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

E g NING 14:DITION to ham► the in, but it; and as they have now el gager! wit'n hearty good will in the public cause, it ma y 'oe hoped and expected that the more row el ss they appear in the House of Commons, t he rr tore dependent they are on the public, the more zealously will the public come to their aid. S ince - the majority of the House of Commons have. shown the cloven foot of monopoly, we are not 1 Ere that it will not be for the credit of the ~luifisters to be defeated. Sir R. PEEL'S resolu tion _ expresses one fact honourable to them. They have lost the confidence of that corrupt riser ably because they are honest. Ai 41 of the great arguments of the Pro-Corn law It ten against the abolition of the Corn-laws th at wages would fall with the price of wheat. The • : landlords benevolently keep up the Corn laws to benefit the labourers, and make them w eak] ty and independent. At the same time, t hey i l have stolen the commonTfrom the labour ers . t roughout the kin g doM. The landlord s have studiously endeavw.tred to keep the la houre t s ignorant, and have put down beer. shops, to the : extent of their p'iwer, because they fos tered union and kno trledge amongst the la boure F ift. 7 year s ago the peasantry parteok in most ef peasantry the the fi e l d sports of. the landlords, and some of . , cxicketers of that day belonged I to th e iv.lrlcing. classes. Then the farm-labourers ,: ved - ,-in the !,:hrm-houses, a n d m a s ter s and erv an, lauldlc ads and labourers, were friendly .o,ether. /ev the labourers are wholly banished tr oni the h yn. -houses, and are persecuted in every (iirorthless "rleeiv able N% 'ay if they snare a hare or shoot a 11)artridge. 'They are treated altogether as a ..einonstratui an is enslaved race, and the riots 911830 e th h e one hani 1 that the landlords and farmers on i, and the labourers on the other, a 0. that al ig erish m utual and bitter animosity. Since timosity has been continued and ex isPerated y the continued oppression of the landlords and the continued poverty of the labourer. We ce ill the Times with 'its datly diatribes a gainst f .he Poor-law, which is a landlord's law, a d a "it ness to our assertion. The whole con duct o f the. landlords towards the labourers is op arirse"ii e and tyrannical, and it must be entirely b I '! r € A before they will convince a single human n ei ng : that they have any regard for the happi t,ess pf the labouring classes. Their . assertion tl at they resist a repeal of the Corn-laws be cause that w ou ld i njure the labourers, is only a Loist '1 cal, pretext. leyhadary faith in their o wn a ss e r ti on th e y lob o tuld follow it cut. The great employers of do ur In proportion to their capital, are un e dIY the far mers . Th ey h ave compara -0;1Y: little reachi3ery, little fixed capital, whil e b u I k. of the capital cf the manufacturer is . w e d h' t ma c hi nery. S uppos i ng wages, ,to fall ith e, fall i n t h e pr i ce-of corn, the benefits of th C lt at , ruing to the capitalist would be in pro rnrtion to th e amount o f the i r c i rculating net t heir fi iced ca pit a l, or i n proport i on to the num ber th"l ta.nds th e y emp l oy. Th us the great bene iat supposed reduction would belong to far - cners who resist the repeal of the Corn ,at id th e l east port i on of it would belong to th e fiat I u f act - arers, who most earnestly demand "'e rep eal. 4 n tr uth, th e re d uct i on of pr i Ces, which might -1.14 °e f rem the repeal of the Corn-laws, would "nee the value of fixed capital. On this ac counti - t he present owners of . ships resist the re mnetle! 1 of the timbe r d u ti es , b ecause the i r old 611 iPs would fall in value. Not the manufac turers , therefore, but t'lc farmers - would be the Clas s >f• capitalists to benefit by the reduction of Wage; i, supposing wagee to thll in proportion to the p rice of corn. N( )w, why do not the landlords come to this cone lusion? Because they do not believe their °I II?. assertion. They know, and the farmers P r zietically well know, that wages would not, 44 (t never did, fall as corn fell in price. If 7 4 4;es so fell from the abolition of the Corn tslllr , r ay as the gr e a t b u lk o f the expense of cul :atin7, land consists in the wages of farm-ser 91ts) smiths, wheelwrights, carpenters,saddlers, kc., how can the landlords assert that the and would go out et cultivation ? The expense °f cultivation consists in wages, which, the land °l.ds say, will fall as the price of corn falls, and "s eclue.ntly there will be as much profit on cultivation when. wheat is at 40s. as when it is l at B° s. Per quarter. The two assertions of the andlorcis th at wages will fall as the price of land falits, and th a t as th e pr i ce o f aim falls the a t ri w ill go out of cultivati on , are i ncongruous ccintradictory. Neither of the assertions survF °Y foundation in fact; they are made to 1:11 purpose; they are mere fudge and hum h q; and the l an dl or d s who make them do not ' ile ve the n ,. They know that a fall in the price of corn causes i 1 It ex tension o f the demand fol. labour. There fal l ' ° s corn to give for labour, and wa ges d o not th e 48 COr tl falls i n p r i ce . Th ey k now, too, that, consequence of the demand for labour is that e Yt•zu- derk for f oo d i ncreases; t h at t h e farmers win tule bc 'trivet' by competition to imp rove th e i r D en ivati°ny and t o grow more corn at a l ess ex to They know that both th ese assert i ons, pQ exte n t t h ey make them, arc untrue ; and pr Must be conscious that they are bolstering fa'selloo Ysd. tem of pl un d er b y a system of wilful • b-ave already stated, at considerable length, 4 -4 , e , reasons which, in our judgment, fully justify c `it'solution of Parliament. They may all be °l°Pristd in one sentence. A totally em set of el,eill usta nces have a r i sen to di v id e pol i t i cal arti es `ince the Parliament was elected, and both Partie s agree in appealing to the people to decid e ; t w the Parliament. The leaders of both parties re gnifie the propriety of the course, and only ertaiu journals (,bject to it to raise a prejudice. , sAalit the Ministers. I t is nataral that each party should desire to haveZ,, Possession of the Government, when a dis "'ution takes •place; but there is really nothing ll t he desir e of the Tories'not to allow the Whip to l ' (336 ` 2 ss the advantage which should make that conduct u nconstitutional in the latter, which the in °rule r v ou Ld. adopt almost the instant they were power. a. Su et!. be;tng the fa.cts—both partie s b e i ng e -ree d that the new questions and the new eh-- urnsta.nces which have arisen make an appeal to th e Peo - A )le necessary —to discuss whether it be bb' or not, as done by °Y th e the Whigs or 'furies, is wholly superfluous. At the same Vane there are ab un d ant prece d ents tc dust ifY the course Ministers mean to pursue. "r7ll app re h end that dissolutions will neces lly be. f requent, unless public opini,m can be uronglit directly to bear on the Legislature :Witbottt going through the formalities of an election. It cannot have escaped the notiee• of any living "vents, observer, that politi ca l political c h anges, and alteration: Pled l a Public opinion, now take place with unexam rapidity. Railways, bnto more r apid an d close comm y bringing i unication many millions of People, have given their own velocity to the Public mind. They h: ve had a similar effect on Public opinion to the be of the popula .tioa, and changes will be great and rapid, as -the People of the metropolis had suddenly in creased to three millions. Atantl Disc ussion is now in y spread through the land, and a new po litical opinion started, and astonishing the coin- Alunity to-day, it have any f ca i bility or An y truth, is ripe for decision in a few weeks or Jponths. Such a change in .society, unless by 410!.ne contrivanc.c! üblic opinion can be brcught to bear ina recogniged manner directly on Par lia'tne.nt, Will make frequent dissolution s nee s UY to decide the r3ew uestions which will con tinually arise. 14 fast, the Chartists _Avithout. r ~•~ 'ING IMES ?ORM rarren- in ad :ialant D iary. - A ne clit" ^P et ;s. rcpt ITS S treet. E 1, • \V. irret• of GLA-, ()NEI LIONS. ibution6 PROS' WITH- vDS of 0 0 0 0 rch I FRS, dvidend r. ividends S DI" ling• f Ist 1317 rTIGII• - ST if ' . entitled 18 4 " - • nc iers° ll c : Lt Fairy f,'" f r ar ri .. , 3l , •th ; I" e. the D ea ' t o mance' ; ,,c ? _ ie c Pr. r• ,ricet O rn 7an. ; Dri boo !c5 011436 __—.--•1 ctrett° A l ha's laos•-•f , N Of isos / 4° 111 hich ;); :, g 0J1.1 ) bi b 1,t.; , L r ibbo ; .c at Fit , t a ri l Pig the J3° it ,o o i noir plc t h ens • Avf„ g ° idea v 5 atberleigt'' 41: 0 rg bon,s o ily n:Y ard; t F i g lf4 3°l. ;ENS. EL tr• !on 0 ; f , .0,, brat.;,: l B ) tile s t ',eo le g rel l itb, ,T o rld , o , LC rc ho , co, itt , ,, e° f foe" ° Tll O t,a l P Goa' 4 , r. of eLl . ' rs „ t o, ;1100 ~ u tanf ' 0 ,„ I h P au n - 0, ' ‘ l:3 l i ) e o '4 t tinac t' so ji -- t C 1,1 ,10414 !tll ,olj , • to: 11 ' 11 0 f 11 00 it c° ll o l ure ,10 to til: t y o ,„joi tio 11 co w e 1 r 5, to )1v of %ea, C O 3 uld ' .