The Sun. — London, England, 1841-06-22 00:00:00

1 1.1 V ID 4 , „ L AT . I ( s Pr e°4l at ,(14‘' 1. Pay V. pi .: ,ce in I` , . 3V( mber, and has to u 'Kes and buy all h e nee d s th roug h . the ner at a 11;_gh price. This is the nature of it por under tie present right of p ro p er ty ; and til er is out (listinctly the disadvantage the far iles'andser, in relation to the monied capital me of the pecuniary engage clue, the former must fulfil about Mi- On . s, TY e d o n'at complain of this compulsion on the o ne °f t° ;on the contrary, we regard t tit as f aose conditio ns w hich arise' in so,..dety, Iti s d : it being planned or designed by 'Amman th e 41, wltich are extremely beneficial, Unless plll,glieulturist, in consequence of Es pecuniary t tn 4t i° l ls, and in c onseT ience of the great ad tturces he has made, and the debts he has in -170.4r, compelled, to sell his produce, 1w u• be able to withl - sold food from the people, wi ii st arve all other &asses into submission to his 4, 4 If the bulk of th e agr i cu lt ur i s ts, instead of 0 ,„ ) , f1 a nothin g at Midsumme.r, had then in their I ,'" e possession th e w h o l e o f t ' le crops , if t h ey cou ld i )tirt 'Or more than one year, without selling any de,„ °f t heir produce, th ci lives of the rest of bt:attnunity would be t - et their mercy. The in ti, e ' 3, therefore, of the agriculturists, which Gq : i t . general con di t i o n as t h e h arves t comes a aii( re fact th at t h e w l mole o f t h e crops , as th e y °II the ground, an d are g athered into their to th 's) th ough in their 'possession do not belong kts em ' keeps them .3epend.ent on others, and ti )lit. " ll end to their m onoivoly of the food of the the d“ 11 1itY• We have nr,w to apply the fact of tg t i ' i l ie ndence and g eneral indebtedness of the , illn s t i llitu rists to th e r es t o f the community to -Ite the inkn lidsi ie as effects which the Corn ',on them. pr o "".. e is t called on to : pay a higher rent;" " he I n : I I ° pay tw enty or thirty percent. more that — q u eeee of some late high prices." By a mount his obligations and his depen ofe: a re cert a ' I n v en h an ced. The high price thin n has an it Ifitience over the price of all the itte r ,: le Pure oases, including seed corn, &c., btf o l p -- i ! a ses ..ds indebtedness to the shopkeepe r 1 44 1 n- " 4 , 18 e' .ops are gathered. The enhance hers ; !'a d his obligations by the Corn b t ei2.rtai n , the chance. of his obtain esp o-e:eaeans of meeting them by a cor d, g rise in the price of what he has 44 4, is contingent and uncertain. IVe be -144,7' the old p r i nc iple, "that in the end the th en - , sweeps all into his till," as the farmer has deal w i t h t h e mon i e d capitalist, that he ttlt t elw ill obtain a rise in the price of what he the i nr responding to the rise in his rent, D:ad. in ItT e e of all which he has been oblige'," tobuy. 14 4 - ' Oll 4l also be remembered the_ prices are Ito ( ta eed in s ome d egr ee by the - piper in circu -1411, and the monied men v' . ith whom be has tt1141; t1 have a great control, over the paper cir- It% ' l3 °3 which they may, perhaps, contract in kad, l2°ll and wintet.., w'aen, they have to buy, ha y sl. Pand r;• spria and summer, when they th e 'to sell. Tb e Corn-law, then, aggravates ttekliirvourable, peculiarity in the condition of Itai t 4 O ri eulturiv ; which we have pointed out, and It Z ' 11411 Ino re indebted and more dependent. Pla ce d, ,ease IJis obligations, forces him to sell, kliq:" 1111 n . .tOre at the mercy of the monied capi tharl' 1 , 411 '1 compels him to accept lower prices Nt s Al e ought for his produce. To in 414ei- • his independence, and make him as l 'tzt ; • Possible a free agent, would be for the cr € ,., 4 °' zerest of the farmer ; the Corn-law in- I Ni k. his certain burdens, diminishes his free ;N t , / , and, by making him a greater debtor, if d o tip -ally prevents him from getting rich, it i tupoverish him. h ) .2 letter o f th e A gr i cu lt ur ist contains also an ' $ ) 11 . ant statement 'nearing on wages : L ie ttll feat bulk of the consuming popu h la!ion in this b r z+ arhood neve.: taste meat, which they would do is e 'rls;d'‘ Was cheaper. I am in the habit of slling a i ltei ii ,! :able num' j er of fat sheep to the Portsmouth ittleC s, and , 3r s ay they cannot sell meat when bread ' 4 i ineteeil; •t ii person may soon satisfy himself t o . f ; 4 1 '..nquiring at any town in dear years. I re is_ tin ,;."`' 4 `z gentlemen, who are advocates of the . p - laws,-laws if you reduce the price wages v.ould Lbtti corresno' nding proportion, and that the labourer . ray r not - be 'benefited. I say q uite the eoutraiy,be find in this neighbourhood that wages . never do th the vari a ti o n in produce to the full extent, and -111. 41,1 ar years are invariably years of privation and p to the labourer. t it 4 tis another important testimony to refute Pij e dish Tory theory that wages vary . with the l oin °f corn, which, on the face of it, over ate the fact that a great number of labourers t h . . x ! ) . !id monthly or yearly wages, in which 4 e " s are only made at long intervals, and are t .er made to correspond with the yearly flue tiz 7 ons ill the price of corn. 117 , t e co py from the Aberdeen Herald a state i` of the p opu l at i on o f th a t city. The result 1 4: 1 0 :L e C ensus is ,4 that the increase during the th ' 1 Years is not equal to the increase during e Pre ceding ten years." " The increase in the atm & -c4 tring e stablishments has been much sslir illg the last than during the preceding t R e,nnial d period ; and it is certain that within ea) j car s hack the number of hands actually - , °3 ' e d has been considerably diminished. *l;i t ,''' °r n• ;law, then, has achieved the object for 64teii 1h Was passed, and is now upheld—it a qtioed 'the increase of the manufacturing popu - Ivi )r k i 'The Tories have succeded in the devilish t e o f stoppi ng the growth of our towns. br g , d t " ixt. the c h arg e which we have always . p ut - i -7 against th e C orn -l aws — na mely, that they Be lti H i man beings out of existence—and the as of some of our friends, that the popula * t114:1 a as advancing at the rate of so many bee ll - 1111 persons per day, we have always oqr aware of a contradiction. We adhere to 44. 1 r° ; the result of the Census will trop 3 we think, that the increase of the popula beetl, th e sign and source of social prosperity, has has b ' ar rested by the starvation laws, and a blow tri t; •' e ri given to the healthy power of Great TI iir~ , which may cripple her for ever. Ra n te berdeen Herald mentions another circurn- Drfl e Of some consequence, in reference to the stis'n t discussi on on th e Timber Duties. "In the n g of th e p resen t y ear ne a r ly a hundred ship 4 3 e 1 Iters, many of them with their families, he port t o f orm a building establishment M e ° e of our North American colonies." The 41) r , of the timber duties, is to drive men fiat t ra o) instead o f re maining to enrich the " er country by their. industry. All other cor ?car ies for ship-building, except timber and lit a re cheaper here than in the colonies ; and iloher could be brought hither freely, on pay .lsroall duty, much of the ship-building •at - t e ," cal Tied on in them would be carried on col . ;: (3n ie• • Now, mu c h as we wish to see our to:71-Les pr ospero us , th e i r prosperity ought not to obtuined at the expense of the mother kieuhilt the rY• The timber duties are a bounty to cn nl at our expense. th l tss . es ei 'lumber of appeals made to the working in all the journals ought to convince them h rs tt l :' t hrey hold at present a very high station in cs , se ati ed society. The Tories are quite as t}:lBible of their influence as the Whigs or th at adicals, but since they have discovered f ilvn t t is not likely to be exerted in their ilt — ' l U 2 they deprecate its being exerted a: l'l ' We believe that their own fate and th; • or e thf the country is now placed in the hands si the labouring classes, and one manly and aver exertion on their part, one general ra. tiler universal expression of their opinion to favour of a perfect free trade in 11 : 11 ) Cheap bread, plenty of employ tkent, and hi g h wages, would secure the greatest change, or, we may say, the great , st revolution, in the laws of the country that ever WitS mad. If the populace, we assert em- Phatically and from knowledge, declare gene :, 1-a llY in favou r of cheap bread, the aristocracy, 'whatever it may desire, will not resist • the'de and for justic e , when hacked by the powe r o f tli -e Peopl e , igThe whole of th e Paris Journals, of' Sunday, I_l..ave been received, LI the 13th inst. together with Madrid Papers The news brought by the Spa, nish Papers has, for the most part, been antici pated. Cabrera finding that the world was be ginning to forget him, has issued a proclamation to his late companions in arms, which will be found in another column. The affair of the Didier correspondence con tinues to attract the attention of all the leading Journals. It is a pity that the Government can not see the mischief which it does the King by stooping to notice every petty libeller of his Ma- j esty. Important news from Candia appears in the Courrier Francais of Sunday, which we have transferred to our columns of this day. The following is the protest of the Municipal Council of Caen; against the proposed surcharge on the door and window tax, the opposition to which tax is now occasioning so much embarrassment to the French Minister of Fl nan ce _ " Monsieur