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EVENING EDITION NAPIER FOR MARYLEBONE. /THE COMMITTEE for CONDUCTING the ELECTION of COMMODORE SIR CHARLES NA PIER MEET DAILY at the ROOMS of the REFORM and RtGISTRATION ASSOCIATION, No. 62, Warren street,' Totten:; am- court-road. Eicetors are earnestly requested to enrol their Names in ad ditina te , the numerous recorded Supporters of the Gallant Commodore. . By crder, May 24, 184]. JOSEPH Hon. Speretarv. MKTLLOCH ON THE CORN-LAWS. - Now rack, the Second Edition, with a Postscript, price Is., Svo. sewed, QTATEMENTS illustrative of the POLICY xrs ritto-OAbLE- CONSEQUENCES of the proposed REPEAL of the CORN-LAWS. ' By J. R. 111•CULLOCH, Esq. Lonilon : Longman, Orme, and Co. 13, Great Marlborough street. TuADY BLESSINGTON'S .6 IDLER IN FRANCE," Thu Publication of this Work is unavoidably postponed until Monday Next, June 7. Crders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. This day, in 2 vo ARRATIVE OB ls post t4vo., with Illustrations, N THE CAMPAIGN of the ARMY of the INDUS in SIND and KA BOOL, in 1838 and 1839. By RICHARD HARTLEY KENNEDY, LI.D. "Th work presents a vivid and interesting history of one cof the most important campaigns in which our Indian army las ever been engaged."—Atla New s. B Richard Bentley, urlington-street. (Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty). ILLUSTRATED BY CRUIKSHANK AND LEECH. THE JUNE NUMBER OF Q ENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. I_, Edited by W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq., Contains The LAY of the OLD WOMAN CLOTHED in GREY. COUNTY LEGENDS, No. 11. By THOMAS INGOLDSBY, Esq. Hours in liindostan—Table Specimens of Modern German Talk—A Fifth at Whist-- Poets. By Mary Howitt. The Mussultah Uoat. Sonnet. The Lonja of Se.ville. By the The Linkman. By Albany lion. R. Dundas Murray Poyntz. (Elibank). An Adventure in the Fifteen Ile e. I Acres—Bob Donellon's Sto l'aglioni. By 0. Smith. t ry. By Phelim O'Toole. GUY FAWKES, By W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq. Illustrated by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. Book the Third. Chapter 3. Huddington. Chapter 4. Holbeach. Merrie England iu the Olden Ghost Gossips at Blakesley Time. By George Daniel. House. By the Author of Day with Nature. By Jas. " Ste phen Dogard." A hutch . l The Mill of Pouldu. By Miss Costello. THE PORCELAIN BATH •, A LEGEND of the CELESTIAL EMPIRE. By the Author of ." HO-FI of the YELLOW GIRDLE." Illustrated by LEECH. Richard Bentley, New Burlington- street. ------ HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) 0 Ter - many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS. at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, A te novf,IEL.LING BONDS for the said DISTrtIEU T lONS. Persons tiesirous to purchase for the Next Distribution m a y releive PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PROS PECTUS an ds PARTICULARS, upon addressing, WITH OUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAAIBURGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of £25,000 £6OO £l2O £BO b,OOO 400 110 70 1,500 200 100 60 1,000 150 90 50 800 100 T b • largest Dividend of the Distribution of Ist March last, TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS, was remitted to Loudon and vicinity bY HEINE BROTHERS, who reOitted, during a few yearv, 21 hire. Money Dividends, from 6001. a nd u p wards unto 25,0001., besides many Dividends o f smaller &co unts to England, Ireland , an d Scotland. . ------ -p RospE 0 T U S of the 7,000 MONEY DI VIDENDS 'which will be divided amongst 7,000 BONDS of 'sse IMPERIAL and ROYAL POLI.SH LOAN, Contracted in the Year 18.35; Under Guarantee of His Majesty the Emperor of Russia, By the Distribution of Ist July, 1841. Dividends. , Florins Polish Currency. 1 ...... of 1,000,000 1,000,000 1 2 .................. 150,000 6 ......... 25,000 ............... 150,000 8 12 20 100 150 200 1000 .950,000 .5,500 ...---....---. 1,000 7,97000 41 florins Polish Currency are equal to :El Sterling. Eiery Original Bend belonging to the Distribution of lit July obtains at least a Dividend-of £l5 Sterling. Largest Dividend £24,400 Sterling. Direct for Original Bonds, without dlay, to HEINE BROTHERS, e at HAMBURGIL THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. INIDER the MANAGEMENT of AI 4 nA ME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, JUNE I, Will be Tepeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled LONDON ASS URANCE. Sir Harcourt Courtly, Bart., Mr, W. Farren ; Max Hark aNray, Mr. Bartley; Mr. Cherie: - Court iy, Mr. Anderson; 31r„ „Adolphus Spanker, Mr. Keeley ; Mr. Dazale Air. C. Ai:dhows ; Mark Meddle, Mr. Harley ; Graee Harkreay, Itlactswe Vestris ; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; NV& Pert, Mrs, Hunibv. Alter which will be repeated, the Grand Romantic Fairy Ex travaganza, entitled BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Re,..ity, Madame Vostris ; The Beast, Mr. W. Harrison; John Quill, Mr. Harley ; Dressalinda, Miss Rainforth ; Mar rygolda, Miss Grant ; Queen of the Roses, Miss Lee. To-morrow, The Mi&ummer Night's Dream, with Auld Robin Gray, and Brother Ben. toors to t e epeued at hall-past Six—the performances to strowence at Seven o'Clock. ores.. Boles, 75. ; Secant! Price, 3s. 64.; First and Second irele., ; Second Price, :Is. ; Pit, First an d Price. 25.; Gallery Is. Tickets an.l place; for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan , st t..t.liox-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets - may be had upon application. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. ‘JNDER THE ALAN AUEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Exit risi ye Novelty . ‘ tirst Vocalists in tire Kingdom—Miss Row-r, Mr Non, and Mr. Leffler, assisted by Mrs. Serle, and a numerous Chorus from the Theatres Royal—Conduc tor, Mr. G. Stansbury. THIS EVENING, JUNE 1, . Will be represented Barnett's celebrated Opera, entitled THE MOUNTAIN SYLPH. _Donald. Mr. Wilson; Ilela, Mr. Leffler; iEolia, Miss flo rae: ; Jessie, Mr. Serle. After Whirls, an entirely New Drama, entitled FEMALE POLITICS. To cone:tide BLUE BEARD with the Grand Romance of . _ _ scon'l79 tire-ses, and appointments, supported by 31r. W. Stoker, mid the entire Company of tins popular Establishment. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. THIS EVENING. JUNE 1, AND TO-MORROW. An entirely new beautiful pathetic liimu•stic Drama, in Three Acts, with splendid scenery, decoratimie f &C., emitled SUSAN HOPLEY ! OR, 'I LIE TRIALS AND VICISSI TUDES OF A SERVANT GIRL ! William Dean, Mr. E. F. ; and Susan Hopley by Miss Nincent. the accepted Heroine of l 'emestic Drama. Aft e r which, the Operatic Drama of THE PRISONER OF ROCHELLE. Henri (the Prisoner), Mr. Osbaldiston; Beatrice by Miss Vincent, who- will introduce the popular Song of , 6 Wanted a Giiverness !" accompaniod by herself on the Pianoforte. To conclude with, a new Romance. in Three Acts, entitled THE GALLEY SLAVES OF TOULON; OR, THE HIDDEN TREASURE! Louis de Valere, Mr. Os ; Claude Lavelle, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Rabin, Mr. Saul ; Bouquet, Mr. Ross ; Antoine, 3lr. Howard; Leonora, Ali,s Lee; Madame Bouquet, Mi ss Howard, &c. &c. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, Is. —Gallery, 6d. Half - rrice a t Half- p as Eight, THE GREATEST WONDER AT PRESENTat IN LONDON. is the WIZARD of the NORTH, the THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII . he has prepared a Ban quet of Mephistophelian, Dextrological, and Necromantic Cabals, for the Wonderseekers of the approaching Holidays. London is again set on fire by the supernatural fame of the esimious Wizard ; he is again on his magic throne, he waves his mystic sceptre, and thousands of beauty, fashion, and lite rature rush as if charmed, or spe ll-commanded, to b ehold the tnest•riachist of tins age of science and wonder ! Hundreds are nightly turned from the doors of the m . a stie 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'Clock, Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. • Doors open at half-past Seven, the Wizard enters his Magic Laboratory at Eight, concluding at hall•past Ten. Carriages at Ten. Does political society not exclusively exist to give protection to property, and is any property so sacred as man has in his own labour, • or, ra ther, is not that the very source and foundation of all just property? Why should the ca pitalists and the landlords combine to tax industry Bs. per quarter on its bread ? It is properly, and, we think, most justly, con tended that the wages of labour depend on sup ply and demand. Clearly the supply of food will be much limited by the eight shilling duty. Clearly the demand for labour will be diminished in the same proportion, and that will give the combined capitalists and landlord an advan tage, and a species of monopoly to that extent against the labourer. For the eight shilling duty, therefore, the labouring