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

MORNING EDITION LADY BLESSINGTON'S NEW WORK. On Saturday, May 15, in 2 vols. Bvo., THE IDLER IN FRANCE. By the COUNTESS of BLESSINGTON. Also, just published, LADY BLESSINGTON'S " IDLER IN ITALY." Second and Cheaper Edition, 3 vols. small Svo., with Por traits. Vol. 111. may be had separately, to complete Sets. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. CORN-LAWS. This day is published, price 25., STATEMENTS illustrative of the POLICY and PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES of the proposed REPEAL of the Existing CORN-LAWS, and the Imposi tion. in their stead, of a Moderate Fixed Duty on Foreign Corn when entered for Consumption. London : Longman, Orme, and Co. _ _ THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT GARDEN. 31:DER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, MAY 6. Will be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled LONDON ASSURANCE. Sir Harcourt Courtly, Bart., Mr. W. Farren ; Max Hark away, Mr. Bartley; Mr. Charles Courtly, Mr. Anderson; Mr. Adolphus Spanker, Mr. Keeley; Mr. Dazzle, Mr. C. Mathews ; \lark Meddle, Mr. Harley ; Grace HarkawaY, %Wattle Vestris ; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. pert, Mrs. Humbv. .4ktter which will be repeated, the Grand Romantic Fairy Ex travaganza, entitled BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Beauty, Madame Veatris ; The Beast, Mr. W. Harrison ; John Quill, Mr. Harley ; Dressalinda, Miss Rainforth ; Mar rygolda, Miss Grant; Queen of the Roses, Miss Lee. To-morrow, London Assurance, with Beauty and the Beast. Doors to le opened at half-past Six—the performances to Commence at Seven o'Clock. _ _ _ Dress Boxes, - 71;:; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second rircles, ss. ; Second Price, 23. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tie Les an.i places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets any De had upon application. Private Boats to be had so'ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. The most powerful attraction ever offered. Third Night of Claude Duval, supported by Mr. J. S. Balls, and the ac knowledged best Company in the Metropolis, with an en tire change of Pieces. THIS EVENING, MAY 6, Will be acted an Historical and Domestic Drama, entitled CLAUDE DUVAL, THE LADIES' HIGHWAYMAN. With entirely new local and beautiful Scenery, extensive Ma chinery, &c. Claude Duval, Mr. J. S. Balls. After which, the Comedy of WILD OATS; OR, THE STROLLING GENTLEMAN. Rover. Mr. J. S. Balls. To conclude with the Romance of Diablerie, entitled APOLLYON, THE GREAT FIEND. Apollyon, Mr. 0. Smith, The Last Week of his Engagement. "THE CHINA SUN," WHICH WAS REPUBLISHED LATELY, IS NOW ON SALE, With all the LATEST NEWS. ram RAILWAY SUN WILL BE PUBLISHED IN A FEW DAYS. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS ~ A Y. limning 7 minutes altar 2 I Evening 25 m►nutes after 2 LONDON: THURSDAY. MAY 6, 1841. The Peers did not meet yesterday. After the presentation of numerous petitions in the Com mons, Sir R. INGLis gave notice that on the 18th he should call the attention of the House to Church Extension. Mr. Muicrz gave notice that on the 13th he would move an Address to remove the Earl of CARDIGAN from her MA. JICSTY'S service. Sir G. CLERK for Lord SANDON, announced the words of the Noble Lord's motion on Friday, to the effect that the House is not prepared to support her MAJESTY'S Government in proposing a reduction of the duty on foreign sugar. Lord JOHN RUSSELL met this announcement with another, to the effect that if the House did not go into a Committee of Ways and Means, and Lord SANDON'S motion were put from the Chair, he would move a resolution that it is practicable to supply the present inadequacy of the revenue by a judicious alteration in the protecting and differential duties, without in creasing the public burdens, and at the same time giving relief to the industrious classes. On those questions the House and the country will now have to decide. If the Tories carry their views into effect, they will give another proof that the House of Commons is thoroughly regardless of the interests of the bulk of the people of England, and must be purged by Chartism. In reply to Lord DUNGANNON, Lord Jorix RUSSELL stated that non 3 of the surplus funds in the hands of the Eccle siastical Commissioners had yet been applied to augment the poorer benefices. TY. e House was occupied through the greater part of the evening with the County Coroners Bill in Committee, and the majority of the Houso seemed more eager to disfranchise the present race of electo rs o f coroners th an anyt hi ng e l se. Th ey were generally successful. After a protracted discussion, on the various clauses, and several divisions, the Chairman re ported progress. At Half-past One the House Adjourned. The value and importance of the Ministerial propositions are proved by the fury of the Tories. If they were not calculated to benefit the people, all the corrupt and sinister interests would not so zealously combine against them. In all quarters, however, the corruptionists are mustering all their forces, and employing all the arts with which they are so fa miliar to get up a powerful resistance to the Ministerial scheme. Whether they shall succeed will depend on the people. If the latter are in love with dear bread and cramped trade, if they are resolved to pay a double price for their sugar, to foster tlvAuxury of West India plant ers, if they wish to strengthen and fatten the vermin which now prey on them, and if they are contented to have their hands pinioned, that they may be the more easily plundered, they will do right not to give themselves the least trouble to resist the corruptionists. If, on the contrary, they wish that the propositions of the Ministers should be successful, they cannot too soon exert themselves, for the host of corrup tionists is enormous, their zeal fiery, and their combination formidable. To oppose them there are - only truth, justice, and the people; but these will, in the long run, prevail over all their oppo nents. To ensure their present success, the ople have no time to lose, nor exertions to Re thrown away. The Whigs and the Liberals were the active agents in putting an end to the slave-trade, and in emancipating the slaves. Through the whole contest, which was begun by CLARKSON, and ter minated by the Whigs abolishing that trade in their short administration in 1806, the Tories were the advocates of the abominal►le traffic. From that time till the second administration of the Whigs in 1833, when they also achieved slave emancipation, the Tories in the Government were the steady opponents of measures to promote slave emancipation, and the Whigs in opposition were the zealous promoters of such measures. Who are now most anxious to put an end to the slave trade, Dr. LUSHINGTON or Dr. LEFROV, Sir F. BUX TON or Sir G. CLERK, Mr. O'CONNELL or Col. PERCIVAL, Lord J. RUSSELL or Sir R. PEEL Again the Whigs are active in their work, and are sending out an expedition to the Niger, which is an evidence of their zeal, if not of their discretion. Thus from the beginning to the end the Whigs have been the constant, sin cere, and steady friends of negro freedom, while the Tories have been its secret or open enemies. No sooner, however, do the Whigs propose a measure to give a little relief to the over-taxed people of England, without inflicting the smallest injury on the black resident population in the colonies, however much it may affect the rent of the white estate owners who live in Eng land, than the Tories oppose it on the ground that it will encourage the growth of slave grown sugar, and keep up the slave trade. This is of a piece vith the whole conduct of the Tories. Plunder the indus trious people by law, is the single unvarying article of their creed, while they prostitute the hallowed names of liberty, humanity, and religion to ob tain that end. Their conduct answers two pur poses, it degrades the general morality, and fits men for slaves, and puts pelf into their own pockets. We are not particularly friendly to the exer tions of Messrs. POWELL BUXTON, LUSHINGTON, and Co. We deem it more worthy to put an end to slavery at h ome th an s lavery abroad. We deem it even dish onest to ta k e a si n g l e farthing from the taxed people of England to carry