The Sun. — London, England, 1841-04-26 00:00:00

RWING ODTTION Po trth Edition, Is., post ftee. 1 4d., with Portrait, Plates, and Battle Plans, • COMMODORE NAPIER'S LIFE AND EXPLOIT S. (NAPIER'S Sr•ECII AT '. ILE PORTSMOUTH ELECTION. " On my return to England. I was appointed to the Thames, in the Mediterranean ; and, if I could bring the inhabitants of the Neapolitan Coast into this room, they would tell you, that from Naples to the Paropoire, there was not a spot where I did not leave my mark, and brought off with me upwards of 100 sail of gun-boats and merchant vessels."—See page 9. London: Strange, Paternoster-row, and all Country Book sellers. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., THE MARRYING MAN. A NOVEL. By the Author of " Cousin Geoffrey," &e. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. U DER the MANAGEMtNT of MADAME YESTRIS. THIS EVENING. APRIL 26 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. Mitkews ; Mark Meddle, Mr. Harley ; Grace Harkaway, Madame Vestris; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Pert, Mrs. Ilumbt. litter which will be repeated, the Grand Romantic Fairy Ex travaganza, entitled BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Beauty, Madams Vestris ; The Beast, Mr. W. Harrison ; John Quill, Mr. Harley ; Dressalinda, Miss Rainforth ; Mar rygolda, Miss Grant; Queen of the Roses, Miss Lee. To-morrow, Let.don Assur4nce, with Beauty and the Beast. Doors to to opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at ;.even &Clock. Dress Belep, 75. ; Second Price, 33. 6d.; First and Second Circles, Ss. ; Second Price, %. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price. 2i.; Gallery Is. Tickets and plaees for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets arty be had upon application. Private Boxce, to be had solely of Mr. Andre Ks, bookseller, 't 7. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANA(JEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE _ AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Asteundin i s , Novelty. The greatest attraction ever presented to the Public, supyorted by the most powerful Company is the Metropolis. THIS EVENING, APRIL 26, Will be acted a New Grand Historical Drama, entitled WARLSHA ; OR, THE SAXON SLAVE. Vie Characters will include the whole of the splendid Com pany of this Establishment, magnificent Scenery, Costume, and Appointments, in addition to which a greater assemblage of Females than were ever engaged on the English Stage will form the Army of Amazons. After which, a Cemedietta, called THE LAUGHING PHILOSOPHER. In which 3lr. J. S. Balls will perform the principal Character. To conclude with EL HYDER. Ben Tareb, Mr. 0. Smith. Unequalled Splendour and Effects. "THE CHINA. SUN, " WHICH WAS REPUBLISHED LATELY, IS NOW ON SALE, With all the LA TEST NEWS. rB. AILWAY SUN WILL BE PUBLISHED TOWARDS THE END OF THIS MONTH. ONDON BRIDGE THIS ,A Y. %I rung ‘ s v l A'' minutes after ' 4 Evening 1 6 minutes actor 5 Parliament, and the attachment of the Times to the democracy would immediately cease. As long as that gentleman is kept out of Parliament he will wish to use the Chartists as the instru ments of his ambition. To make them serve his purpose the Times now advocates democracy; but as soon as that purpose is served, the Times will fOrget its convenient principles. The Chart ists, then, must keep out Mr. WALTER to keep the Times on their side. They will have.a. powerful friend in that Journal as long as Mr. WALTER needs their asssistance; but let them place him in Parliament, and the Times will again be in all things a Tory journal. In the progress of society, different classes of men, who have been very useful in their time, have been relentlessly extinguished. The ancient copyists, for example, were quite destroyed by the invention of printing. In America several tribes of Indians were annihilated to make way for the whites. In our own times and country we have seen the hand-loom weavers reduced to great distress by the introduction of power-loom weaving. These facts may serve to indicate the great and unavoidable changes which are conti nually taking place in soci€ty, against the evil consequences of which a wise Government would think it one of its first duties to guard. Not that Government ought to check the in troduction of machinery into use, but it ought to distribute its advantages as equally as possible over all classes. Society, benefiting by the new machinery, should provide for the individuals to whom it might bring destitution and death. Society, however, has done no such thing, and has very coolly told the hand-loom weavers and others, that they must protect themselves, that They must turn to some other trade and earn a living, as they best may. That these men have paid premiums and have devoted several years to learn the trade, makes no difference to the Legislature. It is inexorable, and says, were it to give them relief it would depart from general principles, and would interfere with the course of trade and the wages of labour. But the Legislature does not adhere to this principle whenever an office which it has createl is found of no use. Whenever some new mea sure of its own puts an end to useless places, one of its first cares is to compensate the holders of such places for their supposed losses. They are to be protected, at the expense of society, from all damage. Let what will happen to the tax-payers, the emoluments of these favoured children of the Legislature must not be dimi nished. The people, for whose sake alone the places and offices are made, may starve, but the place-holders must be fed. The debate on the Administration of Justice Bill on Friday evening is an illustration of this. By that Bill it is proposed to abolish the equity side of the Court of Exchequer, and, with the tenderest care of those whose services will no longer be required, the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQ UER introduced a clause to enable the Treasury to give compensation to all those who had held office before the 14th March, 1840, when the Bill was first introduced. Subsequent to that period, however, the LORD CHIEF BARON appointed his son to the office of Master in the Court of Exchequer, and the Tories, on Friday, by the mouth of Sir Wm. FOLLETT, moved an amendment to the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER'S compensation clause, the object of which was to include in it this gentleman. The words of the amendment went to substitute " holding office in the Court of Exchequer to the present time," for holding office on the 14th March,lB4o. That amendment was carried, and it was the act of the Tories, who now claim so much purity, who talk about saving the public money, to vote compensation to Mr. SCARLETT for filling an office about a twelvemonth, to which he was ap pointed by his father, that father being a Judge, after it was known that the office was to be abolished 1 All this may be very fair in the way of that warfare which the aristocracy continually make on the public purse ; but the hand-loom weavers, to whom all relief was refused when their trade was partially destroyed, will not think it very honest in the Legislature to vote money to its own friends and relations, and to its own class, while it refuses a sixpence to the hand-loom weaver. This, the weaver will say, "is only one specimen of that one-sided, one-eyed justice which has always been dealt out to the labouring classes by the Legis lature." " Yet that Legislature," they will add, " expects us to love and honour it as much as those for whose especial advantage it seems to exist, while we know it only as the instrument which taxes and oppresses ns." Whether the opinions of the weavers are likely to have any influence on the Legislature we cannot say ; but we are sure that a Legislature so acting neither merits, nor can preserve the respect of the people. It must not, for its own kith and kin, grab all that it can lay its hands on. In noticing, on Tuesday last, an article in the Times on the subject of the Attorney-General's "Criminal Justice Bill," as it affects the Char ter of Incorporation granted to the Borough of Bolton, we made some remarks, of which the parties opposed to the charter, complain. It is there stated that the petition of the inhabitant householders for the charter was " signed by an actual and considerable majority of the rate payers of the Borough." It appears, however, that there were at that time upwards of 9,000 ratepayers in the Borough, of whom, according to the report of the Commissioners sent down by Government to investigate the petitions, only 3,213 were found to have signed in favour of the charter. Whereas the counter petition, as con tended for by the opponents of the charter, was signed by a larger number representing a much larger amount of property rated. It is quite true that the ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S Bill is de signed to provide a legal remedy for an illegal contract pending the trial of its validity in the Court of Queen's Bench, where it is expected to be quashed during the present term. There is an error also in the statement about the comparativ e cost of prosecutions, which we may notice at a future time. We have been informed that this charter is str enuously resisted by those who are to be tax ed by it ; a petition having been presented a few days ago to tile house of Commons, praying exemption from the Att orney -G enera l' s Bill, signed by a lar ge ma j ority of the whole inhabi tant householders and ratep a y ers