The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-06 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION LADY BLESSINGTON'S NEW WORK. On Saturday, May 15, in 2 volv. Bvo., THE IDLER IN FRANCE. By the COUNTESS of BLESSINGTON. Also, just published, LADY 3LESSINGTON'S -‘ IDLER IN ITALY." Second and Cheaper Editioa, 3 vols. small Bvo., with Por traits. Vol. 111. may be had separately, to complete Sets. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. CORN-LAWS. This day is published, price 25., QTA TE EN TS illustrative of the POLICY L. and PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES of the proposed REPEAL of the Existing CORN-LAWS, and the Imposi tion, in their stead, of a Moderate Fixed Duty on Foreign Corn when entered for Consumption. London : Lon g man, Orme, and Co. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTALS. THIS EVENING. MAY 6 Will be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled LONDON ASSURANCE. Sir Harcourt Curtly, Bart., Mr. W. Farren ; Max Hark away, Mr. Bartley; Mr. Charles Courtly, Mr. Anderson; 31r. Adolphus Spanker, Mr. Keeley; Mr. Dazzlz Mr. C. 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Tao/ most pavrerful attraction ever offered. Third Night of :laude Duval, supported by Mr. .1. S. Balls, and the ac knowledged hest Company in the Metropolis, with an en tire change of Pieces. THIB EVENING, MAY 6, _ . will he acted an Historical and Domestic Drama, entitlrd CLAUDE DUVAL, THE LADIES' HIGHWAYMAN. With entirely new local and h! autiful Scenery, extensive Ma- . . - chinary, &c. . Claude Duval, Mr. J. S. Balls. After which, t'te Comedy of WILD OATS; OR, THE STROLLING GENTLEMAN. Rover. Mr. .1. S. Balls. To conclude with the Romance of Diablerie, entitled AI'OLLYON, THE GREAT FIEND. Apollvon, Mr. 0. Smith, The Last Week of his Engagement. WMIN WATER AT LONDON !MIDGE TO-MORROW 4 rn,ne 44 int ttttt afr. - m* 2 I Evening minute. after 3 Ire Pubtieltioa of the Erening Edition of THE Sox com menced at 20 minutes alter Three. 4, 4, , > ~t N. ~ 11" Are 1 4 ( P 1 / 4 f ) , 44.4 '" • "'"' LONDON : THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1841. The news from China, brought by the Over land Mail from India, is such as the now well known diplomatic and military character of Plenipotentiary ELLIOT prepared us to expect. Negotiation, like a wounded snake, was d ging " its slow length along" at somethinz short of a snail's pace. Up to the 7th of Febru ary the blockade of the Canton River continued, and on the 30th of January a circular, signed by the Plenipotentiary, forbad British subjects from proceeding to Canton. On the previous day the Plenipotentiaries had a long interview near the second Bar of the Canton River, to settle all differences, but though nothing was concluded Captain ELLIOT did not consider it inconsistent - with his duty to order the British troops to eva cuate Chusan—thus resigning the only hold which England had upon the fears of the Court of Pekin ! But ruinous to British interests, as were the terms upon which Plenipo tentiary Ewor offered to patch up a peace with China, it does not appear that the Celestial Government will now accept them. They know too well with whom they have to deal to entertain further fears of him. It was accordingly reported that the EMPEROR, finding Chusan evacuated by the British, would not ra tify the treaty ceding Hong Kong to the Queen Hof ENGLAND, and that, to blind foreigners to tl; e nefariousness of this transaction, the Imperial Commissioner KESHEN would be disgraced for having listened to such a proposal. On the 10th of February, it was rumoured at Canton that KESHEN'S successor was actually on his journey from Pekin to that city, and that he was empow ered to declare the negotiations between Cap lain ELLIOT and that sagacious functionary null and void. The upshot of the whole affair may be easily predicted. We shall soon find that we have the whole bu 3iness of the opium dispute to com mence over again. Why then persist in suffer ing the nation to be dishonoured in the person of the least competent man in the United Kingdom to sustain, in such a contest, the glory of our flag? Wily not at once recal Plenipotentiary ELLIOT, w hose continuance in such an office, after the proofs he has given of incapacity, is as dis graceful to. the Government as it is injurious to the best ii iterests of our fellow-subjects in India and China? Able and competent men are not wanting - .to bring the dispute with China to a speedy, at kid for England, a glorious termination. This will lie ver be effected by negotiations in the first insta: The Chinese, like all Asiatic na tions, must first be drubbed into the mood to lis ten to rerzon. When well trounced they will become ra.ti onal and just, in proportion to their fears. ha d Plenipotentiary ELLIOT known this, and ke pt it steadily in view, Commissioner LIN would. never have seized a single ounce of opium. The way to abridge negotiations with Chinese C onunissioners is to erect for the Pleni potentiaril .!s a tent of piled muskets, and for chairs of .state the breeches of a couple of pieces of cannon, The news from Central Asia is gloomy. Our Indian territory is tranquil, but in Affghanistan and the Punjaub, we are likely to have plenty to do to r3aintain that ascendancy which is ne cessary to enable us to counteract the intrigues of Russia in those quarters. Herat is again me naced by Persia, and it is discovered that the Shah. Sot:JAR 00L - MOOLKI, to whom we gav e a Throne, is plotting against as . This state of things requires the ut most vigils ice on the part of the Indian Go vernment, wJeli cannot, without th e h azard of da-gers, abandon a n y o f i ts s till greacer positions in Central Asia. Ever since the death of the late Shah of PETVI.I the Government of that country has manifested a degree of contempt for Great Britain which it ivould not have dared to exhibit unless countenancel by the Cabinet of St. 'Petersbur g h. The repeated demands of our Government for redress have been made in vain, so that to other matters in hand we may have SOOn to add a war with Persia. For these events the Government at home is no way responsible. 'They arise out of a state of things which it was not in the Power of the Government to modify - without p ro d ucing still greater evils. The Peers did not meet yesterday. After the presentatio n of numerous petitious in the Com mons, Sir R. INcras gave notice that on the 18th he should , call the attention of the House to Church Extension. Mr. Aluwrz give notice that on the 13th he would move an Address to remove the Etrl of CARDIGAN from her 31A azsTv's service. Sir G. CLERK for Lord SANDON, announced the words of the Noble Lord's motion on Friday, to the effect that the House is not prepared to support her MAJESTY'S Government in proposing a reduction of the duty on foreign sugar. Lord JOHN RUSSELL met this anomineetnent with another, to the effect that if the House did not go into a Committee of Ways and Means, and Lord SANDON'S motion were put fr,,m the Chair, he would move a resolution that it is practicable to supply the present inadequacy of the revenue by a judicious alteration in the protecting and differential duties, without in creasing the public burdens, and at the same time giving relief to the industrious classes. On those questions the House and the country will now have to decide. If the Tories car ry their views into effect, they will give another proof that the Rouse of Commons is thoroughly regardless of the interests of N =.lllv m e e ple of England, and must be purged by C( C....q4* -- t :i 6 :, TAM DUNGANNON, Lord JoSIN RUSSELL ' 4 7 ' # : . .lPt : 1 46 1" '4 ( "1 11 /113 fnnds in the hands of the Eccle. ): V. ~. 4, r 0 4.--.-,-:.„.:* :::,;. <'.r%, -P ) ':'4, ~/. . . t :-..ILL;•:. \ ' 1. 1 ' S . siastical Commissioners had yet been applied to augment the poorer benefices. 