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(JUNIOR). ~„1 , ,‘0- M ORROW (2`21 June) is A GENERAL MEET to refereurc to a " motion" of the UNLERSlON'D— namely—the clretion of a Trustee—to prevent the repetition nt a frauds —ass in the hitherto transfer of " Club-monies, alias iirzorne, with .enterest on 12,0001." at the Bank of England by etrtain partifs, under a false tame " A MAN OF Siluvw" as ----intr.liclatir• g all claim—in case of Bankruptcy as creditors. '.. ( lls'electio - a being a. point-blank" to bar" the giveing away c‘ :" the stabs cribers%m •ney to servants, etc., without a general sat , ction as. illegally done in 1833, name ly— ra i s ing th e Gene tat " SEC . AULTA.RY'!.. wages at that period from 300/. to 4001. with dire t-like attempt " behind the scenes" this year by an "side wand" grant of 501. per annum. The Danko - " wish bring father to the thought" as a ,yeri.id sanction (under " pack'd meeting of clients") I)r ar 'ws 2 .s to former impropriety: the majority of the mem- I era ..)e . „rig out. of town. CHARLES ACKERLEY. .1 calor of the Vital air Lamp" n lief for allaying all in tiarnation in the Blood aris:ng fi'om " morbid action" as in the Teeth, and bilious head-ache. tt, Swallow -street, Quadrant. %OVAL SURREY 'THEATRE. ONDER THE lIANMJEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR, WILLIS TONES. N'rlr; rict dsr ext. ss.- - L:i'oir;l; Week - 61th; first Vocalists in the Kinpdorn. The New Opera, "A Queen for a Day," and " La Sonnambela," on alternate nights, supported by Miss Roger. Mr. Wilson, Mr. Letiler, a powerful Band, and an eztra. Chorus, conducted by Mr. G. Stansbury. THIS EVENING, JUNE 21, Will be acted Bellini's Grand Opera, LA SONNAMBULA. Amin a, 'AI in Romer; •Li• 3, Mrs. Sale;' Rodolrho, Mr. ..tifier; Elvir.o, Mr. Wilson. __ _ After which, THE QUAKER. Steady by Mr. Leffler. To conclude with, 11 `..)UNG LOCHINVAR ; OR THE' BRIDE OF THE GRAVE. Lochinvar, Mr. N. T. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UN'D'ER THE DIRACTION OF AIR. OSBALDISTON. Ceand icrii , •n of iuccess in the hitherto unexampled comlina tieT, ; attraction of " Sucan Hopley !" " The Stranger !" " T? - r ,: Hooey Moon !" and " Virginius I" supported by Mr. Ost ! . aill:ton, Mr. E. P. Saville, and Miss Voicent ! and also the New Drama of " The Palace of (4neva!" _ . THIS EVENING, lUNE 21. Thr iplendidly successful Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, of ,AN HOPLEY ! OR, THE TRIALS AND VICISSI TUDES OF A SERVANT GIRL!! tVilliim Dean, Mr. E. P. Saville ; and Susan Hopley by N; _i s& Vincent, the accepted Ileroine of Domestic Drama. After which, THE STRANGER. The Stran.zer, Mr. Olbaldiston ; Peter ' Mr. Gard ner ; To bias, Mr. Dale ; Count Wintersen, Mr C. Williams ; Stein fort, Mr. Seaman; Solomon, Mr. James; Mrs. Halter, Miss Vincent; Countess, Mrs. G. Lee; Charlotte, Miss Howard. To.conclude with, the new Burletta.entitleu THE PALACE OF GENEVA. Old John. Mr:' Gardner ; Seliria, the Countess of Barotti, Mt.;. Howard. • Boxes, 2s.—Pif,' s.—Gallery, 6d. Half-price to the Boxes only; at Half-past Eight. _ -THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. ----- th - errreatest wonder of the present age is Mr. J. H. AN_ DEIISONr, the GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH, now nightly perforrnire• at the above Theatre his wonderful and ines*tiib!e feats of Necromancy and Occultomacy- As a p roo f cf ldtu rising.reputatinn and renown of this distinguished an d cot to-be-equalled Mysteriachist, the Theatre is nightly crowded by ASTONISHED AND DELIGHTED AUDI EVES, comprising the elite of Science, Literature, and I'a=Lien, in and around the Metropolis. To attempt to enu. meiaie or descant on the wonder-workings of this unparalleled artiste would be useless—they must be seen to be believed, and'‘vhen seen, must be pronounced the ne plus ultra of all thins astonishing, delightful, and rational. The various de lusions p er f orme d by S. I'HE GREAT WIZARD OF THE NORTH are entirely diff er ent from those which gained him suchimmense patronage at the Strand Theatre some time back, which even at that time were universally allowed to be without parallel. The incredibilities he now enacts are the result of many years' research, inde:atigable study, and perseverance, to ar thi 'g of his magnificent display of solid silver apparatus, worthy a tout ensemble at once unique and elegant, and alone Strangers public attention and admiration. neglect Tit at present sojourning in the Metropolis should not Visiting the Adelphi Theatre—the Temple of the Magi —tffecheapest and g reatest treat i n L on d on. Dozes, 2s. 6d. ; pit, Is. 6d. ; Gallery, 6d. Nine . o'cliHalf-price at Private boxes, to contain six, 1L ss. The Boas-office is open daily from 11 to 4. Parties desirous of se curing places are r equested to apply as early as convenient. c , arri4 .es at a quarter past Ten. ROYAL StittßEY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. UNDER HER MAJESTY'S ESPECIAL PATRONAGE. PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAMPETRES, by the unrivalled Band of Wind Instruments, The ILLUMINATION of ST. PETER'S and Superb GIRANDOLA of ST. ANGELO, EVERY MONDAY, TUESDAY. AND THURSDAY. The Promenade Musicale will include Berlioz' Overture " The Inquisition"—a new Quadrille, composed for the occa sion, " The Court of Flora"—Jullien's celebrated " Nightin gale Waltz," with Piccolo Obligato by Master Hall—Grand geleetion from " Maria Stuart" and " Oberon"—" Les Cent Suisses" Quadrille—Overtures to " Die Zauberflote" and " Za nette—and Handel's Grand " Firework Symphony." ' Open at Ten. Concert at Six. Girandola at Dusk. Admission One Shilling. RAILROADS IN IRELAND .. .—Wq . publish this day the' prospectus o f th e C ompany recently formed for the es tablishment of railways in Ireland, and whoie leading pnnci pies, based on the Report of the Government Commissioners, "ere announced in this journal about two months since. Se veral,great English capitalists have embarAvd in this national undertaking, which will combine private enterprise, judiciously e.. unitedith local co_operation, under lecyisLitive control. The 4 e !iy.stem to be under the superinten'eftice of Commission etr: Ittott,ni,tead vbeyryUloi,vte4riement. In cOnnex4tin wi'h this subjeet, and impoettnt letter from Mr. Jal:e.Pini, iun., addretsls% um Theric railways —an imp- ro t° "rd Meipetb; regarding al. motive ,ys.cm, which has al7:andnthor great value in the loco into operation in England. Mr.ypirneen successfully brought trodu ticn of the new syst em on a small scalerru wo must es the inrefer to kis letter for details....,Dub/in Ereitiotg rotc HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW kr ,, rning Si minutes aftxr 3 I Evening 16 minutes after 4 or i A St ! , )b -4 :;tki -I ,I I ±N 4A * .(7 - V 4' 2,4i.% FLA - , • , tO , Q" -- -- 1 I I 'lt, J-*/ AVlle 4414 P LONDON: MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1841. Certainly the bread-taxers are the most impu dent of robbers. Other plunderers try to make their victims believe that they have taken little or nothing from them; the bread-taxers delight in magnifying their booty. The great object of some dozen of pamphlets and hand-bills they have recently put forth, is actually to vaunt of the extent of their robbery. They make it out that wheat from Podolia could be sold in England for 435. sd. per quarter, with a profit to the importer of 335. per cent., after paying all expenses and charges. If it be so, then, instead of the Corn-laws levying a tax of 10s. per quar ter, as is usually calculated, on the consumer of English grown food, they levy a tax of double that amount. Some other Tory sages have asserted, and even said in the House of Lords, that wheat from the North of Europe may be imported into England at 30s. per quarter. If the Anti-Corn-law people were to make such statements with a view to exaggerate the wrong which the landlords of England inflict on the suffering and starving people, we could comprehend their object, but for the landlords and their partisans so to exag gerate, implies either boundless impudence or boundless fatuity. The lower the price at which corn can be purchased abrOad and brought into England, the greater is the amount of plunder obtained by the landlords in keeping it out ; and the greater the abundance of foreign corn which we can obtain, the greater is the injury which the landowners inflict on the starving people. For our parts we laugh to scorn all these cal culations. We do not doubt that in a particular year a single ship load of wheat may have been bought at Odessa or Dantzic at such a price, that it could have been brought to England, and sold here at a profit, for 355. per quarter. But to make a law on the single contingency of one such case, implies that the seasons are always abundant, and suffer no variation in other countries, whatever may be the case in England. On the contrary, only last year, or the year be fore, such was the scarcity of corn in Russia, that exportation was prohibited, and none could be obtained from it at any