The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-03 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS PAY. CHRONICLE.—The sensation produced by the Govern ment notice of Friday night ou the Corn-laws is rapidly ex tending through the country. Everywhere it is the signal of excitement and determination. By the monopolists it will never be forgiven ; and by the people it will never be forgot ten. Ministers have fairly thrown themselves on the nation for support in the assertion of a great national right and inte rest. The response will soon be heard in thunder. The un taxing of the people's bread is a prospect full in view ; and the people will spring towards it like lions on their prey. The com plaint of the Times as to its Tory leaders is their want of sympa hy with the poor.. We leave them alone with their lamentation. lt is their exclusive possession. Their title to it is confirmed by the hideous yells which greeted Lord John Russell's announce ment of his motion for a Committee of the whole House on the Corn-laws. The description by the Times of its own 'tarty is amply confirmed. The purpose of untaxing the poor man's bread excites their infuriate hostility. All pretence, affectation, or decent show of sympathy was, in that moment, thrown to the winds. It was an exhibition of human nature horrible and humbling ; and happily one which is rarely to be witnessed. But it marks what the people should feel. Its intensity is the measure of their gratitude. Were there no other evidence, it would suffice to show that great in deed must be the good which could call forth that fierce an tagonism. In proportion to that first ebullition of rage will be the cunning, trickery and determination with which the great measure that occasioned it will be opposed. Only by an overwhelming display of its will can the nation ensure the blessing which Ministers have placed within its grasp. Th e y have magnanimously committed themselves to a deadly con iiict with the hitherto paramount interest of the Legislature. They are no longer partakers in the crime of a monopolist class which has never yet allowed any Minister to be indepen dent of it. The die is cast. They go with the people for cheap bread. They side with the manufacturer and the operative, the tenant and the labourer. They are for the many against the few ; and their judgment is with God and their country. And the voice of the country will be upraised ; it must ; in tones which will strike terror into the foes of justice thus claimed and asserted. The Corn-law question may be settled now, It will be settled if the people bestir themselves. Two years ago, Sir Robert Peel declared the uncertainty to be an intolerable evil. Very recently, indeed, the Times reiterated the assertion, and estimated the uncertainty so highly as to put it amongst the benefits of a Tory administration that it would bring the question to a settlement, although in a mode .diametrically opposed to its own avowed opinions through a quarter of a century. Better it should be settled on the wrong side (was substantially the declaration of the Times) than not settled at all. Better, that is, the confirmation of the oppression than the continuation of the struggle. We are rescued from this most forlorn alternative. Set tlement and justice, settlement and untaxed food, settlement and invigorated trade and commerce, are offered to us. Mi nisters cannot carry their proposition, snarls out the hard < riven objector. Can they not? Then never let that ob jector say one syllable on behalf of the people of Britain ; for svith them it rests. If they will, the bread-tax is already vir tually abolished. As we urged on Saturday, this is no time dallyine. There is but " one little month" for the people to utter their voices. Let petitions be signed in every parish and hamlet. Every person whose name is not appended is in the same position as if he stole a slice from his neighbour's leaf. " He who allows oppression, shares the crime." `The decision rests with the country. No Member of Parliament should be indulged even with the affectation of ig norance of the wishes of his constituents. On former occa sions the House has refused—contemptuously refused, to en tertain the subject. It will refuse again, even though the pro position emanates from the Government. unless there be a strong and general admonitory demonstration by the people. Petition, then; petition everywhere, the millions of bread eaters, for. bread untaxed by the monopolists. The walls of the metropolis are placarded with notices of the religious gathering; held during the present month. The "May meet ings " are at hand, nuceess to their devout and thlanthropic undertakings. But what is that religion of which no Fart consists in the solemn supp'ieation " Give us this day our daily bread ?" Now is the time for all who nepeat the Saviour's wads without hypocrisy to evince their sincerity. The question is whether dale , bread, given by heaven, shall he allowed by man to reach those who earn it. Neither Church extension on the one hand, nor Church-rate rholition on the other, strikes so deeply into religious principle s this does. Sect and denomination difference; are compare e ively on the surface. Let congregations, church - and dissent ing, aid with their petitions, as they did for the ahchioa of slavery. Slavery was a monstrous evil, but starvation is a worse. Those who in their multitudes demanded mei cv for the negro, should yet more sternly insist on justice for the poor. During this brief interval, it will be incumbent on all the Anti- Corn-law Associations, from the great 'Manchester League to every parish club, to redouble their exertions. Instead rf the Ping ampeign before th-m, there is art impending crisis. It is " now or never." Should the recent notice be receive lin any way to hich can he construed into apathy or indifference, the golden occasion is irretrievably lost. The associations must put forth their -strength to the uttermost ; and let the people join them so as to show their force. Let them enrol their names as they did in May, 1832. "He that is not for us, is against us." There can be no neu erolity on such a question es whether manufactures are o be annihilated, and the nation pee mama!), sub jected to an impost on is food for the profit of a class interest. And let it be remembered that all Anti-Bread 'fax Associations and Commit tees are also pr p ory arranee aneets for the election c ertests that may speedily ensue. Their eeork ends not with petitioning. They are a Grand Jury find ing true fiios for the tribunals by which Parliau.entare responsibility must be made mare than nominal. If petitions will not avail, votes must. A spirit :vigil Le roused on which the Carlton Club may expert I its million without ru 'king an ins inession. We have argue I this Corn-law question long enough. The pressure on those who find work for the multitudes is be coming too strong and threatening for prolonged rea sonings. The season of action is arrived, and it cannot come more favourably for the national inte rest. The; announced purpose of file Queen's Mi nisters is as the setting in of the tide. Let it rush en, and. :sweep away before it all the defences of this inhuman mono iio:y. If Ministers be but adequately supported ; if that na tional enthusiasm which their determination must produce be lint evinced in time by a people awake to their own most vital interests, we cannot but augur the happiest results. In their present position, they can sustain no Parliamentary defeat that would not be equivalent to a victory. And we slicu'd like to see the list of those who would dare to take (-rice on the ex press grounds of disfranchisement for Ireland, and perpetuity to the bread-tax. TIMES.—If humane and reflecting Englishmen could only Le familiarised with one half of the practical barbarities which, even in the best conducted factories, arc inseparable from the present system of infant labour, we feel persuaded that not another month would elapse ere this monstrous national dis grace were sentenced to complete extinction. We are none of your fancy philanthropists ; we have no taste for overcharged eictures of any sort ; nor do we forget that there is hardly a ;better way of perpetuating an abuse than by giving its advo nates the advantage of being able to show that its evils have ineen greatly exaggerated. Opposed, as we are, however, to the false tensibitity, as well as to the stupid impolicy, which would unduly magnify any grievance that en ally deserves redress, we are prepared to show— erom an infinite variety of authentic evidence—that the labours imposed upon children in the manufacturing dis tricts (sanctioned, we blush to say, by a British Legislature) are generally attended with a systematic sacrifice of human life, compared with which the carnage of cannibals, or the ime Isolations of Juggernaut, are almost tantamount to mercy. Apart altogether from the testimony of the better class of fac tory owners, and factory inspectors, and factory victims, which, though varying in its inculpatory character according to the Interests or intelligence of the witnesses, uniformly represents he cotton-mill as a dismal instrument of infant torture, we would ask any parent in civilized Europe to say whether children from nine to twelve years old can be subjected to the confinement and labour of factories for twelve or even ten hours a day, without involving a course of privation and suffering at which humanity must absolutely ehudder ? Talk of spending twenty millions for the eman cipation of the West Indian slaves—talk of farming juvenile reformation schemes at the Cape of Good Hope— talk of philanthropic devices for the protection cf the abo i in British colonies—talk of organizing fine civiliza tion societies for Africa, and jobbing expeditions to the :Niger on a grand enterprise of beneficence—we say it is an utter disgrace to the display gentry who have cla moured for these humbug humanities, that, while mustering in thousands to perform the sentimental on behalf of eloubtful and visionary projects, the wretched condition of the factory children, pining and perishing at their own door, a n d h urr i ed in a frightful ratio to an early tomb, .has never wrung a tear from their pharisaical eyes, nor c enekened o ne d ormant sympathy in their benignant , Inhasts As far as regar d s the shameful indifference of leissenting Ministers to this object, we cannot say that we are much surprised at it. Considering their exclusive predilection for such foreign or domestic labours as bear more directly upon their own sectarian aggrandizement, we did not expect that any interests apart from those which are strictly denomina tional would for a moment receive the slightest place in their regenerated hearts. But with respect to the Buxton party, who are composed of a sort of Church and Quaker coalition, we certainly did anti c i pate, notwithstanding t h e heavy mill investments of the D ar li ngton and Durham Friends, that something like a decent consistency would have impelled t e e m not to confine their