The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-20 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION REPRESENTATION OF LIVER POOL. (From the Liverpool Times.) The conspicuous part which the Noble 'Lord who re presents this great commercial port has volunteered to take in resisting the measures now before Parliament, for liberating the commerce. of this country from the shackles which restrain it, renders it absolutely necessary that those whose interests and fortunes are involved in the opening of the trade of the country, should take decided means at the approaching election, to show to Parliament and the country that their opinions and those of Lord Sandon do not agree. The Noble Lord has thought proper, at the present crisis, to sacri fice the interests of the manufactures and commerce of the country, and those of the majority of his constituents, to gain the favour and promote the interest of a small body of monopolists. Whether, in so doing, he has been actuated by gratitude for past, or the hope of future favours, by a disinterested love for monopoly and exclusion, or a practical calculation as to • the effects which the breaking down of the system of monopoly will have on his own personal interests as a landowner, or whether his Lordship has Acted without regard to his own inte rests and those of his friendS, and from a desire to pro mote what he believes to be the interests of the country, we leave to the decision of those who have had better opportunities than we have of judging of his Lordship's character and motives. One thing, however, is perfectly clear, that his Lordship, for some reason or other, has volunteered to take the position of Advocate-Gene ral of monopoly and exclusion, and we, therefore, call upon all those who have any regard for their own inte rests, any wish to mitigate the sufferings of the working classes, any desire to put an end to the present unparalleled embarrassment of trade, and any wish to place their own interests and the interests of She country upon a solid and lasting foundation, to come forward and show that they rare determined to have those interests and opinions fairly represented in the Commons House of Parliament, and not sacrificed either to the selfish interests of a landed r epresentative, to his complacency for his West India Mends, or even to his Lordship's want of comprehension of the necessities of the country. Let not those who are opposed to the recent proceedings of the Noble Lord imagine, however, that they will gain what they and the country hme a right to ask, without considerable exertion on their part.' Sacrifices must be made if any good is to be done, and the' v certainly will be made, unless present resolutions and profe, , sions are allowed to evaporate in empty threats. We, therefore, call upon those of our Brazilian mer chants, who k,7ow and feel that their interests have been shamefully assailed by the Noble Lord, to come forward and vindicate their - rights, on those of the merchants who feel that the Noble Lord is jeopardising the commerce Qf the country, to come for ward likewise, and on all those who have considered it an honour to have the name and principles of Liver pool associated with the name and commercial principles of William Huskisson, to make a determined effOrt to place the representation of this town on such a footing as will save it from being used as the strongest argu ment for monopoly and exclusion. In a case like this, there is not the least need of mere ad captandum arguments or appeals. All that is necessary is, that the electors should calmly con sider what is their interest and the interest of their families. With regard to the sugar duties, for in stance, where is the man, not having a sinister in terest, wiisq can doubt that it is for the interest of every family Liverpool to have sugar at reason able rates, and 1 - . 1 0 longer to be subject to prices which press most Cuelly on the comforts of the poor, and are also felt to ;:a,ve been a very heavy burden on the incomes of the middle classess ? Is it not enough, and more than enough, that every family in this town and throughout the country, besides paying a tax of at least 100 per cent. on sugar for the benefit of the general Government, should pay an additional tax of 50 per cent. for the benefit of a few West India proprietors ? Most persons would suppose that this was sufficient, but not so Lord Sandon. He is not satisfied with compelling every .one of his constituents to pay this amount of protection to his West Indian supporters. What he requires is, that they should have the total control of the market, and the right of extracting every shilling whicili can be screwed from the public by an abso lute monopoly. We are told, indeed, by the advocates of the W,''St India interest, that the amount of re lief given by the Government measure, will be in significantly suPial- This may be a very sufficient reason why the pivpo.sed reductions should be car ried further, but it is a miserable one why they should not be carried so i * .v. Indeed, the view taken by the grocers of this town in •.he petition which they for warded to Parliament last wee*, and which Lord San don had the pleasure of presenting', is evidently a sound one. They ask that the duty should be reduced to 30s. instead of 365., and if it is their interest, As sellers, that the duty should be no higher, it is certainly the interest of the consumers likewise. The great object, V we suspect, of Lord Sandal, and of the other landowners to whom the town constituencies have had the folly to commit the guardianship of their interests, is the defence of their own monopoly at the expense of the community. Even if Lord Sandon was under no obligation to the West India interest, yet his interest in keeping up the price of corn would, we fear, be quite sufficient to induce him to make common cause with them. It is his own battle that is fought, and though we have not the slightest wish to insinuate that Lord Sandon is more selfish than men in general, yet we must say, we have never seen any thing in eis character or conduct which would in duce us to think him capable of sacrificing his own peculiar interests to the interests of the country. So far as those interests are fair and legiti mate, no one would ask him to make any such sacri fice, or would think any the worse of him if he re fused to make it ; but the shipowners of this great port have reason to complain that the Noble Lord should render it impossible for them to obtain freights in ordinary times in the corn-growing countries of Europe and America ; the merchants have a right to complain that ho should destroy everything like regularity in the trade in foreign corn, and the public ge nerally ( that great unprotected and much injured interest), has a right to complain that the Noble Lord should be a party to inflict upon them all the evils of embarrassed trade and extravagant prices. At the present moment there is not a single merchant or shopkeeper in Liverpool who is not suffering from the dreadful depression in trade which the Corn-laws have produced in the monetary affairs and the bniainess of the country ; and unless party spirit has destroyed every thing like reason or regard to their own interest in the mercantile and trading classes, the Noble Lord will be taught that the inhabitants of this large town will no longer allow their business to be thrown into con fusion, and their fortunes to be destroyed, to gratify either his party objects or his personal interests. The Noble Lord, by volunteering to take the position of defender-ge neral of the monopolies which press upon the country, has rendered it unavoidable that the next contest for the repre sentation ofLiverpool should be a contest between liberal principles of trade and commercial monopoly. lie has taken his ground ; on that he must be met, and on that ground we hope and believe he will be defeated. Our hope rests not on any fancied change of opinion as regards general politics, but upon the present position of the country, upon the lessons of wisdom which painful experience is pressing upon all men, and npon the odious and ruinous soTour d which the Noble Lord himself has thought fit to ljake. We trust that no time will be lost in inviting the President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Labou chere, or some other man of good Parliamentary standing, and thoroughly pledged to the reduction of the duties on the prime necessaries of life, and the emancipation of the trade of the country, to come forward and contest tho representation of Liverpool on those grounds. Lord Sandon has himself thrown down the gauntlet, and no one entertains a hope that our legal representative, Mr. Cresswell, will show ono whit mor(I, of sympathy for the trade of the country than his noble colleague. If either of them is returned again for Liverpool, the in fluence of this port goes against freedom of t ra de_againN t the principles of Huskisson : —and this we trust the Liberal portion of the constituency will never allow without a struggle. THE CORN -LAW CRISIS. A meeting of the inhabitants of Salford, a 11d b pu bli c requisition, numerously signed, is to ca ll ed o: Friday morning, to express their opinion at the present crisis. These are times for stern spirits and firm hands. We write advisedly ; we write for Irishmen ; we appeal to their memories g we await, but we are sere of a stern and ominous response to that appeal. The time is no longer one of compromise, it is not a time for bin ciliation. No I The people of Ireland never can, never must forgive the Tories. If Sir Robert Ptol and his despicable band of hypocritical scoundrels pre sent themselves to pass the threshold of office, Ireland will meet them ! And are their words burning enough to express the horror, contempt and indignant hatred With which their impudent profligacy might be rebuked. To England there are many reason why the Tories should not remain in office. The late debate contains a- summary of them all. National pr os p erit y , the public welfare—all that is great or useful in laws or government were sought to be sacrificed to selfish and avowedly pretences? dishonest interests. And under what The slave-trade. The Tories pleaded for their own plunder and monopo li es on the score of huma nity, and the shame 1 em hypocrites avow that they use both religion and p hi lanthropy merely as instruments to obtain a totious triumph. Leagued with the Chartists, combine d w ith the West India planters, in fellowship with Anti.s avery zealots, Sir R. Peel has placed his party beforeavh e empir e i n s t ar tli n g defor mity. I h t rishmen. you once ad you must arise and already rebuked Sir Robert Peel from office 7 n do so again. Ho must never obtain one hour's dominion. Ministers But we do not fear it. will not resign, and appeal theposition of the Tories in an a be disastrous and contemptible. their dish ones t tact, and enprincipled Chartism, and hypo cr iti ca l huma nity will have !ono for nothing. They u for ward as the open and avowed support ers f t come n t n h ble, Unanswerable, selfish mo nopolists to the nation : they must hear, the taunt of the starving multitudes whom th ey plunder. If Engiand be roused ; above all, if Ireland ha thoroughly awakened, they cannot succeed. But if they s h ou ld ? Wine, then, we hope that our hostility will be un appea . WA: sal . un d ying I If a people must rise, can th ey r i se In a holier cause ? • For their rights, for their homes,for their, altars, th e Lasysouth, but e in nr IRreeplanori people c nsces. will stake every thing, if the faction never returns to power. MONOPOLY oa No M on our armour fora ONO POLY .