'l he House was occupied through the greater part of the evening with the County Coroners Bill in Committee, and the majority of the House seemed more eager to disfranchise the present race of electors of coroners than anything else. They were generally successful. After a protracted discussion, on the various clauses, and several divisions, the Chairman re ported progress. At Half-past One the House Adjourned. The value and importance of the Ministerial propositions are proved by the fury of the Tories. If they were not calculated to benefit the people, all the corrupt and sinister interests would not so zealously combine against them. In all quarters, however, the corruptionists are mustering all their forces, and employing all the arts with which they are so fa miliar to get up a powerful resistance to the Ministerial scheme. Whether they shall succeed will depend on the people. If the latter are in love with dear bread and cramped trade, if they are resolved to.pay a double price for their sugar, to foster the luxury of West India plant ers, if they wish to strengthen and fatten the vermin which now prey on them, and if they are contented to have their hands pinioned, that they may be the more easily plundered, they will do right not to give themselves the least trouble to resist the corruptionists. If, on the contrary, they wish that the propositions of the Ministers should be successful, they cannot too soon exert themselves, for the host of corrup tionists is enormous, their zeal fiery, and their combination formidable. To oppose them there are only truth : justice, and the people ; hut these in the long run, prevail over all their oppo nents. To ensure their present success, the people have no time to lose, nor exertions to be thrown away. The Whigs and the Liberals were the active agents in putting an end to the slave-trade, and in emancipating the slaves. Through the whole contest, which was begun by CLARKSON, and ter• minated by the Whigs abolishing that trade in their short administration in 1806, the Tories were the advocates of the abominable traffic. From that time till the second administration of the Whigs in 1833, when they also achieved slave emancipation, the Tories in the Government were the steady opponents of measures to promote slave emancipation, and the Whigs in opposition were the zealous promoters of such measures. Who are now most anxious to put an end to the slave trade, Dr. LUSHINGTON or Dr. LEFROY, Sir F. Bux- TON Or Sir G. CLERK, Mr. O'CONNELL Or Col. PERCIVA L, Lord J. RUSSELL Or Sir R. PEEL? Again the Whigs are active in their work, and are sending out an expedition to the Niger, which is an evidence of their zeal, if not of their discretion. Thus from the beginning to the end the Whigs have heen the constant, sin cere, and steady friends of negro freedom, while the Tories have been its secret or open enemies. No sooner, however, do the Whigs propose a measure to give a little relief to the over-taxed people of England, without inflicting the smallest injury on the black resident population in the colonies, however much it may affect the rent of the white estate owners who live in Eng land, than the Tories oppose it on the ground that it will encourage the growth of slave grown sugar, and keep up the slave trade. This is of a piece with the whole conduct of the Tories. Plunder the indus trious people by law, is the single unvarying article of their creed, while they prostitute the hallowed names of liberty, humanity, and religion to ob tain that end. Their conduct answers two pur poses, it degrades the general morality, and fits men for slaves, and puts pelf into their own pockets. We are not particularly friendly to the exer tions of Messrs. FOWELL BUXTON, LUSHINGTON, and Co. We deem it more worthy to put an end to slavery at home than slavery abroad, We deem it even dishonest to take a single farthing from the taxed people of England to carry into affect a romantic scheme for civilizing Africa. We not only deem it to be dishonest, we know that the whole scheme of the anti-slavery party has been unsuccessful. At the expense of much treasure and much blood it has engendered and increased the evils it was meant to prevent. The Tories, however, appeal to that as the justification of their opposition to the reduction of the sugar tax, and make this unseemly waste of our blood and treasure a justification for continuing to impose an unjust burden on the people. Last night Sir G. CLERK announced in the following terms the amendment which Lord SANDON is to move on Friday : Resolved, that considering the efforts and sacrifices which Parliament and the country had made for tie abolition of the slave trade and of slavery, with the earnest hope that by our exertions and example we might be able to lead to a mitigation and final extinction of this evil in other countries, this House is not prepared, especially with the present prospect of the supply of sugar from the British possessions, to adopt the mea sure proposed by her Majesty's Government, for the reduc tion of the duty on foreign sugar." The Tories are all at once, then, most sensi tively alive to the evils and horrors of slavery and the slave trade, and have no other object in resisting the proposed reduction of the duty, but to promote freedom and humanity. All the planters, and those who kept whips and thumbi kins on their estates, as long as possible, who compelled pregnant women to labour at cane hoeing, or ,at the tread-mill, till they fell ex hausted, and flogged them till they could not stand, will, with a view to mitigate the evils of slavery in the Brazils and Cuba, vote for that resolution ; many landlords will probably join them. They will vote to keep up the price of sugar, which is so detrimental to the farmers, and they will still call themselves the farmers' only friends. The hypocrisy of politicians, and of all those classes who seek to enrich them selves by protecting or discriminating duties, is truly sickening. An excellent illustration of the fudge habi tually practised was afforded last night by the people of Antigua petitioning, through Dr. Lustt- INGTON, against the introduction of foreign sugar into England. They pray that slave-grown sugar may not be allowed to enter the limits of the British dominions. Will the reader believe that these Antigua people use slave- grown sugar themselves, and use it because it is cheaper than their own growth ? Here is the proof of our assertion. The following passage in Mr. WGREGOR'S evidence before the Import Duties Committee has already been quoted in The Suit : The difference in resp ec t t o re fi ne d sugar , s t r i c tl y spea ki ng , is likewise intended to protect the refineries in this country, inasmuch as the British colonies are not allowed to refine sugar. They use foreign sugar refined in bond here, Bra zilian and Cuba slave-labo ur sugar. All the refined sugar used i n our sugar colonies is foreign sugar refined i n bond acd sent from England. It i s sent to the We s t Ildics, to , British No r th America, an d to A ustralia. To all the. British colonies, • I believe. They are a"together suppl;ed with fo reign sugar, the produce of slave labour, and r. fined here in bond. All the other colonies, not sugar producing colonies, are supplied from England. We compe l our ot h er colonies to , take sugar from us. The refined sugar is all, I believe, from this country. Those colonies confine themselves to use sugar from this country. They have no means of getting refined sugar, unless it be smuggled from the United States. Sugar is allowed to be imported from the s•igar• producing colonies to our other colonies, but the difference of price be tvieen colonial and foreign sugar being more than 100 per cent. they come here, and consequently t urchase foreign re fined in bond. The produce of slave labour being cheaper, the sugar refiners who have been with me on the subject, have stated that it is all slave-labour sugar that is refined to go to the colonies. That sugar goes to the West India Islands, whim slavery is abolished, and to the North American colo nies, and to our colonies generally. It has always been the practice to supply the American colonies with sugar refined in bond in this country, but not with foreign su g ar r e fin e d in bond un' it the last few years. We see by the financial papers published by the House of Commoas, that the quantity of re fined sugar exported in 1839 was equal t) 573,3k8 cwts. of raw sugar, and of that, the whole which was not foreign grown, amounted only to 10,470 cwts. Of that foreign and slave-grown sugar so exported, not less than 9:2,004 cwt:. went to our own possessions, and was consumed there at less than half the price which our people are allowed to consume sugar which is the pro duce of those possessions. No less than 14,452 cwts. were exported to the West Indies, and in and h , but the the emancipated ancipated blacks, the colorists of N ew foundland an d C anada, may consume s l a ve-grown suaa people of England, who are sup posed to have more money than they know how I to spend, must not. 1 _ The worthy West Indians would send. to England, of which market they have a mo nopoly, every particle of sugar they can make or smuggle (for we believe it is by no means uncommon for them to smuggle sugar from Cuba, and ship it to Eng land as of their own growth) ; they them selves use only slave-grown refined , sugar, and they actually petition to prevent the people of England from obtaining any portion of the same commodity. All the planters—the GRANTS and the GLADSTONES-will support the prayer of that petition, and will continue to tax, if they be allowed, the people of England, on the pretext of discouraging the use of slave-grown produce. If they can possibly hope to succeed, how they must laugh at the prodigious gullibility of the the people. The principle laid down in Lord SANDON'S re solution, and on which the Antigua people ask us to act, cannot be carried out. It is impossible to distinguish between slave-grown commodities and others. Our own factory . children are the most wretched of slaves. The working classes of England are far worse off than the negroes of the West Indies. Cotton, tobacco, coffee, &c., are slave-grown products, which we must and do admit. Nor is it possible to make the political condition of any foreign people, or their political