- te e° a having the Charter, seem likely to obtain,if not annual Parliaments, Parliaments of a short du- ration. We learnt with muchpleasure from the debate on Mr. T. DUI COMIIE'S motion, that. 398 out of the 444 persons imprisoned for political offences have already been released. Some, we presume, have been pardoned and liberated, and the term for which others was imprisoned has come to an end. But though comparatively so few remain •in prison, we regret that the Ministers found it incompatible with their duty to comply with Mr. T. DUNCOMBE'S well-timed motion. We regret it as much for their sakes as for the sake of the prisoners, for. nothing has so exasre_ rated the balk of the people against them as the imprisonment of these Chartists. Be they punished rightly or wrongly, the effect on the minds of the working classes is the same. They believe the Chartists were wrongly punished— they regard the punishment as persecution, and they despise and hate the law in consequence, and bate the MiniAers, under whose auspices it was carried into execution. Could Lord JOHN RUSSELL have found it compatible with his duty ,to comply with Mr. DUN CONDE'S motion it would have had a power ful effect in :iciothing the minds of the working classes, and predisposing them toward; a union with the middle classes in order to obtain the common good. Ministers must doubt whether they did not make too great a sacrifice to a punctilio, when ti - ley saw th 9. .notion supported almost exclusively by their own friends and re sisted by every Tory in the House, except Sir G. SINCLAIR and Mr. WALTER. Sir R. PEEL and Lord J. RUSSELL voted on the some side, both being apparently more intent on upholding the prerogative, than on showing mercy or doing justice to the people ; but Sir ROBERT was sur rounded by his friends, and Lord Joux was al mdst isolated from his. It is plain., therefore, inimical as the people suppose the Whigs to be to them, that the Tories are more inimical. The Chartists have now an opportunity of triumphing over both. The Whigs do not wish, any more than the Tories, for the total abolition of the Corn-laws. They will, however, we are sure, assent to that, if the people of the towns demonstrate, almost universallST, that they are heartily resolved to have the total abolition. A union of the working classes with the middle classes, under the guidance of that enlightened, sincere, and earnest body, the Anti-Corn-law League, would accomplish the object, and ensure for the Chartists a complete triumph over the Parliament, and cheap bread for the people.We are happy to believe, from many communications which reach us on the subject, that the Chartists are everywhere becoming desirous to co-operate with the abolitionists. One struggle together, and that sordid aristocracy, and that arrogant and sel fish priesthood, which have so long plundered and insulted us, in the names of social order and reli gion, will be laid for ever - at . the feet of the p eople. The tone of deep sincerity which pervades the Anti-corn-law meetings is a happy augury. Earnest men are sure to succeed. One mission one fervent believer, la sufficient to make his own opinion the creed of a nation. But the: Anti-Corn-law question has already scores of missionaries in every part of the land. No less than ninety Dissenting ministers in Glasgow and the neighbourhood, we are told, have signed a petition against the Bread-tax, of which the fol lowing arc passages : That, although they heartily coincide with their fel low-subjects in reprobating. the Corn-laws, from their ruinous effects on the industry and prosperity of the British people, they feel persuaded that the chief aspect in which it becomes them, as Christians and as Christian ministers, to regard thes3 impositions, is their flagrant wickedness in the sight of Almighty God, to whose Holy Word they are opposed, with the benevolent ar rangements of. whose Providence they are at war, and whose just displeasure, if persisted in, they cannot fail to draw down. That your petitioners beg leave to assure your Ho ndurable House, that in these views they are joined . by the great body of Christian ministers atld private Church members who are known to them, with the ex ception of those who are directly interested, or who sup pose themselves interested, in the preservation of those restrictive statutes ; and that on no subject have. the virtue and piety of the country been more united in raising their solemn and decisive protestation. And that on these grounds your petitioners implore . your Honourable House, in the name of the country, in the name of humanity and justice—above all, in the sacred name of religion, and of God ever blessed, to abolish these unrighteous laws with the least possible delay. Their fervent spirit pervades the great body of the Anti-Corn-law party, and it cannot be quelled by the cold, sordid fallacies of the land lords, or the barren formulas, borrowed from the Church of Rome, of the English priesthood. The repeal of the Corn-law is now regarded as a great moral and religious question; and if the landlords and the clergy of the Church cannot oppose it on moral and religious grounds, they will only provoke, by resisting it on sham and foolish pre texts, a more shameful defeat. News from Turkey, Syria, Egypt, and Malta, brought by the Levant mail, will be found in another part of The Sun. We have received the whole of the Paris Journals of Tuesday, which were followed by the Moniteur of Wednesday, brought by Extra ordinary Express. The Moniteur of yesterday contains a tclezraphle deSpatch from Bayonne, of the 25th, with news of the official appoint ment of a Madrid Cabinet on the 22d instant— thus taking only four days and some hours to communicate between Madrid and Londcn. The following- is a list of the new Spanish Mi nistry, as of.Ceially given in the Madrid Gazette : M. Gonzales, President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. - Surra y Hull, Dlinhter of Finance. M. Mania, Minister of the Interior. M. San Miguel, Mini ter of War. M.. Garcia Gamboa, Minister of Marine. M. Alonzo, Minister of Justice. These are all men' who' have figured in the athinet since the accession of Queen ISABELLA the Second. We have but little confidence" in any of them, and see plainly that all will depend upon the firmness and integrity of the REGENT. There is very little domestic news in the Paris Journals. The trial of DAumr.s and his accom plices was proceeding, but was exciting no pub !ic interest whatever. The scarcity of meat in Paris continues, and excites a great deal of ill-feeling among the working classes. The poor could hardly be in a worse condition wera the city blockaded by 100,000 foreign bayonets. MALTA, MAY 15.—A new determination has been made respecting Admiral Stopford. His preparations for departing were maths, all his luggage and that of his fareiily was em barked, and he was to sail on tho 15th, but the Oriental ar rived from England with orders for him to remain till he should receive further instructions. What is the meaning of this counter order? Is it on account of the affairs of Candia, which are becoming serious, to which island the English are going to send an armament ? or is it only not to leave the whole squadron under the command of a Rear-Admiral? With respect to Admiral Stopford, something rather curious, which the press should notice, happened three or four days ago. The officers of the very unmet ous fleet. assembled at Malta gave a grand ball and supper; several speeches were delivered, mud that of Admiral Stopfurd was very remarkable, :or with the intention of doing justice to the conduct (if all the Captains who centributed to the events in Syria, he thought fit to observe that Commodore Napier had assumed too great a share for himself in the speeches which he had de l•vered in F,ngland on the subject cf Ills campaign in Syria and Egypt. The English journals will not fail to record tho Ad miral's speech, and Commodore Napier vv:11 doutelcss not fail to reply in his turn. The impel Luce of the events in Candia has induced the Admiral to send the Penhow and the Tyne igate to that island.. They sailed this morn!ng. We know that Tdhir I'scha, the Capitan l'acha himself, iscn his war to Cr , ste, and fears are entertained of the ferocity of that implac ab'e enemy of the Christians, who may, perhaps, attempt to suppress the insurrection in Candia in the same manner as has just been employed to suppress that in Bulgaria, that is to say, by mei,ns more calculated to extend the flame of insurrection than to allay it. The Government of Athens acts a very me lancholy part in this affair of Candia ; and it. may be accused of not having been able to stop the evil at the beginning by bin. clu i ng t h e dep ar ture of the emigrants.— Constitutionnel. BOURSE—PAEIS, TUESDAY, IVII,Y 25. list Highest Lowest Last Price Price. 'Prices. Price French 5 per Cents ll4 90 ... 114 95 ... 1:4 8,5 114 85 4 per Cents 3 per Cents .....» 79 50 79 50 ... 79 40 ... 19 40 Bank of ' , ranee ...3245 Latate Liar] It Likillt.Sl ares 9io ...1060 6,0006 Sharc€ 513'1 ...5130 ...5130 Belgian Bank IR4I ...... 1620 ...10';.0 1020 5 per , Cents. ..... 71 ... 7/ 71 71 IUI ?.Pa - 101% . ...1L lu ll pew Imp I!** 1004 ... t UN, LONDON, TPi UR ' , WA Y, MA Y 27, , Spanish Ac'ive 44 Qtt,i 211,i • Pas ;ire... 5% ... ... Neapolitan lO4 80 IC4 80 ... 1% 60 ... 60 Roman ... 102 101)1 ...101 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Versailles.L.B 212 50 ... 212 50 ... 207 50 ••• `O7 au It. B 335 ... 335 ... 3'2 59 ... 43 2 : 10 Orlea,ns .. 4tlo 4 11 457 1;0 ... 457 5 0 _ _ 9trasburg co Bale ••• 227 50 .. 227 50 ....z3 75 ... 