classes cannot be expected, and ought not, to contend; and we conjure the capitalists, who are not at present much in favour with the industrious classes, to take heed how they sanction this proposition— how they enter into an unholy league with the landlords, and how they take on themselves such a large share of the ;landlords' guilt. The argument is, that the land is more bur dened than capital. The just way of equalizing the burdens, is to reduce the burdens on land, or to add to the burdens on capital ; but with a singular disregard of others, while they com plain bitterly of injustice, the compromising capi talists propose to equalize the burdens, not by taking a larger share on themselves, but by allowing the landlords to plunder the consumers. We are sure that the League, the gentlemen of Manchester, the great movers in this Anti-Corn law crusade, can be no parties to this proceeding; we are sure the ministers of religion through out the land will not countenance it; we are still more confident that our labouring classes will take no part in inflicting this op pression on themselves, if they do not steadily and sturdily resist it; and we do hope, therefore, that the Ministers, and a Anti-Corn-law party, will at once denounce protection, and de clare against the Bs. duty as a device to enrich the landlords. But we have now to look at the proposition as a means solely of raising a revenue. It is said, Why should not food be taxed as well as any thing else ? That is the aspect under which we have next to consider this question. It is one of the axioms of taxation, laid down by ADAM SMITH, that "every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible over and above what it brings into the treasury of the State." Will the Bs. duty on corn be con sistent with that axiom ? During the last few years the average importation has been 900,000 quarters of wheat. Now, let us suppose that under the new law the annual average importa tion is 4,000,000 quarters, or that all kinds of grain and flour imported will be equivalent to that amount. On this supposition the revenue raised for the State by the corn-tax will amount to 1,600,0001. We believe that the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER sets the tax down at that sum. 1,600,0001., therefore, is the whole sum which will be taken out of the pockets of the people, for the coffers of the State, by the Bs. duty. How much more will go out of their pockets into the coffers of the landlords? Mr. M'Cuf.- Loci' estimated in 1832 the whole quantity of grain consumed in the United Kingdom of all kinds, including seed corn, at 0,000,000 qrs. We must add, we think, at least 4,000,000 qrs. for the increase of population since that period. In fact, the ratio at which population increased prior to 1832 would warrant a much larger addi tion; but we are contented to take this, because we believe that since then the condition of the working classes has been much deteriorated, and they do not consume now as much as they did in 1832. Adding the 4,000,000 qrs., we shall have 56,000,000 qrs. of grain as the present con sumption of the United Empire. The quantity of wheat may be assumed to be about one-third of the other grain, and we shall then have 18,000,000 qrs. of wheat as the annual consumption, on• the whole of which, in the price, a duty of Bs. will, in fact, be levied, equal to a sum of 6,040,000/., which will be taken by the tax out of the pockets of the people, not to go into the coffers of the State, but into the coffers , of the owners of rent. All other species of grain we shall estimate at 37,400,000 quarters, and taking the duty on the whole at an average of 4s. the quarter, we shall have an additional sum of 7,480,0001., which, by the proposed tax on corn, will be taken out of the pockets of the consumers—not to increase the na tional resources, but to swell the rent .rolls of the landlords. This, however, is not all. The same principle applies to everything grown on the land, and everything the land bears. Such a tax, by limiting the sources of our supply, raises the price of timber, of meat, of poultry, of eggs, and raises the rent of land. It increases the extorting power of the owners of every foot of land in the kingdom. We do not pretend to make even an approximate calculation of the amount of money thus taken out of the pockets of the people by this tax, which will never go into the coffers of the State. If we put it down rudely at double the two sums we have already stated, we shall conclude that the tax will take, on this account, 13,520,000/. sterling more out of the pockets of the people than it will put into the public Treasury. The question, then, will stand thus : The tax will )leld to the Treasury £1,650,000 To the landowners for wheat for other grain .. 7,480,000 61 for other produce 13,520,000 Total Balance more taken out of the pockets of the pecple than goes into the Treasury ... .. ' £25,440,000 Well, then, this proposed tax will violate, to an enormous extent, the axiom we have quoted. It is the continuance under another name of pro tection. It enriches the landowner, who makes the laws, and defrauds the industrious labourers, who have no voice in making them. It is the continuance of the injustice we denounce ; nay it is worse, it is lending to it a fresh sanction and giving it new life. We will now stop. On a future day we will show that the proposed fixed duty violates, in an equal degree, the other axioms which, according to ADAM SMITH, ought to regulate taxation. The object of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S no-confi dence motion is to spoil the game of the Whigs. That has been avowed by the Tory Journals. In the course of his speech Sir R. PEEL dis claimed the idea of wishing to prevent a discus sion on the Corn-laws ;ut the Morning Post, which in the confidence of the party, and which announced, on Monday morning. the pur port of the notice Sir 11. PEEL gave on that evening, distinctly -stated that the party intended to obstruct the proceedings of the Governmedt. Between Monday and Thursday, however, the Tories altered their tone and their policy. By the latter day it bad been ascertained that Lord WORSLEY and his friends Would not support a vote of want of confidence, and then Sir R. PEEL professed that he had no desire to prevent a discussion on the Corn-laws. He found he could not tatain his object, and, therefore, he took the earliest opt-wain-14Y to deny it. The cunning man was deceived, and sn fOced MAW retreated from his position. fluff iffriir ROBERT PEEL (lid not mean to ob struct the Alini,stm ; why did he bring forward his motion ? We know ftf oly one object he could possibly have in view, lip if-?lp' tlig t a dissolution was decided on—he knew that Ow success of his motion would not alter the deci §innt but he might hOpe by arraigning the Mi nisters tbe o damage them with the public, lig p,(.4iP P! "TiAlfiqg fir less to his asukti 'SW rowers and ilia,eerexs, than ff4tri itiad GFati.o i n desOnte of afilt . th e- 4gll 3 4 "M tea 144914441/ HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 4l,;rning ID minutes daps U i Eveinny, 42 minutes after 0, - Op* I 4 c 3 7 ~„ , ii cflfl LONDON: TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1841. NEWS FROM CHINA. The Overland Mail from India arrived at Mar seilles on Sunday. By telegraphic despatches communicated to the French Government, and transmitted to London, we learn that hostilities have recommenced between Great Britain and China. The EMPEROR having refused to ratify the treaty concluded between the Imperial Com missioner KESIIEN and Plenipotentiary ELLIOT, and having ordered KESIIEN to be sent in ircng to Pekin, to answer before the Supreme Tribu nals for the concessions made to the " outer barbarians," the British troops took pos session of the Bogue forts on the 25th of Feb ruary, and immediately afterwards of the factory at Canton. The EMPEROR, however, declared himself resolved to grant no terms to the " bar barians," save on their most abject submission, after having first evacuated all their conquests. His Imperial Celestiality has found by this time that all British Plenipotentiaries are not made exactly on the ELLIOT model. The same despatches announce that on the 22d of April, Sir GORDON BREMER arrived at Cal cutta from the Canton River, to confer with the Governor-General on the subject of our relations with China. The nature of the confrence may be inferred from the fact, that re-inforce ments from India were at once to proceed to China to join the British force at Whampoa. We may therefore anticipate something like an honourable settlement of the China question at no distant period. With the factory at Canton in the possession of our soldiery, the city is en tirely at our mercy. In one hour our troops could reduce it to a heap of, ashes. What is most to be guarded against, is the prolongation of the war. .The Chinese well deserve a good drubbing, but if it be not quickly administered the moral effect