The Sun. — London, England, 1835-06-04 00:00:00

SPANISH BONDS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia,-1 am a holder of Spanish Bonds, which I purchased at above 71. I embarked in them from the hope of a fair in terest for my money, and I certainly considered that I was jus tified in my expectation from the Quadruple Treaty which had been entered into by England, France, Spain, and Portugal. I considered, indeed, the prime object of this treaty to be the assertion and maintenance of liberal and beneficent principles against the pernicious influence of the Northern Powers, but, at the same time, I inferred that every assistance rendered in the way of loan to such a cause would be as sacredly protected as the cause itself. Don Carlos, with his brigands, are suffered to ravage the country, and to threaten the existence of its best interests. Thanks to Tory machinations,—he has obtained a legal sanc tion for his warfare, and thus a rebel, a denounced traitor, is permitted to assail a constitutional government, to proclaim the sacrifice of every pecuniary obligation which Spain has so lemnly entered into with thousands, and to despise a treaty made among nations, of which two are the mightiest upon the face of the earth. If it be not meant to betray those who lent money to the Constitutional cause, and sacrifice them to the proclaimed in tentions of most dishonest men, if it is not intended to present the disgraceful spectacle of England and France unfaithful to their obligations, and succumbing to the vaunts of bigotry and despotism, these nations will without delay exert against the anarchy and treason of Don Carlos and his adherents, the authority and powers of the Quadruple Treaty. I am, Sir, yours, &c. Bath, May 29. FRENCH PROSPECTS. VIGIL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR—it is hardly possible, in takin g up the map of Europe, to put one's finger on a spot free from internal commotions. The spirit of agitation is at work in most countries, and a tacit understanding to resist oppression seems happily to ani mate their various inhabitants. On the borders of the Tagus, from the Pyrenean heights and in the silent recesses of unob trusive Switzerland, LIBERTY unfurls her glorious flag, and whether through the voiceless voice of the Press, or the ac clamations of masses, or the roar of cannon— . " In every peal she calls—Awake ! apse!" We are, indeed, deeply interested in this magnificent spectacle. Every friend of his species must pant for the day when the dull Austrian shall no longer deface the classic and lovely soil of Italy ; when the Swiss cantons shall be bound together by the ties of freedom and unanimity, and the enlightened sympa thies of a QUADRA Or an ARGUELLES rule the destinies of Spain, for until some rational policy be established, we dare not hope the " clang of conflict" to be hushed. But of all the nations engaged in the noble struggle for independence, FRANCE de mands our strictest attention, and enlists our warmest sympa thies. Powerful from her central situation, and the daring genius of her people, she possesses an influence which is felt in the remotest parts of the world. That strength, too, has of late years been considerably increased by the diffusion of know ledge, which humanizing, as it unquestionably does, the nature of man, renders him also a better, because a wiser, judge of his political condition. Hence, the French now have something more stable to rely on than military prowess ; their undimi nished ardour for glory is tempered with the mollifying rays of wisdom and past lessons, which have taught them that the paths of ambition lead generally to despotism, and that the sword never reflects so much brilliancy as when drawn against the enemies of liberty. Whatever may induce some politicians to keep the truth in the back ground and disguise the real nature of affairs, few, I imagine, will be inclined to believe the Orleans dynasty founded on a rock. A feeling of distrust to the present Go vernment has been gradually augmenting ; nor can we, if we reflect at all, be much surprised at it. Louis PHILIPPE had scarcely ascended the throne, before he, with his own hand, stabbed his fame, and placed himself in a false position, whence he has never recovered. He broke a lance with that Press to whose active zeal he owed his sceptre, and he dese crated the dignity of Royalty by a thousand paltry prosecu tions. But the men who, in the days of July, as eagerly grasped the sword as formerly they had courageously handled the pen, were not to be frightened by a platoon of gendarmerie; separated from their families, and deprived of tile means o! . supporting them, they submitted willingly to every privation, and, attracting the attention, roused likewise the indignation of freemen. Nothing was more natural, after the explosion of 1830, than for individuals of hotter temperaments than sound judgments, to express opinions of an ultra kind, and in consistent with the order of things. The press was declared unreservedly open, and they had a perfect right to prefer a commonwealth, and heap anathemas upon kings, which would have fallen mere brute fulnzina on a Government whose basis was the affection of the people. But the instant they were made the object of attack, the writers rose to unmerited and unexpected importance ; you forwarded their most anxious wishes by investing them with the crown of martyrdom ; you made that practically true which had been only matter for theoretical declamation, and in the oppression cf a free citizen you displayed the evils of a monarchy. Nor is this the only charge levied against the Ruler of France ; he has heartlessly abandoned his best friends. [laving made them, as it were, the ladder for attaining the summit of his hopes, no sooner is it reached than he unceremoniously kicks them from beneath him. So long as Louts PutetriE was under the guidance cf the gentle, the immortal LAFAVV.TTE, his actions were just, his career bright arid promising. In that union the people beheld a guarantee for their rights ; they knew that this PHOCION of modern times would never be a party to any act derogatory from their dignity, or contrary to their rights. Was it wise to spurn the hand that proffered tile crown? Was it politic to discard one whose name was synonimous for integrity and experience? Was it respectful towards the country at large to reward its tried and most approved friend, its veteran warrior, and its WASHINGTON, by sending him to a disappointed and desponding grave? The French are beginning to dis cover that, after all, they have but changed kings ; they ask, and with reason, where is the fulfilment of those promises made at the HOTEL DE VILLE ? Where are the institutions apart from corruption—the laws whose source is justice ? We expected an extension of the elective franchise, a steady obser vance of the Charter, ministerial responsibility, and no undue interference from the Monarch. We expected that with Charles X. fell priestly power--4hat with him for ever were swept away all sentiments of regard for Foreign Despots, towards whom FRANCE would hold a tone of defiance ; we thought that peaCe would be the new Monarch's device, and that the military forces would be reduced ; we hoped to see impartiality in our public functionaries, lenity in our laws, and order preserved without