The Sun. — London, England, 1852-05-26 00:00:00

W HITSUNTIDE in the ISLE of WIGHT. There and Back, 6s. An EXCURSION TRAIN will leave the Waterloo Station on SATURDAY, May 29, at Eight o'clock in the Morning, calling at Vauxhall, Wandsworth, and Kingston Stations, and return on Tues day, Jane 1. Passengers can stay at Winchester, Portsmouth, or Southampton. Fares there and back, 4s. 6,1., 7s. 6d., 10s. 6d. ; Steam-boat Tickets to the Island and Back, Is. Od. each. Tickets to be had of Mr. Collins, at the Office, 63, King William- Street, London-bridge ; Chaplin's Universal Booking-office, Regent circus ; Mr. Bradshaw, Toll-house, Waterloo-bridge, and 2, Tyer's terrace, Vauxball-street ; Wright, Tobacconist, opposite the Angel, Islington ; Swan-with-Two-Necks, Gresham-street; Ayliffe, Hamp ton Wiek ; and Bond, Sun Inn, Kingston. Tickets CANNOT be had at the Station. IL H. COLLINS, Manager. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. GRAND EXTRA NIGHT. Extraordinary Combination of Talent. Mesdames Sofia Cravelli, D'Angri, and De la Grange. Dona repit.s Oliva. Signori Calzolari, Gardoni, F. Lablache, and Lablache. TO-MORROW On THURSDAY next, May 27, Will be presented Bellini's celebrated Opera, NORMA. Norma, Madlle. Sofie Cravelli ; Adalgisa, Madlle. Feller ; Pollio, Signor Gardoni ; Flavio, Signor Mercuriali ; and Oroveso, Signor Sushi!. After which the new Ballet Divertissement, entitled LA FETE DES ROSLERES. By Madlle. Carolina Rosati, Madlles. Rosa, Esper, Allegrini, Lamo reux; MM. Di Mattia, Gouriet, Venafra, and 3lath;eu. To be followed by the last scene of LUCIA DI LA3IMERMOOR. Lula, Madame De la Grange; Alicia, Madame Grimaldi ; Edgard°. Signor Gardoul ; Arturo, Signor Mercuriali; Bidebent, Signor Su ; Enrico, Signor Ferlotti. To which will be added a Divertissement, in which Dona Pepita Oliva will appear. With the grand Rondo and Finale from Rossinrs Opera La Cone rentals, by Madlle. D'Angri. To conclude with a selection from the admired Ballet, LA SYLPHIE. La Sylphide, Madlle. R eg i na For; D ; James, M. Mathieu; Rosa, Esper, Lamoreux, Allegrini, Sec. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Opera Box-oflice, Colonnade, Haymarket. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. GRAND EXTRA NIGHT. TO-MORROW Will be presented the first act of NORMA. Norma, Madame Grisi ; Adalgisa, Madlle. Bertrandi ; Cl o tild e, Madlle. Coal ; Oroveso, Herr Formes ; Flavio, Signor Sold! ; Polio, Signor Tamberlik. To conclude with Rossini's favourite Opera, IL BARBIERE DI SITIGLIA. Rosini, Madame Castellan (in consequence of th e in disposition of Maffile. Angiolina Bosio) ; Bertha, Madlle. Cotti ; Count Aimaviv tenor Mario ; Bartolo, Signor Tagliafico; Basin; R.gnOr Ma a, • Forello, Signor Soldi ; Figaro, Signor Ronconi. Commence at Eight o'clock. Composer, Director of the Music, and C onductor, Mr. Costa. Tickets for the Boxes, Stalls, or the Pit may be had for the Night or Season), at the Box-office of the Theatre w hich from Eleven till Five o'c l ock ; and of the . ll .s open principal librarians and mnsicsellers. BATTY'S GLAND NATIONAL HIPPO DROME, Opposite the Broad Walk, Kensington-gardens, Will OPEN for the season, on WHIT-MONDAY, May 31st, 1852, When an ASCENT will Ise made in the Royal Hippodrome B a ll oo n, by a celebrated Aeronaut. Mr. 8., in announcing his Second Season, and gratefully remem bering the liberal patronage bestowed upon past performances, begs leave to state that he has spared neither pains nor expense in select ing the best Artists from the principal Continental and Foreign Amphitheatres, to realise the spirit-stirring scenes and exciting con tests of the Curicalum, for which the Romans were so famous; and to ensure a perfect production of the various scenes, the celebrated Henri Francon', founder of the Parisian Hippodrome, has been en gaged, under whose superintendence the numerous Stud of Trained Horses, Ponies, Stags, Ostriches, Elephants, &c., will be introduced . Nun time to time, forming the moat compl e t e t ou t ensem bl e o f Antique Pastimes ever witnessed in England. A splendid Brass Band will be in attendance. Admission—Reserved Seats, 35.; First Class, 25.; Second ditto, Is.; Third ditto, 6d. R OYAL. MARIONETTE THEATRE, ADELAIDE-STREET, WEST STRAND. TBIS EVENING, and every evening during the week, A new Characteristic Address, by the Manager. After which a new Piece, entitled THE HAPPY MANAGER. A Dramatic Dificulty. In one act. To be followed by a new and original Burlesqne, called THE SPIRIT OF PUNCH; or, The Arcadian Brothers. To eonclude with an entirely new version of the Grand Eastern Speetaee of ALADDIN; or, Tha Wonderful Lamp, produced with all the vast resources of this small establishment. Dcers open at Half-past Seven, and commence at Eight o'clock. A Morning Performance on Saturday next. Doors open at Half past Two, and commence at Three o'clock. There will shortly be produced several New Pieces, which are now In active rehearsal. Private Boxes and Stalls to be had at the Box-office of the Theatre, and of all the principal Librarians. dna LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1852. The Olympiad of Ensland—the great race for the I '9 t t a natural association ; political question of Derby—r ena t n a t e one to-daitt of ideas, of the mist instale:tleet Of the existingthe hour, the stabilit: importan Government. Before a nother month .has elapsed, the Parliament will, in all likelihood, have been dissolved. Such at least is the moat generally receit'ed opinion, consequen t upon the estienate that by the 20th of June the whole of the more imperative bush: ess of the session will have been accomplished. It behetves the various constituencies throughout the country, therefore, to bestir themselves betimes; and to the Liberal electors in particular we would suggest the propriety cf being more than ever cautious in the se lection of their respective candidates. There is some thing more required from the Reformers of England, for example, than the adoption of the query sug gested by Sir JAMES GRAHAM, namely, " Is such-an one a supporter or an opponent of Lord DERBY'S Cabinet ?" There is something more than Party to be taken into account—there ls Principle ! It would be as well, moreover, Surely it would be as well „to inquire not merely into the colour of the ribbons of a candidate, but also, and in an especial manner, into the pervading hue of his different prejudices and predilections, There is such a thing, for instance, as the Ballot--in regard to which it might be advisable to be a little more inqui sitive at the hustings. Again there are topios no less important than Retrenchments in the National Ex penditure, and arrangements for a system of National Education, and alterations in the National Currency, and reforms, sanitary, fiscal, financial, colonial, elec toral, and of a variety of other descriptions upon which it would be judicious to be prepared as with an inexorable kind of portable catechism. Without some precautionary efforts having this tendency to vigilance, the holders of the franchise may be in terfering, unintentionally, perhaps, but only too effectually, through mere indolence, with that great advance movement which, during the last quarter of a century, has been stabi litating the institutions and developing the energies of the population by a wise and beneficent succession of strictly constitutional innovations. Among the reflections which she uld be uppermost in the mind of every Liberal elect or, is that fruitful theme of meditation, that his vote will aid in the regulation for good or for evil of the complicated and delicately organized machinery of the State—a reflection which should incite the possessor of the franchise to vote not according to caprice, or in obe dience to faction, but in rigid compliance with the sedate and unimpassioned dictates of conscience. The duty devolving upon the people of the United king dom at those momentous epochs, the general elections, is one not to be lightly discharged, as you would toss a halfpenny into the cap of a mountebank. It should rather be with the cautious premeditation of a man who has to deposit his scruple in one or other of the scales of justice, upon the poising of which the desti nies of an entire race may be said to be in a great measure dependent. A glance at the result of the last general election, the general election of 1847, will be suggestive, we feel assured, of opinions calculated to prove not alto gether fruitless—acting, as the recollection of that result must do with the