philanthropy to mere pla t eem parades in favou r o f savage tribes, but to take a prominent lead in extirpating that wholesale sys tem of intent slaughter whi c h d emands their inter ference at home. In this, however, we have been painfully e nsappointed. The sympathies of the Buxton party are too sublime and generous to be occupied with anything so tamely eemm ee n place as the sufferings of factory children. What xelusively concerns them are the hardships of negro cherubs, mud the misdemeanours of foreign slavers. Only give them a tale of Guinea abduction ; and, for all that they care, the in fant population of the manufacturing districts may be handed ever to the tender mercies of demons. We hold up these leg-perfuming coxcombs to the contempt of the en tice kingdom ; and, b y God's blessing, th e great work of Factory Reform shall speedily triumph in spite of I hem. On this subject, as on every other, the conduct of the Whigs, too, has been infamous. During their ten years' te nure of office, and long before they got it, they have inces santly prated about tie necessity of emancipating neg roes , Papists, Dissenters, parochial rate-payers , hulk convicts, a n d what not; but with reference to the c r y in g a bo m inations of mill-infanticide, as demonstrated by the evidence of their own factory ins p e ctors t , h p e artiMessrs. Stuart and Horner, corroborated by cularly by tie thing have they Re do ports of Parliamentary Committees, not the cotton-shambles, except towards arresting the butcheries of evasions, which, till this hour indulging in re„ gretspromises, and hco l a, h ave b een u tterly unproductive of a single substantial ira te -, POST.—We observe thaveementn Mr. Christopher, in the :Budget, Mr. Handley, one of ti t : the ep . l, !• a o allusion to some remarks of hire, and hitherto a thick -and of Friday night upon Members for South Lincoln aid " he could asmre the Hon. M in be the Representative of all Lincoln': supporter of Ministers, b . er, who had assumed to question} came neglect his duty to his constituents aria that he should not hat question (the Corn-law the country when ..i.ouse." That question, we now came before the Handley, and other gentlemen t° inform Mr. ret F ll r oe l t u ta t i y on s, next, in loonoe he is will come substantially before the House when Ministers are to propose their Friday Chancel pursuance of the financial scheme lor of the Exchequer. It is not to be supposed :at the _House of Commons will for the mere convenience of stultify itself so completely as to deal with a new schenisterl finance by instalments, voting upon one fraction of anintegralscheme :1 .- Stern this week and reserve another fraction of the si re e system for consideration five weeks hence. No, no, Mr. :landlay ; much as it may cost you to cut with your oha eriends the present Ministers of the Crown, cut with them you nest, and on Friday next, too, at the very latest, or cut for ever with the electors of Lincolnshire, for be assured that your constituents, and every other agricultural constituency in Great Britain, will regard that man an their foe who does not resolutely, and from first to 1 st, .•ppose the whole scheme with which the ruin of British ag ri culture has been insepa ra bl y i nterwoven by its authors. If the agricultural intere s t i n t h e House of Commurs permits Ministers to pass a singl e reso l ution in conformity with the eudeet speech—be it a reso l u ti on which directly strikes at the welfare of our Canadian fellow -subjects, and aims a blow ee the same ti me a t t h e shipping intere s t of Great Britain ; or be it a resolution which assails the struggling and shattered interest of our West India colonies for promotion of the slave trade between Africa and the Brazils—if a single part of this nefarious scheme of finance be permitted to escape annihilation at the first moment it is distinctly offered to the House of Commons, all that the landed interest can ex pect, and in the case supposed all that it will deserve, is the advantage of being sacrificed later than the rest by as much as four or five weeks. The Canadian interest, the West India interest, the shipping interest, will all help the Representa tives of British agriculture to destroy the scheme as a whole, and to these may be added the anti-slavery philanthropists, if the latter were ever really actuated as they professed to be by the feelings of humanity, or the obligations of religion. But to obtain or to merit this aid the Representatives of agriculture must do their duty from the beginning. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS; FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. CHRONICLE.—The subject in every man's mouth is the abolition of the corn monopoly, and the reduction of the price of timber and sugar, announced in the budget. The reduc tion of the duty on Baltic timber is, of course, complained of by those merchants and shipowners who enjoy the monopoly of the Canadian timber trade, and the admission of foreign sugar is denounced by the West India interest ; but the great na tional measure of cheap food has really fewer enemies here than we expected. Amongst the wealthy merchants and bankers there are many Tories, and the " horror" which some of the moneyed capitalists have expressed to-day at the proposal to repeal or modify the landlords' tax, shows that the measure has struck home. We fear, therefore, it will be opposed as a party mea sure, for they have staggered like drunken men beneath the blow, and if followed up with vigour and energy they must yield. They were totally unprepared for the an nouncement, and the complete secrecy preserved of the Cabinet intentions has rendered their fury desperate. These are promising symptoms nevertheless for those who wish to see the resources of this great country developed, and her trade and manufactures prosperous by the adoption of a liberal commercial policy. The boon offered to the people is, we are confident, fully appreciated, and they will respond to the appeal as becomes them. They know that the productive industry of the country by means of its mechanical power is capable of supplying the whole world with nsanu factured goods, and that if we throw open our ports to the produce of other countries, that if we will receive their corn, timber, and sugar on liberal terms, they will take our staple articles of produce in ex change ; we shall no longer see the bullion in the Bank drained off in the course of a few months, by 8,000,0001. or 9,000,0001., to pay for the people's food ; the price will than be paid for by the export of British goods ; but the chief satisfaction experienced is in the glorious feeling that Great Britain has taken the lead, that she has at length assumed the position which becomes her, and shown an ex ample of an enlightened commercial legislation to the world at large. It is felt that this brilliant example will tell in the United States, in Brazil, in the Germanic Prussian League, in France, Spain, and Portugal ; and that it will be the memo of consolidating the general peace, by combining the people of all nations in one common bond of commercial intercourse and prosperity. That large and influential portion of the community forming the liberal commercial body in the C.ty duly appreciate the enlightened course adopted by the Government, and hail with gratitude and satis faction the proposal of a more liberal tariff, the sub . stitution of a " moderate fixed duty" on corn in place of the present sliding scale, and the extinction of the system of regulating, the duties payable on Foreign corn by aver ages, which is injurious alike to the landlord, the home grower, and the consumer, and profitable only to speculators. If any one will take the trouble to observe the working of the bread tax, it will at once be seen that it is cunningly devised for the benefit of the rich at the expense of the poor. It operates in an inverse ratio, pressing with increased severity on those least able to ray it. It will be found on inquiry that a working man with his wife and three children, consume about. eight quartern loaves each week. Now supposing, for the sake of illnstratien, that the opening of our ports for foreign grain, on payment of a moderate fixed duty, will reduce the price of the quartern loaf threepence a loaf, that diminution of price in the article of food would be a saving to the working man of two shillings a week on an in come of ten shillings a week, or 20 per cent. ; it would be a saving of 10 p-r cent. on an income of 20s. a week, of 5 Ter cent. on 4(.19. a week, and so on : and if we take it on an its come of 2,0001. a year, it will be found that the difference would be only aboutss. a week, or*per cent. Here then, we see that the less a man is able to bear the bread tax, the more that tax demands from him. I , scarcely touches the squire. archy, the parson, and those who fare sumptuously every day, clothed in purple and fine linen, but it sucks the heart-blood from the industrious poor. The rich man took care to rid him self of the property tax, which touched his comforts and lux uries, long ago. It is now time that the property tax, which destroys the poor man's little means of subsistence should also be done away. Viewing the Budget strictly in a financial point of view, it is approved by every competent judge whose opinions are free from the pre ju , lice of party f.eling, and there are many mer chants of the 'Cory party in the Lity who perceive that it will be a most embarrassing policy for their Parliamentary leaders to oppose it. They se: that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is no nibbler at principles. They are c onscious of his straight f irward business-a. , course of conduct, and that, sweeping off all mystification of arithmetical obscurity, he has paced his measures practically and plainly before the country in such a ina , ,ner as evi-ry man can read and understand them. They are aware, therefore, that it will be a dangerous if not a fatal a'tem; tto oppose the Right Hon. Gentleman in his plan of providing for 600,0001. of the deficiency of 1,700 000/, by redwing the duty on Baltic timber. They know that the differential duty of thirty shillings sti I maintained in favour of the Canadian growth is an ample one, particularly when it is a sacrifice by the people of this country to favour colonial interests, to their own cost, and to the prejudice of a superior article. They see that they cannot propose that the people shoul I be taxed to supply the deficiency instead of having the taxes reduced on this necessary material in their dwelling-houses. So, as regards the admission of foreign sugar, they know that the differential duty of 50 per cent., which the mother country would still yield in favour of co lonial sugar, is most ample, and that they cannot say it would be wiser to keep up the present exorbitant pi ice, to lay on additional burdens on the consumer, and to lose the trade of Brazil, which takes off 5,000,0001. annu ally of British manufactures, instead of gaining 900,0001. to the revenue by the change proposed in the budget. These views are quite understood in mercantile cir cles, and we only express the opinions of some of the /best informed when we say that the measures of relief will work well, and that they will do more than answer the expectations of the Right Honourable Gentleman. We have only to add, that the best friends of the measure hope that when once announced its authors will adhere to it with boldness ; that they will avoid all vacillation, or vain attempts at conciliation. We have heard the observation made to- day in many quarters, " This is right now, if they will only stick to it ; and when they propose their fixed duty, let it really be a moderate one.' If they act in this way, the people will do the rest." As there was no loan, or increased taaatioa, asked by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Consols opened firm, and were done at 90i for the Account, but is being thought by many that the Tory faction would make a desperate resistance to the re moval of the bread tax, which might compel Ministers to ap peal to the country, prices receded to 90 to A. There was, however, but little business done, this being a holiday at the Bank, which it would have been also at the Stock Exchange, had it not been for the Budget being fixed as for last night. TIMES.