le Prefet,—The census of the doors and win doWs, &c., now in progress, spreads uneasiness throughout the population. The legality of the mote attempted to carry it into operation at Caen is evil doubtful. A Ministerial order commands the census to lie made in a form different from that which has hitherto been followed. The result of these two operations is most interesting to this city, because they may furnish a false basis for the establishment and receipt of various taxes. " On the demand of several Members of the municipal body, the Mayor demanded permission to call together the council of the said body, which permission you granted by letter of the 10th instant. The meeting was to be held on the following day, but , in consequence of reasons for which we cannot at pre sent Lind any explanation, you thought proper to withdraw the permission alluded to. " Under these grave circumstances the undersigned Members of the Municipal Council of the city of Caen demand from you, M. le Prefet, a license for the convocation of an extraordinary meeting of the Council, in order that it may, after full investi gation and mature inquiry, address to the superior authority such declarations as the measure now under consideration re quire. " Signed by several Members of the Municipality of Caen." The same nature of protest has been signed in several other towns of the west of France. The subjoined observation respecting the financial position of 111. Humann are taken from the Temps : " Yesterday, at M. Humana's, a great deal of conversation took place relative to the loan to M. Rothschild and other potentates of the bank. The fall of Rentes the preceding day and the rise in the same evening were explained. One said that the sales had been caused by the necessity which M. Rothschild felt of being provided with ample means for all exigences. M. Rothschild had given orders for large .sales but he could not find buyers, for M. Agrado, M. Goubart, and others had left town ; so therefore he gave orders to stop the offer of sale, and the rice has taken place as a matter of course. The whole affair is now between M. Roths child and M. Humann, and it seems there is a difference of opinion between the Jew banker and the Minister of the Most Christian King. M. Rothschild wishes to have the loan at a low price—that is his game-_be is a money dealer. M. Hu mann demands a much hir,- i lier figure ; that is all very natural in a Minister of Finance, 111. Rothschild wants to have a loan made at five per cent, M. Humana speaks only of three per cent. M. Rothsclaild desires the whole loan to be contracted Huma:an says a part is only wanted. " This sf - Jiggle between the Minister and the banker is good, bct awe it errates oppoiition; and it is said that Messrs. Delessar t Ind Hottinge are competitors for the loan. This is a piece of good news, fo • if these gentlemen are serious in their offers, Al. Rothschild will not have tha loan on his own terms." Besides the intelligence from Candia brought by the Acheron ave have received the following letter, to which implicit credit ought not be given " Cawnia, JUNE 4.—The Candiots have suffered a serious check, the consequence of which has been an application made by the principal chiefs of the emigrants (query, insurgents) in the island to the Consuls of France and England. These Chiefs have requested the Consuls to ask, in their names, for a confer ence with Tahir Pacha and Muatapha Pacha on board the fleet, to come to an understanding on the adoption of the means best calculated to obtain a satisfactory arrangement. The Consuls have taken this step which has led to no result. The Turkish Commander has refused the conference. They have already consented to allow these chiefs, if they desire it, to get themselves canveyed to some foreign country on board English or French ships. " The Chieflas asked for ten days to deliberate on this pro posal; this delay has been refused by the Turkish command ers. Such is the state cf things, and everybody believes that the question will be speedily settled. The delay of the Turks in completing their preparations to attack is equivalent to ac ceding to the above demand. " A notice pasted up to-day in Paris announces that the palace of Malmaison is to be sold by auction ; it is to be put up at the price of 300,000 francs. It is known that a consi derable portion of the estate has been separated from the do main." _ _ PARIS, Juxa 22.—The squadron of Admiral Hugon which was obliged to stop at the Hyeres islands, sailed on the 14th, at three o'clock in the alternoon, and steered to the south.— Le Commerce. CAFE DE PARIS—SUNDAY, JUNE 20. HALF-PAST Two.—The Tbree per Cent,. for tie Account are as yesterday, 76f. 90c., but sellers. The loan the Minis ter of Finance has been authorised to raise for some time past served to give rise to numerous rumours, as well in respect to the amount as to the period of contracting for it. There appears some foundation for thinking that the Minister of Finance will give a notice on the subject some time in August. It has been stated, on what appears good authority, that Lord Roden is drawing a sinecure of 2,7001., one of. the old remanets of Tory Government. His Lordship is one of the active supporters of Sir R. Inglis's visionary scheme of taxing the people to build new churches. Has it never struck this respectable and pious nobleman that he might afford a good example of zeal in this holy cause, by devoting some part of his sinecure towards the promotion of what he deems so essential an object ? As his son, Lord .Jocelyn, is one of the Tory candidates for ,Leeds,• - should this meet the; eye of the electors, they will probably give him a hint on the subject at the hustings. The Earl of Mountcashel has addressed a letter to the editor of the Times, regarding the anecdote that lately went the round of the Press, respecting a young lady who was attempted to be seduced by a clergyman, in which his Lordship observes, " no blame of any kind could be attributed to the friend of the young lady, and the clergyman, though he ought never to have put a foot within the walls of a house of the description, acted on the occasion a praiseworthy and honourable part." His Lordship adds, " the occurrence is not more surprising than another that has come to my knowledge, which took place at Almack's, tinder nearly similar circum - stances." A triumphal arch was erected yesterday by the inha bitants of Greenwich, in honour of her Majesty's pass ing through that town. It was decorated with evergreens, flags, &c., in the centre was a double wheat-sheaf; under which was displayed a banner bearing the motto, " God save the Queen ;" at each corner, under a wheat-sheaf were banners bearing the motto, "Melbourne, Peace, and Plenty ;" and " Russell, Peace, and Plenty." Her Ma jesty stopped as she passed under the arch, and appeared much gratified with the attention and the mottoes. The arch wa3 erected from Captain Dundas and Mr. Bar 'lard's Committee-rooms across the road, near the Church. After the launch about two hundred of the most influential inhabitants of the borough of Green wich, the supporters of Captain Dundas and Mr. Bar nard, sat down to a dinner at the Mitre Hotel, George Barrett, Esq., in the Chair, supported by Charles liar wood and George Smith, Esqrs., County Magistrates, H. Keeble, Esq. and other leading gentlemen. After din ner the health of the Queen, Duke of Sussex, Duchess of Kent, and the rest of the Royal Family in England, Prince Albert. and the Princess Royal, her Majesty's Ministers, the People, the legitimate source of all Power ; Mr. Barnard and Captain Dundas, and success to the cause of Civil and Religious Liberty ; Thomas Law Hodges, and the Liberal Electors of West Kent ; Mr. Jolly, and the Liberals at Woolwich ; Mr. Wade and the Liberals at Deptford; Charles Harwood and Geo. Smith, Esqs., and the Liberal Magistracy of Kent, were given. After the health of the worthy and excellent Chairman was drunk with four times four, the party separated, highly delighted and satisfied that their two candidates would be returned with a most triumphant majority. It is well to notice that the wheat upon the triumphal arch, as well as the arch itself, gave great offence to the Tories on Sir George Cockburn's Committee. One gentleman well known threatened to destroy it. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. Our private advices from Madrid of the 14th instant, state that the Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, to which the question of the Guardianship had been referred, presented its report on the 13th. The Committee was of opinion that the Queen Dowager, not residing in Spain, could not discharge the functions of guardian to Queen Isa bel, and that, the office being now vacant, the Government should call a meeting of both Houses to the effect of ap pointing a successor to her Majesty. It was believed that M. Arguelles would be elected guardian. The amendment, moved by M. Sanchez Silva to the Tariff Bill had been rejected, and the two first articles of the project of the Committee adopted by the Chamber. • Subsequent advices from Madrid, of the 16th, state, that the Cortes would be prorogued on the Ist day of July, the Ministry intending to demand first an autho rization to levy the taxes for the rest of the year. The next session is to open on the 15th of October. The Five per Cents. left off at 26+ for cash, and 263 at 60 days. Accoaws from COnstantinople of the 2d instant state, that on the preceding' clay a firman, with the unalterable ultimatum of the Porte, containing the three concessions recommended to the Sultan by the Four Powers, had been despatched to Alexandria. The latest news from Bulgaria and Macedonia was of an unfavourable character. In Candia Tahir Pacha was said to have received a severe cheek, but our own ac counts, of a more recent date, showed that on tlY:: con trary, the Candiots had been overthrown. From Athens we have the curious fact that the King, Queen, and Court, were warmly supporting the Candiots. So menacing was the aspect of affairs there that Admiral Stopford had placed two ships of war at the disposal of our Minister, Sir E. Lyons. Our Alexandrian letters of the 27th ult. mention that the plague was still carrying off from 16 to 20 perso ns daily. The mortality had (on 23d of May) diminished, but still averaged 10 per day, ' including however, several cases of cholera. The disease had - been brought to . Malta, whence our accounts are of the 6th inst., by cer tain Turkish pilgrims on their return from Mecca, but the precautions taken had prevented its spreading amongst the population. , ' CURIOUS CASE.