2.3 75 THE LORD , MAYOR.--It must be highly gratifying to the oitizers,- particularly those who never enjoy any of the good things of the Mansion-house, and are verging towards decay by the prOStration of business in the manu facturing districtS, to find the Chief Magistrate, at this season ofiinancial and commercial :crisis, chiefly intent on feasting the BiShops. He probably hopes that he may ward off the impending evils by ; their prayers ; the citizens, however, take a different view, for they. are to meet in Common-hall, to petition againSt the corn mono poly, wi.ich the Bishops support. Their Chief Magis trate may erhaps derive the hostility 'which he pro fesses to Corn-law repeal, from his 'dole connection with the Bishops. We.rc Alderman Harmer now in the chair, we persuade Ourselves that hi the present crisis the City would play a part worthy of her most illustrious dayS. LONDeN .DISTRICT POST.—The fEri9.l gross revenue already obtained in the London District Post,. equals that produced in the same • department so late' as 1835, provided that in the last mentimied year the necessary reduction be mat.he fur the charges on General Post let lers.—Mr: Rowland Hies Postage Paper, read before the Statistical Society, on 17th May. • GENEnAL ASSEMBLY.--This venerable body, ftS it has been sometimes called, continued its sitting on Mon day (of which we gave an account yesterday) to a late hour, and ended the labour;, of the day by the -deposition of the Rev. Thomas Wright, minister of the parish of Borthwick. He had been found guilty of some imaginary heterodoxy by the Presbytery of Dalkeith ; the Assem bly affirmed the proceedings ; and before pronouncing sentence, the Moderator called upon one of his brethren to offer up a prayer. We shall have reason to re vert to this painful subject. In the meantime, we may state that Mr. Wright is the author of the " Morning and Evening Sacrifice " so well known and admired by every good Presbyterian, and several other religious works of great merit, and that the sup posed heresy for which he has suffered this grievous punishment has been before the world for at least twenty years, mid was not discovered till the wild men that now rule the Kirk came into power. They would not give even three days of grace, which was prayed for by the moderate party, but proceeded at once:to a division on the question of immediate deposition or delay, and car ried their holy purpose by a majority pf 195 against 85. ------- THE SUPPLY OF SUGAR. The West India planters seem to have asser tions ready for every use. Scarcely a year has elapsed since they were dinning the public with complaints of the. idleness of the labourers, of the deficiency of the crop of sugar, and of the ruin of their estates. They contemplated then making another attack on the purse of John Bull, on the ground that the compensation awarded them was whollyinsufileient. As soon, however, as the question of reducing the dis crimitrAing duties was raised, the West Indians found out that their estates were amazingly pro ductive, and that they could, with the help of their brethren of the East, whom they had a few months before treated as the vilest intruders, supply plenty of sugar for the utmost possible . consumption of the people. Now we have been favoured with the following extract of a letter from Tobago, which makes us suppose that the assertion of abundant crops was made to suit the:purpose of the moment:— I Must give you a few words ok the commercial pros pects of our islands. The fact is—relying upon a vast influx of money into the market after the Emancipation, the merchants have imported so enormously, that all the West India markets are thuroughlygorged, and recourse is obligtd to be had to . the. smaller islands to dispose of the surplus goods of the larger. Tobago, St. Lucia, and Dominica, have formed the principal outlets ; on the other islands, goods are being sacrificed at cost, and at Barbadoes and Jamaica considerably , below it. The crops will not realiS3 early hOpes formed of them. "Long erought," and " unseasonable shoWers " will greatly curtail their prosperity, and mortgagors and merchants, in debt, will rue this year deeply. - ihave been disposing of much merchandise (British manufactures) here, greatly to the annoyance and anger of my narrow-minded, grasping fellow merchants, who have hitherto been ruling with most infamous prices, which my arrival has tended in a great measure to dimi nish. The poor inhabitants gaped with wonder when they saw me sell at a price which their merchants quadrupled in disposing of their articles! The inhabitants of this island are taxed to their very bones—poor women who live by huckstering have to pay a tax of .5/. for their license to sell. It may be inferred, too, from the last para graph, that the planters "have the same kind of regard for the labourers as our landlords have for white labourers, from which it follows that the resistance given to the redaction of the Sugar Duties, on the ground that it would injure the negro labourers, was a mere pretext. It would appear, too, that the local authorities have a much better means of promoting the welfare of the poorer classes, 'by abolishing taxes and re strictions, than by taxing the people of England in the price of sugar to enrich planters a:lel mortgages. SIR ROBERT PEEL AND MR. ASHWORTH. __ _. The dishonest and manner in which Sir Robert Peel, in his speech yesterday week, misrepre sented a conversation of Mr.. Henry Ashworth's, were mace sufficiently palpable, at the meeting of the Cham ber of Commerce, last Thursday. What will our readers say, if it should appear that Sir Robert Peel's mis-state ment was not one into which he was driven in the ex citement'of the moment, by the temptation of making a good point, and getting the laugh against the deputa tion of the Chamber of Commerce, but one which had been deliberately planned' and resolved on, and respecting which he had even previously con sulted with some of his friends ? It would give us pain to be compelled to believe that this la the fact ; yet we are assured that in parliamentary circles it is ac tually stated as being so ; and that it was wilfully and knowingly, and with the approval and sanction of some of the chief members of his party, that Sir Robert ven tured upon the misstatement in question. If this be so, we scarcely know any degree of co n d emnat i on t h at would be too great for him, not only on account of the !gross moral delinquency of the act, but o f it s beingalto gether unworthy of his position, and benetth..his cha racter as th-3 leader of a great political party. In any case, we must say that, for ourselves, we would thr-rather. be - the objects of such a misrepresentation, than its authors.—Manchester Guardian.--[A proper and well deserved castigation of the man who might perhaps he a statesman, but who has chosen to degrade himself into the jack-pudding of the Tories.] We understand Mrs. Aveling Smith's Morning Concert will take place next Thursday, at the Hanover square rooms.. Among her talented assistants are Ma dame Shoedel, Miss Bruce, Mr. John Parry, and Sir George Smart. AMERICAN PitiNTs:—At the dose of . the meeting of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, on Thursday last, Mr. William Rawson laid on the table a pattern card, containing 15 patterns of American prints, which, with a general .similarity of style, had some variations in pattern, and were very superior to most of those previously seen here of American produc tion. ',l'hese were sent to Mr. Rawson by Mr. F. 'L. Homer e ,of this town, American merchant, with a note, in which .he says, " The goods they represent are 321 inch wide, generally called 9-Bths prints, and under the present tariff of the United States. English - prints, to compete with them, should be produced at about l ls. for 24 yards in length, by 32 to 33 inches in width. It' will be only by a reduced tariff that business with the 'United States can be increased • and the wise men of the Western world will not deem it policy to reduce the tariff of duties on English manufactures, until England induce such a course by some important reciprocal feel ing."—Machester Paper. THE .LATE MR. MORETON DYER.—The funeral of this universally-respected gentleman took place on Tuesday, when he was deposited in tire family vault at the parish church of St. Marylebone. The fttneral was conducted, by Mr. R. IL Maddox, of Welbeek-street, and was, in strict. accordance with the sentiments of the deceased, free from all ostentation. The chief mourners were his only son, H. C. Moreton Dyer, Esq., and his cousin, the Hon. Augustus Mo reton, M.P. • the other att en d an t s i n t h e mournful' ceremony consisted of the Rev. Rector, Dr. Spry, and the other clergy of the parish district; a few private friends, and the late medi cal attendants, Sir James Clarke, Bart.., Dr. H. Thompson, Dr. Chambers, and Messrs. Moore and Illingworth, of Arling ton- street. Mr. Moreton Dyer rep elented the elder branches of the ancient and noble families of Ducie and Moreton, end was also descended from the Dyers, of Somerietshire, of whom Sir Thomas Dyer, the well-known Judge, and eir Edward Dyer, the gay and esteemed fiend of Queen Elizabeth, are celebrated in history. His kind disposition and amiable man ners made him beloved by all who knew him, and few were there of the number assembled to take their long farewell who did not bedew his memory with a tear. He had served his country honourably and faithfully for 45 years. JEM CROW IN ST. JAMES'S PARK.