The Sun. — London, England, 1841-06-25 00:00:00

MORNING EDITiON_ NATIONAL MONUMENTS AND WORKS OF ART. The following are the names of the Members on the Committee : Mr. Hume Sir De Lacy Evans Mr. Goulburn Lord Granville Somerset Mr. Ewart Mr. E. J. Stanley Mr. Mackinnon Mr. Henry Thomas Hope Mr. Gaily Knight Mr. Slaney Mr. Thomas Duncombe Colonel Salwey Mr. Broadwood Mr. Milnes The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the pre sent state of the " National Monuments and Works of Art in Westminster Abbey, in St. Paul's Cathedral, and in other Public Edifices ; to consider the best means for their Protection, and for affording facilities to the public for their inspection, as a means of moral and intellectual improvement of the people ; and who were empowered to report the minutes of the evidence taken before them to the House ;"—have considered the matters to them referred, and have agreed to a Report, of which the following is an abstract : Your Committee, in proceeding to fulfil the duty com mitted to them by the House, have thought it advisable, in the first instance, to ascertain what facilities had lat terly been afforded to the free admission of the public to the several public institutions in the metropolis and the neighbourhood, and the effects which have resulted from them, have proceeded in the inquiry entrusted to them, and made considerable progress ; and, although prevented by the unexpected termination of the Session from completing their investigation, your Committee are desirous to lay before the House the evidence they have taken, and the Report thereon agreed to, referring gene rally to the evidence taken with respect to each Institu tion. BRITISH MUSEUM. At the British Museum, not.vithstandite the fears of some of the principal oalcers, expre ,sed oeiore the S-,- lect Committee, in lils-6, the great. experiment 6 11 , 8 been made of admitting the puidic on the annual 'holi days ; and the result has been very satisfactory. It ;ap pears from Sir Henry Ellis's evidence, that from. 16,000 to upwards of 32,00 0 persons have passed W roug h th e rooms of that Institution in one day witb.- ±,ut any acci dent or mischief ; and, it is gratifv;- 1 g to report, that in the course of the three - fOur years that this liberal system has contintt.' not a single case has re quired the interference_ o f the police, although the dis placement from old, and the re-arrangement of the collections in, the new rooms, consequent to the re building oe, the premises, have been very unfavourable to the eree passage of large numbers of visitors. The exclusion of children under eight years of age, though gander the care of their parents, has caused consider able inconvenience and disappointment., and prevented many persons from visiting the Museum ; and that exclusion is more complained of, as children are ad mitted to Hampton Court Palace and to the National Gallery without any inconvenience. The days open to the public are Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, from ten to five in winter, and until seven in summer ; and on Tuesdays and Thursdays the museum is visited by parties on private admission ;—it may be a question whether granting One or both of those clays to the public would, in any great degree, increase the trouble to the attendants, whilst, it would be a great convenience and advantage to the public, especially in avoiding the disappointment of visitors from the country. It is alsoa matter worthy of the consideration of the Trustees, whe ther there be any necessity to require visitors, when they proceed in parties to write their names in a book, whilst entering separately, they are not required so to do. Delay is the consequence of that rule, and no advantage whatever seems to be derived from it. Your Committee consider that it is most desirable that all obstables should be removed consistently with the safety of the collection. The evidence of Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Gray points out the want of that convenience for visitors which your Committee think ought to be afforded ; and they trust that it will be only necessary to call the atten tion of the Trustees to that subject. Your Committee call attention to the small number of visitors who enter the Museum between the hours of six and seven o'clock, and how far it may be advisable, consistent with public convenience; to close the admission at six o'clock. THE NATIONAL GALLERY Affords a 'still more gratifying- instance of success from, free arimission. The public are admitted on four days a Weik ; viz., Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, from ten o'clock to five in winter, and to :six in ammer ; and men, women, and children are ad mitted. without distinction. If Friday and Saturday be realty required for the convenience of students, the Only additional time that could be afforded would be on Sunday, after the time of Divine Service. The number of visitors has increased from 125,000 in 1837, to 397,649, in. 1838, and in 1840 to upwards of 500,000. The greatest propriety has been observed in the de meanor of the visitors, and no instance of misconduct requiring the interference of the> police authority, has occurred. Children of every age hare been admitted, with or wii lout their parents ; and not one accident has occur 1, or any inconvenience been experienced. It appear.; that the ro;mis in that Institution require ventilation ; and your Committee consider it only ne cessary to • call the attention of the House to the Evi dence of 11 r. Wildsmith on that subject. TOWER. Amongst the officers of the Tower of London some doubts exist ,ea, and reluctance was manifested to allow the admissic as. of the public at the low charge of 6d. each; but the ir , st satisfactory proofs of the error of these doubts has as been afforded by the trial made. The beha viour of tl ie public generally has given satisfaction to all parties. ' antrial•number of visitors to the Armoury has risen t 1-om 11%200 in 1837, at 2s. fee each, to 40,000 in 1838, at ; Is.--to 84,000, in 1839, at 6d. ; and, in 1840, to 94,973, e7.ciusive of 3,184 by orders from the officers, producing 2,3741. at 6d. each. Official orders for free admission have now ceased. Your C or imittee are pleased to find that a desire for improving: and increasing the collection of ancient ar moury at ti le Tower has been manifested since the great accession t.f visitors and the excitement of public in terest; ar, •d it is hoped that a more complete and his torical ar r ingement will soon be adopted. The sum of 1,0941. of t he receipts has been, in the last year, applied by the iVia; iter-General of the Ordnance to the purchase of ancient armour, arms, shields, &c., adding, thereby., greatly to the value of the collection. By the rules laid down by t he Constable of the Tower, it is required that the visito n ;, after paying for their tickets at the entrance gate, on ti he west side of the Tower, shall assemble in a room app Propriated for that purpose adjoining the Ar moury, a n d there they are sometimes detained a consider able time I usstil a warder can accompany them. The time allowed to the visitors to examine the whole of the Ar moury foes not exceed one hour, and often a less time is allow ed by the warder on the circuit he makes. Your Commi itee desire to observe that at Hampton Court Palace a id the National Gallery visitors are allowed to enter wi' ;limit any delay or impediment whatsoever ; and at the 1 3ritish Museum also, with the exception of the time tals :en to write the name of one visitor in every party, t he public are allowed to remain as long as they please to view the collection, and seats are also provided in the. Museum and National Gallery for visitors ; and no inconvenience has been found to arise from that in slul';,ence. Your Committee desire to call the attention of the House to the evidence of Mr. Buss, an artist, who expresses a strong opinion of the inconvenience of the present hurried mode of exhibiting the Armoury ; and Itteee evidence of Mr. Gilborne, one of the warders, as to the deficiency of the number of warders for the efficient service under the present system, deserves attention. THE CROWN JEWELS IN THE TOWER. The j ewels are under the charge of her Majesty's Lord Chamborlain, and the keeper receives his orders from hi m . The exhibition of them, at a charge of 2s. each person, with Is. fee to the warder accompanying the party, had been long continued. By returns before the Committee, it appears that in the years 1835, 1836, and 1837, the numbers of visitors to the Jewel-house was between 6,000 and 7,000 in each year, producing, at the fees stated, a gross amo unt of from 655 /. to 692 C ' yearly ; whilst in the year 1838, when the admission to the Armoury was reduced on the Ist of May in that year to ls. each, the number of visitors to the Jewel-house in creased to 18,561, and the fees received amounted to 1,594/. 12s. Since the Ist January, 1841, an arrange - meet has been made by w hich Mr. Swift, the kee per7i; to receive a yearly salary, paid out of the fees ; and the public have been admitted sincethathte fordlavaterde the aetr.6di Co il l ! be be without any additional charge for be seen by the return (see AppeApp endix) mittee, that 8,115 persons have vi sited the Jewel-house a greater number in the month of April alone ; being than had visited it in either of the years 1835, 1836, or 1837. It is gratifying to your Committee to state to the House, that the Lords of her Majesty's Treasury have erected a new house in the Tower, well suited for the purpose of keeping and of exhibiting the Crown jewels the whole expense of which is to be defrayed out of the money received from visitors ; and the change thus effected will afford great facility and satisfaction. HAMPTON-COURT PALACE. This buildins , consists of 29 rooms, with its collect ion of painting s , has been generously and liberally thrown open, by her Majesty's command, without charge or any restriction of numbers, for five days of the week, from ten to four o'clock in the winter, and to six o'clock in the summer, and on Sundays after two o'clock. The num ber of visitors has also greatly increased, and the pro priety of their demeanour has fully warranted this ac comodation. It is pleasing also to observe that those attendants, who formerly- received fees for admittance, express as much satisfaction at the change of system as the public do, whe paid them formerly, not, nefrequently with reluctance and complaint. To th better feeling now produced must be ascribed the ;enc.; of any in jury to the pictures, such as is mentioned by 31r.GrumlY, the keeper of the pictures, to have taken place a short tine before the free system was established. The number of visitors to the Palace in 1839 was 116,000, and in 1840, 122,339, mostly of the working