The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-27 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. Totem THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. CHRONICLE.—The object of Sir Robert Peel's motion, announced for to-morrow evening, is to deprive the people of this country of their legitimate control over the management of their most important interests. It condemns the continu ance of Ministers in office, for the assigned reason that they " do not sufficiently possess the confidence of the House of Commons, to enable them to carry through that House mea sures which they deem of essential importance to the public welfare." But the confidence of the House may be one thing, and the confidance of the nation another. Do the millions tell for nothing on questions affecting the means by which they live, the markets for their industry, the quantum of employment and consequent amount of wages, the price of every article of consumption, bread, meat, fish, sugar, and of many articles essential to their occupations ? Have the people no rights, has the nation no voice, on such questions ? In the present state of the representative body, the only constitu tional appeal is to those whom they claim to represent. There is, at any rate, a strong prima facie case in favour of the policy which the proposed resolution, by implication, stigma tises. Does that deserve no respect from the members of her Majesty's Government? " No, replies Sir Robert (by the tenour of his motion), " you should disregard the people alto gether; a majority in favour of monopoly should make you throw up their cause without any further effort ; you should esign, and hand over to us the powers of the State, that we may employ them for purposes which you believe alike ostile to the intelligence and interests of the nation." The Adoption of such advice would be traitorous to the community. The occasion demands an expression of the people's prefer ence. Unless the old boroughmongering system be an excep tion, there has been a larger hody of petitioners against the Corn-laws than ever before applied to the House of Commons for the redress of any grievance whatever. That which forfeits Sir Robert Peel's confidence secures the nation's confidence. The country has expressed its opinion by petitions ; it expresses that opinion from day to day with augmented earnestness ; and yet the Tory leader has the modesty to ask Ministers to agree with him in depriving the country of its right to repeat by voting. and so enforce the opinion it has already manifested by its petitions. He urges resignation as a duty, because it will deprive public opinion of its proper efficiency. Thus, the first step on the ladder by which it is hoped to scale the heights of power, is made upon the substance of a national right. The intended preface of a Tory restoration is a gagging resolution. Nor would its cha racter be improved were Sir Robert Peel to declare his own purpose to be a dissolution immediately on his taking office. He is in this dilemma ; if he will not dissolve, he obstructs the appropriate expression of the public mind, demanded by the exigency ; and, if he will dissolve, his attempt to force Mi nisters to a resignation previously, is plain intimation of a dis honest purpose. It implies the premeditation of unfair and corrupt practices to secure the results of an election. TIMES.—Sir Robert Peel has done no more than satisfy the general expectation of the country by the manly and de cided course which he has taken in the present crisis. A con stitutional principle of first-rate importance was at stake, and the effect of a weak or vacillating line of act:on might have been to establish a precedent of the most pernicious conse.. quence, and to break up the understanding which from 1688 to 1841 has settled the mutual relations of the legislative and exe cutive powers in Great Britain. What Ministers have been attempting for the list month is in truth nothing less than a coup d'etat—an endeavour to carry on the Government upon the strength of Court favour alone, in the face of an adverse majority in both Houses of Parliament. Not only have they brought forward a financial scheme of a novel character, after the rejection of a Bill upon a most important subject, intro duced by themselves and supported by all their influence, but after that financial scheme has been repudiated by the House of Commons, they still persevere in the reso lution openly avowed by one of their Journalists, of " neither resigning nor dissolving*, but carrying on the Government of the count r y." They imagine that the House of Commons will tamely concede to them, under these circumstances, the privileges which, by prescrip tive usage, belong to the Ministers of the Crown ; will sub mit to arrangements of their making ; will suffer them to bring forward measure after measure from the Treasury benches, after it has declared against their continuance in office by a greater majority than ever mustered in their favour. If those upon whom the Constitution has thrown the duty of resisting this bold experiment, had failed in its performance—if Sir Ro bert Peel had not given notice of a want-of-confidence resolu tion, to be moved with the smallest possible delay—if he had not determined, upon the success of that motion, in the event et Ministers attempting to meet Parliament again without an nouncing their resignations, to propose an address to the Crown for their immediate removal, and, in the event of a de nial or a dilatory answer to that address from the Crown, to take the conduct of the public business in the House of Com mons entirely out of their hands—a severer blow would have been inflicted upon the British Constitution than it has ever suffered since the times of the Stuart dynasty. All parties, and all persons, of all shades of politics, who are capable of taking thought for the future, must rejoice that such a pre cedent has not been allowed to become established. Whigs would have deplored their own short-sighted infatuation hereafter, when they saw their own example followed by Tories. A Minister of some future Charles 11. might have maintained himself in office without a Parliamentary ma jority, under the sole shelter of prerogative, and would have pointed to Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell as those who first taught him the way ; and a revolution (for the stop page of supplies is a revolution) must have been resorted to, as the only remedy, as often as the judgment of the House of Commons came into collision with the personal inclinations of the Sovereign. ADVERTIsiER.—Like all the measures of the Peel-Tory policy, the proposed motion for a vote of want of confidence is an evasion—an evasion of the greater difficulty in which the Tories would be paced by a full, fair, and thorough discussion upon the Corn-laws. That it is a mere evasion is palpable, from its being thrust forward on Thursday, the day before the House brg eking up for the Whitsuntide holidays, when it can not be discussed fully, and must therefore be adjourned. And yet, with all this laborious cunning, will the party really succeed in their object? They may postpone the formal discussion of the Corn-laws, but still the odious doctrines of free trade, and all that constitute the policy of the Government, and makes it worthy of the confidence—if not of the House, — of the country, will b-eak forth. " But," says tke wary politician, " the truths which you would by such a discussion disclose will be swamped by the ollapodrida of talk on every sort of thing besides, which we shall take care to introduce ; and thus the public will be confounded and in the mystification we shall escape." Not so, worthy tac ticians ; the debate will possibly last ten days or a fortnight ; the young and active energies on the Liberal side will apply themselves to unravel your exquisitely wrought fallacies and clap-traps, so that your latter day will be worse than the first. The public will judge between you and them—on that which is emphatically (if ever cause was) their own cause. The more we think of it, the more we relish the idea of this want-of-con fidence debate. Many things which could not come out in a mere Corn-law debate, will find vent ; and besides, let us add, there will still remain behind, if we mistake not, the oppor tunity for the Corn-law debate too. It is, in short, the very best thing for the Ministerial party ' • and if we were not up to the tricks of the Tories, or at least of their leader, we should say, the very worst for them. But, no doubt, he has his own personal objects in it. Let this be as it may, the motion is to be met, and met it will be, in a gallant spirit by the Liberals, who are chirping with delight at the idea of another good round battle with the enemies of public li berty. Fortunately, in the present case, Sir Robert Peel will take the lead. He must make out his case at the outset. There will be no drawing back to await the chances of the de bate. He must make out his case, ar be nonsuited, as the lawyers say. What will be his case ? We apprehend, three fold; past, present, and to come—that the Whigs have done much good, are doing much good, and will do, if they are per mitted, a great deal more—that, with all the opposition which the Tories have been able to offer, this good has been done ; but that now, the Tories being too much for them, it is quite unconstitutional to attempt to do more, and that they ought, therefore, to leave the field to the Tories, to do as much mis chief, or prevent as much good, as they can—that it was never heard of, in the times when the public liberties were bought and sold by the boroughmongers in the unreformed Parliament, that the Government held out after the transfer had been ra tified by an Opposition, however factious—that the people are to be held of no account in such matters, still less appealed to. This is the upshot of the nonsense which the Tories are hold ing forth ; but they do not believe that the Ministers are such geese as to act upon it. POST.