o f t h e Bo rough, each one's ad dress and calling be ing attached to his name. required or soug h t incorporation statedrVporatio n that "persons pro mo t i ng the of not required bein g t t h h e e c n o e n w fi r h in o r a o t ug ion s h of a t v h e e satisfied they are good in law ." Since the article was written, however, a change has taken pl ace. The parties now evidently have a doubt, as Mr. Ainsworth on the 23d inst. two days afterward s , gave notice of a motion "To insert a clause for confirmation of Bolton Charter of Incorpo ration," the supporters of the Charter thereby showing that they not only seek the confirmation of their charter, but admit their doubts of its va lidity. We were informed that the persons to whom our Contemporary vouchsafed support had discovered the charters were good in law, and were now willing to abandon their original op position for private gain, in the nature of " com pensation." This does not apply to opposition made to the Bolton charter, as its opponents have sought neither compensation nor Costs. Since writing the above the contract before re ferred to, and which the ATTORNEY-GENERAL by his Bill endeavoured to legalize, was this day brought up and quashed in the Court of Queen's Bench. The Madrid Journals received are of the 15th inst. The advocates of a single Regency in the Capital, the Provi nces, an d t h e Ch am b e rs w ere increasing in numbers and influence. The fol- tg_4l ), x, ..0 4AZ I f s , 0 _,...„, , . _ • . ......,..c.,..„,.., . i_ . 1, ~„.....r,?..„. % w .4. ...: _AL ~ w r ,,.. %,.r.7.• , .7 AI 0 4 .R , V.... ' .l* ‘ ' -1` .., ~. . '' ,6 17".11" (kI T Istre LONDON: MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1841. We have of late been highly gratified by the Times. Oa tV.ednesday it denounced the Con servatives, and on Saturday it wrote a bold arti cle against Loid CARDIGAN. It spoke of his con duct as diabolical, and it demanded his dis missal from her -MAJESTY'S service. The Sun had previously taken a similar view, though it was impossible for us to urge it with all the ve hemence of the Times. Our Contemporary, on that point, is at present finite a Radical, and, with his assistance, we may hope to see Lord CARDIGAN retire or be dismissed from the army. On Saturday, too, our Contemporary took the fade of the humble classes akainstybe upper ciasses, and adopted sentiments ,which we have of late endeavoured to make -familiar to our readers. For example, we have, on two several occasions, lately insisted on the fact that the .upper classes know little or nothing of the lower da , :ses, for whom, nevertheless, they persist in making laws. Our Contemporary said— 'I he lines of demarcation are too strong, and too seldom passed. One order in society knows nothing of, and (almost) cares nothing for, those ranks which lies beneath it. The splendour in which men in the very first rank in England live, shuts out of sight the whole condition of the humbler classes ; and the multiplied occupations and engagements of a Parlia mentary leader render it impossible for such a one, however ,kindly disposed, to seek out a personal knowledge of the poor by his own personal investigations. Hence it follows that men of this class are driven to form their ideas of their fellow-men, ay, even of their poorer neigh bours, often pining and dying within sight of their splendid habitations, from roe theoretical portraitures of political eco nomsts, or the dressed-up " reports" of some hired and tu tored " Commissioner." And this abstract way of viewing " the poor," as if they were merely one element of a large calculation—one of the data upon which a theory was to be built, necessarily tinges with a cold and unfeeling,hue every part of the Parliamentary 'discussions on these subjects. The isuth is, however odd the :assertion may seem to many persons, that the only rational away of considering " the poor is to make them the chief ob £ct of every plan, the central point of every system. Our C. utemporary, then, not only insists on the fact of the legislatois knowing nothing of the poorer classes, but also insists on the propriety of those legislators making the poorer classes, of whom they know nothing, " the chiefobject of very plan—the central point of every system." The Chartists could not carry their doctrines further. They insist on legislation being-directed for the benefit of the poor, and they desire to possess the power of making laws only to carry that object into effect. Our Contemporary by implication coniremns the Constitution, and the "lory mode of working it, for that is founded on a basis which excludes the poor from considera tion, and die Toiies emphatically use it to promote exclusively class-interests. Lest any doubt should exist as to the extent to which our Con• .temporary carries his doctrine, he adds— It is not on Poor laws merely that a wrong strain of fi gi ught prevails. nestle in which the Corn-laws are dis cussed in the House-of Cormnons is equally erroneous, The question is made to turn- ripen the interests of the land lords or the farmers: whereas, the-only safe and rational way of dealing with the sub j ect is to ask, what are the inte r e s ts o f the millions? we tnnK, be m uc h sur , • Th e public kill, i prised at such Radical sentiments in the Times. Not care for the landlords or the farmers! What will Breeches-pocket BARING say to that'? 1 4.1rhat will Farmer RtcrotoND or Farmer Buck -CWIIAM say to. that? Not care for the eyes of society, and think only of the toiling millions! . The whole House of Peers, and one-half of the House of ComMonS, will cry out, "Absurd ! Why do we trouble ourselves about law making they will naturally say.," Why do we yrtste our time, when we might be so much more agreeably occupied, by attending night after night in the House of Commons or Lords, but to take care of ourselves and our friends? and to expect us to take care of the mil lions is out of the question." The sentiments of the Times might suit the Chartists, but they will be at once rejected as contrary to all principle .and all practise by the Tories. Our Contempo rvry, us fact, by these sentiments declares lihnself a Chartist, and he looks to the Chartists for his immediate reward. The sudden change is remarkable and suspi cious; and would be, were it not for the pending Nottingham election, inexplicable. The last paragraph of our Contemporary's leader, how ever, like the posteript to a lady's letter, is the most important part of the whole : The incr,ase of the numl:er of such men as attend to the poor in the House of Cominons, ou:d be one cf th e greatest advances that could be made towarkls a restoration of the good feeling and cordiality which are now sensibly diminished, if not totally lost. And it is when considered in this point of view that the return of Mr. Walter fur the populous boro?gh. .of Nottingham becomes a contingency of the greatest possible importance. - To get Mr. WALTER elected for Nottingham, the, Times panders to that democracy which on sither occasions it so bitterly chides. It is rea sonable and moderate when it wants something of the people, but when it wants nothing then it is hard and brutal. To insure the service of the Times it must be kept dependent on the Chart ists. Let them once place Mr. WALTER in THE NUN, LONDON. moNmAyl APRIL 28. lll4l. lowing report of the proceedings in the Cham bers on the 15th inst. is rather interesting : Tn the Senate the President announced that the Committee appointed !o draw up the regulations to be observed on the junction of the two Chambers for the purpose of settling the Regency question was ready to submit its report to the Chamber. The following were the articles proposed to the House:— " Art. 1. The Cortes shall meet to settle the Rogenq question on the day that Government shall decide. " 2. Each Chamber may deliberate singly, but not vote. " 3. The Deputies and Senators united shall then vote, first, on the number of Members the Regency shall contain ; se condly, on the persons of whom it shall be composed. " 4. The vote shall be by ballot. 5. For the first vote each deputy or senator shall write in his bulletin one, three, or five. " 6. Should there be no absolute majority the first time, a seeond ballot shall take place between the opinions having most votes. _ _ .