classes. The admission of the public on Sunday afternoons, some times to the number of 3,000 persons, and their exem plary conduct in the palace and gardens, is a peculiar and important feature. The state of the apartments—of the turf, and of the unfenced flower beds in the garden, where such numbers spread about at will, is certainly a strong proof of the good disposition and improved con duct of the crowds which frequent it, and requires no other comment than a reference to the very small esta blishment of attendants. There is a notice put• up in the garden in the following words :—" What is intended for public enjoyment the public are expected to protect;" and your Committee again call the attention of the House to the satisfactory result of placing confidence in the people. GREENICH HOSITAL. The attention of our Committee P has been directed to the Painted-hall and Ch a p e l of Greenwich Hospital, which are exhibited the on week-days from seven i n after one o'cl morningoc , k to sunset, and on S un d ay afternoons to the public, on payment of 3d. by each perso n f or admission to each place. The Painted hall, decorated by Sir J. Thoraliill, contains a collection of paintings consisting of representations of naval ac tions, and portraits of Admirals and ftt 4l 4l some sculpture, and other objects, interesting to the public, and chiefly to persons in the naval service. Soldiers have been admitted to see the Hall free of charge for many years ; and, since the Committee began their inquiry, the Lieutenant-Governor, by order dated 7th May, 1841, has directed that seamen ~hall also in future be admitted free of charge,—a mea sure which your Committee highly approve of, The be haviour of the visitors is praised by the attendants, The annual number of visitors to the Painted-hall is on an average about 100,000, and produces about 1,3001. a-year. The money received for admission of visitors is applied to the general funds of the hospital. Consider ing that all the pictures contained in the Painted-hall are the free gift of individuals, foreign as Well as British, and that they contribute to illustrate the naval history of the country, and to perpetuate the momory of those dis tin g uished officers who have been thought worthy of a place in this collection, your Committee strongly re commend that, for the gratification and instruction of the people, the Painted-hall should be opened to the public for some hours every day, free of charge, in the same manner as the National Gallery and Hampton Court Palace, under such regulations as may be re quisite. - As it appears from the evidence that the admission of the public to the apartments, galleries, and gardens at Hampton Court, an d a l so th e Painted-hall at Green wich, on Sunday afternoon, is not attended with any in convenience or impropriety, the evidence of several witnesses tends to show that much advantage would be derived from similar opportunities being afforded, under proper regulations, at the British Museum and the 14.- tional G..itery, with beneficial results ; and your Com mittee, concur in that opinion. ifrom the above detail, it appears to your Committee that the use which has been made of the facilities Vans afforded to the public, sufficiently proves the general disposition of the people to appreciate exhibitions of this nature, and to avail themselves of these means of in struction and innocent recreation. It affords, further, the most satisfactory evidence of the safety with which works of art and other objects of curiosity may be thrown open to public inspection:_ CATALOGUES. Your Committee refer to the evidence concerning ca talogues, and are of opinion that, where the collections will allow it, cheap catalogues, divided into distinct por tions for each class or department, should be provided at our national collections, as a valuable mode of dissemi nating knowledge, and rendering those collections more generally useful. It is also recommended, that a small tablet should be attached to each object in the collection, containing the name or subject ; and also, to works of art, .the artist's name and the date. CATHEDRALS AND PUBLIC MONUMENTS. Tour Committee do not apprehend that any danger to the monuments in Westminster Abbey or SL Paul's would result from giving to the public, under proper re gulations, the same freedom of admission to those cathe drals which is allowed in the case of the exhibitions referred to. The Committee are aware that serious injury has in times past been done to the monuments in Westminster Abbey, but their inquiries lead them to believe that those injuries have not been the result of any want of attention on the part of those who have ordinarily charge of the cathedral, still less of a mis chievous disposition on the part of the people at large, but have, for the most part, arisen from the necessity of erecting on certain public occasions galleries and rooms within the Abbey. and from want of due care or of power on the part of those engaged in the conduct of such extensive works, within a limited space, to protect so many objects of art from injury. That your Committee strongly deprecate any course which could create an impression that churches were at any time to be considered merely in the light of . places for the exhibition of works of art. But it is their opi nion, that as by increased facilities of admission to the inspection of mere works of art, civilisation has been encouraged and public taste improved, so a more free admission to religious edifices, under proper regulation, may be made conducive not merely to the gratification of curiosity and the acquirement of historical knowledge, but to the growth and progress of religious impressions, by leading the mind of the spectator from the contem plation of the building to a consideration of the - views with which, and the purposes for which, it vas originally erected and is still maintained. Your Committee beg to refer to the evidence of John Britton, the toil-known author of " British Cathedrals,"_ for forty-five years, has devoted his talehts to the study of our national edi fif;es and Monuments, as showing the improvement of the people, thrOugh the increased opportunities afforded them of studying those subjects, and the confi dence which of late years has been placed in their dis cretion; his long and extensive experience in these mat ters have led him to the following conclusions : What is the result of your observations upon the con duct of the public generally in public places since you were in the habit of 'visiting them?—onsiderably im proved, immensely improved ; you would scarcely sup pose it ; supposinc , I had been from my own country, at a distant part of the world, for the last fifty years, I should not have supposed it the same nation or class of people. Have you not seen the number so great as to be de nominated " mob," but yet conducting themselves with perfect decorum ?—I have seen them crowding through the British Museum in immense masses, and have seen them in all instances orderly; nothing has occurred, in my own experience, to the contrary; but I have seen them conduct themselves tvith strict propriety and with laudable curiosity, and to be moving on in their re searches through the various rooms. What effects arc produced on the minds of the poorer classes, in your opinion, from the experience that you have had in meeting them in those (ecclesiastical) edi fices?—l have noticed, upon many occasions, a great number and variety of persons of the middling and lower classes visiting cathedrals, examining diTerentparts of them, examining the monuments, passing through with great order and decorum, and apparently going away highly satisfied and delighted; and the only draw back that I have seen or known upon such occasions, has been the conduct and rather heavy charges de manded by the vergers and their servants. Your Committee also refer to the evidence of Mr. Allan Cunningham, the author of the " Lives of British Artists," and other works of general interest, on the im portance of public exhibitions; and the beneficial effects on the minds and minners of the workinc , classes : You think that frequent access to sculpture and other works of art is the best means of making the public care ful of them?—Decidedly; I think that question is solved by the National Gallery being opened; you see a great number of poor mechanics there, sitting wondering and marvelling over those fine works, and having no other feeling but that of pleasure or astonishment; they have no notion of destroying them; I was very much de lighted to see them. Then it is your opinion that facility should be afforded by every possible means to collections of sculpture and painting?—Unquestionably, under proper protection. What class of people do you say you have seen there? Men who are usually called " mob;" but they cease to become mob when they get a taste. You think that now they are more attentive? Deci dedly; I saw no attempt to hurt anything; I saw a great deal of wonder and pleasure; there were what appeared to me to be shoemakers, masons, and joiners. Do you consider that there would be any danger to the monuments in Westminster Abbey if the public were admitted two or three hours a day, there being proper attendants in waiting to observe and look after their con duct ?—I think, under proper restrictions and regula tions, with a sensible and able and active man to take care of them, a man of sense and taste, that there would be no danger. The evidence of Mr. Edward Wedlake Brayley, the historian of Westminster Abbey, is also deserving of at tentive consideration. He expresses a strong opinion, that Westminster Abbey and other religious edifices, and the monuments of national interest which they contain, ought to be freely seen by all classes, with as little impe diment and restriction as their safety requires; and states, in the following answers, what the advantages to the public would be. Is it your opinion that they ought to be freely seen by all classes, with as little impediment and restriction as their safety requires ?—Certainly, it is my opinion that it would be useful in many points. Will. ou state to the Committee the advantages that occur to you as likely to arise from their being freely seen?—That of causing an improved taste for art, gene rally, in the public; also, of conveying historical inf,Jr naation to those who, from the mere sight of them, might be i n d uce d to make inquiry as to their origin and intention. Several of the witnesses are of opinion that free admis sion,ger of injury to r regulations, tends to diminish the dan under In your visits tii.ilasth Bray leg's opini o ol ln . onuments and collections; and Mr. the clear Abbey,upon that hav e y ou far opportunitiesobserved how as they have v i lb en een afforded to individuals, ad mittedand to parties moving upon the payment of money, inclination to pilfer any about with a guide, if there was an Z t e s of th e t om b s ?