The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-24 00:00:00

MISS COSTELLO'S NEW ROMANCE. ►i•HE POISONER; Or, FRANCE in the SIXTEENTH CENTURY. , By MISS LOUISA STUART COSTELLO, Author of " A Summer amongst the Bocages and the Vines. In 3 vols. post Bvo., IS NO N READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS . THIS EVENING. MAY 24 FOR THE BENEFIT OF MADAME VESTRIS. Will be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled LONDON ASSURANCE. It&*ourt Courtly, Bart., Mr. W. Farren ; Max Hark. away, Mr. Bartley ; Mr. Charles Courtly, Mr. Anderson ; Mr. Adolphus Spanker, Mr. Keeley ; Mr. Dazzle, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mark Meddle, Mr. Harley ; Grace Harkaway, /Madame Vestris ; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Pert, Mrs. Hunativ. ♦fter which will bo repeated, the Grand Romantic Fairy Ex travaganza, entitled BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Beauty, Madame Vestris : The Beast, Mr. W. Harrison ; John Quill, Mr. Harley ; Dressalinda, Miss Rainforth ; Mar rygolda, Miss Grant; Queen of the Roses, Miss Lee. To-morrow, London Assurance, with Beauty and the Beast. Doors to to opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 25.; Gallery, Is. Tickets an.l places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets ty ne had upon application. Private BOlteg to be had so'ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE iIANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Extraordinary NOveltY. - Last Week before the Holidays. Last Nights of Mr J. S. Balls. An entire change of pieces, supported by the most talented Company in the Aletropolis. THIS EVENING, MAY 24, Will be acted the 'Tragedy of JANE SHORE. Gloster, Mr. Neville ; Halting, Mr. H. Hughes ; Dumont, Mr. N. T. Hicks. After which, THE BRIDEGROOM'S HOOD. Alphonso, Mr. J. S. Balls. To conclude with THE FOUNDLING OF THE FOREST. Florian, Mr. J. S. Balls; Eugenia, Mrs. H. Vining. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Miss Vincent as the Heroine of Domestic Tragedy. Immense sensation created by the affecting Drama of " Simon Lee." The Legendary Romance of " - Rockwood!" with a New Pit, a New Gallery, and New Splendid Decorations ! THIS EVENING, MAY 24, AND TO-MORROW. A New Domestic Drama, is Three Acts, en t itled SIMON LEE; OR, THE iIIURDER OF FIVE-FIELDS' COPSE. Minna Lee, Mr. E. F. Saville ; And Grace Hatherleigh, Miss Vincent. After which, the Romance of ROOKWOOD; OR, THE LEGEND OF THE OLD LIME TREE. Dick Turpin by Mias Vincent, with the Flash Songs of " Hurrah for the Game of High Toby !" " Nix try Dolly, Pals, Fake away !" and " Mr Bonny Black Bess." To conclude with the Laughable Burletta of ----- THE LORD MAYOR'S FOOL. Richard Witless, Mr. Gardner; Mabel, Mrs. Howard; Mar garet, Ails Lea. Boxes, 23.—Pit, ls.—Gallery, 6d. Half-price at Half-past Eight. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Whit Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. SPLENDID AND EXTRAORDINARY NOVELTY !! ! THE first grand ROMAN FESTA, in imitation of the rejoicings which take place in Rome at the celebration of '• II gioino di S. Pietro," will be given on MONDAY, MAY 31st, when will be presented an exact fac-simile of the superb GIRANDOLA from the Castle of St. Angelo, the greatest and most magnificent display of Fireworks in the World, with the ILLUMINATION of St. PETER'S, when the whole of this vast and glorious edifice is brilliantly lighted with count less myriads of lamps, presenting together a coup d'ceil c,f in conceivable splendour hitherto unattempted out of Italy. The unrivalled Band of this Establishment, conducted by Mr. God frey, augmented by the addition of many performers of,emi nence, will give the first Promenade Musicale et Champetre, commencing at Six o'Clock. The Menagerie, including the great male °rang Outang, and several other rarities, is exhibited daily, with Danson's Colossal Pictorial Model of Rome ! Open at Ten. Admission One Shilling. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have received the letter of a " Hater of Blood-thirsty Scoundrels," dated Bristol, the 21st inst., and feel much flattered by the compliment paid to our article on the disso lution of Parliament by our patriotic Correspondent. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Unming 58 minutes after 3 i Evening ' 0 minute+ after 4. ;71, .). ', , to . • ., 4 , 4 00 ,, ,..., 4 4 . sio . 0 ,, c --1 " *. 4 1 -ht;':',...,:, - .,f;,.,jrhizz ' ' it! ''., • CP ' ' ' ... 4 ( -V j . Ztit LONDON: MONDAY, MAY 24, 1841. Some of our Tory Contemporaries, unable to deny the existence of unparalleled distress in our manufacturing districts, eagerly seize hold of a somewhat remarkable statement in Mr. FIELDEN'S unspoken, but published, speech, showing a wonderful increase in our cotton ma nufactures, and ascribe the distress to over trading and competition. Mr. FIELDEN'S re marks are themselves curious, and we therefore borrow them, with the comment on• them, from the Standard : We lately, following the opinions and adopting the words of Mr. Huskisson, ascribed the periodical visita tions of inaction and distress in the manufacturing dis tricts to otvr trading, the result of a too rapid increase of capital. This view has a remarkable corroboration in the speech which Mr. Fielden has caused to be printed, videlicit:— " There were four articles of cotton manufacture, of the prices of which he had kept a record from 1815. And he would now state to the House the average sum the manufacturer had had, after paying for the cot ton required for them, for making these four articles, one of each, in the year 1815, and the reduction per cent. he had to submit to in the following years. Also the estimated consumption of cotton in the United Kingdom in each of the said years. In 1815 the manufacturer had 965. for making these four arti cles one of each, and the consumption of cotton was 80,000,000 lb. In 1820 he had 34 per cent. less than 1815—consumption of cotton 120,000,000 lb. In 1825 51 per cent. less than in 1815—consumption of cotton 106,000,000 lb. In 1830 55 per cent. less than in 1815— consumption of cotton 247,000,000 lb. In 1835 70 per cent. less than in 1815—consumption of cotton 318,000,000 lb. In 1840 75 per cent. less than in 1815— consumption of cotton 451,000,000 lb. And now, at the present time, these articles of cotton manufacture (and they are a fair criterion whereby to judge of the state of the cotton trade), are not saleable in the Manchester market, except in limited quantities, at 78 per cent. less than the manufacturer had in 1815." • The -increase of exports from . 80,000,0001 b. in, 1815, to 451,000,0001 b. in 1840, an increase nearer six fold than five fold in 25 years, demonstrates that the diminution of profits, be it great or small, has not arisen from a nar rowing of the foreign market, or from foreign competi tion. This, we suppose, is beyond dispute. The articles, says Mr. Fielden, have been the same; so that the quan tity of British labour taken by the foreigner has been multiplied more than five-fold, but the price given for that labour has been reduced three-fourths. Why ? In consequence of competition ?—Yes. What competition foreign competition ? No. We have answered that question already. The competion has been all at home, competition of machinery with human labour, of capital with capital. It is a pro position laid down by Adam Smith, a proposition to which we have more than once referred, by increasing supply one-fifth beyond demand, you reduce prices one half, and so in an augmented ratio ; but here we have supply in IA4O not increased one- . Mh, but multiplied more than five fold beyond the demand of 1815. What a prodigious enlargement of the markets must there have been, then, to support even the prices of which Mr. Fielden speilts ! Why, such over-trading would account for ten times the distress that exists ; and would create it, too, were it not for the Corn-laws, and for so much as remains here and there of the old Poor-law. It must at once strike every unbiassed ob server that the facts mentioned by Mr. FIELDEN are most extraordinary proofs of overtrading causing distress. What is Mr. FIELDEN'S state ment ? Why, that the manufacturer has so ex tended his operations since 1815, that he now works up six times as much cotton as he worked up them, and he 'receives for his produce 78 per cent. less than he did then. He has ad ded six times to the quantity of useful clothing that he produced in 1815 he requires and receives a great deal less pay ment per cent. for his production, and the Stan dard would have the world believe that this vast increase of useful things at a cheap rate is a cause of distress in the community. The con clusion is so completely at variance with the pre mises that