—There is a just and happy appreciation of the Eng lish character in the course which the distinguished leader of the Opposition has resolved upon. To combine boldness with prudence—resolution with reasonableness—is the charac teristic of the English nation. Therefore we may fairly cha racterise the brief resolution of which Sir Robert Peel has given notice as a national appeal. We are confident that it will be a successful one. He appeals not merely to the House of Commons, but also to the common sense and manly feeling of Use nation. He says it i s no t const i tut i ona l t h at b eaten men should meanly cling to the administration of public affairs, and the sense and spirit of the country will respond that neither is it reasonable or consistent with the public safety and the national honour. For ourselves, that which we ad mire most in thezesolution of which the Right Hon. Baronet has given notice is, as we have already said, its frankness, fair ness, and bold straightforward spirit. In a word, its utter op position, and absolute contradiction, to the character and habits o f Whig-Radical policy. It asserts the plain truth with dignity and distinctness. It is honest without rudeness, and earnest without extravagance. But they who care less about these par ticularly English characteristics of the resolution will perhaps be better disposed to dwell upon the constitutional and popular principles which it plainly asserts. Here are Ministers who presome to retain office in defiance of the strongly -expressed disapprobation of Parliament. They hare brought forward measures which they themselves confess, and all must acknow ledge, to be of a d: eply important character, and fraught with deeply-important practical consequences. They have been beaten upon the first of these measures in the House of Corn s loons, and they do not pretend to expect any better fate for those which are to follow. And yet they cling to office with out affording one word of explanation or apology for conduct PO much at variance with the practice of the Constitution. They have not told the House that they mean to advise , ad vise her ?Majesty to dissolve it. We believe they are afraid .o do an. They are afraid to dissolve the Parliament, being well aware that the feeling of the country is against them, as well as the ma jorities of the Houses of Lords and Commons, but still they cling to office, relying on the partiality of the Court, and despising the constitutional rights of the people. This is the charge which the people have against these Ministers ; and the bold, prudent, honest step upon which the leader of the Op position has resolved is simply the first step in the assertion of the publie liberties of the people of England. These liberties are in danger from the carelessly impudent course which a merely courtier Ministry has adopted, and they are not the less so because attacked in an undermining way. There is too much courage—too much manly spirit—in the British people ever to allow their constitutional liberties to be taken from them by open assault. The danger to these liberties lies in the possibility of their being sapped by treachery—by the selfish machinations of those who have the words of freeedom in their mouths, while their acts are in defiance of those bul warks of freedom which the practicelof the Constitution has set up. Sir Robert Peel's resolution asserts the right of the House of Commons to exercise a veto upon the continuance of any Government in England. This tight it is which the present Min sters practically contest. HERALD.—Her Majesty's Ministers are now in a critical position. In real pity we trust that Sir Robert Peel is not revenging himself for his disappointment in 1835, He has been chided, laughed at, as wanting courage. What has he done ? There is not on the records of Parliamentary history such a decided step as he has taken. May we tell Lord John Russell the immense difference between him and Sir Robert Peel ? Lord John is a conceited Whig. For years has he been trying agitation, and Sir Robert has not. There is no comparison between the men's talents. Sir Robert has proved him self equal to the occasion. The Globe tells us last night that Sir Robert has taken a false step. A false step ? Let the Globe call it so. It is the positive ruin of the Whig Ministry. Sir Robert Peel has fairly come out to deelare the Conservative principle, and this" decisive step" will finish the business. But what a nice constitutional set these Whige are. Here are the words of the Globe. It is fairly k itttf vilhat leferraed House of Commons that the continuance "'s s SA* t!Aich circumstances, is at varianc e w i t h t h e P t „ h .X4rikaitution; and the Globe says, "We will as . 4 . aitt i i,•:, - Wing out that a "tn*rity of one or two" , st PY* at it Pe e l's bold a nd constitutional ro tan , And . .. P t .be saying, a m at i e he nticipates the defeat on Thursda y, 1 11 =liciltiag the' flank • an address to her Majesty, coin tit% to which he; faithful Commons • 34 THE' SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1841. had come, would be the next step. To what woulil that lead ?" This is not le commencement de la fin. It is the end of a bad beginning. Why, we all know to what it would lead. The Globe, with an excessive modesty, says, "It is not for us to predict what would be the result of such an Address to the Throne." In its stumbling agitation, it says, "We can only reason from what has occurred under circumstan.ces some what similar. If we find in the page of history anything analogous to the case, and so forth, we can make a pretty cor rect conjecture of what will be the course adopted by our gra cious Queen." All the Globe's historical recollections are wrong. There has not been an Address to the Throne within the scope of our memory or reading, except when the Whigs got up a meeting at the Thatched House Tavern against Pitt. The country answered it as it will Sir Robert Peel's appeal to them ; but hew excessively cowardly it is for the courtiers to drag in our gracious Queen. STANDARD.—Ministers have been uniformly de feated in the House of Commons through the whole present Session, and frequently in former Ses sions. They have been for six years barely endured by the House of Lords—and they are still Ministers. They say that they will dissolve or resign if defeated on the Corn-law question. Why, they said the same thing last year with reference to Lord Stanley's Bill upon which they were defeated—and the year be fore they went through a concerted farce of resigna tion upon the Jamaica Bill. They would not resign if defeated on the Corn-law question, though they would necessarily dissolve in the summer, as an excuse for huddling over the business of the session, and secur ing six months of salary and patronage. Nothing but such a motion as Sir Robert Peel's can get them out, or postpone the inconvenience of a dissolution. But it is said that even if Sir Rohert Peel's motion be carried Ministers will not resign, and the conduct in 1784 of Mr. Pitt, who retained office in defiance of adverse votes,is quoted as a decisixe precedent. We long since antici cipated the use that would he made of this precedent, and showed how fiercely it had been condemned by the Whigs of 1784, the Whigs of 1807, and the Whigs of 1835. Let us, however, compare the cases. Mr. Pitt was, in 1784, an untried Minister, and the opposition to him was a direct infringement of the prerogative of the Crown. Lord Melbourne has had a six years' trial. Mr. Pitt was the chosen Minister of the Crown and the House of Lords. Lord Mel bourne is not the chosen Minister of the House of Lords, and there is no proof that he is the chosen Mi nister of the Crown. The House of Commons against which Mr. Pitt had to contend was chosen under the ad ministration of his antagonists. Lord Melbourne has been condemned by his own House of Commons. The majorities against Mr. Pitt were 8, 14, and at the highest 20. Lord Melbourne has been beaten in his own House of Commons, by a majority of thirty-six. Never theless—and this is the great point of constitutional dif ference—Mr. Pitt appealed to the people within two months from his first defeat, and would have appealed at once, but for an address from the Commons to the Crown, deprecating a dissolution, and intimating a pro mise of good behaviour. In contrast, Lord Melbourne has not dared to appeal to the people through successive years of defeat, though no objection to such an appeal has been offered by Parliament. . . . . THE HUSBAND AND THE LOVER. An old militaire, named A., who fills the post of Mayor in a commune in the environs of Paris, was returning home from a sporting excursion a few days since. He had killed nothing, and was in a sufficiently bad humour, when a very beautiful pigeon clove the air within shoot ing distance. A. fired, and the bird fell to the ground. On lifting up his prey, the sportsman perceived that the poor pigeon carried under its wing a small piece of paper artistically fastened with a silken thread. It proved to be a mignon billet, which A. opened, and read as follows :—" Mon bien ame Charles, viens, le tyran est parti." The Hon. Magistrate turned pale ; his brow was covered with a cold sweat. It was his wife's hand writing ! The " Charles "of whom she made such tender mention was a rich landed proprietor of his ac quaintance, whose frequent visits to A.'s house had al ready appeared suspicious. The Mayor's emotion was vehement., but lasted only for a short time. He drew forth his pencil-case, wrote at the bottom of the billet, " Prix fire, trois mille francs (price 2,000 francs), and signed it with his name. Then, without further hesita tion, he proceeded to the residence of the person to whom the billet was addressed. " Mon cher voisin," said he, " here is a superb pigeon which I killed a short time since: I want to sell it to you," . . COURIER.—Iii accordance with the tactics of Minis ters in Parliament, their retainers out of doors and in the provinces are at the same time labouring with diligence, if unrequited with success, to work the popular oracle in their favour. The oracle, however, is mute ; it makes no sign, and gives no hope. Another great meeting, as it is facetiously described in the Chronicle, has been got up in Liverpool of all places, being the third held there, all within the compass of some dozen days, with two days or separate reports of each meeting in that most acute and provident Journal, by which the number is doubled with the honest intent of mystifying the public. At this last meeting, as at both of those by which preceded, the talking and the walking gen tlemen were all the same, and the proceedings and speeches the exact counterpart of those before. There were present, for example, that most excellent and dig nified Whig-made Knight errant Sir Joshua Walms ley, with the Worshipful Aldermen Brooks and Cobden, of Manchester ; and these worthy persons not only de frayed all the talking expenditure of the day, but delivered the same stereotyped speeches which were before sported in Liverpool, and have since made the tour of Manchester, Bolton, Blackburn, &c. Alderman Cobden was abroad as usual, and in the character of traveller delivered out all the wonderful things which none but travellers, since the time of Munchausen, the prince of the tribe, ever see. Alderman Brooks, who is a well-known wag, retailed the last capital joke of his own invention ; he had discovered that the Corn-laws were an "infernal machine." Hear his own graphic and self-satisfied report of it. " After read ing Sir Robert Peel's speech the other day, he said to his friend Mr. Alderman Cobden, What are we to do about this infernal machine' (he always called them the infer nal machine) the Corn-laws ?" The meeting must have been convulsed with laughter on the instant, but the fact is perhaps suppressed by the Radical Liverpool Reporter. With wit and wisdom thus gracefully confabulating to gether, the wit of Brooks and the wisdom of Cobden, the country will be saved from the " infernal machine," it may be hoped, for it really seems a monster as terrific as the iron devil that tears and prepares the raw cotton in the cotton mill of Mr. Brooks. The cher voisin became greatly disturbed on recog nising his messenger of love ; but, putting the best face he could on the transaction, he replied, "It is a singular fancy of yours, Monsieur A. ; but I am fond of bizarreries How much for the bird ?" "Look at the ticket. I shall not abate one farthing." And he showed the billet which was still fastened under the pigeon's wing. The gallant opened the billet with a tolerably good grace ; then he appeared to reflect, and said, " I rack my brains to no purpose, my dear Mon sieur A. I cannot find le mot de cette enigme." "Le mot ! There are two of them, and here is one," replied the sportsman, slipping a ball, quietly, yet so so to be perceived, into the barrel of his fowling-piece. The comedy was hastening to a tragic denouement. The lover was slightly frightened, and replied with po lished grace, " But as I have not the slightest difficulty in honouring your signature, mon cher Monsieur A., I shall hand you the sum." The 3,000 f. were counted into the chasseur's hand, who took them and retired without saying another word. But all did not end here. When Monsieur Charles had recovered from his fright, he began to regret the loss of his gold, came to Paris, took counsel's opinion, and com menced proceedings against the Sieur A. for extorting money 197 threats of personal violence. The latter re plied by instituting an action for adultery, supported by a certain number of very racy letters, of which he had ma naged to secure possession. No doubt this affair, if ever it is brought before the courts of law, will be fruitful in scandal.