The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-14 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION solved on establishing a boarding-school, and this INI by October, 1840, to sell out 2,0001 more of my stock. Sir, we commenced our undertaking with npparen , prosperity, wh lit my dear but ill-fated daughters dis pla ) ed the calmest resign,tion to the will of Provi dence. In three short months my eldest daughter was no m >re, she caught a cold and died of a bran fever. My turn came next, a rheumatic fever made me (now 68 years of aozej bed-ridden and wholly helpless tor five months afterwards. " The charge of the school now falling on my only daughter, scarcely 20 years of age, her delicate frame and senctive mind, under our heavy afflictions yielded (but not until after the most severe struggles) to the labours and a:.x'eties which oppressed her. Sir, my poor, clear, dear daughter is now out of her mind. She i s - Sr, I hive not the nerve to continue further on these disclosures. " You are now in possession of the wretchedness and helplessness of cur postion. The faLour I have to ask of you is this. I have still 1,500/. of the Five per Cent;. remaining, which, if realised at the present price, would produce 510/. There is a mortgAge of 4001. on them, so that 110/. only would be coming to me. " Would you recommend rue to continue paying 7 per cent on the mortgage a short time longer under the hope that Lord Palmerston's protection will lead to the stock improving in value, or at once to make a sacri fice and rave what I can lest thy stock might go down to 1281. per cent. again. If I can but amass about '2OOl. I are not without hopes of securing to my dearest diughter and self some future provision. My prayers will ever attend you, Sir, if you will kindly advise me bow to act, for my money is gone, and my friends have gone with it. " A DISTRESSED AND BROKEN-HEARTED OLD SOLDIER. " Camden-town, May 6, 1841." THE LATE DREADFUL COLLI SION AT SEA. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, OTHER VALUABLE CARGO, AND EIGHT LIVES LOST. Information was received yesterday at Liverpool, that one of the numerous fishing-boats belonging to the port had fallen in with, and picked up, off the Isle of Man, seven men, who had been upwards of twenty fours in a jolly-boat, almost without clothing, and en tirely destitute of any kind of food. On - inquiry we found that the report was correct- The mate of the . Mary - Scott and six of the crew had escaped in the boat belonging to that vessel after the collision had taken place with the Brooklyn, an outward-bound vessel to Nen York; It appears that the brig with which the Brooklyn caine in. contact was the Mary Scott, inward bound from Valparaiso, and having a valuable cargo of copper ore, &c., together with one hundred and twenty thousand dollars in specie. The mate of the Mary Scott states that the acci dent happened at half-past nine or ten o'clock, the light at Point Lvnas being in view. The wind was from the land, the grig close-hauled on the starboard tack, and wasst about to alter her course, when the crew saw the Brooklyn running down free with topgallant sails set. The brig had two lights on the weather bulwark, just abaft the main rigging, one of them being a regular signal light. The carpenter was steering, and the mate told him to put the helm hard up, which was done... HF got on the bulwarks, and called to the Brooklyn people for God's sake to keep their luff, otherwise the brig would be run down ; but they took no notice, and the Brooklyn, which was going . at the rate of about seven knots an hour, struck the brig just where the lights were on the starboard side, and passed on without offering any assistance. Captain Sadler, the master of the brig, was severely hurt by the concussion, and ran about, crying out that his baek was broken ; the carpenter's arm was much in jured, and the mate was jammed between the round house and the bulwarks by the broken materials of the brig's starboard quarter. After about five minutes the mate extricated himself, and found that the mainmast, the mainstay, and all the rigging, had been carried away, and that the brig had five feet water in her hold. All hands were on deck, and tried to get out the long-boat, but could not succeed. The Captain went below, and the mate, seeing that they. were in a sinking state, ran to him in the cabin, and said, " Captain Sadler, if you want to save your life. now is the time." He replied, " Well, take this box of specie, and I'll come." The mate took the box, ran upon deck, but seeing that the brig was goin& down, dropp . ed the box, and jumped into the boat, which then contained seven persons. The other people had. the same chance as himself, but were so frightened ,they scarcely knew what they were doing. It was fortunate for those in the boat that no more came in, for the boat proved, leaky, from the hot weather having opened the seams whilst lying over the long-boat ; one of the planks had been staved by the collision, and had there been a greater weight in bier she could not have lived. The) had no Sooner dropped astern than the brig went down. 'The wind was very squally, with a heavy sea, and the mate had to break the case off the chronometer in or der to bail the boat of the water and keep them from being swamped. There was no fresh water and no bread on board, and the mate had nothing but a white cotton shirt on, having thrown off his clothes under the apprehension that he should have to swim. The weather continued very stormy during the next 24 hours, with continual rain, all which time the ship wrecked mariners were in the boat. They had no sails, and only two oars. By the morning they had drifted down to near the Skerries, off Holyhead, and then kept before the wind in hope of being able to reach the Isle of Man, passing one of the brig's water casks on their way. When the collision took place the brig had just taken a reef in her topsails, and hove up her courses, the Captain remarking that after they had made all snug he would leave the mate in cha . .rge to dodge slowly up the Channel. Had a good look-out, or any look-out at all, been kept on board the Brooklyn, the crew of that vessel must have seen the lights of the brig ; and had the Brooklyn put her helm up, which, as the brig had the weather gage, should have been done, she would have kept clear. The Mary Scott was from Valparaiso, with a cargo of copper ore and wool, and 120,000 dollars in specie. She was 300 tons burthen, and her crew consisted of the captain and mate, eleven men, and two boys. This unfortunate event, following so closely upon the loss of the Gover nor Fenner, and in the continued absence of the steam ship President, has excited the most painful feeling amongst all classes of the inhabitants of Liverpool and the neighbourhood who are acquainted with the parti culars. The name of the captain of the ship Brooklyn is Richardson. _ FASHIONABLE IN TELLIGENCE.) ARRIVALS. The Right Hon. Viscount Gort, and the Hon. Charles Ve reker, at Nerot's Hotel, Clifford-street, Bond-street, from Ire land ; Colonel and Mrs. Townsend, and the Miss Townsend:, at ditto, from Dublin ; Rev. Dr. Ashhurst, at ditto, from Ox ford; Admiral Sir James Whitshed, at ditto, from Horsham; Lieut.-Col. Dalgairns, at Ibbotson's Hotei, from Scotland; Major Eardley Wilmot, in Mount -street; Lewis, Esq., anti Mrs. Lewis, at the Gloucester Hotel. Piccadilly ; Bannatyne, Esq., Mrs. Bannatyne, and family, at ditto; J. Pearson, Esq., at ditto; J. W T. Molesworth, Esq., at ditto ; Capt. Grey, at ditto ; Jauncey, Esq., Fusiliers, at ditto ; Cracoft, Esq., at ditto ; Viscountes, Palmerston and Lady Ashley, in Carlton-gardens, from a visit to Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn, at Barham Court, near Maidstone , Sir G."-Warrender, Bart. in Albemarle-street, f rom hi s seat ar Edinburgh ; the C ountess of Wernyss and March, accom panied by Lady Caroline Charteris and Lady Charlotte Fletcher. in Stratford-place, from Leam i ngton Spa; the Mar quis and Marchioness of Westminster, at Grosvenor House, from na Hall, Cheshire ; Lord Saltoun, in Great Cumberland piasse,•• from Eghlitoun Castle. • the Bi s h o p o f D erry, and Mrs.. Ponsonby and family, at N.B.Mivart's Hotel, from Ire land Lady Grey of Groby, at ditto, from Cheshire ; Mr. H at , top and family, at ditto, from their seat in Leicestershire; Sir Wilmot, Bart., M.P., from Warwichshire; Sir T. Dyke A eland, Bart., M.P., in Jermyn-street, from his seat in Devon; L or d and Lady Monteagle, in Lower Grosvenor-street, from lb ws ; Lady Emily Foley, in George-street, Hanover -square, from Arundel, Su s sex ; Mr. and Lady Louisa Fortesctie, in Grafton-street, from Ravendale Park, county of Louth ; the D ow ager Lady Glenlyon, and Hon. Mi ss Murray, from the f a mily seat in Perthshire; Sir W. an d L a d y C hatterton, frove th e Continent; Sir C. Ibbertson, from Paris; the Mar quisand Marchioness of Londonderry, at Holde nsess H ouse , from ro the Continent; Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Bulteel, in Grafton-street, from their seat near Plymouth ; the E ar l o f Corry, Belmore and t he Hon. H. M.P., from Castlecoole, t h e f am ily seat in Ireland; Lord George Lennox, ALP., Lennox L o d ge , Bognor ; Lord Brook, in Carl tonfrom Leon Warwick Castle ; Earl Compton, at gardens, from Lady Northamd in