. Ashby.de-le.'Louth Average 113/. sh. 65 1,260 Basingstoke lOO/. sh. 54 1,005 5/. Brecknoek and Abergavenny 150.. sh. 102 8,000 1-161 h. 91.95. Birmingham, 1.16 th share fift. & 711. 218 4,000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct...1251 J. 100 pd 31 6(xo • Bridgewater and Taunton ....100/. sh. all pd 64 400 4/. Chelmer and lllackwater 1001. sh. 102 500 481. Coventry 1001. sh. 700 4,545 Croydon Average 31/. 25. 10d. sh. 3 2,060; 41. Os. Dudley 600 71. Derby 100/. sh. 122 20,000 3,5751 3/. Ellesmere and Chester Average 133/. sh. 80 231 40/. Erewash 1001. sh. 600 1,297 28/. Forth and Clyde Average 100/.liis. sh. 60 ) 11,500 121. Grand Junction lO4l/. sh. 904 2,5494 1/, Grand Union 1001. sh. 2,; 1.500 .. ...... Grand Surrey 120,000/. 41: per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOOl. 70 3,(11)6 Grand Western 800 13/. 12s. 9d. Glainorganshire, Average cost 1721. 13s. 441. 230 749 let. Grantham 150/. sh. 202 6,2&1 , 1/. 15s. Huddersfield Average 57/. Os. 6d. sh. 35 100 25,324 11. 2s. Kennet aid Avon, Average 391. 18s. 10d. sh. 22 2,197; 20/. Leeds and Liverpool 1001. sh. 540 5451 12/. Leicester l4O/. sh. 195 1,897 41. 10s. Leicester and Northampton... Aver 931. !Os. 77 2,400 10/. Monmouthshire 100/ .sh. 200 50 16/. Melton Mowbray 1001. sh. 200 500 251. Mersey and Irwell 100/. sh. 560 3,000 11. 10s. Macclesfield 1001. sh. all pd. 54 247 171. Neath ._. 1,786 SO/. Oxford 100/. sh. 580 2,400 W. Peak Forest Average about 781. sh. 104 21,415 12s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 331. I6s. &I. sh. :6 5,669 64 per cent. llochdale Average 85/. sh. 119 500 81. Shropshire /25/. sh. 138 800 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 148 3,6001. 4.1 per cent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock 121. 10s. sh. 11 i 700 401. Stafford and Worcester l4ll. sh. 730 500 9/. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 243 300 8!. Stourbridge 3,647 21. ,s. Stratford-on-Avon ...Average 791. 9s. E4d. sh. 50 533 12/. Swansea 100/.0. 220 3,762 11. 9s. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Ar 351. sh. 261 2,603-1 In. 321. 10s. Treat and Mersey, i share 100/. sh. 550 8,149 1,0005 h./ 15L Warwick aid Birmingham 100/. sh• 253 1,00015h.3 949 1 , 2 g. Warwick and Napton lOOl. sh. 180 6,000 .4/. of. Worcest• , r and Birmingham... Av. 78/.Bs. sh. 81 5, 0 00 225. Wilts an., Berks .. Average 671. 10s. Bd. sh. 21 800 31. Wyrley and Essington 125/. sh 75 126 Wisbeach . ...1051. sh. 45 905 1/. Wey and Arun llOl. sh. 221 DOCKS. 2'600 do }3o c. Commercial OOO/. sh. 56 1,06515 h. - ' 1,98,667:-/. 0 per ct. East India Stock 114 3,233,3101/. 50s. p. ct. London Stock 541 Ditto Bonds 1,380,0001. IL per ct. West India Stock 105 2,'.011 2/. I 9s. Bristol 61,324/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll5 1,352,752 4 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 90 500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds lOO 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds uir 10 years lOO Shoreham Hai hour 2.500 ........ Deptford Pier 0 01. sh. 31. BRIDGES. 1,600 ifs. Hammersin,ti• 5O/. sh. 221 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. li3l. 2s. Bd. sh. 2 1,700 11. 15g. Ditto, New, of 76 per cent. 5Ol. sh. 14 5,000 Waterloo • 1.00/ sh. 5 5,000 18g. Sd. Ditto, Old Annuities of 611/. 5,000 16s. 4d. Ditto, New Ditto of 7/ 40!. pd 151 60,000!. 54 per cent. Ditto Bonus ll9 6,000 17s Vauxhall AT,rage 701. 10s. 3d. sh. 16i AS , URANCIr. COMPANIES. . ..... 2,000 31101 ' Albion '' -.