--E may be recollected that about a fortnight ago a cart ion crow was ob served by one of the keepers to carry off a duck, or rather a teal (for neither a carrion crow nor raven, taking weight for weight into consideration, could possibly sustain a full grown duck in their flight through the air.) The above marauder was eventually shot, and exposed on • one of the grass slopes as a warning to his predatory fraternity. The scare-crow, thus exhibited, it would appear had no better effect than to operate as an invite to others of his horny-feathered brethren, for in a day or two afterward.; two more of his " genus" took up their stations in the:oily elms which are distributed throughout the enclosure. The keepers succeeded in shooting one of them, and crippled the other by breaking his leg ; the nether portion of the limb has since fallen off, yet this daring intruder, shortly after daybreak, daily contrives to harass the young broods as they are engaged in picking up insects on the banks'of the lake, carrying them away as his quarry. He is very wary on the approach of the keepers, perhaps instinctively impressed with the sense tithe old adage, " Once bit, twice shy." They have applied to him, owing to his hobbling gait when traversing the ground, the soubriquet of " Jem Crow." MATRIMONIAL ON DIT.—A rumour is in circulation that a lady, the widow of an Irish Baronet, herself an Irish gentlewoman, has engaged the affec-• tions, and has cemented to accept the hand, of the first personage in this kingdom. Should this be the case, the noble individual may be considered truly fortunate in his mission to this country—no matter when his functions may terminitte—in having secured a lady as remarkable for her beauty its she is distineuished for her virtue, and whoSe personal attractions, great as they un questionably are, are surpassed by h er a m i a bl e a n d esti mable qualities of head and .heart. If we arc •to have. even. a brief continuance of Whig rulers, the lady in question will. shed a grace and lustre around the circle in which it will be then her province, not to move; but to preside.—Evening Mail. [The rumour in the fashiona ble circles to-day, and it. appears to be well founded, is, that the Lord Lieutenant is about being united to Lady Somerville, the stepmother of the present Hon. Member for Drogheda. Lady Somerville is the daughter of Mr. Geale, the Crown Solicitor for the HomeLcircuit,•and she is possesSed of considerable personal attractions.— Letter from Dublin.] R APID T R AVELLING TO SCOTLAND.--The Fire King arrived a t Ardrossan on Friday, a t h a lf- past nine, from Fleetwo od, making the pa ssage i n twe l ve Is now generally understood hours. Passengers landed at Glasgow by special train at a quarter. past cloven. Whole time from London .cgau, Argus become a eandidate, along with Mr. that George Pascoe atainveo\mvntg.yi:dtfiAvitesil.ii.:7ll,Lrls•sb-71trt.01161:sle: of Wigan, Grenfell, e are moving.. -...even in the Standish, for the represent;o:faotihnte.•ehoie:satetrhrleaGfhliosareo:dititle.:nl;,. on li th i e s Reform interest. Mr. G•rclifell, as Many of our readers agri cultural districts. The enclosed notice has been pub lished in ;ayeu :—" Cheap bread ! Cheap sugar I da TORQ end Free Trade. tare i expecteduA married a . • sister The inhabitants of Torquay. and Tormoham are-requested to meet at Boarder's Betel; at half-1 st six on Tisesday the 25th inst., to'corisider the propriety of petitioning both Houses of Parliament in support of the measures recently announced by her Majesty's Ministers for the reform of our commercial code, and the abolition of oppressive monopolies in corn s G . t I e t a s r T diedhi l: a g sugar, and timber." he fight consisted of only five rounds, ht a prize batt:e with Henry: Bell, also frame work-knitter, of this town, ;e ll s r t eYrd Marshall, (Thurs da:D)On Easter of this towm and lasted about five tainuteS, !luring which the deceased ,ale,best of the fight ; but a chance blow on the right i sia tl e t v ' endered sensele .. He was brought home the Monday he feu came nigb4 . and, ,altbetgn had the best medical 1:s- ElaltoTrnßingO, FiaAtheP2Ul elet hi the town, .oysiog to the bed .state of his health wh.erthe;talght, be never ' ) ttingham Mercury. . • -" . • • CONSTITUTION 4L REFORM. The Coßowing letter has been forwarded by a Corre- Rondent in referen c e to that addressed to Lord John ussell on the subject, which appeared in The Stin of the 19th inst. : My Lord—There are some most impartant points studiously concealed in the Letter which a Correspondent of The Sun took the liberty cf addressing to you last week. Once adopt the system he has there laid down, and you ob bin a qualification for the whole kingdom. The taxes and Poor-rates may be paid quarterly, and a receipt given on a piece or pieces of zinc metal, on which might be stamped the num ber of the possessor's vote ;. 3ou thus at once sweep away all the most expensive, and most vexatious machinery of the ReVising Courts. Vote by Ballot might be scattered to the winds,- for only once convince an Englishman that he his a direct and tangible interest in the State, and you invest him with a consciousness of political importance to which he has hitherto been a stranger. You Bite birth to and call into action a spirit cf manly inde pendence, which, disdaining all undue control, and in the con sciousness of its own dignity, rises auperior , to the base and sor did influences of and glo yirig in the noble exercise of its constitutional rights and privileges, sets its possessor forth in all the majesty of man and of a free born Briton. Old-fashioned Toryism, with alt its blighting and repressive influences, will be annihilated, and the pure principles of our glorious Constitution in a purified Church and Reformed State, Queen, Lords, :rd Commons, would be carried out to their full extent. England, happy England, would then indeed become the envy of surrounding nations, and the' admi ration of the world. Liverpool, May 2:2, 1841. II ®USE OF LORDS DAY.) Tiwir Lordships sat on a Committee of Privileges to-day at ten o'clock. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Icenyon, Lord Hawardcn, Lord Colchester, Lord Hood, Earl Beauchamp, the Earl of Warwi c k., th , , Earl of Bandon, Lord Courtown, and the Bishop of Chichester. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL MARKET. business done by private treaty, and the public sales went off heavily, but in prices there was little variation. The imports were fair. TEA MARKET. Little business done, but. prices were fully supprted, and but few parcels were pressing for sale. Company's Congou, Is. W t -d. cash. The deliveries Urge. TALLOW MARKET. Little business done in P.Y. Cradle, but prices were sup. parted, and purchases were net to be made 'under 465. 6d. on the spot, and 475. 9J. for tI& last three months. FRUIT MARKET.--____. . The demand from the shippers ;was steady, but the home trade operated with much caution ; prices look downward, the supply being large. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MAY 27.—Wind this day at noon, E. to S.E. variable, fine cl . ar weather. • DEAL, MAY 26.—Wind N.E., moderate.—Arriced from the River and the Fox.hound, for the South Seas ; Re pulse, Bombay ; Northumberland, Madras ; Centenary, Mon treal. LIVERPOOL, MAY 26.—Wind S.E., moderate.—Arrived the Sarah, from Savannah ; Corinthian, Zante. Sailed the Gulnare, for Hobart Town ; Ann, Bombay ; Columbine, Monte Video; IsaLel, Antigua; Columbus, Rio Janeiro; Virginia awl Independence, New York ; Manley, Halifa x ; China, Quebec ; Climentina, Ancona; Trinity yacht, Gib raltar. ArrivedolT, the Notion. Wur.SHOE, MAY 26.-Ilie Alarm, from Hamburgh to London, was on the Gunfieet. Sand yesterday. Das , En, 26.—The Maria, from Ipswich to Liverpool, was on sh.Te on the Goodwin Sands last night, crew raved. R.SMSGATE, lIAy 26.—The Ellison, from London to Sierra Leone, is on shore on the Goodwin Sands, with mizen-mast cut away, and loss of anchors and cables. POILTSMOUTH, MAY 2G.—Wind N.E. to S. S.E.—Arrived the \Volga., Turner, from Havannah, for Amsterdam. Sailed her Ala;csty's ship Reindeer, f.ir Gibraltar. Cowxs, MAT 26.—Arrived the Lelbarn, Clark, Matanzas. SournantrroN, MAY 24.—Arrived the Maria, Christiania. PLymouzir, illAv W.—Sailed the Mary, for Quebec ; Forth, Sydney, Naw South Wales : Brothers, ditto. The Eleanor, trem Arklow, got on the Preakwate , during a tre men&us squall, but is expected off after discharging part of her cargo. FAL:dorm!, MAY 24.—Wind variable.—Arrived off the Ann, Johnstone, from Trinidad. Sailed the Rollo, Labrador. DUBLIN, MAY 23.—Arrived the Garonne . , Richardson, from Antigua; Wanderer, Robeson, Trinidad. _ . Conic, ‘IiIA;r 2.4.—..A.rrived the Elizabeth, Grunmer, frod Liverpool, for St. John's, Yew Brunswick. 111SAI,E, MAY 23.—Sailed the Shannon, Collings, for Prince Edward's Island. MO NEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MtY 26.—The monoto nous inactivity still prevails in our Cotton Market. The sales to-day do not exceed /40 bales. Prices for inferior descrip tions of American are quoted in some instances at lj g d. per pound lower. For other kinds there is no alteration. • LIVERPOOL SRA ILE-MARKET, MAY 26.