recourse to bayonets ; in a word, we did not anticipate that our unbounded generosity and unli mited confidence, were to be repaid by coercion, domiciliary visits, nightly emeutes, and police intrigues. Such is the lan guage held, not by the hot-headed, and young, and unem ployed, but by the sober, industrious, and peaceful majority of Frenchmen. Here is no angry or sudden ebullition of feel ing, no thirsting after novelty. So far is any thing of the kind visible, that condemnation is coupled with regret at such blindness, when least expected. All acknowledge the per sonal worth of the King, but all behold his infatuation with astonishment and alarm. What is obvious to the commonest understanding is impervious to the heart that throbs beneath a regal mantle. Must lessons always, then, be written in letters of blood, and will Louis PHILIPPE awake only from his fatal lethargy when his ears are assailed by the tumultuous cries of A BAS LE TRAITRE I VIVE LA REPUBLIQUE ! Some persons pretend to be mightily concerned at the alarm ing state of France, and lament most pathetically the restless ness and love of innovation which characterize the people ; but all this is nothing, but that loose sort of talk to which the half-informed are so remarkably prone ; without being capable of diving in medias res, they indolently g!iclo upon the surface, and with a great deal of nonsense and falsehood, now and then pick up a little truth, and common sense. A country is pro perly speaking in an alarming state when from some cause or other its finances are in confusion ; when its agriculture is depressed, its commercial and manufacturing districts at a stand still, and a discontented population is consequently rousing in on all sides. The bad particles that are continually floating about, collect into a heap, and the amalgamation of evil is productive of famine, murder, sedition, and all the miseries which flow from idleness. Want of employment with the educated classes amounts almost to a disease, and bears hard usually on the physical frame, but amongst the ignorant and vulgar, it is always accompanied with the grossest immo rality. A nation so circumstanced would be truly in a bad way, but the reverse is the case in France ; Never was she more thriving ; never was business more stirring, or wages steadier, or provisions cheaper : all are busy, all are quiet nothing is in danger but the Monarch's crown, and for that he has to thank himself. Like the vain and ambitious PHAETON, he has mounted the chariot, and, regardless of the repeated admonitions of the experienced, driven rashly to the brink of the precipice. When caution was absolutely neces sary he heedlessly dashed in the track of despotism, thinking that a road, trodden by so many before him, could not but be broad and unobstructive. Every one foresees the result of this obstinacy; the French will not be disposed to try another king ; they have felt the horrors of mob dominion—they have beheld the inutility of wars--they have passed under the de grading yoke of priestly tyranny, and when to the black list they add the rapacity and ingratitude of kings, prudence points to a Republic as the only haven of security. FRANCE has few or no remnants of feudality ; she is not troubled with a poli tical church, or ridden over by a monied aristocracy : these Augean stables, let it never be forgotten, were cleansed by rivers of human blood, because the warnings of reason were neglected. The French, then, will give a fair trial to a pure democracy, when taking compassion on the solitude of Charles, they send him a companion. The impetus onward such an event would give in England would be extreme, but without danger to that form of government which we all of us undoubtedry prefer. Here the chain of legitimacy is un broken—in France it has been snapped, and with it fell to the ground that traditional respect which throws a halo of gran deur round the institutions of man. MILO. CHURCH RATES.—Mr. Williams of the county of Carlow has been lying in prison for the last three months, and is likely to continue there. It is not pretended that the claim of Tithe might not be satisfied in the usual way—in the manner in which it was always satisfied, from the premises of Mr. Williams, as of other Quakers in Ireland. But this mode, it seems, would not suit the present policy of the b ish Church. Having punished so many refractory Papists, to such little purpose, it was thought right and expedient to make an example of a Dissenter—and in order to mark more emphatically the temper of the claiming party, to select, of all other classes of the Dissenter, a Quaker, to try the experi ment. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. ... 9O 14 % 3 per Cent. Cons shut 3% per Cent. OB% 8 1 ,4 Ditto lied. New 5% per Cent ahh % t 4 per Cent. Assented - [Dissented ..... ..• - Bank LongAnnuitiestoexpire Jan. 5, 1860 16% Oct. 10, 1839 16 7-10 % Jan. 5, 1860 16% Jan. 5, 1850 - April 5, 1880 - Jan. 5. 1870 - PRICES` OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds ....... — Belgian Bonds IM Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds ...............« Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account ......... ....... —1 Chillian Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bonds SIN Ditto Account Columbian Bones, :824 .2)444 3 4 Ditto Account ......... ........ Danish Bonds . 76% Ditto Account Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 1825 Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent..., Ditto Account _ Ditto, 6 per cent. ....... 36% Ditt- Account Neapolitan DAY AT ONE O'COLCK New 5 per:Cent India Stock Ditto Bonds ........ ... ...II 16 14 pm. South Sea Stock ......— Old Annuities — New Ditto — 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1151— Exch. Bills. Xl,OOO ..... .... 29 34 pm. Ditto ..500 29 34 pm. Ditto Small 99 Si pm. Ditto Commercial 34 pm. Ditto Advertised 29 St 33 pm. Bank Stock for Account India Stock for Account 260 Consols for Account 9l Ni THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds. Ditto Account Portuguese'Bonds Ditto Account Ditto New Bonds B5 % 06 5 Ditto Account B4 5 Prussian Bonds Ditto Bonds , 1822 — Russian Bends, ....... 1 Ditto Account Ditto Metallic Spanish Bonds ......... Ditte Account Ditto Bonds, 1835 Ditto Account French, 5 per cent-- ...... —f. —c. 4 per cent. —f. —c —3 , —f. per cent. f. —C. Exchange f. —c. Dutch, 2Y4 per cent. Ditto Account Ditto, 5 per cent lOO% Ditto Account PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Brazilian Imperial Mining Co. (Issued at 5/. pm.) .2‘.) Ditto Macaubas Cocaes 2O 17 Real ,del Monte Mining Co., Registered 63/. lOs. Gd. Ditto Unregistered 23 United Mexican (issued at 2/. pm.) HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning .31 minutes after 8. I Evening 'I minutes after 9 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE Extraordinary Musical Attraction.—The whole Force of the Italian Opera House.