-r - - -- ._ '_ soo!. sh. 501 pd 80 50,000 [ S r i c i e s l l . l Alliance, B ritish & Foreign 100/. sh. 101/. pd 12# 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 1001. sh. 51. pd 5 . 1 24,000 11 per sh. Atlas 5Ol. sh. Si. pd 13; 1,200 ''-,sh. Si. Birmingham fire 2501. sh. 55/. pd 105 20,000 41 percent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 41 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 501. O. Si. pd CI 5,000 51. percent. Clerical, Medi. sel,&e. Life, ICO/ sh. 12110 s pd 4 4,000 21 10s County lOOl. eh. 101. pd 42 20,000 _ 53. _ Eagle ,___ ,„„, r 5 per cent./ Economic Lite 10001. sh. 2504 pd 375 -"'" land 301 bs. 2,271 225. per cent. European D..: 0 01. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2a. Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 21. pi 11 1,000,0001. 71. per ct. Globe Stuck 151 20,000 51. Guardian lOOl. sh. 27i1 pd 531 40,000 68. lid. Hope 501. sh. 51. pd 6 2,400 51. 7s. 6d, Imperial Fire 500/. sh. 501. pd 121 7,500 N. Imperial Lite ... ............ JOU sh. 101. pd 10 13,458 12s. per sh. Indemnity Murine li'o/. sh. 8/. pi 16 2,020 31 10s Fire Kent __ . 5Ol. sh. all pd 82 Ditto Life- . _ 10, 0 00 16s. Law Life 100/. eh. 10/. pd 27 5 000 10s. London, Fira 9 5/ sh. 12/. 103. pd 15.1 3,900 10e. Louden, Ship 25/.14h. 12/. 10s. pd 151. 30,010 Si. per cent. Palladium Lite 501. sh. 21. pd 2/ Ss Oel 50,00"/ Protector Fit.•. 2Ol. sh. 21. pd 18e tid 2,500 11. Provident Lite ICOL sh. 1.2. pd 2.) 100,000 51. percent. Rock Life... .................. .........20/. eh. 2/. pd 64 669,2201 51 percent. Royal Ex ch..i. ge Sto k... 2 - 20 6,000 i per cent. University Lite 'OO/. A. 5/. pd 51 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life ____ '2l. pd JOINT SIOCK BANKS 25,04 X) Agric. andCumm. of Ireland 251. sh. 101. pd 14 5,000 Australasia 4Ol. sh. 401. pd 50j 10,000 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham 5Ol. sh. 101. pd 13 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 14 3 ,1 ,000 5 per cent. London and Westminster-100/ sh. 201. pd 19,} :3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster 1001. sh. 201. pit 30 25,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 101. pd 19 50,000 6 per sent. Manchester and Liverpool} 100/. sh. 15/ pd 211 Discount 20,000 71 per cent. Manchester. 1001. sh. 251 pd 294 20,000 Provincial !Link of lreland...lool. sh. 251. psi al, 20,''CO National Bank of Ireland ...50/. sh 17//. pd 14 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. —lOO/. sh. 351. pd 20j 10,000 GloucesterAhire 5Ol. sh. 101. pd '2O 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 50/. sh. 51. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AN:) COKE COMPANIES. --- 2,500 115 s 6d Bath 9 0/. sh. 101. pi 24 5,000 British 4Ol. sh. M. pd 21 inn rsLpnt. ..`"'s" /and erc Bs. e ss. 1 j Ditto Provincial 201. sh. 19 pd 28 928 5110 s Birroingliain 4,250 2/ Oa Bristol 1,500 3' lOs Brighton 2Ol. sh. 12 750 31 lOs Ditto, New 2,471 5 per cent. Brighton (leneral 201. sh. all pd 17 4,000 41. Continental Consolidated lOO4 6'251. pd '7O 1,000 101. City of London lOO/. oh. all pd 180 4 , 100 N. Ditto, New ...... . ...„. 4!. ICs, Equitable l9! 391 10,000 2,4 per cent. Iniperial al/. ;h. 41i 800 W. per cent. Isle of Ttuniet 9 5/. sh. 201. pd 20 2,350 61. per cent. ! ndependent 3O/. eh. all pd 49 9,000 31. per cent. Phoenix 5lll. sh. 39/. pd 201 1,000 41. per cent. Ratcliff 1001. eh. 60/. pd 4,090 . • South Metrupoiltan 5O /: s h.l9!. pd 17 . _ , 8200 51. per cent. United General 5Ol. sh. 46/. pd 23 240 51. per cent. Warwick 501. sh. 50 400 W. per cent Wakefield 251. sh. 22j 12,000 3/. Westminster Chartered 6,001 12s. Ditto New . 