The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-28 00:00:00

MORNINti BDITION THE LEVANT MAIL. The French Government steamer Mentor, arrived at Marseilles on the 21st inst., has brought the Levant mail. The dates from Constantinople are of the 7th inst., Alexandria the 6th, Smyrna the sth, Ctindia the 3d, Athens the 10th, and Maita the 15th. TURKEY. CoNSTANTINOPLE, MAY 7.—The Consuls of the European Powers who were about to proceed to Alexandria, and is tioe departure, indeed, should have taken place last Wedtiesday, a Russien steamer having been provided for them, have, in con sequence of instructions just received by Mon. Lauren, the Austrian Consul, from Prince Metternich, been detained for an indefinite period at .Constantinople. The reasons that have oc curred for this delay are not very well known. It is generally thought that the FourPow.ers will again Interfere to settle the relations between the Sultan and his vassal, while some assert that Prince Metternich has issued these ortlers on having discovered that Mehemet Ali had been chit fly in strumental in exciting the present troubles in Houmelia. But an examination of dates renders this supposition highly improbable. The Porte, in the meanwhile, has begun once more to conceive the most flattering hopes. It requires • little to raise or depress the spirits of a Government so weak ,and ignorant as this to the most extravagant pitch. At this moment, forgetful apparently of the dangers and disorders reigning on every side of them, they talk of nothing less than another expedition against Mehemet Ali, whom they are now of oeinion they could rope with single-handed when they please. It is but fair to add, however, that their presumption receives abundant encotungentent from the desperate counsels of Euro pean advisers, both military and diplomatic. Their only ra. tional hope of success in attacking Egypt must he in the revolt of the inhabitants—a contingency, 1 should think, by no means to be depended upon. These projects, alter all, are at present but in embryo, and quite extra-official, since, in the following note recently addressed to the Ambassadors of the four Powers, in reply to that by which they leave the arrangement of details in the settlement of the Egyptian questien to the Sultan, his Hi,ghne7s, in a similar spirit of unboundedconfidence and dis in,erestedness. again refers the matter to the wisdom of his allies. The following is the note in question:— .' His Highness the Sultan, taking into consideration the friendly counsel which has again been given to him by the high allied Courts, has been pleased to grant a new favour to Mehemet Ali Pacha, in condescending to grant to him, ac cording to his last request, the concessions hereafter indicated, on condition, however,. that he shall religiously observe all the conventions and treaties which have been concluded, or may be concluded hereafter, between the Sublime Porte and the friendly Powers. Thus the hereditary Government of Egypt shall be transmitted to the sons and male descendants of the Pacha, but In such a way that the oldest of them shall always succeed to the post of Governor, and receive his investiture from the Sublime Voile whenever the post shall become vacant. The Sultan re nounces the intention of taking a -quarter of the revenues of . Egypt, and the tribute to be paid shall be ulteriorly fixed and regulated, both as to the amount and the mode of collection, according to the actual revenues of the province. As re gards the nominations to the different ranks of the army of Egypt, Mehemet Ali Pacha is authorised to confer them him self up to the rank of colonel. For all others he is first to have the approbation of the Porte. With respect to the internal system of government to be adopted in Egypt, as in el the other countries of the Ottoman Ernp!re, as Mehemet Ali Pacha in his above-mentiened application does not appear disposed to . adopt it frankly, and as this point has already been decided upon in the separate act of the treaty of the alliance,lin order that the Allied Poeeis may have no cause of complaint against the Sublime Porte, in the event of Mehemet Ali proceeding even tually to acts contrary to an essential point founded on that treaty, the Ministers of the Sublime Porte' have considered it very important in this state of things to require at once precise der:Orations and explanations on this subject. and it is for the purpose of requesting your Excellency to give them on your part in writing that this memorandum is addre-sed to you." Another nose was yesterday presented to the Ministers of Foreign Powers, informing them cf the suppression of the disturbances on the frontiers of Servia. Particulars of what had taken place in that quarter had already reached us with the Austrian mail from Nrienna, which, with that of the pre ceding week, arrived here under strong military escort three days ago. Osman Pacha of Nissa had taken prompt and vigo rous rneeures—attaeked, sacked, and destroyed four villages of the insurgent Bulgarians, three hundred of whose heads ale now hoisted in terrorem round the walls of Nissa, and whose waves and children have been soli into slavery. Such is the Mussuiman law ; and it has in this instance been rigo rously enforced. Self. preservatien peremptorily dictates (though it may, perhaps, not justify) these horrors to the Turks. Their nurnbeis are comparatively so few in the Pro vinces of European Turkey that were the Raya population once to throw off their authority they would run a fair chance of being massacred to a man. About six thousand Bulgarians have taken refuge in Servia, and are said to be at Alexanitza. Much anarchy - still pretails in Albania, and throughout the provinces to the south' of Turkey in Europe, the ancient Ma c'edonia, Thsssaly, and Epirus. Some important charges have been resolved upon in the ju dicial and financial administration, as established by the tanzimat kisairie, or the hatti scheriff of Gulhane. The local and municipal councils are summarily abolished, and the mou hassils, or tax-collectors, will be everywhere withdrawn. A eiegle ilettar-dar, or treasurer, will act in concert with the Pacha of each ei•trict f.r the future collection of the revenue. As s a temporary expedient the Government has determined on a fresh issue of paper money, about one hundred thousand pouring, or ten millions of piastres. The dangerous facility by which worm• can be thus obtained seems pregnant with future disaster to the empire. A new teviljeliale.or list of appointment#, has mule its ap pearance this week. The friends of lieschid have been com • pelted to make room for the new Ministry. The appointments are ten in number, three of them to the most considerable Vaclialies of the empire, Aidin, Angora, and Khodavenkiar. The last of them, including the rich district of Broussa, has been reserved for himself by Riza Pacha. He will govern it by deputy; adding the emoluments of the office to those of deerteral of the icmerial Guard and Grand Chamberlain. :rater Pacha was to have left yesterday for Candle in a oe sese er, but is not yet gone The blockading squadron, which has b e et reduced to the number of ships originally intended to go. viz-;, a line-cf battle ship, w- frigate, and sonic corvettes, and having about three thousand troops on beard, set sail a few • dap; a go. A reinforcement of three thousand men will also co-operate witti them from Syria, and it is expected that Tahir Pacha will proceed to act with the utmost severity against the rebels. Yesterday, General Jochmus, Mejor Hermann, and Colonel Becill were presented to the Sultan by Riza Pacha. His • Highness received diem in the most gracious manner, and or dered that they .should be shown the different palaces, and other ' sights about Constantinople. By a courier that arrived from England on Sunday last, Mr. llankhea,!, our Secretary of Embassy here, has received his promotion to the rank of Plenipotentiary. This looks as if Lord Ponsonby were expected to leave. The Oriental Observer contains the following from Con • etantinople of the 7th instant : On the Ist M. Le Comte de Pentois celebrated the fete of J ouis Philippe. A Chamberlain of the Palace, attended by the Dragousan of the Porte, went to compliment the Count on behalf of the -;;;ultan. All the foreign Ambassadors are' chiefs of missions quickly f dlowed, and it was noticed that the reception given to Lor4Ponsonby was most particularly distin guished. In the evennisethe hotel of M. Poutois was illumi nated, and he gave a grand. dinner to the French commercial body ; the evening folowing was dedicated to a second Mimi - Diction and another dinner to such Frenchmen as are not of the enercantile class. The French Ambassador does the honours nobly on such occasions. On the 3 Lord Ponsonby received de snatches from London by a messenger, who, to avoid the disturb.. ail districts, came round by Wiein. Two Vienna posts, whose bearers have not adopted this plan, are in arrest.. The expe dition for Candia has sailed, konsiitiny, we hear, of only five ships of war (the Ilrgest of which is the Nizarniye frigate, . bearing the flag of Tahir Pacha ), and a number of merchant vessels engaged as transpoits for the conveyance of troops. • Tahir Paella., who is still here, will follow in a steamer, and 'Friday next is mentioned as the day fixed for his departure- With respect to the state of affairs in that island, it is well kleown that the Greeks continue to foment discord there. On complaints being made to that effect, the Ministers of King Otho did not even attempt to disprove it, which appears to be pretty conclusive evidence that they are no strangers to the insurrection, more particularly as they cannot deny that they lead full knowledge of the armed boats which de parted openly' from their own ports for the avowed purpose of • exciting the inhabitants of Candia to revolt. The object of thi s mov ement, connected as it is with other disturbances in • - Epirus, Macedonia;. and Thessaly, it is not difficult to com • prehend. On Satue_ay last the fine Austrian steamer Stam boul, on her passage I r N e Constantinople to Trebisande, with passengers, ;stoups, and ca;;‘ . sto, was overtaken by a thick fog, and, being near the coast, it is' supposed she was imperceptibly borne by a current towards the lae'd. lie that as it may, be . lore the danger of her position beeaeee evident, she ran on a rock near Amastra. lieine a boat of s ereat speed. her velo city threw her prow high in the air whilst' the after cabin was in a short time tilled with water. No lie-es Were, we believe, lost. The Metternich, another steamer of the same Company, pae i;og soon after on her way from 'l'rebisonde to Constanti nople, s ouk from the wreck all the passenget s, and on Monday ;the Crescent and Levant steamers also belonging to the con cern, were iie,‘spatched to endeavour to get the Stembuul off. It is hoped she will be saved without serious injnev as she is deservedly a great favourite with the public. Yesiii day wa s the Mevludi - Sclieriff, birth i , i, :ay of the Prophet, and eras celebrated with g reat pomp. .e evening before there was a grand illumination. 