of it will be lost. Besides, it is only by long fighting with us that they can learn so much of the art of war as to become our most formidable enemies. For all details we must await the arrival of the Anglo-Indian Papers and letters brought by the Overland Mail. It is most cheering for the enemies of mono poly to find the Tories complain of agitation. Lord STANLEY began the complaint, Sir R. PEEL followed, Sir J. GRAHAM came next, and yester day the Times adopted the same cry. When the Tories complain, the Ministers are doing what they ought and their complaints should only stimulate continued agitation in a larger measure. If the Tories respect and confide in the people as they say they do, what is the meaning of t'ieir complaint of agitation? The more the people are agitated, the - more they are roused, the better it must be for the Tories, if their cause be a just one, and they be rooted, as they say, in the affections of the people. The complaint, however, implies distrust. It says, more clearly than if the Tories spoke it aloud, " We are afraid of the people,—we know that we are their oppressors,—that we have deluded, cheated, humbugged them ; for GOD'S sake do not expose us, do not say that we have used the name of re ligion to gloze over political fraud, that we have plundered and enslaved them under the pretext of promoting social order; do not rouse their fury against us by convincing them that religion, and true social order, are opposed to Corn-laws, monopolies, and all kinds of delusion and slavery." That is the true meaning of the Tories when they deprecate agitation on the subject of the Corn laws. They know that their cause is unjust, and that they can only succeed by -keeping the peo ple quietly and passively ignorant. They had no objection to agitation when they thought, two or three years ago, that the • Church of England was beloved by the people, and that it was only necessary to awaken them to its great merits to retrieve fur it dominion over their hearts and minds. To obtain ascendancy for the Church, agitation by all hinds of means, by public meetings, by large subscriptions, by great collections of noble men, by gatherings of silly women and sillier TI M, by preaching and praying, was unsparingly had recourse to. Then Standards, Times, Heralds, and Posts, throughout the empire, deemed agitation in the name of religion a most holy thing, and their pens were employed daily in promoting the success of the holy agitators of Exeter Hall. They had Protestant meetings and Protestant operative meetings ; they had dio cesan meetings; metropolitan meetings, and parish meetings; neither Sir R. PEEL, Lord STANLEY, nor Sir J. GRATTAN ever uttered a word against clerical agitation. 'rho snlu was a signal failure. The priests got, we believe, a little money, and made a few dupes of the wealthy and the titled, end there the agitation ended. The Church sank deeper thau ever into the mire, and its patronage of the murderous Oortleiaw will not help it out. At present, on agitation for afar more important object than building of churches and enriching the priesthood is begun—an agitation W fill the bel lies of the hungry people, and relieve them feurii want; an agitation to set them free from the oppression of a most sordid tyi.- 4 ,nny - : and now all those who were so forward in prointitina the priest agitation, e,ry put against agitation, and proclaim aloud that to rouse up the people to consider what is due to them, is to unchain a powerful enemy. "Take care," said Sir ROBERT PEEL, " how you appeal 10 the people, for you will invoke an ally who will be yuurniaster, not your slave." There spoke the true Tory; there spoke, the genuine aristocrat. He dreads the people; he hates the people, because he knows the sys tem he supports.has debased and enslaved them. He knows, too, that it will fall of itself to decay the instant the people become acquainted with its deformities. The part we have taken on the Corn-laws from the first, and the countenance our opi nions have obtained from the public, make it proper fin• us, we think, to submit a few further observations on the subject of a fixed duty, be fore that subject is discussed in Parliament. We are bound, whatever may be the immediate results, to maintain our principles and our consistency. The proposed Bs. duty on the admission of tb reign corn may be considered under two charac ters—as a protection to the landed interest, and as a tax levied solely for the purpose of obtaining a revenue. In the first character, that assigned to it by Lord AlEtnotaisE, we repudiate it altogether as totally unwarranted, and as having all the im moral attributes of the sliding scale. Under that aspect we will not discuss it. In its own nature it is iniquitous, an abominable species of cl ass legislation, the plunder of the industrious poor by the idle rich, and just as worthy of condem nation as the present system. We are only sure prised how any men proposing to deal with this important question, and at all aware of its character, can at this time take on themselves the guilt which now belongs to the Legislature of a former period. Why should the Whigs, by proposing such a law, absolve and exonerate the Tories? A fixed duty for protection is a hut.' in justice, and we are on principle as decidedly op, it as to fluctuating duties. of the opponents 9f Corn- 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 InDtruments! Whit Tuesday and Thursday. THE GRAND ROMAN FESTA, in imitation of the rejoicings which take place ;n Rome at the celebration of 41 11 glom) di S. Pietro. 'will be repeated THIS DAY, JUNE Ist, when will be presented an exact fac-simile of the superb GIIIANLZ9LA from the Castle of St. Angelo, the greatest and rawit maeacent display of Fire Works in the World, com prising a l zni z o• . its beautiful effects, the Cascade of Fire— Fdtintains of ilazih, Stars—and the tremendous lErial Bou quet; Kith the ILLU..MINATION of St. PETER'S,. when oznise .. - the whole of this vast and c 'orlons edifice is brilliantly "hted , presenting together a coup .. _ . . with countless myriads of lam '''.; .hat° unattempted out of pOSCCI 1 , .. d'ceil of in conceivable splendour ! . - . l, liJ . iment, conducted Itely. The unrivalled Band of this Etta _performers , by Nir. Godfrey, isea lt is said by somt> ....._ augmented by the addition ot .." an Y, . metrem laws that the Bs. duty is of ltm in en ce, will i n 1 the enlarged and newly. Promenade Musicale et 1,,,.. . deeorated Orchestraa fair co il 2 ~...... , The Menagerie, ilieluchng the great male Orar Outan , • tsveen the capitalist . and the - landlord. But What, i Coui"-. • and.sev . eral other rarities, is earl)* 'g q ni, this business of compromise, becomes of the Model Of Rome 1 , 1 *tett daily, with Denson s which tell only it. Colossal Pictorial Open at Ten. Admission One Shiili g labourer? Has industry not its rights? Ought cal. The only effect expectet......_ Concert at Six. Fire Works at Nin n e. -. they not to be most sacred in the eye of the law ? and from all the slashing oratory which all tne , party can bring to bear, is to make out as good a case as possible for the Tories for the coming election. To use the misapplied language of the Times of yesterday, the Tories have made the Parliament a debating society, in which they may talk to the country, and canvass the elec toral body by motions and speeches intended for the hustings. The fact is made palpable by Sir R. PEEL and his friends obstinately refusing to explain the policy they mean to follow.. Of their intention in that respect they are ashamed. They have no merit of their own to stand on ; they can only pretend to be white by painting their opponents as very black. The Ministers, on the contrary, have a plan to propound to the country. They have become converts to the necessity of altering . the Corn-laws; they are bound to explain the origin of this change in their views. Their proposition to alter the law has not yet been developed. It is stated, and we believe accurately, that their proposition, as' to the Corn-laws, is combined with a series of alterations in the tariff. Where can they ex plain their views on these subjects but in the House of Commons? The Ministers, then, are bound to submit all their measures to the House and explain them fully, and the country would be ill prepared to decide betwixt them and their op ponents, were their case not laid completely be fore it. The Tories have no plan—nothing to submit to the public, except a repetition of their stale charges against the Ministers, and they merit the reproach of converting Parliament into a debating-shop. We are not sorry that the Tories have em braced such a course. Never before did the bulk of the people take such enlightened views of our national policy as at present. They dis criminate nicely between the Whigs and the Tories; and every debate only makes the cha racter of politicians better known. They begin to comprehend, with great exactness, the work ing