it is worth while to examine them in detail, and show, if we can, where the error of our Contemporary lies. The Standm:dsays, competition at home, com petition of machinery with human labour, that this very increase of production, by degrading the price, leads to this distress. But the competition indicated is a competition between English ma nufacturers themselves, who do not constitute the market for each other's produce. Some of them might ruin others, but the phenomenon is un exampled of a ?Feat body of shrewd, calculating men going on year after year competing with one another to their own ruin. Some other explanatidu of thia isretwired than assertion that the manufacturers have ruined themselves while actively engaged in conferring, for the sake of money, the blessings of cheap clothing on a shivering population. The competition of machinery with labour is of a different description; but if that had injured the labourer, it must have enriched the owners of the machinery, who, however, complain as much as the labourers. It has been stated at more than one public meeting, and in Parlia ment, that the value of machinery has fallen more than cent. per cent. The fact which tells against the assumption of the Standard, " that the competition of machinery with labour has produced the distress" is, that as machinery has come into use the population has increased in the manufacturing districts faster than ever before. The working population understand the matter better than the Standard. One of them, of the name of BARROW, at the Salford meeting on Friday, said he did not wish to pull down ma chinery, but to extend it, while he watched it. He knows that the more machinery is multiplied the more hands will be required to attend it. It is neither the competition of capital with capital, nor the competition of machinery with labour, which causes the distress, but the want of com petition on the part of the producers of food. Mr. FIELDEN, in his unspoken speech, added that in 1815, when the manufacturer got 965., he could with that buy 11 quarters of wheat, and now when he gets only 345. he cannot buy with that two-fifths of a quarter of wheat. But the principal article for which the ma nufacturers are made to exchange is food, and it is because the manufacturer cannot now get above one-third as much wheat in ex change for his cotton as in 1815, to divide be twixt himself and his workmen, that he and they suffer distress. Why is this? Because food has not increased in the same ratio as cotton cloth ? Why has it not, at least that food which would be given in exchange for the cloth ? The Poles are unclad, or clad only in skins, and have food which they are anxious to give for cloth. The fertile valleys of the Mississippi only require the hand of man to cultivate them to supply food taster than it could be consumed. Already they supply an immense quantity, which the inhabi tants would readily give for our cotton and hard wares. According to a statement we recently met with in .an,. American Paper, the United States now produce above 38 bushels of bread stuffs annually, including all kinds of corn and potatoes, for each inhabitant of the United States, which is probably a full third more than is supplied by England. At the same time it is part of the case of the Corn-law people that a large portion of England is yet uncultivated. Why, then, we repeat, has not food increased in the same ratio as cotton cloth ? Is there not a law to prohibit its in crease ? Is it not the express object of the Corn law to prevent the manufacturers from buying food in Poland and the United States? By this law competition on the part of the producers of food is prohibited. This narrows the supply of food, and, narrowing the market for the manufacturers' productions, it is the cause why food has not increased in the same ratio as cotton cloth—why the manufacturers cannot get enough food in exchange, and why there is over whelming distress in the manufacturing districts. The Corn-laws limit and destroy the manufac turer's market, and is it necessary, to seek out any other cause for his distress? It may be said that the law has been in opera tion with some modifications for twenty-five years, that the manufacturer ought to be aware of its effects, and that he is to blame for manu facturing too much for the narrow market to which the Legislator arbitrarily limits him. But one of the cursed effects of the arbitary and un just limitation, is to make the markets so irre gular that the manufacturer cannot foresee or calculate effects. The great reductions which occur oc casionally in the price of grain, stimulate population, stimulate enterprise, make the manu facturer engage in new works, and then comes a dearth which destroys his market and plunges him into distress such as he now suffers. 'Whether the price of wheat were high or low, there can be no doubt if we could draw our supplies from the whole world that it would then be much steadier than at present. Now it is the unsteadiness in the price of food which causes the alternations of prosperity and distress in the ma nufacturing districts. The price of wheat, for example, was in 1822 down to about 435., and that low price was fol lowed by the excessive trading of 1824 and 1825. In 1835 it was down to 365., and that was fol lowed by the prosperous years of 1836 'and 1837. The increase of trade which takes place after such years is a matter of necessity. The cheap ness of food, not only stimulates population, but, leaving the industrious classes with a surplus, which they expend on clothing, it also stimulates manufactures. The manufacturer extends his establishment only to meet the demand. At the same time that the home demand increases the fall of prices encourages exportation. Foreign trade extends. But the cheap years of 1822 and 1835 were followed by the dear years of 1826 and 1838; then the high price checks foreign trade, checks home consumption, and plunges the manufacturers into distress. What the Standard calls over-trading was the necessary con sequence of great fluctuations in the price of corn : those fluctuations were caused by the Corn-law limiting our people to the soil of Eng land for food, and therefore the Corn-law is the cause why the ingenious manufacturers and their industrious workmen, who have so multi plied the conveniences of life for their fellow men, instead of obtaining large profits and ample wages, are plunged into deep poverty and distress. It has of late years been customary, when any derangement occurs, to talk glibly of overtrading, of the fluctuations of commerce as inevitable, and to express something like blame that nature has exposed man to this inconvenience. We always hear and read such opinions with mis trust. The true business of the merchant is to equalize the variations of the seasons and prevent fluctuations. Accordingly, great as may be the fluctuations in modern trade, it is an undoubted fact that the ups and downs of society have be come less and less as trade has been extended. There are no absolute famines now in trading Eu rope as there were in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, when Europe knew little or nothing of commerce. Nor does the price of food vary by one-tenth now so much as it did then. Trade is only liable to fluctuation because it is interfered with by Corn-laws, by bank monopo lies, by sugar-taxes, by discriminating timber duties, and a thousand other similar enactments which continually derange the markets, and continually render vain the calculation s of the most expert and careful merchants and manu facturers. Free trade, causing extensive trade, is the cure for fluctuations, which are not natural to commerce, and are to be traced to the meddling of selfish and ignorant law-makers. The remarks we made on made on Saturday, relative to the part now taken by the clergy, are confirmed by the facts, that one clergyman was the leading character at a great Pro-Corn-law meeting recently held at Dorchester, and another clergyman was the chief hand in getting up a Pro-Corn-law petition at Wolverhampton. The bulk of the priesthood are enlisted against free trade. They are standing up for monopoly and injustice. Hired by the nation to teach mo rality they have ranged themselves on the side of wrong, and inculcate by their example a shameless disregard of the precepts of religion. There is no class of monopolists, no class of the oppressors and enemies of the people, no class of all the mighty hosts of corruption, who do not now make common cause, and join the Tories in taxing the people for the benefit of the land lords, the sugar planters, and the rotten-ship owners. What the bulk of the people complain of is .VL!' ~~f' F~ ti' )~1.l monopoly, monopoly of legislation, monopoly of wealth