— We must buckle mor e serious warfare than any we ho in g hitherto engaged and e ver y man must feel that ln the approaching general election the oligarchy are at length at bay. The present is no servile war for an agragarian or Spencean division of property, but a peace ful constitutional movement for the free use of our own legs and arms. Let all plunderers and monopolists tremble ! Lt t the parasite classes fear ! They feel that a blow struck at one is a blow at all, and that in a country where no privileges arc accorded to idleness, and no trammels imposed upon labour for their behoof, abuses cannot long exist. A magnate of their order said before of Reform—" If this Bill passes, England will not be a place for a gentleman to live in." To all such we can easily conceive that the Grand Material Reform contemplated by Ministers is a hateful scheme : but to the masses of the people it is " as manna in the wilderness." Their cry is not revolutionary spoliation and robbery, but the honest, manly, independent cry of old Samuel Johnson—" Better stand in our own shoes than in our neighbours, after all, better in no shoes than in those !" Monopolists and anti-monopolists are now the distinctive divisions of the nation.—Cheltenham Free Press. THE PROPOSED ALTERATION IN THE CORN-LAWS. —The natural effect of the bolder and better course of policy adopted winthin these few days by Government, in proposing to bestow oft the people a real and sub stantial benefit—something worth struggling to obtain— is beginning to become everywhere unequivocally ap parent. The heartless apathy and mistrust engendered by the meaningless and fruitless character of the politica of the last few years, is rapidly clearing away, and the old " Reform" spirit is awaking throughout the lend in something like its former strength. Hundreds upon hundreds of petitions have already been sent up in ap proval of the proposal to untax the bread and sugar of the people, and everywhere is heard the din of prepa ration for the momentous struggle which is so nigh at hand—for it is now a matter almost of certainty that the Ministry, when defeated on the Budget, do no in tend to resign, but to appeal to the country by a disso lution. The struggle will be a keen and a doubtful one, and the aid of every friend of free trade and good Go vernment will require to be taxed to the utmost...—Ber wick Advertiser. While vast prospects are expanding before us abroad what is our condition at home ? Hourly threatened by the accession to power of a party opposed to all im provement in our institutions at home, and from whose rule we have nothing to expect but domestic confusion in Ireland. The country, however, must perform its duty. Ministers are engaged in the most arduous straggle, and unless supported by all classes of Re formers, must inevitably fall and make way for men whose conduct in tho government of Ireland would endanger the happiness and greatness of the empire, in order to secure to themselves and the Orange party the ascendancy. The contest is now not between rival Statesmen, but between abuses and reform. Let the country look well into the result of supporting the present Government or its enemies.—Cambrian. We sincerely hope the nation will be true to itself on this occasion, and, by thousands of petitions, strengthen the ha nds of Ministers, who, in this instance, have redeemed many of their by-past delinquencies, and shown that they both understand, and are determined to act on, such an enlightened principle of legislation, as shall prove to the world that they rightly appreciate the true and substantial interests of the empire, and are fully aware of the inspolicy as well as injustice of any longer sanctioning a system which sacrifices the well being of the many to the rapacity of the few. Even to fail in such a good work will be to them, and to the Li beral cause, a signal triumph, as it will reveal to the dullest capacity who are, and who are not, the real friends of the people.— Welshman. WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING FOR ?—lt iS most im portant that every man in the empire should well un derstand what it is for which he is called upon to fight : be should be satisfied that his exertions are re quired for no shadowy or uncertain good, but for real substantial benefits which he will sensibly feel in his pocket. There is nothing like figures on such ques tions as these. We propose to show the middle class man and the working man what each of them will gain by the proposed revision of the Import Duties. Let us take the case of a tradesman who has a family of six children, and keeps two servants. His weekly consumption of sugar averages at least llb. per head, or 101bs. per week. On this article alone he would save by the altered duties no less than 61. 10s. per annum. In the article of bread, taking his consumption at 1.5 loaves a week, he would save by an alteration in the Corn laws about 61. 10s. per annum. In the article of butcher's meat, taking his consumption at 401bs. per week, he would save, by an alteration in the provision laws, no less a sum than 171. per annum. If he builds a house, he pays some 201. or 301. for his timber more than he will pay if the duties are revised. On a multitude of minor articles, such as coffee, treacle, rum, wine, &c., he pays a very heavy tax in the shape of protective duties. Thus, on the three ne cessaries of life vve have named, a man of the middle classes will save, by a revision of the Import Duties, no less than :14/.per annum, or about one-twelfth of an in come of 4001. a-year. Now let us take the case of a working man. To him the saving will be much greater in proportion to his income, and it must not be con cealed that the main object of the proposed changes is .to improve the condition of the poor. Suppose a working man to have a wife and four children, and to to earn 10s. a week. He consumes about 10 loaves, 2.lbs. of bacon er otber meat, 11b. of sugar, and lib. of coffee. On these articles he is forced to pay, by the present law, taxes as follows ; on his bread Is. Bd., on his bacon 4d., on his sugar 3d., on his coffee Gd., in the whole 2s. 9d., or nearly one-fourth of his entire in. come. Now, mark how unjustly these taxes fall ; the middle class man pays only one-twelfth of his income, but the poor man pays one-fourth of his ; while the rich man is not taxed by these duties to a hundredth part of his income. Here we have a practical reversal of the scriptural maxim " to whom much is given from him much shall be required," for these most cruel and iniqui tous laws take most from those who have the least. It will be seen from this, that the question so soon to be submitted to the electors of Great Britain is emphati cally a poor man's question—it is whether the labourer shall be relieved from taxes to the amount of a fourth of his little earnings. And it is also a very important question for the middle classes. To be deprived of one twelfth of their incomes by a law made, not for the be nefit of the country, but for the enrichment of a few at the expense of the many, is to them also a very serious grievance. Relief from such a burden is surely an ob ject worth fighting for. 'We say nothing at present of the other considerations, as the ruin that impends over commerce, and, consequently, over themselves, if the system of monopoly be continued, and which should rouse all the industrious classes to unrelaxing exertion to secure the benefits offered to them, for these we must :treat of in another article.—Somerset County Gazette. VICTORIA THEATRE. Mr. Osbaldiston has within these few days Produced, in a very creditable manner, a new domestic drama, en titled Simon Lee, or the Murder of the Five Fields Copse. The story, which is well told, is founded upon the follow. ing incident :—Simon Lee, an individual of independent fortune, not content with his lot in life in having a happy home and an endearing wife, and blessed with two sweei children, must needlessly, as is the case wth many, em bark in trade, aid, by adverse fortune, he becomes a bankrupt. Reduced to the verge of despair, without even a solitary meal to comfort his unfortunate family, he becomes a poacher, and, being surprised in his precarious avocation, he murders one of the ganie-keepers, by which means he becomes a felon. The acting of Saville as Simon Lee, and Miss Vincent as Grace liatherly, his wife, reflects the highest credit upon their exertions. Indeed, we looked around and could Scarcely observe a dry eye in the house, all alike affected. Miss Vincent has justly obtained great ce?ebrity for her acting in domestic dramas, and we think. she ackl.s much to her fame by her admix able personation of the character of Grace 'fatherly. Ths scenery is of every superior order, and the close thickd of the poacher's glen, representing the entire length of the stage, a di s t ance o f 12 0 feet, and the pursuit of Sutton Lee, by the gamekeepers, had a very surprising p k l e a p y t e d t h e t heo house l d in m a ise c r on w sta itl n i t h r i o s ar us o u f a l l au ca gz: a e n ff d ec Gi L ard p i al ne e r ter. The afterptece was the successful drama of Rook wood, in which Miss Vincent sustained the character of Dick Turpin, and sang several songs not forgetting Nix my dolly pal s , f a k e " away. ' The house was crowded in every part. STATE OFTRADE. MANCRESTER.—There was no change in the market yesterday ; the demand continued quite as inanimate as ever, and the gradually increasing stocks of the spinners t of improvem ent, and manufacturers compelled many person s to sell at prices involving the most ruinous sacrific es . N or does there seem to be the slightest prospect from a great diminution of produce, and that diminution is now rapidly taking place. We understand, that most of the spinners at Bolton, Rochdale, Bury, and Lan caster, have commenced, or are about commencing, to work four days per week only, and there is some expecta tion that a similar measure will shortly be adopted at Preston, in which case we believe it will become quite general throughout the district. ROCLIDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, MAY 17. The market has been of a very discouraging nature to day, the demand being very limited, and prices tmcom monly low. The wool market has been . quite as bad as the piece market, with little change in prices. The woo llen and cotton trade in this town are both growing worse, and several of the cotton factories are working only four days a • week. The poor-rates are fast in creasing, and the overseers find daily a greater difficulty in collecting them.