—The general opinion of the Budget in the City, with scarcely a dissentient voice, is an unfavourable one. This is to be taken, however, apart from all contained in it which has reference to the principles of free tade, which have always had, and always will have, a great number of zealous advocates in this quarter. The opinion quoted only regards figures— the grounds upon which the Chancellor of the Exchequer is led to expect the increase of revenue which he has declared to be indispensable—and the fairness, taken collectively, of his whole statement, as furnishing information, always to be de sired in these cases, .of the real financial situation of the country. It is, perhaps, in this latter particular that the Budget is pronounced to be most defective. Any person not in the habit of attending to these sub jects is led to conclude from the speech of Mr. Baring that a deficiency of about 2,000,0001., being his estimate for 1841, is the whole for which Parliament is required to make any pro vision, keeping the fact almost entirely out of view that there is a large arrear of deficiency, the accumulation from four years of improvident administration, amounting to above 5,000,0001. more, which is left, fur aught that is set forth to the contrary, to liquidate itself as it may. Then, in considering the means whereby it is proposed to raise that 1,300,0001. out of the 2,000,0001., the estimated deficiency of 1841, for which alone Mr. Baring deems it necessary to provide, there are none who can see their way clearly to any such result. The doctrine, of making good a large deficiency by such a modification of duty as is proposed is regarded as most unsound by practical men. The sugar trade, in particular, are taken completely by surprise, and regard with the utmost alarm the entire change in their operations which the new measure would occasion. The impression with the leading men in the trade is, that the sweeping reduction of the duty on foreign sugars will be attended by such a rise in their price, that the consumption will not increase sufficiently to answer the purposes of the alteration, and that the supposi tion that it will increase to such an amount as in a great mea sure to make good the deficiency, has been much too hastily formed. As for the answer of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the question of Mr. Herries respecting the 700,000/. still unprovided for, it is considered most unsatisfactory. He said that " he had omitted to state " that he would provide for that deficiency by an issue of Exchequer-bills, the very form of this answer being somewhat loose and un-business like, .and though he seemed to admit that the power of using the Savings-bank Stock was unsafely trusted with a Minister, his opinion that it was a power of which a Minister would " naturally avail himself," could scarcely lead to any supposition but that such "natural" means would be resorted to, especially after Mr. Goulburn had been plainly told, that a great part of the deficiency of last year was to be made up by an application of the Savings-bank money. The use of this fund is regarded more and more with suspicion, as a means of increasi ng th e pu bli c debt with little or no cheek, while the obscurity of the opera tion gives it the appearance of a sort of juggle. The power of thus using this money is, as the Chancellor of the Ex chequer himself admitted, decidedly dangerous ; at all events contrivances of this sort cannot conduce towards the real reduction of a deficiency, and the monied interest are beginning to look with apprehension at the notion of an income-tax, which, though kept rather in the hack-ground, is evidently hinted at as a plan to which resort may ulti mately be had, especially if the schemes now brought for ward should net succeed, which, as before shown, is consi dered likely to he the case. The inquisition to which any tax of the sort would most necessarily lead is naturally regarded with great jealousy ; and as for the alteration in the Corn laws, which is proposed not so much as an alternative, as a means of supplying a part of the wants left unprovided for by the reduction of the duties on timber and sugar, this is con sidered less a measure seriously designest to produce this effect, than an attempt to gain a momentary po pularity in the event of a dissolution of Parliament. Hence, this combination of th e C orn- l aw question with that of the Budget had an unfavourable eff• ct on the Stock-market this morning, although there is no material decline in prices. For at first, at perceiving the Chancellor of the Exchequer had given no hint of the creation of stock. the apprehension of which had weighed upon the market for some days, a sud den advance in the prices took place, but they gave way almost immediately on the reflection of the unsettled state of things that would follow a dissolutiou. According to the list of quo tations, the Budget has experienced produced persons littleorn in oeff t e h c e t, ci bu ty t , ac i c t o h rd a - s accord ing t o the of _awakened general feelings of mistrust and apprehension. POST.—The publication of the financial exposition made to Krliarnent last right by the Chancellor of the Exchequer °e f eur r i ng the last day in the week hai had no immediate effect w. ,!" , equct ee on the value cf the national seem hies. There a thin atten(lance of speculators , and but little doing. ME LAN CIIOLY OccURIIENCE.—A boat was swamped on its return from Westport to Clare Island on Sa turday last, when, melancholy to relate, all the persons in her, including two policemen, perished. We have not heard the number of lives 17. st. ald sub • cull st able Hardi belonged the Clare he policemen were constable Bloxham man, who to Island Station. ' " ' h e constable has left a widow and a large family.—Map Constitution. THE SUN: SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM TITS EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE.—We rejoice that Ministers have no!. taken the only ground at once consistent with their own principles, and commensurate with the demands of the present crisis. We rejoice that they have announced their resolution at length to grapple with the Coin-laws; All fiscal reforms, without this central one, must have been insufficient, and some of them unjust—all attempts to extend our fields of production and commerce, in proportion to the wants of the people and the public ser vice, feeble and hopeless, without dealing boldly with this monster monopoly. Poverty is a shrewd teacher: it is well when she finds wise learners. It is well that the actual exigencies of our revenue and our commerce are now to be consulted for by states men whose principles predispose them to large views of the situation, and the means of surmounting it. Great measures call for willing as well as able hands. The party round which naturally rally all sticklers for privilege, all clingers to class interests, children and champions of abuse and monopoly—the party to whom Britain owes the authorship of the Corn-laws—are not the proper party to effect their repeal. The work calls for cleaner and more conge nial hands. How is it possible that it should have been done with vigour and boldness by the heads of the party who must look for support to classes, and corporate bodies, whose party bond is resistance to innovation as far as possible ? How could their chiefs assume the initiative of a change so impor tant, and which their most powerful supporters imagine so prejudicial to themselves as a class—how could they do this with the honest comprehensiveness called for by the occasion ? How could they set at nought the sel fish clamours of this, that, and t'other interest, which cluster in the camp of Toryism, as their natural refuge —how plagiarise the principles of free trade, and the import Duties Committee—those principles being most obnoxious to those supporters they could least spare ? How could they have done this ? Yet they must have attempted it. We have not the least doubt in the world that Sir R. Peel is quite awake enough to have deter mined upon doing something in fiscal reforms if he came into power. We rejoice, therefore, if ever that oc currence arrive, it will come too late for the plausible boast that Peel was ready to do something, where the Weigs did nothing. The country will now have the opportunity of choosieg between measures such as the chiefs of a party, the natural friends of such measures, will propose—and measures such as necessity may wring from their natural enemies. Can it be doubted which are likely to be the more comerehensive and effectual ? Can it be doubted which arc likely to be those which the public should support ? STANDARD.