'lle Sultan went in state to the Mosque of Sultan Ahmed, which he entered about eleven o'clock, immed.aoily alter which ti.e prayers appropriate to the .occasion were read. The, service continued tad one o'clock, when the procession returned. The weather bring most beau ttetel there was an immense concourse. .All the Pachas Vsap peered in new unifo rmsof the most splendid description.e regret to have to record the death of Colonel Bridgeman, who Was in eorntriand of the British detachment at Beyrout. His lose is m eeh lamented. He will be succeeded, we bear, by Lieutenant-Colonel iielose, an officer of the The greatest cordiality and highest possible premise. m oist complete unity of views exist ria een . Wee B understand that . t iS betw thritish understand cers and the Ottoman coma Ts _ our ro`ficers have, at the des . * of the y Government, undertaken to inseruct the Turkish troops .'n certain branches of military service setth which they were pre, ion.s.ly unacquainted. The za tion. The deaths at medical department also requires mai.' - ex tent ; and upon :a military hospital were lately to a frightfu. et the time it lesquiry as to the cause, no epidemic reigning - o _ so l or was discovered that seven or eight of the doctors cot:uiWhcu read nor write ! It will be remembered that, last year, the Ottoman troops were sent to Syria by sea, the militia 'el Rutahia Cara-Hisar rose against their chiefs soon after quit wing the Dardanelles, and obliged the captains of the transports to put back. The deserters were taken, and the whole have now been tried by the Military Council, which in its sentence against them has divided them into five classes :—One Lieutenant and four rank and file, who according to martial law should have been shot, have been sen tenced to the galleys for life. 2. Forty-two rank and file to the gene; s for life. 3. fifty-nine renk and file five years com mon labour in their barracks. 4. Four hundred and seventy eight rank and file, who ram to receive each 150 stripes, and .he dratted into the troops of the line. 5. One hundred and • Viiirty-stx serge rts, one hundred and thirty-five corporals, end • seeee4 rank and file, who manifosted a determination to desert, lough they had no opportunity of executing their design, ee to toe enrolled in the troops of the line, the sergeants and 0 snrals being reduced to the ranks. Of the officers who were e , --emit, and most of whom fou,tht, 20 who behaved well are to the troops , or the line, retaining their rank ; the, sf ' • eesorat i.e. o f the remainder have been taken from them, and v ett home disgraced , whilst such officers and men as endeavou they *id be 'to o P pole ihe mutiny and were wound e d, are red . r.,,,mpaysed, their an. have . i!ermis•ion to go nome or enter th e re gular at my at 0p!!0n , , , the officers with their former rank, . and the.usen as corpo. 4 ts• RIA. Vie find in the ilfedit`trraneo the following miscellaneous tnevvs front Syria : " The Med ea s t eam -f r igate arrivA on the 13th inst, from licyrout, whence she sailed Ole sth, and from Suda, in Candia, Which place she left the eth instant, bringing from the former despatche s for Lord Palmerston from Col. Rose, now senior British officer there, and from the latter a despatch from the British Consul or his Excellency the Admiral. The Ve suvius was left at Suda, where a T ur kish brig of war was at . anchor. The crew of the Inconstant will be occupied in re :, docing, a; notch as possible, the wreck of the Zebra, at • Caiffa. The Phoenix, steam-frigate, was looked for at Bey : rout, on her return from Alexandria, and two French `:frigates are said to have been seen hovering about the coast /1 of Syria, throughout which unhappy country numerous French political agents, male and female, under the garb of religion, are creating much mischief among the Chris tian population, by making the pe , ple believe that Great Britain is aiming at the posses-ion of Syria in order to convert them to Protestantism. The French steamer Achercin, and a sailing vessel from Alexandria, had landed at Beyrout a numlier of French capuchins and other friars and priests, with a million of francs in specie. The mountaineers are getting trouble some, and in some respects their complaints are not without just cause, for the Paellas of districts, in spite of the hatti scheriff, are oppressing them with taxations and imposts be yond their means. Colonel Rose and Colonel Arbuthnot have matte several remonstrances on the subject to the Pacha of Beyrout. The Governor of Tyre, who has been committing excesses upon Christian women, has been superseded by a Turkish officer, sent from Beyrout. Colonel Alderson is encamped under Mount Carmel, with the British sappers, miners, and a party of artillery. Assistant-Surgeon Acton, left behind from the Hecate steam-frigate, has received orders from the senior naval officer in Syria, Captain Pring, of the Inconstant, to proceed to this encampment, and take charge of any sick there may be. Colonel M'Niven has pro ceeded to Naplouse. The British troops in Syria are generally healthy, and getting fat from want of work. All communi cation with the inhabitants is prohibited, owing to the plague. At Beyrout the town is free from it, but there have been cases all along the coast on the cordon, and within the lazaretto. In the country it is making frightful ravages. At St. Jean d'Acre there are as many as twenty deaths daily • at Cada, from four to six. A nominal quarantine is established, but it is truly ridiculous, for a sheep, turkey, or Spanish dollar, n isl buy up any of the sanita officers. On arrivals from Alexandria, where the plague is very bad indeed, they only impose a qua rantine of fifteen days ! Yellow fever is also prevalent in Egypt to a fearful extent." The Smyrna Papers to the 9th inst. have been received. The subj?inedisfrom the Oriental Observer " On rriday last, whilst employed aloft on the ship's duty, Mr. C. Lloyd, a midshipman of the Daphne, fell from the yard-arm on to the rail of the ship, and thence into the sea. He was taken up immediately by a sailor who jumped after him, when his skull was found to be dreadfully fractured, and death terminated his sufferings in about an hour. This is the second fatal accident which has happened on board this vessel during the short period that she has been on station in our roads. On the Ist, the birth-day of his .""Majesty the King of the French was celebrated in this city. At 8, A.m., the French brig Alcibiade and the Austrian division under Admi ral Bandiera, fired twenty•one guns, and were, with the English corvette Daphne, decked out in all their colours. At neon the salute was repeated, the Daphne also joining, and at sun-set a similar ceremony was performed by the Alcibiade. M. Devoise, French Consul here pro tem., united at his hotel the different employes and the mer cantile community, whence they proceeded to the parish church to celebrate mass in honour of the occasion. In the evening a dinner was given at the Consular hotel to a select party of invited guests. Her Britannic Majesty's corvette Dido arrived here from Candia on the 3d, after a delightful passage of only three days. The news she brings is unfavour able to the tranquillity of that island. No engagement had, however, as yet taken place. The Daphne sailed on the sth for Malta, to join the Admiral, having been relieved here by the Dido. The Hazard, which was appointed to this station, has proceeded to Malta to repair." } UYPT. ALEXANDRIA, Mar 6.—The plague at Alexandria has rather increased ; the rep'rt reaches to twenty-six cases a day. A good deal of excitement has been created by two or three Flank inhabitants having been carried off by the plague. They were eminent quarantine people ; and one of them was quite an authority on that subject. _ _ A man who accompa - nied a party of passengers from Cairo was taken unwell on the Nile, but continued with them till they were embarked, and actually carried a child to the boat at the embarkation. lie died of plague in the European hos pital next day. One sailor died on board. ship in the har bour, which alaomed the shippers, and about a dozen suspected cases have been sent to the hospital, where there have been also some real cases. The European hospital has the advan tage of an English surgeon of ability. Those passengers who arrived in Alexandria too late for the Liverpool are waiting for the Oriental, the French steamers refusing to take them. Mehemet Ali is preparing another State paper, of which Aluhib Said Effendi (the Tuikish Envoy) is to be the b,arer, ostensibly declaring his entire submission, and (it is believed) with the private aim of di iving as hard a bargain as possible respecting the amount of the tribute, and the appointment of his own administrators of finance, commerce, agriculture, &c. He visited the Gorgon steamer on the Ist inst. at ten minutes' notice (on washing Saturday too), as if he wished to take the English at the greatest disadvantage ; but though he selected washing-day, and followed his messenger so quickly that the officers had not time to dress to receive him, he found ad ready in the way of work, and put them through tileir exercise without much ceremony. He would not btlieve that they could fire their 32-pounders thrice a minute until he stood by and noted it. The 10-inch paixhans were also fired with hollow shot a id shell, and the crew put through every evolution in his presence, and a crowd of Turk ish and French officers whom he brought to " see what the English could do." He was very sparing in his encomiums, as if determined to proceed on the system of nil admirari, but on entering the Captain's cabin he could not forbear ex claiming, " Ha, these Enj.lish Captains have always books on their shelies ; mine have only pipes ! " The next morning he inspected the Pharos and principal forts, in company with Galise Bey and a numerous retinue, amidst salutes of artillery to notify the honour. 1,000 men are employed in adding to the fortifications at Marabout on the west of Alexandria, and crowds of soldiers and labourers are daily occupied in raising stones, even at the expense of the catacombs. The plague varies in its attacks from 10 to 26 cases per day, and from five to 15 deaths. Last month 174 persons; were at tacked and carried to the hospital ; '220 others have died before they could be carried thither. Amongst the latter were four Europeans--amongst the former, eight. The Pacha has put his fleet in strict quarantine to-day, and issued orders that the arsenal and all his public establishments shall follow the ex ample. The physician of the Pope's gun-boats had died of plague at Rosetta, and 20 officers are ill there. To-day, not ,ithstanding, he had a sale of cotton of 10,000 cantars at an average of $l4 1-10 per cantar. Amongst the late arrivals Sir Willoughby Cotton and Sir David Wilkie have been presented to the Pacha, and the latter has been invited to take his portrait. The last news from Candia, brought by the French brig-of war Bougainville, and which came up to the 2d, showed the insurgents to be gaining ground. They had formed a Provi si..nal Government, and had chosen an administrative body from am ng Deputies of the people. MALTA. MALTA, MAY Is.—Some of the line-of-battle ships at Malta are preparing fur a cruise, but the public is uninformed as to their destination. On Tuesday evening last the Rear-Admirals, Captains, and officers of the fleet gave a farewell ball to Admiral Stopford, which was very splendid. Some appropriate addresses xere delivered after supper. The Admiral is expected to leave for Corfu on Tuesday next. The Stromboli leaves to-morrow morning for the coast of Syria. The Alecto leaves on Monday fur Gibraltar, with the mails for that place and England ; and the Prometheus for the lonian Islands and Greece tomorrow, with the mails, in lieu of the City of Dublin, which arrived thence thirmorning, and is again in want of repairs. The Medea steam-frigate arrived on the 13th instant from Beyrout, whence she sailed the sth, and from Suda, in Candia, which place she left on the Ath instant, bringing from the former despatches for Lord Palmerston, from Colonel Rose•now senior British officer there; and from the latter a despatch from the British Consul for his Excellency the Admiral. INDIA MAILS.