—Lord Huntingtower, the Anti-Poor-law candidate for Andover, comes of age on the 3d of July. Should the election take place before that day, his Lordship, even with a majority of votes, could not be the sitting Member. The late Mr. Fox, and se veral other persons, have been elected while minors, but to, their elections no objection was made ; so that "a blot is no blot till it is hit." The strike of the journeymen batters in Lan cashire, • lltts t , 2Zidtittie6 , They haw h&:1 Ave es, and at last have acceded Iv the masters' L , rms: It is calculated that no fewer than 5,000 persons have been out of employment fur the above period, and that up wards of 40,0001. in wages have been kept out of cir culation THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1841 PROROGATION OF iur) T 1r - A - VW 1 - 1 T. (THIS DAY.) HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH. MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, " On a full consideration of the present state of public affairs I have come to the determination of proroguing this Parliament with a view to its immediate dissolution. " The paramount importance of the trade and industry of the country, and my anxiety that the exigencies of the public service should be provided for in the manner least burthensome to the community, have induced me to resort to the means which the Constitution has entrusted to me, of ascertaining the sense of my people upon mat ters which so deeply concern their welfare. " I entertain the hope that the progress of public business may be facilitated, and that divi sions injurious to the course of steady policy and useful legislation may be removed by the autho rity of a new Parliament, which I shall direct to be summoned without delay. " GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMBIONI, " I thank you for the readiness with which you have voted the sums necessary for the Civil and Military Establishments. " My LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, "In the exercise of my prerogative I can have no other object than that of securing the rights, and promoting the inter ests of my subjects, and I rely on the co-operation of ney Parliament, and the loyal zeal of my people, for support in the adoption of such measures as are ne cessary to maintain that high station among the nations of the world, which it has pleased Divine Providence to assign to this country." MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Rum 21.—Notwithstand ing the lirge import of Cotton yesterday, we have had a very good d •mand to-day from the trade, the sales amounting to 4,000 bales, nt. Friday's nriees. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JUNE 21.—The business at the Steve Exchange is ;n some degree to-day improved.— Grand Junctions, 1/. higher, and are now quoted at. 202 ; Half Shares, 104 ; London and Birmingham; 321. Shares, 53:1 2 * other Railway Stock is without variation. MANCHUTEA STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 21.--Our Market is heavy today, with a slight tendency downwards. Manches ter and Leeds, 52 to 52i ; London and Birmingham, 157 to 158 ; Ditto New Thirds, 24i to 24} ; Manchester and Bir mingham, 23 23i ; South Western, 54 54i ; Manchester',,and Salford Water Woilo, 531. ; Rusholine Road Cemetery, l 5 ; Bank of Manchester 6. We have received Buenos Papers to the 28th March. The National flotilla is on the point of sailing ; viz. brig, General Beigrano, OA guns, bearing the flag of Admiral : . William Brown ; brig, General Echague, 11 guni ; brigantrne, Gen. San Martin, 5 guns, Capt. Gerard Fisher, brigantine Vigi lante, 5 guns Cnpt. Bathurst schooner Lihertad, 5 guns ; Captain Thomas Craig Zamara Entrerana, 8 guns, Captain Nichols. We are informed that these vessels are fully manned and well equipped in every respect with abundance of ammunition, stores, &c. The tlotillit of Don Fructure Reveira, under the command ( f Captain Coe, sailed for Monte Video some tine since, and is stated to be in Colonil ; it consists of the three crafts which made their appearance elf this port on the 16th ult. The Governmeilt at Monte Video have purchased, and are arming►, the American schooner William Jenkins ; nine of her crew have deserted her, and arrived here from Month Video, in the schooner's boat, on Thursday morning last. Merchant vessels in the port of Buenos Ares on the 26th inst.—Total, 116. The weather this week has been fine and seasonable, ther mometer 70 to 76. Highest pii,!e of doubloons during the week—dollars no transactions. The highest •rate of exchange upon England during the week 2 pence; the lowest 2 1 1 pence. We have received Mauritius papers to the 4th March ; they camplain that they require assi s t ance t o ge t ou t of the critical. situation they are in in their colo n i a l a ff a i rs , ow ing to their not having one-third of the labourers which are wanted to seem pill' their harvest, and they continue in complete apathy. The above papers are filled w:th'English intelligence. We have received Cape of Good. Hope papers to April 21. Under the new tariff the receipts from the Customs in Cape Town and Simon's Town, have been, during the quarter just ended, about 10,20 C/. ; that sum, however, may be considered as below the average proceeds, which may be reasonably ex pected, for it appears that in comequence of the advance on coffoe and on other articles, there is a large quantity of goods in bend. SOUTH DURHAM. We-Observe that While Mr. Eowes, the libe ral Member for ..South. Durham,_ is opposed on one side by a Tory, in the person of a.Mr. James Farrer, a knot of injudicious men, professing Libe ral opinions in Darlington, are endeavouring to oppose himalso, because his views on the subject of the Corn-laws do not exactly square with their own. We think Mr. Bowes wrong in the view he takes on this subject, but a more manly and honourable statement we never read than his address to the electors cf his county. Mr. Bowes, it seems, prefers a moderate fluctuating duty to a fixed duty. We apprehend 'that the greater part of those who stand up with the Government for . the fixed duty, would append to it a scale descending in amount as corn rose to the ptices of 1830 and 1840. The difference, therefort!, be • tween these contending parties is, in all proba bility, only a difference of words. Yet on ac count of such a difference'on a single point, we see a band of• Liberals agitating against . Mr. Bowes with as much heat and industry as if they had been retained for that purpose by the would be pat►ons of South Durham, Lords Londonderry and Eldon. The Darling-ton gentry think it better to give up all to an enemy, than any;hiug whatever to a friend. We presume that the leaders of this agitation are persons of too much 'substance and respectability to be in treaty with the agents of the Tory party—(the party whom we hear Lord Londonderry has supplied with de vices, and Lord Eldon with money, fbr their objects), but on occasions of this sort, honest men should not place themselves in ambiguous posi tions, and it becomes Mr. Parker and Mr. Pease to look well to what they are about. We -have thought it right to make these observations on account of tine respect in which we hold the Member for South Durham. We remember the assiduous support which he has given, as a Mem ber of Parliament, to the unfortunate and ill treated Danish claimants, and we must say, having been observers of his conduct, that a more just and conscientious Liberal, a more attentive representative, or a more courteous and high minded English gentleman, the House of Com mons does not contain. 'MARYLEBONE ELECTION. A meeting of the electors of the borough, resident in South and East Pancras, was yesterday held at the Clarence Theatre, Liverpool-street, King's Cross. • The chair was taken by Mr. Bacon, at nine o'clock, at which time a very numerous body of the electors, not less than 600, was assembled. Sir BENJAMIN HALL (who was received with tremen dous cheering) expressed his regret that his Gallant Friend Commodore Sir Charles Napier was obliged to be absent, attending at the launch of the Trafalgar, and at meetinga of the supporters of the Liberal candidate of the city of London.