Carlton gar d ens, Viscount and Ashby, pton •; Count Valentine from Castle House, from Vienna; the Marquis of Esterhazy at Chart H d i os l, Hill, from his seat in Scotland; Lady New ark,Bute, at Camden Ramsden,. from Dover; Mr. and Mrs. from Paris ; Lady Ronaldson, at Wi n terbourn rrs' s London Hotel; Mr. a n d M rs . Jones, a t ditto; Mr. and IV Bartlett, at ditto; Mrs. Quan tock, at ditt o; Miss Smith and Miss_ Adams. at ditt o; Mi ss Andrew s , a t ditt o; Dr. Gooke, Dr. Mackellar, Mr. Candlish, Mr. and Mrs. W, Edward and Mr. Hamilton, at ditto; Acra man and family, at the Cavendish Hotel, Jrm Norwich ermyn-st reet, .fro G m Clifton ; Lady P res t on and family at do., H. Ward, E sq ., a t ditt o , f r om his seat from , Northwood Park, Cone s , Ile of W;ght ; Count and Countess de Vaules, from Hamings, at Fladong's Hotel, Oxford-street ; Mona. and Madame de Vaudes, from Caen, Normandy, at ditto ; Mrs. and Miss Smith, from Charlton Lodge, near Dover, at ditto Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Gascoyne, from Cheltenham, at ditto ; Thomas Bridges, Esq., from Caynham Court, Ludlow, at ditto ; Henry Greaves, Esq., from Waterperry, Oxfordshire, at ditto ; Re v . M r . W hingfield, from Newport Pagnal Bucks, at 'ditto ; Robert Mackenzie, Esq., from Brighton, at ditto. D EPARTURES. Mr. and Mrs. Tinmerton, and Miss Timperton, from Ne- Tot's Hotel, Clifford-street, for New Barnes ; Mr. and •Mrs• Brown, from ditto; the Rev. Bartlett Goodrick, Mrs. Good ton, rick, from d it to , and fam ily, for from Mal ditto. for Essex ; C ap t . and Mr. Cot p as ; • m an _ , Madame Many, and family from the Gloucester Hotel, Piccadilly; leely, Esq., Mrs. Iceley, and family, from ditto, for Pari s; Rev. Dr. Holland, from ditto, for Chi c h ester ; Rev. r Atkins, from ditto ; H. Lacy Yea, Esq., fro m ditto ; Lord Ward, from Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook-street, for Him ley Hall, Staffordshire, Barest Capella, f or t h e Continent : the Earl of Jersey, from Berkeley-squar e , for Newmarket ; th e Earl of Selkirk, from Richmond -terrace, for his seat in Scot land; Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Oliveira, from Hyde Park street, on a tour to the German Spas ; Mr., Mrs., a n d m iss Wane, from sv intei bourn's London Hotel ; Mrs. Preston Holton ' a from ditto ; Sir H. and Lady Bunbury, f rom the C vendish Hotel, Jermyn-street. for their sear, Rirton Hall, Suffolk; the Miss. s Napier, from ditto, for ditto; gr. and Mrs. Shred, from ditto, for Scotland. CHANGES. The M arc hi oness of Br' acialoal e, at Leamington Spa, f rom Taymoth Castl e , P ert h s hi re ; the Hon. Lady Barton, at Irell " 4 /i h a t . r =lisssfiom Hastings; Lady Mathias, at Bath, from - Ws - Mord and Lat y Donsany, at Dublin, eu rongerto , Cheltenhcm, from Hansa, y Css:le, county Meath ; • Lord and Lady Georgp,, in at Letts - keno , from Dublin; th e ts' Countess of Durham. : es La n b: on , a t Lisbon, from a tour in S: , ain ; Vila* Lord A s ' i t ow a , a t Bangor, at Dublin. from a taur Blac krock. nu, Ki co m 11, from Nareom, The Pache. ic , 4Z• deleate u a cf 1,200 stlbilailans, the insureentthe bead mad ie opts f:O4 coabta4tin,pr of Tho 0 t o poizue, HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. 41,47ung..—..32 tnltiutee after 7 I Eventsig .. 3 minute* after 8 TO CORRESPONDENTS. "R.O.D" is quite furious. Air. Irving's reply, from all at heard of it, only sunk him and his like deeper into infamy . We omitted to take an extensive notice of it, because it wa delivered very late, and. from all that we have heard and seen of it, we lost a great deal for our cause by not having had time and space to record and comment on that piece of match e. in.pudence. Mr. Fritch•rd is informed that the remarks of our Corres. pondent did not apply to the engines of the Bristol Uniun Company. We have no recollection of a letter signed" An Eve-witness," respecting the fire at Bristol. We must request " J. B." when he writes again to give his name and address. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. U MEE the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTALS. THIS EVENING. MAY 14 FOR THE BENEFIT OP MR. BARTLEY. Will be repeated Sbakspere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Theseus, Mr. Cooper; Quince, Mr. Bartley; Bottom, Mr. Harley ' • Flute, Mr. Keeley • ' Snout, Mr. Meadows ; Snug, Mr. F. Matthews ; Hermia, Mrs. Nisbett ; Oberon, Madame Vestris ; Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Puck, Miss Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Rainforth. _ After which will be repeated, the Grand Romantic Fairy Ex travaganza, entitled BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Beauty, Madame Vestris The Beast, Mr. W. Harrison ; John Quill, Mr. Harley ; Dressalinda, Miss Rainforth ; Mar ryelda, Miss Grant; Queen of the Roses, Miss Lee. To-morrow, London Assurance, with Beauty and the Beast: Doors to te opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. _ _ )ress Boxes, 71. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d. • First and Second rcies ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, is. ; Second Price, 2 , .; Gallery Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may oe had upon application. Private Boat, to be had so7ely of Mr. Andre In, bookseller, New Bond-street. ii()YAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND AIR. WILLIS JONES. Wonderful success! Haine's "Claude Du Val, the Ladies' Highwayman," decided to be a greater hit than' Jack Shep pard ;" thousands have already witnessed the startling situa tions, intense interest, and extraordinary effects. The cur tain falls nightly amid the cheers cf crowded audiences. THIS EVENING, MAY 14, Will be acted an Historical and Domestic Drama, entitled CLAUDE DU VAL, THE LADIE.:.S' HIGHWAYMAN. With entirely new local and beautiful Scenery, extensive Ma chinery, real horses and carriages, &c. Claude Duval, Mr. J. S. Halls. Supported by the most powerful Company in London. After which, a New Comedietta, entitled THE BRIDEGROOM'S HOAX ; OR, A WEDDING NIGHT DILEMMA. Characters by Mr. J. S. Balls, Johnson, Neville, Mrs. H. Hughes, Mrs. Hicks, and Miss Martin. To conclude with FREDERICK THE GREAT; OR, THE KING AND THE DESERTER. Frederick, Mr. Neville ; The Deserter, Mr. N. T. Hicks With Combats, Conflagrations, &c. ((The LONDON: FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1841. The Earl of WARWICK, last night, in the House of Lords, took an exception to a petition presented by Earl . FrrzwitxrAm against the Corn-laws, because the great majority of those who signed it were females, who could not write their own names. Earl FrrzwmmAm, thus challenged to defend the right of petitioning, truly and justly said the people were not to be deprived of the right of expressing their opinions because they were not as well educated as Peers. At the same time he rebuked their Lordships for the tem per in which they received the petitions of the people, and plainly told them that the want of education in the people was caused by the neglect of the Peers: Honour to Earl FITZWILLIAM—we need not despair of success while there is one man, and he has an excellent coadjutor in the Earl of RADNOR, who boldly tells their Lordships truth like Earl FITZWILLIAM. He is, how ever, their best friend and the truest patriot. The Earl of HARDWICKE, a ship captain, a friend pro bably to impressment and the use of the cat-o'-nine-tailb, .aid truly, though he meant it sneeringly, that Earl FITZ WILLIAM had made a speech which would make thu people believe the Noble Earl was their friend. Th ship captain, however, said, as a matter of reproael: to the Noble Earl, that he only wanted to substitute h fixed duty for a sliding scale. If Lord HARDWICKE be a total and immediate repealer, let him say so, and gain the golden opinions, the possession of which Iv envies in Earl FITZWu.LIAM. The Earl of RADNOR obtained a return of the names of all persons who have received compensation for slaves, which, when it shall be published, will be a most useful index to some gentlemen's opinions and characters. We cannot conclude without expressing our delight at seeing. their Lordships fretting and fuming night after night under the goads of the people's petitions. Peti. tion again, as long as a Peer can be found who wil ay the petitions before them ; and when they close their doors against petitions, they will cut the last link of re• spect by which the people • are bound to them. Their Lordships did no business of the least importance. In the Commons a great number of petitions were presented, chiefly on the repeal of the Corn-laws. Mr. MUNTZ moved an Address to her MAJESTY, t, institute an inquiry into the conduct of the Earl of CAI:- DIGAN, in the command of the 11th Hussars. The Hon. Member said that he undertook the task in consequence of numerous solicitations. He supported his motion by a reference to those well known facts which have made the name of CARDIGAN notorious through the land. Mr. MACAULAY opposed the motion, principally on the ground that the House ought to interfere as little as possible with the exercise of the Royal prerogative in military matters, particularly as to rewarding or punish ing. He referred also to the circumstance of officer, buying their commissions, which Mr. MACAULAY seemed to think justified them in using the power