----- " 7. Should the result be the same, chance shall decide. " 8. The same method shall be followed for the election of the Regent or Regents. " 9. No discussions shall take place even on questions of order. The Constitution prohibiting the two Chambers to de liberate together." These articles were immediately adopted, with the exception of Art. 9, which gave rise to a discus:ion, M. Campazano ad vising its suppression, and to have inserted in its stead that all questions should be settled by a majority of votes. This was vehemently opposed by General Seoane, who said that the constitution positively prohibited deliberation when the two chambers were together, and that no violation of the fun damental law should be allowed. The gallant general asserted that there were men who wished to create anarchy, in order to seize on the property of hone - it and peaceable citizens ; but he would let them know that, when he commanded, such cri minal projects should meet with no success, and added, that 400 daggers, sent from Genoa, most probably with a revolu tionary design, had lately been seized on their art ival and transmitted to the tribunal of Valencia, which is charged with the investigation. After this vigorous sortie Art. 9 was carried. In the Chamber of Deputies M. Collantes and other Depu ties called on the Ministry to communicate the budget for the year 1842 as soon as it could possibly be got ready. The Mi nister of Finance, in reply, stated that the request of the HonouraVe Members was quite useless. as Government was desirous that the budget should be laid before the House with all possible despatch, adding at the same time that Government was desirous that the interest of the debt should be paid in order to re-establish the credit of the country. Our market has been rather brisker than usual. Five per Cents. have been done at 26a cash, and at 27 at 60 days. We have received the whole of the Paris Jour nals of Thursday. The Moniteur Aigerien of the 15th, announces that the dispute between France and the Emperor of Morocco has been amicably settled ; and that the new French Consul, on being installed at Mogadore, was honoured with a salute of twenty-one guns. The following of ficial report of the late operations in French Africa, under the command of General Bun- GEA UD, is the only piece of intelligence of any interest in these papers : FRENCH AFRICA. The Moniteur Algerien of the 13th inst. contains in its official columns the following despatch from General Bugeaud, dated Algiers, the 12th inst.:— " A detachment left Algiers on the 30th ult., with a large convoy, which it introduced into Medeah on the 3d inst. At the same time General Duvivier reconnoitred the mountains of Beni Sarah to discover a shorter and more military road than the Col de Alouzaia. He was attacked inces'antly by the Kabyles of this difficult country. He succeeded, however, in repulsing them. On retiring from the mountains he was suddenly attacked by a battalion under di,' command of Barkani, ex-Bey of Medeah. Being surprised in broken ground, he at first lost some men, but Colonel Bedeau having joined him, he attacked the Arabs, drove them back, and caused them considerable loss. During this day the 17th regiment of Light Infantry and a battalion of the 24th regiment of the line, commanded by Colonel Gentil, displayed much steadiness in resisting the incessant attacks of the Kabyles. This detachment had 11 men killed and 54 wounded, includ ing two officers of the 17th Light Infantry. " The principal column having deposited its convoy at Me deah, was attacked in its march towards the Wood of Olives by a numerous body of cavalry. A battalion of the 23i1, 48th, and a battalion of the 24th, commanded by the Duke D'Au maule, placed their knal sa.As on the ground and rushed upon the Arabs, whom they drove info a ravine. Several of their men and horses fell under the fire of the French infantry, and many were wounded. " On the 4th, at the moment that the escort ',which had de posited the convoy at Aledeah was mounting the so), the rear-guard, commanded by General Changarnier, was warn& attacked at the Wood of Olives in the rear, by the cavalry, and on the left by the regular battalions of Abd-el-Kader. This rear-guard supported charge valiantly, but it had nearly cost us dear, for General Changarnier received a wound in the shoulder, which at first was considered mortal, but the ball having been extracted the General again put himself at the head of his troops. " The affair might have become serious upon the left, which was attacked by two battalions of regulars, who came from the valley of Bouromi; if a battalion of the 23d, half a battalion of the 53d, and a detachment of sappers had not taken the Arabs in the rear, whilst Colonel Hauteville supported them with another battalion. The Arabs were driven into a ravine, numbers were killed, and eleven were taken prisoners. " At the same time Colonel Brunet attacked Barkani's in. fantry, and drove them out of the Wood of Olives, where they left several dead. The enemy being discouraged, retired on all points, and dared not again attack the column, which being obliged to take another convoy at Mouzaia, could not pursue them. The second convoy entered Medeah as fortunately as the first. "'This short expedition revictualled Medeah with nearly 400,000 rations, and the three battles which the enemy fought to prevent this has proved to him how utterly impotent he is whenever he attacks our columns. • " This day 400 cavalry from the east, commandel by Ben Salem, attacked the friendly tribes at Rassanta. Lieutenant Pelle marched out of the Maison Carree, at the head of 300 native Riflemen, put them to flight, killed several, and drove them as far as Sidi Kealed, with the loss of seven wounded. This officer showed.much resolution on the occasion." [Here follow the names of several officers and privates who distinguished themselves. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Sa:urday &cling ) LIVERPOOL COT TON MARKET, APRIL 23. —Nothing has occurred this week to change the position of our market, whic,'l continues exceedingly flat. Speculatsirs are inactive, n.:r I:as anything been done for export. The demand from the trade also continua s very limited, and consequently the basin. ss done is upon a small scale. Prices of American descriptions below fair quality have declined j to per lb., but fair and above are without change. Surat, are i f lower, and all long staple difficult to na:.ve at our la.t quotations. Sea Island may be had under the highest point. The sales to-day are 2,000 bags of all kinds. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 23.—The trans actions at the Stock Exchange this day have been limited, and prices have a tendency to decline. Present prices :—Glas gow, Paisley, and Greenock, 26 1 , ; Grand Junction, 210 to 211 ; Great Western, Half Shares, 641. In Bank Stock some sales have been made, consisting of Liverpool Union, 12i ; Liverpool Banking Company, 73. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 23.—The gene ral state of this market is not quite so firm as for several days past :—Manchester and Leeds, 644 ; Do. Halves, 27k; Edin burgh and Glasgow, 37i ; Lancaster and Preston, 32i ; 1)o New, 25 ; Bank of Stockport, 3Z ; Ashton and Oldham Ca nal, 106; Huddersfield Do., 261-; Lancaster, Do, 26. We still continue without any arrivals of consequence, but the wind having shifted to the south-west, we may expo et on Monday numerous arrivals from all quarters ; but that most anxiously looked fur will be from the West Indies, and of course put us in possession of information respecting the President, which can be depended upon, and do away with idle rumours set afloat for sinister views as well as gambling transactions.i The British Funds opened a shade lower this morning, left off 90} for the Account ; at fprespnt may be . quoted at 901 ) 1 , with scarce a bargain doing ; Money, 90i ; Exchequer Bills, 14 16 prem. ; Bank Stock, 172% 1731; India Stock, 2551 6;1 In the Foreign Market most of the prices are nominal as 3et. Spanish Active same as it lefi off, at 23i ; Deferred, I'2 a ; Passive, 5,4 i; Portuguese, 33 3 / 34, rather lower ; Three per Cents., 20k ; Brazilian, 69 70 ; Colombian, 23 ; Mexican, 30a ; Dutch TWO- and.a- Half per Cents., 52a ; Five per Cents., 99i 100. SHARES.—Great Western, 29 30, prem., New, 141- prem. ; London and Brighton, 21 2 dis. ; Blackwall, &ET. ; Birmingham, 69 71 prem. ; Southampton, 58 59 per share; Croydon, 13i 14 per share; Greenwich, 84- per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 15i 14i dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 74 Bristol and Exeter 6O ...... 37 .. ... to London and Brighton London and Greenwich Ditto Scrip... 3 ...... 5i to Midland Counties lOO Ditto i Shares South Eastern and Dover PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 22. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 97i , Grand Canal Stock ...... ... 1 Ditto Reduced _- Ditto Debs. 6 per sent... . _ . Ditto New, 1830 ...... 975 Ditto 4 per cent ... Si per Cent. Debs. 905 Royal Canal Stock Extract of a letter from Liverpool to Messrs. Anderson, &c. dated 23d inst., at Lloyd's, " The Dee is in from Bermuda, sailed 25th ult. ; no account of the President." The Dee was about to leave Jamaica about the 14th March, calling at Antigua and Bermuda, but there wtis no account of her arrival at Antigua on the 22d March. No credit is given to the above letter ; a Government ship never goes to Liver pool, but always proceeds for Falmouth or Plymouth. The British Funds have remained during the morning in active, which is generally the ease on Saturdays. consequently we have not a feature to communicate. Consols at present are a shade lower than in the morning, 9Oi, for the Account; Money, 904; Exchequer Bills, 14 16 premium; Bank Stock, 1721 i; Inda Stock 2551 ; India Bonds 3 prem. In the Foreign Market scarce a bargain doing. Spanish Active, 23i ; Deferred 12i; Passive, 54; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 52#; Five per Cents. 99 . / 101E$ Scarcely anything doing in the Share Market, no varia tion in the prices worth noticing. Birmingham and Glou• tester, 74; Bristol and Exeter, 37 ; London and Brighton, 474; South Eastern and Dover, 29. Consols, Account, 90i ; Mexican, 30i ; Portuguese, 334 34 ; Spanish, 231 Nothing doing. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bink `Stock .. 172 i India Stock 2554 3 per Cent Red B9* Ditto Bonds 3 pal 3 per Cent Cons 9o* Ditto Old Annuities ... 