—(Cheers.) The Hon. Baronet then proceeded to explain, at considerable length, his political sentiments and previous public conduct, as we have already fully reported from recent meetings. He was vehemently applauded throughout. He said that if the Tories came into power, or if the , Tory candidates, or either of them, were returned to Parliament, it would be impossible to preserve the local Acts, which were felt to be of so much value to Marylebone ; for it had been with difficulty the attempts which were made last Ses sion. to destroy those Acts had been defeated—(Hear, hear)—and he (Sir Benjamin Hall) had incurred great odium from the Conservatives in the Borough for the determined and successful opposition which he had given to those attempts.—(Cheers, and cries of " Bravo.") The proposed liberal measures of finance respecting Corn, Sugar, and Timber, should . have his most cordial support.—(Cheers.) He was not fond of quoting Scrip ture in political meetings, but there was one verse which was so applicable to the Corn question, that he could not refrain from repeating it. It was in these words : " Whoso holdeth Corn from the people, I shall curse him."—(Tremendous cheering .) He was a zealous friend to the education of the whole people, without distinc tion of religious opinions.—(Hear, hear.) He trusted that he had some claim upon the confidence of his con stituents, after four years service, during which not a fault had been found with his conduct. He trusted also that they would attend in such numbers at the poll, as would convince the Tories that in Marylebone they would find no place.—Great applause and cheering.) A resolution pledging the electors present to make every exertion to secure the return of Sir B. Hall and Sir C. Napier, was moved by Mr. Moore, the Barrister, and seconded by Mr. M'Ewen. It was carried by aecla- mation. • Thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the meeting separated. The following handbill, illustrative of the conduct of the " Charitable and religious" Cabbellites and Hainil tonians, was widely circulated throughout the boreuth, and numerous instances of intimidation equally flagrant and insulting have been reported to us : " TORY PRACTICE. • " Yesterday, June 18th, Mr. Cabbell and Sir James Hamilton, accompanied by Mr. Simon Gray, of 2, Mornington-crescent ; Mr. Richard Dent, of 28, Bay ham-terrace ; Mr. George Lever, of 1, Bayham-street ; Mr. J. Cumberland,' of 2, Cumberland-terrace, C. T. ; Mr. John Dent, of 6, Cumberland-terrace, C. T., came to the shop of Mr. Philip Watling, fishmonger, 105, High-street, Camden-town, for the purpose of canvassing him. Mr. Watling said he had already promised his vote for Hall and Napier. Upon this Mr. Simon Gray observed, " Very well ; I am a customer of yours, and if you do not support us, I shall support those that are our friends." Mr. Lever added, " I too am a customer of yours ; henceforward it will be cheap bread'—[al hiding to the placard of Hall and Napier, which was ex hibited in the' shop]—and stinking fish. Mr. Dent, sen. also said, Yes, cheap bread and stinking fish.' Mr. Cumberland lastly, 'Cheap bread if you like, Mr. Watling, but dear fish. This was said in the presence of about twenty people, among others of Mr. Curd, 105, High-street (next door to Mr. WatThig's) ; Mr. Hewitt, 132, Grove-street ; Mr. Lane, of the Railway Station Offices, Hampstead-road. (Signed) "P. WATLING. " Saturday, June 19th, 1841." COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held a Privy Council at half-past twelve o'clock yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. It was at tended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Lord President, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home and Colonial Departments, the President of the Board of Control, the First Commissioner of the Woods and Forests, the Lord Steward, and the Lord Chamberlain. Her Majesty's Speech on closing the Session of Par liament this day was arranged and agreed - upon. The lion. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in waiting. Her Majesty gave audience to the Marquis of Lans downe and Viscount Melbourne. _ . The Court was attended by Lord Poltimore, Lord in Waiting; the Vice-Chamberlain; Viscount Combermere, Gold Stick in Waiting; and the lion. Sir W. Lumley, Groom in Waiting. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Royal Suite, left town soon after one o'clock yesterday afternoon for Woolwich Dock-yard to witness the launch. of the Trafalgar. The Royal party left Buckingham Palace in the following order :—ln the first carriage and four were the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Al bert, and the Mistress of the Robes ' the Duchess of Suther land. In the second carriage and four , xere the Lady in Waiting, Lady Barham; the Master of the Horse, Earl of Albemarle; the Lord Steward, Earl of Erroll; and the Lord Chamberlain, Earl of Uxbridge. In the third carriage and four were the Maids of Honour in Waiting:, I-lon. Miss Paget and Hon. Miss Anson ; the Lord in Waiting, Lord Poltimore ; and the Lord in Waiting on Prince Albert, Lord George Lennox In the fourth carriage and four were the Groom in Waiting, General the Hon. Sir William Lumley; the Master of the Household, the Hon. Charles Augustus • Murray; the Treasurer to Prince Albert, Mr. George Edward Anson; and Dr. Proetorius. In the fifth car riage and four were, the Equerry in. Waiting on her Majesty, Colonel Wemyss; and the Equerry in Waiting on Prince Albert, Major-General Sir Edwardßowater. A party of Hussars escorted the Royal party. The Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Somerset and Baron lCnesebeck, left Cam bridge House for Woolwich, to witness the launch of the Tratidgar. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Anson, Lord I'oltimore, Hon. Charles A. Murray, Hon. Sir William Lumley, Colonel Wemyss, and Sir Edward Bowater, honoured the Italian Opera-house with their presence last evening. Mr. Charles Buller had an interview with Viscount Melbourne yesterday, at his official residence in Down ing-street. The Jddicial Committee of her Majesty's Privy Coun cil sat yesterday. The Lords present were Lord Brougham, the Judge of the Prerogative Court, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and Dr. Lushington. Mr. Pemberton, the Queen's Counsel, and Mr. Purton Cooper, Queen's Counsel, for the appellants, and Sir William Follett, for the respondents, were heard in a petition of appeal of Porral v. the Right Reverend IL Hughes, from the Supreme Court of Gibraltar. Some other motions and petitions having been disposed of, an appeal from British Guiana was heard by the Court. Their Lordships rose shortly before four o'clock. ALLEGED MURDER.—On Monday the body of a man named Charles Powell, a .quarryman, was found near the Navigation Inn, Crumlin, Monmouthshire. A large stream of blood was observed to have flowed from his head, some distance along the ground, upon which there were se• veral cuts, sufficient to cause death. A Coroner's Inquest was the next day held- on the body, and a verdict of " Wilful murder' mrs returned against Nathan - Jcnes, Henry Morgan, and Peter Peters. It zppeared front tht; cvidence - that they had wantonly knocked the deceased and another man down, near the spot where the body was found, and then inflicted the wounds on the head of the deceased by kicking him. They bare not yet been apprebendtd: leeti THE FUNDS. The British Funds still continue firm at the leaving off prices of yesterday, although no business is doing to the pre sent hour. Consuls may be quoted at 89 A 3 fur the Account; Reduced, 89 33 ; Three-and-a- Half Reduced, 983 3 ; Ex chequer Bills, 6 8 prem. ; Bank Stock, 168 169 ; India S:ock, 247 248 ; India Bonds, 1 die. 1 prem. The Foreign illarket is also inactive, Spanish Active 223; Deferred, 103 3 ; Pas , ive, 43 53 ; Portnguese, 333 ; Three per Cents., 193 20 ; Brazilian,673 68 ; Colombian, 203 21 ; Mexican, 263 273 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 523 3 ; Five per Cents., 99: 1 / 4 100. SHARES.—GreatWestern, 2514, 263 prem. ; New, 143 3 prem. ' • London and Brighton, 63 53 dis. ; Blackwel, 73 63 die. ; Birmingham, 671:9 prem. ; Southampton, 523 543 per share ; Croydon, 133 4 per share ; Greenwich, 73 63 per share. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto New 5O - Ditto Fifths London andßrighton 5O '44 London and Blackwall London and Birmingham London and South Western 3Bl 54 ... .. to Ditto Tenths North Midland Manchester and Leeds 0... 70 Ditto New Shares 30 - 11E1.01 AN k (I NDS—BAUtagie„ Ann 19. Actual Debt. 2N, per Cent. ............. ........ 52 Rothscllild's Loan, 5 per Cent 103% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. V2 3 per Cent —_ . .• 69% 1:40) Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent. ....... 81% Society ul Ceram rce, i.per Cent .,8 Punk el Belgium, 5 per Cent... 7l Nations I Society . Exchange on Lender. (short) —Brussels Faders, June 18. . AUSTRIAN FUNI)S.—VIENNA, JUNE 12 Five per Cents. Dletalliques Rpm per ............. ..... Three p:r Centb. 11.uok nhrscs 1645 Zfilung. June i 6 HAMM RO BORSENHALLE, JUNE I;. Hill., Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares . 1641.. .. . Itni4lo-Russtan Loan lO % 107% Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, C4rtiticate Inscription, lstS.:i9 , Rus,lan 5 per Cent. Hope _and Co. 3d and 4th - • Series' - Ditto in Certitic2tes • , • al g New 4 per Cent. (1840) fill,,, 6: Ti Dutch actual Debt, 15ii pe. Cent :XS Ditto 5 per Cent - Polish Bonds New Dcket Anglo_Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 75 7 14,1wegian Lean, 1834, 4 per Cruz. 1:::)6 1.9.% Sp.nish. New 5 per Cents. lB% EKCHANGE); ON LONDON. Hasisußn, JUNE 18.-13 Qi.—Two months, 13 5 PETERSIMUGH, JUNE 11.