into effect a romantic scheme for civilizing Africa. We not only deem it to be dishonest, we know that the whole scheme of the anti-slavery party has been unsuccessful. At the expense of much treasure and much blood it has engendered and increased the evils it was meant to prevent. The Tories, however, appeal to that as the justification of their opposition to the reduction of the sugar tax, and make this unseemly waste of our blood and tioasure a justification for continuing to impose an unjust burden on the people. Last night Sir G. CLERK announced in the following terms the amendment which Lord SA:NDON is to move on Friday:— "Resolved, that considering the efforts and sacrifices which Parliament and the country had made for the abolition of the slave trade and of slavery, with the earnest hope that by our exertions arid example we might be able to lead to a mitigation and final extinction of this evil in other countries, this House is not prepared, especially with the present prospect of the supply of sugar from the British possessions, to adopt the mea sure proposed by her Majesty's Government, for the reduc tion of the duty on foreign sugar." The Tories are all at once, then, most sensi tively alive to the evils and horrors of slavery and the slave trade, and have no other object in resisting the proposed reduction of the duty, but to promote freedom and humanity. All the planters, and those who kept whips and thumbi kins on their estates, as long as possible, who compelled pregnant women to labour at cane hoeing, or at the tread-mill, till they fell ex hausted, and flogged them till they could not stand, will, with a view to mitigate the evils of slavery in the Brazils and Cuba, vote for that resolution many landlords will probably join them. They will vote to keep up the price of sugar, which is so detrimental to the farmers, and they will still call themselves the farmers' only friends. The hypocrisy of politicians, and of all those classes who seek to enrich them selves by protecting or discriminating duties, is truly sickening. An excellent illustration of the fudge habi tually practised was afforded last night by the people of Antigua petitioning, through Dr. Lusn- INGTON, against the introduction of foreign sugar into England. They pray that slave-grown sugar may not be allowed to enter the limits of the British dominions. Will the reader believe that these Antigua people use slave• grown sugar themselves, and use it because it is cheaper than their own growth ? Here is the proof of our assertion. The following passage in. Mr. IWGREGOR'S evidence before the Import Duties Committee has already been quoted. in The Sun : The difference in respect to refined sugar, strictly speaking is likewise intended to protect the refineries in this country , inasmuch as the British colonies are not allowed to refine sugar. They use foreign sugar refined in bond here, Bra zilian and Cuba slave-labour sugar. All the refined sugar used in our sugar colonies is foreign sugar refined in bond, and sent from England. It is sent to the West Indies, to British North America, and to Australia. To all the British colonies, I believe. They are altogether supplied with fo reign sugar, the produce of slave labour, and refined here in bond. All the other colonies, not sugar-producing colonies, are supplied from England. We compel our other colonies to take sugar from us. The refined sugar is all, I believe, from this country. Those colonies confine themselves to use sugar from this country. They have no means of getting refined sugar, unless it be smuggled from the United States. Sugar is allowed to be imported from the sugar-producing colonies to our other colonies, but the difference of price be • tween colonial and foreign sugar being more than 100 per cent. they come here, and consequently vurchase foreign re fined in bond. The produce of slave labour being cheaper, the sugar refiners who have been with me on the subject, have stated that it is all slave-labour sugar that is refined to go to the colonies. That sugar goes to the West India Islands, wh( ra slavery is abolished, and to the North American colo nies, and to our colonies generally. It has always been the practice to supply the American colonies with sugar refined in bond in this country, but not with foreign sugar refined in bond until the last few years. We see by the financial papers published by the House of Commons, that the quantity of sugar exported in 1839 was equal to 573,388 cwts. of raw sugar, and of that, the whole which was not foreign, and therefore was slave-grown, amounted only to 10,470 cwts. Of that foreign and slave-grown sugar so exported, not less than 92,004 cwts. went to our own possessions, and was consumed there at less than half the price whicli our people are allowed to consume sugar which is the pro duce of those possessions. No less than 14,252 cwts. were exported to the West Indies, and in addition to that 333 cwts. were actually exported L•ont Ireland to the West Indies. The planters and the emancipated blacks, the colonists of New- foundland and Canada, may consume slave-grown sugar, but the people of England, who are sup posed to have more money than they know how to spend, must not. The worthy West Indians would send to England, of which market they have a mo nopoly, every particle of sugar they can make or smuggle (for we believe it is by no means uncommon for them to smuggle sugar from Cuba, and ship it to Eng and:as :of their own growth); they them selves use only slave-grown refined sugar, and they actually petition to prevent the people of England from obtaining any portion of the same commodity. All the planters—the GRANTS and the GLADSTONES-will support the prayer of that petition, and will continue to tax, if they be allowed, the people of England, on the pretext of discouraging the use of slave-grown produce. If they can possibly hope to succeed, how they laugh at the prodigious gullibility of the the people. The principle laid down in Lard SA NDON'S re solution, and on which the Antigua people ask us to act, cannot be carried out. It is impossible to distinguish between slave-grown commodities and others. Our own factory children are the most wretched of slaves. The working classes of England are far worse off than the negroes of the West Indies. Cotton, tobacco, coffee, &c., are slave-grown products, which we must and do admit. Nor is it possible to make the political condition of any foreign people, or their political principles, the basis of our taxation. No such absurd principle can be acted on by any Legislature ; yet on that absurd principle, as illilstrated by the Antigua petition and the Antigua practice, the Tories are to resist the reduction of the discriminating duty on suga r. The Tories having little or nothing reasonable to say against the proposed alterations in the bread tax, the sugar tax, and the timber tax, furiously assail the Ministers on account of the time and mode in which they make the proposi tions. Let us say a few words on each branch of these objections. First as to the time. It is said, " Oh, if you contemplated making an alteration of the Corn laws you should have mentioned it in the QUEEN'S speech, and you only do it now because you are defeated on the Irish franchise question, and care not how much trouble you prepare for your successors." Aye, there's the rub. The Corn laws cannot be stigmatized by the Government without making it a very troublesome question for those Ministers who insist on governing ex clusively in behalf of the landocracy and the priesthood. How the proposed measures may affect the country is not for a moment considered by the Tories; how they may affect themselves is a pinching subject. They cry out bitterly be cause they are hurt, and we feel as much plea sure at their wailings as ever a mother felt at the smiles and caresses of her first-born child. But we shall grapple closer with the objection. The Ministers had not made up their minds on the opening of Parliament to meddle with the Corn-laws. Their whole conduct and all their opinions prove their unwillingness to entertain the question. We give them no applause for that, but it is a truth. They supported the bread tax in its present shape as long as possible. They engaged in the plan to change it at length most reluctantly, and after the most overwhelming evidence had been brought before