they bought as they liked. But Lord HILL and the Duke of WEL LINGTON were of "'pinion that, to flog a man on tip.: Sabbath, in a place devoted, a short time before, to re ligious worship--substituting the halberts for the altar —was not an offelce to subject a man to a court-martial. If they had said a Colonel, we should have assented to their doctrine. He is of the rank of privileged wrong doers ; but any person of a meaner rank, who had- so violated public decency would have been brought to a court-martial and cashiered, as was Captain REYNOLDS, for an offence infinitely less. Mr. MACAULAY was quit: sure that no improper motives could be imputed to hie. for resisting the motion, for Lord CARDIGAN was a po. litical opponent, and he did not know him by sight. - Lord U. LENNOX vindicated the Earl Of CARDIGAN' from a charge of having given an officer the lie, but at the same time admitted that something of the kind had occurred in the dining-room, where the offence of the black bottle" was perpetrated, which the Horse Guards thought a serious affair in Captain REYNOLDS. Another instance of grievous partiality in the Horse Guards. Mr. W. O. STANLEY supported the motion. Sir H. VIVIAN was authorised by the Earl of CAR DIGAN to express his deep regret for having flogged a man on the Sabbath, which Sir HussEir said deserved unqualified censure. He disapproved, however, of the motion. Lord Hoy:rim, after Colonel VERNER, Mr. EWART, and Mr. WARBURTON had each said a few words, ex pressed his concurrence with Mr. MAC AULAY. Colonel SALWEY said the conduct of the Earl of CAR DIGAN had created not only dissatisfaction but dis gust in the army. On a division the motion WV _t lost by 58 to 135. We presum e , t h ere f ore, that -.0 othereffort will now be made to remo7itihseenEs:.: r i • i loin o f y CARDIGAN WO antici lraotine no thin g —inaanmdanFwrhoom `.: h oli is ld o brave th e o di um which le has braved must insensible to shame. There is no making him fe.r.;, ks the old shying goes, without breaking his backs The adjonrned debate was then resumed, Mr. G STONE bespeaking a hearing when Lord HowicK should in the House, to vindicate a certain maker of Sugar in Demerara at the expense of the lives of many slaves. Mr. BROTHERTON vigorously but briefly supported the Ministers, described the distress of the manufacturing districts as dreadful, and denounced both the sugar duties and the Corn-laws, the last of which, he said, he hoped would be torn from the Statute-book. Captain HAmw.roN opposed the Ministers, but recom mended, if they wished to benefit th e poor, to re move theended, Corn-tax altogether. Mr. ALSTON opposed the Ministers on the Corn-laws, but on the sugar duties woild support them. Mr. HARLAND opposed the motion, as injurious to the West India interests. Mr. HASTIE assured the House that the measures of Ministers had given great satisfaction to the mercantile world. In anticipation that the motion would be lost, he recommended an equalization of the legacy duty. Mr. G. PALMER alluded to the imputed divisions on the Tory side to deny theni ; but if • they do not now exist, it is quite clear that they will soon arise. Sir R. PEEL will never be able to divide the spoil equally amongst the plunderers he .takei office to support, and the protected gentlemen be as ready to devour one another under Government as they are now. Protection is nothing more than one man plundering another, or trying to Plunder a third, instead of the two labouring to increase their store, whereby all wound gain cud all I would be en r i c h ed. Mr. CLAY showed that West Indian sugar u 04141 compet e with Liavt-grown sugar. 4,10 ; Wra'S,C4l* tqf rV.O. t • .14/1.4 E SUN, LONDON. FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1811. Mr. A. CHAPMAN believed the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S measure would destroy ships, colonies, and commerce--the cuckoo cry that has accompanied every proposition for taking off a tax. Sir E. L. BULWER made a short hustings speech, vot ing for Ministers, but objecting to so low a duty as Bs. on wheat. IVlr. HUME made a long speech, full, as usual, of statk deal facts. The Hon. Member demonstrated that the present discriminating duties on sugar took 3d. from the consumer on every pound of sugar, to put it into the planter's pocket. He showed that the consumption of sugar, in relation to the number of people, had materially fallen of; and whereas it had been 281bs. a head, it was last year only 141bs. He demonstrated therefrom that the revenue, with the proposed reduction of duty, would gain more than the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQUER had calculated, and that had the measure been adopted some years ago, the increased consumption of sugar would have supplied more than all the defi ciency of the revenue. The Hon. Member spoke out boldly. He denounced the Corn-laws as a curse, and he laid to their door the poverty, misery, and starva tion of the people. He boldly accused the Parliament and the landlords of causing these great and immeasurable evils, and when he was interrupted by something like yells and groans, he boldly told the interrupters that their consciences smote them, and testified to the truth of his accusation. He stigmatized the Sugar-tax and the Corn-tax as plunder, and plunder more enormous than was ever before rapaciously Teized. A great good has been obtained by such words having been spoken in Parliament, and in the face of the oppres sors. Sir R. PEEL'S sophistry will not be able to apply any balm to the wounds which Mr. HumE's words, echoing the public voice, inflicted on the bread taxers. The barb of truth has entered their souls, and it is now the duty of the people to drive it home, and fix it there, till they give up their prey. We never have despaired of the cause of truth, of justice ; we despair of it now less than ever ; and if the people be only true to themselves, they will again make England the abode of free, contented, happy, and prosperous millions. Through deep national distress and rankling discontent, through a failing revenue, and the loss of their authority—for who honours the decisions of the selfish monopolists—through • a great multitude of facts, the voice of GOD is now speaking to these men, and commanding them to be just. With such help, success is neither uncertain not distant. Mr. HUME concluded the debate for the evening, which was again adjourned to this day. The Second Annual report of the National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society will be found in another part of The Sun. Having supported the National Loan Fund Society from the date of its projection—from a conviction that it was cal culated to be of immense benefit to persons of provident habits and limited income—it is with no ordinary degree of pleasure that we record a statement of facts which places it among the most thriving, as it was the most promising, of such in stitutions. Much of its success is most deservedly due to the zeal and energy of Mr. LAMIE Mun- RAY, its originator, and to the praiseworthy ex ertions of the Secretary, Mr. CAMROUX, and the Board of Directors. That numerous other Life Assurance Societies unworthy of support, sprung up since the establishment of this Institution is to be lamented ; although the mere fact, regarded abstractedly, only shows the soundness and the popularity of the principles upon which the Na tional Loan Fund Society is founded. It is now on as permanent a basis as any provident tuts commercial establishment can be, in a great corn inercial country like England. One of the stock phrases of the Chartists and the Tories, and of all the antagonists of Corn law abolition, is, that the advocates of the aboli tion wish to break down the condition of the English labourer to that of the Continental la bourer; that they want to introduce the produce cheap labour from abroad, in order to beat down wages here to the Continental 1..ve1. That is a standing argument, continually repeated in the Tory Journals, urged in letters signed " Working Men," and strenuously dwelt on at public meetings. We have before stated in The Sun, that wages on the Continent, generally, are not lower, and the condition of the labourer not worse, than in England, but just now it seems advisable to repeat and enforce the statment. The working classes of England have long been gulled, by fine names, to bear in patience perhaps unexampled misery, if not unexampled oppres sion. They have been continually told of our glorious Constitution, but they have been ex cluded from all its advantages. They have been called free, and no people in Europe are worse enslaved. They have been sent on crusades against oppression abroad, that they might be more effectually tyrannised over at home. A maudlin sympathy has been expressed for the blacks by men who impressed their white bre thren without remorse or compunction. The horrors of the middle passage were fully equalled • by the horrors of the press tender; but the men who overflowed with compassion for foreigners encouraged the Government to steal our seamen. They raised a great outcry about wild Africans being forced into a civilized country, and they • tore the sailors of Newcastle, Shields, and Yar mouth from their wives and their homes, and sent them to perish amid pestilence and battle. While allthis was done and doing, the