principles, the bamis of our taxation. No such absurd principle can be acted on by any Legislature; yet on that absurd principle, as illustrated by the A'itigua petition and the Antigua practice, the Tories are to resist the reduction of the discriminating duty on sugar. The resolution to be moved by Lord SANDON is a trick. It is solely intended to engage the opponents of slavery in defence of monopoly. The Tories dare not take their stand on the Corn-laws, for which alone they raved and roared on Friday, particularly my Lord SANDON. They have pitched their standard on sugar, and declared that they are to fight tbr freedoln and humanity. They cannot succeed, fir their professions and their conduct are at variance, and they only render a profound homage to principles which they have throughout their political existence essayed to crush. Leaving their hypocrisy, however, to its own punislunent, we wish to remind Lord SAN DON'S constituents that were his resolution carried the trade to the Brazils would go to decay. It is now. comparatively little profitable, because we will not take for our own consumption Brazilian sugar, and the spirit of Lord SANDON'S resolu tion carried out would also exclude it from use in our sugar refineries. The object of the Anti- Slavery people is not to admit slave-grown sugar into consumption at all, neither here nor in our colonies. At present the whole of the sugar refined in bond for the foreign and colonial market is slave-grown sugar. Let Lord SANDON succeed, and the next step must be to exclude slave-grown sugar from being re fined for exportation to our colonies. But sugar is refined in bond for exportation, without refe rence to the market; and to prevent refining slave-grown sugar for Antigua and. Gibraltar, is to prevent it being refined for Charlestown and Malaga. How can that which is destined for Quebec, and must not be slave-grown, be dis tinguished from that to be sent to New York, which may? The moral curse of slavery does not impart a physical character to its produce ; and to distinguish slave-grown sugar from free ' labour sugar, after it has gone through the hands of the refiner, will puzzle the most acute che mist. An attempt to distinguish them in that state, must, however,be made, if slave-grown sugar is not to be refined for the inhabitants of Detne rara and Jamaica, as well as fbr the inhabitants of Petersburgh and Copenhagen, or the whole trade of refining in bond must be given up. In either case the refiners will be greatly embarrassed, or ruined, and it becomes them immediately to take the matter into their consideration. They ought to resist the ridiculous and absurd prin ciple announced by the Antigua petition, and em bodied in Lord SANDON'S motion. The Tories having little or nothing reasonable to say against the proposed alterations in the bread tax, the sugar tax, and the timber tax, furiously assail the Ministers on account of the time and mode in which they make the proposi tions. Let us say a few words on each branch of these objections. First as to the time. It is said, " Oh, if you contemplated making an alteration of the Corn laws you should have mentioned it in the QUEEN'S speech, and you only do it now because you are defeated on the Irish franchise question, and care not how much trouble you prepare for your successors." Aye, there's the rub. The Corn laws cannot be stigmatized by the Government without making it a very troublesome question for those Ministers who insist on governing ex ; elusively in behalf of the landocracy and the priesthood. ' How the proposed measures may 'affect the country is not for a moment considered by the Tories; how they may affect themselves is a pinching subject. They cry out bitterly be cause they are hurt, and we feel as much plea sure at their wailings as ever a mother felt at the smiles and caresses of her first-born child. But we shall grapple closer with the objection. The Ministers had not made up their minds on the opening of Parliament to meddle with the Corn-laws. Their whole conduct and all their opinions prove their unwillingness to entertain the question. We give them no applause for that, but it is a truth. They supported the bread tax in its present shape as long as possible. They engaged in the plan to change it at length most reluctantly, and after the most overwhelming evidence had been brought before them that it was impossible to maintain the revenue and the Corn-laws. Last year they laid on an addition to all the taxes. What was the result? The revenue was three millions less than it ought to be. Accord ing to Mr. WILSON the new taxes yielded only 97,2701. According to Mr.VimaEas they yielded 530,000/. ; and, according to Mr. HUME, they caused a decrease of 300,0001. The Ministerial scheme, then, was a complete failure. How were they to make up the revenue ? Even if they had chosen to embrace the alter native of imposing direct taxes, there was no chance that they could have carried them in oppo sition to the landowners. Diminish the expendi ture to any great extent they could not, for the bulk of the empire was demanding more navy, more army, more priests, more commissioners, more laws, more interference, more Government. We do not exonerate them from having unneces sarily expended the public resources. As Mr. HUME said, having advocated economy, we have a right to complain of extravagance; but only a small section required frugality, and the great majority of the nation demanded, and the majo rity of the representatives eagerly voted, a mag nificent expenditure. It has been at length found in the months of March and April of the present year, that the revenue lagged most materially behind the ex penditure, and that it was impossible for the in dustry of the nation to answer all the demands made on it by the State, by the landowners, by the sugar planters, by the shipowners, and by the whole brood of what are called protected classes, who live nominally on trade or aTricul tare, but really on taxes wrung from the half starved people. This is the exigency which has forced the Ministers most reluctantly to endea vour-to improve the revenue, by removing the shackles from industry. , They are bound to look to the State, and acting according to their duty, they prefer the State taxes to the landlord's and the planter's taxes. " But why," say the Tories, "did they not know all these things before, ascertain the difficulty in which the State was placed in the mil F. SUN, LONDON. THUM.;D iY. MAY 6, month of January when Parliament was opened, and announce it in the QUEEN'S Speech, as well as the intention to get over it by abating the pro tecting duties." The CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQUER has given the answer. It is not yet a twelvemonth since the additional taxes were im posed, and only nine months of the financial year had elapsed on the opening of Parliament. In the first half of the year, according to the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, the new taxes had more than answered his expectations. The great deficiency occurred in the last six months. It was only partially known in January, and fully ascertained at the beginning of April. The CHAN CELLOR and the other Ministers might hope, in January, having•seen at times the great elasticity in the resources of the country, that the revenue would recover before the termination of the next quarter; but it did not, and while their ignorance and their hopes naturally kept them silent on the subject in January, their full knowledge, and their thorough conviction, compelled them to speak when they brought forward the Buda-et. • To us these circumstances seem to afford a full and complete explanation why they did not men tion the Corn-laws in the QUEEN'S Speech, and why they did on the 30th of April. We have long known the ruinous effects of the Corn-laws. The Ministers, unwilling to believe, only became convinced when the starved people, obliged to pay the landlord's tax before they could eat, were unable to pay the taxes of the State, which are huthanely levied, comparatively, at least, nu something more ofa luxury than the staff of life. A great outcry, however, is made about tl.e propositions being submitted to Parliament on the heels of a defeat. But the day for bring ing on the Budget was appointed before the holi days. It was by no contrivance of the Ministers that they were defeated on the 29th, as the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had to make his explanation on the 30th. He persevered in bringing it forward on the day appointed; if it had been postponed fur a week, the Tories might have well said that the propositions of the Budget were the offspring of disappointment. Those circumstances exculpate the Ministers' from the charge made by the Tories. But then it is said, and this relates to tl mode; " Why mention the Corn-laws in conjunc tion with revenue 1" Why, indeed ; because these laws are the pivot on which the whole.prospe rity of the nation, including the revenue, turns. They explain why there is so great a deficiency, why the Customs and Excise are unproductive, and why