them that it was impossible to maintain the revenue and the Corn-laws. Last year they laid on an addition to all the taxes. What was the result? The revenue was three millions less than it ought to be. Accord ing to Mr. WILSON the new taxes yielded only 97,270/. According to Mr.VILLIEEs they yielded 530,0001.; and, according to Mr. HUME, they caused a decrease of 300,000/. The Ministerial scheme, then, was a complete failure. How were they to make up the revenue ? Even if they had chosen to embrace the alter native of imposing direct taxes, there was no chance that they could have carried them in oppo sition to the landowners. Diminish the expendi ture to any great extent they would not, for the bulk of the empire was demanding more navy, more army, more priests, more commissioners, more laws, more interference, more Government We do not exonerate them from having unneces sarily expended the public resources. As Mr. HUME said, having advocated economy, we have a right to complain of extravagance; but only a small section required frugality, and the great majority of the nation demanded, and the majo rity of the representatives eagerly voted, a mag nificent expenditure. It has been at length found in the months of March and April of the present year, that the revenue lagged most materially behind the ex penditure, and that it was impossible for the in dustry of the nation to answer all the demands made on it by the State, by the landowners, by the sugar planters, by the shipowners, and by the whole brood of what are called protected classes, who live nominally on trade or agricul ture, but really on taxes wrung from the half starved people. This is the exigency which has forced the Ministers most reluctantly to endea vour to improve the revenue, by removing the shackles from industry. They are bound to look to the State, and acting according to their duty, they prefer the State taxes to the landlord's and the planter's taxes. " But why," say the Tories, " did they not know all these things before, ascertain the difficulty in which the State was placed in the month of January when Parliament was opened, and announce it in the QUEEN'S Speech, as well as the intention to get over it by abating the pro tecting duties." The CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQUER has given the answer. It is not yet a twelvemonth since the additional taxes were im posed, and only nine months of the financial year had elapsed on the opening of Parliament. In the first half of the year, according to the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, the new taxes had more than answered his expectations. The great deficiency occurred in the last six months. It was only partially known in January, and fully ascertained at the beginning of April. The CHAN CELLOR and the other Ministers might hope, in January, having seen at times the great elasticity in the resources of the country, that the revenue would recover before the termination of the next quarter; but it did not, and while their ignorance and their hopes naturally kept them silent on the subject in January, their full knowledge, and their thorough conviction, compelled them to speak when they brought forward the Budget. To us these cireumstances seem to afford a full and complete explanation why they did not men tion the Corn-laws in the QUEEN'S Speech, and why they did on the 30th of April. We have long known the ruinous effects of the Corn-laws. The Ministers, unwilling to believe, only became convinced when the starved people, obliged to pay the landlord's tax before they could eat, were unable to pay the taxes of the State, which are humanely levied, comparatively, at least, on something more of a luxury than the staff of lite. A great outcry, however, is made about the propositions being submitted to Parliament on the heels of a defeat. But the day for bring ing on the Budget was appointed before the holi days. It was by no contrivance of the Ministers that they were defeated on the !9th, as the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had to make his explanation on the 30th. He persevered in bringing it forward on the day appointed; if it had been postponed for a week,. the Tories might have well said that the propositions of the Budget were the offspring of disappointment. Those circumstances exculpate the Ministers from the charge made by the Tories. But then it is said, and this relates to the mode, " W by mention the Corn-laws in conjunc tion with revenue V' Why, indeed; because these law:: are the pivot on which the whole prospe lit), of the nation, including the revenue, turns. They explains why there is so great a deficiency, why the Customs and Excise are unproductive, and why it is impossible to add to the taxes on con.3umption. To bring forward a Budget with out mentioning the Corn-law, is omitting the part of HAMLET from the play. The alteration in diem was looked to as a source of fresh life in all the departments of the revenue, indepen dently of the sum expected to be directly derived from the alteration. In those circumstances we see an explanation of the conduct of Minis ters in making their propositions in the mode and at the time they made them. The fierce attack of the Tories is only a proof that they have been deeply wounded by the blow : it re mains for the people to complete the work, and make the Tory wounds terminate in mortification and death. The Paris Journals of Monday have all been received. They are filled with accounts of the celebration of the KING'S fete and the Christen ing of the Count de PARIS, of which ample de tails will be found in another part of The Sun. The infant Count, who is just two years and eight months old, performed his part in the ceremo nies with great good humour. Though there were three Cardinals present at the baptism, the Royal neophyte did not, like Madame JUNOT'S daughter, take a fancy to the head-gear of any of them. He contented himself with affection ately kissing his nurse two or three times, to the edification of sundry husbands, wives, and lovers who were watching his every move ment. Kissing will, therefore, be fashion able in Paris this summer. When the sword was presented the Count said to the Municipality " Merci," (thank you) a " maiden speech which," says the Moniteur, " deeply affected the Metropolitan Municipals." We do not wonder at it. The Parisian Munici_ pals are a tender-hearted race, and a monosylla bic speech so very full of pathos, must have touched them deeply. The Moniteur should have told us that all present were dissolved in tears at such a rare instance of Royal precocity of intellect. The Prefect of Police of course swooned away, and required the attendance of the Court physician, although the Moniteur says nothing about it. The Parisians are above me diocrity in comedy, but in farce they are un rivaled. Their travesties of sentiment are the most laughable things in the world. Take as an instance the following extract, from the address of the Municipality of Paris, read to the KING by the Count DE RAMBETEAU, Prefect of the Seine : What a grand bpeciaele in that cathedral ! The King, the chief of a dynasty, who has saved his country from so many evils, and has done it so much good; the fine tamily, in which every virtue is taught and transmitted by example ; the Prince, on whose brow valour sits radiant over precocious sagacity ; the young mother, whose noble, penetrating, and gracious looks reveal the destiny for which Providence has gifted her ; the Royal infant, bending his young head under celestial grace :—all this, Sire, was holy and beautiful ! It will be easy for him to be just and strong. Happy infant, whose career will have been smoothed by so much wisdom, and who will find so near to him powerful and noble lessons of instruc tion ! Sire, deign to permit the Comte de Paris to accept the sword of the city of Paris, and may this souvenir ever be a pledge of union between the Prince and the city ! A sword a pledge of union ! A pair of tailor's scissors a pledge of the indivisibility of broad cloth ! And then the picture of the Duke of ORLEANS, with " Valour sitting radiant over precocious intellect on his brow !" So the radi ance of valour outshines intellect in the heir apparent. The Duchess too, " whose noble, penetrating, and gracious looks" proclaim her " every inch a Queen," is complimented, not for her virtues