3i per Cent Red 974 Ditto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent 99i , Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2Ad 16 pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 500/ l6 pm Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small l6 pm Jan. 1860 l% Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 l2i India Stock for 0pg.... Jan. 1860 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent — Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent 8ra.,.....1ian 80nd5.... — Ditto , New Ditto 34 69i Prussian, 5 per cent. : 7'' 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent — Buenos Ay D Co it l t o o m , b l i B a 2 n ,l , . Danish, 3 per cent 6 per cent... -- !Spanish, 5 per cent 23 Chilian, 6 per et,i nt '••'" Ditto,i Metallic... Ditto, Deferred 5 per cent. --f. —c. ... 124 -, Greek, 18:45, 5 per cent. -- Exchange .........,,. _ f . _ _ e. Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent. --f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2/ per gent. ••• 52 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent..,. lO Ol SHARES. . _ , Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 74 Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) Great Western Railway (65 paid) ... 94 Ditto New Shares (50 paid 64 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) ... 11i London and Brighton (50 paid) 47i London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) :160 London and Greenwich Railway (20 pd) 84 Ditto Scrip. (4 paid) si London and South Western ' London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l4 Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ... .. 25 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) .. ...... Ditto Quarter Shares (13 paid) ... 214 South Eastern and Dover (33 paid)... 19 THE STEAM-SIIIP PRESIDENT. (BY EXPRESS.) LIVI.RPO L, SUNDAY MORNING. Durhlg the ivhole o!yestevday and Friday this town was fail of flying reports respecting the steam-ship President, now so long past due — one of which was that a Liverpool mercantile house had received a letter from Antigua, dated the 25th, brought by the Dee, which had arrived at Dartmouth with papers from Jamaica to the 14th, from Antigua to the 20th, and front Ber muda to the 95th, and at the latter place nothing was known of the President. A letter from Antigua has certainly reached Liverpool, dated the 15th, brought by a ship which had arrived at Dartmouth from Trinidad and Antigua, but she has not any news from Bermuda, a position too far northward for any vessel running from Antigua to touch, unless driven there by stress of weather. It is almost needles:; to state that the rumours given in the Irish Journals are entirely without any foundation. OUR CHINESE POLICY. TO LORD VISCOUNT PALMERSTON, G.C.B. My Lord.—Since the arrival of the last China intelli gc: ye, I have la en at some pains in examining the pec,- liar policy pur:kued by her Majesty's rep. esentative in that distant pait of the globe; and, in common with the whole circle of my friends, 1 see nothing in the whole of his proceedings but childish indecision of purpose, and the utmost feebleness of action. I was for some years, in the early part of my life, a resident in India, and I am consequently familiar with the geography, history, statistics, and local peceliarit his of most of the regions of the East, and I can confidently deelire, from a tolerable insight into the Cnice,e character, that our whole course of dealing with that singular people, from the earliest date, has been impolitic and vain. It would be tedious to your Lordship to peruse details of the extraordinary homage we, an enlightened people, have been accustomed, from time immemorial, to pay to this race of ignorant men. who really are, for the most part, in a state of semi-barbarism. The fear we have been accustomed to entettain of their shutting-up the trade in Teo, has been the prolific source of innumerable evils to our merchants, and in proportion to our pliancy their rapacity has increased. The extor tion, robbery by fraudulent bankruptcies, wretched humi liation in all our correspondence with their officials, weich we have suffered for ages, will scarcely fifty years hence, be credited by those who shall then read the strange his tory of our connexion with the Chinese. But these things are foreign to the object of my present communication, which is, as your Lordship may infer, from the observations w th which I began this letter, to point out what I conceive to be the errors of Captain El hot in his negotiations with the Chinese. In the first place, then, my Lard, I, in common with the vast majority of her Majesty's subjects cinnected with India, do most strongly impugn the political appointments in Chiea made by the Government since the revocation of the East India Company's Charter., At that period, pert aps, when things were geing on very smoothly at Canton, a Bedchamber Lord, like Lord Napier, would answer very well; his duties were anticipated to be slight, and neither lung experience nor great talents, seemed to be necessary for the due fulfilmeut of the end sou ht ht in ap pointing a sort of consular agent at that city. gt , 11,113W• ever, much as I agree with your Lordship in your ideas regarding general government, and compelled as an by the success which has in so unexampled a d , gee crowned your Lordship's foreign politics, to admire the talent with which Providence has endowed you, I cannot hold you quite exonerated from blame, in appointing to so distant a charge, an en- tirely unproved man, who might have almost irreparably injured our national character before your Lordship could have bad time to put him tight by your instruetions, or have entirely removed him from the scene of les errors, Captain Elliot's appointment was even worse—and I do not know what, at that particular juncture, the period of Lord Napier's death, and the bsgirining of our different - ;es with the Chinese, could hive induced your Lordship to pass over the multitudes of highly gifted men, who have won renown in India by the talent they have displayed for the highest branches of civil and legislative Government, and to appoint to an important diplomatic post an indi vidual known only to the world as a mere military man, a naval officer, and who has since proved himself utterly in competent to manage with credit and success the most trifitig political negotiation. My Lord, it is vain to say that any one with moderate abiht'eF, and a fair education, is fit for a consular post or a political residency. Where all is accustomed to go smoothly it may be true ; but it is always within the range of probability that differences may arise ; and in so distant a quarter, where a twelvemonth elapses before instruc tions can he applied for and received, no one, except a tried man, one who has proved himseet, when left to the resources of his own genius, an ins.ividual on whom the Government and the country may safely rely, that neither the honour of the one, nor the interests of the other, shall suffer where be is to guide, should have received this most important appointment. From the time of Captain Elliot's arrival at Canton unto the present raoment, there seems to have been a sort of Chinese incubus on his mind, cramping his energies, enfeebling big motions, and, I might almost say, paralysing his whole powers of thought and aeLn, Instead of repelling Insult la that high tone, and with shit noble disda'n which we in'g;it, have expected from him, net only as the repreentathe of a great nation, but as a man and an officer, we have seen him exhibit not only a total insensibility to language which ought to have celled for the loudest denunciations of iirath and in dignstion but return. to it addresses so meek, and of such pusillenimons forbearance, that the Chinese themselves must have been 4l once both gratified and astonished. My Lord, the natives of the East, fom ti,e Euphrates to Japan are, from eatuyal character and peculiar goy. re msnt, alike the creatures of superstition and vanity, With them, for the most part, show is everything, and, as with children, first impressions are rarely eradicated. It was more from his native impudence and the natural credulity of the people amongst whom be was bore, that Mohammed owed his success in propounding a new reli gious faith, than the truths he announced or the morals he enforced. In out' own pesassslope in fridia our whole course of policy, from the days of Cliye and the inagnifi. cent Marquis Wellesley to the pr sent moment, has been to impress on the minds of our Eastern subjects, by out. ward show and dignified language, sentiments of awe of our greatness, and admiration of our genius; and there is hardly a nation to be found, from Himala to Cape Cormorin, who ever seriously doubts the practicability of any undertaking by the East India Company. And this, my Lord, is the way to act with all half.barbarous nations ; if you re em to suspect yourself of weakness, nothing can be expected from such adversar:cs but unmitigated cone tempt and causeless injury. On the issuing of the first in solent edict by Lin, the first High Commissioner with whom Captain Elliot was brought in collisior, the English official should have replied in a strain becoming the repre eentative of his na'ion, denouncing even the Emperor, and threatening him and his subjects with the dire effects of our hostility. However, his conduct is now subject for history, and I should be sorry to trouble your Lordship with a recapitu lation of the series of rriserable measures pursued by that officer, from the suspension of hostilities after the capture of Chusan, to the last crowning deed of folly and mischief effected by his hands after the brilliant success which at tended our arms in the destruction of the forts in the Can ton river by our ships