—No Advance of Prices. THIS EVENING will be performed Rossini's Opera of LA GAZZA LADRA. Gionetta, Sig. Ivanhoff; Fernando, Sig. Tamburini; Podessa, Sig. Lablache ; Fabrizio, Sig. Di Angioli ; Isaaco, Sig. Gall. Ninetta, Mdlle. Grisi; Lucia, Madame Caatelli; Pippo, Mlle. Brambilla. After which, TAM O'STIANTER THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-lARE. Extraordinary Attraction for this One Night only. GRAND SACRED ORATORIO. On SATURDAY next, June 6, presenting a combination of the most eminent talent ever introduced on one evening in the National Theatres, embodying the combined talent of Mdlle. Grisi, Signor La blache, Signor Ivanoff, Signor Tamburini, Signor Curioni, Mr. Seguin, Mr. Bennett, Mdlle. Brambilla, and Miss Kemble (hut* first appearance at these Performances.) No advance of prices. —Box-office open from Ten till Four daily. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING will be performed the English Opera of NATIVE LAND. Aurelio de Montalto, Mr. Templeton ; Pcregrino, Mr. Harley, Bion diva, Miss Shirreff; Clymante, Miss Betts; Zanina, Mrs. Fitzwilliam (first time) ; Lavinia, Mrs. Newcombe. After which—AULD ROBIN GRAY. To conclude with—THE BROKEN SWORD. To-morrow, La Sonnambula, with Turning the Tables, and The Hunter of the Alps. Under the patronage of LADY DUDLEY STUART, BARON REHAUSEN, And several Families of distinction. MATINEE MUSICALE Given, by permission, at the residence of Mrs. Gibson, 11, Be!grave. street, Belgrave_square, By Mr. LEWY, ;First Professor of the newly constructed French Horn, and Director of the Chapel Royal of Sweden), On S►TURDAY, June 6, at Two o'Clock precisely. The following eminent performers have kindly promised their assistance. Mademoiselle GIULIETTA G lust, and Madame CARADORI ALLAN. Signor RUBIN', Signor TAMDURINI, and Signor LABLACIIE. Grand Pianoforte MOSCIIELES. Violin Mr. WOLFF. French Horn Mr. Conductor, Signor COSTA, PROGRAMME. PART I. Concertante, Pianoforte and Horn, Miss FRIEDMANN and Mr. Lewv Czerny and Lewy. Duo, Mlle. GRIST and Signor Ituarit, " Scendi nel piccol legno." Rossini. Air Varie, Violin, Mr. Wolff Wolff Aria, Madame CARADORI ALLAN .. Donizetti. Divertimento, Horn, Mr. Lever Lewy. PART 11. Duo, Signor LABLACIIE and Signor TAMBURINI, " Se fiato in corpo avete." Cimarosa, Fantasia, Grand Pianoforte, Mr. MosctiELEs Mosche!es. Nocturno, Voice and Horn, Madame CARADORI ALLAN and Mr. LBWS Lachner. Duo, Signor RUBINI and Signor TAMBURINI, " Se inclinassi." Rossini. Potpourri, Horn, Mr. LEWY Lewy. Tickets, 10s. 6d. each, to be had of Mr. LEWY, No. 2, Percy-street, Bedford-square; at Messrs. CRAMER and Cob; and at Mr. DE&N'S, New Boncl-strect. HAMBURG, MAY 18.35. HEINE BROTHERS, CONTRACTORS for the STATE of HAMBURG'S GREAT LOTTERIES, being requested to publish the Scheme of the approaching Sixty sixth Lottery in the English Papers, and to have Tickets on Sale, with Agents in England, beg to state that neither can be done, because it is illegal for the English Newspapers to publish Foreign Lottery Schemes, and for ar.y Agents in England to sell Foreign Lottery Tickets. On the other hand, they beg to state, as it is NOT illegal for any person in England to PURCHASE Foreign Lottery Tickets, that any person desirous to purchase, on addressing them by mail, will receive a full Scheme, and any desirable infor mation on the subject (Gratis), by return of post. HAMBURG, MAT, 1835. HEINE BROTHERS beg to inform all those who have to remit to them Eight Pounds, that upon receipt of a Ten Pound note, Two Pounds will be returned in gold by re turn of mail. HAMBURG, MAY, 1835. 11E1 NE BROTHERS beg to state that a Ticket of the Sixty-sixth Hamburg Great Lottery, costs, at the first price, Eight Pounds. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We must entreat indulgence of our numerous Correspondents for non-insertion in most cases, and for curtailment in others. In the crowded state of our columns it is utterly impossible for us to insert a thousandth part of the communications NT. daily receive. They, however, are not lost ; since the information they not un frequently supply is suggestive of much really valuable matter. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past 3 o'clock. - , • • . . • N Zbv s‘-nl-x, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 1835. We are glad to see that Lord BROUGHAM, among the many improvements to which his ever-active mind is directed, has found time to turn his attention to the state of the law respecting Patents. When it is con sidered how much the national prosperity depends upon the exercise of mechanical invention, and how much the inventive powers are stimulated by the assurance (hat, if beneficially exercised, they will be duly rewarded, it is impossible not to see the advantage to be derived from a law which shall completely protect patentees against the inroads of those who live by pirating Pa tents—who are on the watch for every Patent that is taken out, to see if they can find a flaw in the spe cification ; which flaw, however trifling, as the law now stands, vitiates the whole Patent, and thus the man who has spent many years in bringing a machine to perfection, sees himself suddenly robbed of the fruit of his labours. The alterations which Lord BROUGHAM proposes to make in the law, and for which we must refer our readers to the speech of the Noble and Learned Lord, appear to us well calcu lated to remedy the existing defects in the Patent Laws, and to give reasonable security that those who employ their time and talents either in making new inventions, or in improving those already made, shall not lose their reward. The Noble and Learned Lord brought in his Bill ; which was read a first time, and ordered to be printed. A considerable portion of the time of the House of Commons was last night occupied in settling a dispute between Mr. HUME and a Mr. Somebody CHARLTON, who sits for Ludlow, and who seems to be animated by almost as inconquerable a passion for notoriety as that by which Mr. BENJAMIN D'IsRAELI, the rejected of Taunton, is so eminently distinguished. The me rits of the question will be best gathered from the de bate. We shall, therefore, only remark that it appears by the evidence of all parties, not excepting Mr. CHARLTON himself, that he was the aggressor in this affair. He gave the first insult, by rudely or dering Mr. Humz to " hold his tongue," and he met with the appropriate retort, " You are an impertinent fellow," no one can deny that he had pro voked, and richly deserved it. Why, then, does he attempt to fasten a quarrel on Mr. HUME, which can be settled only by an appeal to arms ? Does he ima gine that the world will give him credit for courage, be cause he can wantonly set at defiance the laws both of God and man ? If he does, he labours under a roful mistake. Sir ANDREW AGNEW'S Sabbath Observance Bill met with its deserts last night in the House of Com mons, being thrown out by a majority of eleven. Thus the poor man has a respite 'till the next session. Mr. WARD, in moving that the further consideration of the Bill be deferred to that day six months, pertinently enough asked, " Why, if it interfered in one case, should it not interfere in all ? Why not prevent travel ling on the old roads, as well as on the new ? Why not close all shops indiscriminately ? Wny not punish the rich as well as the poor ?" Why incised ! It is an insult--a brutal, bare-faced insult towards the lower classes, for any Member—no matter how superior his pretensions to sanctity—to legislate on the principle that they alone stand in need of reformation. Heaven knows, they endure taunts enough at the hands of the elite, without this additional one being flung in their faces I Take the poor as a body, and we