The Sun. — London, England, 1841-06-02 00:00:00

EVENING ED! O~ f 1\ NATTER FOR MARYLEBONE TH E COMMITTEE for CONDUCTING the ELECTION a COMMODORE SIR. CHARLES RAPIER MEET DAILY at the ROOMS of the R.I.:FORNI and REGISTRATION ASSOCIATION, No. 62, Warren- Street., Totten': arn- Ele,:to:s are earnestly requested to coral their Names in ad dition to the nui:terotts recorded Stipp , eters of the Gallant Commodore. By < r.trr. ,llay 24, 1811. JOSEPH IV 11i V. Hon. Secretttry. 8, New Burlington-street. EW AND POPULAR NOVELS, NOW READY. . The QUEEN'S POISONER; or, France in the Six teenth Century. By Miss LOUISA STUART COSTELLO, Author of " A Summer amongst the Bocages and the Vines." ' In $ role. post 80. 11. The MARRYING MAN. By the Author of " Cousin Geofrcey," &c. In 3 vets. post Svc). 111. SOME ACCOUNT of MY COUSIN NICHOLAS. By THOMAS INGOLDSBY, Esq., Author of " The In goldsby Legends." In 3 cols. post Bvo. IV. CECIL. In 3 vols. post Bvo., Second Edition, with a new Preface, by the Author. V. COLIN CLINK. By CHARLES HOOTON. In 3 vole. post Bvo., with numerous Illustrations by Leech, &e. VI. COMPTON AUDLEY ; or. Hands not Hearts. By Lord WILLIAM I.ENNOX. In 3 vols. post Bvo. VII. TIPPOO SULTAUN. By Captain MEADOWS TAYLOR, Author of " Confessions of a Thug." In 3 vols. pot. Bvo. VIII. The SCHOOLFELLOWS ; or, a By-way to Fame. By RICHARD JOHNS, Esq. • Iu 3 vols. post Bvo. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. *,* To be had at all the Libraries. THEAThE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. JVDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VF.STRIS. LAST NIGHT BUT ONE OF' THE SEASON. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. GROGAN AND MR. AND MRS. GILBERT, THIS EVENING. JUNE 2, Will be repeated Ehakspere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Theseus, Mr. Cooper ; Quince, Mr. Bartley; Bottom, Mr. Harlel ' • Flute, Mr. Keeley ; Snout, Mr. Meadows • ' Snug, Mr. F. Matthews • Hermia, Mrs. Nisbett ; Oberon, Madame Vestris ; Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Puck, Miss Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Rainfcrth. After which, the Ballet of AULD ROBIN GRAY. To conclude with, the New Farce, in One Act, entitled BROTHER BEN. Commodore Cutlass, Mr. Bartiey ; Benjamin Bowles, Mr. Charles Mathews; Mr. Shuffleton, Mr. Harley; Dorothy, C.. Jones. To-morrow, Le-.don Assurance, with Beauty and the Beast. To-morrow, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with Auld Robin Gray, arid Brother Ben. Doors to to epenzd at ball-past Six—the perfornaances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, as.; Gallery Is. Tickets anti places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickrts may 13;3 had upon application. P, &yaw, 805 t.,, to be had so!ely of Mr. And.ress, bookseller, 7. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS TONES. Extensive Novelty. The first Vocalists in the Kingdmn—Miss Romer, Mr Ni ilson, and Mr. Leffler, assisted by Mrs Serle, and a numerous Chorus from the Theatres Royal—Conduc tor, Mr. G. Stansbury. THIS EVENING, JUNE 2, Will be acted Bellini's Grand Opera, LA SONNANIBULA. Amina. Miss Romer • Lisa, Mrs. Serie ; Rodolpho, Mr. Leffler ; Elvino, Mr. W ilson. After which, an entirely New Drama, entitled FEMALE POLITICS. To conclude with the Grand Romance of BLUE BEARD. Splendid scenery, &roses, and appointments, supported by Mr. W. Stoker, and the entire Company of this popular Establishment. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. THIS - EVENING, JUNE 2, AND TO-MORROW. An entirely n,w beautiful pathetic Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, with splendid scenery, decorations, &c., entitled SUSANIMPLEY ! OR, THE TRIALS AND VICISSI- TUDES OF A SERVANT GIRL! William Dean, Mr. E. F. Saville ; and Susan Hopley by Miss Vincent, the accepted Heroine of Pomestic Drama. After which, the Operatic Drama of THE PRISONER OF ROCHELLE. Henri (the Prisoner), Mr. Osbaldiston; Beatrice by Miss Vincent, Nvho will introduce the popular Song of " Wanted a Governess !" aceompaniod by herself on the Pianoforte. To conclude with, a new Romance. in Three Acts, enttled THE GALLEY SLAVES Ot TOULON ; OR, THE HIDDEN TREASURE! Lcuis de Valere, Mr: Osbaldiston ; Clan te La;:elle, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Bzbin, Mr. Saul ; Bouquet, Mr. Ross ; Antoine, Mr.. Howard; Leonora, Miss Lee; Madame Bouquet, Miss Howard, &c. &c. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, ls.—Gallery, 6d. Half-price at Half-past Eight. THE GREATEST WONDER AT PRESENT IN LONDON, is the WIZARD of the NORTH, at the THIZATRE ROYAL, ADELP El I ; he has prepared a Ban quet of 'Alephistophelian, Dextrological, and 'Necromantic Cabals, for the Wonderseekers of the approaching Holidays. London is again set on fire by the supernatural fame of the: eximisus Wizard ; he is again on his magic throne, he waves his mystic sceptre, and thousands of bea'ity, fashion, and lite rature rush as if charmed, or spell-commanded, to behold the mesteriachist of this age of science and wonder ! Hundreds are nightly turned from the doors of the mystic palace, that cannot gain admission ; this is proof, and more than proof, of the Wizard's powers of charming. During the last six nights twelve thousand spectators have been witness of the Wizard's mighty feats of the science of darkness, and all exclaim, Can this man be of earth ? is he mortal or superhuman. To-morrow, and during the week, The Great Delusionist will perform his thousand feats of Photographic and Aliadnic Enchantments, concluding every evening with the GUN DELUSION. Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Gallery, 6d. Second price at Nine o'Cleck, Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. Doors open at half-past Seven, the Wizard enters his Magic Laboratory at Eight, concluding at half-past Ten. Carriages at Ten. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. SPLENDID AND EXTRAORDINARY NOVELTY!!! Exhibition of the Great Fire Works of St. Angelo ! Promenade Musicale by the Band of Sixty Wind Initruments! TO-MORROW, JUNE 3, THE GRAND ROMAN FESTA, in imitation of the rejoicings which take place in Rome at the celebration of "II giorno di S. Pietro," will be repeated TO-MORROW, when will be presented an exact fac-simile of the superb GIRANDOLA frem the Castle of St. Angelo, the greatest and most magnificent display of Fire Works in the World, com prising among its beautiful effects, the Cascade of Fire— Fountains of Blazing Stars—and the tremendous 2Erial Bou quet ; with the ILLUMINATION of St. PETER'S, when the whole of this vast and glorious edifice is brilliantly lighted with countless myriads of lamps, presenting together a coup d'atil of in conceivable splendour hitherto unattempted out of Italy. The unrivalled Band of this Establishment, conducted by Kr. Godfrey, augmented by the addition of many performers of eminence, will give a Promelade Musicale et Champetre in the enlarged and newly-deeereed Orchestra. The Menagerie, including the great male Orarg Outang, end several other rarities, is exhibited daily, with Dansou's Colossal Pictorial Model of Rome ! Open at Ten. Admis!ion One Shilling. Concert at Six. Fire Works at Nine. TO CORRESPONDENTS. ,We regret we cannot publish the letter of " John LoWe," who writes from Little Bolton. Had the statements it contains been founded on facts, and the letter been properly worded, we should certainly as an act of justice to his party, have given it, but of what use would it be to publish assertions attributing " the enactment of the Bourbon Police Bill to treacherous, liberticidal, lip-liberals, and sham radicals of the Bakewell School ?" Every one knows that the New Police was established by • Sir Robert Peel—" the honest foe" whom Mr. Lowe would now support by returning Tories and every one knows also that but for his ardent advocacy of the New Poor-law Bill it would never have passed the House of Commons. As Mr. Lowe doubt,s the exim.eim of " Charles Bake vet,ll".-we_ .hope our correspondent will. either exhit it himself in person to that gentle-aan, or send thee 11111 T - her of xiiY 11°,3,1. .- -, -H I iafrvii:A•ElL A t)() 7•1 1.3 I th.iviOliftoW M S minutes afzzr 1 i Evening 27 minutes after 1 The Publication of the Evening Edition •nf THE Sun com menced at 10 minutes after Three. V i tt , '•-.)' 4,, A 0 ,, 41 Vl___,,,,, ._ 0 ' i 4 .......•* all:4 ,-.6.--• 1214 v, 4.v. r .., , - .1 t.::4 .1 . ., .4 1 -/f- 2 ,- , ' V 4 l , 'e tr 43,4 ." ~.0 ,& . ~, . 4...: r ni 0 s ' .. 0 ' '..0.4.4 1 41 - - ' ‘ der", t,.. co—trg urG LONDON: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1841. time congratulate the City of London on its re covery. The meeting yesterday shows that it is again awake and restored to its senses. W e .cannot flatter it by saying that it has taken the lead in the good cause; it is far in the rear; 131 -47 the well-conducted, unanimous meeting yes terdiby-will carry it forward towards the first ran - IE 7 ; It was both numerous and well ordered. The speeches, particularly Mr. GROTE'S and Mr. Tit,?evits's, we re exce ll ent ; an d a l toge th er i t (cp'nitrs honour on the City. It will stimulate other towns, and be the herald, we hope, of con ancl rapid progress. It Will be observed that none of the speakers advacated a fixed duty, but the purport of their resolutions was to support Ministers. The meet ing " . highly approved of the proposed alteration in the existing Corn-laws.'