and taxation, and monopoly of poli tical power. Lord PALMERSTON expressly stated in his eloquent speech, that the dispute between the two parties in Parliament was for the main tenance or the abolition of monopoly. The Queen's Government is for the abolition, and there is now an excellent opportunity for the people, who are sufferers by, and the enemies of, monopoly, to put it down. There are, however, some amongst them who fancy that if they put down the landlords' mono poly they will strengthen the monopoly of the factory lords—that •they will only enable the manufacturers to lower wages, and only debar themselves the longer, azid the more effectually from political power. Is that opinion borne out by experience ? HaS the suppression of one monopoly strengthened another? To use Lord PALMERSTON'S examples the suppression of the monopoly which Churchmen had of political power, as against Dissenters, by the abolition of the Test Act accelerated the suppression of the monopoly which they had against the Catholics, and facilitated the lessening of the mono poly which a few persons had of the repre sentation. Since the Parliament was reformed the monopoly of corporations has been destroyed, and now the greatest of all monopolies, that of the landowner, is successfully threatened. The course of modern experience proves that one mo nopoly is not strengthened by the abolition of another, and that to abolish one is to weaken another, and hasten its destruction. All the working classes, then, all the Chartists, who are the determined enemies of monopoly of every kind, would act in complete opposition to their own principles if they were not to embrace the opportunity which is now offered them to de stroy the landlords' monopoly. We say emphatically destroy, for we are no advocates fur the Bs. fixed duty ; and if the Minis ters, who have proposed that because they have no hope nor see any possibility of carrying any thing better, even if they can carry that, saw a strong, a hearty, and an almost universal demand for the destruction of the monopoly, they would assist in destroying it. We trust, therefore, that all the working men, whether Chartists or not, will, fbr their own credit's sake, rise up against the monopoly of the landlords, and demand its destruction. If that were to lead us, as some of them now say, to the reduction of wages, whose fault will that be? If they are now able by union to destroy the monopoly of the landlords, will they not then be able by union to destroy any other monopoly by which they may be op pressed ? The priests are now united with the landlords to support the Corn-laws. Both are rivals, if not opponents and enemies of the factory lords. Deprive them of their present monopoly—destroy the Corn-laws—and the whole army of priests and landlords will side with the people in any quarrel they may have with the factory or any other lords. There is not one clergyman who will not be immediately filled with the most moving charity for the factory children. They will be the pa trons of a Ten-hours' Bill, or a Six-hours' Bill, if the people ask it. They will take the working classes under their protection, if the working classes desire it; and invoke religion against any injustice on the part of the manufacturers. We do not fear that the manufacturers will practice any—the people do ; but having, as they will then have, the landlords and the priesthood on their side, they will be guaranteed against any injustice, and be much better able to protect themselves than at present. Common sense now commands the whole of the working classes, whether Chartists or not, in order to obtain their own ends, to unite heart and soul, in the great movement towards liberty now begun, and aid, in the first instance, in destroying the monopoly of the landlords. A great deal has been said about the landed gentlemen who have deserted the Ministers, but no notice has been taken of the representatives of towns who deserted the Tories. For example, the Hon. WM. LASCELLES, a son of the Earl of HAREWOOD, and Member for Wakefield, voted with the Ministers. Mr. LASCELLES is a strong instance, and unfortunately a rare one, amongst the Tories, of rectitude prevailing over interest and party ties, because he is not only connected with the land, but his family are connected with the West Indies. The Earl of HAREWOOD is one of the leaders of the West Indian body. How far Mr. LASCELLES was influenced by his abstract love of the principles of free trade, or how far by respect for his town constituency, we cannot say; but it is an encouraging ex ample for all the towns which take an interest in the repeal of the Corn-laws to exert their in fluence over their present representatives, and to take care, in future, to place none in Parliament but such as are determined friends to repeal. We may not, perhaps, add the name of Mr. BARING WALL to that of MT. LASCELLES, for he has, on more than one previous occasion, op posed, by his votes, the rabid and mischievous policy of the Tories. At the same time it is highly gratifying to find that there are some men amongst the Tories honest in their inten tions, and open to conviction. The deserters from the ranks of the Whigs, such as Mr. HANDLEY, Lord WORSLEY, Mr. HEATHCOTE, Mr. HARLAND, &c., we make light of, because their motives are obviously and avowedly of the most interested, and, for legislators, of the most unworthy and sordid character. But there being some honest men among the Tories, we ;are not without hope that the number may be increased. There is much more discrimination and more honesty amongst the electors, and throughout the community, than the habitual jobbers in elec tions, whether Whigs or Tories, reckon on ; and we anticipate, therefore, when an appeal shall be made to the people on principle, a very different result from that expected by Whigs and Tories. In the counties the free holders may want some bold man to lead them, and when he is found, many a Tory who fancies himself safe in his seat will be overthrown. At any rate no chance ought to be thrown away, for in the counties cheap sugar and cheap bread will be as welcome as in the towns. Never, throughout the history of Great Britain, did the working agriculturists suffer so much, and complain so much, never were they so impo verished and degraded, as during the last twenty five years, when they have been living under the landlords' corn-tax. Over and over again, the farmers have been sold up; over and over again, they have lost their capital ; over and over again, they have received eleemosynary relief in the shape of remittances of tithes and taxes, which never happened before the Corn-laws were passed. Such facts warrant us in hoping that even the farmers, when they are stirred up by a general election, may be brought to vote against those who have degraded their honourable and useful occupation into that of tax-gatherers for the owners of rent. provernent. They will only give a greater sti_ mulus to the people to rise up to its aid. If the Tories would stop the Supplies to obtain power, they would dethrone the QUEEN. Our readers will perceive, by a Report in an other part of The Sun of this day, that a great public meeting has been held in Sheffield— one of the most important manufacturing towns in the north. At this meeting—which was attended by upwards of eight thousand resolute Anti-Monopolists—the spirit in fit your of Ministers was as alert and energetic as could be desired. There was no waver ing—no vacillation—no unworthy distrust or timidity exhibited—the different speakers seemed to vie with each other in their determi nation to.uphold, by all means in their power, the Government course of policy. And such is the spirit displayed at Sheffield, so is it gene throuo;hout the provinces. Every where, we see indications of a calm, settled determination of purpose that, when the day of struggle comes, will sweep all opposition before it. Madrid Journals, of the 13th instant, have reached us. They bring no news of interest. Nothing was decided about the new Cabinet. The British Ambassador, Mr. AUSTIN, had di missed the English Consul at Carthagena, who had been guilty of insulting the Spanish flag. ' The funds had not improved by E SPART T raIos election to the Regency. The Five per Cents. were at 27i for cash. The French Journals of Thursday have all reached us. The followi:4 is a summary of th e latest news from Fr(lnch Africa : The Government l'."ds received a telegraphic despatch from General Beaugeae., dated Algiers, May 13, which, as it will be seen, is a ':.onfirmation of that which we gave on Tuesday, under the grate of Toulon 17th : The expeditionary corps re turned on th e 9th t o Blidah, having deposited a large convoy at iVsedeati, and another at Miliana. Several slight combats 