—We have been rather better to-day in the Share Market. The transactions comprise Edinburgh and Glasgow, 38i ; Grand Junction Quarter Shares, 254; North Midland, 334; Eastern Counties, n ; London and Birmingham New Thirds, 22% ; Midland, Counties Quarter Shares, 2li. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 26.—Owing to the unsett , ed state of political affairs awl the general depression in trade, the Share Market still presents a very gloomy appear ance. Shares of almost every description are, neglected. North Midland Thirds, 12s. 6d. prem. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 24i 25 ; Manchester and Leeds, 50 52 ; Ditto Halves, 20 21 ; Midland Counties, 65 90; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 10E 11. According to private letters from the Hague, the financial situation of the Netherlands has considerably improved lately. According to the c?.lculation rod the providing of the Minister •of Finance, the receipts for the year 1841 amount to the rum of 25,131,000 francs, of which 161,428,000 for the colonies and the expenses, 281,237,000 francs, of which are 114,114,000 for the Colonies. There will be this year an excess of receipts of 3,896,000 francs. We have received the Journal of A n twerp, of yester.• day's date. BOURSE or AusTzunA 31, MAY 24.—Owing to a little al teration in the Foreign Bourses, our National lusds remained inactive and stationary, and the transactions were insignificant. Nevertheless the prices remained firm without variation. Ardoin's Spanish were offered and little sought after. THE FUNDS, The British funds opened at the leaving off prices, and re. main so' to the present hour ; 99i; t for the openin g the 10th of July, for money, 80-i 90 ; Exchequer Bills, 79 prem. ; Bank Stock, 168 169 ; India Stock, 251 253. In the Foreign !arlcet the prices are nominal to the present time, not a bargain doing. Spanish Active, 234 4 ; De ferred, 114 ; Passive, 5V . ,, 4 ; Portuguese, 344 ; hree per Cents. 20i ; Brazlian, 674 684 ; Colombian, 224 %; Mexi can, 28i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52 1 ,% 3 % ; Five per Cents., .094 100. • Stia ues.—Great Western, 264 27 premium ; New, 123% I3i prem. ; Lcridort and Brighton, 41 dis. ; Blackwall, 7 6 dis. ; Birmingham 6567 prem.'; Southampton, 55 !":6 per share Croydon, 13 rer share; Greenwich, 84 per share; Man chester and Birmingham, 151 15 dis. No news to the present time or report of any description. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 Ditto New Cheltenham and Great Western. 62 Great Western - Ditto New .. 50 London and a ighton London and Greenwich PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MAY 25. 3 ptr Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 964 i Grand Canal Stock ... Ditto Reduced ...... ... 1 Ditto Debs. G per cent... Ditto New, 183 P, ...... 974 I Ditto 4 per cent ... $1 per Cent. Deb 5....... 891 I Royal Canal Stock _ HALF-PAST ONE. NOTICE OF TIIE BANK OF ENGLAND, M.&v The Governor and Company of the Lank of England are ready until further notice to receive applicaticns for loans upon the deposit of approved Bil!sof Exchange not having more than six months to run, Exchequer Bills and India Bonds, such loans to be repaid on or before the 15th of July next, with inte rest at the rate of 5/. per cent. per annum, to be for sums of not less than 2,0001. each. The above was posted at the Bank of England. Consols for the Opening are a shade lower than in the morn ing, Money, 89k, have been 90 ; Exchequer Bills, 7 9 prem.; India Bonds, par, 1 prem. ; Bank Stock, 169 1681 2 . There is not a feature in either of the markets worth the least attention to the present time. The Foreign Market corresponds with that of the British. Spanish Active has not improved at present,' an the formation of the new Ministry at Madrid, 23% ; Dutch Two-atu4-a lialf per Cents. 524; Five per Cents., 59A Money has become again rather scarce and in demand. The Share Market .is dull, with little business doing. Cheltenham and Great Western 27%; Great Western, New, 62i ; London and Brighton, 454 • Lorriou and Greenwich, 8. QUARTER TO THREE. No change in any of the markets, end not a bargain doing. -_,,,--=--__--,—___. FELO-DE SE, A T , TWIN ST ED:—All inquest was held on Friday last, at the parish of Twinsted, before Wm. Codd, Esq., on the body of William Horsley, aged 58. William Harrington stated that about four o'clock in the morn ing of the 18th instant, he was awoke by the screams of, a woman, proceeding from the deceased's premises, adjoining his own ; he immediately got up, and went to the deceased's house, and on going into the garden found the deceased sus peneed by the neck to a bough of a plum tree. With the as sistance of Dani. , l Flowers he released him, by removing the line, by which he was suspended, from his neck ; but he was quite dead. Witness had known deceased many years, and had seen him the day before, when he appeared to be quite right in his mind. Daniel Flowers deposed to the same effect, as to this finding of the decoked, and as to his state of mind Sus;tti Horsley, widow of the deceased, stated that her late husband appeared to her, to be out of spirits, on Sun very, poor, having only Ps. a week day, the loth, and oil 111entlay, the 17th ; bait slept well on both nights. the conlelgire no,. other reason for his depression of his family were so. The to of supportspirits bt their h at family. o ip ein & itno s never knew him deranged in seol'iveenreddrrimn hanging as hdeiseemaisnecelLwo-arseevaelrlehreradriltit any of momiEg, of the 18th by a young man named John Harrington,, and answered his call; they rington went away ; deceased not followirr , him, but continuing were going to work together,,,ahout four miles off. }hr. and missed ~ Felo-de-se ;" and the Cororter .h i b n ei 7 o,t,rheae and going nb ge d zi n i. ‘ n s a t i o stair:. yetrhde iat Witness ,arden di issued his warrant for the interment of the body in the church -3 ard, between the hours of nine and twelve o'clock at Ala!, as directeil by the statute. —Ester Herald.. The daily consumption of gre en N , o . b a .. Film . is estimated at 200 litres , or 52,537 Lnglish pilau. , - LORD lIOTHAM'S CLAIM. Counsel were heard and witnesses examined on behalf of the claim of Lord llotham, to vote at the election of Repre sentative Peers tn. Treland. After which their Lordships de clared that the claimant had made out hii claim. The Lord Chancellor, the Earl 01 Warwick, and Lord Kenyon then sat to hear Irish Appeals. DELL V. THE EMIL OF HADDINGTON. The Loan CHANCELLOR gave judgment in this case which v, as argued before the House a few days ago. The question in the case was whether the sum of 3,0001., given to a lady by her husband, under a post-nuptial contract, descended .in the events that had happened to her representatives_or formed put of the estate of her husband. The Lord Ordi nary, upon' the case coming before him decided that the representatives of the lady were entitled, but on the case being brought before the Inner House, they' decided that the sum in question formed part of the estate of the husband, and from that decision the present appeal was brought. The Lord Chancellor being clearly of opinion that the judgment pronounced by the Lord Ordinary was the correct one, or dered the interlocutor of the Inner House to be reversed, and that pronounced by the Lord Ordinary.to be substituted in its place. Judgment below reversed. MALONE V. MALONE. The arguments in this part-heard Irish appeal were re sumed to-day, but had not concluded at half-past one o'clock, at which hour the Lord Chancellor rose to attend a Council. VICE-CH ANCERY.-(T HTS DAY.) His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR took motions to-day, but very few were disposed of in consequence of the absence of Mr. Knight Bruce and Air. Jacob, who were engaged in the House of Lords. His Honour rose shortly after 12 o'clock. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) Mr. Justice WIGHTDIAN having during the early part of the morning heard several motions of no public importance, after wards sat at Nisi Prins, and disposed of several undefended cases. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS WOOD V MOREWOOD. This was a case which came on for trial at the Derby As sizes of Michaelmas term last, before Chief Justice Tindal, when a verdict was had for the plaintiff. The Solicitor-General subsequently obtained a rule for anew trial, and Mr. Hill was now heard on the part of the plaintiff, to show cause why the rule for a new trial shou'd be set aside After the Chief Justice had read his notes of the trial; , Mr. Hint said that he would shortly state to the Court the., sub stance of the affidavits on which his Learned Friend, the So licitor-General had obtained, on the ground of surpr,ise, the rule for a new trial, to set aside which he (Mr. Hill) now ap plied to the Court. Those affidavits stated that there . waS rumour abreact from the commencement of this controversy, between Wood and Morewood, that the claim,ed lands and minerals never formed a part of the Zouch estate ; and in order to test the accuracy of that report, the . slefendant, Morewocid, filed a bill of discovery, and that the answer put into that bill led the defendants astray, and confirmed them that the rumour was correct, and that they did not, in consequence, investigate the title farther back than th. 39th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The plaintiff said by his replication that the lands in question did not pass by the settleMent of the 39th of Elizabeth, the defendant, on the conttarY, alleging that they did so pass. That was the defendant's,ease on the ground of surprise—a ground which he (Mr. H.) wouhrshow did not or could not exist at all. The fifth plea -states( that - Sir John Zouch was seised in fee of - certain lands anitninerals' that in the 39th year of Elizabeth• he levied a fine infthe's'aitl lands (which were mentioned in very general terms),-tlial re covery was suffered, and that the minerals were settled for.the use of Sir John Zouch in remainder to •his son. .At a,subse quent period, in the reign of James she First, the sort eon— veyed the minerals to Morewood, and the question then was, did those lands pass under the fine and recovery of 39th of Eliza beth. The Learned Counsel wFnt on to show that the answer to those affidavits did not or could not mislead the defendants. The answer was a true one, and would have led any reasonable person to the belief that they (the plaintiffs) claimed those lands as being once a portion of the Zonch estate. and so far were the defendants from being ignorant that Zouch was seised in fee, that the defendants themselves mentioned tint that Zouch, afterwards Sir John Zouch, was , seised in fee in the 39th year of Elizabeth; there was then, he contended, nothing to complain of in the answer put in by the plaintiff to the bill of discovery filed by Morewood, and con sequently the ground of surprise could not be sustained. Their Lordships were applied to ow the ground of surprise, which surprise consisted of two facts, first, that new facts had been brought out, and second, that in consequence of their ig norance they had pleaded incongruously to their title. The plaintiffs ought to have given up the order of reference; they ought not to have amended it, but they ought to have given notice of their intention to move for a new trial. Sir John Zouch in the 30th of Elizabeth, passed all the lands :in his possession to Adam Hare. How, then, could the same lands pass by the fine and recovery in the 39th of Elizabeth ? Yet that was the only ground upen which his Learned Friend could stand before the Court. Under that fine and recover) he contended that the minerals did not pass. But suppose his Learned Friend were to give up that ground, and take the sale made by John Zonch in the 15th James I. ' • but that would do him no further good than the other. They were in pos session of proceedings in the Court of Chancery of the 41st of . Elizabeth, by which it appeared that Mary Zouch, in whom the property was, after the death of Sir John, was still alive, although the clients of his Learned Friend had killed her long before. (The case was proceeding when we went to Press.) EPSOM RACES. THIS DAY-(BY EXPRESS). Fifty Pounds, for three yrs old, colts Bst 71b; and.fillies, Bst 21b. Derby Course. Capt. Gardnor's Ben Brace (Nat) 1 Duke of ,Grafton's Mosque Captain Williamson's Mobarek Lord Huntingtower's Langar filly Mr. Boast's Clarendon 1001. Plate, for three years old, &c. Two miles. Capt. Williamson's Mobarek (Chapple) 1 Mr. Mitchell's Lady Liverpool Mr. Booth's Benjamin, Mr. Collins's Isaac, Mr. Goodman's Bedford, and Mr. Shevard's c. by the Colonel, also started, but not placed. Her Royal Highness. the Duchess of licnt embarl7ed at Woolwich soon after one o'clock this afternoon, on a steam-packet for the Continent. The Queen accompanied her august mother to the place of embarkation, accompa nied by Prince Albert. The Prince and Princess of Leinin(r ' en also went on board with the Duchess of Kent; their Serene Highnesses accompanying the Royal Duchess on the Continent. A Cabinet Council assembled this afternoon at the Foreign• office. All the Ministers were present. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.—Mr. Wilson, the eminent vocalist, takes his Benefit, at this louse, to-mor row (Friday) evening. In consequence of the sudden ter mination of Mr. Balfe's management, the lovers of music have been deprived of opportunities of healing Mr. son : and that gentleman has suffered great pecuniary loss ; we, therefore, hope that the public will avail themselves of this opportunity of being delighted lister ers to one of our first singers. and, by their patronage, re medy, in some measure, the loss which he has suffered by the unexpected closing of the house. GENERAL ELECTION.--Ve are glad to find that a Committee has been appointed to sit daily at the Reform Club, for the purpose of attending to the ap proaching elections ; where all commumcations, ad dressed to the Secretary, Nvill meet with immediate at tention. THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT AT BLACK FRIARS BRIDGE PIER.—The young woman who lost her life a few days since, in endeavouring to step on the pier when tEs, embarking from the iron steam-boat Daylight, was buried yes. terday. Some hours afterwards a female came to the officers of the district, and on examining the *clothes of the deceased at once recognised them as having belonged to her daughter_ in-law. She stated that she herself wal one of the nurses at I Chelsea Hospital, and that the deceased had lately been stop ping with her. It further appeared that tho deceased was - named Bebecca Brown, and that she Lad lived in a'fainilv at High House, Chelsea, and wills one near Notting Hill, in the capacity of housemaid. • CORN-LAW IN IHE LORDS.--Earl Nam has seized upon every opportunity afforded hum by the rules of the House, to discuss a question to the worth and importance of which he had awaked when the Aris tocraey, both - Tory and Whig, in which h e li ve d an d moved, were fast locked in the arms ofMotpheus. Tha conversaion on. Monday night was warm and intensely interesting, and Earl Radnor uttered sentiments, which do honour alike to his head and heart. --0! si'sie °nines - -Nonconformist. EMPTY HOUSES IN PRESTON.—As one proof of the depression of trade, and. the want of means on the part of the people, we may mention that in Preston there are now 1,220 houses unoccupied, and consequently not paying ra tes.—Preston Chronicle. A water-spout burst over the vilrage of River moat, in the Rhone, a few days since, and extended its ravages over that and several adjacent communes A great deal of da mage was done, the water washing away gardens en the sides of the Nalleys, and swelling the streams to torrents. No lives were last. . - 7 • • • aoroli AW . • . •. NATIO. NAL BANK OF IRELAND The sixA r airmail general meeting of the Directors and Proprietors of 'the National Bank of Ireland, took place yesterday, ly; is Co:upany's offices, 13, Old Broad-street. At one o'cao ek the chair was taken by Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P., iGG vernor. The Dire( present were Col. the Hon. Leicester Stanhope, Arice O'Connell, John Rawson, Robert Su..ton, jun., J. C. Ending, E F. Green, John Harman, T. Lambe Mu 'may, S. P. Rickman, James Reade, J. R. Elmore, A. P. Johnson, J. J. Keene ; and among the Shareholders v. re observed Sir Burton M‘Namara, Capt. • S;:allan, the R v. Thomas Mate, James Hutchinson, Charles Bianci mi, Richard Smithwick, James Lowe Wheeler, Patric IL Hynes, Francis Frith, Charles Rule, E.. O'Beirne., Char ics Green, James Johnston, James Ruf fell, IL M. Join' s, John Robins, Augustus Vigne, Paul Bevan, Arthur Buckley, John Thomas, William King, John Hardy, fir 4:1 Joshua Bacon, Esqrs. On taking the chair the GOYERNOR sail their first dut,yin ordi nary course of business was to call on the Secretary to r• 4tes. the advertisement. convening the meeting. • TheSeerutary„Frazer B. Smith, Esq., having read the advertisement, The Go - .7zlcion then called upon the Secretary to read the Report, which had been unanimously a3reed to by the Directors.. • The Secret. try alien read the Report as follows : REPORT Of the ,Directc , rs of the National Bank of Ireland, made to the Prop .'.et. n-s at the Sixth Annual General Meet ing, held at th Office' of the Company, No. 13, Old Broad-street, :London, on Wednesday, the 26th of • .May, 1841. The Directoml 'ave much pleasure in meeting the Pro prietors, assemble( 1 . on the present occasion, and in sub , mating the uswil statement of accounts, exhibiting the result of , their 1a )ours for the past year, whereby the best evidence will be afforded of the continued prosperity of the . Con.pany, 'and of its atiairs haying been prudently ! and profitabi - 7, corlducted. In conchtdulg the Report made at the last Annual General Meeti ug , the Directors announced their inten tion of increasi the rate -of dividend on the 'paid up capital of the ompany to 6 per cent., and from the steady and satis.l ..ctory progress of the business of the Bank, they expre ised a confident opinion that they would not only be enal_ )led to - maintain that increased rate of dividend, but also to make in each succeeding year a considerable addit ion to the Proprietors' Reserve Fund. When the rnset . .:tled state of the Money market, and the very eaten sive failures which have occurred on both ,sides of the I risk Channel during the past year, are taken into con: dderetion, and that every Bank, carrying on business on an extlnded scale, must be affected, more or less; by such, imexpected and disastrous events, it will prove highly sr itisfactory to the Proprietors to learn, not withstanding t. liese adverse :circumstances, that the ex peetations whic h were held out to them by the Directors at the last An - mai Meeting have.been realised, OS will appear by the i blowing stAte-ment to which their atten tion is now rec Fested s. d. Undivided Pro ts at December, 1839 Not Profits for :the year ending Dee, Is4o 27,744 12 4 £43,283 9 1 Deduct last yozr's Dividend to' the Pro prietors, for :Midsummer, 1840, 10,500, Ditto, ditto, for Christmas, 1840, 10,500, 21,000 0 0 Leaving amou at of undivided Profits at Pece — mber,l .840 . 