.' " The hand of sym pathy," as Mr. TRAVERS expreSsed it, " was now held out to them from high quarters. Let them seize the hand so 'held out. For his own part, he . was for the total abolition of all the laws which imposed. a tajr on human food." Mr. GltoT4"tod, said " I hope, Gentlemen, we are not to-lei:4'mi the 'duty - as invested with finality. I hdpe: we are to look on it as a temporary ex itie~it to secure' "a' transition from the pr n.. EASAtew of monopoly to one of .E . lFiet . irtttfit4qt, of trade? -All the speakers ex -- R r 4AtA ile- • A•lre know that • - • ~"'. 7.t4. - F -- 1 - 11-7.'-,.. ..;:"..-; ..,'-': l , - f, c i Ci - - : , ,, -- ' 3-- .;;;..., \..4 , la-_-....-.?, ..,,,,, ~,_ k . ,,,,......., , '.F..- .., lII ' ll' SI the League and the bulk of the manufacttrring population are for the total abol4tion, and it ought to be highly gratifying to the Ministers, a proof of the real confidence placed in them, to find gentlemen like Mr. GROTE and Mr. TRAVERS, and like those composing the great City meeting, coaling forward to accept their offer, and, waiv ing their own opinions, to adopt the plan pro posed to Parliament. We are disposed to honour their catholic spi rit, but we dread the consequences of the con tradiction between their expressed conviction and their conduct. Such political expediency, , we are afraid, is not calculated to impress the ear nest and hungering people of England with a thorough conviction of the earnestness of their leaders, nor will it excite that zeal, wanting which success must be hopeless. That opinions are uni versally expressed at the meetings held by the town population, in favour of the total abolition. and that they only accept the fixed duty as au instalment of the abolition, is a decisive proof Ciat the Ministers' plan does not satisfy the town po- pulation. At the same time that plan is met by the agriculturists with determined hostility. At all these meetings they express the fiercest opposi tion to it. They declare Bs. is no protection at all. The plan, then, has the misfortune of not satisfying either of the great interests. It is not what either the master-manufacturers, the farmers, the landlords, or the labourers demand. The fixed duty is something like a crotchet of some theorist, a little bit of economical, so called science, picked up, one hardly knows how, and supported, as we think, by most insufficient rea soning. The parentage of the opinion that a fixed duty of about Bs. or 10s. is necessary to counteract the peculiar burdens of the agriculturists, is due, we believe, to Mr. RICARDO. Since his death, how ever, the tithes have been commuted, and as the real charge is made to depend on prices, while it will no longer be increased as cultivation is ex tended, we must suggest that the principal cause why Mr. RICARDO advocated a fixed duty of Bs. or Ios. no longer exists. Since his death, too, the Poor-law has been altered, and the Poor rates in agricultural districts have been ma terially decreased. At the Chelmsford meeting speakers' praised the New Poor-law. They be nefit by it. Since Mr. RICARDO'S death, too, the agriculturists have been relieved by the re mission of taxes which pressed peculiarly on them ; .so that nearly all the circumstances which led him to the conclusion that a fixed duty was required to counteract the burden im posed upon the land, have been changed. But though the burdens no longer exist, the idle and wealthy owners of rent are still to be indulged in their vile and sordid desire of plundering the in dustrious poor, In the preface to a second edition of Mr. M'CuLLocn's pamphlet " O nthe Policy and Pro bable Consequences of the proposed Repeal of the e.ristiag Corn-laws," a reason for proposing so high a fixed duty is given, which strikes us as extraordinary, and not likely to stand the test of that searching investigation to which the whole question will be subjected:- 1 "We have," says Mr. M'Culloch, " previously en deavoured to show, that a duty of ss. per quarter on wheat would more than cover the excess of the peculiar taxes falling on the land, so that the additional 3s. a quarter may be regarded as a protection in favour of the agriculturists. And though they do not certainly re quire any such protection, it was probably the more ex pedient course, considering the prevalent notions as tct the extreme low price of corn abroad, to fix the duty at the outset of the . new system at a higher rate than might, under other circumstances, have been proper. At all events, with such a duty, the idea that it is the intention of Government to ' swamp,' as it has been termed, the agriculture of the. United Kingdom by admitting un limited importations of foreign corn, is too absurd to deserve any lengthened notice. The only good objection that can be made to the Ministerial project is not that it gives too little, but that it gives too much protection." Mr. M'Cum.ocn, then, though he is for some protection, states that the Bs. proposed by Minis ters, is 3s. too high ; but he says, proposing that " probably was the more expedient course, consi dering the prevalent notions as to the extreme low price of corn abroad." All legislation, founded on prices abroad,. has a most unstable basis. They vary in different countries, and in different seasons ; and a law to protect our agri culture, founded on prices abroad, should vary with the seasons, with the skill of different cul tivators, and as the wheat is imported from Odessa or New York. A law founded on actual prices abroad seems to be little better than a piece of solemn quackery. Now it is very remarkable that Mr. M'CuL- Locu assigns the proposed high fixed duty not to a knowledge of actual prices abroad, but to a deference to some prevalent notion, implying that it is erroneous, as to extreme low prices abroad. Did any body ever hear before of -a law affecting the whole subsistence of the people being founded on a deference to the acknowledged error of some theorists? The people complain of starvation—the Minis ters profess a wish to relieve them—but out of deference to an erroneous notion entertained by their opponents, the offspring of idle fears and abominable sordidness, they persist, contrary to justice, and contrary to the demands and. wishes of those on whom they reckon for support, in im posing a fixed duty of Bs. per quartet on the people's food. Such a law so defended may be matched, we think, amongst our old statutes con cerning witchcraft or prohibiting the feeding of spirits, but nowhere else. Such a law, too, so defended, will not, and cannot enlist the sympa thies of the people heartily in its favour, and will not be a sufficiently powerful instrument to con quer the Tories. We notice with pleasure that the agitation on the subject of the Corn-laws is very active in the agricultural districts. In the Essex Herald of yesterday we find reports of no 'less than three meetings; and though they were all unanimously fair maintaining the Corn-law as it now exists, we are so convinced that our cause must gain by dis cussion, that even these meetings give us satisfitc tion. Some of the subjects mooted at them are worthy of notice, and we should think our cause on the verge of success if the agriculturists would only really think of what they themselves say and do. At all these meetings, as in Parliament and ts in Lincolnshire, the speakers say that Ss. is no protection at all, and one and all cry "away with it." At the same time the fact is, as we have more than once mentioned already, that the actual duty paid under the present system has been only ss. 9d. The proposed plan offers them, therefore, a protection of 2s. 3d. per quarter more than they have received, and yet they cry " away with it." They are d ece i ved by the working of the averages, by which alone the gamblers profit. They have appeared to receive a much higher protection, but the corn -dealers have taken care to work the law to their profit, and to the deception of the corn-growers. If the farmers, then, say that Bs. is not7a sufficient protection, how miserably they have been de ceived by the present law, which has cheated them into a belief that they were to have an average protection of upwards of 205., and mocked them with a protection of ss. Od. The farmers have made their agreements ex pecting to receive what the law held out to them, and all between that and the actual protection afforded them has been, as it sere, filched from them by the law and the landlurcs. We are not surprised, therefore, to find Mr. ROBERT BAKER, an intelligent tenant- farmer, at the meeting at Chelmsford, on Friday, de claring— " From 1828 we have had the present scale, and I leave it to the farmers to say whether under that scale they have realized capital. I say there is 'lot a farmer amongst us who has realized capital." This is quite in conformity with•what we have repeatedly stated in The Sun; but while the pro tected farmers have realized no capital, the