54/. sh. 10/. pd 10 BGO Yarmouth 9 01. sh. 184 pd 9 WATER WORKS. 4,800 9s. thrrringham 25/. sh. !L`s/. pd - 241 4,443 6/. East London lOOl. sh. 139 5,500 21 10s (*rand Junction ....Average 411 13s. 4d. sh. 50 2,000 21. Kent 100/. sh. 43 372 10/. Liverpool Bootle_ 220/ sh. 3i6 .. ___ ... . . . 1,500 21104 Now River London Bridge Water Annnitlei 58 6,486 1! 15s Manchester and Salford lOO/. sh. 53 300 4 per cent. South London 1001. sh. 81 8,204 31. West Middlesex ....Average 63/. 12s. 9d. sh. 78 1,360 11 144 York Building Co. Lessee Prop 1001.4 h. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,000 Birmingham and Derby 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester 101 pd 31 7,500 ...... ... Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction Oil 15,.'00 .... Bristol and Exeter lOOl. lb. spd ( t 660 Calcutta and Saugur 5Ol. sh. 2/. pd f.,1 7,500 ....... Cheltenham and G. Western 1001. sh. 71/. 5 3,000 ...... ... . Clarence lOOl. sh. 100/. pa 40 ,1 12,000 8,00• Dublin and K i l k e nn y 1001. sh. 2 1 tal 1 60,000 Eastern Counties 251. sh. 21. pi. 01 Grand Junction 1001. sh. 50/. pi 4 , 7 Great North of England 7l. pd '5l 25,030 Great Western lOO/. sh. 401. pd 411 2,000 Ilartlepool 100/. sh. 1001. I A 100 8000 Flull and selby 5Ol. sh. 5/. pd 21 10,000 ......... Leeds and Manchester 100/. sh. 5/, pd 14 7,100 Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 11 1,500 Leicester and Swannington -.501. sh. all pd 70 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester...lOUs!). 100/. psi 204 Ditto Quarter Shares "5/. pd 61 10,000 London and Brighton lOO/. sh. 5/ pd 31 45,000 Ditto ditto (Gibbs') -.201 sh. 11. pd 0 1 16,000 Ditto I ditto (Rennie)...so/. sh. 21. pi 1 4 8,009 Ditto ditto (Cundy)...loo/.sh. 3/. psi 04 12,000 London and Blackwall 501 sh. 31 pd 01 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich .......20/. sk. 201. pd 181 25,000 London and Birmingham ...1001. sh. 75/. pd 98 20,000 London and Southampton ....;,0/. sh. 351. pit 17 7,000 ...... ... London and Croydon 20/. sh. 15/. pd 12 12,000 London Grand Junction 5 1. sh. 3/. pd (l 10,000 Manchester South Union I 00/. sh. 51. pd :3 North Midland 100/. sh. 1.1. pd 81 Northc , m and Eastern lOO/ sh. 31. pd 4 2,600 ......... Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. W. pd 28,000 South Eastern and Dover 7l. pd 3 1,000 6/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOU sh. 240 9,000 TilfUneS Haven 5Ol. sh. 2/. 103. pd 01 1,400 'Westminster and Greenwich 50/. sh. 2/, pd Of 6,000 York and North Midland 5O . sh. 3/. pd 2; MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper .-- 51. sh. 34/. pd 12 4,000 11. ss. Allen 15/. sh. 121. 10s pd 1I 10,000 ... ..... Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. pm.... 1001. sh. all pd :t Ditto Subscription 9 51. pd 4 2,000 Bolanos 150/. sh all pd 1121 • lO,OOO 11. lOs Brazilian Imp. iss. 5!. pm. 'l5l. oh. 20/. pd 24 6,0::0 M aca lib as St Cocaes United...2s/. sh. 2311. pd 7 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 20/. sh. 91. pd 21 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 9 0/. sh. 201. pd 81 10,000 Ditto Scrip 10/. sh. 81. pd 9 20,001 British Iron 5Ol. sh. 50/ pd 411 6,000 British Copper Cata Branca fly. pd 6. ; Candonga 7l/. p 4 7 10,000 1/. Copiapo 2Ol. sh 124/ pi 15 8,500 Columbian, iss. 5/. pm. 20,000 General Mining Association...2o/. sh. 151. pd 10 6,155 Mexican Company 100/. sh 541/. pd 01 3,000 Polberou Consols lO/. sh 8/. pd 7 11,500 .