'nave taken place. Ori the 3d it was attacked under Aliliana, by 9,000 foot and 10,000 horse. This small army was put completely to the rout, and left 400 dead on the field. On the 4th the whole of the enemy's cavalry was driven beyond the bridge over the Chelif-el-Kantara, which the French crossed. On the sth our cavalry beat at Beny-Zug-Zug, on the left bank, 4,000 horse, commanded by Abd-el-K a d er i n person. Four squadrons of his regular cavalry experienced considerable loss, having left 184 on the ground and nineteen prisoners. This victory delivered up to us the tribe of the Beny-Zug-Zug, who lost all their tents and moveables, part of their catt l e , an d eighty-two women, w ho h ave been breught to Algiers, where they are well treated. We had 140 wounded and. eighteen killed." French soldiers are unquestionably among the bravest in the world; but the immense dis proportion between their loss and that of the Arabs exceeds human credibility. In the above paragraph we have an account of three separate engagements, in two of which the Arabs lost 584 men, while the French are reported to have only eighteen killed. Be it remembered, too, that the Arabs are a brave race, and that they are fighting for their country and their religion. The non-recognition by England of the sovereignty of France over Algiers, begins to create much uneasiness in Paris. The Duke DE VALMY, Baron D'llAussEz, and Count DE GUERNON-RANVILLE, have pub lished declarations to the effect that the Mi nisters of CHARLES the Tenth never gave any pledge to England to evacuate Algiers. The first named of these personages insinuates, that as England always protested in the strongest manner against the occupation of Algiers, she would not have remained so long passive had not the revolutionary Government pledged itself to abandon it. Galignani's Messenger formally contradicts the report of a disagreement in the French Cabi net. The SouLr-GUIZOT Ministry is represented as unanimous upon every question, and as resolved to stand or fall together. The defeat of the English Ministers upon the Sugar question, is announced in all the Paris Papers of Thursday. It produced no effect upon the funds, as it was known that an appeal would be made to the country. Y The Toulonnais of the 16th inst. states, that a telegraphic despatch was received on the preceding day from Paris, direct ing the authorities to remove the ex-Caid Ben Aissa from the hulks to the fort of Lamalgue. This celebrated chief, sen tenced to twenty years hard labour, is not to undergo that pc.. nalty, amd the rich costume which was taken from him when he was lodged in the Bagne had been returned to him. The same Journal announces that the ships forming the new Levant squadron, under the orders of Rear-Admiral Lassuse, were to sail in the course of the ensuing week. These were the Inflexible, 90-gun ship, and Santi-Petri, 84, and the fri gates Minerve, Didon, and another expected from Brest. Admiral Roussein has suffered a confession to escape him in the Chamber of Peers, which is a fatal blow to the Ministry of M. Thiers. He said that the fleet was recalled to Toulon because it would have been imprudent to leave it on the coast of Syria, where the exasperation of the two fleets would have produced an inevitable collision. Thus, what M. Thiers and his friends has hitherto denied in the Chamber of Deputies is confessed in the Chamber of Peers. The fear of a collision •nade the warlike Ministry shrink. What reason can 111. Thiers have to reproach M. Guizot ? France has been mysti fied ; this is clear. The Ministry wanted the fortifications of Paris, the purchases of horses, and the twelve regiments of the Dukes of Orleans and Nemours.— Gazette de Ficace. The Editor of the Gazette de France having appealed from the sentence of the Court of Assize of the 30th April, con demning hint to a fine of 5,000 f„ received yesterday a new sum mons to appear before the Court of Assize on the 21st of May. M. Eugune Roch, a naturalist of Wurtemburg, who is settled at St. Louis, the capital of the State of that name, has lately made a very interesting discovery, of which the following account is given in a letter of the 16th of February from Boon ville, in the State of Missouri : " DI. Roch, being lately in the little town of Occola, on the Osage river, learnt that an ancient tradition, very generally spread among the native tribes, that there formerly existed a race of gigantic and terrible animals, which committed great ravages, but that at length they all . perished in a dreadful con test with each other, and were buried by the Great Spirit near a stream, now called Oschety. M. Roch caused search to be made in this place, and at the depth of about twenty feet he found two skeletons, one quite perfect, the other nearly so, of an animal of gigantic stature, and hitherto unknown. These skeletons are oetween sixteen and seventeen feet high, 34 feet long, and 8 wide. The Tibia are 4 feet long, and 40 inches in diameter. The upper jaw projects 15 inches below the lower jaw, and is armed with two tusks, each curved at the lower extremity ; the head including these two tusks weigh eleven hundred pounds. Al. loch has given them the name of Missourium, and has sent the skeletons to St. Louis, where he has a fine Aluseum of natural history. He intends to publish a detailed description of them.—Le Com- MITCe. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 21.—Our Cotton Market almost throughout the week has been very inanimate, the trade generally showing no disposition to purchase more than an immediate supply. Prices, notwithstanding, remain tolerably steady, which is the more remarkable, when we con sider the heaviness of the stock and the immense increase of it during these last few days. Brazil and Surat have been more in demand, at last week's quotations. 300 bales of Ame rican and 100 bales of Surat are taken on speculation, and 200 bales of American, 150 bales of Panams, and 950 hales of Surat for export. 1,200 bales sea placed are declared for public sale on Friday next. This a general holiday no business has been transacted at the Stock Exchange. The Thomas P. Cope, arrived at Liverpool, from Phila delphia, in lat. 44, lon. 52, fell in with a great quantity of ice, and was in it five days ; weather very thick and stormy from the southward. May 6, lat. 45, lon. 49, from eight A.M. to six r.af., passed a sail of square-rigged vessels standing to the westward; next day passed fourteen sail standing same way. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 21.—There IS rather more disposition to buy at low prices, although there is but very little doing. Manchester and Birmingham, 244 25*; Manchester and Leeds, 52 53, North Union, 83 84; Glasgow and Greenock, 29; Glasgow and Ayr, 37 38; Edin burgh and Glasgow, 38 39 ; Manchester and Sheffield, 7 8 ; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 10 18 9; Manchester and Salford, 91 10i. Owing to the state of political affairs, the various markets for commercial transactions were in an exceeding dull state. The exports have been of a very trivial nature, and the home trade was only sufficient to meet the actual wants, and large parcels of goods have been brought to public auction, and sold at reduced prices. The intelligence of unfavourable accoo:,'„ from the manufacturing districts, with the failure of . so . - .fie old standing firms i n th e Ci ty, has cause d moneycourse of the week, to become scarce, and iP. demand. The approaching elections will alsc! during the l w ,:calize every descrip. tion of beeiness, as well as the operp: few days th e t u - mo i l of electior Lions in the funds. In a will commence, which will decide the c as t o f t h e d i e. Consols .d ,cols opened t! ,is morning at the leaving off prices of yesterday, 89i . -, for the Account ; Money, 891 I, with °.,, no thing, doing a ' s yet ; Exchequer Bills 7 9 prem. ; Bank ... 2 prP_ Ln i um. o 6 169; I ndia Stock 250, 252; I n d ia Bonds, par., Stock l lr .5 the Foreign Market the prices are nominal, as yet. Spanish Active, 234 1 ; Deferred, 11a a ; Passive, 5a 1 ; Por tuguese, 331 34 ; Three per Cents., 24 ; Colombian, 22i i ; Mexican, 28 4 ; Brazilian, 67i 64 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 52i 1 ; Five per Cents., 99 1 / 2 100. SHARES. —Great Western, 24 28 1 / 2 prem. ; New, 131 14i prem. ; L ondon and Brighton, 4 31 dis. ; Blackwell, 7 6 dis; Birmingham 6870 prem. ; Southampton, 56 57 per share. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS, Paid. Per Share. Great Western .• ,,, 65 - .... Ditto New London a n d B r i ghton 50 46i f ... to London a n d Bl ackwell North Midl an d I'i:irk and N ort h Midland... s° 100 7 i 0 7 to JOINT STOCK BANKS. British North American ...