Liberal electors of England, as a direct and immediate incentive. It cannot be forgotten that when the Parliament now on the eve of dissolution first assembled, the two great parties into which the House of Commons was (through the lack of some more subtle and yet equally compre hensive distinction) divided, were almost exactly balanced, numerically speaking, against each other. The Liberals numbered almost 327, and the Conser vatives about 324. This was immediately after the dissolution of a Parliament which had been returned in 1841, with a sweeping majority rigidly Conserva tive. If such was the consequence of the appeal to the country in 1847, when free trade, as a complete system, was still undeniably crude, what may we not reasonably anticipate in 1852, when free trade haz ripened into a lasting policy, into a recog nised principle, the operation of which during the last ten, but more especially during the last four years, has proved eminently beneficial ? True that, now-a-days, the Protectionists are in office under the leadership of the Earl of DERBY, wh ereas on the previous occasion the Free-traders held the reins of power under the guidance of Lord Jona RUSSELL. But then—it must be borne, moreover , scrupulously i n r eco ll ec tion, that though the Prot ece tionists are in office they have formally abandoned Protection ! The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER took that course long ago, acting with the sagacity that might only be expected from a man of the people, whom abilities as a statesman had raised him t o one of the most difficult and responsible posts of adminis tration. Even 11Ir. G. F. YOUNG allowed the folly of stillinsisting, in spite of all hazards, upon the renewal of imposts to the abolition of which the industrious inhabitants of these islands had at length become ac customed. Sir FITZROY KELLY alone had the hardi hood to insist upon the renewal of that accursed tax upon the food of the people which had been remitted by the generous hand of Sir ROBERT PEEL, in defiance of all the taunts of party, and in obedience to the heroic and self-sacrificing dictates of a patriotism based upon a spotless con science, and upon the noblest principles. The SO LICITOR-GENERAL wad noisy, it is t in rue, insisting upon the necessity of reverting to the old corn.' aW3 repealed in 1846, but Sir FITZROY KELLY has found his vapid declamation about the rival merits of Free Trade and Protection reduced to insignificance by the memorable avowal made only the evening before last, in the House of Lords, by the PRIME MINISTER of England—the avowal that the position of the Pro tectionists is as hopeless as that of the Free-traders is unassailable ! Therefore, the probability of suc cess to the Liberals throughout the majority of the constituencies is enhanced by the very circumstance of the agricultural party being in power at the mo ment of the Parliamentary dissolution, because that circumstance has elicited from the leaders of the Pro tectionists auguries of the triumph of their antago nists—drawing forth the already well-known state ment of the First Lord of the Treasury, and extort ing a panegyric on the system of commercial compe tition in the celebrated Free-trade Budget of the present CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. Everything, indeed, looks encouraging to the Liberals and Free-traders of the United Kingdom, now that we are standing as it were on the verge of the electioneering revelation. Common sense answers us that there is no mere claptrap or exaggera tion in asserting that the general election of 1852 i ts 1. s likely to be mor e momen t ous in i Character than any general election that has taken place during the past t w e n ty years , namely, gin" the general election of 1832. Not one of the fou r i nt though they lar :vGning general elections, imp o rt an t can be regarded as comparable been in their con s e quences, with th at which nnmparable in interest, or i n in fluence,must be completed b e f ore the arrival of th e enslu . election of 18 35, that of I ng autumn. The genera l 837, that of 1841, a n d th a t o f 1847, potent though t heY were in changing the current of events in legislation, must yield iu impor tance to that appeal to the country which midway in the nineteent h cen tury, will , decide by the voice of the people, not s 3 much whether free trade or protection shalt be hence forth tadarephant (that question b • tang already resolved oven accor din g to the showitto of .he existing t a Cabinet), bait whether the adininietrati ve icy of this country shall he one of continued progression or of .lOD Liberalism, with Conservatism as Retrogrese • as to e.ll that is worth conserving, offers itself on the one hand to the suffrages cf the population. Conser vatism without Liberalism, Conservatism of e verything good, bad, or i n diff e rent—Conservatism calling Free dom' "Anarchy," and Reform " Democracy in it s , 'nolesale and most dangerous attitude, that of se retail innovation"—will on the other, possibly, attempt to lure the electors by the promise of peace, such a s must ultiontely prove to be only the Paralysis cf imagine to ourselves, that the more enlightened among the possessors of the franchise can very long remain undecided. Encouraged by the aspect of the future, encouraged by the prosperity revealed in the past, the Liberals must prepare themselves, at once and in earnest, to fulfil the dictates of their consciences and their patriotism. They must remember that the lan , guage of encouragement has been virtually addressed to them even by the Noble Earl at the head of the present Government. Above all, they must remember that the increased promise of advantage to their cause, so far from justifying them in any diminution of activify, tends only, and that very considerably, to enforce thcir political duties and to enhance their electoral responsibilities, This day may fairly be pronounced to be par ex cellence the national holiday of England. It is expressly honoured by the Chambers of the Le. gislature as sacred to recreation. It witnesses a copious disemboguement of the metropolis to the breezy downs of Epsom, where every rank, class, and ,lge, is represented by an innumerable congregation of jovous spectators, determined to " make a day of it. liigh and low, rich and poor, Peer and peasant' alike paj their homage to the genius loci. True it is that, on tho present occasion, the pleasurable antici pationsiin of m tudes are, to a certain extent, literally .:. " damped," for, even as we write, the envious firma ment is voiding its rheum with cutting bitterness from the bleak north-east. But the unconquerable enterprise and pluck of JOIN BULL is not to be cowed by the angry Elements, and we warrant it that road and rail will transport a host, numerous as our old friends the " leaves in Vallambrosa," exceed ing the population of many a continental capital, not withstanding that " The morning lowed, and heavily with rain Brought in the day, the great, the important day, Big with the fate of DAVIS and the Ring." Those marvellous wights, the Sporting Prophets, era doubtless at this hour perspiring with anxiety as to the realization or confusion of their solemn vati cinations ; the minds of the layers and the takers of eu ' L is from the Leviathan down to the costermonger in hi s on e.-horse shay, are inspired with titillating soli citude. j.s it LITTLE HARRY or CHIEF BARON NI CHOLSON, 0. 