The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-10 00:00:00

i• 4 Nix -r, " EDITION' storm of the impending crisis. Should our ardent ex pectations be realised, the Whigs will establish a further and the proudest claim on the gratitude of their country. They have, aided by the hearty support of the people, effected a gigantic reform in the English representative .• system--thrown open to general competition the vast markets of the East—annihilated the revolting slavery of the • West, and laid the foundation of good and re sponsible Government in the towns and cities of this kingdom. These, though important and glorious - achievements, will confer infinitely less renown than the act which they are about to propose, if it only fulfils the nation's hope by totally abolishing the iniquitous tax on the first necessary of human existence, and thus giving liberty to the industrial energies of the people. The duty of the electors is obvious. We doubt not that their _conduct will be worthy of the occasion, and equal to the momentous consequences at stake. Laying aside for a season their sectional differences, they must unite, as the l i heart of one man, to secure the commercial deliverance -which has so unexpectedly appeared in the prospect. (From the Edinburgh Chronicle.) AnorxrioN or THE CORN-LAWS. — We understand that a Member of the Committee of the Anti-Corn-law As sociation of this city has left town for London, with the p et i t i on subscribed by upwards of 27,000 of the in habitants in support of a total abolition of these obnoxious laws- The petition is to be entrusted to Sir John Camp bell for presentation. 'We trust that other associations throughout the country will act in a similar way. We are happy also to be informed, that the public bodies of the city are in motion for the same object—and for a re vision of the Import Duties. The Guildry are to meet on Monday, the Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, and the Merchant Company on Wednesday, We believe that a public meeting of the inhabitants will be held in the beginning of the week. (From the Cork Southern Reporter.) - When first announced, many were alarmed at any re duction in the corn duties, and it was not unnatural ; but it is quite a mistake ; a fixed duty on corn will not affect prices materially in Ireland, while it will work unques tionable good otherwise. Since our last publication we have had an opportunity of conversing with many largely interested in this question—men of high intelligence and great practical experience, and we were agreeably sur- Prised to find that they were, after calm reflection, clearly of the same opinion with ourselves, as to the beneficial, or rather harmless, operation of the proposed change. But not only in its agricultural interests, this change will not be of immediate detriment to Ireland ; it must also affect powerfully her political condition. While it will raise and augment the popular strength of England, it will weaken and disarm the party that has ever unre lentingly refused the smallest boon to • Ireland. The principle of government is changed. Ministers have adopted a new creed,. They mutt' henceforward govern for the people, and if so, they have, in answer to the Irish people, no alternative but to grant the fullest measure of equality.. They are pledged as an Administration to their new course, and it now rests with the people—the strong, united, and invincible people—to work out this measure, and achieve their own happiness in the truth and justice of their laws and government. (From the Birwick Advertiser.) Out of evil cometh good—out of a deficient and de clining revenue has arisen, or is about to arise, the boon which justice and reason, and the true interests of the country, were likely long to demand in vain—a tho rough ;dorm and remodelling of the existing system of commercial tariffs, beginning with the master grievances of the corn, the timber, and the sugar monopolies. The announcement of the great question of tariff reform having been taken up by the Ministry, has pleased as much as it has surprised the whole community, with the exception of the parties having an interest, or believing themselves to have an interest, in the doomed monopo lies-7-to wit, the landlords, the West India planters, and thatportion of the " shipping interest" employed in the Canadian trade—we may add, with the exception also of the more rabid portion of the Tories, who are infuri ated at-the Ministry having, at the very moment when they seemed on the point of falling, adopted means so likely to bring them an accession, both of credit and of strength. - 7 , . (From the Kelso Chronicle.) RA.WICK.—The promptitude and activity displayed by the .anti-Corn-law Association here is beyond all praise. Already has the petition received hundreds of signatures and will, we. doubt not, outnumber the one that was de spatched from this place last year. (From the Bolton Free Press.) The Ministerial crisis has at length arrived. The an nouncement of Lord John Russell in the House of Com mons, and the explanation of Lord Melbdurne in the Rouse of Lords, must have convinced, even the most sceptical, that the efforts of the Anti-Corn-law League have not been made in vain. The struggle will, no doubt, "be a desperate one. Against us are arrayed a majority of the lords of the soil, and a great majo rity of the established clergy. On our side we have the manufacturing interest, the shipping interest, and a large. portion of. the mercantile classes. More than all these, however, is the sincere conviction, " which they of the, adverse faction want," that our cause is the cause of justice and humanity. Sooner or later these princi ples must prevail, and, therefore, no temporary discomfi ture can dispirit us... Meantime the duty of all Corn-law Repealers is, to tell ministers plainly what they want. Every man who refuses -to lend a helping. hand in the present struggle to obtain the abOlition of the bread tax is aqcessory. .to the murder, by " painful extinction," of thousands of his fellow-countrymen. - - • . (From the Cambrian.) The Torypoliey may doubtless answer well enough the purpose of the oligarchy, which is to oppress industry, annihilate commerce: r and .grind the poor with taxes. But - the,great body of the people must infallibly, if they. comprehand their interests, make common cause with the existii:g Government, which, if it be remarkable for any one thing more than another, is undoubtedly so for its strenuous attachment to the principle of Reform. Should Parliament be shortly dissolved, therefore, we trust the nation will come forward and do its duty manfully. Ministers have, already done. theirs. (From the Waterford Chronicle.) 'he' announcement made by Lord John Russell on the subject of the Corn-laws has raised a host of friends for the Ministry, throughout Great Britain • and every landlord in 'lreland who has a head t o think or a heart to feel is with them on the subject. Foremost in ,the rank of the frieuds'of mankind stand Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Sharman Craivford.; they have uncompromisingly avowed their determination to oppose the iniquitous bread tax, and need , we say that the' people of, Ireland are prepared to think and act with those distinguished and enlightened patriots. Th e T or i es are f or monopo l y ; they car e not about the people. To uphold ascendancy, i . ;" every thing is their end and aim. The Tories in Power, and we would not give one year's purchase for the 1. , h01e revenues of the Church. (From the Dublin Evening Post.) Tn CORN -LAWS IN IRELAND.—Those very silly— but it must, at the same time, be confessed, very disho nest—people, who imagined that Ireland would rise, like one man, for the perpetuation of the bread tax—for the m onopoly in f oo d—f or rack-rents and depopulating land- rds—have hitherto been most grievously disappointed in their calculations. The 'country is rising, indeed, but it is against the starvation principle of the Tories. The People are rising, but it is in array against the wicked combination of as base, as cruel, as unprincipled men, as ever conspired against the liberties of a country. It Was hoped that. Ireland being principally agricultural, the people might be excited to take a hostile position against Mi n i sters. Va i n i s the aspiration. Agricultural, Irela.ul is; no doubt, but it will take a great deal of ar pawn', to. persuade the people that they can be injured °Y a subStitution of a fixed for a fluctuating duty on corn. (From the Monmouthshire Merlin.) We hare arrived at a crisis. It is impossible to con ceal this. fact. A financial, commercial, and political crisis has happened in conjunction ; and as Reform came 'upon us like a thundering avalanche, so has the great thaw set in, threatening to dissolve the.very ground be neath the feet of the monopolists. Lord John Russell has delmtved.to play his trump card until the end of the game. It is not lost on that account, although we ad mit it might have been better had he played i t sooner . Better now than never. The Ministry were not the men "` to bow beneath the ills upon them piled." With one vigorous effort, they have cut their way through the Tory ranks that were encompassing them, and once more stand in the van of the battle, sounding a call to the rescue', l ,olChi*e'doubt not, wilt be ar.swered by all England. 