and troops. My Lord, it is rumoured that Captain Elliot would never have thug stopped abort our gallant soldiers and sailors in their career of victory, had not your Lordship, alarmed by the prospect of a war with France, imminent at the date of those instructions, not given orders to him to conclude a peace with the Chinese at almost any price; and this, so the report goes, is the only explanation which can be given of the strange baste with which Keshen's proposals for a peace were seized. fled he persevered in his tiosti.ities but for a week, perhaps for a day longer, he might have obtained what terms he chose, from tneir not altogether groundless fears of seeing the rich and populous city of Canton a prey to the cannon of our fleet and army. And Duty, my Lord, we have peace with them; we re ceive 6,000,000 of dollars, a sum which will hardly pay the expenses of the military expedition, and the barren islet of Hong Kong, which is deemed by the sapient ne gotiator to be worth the three or four millions of money duo fur the opium so unjustifiably seized by the tyrannical Lie, and for which the owners of the drug will have a right to come on our impoverished Exchequer. My Lord, this is a most lame and impotent conclusion to an expensive expedition, which, if common talent and sagacity bad directed is, would have produced . results of lasting benefit to the nation. The islet of Hong Kong is, you may depend upon it, my Lord, quite useless to us as far as commercial purposes are concerned ; and if we bold it, it will prove, like ti.e island of Ascension, e xpensive and burdens ome to us. If we had merely stipulated fur free ingress to the northern ports, and unmolested trade with the subjects of the Ce lestial Empire, ou r ultimate advantages would h ave b een greater than hey will prove from this worthless territo rial cession. . . _ My Lord, you are imperatively called upon, by a d ue regard to the interests of our beloved country, to with hold your ratification from this wretched treaty, whi c h is really so bad as not to admit of a single opinion being cx pressed in ill defence. Civilians, military men, and the mercantile interest, all concur in condemning it. With respect to the opinion that our national faith is plight e d by our representative, I know enough of the bad faith of the Chinese c/ aracter, to be certain that ay opportunities will be offered to us during the negotiations regarding minor details, to evade the fulfilment of the treaty, and to try anew the ultinia ratio. As a primary measure, Captain Elliot ought to be in stamtly r,called, for he seems to have latched, by his weak and vacillating conduct, toe confidence of all, and a neg ;tiator of known talent sent out to fill his place. My Lord, there is no dell th of men able to conduct the Chine;c affair to a conclusion h•,nourable and profit atle to us but let us pray am.. nu lamily consideration, no parialiry for c Weague or partizan, none of that nepotism which seems to have absorbed China patronage, be allowed to defeat the public good. I could mention a dozen eligible for the post, and even whose names would be a security that no blander would he committed, and whose experience in Eastern affairs would prove of inesti mable value in dealings with such negotiators as . the head, strong Lin, and the crafty Keshen , The Right Hon, Holt Mackenzie, formerly Territorial Secretary at Ben gil— i Franciv Warden, late Political Secretary n 13,m -ba y—and, above all. fir Charles Metcalfe, toe most po pu,ar man, as an Indian Governor , of the day. O ne o f taese men at t':e city of Canton, in the room of the pre sent untortunatc—l had almost said,imbecile—resident. would, with the ample means et command now in the China seas, not only bring us triumphantly through the difficulties which now beset our commerce and national honour in that region, but would lay the foundation of a trade between England and the eel-still Empire, so fruit ful of advantage to the former country, that the results, if calculated, would startle even the most sanguine. My LOre, the country waits with impatience to learn your decision on the treaty in question. Surely your Lordship will never identity yourself with Capt. Elliot in the feeble policy he has pursued, but will rather avow your strongest reprobation of the haste, indecision, and pusidanimity which are its distinguishing characteristics. My Lord, the public are sensibly alive to the shame which this treaty, this second Convention of Cintra, bas already brought on the national character, sod something energetic from your Lordship's lips, is absolutely neces sary to convince it that the interest of the country, in its foreign relations, are safe in your Lordship's custody. Let us then hipe that the disapprobation of Captain Elliot and his policy, so loudly expressed by the Indian press, and so largely participated in by the British public, will meet a ready echo in your Lordship's breast, and that a prompt remedy may be applied by your Lordship's hand to the extensive evil which that officer has inflicted on our best, our commercial, interests. I am, your Lordship's obedient servant, April 21, 1841. 11.1ERCATOR. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held a Court on Saturday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. Count Pollon, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary from the King of Sardinia, and from Ms Royal Highness the Duke uf Lucca, bad an audience of her Ma jesty. His Excellency was introduced by Viscount Pal merston, G. C. 8., her Majesty's principal Secretary of State tor Foreign Aff4irs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Master of the Ceremonies. Her Majesty was attended by Lord Lilford, Lord in Waiting, and Mr. Rich, Groom in Waiting. ThAr Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, attended by the Baroness Spaeth, arrived at Buckingham Palace at six o'clock on Saturday afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty. Their Serene Highnesses, soon after their arrival, went to Clarence House, Si. James's, to visit her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. The Queen and Prince Albert attended Divine Service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The sermon was preached by . the Rev. Dr. Hook, from Corinthians, chap. 13, verse 13. The service was read by the Rev. Dr. Vivian, the Lessons by the Rev. Horsley Dakins, and the Communion Service by the Rev. Dr. Vi- vian and the Rev. Horsley Dakins. The Chant, Te Deum and Jubilate in D, Sanctus and Responses, com posed by Sir George Smart. The Anthem, " The Lord is King," ( Arnold), was sung by Messrs. Hawkins, Hobbs, and J. B. Sale. Sir George Smart presided at the organ. The Rev. Dr. Snort was the Deputy Clerk of the Closet in waiting. The Royal suite included the Duchess of Bedford, Lady Caroline Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Lord Lilford, Lori George Lennox, Mr. Rich, • Lord ed Paget, Colonel Bouverie, and Captain Francis Seymour. The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty and Prince Albert, and the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, yester day, at Buckingham Palace. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal trai taken an airing on Saturday in a carriage and four. His Royal Highness Prince Albert attended by Colonel Bouverie, visited her Roy al Highness the Duchess of Kent yesterday at Clarence House, and the Duke of Cambridge at Cambridge House. His Royal Highness rode out on horseback on Saturday attended by Colonel Bouverie. Viscount Melbourne bad an audience of the Queen on Saturday, The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty and Prince Alpert on Saturday. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Duchess of Bedford, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Lord Lilford, Mr. Rich, Lord Alfred Pager, and Colonel Bouverie, honoured the Italian Opera with their presence on Satur day evening, - Yesterday was the birthday of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester. Her Royal Highness received visits of congratulation from their Royal aighnesms Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, aid the Duke of Cambridge. Moat of the Fo reign Ministers called at Gloucester House during the day, and left their names for the Royal Duchess, and also very many of the Nobility and Gentry. The Duchess of Kent attended Divine Service yester day afternoon in the Chapel Royal, S'. James's. Lady Anne Maria Dawson was in waiting on her Royal Highness. The Duke of Cambrecige attended Divine Service yes terday morning in Grosvenor Chapel. Major Stephens was in waiting on his Royal Highness. In the afternoon his Royal Highness attended Divine Service in St. James's Church. The Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Glou cester on Saturday. A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock en Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office. It was attended by all the Ministers. The Council sat three hours. A deputation, consisting of Sir Mathew Wood Bart., M. l'., the Governor of the Bank of England, Mr. R. L. Jones, Mr. Hall, and the City Remembrancer, had au in terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday in Downing-street, respecting the embankment in Thrcird needlk.-street, opposite the new Royal Exchange. Lord Hill and the Queen's Advocate had interviews with Viscount Melbourne on Saturday at his official resi dence in Downing-street. Sir George Arthur had an interview with Lord John Russell on Saturday at the Colonial-office. The Duke of Wellington visited the Panoramas of Damascus and Acre in Leicester-square on Saturday. MISCELLANEOUS ESTIMATES, &c.