—Manchester Guardian. Three hundred agriculturists from Limerick, Tipperary, and Kerry, embarked last week at Cork, for Sydney.—Dublin Pilot. REWARD FOR VALOUR AND HUMANITY. --A testimonial was a fcw days! since forwarded by the King of the French to the Board of Admiralty, for a boat's mew at Rye. It was five large silver medals, bearing on one side a medall'on likeness of _his Majesty, and on the reverse an in scription stating the event which it is intended to commemo rate, and the names of the individuals to whom it was pre sented. The Admiralty forwarded them to Lieutenant Welsh, ellief officer of the Coast Guard station at Rye, who presented therm on Tuesday last to Mr. Head, the Surveyor of Customs, R. Tiltman, a pilot, and three seamen, who at imminent risk saved‘r. th e li ves o f t h e crew o f t h e F renc h s l oo p La Jenne 1 "or) which was wrecked off Rye in February last. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1841. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—We have not been disappointed in Sir Re bert Peel's speech. It contains all that is plausible for his party, and especially for himself. " L'etat c'est moi,'' said Louis the Great. Toryism—working; Toryism— presentable Toryism—(we do not mean at Court parti cularly) "c'est moi," says Sir Robert Peel. The Right Hon. Baronet's speech then is satisfactory doubtless to him self, and to those who find satisfaction in his self-attesta tions of statesmanship. But what does it contain that tend. at all to the satisfaction of the country ? What general views does it give of commercial and financial policy ? The Right Hon. Bart. might be justified in refusing details as to what he would do,eif he stood in position of Minister. Nobod) asked him for those ; it would be a quite uncalled-for humiliation in Ministers to go fishing for a budget from Opposition. The Opposition are not yet the Ministry ; but if its leaders intend to become so, it is fair enough to ask them what are the principles they oppose to the present. In some respects Sir Robert Peel has answered this question ; though only ne gatively. He has told us several things which a Tory Ministry will not do for us. It will not provide securi ties for a sufficient supply of tropical products, and the consequent advantage to the revenue, and the consumer. It will not substitute a fixed duty, for a sliding-scale of duties on corn. It will not do anything about timber, till Sir R. Peel is better acquainted with the political motives for, or against, a change in the Canadas. Sir Robert Peel may have shown satisfactorily that all this negative policy was a model of consistency in himself and his party. He may exclaim magnani mously, " Should he be called to office, not for one mo ment could he contemplate following the example of the present Government in supporting a proposal this year which last year they opposed." We think we can recol lect an instance in which the Right Honourable Baronet contrived to propose what he had resisted the . year before —resisted, not on temporary grounds, not in peculiar circumstances—but on high principles, all which he was constrained to pocket up the year after. But the Right Honourable Baronet has not told us how many years of consistency he means to preserve about sugar duties, to wipe out the stain of emancipation. It is well known that frail fair ones, who are conscious of some former faux paux, are often apt to assume a tenfold mantle of prudery. STANDARD.—Lord John Russell, after the procla mation of his - disgrace, hastened to proclaim that he will try another cast, and that the Corn-law proposition is to be debated, for, we suppose, nine nights more, or, if his Lordship pursue his new plan of making all his adhe rents speak as well as vote, for three times nine nights ; his 281 will give him 10 a night for a month, and we shall not be surprised to see the manoeuvre repeated. In this way the Session may be got over, however it shall fare with the public and private business before Parlia ment, and six months more of office will be secured, with the incidental chances of turning the Anti-Corn law sedition to some account. We were told, last week that Lord Melbourne had given a promise to a High Personage not to resign except upon compulsion. We expressed a doubt of the truth of the story, but we find that our doubt was without just grounds, although we had been otherwise mistaken. Lord Melbourne has given the promise ascribed to him— to a High Personage, indeed, in relation to his Lord ship—but not to the High Personage which most, in their simplicity, might suppose. Lord Melbourne has given this promise, but not to the Queen : his Lordship has given it to Mr. Daniel O'Connell, a much more important patron to him and his colleages than her Majesty has ever been. On Saturday it was generally understood that the Cabinet had resolved to resign, upon the foreseen defeat on Lord Sandon's resolution, without dissolving the Parliament, but Tuesday, it is said, brought the " grandis et verbosa epistola," of the great mendicant, reminding Lord Mel bourne of his promise not to resign without dissolving, and threatening, in case that promise should be violated, some revelations more useful to the public than agreeable to her Majesty's outgoing advisers, or profitable to the Whig-Radical party. The serpent has the Ministers within his folds, and, therefore, their odd and otherwise inexplicable contortions must not excite surprise. COURIER.—At length the interminable debate is brought to a close, and we may safely say of the defunct, that if the House be not surfeited with sugar, the colintry is. Nevertheless, wearied as we have been, we are bound to confess that there were speeches last night which in some sort repay us for the unwilling tolerance of the leaden dulness of most of those by which preceded. We can even be mercifully disposed towards the intolerable inflic tions of that most incorrigible of all egotistical bores, Mr. Villiers, and that most shrilly disagreeable of all ear splitting screamers, Mr. Sheil, when so richly rewarded afterwards for the purgatory passed through with ora tions of such unsurpassed eloquence and argument as those of Sir R. Peel and Lord Palmerston. For we shall not be unjust to the merits of the Noble Secretary, however opposed to his principles, and therefore frankly bear our testimony to the fact that, without one single exception, his was far away, if not the only, the most able as the most brilliant speech on his own side of the House during the whole course of this debate. The opening speech of Lord John Russell, carefully stu died and trimmed as it was, and plentifully seasoned with claptrap abstractions, whose truth, as such, nobody pretended to dispute, was a production of very inferior claims, either in the rhetorical or statesmanlike sense, to that less verbally pre-conceived and pre-arranged, and in many respects improvised harangue of the Foreign Secre tary, sparkling in its diction, and racy in its points, how ever deficient, and greatly deficient, in the more severe graces of style, logic, consistency, and reasoning, as con trasted with the masterpiece of mind by which it was ' preceded. We shall not, assuredly, be guilty of the pre sumption, for presumption it would be, o affecting to ap preciate all the excellences, or to bring into bolder relief by discriminating selections of any particular passages, of that matchless oratory and that profound argument with which Sir Robert Peel enriched, refreshed, lightened, and illustrated questions and principles, which, in the hands of all his opponents, had been degraded into vapid common-places, and used up only in the shape of stale stage trickery ad captandum vulgus. Renowned orator, philosopher, and statesman as he is, and has long been universally acknowledged, the Right Honourable Baronet, and Prime Minister that is to be, may truly be said on this occasion to have outdone his " former fame." FROM TUESDAY'S GAZETTE. WHITEHALL, MAY 18, 1841. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, nominating, presenting, and appointing the Rev. nomas Fowler Short, D.D., to the Bishopric of the Isle of Man and Sodor, void by the translation of the Right Rev, Father in God Dr. Henry Pepys to the see of Worcester. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 15. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Niven Moore, Esq., sometime her Majesty's Consul at Beyrout, to be her Majesty's Consul at Aleppo. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Nathaniel William Werry, Esq., sometime her Majesty's Consul at Damascus, to be her Ma jesty's Consul at Beyrout. The Queen has also been graci. ously pleased to appoint Richard Wood, Esq. to be her Ma jesty's Consul at Damascus. DOWNING-STREET, MAY 14. The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Sealy, Esq., to be Solicitor-General in the Island of Barbadoes. The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Stephen Bourne, Esq., to be Registrar of the District of Berbice, in the Colony of British Guiana. WAR-OFFICE, MAY 18. sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Assistant-Surgeon W. J. Power, from the 51st Foot, to be Assistant. Surgeon, vice Carnegy, who resigns, May 18. 7th Regiment of Light Dragoons—W. Ricardo, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Cotton, promoted in the 7th Foot, May 18. 9th Regiment of Light Dragoons —Captain the HonouraWe A. H. A. Cooper, from half-pay Royal Staff Corps, to be Captain, vice A. C. Williams, who exchanges ; Lieut. J. W. G. Spicer to be Captain, by purchase, vice A. Cooper, mho retires ; Cornet J. E. Madocks to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Spicer ; W. F. Auderton, Gent. to be Cornet, by pur chase, vice Madocks, May 18. Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Brevet-Colo nel W. H. Meyrick, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, vice F. J. Davies, who exchanges ; Captain J. Dixon to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Mcyrick, who retires ; Lieutenant the Hon. H. T. Forester to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Dixon ; Ensign H. E. Montresor, from the 11th Foot, to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Forester ; W. H. Lord Kilmarnock (late Page of Honour to the Queen) to be Ensign and Lieutenant, without purchase May 18, 1841. Scots Fusilier Guards—Capt. N. W. J. B. Micklethwaito, to be Captain and Lieut.-Colonel, by purchase, vice Standen, who retires; Lieut. the Hon. G. A. Byron to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Micklethwaite ; Ensign the Hon. H. H. H. Duncan, from the 71st Foot, to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Byron, May 18. 