un protected manufacturers—for exporting the com modities they really have no protection--have realised such immense sums that they_have sup pliect„. as Lord A. 1.18 1 -; ftrgzi - -correctly . stated; TILE SUN, L three-fourths of the 60,000,0001. sterling. which have been employed In making' railroads. It is plain, then, that the law puts a cheat upon the farmers, and lures them to poverty and decay. Mr. BAKER went on to say of the farmers, " As a body they have not realised further than by a reinvestment of it in the land, where they expected to find it, and where they would have found it but for this breach of good faith towards them." The farmers depend, therefore, on the preserva tion of the law as it now exists, and depend on con tinually starving, as we have repeatedly proved, their humble fellow-countrymen, in order to realise their poor and petty profits. At the same time, they run a great risk, though that breach of faith be not committed which substi tutes an Bs. protection for a ss. 9d. protection, of not realising their investment. Mr. BAKER showed that between 1817 and 1822, when the farmers had Lord RIPON'S beloved Corn-laW in the parish where he " resides, three-fourths of the farms were abandoned, and every tenant left it a ruined man." They have incurred almost as great a misfortune under the present law, and Mr. BAKER correctly anticipates another year likelB3s, though the Corn-law be not repealed. Let the farmers throughout England mark his words, and let them be assured, if the Corn-law be no: repealed or altered, to give a stimulus to trade, that the first two favourable harvests in succes sion 77hich they have, if not the very first great harvest, will reduce them to a worse condition than in 1835. Mr. BAKER said— " In the year 1835, under this very Corn Bill, we were petitioning that we might have the support of the House of Commons to protect us under the depression which then existed—existed too, under this Bill, for under it we then had wheat at 40s. in the face of a full crop. . . . If wheat did not come down to the price that it fell to in 1835, we should have no reason to complain —(Hear, hear)—for it has now been on the decline for eighteen months. In 1839 and 1840, from deficient har vests it rose, but it has now descended 4s. to ss. in price from that period, and there is every appearance from the crops that it will s till g o OIL de s cending." If the farmers look to the trade reports they will find that stagnation and distress prevail in the manufacturing districts, that men are giving up their mills and turning off their hands; and when they remember 1835, and look at their own prospects in face of the ruin of their customers, they will dread, not without reason, a speedy repetition of disasters as great as those of 1817-1822. At all these meetings the speakers say they rely on the Act of Parliament not being disturbed. They over and over again spoke of their faith that the law would not be altered, and referred to the necessity, should it be altered, of revising the Commutation of Tithes Act. To us it appears singular that the brave and intelligent yeomen of England should rely for prosperity on the law. The time was when they worked out their prosperity with their own hands, and all that they required from the law was to he pro tected from depredation and violencg. They are as bad now as the.boors of Austria, or the wooden shoe peasantry of France, who can only move as the law prescribes, which ►nay be altered to-mor row. This is a total perversion of the ancient English character, which resisted the law when it interfered with private concerns, and thought it a degradation to rely for prosperity on aught but its own skill and industry. When the farmers of England say that they cannot cultivate so cheaply as foreigners, they do themselves a great injustice. Why should they embrace so disheartening, so dependent, so desponding a faith ? They ask, they say, for a protection in proportion to their burdens. They want to be enabled, by taxing others, to pay their share of the National Debt. But have not other persons to pay their share ? Is not the bulk of the revenue raised by customs, excise duties, and assessed taxes, of which the farmers pay no more in proportion to their property and consumption than any other persons ? It is well observed, in a pamphlet entitled " The Many sacrificed to the Few, proved by the Effects of the Sugar Monopoly," that other interests bear their share of taxation, and bear, too, a share of taxation for the landlords, and yet can compete with foreigners. The passage is as follows : The argument upon which the advocates for a system of preferences most generally and most triumphantly rely in favour of their theory, is drawn from the finan cial condition of the country. " Ilow is it possible," they say, " that a heavily taxed people, as we are, can grow corn, or produce sugar as cheaply as other people less heavily burthened ?" It is of no use to answer them by pointing to the fact that we export every year the products of our labour 'to the value o:4' more than fifty millions of money, proving by the very fact of such exportation that, burthened as we are with taxes, we can and do produce manufactures at a cheaper rate than they can be produced by any other people. It would sorely puzzle the protectionists to explain why a heavily taxed people can produce cheap cottons and hardwares, and at the same time be therefore unable to produce cheap corn. They are all unable to point out any causes • which give to taxation a greater influence in the one case than in the other, and the candid among them have long since been driven from the position which they falsely held, that the land has a greater proportion of the national burthens laid on it than is borne by other interests in the kingdom. This might have been the case to some small extent formerly, but has long since ceased to be true ; the last burthen peculiarly affecting the' landed interest that could be found was a tax on shepherds' dogs, and this has been removed. It would not be difficult to produce a somewhat formidable array of instances in which that interest is exempted from burthens which are borne by other classes ;—we may mention the duty on insuring farming produce —assessed taxes on fitrm-houses,—and that crying injustice, the exemption of real property from all probate duty. If the farmers will but look at the manufac turers struggling under their full share of the national burdens, and bearing, moreover, the great burden of the bread-tax—which not only shortens their supply of food, but limits the market for the sale of their commodities--if they can become sensible that the manufacturers could still, up to this time, realise capital, they will surely be ashamed of their great real infe riority to those manufacturers whom they pre tend to despise. Why should not farmers make . fortunes, as well as money-lenders and manufac turers? Their industry is the main source of the social wealth. Their whining despair—their hopeless dependence on a law which can only be maintained by annually starving a multitude of their own customers out of existence, is un worthy of Englishmen. At the Chelmsford meeting 'Mr. TOWER de scribed the corn monopolists as three-fourths of the society. We know not where Mr. TOWER picked up his statistics, but we never before heard of the agricultural labourers being in cluded amongst the monopolists, and without including-..them we cannot make out that the persons connected with the land amount to the tenth part of the proportion mentioned - by Mr. TOWER. It is against the whole body of the labourers, agricultural as well as others, that the landowners have their monopoly, and it is a poor fallacy of Mr. TOWER to include the victims of the monopoly amongst those who profit by it. Such strange exaggerations—such bald attempts to delude--if the agriculturists will but reflect on them, should awaken in them a strong suspicion that their cause is not a just one. If they also reflect on the moral' nature of the Corn-law—if they can only be brought to see that prices can only be raised by limiting the quantity of food, that limiting the quantity is withholding food from those who are perishing, that withholding or preventing men from obtaining food by their own honest exer tions is a far greater crime than refusing to give it from a man's own store, which is not asked—if the farmers will but reflect on the murderous consequences of the Corn-laws, we are sure that they will repudiate the enormous guilt for the paltry gain, if any, which they admit it gives them, particularly as it is accompanied by the sad and lamentable degradation of making them tax-gatherers for the owners of rent. Monday being observed as a holiday in France very few of the Paris iournals were published, and those which have reached us merely all 7 nounce the execution of the regicide ,DARMP.S: Consecrated as Monday was to religious obstr '. vanceSin Catholic countries; the French Govern ment scrupled not to sanctify it by an of humiii - blood, as if it followed, not the : corn- - memoration of the Ascension - of a merciful and all-forgiAlpg R e.deenier,,but,thelcindlity;:_9,fitic. I .. - NDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1841. flesh-consuming fires on the altars. of Moloch ! An eye-witness of the execution relates that when DARn.t,*s was brought to the foot of the guillotine a conversation of some four minutes' conversation took place between him and the executioner, and that had he then consented to make any revelations his life would have been spared. If this be so DARMES was decapi tated, not because he attempted the King's life, but because he declined to consign supposed participators in his guilt to the block. His crime was his fidelity to his wretched accomplices. His silence, and not his treason, cost him his life. Well, abandoned, hardened wretch as he was, we would not have his blood, legally as it has been- shed, upon our head or hands, for the crown of France ! His guilt was undoubted, but his trial by the Court of Peers was a mockery, and a disgrace to a civilised country. Baron PAS QUIER, the President, more resembled in his conduct during the trial a matador at a Spanish bull-baiting, than a grave and impartial Judge holding in his hands the balance in which was to be weighed the fate of a fellow-creature. But this is so akin to the whole system of trying pri soners in France, that it excites no surprise among our Gallic neighbours. In England, the presiding Judge is, de facto, counsel for the pri soner, and never suffers him either to be brow beaten or hurried into dangerous admissions by the Crown prosecutor; in France, on the con trary, all the ingenuity of the Judge is exercised to assist the prosecutor in entrapping the unfor tunate accused. There impartiality in a Judge is rarely witnessed, and a leaning towards the pri soner never. " A passenger on board one of the last steamers from Al giers," says the Toulonnaise, " informs us that the Spanish Government is sending troops into the Balearic islands, and especially to Port Mahon. The garrisons of these islands are, it is said, to be put on a war footing, cn the suggestion, as it is supposed, of England, who is apprehensive of seeing Port Mahon occupied, sooner cr later, by the French." The send ing of troops is confirmed by the Madrid papers. A letter from Paris, in the Augsburg Gazette, states that the King of the French had promised the northern courts that, as soon as Espartero should have been declared Regent of Spain, Don Caries should be liberated from his detention at Bourges. The letter also states that efforts are making to effect a matrimonial alliance between the Duke d'Aumale and Queen Isabella, but that the northern courts will not consent to her marrh•ge with a French prince, and desire that she should espouse the eldest son of Don Carlos. M. de Bellemare, the delegate of the French inhabitants of La Plata, arrived on the 28th at Havre. He comes from Eng land, where he has been on account of the negotiations pending. between the French and English Governments, in order to offer their joint mediation to the republics of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video.—Journal du Havre. The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of the 27th, announces that Jose Soroa, formerly Governor of Irun, under the Carlists, has just been arrested at Bayonne, and lodged in the prison of that town. A Spanish priest, whose influence is well known, has also been arrested. It seems that the greatest vigilance is ex ercised with respect to all the Spaniards who go to Bayonne. The Gazette du Dauphine, a leg.timist paper, published at. Grenoble, informs us that an advocate, a notary, and a coun sellor, who were supposed to have been acquainted with the letter of M. Simon Didier, previous to its publication, have been summoned, - as well as the printer, to appear before the examining judge, in orde r t o b e i n t er rog a t e d. The same paper informs us that several advocates have likewise been sum moned.—Le Constituitonnel. SPAIN. The Madrid Journals are to the 24th. In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on the 23d, an address from the Munici pality of Burgos, relative to the allocution of the Pope on the affairs of Spain, was referred to the Committee of Petitions. In the same sitting a proposal was read, recommending that the Government should give its attention to the indemnities to be granted to those places which have been plundered and burnt by the factious. This proposal was adopted immedi ately. The President of the Conncil said that he thought it useless to discuss the subject, because the Government was in.. dined to attend to this affair as soon as possible. Thanks to the repeated entreaties of Espartero, Senor Chaeon, ex-Minister-of-War, has accepted the appointment of Captain• General of Madrid. The transactions in the Five per Cents. amounted to 27,200,000 reels, and were negotiated at 27 5-16ths for ca-h, and at 28 at 60 days. We have said that the Minerva frigate has sailed from Toulon on the 27th for the Levant. We learn by private letters from Toulon, that this vessel is gone to Candia.—Lc Commerce. BOURSE—PAius, MONDAY, MAY 31. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price, Price irench:s per Cents ll4 25 ... 114 25 ... 1 4 10 ... 114 10 4% per Cents 104 50 ... 104 50 ... 104 50 ... 104 59 4 per Cents ' 99 si9 .. 99 3 per Cents 79 79 ... 78 9i ... 18 95 Laffitte dank I,ooot.Shares 1(57 50 ...1057 53 ...1057 50 ...1057 50 5, 0 e0f. Shares 515.1 ...5155 ...5155 ...5155 B:lgian Bank 1841 5 per Cents. 3 per Cents .....» 7l ... 71 ... 71 ... 71 New Loan lO l l4 ... 1 101% ... 101% ipanish Active ..... ... 247 i —. 24 ... 1414 Passive 5% ••• 5 % ••• % ••• 5 % Neapolitan .............. 104 50 104 50 ». 1 `.:4 0 ... 104 50 Roman 102% ...102% ~.102!4 ...101 - - - _ RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles. L.B l9O ... WO ... 177 50 ~. 177 59 R. B 330 ... 232 50 ... 227 50 ... 327 50 Orleans .. 487 50 ... 487 20 . es: 50 ... 4b7 : 0 itrlghtirg , o Bale 220 ~. 520 ... v 27 50 ... 227 50 Rouen 460 ...4@o «. 460 ... 460 From the German papers received this morn ing we extract the following news of the revolt in European Turkey ATHENS, MAT 12.—Though the Government does every thing in its power to prevent the natives of Candia from going to that island and taking part in the insurrection, many, how ever, succeed in escaping its vigilance. Not o n ly na ti ves o f Candia, but other Greeks hasten to that island to assist their brethren in their great undertaking. The same fermentation exists in Thessaly, and many Greek subjects go likewise to that province. Even some soldiers on the frontier have de serted. A similar excitement prevails in Macedonia, and it is affirmed that all these insurrections in Samos, Candia, Thessaly, and Macedonia are directed by the same club. Collections of money are likewise made (of cuurse in secret), and we may soon expect important events. The Courrier says that Mr. Baries, a Greek from Pesth, who is now here, has subscribed for 150 shares in the National Bank. The official paper says, in praise of this man, that his name appears in all enterprises tending to the improvement of the country. The Government has likewise received from other quarters offers to take shares, and it may therefore be expected that the National Bank will shortly commence its operations. DUTCH FUNDS.—AUSITELDASI, MAY t 9 Monej. ictual Dsbt, 2% per Cent ..............« 51 3 4 52 Ditto, ditto S per cent. Arnett Syndic, 4% percent 9 91 Ditto, ditto, 3)4 per cent 7 % 74% Commercial Company, 4% per cent l's P 6 Ditto (1615 and 1837) 5 per cent. ..... 101% :02 Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 97% 9714 Exchange on London, One month l2 05 Two months ..... 11 I's Dutch Papers, May 30. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.VIIPINA, MAY 23 Five per Cents. Metalliques Fear per Cents. 99% Three pi* Cents . Bank Shares IFSO Zeitung, May 27 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Benin, MAY 28. Bitls, Money. St. Schuld. 3ch. 41„ per cent. ~.....,....104 1(3% Prussian Enzlish Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. 102 1 / 4 101% lixehange on London, three months... 6 194 4 —Prussian Stale Gazelle. May 29 A public meeting is to take place this day at the As sembly Rooms at Edinburgh, for the purpose of express ing symiNtihy with the seven Ministers of the Presbytery of Strathbogte, and strong disapprobation of the conduct of the imViority of the General Assembly, in their at tempt to depOse them in consequence of having yielded obedience to the law of the laud. The requisition is most numerously signed, and contains the names of some of the first men in Scotland. Among others, the follow ing Noblemen :-L-Lord Dunfermline, the Earl of Caith ness, Lord Abereromby, Lord Elchp, Lord Seafield, and above 500 merchants, advocates, solicitors, and other per sons of the first respectability in Edinburgh. REPRESENTATION OF TEE TOWER HAMLETS.