—Paris Paper. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) LONDON, MAY 26.—Wind this day at noon, light airs from the north-east, fine clear weather. • DEAL, MAY 25.—Wind N.N.E., fresh breeze.—Arrived from the River and sailed the Fuma, for South Australia ; Commodore, Jamaica ; Richmond, Hill, Berbice ; Barbadoes ; Numa, Quebec ; Marinero, Bilbao. SHEERNESS, MAY 25.—Arrived the Moore, from Havre with loss of anchor and chain. GLOBE.—Expert as Sir R. Peel confessedly is in al the expedients of political chicane, he will scarcely suc ceed in his last move, by which he evidently means to avert the dreaded discussion of the Corn-law question. Into that discussion there will naturally be introduced an exhibition of the mischiefs the Corn-laws have wrought to the tradeland commerce of the country. Well may the Tories desire to prevent such an exhibition ! The appalling aggregate of privation and suffering the Corn laws have entailed on thousands of our fellow country men, when brought, as they will be brought, into public view , attested by evidence which cannot be contro verted, will excite sympathy for the sufferers in all who have hearts to feel. The death of a system so preg nant with physical, social, and moral evils will be decreed. Its sentence will be pronounced at the coming election with unanimity pf feeling and of act by every popular constituency. Throughout the kingdom the monopolists will fall before the popular indignation, which will be exerted with determined energy against them. The advocates of monopoly in articles of food will be driven from the hustings in disgrace, as unworthy to represent a free and humane people. The Tories plainly see that to this result the public feeling is rapidly and certainly tending. Hence the desire they manifest to burk the Corn-law discus sion ; which, by exposing the results of the present sys tem, will add fuel to the flame already kindled. They are wise in their generation. The children of light and of the day will baffle their dark designs : these will drag ' forth to public view the monster-monopolies, which, like the fabled dragon, have devoured the food on which whole districts would have been cherished, and crush them for ever. LIVERPOOL. MAY 25.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Plant er, from Apalachicola ; Messenger, Taylor, New Orleans ; Nelson Wood, Barclay, Savannah. Sailed the United King. dom, for New South Wales ; Eliza, Thornton, New York ; Tamerlane, ditto ; Glengarry, St. John's, New Brunswick Rowena, Quebec ; Jane, Ancona ; Mary Ann, Webb, China. Arrived off, the Sarah, from Savannah. The Mary, bound to Malta, has put back, having been on shore. DevEtt, MAY 2.s.—Arrived off—The Oberon, Shields, for Rio Janeiro. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 25.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Aury a, from London, and sailed for Hobart Town. Sailed the Eu phrates, for Mauritius ; and Mercury, Quebec. Arrived off— The Phcenix, from Rotterdam for Batavia. WEYMOUTH, MAY 24.—Sailed, Geo. Welsford, for Quebec. FALMOUTH, MAY 24.—Wind variable.—Sailed the Stadt Dordrecht, for Batavia ; Swift, Quebec ; Braganza, 'Vigo ; and Commerce, Antwerp. NEWPORT ' MAY 25.—Sailed the H e l ene , f or A ncona; an d Greyhound, Syra. HULL, MAY 25.—Wind N.E.—Sailed the Ellen, Potter, for Malaga. CORK, MAY 23.—Sailed the Amazon, Fife, for St. John's, New Brunswick. KINSALE, MAY 22.—Arrived the Shannon, from Liverpool for Prince Edward's Island, leaky. THE WEATHER.—NOON, MAY 26. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Barometer Thermometer... 76 Highest 76 f Lowest ..... 53 Wind N.E.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. FEARFUL COACH ACCIDENT.---OR Tuesday last, as the Merthyr and Abergavenny snail was on her road to the latter place, having three outside and one inside (the only female) passengers, when about three miles from Mer thyr the fore axle-tree broke, and the coach upset with a fright ful crash andbreakage. All escaped unhurt with the exception of Mr. George Cocks, a commercial gentleman, who has re ceived several severe injuries inwardly and outwardly, and now lies at the George Hotel, Abergavenny, where every kind attention that humanity could suggest, or medical aid confer, were promptly provided by Mr. and Mrs. Holehouse, who had had previous information of the accident. It is not a little singular, that the post-chaise brought from Merthyr to take on the passengers, met with a similar accident a mile short of the foregoing scene, and that a third one was obliged to be sent for, which brought the unfortunate sufferer and the inside pas senger to Abergavenny; but, strange to say, on its return, one of its wheels broke down. The bags, weighing about a hun dred weight, were brought en by Brown, the coachman, slinging them around his shoulders, and mounting one of the leaders immediately after the sad event. STOPPAGE OF ONE OF THE SHREWSBURY BANKS.—MONDAY, MAY 24.—The greatest imaginable con sternation and surprise were excited throughout this town and neighbourhood to-day, by the announcement that the long established and highly-respected bankers, Price, Jones, and Edwards, had suspended payment. The blow was wholly un expected, and will be most severely felt by the tradesmen of Shrewsbury, and by great numbers in every sphere of life in the immediate vicinity. For many years previous to his demise, which took place a few weeks ago, the acting partner in the firm was Mr. William Jones, and the other two (one of whom was known to have a very large pri vate propert)y) now allege that th►y believed the bank not only to have been perfectly solvent, but to have been in as flourishing and prosperous a state as it had been in for years previous to Mr. Jones's death. An adjustment of affairs, satisfactory to the creditors, is pro mised at no distant date ; but strange stories (to which, of course, we shall not give a tangible form) are in circulation as to a disposal of the private property alluded to having taken place, that will render the fulfilment of these pledges not quite so certain or so speedy as could be wished. Trade throughout this district is in a most lamentable state, particularly in Coal brookdale, Wellington, and all along the seat of the great iron works on the borders of Shropshire and Staffordshire ; and the stoppage of this bank following so close, too, on the heels of the failure of the Commercial—who had several branches in Shropshire—will tend materially to shake public credit, and consequently still further circumscribe the little business that is at present being transacted. The liabilities of Price, Jones, and Edwards, are not yet known, but they are believed to be very heavy. Their London agents are Barnett, Hoare, and Co. Times. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. TIMES.—This was settling-day in the Consol-market, and money being less abundant than stock, there was what is technically called a " bull " account, and the continuation to next July was as high as a, or nearly 5 per cent. per annum. These temporary pressures are accounted for by the fact, that of late the profits to be gained by speculating in the funds have, from the small variation in the prices, become so trifling. that many capitalists have withdrawn their money from the Stock-Exchange to seek a more profitable use for it, so that the slightest immediate want of money is attended by some difficulty in obtaining it. During the prop ess of the present account, the difference between the extreme quotations has not exceeded i per cent. The de bates on the sugar question were scarcely felt at all, as it was at once perceived in the City that there was not the slightest prospect of the Ministerial proposition being carried, and hence the whole affair of the Budget was re garded with great indifference. No other political cause for variation has existed during the six weeks. It is remarked by the jobbers as a curious circumstance that the quotation to day is precisely the same as that on the last day of the last Ac count, which, however, chews a trifling decline since that period, as we have advanced nearer to the payment of the divi dends. The prices of stock to-day. in spite of the slight pres sure, have been well maintained, partly, probably, on account of purchases by the Courts of Chancery and Exchequer, to the extent of 200,0001. or 300,0001., which relieved the Market of some of its stock. Payments however will, it is said, not be made till Friday, so that the quantity of money was not in creased by the transaction. By the official return published by the Customs, the ex ports of the precious metals from the port of London to foreign and colonial parts for the week ending Thursday last, was as under : Ounces. Silver Coin to Hamburgb .. 3,000 to New York .. . 7,000 to Rotterdam... 30,000 to Belgium . - Silver Bars to Hamburgh 6 ,000 to Rotterdam 16,00 There was a fair amount of paper offering to-day upon 'Change, and on Hamburgh the supply having rather exceeded the demand, there was again a trifling improvement in the rate upon that place. Paxis and Amsterdam may be considered the same as last post. o e s a o n n The pre m i um on gold at Paris is 94 per mine, which, f e o h r ao standard at ar e d a g r o is ld, oo gi L v London at the Engli s h Mi nt price of 31. 17s. 10 1 ,4 d. per ounce e a x t ch sh an ert ge b o eing of 25. 25 39, 37, d it th felle ee w x- s Paris that gold is 0.06 p er cent. dearer in P than in .. London. By advices from Minhu r g hthe price of gold is 4301 per mart, which, at the English Mint ounce for standard gold, g i ves an el'i c rl i ce of 31. 17. 10 1 /d. per exchange at Hambur g h on London at an of 13. 71, and th e follows that gold is 0.40 dearer per cent, d sh ort being 13. 