—C er t a i n ly, there have been eonsid e par ties of ten or twelve persons movingepportunities; because another cannot be overlooked from one chapel to were disposed to pilfer; and even th e supposing they monument would conceal them from •si trrference of the Do you think that if a greater numb e r were were admitted to those monuments, there would be better protecti on their being overlooked one by another?—l Should think by it would be so; still I have not seen any disposition in any pert of the public to cause destruction to any of the mo numents. Your Committee have inquired into the state of the mon uments in the Cathedral of St. Paul's and in West minster Abbey; and beg to refer generally to the evi dence ther3on, which shows how desirable it would be that means should 133 adopted for preserving and repair ing, if necessary, those national monuments. The public monuments in Westminster Abbey may be divided into several classes; viz., royal monuments, monuments to noble and disting uished personages, some of which have been erected by Votes of Parliament; also monuments to public men by subscription, and monuments to private individuals. But your Committee have not had time to follow out the investigation of that subject to the extent they could have wished, or which its importance would have required. Your Committee are of opinion, that increased atten tion.should be paid to the preservation of the ecclesias tical edifices, and of the Royal and other monuments contained therein; and they e ntertain a hope that ar rangements may be made by the Cathedral authorities to allow the larger portions of Westminster Abbey, and St. Paul's and other Cathedrals throughout the country, to be open freely to the public daily, and especially on Sundays, reconciling such free admission with the due . and - undisturbed performance of religious services, though it • may be required to continue a small reduced fee, or other sufficient. restriction, in re and to the chapels, and s.naller.or _ moraintricate.portion' s of those edifices. .. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1541. Your Committee think it right to add, that if the greater freedom of admission to those churches should lead, as it probably must, to an increase of the number of officers employed in their superintendence, the addi tional expense ought to be defrayed from other funds than those belonging to the Cathedrals. 16th June, 1841. MPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. CHRONICLE.—The object of the Tory press in the extravagant fictions which they so industriously circulate about the prospects of Conservative gain at the coming elections 16 apparent enough. They hope to catch a few stray votes among those whose maxim it is to swim with the stream, and swell the strongest side. It is just as easy to claim a majority of 50 or 100, as to tell the truth especially as the lie may do sonig good, and can do no great harm if detected. As a specimen of th• - sort of in formation which the Times is in the habit of getting up, we may refer to the list of candidates which it published a few days ago, by way of demonstrating, as an indis putable fact, that the Tories could not gain less than 20 or 30, and would probably gain 80 or 100. What the number of candidates, without reference to the pro babilities of success or failure, has to do with the ques tion is not very easy to discover. However, if we are to take this test, at least we have a right to expect that the list should be an accurate one. What the list of the Times is may be judged of by the following specimens:— NEW TORY CANDIDATES SAID TO BE COMING FOR WARD, ACCORDING TO THE STATEMENT OF THE "TIMES," BUT NOT ACCORDING TO FACT. Armagh County Fox, C. Bradford Hardy, G. Cornwall, E Fortescue, G. Derby, N Arkwright Durham, S Dunfrannon Lord Galway City Daly - , J. G lasgow Monteith Greenwich Cochrane, Sir T. Hereford County Baskerville Hertford Farquhar, Sir M. Kerry County Bentinck, G. Londonderry Hamilton, Sir J. Middlesex Sir H. Seymour, Pownall, G. Monmouth Rolle Newcastle-upon-Tyne Chapman Oldham Wilkins, G., Braidly, B. Paisley Speirs Penryn Beresford, Sir J. Sandwich Douglas, Sir J. St. Alban's Manners, Lord J. Lee, E. (if true, must St. lye's Tory). Stockport Lloyd, J. H. Stroud Jones, 1). Taunton Hall (Qu. ?) . Tipperary Pennefather. • Tower Hamlets Hanmer, Sir J. Tralee Bateman (Qu. ?) Westminster Cotton, Sir W. Wexford, County Loftus, Lord Wilts, S. 5 East, J. B. (hard upon J. Bennett, if true.) Worcester Robinson, G. TORIES RETIRING, NOT NOTICED IN THE 46 TIMES" STATEMENT. Bridgewater Courtenay, P. Cirencester Cripps, J. Cricklade Goddard, A. Cumberland, W Irton, J. Derbyshire, S Crewe, Sir G., Hurt, J. Harwich Herries, J. C. Hereford Burr, D. H. (Qu. ?) Renfrew Houstoun, G. WHIGS nrrEnING, ACCORDING TO THE STATEMENT OF THE 44 TIMES," BUT NOT ACCORDING TO FACT. Bolton Ainsworth, P. Armagh Acheson, Lord Blackburn ... Turner, W. Cardigan Pryse Pryse Carlow Yates, J. A. • Cork City O'Callaghan, D. Cork County Barry, G. S. Gloucester City Phillpott, J. Guilittbrd Wall, Baring • Hereford County Hoskins, K. v • Longford White, Luke The Standard has discovered another equally inge nious method of proving that Ministers anticipate de feat. " It is plainly shown," it says, " in the hurried movement of many of the Ministers themselves from their vanishing offices in Downing-street, to more permanent situations in the colonies and elsewhere." Perhaps in ' its next article the Standard will have the goodness to name a few of the " permanent situations" into which any Members of the Government have so opportunely subsided. We were not aware that the salaries of Mr. Stanley, Sir George Grey, Mr. More O'Ferrall, or Mr. Shell, were at all more " permanent " in the situations they have accepted, than in those which they recently filled. The only other change we have heard of is that of Mr. Le Marchant, who, instead of accepting has aban doned a " permanent situation" of 1,5001. a year at the Board of Trade, in order to accept the Secreta ryship of the Treasury, an office which, according to the Tory statements, is not worth six weeks' purchase. Does this look like anticipating defeat at the elections ? The fact is, as the Tories well know, though they think it more prudent to conceal it, the prospects of the Liberal cause are exceedingly good. The calcu lated gains of the Tories, when closely examined, turn out to be something of the same sort as their antici pated victories in the City and Marylebone, which every body on the spot knows to be mere delusions. It is a matter almost of moral certainty that at the ensuing election not one single Tory will be returned for any dis trict of the metropolis. At Manchester, Glasgow, Edin burgh, Dublin, Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield, Wolver hampton, and with scarcely a single exception, all the principal eitits and great manufacturing towns and dis tricts of the kingdom, the success of the Liberal cause is quite secure. Against the few losses in the counties, which are already in a great measure .known and allowed for, perhaps the Committee of the Carlton Club will tell us what in their own private and confidential calculations they think of their chances of loss or gain in the follow ing places :—Bath, Belfast, Berwick, Blackburn, Bolton, Bridgewater, Brighton, Bury, Caithness, Cambridge, Canterbury, Carlow (County), Carnarvon 'Boroughs, Cricklade, South Derbyshire, Falmouth, Flintshire, Glou cester, Greenwich, Harwich, Helston Hereford, Hull, igkwich, Kerry, Kilmarnock, Kinsale, Lanarkshire, South ',44o.MNthire, Lancaster, Leominster, Lewes, Liverpool, kmicieyrebone, Middlesex, Newry, Norwich, Nottingham, Preston, Radnorshire, Renfrewshire, Rye, Shoreham, Shrewsbury, Southampton, South Shields, Stockport, Stoke, " Tewkesbury, Totnes, Wakefield, Wareham, Warrington, Weymouth, Winchester, and Wigtown shire. The same authority could, if it pleased, " a tale unfold" very different from that of the correspondent of the Times as to the prospetts of the Conservative candi dates who lead the forlorn hope in the City, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, the West Riding of Yorkshire, Dublin, Bradford, Salford, Halifax, Cheltenham, Nor thampton, Taunton, anti other places now in the posses sion of the Liberals. One anausing specimen of the con fidence of the Tories in the popularity of their cause, is furnished by the numerous tlittings to and fro of their Members among the smaller boroughs, where money is reported to have no ineongiderahle influence in carrying the day. Messrs. D'lsraeli and Fector run from Maid stone, Messrs. Tomline and Bailey from Sudbury, Mr. W. Holmes resigns his pretensions to represent Berwick, Mr. Courtenay does the 891nt at tridgewater, Mr. Herries at Harwich. Is it that these diAthigtiitihed gefitidifitti intend to retire into private life that they abandon seats which, if previous elections afforded any test of the fair, unbi assed, unbought suffrages of the electors, .ottg W ht to be se cure ? By no manner of means. e find them all, or nearly all, setting up for other places, where , they will have to stand doubtful contests. How, then, is the phe nomenon to be accounted for ? People do not usually abandon certain for uncertain seats without a reason The reason is simply this. Conservative popularity de pends either on cash or credit. When the seat has been obtained, as is commonly the case, partly by payment, and partly by promises to pay, those promises must be kept, or at the next election the representative whose return was celebrated as a signal instance of the triumph of Conservative principles must make way for some new man, who enjoys the reputation of being likely to bleed freely. Whether by such manceuvres as these the Tories are likely to get the seats which, to use a technical phrase, are in the market, once more upon credit, as they did at the last general election, remains to be seen. But even if they do, the Reformers have, as we have already shown, ample means in their hands of beating them over and over again, and returning a triumphant majority at the ensuing electi3n, by the exercise of a moderate de gree of energy and resolution. TIMES.