The Sun. — London, England, 1841-06-17 00:00:00

Yet entertained by the manuiltcturers, and make th ernhasten to emigrate to countries where bread I s less t axed, and trade more free, than here. At the - same time, th e T ory G overnment, opposed I : Ireland, feared as well as hated by the popu ee of England, an d not part i c u larly loved abroad, would require t o i ncrease th e expen wteze. triode.. it is tin ty now that he appears before tit: electors in the , colours of a Reformer, deservin, of the hearty i.upport of the Liberal party. Nc injustice was, therefore, done Mr. YOUNG b 3 those who wo dissuade him froth entering the lists with suclq, it sound, well-tried Radical, and chivalrous i'lefender of his country, as the hero of Beyror.t and St. Jean d'Acre. He has now only to " bide his time," and a seat will not be wanting, to him in the House of Commons. s seems t o us a matter well worthy of the ch, o _ l ,a,er_stlon of all elect ors , an d every can did a t e o . " 1 be made t o exp l a i n i n deta i l that system ! ° vernment w hi c h h e supports, and by which , The - conduct of th e T or i e s, headed by Lord t-; i l r e tir , Hunsr, in throwing out the de expects t to increase the revenue, and hopes to Bill for settling 'lush th e expenditure. rights to trust-property, the evening before in Again it must be known to Messrs. PIRIE, / Yast, because that property might be adminis ,•"-LASTERAIAN A tered. by Dissenters; and the conductofthesame bulk . . , --TTWOOD, and LYALL, that the `` of the working clauses have still a linger- I ng ho party, led on by the Bishops, in rejecting the Pe that their old allies in the cause ‘Jf Dissenters Jews Declaration Bill, will show the . I. (rrin Will yet du them justice. At their ha A d s t.ley still and the Jews what they have to expect from the . soine .expect some extension of the suffr age , Taxies. It will show t . Two good he country, too, what p er r nocitticatio n of the rate-paying clauses, an d improvements the Tories will effect. . 6 T o ; i PS the protection of the ballot. From the measures were strangled out of an avoweddr theh.", they hope for nothing. Their despair, trust and hatred of Dissenters and Jews. Both f ere Z n t atred o f the Government, would be in- are to be allowed to bear all the burthens o at d, e i ct . by the acc;ession of the Tories - to p ow e r ;_ th e State—both are to be compelled to take wow u, di cult as it now is to govern the masses, it all offices on themselves which are onerous and elector 't the n T. ue tenfold more difficult. The unrewarded; but both are to be distrusted, and lo , r s are rebsonable, intelligent men, and they the Jews are to be excluded when offices of eL4toncileasures by candidates to explain to them profit and honour are in question. Lord LYND which the people are to be re- HURST earned for himself a most unenviable „.. _ jan to t] le '''unfTt r ot do thls, le Constitution; and such candidate riotoriety and hatred by his alien speech; but they must regard as hopelessly ,we doubt whether the Dissenters have not les.; 1 c " to be entrusted with the power of been as deeply insulted by his rejection ...s tation. Th, ! ,. IT . , of the Charitable Trusts Bill, and the it avo w i d M inisterial plan may be bad, but at least reasons he assigned for rejecting it, as ever avow :i d es , ses to surmount both difficulties, It is were the Irish Catholics by his denunciation of k e , at t I Y intended to increase the revenue, toaug- them as aliens in blood and religion. Ile acted, srli ftnt,, ra4 e, and to lessen, if it do not extinguish, however, and so did the Bishops, in the true being ''llt, the increasing the comfort and well- spirit of Toryism. They used • legislation to in of the vi ta _ People. What scheme, aiming at the fellow creatures. jute and insult some of their fel . . Tori'esn,oble ends, has been propounded by the Both the Dissenters and the Jews will exhibit an th e v . ' None, whatever. Ina few days, however, immense amount of charity, not to give their h and; ) , v c . e ; . "legislation will be restored into the submission a harsher name, if they do not prove, , e to their thit-• the electors and they will fail in their by their conduct, that they know how to . resent country ' and their GOD, they will these unscrupulous proceedings of the Bishops ° Nell . • and Tories. V the 3' unjust to their unenfranchised brethren, *III Y 3r s e s :a l i a ny man to Parliament who is not I •ry, arid -e of the present condition of the coun the reve P r epared with some measures to increase tna sses . n ue, reliev e distress, and reconcile the `° the Government. IZT• li An Address to the Chartist Electors and Non electors of Bath, which will be found in The Sun of this day, and which bears the signature of many respectable and influential Radical names in the locality, deserves—and will, no doubt, meet with—the profound attention of those to whom it is addressed. This document, which is remarkably firm and temperate in its tone, in sists on the necessity of the Chartists co-operating with the more moderate Reformers, at the pre sent critical juncture. It proposes no surrender of principle—it advocates nothing incompatible with rigid integrity—it merely entreats, and with every show of reason, that all who pro fess the doctrines of Reform, will join toge ther in a strict, fraternal league against those Wh o wave ever been, and will ever continue t o be, the sworn foes of all political im provement. That it will make a deep impression on the Chartists, we have not the slightest doubt. They are men of sense, and will listen to reason. They are men of honour, and will be guided by principle. However they may differ on many points with Ministers—and we are by no means surprised at their differences—they will at least see the necessity of making every effort to keep out the bitterest enemies they have, the Tories. They can have no principle in common with this faction. Their sense is not Tory sense. Their feel ings are not Tory feelings. The two parties are as diametrically opposed to each other, as light to shade—night to day. The Tories hate all but the mere empty show of Reform. The Chartists are for the substantial thing itself. The Tories recognise no sect in the country but themselves. The Chartists are opposed to all secta rian views in legislation. The Tories swear by self—and self only. The Chartists by the people at large. The Tories would trample the poor and the oppressed man under foot. The Chartists would cheer, succour, and uplift the fallen humanity within him. What, then, can there be in common between the two parties? How can a Chartist, who has the slightest re spect for himself; or the slightest regard for his countrymen, fraternize with a Tory? That the former may have some cause for complaint against Ministers, we deny not ; but be cause 'rthe Whig will not—or cannot—go quite so far as he could desire ; is!, the Chartist therefore justified in co-operating with the Tory, who tells him, in all but so many express words, that he will stand stock-still ? Can he reconcile it to his sense of manly consistency to espouse the interests of a party which swears by Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and can see nothing to condemn in the apostacy of a BURDETT ? That has spent its best days in op posing all Reform, and now wastes its wretched remnant of life in crippling its onward movements ? We cannot possibly believe that the Chartists will be so infatuated as to coalesce with a faction like this ! They owe a duty to themselves as Reformers, which would be for ever compromised by so unnatural a coali tion. We entreat them, then, unhesitatingly to adopt the line of conduct proposed to them by their friends at Bath. Let there be no delay. The enemy is already at the gates, flushed with the anticipation of a certain victory. To support the Liberal party is not to surrender the principles of the Charter, but to advance the more practicable mea sures which it advocates. It is to replenish the spare table of the poor man; to bring smiles into the haggard faces of his children ; to bid him look forward to a sunny future, instead of to one clouded with gloom ;—in a word, to bid him uplift his drooping head, look proudly about him, and thank GOD that home may yet be a thing, not a mere name to him. ta._„ INn tty, in describing tile inequalities of 1 0 Z . non the evenin g b e f ore last, vre.itig illustr ation, which oughtgave the fol to be duly reit-led b Y - all those wh o ' p romo te or resist the il° our fiscal system : Per 4 4 ,, u , t tile stamp . duty on bills eat. o , f aa 10,0 0 67L 4, on bills of 100/. 