—The Prometheus steam-packet arrived in port on the 12th inst., at six a.m., in seventy hours from Mar seilles, with the London mails of the 4th inst., which reached Malta in seven days and nine hours. The Oriental steamer arrived on the 13th inst. at eight a.m., with the London mails, via Falmouth, of the 30th ult. She proceeded with both mails to Alexandria yesterday, at two P.M. The Oriental has brought out afloating omnibus, 105 feet long, for the purpose of conveying the mails and passengers on the Mahmoudie Canal, between Alexandria and the Nile, where they will be transferred to the Lotus iron steamer. The next mail from India was to be despatched from Bombay to Suez on the Ist ins:., and on its arrival here the Acheron will proceed to Mar seilles with the boxes addressed by this route. ARRIVALS OF SHIPS OF WAR AND PACKETS.--March 7, French Government steamer Mentor, Lieut. Le Goff, from Marseilles, in six days ; Leghorn, four; Civitavecchia, th ree ; Naples. two. 12, her Majesty's steam-packet Prometh eus , Lieut. T. Spark, from Marseilles, in three days ; 12, British pleasure cutter Spree, W. Mushett, Esq., from Catania, in two days; 13, her Majesty's steamer Medea, Fred. Warder, Esq., from Beyrout, in eight days; Soda, five ; 13, the Ori ental and Peninsular Company's steamer Oriental, John Soy. commander, from Falmouth, May 2 ; Gibraltar 8 ; Neapoli tan steamer Il Vesuvio, Captain R. Caffiero, from Naples, in six days; Paola and Tropea, five; Messina, three ; Catania, t wo , Syracuse, one; French Government steamer Seaman dre, Lieut. P. Dupares, from Constantinople, ill seven days ; Smyrna, five ; Syra, three ; the Oriental and Peninsular Company's steamer City of Dublin, Captain W. E. Evans. from Corfu, in eight days; Patras and Zante, two; 14, the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Oriental, J. Soy, Commander, for Alexandria. DEPARTURE OF SHIPS OF WAR AND PACKETS.—Mareh 5, her Majesty's ship Thunderer, Captain the Hon. M. F. F. Berkeley, C.B. : Tunisian Government schooner Demfir, Captain A. Danciati, for Tunis ; 6, French Government steamer Dante, Lieut. F. Pouchett, for Italy and Marseilles ; 8, French Government steamer Seiostris, Lieut. P. Cosnier, for the Levant. IN Poar.—Princess Charlotte, 120 (bearing the flag of Admiral Sir R. St opford, G. C, B. , G. C. NI. G. ) ; .Ceylon, 6 (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir J. Louis, Bart.); Bri tannia, 120 (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir J. Om maney, K.C.8.) ; Howe, 120 ; Powerful, 2i6 ; Benbow, 72; Vanguard, 80; Revenge, 78; Calcutta, 84; Cambridge, 78; Rodney, 92 ; Castor, 36 ; Tyne, 26 ; Hazard, 18 ; steam frigates Cyclops, Medea, Hecate, Hydra, and Stromboli ; steamers. Confiance and Locust; steam_packets Prometheus, Alecto, and Acheron; French steam-packets Mentor, Ly eurge, and Scamander ; Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-packet City of Dublin ; Neapolitan steam-packet Vesuvius. An incitiest FELO-DE-SE, AT TWINSTED. hieesd ?n e :t ea h ag e s m ed o sB -: s was held on Friday last, at the parish of j o w r insted, before Wm. Codd, Esq., on the body of William William Harrington stated that about four o ' clock i n ,' of the 18th instant, he was awoke by ti.' immediately got up, and went to the deceased°in'nr wo r nan, , nroceeding from the deceased's premise e Z a ad n j (1 , a into the garden found t t l a boubgeh. released lumtr , ee b . y re W m i o th vin th g e t a b s:. his own ; house, and on g: i ag. from his neck ; but he was pended by the neck t: n den ,:ased many years, and had sistance of Daniel Flowers line, by which he was stispennC: i. quite dead. Witness had know seen him the day before, when he appearej to be quite right in his mind. Daniel Flowers deposed to the same egect , as to the finding of the deceased, and as to his state of m.!id. Susan Horsley, widow of the deceased, stated that het late husband appeared to her to be out of spirits. on Sun day, the 16th, and on 11onday, the 17th ; but slept well on both nights. She could give no other reason for his depression of spirits but that of being very poor, having only 9s. a week to support their family. Witness never knew him deranged in his mind, or ever heard that any of his family were so. The deceased was called early in the morning of the 18th by a young man named John Harrington, and answered his call; they were going to work together, about four miles off. Har rington went away ; deceased not following him, but continuing in the room down stairs. Witness went I!.wn and missed him, and going into the garden discovered him hanging as before described. Verdict, " Felo-de-se ;" and the Coroner issued his warrant for the interment of the body in the church yard, between the hours o' nine and twelve o'clock at night, as directed by the statute.--Esser Herald. BRUSSELS, MAY 23.—His Majesty by a de cree of the 21st of May, grants the sum of 4,000 francs a-year to Mr: J. J. Linden, a Belgian Botanist for the time, which he will employ in the scientific expedition which he intends to take in the equinoctial regions of the new world, and especially in Columbia ; the duration of the grant is limited to three years. Mr. Linden is to send to the Government collections of speci mens of natural history, which he may have collected, to the - value of at least two-thirds of the sum which he shall have re ceived. In the month after his return, he is to make a report which will be published in the Moniteur. • 1111 P, SUN, LONDON, F' R/ MI A PIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. CHRONICLE.—The motion of Sir Robert Peel, to be proposed this evening, is distinguished by the peculiarity of assuming the facts ors which it professes to be founded. Those facts are yet in futurity. Of the " measures which tney deem of essential importance to the public welfare," and which, it is affirmed, they " do not sufficiently possess the confidence of the House of Commons to enable them to carry through that House," only one has yet been the subject of debate and division. That one is by no means the most important. It was also one which involved an extraneous principle, which took the decision out of the common course. Whether introduced fairly or un - fairly, honourably or factiously, sincerely or hypocritically. the anti-slavery principle still was introduced into the deba . e on the sugar duties, and brought to bear upon the division. A defeat of this kind has never, of itself, been held to warrant a Miniaterial resignation. Not for an instant can it be paralleled with the refusal of the income tax to the Castlereagh Administration ; or with the defeat of Sir Robert Peel on the election of the Speaker in 1835. In fact, it is reverse over which the ground has already closed. Ministers acquiesced for the time. Instead of resigning they called fur the annual renewal of the existing sugar duties; and they ' were ostentatiously supported, in so doing, by Sir Robert Peel. In seconding the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked for those duties, the Opposition leader cut off his own means ' of retreat ispon the ground which he nos endeavours to oc ' copy. He cannot after that plead the previous division for hi present purpose. He has barred himself out of the sugar shop. And what remains? Why, that he thinks Ministers will be beaten on the timber duties -he thinks they wi 1 be beaten on the amended tariff—and he thinks they will be beaten on the revision of the Corn-laws. Such prognostications may be correct, in whole or in part ; but as yet they are only prognostications. Not even the prog nostications of Sir Robert Peel are entitled to be taken as facts, and to be made the basis of legislative censure and go vernmental changes. Decency required that he should wait the event. At least, let the facts happen first. Let the minis terial measures be actually rejected by the House, and not re jected merely in Tory anticipation. The secret of this preci pitancy is not hard to discover. The confederated Monopolists dread discussion. We may be told that they know they can outvote their opponents ; plainly they also know that they can not outargue their opponents. The exposure must, if possible, be averted. And a violent dread of it must be that which re sorts to so extraordinary a process ss that of proposine to re solve that Ministers have been defeated upon measures which they have not yet proposed. TIM E S.—Among the falsehoods and misrepresentations with which the Government prints attempt to disguise the wicked ness of the coup d'etat which Ministers are endeavouring to perpetrate, none is more barefaced than the assertion that they are acting in a manner warranted by constitutional precedents. The period of history to which they have the boldness to appeal is the year 1783 ; and the person in whose steps the disciples of Fox and Erskine now pretend to be treading is William Pitt. We might pause, if we were so disposed, to admire the singularity of this very novel situation • we might quote from the speeches of the great oracle of the Whig party, delivered during the progress of that remarkable strug gle to which reference is made. expressions far trans cending in severity any censure to which we have given utterance against Lord Melbourne's conduct. Mr. Fox denounced the course then pursued by Mr. Pitt as subversive of liberty, as rash, desperate, and dangerous ; and even went so far as openly to threaten him with impeachment. If, there fore, the present Ministers were really following the ex ample of their illustrious 'fory predecessor, they would be doing what their party have never hesitated to condemn in others, and what upon their own principles it would be impos ' sible to defend. But we waive all ad hominy)+, arguments ;we are as little disposed under existing circumstances, to press the point of inconsistency or mere poli.isal dishonour against Lord John Russell and his colleagues, as we should be to urge a charge of petty larceny against a convicted murderer. We are contented to give them the full benefit of Mr. Pitt's precedents, as much as if they had never protested against them ; we are perfectly prepared to acquit them of doing violence to the Constitution now, if they can prove that the events of 1783 furnish any parallel to their conduct. In 1783, upon the defeat of Mr. Fox's India Bill in the House of Lords, the King dismissed the Coalition Mi nistry of fur. Fox and Lord North, and called Mr. Pitt to his councils. The House of Commons then sitting, which sup ported the coalition by a decisive majority, had been elected in 1780, while Lord North was Minister, and from the first de clared against Mr. Pitt, without giving him a trial, or having had any experience of his policy. Here, then, is at the out set a broad distinction between the two eases. The pretent House of Commons was called together by Lord Melbourne's own Government, and after supporting him for the space of four years, has at length been moved by the accumulated mis• deeds of his Administration to pronounce it unworthy of any flu ther confidence. Mr. Pitt came into office tinder cir cumstances which made a dissolution of the Parliament, known to be unfriendly to him, an absolute sine qua non; and accordingly he dissolved it, calculating upon a decisive majority in his favour in the new House of Commons, and having no object in view except to carry on the King's Government conformably to the principles of the Constitution. The event proved the accuracy of his calculation ; and the people by an immense majcrity of their representatives ratified the choice of the. Crown. Lord Mslbourne, like Mr. Pitt, is placed in a position in which it is necessary for him either to resign or to dissolve ; but if he di solvs, it will not be fur the purpose of enabling him to carry on the Government of the country, or with the slightest expectation of such a result, but with a design of unpara:leled audacity and wickedness—that of embarrassing his successors, and converting the Queen's pre rogative into an instrument of opposition to her Government. There is not a man in England who sloes not know that a ge neral election will diminish, instead of increasing, the num ber of the supporters of the present Ministers in Parliament. POST.