price. Three years have not yet elapsed since corn or flour was sent from England to the United States, where, on the average, we believe, it is grown at a much leis cost, by free labourers, than by the serfs in Russia. The attempt to frighten the starving people from demanding and obtaining justice by such contemptible statements as these will injure and deceive nobody but the silly men who rely on them for success. If those who make them were acquainted with the A B C of political economy, they would lay down their pens. Corn is an article of manufac ture, depending mainly for its production or labour and skill, like cotton cloth, on steam-engines. It follows, as a matter of course, that, like other manufactures, it will be produced at a less costin countries where skill and industry are great than where they are little, at a less cost therefore in England than Podolia, and at less cost in England than the United States. We say at a less cost, meaning a less quantity of labour, not a less money price, because the money price is determined partly by a law passed to keep it very high. In fact, with the exception of labour and skill, there is no other element to be considered, and he must be little acquainted with the condition of this and other countries who doubts that labour is more skilful in England than in almost any part of the globe, and consequently is more productive, or the cost of all which it produces is less. Some persons think fertility of soil an ele ment; but what constitutes fertility no per son knows, dit is no more an element of cost th a sunshine or rain. All are equally the free gifts of a benevolent GOD. Labour is the sole element of cost, and it is invariably productive, not in proportion as the soil is fertile, but as the labourer has ac quired knowledge and skill. The valleys of the Mississippi and the plains of New Holland were just as fertile when they were inhabited, the former only by Red Indians and the latter only by prowling savages, as at present. Then, how ever, they produced nothing but lofty trees, tangled grass, or scrubby brush-wood, and now they teem with a great abundance of food cattle and flocks. What has made the vast and blessed difference ? The labour of skilful men.- It is that, turning knowledge of soils and cultivation to ac count, which has, as it were, filled the two coun tries with all the means of subsistence. Now it does not admit of one moment's doubt that the cost of producing all the present abun dance of food which prevails in the United States and New Holland, is much less than was the cost of producing the wretched subsistence of the red men or the prowling savages. A whole day's labour scarcely sufficed to obtain a single meal for the savage,while the skilful labourer in the United States, in New Holland, or in Eng land, by a day's labour not only feeds himself, but feeds a considerable number of persons who produce nothing whatever: But the same prin ciple, in degree, applies to all countries less peopled and less civilized than Britain, and more peopled and more civilized than were the present United States and New Holland three centuries ago. In all countries, and at all times, fertility is no element of cost, any more than sunshine or rain; and in all countries at all times the cost of subsistence will be Less, as the inhabitants are most ad vanced in knowledge and skill. Where the people know, as in Mexico, how to scratch the ground, and sow maize, a favourable season yields them an abundant harvest, but in a bad season they get little or nothing. Between the most abundant and the least abundant seasons in England there is no such difference as is ob served in the produce of Mexico. The skill of civilized man, therefore, whatever may be the presumed fertility of a soil, will more surely than that, give hi m an average abundance of food. We extend these general principles to all coun tries, and affirm that, on an average of years, wheat is grown at a l ess cost in England than in any of the countries in which it_ is sold for a la t n We much less money price thanin E will not now advert to all the causes the much higher money price in England than in other countries, but they may all be explained without supposing that it costs more to grow wheat in civilized England than in half-barbarous Podolia. Some persons affirm, for example, that as coun tries become peopled and civilized all things be come dearer, and therefore they say the pre sent high monied price of food in England is a natural and necessary effect of our civiliza tion and the multiplication of our people. But what do such reasoners say to the price of all kinds of cotton manufactures, which has fallen in proportion from lOs. to Is., within the memory of man ? What do they say to the price of all kinds of hardware, of all kinds of silk goods, of all kinds of groceries, not subject to a monopoly—to teas and coffees, to every thing which is brought from abroad, most of which, as every body, we believe, knows, but the Corn-law advocates, have fallen in cost amazingly within the last century? Corn ap pears not to have fallen, because they have fallen so much more ; but corn • itself has fallen in cost price. So far from civilization and the multiplication of people having a tendency to raise the cost of production, they have the con trary tendency ; and all things, except food, which the law will not allow .us to have at a low price, cost less and less as the increase of people promotes knowledge and civilization. gvea the money price of food is following the THE SIIN, LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1841 reduction which takes place in the cost of pro- I clueing it. Thus the average price of 1815 to 1818 was somewhere about 80s., and the average price latterly has not been above 575. The law cannot keep up the price, because everywhere, in England as in the United States and in Po dolia, as the people acquire skill the cost of growing corn becomes less. That England is not an exception to the general rule that cost diminishes with civilization is evident from the fact that in England a much larger number of persons in proportion to the whole population is maintained in ease and opulence than in any other known country of the globe. That itself is a proof that food ac tually costs less labour to obtain it in England than in Podolia, though our barbarous laws, framed in the very spirit of hostility to the pro gress of society, striving as too many laws do to put constraints on society, and make it something different from what nature dictates, prevent a great number of the people from obtaining food at almost any price. That it naturally costs less to obtain food in England than in any other country, and that at the same time it is both dear and scarce, is the• condemnation of the law-maker. if great injury would result from abolishing our barbarous law as ,to food, though we think that amazingly overrated by those whose fears are the parents of their words, that is an additional proof of his folly or his guilt, in having made such a law. Go on under it we cannot, and to throw it off, though infinitely the lesser evil of the two, is still a great evil which he has inflicted on society. The coalition of the Monopolists is perfect and avowed. Their intention, also, to continue to levy taxes on the public, which do not go into the Exchequer, is plainly stated. A meeting of the General Shipowners' Society was held on Friday last, one HENRY BUCKLE in the chair, supported by Messrs. G. R. ROBINSON, GEORGE F. YOUNG, GEORGE PALMER, M.P., Alderman THOMPSON, M.P., A. CHAPMAN, M.P., G. POWLES, &c., all Esquires, at which meeting a Report was read from the Committee, contain ing amongst others the following passage : Long experience has taught your Committee how in effectual must be the exertions of any separate interest, when placed in array against popular theories, backed by political influence, and official power. In such struggles it is evident, that from combination alone can success be hoped for ; but, unfortunately, placed, as it has constantly been, in the forefront of the battle in defence of the protective principle, it has been rarely that the shipping interest has been able to excite the sympathy, or engage the co-operation, of the other great interests, notwithstanding the prosperity of those interests has been admitted to be involved equally with that of navigation in the maintenance of a just protection. In the present instance, however, the can dour or the,incaution of the assailants of the principle, leading them to include in their purposed legislation a direct withdrawal of protection from the agricultural and colonial interests, an obvious and pressing motive for union at once presented itself. Availing themselves of this advantage, your Committee felt it a duty not to be deterred by any apprehension of the misrepresentations to which such a step might expose them, from tendering to the West India body, the Agricultural Association, and the Colonial Society, in conjunction with their col leagues of the British