will venture to say that they are quite as moral, quite as religious, nay more so, than the rich. Even their faults are less their own, than the effect of example set them by —God bless the mark I--their betters I Their Sunday game of bowls at the ale-house is not the origin, but the consequence, of the Sunday gambling at the club. True, some are bad wives and some bad husbands, but are the rich all patterns of conjugal fidelity ? Are there no such things as adulteries connived at by West-end spouses? No such things as fashionable conspiracies entered into, for the purpose of drawing away infant daughters from widowed fathers, and marrying them to needy adventurers ? Away, then, with the canting, insolent legislation which adopts, as the foundation-stone of its creed, that the poor are more immoral and irreligious than the rich ! Methinks Doctors' Commons and the West-end Clubs should inculcate a far different doctrine ! Those only who have seen the poor man in the full enjoyment of his innocent Sabbath holiday, gos sipping, with the cool tankard beside him, at the door of some village alehouse ; or wandering among the green fields, drinking in the spirit of the fresh breeze, and listening delighted to the cheerful prattle of his children, his thoughts purified, his hopes braced, his nerves new strung, by the happy and healthful ob jects about him ;—those only who have seen this, can appreciate the full value of the respite which the humbler classes have gained by the throwing out of a Bill, which (as respects them at least) would have turned smiles into frowns—candour into cunning— religion into hypocrisy—happiness into misery—hope into despair ! Brussels and German Papers have been received. The latter are filled with long statements of the effects likely to result from the German Commercial Union, now adopted by the majority of the Minor States. Baden, Nassau, and one or more of the Free Towns, alone remain to sign it. The King and Queen of the BELGIANS are in good health. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BaussEts, June 2. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent , _ 5:14 Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent lOO Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent 99'; Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent 117% Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent.......... ..... llB —Brussels Papers, June 3. DUTCH FUNDS—Amsmaimat, JONE 1. Money. Mils. Actual Debt, 2 1 x 2 per Cent. 55 5.', 1 14 Aiimrt tiviiilic,4l, I; er cent 914 95 Ditto, ditto, a% per cent 794 80 Loan (1.930) 5 per cent. Ditto (1 ;2 and 1533) 5 per cent. Commercial Company, 4 , per c lit 107% b 8 New ditto - VIENNA, MAT 26.-5 Per Cents. 1021; 4 Per Cents. 98k; Bank Shares I,346l.—Allgenteine Zeitung, May 30. We have received the whole of the Paris Papers of Tuesday. On Monday the Court of Peers resumed its examination of the parties accused of signing the letter in the Tribune and Ittformateur. MM. TRE LAT and MICHEL defended themselves and their col leagues with great freedom and ability. The former alluded to the Revolution of July, 1830, and after dwelling upon the conduct of certain Peers who were now among his judges, he declared that they would have hereafter a terrible account to settle with France. The Government might take what measures it pleased, but he defied it to check the fast-approach ing downfall of Royalty. Even the scaffold would prove an inefficient auxiliary, should the Peers yet re solve to have recourse to it—which he was not inclined to doubt. M. MICHEL was more moderate. He de fended the spirit of the letter ; but was ready to admit that the propriety of some of the expressions was questionable. His sole object was to prevent an out rage being committed upon the chartered rights of Frenchmen. He implored the Court to re-consider its decision, with regard to the right of defence claimed by the prisoners. The earnest sincerity of his manner made a deep impression upon their Lordships. The Courrier Francais has the following remarks upon it " Previous to the commencement of the deliberation, the Chamber appeared to be deeply impressed with the passage of M. Michel's speech, in which he suggested to the Court an honourable means of continuing the trial of April, which was to make a selection, with the eonsent of the accused, of such of the Counsel as it deemed expedient. This proposition, in troduced at first by way of conversation, was ultimately taken up seriously, and so warmly discussed that some of the Mem bers insisted on a formal decision being immediately taken. Others, however, in greater numbers, observed that the double nature of the Peerage should not be confounded, and that the C. 7 -rraber ought not to meddle in the affairs of the Court. This observation cut the matter short, but it was evident that the insinuation of M. Michel had made a very strong impres sion on the minds of many of tha Peers." After the Court had retired, M. VILLEMAIN ad dressed his fellow Judges in favour of the accused. He said that, after all, their offence amounted to no thing, and that the wisest course would be to deal leniently with them. The question of the guilt or in nocence of M. BICHAT, responsible editor of the de ceased Tribune, was then inquired into, when the Court decided by a majority of 125 against 17 that M. BICHAT was guilty. After sitting till -six o'clock the Court adjourned till Tuesday, when it was expected that the sentence against the advocates would be for mally pronounced. A great variety of rumours are afloat respecting the precise differences of opinion in the French Cabinet on the question of Spanish intervention. We have al ready given the substance of them, and they are certainly not worth being repeated. The final decision of the English Government, on this important question, is expected to be made known in Paris on Saturday. The different accounts from Spain are more than usually at variance with each other. Letters from Bayonne state that VALDEZ has received several large reinforcements ; and a general engagement is daily ex pected to take place between the QUBEN'S army and the insurgents. FRENCH FUNDS -Pants, JuNst 2. Five per Cents., 107 f. lOc. 90c. Four per Cents., 98f. 50c. Three per Cents., 79f. 78f. 95c. 79f. Bank Actions, 1,965 f. -c. Rente de Naples, 97f. 25c. 36c. 65c. Roman Five per Cents., 994. Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 40%. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 271 i%. Ttoya' Spanish Loan. 4i% 47 46%. RentePerpet. d'Espagne' Five per Cent., 4 21 ,4 41%. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 100. Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 91%. Haytian Loan, 125 f. -c. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25C 40c.; money, 251'. 40c. Three months, paper, -f. -c. ; money, 25f. 25c -co rs Authenthpie. BOURSE, THREE o'CLocx.-The Rentes have improved to-day. No particular r eason is given for the rise. The speculators flatter themselves that the English funds will come higher to-morrow. Some bargains have been done at 79f. boc. for the end of the month, but the present price is near 79f. 40c. The Spanish securities are also better, but very little business is doing. Another defaulter has been declared to day. His loss amounts to about 10,000/. QUARTER TO FOOR.