—The Ministerialists seem to be fairly beaten out of the assumption that the House of Commons places confidence in the present Government. They boasted of it long enough after the division which showed that, inclusive of the O'Con nell Members, there was a majority of twenty again t a decla ration of want of confidence. That division, which took place sixteen months ago, and not four months, (as a Government newspaper has the effrontery to affirm), was for a long time the theme of their self-gratulation. It served their purpose for the time. But it is now discovered that the House of Com mons has had enough of additional experience to make it alter its opinion of these Ministers. The O'Connell Members will indeed vote as they did, their political stomachs not being very nice, so long as the hope of patronage remains But the Bri tish majority which always existed against the present Mi nistry in the House of Commons, as well as the House of Lords, is now understood to be so much increased that it will exceed the combined force of British Whig- Radicalism and Irish Radical Romanism. The Ali- Disterialists have lost all hope of obtaining, either negatively or positively, a declaration of confidence from the present House of Commons. For this reason they modestly affirm that such a vote is of no manner of consequence. Much as they thought of it when they could get it, they are now so philosophical as to think it of no value, because they cannot get it. They have the coolness to affirm that Ministers may con tinue in office all the same though they have not the confidence of either House of Parliament! This is the " constitutional Whiggery" of 1841. This is the doctrine of constitutional law and policy at which Whig-Radicals have arrived, in the tenth year of a representative system invented and carried into effect by themselves! The confidence of the House, they say, may be one thing, and that of the nation atother ; because it may he, they assume that it is. Because they are beaten in both Houses of Parliament s they take it for grsnted that they may remain in office upon the assumption that the nation is in their favour. This is a strange sort olconstitutional doctrine. HERALD.—The Ministerial press have been labouring heavily during the present crisis to persuade the country that the Whig Government are fighting the battle of the public at large against class interests. There is something very ludi crous in this. Every whole must be made up of its constituent parts; and, when every clas', with the exception of one or two, cry out against a Government scheme, their cry ought surely to be recognised as a decisive preponderance of public opinion. With the exception of the manufacturing capitalists and the Brazilian traffickers at Liverpool, every branch of the community is alarmed and indignant. Of the latter class, we may observe, en passant, that they have recorded their own condemnation in the evidence which they supplied to the im port duties committee. They have there stated that they have cargoes of Brazil sugar at Liverpool in bond actually spoiling because they cannot introduce it into the market at a profit. It is no wonder that the Government scheme has agitated and ani mated them. The proposed reduction of duty upon Brazil sugar would instanter put 275. into their pockets for every hundred weight of their present unsaleable stock. And this accounts for the repeated meetings at Liverpool. Mammon, all the world over, is an indefatigable " agitator." But let us consi der for a moment the extent and importance of the manufac turing capitalists and Brazilian merchants. How is the wel fare of the people bound up , with them ? It is not only their boast, but their practice, that their capital owes no allegiance to their father-land. They have, by acting upon this selfish principle, created an almost incalculable amount of human mi sery. We are told daily, as an argument is favour of the Whig commercial Reform, of the dreadful distress amongst our manufacturing population. " The Lancashire weavers," says one of the Whig apologists last night, " being divided into different classes, the wages obtained by those in employ ment vary from 6s. to 12s. per week for.firteen hours' labour a day. They are compelled to huddle together, two or three families in a wretched garret, or a dark and comfortless cellar. They are nearly destitute of fuel and clothes ; their bedding consists of sacks filled with straw or shavings; their food is at once deficient in quan tity, and consists of the coarest and least nutritive kind." A Catholic priest at Manchester, the other day (Mr. Hearne), gave a still more appalling account. He stated that his flock amounted to twenty thousand, and that more than one -half of those to whom he administered extreme unction died of star vation. " Talk of the ravages of war l" exclaiiiied this pious gentleman, " it would be better to die by the sword than by famine." But what has caused this periodical infliction of human wretchedness ? Mammon. While the foreign markets give a profit, our manufacturing capitalists seduce the working classes into their districts, and the moment that the foreign markets are discovered to be so glutted by their too eager speculation, they leave the working classes to starve. With a cold, calculating policy, they suspend the wo r king of a fellow creature as they do that of an insensate machine. GLOBE.—The Times takes the very unnecessary trouble of trying to prove that the parallel which we drew 'between the measures of Pitt's government for the defeat of the Fox and North Coalition, and those now expected--does not run on all fours. The fact is, no such strong and questionable course is contem plated as that of the Tory King of those days, and the Tory Saint, or idol, of his choice. No such dag gers are as yet drawn between the Crown and the faithful Commons. It is now no question of turning out Ministers in whom the House of Commons had confidence for a young and untried Minister in whom it had none. It is no question of bringing the will of the Monarch (rather extra-constitutionally) to bear, in the Lords, on measures which had been passed by the Commons. The question is, whether Ministers in whom the House had confidence last year,—in whom the House opened the present session with very sufficient confidence, and very sutli cieat reasons for it, in the results of their policy in the interim--the question is, whether those Minister have not . that confideuce—and if not, l ey not - Tho votes on the Irish Bills afforded no demon strati( rt of d, transfer of the confidence of the Howie of Common. ,ninon the Whig to the Tory party ; and the result was Klber a drawn battle between par ties than anything else. Whig; voted in Tory ranks, and Tories assented to Whig speeches: 11(.4er is the San don vote a sufficient reason for resignation. TILT? too, the Tories were enabled to borrow a strength whic h was not their own,. Ministers have a right to place the ensemble of their mea544,9,1 before Parliament, and to make it clear whether it is for onv i pi for all of them, , that they are said to have lost the confiden44: f the House of Corung.us, The Sovereign also has a right 'to 4 .4, - pr the grounds pg. ythich that confidence is withdrawn — if withdrawn it has bobs - because that knowledge m ust guide the choice of fiituFe cm.m t elllors. Finally, the Crown has a right to exercise its procugoly9 of appeal to the country by a dissolution, if the " want accAA fidence " of the House of Commons is founded on rea sons of the justice of which the Royal mind may not be satisfied without a constitutional reference to the sense of the nation. The whole question as to the propriety of a dissolution depends on the question as to the pro priety, and necessity, of the measures on which Ministers are to go to the country. If those measures are proper and necessary, and if their authors are prepared to prove them so, what constitutional objection can there be to com pleting the detnonstration,and then enabling the constituent body to affirm or reject their views ? Is there any person who believes these measures really important, and who does not believe they will be forwarded by the course which is taken by Ministers ? Is it the friends or the enemies of these measures who complain of that course ? If the friends, then we will acknoWledge the justice of all that is urged by their enemies. If the enemies, then we will only say that we never expected their sanction ; and that if Ministers had received it, there would be a strong presumption they had gone wrong. STANDARD.—We deny that there is any unwilling ness on the part of Sir Robert Peel or the Conservatives to meet a discussion of the - Corn-laws, though, for the ex cellent reasons assigned by Lord Melbourne in the pre fixed passage, they might not choose to provoke one. It is very stupid, however, to surmise of Sir Robert Pe, 1 and his friends that they have an, expectation of evadlng the threatened discussion. They well know that, what ever may be the fate bf Sir Robert Peel's motion, the ene mies of the public tranquillity will have both the power and the will to move the subject of the Corn-laws, and with just the same, effect, whether they occupy seats on the right hand or •on the left of the Speaker. If, in deed, the Conservatives had the power to prevent a discussion, the effect of which must be, as Lord Mel bourne says, to cause " a most violent struggle," to " stir society to its foundations, leaving behind every sort of bit terness and animosity," " to convulse society to its centre," "to excite man against man," " leaving behind the deepest feelings of discord and animosity," &c. &c. &c.