The Sun. — London, England, 1841-06-23 00:00:00

_EOlTit' , N BOULOGNE, JUNE 21. 1 Yesterday was a great day priests at for the 13° ° 10 gne. Tee Church'ibr once, since () me t Re the B of July, was predomieant. !;unday previous i celebrated the Fete-Dieu was . In the 1 , u. e ow town with considered sufficient, and in o u _t one day was not sorne of the Parit, arrrstliati the momeries, as might be describe the ceremonies, t_ ,onudstiy place in f ,T I as:. a fete was appointed to take The .„`"is venerable • Sunday the 20th. city, on , f bells, as n 7 was ushered in with the ringing o priests and 14 the good old en t i mes, w h en t h e pr classes i and the Zobles w ere exempted from taxes, support them, laiddle and lower had to earn and a lu xurious Court, tof their hurl _ ou it t celebrated ..gs,. The priests here verify the cele Yln Of Talleyrand, appliedthe old worn to they ten ears, h - . ynasty—" For the last Fifty Like our wee learned and fbrgotten nothing." ow 1 - delu : grasping clergy, they seek musti• power ~ sI°11 • . tnicl take piti:e, second revolution . ‘: hses. bef o , ' a ' b w erlit to their ..e , IL e they are finally la I . cele. Stations were er Numerics were on a rand s erects in different places, ornamented with II"' Most of the houses on . ~ ers and garlands.er, the ..• with white lie- of the procession were htn. a rich d under e . e n. The Chief Priest march: , .., Armes, Place et , - 7 1° 1 3 Y, to an altar erected in the , . c'se to , Bonaparte ;elided dur , the house where athe flotilla mania; he was accompanied by a . number of st of pries's, and a considerable _ girls d '' and ' I had taken tle 1 sacra resed in white, w io , ious chant !llent for the first time; and after Nar in had been gs, and abundance frankincense . his bur undance of canopy with , nt, he proceeded under this stai n ~ the ser , 1, - , the church of St. Joseph, to complete p re vlce of the day. A considerable crowd was 5,,,„.. , , d to take no interest in t i, c 'a out they seemed to usual politeness, the ,_: eremony. With their looked upon it t its /I te,olc off their hats, but they and children pet s how at a fair, and the women dit without the slightest symptom of re in his mother's ar n ,! Inc little Frenchman, f leurel, like that chi c " , was adorned with a crown 0 Napoleon and theh surrounds the effigies of rt s It " l an Empero rs , b u t the contrast in other and w ' Pects w as most ludicrous. He was half naked, the most mi liat garments he had were of serahle kind. The procession was accoinpauied e , _ , - incl. at the Surrey Zoo , . v: !L brass band, as they say g le al Gard • • some of the instruments of an ee or t ens , woeful most . &I 111( )IS size, ' and _lie d , emitting a haunting of d with the c th e 'and that, mingle canopy, borne by s P o rle st(?, the vain pomp of the the assumed ini ll° -ille h alf -dozen porters, and . altogether rtaace ° 1 d- e under it, formed Mao;' _, a 140,,the 0...ei The 3 . , ', k extraordinary • Ad a exhibition. 1 7thing to do n Ito th e t, declined to have . a affai r l ai d to him fur his • r tr - spiie coe ft • The clergy I , hut his Nance and company on the occasion, be called upon to auswer was, " Perhaps I m l aY ot prohibit the Nil:event disturbance,--I will not to do with it;, e ` si on, but I can have nothing ' la this F rance , however, , Iv, other towns of in some took part not the case. The authorities Peti t in the p rocess i on, an d marched after the At one place (Ch 'Saba Jean et son mouton. the St. John, to tiatrtres) the sheep ran away w i th and the great emu s e great scandal of the clergy, it 'another, the .114,veatent of the people. l attended. At b c) . l ; and the military authorities bit, d i eni the ceremony was absolutely prohi and at other Pia as contrary to the Charter; the Catholic itptie? collisions took place between . taking t,41., prutestant clergy, the people I c a general tholies could e ot ` with neither. When the to a their 2nome ,,h4Nei I/IPd the people to bow by exclaiming, ~_they. consoled .themselves,,All these things a ler time- are coming. are a„,.. . a connivance of the ki n 'une with the consent or that defends them (tl ie ,,.' and the only paper tier band is supported by La Dauphine et i e e i is a fatality about the ra r ce. Is the Church, I tse e`e'ge expelled Charles %t ee ', means of changing Abe dynast'' women, to be Lie people of France 114 y a third time? The • h the Church, stal e ri ° feeling- in common with A if ti tal i . the clergy attempt to recover Churl noble arts, they will pull on d -ri the A third revolu flee +i . a nd and the State together. besides France. ld be felt in other places The °ll . •in tits part of the country has w arlike feeling gre at Fit% ly subsided, and, as a consequence, At present th g e ts are returning to the town. qkar English re sitlent e a considerable number of ere expected for the ba tli s here, and morT v which arrnet steamer, l e f t ,ng seaso n . The -, made the passage le .‘olldon on Saturday, and a hundred !•ea li ' d over more than this ti t i ~ ours, came - ven takes back e d 1 ,, g ii etirte n , e Passengers, and The reports circulate Of the more than fifty. I e hostile disposition tie 'of the people of Bou- made for re p 1 , , and the great preparations 1/e e el-in g . an attack onplace, the There have are betit e normously exaggerated. one side of th e , fn ur , guns mounted on the other ; heti "arbtoar, and three . 0 . 11 of the peo -14 t4s regards the disposition does not al)- N T . ? A 'ards the English there since last year. i to be the slightest difference h, t b . , where th e `4" cabarets, in the neighbourhood, the Sunday ‘fte r i L i 'ldle and lower classes pass r; E lishmen are t rea t '°,, n, in great numbers, had an opportu nity, ` - t With every respect. I of the inhabitants (11113°,,f day the feelings o with more Nie. -11 ` 1, Y, and certainly never met of visiting selfless in France. I made a pointwhere more th rat p u blic-houses, and in one, 4 , 1 / 4 tlf I remained iot Ir tY Persons were . assembled, z „ e ' l n hou r in conversation with two or three Itedrichnlen, who invited me to dr n i k with them, 0 1), , f is wllo , with great difficulty, were , revailed P oiass of pia turn, to accept of even one . sou ot. t ., the peo - "Yi the sobriety and moderation of Most ofthentitle them to the greatest praise. eer, very few litaroese Person s were drinking. and well well behaved. ta e ,,l, and all were sober, PelZ if Sir Andrew Agnew had the regulation of his control, le, le Sunday, under . uses, on a ce ` - .7 people of England or Se mi "Id not make the dee r ,,, 44 d keep the Sabbath with such respect and k Itin , t h e Fr ench ee o ,, d .S tue of their own A (44.744 d fete is to take place here on the 15th will be 111a00-egust, when the statue of Napoleonl de Independent of ti, -( ..„0r1 the top of the column. n and P some eth; e IN atiorlal Guards of Boulogne, thousand tr o '-'l' towns of the department, four Marshal s: li Ps of the line are to he present. to ho ll it and one of the Kines.sons are expected ,c ion, and gr eat ll. tite t o vrti - vitla a - visit 6n the occasion, 1 -, 11 1 he the rejoicings. 0 in n I a0:,..............ms • m rms - ~. - FINAN. ktlr versu, WHIG A 6 L licl • CIERS. circa 4tkti I ‘ 1 3 tho heading- of a bill very generally tiae, t h e consistent, , rrtatter being taken from that most ,ns. _ ( k e e, la-ue, and patriotic journal, the 7i le is, to claim rta t i t f l etior of this exquisite production the national I St ': t he Tories for having diminished 1 11- tl 'ell ff taxes, and to throw censure en 'lligBl).rly ,e r ) contrast . l'i,„,, e l:4y to all this sophistry is .eas,3,r• . b Tory Go voti---the taxes taken off nominally I y hi tine s en ts, vvere, in effect, taken off by V opposi gnd being Go es, who iree'urged the reduction, a e ed b • e' scantly 11 d the le 3 the pressure from w . it , hout " compe e . 4 4 , 3 I most unwillingly to dimitushesta blishments,and ati t i e ave a surplus of revenue, admitting of these dimi ,4s of taxation of which they now make a boast ! 44 e t. it Tory c Mi t never be forgotten that these lauded and e xt r,,s stoutly maintained that the establishments any reduction Iv, e t ,,s . e of the countri did not admit of they imme (4,4\ en tough, aft sr a memorabledefeat, f ten thousand kei i f l't(vit for,vard an estimate before they had Pro : , " 8 than the rainiber which a week with which th,,:numed to be the lowest possible number dhoti,:°4l,(l blana,,e. ,"IY----W hen thehad concluded their forced re then no ~ , theet, repeated their assertion that , , ' dhui - fur 1f till o to-ion ue taxation could possiblyi/ t . c: i l y h were trite • the Whigs were not to be censured - Etd n ' y' taken F a shilling of taxation. Z 5 , 0 , 4. , ... er o , i nto i'. hecrones hold a langua (r e which, if turned t. t are }?,nglish, runs thus : tlikt v',l'3'. C-overnment can take many taxes as o ff as .x _illions, tilii;p4.ll.lell preceded it our men took off si. Te x in .,. lie ,` e 're . the 'Wh'ought to have taken off sit i Ir s too „ igs ( -II tl : la,i, z i us beautiful theory we have only to chancre Ad . 414 Str ia : shall change in i Aons seven or eight times, and we :, (be- Rde, 3 ~- I fpg 100,000 troops and a formidable. , il f ~u' e _ t a A "Yuig:the interest f the national debt, 1 ~.tl l, ~ ,,o 4, nil, at all," as tatip 'nen exists); :out of no taxes at , ev o t ,•. It `. Y. - is • aa,str quite clear that the more, taken off the less d •tion. Br thivi • ' l7lv till to be subjected to a further re tic __,, . o.s Lf tog th€, 'roc to abandon many taxes the Iv nte t thee e ... t. Torie s when, they came t e t c , p ' o 7_l , es _scarcely- any to repeal the , yr A s before observe t. had i Tory tale sbaadNt', that they had taken off all that _, te could be h best %. ,, ,sib ° l4 „ l 'ed, of course their successors, .with ~ t i i w ill, could not have repealed . one. litt• will w ren 1, Y — IV higs repeal taxes of their own 1 ' LeY can't help it. - SENSE. . COMMON Thi s .........