—It is highly important thttt now, when the constituencies of the United Kingdom are about to de cide betwen the claiM4 to confidence of ,the present Mi nisters and of their opponents, the amount of misgovern ment amd maladministration which has tlitrll pike un der keiur Whiz rulers should be plainly stated and clearly understood. Lord Staelq't expression, that they have " crippled the energies of the country at home and abroad,". falls far short of the real truth. When they retire from the offices which they have so unworthily filled, they will bequeath to thew 811CeeS6t3r3 the most unexampled complication of difficulties which brave and virtuous statesmen were aver called upon to surmount. There is nothing which their presumptuous incapacity has not meddled with ; and " nihil tetigitquod non foeda vit." Even where they have begun wisely they have ended ill ; while in most cases they have done nothing but evil from the beginning. Were it . not for the pros pect of absolute ruin which - might follow from leaving to such men the task of extricating the British nation from the embarrassments in which they have involved it, a patriot might be excused if he declined the for midable lr on responsibilities po ch nsibilities of Government in so serious and • critical a position of affairs. POST. —The utter selfishness and worthlessness of the p_reesent Ministerial party are particularly manifested in prorogationthey disrespect are a t e t y o iftnhge Parliament. to m expense ake of f f sutthhce e h Royal Speech s to the Royal na me an d dignity, and so m ean a desire to serve themselves Sove reign's good understanding with the people, were never before • - isplay ed by a party pretending to the i ossesson of the Roy a l con fi dence. If such confidence b pos sessed by th e Whi g Radical party, it is most e ssly abused. It i s a b used with an amount of treacherya n d grossly ingratitude, of w hi ch, thank God, any thoroughlyE nelish party would be ashamed. But the Rues O'Con nell party is not a thoroughly English 1 and party. It is a party which in P arliamenthas depended up on the tactics of Irish Romanism, and which now dares out of Parliam ent, what may be done byonettoaa pt which tttem pecu liar description o f l oyalty for h Irish Romanism is sufficiently n o t or i ous. The Ministers having been al lowed to suggest a spee c h to the Throne, in which, with their accustomed modesty, their new policy is highly commended to th e people, they next attempt to induce the people to give ear to the recommendation by quoting their suggested sentiments as the personal views and opinions of her Majesty the Queen ! Well knowing that themselves and their policy are equally unpo,' ler, they do not hesitate to bring forward her Majesty as personally identified with them-and their- policy, arid 1-0 eL , L , "‘ e4q)pse theii• toe indulgent rai.-,t ress to that unpopularity which they ought to shield her fr9lAl, 5 i l M 3 447 *lle are toil° - ca use of it We .cau. not imagine any thing more mean, ungrateful, and dis lbyal. Their leading journal actually ventures to re present her Majesty and her Majesty's people as if in a position of conflict, and td take the part, as it were, of , her Majesty against the people. Was there ever beheld such disloyal and 'disrespectful effrontery 7 We must quote, though we do it with pain, one short passage of the disloyal diatribe to which we refer:— " Shall it be said of the people of these kingdoms that their Queen thought too favourably of them ?—that she relied on a worthless and degraded people, who did not second her generous intentions ?" Thus, by implication, does the leading journal of the Ministerial party try to make it appear, that if the people happen to be of a different opinion upon the Ministerial policy from that which Ministers themselves put into the Queen's speech, their Sove reign will deem that she has thought too favourably of them, and that she had placed her reliance on a worth less and degraded people ! Did gross selfishness and base disloyalty ever go beyond this ? We think not ; and we call upon all honest English electors, by that de voted respect and loyalty which each of them bears to their Sovereign, to come forward for the punishment of these dastards who, for the furtherance of their own sel fish ends, so insultingly misrepresent her Majesty's feelings towards her faithful subjects. It is the duty of every man who wishes to free her. Majesty from the en tanglements of a Ministry that to serve their own ends would make a breach between her Majesty and her pee ple—it is, we say, the solemn duty of every man who en tertains this wish, to come forward at once, and to give his best aid to the discomfiture of the present Adminis tration. GLOBE.—The Canterbury Tories have had their rampant exultations of an easy triumph, by the return of their two choice representatives without contest, changed into the sad certainty of being doomed to en counter an opposition in the person of one whose very name is identified with stirring recollections of former triumphs, and will now animate the Liberals of that city to the most strenuous exertions for his success. Mr. Twisden Hodges, the son of Mr. Hodges, the Mem ber .for West Kent, has come forward as a candidate. for the representation of Canterbury, avowedly as the antagonist of the Queen -defaming Bradshaw ; whose disgusting speech at the celebrated Canterbury Tory feast in October 1839, still lives in the memory of the loyal portion of the community, of whatever politics, as no less unmanly in its attack upon a young and inte reitiii female, than it was disloyal, as an insult to the Sovereign. Many of the Canterbury Tories—howbeit by no means squeamish in their taste as to the quality of political orations—are known to have expressed their disapprobation of Mr. Bradshaw's virulent and indecent attack upon her Majesty—on the ladies of her Court — and on leer selected Consort ; and to have declared that they would not expose themselves to the odium of ap pearing to aeprove of such sentiments, by again voting tor him as a candidate for the representation of their city in Parliament. Poor Jem m y trembled for his chance of continuing to write M.P. after his name, the very sound of which had become offensive in the loyalty, associated as it is, and 10.11.4 remain, with ears of his seditious effu sions. Mr. Brasiel-aW has, it is true, kept himself quiet in the House ; knowing iLt if he broke an inglorious silence there, some sentence of L is Canterbury oration would be exhibited as a memorial, 1..52 shame him out of countenance ; or, at least, if shame in. hastecomea placee extinct, to warn every man who desires to .! 44 atl oci in public estimation as a loyal subject, from u - . an association with him. The Canterbury Tories hu. e ' since the delivery of that oration, prudently foregone their accustomed orgies; lest a repetition of the vilianous stuff, applauded by the " wine-warmed parsons "—and given with approving comments by the Tory press, should involve themselves and party in renewed embarrassments. These prudential methods of In ducing a desirable oblivion of Bradshaw's Canter bury oration, and of the applause with which it was hailed both by thoSe who heard, and the Tory press which recorded it, have proved unavailing. STANDARD.—The truth must be told—we rejoice at the disgrace of Lord Plunket, and we rejoice the more that he fails by the act of his own accomplices and pupils. "'Tis sport to see the gunner hoist by his own petard." To suffer as Lord Plunket suffers, is the just retributive close of a political life like that of his Lord ship. The newspaper reports of the Noble Lord's leave taking say that he wept—actually wept. • " Lo, brazen tears fell from Lord Plunket's eves." If his Lordship wept, they were the first tears he ever shed. He did not weep for Robert Emmett— he did not weep at the sufferings of the amiable Judge Robert Johnson, dragged from his sick room in Dublin, which he had not left for years, to be tried at Westminster for a libel which he never wrote, but of which he was nevertheless convicted. He did not weep when he denounced vengeance against that gang, the Protestant clergy and gentry of his native country. No; his first tears were referred for his leave-taking place, the object of his passion and idolatry through life. We be lieve it, Lord Plunket could weep for himself. But though Lord Plunket has most justly fallen, they are not just who have cast him down, and their pretext is a falsehood. _ _ _ COURIER.—The cheap bread agitation, which has been got up by Ministers as their last chance for the re tention of office, promises to become as profitless to them as it is disgraceful. The barefaced desertion of their former opinions for the sake .of regaining Radical de serters from their standard will have little effect as a re storative of lost popularity with the mass of the people, whilst it exposes them to the contempt of all their sober minded supporters. The free-trade political manoeuvre can only be of service to them with the Radical faction by showing their diminishing power to resist destructiv, changes, and that the " squeezeable materials," as Mr. Hume appropriately designates the holders of office, are still more compressible, and are ready to yield to any im pulse that will keep them in their places. As regards the working classes, among whom more particularly the new agitation was expected to work wonders, i 1 has proved a complete failure. It was no doubt antici— pated that the cry of " cheap bread" would have raised a resistless power resembling that called into action by the Reform Bill agitation. The working classes have, however, grown wise by experience. The dis appointment ,of the delusive promises of golden times after obtaining " reform," has generated.discontent, and distrust of the men whose promises have been so 'mise rably unfulfilled. The " schoolmaster" ,has also been abroad, and he has also taught other lessons besides those of leielling democracy. The artisans and labourers have learned to examine the prospective warnings of any plan proposed for their advantage ; they do not snatch recklessly at the bait of cheap bread, for they can detect the treacherous hook concealed beneath. Cheap bread, they are now aware, will be no boon unless they have the means of purchase ; and they see good cause to dread that it would be accompanied by a re duction of wages more than commensurate with the re duction in the price of food. They can extend their views to the state of the working classes in those coun tries where the much, vanuted cheap loaf is to be had, and,they find ihatinstead of abundance and comfort the great masses . of the population are dragging on exist ence in wretchedness and want ; the evils of destitution being increased by the tantalising sight of food without the power to buy, low as the money price may be. I MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FIiOM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. CHRONICLE--Besides the articles of beef, fresh or corned, or slightly salted ; fish of foreign taking, oi curing, or in foreign vessels (excep t turbots!) ; lamb, mutton, pork, fresh or corned, or slightly salted ; sheep and swine, &c., all more or less required h f i o h li te s d hip u s, 3 T ' use, the