—if, we say, the Conservatives possessed the power to stay this deluge of social evil, it would, no doubt, be their duty to exercise that power; but they have it not, and the utmost that they can hope to do is to limit the opportunities of those by whom the pest is let loose, for doing which the conduct and circumstances of the criminals, in matters not connected with the Corn laws, supplies the proper occasion. The Morning Chronicle, we are pleased to see, anticipates that the nisters will be defeated on this night's motion :—" We do not mean to say that we think the monopolists cannot muster a majority. We expect they will. They are not amoagst the most helpless classes of her Majesty's subjects. No Ministry has ever yet been encountered by so - formidable a conspiracy of sinister interests." The sinister interests are the landed interest, the colonial in terest, the shipping interest, the anti-slavery interest and—why should we suppress an interest once of some consideration in England ? the Protestant interest. Against these Ministers choose Co array their force of money-jobbers, millowners, and Romanists ; but this does not fix the character of conspiracy -upon the combined English and Protestant interests. This, however, by the way. COURIER—A weak and incoherent attempt has been made by the Ministerial papers to justify the tenacious re tention pf office by their patrons, in despite of the pubic opprobrium. in which held, by an assimilation of their po sition with that of the illustrious Pitt, in his memorable struggle 'against the disgraceful coalition of Mr. Fox and Lord North in 1783. We should be little inclined to meddle with this wretched juggle of distorted facts and per verted reasoning, which otherwise in more parti cular detail has been successively and conclusively dis . - posed of by our. .contemporaries of the Standard, the Herald, and the Times, but that we have reason to believe Ministers have had the audacity to impo3e this mendacious parallel, dressed up in specious form, upon . their Royal Mistress, as their justification for retaining office against the declared inclinations and without the confidence of the people, and, moreover, by way of in direct, but well understood, exhortation, that they shoWd be regarded as victims of devotion to the royal will, whom, under similar circiunstances, her Majesty's august grandfather, George 111., of glorious memory, would have upheld with 'unflinching firmness aganist the voice and the condemnation of Parliament. However for the time, these daring misrepresentations of history may be successful, we cannot doubt that the truth must ulti mately, prevail when that illustrious lady, mistrusting the honesty of councillors by whom both royalty and j the country have been so often and disgracefully misled and betrayed, shall apply the energies of her own Royal mind to the study of those exemplary passages in the reign of her noble grandfather. She will then find that an unprincipled faction, in one House of Parlia ment only, had coalesced to cripple the Royal preroga tive and to deprive the Monarch of the faculty of se lecting his own servants ; that the people at large were more indignant and decisive still in reproba tion of the nefarious project , and conspiracy than their betrayed . Sovereign ; that they earnestly and re peatedly prayed him and his Minister to deliver them from the scourge of an insolent majority and a packed House of Commons ; that that House was not dissolved until obstinately persisting to obstruct the public busi ness; and that, when dissolved, the people amply justi fied the appeal of the Monarch and his Minister, as well as their own previous addresses in reprobation of the fac tion, by the return of an overwhelming majority of good men and true to a new Parliament. THE STOPPAGE OF THE SALOP AND NORTH WALES- BANIC. SIIREWSBURY, TUESDAY EVENlNG:liil;excitement consequent upon this unfortunate occurrence has consi derably increased since yesterday, and sufferers from a distance continue to arrive in this town hourly, in the hopes of finding the calamity of a less wide-spread and severe extent than rumour had assigned it. Rumour for once, however, had not exaggerated in this instance. The liabilities of the bank are far greater, and the probabili ties of their liquidation far less, than had been .antici pated when the stoppage was first announced yesterday in a hand-bill, of which the fhllowing is a copy, affixed to the outer door of the establishment in the Market square : " SALOP AND NORTH WALES BANK. " Messrs. Price and Edwards deeply deplore the nc cessity they find themselves under of closing the bank and suspending their payments. This announcemeat is made, as may be supposed, with much pain, but a sense of duty to the public and themselves unfortunately ren ders it necessary. So far from having at any time con • sidered the affitirs of the bank in a state of conaision or derangement; Messrs. Price and Edwards have always been led to regard them as not merely satisfactory, but as flourishing and prosperous, and it was only upon a very recent investigation of the accounts that they had any reason to believe otherwise. After such investiga tion, and .a deliberate consideration of the circumstances, the course they have now taken appeared to be the only proper ohe left them to adopt ; and whilst they un feig,nedly regret the inconvenience it will occasion to many parties, they beg to add, that every available ex ertion shall be used with a view to the fulfilment of their engagements `•Corn 'Market, Shrewsbury, May 24, 1841." Many melancholy cases of hardship have come to light to-day, and others still more affecting are now looked for. So divided is public opinion as to the pro babilities of a favourable dividend, that in some instances four sovereigns have been refused for a 5/. note, and in others 1001. in notes have been offered for 20 sovereigns. Report variously estimates the liabilities at from thirty five thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand pounds, Even supposing the latter to be the correct sum, it is thought that the private fortune of one of the surviving partners would be more than equivalent to its discharge, but for some recent family arrangements, which are likely to lead to some heavy expensive litigation between that gentleman or his heirs, and the creditors of the estate. It is not impossible that the stoppage of this bank may have a material influence on the approaching election for Shrewsbury, as the funds of the Conservative club were among the depcsits. Messrs. Benjamin D'lsraeli and Tomline, the candidates in the Tory interest, would do well to bear this fact in mind before they commence their canvass among the susceptible electors of Salop. CONSTITUTION AL REFORM. The following letter has been forwarded by a Corre spondent in reference to that addressed to Lord John Russell on the subject, which appeared in The Sun of the 19th inst. : My Lord—There are some most important points studiously concealed in the Letter which a Correspondent of The Sun took the liberty of addressing to you last week. Once adopt the system he has there laid down, and you ob tain a 51. qualification fur 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 ; you thus at once sweep away all the cumbrous, 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 has 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 give birth to and call into action a spirit of manly hide pendeire, which, disdaining all undue control, and in the con sciousness of its own dignity, rises superior to the base and sor did influences of pelf; and glorying 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 all its bligh tin g and re p ressive influences, will be annihilated, and the pure principles of our glorious Constitution in a purified Church and Reformed state, Queen, Lords, and Commons, would be ca r ri e d out to their full extent. E ng l an d, happy England, would then indeed become th e envy o f surro unding nations, and the admi ration of the world. Liverpool, May 22, 1841. • ----„, JEM CROW IN ST. JAMES'S PARK.—It may be recollected that about a fortnight ago a carrion 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 foil grown duck in their flight through the air.) The above marauder was eventually shot, and exp-sed on one of the g rass slo p es as a earning to hi s p re d atory 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 tw , afterwards two more of his " genus" took up ti,eir stations in the l o f ty e l ms w hi c h are distributed throughout the enelosura, 'I he keepe rs succeeded in shooting one of them, and crippled th e o il nar b i b rea ki ng his leg; the nether portion f:arrying them of the limb has since fallen off, jet this tiffillg intruder, shortly after daybreak, daily contrives to harass the young brefids as away as his quarry : they are engaged in picking up insects on the banks of the lalt . e, CORN -LAW applied to him, owing to his hobbling He is very wary on the a - Pproseh 4f the keepers, perhaps instinctively impressed with and importance o 0 4' 41' the sense of the old adage, ” Once bit, twice shy." They have ground, the soubriquet of " Jem Crow. kt when traversing the hiam has seized upon every opportunity afforded him by Ifie r*.i . of the House, to discuss i t question to the worth IN THE LORDS.—EarI Fitzwil. NV /. ,elied moved, tocracy, both ToryWhi awaked when the Aris ift which he lived and ;!ulyersation on Monday night was warm and intensely intereking, and E were fast locked in the ai'ms of Morpheus. The do 'honour alike to his head and heart.-0! Si sie °met I orl “aclnor uttered sentiments, which —Nonconformist. THE CORN-LAWS. PADDINGTON. A public meeting of the inhabitants of the parish of Pad dington took place on Tuesday in the Vestry-room, Padding ton-green, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament in favour of the late Ministerial propositions of reduced duties on corn, sugar, and timber. Mr. Churchwarden Watts was called to the chair. Air. RAIKES CURRIE, M.P., moved the first resolution. He would touch upon one or two points of the subject with which he was profeasionally well acquainted—the effect of the Corn laws upou the currency and the monetary system. The sliding scale of duties prevents the importation of corn until prices reach the highest point. Then a great overflow of fo reign corn pours in at once ; and what is the consequence ? As we have no regular trade with those foreign corn growing countries, we have to pay for that corn in gold instead of exchanging for it, as we oth: rwise would do, manufactured goods Very lately we were obliged to disburse upwards of seven millions of gold in payment of the foreign corn we were obliged to import. The consequences are, that we are ever liable, under the present system, to a national bankruptcy—a catastrophe which we were lately only saved from by the most stringent measures on the part of the Bank of England in re straining the currency, otherwise it would have been obliged to pay out its last sovereign. . . . . :qr. BENJAMIN SMA ktT seconded the resolution. The in tention as well as the effect of the torn-laws was to keep up rents by keeping up the price of bread. The country had heretofore been ruled by nio-opoly and class interests.— ( Hear.) Unless the people supported the Ministry now, they would deserve to be deserted for ever by all who had advocated their rights. If they did not stand by the Ministry now—il they admitted the Tories in they might look again for the gagging Bills of the high and palmy days of Toryism. After some discuss on, the motion was unanimously carried. KEMSHEANT proposed, as an amendment, 'tt '1 hat the meeting are of opinion that there has been a wasteful expendi ture of pubic money, and great mismanagement in the finan cial departmmt ; and, likewise, considering the great suns paid by Government to the West India proprietors, they are of opt mon thA any method of making up the deficiency in the reve nue by means which would encourage slavery and the slave trade, is to be reprobated by the meeting." HOVENnow opposed the amendment. Mr. STACY supported the motion. One or two other gentlemen having addressed the meeting, Sir BENJAMIN HALL, M.P., in answer to a request to address the meeting, stood forward. He said there was one point which, as be felt deeply interested in, he could not refrain from noticing. He alluded to the grant of 20,000,0011/. voted for the West India planters.