84, it r in London than in Hamburgh. The late reaction in the tea trade has directed attention to the causes which are supposed to have produced ' and these principally appear to be the l arge sa l es which tli t, e importers f have made by public auction i n th e course of the last fortnight, besides the disinclination shown by the legitimate dealers alers to purchase more than they actually want. It also e a ppearsfu n tliiat these sales are likely to be continu e d, w hi c h , of 000 tends to keep the market in abeyanc e . Wi t h respect 'to pec er n lation, although it has been carried on w i t h considerable spit-il on one or two occasions since the arrival of the late overland mail, there seems to have been much more caution exercised than previously, and those who have been the leaders of it are regarded as the lower classes of the trade, whose difficulties, if any, would only affect their immediate circle, and not at all disturb the more respectable connections of the trade. Among the best informed, little fear is ex pressed of a short supply of the leaf during the present seas on, and, even taking the present stock, which, i n _ eluding the late arrivals, is estimated at 36,000,0001b5., and comparing it with the average annual consumption in the United Kingdom, for the years 1836, 1837, 1833, 1839, which is calculated at 38,953,4501 b., it gives very nearly a year's sup ply. A short review of the prices since the arrival of the overland mail shows the extent of fluctuation to have been at least 6d. per po Ind. . On the 6th instant Company's Cong o u s were quoted at Is. 6,1 d. to Is. 61d. per pound money. On the 7th instant they advanced to Is. 81(1., in consequence of the recall of Captain Elliott ; and on the 9th inst. they further advanced to Is, 91d. By for ced s peculation on the 10th th e y rose to 2s. oid., but declined the same day to Is. lid., and in consequence of the heavy sales since made have further de clined to Is. Bd., although for the last, two; days they have been quoted something better. Private accounts from Paris contradict the statement in La Presse newspaper, that the house of Laffitte and Co. have withdrawn from the Texan loan, and, on the contrary, affirm that they are proceeding with it, and are, indeed, bound by special contract to do so. CHRONICLE.—The great move of Sir Robert Peel has not influenced the funds, whatever effect it may have upon the destinies of the country. Consols for the settling to-day opened Deaf persons, and those who are slightly dull of hearing, and find a difficulty to catch the sound of a distant low speaker at a public assembly, will find a most astonishing advantage from the use of the Messrs. S. and B. Solomons' newly-invented invisible operative Voice Conductor, which, when fitted into the cavity of the ear is so small, not the least perceptible, nor more un comfortable than having a piece of wool in its place. By this ex. traordinarY and valuable invention, not only does the hearing be. come acute, but the ears are so much improved by their use, that individuals, in a great number of instances, can hear most dis. tinctly without them. It will therefore be seen that persons do not incur any constant habit of being compelled at all times to make use of them, and in consequence of the numerous individuals having been altogether relieved from deafness, they have become is general use. The Messrs. Solomons' newly invented Spectacle Lenses immediately they are placed before very aged and imperfect eyesight, either by day or candlelight, every object becomes clear and distinct, and the most minute particle is seen with exact distinct. ness. Their valuable improvements in the material are secrets to themselves, and are solely confined to their establishments, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 76, King William-street, City. - - HERRING TRADE.—OUT accounts from Thurso state that the herring fishing has commenced at that place, and to the westward of it. For a first trial, the few boats out have proved fully as successful as could have beer, looked for at so early a period of the season. At Sandside a trial has also been made, and attended with some success. Mr. Me thuen, fish-curer, Leith, always the first in the field, has had 21 laarrels brought to Wick, and despatched by a boat to be shipped by steamer at Invergordon or Cromarty for Leith, and thence forwarded for the Hamburgh market, where we hope be will find a demand and price equal to what he merits for kis great exertions in prosecuting the early fishing. Ap pearances of fish on the west coast are said to be very good, but it will be a few weeks before the boats are all equipped and ready. With us at Wick, preparations are now going on with some d egree of briskness. The rope works are all very busy. Barrel making and boat building are in active progress. Bark is getting into demand, at 10s. per cwt. for birch, and I 2s. for oak bark. Staves sell at 41. per thousand, and head ing at 41. ha. per ditto. —John o' Groat's Journal. THE MARQUIS AND MARCHIONESS OF ELY'S PA RTIES. —The Marquis and Marchioness of Ely gave a splendid entertainment, at their residence in Belgrave-square,' to their Roy a l Highnasses the Duke of Cambridge and the I Duchess of Gloucester. LAW INTELLIGENCE. at 89i to 9, at which quotation they continued for some time, when, on an extensive purchase being effected, said to be to the extent:of 200,000 Consols for Friday next for the Court of COURT OF CHANCERY, May 26. Exchequer, prices improved to 90 to for Money, and 90i to The LORD CHANCELLOR sat in his Court at Westmin for the opening. The closing price was a shade lower, being ster to-day. sellers at 90 for money. Exchequer Bills were 81. to 10s. MANSER U. THE EASTERN AND NORTHERN RAILWAY prem. POST.—This was settling-day in the Consols market, and COMPANY. the account turned out, as was predicted of it, a decidedly This case came before the Court upon motion to clis bear account. The continuation remained at to per cent. solve an injunction granted by the Vice-Chancellor, all day long, the rates quoted by us yesterday. Money was which restrained the defendants from erecting a bridge, procured, on the deposit of stock, at from sto 8 per cent., under a certain size, over the River Lea, near the plain according to circumstance s , th e charge depending equally on tiff's mill. The case was partly heard on Saturday, and the amount wanted and the standing of the parties borrowing. the arguments were resumed and concluded to-day. Rather a heavy purchase of Consols (200,0001. being the turn The LORD CHANCELLOR, at the conclusion of the ar named), was made on account of the Court of Exchequer for guments, ordered the injunction to be dissolved, the delivery on Friday, at the price of 90k, which gave a fresh Company undertaking to build the bridge of the re impulse to the market, though the current quotation for mo- . qua* height. ney was 90 to A small purchase, not perhaps exceeding 30,000/. to 40,0001., was likewise made in the course of the The arguments in this case occupied the Court the day on account of the Court of Chancery. whole day. HERALD.—The settlement of the account in the home market was operated to-day, and was altogether a quiet affair, the differences being of slight amount, as the fluctuations during the course of the account were of very trifling conside ration. The market was heavy in the beginning of the day with a tendency to lower rates, but some large purchases of Consols to the order of the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery, to the amount altogether of between 200,000/. and 300,0001. redressed the balance and stopped the downward inclination of prices. These purchases were effected at 90 and 94. Altogether it may be considered remarkable that money operations of such extent should have been so ineffective in raising the quotations positively, but on the other hand it should not be overlooked, that their 'negative action was tantamount to the same thing by preventing a fall and steadying the quo tations. Some relief also was afforded to the money market, so far as the Stock-house is concerned, by this considerable absorption of stock and disbursement of moneys among the dealers. ROLLS' COURT, May 26. The Master of the Rolls after disposing of the con sent petitions on his Lordship's paper, proceeded to hear motions. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE., THE INDEPENDENT AND WEST MIDDLESEX ASSU RANCE COMPANY.—Mrs. Hannah Cobham, of Augusta row, Bermondsey, and a.gentleman of the name of Wal lace, appeared, attended by their solicitor, before Sir Peter Laurie, for the purpose of bringing formal charges against the Directors of the Independent and West Middlesex Company. Sir PETER LAURIE, before he entered into the merits of the cases, said that he had been heard before the House of Commons Committee on the subject of the atrocities committed by the fellows calling themselves Directors of the Company, and he had mentioned the particulars of the transactions connected with the frauds as they had been detailed to him. The Committee were struck with the statements which he made, but they ob served that the victims ought to have attended at the Mansion-house and made to him from their own mouths communications on the subject. He was glad to find that there were several ready to come forward with such evidence as would enable him to act decisively. But when first the exposure was made at the Justice-room, he felt great difficulty in prevailing upon any of the parties who were plundered to come forward. It hap pened that the great majority of cases were those of in dividuals who resided in the country, and they looked upon their chance of restitution as hopeless; while the comparatively few who resided in town were prevented either by shame or despair from making their appearance before a Magistrate at all. Mr. Kitson, the solicitor to the parties who appeared stated that several persons informed him that they would most willingly come forward and mention the nature of the transactions. Mrs. Hannah Cobham stated that she called at the office of the West Middlesex Assurance Company in Baker-street, on the 7th of December 1838, for the pur pose of purchasing an annuity for life. She advanced the sum of 100/. for which she received an annuity bond for 9/. 10s. per annum, payable half-yearly during her life, signed John Wilson, Thomas Knowles, and Edward Taylor. She again went to the office of the Company on the 17th July, 1839, and advanced 50/. more for which she received an annuity bond for the payment of 4/. 