4s. pF ts c , d 10,31.11 those l o o , f Ptr ee l ;„1 (1 . per cent. On receip ter tt. '', °II 2 01., Is. per tent., and stamp duties . Iver e N0w.,,„ as three -fourths of _the o th n e l d o u ,oo ty o e / n . 1Td 1. . , r: 1. could anything raoes"ected. on bills, below tealcor4litcary show the monstrous lo° ' "u ' ° Classes of society ? Let th e n. the middle and , lower injustice which was . tour 44111. 'recollect thacof fire thatmillions able-bodied men, House, and it wits, th e , l° , ll s were unrepresented in int;"xore, doubly the duty of the House to prote t theirtra , res ts• But if they took advantage . of the - th taxr '•• onefrom the e '? 3 who were unrepresented, it ..as adding bl ous :p 148 alt. If he were to ask ~..ay Member of the far ', the shilling f the poor ';aan ought not to go ceiyaesitilreasplsiilling of the, 1 . ,:1eh one, he should at once re ita' the .1 answr, -, radoubtedly it h Id. But what persoia I st o f t i,, , to a poor Pi th 4 F aet ? lie 'dad applied to a gro s cer ell ty furnish him d "c articles furnished by him . Ivhii ~,,11,- to a. rich one, and the result of it was, poor \i ash e er .;„‘ q weekly expenditure of is. 70.. R"oda, '°,,toati paid Sid• duty, having only 5 4 1 v a alu l e of ‘)fi k 24 '44 ri ch man, upon a weekly I . 16 the poor traw l ,;.1 paid only 3s. 80. So that shilling, u , expenditure the rich Got 511 got 6 icl. value for his he 4( • value for his shilling.--(11 t and un e.ar, hear.) ,equa l taro 1110de in which this exorbitant . _ 'rich , taxa tiun is brought about is this :_ Ih: poured PaYs no more duty on his hyrfi he ,„' e kee (Jr gunpowder tea, for which the l l'as 3'B l " 8 * Per lb , namely, 2d. id., than kay ,Zwll.lan Pays on the cheapest Bohea, whichper lb. As" • " e worth, sain, the • no more than ls. 8d p o dut r ieli man pays the same amount t Pa ° l- 1 th e fi coffe e that the poor woman ~-...ys ort e nest arti c l e the Worst. It is the same with other Air i s ' a nd the result is, " .stated by N b mit , a rich man tkp end ' LtY, that re 1- 14 , f,B shilling on groceries, he gets 9 11 d. the State ; hi,„ 4h. it ) and pays only 2d. to on :sip 4- poor Nvoinan who spends a shilling .tan _ Pay s 4 : , 1. 4rtieleS gets only 61d. value for i , d .4 _. -1(1. as a. tax to the. State. Such inequality to tt,,,s::alidaOUS injustiee ; and it being done s well as who are un represented, is an insult a all i n . . A Ally. `( S.itli'l strikingly uu . i ns , . 1 az principle, but even more ~ l a ~„ The,q., • • naanifested in the Corn-laws. f last Sun „l,f, 4 ;Nd impost," said the Examiner o his '" 1)4 3 °I course a capitation tax, because ,. Grace l,e, five, does 1 1, ot e at ~..! of Buckingham with a fa ' rally °I humblest ' , tho u -- ; '4ore bread, nor ;en so much, as the income tax, s'oel' e:i. his great estates. Moreover it is . ann that the ,411,1u4elewhat unequal in its operation, seeing the day 104,11 contribution of 41. lls. 6d. paid by to an Ir4l l4 ,r t r from his yearly 'earnings of 261., amounts on tli,.,e' BingeXcee 17 Per cent., - while the same sum_ ute (jz. ati Tl v tAl °f aforesaid Grace is a charge too minute h computation." „ '- , tleh i tr 4avvs must produce the worst effects on ' 4!!!'inds L. public should at, • oi the people, and the . r milr grateful to m - for bringing .a.r. HirinnEx the Jeet befo- of an election, N) th at Le them on the eve lb.. they may y now insist on right being done. taket°thl abolition of the capitation tax, - which 1 4%8 .wa.1,7 tht. fifth of a poor man's income, and the 14 : - e Y rs t ,. 41e3 aVia.y a calculable portion _of K- Nu i rli , - -' 4 Trish 'man, like the Duke o f -biti_.o a tiotl " k l‘t Or .jord ASHBURTON, arid the equa d liz h ever°f 004er taxation, ought to be demanded toy de3r elector. It is mean and dishonest not . tcl 4444 it. E , should be required 'Pled, . i ery candidate se h imself to these just measures. bien Th , e ballot at the Colosseum, _ which corn nikii74 Yesterday at three and closed at ten at favour q B `.' has terminated, as We expected, in it 11 1 . el C' NAPIER. The numbers for NAPIE I, re suit '' .? , 3l and for YOUNG 943. We rejoice at t ...e f eeli n g s e atise it must put an end to all angry ti le ti between the Liberal electors, and closerß. 11,4..,°°1' against every Tory candidate. Sir tri tri,,L" a nd Sir C. NAPIER will be returned theefilantly for Marylebone ; and, judging from-es ler4:itoeSS with which the proceedings of k 3 for th e I were conducted, we confidently 100 Th.. „ ttlfillnent of' the promise made byh furthering th e z 'n, , that he will heartily assist in fur i t t ewais,,a subjeleetiun of the Gallant Commodore. thauteact of enniplaint in the earlier part oft by h day the (iitu - „ g ; rea t niany of the notices forwarded)sytina tint, 'ttee had failed in . reaching their des cir cilia,' "t When we consider that nearly 9,000 be en -s , arid 18,000 balloting papers must have tr O. is 18 ,000 in about 48 hours, even a grea e --:l°4 would cease to be matter of surprise. s kp - / I : th at the contest between Sir CH ARLES c)f , lt , und Mr. 'YOUNG for the representation trirYlebone has terminated amicably . in the .t t u t 1; 11)11 of the Gallant Commodore, we owe . i whi e l e „. ;:eieeted candidate, after the opposition fra nk , he 'nt with in The Sun, to acknowledge d hi s ,'Y t hat the principles avowed by him, an Ilien-d°lllhet Yesterday, were worthy of all corn eut(,:t.°ll. Any doubts which we previously anl..o`unled respecting his sincerity as '"„an ou.t athi) ut Reforer, were entirely removed by his 4nd e b ae3t of the total repeal of the Corn-laws, te nd 3 ' the frank and manly support which he hi,,,:r,ed Sir CHARLES NAPIER when he found Of 1-,e'r i n a Minority, and saw that a division iti "t,,,erests might have the effect of return- Co Et s "rY for the Borough. Should, therefore, rrierviee of bis country require the presence of if hot NAPIER. in a field more dangerous, r,t• ulere glorious than the floor of the House tiou.°l4ulhus, we consider that M. YOUNG has tile established the strongest possible claim to ic,,n Buffrages of the L beral electors of Maryle t,,e e ' We cannot suppose that he will abandon that Principles beln Ci a avo wed by him yesterday ; an d ll g the case, in the e vent of the Ilieutailt Coinnledore's retirement from Peril 1.- t hq. ' Mr ' Your may rely upon receiving the Unqualified suPport of this Journal. At hNi.,4.l.he tune we would have Mr. YOUNG all .rn, zni,,,, ~ "u. that without passing through such i nsi) ° i -, eal as that of yesterday, he could not have a ntl, r . e , d the Reformers with confidence in him ; hitt le ki ieref oro, that the opposition which he has tto experienced. was legitimate and 1a- We were enabled yesterday, by an Extraordi nary Express from Paris, to anticipate all the political news in the Paris journals of Tuesday. The following paragraphs from them are intended merely for the entertainment of the miscellane ous reader : The statue of Marshal Brune, executed by M. Latino, the statuary, by order of the Municipal Council of Brives, in the Correze, in which town the Marshal was born in 1763, and where it is to be erected, was cast in bronze on Sunday morn ing, at the foundry of Messrs. Soyez and Inge, in the Rue des Trois Bornes. The operation was performed in five mi nutes with complete success in presence of the Committee, several friends of the Marshal, and a great number of artists. It will be exhibited to the public in a few days at the foundry before it is sent to Brives. The Commerce gives the following as the amount of the naval force which Franco has at her disposal for the Mediter ranean :—Twenty-six ships of the line, carrying 1,844 guns; seven frigates, 270 guns; nine