of the Constitution, and every such obstructive and party fight as that begun by the Tories, makes better known to them. Motions and speeches, like those of Thursday and Friday, improve their knowledge both of men and things. Every Par liamentary battle, though not so intended, gives a blow to some false pretension, and puts an end to the reign of some prejudice, or weakens the authority of some political pretender. By expos ing themselves the Tories render the public a more essential service than by picking holes in the characters of their opponents. To abate the reverence of the people for public men and beget a wholesome distrust of their numerous measures, Lave long been objects of all political writers. They may not avow it, but every attack on a statesman, and every condemnation of a law, have such an effect, and that effect the Tories are in creasing by exposing themselves and attacking their opponents. We clap our hands and encou rage the combatants. Letters and Papers from Madrid of the 23d ult., have reached us. A formidable opposition to the new Cabinet was in course of being orga nized in the Cortes. On the 22d a disgraceful squabble took place at Bilbdo, between the military and the town's people; one officer was nearly killed. The Paris papers of Sunday have been re ceived. The condemnation of DARMES to death, for attempting to assassinate the King excited no interest, as it was generally believed that the sentence would be commuted to one of imprison ment for life. We regret that at the eleventh hour grounds should exist for doubting this. They are based upon the fact that M. PINEDE, the . counsel for DARMES, after sentence of death was pronounced on his client, implored an audience of the King to beg his life; but was refused admission to his Majesty's presence. If the ghastly spectacle of the severed heads of FIESCHI, MOREY, PEPIN, ALIBAUD, and HER BERT failed to deter DARMES ftom the crime of Regicide, does the King suppose that the decapitation of this miserable floor-scrub ber will prevent the hand of frantic enthu siasm from endeavouring to rid France of a Prince whom one portion of his subjects denounce as an usurper, and another as a tyrant? Not that we are either hostile to the ORLEANS dynasty, or indifferent to the preservation of the life of an able, far-sighted, and, in all private relations of life, most amiable monarch. THE SUN, LONDON. TUESD AY, iNE 1, 1841. EXECUTION OP DARMES. Since the above was written, we have received by express, an account of the execution of DARMES, at seven o'clock yesterday morning, at the Barriere St. Jacques. He walked bare footed, in his shirt, to the place of execution, his head being covered with a piece of black crape, in conformity with his sentence. There were but few spectators, owing to the early hour at which it took place, and the almost moral cer tainty on the part of the citizens of Paris that the KING would commute the capital punish ment for imprisonment for life. DARMES was escorted from the prison of the Luxembourg to the foot of the guillotine by a strong military force. His bearing was firm, calm, and col lected. To the last he refused to make any con fession implicating others, and died more nobly than he lived. The spectators were unmoved, exhibiting neither sympathy nor horror, and when the bloody apparatus was removed, dis persed peaceably to their several homes. For the KiNo's sake—for the sake of France —we deeply regret the execution of this miser able wretch. As the blond of martyrs is the seed of the Church, so the blood of such criminals as DAIIMES is the seed of the atrocities for which he has suffered decapitation. The guillotine, instead of terrifying, was the crowning gratification of his wretched r' vanity. He competed the risk of dezth with a Monarch—interested all Europe in his trial—and left behind him a name never to be forgotten by Kings and Crown prosecutors for high Treason. Where the crime of regicide is known not to be the demoniac inspirations of a single bosom, such an example is of fearful moment. God grant that King Louts PIII LIPPE may not have cause to regret the precipi tancy with which he has suffered the sentence of a most unpopular court to be carried into effect on this memorable occasion. The disturbances in European Turkey have im posed upon Austria the necessity of concentrat ing a large military force on her Turkish frontier. VV e trust shelter will not be refused to the un happy Christian refugees. Such immense quantities of locusts have appeared this year in Spain, that they threaten in some places ent:rely to destroy the crops. At Daimiel, in the province of Citadad-Real, 300 persons are constantly employed in collecting these destructive insects, and though they destroy 70 or SO sacks every day, they do not appear to diminish. There is something frightful in the appearance of these locusts proceeding in divisions, some of which are a lea gue in length, and tw o thous a n d paces in breadth. It is sufficient if these terrib le columns sto p half an hour on any spo', for every thing growing on it, vines, olive trees, and c o rn, to be entirely destroy ed. After the y have passed, nothing re m ains but the large branches and the 'wits, which, being under ground, —Le Constitutionnel. h a ve escaped their voracity. The Journal du Havre, of the 2 9 th , pu blishes the transla tion of an article, which, it says, was published at Portsmouth, and dated from the Telegraph-office, stating that a despatch had been received from Holyhead, and addressed to Sir Ed ward Codrington, stating that the Presid ent had . arrived at Holyhead, and that it had been blocked up in the ice. As this news is not confirmed by the London letters of Friday evening, it is feared that a cruel hoax has been perpetrated. Waterlow, - .-------__ PRICE OF WHEAT IN ENGLAND AND BERLIN.—A curious table has been published by J and A. J. Eng land and at B er li n between the year s 1791 and 1840, , Birchin-lane, of the price o f wheat in Eng inclusive, from which it appears that the price of wheat has varied in England in that period between 38s. and 1405., and in Berlin between 775. and 20s. At . the 1 k,arai.3 tke ow wages of labour in S ussex have varied only between 9s. an 4 Ils. 0. 2 thus the price of wheat has varied 3 times, w hile the wages Of iftlintir Imre only varied one half. Who, then, can say . dat wages de? pond on the price of wheat ? The most curious part of the table is the difference of price at the two places .it each yGF, WifjOf liciug multiplied by the quantity acorn con sumed' An - 11T47 3 - 1 4, it .i s ppflyeti that tlw greher price paid in E ng l an d " than in licain fill tie whole quantity - consumed between 1791 and 1840 amounts to the sum of 1158,000,000/., or 390,000,000/. more than the n a ti ona l debt. S uch a tabl e is worthy titian P Messrs. CI-oulbitrn, - Peel , li f lp the national a ff a i rs . W e would especially recom of the study o f those who un dertake to re g u-.. and Co., who boasted bf l Vtte'ftl*v}lioyitm 4 644 ,,, 4 t i t e, Iliti.3.llfli flel4:"'":qN 01-110 , .446e it ; tyleee'n ilig' Bn tixt-i-I:4vs,. after the arra," tt O 140191WWcffitif iNPY OW 4 cw 4tlng 41 - 04 ~, -I f fOß I o,y,kj''ty` §l9'`-511*" ii the 'll'Aga-9.i. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) TEA MARKET. The demand was good, and prices advanced Id. to 2d. per lb. Large sales were made in Company's Congou at ls. lod. to Is. 104 d. cash, and Free trade fetched similar rates. TALLOW MARKET. Pi ices kept up but the mat ket was dull, and P.Y. Candle could be purchased at 465. 3d. on the spot, and 475. 3d. for delivery in last three months. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. We had but a moderate supply of the best, as also the middling and inferior sorts ; the former met with a fair demand at our present quotations, the latter heavy on hand. Clover, 41. to 5/. 17s. ; Meadow Hay, 4/. to 41. 10s. ; Straw, 1/. 16s. to 2/. LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LoNDox, JuNk. I.—Wind this day at noon, light westerly breeze, and cloudy. DEAL, MAY 31. Arrived the Mars, Henderson, from the South Seas; Margaret, Port Rico; Emeline, Antigua; Ren shaw, Gibraltar; Lydia ( Brig), and Barque No. 2095, West ward. Arrived from th,.. Riser, the Countess of Wilton, for Laun ceston ; Charles Heddle, Mauritius ; Jane Catharine, Quebec ; the Bonne Mere, dismastetl, waterlogged, and abandoned, was fallen in with the Bth ult., in lat. 33, lon. 39, by the Bianken • nor, arrived the in Downs. BRIGHTON, MAY 30.—Arrived off, the Woodhouse, Tate, from Odessa; Fortefield. Wells, Matanzas; Vernon, Calcutta, sailed 3d April ; Ledaal, Rio Janeiro. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 31. —Wind, W. S. W.— The ToroLto, London, for New York, arrived off Coie, Mauritius. OFF THE WIGHT, MAY 31. The Saltwedal, from Pernam buco, for Hamburgh. PLYMOUTH MAY 31.