the importation of which is entirely pro exi s i:7^ . tariff, there is a variety of necessary articles pro taxed rate as to amount nearly to a liritish shipowners aro exposed hibition, whereby to great additional ..."the sailing of their ves t 'to food, such as wheat, sels. We need not recapitt.. ( v , v,t prohibited ex barley, rye, peas, and beans, in the articles ccpt at famine prices ; but there are also . .I,„ a d of coffee and cocoa, which come under the Of those too highly taxed, besides rice, potatoes, onions, beef and pork salted and smoked, bacon and hams, butter and cheele, spirits, tobacco, sugar, wine, &c., all of which might be admitted at a much lower duty with great advantage to the shipping interests, and to the enhancement of the receipts into the public treasury. The monopolists cannot object to such an alteration of the tariff, even upon the erro neous and often-refuted ground, that other countries will not reciprocate with us, because the abolition of the protective duties on these enumerated articles would be absolute gain to the shipping interests,- whether they led to other changes from foreign countries or not. They would confer immediate relief upon the shipowners, and tend much to place them upon a par With foreigners, whatever effect they might have on foreign countries in other respects t_ and there no class interest in this country that can adduce tenable grounds of opposition to the adoption of a revised system of im port duties with respect'to these highly taxed articles under the present tariff. These are the changes which our shipowners chiefly require to enable them to obtain fair play in competing with foreigners ; and being once granted, the g-eat superiority of dispatch which our vessels possess in point of sailing, and in the skill and activity of the crews, would enable the captains of British traders to obtain the command of freights in every open port. . It appears by accounts front Germany .that the winsle of the available capital in the lianube and Maine Caihil Bllafes is already absorbed in the work, and that there is little prospect of the payment of any dividend for some years. It is under stood, however, that the King of &rand, will provide 300,0001. in order to complete the but ii4thei es a ghateholder, or as a lean on interest, dosS not distinctly ripPaf alththigh it is certain that no part of this mdney can be applied to the dividendS, It b sa d that the Davarizen Government is under au 6tligaiion to mate up the &Mend, and that the undertak ing cannot be completed until .1844: TIMES.—The naepalte of Vtesident Tyler, Which vies not received in the tit till late in the afternoon, was read With a great degree of interest, the topics that it would treat on hav ing been long anticipated, and the opinions of the HOW Ootern meet ots these topics t 5 eing an x i ous l y expec t e d , as th e A rstin dication of the line Of policy which it .was intended to adopt. As far as regards the financial part it the 111t4aiie; it i!.dis tinguished b:y that eitrenie catithiti which seems to have chaF2- terised Mr. Tyler from the beginning, and by that fear of eohtpromising himself which has caused him tole claimed as a partisan both by the Whig and the democratic Jour nals. One important Opinion he incidentally declares, which is,at the the shAhtett Federal G app overnmentreach to an is founded tio in errorn of the State debts by, anti Wonting constitutional sanction. This declaration will eumpletely put an end to the hopes of those holders of Ame can stocks who have been misled by the opinion that there is some possibility of obtaining from Congress a guarantee of their claims. With respect to the distribution of the pro ceeds of the sales of the public lands, the new President seems evidently in favour of the measure, as far as concerns "' legality, and a belief that it would afford effectual 7.ssistanee.g such States as are indebted, but he exPr'',3 , makes the re servation, that suc h distribution Ale, not force upon Cong ress the necessity of imposing Lin commerce heavier burdens than those c ontemplatedirriB;33, which is an obvious concession to the opponents of the ;neasure, and leaves it doubtful whether !bey . resident i n t en d s to urge its adoption or not. All twat he says respecting the " fiscal agent," a word now in corn mon use in the States, is so obscure that it is impossible to for an opinion on th e subject. On the system of finance which m shall in future be adopted, he confessedly states no view what ever; but as far as can be collected from observations purposely indefinite, it seem s d ou b t f u l w h et h er any attempt will be made by the Government itself to repeal the Sub. Treasury leer. The acts of former Governments are surveyed in the riost care ful spirit, every expression that can give offence being most Sedulously avoided, and indeed the time of exhibiting this con ciliatory spirit is the only feature that can really be perceived throughout, and, with the exception of one point, we are left as uncertain as ever as to the financial policy of the United States. The Government Stocks were not at all influenced by the business of the dav, and maintain much' about the same ap pearance as they did at the close of the market yesterday. LAW IN TEL. LIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, June 24. The Lord Chancellor did not sit to-day, in consequence t P , s we understood, of the dangerous illness of one of his Lord ship's sons. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, June 24. BANNATYNE V. LEADER. The VICE-CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in this case, which was argued before the Court sometime ago. The Bill was filed by the plaintiffs against Mr. Leader, the Member for Westminzter, and other persons, for the purpose of having the declaration of the Court that they were entitled to a moiety of the linen business carried on in Scotland by Mr. Maberley and the defendants, and which was assigned over to the defendants by Mr, Naberley. The ground on which.the Bill prayed the interference of the Court was, that Mr. Maberley executed the assignment in contemplation of bankruptcy. His Honour was cl arly of ophZion that the execution did not take place under any such cirenrotances, and ordered the Bill to be dis mi scd with costs. COURT OF QuE,B, I . 7'S BENCH, June 23. THE QUEEN U. MOXON. inat This was an indictment again,t, the defendant, who is an eminent bookseller in Dover-street, having published a . blasphemous libel in a recent edition of ttis' poe seal works of Shelley. Three extracts from the poem collets " Queen Mab" were set out in the indictment, and some others were read by the Learned Counsel for the prosecution, as illuslrating the general tenour and tendency of the whole work. Mr. THOMAS, upon the part of the prosecution, after baying stated in a general way the nature of the provisions mad's" ui on the subject of blasphemy in the legislative and judicial systeds:= of ancient and modern times, read the passages which had been extracted from " Queen Mob," and set out upon the indict ment. The first was taken from page 9of the volume lately published by Mr. Moxon, and edited by Mrs. Shelley, the widow of the poet. Having made some observations upon the nature of the Christian religion, and the conduct and general character of its priest, the poet proceeded as follows : " They have three words ; well tyrants know their use ; Well pay them for the loan, with usury Torn from a bleeding world—God, Hell, and Heaven ! Avengeful, pitiless, and almighty fiend, Whose mercy is a nickname for the rage Of tameless tigers, hungering for blood : Hell a red gulf of everlasting fire, \There poisonous and undying worms prolong Eternal misery to those hapless slaves Whose life has been a penance for its crimes ; And-Heaven a meed for those who dare belie Their human nature, quake, believe, and cringe, Before the mockeries of earthly power !" The next passage which had been set out was in prose, in page 19, and expressly denied the existence of God, or, admitting that there was one, affirmed that he was vengeful as almighty, and that Moses, who is in the passage called a " murderer," caused the death of Cora, Nathan, Dothan, and Abiram, for being so good and dauntless as to hurl defiance at the throne of :iod, girt as it was with power. The third was also in prose, and, like the second, was extracted from the notes upon the poem. It ridiculed the notion that " the Spirit which pervades this infinite machine begat a son upon the body of a Jewish woman, and all the miserable tale of the Devil and Eve and the Intercessor, together with all the childish mummeries of the God of the Jews." ,The Learned Gentleman called a witness to prove the publication, which closed the case upon the part of urosecution. " 111 r• Qariesnt TALFOUILD (with -whom was Mr. Hayward), 4 the defendant stated that the passages which upon the part s • sslatect of prosecution were extracted from had been made the thousand lines, of which the a book containing tae.. _ nt the three:hundredth part. selected portions composid iarry and inadequate im- They presented, therefore, a very s 'story of a great pression of the whole, which was the .. sacce ,„ ssi . v , e moral and intellectual phenomenon of the sevel' l stages of a great poetical genius from its infancy thro3; , - maturity to its early and sudden extinction. The effect would be produced by a perusal of the whole would be' therefore entirely different from that of some particular passages when taken out of their connexion with the rest. If prosecutions like the present could succeed, they must destroy the existence of the greatest ornaments of literature, ancient as well as modern. The Learned Gentleman here proceeded to recite several passages from " Paradise Lost," n which the devil is invested with a great variety of moral attributes and surrounded with several magnificent accessories, and in which the devil himself is represented as uttering what the Learned Sergeant characterised as being sublime defiances of the Almighty's power, with many satanic reflections . upon the alleged goodness of the Omnipotent. All these portions of Milton's illustrious work would form as legitimate a ground for prosecution as tlfe present poem, which was in fact only the intellectual biography of Shelley's wonderful genius—a mighty, awful, and improving picture, and which contained more proofs of the existence of a God than all that could be pro duced out of the stores of philosophy for that purpose. If the Jury were to find the present defendant guilty, they must equally condemn the publishers of the works of Milton, Gib bon, Byron, Voltaire; Rousseau, Congreve, Wycherley, and even of Shakspeare himself. Lord DENMAN having stated in a general way the nature and subject of the prosecution as they