---At a very respectable meeting of the electors of this borough last evening, it was resolved to put Colonel Fox in nomina tion as the candidate, in the room of Dr. Lushington, on the principlieS of free trade and civil and religious liberty. Mr. Hume had b een app li e d to, and had de clines! because he had promised to st an d f or Leeds. The Hon. Hon. Member, assured - the deputation, which waited on him, that but for the urgency of the present crisis, it was his intention to have retired into private life. Lord Palmerston, had also been applied to and declined, be cause he did not like to separate from his present con stituents. Colonel Fox, after taking time to deliberate, accepted the offer, and the meeting having signified its determination to support him, he was requested to meet the electors this evening. ~ NOTTINGHAM ELECTION. -- The following, ' letter will let some light in upon the system of tactic; adopted i i by the Walterit es at the last election :—" 'l'o the Editors of the ,Vottit9hant Revietv—Sirs, In the poll-book of the late elec.' tion, just published by Mr. Allen, I set that my name is in serted amongst those of the country voters, as having voted for • for hiring some one to take this unwarranta bl e lib er ty w ith my name, a crime, in my estimation , that of sub orna ti on or perjury. N o w, because I desire to pre serve and to d eserve the character of be i ng cons i s t en t i n m y con duct, I beg to disclaim being so partial to Mr. Walter or to Tory principles as t o g i ve him my vote; and since I am thus in a manlier compelled, much agairst my inclination, to com e forward in a public manner to rescue my name from disgrace, 1 beg further to state that I have not voted at any electi on s i nce the one that took p l ace i mme di a t e l y a f ter the passin g o f th e R eform Bill, being of op i n i on th a t e l ec ti ons 'or m em be rs of Parliament, as now conducted, are d i sgraceful to civilized society, an d th at I s h ou ld degrade myself by taking any part i n th em. I remember the time when I considered it honourable to b e an elector of Nott i ng h am , b u t, with unaf facted def erence to the uncorrupt or incorruptible portion of nay brothe r e l ectors (of whom I doubt not there arc yet many, 'kith of rich an d poor, to be found in the ran k s o f b o th parties), I am sorry th at t h at honour has long since, by the venality of vast portion s o f the electors, been converte d i n to dis grace; and the gr ea t est f avour the municipal author i t i es can c on f er on me will be to str ik e my name from the list o f b urg esses.-1 re. main, Sirs, your most obedient servant, ALFRED COX. " Park-hill, May 19, 1 841." D EUX-PON TS, MA Yl6.—The new nearer to the heart of Germany. To-day . , post carriages through the Anweil valley, have, in truth, brought us much terclay- would not arrive in less than five da y s ' packets- go by way of Ca:1 , 1111)e, Stntgard, and Augsburg to our letters and , • Munich, in fifty hours, whereas letters put into the post yes explessed wish for a direct Communication with Metz,- by way of Saargemeed ei will be fulElled in a few day s.. . . Igreat EititATuAt.— ln the reporto f i.-1;; Anti - Corn-late meeting held on Tuesday in Guildhall, the pitby,,: speech of J. T rayqs. E . 5.... q was erronett4 l ,Y at Ut z to, 4.1 Veiar;lyrf. ' , ::.i ! :. ' • : .... -t , - ,--- • , ~. ....:„ ~~~~: THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The fresh supplies of Grain since Monday have been small, but the buyers have done very little business, and prices of all Grain was nominally as on Monday. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Meat was suite a drug in the market, buyers only purchased small quantities for immediate wants ; the supplies large and prices nominal. Poultry in large supply. The trade i s dull and the salesmen were obliged tomake a reduction in the prices to sell small lots. Tame Rabbits Is. 3d. to Is. 9d. ; Gos lings 4s. to 6s. ; Leverets 3s. to 6s. •, Ducklings 2s to 4s. ; large Surrey Fowls 7s. to 10s. ; Pea Fowls 7s. to lOs. ; Gui nea Fowls 4s. to ss. ; Turkey Poults 4s. to 6s. ; Sussex Chickens, 2s. 6d. to Iss. ; Barn Door do. Is. 6d. to 2s. 6d. ; Fowls, 4s. to 6s. ; Pigeons 6d. to Is. each. Eggs dull of sale, at previous rates. TEA MARKET. The market assumed a quiet aspect, and more inclination was man Vest on the part of holders to sell, some parties discre diting the news from China, and Company's Cnngou for cash may be had at Is. 101 d. per lb. TALLOW MARKET. The Tallow Market fcr Russian Tallow dull, and holders were more disposed to realise. P. Y. Candle on the spot was to be had at 465. 3d. per cwt., and there were sellers for deli very in last three months at 475. 3d. per cwt. COLONIAL MARKET. The business to-day was extremely limited by private treaty, and the public sales went off without spirit, but in prices little variation took place. The imports were to a fair extent from most parts. FRUIT MARKET. Prices of Currants and Raisins keep on the decline, there being gill a large stock on hand ; from both shippers and the home trade, however, a fair demand exists. LLO YD'S SH IPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JUN?. 2.—Wind this day at ncon, moderate breezo at W. S. W. =DEAL, JUNE 1. —Wind S.E.—Arrived the James M‘Queen, M 'Coll, St. Kitt's ; Woodhouse barque, Westward. Arrived from the River, and sailed, the Levenside, for Jamaica ; Charles Efeddlo, Mauritius, and sailed with the rest of the outward-bound. STA SGATE CREEK, JU NE 1 —An ived the Renshaw, Taylor, from Mogadore ; Brilliant, Yabsley, Malaga. LIVERPOOL, JUNE I.—Wind W.—Arrived the Mary Queen of Scots, Kelly, from Pernambuco—sailed April 16 ; Cornubia, Maranham ; Cabote, Ashton, Bahia—sailed April 4 ; Alexander Grant, Thornton; Coronet, Bulky; and \Vales, Roett, New Or!eans ; Wallace, Jacob Parnell, Tarquin, Ellen Brooks, and Broom, United States; Victory, Brooks, and. Hercules, Agnes, Mobile; Cumberlami, and Thomas Naylor, Apalachicola ; Madras and Romulus, Savannah ; Thetis, VatiOian, Charleston; Roscoe, New York—sailed 10th ult.; St. Cloud, Cornelia, an.l Harvest, New York ; Montrose, Davis, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Jessie, Harding, Quebec. Arrived off, the Charlotte and John, Cumming, and Betsey, Hall, from Leghorn ; Galata, Smyrna ; Ellen, Naples ; New Jane, 111r.laga. Sailed the Archer, for St. Thomas's ; Iris, Newfoundland. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE I.—Wind N.W. to W.S.W.—Ar• rived the Montreal, from New York, sailed the 10th ult. Sailed the Toronto, for New York. Arrived off, the Edii• burgh, Hondlett, from New Orleans; Arabian, Charleston ; Savaan, Batavia. -SouniAmerox.—Sailed the Groat Liverpool (steamer for Alexandria. POOLE, MAY 31. Sailed the John,and Thomas, for Labra dor ; Fama, Leghorn. PLYMOUTH, JUNE I.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Louise, from Altona ; St. George, Stewart, St. Jago de Cuba. FALMOUTH, MAY 31. Wind S. to W.S.W.—Arrived the Emma, Toll-, from Odessa; Elizabeth, ditto. Sailed the Tagus (steamer), for Vigo. Arrived off, the Elizabeth, from Trinidad; Antze, Havannah ; Sulphide, ditto ; Vereid, Leg horn ; Amy, Sierra Leone. PENzANCE.—Arrived off, the Dement, M'Pherson, from Hobart TEwn, sailed Feb. 11. BRISTOL, jUNE l.—Arrived the Royal Tar, Langley, from Calcutta. CORK, MAY 30.—Arrived the Christina, from Newfound ;and, sailed the 14th inst. ; Ann Drugwall, Arthur, Porto Rico ; Mersey, St. John's,' N.B. Arrived off, the Mersey, Gregory, from Laguna, sailed April 20 ; I\lorgiana, Havannah, and proceeded for London ; Ellen, 111‘Cormier, Laguna. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS CITY, TWELVE 0' CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JUNE l.—Our market today has been again very inanimate, scarcely 1,000 hales being purchased by the trade. Upwards of twenty vessels have arrived to-day, with heavy consignments, the effect of which, so unexpected, will be a further reduction of price. The market is completely glutted. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JUNE I.—We have had a very limited business in the Share Market to-day. The trans actions comprise as follows:—Eastern Counties Debentures, 6 3 4 ; Grand Junction, Half-shares, 99%; Liverpool and Manchester, 199 ; London and Birmingham, New, 23%; London and Brighton United Company, 451, x . MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE I.—We have no improvement in our Share Market to-day. Our quotations are:—Manchester and Leeds, Old Shares, 51i; Ditto, Half Shares, 2034 ; Eastern Counties, "ii 8 ; Cheltenham and Great Western, 28; Great Western, 94 95; Ditto, Half Shares, 64 641; Union Bank of Manchester, 71. Bs. 9d. The New York papers to the 12th of May, bring the fol lowing account of the President steamfr " The most probable statement that has as yet appeared seeming to throw any light upon the painful matter in sus pense, was brought to this port some days ago by a British barque, the Recovery, from the port of Bristol. Her captain, Bowman, is said to have reported that on the 28th of March, when off the Azores, he saw at a great distance the hull of a large ship, dismasted, which he took to be a man of war, and that about the same time he saw fragments of spars, casks, &e., floating on the water. This is supposed to be the President. By the subjoined note it will be seen that an investigation of this report is to be made to-morrow before the British Consul:— " British Consulate, May 10. " Gentlemen,—ln consequence of the report that R. Bow man, master of the barque Recovery, of London, on the voyage frOrit Bristol to this port, saw a very large vessel dis masted, which from the latitude may have been the steam ship President, without having made any effort to afford relief to a vessel so circumstanced, I have deemed it my duty to re quire the attendance of the master, officers, and seamen of that vessel, at this Consulate, to.morrow at noun, to investigate the statement as published, to which I respectfully invite the gen tlemen of the press. JAS. BUCHANAN. ' THE FUNDS, Consols opeied this morning at the same quotations they left off yesterday 90A- I for the Account ; Money. 