it is impossible to add to the taxes on consumption. To bring forward a Budget with out mentioning the Corn-law, is omitting the part of HAMLET from the play. The alteration in them was looked to as a source of fresh life in all the departments of the revenue, indepen dently of the sum expected to be directly deri‘&d from the alteration. In those circumstances we see an explanation of the conduct of Minis ters in making their propositions in the mode and at the time they made them. The fierce attack of the Tories is only a proof that they have been deeply wounded by the blow : it rc mains for the people to complete the work, and make the Tory wounds terminate in mortification and death. The Paris Journals of Tuesday have all reached us. The Chamber of Deputies was discussing the Budget for the year 1842. The speeches were animated, but related only to questions of domestic interest. The Journal des Dcbats has a long and violent article against the Cabinet for not having in voked the September Laws in the late prosecu tion of La France. The Debuts has no reliance upon the honesty of a French jury. The following extracts from the Journals con tain all the news of any interest in these Papers : The King this morning passed in review the ten new bat talions of the Ist Cha , seurs. The troops assembled at the l3arriere du Trone, and marched to the court-yard •of the Tuileries and to the Place du Carrousel. At a quarter past eleven Louis Philippe, accompanied by the King of the Belgians, the Duke of Orleans. the Prince dc Joinville, the Duke of Nontpensier, Prince Alexander of Wurtemberg, Maratal Soult, and a numerous staff, went along the lines in the court-yard of the palace. The King then dis mounted, and delivered the colours to the chefs de bataillons, making appropriate addresses to each. The uniform is green, with blue trowsers, preen epaulets, and yellow facings. The knapsack weighs about Itilbs. in marching trim. The sword fixes to the musket, which has a percussion lock. The officers have white silver facings. Ihe uniform has, however, a dingy, dirty look, and the hated beard and curled mustachio give a peculiarly ugly appearance to the men. I saw two men faint from the heat, and it struck me that they were not adapted for light skirmishing, but as I have not seen them manoeuvre, I would not hazard a decided opinion upon this point. The last letters from St. Petersburgh announce that the Autocrat, without combating the travelling mania which have at all times been the predominant malady of his subjects, has devised a remedy, which is purely in the form a tax. By an ukase of the 20th April, the price of a passport to a foreign country, which was till that time ten silver rubles, is raised to twenty-five silver rubles. If the passport is for several persons, master or servants, the tax of twenty-five silver rubles is charged on every individual, and the pass is good for six mouths only. The consequence is, that a Russian who travels in fo reign countries, of whatever age or station, has to pay a per sonal and additional tax of 200 francs per annum. We will frankly own, that this is a trifle in comparison with the amount of liberty obtained at that price by the temporarily emanci pated slave, and we will praise, without reserve and without restriction, the magnanimous Emperor for his resolution.— Le Constitutional. _ ..... The Toulonnais of the 30th April, says :—" Several ships of the line are going to Port Vendres, to take on board the five battalions of chasseurs of foot lately formed at St. Omer's, and to be on garrison at Algiers and Oran." It is said that some ships of the line of Admiral Hugon's squadron, will shortly return to Toulon. Those others which have not yet quitted our harbour will join the squadron in their stead. A letter from Naples says that the young Princess of Salerno 's gang to marry the hereditary Duke o(Modena.— Le Corn merce. BOURSE.--PARIAH TUESDAY, MAY 4. Brat Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pric. Pried Irrepch `. ter Cents ll3 90 ... 113 90 ... I 3 75 ... 113 8 5 4 5 p.n. Cents ..... _ ... 1 . 8 2 , ... ~,., , 5 4 p.r Cents ..... .• 99 20 ... OS 20 ... 99 20 ... 99 20 3 per Cent, 79 13 - 59 kU . 59 1U ... 59 211 flank of etance ...3180 Latlitte Rank 1,0001. Stares 111.5 ...INBS ...11 8.5 _lOB5 ...,igtan Bank 1041 los'l ...10:0 ...IMO ...1040 5 per Cents. New Loan 11 1V: ... 1156 .. 101% ... 1t.1% inanish Active .414 ... 24% ... t:4,i, ... 2 % Passive ................•• 5 % ••• 5 i , , .. 5% .. 5% Vearolitan lO3 SO ... 113 80 ... It; 80 ... 13 so Roman ... .... I r 4 ... 1 0 4 V, ... 104 ... 10:% RAILWAY SHARES. ... ...._____. St Germain ..... — 712 50 ... „2 50 ... 712 59 ... 7 '2 50 Versaillcs,it. B 361 ... ',6, ... 364 ... 305 L.B geuen 4sti 25 ... 446 25 ... 4:5 ... 455 I,,ienn . Mulhausen to Thann 4 4, ... 440 ... 440 ... 440 •i rs.uuig cf, Base tiM.C4IAIa P UNDS—BRIMILLII, MAY 4. Actual Debt, 21,4 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per C4nt ...... ........ Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 1, 21 --- 3 per Cent. ---•-Thirty.seven-- ........ 70 1 4 ..---,—..... (1 441) lt 03i Loan of City, 183'2,4 per Cent Bl% Socictyot Commarce, 450icr Cent lOO Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent .. 70 National Society. Exchange on Londom (short) •:—Brussels Papers, May 4. BOROUGH OF PLYMOUTH. In compliance with the requisition, of which the fol'owing is a copy, 1 hereby announ'•e my intention to bold a public meeting of the inhabitants of this town, at the Guildhall, on Friday, the 7th of May inst., at twelve o'clock. J. COLLIER COOKWORTHY, Mayor. Guildhall, Plymouth, May 3, 1841. " To the Right Worshipful the Mayor. " We, the undersigned, being of opinion that the present Restrictions and Prohibitions in the Commercial Code of this Empire are in a serious degree prejudicial to the operations and extension of its Trade, do request that you will be pleased to convene an early .meeting of the inhabitants of this Bo! ough, to consider the propriety of petitioning . the Legislature for a re vi ion of the Import Duties. " Plymouth, April 12, 1841." ( Here follow the signatures. ) MR. GROOM'S TULIP SHOW. The private exhibition of this beautiful collection - of tulips took 'lace yesterday, in the gardens at Walworth. We h..ive for years had the plersure of witnessing the annual show, a9d on no occasion have we seen the plants in such a healthy state, or the flowers exhibiting such endless tints of shade and bril liancy of colour. The great favourite this season is our old friend Nourri Effendi, who took the lead of every species some two or three years ago, and seems determined to keep his ground. The Pomp Funebre and the King of the Nether linds, of the same colours, are also good, but greatly inferior. Louis-Seize, white and purple, is extremely beautiful, and is massed as the second best in the collection, and after these come the Duch( es of Suth er l an d, P r i n ce of the Netherlands, and 11Iarcellus. Owing to the warm and genial weather the lants are approaching rapidly to maturity, and will be in per fection in the course of th's week. We would therefore ad vise all who have a fancy for this beautiful branch of floricul ture to take an opportunity of seeing them while in the best condtion, especially as a season so favourable for the growth of the plant and the beauty of the colours rarely occurs. THE WEATHER.-NOON, MAY 6. ROYAL BaGALLERYrome Barometer r OF SCIENCE, ADELAI DE-STRE ET. 29 . 62 In. Thermometer ...61 I Highest 62 I Lowest ......... 50 Wind &S.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. Martinis of Breadalban e , as L or d R ector , GLASGOW COLLEG E The installation of the Satur day last. His Lordship d e li vere d an an imated address on the occasion. to ok place on address EXPRESS FROM PARIS. We have received, by Extraordinary Express, intelligence from Paris of yesterday's (Wednes day's), date. The debate on the Regency commenced at Madrid on the . 28th. Gomes Becerra, hitherto its most rigorous opponent, spoke in its favour• This created surprise. The Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday con tinued the vote of the Budget of 1812. M. Guizot declared he had nothing definitive to communi cate as to the settlement of the question pending between Egypt and the Porte. Halil Paella was to be the new Seraskier. A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock this afternoon at the Foreign office. - Most of the Ministers were present. Lord Melbourne ar rived from Windsor in the course of the morning in order to attend the meeting. The departure of the Court from Windsor Castle for Buckingham Pala:T has been deferred from this day until to-morrow. QUEEN'S BENCH.