sloops, 214 guns; sixteen brigs, 94 guns ; eight transport sloops, capable of carrying 194 guns ; twenty-six steam-ships, capable of carrying 194 guns ; and twelve smaller ships, capable of carrying 36 guns—making a total of 98 ships, and 2,804 guns. Madeleine Dampierre, a young woman of Metz le Comte, in the Nievre, being no longer able to bear the ill-treatment of her husband, and having in vain endeavoured to obtain a sepa ration, cut her throat on the 3d instant, with a blunt knife. Her brutal husband came in and found her bathed in her own , blood, but still alive. Instead, however, of rendering her, or calling for, any assistance, he unfeelingly returned into the stable, where he was employed, and left her to die. At. the Assizes of the Vosges held at Epinal, two men were condemned to death on the 10th inst., for the robbery of the Church of Ramonchamp, and attempting to murder the Sa cristain, who being informed that a noise was heard in the church went thither to ascertain the cause. On attempting to seize one of the robbers, the sacristain was stabbed in the breast by a knife or dagger, and received a severe wound on the head from a hatchet. The robbers made their escape with the money contained in the poor's-bex, but having left behind them some instruments of effraction which were identified, they were soon arrested. The sacristain has recovered from his wounds. At the assizes of the Eure-et•Loire, on the 11th inst., a boy foerteen years of age was tried and convicted on not less than six charges of arson. He is the son of a tailor at Al luyes, and appears, by the report of the trial, to be very in telligent. There was no evidence to show that the crime, which was committed in open day, and with lucifer matches, was the result of any hatred to those whose property he at tempted to destroy, and it was stated that his propensity for destruction by burning was so great, that on one occasion he set fire to the clothes of some females who were asleep in a field, and who were only awakened by their agony. It is a curious fact that whenever he had set fire to any building, he was the first to call for assistance, and appeared to be d eply affected at the misfortune of the sufferers. He was condemned to twelve years' imprisonment. A letter from Cahors informs us that, on the 7th instant, the Baron de Jouvenel, residing at St. Michel de Bannieres, was met on the high-road by an inhabitant of St. Michel, who fired close to him a pistol, loaded with a brace of bullets, whieh passed through the body and both the arms of M. Jou venel. He lies in a dangerous state. The assassin, who is believed to have been sti,tulated by revenge, had not been found. The Journal de l' Ave yron relates that a woman aged about sixty, while at work in the fields at Saint Come, had her foot seized by an enormous toad, which held so fast that it could EVENINC- EDITION FUN, LONDON- TILIURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1841. not be forced to let go until it was pierced through by a mar. with a sharp pointed stick. Only a few drops of blood followed the bite, and the woman continued her work, but in a very short time her countenance became flushed, and she expe :ieneed a burning thirst, but went to bed without taking any remedies. In the morning she was found dead, and the auti,p3y of the body gave all the symptoms of death from the poison of a venomous reptile, thus contradicting the opinion of naturalists that toads do not possess any venomous qualities. The body of a man, between 35 and 40 years of age, was found dead in the Bois de Boulogne yesterday, and taken to the Morgue. No doubt of his having committed suicide is entertained, as a ball, which must have been discharged close to his breast, had passed through his body, and a pistol was lying close to his side. The apprentice of a working jeweller; in the Rue St. Mery, was found yesterday morning hanging by It's cravat from a cloak-hook in the alcove in which his bed was placed. He had been dead several hours. His head is said to have been turned by reading the modern French novels and dramatic works. We expected to find in the Messager the report of the expe dition directed against Tekedempt and itlaseara, but that Jour nal contains nothing respecting Africa. Our private letters only confirm the telegraphic despatches announcing the return of the expedition to Mostaganem. It seems that the arrange ment made by the commander-in .chief to have part of the provisions carried by the cavalry, had the effect that the people were everywhere able to retire on our approach, without fear of being pursued, because no use could be made of the cavalry. A decree of General Bugeaud, dated Mascara, May 30, and published in the Moniteur Algerien, is of the following terms: —All the inhabitants of Mascara, and those who are esta blished within 24,000 metres of that town, who have left their houses to follow the enemy, shall forfeit all title to the pro perty of these lands, if they do not return within a month of this date. After that time is past their property will be seques trated, and incorporated in the domains of the State. 1 hese acts will not be valid unless they are countersigned by the French authorities. The same Journal contains long details of the military ope rations which took place in the expedition to Tekedempt, Bog bar, and Thaza.—Le Commerce. BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, JUNE 15. drat Highest Lowest Lest Price Price. Price. Price French 5 per Cents ll4 95 ... 114 95 ... 114 70 ... 114 70 4 per Cents 99 30 ... 99 30 99 30 99 30 3 per Cents. ex. div 77 5 77 Id ... 77 5 ... 77 le Sank of trance Lattitte hank. 1,0001. Shares 1065 ...1065 ...1065 —1665 , eigian ?tank, New lOl5 ...1015 ...1015 ...1015 5 per Cents. Belgian New Loan lOl% ... 1 1% ... 101 1 4 ... 101 1 4 Dutch 2% per Cents. 534 ... 534 ... 534 ... 534 vanish Aciive ..,...... Passive 5% ... 5% ... 5% ... 5% ieapolitan lO2 40 ... 102 40 ... 112 40 ... 1 02 40 Roman . 10 % ... 1024 ... 102% ... 1024 .... RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Versailles. L.P IL 11 3,2 50 ... 322 50 ... 322 50 ... 332 50 lotion 460 ... 460 ... 460 ... 460 Jae.ins .. 457 59 ... 487 50 ... 487 50 ... 481 50 4tr3sburg to Bale 230 ... 230 ... 230 .. 230 BELGIAN IfUNDS—Bauessus, JUNE 15. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent ...... Loan of Thirty Minions, 4 per Cent. 92 3 per Cent. ..... Thirty seven ..... 76 (1840) 10 63(1 Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent. Bl Society of Commerce, 4 %per Cent 9834 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ....... 74% National Sfsciety Exchange on London (short) ......... 11 95 —Brussels Papers, June 15. AUSTRIAN FUNDS. — VIENNA, JUNE (Pieper Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. sow.. ....... •••••••••••••• Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1669 --Allgemeine &Ming, June 12. HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, JUNE 12. Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1665 1160 Anglo-Itussian Loan 10414 108% Russian 5 per Cent. tst series, Cartificate Inscription, lst Se:iGs lO2 101% Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series 914 .97m Ditto in Certificates New 4 per Cent. (1840) £lllB 674 Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pe r Cent 5l 503 Ditto 5 per Cent ... -- Polish Bond* 144 New ticket ' ' ' )63% Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 75 74% Ni. wegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cant... Spanish, New 5 per Cents. lB% SIR CHARLES NAPIER AND ST. MARIE-LA-BONNE. A LEGEND. Showing how Sir Charles delivered out of the hands of Tory recreants, the fair Virgin Marie.la.bonne ; and how the dam. scl espoused him in return, and seated him in her House. Fainting, hound, and bruised of limb, Galled by chains and brambles grim, Thus, in distress, cried Marie-la-bonne, As Tory recreants dragged her on : " Help, help, Sir Knight, for Jesu's sake, These robbers would my freedom take ; And bolts and bars about me draw — And rule me with an iron law— And starve me with their meagre bread 0, tear me from their thraldom dread." That damsel's voice—that perilous cry Straight heard the Knight who rode hard by ; Hight Sir Charles was the Champion's name, He had battled in blood and fought in flame ; A Knight, who stormed with his valorous sword, The giant-hold of the Pagan horde,* And crimsoned the whole of the Syrian sea, With the blood of her infidel Paynimry. Praise too was his, in that conqu'ring hour, That Clemency tempered Sir Napier's power; That midst of his conquest, haught and hot, Blessedest Mercy neglected he not, But saved with a soul heroic and just Syria's maids from the soldiery's lust : Therefore the ladies all love him well, And their honey-sweet lips on his victories dwell, While balconies glitter and handkerchiefs wave, Wheresoever appeareth Sir Napier the brave. But Sancta Maria! the cries of La-Bonne Pained him at heart, and his spurs sped him on ; True to his crest—to his lineage true— " Readdy, aye readdy "t —he sprang on the crew. The infamous, merciless, miscreant gang Of plundering Tories, with harpy.like fang, Who wrongfully sought to entrap and enclasp Marie-la-Bonne in their murderous grasp : To jail her up in their donjon-keep, And thrustler low in its darksomest deep ; To starve her alive, or Lave her but fed On Spartan black-broth or " monopoly " bread, 'Stead of gladding her heart, as Reformers would do, With the bountiful food that abroad there grew— With the sweets of the World, and the whole World too. Jesu Like wine it had gladden'd your heart To have seen the astonish'd Tories start, When down in the midst of their infamous gang, Like a lightning-bolt Sir Napier sprang ; How his broadsword adroitly the Torytnen cleft, Smiting to right, and re-smiting to left ; Never, I ween, was a totaller rout ! Yelling they fled from his thunder-strokes stout, Till, praising his prowess, bright Marie-la-bonne, Reposed in his warrior-arms alone. Beauty to Bravery !—Marie-la-Bonne (To finish the legend my Muse begun), In gratitude gave to that chivalrous Knight, Who saved her from Tory dominion and spite, Herself—her sweet self !--with her golden dowers Of People who loved her, her churches, and towers ; And thus linked together in love and delight, To her Hon SE most IMPERIAL led her true Knight. St. Stephen's rejoice ! for Reform never gave A champion more valiant than Napier the Brave. * The Fort of Acre, hitherto accounted impregnable. t The motto borne by Sir Charles's family. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. We have received by Extraordinary Express news from Paris of the 16th (yesterday), from Madrid of the fhh, and from the Turkish frontiers of the 2d instant. We have also advices from Constantinople of the '26th ult. The following summary of the foreign intelligence just received is rather in teresting. FRANCE. PARIS, JUNE 16.—The loan contracted by Rothschild for the Austrian Government is 75,000,000 florins. The know ledge of this fact has been felt on our market to-day. It was said that M. Humann had postponed the French loan, which it was expected would be brought out in September. The Three per Cents. closed at 76f. 65c. only, Five per Cents. 114 f. 65c. The Duke de Nemours arrived at Marseilles the 15th June by the steamer the Grandeur. SPAIN. MADRID, JUNE 9--The Minister, instead of presenting the project of law on the Ayuntamientos; has named a new Commission, composed of Unitarian', to revise this law. No thing was thought of at Madrid but the fete on the 10th. Very little business doing at the Bourse. Actives was 26i. Plans were still talked of for raising money for immediate wants, but nothing concluded. The following are the words of the motion which Senor Carasco deemed it his duty to make in the Senate on the 7th, relative to the health of the young Queen, noticed in The Sun of yesterday : " Whereas the health of her Majesty Queen Donna Isabella 11. has lately been the occasion of several medical consu'tations on the expediency and even the necessity of her Majesty's re sorting to the use of sulphurous baths ; it being also known that the Government has come to some resolution on the subject, which should be immediately communicated to the public ' • in order to reassure all Spaniards who regard the Queen as the only guarantee of happiness for the nation, and considering, finally, that the Representa tives of the country have assumed the imperious duty of watching with zeal and care over the august orphan during the temporary absence of her excellent mother and guardian, I have the honour of proposing to the Senate, to call on the Government to communicate to us, within the shortest possible delay, whatever measures it has deemed expedient to devise in this delicate and important circumstance, and to lay on the Presidential table all the documents relative to the opi nions given on the occasion by her Majesty's physicians, and by the other persons who may have been consulted on the health of the Queen." The negotiations between Surra y Rull and the Madrid capitalists for an advance of funds are thought to have been altogether broken off. The Infante Don Francisco de Paula is not to proceed to Madrid. The tariff question was to be discussed by the Chamber of Deputies on the 9tb. It was believed that the Regent would, agreeably to the ancient usage of the Kings of Spain, preside at the yrocession of Corpus Christi. TURKEY. FRONTIERS OF TURKEY , JUN E 2.—Th e Turkish troops continue their acts of violenc e a g ainst the Chr istians. The Pacha of Nissa is making grand p re p arations.for his dt f nce. CONSTANTINOPLE, MAy 26 , —The Greeks on the Euro- Gan side give great uneasiness to the Porte. The firmans have not yet been f orwarded to Mehemet Ali, despatches from Shekib Effendi bei n g first ex p e cted. The tribute fixed to be paid by M e h emet is 4,000,000 p er annum (40,0000, but the firman on this point is not con sidered as definitively settled. Baroness Brunnow, the lady of his Excellency the Russian Minister, leaves Ashbuniham House to-morrow even ing, and will embark the same night fur Stockholm. LLO YD'S SII ING—(THIS DA .) LONDON, JUNE 17.--Wimd this day at noon, S.W. DEAL, JUNE 16.—Wind, S. Arrived, the Dovecot, Bull, from- Mauritius ; Enterprise, Moxey, Monte Video. Arrived from the River and ;sailed, the Reliance, Green, for Bombay. LivEaroor,, JUNE 16.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Tory's Wife, from Jamaica ; Agnes Gilmore, Melville, New Orleans, sailed 11th ult. ; Hibernia, Hawkins, New York, sailed 25th ult., passed several large iceberus 30th, lat. 43, lon. 49 ; Co lumbus, Barstow, New Y or k. ;Sailed the President, for Cal cutta; Arab, Ceylon ; Lady Rowena, Rio Janeiro ; Alice Jane, Vera Cruz; Frances Depau, New York • Caroline, Am bercrombie, Consbrook, S a f eguar d, M a gnificent, all for Quebec; Mary, and Maria Ann, Smyrna; Alexander, Mes sina. Arrived off, the Reindeer. _ _ _ BRIGHTON, JUNE 16.—Arrive3 off, the Mary Ann, Illarsh, from Hobart Town, sailed Feb. 3. PoRTSMOUTu, Julia 16.—Wind E.S.E. to W.—Arrived the Dart, Airth ,from Madeira, and sailed for London ; I'e'. kin, London for Madras. Sailed the City of Edinburgh, for Runouski. DARTMOUTH, JUNE 15.—Sailed the Arab, for New Zea land. Arrived off, the Start, Nederland'', from Batavia, for Rotterdam ; Helene, Bremen, for New York. DUNGENESS, JUNE 13.—Arrived off, the Prosper, Bahr, from Hamburgh, f...r Vera Cruz. BRISTOL, JUNE 16._Arrived the Niger, Merrett, from Africa. SCILLY, JUNE 12.—Arrived the Koopbandel, from Bahia, for Amsterdam ; Maria, Joseph, Fayal for Riga ; Forester, Knudsen. Buenos Ayres for Havre ; Hebe, Bole, Brazil for Hamburgh. CLYDE, JUNE 13.—Arrived the Belfast, Hindley, from Mobile. Sailed the Queen, for Sydney, New South Wales ; Talent, Furney, New South Wales ; Bengalore, Birnie, Ba tavia; Clydesdale, Campbell, Antigua; Alexo, Virginia. YAMOUTII, JUNE 15.—Arrived the Sovereign, Thuile, for Stockton, with loss of foremast, having been in contact. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The Hamburgh ship, Dia na, on the Bth ult., lat. 14. long. 38 ; Louisa, from Liverpool to Gibraltar, 12th inst. lat. 49, long. 8, by the Frances, arrived a t Falmouth. Barque Cecrops, 15th ult.. off St. Paul's Island bound to Quebec, by the Teaser, arrived a t B a y Chaleur. Johnson, Spence, Liverpool to Calcutta, sth April, lat. 5 N., long. 18 ; William, Portsmouth to Quebec, 22d ult., lat. 45, long. 59 ; Spring, Plymouth to Miramichi, same day, by the Sandwich. arrived at Halifax. Thomas Dryden, of New castle, for Quebec, 28th ult., lat. 48, long. 32, by the Lord Panmure, arrived in Pentland Frith. Ghazeado, Pernambuco to Genoa, 10th ult., lat. 27 N., long. 39 W.; Antelope, Batavia to Gottenburg, 17th ult., lat. 35 ; Diligence, Amsterdam to Batavia, 31st ult., lat. 48, long. 12 by the Oud Nederland, .arrived at Brouershaven. William Ripon. sunderland to Quebec, 22d ult., lat. 40, long. 56 ; Septima; Portsmouth to Miramichi, and Tho mas Young, of North Shields, by the Chariot, arrived at Halifax. Meta, Buenos Ayres to Cowes, Ist April, lat. 34, long. 48 ; Queen, of Liverpool, 30th ult., stand ing to the West, lat. 43, long. 25, by the Amicus, ar rived at Liverpool. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL MARKET. The Market was dull, and the operations privately were extremely limited. The public sales went off quietly, at lower rates. TEA MARKET. The demand for Free Trade eras dull, but holders were firm, and obtained full rates. Company's Cengou steady at 2s. OP. cash. There were fair deliveries from the warehouses. TALLOW MARKET. A limited business done in Russian Tallow, but former rates were sustained. P.Y. Candle on the spot 475., and for deli very in the last three months 48s. per cwt. WHITECHAPEL HAY ➢IARKET. Wo had a moderate supply, and a middling demand. Prices without alteration. Clover, 3/. 18s. to 51. 18s. ; Meadow Hay, 2/. 18s. to 41. 10s. ; Straw, 1/. 16s. to 2/. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS.' CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JUNE 16.—The sales to day are about 2,000 bales without any . change in price. Ex porters and speculators are altogether inactive. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JUNE 16.—The following are the transactions :—Eastern Counties, 8i ; Glasgow, Pais ley, and Greenock, 27 ; London and Birmingham, 158. The market has been extremely languid. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 16. —No improve ment to report in our market ; very little business doing. Birmingham and Gloucester, 65*; Manchester and Leeds, 53 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 23i; London and Brighton, ; Stockport Bank, 3i ; Bank of Manchester, 6i ; Man chester Assurance, 9i. We have at length received Cape of Good Hope papers to the 7th of April. The Zuid Afrietlu2an has taken some notice of his Excellency's address to the Legislative Council; he says, on the subject of the advancing prosperity of the frontier districts :—" I found the value of property in the eastern districts was manifestly on the rise, and particularly of the sheep farms, which, in those districts are of the best description, and likely ere long to rival those of any other colony. The Custom-house returns show the increase and importance of this branch of the export trade, and in my . humble opinion wool will become the great source of wealth in this colony." On the subject of education bis Excellency speaks in highly favourable terms. 13y the Hamburgh mail, which arrived last night, of the 11th January, the Exchange upon London comes the same as per last arrival, 13 si; Gold, 430; Metal, 108; Bank Actions, 1,654. • By the Batavier arrived this morning we have received the Dutch papers of the 16th June, bringing the Amsterdam prices of the 14th June, Two-and-Half per Cents., 51i; Five per Cents., 99 15-16 ; Ardoin's Spanish, 211. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date:— VIENNA, JUNE S.— Since the arrival of Baron Solomon de Rothschild a report prevails that negotiations have taken place between the financier and the Government for a new loan. I know that the negotiations relative to this loan have already arrived at its conclusion. It is supposed that a lottery will be connected with this loan, for which a part of the in terest will be reserved. Other persons are of an opinion that it will be issued in the Five per Cents. metalliques. BOURSE OF AMSTEADA3I, JUNE 14.—The National funds were more firm at the end of the Bourse. No credit is given to the report of an insurrection at Sumatra, as it appears to be greatly exaggerated ; if it had taken place in that island no doubt the mother county would have heard of it first. The Actions of the Society of Commerce have got up to 163, and the National funds have been more in request. Consols opened at the leavin7 off quotations of yesterday , 89 A for the Account • Reduced', 891 ; Three-and a - Half per Cents. Reduced, 971 98A ; Exchequer Billt, 4 6 prem. ; Bank Stock, 167 k 1686 ; India Bonds, 2 dis., 2 prem. The Foreign Market continues neglected, and the prices are nominal. At present Spanish Active, 22*A ; Deferred, 101 11 ; Passive, s*; Portuguese, 33*; Three per Cents., 19i 20 ; Brazilian, 67A 68A ; Colombian, 21* ; Mexican, 27fi; Dutch Two-and-Half per Cents., 52j ; Five per Cents., 994 100. _ - gHA ILES.- Great Western, 26 27 prem. ; New, 121 prem. ; London and Brighton, 6i dis. ; Blackwall, 7} 6} dis ; Bir mingham, 67 69 prem. ; Southampton, 53 54} per share ; Croydon, 13% 14 per share ; Greenwich, 71 Si per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 17 16 dip. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto Fifths London and Brighton London and South Western 3Bi 54i..... to 53i North Midland Ditto Tti;r:.; South Eastern and Dover PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JUNE 15. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 96a Gr an d C ana l Stock ...... ... Ditto Reduced Ditto New, 1830, ...... 071 i Ditto 4 per cent Si per Cent. Deb 5....... 891 Royal Canal Stock HALF-PAST ONE. The British market continues steady and firm. Yesterday two to one was betted on the Stock Exchange, on Lord John Russell's success in the City ; to-day the betting has become languid, and nothing doing. Austria has made a loan with Messrs. Rothschild for 75,000,000 florins. The Dutch papers at 103 ; a 5 per cent loan. Money in the house may be quoted at from 4 to 5 per cent. Consols are rather a shade lower than in the early part of the morning. The above loan to the present hour has not had any effect on the British Market. Consols at present 89, have been 89h; Reduced, 89; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Re duced, 98* ; Exchequer Bills, 54 6 premium ; Bank Stock, 1681 1671, rather lower. In the Foreign Market very little doing :-- Spanish Active very heavy and receded from 22i to 21i 22; Dutch Tivo-and a-Half per Cents., 524 ; Five per Cetes. 991, have been 100. in Shares very little business doing :—Great Western, 91b ; Ditto, Fifths, 10 3 %; London and Brighton, 421; South Western, 54; South Eastern and Dover, 15. QUARTER TO THREE. . . There is nothing stirring to-day in the shape of news. Electioneering occupies all attention. The Conservatives seem bold and indefatigable, and it will require untiring industry and no flagging on the part of the Liberals to make head against them. The coarse abuse levelled by some of the Opposition journals upon the wealthy and influential firms that have come forward in support of Lord John Russell only excites disgust, for what is now made a crime with Mr. Samuel Jones Loyd, and others of his party, viz. the possession of great riches, has been over and over again put forth as a reason why the Con servatives should be supported, the general plea being that they represented all the nroperty and talent of the country. Taking the Tories by their ewn standard, the Libe • rats have just cause to be proud of the support of men w h ose wealth places them be LOSING PRICES,yond the suspicion of sinister moti ves . C BRITISH lEFnldiU. aNßDislltSso, --- 1000/....2%d 4 pm 8,9 Ditto 80nd5......... . .... Bank Stock Stock 3 per Cent Red. — 3 per Cent Cons B 9i D itto Old Ann uities ... -- 3% per Cent Red.. 9 8% Ditto N ew Annuities... New 3% per Cent New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001 7pm p Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 ... 