7th Regiment of Foot—Cornet the Hon. W. H. S. Cotton, from the 7th Light Dragoons, 'to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Boyle, who retires, May 18. 18th Foot—Ensign A. W. S. F. Armstrong, to be Lieu- tenant, without purchase, vice Davis, deceased, Jan. 26 ; E. W. Sargent, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Armstrong, May 18. 26th Foot—Captain F. Whittingham, from the 80th Foot, to be Captain, vice Maule, appointed to the 36th Foot; Lieu tenant J. Piper, from the 38th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Sharp, appointed to the 72d Foot, May 18. 30th loot—Capt. H. J. M. Gregory, from half-pay of the '2d Ceylon Regiment, to be Captain, vice H. J. Pogson, who exchanges, May 18. 36th Foot—Capt. J. Maule, from the 26th Foot, to be Cap tain, vice J. M. Home, who retires upon half-pay Unattached, receiving the difference, May 18. 37th Foot—D. Davenport, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Lambard, who retires, May 18. 38th Foot—Lieutenant C. H. Fitzgerald, from the 16th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Piper, appointed to the 26th Foot; May 18. 4;3(1 Foot—Major J. Forlong to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Booth, deceased ; Brevet Major W. Frazer to be Major, vice Forlong ; Lieut. G. D. Freer to be Captain vice Fraser, May 7. 48th Foot—R. Bowen, Ger.t. to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Stone, appointed to the 14th Light Dragoons, May 18. 51st Foot—Assistant-Surgeon T. L. Belcher, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Power, appointed to the sth Dragoon Guards, May 18. 70th Foot—Lieut. J. C. Harris, from the 72d F oo t, t o b e Lieutenant, vice Fraser, appointed to the Ceylon Regiment, May 18. 72d Foot—Lieut. R. P. Sharp, from the 26th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Harris, appointed to the 70th Foot, May 18. 80th Foot—Captain C. Lewis, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain (paying the difference), vice Whittingham, appointed to the 26th Foot, May 18. 90th Foot—Ensign T. Ross to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lord S. A. Chichester, who retires ; C. F. Thruston, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Ross, May 18. 93d Foot—Captain Robert Carmichael Smyth to be Major, by purchase, vice Arthur, who retires; Lieute nant A. Agnew, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Smith ; Ensign E. H. Blair to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Agnew, A. J. 0. Rutherfurd, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Blair, May 18. Ceylon Ride Regiment—Lieutenant L. S. C. Fraser, from the 70th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice R. Macbeath, who retires upon half-pay of the 16th Foot, May 13. HOSPITAL STAFF.—C. M. Duff, M.D., to be Assistant- Surgeon to the Forces. vice Belcher, appointed to the 51st Foot, May 18. BRZYJET.—Capt. H. J. M. Gregory, of the 30th Foot, to be Major in the Army, Jan. 13, 1837. MEmoamtnum.—The date of the commission of Lieutenant J. R. Maxwell, of the 3d West India Regiment, is Nov. 16, 1839. Tho Christian names of Ensign Stehelin, appointed to the 13th Foot, on the 30th April 1841, are William }rancis. The name of the Lieutenant who exchanged from the 54th to the 94th Regiment on the 15th January last, is James Twisleton Bayly, not Bayley, as previously stated. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Somersetshire. North Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Henry Shute, Esq. to be Major • J. Harding, Esq. to be Captain, May 10 ; J. H. Blagrave:Gent. to be Cornet, May 11. WHITEHALL, M 14. The Lord Chancellor bas appointed John Vaughan Mutlow, of Ledbury, in the county of Hereford, Gent., to bo a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. The following places have been duly registered for solemniz, ing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act of 6th and 7th Wil iam IV., chap. 85 : Pleasant-street Chapel, Liverpool. Bridge Croft Chapel, Wigan, Lancashire. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. FREDERICK TAYLOR, plumber, Speldhurst, Kent. ROBERT EDMUNDS, builder, Bennett-street, Stam. ford-street, Biackfriars. MARIA LOUISA JONES, iictualler, Tredegar, Mon mouthshire. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. RICHARD REVELL, linen-draper, Plymouth. BANKRUPTS. JOHN KINGSFORD and ECAVIUS EBENEZER KINGSFORD, wine -merchants, Dover, to surrender May 26, at two, and June 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington, Coleman-street-buildings, official assignee; Dim mock, Size-lane. _ WILLIAM MALLISON, merchant, Blackburn, June 8 and 29, at eleven, at the Town-hall, Preston. Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple, London ; Neville, Ainsworth, and Beardsworth, Blackburn. WILLIAM DAY and THOMAS DAY, oilmen, Grace church-street, May 29, at twelve, and June 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frede rick's-place, Old Jewry ; Capes and Stuart, Field-court, Gray's Inn. ROBERT FIELD, banker, Cartmel, Lancashire, May 26 and June 29, at twelve, at the Commercial Inn, Kendal, West moreland. Wilson and Harrison, Kendal; Norris, Allen, and Simpson, Bartlett's-buildings, London. RALPH HARRIS, merchant, Lower Thames-street, May 28, and June 29, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bel cher, official assignee ; Luttly, Fourdrinier, and Morse, Dyers'- hill, College-street, Dowgate. HENRY WILSON FE RNY H OUG bookseller, Reading, May 25, and June 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ' • Lamb, Furnival's-inn, Holborn. JONAH WHEELER, victualler, Bath, June 8 and 29, at eleven, at the Commercial-rooms, Bath. Horton, Furni val's-Inn, London ; Mant and Harvey, Bath. WILLIAM KNOWLES, clothesman, Hyde, Cheshire, May 28 at eleven, and June 29, at 2, at the Commissioner's rooms, Manchester. Clarke and Medcalf, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London ; Brooks, Ashton-under-Lyne. PETER HIGGINS, brewer, Salford, Lancashire, May 28 and June 29, at ten, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Man chester. Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford row, London ; Morris, Manchester. RALPH JOHNSON, builder, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, June 10, at eleven, and June 29, at two, at the Commission-room, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Cuvelje, Skilbeck, and Hall, London Keenlyside, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. RICHARD RIMMER, tailor, Liverpool, May 31 and June 29, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Neal, Liver pool; Hall, Bishop, and Mourilyan, Verulam-buildings, Gray's Inn, London. THOMAS DASH, innkeeper, New Windsor, Berkshire, May 25, and June 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Gibson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Ward, Essex street, Strand, London. JAMES CADBURY, cheesemonger, New Bond-street, May 25, and June 29, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assiee, Aldermanbury ; Humphreys, Ne wga t e - s t ree t. JOHN NOBLE and JOSEPH FREER, hosiers, Leices ter, May 24, at eleven, and June 29, at three, at the Castle, Leicester. Stone and Paget, Leicester ; Taylor, Sharpe, Field, and Jackson, Bedford-row, London. JOHN KNOWLES, HENRY RODWELL, GEORGE RUSSELL PARKER. and JOHN THOMAS KING, silk brokers, Thkgmorton-street, May 31, at half-past ten, and June 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Copthall-buildings; Crowder and Co., Man sion-house-yard. WILLIAM NORTHCROFT, builder, Egham, May 28, and June 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Carman, official assignee, Finsbury-square ; Dyte, Hare-court, Temple. . . DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. T. A. Curtis, merchant, Tokenhouse•yard, City, June 10, at one—J. Barnett, builder, Sydenham, Juno 10, at twelve— A. D. Bottomley, tailor, Gracechurch-street, June 10, at oleven. In the Country. W. Swift, timber merchant, Ashton-under-Lyne, June 18, at eleven, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester—W. Nut tall,grocer, M anc h ester, June 1 5, a t o ne, at the Commission ers'-rooms, M anc h ester— J . C o l qu houn, copper smith, Shef field, June 10, at e l even, at t h e T own -hall, Sheffield—W. and J. Deeming, hotel keepers, the Commi ss i oners ' -rooms, M anc h e ster—J. Roberts, mer. chant, Carnarvon, June 22, at ten, at the Castle Hotel, Car narvon-4. Beckett, ironfounder, Liverpool, June 10, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool—E. Evans, draper, Liver pool, June 9, at eleven, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool— W. Coombe, builder, Launceston, Cornwall, June 15, at twelve, at the Royal Hotel, Plymouth—P. Potter and W. Maude, ea'ico printers, Manchester, June 9, at ten, at the Com missioners'-rooms. M anchester. CERTIFICATES —JUNE 8. G. H. Green and G. C o urth , o_rpe, paper makers, Kent— W. Wilson, innkeeper, Wakefield, Yorkshire—C. 'l'odhunter, drysalte r , Yorkshire.Mincing-lane—R. Cass, grocer , Boroughbridge, PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. H. Cayley, C. Moberly and A. Mober l y , me rc h ants , St. Petersburgh ( so f ar as re g ardsg A. Mobe rle y) —W. Birle y , T. Birley, T. L. I3i r l ey, C. Birley, and E. Birley, flax spinners, Kirkham, Lancashire ( ' so far as regards W. and E. Birley) — C. Swain son , W . Birley, T. Birley, S. Ry le y , W. B. Swain son, and W. Bi r l ey, jun co tt on spinners, Preston, Lanca shire (so f ar as regards T. Birley)—J• and H. Wallace, bakers, Hamcommon, Putney —J. Huddleston, J. Ritson, D. Fletcher, castle-upon -Tyne—Z.. and W. Ostle, ship builders, Maryport, Cumberland—J. G. Breach and H. Choules, Plough Tavern, Blackwall—S. and R. Lobley, tallow chandlers, Pulsey, Yorkshire—T. Dormer and J. T. Brown, cigar manufacturers, Kennington-green— C. Liddell, W. Webster, and R. Liddell, wine merchants, New- Mew and E. Hoggett, saddlers, Belsay, F. Lime and V. Givry, importers of French goods, Addle street, Wood street, Cheapside—B. and F. M. Briggs, grocers, Newington, Kent—H. F. Baylis, H. U. Culley, and Artis and J. Burtt, tin goo Poplar_ Northumberland— G. B. Brightwell, printing ink manufacturers, Whitechapel— W. B. Chappell, T. It. Chappell, and H. Marsden, cotton manu facturers, Manchester (so far as regards G. R. Chappell)---L Kenyon, L. Bond, and R. H, Hopwood, cotton spinners, Blackburn, Lanca , hire (so far as regards J. Kenyon)—H. Hyman and A. Jacobs, jewellers, Plymouth—F. R. Atkinson, H. Birch, and J. Saunders, attorneys, Manchester (so fir as regards H. Bireh)—W. and J. Bethom, bobbin manufactu rers, Grassgarth, Westmorland—F. Ullathorne and T. Root lidtt,e, wholesale grocers, Pontefract, Yorkshire—E. Lilley and It. Boyle, jun., mahogany merchants, Kingston-upon-Hull-- W. Crompton and J. Keeley, silk dyers, Gaythorn, Manche3- ter—T. Ibotson and G. J. Palmer, printers, Savoy -street, Strand—J. May, jun. and S. H. Crosswell, wine merchants, Devonport —R. Stains and J. Fox, brewers, New-road, Mary lebone—D. Antrobus and C. Millar, rock-salt proprietors, Wincham, Cheshire—J. Bush and E. L. Master, attorneys, St. Mildred's-court, Poultr- SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. ROBERT WATT, cotton spinner, Johnstone, May 24 and June 11, at twelve, at the Saracen's Head Inn, Paisley. WILLIAM YOUNG, watch maker, Dundee, May 25 and June 11, at one, at the Star Inn, Dundee. ALEXANDER CATTO, spirit dealer, Peterhead, May 20 and June 19, at twelve, at Fraser's Inn, Peterhead. WILLIAM COOPER and CO., glass stainers, Edinburgh, May 24 and June 14, at one, at the Royal Exchange Coffee house, Edinburgh. JOHN GILkISON, merchant, Glasgow, May 24 and June 14, at two, at the Black Bull Inn, Glasgow. JAMES MELVIN, merchant, Aberdeen, May 21 and June 11, at the Lemon Tree Tavern, Aberdeen. HENRY SMAIL, mill-master, Water of Leith, May 24 and June 14, at one, at Ferguson's Ship Tavern, Edinburgh. ALEXANDER LOW, merchant, Dundee, May 24 and June 12, at twelve, at the British Hotel, Dundee. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. IMPORTANT TO SIIIPOWNERS.—Yesterday Alderman Pirie sat for the Lord Mayor for the especial purpose of hearing a case of great importance to shipowners; he was attended by the City Solicitor. Mr. Clarkson, the barrister, said the information was laid under the 3d and 4th Wm. IV., c. 55, to recover a penalty of 1001. against a Mr. Jordison, for wilfully and wrongfully detaining the ship's register of the Anne Mackenzie, whereby the owners of the vessel were un able to clear her out of the docks into which she had been entered on her arrival in January last, to discharge her cargo. The Act of Parliament in question was one of the greatest importance to shipowners, as it afforded the best security, by summary measures, to obtain possession of the ship's papers if improperly withheld by masters or other persons who might have got them into their power. The 27th section, which comprehended the whole matter, was substantially as follows :—" And whereas it is not proper that any person,' under any pretence whatever, should detain the certificate of registry of any ship, or hold the same for any purpose other than the lawful use and navigation of the ship for which it was granted ; he it therefore enacted, that in case any person who shall have received or obtained by any means, or for any pur pose whatever, the certificate of the registry of any ship (whether such person shall claim to be the master or the owner) shall wilfully detain and refuse to deliver up the same to the proper officers, for the purposes of the ship, as occasion shall require, or to the person having the ac tual command, possession, and management, as the ostensible and reputed master or owner, it shall be law ful for any such last-mentioned person to make complaint, on oath, of such detainer and refusal to any Justice of tho Peace ; and on such complaint the Ma gistrate shall cause the person complained against to be brought before him to be examined as to such detainer and refusal ; and if it shall appear that the said certifi cate of registry is not lost or mislaid, but is wilfully de tained by the person complained against, such person shall be convicted thereof, and shall forfeit and pay the sum of 1001., and, on failure of payment, be committed to the common gaol for not less than three, nor more than twelve months ; and the Magistrate shall certify the detainer, refusal, and conviction, to the person who granted the certificate of registry, who shall make re gistry of the ship de novo and grant a ce r tifi ca t e t h ereo f conformably to law, notifying the ground on which the ship was registered de novo." Mr. Clarkson then called Mr. Gibson, who swore that the Anne Mackenzie, in July, 1840, belonged to his brother, a shipower at Sunderland, who had mortgaged her to a Mr. Ingo. The latter had appointed Captain Simpson master, and sent her on an outward bound voyage, from which she returned to the port of London in January of the present year. It appeared that both Mr. Gibson and Mr. Ingo had demanded the ship's register from Captain Simpson, but he refused to deliver it up to either until certain debts that had been incurred in re spect of the ship should be discharged. Mr. Clarkson contended that there was not the slight est pretext for retaining it on this account. The witness then proved the execution of the mort gage to Mr. Ingo, and a subsequent bill of sale to a Mr. Bainbridge, and a demand of the register on behalf of Mr. Bainbridge of the defendant. Mr. Boville, the barrister, who appeared for the defend ant, severely cross-examined the witness, from whom he elicited that previously to Capt. Simpson leaving England two different informations had been lodged under the same statute against the Captain ; that they had been both dismissed by Mr. Ballantine; and that, on the last occa sion the certificate of the ship's register was sought to be recovered from Mr. Jordison, and was left in that gentleman's hands, with the consent of all parties, to abide any future proceedings that might be instituted. Mr. Boville was proceeding by his cross-examination to impeach the validity of the transfer, but was stopped by Mr. Clarkson; who contended that his Learned Friend had no right to pursue that course, It was a maxim with which every attorney's clerk was acquainted, that it was not competent to him to vary, by parole evidence, the contents of a written instrument. Mr. Boville admitted the doctrine of Mr. Clarkson, with one single exception, and that was precisely the one with which they were now dealing. He distinctly imputed fraud in the concoction of these documents, and if it were not permitted by ptrole evidence to explain the true character of the transaction, it would be in the power of dishonest persons to give validity to deeds, at complete variance with the facts of the case. Mr. Boville asked the witness whether the person who gave him instructions to prepare the bill of sale to Bain bridge, did not tell him that it was done for the express purpose of obtaining possession of the ship's registry, without paying the claiMs to which the ship was liable ? Mr. Clarkson having objected to the question, Alderman PIRIE said, if the witness refused to answer, he should draw his own conclusions from his silence. Mr. Gibson said that no such observation was made ; no money passed at the time the bill of sale was exe cuted, but the consideration, which was 1,8001., might have been previously paid at his brother's office. Alderman PIRIE complained that so much time was consumed in the discussion of collateral matters ; it be hoved the parties who claimed the assistance of the Ma gistrate in this summary manner, to show that the bill of sale was a bone fide transaction, and that the purchase money had been actually paid. Mr. Boville said he was instructed that these facts were not capable of being proved, as, in truth, the whole was a contrivance to defeat the claim of Captain Simpson, Messrs. Carter and Bonus, and other persons who had made advances on the credit of the ship. lie, however, contended that the Magistrate ought not to exercise his jurisdiction, if he had' any, in a case of this kind. These gentlemen claimed to have a lien upon the document now sought to be taken from them, and the parties ought to proceed for its recovery' if they had an: right, in a superior Court, where the whole matter cold( be fully inquired into. The Courts of Law had decide( that the Ships' Registry Acts afforded no impediment t( granting a lien upon a ship's papers. The City Solicitor—Are you alluding to the case o Mestaer and Atkins ? Mr. Boville—Precisely so ; and also to the case o f Bowen and Fox. There it was expressly decided that the ship's papers might be held for advances. Alderman PIRIE said he had been shown that case by the City Solicitor, and it appeared that the papers were held for butcher's meat, and other necessaries supplied to the ship. Mr. Boville hardly carried this case so far. The Alderman again repeated that, if Mr. Clarkson's clients expected to succeed in their application, they must prove the validity of their assignments and the payment of the purchase money, otherwise he should dismiss the application. He was advised by the soli citor that he should be justified in doing so upon several other grounds, and it was too much to expect him to put in force the provisions of a highly penal statute when his mind was not thoroughly convinced of the moral justice of the case. Mr. Clarkson said, as this was a question of great im portance, he would propose to his Learned Friend that Mr. Jordison should admit the possession of the ship's re gister, so that an action of trover might be brought to try his right to retain it. Mr. Boville said that Messrs. Carter and Bonus, who were the parties substantially interested in the matter, would give the requisite undertaking, which being done, the information was withdrawn. DISTRESS AMONG THE PEOPLE.—OUr Core respondents in various parts of the country complain grievous.), of the prevalence s.f distress among all the industrious classes of the population. The operatives in the West Riding are very badly off—the hand-loom weavers in particular. A Corre spondent near Huddersfield informs us, that the operatives there can neither pay for food, rent, or clothing. The houses are becoming empty, and where the circumstances will admit, a number of families are congregating together. Distraints for rent are of almost every-day occurrence, and poor men are sold out of house and home. About 40,000 individuals, de pendent en the fancy weaving trade, are living on the barest sustenance, and their condition is becoming rapidly worse. The same is the case in Leeds. Distress has rarely, if ever, been so general among the operatives and small tradesmen. Let any ono who is sceptical on the subject, only take the trouble to walk into the Court of the Honor of Pontefract, now held in this town for the recovery of small debts, about once in every fortnight ; and he will find the Court crowded with suitors, and a cause list amounting to p er h a p s t wo h undred. Then, if the inquirer is not yet quite satisfied, let him visit that horrible hole at Rothwell, called "the gaol." He will there find about seventy persons crowded together, of all ages, and of both sexes ; from the young mother with a sucking-infant in her arms, to the old woman of seventy years, grown hoary with age, and in a pre mature dotage with her accumulated miseries. Yes, you will see numbers of such cases as these; and many of these objects are sent to prison at the suit of some petty tyrant and rascally attorney, for perhaps the sum of fifteen or twenty shillings. " Oh, shame, where is thy blush I" Truly, if our country has become the admiration of the world, it has not become the envy of surrounding nations I A correspondent in Manchester yes terday writes us :—" Never did I see such a time of suffering and distress as the present. Business of all kinds is in a most deplorable state, and if the present, or some other effort to throw off the Corn-laws do not prove successful, the country is utterly done up as regards trade and commerce. For myself I have been losing money all this year, and also during 1840, and unless some windfall turn up, I must drop my present businees, and that immediately. My case is that of thou sands."