„_____.....-- and a com et4to week a coining establishment, . , _ ne _ ‘1. 1 ,, s et of coining apparatus, was discoverd tn . 3_ , 0 ,4a. },11,1' -street, by the -, ctivity of the Paisley e lolice c.., 0 _ Im"it. 1 ° IslCv-ere for both the imitation . I tn`PT`Pr and silvermo". * , de of lead, or other soft ma p, th ey I,,,i nr , i . merely casts in plaister of Paris. The l'Pr °I t"lstinfaineu`s calling has verrerl been . aaklnd His R , ll, over to-the county fiscal for prosecution, c w Its - , we understand, is John Thomson.— qasgo 1 ii)er. 44vilATCHING EXTRAORDINARY.--On Thurs it4-t. John Mrray, of North-street, called at our office t a ''lg' that he had succeeded in hatching duck eggs by e ~liiivel process ; his method is similar to that i of t . . hNl s t, ;n ovens. Atout three weeks since, thl e t d enthat C 4 eeen sitting on the eggs f'or some da I s' ar the * fire, ai,C'l were transferred to a tin can, place ne two young ,7p:acoleved with flannel. On Wednesday ware ne -41e,, ti' l rtially escaped from the shell ; but they has s, ,„_4',(l, mat died. This morning a third duckling __,- iZe' t.',) town ; . we have seen it, and it axpe.aaill .4123 '‘Dirito....Statfordatire Examine' IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. THE ROYAL PROCESSION. Her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Albert and her •suite, and escorted by two brigades of the Household troop, left Buckingham Palace in State at half-past one o'clock. The day was remarkably fine, and the number of persons assembled to witness the procession was much larger than it has been on any similar occasion since her Ma jesty's first going to the House or Lords on her accession to the Throne. The whole line through the Park along the Mall on both sides.was crowded, and from an early hoar Parliament-street was almost in a state of blockade. The appearance of the area around the Pukeof York's column was exceedingly picturesque. The steps leading from Waterloo-place into the Park were crowded by well dressed persons, principally females, forming a complete amphitheatre. The appearance of her Majesty in her State Carriage, emerging from beneath the marble gateway of the Palace was the signal for a loud burst of cheering from the persons assembled. Her Majesty was eheered.loudly and continuously along the whole line as she passed, and repeatedly bowed in acknowledgment. At the Horse Guards the cheering was particularly enthusiastic, the crowd there being much denser than in any other part of the line. As the procession passed through Parliament-street, hats and handkerchiefs were waving from every balcony, and the cheering was con- C.nued until, at ten minutes after Two, her Majesty's ar rival at the House of Lords was announced by a Royal Salute. HOUSE OF LORDS, June 22. Parliament was this day prorogued by her Majesty in person, preparatory to the Dissolntior, with the usual formalities. The ceremonial appeared to excite unusual interest, as all the seats reserved fur the Peeresses and other ladies who had obtained cards of admission from the Lord Chamberlain, were ticketed previously to the opening of the doors at Twelve o'clock, and before One o'clock the body of the House and the three galleries were completely crowded, many of the ladies being unable to obtain more than standing room behind the benches. We understand that in the course of yesterday and this morning upwards of eighty Peeresses signified to the Lord Chamberlain their intention of being present. The Diplomaticeirde was also unusually thronged, and the gay and brilliant hues of the ladies' dresses, with the blaze of diamonds, stars, decorations, and varied uniforms, formed an exceedingly animated and gorgeous spectacle. There was a very large number of Peers present, many of whom, for want of other accommodation, were compelled to remain standing in groups around the table and near the Bar of the House. The arrangenient and decorations of the Throne and the Chair. of State appropriated to Prince Albert, on the left of her Majesty, were the same as on the occasion of the meeting of Parliament in January last. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Sussex, and the Duke - of Cambridge, armed shortly before Two o'clock and remained, with Prince George of Cambridge stand ing near the Royal entrance to receive her Majesty. All the Ministers and the Judges, with very few excep tions, were present. 'At a Quarter past Two o'Clock, the discharge of can non, the flourish of trumpets, and the shouts of the popu lace, announced the arrival of her Majesty, who shortly afterwards entered the House, preceded by the Heralds and Pursuivants, the Lord Chancellor, the Earlr3f Errol, the Earl of Shaftesbury with the Cap of ~aintenance, Viscount Melbourne with the Sword of State, the Earl Marshal, and the other Great Officers of State. Her Majesty was accompanied by his Royal Highness Princa Albert, who conducted her to the Throne, and then took his seat on her left hand side. The Queen was attired in a splendid robe of white satin, richly embroidered, and trimmed with gold lace. over which was the State mantle of crimson velvet. She had also a tiara, necklace, stomacher, and earrings of brilliants, and looked in excellent health and :.,pirits, Prince Albert wore a Field Marshal's uniform, with the ribbon of the Garter and several stars and decorations on his breast. The Speaker and the Members of the House of Com mons having been summoned to the Bar by the Usher of the Black Rod, the Right Hbn. Gentleman nhortiy after wards appeared, attended, 'or rather pushed forward, by a formidable body of Members, who appeared to set all etiquette at defiance in their anxiety to obtain a look at her Majesty. The SPEAKER then addressed her Majesty as follows: " Most Gracious Sovereign, we, your Majesty's faithful Commons, approach your Majesty with sentiments of unfeigned devotion and loyalty. It has been our most anxious desire, in granting the Supplies for the present year, to place at the disposal of your Majesty the means by which the naval and military establishments of the country might be placed in a state of complete efficiency, and we entertain a strong conviction that by thus enabling your Majesty to maintain the honour of the Crown, and protect the just rights and interests of the people, we have adopted a course which, under the favour of Divine Providence, will ensure both to this country and - the rest of Europe a continuance of the blessings of peace. "We now tender to your Majesty an Act to applycer tab sums of money for the service of theycar 1841, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament, to which, in all humility, we pray your Ma jesty's gracious assent." The Royal Assent was then given, in the usual form, to the following Bills : The Appropriation Bill, the Militia Pay Bill, the Bills of Exchange Bill, the Punishment of I) , :,•ath Bill, the Bribery at Elections Bill, the Controverted Elec tions Trial Bill, the Highway Rates Bill, the Loan Societies Bill, the Mad Houses (Scotland) Bill, the Blackburn Market Bill, the Bourne Drainage Bill, and some other private Bills. The LORD CHANCELLOR then presented the Speech to her Majesty on his knee, which the Queen read in her usual clear and distinct manner, with a very marked and decided emphasis on the passage which re ferred to the exigencies of the public service being pro ' vided for in the manner least burdensome to the coin. munity. •HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH. • " My LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, " On a full consideration of the present state of public affairs I have come to the determination of proroguing this Parliament with a view to its mmediate dissolution. " The paramount importance of the trade and industry of the co•.tntry, and my anxiety that the exigencies of the public service should be provided for in the manner least barthensome to the community, have induced me to resort to the means which the Constitution has entrusted to me, of ascertaining the sense of my people upon mat ters which so deeply concern their welfare. " I entertain the hope that the progress o: nublie business may be facilitated, and that divi. slops injurious to the course of steady policy and . useful legislation may be removed by the autho rity of a new Parliament, which I shall direct to be summoned without delay. " GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS; ." I thank you for the readiness with which you have voted the sums necessary for the Civil and Military Establishments. " MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, "In the exercise of my prerogative I can have no other object than that of - securing the rights, and promoting the inter ests of my subjects, and I rely on the co-operation of my Parliament, and the loyal zeal of_ my people, for support in the adoption of such measures as are ne cessary to maintain that high station among the nations of the world, which it has pleased Divine Providence to assign to this country." The Lord CHANCELLOR then said :—lt is her Majesty's Royal will and pleasure that this Par liament be prorogued to Tuesday. the .