—These estimates are divided into five parts or branches. The first part includes the sums required for public buildings and Royal alaces, the new Houses of Parliament, and various other items, which amount to 311,1321. The second part includes the sums required fir the salaries and expenses of public offices, prisons. commissioners, inspectors, &c. which amount to 630,4361. The third includes the sums required for super annuation allowances, the vaccine est ablishmesit, &c., which amount to 106,9311. The fourth part includes the secret ser vice money, convict expenditure, the London University, and various other items too numerous to be specified, the total amount required being 1,045,657/. The amount required for secret service money is :39,2001. The fifth part includes the sums required for various civil establishments, &c., which amount to 239,0221. 'Thus the aggregate amount of the entire miscellaneous estimates for the year 1841.2 is 2,333,12301. It is with great pleasure we can state that a plan has been quite decided upon for throwing open to the public louse parts of the Regent',-park not already let or actually pledged. That portion to be for the future open to the public will far exceed in extent the reze.ved part 4. It is propozed to make openings or gates into the centre at the following five points: —viz , on the north west side of the Park, and oppo,ite Hanover-gate ; be tween the Marquis of Hertford's villa and that part now let out with keys to the public; another gate on the north west side, between the Marquis of Hertford's and Mr. Halford's villas; a gate on the north side between Mr. Halford's and the Zoological Gardens; a gate at the south-east extremity of the Zoological grounds and near St. Catherine's ; and one on the east side nearly opposite the Colosseum. We feel that it is quite sufficient to an• nounce this new source of health and recreation to the public, without either dwelling upon its many advantages or upon the additional claim it gives the Noble Lou' at the head of the Woods and Forests to their gratitude.— Observer. A deputation from merchants connected with the China and India trade had an interview with Viscount Palmerston in the course of the week on the subject of the recent events in China. It would appear that the depu tation rested their complaints mainly upen two points-1 namely, the inadequacy of the indemnity proposed to be paid by the Chinese Government to this country, and the want of any sufficient security, having been provided for the personal safety and independence of British residents in China, by the arrangements which Captain Elliot was said to have entered into with the Chinese Pleni potentiary. The answer of Viscount Palmerston was, we hear, to the effect, that as yet he was acquainted only with the principles agreed to between the Plenipotentiaries— viz., that the Emperor was to ceie to the British Crown a territorial possession in China, that en indemnity was to be paid to the British Government, and that the official intercourse between the two countries was, fur the future, to be conducted on tot ms of perfect equality. As yet his Lcrdship knew nothing beyond the admission of these im portant principles ; and, as it was expressly stated that the details were to be the subject of further negotiation, it necessarily followed that it was impossible for ►its Lordship to come to any conclusive opinion as to the acts of the British Plenipotentiary until in full possession of the de tails of the further negotiations so alluded to.—Observer. _ _ The Nottingham election is now causing no little stir among the Tories. The " Great Rejected," Mr. Walter, of the Times, seems to possess the exclusive privilege of attempting all the deperate elections in Eng. land ; and it is well, indeed, for the Carlton Club that a men cf so much good metal is in their service, the more especially as the contributions to their Election Fund are now tailing sadly off. Mr. Walter, however, is destined to be again beaten off, and sent back minus his usual amount of thousands. Any candidate who descends to employ money in disreputable purposes, is certain to succeed in raising a hot outcry among pa , ticular classes in his favour, but the great body of electors are generally more disgusted than seduced by such enthu siasm. Nor is the present contest in NAtingham likely to be of a (Hitt - mit complexion, although sonic few n.is guided w: etches who take to iheinselves tile name of Char , Outs have joined the outcry against Mr. Larperit, the Li beral candidate. The Chartists, generally, however ex treme and unyielding in their opinions, are too sincere and too eh ar-sighted to be led away in so silly a manner. The more educated and reflecting of their leaders have must properly separated themselves from the violent declaimers, and the fact of the former keeping aloof from Mr. Walter and his gold, is sufficient of itself to explain why the others are employed in the servce of the enemy. —British Queen. Oysters have been so plentiful here this season, that within the last few days they have been retailing et the Quay at 4d. per score. —Dover Chronicle. The members of the Navy Club dined together at the Thatched House Tavern on Thursday evening, then Sir C. Nap :e,- honoured the e n tertain mnent company. Admiral Thompson presi c ed, and amongtti hits party weie the Earl ut Nlanvers, Lord F. Gordon, Sir C. Malcolm, Sir Couttetiay B ey i e , Sir W. Lake, si r C. Sullivan, Captain Deans Dundas, Captain Sotherby, Captain Forbes, and rather a large party. BURFORD'S PA NORA Al A.-011 Saturd ay t h e Duke of Wellington paid a visit to the p anora mas of Sr. Jean d'Acrc and Damas cus, in Leicester-square. H e appeared in good health an d s p irits, and too k very great interest in the views, w hich were explained t o hi m b y t h e painter and a military g entleman who ha d lately been in the East. On leaving t h e exhibition th e D uke was loudly c h eer ed by those wetoufslcle to see hi s Grace depart. We are glad to learn, in the best informed quar ters, thet there e xisis no lik iihood whatever of the case of Mr. M'Leod leading to any rupture of the friendly rela tions between Grcat;3ritaia and the United States.: monmiNr(4. eDtplol4. DR. ELLIOTSON. SUPERB AND DOUBLY HONOURA I I PRESENTATION OF PLATE, F 1 1,% THE GRATEFUL AND AOf STUDENT, TO THE TRULY EMINV AND MAGNANIMOUS PROFESSOR' " Envy still follows merit as its shade; - But like the shadow proves the substance Yoe' Who dares the realms of prejudice invade, With new-born science, fails—because 'tis f On the 17th inst. a Deputafi on o f Stude° t4 : University College waited . npon Dr. Eil l°ts° :, with a superb piece of Plate, and the followi°, address : • :ad "Sir,—ln accordance with a resolution e r at a meeting of several of your friends aaail nse pupils, and in b e h a lf o f t h ose gent l e men w` • ' n ' u t names are here appended, we h ave 'to be o f acceptance of the accompanying slight oll r ' our esteem and gratitude. -e 5 ° " In appeari ng b e f ore you f or a parr: ar gratifying, and so muc h i n accor d ance with own wishes, we cannot but attempt, howov el ; adequately, to express the feelings thus actuated our fellow-students and ourselve-e'a " Whilst we believe that f ew have labo ll ' more energetically in the cause of truth, or 11 ', s e , devoted themselves more earnestly and ell so tively to the adva ncemen t o f th e b e st iate re ,, of :Medical Science than yourself, we feel lent vinced that no ne h ave ever s h own more t o ce for imparti ng th e resu l ts o f extens i ve e xPerl ell , o ' . or have evinced mori of patient attention ant' tiring zeal in the arduous duties of a Teache r ties " Hence with th e a d m i ra ti on o f your abi ll c e and respect for y our serv i ces to M e dical Sell a which we entertai n , in common with thos e sv t i, know you less, we canno t b ut f ee l thoses e l il i o merits of esteem and regard towards you ` ; s : ° are naturally the res u lt o f our re l at i v e P° 3 — as Scholar and Professor. if use " We therefore feel it no less a pleivar., confer on ourselves than a duty we owe thank you most sincerely for the impuO al ' it : ce a vies you have r en d ere d t o a ll w h o 1 13 ' 1 1 of your pupils, and hav e h a d th e opport ll ° ll, YOO profiting by your valuable instructionsl il an ie practice of our pr o f ess i on while at th? ;re • time we beg to ass ure y ou th at we s h a ll ef e- o i. member the urbanity and ki n d ness whie ll it formly marked y our i n t ercourse w i t h us dunes period of several years. t he " In conclusion, we beg your acceptance ° hov e accompanying Piece of Plate, which we at i° 4 may long serve to remind you of 'the estlit:wer in which you are h e ld by your f r i en d s and pupis." The fAlowing was Dr. Elliotson's replY l-- c v " Gentlemen,—Thi s i s th e most gra tifYi4 of my existence. to til e " Front my entrance into the profesPion -- present moment I have never thought at.fatloc other method of advancement than that °' - o r duously pursuing knowledge and. conduct in g: l the self well. Whenever I have comminlieate-A to results of my observations or investigatn jV the medical world, it has not been till ti , j ' e o - ii s r boriously repeated inquiry, so that I felt L'be lutely certain of m y f acts : f or no thing C , ali v 14 more unpardonable th an to l ea d ot h e rs as ti- ' Ol l- the science of medicine. Whenever I la av , e ,, ao 4 vocated a