-_(T i 1 DAY.) At the sitting of the Court this morning Lord DENMAN gave judgment ►n the following cases, which had been argued during the present Term : THE QUEEN V. PAYNE. This was an application to estreat the recognizances of a bail for non payment of costs, under the rovisitnis of a statute of William the Third. The Court thought the application should he granted, but would enlarge the rule till the first day of next Term, to allow the defendant an opportunity of pa! ing the costs. THE QUEEN V. PROCTOR. In this ea.e the Court granted a rule for a new trial. ATKINSON V. ItAWLEY. _ _ In this case, which was an a:tplication fur a non-suit or an arre,t of judgment, the Court granted the rule. FAUCETT V. BENNINGTON. In th;s cage, which was tried before Mr. Ba•on Manic at the Westmoreland a•s:zes. and on which an applicat on was made for a new trial, on the ground of the verdict being against evidence, the Court had consulted the Learned Judge, who saw no rea•on fur disturbin4 the verdict. The rule therefore must be reused; and in Denney v. Clarke, and Doe, Dem, Duke of Beaufort v. Gaigh, the Court granted rules. In the unitise of the day the Grand Jury came into Court, and stated that no presentments had been sent before them. They were then discharged. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) THE QUEEN V. BAILEY AND OTHERS, GUARDIANS OF THE BASFORD UNION, NOTTS. Sir. W. FOLLETT applied for a rule, cuing upon Thomas Bailey, George Farraut, and J. Wood, to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against them for the publication of a libel reflecting on the character of Mr. I\ ixon, a Magistrate of Notts. The defendants were members of the Board of Guardians o' the Basford Union, in the county of Notts. On the Y..sth of January last, a pauper, named Parkes, had been brought to the union house in a cart ; he was at that time suffering from illness, and in the course of that night he died. The surgeon stated that the man would have been much benefited by the administration of spiced wine, or some stimulant of that nature, but that he had been precluded ordering it by an express order of the Board of Gua: dians. An inquest was held, and the surgeon's evidence was given, when the Jury censured the conduct of the Board of Guar dians severely. An investigation was likewise insti uteri by the Magistrates assembled in Petty Sessions, on which occasion Mr. Nixon, on whose behalf the present application was made, took no other part in the proceedings than reading the' evi dence of the ,urgeon as given before the Coroner. A m feting of the Board of Guardians was subsequently held, at which re solutions were passed denying the existence of any such order as that alluded to by the surgeon, censuring the conduct of that gentleman and also the conduct of the Magistrates, one of which resolutions concluded with the following words, „ therefore-the statement of Mr. Nixon, that on referring to mi nute book of the Board of Guardians, the order was found, which precluded the ordering of any wine or stimulant, without a special order from the Board of Guardians, is a sheer fiction, intended to bring the Board of Guardians into disrepute with the public, and thus aiming, a back-handed blow at the New Poor-law itself." in another reso:ution, the conduct of Mr. Nixon was stigmatized as unworthy of a Magistrate Mr. Nixon denied that he had ever made any such state ment a' the one alluded to, or that he had taken any part in th.; proceedings beyond reading the evidence of, the surgeon. 'Th e resolutions had been published in all the Nottingham l'apers e and Mr. Bailey had avowed himself as the person authorizing the publication, and the other defendants were the mover' and seconder of the resolutions complained. Mr. Nixon had written a letter to the editor of the Nottingham Journal. demanding the name of the author, and in that letter he stated that every charge contained in the resolutions was grossly false. This letter had been published, but it did not appear that it had been done so by tie authority of Mr. Nixon. He mentioned this, because on that point of late the Court had been very particul Mr. Jiisi . ice COLERIDGE—Take your rule. Rule nisi granted. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) NEWTON V. BASHAM. The defendant is an attorney, to whom the management of an action brought by the plaintiff against the officers of the Sheriff of Yorkshire, was transferred by the attorney first em • ployed, Mr. A'Becket. The plaintiff obtained a verdict in damages 405., which lefr, however, a balance of 192/. costs, as between attorney and client, above the costs in the cause. The plaintiff obtained a rule calling on defendant to show cause why he should not be discharged from the payment of costs, on the ground that the defendant was not an attorney of this Court when he acted in the cause ; and iurther. why oefend tnt should not pay the costs of taxation, the Master having struck off more thri one-sixth of the bill. 'I he COURT now gave judgment for the plaintiff on both points. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) Eliza Williams w a3 placed at the bar charged with having robbed a Mrs. Powell of various articles of furniture. It appeared that the prisoner took lodgings in the house of the complainant, and on Monday evening last the prisoner sent her out to buy some tea, &c., and when she returned she found the room door locked and the prisoner gone. She burst the door open, and found that the room had been stripped. She immediately gave information to the police, and the pri. soner was apprehended in St. Giles's, whither the had con veyed the property. The prisoner said nothing in her defence, and was fully com mitted for trial. NEWSVENDER'S BENEVOLENT AND PROVI DENT INSTITUTION.—The second annnal meeting of the sub scribers and friends to the above Institution, will take place on Wednesday, • May 19 ; James Harmer, Esq., President, in the Chair. BOROUGH OP MARYLEBONE:--Lord Teign mouth will not again present himself to the borough, and the gallant Sir Charles Napier is spoken of with the greatest en thusiasm among all classes in the district as his successor. WINDSOR, MAY 4.—A few days since it was stated in a morning paper that the Princess Royal wou!cl re main at the Castle for some weeks after the departure of the Queen for the benefit of the country air; but if her Majesty ever int(nded to leave the infant Princess at Windsor, the in tention has been now abandoned, and her Royal Highness will accompany her illustrious parents to London on Thursday. Since the arrival of the Court at the Castle on Saturd iy last the Prince has daily taken equestrian exercise, but has not hunted in any'of the Parks, as that amusement has been con sidered by the medical advisers of his Royal Highness to he too fatiguing for his present delicate state of health. It is ex pected that the Court will return to Windsor a few days pre vious to the grand triennial celebration of the Eton Montern. CONCERT AT BATH HOUSE.—Last evening Lord and Lady Ashburton gave a grand concert of vocal and instrumental music, commencing at half-past ten, in the grand saloon. The statue gallery, the libraries, the drawing-rooms, &c., were all most brilliant, from the various chandeliers and Roman lamps introduced. SERIOUS OCCURRENCE AT THE TERMINUS OF THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.— Yesterd ty morninir, about twelve. an occurrence of a frightful character took place at the terminus of the London and Birmingham Rail way, Euston-grove. Mr. Wright, the coach-builder, bad occa sion to be at the station on business, and had left his horse, a very valuable and spirited animal, attached to his gig at th e further extremity of the station-yard, whilst he went across the line into the offices, unattended. He had scarcely been gone two minutes before the animal became very restive, and finding itself at liberty dashed off up the yard with the most fearful speed, and continued its progress until it arrived at the massive iron gates at the entrance of the terminus, against which it came in contact with a violence so frightful as to shatter the gig to pieces, and to cause the animal to rebound backward to the extent of several 3 ards, where it lay prostra . e and bleeding for some time, when death ended its sufferings. DREADFUL OCCURRENCE AT GREENOCK.-- Monday, about twelve o'clock noon, as Mr. Ludovick Gra manager of the new cotton mill, was in the wheel-house, show ing a party of gentlemen from Glasgow the magnificent water wheel employed in propell ng the machinery of the mill, a small bit (1 stone fell at their feet. Mr. Grant picked up the stone, but the Glasgow gentlemen , being alarmed ran to the west side of ihe wheel, and in a moment afterwards the east side of - the wheel-house gave war, and fell with a tremendous crash, and Mr. Grant, and another man, a mason, named An thony M'Leod, were buried in the ruins. As it was known that a number of other individuals were also lying under the ruiri, me 'sures were in,tanily taken to rescue the unfortunate suf ferers. In the course rf two hours, J. P(dlock. mason, and James Bayle, labourer, and a junior clerk of the name of M'Leod, were taken out alive ; but it was about two o'clock ere the bodies of Mr. Grant and Mr. M'Leod were dug out. The cause of the accident is tinders . ood to have arisen from the immense pressure of fire-proof br.ck arched vaults for cot ton stores, which rested against the wall o' the whe..l-house. A vast deal of rubbish and soil had been deposited on the roof of the arches for affording them protection from the weather, and the weight had, therefore, become la- greater than the wall could support. The accident will be the means of throw ing out a great number of people who are and were about to be employed in the Glasgow Chronicle. THE WOOLWICH CONVICTS.