12i Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 — India Stock for 0pg....247 Jan. 1860. Consols for Opg B9 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent...... Ditto, New Ditto 33 Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent _ Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic ............ Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent 2ll Ditto, 1824. — Ditto, Deferr ed .. ..... Danish, 3 per cent 77% French, 5 per cent. ----L —4. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — 'Exchange ............ —f. — c , Mexican, 5 per cent Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 — Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 52i Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct l5 Ditto, 5 per cent SHARES 99i Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) _ Ditto New Shares (2i paid) ......... ..„, 3 Great Western Railway (65 paid) ... ....... 90i Ditto Fifth (4 paid) loi London and Brighton (50 paid)... ......... London and South Western North Midland Railway (100 paid) ....... _ Ditto New Shares (40 paid) ............ Ditto Thirds ( 5 paid) ........................ 51 South Eastorn and borer (33 paid)... 5 York and North Midland Railwa y (so pd) 70%1 POPULATION BRIGHTON.--- The census taken last Monday of the population of this town shows that it has increased at least twenty per cent. within the la6t, ten years, thus making forty or lif q - d„ m , nnd. the neigli'3ouring town of LOVAS, in the same period, in a population of above pinta thousand there has only been an increase of five hundred and fort-nine. PUIVATE VIEW of MRS. PARKES'S (LATE MR. BOWYERS) ILLUSTRATED BIBLE. In Lamartine's late poem, "La Chute d'un Ange," he represe n t s hi s holy hero as having in his possession an inestimable Bible, which buckled together with diamonds, and whose co verlid blazed with gold. Mrs. Parkes's Bible (at the private view of which, yesterday, we ma de it our duty to attend), though it attracts not eqt tally by external show, yet from its intrinsic contents is invaluably precious; and the recondite and . re markable nature of these, reasonably allow it to be reckoned an unique and unparalleled book— the " fins forum" of Bibles. The entirety of our authorised Bible, including the Apocrypha, is comprehended in forty-five large folio volumes. Of these heavy tomes the text-leaves occupy but an inconsiderable portion, the grand bu2k of the work ,being swelled out by 7,000 engravings, which, on every imaginable subject have, by the labour and research of years, been gradu ally accumulated and set in order. bean:6 a solitary bible-point of interest, whether scientific, geographical, historic, or scenical, but here assumes to itself some pictured form. You open a page of Genesis, and forth with your eye is greeted with some early charto grapher's plan of " Eden I.cl - 1 in bdellium and the onyx-stone,"—or some painter's imagination of her sparkling primal bowers. The " gopher:- trees," about which there has been a world of learned criticism, are so represented from spe cies existing in the Holy Land, tha.t you at once acknowledge them the same with which Noah timbered his Deluge-ark. Passing par hazard to the Exody, Bishop Shuckford's or Piideaux's I elaborate arithmetic on the dimensions of the Ark and Temple puzzle not the brain a second ; the " golden measuring -reed" of the artist has already anticipated all perplexity, and helps you at once to ell and cubit. Instead of poring over the prosy " Prolegomena" of Dr. Walton, or the " Phaleg and Canaan" of Bochart for satisfaction on some geographical point, here map and chart ensure your accuracy at a glance, and all localities from Dan to Beersheba, from the shores of Joppa to the Hills of Aramoea, appear clear to the eye, as if the actual country were reflected on the retina. Pass to the animal department, and the ant and the unicorn —Queen Sheba's apes and Zachariah's red horses, are one and all illustrated. The magna and minima of the vegetable kingdom, " from the cedar pt . Le banon to the hyssop that springeth up on the wall," are as copiously displayed as ever thOY were in Solomon's lost book. In fine, a com pleter " Apparatus Biblicus" could not be ; while the Allegories, Types, and Parables—the scenes or shadows of mysterious or historical grandeur with which the Bible abounds, from the times of the Patriarchs to the " latter days of Revelation," are amply illustrated by transcripts from the lofty paintings which a host of men, with Rafaelle, Rosa, and Angelo, imagined. The original draughts of De Loutherbourg for Macklin, form spirited attaches to th e begin nings and ends of the sacred books. They are struck off in the style of Blake's uncouth imagin ings, and are invested with a vague and mystic symbolism. The Dutch and Flemish schools most prolifically furnish every page. Next to these appears the Roman school, with the name of " Legion ;" while the French and English studios are comparatively scant of contribution ; but these, if few, are fine. Mezzotints, etchings, wood engravings, and the fine steel and copper productions of the present day, abound iu every variety, from the largest plate to the minutest block, in the shape of fleurons, tail-pieces, or vignettes. We would briefly observe, in conclusion, that the obscurity of many texts i 3 far better eluci dated by these pictorial commentaries than by all the annotations of the " Critici Sacri." Con troversy as to whether Leah's mandrakes were lilies or jasmine, colocynth or balsam, is best settled by seeing the plant itself, and calling it by its Chaldee name, Dudaim. The Teraphim of Laban are no longer stumbling-blocks, when the identical idols appear upon the page. This invaluable Bible is now advertised for 3,000 guineas; equal it has none : and by the easy arrangements for its disposal by ten guinea tickets, will become the property of some one for comparatively less than a pepper-corn. Mr. Hilton's picture of the Triumphal Entry of the Duke of Wellington into Madrid, forms a second prize, for 500 guineas; there are other valuable engravings also on view. FINE ARTS. CANADIAN SCENERY. Virtue, London, 1841. In this Part there are not less than four en gravings, one of which, called " The Squaw's Grave," deserves great praise as a carefully exe cuted work of art. It represents a scene on the Ottawa River, which spreads out, like a huge lake, to the extreme verge of the horizon, while its banks, which form the foreground of the picture, present to the eye as picturesque an ob ject as could be desired. The literary descrip tions of Mr. 'Willis are passable enough. SCENERY and ANTIQUITIES of IRELAND. Virtue, London, 1841. _ _ Though inferior to Mrs. Hall's splendid work on Ireland, and far more limited in its plan, yet the present publication is not without its value, for its plates are invariably good, and some of them of superior excellence. Of such a character is the sketch of Ross Castle, in the enchanting neighbourhood of the Killarney lakes, which is touched off with singular grace and delicacy. The little wooded islands in the background, whose shadows are reflected in the serene, wave less waters, and the bold ruins of the rock-based castle in front, give great beauty and variety to the landscape. The letter-press portion of the work is but indifferent. L ETERATURE. SUPPLEMENT TO WADE'S BRITISH HIS TORY. Wilson, London, 1841. In the preface to his able chronological " His tory of Great Britain," Mr. Wade has justly ob served, " it is only by marshalling in line, as it were, events and occurrences, foreign and do mestic, moral and physical, social and intellec tual, that the bearing and action of an age can be comprehended. Changes of the seasons, do mestic incidents, discoveries and inventions, the births, characters, and deaths of remarkable persons—all contribute to the drama of life, in fluence the course of legislation, the policy of Government, and the progress of society; and unless each is explained and brought forward in its due place, proportion, and juncture, the pan orama is incomplete, the contemporary scene imperfectly delineated, and the reader's path ob scure and perplexed. The