but her air of dignity. The " bend ing of the youpg head under celestial grace" is one of those flowers of rhetoric which could only bloom in France. How a really sensible man like Louts PHILIPPE could have listened to such servile twaddle without laughing in the face of the deputation, is only to be accounted for by his proficiency in King-craft. The Prefect of the Seine might study the words of FENELON and Boss urr with advantage. The Opposition Journals are angry with the KING for concealing his route to the Cathedral, and for going in a carriage only drawn by two horses. These Journals ought to be aware that there is no human being without some wealness, and that among those of the KING must be clissed his extreme dislike of being shot at by his loving subjects. Though sometimes reason proof, his MAJESTY is not bullet-proof, and there fore he objects to the Parisian practice of mak ing a target of him on all great State occasions. Nor do we blame the KING for exercising due precaution when he makes his appearance in public. Thq war-faction has shown itself capa ble of attempting murder on a scale less limited than the theatre of Europe. Nor were the dis contented altogether idle on Saturday and. Sun day, as appears from the following extract from the Debatg of Monday : The factious, with that fatal sagacity which never fails them, were perfectly aware of the advantage -to he' -derived at the approach of so important a popular movement, from the melan choly success which they had recently obtained in the presence of justice for a moment blind and impotent. A profusion of copies of this deplorable trial was distributed amongst the peo ple ; they were thrown by thousands into the reading-rooms, coffee-houses, and shops of the metropolis. It was expected at least to irritate the people's minds, if they were not able to ex cite them to acts of violence. " such was the calculation of the factious. The event has proved that it is false. The factious had calculated without eonsi :ering the good sense of the people, who repelled all their insinuations, and treated their calumnies with more justice than the Jurors themselves. There was no shooting, however, because the KING, being the only object upon which a Pari sian mob spends powder and shot, was not visible. Our readers know that the new constitution adopted by the great Council of Lucerne must be approved by the Com mercial Assemblies of that canton on the Ist of May. The Heretic, of the 30th of April, has the following remarks on the subject : " The accounts which we receive this morning from that canton are favourable to the liberal cause. As the day ap proaches which is fixed for the people to vote on the fate of the new constitution deserters become more considerable in the rank., of the Constituante, so that we are almost obliged to doubt whether ultramontane aristocracy or liberalism will triumph in the great struggle that will take place on this oc casion. The Eidgenosse, of Lucerne, says that the new charter will not obtain any vote in the valley called Surenthal, it is pro nounced, says the same journal, that it will be also rejected in the whole of the Wiggerthal, and in several communes in the district of Willisau, and at Eschenback, Munster, &c. This sudden revolution in the minds of part of the people has arisen because the ultramontane aristocrats have not kept fair premises when they set about the work of revising the Constitution. They have betrayed here and there a tendency to reaction by relieving the convents from the principal bur dens by requiring the payment of a certain amount of taxes as a qualification for admission to the discussion in the Com munes, and by neglecting to lighten the burdens of the payers of tithes.— Le Commerce. PA Ras, MA Y 2.—The Duke of Orleans has transmitted to the Archbishop 10,000 francs, to be distributed among the parents of poor children who shall be brought for baptism to-dly, tomor row, and the day after, in the several parishes of Paris.—Le Constitutionnel. BOURSE.—PARIS, FRIDAY, MAY 3. - first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricy. Price Fre ch 5 per Cents ll3 75 ... 113 75 ... 113 65 ... 113 70 4 per Cents 99 20 ... 99 20 ... 99 20 .. 99 20 3 per Cents 79 40 —. %9 45 ... 79 35 ... 19 30 dank of ' , ranee .... ....... tseigian Rank 1841.... 5 per Cents. New Loan ...... ipanish Active :4% ... 24% ... '..4 1 ,4 _... 243„ Passive 5% ... 5% ... 5% ... 5% Neapolitan Roman • • )7 • • 4 0' . ' . i;• --t' vi th or bt c,t.'4. , * • a • , Ik - A , ti • - Un. 'N'r ; :i 7,• TRE SUN, LONDON, THITRSDAY, MAY 6. 1841 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailimit. B .....— 262 50 ... 265 ... 362 LO ...,365 L.B. 23:3 ... 235 ... 135 ~.-',35' leuon 455 ... 457 50 ... 455 ... 45 7 50 Orit.m. .. 483 757... 48. 75 ... 487650 '... 4b7 51 Btneburg to HMV 538 7. ... £3B 75 ... 237 50 .. 237 50 DUTCH FUNDS.—AmeTEEDAit, MAT 3. Money. 1..1115. ictual Dabt, 234 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. A Inca t Svndic, 4 4 per cent 9u4 91 Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. 74 7434 Commercial Company, 4% per cent 165% IGO Ditto (1515 and 1837) 5 per cent. ...... Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 97 97% Exchange on London, One month.... Two months ,. 11 914 Dutch Papers, May 4. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vienns, Aram 21 five per Cents. Metalliques • lti74 Four per Cents. Three par Cents. Bank Shams 1(60 Allgetneine Zeitung, April 29 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, APRIL SO. Bills. Money, St. Schuld. Sch., 44 per cent. lO4 : Mr% Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 1013,E 101 lixchange on London, three months 0 21 —Prussian State Gazette. May 1. Madrid Journals of the 7th ult. announce that the Regency has removed the Bishop of Pain peluna from his See, for publishing a pastoral ad dress in favour of the Papal Allocution. This is going the right way to work. A few such re movals will set at rest the scruples of the Prelacy. Bishops are not the stuff of which to make mar tyrs. There is no news in these papers of the least interest. The Regency question is still pending. The Fives had risen on the 27th to 271 for cash. Summonses were issued on Tuesday to the Ministers to attend a Cabinet Council this evening, at the Foreign-office. Viscount Mel bourne will come from Windsor Castle to attend the Cabinet. NEWS FROM CHINA We have received the following intelligence in anticipation of the Overland Mail from India : The Indian Mail has arrived in town, bringing dates from China to the 12th February, Calcutta to the 2:2d March, and Bombay to the Ist April. The intelligence so received is not satisfactory. The Chinese Chief Commissioner Keshen, in his in terview with Captain Elliot, evinced an intention to procrastinate, which, added to a report that warlike orders had been received from Pekin, produced an impression that hostilities must be renewed. The accounts from India are also of an unsatis factory character. In Scinde and Affghanistan considerable ferment prevailed. The fort of Kajuck was unsuccessfully attacked by our troops on the 20th of February. Colonel Wilson was mortally wounded, Lieut. Falconer killed, and Lieutenants Shaw and Farquharson wounded. In an engagement between some troops of the Bengal establishment and a tribe of Khybenries the latter were defeated; but two European officers, Capt. Douglas and Lieut. Pigou, of the Bengal Engineers, were killed. It was believed that the Persians meditated another attack upon Herat. Lahore was still the scene of riot and blood shed. Shere Sing was still the nominal King of the Punjaub ; but the state of that unfortu nate country was deplorable, and forbade all hope of its being early arranged. The Levant correspondence which has come to hand with the foregoing contains no news of im portance. Our Alexandrian letters of the 2.2 d of April state that the reply of the Sultan to the last remonstrance of Mehemet Ali had not yet been received.