--FiVill per Cents,, 107 f. 60c. ; Three per Cents., 79c. 50c. ; Five per Cont. Spanisk, 411; Throoper Cont. Spanish, 27i; Cortes, 401 ; Coupon, 2; Guebhards, 48i ; Differ‘o, 181 ; New Loan, 58f ; Definitive', 51 ; Ducats, 05 55 ex div. ; Romans, 99f ' • Belgian, 100 ; Pedrce, 91k; Dutch, 54; Haytians, 428 f. ; Brabant Bank, 17. DIORAMA. We went yesterday to pay a second visit to the Diorama, our first having been a hasty one, and our remarks, in conse quence, somewhat briefer than the merits of the exhibition demand. The Pictures are two in number —one, a view of the Interior of the Church of Santa Croce, at Florence ; and the other, of the Campo Vaccino, at Rome. The first is the best—indeed, of the kind, the best we have seen. The effects produced by the alternations of light and shade are such as none will believe, who have not witnessed them. The view undergoes during its exhibition, every possible modification of light, from that of high noon-day to midnight darkness, which last is relieved for a short period by the entrance of a funeral procession by torch light, which is seen—dwarfed of course by distance—to pass across the further extremity of the building. The church is then once more buried in profoundest gloom, but almost instantly afterwards it passes from this state, into one of brilliant illumination, which is effected by the light ing up, in succession, of the wax tapers and chandeliers, at the various altars. By means of this broad glare of light the chairs and benches, in various parts of the church, which were previously vacant, are perceived to be occupied by devotees, assembled to assist at the celebration of the mass. At this in stant the bell of the principal altar tinkles, as a signal that the hour of prayer has arrived ; upon which the church organ strikes up a solemn anthem ; and so admirably is this instru. ment placed, or so well-adapted is the Diorama for the pur poses of enriching and strengthening sound, that the organ actually possesses all the rich grandeur and full volume of melody it would possess, were we to hear it pealing under the vaulted roof of Westminster Abbey. By the time the religious rites are ended, morning has begun to dawn ; first a pale, indistinct, greyish light comes hesitating in at the church windows ; presently it assumes a bolder and more definite character, quenching the glare of the wax tapers, as it grows in strength; till at length a full meridian sun bursts in on the church and bench, and column, altar and floor, the near monument, and the distant arch, are all brought out in their minutest proportions, beneath its splendour. When the spectator is informed that all these changes--all these magical effects—are produced by the simple means of colours on a plain, extended surface of canvas, combined with the reflection of the rays of light, and the ingenious application of the powers of light and shade, we suspect he will be as incredulous as we were—until we b ad seen the Exhibition 1 The View of the Campo Vaccino is good, but by no means first-rate. The whole powers of the painter have been centered in the Santa Croce. Altogether the Diorama is, by many degrees, the most extraordinary ex hibition of the season. SOCIETA ARMONICA. SIXTH CONCERT. The last Concert of this Association, for the season, was held on Monday evening at the Great Concert Rooms attached to the King's Theatre. The vocal performers were Mlles. Grisi, Annette Brambilla, Miss Postans, Signors Tamburini, Rubini, and Lablache. Ivanoff, although announced, did not make his appearance. Indeed, to accommodate the Italian profes sors, the order of the programme was inverted ; Beethoven was left for the second act, where his symphony bloomed an autumn flower ; while the productions of Donizetti and Bel lini flourished like vigorous weeds in the spring-time of the performance. The operas—so called—" I Puritani," " Les tocq," and " Marino Faliero," exemplify the three degrees of comparison —bad, worse, worst ; but as the language of pane gyric has been happily exhausted on their supposititious excel lencies, justifiable homicide, or at least accidental death, ought, in the nature of chances, to be fate of the first composer who shall hereafter be deemed to occupy any position between these extremes. Tamburini performed the song, from " Fi garo," sung by Lablache at the last Ancient Concert, with the utmost finish and elegance, and in most perfect keeping with the spirit of the composition. Hummel's septet is an elegant and imaginative composition, and was meritoriously executed by Messrs. Forbes, Mori, Lindley, Dragonetti, Card, Willman, and Harper. Mr. Ribas performed a fantasia on the flute in a masterly manner ; but if he claim credit for his procreation of the concluding cadenza, what shall we say to his pretensions as composer of the piece which it ungrcicefully closed? Miss Postans cannot (what English vocalist can ?) sing Italian music. This young lady possesses one of the first requisites for success in her branch of the art— a fine voice ; but she followed Grisi only to convince the au dience of the wide difference between the native and foreign utterance of Italy's sweet sounds. Why should we expect it to be otherwise ? A foreign artist can never do justice to our own language, although married to the immortal strains of a Handel or Purcel. The audience expressed their disap probation of the omission of Signor Ivanoff and his barcarolle, and were informed by the conductor that this gentleman had conic too late to be introduced to the company during the first act, and went away too early to make the amende honourable in the second. If this had been any other than the last of this series of concerts, we should have presumed to recommend an unity of action (no doubt there was of design) between the flourishes of the conductor Mr. Forbes, and the leader, Mr. Mori. The band appeared to relieve their minds from the pain of uncertainty, by regarding neither. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, For the Weck ended May 18:35, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat 49s 10d. Oats Par1ey......... 4d. I Rye IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEEKS PRECEDING. Wheat 19s. 3d Oats Harty 3ls 2il, Rye DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. \lace ......... 475. , d. Oats Barley.. ...... 15s. 4d. j Rye THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Owing to the contrary winds we are again without arrivals, (with the exception of the ordinary mails, French and Ostend, with the express from Paris), and no ship letters. This being the grand day for Epsom races, the Stock Ex change and Foreign Markets, are somewhat thinned of their operatives, excepting of those who have large accounts to set tle, several of which still remain to be adjusted. Otherwise the difficulties experienced would not have been so great, and the Account would have been got rid of ere this. During the whole of yesterday no sale of Spanish Stock could be effected without a great sacrifice, and the Market was at a complete stand-still during the day, with nominal prices. Consols wer e b uo y an t during the whole of yesterday morn ing, until late in the afternoon, when they gave way a little, owing to a Chancery sale being effected. Consols left off at 90i- 91, for the Account; opened this morning at 91f for the Account ; same for money. Exchequer Bills higher, 29 31; India Bonds higher, 11 13; Bank Stock, 217 19 ; India Stock, 259 61 ; Dutch prices, 2i per Cents 45k ; 5 per Cents, 101. Th . e followi ng are t h e quo t a ti ons o f the Foreign prices thi s morning :—Belgian, 99 100 ; Brazilian, 82 83 ; Chilian, 47 49 ; Columbian, 33. 