7 the formidable HOBBIE himself, or some " dark" ,:nd deadly animal, whose victorious strides are to ma.ke the circulating medium fly in large and rapid c :irrents from the drained to the replenished pockets ? Professing little insight into Hippotrochical mysteries, we await the tidings of the important result with serene et; uanimity, proffer ing a gentle ard en t as pir a ti on , "May the best horse win !" But excellent and worthy of all support, as is the Na tional Sport of Horse-racing, there is one untoward cir cumstance to which it has given birth of late, which we seriously and sincerely deplore. The town is swarm ing with betting-shops throughout its length and breadth. It is all very well to say, "people are sup posed to be able to take care of their own affairs ; if they choose to make fools of themselves, dropping their money right and left, on this, that, and t'other—wby, let them—si poptdus nit decipi, decipiatur." It is, indeed, an even chance that after the coming off of any leading event, half of the fungous list houses will shut up shop, and the worthy proprietors vanish with the " swag," leaving their donkoyfied dupes blaspheming in the lurch. But the crying evil of the matter lies in this, that a temptation lurks in every street and alley to induce lax-minded youngsters to gamble with the mil of their employers. Our readers may depend on it that many and many a sad scrape has been got into, and many a fair prospect blighted in this very way. It is becoming an intolerable nuisance, a foul canker in the commonwealth, that gangs of unknown penniless caitiffs are permitted to start up in every vacant spot, dragging the fair system of betting through the mire, and scattering broadcast the seeds of dishonesty and sorrow. The abomination has arrived a such a pass, that public indignation is at length beginning to be awakened. The public journals—and we would appeal especially to those of our respected weekly contemporaries who are staunch and honourable friends to the national sports—ought to take the matter up, and crush those men of straw. - - How such pests of society are to be put down—for put down they must be—it is not within our compass now to suggest, but there is no local social evil that cannot be counteracted, if the adequate remedy be but resolutely applied. If the existing law be found insufficient the defect must be supplied, and the power of repression conferred must be carried into stringent op e r a ti on i n th e proper quarters._ The true patrons of the Turf ought to bestir themselves without delay, and purge the camp of such a scum of rascally marauders. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. There is an article in the Constitutionnel showing that the Government has resolved to make an experi ment of the free-trade principle, and that, at a mo ment when certain foreign journals represent it to be entertaining ideas of war, it is earnestly enga ge d i n measures connected with international trade, which, without the maintenance of peace, would be impos sible. The experiment now proposed is not a very large one, but it is evidently too large to find much favour in the eyes of the Constitutionnel, which is an advocate of the protectionist principle with all its pressure upon the great body of consumers. The Constitutionnel endeavours, however, to a certain ex tent, to agree with the Government; it will consent to the abolition of the prohibition principle, but only upon the condition that protection shall be afforded with a greater degree of certainty. The arguments of the Constitutionnel are those of the protective school generally. The PRESIDENT of the Republic, dressed in the grand costume of a Councillor of State, presided on Monday at a meeting of that body, to discuss the Bill on Public Instruction. He was accompanied by the Minister of State and the Ministers of the In terior, Justice, Finance, and Public Instruction, and General ESPINASSE, his orderly officer. The Coun cillors of States and the masters of requests alone took part iu the deliberations ; the auditors were not admitted to the sitting, A ball will be given by the PRINCE PRESIDENT at a m l r e e n a t d s y r e n b d e e e n r n s e g n t i t o n u e t c , e t s h s a e r s y m t a o l I r s e i s e t e r c o t f the Elyse on T hursday. All the invitations have th th e e nu ap m a b r e t ; of Tguteest Journalwithin du c certain her bounds. announces that three com munes of the Sologne have signed addresses to the PRINCE PRESIDENT to thank him for what his Go vernment has already done, and what it proposes to do for that part of the country. Tne provincial journals which arrived yesterday mention a great number of resignations of members of councils-general, councils of arrondissement, and municipal councils, to avoid taking the oath of alle giance. Amongst them are the Marquis DE BARTO LEMY and M. DUFAIIRE. The Lyons journals publish the following note : " The Prefect of the Rhone yesterday (Sunday) re marked, with surprise, that workmen were engaged on the repair of the road of Charpennes. He has given orders that, conformably to the ministerial circulars, the works shall be suspended on Sundays and file days." The Patrie says:—" We are assured that it is pro posed to issue a decree to prevent labour on Sunday, and to compel tradesmen to close their shops on that day and on the days of religious files." The journey of the PRESIDENT of the :Republic to Channy is fixed for the month of September, at which time the camp will be established at Cons piegn e. It is said that a grand fete, which is to last three days, is to be given in August by the City of Paris and the National Guard. It is to commence, report says, on the 15th of that month. The sale of Count DE Mostetv's pictures took place on Monday, in one of t h e new auction-rooms in the Rue Drouot. A crowd of amateurs were present. The whole, sum received was 305,885 f. Bumiuoss commenced at the Bourse with an appear ance of briskness, but tho prices of public securities de clined towards the c lose. The Four-send-a-Half per Cents. opened at 100 f.. and closed at 99f. 75c. for the 6. - id of the month; the Three per Cents. closed at 70f. 75?.• ' Orleans Railway Shares, 1,187 f. 50c.; Rouen, 765 f.; Havre, 235 f.; Great N o rth er n, 536 f. 25c; Basle, 245 f, ; Bordn:eux, 617 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg. 5 56 f. 25c. ; Tours and Nantes, 370 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 611 f. 25c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 25. Great Indian Peninsula, s%s—Grand Junction of France, 4—Namur and Liege, 6 1 / 2 —Orleans and Bordeaux, 151 h — Rouen and Havre, I—Sambre and Meuse, 474—Tours and Nantes, 11 4—West Flanders, 3%—Western of France, M. SPAIN. We have received the Madrid journals of the 20th inst. The Madrid Gazette publishes a royal decree, ap pointing Don PERFECTO VALDES ARGUILLES Presl- dent of the Court of Accounts in the 1 - 14yAnnlib, in R7A,. 4 2 • .. . THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Yr. B Webster, sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE ROUGH DIA,V'OND. To be followed by an entirely new comic Drama, entitled MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS, by Meesr,. B. Webster, Leigh Murray, Bnekstone, and Keeley ; Mrs. Stirling, Miss Reynolds, &c. After which a new Burlesque on a frightfully popular subject, to be called 0, GEMINI ; or, the Brothers of Co(u)rse. Characters by Messrs. Buckstone, Bland, Woolger ; Mesdames Buckingham, Col lins, Caulfield.lloney, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Lessee, Mr. B. Webster ; Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed SEA and LAND. Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wright, Hughes, 0. Smith, Worrell, Emery ; Misses Ellen Chaplin, K. Fitzwilliam, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, a devilish new Extravaganza, called MEPHISTO PHELES. Characters by Mr. Honey, Miss Fitzwilllarn, and Miss Woolgar. After which, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CA3I• B f,RWELL? ROYAL PRLNCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean. THIS EVENING, Will be performed Shakespere's Historical Play of KING JOHN. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Kean, A. Wigan, Ryder, Addison, Meadows, J. Vining, C. Fisher, Graham, F. Cooke, Everett, Yezin, Cathcart, and Wheatleigh ; Miss Phillips, Miss Robertson, Miss Mur ray, Miss Kate Terry, Mrs. Dily, and Mrs. C. Kean. After which A LUCKY FRIDAY, in which Mr. A. Wigan will appear. ROYAL LYCEUM TIIEATEE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. TILIS EVENING, Will be produced a dramatic story, in eight acts, entitled A CHAIN OF EVENTS. Characters by Messrs. Charles Mathews, Frank Matthews, Robert Roxby, Belton, Baker, Suter, Horncastle, Rosi,re, Butler, and Honner ; Madame Vestris, Miss Laura Keene, Mrs. F. Matthews, and Miss Julia St. Geme, Miss Wright, Miss Oliver, Mrs. Horn, Mrs. Macnamara, Miss Martindale, Miss Ellis, Miss Grove, and Miss Foote. A. , TLEY'3 ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. ruder the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. The most successful and popular Theatre in London. The Last Week of Bonaparte in Egpyt, in consequence of the production of St. George and the Dragon on Whit-Monday. THIS EVENING, Will be presented a new grand Military Spectacle, which is now exciting all Paris, entitlei BONAPARTE LN EGYPT; or, the Battle of Aboukir. To be followed by Batty's Inimitable SCCIRCI of the Arena. In addition to the extraordinary talent at the above Establish ment, Mr. Batty has engaged the celebrated Equestrian Mr. A. Cooke; also Mr. Boswell, the renowned Comique, and Madlle. Re becca, the graceful Equestrian, the whole forming the most elegant and unique perfoamance ever witnessed within the walls of an am phitheatre. To conclude with a Laughable Farce. Tickets to be had at the Box-office tram Eleven till Four daily. Stage Manager, Mr. Leclercq. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Open for the Season, Exhibition of Danson's Colossal Daylight View of MOUNT ETNA and the CAVES of VULCAN and the CYCLOPS—Splendid and interesting Menagerie—Promenade Concert by Godfrey's un rivalled military Band—Various Amusing Novelties—Concluding at Dusk with a Grand Pyrotechnic Exhibition by Messrs. Southby, representing the Interior of the Mountain (the Pandemonium of the Ancients), with the Caverns and Forges of Vulcan and his Cyclops, the whole terminating with the Eruption of Mount Etna and a Grand Tableau on the Lake cf Thetis, and the Niriads receiving the Armour of Achilles. Doors open from Nine a.m. Feeding the Animals at Five. Con tort at Half-past Six. Fireworks at Half-past amine. J.DMISSION, ONE SIIILLLNG. ROBBERY OF NEWSPAPERS TEN POUNDS REWARD. In answ er to the complaints of several Subscribers, whose vp • en are stolen in periods of political or other exciteretzt, we can only renew the expression of our deep regret. In order, if possible, to bring some one of the robbers to account, we hereby offer a reward of Ten Pounds for such information as ma y lead to the detection of the culprit, and Ten Pounds mor e on conviction of the offender. Sun Office, May 24,1852. HIGH WATER AT LO-- 37 min. afterzm r,,,, BRIDGE. Tins DAY —M°rnir; To-MoßaloWW rning 39 nun ' af ter 7 1 rening ' 5 mill after 7 IS min after 8 _ THE WEATHER—Strx ern rm Tyr a 5 e; ,.... , 11- AT 27. 59—highest since noon yesterday. ---n ' E • 44—Lowest this morning and durin, 4,"L 46—this day, at noo n. the night. atimmETHR, 29'87. Wnw variable from N.E. to S.E.—stormy weather rain all the morning; Aftern oon, dull, cloud y weatii:6th DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the followi ng places at Nine o ' c l oc k yesterday ra° rnill g .— Th e station, are arranged in order of latitude. PLYMOUTH—Wind E. strong breeze—partially cloudy. klasTrios—Wind N.E., strong breeze—partially cloudy. Sonmaltrrorr--Wind N.W , strong b r eeze—overcast. Fouirtgroxa—Wind. N.E., strong breeze—overcast. _ TUNBRIDGE N.E., st rong b reeze — partially cloudy. GREENWICH—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—overcast. &moon—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—overcast. SWEWON—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—overcast. CO LGBESTEB—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—overcast. e 4 MlißlDGE—Winti N., gentle breeze —overcast. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Monday morning at nine o'clock Po axs.mouru—Wind S.E., gentle br eeze —partially cloudy. LauGnTox—Wind E., calm—partially cloudy. N.E., gentle breeze--cloudless. BHATTOCK—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—oyercast. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29:,40 . in. Th e mean temperature of the week was 55.6°, which is I.l° ab ove t h e i average of corresponding weeks n ten years. The mean daily temperature was above the average en every day of t h e week, except Friday and Saturday. On Sanday and Tues daY, when it was highest, it was about 09 2e, or more than 5 ° above the average. On the last two days of the week it fell to about 52°, or more than 3° below the average. The wind, which had been variable, but for the most part in the south or olath-west, during the formerblew part of the week„ from the north east and north on the last three days. I ___ - --• FEARGILS (Yee, ' Evenin g IN THE UNITED ESTATES.-- TTnis eewNentric York post says of Feargus O'Connor— cc genti:ri an whose arrival in the Europa we have announced, h as beei ; papers to be insane. Ivo Should in the English news earliest proceedings in this co that the rtport is not far t d think, from some of his Stewart'sla store on Friday, out of the way. He strolled tlinntroY n,ndssome young woman as we ether iformed, and chuckin gca.. i frem a ked liow she would among purchasers under ejected thei, like a moustache? He was renew any j a t e ny of his wild premises, and ,_ knowledge of afterwards returned, but did not r tricks. It is.said he left England without his friends, awl that they will ccime aft tr " 44 Mum" bY the next 1 THE SUN, LONDON, national decrepitude. Between the two, we cannot 1 place of Don MIGUEL LOPEZ ALCEVEDO, who retires at his own request. The new director of infantry, General Pavia, has just addressed a circular to the chiefs of that part of the army, in which is the follow ing passage : It i 3 not necessary for me to remind you of the duties imposed upon you by military laws; I will merely recommend you to accomplish them with the same ex actitude. I will, however, remind you of one duty, the accomplishment of which will render all others simple and cafe; it is the duty of passion and absolute obe dience. He who obeys is never responsible for any evil that may result." A Aratirid letter of the 20th states that M. MEN- , DIZABEL, the ex-Minister, has published a kind of manifesto, in which he declares himself with great energy against any violation of the Constitution. It is added, that several of the most important and in fluential persons at Madrid have addressed to the QUEEN a memorial, praying her not to sanction any projects against the Constitution that may be con ceived by her Ministers.: It Leing the festivity of the AECODSIOI3, the Bourse remained closed. GERMAN Y. A letter from Berlin of the 21st, in the Indepen dance of Brussels, states that on the preceding day a Cabinet Council decided that the present Chambers shall not again be convoked, and that before the elec tions for a new Chamber a new electoral law for the formation of the First Chamber shall be promulgated by the Crown, in conformity with the Constitution. M. DE MANTEUFFEL, however, was stated to be op posed to this decision, end up to the 21st it bad not received the sanction of the KING. It was said that the First Chamber, when newly constituted, will consist of 120 members-90 elected by the largest tax payers in the different electoral districts, and 30 nominated by the municipalities of the great townie. M. DE HECKEEILE N , Senator of France, before leaving Vienna, had an interview with the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs. He subsequently pro ceeded to Berlin, and had on the 20th an interview with the President of the Council. M. DE HEC ICEEREN was, it is said, formerly in the service of Russia. The Count DE CEIAMJAORb arrived at Vienna on the 18th, and after paying a visit to several influential personages, returned to Frohsdorff. ITALY. The Piedmoniese Gazettc, of the 22d, announces officially that MM. D'AZEGLIO, PALEOCAPA, and PERNATI, have resumed their respective portfolios of Foreign Affairs, Public Works, and Interior; that 13 oNcompitom has accepted the department of Justice vacated by M. GALVAGNO ; and M. CIBRARIO has been named Minister of Finance in lieu of M. CAVOUE. The department of Public Instruction, lately held by M. FARINI, is provisionally intrusted to M. BO NCOMPAGNI. M. LAMARMORA retains the department of War, to which that of Marine is added. In the sitting of the 21st of the Chamber of De puties of Turin, MM. Cevourt and FARIrr, the late Ministers, took their seats on the benches of the right. On the subject of the late crisis, the Risiorgmento of:furin, a Ministerial paper, observes as follows: The silence of M. Ratazzi, the conduct, votes, and zeta of the Left Centre lead us to believe that there is a material difference between the programme of the latter and that of the Marquis d'Azeglio. M. Ratazzi has re fused to adhere to the latter, in order not to break his faith with the Left Centre; M. Ratazzi has therefore acted honourably, but he has tacitly admitted the exist ence of the difference; consequently M. Ratazzi cannot accept office with the Marquis d'Azeglio. Hence the crisis has not been owing to personal antipathy or foolish jealousy, but to a real difference of principles." The Opinione trusts that Count Cevoun will, in his new position, employ his influence in cementing, not breaking up, the present majority ; and reminds him that his present importance is entirely owing to his having intr o d u ced important changes in the finan cial system. . TURKEY.