—Two months, 38 V-16 pence HALF-PAST ONE. Since the early part of the morning a material change has taken place in the British Funds. Consuls which were 89* I have improved to 89i for the Account, and for Money at 90A. This rise may be attributed first, to the scarcity of stock in the market as well as a good supply of money ; there has also been some purchasing both by the public and speculators, and more business has hcen done during the course of the morning than for some time past. At present the .:larket is not quite so good. Consols may be quoted at 8914 for the Account ; Reduced, 8911, have been ; Exchequer Bills 6 8 prem. ; Bank Sock, nothing done ; India Bonds, 1 dis. I prem. ; India Stock, 248%. In the Foreign Market Spanish Atti re a shade better, 225. ; Portugue,e, 33 ; Mexican, 27 ; Colombian, 21 ; Russian, 113; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52 a. SHAKES —Them is rather more business doing in the Share Market, but no material alteration in the price. Great Western, donai.d B 9o n l g 4 h ; to D n, itto 44 , i Ne 4 w 4 , 6 ; li i i ia D ek it w to ah tlf B th ; s, 104 ; Lon -1 58i ; South Western, 54; Ma nc he s ter and B L i e r e m d i s n , gh N a e m v; Shares, 21; North Midland, 66. THE MARKETS.—(rHis DAY.) COLONIAL MARKET. In this Market considerable heaviness prevailed, and prices, with one or two exceptions, were on the decline. TEA MARKET. Upwards of 10,000 packets were brought to the hammer, which attracted little attention, and the bulk was either bought in or withdrawn, there being no buyers at former prices—the fow parcels that were sold established afurther decline of id. to Id. per lb. Comp , ny's Congou dull, and also rather lower, Oid. per lb. cash. _ TALLOW MARKET. _ - _ The transactions were on a very.limited scale, and previous rates with difficulty supported. P. YC. 465. 9d. per cwt. WHITECHAPEL MARKET. Our supply was middling, with a fair demand for all sorts. Clover, 3/. lts. to 5/. Is. ; Meadow Hay, 2/. 18s. to 4/. 10s. ; New, 2/. 10s. to 31. ; Straw, IL 16s. to 21. It was, for some time, a- generally received opinion, that the climate and soil of South Australia were uncongenial to the growth of wheat, barley, pota toes, &c. This idea, we have reason to believe, got afloat, from the circumstance of some persons having - ir the early part of the colony's existence, failed in raising crops during the summer, and on land turned up for th, first time. The absurdity of this opinion, which was for some time prevalent, will now become apparent to every one who will take the trouble to : ride or walk a few miles into the country in any direction around the capital. In the course of compiling this publication, we have ourselves had occasion to visit most of the settled districts in the colony, and we can affirm, from personal observation, that most. of the crops we have seen could not be surpassed anywhere. We have seen wheat gathered, within the last fortnight, which will produce fifty bushels an acre; and we believe the farmers will bear us out in the assertion, that produce of all grain that was sown in proper season will average thirty bushels an acre. In many parts of the country —in the Mount Barker district particularly—the seed liad been put in too late; and wherever this has been the case, the produce of the crops will be indifferent. This unseasonableness of sowing is to be attributed to the circumstance of the settlers, in almost every instance, not having obtained their land until about May, June, and July. The utmost confidence, however, exists as to the capabilities of the soil and climate even among those wliose crops will be a partial failure this season ; and no better proof of the existence of this confidence can be had than the fact that almost every farmer is pre paring a double, many a triple and quadruple quantity of land against next seed time.—South Australian News. CHIMNEY-SWEEPERS REGULATION ACT.— The Act of Parliament which received the Royal Assent on the 7th of August last, will commence its operation on the Ist of the neat month, as will be seen by reference to the 4th clause-•—but the complete exercise of its powers will be suspended until t he Ist of Jul y , 1842. A T I PPERARY SHEEP - STEALER.—Not many • years ago there was in the count y of Ti pperary , a sheep - . stealer, as notorious Borrowsky himself. It is easy enoughrErris, fo t4 ;le t i carry oeffve once you can ca t c h i t , a s h eep in lirr so fat, it is not much l arger th an a bare ; but a wether, fed on the rich plains of the most fertile of all Irish counties, is not so easily carried away, body and bones. But our Munster plunderer was a huge fellow, with all the bone and muscle of a Tipperary man, fed up to all his capability and vigour On the stolen mutton. He could, and often did, carry off from the inidSt of a - flock a wether' of twenty-eight pounds the quarter, and bring it home for the faastino• of himself and his family. His practice was, to tie the sheep by his feet, put his head between the hind legs, and thus with the sheep, still alive, dangling head downwards, at his back, home tradged, in the dark night, Terry Ryan, and so he thinned many flocks, and none but himself and family were the wiser. In this way he had, on a dark night, got into Squire —'s deer park, 'and seized a noble mutton, and tied and slung it over his head. Thus he came to the park wall, which uras about eight feet high, and still, weighted as he was, ventured to climb, as oft2n he had done before. And now he is on the T t a h i n l e d e r top of the wall,• and pondering how best he may descend, when the sheep makes a - sudden struggle, footing gives way ......_d own lie goes, but, as he goes, the sheep falls Iceeps battom--both struggle—the I,ropede ;neither e a r good one, that rope presses the fellow's can touch the. does Terry, bydt - it is s i p s ie L ee d l e sdh o e i te l i t ip s i d kf e i et . o . kgs.e soon over With him. Next morning the herd:foluid Wiry dead as mutton; but the wailer, though alittfe still a sheep and no mutton, and so proved itself the .lack Ketch of a thief, and the avenger or its race.— . Otwoy's Sketches in Erris. CENSUS OF ABERDEEN. The Lord Provost has kindly permitted us to publish the official Abstracts and Notes relative to the popula tion of Aberdeen. There are three columns under the title Houses-Ist, unoccupied ; 2d, uninhabited. , GENERAL ABSTRACT.—PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARY Parish. Houses. Families. M. F. Total East 404 e 3 1 ... 1,015 2,204 ... 2,!-,IIS ... • 4,799 \Vest 4 7.'B ... 16... 0 2,473 ... 4,578 ... 5,606 ... 10,1.4 North South ...... Greyfriars St. Clement's 409 ... S ... 0 ... 1.619 3,208 ...:+,894 ... 7,09: Old Machar, part of `2,8:1 1 ... 94 ..,11 ... 6,390 ...11,203 ...15 311 ... 26,51 i Branch Des - , part of 2 ... 0 ..._0 „, 2 ... 8 ... 3 ... Total ...t,520 ...11J —15,172 —.27,590 tl3,ej2 ...... , ABSTRACT OF THE ROYALTY. Total 3,70 ...12 „HAW .40,787 ...26,368 ... 47.153 NOTES. From the annexed summary and abstracts it will be seen that 63,262 persons abode within the Parliamentary boundary of the City of Aberdeen, on the night of Sun day the 6th of June. Comparing this number with the return for 1831 (58,019), the apparent increase is only 5,213, but there are circumstances to be taken intu ac count which show that the actual increase is much greater. In the first place, the whole of the parish of Old Machar was included in the Census of the City for 1331 ; while, by the new arrangements, the portion of Old Machar that lies beyond the Don, and within the Par liamentary boundary, containing a population of 1,490, is excluded. • Secondly.—lt has been found quite impracticable to obtain, by inquiry on the part of the enumerators, any thing like an accurate account of the persons travelling, or at sea, on the night of the 6th of June, but a return that has been furnished by the Collector of Customs, shows that of seamen alone, belonging to the port; there must have been ab§ent upwards of 2,000. • , Thirdly.—lt is understood that the census of 1831 included all the persons who usually resided Within the boundaries ; while on this occasion the enu meration was confined to such as were _abiding on the night of the 6th of June. This rule Will, no doubt, add to the accuracy of the general return: for the kingdom, but it must have the effect of 'decreasing the apparent . population of such large toweras send a number of their inhabitants to the country or watering places at this season. Aberdeen, from this cause alone, must have suffered tO the extent of at least 500. In the west end of the city; many of the largest houses are occupied tv a single domestic. • In estimating, therefore, the actual population of the city, for the purpose of compatison with what it Was in 1831, these three circumstances ought not to be over looked. The account would then stand thus Persons - who abode within the Parliamentary boundary on the night of the 6th June 63 , 463 Persons who abode within the northern district of Old Machar Seamen (say) Belonging to families gone to the country Population of Old Machar and St. Nicholas, in 1841 Ditto in 1831 1,.19ff" 2,000 590 67.252 58,019 Actual increase 9,233 • This increase (16 per cent.), though equal to the computed increase over the country, is not in propor tion to the local increase in the preceding ten years. In 1821, the population of St. Nicholas and Old Machar was only 44,796, and in 1831, it had risen to 58,019. A note to the return for 1831 says—" The in crease of population is chiefly attributed to an increase of manufacturing establishments, and to ex tensive public works