English were flattered by being told that they were the freest people on the globe, and they considered it the height of human grandeur to be flayed alive in the army and navy, provided the flayed man did not eat frogs and wear wooden shoes. We might go through an immense catalogue of grievous oppressions, such as an unpaid and irresponsible magistracy administering the laws in cases in which they were personally, or, from class feelings, always parties; such as the Game laws, by which those magistrates can imprison a man in a loathsome dungeon for months or ~, e ars, for knocking a wild bird on the head; .such as the limitations laid by the gentry on the amusement and enjoyment of the poor, so that their six days' continual slavery in the week was unrelieved by one day's freedom and ease ; such as the dominion claimed over their hearts, minds, and feelings, by an arrogant, ambitious )riesthood; such as a complete monopoly of le 4islation by one narrow class of men, who have continually prostituted the grave name of law to he vilest purposes, and passed enactments only to fill their own pockets. We might go on through an immense catalogue of great grievances h&j on our people, wh o h ave a ll the ti cted been cheated nue - d assuran ces o f t h e into submission by the coe.t; priesthood and the at Teat a mornCstocracy, that they w ere a ° said e- .., and a free p eo pl e; b ut we h ave ..ougn to remind our readers of the manner in which they have been, by their pretended be ,iefactors and friends, continually deluded and iietrayed. Such having been the general nature pf the conduct of the ruling classes towards the working classes, they will probably begin to suspect that the notion which has been so Tories of sedu lously inculcated by the late, that the condition of the working classes in England is superior to that of all other European nations, and that those who demand the repeal of the Corn laws want to degrade the English labourers, is only one of those tricks by which they have heretofore been beguiled out of their liberties, and flattered into misery and patient submission to slavery. Is it a fact that the condition of labour ers on the Continent is much worse than he condition of labourers here? . Do they work harder and fare worse than the Err,7- liA.? We have lived some time on the Continen - we have traversed a large portion of it on foot — and our impression is, that the bulk of the French working clas ses , out of Paris, are surpassingly ignorant and skill e s s; t h ey labour much leithan our people, and d o not li ve worse ; that the bulk of the Germans, amongst whom, common day la bourers (Tagelohner) are comparatively few, are a great deal better off for food, and clothing, and warmth than our people ; that even the serfs of Hungary are more plentifully fcd than our It bourers ; that in Holland the people are altoge ther in a superior condition ; and that nowhere I in Europ,., except -- in the States • of the Church, or in Som e of the Italian States; are the bulk of the people so- desti tute as the agricultural labourers of Kent and Wiltshire, tl.lld the manufacturing labourers of Manchester, Bolton, and Carlisle. 'We say no thing of the Irish, who have the advantage o f Corn-laws—who will be ruined, say the Orange journals, if the Corn-laws be repealed, and who are undoubtedly the worst fed and worst lodged people of civilized Europe. The assertion that the labourers of England are comparatively well off, is a Tory assertion, made for the purpose of deluding the labourers into hearing with patience the heavy burdens laid on them by the landlords. England is overrun with labourers from Ireland, because the condition of the la bourers here, bad as it is, is superior to that of the Irish labourers. But no la bourers from any part of the Continent flock over to England in the same way. The only im portations of that kind we have, are a few broom girls from the Upper Rhine, a few organ-boys from Savoy, and a few sugar-bakers and tailors from various parts of Germany. At the same time clerks, merchants, and manu facturers come here in great numbers from France and Germany. The condition of our trading capitalists is superior to that of the Germans, and consequently many middle class Germans come hither. The labouring classes do not come. On the contrary, our labouring classes go abroad. There is a continull exportation of workmen and artizans from England to various parts of the Continent. Why do they go? Because they are better paid abroad than at home. If they are better paid abroad, how can any person say that wages abroad are worse than at home? But we have some facts on this subject, to which we beg the attention of the working classes, who still believe that we, who demand the abolition of the Corn_ laws, wish to degrade the condition of our la• bourers. First, as to the number of artizans who go abroad, not to the United' States or to America, but to Belgium and France: Mr. WITHERS, who was examined by the Committee on Machinery, and resides at Liege, in Belgium, said : " I have had as many as 300 English families from dif ferent parts of this country in Belgium.—Are there many English artizans in France ? A great many in different parts.—Are they going still from this country ? They keep going every day.—You say the best workmen are going out of the country—have you any facts to illus trate that point ? Yes ; I stated them yesterday. I have fetched out of England some hundreds myself. It has been invariably my practice." Now, what tempts these men to leave Eng land who are amongst the best paid of our work men ? Higher wages abroad than at home, is the answer. Living is not cheaper. Mr. WITHERS said that all the English families told him they could live cheaper in England than in Belgium. Let us quote some proofs as to wages : Mr. M'GREGOR declared in his examination before . the Import Duties Committee that— " The real wages of labour in this country are much less than in Saxony." • Before the same Committee Mr. HENRY HU. TON stated that— " I think we pay as low wages for plain cloth in Man chester as they do in France." The evidence given before the Machinery Com ihittee now sitting, is to the following effect : " I gave," says Mr. 'Withers, " to Englishmen 12 francs 50 cents., for doing that which the Belgians did for 8. francs and 7 francs, and the 12 francs 50 cents. man was the cheaper. He produced more work and a better quality.' "A great deal has been said about hand-labour, but, as I said yesterday, we must not calculate because the Frenchman receives three francs for a day's labour, and we pay in England four shillings that the French labour is cheaper than ours. I think on the contrary, that an Eng lishman does a great deal more in proportion for 4s. than a Frenchman for three francs, I have known Englishmen, week after week, and month after month, to get 31., 4/., and 5/. per week, working at the same prices as French men, who did not get more than 18 or 20 francs, that is to say the Frenchman got 20 francs a week, working on the same material, and at the same prices as the Englishman who got 3/. and 41. per week. " I got more by the man to whom I paid 5/, a week, than to the man to whom I paid only eighteen or twenty francs." A Mr. MARSDEN who was examined before the same Committee said,— " If I were to take an English and a French work man, and pay them at the same rate , the English work man Nould earn do u bl e t h e wages which the Frenchman did. I gave the English workmen I took over with me 425. a week, to induce them to go. I could have got French mechanics for about 20fr. a week, but I prefer the English workman at 425. a week to the French mechanic at 20s.—Are their wages greater than they get in England? Yes, what I gave 425. for in France I should have given 28s. or 30s. for in Man chester. The temptation for English workmen to go is great, to live cheaper, and get more wages." N ow these quotatious prove distinctly that the rate of wages is higher both in France and Bel gium than in England; that the English are much more skilful and better workmen than the others, and more industrious; by which means their labour, even were it paid at a higher rate than that of the others, is really cheaper to their employers ; that the foreigners idle more and play more than our people, and hence, though the rate of their wages is higher, they do not earn so much. Now, when the harder work of the Englishman is considered, his steadier habits, and his greater skill, together with the rate of wages, it is obvious that he is not so well paid as the foreigner, and that his condition would be improved, not deteriorated, by being made like that of the foreigner. This is true of the skilled and best-paid artizans of the empire; and it is ten-fold true of the wretched lumper fed Irish. The stock assertion, therefore, of the Tories and the Chartist antagonists of the aboli tion of the Corn-laws, is a false assertion. It is contrary to the fact, and is a mere invention to cheat the public. At the same time, those who advocate the repeal of the Corn-laws, seek to procure for the English labourer the advantages of the Continental labourer, and preserve his own. We, at least, desire that more food and more wages shall . , be given as the price of his work. We know ourselves to be perfectly disinterested in this matter; we flatter no prejudice, we