—One of the Romanist admirers of the Administration has excellently described its policy in a somewhat Irish phrase. It is " clumsy cun ning." The Ministers have no resource save in trick ; hut, as the French say, all their schemes are " sewed with white thread." Last night presented a: memorable example of this use of fraud, at once the vilest and most transparent. Three times signally defeated in the House of Commons upon Ministerial measures, within ten days—once within the same short period con spicuously disgrace! on the hustings at Nottingham —they were last night thrown back upon their old villainous stratagem, to distract the country by an agitation, in the confusion of which they might hope to evade the stern pressure which is forcing them from office. As in 1831 they secured their places by tho Reform riots ;as in 1833 they recovered the ground from which they were tottering, and even for a moment displaced, by a lying clamour against their too indulgent and too confiding Sovereign ; as again in 1837 they raised a false cry of treason against the Queen—so now, when once more brought to ex tremity, they throw themselves into the arms of the anti-Corn-law agita'crs. Last night, within less than twenty-four hours from the latest of the defeats of the Cabinet, the Ministerial leader in the Howe of Com mons gave notice that he would raise that questicn, to rase which the head of the Cabinet lass declared, in words still unretracted, to be nothing less than "downright madness." Thus arc we governed. Every interest in the country, the peace of the country itself, even the se curity of the Throne, are treated as subordinate to the preservaeon of the offices of the Qusen's Ministers. Lord John Russell's announcement of a Committee err the Corn-laws was received amid such a tempest of conflicting exclamations as was never before witnessed in a house of Parliament—the unpremeditated expres sion of amazement, and, generaty, of disgust. All were astonished; the enemies of their country, the worshippers of gain, and they who look for anarchy from the continuance of the present men in office, re joiced with their surprise ; hut even they loathed the barefaced dishonesty by which they hoped to profit. On the other side, all, except a few who believed that the notice indicated an intended retirement from office (weak dupes), and that Lord John was merely proposing a measure to be prosecuted by himself as an Opposition Member, were filled with irre pressible indignation. The wonder was universal, with whatever difference of feelings it was accompaniel, and therefore the disgust must have he en universal ; for all must have seen that it was not any sense of the necessity for a change in the Corn-laws, but the defeat of Lord Morpeth's Bill, and of the compensation clause in the Bill of the Attorney-General, with the lesson imparted by the Nottingham election, which so suddenly in spired Lord John with his anti-agricultural project. The feelings thus expressed in the House of Com mons will pervade the country. Every day renders it more difficult to cheat the people, and hence the rapid decline of Whig-Radical influence. COURIER.—We hinted yesterday at certain mys terious manceuvres in progress respecting the Budget. To-day we have to record the consummation of political swindling on the presentation of that annual plague by those political jugglers and swindlers,herMajesty's Minis ters. Our readers will of course anticipate our meaning, as referring to the notice now given, for the first time, in a Session one-half concluded, of an intention to pro pose the abolition of the Corn-laws. The dirty trick comes too lite in the day, and the object is too obvious, to serve the turn of the new anti. Corn-law impostors now. It will not break their fall or delay their fate one day beyond the appointed time. There will be no popular anti-Corn-law shout to bear them back to Parliament after a dissolution, or keep them in office without one. The people care nothing for Corn-laws, but they have decreed the doom of new Poor-laws. Now is the time, then, for one mighty and simultaneous move ment frome one end of the land to the other to sweep those diabolical laws from the statute book, and their detested authors out of the Legislature. Nay, more ; if there were any form of Constitutional law by which it could be accomplished, we would have the authors and administrators of the murderous New Poor-laws legally proceeded against, judged, and sentenced to incarcera tion in their own bastile workhouses, from heartless little Lord John himself down to the penny-a-lining clerkly imp of the Somerset House Commission. Now, we repeat, is the time for one general pull altogether for the abolition of the new Poor-laws—and nothing but the abolition. In the convulsive struggles of a dishonest Ministry for existence and bread, the people may make their own terms and obtain all they choose to ask. SYRIAN NEWS. A letter from the frontiers of Syria, of the date of the 14th of March, gives the following apercu of the present state of that country, in a sense unfavourable to the Turkish domination :-- 'You are aware, I beleve, that the traitor Yussuf Bey, , after tno retreat of the Egyptians, went over to Aleppo with about 200 miserable and ragged Hosseiris, and there exercised the functions of Governor. Upon the arrival of Achmet Zakaria Pacha, however, he was deposed from this post, and he has since lived as a private indi vidual. A troop of about 1,600 Arnauts, who had come from Natolia to Aleppo, were at the same time the terror of the quarter of the Christians in that town. They committed the greatest excesses, first demanding spirits, then music, and afterwards forcing the Christians to bring them their own wives. The same troops marched afterwards for Tripoli, and there declared to the Gover nor that they expected the best houses in the town to be placed at their disposal ; care being previously taken that the men should be all turned out, and only the ha rems left in them. This moderate proposal was laid be fore the inhabitants by the Governor who, in reply, took up arms, barricadoed the gates, and called to the Arnauts from the walls to come and take their wives if they could, You are probably already aware of the reasons of Izzet Pacha's recal ; he was in league with Ibrahim, in whose hands in wanted to place the Osman troops, in order afterwards to fall upon the mountaineers of Lebanon. As yet the Osman authorities have dune nothing whatever to wards the organization of the Administration of Syria. The Government money chests are completely empty ; and re quisitions on the part of the authorities are never obeyed. in fact, but little attention is paid in any ease to the Turkish authorities. In addition to this a scarcity pre vails in the land, which, without the conveyance of sup plies from Egypt, would long since have become bitter fa mine. A regiment of cavalry, under the orders cf Sha ker Bey, lately came over from Hamah to the coast, and there laid waste several villages, for the purpose of ob taining corn and fodder for their horses ; and in come quence, the inhabitants of the mount tins from Latakiah to Tripoli were irritated to the greatest degree against the Turks. The apparent tranquillity which still prevails in many parts of Syria will, as is evident to all who are well acquainted with the country, be of very short duration ; and in case of fresh disturbances, the Turkish domination in Syria would be lost for ever. In the Hosseiri moun tains the Sheiks are fighting among themselves. A few days ago one o f th em f e ll upon another and killed him : the party of the latter upon that took up arias, took forcible possession of the village r f the enemy, burnt it to the ground, and destroyed allthe fruit trees. " Both English and Russians ers labouring hard in the endeavour to extend and strengthen their influence as much as possible in Syria. The English have as yet the upper hand, and ere supported in all their plans with extraordieary and unpwal!ele i zeal by the Austriane. Russia is the declared protector of the Greek Church, and fil mans daily appear giving some advantage or other to this or that Greek Rajah. Of Prussisn influence nothing a hat ever is heard. The infleence of France is totally annihilated. The Jesuit Father Rdlo, the most active emissary of the English in the Lebanon country, has just rereived an or der set in brilliants from Constantinople. The English artillery troops that were at Jaffa have returned hark ONDON, MONDAY, MAY 3, 1841. again to Beyrout. Acre has been vacated by the English garrison, but it is not to be supposed that they will soo' quit Beyroot. " It appears by letters from Damascus that the two Al banese who murdered a Christian of the name of Sed nani, at the instigation, it was said, of the Jews, have again been set at liberty. The Tuffendshi Bashi (Com missioner of Police) said, in answer to the representa tions of one of the relatives of the man, that Sednani was not worth anybody's troubling themselves about when living, and much less when dead. The relation upon that applied to the Russian Consul at Beyrout ; and this officer has demanded that the murderers should be imme diately taken up again ; adding, that he should come over to Damascus himself to investigate the matter, and enforce justice." FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL. BRUSSELS, APRIL 29.—The average price of Wheat last week was 18f. 21c., and that of Rye 101. 29c. per hectolitre. LIEGE, APRIL 29.—This morning a deplorable ac cident took place in the coal mine of Ougree. At nine o'clock there was an explosion of gas. The workmen were all at work, and the cause of the ex plosion is not known, the work having been examined in the morning before the men went down, when every thing appeared to be safe. Messengers were imme diately sent in all directions to obtain assistance. From inquiry made on the spot we hear that twenty workmen are missing. BRUSSELS, APRIL 30.—1 t is generally believed that neither the King of Holland nor the Princes of his family, can set their feet on Belgian territory without violating the Constitution. This is a mistake ; the King of Holland may come and pass the summer at his seat at Terrouen, take out a game license, or go a fishing without hindrance. The following is the law IN THE NAME OF THE BELGIAN PEOPLE. " The nation's Congress declare that the members of the family of Orange Nassau are excluded from all power in Belgium." They are merely excluded from all power; they can not be senators or gamekeepers, but there is nothing to hinder them from coming to Belgium. They are not in the same situation as the family of Napoleon with re spect to France. We should not be at all surprised to fee them come to visit our exhibition, which is at hand, and take many tickets in the lottery of works of art. PETEasntuton, APRIL 19.—The marriage of the Grand Duke Alexander is to take place on the 28th of April, the day before his birthday. FRANKFORT, APRIL 25.—1 t is reported here to-day that the Princess Mary of Darmstadt, the bride of the Grand Duke Alexander, has been attacked with the small-pox, and that her face is so disfigured that she is hardly to be recognised. (The Amsterdam papers of the 30th April state there is no foundation for the re port.) THE HAGUE, APRIL 29.—His Majesty set out this morning on a visit to Dordrecht and North Brabant. THE HAGUE, APRIL 30.—We have already re ceived Lere the news that his Majesty the King arrived yesterday afternoon at Tilling, and was re ceived with the greatest enthusiasm by our inhabieants, who went out to meet him, TURKISH FRONTIERS, APRIL 15.—Accounts from Conqantinoph s.tate that Tahir Pacha, the new Capi tan Paella, who held that office wider Sultan Mahmoud, and was deprived of it on account of his too great severity, has just given a remarkable proof of his harshness by causing the chief baker of the arsenal to receive the bastinado. Two Frenchmen in the service of the Porte are said to have already resigned on that account. Reschid Pacha was much indisposed for some days after his dismissal, which many persons have been dis posed to lay to the charge of the Government. Though nothing is more natural than that the mortification be had received should affect his health ; however he had since visited the Grand Vizier and his successor, Rifaat Pacha, by bath of whom he was received with much honour. The opinion that he will soon obtain a foreign mission gains ground. PETERSBURGII, APRIL 20.