The Sun. — London, England, 1835-06-10 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. There is somethin g very amusing in the sudden conversion of the Tory journals to the necessity of Mu nicipal Reform. After years of laborious defence of the corruption of close corporations, and all the most scandalous abuses of the existing system, our contem poraries are now zealous proselytes to the popular cause. We must now, forsooth, respect the Tories for deigning to examine the Ministerial measure ; and Sir R. Peel, the ancient ally of Leicester, Northamp ton and Coventry—the advocate of the nomination and rotten boroughs, is to be the arbiter of a new system of municipal government I We again warn the Re formers to be on their guard. The Tories have but one object in this new-born zeal. They hypocriti cally profess a new faith, because the old one is worn out and unpopular. The Conformers abandon their old political positions as untenable in the present state of public opinion. Sir R. Peel, in this critical stage of his public life, is forced to bow the knee to the Peo ple. However loth the Tories to follow the leader, they cannot act a part without him. They resemble drowning men lashed to a plank : to the Right Hon. Baronet they must cling, as he i s their only chance for salvation as a party. We cannot, however, safely receive the new recruits into our ranks ; their designs are too thinly concealed to deceive the Re formers. The Tories will oppose all the really popu lar parts of the Corporation Bill. Already their journals have denounced the franchise, the provisions for a police emanating from the municipal constitu ency, and the popular selection of municipal magis tracy. The inconsistency of the Tories is vastly amusing. They are alternately the advocates of uni versal suffrage and a high standard of electoral right, as best suits their party purposes. The corrupt free men were perpetuated in 1831 and 1832, in the divi sions on the Reform Bill, at the same time that the Tories were defaming the ten-pounders and middle ranks, and predicting the advent of democracy. Though the old constitution of Parliament was based on the most anomalous electoral rights, and although the municipal franchise now comprehends numerous sorts of qualification, Sir R. Peel fears the effect of three different rights of franchise in corporate towns—the Par liamentary, the vestry, and the proposed municipal qua lifications. The ancient constitution of corporations was extremely popular. Every settled householder of the towns participated in municipal power. Elections were generally annual, and our ancestors were haunted with no Tory dread of the people. So in the counties all freeholders, without limitation, voted, and sheriffs as well as coroners were elected by the local consti tuencies; and this in a state of society where there did not exist the numerous gradations by which the highest and the lowest classes are connected together, and when education and knowledge were extremely limited. It would now, however, appear, that as the people be come more trustworthy and enlightened, as the prin ciples of liberty are more diffused and respected, and the limits of taxation extended, popular rights are to be more restricted, and our institutions are to become more aristocratic. Our ancient municipal charters in vested • a popular constituency with the power of electing mayors, magistrates, and coroners ; the conservation of the peace was exclusively intrusted to the inhabitants of the towns, and the police was jealously controlled by the local authorities. Under the rule of the Tories, the Corporations have been perverted to party and political purposes— the public funds have been appropriated to jobbery and electioneering devices—institutions which inz.ve outgrown their municipal ends, have been continned by the Tories unimproved and corrupted—and now the evil-doers step in to bestow their assistance in the work of their reformation I No provision in die Ministerial Bill is more wise and justifiable than the proposed municipal franchise. In the majority of corporate towns, a ten-pound qualification • would yield no sufficient constituency. The mass of the people ale deeply interested in the advantages of good local government. It would he most injurious if the periodical elections of town councils became trials of party strength preceding Parliamentary contests. The Bill, moreover, gives a power of local taxation, and a co-extensive representation is the just and constitu tional principle of a municipal electoral right. The proposed qualification, by its accompanying essentials of residence and period of rating—the latter, perhepe, too restrictive—will secure the moral and intellectual character of the elector. The Standard entertains a very groundless fear of the fiscal powers thus in tended to be intrusted to the lower class of rate-payers, and apprehends that the smaller contributors to a bo rough-rate will not be very moderate in their levies on the pockets of the higher property classes. In answer to this objection, we need only cite the notorious and recent experience of the woi king of the open vestry system. " The canaille of London," quoting the contemptuous and illiberal words of our Conservative Contemporary, have, in Marylebone and other metro politan districts, proved the popular estimation of pa rish economy, by a degree of retrenchment of expendi ture and improvement of localgovernment scarcely cre dible, when we consider the short period of the ex istence of open vestries. The same results have fol lowed the " open system" throughout the country. The people have too much self-respect, and too great care for their own pockets, to tax themselves or any class for no beneficial purpose. It is the close Corporations who mis-spend the public funds, and who over-tax their communities ; it was the self-elect Corporators and the Boroughmongers who heaped onerous debts on the country, and close vestries who mortgaged the Poor and Church-rates of posterity. Periodical elec tions, duly regulated, where recently adopted, have effected infinite good, and produced no evils in the parishes of the metropolis and the country. When it suits the Tories, they never scruple to dissolve a Par liament ; and, as in Ipswich, Hull, Liverpool, Bris tol, Cambridge, and other towns, they delug e th e constituencies with bribery, treating, and all the cor rupt practices of electioneering, and in the Legislature always resist every attempt to punish delinquents, or secure the people from demoralization. Some of the Tory Journals strongly object to the licensing system being vested in the town councils. In whom is it now placed, and by whom is the power notoriously misused, and perverted to party ob jects ? In the close Corporations. And who can be such good judges of the local necessity for public-houses and spirit-shops as the Municipal Councils ? The opposition of the metropolitan classes to the introduction of a Government police has been cited as an argument against the popular appointment and control of the country police. No fair objection can be drawn from the well-known prejudice originally entertained in the metropolis against the existing system. It was a novel experiment, and the metro polis was not one municipality, but an aggregate of municipalities. The necessity for placing all the divi sions of the metropolis