author's History, which, if we remember rightly, appeared in the course of last year, was conducted upon the plan here laid down, and, as might have been an ticipated, met with very general approbation. Something, however, was still wanting to its completion,- and accordingly, in the work before us, Mr. Wade has furnished us with a Supplement, ierein he gives several useful practical Lists and Tables; and, among others, a table of the relative value of gold coin from the Conquest to the present time, and a curious alphabetical list of the principal public treaties and conventions between European nations from the period of the fourteenth century. Thus carefully com pleted, we cannot permit ourselves to doubt of the lasting success of Mr. Wade's History. SETTLERS AT HOME. Knight, London, 1841. This little volume forms one of the numbers of Miss Martineau's " Play-fellow"—a series of tales, the first Number of which we noticed a few days since, and which it is proposed to publish quarterly. The tale is entitled the " Settlers at Home," and details the fortunes of an industrious, harmless, Dutch family, who had settled in the north-east of England, among the swamps of Lincoln, during the period of the great civil war ; and by unwearied perseverance and in genuity had managed to drain a consider able portion of the land, so as to render it arable, and fit also for the rearing of fruits and vegetables. By doing so, however, the honest Dutch folks injured the interests of many of the neighbouring peasantry, who, from time imme morial, had supported themselves by fishing and shooting_ in the swamp ; and the t al c is chiefly occupied with detailing the hardships that the Dutch settlers sustained at their hands. It is pleasantly written, in a style of easy, familiar eloquence. SATAN: A POE:11. Murray, Glasgow, 1841. We have here, what the title-page calls, "The People's Edition of Satan"—a poem which in its day enjoyed a very fair measure of popularity. Two prefaces—one, we suppose, not being deemed sufficient — are prefixed to the work, - both of which are written in a verbose, turgid style, and are singularly deficient in ideas. Here is a sentence, forinstance, which, though evidently intended to be pregnant with thought, seems to our limited understanding,, to be a mere jumble of no nsense :—" BOW much it would t en d to lif t us out of the blinding materialism in which we are so content to grovel, if we dilated the finite into the infinite, and so allowed our judgments to run parallel with the eternity to come Again, what on c , : 111 is the meaning of the " Stream of time rolling forward to an eternal conclu sion ?" How can that Which is eternal ever be concluded ? With regard to the poem, the author has certainlymade many alter ations for the better in it; and it now trundles on smoothly enough; the best portions of it are the descriptive ; and Mr. Montgomery seems to be aware that description is his forte, for he gives us sunrises and sunsets without number; to say nothing of a couple of thunder storms, one of which commences and the other concludes Satan. THE REPERTORY OF PATENT INVEN TIONS.—No. XC. J. S. Hodson, 112, Fleet-street. So fertile in discovery as is the present age, it is but judicious to have a specific record, wherein more solid and patentable inventions should be preserved. This is the purpose of the " Reper tory," and d ur i ng 1840-41, we are glad to observe that inventive men have chiefly turned their at tention to improvements in those departments, whose importance craves more than ordinary consideration, as Steam and Weaving. Not one of the least curious in the present number con sists of Mr. Nyren's improvements in the manu facture of oxalic acid, singularly effected by po tatoe and horse-chesnut juice. T' HE PICTORIAL HISTORY OF FRANCE. Part L Orr and Co., Paternoster-row, 1841. National prejudices are fast disappearing, and one nation desires to look into the history of another, for the wisdom or pleasure which its pages garner. The history of France possesses peculiar interest for Englishmen, since the his tories of the two countries are so intimately in terwoven—and most of our olden institutions fathered by 'feudalism. Mr. Bussey's work, whereof the present forms the First Part, is commendable for accuracy and detail. Dismiss ing those remote times, of which no authentic voice bears record, he takes up his history at that period of which "in the Commentaries Cwsar writ," and coevally with which Clovis filled the Frank throne. Around this King in the present number the entirety of events wheel as round a common centre. In his reign the land of France appears as a roomy platform, on which, amid the semi-transparent obscurity of the times, great but barbarous movements oc cur. The Cimbri and Teutons, Alananni and Helvetii, pouring out of their northerri hives, seek for fairer than their rugged homes amid the valleys of the Loire and the Garonne. The overthrows they meet with from the Romans —a small but magnanimous band, circumvallat ing themselves anionF, their barbaric swarms— forms a singular portion of history, knowing as do that these Franks were no trivial enemies, for, ,' , ardened by perpetual toils, it was affirmed of them, " that the snows o f w i n t er were as ' pleasant to them as the flow ers o f s p r i ng ." The author senders his history additionally at tractive by manyminor anecdotiana i n t ers p erse d : — as of the defeat of the Helvetic host on a summer's day . at Langres—the answer of the proud Goth Ariovistus 10 Ctesar—the Vizigoth law for a King, " Thou wilt be King if thou perform just actions, but if not, King thou wilt not be," &c. &c. The work is creditably got up—paper and print good—and the vignettes embodied in the text well-designed and neat. HIGHGATE CEMETERY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE' SUN. Stn; Knowing that The Sun is a " people's paper," and that you arc anxious to do everything in your power to make it so, you will, perhaps, allow me a line or two, with the view of correcting an evil, which I am sure must be extensively felt. From a recent arrangement, it appears that the parties in whose hands rests the management of the affairs of the High gate Cemetery, have ordered that, on Sundays, no persons shall be admitted without a special order. This, Sir, is an arrangement exceedingly inconvenient to the public, inasmuch as great numbers who are not aware of it go from London and elsewhere, fully expecting to be admitted. It was truly pain ful yesterday, in passing, to observe the great number of re spectable people, who had evidently come from a great dis tance, crowded round the gate, experiencing all the vexation which disappointment in such a case would create; If people are to enjoy the fresh air on a Sunday, what place FO fit to excite in the mind the most valuable moral and re ligious sentiments as a place l►ke Highgate Cemetery, where, while the beauty of the scenery reminds one of the great good ness and bounty of. the Creator, the memorials of mortality rising everywhere around us equally impress upon us the end of all men, and the necessity of being suitably prepared to meet it? It is, indeed, unfair to those who are employed during the whole of the week in their worldly occupations, to be ex cluded from this pleasure on a Sunday. At any rate, sufficient measures ought to be taken to acquaint the public that such an arrangement exists, and thus prevent the recurrence of disap pointment. —1 am, Sir, &c. London, June 14, 1841. P. B. TEMPLETON. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes Registered in the week ending June 12, 1541." The Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-Gcneral Weekly Total. Average 1838-9-40. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 142 204 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses l2l 151 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Hea-t and Bloodvessels Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other CAUSES OF DEATH. Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. ... ........ ... 