—Arrived off the Mary Ann, Tur butt, from Madras ; Richmond, Amouns, New Orleans ; Pil grim, Trieste ; Nanette, Auclerc, Porto Rico ; Albany, Watson, New York for Havre; Carl, Havannah ; Adolph, ditto ; Eliza, Vandecood, Batavia; Gossipium, Brown, New Orleans. LIVERPOOL, MAY 31.—Wind W.N. W.—Arrived the Capri corno, from Savanilla ; John Bolton, Teulon, Mobile ' • Magnifi cent, Suvannah. Sailed the Eutaw, for New York ; Pollock and Superb, Dalhousie. Arrived off the Cabotia, from Bahia ; Mary Queen of Scots, Pernambuco ; Cornubia, Maranham ; United States, Alexander Grant, Wallace, and Wales, from New Orleans; Agnes, Mobile; Roscoe, New York ; Betsy Hall, Leghorn. SALCOMBE, MAT 30.—Sailed the Mary Ann, Cook, Quebec. DARTMOUTH, MAY 30.—Arrived off the Vancouver, Dun can, from Sandwich Islands. Jan. 17, the Cuhawka, Smith, New York. FALMOUTH, MAY 30. Wind variable.—Arrived the Albert, from Leghorn ; Tagus, (steamer,) for Vigo, &c. Sailed H.M.S. Reindeer, for Gibraltar. Arrived off, the Eliza, Cooper, from Buenos Ayres, and sailed for Rotterdam. BRISTOL, MAY 31.—Arrived the Lady of the Lake, from Charente ; Adelaide, Danvell, Tobago. Sailed the Clifton, for Malaga. CORK, MAY 29.—Arrived the Eliza, Grange, from Buenos Ayres ; Jessie, Logan, Calcutta; Dawson, Manilla ; Euphra tes, London, for Ceylon. SUNDERLAND, MAY 30. Sailed the Sarah, Nicholson, for Calcutta. WIVENHOE, MAY 30. The Wilsons, from Newcastle to London, which was ashore on the Middle Sands, has been got off and brought in here, after throwing overboard about 200 tons of coal. PENRHYN, MAY 29.—1 t blew a hard gale on the night of the 27th, during which the schooner Centenary, and sloop Har riet, went on shore. The schooner Benjamin damaged her stern, and the sloop Progress lost bowsprit, &c. The Lord Exmouth received much damage to her bulwarks, &c. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 31.—We have to report an excessively dull business in the Cotton trade to-day ; the sales do not amount to more than 1,200 bales, all of which have been purchased by consumers. LIVERPOOL SHARE-MARKET, MAY 31.—We have had an exceedingly dull business at the Stock Exchange this day. The transactions comprise only Grand Junction at 199, being a reduction of two pounds upon the last quotations; Half shares 99 ; London and Birmingham 321. Shares 53. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 31.—The Mar ket is very inactive, but prices remain without alteration. Manchester and Leeds half Shares, 20% ; Eastern Counties, nto 8 Manchester and Birmingham, 24i to 25 ; London and South Western, 541 to 55k; Manchester and Liverpool District Banks, 10i 11. Some disappointment was manifested in the city this morn [rig at the non-arrival of the Britannia steam-ship, from Bos ton and Halifax. She was to leave the former place on the 16th, and the latter the 18th ult. The packet-ship Roscoe has arrived off Liverpool from New York. Her day of sailing was on the 7th ult., which will be four days later than the last • accounts. The letters and papers are expected about three o'clock. THE FUNDS. The English Stock Market opened flat this morning with a de cline upon the closing 'prices of yesterday. Consels are now quoted at 894 for Money, and 90i for the Account ; chequer Bills, 11 13 prem. ; Spanish Active Stock opened at 23i ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 334 34, and the Threes at 20* 4. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western London and Brighton London and South Western 3B/ Ditto Tenths . Nor' h Midland York and North Midland... SO Ditto New Shares JOINT STOCK BANKS. National of Ireland l7i l6i to 16 HALF-PAST ONE. The Overland Mail from India has arrived at Marseilles in thirty days from Bombay, being the shortest time it has ever yet been accomplished in. The dates from Bombay are of the lit May. The news from China is of great importance. On the 25th February the Bogue Forts were taken by the British, who marched on to Canton. The Emperor will not yield. Rein forcements had been sent from Calcutta. Keshin had been disgraced, and sent in irons to Pekin. Sir George Bremer arrived on the 22d of April at Calcutta. _ _ The above intelligence caused considerable excitement in the City, particularly among the Tea speculators, and the price has advanced 2d. per pound, with a firm market. The news from ^ China has had little or no effect upon the Funds. Consols are now quoted at 891 90 for Money, and 90i for the Account. Exchequer Bills 11 13 prem. Money is very scarce to-day in the Stock Exchange. In the Share Market there has been but little business doing. Great Western are quoted at 94 ; London and Brighton, 45i ; North Midland, 67 ; York and North Midland, 7 ; New Shares, 20k. The business doing in the Foreign Securities has been but limited. Portuguese Five per Cents. are now quoted at 33%, ditto Three per Cents. 20,-I ; Spanish Active Stock, 23i ; Mexican 28h. TWO O'CLOCK Consols are steady at 90A. Tea speculators were all on the qui vine : the more so from the fact of public sales having commenced at ten o'clock in the morning of about 10,000 packages. The market for Tel, as i 4 %Nell known, has been in an exceedingly dull state for some time past, owing to the frequency of the auctions brought for ward, and up to the receipt of the accounts received from China this morning, prices were ruling much the same as pre yioutly, but at present we may quote an advance of 2d. to 2Ad per lb. QUARTER TO THREE. Consols, Money, 891, 90 , Account 90i d ; Mexican 28i ; Spanish 2.3 i Markets more firm. COURT CIRCULAR. Earl Grey had an audience of the Queen yesterday morning at Buckingham Palace. His Lordship de livered to her Majesty the Riband and Badge of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, worn by the late Earl Durham. Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked in the garden of the Palace yesterday. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of the Queen yesterday. Her Majesty and Prince Albert left town at three o'clock yesterday afternoon in an open carriage and four, escorted by a party of Hussars, for Windsor Castle. Colonels Wemyss and Wylde, the Equerries in Waiting, followed in a chariot and four. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal and her attendants occupied the next carriage. Two open carriages and four fol lowed ; in one were the Marchioness of Normanby, Hon. Miss Murray, Hon. Miss Lister, and the Baroness Lehzen ; and in the other were the Earl of Aboyne, the Eight Hon. George Stevens Byng, and Major the Hon. George Keppel. Hei• Blaiesty and Prince Albert were conducted to their carriage by the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamber lain, and the Vice-Chamberlain. Tier Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by the llon. Miss Wheatley, and the Hon. Miss Hudson, took an airing yesterday afternoon in an open barouche and four. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cambridge took a drive yesterday to the residence of the Royal Duchess, Bagshot Park. Viscount Melbourne left his official residence in Downing-street yesterday afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Mr. Duncombe, M.P., had an interview with the Mar quis of Normanby yesterday at the Home-office. Despatches from the Governors of the West India Colonies were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Royal, and attended by the Royal Suite, arrived at the Castle from town at five o'clock this afternoon, escorted by a party of the Life Guards, under the command of •Lieut. Brooke. The ROyal Standard was hoisted on the Round Tower of the Castle. The Royal dinner party at Windsor Castle last even ing included the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Earl of Uxbridge, Earl of Albemarle, Viscount Mel bourne, and the Right lion. George Stevens Byng. • The Royal Party will attend the Eton Montem to morrow (Tuesday), and will afterwards return to Buik illgham Palace. THE WEATHER.--NOON, JUNE 1. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELA IDE—STREET. Barometer Thermometer... 65 Highest 76 Lowest ... 5l Wind S. S.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. THE DUCHESS OF KENT.—OSTEND, MAY 23, 1841.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accompanied by her son and daughter-in-law the Prince and Princess Leiningen and a numerous suite, arrived here this morning at twenty minutes past four, in her Britannic Majesty's . steamer Firebrand, Captain Cooke ; the favourite Government steamer Ariel, Capt. Smythel. was also in attendance. The voyage was unfavourable, the Firebrand having encountered the very violent storm of thunder and lightning on the 27th inst. The Royal pqrty, however, happily landed in good health, under fl Salute, having suffered only from sea sickness, and pro ceeded to the Hotel Cour Imperiale, where an elegant dejeunc a la fourchette was served by the celebrated pro prietor M. de Vos. The Commandaut-Major Dieskau, Equerry to the King, the Arabi& Consul, and Cora mandeis Cook and Smythel were invited to the enter tainment. The Duchess proceeded to Brussels by the railroad at half-past eleven. CARRICK-ON-SUIR, MAY 27.