15s. during her life. The latter bond was signed by Taylor, Knowles, and Hustler. Witness received the first two payments on the first bond, but when she called at the office in Baker-street, last Christmas to receive her money, she was told by a young man, who seemed to belong to it, that the concern was removed to Hart-street. She could not trace the Company afterwards, but she heard at Mr. Kitson's office that the whole was a decep tion of the worst description. Mr. Wallace stated that he purchased at the office of the West Middlesex Assurance Company, on the 10th of October, 1839, an annuity of 35/. per annum, for his niece, who was an orphan, and paid down far it the sum of 500/. His neice received a quarter and a half year's money from the Company—no more. Sir PETER LAURIE—Did you make any inquiry about the Company ? Mr. Wallace—Most certainly. I made what is considered every necessary inquiry. I consulted a solicitor and a broker, and I heard that the parties mentioned in the list of Directors were highly respectable. I entertained not the slightest doubt of the solvency and good character of the Company, until I went into Mr. Kitson's one day, and saw the lady who has just given her evidence, and who happened to mention something about what occurred in Baker-street. Sir P. LAURIE—Did you see Knowles when you went to purchase your niece's annuity ? Mr. Wallace—Yes, and he was very near getting 1,000/. more front me. In fact, being an invalid, and having heard so high a character of the Company, I thought I could not dispose of my money better than in making such a purchase, and I had made all my arrangements with my lawyer and my broker. I made inquiries amongst the bank brokers, and I heard nothing to alter the opinion I had formed. If you had not blown upon the transactions of the Com pany, in all human probability I should have been robbed of the additional amount. Sir P. LAURIE—They kept 10,000/. in the Bank of England to give colour to the fraudulent measures they were pursuing. The Bank, however, suspected that these operations were not exactly creditable, and in sisted that they should withdraw their account. They, however, succeeded in _plundering the public of the en ormous sum of 240,000/. I have reason to believe that I know where Hole and Knowles are to be found, and I am most anxious to have them brought before me upon warrants. Mr. Hobler having suggested the propriety of consult ing the City Solicitor. Sir P. LiuulE adjourned the case until the arrival of that gentleman, for whom he immediately sent. The Alderman then stated the case to the City Solicitor, and intimated his intention to go to the verge of the limits of his authority, but said that he should not choose to ex ceed it, desirable as it was to bring such wholesale plun derers to justice. The City Solicitor said that, under a recent Act of Parliament, the warrants of the City Magistrates might be executed within the four neighbouring counties with out being backed, as was formerly required, by the County Magistrates; but the Aldermen had not jurisdic tion to issue a warrant in respect of an offence committed wholly out of the city. SirP. LAURIE—May a City officer apprehend, without a warrant, a person guilty of the offences with which these men stand charged? The City Solicitor—lf they have been guilty of felony the City officers may, but in that case he takes upon him self the responsibility of determining whether the party has, or has not been guilty of felony. It is in all cases the safer way to prefer the complaint before a Magis trate having jurisdiction, and to obtain a warrant. Sir P. LAURIE informed the City Solicitor that he had given evidence before a Committee of the House of Com mons on the subject, and the Members were anxious to have some proof of cases before them of persons who had been actually defrauded of their money. A more wholesale set of plunderers he had never heard of, than those who constituted the association. The City Solicitor said there would be no difficulty in aftbrding evidence of these facts. He happened to be present at a recent trial at Kingston, where two of the Directors of the Company were examined. One of them was a journeyman locksmith, and the other was in some equally humble situation. They acknowledged in cross examination, that they attended the Board constantly as Directors, signing the.policies and annuity deeds, and that they were accustomed to have handed to them at the Board half-a-crown, and sometimes five shillings, a piece, for playing the parts of Directors of the Company. A gentleman who was present during the proceedings said that at the trial to which the City Solicitor had al luded, a letter was produced in the handwriting of one of the Directors who had absconded, communicating to a con fidential friend,upon the proceedings which had taken place at the Mansion-house when Sir Peter Laurie first brought their knavery to light. That quondam Director gave an account to his correspondent of the sums he had plun dered and taken away. Various amounts were enume rated, reaching in the whole to 26,0001., which he de clared was all he had had, and not 100,0001., as had been erroneously represented to Sir Peter Laurie at the Mansion-house. He had the effrontery to conclude his epistle with the following remark—" Whoever says I got more than 26,000/. by the job ought to be ashamed of himself. Let him like Peter go and weep, and if he does not like that let him like Judas go hang himself." One of the victims who were in attendance asked Sir Peter Laurie whether there was any fund at the disposal of the Government or of the Magistrates out of which the perpetrators of such a flagrant frau - I could be pro secuted ? The persons who had been robbxl were most of them without the means to prosecute, and the guilty could thus escape from justice. Sir P. LAURIE said that the City Magistrates had very little power. In such cases the utility of such an office as a public prosecutor would be immense. If the office of the swindlers had been in the City, it would have been competent to the Corporation to have directed the City Solicitor to prosecute, and he knew no way in which their funds would be better applied than in rout ing out such pests to society. The City Solicitor then retired, and Sir P. LAURIE announced that he should sit again on Saturday to hear any case that might be brought for ward. If the perpetrators of these frauds came into the City, he should take upon himself the responsibility of having them apprehended, and brought before him, when the charges might be preferred, and he should then de termine what course to pursue. He felt much gratifica • tion in stating that Parliament would immediately adopt means of protecting the public from similar plunder, whatever might ultimately result from the future pro ceedings with respect to the West Middlesex Assurance Company. BOW-STREET. Michael Connor and Catherine Al' Grath, a boy and girl, both about fourteen years of age, and without shoes or stock ings, were placed at the bar before Mr. Twyford, charged with having broken into the house of a Mr. Smith, who resides in Church-street, St. Giles's, and stealing therefrom a coat, waist coat, and other articles, to the value of three pounds. It appears that the prisoner, who is well known to the police, having been many times convicted of felony , and, on one oc casion, had been sentenced to tea years' transportation, which sentence was afterwards commuted to a term of imprisonment, had been seen loitering about the premises of Mr. Smith, with a number of other equally bad characters; and, on Tuesday,while Mr. Smith was from home, he (the prisoner) succeeded in ob taining the key of one of Mr. Smith's rooms, from his daughter, a little girl of twelve years of age, and effected the robbery of which he stood charged. As soon as Mr. Smith returned, and had discovered his loss, he gave information to the police, and the prisoners were taken into custody. The female prisoner was with the other prisoner when the robbery was committed, and when taken into custody she con fessed to the officer, George Restieaux, the whole of the transaction. The prisoners were committedfor trial. A GREAT CONSOLATION.--I remember when I was a young student of divinity at the University of Glasgow, that an old man, by his confession and by general reputation a great sinner, called upon me and begged me to explain the scripture doctrine as to future punishments. His anxiety was to ascertain whether they were to commence immediately after death, or only after the day of judgment. I told him that I was but a raw student of theology, but I conceived it to be the general opinion of divines that no punishments would com mence till after the day of judgment, or the general destruc tion of the world. " And how long will it be," he asked, " till that period comes?" " Why, I cannot positively tell you," said I, " but I believe astronomers conjecture that our globe will be safe for 1,000,000 years." " Oh, come then," said the old sinner, " I shall have 1,000,000 years to rest in my grave--and there is no saying what may happen in that time."— Campbell's Life of Petrarch. ODE ON THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. —This celebrated ode first appeared in the Newry Tele graph, with the initials of the author, Charles Wolfe. A writer in the same paper, one " Canis-Lupus Hibernicus," has just complimented Mr. Macintosh, the Scottish schoolmaster, who claimed the authorship, by doing the whole into doggrel after the following fashion:— " No useless coffin iaclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him ; But he lay our dominie,' all in his best, With his Macintosh' around him !" PRICES OF CANAL,DOCK,ASSUR ANCE COMPANY SHARES &c. &c. &c. LONOON, TUESDAY, MAY 25. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS. Der Shares. Annum. Paid. Share 4 .,786 7 per cent. Ashton & Oldham...Average97/. 185.8 h. 110 1,482 41. Ashby -de-le-Zouch A.'rrage 1151.8 h, '72 1, 60 Basingstoke.... 1001.6h. 5 1,0b5 51/. Brecknock and Abergavenny l5O/.sh. 92 8,00) I-16th. 101 Birmingham, 1-16th share ...XV. & 711. 200 1,000 ....' .... Ditto & Liverpool „I unct. Pit'll. sh. 100 pl 25 630 31. Bridgewater and Taunton.loo/.sh. all pi - SOO 51. Chelmer and Blackwater lOOl. sir. 101 300 321. Coventry' 1001.8 h. 600 Croydon. ........ .- Average3ll.2s IC!. sh. - 2,060 51. Os. Dudley 1001. sh. 94 600 131. Derby lool.sh. 120 20,0'0 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne 411.135. 4d.pd :3 3,575 4' Ellesmere and Chester Averr.ge 133:.5h. 81 231 621 Erewasn 1,297 301. Forth .nd Clyde....Averayea..;o/. 16s. ti. 6:`o 11,000 8 1. Grand Junction 1001.8 n 127 2,8491 255. Grand Union lool.sh . 26 1,500 ... ...... Grand Surrey 1,0001 41. percent. Ditto (optional) aan 1001. 9911 Grand Western 600 131.125. 98. (11.amorganshire, Aver. cost 1721.138.48. 2::.0 749 12i. Granny:l.i l5Ol. sh. 20. 1, 6,238 21. os. IluddcrsB Ad t yerage 5 //. 65.68. sh 27 100 Kensington lO6 sh. all pd 10 2i.928 11.10 s. Kennet end Avon, Av. 391.186.10 d. sh 24) 14609: 11. 7s. Lancaster Average 471. 6s. 9d 27 2,8973 301. Leeds and Liverpool lool.sh 750 545: 111. Leicester 140/.11 151 1,897 51.05. Leicester & Northampton Aver 93/.10! 73 2,409 101.. Monmouthshire lOOl.Bl 200 250 101. Melton Mowbray lOOl. eh. 2c13 to° 251. Mersey and Irwell IOW. sh . 555 3,000 2t. 10s, Macclesfield lOOl. sh. all pd. 34N 247 17/, Neath 1001.56. 325 2,400 51. Peak Forest Aver..ge about 781. sh. 73% 21.418 Bs. Regent's (or London) Av. 33/.166.8d. sh. IN 5,689 61. Rochdale Average 815/.sh. 86 500 81. Shropshire /251. sh. 137 800 101.0 s. Somerset Coal l5O/. sh. 1811 3,800/. 41 percent Ditto Lock Fund Steck ...... ...121. 10s. sh. 11% 700 361. Stafford and Worcester 140/.sh. 60;) 530 15/, Shrewsbury . 1251.8 h. 280 310 91. .itaurbridge 1451.8 h. 396 3,647 V. Os. Stratford-on. Avon Avcr....791. 9s. (4d. sh. 35 533 1211 Swansea lool.sh. 265 3,762 21. 108. Severn and Wyc and Railway Av. 351. sh. 45 2,60018 h, 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, 1 share 1001.3h. 5:.0 8.149 .... ..... Thames and Mtdway Av. 191. Ss. Bd. sh. 2 1,0005h.1 161. Warwick and 11;rnsii,gham lool.sh 240 I,ooolsh.j 980 13 . Warwick and Naps(.l, - 100/. sh. 160 7,000 41. Worcester & Birmingham Av. 781.85. sh. 55 5,000 325. Wilts and Berks Average 671. 108 Bd. sh. 23 eon 6s. Wtilev and F.ssington 1251. sh 74 .20 905 Is. W ey and ATtill XIIOI. en. 22% DOCKS. 2,600 i 3 c Commerc al lOOl. sh. 63% 1,06515 h. P• C. 5 per rent. East and West India Stock 100 3,238,31011. 21. p.ct. London ...........5t0ck 70 Ditto Bonds 2,209 31. 6s. sd. Bristol Average 14'1.95. sh. 75 88,324/. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lO6 1,352,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine Stock :97 500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds .. lOl 5g 200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years Deptford Pier .. 2Ol. sh. 201. pd 10 BRIDGES. 1,600 I/. Hammersmith 501.5 h. 21 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 631. 2s. Bd. sh. 3y„ 1,700 I/. 15s. Ditto, New, of 7f per cent., 501.5 h. 16 0,000 Waterloo 1001. sh. 3% 5,000 225. Od. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81 60/. p 4 21 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. .... 4O/. pd 18 60,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds 5,848 26s Vauxhall .........Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh 26 JOHNSON V. HAMMERSLEY. This case came before the Court some time since upon a petition praying for a reference to the Master to ascer tain the amount of the assets and liabilities of the late bank of Hammersleys and Co. in Pall-mall. That re ference had now taken place, and an application was made to-day to confirm the report which the Master had made upon that reference. By that report the Master found that the debts of the firm amounted to upwards of 600,0001., and that the assets already realised exceeded 300,000/. ; he therefore recommended that a dividend of 10s. in the pound should be declared. If that was done it would leave upwards of 40,000/. in the hands of the Court to pay any other creditors who might hereafter prove their debts. Mr. PEMBERTON observed that there were about eighty creditors residing in different parts of the world, whose debts did not exceed 10/. each ; which would therefore not take more than 5001. to pay them all in full, which he thought would be the more convenient course to adopt. He would therefore propose that the amount of those debts should be paid to Mr. Fynemore, the solicitor in the cause, leaving it with him to settle with those parties. The MASTER of the ROLLS could not consent to the adoption of such a course, as it would be a manifest in justice to the other creditors. Mr. PEMBERTON felt convinced that no complaint could be made in this case with respect to the delays in the Court of Chancery, for, in a very short period in deed, a decree had been obtained, the assets realised, and the Master had made his report as to the debts and lia bilities of the firm, and the case now came before the Court for the confirmation of that report. The MASTER of the ROLLS ordered the report to be confirmed. BAIL COURT, May 26. COATS AND ANOTHER V. CHAPLIN AND ANOTHER. This was an action to recover 80/. 17s. the value of a parcel of crape shawls, which were entrusted to the de fendants as carriers, which they lost. Mr. Erie and Mr. Thomas were Counsel for the plaintiff; Mr. Platt and Mr. Whitmore appeared for the defendants. It appeared that in August last the plaintiffs for warded the parcel in question by the Grand Junction Railway, for whom the defendants were contractors, to deliver in London. The parcel in question arrived safely at the Camden Town Station of the London and Birmingham Railway, where the defendants have a place of business, on the 23d of August, directed Messrs. J. and J. Morrison and Co., London ; but according to the principal witness for the plaintiff (Allen), who was the receiving porter at Messrs. Morrison's establishment in Fore- street, it never reached its destination. The parcel was acknowledged to be wrongly addressed, it ought to have been either James Morrison and Co., or, as the firm now is, Morrison, Dillon, and Co. Such a parcel was never offered to him, or if he had any doubt about it, he would not have refused it without asking advice from some of the superintendents of the business. It was also proved that the invoice directed " J. and J. Morrison," arrived safe, and that they were so anxious for the goods that on the day they ought to have been de livered, they actually wrote to inquire why they had not been sent. Much difficulty was found in proving the ar rival of the package at the Camden Town Station, as the defendant's Counsel took many technical objections as to the property in the books, notice to produce which had been given. After a long address to the Jury, Mr. Platt called the carman, and the man who accompanies him with the de livery-book, who swore that on the 25th of August they took a bale and a truss (the parcel in question) to Mor rison, Dillon, and Co.'s, in Fore-street ; the bale was marked " M. D. and C 0.," and numbered ; the truss was addressed " J. and J. Morrison and Co." They saw Allen there, who received the bill and signed the book, but he said the truss was not theirs, and caused it to be taken away again. They also stated that as there was a Morrison and Co. in Star-court, Bread-street, they went there with it to see if it was direeted to them, but they also refused it, and they then took it to defendant's warehouse, Hamburgh Wharf, Southwark Bridge, where it was thrown into the warehouse amongst other goods which were daily being sent off both by land and water. Several clerks of the defendant and of their correspond ents at Liverpool were called in order to make out that on the truss being refused they made all due and diligent search in order to find out the proper owner ; but al though the note of inquiry was dated the 27th of August, it did not appear to have been received in Liverpool until the 9th of September. His LORDSHIP summed up, and left it to the Jury to say—lst, Whether there had been any tender to Messrs. Morrison and Co. of the truss in question ; 2d, Whether, supposing there had been, the defendants had used due diligence in tracing the consignee ; and, 3d, 'Whether they had used due care in warehousing it aftewarcls. The Jury retired for two hours and then returned with the answer to the first query, " No Tender," and to the other questions they answered, " No," which was a finding for the plaintiffs upon all the issues. In the course of the trial Mr. PLATT objected that the plaintiffs were not the owners of the property, it having vested in Messrs. Morrison and Co. the moment the package was given to the carrier. His LORDSHIP refused to nonsuit on this ground, and gave the Learned Counsel leave to move the Court above upon the point. CO UT OF COMMON PLEAS, May 26. CHALLICOMBE V. EDGHILL. This was an action upon a promissory note for 201. It ap peared that some days after the note was over due, a persln sent by the defendant tendered the principal and interest to the plaintiff's attorney, who refused to take it unless he was al3o paid 6s. &I for writing a letter of application for payment on the bills becoming due. This the defendant refused to pay, and this action was brought for the entire !um, with interest and costs.—Verdict for the defendant. In the end free trade must triumph, monopoly must be abolished, roguery must be banished from Parliament, or it will ruin the nation. But, in the meantime, there is so much of it in the nation and in Parliament, so many interests bound up with monopoly, that in the first instance probably the monopolis's may triumph. A great contest, however, is now beginning, or rather has begun. It will be no child's play, and our readers may at once gird up their minds to the discussion of first principles. Falsity, mockery, humbug, and what Mr. Carlyle calls sinzulera, will no longer stand their ground. Truth, honesty, reality, and justice, must prevail. All that is false, hollow, and artificial in politics and religion will be scorched out of existence in the conflict now beginning. The human mind hates falsehood, hates delusion; and those who calculate on maintaining a dominion over it by continuing delusion and using falsehood will see their dominion crumble away and their power extinguished —Brighton Guardian. THE BULLETED SKULL OF AN OLD SOLDIER. —We have just inspected a skull having no less than eight or nine swan-shot, or their remains, imbedded in the forepart of the head. But the most singular feature which this curiosity presents is, that in the internal part, forming the concave of the apex, and far from being opposite to the external bullets, are portions of pro jecting metal, apparently lead, favouring the presump tion that they are shot of some dimensions, which have been received externally, at the same time. The scull was dug up by the sexton in Tarporley church-yard, during the progress of excavation, about six weeks ago. The probability is, that the person to whom this relic of antiquity belonged, was a volunteer, from Tarporley, and was engaged during the siege of Beaston Castle, in the reign of Charles 1., about the middle of the 17th century. That so many large shot should have been found in a skull is not matter of so great surprise ; but that the individual who received them should have lived so many years afterwards, (asi s demonstrated by all the sutures of the head being nearly obliterated,) is singu larly wonderful, to the anatomist, as well as to the or dinary observer. Accurate drawings have been made by Mr. Musgrave, a native artist, beautifully represent • ing a side, as well as a front view, of the subject of this paragraph. We hope the above rarity will be deposited in some museum, for the purpose of preservation. May we name the Chester Water Tower, as the nearest in this locality ?—Chester Chronicle. " THERE'S AN ESPECIAL PROVIDENCE YOR LITTLE CHILDREN."—One of these miraculous escapes from death by accident, which good folks say children and drunken men alone are favoured with, took place on Sunday last, at the White Hart, Clement's-lane, Strand. The wife of the landlord of the above house was on Sunday afternoon visited by a female friend, who brought with her a little son, aged three years. Whilst the friends were chatting in the front room of the second floor, one of the windows of which was open, the restless urchin climbed unperceived upon a chair placed immediately inside the open window, and fell through it a height of at least thirty-five feet. A woman passing on the opposite pavement saw the accident, and stepping across the lane caught the child by the clothes in its de scent, but its weight, increased by the momentum of its fall, was too much for her, and she was forced to let the child fall on to the pavement. The fall, however, was broken, and though the child was taken up insensible, and conveyed to King's College Hospital, Carey-street, it soon partially re covered. None of its limbs were broken ; its face alone was injured, and the treatment of the medical officers of the hospital has been so successful that to-day the child will be discharged safely cured. RAPID TRAVELLING TO SCOTLAND.—The Fire King arrived at Ardrossan on Friday, at half-past nine, from Fleetwood, making the passage in twelve hours. Passengers landed at Glasgow by special train G at a quart er past eleven. IVh o le time from London twenty-five h ours . —Gl asgow A r gus. A VES SEL RUN DOW N IN THE RIVER rata a RAVESIND.Tuesday mor ning, at ten o'clock, an investigation, which had been ~djourned from Monday week last, was resumed before Mr. C. C. Lewis, the Coroner for Essex, and a respectable Jury, at the Ship public-house, East Tilbury, situate five miles below Tilbury Fort, relating to the itth of Wm. Wilson, aged 25, and two other p e rsons , whose ies have not yet been discovered. After the !examination of areal Witnesses the Inquest was adjourned. ASSURANCE COMPANIES, 2,000 3/10s Albion 5OOl. sh. 501. pd 72 53,000 r 6 per cent. } / and 15s. Allianceßritish & Foreignloo/. sh. W. pd 14 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine lOO/. sh. 5/. pd 5 24,000 1/. perch. Atlas 5 Ol sh. 51. pd 14 , ),' 1,20011 h. 5!. Birmingham hire "50/. sh. 55/. pd 107% 20,000 4/. percent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 40 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial .. • . 50/. O. 51. pd 5 , 4 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical & Medical Life, 100/.0. 