—0 a the 15th the Nevi was free from ice down to sea. Oa the 17th, at ten in the morning, a salute of artillery announced the opening of the navigation of the river, and Issac's-bridge was re placed.—Jminial of St. Petersburgh, April 20. DUTCH FUNDS.—.ASI3TECuAM, APRIL 30. tenni! Dlbt, ‘..N per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. AutortSvndic,4lj per cent 9') 901 i Ditto, ditto, 334 per cent 74 "i 4 Onnmercial Company, 4 1 , per cent :0)4 1613 Dr.t.) (1:1::5 and 1437) 5 pz:r cent. ...... 1011 102 Loan 1517, 5 per cont. Exchange on London, One month l2 02% Two months Dutch Papers, May 1. BELGIAN I U NDS—Bittnime, APRIL 30. Actual Debt, 23 per Cent. Rothatold's Loan, 5 per Cent lOO% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 3per Cent 70 , 4 ( 1,3 40) lOOl4 Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent Si Society of Commerce, 4y,:, per Cent lOO Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent... ..... National Society Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, April3o. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIvins, mm 11.22 Five per Coats. Metalliques Fos: per Cents Three r Cents. Bank Shar,73 Zeilung, April 27 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Bsatim, APRIL 27. Bills. Money. St. Ech uld. Sch., 4', per cent. lO4 10334 Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 101 1003 i Exchange on London, three months o 1974 —Prussian State Gazette, April 2a .Thirty.seven. LAW INTELLIGENCE. BAIL COURT, Me r . THE QUEEN V. SIMPSON. Mr. CHADWICK JONES applied to Mr. Justice Coleridge for a writ of certiorari to remove into this Court an in dictment that had been preferred at the Central Criminal Court against the defendant, charging him with having conspired, with several other persons, in order to obtain fictitious votes at the recent election for Bridgemaster, which took place at Guildhall. The candidates on that occasion were Mr. Gibbs and Mr. Ledger; the former of whom was elected, and the present indictment alleged that the object of the defendant was to prevent Mr. Led ger from being elected. The Lcarned Counsel stated, that although similar indictments had been preferred against 18 other defendants, the present application was on the part of the defendant Simpson only, and, in support of it, he alleged that he could not have —or, at least, was not likely to have-2 fair trial in the Central Criminal Court, because the prosecution had been instituted by the Court of Aldermen, and some members of that body were in the habit of sitting in that Court as Judges. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE said he thought tho Learned Counsel bad stated sufficient to entitle him to a writ. Application granted. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, MAY 1. IN THE MATTER OF SIR THOMAS CHAMPNEYS, BART. A numerous meeting of creditors was held on Saturday before Mr. Commissioner Law, in the case of Sir Thomas Champneys, for the proof of debt; under the insolvency of the year 1835, and only one more meeting will take place before the dividend will be declared. The inquiry has been of a very important description, and has disclosed some extraordinary statements on " bill discounting." The dividend is expected to be somewhat considerable, arising on a large sum provided by Lady Champneys. The debts and liabilities were stated in the schedule at 95,882/. 73. 9d., of which sum the deceased Baronet alleged he had consideration for only 24,4481. 93. Bd., the remainder being on " bill transactions." There were large claims on the other side. Among the creditors represented on this oe cation, were Messrs. Sewall and Cross, the linen-drapers, Mr. Hamlet, silversmith, and others. The present was a preliminary meeting to the final adjustment of the claims, and those creditors who do not substantiate their debts in a few days will be excluded from the dividend about to be declared. The claim on the part of Messrs. Sewell and Cross is an extraordinary one. It was made on a former occasion when Mr. Commissioner Law expressed his opinion, and the so licitor of the firm now attended to know if the Learned Commissioner had changed his views. He said he had not, and would on the final meeting give his opinion at length. He, however, adhered to what he had stated. Messrs. Sewell and Cross claimed to prove for 1,0001. on three bills, two for 250/. each, which they discounted, and the other on 500/., for which they supplied goods, and which goods, it was proved, were afterwards sold for 84/.1 It was, however, urged that they had only charged fair prices, and on the part of the assignees that it was clearly usurious, and could not stand. The COMMISSIONER held that the 5001. bill could net be admittod, and now said he saw no reason to alter his mind. A claim on four bills for 1,8001. was made on the part of Mr. Hamlet, the silversmith. A gentleman said the as signees of Mr, Hamlet, whl was recently made a bank rupt, claimed the dividend, and a solicitor for a Mr. Tur ner made his claim to the dividend. Mr. Hamlet was examined, and stated that he had given goods to one George Pennell for the bills accepted by Sir Thomas Champneys. lie only charged one price for his articles, and whether cash or bill 3 it was the same. It was remarked that it was an extraordinary way of do ing business. Mr. Hamlet said he should charge a king the same as a postman. He bad one marked price for his articles. The COURT allowed the claim, with interest. The next question was, who was to receive the dividend ? It appeared that Mr. Hamlet had made a deed of assign ment in 1834, and Mr. Turner, who held the bills, had adsanced 3,0001. on them and others of the Duke of York's some time after they Were due. The assignees of Mr. Hamlet clai:ned the dhilend in this case, and the solicitor for the assignees of Sir Th omas decla,ed his intention to pay them. _ _ Commissioner LAP? was occupied with other claims the whole day. This case has, from its peculiar features, crealcd a good deal of interest. COURT OF EXCISE, MAY 1. Mr. Thomas Powell, of the Articheko public-house in Fat ringdon-strcet. was ch arge d as f o ll ow s: Mr. Cook, an officer, sail t h at a few days ago, he took the defendant's stock, at whi c h t i me h e had on his promise s one hundred and thirty g a ll ons of g i n . About f or ty- e i g h t hours afterwards he exami ne d h i .; goods, and found an in crease in the gin of ta eay-two gallons, which quantity he se.zed. Derendant, in explanation, ttatcd that the gin when first seen by the officer wus just had in from the distillery, :And consequently it was unfit for consumption. Between the %iiita of Mr. Cook, he (defendant) sweetened it, and re duced it to its proper strength, which accounted for the in create. Even if eustomrra could drink it as it came fi orn the distillers, witness would lose, by re:giling it at the p, 'e sent pricer, at the rate of 33. per gallon. Sir J. MORTLOCK—You ought not to have reduced it unless in the preq-r:ce <>f 0,4 L ffi. , 2r„ Mr. MAYow, the soi►eito: of :Le tJourt—But he Would not then be allowed to lower it. Your point has reference only to foreign spirits. Defendant—Every publican is obliged to do as I have done. It is great hardship. Mr. Commissioner STEVENSON—SO I think. Defendant—How are we to act ? Mr. MAIOW—You must comply with the law. The Court condemned the 22 gallons. Mr. Richard Welsh, licensed victualler, was complained of for receiving into his house 12 gallons - of brandy without a permit. The defendant said that his brother bought from the Customs 200 gallons of brandy, the whole of which was permitted to him in the regular way. He sold to witness 12 gallons, and he was removing that quantity un der the same permit when it was seized. The COURT remarked that it required a separate permit, and they adjudged the brandy forfeited. An immense quantity of illicit spirits and a large still, and a variety of utensils, which had been seized on the premises of a person named Furse, of No. I, Swan-lane, Thames -street, City, was brought to this Court. The detection, it appeared, had been made by Mr. Golding Bird, the Surveying-General Examiner, and Messrs. Bullen and Stevenson, the officers of excise. The still was in full work, and on a scale the most extensive which the officers had ever met with. The proprietor of the place was immediately taken before the Lord Mayor, who fined him in the sum of 301., which he immediately paid. COLTER'S ADVENTURE. The following singular adventure of a man named John Colter, is taken from Mr. Bradbury's Travels in the Interior of North America. Colter came to St. Louis in May, 1810, in a small canoe, from the head-waters of the Missouri, a distance of 300 miles, which he traversed in thirty days. I saw him on his arrival, and received from him an account of his adventures, after he had separated from Lewis and Clark's party. I shall relate one anecdote for its sin gularity. On the arrival of the party at the head waters of the Missouri, Colter observing an appearance of abundance of beaver being there, got permission to remain and hunt for some time, which he did in company with a man of the name of Dixon, who had traversed the immense tract of country from St. Louis to the head-waters of the Missouri alone. Soon after, he separated from Dixon, and trapped in company with a hunter named Potts ; and, aware of the hostility of the Blackfoot Indians, one of whom had been killed by Lewis, they set. their traps at night, and took them up early in the morning, remaining concealed during the day. They were examinias their traps early one morn ing, in a creek about six miles from that branch of the Missouri, called Jefferson Fork, and were ascending in a canoe, when they suddenly heard a great noise, re sembling the trampling of animals ; but they could not ascertain the fact, as the high perpendicular banks on each side of the river impeded their view. Colter pro nounced it to be occasioned by Indians, and advised an instant retreat, but was accused of cowardice by Potts, who insisted that the noise was caused by buffaloes ; and they proceeded on. In a few minutes afterwards their doubts were removed, by a party of Indians making their appearance on both sides of the creek, to the amount of five or six hundred, who beckoned them to come ashore. As retreat was now impossible, Colter turned the head of the canoe ; and, at the moment of its touching, an Indian seized the rifle belonging to Potts ; but Colter, who is a remarkably strong man, immediately retook it, and handed it to Potts, who re ma;ned in the canoe, and, on receiving it, pushed off into the river. He had scarcely quitted the shore, when an arrow was shot at him, and he cried out, " Colter, lam wounded 1" Colter remonstrated with him on the folly of attempting to