-IMPORTANT We learn, by telegraphic dispatch, dated Paris, yesterday evening, that the SULTAN confirmed, on the 8% of May, FOUAD EFFENDI'S arrangement with Egypt. EPSOM RACES• BY EXPRESS—(THIS DAY). THE DERBY. Mr. Bowes's ch c Daniel O'Rourke (F. Butler; Mr. Bradshaw's b o Barbarian ....... (Met( Mr. C. Derrieu's Chief Baron Nicholson (Kitchener; 27 ran. Won by a length. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The Queen's box at her Majesty's Theatre was yesterday evening occupied by the Earl Talbot, the Marchioness of Lothian, Lady Vic toria Talbot, Lady Cecilj Kerr, Lady Alice Kerr, and party. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent's box was occupied by the Earl ;and Countess Howe, Lady Adelaide Curzon, Lady Emily Curzon, Miss Gore, and party. Amongst the noble and distinguished company also honouring the theatre with their presence we remarked the follow ing :—His Excellency the Russian Minister, the Baroness Brunnow and Mdlle. de Brunnow, the Earl of Lonsdale, eltmaloirnendistingui94d the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl of Shelburne, Lord Gardner, Lord George Paget, Mr. Charles Barry Bald ' win, M.P., the Countess of Harrington and the Lady Jane St. Maur Stanhope, Mrs. Hatton and the Misses Hatton, the Earl of Mountcharlea, Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Woodford, Bart., Lady Woodford, and Miss Woodford, Lord Sandys, Colonel Meyrick and Mies Mey rick, Dir. C. J. Palmer, Sir John Bayley, Bart., Lady Bayley, and party; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Palmer and party, Mr. Storrer, Captain Smith, Mr. Bligh, Mr. Crombie, Mr. Gslsworthy, Mr. Martin, General the Hon. H. Ca- Opera, last evening, were honoured with ROYAL ITALIAN OP ERA. --The performances at o f a very brilliant and fashionable audience. B ve a n r d t. i , sh sc, , c S . ir George Wombwell, Bart., Sir Henry Webb, L ike of Wellington, who, accompanied by his hA t the Royal GolnZroagyctaehl the p the Marchiene BB o f . persons present we remarked the presence occupied chioness of Salisbury, pied Miss Burdett Coutt's box ; Douro, and the Mar the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and the Ladies Henrietta and Geraldine Somerset, the Duchess of Montrose, the Mar quis of Lansdowne and the Countess of Shelburne, the Mar quis of ' and Marchion ess Ailesbary the Marquis of Douro, f lafalinesbury, th e -,' the Countess 0 .., . w . , , Countess Craven, the Earl and Countess of Hard icke and Lady Elizabeth Yorke, the Earl of Durham, the Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady daughter-in-layv, Clementina Villiers and Mrs. Baillie Cochrane, the Countess de Flahault and Madlle. Flahault, the Earl and Countess of Clare and Lady Eleanor Fitzgibbon, the Earl of Bessborough, Ti scoun tess Castlereagh, the Earl and Countess of Stamford and Warrington, Viscount Exmouth, Viscount Sydney, Viscount Gilder', Viscount and Viscountess Villiers and Miss Peel, Viscount Somerton, Viscount Cranborne, the Count and Countess de Morella, &c. The Que en ' s b ox was occupied by the Hon. Mrs. C. B. Phipps, Colonel Bathurst Mrs. Vill • and Mrs. Bathurst, ebois, and Miss Burnaby. ST. JA M CSS IFIEATRE.---Thi3 is an evening to be especially patronised by t h e frequenters of this elegant and fashionable house. Mr, , Mitchell, whose combin a ti on o f en t er p r ise and judgment , as a theatrical manager, has passed into a proverb, cannot fail of b • "rallied round" t •ht emg o-nig l ti • in a manner equal y gra i yin— ka to his feelings and creditable to those who have derir se much pleasure from his inde fatigable exertions. wo new pieces are announced, in which Madlle. Rose Cheri and Dd. Numa will perform. DEA.TH O F J. TALBOT, ESQ,, Q.C.—O n th e re-as sembling of the Metropolitan Water Bills Committee this morning, Mr. Beckett, chairman, Mr. Sergeant Wrangham said it was his painful task to have to communicate to the Corn mitten the melancholy event of the death of his learned and distinguished friend, Mr. a a , :a 'unt, who had breathed his last on the previous night at Brighton. (Here the Learned painfully Counsel became so sume his seat, and for some minutes himself and some twenty members of the bar present were observed to shed tears.) ' The Chairman said that the Com mittee deeply sympathised With the Learned Counsel, and, to save him further pain, by adjourning the proceedi ngs to the next day. The com mittee accordingly adjourned. It is feared that the disease of the heart, of which it is said Mr. Talbot died, was mate rially accelerated by professional over-exertion. About twenty aristocratic families will be thrown into mourning by Parli the damenta i eath of y ba thisr. iversally ac k now l e dgednu leader of the ARTIFICIAL AlE mon , m r. N. F. Zaba de livered a lecture at W . ll '----• . Saturday last, ex plainingiis a Rooms on the principles of his especially as Mnemonic system, applied to the stud f Modern History. The y o Ancient and comprehensive grasp of thereby attain able is truly ast ' _ .Universal chronology ' stem has been onisbin g . . Zaba ssy . the lecture adopted in se veralchief En lish seminaries. lecture yielded much interest to large g audience, who were presided over by Lord Robert a Grosvenor. RAILWAY' A Sa t u r da y the usual re ccinEnTs _O n turn relating to railwa * for the half-year, ending the 31st of December l Y a,t accidents printed. The number of pas- ' sengers was 47,509 332 b ' was of persona killed was ' • The number 113, and 264 injured, and 213 injhere were eig ht t ired, from causes beyond their own control; nine passengers were killed and 14 injured owing to their own misconduct or want of caution • 30 servants of companies or of contractors were killed and 17 injured from causes beyond their own cont ro l ; 32 servants of companies or of contractors were killed and 11 injured owing to their own misconduct or want of cauti on; 33 trespassers and other persons, neither passengers nor servants of the companies, were killed and nine injured by crossing or walking on railways. There was one suicide. The length of railways open on the Both of June, 1851, was 6,69 Bmiles,and the Ist of December on last 6,890 miles, bein g • • , an increase during the half-year of 192 miles, A Dublin paper reportq the failure of Messrs. Sin - - clair and Boyd, of Belfast, "one of the most extensive mer cantile firms in Ireland," and adds that their liabilities have been set down at sums front 300,0001. to 700,000/., but that they probably do not exceed 100,0001. Other failures, it is also said, are likely to fellow in consequance. The whole statement, however, is a most extraordinary exaggeration All the acceptances of the firm will be duly paid, and they moreover, an; believed not to reach a have merely reouired some delay on their general obligations, which has been rsadily gtanted. Their entire engagements, smallest Sums allegcd.—Tintes. FALL Dowx A PRECIPICE.--A fatal of occ urrence wen has just taken place at Pont-y-Tivr, in the vicinity 0 master of a Lake, to a little boy, son of Mr. Charles Jones fa T Pennant, school established by the Hon. Colonel Douglas e at the above place. The child missed his footing__ h. aid le w i ti i , down a precipice upwards of thirty feet big this killed on the spot. To add to the painfulnesl of '4 . (ilea eticldeply the distress ing calamity, 4/49ther ow a &Ir. Joao 441119 day. moiety even o Bdf. & Bitch., all p,' Bir.& Oxf.,gua. all Do. without, all p Bir.Virolv. & Dud., guar all pd Do. without, all p Buckinghash. all p Clydsdale Jc., all p E. Lin., gua. 6 per cent. all pd Gloucest. & Dean Forest... 22% pd Hartlepl. Dk. & S Railw....all pdl Hull & Selby, all p Do. Halves., all p Do. Quarts., all p Leeds & Brdf., all p Lon. & Grenw., all Do. Pref....all pd Lowestoft., gua. 4 per cent...all pd Do. 6 p. ct., all p Middlesbe & Red car, 6 p. c., all p N. & E., 5 P. Do. 6 p. ct., all p Do. F. 5 p.c. all pd Preen. & Wyre, all paid t Do. Hives, A, all p Read., Guildf., and Reigate ... all pd Roy. & Hit., 6% p Do. Shep. Ex., all Sh£ Rth. & Goole, 5 p. c., 18.11.6 p S. Staffdsh., p VVearVal. 6p c., all Do. do. ... all pd Do. do. ... all pd Wilt.l4 441 ESDAY EVENING , MAY 26, 152 THE SHARE IMITISII 72.11ILWAYS Nominal Prices. 12% to 123 A G%, -7 10 Icii,i 11 —lO% cl. 17% - 18% 95 —97 187 / 8 19;g 20 —2l 15 —l3 d. 6 - 7 43 - 43/ 8 2 7 / 8 83 / 1 - 9 5% - - 6 4 - 434 16% - 17 55 —Co 31 -3 2 4% -5% 19% 8 - 20% 15 -15% 38% - 39% 90% -903 A 80 -82 9 -10 p 70% - 71 ... —.... 