—( Hear, hear. ) Opinion was much divided as to the propriety of that measure at the time of its introduction, but as he (Sir Benjamin Hall) had on a former occasion, at the passing of the Reform Bill, ob jected to give compensation to individuals in possession of par liamentary burghs, as deriving thence an unjust and unconsti tutional advantage, he had also deemed it incumbent on him in consistency to vote against the grant to slave-holders, on the ground of its being an unnatural anti unholy system.—( Hear, near, hear.) As regarded the Corn-laws, all he possessed was drawn from the produce of the soil; but so hostile had he always been, and would always be, to the cause of monopoly and class interest., and so anxious was he to see the principles of free trade encouraged and developed, that for his own part he was ready to make any sacrifice that might be demanded of him for the general good.—( Great cheering. ) After a few words from Mr. BtIAINE, the original motion and Mr. Kempsheant's amendment were put to the meeting, when the former was carried by a triumphant majority, arid amid great cheering, only about half a dozen hands being held up for the amendment. A Committee was then appointed to draw up a petition, em bodying the motion, and to use the necessary means for having it signed and forwarded for presentation ; after which thanks were unanimously voted to the Chairman, and the meeting broke up. HAMMERSMITH, A public meeting of the parishioners of Hammersmith, con vened by the Churchwarden, was held on Tuesday at the Lati mer School-room, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of petitioning both Houses of Parliament at this important crisis, that the poor may have cheap bread, and that the very excellent measures nobly proposed by her Majesty's Mitisters may be fully carried out with all convenient speed. At six o'clock, the time appointed, John T. Fowell, Esq., Churchwarden, took the Chair. The room was crammed to the outer door. John Bowling, Esq, proposed, and William Bird, I sq., seconded the petition. Mr. STALLwoon, a Chartist, rose to propose an amend. meat, when a most uproarious scene occurred, and the Chair man had much difficulty in maintaining order, until another Chartist rose, of the name of Cullinghane, who condemned the conduct of the Nottingham Chartists and of the Chartist who last spoke. He was a Chartist, but they uent a mistaken way to work ; he was thankful to take good measures from any Ad roinisti ation. Cries of" Question, question.") Mr. Harris, Mr. Teakle, \Vicken, Mr. Brown, Mr. Le Masaitre, and Mr. Loftus, then spoke in support of the petition. The CHAIRMAN put the Chartist amendment—" That. it is useless petitioning the Legislature for the redress of any griev ances until the representation of the people be made coeval with taxation." On the amendment being put, three hands only were held up for it. The petition was then put and calried unanimously, with three cheers for Lord John Russell and her Alajesty's Ministers. KENSINGTON. A meeting of influential Reformers of this district took place last n'ght at the King's Arms Hotel, to lake into con , ideration the means to be adopted to support Ministers in carrying out the liberal measures they have lately brought forward, and to obtain a repeal of the Corn-laws. Mr. Pilkington, one of the Magistrates of the district, was called to the chair. Consi derable discussion took place. Ultimately a petition to Parlia ment, in favour of free trade and the abolition of the corn mo nopoly, which had been agreed upon at a former meeting, and received numerous signatures, was ordered to be sent to Mr. Byng,, AI.P., for immediate presentation. Air Wickham then proposed the formation of an Auxiliary Anti-Corn-law Association. The proposal was most favourably received, and it was agreed to take the subject more fully into consideration at an adjourned meeting to be held on Monday evening next, and also what was the best course to be pursued by the Re formers of Kensington in the present important crisis. CHATU AM In pursuance of a requisition signed by 197 inhabitants of Chatham, the High Constable, Mr. Joseph Aopkiiis, con ! vened a public meeting, to be held at the end of the military road, Chathi,m, at six o'clock on Monday ; and it was an nounced that Mr. Sidney Smith, the lecturer, would attend and address the meeting. At six o'clock a numerous assem blage of the working and middle classes was present, which by half-past six, the time when the chair was taken, had in creased to many thousands. At no period of time during the meeting, it is computed, were less than .5,000 present—some say 7,000. Many went away from not being able to hear the speeches. Mr. STEPHENS moved the first resolution, to the effect " That a s)stem of legislation which consults the interests of favoured and privileged classes, instead of the community at large, is vicious and unsound ; and that the present laws regu. lating the commercial intercourse of Great Britain with fo reign nations are ruinous, and ought immeuiately to give place to a more enlightened and liberal poicy." Mr. HATAIAN seconded the resolution, which, having been put by the Chairman, was unanimously carried, not one dis sentient voice being heard. Mr. Goonirso moved the next resolution. Mr. G. JEFFERY s seconded the resolution, which was carried with the same unanimity and earnestness of sympathy as the former. Mr. S. SMITII then came forward, and was received with several distinct rounds of applause. He advocated not the cause of faction, or party, or single interest, but of every man in Britain. The cause he advocated embraced not Britain alone, but that immense territory upon which the sun never set, that owned Britain for its mistress. It embraced not even the British empire alone, but universal man, who must be deeply affected by what even concerned this country, the mistress of the world.—(lmmense cheering.) It was not a streggle be tween one faction and another, but between 30.000 landowners and universal man.—(Hear, hear.) He stood before them for justice; the widows' cries were ringing in his ears; and the orphans' tears ell:upon his heart. It was needless to disguise it, the present was thu question of questions ; they had had the Re form Bill, which gave them political privileges, but what was the worth of that, so long as the working man was robbed of his daily bread ? Let them have cheap bread, sugar, timber, coffee ; and let them have those things cheap which were necessary for their comfort, and he would answer for it that Englishmen would work out their own political salvation. (Loud cheers.) A tax upon bread !—upon that without which a man must die I—a tax on existence itself —upon the morsel that was obtained by the beggar from sweeping the crossings of London !—and upon the milk w hich the infant draws from its mother's breast !—(Cheers.) Was it necessary for him to talk of political economy, to use any elaborate arguments on the subject, in a country which called itself Christian, and in the nineteenth century. in order to teach them the unlawful ness of muzzling the ox that trod out a nation's corn ? Could there be two sides to such a question? Mr. Smith here enumerated some instances of distress of which he had been an eye-witness in the metropolis, and which excited the deep commisseration of his audience. He enter tained no antipathy towards elegant apparel, but when he thought of the situation of the aristocracy and of the work ing population, he did feel that it would be much better that the rich man were a little less rich, and the poor man a little less poor. Mr. Smith concluded a speech of upwards of two hours' duration, throughout which he was most enthusiastically cheered, by earnestly conjuring all those who telt the evils of this grievous system to join twether, heart and hand, in the coming contest, and return only those men to Parliament who were the sworn foes of monopolists. _ . . . . On the proposition of Mr. Churchwarden PRING, petitions to troth Houses of Parliament, praying for the total repeal of the Corn-laws, were then ordered to be signed on behalf of the meeting by the worthy Chairman, and presented—the one to the Lords by Lord Strafford, the other by the Hon. Mem ber for Chatham, Geo. S. Byng, Esq. The meeting then passed votes of thanks to Mr. Smith and Mr. Hopkins, and quietly dispersed, first giving three times three to tier Majesty's Ministers. Many of the friends of repeal subsequently met Mr. Smith at: the Chest Arms Tavern, and formed themselves into an Anti-Corn-law Association, which there is every reason to be lieve will prosper in an extraordinary degree, from the general feeling of interest displayed by the middle and working classes of these towns on the subject. THE WEATHER.—NooN, MAY 27. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Barometer Thermometer... 77 Highest 79 f Lowest ... 59 Wind N.E.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. MYSTERIOUS CASE.—An inquest adjourned from Saturday last was resumed and concluded before Mr. Baker on Tuesday at the King's Head, Commercial-road. Whiteshapel. It was on Caroline Collins, a woman of the town. So far hack as the evening of the 4th of March last, deceased was knocked down by vine man in Leadenhall-street, and her hip st-rously injured. She was taken to St. Thomas's Hospital by a policeman, but the surgeon who saw her did not think there was any danger, and said t} at if she were taken home and had a god night's rest she would recover. She was then taken to her home in King-street, Commercial-road, and frequently al'ierwards was heard to say that the injury done her by her fall would hasten her death. Eventually she took to her bed, in which on Wednesday morning last she was found dead by one of her unfortunate companions. Mr. Salter, a surgeon, who had opened the body, said that the abdominal muscles and intes tines were much inflamed, sufficiently so as to cause death ; and iie seas mi.-tail - 4 of opinion that it was accelerated by the injuries deceased tad received from the fall. The Coroner recommended an open verdict, which the jury returned, as follows Fp4q4 dead in bed, but how death was caused there was no evidoopp to show." ----- MR. GisuoaNE.