which have been in progress for some years. Of the labourers, not agricultural, 1,580 are employed in executing improvements in the harbour.' It tells against the present return, in comparison with the former, that there are no harbour or other great improvements going on that require an influx o stranger labourers ; for although the new market and some other large buildings are -in progress, they do not appear to need more hands than are usually • employed by the City tradesmen. The increase in the manufacturing esta blishments, too, has been much less during the last than the preceding decennial period ; and it is cer tain fiat, within two years back, the number of hands actually employed has been considerably diminished. The northern whale-fishery, which used to furnish employment for a number of hands in Aberdeen, and must have helped to keep up the . amount of the population, has, since the date of the former census, gradually decayed, and is now altogether abandoned ; and it is understood that the number of persons employed in the salmon fisheries has also consi derably decreased. It is true that the herring fishery has been carried on to some extent within the last few years, but it is chiefly conducted by strangers, who do not arrive in the town till the month of July, and who, • consequently, are not included in the census returns. Besides increasing its population, Aberdeen has lately swelled, to some extent, the tide of emigration. It has sent a number of artisans and spinners to the Continent, and, in the spring of the present year, nearly a hundred ship-carpenters, many of them with their families, left this port, to form a ship-building establishment in one of the North American colonies. On the whole, there is reason to believe that, if the census had been taken in 1836 or 1837, Aberdeen would have had a larger return than it now has. This' suppo sition is greatly corroborated by the fact that, although since that time, numerous old houses in justice Port, Gallowgate, the Vennel, and a whole district of the Green (sec decrease in the South Parish) have been cleared out to make way for improvements, and for other• causes, there has been no perceptible rise in house rents, and little or no demand for new buildings. Upwards : of a hundred families must have been turned out from the site of the New Market alone ; and, in the other places united; nearly as many houses must have been unto nanted. There has been but little increase in the num ber of dwelling-houses during the last ten years, and such as have been built have been chiefly for the use of the middle and wealthy classes.—Aberdeen Herald. LLOYD'S SHIPPING- THIS DAY.) LONDON, JUNE 22.—Wind this day at noon, W. to S.W. COWES, JUNE 21—Arrived the Caledonia, Drummond, from Havanna, ; Gulnare, Wheatland, ditto ; Samarang, Bearse, Matanzas ; Carl Johan, Bahia; Aleyon, Muremlian, aban doned. Bayres, a large ship supposed to be English, was boarded in lat. 32, but no papers could be found in conse quence of the cabin being on fire, by the Johanna arrived here. OFF THE. START.—The Floridian, from New York, for Antwerp ; Caroline, Brennen, for New York ; Thracian, from New York, to Amsterdam. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 21. —Wind, W. S.W., strong.—Sailed, H.M.S. Fair Rosamond, for Halifax, and not the coast of Africa as reported; H.M.S. Lynx, Eastward. DARTMOUTH, JUNE 20.—Arrived, the Surrey, Sinclair, fram Java; Lady Flora, Ford, Calcutta. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 21.—Wind, S.W.—Arrived, the Sa racen, Puckey, from Malaga; Majestic, Naples. FALMOUTH, JUNE 95.—Wind. to W. S.W., strong breezes.—Arrived, the Ann, Harmon, from Pernambuco ' • Aret h usa , Maine, Sierra Leone; T r e fus is , fro m Plymouth, for Madeira ; 13ragawat, for Vigo. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—On Monday the 22d, at the Duke of Bedford's, Belgrave-square, the Lady Caroline Stanhope to Mr. Sandford, M.P. There were pre at the wedding , Dukes of Sussex, W ellington , Leicester, pre sent Duchess of Gloucester, &c. and all her Ladyship's relations. A splendid dejeune was given on the occasion, and the happy couple left town for Woburn Abbey. CITY CANVASS.—To show how completely all party politics arc sunk in this great contest, a worthy Con servative merc hant of long standing said, " Y es , s i r , I s h a ll vote fur all four free-trade men ! I would not take 5001. a year for my share of the advantage which will result from the pass ing of these measures." H ER MAJESTY S THEATRE. —Mademoiselle Rache l appeared last night at this theatre—first Stuart." her renewe d engagement—in the part o f Marie Stuart.' It is needless to _repeat with .what excellence she acquitted her- F elf, and thc svrarathy .re:'alty as 'Veil as that of a crowded tiou.,,mvst fully attested it. We trust that this- accompl:shed actress will not limit herself to this "role, in addition to the parts which she has already sustained, but that she will draw still further upon the stores of the Fr I V ch classic drama. INSURRECTIONS IN TURKEY. (From the Courrier Fraxcais of Sunday.) " SYRA, JUNE 6. —According to the most creditable in formation lately received from the Island of Candia, the Greek insurgents have already under arms 16,000 men, divided into three corps. The first, 4,000 strong, is concentrated at Sti kiari ; the second, which consists of 6,000 men, is de'tined to defend an ilia:pregnable position near Castro, and all the neighbouring districts ; the ether corps, also 6 , 000 strong, is scattered over the island, and occupies the most important po sitions. Armed Greeks, from all parts of Euro k esean Turkey, deserters from the army of King Otho, both officers and pri vates, with arms and baggage, in spite of the recent mea sures adopted by the Government to prevent this emigration, daily flock to Candia. The Candiote army is well provided with arms and ammunition. The Government of Candia has lately purchased at Smyrna 1,500 barrels of powder, and a short time ago 8,000 muskets, which arrived safe a few days since, and in good condition. The Ottoman forces at present in the ports of Canea and Castro amount to 12,000 men. Their men-rd-war are said to be five or six, besides smaller vessels. There are an English frigate and a French frigate, and a sloop at anchor in the roads. Forty Hydriots brought into our port three days ago two ships, which they intend converting into tire-ships, and sailed immediately to Candia, with the intention .of horning the Turkish fleet on the first opportunity. " We learn from Constantinople that M. Totoff, the Rus sian Charge d'Affaires to the Ottoman Porte, has addressed to the Divan a very energetic note, respecting the horrible inns sacres committed by the Turks in seventy villages of Bulgaria, and the number of Bulgarian Christians who have been tar ried away, and sold as slaves. He protests strongly in the name of his Sovereign, as protector of the Christians in the east, against the bar barons right that the Turkish comman dants of Bulgaria have arrogated to themselves. In conse quence of this note, the Pachas of Bulgaria have been summoned to Constantinople to account for their conduct. The Turkish authorities of Bulgaria, and the adjoining pro vicces, have received orders to re-purchase, at the expense of the Porte, all the slaves hitherto made by the Turks, to escort them back to their villages, and to give them every in demnity necessary to re-establish their houses burnt or plun dered by the Turks, and to enable them to resume their agricultural labours. At the same time the Porte has officially addressed thanks to the Prince of Servia, for having harboured the Christian fugitives from Bulgaria, and sheltered them against the cruelty of the Turks. " P.S.—We have just had communication of the fol lowing official intelligence which reached the Pyrseus Yesterday, and was brought by an English steamer from Candi:. The Turks having sallied out of the fortresses of Caned and Castro, in order to advance into the interior, have been repulsed and obliged to shut themselves up in the two fortresses just mentioned, where they are timely blockaded. , "rime signal of hostilities has just been given by the Turks in Bulgaria and in tfie island of Candle. ; it cannot fail to have an immense effect throughout the province of European Turkey, principally inhabited by Christians. Insurrection is alreads organised in Macedonia and '1 hessaly. We have re e; ireel several decrees from the Governments established there, bearing the seals of the new authorities. We have beheld on these the Greek croia., around which is written in Greek, • The Government of the Alacedonians—the Government of the Thessalians.' " It is also believed that Romania, though so close to Con stantinop!e, will declare it , ell free before long, and resume its ancient name of Thrace. It has been long said that the Turks were encamped in Europe. The time seems to be coming for them to raise their camps." Our corresprndent from Toulon, in a letter dated June 15th, sends us direct news from Candia, which confirms the details received from Syra, and gives further particulars. .