have been mentioned above, went on to observe that after the animated and elo quent address which they had heard from the Learned Ser geant, it was somewhat difficult to quit the captivating sub jects which had beers brought before their notice, and to come to the consideration of the matters upon which their judg ment was to be founded. The only question fur the Jury to consider, therefore, upon the present occasion was, whether in their opinions the work which had been made the subject of prosecution deserved the imputations which were cast upon it by the indictment, and whether the publisher had sent it forth deliberately to the world knowing its character to be such. About the motives of the publisher it was unnecessary to make any inquiry, as he was responsible in law for whatever seemed to be the (liiect and necessary consequences of the pub lication itself. The Neiste and Learned Lord here read the first ' of the passages above given, and concerning the words " God," " Heaven," and " Hell." he observed that he thought there could be no doubt that they were ; ..sitended to signify the God whom all Christians adore, and the rueaven and hell in which pge which they believed, and that the purpose o: the assa 'had been cited from the poem of " Queen 111.2),, was to cast reproach and insult upon what were in Christiasa minds the causes and objects of veneration. It was not, howbYer, suf ficient that mere • passages of such an offensive chat:•eter should exist in a work in order to render the pUblication Cf it an act of criminality. It must appear that no oindemna lion of such passages was contained in the surrounding context, and even that would not be a sufficient vindication of the ob noxious passages, if the pretended contradiction were only used as a cloak for disseminating the mischievous libel which it pro fessed to repudiate. It had been said that the extraordinary poem in question was the composition of a youth of 18, and that at in many places contradicted itself. This was certainly true— that could not prevent the poem from being very mischievous and offensive, or from producing very injurious impressions upon the public mind. How far it was in general prudent to have recourse to prosecution for the purpose of suppressingsuch sentiments, he (Lord Denman) world leave to be considered by the persons who had in general the right and the power to in stitute such proceedings. For himself he was of opinion that the best and most effectual method of acting in regard to such obnoxious doctrines, was to refute them by argument and rea soning. The Jury retired for about a quarter of an hour, after which they returned a verdict of Guilty, unaccompanied by any ob servation. There were two other eases upon the same subject in the paper, that of " The Queen v. Fraser," and " The Queen v. Otley," in which the defendants' were charged with the sale of the work in question. As soon. however, as the verdict in the case of Mr. Moxon was returned, the prosecutor forewent the prosecution in the other cases, and a verdict of Not Guilty was therefore given for each of the two :atter tlefendants. DUBLIN, JUNE 22.—A meeting of the junior bar was held to-day, in the Admiralty Court, to express their sentiments with reference to the appointment of Sir John Campbell as Lord Chancellor. Thomas Dickson, Esq., Q.C., the father of of the bar, presided on the oc casion. Not one of the Queen's Counsel, either Whigs or Tories, attended, and, on the contrary, they caused it to be known that they objected to the object for which the meeting had been called, and would hold a counter meeting if any of the resolutions which should be passed were to be regarded as the opinion of the bar. Mr. Dickson suggested that, under the circumstances, it - .Auld be desirable to adjourn ; but his suggestion was ! - -eed to, and an abstract resolution was passed, "°-set, th . t iz r En E g i l i n g n li d s , hm se en sh s e v l e i r ld e I c r a i l s l h ed me t n o not age, stating., in eh,. all ,judicial situatioi.- +hat nroothmejely was an insult l in Ireland. It was urges • offered to the bar, but that Sir n ,h ampbel a l, a com * elements d m t e h n e t y s mon-daw lawyer, was not able to fill ce, would therefore be obliged to teach him ... he . of practice before they could obey his decisions - The second resolution excited more discussion, as it pi', " posed that an address should be presented to her Ma jesty, calling upon her to protect the rights of the Irish bar, and to cancel any appointment of a stranger, should such be made. The more ardent speakers urged that such an address necessarily followed the previous resolution j while others thought that an address in the terms proposed might seem to trench too much upon the discretion of the Queen. It was, however, ultimately arranged that a Committee should be appointed to pro pose an address, incorporating in it the first resolution, and which address should be presented to the Secretary of State fel' the Hove Department. The inner bar will probably meet Mid sidevt counter-resolutions ; but before they . can do so Sir J. Caorbell will have taken his seat. He is expected in town this evening, and will preside in the Cdttet, of Chancery to-morrow (Wednesday). FATAL ACC/DENT ON THE RlVER.—Tues day the following lanleilloble accident was reported to the Thames police. A few ittlenetes before the launch of the 'fidalgar, and when the TlialiNe was covered with steamers, WAS, and small craft, a skiA, containing four men, four females, mad a waterman, who was rowing them, came in contact with n fieberman's boat nearly off the east end of the dockyard, and the skiff was capsized and the whole partv thrown into the water. The skiff went right under alarge " dumb barge," and a sailing boat lying alongside of each other, and some of the pee ' ole were. also carried by the current under them. The people in the boats nea r the s p ot rendered immediate as .tinee, and picked up the Waterma n and six of his pas ' w 4 ' .. •- _ ethers disappeared, and were drowned. sengers ; tyre., e. 17 ported the circumstance to Jones, a waterm:ll3, 742 orit f F.aw six persons picked up; the police, states that it has, however, been as . c r e " , - ' ... .%:ieed... that seven were re elansted condi covered, one of whom was in a vele, had lion, and did not rally until more than an • • elapsed. ' a rß s A iw o r i t tp ti Lel e A s ß tn Y ee, INGENUITY.---We ob served,Ex a very clover little piece of mecheuleal—t, model steam-engina-)u . iffiviow t . QUlnis 4 ' ' the Eastern Institution, Commercial-roal flast. Stimulated by the approbation bestowed on him by seve , ral eminent practical engineera, who examined his first :node]. the inventor (a watch-maker) has attempted, and indeed succeeded in preclueing an engine of much smaller dimensions than the glee previously noticed ; and in the same window may new be cccii one of the most extraor dinary productions of modern times, viz., a working model weirrht of which, including en gine, boiler, safety-valves, stop-Cecli, ail the , "., . pennyweights. The c-viinder is less tine? the leith of an inch-in diameter, and fee hes been ca lC u lateelthat the . fly w4eel makes upwards. oar 500 revolutions in minute. . • . • lopNrvid N it,. l ; A I GENCE. (From the Briyhtun Gazette.) c nn, • the Foal-salonTrr, JUNE 23.—Her Majes t y 's ships at fir , a n • and in Portsmouth Barbour hoisted the Royal StandvL.j.„ Monday, and fired salutes of twenty-one guns in honour of accession of Queen Victoria. . A rendezvous has been opened at this port for volunlo• seamen for the Impregnable, 1 10 , and B elleisle, 72, 1‘1 Prel ri*. t tor sea in Plymouth Sound. The forme r g oes to the editer••- ot ranean, and the latter to the East Indies. The Id:lenlo, 16, and Wolf, 18, are b ein g overhauled at-- Plymouth for commissi WalP°: - on. l e . te ' Orders are here for the Vernon, 50, Capta in t,. prepare to leave Spithead for the Mediterranean ,• b u t it is PO ih s lught she will get away before the early part of July. , A Sardmian corvette from Genoa has arrived and b.ndect an Envoy from the Court of Turin, under the co"' tomary ....talutea. • th e The brigantine Lynx, Lieut. Broadhead, arrived ftrorn.„ coast of Af r i ca ; on Sunday, and is ordered to proceed to 1 -'"' .. ham to be paid oh - . She brought home one of the native Prirrso A new 36 gun frig,7te, the Cambrian, is to be 14 ,0411 e Pembroke Dockyard on the 3d July. • ned, The Champion, 18, and Scout,.lB, have been andcomminte the at gpitheaue the former at Plymouth, by' Commander R. Byron. latter at Sheerness, Lis by Comma lacier J. Larcom. h' ' by The brig Savage, 10, is re-Onnmissioned at Plyto°nt" Lieut, Bovvka, her former Comma;uler. She g oes to the bon station to relieve the Espoir. boar d th e Orders are daily looked for to hoist tiOa pendant on „„ D s St. Vincent, 120, for the Fort-Admiral, Su . E. Cd n g flag. The Cornwallis, 72, Captain Peter Richard's, will be read; to leave Plymouth about the 26th instant for the Last ~11,rr there lese earemtuourdeeropre-eiivnuet,C 6 th hl ei f l . a gof Rear-Admiral Sir W illiam I a C i t r is to be prepared for eora rei" : " l i t , Chatlit m. The steamer Alban, commanded by 31r. King , 313 ''''' in the harbou refitting to embark troos. The cutter, r , Seatower, Lieutenant Ropbilliard, pill retutl" to Jersey for the protection of the fishery, as soon as refitted. 72, At Spithead—Alcnarch, 84, Indus, 84, Edi nburgh, Vernon, 50, and Sardinian Corvette. In Harbour—Queen, Victory, Dublin, IB i ttern , Excel lOnt, Royai George yacht, Echo, Alban, and flag tenders. SHIPPING INTELLIGENC S. (LLOYD'S). Lorrnox, Jum.24.—Wind this day at noon, S. r DEAL, JUNE 23.—Wind E. S.E.—Arrived from the Rive and sailed the Cairo, for Sydney ; Governor Reid, Berrnuci, 1. Racer, Halifax. Arrived from the River the Stedfast, Antigua; Garland Grove, Hobart Town; St. Andrew,Quteco: COWES, JUNE 23.—Arrived the Kate Nickleby , Haw"- from Antilles, Lee, Itlatauza,:;• for pORTS b MOUTH, JUNE 23.—Sailed the Sarah, Edmon d s Port Off port the Lady Clarke, Lawrence, 13010„14,,ri. s tiEE ,7tNEss, JUNE 23.—Arrived her Majesty's ship from the C'east of Africa. STARCROSS, JUNE '23. Arrive:l the Undaunted, C°sterr from Monte Vielt:o• DA armourtt, 23.—Sailed the Fearnought andDreala* for the Mediterranean. • FALMOUTH, JUNE ‘)ll.—Wind'W.S.W. to S. the Pilot, for Rio Janeiro. Arrived off, the Salvatore, lipoli, and sailed for St. Petcrsburgh. GUERNSEY, JUNE 20.—Arrived Pilot, Bolin, from.Hava OFF 'SCILLY, JUNE 13.—Tice Frances, Russell, oy. nambuco ; Frithioff, Tunar, Barcelona ; Antigua pack et ' vannah; Scotia, Palermo. kaisg ; CARDIFF, JUNE 21. Sailed t h e Pearl, i or - Martha, Newfoundland. NEwrowr, JUNE 23.—Sailed the Philip Dean, for Aral . paraiso ; Alpha, Boston. ` se- LIVERPOOL, JUNE 23.—Wind s.