escape, and urged him to come ashore. Instead of complying, he in stantly levelled his rifle at the Indian, and shot him dead on the spot. This conduct, situated as he was, may appear to have been an act of madness, but it was doubtless the effect of sudden but sound reasoning ; for, if taken alive, he must hava expected to be tortured to de ith, according to their custom. He was instantly pierced with arrows so numerous, that, to use Colter's words, "he was made a riddle of." They now seized Colter, stripped him entirely naked, and began to consult on the manner in which he should be put to death. They were at first inclined to set him up as a mark to shoot at, but the chief interfered, and seizing him by the shoulder, asked him if he could run fast? Colter, who had bean some time amongst the Kee-katso, or Crow Indians, had in a considerable decree acquired the Blackfoot language, s,nd was also weal acquainted with Indian customs ; he knew that he had now to run for his lire, with the dreadful odds of five or six hun dred against him, and those armed Indians ; he there fore cunningly replied that he was a very bad runner, although he was considered by the hunters as remark ably swift. The chief now commanded the party to re main stationary, and led Colter out on the prairie about three or four hundred yards, and released him, bidding him save himself if he could. At this instant the hor rid war-whoop sounded in the ears of poor Colter, who, urged with the hopes of preserving life, ran with a speed at which he himself was surprised. He proceeded towards the Jefferson Fork, having to traverse a plain six miles in breadth, ab aindin,g with the prickly pe ar, on which he was every instant treading with his naked feet. He ran nearly half-way across the plain, before he ventured to look over his shoulder, when he perceived that the Indians were very much scattered, and that he had gained ground to a considerable distance from the main body ; but one Indian, who carried a s2ear, was much before all the rest, and not more than one hun dred yards from him. A faint gleam of hope now cheered the heart of Colter ; he derived confidence from the belief that escape was within the bounds of possibility ; but that confidence was nearly fatal to him, for he exerted himself to such a degree that the blood gushed from his nostrils, and soon almost covered the fore-part of his body. He had now arrived within a mile of the river, when be distinctly heard the ap palling sound of footsteps close behind, and on looking over his shoulder perceived the Indian with a spear, which he was evidently preparing to hurl, within a few feet of him. As a last resource he suddenly stopped and turned round, with outstretched arms; the sur prise of the action caused the Indian, who stopped likewise, to stumble, and he fell on the spear, which broke in two. Colter instantly seized the sharp part, with which he pinned him to the earth, and -then con tinued his flight. The foremost of the Indians, on arriving at the place, stopped till others came up to join them, when they set up a hideous yell. Every moment of this time was improved by Colter ; who, although fainting and exhausted, suc ceeded in gaining the skirting of the Cotton-tree wood, on the borders of the Fork, through which he ran and plunged into the river. Fortunately for bin,, a little below this place was an island, against the upper part of which a raft of drift-timber had lodged. He dived under the raft, and, after several efforts, got his head above water amongst the trunks of trees, covered over with smaller wood to the depth of several feet. Scarcely had he secured himself when the Indians arrived on the river, screeching and yel'- ing, as Colter expressed it, " like so many devils." They were frequently on the raft during the day, and were seen through the chinks by Colter, who was con gratulating himself on his escape, until the idea arose that they might set the raft on fire. In horrible sus pense he remained until night, when, hearing no more of the Indians, he dived under the raft, and swam silently down the river to a considerable distance ; here he landed, and travelled all night. Although happy in having escaped from the Indians, his situation was still dreadful; he was completely baked, under a burning sun—the soles of his feet were entirely filled with the thorns of the prickly pear—he was hungry, and had no means of killing game, although be saw abundance around him, and was at least seven days' journey from Lisa's Fort, on the Bighorn branch of the Rocha Jaune river. These were circumstances under which almost any man but an American hunter would have despaired. He arrived at the fort in seven days, having subsisted on a root much esteemed by the In dians of the Missouri. On Saturday the Members of the Royal Aca demy of Arts gave their anniversary dinner at their apart.. ments in Trafalgar-square, which was attended by a nume-. rows assemblage of guests of the first rank and talent, among whom were the Lord President of the Council, First Lord of the Treasury, Lord Privy Seal, First Lord of the Admiralty, Secretaries for the Home, Foreign, Colo nial, and War Departments, Master of the Rolls, Vice- Chancellor, Lord Chief Justice of the Cornmeal Pleas, Lord Chief Baron, Attorney and Solicitor-Generals, Lord Chamberlain, General Commanding-in- Chief, Lord Mayor, Governor of the Bank, President of the College of Surgeons, Master of the Horse, Chairman of the East India Company, French Ambassador, American, Belgian, Saxon, Bavarian, Portuguese. Sardinian, Neapolitan, Grecian, Hanoverian, and Wirtemberg Ministers ; Dukes Beaufort and Wellington ; Marquis of Anglesey ; Earls Rosebery, Grey. Ripon, Brownlow, Burlington, Eldon, and Cawdor ; Viscount Duncannon ; Bishops of London, Llandaff, Lichfield, and Chichester; Lords Burghcrsh, Prudhoe, Stanley, Brougham, Wbarncliffe, Colborne, Al ford, Morpeth, Baron L. de Rothschild ; Right Hons. Sir R. Peel, C. W. Wynn, H. Labouchere, J. W. Croker ; sirs R. H. Inglis, Willoughby Gordon, J. Swinburne, G: Phillips, T. D. Acland, G. Warrender, T. Baring, H. Ellis, J. Brunel, G. Staunton, Field Officer in Waiting; R. Vernon. E. R. Tunny, W. Wells, S Rogers, R. Hart Davis, J. Mortison, Gaily Knight, C. Babbage, F. Cart wright, D. Solom:ms. J. Neeld, A. Miliie, H. A. Munro, W. Seguier, P. H. Howard, G. Knott, J. H. Hippesley, Baring Wall, H. Hallam, J. H. Green, &c. ATTEMPT TO POISON.---A most diabolical attempt to poison was detected at Grittleton House, the seat of Joseph Neeld, Esq., M.P., a few days since. Some wine had been decanted at. lunch, a very small portion of which had been partaken rf by Mr. Neeld, his brother, and another gen tleman. The remainder of the wine was introduced at the dinner table ; but it had undergone such an alteration in its appearance and taste, that suspicions were at once excited. It vas analysed, and found to contain a large quantity of deadly poison, which must have been mixed between the time of ' lunch and dinner. The circumAane.e, as might be expected, has occasionrd consideralle consternation in the neighbour hood, and a 13ow-street officer was immediately sent for. We are not aware that any one in particular is suspected; and whose life was thus intended to have been sacrificed it is diffi cult. to say.—Devizes Gazette. \Ve have reason to believe that Dr. Pepys, the Bis Lop of Sodor and Man, and brother of the Lord Chancellor, will be translated to the see of Worcester, vacant by the de cease of Dr. Carr. PRICES OF CANAL,D()CIi., ASSUR-- 2,IPA. S g,•2, LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 30. Number Dividen Price of per CANALS. per Shares. Annum. Paid. 'Shire. 1,7 6 6 7 per cent. Ashton & Oldham...Average97/.185.5h.. 110 1,482 41. Ashby.de.le-Zouch Average 1131.5 h. '72 1, 60 Basingstoke 1001. sh. 5 1,01,5 51. Breeknock and Abergavenny" -1501. sh. 93 8,00) I-16th. 101. Birmingham, I-16th share ....8/1. & 711. 200 4 , 1000 . ...... . Ditto & Liverpool Junct. ITU. 01.100 pi 15 600 31. Bridgewater and Taunton.lool.sh. all pi - 400 51. Chelmer and Blackwater lOOl. sh . 101 500 321. Coventry 1001. sh. 600 Croydon.... ..... ... Average 311.28 10d. sh . - 2,060 51. Os. Dudley... . .... ... 1001. sh. 94 600 131. Derby lool.sh. 120 211,0 )0 4:per cent. Danube and Mayne 411.138. 4d.pd :_ , .3 3,5754 4' Ellesmereand Chester Average 133;.sda. 81 231 621 Erawasn 1,297 301. Forth and Clyde.... Average 4001.165. eh. 6:0 .1,000 R. Grand Junction 1001.80 124 1,8494 255. Grand Union lool.sh . 26 1,500 .... Grand Surrey 1,0001 41. percent . Ditto (optional) Loan 1001. 3,096 SOU 131.125. Sd. Glamorganshire, Aver. cost 172/.138.4d. 220 749 128. Granth am 3,238 21.6 x. Hudde, wield Average 5//. 6s. 6d. ski. 27 100 Kensington lOO sh. all pd 10 25,328 11.10 s. Kennet and Avon, Av. 391. 18s. 10a. sh 24% 11,699& IL 78. Lancaster Average 471. Cs. t3d . 27% 2,8974 301. Leed s and Liverpool lOO/. sh 750 5451 11/. Leicester 140/.11. 140 1,897 MO.. Leicester & Northampton Aver 83/.IOE '73 .400 101_ Monmouthshire ........ lOOl.Bll 200 250 101. Melton Mowbray 500 25/. Mersey and Irwell IOW. sh . 550 9,000 21. 10s. Macclesfield lOOl. eh. all pd 34. 247 174 Neath 1001.81,. 325 2,400 51. Peak Forest Aven.ge about 781. sh. 7334 21,418 Bs. Regent's (or London) Av. 331.168.8 d. sh. 10 5,669 6/. per cent. Rochdale Average 851.5 h. 81 500 81. Shropshire ,./251.5h. 137 800 101. Os. Somerset Coal l5Ol. sh. ISO 3,6001. 41 per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 121.105. sh. 11% 700 361. Stafford and Worcester. 1401.5 h. 600 500 151, Shrewsbury 300 9 3 taurbridge............... 145/. sh. 396 3,647 2!. Os. Stratford.on-Avon 21 a er....791. 9s. bil. sh. 35 533 12t1 Swansea lOOl.B h. 265 3,762 2/.:81. Severn and Wye and Railway Ar. 351. sh. 45 2,60: 1 1 sh. 931. 10s. Treat and Mersey, i share lOO/. sh. 590 8,149 1,0005h.1 , 101. Warwick and B.rnalsigham 1001.3 h 240 I,oooish.l 930 131 Warwick and Napt.n* 1001. sh. 160 7,000 41 f Worcester & Birmingham Av.7B/.Bs. sh. 55 1,000 325. Wilts and Barks Averaee 67/. lOs Bd. sh. 29 eon 6.. Wplev and Essington 1251. sh '74 .20 ,,,. IP:semen .. ..... .............—.= sh. 30 905 Si. Wey and Acun llO/. en. : - .'2.% DOCKS. 1.600 & 1 3p. C. Commerc al lOOl. eh. 6.1,,, 1.065i5h. j East and West India ....Stock 9S 3.238,310 V. 60s. p.ct. London ...........5t0ck €9 IA Ditto Bonds 2,209 31.65. sd. Bristol Average 14"1. Os. sh. 75 88,3241. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lOB :352,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 94 500,000 41 percent. Ditto Bonds ..., lOl% 200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years Deptford Pier .. 201. sh. 201. pd 10 BRIDGES. ,600 10s. Hammersmiti 5O/. sh. 21 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 631.25. Bd. sh. 2% 1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, New, of 71 per cent., 50/. sh. 13 ~,000 Waterloo 1001. sh. 3% 5,000 225. Od. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81 601. pd 21 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 7/. 4Ol. pd 18% 30,0001. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds 5,848 9.6 s Vauxhall .........Average 701. 