894 I. Ex chequer Bills 11 13 prem. ; Bank Stock, 16bi 1691 India Stock, 252 254 ; India Bonds 13 prem. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active rather better, left off 23i 4, at present 233 ; Deferred, 11i 4 ; Passive, 5i 4 ; Portuguese, 33 1 34 ; Three per Cents., al g ; 67 1 ,! 65%; Colombian, 21i 22; Mexican, 28i ; Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cent 3., 52i ; Five per Cents., 99% 100. SHAPES. — Great Western, 29 30 prem. ; New, 14i prem. ; London and Brighton, 4 3 / dis. ; Blackwall, 65i dis. ; Birmingham, 63 70 prem. ; Southampton, 55 56 per share ; Croydon, 13i 3 / 4 per share. The Batavier has arrived, bringing papers to the Ist of June. Prices of the 29th 111ay.—Two-and.a-Half per Cents., 51i , Five per Cent., 100; Ardoin's, 22. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share, Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ...... Ditto New Cheltenham and Great Western. 62 Great Western . Ditto New London and Brighton London and Birmingham 9O 1584 to Northern and Eastern North Midland HALF-PAST ONE. Up to the present hour there is not a feature in either of the Markets worth notice. The Tea Market is also inactive, as the speculators arc wait ing for further arrivals previous to operating. Cons-13 are a shade better for Money, 90; for the Account a shade lower, 90i ; Exchequer Bills, 11 13 prem. ; Bank Stock 164 ; India Bonds 3 prem. In the Foreign Market very little &ink. Spanish /Votive 234 ; Portuguese 334 ; Colombian 21 ; Dutch Two -and-a- Half per Cents. 523 ; Five per Cents. 99k. In Shares also little doing. Great Western 94 ; Ditto, New, 84 ; London and Brighton, 453 ; London and Birming ham 1581, North Midland 673. TWO O'CLOCK. In the Commercial Markets the chief attention of the merchants is directed to the state and prospects of the Tea trade, which has been put again into a state of feverish ex citement by the news received from China of the recom mencement of hostilities with the Chinese. There has not, however, been so great an amount of actual business done as might have been anticipated. In fact, the dealers have not yet got over the loss they were compelled to incur by the previous unfavourable intelligence from Canton. Holders are not disposed to sell at the present advance which is about 3d. per lb. The stock on hand. is not equal to a year's consump tion,,and therefore prices may be expected to go highen 'The deliveries for home consumption and exportation for the last three mouths have been equal to forty million pounds per annum, In the other principal Mercanti?e Markets there is not much alteration to notice. The West India Produce Markets are flat. Sugars continue to maintain very high prices. It having becn officially intimated to the trade that there is no chance of an alteration in the Coffee Duties this year, business seems carried on with less fluctuation than in some other articles. We are overwhelmed this morning with advices from the United States brought by three sailing vessels, and we are sorry to say that brother Jonathan, from all accounts, is in terribly hot water. It is to be feared the American trade here will suffer by the failures and dishonesty of the Banks, which must drag down many of the merchants on the other side of the Atlantic. Business both in stocks and produce, is materially eheckcd by the protracted debate in the House of Commons, Today the Funds look very dull. QUARTER TO THREE. Consols for Account firm at 90i No alteration in any of the Foreign Funds. Nothing whatever doing. On Tuesday, at Covent-garden Market, there vras a p'eutiful supply of green peas, at Is. fid per peck, and by the afternoon they were common at most of the shops in the mettopolis. Cherries were retailed at , ls. per lb., and strawbetries were very abundant at Is. 6d. per pottle. The Rev. M. Kempe, vicar of Ltnkinghorne, near Callington, cut his throat on Thursday, the 13th instant. The reverend gentleman lingers in a deplorable state.— , Western Times. Wool grown in Ireland is continually sent over I to Leicestershire an d D er b ys hi re, where, haring undergone the process of manufacture,it is actually sent back again as hose, to the country where it was originally produced. THUNDER STORM IN IRELAND.—On Thurs day morning, about six o'clock, after a very sultry night, Lime rick vs as visited by a most awful ard terrific thunder-storm, which endured for an hour. It commenced with a hollow rumbling roise, resembling the rear of distant artillery, and increasing at intervals so as to convey the idea of a heavy can nonade, and then became more quick and continuou like the frequent discharge of small arms, and the rattling fee de joie of musketry, while again a tremendous crash boomed along with a violence which no human power could be expected to produce. The sky was in the interim dark as twilight, and the air was charged with vivid flashes of • forked lightning, which followed etch other with much rapidity. The rain poured down in violent torrents for above an hour. It waS, ,truly a fearful scene. A young woman, named Ann Clanchv, residing at Clonmacken, while sittin , by the fire with her husband about seven o'clock A. as., was struck by a flash which ran down the chimney, and laid her prostrate on the floor. Her husband sustained a slight shock, and was left insensible for some time, but on eorning to himself, and attempting to raise his wife up, he f oun d to his borro- that she was dead. The Mayor held an inquest on the body, whieli exhibited livid streaks from the head to the waist. wizen, after a very minute inquiry, a- verdict was returned—Died by the. visitation of God.. tirnorich Chrenirle, • ••-,, • 'sn ' : • ; .1 • • • -- I%ISGAZINES-CONTINUED. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE, In the article on the " 'Whig Ministry," this Magazine adopts a bolder and more uncompro mising political tone than has of late been usual with it. It now proclaims " war to the knife" against the Ministers, and is full of confident expectation that the whole country will immedi ately respond to its battle-cry. The article is a very fierce one, and in more than one instance the writer's temperseems to have got the better of his common sense, for he actually attributes "the length of time for which the Whig Government has been suffered to exist," to the fact that the " Conservative feeling is more deeply rooted than ever in the country !" Was there ever an absurder paradox than this? The Whigs maintain the.r power, because their sworn foes, the Tories, are stronger than ever they were ! Were the Oppo sition at its last gasp, then, by a parity of reason ing, the Ministers, we suppose, would be at once ejected from office !' " The force of folly can no further go," than in this paradoxical remark of Maga. The writer is compelled to admit that ' Lord John Russell's late speech " showed a large measure of cleverness and dexterity ;" but imme diately afterwards he stultifies himself by the declaration that " full-grown men can derive little satisfaction from sounding sentences or delusive generalities." Why, it was these very full-grown men who were so delighted with his Lordship's speech, which certainly could not have "shoWed a large measure of cleverness," if it had consisted on y of " sounding sentences!" Between sense and sound. there exists as great a difference as between a Sibthorp and a Cicero. The writer is horror-strnck at the flagrant iniquity or the Penny - Postage s , .theme. 