• This news," says he, " has been brought by the Acheron, and is kited June 5, the day that ship left Candia. The blockade of that isl And is done in a very imperfect manner, Tahii Pacl►a having but one frigate, which does not move from Canea. and a steamer which cruizes now and then ; in consequence of this small Greek boats are able to land men- and arms both day and night on the Cand:an caast. " The 5,000 soldiers landed from the Turkish transports have made an attempt against the insurgents of the mountains of Buda, but without any result, and the war is carried on with so much . aTatliy that the (andiotcs have every chance of suc cess; it seems as if the Porte did not count on possessing Can dia much longer. " The insurgents are numerous ; they are not all armed, and they are ill-provided w;th ammunition ; but they have much intelligence throughout the country, and inaccessible mountains, and it is pretty sure that they will not be subdued, and will finish by obtaining their independence. In the mean time the country is in a wretched state ; in the towns the Turkish soldiers inspire more terror than the neighbourhood of the inplrgents, and numbers of the inhabitants are emi grating." (From the Augsburg Gazette.) According to the latest communications from Constantinople there seemed every probability of the decision in the Egyptian affairs being still longer delayed. It is believed, in fact, that the question of the tribute is not one to be speedily settled, the general opinion being that Mehemet Alt still never consent to scarcely even the half of the yearly contribu tion fixed by the Sultan. In addition to this, it would ap pear that the English, and more especially their represent!. tive in Constantinople, go very slowly to work, and seem far more dssiroes of keeping the affair still open, than of see ing it brought to a conclusion. To the Christians, also, in the northern provinces of Turkey, and still more to the Cre tans and continental Greeks, it must appear desirable that Mehemet Ali should still maintain the hostile attitude which lie! has assumed against the Porte. Thus much is very certain —namely, tlit the Christians upon these frontiers were never in such a state of excitement as they are kt this moment. :Nobody for a moment doubts but that not only are there foreign Powers that connect these deep-Lid schemes with this state of irritation in the country, but that there are also some of the native Princes and families of Ilospodars who take ad vantage of it to favour their cherished views of ambition for the extension of their territories. And thus it is that, whilst on the one hand the young Duke of Leuchtenberg is pointed out as tie happy man who, under the protection of Russia, is to urite under his sway he countries on this side of the Balkan, on the other hand the Governments of Moldavia, Wallachia, and Servia, whose very existence is menaced by such a scheme, lay plan-, and hazard taking steps to turn the increasing ex citement in the minds of the Christian population to their own - - advantage. • CoNsTiwriNort,F, MAY ‘26.—1 see that much doubt has been entertained as to the accounts I have already given you of the insurrection in Mesopotamia. But I hire said rather too little than too much upon the subject. In Pasonata, Diar bekir, exists a directing beard, independent of the central Go vernment. Even the higher classes (the Ulemas for instance) have joined the insurgents. Zakeria Paella ' who was to have marched against the rebels, has, with all his haste, not yet got out. of the gates of the town. He asked for 10,000 men ; and nothing could be given him, the state of , Lebanon and the active mareeuvres of the Paella en the Nile not admit ting of any diminution of the forces in Syria. It may be very easily imagined with what zeal under these circum stances the mountaineers behind Diarbekir beat up recruits, and make preparations for resistance.. The stone is only now beginning to roll, and• Mesopotamia is a county where European curiosity and impatience cannot so easily intrude themselves as in Egypt. In the mean time the pachalic of Orfa, adjoining Diartekir, has declared itself emancipated from the Porte, and the insurrection is upon the Syrian frontier: and that there can be no mistake as to the character of this movement, the Christians in the insurgent. districts were all massacred. The Suabian Mercury of the 17th inst. states that the funds had experienced a depression at Vienna, in consequence of a loan of 80,000,000 florins having been contracted in the Five per Cents ELECTION MOVEMENTS. WEST CORNWALL.—Sir Charles Lemon, we regret to say, declines, from his delicate state of health, to stand a contest with the Cornish Rose of Toryism.—Falmouth Packet. urmourn..—The patriotic Sir John Seale will walk over the course. Toryism cannot find a man hardy enough to peril a contest. DERBYSHIRE (NORTH).—Cavendish and Evans steadily adhere to reform and good Government. The Liberals are prepared to do battle at an instant. DEunv.—Strutt and Ponsonby are stout Champions, and the Derby wen firm. The Tories are in a lamentable strait. The Johustons and Co. have DO " Balm in Gilead." • DORCHESTER. — Rat Graham, the runaway of Cumberland and Pembroke, has found a hiding-place in this rotten pocket borough. Influences have been used to induce Mr. It. Wil liams to resign in his favor. IPSWlCH.—Stauncher Reformer, or more independent man, than Mr. George Rennie, jun., who is selected as the Liberal colleague of Mr. Rigby Wason, could not come forward. LANCASHIRE !;SOUTH.) —Mr. Townley will surely wrest the representation from the Tories. Liberal electors will do their duty. In a district so purely mercantile and manufactur ing there is surely strength enough to consign Mr. Wilbraham to the tending of his beeves and game. Morialotertr.—Here the Tories are very grave and grieving seigniors. Richard Blakemore , Esq., has been deaf to their requisition. Mr. Blewitt's re-election is safe against 44 the world." MONTGOMERYSHIRE BOKOUGHS.—The Newton Tory clique have at length got up an opposition to Sir John Edwards, in the person of Mr. H. Cholmondeley, the warming-pan of Sir W. Wynn. The enthusiasm attendant on Sir John is irre sistible. PENRIIYN AND FALMOUTH.—Captain Vivian has com pleted a most successful canvass, as also Captain Plumridge. A Mr. Gwyn, and Mr. Sartorris,.are the two Tory candidates. TYNEMOUTH.—Mr. Chapman s " grounds of success" are mere fudge. WINDSOR. —Messrs. Ramsbottom and Fergusson are safe • and sure. SCOTLAND. KIRME.Muin. —ln compliance with a requisition addressed to the electors in the town and neighbourhood, by the authority of the Committee of the Kirriemuir Anti-Corn-law Associa tion and the Parliamentary Election Reform Committee, a meeting was held in the Ilev. Mr. Brown's church, on the afternoon of Saturday se'nnight, for the purpose of taking into consideration the measures necessary to be adopted to secure, in the event of an election, the return of a Member for the county decidedly friendly to the principles of free trade. Mr. William Stewart, manufacturer, having been called to the chair, a series of resolutions connected with the object of the meeting were severally moved and seconded by Messrs. Angus, Wilkie, Ni co ll, M y l es, D oig, and Watt, and unani mously agreed to. One of the resolutions adopted by the meet ing was very decided, and, if generally acted upon, would produce the most important results, viz., not to give their sup port to any candidate that would not solemnly Pledge himself to exert his Parliamentary power and influence to promote the principles of free trade, especially those which relate to the free importation of Corn and other provisions. A number of elec tors who were not present at the meeting, have signed this declaration, and others are still expected to adhibit their names.— Scotsman. BANFFSHIRE._—A certain Tory candidate has for several days been talked of. Some called him Lord Redhive, others Lord Redhall, and a third set Lord Red-herring, but the real title turns out to be Lord Redhaven. ELGIN.—Sir Andrew Leith Hay was in Banff on Monday, canvassing the constituency. PERTH.---A Mr. Richardson—the only Chartist candidate in Scotland—comes forward in addition to the Ministerial and Conservative candidates. IRELAND. BELFAST. --Mr. George Dunbar, one of the present Tory Members, has resigned, and Mr. Emerson Tennent is now the sole card date of the faction. THE AFRICAN EXPEDITION. —Extract of a letter from an officer on board her Majesty's steam vessel Albert, dated Madeira, May 21, IB4l:—After full a fortnight's detention by contrary winds at Plymouth, we started, all things smiling upon us, and had adelightfblpaS- - sage to this place of 8,1 days; when using wind and steam,, beating everything we saw; bu t two da y s we ran 3 and 51 knots under canvass alone. The prints don't do the vessels justice. • They are good sea-boats, but at times a little unpleasant. This is inseparable from these shallow, flat bottoms.: The ventilation answers admirably ; be sides making h more agreeeble, the air is considerably drier, as shown to the amount .of 3i- degrees by the hygrometer." We have soen a letter from an officer on boarda , t_sldar., in which ho gives the vessel the hi;;lleSt-chaacter :AS a. safe and. good sea-boat. It is worthy of notice, that the Albert and the Wilberforce sailed together from Plymouth, and arrived at Teneriffe together. EVENING EDITION. TOTAL REPEAL. We have on more than one occasion e:zpres. Our strong conviction that a duty on wheat of Ss. a quarter is preposterously -high. The compari son we have Imre than once:drawn between the amount of duty actuary paid under the law and the • proposed rate would sna:tia ciently jostify us in this opinion. But kl'e are not disposed to leave unanswered the very natural question—if Ss. a quarter be too high a protection, what amount of duty cant be considered adequate and .proper? To this question we reply frankly. If it can be proved necessary to