—We regret to state that the prevailing epidemic, called bronchites, still ragas to a fearful extent amongst the convicts at Woolwich. On Monday last inquests were held on four, and an inquiry into the death of two more took place at the Duke of Sussex yes terday, making nineteen inquests within a fortnight. Dr. Bosley, in his evidence, explained that in bronchites inflam mation of the lungs more than of the throat generally occurred. A juror said there could be no doubt that the confinement, diet, and clothing, of the convicts brought on the com plaint, and caused its fatality in so many cases. This, how ever appeared to be without a remedy. The Jury returned a verdict " That the deceased died from a diseate called bronelities." SHAMEFUL OCCURRENCE AT A FUNERAL. —A man of the name of Tam Dowie, belonging to Kioress, having died, all of his relatives were rrohibited, by the last will and testament of this eccentric, from coming near his dead body, seeing they had riot looked near him while living, and certain acquaintances of the deceased sere appointed to do the particular honours of the burial. Accordingly, none of the relatives appeared until the funeral company had commenced their progress to the churchyard, when a sister's son of the de ceased came forwad and demanded the " head" from him who was appointed to that honourable dignity. He refused. From words it came to blows—a regular fight ensued between the two, and in the contest the relative of the decease kicked the coffin with his feet with such force that a space was opened, displaying to the horrified feelings of the bystanders the body in its grave-clothes. The body was c cried to the grave by the Kinross officials, leaving the arutal wi etches to fight it out. Such a scene could hardly be expected to occur among savages—horrible, surely, among Christians in the nineteenth century..--Stiriing Observer. THE MARKtis,Ts.—(T HIS DAY.) COLONIAL MARKET. No public sales, and by private treaty the amount of busi ne.,s done was extremely limited, but prices w&e supported fir most articles. The imports were fair. TEA MARKET. There was not much business done, but holders would not sell at the last rates, and Is. 6d. vkai paid for Company's Con goo, cash. Some arrivals are near at hand. TALLOW MARKET. For P. Y. Ca'-dle prices were supported, but there was a limited demand for parcels on the spot to arrive. WHI I'ECHATEL HAY MARKET. The supply of Mcadow Hay, Clover, and Straw, was but moderate. Clover 41. 10s. to 6/., Meadow Hay 3/. 10s. to 4/. 18s., Straw 1/. 17s. to 21. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LoNnorr, MAY 6.—Wind this day at noon S.S.W., light breeze, and rather cloudy. .MARGATE, MAY 4.—Arrived, the Bombay, Furley, from Bombay ; Torch, Bain, St. Michael's ; Post Boy, ditto, and supplied with an anchor-stock. _ . . .6Fr , DovEa , MAY 5. —Arrived a ship, showing No. 1,792, under rendezvous flag. COWES, MAY s.—Arrived the Jantina, Petronella, from Bahia ; Kilda Charlotte, Hetman, ditto ; Echo, Akerson, Matanzas, in thirty-nine days. • OFF THE WIGHT, MAY 4.—Arrived, the Black Cat, Chener, from St. Michael's ; Rafha, Flounce, Mes,ina. PLYMOUTH, MAY s.—Wind S. S. W.—Arrived, the Kefuses, from Ancona ; H.M.S. Cockatrice, South Alnaerica. Sailed, the Margaret Cormell, for Calcutta. Arrived off, the Beehive, Walker, from Cadiz, with loss of fire and main top-masts; Othello, from Savannah for Havre. _ SCILLY, MAY 4.—The Rapid, from Rio Janeiro, which put in here on the 2d, will commence discharging part cf her cargo into a small vessel, hired for the purpo-e. Ihe Argus, from Cadiz to Portsmouth, is also discharging, to stop her leaks. PAnsTow, MAY 4.—Arrived the Mariame, William, for Newport, with loss of main topmast, &c. WHITEHAVEN, MAY 4.—Sailed the Agne3, Bay Chaleur. CORK. MAY 4.—Arrived the Orbit. London, from Quebec. WivxxxoE, MAY s.—The Lively, from Goole to London, was totally lost yesterday on the Baxey Sand. Crew saved. DEAI„ MA Y 5. —Wind S.W., fresh.—Arrived the Rapid, from the Westward ; Gelnore, do. ; Cteamore, do. ; Race horse, Punchard, Mediterranean ; Miranda, Lisbon. Arrived from the River the Thames, for Leghorn ; Beau-Ideal, Lis bon ; Colon, Havre. LIVERPOOL, MA Y 5 —Wind S. to W. —Arrived the Entaw, from New York ; Ashburton, Terceii a ; 'Enchantress, Smyrna; Tyer, Palermo ; Ann, Girgenti ; Wave, Prysley, Btiboa Redbreast, Gibraltar ; Independence, New York ; Elizabeth, Char'eston. Sailed the Fratteis, for Quebec; Oberon, Lima ; Sehynx, Gibraltar. Arrived off, the Superior, from Bombay ; Superb, Charhston. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 5. —Wind W. S.W. —Arrived the Mona transport, from Malta. Arrived o', the Lady Leith, Greeves, from Sydney, New South Wales. The Little Queen, from London to Newport, has }mt. in here with damage, having been on shore on Dumrose, and is expected must di , charge. DARTMOUTH, MA Y 4.—Arrived off, the Norfolk, GiLlowney, from Mauritius, sailed 28th Jan. FALMOUTH, MAY 4.—Wind S. S.W., strong breezes and squally.—Arrived the Tyrian packet, from the West Indies— sailed from Barbadoes March 16, St. Lucia and Martinique 17, Dominica 18, Guadeloupe and Antigua 19, Montserrat, Naas, and St. Kitt's 20, '1 ortola 21, St. Thomas's April 1, Porto Rico 2, and Cape Hayti 5, with 80,000 dollars on freight; Chmentina, Symonds. Malaga ; Ruth, Rendall, Sierra Leone—sailed February 28. Mirsoitn, MAY 4, —Arrived the Queen of the Isles, Lewis, from Messina; Carshalton Park, Dove, Sierra Leone. BILIXHAM, MAY 4.—A hogshead of oil, marked on the head Al. 1., has been picked up off the North Foreland, and brought in here. MONEY and COMMERC/AL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, 3111" s.—The market still continues depressed ; the sales scarcely realise 2,000 bales to the trade. In specula•ion or export nothing has transpired. Prices for all de criptions remain stationary. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MAT 5.—A very limited business has been transacted in the Share market to-day : Eastern Counties, 9; Edinburgh and Glasgow. 37 ; Edinburgh and Leith, and Newhaven, 3i ; Glasgow, Pal ley, and Gr. enock, new Shares, 2i ; Grand Junction, 208 ; Great Western, 111. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY s.—The Share market to-day has not been very animated, but prices uron the whole are steady :—Manchester and Birmingham, 25i 251; Manchester and Leeds. 54 55 ; London South Western, 574 53% ; Ditto, Tenths, 41 45 • North Midland, 764 774 ; Ditto, New, 38 39 ; Great Western Halves, 64 1 65i- Bant of Manchester, 1. Her Majesty's packet. Tyrian, has arrived from the West Indies, but brings no intelligence respecting the President. She sailed from Barbadoes the 16th of March, St. Lucia and Martinique on the 17th, Dominica on the 18th, Guadaloupe and Antigua the 19th, St. Kitts the 20th, Tortola the 21st, St. Thomas the Ist of April, Porto Rico the 2d, and Hayti the 4th. She brings a freight of 80,000 dollars. We may still cling to some hope, as the above dates are not late enough to hear of her arrival in any of the above islands, as the President sailed from New York on the llth of March, and must have encountered the storms on the 12th and 14th of March. We have received Jamaica papers to the Ist April. State ments of the debts and assets of the Banks of Jamaica on the 31st December, 1840, as also of the amount of its Notes pay able on demand, in circulation December 31, 1840. Notes in circulation ... £167,401 0 0 Other Liabilities £257,465 18 1 December 31, 1840. Specie and other A55et5......... £440,976 3 8 Her Majesty's schooner Pickle arrived on Friday from ti Martha and Carthagena, and the c•rcomstance of that vessel having brou 4 ht a large amount in specie, viz. 67,000 dollars, was hailed as a harbinger of good news, and led to an expec tation that peace and order w ere resuming. These hopes however proud, vain as the contest between the hostile parties, continued unabated. In the Calcutta papers we have accounts from New Zealand to the 22d November. It appears that the Colonists were active in exploring the country, and the Gazette from time to time pubshes the result. Government were offering mechanics from is. 6:1. to 9s. per diem, with provisions at cost price, and a piece of land to dwell on. THE FUNDS. The British Funds, which left off yesterday rather heavy, opened this morning with an improvement at 89% 90 for the Account; Money, 891 3, since which they are riot quite so good, and may be quoted 89:4 3 ; Money, 8941 3 ; Exchequer Bills 8 10 prein ; India Stock 250 251 ; Indiaßorids 2 4 prem. ; Bank Stock 1653 1673. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active has improved, left off 233 3 ; at present 23j 3 ; Deferred 191 j ; Passive 5 3 ; Portuguese same as it cioscd, 343 ; Three per Cents., 203 ; Brazilian, 66% 69%; Chilian 60 62 ; Colombian, 22 1 4 3 4 ; Mexican, 283 293 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 523 j ; Five per Cents. 