‘2,0 th of June instant, to be then here holden, and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued till Tuesday, the 29th of June. Her Majesty and her attendants then quitted the House in the same order as they had entered it. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 22. The SPEAKER took the chair shortly before Two o'clock. Sir J. HOBHOUSE presented a petition from a place in Wilts, in favour of a total repeal of the Corn 7 laws. Sir 11. INGLIS presented a petition from Chelsea, in favour of Church Extension. Mr. HAWES presented nineteen petitions from various parts of the metropolis against the Corn-laws. Mr. ESTCOURT wished to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he had made ati• provision out of the Sup plies for the next six months for the payment of the half year's salary due to the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means. The CH A CE,'LLOII of the EXCHEQUER could assure the Hon. *ember that if no provision had been made in the usual way for the payment of the salary of the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, it wtt - not from any feeling against that Gen tleman, but from the state of the Session. He would however take care that some measure was adopted for the payment of the salary forthwith. The subject then dropped. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL presented a petition from Kil kenny against the l'iledical 'Reform Mr. DUCIDALL pre:iented a petitioti from Birming ham, signed by 10,700 per6ons, praying for Church Ex tension. The Deputy Usher of the Black Mid then entered the House, and aummoned the Commons to attend her Ma jest in the-House of Lord& 7.6 iiii.tiiiiiso4oo244(l-b74l.ll•tliz TOP, SUN, LONDON. WEDNESOAY, JUNE 23, 1841. left. the House. and, on his return, read her Majesty's Speech at the table. several lion. Members then shook hands with the Speaker, and the House separated. At Thirty-five minutes after Two her Majesty left the House of Lords on her return to the Palace, and was again loudly cheered along the whole line, as she passed. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex was also greeted with enthusiastic cheering. Her Majesty looked exceedingly well and seemed highly gratified at the man lier in which she was greeted by her loyal subjects. The ground was kept by the Royal Horse Guards Blue, and the nolier- arrangements for preserving order were, as usual, admirable. PARLIAMENTARY DI VISION. CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL. AJORITY AND MINORITY ON LORD WILTON'S AMENDMENT ON MONDAY NIGHT. MAJORITY-PRESENT, 70. 'Canterbury - Longford Mountcashel Gage Argyll - Bathurst Ormonde Lorton Abingdon Clare Huntley S adys Skehners.iale • Exeter Ashburton Glenlyon Delaware Stuart de Rothsay Glengall . Ripon Douglas of Douglas Eldon Morton Sort Essex Bolton Maryborough Berwick I)igby Straw/Joni Bandon Prudhoe Hawarden Manners Waking ham • Delamere Buccleuch VerUi:llll De Roos Sondes Boston Downshire Naltouu Galloway Bayning Westmeath Lyndhurst W ell ngton Aberdeen W ha, nail& ltedesd-le Winehilsea Charley.lle Londonderry Beverley Fitzgerald Abinger Ileytesbury Scalers Faversham Jersey Cardigan Comte: nere Bexley Salisbury De Lls c ;Melbourne Clarendon Dui:mamma Lansdowne Brougham /MT Y-PRESEN' B item an Bed ford Morley Beaumont !ot ten ham Dunally Westminster Yarborough Colborne • ClArirMerde Wenlock Dc Froyne T, 36. Headfort Mostyn Straelbrake Belhaven lichester Portman ZeLland Wicklow Barham Ay!Word althorpe Warwici eaiialbane Radnor No -maid)) , Leitrim Sta Word Wrottesley Denman ELECTION MOVEMENTS. FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) HEREFORDSHIRE. — Sine ) I last wrote to you, the county of Hereford has been doomed to receive the most shameful and 'lasting disgrace, by • driving Sir R. Price, Bart., from the representation, because he has been manly enough to declare in favour of a fixed duty on corn, instead of the present fraudulent sliding scale. Many of his old friends and supporters have intimated that they can no longer support him. Sir R. Price has represented the county for twenty-three years, and spent in so doing the sum of 20,000/., and is now deserted by his friends. The landholders would do well to invite ' Sir J. Graham or Sir F. Burdett ; with such renegades they may unite, but their apostacy. like those puerile Baronets, will alike merit the pity and scorn of all libe ral and sound-minded men, whose political principles are uninfluenced by the narrow feelings of selfish interest. Sir R. Price's manly, honest, and patriotic parting ad. dress created the most extraordinary sensation through out the county, and has tended to raise the spirit of Liberalism to the highest pitch of enthusiasm. A requi sition in the city of Hereford, on Saturday last, was signed by upwards of 500 voters in a few hours, calling upon Sir R. Price to come forward as a candidate ; so that if the men of Herefordshire, who so gloriously fought the battle of Reform, will only be true to their Queen and country, the good cause is yet safe, and the principles of liberty and anti-monopoly will receive a signal and a gletrious triumph, despite of a few Whig renegades, and the whole tyrant Tory faction of the county, (FROM A CO RRE3FONDENT.) SHEFFIELD, JUNE 21.—Thanks, eternal thanks to the Chartists of London, Preston, Aberdeen, and Bath, for their spirited but rational appeals, which during the last week have appeared in your advocate for free trade in religion and politics. But my object is not so much to return thanks for what has been done as to arouse the Radicals and Chartists of Hull, Finsburv, Leeds, Bolton, Banbury and Rochdale, to a sense of &air duty at this momentous crisis. The attention of the virtuous and the good is upon them—the men who obtain their living by the sweat of their brow are watching, and will watch until the termination of the elections, their every movement, for the advocacy of their principles mainly depends upon your exertion. They advise, they urge, they entreat you to send to the British Senate the best friends of the people; by returning Col. Thompson for Hull, Buncombe and Walley for Finsbury, Hume for LeedS," Dr Bowring for Bolton, Vincent for Banbury, and Sharman Crawford for Rochdale. The intelligent portion of the middle and working classes will, I have no doubt, prefer their nearest friends to their bitterest enemies. But if you only do your duty by electing the above-named candidates, I would defy all the power of the aristocracy from any longer gulling the people. Tories and Whigs have, first one and then the other, rode upon the people's ass, but the time is • come when they must either ride their own or consent to let us ride along with them. I would add, in conclusion, that Ido not approve of all the sayings and doings of O'Brien, but I concur with him when he says, the man who would adVise the Chartists to vote for the Tories must be either fool or traitor, and if he is the former he certainly is not competent to lead the people ; but if the latter, he should, whoever he is be spurned, detested, and de spised by every lover of freedom. Martin, the Petition Delegate to London, has ad dressed the Chartists of Sheffield, and at the conclusion he attempted to palm a resolution upon us, thanking the men of Nottingham for returning Walter, but in conse quence of the good s/also_ of the good men of Sheffield, it was very properlrwithdrawn. Parker and 'Ward will certainly be returned for Sheffield, but not until they have been well cross-examined. Charles Attwood of Newcastle ; CardO, of London ; Warden , of _Bol ton, the Tory tools • of Urquhart and formerly Chartist leaders, are .endeavouring to get up a feeling in favour of Urquhart, but neither Whigs, Radicals, nor Chartists, will give them any favour, and only a section of the Tories. WEST CORNWALL.—Sir Charles Lemon, we regret to say, declines, from his delicate state of health, to stand a contest with the Cornish Rose of Toryism.—Falmouth Packet. DARTMOUTH.—The patriotic Sir John Seale will walk over the course. Toryism, cannot find a man hardy enough to peril a contest. DER.BYSHIRE (NORTH). —Cavendish and Evans steadily adhere to reform and good Government. The Liberals are prepared to do battle at an instant. DERBY.—Strutt and Ponsonby are stout Champions, and the Derby men firm. The Tories are in a lamentable strait. The Johnstons and Co. have no " Balm in Gilead." DORCHESTER. — Rat Graham, the runaway of Cumberland and Pembroke, has found a hiding-place in this rotten pocket borough. Influences have been used to induce Mr. 11. Wil liams to resign in his favor. Irswicu.—Stanncher Reformer, or more independent man, than Mr. George Rennie, jun., who is selected as the Liberal colleague of Mr. Rigby Wason, could not come forward. LANCASHIRE (SOUTH.) —Mr. Townley will cutely wrest the representation from the Tories. Liberal electors will do their duty. Ina district so pu-ely mercantile and manufactur ing there is surely strength enough to consign Mr. Wilbraham to the tending of his beeves and game. MoNstouTu.—Here the Tories are v er y g rave and grit sing seigniors. Richard Blakemore, Esq., has been deaf to their requisition. Mr. Blewitt's re-election is safe against " the world." MONTGOMERYSHIRE BORODGDS.— The Newton Tory clique have at length got up an opposition to Sir John Edwards, in the parson of Mr. H. Cholmondeley, the warming-pan of Sir W. Wynn. The enthusiasm attendant on Sir John is irre sistible. PENNUYN AND FALMOUTH.—Captain VivitA has com pleted a most successful canvass, as also Captain Plumridge. A Mr. Gwyn, and Mr. Sartorris, are the two Tory candidates. TYNEMOUTH.