North American Colonial Associa tion, every assistance in their power in maintenance of a cause which the nature of the Ministerial propositions had rendered common to all. The offer thus made was promptly responded to, and a cordial communication with those influential bodies was in consequence at once esta blished. . It did appear to them that while insisting on protection for themselves in the carrying trade of timber and sugar, it would have been inconsistent and unjust to have se parated theimelves from the agriculturists, who were ex pressly connected with them in the very measure they were called on to oppose. It did seem to them, that im portant as is the support of that powerful interest for the maintenance in the legislature of protection to na vigation, they would have compromised every principle of. duty, if they had hazarded the loss of the future assistance of that interest by a selfish isolation in the hour of common peril. They are not unaware that there are ship-owners who look to the extension of the carrying trade by the free introduction of foreign corn. But, apart from the probability that, under such a system, accompanied, as it must be, by further changes in our navigation laws, the greater portion of such im portation would eventually fall into the hands of the cheaply built and cheaply navigated shipping of foreign nations, your committee appeal with confidence to the great body of ship-owners, whether they would ad vocate a course which would justly affix to them the cha racter of grasping monopolists ; eager to promote their own gains by the maintenance of a principle which applied to others, they are equally ready to subvert ; and whether they can sincerely believe that, if such a course were either manly or honourable, it could by possibility prove in the long run successful. Satisfied that it must have resulted in the failure and disgrace it would have deserved, your Committee felt at once that it was in compatible with their,honour or with the permanent in terests of ship-owners ; and they have acted on their convictions by making common cause with other im portant interests in the great struggle for the protective principle justly applied, which has only now commenced. The Report was adopted by the general body of shipowners, who have thus entered into a league against their fellow-countrymen. There have been many laws made against workmen combining, but we are afraid that no law has ever been directed against the unprincipled com bination of these several great bodies mutually to plunder the people- by legislation. The shipowners appear to us to be inexcusable, for they admit that the ground of their apprehension is that foreign ships are cheaper built and cheaper navigated than English ships ; but they are so cheaper built and navigated in consequence solely of our Timber and Corn-laws, and thus the shipowners 'obviously sacrifice the maritime interest of the community to their pre sent advantage. They will allow the English shipping to be dearly navigated and dearly built, to the certain diminution of its utility and employment, if they he not dis turbed in their present monopoly of bringing timber from Canada. Those who know the ship owners will probably not be surprised at their conduct. The men who patiently allowed impressment to be continued during the war without remonstrance, and, it is said, even encouraged it, in order to keep the seamen more dependent and subservient—the shipowners who never threw the shield of their wealth and power around the brave men who in their service encountered all kinds of hardships, and exposed themselves to every clime, cannot be susceptible of patriotic feeling. Such men as Alderman THOMPSON, Mr. G. ROBINSON, and the other Esquires, can have no sympathy either with their seamen or theh suffering countrymen, and it is only natural that they should combine with similar selfish men tb preserve that protection which is another name for legal robbery. The provincial papers are all full of election, addresses and election proceedings. We arc happy to see that the spirit displayed in the City of London has had a good effect throughout the country, and many places are rallying which mere politicians gave up for lost. There is even a stir in East Sussex, according to the Brighton Herald, and a longing for a Liberal candidate, though Mr. CAVENDISH has so cruelly betrayed and deserted his friends. One of the best signs that we behold is the una nimity of the working-classes in opposing the Monopolists. The non-electors are everywhere bestirring themselves, and taking measures to make known their wishes to the electors. In Manchester, Wigan, Kendal, as well as at Bath, and Liverpool, they have taken a lively interest in the good cause. We do not despair, there ' fore, of succeeding quietly through the means of Parliament. We trust that such will be the case, for it will be a fatal day for England when a House of Commons shall be again con stituted to maintain by a majority the laws which ordain plunder and starvation. We are happy to be able to assure our readers that Lord PAL3tEasToN's return for the borough of Tiverton is all but certain. The Tories will, of course, make a show of opposition against him ; but it will be a mere show ; and we doubt much whether 'their pet candidate, Mr. C. Ross, will even go to the poll. This is auspicious tidings, more especially when it is borne in mind that Tiverton is situated in -one of the most decidedly agri cultural counties in England, and where, consequently, it might reasonably be presumed that the clamour against Corn-law Reform would be at its height. But the Devonshire farmer is no longer what he once was. The progress of events has enlightened him. Common sense has silently and gradually worked a healing influence upon his mind. The mischiefs accruing from a long system of Tory misrule have been brought home to his own door; and be has at length learned to discriminate between his beet friends and his worst enemies.. Hence when Lord .'PALMERSTON entered on his canvass of the Devonshire A'armers, he found he had no longer prejudiced, benighted spirits to deal with, but a body of men shrewd, inqui ring, resolute, and fully capable of appreciating the sober, convincing arguments he addressed to them. His canvass was, in consequence, most flattering, and equally so the profound respect and attention with which his Address to the electors—a report of which will be found in another column of The Sun—was listened to. In this Address, which has - the rare merit of being wholly devoid of anything like cant or mysticism; which speaks the truth, and speaks it boldly; which, scorning all clap-trap appeals to the passions, is directed ex clusively to the reasoning faculties of its hearers ; in this calm, convincing Address, his Lordship proves to the satisfaction of every thinking man that the Minis terial Corn-law measure—we quote his own words— " instead of being an attack upon the agriculturists, is designed to preserve them from changes much to their disadvantage." Lord PALMERSTON is right. Corn-law Reform is a direct benefit to the agriculturist ; and herein lies the secret of Tory hostility to it. These self-willed'Monopolists are quite shrewd enough to fore see that the instant the eyes of the farmers are opened, they will fully appreciate the practical value of the Mi nisterial project ; hence their incessant endeavours to misrepresent its character, and rouse the prejudices of the agriculturists by the unprincipled declaration that it is 4 direct attack upon their interests. Were it really so, not a word would the Tories say against it, but keep themselves discreetly aloof, knowing well that the blunder would immediately recoil upon the Whigs ; but its excellence, as a great re medial measure, alarms them, and they are resolved, if possible, to strangle it in the cradle ; for your true Tory hates anything that wears the aspect of sound, practical Reform, with as much cordial intensity as his kinsman and patron, the Devil, is said to hate holy water. Lord PALMERSTON was singularly happy in his strictures on the sugar monopoly, justly remarking that it was an oppressive tax upon the general consumer, kept up for no other pur pose than to serve the selfish interests of the West Indian planters. And yet it was but the other day that we voted twenty millions of hard cash to these injured innocents, for which we are now annually paying not less a sum than eight hundred thousand pounds ! Twenty millions to a set of men, who cry out that we are doing all we can to ruin them ! What a world of meaning is comprised in this one significant fact ! Sir GEORGE GREY and Mr. TUFFNELL made their public entry into Devonport on Saturday evening, sur rounded by crowds of the Liberal electors of that borough, who, with flags and banners, had gone a consi derable distance out of town to receive them. " DERRY DawsoN," brother-in-law of the would-be Premier, has taken the field as the nominee of the Tories ; and though he does not stand the shadow of a chance of being returned, the