'J . ' • ' • (From the Somerset Coun'y Gazette-) GOOD NEWS FOR THE COUNTRY.—Bravely have Mi nisters met the exigency of the times. The fears we expressed - last Week,. t they should shrink from the dif ficulties presented by the financial condition of the coun try-were Vain. Ministers have proposed to meet the de liciency iethe revenue, not by putting on fresh taxes, ut by takifiedff a portidn of those which already exist, lind'whichtqflost oppress the productive classes ;—they propose to reduce the tax on bread, on sugar, and on "timber, and'Sci2f, make . the mass of the people more con !enable, and; at the same time, to increase the revenue by .means' or the increased consumption which lower prices of die" necessaries of life would lead to. It is a glorious object ; may it find the support and success it deserves. Already a howl of rage has gone up frcm the 'ory supporters 'of monopoly. They threaten the Mi nistry with their most uncompromising opposition. The Ministry will look to the country for. support in their struggle with the public plunderers. It is . more than probable that Ministers will be defeated in their endea vour. They Will then appeal to the country, and leave it to the elect3rs to say whether they prefer cheap food or dear food ; that will be the one question, and on their gle-'sion will depend the fate of England. Can we doubt wl.at that decisio n will be ? (From the Bristol Mercury.) The repeal of the Corn-laws ! What a mass of human Misery will be swept from the earth by that one single measure—what germs of future prosperity will be im planted for commercial England ! We regard this as decidedly the most important legislative step that has been taken since the enactment of those same most odious law s a quarter of a century ago, when,. in a borough niongering House of Commons, with doors guar d e d b y th e soldiery, the high-minded latidords of England proceeded tO tax the poor man's loaf for the benefit of their own Pockets, whilst the sabres of the military alone restrained the indignation of an outraged community from bursting into acts of popular violence, and musket-balls and cold steel formed the barrier between the people and their r epresentatives ! The repeal of the Corn-laws is a plain, straightforward practical measure— a measure which affects at once every industrious man's cupboard-comforts —every workin men's weekly mnrketing. (Prom the Devonport Independent.) Ministers have thus commenced that reform which has so long beeit . ifeedect--their first steps, though few, and making but comparatively small prirress, being firtm And manfully t a k en, and deserving the warm eneourag. tent of every one who has the national prosperity of heart. - The General Stearn Navigation Company's 'vessel the Columb i ne , NV. Norwood, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom House at 2 o'clock, r,iv yesterday, with the Dutch m a il. .) T AYLOR'S PATENT WOOD-CUTTING COMPANY. Square Tower. East of Waterloo Bridge, Lambeth. First Capital £50,000, in 1,000 Shares of £5O each. First Call £5 per Share. Notice is hereby given, that the large Alachinery under these Patents for the Cutting of Staves for Pipes, Puncheons, Hogs heads, &c., is now completed, and will be opened to the In spection of the Shareholders, and others desirous of taking an interest therein, in the course of a few days. Also, that thy; Sub-Committee of the Board of Directors for Granting Licences to Coopers and others throughout the United Kingdom sit weekly, and will receive applications, forwarded to the undersigned. Also, that a small number of Forfeited Shares will be granted at Par, if applied for forthwith, but that no New Shares will be issued, save at a Premium, for the benefit of the Original Shareholders. Application may be made to Edward M. Elderton, Esq., So licitor; Lothbury ; or at either of my Offices, W. S. NORTHHOUSE, 72, Ring William-street, City, and 4, Parliament-street, May 10, 1841. Westminster. IMPORTANT TO WESLEYANS. THE BRITISH QUEEN and . STATES MAN of LAST SUNDAY contains a FULL RE PORT (occupying Eight Columns) of the JUDGMENT is the CASE of MASTIN v. ESCOTT. Office, 366, Strand. Price 6d. The British Queen will be kept on Sale for a few days. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. JNIDERtiWiA3AGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, MAY 10 Will be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled LONDON ASSURANCE. Sir Harcourt Courtly, Bart., Mr. W. Farren ; Max Hark away, Mr. Bartley ; Mr. Charles Courtly, Mr. Anderson ; Mr. Adolphus Spanker, Mr. Keeley ; Mr. Dazzle, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mark Meddle, Mr. Harley ; Grace Harkaway, Madame Vestris ; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Pert, Mrs. Humbv. Atter which will be repeated, the Grand Romactie Fairy Ex travaganza, entitled BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Beauty, M;l:rne - Vestris;Thel3ealt,ll4;. W. Harrison ; John Quill, Mr. Harley ; Dressalinda, Miss Rainforth ; Mar rygolda, Miss Grant ; Queen of the Roses, Miss Lee. " To-morrow, London Assurance, with Beauty and the Beast. Doors to to opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, :Is. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 25.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets miy De had upon application. Private Boats to be had solely of Mr. Andre gas, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Wonderful success ! Haine's " Claude Du Val, the Ladies' Highwayman," decided to be a greater hit than ' Jack Shep pard ;" thousands have already witnessed the startling situa tions, intense interest, and extraordinary effects. The cur tain falls nightly amid the cheers of crowded audiences. THIS EVENING, MAY 10, • Will be acted an Historical and Domestic Drama, entitled CLAUDE DU VAL, THE LADIES' HIGHWAYMAN. With entirely new local and beautiful Scenery, extensive Ma chinery, real horses and carriages, &c. Claude Duval, Mr. J. S. Balls. Supported by the most powerful Company in London. After which, a New Comedietta, entitled THE BRIDEGROOM'S HOAX; OR, A WEDDING NIGHT DILEMMA. Characters by Mr. J. S. Balls, Johnson, Neville, Mrs. H. ughes, Mrs. Hicks, and Miss Martin. To conclude with FREDERICK THE GREAT ; OR, THE KING AND THE DESERTER. Frederick, Mr. Neville ; The Deserter, Mr. N. T. Hicks With Combats, Conflagrations, &c. IaGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW rning 7 minutes attar 5 I Evening . 25 minutes after The Publication of the Evening Edition of Title SUN coin- reeneed at '2O minutes after Three. LONDON: MONDAY, MAY 10, 1841. We entertain a great respect for Dr. Lusn- INGTON'S sincerity, but we believe him to be grossly in error. For example, he repelled the argument that free labour could compete With slave labour, by asking, " Could the honest manufacturer compete with the highwayman? Could the trader who paid a just obedience to the laws, and discharged the taxes imposed on him, compete with the lawless smuggler?" But a grain of reflection, which, so far as statesmanship is concerned, is worth more than a pound of sen timentality, and a bushel of smart antithetical oratory, would have convinced Dr. LUSHINGTON that his analogy and illustration were unfounded and unjust. In that celebrated competition between one man who stole the materials for his brooms, and an other who stole the brooms ready made, which Dr. LUSHINGTON seems to have had in view, the thiefof the ready-made article had a great advan tage over the thief of the mere materials; but we submit that the thief who now steals the Afri can to carry him to Cuba, has no such advan tage over the descendants of those who stole the Africans long ago, to carry them to Jamaica. The former do not steal sugar ready made, they only steal the materials to make it; and the question to be decided is, whether those who now steal the materials, or those who formerly stole them, for making sugar, can produce that article the cheaper. Dr. LUSIIINGTON fancies the present race of Cuba and Brazilian thieves can; we believe that he has not duly considered' the matter. Man-stealing, as Dr. LUSHINGTON properly de scribed it, is a gross iniquity, and the present conduct of the Brazilians and Cubans carries with tall the consequences of a fresh act of injustice. No art can reconcile the unhappy slaves to their lot, and no labour can be obtained from them but by compulsion. Overseers armed with whips, a prison on every estate, and all the other, not only painful but costly contrivances to extort la bour, are as necessary now in Cuba and the Bra zils, as they were heretofore in Jamaica. We are sure that the outrages must be brutal, and the