lay.a small -tux upon corn, for pur poses of revenue, let that tax be imposed ; but for purposes of protection not one farthing should be imposed, unless it be to render the total • repeal safer, - by makiiig it a gradual process. Any tax imposed for protection tve consider grossly and flagitiously unjust.. From the very existence of our modern so ciety, the land has been subjected to certain pe culiar burdens or charges, stbic.h, instead of hay ing augmented in proportion to the auginenth o e wealth of society, have been gradually diminisla ing and being mac W less by the criminal inee nuity of the landed legislator, who has contrit'ad fraudulently to shift upon the pour and needy, by every variety of device, the burdens which of cid were borne by the, class to which he belongs. We need not run.. ver all 'these particulars, more especially as we haven - ery recently made an enumeration of these cunning practices, Ashen we showed 'how • large a proportion of the na tional revenue was now raised from the poor in the shape of duties upon the necessaries of life, in place of the old direct taxes, and burdens which fell almost alone upon property. Poor rates, countyarates o and tithes, have, in some shape or other, been charges upon the land long before the Norman 'Conquest. What the reformed landlords of this Protestant country have been doing ever since the Reformt.tion is, to shift these burdens from the land, where theY were unfelt • (eicept •.by a baleful cupitiltot which has never gnova weary in plundering the. patrimony Of • the poor), and' to supply the old forms of revenue by new and burdensome expe dients, which arc now eating into the Owls: of society; impoverishieg all classes; placing; all classes in hostility to each other ; and, by a just and stern.. retribntkm, arrayed in a phalanx, which becomes every clay more numerous and better disciplined e thapoor whom the rich have pillaged, neglected, and trampled under foot, against the men who ought to have been their guardians and protectors, but have been, by their selfishness and cupidity, the authors and nourish ers of their crimes. We say e then - that the land, that is, the land lord, groans tinder no heaVy taxation for which he is entitled to take credit in the o arrangement our fiscal system., On the contrary, having created the preseht fiScal system himself, the landlord has so contrived it as • to shift, by every possible contrivance, his own thne-esta- Wished and; therefore, tinfelt burdens, upon the shoulders of all otherclasses in the State. But, supposing there were, peculiar burdens which, by the • help of • a political algebra that works out its calculations by unknown quantifies, could betestimated 58. a- quarter—what then? No one, ilte suppose; will have the hardihood to pretend'that these peculiar burdens of tithes, county-rate, and poor-rate did not exist in 1273. Now, throughotiathe whole of the last century, up to the date we htive just named (which may be taken,as an era in the history of the cond trade, as it is in the history of the laws affecting that trade), this country habitually exported a surplus -produce of . corn. It is true that a bounty of five shillings a quarter was paid upon the exphrtatiott .of wheat, when the price fell below a certain' point; but, as the bounty could not`quite cover - -the- expenses of exporta tion, it is clear that the price of wheatin England must have been generally cheaper than it was in the surrounding markets to which it was exported S ; -cc that time what a change has taken pleeo. En lair is now ed hahitually an importing, inste tin coontry. Supposing that ; of an e'a-phe Year- also, our markets we r,: Seventy or eighty . only on a eery with - t h e only Continent th, , • that the protectitto are noW; so nil:el dearer, htnenses on impor afforded - to the landlord, by e oar is con ectter, of his u teflon to the tune of 10 s. or Ete. a ilt sidered a ruinous and wicked neg , interests. provit2ed See, then, how bountifully nature has without the help of artificial duties, to save tlies6 unfortunate landlords from the weight of burdens which they have borne for centuries, and whicfif: they have contrived •to diminish by degrees. Mother. Nature has, in these ith'ter days, created a barrier of Ns. or l2s. a quarter fol. thcirespcciai defence' and protection. The rapid b..crease of populatioaltas given them an advantage g-yeater than the burden is even pretended to be. A-' l4 now, while this enormous advantage iasecuaed them by the operation of physical causes, ilkC:" and their advocates have the presumption to as- , sert that they , will be treated unjustly unless a further protection of as. a quarter is given them ; thus creating an effective protection of Ids. or 17s. to counterbalance a burden which in 'reality does not exist, bat whieb, by those who think they perceive ita existence, is admitted to be less than ss. It is difiictt to .express with sufficient em phasis our indignation at the atrocious iniquity of these pro-landlord proposals.. Within the last seventy years, the nations of the Cuntinent have''been exposed, for above tive.ea.nd-t.henty years, to all the horrors of war raging in their confines, and carried by a most relentlss foe to their own hearths and altars. They have been plundered, wasted, ravaged, by the fellest instruments, of devastation. TV have been enjoying the advantages of' internal tranquillity, while others have been suti'ering to the extremity of human endurance. But in spite of all this contrast, theprice of the prime necessary of life, - instead of being cheaper in Eng land than on the Continent, as it then was, has now become dearer. The most favoured country hassukained the greatest loss; and with all our wonderful improVements in tillage, we have only contrived to *changeoplaces with those who have been exposed' to .every possible disadvantage from which we have been free. By this comparative increase of price, the landlords have received an enormous protection, greater than they ever thought of asking for hetbre. seeing the prospect of a greater gain, even this does not content them : for, having been once fleshed in plunder in the days of the fatal apostacy, their order has lost none of its keen rapacity in the interval which has since elapsed. Nothing will now content them but the absolute power of cooping up a population which is increas ing with unexampled rapidity within the limits of an island. whose powers of production they have already outgroWn. Miserable, shorts sighted men! When will they learn that ava rice and fraud are impolitic, as well as rialteo. `Y. —that injustice carries its own vengeance 01. .:e with it''—that extortion and hardness of I,• :t; will meet with their allotted punishineli" that those who have robbed the poor, are resolved to perpetuate the robbery, receive, at The hands of the poor, a fearful and mendtius recompence? Once more , w e tell this coot and icy aristocracy of Protestant England, the curse .ot' the Reformation is upon, them. Their ancestors dug- a pit beneath their feet when they confiseated the abbey lands.) and changed the condition of the poor, by converting poverty, which once had been honoure d as a holy . state, into - a crime, to be puni shed by the niisou, and. the Stocks, and the lash. Let them beware lest the fabric of their p o wer, now tremg with its hollow foundation, fall down into a blin hor rible destruction.' are likely to pur sue. The Corn-laws w in . a great system • ity. The conduct of the of iniquity. e consider as but one point ws regard chiefly as oristocracy upon those ot v symptoma Ba ‘ o , tread once more in repentance the steps their fathers have trodden in sin, Or the days of their order are numbered. They must once more learn the lesson of ruling the poor by love,or the poor will one r t d he th c e °,ll , ,r gu t b hey day— sooner, perhaps, than any of us imagine —learn the lesson of ruling them by vengeance.—Tablet. AAI E RICAN . VERY LIKE A N yr izAL& -.,-IVe. take from the Buffalo cionnnercial Ad v.:His& the. following letter, dated :Tonawanda, May 24, frd i n aT i N eatov.gemtleman to a "Brother Bob" in this city, describing an amusing manner Of taking the fi nn y tribe, presuming the process may be new t.', nutny of our readers :—" I have just returned froth rare fishing sport—catching bass in a canoe. You know I have had 'the impudence, when inquiredof, to say that. black bass were so plentiful here, that they would voluntarily jump into a canoe when row id =or paddled near the shore. Though I have en joyed ' this 'singular amusement every - 4;pring, for ten 'years, the fact, is so ineredibk— s== Dig fish. story—that I have avoided telling it Itl7enevr could. it you doubt, you have an opi.yrtunity of tesiing its truth :by coming here ; and you m , y bring a dozen - wituess'es .at my expense, unless I . prove to your entire satisfaction that what I here state is literally true -;--that you May catch a good string of the best fish (bass and spotted pike) without any fraud upon them what ever, either. by cheating them with a covered ,lioak or 'otherwise, but by their own voluntary - act.:. For several evening 6 we have caught from ten to thirty of -an oven cslogti; lug, by simply 'paddling our canoe within about fifteen rods g I 1 j- startle e b : a p e l n k t e . s , feet from the shore, ab - oat thirty ' ca o n n e oe m , o w m h en u t e , j ,o u t m h e p r li s n an ag reeable . and exciting arauseraent to see ten . or twelve en as ti s re ln ly th = r th a ; . gioaly with a rap aside of the head. C omo • and see for yourself."