subject not we ll k now n, and al ea rejected, it has not b een t ill I h a d investigate'coolly, patiently, a n d conscientiously. rult has been the eventual admission of wi ltl ' - r I have asserted resp ec ti ng di seases , a nd the ado g tion of every medicine of which I have g iv , e 4 , favourable report. In ad v o ca ting phrelun nars, as I have done for near ly fi ve an d twentyl e a m and Mesmerism, as I have done for three Y e d. areall have adhered st r i c tly t o f acts , a nd so sh un a re all speculation, that th ose ph reno logists wil e .00 e more prone to listen to auth or ity, and more P t riie to speculate, than to exa m i ne nature and t ° P a few positive facts before a multitude of F re , sumptions, regard me as little advanced i n P nological knowledge; and many mesmeris ts P I s o nounce me a sceptic, and, indeed the.fants are a el .wonderful and unlooked for, that.l have am r ,` l ,, - c e none, and will affirm none, 'which I ' l. : e t not'myself satisfactorily witnessed, how e ', high:the authority which declares them. -vir e) ology has now at least twenty thousand i t ' l) ; porters in this country ; and Mesmerism d ' 4l e gaining ground among able and. seieu4 ve ry sons, and is undergoing investigatiou ,, W • many quarters. I IP ra What has been my reward frOU I frolo mass of public and private practitione r %dica l colleagues, and from ne arly a ll • the Pe ri xpe tv press, you well know. But had %pot enced ten times more than I have, I sil eu , er cd have deviated from my course, nor Pr e ; or less entire my love of scientific truth/ ° t o' gray, and of independence. Nor, if I kg ° ` v self, do I fear that I shall ever ella n g e c i 1): 1 real love of thos•,! three thin g s is heightens, oth er persecution; and I can conceive Il e • purpose in the ordinati on o f persecuti on w ore the usual lot of such love, than to reader % r od intense, and to cause its objects to be r e a . ore as themselves a sufficient reward and t° o,* than ever outshine riches and worldly h °llo t he which are indiscriminately bestowed 11 P e tr il o rtli° ignorant and the well-informed, upon the less and the good. rd e But sooner or later an external rewg' e come. I assure you th a t thi s d a y an - IPbc r-c oof penses me for everything. Yo u ' have Ail " ba t kind feelings over-estimat e d m y deser ts ' t ioog• you have not over-estimated my good in te A il a ult It grieved me much to p ar t f rom you a til. to be sphere in which I had the greatest des f ee ami d useful. But a proper respect for my t" - for myself rendered my resignation a duty : as of Accept my warmest thanks and expre ssl° o time sincere attachment. May you all Parsti road to true happiness and find it. 1•50' JOHN ELMO-- a b tbiii,Aii,c e :neii eilaeoi p erel aypi r inki e ,ii ge s ,ehl e ceatal i eaan i gs t f r e ,be:c d ael t tutd.in o .dt:aa,r J : WALSALL.—The Anti-corn-law testiOnl'alide Walsall, is now finished and ready for presentation. ' M il ,' derne atit is the following , w l i 6 t with inches fire scroll i n d isahr: e e l t d e s r ,: ° c o l John Benjamin Smith, Esq., by the ladies of ‘", t , - . r i , as i r u n.n' i s( a h .t s i : g c ao , n h , i d o n t r i i e l , c l i r r i d i e e : cs f _s . tpe:r . T . f ri p n b r e d: l s u r t ;;;;a l ‘C l iltfj ;l : a testimonial of their gratitude arid esteem fo r - ;;ea r " triode and spirited manner in which he stood 1° f t ile in February, 1841, to contest the representation Z r bi• borough with a monopolist and a bread-taxer; ',pooir upright and independent conduct, and urbane cicl' lc o rie',. during the struggle ; and fur his general aad on% e lliP advocacy of the rights of all, itn opposition to t ll° , o ,,y . l' e interests and usurped domination of a class. ho iJ l4 live to enjoy the reward of his exertions in ix • 1; - „,le i 5 ilca.:wlioss:Briheirnitd.bevhaeSbbeihr. yornsra:i ti:vhbre,:reFr: i'Pqt.i Jo: our late among a nadiei Ja il : , esoar:, truth triumphant, and his country happy." The bc f url surrounded with the rose, thistle, and shamroc k ' o bis tastily chased in dead and brigh t silver ; the lout ' 0 r is having a beautiful effect. The weight of the O l ''oli : nearly seventy our.ces. It is proposed to gye a 0 , or vest or tea party to Mr. Smith some tim e in - i s to month, and occasion will then be taken to p resent tbe to him. —Anti-Bread-tax Circular, cer THEATRICALS AT COURT.—There We r e yls' Lain incidents in the rehearsals which, as far as be,f ; gii jesty was concerned, the Itltng by no means approvo•6l, for example, when a kiss was to be given or Tre e , he swing l • would manifest sy m p toms of uneasite3s,o4 backward a n d * forward on lit cha ir ', isi/ cwilooulluglidhs l o udly. " These thugs," he would say, in i ,'; fa r observed in the performance, hut there is no neees'"bio f r r t o li m a t r h i e u s g e mthaenmifes"tatiletnls"osl.ddeeismapepdropbrautdiconnt, tloeittatill'c'/:/siflo should prohibit the performances altogether. , t r:' therefore resolved, that there should be nosalutirto t o ulti licarsals ; and that, by way of subst tute, the Isdieisos P o t o incline their heads, and the gentlemen raise their 1 i g i ' o ,o their shirt ft ills, and kiss the lace.—Theodore •ii French Slays, ll° , < ...-• • CONSTITUENCY OF GRE.AT I.3ItITA."' Ty' number o °lectors on the various ri•gisters (!f Gret, ..d, '4[ l o" of tam for the year 1839.40, was as foll)ws—v• z. l ' nu _Ler t:n.al number of county voters, 452,651; total. 9, ~, eO . l borough voters, 319,159. Wd . CE —zounty vote! e., 3 , _°,,,,„ ot borough voters, 10,039 ; gr, ss total nuinber of i t ,c e w to, ,, England and Wales, 819,612. In Scotl 10, 0.. 1 ' __ ol) . , number of county voters was 47,002, aed that of ,N' voters 35,697, making altoge.her 82,699. niu,5,3,..40 td c o nstituency of Great Brita i n amounted ill 1 ; irc lat', about 902,311. The gross total constituency :3-siith pe r was in P. 4.39-40 154,1157, equal to more than .Tl,-,.0,1,114, of the constituency of Gre at Bri.ain, including D 6 -0 Wales, and Scotland, „i e bol le NW' .e' vestry,O N S i a r. tu K rd cn a s ) e •, tt at a e l tr aord irl i s i,il payers of the parish generally upon the the Pa r° )of change in affairs and the healthy state . _ ., ,, 0 r.. , i_j finance. The vestry ha.1,..t the present time, Ili 0, ~..., h 0 ,.. „ s t, 1 0 000/.:Palance the favour in the tiana , : wou ld : 00 in aT. r y few days he understands that 13 t t' ta Y king Cil the still snore pleasing du'y to perform of theofbothianered nd the I P r i rates a sum exceeding another 12,000/. HANOVER. The Cassel Gazette publishes the following proe,latuaion of the King of Hanover : " PROCLAMATION RELATIVE TO THE CONVOCATION OF THE STATES-GENERAL OF THE KINGDOM. " Ernest Augustus, by the Grace of God, King of Hanover, Prince Royal of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Cumber land, Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg, &c., declare, that the preparatory measures required by the law of the constitu tion published on the Gth of August of last year f.nr the convo cation of the States-General being terminated, in pursuance cf this constitutional law we convoke a general assembly of the States, and fix the 2d of June next for the opening of the same. We command that all those who have a right to sit in either of the two chambers, whether by personal right or by reason of their functions, or by legal election, repair in proper time to our residence, in order to assist at the open.ng of the session, and take part in its deliberations. The present proclamation shall be published in the first part of the record of the laws. " Given at Hanover, April 14, 1841. " ERNEST AUGUSTUS, " Baron de SCHELE." ISLE. Or BOURBON.—We read the following passage in the report of the Captain of the Adolphe-Fanny, which has arrived in the river of Bourdeaux from the isle of Bourbon, the follow • ing statement :—" On the 21st of January, 1841, in 38 deg. 18 min. S. lat., 27 deg. E. long., boarded by the English. war brig Curlew, commanded by Lieut. J. C. Rest, after hav ing tried in vain to evade her. But his orders were supported by a cannon-shot. This circumstance, together with the un• pleasant news received at our departure, induced us to believe that we were prisoners of war. The commander, who came on board, left us for some time in this painful error, solely, we suppose, to enjoy our embarrassment ; but before he left us he allayed our apprehensions, giving us news Hp to the sth of Oc tober." The King and Queen of the Belgians will arrive at Paris on Friday. The Prince de Joinville will arrive from Cherbourg on the same day. A letter from Vienna of the 12th instant, speaks of several illustrious alliances Winch the house of Austria is stated to be on the point of contracting. The Crown Prince of Sardinia is to be married to the oldest daughter of the Archduke Rey nier; the Emperor of Brazil to another daughter of the Arch duke Reynier, or to a daughter of the Prince of Salerno, whose mother is an Austrian Princess ; and a ,on of the Duke of 1110- dine to Princess Januaria, sister of Don Pedro, Emperor of Brazil. —Le Commerce. BO URSE. -.PARIS, THURSDAY, APRIL 22. f irst Highest Lowest Last Price .s. Price. Pm* Price r v,i.co 5 . per Cents il3 85 .., 113 9i ... 113 85 ... 113 1k) 4 per Cents 99 35 ... 99 35 ... 99 35 ... 99 35 3 per Cents 7ll 30 .. 75 35 ... 79 25 ... 79 30 clank ot rrance LAtitte Hank 5,0001. shares 5157 50 ...5157 5C ...5157 5C ...5157 50 a:igaan Bank S per Cents lOl% ... 101 A ... 1013( ... lull 3 per Cent. 7l 25 ... '7l 25 ... '7l 25 ... 