10s. '3d. sh 26 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3110 s Albion 50,000 t a fn e , r i c i r s. t • l Allianceßritish &Foreignlool. sh. 11/. pd 14 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100!. sh. 5/. pd 5 4,000 11. per sh. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 14 1,20015 h. 51. Birmingham 1. ire .50/. sh. 55/. pd 10734 20,000 41. per cent. British Fire 2501. sh. 501. pd 40 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 5O!. sh. 51. pd 5% 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical & Medial Lite, 109/.sh. 2110 s pd .sU 4,000 3/ Os County lOO/. sh. 101. pd 10 20,000 .ss. Eagle 501. sh. 5!. pd 5% 0 ,, r 5 per cent.l Economic Lite 10001. sh. 2501. pd 906 - l and 30( bs.i 2,271 225. percent. European Lip .• .0/. sh. all pd 22 50,000 23. Ditto, New 201. sh. 2/. pd 1% 1,000,0001. 61. per ct Glotie Stock 118 20,000 51. Guardian 30,000 B. 6..!. Hope 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 5% 2,400 51.75. 64. Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 501. pd 133 7,500 03. Imperial Life lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 10 13 ; 1 .59 51. percept. Indemnity Marine lOOl. sh. 81. pd 29 2,020 31 10s Kent Fire 5O!. sh. all pd 92 3/. Ditto Life 5O/. pd 66 10,900 16s. Law Life lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 30% 5,0013 10s. London, Fire 25/. sh. 12!. 10s. pd 18% 3,900 10s. London, Ship .5/. sh. 12/. 10s. pd 183% 1,600,0001. ... ..... Minerva pfe ..... • 570,000/. 30,000 51. per cent. Palladium Lite 5 O!. sh. 2/. pd 21 6 s 50,000 4/. per cent. Protector Fire 201. sh. 2!. pd 18s 6d 10,000 4 per cent. Protestant Dissenters ....1G0!. sh. 51. pd 5 2.500 lc. Provident Lue 100!. sh. 101. pd 20 1 , ,t1 f 7s. Rock Life 89.'2201 51. per cent. Royal Exchange Stock 19 . 0 6,009 5 per cent. University Life 1001. 3h. 5/. pd 5 1 4 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 1001. sh. 51. pd 7,4 JOINT STOCK BANKS. 25,000 Agric. and Corn. of Ireland2sl. sh. 10/. pd 5,0110 S per cent. Australaaia 40/. sh. 401. pd 59 10,300 10 percent. Bank of Biimingham 501. sh. 10/. pd 12% 10,000 19 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5Ol. sh, IN. pd 1944 3'1,000 6 per cent. London & Westminster 1001. sh. 20/. pd 23 60,000 5/. London Joint Stock 501. sh. 101. pd 12% 3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster lOOl. sh. 20/. pd 80 25,000 Liverpool lOOl sh. 10/. pd 1:14 50,030 74 percent. Manchester and Liver_ 50/.sh. 151 pd 10% pool District 20,000 7 per cen t. Manchester lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 20,000 Provincial Bank of Irelandlool. sh. 25/.133 41 1 4 00; 1 00 6 rer cent National Bank of Ireland 50/. sh. 174/. pd 15% 10,04)0 5 per cent National Provincial Eng.loo4 sh. 35/. pd 54 y.., 10,006 Ditto New.... 101. sh. 10/. rid 10 /0,000 Gloucestershire r)0/. eh. 10/. pd 32 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5O/. sh. 51. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 16s Od Bath 9 0/. sh. 161. pd 22 5,000 British 4Ol. sh. 161. pd 184 5'„,, cw ,,, fsl.perent.l land Bs. 6s, Ditto Provincial 2Ol. sh. 191. pd 25 908 51 10s Birmingham 50/. sh. 96 4,250 2/ Os Bristol 2O/. sh. 36 2,250 31 10: Brighton 2O/. sh. 13N 750 31 lOs Ditto. New 2Ol. sh. 18!. pd 9 2,471 4h per cent. Brighton General 2Ol. sh. all pd 9 4,000 71. Os. Continental Consolidated -75/. 62kl.pd 102% 1,000 101. City of London.. ....... . 300/. sh. all pd 195 1,000 61. Ditto, Ncw . 100/. sh. 75/. pd 150 4,1100 31.09. Equitable 10,000 3!. per cent. Imperial 5O/. sh. 57 SOO 5/. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sh. 20!. pd 18% 2,350 6!. per cent. I triependent 301. sh. all re. 49 9,000 41. per cent. Phrtnix 5O/. sh. 39/. pd 34 1,000 41. per cent. Ratcliil lOOl. sh. 80/. pd CO 4,1100 Sioith M.tropolitan 501. sh. 19/. pd 16 0,000 51. per cent. United General 50/. sh. 471. pd 30 240 51. per cent. Warwick 5Ol. sh. 50 400 N. per cent Wakefield 251. sh. 22 2,000 31. Westminster Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto New 5ll. s h. 10!. pd 11% 790 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2Ol. eh. 181. pd WATER WORKS. 4,800 318. Blrmingh lin 251. sh. 25/. pd 21 1,434 71. East London 100/. sh. 164 5,500 2/ 15s. Grand Junction Average 41/. Ids, 4d. sh. 61 i :0 0,3 .21. Kent 100/. sh. 46% 372 10/. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 326 1,500 2 1108 New River Loudon Bridge Water Ann... 60 6,486 0 / lOs Manchester and Salford 1001. sh. 5534 1,000 4 per cent. South London lOOl. sh. 10434 8,294 4i/. Weet Middlesex Average 631. 12s. 9d. sh. 92 1,360 11 14i York Building Lo. Lessee Prop. 1001. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,000 Birmingham and Dcrhy ..... lOO/. pd 72 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester 1 00/. pd 7534 15,000 Bristol and Exeter 10 01. sh. 60 pd 3734 7,500 Cheltenham& G. Western 100/.sh. 62h/. 31% 3,004 Clarence 1001. sh. 1001 0 30 8,000 Dublin and Drogheda 100/. sh. Si. pd 60,001 ...... ... Eastern Counties 25/. sh. 23/. pd 9 10,000 Great North of England 1001. sh. 901. pd 95 10,918 14 per cent. Grand Junction 1001.411. ali pd 21; 25,000 Great Western lOU sh. 65/. pd 96 25,000 Ditto New 50/. sh. 50/. pd 613 8,000 per cent Gosport Junction.. 5O/. sh. 40/.'pd 47 4 2,000 5 per cent. Hartlepool 100/. sh. 100/. pd 145% 8,000 Hull and Selby 501. sh. 504, pd 4A 2,100 41. per cent. Leeds and Selby lOO sh. 653 i; 5,100 10 percent. Liverpool& Manchester 10( /.sh. 100/. pd 185 7,968 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 5 1 ,/. pd 90 11,193 10 per ceßt. Ditto Quarter Shares 25/. pd 45 36,000 ...... ... London and Brighton 50/. sh. 50/, pa, 49x 24,000 80,000 3 per cent. Londonitto QuarteranclGre Sharesenwich ... 2.... , 0 , 1 7 . ‘a 5 . 14 0 .. ‘: 501 1 . .. pd 1 8% 25,000 8 per cent. London & Birmingham 100/, ;,. 904 pd 162 25,000 Ditto Dit o New Shares . .3'l. sh. 324 r p 24 31,250 d d 53 3(1,000 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av. 38/ , l7s. 9d. 58% 33,000 ......... L ondon and C roydon . / 14% Ditto New Scrip,„, Av. 13/. 15s. 9d. , 13 , 000 ......... Manchester and Leed. 3 10 0/. mi. 704 pd 6 1 1 4 14 A 13,000 Ditto Half Shares . -.501. 25/. pd 2 , 10,000 M anchester and Birmingham 70/.Bh. 40/. 25 Ditto Extension 7l. p 0 2% 10,000 Mid lan d Counties ......... 100/. sh. 100/. pd 90 1 8 ;,000 North Midland ......... -1.01. sh. 1001 pd 7634 Ditto New 401. pd 39 5,128 Northern and Eastern...MO/. sh. 501. pd 91 ,600 Preston and Wyre 5Ol, sh. 301. pd 36 ;48000 South Eastern and Dover 1,1100 10/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington ..... lOO/.sh. 275 9 . 000 ..„,..., Thames Haven .501. sh 5/. pd MOO MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 4,000 11. ss. Altcn l5/. sh 121. It i. pd 10 10,000 ••• ..... Anglo Mexican,iss. 51. pm.loo/. sh. al li d 1;4 Ditto Subscription au. pu 1 g 2,000 10/. Bol.inos l5Ol. sh all pd 35 10,000 11. lOs Brardhanlmp. iss. 51. pm 35/. 5h.201, pd 6 6,000 Macaubas & (.ocaes United 251.5h.251. pd 6 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 2O/. sh. 14/. pd 20, 4 1C;,000 Bolivar Copper Company, 201.5 h. 20!. pd I 10,000 .....•..... Ditto Scrip lO/. sh. 101. pd 2 20,000 British Iron lOOl. sh. 601. pd ,000 British Copper 51. sh. W. pd 1% Cl.l Br.nca 6lr. pd 6% Candonga ••••• 10,000 11 Copiapo ... 2ol.sh, 13/. p 4 91 4 8,500 •.• Columbian, iss. 51. pm. 551. sh. 55/. pd 0% 2,850 3/. English 14/. Gs. pd 8 20,000 6,155 Mexican Company WO/. sh. 571.1. pd 6 3,C00 Polberou Consols lO/. sh. 81. pd 4 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered 24 Ditto Loan Notes 1501. pd 160 90,000 ......... United Mexican, ice. 2 pra. 401. sh, all pd 2 DWG Scrip 3% Ditto New Scrip 5/. pd 4 West Cork 5O/. s h 50/.pd 38 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. - ._ .. 1,000 _ ._. Londen, with Bronze Ticket ...75gs. ah. 16 1,500 700 King' College -.3001. 19% MISCELLANEOUS. 10, NA 15i. Australian Agricultural.Wa. sh. 28!. pd 41 6.)00 1. percent. British American Land U., mpany 3*. pd 10,060 61. per cent, Canada Company ,100/. oh. 32i1, pd 31 10,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loar, City Bonds, 4 per emit lO O /6 20,000 11.65. General Steam Navig.ition 15/. sh . 141. pd 24% 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 006 ii. London Conn. Sale Rooms.... Av. 751. sh l9 ,(300 Caot.tchouc Compar y 121!. pd 12 New Brunswick 1..2.nd CompaPy...sol pd 12 q,154 51. per cent. Reversionary Int. 50c...1001. sh. 1001. pd 107 2,033 5/. per cent. Ditto New 'OO/. sh. 100!. pd 107 4,000 10,000 61. Van Die.nen's Land.... 100/. sh. 1711. pd 6 LIST of SCOTTISH 28 COMPANIES' PRICES APRIL , 1841. BANKS. 6/. p. ct. Bank of Scotland ...831.65. Bd. sh. all pd 59 2 1 : 500 0 0 0 0( 0 ). : 00 (1° 00 4 . 6 s p p . . c e t t .. British h o f L Scotland p lOO/. sh. all pd 154 any 100/.sh. all pd 22 -; 500,0001. 61. p. ct. Commercial 5 001. sh. 1001. pd 169 500,000.. 50. cc. National 'OO/.311. 10/. pd 14 1 500,000 1 . 71. p. ct. Glasgow Union 2501. sh. 50!. pd 85 d 1,090,0001. 6p. ct. Western of Scotland —.2001. sh 40!. pd 72 INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250.0005 h. 61 p. ct. Scottish Union 201. sh. 11. pd 243.0 d. 7,500 7p. ct. Hercules loo'. sh. 10/. pd 13$i 100,0 0 0 sp. ct. Insurance Co. ofScotland .7.01. sh. all pd lo 50,000 Bp. ct. North British '2ool. sh. 10/. pd IS% 1,000 Bp. ct. Caledonian Fire , f 0/. oh. 101. pd 2i) 5,000 6p. ct. Edinburgh Life 100/. sh. 101. prl 11% 100,000 31 p. ct. West of 5c0t1and....,....... ....... ... 10/. pd MISCELLANEOUS. 4,818 .... Edin. and Glas. Un. Canalso/. oh. all pd 14% Ditto Allocatedi 901. sh. all pd 56 5,40€ 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock Water.2sl. sh, all pd 35 2,0005 h 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundo v 501 sh 451. Pd 42 10,000 3 per mat. Edinburgh Si Leith Glass.2o/.sh. 16/. pd 3% 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal GLs 25/. sh. all pd 4 , 1 4,450 10 per cent. Clasgow Gas '750 71 per cant. . r ._.eitii Coal Gas ....... 2O/..h. all pd t:5 1,154 ..... ...., Edinburgh :onlDa ~,.,, .t il de.way 50/. sh 29 , AQUATICS.