under one system of police, in order that it may be effective, is now generally admit ted. But it was a violent innovation in the national habits ; for there exists in England a strong feeling against military interference and a constabulary force, under the exclusive direction of the Execu tive Government. The introduction of such a po lice in the country towns would be impossible, and the attempt would be unjustifiable. Necessity does not require it, and the metropolis is an exception to the general rule of a constabulary force. London, with the exception of the City, was utterly destitute of any municipal constitution. A million and a half of peo ple, congregated in one immense town, require more than common restraint, and a police for such a place must be under the direction of one head. The pre sent defective state of the country police is no crite rion of its future improved regulation. A close corporatiOn, s t ee p e d i n m i scon d uct , an d w i t h out pub lic respect, can never effectively controul a large coin munity. We are, however, on the eve of a new and improved municipal government. Supersede the ex isting self-elect bodies by popularly chosen officers, and order and justice will soon take the place of misrule and corruption. When an elective system has been at work a very few years, we shall see the towns governed by town councils and a ma gistracy commanding the public respect. If any new powers are necessary for good government, they will seek and obtain them from the Legislature. Life and property will be their natural care. A new and rapid formation of public character cannot fail to take place. The opulent and intelligent classes will obtain rule, and supersede the needy partisans of the Tories and the bigots of the day. The existing municipal system has been that of party and corruption ; it can only be rooted up by the agency of self-government. Ministers deserve, and will obtain, the confidence and support of the country for this great measure of Le gislation, and our only care now is to preserve it from mutilation. The Times treats it as a grand manoeuvre of a party ; but the motives of public men, lately the adored of that journal, are rather more pure than those of the scribblers of the Times. It is not in the power of political apostates to injure the measure, or suc cessfully to defame public men who have thus honour ably redeemed their pledge, to give to the country an honest Municipal Reform.--Morning Chronicle. If the Queen's Government in Spain can maintain itself without foreign intervention, why does it call for it ? If it cannot, why do those who acknowledge the necessity for that intervention deny or palliate the des perate condition of the Queen's Government ? The " patriotic " Ministry, and the brave Liberals at Madrid, denounced " foreign intervention " as a trea sonable phrase five or six weeks ago. As to the blus tering Urbanos, who showed the untameable spirit of their heroism by dyeing their swords—untarnished with battle-stains—in the blood of defenceless priests and unarmed monks, they were ready to immolate on the reeking altars of their fe rocious patriotism every man who dared to breathe the words " foreign intervention." Where are those gallant defenders of their country's inde pendence now ? The cry for the armed assistance . of the foreigners has gone forth from the Court of Ma drid. The Queen-Regent, awakened from her dream of pleasure by the mountain-thunders before which her armies have been scattered, has raised the cry of distress, and implored the succour of foreign States to save the Crown upon the head of the baby , Bourbon. The patriotic Ministers join in the suppli. cation, and the Urbanos, where are they ? Have they gone forth to fight the Carlists, and to prove by their valour in the field that foreign intervention is un necessary ? No, the cold-blooded butchers of Priests and monks have "no stomach for the fight." They are now convinced that danger is really near, and they are unwilling to yield to the hated foreigner the post of danger. How did the braggart patriots of Madrid exclaim against the convention, or stipulation, entered into between Zumalacarregui and Valdez, through the mediation of Lord Eliot, to put an end to the butchery of prisoners on both sides, and mitigate the war to something of a civilized character from its spirit of savage extermination ? Oti whose side lay the advan tage of this humanizing compact ? Surely it was not on the side of the victorious Carlists, who took pri soners enough to enable them to clear off the debt of bloodshed elsewhere than in the battle-field, with tre mendous interest ? But the noisy democrats of Ma , drid cared not for the lives of brave men on either side, nor did they desire to risk their own. They would, forsooth, have Ministers impeached for sanctioning a convention which nothing but necessity induced them to sanction—the same irresistible necessity which causes them now to sanction the demand for for,eit intervention, though they are silly enough to en deavour to disguise the intervention so hateful, yet so desired, under the name of " co-operation." The patriots of Madrid despise foreigners. Why do they call upon them, then, to fight their battles ? h'y do the successes of a handful of Carlist warriors in the mountains of Biscay and Navarre overwhelm them with alarm within the gates of Madrid ? Where are the " annihilators" of those Cariil.ts, who, according to the French telegraph, and the accounts of the bubble blowers of the Paris Bourse, and our own Stock Ex change, gained victory after victory over the " infa tuated followers" of Don Carlos ? Where is Saars field ? Where Quesada ? Where Rodil? Where Mina ? Where Valdez ? Was there one of those, not to mention other redoubted Commanders of the Queen's troops, who did not scatter the armies of ant Carlos, and cut up his cause by the roots ? The • communication of our Correspondent from the head quarters of Don Carlos, in our Paper of yesterday, contained much information, both instructive and in teresting to the public at this moment. In regard to past occurrences, as connected with the present sup. plication for foreign assistance, he says—" You c:ni not but remember the bulletin published by Valdes on the 3d of May, in the Madrid Gazette—mark the date—giving his version of the affair of Amescoas. He stated that the Carlists were dispersed—that they, were completely derouted, and that the Comman der-in-Chief had proved to the Carlists that lie could enter the Amescoas at his will and pleasure.' Now what has passed since the 3d of May so to change the aspect of affairs as to compel a Spanish General on his knees to implore the aid of foreign bayonets to annihilate those same Carlists, whom only a few days previous he dispersed and completely routed ? Has not here, again, the basest deceptions been practised on the public ? Read Espartero's bulletins of the state of the war in Biscay. Read those from El Pastor of the flourishing position of affairs in Gui puzcoa. Couple all those circumstances with the news published by Louis Philip, and again and again I ask, can Lord Palmerston consent to a French interven tion?" Our opinion of Lord Palmerston as a statesman is known not to be one of profound admiration ; yet we do not believe him so bereft of understanding as to agree to anything of the sort. If we must make our selves parties to a war in Europe, let it be for Eng lish objects—not to protect the injustice and support the frauds of the money-changing scrip-jobbing Go vernment of Spain. Let us drive back the Russian Power from the Dardanelles, and restore the indepen dence of our ancient ally and customer, Turkey. If we are chivalrous, let us take the field to restore the independence of Poland, whose noble cause was not connected with loan-jobbing, or any system of bubble inflating fraud. But as a nation we can derive neither profit nor glory from interfering in a war of disputed succession in Spain—a war most fitting for the Spa niards themselves to decide—for, undoubtedly, any Sovereign placed upon the throne of that country by foreign bayonets must be kept there by the same means. Let those who by the issue of the contest prove themselves to be the national majority, have the Sovereign of their choice—any other mode of " settling" the question will only lead to other civil convulsions, even although it should not produce a general war in Europe.