—We are sorry to find that a heavy family calamity will deprive the House during the im portant discussion on Sir Robert Peel's motion, of the presence of the able and eloquent Member for Carlow. Our obituary of this day records the death of his second son, a Commissioner of Police in Australia, on his voyage from that colony to Eng land. Mr. Gisborne received the painful intelligence on Tuesday evening, just after I.e had left the House of Commpns, and immediately set gut to join 1114 fainily ig Leicestershire. The daily consumption of green peas in Paris is estimatcd at 200 litres, or 62,837 English gallons. man NT LNG EDITION, PRICE OF SUGAR. EFFECT OF MONOPOLY. A Table showing the ex duty price of West India suga r . Mincing-lane, and comparing the sam e aga i ns t th a t of forte sugars : London, May 28, tete, " Per s tie The Gazette of this evening will quote the average a. , price of West India S ugar , a t 39 *** ir n ; The actual quantity o f West India sugar sold *by the rosters, in the week en di ng th e 25 t h instant, sword.; to the returns made upon oath by the West India sugar bf eh kers, in conformity with the Act of Parliament, and on wb quantity the above price is computed, consisted of 1,264 hh 106 trs. and 210 barrels. Manilla sugar of good quality is actually unsaleable at 2 ti per cwt., and yet that price is now quoted in the abfenc e b, sales as the nearest to its value ; th e p u bli c w ill t h ere fortL serve that it is 20s. per cwt. cheaper than the average of Wee India sugar. For this enormous differential price the peo 4o have to thank the majority of 36, and they will not fail to,. st so when they meet the Members who formed a part of tp"" sc. , factious majority, face to face, upon the hustings. Th e sss r count is very short. One year with another a duty of 24s. ii0 f;" 0 cwt. sields a revenue of about four and a half mi l ' s ," stealing; 20s. per cwt. on the like quantity amounts, there7ti, to 3.600,000/. Now, this tremendous sum, more than eg o , valent to meet the deficiency in the annual revenue, is stracted from the pockets of the indhstrious classes, and trP;„ ferred to the pockets of a small, though influential, knot d o l t) , dulent monopolists, under the pretence that such a legal r o b bery is necrssary for ear. ying out the great mea s ure of eina ro , pation. if by that expression the monopolists mean the w motion of the welfare of the black p o p u l a ti on i n our ...ht India plan•ations, we denounce thei r pl ea as down y knavish cheatery, for the stimulus giv en by thi s exces!iveP°3o, of money to hard labour is abunda n tly t est ifi e d b y the &T o o tion made in the liouse of Commons by the West Is is f that they would export to the U n it e d Ki ng d om this 7A 120,000 tons of sugar, which is equal to the weight theYr os , to export in, to them, the palmy days of slavery. r id, it most be esinent to th e ap p re h ens i on o f a ll the cf°,nitl that to raise and s t ak e 120,000 tons o f suga r n7i rs require precisely the same quantum of labour ~...0 one year as in another; and that therefore the n e g . 4, ss are made, by hook or b y croo k, t o toil ins;hea laboriously now th a t th ey are emanc i pa t e d as t h e y did a t they were in a state of slavery ; it follows, consequently , . s o d if the British p eo pl e are anxious t o i ncrease t h e co mforts !i t ., promote the civilization of the negroes—they ought rate r discourage the cultivatio n o f th e sugar - cane , an d not stisnu ,at it by a lavish premium of 20s. per cwt. There are very few estates in the West Indies, w"1 0 0 offered for sale, would fetch ten years' purchase. computing the whole annual produce of our West India l▪ it sessions, by the foreign value of the diff eren t art i c les, that to say by the price at which we could, buy them from fnr„ gs t countries, and that too without impo r ti ng an ou n c e of to raised by slave-labour, we arrive at the amount, in Viet numbers, of five millions sterling ; granting all the ho b India estates to be worth t en y ears ' purchase (Lold they certainly are net), th e p urc h ase mon ey 1 :, - 60 . be fifty millions sterling. Fif t y m illi ons would t" of fore amply suffice t r compensate the whole boalcie, proprietors, supposing they were to be violently priced of their West India property. Fifty millions * and 1 ▪ i• have, within these last ten years, been laid to t h em by the 7_, tish nation. First, there is the do na ti on o f t wen ty mill i° lo then the proceeds of their monop o ly, w hi c h, t a k en at tile rate of four millions, gives forty milli ons —t oget h e r sizty s. lions. If, therefore, the West India proprietors were _ o a , dispossessed to-morrow, they would have received from the d o tion ten millions sterling m o re th an th e i r w h o l e West • property is worth. CORN AVERAGE GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH COO!, OI For the Week ended May 21, 1841, made up from the llett s ,,i the Inspectors in the different Cities and 'fawns in Englat'' Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Sa• Wheat 6l; 6d. I Oats B.ir!ey 3oi. 1)1. I Rye AVERAGES OF THE LAST QIX WEEKS. • fop Week ending WHEAT. UARLEV. HAT A . RYE . BEA N& ...........,/ Aprili I ti ,bb 8I 32 6 *A 5 36 5 . 39 — 6 *":4- 10 01 63 8 32 4 23 1 35 S 26 3 n 1 30 63 8 31 8 23 0 35 e ! z' 3 - 7 . 1 " 1 , Vay 7 63 2 31 / 22 5 31 10 !3, :3 ,4 9 1 i 21 .61 6 32 9 :2 8j 35 3 33 :, 37 IM FERIA I. AGGREGATE A . 4 F.RAGEs OF THE. Six witlFK 6 a . v‘ a Iwat 13.. Cd i Oats Rarlcy '31.3. Pd. I Rye `lss lid. Pease `Rs ,, DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Ili Wheat 23s Scl. I Oats - a ~ .661 B trio' lss. 4d. llye THE MARKETS.-YESTERDAY• COLONIAL MARKET. slie t Little business done by private t r eaty, and the public went off heavily, but in prices there was little variation. imports were fair. TEA MARKET. Little business done, but prices were fully s upported , _ but few parcels were p ress i ng f or sa l e . C ompan y's Ce n g ° Is. 8- 1 -d. cash. The deliveries large. TALLOW MARKET. ear Little business done in I'. Y. Candle, but prices Wer: „a ported, and purcha ses were no t to b e ma d e un d er 465. ""' the spot, and 475. 91 for the last three months. FRUIT MARKET. h c inif The demand fro m t h e shippers was slea d y, b u t the A do trade opertted with much caut i on ; pr i ces l oo k downwar'''' supply being large. • COUNTRY CORN MARKETS, i Wheat. Per Quarter. I it - to x. Boston Braintiee ,55 65 l ighton 5B (6 Camnrldize, ! 56 Chiche.ter , 55 Dunniow Grantli.on ti!) 13 Grinisl;3 tiailsham . ISO 5 , 4 Hitchin ....... 53 64 IpgiC I I Lewe5........., !56 62 Linn !51 62 Maidstone !53 6; Norwich Pei worth Romford 6O 70 Sandwich 62 71 Tnetiord Wishech 56 62 Witham ii 2 ICY Yarmouth 62 66 Etarley, Cats. A. to 1, e. to S. 22 38 18 22 28 3), 1l 231 :23 3 24 27 31 l9 28 3. 24 26 32 33 1 22 31 34 3 r : 2 28 28 33 16 21 :e) 31':3 25 : 1 1) 29 35 21 26 24:1 z 9 2 23 24 20 22 26 36 39 26 3 4 38 :32 128 30 3 24 25 28 32 24 28 30 34 26 30 30 3? 24 27 28 34 eo 23 23 33 2N 30 :1 341 24 . Si PLATE.—A. B. SAVORY an d SONS. IP . te f,cturing Silversmiths, No. 14, C orn hill, London, oPPitelt Bank of Engl an d. Th e b est wrought SILVER S' gint; and FORKS, Fiddle Patt ern , 7 s . 2 d. per ounce. The Pattern, 7s. 451. per ounce. The following are the `` - ,;;ler' recommended, but the articles may be had liglster or hi at the same price per ounce : Fiddle Pattern. King's Patton. OZ. '• .I 4 13 12 Table Spoons 40 at 7 1.• 9 1 , 4 12 Dessert ditt.. 26 :: 1 4 If, 12 Talyo Forks 40 4 g 1; Ii Desserlititt. 26 _ 7 7,'" 4 2GravySpoons 1 2 4 0 Soup Ladle. 12 7 t' J! 0 4 Saueecitte... 12 i 2 ;ip 4 Salt spoons (strong S ( If Irish S 1 ******** # Slice .......... it.. , 0 12 Tea Stoons. 11 7 „ 1 p. a 1 /Lac sugar Tongs •••:T h ; s traw sped as a Newspaper fir e 1114 ter information felt spvo lier slate, may be hall °I % . 1 untry, free .f postage , 1" 0 oz. s. d. S. d 12 Table Spoons 30 at 7 210 15 o 12 Dvssert ditto 20 72 7 3 4 12 Table Forks. 3) 721 n 15 0 1.2 De,se,t ditto 211 7 2 7 3 4 2 Gravy Spoons 10 •. 2311 is 1 Soup Ladle... 10 723 11 8 Ciatice ditto...lo 783 10 9 4 Salt Spoons igilt strong) 1 01, I Fish Slice 2 10 0 12 Tea Spoons. 10 783 16 8 1 Pair Sugar Tongs 0 15 1/ N. B. A Price Current, stain by drawings, and ctintaining purchase of silver or Sheffield p lion, or will be sent into the cos to a paid letter. TABLE CANDLESTICKS, super i o r to , liM4 1 , 4 or durability, equal in app earance . T a bl e ean dl e st,e l it inchea high, 7s. per pair; 9 inches high, 9s. ; 10 inches , 1 0 per pair , ditto, with rich shell mountings, 9 inchei d e e per pair ; snuffer trays, with shell mountings and 63 0 ' 0 1 4 tre, 4s. each. The particul a r me t a l o f w h ic h t h e se ., 0 10 great variety of other articl es are ma d e , can on l y be toll! ~ silver by reference to the stamp. Catalogues gratis. RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, Oxierd-stretes# BIRTHS. • , d On the 22d inst., at Fitz ro y- square , th e l a dy of Dr. JO it Arnott, of a son. On the 25th inst., at th e Vi carage , Stanwell, the lad ! ' °f the Rev. W. Windsor Berry, of a son. D. tsi ° On the 25th inst., at S. MARR Luk lE e's Church, Chelsea, •-•a o itec Gill, of the Aladrai army, to Fanny Flowerdew, eldest daub of W. ilickerby, Esq., of Sloane-street. cbsl r On the 25th inst., at St. James's Church, George a i l Esq , of Beaufort-road, Chelsea, to Mary A" ne iillf• daughter of John Brock, Esq., of Sackville-street, Pict yid° On the 26th inst.. at the Independent Chapel, Cleri n g Enfield, James Curling, Esq., of Canmabury-place , to Mary Ann eldest daughter of Thomas Ch a llis, Finsbuiy-sttare, and Forty-hill, Enfield. DIED. 1 1 ' s er) At sea, between the Cape and St. Helena, on - I ~„t r .A from Australia to England, H. F. Gisborne, Esq. t SI .ba ,... of T. Gisliorne, Esq., M.P. , Private Secretary '0 Si r ,„p ic tiv' Bourke , when Goren or of Australia, and subAcquently ‘' sio O ncr of Pollee in that colon A der i°°' n the 2lst inst., at Hawk y. hnrs*, Rent, Robert ---n • Esq., ag , d 67.4. lie / On the 23d inst. of the late Mf. 4,4 4 S tone, aged 65. inst., 4 Terrick House, B uc k s , Elizabet h ' re ' of tbe on the `43d inst., at Clifton, Ann, eldest daught er „,re. On the 25th inst., late William Orme, Esq., of Guilford-street, Russell-scl. Ist. at Clapham, Alice, widow of t'wor! George Stevenson, E 5.. q., and daughter of the late Bev:. volo NOTICE TO MARINERS AND OTHERS. 1 ham Booth, aged 78. Es., only survivin son of J, C, Dud, Esti la te 4. 11.- :i Iva*. ft ~.: The following has been received at Lloyd's, dated . 1 On the 25th inst., at Manor -terrace, Chelsea, - - v.,et - ..A• ~ Office roafdCe,o.wmmhiittetheealzfsPiaryiv2y6C3llB4ncli.l for ! !felon, Norfolk. g On the 26th ht l t ,a* liam, Surrey, Jspo e e 4 widow ° f tii . Sir,—l am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy 1 Council for Trade to acquaint you, for the information of the Sir Evykil Horne, ' Bart., aged 82. ' , 6.sl' merchants trading to Buenos Ayres, that the Government of i , f ROber b ' wzvr. ri 411 moat George-street, Elise' Buenos Ayres has issued a decree, in consequence, of . tili ineßeisublic by the ~, D ., fi to m ho!) of • ...ueth, relict n ter , which has been declared against the ArgPn%• Of apoplexy 1 " • ''''' to , h iir raff e. at. law, r. , . . not licensed by the Go_ ' ,t. , • ' S Meryweather Turner, - .•,!, t i i br State of crtiquay, Rg,ainst 'all ves , eli veininont of the Argentine Confederation. I ln's• inn,. and A. AI. ...Inc e ,vplu. i p I am, Sir, your obedient servant, . 0. by MURDO irY-.4, (Signed) DENIS LE MA se,, __AtCHANT, Printed and Published London: P,,. st„ No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No- ", M. of Trio. Coll., , ie ~ o t ~.tary at Lloyd's. May 26 104 A'. the county of Middlesex.—Friday, BeAlla. t'eAv" 45 311 36 41 1 10 .11 36 ,24 ;. to , 35 33 35 40 Z.B 37 40 42 40 35 40 35 40 33 40 31 4:P 37 40 34 33 31 38 38 40 38 40 40 42 34 40 35 43 no 40 35 37 35 40 40 41 - 4 1 0 34 01 34 40 3 i i 40 40 30 41 30 44 40 00 34 40 30 50 311 LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOLT , ';'F. L,) I,;i, Jlu?