—Times. COALS, CINDERS, AND CULM. The following, from a return made to the House of Commons, are the quantities of coal, cinders, and culm, exported from the United Kingdom to foreign countries, with the amount of duties received : Coals, 1,592,283 tons; Cinders, 13,783 tons Cults, 247 tons; and the total duty, 6,978/ About one-fourth of the coals are sent to France In 1839, 2,625,323 tons of coals were brought coastwise to the port of London, and 12,933 tons by inland navigation. In 1840 the quantities respectively were 0 ,566,899, and 22,188, waking.. a total for each year of 2,638, 256 and 2 ,589,087 tons, brought to London. Haivey is sp o k en o f as likeWilyr; Daniel el prop Comptroller, w hich will at th e next C ourt of C ommon Council be declar ed vaca nt. Many of the influential men of the City are said t o be an xious that Mr. Harvey should hold aos N e V d i a t s itt a le candidate for the o ffi ce of City a situation in which his talents, as a Member of Parlia ment, might be rendered serviceable to the Corporation. The exuberant profits of the Comptrollership will be lopped in the Committee of Clerks and Officers, so that the competition for the office will not be so great as was at first expected. It has also been said that Mr. Tyrrell, the present Remembrances, will be appointed Comptroller, and that Mr. Harvey will be elected to the situation of Remembraacer, whose duty it is to attend Parliament, so that if the latter. appointment should take place, Mr. Harvey may act in .a double capacity for the Corporation in the House of Commons. -- ------ -- Concert on Friday, the 7th May, in the Con- Miss Charnbets,, we perceive, intends giving a Majesty's Theatre. As it is announced to vocal and instrumental performers are all bece Grand rut nd Roome A r Morning the oe n f i ng her immediate patronage of the Queen and her Royal c h e e llence, we have no doubt that the Concert will Trade in Birmingham is very bad, hionably attended. bofe Mother, fifurisltyraa a nt n de d ef a sx t -- nt prospect of amendment. To the stagna tionmerican market is now added a stagnation withT aßaAppreEs.e ne ihe an c d om th f e ort m o o f of the Cuntinent. The weather has during intbe in m th a e rke A ts e w n it r h em co a l r d k and ably hunger. —Birmingham Journal. narily warm. We have thu sfi renotthbaeninogrdai; THE LATE BISHOP OF WORCESTER.—The mortal remains of the above venerable prelate were in tohnec ewee week starved 131 in terred in the family vault at Hartlebury. on Monday last. The funeral was strictly private. The shops were gene. rally closed, out of respect to the memory of tbp diocesan. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. ( From The Sun of Last Night. ) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MaY 4.—There is a con tinued depression in the Cotton trade, and all the business transacted this day amounts to about 1,000 bales only to the trade. In prices there is no alteration to report since Friday's quotations. - LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MAY 4.—At the Stock Ex change this day we have had a tendency to decline in price, the transactions reported are as follows. Edinburgh and Glasgow. 37*; Grand Junction, 209; Great Western, 941 1 ; London and Birmingham old one, third shares, 54 ; Midland Counties, 89; North Midland, 76j. Nothing to report. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 4.—A fair busi ness has been done to-day, but no improvement in prices : Manchester and Birmingham, 25j 25i; Manchester and Leeds, 55 ; Ditto, Halves, 22j ; London and Birmingham, 162; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 11j ; Manches ter and Salford Bank, 10 ; South Lancashire Bank, 5 6 3 ex. div. ; Manchester and Salford Water Works, 53g. The fears of some of the undeniriters at Lloyd's has much increased in resßeAto the safety of the President steamer, and the in consequence has ri,en to ninety guineas. Accounts from Brest of the 28th of April state that the frigate L'Erigone has sailed the Chinese seas, having on board five Catholic Missionaries, and also a commercial agent. The absence of the above frigate will be at least for two years. Accounts have been received, in eight days, from Tampico, at New York. stating that the authorities there were daily in expectation of an outbreak of the Federalists in that city. Se veral arrests had taken place of individuals for speaking freely against the conduct of the Government. The streets were pro tected by cannon, and great anxiety existed at Tampico. The British Funds opened this morning rather flat. Con;ols which left off yesterday at 891 for the Account, may be quoted at 894 1; and 89# 3 for Money, with nothing doing as yet. Ihe speculators and monied interest, as well as the merchants, are looking towards Friday next for Lord John Russell's ex planation in respect to the duty he intends to fix on foreign corn. In the interim it causes a general stagnation in all com mercial speculations. We hear that orders have been sent al ready to the Continent:to purchase corn, fearing that a rise will take place there in that article. Exchequer Bills 8 10 preen ; Bank Stock 165 167 ; India Stock 251 253 ; India Bonds 2 4 prem. In the Foreign Market Spanish is the chief speculation this morning, left off 23% 3; at present 23 1 A ; this improvement may be attributed to the mixed commission being approved of without any discussion of consequence ; Deferred 123 # ; Pas sive 5# 3 ; Portuguese a shade better, left off 333 344 ; at pre sent 343 ; Three per Cents., 203 ; Brazilian, 681 693 ; Co lombian, 22 1 4 3; Mexican, 233 29; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 523 3 ; Five per Cents. 993. SHAltES.—Great Western 29 30 prem. ; New 14 1 ,4 15 ; prem. ; London and Brighton 2# 3 dis. ; Blackwall 6i 53 dis. ; Birmingham 71 73 prem. ; Southampton 58 59 per share ; Croydon 131 143 per share ; Greenwich 8} 3 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham 153 15 dis. The Dutch mail has arrived. Prices at Amsterdam, May 3, Two•and-a- Half per Cents., 51 13-16; Five per Cents., 994. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto New Ditto Fifths London and Brighton London and South Western 3Bj 5 81..... to 58 Manchester and Leeds ... 70 Manchester and Birmingham 40 North Midland York and North Midland... 5O Ditto New Shares lO - JOINT STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster . ... .. 20 Ditto New We have an exceeding dull morning both for arrivals and in telligence, consequently, we have not a feature of any import ance to communicate to the present time. . . . The British Funds continue inactive, so little business is doing that several of the Members have left town. Consols are at present 89,1 I for the Account ; have been 89i ; Money, 88# j ; Bank Stock, 165 k; India Bonds, 3 prem. ; Exchequer Bills, 8 10 prem. In the Foreign Market nothing doing except in Spanish Ac tive, which may be quoted at 23# 4 ; Portuguese, nothing done; Belgian, 101 ; Colombian, 22* ; Mexican, 29 ; Dutch Five per Cents., 99#. Shares.—Great Western, New, 64 ; Fifths, 111 I ; Lon don and Brighton, 47k k ; South Western, 58* 58; Manches ter and Leeds, 56* ; Manchester and Birmingham, 25; North Midland, 89 ; York and North Midland New Shares, 23. It is reported that the West India merchants have resolved, in the event of the Sugar Duties' Bill passing the House, to refuse acceptance of all drafts drawn from the sugar estates. Consols, Account, 89i 90; Mexican, 28* 29 ; Portuguese, 34k ; Spanish, 23# a. Very little doing; prices firm. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank SI ock ... 165 i 3 per Cent Red ... 88A 3 per Cent Cons B9l ai per Cent Red 97 New 34 per Cent 94 New 5 per Cent — Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 l2 11.16 Oct 1859 l2& Jan.llB6o. 124 FOREIGN India Stock 2501 Ditto Bonds 3 pai Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities — Ex. Bills, 1,000/....20 10 pin Ditto , 5001 lO pm Ditto Small lO pm Bank Stock for Acct — India Stock for Opg. Consols for Acct ti94 FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto 341 Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 per cent 1 l3i Ditto, Metallic .. Spanish, 5 per cent 23 Ditto, Deferred ... French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Exchange —l. c. French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 51i Ditto, 5 per cent 99 Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent lOl Brazilian Bonds. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 per cent 22i Ditto, 1824 ..... Danish, 3 per cent Greek, 1845, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent 29 Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct — SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) . . ... .. 