aim at no leadership, we solicit no subscriptions. We only ask the labourers, whether Chartists or not, to examine the matter for themselves, and we believe they will conclude that, if they had a Parliament of their own to-morrow it could not by any possibility, by any one act, confer a greater benefit on them than to abolish the Breadslax. Our artizans are the hardest worked, W. paid, worst treated, and at the same time some of the most 'intelligent and patient men (4 the world. Let them know themselves, and act up to their true worth. They have now an opportunity of obtaining redress, and one long and strong pull altogether will abolish the Corn-laws, demonstrate their superiority to the Parliament, and prepare the way for many other legislative improvements. Hurrah then, one and all, for the abolition! Accounts pour in from all quarters of the as tonishment expressed by the members of the Auxiliary Anti-Slavery Societies throughout the country, at the arrogance of the London Com mittee, and their wickedness also, in allying themselves with the monopolists of every de scription, wh o d eny a ll rel i e f to our half-starved and hard-working population. The resolutions adopted at B r id gewater, an d t h e l e tt er fr om a place near Bri s t o l, i nserted i n anot h er p a rt of th e Paper, gi ve a f a i r eqimate of public opinion re meeting the meeting to be held to-morrow at Exeter - MIL We • trust the Auxiliary <_r ieties will iirad some honest ,and eio 7 quent representative on the occasion—one who - will call upon the abolitionists to adhere faithfully to the party that have proved them. selves Cle only , real frionds of the oppressed n - Itt• who put an end to the British ,ilve trade, wh,) ei 4a , ac ip it ted every negro throughout he r nAJEsTv's dominions, and who are now makin g C ont i nue d ex ertions to induce foreign Govern ments to i m i ta te their glorious example. u The Madrid Paper received are of the 4th Kist. Some distttrbances bad taken place at `Lanvora, on aecouut of the- imposition of some toll-d es. General Z URB ANO had marched _at tile. Ilea ] orsoine troops from Valladoliti to re- store order. - • ' • • The debate on the Regenqy QIIPS•ti(In ,was mowing to a close. The election viaa expected to take place on the Bth. No other news from Spain. On the Madrid Eachlnge, on the 4th, bar.:aing to the amount of 14,600,00 reals were done at 27k for cash, 27 11-16 for sixty days. We have received, by extraordinary express from Paris, the Moniteur of yesterday, with the important, but not unexpected, news of the elec tion of ESPARTERO by the Cortes to the sole Regency of Spain. The following is the official account : TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH. " BAYONNE, MAY I 1.....MADR1N, MAY 8. "The Chambers voted this day the question of the Re gency. By 154 to 136 votes they decided on a single Regent. " By the second vote the numbers were declared, for E.spar two 179, Arguelles 103. Espartern was, •therefore, elected sole Regent. Queen CHRISTINA arrived in Paris on Tuesday evening, and proceeded to the Elysee Bourbon, which has been assigned as her residence. Her MAJESTY has been forbidden by the French Go vernment to take part in any political intrigue during her stay, or in any way whatever to give umbrage to the Spanish Government. While stopping at Macon, some days ago, Queen CHRISTINA narrowly escaped being burnt to death. The curtains of her bed took fire, and she was only saved by the promptitude of her domestics. The insurgents of Bulgaria have been defeated by the Pacha of Nissia, at the head of 1,200 Albanians. By this victory the road between Belgrade and Constantinople is opened. We 'expect soon to hear of frightful atrocities com mitted hpon the unfortunate families and friends of the vanquished. It was the atrocious cruelties of the Turks and Albanians that drove the Bul garians into revolt. It was reported in Paris, that the eldest (laughter of the In fant Don Francisco de Paula eloped on Tuesday morning with a Polish nobleman, Orders were immediately forwarded by the telegraph to stop the fugitives, who were believed to have proceeded in the direction of Brussels. The Toulonnais of the 7th inst., states !hat a naval division, composed of the Inflexible and Saiiti Petri, ships-of-the-line, and the frigates Didon, Minerve, and Medee, would shortly sail for the Levant. " Englar,d," add the Toulon journal, "not wishing us to have three-deckers in the East, Rear-Admiral Laisuse, who is appointed to the command of that division, will remove his flag from the Montebello to the Inflexible 90-gun ship." A letter from Algirs ' states, that, on the Ist, the Arabs showed thems e l ves i n th e Sahel, near Algit.rs, and that about 50 horsemen having approached one of the outposts at Deli, Captain Muller, and AO men sallied after them. The Arabs retired, and were pursued ; but on a sudden, from 500 to 600 Arab horsemen, placed in ambush, rushed out and cut the whole detachment off, with the exception of fire men. The Arabs had shown themselves in force near the :liaison Carree, and, it was believed, at Col, all also. A cannonade had been heard in that direction, Pod also at the fords of the Arach. At a time when the Chamber is going to discuss the Budget of Algeria, it may not be amiss to make our readers acquainted with the ideas vihinh are excited in our African lossessions by the men who are sent hither. °gars. Ar au 15.—1 t appears unfortuna'ely be end a doubt, that with the exception of the African General Officers, who could not be decently got rid of, all the men by whom the new Government is surrounded, express antipathy for the preserva tion of Algeira, and do not let slip any occasion to express it. General Garraube, who may he said to have scarcely landed, matofe,ted his ill humour in the presence of a great number of officers, and exclaimed, " This, then, is Africa ; I am very glad to see it. Ten years ago," he is said to have added, " 1 de clared for giving it up, and my opinion is only strengthened." 1 need not say that these word., spoken by an Lit:mate friend of General Bugeaud, produced a very bad elect. Hence a report has risen that the only object of the expedition which is going to be undertaken, is to spend enormous sun s. After ail this, how can anybody have the least confidence in the future prosperdy of the colony. Letters from St. Thomas, of the tith of April, announce that the little town of St. John (Anti.gua) has been destroyed by fire. The conflagration was so violent, that it destroyed three hundred being almost the whole of the town. 'I he damage is estimated at several ru 1. ons. 1J'OCI:b1.;--Pattis, TUESDAY, MAY 11. •r,( ki Lowcet ::alt Prir‘ Prat, Prq, Price t re.kch 5 p;..r tents ll4 5 .„ 14 65 ... I 4 55 ... 114 4 pet Cents 9 30 99 30 ... WI 30 99 311 3 per cents ,9 50 ~. "•9 45 ... 19 : - .0 Rzua of &game 1.,411 - Ate ;Sank 1,;,00t. Stares 190 ...1(1111 _1(90 ...us° 5,000 f. Sharai 514 50 ...51.")7 5' ...5157 5C ...5157 50 s, gian Bank 1841... 5 per Cents. Ncw ...... It I tri sy ••• lUI •:panlsh 4% 14% :4% ... 2 % t ••• •tht • LXI ..• Old Deferral kleapphi4o lO4 lu ... o'4 10 ... PIA 5 MI 5 Ronan —.. T(2 ~ 102% ~. ... 1024: VAIL W A SHA St. Celina' ....... 240 . 242 50 ... 238 7.1 :3; 73 It, a 26r, iouen ♦e 0 .. ... r. 6 k ... 460 :s€2 0 ...365 .. 4 0 ... 460 487 50 4'B 75 ..: , 87 54 ::488 75 itrLtsburg , Bale it ELM IAN ," U NDS-13ausskte. MAY 11, _ . cstrual Debt, ".i.N, per Cent. Rothschild's Loa, :5 per Cant .... ..... 10j14 Loan of Thirty Miliions, 4 per Cent.... ...... . 113 —...._ . 3 per Cent. • --Thirty.avven . — 7 l -----___—(l 4 .) ICO% Loan 4): City, INnet, 4 per Celit ......... " IP 54 Society of Corninvrce, 4 . s , per Cent Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent National Seciety . .. . . . Exchange on London (short) DUTCH Eli NOs.—.AMKTRCOAM, MAY 12 Mont• • . i - .i .8. tctii.ii .14814, •,:}i per Cent „NW), ditto 5 per cent. - i 9y, VO A , hal t :,11die, -I 6 per i•cnt 9'. % 91 N Ditto, ditto, :3.i per cent 74 75 Commercial Company, 4'. per cent lir . 165% Ditto (IA:15 and 1537) 5 pet cent. Loan 1t4:37, 5 i•er cont. 9i% 974 Exchange on London, One month i% i's Two months ....... 11 gi Dutch Papers, May 12. A.i.;3 ICKIAN FUN i/S.—VlanNA, MAY 3 ive per Costs. Metalliques Fmss rer Cents. Time p~ r ( ent, 0,07 Ithar,B ... ...411geineen , Zeilung. May 9. PRUSSIAN kOF DS.—Baseux, MAY 10 Bills Money, St Schuld. Sch., 4' per cent, lO4 k,', HI% Prussian English L oan, Ig.lo, 4 per cent, 1.2 101 S Nxetiange on London, three months 0 19% —Prussian State Gazelle. May 11 HA NIB (1 R(..; 13010) 14 ti A LLE, MAY S. Bills. Mnney Austrian 5 per Cents. .... .......... .... sank Shares 1 6 ,_ 0.. .= An,:lo.Rtissian Loan lO 134 Russian 5 per Cent. ~ st cncs, Cortilicate 101 10 Inserlption, Ist Se:ius l(2 Russian 5 per Cent, litipt , and t!o. 3d and 4th Se:les 97 Ditto in Cer, ineutes New 4 per Ce,t. (h4O) 87..; 1,1% Dutch ..ctual Debt, %;,, pe Cent :IN 51 Ditto Polish Bond . New I teket Anglo.' :atilsh Loan, 3 pet Cent 75 :74 3 i NI : wegiah Loan, 1.414. 1 pet O.AL. ~.. .6 .! , .t,isti, New 5 per Cents. , . CORN-LAWS AND IRELAND.