—Morning Herald. The present Secretary for the Home Department having already given away, as Lord Melbourne ac knowledged the other night in the House of Lords, about a quarter of a million of pounds sterling, the produce of English taxes, to maintain the regal autho rity of the chaste and prudent widow of the late,King of Spain, there cannot be much doubt of his readiness to make any other sacrifice of the interests of Great Britain, that may be required, for the same honourable and disinterested purpose. A person in the position of a mere spectator of passing events, having no interest whatever in the scene, could not fail to extract amuse ment from the apparent • earnestness with which some English journals discuss the policy of intervention in the affairs of Spain at the present moment ; as if the policy or impolicy of intervention with refer ence to the honour or interests of England had any thing whatever to do with the matter. This is a qtkes tion at the Tuileries—this is a question, probably, in Capel-court ; but it can by no possibility be a question for Downing-street, so long as Lord Palmer ston is Foreign Minister. The Noble Lord is not a man to make a loss without being ready to do any thing, and everything, in order to recover it ; and for the two hundred thousand pounds' worth, at least, of arms and ammunition sent from the arsenals of Great Britain to Spain, the greater part of which is now safely in the possession of Don Carlos, there will never, it is plain, be an acceunt day, unless an army of some kind or other, French or British, be sent to assist in the settlement. Hesitation there may be, and ' no doubt there is, at the Tuileries ; but with Lord Pal merston, our readers may be assured,, there is none. , He is much too . deeply committed for that. His Lordship cannot fight the battle of the pure and vir tuous Queen-Regent of Spain without the concurrence 1 of France ; but should that not be withheld he will certainly fight a l' outrance, that is, to the utmost that British blood, not his own, and British treasure, i not his own, will allow. So far as Great Britain is 1 concerned the position of Lord Palmerston solves every doubt as to the promptitude and vigour with THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1835. which intervention would be attempted. But it is not quite so easy to anticipate what will really:be done when weitake into the account, not the interests of France--for we will do the actual Statesmen of that country the justice to say that they are so far worthy of being the confederates of Lord Palmerston that the interests of France, are the very last thing that will be thought of—but the interests of the predominant po litical party in that country, as a political party. In this point of view the question is beset with difficul ties, so much so, indeed, that the French Statesmen whose interests are at stake have not yet been able to agree among themselves what is best to be done. It is urged on the one hand that to the France of July, that is to say, the France of which the walls of the Tuileries form the circumference, and its inhabitants the population, the restoration of the legitimate Monarch in Spain would be rather an ominous and dangerous event ; while, on the other, it is argued, with equal force and truth, that a war against the Spanish nation has been proved by experience to be a costly and hazardous adventure—that the success of the Marshals of the France of July is not absolutely certain in an enter prise in which the Marshals of Napoleon lamentably failed—that, however the French people might tole rate or even admire a brilliant and decisive mi litary movement, they would not patiently endure a te dious and expensive warfare, such as that of the inter vention might probably prove, for such objects as the intervention must profess to have in view—and that the quasi legitimacy of Louis Philippe might sustain a shock in that brisk discussion of the principle of legitimacy which a war against Don Carlos could not fail to occasion. It is understood that the king of the French himself is included among the latter class of reasoners ; and he is not a man, we appre hend, to be much moved by the embarrassment which his indecision may occasion to Lord Palmerston. We omit, of course, all considerations as to the justice or injustice of intervention, now that we are pointing out the circumstances and arguments which affect its probability. And we do so in the perfect conviction that the justice of intervention in the inter nal affairs of Spain, and the probability of such inter vention, are perfectly separate and distinct questions, having not the least relation to, or connection with, each other. That the Spanish people hare a right to settle their internal disputes in their own way is cer tain. That it will be an act of monstrous injustice for any other nation to obstruct the exercise of that right, is as clear as any proposition of international law or international morals can possibly be. But, what of that ? Nobody is so extravagant as to suppose that the France of July, or the Downing-street of the pre sent moment, care anything about such old-fashioned trumpery as the law and morality of nations.