341; Danish, 76f ; Mexican, 33 34i ; P or t uguese , 86} 87i; Spanish Bonds, 47i 48 ; Spanish Scrip, 7i 6, discount ; Portuguese Scrip, 9 disc. HALF-PAST ONE. The Foreign Market continues with the same gloomy ap pearance as on the previous days, caused by certain parties refusing to make up, that is, not accepting of what is offered to A meeting is now being held of the creditors of a member of the House, whose differences are about 50,0001., when it is supposed that some measure will be adopted to settle his differences. Another great account at the West End is spoken of, but the party will not come forward. No business doing in the foreign market; prices nominal at present ; Columbian, 34i ; Peruvian, 29i; Portuguese, 85 ; Spanish, 47 ; Scrip, 7 discount ; Dutch 2f per Cents., 55f. Consols continue steady at 91k for the Account ; Exchequer Bills improved, 34; India Bonds, 14; Bank Stock, 218 ; India, 259. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for the Account, tl i THE FUNDS —C: BRITISH Bank Stock 218 3 per Cent. Red 9O l/4 3 per Cent. Cons Jan.. 3!.., per Cent. 3 per Cent Red 98 % New 3.4 per Cent _ 4 per Cent. Assented Dissen t e d L ong Annuities to expire Jail 1860 l6 11-16 18410) ...................................... I 0 .... : 1 1 6 6Rs Y4 E1 GI OSING PRICES. FUNDS. India Stock 9.59 Ditto 80nd5.... : . ............... ...14 pin South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities Ex. Bills, 10004... Ditto 5001 36 pm. Ditto 5001 36 pm. Bank Stock for Opg. ' — India Stock for Act. Consols for Act. P p l o ru U rt s u ll si g a D u n e S . s . e s ß pe o r n c d e s n , L 5 per cent. Belgian,sh, per 91”4 S D : i ia t t t nt o : p e s w e t. ..... 145 8 75 7 D itt i i t s t s o i , an ll. B 3a c t onds, 5 per cent. Austrian, 5 per cent 5 per cent Brzzilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent Columbian, Ditto, 182. ............... ........................ ........................ 35 - 1104 French, 5 per cent Gree Dani k Bonds, 15:25.5 per cent. Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent., 1825.... French, 3 per cent —t. --c. D i rt , I so3. 6 per cent.......... 34 Dutch, ‘2,- per cent. Peruvian. i; per cent .........30 ' . •••••• • 00% Nothing of importance took place in either House of Parliament up to the time of our going to press. CATHOLIC CLERGY.—Mr. O'Brien's notice of a motion for a provision for the Catholic Clergy stands post poned until the 21st of July. A gentleman inf orms us t h at he is empowered b y Mr. O'Brien to state " that it is his in tention to withdraw the notice altogether, in consequence of his having found the opinion of the Catholic Clergy and laity much less favourable to the proposition than he expected."— Dublin Register. MURDER ON TIIE RlVER.—Yesterday evening, at seven o'clock, an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, Coro nand a respec table Jur y , at the Black Horse Tavern, High street, Poplar, Poplar, on the body of John Peter Oram, a seamon, aged forty-two years, belonging to the John Renwick, West Indiaman, who was stabbed by Thomas Menzies, the third mate, on Tuesday evening, on the river, from the effect of which he died on the following morning. The Coroner sum med up the evidence, and explained the law of the case, and the Jury, after a short consideration, re t urne d a verd i ct o f Manslaughter" against Thomas Menzies, who, by the advice of Mr. Flower, his solicitor, entered into no defence, and he was forthwith committed to Newgate for trial. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR THIS DAY. 1. Mr. Bish,—Address to his Majesty, praying him to hold his Court and Parliament occasionally in Ireland. 2. Mr. W. S. O'Brien,—Resolutions to the effect, that it is expe dient to give to several of the larger Counties in Ireland addi tional Representatives in Parliament, with the view of dimi nishing the great inequality which at present exists between the Representation of Great Britain, and that of Ireland, in reference to the population and resources of each Kingdom. 3. Sir Robert Heron,—Bill to repeal the Septennial Act an d li m it th e duration of Parliament to five years, and to prevent the neces sity of Members of the House of Commons accepting certain offices from vacating their seats thereby. 4. Mr. Labouchere,—Bill to extend the accommodation by the Post to and from Foreign Parts ; and for other purposes relat ing to the Post Office. 5. Mr. O'Connell,—Bill to establish a Poor Rate for destitute fa- milies in Ireland. 6. Mr. O'Connell,—Bill to restore the Trial by Jury in Ireland in all cases of Assaults and of Trespasses. 7. Mr. Shaw,—Petition from Captain Richard Toucher. . . . . 8. Mr. Evart,—Petition for Reform in the Institutions of the Isle of Man. 9. Mr. Wyse,—Committee relative to Diocesan and Royal Schools in Ireland, with a view to extending their utility. ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR THIS DAY. 1. Conyer's Divorce Bill—Committee ; Counsel and VI itnesses. 2. Vestries Act Amendment Bill—Second reading. 3. Merchant Seamen Bill—Third reading. 4. Consolidated Fund Bill—Committee. NOTICES OF MOTIONS GIVEN LAST NIGHT. FRIDAY, JUNE 5. 1. Mr. Jervis,—Bill to amend the Law relating to offences against the person in certain cases. 2. Sir Richard Musgrave,—Bill for the administration of certain Civil Affairs of a Local nature in Ireland. • WEDNESDAY, JUNE JO. Dr. Bowring,—Correspondence between; his Majesty Consul at Tripoli and the British Government. THURSDAY, JUNK 11. - , 1. Lord G. Somerset,—Address in pursuance of Resolutions of Committee on Re-building Houses of Parliament. MONDAY, JUNE 15. Mr. Maurice O'Connell,—Select Committee, to inquire into the conduct of General Darling while Governor of New South Wales, particularly with reference to the grants of the Crown Lands made by him, his treatment of the Public Press, the case of Captain Robison, and the New South Wale s V e t eran Companies, and the alleged instances of cruelty towards the soldiers Ludds and Thompson, and other persons, and to report thereon to the House. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17. Lord Viscount Castlereagh,—Petition from the High Sheriff o the County Down, signed in behalf of a meeting held last Oc• tober. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, Lord BROUGHAM, and the Earl of ABINGDON sat in the House of Lords to-day to hear Scotch Appeals. _ _ Their Lordships were occupied the whole morning with the appeal of Yeats v. Mills, which involved a question of dry Scotch pleading. Nothing of any public interest took place in either the Rolls or Vice- Chancellor's Court to-day. KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) LIBEL-THE RING V. ROBINSON. At the sitting of the Court this morning Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK resumed his address. He concluded that the libel in question had been published in the worst possible form, from the worst motives, and under the worst advice, and the defendant had therefore no right to ask for a merciful consi deration of his case. For the sake of society at large, and in order that authority should be respected, their Lordships were bound to visit the defendant with punishment. Jf Courts of Justice were still to administer it without intimidation, their Lordships were bound to meet the attempt that had been made in the present case, to set up a Court of Appeal by the publication of libels of this sort. Sir WILLIAM FOLLETT followed on the same side. The COURT, after consulting for a short time, directed that the defendant should appear on Wednesday morning to receive its judgment. EXCHEQUER COURT.