•....... Real del Monte, Unregistered l6 Ditto Loan Notes l5O/. pd 125 30,000 United Mexican, iss. 2 prn.....40/. sh. all ptl I DAR. Scrip 2 Ditto New Scrip 5l pd 51. West Cork 50/. sh. 50/. pd al- LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. sh. 201 1,500 London Universit- loll' sh. all pd 231 700 Russell ‘ , sgs. sh. 8 King' College lOO/. pd 32 MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 15s. Australian Agricultural....loo/. sh. 2el/. pd 50 6,000 61. per cent. British American Land Company 23/. pd 161 10,000 61 per cent. Canada Coindany 103/. sh. 24/. pd 341 200,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan 95 City Bonds, 4 per cent lot 15,000 11. 6s. General Steam Navigation ...15/ 7h. 13/. pd 25 10!. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,000 11. London Coin. Sale Rooms Av. 75/. sh. 19 8,000 Caoutchouc Company "51 sh. 214 pd If New Brunswick Land Company 43/. pd 13 2,754 51. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/. sh. 1001. IA 120 2,633 51. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 45!. 1,0 501 4,000 10,000 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES APRIL 6, 1837. BANKS. 1,500,005/. (V. p. ct. Bank of Scotland '43/. 6s. Rd. sh, all pd 19 , /. 2,000,11)(1. 51 p. ct. Royal of Scotland 1001. sh. all pd 158!. 500,0e1. *$ p. ct. British Linen Company 1001. sh. :.11 pd `..:36/. 3,000,0001. 61. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 100/. pd 175/ 5,000,0001. sp. ct. National lOO/. sh. 101. pd 1511. 2,000,0001. 51 p. ct. Glasgow Union 2504 sh. 501. pd 68' .. 4,000,000/. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland .001. sh 30/. pd 361? . INSURANCE COMPANIES. 25+,.0005h 64 p. ct. Scottish Union '2o/. sh. /.p/1 2.":3 - ,504 sp. ct. Hercules lOOl. sh. 101. id 1910 x. 11r,01.0 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland _JO/. sh. all pd 61. 50,004 6p. et. North British 2001. sh. 101. pd I; 1. 1,000 sp. et. Caledonian Fire 1201. sh. 101. pd 16/5s 5,000 6 p. et. FAlinlitirgh Life 100/. sh, 101. pd - 14/ Ms 00,00 Y , __ _ 101 pi it 03 MISCELLANEOUS 4,810 Eitili..tid (Vas. Un. Cana1...50/. sh. all pd 122/. Ditto Allocated ............... _Oa/. .1 1 . all p 0 4)54 5,400 5 per cent. Eilitili.;Jooit Stuck Water 25/. sh. all pd I;71/, Carron hem !. ompany '2501. sh. all pd . 11 . 1. 2,00041 15 per cent. Shotts Iron koundery 501. sh 3 , /. pd 441 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith (itaii 4 lio/.sh. 16/. pd £;/. 4,500 10 per cent. Eilinhurgli Coal Gas 251. sh. all pd 56/ 4;150 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas - 25/. sh all pd 611 750 71 , per cent. Leith Coal Gas 20/. sh. all pd 45j. 1,200 Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway...so/A. 805 8.000 5r er cunt. Equ'.table Loan Company 251. ch. al, lid 104, 4,000 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ENTERED OUTWARDS AT THE CUSTOM HOUSE, APRIL 15. The Princess Victoria, Broecks, for Antwerp ; Neptune, Whittingham, Hamburgh ; Lord Byron, Race, Antwerp; Tourist, Whitcombe, Calais ; Libra, Engelsman, Amsterdam; Atwood, Major, Rotterdam ; Hampton, Jackson, New York. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO. The Bavavier, Dunlop, fi:;;R:tterda;n; Argyle, Sandys, Madras ; Nereide, F a ill an t, C a l a i s ; Ed war d, S c hmedt, Ham burgh ; Princess Victoria, Broecks, Antwerp ; Clutha, Elder, Trinidad; Ocean, Morfee, Antwerp ; Tourist, Whitcombe, ditto ; London, Pearson, Rotterdam ; Charlotte, Merys, Ant werp ; Neptune, Pietres, ditto ; Marys, Coker, Guernsey and Jersey ; Grant, Sayer, Madeira ; Albion, Hicks, Quebec; Queen, Robinson, Miramichi ; Morning Star, Linton, Mon treal ; Margaret, Taylor, Demerara ; Edward, WePesso Bremen. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST. The John and Mary, Lelley, for Dantzic ; Oscar, Mathew, Riga ; Hoop, Newland, Workum ; Dolphin, Dickenson, Nor way ; Trade, Mosey, Quebec. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 13. The Pennsylvania, Smith, from New York ; Lady Car mel', Kerr, Valparaiso; Sterling, Annan, St. John's, N.B. Union, Malaga; Jubilee, Edwards, Mobile; Washington, Benson, Mobile; Cruckston Castle, Ferguson, New York. ENTERED FOR LOADING. The Violante, for Alexandria; Betsey, Bell, Derbyhaven ; Lady Campbell, Johnson, Demerara; St. George, Waters, Elsineur ; Diana, Miller, Quebec. CLEARED OUTWARDS. The Combatant, for Jamaica • Lady Hannah Ellice, For rester, Quebec ; Donna Maria, iteel, Oporto ; Betsey, Bell, Derbyhaven ; St. George, Gilpin, Wyberg. SAILED. The Manco, Crawford, for New York; Elizabeth Gil lespie, Kinnean, St. Petersburgh ; Blucher, Aaron, Trieste; Nile, Ferguson, Newfoundland; Secret, Gates, Azores. TELEGRAPHED. Off Holyhead, inward bound, the Governor Troup, from Savannah ; Maysso, Pernambuco. Off Point Lynas, inward-bound, the England, from New York; Sarah, Berbice; Fergus, Apalachicola; Ingleborought Canton. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrived.—April 13, the De Sonda Susanna, from Batavia, in the Downs, sailed the 22d December. April 14, the Duke of Bedford, Bowen, from Bengal, off Falmouth, sailed from Calcutta the 30th of December, Saugur sth of January, St. Helena 24th of February •, the Boyne, Richardson, from Bom bay, off Plymouth, sailed 25th of December, Calcutta 31st December, St. Helena 23d February ; the Canton, Tarbutt, from the Mauritius, off Plymouth, sailed the 16th of Decem ber ; St. Helena 31st of January ; the Comet, Patterson, from Algoa Bay, off Plymouth, sailed the 20th January, St. Helena, 10th of February ; the Fairie Queen, Hookey, from Bengal, off Cork, sailed from Saugur the 4th of December, and St. Helena 10th of February. Arrivals at St. Helena.—The Edward, Lindsey, Feb. 2, from Singapore ; the Wansted, M'Auleffe, Feb. 9, from whal ing, with 8,800 barrels sperm oil, and sailed the 18th for London; the Neerlands, Feb. 9, from Batavia • the John Palmer, Lawrence, F e b. 10, f rom w h a li ng; t he Mexican, Lnbbart, Feb. 15, from Ceylon ; the William, Feb. 22, from Batavia; the Sunges, Feb. 23, from Calcutta, and sailed 24th for London ; the Symmetry, Riley, from Calcutta, and sailed 25th for London ; the William Nicol, Kincaid, from Bombay. Arrivals at the Cape.—The Repulse, Pryce, Feb. 8, from Bengal, and sailed for London ; the Gilmore, Lindsay, from Bombay ; the Buen Succesa, from Manilla, and sailed for Havre ; the Bellona,.Fetcau, from Bourbon. Off, the Nymph, Le Boxer, from Calcutta, Ceylon, Dec. 9 ; the Indemnity, Roberts, will sail the 12th, for London. Arrivals at Singapore.—His Majesty's ship Raleigh, No vember, 29, and the East India Company's schooner Zephyr, Nov. 30, from the Moluccas ; the Two Brothers, Dec. 1, from Batavia; the Pascoa, Dec. 1, from China; the Horsey, Dec. 2, from London, Penang, and the Mauritius ; the Thetis, Dec. 2, and Lady Grant, Dec. 3, from China ; the Carolina, Dec. 3, from Batavia; Amelia, Dec. 3, from Samarang. Departures from Singapore.