/ 27. Their Lerchhips sat on a Committee of Privileges to-day at ten o'clock. Toe Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, +he Earl of SI a 'tesbury, Lord Kenyon, Lord Hawarden, Lord Colchester, Lord Hood, Earl Beauchamp, the Earl of Warwick, the Earl of Bandon, Lord Courtown, and the Bishop of Chichester. LORD HOTHAM'S CLAIM. Cornlel were heard anti wiitt,sses examined on behalf of the c aim of Lord Hotham, to vote at the election cf Repre sentative Peers f, r Ireland. After which their Lordships de clan d that the eiaimatit had made out his claim. The Lord Chancellor, the Earl 01 Warwick, and Lord Kenyon then sat to hear Irish Appeals. DELL V. THE EARL OF HADDINGTON. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment in this case which was 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 part of the ( state 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 questi-n formed part of the estate or the husband, and from that decision the pre .ent appeal was brought. 'lire Lord Chancellor being clearly of opinion that the judgment I ronounced by the Lord Ordinary was the correct mine, 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 tins part-heard Irish appeal were re sumed to-day, but had not concluded at hall -past one o'clock, at which hour the Lord Chancellor rose to attend a Council. VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT, May 27. His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR took mo!ions to-day, but very_ few were disposed of in c o nse quence of th e a b sence or Mr. Knight Bruce and Mr. Jacob, who were engaged in the House of Lords. His Honour ruse shortly after 12 o'clock. BAIL COURT, May 27. Mr. Justice WIG RTAI AN 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. LOUT OF COMMON PLEAS, May 27. 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 a new 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. Hue 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 surprise, 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 a rumour abroad from the commencement of this controversy, between Wood and Morewood, that the claimed lands and minerals never formed a part of the Zouch estate ; and in order to test the accuracy of that report, the defendant, Morewood, 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 the 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 contrary, alleging that they did so pass. That was the defendant's case on the ground of surprise —a ground which he ( Mr. H.) would show did not or could not exist at all. The fifth pl;;a stated that Sir John Zouch was seised in fee of certain lands and minerals that in the 39th year of Elizabeth he levied a fine on the said lands (which were mentioned in very general terms), that a 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 the First, the son con veyed the minerals to Alorewood, and the question then was, did those lands pass under the fine and recovery of 39th of Eliza beth. The Learned Counsel went 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 Zouch estate, and so far were the defendants from being ignorant that Zouch was seised in fee, that the del ndants themselves mentioned that 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 on 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. 'I he 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 flare. How, then, could the same lands pass by the fine and recovery in the 39th of Elizabeth ? Yet that was the only ground urn which his Learned Friend could stand before the Court. Under that fine add recovery 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 Zouch in the 13th 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. He hail been so completely taken by surprise at the trial that he had made no struggle against the case as it appeared, although he had expressly reserved to himself the right of appealing to their Lordships hereafter, becau , e he felt convinced that there must be evidence in existence which would enable him to dispute the validity .of the deed, which on the trial hail so completely taken them by surpri,e, and of the existence of which he had been unaware. Under these circumstances, seeing the defendant had been so com pletely taken by surprise, he trusted that on payment of costs the Court would grant a new trial. • 11 , ith regard to the refer ence at the first meeting, the plaintiff hart been made distinctly • aware of the intention of the defendant to make the present application to the Court, and no time had been:ost in so doing. Their Lordships having consulted together, Lord Chief Justice TYNDAL said the only question for the Court to determine was whether the defendant had really been taken by surprise at the trial by the production of the deed in question. In cases where a party was really taken by surpri.e, where like the present a large amount of property was involved, and where nice points of conveyancing might arise, the Cturt felt itse'f bound to interpose its authority to enable parties to submit their case fairly to a Jury, and to remove the case afterwards into a Court of Error, if such a proceeding should be thought expedient. Now it did appear to hint from what passed at t he trial that the whole conduct of the case was a surprise upon the defendant, and that he had no reason to expect that any deed would be produced, and that therefore the defendant. was entitled to have an opportunity of laying his case before a Jury in relation to a document so important to the rights of property. He was therefore of opinion that the rule for a new trial must be made absolu e on payment of costs. At the same time he thought no blame attached to the plaintiff for withholding the deed from the knowiedge of the defendant, as he had a perfect right to do so. Mr. HILL said that he thought the last few words which had fallen front his Lordship w ould afford the plaintiff more pleasure than the decision of the Court would cause him pain, for he felt most acutely the imputations attempted to be cast on him in the affidavits on the other side for withholding the deed. As a new trial had been granted. he hoped their Lordships would impose terms on the defendant to make him admit the long proofs which were tendered at the trial as to the identity of the land in question. The SOLICITOIt-GENERAL said he had no wish to raise any doubt where none existed, but if he recollected rightly he was not quite satisfied at the trial as to the accuracy of the proof. Mr. HILL again urged that the admission should be made part of the terms on which a new trial should be granted. The :iOLICITOR..GENERAL said that from the anxiety dis played by the other side, there was evidently something to be made by the adm•ssion. However, he was in the banes of the Court. He had no objection to the admission of alldocuments. Mr. HILL said that the other party had had since August to consider the matter, and this was the first time that such an insufficiency had been hinted at. The proof required was ex ceedingly long, as it related to lands severed from an estate in the time of Queen Elizabeth, which then had been of no great value, butwhich now from the mineralswhich had been discovered under the land became of immense value, and one of the wit nesses who had proved the boundary of the • land in question, had died since the trial. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL asked until Saturday to consi der the question. Whatever their Lordships thought right he would do. INlr. HILL hoped the Court would give him the costs of the reference. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL objected. They had on the first meeting given distinct notice of the defendant's intention to appeal to the Court, and if the plaintiff after that chose to go on it must be at his own risk. Lord Chief Justice TY NDA L suggested that that question had better he left to the Master, to which suggestion both par ties acceded. With respect to the amended plea it was ordered that the de endant should put in his amended plea in a fortnight, and that it should he a plea issuable so as to bring on the case fur trial at the nest assizes. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) LONDON, MAN' 27.—Wind this day at noon, E. to S.E. variable, fine clear weather. DEAL, MAY 26.—Wind N.E., moderate.—Arrived from the River and sailed 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; Isabel, Antigua; Columbus, Rio Janeiro; Virginia and Independence, New York ' • Manley, Halifax ; China, Quebec; Clementina, Ancon a ; Trinity yacht, Gib raltar. Arrived off, the Notion. WIVZNHOE, MAY 26.—The Alarm, from Hamburgh to London, was on the Gunfleet Sand yesterday. DOVER, MAY 26.—The Maria, from Ipswich to Liverp oo l, was on shore on the Goodwin Sands last light, crew saved. RAMSGATE, MAY 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. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 26.—Wind N.E. to S.S.E.—Arrived the Wolga, Turner, from Havannah, for Amsterdam. Sailed her Maiesty's ship Reindeer, for Gibraltar. COWES, MAY 26.—Arrived the Lelbarn, Clark, Matanzas. SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 24.—Arrived the Maria, Christiania. PLYMOUTH, MAY 26.—Sailed the Mary, for Quebec ; Forth, Sydney, Now South Wales : Brothers, ditto. The Eleanor, from Arklow, got on the Breakwater, during a tre- . mendous squall, but is expected off after discharging part of her cargo. FALMOUTH, MAY 24.—Wind variable.—Arrived off the Ann, Johnstone, from Trinidad. Sailed the Rollo, Labrador. DUBLIN, MAY 2.s.—Arrived the Garonne, Richardson, from Antigua; Wanderer, Robeson. Trinidad. CORK, MAY 24.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Grunmer, from Liverpool, for St. John's, New Brunswick. KINSALE, MAY 23.—Sailed the Shannon, Collings, for Prince Edward's Island, _ TORY LIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. , Sin,—The Tory cause must needs be a very WI , when the party deem it necessary, in order to pa i d up, to have recourse to the most barefaced and mis-statements, or rather I should say, atrocious false'_ hoods, as daily app ea r in their Journals, both morning and evening, by which their country friends, who lit" no means of ascertaining the real state of the Cas? , ,„, - *'" so constantly misled. As an instance, take the followr" , 4 _, account, furnished by the Morning Post of Monday 4.7, to its fashionable readers. It is there stated that, on fp' occasion of the late Drawing-room, as Lords 3/lelbOurie and John Russell were proceeding to the Palace, the,' were received by the very great number of most resP e e t i able persons standing near to York House, with the nos marked and determined hostility, and that for a full hOff r they were obliged to bear the pelting of the Piffl es ; storm ! ! As one of the lookers-on at this very slv t ' take upon myself wholly and entirely to deny this fl ies impudent assertion. So far from this being the et during the few minutes, and not the full hour, 9 9 t "" Tory Post affirms, that the carriages of these 1 16 b le Lords were detained in the line near to York 1 1 ° 1 i ss ' they were approached by the persons then and there 95. sembled, when the Noble Viscount and his fell e/r a labourer in the people's cause were most cordially af l a enthusiastically welcomed by repeated, long, and 1° ,4 cheers, and which continued until they turned into l°, Court-yard leading to the Palace. Lord Palmerston also well received, as he deserves to be, for his straigr!" . forward and manly conduct on all occasions. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, ONE OF THE LOOKERS-ON NEAR TO YO HOUSE ON THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY• I