22,283 9 6 -, - - From the f 4 =going it will be observed that the net pr9fits of the 1 Ist year, after defraying all the current expenses, and , providing for bad debts, amounted . to• •2717441;125. 441., and after the payment of the increased rate of divide 7 id for the year, of 6 per cent., that a sur plus-remains 4 )f 6,7441. 12s. 4d., which sum added to the previous and ivided profits, leaves a total of unappro priated profits.,.of 22,283/. 9s. 6d. at the credit of the •Reserve - Fund. in December last. • In:eonclusi on, the Directors have much satisfaction in assuring the Proprietors, that on taking a careful review of the entire concerns of the National Bank of Ireland, thy not only. continue to feel the same perfect confi dence, so strongly expressed by them in former Reports, but the. growin g prosperity of the establishment now fully warrants them in renewing that impression, and - the well-grounded opinion that it will become, under erudent and .cautious management, equally a source of profit to the holders of its stock; as it has already proved sininently ba aeticial to all classes in those districts of .he country in which its operations are conducted. There are •now to be electeil four Directors, in the foom of Chr. istopher Fitz-simon, Esq., John Rawson, :Esq., Colonel the lion. Leicester Stanhope, and John Joseph Keene, Esq., who retire by rotation, all of whom are candidates for the office, and eligible to be re-elected. Since the last Annual General Meeting the Court of ;Directors have filled up five vacancies in the direction ;(taa since the notice convening this meeting). These ippointmenta will now require the confirmation of the l;roprietors, and which will complete the number of Di .‘ectors to sixteen, as provided by. the deed of settlement. The GOVERNOR—In calling the attention of the Pro prietors to the Report, and in submitting it for their ap- - prebation, Wished to state that if any part of it had not seen distinctly understood, it would be read over again, any any explanation - th-g--;:t-n . required would be given .t-ith regard to the several matters referred to therein. He thought the Directors had a right to congratulate the Proprietors and themselveis upon the present posture of the affairs of the Bank.—(Hear, hear.) Last year was, in some respects, one, giving advantages to those inte rested in the management of banks, because it was a year in which Ireland was favoured by Providence with a Top, in some respects, beyond the usual average, and as :hat country was unhappily almost exclusively an agri -ntltural one, of course an increase in the agricultural aroduc..,e must necessarily produce an increase of specula :ion and business, and must prove a source of profit to es tablishments like Banks, which make advances upon secu rity to be turned ultimately into capital in this country. rhe only favourable feature in the history of the bank 'lig concerns of the country for the last year was a good :merest. In other respects there were many circum stances of an unfavourable nature, and which were cal nilated to impede the progress of an Institution like the ,resent. There was the ultimate closing of the Agri ailtural Bank. It had, as they were all probably aware, suspended its operations shortly after its existence, and again after fluttering for some time, and throwing out branches into different parts of the country, it finally closed in the course of the past year. That necessarily disparaged and threw doubts upon the circulation and stability of every other Bank ; and where it did not operate to disparage, it rendered great caution necessary on the part of the Directors, and caused them to incur additional expense, which he trusted they would not be called upon to incur again ; and indeed they could, not For the same purpose, for that Bank was gone, and there vas no possibility of its being revived.. The people of Ireland had this reason to place confidence in the Direc tion of the National Bank, that when the 'Agricultural Bank was first established, he had felt it his duty to ?üblish and give circulation to a caution to the people of Ireland against the plan they had adopted—namely, the carrying on their operations, not upon capital but upon lebt: He had denounced the plan at the time, and if there. was any confidence reposed in him on behalf of the National Bank, that would. not be diminished by the recollection that the Bank that had failed had been de nounced by him on its first' establishment. Other failures also had occurred, that had interfered with the commer cial arrangements in Ireland. The failure of Wright and Co., and others, had operated to a certain extent, and tended materially in diminishing - the profits of the Banlc,_ by increasing those cautionary expenses which they were obliged to incur whenever such un toward events occurred in Ireland, in order to be pre pared against any possible contingency.—(Hear, hear.) The Proprietors would find on a reference to the Report, that not only was their concern a profitable one, but that they were able to pay a dividend of 6 per cent. again, and in addition to that, a sum of 6,744/. 12s. 4d. was added to the rest—thus making the clear profits unap propriated amount to 22,2831. 9s. 6d. after dedueting two half years' dividends at 6 per cent.'which amounted to 21,000/.—(Hear, hear.) He was directed by the Board further to inform the Proprietors, that they had not the least hesitation in assuring them that the dividend pay- able in July next, would be at the rate of 6 per cent. — (Hear, hear.)—From these statements, he thought it must be manifest to the Proprietors, that the concerns of the Bank were prosperous, that their prospects were diminishinggood good, that their resou rces were i ncreas i ng, an d t h e r i s k in proportion as they became acquainted with the 'characters of the trading and commercial com munity. They were all aware that when a Bank was first established, it had to feel its way, and the parties whb were most :likely to deal with it in the first instance were persons who had worn out their credit or created saiSpicions as to their stability in the minds of other Bank S.. In short the first commodity with which a Bank dealt was, perhaps, the worst it would meet with in the course of its transactions. As it proceeded it got rid of those weeds, of, commerce, and began to know the good, fruit from the bad—its extended dealings made it more conversant with men of business, and _ it became master of a subject in which it . was at first only malting experiments. It was now Ns duty to submit to them the proposition, that theße - iaport, which had just been rend, be confirmed, printed, land circulated among the proprietors. had th lileasure to add, that, although notice h ad been given to e .the shareholders, no candidatehad b 'the vacancies in the direction,except those ammeetinttioonfiedll u byp the Secretary in reading the Report. There were four gentlemen to be re-elected, an te five m d ee ting. whose hm t names e s required the confirmation or the would be submitted to them presently, but no other per sons now offered themselves, which was an evidence of that unanimity of action which was always desirable in institutions like theirs, and which was so conducive to perfect harmony and co-operation.—(Cheers.) Mr 13TANcora had great pleasure in seconding the motion for the adoption of the Report. • A-PitOPItIZTOR said the Report which had been read - a~(s.:..~I!llti EVENI_Nrci EDITION. - -- - - to them was extremely - satisfactory ; but their profits after all, were ,not eqUal to what they were in the pre ceding year, bebause, if he recollected aright, they had last year added upwards of 10,000/. to the rest. The Govxaxoa would remind the lion. Propeetoa that the dividend for the year 1839 was only five per cent., and consequently they had been enabled to add a larger sum last year to the reserved fund. The increase of the dividend amounted to 3,5001., and if that sum, were added to 6,7441., the undivided profits of the year it would be found that their profits were fully equal to those of the previous year.—(Hear.) The PROPRIETOR had understood that last year the whole of the preliminary expenses had been paid off, and ' it should also be remembered a large sum had been set aside to meet the losses they had sustained at Cork. The GOVERNOR said the fact was, they had suffered considerably by the failure of the Agricultural Bank, in consequevee of being compelled to restrict their btii.- ' ness in particular localities, and, as a measure .Of pre- caution, they had been obliged to keep on hand a very . . large amount of gold for some months. Last y..;:ar, cots.. sequently, was not so profitable as it otherwise - would have been.. The net profits of the year 1833 were 22,797/., and the dividend amounted to 17,500/., rearing . to be added to the reserved fund a sum of 5,2971. In I , . 