—Where is this state of things to end?—Leeds Times. LEWES. —.ANTI-CORN-LAW PETITION.—.The signatures received to this petition from Lewes exceed 1,150, and surpass in numbers any petition emanating from this borough for many years. The petitioners hav ing no confidence in either of the borough Members, have requested Captain Pechell to undertake its presen tation.—Brighton Guardian. PRICES OF CANAL,DOCK,ASSUR ANCE COMPANY SHARES &c. &c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 18. Number Dividcrd Price or per CANALS. oer Share., Annum. Paid. Share. 0 ,766 7 per con t. Ashton & Oldham...Average97l.lBs.sh. 110 1,482 41. Ashby.tk.le-Zouch A'crage 1131.8 h. '72 1, (10 Basingstoke.,.,, 1001.0. 5 1,01,5 5 2 /. B r ecknock anAbergavenny l5Ol. sh. 93 8,000 1..16th. 101. Birmingham, 1.16 th share ...Ail. & 711. 200 4,C00 . ..... . Ditto & Liverpool Junct.l29l. sh . 100 pi 25 GOO 3!. Bridgewater and Taunton.lool. sh, all p.l s-s , 100 51. Chelmer and Blackwater lOOl. eh. 101 500 321. Coventry, 1001. sh. 600 Croydon.... ...... . Average3ll.2s.lod. sh. - 2,060 51. Os Dudley 1001.8 h. 94 600 131. Derby lool.Bh. 120 20,0.10 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne 411.135. 4d.pd :'3 3,575 i 4 Ellesmereand Chester Average 1331.615. 81 231 621 Erewasn 1001.55. 750 1,297 301. Forth and Clyde... Average 400/ 16s. b. 6to 11,000 8/. Grand Junction... ....... ...... 1001.3 h 127 2,849 i 258. Grand Union lool.sh • 24 1,500 ....... Grand Surrey.. . 1001. sh. 15 1,0001 41:percent . Ditto (optional) 5urrey.........., 1001. 096 Grand Western 600 131.125. 94. Glarnorganshire, Aver, cost 1721.138.4 d. 230 749 Pt. Oranthays l5Ol. sh. 20.* 6,238 21, Os. Huddersti Ad Average 5/1. 6s. 6d. sh. 27 100 25.128 11.10 s. Kennet and Avon, Av. 391.185. 10d. sh 2434 11,699 i 1/. 7s. Lancaster Average 471.65. Sd 27% 2,8072 30!. Leeds and Liverpool lool.sh '750 545} 111. Leicester 1401.5 t. 154 1,897 M. Os. Leicester & Nortltarapton Aver 831.10? '73 2,409 101. Monmouthshire 1001.11; 200 250 101, Melton Mowbray t,OO 25/ Mersey and Irwell lOOl. sh. 555 5,000 21. 10s. Macclestleld lOOl. sh. all pd. 34% 247 17!, Neath 1001.$)., 325 2,400 51. Peak Forest Aver.ge about 781. sh. 1334 21,418 Ss. Regent's (or London) Av. 331.165.8 d. sh, 9X, 5,669 61. Rochdale Average 8151. ah. 86 500 81. Shropshire 1251.,h. 137 SOO 101, Os, Somerset Coal . . ... ... . ..... l5Ol. sh. 180 3,600/. 41 p e r cent Ditto Lo c k F u nd Stock 12!.10,. sh. 11% 700 361. Stafford and Worcester. 1401.5 h. 600 530 151, Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 280 310 9/, 5taurbridge............... 1451.5 h. 396 3,647 21. Os. Stratford-on-Avon Aver... 791. 9s. kl. sh. 35 533 ini Swansea lool.sh, 265 3,762 2/. 10s. Severn and Wye and Railway Av. 351. sh. 45 2,6001 th. 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, i share lOOl. sh. 5".0 8.149 ... ..... Thames and Medway Av. 191. Ss. Bd. sh. 2 l '" Ih 'l 161. Warwick and Birmingham lool.sh. 240 I,oooish. 980 13/. Warwick and Naptnn" 100/. sh. 160 7,000 41, Worcester & Birmingham Av.7B/.Bs. sh. 55 6,000 325. 'Wilts and Berks Average 671. lOs Bd. sh, 20 800 6s. Wytlev and Essington l%/ 1251. sh '74 .26 905 10 " ,. Wey and Arun llOl. sn. 2234 DOCKS. 1,065 tg . j 3p• C. Commerc al loo l .sh. 653 4 i h 5 per cent. East and West India ..................Stock 99 3,238,310;4 3/.p.cl. London .. . ..... . ..Stock 70 Ditto Bonds 2,209 3/. 6s. 54. Bristol . ..... ........... Average 14'1.95. sh 75 68,324/. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lOB 1,152,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine Stock :97 500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds 200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years Deptford Pier 2Ol. sh. 201. pd 10 BRIDGES. 1,600 11, Hammersmitl , 501. sh. 21 7,231 Southwark, 01d.........Av. 63!. 2s Bd. sh, 334 1,700 1/, 15s. Ditto, New, of 711 per cent., 501. sh. 16 0,000 5,000 225. 04. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8! VOL p 0 21 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. 4O/. pd 1834 80,0001. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds 5,848 26s Vauxhall .......,.Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh 26 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3110 s Albion 5OOl. sh. 50/. pd 72 59,000 E t 6 per cen} and 15s. Allianceßritish &Foreignlool. sh. 11/. pd 13% 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine lOO/. sh. 5/. pd 5 24000 fl. per eh. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 14% 1,20015 h, 5/. Birmingham hire °5Ol. sh. 551. pd 10734 20,000 4/ percent. British Fire 9 50/. sh. 501. pd 40 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 5O/, sh. 51. pd 5% 1 5,000 51. percent. Clerical 8, Medical Life, 1001. 5h.21103 pd "A 4,000 310 s County lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 11 20,000 6s. Eagle 200 f 5 per cent.] and 301 bs. Economic Lite 10001. sh. 2501. pd 406 2,271 228. percent. European Use 0 0/. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 201. eh. 21. pd 134 1.000,0001.61. per ct Globe Stock 118 20,000 51. Guardian 30,000 4s. Od. Hope 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 5% 2,400 51. 12s. 6d. Imperial Fire 5OOl. sh. 501, pd 13.3 7,500 9s. Imperial Life lOOl. sh. 10!. pd 10 13,459 5/. per cent. Indemnity Marine lool.sh, 81. pd 29 2,020 31 103 Kent Fire 5O/. sh, all pd 92 31. Ditto Life 5O/. pd 66 10,000 16s. Law Life IOW. sh. 10!. pd 3034 5,000 10s. London, Fire 9 5/, sh. 12/. 1(15. pd 18% 3,900 10s. London, Ship 0 51. sh. 12!. 10s. pd 1854 1,000,0001. ... ..... Minerva Life 100/. sh. 510,000/ 30,000 51. per cent. Palladium Lite ..... sh. 21. pd 216 s 50,000 5!. per cent. Protector lift 2Ol. sh. 2/. pd Ns 64 10,000 4 per cent. Protestant 'Assentors ...,160!, sh. 5/. pd 534 9,500 11. Provident Lite 200, , 100 3s. ed. Rock Life 54 pd 4 89,20/ 51. per cent. Royal Exchange Stock 190 6,000 5 per cent. University Lite... 100/. sh 5!. pd 5% 10,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100!. sh. 5/. pd 734 JOINT STOCK BANKS. 25.000 Agric. and Com. of I reland2sl. sh. 10/. pd 10,000 8 per cent. Australasia 40/. sh. 40/ pd 58 10,000 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham 501. sh. 10/. pd 13% 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/, sh. 10/. pd 19% 39,000 6 per cent. London & Westminster 1001. sh. 201. pd 22% 60,000 5!. London Joint Stock 50/. sh. 10!. pd 12% 3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster lOOl. eh. 10/. pd 30 25,000 10 per cent. Liverpool 100/ sh. 12. F. pd 1434 50,000 7i per cent. Manchester and Liver ] 50/.sh. 151 pd 10% pool District 20,000 7 per cent. Manchester lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 20,000 8 per eent. Provincial Bank of lrelandloo/. sh. 251. psi 42 10,000 6, er cent National Bank of Ireland 50!. sh. 17.1/. pd Id 10,000 6 per cent National Provincial Eng.loo/, sh. 351. pd 3.53,, 10,00 e Ditto New... loi. sh, 10/ pd 10% /0,000 Gloucestershire 50/. sh. 10/. pd 32 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 16s Ud Bath 201. sh. 161. pd 22 5,000 British 404 sh. 161. pd 184 (inn rsi.percenti 5 . - land Bs. 6s. Ditto Provincial 2O!. sh. 191. pd 25 928 51 10s Birmingham 50/. sh. 96 4,250 2/ Os Bristol 2Ol. sh. 36 2,250 31 10s Brighton 2O/. sh. 13% 750 3/ 108 Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 184 pd 9 2,471 41 per cent. Brighton General 2Ol. eh. all pd 9 4,000 71. Os. Continental Consolidated -.75/. 624/. pd 102% 1,000 101. City of London.. ....... -1001. sh. all pd 195 1.000 61. Ditto, New 1001. ah. 751. pd 150 4.000 31.05. Equitable 5O/. pd 20 10,000 3!. per cent. Imperial '(Si. sh. CO 800 51. per cent. Isle nt Thanet 251. sh. 201. pd 18% 2,350 61. per cent. Independent 301. sh. ally,. 49 9,000 41. per cent. Phoenix 5O/. sh. 391. pd 33% 1,000 41. per cent. Ratcliff lOOl. sh. 801. pd CO ,000 South Metropolitan 50/. sh. 19/. pd 16 9,000 51. per cent. United General 501. sh. 471. pd 30 240 5!. per cent. Warwick 5O/. sh. 50 400 54 per cent Wakefield 251. sh. 22 2,000 31. Westminster Chartered ... 5Ol. sh. 58 6,000 12s. Ditto New 571. sh, la pd 11% 780 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2Ol. sh. 18!. pd WATER WORKS 4,800 31s. Birmingham 25/. sh. 251. pd 21 4,4: 4 3 71. East London 1001. sh. 164 5,500 21 15s. Grand Junction Average 411. 138. 4d. sh. 61 2,000 '2l. Kent 100/. sh. 46% 372 101. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 3t:ii 1,500 2 /10s New River London Bridge Water Ann... 60 8,486 21 10s Manchester and Salford. ...... MO/. sh. 55% 1,000 5 per cent. South London lOO/. sh. 10434 8,294 4#l. • Wart Middlesex Average 631. 1 125. 3d. sh. 92 1,360 1114 s York Building Co. Lessee Prop. 1001. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,300 o,eeo ...... .., Bi rm i ng h am and Gloucester !COI. pd (9 , ,4 15,000 Bristol and Exeter ...< ..... 1001. s h . 60 pd /1. 4 , 7,500 Cheltenham &G. Western 100/.0. 62)8:, 3)34 3,000 Clarence 1004 sh • ~‘ 10 0 " p d 30 8,000 80,009 Eastern Counties 25!. sh. 231. pd 9 10,0011` 10,918 14 per cent. Grand Junction lOOl. sh, all pd 204 25,000 Great Western 1001. sh. 654 pd 94% 25,000 Ditto New 501. sh. 501. pd 654 6,000 per cent Gosport Junction.. 5O/. sh. 401. pd 47 2,000 5 per cent. Hartlepool 100/. sh. 100/. pd 145% 8,000 Hull and Selby 501. sh. 50/, pd 4534 2,100 44 per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 65% 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool& Manchester 10(4sh. 1004 pd 185 7,9(18 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 504 pd 90 11,495 10 percent. Ditto Quarter Shares 251. pd 45 3 6,000 ..„ ..... London and Brighton 504 sh. 501. pd 46% 24,000 London and Blackwall 25/. sh. 251. pd 17% 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich -.201. sk. 201. pd 84 25,000 8 per cent. London & Birmingham 1004 sh. 901. pd 159% 25,000 Ditto Quarter Shares ....254 sh. 51. pd 23 31,250 Dit o New Shares 'l2l. sh. 321. pd 52% 36,000 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av. 381,175. Od. 57 4, 33,900 .... ..... London and Croydon} Av. 134 15s. 9d. 13 % Ditto New Scrip... , 1.1% 13,000 3 per cent, Manche s t er an d Leeds...loo4 sh. 704 pd 53% 0,0110 .. 10,000 Manchester and Birmingham 70/.sle 40/. 25% Ditto Extension 7l. pi ' 2% 10,0410 Midland Counties 1001. sh. 100/. pd 88 15,000 North Midland Ditto New 40/. rd 36 5,128 Northern and Eastern....lool. sh. 501. pd 28 2,600 Preston and Wyre 5O!. sh. 804 pd 86 28,000 South Eastern and Dover ...... ... 