2/103 pd 4M 4,000 310 s County lOO/. sh. 10/. pd If 20,000 ss. Eagle 501. sh. 5/. pd 5 ~,,, I's per cent.l " 1 and 301 bs.i Economic Life 10001. sh. 250/. pd 400 2,271 225. per cent. European Li I e 0 0/. sh. all lid 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 20/. sh. 2/. pd 1% 1,000,000/. 61. per ct Globe Stock 118 20,000 51) Guardian 30,000 4s. 01. Hope 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 5% 2,400 51. 12a. 6d. Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 501. pd 133 7,500 9s. Imperial Life lOOl. sh. 101. pd 10 13,459 5/. per cent. Indemnity Marine lOO/. sh. 8/. pd 29 2,020 31 10s Kent Fire 59/. sh. all pd 92 31. Ditto Life 5O/. pd 66 10,000 16s, Law Life lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 30% 5,0(4) 10s. London, Fire 251. sh. 121. 10s. pd 18% 3,900 10s. London, Ship "51. sh. 121. 10s. pd 18% 1,600,000/. ... ..... Minerva Life 100/, sh. 510,0001. /. ss l ..p p d d 2 2 16 s 30,000 51. per cent. Palladium Life 5 50,000 5/. per cent. Protector I,' f: 2Ol. sh. 2/. pd 18s 6cl 10,0110 4 per cent. Protestant Dissenters ....If,o/. sh. 5/. pd 5% 2,500 1/. Provident Liie lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 20 200,100 3s. fd. Rock Life 89,2201 51. per cent. Royal Exchange Stock 183% 6,000 5 per cent. University Life 1001. sh. 51. pd 5) 4 10,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100/. sh. 5/. pd 73 JOINT STOCK BANKS. 25,000 A gric. and Corn. of I reland2s/. sh. 10/. pd 10,000 8 per cent. Australasia IN. sh. 401. pd 50% 10,006 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham 50/. sh. 10/. pd 133 10,000 19 per cent. Birmingham Bank sol.sh. 10/. pd 1434 30,000 6 per cent. London & Westminster 100/ sh. 20/. pd 22% 60,000 51. London Joint Stock 50/. sh. 101. pd 12 3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster lOOl. sh. 201. pd 30 25,000 10 per cent. Liverpool 100/ sh. 12k!. pd 1,",54 50,000 7/ percent. Manchester and Liver ] pool District 501.811. 151 pd 10% 20,000 7 percent. Manchester lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 20,000 8 per cent. Provincial Bank of I relan(11001. sh. 251. pd 42 10,400 6 per cent National Bank of Ireland 50/. eh. 171/. pd 16 10,000 6 per cent National Provi.,cial Eng.loo/. sh. 35/. pd 35% 10,00 f) Ditto New JO/ sh. 10/. pd 10% 10,000 Gloucestershire 50/. sh. 10!. pd 32 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire sol.sh. 51. ;xi 9 MORN ING 14,'D1T10)1!..../ REVIEW AT WOOLWICH•_: On Monday afternoon orders were received at the gal:. rea t 4 . at Woolwich for the whole of the troops to be held in ness to he reviewed on the following day, by Sir 11 113 01. ri ng vian, Bart., G.C.B. and G. C. H., who intended visl re Woolwi c h f or th at purpose , and thirty rounds of powd er : i t e m ordered to be s erve d f or th e occasion. In the course of evening it wa s ma d e k nown th a t fi r i ng could not take Face 0 1 0 the common, i n consequence o f t h e serious indisposition ; Mrs. Savage, w h ose h us b an d h o ld s a s i tua ti on of tru t t Royal Military Academy, where they have their residenca.Let Tuesday mornin g , a t a quarter - pas t t en o ' c lock, the r oe !. service, under the comm an d o f Li eu t enan t-C o lonel DYn e r e i the batteries of the Royal Artillery, under the coalman Lieutenant-Colonel Hunt; an d th e fi e ld b a tt e ries, oud er ,_ t e b t e a i'n command of Major Sweeting, marc h e d t o th e marshes , ere i they were shortly afterwards j o i ne d by Li e utenant -G in p, Lord Bloomfield, Colonel, G.C.B. and G.C. S.r getyl. Ross, K. C. 8., Deputy Adjutant-Ge nera l ; Colonel ot , Lacy, Colonel Cockburn, and Colonel Cleaveland ; Lie ll u tet t Colonel R. Jones; Lieutenant-Colonel J. E. Jones, Avis: at , Adjutant-General; Lieutenant-C o l one l D un das, and tenant-Colonel 13Iachlev ; Major Romer and Brigadie Had lg Cuppage, of the Royal Artillery ; Li eu t enan t-Colonel r b et and Major Vicars, of the Royal E ng i neers; an d a great niou vre of officers connected with the Ordnance Department, ° which Sir Hussey Vivian, Bart., is Master-General. 40 At eleven o'clock the Master-Ge nera l arr i ve d at the M ar 'i e d attended by his aides-decamp, Major Vivian, and accomPano, by General Bangaloe, in the service of the King of Wi rte sir berg, and about twenty ladies and gentlemen, friends of , the Hussey Vivian. Lord Bloomfield and his Staff rece ived party, and escorted them to a moc k f or tifi cat i on construc t r nearly the extremity of the marshes, n ex t th e r iver, colltnin, embrasures, and a great numbe r o f o ld guns , un fit for or vidig vie mounted on carriages, and others lying on the ground' of practice immediately afterwards co mmence d f ro m a batter.he 32, 56, and 68 pounder guns, at a range of 800 yards• shots were excellent and told with great effect. The field batteries were then d rawn u p a t a ran 46 1 s yards, and fired six rounds of canister shot at a target. de Of rounds more were fired by the field batteries at a r a fiec• 800 yards, with spheri-al case shot, of so destructive an" ,e fe " get tive a nature., as almo s t t o s h a tt er th e s t rong ly m ade g e t to pieces. The ro c k e t serv i ce t h en commence d o perato first with single rock e t s , an d a f terwar d s w i t h s i x , eig ht' ten at a time,presentini a most imposing spectacle. be e. An inspection of th e Royal Arsenal afterwards took P THE MARKETS.-YESTERDA Y. CORN EXCHANGE. • wer ° 11 There was but littl e Whea offered for sale, and pne e ' mu . the same as on M on d ay. Th ere was no alteration other articles. COAL MARKET. Ships arriyea since List market day, 88. s. d. .. 49 Adair's t - tebburn Main 1 P. Walls End Lambton .......... 0 I.loly wed Ma n lB f W. E. North Hetton J 406 19 New Tanfield M00r... ....... William's Hartley West Wylam .......... Wylam ............ ...... Walls E d Bewic • eand C Walls End Brown's l7 6 Walls End South Durk:tarn , 0 Walls End Hotspur Walls End Belmont W.IE. Braddyll'aElettoa :Ali ending l' :-L ig e r Av e- g SS n 15 / 0 0 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 16s Od Bath 20/. sh. Ilii. pd 22 5,000 British 4Ol. sh. 16/. pd 181 4 moo rarer cent.] Ditto Provincial 2O!. sh. 101. pd 25 hand Bs. es. 928 51 101 Birmingham 50/. sh. 96 4,250 2/ Os Bristol 2Ol. sh. 36 2,250 3/ 10s Brighton 2Ol. sh. 1314 750 3/ lOs Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 181. pd li 2,471 44 per cent. Brighton General 2O/. sh. all pd 9 4,000 71. 105. Continental Consolidated ....751. 621/.pd 10234 1,000 101. City of London.. ....... . .100/. sh. all pd 195 1,000 6/. Ditto, New lOOl. oh. 751. pa 150 4,000 3/.os. Equitable 5O!. pd 20 10.000 3/. per cent. Imperial 5O/. oh. (IN 800 51. per cent. Isle nt Thanet 251. oh. 20/. pd 1834 2,350 61. por cent. Independent 301. .sh. all p, 49 9,000 41. per cent. Phoenix. 5Ol. sh. 391. pd 34 1,000 V. per cent. Ratclifl lOOl. sh. 80/. pd IN ,000 9,000 5/.per cent. United General 50/. sh. 471. pd 30% 240 51. per cent. Warwick 5Ol. sh. 50 400 51. per cent, Wakefield 2,000 3/. Westminster Chartered ..... 5O/. sh. 59 6,000 12s. Ditto New s(l. sh. 101. pd 11% 780 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2Ol. sh. IN. pd WATER. WORKS _ . _ 1,800 315. Birmingham 0 51. sh. 25/. pd 21 4,433 71. East London 100/. sh. 164 5,500 21 15s. Grand Junction Average 41/. 13s. 41. sh. 61 2,000 21. Kent lOO/. sh. 47 372 101. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 326 1,500 2 /10s New River London Bridge Water Ann... 60 6,486 2110 s Manchester and Salford. 109/. sh. 55% 1,000 5 per cent. South London . , 100/.0. 104% 8,294 41. West Middlesex Average 631.125. 9d. sh. 92 1,36 d 1114 s York Building Co. Lessee Prop. 1001. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 0,300 ...... ... Birmingham and Derby ..... lOO/. pd 630 9,500 .., ...... Birmingham and Gloucester KO/. pd 71 15,000 .... ..... Bristol and Exeter 100!. sh. 60 pd 3714 7,500 .... ..... Cheltenham& G.Western 1001. sh. 62x1. 3054 3,009 .... ..... Clarence 1001. all. 1001 pd 30 8,000 „... ..... Dublin and Drogheda 100/. :h. 5/. pd 60.000 ......... Eastern Counties 25/. sh. 231. pd 6 10,000 Great North of England 1001. sh. 901. pd 75 10,9:8 14 per cent. Grand Junction lOOl. sh. all pd 204 25,000 Great Western 1001. sh. 654 pd 91% 25,000 Ditto New 50!. sh. 50/. pd 62 6,000 per cent Gosport Junction.. 5O/. sh. 401. pd 47 2,000 5 per cent. Hartlepool • 1001. eh. 100/. pd 145 8,000 Hull and Selby 5Ol. sh. 501. pd 4b 2,100 4/. per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 1.5 5,100 10 percent. Liverpool& Manchester 101.1.811. 100/.pd 185 7,968 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 5O/. pd 90 11,495 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 25/. pd 45 30,000 London and Brighton 50/. sh. 504 pd 45% 94,000 ...... ... London and Blackwall 251. sh. 251. pd 18 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 9.01. s!4. 9 0 !. pd B'4 95,000 8 per cent. London & Birmingham 1001. sh. 904 pd 159 25,000 Ditto Quarter Shares 251. sh. 5/. pd 23 31,250 ... ...... Dit o New Shares 121. sh. 311. pd 52i, 311,000 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av. 381,175. 9d. 1 5 1 ., 33,000 ... ...... London and Croydon/ Av. 13/. 15s. 9d 13 % Ditto New Scrip.... • 1,% 13,000 3 per cent, Manchester and Leeds...loo/. sh. '7O/. pd ! 0 i 3,000 ... Ditto Half Shares 5Ol. 251. pd 20 10,000 Manchester and Birmingham 70/.sh. 40/. 2i% I litto Extension 7l. pd 2. ... ...... Midland Counties 'Oa sh. 100/, pd PP% North Midland 10,000 15,000 Ditto New 401. pd 31.% 5,128 Northern and Eastern....loo/. sh 501. pd 28 `.,6011 Preston and Wyre 5Ol. sh. 30/. pd :16 18,000 South Eastern and Dover 1,1100 10/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/. sh. 275 9,000 6,000 York and North Midland 50 . sh. 501. pd 70 • MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 51.5 `,. 241. psi 12 4,000 11. ss, Altcn l5l. sh 121. it :. pd 10 10,000 ... ..... Anglo Mexican,iss. Si. pm.lool. sh. a , 1 d 1% Ditto Subscription 0 .51. pu I% 2,000 1 0 1. Bolanos l5Ol. sh all psi 35 10,000 I/. lOs Brazilian I mp. iss. 51. pm 25/. sh. 20/. pd 5 6,000 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey ...201. sh. 141. pd 2% IC,OOO Bolivar Copper Company, 20/. sh. 201. pd I 10,000 20,000 British Iron lOO/. sh. 601. pd ) 000 British Copper 54 sh. 4il. pd 1% Cul Brinca 641. pd 6h Candonga 7i/. pd 5 10,000 1 1 Copiapo ..... 2O/. sh. Mt pc.] 2 1 4 8,500 ... Columbian, iss. ss. pm 551. sh. 551. pd 0 2,850 31, English 141. Gs. pd 2 20,000 General Mining Association2o/ sh. /84 pd I% 6,155 ... ...... Mexican Company lOOl. sh. 574/ pa 6 3,000 ... ...... Polberou Consols lO/. sh. 8/. pd 4 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered 24 Ditto Loan Notes 150/. pd 160 30,000 United Mexican, iss. 2 pm. 40/. sh. all pd 2% Ditu. Scrip 2% Ditto New Scrip 5/ psi 4 West Cork 5Ol. sh 50/. pd 38 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 1,500 .... 700 .... ._. .. 0 5gs, sh. 6 _ - King' College 100/. • 19% MISCELLANEOUS. 10,)0'1 151. Australian Agricultural. 1001. sh. 28/. pd 29 6,)00 1. percent. British American Land Company 31 e. pd 10,060 61. per cent. Canada Company 100/. sh. 3211. pd 31 10,000 51. per cent. Upper Cana,:a Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent lOO 20,000 11. 6s. General Steam Navigation 15/. :h. 141. pd 9.4 N 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock ,C'3B 1/. London Corn. Sale Rooms ....Av. 751. sh l9 ,00c Caoutchouc Company 121/. pd 12 New Brunswick Land Company...soJ pd 12 2,;54 51. per cent. Reversionary Int. 50c...1001. sh. 1001. pd 104 2,633 5/. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sli. 1001. pd 107 4,000 ........ Thames Tunnel .. 50!. sh. all pd 10 .0,000 61. Van Di e,ner.'s Land.... 100/. sh. 171/, pd e% LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES MAY 19, 1841, BANKS. 1,000,006/. N. p. ct. Bank of Scotland ...83/. os. Bd. Th. all pd , 59 2,000,009/. 6 p. ct. Rcyal of Scotland lOW. sh. all pd 154 , 500.0001. 8 p. ct. British Linen Company 1001. sh. all pd 224 500,0001. 61. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. lOW. pd 169 500,000 t. G is. ct. National lOO/.Bh. 101. pd 14U 500,000/. 71. p. ct. Glasgow Union 2501. sh. 501. pd se% 1 , 000 , 06 01. 6p. ct. Western of Scotland 2001. sh 90/. pd 74e, INSURANCE COMPANIES. - - - • - -- .......... 250,0005 h. 6i p. ct. Scottish Unton -- 20!. sh. 11. pd 243. Cd, 7,500 7p. ct. Hercules lOO/. sh. 101. pd 136 101 0 ,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland .101. sh. a ll p d 10 50,000 Bp. ct. North British ,.....200/. sh. 10/. pd 17 1,000 Bp. ct. Caledonian Fire 1001. sh. 101. pd 2i) 5,000 op. ct. Edinburgh Lite 100/. sh. 10/. pel liN 100,000 3} p. et. West of Scotland lO/. pd MISCELLANEOU:k. 4,918 .... :din. and Glas. Un. Canalso/. sh. all pd 1434 Ditto Allocated 901. sh. all pd 56 221,404. 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Steck Water.2sl. sh. all pd 35 ‘,ooosb 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Founoery 50/. sh 4141. rd 42 0,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 20/.sh. 10/. pd 3% 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas ...... 25/. sh. all pd 4 , 1 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas . 251. sh. all pd 52 75f 7* per cent, Leith Coal Gas ... , 2O/.4h. all pd 19% 1,154 .... Edinburgh and Dackeith Rai 'may 50/. sh 29 THE NEW CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL.—Yese terday morning, at seven, the first stone of the projected Ca tholic Cathedral, which is to be erected in St. George's Fields, opposite to the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, was laid by the Rev. White, assisted by the Rev. Messrs. Til ford and Macstay. Although admission could be obtained by tickets only, nearly two hundred persons, whose appearance bespoke the highest respectability, were presort at an early hour, and remained on the ground some tame after the cere mony had been performed. The service was read in Latin by the Rev. White, and the responses, which were chaunted, were given by Messrs. Tilford and Macstay. After the stone had been laid the Rev. Gentlemen walked the bounds of the projected edifice, and retired. • IRISH MARKETS. DUBLIN MARKET NOTE for he Wcc: 21'1 Wheat, per barrel tet stone.... 0 Bere ' 16 s tole 382 Barley 42$ Oats stcne Flour, per cwt. 303 Oatmeal. 8 stone Sold to Bakers only. 9,326 Cwt. Flour lO 0 1 24 0 I 91 Average price Jf W. heat and Flour 51. ' 4 per sack,, pd 0,761 Firms to Receipts of Flour, 1e1.% of Do. 10,164 .Si 6 Od g r n d 7 ••••••• f.rom 1 ,.. 7 5. " 01 i to 1511. u" 11"0M, MICE OF BREAD. Quarterr. [.oat ...9d. I Half Quartern ...AWL • , CORN MARKETS--May 22 Wheat (per `lox:.)2': ea. to 335. o.l.luate per list... 11 Od. to / . 1 :' Barley (per 16 5t .)11 0 12 6 fElour (per cwt ,11 2 Oattecal (per cwt.)... ..... Od to 16s Od Reel, 4d. to 7d.—M utton, sd. tn6d.-Veal, torn. Pork, w 5d..-Freshßuttet, 10d. to lld p e r lb. PRICE OF BUTTER. Off' To the 51crchants. To the CI D , =drat Quality... ....• ......»...., 97s ......... Second Third ......... „. Fourth. ........... ....... ......... 78 _.. s 0 Fifth ...... ......... ....... 68 •••• 46 Sixth CLON Al ELL MA K ETS....May Pee (wt. , s. d. x. d , go g New Butter l's 0 tolol 0 Hides 4 , Oatmeal 12 0 1 i 3 13ae0uP;g5........... Rendereu Lard - 0 52 Per 80 1 ,. 0 ?lour, Second - 0 SR I Flour •••• —Household - 0 36 0 I --2.• • Four th s..., 20 0 p Per Barrel. 15 3apcseed 20 0 - 0 I Barley ...... 12 Bore lO 0 I C . ).11.! .... op KILKENNY MARKETS Wheat s per barrel)2B,od.to 355. 0.1. Leer :iter 'v.. . „... not te ($ 8 ' Batley 1.2 0 15 U Muttcn 0 h Lets . 14 0 15 0 Pork rt 4 of t Flour (per bag) 2‘) 0 W 3 0 0 t,/, / o Butter(per cwt.) 90 0 10i. 0 Crest, Butter ..... 0 0 1 0 Bacon l'igs 38 0 42 "alt ......... 0 U Coals 1 0 1 2 Potatoes ;per st.) V POTATOES.—The late shipments of this to London have proved the most disastrous exPe ri ; ors' since the forward spring of 1833. Last wee 1 cargoes sold at from 30s. to 40s. a ton, not the Prl c- , B pd for them here, exclusive of freight, shipping charg e :: toll' salesman commission, which usually average 25 ., 5 ,' m oo . Here prices have not fallen in prcportion, as sma".3eraol tities are daily wanted to make up cargoes, but Yes' nn few brought above 7s. the boll. The forward sea s : o o B mainly the cause of this great depression, but in thu„, d % t he the Scots Reds, there is no doubt the prevaie dry rot has tended to increase it. I n the mean tirn heref reduced price is in favour of the working claSSe s e aioti whose wages still continue very low, with no ilo gi a d e , l prospect of relief from a general improvement in tr Perth Courier. h thi i ROWLAND HILL—The popularity wie- $ divine, during a long series of years, enjoyed preacher, appears to be chiefly indebted to his sinr d , reties. He once commenced a sermon by shoit e l 34 " Matches, matches, matches !" " You wonder, oo . continued, in a loud voice, " a t my text ; but tl Lis ni gh ir ing, while I was engaged in my study, the devil ' o bje,, pered me, Rowland, your zeal is, indeed , n t iol and how indefatigably you labour for the sabrat i° souls !' At the very moment a man passed uncl e r;o, window, crying Matches !' very lustily, and co ot orb said to me, Rowland, Rowland ! you never '7 O se' to save souls with half the zeal that this man cis matches !" . a . fs oo o GRAND ENTERTAINMENT TO THE sr, AT THE MANSION-HOUSE.—Monday being the u s i gs tior pointed for the anniversary of the Society for the PoW: r b0 0 11 of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the Archbishop of Cell'4o the Bishop of London, and numerous other Prelates , I'd th o Mayor, and several of the Aldermen, with a large bou b - e rei clergy, attended the service at. St. Paul's Cathedral, ° h ot t" . useful and affecting sermon was preached by the Bi s ri tY Ripon from Isaiah xlii., 1, 4. On leaving St. P l u Archbishop and Bishop, the Dean of Chichester, tue jigro; rable the Archdeacon Pott, Archdeacon Hale, and ether here taries and clergy, proceeded to the Mansion-Hous e, • splendid entertainment had been prepared for betweein 0, and ninety g ues t s i n th e E g ypti an -h a ll. We notice° o leo' the company, besid es the di s ti ng ui s h e d p erso ns alsee i d 4loo oll' ; the Bishops of Ba n g or , Chi c h es t er , Ely, Lichfielu. eh Llandaff, Rochester, Salisbury, and St. David's, wr other ecclesiastical and civil dignitaries. P e OLYMPIC THEATRE.—We are gla d n 10 r o va that this establi'hment is gradually making progress lel: 00 0 ; • opinion, and that the audiences are nightly improvil 04$0, hers and fashion, under:the able direction of Mr. G. igos o f Mr. Baker as his sage-manager. O n T ues day an of private celebrity, but whose name has not beell i f r i s tr:: promulgated, appeared in th e ch ara cter of b Fickle, in the farce of the Weathercock, and Ifee t i t seldom seen a performance evince more promise. t 0 e l ; Brookes anti Turnour supported their respective 1 4 ; le s great success. 'lbis ev e ni n g will be reviv e r ~11:1 Lemon's drama of G w y nne th V aug h an , with neer l e bro original cast of characters, when T. Matthews, the a clown, will make his appearance. From 29 0 00 13 3 11 0 To 33 0 0 0 16 6 14 0 12 6 It 6 a L PI FLAT GOLD WATCHES, GO I L, 00 1 ' A 410 Ten Guineas eac h. Hi g hl y -fi n i s h e d HORIZONT i d WATCHES, with engrain!! WATCHES, or engine-turoed Go or o_, jewelled in four holes, and either engine-turned. tlf graved cases a re offered,' price Ten Guineas each. 0 044 gant little Watches w ill b e f oun d to per f orm very c h i c hi"' and a printed warranty i s g i ven w i t h fi xe d terms , 0 3 will always receive any attention required. ff° T. COX SAVORY, Watchmaker, Jeweller, &c., 47, Cornhill (Seven D a°r's Gracechurch.street ), London. W SPOONS, FORKS, &c., superior to Salt' . ift' rability, equal in appearance. Table Spoons or F° l* 7l ‘ estiwi t Dessert, 10s. ; Tea Spoons, ss. per dozen; Table Car i jota 8 inches high, is. per pair; the particular br„A. these articles are made is so like silver, that it caa from it by the stamp ; every article ma de: in silver , • tured in this material by tr iet, RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, Osw — housely Who, to prevent imposition, confine the sale of it t° Catalogues of prices gratis. BIRTHS J• - On the 2^d inst., at the Vicarage, Hannington, t f r ledY in icq i i ,t the Rev. Henry W. B. Daubeney, incumbent of hi Gloucestershire. of a daughter. - lio;:44 On the 23d inst., at Langlee, Roxburghshire, th 6 . ' E. Bradshaw Smith, of a son. „..A 41lte On the 24th inst., at Hackney, Mrs. Fred er ick .'".' of a son . 9 , 5 On the 24th inst., at Me r t on - grove , th e l a d y of h— 1e0 ,.. ",,i Atherton Park. Esq., of a son. ~g Jr O,A MARRIED. 'W On the 25th inst., at Walthamstow, by the ftecsael Jarratt, A.M., John Corrie, E s q., of Manchester, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late John Kennard, Clapham-common. 9 (IX On the 23d inst., at Cheshunt, Alfred, second on Aubert, Esq., of Brasted, Kent, to Emma Ann, eldest vino daughter of the late Richard Mardall, Esq. On the 25th inst., at St. Margaret's, Westmi ns t e , u ' e Huntley, of Burford, Oxon, to Charlotte, daughter of Rev. Richard Hunt, Vicar of Medmenham, Bucks. pe, On the 25th inst., at the parish church of Maryt,e,n;,. t ! Whitton Arundell, Esq., of Gray's-inn-square, to ill u i sre . sauna Mackey, of Upper Berkeley-street, Portman-9905r On the 17th inst., at St. Brelades, Jersey, John d f ly ' na,,„e Esq., fourth son of the late Thomas Walfole, Esq. an ug fbotf" g‘ Margaret Walpole, to Harriette, only surviving Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Browns Smith, of the Btb ‘ ik of Light Madras Cavalry. VIT I /" On the 19. h inst., at Lakenham, in Norfolk, MaY Dev7, - ,0 0 third , on of William Dacres Adams, Esq., of Bowd°n'agur"., shire, and of Sydenham, Kent, to Antia 11Iaria, eldest of the late Major Edward Hodge, of the MI 11113011. „ ,1 t i '' ' DIED. E ” - A On the 14th inst., at Purtsea, Darid Judah Jacob , r `fik son of Mr. Isaac Myers, aged 21. St' On the 21st inst at N 11 St. Michael's, 4 • , ew House, • ,1' t b° bans, Wiliam Smith, Esq., aged 73. . do , / _,.0. On the 22d inst., at Glasgow , Mrs. Smith, v" ,if 15u• 4 0 late William Smith, Esq., merchant of tha , city , s,"4::: On th e 23d inst., at Littlehampton, Sussex , . .„1 wife of the Rev. Frederick Vincent. "iii m On the 23d inst., at Clapton, Mr. William BunneY , ' op cras-lane, aged 38. T WO , -•''' d On the 23d inst. on the Terrace, Walworth, Jo 14n Medley, Esq., aged ' 29. .„, lOC, -40,- L ° On the 24th inst ., Mr. Goodings, of Clapton-Pluar" ' ' ney, aged 84. .................„ ___ ______---,bv .. to% London: Printed and Published by MURDO 1 tog pr/1 No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Oftic , e, No. 112,f, ; the county of Middletex---Ihtirgday, May 27, Ur,