-(THIS DAY. HARVEY V. JENKINS. Sir JOHN CAMPBELL obtained a rule to show cause why a verdict should not be set aside, which, in this case, was for the plaintiff. This morning Mr. Baron GURNEY read over his notes of the trial, from which it appeared that the action was brought to try the validity of metage dues claimed under the Corpora tion, upon all goods landed in the port under their juris diction. Evidence was given on the trial, of the fact of there being no older document, relative to the dues in exist ence, of a later date than 1752, though the town had a charter in the time of Henry I. Many old Captains were called, and proved that they had always paid for the metage of coals imported by them into Truro from so far back as 1784, and many of them had heard from Captains who were old men when they were young. One of the lessees of the dues proved that it had been in his family for three lives. He had it from 1784 to 1820, and during all that time only one Captain had disputed the claim of dues upon coals : he was summoned be fore the Mayor, and was obliged to pay. The reading of the evidence occupied the Learned Baron for an hour and a half. In answer to the Court, Sir JOHN CAMPBELL stated that his objections to the verdict were, that there was not sufficient evidence to warrant it, and if so, that it did not support the declaration. Sir We. FOLLETT then addressed the Court at great length against the rule, and was speaking when our Reporter left. The case is likely to occupy the whole day. SUMMER CIRCUITS AS APPOINTED BY THE JUDGES THIS MORNING. OXFORD. Lord DENMAN and Mr. Justice WILLI.sms. NORTHERN. Lord Chief Justice TYNDAL and Lord ABINGER. HOME. Mr. Justice PARKE and Mr. Justice LITTLKDALE. MIDLAND. Mr. Justice GASKLES and Mr. Justice VAUGHAN. NORFOLK. Mr. Baron PARKE and Mr. Baron BOLLAND. NORTH WALES. Mr. Justice BOSANQUET. SOUTH WALES. Mr. Justice PATTESON. WESTERN. Mr. Baron GURNEY and Mr. Justice COLEREIGS. SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, Jura 3.—Wind S. S.E.—light airs.—Arrived the Vulcan, Evans, from Limerick ; Charlotte, William from Londonderry ; Margaretha, Buchanan, from Batavia ; Levant, Booth, from Shields ; Henrietta, Jones, from Port madox to Wisbeach ; and the Levant Star, Hicks, Fowey to Newcastle. Arrived from the river and sailed the Lady Feversham, Websar, for Bombay. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 3.—Wind light and variable. FALMOUTH, JUNE 2.—Wind S. to S.E., moderate.—Ar rived the Duke of Portland's yacht, Clown, from Lisbon, sailed on the 21st of May ; Marquis of Anglesea, Morgan, from Portsmouth, for Lisbon ; sailed his Majesty's ship Sa phire, for Malta. CIIANNEL, JUNE 3.—Arrived the Madras, —, from China. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 2.—Arrived the Tweed, Smith, from Porto Cabello. Off port, the Lydia, —, from Jamaica. BELFAST, JUNE I.—Arrived the Fame, Wills, from Alicant. Coney JUNE I.—Arrived the Emancipation, Plummer; and Favorite, Silk, from London. ABERDEEN, JUNE I.—Arrived the Oscar, Anderson, from Gothenburg. STOCKTON, JUNE I.—Arrived the Arethusa, Richardson, from Memel. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET, TO-MORROW. (From the London Gazette.) H M W. Savage, dealer, Great Ryder-street, St. James's I'. L. Terrey, vintner, Cornhill D. Tye, cattle-aalesman, Weybridge, Surrey 2 11 2ybridge T. Harvie, merchant, Jerusalem Cot!be-house W. Burrows, plumber, Leirester-street, Leicester-square 1 2 W. Day, glaziar, Providence-buildings, New Kent-road The Earl of Egremont has sent a donation of 1001. to the Artists' General Benevolent Institution. THE GRETNA GREEN MARRIAGES.—In the next Number of the Court Journal is to be commenced the account of the " Gretna Green Marriages." Our " List" of elopements," says the Editor, "is nearly complete, and we shall commence the series with the marriage of the celebrated Lord Erskine. It is the Editor's intention to give the elope ments in each family, dividing them into two classes, those be fore marriage, and those after marriage. One of the most romantic of the latter class is the history of the sister of a fa-- shionable Countess, mentioned in the last Court Journal. The beauty of this lady is said far to have surpassed that of her more prudent and fortunate relative. She has been living in retirement for many years." ELOPEMENT IN DUBLIN.—A gallant Officer on the Staff of the late Commander of the Forces, and the son of a high official personage in this country, has carried off the lovely daughter of a distinguished Baronet, whose estates lie in a central county, but who is now resident in Dublin. with out the consent of the papa. We believe that in this—the last case of elopement"—love, " almighty love," was the sole actuating motive, for it is understood that the lady has no pro perty in her own right; and upon this point rumour has it that the amorous swain is on perfect terms of equality. The lady's " face is her fortune," and the gentleman's sw or d i s hi s b es t, if not his only, patrimony.—Dublin Evening Mail of Monday. DUBLIN, JUNE I.—There has been a great hubbub here this morning, occasioned by Captain Gossett having started off on a matrimonial excursion with a daughter of Sir Thos. Butler, county Carlow. An attachment between the parties has been for some time observed ; but as the young lady is one of ten children, and the Captain only a young soldier, the friends of both were averse to the marriage. The young couple, how• ever, disappeared early yesterday morning, and their route is not known. LITERATURE. WALKER'S CRITICAL PRONOUNCING DIC- TIONAR Y. PART 1.--PRIGS is. 6d..—ENTIRRLT RJ3IfODALLED. TO Rld COMPLISTRII IN WIN sroxrictr ?ARTY. T. Cadell. London. 