—Mr. Chapman s " grounds of success" are mere fudge. WINDSOR.—Mems. Ramsbottom and Fergusson are safe and sure. SCOTLAND. KIRRIEMUIIt. —ln compliance with a requisition addressed to the electors in the town and neighbourhood, by the authority of the Committee of the Kirriemuir Anti-Corn-law Associa tion and the Parliamentary Election Reform Committee, a meeting was held in the Rev. Mr. Brown's church, on the afternoon of Saturday se'nnight, for the purpose of taking into consideration the measures necessary to be adopted to secure, in the event of an election, the return of a Member for the county decidedly friendly to the principles of free trade. Mr. William Stewart, manufacturer, having been called to the chair, a series of resolutions connected with the object of the meeting were severally moved and seconded by Messrs. Angus, Wilkie, N icoll, Myles, Doig, and Watt, and unani mously agreed to. One of the resoluzions adopted by the meet log was very decided, and, if generally acted upon, would produce the most important results, viz., net to give their sup port to any candidate that would not t , olemnly pledge himself to exert his Parliamentary power and influence to promote the principles of free trade, especially those which relate to the free importation of Corn and other provisions. A number of eke tors who were not present at the meeting, have signed this declaration, and others are still erected to adbibit their names.— Scotsman. BA NFFSIIIII,E.—A certain Tory candidate has for several days been talked of. Some called him Lord Redhive, others Lord Redhall, and a third set Lord Red-herring, but the real title turns out to be Lord Redhaven. ELcirr.—Sir Andrew Leith Hay was in Banff on Monday, canvassing the constituency. PY.RTIL—A Mr. Richardson—the only Chartist candidate in Scotland—comes forward in addition to the Ministerial and Conservative candidates. IRELAND. BELFAST. --Mr. George Dunbar, one of the present Tory Mtrnbers, has resigned, and Mr. Emerson Tenneut is now the sole candidate of the faction. HERTFORDSHIRE. —A most dreadful tempest raged here on Friday afternoon, for several hours, taking a direction from N.N.K The lightning was most vivid, and the hail poured dovin in torrents, doing most exten sive damage in the corn fields, large tracts being so completely laid that there is no possibility of its reco very. The loss sustained by many farmers, where there was every prospect of an excellent crop, is unusually great. Two cottages in the neighbourhood of Biggles wade were struck by the electric fluid, and burnt to the ground. Many head of cattle were found dead on the .and. We have heard only of one instance in which it proved fatal to human life. A labourer's wife, of Hatfield, named Wood, the mother of a large family, was at work some distance from her house, when the tempest commenced, and hastened towards home to her children. She was found some hours after dead on the road. There were no appearances of her having been struck by the elec:ric fluid, and death is supposed to have 'been occasioned by alarm and over excitement. On and the Sa turdaylight- ning a dreadful storm broke over the town of Hert nfoirudg. aTwihtedipyeaNl.3iveifd.thuin.,daergrewegruet!entirrtiifiese, of glass were broken by the hail, and the rain poured down in such torrents that the whoie town was flooded tor s everal tiuties. - TIIE REPRESENT,ITION OF NORTHAM ON . The Tories in this borough have for some time past been makieg very acdve.efforts to wrest the representa tion of the town from the hands of its present excellent Liberal Members, Mr. Vernon Smith and Mr. Raikes Currie. They have moved heaven and earth to induce two Tories to come forward in opposition to those gen tlemen ; but as even the more reasonable section of the Tory party is constrained to admit that the borough of Northampton is distingniShed for its unflinching attach= ment to Liberal principles; the attempt was eventually obliged to be abandonedns utterly hopeless . . Mortified by their disappointment., the rabid Toriei - s of the berougb were resolved, let the consequences be whet they might, not to allow the Liberal Members to 'retain the'repre, sentation of the borough without a stri M m rgle. They ac cordingly got up requisition to r. George Payne, a gentleman well known in the neighbourhood of North ampton, requesting him to allow him Self tee be. put in nomination. After 1 . -- 4. ure deliberation, I(oT:ever, :qr. Payne said plainly that he had no chance of displacing either Mr. Vernon Smith or Mr. ' Raikes Currie, and, therefore, prudently declined being made a tool in the hands of Ids party: It ;s right to state that Mr. Payne has been tbr a long ime in a very indifferent state of health, but his critical )sition was not considered by the Tories. What cared e y for puttinr, in jeopardy the life of a gentleman be -ing to their own party, by plunging him into all the iment and strife of a hopelessly contested election, so at their party objects were effected ? After Mr. Pc one's determination not to came forward was made :mown, the Tories, by extraordinary good luck, found that a worthy Baronet, with money to spend, but not overburdened with wisdom, one Sir Henry Willoughby by name, was anxious to get into Parliament. Commu nications were soon opened with him, the result of which was, that Sir Henry consented to offer himself as a can didate for the borough of Northampton. Shortly after wards an address of most awful length was issued by the doughty Baronet, in which he made all manner of plau sible promises and all manner of Tory profcs-iione. No exertion will be spared by the Tory faction to secure the return of their candidate. Intimida tion of the grossest kind has been already em ployed to secure votes ; money is forthcoming where votes are to be purchased, and 'all the "means and appliances to boot which the Tories know so well how to exercise in a contested election, are to be brought into play. lf, however, the constituency of Northampton be true to the political principles which they have so long professed, and to which they have so often proved they are steadily devoted, the cause of truth and justice and of right, the causo of the people against the banded fac tion of monopoly and oppression, will assuredly prevail. Be ye true to your principles, men of Northampton'. The stake for which you now have to fight is great and glorious—oh! shrink not from the contest, but be pre pared to quit yourselves like men, to do your duty man fully and determinedly ! Return by large majorities your present representatives, fur they are men in every way deserving your esteem and regard. Long and faith fully have they served you. Hurra, then, for Smith and Currie ? excit4 CORN•LAWS AND COMMERCIAL REFORM. GREENWICIL—A popular demonstration, which showed le feeling with regard to the Corn-laws, was made in his borough yesterday, as her Majesty and suite passed .hreugh on their return to London, after witnessing the launch of the Trafalgar. The Committee of Captain Dundas and Mr. Barnard, the Reform candi dates for the representation of the borough, caused a triumphal arch to be erected across the street. Over the centre of the arch were the words, " The Queen — God bless her," surmounted by a wheat-sheaf ; and on each side of the arch were wheat-sheaves, the inscrip tion under thl one being " Lord John Russell and Plenty ;" and under the other, " Lord Melbourne and Plenty." Her Majesty, amid the loudest demonstra tions of applause, descended from her carriage, and walked through the arch, when, she again ascended and drove on to town. amid a storm of cheers that sent dismay into the hearts of the Tories. The Liberals, to the number of 200, after- - wards dined together at the Mitre Tavern, Geo. Barrett, Esq., in the chair, supported by . C. Harwood, Esq., and Geo. Smith, Esq., county Magistrates, and many influ ential electors of the borough. MANCHESTER.—A GOOD x AMPLE.—MEETING OF NON-ELECTORS.—Last evening a meeting of the Man chester non-electors took place in St. George's-fields, near the church, " to take into consideration the best means to 'Je adopted in order to induce the shopkeepers and-other voters immediately dependent upon the labouring classes, to support such candidates only at the enSuing election as will vote for the total, immed iate, and unconditional repeal of the man-starvation acts." The non-electors were called upon with " peace, law, and order " as their motto, to unite as one man to shake the huge edifice of monopoly to its very base. Nothithstanding the rain, there was an assemblage of more than two thousand persons, After eloquent speeches by Messrs. Finigan, M‘Gowan, and others, the above resolution was unanimously carried with loud cheers, and it was determined that a Com mittee should be formed to strenuously carry out the oh leas of the meeting.—Manchester Guardian. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin—lf the boroughs do not return Anti-Corn mono poly Members, the gotta cause will suffer, for most of what are called Liberal County Members are averse to the repeal of the obnoxious law. There is E. S. Cayley, Esq., M.P., for the North Riding of Yorkshire, although a good man on most liberal" measures, yet he is a Corn-law man. We have three candidates in the field for South Durham ; two who profess to. be Liberals, Mr. Bowes and young Vane, one of the Duke of Clei e land's sons, a sort of a mongrel Reformer; both these arc great sticklers for the bread-tax. Last Wednesday, at Stocktoo, the great corn market fur the county of Dur ham, great doings were expected from them, and there was a very full town to hear their speeches. Mr. Bowes nev er came forward to speak at all. Mr. Vane spoke a few unmeating.werds; hardly any thing could be gleaned from his speech, but the conclusion that if the Govern ment measure - was - carried,. the farmers would all be ruined. This foolish speech of his set the Chartists all in motion ; they, much to their credit, mustered in great force, and paraded the town with banners and music, with a large loaf of bread as the foreign one, and a small one as the English taxed loaf. Their leaders spoke well, one of them a bricklayer ; his; speech would have dOne credit to the House of Commons. The Chartists are, I hope, coming forward in the right way, and will do a great deal of good. The third candidate is a Tory of the ultra-school, one of your No-Popery men. He is stated to be something related to the late Lord Eldon ; his name is Mr. James Farrer ; he is very little known. He was kicking up a bobbery on Saturday, at Stockton, with music, banners, &c. He, too, of course, is a mono polist. What are we to do ? We have only three to choose froM, and both Whig and Tory are Corn-law men. The freeholders for counties can do but little good ; two or three leading families carry the sway, and how ever honest or independent a few individuals may be, they cannot stem the current. It is different in boroughs. The electors are congregated together, and they know each other better, and their interests are more alike. You must inculcate upon the boroughs to do their duty, and send none but staunch rcpealers. An early insertion in., your independent Journal, will oblige an Old Subscriber and ELECTOR. OF' SOUTH 'DURHAM. Gainsborough,"North Riding, Yorkshire, June 21, 1841. ------ • LORD JOHN 'RUSSELL A►ND LORD PALMERSTON. There will be found in another part of our paper a full account of Lord John Russell's triumphant recep tion in the City of London, a reception not to be equalled by any welcome given to a Minister of State in the capital for many years, whether we consider the enthusiasm of all,• or the commercial standing of many of those who took part in it. No one - .can read the account of his Lordship's reception, without feeling that the measures of free trade recently proposed by the Go vernment have sunk deeply into the minds of the com mercial community—of men not liable to be carried away by temporary excitement, and whose mature judgment may be. safely taken both as an index and a guide to public opinion. There seems to be no doubt that Lord John Russell will be returned in triumph. This will be a victory of national import ance, and it is our firm belief, founded on a knowledge of the state of opinion in Liverpool, that another triumph for the principles of free trade, only second to the return of Lord John Russell for the City of London, may be achieved in Liverpool, if Lord Palmerston will come for ward, and give his sanction to the exertions which are making here to secure his return. From the - enthusiastic manner in which his name was received on 'Change on Friday last, as well as from the great number of the fo mer friends of Lord Sandon and' Mr. Cress Well who have signed his requisition, we feel confident that if he should show himself amongst us, he will be one of the Members for Liverpool in the ensuing Parliament,—Liverpool Times. -..r...••••••••••1•••••••••••••••••••••••=1•00 THE PRESIDENT STEAMER. i nglash resident in that received in Paris. The P.mus, JUNE 20.—The following letter, dated. Naples, 12, s haas morningrespectable -~..► . city : " Capt. Hammond,-of the British brig Venus, which arrived here from NewfOundland on the 7th inst., re ports. Cult he had on his voyage from Cadiz to New foundhnd, in the middle of April last, passed a large steamer drifting on the ice, in which she must shortly after have been blocked up. The Captain of the brig hoisted his number, and the steamer in answer the British flap The brig not having been reported by the steamer, which was endearpurmg to proceed home wards, Capt. Hammond supposes it must have been the President. He was obliged to make a circuit himself of more than one hundred and fifty miles to avoid running, into. the same predicament. 'Whether the steamer seen was the President or not, there is no doubt of the fact of her having been seen." President ; but in su c h case the God grant that time m M steamer mentioned in this state ont,. which has prob a bly already reached You, may turn o p t r l bl t t L c b ) i l l i i a ty y . e o lf)Cheeni. T eaching; En is grea t. H a ving an abundance of flour on board, the crew and paSsengers cannot starve for months, and the only anxiety we can feel is as to water. But even in this respect there is little "to lie ap2rehended, for it would be, very easy to turn her steam apparatus to time production of fresh water ; and Mr. Byrne, tyce of her paSsengers, being a good practical chem ist,.wnt i ld give time necessary instruc tions for the prociess. The main hope that this steamer was the President rests upon the fat.% that the Venus has tot been reported by any steamer which has arrived in England ; but this may .hays; arisen frein and at any rate we must or a time rc :I nee ge nee, .li.ain in doubt. —o9rr . c.spoimient gran. Euening:Paper. . • • RAILWAYS. (From the Railway Magazine.) ILWAY EXCURSIONS. The b ounties Herald gives an ac count of a number of excursions on the railways in the neighbourhood of Birmingham, made by members of Mechanics' Institutes, Temperance Societies, &c. These excursions in the inland district seem to be as popular as steam-boat ex cursions here. TAFF VALE RAILWAY. We learn from the Gloucester Gazette that on Thursday week, the first train with Lancashire ore reached the station at Merthyr; the quan tity brought up was 70 tons. Had the same quantity come by canal it must have taken three days at least to bring it; it was brought up in . two hours from Cardiff! The lower portion of the Dowlais branch, communicating with the old tram road, was opened the same day for the con veyance of the ore to Dowlais works. RAILWAYS INTO SCOTLAND FROM ENGLAND. The Carlisle Journal observes upon this sub ject, that " A decisive step is likely to be taken soon for the promotion of the lines recommended by the Government Commissioners between Lan caster and Glasgow. The Railway Companies so materially interested, between Birmingham and Lancaster, are beginning to move in this under taking, and a powerful party is organising itself in Scotland to co-operate with those interested in the northern counties of England. So that some important proceedings may be expected to be taken when the preliminary measures are ripe, and a favourable opportunity presents itself for action. NORTHERN AND EASTERN RAILWAY. We hear that this Company are actively engaged in surveying a new entrance into Loa don. It is said that they intend to come to a place called Middleton Gardens, Islington. But how will their agreement with the Eastern Counties for twenty years chime in with this? Should they take the above line, we suppose they will hardly need to compensate the parties again, having, we believe, already paid near 37,0001. for that purpose, to parties with whom they had en tered into agreements, and been obligee to break them on joining the Eastern Counties. RAILWAY TRAFFIC. The following calculation at the last weekly re turns of 30 railways, 1,0931 miles in length, given. in our present number will, we believe, be of in terest :—Number of passengers on 19 railways, 247,025, consequently the total for the wcck must be above 400,000. The receipts for passen gers on 30 railways, 65,6461. 18s. 21d.: ditto for good.; on 22 railways, 13,8561. 7s. ld. ; total, 79,503/. ss. 31d. This is an average of 72/. per mile per week. The traffic, therefore, is certainly at the rate of more than three mil lions a year, and carrying fifteen millions of passengers. THE CENSUS. DUNDEE.—The population, by the census amounts in tote to 66,232. When the census was taken in 1831, the population of Dundee stood at 45,355 ; so that in the ten years that have intervened it has increased 20,877. PERTH.—The returns of the enumerators for this city and suburbs have now been completed, and the total re sult is 19,221. At the last general census the total re turn was 20,016, showing a decrease of 705 in the ten years. There must be some mistake here ; and as the census of 1831 was considerably under that made in the spring of the same year by order of the Magistrates, with the view of enforcing the claim of the city to a represen tative in Parliament, the probability is that the mistake is somewhere in the present returns. AIONTROSE.—Due care has been exercised to obtain the most accurate account of the population here, and the result is— Old Parish of Montrose 10,094 St. John's Craig (Rossie Island) 152 Total 15,246 The increase during the last ten years is very consider able. In 1831, the population of the town and parish numbered 12,055 ; this year it amounts to 15,094 ; being an increase of 3,039, and an addition of nearly 5,000 since 1821. Were the seamen belonging to the port in cluded, our population would now amount to about 16,000. As it is, Montrose still maintains its position of the second town in the county. Fonlau.—The total number in this parish is 9,605. The census of 1831 bore that the population was 7,949. so that there is an increase of 1,656. A few years ago, the number would have been much greater, but, within that time, there has been, a diminution to that extent, merely from emigration. DUNKELD.