••• •• .40 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MAI: 2 p, Ditto New, 1830 ... .... 97- , P'' 3 per Cent. Consols ...... Bank Stock..... ~, Three and Half Stock 97 Grand Canal St , - *„." ....... Ditto Reduced ... 86 per Cent. Debs. The British Fin— . 1 R al Canal Stock in the es* l -- ••'* ' " same state of inactivity as continue iu the . rr --usin either feature _us. 6 per cent the present hour. Next . the Markets worth noticing to oßritish Market, it is not ex '? Tuesday being settling day in the will take place until ~ .alcuvidua l . y part of the morning; pected that any business of consequence „ .fter the above *intl. morning' at S9l 90, for nave ,eerawe4 "I' ;' 'Corriiiis liaie• continued-during the u march the uidly . to arrest the Account, the opening price ; 9' 90 - Money, 8 , Exchequer there is not a tions. _ v clQvunineut in the way of lin- in tt F x ket there h as yet= only Ang quota , 9 Weigh ar Bills, 9 10 prem. ; Bank Stock nothing done. THE CRISIS. The storm thickens, the war waxes hot, and wrathful contentions in Parliament are taking the place of that dull, peaceful, wordy display which showed that the House was uninfluenced by the strong feelings which pervade the com munity. The Tories, we hear, have resolved to to oppose the Bill fur renewing the sugar duties. They mean tostop the supplies unless they—virtu ous high-minded patriots! are allowed to adminis ter the affairs of the country. Be it so. We desire nothing better. The country, tired of the present state.of wretchedness, without any'hope of relief, will hail the contest with delight. Worse it cannot well be; and by every agitation, it must throw off some of the feculent , matter, which scattered now through the maser impedes the healthy action of every We hope that the ToriPc. their courage 1- of the Spanish Active 2.11, 4; Russian, 1121; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 52i ; Five per Cents., 100. Money con tinues easy. The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon were much the same as last post-day, with the exception of Paris and Amster dam, which were a little more in request. In Shares little doing. Great Western, 93; ; New, 634 ; London and Brighton. 466 ; Midland Counties, 88i ; North Midland, 70i 69i ; York and North Midland, 70. Consols, Account, 891 90; Spanish, 23% 34. Not a bargain doing. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock ... 168 llndia Stock 3 per Cent Red. BB4 Ditto Bonds par 3 per Cent Cons 9O ; Ditto Old Annuiti es .. 34 per Cent Red 974 (Ditto New Annuities... N ew 34 per Cent 9Bll Ex. Bills, 1,000/....24d Bpm New 5 per Cent — Ditto 500/ ll pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small l3 pm Jan. 1860 ... 12 11-16 Bank Stock for Acct —.252 Oct. 1859 l2l India Stock for 0pg.... Jan. 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent - -Ditto, N ew Ditto — Brazilian 80nd5.... — Prussian, 5 per cent — Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent 1124 Chilian 6 per cent — Ditto, Nletallie . Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 23i ... ..... _ ' Ditto, Deferred Ditto, 1824 Danish, 3 per cent French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. , Greek, 18:0, 5 per cent. ;Exchange —f —c Mexican, 5 per cent.... !Frezirl, 3 per cent —f. --c . Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Butch, 24 per cent. ... 524 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. -_ Ditto, 5 per cent 100 SHARES D' Great WP Di Railway (65 paid) ... 934 , :,:to New Shares (50 p a id 634 '-.ondon and Bright on (50 p a id) 46h London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 184 London and South Western Ditto Tenths (14 paid) Midland Counties R a il wa y (100 pa id) .. ...... 884 North Midland Railway (100 paid) York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 70 FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL. BRUSSELS, MAY 20.—The average price of wheat last week was 18f. 7c., and that of rye 10f. 82c. per hectolitre. According to the second section of the sth article of the provisional regulations for the execution of Article IX. of the treaty of the 19th of April, 1839, relative to pilotage, merchant-ships with a less draught than 15 decimetres are not obliged to take pilot in the Scheldt. In order to enjoy this advantage, several cap tains leave Antwerp with little or no ballast, and as they drop down the river take in the quantity of sand which is wanting ; after having thus fraudulently increased their draught of water which would make a pilot neces sary, they endeavour to -pass Flushing in the night, and thus to evade likewise the pay men t o f the pilotage duty on leaving the river. The board of pilotage at Antwerp have received the strictest orders to check this abuse; the delinquents will be preseeated by virtue of the law of 26th March, 1818, which renders them liable to a fine of 10 to 100 florins, and from one to fourteen days' imprisonment, and they will have only to blame themselves for the delay which may arise from the prosecution to which they will ex pose themselves. GHENT, MAY 19.—Twelve workmen from our manu factories went on Monday to Ostende, where they are to embark for Mexico. We are assured that they have entered into an engagement for five years, and that a good livelihood is secured to them during the whole time of their engagement. FRANCFORT, MAY 17.—Baron Solomon Rothschild, of Vienna, has arrived here from Paris, where he has spent the greater part of the winter. He will set out in a few days for Vienna. It seems that there is no foundation for the report that the object of his visit to Paris re lated to a new loan for Austria. Mr. Rothschild brings the assurance that the general peace will not be inter rupted. France is going at length to quit the state of isolation in which it has been placed, and the treaty by which it will return to the general system of Europe is said to be signed.—Journal du Commerce d' Anvers, May 22. TURKISH FRONTIER, MAY 7.—We have still but indif ferent accounts of the insurrection in Bulgaria, which all agree in one point, that it has assumed a very serious character, and that it was entirely provoked by the savage brutality of the l‘lussulmans. The frightful excesses at Lesskoveza and liaminitza, which have already been no ticed, are confirmed from various quarters, and unhappily other Christian towns have been the scene of similar atrocities. The insurgents, however, are said to be in want of money, and more particularly of arms, powder, and lead. Most of them, it is said, are armed only with scythes, &c. _ - - VIENNA, MAY 13.—His Imperial Highness the Arch duke Palatine of Hungary and his consort are expected to-day at the Imperial Palace. The Princesses Amelia and Augusta of Saxony will leave Vienna on the 15th to re turn to Dresden. The Archduke Stephen will pass the summer at Milan, probably to make himself acquainted with the administration of the. kingdom of Italy. The absence of her Majesty the Empress will be longer than was expected, so that she will not return before the middle of next month. THE HAGUE, MAY 19.---The Utrecht Courant of to day gives a long account of the reception of his Majesty the King in that city. The Sections of the Second Chamber has been engaged for these two days in consi dering the answers of the Government respecting the modi fications made in the project of law containing regulations for the institution for lunatics and the manner of their being received or discharged from those asylums. To day the Chamber has to meet, and the Central Section, as we are assured, will make its report on the project of law .respecting lunatics, the discus s i ons on which will commence next week. We hear that many changes have been made by the Government in the project of law re lative to "appropriation for the public benefit, which have rendered it necessary to make an entirely new draught of that law. THE HAGUE, MAY 21.—His Majesty, the King, re turned in the evening of the 19th, from Utrecht. Monsignore Capaccini, Extraordinary Envoy from his Holiness the PoFe to the Court of the Netherlands, arrived here the dry b!fore yesterday. FLUSHING, MAY 18.—We learn that Rear-Admiral Arriens is to have the command of the squadron, on board of which his Royal Highness Prince Henry is to make a cruise in the North Sea. We learn from the Journal of the Duchy of Limburg, that his Majesty has definitvely organised and regulated the administration of the Protestant Churches in Lim burg. The Board of Admistration is composed of seven members. DUTCH FUNDS.-..A6IBTECDAM, MAY 41. Money. Bills. (etual Debt, 234 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Arnett Svndic,4)4 per cent My 91 Ditto, ditto, 354 per cent 75 Commercial Company, 4.4 per cent 194% 16514 Ditto (1335 and 1837)5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 97 ly 97 3 4 Exchange on London, One month l2 ON Twomonths 11 95 Dutch Papers, May 22. BELGIAN 11 UNDS—llausslx.o, MAY 21. Actual Debt, 251 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent...„.„„..„ ZOO Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 93 3 per Cent. .• (1 40) IOOX Loan of City,lB32, 4 per Cent.........„....„ Bl% Society of Commerce. 4 ly per Cent lOl Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent .. National Society. Exchange on London (short) Brussels Papers, May 21. Thirty.aeven• AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIsnna, MAY 11. Five per Cents. Metalliques Foot per Cents. lOl Three par Cents Bank Shares l6lO ...Allgemerne Zeitung. May 19 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— Banns, May 18. Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Scb., 4 per cent. lO4 103yi Prussian English Loan, 11130, 4 per cent 102 101% hitchange on Landon, three months 6 19% —Prussian State Gazette, May 19 . ANTI-CORN-LAW TEA PARTY.--There was a very numerous and spirit-stirring meeting in the Corn Exchange, on Thursday evening last, eight hundred ladies and gentlemen being present, including a number of Clergymen and Ministers of various denominations ; and many of the addresses were of the most deeply interesting character, and distinguished by great elo quence. We had prepared a report of the proceedings, the insertion of which We had been compelled by a pres sure of other matter to postpone to our Wednesday's number.—Manchester Guardian, THE CRISIS.—The die is cast. The Minis ters will not resign. They are still, and will long re main, the constitutional and confidential advisers of the Queen, who, with unexampled fortitude and courage, stands by her Ministers whilst they fight the battles of the people against the most greedy monopolists of any age or couw a y. The Government has nobly done its duty ; it is now for the people to perform theirs. There must be no surrender now—no compromise. The people must resolve either to assist the Government hi uphold ' ing their rights, or make up their minds to lose the most remote chance of further reforms for the amelioration of their condition, or a lessening of their intolerabl e burdens. The commercial code, Which deprives millions of labour and food, must be reformed ; or revolution, with all its horrors, will sweep over the nation I and the only party that can or will reform that code is that of the present Government, --Brighton Herald. We believe that the Anti-Corn-law meeting at Kendal is already producing excellent effects in the agri cultural districts. The Tories are pleased to sneer at the clergymen who felt it their duty to attend at that meeting, but it seems singular that it should not have ! struck some of them, that there must tisstitedly bd same most unrighteous and palpably unchristi an i n ju s ti ce in those laws which could bring together Clergymen of so many differing perstiasitinS unaniiiidtislY and cordially to condeniii these men, of whom it is said, if goy say it not of themselves, that they are more righteous than their neighbour,. will these men, even if they think the modification of the Corn-laws may bring some loss to themselves, hesitate to offer some sacrifice, in order to restore peace, and insure prosperity to the community ? It surely is but a very questionable religion which shall exclude such simple action of the simplest charity. lge it remembered, however, that we wholly Iletr j % anything but prosperity can follow on a dopting _ his line of poli c y which Ministers have, pointed out.— Kendal Mercury. GRAND ENTRANCE TO HYDE PARK.—NUM. hers of workman are busily employed in _taking down • t the spacious br ewer y rece ntly belonging Mes srs. S. Go ding, a t K n i g h ts b r id ge , p r eparatory to form ing the grand entrance into Hyde Park, on the site of which are, to be ere c t e d s pl en did foot and carriage entrance , 4ates, with a keeper's lodge, to be named Prince Al bert's Gat es . Su rve y-ors have also been taking plans for the erection of splendid mansions, the fronts of which - will be towards the park, extending fron , i , the new en trance nearly to-=Hyde Park .Corner. kh . e small old. . houses and - shops 'on that side,are spe edily to he re ;awed tor that purpose... COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen had a dinner party on Friday at Bucking ham Palace. The company included her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent, their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, the Duchess of Su therland, Lady Elizabeth Leveson Gower, Lady Anne Maria Dawson, Miltor .earl of •Li ver p oo l, S e li na Vi scountess Isaroness Spaeth, Earl of Morley, and Lord Cla rence Paget. The Band of the 2d Regiment of Life Guards was in attendance during dinner. Her Majesty had afterwards an evening party. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and attended by the Countess Brownlow and Enrl Howe, arrived at the Palace, Among the company were the Marchioness of Normanby, the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Lord Burghersh, Lady Barham, and the Hon. Misses Noel, Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor, and Mr. George Edward and the Hun. Mrs. Anson. The Band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards attended and assisted at the performance of Beethoven's. Battle Sinfonia. Her Majesty's Private Band was also in attendance in the Grand Saloon during the evening. The Duchess of Kent, attend e d by Lady A. M. Daw son, visited her Majesty and Prince Albert, on Saturday, and remained to lunch. The Judge Advocate-General had an audience of the Queen, and submitted to her Majesty the proceedings of some Courts-martial. The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the garden of Buckingham Palace on Saturday forenoon. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty on Saturday. The 'Band of the Scots Fusiliers attended at Bucking ham Palace on Thursday night. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, left Buckingham Palace at a quarter past three o'clock on Saturday after noon, in a carriage and four, escorted by a party of Hus • sars, for Claremont. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, with her attendants, followed in another carriage and four. The Royal Suite occupied two carriages and four, and consisted of Lady Portman, Baroness Lehzen, Baroness Spaeth, Lord Poltimore, Colonel Wemyss, Colonel Wylde, and Dr.• Prcetorius. Her Majesty and Prince Albert were conducted to their carriage by the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Master of the Household, and Captain Francis Seymour. Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner had the honour of joining the Royal Circle at Claremont at dinner, on Sa turday evening. Viscount 3felbourne arrived at Claremont yesterday afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty. Sir R. and Lady Gardiner had also the honour of joining the Royal dinner party at Claremont last evening. The Queen Dowager attended Divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday morning. The Hon. and Rev. Robert Eden preached the Sermon, from Acts, chap. ii , verse 33. The Rev. Messrs. Povah and Haden read the Service for the day. The Bishop of Norwich and the Dean of Hereford, the Clerk and Deputy-Clerk of the Closet, were in wait ing. Her Majesty's Suite consisted of the Viscountess Barrington, Hon. Miss Wheatley, and Earl Howe. The Duchess of Kent attended divine service yester day morning in the Chapel in Kensington Palace. Lady Anne Maria Dawson was in waiting on her Royal Highness. The Duke of Cambridge,. accompanied by the Prin cesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, and Prince George of Cambridge, went to Kew yesterday morning, and attended divine service in Kew Church. Colonel Jones was in waiting on the Royal Duke. Their Royal Highnesses returned to town in the afternoon. The Queen Dowager visited the Duchess of Kent yes terday at Clarence House, St. James's. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny How ard and Sir George Cowper, honoured the Italian Opera with her presence on Saturday evening. The Queen Dowager attended divine service yesterday afternoon in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Queen Dowa ger on Saturday at Marlborough House. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied, by the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, honoured the Duke of Wellington with their company at dinner last evening at Apsley House. Mrs. Stevenson, the Lady of the American Minister, was prevented from attending the birth-day Drawing room of her Majesty by a fall from her carriage, whic has confined her for the last two or three weeks to the house. We are gratified to hear that Mrs. Stevenson is now convalescent. Mr. Thornton, the Chairman of the Spanish and Por tuguese bondholders, transacted business at the Foreign. office on Saturday. The Earl of f]rrol, Lord Steward of her Majesty's Household, gave a State Dinner in celebration of her Majesty's Birthday, on Friday, at Grillon's Hotel, to the following party :—Viscount Acheson, Lord Gardner, Lord Rrabazon, Lord Hastings, Lord Marcus Hill, Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, Hon. C. Cavendish, Right Hon. George Stevens Byng, Sir Charles Napier, Mr. Standish, Mr. Massey Stanley, Mr. P. Stewart, Mr. R. Steuart, Sir Thomas Marrable, Mr. Shiffner, Mr. Row land Alston, Mr. Bannerman, Mr. J. Duff, Mr. Ricardo, Mr. T. Duncombe, and Lord Robert Grosvenor. Visoount Melbourne's State Dinner on Friday, in cele bration of the Queen's Birthday, included the following distinguished guests :—His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, the Dukes of Cleveland, Somerset, Devon shire, Sutherland, and Bedford ; Marquises of Anglesey and Westminster ; Earls of Zetland, Clarendon, Lich field, Rosebery, Spencer, and Fitzwilliam ; Lords Straf ford, Hatherton, Carington, Portman, Howden, Ducie, Dacre, Duncannon, and Barham, and the Hon. C. Howard. • A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign Office. It was attended by all the Ministers. The Council sat two hours, Mr. Ainsworth and Mr. Somers had an interview with the Marquis of Normanby on Saturday at the Home Office. Colonel Anson had an interview with the Noble Marquis. Mr. R. Steuart had an interview with Lord John Rus sell on Saturday at the Colonial Office. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Duke of Rutland and Lady Adeliza Manners, in Bolton street, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Verulam, at Gorhambury, Herts ; the Hon. R. Law, at Mivart's Hotel, Brook-street, from a tour ; the Hon. Stafford and Mrs. Jer ningham, at ditto, from the seat of Lord Stafford, in Norfolk ; Lady Shelley and Misses Shelley, at ditto, from Field-place, their seat in Sussex ; Mr. and Misses Holbeck, at at ditto, from their seat in Oxfordshire ; Lord and Lady Rodney, and Sir Charles Morgan, Bart. , in Pall-mall, from Arlesford House, Hants ; Sir John Beckett, in Strafford-place, from Brighton ; Lady Beresford, in Portland-place, from the Continent; Sir Fleetwood and Lady Pellew, in Grafton street, from Paris ; Lord and Lady Thomas Cecil, in Eaton place, from Burleigh House, near Stamford; the Earl of Stradbroke, from his seat in Suffolk ; the Marquis of Salis bury, in Arlington-•street, from Hatfield House ; the Countess of Beauchamp, in Portman-square, from Sussex ; Sir George Talbot, Bart., and Misses Talbot, at Mivart's Hotel, from Leamington Spa; Mr. A. S. Douglas, at ditto, from Has tings ; Mr. and Mrs. Severn, at ditto, from Wales ; Mr. R. Pulsford, at ditto, from a tour in the United States ; Captain Twinlow, at ditto, from a tour; Mrs. and Miss Vialls, at ditto, from a tour ; the Countess of Mountnorris, from a visit to Vis countess Valentia, at Brighten ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, in Grosvenor-square, from Burghley House, near Stamford, Lincolnshire ; Lord Walpole, in Grafton-street, from Paris ; Lord and Lady Do Saumarez, from Cheltenham ; Lord and Lady Rivers, in Belgrave-square, from Brighton ; the Right Hon. Lord Viscount and Viscountess Dillon, at the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-street ; Captain John Vivian and Lady, at ditto, from Hampton Court. DEPARTURES. The Earl of Yarborough, from Arlington-street, from Brockleshy, his seat in Lincolnshire ; Sir Franci s an d L a d y Lawley, from Grosvenor-square, for Br ighton; the Rev. Ver non Harcourt and family from Mivart's Hotel, for West Dean House, near Midhurst, Sussex ; Mr. G. O'Moore, from ditto, for his seat in Ireland ; Sir Thomas and Lady Whichcote, from ditto, for their seat in Lincolnshire ; Mr. J. Y. Burges, from ditto, for Lymington Spa; Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart, M.P., from the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-street, for his seat, Killerton, Exeter. CHANGES. Sir Wm. Ingilby, Bart., on a tour in Germany, from bis seat in Lincolnshire ; Viscount and Viscountess Haberton, at Malvern Wells, from Cheltenham; the Earl of Donoughmore, at Dublin, front Knocklofty House, Clonmell ; the Earl and Countess of Carnwarth, at Tonbridge-wells, from Brighton. LITERATURE. THE QUEEN'S POISONER-3 Vas.. Bentley, London, 1841. In this historical tale—which is the production. of Miss Costello—we have a spirited, and tolera bly accurate sketch, of the internal condition of France, during the last ball of the sixteenth cen tury, when the disputes between the Catholic and the Huguenot party were raging with the bitterest acrimony. The Queen-Mother, the un principled.Catherin'e de Medicis, of course figures prominently among the characters, and next in importance to her, is her crafty Florentine ad viser, Rene Bianco, from whom the story derives its name; for he was the chief agent in her nu merous acts of murder, generally taking off his victims by poison, as the least troublesome mode of getting rid of them. This character is the best sustained in the tale ; it is forcible, without being exaggerated, and satisfies us that the au thoress thoroughly understands the temper of the period of which she treats. Of the young King of Navarre—afterwards the famous Henry .the Fourth—we have but a few cursory glimpses, which we do not regret, for Miss Costello has not been so successful in her delineation of this dis tinguished personage, as might have been ex= pected. His character is so faintly pourtrayed, that we have some difficulty in making otit the lineaments. The story, generally speaking, is an' interesting one, though it is not very skilfu ly conducted ; and the details of the massacre of St. Bartholomew—that " bloodiest record" in the pages of French history—are given with singular boldness and ,energy. BOROUGH OF MARYLEBONE.—WC are authorised to state that Sir Benjamin Hall will again come forward as a candidate for the representation of this borough at the approaching dissolution. TEWKESBURY.—At a special meeting of the Council of this borough, held on Tuesday last, petitions to Parliament,, praying for the immediate adoption of the proposed Ministerial measures for an alteration of the Corn-laws and a reduction of the import duties, were unanimously agreed to,' and have since been forwarded for presentation.— Worcester Chronicle , ' -1•• We 'are requested to state, that Mr= g - utile did not dine with - the -Chineellor of the spcchequer, on the Queen's Birth-day, as stated in the - Court Circular, THE GENERAL ELECTION• (FROM A WORKING MAN.) MR. EDITOR,—The time has arrived when the working classes, to a man, should shake efr the lethargy which has taken possession of them: If ever the workin g men o f Gr ea t Britain and Ireland possessed the power of doing gp o d (which is unde n i a bl e ) th e y a t thi s moment Pos jd sess it to an eminent degree. Neither Whig. i° I Tory deny it, and the on ly que stion for cons'. e: ration appears to me to b e the m anner i ll who' they will exercise that p ower . .1. t° Now, Sir, I address myself exc lusive those of my own political cr ee d—Chartist' leaving Ireland enti re ly ou t o f th e ques tion, we' , knowing how that bra v e, p a t r i ot i c , and lonF e oppressed people will behave th emse lves. major part of England is entirely Charti st I can safely say the same of Scotland ; there ur pears no difference between the two cou ntries 4 political feeling; all who are Ch ar ti s ts are al'', guided by the one grand p r i nc ipl e , equ al righ t ` ' equal laws; ther e fbre, th e ac t o f! England be ; comes the act of Scotland ; the indiscretion of °° the indiscretion of the other. Each country, °,, `' e to the other, is answ e r a bl e f or any ev il that n 1 3 . 