6 % —6% dis. 4ii —4% dis. 16 —16% - .04 - 105 122 122 1 ,4 43/, 5 p 34-4 p 1 "a-2' p • 91% 92% 4% dia. 2 1 / 2 dis. 11% I'2 23 / —2% g 31 % 32% 3 - 67 - 67 1 4 35 -37 ii ..:ii% 4% —3% dis. 1 3 /, DA - 33 10 3 % 10% dis. 3% 3 dis. 7 —7 dis. 6 5 / 8 6;),8 dis. •. - ••• 1% - 2 p. 19% 193 x.n 16% 163% 11% 11% ••• —... 5 % 5 3 / ti 31 A 3 dis. 15 —l6 7% 8 11 —l2 3 % 2% 8 d. 18 :16 20% -20 Th 33 % - 34 Adis.-- IA p 155 : 157 2 ) / 1 , - 23 % -- 3 4 19 -20 ••• ........ 3% 3 dis. 17% —lB 7 dis. 3 23 1 4 dis. 23% 23% i&ENCE 53311.3 1 1 % 1 dia. x.d 8741 - 93 18 % -18 n 5 1 ,4 - 6 2% -3% Iy, - 1 1 ,i p y 8 - I%P 13% - 13% 14% - 15 ... .... ... 334 -. 3% ..i% 15 ^ 1 1%- I%P B% BYs % dis• , X5;4 Business done to-day. 12% 7% 105 5 20% 5/d 14% 17% % 12% 23% 10G% Railways. Aberdeen Amb., Not., Bost. &E. June. Bir., Wolv., and Stour Valley ... all pd. Birk., Lan., & Ch. Jct., late 33/. 65.8 d., 261. pd. Ditto, Chest. & Birk., 501. & 251. Cens., all pd. Ditto, ditto ... 17 1 4 pd. Brist. & Exet., 100/. pd. Caledonian 50/. pd. Chest. & Holyb., all pd. Dub. & Belf. Jet. 45/ pd. Dundlk & Ennis., all pd. Dundee, Perth, & Aber deen June. all pd. Ditto, New all pd. East Anglian (251. L. & E. and L. & D.) all pd. Do (18/. E. &H.) all pd. East. Counties 20/. pd. Eastern Union, class A, late E. U. shrs., all pd. Do. do. do. 6/.pd. Do., do., B. & C., all pd. East Lancashire, all pd Do. New Quar., all pd E. & W. India D ,, cks and Bir. June., all pd E. & W. Yk. Jnc., all p Edinb. & Glas., 50/. pd Edin.,Per. & Dun. 25/. p Glas. & S.-West., 100/.p Great Northern, all pd Do.Halvs. A Stk., all p Do. do. B Stock, all pd Gt. S. & W. Ireld., all p Great Westn., 100/. pd Lane. & Carlisle, all pd Do. Thirds, 11/.13.4 pd Lane. & York., 100/. pd Do., Quarters ...all pd Do., Fifths 14/. pd Do.,W. Rid. Un l l l / 2p Leeds Northern, all pd Liv.Crsby&Sthpt.l7ip Lond. & Blackw., all pd Lon.,Brig.& S. Ct.loo p Lon. & N.West., 100/. p Do. Quarters 22/. pd Do. Fifths 12/. pd Do. 10/.,M &B. (c) lip Lon. & S.-West. 100/. p Do. New 50/., 42 1 / 2 pd Do. New 401 341. pdi Lon. & Enniskil , all pd. Man. Bux. & Mat. all p' Man. Shef. & Lin.,loo/p Do. Manch. & Lincoln Union 41.25. pd i Midland 100/. pd Do. Bir. & Derby 1001. Md. Gt. Wt. (Ire.) 47 1 / 2 .Newcas. & Carl. all pd Do. Quarter Sh all pd Newmarket all pd Newport, Abergaven., and Hereford _lO/ pd Newry & Ennisk. 7 1 / 2 p Norfolk lOO/. pd Do. New 20/. S. 15/. p North. Conn. Un. 1 / 2 pd North British ...25/. pd North Devon pd North Stafford. 171/2 North-West ern 19/. pd N. & S.-W. June. 6/. p Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 101 p Scottish Central 25/. p Scottish Midld., 25/. pd Do. New ,,,a1l pd' Shrew. & Bir. A, all po' Do. B ......... all pd Shrew. & Her. Old 8/. p Shrewsbu. and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) all pd Do. Halves all pd Do. Oswestry all pd Shrop. Union ...6 1 / 2 pd Do. A, B, C, & D fully pd. up at per cent. South Devon all pd South-Eastern 30/. ptl South Wales all pd South Yorkshire and River Dun 15/. pd Do. Do. 5/. pd Stirl. & Dunferm. all p Stock. & liar. 16/2s. 3d. Taff Yale 126/. pd Thames Haven Dock and Railway ...18/. pd Vale of Neath...l7/. pd Waterfd. & Kilk. all pd Waterfd. & Lim. all pd Waterford, Wex. Wick. and Dublin 3/. IA West Cornwall 13/. pd West London all pd Yk., New. & Ber. 25/. p Do. & New. Ex. 204 p Do. G.N.E. pure. 9/. p., York & N. Mid. 501. pd PREFE Aberdeen all pd Do. No. 2, 7 per ct. 394 4 Caledonian, 10/. all pd, Ches. & llolyhd. all pct Dundee, Per., & Aberd. Junction all pd E. Ang.(3/ 10s)6 p c. all Do. (51.) 7 per et. all p Do. (71175) 7 p. c. 2 p Eastern Counties Ex., sp. c., No. 1 all pd Do. No. 2 all pd Do. New 6 p. c. Stk. 10 Eastern Union Scrip, Guar. 6 per ct all p Do. 10/. Deb. Sh all p East Lancashire, 6 per; ct. Quar. Shra. all pd, East & West Yorkshire Junction, sths all pd Edin., Per. & Dun. 5 1 / 2 per cent. all pd Glas. & S.W. Con 1001; Gt. North. 5 p. c all pi Do. 5 p c.:red. sc 9 1 ,‘ pl Great South. & West. (Ireland) Stha all pd, Gt. West. (Berke & H. Ex. 5 per cent.) all pd Gt.W. fixed 4 1 / 2 100/. p Do. Do. _BOl. pd Lancashire and York- shire, F. 201. ...61. pd Do. 6 p. c. Stk. 1001. p Leeds Northern, 6 per cent. No: 1 131. pd Do. Do. No. 2 171. pd Do. Do. No. 3 51. pd Do. Qrs., 1848 pd London & Brig. guar. 5 per cent. —lOO/. pd Do. Pr.s p c. Stk. 100/.i Do. Con. 5 p c, 1852 all Do. N.Gr. 6p c 100/. p Lon. & N.-W. (Cov. & Nunet.) S. 5 p. c. 13% pd Ln. & W. Co.3ds. 51. p Lon. & En. Sh. all p Man., Shelf., & Lincn. Qr. Sh., No. 1 all pd Do. New, 10/. 3/. pd Do. 61. pd Mid. Con. 6 p c St. 100/. Do. Con. Bris. & 6 per cent.... 100/. pd Do. Erewash Val. 100/ Do. Leic. & Swanning. 8 per c. Guar. 100/. p Do. Preference —5/. p Norfolk Exten... all pd Do. Gr. 5 1, A p ct. all p Do. Wavny. Val. 21. p North British ...5/. pd North Stafford....all pd. Oxf. Wor. & Wol., 15/. 6 per cent. ...12 'Z a pd Shrew& & Bir. N.G. al Shrews. & Ches. (N.W. Min.) 8 per c....a1l pd South Dev0n...... all pd St.-Est. p c. ... pd Sth. York. 4 p c gd. 201. Stock. & Hart. gd. 5 p c until July 1,1856, all p Waterford & Kilkenny, 6 per cent. . 3/. pd York, Newc. & Bar. Gt. N. of E. Pur. ...all pd Do. Do ..... 5/. pd York & N. Midland 11. and S. Parch. 101. pd LINES zmasz Railway s . Leasing , ICompanies.l I OD. &NV G D L o N . Vestn. Do. Do. Lon. &N.W 'Caledonian !Gt. Northn Gt. Westrn. Yk. New. & Berw. Yk. &N. . Do. Do. Midland , S. Eastern , Do. Norfolk Do. ~ Stktn &Dal E. Counties Do. .. Do. **** L.& N.Wi: & La. &y Do. S. Easterza. Gt..N ort h a Do. )rLan. & Yks Stckt& Dar Do. Do. Qt. Wetitin Railways. Ncmin: 1 Prices. Cent. France (0.V.) all Char!. & Erquel. all pd De merara all pd Dutch Rhenish 81. pd East Indian...... 18/. pd Do. D0....201. pd Gt. Indian P en i n. all p Do. Do. —4 1 4 pdi Grnd. Jun c. of Fra. 4 pd i Louv. a la Sambre 71,41 Luxembourg ...13/. pd Do. (Railway) 101. pd Do. l/. pd Do. (Canal) 2 t . pd Maria Antonia 27 / p 0 Do. New ........ 8 j pd Namur & Li ege all pd North. of France,l6/.pd Do. 201.3 p. c. Bds, all p Orleans & 80r...11/. pd Paris & Lyons „XL pd Paris & Orleans all pd Paris & Rouen all pd Paris & Stras. all pd Rouen & Sambre & Meuse all pd! St. Andrew's & Quebec (A) 4/. pd Tours & Nantes 17/. pd West Flanders...B% pd West. of France 6/. pd 22% - 23 13 -15 —3% dis. 4% p 1 -1% p 1 -1% p .• . • 3 % 3 % _ y 8 Y 8 y a 8 -- 1 0 22% - 23; 132-133% 4 5 , 8 p 4 _._ 4 4 45 ___ 4 7 P 29% 3 0 1121% _... 217 „ - 5 ••• S YB dis. 3 p MINES. all pd Asturian l a /. p A A n g g ua in. F e r a ia n Australasian 2/. pd Australian 5/. pd Austr. Freehold all pd Ave Maria all pd! Blaenarvon I. & C. all p Brit. Austr. Gold all pd British Iron 13/. 15s. p Braz. Im. (is. 5 p) 24% Do. Coca. & Cui. all p Do. St. Joh. del R. 151. Carson's Creek all pd Cobra Copper _4O/. pd Colonial Gold l/ pd Copiapo .......... 14/ pd Eng. &A us t . C op. all p General ............ all pd Gold Mountain all pd Great Polgooth all pd Lake Bathurst...all pd Lon. & Cal. Gld Quartz Crushing Com..all pd Mexi. & S. Amer. W. p New Granada ...all pd Nouveau Monde, all pd Port Philip ~,,,.11. pd Quartz Rock ...... all pd Santiago de Cuba 10% South Australian, 1 pd , . Tin Croft . •......... 71. pd 11 United Mexican all pd 12— West Mariposa...all pd % % dis 3' 0 TIVV•Z TO CZ ELELN Australasia .... all pd 46 —47 Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd 55 —56 Colonial ........ 25/. pd 13% 14% Com. of London 20/. pd 25 —26 Lon. & County 20/. pd London Jt. Stk. 101. pd Lon. & Westin. 201. pd Nat. Prov. Eng. 35/. pd Do. New ...... 10/. p d Nat. of 1re1and...22% p Orient. I3k. Corp. all pd Prov. of Ireland 251 pd. Do. New. , ,,,,,,, all pd Union of Austral. all pd Do. New ..... 2% pd Union of London 101. p Union of Madrid all pd Austral. R NUS'oy Mil, 2 p Canada ....... 32% pd Eastern Steam...2s. pd Gen. Stm. Nay. 14/. pd Gen. Screw Steam Ship ping Co mpany...sok p Irish Beetroot Sug. 2i iz) Penin. & O r . St. all pd Do. Do. •..15/. pd Royal Mail Stm. 60/. pd Universal E m i gration and Colonization, 21. p par —, p p 3 - I %P %- 1 IA- Yi dis. % 'A di s . ••• ••• % . .... " 14 dis. 1% - 2 par p ••• -- ... par _ hp ... ... 1 -Ys 1 1 7 4 dis. — ___ lL dis. 34 1 p x.d x.n % dis. %dia. Par par —y, p / z 3 - % dia. 9 —lO 18 7... y% 283 4 _ 29% Fiy, ---- j'i 34 -BG 44% - 45:, A 16% 3 _ 17% 42 - 3 - 42% 3% 15 -16% CELLANEOU 2 - 2 1 4 48 - 49% 28;i - 29 2 - 82% -83 34% - 35 7 7% -78 IA MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of C otton at Liverpool yesterday were esti mated at from 15,000 to 20,000 bales, of which 2,000 American were taken for export, and 6,000 American and 500 Surat on speculation. The market closed firmly, and with animation. Full prices were obtained for all kinds, and Sea Island was -O. to Id. dearer. The sales comprised 14,000 American, 2,000 "'manna and Maranham at 6d. to iid., 500 Egyptian at 6d. to Bd., 1,000 Surat at 30. to 4d., and 50 Sea Island at Is. 4d. to 2s. per lb.