fact of his re-appearance on a stage where he has been already twice defeated, creates much excitement among the constituency. Devonport re jected Mr. DAWSON when in office, so that he has no thing to hope from his being a candidate for,place. Better representatives in Parliament than Sir GEORGE GREY and Mr. TUFFNELL, the Liberal electors of Devon, port could not desire, and right glad are we that the im portance of their public services is properly appreciated by their constituents. Letters received this morning from Devonport state the Liberal party there is nobly discharging its' duty to itself and the country at large. " Down with the Corn-laws" is the motto of every Re former in Devonport. We are given to understand that the leaders of the Liberal party at Norwich have effected a compromise with the Tories ; and that all the honest electors of that city have determined on resisting to the utmost what they lustly look on as a sentence of disfranchisement. We conjure them to persevere in this resolution. The watch-words of every Reformer in Norwich should be no compromise—no surrender. He should hold nothing in common with the Tories, but avoid the faction, as he would a pestilence. There can be no half-measures pur sued with safety in a case of this sort. To coalesce with a Tory is to play the part of an Iscariot, and be tray the cause of Reform. Row can a man who calls him self a Liberal, assist in furthering the return of the Mar quis of DOURO ? If Norwich be true to herself—true to the cause which she professes to have so much at heart— she will lose not a moment in resisting all attempts that may be made by the mere trimming, time-serving class of her electors to compromise with the hated Tory faction. We subjoin the following spirited address, which has just been issued on the occasion : TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF NORWICH. Electors ! will you be sold? Will you allow your franchise and the well-being and safety of the country to be sacrifled by a clique of interested individuals, who may be influential, but are not the friends of the people, if they thus sell your dearest rights? Rights for which your forefathers suffered bonds, im prisonments, and even death. You are the parties who shonld act, and unto you the un-enfranchised look for pro tection ;up then and be doing ! Throw off such traitors to the cause of liberty. Let your watchword be No Compromise I A requisition to a most elcquent Advocate of your interests will be laid at various parts of the city, for signature, in the early part of the ensuing week,—when all who despise slavery in any shape,—who hate the monopoly of the franchise by a few —are earnestly requested to si g n. Committee-room, Vineyard, Magdalen-street, June 19th, 1841. We have received the whole of the Paris journals of Friday and Saturday. They contain no political news of any interest. Baron MEUNIER having complained in the Chamber of Peers of the inhuman way in which the war was carried on in French Africa, and of the large augmentation of troops for that service, Marshal SOULT said that the recent exchange of two hundred prisoners, under the auspices of the venerable Bishop of ALcir.ns, who had so benevolently taken an active part in the transaction, would, he trusted, convince the world of the desire of the French Government to give to the war in Algeria a character more in unison with the practices of civilised states. He was glad to add, that Ann-EL-KADER himself had paid a tribute to the humanity of the French, by ordering that no more heads should be brought to him, and declaring that if any were brought the bearers should be without reward. As regarded the destruction of the dwellings and establishments of the Arabs, he would observe that it was one of the necessities of war—a necessity which was unavoidable, but which also he saw with unfeigned regret. With respect to the augmenta tion of troops in Algeria, and the statement that the awr ' - inentation was daily going on, and would be continued, he begged to say that he did not anticipate any necessity of the kind, and; on the contrary, thought that in a short time the Government would be able to recal some of the troops." This explanation gave great satisfaction to the Chamber. _ _ _ According to the Courrier Francais, M. Hurnann will not bring his new loan into the money market before October. The Commerce says that as soon as the Session of the Le gislative Chamber is officially closed, the King will visit Eu, but will not proceed at all this year to Pau and the South of France. The Augsburph Gazette gives a letter from Hamburgh, of the 9th instant, asserting that Lord Palmerston has refused to ratify the Treaty entered into with the Hanseatic towns, as his Lordship cannot, in the present position of affairs, take upon himself to effect so great a change in the Navigation Act. Prince Paul of Wurtemberg has arrived at Stuttgardt from Paris. Prince Michael Wolkonski was married at Warsaw, on the 2 , 1 inst., to the Princess Anne Paskiewitsch, daughter of the Field-Marshal, and Maid of Honour to the Empress. Lieutenant-General Halkett has been appointed to the com mand of the Ist division of the Hanoverian infantry. A letter frosts Constantinople, in the Augsburg Gazelle, says : " The Turkish army in Syria amounts to 20,000 men, and the troops sent to Candia to 5,000. The garrison of Constan tinople, including the guards and the artil'ery, consist of 25,000 men, and there are 5 to 6,000 men in the forts of the Dardanelles ' • thus all this force amounts to only 55,000 men. In the capital, the provinces, the fortresses, Romelia and Asia- Minor, there are only imperfect regiments and battalions which do not amount to 50,000 men, so that the whole of the regular army is only 100,000. The mortality this year is great. The typhus fever has been raging at Constantinople since the month of January. In the four military hospitals which contain 2,000 sick, 350 to 400 have died, and every re giment has several hundred men invalided every six months. A numerous band of forgers, who have been counterfeiting the notes of the National Bank of Austria, have just been dis • covered in the Grand Duchy of Modena. Accounts from Bourg furnish us with some additional par ticulars in the affair of Besson, whose re-appearance, after having been so long believed to be murdered, is attended with so much mystery. On the 9th inst. the men accused, but ac quitted of the murder, and who have since been in custody on the minor charge of robbery, were released, on the denial of Besson that they were concerned in the actual attack which he admits was made upon him, and the circumstances of which are still unknown, except that it is said, on the examination of the person of Besson by men of the faculty, the scar of a slight wound above one of his shoulders has been discovered, and it appears he has been several times bled in the arm. The wit nesses on the trial of Savey for the murder have been, it ap pears, committed for perjury. Pierre Goyet persists in his declaration that he saw a man murdered by Philibert Savey, and that being caught by him at the time, he was made to lay his hand on the dead body, and swear that he would never re veal the act, adding, that he saw the body, covered with blood, the following morning in the wood of Arnac. SWINDLING.—The Emancipation of Toulouse gives the follo w i ng accoun t o f an impudent a tt e mpt at swindling :—" A person assumi ng th e name of Ribes, presented himself a short time since, to 111. Dorrieu, Receiver-General of the Aude, re , siding at Carcassonne, and requested to open an account with him, having arranged with M. de Bray, Receiver-General of the Haute Garonne, to pay into 31.1Durrieu's hands 150,000 fr., , which that functionary was to realise for him. At the same time he produced a paper signed by M. de Bray, acknow ledging that he had received from Ribes bills to the amount I stated, and for which he would give credit when received. AI. Durrieu having acceded; to the request of Ribes, this per sonage retired, saying he intended to make purchases of pro perty in that country, an d was return i n g to Toulouse. Two days afterwards, M. Du rr i eu was surpr i s ed by receiving a let ter from M. Ribes, dat e d a t S oma il , requ esting a remittance of 25,000 fr., on account of the 150,000 fr., to meet an urgent and unexpected demand. M. Durrieu, before parting with the money, prudently wrote to M. de Bray to inquire whether any of the bills in his hands had been paid. This blew up the plot, for none of them had been, nor were they likely to be realised. Informations were laid before the Magistrates of Toulouse, and Ribes has been arrested at Narbonne, with the Hall of the lnstitute were pre s b e y n tlt e A cademic k ra ncaise. M. de fraudulent documents in hi s possess i on ." On Thursday the annu a l di str ib ut i on of prizes was made in the Heal Academy Jouy was in the chair, and a ll t h e most distinguished members of th t. Areport was read by M. Vil lemain, and the prizes w ere t h en g i ven aw ay. One of 5 , 000 f. was awarded to .11. Reybaud, author of " Studies on Modern Socialists, St. Simon, Fourier, and Owen ;" another of 3,000 f. to M. Dubourg, for his " Life of Cardinal de Cheverus, and several smaller prizes were declared. The prize of poetry was given to M. A. Dessessarts., for his work on " The Infancy of Civilization and of Christianity in the East." The first Gobert prize was declaredto be still due to M. Augustin Thierry ; and the second was awarded to M. Bazin, for his " History of France under Louis XILL" The sitting ended with a report by the President on the Monthyon prizes for humane conduct, and with their distribution. ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY.—A large and distinguished as semblage, among whom were General Coletti, the Greek Am bassador, Count Gasparin, M. Geoffroi, of the Institute, M. Isanebert, and M. F. Delessert, met on Wednesday evening at the Hotel Meurice, to listen to the philanthropic expositions and arguments of Messrs. Forster, J. J. and Samuel Gurney, members of the London Society for the Abolition of Slavery, against that inhuman system. The business of the evening was opened by Mr. Forster, who briefly explained the great ob ject of the Society, and the beneficial results it has produced during the sixty years it has existed. Mr. J. J. Gurney thea took a general view of the state of slavery in America and the West Indies, proving, by facts collected by himself during his recent travels in those countries, the salutary effects of the emancipation of the negroes in the British colonies ; and by detailing the present flourishing condition of the island of Antigua, he showed that the abolition might have been effected without previous apprenticeship, and even with out any indemnity to the slave-owners. During his address, Mr. J. J. Gurney was repeatedly interrupted by loud plaudits: Mr. Samuel Gurney depicted the frightful state of the slaves in the island of Cuba and other colonies, and demonstrated the necessity for France to follow the example of England in abo lishing slavery in her settlements. M. Francois Delessert re turned thanks to the three philanthropists, expressing a hope that France may soon be induced to follow in the footsteps of England, and take a decisive part in these measures, so greatly in the interest of morality and humanity. The assembly sepa rated at eleven o'clock, full of admiration for the three mem bers of the Society of Friends, who have devoted a large por tion of their lives and fortunes to promote so sacred a cause. These gentlemen had been on Tuesday evening presented at the soiree of M. Guizot, where they received from the Minister and many eminent men numerous marks of interest and esteem. Galignani. We have received the following letter : " TOULON, JUNE 15.—The Acheron steamer, which was sent from our port on the 27th of May, with despatches from the French Consul at Canea, in the isle of Candia, returned yesterday. This vessel left Candia on the sth, and has not to perform quarantine, as it has had no communication on the way. " Tahir Pacha, the Turkish High Admiral, was there with twelve vessels, one of which is a frigate bearing his flag, and two steamboats; the rest are transports. The 9,000 Turks and Albanians who have been landed in the island, have com menced operations against the insurgents. A very smart ac tion had taken place in the plain some leagues distant from Suds. The Turks say that they had the advantage, and that the whole coast and the plain are free ; the insurgents, they say, are driven into the mountains. One fact is certain, namely, that in consequence of the blockade the insurgents eould not receive anything from Greece, and were in want of arms and ammunition ; but they had armed themselves with lances, pickaxes, and other instruments; they had very few muskets. It was said in the country that the Turks would never be able to penetrate into the mountains. There was an English frigate at Canea. The Semaphore, of Marseilles, of the 15th, says—" A tele graphic despatclfrom Toulon, received here yesterday, an nounces that the Dante, Levant packet, which has been ex pected at Marseilles ever since the 11th, had been obliged to put. into Civita Vecchia, having sustained some damage. In consequence of this despatch the Leonidas is ordered to go and take the Dante in tow, and bring it to Marseilles. We do net know whether the despatches which the Dante had on board will be given to some other steam-boat before the ar rival of the Leonidas."—Le Commerce. BOURSE-PARIS ? SATURDAY, JUNE 19. rust Highest Lowest Price Price. Prick Price French 5 per Cents ll4 50 ... 114 70 ... 1 4 50 114 70 4 per Cents 99 ... Id) 30 ... 9u 1:0 99 3) 3 per Contr. ex. div 76 61 76 65 ... 76 6,1 ... 7 6 65 4,nk of trance Laffitte Bank I,ooof. Shares 1077 50 ...1C77 50 ;1075 ...107 5,000 f. Shares 5185 ...5185 ...5185 ...5185 Pselgian Bank ... 5 per Cents. New Loan ...... Dutch 2% per Cents. 53 ... 53 ... 5 3 ... 13 spAgosh Active O% ... 53% «. '.3% ... 13 % Passive 5% ... 5% ... 5% ... 5% Neapolitan lO2 '25 ... 102 25 ... I`J2 ,5 ... .02 '25 Roman .... 101% ... 102 ... 101 X ... 102 BAILWAY . ;HARES. Versailles. LB R. B 335 345 332 51 235 Ulan 455 455 ... 4` • 5 ... 455 S , rasourit LO Bale Orleans . . 4BB 75 ... 483 75 ... 4EB 75 ... 468 1) Her Majesty held a Privy Council at half-past twelve o'clock this day. The Lord Chancellor, Lords Lans downe, Melbourne, Normanby, and John Russell, and Sir John Hobhouse attended. The Council was held for making the Queen's Speech on closing the Session of Parliament to-morrow (Tuesday.) After the Council her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by a numerous suite, in five carriages, left Buckingham Palace to wit ness the launch of the Trafalgar, in Woolwich dockyard, escorted by a party of Hussars. Mr. Charles Buller, whose great talents are well known and admired, has accepted the place of Secretary of the Board of Control, in room of Lord Seymour, removed to the Home Office. Mr. Buller is one of the most dis tinguished speakers of the House of Commons ; he pos sesses great industry, and his connection with Lord Dur ham, as well as his votes in the House of Commons, guarantee that his views are sound and liberal. The ap pointment does equal credit both to the Government and Mr. C. Buller. THE BUG PARTY.—Since nothing breeds bugs like the bad American timber, the use of which is forced on us by the monopolists, what can so fitly designate the party as the filthy vermin which it takes under its special protection, and which, in its blood-sucking properties at least, it so closely resembles. Let every monopolist candidate, at the approaching election, be greeted with the cry of " No Bugs!" and if the bees of this our industrious hive of England do their duty, not even the Bug-palaver-man Peel—the great hum-bug himself—will be of sufficient potency to seat a " Bug" Ministry on the Treasury benches. ERRATUDI.—In the eighth line of the Song which ap peared in this Journal on Saturday, read " sally" for " rally." LAUNCH OF THE TRAFALGAR. BY EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS. SUN OFFICE, Quarter to Four. The Launch has just taken place in the most brilliant style, and, so far as we can learn, with out the slightest accident. FULL PARTICULARS WILL BE GIVEN IN OUR SECOND EDITION. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) • CORN EXCHANGE. The past week's arrivals were moderate of English Grain, and good of Irish Oats. The fresh supply was fair of Wheat, and small of Spring Corn. The finest parcels of Wheat sold at former, prices, :but the generaLruns were heavy in sale, and rather lower. Barley scarce, and rather dearer. Beans and Peas unaltered. Oats firm in value, with a moderate demand. The top price of Flour was reduced 2s. per sack. PRIC7.B ON BOARD OF MU. Wheat,lled (old) —3. —s. Beans,Small(new) ..... 4 , 5. ••••—•• White (old).„ -4. —B. 11340) 526. 555. 'rick (new) 35 373 Fine s(is. Rs. (old) Superfine 626. 656. Harrow (new)......375.395. (l 80.) 55i. N e s. -- (old) —s.—s Fine (04.6'5. Brank Superfine 68s. 725. --.Foreign free 51i. :Os. Rye 88s. 40s. Barley 255. 86s. Grinding "6s 295, Malting :30s 33s Malt s6s. 60s, ,---- Fine New 61:s. 635. Pease, Grey, New . 318. 38s. Maple New 40, 425. White 345. 3 6 .15. Boilers 37s. 38e. ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LC 1 Wheat. ll English Irish — - Foreign Oats, Fecd New 176. 225. Poland —5 , ............•••••••••••• New 22i. 2 _4•. Pot atoe 8 X 24, 265. Scotch "6. 2€s. --- Irish 16s. ... 225. Flour Town (per suck) .... 54s 50s. Seconds 48, 2s. —.—..— North Country 48, 50 Bran Bs 9s )NOON DU RIN tl I•AS'l' XVFI.:II. larley. (Mts. Flour ;733 qrs. 4,512 qrs. 3,127 sacs' 23,651 1,2:,7 40D: rls SMITHFIELD. •We bad a good supply. The demand dull ; prices rather lower—Beasts, 2,440 ; Sheep and Lambs, 34,660; Pigs, 643 ; Calves, 170. Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 2d. ; Mutton, 3s. 8(1. to 4s. 6d. ; Veal, 4s. to ss. ; Pork, 4s. to 4s. Bd. ; Lamb, ss. to ss. 6d. _ _ TEA MARKET. The demand for Free Trade Tea was dull, and former rates were barely supported. Company's Congou flat at 2s. cash. TALLOW MARKET. Prices of Russian were sustained, but the market was dull. P.Y. Candle on the spot 465. 