—Morn ing Post, A pamphlet, on " The Present State of the Irish Poor, with the Outlines of a Plan of General Employ ment, by James O'Flynn, Assistant Commissioner of Irish Poor Inquiry," has recently issued from the press. This brochure is peculiarly well timed, and, as Mr. O'Connell is about to bring the subject of a legal pro vision for the Irish poor before the Legislature, it would be eminently desirable that, before sacrificing principle to'expediency, and sound policy to the prompt ings of a mistaken and short-sighted humanity, every Member of Parliament would first make himself ac quainted with the true causes of Irish distress before applying a nostrum— ., Which will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects uns,,en." The writer evinces not only a most intimate and ac curate acquaintance with the present suffering state of the small farmer, cottier, and labourer of Ireland, but also strong powers of mind in the deduction of his conclusions and the suggestion of remedies equally creditable to him as a philanthropist, philosopher, and politician. After tracing the suffering and demoraliza tion of the Irish poor to the neglect and pery,tcution of landlords, and the griping oppression of middle men, and proN,ing that the atrocities so-often heard of are attributable to the system under which they live, and not to the native character of the people, he thus comments on the introduction of poor laws A system of Poor-laws for Ireland is at present a most popular object ; but if by it be meant a system of in or out door support, such as exists or existed in England, I fear there are some insuperable difficulties—and a principle one is, where are tho funds to be procured for either ? If in-door relief bo the chosen mode, where, I ask, are funds to be procured for the building of poor-houses large enough to contain the greater part of the labouring population for eight months in the year, to say nothing whatever of their support when in them ? Will the landlords be taxed for this purpose ? If so, it is but a new distribution of property without any ultimate good whatsoever; will the feeding men in idleness, either in a house or out o it, make __productive the untouched re sources of the country? Try the out-door mode, that is— convert the whole country into a poor-house ; this was exploded in England, and the same difficulty remains—where aro the funds to be procured?" Having shown the utter impossibility of introducing , a system of in or out-door relief, he proposes the fol lowing plan of general employment : " Let the whole labouring population be estimated by the Parliamentary returns, and be distributed equally upon the land, according to its value. Suppose an estate, then, allotted out of the entire number, say, fifty labourers, but no parti cular individuals ; let the proprietor be obliged to employ, himself, that number, or cause them to be employed by his tenants, or pay into a public fund the whole, or a certain por tion of the daily hire of every one, within that number, not employed upon his property—this fund to be appropriated to public works, and the surplus labourers to be employed upon them. """ There will be thus two modes of employment open to every industrious man—agriculture and public works. When dismissed by the farmer, he has the public employment to go to." _ _ _ The proposed plan, which with a little consideration might be made perfectly practicable in its details, would equalise, or rather remove altogether, the burden of surplus population, as the improved state of the land and its increased value through the opening of com munications, would, in a short time, be much more than an equivalent, especially in a country so, unim proved as Ireland, where labour judiciously employed would be certain to make a quick return in solid cash. The writer continues— " This plan avoids entirely any vexatious system of settle ment. To exhibit the working of it, let us take a parish in Leinster, and one of equal value in Connaught, each being assessed at fifty labourers ; the parish in Leinster, having a small population, contains but forty, and the hire of the re maining ten (or whatever portion of it may be determined on) is sent up to a public exchequer. The parish of Connaught c:.-,ntnins sixty labourers, and receives from that exchequer the hire of ten more than its allotted number, which is to be ex pended in public works where they are most wanted." Our quotations already exceed the limits assigned by pressure of subjects of current interest, but we can not omit the following— Do any think that agitation in Ireland arises only from fancied evils ; and that the Irish, as a nation, are prone to neg lect their own affairs in quarrelling about abstract doctrines of politics and economy ? No ; the true causes of Irish agitation are the cold, the hunger, and the misery which are there ; and the periodical turnings-out of the wretched tenantry to beggary and starvation. Until those causes are removed, there can be no tranquillity in Ireland." We again earnestly recommend those interested in the state of Ireland to give this pamphlet a careful pe rusal. Wherever poor laws have been introduced they have acted as a curse—a curse to those who give and them who take—why visit Ireland with this further in fliction ? Is not the measure of her woes already full ? It is the means and remuneration of employment, and not the means and remuneration of laziness and sloth —a bonus to industry, not to idleness, which are want ing to rescue Ireland from the horrors which, like the Promethean vulture, prey upon her vitals.—Morning Advertiser. Of such large dimensions were the hailstones which fell last week near Chichester, that many of them were seen on the ground the next morning. A BOAT SWAMPED BY STEAMERS.--FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday night eight men, in the employ of Mr. Stultz, the fashionable tailor in Bond-street, who had been spending the day at Greenwich Fair, got into a wherry, rowed by a skilful waterman, for the purpose of returning to town, and proceeded in safety as far as Execution Dock, Wapping, when two steam-vessels passed them in contrary directions, going at full speed, and creating so much commu.. tion in the water, that all the small craft became unmanage able, and the boat shipped a sea, wetting every person on board. One of the party became alarmed, and finding there was a good deal of water in the boat, requested the waterman to put in shore, but ere he could pull another stroke, a second wave caused by the swell dashed over the wherry and swamped it. The whole party were immersed in the stream, on whi c h boats put off from all quarters, and picked up several of the party, some of whom could swim, and conveyed them to various places. Two of the party, both Germans, are missing, and are supposed to have been drowned. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, AS NCE COMPANIES, &c. &c. LONDON, TtJESDAY, JUNE 9. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS, per Shares. Annum. Paid. Share. 111,760 61 per cent. Ashton and Oldham...,Average 972.185. sh. 157 •,:: 1,482 61. Ashby-de-le-Zouch ... Average 113/. sh. 65 1,260 ........, Basingstoke lOOl. sh. 314 y 1,005 5/. Brecknock and Abergavenny 150. sh. P 5 4,00045 h. 121. 10s. Birmingham, i share 171. 10s. 241 14,4,000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct....lool. sh. all pd .4-4.4(i 1 j 600 Bridgewater and Taunton ....1001. sh. all pd 647 4( 1 0 ;/, Chelmer and Blackwatcr.... ........ lOO/. sh. 102,) 5 00 42/. Coventry 1001. sh. -- 4,546 Croydon Average 31/. 26.10 d. sh. 21 t . .. 1 ,66 11 3/. 10s. Dudley lOO/. sh. '74 600 6/. Derby l 00/. sh. 120" L .. . . ... Ellesmere and Chester Average 1331. sh. 8S L. 2 31 431. 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Commercial 1001. s h. 1,06515 h • • 498,66711. .... .. East India Stock 3,338,3104 24 . 55. p. et. London Ditto Bonds 1,390,000/. 5/. per et. West India 2.•..0.1 3/. tis. 4d. Bristol Average 14 it. his. sh. 68,3244 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts 1,352,752 3 p..r cent. St. Katharine Stock 500,003 4; per cent. Ditto Bonds 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 yea is Shoreham H.:rbour BRIDGES. 1,6 0 14 Hammersmith 5Ol. sh. 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 034 2s. Bd. ah. 1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, New, of 71 per cent. 5O/. sh. 5,000 Waterloo lOO/ sh. 5,000 1/. 2s. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/. .... ..... 601. pd 5,000 I9s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 74._ 4O/. pd 0,000/. 51. per cent. Oit , o Bonds 6,000 1!. Vauxhall Average 701. 10s. 3d. ah. 104 lei 123 140 163 1390' 242 i 215 :14 205 61 50 57 103 98 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3/ lOs Albion 500/. sh. 501. pd 672 50,000 15 ial.;rd sa. t.} Alliance, British & Foreign 100/. sh. 101. pd 11 t 50,000 ti per cent. Ditto, Marine 1001. sh. Si. pd 24,000 10.. per sh. Atlas 1,00481). 41. Birmingham Fire '..i0,000 41. per cent. Brit sh Fire ''so/..h. 501. pd 40 12,1 , 041 cl. per cent. British Commercial 50/. sh. 51. pd ti 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical, Medical, &c. Life...lool.sh. 21 los pd ;3* 4,000 2/ lOs County 'OOl. sh. 101. pd 42 13,000 ss. Fa,gle 501. sh. 51. pd .51 200 tCands Per 30/ cen q Economic Life lOOOl. sh. 2501. pd 315 bs. 2,271 LI/. per cent. European Lite 2Ol. sh. all pd 22 30,000 2s. Ditto, New , 01. sh. 21. pd it 1,000,0001. 71. per et. Globe Stock - 20,000 1/. Guardian 100/. sh. 201. pd 332 HO .t5l) c Fire pct 1 Hope 501. sh. Si. pd 6 i'' ) ."‘"' /Life 8 pct.j 2,-1.00 51. 7s. tid. Imperial Fire 5001 sh. no/. pd 117 7,500 Os. Imperial Life 1001. sh. 101. pd i 4 51. per cent. Indemnity Marine l, 01. sh. Si. pd 12 9 2,020 21. Ke , --t Fire 50/. sh, all pd 8.3 10, 00 ifs. Law Life 1001. sh. ill, pd 23 :3,900 1/. London, Fire ` , V sh. Id. lOs p i 2:31 :11 00d li. Lond , ..ii, Ship '54 , h . I 'l. 10s. pd 03-1 3. ,0 10 :1. per cent. Palladium Life '.Ol. sh. 21. pd 2/5., X50',00? Is. lid. i rotts.tor File "0/. sh. 21. pd 1/ t.i , ki 2,500 I/. l'iovident. Life 100,000 ss. Rock Life 201. sh. 21. pd 51 Ils. (3,9,2*.:0/. 51. per ceut. Royal Exchange Sto: k... I'zli,l Sun 2lO 50,00) 4 per cent. United Kinguorzi Life 2l. pi 21'2s (d JOINT STOCK BANKS. 5,000 ...... ... Au , trala, ia 4Ol. sh. 201. pd 30 10,0 , t 1 10 I , er cent. Bank of Birmingham 5 , 1. sh. 101. pd 12 10,000 10 per cent. nil mingham Bank 5Ol. sh. 5/. pd 12 18,000 '2 per cent. London and Westminster-100/ sh. 151. pd .'.,000 Lancaster 1004 sh. 2..1. pd 30 ‘25,;1;0 6 per cent. Liverpool 1004 sh. 101. ;-d 15 20,000 7 per cent. Provincial mink of lreland 100/. oh. 25/. pd 49i 10,000 National Provincial Eng. lOOl. sh. 25/. pd 2:1 10,000 lOper cent. Gloucestershire .501. idh. Si. pd 11 0,000 11,mi:shire 501. sh. 5/. pd Sag G kS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 9,500 111`9s Bath 2O/. sh. lc/. pd 26 5,000 0/. per cent. British 4Ol. sh. 104 pd '23 nr „, csl.pe lls rcent.; 5 •"`"" land . 55...$ Ditto Provincial 204 sh. 19/. pd 21 841 5/ lOs Birtaingbain 5Ol. sh. 100 4,250 2/ Os Bristol 1.500 Brighton 2O/. sh. It 750 ...... - Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 1841p1 12 2,-171 5 per cent. Brighton General 201 sb. i,llpd 19 4,000 :0. Continental Consolidated .lOOl. 514/. pd 7ti 1,000 101. City of London lOO/. sh. all ptl JO9 1.030 (0. Ditto, New 4,000 4/. Equitabh) .. , "5/. ptl i,l 0.000 01. per cont. East London 5/. sh. 4/. pd 44 10,000 5/. per cent. Imperial 504 sh. 4:1 SO() 5/. per cent. Ile tif Thanet 254 sh. 204 pd 211 2.350 (0. per cent. ! ndependent 3O/. sh. all pcl 51) 9.000 4/. per cent. Phoenix 50/. sh. 39/. pd 24 1,000 41. per cent. Rateliff 100/. sh. 104 Ixl 4,000 South Metrapolitan s' 1. sh. 13/. pd 144 8,200 5/. per cent. United General . 5O/. sh. 441. pd 404 240 5/. per cent. Warwick 504 sh. 50 100 Pe, 1151 viakefield 251. sh. 224 12,000 34 Westminster Chartered 5Ol. sh. 4.1 1. 000 12s. Ditto, New 5Ol. sh. 10/. pd 9ex d 600 WATER WORKS. 4,800 Birmingham 251. sh. 251 pd 27 4,4:33 51. - East London lOOl. sh. 1:44 4,500 21 10s Or nd Junction ....Average 411 13s. 4d. sh. 53 2,000 21. Kent 100/. sh. 46a47 , 3 'B 101. Lives of Bootle .20/. sh. 300 1,500 2/ les New liver London Bridge Water Annuities 58 6,486 11. Manchester and Salford lOOl, sh. 47 1,000 4 per cent. South London 1001. sh. 85 8, 00 al. West Nliddleseit ....Average 63/. Its. 9d. sh. 79 1 , 3 60 1/ 14s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 1001. sh. 34 IRON RAILWAYS. 350 Cheltenham 100/. sh. 2000 Clarence lOOl. sb. 100/. pd 2,500 Ills. Forest of Dean 5O/. pd (;rand Junction 1001 . sh. 30 /. p ,l 2,0 ' 0 ...-.... Hartl e p oo l 1004 eh. 1001. pd 2,1440 Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 1,500 ****** Leicester and Swannington .... 5 )1. sh all pd 4,100 9 per cent. Liverpool and slanchester...loo/. sh. 100/. pd Ditto Quarter Shares ' s/. pd 20,000 r........ London and Greenwich 2 O l. sh. 13 /. pd 25,000 ......... London and Birmingham ...1001. sh. 35/. pd 2 ,500 ......... Preston and Wigan 2O l. pd SOO ......... Durham Junction 1001. sh. 101. pd MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 51. sh. 2/. pd 4,000 Alten 15/. sh. 101. 10s. pd 10 ,000 ..... ‘... Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. pm.... 100/. sh. all pd Ditto Subscription .251. pd Bolmos • ... 150/ sh all pd Brazilian Imp. iss. 51. pm .351. sh. 201. pd Macauhas & Cocaes United....2sl. sh. 201. pd Ditto St. John Del Rey 2 0 /. sh. 7 1!. pd 11,000 Cata Branca 41!. pd Candonga 5/. pd 9,000 Bolivar Copper Company ...... 201. sh. 20/. pd 10,000 Ditto Scrip 3/. pd 20,000 ...... ... British Copper Si. sh. 31/. pd 6,000 1,500 11. English 2,50 General Mining Association...2o/ sh. 151. pd 10,000 Mexican Company 1001. sh 4911. lid 20,000 Polberou Consols 10/. s h. 81. pd 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered Ditto Loan Notes 150!. pd United Mexican, iss. 2 pm ....401. sh. all pd Ditto Subscription 2/. pd Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd Union Gold, iss. 21.55, pm.... 224/. sh. 411. pd West Cork 50 - 1. sh. 23/. pd LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 ... ...... London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. sh. 1,::',/ Lond - m University 1011. sh. all pd 700 King's College 100/. pd MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 10& Australian Agricultural....loo/. sh. 2( 1 1. ph LOBO I/. Auction Mart 50/. sh. 6,000 British American Land Company 8/. pd 10,000 61. per cent. Canada Company City General ll o n Steamd s, p per cent lOOl. sh. 20/. pd 20;1 5: 000 00o INavigation -.15/. sh. 131. pd 51; per cent. .Upper Canada Loan per cent. 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,000 1/. London Corn. Sale Room. Av. '75/. sh 2.754 4/. per eent. Reve rsion a r y I nterest 50c... 1001 . sh. 100 /. pd - ~'633 4/. per cent. Ditto New 100 /. sh. 4 5 1 . pd 4,000 .. Thames Tunnel 501. sh. all pd 10,000 Van Diemen's Land 1001. sh. 161. pd ......... ....... 2,000 '6,000 0 El. !r. 5,000 30,000 5,( 00 2 lOpm LIST OF SCOTTISH 26 COMPANIE L S' PRICES, MAY , 1835. BANKS. 1 500 000/. 131. p. ct. Bank of Scotland 831. 6s. Sd, sh. all pd 202 1 p. c 2 ' 000 ' 0 004 5.1 p. ct. Royal of Scotland 1 00 1 . sh, all ixl 170/ 5000 00/, is p. ct. British Linen Company 100/. sh. :All pa 9, 10/ . . 3,000,000/. 61. p. ct. Commercial sool' shL 1004 pd 1701. 5,000,0001. 5 p. ct. National lOOl. sh. 101. pd HI 106 2,000,0001. 2r. p. ct. Glasgow Union 250/, sh. 50g. p d 601 4,000,000 4 p. ct. Western of Scotland 2001. sh 304 pd am; INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250,0005 h. sp. ct. Scottish Union -- -- iiii. sh. 1/. pd lOs. 7,500 sp. ct. Hercules 1004 sh. 10/. IA 11/. 100,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland....lo/. sh. all pd 71 Os 50,000 6p. ct. North British 2001. sh. 10/. pd 151. 