compulsion very costly, for we have Dr. LUSHINGTON'S authority for asserting that the slaves are "used up" every ten years, and at the end of that time require to be renewed. The price of a slave varies, but is seldom less we believe, than 501., so that a gang of 100 will require an outlay of a capital Of 5,0001. every ten years. Besides the cost of their guards, overseers, and prisons, the slaves must be fed nearly as well as free labourers to keep them in working condition. There is no reason to sup pose tL at food can be raised or procured by means of less labour in Cuba than in Jamaica, so that while the cost of maintaining slaves must be nearly as great as the wages given to free la bour, the slave owner has to lay out a large ca pital, which the employer of free labour never expends. That is one of the great advantages of our colonies. The injustice of man is healed by time, and the mercy and goodness of GOD gradually ex tinguish the consequences of crimes. Even the memory of injustice, and with that the desire of revenge, is in time dried up and lost, and the kindly relations which it disturbed are restored. But for this salutary dispensation feuds would be perpetual, and Europe would now be like Cuba or Brazil, the abode of slaves working in gyves, chained at night in a prison, and of tyrants armed with whips, swords, and lances. Time has done something even for our West India colonies, comparatively recent as is the termination of slavery, in extinguishing the remembrance of wrongs, and in substituting the friendly relations of masters and servants for those of tyrants and slaves. All the accounts from the West Indies repre sent the black population as working quietly and well for wages. Compulsion, equally hateful and costly, is at an end and the planter, instead of having to employ a large capital in the pur chase of slaves, has received a large price from this county for those he formerly owned, and Who now work for him as cheaply, as free la bourers,las they or their ancestors worked as t_ch '0 Lp • ci 4 _ • 4111 r Q, 4 t • 4,4 Zbic stJX, i .LQNDIN, MONDAY, 11IAY . 10, 1841. slaves. Will Dr. LUSHINGTON, or will any man, dare to tell the people of Europe, with the com paratively free labourer of England and Ireland toiling more for less wages than any slaves that ever existed, that slave labour in the Brazils and in Cuba is cheaper to the planters than free la bour in Jamaica or Antigua ? But there are other considerations which the anti-slavery people overlook in their zeal. What, for example, can the poor wretches stolen from Africa, cooped up in ships, and landed half dead with fright and disease, know of the cultivation of sugar ? It must take months to teach them, and it will require weeks before they can begin to learn. . The free labourers already know their business. They require no teaching and no sus tenance, except from their parents, till they are able to work. They are not only a compara tively skilled race, but, like our artisans, they transmit their skill to their offspring. Founding on these circumstances, it seems to us, a mere crude fancy, unwarranted by facts, falsi fied by theory, it is contrary to all our faith in justice, righteousness, and honesty, to assert that the slave labour of the stolen and ignorant Afri can negroes is cheaper to the planter than the hired labour of the intelligent black labourer, born and bred amidst all the arts of our own colonies. But it will be said you are mad, or you deceive yourselves wilfully. Do you not see by the re turns of the sugar market, that Brazilian and Cuba sugar are 100 per cent. cheaper than sugar imported from Jamaica? We see that. But we also see that the agricultural labourer of Eng land is worse paid in proportion to his toil and skill than any labourer of the world, ex cept an Irish labourer, or a Hill Cooly. One English or Scotch labourer does as much as two labourers in France or Ger many, but he gets only the wages of one. At the same time the price of corn in England is higher than in any other country. We all know the cause of this, and that it has no reference whatever to the cheapness or dearness of labour• In England labour is most abundant, and wages low, while the price of corn is exorbitantly high. With that example before us we are neither mad nor blind, we think, when we assert that the price at which foreign and colonial sugars are offered for sale in our market is no index whatever to the cost of their production. The price of Jamaica sugar is a monopoly price; the price of Cuba and Brazilian sugar is the price of an article in an overstocked marked, wanting a vent. Our JaMaica planters are making large profits out of the tax they levy on us, but it does not therefore follow that the Brazilians are even paid the cost of their pro duce. Let the market be opened to both sugars, and the chances are that Brazilian would rise as much as Jamaica sugar would fall. The average price of wheat—to quote an illustration—in Dantzic, for upwards of forty years, was about 455., but in 1838 and 1839, in consequence of our demand, it rose to 58s. The same would be the case with Brazilian sugar, were there a demand for it. The Brazilians are now obliged to send it to Efirope in payment for the European luxuries they require. As long as it is excluded from our market, its price must be merely nominal ; and were the duties altered, the price would rise, and in proportion to its . quality sell for as much as Jamaica sugar. In fact, it is idle to institute a comparison be tween the two, for as long as our colonial sugar is protected by a heavy discriminating duty, we never shall, and never can know, and never have known, what it really costs in comparison to the sugar of foreign countries. We hold all deduc tions, therefore, against the cheapness of free labour, drawn from the monopoly price of Ja maica sugar in our market, and the glut price of Brazilian or Cuba sugar, to be irrelevant to the great question at issue. We know, too, that when the two meet in the foreign market, they sell for about the same price. We have faith in the principles of justice, and we have faith in all the doctrines taught by the anti-slavery people, and we therefore abide by our conviction that free labour is cheaper even now in the West Indies than slave labour. It is said, however, that by reducing the duty on fbreign sugar, the planters will be less able to pay, and employ their negroes, and that less -wages will fall to the share of the negroes. The argument referring to them, means that, or it means nothing. This is the argument of those who maintain that the abolition of the Corn laws would throw land out of cultivation and labourers out of work, and would lower their wages, if that'be possible. It is no argument of ours and there is a case in which our opponents maintain the very oppo site deduction. They say that if the Corn-laws were abolished, the manufacturers would allow none of the advantages of the fall in the price of provisions to go to the labourers, but they would reduce wages in . proportion. How can they at the same time maintain that other manufacturers, namely, the plan ters or the landlords, will allow the advan tage of a rise hi the price of what they sell to go to the labourer? The fact is that wages are de termined by the demand and the supply both in the West Indies and here, and unless the demand for negro labour be increased by the bounty on sugar grown in our colonies, or the supply of negro labour be lessened, the alteration of the -sugar _duties will . have no effect whatever in lowering wages or depriving the negroes of work. The universal effect of competition, such as that proposed by allowing foreign sugars to come into our market, is to stimulate exertions to com pete with a rival. The manufacturer, grower, or planter, previously secure in his monopoly, and quite at his ease, living on taxation, is alarmed, and casts about to see how he can get more of his commodity. He racks his invention for new contrivances, he tries to produce more, and to pro duce it cheaper, he offers rewards to his labourers and overseers to exert themselves, and the result is an increased, not a diminished, demand for la bour. Such, as Lord JonN RUSSELL observes, has been the case in the silk and several other trades, which have thriven by the competition with the French manufacturer. Such, too, would be the result of allowing slave-grown sugar to come freely into our market. The Ministerial plan proposes to leave it with a protecting duty of 12s. per cwt. We believe that the planters would have nothing to fear from the freest com petition, but they are still to be protected at the amount of 50 per cent. Nay, we believe that it is only by competition at the full advantage—the ingenious con tri va aces—the division of employment—of free la bo ur can be brought into operation. Far from joining Dr. LUSHINGTON in supposing that such a competition would increase the slave trade, it would do, we think, more to extinguish it than all Sir FOWELL BUXTON'S