—In the year 1831, we had nearly 1,500 inhabitants, while the present enumeration exhibits a deficiency of 400. To what cause or causes this fall ing off is to be attributed, it is not easy to say .—=Perth Courier. SINGULAR SUICIDE AT STAPLE FORD ABBOTT. (Abridged from the Essex Herald.) A case of suicide occurred last week in the parish of Stapleford Abbot, in this county, uuder circumstances of a very romantic character. A labourer named James Ramsey, about twenty years of age, having visited Jane Hills, a respectable young woman, in the service of Mt. James Dixon, for some years as a suitor, in consequence of her refusal to marry him, quitted his house and en listed on the 9th instant. He however because dejected and miserable, and five days afterwards was tbund life less suspended from a tree, in Mr. Dixon's garden, at four o'clock in the morning, close to the window of the bed-room in which the object of his attachment slept. An inquest was held on Tuesday, before C. C. Lewis, Esq., Coroner, when it appeared from evidence that he was considered to be in his right mind, but that he was habitually sad ; he had been connected with the girl Jane Hills for about two months, and was disappointed at her refusal or backwardness to marry him. A sheet of foolscap was found in the deceased's .hat under the tree on which he hung, and upon it was written in pencil as follows :- 0 My Dearest as God gives me leaf to write these few words to yow what i do tell you it certainly is trees for what i done you caused me to do so what i tell you bear easy in your mind for i love the so well i cant leave the behind So my dearest Jane ive come again as you may find me here no tongue can tell i kow it well • i have been to sewere but when to the tomb its there fore to remain i hope you will not lay to heart to heavy a load of pain for its when that i do go i hope its kind you will behave as i loved you and you loved me you will follow me to the grave so its now to all my friends and my relations far and near ilibpe unto these lines, you will lend and eare so its now fore to conclude and finish all my rime i think within my own mind i am jest in my prim so now my dearest Jane i hope its kind you will behave and its when that homewards i do go you will follow me to the grave Whoever finds this Pray read it to my dearest beloved Jane hills God bless you my dearest Jane for my dearest beloved Jane hills pray read it to her for my sake The Jury returned a verdict "Temporary derange ment." WILL OF THE LATE BARBER BEAUMONT, ESQ.—MUNIFICENT BEQUEST.—The will and codicils of John Thomas Barber Beaumont, late of Regent-street, in the parish of St. James, Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., and late one of the directors of the County Fire-office, has just been proved in the Prero gative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, by Alex ander Henderson, Esq., and John Augustus Beau Mont, Esq., the son, the executors. The personal property of the deceased has been sworn under the value of 60,0001., which is principally bequeathed to his children. The deceased, in his life-time, c ommenced a philosophical institution, and by a co dicil, dated May 28, 1840, he directs the munificent sum of 13,0001. to be invested in the hands of Robert Fellowes, LL.D., J. Elliotson, M.D., F.R.S., George Charles Christian Hennell, Esq., Alex ander Henderson, M.D.; F.R.S., Henry Churchill, Esq., and Henry B. Kerr, which said legacy is bequeathed (free of duty), for the following purposes :—!fo est! - blish a philosophical institution, in Beaumont-square, Mile-end, for the mental and moral improvement of the inhabitants of the said square and the surrounding neighbourhood, in their intervals of business, and frail from the baneful excitement of intoxicating liquors, as also the general cultivat ion of the general principles of practical theology, and the wisdom of God, leaving to the different churches and sects the cultivation and pur , snit of their peculiar tenets, and also for the purpose of affording them intellectual improvement, and rational recreation and amusement.—Britanniu. THE BREED OF SALMON.--For some years Sir Francis Mackenzie of Gairloch, Baronet, has been anxious to prevent that total destruction of the salmon race, which has been so threatening, and which, in many cases, has actually been accomplished ; but it is only this season that he has discovered a satisfactory remedy for this evil. and proved that the salmon can be propagated to any extent artificially, and protected from the natural enemies of their youth, as easily, and at a smaller ex pense, than is required for raising a head of pheasants or other game. Sir Francis has at this moment a large school of young salmon fry, hatched during spring, in a pool prepared for the purpose, and ready, at the proper age, to inhabit their native river, the Ewe, from which the parent fish were taken. They are now one and a half or two inches long, and decidedly par—thus confirm ing what has so often been asserted, and on a small scale proved, by Mr. Simi , of. Drumlanrig, to whom belongs the credit of first suggesting a way of pronagaties4ur g rOyel fish, though the possibility of doin it, to any ex teat that could really . prove valuable, was. alwae denied. Sir Francis Mackeregao has, however, by per.:;'vc=r-` 3O and zeal in the cause, overceree the difficulty, and, it is hered, will soon make known to the public tHedet , l3 of his interesting and valuable diEeovery.--In verxesiColirier., lVilto Ila,ldi Rolle MIN FOREIGN LDUCATIO:N. the Tones.) (from The following atrocious case may serve as a pendant to the account of the school at Boulogne which appeared in the Times last week, and it is to be hoped that it will also serve as a warning to parents who think of sending their children abroad for education: — In the year 1836, a certain Mrs S. who had previously kept a school in the neighbourhood of Chelsea, quitted England, and went to Boulogne, with the alleged design of opening a school there. This woman, on her arrival, took the name of L., with the view, as she pretends, of con cealing her retreat froM her husband, to whom she had been married more than twenty years, and by whom she h a d h a d severa l children. Her family at Boulogne consisted of herself, one of her daughters, (married to a Mr. L.), and a youne - 'girl, Whom we shall only designate by the name of Ellen. This young girl had. been intrusted to her by a. gentleman who has for many years held a situation under Government, and who, having been acquainted with Mrs. S. from her childhood, had implicit confidence in her, and thought he could. not place his you ng wa rd llen in better hands. At Boulogne Mrs. S. formed an acquaintance with a Mr. and in the month of March, 1838, she went with him to Folkestone, and was there married to him, he being then jest 22 years of age. Mr. S. was then, and still is, living in London. This re spectable schoolmistress had now three names. To Ellen's guardian she was only known as Mrs. S.; to the bankers, who paid her her quarterly bills, she was Mrs. L.; and to a'l the world in France, who knew anything of her, she was Arrs. B. About this time she received a second pupil, Selina F., from England, the daughter of a respectable tradeS man ; and with these two pupils she went to Paris, and opened a day school for poor children. About the middle of February last a report was circulated that these two children, aged respectively fifteen and fourteen, had been prostituted, an inquiry was made, and the result was, that Ellen, the elder girl, stated to two women that Mrs. L. had taken her to the house of the Baron de St. H., and there, in spite of her cries and resist ance, actually held her down on the sofa while the Baron violated her person. The younger child, Selina, said that she also had been taken by Mrs. Ia to the same place, and a scene of horrors, such as cannot he penned, took place between the unhappy child, Mrs. L., and the Baron. An information was lodged ; Mrs. B. left Paris, taking Ellen with her. Mrs. L. was arrested, and Selina F. was taken by a charitable Italian lady. The Baron was not arrested. A month passed over, and the per sons who had lodged the informations, finding that every possible intrigue was set on foot by the Baron's friends to stifle the business, applied to some English gentlemen, who took the mattea up warmly. Mean while, M: s. B. had rammed to Paris, but Ellen, who had known no other protectress than Mrs. 8., had been so well tutored that she declared all her previous state ment to ba false. As soon, however, as it was known that other persons ha:l taken up the business, Mrs. B. was arrested, and Ellen was taken into the Ayslum for British Orphans. There it was found that she had been in every way neglected ; she could scarcely read or write—she had had no kind of religious instruc tion, having never entered a Church but once since she had been in Paris, and the only clothes she possessed were the few rags she had on her ; she had not even a change of linen. As soon as she was ex amined by the judge, after she had been thus removed from the contact of her former acquaintances she came nearer the truth once more—she declared that the Baron had attempted a rape in Mrs. L.'s presence, but had not succeeded. Her guardian's name being now discovered, he was immediately informed of the business, and at once went to Paris, and as soon as she saw him she told him the whole truth, just as she had originally told it, and added that her motive for concealing it was the desire she had of saving Mrs. B. The other child never varied in her tale ; yet the Baron was not arrested, and the duge d'ln struction, who had the case before him, told one of the gen tlemen who conducted the business, that many persons had solicited in his favour, and among others he named one who himself a Magistrate, and who even occasionally sits on the bench as a Judge (juge suppliant). Mrs. S. alias •B. has been set at liberty within these few days, the Chambre du Conseil (which answers in some respects to our Grand Jury) having decided that there was not sufficient evidence of her complicity. The Baron and Mrs. L. have been sent before the Police Correctionelle, and are to be tried on Tuesday next. The Baron is still at large I They have so managed matters that their abominations are not called crimes, otherwise they must have gone before a jury but they have been fixed down to what they here call dells, little peccadilloes, or frailties, which are brought before cor rectional courts. However, the matter cannot end here, as the gentlemen who have taken the matter in hand are determined to leave no stone unturned in obtaining jus tice, irrespective of the rank or condition of the parties. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SO- CIETY. Preparations, on a most extensive and magnificent scale, are in active progress for the grand meeting of the Royal ! Agricultural Society on the 21st, 22d, and 23d of next month. The assemblage of. noblemen, gentlemen, and others connected with, or interested in, agricultural pursuits, will assuredly be the greatest that ever yet oc curred in this, or, indeed, in any other country in the world ; and the show of horses, cattle, and other live stock, and .of roots, seeds, and instruments of husbandry, will doubtless be of commensurate excellence, the pre miums and the honours of successful competition being such, that every hill and valley in the United Kingdom will ,be brought into requisition to send their choicest and their best. We heartily congra tulate the members and friends of the Society on the success which has hitherto marked their exertions to promote the useful and most indispensable science of agrioulture, and on - the still brightening prospects that open to their view. Th'e.first great meeting was held in Oxford, in 1837 ; the second at Cambridge, in 1840 ; the third is appointed for, this town ,".• end the fourth will, we - learn ' be at Bristol. The show Stock, &C., is ad vertised for three successive days ' but will probably:be continued for a week. There will be two grand festive entertainments on the occasion, if not, indeed, three, should the- accoMmedations prepared, great as they areg be found inadeqUate for the gratification of so large a body ot.guests. The first is fixed for Wednesday the 21st of July. The show ground is hi. Windsor, in the immediate outskirts of the town. It is nearly square, being 550 feet in length, from north to south, and 491 in breadth from east to west. Its boundaries are tipper- Parliament-street on the south ; Sandon-street (and Falkner-square) on the east ; Canning-street en the north ; and Bedford-street on the west. It is nearly on a dead level, it is of a light sandy soil, for the most part covered with grass. A better site could not have been chosen, and the approaches to it are wide and numerous, so that all confusion will be avoided. The area will comprise no fewer than thirteen very long sheds or tents, of woodwork, covered with canvas, prepared on purpose, with wide avenues between them, and so arranged that each department will be separate and-distinct. • The portion appropriated to the exhibition of implements of husbandry, &c., is on the side next to Canning-street, and contains four sheds, running parallel east and west, the whole width of the ground, is 494 feet. These are each 16 feet wide, and the pillars that support them, back and front, are 12 feet asunder. The avenues between are 20 feet wide. The remainder of the ground is occupied by nine sheds, running parallel from north to south, between Sandon street and Bedford-street. These are each about 500 feet in length. Five of them on the west side will be fitted. for the reception of cattle and horses, and four of them on the east side for sheep and pigs. The avenues between these will be 39 feet' wide. Aecom modations will also be . made fur the exhibition of roots, vegetables, graiu, seeds, &c. &c. The mrpeutry in these extensive erections is good and uniform, and when the sheds are filled with cattle, &c., and the avenues crowded with spectators, the whole will. present a scene of great individual as, well as national interest. The quantity of timber required is necessarily immense, and considerable waste is unavoidable. The Pavilion is by far the largest, and most unique in design, that has ever been constructed in this town. Though having ex teriorly twenty-four sides, - it appears, from the obtuse ness of the angles, and the great area which it covers, to be round. It form is described within a circle of 123 feet in diameter. The height of the outer wall appears to be about 14 feet, the next circle of pillars about of 35 feet, and the inner pillars about 42 feet. The roof will rise above the latter in a conical form 12 or 13 feet to its apex, so that the central elevation will be little, if at all, short of GO feet. This building, as well as the erections oa the show-ground, was undertaken by Messrs. Samuel and James Holme, of Seel-street, tne only parties, deed, in this locality, NA . ho could have undertaken a con tract of such magnitude.—Liverpool Chronkle. LAUNCH OF THE TRAFALGAR The only Commander present at Woolwich on Mon day, who was also present at the battle of Trafalgar, October 21, 1805, was Commander Richard Douglas, of her Majesty's ship Poictiers, now stationed at Chat ham. This officer who, bareheaded stood conspicuous among his gallant comrades on the poop of the Trafal gar during her being launched, surrounded by many of the "veterans" . from Greenwich, who were also with Nelson on the glorious 21st, is the - " Douglas" who was not only wounded at Trafalgar, but who distinguished himself in the Achille, which captured four French frigates, and who assisted also at the taking of Marti nique. &e. &e. The only Admiral present at the launch who was also in the action, was Admiral Sir Henry I)igby, now Commander-in-Chief at Sheerness. The christening was performed, we believe by the lady of Captain Honk, assisted by , some younger members of his family. An incident worth mentioning gave to the ceremony an interest as peculiar as it was appropriate. In the morning the authorities of the dockyard received from the Countess of Nelso i n the present of a bottle of wine — a relic o f the stock which Lord Nelson had on ,board " The Victor y ". at the battle of Trafalgar. This was the bottle _ e of bows wine ne which, according . to the rites, was broken on th of the magnificent ship when she received her name. -, L . •- _,.. ..-. The hay harvest in the neighbourhood 4x has pretty generally commenced, and upon low mois meadows the crop is good; on the light soil, however, the long drought has had a very serious ,andct in many cases the quantity will be fall (me- d halfo the les3 tha cold of the last ten days, has also produced .a very sensible alteration in the appearance of the corn, which must suffer materially u nless an immediate change takes place in the weather.—lpswich Express. HER -MAJESTY ' S THEATEMa edmo of b i er Rachel appeared. on Monday at this thratre.:—Erst rcnewcd ex ,,,,, semt .st—in the part of Marie Stt=t. It is. n a c lkss .to repeat with what exedenee she . tied her self, ar.d the syranathy of royalty as well as that of a crowde4 j ho fully ittfsted it. "We trust that this accompliihad . ' a aru.ss will not I:roit herself to r.". 3, in a.dditioa the part whiah she has a!rE•acly• suvtlined,b thzt ;he will Ilraw -stillfurtUer upon the storeii of the Fmlch classic drama. MM ORN ING EDITION. LITERATURE. WHAT TO OBSERVE. Madden, London, 1841. • Under, the quaint title of " What to Observe, or the Traveller's Remembrancer," Mr. Jackson has produced a highly useful work, whose ob ject, he tells us in a brief, pertinent preface, " io to point out to the uninitiated travel - ler what la; should observe, and to remind the one who L 4 well informed, of many objects which; but for a remembrancer, might escape him." This object the author has successfully accomplished, and his volume will have the desired effect of excit ing a wish for useful knowledge, by awakening ! curiosity.. It consists of a certain' number of Divisions, each of which is divided into Sections, suggesting a variety of inquiries relative to, tlif geographical position of countries, their general aspect=, climate, temperature, geological and mineral productions, &c. The traveller, who ib anxious to turn his opportunities of visiting - fo • reign regions to good account, will find many serviceable hints in this compact, carefully.con sidered volume. INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSES DELI i7EII - AT MANCHESTER NE .11 1 COLLEGE. Simpkin and Marshall, London, 1841. The Discourses compwised in this volume were delivered, it seems, in Manchester NOW Cell.3;e, at the opening of the Session of 1840, and refer to some of the most important branches of Philo sophy, Science, and the Belies Lettre,;. That on History, is by Mr. Kenrick, and discusses a po pular and interesting theme with much judg ment and acumen. Referring to the often de bated question of how far it is tit that historians should he impartial or otherwise, the Lecturer justly remarks, " the only kind of impartiality to which, as it appears to me, the teacher of his tory can pretend, is to state all evidence fairly as far as is known to him, to refer to authors who have espoused opposite sides, to abstain . from in vective and insinuation, and to regulate his in structions by the spirit of philosophy, not of partizanship." If Flume had written English history in this spirit, he would have been a far greater authority than he is at preSerit and if the same candid spirit had pervaded Gibbon's highly-coloured, one-sided episode of the rise and progre33 of the early Christian Reformers, his admirable " Decline and Fall of Rome'' would have placed him .at the head of all the historians of the modern world. Tile best, be cause the most thoughtful, discourse in the vo lume is the one on " Mental and Moral Philo sophy," by Mr. James Martineau, which exhi bits in every page great closeness and subtlety of reasoning. CARLI6T REFUGEES: PROCLAMATION OF CABREIL To the sub-officers and the officers of the army o; Arragon. Valentin, Murcia, and Catalonia.