1, 000 sp. ct. Caledonian Fire 1004 sh. 101 . pd 1:3/. 5,000 6p. ct. Edinburgh Life 1001, sh. 10/. 'xi 14/. 100,000 4p. ct. West of Scotland lO/. pd 91. MISCELLANEOUS. 4,810 ....... Edin. and Glas. Un. Canal 50/. sh. all pd 8/10s Ditto Allocated 911 sh. all pd 601. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock Water 251. sh. all pd 331. Carron Iron Company 2501. sh. all pd 4501 . 2 000 sh. 15 per cent. Shotta Iron Fouudery... 5Ol. sh. 3.1. pd ISi 1 0 0 60 3 per cent. Edinburgh Bc , Leith Glass 2O/. sh. 161. pd 4 ' 500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 251. sh. all pd 651. 4'450 lOper cent. Glasgow Gas 25/. sh. all pd 601 ' 730 6 per cent. Leith Coal Gas 20/. sh. all pd 331 1 200 5 per cent. Edinburgh and Dilkeith Hailway...sol. sh. 3,000 10s. per Equitable Lo'an Company 25" b• Pd 101.. ,NGE, YESTERDAY. Leghorn 17%, Genoa 25 95 Milan 3l Venice 47 Y 6 Wa p l es 40% Palermo per oz. 121 Lisbon 57% Oporto 57 Rio Janeiro 17 Bahia ........ ~....... ......... ....... 2634 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight Cork 134 PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ l'ortugal Gold, coin £0 0 0 1. oreign Gold, in bars 317 9 New Doubloons New Dollars Silver, bars, standard 0 4 11% COURSE OF EXCH Amsterdam ................ C.F 12 6% Ditto, at sight l2 4;, Rotterdam ..................2 U l2 6 6. Antwerp ................. . H am burg .................. M.B l3 14 Altona ........................... ••• 13 14 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65 Ditto ....... .............. 2 Us 25 95 Bordeaux . F-ankfort on Maine, E.M 153 Petersli.iigh, ruble 3 Us. 1O !.4 3Berlin Vienna, effective ft 2M. 10 6 Trieste...... ditto lO 7 Madrid 37 CAis '37 B i 1 b o a' l7 Barcelona Seville 37 Gibraltar la !SURREY ADJOURNED SESSIONS. The whole of the trials having been gone through, the following sentences were recorded : TRANSPORTATION FOR FOURTEEN YEARS.—John Smith, aged 19, for stealing from the person ; George Bennett, aged 22, for burglary ; William Harrington, aged 29, for shoplifting. SEVEN YEARS.—Georgiana Byrne, aged 28 ; Abraham Newton, aged 45 ; Daniel Keefe, aged 18 ; Patrick Millet, aged 54 ; Henry Williams, aged 18 ; Thomas Smith and John Hennessey, aged 20 : Charles Little, aged 22 ; Tho mas Ellis, aged 15 ; William Palmer, aged 29 ; John Grant, aged 19 ; William Merritt, aged 49. Seven were sentenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour ; one to four months ; six to three months ; seven to two months ; two to one month ; eleven to four teen and seven day's imprisonment. Fifty-one were discharged by proclamation, two remain in custody until the next session, and one remitted to the Central Criminal Court. Of 273 prisoners whose names appear in the calendar, 112 can neither read nor write. The Court adjourned to Tuesday, the 30th of June instant. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION HO USE. Yesterday William Hilton, the driver of one of the Clap ham stage coaches, appeared before the Lord Mayor to answer the complaint of Mr. Kerr, the Russia merchant. The complainant stated that the defendant, who is the true cut of a pugilist. had for the last two years annoyed him in the streets by following him, and in the most ruffian like manner demanding sixpence from him as a debt, al though not one farthing was due. Some days ago the defendant was on an omnibus, and cried out to the witness, " Hollo, old fellow (or old boy), why don't you pay me the sixpence you owe me ?" And after that time he followed the witness thrqugh the streets, demanding the sixpence, and using the most insulting language. Witness had, in mayoralty of Sir Peter Laurie, made a similar complaint, and would have repeated it soon after, were it not for the trouble and annoyance of being confronted with such a fellow. The defendant assured the Lord Mayor that the com plainant had not seen him more than once within the last five months ; that he (defendant) certainly made periodical applications for the sixpence which Mr. Kerr owed him, but not in the manner described. The complainant declared that he did not owe the de fendant a farthing. A Gentleman, who resided at Clap ham, was present when the assault was given, and promised to attend at the Justice Room and give evidence. It ap peared, however, that the Gentleman was afraid to attend, on account of the ruffianism of the coachman. The LORD MAYOR—It seems, then, that this man is well-known as an insulting person ? Complainant—He is the terror of the Clapham road. The Gentleman to whom I allude called at my counting-house, and said, " I really cannot appear against this man, for if I do he certainly will insult my wife and family for it." A resident of Clapham mentioned that the introduction of omnibuses into Clapham was the cause of all this work. The drivers of the stage coaches were endeavouring to keep up the long price of eighteenpence for the journey, and the omnibuses carried for half the money, and of course were generally patronised. The defendant thought fit to attack not only the drivers and conductors of these vehicles, but the passengers, and the complainant came in for a very large share. The LORD MAYOR asked the defendant whether he had bail ready ? Defendant—No ; I've got no bail. The LORD MAYOR—You must find bail to keep the peace towards this gentleman, and I hope the public will hear something of this. Defendant—l'll bring up bail to-morrow, if your Lord ship will allow me to go. The Lotto MAYOR—Very well. I shall expect to see you with your bail to-morrow. Defendant (nodding his head insolently)—" Yes, yes, I'll be here." He was then walking away with a sneer, when— The LORD MAYOR said—Come back here. I see what sort of a fellow you are. You shall not stir until you pro cure bail. We will see whether it shall be exactly as you please here. The defendant's countenance instantly dropped its saucy expression. He most humbly begged pardon of the Lord Mayor, and of anybody else whom he might have offended, and assured his Lordship that he should be punctual to morrow with his bail. The LORD MAYOR—Take care that you do. You see I am not to be trifled with ; and if you don't attend, there shall be a warrant speedily at your heels. A female of respectable appearance complained to the LORD MAYOR against one of those pests of society, bro kers' appraisers, named Eld. She stated that the land lord had cruelly sent in a distress warrant, although she had offered to him the money that was due to him for the rent. The appraiser, upon seizing upon the furniture for the amount (21. 