-011 this morning we had a frightful thunder-storw, laMveva five and six o'clock, which, imp sKry to relate, has done a great deal of injury. In the netglabourbood of Carrick "-eg cd. tlO'biAr.seS,.‘and a cow were killed, and a wO I P, a, 1 :4 4 purse, nearly burned on the top of the hill oveT accidents ktp the county must be g Orropadtitt. EVENING EDITION._ LATEST AMERICAS. ADMIRAL STOPFORD AND COM- MODORE NAPIER. 67, Baker-street, May 31, DEAR STR,—I have read with pain a speech of yours at Malta. accusing me of arrogating to myself the whole .credit of the Syrian campaign, which has gone the round of the newspapers in this country. I conclude you have taken your text from some of the public journals, who for party . purposes. have endea voured to damage me in the opinion of my brother-offi cers, but have signally failed in this country. Had you done me the honour of writing to me, I should have informed you that I had at all times, and in all places, done justice to the officers and men placed under my command. I shall not fall into the error you have done with regard to me, and take for grantid that your speech is properly reported. Before I make any animadver sions on it, I should wish you would be good enough to inform me whether what has appeared in the papers is correct or not. _ I am, dear Sir, your obedient Servant, CHARLES NAPIER. Admiral the Honourable Sir Robert Stopford. REPRESENTATION OF MARYLEBONE. A meeting►, convened by the Marylebone Registration Asso ciation, was held on Monday night at Lawson's Rooms, Upper Gower-street, for the purpose of considering what candidates ought to have the support of the Reformers of the borough at the next election for Members of Parliament. Mr. Bagshaw, the President of the Association, was unanimously voted to the Chair ; anti immediately afterwards Commodore Sir Charles Napier came into the room, and was as usual greeted with the most enthusiastic and prolonged cheering, in which we observed three electors present, avowedly belonging to the " Conserva tive" party, joined with great cordiality. Mr. Hon° lITON, one of the churchwardens of St Pancras, moved, and Mr. STOCK seconded, a resolution pledging the meeting to promote by all possible exertions, the election of fir Benjamin Hall and Sir Charles Napier, to represent this borough in the next Parliament. The several speakers deprecated in strong terms the insidious attempt which is being made to let in two Tories by dividing the Liberal interest, under pretence of supporting a gentleman, who (they said), however estimable in private life, had not convinced any large number of the electors of Marylebone, that his political consistency is worthy of their confidence. The resolution was carried by acclamation, there being but five hands held up against it by three Tories and two Chartists. The majority was 157. THE CHARTISTS AT SHEFFIELD. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) The Chartists issued a notice last week that a meeting would be held in Paradise-square, Sheffield, in order to counteract the effect of the great public meeting held 'last week. The meeting took place this mornin; (Monday), which was at tended by upwards of 15,000 people. Gill, a Chartist, and late delegate, moved, and Mash, a Chartist, seconded the first resolution, amidst the greatest confusion. An amendment was moved. W. Ibbotson, Esq., and the Rev. S. Bayley spoke with great force and effect ; and Barstow, the Chartist Missionary, spoke excellently, but on a show of hands taking place the Free Traders beat the Chartists full five to one. Benson, one of the Operative Anti Corn-law League, appeared to please all parties with his remarks. which went home to the breast cf every working man in the immense meeting►. Char tism is at a discount, as you may judge from the fact, that two years ago, a Chartist news agent here could scarcely con vey in a wheelbarrow his weekly supply of Northern Stars from the Post-office—now he can easily carry them in his coat pocket. We are sorry to hear the Chartists are lending themselves to the Monopolists and Bread Taxers, headed by the notorious rat Holland, but right glad to find that the Borough, as well as the West Riding, will each re turn two good and staunch Repealers! [Full particulars will he given to -morrow.] THE PRESIDENT STEAM-SHIP. SATURDAY.—This morning Mr. Macgregor Laird, the managing director of the Company, received the following communication from Messrs. Emerson and Co., the Com pany's agents at Paris and Havre-de-Grace, in reply to a letter requesting them to make inquiry whether a steam-ship be longing to the French navy was likely to be cruising in lat. 29 deg. 29 min , longitude 40 deg. 28 win. on the 22d of April, the Portuguese brig Conde de Palma, which arrived at Lisbon on the 6th inst., having reported to have seen a very large steamer proceeding under canvas only, in that latitude at that date, and which might probably have been the missing President :-- _ " Paris, May 27, 1841. " Dear Sir,—ln compliance with your request, our Mr. Emerson has obtained an interview with the Secretaire des Mouvemens de la Marine, and the following is the information received :—' The only steamer belonging to the French navy that could be within or in the proximity of the tropic on the 22d of April is the Tonnerre, of 130-horse power and 600 tons. The last news from this steamer is of the Ist of January, at which time she was lying in tlie Plata. She is supposed to have left there in March for Martinique, where she would ob tain a supply of coals and continue her voyage homeward. She has not yet arrived iw France ; we shall be informed of her arrival, and be allowed to read the Journal du Bord to know if on the 22d of April she was in longitude 40 28, latitude 29 29, according to the report of the Conde de Palma, re cently arrived at Lisbon. We presume this is the report you refer to. Should there be any other place, give us the latitude and longitude.—We are, yours, very truly, " Macgregor Laird," &c. " EMERSON and Co." This morning the Managing Director of the Company (Mr. Laird) also received a letter, dated Friday, from their agent at Liverpool, but it does not contain any tidings of the Pre sident. The report in a Cork paper of a bottle said to have been picked up at sea, and containing a letter written by Mr. Power, the celebrated Irish comedian, momentarily expecting the loss of the President, is altogether disbelieved. Neither date, latitude, nor longitude is given. Among those interested in the fate of the crew and passengers on board the President, and who called at the Company's office in Billiter-court this afternoon, anxiously inquiring if any intelligence had been received respecting her, was the eldest son of Mr. Power. Inquiries were also made on the part of his Grace the Duke of Richmond (whose second son, Lord Fitzroy Lennox; is a pass Anger), Mrs. Roberts, the wife of the Com mander. &c. The President had three months' rations on board when she left New York on the 11th of March; moreover, her cargo partly consisted of a large quantity of flour. MISS COSTELLO'S NEW ROMANCE, " THE QUEEN'S POISONER ; OR, FRANCE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY."—FOr this remarkable and powerfully written historical romance we are indebted to a lady who has already won a high place in the literary world by her felicitous cultiva tion of the early poetry of France, and by the graceful unaf fected erudition and lyric taste with which she has rendered its beauties familiar to her land's language. From the intimate acquaintance with the olden French chroniclers to which this interesting line of study naturally led Miss Costello, we should have been well prepared for the success of this bold experi ment, to transfer to an English romance, in all the vivid ness of a native record, one of the most harrowing chapters from a history in which the feats, fantastic levity, and the most dark, deep atrocities of crime, are brought together in un matched singularity of contrast. We are not, however, here presented with a picture in which horrors alone are thrown into relief ; on the contrary, a tale of much interest is car ried through the whole deign—characters with every winning claim upon our sympathies are made to mingle in the action before us, and a compensating light is thus set up to secure an agreeable general effect. The pure taste and the skill with which this is effected, are very conspicuous in the whole pro duction.— Morning Herald. FATAL ACCIDENT.