37/ Great Western Railway (65 paid) 94 Ditto New Shares (50 paid 64k Ditto Fifth (4 paid) . 11/ London and Brighton (50 paid).. London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 19 London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 164 Ditto Quarter Shares (5 paid) Ditto Thirds (32 paid) Ditto New Shares ( 2:paid) 25 London and South Western London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l4 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ... .... se* Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ...... 25k COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Al bert rode eut this afternoon in a pony phaeton, into the Great Park and Forest, his Royal Highness driving, ac. companied by the Prince of Leiningen, and attended by the whole of the Royal Suite, in carriages and on horse. back. ......_. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken for her accustomed airing to-day. His Excellency Baron Bulow took leave this morning. Lady Barham has also taken her departure from tte Castle. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anne Maria Dawson, drove out to-day in a pony carriage. Viscount Melbourne arrived last night on a visit to ber Majesty, and returns to town to-morrow (this day). His Excellency Baron Bulow, the Prusian Minister, returned to town yesterday, from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. A deputation from the Coroners of England and Wales, consisting of Mr. Todd, Coroner for Hants; Mr. Churls. ley, Coroner for Bucks; Mr. Shebbeare, Coroner for Hants ; Mr. Westell, Coroner for Oxfordshire ; Mr. Lewis, Coroner for Essex ; Mr. Carttar, Cormier for Kent ; Mr. S 'corder, Coroner for Hertfordshire ; Mr. Barnett, Coroner for Gloucestershire; Mr. Lanwarne, Coroner for Herefordshire; and Messrs. Wakley, M.P.. and Baker, Coroners for Middlesex, had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Major M'Namara, M.P., Mr. Ward, and Mr. Adair, had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Home-office. The Commander of the Forces had an interview yester, day with Lord John Russell, at the Colonial-office. How THE NOBILITY ARE TREATED IN PRUSSIA.—Bantti, APRIL 20.—Letter addressed to the Franconian Courier :—Several Journals have given very inaccurate accounts of the manner in which the affair of the Archbishop of Cologne has been settled by Count Clement of Westphalia. The real facts are as follow. The Count of Westphalia did not come hither with a mission of the Members of the Estates, but of his own accord; neither is his audience with the King immediately connected with the discussion of the Westphalian Diet. The Diet, there fore, could take no notice of the result of it, and the Count on his side has not again showed himself in the Assembly in which be has a vote. The memorial which he pre sented to the King dilates on the well-known occurencee, and after the removal of the Archbishop of Cologne, and concludes with the petition, " That the Archbishop Cle menti Augustus and his Chaplain, Michel, may be restored to the enjoyment of entire liberty, and the former thereby enabled to resume his crosier." Very incorrect accounts have bean given in the Journals both of the memorial of Count Westphalia and of his Majesty's decision on it. I, therefore, send you his Majesty's Cabinet order; it is as follows When on your arrival here, and your stating that you had some important communication to make to me, I granted you the audience for which you applied. I had only a general knowledge of a proposal respecting the Archbishop of Cologne, which had been brought for ward in the Westphalian Diet, and respecting which I ex ' pressed on your reception my serious displeasure. N ow that I have acquired a more specific knowledge of this proposal, which you presented to me yourself, and have likewise been made acquainted with the discussions in the Diet respecting it, I shall confine myself in announcing to you the declaration, that the Westphalian Diet by its ex pressed disapprobation of your illegal and disrespectful proposal, proved, as I could not but expect from it, its loyal and dutiful sentiments, and thereby treated you as you justly deserved. I now enjoin you to return to Munster, whither your duty as a member of the Diet calls, since you have no more busines to do here,—../ k FRCDERICK WILLIAM.—BerIin, April 1, 1841 ."—Allgemeine Zeitung, April 30. TORY DOlNGS.—According to Sir Richard Phillips's " Million of Facts," the Tory Government, be tween 1795 and 1826, i.e., in 34 years, raised, by all its means of taxes and loans, 2,476,334,2161., or above 72 millions per annum ; and it expended, in the same period, 2,422,665,240/. Of these enormous sums, the customs yielded 3091 millions, the excise 6881 millions, the assesse d and property taxes 368, the stamps 1651, the post-office 39i, lotteries nearly 11, loans and funding 722. Of the enormous expenses, the interest of the debt absorbed sq millions, the army 598, the navy 4221, the ordnance 95, direct subsidies for allies 55, the sinking fund 3181, losses by Exchequer Bills, &c., 57. It far exceeded, in less than a generation, the total of all the taxes and, public expenses in 1,000 year?, or from the reign of Egbert, the first King of England, in 627, down to 1826. In the reign of Henry V., the taxes were but 1,100/. per week ' • in that of Cromwell, 29,000/.; at the revolution, 39,0001. ; in the reign of George 11., 150,000/. ; and in 1833 nearly 1,000,0001 , or 1,000 times ptore than in the feigns of Hear? , V. and YI, LITERATURE. BRITISH AND FOREIGN REVIEW. • No. XXIII. Taylor, London, 1841. There are usually some able statistic articles in this/periodical, which, indeed, constitutes its chief recommendations with the public. In the Nninber now lying before us there is an admir ablb one on " Russia, her Commercial Position, anti Prospects," wherein, after entering at con siderable length into the subject of the home and foreign trade of this gigantic Power, the :writer closes his remarks by observing:_ " To us, it does not appear a difficult under taking, notwithstanding the difference of soil and climate, to call up a city equal in wealth and ex tent to Calcutta, on the banks of Lake Baikal, and to make-Orenburg or Astrachan rival Bom bay or Madras. The only talisman we should seek, would be the eradication of the Russian police, a body no less inimical to the progress of civilization than the Strelitzes or Janis saries of former days, and the conversion of the Minister of Finance to the opi nion that the sum of the items of national trade, and not their difference, forms the true object to which a statesman ought to direct his attention—in other words, that the prosperity of a country can be much more correctly estimated according to the extent of its trade, than accord ing, to its apparent balance." In the critical notice of " Poems by the - Reverend R. C. Trench," the Reviewer, alluding incidentally to Wordsworth, expresses it as his opinion, that " he has imparted to the age the reflective cha racter of his own genius." We cannot hold with this assertion, for certainly modern poetry is not remarkable for development of thought; in the generality of instances it is as superficial as can well be, and therefore diametrically opposed to the tendency of Wordsworth's genius. W e admit, however, that Mr. Trench is one of his most suc cessful imitators, and possesses something of a kindred spirit. " Combo's Constitution" is an un favourable criticism on a work that has recently at tracted no ordinary share of'public attention. The Reviewer insists that Mr. Combe has performed his task in a very imperfect manner; that " his production is shallow," and is of " an injurious tendency." How this may be, we know not, as we do not happen to have read the work in question. The article entitled " Finance," contains some shrewd, practical remarks on the subject of a sinking fund, of which the Re viewer approves, adding— "We are clearly of opinion that Mr. Pitt's principle of 17972 ought to be followed up ; and that a sinking fund to redeem the debt within forty-five years, as well as the interest of the loan, ought to be provided by additional taxes. Perhaps if the state of the country should admit of it, it might be better to have a sinking fund sufficient to re deem the debt in forty-five years, without accu mulation ; this would require something less