—The Rowena, Nov. 26, for Siam; the Onderneeming, Nov. 28, for Batavia; the Samuel Winter, Nov. 29, for London ; the Fort William, Nov. 29, for Bombay; the Nursey, Nov. 30, for Malacca, Penang, a nd Bombay. Ships Spoken With.—The Caledonian, Liverpool to Bom bay, Dec. 25, lat. 40. S., long. 63. 10. E. ; the Blenheim and Prince, from London to Hobart town, March 26, lat. 46. N., 15. 20. W. ; the Brilliant, from Rio to Calcutta, Dec. 9, lat. 13. 3. N., long. 91. 25. E., by the Ann, arrived at Cal cutta. The following story is current in Boulogne, but its • authenticity is doubtful :—An elderly man met a few days since a ploughman, and requested him to take care of a large heavy basket while he went a short distance, promising to return im mediately. The ploughman being tired of waiting, carried the basket to his master. On being opened, it was found to contain a fine healthy infant, which he proposed his master should take care of, hiving already eight children of his own but on the master refusing, and not knowing how to act in the affair, he resolved upon consulting his wife, who fortunately consented to receive the foundling, and on taking it out of the basket discovered a large sum of money, a quantity of fine baby-linen, and a note, written in the following terms : " Take care of this child till it is twelve years old, when it will he reclaimed, and you will be rewarded for your pains."— Galignani's Messenger. The village of Hornsea was, on Wednesday last, thrown into a state of fearful excitement, arising from a case of poisoning in the family of Mr. Thomas King, an individual well known and highly respected [as a carrier between this town and Witherwick for many years, and latterly occupying a small farm at Hornsea Burton, under the Trinity-house at this port. On the morning of the above day, after being out at work, he went home and ate, as usual, a hearty breakfast, which was, on this occasion, composed of cake and tea. Shortly afterwards his son, a lad of eleven years of age, came in, and was about to help himself to part of the breakfast which his father had left, but Mr. King :prevented him, saying he felt ill since breakfast, and such a burning heat at his stomach as he had never felt in his life before—he was sure the cake was not all right. The servant girl, who was present, ap peared to be offended at the remark, and having asserted her confidence that it was very good, sat down and ate also a hearty breakfast of the same. Mr. King persisted in his for mer statement, and prevented his son from partaking o f the cake. Himself and the servant soon exhibited such symptoms of illness that it was considered advise to send for the sur geon, Mr. Denton, who accordingly came ; Dr. Alderson was also sent for from Hull, but the man expired about five mi nutes before his arrival, and the girl in about ten hours after. On examination of the remaining portions of the cake they were found to contain arsenic, and a dog, which had eaten of the same, died about an hour and a half after doing so. Mr. King employed a man who sat down to breakfast with him, but as he expressed a wish to have some cold pie and ale, rather than tea, &c., he did not eat of the cake, and he and the boy remained unhurt. An inquest was held on the bodies yesterday, and adjourned to Monday, at nine in the morning , for the purpose of allowing the contents of the stomach to be analysed. We understand that there is strong suspicion that the poisoning was wilful, and information communicated to the constable at Hornsea as to the purchase of poison by any per son under questionable circumstances, or of any other fact tending to elucidate the affair, would be desirable.