—Lag night, between the hours of eight and nine, as Mr. Penny, publisher. of the Weehlo Chronicle newspaper, was rowing with friends up the river Thames in a small boat, and when near a tier of barges at Vauxhall Bridge on the upper side, the tide, which was running up very strong at the lime, drove the boat's head under the barge with such violence, that Mr. Penny and his frier.ds were thrown into the weer. Every assistance was rendered by the more fortunate portion of the party, who, seeing Mr. Penny for a m:nute or two struggling against the strength of the cur rent, imagined that he would have been able to have extri cated himself; but unfortunately, in a few moments afterwards he disappeared under the barge road. Drags were procured, and every endeavour was made to recover the body, but up to this morning his distressed companions had not succeeded. ATTACK ON COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.— An attack was made on Friday last on two commercial travel lers, near Hermain, an extensive ironwork within seven miles of Merthyr Tydvil. It appears that Mr. Rolling, from Bristol, questioned a lot of lads who were playing before the inn, if any of them were Chartists ; one of them, with some show of spirit, replied, " what if they were, it was nought to him." Rolling replied, if they were Chartists they ought to be hung up like sheep. This was all that passed, and the circumstance was forgotten; and a little before night set in the two travel lers, in a gig, started for Merthyr. They had not pro ceeded far, when they observed a number of boys and men evidently awaiting their approach. They noticed that one or two were provided with sticks, but not contemplating an attack, they drove on. When within a few yards of the party, one of the meh advanced, and seizing the horse by the head, called his fellows to come on. Mr. Dixon asked what it was they wanted, when the spokesman of the party, pointing to Mr. Rolling, with a few oaths, ex plained that they had come purposely to make him unsay that which he had said about the deserts of the Chartist body. Mr. Rolling was about to reply, when he received a blow from behind on the head, which knocked off his hat into the road. Rolling immediately leaped out of the gig to re cover his hat, when the leader of the party, quitting the horse's head, tripped up his heels, and struck him as he was falling. Mr. Rolling is a very powerful man, and with great determination of purpose and presence of mind, seeing the horse's head was free, he sprang to his feet, and seizing the astonished Chartist round the middle, threw him across the bottom of the gig, calling at the same time for Mr. Dixon to drive on. Mr. Dixon immediately applied the whip, leaving the astonished Chartists to follow in useless pursuit. Mr. Rol ling being a much more muscular man than his antagonist, succeeded in keeping him down, and when this aspirer for liberty found his struggles were useless he counterfeited intox ication. The ruse, however, was of no avail ; they brought him to Merthyr, and he is now fully committed for the out rage. Mr. Rolling suffered but little from the two blows he received, but during the struggle in the gig he received a bite on his thumb, the marks of which will descend with him to his grave. Major Malcolm, of the 3d Light Dragoons, is to accompany Colonel Sir Henry Pottinger to China as his official assistant.— United Service Gazette. Yesterday, between twelve and one o'clock, as the servant of Dr. Pope, 3, Manchester-square, was proceed ing along, Oxfoi d-street, with his master's gig, the horse took fright, and, galloping off at a furious rate, dashed the vehicle with tremendous force against the carriage of the Earl of Cardigan, at the corner of Portman. street. The Countess was riding in it at the time, and, as may be imagined, was greatly ala med. Dr. Pope's servant was somewhat hurt, and one of tiis Lordship's horses was also injured. SOUTHEND, MAY3O —M EL A NCHOLY EVENT. • —A distressing case of death from drowning occurred here this morning. A youth, son of Mr. Cabrow, who occupies a house on Grove -terrace, 17 rears of age, accompanied by his brother much younger than himself, went out in a boat for the purpose of bathing. It appears the boat drifted farther than they intended ; deceased got out in nine feet of water, and bring unable to swim sank almost instantly ; the other youth immediately rowed to shore, and assistance did not arrive until some time had elapsed. Seven boats (in one of which was the afflicted father) were employ( d in dragging for the, body, which they did not succeed in finding until upwards of two hOurs after the accident, when of course life was quite extinct. —Essex Herald. D A man called Eddy, of St: Just, Cornwall, was killed by lightning on Tuesday evening. —Bristol JournOL DOVER, MAY 29,—The mackarel fishery In the Channel has not bee n so suc cessfn‘ thisseason hitherto as could have been wished. The boats _ Wei nevertheless, caught some fish in th e w ek t Nyof , pangeness; bot as .10. t the nets along shore hav e no t suc ceded so well as was anticipated, The present gue weather, however, is favourable for our fisher men, and the smacks have brought in a quantity of plaice and other flab it their trawls. NEWS. (BY EXPRESS.) LIVERPOOL, MONDAY EVI:I°NC I. The Cornelia, Capt. :French, a fine large ship, from New York, came into our river evening, bringing New York papers to tlie 7 " 1 ult. ; thus, in part, anticipating the Ru s " .7 cue, and the Halifax and 1 30 . 5 w 11 ~ steamer, which are both expected every tide; indeed the Roscoe was sioltalled telegraph to have passed Holyhead, a t ' II ! 9 o'clock, 1.111., to-day, and will bring oile day' date later than we have now received only. Ths is the first voyage of the Cornelia; she is „splen did. ship, replete with every convenience. for her passengers' comfort. She has brought font-tee! out on this trip and they have expresied th gratification at , the kind attentions of her Co" mander in a very flattering manner. The following are Extracts from the .N err , York Papers : (From the New York Courier and Enquirer, MaY 6 ' ) the Stocks generally were a little better to-day, a lthough . 2 , operations were not extensive. The sales of United st bank Shares reached about 900, opening at 16, and leaving 4'sf at the second board at 17, showing an i mpr overuvnt st 14 per cent. on yesterday's sales. North American I.lller. improved ; Delaware and Hud s o n , i ; Stoning tot), ; Ya son, and Harlaern dec_ined %. The operations in Bills on Paris have been of fair ragout s to day at 5- - =`Bl, and London, at 7g to 7 2 1. Some Sout h ` Bills, not endorsed here, 107 ; Amserdam, 391 to 40 ; Haul burgh, 36 ; Bremen, 76i. Our banks are constantly adding to their stock of specie , 3 : export demand exists. Generally they are opposed to ; on stock of all kinds, but bu s i ness p a p er from sixty da y' to four months is readily taken. Caution and prudence aPP e t"ba govern our merchants, and business may be said t° • in as wholesome a train as for many years past. „, at At New Orleans there was an active demand for Co" - , advancing rates. This w as a t tr ib ute d to a r i se in Exchn 4 ; and a decline in freights, as well as a rowing conviction t the crop will be smaller tha n usua l. g (Correspondence of Courier and Enquirer.) PHILADELPHIA, to MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS OF THE UNITE' S ., l k te a BA NK. —The meeting of the Stockholders of the letter States Bank was crowded. The President presented a '',„" stating that in compliance with a resolution of the Stockh"la a Committee had been appointed to see what legal the former officers of the Bank had i neur i , t. „, c .o and to enforce any such liabilities. No new discounts had — to made, and no new business taken without a full Board' Directors had made assignment to protect the post nottso6; in the hands of the city banks, but had not bl o able to procure legislative authority to rail k , e s te assignment to secure the circulation and deposits, a , /hit gislature refused to make a special alteration in the lavr• to rs gave rise to much discussion, as it was said that the p'r" 7t h had exceeded their authority under the sth resolution ot of April, which empowered them to make the bank' o f the city secure only on condition that the ne tes , hel a the United States Bank should be received by 1 .7 . .4 ► on deposit. This gave rise to much discussion. 071; a resolution was offered, refusing the assent of the St holders to the action of the Directors. • e rr§ 1 tabilitil Mr. Bayard, of Delaware, in reply, stated, that the Du , e ,. s were tillable to comply with the resolution of the Stockhok'tho" and in order to protect the assets of the Bonk and keep the faith of the Bank, which was pk.dged to the redemptiond , n o se t, resumption did not go on, the Directors were compelle: 6 . o lo on the authority which they held as Directors, and e°,;," of the authority given by the resolutions of the , it" 30 ,1 April. In the course of his speech Mr. D iv a ss Y ty • said, that some gentlemen argued as if the Bank was ins° _ A if it was not so, the stock was worth 14 million dollars , ar"'.l the credit of the State rallied, it might become Worth 2 0 t. lion dolars. After much discussion the resolution va i l as roa t A resolution, proposed by Mr. Josiah Randall, that a t . be created to protect the currency and deposits, was car rie s o r A long paper was presented by Mr. Lippincott, being , ply to the published letters of Mr. Biddle—this part 01 proceedings will require another notice. ...