than two and a quarter per cent. This fund, like the former, would be applicable to the expenses of the war ; but after its termination, would be ap plied to the redemption of debt." " Italian Narrative Poetry " is sufficiently explained by its title. Its greatest defect is, that the subject— no very prolific one—has been discussed over and over again, usque ad nauseam. " Anglo- Saxon Laws and Institutes" add little to the in formation which we have already obtained, through the medium of Sharon Turner's history. POLYTECHNIC JOURNAL. A serviceable Monthly Miscellany, well suited to the taste of the day, its object being to further theinterests, by timely and temperate, discus sion, of art, science, and. general literature. The best essay in the Number before us is one on the subject of" Malaria," which is the production of the author of the " Anatomy of Suicide." SPORTING REVIEW. Contains this month, a remarkably spirited portrait, engraved by Hall, from an original picture, of the Flying Childers; and a plan of the Hippodrome Race-course. in the literary department we find - a lively sketch, entitled " The Westminster Boy," from the pen of Lord William Lennox ; and some appropriate remarks on the " Preservation of Game," by the Hon. Grantley Berkeley, who exhibits here to greater advantage than in his capacity of novelist. COLONIAL MAGAZINE. There are several intelligent articles in this Number, and among them we may notice the one which is devoted to a consideration of the " China Expedition," wherein the writer justly observes :—" The results of the expedition will teach the nation a wholesome moral lesson, not to rely too much on physical force for the at tainment of great national requirements ; not to undervalue any people merely because we are their superiors in courage; but, above all, it de monstrates the vast superiority of mind over mat ter. In fighting the British have in China been invariably victorious ; in diplomacy they have been as invariably worsted; and the conditions of a peace have been agreed to, which do not even achieve the objects which Lord J. Russell stated in the House of Commons, the expedition had in view." "Western Australia" is an apparently impartial account of this new and rapidly in creasing settlement. MOIL T.HLY LAW MAGAZINE. The important question of " Medical Re form," which is slowly, but surely, growing on public attention, is ably discussed in this N um ber ; and the oppressive conduct of the College of Surgeons towards the members of the medi cal profession generally, freely and boldly de nounced. "It will scarcely be believed," says the writer, " that the members of the College had not, till of late years, free access to the museum and library, that the access to the museum is still subject to restrictions, and that they cannot even procure the loan of a book from a library purchased by their own money." Surely reform is much needed here ! The " Law of Libel" is a brief notice of Mr. O'Con nell's Bill to secure the " Liberty of the Press," which, it may be remembered, was brought into Parliament in 1837. The introductory remarks on libel are pertinent and judicious. KNIGHT' S PICTORIAL SHAKSPEARE. PIRT XXXII. Knight, London, 1841. In this Part we have the entire play of the " Tempest," illustrated with plates, pourtraying some of the most striking incidents in each act. In a brief introductory notice, occur some inge nious speculations on the subject of the chrono logy of this noble drama. TYTLER'S HISTORY OF SCOTLAND. VOL. I. Tait, Edinburgh, 1841. This is a reprint, in small octavo, ,of Ty-tler's History of Scotland,—a carefully digested work, valuable for its strictly accurate character, and the frequent errors which it rectifies of preceding historians. Having noticed the work from time to time, as the successive volumes appeared, we shall on the present occasion content ourselves with observing that the reprint before us is neatly got up; is of most commodious size for one's book shelf; and has the additional recommenda tion of cheapness. CANADIAN SCENERY P ART XIV. Virtue, London, 1841. --- The present Part contains four engravings, re presenting some of the most beautiful landscape scenery in the Canadas. The best, or, at any rate, the most picturesque, of them, is the sketch of the " Lake of a Thousand Isles," which might almost be mistaken for a scene in fairy land. The lite rary part of the work is under the superintend ence of Mi. Willis, who is an industrious hook manufacturer. ENGLISH JOURNAL—PART IV. Row and Parsons, London,lB4l. A cheap weekly Miscellany, in which we find original tales, essays, and sketches of character, by some of our most popular living authors. In this Part, which is the fourth, there is an amus ing tale by Mrs. Hall, entitled " Kate Connor," and some ingenious observations on " The Philo sophy of Shopping," by Mrs. Alaric Watts. WESTERN'S COMMENTARIES ON THE CONSTITUTION, 6.c. ;Richards, London, 1841. As we anticipated in a former notice, this work has reached a third edition. It was one much wanted, and has been executed with a diligence and ability that leaves nothing to be desired. Mr. Western, the author, has judiciously incor porated the text of De Lolme—the best analyti cal commentator on the English Constitution — with the work, and made several useful additions relating to recent Acts of Parliament. His mode of arrangement is excellent ; hi s m anner is clear and concise ; and his matter is such only as has an immediate and direct bearing on the sub ject. It is greatly to Mr. Western's credit, that he has avoided giving a decided political charac ter to his work. There is not the slightest indi cation of partizanship in it. We may add that his sense of humanity has induced the author to express himself in opposition to the principle of imprisonment for debt, and the infliction of capi tal punishments THE PA STUN LETTERS—VoI. 2, irnight, London, 1841.. The first volume of this work ikppeared a short time since, and the present one completes it. It is a collection of original letters written during the *Tim of Henry the Sixth Edward the :WO) and Rick rd tilt Third, chiefly by Sir MORN'IN'Cr Er.DITY John Paston and the members of his family, and containing many._ curious anecdotes relamg to those turbulent aa d_ sanguinary peri o d s o f our history. The work was originally edited by Sir John Fenn; but the present edition, in which some of the more unimportant letters • are abridged, is brought out under the . careful super intendence of Mr. Ramsay. ARAGO'S LECTURES ON ASPRONQMY. Whittaker, London, 1841. A translation, by Mr. Walter Kelly, of a series of Astronomical Lectures that were ori ginally delivered, by M. Ara.go at the Royal Observatory of Paris. The translation forms one of the Numbers of the " Popular Library, of Modern Authors," and has been rendered' with laudable accuracy. THE WEATHER.—NOON, MAY 5. ROYAI, GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Barometer Thermometer ...60 I Highest 70 I Lowest ..... 50 Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg, A LETTER TO LOHDIfISCOUNT DUNCANNON. MY Lunn.—While I admit the right of the public to the land purchased with the public money to lorm the Regent's Park, I cannot but lament that your Lordship does no: appear to feel the absolute necessity of affording, and that at the earliest toomett, to the public large spaces of land at the eastern end of Lon don. Your Lordship has stated in your pace in Parlia ment, that it is difficult to procure land suitable for the purpose, and the object of this ►etter is to show that no such difficulty in reality exists, but that unless messures are taken forthwith the difficulty will be increased ten fold, in consequence of the building mania, by the nest Session. Lest it may be said that I am an interested *liter, I do not suggest any site for the proposei Eastern Park. I merely inform your Lordship of open land which I am cognizant of in the locality, leaving it to your Lord. ship to say which will benefit the district most. LIST OF LAND NOT BUILT OK IN TOWER HAMLETS. ACRIM. Bishop Bonner's Field and adjoining land Cat and Mutton Field, &c. 5O Behind Pritchard's-place, near the above . 