'Tae bare idea of cheap postage shocks his delicate sensibilities; and no wonder, for in Tory - eyes cheapness is synonymous with revolution.. " Peter the Wise " is an arch, sprightly poem, whose versifi cation, however, is here and .there as lame and• rough as the bellman's rhymes. In " Hints to Authors " occur some capital hits at modern biographers, whose. tastes for the eulogistic are exposed in a searching strain of ridicule. " When I was in the Legion" is a memoir of military life, abounding• . in brO,:(1 humour. The present portion of " Ten Thousand a Year" has one . powerful scene—that, w t : mean, between Gammon and Lord Dreddlin g - :on, where the former states to the latter his conviction that Titmouse is illegitimate, and cons:=(lue has no just claim on the Yatton estates. Tntly his scene is wrought up in Mr. Warren's happiest manner. The incident, however, which intro duceS it—namely, that of Gammon leaving open on his table in chambers a legal document which proves his own roguery, is improbable in the highest degree; for an attorney, so wary, thoughtful, and sagacious as he is represented to be, in all cases where his own interests are con cerned, could never, by the remotest possibility, • have been guilty of such negligence. There is here a sad want of keeping and consistency in the character. " Russia as it was in the sum mer and winter of 1812," is an article excellently suited to the tastes of magazine readers. That year was, it may be remembered, the celebrated one of the French invasion, and the writer states that he himself was present in Russia at the time. His sketch of Smolensko at that stirring period is replete with life and vigour; but we prefer quoting his personal sketch of Napoleon during the sanguinary battle of Borodino : On the 20th of October, just five weeks too late, the trumpet sounded in Moscow for a retreat ; and we all know what followed. I, for my part, saw something of what followed, and this it is which I shall now relate. But let me pause to say, that it was not merely and solely the obstinacy of pride, and the blindness of reli ance upon one mans infirm nature, which had led Napo leon thus far astray. It was well-known at that time that the coats of his stomach were in a dreadful state of nervous irritation, partly from general mismanagement of the digestive organs, but more from the recent habit of using strong -stimufants, especially green tea drugged with brandy, in the proportion of half-and-half, for the purpose of keeping him Self awake—a habit which at times incapacitated him either for thought or for action Bourrienne has denied emphatically his use of strong coffee, or of snuff to any excess ; but Bourrienne's evi dence applies only to a period eight years earlier ; and at present so altered were Napoleon's habits, that on the day of Borodino his internal wretched ness absolutely obliged him at times .to lay aside the re ports from the different points of attack, as they kept coming into his tent. He walked feebly about, sipping his green tea, in a state of mixed helplessness and rest lessness ; and it was owing to the dire depression Pram this state of feverish weakness, that he could not be moved by ally entreaties to =nuzzle the Imperial Guard, forty thousand strong, upon the Russians, at the latter part of the battle. He pleaded, indeed, that any disaster to the Guard would compromise the safety of the entire army ; but his policy had never been in that spirit of rigorous caution ; for almost every advantage, throughout his military life, he had been indebted to the very opposite principle, of staking the whole succes:j upon One decisive throw. It is the very necessity of such phy sical alterations in a man, ti i zt he is not aware of his own condition. He himself could see nothing unusual in the preternatural timidity of his'planS ; but all those who had access to his person viewed him, on tie day of Boro dino, as a mere wreck of what he had been .eve" t hree years before. TAIT'S MAGAZINE. The " National Crisis" is a very spirited article, put forth just at the right season. The writer justly enough praises Ministers for their recent bold and liberal conduct, observing " they have rnovLd in the right direction, under the now fairly unfurled banner of Free Trade, and in the strength of a good cause. They have offered the country a fair opportunity of getting rid of some of the most galling and pernicious imposts that ever indirectly crippled the energies, and directly robbed a people." And of this fair opportu nity, the People—unless we misinterpret the_ signs of the times which are daily deve loping themselves with more significance — will be prompt to take advantage, notwithstand ing all the opposition which the combined forces of prejudice and intolerance may make to their exertions. The writer shrewdly adds, " six weeks since it would.' have been safe to predict that the Tories would gain very considerably by a dissolution. Now, the event is doubtful; parties are breaking up ; there is for the moment a kind of political chaos. But amid all this confusion the fate of the Bread-tax is sealed, and it is immaterial at whose hands it receives - its death-stroke." " Texas " is an entertaining notice of Mr. Kennedy's late work on . this subject. The Reviewer warmly praises the work, but protests against fts indirect defence of slave-holding, which is certainly not to be justified under any circumstances. "Shak spearian Rambles" is a spirited series of descrip , live sketches of some of the localities alluded to in the great dramatist's plays. " Quackleborough Election ; a Mystery," is the cleverest imi tation we have yet seen of Mr. Car lyle's Anglo-German style. The article is one of those good-natured quizzes, to which even the most fastidious cannot object. Mr. Carlyle himself, we suspect, will be not a little diverted by it. " Violet Hamilton" continues to be car ried on with vigour and ability. From a most intelligent article, entitled " Slavery in the United States," we select a description of a slave auction in the capital of Virginia, which will give our readers someinsight into the horrors of.this atrocious system, which inflicts a deep and last ing disgrace, as O'Connell has justly observed, on the national character of the Americans : Monday next, at 9 A.N., at public sale, the slaves whose names follow, all negroes of the first quality—namely, Betsy, a negrO-woman, twenty-three years of age, with her child Ca:sar, three - years old ; an excellent cook; washer, and ironer ; warranted healthy . . Julia,: a mi latto girl, aged thirteen, robust and active, a good field labourer ; with the exception of a slight defect in the left eye, she is without fault ..... . . " Let us proceed, gentleman," cried the seller of human flesh, in a stentorian voice ; " let us proceed—a woman for sale !" "An excellent woman ; not a fault ! and a little boy in the bargain. How much for the mother and child -250 dollars ; very well, Sir, 250 to begin. Some one has bid 250. Truly, gentlemen, they sell cattle for a larger_ ; 250 ? Look at these - eyes, examine these limbs— shall I say il)9 Thanks, gentlemen, some one has bid 260. It seems id lie that I heard 275 ;—go on, gentle men ; I have never 50,. 1 . 4 such a bargain. How 280 for the best cook, the best washer, and the best dressmaker in Virginia ? Must I sell for the miserable price of 280 ? 300 ; two gentlemen have b ,.?id 300. Very well, gentlemen I tun happy to tale nto warm a little. Some one bid-310-310, going —340, going. - Upon my honour, gentlemen, it is iL2;leed. —; —340 r3u.... -335 . a sacrifice to lose so gaud is - cook $ a great bargain foL 340 dollars. Reflect upon it a little, and do not forget there is a little boy in the bargain.", Here our auctioneer was interrupted in his haratiga4 by one of his customers, a man whose appearance had inspired me, from the first moment, with a feeling of horror, and who, with the indifference and sang froid of an assassin, niade to him the following observation : " As for the negro child, it is good for nothing ; it is not worth a day's nourishment ; and if I have the mother, I will give away the child very quick ; the first bidder will be able to have it at a cheap bargain." I glanced at the unfortunate mother, anxious to see what - effect this barbarous proposal would have upon her. She (lid not speak, but a profound sadness was im pressed on her countenance. The little innocent which she held in her arms, fixed his large eyes on her, as if saying, ". Mamma, why do you weep ?" Then he turned: towards the witnesses of this heart-rending scene, With an impression that .seemed. to ask, what they had done to hicrnotlier 49 make her weep so bitterly.-: will this moment ever escape my memory ;- it - MIS 'cep firmed, me-for all ray life m the horror that. I, already felt at this infamous traffic. The auction continued; acid finally .the crier, striking a heavy blow with a hamifier;' pronounced the_ award to : . dr. for 360 dollars. The victim descended from the table, and was led away by the purchaser.- The other slaves , were sold in the. *le manner 'lts .poor Betsy. Julia was sold at 326 EVENING E dollars, and Augustus at 105. They both - felt. slave-trade same individual who bad purchased the former lot. Such is tin imperfect view of the Anierican intecomi unutterable. --r system fraught with outrages', pollutiolt,s, ALEXANDER'S EAST INDIA JIAGAZDyf Small indeed must be the abuse s in the Wet tion of the Afiiiirs of the East India CooPri which escape the lynx- eyed vigilance of the 3 e ductors of this periodical. Not a month; - i3- 53 . 