—Anived the Sou th rica, Bailey, feem New York, sailed the 2d inst. ; M'Kenzie, Mobile ; Hebe, Douglas, St. Domingo• j,idof the Arethusa, Canton ; Earl of Hareweod, Batavia ; Mona, Cape of Good Hope ; Hinda, lon te Video ; Z; 11 . 1 q 0 1 Havannah ; Superb, Balrimore ; Harkawa Virgin ia ; p o rt' of Carrolton, and Hudson, New York ; J.ecob Tierney and ; Havre, Boston ; Princess Royal, S.`• M n's ' Brunswick; John Bentey, Quebec ; Sarah, Trieste. CORN AVERAGE !'-'4• -rlll l ' , 1 ' GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH 4,•`:, ‘ ioni % For the Week ended June 18, 1841, made up from the N`,...01a n the inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Eng. ''' '"ales,es, per Imperial Quarter. Iri• 625. 56. Oats Wlic.'";... ..... 2 :3 l E s s .. 1 10 ed e .. B re e m an e s .................. 3:ly: I Rye I 9d. Bark). AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX. WEEES• , 0 0 ‘'.! WHEAT. ,BARELY: OATS. RYE. 1 BRANS. ........1 Week endi,.: l ----- -. . ------'. ,„ -- „ 5 31 2 22 '7 31 8, 33 '„ 31 `-„, May I 1 61 6 31 9 22 8 3") 3 3 - 3 93 I' 28 6l 6 : 9 0 22 4 3 ' 7 3 4 36 ; June •J 62 4 •.: ; : 2 , : i t r, ; 3-, , 4 99 , $ II - .7: 62 5 30 lb 2i 10 is it) Isa 7 -3 IR • IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AV].. Wheat......... 625. Id. I Oats ..........q2s. 4d. I Beans ......... 4, J RAVES OF THE SIX w.„2,..-.r., 3 ... 5 i. Id, I Pease ......•• Harley 393. rid, i Bye CORN. DUTIES ON FOREIGN Wheat......... 24e. B d. Oat§ Barley lts. 10d. Eye liMermlee.Ml,Mlll.o...••••MmealM=M...lll, .1.--. . ° I 1 1 3 6:.. s d , .. IB re E as ED : ............. ..... • ~ ii ° THE MARKETS.—I ESl‘. B-- - RDAY ; COLONIAL MARKET. Very little business done, and no variation in p , "i ce " TEA MARKET. o iod s t : Prices still depressed, and some parties appeared a , TO realize, but buyers were very cautious. Low Free ila t a: -.. Congou ls. Ild., cash down, and Comp.any's Congo 2s. per lb. TALLOW MARKET. P The demand dull, and prices look downward. Fine • 465. 9d. to 475. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. . a .,, f rr 4 We had a moderate supply, with a dull trade, eti pti, sent prices with difficulty supported. Clover, it 11$ 51. ISs. ; Meadow Hay, 2/. 12 3 .3 . to 41. 10s. ; J 3e " 4 k 2/. 10s. to 3/. ; Straw, 1/. 15s. to 2/. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. ..„...---"- ------ Wheat. i Barley. Oats. I Beans. i ..........-,, •, —. ..__..........---r----..-.•• '"_ le ~,, ' Per Quarter. s. to s. a. to a . I. to 3. a. to S. n ', r o Boston Braintree 52 60 27 34 93 29 3.3 313 f„; „i -t; ighton 5B 66 38 42 24 27 39 44 •'`' Cambridge -. 60 - 28 - 20 - 37 '-, Chichester 62 64 27 32 23 26 42 44 Dunmow 59 61. 28 35 23 29 34 36 Grantham .••• 60 63 23 33 •22 28 36 40 --- ... • Grimsby 56 CA 29 33 16 21 36 40 ,-• Ce flaililiam :6 63 26 30 2' 25 36 40 "" Hitchin 53 64 50 37 22 10 34 45 --., 41 Ipswich 5O 66 29 35 21 26 :37 40 o"., ~.:ir• Lewes Si) 64. 26 29 22 ii 3 34 3 3 'Z i °' Lvnn 5l 63 24 59 '1 24 . 34 33 "- Maidstone 59 61 36 39 26 32 33 4 0 ~4 i Norwich pet worth - it c ,,:iford 6O 70 3 0 34 20 :30 32 •44 34.3 4 14 Sandw - leh 62 71 30 34 26 30 35 0"0 4 s t; Tnetfort: Wisbcch ,56 • fi2 23 :34 i'o 23 35 37' A 6 Ti . ' Witham li2 fiU 23 98 25 26 34 '3 B kg ' Yarmouth 102 66 1 3 ' , 32 '24 31) 40 41 .. . . • ' 0i Li V ERFOOL CORN m 4RICET.-June 9„. 22 IV , . WHEAT, English, White, cier 701 b...., 01 to. '° I T - .-------. Red Scotch, Welch, and .Man.x --- Irish, White .4. 7 0 g :i! • --- Red • ••• 0000000000 •••••• __ .. • - Foreign O AT S, English, Welsh, and Scotch, pt:' 451 b • 210 5 . . ~ ---- Irish - Foreign 0 0 16 , 0 , 13,,,,r.,Y, English, Malting, per Imp. quart, , T 24 0 4 o - Scotch and Irish, pet 60Ibs. -- noting ...... 310 45 o BEANS, English. per Imperial quarter •42 0 40 ° 7. as 0 41 6. Irish, Sec. - .1 0 4, ci i . g a n' p 2AsE . E ng li,n, per j rh ;crial quarter ..,,, 0 . L e v - tecreign ilona, English, per 2.t.',.:111i, . 4B 6O Irish cIATMGAL, English and Irish,pes 24111bs ...... .... . .. 2 0 , .-7 r INMAN CORN, per 4801 h ves..••••••• l. 1 4 0 0 36 , 4. 0 RYE, per Imperial quarter ......... ....... ......... •••••••••• ---,, 0 '''' MALT, per Imperial quarter ..••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ** ....................-... .1.•-•••-•••• • U3' . General Browne Clayton feels .destro toodsse%. press the comfort and advantage he has derived at his ar l / 3n . s e so! of 70 years, and after two years' trial, from the B. Solomons' newly.invented Spectacles; their. valuable 700119 fully merit the patronage they have received Ott' the Fl oe bum and so many individuals of high distinction, as s 4 'ell o ° ,doti. t l e use of 510 4 . !!.. 00 5ie rout scientific and eminent medical practitione.'s•--ri.,e. II'; 25th Feb, 164 i.-Address, Addington Hall, Lan. l3su .,; g e esrL,. e the late Henry Cowper, Esq., of Tewen.waters, Hert. i, ~.` no ite t" and B. Solomons, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, vPorentleille"? York Hotel, and 76, King William.street, City :--- s „uieltda having been deaf for many years, I was induced from re° ' e .o P lei :t tion to try your Invisible Voice Conductors, and I bare 8 1. a zi 0 0 sure to tell you that they enable me to hear persons in bare 01 at a place of worship most distinctly; and in consequence o f arii t° 11 . 5 , r be advantage I have derived, I have recommended marl P b e p., ' you, and their repoit is similar to mine, most favours ; el at' Spectacles and Hand -b - lass which you have sent roe a l lf .. Of el ! , ceilent, and suit my sight precisely, and surpass any t nn ur ioisto_ t kind I have ever tried; the transparency of which ti , ~ jo t, '''. that although I have passed my 86th year, the 9.2 d of M." test CO' and comfort to myself. they enable me to read, &c., by candle-light with the g . re, t 0 , 2 01 0, and remain your obedientservant, MINIM COWPE.q. ---- '' 1839. ee l 'yea h a ve r ds• -Gentlemen, I return YOtt 110ioDot; 0/.looe, MA RYL EBONE ELECTiON%We f the '-' t. t a r letter:,,, Committees fr omlkdi in P or thetw i i n n e t e , who re st 0 f ii secretaryh ,il Napier l ' ir. L . e . Cr. • 'it tiNa t ' h ,,, 1r he states . hat he is prepared to make an a , ... e T . 0 him J It , bell made use • qf the expressions attrikw lte , u e 'chairs: o %od , Cross, and contradiL'ted. b' Mr. Chamber s, ' t- ' of CO' ' •-e ssions Ir. is certainly singular, if s.7'eh improper exp , • will Iv that. they should have escapjd his attention. . them ? The bell come forward at a public meNing and t 0 'On ' e to scl'-a:. and deny j tej SPAIN.—MADRID BOURSNI JU N ._ `. er, 10 1 1 %1 161 transactions in the Five per Cents., 2 , i n ;wino i. ca s,o_eigti to 18,200,000 risis, and were done at 26 1- 16 at 264 to aat 60 days. The titles of the carver' ' OO 4 e (P the t 4 r) debt sold for 20 for cash, and 20k at 60 days " to se d Or o to be capitali,ed at 22 21-32 at 60 days, and the debt ' l6 .. . e ....!" interest for 7 7-32 at 60 days. ••••"- L. --- P 'fit ------ and . , PLATE.—A. B. SAVO_RY and - „,00t r , (3 1.45 ' end; factoring Silversmiths, No. 14, Corchill, London , N:q0:". 0 if' Bank of England. The best wrought 51.1.V.E1l The' I .' OS recommended, and FORKS, Fiddle Pattern, 7s. 2d. p e r ounce. , he . o iet er , are 1 0 , 1 1 4 I d, 4d b . ut p t er e o a u r n t c ic e l . ea m Th ay e ft/owl:Air li g hter 4 at the same price per ounce :- Patten . .e is 4 Fiddle Pattern. Kine 2 • e. 0. 1 4 1 3 b 4 , 0 z , t I • 12 Table Spoons 30 at 7 2...10 15 0 12 Table Spoons 40 , • 7 4.••, 4 i 3 ; 12 Dessert ditto '2O 7 2... 7 34 12 Dessert ditty '26 . j . 4..... ;0 12 Table Forks. 39 7 2...10 15 012 Table Fo rks 40 7 4... 4 tl `o' 12 Dessertilitto2o 72.. 7 34 12 Desserteitto 2 0 7 4••• 4 0 . . 0 2 Gravy Spoons 10 ". 2... 311 8 2 GravySpot: os 1 9, I 4 l, 0 1 Soup Ladle...lo 7 2... 311 8 1 Soup Ladles-It 710 , ~• . 0 , 48auce ditto...lo 7 8... 310 S 4 Sauce ditto... 1 ' ,,pg gilt? 5 , !6; 4 Salt Spoons ( gilt strong) 1 0 0 4 Salt Spoons s' 1r- . t .... .. 5 F, 0' 1 Fish slice '2 10 0 1 Fish Slice ••••' ....... I °' i - a 19 Tea spoons. 10 78316 8 12 Tea 64.oens. 1 _......,•• stO te n 1 Pair Sugar Tongs 0 1.5 0 1 pair Sugar Toi , 6'' r :111 0 - 0 04- N.B. A Price Current, stamped as a Newsl'a.V. e latic e sic",, by drawings, and containing every information . e on W o of purchase of silver or Sheffield plate, may be ha d ', iss ° tion, or will be sent into the country, free of postai, 1 7 ---",, to a paid letter. •,......-- - 7 a it s, -------- el ) 1 ".. 1 ..„ 15 TABLE CANDLESTICKS, : : :: 1 = 71 : 7 i b g i i . 1 ): . ,91:: :7 0 ; 1 . eil.eintrhail)raternh; appearance. P e i T e l , l a c r h a m e n s o c l h:ig t ilit, 139:busi,IPe;ienrlit,fsaPri:1114,70,''ttef:5:41:021,_,A31,117:18,:: per pair , tee, 4s. each. The , - - trays, with shell mountings Lo" per pair ; snunc. gt eat variety of other articles ,:I, tl ie s ` e A P IP : st „- A rt. 0p,.. :,..... es g ........2____,__ rat ts . :.. r 0 0. --•" f ill silver by reference to the stamp. `--- e t Oxfora 51 _, ....‹.."---.-- :ii..:ll.lftari.almlieatdael, ocfanwonniety... be. to i s . RI PPON and BURTON, Well' —.....- —_,...-,...--- _ tort . - ---_____--—.7, Atiiiii l% Li• if J. Il i f . liir' W r wick, . 1 f ' r ° .a On the 21 s t inst., at. Wolston, a . ‘. „,, o bte ..,,,,, A Swan, ~." ton, of London, to Miss M. A. 1 • e i v st On the 22d just., at Ewell, John geld, i i.s arf ,e 2., Geri Startin, late ot. Ilarboure, Staffords lir , : , Ese ,., II f o arg e ! daughter of the late Edward ~...,..,,,..,,,.,.,,,,,,..„„„.50t . 4 1 Reid, Esq.. of Ferrnoy, counAtyrbZ,stqn, of v,,,,,,,e.,,,en. 1iJ46,6,0api . . lOid::::;c2;:rsilt:rtini:Frt P7t,hbe..., li ssilt,eticlidoabai: jel‘lll,l.lFat: i j i t u f . to the county a Middlesex., rr y .. - ~ .. . .