1,/ arise out of the intemperance of their politics leadership. That intemperanc e w ill be e%'!". bited ; that evils great and incalc u l a bl e will ar'' , from such conduct, I have more th an reason ,0 expect. The characters of certain leaders, both Inet r° ; politan and provincial, are too well k nown to tn . ,: and many more, ever t o ex p ec t any goo d fro nt their pretended exertions. They are all poo r men , (if h ones t, they 091,,1 be the better for th a t), most o f t h em un witi"' to work, while they can do better upon froto): exclamation, and hypocritical ju g gle; an d ; such, should b e narrowly watched; r but by - means too speedily judged. But to the substance of my story. of You may remember, Sir, and so will man; (4 1 your readers, that a few months back I warn s the Chartists against allying themselves `, L v i p • men whose conduct was anything but honourable', whose interests were diametrically oppose d es; like justice to the working-clas e ;' s and many whose prosperity in worldly inatter s ,„ deeply rooted in the oppression of the 100 ' 1, `; and which prosperity would melt into thin 81 0 , when justice found its balance. And these c u be ning declaimers are the parties who will, at tyre next election, lead the people into the quage l . l , it of folly, and will, by specious reasoning, P ° . l ,;(i out the way to redress their grievances, to,g . t o them, by every art th e y are masters "Rise up as one man," and tell their 4 , onPr'io sors" that "a people need but will it to be fr ee ; Oh, Mr. Editor, even half-h ones t men must d spise this base trickery--this usuring cajolerPor To the easy believing multitude they say Vet battles are to be fought at the elections.' true. But how, Sir, think you these self'l ° „ - ie fled surgeons of justice wou ld h ave the ne°l;,e, act? Why, at the c om i ng nom i nat i o ns 'di, the "Chartists," are to find Ch art ist . ...O n o dates, and, if possible, return them as lu e v e bers—easy work (1); but should we not 1 15 , 0 , a good chance of a majority; we are ro te no means whatever to allow a single ` t i l e in our interest to be given on the part Whig, rather sho u ld we return t h e Tory. .10(1 conduct will, y ou mus t perce i ve M r. Editor, in discomfiture of the p r i nc ipl es o f Chartisn ot i the elections over, a fresh agitation begin s ' ti ter on again go the paid d e l ega t es f or anot h e r calt n ,., through the count r y, ma ki ng the Nl'ol4°,l,o'o classes, not their horses, b u t j a d e d ass es / u ,',01 , whose fretted backs they rid e pl easan tly at Talk of the " paid bQggarman of Ireland!'' London, May 23, 1841. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE• WOOLWICH MAY 21.—The Dee steam-vessel, C ,. ° ;l mender J. Sherer, arrived at W o ol w i c h o n SO lI f " to' last, from the W es t I n di es , an d w ill b e pa id °- morrow (this day.) The Spitfire steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Comman der r o , ' l Tringham, is _e x p ec t e d t o l eave W oolw i ch to-0-' l , t 'ei (this day), for Po r t smou th, w h ere s h e w i ll b e paid Iva-, in advance, and a ft erwar d s proceed to the W es t ,„ for service on that station. o f ar THE TRAFALGAR.—This spl en did vesse l i s now 41 advanced, owing to the number of extra hands reli` employed upon her, that orders have been receiv e - r oe prepare for launching her o n S a t ur d a y, th e 10th of ,c o cep . next. Great numbers o f p ersons d a il y , w ith the tion of Sunday, visit this magnificent ship of 120 g 1 : 00 . and she now presents a beautiful appearance. as h er did, struction is elegant and pleasing to the eye, ru)twithstaa,,.ste her large dimensions, and reflects great cr e g d ig it an on tic ti:i b e : s i le o f f of the architect who designed her. A Nelson, the hero of Trafalgar, has been place d °li ffect• bow, and fr om it s magn it u d e h as an exce llent e th e To-day, being her Majesty's birthday, many °f of Greenwich pensioners h a d a holiday, and nu mber r s these brave veteran s v i s it e d W oo l w i c h to v i ew the fith-e falgar, and appeared to be in raptures while p a cing " 0 , deck of a vessel every way worthy of recalling the Ii ciations of their earlier years. Some of the young t s o ; who visited the vess e l a t th e same ti m e went out . tIP the bow, which extends upwards of 20 feet in fro! the vessel, and kissed with the greatest apparent del,!",1 1 an fervour the bust of the gallant Nelson, a name 4 c. l t ' t ` o f will yet, as occasion m a y require, rouse the siii.r l many a brave sailor in the hour when their serviet; 9 4 to required in behalf of their country. It is delightn: to , witness these feelings of attachment to the represo:o, ti or memorials or those who have so valiant l y t ained the honour of their native land. (From the Hampsh;re Telegraph.) of sic PORTSMOUTH, MAY 22.—The Reindeer brig? „fter guns, commanded by Lieut. Bisson, arrived th is % r ies noon from Chatham ; she has brought supernuo l v e o r i "ge, for the ships at Spith ea d, an d men f rom the who have volunteer e d f or th e Excellent. She In s e s e ti' men also for the Cornwallis, at Plymouth. Her nation is to lie as a g u ar d-ship a t Gib ra ltar. Th e tenant in command of this vessel is lent from the t he tiers, and the crew from other ships, who, as soon Eno Reindeer is navigated to Gibraltar, will return t°' land. dig Captain Boxer, of the Pique frigate, wh°slect of creet and judicious, as well as ga llant coricalon 0 Acre, fully deserves the appointment, is fixe d , cool' Commodore on the Jamaica Station, in the room modore Douglas, whose term of service has expire' a t° The Pelican, 16, Commander Napier, is er elere, ql l° Lisbon, to supply the place of th e Trinculo, or der ' be paid off at Plymouth. The schooner Fair Rosamond, destined for the , • t hor and African station, will be ready to proceed £lll about the 28th instant, bein g quite manned. rot' The Pelorus, 18, stranded in a gale of wind , ll' rv ice . Essington, has been got off, and rendered fit fo r se coo' Lieut. W.W. Chambers has been appointed Acting mander of her. t o t b e e It is pretty certain the Queen, 110, will be se nt Coalma n is - - Mediterranean, for the flag of the future - in-Chief of that station ; her place in this barb:A.lr be filled the St. Vincent, 12. her e The E b up y hrates, freight-ship, o is hourly . exPect e , 4 o ;o 6 to receive on board a detachment of the 35th Ken Cott" for the Mauritius. She will proceed from this to v e, to embark detachments of other corps for the ti Mauritius, and Ceylon. der • t• The Spitfire, steam-vessel, Lieutenant Cowman Tringham, was expected to leave Woolwich to -dm., this port, where she will be paid wages in advance i ; afterwards proceed to the West I n di es for servic e ° station. The Trafalgar, 120 guns, will be launched at , wich on Saturday, the 19th of July next. • e• In Harbour—Queen,Victory, Excellent, Dub lin ' George, Fair Rosamond, and Echo, steamer. fini stta' At Spithead—Monarch, Indus, Vernon, ret ie tiles, and Rapid. ft' a TneS l '! e The Ward-room officers of the Queen gav e h i, leavl"t; cent parting dinner to Captain Montague, °,nirge part' the command of that ship, on Thursday. - I ' l , - • ta ry g e " ' of the heads of departments and naval and 1 70 '• tlemen were invited to meet him. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. ,of the PROMOTlONS.—Lieutenaut W. W. Chambers Wellesley) to be Acting Commander of the PElONSirog APPOlNTMENTB.—Lieutenants—J. Clavell, to be er co Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Thomas ; E. R. Pg' h V n fl° the Excellent ; W. Need, to the Monarch ; ti" - Stariner, to the Pelican, vice Hay, sick. tor e ' Master—James Wood, to command the Tort Oi se 5 sh As ip. DP sisiant Surgeons—Dr. H. Richardson, and James Rae, to the'Quieen. Mates.—Samuel H. Derriman, Thomas E. Sande''' T. F. Arowaray, to the Dublin. 1114: Midshipmen--W, F. Lapidge, Thomas D. St B. S. Pickard, and Blackett, to the Queen Elliott, to the Dublin. Vol. Ist Edward. F. H. Holme, to the I ) oe , Naval Instructor—R. M. loskip, to the InTr e .gaor ds Gunner—W. :Smith, to the Tortoise ; W. ''" (late of Acorn) is promoted to the second clas s y ry, fe Second Engineer—Charles Hobb, to the Viet°, Ole Coast in the Wildfire. be O le Coast Guard—Lieut. W. H. Lloyd (1815), to Offieer. Royal Marines--The four vacant Adjutanc i l es vie n a te i; corps have been filled by the appointments a nants J. K. Wilson and G. C. Langley, to P0;t0401,,,i.iil Ilii.ision ; Lieutenant A. 1). Stranshatn, to I ,;,„i lcl oa t , ; and Lieutenant J . . H. Wright , Co °. Division ; and Lieutenant W. G. Mahon is ,P the Staff at Pembroke, vice Langley ; Capton_oo. ,„ and Lieutenants March and Hockings, to the nostsat,;, Royal Marines.—On Tuesday last, after 3 11'1 ° factory examination, the three follovving ' tlemen obtained Commissions in the Ce i rg- re cea7 Robert Boyle, 'son of the late Mr. Boyle, wi, v o rser d , died on the coast of Syria, when serving the Edinburgh ; J. H. Jolliffe, son of Captatso_ o f l a , R.M., of the Edinburgh ; and John Elliottl.,,tiesch,,,i late Captain Sir WM. Elliott, R.N. ; and on ll_ r xi wit :l l _, lc Messrs. C. H. Wilcox and Henry Spratt. w?re _ fr ort r ' o f and entered as Marine Cadets. It is vvortby, fair j and to the" credit of Mr. Neave, of Portsett,..otni`.e, it' these g , entlemen, 'Messrs. Boyle, Wilc o x were' educated atliis academy. _ , •,a# John Sealy, Esq. has been appointed 5°llCll Gelleya.l. of .440 41a44.0/ Pgbadou. ' . MORNING- EDITION THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1841 ORNIN G EDITION._ .. ^.--~ I