expeditions. It would stimulate free labour to exertion, which, as long as it is protected by a monopoly of our market, it will not make, and would compel and enable it at Ho distant time to extinguish the slave-trade, by making it unprofitable, and under selling the productions of slavery. But supposing that free labour has not all the advantages we have attributed to it, surely there is some reason to doubt, at least, whether all those evil consequences in the encouragement of sla very will ensue which Dr. LUSHINGTON supposes, from merely reducing the duty on foreign sugar. He has no business to look on the question like Mr. GURNEY, merely with the eyes of a philan thropist; he is bound also to consider it as a le gislator and a statesman. He is bound to con sider the interests of his constituents, paying twice as much for sugar as they ought to obtz ;n it for, were the planter's tax removed. Being ander these obligations, and seeing, as he must ee, unless he be a mere one-sided fanatic, that ti .ere is some doubt as to the effect of the measu re, he was also bound, if out of strait-laced consis :ency he gave his vote against the Ministers, not to mislead the House and the country by a great crop of fallacies. We admit Dr. Lvsn- INGTON'S sincerity,- we admire his boldness, but we blame his great indiscretion. He spoke like an impassioned advocate, and did not disprove the general opinion that a practising lawyer very seldom makes a good legislator. He forgot too, who is his el ient ; and,while the Reformers sent him to Parliament to advocate the interests of the people of England, he pleaded only for the negroes, and is to vote with the Tories. Admit ting his intention to be good, we must conclude from his speech and his promised vote that he is terribly wrong-headed. Our readers will see by our various extracts, that the provincial papers very generally agree in promoting Corn-law agitation, and in demand ing a total repeal of the Corn-laws. That and that alone will now satisfy the people, because that alone will satisfy the justice of the case. But we are told that no Government ever dreamed, or ever will dream, of giving the total abolition. Wherefore then does any Goverment exist? What is it for but to do justice, and to see justice done? And to say that no Government will grant the total abolition of the bread-tax is ,o affirm that Government abdicates its functions, makes common cause with the oppressor, and ought itself to be destroyed. We cannot, how ever, believe that any Government will come to such a conclusion, or that any leading Ministers of this country will venture to continue even a rag of the bread-tax in existence, if the people manfully assert that it shall be totally repealed. Great complaints are made, too, of the disturb ance which will be caused by the great change but what right has any man to complain of that disturbance which consists in redressing a wrong? No doubt, Mother BROWNRIGG, when she was stopped by the hangman in her benevolent plan of starving and whipping her apprentices to death, complained of the great disturbance which was caused in her useful occupations. How shocking it was, on the same principle, to interfere with the career of HARE and BURKE, and BISHOP and WILLIAMS. We do not ask, though we remember Colonel THOMPSON did, to visit the legislating landowners with any punish ment for doing that on a large scale, and by a slow process, which BuRKE and W ILLIAMS did on a very limited scale, and by a sudden means — put human beings out of existence we only ask that they should be stopped in their guilty career, and be told that they must sin no more. Dis turbance forsooth ! Who that does right fears to be disturbed ! The apprehension and the com plaint are the wailings of conscience-stricken men. We see, too, by the Irish papers that the Orange landlords and the Orange press are foaming with rage and fright at the possibility of the Corn-laws being repealed. That is an unan swerable proof of the public and national advan tage of the measure. A more heartless, mischie vous set of tyrants than the landlords of Ireland, never were endowed with power. Their whole history is one of merciless oppression. The last trait in it, is clearing their estates, turning out hundreds and thousands of poor wretches to die in the highways. Such men deserve no respect, and if the abolition of the Corn-laws would set bounds to their power, that should be a strong recommendation to all the friends of humanity. As Mr. BAZLEY said at the Liverpool meeting, the abolitionists had with bated breath and bended knee asked for an inquiry, and they were taunted with being unreasonable ; they humbly asked permission to grind foreign corn in bond, and they'were dismissed with reproaches. It is high time such contumelious conduct should have an end; and those who would listen to no reasonable application, should now be com manded, by the nation, to repeal the Corn-laws. The people, by now submitting to the bread tax, will fasten, for ever, the landlords' yoke on their own necks. We have given, in another part of the Paper, a letter from Kendal, with the address of the Kendal Abolitionist;, which we earnestly re commend to the attention of Dr. LUSHINGTON and his friends. The just and humane view taken of the Sugar question, does honour to the sub scribers, and, we trust, will find many imitators. While we feel for the negro in bondage, let us not forget the sufferings of the many thousands of our Christian brethren, who, on account of the high prices of the necessaries of life, and want of employment caused by our wicked monopolies, drag out a life of greater misery than even the African slave. With a miserable pittance of Bs. or 9s. a-week (and many of them have not even that), with chil dren crying in vain for bread, and a broken-hearted partner stinting herself for food to preserve her beloved offspring, and without any prospect under the present laws of relief, an operative manufacturer is perhaps of all other men the most miserable. If Dr. LUSH INGTON and the other one-sided philanthropists will not listen to such suffering, will they listen to the precepts of that sacred book that forms the present consolation and the future hope of every Christian'! "He that provideth not for his own, and especially for those of his own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel." Infidels, and void of charity, are those who can reserve all their sympathy for Africans they have not seen, and refuse relief to men of their own blood and their own religion. But they will not succeed. The war is now kindled against the monopolists in every quarter. Even the people of Ireland, till now in favour of the Corn monopoly, are roused to a sense of its injustice, and will join the English and the Scotch hand in-hand in support of the beneficent measures of the Government. We will not venture to say that the eyes of Europe are upon Lord PALMERSTON, but we may I safely affirm that the eyes of Mr. DAVID URQU HART are. ' Nothing his Lordship says or does escapes the notice of the ex-Secretary of Lega tion, and as he makes no secret of his discoveries, we presume he chooses the hours when Lord PALMERSTON is asleep to note them. down, and. prepare them for the press. That hatred is more sleepless and more vig ilant than love, is prov e d by the fact that the bonrs of all his Lordship's admirers united, would hardly equal in amount the mass of evidence which Mr. URQUHART has brought together in a variety of forms to prove him a traitor to his Sovereign and his country. From pamphlets in an octavo size, Mr. URQU HART has ascended to quartos, and as the bulki ness of his effusions keep pace with the supposed magnitude of Lord PALMERSTON'S guilt, we ex pect soon to see him figuring in folio, to the mutual profit of the printer and the cheese monger. The office of the writer who would de vote his leisure to the exposure of all the real faults, mistakes, oversights, and bl un d ers o f t h e best-intentioned Minister would b e no s i necure ; how great, therefore, must be the labour thrown away and the ingenuity wasted by the wight who finds in the ordinary occurrences of every day materials for the history of some unfledged trea son against the mother country? We stated on a former occasion that we would not attempt the refutation of the absurd charges brought by Mr. URQUHART against Lord PALMERSTON. It is enough that nobody believes them—not even the clique who proclaim Mr. UR QUHART their idol. But We cannot ab stain from deploring the infatuation which pre vents Mr. URQUHART seeing that he, too, is play ing the game of Russia, however unconsciously. He ought to know that the rabid fury with which he assails Lord PALMERSTON cannot be mistaken —that it is prompted by hatred, not of the Minis ter, but of the man. He ought also to b e a w are that in grossly ex aggerating, a s h e does, the dangers which threaten us from Russia, he but parodies the silly conduct of the boy in the f a ble who cried " wolf" so oftenprom Prompted dt by n