„t of The meeting adjourned to the 18th, to hear the vr the committee on the state and prospects of the Bank. (From the Courier and Enquires.) SUPREME COURT. (Present Chief Justice Nelson and Justice Coma'''. This Court met yesterday for the Term, and held their ting in the Chamber of the Board of Assistant Ald er City Hall. No business of importance was transacted. tici, Alexander M'Leod, indicted for murder, in having „_,l 4 , r , a rs pated in the destruction of the Caroline steamer oo ffit t be River, arrived in town on Sunday evening, in custody °` to : Sheriff of Niagara County, and took lodgings in the M'Leod is to be brought before the Supreme Court on 1 13 , bis corpus, citing the people to show cause why he should no' released. (From the New York _Commercial Advertiser, May REMOVAL OF M‘LEOD, The arrival of this gentleman in our city, this " te te od causa belli," yesterday, took us somewhat by surprise', t he even now the exact purpose, the absol u t e h ow an d why o ', o . matter, are not very clearly ascertained. Th ere is to be a P' op tion for a habeas corpus argued before the Supreme Cou rt b s t Thursday ; but by whom it is applied for, and with sp , object, we are not as yet informed. On Thursday, Pe! .b t h a t we shall know all about it. Our wonder in the m atter 15 art the application was not made long ago to the Supreme C i c l or a of the United States, where the whole question could be art , and settled at once. f ti ts The Rochester Democrat gives the annexed account o removal : tot On Thursday evening the Lockport coach brought to city the famous Alexander M'Leod, in custody of the Sher', of Niagara County, on his way to the city of New York, 011 _, writ of habeas corpus, issued by the Supreme Court, to WTI him before it during its May term in that city. He was lodr, in gaol until the time for the packet to leave for the East ,4 " - , next morning, when he was brought on board, and took or, departure. (ANOTHER ACCOUNT.) ARRIVAL OF AFLEOD FROM LOCKPORT. —Alestwr, M'Leod arrived in the st e a m -b oa t Swallow, from Albally 1,ou" terday morning, in the cu s t o dy of T. Stone, Sheriff of Ni County. Mr. J. L. Wood, Di s t r i c t A t t orney f or th e CA 3 ' 7 '..,; of Niagara, accompanied th e p ar ty, an d t h ey a ll t oo k 1001 at Howard's Hotel. Willis Hall, the Attorney-Gen e :. and Messrs. Spencer and Bradley, M'Leod's Counsel, also in town. M'Leod comes here by habeas ce_ 4 :17 0 ,i 4 His counsel are to apply to the Supreme Court to-day, f o r digtharge, on the ground that, as the destruction of the line was ordered by the British authorities, and has been a. 7 14,, by the Government, he is not liable to punishment t o h r e ti: osue : the Judiciary of this State. The motion will be heard, co e% week, and the arguments will cover the whole ground 0 ' troversy. 4 if the Court shall deny the application far the diseh ar e r n e ae, M'Leod, his counsel will apply for a change of This will no doubt be granted, and he will go to trial 3 o rliv time and place as his Counsel shall deem advisable. A n vet' day is wished for by the prisoner, and is desirable on account. aud M'Leod was ostensibly i n th e cus t o d y o f th e Sheri ff , jiff restraint was imposed upon his motions, and if he had ai) position to evade a trial and go hack to Canada, or t° ifP devil, it would seem that every facility was offered hitil;a,„,i)t is a stout, and ra th er p ower f u l man , an d was wander-11160 u" pre , the city yesterd a y, l oo ki ng a t th e li ons , w ith nob°( l ) .t , 0 00 11 vent his escape b u t th e Sh er iff o f Ni agara coun ty, a n'a" ,„ inferior in point of physical strength. . On his return t o H owar d' s f rom hi s s t ro ll, th e re wag g U „ al e rush to see him, an d so muc h exc it ement , th a t it was u e- m bia e best to shut him u p ; h e was accor di ng l y t a k en to the; he r& Could there h ave b een any d es i gn i n sen di ng M‘Lon O r ' with an escort so i nsu ffi c i en t t o guard him? Al`Lf7 en ' (1° understood, ha s no d es i re t o ge t out o f t h e wa y. ne ai " lie P . brave it out, unless he is discharged by authority of law. might hav e b een ma d e a fugitive without his own conset; ms et State Barber unde rs t an d s th e ar t an d m y s t e ry of " i d ‘ ea• ping —the Sheriff, and M'Leod too, might have he el ' P up and shipped for E n gl an d, or sen t to Canada, whetherotle 't wou'd or no. This wo u ld h ave b een th e easiest v getting rid of the whale difficulty, and there is nothinglune history or character of the Alb an y Junto to render the 5 r si i • ' . O M'Leod is apparently some 45 yea rs o ld, about v „1 A s height, compactly built—broad, full face, sandy hair an , o w' kers, a small s ca r on hi s nose , w i t h a d etermi ned a" 1 / 4 1 a ' re , i isl , what sullen expression o f coun t enance. H e i s ver y w'U r str of respectable app earance , an d m i g h t eas il y b e t a ken b ut te s antial Duchess County farmer, come to town to s° ll and eggs. SOUTH AMERICA. 13.) (From the New York J ourna l o f Commerce, 31. Y 110' ° IMPORTANT FROM NEW GR ENADA . By way of "'fe l o°, : we learn that on the 9th of J anuary General manding the Government t roops o f New Greeala. P te d decisive victory over a body o f i nsurgen t s , reibrO ey have been 2,000 strong, u n d er G enera l s Geoze lez v ier° l'atria, at a place calle4 Aratc c Marl o deg killed, and about one thousand taken prisoners, below whom were many chiefs and officers of the Other advantages were subsequently obtained by th e th 'at s l c,„ ment troops at different points, and it was suppose' :„o. insurgent provinces would soon be reduced to subjec t ' fact several of them were already re-o. ganised under rides appointed under the general Government. 0 00 General Her, an, by the . last accounts, had about. 4,0 d tee:oj under his command in the province of Pamplona, 3 e rol were also two thousand Government troops, under 1 1 °' 1 , - 0 Popayan. The insurgent forces in Ocana, 0 d ,,, -) .j 11.4 whole line of the Magdalena, were said not to ex , '5„5/' thousand men ; those command e d b y Colone !s and Lopez having been routed on th e sa me dal . .„ 4 " -i eta ° ,.. with the battle of Aratoca. In consequence of over ttn % to General Herren by General Carmona, the former wailiAtiall to proceed to Ocana with the hop e o f e ff ec ti ng a „one o p without further effusion of blood. The Gazette of Venezuelapublishes in detail th e „Joe,' the above events, and adds:—" Th e prece di n g staten n ' a correct idea of the state of things in Grenada. I t ' eY O r " - rise us to expect a speedy termination of the disorde:10:10111 afflict our sister republic, and the complete r e 1.... ° 1 of constitutional order throughout the whole ter victory of Aratoca, and the total defeat of Gonzalez,;) firmed by a letter from the insurgents of the (so c all ddres e o f, of slazanares. This letter we have seen. It was a olu ron ; by Vincent Gutierrez de Pineres, Commander of a e r coed" — , observation, to the insurgent Governor of Pamplona ?, and is dated in the parish of La Cruz 22d February. JO B FATAL ACCIDENT.—MOtiday evenile.4' a ing the return of the General St e am Navigation (-7°n Tnr % steam-vessel the City of London, Captain Grant. fr' sn ac eid r :j cursion to the Nore and Sheernes s , a most afflicting were occurred in Long Reach. Two boys, w hose pare nt !. i ocr'r; board, in defiance of an o rde r o f th e C ap tain, and a" „„ Linn painted on the vessel warning passengers not to Sy of .etr a the paddle-boxes, ascended one of them fur the Pu r P ° ,,ry; s° , taining a more commanding view of the river and sce n ii „al o its banks. One of the lads was a b ou t to seat hon s l o w3 , stool lie took with him, when, the vessel giving a t iser fell overboard, and, as he was falling, se ized the `)le in' and (hogged him over with him. A shout from the 1- ) . :' e r o oiri e formed the Captain that some one was ove rboard; d Thrown n oti t immediately tosa Te s l o t! ) P 1 a e( d i s , , o a n e bo o a f t and the Captain, his eeew, piked up by 'William Rome and Henry Al.ston , fis" coe wr ' s e, Grave=end. The City of London was detained for s , in o d directions for the other lad, but did not aucceeo. whomwas lower etl, ,st a° d i re ct o i f him, and the stt amer proceeded in London-brtuoi,_e e of IP and the fishermen sear, cl' o 0 0 11,: h 5 name of the boy saved is Ilene} Appleby, but the wa rn lad who was drowned could not be ascertained. Or ~•rs THE STEAM COMMUNICATION an oth a tend le ran a steamer from Brighton to Dieppe. , To ole AND ilamoetas.—lt is understood the Railroad " w r t by the Pier Company, who, until row, have gt,e .he ad. Stoat ti Navigation Company have been allowed the n # steamer will also run from'Brighton to Hastings , 1"",., fohni a very agreeable means of communication beta een th able watering-ploes. --------