—The Orange papers o; Ireland are all extreme]) violent in their opposition to the Ministerial measure for modifying the Corn-laws. They declare that it will be the ruin of Ireland. How the lumper-fed Irish can be more ruined than they are, not to be wholly annihilated, surpasses our imagination to conceive. We wonder only that they are not anni hilated, ruined, root and branch, by the present law, Lord Stanley demonstrated on Wednesday evening, on the authority of a commercial letter, that the proposed tax of the Ministers of eight shillings per quarter on foreign wheat' would be no protec tion whatever to the Irish agriculturists, because their wheat is so very inferior to foreign wheat. " It would be," said the Noble Lord, " so far as Ireland is concerned, completely a free trade." Very curious this, that our scale of duties must rise in proportion to the badness o' the produce. Very curious is it, too, that this circum stance is only now found out. For if it holds good against the Ministerial plan it must hold equall: - rood against the present scale, and the Irish must entitled to a protecting duty at least Bs. highs: per quarter than the English agriculturist. They are very badly treated, are the Irish landlords, by not having such an additional protection allowed them. They are clearly as well entitled to, a duty of 305., as the Eng lish landlords are to a duty of 225., and they ought to demand justice for Ireland, or else they ought to with hold the supplies. Lord Stanley has long been a great friend of Ireland, and he showed his regard for it ()I; Wednesday by demonstrating that justice will not be done to it unless the protecting duty be raised at letvz Bs. higher for Ireland than England. FREE-LABOUR AND SLAVE-LABOUR.—The Tories in the House of Commons, particularly Mr. Gladstone ant Lord Stanley, have taken great , pains to show that the production of sugar is exclusively adapted to slave labour, while the production of coffee and cotton is pro per for free men. Women and children can be em ployed, said Mr. Gladstone, in the latter ; and, while the cultivation of sugar had been given up by the Haytians since they had gained their liberty, they had exteadcd the cultivation of cotton and coffee. How extremely nenevolent and kind, then, it is in these gentlemen to ,simulate the cultivation of sugar, which is ,o vrtri sively fitted for slaves in our West India islands by the large bounty they insist on giving on that troduction, in the shape of a discriminating duty ! Plain common, sense, of which the Tories almost claim a mono, wily, would at once conclude that the best wa v to encourage slavery, was to g: e a large bounty on that production which is pi culiar to slavery, and that no greater injury can be clone the population of our con ones than thus to make pn Itauce is the. proper produce only of slaves. The human- Tories, in the name of humanity, insist on giving a bounty on slave-labour, and the Anti-Slavery Society join with the Tories. Our high sugar duties stimulate slave-labour and stienulite Vie slave trade. They raise price of sugar in t he market. by the whole amount the discrirainn , .:l.• tax, „ which is stronger. than the navy of Great Britain. The 'furies actually t• , .x tit • st: people of .Logiand in tile natne of humanity keep up shivery and the slave trad, . They are throrghout consistent humbugs. FLUCT. Atl OtS IN THE OF SUGAR rival those in tilt . price of corn, and arise from the same cause, the litnitatio, of the field of supply. 11 e ere confined te the empire for corn, and the consequence is that withit three yeitrs the price has risen from 365. to 88s. pet quarter. Who can regulate his business successfully, when he L: a t buy and sell by varying measures, which is it; fart what the Corn-laws actually cause ? We are con. nel to our own colonies for our supply of sugar, and : tne:tiuctuations in.the prke of if are Le.taly as gnat as in the price of orn. In January, 1§ . 4 . 0, the prce was Ms. ; in Septeualwr o f the same year it was SS., a rise ex 1 ,437 vet.: cent. nhmthi ; at present it has to As., a'; pf ably o t'iC:lA 1,• crop, c'4 . -V% to bud, if they answer expectations, and the au dition of the people continue. to be as depressed, as at t present, to 28s. The fact is at present that the price of this almost necessary of life has varied nearly 70 per cent. in another eight months. Grocers and dealers of all kinds, as well as consumers, must suffer much by these continual and great fluctuations. The only remedy for which is 'to admit foreign sugars at. a low duty, and to allow the price to settle down to the cost of produc tion. The Tories refuse to assent to so ratioaal a Iro position. CORN -LAWS, &c.--Meetings took place on Wed nesday, in furtherance of the repeal of the Corn laws, at the Westminster Reform Society, and St. Saviour's, Southwark ; and within the last week they have taken place generally throughout the country. At Kendal, Bolton, Bury, Leices ter, and Norwich, the feeling in favour of the Corn-law and commercial reforms projected by Ministers was most enthusiastic. We regret that we have not space to give the speeches made on these occasions. The meeting at Kendal, however, ought not to be passed over without noticing the glorious, though we regret to say rare, example of a clergyman of the Established Church, the Rev. Gilbert Elliott, coming forward to advocate the repeal of the Corn-laws. Two other clergy men supported hi►n on the occasion. This is the true position for the ChUrch, and were the clergy to look to the interests of their flocks as much as to their own, we should have less of the want of godliness among the poor. We will endeavour to find room for the report to-morrow. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. The Funds closed with rather a heavy appearance, but there was no actual decline in prices. Cmt:sols for imme diate transfer brought 89i to 89, and for the 25th instant, 891 to 891. At the close of the day the quotations had a down ward tendency. The unfunded debt went lower again, viz., to 3 and 5 prem., and East India Bonds droi.ped to I and 2 dis. Bank Stock barely supported its value, being at 168 to 167, but India Stock remain: dat 2516 The New Three-and.a- Half per Cents. were worth 904 to 98k, and the Three per Cent. Reduced 884 to 881. The Spanish Bonds were not much influenced by the election of Espartero, upon which the speculators have confidently cal culated for some time past. The Active Stock was qu.ned to day 24 to 24*, being* per cent. above the highest price of yesterday. The Deft rred Bonds were at 111. Portuguese New Five per Ct n's. improved to 34* and 34ii for the next Account ; and the Thi ee per Cents. were at 206. Mexican Bonds were at 286 to /, and Colombian 226, being the previous rates ; but Brazilian rec.-ded to 676, and Buenos Ayres rose to 23. The Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 526. The Share Market is in rather a feeble condition, and the orerations have been very lirrntect. Great Western Railway Share- , were 271 to 28, the New at 14*, the Fitths at and the York and North Midland at 73 pi entium ex. new. North Midland Shares were 244, the New 31, Brighton 34 to 2%, Biackwall 7, and Manchester and Leeds 14 discount. London Joint-stock Bank "hag es were 24 premium, and National Pro vincial Bank of England 6 premium. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 12.—For all de scriptions of Cotton the demand to-day has been limited—the trade being the only purchasers at previous rates. American kind range from 4111. to 7d. ; Surats, Maranhams, and Egyp tian as before ; '2.000 bales are reported. LIVERPOOL SHA ltE MARKET, MAY 12.—The market continues slack, but prices are quoted at previous rates. Edin burgh and Glasgow, 37 ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 29* ; Chester and Crewe, 50 ; Great Western calf Shares 64 ; ditto, Fifth Shares, 11*; Midland Counties, Quarter Shares, 211; North Union, 81%. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 12.—The Share Market, generally, remains without improvement.—Manchester and Leeds, 55 to 57; Manchilter and Birmingham, 25 ; Lon don and Brighton, 47 to 47k; Manchester and Sheffield, 6i ; London and South Western, 57 to 58 ; Manchester and Sal ford Banks, 10a ; Union Bank, 71. A Mexican mail has arrived, brought by the Peterel, s , iled from Vera Cruz, March 28, Tampico, April 3, Havannah, April i 5. The news will he found in another part o! the Paper. We h;rve received thi. Dutch mail of the 12th May. with papers of the same date, bringing the Am-terdam prices of the 11th inst., Two-and-a-Half per Gmrs., 51/ to 15-16; Five per Cents., 99i ; Ardoins, 22 9.16 to BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MAY 10.—The National fends are calm, without any var ation, the Billets of Chance, and the actions of tne Society of Commerce are more offered ; Aruoins Spani,h, is weak. Almost all he fields from Courtrac to Ghent are inundated, owing to the overflow of the Seheldt. It is stated that Espartero. who has been appointed Regent, will en:ru,t thu formation of his Ministry to M. Gonzales, for the purpose' of carrying into effect the treaty of commerce vr . y h EnglAnd. This measure is looked to with con sidet able interest by commercial men. Consols opened this morning at the leaving off prices of yesterday, at 891 for the Account, since which they have become rather flat, and may be Tinted at present 891 for the Account; ;honey 89/1 Exchequer tfilis 4 6 premium; Bank stock, 167 169; India Stock, 250 252; 11,dian Bonds, 1 dis. 1 prem. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active has improved in consequence of Eseartero being eppointed sole Regent, left off at 234 24, at present 24t, a ; Defe.re,f, Ili 12 ; Pass've, 6 ; Portuguese same at they left off, 331 344 ; 1 hree per Cents., 20IA ; Braz.lian, 6869 ; Colombian, 224 23 ; Mexican, 284 29 ; 60 62 ; Dutch Twu- and.a-tialf per Cents., 524 a ; Five per Cents 994 100. SHARES.-Great Western, 274 284 prem. ; New, 134 144 prem. ; Londod and 11, ighton 34 34 dis. ; Blackwall 76% ds. ; Birmingham 68 70 prem. ; : , outhampron 57 58 per share ; Croydon 1:4 144 per share ; Grecriv.leb 54 per share ; Manchester and Ilirmingham 154 1-11!5 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. P,id. Per Share. Great Western Ditto New London and tilackwall North Midland JOINT STOCK BANKS. London Joint Stock ........ 10 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MAY 11. 3 per Cent. Commis -ti Bank Stock. ..... ...... 168 Three and Half Stock 97 Grand Canal Stock Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto Debs. to per cent... 86 Ditto New, 1830 97 Ditto 4 per cent 36 per Cent. Debs. 9O Royal Canal Stock The inactive state of the British Funds still continues, and there s not a feature in the Market worth attention to the pre sent hour, this siate of things. in all probability, will contin , :e on till the debates on the sugar question, timber, and Corn-laws have torminated, which will cause a continual agitation in our commercial affairs, as well as damp the spirit for speculating, causing money also to become scarce. The grand question at present is, will Ministers resign. Consols may be quoted as io the early part of the morning 8.97 for the Account ; Exchequer Bills 4 6 prem. ; Bank Stock 168 167 ; India Bonds, 2 prem. 2 discouut; India Stock, 2b1%. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active is the only feature, which may be quoted 24i 1; Deferred, 111; Passive, 51 ; Mexican, 26}; Portuguese, 34i; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., nothing done ; Five per Cents., 91 1. is settling day in the Share Market, consequently very little doing except .ng squaring the accounts. Gr. at Western New, 64} • Fifths. I l %; London and Black wall, 18 ; North Miuland 76*. Consols, Account, 89i 90; Mexican, 281 ; Portuguese, 34i ; Spanish, '24i 1. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS Bank Stock ... 167 India Stock 2sli 3 per Cent Red 3 per Cent Cons B9 Ditto Old Annuities ... 3)j per Cent Red 97a , Ditto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent 9Ba Ex. Bills, I',ooo/....2id spm New 5 per cent — 1 Ditt o 5001 3pm Long Annuities to expire I Ditto Small 6pm Jan. 1860 l2a Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 l2fr India Stock for 0pg.... Jan. 1860. FOtEIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, h per cent Ditto, New Ditto 344 Brazilian Bonds.. Buenos Ayres. 6 per cent 23 Russian, 5 per cent — Chilian, b per cent...... Ditto, % tetallie.. ... Colombian, b per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 244 Ditto, 1624 ... ..... 224 Ditto, Deferred .. lI i Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 18 . 45, 5 per cent — Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent.... 284 French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 24 per cent. ... 524 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. 104 I 'at°, 5 per cent 99d SHARES. Great Western Pailway (65 paid) 93 Ditto New Shares (50 paid 64i _._ . .. ... - - Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) 47a London and Blackwall Railway (:25 paid)... 18 North Midland Hallway ( 100 paid) Ditto N ew shares ( 40 paid). Yol k and North Al idland Raitway (50 pd) 73 THE WEATHER.—NOON, MAY 13. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, A DELA 11E-STREET. Biiromet er Thermometer... 61 Highest 65 Lowest ...... 44 Wind N. V. by N.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. Madame Elizabeth Filipowtcz, wife of a Polish refugee, and a distinguished violinist, died on the 4tl: inst., at her residence, No. 27, Great Clarendon -street, Somers-town, after a long illness of two years and on,. tionth, which was caused by an apoplectic attack ant the accumulation of blood on the brain, accout oanied by palsy. Madame Filipowicz was a pupil w the celebrated violinist Spohr, whose delightful melod:. he was so well able to understand. She was well known to the musical world by the clever and charming methoC if her execution on the violin ; whilst her amiable qua lities caused her to be cherished by all the artists whose ,incere friendship she possessed. She was sought for ! , upils, in consequence of the easy method of her instruc ion, and her admirable patience. Beloved by her family, a good wife and mother, and highly esteemed by her t;ountrymen, her death has caused sincere regret to all ;hose who had known her. In informing the public 0; he deceas-3 of that talented lady, we are requested by her rolatives to express, in her name, thanks to all those per sons who had been kind enough to assist and console her in 11;:r painful trial ; and particularly to Dr. A. Billing ild Dr. Berrier-Fontaine, who, by their generous and -kilfol assistance, alleviated her sufferings. Her funeral took glace on Sunday, 9th inst., in All Souls' Cemetery, Kensal-green. The body was accompanied to its resting place by a great number of Polish refugees and friends of the deceased INEwsPAPERS IN SPAIN.—The Madrid Ga zette has published a table of the journals whit': are circu -1 Aed in St ain. The periodical journals published in the pro vinces amount to 32, and tho.e at. Madrid to 18, which arc Co , reo Nacional, L'E!o dr] Comercio, El Correspo: , sal, La Constitucio, El Castellano, El Huraca,n, La From, El atolico, El Fray Grrundi.), La Gazetta dd 104 Tribuna!ee, El Diario de Arms. El Jemanario de Medici-e, El Pano ama. F.l Etecante, El Boletin de Medicine, El Seminario, and El Entreacto. THE HAGUE, MAY, 10.—His Majesty has been pleased to grant the request of his Excels , ncy fl , ton de Kos k to be allowed to resign his post of Minister of the Into r or on the lit of June next. RAPID PASSAGE.—The schooner' Lady or th e Tabs, of 13HstOl, Captain William Walters. arriv( d at this port from Lisbon 'cm th,:f sth initalit." titer an 166. 414015 wage of 41 to 5 days,-=#ristoi Jcuntal. MORNING EDITION. LITERATURE. THE LOVE-MATCH. 3 Vas. Colburn, London, 1841. The title of this novel—no slight recommenda tion to a light work of fiction—is well chosen, and will be pretty sure to attract the attention of a numerous class of readers. The LOve-Match! The very name is enough to ensure the success of the tale among the fair frequenters of our fashionable watering -places; and great, doubt- less, will he the demand for it at the • cii' culating libraries of Brighton, Cheltenham, Ryde, and elsewhere. The work is the produc tion of Mrs. Maberley, to whoth the novel.. reading portion of the public —a large and ineretti.; ing majority—is already indebted for " a sentimental :tort' which was, we believe, re ceived with much favour last year. Like its pre decessor, the " Love Matcit' abounds in senti ment of the most ad captandum character. We have a broken heart at the end of the third volume, accompanied by its natural sequitur, a tolling death-bell, and a funeral, with the " rays of the setting sun falling upon the: embla zoned panne's" of the principal mourning coach ; a remorse-stricken London roue ; a virtuous Lord or two— thrown in, -we suppose, by way of novelty —an uxorious country Baronet, of ancient descent and unble mished honour; an interesting Sister of Charity; and a high tragedy fiend, in the shape of a dis• appointed old maid. The plot of the story is re markably simple, and regards the love of Flo rence Brandon, for a handsome young profligate, Gerald de Grey, who, after inveigling her into a clandestine marriage, and putting her to the exceeding inconvenience and embarrassment of maternity, gradually wearies ofhersociety, and is consequently the cause of her death. There are some tender sce;ies in the story, and one or two passages written in an eloquent and im passioned spirit; but, as a whole,is it sadly desdes* titute of originality. THE IRON TRA DE.—A meeting of the princi pal iron masters of this district (Wolverhampton) was held on Wednesday week, at the Swan Hotel, in this town, when it was determined that fifty furnaces shall be blown out, namely, thirty-five in Staffiirdshire, and fifteen in Shropshire. Although this resolution is much to be regretted, as evincing the depressed state of trade at the present moment, we are glad to learn that but few of the workpeople will be thrown out of work, as they will for the most part be partially employed at short time. We understand the alteration will take place immediately.—Stqllbrdshire Gazette. ME CONVICT HARRIET LONGLEY._The Jury who tried her for the murder of her child recom mended her to the mercy of the Court, and the Learned Judge ordered sentence of death to be recorded' against her, intimating that he thought the ends of justice would be fully answered by her undergoing a punishment short of death. A few days since an order was received at Newgate directing the convict to be transported foi the term of ten years. The unfortunate woman still re mains in Newgate, where she has conducted herself with propri ,, ty, but will shortly be removed, in order to be sent abroad by the next vessel that sails with female ci-nricts. , CAPTURE OF A SLAVER.