—Hull Ad vertiter. DESSERT FRUIT KNIVES AND FORKS. Plated on Silver Steel Blades. Blades Plain Ivory handles, silver ferrules, per dozen pair.. £3 3 0 £8 18 Carved ivory handles, silver ferrules, per dozen pair 16 11 9 1) 1 ° Plain pearl handles, silver ferrules, per dozen pair... 4 4 0 1I 11 Carved pearl handles, silver ferrules, per dozen pair 5 8 0 12 King's pattern or Queen's pattern, silver handles ... 616 11 14 14 T. COX SAVORY, Working Gold and Silversmith, 47, Cornhill, London. N.B. A Pamphlet containing a list of the prices of Silver Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., may be had gratis, or will be forwarded in answer to a post-paid application. BIRTHS. At the Rectory, Workington, on the 9th inst., the lady of the Rev. IL Curwen, of a son. On the 15th inst., at the Duke of B e df or d' s , B e l grave -square. Lady Charles Russ e ll, of a dau g ht er . On the 15th inst., in Queen Ann-st ree t, th e l a dy o f C. Porcher Lang, Esq., of a son. On the 13th inst., in Eaton-pl a ce, th e l a dy o f th e R ev . Thomas Fuller, of a son. On the 13th inst., at the Rectory, Covent- gar d en , M rs . G. 11 ' Bowers, of a son. MARRIED. On the 11th inst., at St. Pancras Church, Thomas Weatherlei Phipson, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, to Ida, youngest daughter of S• Knight, Esq., of Tavistock-square. On the 13th inst., at Upminster, Mr. T. Price, of Kings ate street, to Anna Curtis, only da ug ht er o f M r . G. C ur ti s , o f don, Essex. On the 13th inst., at St. Giles's, Camberwell, Mr. Richard lA T-8 7; son Maris, of Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, to Matilda, Ibir' daughter of Mr. Dafforne, of Grove-terrace, Peckham. 'd On the 12th inst., at Be cc l es , i n S u ff o lk, th e Rev. David Hogarth, to Han n ah P ru d ence , younges t d aug h ter o f t h e l a te . W. B. Bohun, Esq. On the 13th inst., at Camberwell Old Church, the Rev. S. f t ' Pigott, 8.A., of Woodhouse, Leicestershire, to Catherine Elisa beth, only daughter of Mr. J. Debauter, of Peckham-rye. DIED. to o On the 13th in s t., f our t een d ays a f ter h av i ng g i ven birth of daughter, Louisa Anne, aged 35, the wife of R. Temple, Es c l:' The Nash, near Worcester, and sister of Sir J. It. Carnac, ll t r ,.',..j... On the 12th inst., at the residence of his brother General Iv tx, law, at Southampton, Robert Wardlaw Ramsay, Esq., of and of Moray-place, Edinburgh. n sic' On the 14th inst., at Lower Eaton-street, Pimlico, M. Brown, aged 77. Hugh On the 14th inst., at the Rectory, Woolwich, the Rev. Fraser, M.A., of which parish he had been Rector 32 years.. 0 ., On the 7th inst., Mary, relict of James Young, Eop, a King by House, Lincolnshire, aged 63. G- On the 12th inst., in 111ackfriars-road, Sophi';‘, widow of Mr . Maltby, aged 70. On the 30th ult., at Huntingtower, Perthshire, Miss Mary __ et , On the 12th inst., Mr. George Stone, surgeon, Redcross-str' Cripplegate. On the 30th ult., at Brussels, Dr. Newbolt, aged 7 1 . logo Spar On the 13th inst., at Bramley, near Guildford, Mrs. aged 94, Whiter. - 140. London: Printed and Published y AIURDO YOUNG , " ci ty 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, b No. 112, Strand, in th e e° of Middlesex.—Monday, Ap r il 17, 1637. TILE SUN, LONDON,, , NDA IT, APRIL 17, 1537.