9d., and for delivery in the last three months 48g. per cwt. The present stock is 18,000 casks, being upwards of 4,000 casks more than last year. The de livery at home pretty good. HOP MARKET. The market firm, but not much business done. Tre ac counts from the hop districts are unfavourable for the young bine. The duty is backed at 140,0001. PROVISION MARKET._ Butter in fair demand. Fine Irish at 935. to 945., and Dutch 106 s. Bacon sells well, and prices were firm. Prime Small Meat at 595. to 625. per cwt. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.) OLD. COURD. John Chivcrs was indicted for obtaining under false pre tences the sum of 2s. 6d. for the London Dock Company. It appeared from the evidence that it is the custom at the London Docks when labourers are engaged, to enter them in a book, from which their names are called over in the evening when they are paid. There are two sets of labourers employed at the Dock, one at the south end, the other at the north end. On the day in question the prisoner caused himself to be en tered at both places, and in the evening received wages for each. The prisoner, in his defence, said that he had been for some time out of work, and the day in question being Thursday, thinking there would not be much to do at the North Quay, he entered himself at the South Quay, having previously entered himself at the North. The labourers that are entered on the Thursday are generally employed throughout the week, and it was in the hope of obtaining employment for the whole week that he entered himself at both quays. Previously to the pre sent transaction he had been without work for ten days together. The RECORDER having summed up, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. Mr. BALLANTINE, who conducted the prosecution, said he was instructed to inform the Court that this species of fraud has been carried to a large extent in the London docks. The prisoner was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. NEW STRELITZ, JUNE 12.—The marriage of his Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Denmark and be Highness Princess Caroline, of Mecklenburgh, second daughter of the Grand Duke, took place on the 10th. GOTTINGEN, JUNE 9.—Professor Fuchs is gone to Hanover to attend the Queen. It is said that the Hano verian physician fears that her Majesty is labouring under the same complaint which, in the opinion of the English physicians, caused the death of Napoleon. IMPRISONMENT OF MR. BAINES.—Mr. Wrn. Baines has been incarcerated in the county gaol,. Leices ter, since the 13th of November last, for non-payment of a Church-rate. —Leicestershire Mercury. Monday last was the anniversary of the Battle of Marengo, Friday of the Battle of Bunker's Hill, and Satur day of the Battle of Waterloo. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. A Lisbon mail has arrived, brought by the Tagus steamer. The Tagus left Gibraltar on the 10th, Cadiz 11th, Lisbon 14th, Oporto 15th, and Vigo 16th. By the above arrival we have intelligence from Lisbon of the 14th of June. It appears that a decree has been issued under the date of the 26th of May, approving the conditions of the contract made between the Government and the Confianee Company. The Company are to furnish the Government with 4,200,000 rs. in money, and 1,200,000 in lawful papers of the debt posterior to the 31st July, 1t433. It also appears that the project of the loan about to be contracted between the Government and the tobacco contract for the payment of the dividends enters to-dayinto discussion in the Chamber of Deputies. There is not a word respecting the treaty with England. Further particulars will be found in another part of the paper. A list of the new Ministry has been published. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JUNE 19.—The improve ment of the Cotton Market still continues. We noticed to-day the sale of 4,000 bales entirely to the trade. The prices are firm at Friday's quotations. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JUNE 19.—A very limited business has been transacted at the Stock Exchange this day : —London and Birmingham Quarter Shares, 23 ; Ditto new, 24i ; London and South Western, 54. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNK 19.—Our Market still continues depressed. London and Birmingham, 167 to 158 ; Ditto New Thirds, 24 to 24i ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 53i ; Manchester and Leeds, 52 to 53 ; London and Birmingham, 23 to 23 1 h; Bank of Manchester 6 ; South Lan cashire Banks, si. We have received Cape of Good Hope Papers to the 14th April. These papers are entirely void of any news ; they are filled with intelligence from England, and the Queen's Speech. We have also received Hobart-town Papers to the 20th of February. " We have received advices from New Zealand to the 2d of February from the Company's settlement, from which place the Lord Sidmouth has brought up 50 emigrants." We learn from Havanilla that the natives, in the event of any land being taken away from the original English pur chasers, by Captain Hobson's Commission, are determined to resume it, and are preparing to defend their rights by force of arms. They have collected a great quantity of fire-arms and ammunition ; the natives still retain the best land, nor will they sell it except at the most advantageous rates, and they will not work without payment in dollars. The na tives begin to look with jealousy upon the fresh arrivals of English intruders. We have been favoured with a letter from a gentleman in Port Nicholson, which gives a far more favourable view of the settlement, and the prospects of the country, than any we have yet received in this colony. We shall in our next number make some extracts. PORT PHlLlP.—During the year 1840 the number of vessels anchored in the harbour of Port Philip has been of such a magnitude as to be altogether unprecedented in the annals of colonization. Exclusive of Sunday, there has been a daily average of arrivals throughout the year to the number of 313 ; tons 51,938. HOBART TOWN, Fza. 18.—The markets have had a slight tendency to decline : since our last report considerable quan tities have arrived, some of which went off on the wharf at Bs. 9d. Wheat Bs. 6d. to 9s. 3d. Oats sa. to ss. 6d. Barley, English, ss. to ss. tid. Hay 7s. to 7s. 6d. per cwt. New Hay 4/. 15s. to 5/. 10s. per ton. Potatoes 14s. to 16s. per cwt. By the Hamburgh mail arrived of the 18th June, we have received Papers of the same date, bringing the exchange upon London 13. 5, a quarter of a shilling lower than per last ac count ; Gold 429 ; 1061 ; Bank Actions 1,648. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date. BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM JUNE 18.—Some business has been doing in Integrals, still the prices have not varied much. The Actions of the Society of Commerce have improved owing to the announcement of the dividend of 1840 to-day, which was fixed at 75 florins. Accounts from Amsterdam state that Prince Joinville will return to the Hague at the end of August; on his marriage with Princess Sophia, daughter of Hind Guillaume, it is expected he will receive a marriage fortune of 5,000,000 florins. THE FUNDS. What with canvassing for the approaching elections, and the launch of that noble man-of-war, the Trafalgar, at Woolwich, business as well as speculation in the Funds will be entirely neglected this day. A great number of the members of the Stock Exchange will leave soon, to be present at the launch. Consols, which left off on Saturday at 89 for the Account, opened at the same quotation this morning; Reduced, 89b *; Three-and-a-Half Reduced, 98*; Exchequer Bills, 6 8 prem. ; Bank Stock, 168 169 ; India Bonds, 1. dig. 1 prem. In the Foreign Market the prices as yet are nominal— Spanish Active left off on Saturday at 22k, opened at 21i 22 ; Deferred, l 0 4 ; Passive, 4i 5 / 1 ; Portuguese, 33} ; Three per Cents., 194 20; Brazilian, 67i 68*; Mexican, 27}; Colombian, 20i 21 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 524 ; Five per Cents., 99 1 100. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 .. 63i to Edinburgh and Glasgow 4O 34 -to Great Western - 65 Ditto New Ditto Fifths London and Brighton JOINT STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster . .. 20 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JUNE 15. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 97 Grand Canal 5t0ck......... 5t0ck......... Ditto Reduced ... Ditto Debs. 6 per cent... 85k Ditto New, 1830, 3i per Cent. Debs. 9ok Royal Canal Stock HALF-PAST ONE. Although no business of any consequence has been done dur ing the morning in the British Funds, nevertheless Consols continue firm, and have rather improved from the morning price of 89* to 89* a for the Account ; Reduced, 89* ; Three-and-a-Half Reduced, 98* %; Exchequer Bills have advanced one shilling, 6 8 prem. ; Bank Stock,l6B 169 ; India Bonds, 1 dis. 1 prem. Half the members of the Stock Exchange have already left, to proceed to Woolwich to be present at the launch, and the remainder are expected to follow. In the Foreign Market very little doing. Spanish Active 22, heavy ; Mexican, rather lower, 26/ ; Colombian, 204 2L; Chilian, 60k ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52 a 1; Five per Cents. 