—Railway Shares were flat. The steamer Baltic brings more specie from the United States, 185.000 dollars, and a large number of passen gers, that augurs most favourably for extended com mercial intercourse with Europe. Cotton was still ad vancing, but grain was dull. At the National Bank of Ireland meeting just held the net profits of 1851 were stated at 21,283/. 6s. 9d. The report is satisfactory, and more of the bad debts have been written off, while the reserved fund has been increased. The tendency of Foreign Bills of Exchange yester day afternoon was rather to advance. Paris was taken at 25 65 to 67i, Amsterdam 12 2 to 2k, Hamburgh 13 11k to 11,i, and Trieste 12 12 to 12 40. The Austrian loan seems likely to be engrossed wholly by the Messrs. Rothschilds and the friends who feel bound by their intimate relations with them to take an interest in the sam e . Th e public are pe r f ectly apathetie in the matter, and to name a the jobbers on the Stock Exchange manifest n o anx i ety price. Under these circumstances it will than u a 1 t rest with th e " tact " of the firm to place the ma s s t e o ad e n k i it i ne n v ea s snd t t rm a o speculative hands, st of be wb h ic e b ld a r n at i h m er . profit can be o bt a i ne d . W e can readily und erstand that the contractors themselves should find an advantage in the operation, because they have an ample commission, a d t sia:o where security, out u but it is im possible to conceive that any individual acting as a free agent would take up the stock as a source of income, even with the attraction of payment in the precious metal at the places where the respective amounts are subscribed. Who, we would ask, in sober earnestness, has a definite knowledge of the total amount of the Aus trian National Debt? Who can place confidence in a finan cial system fed by repeated loans, or in a revenue noto riously deficient? Who can believe that Austria will dispense with a large standing army, or re gard otherwise than as a mockery the few thousand florins just struck eff the war budget? Finally, who would trust a Government that solemnly engages to psy in current coin, and substitutes paper enormously depreciated, that posts the agents of police at the gates of the Bourse, to coerce the capitalist seek ing to deal in bills according to the principle of supply and demand, that orders the arrest and transportation of respectable merchants * and brokers that refuse to sub mit, and then employs its official income to bolster up the exchange to the ruin of those who simply believe the improvement will last ? It will need all the supp or t th e E mperor o f R uss i a can g i ve to enableare Austria to meet it s ex p en di ture , an d f u t ure loans is certain to be brought for w ard, if the prese nt taken. those obtained yester been made. This flat day, a f ew money sa les having The Engli s h F u nds have been unsteady, and the quotations are not quite equal to the thin attendance of members as from fleas is as much, however, fromh cause. Consols have been 9911 t o 991 for s a Account. The New Thr and the per Cents. the Three per Cents, at have been at 101 to 1 01 i, i u 1 foranyTrucanet other and 98i to 99. Bank Stock s supported at 220 to 221, and 675. to 695. been flatter. Mexican Th ree Foreign Securities have India Stock at 272. The premium on the June Exche. quer-bills has been per f Cents.are not worth more than 24i . the Fiv e per Cents. i being 3111- The news from the Re publics co nsidered good, b u t a d vantage is taken limited i. it4ecl business doing, E quador B Nothing h as b een done in Peruvian. Spanish a ish Three p er C ents. Deferred have ond s a o r f e firm the been at 20i French Three per Cents, have been at 70.25, with the exchange at 25.50. Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. have been at 61.. : 4 1 .. Railway Shares have been very depressed, and the carrying over of the account has occupied the brokers, and affected the quotations. Iho depression is extra ordinary in the present state of the Money Market, but there was about this time last year a nearly similar state of things, and, if we recollect rightly, a subsequent re action. French Shares have not varied to any extent. Mining Shares are stea d y b ot h as regards Australian and Californian, but not brisk. QUARTER TO THREE. Consols ... 99i Ditto Account. June 9 .. 99i a BRITISH FUNDS TEIIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK ~ ~T (From the Otlicial List.) 220 221 Rank Stock per Cent. Reduced Annuities...—. ..... M ys 9 yB9 40415h—e2n5c. 8 per Cent. Consols Anna. New 34 per Cent. Anna. 101 Long Annuities, Exp. Jan.sth, 1860.- 6 13-16 6% 8 India Stock 2 7 `2 Consols for Account 9 9 3A Exchaoner Bills. 14d. March. June. 1,000/. ......................... 74 p 69 67 p PRICE OF FORElG6NppereFr7Ceenat:......A.....T...:o..:Xt2:o74'3:ooi s B D : e4 6 f , eprr ti e erpdetri.ers.n.Cay.te.. ............. Chili it a t n o, B 3 o n p ds er , abls Cent. Equador Bonds ....... Ditto 3 per Cent. .... 31% Bardin i3p l an an ie ß h o ki nd on s, d s s, 3 nor Cont. .......... 963 ;1 lifexican pi Frenchv i D d i s t t n o d s on the ahoy! Exchang p e Q . z: . ..................... 25f. 50c. 13(1 R aNds en :w t Dutch 2% Vent! , 12 Quild ~. sly % 63i 7 18 7 4 3 1914 20% 20 19% Gl i 15 91% 90 70 % % J.-% 16 104 3 A 104 122 Y 121% 27 1.5% 2 y g 91% 92 %d 23 % 31 67 66% 67 dis. Lint 3% 12 10% - 11% 13 -13% .34 - 1 p 145 - 147 Adis. 19 % 20% p 53/ s -- 5 3/8 - 10% - R p x.n 10% 1 15 16% _ I.• ... 1 X ......... % dit % % dis. [ C% -17 y, - 5 -9; p AT PIXED Nominal Prices. 30 -31 29 -30 29% - 30% 28% - 29% 18% - 19 45 -47 33 4 - 37 41- 5%p 111 - 113 55% - 56% 26 -27 [ON - 104 1 / 2 12 3 - 13% 25', - 26% 17 -18 60 _62 ** -- P 2 3% - 24 3 % - 3YB 1% 1 di& ii% -30% l••• ..... ... 100 .... 191 10 1 % RENTILLS. Business to-day. Business done to-day. COURSE OF E.C. Amaterdsm .„ ••• •. 12 1 months.. 11 2 Cofferdam ...• ••.. •• 12 23 Antwerp 25 70 8ru55e15........ • • ... 25 70 Efamoura •• •• 2 --- Paris 3 days'zight • ... 5 50 Ditto, 3 months . 2i 67% M'arseilles .... •• •• ...• 25 70 BourJeaux.... • •• Frankforton M 4130.. 12234 Tonna, eff3o. fib...... 12 20 Trieste, ditto...". • 12 20 Petersburgh •• • 37% Madrid • . .• 495 Bareelosa ..........„ lIA NGE.-TUESDAY. :.e " 1.2 •••••• •• •• • 3J 70 •••• 25 70 I.lan ...• •• .• ••-• I,.'"nples 40% 1221 lioEsiva i22* 53 Oporto • . „ •• 53 4 tiu Jtnelro • . aenos ;Lyre NOW Ycirk, 6C days'aight Philadelphia PitioE6 OF BULLION. FEB OZ. crolgn Geld 111 bar 3.. £3 17 9 eortugal Gold Coin 00 u gpanish Doubloons .. Now Dollars 0 4 1 01 Silver In barn 0 4 Il LLOYD'S SEIIPPING--(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MAY 26.—Wind at noon light breeze and dud hazy weather, with much rain. PLYMOUTH, MAY 25.—Vvind E.N.E.—Sid. Gopaul, Moreton Bay; Mersa'', Newfoundland. Off port, Sarah Ann, Sydney, N. S. W. FALMOUTH, MAY 25.—Wind E., light.—Earl of Derby, Buenos Ayres. LIVERPOOL, MAY 26 (PER ELEC. TEL Baltic steamer, New York, left 15th inst.; on freight 175,000 dolls. BELFAST, MAY 24.—Wind N.—Sld. Janet, glebe?' NEW ORLEANS, MAY 3.—The Harriet and Jessie if on the bar, and th e A t l ant i c, Memphis, and Radius ate inside the bar, all outward bound. DOVER, MAY 26.—Wind E.N.E., fresh. Ar ra : Elleda, Londo n for Quebec; had been in contact witi l steamer off the Goodwin. LIVERPOOL, MAY 25,—Wind E.—Arrd. Sheridss' New York. Sid. Olivier, Van Noord, Batavia; Jere miah, Garnett, Bombay; Valparaiso, Lima ; Europa , Rio Janeir o; W oo dl and Castle, Barbadoes; Genera, Wi ltshire, Virgini a; Ri c h ard Cobden, Philadelphis' William VVitherlie, New York; Constantine, ditto; Jacoba Westervelt ditto; Robenee, ditt o; N a poleon , Boston; Ant,Restigettehe. Off port, Universe and Betsy The following vessels from New Orleans to this por t were on the bar of the Mississippi about the 4th °(/ May:—The Winchester, Hope, Goodwin (?), Prosress, and the International from hence. The to lowing. bound here, were inside the bar: Weittnore fN.roEmwruoaurNbDoLuAr Ncipr,aAcer,RrleLo land, Forest King, Middlesex, and five others, nsil leg on the ice near Cape Freels, is safe in Greenspoad. naskrint ST. JOHN'S, n o n sealer,s, OFF THE SOUTH FORELAND —A barque for Sier o7ied T to be be jl°°bBl: Leone. FILL, MAY 25.—Wina E.—Arrd. Arethusa, Bae ll°4 Ayres. Std. Eagle, Tobago. WATERFORD, MAY 24.