71 '25 ipanisti Active `'4% ... 2474 ... '...4% ... 24% Passive... 5% ... Sit ... 5 ... 5. 4 Portuguese 3 per Cents 2O►A ... 20 1 ,4 ... 29% ... 204 Neapolitan lO4 ... 104 10 ... .'.;4 ... 04 10 Rowan .. 103% ... 100,1 ... 103% ...10 3 ; _ _ .... _. ........... ItAILWAy St Germain 717 k 0 ... 715 %IS Versalllef,N. B ..... 370 37 , 370 370 LB. ........... :45 ... V. 47 N . 1'42 50 ..:47 50 Rouen 460 463 .St. t, Bale Montpellier to Cette t 6 ... 2641 ... 260 160 Mulhausen to 'Diann ..... .145 ... 445 ... 445 445 TORIES AND CHARTISTS.—We have been in formed by a Correspondent that the Agent of the Duke of Newcastle and one of the Chartist leaders are canvassing Nottingham together in favour of Mr. Walter. It is very natural that the sinking Tories should catch at any straw that offers itself to their grasp, but it is not proper that the buoyant Chartists should suffer them selves to be pulled down by the drowning Tories. It is the height of charity in them to save their enemies, though should they succeed and replace the Tories i n p owe r, they would, probably find that the serpent t h ey h a d warme d i n t o lif e w ould in the fi rst i nstance exert his new-found v i gour to sting them to death. missioners for the the year ended the li SHERY.-The report HER R/NG - p i Herring Fishery of their proceedings during They commence, by the Com b t of April, 1840, &c., is now befo-e us. observing, that, although they could hardly expect that the fishl ng In the year just ended, regarding which they now report, could nearly April, in success that of the pre viousalthough year (ended the sth of the most successful fishing that has 1839 19 was the fishing i f n a g r yet occurred since the esta blishmenthave nevertheless the 1840, falls short of the sattstacttonofof thbeeilo'gishaebriye itl ,yetyvetrhye much e t appears, ginratnhdetoytealrofentdhaedt ethnedesdthtboef paratively small number of 11,614% barrels, • that exceeds the the to ta fishing stihoiantgittotfy any h p er r r e i % n i g o s us en y r e ed ar,: itei.n also, report was 543,945 barrels, and the total qu period of this 252,522 barrels. The total number of vessels which exported cleared outwards for the British herring fishery have been ended sth of April, 1840, is 195, and the total nutub the year er which has been entered inwards from the said fishery during the same period is 159. WRIGHT'S BANICRUPTCY.-00 Friday M r . Biddulph appeared in the Bankruptcy Court, and pas se d his final examination. He was in a most enfeebled state, end was supported by the Catholic Chaplain of his family establish. ment and two gentlemen. It was 1 , it h the greatest difficulty that he signed the detailed account of his affairs and the other documents. FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL. BRUSSELS, APRIL 22.—The averale price of Wheat last week was 17f. 79c., that of Rye 10f. 66c. per hcctoli re. The King and Queen and their suit- set out this morn. ing at sev_n o'clock for Paris, by way of Courtrai and Lille; they went from the bridge of Laeken by the iron railway. Sir George Hamilton, Secretary to the British Em bassy at Beilin, has just alighted at the Hotel de Belle Vue; he is on his way to London with important deapa ches. LIEGE, APRIL 21.—Their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Pi incess of Leiniegen, and suite, slept here last night on thew way from Coh gue to London. BRUSSELS, APRIL 23.—We are afraid that their M,- j..slies will not return to Brussels before the Bth or 9th of May. The Court of Caseation has been ergaged in its three last sittings in hearing the appeal of two English inch viduals, William Pau, and Angeline Lamont, wife of Frederick Pype, who were condeninei, the first to 15, the second to 12 years' imprisonment with hard labour, by sentence of the Court of Assizes of Brabant of tne 19th February, for having defrauded several bankers of Belgium of considerable sums, by means of forged letters of credit. Eight grounds for the cessation of the sentence were alledged by appellants in a memorial, which was distributed among all the members of the Court. The sentence of the Court will be pronounced at its next sitting. THE HAGUE, APRIL 22.—1 f we may give credit to the Hague Journal, the Hecla steamer, which left Rot terdam on Saturday last for Helvoetsluys, is to make a cruise, by way of trial, in the North Sea, and afterwards to go to Cronstadt, for the purpose of Winging back a vessel built by the order of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, as a present to his Royal High ness Prince Henry of the Netherlands. It is added, that the Hecla is to sct out about the middle of August for the East Indies, and that it is, if p to perfoim the whole vu) age by the aid of steam alone. The. Rotterdam Courant informs us of the arrival,at Rot terdam, of Mr. Beck, who flatters himself with having discovered a method of propelling ships up and down the most tapid rivers without the aid of wind, steam, or tow age. Accordit gto the plan, the ships arc guided by the power of the water alone, with a regular dr gree of rapi. dity, which may be increased or diminished at pleasure. Mr. Beck is an inuabitant of Gie4 Biitain, and has now come from Germany. ISELUIANFUNDS—Bausenus, APRIL 23. Actual Debt. 5 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lOO% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 9l 3 per CenL ..... Thirty.seven— RAN Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent Bl% Society of Commerce, 4 4 per Cent lOO Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent... ......... . Bl NationalSeeiety. Exchange on London (shot t) —Brussels Papers, April 23. DUTCH FUNDS.--ASISThe.DAM, Aram 23 Money. t. i s. ictual Debt, 2% per Cent Jilt°, ditto 5 per cent. A melt Svndie,4 4 per cent 9l DI% Ditto, ditto, 31{, per cent 74 54i Commercial Company, 4% per cent 166 18;% Ditto (1835 and 1637) b per cent. Luau 1237, 5 per cent. tri 93 Exchange en London, One month l2 05 Two months ..... 11 25 Dutch Papers, April 24. AUSTRIAN FUN DS.—Vtentee, APRIL 15 Ilse per Cents. Metalliques Fear per Cents Three per Cents. ....................... 71% flank Shares ....... ......... .......... 1054 ...AUECMtifte ZeflUffe, April 20 PRUSSIAN FUN US.—BERLIN, A PR IL 20. Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 44 per cent. ..... HON 19 3 % Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. 101 100% Exchange on London, three months ...6 1 9 % —Prussian State tiezetie. April 21. In a vault under Hythe Church are deposited a great number of human bones, which are shown to visitors and others. The following brief account of how they came there is given in an ancient bistory of Britain. .4 I n the reign of Ethelwo.f, in the year of our Lord 843, the Danes landed near Hyta, or Hythe, and proceeded to Canterbury, which was burned by them. The Britons assembled their forces, and drove the Danes to their shipping on the coast. where a great bat tle was fought, and newly thirty thousand nigh were slain. After a time the Britons colleaA the lytdies, and deposited them in the charnel-house under the east pact of the Church of Hythe." Many of the abov e bones are of large size; and it is calculated that the men (in some instances) must have stood nearly seven feet nigh. Cuts, each of which must have proved a death to nature, ate distinctly seen on tie skulls of some, clearly show;ng that they fell beneath the sword, and giving e s reason to credit the statement thus handed down to p tetity, although nearly a thousand years ha vevassed since the above terrible conflict took place on enast. _ A Correspondent of Dover Chronicle. The exertions of the Stewards of the Covent garden Theatrical Fund Festival for the 29th have been, so far, eminently successful. Their applications for the valuable services of eminent vocal and instrumental per formers having in no instance met wi:h a denial. loosing over the list containing the names of the ladies and gentlemen who will appear during the evening, we were struck with the judicious and fortunate selection which has been made, nor do we remember having ever, on such an ocemion, read, as the actors say, " a stronger bill, K,w~ b So iTt c y i h e eo ty fa masons' atitution, Powerful Briti s h 30 0 schc daily car tion, if occasion. The Society eating The f, Knowled founded burgh, "« Mils. dkant re stitious iE the Instil ditional i clergy, Ni not leis I the immi surrounds Inquiri Metench° lected inl mainly l y country. sembling !note that other eon leagues o of th e Hi by arms c rapid riv generally Mountain able barri eluded, ni parish, bi cepting in reside. The A on the 6 lands the and on f .Patent Under th 4 Cbri Paled b 'Kith di Of the Ic the year ,Ring Ge schools o and parti On this charter, pupils in pied in e ,the same A.' • n aid tb the year formed i bee n ,equ tution, vanceicec sive greal The pc PUted to Sings of t extensive and smell ficial effe, Rratuitou • been erec betninaric di/charge idtendeuc 'whom un future st Though kaowiedp with ever dittoes *here G translatin derstand ttthha :At spirit, ci a rwsic f ta t . 4 i : al T he le.hef°°l which g. p ybkine s o h'eeal l e d l lardn i ß a at t ncd t i ley : P d 1 : 1' !gin and Eldon, 't A. Grant '1,,8 Bond Cooke, E "'Oliphant Over emblazon tlid witl guests 4Ppearam Ras extre Coldstrt altei Cornrany and nati Were Me and Brad gratificati After a the cloth lery be The C tow my E sernbly c claims Queen.— tlemen, devoted by feelin, person of additi toast wit this occa that we t he healt to honou hav e c :'ave fulti 111 reserve . "(Lcud Air—. The C tonour ti RC