patriotism, o in one I vould l w ist e e r n e t m o hr.imußwQtelita,ihrteT cr i e d " w,Dlf" earnest. instead of by passion, to write ats he does, his censures would be directed against the Cabinct generally, and not against the only Member of it with whom he is known to he on the worst terms. Lord PALMERSTON'S policy is the policy of the Cabinet to, which he belongs ; but if an individual be selected for censure, it is surely the Premier who assumes its direction. We are the uniform apologists of no Cabinet. We support no Minister in any project which we deem injurious to the national welfare. But alifiough we have on many occasions found reason to condemn courses of procedure adopted by Lord PALMERSTON, we never countenanced, nor shall we ever countenance, the wholesale, indiscriminate, and foul attacks made upon him by the Urquhartite faction. We are for the good old English principle of fair-play in politics, as in fisty-cuff warfare. Besides, taken all in all, the foreign administration of Lord PALMERSTON has been conducted with great ability, and with a general regard to the honour and interests of the British nation. Could we blot from our recollection the prostration of Poland, the affair of the Vixen, the agreement with Russia rela tive to the occupation of Constantinople by a pro tecting force, and the delay in recalling Pleni potentiary ELLIOT from China, we should not hesitate to pronounce Lord PALMERSTON'S foreign administration as one of the most faultless in our history. The list of painful recollections is long enough to entitle us to claim for The Sun the merit of impartiality. But when we see order and constitutional liberty established in Portugal and Spain; Belgium raised to the dignity of an independent State; Turkey saved; British in fluence extended and extending in Central Asia; and the peace of Europe preserved despite of the late French Cabinet, we can make a large allowance for errors originating in a love of peace, family influence, and a misplaced confi dence in the talents of agents and the good faith of allies. The German Papers publish alarming accounts of insurrectionary movements among the Chris tian population of Old Servia, Bulgaria, North ern Roumelia, Bosnia, and Albania. The objec t of the insurgents is to shake off the Turkish yoke, which galls and oppresses them, and to add another to the independent Governments of Europe. These provinces are of little value to Turkey, and contain within themselves the ele ments of a nation capable of checking the ambi tion of Russia. Those who have watched the progress of political events for the last quarter of a century, must have observed the slow tut sure development of principles which rendered the con tinuance of the Porte's sway over so many Euro pean provinces an impossibility. To them the ru mours of associations in Servia, Bulgaria, Roume lia, Wallachia, and Moldavia, for the purpose of asserting their independence, will occasion no surprise. They must have been prepared to see the other European provinces of Turkey follow the example of Greece. Instead, therefore, of uselessly deploring such an event the Govern ments of Western Europe should direct all their thoughts to the rearing up of such a Power in these provinces as would for ever prevent Rus sian aggression in that quarter. In the present wretched state of these provinces, Russia's in fluence over them is stronger than that of the Porte; but this influence would be destroyed by their being declared independent. Jealousy of a Power which now pretends to protect them would spring up in every bosom. To the estab lishment of an independent Kingdom in Euro pean Turkey we look for the confounding of Russia's deep-laid designs upon Constantinople. Nor would the loss of these provinces weaken the Turkish Power in Asia—the only place where it really has a vital existence. The prompt suppression of the present insur rectionary movement will ;produce no change in our opinions. The pear may not be ripe, but it will ripen and fall of itself if no hand gather it. The Koran must disappear from among the codes of Europe, and therefore the greater should be the vigilance of those States whose in terest it is that it should not be succeeded by the Ukases of an Imperial Autocrat. There Is very little French news of interest in the Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday. Queen CHRISTINA has arrived in that capital, and is supposed to be intriguing against the Constitu tional Government in Spain. Her MAJESTY'S influence cannot be considerable, except with the Court of Rome, and Papal bulls make no more impression on ESPARTERO than paper pellets. The age when the world was go verned by the maledictions of an old priest is disappearing even in Spain ; and it requires but some wanton exercise of the power claimed by the POPE, to effect a true spiritual reformation—the freedom of mind—throughout the Peninsula. By a proper distribution, and wide subdivision of the Church property, Es- PARTERO will surround himself by a host of Spaniards ready to resist the Papal power at the musket's muzzle. Every man is a patriot and a hero when his own house is attacked; and every possessor of an acre of Church land, or an ounce of Church bullion, will see an enemy in the ecclesiastic who threatens to/deprive him of the one or the other. In the debate in the French Chamber of De puties, on Friday, on the Navy Estimates, Ad miral LALANDE recommended the construction of heavy frigates, and the keeping together of a great number of well-organized ships' crews. One crew, three years on service, was worth six just put in commission. He admitted that the expense would be great at first, but, in the long run, the nation would find that the system was based on principles of true economy. The Semaphore states that the Persian Envoy at Constanti nople has officially notified to the Porte that the differences be tween his Government and that of Great Britain have been ter minated to the satisfaction of both parties. The ten battalions of foot chasseurs had a grand field-day on Friday last at Vincennes. The Duke of Orleans was on the ground at nine o'clock to superintend the preliminary prepara tions. At twelve the Queen, the Princes, and Princesses ar rived, accompanied by Marshal Soult, Minister of War, Mar shals Gerard, Grouchy, and Molitor, and a great number of Generals and superior officers. The first practice was in per forming the ordinary evolutions of i n f a nt r y o f th e li ne a t the gymnastic step, all of which were executed with the greatest precision. Next came some movements peculiar to the foot chasseurs, displaying their utility in active warfare, firing while on their backs, &c. A feigned attack on Charenton afterwards exhibited their double utility in the field. Having taken a battery of cannon, they almost instantaneously turned them against the supposed enemy with all the skill of regular ar tillerymen. The men afterwards proceeded to make use of their field ovens, and produced excellent bread; and they exhibited their powers as pioneers by clearing away a number of trees six inches in diameter, using no other instruments than their sabres. The whole of the practice being gone through by five o'clock, they were promptly formed into line, and tiled off before Marshal Soult who expressed his entire satisfaction. The praises of the ge nerals and other officers present were unanimous. The force of the ten battalions in the field was 9,000 men. The De. bats, in giving an account of this review' and fiehl, says,— " The platoon firing might appear to be imperfect to those who are not aware that in giving the word of command to these battalions of foot chasseurs, after the present is is uttered the soldiers fire at will, without having as usual the word fire given, each man being thus allowed to take deliberate aim before lie pulls the trigger. This innovation is very important, and will, it is probable, be adopted in all the infantry regiments, whereby firing by battalions, instead of being as they now frequently are, mere ineffectual reports,. will become murderous dis charges. The carbine is an improvement of Commandant Thiery's, upon the plans of M. Delvigne and Colonel de Pont charra. It requires only seven grammes of powder for the charge instead of nine." Colonel M'lntosh, the representative of the Texian Govern ment at the French Court, has formally contradicted the state.. ment in the Paris papers that Texas was threatened with inva sion from Mexico. The Diario di Roma announces that the three individuals who robbed Don Miguel some time ago while sporting in the, ' n eighbourhood of Rome, had been executed a t V e ll etr i, a s guilty of lese-Majeste. The same paper announces the death of Cardinal Gambe rini, Minister of the Interior, who died at Rome on the night of the 24th ult. He was born at Imola on the 31st of Octo ber, 1760. The Lezpsie Gazette states that the Prince of Lucca has re cently been converted to Protestanti sm , a circumstance which has created great sen sation at