—The recent trial of skill on the Thamez, between the Oxford and Cambridge Clubs, bas set the lovers and followers of the healthy and manly exercise of rowing all a9;og. Several new clubs are being formed in this city for exercise on the Severn—a river well adapted to put the mettle of aquatic gentlemen to the test, but which, should the Severn Na vigation Bill pass, will be considerably improved. We have reason to expect that during the present season there will be a greater numb sr of light oreft upon the Severn at Worcester than the Tgornians have seen for many a day. —Worcestershire Chronicle. EVENING EDITION. THE BUNTINGITE WESLEYANS the tme cilaraetcr of the nuPtinp_ite ‘Ve,l.; the disciples of the Watchman school—is admirably illus.' rated in their conduct on the Maynooth grant, a communication respecting which appears in our liar borough news. When the co-operation of these gentry is asked, for the promotion of any great measure of religious liberty they refuse their aid—" It is political! !" When men more consc'entious than themselves are required, under the penalty of fine and imprisonment, to contribute to a system they deem unscriptural, these men, though themselves professing to differ from the same system, will do nothing to remove the grievance. Again they say—" It is political." We can see nothing but gross hypocrisy in these pre tences. If these men really believe themselves ex empted, by their religion from the great work of pro moting liberty, with all its attendant blessings—if they can bring their minds to think that the great and glo rious principles of the New Testament, are limited to private matters, and are not to be applied to public du ties—if they can feel justified in leaving the oppressed, the burdened, the plundered —to be crushed beneath the galling yoke—let them retire to the obscurity for which only they are fitted—and in which, we regret to say, they will not be alone. But when we see them, after this ado about refraining from politics, lending their active aid to measures equally political, we know not how sufficiently to express our disgust at their con duct. When a strong attempt was made to damage the Ministry—and not only the Ministry, but the advocates of Liberal principles generally, by opposing and ren dering obnoxious the Government plan of education, these Watchmanite Wesleyais were in the very thickest of the fray, and we had occasion to expose, more than once, the unfairness of their proceedings. So, now the bigots in Parliament are opposing the Maynooth grant, for political purposes, these gentry are again actively at work—not out of love to the voluntary principle, but because the endowment is given to another sect than their own. If it be asked, " Why, then, do they support the Establishment ?"—we reply, " Be cause they hope one day to share in its spoils. Is there no Popery within its walls at which they might take alarm ? There is—but we have furnished a key to their conduct. Ebenezer Elliott justly called their conference— The hundred Popes of England's jesuitry ;" and they had better reform themselves before they meddle with Maynoot h.—Leicester Mercury. ABERDEEN CIRCUIT COURT OF JUSTICIARY. The half-yearly Circuit Court of Justiciary was opened at Aberdeen, on Wednesday week, by Lords Mackenzie and Med wyn ; Archibald Davidson, Esq., Advocate-Depute. The eases, which were about twenty-six in number, were chiefly those of theft, habit and repute, and previous con viction. The following were the only cases of any interest :—. Leslie Robertson, a little physical-force-looking boy of about twelve yeas of age, was brought up the dock-stairs hurraing. and on being placed at the bar on a charge of having stolen a grate from the premises of Mr. Forbes, of Echt, Regent Quay, pleaded not guilty. H e was one o f the most impudent little; scamps that we ever saw at the bar, and kept incessantly talking and muttering to those in his neighbourhood. Lord Medwyn had frequently to administer a rebuke, but he seemed incorrigible. Adhering to his plea of not guilty, a Jury was empanelled, and the case went to proof. When asked to stand up, for the purpose of being identified by the first witness, he pertly re plied, " No, I won't ;" and then fixing his eyes on the witness. clapped his thumb to his nose, spreading out his fingers, and grinning like a fiend, said, " Look here." The evidence was so clear and conducive, that the Jury were neither addressed• by the public prosecutor nor the prisoner's Counsel. A verdict was given, finding him guilty, as libelled; and Lord Mackenzie, in passing sentence of seven sears' transportation, made spe cial reference to the violent conduct of the prisoner at the bar. On his sentence being announced, the prisoner commenced a dance in the dock, hurraing and waving his bonnet round his head, and bawled out, " Three cheers for Botany Bay." THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. I Pease. Per Quarter. s. to s. 3. to S. S. tO S.B. to S. S. to s. carlisie - 3U -- - 46 - 46 -- Hexham 52 66 28 32 20 24 - Morpeth 5O 64 2.4 27 22 24 34 26 33 44 Penrith 1 - 68 - 32 24 - "-la - Sheffield - 67 - 31 - 23 51 - 44 Winchest r CO 66 e 8 81 20 26 40 42 35 3. Per Bushel. a. d. s.d. s.d. s. d. s. d. s.d. s. d. s.d s.d. s. d. Carmarthen i.O 78 00 37 00 23 56 00 0O 00 Vowbridge 7 9 80 0 0 40 0 0 30 5 0 53 9 0 3wansea 1 7 8 88 4 0 46 3 0 34 5 6 60 56 AO , Per 8011. 1 Barnardeastlls 0 18 0 90 93 64 76 40 10 6 90 10 0 Durham 136 16 68 0 90 6 3 7300106 9 0 10 0 Richmond l5O 18 0. 70 86 56 R 0 96 12 0 90 id 0 Stockton l5O 1;01 90 901 5 0 66 80 10 0 811 100 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKEL'. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk ..... 60s. to 62i. floe64s. -- Lin. and Cam. -s. 6Us. to oh. fine 62 . ----- Yorkshire -8. -s. to 569. fine 60e. -- hite -s. 628. to 645. ",ne 69.?: ----- Foreign, tied -s. -s. to 535. fine 661. White -s. to 645. nne 68s. Barley, Norfolk anti Suffe,lk -s. to 30s. fine 355. Lincolnshire ---- Yorkshire Wold . 265. to -s. fine 204 Foreign -s. to 18 s. line 335. Beans, New - Old -a. to 445. fine 461 Oats, Potatoto 28s. fine 3e,a. Poland teriezland and Small ...... ltstaling Malt ing 295. to ed. pi_r LoLo ad. ...a Sib. fine 425. ',,er Load Rapeseed ............ -1. Os 3 2 1. Os. 341. Per Last NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE, _ Re. Wheat, Northumberland s4r. d -2........ 60s. 64 White. .; - Norfolk and Suffolk.... ....... 6ss. 64.,...., 67 4 , 69„ .--.-- Berwick and 'Scotch 6ls. 65 6.,...., -r. 67c. - Foreign 625, r u75...... 633.65,. Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk - Foreign 7.18. 332 -8 -S. Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk.... '3ss. -..s ..,s. S6l. - Grinding and Feeding ... 295. 305...... -s. --s. Male, Norfolk and SufFolk s4s 6 0 5....... -s. -11. Beans, Small ....... 3Ss. 40s. .... . -s. --8. --, -. Tick ........, 40s. 423 -.-8. -S. Pease, White - Gray Oats, Norttumberland, Potatt a ...... ... 255. 2fi s - 0. -s . Foul -s. -s -a. -r 455. 4Ss - s. -1, „ Flow. (per sack) .... Barley. Meat. PT CH M Abcrdeen Berwick,,,,,, Coldstream . Cupar (Fife) Dunbar...— Elgin Invernes, Kelso , PertP, RKETS. Oats. Beans. Oatni ti 31 to 25 :3 SS 54 to 60 24 to 2ti 18 to 22 —to V/ 4S _0 25 17 22 25 28 4J 50 24 26 17 18 30 48 65 126 31 18 22 22 26 l 48 68 26 29 23 27 40 42 40 --' 55 56 26 27 20 24 48 5'.1 --• 48 (50 23 23 21 2 L 32 33 ...' 36 50 18 23 15 22 31 33 -. 4 62 67 36 33 45 48 43 --• 60 '4 39 40 25 35 41 44 . ;ire of the measure varies throughout the country. HADDINGTON CORN MARKET. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Bens 70, 03 31s 03 30s Od 41s Od 64: Od 31s Od 25s 01 3.e Od 60s Od 293 Od 23s 66 36s Od .verage 34 44 31 10.12tt s. DALKEITH CORN MARKET. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Peage. 72i l'u :3531 : 28i 8d I 46s Od Ms 06 311 s Od I 143 4d 39s (Id 56s 03 258 Cd 261 Od 30 ; 03 GLASGOW CORN Mt RKET. Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. 8.0. . Oats, per 2641 b. s. d. s. ( - rtritish, old 32 6t035 0 Ir.') lBO t 0 21 0 --- new ... ...... 26 0 32 0 British l9 0 21 0 Canada, free — 0 0 Beans, per 26011,. Irish Barley, per 3201 b. Scottish English 27 0 24 0 Pease, Scottish ...... 23 0 24 6 Scottish 230 25u Oatmeal,perllolb.... 170 IS 0 Irish EZ7. Th a First Second Third Pease. 403 03 36, IA Ms 61 First Second Third Fern , 4rs Oi aq s 'vs SOs OJ SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) VESSELS SPOKEN wrru.-The Prenner, Bth ult. off Adra ; Trefusis, of Falmouth, 10th, off Maleya ; Marquis of Bute, Smyrna to London , Jane, May, Ancona to Newcastle ; Courser , Gallipoli to Liverpool ; Rapid, Messina to St. Petersburgh ; Lady Rolle, Leghorn to Dublin ; and Mary, Bond, Smyrna W do., 13th, in Gibraltar Bay, by the Saucy Jack, arrived at Ply mouth. Comet, Rabe, from Cape Haytien, 26th ult. ; Eagle, of Dublin, for Quebec, 24th ; a Dutch ship outward bound, No. 172, same day by the Armenius, arrived off Falmouth. Garland, London to Newfoundland, 23d ult., lat. 42, lon. 22; Ellen, Lisbon to Hull, 28th, lat. 49, lon. 6, by the King Alfred, arrived off do. ; Eliza, of Chepstow, from Cuba, out eight days , making 14 inches water per hour, March 17, in Crooked Island Passage, by the Fame, arrived at do. John Bull, London to Singapore, March 11, lat. 16 S., lon. 26 W. ; Elizabeth, Lon don to Madras, 13th, lat. 12 S., lon. 26; Concordia (whaler) from New Zealand, under Danish colors, full, lat. 19, lon , 24 ; Lady Leigh, Sydney to London. Feb. 15, lat. 5 4 S., lon. 54 N. ; North, York, 23d ult. lat. 44, lon. 18, bY the Mona, arrived at Portsmouth. Marquis, Bristol to Gre ?nada, March 2, lat. 18. lon. 44, by the Lyra packet, arrived at Falmouth. Wanderer, Liverpool to St. John's, New Bruns wick, 23d ult., lat 50, lon. 16, by the Thetis, arrived at Cork._ GOLD WATCHES, LONDON. MADE.' , A. B. SAVORY and SONS , W atchmakers, No. 9, Cornball London, opposite the Bank of England, submit for selection a very large STOCK o f GOLD WATCHES, the whole of which are made and finished under the careful inspection of experienced workmen on their own premises, and each is ssar• ranted for correct performance. SIZE FOR LADIES. Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled, in engine-turned x 8 16 6 gold cases an d go ld di a l s, warranted .. Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled, with double backed engine -turned gold cases and gold diale, warranted Patent detached Lever Watches, jewelled in four holes, with double-backed gold eases and gold dials, warranted ...... SIZE FOR GENTLEMEN. Patent detached Lever Watches, jewelled in four holes, seconds, and double-backed gold cases, warranted Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, jewelled in six holes, seconds, double backed gold cases and enamel dials, warranted ....................... Patent detached Leve r W a t c h es , capped, jewelled in six holes, seconds, double-backed gold cases and gold dials, warranted .......................... 01 0 Either of the Gentleme n ' s Watches may be had in b iro'', hunting cases for 3/. 3 s . eac h extra. N.B. Second-liana Watches purchased in exchange. 12 12 0 14 14 13 13 0 17 17 0 PAPIER MACHE TEA TRAYF„ 60s. the SET ssf FULL SIZED GOTHIC SHAPE. Superior Londos Table Knives, with ivory handles, 14s. per dozen ; Bros . Poles for Window Cu r t a i ns, I inch diameter, Is. 3d. per foot , 2 inches, Is. tad. pe r f oot; bronzed fenders, 4 feet long, Catalogues gratis, containing the prices , t,f stoves, fenders, fire' irons, kitchen ut ens il s, and every article in furnishing iron' irnongery. RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, Oxford-street. Established DIED. On the Ist of Max', at Mill House, near Cowes, of paralysis? Osborm., mother of the Itev. Edward Osborne, aged 7 9 * On the 29th ult., at Norton House, Somerset s hi re , widow of the late Lionel Place, E;ati., of Weddington Castle , War;\ ick. London Printed and Published by 111URDO y DUNG, No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strap 1 ' the county of illiddlesex.—Monday,, Nay 3, j,