65.) signed the inventory, but perceiving her silver watch on the table he snatched it up, and took it along with him. The LORD MAYOR asked the defendant why he took the watch ? The defendant said that the lady had snatched the inventory before he had had time to enter the watch in it. Without the watch there would not have been enough pro perty to cover the amount of the debt: The complainant said that the property taken away and under the lock and key of the appraiser was considerably more valuable than it was stated to be, and that the de fendant had perfected the inventory before he saw the watch. A little boy who was present during the distress scene confirmed this statement. The LORD MAYOR (to the appraiser)—Do you persist in detaining the watch ? Defendant—lf your Lordship desires it, I will give up the wateh. The LORD MAYOR—Do you refuse to give it up, I ask you ? The defendant (evidently in terror)—No, my Lord, Mon% do any such thing. There it is, my Lord. The LORD MAYOR—There's your watch, my poor wo man, and I'd have you to get out of the hands of such ras cals as soon as you can. No doubt you will have to pay some expenses, but do not pay a farthing more than the law allows. It will be recollected that at the conclusion of Alderman Farebrother's mayoralty, a poor girl, named Anne Good win, whose sight was for ever destroyed by the accidental discharge of a blunderbuss, was brought to the Mansion house. Alderman Farebrother made inquiry into the case, and the public sympathy was greatly excited, and efforts were made to get admission for the sufferer into the School for the Indigent Blind, in St. George's Fields. We are glad to be able to state, that at the late election she was chosen by a majority of upwards of 2,000. Alderman Fare brother took himself to the election upwards of 1,000 votes in her favour. BOW-STREET. Yesterday a very genteely-dressed lad, abott sixteen years of age, named William Richardson, was charged with stealing nine black silk handkerchiefs in the shop of Mr. Whitelock, a mercer in the Strand. The prisoner went to Mr. Whitelock's shop on Monday evening, and purchased a pair of braces, for which he paid, ~n•l went away. In a short time be returned, and requested to have the braces changed for a pair which he pointed out in the/window. Mr. Whitelock had occasion to turn from the counter to take the braces from the window ; and, on handing them to the prisoner, he missed from the counter a parcel, containing nine silk handkerchiefs, which he had placed there a few moments before. He gave notice to his shopman ; and the prisoner, who was in the act of going away, was stopped, and the parcel of handkerchiefs found under his coat. The prisoner seemed anxious to offer some explana nation in the way of defence ; but Mr. Hobler, who attended for him, advised him to reserve his statement for a future time, as it was quite evident that he must, upon the evidence, go to trial. The prisoner, who was said to be very respectably con nected, was then fully committed to Newgate. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CHARGE AGAINST Two POLlCEMEN.—Yesterday James Morley, and Thomas Loud& two of the C division police men, were brought before Mr. Chambers on the following charge : A gentleman, named Cochrane, residing in Upper Gros venor-street, stated that he lost a gold watch, chain, and key, value about 15/., one night last week. He did not think be had been robbed of it, but he rather suspected it must have fallen accidentally from his pocket, as he got out of a carriage on his return from a private party. He communicated his loss at the station-house, and had some bills immediately printed and circulated, offering a reward of 4/. for the recovery of the property. He had recently been informed that the watch was in the possession of a policeman. Inspector Dewing stated that after the loss was men tioned at the station-house, a policeman informed him that one of the prisoners was in possession of a gold watch, which had been picked up. Witness immediately went to the policeman's lodgings, and on asking him if he had a gold watch, Louch answered, " Yes ; he had bought one of Morley for 95." On being shown the watch, witness found it was the one lost by Mr. Cochrane. As Louch stated that Morley had sold the watch to him, and Morley had admitted he picked up the watch in Upper Grosvenor street, witness repreSented the matter to the Commissioners, who immediately sent the case to be investigated by the Magistrates, _ _ _ _ In defence Morley said be picked up the watch in Upper Grosvenor-street, and he borrowed 9s. of Loud), not as the price of the watch, but only for the present, until the owner was discovered. Mr. CHAMBERS asked the inspector if it was not the duty of every policeman to report to his inspector any ar tide which he might find? The inspector said that it was. Mr. CHAMBERS said there was no doubt of the moral guilt of the prisoners ; but there was certainly no evidence to send the case before a jury. He should discharge the men, and refer the matter back to the Commissioners. MAR YLEB ONE. CAPTURE OF A BURGLAR.-.--JOlOl Bond, a well-known " cracksman," was charged with feloniously entering the house of Mr. Wiiliam Sharp, No. 1.5, Mornington-placet Hampstead-road. The prosecutor stated that, about three c'clock that morning, he was alarmed by hearing some person in the house. He immediately got out of bed, and, on proceed ing down stairs, met the prisoner on the first floor landing. not having either shoes or hat on. He collared him, and , taking him down stairs, called in a policeman and gave him in charge. The prisoner had effected an entrance by forcing up the kitchen window, putting his hand through the ail' hole of the shutters, and removing the fastening. The drawers on the ground floor had been ransacked, and quantity of table linen and other property was tied up in 5 handkerchief, ready to be carried away, The prisoner shoes and hat were subsequently found in the area. The prisoner, who stood mute, was remand e d. WHOLESALE SMASHERS.—SamueI Malcolm, Janie' Bringlow, William Monk, and Mary Jones, were placed at the bar for re-examination ; the three latter charged with having a quantity of counterfeit coin in their posgek si6n, and the former with a guilty knowledge, harbouring them in his house. It appeared from the evidence that, from information re ceived, several officers of this establishment proceeded on Monday evening last to the Golden Key, Fenchurch-stree t, Cripplegate, kept by the prisoner Malcolm, and on e nter' ing the taproom they found the other prisoners sitting at a table having in their possession about 40/. in different pieces of bad money, which it had since been understood they intended to get rid of at Epsom races ; they, as well al the landlord, were then taken into custody. All the prisoners were fully committed for trial, a nd bid accepted for the appearance of Malcolm. TOWN-HALL, SOUTHWARK. ROBBERY BY A CONFIDENTIAL SxavANT.---Yesterdsl William Smith, a young man of respectable appearance and . connections, was brought up for re-examination, and placed at the bar before Alderman ANSLEY, charged with robbing his employers. Mr. Pilcher, of the firm of Pilcher and Co., extensive oil and colourmen, in Morgan's-lane, Tooley-street, deposed that the prisoner had been in their employ confidentially nl 3 " wards of five years. Within the last twelve months the losses sustained by himself and partners through robberies had been to an alarming amount, and upon whom to fi x the robbery he did not know, arising f rom th e c i rcums t a nce of the whole of the men in their employ being old servants: The foreman of the factory was called in, and he suggeste d that the police should be consulted. This suggestion was adopted, and ultimately led to the detection and apprehe° sion of the prisoner. William Christopher Reynolds, 119 M, deposed that, in consequence of information he bad received, he set a watch for some days on the prosecutor's premises, and from what he saw fixed his suspicions on the prisoner, a nd upo. o questioning him as to whether he had any indigo at 1 10 lodgings, in reply he solemnly asserted he had not ; bow' ever, on witness's searching the prisoner's lodgings he found a large and valuable quantity, which he produced. Ther e were marks on it. The prosecutor's foreman deposed that in consequeac * of the heavy loss his employers had for many months exPe c i rienced, he had marked a great many pieces of indigo, I° put them in their prope r pl aces i n t h e diff erent rooms i n to factory. In the room where the prisoner worked there so!' a great deficiency. The indigo produced he marked, and it is the same that had been stolen. It was worth eigh t shillings per lb. Alderinan ANSLEY asked the prisoner what he had to say in answer to the charge ?