5 `Hutford-road, Hoxford Land extending to Mile End from Green-street, par sing the Devonshire-street Station of the Eastern Counties Railway, and extending eastward, form ing► an entrance to the Park, opposite Crown-row, Mile End-read 220 Land near Bethnal Green-road 8 Land behind the present Workhouse, Bethnal Green 5 Land opposite and near Green-place, Green -street... l 4 Various portions of land under five acres Total 437 Thus you perceive, my Lord, there is land; and I have only to implore your Lordship to pause deeply ere you decide upon taking upon youtselt the responsibility of delaying this measure of justice to the poor artizan of the Tower Hamlets for another Session. I am, my Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient servant, A RESIDENT OF THE TOWER HAMLETS SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CHESTER RACES.--TVESDAY. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas, fot 3 yrs old, Tat 21b, 4 yrt, 9st 21b; 5 yrs, 10se ; 6 yrs and aged, 10.: 51b. Twiee round, rather more than 3 miles. Mr. B. Minor's b h Clation, 5 yrs (Darling) 1 Mr. Gray don's br h Rosetta, 5 yrs 2 to 1 on Clarion, who won by nearly a length. Two-yrs old Sweepstakes of 25 sous. each; colts, Bst bibs; fillies, Bst 21bs. Half a mile. (9 Subs.) Mr. F. R. Price's br. f. Marion (Cartwright) 1 Sir T. Stasley's brother to Susanetta ........ ......... 2 Mr. J. o.born's Gipsy Queen 3 The following also started, but were not placed : Marquis of Westminster's Hookah ; Mr. Worthington's be. f. byMuley Moloch d, by Blaekloek, and Mr. Alostyn's Boreal. Betting.--2 to 1 tgst Marion (t) ;3to 1 agst Brother to Suianctta (I); 7to 2 agst Boreas (t) ; 4 to 1 agst Hookah ; and 5 to 1 agst Gipsey Queen. A fine race. Won by a length. The City Members' Plate of 60 guineas; for three yes old; colts, 6st 101 b, and fillies, Est 71b. —four yrs old. colts, Bst 61b, and fillies, Bst 31b. Heats, once round and a distance. Mr. M. Jones's gr c Portrait, 3 yrs (Howlett) 1 1 Mr. Peel's b c Bugle, 3 yrs Mr, Meiklam's Ll c Bushranger, 4 yrs Mr, J. Osborne's cis g The Emperor, 3 yrs Betting -6 to 4on Portrait, 2to 1 agst Bugle (taken), and 4to 1 agst Bushranger. Won by two lengths. - • EGLINTON-PARK STEEPLE CHASES—FRIDAY. Sweepstakes of 15 soya. each, 10 ft, with 100 added, 13st 7lb each. Four miles. Sir D. Baird's Pioneer (Owner) I Lord Eglinton's Mattoon in Parvo 2 The following also started :—Lord Waterford's Saladin, Lord Saltoun's Uncle Dick, Mr. Alexander's Roulette, Mr. Gilmour's Ceoturion, and Mr. Ramsay's the Gaudy Ch:ef. Won by half a neck. Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft. with 100 adeed, 12st each. Four miles. Mr. W. Campbell named Ashton...(Capt. Campbell) I Lord Waterford's Manilla.. Muhum in Parvo, Pionker, and two others were not placed. Saturday.—The Military Chase was won by Helen, beating several others, and the Handicap by Mr. H. John_ stone's The Returned (owner), beating Manila and four or five others, after a fine race. At the meeting of Magistrates at the Town Hall, Croydon, on Monday, Inspector Collier, of the P division, applied to the Bench to issue notices, requiring the inhabitants to keep their dogs properly secured, in order to prevent mischief from canine madness or other wise. The Inspector stated that complaints had been madeto the Commissioners of the number of dogs that were suffered to be about the streets loose ; and a day or two previous a child had been bitten as it was walking in the High-street. The Chairman said that it was very neces sary the public should he protected, and he at the same time observed that as he was returning home from the Bench a feN days before, he was attacked by a dog, and very narrowly escaped from being bitten. • He expressed hit opinion, however, that the Commissioners were em pose ered • under the Police Act, to take more active and effectual proceedings than the Magistrates could under the Croydon Local Act. The clerk to the Bench then read the clause of the Metropolitan Police Act, by which constables belonging to the force were authorised to destroy any dog that might reasonably be supposed to be in a rabid state, or to have been bitten by any other dog in a rabid state. The Inspector said there might be difficulties in the way of carrying this clause into execution, but by the Croydon Local Act, any owner of a dog who suffered it to be loose about the street after a notice to the contrary being given by the Magistrates, would be liable to a penalty of 5/.,, and if this acre to be put in force, it would, in all probete bility, have the desired effect. The Bench said it was al.- sotutely necessary that some steps should be taken for the protection of the public, and they gave the necessary in structiona for the issue of notices, with the understanding that the law would be put strictly in force against all per. sons who offended. THE SHERIFF OF LONDON AND THE SHE RIFF OF MIDDLESEX FOR TILE ENSUING YEAR.—Tbe Lord. Mayor, pursuant to ancient custom, nominated to the Court of Aldermen, on Tuesday, the following gentle men to be put in nomination to the Livery of each Core pany on Midsummer Day next, as fit and proper persons to serve the offices of Sher.ff of London and Sheriff of Middlesex, viz. : —Alexander Rogers, Esq., citizen, and spectacle- maker ; Henry Plumptre Gipps, Esq , citizen, and spectacle-maker; George Thomas Nicholson ' Esq-, citizen, and fishmonger ; and William Simpson Potter, Esq., citizen, and paiten-maker. Alderman Magnay sad Mr. Rogers will be elected without contest. The workmen in excavating for part of the site of the new Exchange have found several Roman a"ti quities ou the site of a large pond 50 feet icings 34 feet wide, and 13 feet deep. Amongst these i w q a u r it o, ies oses are . bones and the - a Roman wall and pedestal, articles of potte a r n y t and glass vessels, lamps, coins, styles writing, and a striget, such as had been used in the baths and 'Tablets for Cambridge Houle. of Pompeii. The latter is perfect. Sheep Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of C am _ te:Zncaevaatainodnsh.orns of stags have also been discovered in the bridge and the Princesses Augusta and Mary, att r 4 id by 13e, rein Knesebeck and the Hon. Miss ikerr , . will embark at C u ,. wafting on that day. The Countess of Islrownlo: _s e grand ball on l A a i son Government llaY s next ieam fo e steamer e d en to ro be ute 'li nt'azil Tuesday next, is given in e elel: J a a t t l i w o fth i D s o o r v d e e r : Catherine Cu of her Lady ship's second daughter, Lady. ' who Wig pre awang-room on the 22d ult. sented at her Majesty's B uck . The Duke of Angh . am gave orders that a nd enchanting Stowe and its spacious to the public o a pleasure -grounds sheol¢ be opened for the sea.). b l yke Acl id ni"daY fit. Sir Thomas . al , .Bart., I\l P If • •, I t the close of the . last week for Killerton PaA, D iya town at Princes were to where the Ashant l e outh ha v e arrived on Satu7da; from visiting the . 371:11 and D evonport doek,yodo. The bark in a few days for India. Princes em EXTE NSION OF VACCINATION.. On n account of the attention directed to vaccination, by the Aet of la Session, the increase in the applicati both for v • 4 lion and the vaccine virus at the Royal on j s enn . n a d ci3l . , don Vaccine Institution has been threefold. eiTiahneaMedir. al Director has vaccinated one thousand five hundred and t more children thi s year, from January Ist to Marc h Tb than he vaccinat e d f rom and t Vatil) o the same dates last year. The new railway carriages are intended to combine the pleasantness of an open with the comforts of a closed earriage, Ile object is accomplished by - • covering thew. ries, i „e. either wholly or in part , wi th cloth, or net,of a texture sufficiently close to break the force of the wind, and destroy the violence of the currents produced by sapid motion through it; and also to impede the entrance of the particles a coke dust emitted by the locomotive engine chimnoy, and yet not materially to ob struct the view of external objects, The wire gauze re- commended it of copper wires, I.looth - of- aninch in dia. meter,woven with 30 wirer to the inch.—Mamelester . Paper. It has been decided by the Directors of the London and Exigkton Railway to open twenty.miles of the. line, from London to Haywavd'a H eath, in Jane. The vtlaokt work will be completed net opened to the mink in August., ATTORNEYS.—No fewer than 10 gentlemen have g i ve n notice of their intention to appl ‘ y to be admit ted attorneys of the Court of .. Qttee4,Beach on the last day of the present term. ~ .