—Extract o f a letter f.om Plymouth, dated Sunday, May 9, 1841 :—The Hamburgh barque Louisa, Capt. Boye, was brought in here (Plymo, th) to-day, in charge of an officer and men from her Majesty's brig Grecian, having been taken and sent to England by that ship a few hours after sailing from Rio Janeiro for Benguela (Africa) on suspicion of g. iing on a slaving voyage. SPECIAL MEETING OF THE TOWN..COUNCIte —PROPOSED MINISTERIAL REDUCTIONS OF THE DUTIES CO' CORN, SUGAR, AND TIMBER.—We are very happy to state thai the Mayor has conv e ned a speci a l mee t ing o f the Town' Council for Saturday next, to express its opinion as to the mo difications and reducti ns prop , sed by Minbters in the duti4 s ui on sugar and timber, of which notice has been given by the Chancellor of the exchequer ' • and as to the alterri ,n of the has Corn-laws, of which noti ce m been given by Lord Johts Russell. We believe that more important subjects never occu pied the attention of a legi , lative assembly ; and it is the bounden duty of the 'people of this country, if they wish it' commerce to be extended, and the social o ndition of its.poptl' Winn to be improved, to put forth all their energies in sup' port of the great and most beneficial changes which Minister' propose to mike. The latter will be most strenuously opposets by great aid powerful class interests ; they will have arrayet. against them the East and West India interests, the landed in• terest, a large portion of the shipping interest, and the mass of the Tory party ; and, against such a host of opponents as theac• they cannot possibly make .head, unless they be promptly am mo-t actively and warmly supported by the people at tattle. The people, indeed, may be said, humanly speaking, to have the destinies of the nation at this moment in their own hands they have it in their power to give at once to the entire scope of our commercial policy a new spirit and direction ; they have it in their power to secure the gradual substitution of Tore Emil or financial duties for protective and prohibitory duties. they have it in their power indefinitely to enlarge the cirp She our peaceful commercial int ercourse w ith a ll t h e nat i o ns DE world ; and, by the free introduction into this kingdom of theft commodities, to compel th em to accept payment i n our owr various articles of produce and manufactures, without a cow , stantly increasing demand, for whi c h i t is impossibl e th a t ( en. labouring population can be maintained in even tolerable corn" fort. They have it in their power, by thus securing an en tire reform of our commercial code, to raise the trade of this country, and the general condition of its inhabitants, to en average standard of prosperity, which it has never yet attaiDe a —Manchester Guardian. A very remarkable circumstance has just oc cu-red in the commune of Woluwe St. Lambert, near Brussels. Four brothers, farming labourers, hying with their mother, of the re'pective ages of 39, 36, 29. and 27 years, all became in sane in less than two hours. The eldest ran away, the three others were taken to the hospital St. Jean at Brussels, where their insane fury was with difficulty restrained, so great wee their bodily strength, and so violent the species of madness un der which they were labouring. One of the attendants at the hospital narrowly escaped being killed by them. None of these unhappy men had, it is stated, showed previous signs of mental aberration.—Brussels British Gazette. CORN -LAWS, &c.—The petition against the Corn-laws, got up in Bradford within the last fortnight, had been s.nt for presentation-17,56f) signatures were attached to it. No exertions were spared in getting signatures, and great numbers of men were stationed in various parts of the toWP for the purpose. On Tuesday, a petition, praying Parliament to repeal the duties on sugar, tea, and corn, was signed by en imm n e rrimher of persons (they had not been counted when ocr news letter left), and will have been presented by this time - York Courant. DREADFUL CASE Or HYDROPHOBIA.—OiI Tuesday Mr. Baker held an inquest at the London Hospital on the body of William Lingard. aged seven years. Rebecca Lin;ard, of ti, Skinne:•sti yet, Bishopsgate, mother of the de ceased, deposed that one dty, about three months since, he r child told her on his return from school, that whil e on ku . way there in the morning, as he was running through Long alley he hal been letten in the heel by a small dirty white dog. Application was made to Mr. Shaw, a surgeon in the neigh' bourhood, who dressed the wound with caustic, and it had' since hea:et', but he (deceased) has not appeared iii good health since. On Friday last he appeared" drooping, on the following day he was very . and on Sunday became so much worse that it. sal deemed nee essary to send him to the above hospital. where he expired in dreadful agony about half-pa-t one in the afternoon. He was first attacked with pains in the legs, which extended up the body to the threat ; he was then unable to swallow—this was succeeded by fits, and shortly before his death he foamed at the mouth and growled like a dog. Wit ness had been unable to find the owner of the dog. J. E. Porter, house surge .n, deposed that deceased was brought to the hospital in a dreadiul state of hydrophobia, he was gene • rally convulsed. could take no liquqls, the ; sight of and even the sound of water had thrown him into paroxysms, and in one instance a mere etnpty eup h a d h a d a s i m il ar e ff ect. V ar i o us medit.ines were applied, but to n o p urpose . Verdict, Died of hs drophobta thi ough the bite of a dog, but how indicted there is no evidence to show." Queen Christina arrived in Paris on Tuesday evening. PLATE.—A. B. SAVORY and SONS. Ma - 01- fa, taring Silversmiths, No. 14, Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of England. The best wrought SILVER SPOONS and F. !RKS, Fiddle Pattern, 7s. 2d per ounce. The Kid' Pattern, 7s. 4d. per ounce. The following are the weixht recommended, but the articles may be had lighter or hestorr , at the same price per ounce : .. Fiddle Vattern. King's Pattern. d oz. s. d. £s. d at 7 . 2 27 10 7 15 3 4 0 1 12 2 T i t s OA. a. et Z L :2 2 T D a es b re ditto r S t P' on s •l 0 le er S t i rli * tt, n, , 2 'laid° Foi k 5.3.1 721015 0 12 Tab:e Forks4B 7 4...14 13 4 1 . 2 De:.sertditto2o 7 2 7 34 12 Dessertditta 26 7 i - 9 I DS 2 40 - avySpoons 10 ". V.— 311 /4 2 GravySisoons 12 7 4... 4' 8 0 I Soup Ladle:.. 10 723 11 8 1 Soup Ladle. 12 7 4... 4 80' 4 Sauce ditto... 10 7831 n 9 4 Sauce aitto... 12 7 IL. 4.11. 0 4 Salt Spoons gilt strong) 1 0 • 4 Salt Spoons (strong gilt). 2 2 0 1 Fish Slice 2 10 0 1 Fhh Slice' 12 T e , . / ., 00 ,, 5 . in 7 5... 3168 12 Tea 9,,oans. I I 7 to: 5 9lf 2 4 6 4 at 7 7 41;1,4 13 , : I Pair Sugar Tongs 0 15 0 I pair Sugar Tongs ..... ~,, 1 5 0 N.B. A Price Current, stamped as a Newspaper, illustrated by drawings, and containing every information relative to the purchase of silver or Sheffield plate, may be ,had on applies" lion, or will be sent into the country, free of postage, in answer • to a paid letter. TABLE CANDLESTICKS, superior to Silver for durability, equal in appearance. Table candlesticks, 1 3 ' inches high, 75. per pair; 9 i-che* high, 93. ; 10 inches, lls per pair , ditto, with r,ch shell mountings, 9 inches high, 13f• per pair; snuffer trays, with shell mountings and chased cal. tre, 4s. each. The particular metal of which these and 6. 7 4reat variety of other articles are made, can only be told trona ~ i tver by reference to the stamp. Catalogues gratis. RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, Oztord-street. BIRTHS. On 'he 6th inst., at Frinkfort-on-+ he-Maine, the lady of Robert Koch, Esq., her Britannic Majesty's Vi.ee-Consul, of 9. daughter. On the 7th inst., at Selwoed, near Frome, the wife of Thorcts Byard Sheppard, Esq., of a son. On the Bth inst., at Birmingham, Mrs. Alfred Thwaytet Te,..bitt, of a son. M.4RRIED. On the 11th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Will'ato 11. Tufnell, second son 1. . Tufnell. Fsq., of Lang" Chelmsford. to Eliza Isabella. eitlest daughter of t..ir John Tys , ,en Tyrell, Bart., M.P., of Borehsm House, Chelmsford , On the 6th inst., at the Cathedra , Canterbury, George. only son of Mr. Robert Gardner. of lienkstmume. Kent. t° Ka,e. tint daughter of Mr. George Ausin, of the Prectillh Canterbury. DIED. On the sth of F. bruary last, at Pete sburg, N'irgi e k s ' m,erica, J.ihn Gwynne Davis, Esq., native of LlanviruscA• Pembrokeshi re . (In the 9th Lushington, eldest son I x' Wiliam* flothery, E sq ., j un., o f D oc tors'-e.mmum, anteof J&l'llef.St i T its 13uelt it gh am -g , te, aged 9. On the 10th inst.. at Coombe Lo•lge. near Croydon, Thom" Taylor, Esq., la .e o.mptro:ler-Gene•al of her Alajcsty's Cuil" toms, aged 72. (3n the 10th inst at Eastwood,'Nottinghamshire, he wife of W. S Smith. .ondon Printed and Published by 111Utit10 T-bUNG. No. 112, Strand, at 7 se Sun Office, We. 112, Serasfl• it the cuunty of Aliddleies:- - Frid4, May-14, 1,5#1. . 1 1 3 e: the P E st to . pert the rat are so 4 east, ce away w Asa pre-em Plexion 'ender ( thoug discoloi twilo w good nnnoic Ou th e .tartar tT , htestth Uvarial ' Regt Ire an , • 1 ' 25 ei ead PA- nun Stlei and obtl 2 5 St. tZTII