99. 100. SHARES —The Share Market is deserted. Birmingham and Gloucester 63/; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 38h; Great North of England, 901 91; London ar.d Brighton, 43/ - 44. We have a great number of ship-letters this morning, but most of them are of old dates. QUARTER TO THREE. The attraction of the Trafalgar launch has thinned the City of even some of its most business-like occupants, and thus served to add to that decided appearance of dulness that has already so long characterized all mercantile operations. Judging from the declarations up to the present time, we are not likely to have any very great activity in the produce markets this week. There are further sales of Tea again to-morrow, and this checks speculation in the article, and makes. prices heavy. From Liverpool it is satisfactory to learn that the Cotton Market was still brisk. Consols,Account, 89a sellers; Mexican, 27 274; Spanish, 22i Although there is scarcely any thing doing, the markets gene • rally have a tendency upwards. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 169 India Stock — 3 per Cent Red. B9l Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons — Ditto Old Annuities ... 871 3k per Cent Red 9Bl Ditto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent — Es. Bills, 1,000/...41d Bpm New 5 per Cent — Ditto 500/ Bpm Long Annuities to expire ' Ditto Small l2 pm Jan. 1860 l2 12-16 3a.nk Stock for Acct... Oct. 1859 l2 11•]6 India Stock for 0pg.... Jan. 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... (Portuguese, 5 per cent. 33 Belgian, 5 per cent — I Ditto,Newbitio loi - - Brazilianßonds.... 67-i Prussian, 5 per cent. ... ...- Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent...... 60A Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... 21 Spanish, 5 per cent 22 Ditto, 1824. Danish, 3 per cent French, 5 per cent.ll4f. 25e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange .—f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 261 French, 3 per cent —f. c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 52i Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent 100 SHARES Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 63i Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) Ditto Debentures ( 4 paid) 6 .1 Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway(4o paid) Great Western Railway (65 paid) ... 9l Ditto New Shares (50 paid '' 619 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) lOl London and Brighton (50 paid)... 44 London and South Western Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ... .. Ditto New Shares (30 paid) North Midland Railway (100 paid) Ditto Thirds ( 5 paid) LLOYD'S SHIPPING_.(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Jurta 21.—Wind this day at noon, W. to S.W. DEAL, JUNE 20.—Wind, S. S.W.— Arrived the Vanguard, Wm. Money, and Lord Hungerford, from India ; Windsor, Calcutta ; Lord Auckland. Ceylon ; Three Sisters, Hampton, Rio Janeiro; Gladiator, New York; Bolton, Robinson, Sin gapore ; Jannet Willis, Willis, Hobart Town ; Courier, Max ted, Jamaica; John Park, ditto; Vulture, Newfoundland ; Edward Barnet, and Cheese, Cadiz • Medea, Northward; Charles Kerr, Arnold, China; Sea Witch, Bayley, Africa ; Duke of Argyll, Webb, Calcutta. Arrived from the river, the Gertrude, for New Zealand; Childers, P. Phillip, Royal William, Ceylon ; Eleanor, Barbadoes ; St. James, New York; Brisk and B. Cat, Newfoundland ; Stakesby, Quebec; Urchin, Constantinople; Brothers, Meta. RAMSGATE, JUNE 19.—Arrived off, the Lloyds, Green, from China; Margaretta, Shields, leaky. DCVER, JUNE 19.—Arrived the Plato, Holmes, from Mo bile, for Hamburgh ; Harriet, Vinson, ditto, for Antwerp ; Grand Turk, Higgins, Brazil ' • Droma, Boston, for Antwerp. COWES, JUNE 20, Arrived the Wilhelm, from Bahia, for Gothenburg. Put in for provisions the Lucina, Buenos Ayres ; Waterloo, Robinson, Batavia; Johanna, Mensing, Havannah. LIZARD, JUNE 16.—Arrived off, the Silvia de Grasse , from New York, for Havre ; Sea Lien, New Orleans, for ditto. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 19.—A Hamburgh ship was seen on shore, near Anyer, on the 15th of February, by the Athena, arrived at St. Helena, from Manila, which experienced very bad weather in the Straits of Sunda. The John, and not the James Jamer, hence to Miramichi, was to tally wrecked, on the 18th ult., and crew saved. Arrived the Martha, Martin, from Barbadoes; Bengal, Sher brook and Palmyra, Mobile; Constantine, Pennsylvania; Fanny, Caledonia ; Bauder, Athens, Corea, Alexandria; Marmora, Birmingham; North Carolina, Adams; Europe, Glasgow; Ontario, Monmouth ; Alhambra,l%lichigan ; Mary Ann Stulton—all from New Orleans ; Wm. and James, Shep h -rd, Savannah; George arid Prince of Waterloo, ditto ; Adrian, Wilson, and Colombo, Charleston ; Monongahela, Henley ; Philadelphia, Chatham ; Forshaw, Africa. Left Fer nando Port 24th March, Marmion, Jellard, Calcutta ; Hope, Rio Janeiro; Wilberforce, Harrison, Maranharn. Sailed 17th ult., Alceste, Demerara; Alice, Barbadoes; Palos, Virginia; St. Baldein, Glidden, Philadelphia; Curlew, Halifax; Artemis, Paraiba. Sailed the Britannia, steamer, for Boston. Me, trum, Rio Janeiro ; Peterel and Herald, Jamaica; Whitehaven, Trinidad; Hercules, Quebec; Cordo ba, China; Grace Darling, Constantinople; Lord Glenelg, Malta; Ganges, Swan River ' • Thomas Perkins, Batavia ; Protecto-•, Honduras; James Edward, Cambridge; Caledo nia, Brooklyn, New York ; St. Petersburgh, Virginia ;Vandala and Abbot Lord, Boston; Coronet, St. Andrew's, New Bruns wick. Arrived off the Parsee, from Bombay ; Sea Gull, Monte Video ; Storm King, Laguna . ; Mary Lloyd, Buenos Ayres; Sarah Trotman, Barbadoes ; Asia, Jamaica ; Kingston, Mobile; Joseph Yeoward, Africa ; Gazelle, Mediterranean; Globe, Alexander, Freeman, Ceres. OFF HOLYHEAD, JUNE 20.—The Camph'ell, from Antigua SWANSEA, JUNE 18.—Arrived the Porchu, Dacess, from Valparaiso; Auuata, Jackson, Cuba. EVEN ING FLANDERS MAIL. r wheat BRUSSELS, JUNE 17.—The average price last week was 17f. 50e,, and that of Rye 10f. 13e• Pe r hectolitre. Emir Effendi, an officer of engineers of the Turkish army, is now at Brussels. The King and Queen will go to Ostend. in t h " course - of next week. Baron Falck, the Dutch Ambassador, has retnrnea from Maestricht, where he has been to preFent Jill re spects to King William 11., and to receive his orders. The palace given by the State to the ?resumptve Heir of William 1., which has been unp..oductive ever since the revolution, is going to yield a rent twh owner. The stables are already let to aC( anPanY have converted theta into a Pantechnicl ;avian I learn that the main building has been le tto a P' O pany who propose to convert it into a splendid casino, in which balls, concerts, banquets, &c. , w ould beamii, given, but the Company wishes to add a saloon for g q and offers to give 21,00 Q francs annually t o the poor 0 the city, A petition to this effect has been put into circulation, which would grave been uniiinously rr proved of had it not been i'co the project of gionbling; VVe doubt whetherour Magist,-Ates will allow this soure, of ruin in a capital where its effects would be OJT more disastrous to youth and to commerce than in a n •Y r other place. —Emancipator. 0 • bt Nothomb, the Minister of t he Interio r, is go ne Frankfort, where he will present to • the German Diet letter of recal, which puts an e. id to hi s inission.!s,, Plenipotentiary of Belgium to the: Confederatiou• will return to Brussels at the beginn. Lig of July' King William arrived at IVlaostrict ton the 14th, a, was very well received by the inhabitivits of the eh)" a n . country. The town was illuminated in t he evening, The next day the King gave audience .tt ) the authorial: and to all the persons who presented ti'laalseiv es to sP•eeau to him. We are assured that he gave a very gr Bel reception to the Belgian Com Missioners o ur determin ing rag witli Gene_ t h e i f , 'r u o ss n e t , ie t r he li F ne r , esi a d n e d at c o o f nv th er e se ci d o a m l m on i g ssi t c hr to BRUSSELS, JUNE 18.—The Royal Fain 1y `kill goto Ostend on Monday. his said that the b - 4 , will go ht: K London, and that at his return, after havin, g visite d ' t go • camp of Beverloo, his Majesty will t o uchess 01' Gern:o o 4 Kent. M. Bomsen, the Prussian lfinister to the Sw iss C A O , OI O- federation, arrived at Brussels yesterday e - ten in g Berlin on his way to London. D and return to Belgium with his sister the General Hamilton has also arrived here. Sian p ens •• VIENNA, JUNE 9.—Count 1/.. l :altzalm, the J. .