Rome, and throughout Italy. Extract of a letter from Alexandria in the Sud of Mar seilles : , 6 The Pacha continues to have frequent conferences with the Count de Rohan Chabot, to whom he lately presented a fine horse richly caparisoned. The English war steamer Gorgon has arrived here from Malta, being sent by Admiral Stopford to keep this station in the absentia of other ships. She brings a letter to his Highness front the Admiral, inform ing him that as certain of the conditions in the Hatti Scheriff of February 13th were contrary to the spirit of the convention entered into with him, he (the Admiral) approved of the Pacha's refusal to accept them., The Viceroy continues to reside at his country house, on account of the plague having made its appearance in the environs of his palace of Raso el I Tin. This scourge continues to afflict the country, without, however, making any great ravages, although the season is fa vourable to its progress. It also prevails in several villages of Lower Egypt as well as at Cairo, whore, as is the case here, eight or teu persons die daily." A Constantinople correspondent of the Sud says that two caravans, going from Aleppo to Damascus, as well as several villages in the neighbourhood of the former city, have been lately pillaged by the mountaineers. Letters from Turin, dated the 27th ult., state that the agent of Don Carlos had at length succeeded in securing a future provision for that Prirfce. All the Conservative Courts had agreed to contribute a proportional share. The Russian Go vernment alone had not returned any answer to the proposal ; it was not doubted, however, but that the Emperor of Russia would come forward like the others. The entire yearly sum to be contributed for Don Carlos's support was fixed at 200,000 f. Another letter states that a diplomatic note had been for warded from the French Government to the Court of Naples relative to an indemnity claimed by a French mercantile house in Marseilles in consequence of the sulphur contract having been cancelled, and which contained some strong lan guage on the injustice of refusing compensation. It is true, it is added, that in the year 1839, the Neapolitan Government received a note from the French Minister, in which an indem nity was demanded on account of the sulphur question, but in the mean time the French government offered her mediation between the British and Neapolitan Governments, and although an arrangement was concluded last year in consequence of that mediation, no mention was made of the Marseilles merchants. A letter from Naples of the 28th of April has the following news : " The day before yesterday there was a Council of Minis ters, at which the Marquis de Pietra-Catella presided. Mr. Temple, the English Minister, was asked to be present, doubt less nn account of the question which is still pending, of the re duction of the export duty on sulphur. " The day is not yet fixed for the departure of the King to Apulia and Sicily. His Majesty came yesterday from Ca serta, and presided in the Council of his Ministers. He is ex pected again on the 30th. . " The Prince of Cassano, formerly Minister. of Foreign Affairs, whom the King ordered to leave Naples, has not re turned to the capital. " The Prince of Salerno will leave Naples on the 3d of May. He goes to Vienna with his only daughter, Princess Mary Caroline Augusta, whose ma rr i age i s fi na lly decided with his Royal Highness Francis Ferdinand Geminiano, Hereditary Prince of .Modena. It is affirmed that the King of Naples will go in person to the Austrian capital in the beginning of June, on account of the marriage of Princess Caroline, his sister, to the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, brother of the Queen of the Two Sicilies."—Le Commerce. DISCOVERY OE Conf.—M. Tienen has made a fortunate discoveiy in his garden of a jar, containing 3,000 small pieces of coin of 12 and 13 centimes, most of them belonging to Hainault and Flanders.—Brussels Paper. flitter complaints are made in the lonian Islands of the new civil laws, by which the expenses in the Court of Police are much increased. TURKISH FRONTIERS, AralL 22.—According to accounts from Bucharest the well-known Virallachian Colonel Campa nian() has been lately set at liberty, at the instance of the Russian Court. BOURSE-PARIS, SATURDAY, MAY 8. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Prick Price French 5 per Cents ll4 (0 ... 114 65 ... 114 60 ... 114 0 4 per Cents 99 30 ." 99 30 ... ,99 30 ... 99 3,1 3 per Cents..„ 79 6 5 —. ' 9 65 —• 79 55 ••• 19 55 Sink of France: 2190 ...f,200 ...3195 ...3197 50 Lanitte ham, ~, on. mlares 5157 5U ...5157 50 ...5157 50 ...5157 50 airigian Isanit 5 per Cents. 3 per Cents 7l 60 ... 71 60 ... 71 53 ... 71 50 New Loan lOl% ... 1 , 1% ...105k ... 101% ipanish Active f.4% ... ‘24% .... •_4!4, ... '2.A Passive ... 5 1 / 2 i ... 5 3 4 ... Neapolitan lO4 ... le4 ... Roman .... 101% ...101% ... 101% ... 101% RAILWAY SHARES. St Germain Versailles. LP 245 ... 245 ... 240 •i4O R. B .;67 50 567 50 365 ... 365 Orleans .. 490 4 , 0 z9O ... 490 Strasburg to Bale :37 50 ... 238 75 237 50 .. 2,7 50 The Madrid papers received are of the Ist inst. The 2d, being the anniversary of the rise of the Spaniards against the French in 1808, was to be celebrated as a festival. The Cortes were still occupied with the Regency question, the debates upon which were exceedingly prosy. On the Bourse the Fives were at 27 for cash. A private letter from Bordeaux of the 4th instant states that the Bishop of Saragossa, who has resided some time in the former city, had published a charge to the clergy of his dio cese, which it was belieied would produce a great sensation. The Bishop orders all the parish priests to publish it in their respective churches, together with the Pope's last allocution to the Secret Consistory. M. Durou, the Spanish Consul, immediately wrote to the 'ambassador of Spain in Paris, and applied at the same time to the Prefect of the Gironde, 'requesting his interference to prevent the introduction into Spain of a document written by a refugee who was receiving French hospitality, and which was calculated to kindle civil war in a neighbouring and friendly country. The Consul also cautioned the Spanish frontier authorities, and, from such timely notice being given, it was hoped that the episcopal firebrand would be stopped and miicarry. THE MARK KTs.—(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of grain last week were moderate, and the fresh supplies were small. The proposed Corn duties have made the buyers very indifferent about purchasing. Wheat with difficulty found sale at Is. to 2s. per quarter decline from last Monday's rates. Barley rather lower. Beans and peas unaltered. There was a moderate demand for Oats at pre vious prices. The flour trade was very heavy, and ship par ce:s were lower. PRICES ONBOARD OF SFIP Wheat,lted (old) White (old) —s. —s. 1ied;1840) 525. 55c. Fine 565. 595. Superfine 60s. 625. .---- White ( 1840 sss. bSs. rine t Os. 645. Superfine 665. tips. ----Forel en free 5 ls. ". Os. kt)( 393. 403. Barley ...255. 365. ---- Grinding ''fis. 2Ss. Malting ' , Os. 335. Malt stis. 603. Fine New tVs. tiSs. Beans, Small (new) I. 4)5 -- (old) —B ---- Tick .........35 37s i •--((old) Harrow (new) 375. 39. (old) s Brank Oats, Feed New 18, 22 s. Poland ••—•S New 23, 25 , . Potatoe vew 25' 275. Scotch -- Irish 17e, ...20i.g3s. Pease, Grey, New 358. 385., --- Maple New 40s. 426.1 - White 345. 3t;s. - Boilers 375.386,1 Flour Town (per sack) 545. 58s. ----- Seconds 435.0.5. ---. North Country.— 48g 50.. Bran 9s lOs. ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN wheat. English I 5,150 qrs. Irish Foreign ..... 15,604 )NDON DURINU LAST WEEK. 'seer. I thus. Flour, ,c9O 1,2...8 qrs. 5,160 sacks 10,98 e; 1,9L0 2,559 lA'ls I SMITH ,Kit) 1 IFIELD. The supply of Cattle, Sheep, Lambs, and Calves, was short, with a brisk demand, the best qualities fully realizing our present quotations. The middling and ordinary sort met with a good sale. Of Pigs our supply was good, with a brisk demand. Beasts, 2,618 ; Sheep and Lambs, 19,740; Pigs, 570 ; Calves, 82. Beef, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 10d. ; Mutton, 4s. 6d. to ss. ; Veal, ss. 2d. to 6s. ; Pork, 4s. 6d. to ss. Gd. ; Lamb, 6s. to 7s. TEA MARKET. The demand was very excited, and the cash price for Com pany's Congou advanced to Is. I Id. per lb. Free Trade de scriptions were also more sought after by the trade, as well as speculators, and considerable business was done, with few of the importers inclined to sell. The deliveries were very large, and the stock fast reducing. TALLOW MARKET. Prices of P.Y.C. on the decline, and the transactions limited to the actual wants of the buyers, at 475. 