—gever was an y epportunity of showing their relieiouF end political constancy and fidelity to their Kin; move f«- vourable to Spaniards devoted to hint than older actual circumstances, when we are about being ileprived of every resource. By your sufferings and your privations during a protracted and cruel war, on gave minim-011i proofs of your devotedness. The period is co;ne whet: the Spanish character must show itself move . than ever ; that character so much landed by both our political and foreign enemies. It is this day that your General de mands of you to show religious virtue, constancy, fidelity, and devotedness to a cause - in which your blood was shed on the soil of your country. It is now fur us to exact the admiration of the foreigner and of otir own enemy— our country And I this day hope to ben witness to the intrepidity of those whom I • had the honour to lead oa to victory, to reap imperishable laurels in the history Of human events. The recent unjust sequestration of an inimical Government we must suppert with magnani mity, with calmness, and with the truic Spani7;ll elm racier which has ever been so honourable. Constancy, companions in arms ! perseVerance, firmness are more necessary to-day than hefore. It is the last stroke to crush us, but God will protect us,..and save from the danger. We have friends who flee slc, oppor;it nity of endeavouring to assure the subsiStenee of the brave and valiant defenders of their religion and of their King. Let us confide in them ; let us implore their pro tection ; and never forget it never failed those who solicited it from the heart. Let us prove to the whole world that the Spanish have ever been, and will ever be, models of valour, of constancy, and Of loyalty. Her Majesty, it is said, is endeavouring to induce the - foreign Powers to admit us in their States. Your General is as wretched as you, his companions in arms,' but he does not despair. My prayers are the same as yours. But I bury them in my heart until that day when at your head, my sword may give a last testimony of devotedness and fidelity to the just cause of God and of legitimacy. I cannot console you in anything, my fate is yours, but whithersoever it lead us, let us retain • these principles, and let the Spanish name maintain the . plaCeithas gained. Reckon ever on him who is honoured by calling himself your companion in glory and fatigue. (Signed) • " LE COMPTE DE MORELLA. " Hyeres, May 12, 1841." CASE OF JAMES MAXWELL, TliE PILOT. It is hoped that no apology will be required for bring- • ing before the public the following case of eXtrerne • distress, connected as it is with eircninafances which must be interesting to every generous and humaue in dividual under whose notice this may come : In the 171st number of Chambers' Edinburgh Journal there is a narrative detailing an instance of one of the most miraculous preservations of human life, from de struction on board ship, that has almost ever occurred. It is uncler the title of '• A Hero in Humble Life," and exhibits the self-denial and bravery of one James Maxwell, (under the fictitious name of Cochrane,) a pilot, who, in the year 1827, was the individual means of saving the lives , to e num ber of betwixt seventy and eighty, of the passengers and crew of the Clydesdale steam-packet.- • This vessel was destroyed by fire on her voyage betwixt Glasgow end Belfast, and the preservation of those on board of her by the pilot, is thus abridged from the article in Cham bers' Journal alluded to :—" On' its being Ascertained that the only way to save those on board was to run the vessel ashore, the pilot instantly - took the helm and fixed himself to the spot. The fire, which theexertions of all the men could not keep under, soon raged with ungovernable fury, and keeping the engine in violent action, the vessel, one of the fleetest that had ever been built, flew through the water with incredible speed. All the passengers were ga thered to the bow, the rapid flight of the vessel keeping that part clear of the flames, while it carried the fire, flames, and smoke, backward to the quarter deck, -where the pilot stood like a martyr at the stake. Everything possible was done by the master and crew to keep the place on which he stood deluged with water, but this became every moment more difficult and hopeless, for, in spite of all that could be done, the flames seized the cabin under him, and his feet were literally roasted on , the deck. Still he never flinched, for, had - he done so, all might have-perished. At intervals; 4heint3inn of the wind threw aside the intervening rugs 6f Hattie a.idstitoke for a moment, and then might be heard exclamations of hope and gratitude, as the multitude on -the bow got a giimpee of the brave man, standing calm and fried on his dreadful watch. By this time time vessel was within a . stone -cast of the tialloway coast, girded, as it is, with perpendicular masses of reek, but every corner of which the pilot was acquainted with, and this enabled him to run her into an open suttee, and' along-side tt ledge of reef, upon which every person got cafe on shore, all unscathed, evept the self-deveted enc. , to whom they owed their lives." The foregoing particulars have been nll neeerteined to be true. Poor Maxwell,- however, r ens FO injured, and his constitution so shattered by his teertions and sufferings on that awful occasion ' that has never been the same man since. For several years subsequent to this occurrence. he Ims emp l o yed as a . _ pilot by one of the most respectable Ste sM Compel:nes on the Clyd e but for a long time lie has not ,711 able to do a ' hand's turn. He is now completely ' ridden (in fact, in a dying state), and labm-meinf,inunidlel€.r severe rheumatism of the breast a n d leg it c hildren, effects • of the fire. He has a wife an nd all are com rs the eldest only fourteen yea of age, a pletely destitute. stx children, feel pleasure e tiep.te_ s u i lip e o x s t e in that g t i h n e a i n r y ch h a u ri n t r , e tolPvcrrs?lnts.ll.l i s ) er ro v p i e n r g iy i , nd t i h v e ld f u o a l l l , ol i v f in i g iss g u e r i c i d de t w h f a in t ,, it u ; " hive jug-Lett], c i r cumstances of the into, and are conversant with, tn dideC77,e, f7tl . le nr cpaossee,ofarveive fi e r v i i i ii ie g d e t o lm i t v t e it s m i s n , to n p rc r A k w e rl t y ag e7i t v s. in::e t,l s e om ; et e em, same, namely, Mr R. Napier, engin 1 1 11 7 13€ il 'rs a ' inlIton e G. Is : Thomson and Macconnell , for the B e r a i 1.17; ring. Glasgow, goi?NtVl:e tSirnSTSa.l:‘ll;adilliinablntirgallhCll;";(t.inr;tfli.l-7epr:e iciinin , tnry iNh ; and n h.t e er ra .i l uat s te t eo e rr a Steam-packet k l t, v et, ing as facility of the penny snbeeriptions to gested ; and it, is hop any oi't 11 • d v tio . may be only able t o atib r dh the niitsabnlove-named individuals is l e a mount easily e s . s t P o: ;o t i t i s : i l i ike theta s i s making tip e hoped'aat editors of newspapers will give insertion to this notice as an act of charity, if suitable with their ar rangements. —(.Glasgow Argus. From the year 1826 , so distinguished for long and severe drought, there has been nothing equal to the present year. Since the month of November, last year, there has been scarcely any interruption to the working of the plough, except what arose from-frost ; and, the consequence has been that the land luta • been better prepared, and the seed of every description committed to the earth under more' favourable circumstances than we ever remember. Until about fourteen days ago nothing had suffered, even on light lands, the complete pulverization of the soil having enabled it to resist the drought with more effect than could have been anticipated. Since then, however, the pasture and the hay crop have - bath suffeml grievously, not more from the areught than from the chilling and piercing north-east winds which have prevailed ; and in some districts there has been a scarcity of Neater, even for ordinary domestic purpoSes. But since Monday the sky has been cloudy, with the appearance of rain, and ye - Sterday morning it began to tall in mild and gentle showers,..whieeele prevailed during the . grea'er part of the 117, and.witti.nvary apnattra)ve .. Alr :.ady rha rarchaii-r_d baked: earth hng br_Tzart to • fs.el \711,1s W i'aztlNce ! eumly of rea, - .z azd. of I 'dal ha-rast is as . P-ett -6 COll-0. wished frit CaZedonian Afe7cFry,