99%. SHARES.—Great Western 28 29 prem. ; New 14% 4 prem. ; London and Brighton 2% 3 dis. ; Blackwall 6 d:s. ; Birmingham 70 72 prem. ; Southampton 57% 58% per share ; Croydon 133 14% per share ; Greenwich 83 per share Manchester and Birmingham 15 14 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great North of England ... ..... 90 Great Western Ditto New North Midland JOINT STOCK RANKS. lonian State National Provincial of England... 35 Ditto New ... PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MAY 4. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 96i 'Grand Canal Stock Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto Debs. 6 p er cent... Ditto New, 1830 ...... 97i Ditto 4 per cent St per Cent. Debs. B9g Royal Canal Stock HALF-PA 37 ONE. We have received Demerara papers to the 23d March, Bar badoes papers to the 25th March, and Trinidad to the 17th March. None of them contain any intelligence worth extracting. We have received the Journal of Antwerp, of yesterday's date. HAGUE, MAY 3. —By a Royal decree, of the 29th April, it is decided that a Chamber of Commerce shall be established at Bar le Due, to be composed of nine members. BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MAY 3.—Little bwiness has been done in the National Funds, still the prices remain firm. Ardoin's being more in demand have got up per cent ; Two and-a-Half per Cents., 51 13-16ths ; Five per Cents, 994 ; Ardoin's, 22 3-16ths. - Although the news from China is net of a favourable nature, as nothing of a decisive nature has taken taken place in regard to the negotiations, still the British funds continue firm, and have improved to 90 for the Account ; Money, S 9/ 90 ; Exchequer Bills, 810 prem. ; Bank Stock, 166; India Stock, 250 ; India Bonds, 3 prem. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active has been the favourite speculation this morning, and has improved to 24h ; Deferred, 12 / ; Portuguese, 341; Colombian, 22 1 ; Mexican, 29h *; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 52i. In Shares little or no bu,iness doing, only four quotations. Great ,North of England, 75 ; Great Western, 931; Ditto, New Shares, 64; North Midland, 75. QUARTER TO THREE. Consols, Account, 89/ 90; Mexican, 29 # ; Portuguese, 34h ; Spanish, 24 h. TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.-Last evening the annual meeting of the Briti,h and Foreign Society for thesup pression of Intemperance, took }:lace in Exe•er Hall. at which the Right Hun. Earl Stanhope pr, sided. From the Report it appeared that the temperance cause was making extensive pro gress, there being at present in London and the suburbs fifty societie4, with 20,000 total abstaining members, 3,000 ofwhom were reclaimed drunkards. In the country are 90 auxiliary societies, and 40,000 members, out of which 4,000 are re claimed drunkards ; 200 are clergymen of various denomina thins, and 1,000 are actively engaged in propagating the prin ciples of temperance societies. In Scotland there were 159,000 members; and in Ireland, through the instrumentality of Fa ther Mathew, five millions and a half of persons have taken the pledge of total abstinence. The funds of the Society were in so d•pressed a cnnditioa that many important stations would have to be given up and useful agents dismissed, unless more liberal efforts were made by the friends of the cause. The re ceipts were 818/. 17s. 4d., and the expenditure,l,B6s/. Os. 9d., leaving a balance of 3461. 3s. 51. against the Society. On the p'at:orin were Mr. J. S. Buckingham, and several clergymen. The meeting was most numerously attended, in which were a l irge number of sergeants and privates of the Scots Fusilier Guards. • THE LATE CALAMITOUS FIRE IN WHITE CHAPEL.—Yesterday morning it was very generally reported ' that Mr. Berlin, the unfortunate man whose house in Church lane, Whitechapel, had been totally destroyed by fire on the morning before, had breathed his last at the London Hospital from the effects of the injuries he received, but on making in qiiiries at that institution I,st evening it was fund that he was still alive, but with taint hopes of his surviving much longer. On an examination of his person on being carried to the hos pital it was found that both his legs were broken close to the ankles, that his left wrist was sprained, one or two of his ribs on the left side fractured, and his back and spine ser'ously in jured. He is perfectly sensible, and states that at eleven o'clock he put out the gas in the shop, and i etired to rest in a small parlour behind, when everything appeared perfectly safe. On being awoke, and seeing the shop in flames, he rushed up stairs to where his sister and housekeeper slept, and taking the former in his arms, jumped out of the window with her. Rachael Shore, the young woman who lived as housekeeper to Mr. Berlin, and who was to have been married to him in a month, has been a good deal injured. Mr. Berlin, who is a Jew, had not been residing in the house more than four or five months, and he states that the 400/. for which he has been insured in the Sun• Office will not cover his loss, though his stock appeared to those in the neighbourhood to be exceed jngly light' EVENING EDITION • COURT CIRCULAJi'. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The QUeen and Prince A l ' Bert rode but this afternoon in a pony phaetov, into ills Great Patk and Forest, his Royal Highness dr•"ing, ac elmpanied by the Prince of ideiningen, and atte.eded by the whole of the Royal Suite, in carriages and on' borsc- back. Her Royal H;ghtess the Princes Royal was takew for her accustomed airing to-day. His Excellency Baron Bulow took leav:l this morning' Lady Bath= has alio taken her oparture from t he Castle. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anne Mar ia Dawson, drove out to-day in a pony carriage. Viscount Melbourne arrived last night on a visit to her Majesty, and returns to town to-morrow (this day). His Excellency Baron Bulow, the Prusian M;nig ter e ; returned to town yesterday, from a visit to her :VW" at Windsor Castle. A deputition from the Coroners of Engl4nd and WA leh conti,ting of Mr. Todd, Coroner for Ilants; Mr. Ch ley, Coroner for Bucks ; Mr. Shebbear..,.-.Coroner for pants; Mr. Westell, Coroner for Oxfordshire; Mr. L•;vis. Coroner for Essex ; Mr. Carttar, Coroner for KO" Mr. Sworder. Coroner for Hertfordshire Mr. Baffle"' Coroner for Gloue. stershire; Mr. Lanw.rne, Coroner for I 1 recordshire! and Mes;rs. Wakley, M P.. and Coroners fur Middlesex, had an interview with Lord Job ° Russell yesterday, at the Celonial-offiee. Major M‘Namara. M.P., .‘tr. Ward, and Mr. Adair , hid interviews with the M trquis of Normanby yesterd4t at the Home-office. e Commander of tLe Forces had an interview yesteP day with Lord John Russell, at the Coloniol.office. I ' - = - - CURIOUS CASE.—About six or seven yea r ` ago, Brotherton, the Edinburgh and Salton carrier, proceed ed to Salton Hall, where he received from the butter and hoot'', keeper of the family the sum of SOI. , to pay for various article: obtained in Edinburgh. On his way home he wrs, accord'se to his account, set upon by two men, who knocked him c lol!" , Y ; and cut away the pocket containing the money, sveth they made c!ear off. Inve:tigation was set un foot in cv er i e direct;on at the tim , , but no trace could be obtained of th robbers, and the case was allowed to drop, riot without sst suspicion attaching to the carrier himself of having ke;st t. money, and contrived the story of the robbery to divert soar cion from himself. Within these few days, however, informs; tion was received at the County Police-office that a man nail Mitchell, living in the Grassmarket, and another named ton, living in Lasswade, were implicated in the robbery, t', l ` l l both having been employed at the time of the robbery w ith shoemaker in the village of West Salton.. They were both sr prehended, and, after investigation, the men have been cot' mittrd for trial.—Ayr Observer. At Sartain), in Calabria, a labourer, name Albanito, died lately at the patriarchal age of 116 years. , always led an active life in the midst of country occueat' °- il had been married five times, and had children by each marr ia g e ' Tile cuckoo was heard, we believe, for the time this season in our ne:ghbourhood, on Saturday eveiliPg last, in the woods of Craigie, where hegenerally first pro ciais ! his arrival. A number of swallows, the harbingers of matic" were seen flitting about early last week.—Akr Observer. ACCIDENT ON THE BIRMINGHAM AN D GLOUCESTER RA ILWAT.—The London Mail viaßirmirigh auk which ought to have reached this city at five o'clock this morn ing, was de'ayed about three hours by an accident which 1 1. P r: pened to the engine, near the Droitwich station, on the P. l , mingham and Gloucester Railway. The engineer peree i ;, , something was out of order, cast his eyes about him, and covered that the burr which fastens down the safety-valve had falhn off. He instantly stopped the engine, and had 1 . presence of mind to put out the fire as fast as he could, end doing which he was almost smothered with dust, smoke , an d water. One of his eyes was injured, but fortunately he escsr r without other or more serious hurts. Had not the engine!, thus promptly exerted. himself to extinguish the fire, the e°,..