6d. per cwt., with a much larger stock than for many years past at this period, viz 18,500 casks. PROVISION MARKET. In Ii ish Butter no change can be quoted ; there was so little in the market, that it is difficult to give prices at all. Dutch Butter in good supply, and prices lower—fine, 935. per cwt. Lard dull, and fine bladdered at 70s. per cwt. Bacon more inquired after, and prices firmer. Prime parcels of Waterford sold at 58s to 60s. per cwt. HOP MARKET. Prices very firm, with a good demand for all descriptions, especially for the brown kinds, which, owing to the scarcitj and comparatively high rate of the better kinds, attract atten tion, and are expected to be higher. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Malta Times of April 14.) The Bellerophon, Hastings and Implacable will sail shortly for England, calling at Gibraltar for orders. The Thunderer is ordered to proceed to Gibraltar and is to be stationed there. The Magpie surveying vessel sailed on the 13th for . Candia and will be followed shortly by the Beacon. The Dido will sail short ly for Suda in Candia. The Britannia, bearing the flag of Rear Admiral Ommaney, and Rodney are hourly expected from Marmorice. The Hydra steam frigate and Megmra steam packet are ordered to proceed to the West Indies. The con tract steam packet City of Dublin arrived on the 11th inst. with mails from the lonian Islands and Greece. Those for Gi braltar and England will not be sent on until the 19th inst. The City of Dublin returns to-day with the London mails of March 31 and April 3. The Edinburgh, which sailed hence for England on the 4th inst. was fallen in with off Pantellaria on the 11th, having encountered strong contrary winds. The Trinculo, arrived at Gibraltar the 31st ult. in two days from Lisbon. The Siren, 16, is to be commissioned by Lord Fre derick Beauclerk and proceed to the Mediterranean. Nine French sail of the line, under the command of Admiral Hugon , sailed from Toulon, and were lying in the Bay of Hyeres on the 9th inst. THE FUNDS. The British Funds opened this morning at the leaving-off prices of Saturday, with an inactive market. Consols may be quoted at 89i 90.40ney ; for the Account 90,i. Exchequ er Bills, 5 7 prem. ; Bank Stock, 168 170; India s tock, 250 252 ; India Bonds, 2 dis, 2 prem. Portu Active, 24* ; Deferred, 12i I ; Passive, 5i i t ; iBlt _guese, 8 5 1 E 7 p i e 5 r 8 a fi l a i re r. ; 69i ; Co. ln the Foreign Market the prices are rominal. Spanish 34* i ; '1 hree per Cents., 20* i ; Brazilian, lombian, 24 23 ; Mexican, 28 3 4 ` ) 9- ; Dutch Twe-and•a-Half per Cents., 52 i a ; Five per Cents. d .em ; * ; B N lac e k w wa l l 3 l Sila RES.—Great Western 28 2!).‘ preen. prem. ; London and Brighton ' THIS DAY AT ONE. 1 6 * 1 6 4 !- Paid. Per Share. dis. ; Birmingham 69 71 o G ut t h ee a h m w p i t c o h n share ; Croydon I n 14i Pers 14 Manchester and Birmingham 15 dis. RAILWAYS. PRICES OF SHARE S d Gloucester ...... 100 73 ...... to Birmingham an FATAL STEAM EXPLOSION ON THE RIVER. Cheltenham and Great Western. 62i 34•••••• to .65 -- Short]—y before six o'clock this morning a large ballast barge prein ha .2 r ; e Great Western .................... . . 92i ...... to Awn 0 . 4 • worked by steam, used for cleansing and removing obstruc- London andl36„ .t ham ''„,, ..... i•••••• to 47 tior,s in the Thames, was destroyed by the bursting of the London and I3irmi •g 15 3 0 8 ... 15, ...... to South Western boiler, and one of the workmen killed. The following are the London and i ...... 57 i••• •• t° Ditto Tenths particulars :—The barge was moored off Dicken's coal wharf, HINFS• Upper Ground-street, Blackfriars, and about five o'clock the 0 li ar , Imp erial (at 51. pm. ) 20 men commenced work. They had net been long engaged 'if"' ..... 5 when the boiler of the engine burst with a tremendous ex 10- HALF -PAST ONE. The agitated state of our domestic sion, similar to a report of artillery, and scattered fragments • . in the British affair s entirely paralyses all opeiations Funds , i n ' ,O f of the machinery to a considerable distance around. There fairs, which we have no doubt likewise commerci— a•- were three men on board, only two of whom were able to critical state of the Minist will continue during the present escape, which they did by jumping into an adjoining vessel night's debate and its results. All eyes are now fixed on this before the engine and barge, with its ponderous machinery, in a stagnant state. All everything retrains sunk. The report was heard at a considerable distance along A vessel has arrived from Anti gua the banks of the river, arid speedily attracted several wa ter- we we cannot learn her d , but to the present time men and lightermen to the spot. It was then ascertained ate of sailing. It is generally supposed, the had the Preside n t b a man, named John Constable, had not been seen since before this. een there, it would have been made p u bli c explosion, and as he must have sunk with the barge, u pon Consols at which lay an immense mass of iron, and which must h ave present are a shade lower than in the mornin g. been 90 for the A g. been removed before he could be rescued, there was no c hance of saving him. Up to a late hour in the morning several men preen. ;Bank Stock, nothing done ; India Stock, 254 251 ; •portions of the wreck, India Bonds I dis. but actively engaged in removing can be wholly In the ' Is ' but a considerable time must elapse before t hat . . Foreign Market only five quotations. Spanish Ac accomplished. The barge was under the direction of Mr. tive lower, receded from 24* to 23 i ; Portuguese, 34i i ; Schooley. Three per Cents., 20*; Dutch Two-and-a-Half-per- C en t s. , SAD MISTAKE.--When a female member of 54 ; Five per Cents., 9n. be British Royal family holds a levee, it is customary for In Shares nothing doing. Birmingham and Gloucester, 73 ex. nobilit • and no others. I . div. ; Cheltenham and Great Western, 30%; Great Western, her to kiss the ladies of the ), lady of the Lord Justice Clerk was, on 2 ' ' 92 1 • London and Bliton, 47 ; London i and Birmingham, happened that the 159 ; London and So uth N estern, 5711. thosepresented one occasion, among the number o f to the m •• Money 13 rather in demand. • I,ta Princess Amelia, who, as it is well known, was very QUARTER TO THREE. • deaf. .. St an d by for my Lady Justice Clerk , " said the Consols, Account, 89% 90; Mexican, 283- 29 ; Portu man in waiting. Meanwhile, some meddling p erson wh i t. guese, 34i ti ; Spanish, 231 24. M ar k ets have a firmer ap- T ered him that his announcement was incorrect, the lady I pearance. b e ing a commoner. By this time the kiss preliminary j The following has been posted at the North and S ou th Ame was about to be performed , when out bawled the man o f rican Coffe ehouse : office through a speaking trumpet, " Dont kiss her, Ma- "A large steamer, under canvas, no steam, was seen on th din, she's not a lady 1" 10th A p ril, tat. 13, lon g . 23, steerin g N. W., by- the ' Lord Ponsonhy, arrived at Deal." ArrommENTs.—Lieutenant W. C. Chamberlain from the Stromboli to the Excellent. Mr. Francis Clifton is ap pointed Naval Storekeeper of Malta Dock-yard, and his situa• non at the Admiralty is to be filled by the eldest son of T. T. Grant, Esq., of the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard. INDIA MAILS.--The Great Liverpool steamer arrived in port on the 12th inst. at six A.M., with the London snails of 31st ult., and proceeded to Alexandria on the following day with those for India, Egypt, and Syria, taking likewise those from L o nd on o f th e s t h , which arrived by the Alecto, from Marseilles, on the 13th inst. EVENING EDITION... QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) HUGHE S r. JENKINS. Lord DENMAN gave judgment in this case. It was an action brought to recover a sum of 50/., being the amount of a bet alleged to have been won by the plaintiff from the defendant. The bet was 50 to 1 that a horse named Blsomsbury had won the Derby, and the averment was, that at the time of making the bet—namely, the 6th May, 1839, Bloomsbury had won the race. The defendant pleaded that the bet was illegal, being laid upon the event of a horse race, and the ques. tion was, whether a wager upon a horse race which had been already won and decided, was illegal. It was clear that, by the statute 9th Anne, if that statute applied to a bye-gone horse-race—the words were, that any person laying any wager upon the event of any horse-race, &c., any per,on so winning any sum over and above 101., shall, upon conviction, forfeit five times the value of the su m so won. It followed that an a c tio n could not be maintained upoz a bet so won. Could it be said truly in the present caVEat the plaintiff had won a sum of money on the event of a horse-race ? It appeared to the Court that no latitude of construction could bring such a wager within the statute, the . bet evidently d e . pending upon the accuracy of the information of either party, as to an event already decided. The judgment of the Court, therefore, must be for the plaintiff. THE QUEEN V. FALL AND OTHERS. The Coo a: gave judgment in this case. It was an application to review the illa.ter's taxation, on the ground that in point of fact he had no authority to tax the costs of a writ of mandamus, without a rule being obtained from the Court especially for that purpose. he writ had Leen sued out against the parish officers of Lambeth, and the return having been traversed, sent to a jury, who found a verdict for the Crown. The question was whether the costs of the writ of mandamus could be included in the verdict of the jury, and that depended upon the construction of the last clause of the statute Ist William IV.