—The prisoner, by the advice of Mr. Walker, his solicitor, declined saying anything in defence. Alderman ANSLEY said so far as the case had been in vestigated it was clear against the prisoner. Robberies by confidential servants of late had been more frequent than ever was known. The prisoner had put the honest cha racters of old servants in jeopardy. The charge against• the prisoner was a grave one, and ought to go before a Jury -The prisoner was committed to Newgate for trial. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday a young woman, of lady-like manners acrd de portment, who at first refused to give her name, which after wards turned out to be Margaret Clinton, was brought before Mr. BALLANTINE, on a charge of attempting self destruction. It appeared that the attention of a policeman, named Harrison, No. 64 K, was directed by several persons, at a late hour on Monday night, to the prisoner, who had been attempting to throw herself into the Regent's Canal-dock, at Limehouse. She was in a very excited state, and t he policeman thought it p ru d en t to convey her to t h e station.. house, where it was discovered that she was labouring under the effects of some noxious drug, which s h e had swa llowed , Inspector Young lost n o ti me i n sen di ng for M r . Belson,. s medical gentlema n , w h o gave h er an antidote, which dire lodged th e p o i son f rom h er stomach, but she rema i ne d yell ill all night. I The y oung l a dy, w h o appeare d i n a very wea k sta i n , sal, he was very sorr y f or ma ki ng t h e attempt on her lifv. Mr. BALLANTINE made some inquiries of an old lad/' named Hickey, the aunt of the prisoner, from which it er peared that her niece had been courted by a respecta ble ; builder in Surrey, to whom she was betrothed. A quail e d had taken place between them, and her lover had decla re his intention of not marrying her. She believed, howeve r ' that a reconciliation would take place. Mr. BALLANTINE, after admonishing the young ladi' gave her over to the care of her aunt. The repeal of the stamp duty on newspapers is citing much interest in this neighbourhood. Petitions from almost every town and village are getting up, and—from_„Prs, sent appearances — are lik e l y to b e numerously sign ed. --.D“'" Guardian. On Monday, between the hours of eight o'dock_ i l n the mornin g an d n i ne at n i g h t, 191 steam - vessels pp ig s 7 through the Pool to and from Margate, Herne Bay, Sheer ness, Southend, Nore, Gravesend, Woolwich, and Greenwicl including several on their way to and from Scotland, Ireland' and the Continent. Each vessel averaged at least 500 per' sengers, and the a b ove ca l cu l at i on, ma d e b y .Mr. Ch e r'es Brown, a respectable boatbuilder in High-street, WaPP_i n g' who, with his servants, watched them all day ; b u t man y pa-M7 after nine o'clock, swelling the numbers to upwards of 2uv: so that more that 100,000 persons must have been afieet °— the Themes on M on d a y, exc l us i ve o f t h e passengers i n t he small boats. Several s t eam -p ac k ets carr i e d 800 and 900 sew' each to the Nore and back. One steam-vessel brought baci‘ from Greenwich 1,000 persons, another 1,300, and a third viy actually crammed with 1,600 passengers. On Monday afternoon, an accident of a very serious nature occurred to Mr. C. Z. Barnett, the dramatic writer' and brother to the eminent musical composer. Mr. Barnett', accompanied by a youn g l a dy name d M art i n d a l e, was proce ef ing in a cab alo ng th e W ater l oo - roa d , a b out four o'clow". when the horse " shied " at some boys who were playing , 11 the road with a kite, and ' started off at a frightful ungovernabi 43 speed. The driver jumped out and endeavoured to stop Oa animal, but without success. On arriving near the Victoria Theatre, the vehicle came in contact with a heavy coal war gon with such violence that Mr. Barnett and the lady w ere thrown out. Mr. Barnett was taken up in a state of insen sibility, and conveyed to the house of Mr. H. Dewhurst, time, surgeon, where it was ascertained that he was very seriously injured; but we are happy to state that the lady escaped with only a slight bruise. Mr. Barnett, at the time of the acci dent, had with him a valuable old work entitled " John Mel ton's Plays," which some vagabond in the crowd contrived 0 purloin during the confusion. BIRTH S. On the 6th inst., in Gloucester-place, Portman-square, the Ladl Frances Calder, of a daughter. On the sth inst., at Merton-cottage, Cambridge, the lady of the Hon. Thomas Keppel, of a son. On the Bth inst., at the house of her father, in York-street , Portman-square, the lady of Major Tronson, 13th Light Infantry's of a son. On the 7th inst., in Charterhouse-square, the lady of the Rev- William Goode, rector of St. Antholin with St. John the Baptigt , of a daughter. On the 7th inst., in Upper Woburn-place, the lady of Franc! , Rebello, Esq., of a son. MARRIED, On the 6th inst., at All Saints, Ed mon t on , F ranc i s G. U. Desanges, Esq., t o Amelia, second daughter of James Soma* Esq., of Tanner's-end, Edmonton. On the 6th inst., at St. George's, Bloomsbury, T. Payne, Esq.; to Mary, eldest daughter of J. Dennett, Esq., Mayor of Gravesend and Milton, Kent. On the 6th inst., at Aston Church, near Birmingham, Mr. Ed' ward M. Martin, of that town, to Anne, second daughter of Janie ° Thornton, Esq., of Camp-hill, in the parish of Ashton. DIED. On the Bth inst., at John Crawfurd's, Esq., Wilton-crescent*lji .4 0 1 • Helen, second daughter of the late James Perry, Esq. hill .' eie lls On the 6th inst., at Southampton, James Byrn, Esq., ju,- A os 75th year. s-JJo( • On the Bth i ns t., i n hi s 9 0t h year, Robert Fisher, Esq., of A l " ) io_.,ti dersgate-street, an d Mit c h am, S urrey. i' ,- '4 On the 7th i ns t . , i n D oughty-street, at the house of Mr. Tindus4 -A r' her son-in law, Mrs. Swabev. On the 7th inst, aged f.', years and 2 months, J ames , second soli " of Mr. James Goldie, Mount-pl ace , Whitechapel-road. , r)!Z1 London; Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of N. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the county ' of Middlesex. BRIT'S THE GA PICTUF °e Hundred Po reen Elizabeth D . B OPEN DAII CIETY'S PL ANTS, (for I utl Regnt's F -..-series and seed PltrY committee 1.1,1_1(e. E A S' 17HE COI INDIA 4: 11 . 1 at as, in cont Indispensably clear e d with tl 144 1 ted therein, ti Zftid, and whet' rants, which, on Posit three year 7se,, rent and ch December • an „7 4 t, shall have ' 1 -44 st be removed, °II or before the Dieted. STEAD T 1 CONV OURIS' cursion to Vesting islands, slands, ° rtlY to run to Poi particulars Messrs. 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