—Wind E. S.E. to E. Sid. Huron, Quebec. of DOUGLAS, end from ISLEOF Liverpool o N Cheeken Rock thi s m orning, and san k i n deep water; M Aft: SAY the Baltic, b s e tru W ek ater on wi t c h b c; crew saved. MARKET NE WS.--(THIS DAY.) Wheat. Arley.B Engllait Trish ........ Foreign ...• .• i f 10,860 I 4,420 31,660 1 420 nOIitOUGEI Ei op DIMILICET. There is rather more inquiry for all kinds of Hocs n ' the show o f w hi ch is small, and late rates are well supported. CITY OF LONDON ELECTION• TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF LO NDON. Gentlemen,—Upon the la men t e d death of Mr. Pat' tison I had the honour to receive a requisition to he' come a candidate, and was elected without opposition one of your representatives in Parliament. I was then filling the office of chief magistrate, having Imen en gaged for upwards of thirty years in business in the city of London, and represented for twelve years in the House of Commons the independent borough of Boston. I therefore felt a proud satisfaction in believing that your choice was influenced by what you knew of eel conduct as a public man and my character as a citizen. " Feeling confident that I have endeavoured to sustain the good opinion which elevated me to the distinguished position of one of your representatives, I respectfully announce my intention of soliciting a renewal of your suffrages at the approaching general election. "I have ever given a steady support to those great principles of civil and religious liberty which have always been dear to the citizens of London; and my votes will show that I hav e cor di a lly su pp or t e d t h ose measures commercial freedom which have improved the revenuer increased the contentment of the working classes, and promoted the general prosperity of the country. I he're , at the same time, voted in favour of every proposition having for its object a liberal extension of the suffrage, as justly duo to the increasing intelligence of the pee'Pl e ' I have likewise, by my votes on all occasions, endea voured to lighten the burdens of taxation by e nforcing economy in every d e p a rt ment o f t h e public expenclitnre. The income-tax pre sses unequa ll y upon the tr ading classes and a ll t h ose whose income depend you r. their talents and industry. I therefore voted }or Ilume's Committee of Inquiry, in the hope that this if continued, wou ld b e more equitably adj u sted 13 " realized property and uncertain income. " The recent in vest i gat i on into the manse - ee ent of the Customs has p rove d that many alterations le re" quired in that department both shipo wner; an d I shall be both to afford facility to the merchant arid dispatch t to most ready to ereoperate in acc om pli s hi ng a n object SO essential to the successful operations of this great cora raereial community. which " Peculiar circumstances are daily affect the commercial and shipping t s o ts y G ou t r g he city " desire to afford repre sentatives. It has been my and L'n I have reason to hope of London, and require a ready jo a u ez i i every facility in this respect, by my constituents. that this is felt and acknowledgedhi h honour of being one " Grateful to you for the g Parliament, I of your representativesbeg to . assure in leased to combine Inc that you that should you I p shall endeavour interests of distinguished position, to justify year favour and confidence by giving my test attention to all the duties belonging to my station. Identified as one of yourselves with the rights and interests of this great City, it will ever be a source of pride and gratification to me to obtain your approbation eorun,s consistent t uprightdisch discharge o u f c t all in d m e y pe r n u d b e i n io t aod m principles,erit youra?d the duties. " No longer engaged in the pursuits of commerce, I shall be enabl e d to devote myself still more to the serv'e° of my constituents, to promote their views, and to watch over their interests ; and, as ono of their representatives in the great council of the nation, to join in all measures likely to advance the welfare of the people and the prosperity of the country at large. `• I remain, Gentlemen, " Your faithful and obliged servant, " JANES DUKE." " 43, Portland-place, 25th May, 1852. TUE HULL MURDER.—HULL, TUESDAY, MALT 25.—This morning, two men, who gave the names of John Snape and John Smith, each about 23 years of age, the former stating that he came from Nottingham, and the lat ter describing himself as of Leeds, were placed at the bar of the police-court before the Mayor and a full bench of magistrates, on a charge of having been the parties who perpetrated the murder and robbery, a brief account of which has already appeared. Both prisoners are very respectably attired, but with a certain touch of Ltashines.s about their appearance. Snape, against whom the evidence is the more direct, was in a state of great trepidation, trembling violently during the whole of the examination. thestrebeyt impassablein front of the i‘icrowds as. ne rs were remanded. tnesses were examined, and both pri This dreadful affair has caused the greatest excitem en t in' the town, the more so as several other cases o f street rob bery with v i o l en ce have lately occurred i n H u ll , and are sup posed to have been c o m m i tted by members of th e same sembled. Several wi " so• travelling ansio a housegang, DUBLIN, TUESDAY.—THE PROSECUTION OF JAMES BIRCH, OF THE " Weat.n."—Counsel on behalf of Mrs. French moved the Court of Q ueen ' s B ench, yesterday, to fix A day for passing Judgment upon M r . J ames Birch, who had in the last term pleaded guilty to an i ndictment charging him with publishing a libel in the World newspaper. No affidavits had been filed eithe r i n aggravation or mitigation of ud pun gm ishment. The C ourt f i xed Monday next for giving jent. CHEAP OMNIBUS PARES.—The cheap omnibuses placed on the Oxford -street and Holborn line of road, to run from the Marble Arch to the corner of Tottenham-court road for one penny, and from that point to the bottom of Holborn-bill for the same low fare, may now be considered, after more than six months' trial through the worst season of the year, to b 3 firmly established in the favour of the public, as is fully evinced by the patronage which they re ceive. Some omnibuses, with equally cheap fares, have been started on the Strand line, from Westminster to King's cross, and the omnibuses on the Hampstead -road not only run at low fares through Holborn, but charge one penny only for the whole distance from the corner of New Oxford street to the Camden-town-gate, thus affordingunprecedented opportunities for cheap riding to the residents of that populous part of the town. THE ABERDARB COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—The quiry into the causes of this lamentable catastrophe, by which sixty-four persons suddenly perished, was resumed at Aberdare yesterday. The examination of ➢lr. Mackworth, the Government inspector, ma pryeeediug when par P 1491194 left, CORN-LXCHANGE---WEDNESDAY Our market today has been very thinly attended by buyers, both t own an d country. • The show o f samp l es of English Wh ea t h as b een extremely lim i ted, an d t h e amount of busin ess d o i ng i n that article trifling in the extreme. Factor s , h owever, have been very firm, and the prices paid nave been quite equal to those of Mon day last. For forward delivery, next to nothing doing' From abroad, 10,860 quarters of Wheat have COte!: fresh to hand. Selected samples of both red an d white sold at ext reme currencies; whilst the value °` e low and middling parcels was well supported. Float ing cargoes of Wheat were ne , lected; but Indian Corn was held for rather more money. On the whole, the Barley trade was dull, but no change took place in prices. Malt sold s!owly, at late rate 9., We had a v er y d u ll i nquiry for Oats—the imports ore which were up war d s of 31,000 quarteri—at a decline 0 ' fully 6(1 per quart er . The Flour trade was firm; baC Beans and Peas commanded very little attention. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Malt. I Oats. Qrs. Qrs. 1,130 1,290 3,740 I 570 1,67 0 `520 rEL. Our market is bat v naTzca.a moderately supplied with each kind of Meat. On the whole the demand is firm, at full quotations. Beef from 2s 4d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 10d; Lamb, 4 s t o s s; V ea l, 2 s 4d to 4s 2d; Pork, 23 4d to 3s 6d per Sibs, by the carcase. V, 23 21 7 3 % % 28 3 4 s. 33 , /, y i 1 2 ;, 45 ~'~~ 3 3 % p 12% 24 izi %