- for making some further provision for costs in cases of manda mus. But that clause did not interfere with the provisions of the 9th Anne, chap. 20, which provided that where a prosecu tor traversed a return, and that the defendant took issue, and that before a Jury the prosecutor recovered a verdict, he was in that case entitled to such costs as if the defendant had made a false return. There was a proviso that.on a proper applica • tion being made the Court had the power of depriving a party of his costs ; but in the present case, in the absence of any such application, the Court was of opinion that the prosecutor having succeeded in the trial, was entitled to his costs. The rule therefore must be discharged. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) Mr. Justice CQLEIIIDGE sat at Nifi Prius, and was engaged the whole - morning in trying an uninteresting case of disputed account. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) Lord ABINGEIL sat to-day with a Middlesex Jury, and dis posed of a great number of undefended causes. None of the facts were of any general interest. His Lordship having dis posed of all the causes on the list, rose a little before one o'clock. CRIMINAL COURT ' -(THIS DAY.) OLD COURP. • These sessions commenced this morning, before tke Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Recorder, Alderman Carrdll and the Sheriffs. As soon as the Grand Jury had been sworn, the RECORDER delivered his charge to the following effect : The cases comprehended in the, calendar did not present any matter requiring particular comment from the Court. He should, however, make a few remarks on one case. He would first, however, remind them, as one of the gentlemen of the Grand Jury had intimated a wish to be absent on a particular day, that the law required Grand Juries to ome to a decision by a majority of the number, and it was not absolutely necessary that the whole of the gentlemen be present at the same time, he hoped that the privilege would not be taken advantage of unless urgent necessity re quired it. The case which he would draw their attention to, was one in which two wives were charged, as appeared from the depositions, with having re ceived stolen goods, well knowing that the articles were : stolen The law, he regretted to say, in cases of this de scription, was not so define eas he thought it might be. In a case of a similar description Mr. Baron Gurney said, that generally speaking, the law cid hot impute to the wife offences when they were committed at the instigation of the husband; but if she acted without the knowledge of her husband, then would she be responsible as on her own account.; but however the ex tent of the wi e's liability, in cases of stolen goods, did not appear t...) him (the Recorder) to be very clear. The ease that he would draw their attention to in the present instance, was that in which two men had stolen a considerable quantity of linen ; an:i after they were in custody, the wife of each of them had conveyed the property away, not perhaps with a view of turning it to their own profit, but for the purpose of sheltering the husbands from a prosecution. Now, it ap peared to him that the conduct of these women had not. been under the control of their husbands ; it would there fore become the duty of the Grand Jury, if they thought the evidence sufficient to find a true bill. With these remarks he would dismiss them to their duties. Scine of the other cases, though they were heavy, required no observation, as they were cases of fact, and involved no point of law. LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MAY 10.—Wind this day at noon fresh South westerly breeze, rather cloudy. DEAL, MA' 9.—Wind W., moderate.—Arrived the Lord Laumara, M.Lean, from Port Philip ; Henrietta, South Seas ; Earl of llardwicke, Calcutta ; Tobago, Boyle, Anti gua; Ealny Grove, Falconer, Dominica; Warblington, Cadiz, Platina, Mediterranean ; Walter Hamilton, Westward Mail, (schooner,) oi'"o ; Hinsinonarch, Sheerings, for Portsmouth. Arrived from the River, Martha, for Demerara; Ceres, ditto; Undaunted, Malta ; China, Sydney, New South Wales ; Am phitr►te, Mauritius ; Vixen, Cape of Good Hope ; Eliza, Wil liams, Trinidad ; Gour, M'Lean, Cape Coast Castle ; Dewdrop, Nliramichi ; Alariner, Quebec. Put back, the Boadicea, for Rio Janeiro; Ceres, Demerara. LivEnrooL, May 9.—Wind light.—Arrived the Lightning, Melhpiish, from Monte Video; St. Vincent, Shep herd, St. Vintfnt; Splendid, (rokcr, Mobile; Sheffield, Allen, New York, sailed 15th ult. ; Amazon, Holmes, ( al cutta; John, Gailow, Bombay; Herald, flay, Cuba; Richard, Krallt, and Stadt Cammen, Miller, Stettin; Neptunus, Voss, Rostock. Sailed the Royal Saxon, for Bombay ; Cantab, Rio Grande ; Matthew Pearce St. Thomas's ; Ohio, New York; Navigator, Manilla; Enchantress, .Calcutta; King ston, Demerara ; Brooklyn, New York ; Leigh, and Shenan doah, Philadelphia; Ellen Bryson, St. John's, New Bruns wick. Arrived off, the John o'Gaunt, from China; London, and Livingston, Calcutta; Syren, and Lancashire Witch, Buenos Ayres ' - Triumph, Monte Video ; Mountaineer, Rio de la Hache ; Washington (ship, not sure.) The Chronicle, hence to Algiers, is totally wrecked near the latter port; crew saved. DOVER, MAY 7.—Arrired off, the Ware, Cummings; from St. Michael's ; Hoppett, Trepani. IN THE CHANNEL.—The Trident, Smith, from Porto Rico. ItYE, MAY B. Sailed the George Marsden, for Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 9.—Wind S. S. W. —Arrived the Nymph, Parnell, from St. Michael's ; Gambia, River Gambia; John Frederick, Matanzas ; Toronto, New York. MONEY and COLviiVIEKCIAL NEWS• CITY, TWELVE O' CL 0C K. LIVERPOOL. COTTON .MARKET, MAY B.—Since our last re port our market has undergone no change. Prices of all de scriptions remained at Friday's quotations. The sales this day comprise 2,000 bales, wholly to the trade. LIVERPOOL SHAKE MARKET, MAY B.—The business at the Stock Exchange this day has been very depressed :—Grand Junction have declined 21. per share, and are now sold at 205 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 37i ; Glasgow, Parley, and Greenock, 29i ; Ditto, new shares, 2/. Is. 6d. In Bank Stock has been, sold South Lancashire, si; Borough Bank, 14h. _ _ _ MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 8.--We have had a flat Market to-day. Manchester and Birmingham, 95; ; Manchester and Leeds, 51 to 53 ' • Ditto, Halves, 21; Bank o f Manchester, 7; Manchester and Liverpool Bank, UN. 18s. 9d. ; Marine Assurance, 9i. We have received Port Phillip Papers to the 3d of January. " On Wednesday last a meeting of the colonists, convened by the requisition of sa Magistrates of the territory, was held for the avowed object of considering the recent instructions of her Majesty's Government, relative to the division of Port Phillip from New South Wales, and the remarks wade by some of the Members o► the Council of Sydney, relative to this matter. Ist Resolution, resolved—That this meeting receives with the ut most gratification the intelligence that her Majesty has been graciously pleased to assign to this Province a part of terri tory commensurate with its growing importance, and of which the boundaries are clearly deferred by the natural features of the country, and in strict accordance with the desires and in terests of this community. The despatch of Lord John Russell upon transportation has been made public, by which it appears that Norfolk Island is discontinued as a penal settlement for secondary punishments. Goat and King Islands has been selected in lieu, or rather re commended. British goods are very low. Timber has undergone a con siderable decline in value. BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MAY 7.—At the opening of the Bourse the price of the National Funds inclined towards a fall, but during 'Change hours some purchasers made their appear ance, and the prices improved and remained above the prices of yesterday. It was the same with the Ardoin's Spanish, thed transactions were animated in the course ot 'Change hours, an they closed higher than they closed yesterday. T" -a n o t a. Half per Cents. 51 13-16 ; Five per Cents. 99i Ardoin's 13, Great Marlborough-street. BURKE'S PEERAGE, AND BARONETA GE FOR 1841. The new edition for 1841 of this popular work will be ready for delivery in a few days. This new edition has undergone a six months' revision, and will be found to contain a great quan tity of new matter of peculiar interest to the Nobility of Great Britain, particulars of which will be given in future ad vertisements. *". Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.