33/. pd 15% 1,000 10/, per cent. Stockton and Darlington .........100/.sh. 275 9,000 6,000 York and North Midland 50 . sh. 50/, pd 73 MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 5/.1 0. 111. pd 12 4,000 1/. ss. Alton l5/. sh 121. lu pd 10 10,000 ......... Anglo Alexican,iss. 54 pm. 1004 sh. al 1 d 1;4 Ditto Subscription .25/. po I% 2,000 lot. Bolanos 1504 sh all pi 35 10,000 11. lOs Brazilian Imp. iss. 51. pm 3.51. s h. 204 pd 5 6,000 11,000 ... ... 16,000 Bolivar Copper Company, 2048 h. 201, pd 1 10,000 Ditto Scrip lO/, sh. 104 pd 2 20,000 ..« ..... British Iron lOOl. sh. (101. pd ,000 ......... British Copper 5/. sh. W. pd 1% ...... ... C itt Br.inca 6 lll. pd 6% Candon g a 7i4 ixl 5 10,000 1 1 Copiapo .... 204 sh. 134 lid 94 8,500 Columbian, iss. Si. pm 55/. s h . 5 51. pd 0% ... 2,850 3!. English 144 Cs. pd 3 20,000 6,155 Mexican Company lOOl. sh. 5711 pd 6 3,006 Polberou Consols lOl, sh. 81. pd 4 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered 24 Ditto Loan Notes. 1501. pd 160 30,000 United Mexican, iss. 2 pm. 404 sh. all pd 2% Ditti. Scrip 3 4 Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd 4 West Cork 5Ol. e h 504 pd 32 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 .... ..... London, with Bronze Ticket ...75gs. sh. 16 1,500 .00 King' College 100!. 19% MISCELLANEOUS. How 15e. Australian Agricultural.lool.'sh. 281. pd 39 6000 1. per cent. British American Land Company 34/. pd 10,060 61. per cent. Canada Company 1001. sh. 3214 pd 31 20,000 51. per cent: Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent 20,000 IL 6s. General Steam Navigation 151. :h. 14/. pd 2414 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock ,000 14 London Com. Sale Rooms ....Av. 75/. sh l9 ,000 ..»..... Caoutchouc Company 1214 pd 12 New Brunswick Land Compau y... 501. pd 12 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversienary Int. 50c...1001. sh. 1001, pd 107 2,633 5/. per cent, Ditto New 100/. sh. 100. pd 107 4,000 10,000 os. Van Die.ner.'s Land.... 1004 sh. 1714 pd 6 LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES MAY 8, 1841. BANKS. 1,000,606/. Al. p. ct. rank of Scotland ...831.65. Bd. sh. all pd 159 2,000,0001. 6 p. ct. Ilc.yal of Scotland 1004 sh. all pd 154 500.0001. 8 p. ct. British Linen Company 1001. sh. all pd 22„ 500,0001. N. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 100/. pd 169 500,0004 6n. ct. National lOO/.Bh. 101. pd 14% 500,0001. 71. p. ct. Glasgow Union 2501. sh. 50/. pd 85 1,000.0001. 6p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 401. pd 72k, EVEN ENG EDITION._ MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London Merrontile Joarnal of Maw 1 8 .) , SUGAR.—There were extensive public sales of' all kin d s of Susr s ir available for home consumption to-day, which se the effect of depressing the minket, but a very large proportio n . sold. Five parcels of British Wes. India Sugar were brousgat to the hammer, consisting of 342 hhds 14 tierces ew Barbadoes. and -292 hhds 59 barrels St. Lucia. Therei was a good attendance of the trade at these sales, and the Barbadoes all sold at full rates ; in some cases. hovrerf_ prices gave way a litt'e ; low to fine yellow went at 63s to s Tee, . 6d ; the St. Lucia went without spir:t, and prices declined Is per cwt; the whole, however, sold at 69s to 70s 6d for 11 1 0 7 to fine yellow, and brown 60s. to 61s tid. There was not's' 0 4 business done privately, a few boards only being disposed, ° A but theses ealized rather better prices than were obtain the public sales. The show of samples was very scanty. MAURITIUS.—By public auction were offered 6,9 0 b l t d 29 casks, which met a (lull demand, and a part only wag'', at prices about is Gd per c w t b e l ow t h e rates of t h e sale °(1 Friday last; ordinary to fine yellow at 61s Gd to 68s 6d, an middling to tine brown at 55s to 60s 6d per cwt. EAST INDIA.—The public sales comprised 9,500 bir d Bengal, which went off with cons id era bl e h eaviness, arid A . : net conclude until a very l a t e h our; pr i ces were in mos t es; Is to 2s lower than the cu rren t rates at t h e close of last week' middling to fine w hit e 61 s 6d to 70 e , l ow and middling brot' at 49s 6d to 565, and washed ditto at 39s to 47s per C Foreign East India sorts continue dull of sale, but prices ; firmer ; at public sale 150 b ags M a d ras at 325, and five per can duty, were bought in at 52s Od to 535. COFFEE.—The market generally was flat to-day, very little s . business was done privately, an d th e auct i ons were trivial, ;Insi sisting only of 36 bales M oc h a , 10 casks J amaica, and 47 A Havannah. The forme r so ld a t 102 s 6 d for fine ord i nar y quality, being the full value ; the latter taken in at 459 for good ordinary, being about market rates. MOLASSES, &c.—At public sale were offered 38 casks St . ritius Molasses, and 303 cas k s B engal Syrup, which "To chiefly bought in ; th e f ormer at 265, and the latter at 27° 28s per cwt. PIMENTO continues to secure stiff prices, and the dein ( is good : 94 bags offered at public sa l e f etc h e d 3 id to 3id low and middling quality. GINGER.—For East India the demand is yet extress e h l i t limited, and pri ces rema i n low ; 220 bags Bengal were brag's tst the hamm er t o d ay and sold at 17s for middling, being t full value. RlCE.—'fhe demand for Bengal Rice continues dull, so d 1,870 bags off ere d at pu b lic sale, went heavily at 8s 6d to for very low to good middling white, being 6d to Is. lower. TEA. A ser i es of public sales comprising 2240 g packages c ommence d this morning. Th ere was a,W,„g attendance of buye rs , an d t h e merchants being 'ern."—„s to realise at ab ou t lid to 2d per pound below the reg.,.i. of Friday last f or b ot h bl ack and green Tett, a,s o " . competition was e x p er i ence d , and a large proportion of j quantity that passed auction was disposed of, say au — , 6,800 packages out of 9,800 packages. The followl are the prices actually obtained : Congou, good a heated flat and l ow i s 7d to is 7:hd, brit mid str old Is Ftid to Is Elid, but mid rather strong Ankoi kind is gad to Is 10 1 id, but mid blksh It ra str old H M Pek ft Is 1114 to 2s, blksh le a f f u ll 11 2s 14d to 2 s 2d ; Y oung Hysen, ,rsa strong and rather full 2 s Bid to 2s 91d, mid strong 4 3s 3s l d ; Hyson but mid ra s t r 2s 3 i d to 2s 8. 1 -d, utinf d A 7 rather fr and str 2s 10a t o 2 s Ild , m i ddling str but 35 Souchong but middling rather old Is 7id to Is 8d; Ono Pekoe mid ra str and full bnt flat 2s 2d, good mid fr 2 5 , 8 to 2s 9di ; Imperial 2s 3id t o 2 s 9d ; Gunpowder 2s Gaol td 4s lid; Twankay but mid ra coa la 79d to is Bd, but very str bnt Is 8d t o i s Bid , b ut mid ra str fr but Is 10 d' Is 11d. Company's Congou dull of sale, and the cash priee,deelinee to Is 8d to Is Bid per lb. SPIRITS.—The R um M ar k et remains inactive, and a s" itle :h 00 easier prices have aga i n b een accepted ; the transie o t , of the week are a b out 100 puncheons Jamaica, 30 36 over at 53 2d to 53 Bd, with fine marks at 65 0 to 6s 6d, 50 p unc h eons Leewards, proof to II ° . r id at 2s Id to 2s sticl, and about 100 casks Bengal, strength at I s 5d per ga ll on ; 50 hhds of the latter deserins were brought t o th e h ammer, and bought in at Is 10d for et to 25 over proof. The demand f or B ran d y i s limited, seitu any mater a l c h ange i n pr i ces. Geneva steady at 2s for expo' and 2s 4d to 2s 6d for home consumption. PROVISIONS. —The Bacon market remains in an exceedingt flat state, and the tendency of prices is downward; the Vi tro i s es ;(l being desir o u s t o ma k e sa l es, and offer prime sizeable ateTs,te at 56s to 58s ; dit to Li mer i c k at 54s to 555, and heavy at b=.' 5.18 landed; there are, however, few buyers. The agen s ? to offers for Irish account st ill refuse to give way, and s;sh 58s are the rate s genera ll y as k e d for prime quality. Old sti# Butter is totally unsaleable; consequently no prices ea ri , s 0 quoted, not even an offer can be obtained. Of new buttee o have not yet any a t mar k e t ; b est Waterford for imrne s i ! , 0 0 shipment i s o ff er i ng at 9 2s to 96s per cwt, upon which wss there are no b uyers. F ore i gn Butter in fair request at ste"-- prices ; fi ne F r i ez l an d 9 6s to 98s, fine Holstein 90a to 965, fine Holland, 92s to 96's per cwt. TAI. -- Low.—The pri ces o f t hi s art i cle continue to ex., f l $ downward tendency, and the market is very dull. Fine P• on the spot lust quoted at 46s to 46s 3d per cwt. OILS.—.The prices of Sp erm Oil continues steady anu A k a s s, demand is exp er i ence d f or t h e article ; about 65 tuns 4-1,116 rican Oil, ex M assaso i t f rom Boston, were put up to pow sale on Wednesday, the whole of venich found buyers Wit h ; * spirit at 911. to 921. for fine quality. There" has b e t s - tll fair demand fo r th e common description. of Fish Oils, for v-0,1 home use and exportation, but more especially for S eal sa. Southern, and full prices have been obtained. Linseed on become dull of sale, and prices have further receded,; o &R f made on the spot a t 28 s 9d, which price is now with esod obtained. Rapeseed Oil is also very little inquired after, to effect a sale easier prices must be taken. • tie° INDIGO. -- The little b us i ness doing in East India descrip 0 continue to mai n t a i n t h e April sale prices, and the inerel lait o S continue fiam ; a few picked lots which were considered cheap ir liveriesthe sales are have ve r y ag g a oe in fi . been spa s n ol is d h at is a held smallfi much in demand ; at public sale 205 serous Guatemala hal been offered, but about half was bought in • the resnall ss e s s sold at 3d to Gd per lb advance on the previous' sale for the be lots, but about 3d per lb cheaper for the lower sorts or di f t ir. to good middling at 2s 4tl to 2s 6d ; 12 serous Ca ; we -5s 4d to 6s 4d per lb. races rpmrol:t. The s o though COAL MARKET. Ships arrived since last market,day. 20. . A vs i. d. tt d Buddle's West Hartley l7 6 W.IE. Braddyll'sHetto ... 11 ' .., 6 New Tanfield Moor Old lanfield M00r... I Original Windsor's • Pontop 16 6 1 Walls End Pemberton .... ; 1 ,7, 6 1 Pontop Windsor . 1 1 6 7 1 1; e N ,W Va a l l l i s s south Hartley Tanfied Moor West Wylam ,•,.. 16 0 Walls End Harrington Tees :`,: 9_ Wylam ....,... ......... ..... 16 u Walls End Brown's Deanery 1; Em En d d K 5t e m e art . 15 ... ........... .. .. .. ri 6 Walls End Perkins, l7 i %Nails End Seymour Toes... :6 6 Walls End Witba'ai COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. Wheat. i Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quart er , s. to s. s. to a. I 11. to a. a. to a. 5 , t0 49 Boston 63 33 ss 119 26 35 40 3<j 45 13r:untie° 54 64 28 35 94 0) 35 40 W 41 li ighton 57 P 6 23 33 24 27 58 43 40. Cambridge 60 28 22 35 Chichester 55 65 28 31 24 26 40 42 v 4 45 Du 'mow 53 64) 32 36 22 31 35 40 u" Grantham 58 190 28 3) 20 30 4 4 Grimsby Hailsham Hitch Ipswich ....... 