1839 the net profits were 27,3361., and kn the year e,ntl- ~ I . ing December, 1840, they 've6re 27,7451. so that...in point of fact their profits were 4001. more than the - pre- ' vious year.—(Hear, hear.) In 1839 they had added 9,8361. to the rest, but the dividend in that year was only 17,500/. 2 whereas last year it was 21,0001., while they had added 6,7441 to the rest.—(Hear, hear.) The question that the Report be adopted, printed, and. circulated among the Proprietors, was then put and car ried unanimonsly. - The GOVERNOR said the next business he had to bring under their consideration. was the re-election of the four Directors who went out by rotation, namely, Col. the Hon. Leicester Stanhope, John Rawson, Esq., Christo pher Fitz-Simon, Esq., and John Joseph Keene, Esq. The motion was then put and unanimously agreed to; The GOVERNOR said the next business was to confirm the election of the five gentlemen who had been appoin ted as Directors. A PROPRIETOR said, before the question was pat, he, wished to make one observation. He hoped that cam was taken to select for these vacancies gentlemen of experience in commercial matters. When he • saw then dividing 6 . per cent., and putting by a large sunr an nually to the reserved fund, while their shares were at a discount in the market ; he could not help saying that there appeared t - ) be a want of confidence in the public: generally as regarded the concern. Banks which bad only been established about the same time, for instance, the London Joint Stock Bank were at a pre mium; although They were. only paying 5 per cent. He certainly did not know any Bank the shares of which were so low While its financial affairs were in so prospe rous a state, andle hoped therefore that great care would be taken-as to-the parties who were to be introduced into the Direction. - He could assure the meeting that he did not make these remarks with a view to disparage any or the gentlemenin the Direction, but was merely actuated by a wish to promote the interests of the concern. The GOVERNOR said the observations that had just been made were very important and deserving of the highest consideration and attention. Their anxiety had always been to add to . their number gentlemen of com mercial and business habits. With regard to the shales of the. Company being so low in the market, it should be borne in mind that in London there was not the s: one confidence in an Irish speculation as there was in an English one.—(A - Proprietor said the Provincial Bank 2) As to . the Provincial Bank he would take the liberty , )t saying that the shares of that Bank had been at a much .! greater discount than theirs were at present. Since then,. however, the confidence of the public had increased, 'and the shares of that Bank had risen to a premium.. ; —(llear,. hear.) But the Provincial was certainly at a much lor,-,irr price than their o wn a t one period. He believed. ii to be an exceedingly well-managed ' concern, and one which was calculated to be productive of great utility to the shareholders and the public. There was no kind of unworthy rivalry between the Provincial Bank and themselves—the more Iprosperous it was the ,mor the National Bank would be benefited, and with regard to the suggestions that had just been made, he was - pure it would be the duty of the Board to adopt and carry them out to their fullest extent. It might be that rumour had got abroad that there was not perfect üba nirnity among the Directors—if such was the ease 'he was happy to have that opportunity of stating, that there never was a 'body of gentlemen who acted in such perfect unanimity with each other.—(Hear, hear.) He did nut believe tyre was a possibility of any circum stance arising to disturb that harmony,*and he could assure the meeting that they had. but one object in view—namely, to advance the interests of those with_ whose property they were entrusted.—(Cheers.) The question fur the confirmation of the appointment of the five Directors, viz., Edmund Francis Green, Esq., Samuel Philip Rickman, Esq., James Reade, Esq., John Harman, Esq., and Adolphus Pugh Johnson, Esq., was then put to the meeting seriatim, and unanimously agreed to. . The GOVERNOR then intimated that all the business.. had been gone through. JANES LOWE 'WHEELER, Esq., said it would be highly _ improper in them to separate without expressing their obligations to the Board of Directors for the manner in. which the business of the Company had been conducted, He should ‘herefore move that the best thanks of the meeting be given to the Governor and the Board of Di rectors, for their zeal and ability in the management of the atlitirs of the Company.---(Cheers.) The motion having been seconded by another PRO PRIETOR, was carried with acclamation. The GOVERNC it said the Director and hiniself were very sensible of the mark of their kindness and confi dence that had just been given, and he trusted. they would deserve a cor',.;nuance of it by a zealous attention to the interests of the concern. The meeting then separated ; all tho Proprietors ap pearing to be highly satisfied with the proceedings ot the day. DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS. THE HAGUE, Mn 21.—The French frigate Bella Poule, commanded by his Royal Highness Prince Join ville, accompanied by the Ward brig, arrived in the. Helder on the 21st of this month. On his arrival Iris Royal Highness was saluted by the men-of-war in the. roads—the Belle Poule, as usual, returned the salute.. His Excellency Baron de Bois Le Comte, . the French Minister at our Court, and the Consul-General of Franca at Amsterdam, received the Prince on his landing. We find in the Harulelsblad that his Royal Highness, accompanied by the Governor of North Holland_, arrived yesterday morning early at Haerlem, and, having visited the gallery of pictures in the Pavilion, set out at eight o'clock for Amsterdam, where he arrived an hour after wards. - A letter from Maastricht of the 19th of this month, says, " The MeMbers of the Commission for determining the frontiers between Holland and Belgium have been again assembled here kr some days past, to continue and conclude their operations. We are as sured that the boundary line between Luxemburg and Limburg is entirely settled, and that there remains to determine that between Flanders and Zealand, on which point the negotiations appear to be very far arrvanced.. On the 22d of this month the Xing gave an audience SO Monsignor Cappacini, Ambassador • Extraordinaiy from the See of Rome, who had the honour of deliVermg lid. credentials. In the sitting of the second Chamber of the States. General, on Saturday, the 22d, a Royal message was re- . eeived, accomp an yi ng t h e new draft of the project of law, relative to expropri a ti o n for the public benefit. • ST. PETERSUMIGH, May 13.—The Mosecire Gazette gives an account of an affecting scene which•thek place by the clergy, and many other persons on the 28th of last month. The Governor, ficie'oanaiptannnioccln debt, who were there assembled, to all free, his, to the common apartment of the pe o r p l s r in n s e n e i e b n e fi r ne n d f 4 f o s r , .. distin . gi:ish and announced to them that they ht ly fi er t e_ to. tAhleajehsatpypythedaEymnpfehriosrsehna,lsiningatmhoaugge, by di . s . ....h . argin all. tAinin,;::as.ha'javde°l'l; lber'sholfptshehad All of them, deeply affected by to Imperial celebrate f aln t i h l Is. their debts, which amounted tothis e t o , f o a n imploreer: i N w c . et r hnet r o i u m b me... les diately to the chapel of the prison o_ thelm , bless ingsand o f Heaven immediately homes. happy day at their own _ Prince Butera, the Sic ili art PETERSBURGH, MAY 14. hinunelpewninek, the Netherlands! Ambassador, Baron Se Marquis of Cl ' annearde the British; tl f t th ile e rn ni rn e r in ds be r r e t , t , ilf-ned Ambassador, and the who are going to leave their posts for mane edat ror?s n tad th t! 1 W -311 t l c rriv their final audiences of the Emperor intt Imperial family. the other mem • . by the arrival of seven English ship% of May fifty-one . . from Pernan that the navigation was opened there learn in ballast. On the sth of May the number of arriva was fifteen. DUTCII FUNDS.—A on the Ist of May 1 18T1111DAII, Mar 54 4ctual Debt, Si% Money per Cent ...... •atei .fittis. te di t to, ditty 5 per cent. Arnett Scndic,•l% percent .... ..... ..... p.% • ''9l Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent . 7i k 74% Commercial Company, 4)4 per cent lO5 1651 s Ditto (MIS and 1b37) 5 per cent. ..... - Loan 1837, 5 per cent. Exchange on LondoN, One month ..... Two months Dutch Papers, May 24. • BELGIAN k U NDS—.3III/11811LII, MAY 25. Actual Debt, 5% per Cent. ........... ...... 53 % Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Ccnt ..... 1035. Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. — ....... CS -2 per Cent. ..... .. 70% Thirty.tovei 40) ••••••••••• ICC% Loan of City, 11.12, 4 81% Society of Cowrree, )00 /lank of liclinum, 5 par 73% National Seciet y • Exchange on Lyndon (short ) --Brussels Fapers, May 25. AUS'Ir.IAN rums.—vianiss, May IS Three F"eie For r per Cents. Cents. ....... ...... ... . 11(n -• , 5 ; ; , 14 5hara...............».....«.............. 1617 Metallicucs 21 is:x.....enseihritugsiedum.osssrinenhieumA:se:;Fsoopni:grNt.hculkereisia.:et_y..m2l3.2o.a.n:::.: .... . IB6o4o ii:laits.▪ Money.ils4 Prussian Enghsh Loan, IS3O, 4 pet cen t . I 101 ...grunion Ctate Gazate, Nay - • • EIGg , 00 00 00 00