% sequences to all persons tending the engine would probity', have been fatal.— Worcester Paper. HOW THE NOBILITY ARE TREATED lII_ PRUSSIA.—BERLIN, APtar. 20.—Letter addressed w Franconian Courier :—Sevcral Journals have giv. e b very inaccurate accounts of the manner in vible the affair of the Archbishop of Cologne 'has bee .' settled by Count Clement of Westphalia. The re,7 A facts are as follow. The Count of Westplotlia 0 0 '1 not come hither with a mission of the Memi:nrio, the Estates, but of his own accord ; neither is audience with the King immediately connected vi• the discussion of the Westphalian D:et. The Diet, there; fore, could take no notice of the result of it, and the Con, on bit side has not again showed himself in the Assf , P' in which he has a vote. The memorial which he pg' ., 7 sented to the King dilates on the well-known occureacet; and after the removal of the Archbishop of Colegnr, concludes with the petition, " That the Archbishop Citi menti Augustus and his Chaplain, Michel, may be re store to the enjoyment of entire liberty, and the former thereby t enabled to resume his cros'er." Very incorrect acc ul t ° J base bean given in the Journals both of the niehoor 4ol i. Count Westphalia and of his Majesty's decision oil ) 4 I, therefore, sent you his Majesty's Cabinet order ; it is , follows :—" When on your arrival h ere , an d your stat in g that you bad some important communication to tt a li d to me, I granted you the audience for which you APP,„g I had only a general knowledge of a Proposarreapect i l 7 the Archbishop of Cologne, which had been trougbti.,,`" ward in the Westphalian Diet, and respecting which tr; pressed on your reception my serious displeasure. P:i .4 that I have acquired a more specific knowledge of I _ o proposal, which you prcser.ted to me yourself, and ba b. likewise been made acquainted with the discussions , Diet respecting it, I shall confine myself in announcivg e .. you the declaration, that the Westphalian Diet by i'_,. l t fol p pr r o es p s o ed al, dis p a r r o , v pr , ob d, at a i s on of I could i • dnot ill, b .ga and die but expect expe tf s r r alo sPy: , a te 4 loyal and dutiful sentiments, and , thereby treated yOU you just'y deserved. I now enjoin you to ret ur n t o ,Munster, whittler your duty as a member of the Diet calls, since Y°L ligve no more busincs to do here.—(Signed) FaanO lc „ - WlLLlAsi.—Betlin, April 1, 1841."—A4emeine April 30. 8 5 Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey is spoken . 0 ',,." likely to be proposed es a candidate for the office . of ` - ‘ ,', l Comptroller, which will at the next Court of Coin - n f Council be declared vacant. Many of the influential• me n ja the City are said to be anxious that Mr. Harvey should b ° : a situation in which his talents, as a Member of Par',''. went, might be rendered serviceable to the CorpOrati ° "' The exuberant profits of the Comptrollership will bc lopped in the Committee of Clerks and Officers, so th' t t, the competiti.in for the office will not be so great as wa s first expected. It has also been said that Mr. Tyrrell , th present Reinembrancer, will be appointed Comptra cr i and that Mr. HarVey will be elected to the situation Remembraacer, whose duty it is to attend Parliams el ' so that if the latter appointment should take place, )I f,: P Harvey may act in a d ou bl e capac i ty f or t h e Corpora'ion the House of Commons. THE SHERIFF OF LONDON AND THE SO' RIFF OF MID DLESEX FOR TILE E NSUING Y EAR .—The , ° r! Mayer, pursuant to ancient custom, • nominated to t"" Court of Aldermen, on Tuesday, the following gentl e ' men to be put in nomination to the Livery of each. C°!: pany on Midsummer Day next, as fit and proper pers ° ' to serve the offic e s of Sheriff of London an d Sheriff d Middlesex, viz :—Alexandcr Rogers, Esq.. citizen, a n spectacle-maker; Henry Flumptre Gipps, Esq , citlzeei and spectacle-maker; George Thomas Nicholson, Big! citizen, and fishmonger; and William Simpson Pott e d Esq., citizen, and pattsn-maker. Alderman Magnay Mr. Roger.; will be elected without contest. In 1720, two doctors, Mead and Woouval- f night under the gates of Gresham College; the lat ter slipped his foot and fell. " Take your life," exclaimed D . ': Meade; " Anything bet ) our physic," replied the prostr a te Woodward; and the affair ended with the joke. t EXTENSION OF VACCINATION.—OR:BCc OO° ' of the attention directed to vaccination, by the Act 0 f — 6 Session, the increase in the applications bath for vacci ov lion and the vaccine virus at the Royal Jennerian,a4Ll don Vaccine Institution has been threefold. The *Media Director has vaccinated one thousand five hundred a nd to e more children this year, from January Ist to _March„2 stb ' than he vaccinated from and to the same dates last yes!' d ToRY DolNGS.—According to Sir Richer " Million of Facts," the Tory Goveramenti- t . e .; tween 1795 and 1826, i.e., in 34 years, raised, by al t „, means of taxes and loans, 2,476,334,2161., or above if millions per annum ; and it expended, in the same peri od ' 2,422,665,2401. Of these enormous sums. the custolol yielded 309 - millions, the excise 684 millions, ° L e i , assessed and property taxes 368 1 , th e stampis. : l6l4o o " post-office 39%, lotteries nearly 11, loans and., funding 722. Of the enormous expenses, the interest of the debt absorbed 891 millions, the . army 598, the .04 4223-, the ordnance 95, direct subsidies for allies 55,( 11/ „ 8 sinking fund 3181, losses by Exchequer BillS, It far exceeded, in less than a generation, the total. 0 all the taxes and p6lie expenses in 1,000 years, or fron: the reign of Egbert, the first King of England, in 0, 0 down to 1826- In the reign of Henry V., the tOi. were but I,loa per week - in that of Cromwell.•29,oo o ;' at the 'evolution, 39,0001. ; in the reign of George-4i" 150.0001.; and in 1833 nearly 1,000,0001 , or 1,000 ,titl , e s more than in the reigns of Henry V. and VI. , FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER OFF MORTLAKE.—On the afternoon of Tuesday l as t, a me lancholy accident occurred on the River, between Hammersmith ama, Kew, which proved fatal to one, and nearly so to two others or the students belonging to the R oya l C ollege of Civil EDO" neers, at Putney. Tuesday was a no li day at the Institu tion and, in the cour t e of the foren con , t h ree of the young gen*" men, whose names were Sh or t, S cott, and Jones, without th e knowledge of Colonel Hutchinson, the resident Director, hired a small sailing boat to go to Richmond- On the r return, they had to contend with a strung southerly wind. Having becow e tie d of holding on the sheet, they affixed the rope to the sie ° of the boat ; and, about four o'clock, when off Mortlake, they were met by a sudden squall; and being enable to let go the sheet, the boat instantly upset, and the whole party became immersed in the water. Two boats put off to their assistance' and succeeded in picking up Messrs. Scott and Jones, and they were conveyed ashore in a state of great exhaus'ion. T he drags '-are then used, and in about eight or ten minutes t he body of Mr. Sharpe was found, and conveyed to the Ship pub lic-house at Mortlake, when every means for restorieg anir o ; tion was adopted for two hours by Mr. Brown, a surgeon, is? withuut effect, The deceased, who was much beloved by his fellow students, was a fine piling man, about 17 years of age , an orphan, but highly connected. INGENIOUS DISCOVERY.—An exhibition of a new patent has lately been made at the Adelaide Gallery and other scientific institutions, for the purp ose o f un iting lea" without solder ; this being done with a portion of its own metal, and the novelty of the process has attracted much at tention. The principal agent is a.jet of flame, quite manage' able, similar to a blowpipe, and of the most simple construe" tion. To vitriol-makers, manufacturing-chemists. and al l works where solder will nut b ear t h e test of the material meow factored, the invention i 5 of great moment. This discovery', likewise, not only saves th e comparat i ve l y h eavy ex p e nsi solder, but enables the manufacturer to have his leaden yeas= and chambers of one entire piece of lead, whatever may their size. ------ ----- The President steamer has now been out fifty' six days, and nothing whatever is known of her since she ,435 seen by the Orpheus the day'after- she sailed.. The President cost 1 4 0,00111. ; engines, 450 horse power ; 2,100 tons. -Se" veral perso ns at Cork held shares. the Commander, Lientel. nan: Roberts, R.N., is a married man with five children, ivliq reside di s i t n in Lo u n is d h o e n d ; by he pu is tt a ing native of the county of Cork, a il was • an end to the s!ave-trade in a 1)( , _ tiun of the At west of ica, where he commanded a brig of s1""-_ 1..