~ SPANISH BONDS. The readers of this Journal will recollect something about a decree issued five or silt months since by the Spanish Government, declaratory of its intention to pay the bondholders a dividend of three per cent. per annum on the overdue interest of the Active debt, from the Ist of July next ; as a provision for which the sum of 20,0001. was to be appropriated monthly of the national revenue. They will recollect also, it is to be hoped, the efforts made at the same time by one of our Government papers to give importance to that de cree by the insertion,. from day to day, of statistical tables illustrative of the resources of Spain, her liabili ties, &c. They will, perhaps, in justice to ourselves, further recollect the care we took to disabuse the public mind upon the subject, by proving, beyond all doubt, that the decree—the " solemn decree '—of Gamboa and the statistics of the Morning Chronicle were not entitled to the smallest credit ; that both the one thing and the other was, in fact, a contemptible de lusion—the merest moonshine. We stated distinctly that the three per cent. per annum would not, be forth coming, and our reasons for expressing ourselves with the confidence we ventured to do were numerous. We have for years past been vigilant observers of the finan cial exploits of the Spanish Government, and the result of our experience is this : we have come to the irre sistible conclusion that there is no deception, no trick, no manoeuvre, be it ever so heartless, to which, organised as it has been, it would not willingly have recourse, in order to get at the pockets of foreigners, those of the peo ple of this country more particularly, to whom many of its members are indebted for the asylum afforded them during the years of proscription to which they were sub ject from political and other causes. We took our stand, however, principally upon one practical point. We well knew that if the Spanish Government really in tended to return to the path of rectitude from which it has so long and grievously departed, a symptom of that change would be first made apparent in the removal of the foul blot cast upon its credit by the infamous Trea sury bond affair of 1836. While the Exchequer paper of Spain, guaranteed by the express decrees of the Queen- Regent, the Cortes, the Finance Minister of the day, and the Ambassador in London, which was, moreover, intro duced to the British public under the auspices of a gentleman like Mr. Isaac Lyon Goldsmid—while this sacred engagement remained unfulfilled and un attended to, we knew to a certainty that Gamboa's three per cent. proposition would never be faithfully acted upon or adhered to. Had a rig been produced in the London and Paris markets and more paper been got into circulation, the grand object; aimed at, one dividend might have been paid to secure ulterior advantages ; but the scheme broke down the moment it was concocted, and the puppet of Mendizabal, its author, was driven out of office in consequence. We are now on the eve of the day when payment should take place in virtue of the solemn pledge published all over Europe ; but where is the money for the purpose? Wlfy does not the Spanish Commission—why does not the agents, Messrs. Ricardo and Co., advertise it in the Journals ? It really behoves the Legislature and the Government to take measures for putting an immediate stop to these decep tions. That the onus of such a duty should be thrown almost exclusively upon ourselves, and with the Minis terial Journalists acting-against us, too, is unreasonable ; vet such is the case. Government and Parliament think It sufficient that the public should be left wholly to the protection of the press. To pay the interest of the Treasury bonds it scarcely requires 10,0001. per annum, and surely, if it were in tended to pay anything at all, the,SpLiish Government would think it politic to begin with the remittance of this bagatelle, seeing that the effect would be that of redeeming the honour of its Qttean,the Cortes, the Prime Minister, and the Ambastador in London. But the Spa nish Governmoett - Will do nothing of the kind without coercion, physical or moral. The sum wanted to pay !'he interest on the Treasury bonds has, to our certain knowledge, been tendered by a capitalist here, under mutually proper guarantees, and at the moderate rate of five per cent. interest. It has been tendered, but not accepted ; and why ? Because no bonus would accrue to the Spanish Treasury—no tommissions and pickings would be secured to individuals out of such an operation. Had it; been in the power of Gamboa to pay three per cent; per annum regularly on twelve or fourteen millions of coupons, as his trumpery decree gave out, it was in his power to pay five per cent. on the quarter of a million of Treasury bills, 'without assistance from anybody. We exposed the shuffle at once, and exposed it effectually. The Spanish Active Stock has now five-and-a-half years' interest due upon it, and its price in the London market is to-day 22, or 78 per cent. discount. There is no longer the excuse of Don - Carlos and the civil war to plead in justification of a postponement of the payment by Spain of the just claims on her Treasury, as was the case two or three years +back. The country is now in the enjoyment of general repose, yet the foreign creditor is•farther off from gefting his due than ever. A most respectable party in the country addresses us on this matter as follows : "Of what value," he says, " are the bales of Active, Deferred, and Passives, to contain which the warehouses of Thames-street are scarcely sufficient, if our Treasury bonds are not now at length to be paid ! ! Was d'Aguilar, the Ambassador, authorised or not to issue them as he did, and, more, to advertise the payment'of them ? Why does not Mr. Golclsmid, for his own sake, as well as for our satisfaction, publish every letter, with the whole of the instructions he received concerning the issue ? He ought unquestionably to do so. It is too bad that nearly five years should have elapsed and not a fractional payment of interest be made on those securities which they (the bonds themselves) declare most solemnly, and in three different languages, to be payable, one-half in six, the other in twelve mon th s , an d w hi c h an Am bassador announced positively for payment, both prin cipal and interest, on June 1, 1837." The Treasury bonds, when issued by Mr. Goldsmid, sold freely at 67 per cent. With 25/. in interest due upon them, they are now quoted at 24. They will not fetch the value of the interest alone ; and the least the Chairman can do at the next meeting of the sufferers will be to communicate the hint here thrown out by our distressed Correspondent. Let every letter and every irk struction out of which this cruel sacrifice of English ca pital has arisen be forthwith made public, and let, by all means, another memorial be drawn up, embodying the main facts of the case, and despatched through General Alava and our Foreign Minister to Senor Surra and Rull. The Chronicle will perhaps strain a point, and declare that in this case there is nothing to complain of.—Post. PORTUGUESE BONDS. At a meeting of the Committee of Bondholders held on Wed nesday at their chambers, the subjoined resolution was agre)zd to. It is certainly high time that foreign nations should be com pelled to pay at least the interest of the capital sent from this country to establish their independence and secure free insti tutions. Many of these bondholders have suffered great dis tress from the nefarious conduct of Governments that could pay if they only chose to be honest : Resolved,---That the Committee of the Portuguese Bond holders, as a new Parliament is about to be elected, do invite the Committees of all Foreign Bondholders to join them in calling a public meeting at the Mansion-House for the purpose of passing resolutions to memorialize the new Parliament, when assembled, to address her Majesty, praying that she would take immediate measures for compelling all Foreign States which have not fulfilled their engagements, to pay up all arrears of interest due on their several obligations, and give satisfactory tangible security •for the principal; and, further, that an address be sent to the several candidates for seats in the ensuing Parliament, calling upon them, if returned, to support in the most decided manner the petition for justice to the thousands of sufferers deprived of a capital amounting to upwards of one hundred millions sterling. Resolved,—That a Sub-Committee be appointed to draw up the necessary resolutions, and to carry out fully the objects of the foregoing resolutions. Committee-room, Old Swan, June 23, 1841. SINGULAR FUNERAL.,--A farm of about 180 I acres called Woolseys, near Duton Hill, Great Easton. has for the last thirty years been in the occupation of ' Mr. Robert Joslin, and the property of Thomas Kearsey, Esq., solicitor, formerly, of Bishopsgate-street, but late of Bucklersbury, London, and Carshalton, Surrey. This gentleman, who, although in some respects an eccentric person, has left behind him the character of a kind hearted good landlord, and through life, a most chari table man, was Steward of the Courts of the 4 /tight Hon. Lord Roden. About twenty years ago he projected, for the purpose of receiving his own remains, a rural cemetery on the above farm. In an arable enclosure containing eight acres, called Cross Field, about a quar ter of a mile to the north of Woolseys, he caused a por tion to be parted off, forty rods long from outside to outside of the ditches, and four broad, thus making an exact acre. This was formed into a long flower garden, having a row of oaks in a grass plot on either side, and a gravel walk up the centre from end to end; exactly mid way in this garden was to be his last resting . place, and a eoncea circle of yews were planted round the spot intend e d f or the grave. At the head and foot of this last stands a cypres s ofl.7ooll3astr-33i'ssba3t' l M a r s . t Kearseyyear in the summer, and always took great delight and himself. tree, raised He from om generally seeds brought carne to interest in visiting this rural spot he had selected for his burial, and in directing and suggesting alterations and im provements to be made in it. . About five years ago he caused the grave to be sunk, which is thirteen feet deep, and bricked all round to the thickness of fourteen inches; and also about two years ago he caused a second or outer circle of yews to be planted. The inner circle of :trees have been carefully reared and trained to overshadow the grave, and the whole will complete as it were an um brageous mausoleum. Imitative gothic arches have be gun to be formed, and will, .as the trees grow, be cut out from the intertwining branches of the yews. Mr. Kearsey died rather suddenly a . ; his residence in Town on the 4th instant, and immediately afterwards the most active measures were taken, both by his widow and te nant, to fulfil to the letter what was known to be his wish. It was his expressed wish, which wss implicitly followed that no scarfs, hat-bands, or mourning gloves should be used on the occasion. As many as five hun dred persons who could witness the proceedings by look ingefuaelleavesrctacmlre. in K t e h a e rs m e3 i , d ‘ d ia e s of a a r m e e m m o h te er an e d f lone the over the l ow qu i ck hedge had assembled to witness fi so el u d nus a p h re a e r r ! a i b c i y u . arT his htene ts will,t to o t r f lea t eh h eei e vu Established Ch urch, but ,it is not known what are the er N e nn a,rsvav i e s r t h e er handsome de o s himome tre to officiated wt ha er d a r t aa h nv i de s two of them in their turn will : wa an ich his grave for a fortnight at least. We learn from Tiverton that Mr. Charles Ross has given up his canvaaihas.reti-ed from the contest, and has left the town. The two sittiiTeilibers will therefo r e 12c .. b. nr, re turned unopposed. s