1; in which they do not raise the " hue ainre r ,, against the " sink" in Leadenhall-street, Whet' monopoly sits enthroned bolstered up witl);Piles of old parchments front which.the seglin. fast dropping. " Formerly," observes" one r , in a very clever article, entitled at sled Company," " the dividend was the 'trea t bait for the plunder of India; but Parthunein was speedily compelled to put a stop to the C° ll3 ; PanY's power over its own dividend when it etT a. ' to be drawn out of the public Treasury of Now, the patronage of India i s that Jai ja chiefly vitiates and corrupts the Coin:PanY,, both its Courts, for it is the Ixtit which wicked and corrupt men to become D irectt.l without either knowing or caring ab:nit t l l irtY and it is the golden chain which binds tbc tyrants together in supporting each otherl, their seats for life, however inimical they be to each other upon every other matter. dread of the operation of the libel law Pr l ''' c i ni t us from co::tinuing the quotation. tic ollows is rather spicy. " Travels on the 0 45 0 , / , ' Persia" shows how very little we yet really 101.1. of the interior of Central Asia. The Indi a ill & lig• t..nce copious, and very carefully arrange tff cliS. FARMER'S MAG VAT. A periodical exclusively devoted to • agrie g at , ral themes, which it usually discusses in a neat, ter-of-fact style, well calculated to r ecola r w ot , it to the favour of practical men. The Number contains two plates, b u t neither are markable for the quality of the engraving' . - BRITISH MAGAZKIE. of We have here a carefuli3 constructed loarisi, the diocese of Durham, one of the ricbest we believe, most extensive in the kingdonl7.oLr., gether with some curious and interestioi,g s ` t ed respondence respecting Taliessiu, cel c ,,i r too Welsh poet and prophet, of whom the % e is• ditions of the principality relates° many 11181." THE SPORTSMAN plate, rc pt Contains this month an excellent renting the famous rowing match on the.ThP•ll'A. ween Oxford and Cambridge, pl ac e .last April, and in Which the Cautabs;lelt, victoriou.:; and a sketch of Carthagen illove%rs: whose waters are in great request With of the angle. This last plate is' but pass ablY. fol graved. Among the literary con tatts, vc i aof an entertaining Irish story, unde r the be " A Tale of the RappaTees." THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF Ati. l " - TURE, e ider!' We recommend tO our agricultural ' latest cc sketches in Normandy," which give the iitt o and best account of one of the finest pro d o or in France. They are in general the rel-_146 personal observation, or founded on reportg_“'l6 by the Association of Normandy, which vi.3-'1064; stituted for the purpose of obtaining th e 4 t hc authentic information on the productious vrooev, country, the breeding of cattle, fislierieq'„ileli plantations,•&c. in statistical details our -1-.'crie neighbonrs excel, but in ag-ricultural ituP' meats, and in breeding Cattle they are sadly-lor' ficient. A perusal of this desc ript i o n of inandy, which takes the lead of all the r f r or these reports; Will soon convince th e red uefor the fact. The article "On the Utiliev portance of Science' to Agriculture 1 ) 7 fol. Towers, may be read with advantage. -irorit lowing remarks on the Corn-laws in such a i _ . ‘ eo f will rather surprise such men as the J - - )9 `. fl Buckinhain and Lord Western : A perfectly impartial speculator, loving and tiara of everything connected with the glorious produetie.nt nature, and educated to no other profession than 07100 pure chemistry, k tee in.the workings of the Ccri'ofit nothing but strife, discordance of opinion, and o f and )Ir. ing jealouay. discover no beneficial equabillt:ive, prices, no ..t-rnuneratory profits,—but great, deeepLero and • ruinous t:uetuations. Hence I would r educe IP . , ; to a mere by-w e rd,— a thing below debate or ar g taa lin not by the partial free-trade alluded to by . Mr. ll3l ' in the third parkg,raph of p. 461, but by exaltieghieh science of ..Agricult. tro to a power of prolificity, r i r should,.as before ob, :erved , render all foreign inte recce or supply an of it of mere possible contingeal' THE STATISTICAL- ,4CC L AND.OUNT OF Sty - IN umber Thirty-one col: tains part of the coil of Inverness and three p s 'lrishes in Ayrsilit: Th e description of the lattei:, which in • g •enen are fertile and well sheltered, _forms a woo deri,,'"' con t r ast with that of the paristies in the Non which probably are the most barren and blea k in Scotland. The inhabitants in general are ee tremely poor, but little skilled in agricultu re ' and often exposed to severe famine. _Among tr„ Western Isles this is particularly the case. cl l ' many-of these the common buildings or do is ' 1 , ings of the peasantry are of the most niiseray.., desgription; .the wall is formed of loose ~ dressed stone • without mortar, the centre belmf filled up with earth, roofed with turf ancl.stti'" and bound together by heather rope. Thereff:i neither windows nor chimneys, and in one ir these miserable huts the family live, with tl:?:1), cows and horses in the other. In one .Pa i r ' is inquiries were made, when the cholera rage;the the neighbourhood, as to the condition e' 00 e , people, and it was found that there were,.o hundred and forty families who h ad no c7s, of night or day, clothes. Notwithstanding thes e paintid details, however, the accounts d. •i wild districts possess considerable interest. 151e' From the Statistical Account of Kiln-lair/ deo of Skye, we extract the following graphite scription 1.00. Mies FLORA MACDONALD.—The story of th e , e toe , conduct of Miss Flora Macdonald in condu cting fortunate Charles, in the disguise of a maid-servan wel/,.' the Long Island to Monkstadt, in this parish, is 5 n known that any of it here is unnecessary; s.bieft,• Many were the trials and severe the hardsxPs a nt te., - .; fell to the let of the gallan; - . Miss Flora, sub 6 l e t , r t this adventure. She was soon seized and brou,t, n so la n n e y r t o o th L e o rs n , d c o o n n , fi w n h et e i re in sh t e he • wir.;,os;vNevrit.h Ililnigshnqji a dnlnf e itett dauntless part which she had acted, and her ca,se so much interest. that she - was visited by the gre:' noble of the land. Amongst the rest; she had the .4 of a Visit from Prince Frederick of gr eat -g • father- of her present Majesty Queen victoria. generous prince was s o much struck whit the si%- l e. , and dignity of -the fair prisoner's c haracte r ;4 o lo interested himself to procure her liberation. Clio h° had obtained her freedoM, she found refuge of Lady Primrose, of Dunnipace, where she 11 ' 4 ' „ and loaded with honours by distinguished p er ' vl all ranks and shades of politics. Returning island, she was married in the month of 1750, to Allan, son of Mr. Alexander Macdoo, Kingsburgh, who resided at the time of his Flodigarry, in this parish. Upon the death a ri-1 0 0-tii band's father, his son, Allan, succeeded him, ant' us ielky then Mrs. Allan Macdonald, became lady of the nis c oatit . i to her , of Kingsburgh. She afterwards went to North 9 1 ! ? , with her husband, ww.re he took part in the cir it fter.:: which then disturbed the peace of that country.deesj,s,, undergoing many hardships in that quarter, ther.- h it prudent to return to Skye. Jul.' vessel in wale r; sailed from. America was me,: - by a French pris,, ;2tec o ,aet in action took place. in which 'Flora aPre'd eu : * a* where, with her wonted magnanillitY: she • seamen with ceurage, and assurt-d then! Although her arin was broken in the - en ti r e o l 4: s! 71 4 v , her native spirit of Leroisrn was not itt damped. She never more left Skye,')lshe had se%e ii , e ix, 4 dreg, five soils and'itydditigliters,'bdides sonic."' in infancy ; all her pus, were: officiskvli e themselves in the SeitzViee!of their king and cou nt" w • •• ;(.' daughters, on the other hand , became etfi r e . er ti :ydr_„l: • _Ann was the lady of Maj,..n. _Al ex ander . 31a. died at Stein, in this island, about six yea °;iteit.OFT`. second daughter, Fr....nees,,was married to -1-11,06-i.ool_,,L'l Donald Macdonald, of Cgiderach. Of thi family, none 'are moor alive. The celebrated i' - ;he to au advanced period of lif e ..and retained to 6,f that vivacity of character, rind that antiableuess ii i f? sition, by which she w,isalW4ys distinguished. sth of March, 1790fe, lit° than two years before the de P ath of her husband th l.4 able he tombs en 1• e ~ ' x 1 .I(pb r il e ry:ite m rnscislg a stl,eohs i n tbali s ti.eilard‘,vigb ‘ t : aol ' hl e rl , ui r linttl e tlirnlit,:ale i lii t ieli t .sye t 3q. e 3:l r uei r to:it e rrecr d :oe.l:7 i pil n li6filyie6cc;i t slve h eetiloi e d.c.a:uele b ,and ur eliestowi: y aissr i ,e) if 111TW 11:1 A DICTIONARY OF 'SCIENCE, A-- TUBE, AND ART. ha The Fifth Part of this excellent wars.. • les,' aroc peared, and among other interesticg the contains one on Geology, which e nters 1 7, 41 - reit subject at length, and displays great ceris every ith and knowledge of this useful science. refresluneg terspersed with little wood-cuts, SOlllo od. , lo cue , _ are well executed, such as the granite%',ldt.a' nearLiskeard, called ;he Chcrsewring, the sl. cluster of rocks at Ifillsivickness, and 17 ! ' III ' Cave. The writer at the same time g1 .. `, ; vo account of the causes of earthquakes a„1'11.4 '' canoes, together with historical descriPP. • o!' the most remarkable on record. rhea r t ' le o .10 " Gravity," " Heraldry," contain a great deal : of int9 l der to t Compressed within :a small, cornp4.• l-111 00.501r.; " 31 - easureutent - of . geight_sto, word "Guillotine," we find an-accoWit 11,1 4 - • cnve ' l Ol Ignace Guillotine. w °MaM. 5 s . ..# 1. e • generally known. He was a physician a, a Deputy to the National ASSenibly, a :,; 1 ,119 , of great humanity. recininnended the.. init?rioTtetten beosit*- sag .141 k: LL I .......... i