--„, 1 Ambassador, set out yesterday l'or Silesia. I t is that M. V. Stroganoff will be appointed, pro temP °r n f Russian Ambassador at our Coup.., on the retirement " -rf the Th resent Ambassador. n a present Ambassador. The Archbishop Palatine of Hu agary h a s left Vir l3-- n r to return to Ofen. sal s` PESTH, JUNE 6.—Late accounts: from Nasehall that the fire was not so considerable- as the first repol; stated, but still that the handsomest rt of the cit y,„l destroyed. The number of houses burnt down i s to be 100 or 120, including the Epise:opal Palace. TURKISH FRONTIER, JUNE 3.—e last Mail fro g Th ss. Constantinople brings_ word that Cott nt Pontois ha ¢s• & sure the Porte and the represent:Li Ives of the 0 Powers, that the last despatches he I as received o 0 Powers, Egypt leave no doubt that Mehemet-ii will make t he further opposition to the arrangement offered by Porte. Lord Ponsonby, taught by tca not inclined to give the slightest credit to this prot°,s, of Mehemet Ali, and therefore seems en tirely to nr e " sv with the resolution of the Porte not to p.,iblish from firmans till the receipt of further coma aunicatiens „: 01 0 London. A letter from a well-informed .Ter.son tnen'ar,. that the firmans cannot possibly be pub lished till 311, by swer of the Conference is received to t he note Se ll i ," on . the English courier, which left Constaa itinople for 7,0 don on the 26th of May, which answer , can luad- 1 3 is' Constantinople till the beginning of Juin r. g eNperienee,i, 0 ,, r, s ed• The troubles hi Bulgaria are not w:iolly suPP re— w ith Numerous bodies of Christian:., partt y provided d or fire-arms, infest the country. Till the , I are dispers e to ( pacified in some way or other, a fresf : breaking nti theAMSTE revolt is possible. be'• RDAM, JUNE 17.—The seven herar n.boatfieet IVllO l ° ,or longing to this city sailed yesterday : tLhl4 consists, this year, of 123 boats, each ric alined 15 men. visit T h o e f L theim b K u i r n g g h t p o ap v e e r n s gi o o v , e R a u re v m er o y n l d o e -e , g:c d c. l n c t st ° r i f e t t e l: s t. t His Majesty is everywhere received w.;l - . th th e g re6 bis joy by the inhabitants. On the 10th of .this nionththat Majesty signed an ordinance by which it. is decreed. the Members of the Municipal Council a 3 19 ' e c str f i f:tS who, in the year 1835, on account of the genre °` • 0 0, at that time, were nominated by a RoN tul resolutiria shall be subjected to a new election by 'bat e lect° ef college, and in case they should not be re d T th h l J . are to be considered as honourably disch. resolution seems to have made a very I'm '0 ur ab ' e - the pression at Maestricht. It is countersin ed Minister Schemmel Penninck. - t a bl e ST. PETERSBURGH, JUNE B.—lt appears fri table e in the Russian Commercial Journal, that in the C °3. - C u e last year the value of goods passed through.. T rie d os torn houses on the frontier of Russia and I.!*di an , l f e l • from Russia to Poland, 6,746,481 silver rubles,- A llr° Poland to Russia., 4,196,695 silver rubles. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTELDAN, JUNE 13 . i! „, , Money. si i s ' Actual Debt, 234 per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. ' itilli - $ 4 `,,/ ':• : Amort Syndic, 4% per cent...... ............ Ditto, ditto, 354 per cent 73% 7 4 1;3 . , Commercial Company, 4 ., per cent.... , Ditto (1535 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1637, 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month l4, 0734 Two months Dutch Papers, Jane 19. BELGIAN k UNDS—Deusme, JUNE 10. Actual Debt, '2% per Cent. " "et • Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. ..... .... It' .----- 3 per Cent. ........ ;,-, - , -Thirty.seven-------- -. • u . f 111 Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent '‘. 518 Society of Commerce, 4!4 per Cent..., ..... ..... Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ... ' ..- National Society . Exchange on London (shoal ,,... li 95 —Brussels Papers, June 18. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Jinn , 1.: 0 , 5% - , five per Gaits. Metalliques • ••••• ip, 56 Four per Cents " 15111 Three p.:r Cents. Bank Shares Aftgernein. &thane. June 15 HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, JUNE 15. -mond Bills. Y ..... ~ ,; Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares J64 "ittlg A nglo.Russian Loan lO !,ii 1 ,0 , ~,1! Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Cartificate Inscription, Ist Scsias 10:! . ' e Russian 5 per Cent. }loin and Co. 3d and 4th ... , Series PI4I ... : ( •••• ***** • . ~• Ditto in Certificates .........—.. ..... .. ................ d. , I 66 71 4 ' New 4 per Cent. (1840) B 7, it .1 , Dutch .sctual Debt, 2% pc: Cent 5O )g , , ortf Ditto S per Cent Polish Booth ...... 145, - ..... New Picket Anglp-Danisli Loan, 3 per Cent - ~..,12: N. , twegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cwnt........... , ..1* -- ' Spanish, New :5 per Cents m . ISA , EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, JUNE 18.-13 o%.—Two months, 13 5 . . PETERSBUROH, JUNE 11.—Two months, 38 I -26 pi :nee* CORN-LA WS.—GLASGOW,„• t v of ". ' At a Meeting of the Town Council of th e `' l i t 4 0,4 Glasgow, held on Thursday last, the 17th insL,lca¢nd resolved, on the motion of Mr. David Bell, s?e° ll g 7, supported by Baillies Mitchell and Hamilt n, of to petition both Houses of Parliament in O rat ion tion moderatefixed duty being imposed on the' inv c of foreign corn, in place of the existing g raiitat et , soe. pre' Mr. P. Cumming moved, as an amendin Y ot, t' vious question ; seconded by Mr Andrew 1F ing 3 ::,,elve On the vote being taken, four declined to vow , 1 the supported the motion, and only, th re e sup Porteceil re amendment of the previ ous ques tion. Thtni th e I res eoV sentatives of the great City o f Gl a sgow (by th e r- be et' census 270,000 inhabitants) ma y bpisaid co ha v i e j bi unanimous in favour of th e measures rec onine naL Government as to the Corn-laws. goos e of following is a copy of the potition. to the - city f Commons, transmitted for preset itatkr_i to th e w ilsr members—Messrs. Oswald and Dennfstoun. (A Simons' to h e petition was also forwarded to Lord Aletbonrue presented by his Lordship to the House ,of " To the Honourable the Commons of t he - 1 - ; Kingdom of Great Britain and kelt ild• ill ment assembled, st, 11a, " The humble petition of the Lord . Y rev °,„ City gistrates, and Common Council of of Glasgow, A O tile "Showeth—That your petitioners feel c alley °li t our present time to bring under the notice of your Cor- law s . able House the injurious effect of the existi on the trade and general prosperity of the c ountrPo6oo. " That the fluctuating scale of duties now' in op e s pa are attended with many prejudicial consoqueneldatY your petitioners are of opinion that a moderate fi%emace on the importation of corn sh ou ld b e substituted iu of the existing graduated scale. se V° " May it, therefore, please our Honoura ble I" a take the subject of the Corn-laws into your e ll blisi ls deliberate consideration, with a view to the es " - f corn' ment of a moderate fixed duty on the impor° l ' °ll ai °ate " Signed by me, Lord Provost and Chief 3 13 1 1 , i r ar, of the City of Glasgow, at Glasgow, in nano' lo th© pnintment of the Magistrates and Council of r e m city ;in testimony whereof the seal of the said • hereunto affixed. prolO ti: (Signed) " JAMES CAMPBELL, Lora THE BREAD TAX. str oll of ` l 4 v W aot h , o n e a v ti er on d a o l es im n m ot o o r p a p li o ty se , b t an he k e ru o p rn te - y la , w s is a l li iirc ler ' incendiary fires, midnight assassination, and an all. " ' Ebenezer Elliott. all m en „ ; 4/° " We tell the inhabitants of towns, and fl' A ` - 13r iwt l ' understand their own interest, through Gr e3t to h e 11 that the main object of their united efforts ong t h e t rn • "'" . repeal of the law for monopolizing the sale of -° Times, Feb. 6, 1834. 0 •—..... -- ---, i • „uit 4) Sin JAMES G RARA m. E very boay 1 -1 bee n what Sir James Graham is tn . gto do. lie "1., e Ps moniously thrust out. ih t l u laa r ‘d, n ee e i d tti o al u ge t of Pembroke SirgJillin Owen thinks • n om 0 ~__ 0 0 , re , ai s n ea f t or w h a i r m m sel; So poor Sir Jere cebsill(sl-11 c . ) 11 P v:'-' wade to no. eAnonuagtht,emanpdt was s at he ono him upon Bristol ; but the answer was an incligratfriencls 'Then Westminster was thought of ; and l as ,, f riend were all cock-a-hoop that he would become the ,rove Glory" of the day. But, alas ! Westrainste:lA be is more coy than Bristol ; and now the report is, t!,',; et . for to come in under the wing of the Lowtbers, °T t , the Westmoreland or West Cumberland — " to creell,onscb"t Carl isk House by the postern gate, of which my Lerd keeps th e key." How are the mighty fallen. Of Journal. e l ecto rs , Mr. R. W. Scott has addressed the . date , OP Walsall. They have now an admi rable canal _ ti viral' it is their fault if Gladstone is again returaccl,l7oe y .. sail once more instrumental in rivetting the -f s food and labour.—Stafford Examiner. I I II Tr