1833. This work will, when completed, be the best of the kind in the language. Mr. Smart is the editor, and proposes to give an entirely remodelled edition of Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, which, be sides furnishing us with a more accurate analysis of the sounds of the language, with correspondent schemes and principles of pronunciation, will include a great many thousand words which are not to be found in any of the previous editions of Walker. These additions will comprise about fifty sheets, or eight hundred Bvo pages, and will consist, first, of restora tions from Johnson's Dictionary of the obsolete words which Walker omits, because,, as Mr. Smart very justly observes, the restoration of such words is ne eessary to the reading of authors of the Elizabethan age ; and, secondly, of insertions from Todd, Webster, and other sources, of all the important words which the progress of literature and science has accumulated since the days of Johnson. The present part is de voted, with the exception of a few pages which com mence the Dictionary, to an introductory dissertation on the " schemes and principles of Pronunciation," in which Mr. Smart lays down many judicious rules for the remedying of defective utterance. One of the sections of this essay is entitled, " Hints for softening an Hibernian brogue," and might be read by mere than one joint of O'Connell's tail with advantage. But, after all, the great recommendation of this work is its compactness and cheapness. Notwithstanding the comprehensive character of its alterations, and the space devoted to its Preliminary Essay, it will be completed in ten eighteen-penny monthly parts, thereby furnish ing us with a more perfect Dictionary than any we have yet seen, at a price infinitely less than would be paid for three volumes of a trashy fashionable novel THE POETICAL WORKS OF SAMUEL ROGERS, ESQ. PART IV. London: Edward Moxon. We have to announce the appearance of the Fourth Part of this admirable edition of the poems of Rogers, illustrated by one hundred and twenty-eight vignettes , from designs by Stothard and Turner. The illustra tions are surpassingly beautiful, and so closely do they embody all that is descriptive in the verse, that the work appeals as forcibly to the eye as to the un derstanding. Rogers appears before us under the happiest auspices ; for his illustrators and his publisher vie with each other in doing him honour. THE NE TV STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF SCOTLAND, No. VI. Blackwood, Edinburgh ; Cadell, London. The Statistical History of a part of the counties of Inverness and Berwick, with a map of the former beauti fully coloured are given in the May Number of this of cellent national work. The towns in the county of In verness of which we have here an account, are Inverness, Glenmoriston, Boleskine, and Kingussie ; those in the county of Berwick are Ladykirk, Swinton, Coldstream' Nenthorn, Fogo, Polworth, Langton, Dunse, F°°l - Edrom, Coldingham, Cockburnspath, Eyemouthf Hordington, and Legerwood. When completed, this publication will furnish materials for a history °f Scotland, more ample, more correct, and an hundred times more valuable than at present exists in any country in Europe. Well may Scotland be proud of her priesthood, after receiving this testimony of their industry and intelligence. THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. Blackwood, Edinburgh ; Cadell, London. This Number opens with an able article, instituting a comparison bets een the English and Scottish sys tems of relieving the poor. The writer is familiar with his subject, and treats it luminously ; but we think that he does not make sufficient allowance for the difference of early habit between the labouring popu lation in England, and the same class of individuals reared up in Scotland. He appears to us to have lost sight of the fact that there is such a thing as national character, which no Government can attempt to era dicate in the poor, without altering the whole frame of society. We contend, moreover, that it is morally im possible to force the poor of England to be content With such a provision as would satisfy the poor of Scotland. Englishmen are from infancy accustomed to regard their country as the richest and most power ful in the world ; Scotsmen, on the contrary, are from childhood aware of the sterility and poverty of the ir native soil, of the difficulty of procuring even an in " adequate subsistence without severe toil, and s trict economy. The effects of the radical difference in the first impressions of the poor of the two countries ill observable in the whole course of their conduct in after life. Besides, as the claim of the p o or to sus tenance is always in a relative degree commensurate with the fertility of the soil, and the wealth o f the country, the English poor are justly entitled to a sue' tenance which may with equal justice be denied to ths poor of Scotland. This observation is, we belie"' now made for the first time ; but we are persuaded that very little reflection will be necessary to manifest its full force. The agriculturists will find a number" of m ost jai' portant Essays, on subjects intimately connected with the cultivation of every kind of crop, in these pages. THE GOLDEN RULES OF LIFE. Smith and Co., Oxford-street, 1831. This purports to be a book for the whole world ; adapted for the perusal of both sexes and all ages. It is unquestionably a collection of fine aphorisms from the best writers ancient and modern. As the cost 19 but a shilling, we should expect for it an extensive circulation. • MONTHLY REPOSITORY. Dies sub Ccelo," which is the first article in the present number, is an ambitious attempt to revive the " Noctes " in Blackwood. Viewed in that light it i 9 a sad failure, though it contains one or two observa tions marked by good sense and happiness of expres sion. Had it been only half the length it is, it would have been much more effective. Of the other article§ the best we can say of them is, that they are of the usual common-place average. The lovers of Music will be much pleased to learn that Mr. Lewy (Director of the Chapel Royal of Sweden) the celebrated performer on the newly-constructed Chromatic French Horn, has arrived in this country, and we understand intends shortly to exhibit the wonderful powers of his instru ment, which is of his own invention, before an English all dience. We have already had the opportunity of hearing him, and were highly delighted with his performance. The depth and richness of his low notes is surprising. Mr. Lewy ha s been performing with great success at Petersburgh, Moscow , Vienna, &c. We hear that he is a pupil of Beethoven's. Thursday, the 18th of the present month, being the anniversary of Waterloo, will be celebrated as usual by a ren d dinner to be given at Apsley House, by the Duke of 'Welling; ton, to the British officers who commanded :at that splend id victory. His Majesty is expected, a s u s u a l, t o honour the WO' pany with his presence. MRS. HENIANs.—The Athenceum, in announcing the death of Mrs. Hemans, has been led into some errors re specting the place of her birth, which we are requested by II near relation of that lady to correct. Sh e was no t born " ll ' a small quaint-looking house in St. Anne -street, Livere" " but in the house now occupied by M r . M o l yneux , in Puke street. Her mother was also born in the same street. M rs ' Hemans was born in affluence, received a superior and was a beautiful as we ll es a highly-accomplished sycnfna Her marriage was an i mpru d ent b ut not an unhappy ° ti t - n - e although sep ara t e d i n l atter lif e from her husband, h e - ver estranged from her.—Liverpool Standard. education, PAR Lw a this : 11 :: : 4 s eri atgake rejectedtaking iil of Bill W 0 I, up t a : t11 ° : 1 11 s io ll neert B rti e dlosi er ot o ou se itti r niyhlgv a o I m obdl;t : ae ie t ega t Tpnt e t rot : R ti °l l l . Be to be co • 1111,'eit, i n or( tihkt a s,r4s, or t f;)' acs - 41eg then t,likti°l4any a L'` 11 (11 1 Y . e slled up 1 , Is Plan 1) - 1 / 2 4 h4t a e Premi `s shall , t he consii kttesuccessful .*sstrily a c kkire ward of 1,( I toi l e ,Peaker •Earden s t ' e cond on tp h ltt icient c \ ll 7e ti e ' "di r evived b ti t 0 1 ever l l 44 su N ete is n 6,44..7 visiting ti i l l b conti nue kild ces Art' the Dukt THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 18353