50 66 29 35 21 26 37 40 a." 9 8 Lewes . Lynn Maidstone 59 60 36 39 26 33 38 40 ,; Norwich P etworth Rein ford Sandwich Thetford Wisbech 56 62 23 24 T. 3 35 37 3 4 yg Witham........ 15 8 641 •2,t 31 2 3. 35 40 9 9 Yarmouth 62 66 3i 24 30 40 41 38 DUBLIN ` ~Yj rag ° vc -33 . 5 13 i 1 3 0 CORN MONOPOLY, &c. We copy the following paragraph, so very applicable to the present state of parties in this country, from Mr. Buckingham's new work on America CORN LAWS, &e.—" It is impossible to read these accounts of the immense resources for the production of food, which the United States of America contain, and which a journey across the State of New York alone is sufficient to verify, without lamenting the first imposition of any prohibitory laws against the freest intercourse between this country and Great Britain, in the interchange of their respective productions. The first effect of our refusing to receive American grain free of all duty, has been to in duce the Americans to prohibit our manufactures by a high tariff; and to set up manufactories fbr themselves ; and the next effect has been to keep up the price of food at so high a rate in England, as to put it out of the power of millions of our population to obtain sufficient for their full and proper nutriment. We thus do each other mutual injury, without the slightest countervailing good. If we would permit a free trade in grain, the Americans would take from us more than double the amount of manufactures that they now consume, paying us in wheat and flour, and would never think of becoming our rivals as manufacturers. But because we will not take their products in payment, therefore they not only will not buy of us, but they set up as our rivals or od ponents ; and, from their abundant food, they will in a short time produce goods sufficiently cheap to meet us in foreign markets, while every year will increase our difficulties and lessen theirs, till they pass us in the race, and leave us unable to overtake them. " The most melancholy feature of this question, how ever, is this—that by our free admission of cotton and other southern products of America, we really uphold the system of slavery, under which these articles are produced ; while by refusing the same free admission to the grain of the north, we force them to become manu facturers, and thus in a double sense take the bread out of the mouths of our own citizens. " It is, indeed, high time that this evil wer4 corrected. There is, perhaps, yet time to amend it now, but if left for a few years longer, it will be too late ; and those in fluential and powerful classes in England, who now vainly imagine that they are proi,ecting their own incomes from land, by this fatal policy, will be among the first to la ment that they did not take warning, before the labour ing classes of the. country were reduced to a state of want, of which the wealthiest among the landholders will then feel the burden." GEOLOGY.—In removing the superstrata, con sisting of an upper thick deposit of sandy gravel, wills the clay, shale, coal, &c. in the quarry a little west from the railway tunnel, near Falkirk, the section now exposed, about 25 feet deep, exhibits marks of powerful volcanic action. Above the rock the strata in one part are thrown into nearly the form of a circle, for the space of twelve feet, from the centre of which there appears a radia tion, until the combustible materials had exhausted their force ; to the west the convulsion appears to have also been considerable. The appearance was just observed when about seven yards north from the place where the workmen are now engaged.—Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle. A SINGULAR DEATH. — An inquest was held at the St. Mary's Hotel, on Tuesday evening last, before G. B. Corfe, Esq., Coroner, on the body of Louisa , Alexander, an un married lady, re s idi n g in lodgings in St. Mary s-place. Sho had been in good health till recently ; on Saturday evening she took some peppermint cordial for the wind in her stomach ; 'be Was cold and unwell next day, but refused to have medical attendance. In the morning of Monday, as she did not ap pear, and the door was, as usual, locked, it was forced open by a carpenter, in the presence of Mr. Ward, the surgeon , and the landlady. Deceased was lying on the floor, quite dead, and as if laid out ; she had on only a clean linen chemise, and a dirty one was folded up, oa which her head rested; a brown tippet was pinned on her bosom. The bed in the deceased's room had been laid in, but there was no appearance of strug gling. Verdict.--" Died by the visitation of God. We un derstand the deceased gave, just prior to her death, every in struction respecting her funeral, and had lodged 25/. in the hands of Mr. Ball, of French -street, towards the expenses of the same. —Hants Advertiser. A FACT FOR THE CHURCH EXTENDERS. the parish of Raubon, near Wrexham, there is a popula lation of abo u t f ourteen thousand persons ,' and out of that worshipnumber anteara l e y vat tw of e T l h 7 ey thousand attend regularly the Dis senting ehapeb, years, and in these period of twenty-five years. Whilst the " poor Man's nine Church" have only erected two places of worship during 404 them e n t attendancegrant. h h a a ve v e thousandbei been pounds, un i d sd twenty - three e ,a b d y t t h h e a t placeswo it h n of a they overn- H a r b e o v t e h r, pl t a h ee e s se ne tw ve o r eaxreceedsp7ly6o7ffiocitehnatt ;Dfiost: Dis sent predominates in the proportion of fifteen to one.— Berwick Advertiser. INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250,0005 h. 61p. ct. Scottish Union 20/. sh. 1/. pd 245.0 d 7,500 7p. ct. Hercules lOOl. sh. 101. pd 1:1.4 100,000 sp. et. Insurance Co. of Scotland .10/. sh. all pd IN 50,000 BIN ct. North British 200/. sh. 101. pd 17 1,000 Bp. ct. Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. 101. pd 20 5,000 6p. ct. Edinburgh Lie 100/. sh. 10/. pd 104 100,000 31 p. et. West of Scotland lOl. pd MISCELLANEOUS. 4,818 ..., ...------- --. Edin. and (Alas. Un. Canalso/. sh. all pd 14% Ditto Allocated! 9111, ,h. all pd , 56 2 5,40( 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock Watar.2.s/. sh. all pd 3414 I,ooosh 15 per cent. Shotts Iron F0underv......50/ sh 481. -d ' 42 0,000 3 per teat. Edinburgh & Leith Glass.2ol.sh. 161. pd , 334 4.500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 25/. sh. all pd 49 4,450 10 per cent. Clasgow Gas ..,........ 251. sh. all pd ' 52 750 71 per cent. '...eith Coal (las ... . 2ol.'h. ail pd , ' 2 5 1,1 4 Edinburgh an d Dacelth tlaihvay 501. sh ! :al ' 7 PROPOSED ALTERATIONS IN THE ST - OFFICE ARRANGEMENTS AT LEEDS.—The following alte ration in the arrival and departure of the mails at the Leeds Post-office will commence on the Ist of June next The two mail coaches now running between Manchester, Leeds, and York, will be discontinued, and the railway used instead. The first despatch to Manchester, Liver pool, Ireland, S co tl an d , & c., will be at 10 a.m. ; and the second, with the London letters, at 645 p.m. The first arrival from Manchester, will be with the London Mail i n the morning, at 6 34 a.m. ; the second at 2'30 Leeds Mercury. IRISH MARKETS. 4ARKET NOTE for the Week ending 21; Wheat, perbarrel 0 Bete lit) Barley 381 Oats '4 stone Flour, per cwt. stouc 307 Oatmeal 8 stone Sold to Bakers only. 9,746 Cwt. f10ur.... .. . .......... llO 0 24 0 1 21 Average price. if Wheat and Flour 51. Stl. per saCkzas tl Firsts.. from 225. Od to g i " Receipts of Flour, 11,707 1 :‘ ,..„,, 0na ;•"'• from „ 7 .. t „ . 0j Solos of Do. 9,74 G ""'" • od„ to 15 0 ' I nirdo from Os. PAWN Ur 'SIAM Quartern Lou Od. 1 Hall Quintero ~...4%d• CORK ME.—May 15, Wheat (per `2ost.Y..)rs 01. to 335. ARK TS. oats iper 14st. ...11 ttrl . ' Harley (per 16s1.)10 0 13 6 'Flour (per cwt ). .11 0, Oatmeal (per Od , to la Od Beef, 4.1. to 7,1.-slutton sd. loft—Veal, 4d 'to Cd Pork. 4id. to sd..—Fresh i lluttei, 10d. to lid per lb. PILICOP BurEit. ' i ndtrit To the Mer r chants. To the C.OO. " 2 ....•••••••• ••••••••••••• •• ei 87 From I. 29 U 0 0 15 0 11 6 3'4 0 0 0 17 0 11 0 12 6 First Quality • ........ Second Third •.. 000000000 ••• 000000 .••••• Fourth IIILEI Sixth 67 7: ... . . 14 6 CLONMELL At A RKET - N,.....1115y15 ". Per a. d. a, d. I New Butter ...... 0 tcloo 01 Hides' I. d • l• 0 W 24 19 - iraw)...... 'il Oatmeal 12 0 14 3 I 81iC011Pig5..........42 0 • Rendered Lard 0 52 0 Heads...... ...... 26 • • Per Bea. 41 ..,,, 0 0 'Tour, Second — 0 :'S 0 It 10ur,11..rd5......"." 0 -.. Household 0 30 0 1.....-- Fourtbs......••• r Bartel. Rapeseed 20 0 -- Pe 01 Barley ... Bare lO 0 1 Ca.,. 4'. o 1 " n KILKENNY MARKETS. . 0 ,, Wheat,perbarrel)29:. O i l. to Beet :per Os. Ikl. 'w a Barley 1 2 0 15 0 Mutters n 0 5 Uats ..... l4 0 15 1 1 Pork 4 n v f Hour (Kr bag).. — 2O 0 :a8 0 Veal 0 0 0 0 Butter(percwt.) 90 0 100 0 eresh Butter.... 0 0 Bacon Pigs ... ..... 3B 0 4J 6 Salt Ditto J. Coals 1 0 1 2 eotatoos(perit.) t, 0 PRIZE CUPS.—New and Second-hand Sib t rP do i PRIZE CUPS are off ere d at very REDUCED PRICEScpi selection may be made from a great variety, both •f Patterns, at T. COX SAVORY'S, /co t Goldsmith an d W a t c h ma k er, 47, Cornhill, London, I.'" Doors from Gracechurch-street). _ a t Drawings of Cups will be forwarded in answer to 4 r paid application. t bog It is desirabl e L e tt ers f or D raw i ngs should mention el 10 the size or about the price of the Cup or Cups that 3 10 1 required. ---- SPOONS, FORKS, &c., superior to Silver I or, ; rability, eq ua l i n appearance. Table Spoons ar Fork' , I cor Dessert, 10 s . ; T ea S poons, ss. per dozen; Table Candli , i O, 8 inches hi g h, 7 a. per pa i r; the particular metal of!$.110 these articles are madq is so like silver, that it can only u . 'sa , from it by th e s t amp ; every article ma de , in silver s 01 " uf tured in this material by RIPPON and 13Ult TON, Wells-str ee t, Oxford-s i trs et ,'o , Who, to pre ven t imposition, confine the sale of it to tl.enr e ' o Catalogues of prices gratis. B I R THS. For' On the 4th inst., at her Quinta de St. Thiago, Cintro , d o, tugal, the lady of Admiral Sartorius, Viscount DPie uf a son. On the 13th i nst., at Arcot, Northumberland, the l ady Henry Shum, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On th e 18 t h inst., at St. George's, Hanover4qu-r4;001 William Heathcote, of Horsley, Southampton, Bart., t°. .AOA , ;$ eldest daughter of Evelyn John Shirley, of Lovier tin Warwick, Esq. On the 2tith of April DIED. at Naples, Nina gh a te r r o ° , eldest dam B eldest..- 'James 'Temple owdom, Esq., and niece of the late Str . Ville Temple, Bart. On the 10th inst. at Worthing, Eliza. Cordelia, r elict . Gladstone, Esq., oeSurinam, aged 64. • London Printed an Published hT MURDO Y.o . lfr d Isll No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office. No. 112, 1314° the wordy of MiddloseL—Thstraday„ May 20, 16,41. 14,7 s g 11 %4 - 411 ~o te - s• ..a • Its ts A :~ ~6 ~ ,~ r :~ 4 3 i 1 t ' 4 6, ‘,. - ';44 ~ t o [ 7 .1 p tu th pi Itt tr CI L. ~,;~.y M • ~"_ t .4 •