4 4 Childbed, Diseases of tho Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c Diseases of Uncertain Seat Old Age, or Natural Decay 47 71 Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance 39 25 Causes not specified Deaths from all causes... - Average Weekly Deaths Deaths in the Average Weekly Week. Deaths, 1838-9-40. Western Districts ... 124 ...... 139 North Districts Central Districts 169 ..... 190 East Districts 172 ...... 211 South Districts ... Total 826 It is slated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the 32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality-- and the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington, Fulham, Hammersmith (Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad dington, St. Mary ( Stoke Newington), St. Leonard ( Brom ley), St. Mary-le-bow, • Camber ell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas and St. Paul (Deptford), and 'Woolwich. The population, as enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890. The weekly average for 1838, 1839, and 1810, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the three years by 156. TEMPERATURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING June 5. June 12. 82' 69' 52 45 66 54 17, 1811. Highest Lowest Daily Mean General liegister Office, June GREAT MEETING AT BRISTOL. Oe Tuesday night a very large, influential, and unanimous meeting was held at Bristol, in Ryan's spacious Amphithea , re, to receive a Deputation from the Manchester Anti-Corn-law League, and to consider the best means for removing the odious bread-tax. 5,000 electors at least were present. JOHN BRIGHT, Esq., of Rochdale, in an argumentative and eloquent speech, exposed the fallacies of the monopoly advo cates, and observed, that if corn was plentiful it was always cheap ; if it was scarce, it was dear. The only way, there fore, in which the Parliament could make corn dear, was by legislating so as to keep it scarce. Parliament had legi-lated to make corn scarce, and he would ask them, was that the way in which a patriotic Government should legislate for the inter ests of the people?—(No, no.) Did they believe that it was the duty of Parliament' to legislate for a portion only of the people ; to withhold from them the food which they re- Muired ; and impiously to imitate the judgment of the Al ighty ? The Omnipotent Ruler of the Universe, to punish the rebellion of his people, inflicted a heavy judgment on them ; the heavens were shut up for three years—no rain descended on the earth—the land was parched—it yielded no kindly fruits; and the famine was sore. That was just ; it was the visitation of the Almighty on a rebellious people : his judgments are un erring, and man arraigned them not; but he (Mr. Bright) had yet to learn that permission had been given to Parliament to imitate His judgments, or to do as He did.--( Cheers.) RICHARD COBDEN, Esq., of Manchester, after pronouncing this to be be the finest Anti-Corn-law meeting he had seen out of Liverpool, proceeded to speak upon points in question, and the applause that waited on him at times was tremendous. Perhaps one of the ablest portions of his speech was his expo sure of three monopoly fallacies, in the fi rs t o f w hi c h h e went on to show the fallacy of the Corn •laws offering a protection to the agricultural labourers, by instancing the rate of wages in the counties in this neighbourhood, which might average Bs. a week.—( A voice, " No, not more than 6s ") Well, he would give them 2s. more, and say Bs. a week, whilst there was not a single unskilled labourer in his (Mr. Cobden's) employ who did not receive 12s. a week.--( Cheers.) The meeting would remem ber the boast of the Duke of Buckingham, that his labourers were happy on 9s. a week. Now, if he were to hold up his fin ger, he might have every labourer on the Duke's estates.— ( Cheering, and cries of " So much for Buckingham.") Another fallacy was, that a repeal of the Corn-laws would force a lower diet for the poor. Now, in answer to that, he would show out of the agriculturists' own mouths, that the present system produced that effect. At the Board of Guar dians of the Grantham union, the Duke of Rutland in the Chair, in 1839, it * as resolved that , as the diet of the inde pendent labourers was now barl4 bread, the paupers in the union workhouse should be placed upon the same foot. ing—( Shame, shame)—and this was in 1839 when wheat was double ;hat it was in 1835 ; but there was no outcry in 1835 for a coarser diet for the labourer and the pauper, but it was reserved for the period when the landlord was receiving double the price for his commodity to reduce e the people he _ people to barley-bread. How, then, did the high price f corn benefit the labourer?—(Great cheering.) Another fal lacy was that the land would be throw ffi n ei d not The labourers were, however, su of cultivation. labourers ready to run had been, they found the agricultural to be taken in with that fallacy ; wherever their lecturers e o n u tl t y cultivation, if they would land should not be thrown the risk of that, as they said they . weuld . take care the e a waggoner, in Dorset having. fallen into conversation let them have it. One of to!feithclucturers of the League as soon satisfied on the point, him with this bugaboo, but he shire, in order to test the ma n's w, o , pinions, had tried to frighten sort of- leer, and said. " but th' turer's face with a knowing b ' ?" The relation for (said Mr. Cobden) the waggoner looked up into the lee considerable amusement by the happy of this anecdote caused _the land away be 'um be'ant a goon to carry manner in which it was related then moved " That the Meeting HARMAN VIECER, S lof t' Corn laws " Parliament as will vote for the tepee uo . pledges itself to support the return of such Members only to (Deafening cheers.) WILLIAM Tarnii.i., Esq. seconded the resolution, which was pu t and carried with a dissentient, anti thanks having been EVE >;" tN i, EDIT' ON. voted to the Chairman, after cheers fur the Queen, three f9r Lord John Russell, and Mr. Berkeley, the immense t mem • b y dispersed. THE WEATHER.—NooN, JUNE 17. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAJDE-BYRF.ET. Barometer Thermometer... 61 Highest 69 j Lowest Wind W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. SUMMER ASSIZES. NORTHERN CIRCUIT: (Before Lord DENMAN and Mr. Just. WIGIITMA N. ) YORKSHIRE.—Saturday, the 10th day Of July. at the Castle of York. CITY OF YORl.—The same day, at the Guildhall, Yolk. Duattast.—Saturday, the 24th day of July, at Durham. NORTHUMBERLAND.—Thursday, the 29th day of July, a the Castle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.—The same day, at the Guild hall, Newcastle• upon-Tyne. CUMBERLAND.—Tuesday, the 3d day of August, at Carlisle. WESTMORLAND.—Saturday, the 71. h day of August, at Appleby. LANCASHIRE (Northern Division).—Tuesday, the 10th day of August, at Lancaster. LANCASHIRE (Southern Division).—Saturday, the 14th day of August, at Liverpool. DEATH OF LADY CLONCURRY —We regret having to announce the almost sudden death of Emily Lady Clorcurey, wife of Lord Cloncurry. The sad event occurred on Tuesday, at two o'clock in the afternoon, at the Lor! oß . Hotel in Albemarle -street, where the -family had bean s:ay for some days on their return tram the Continent. On Sm day last her Ladyship was perfectly well, and no alarming svml)- toms had 'hown themselves before Tuesday morning,. Lady C!oncurry's decease puts the noble families of Richmond, Mill town, and Dunsany in mourning. The officers who served in the 701 Hussars held their anniversary dinner in commemoration of their services at Waterloo, at the Clarendon Hotel, yesterday. Among thou present we observed Sir Hussey Vivian, G. C. B. ; Siri - Edward Kerrison, G.C.B. ; Earl of Hopetoun ; Earl of Belfast, G.C. H. ; Lord Poltimore ; Sir William de Tyull, C. B. ' • Baron de Roebeck ; C o l one l s L owt h er, V ernon, H a ll , ant i Dundas ; Majors Wildman, Shirley, and Vivian; Captains Seymour, Inge, Lumley, Pettat, Norbu r y, Ly ster , & c . BOROUGH OF FlNsßOßy.—Last evening a meeting was held at the Ironmongers' Arms, St. Luke's, for the purpose of adopting measures to secure the return of Mr. Thomas Slingsby buncombe. The Chairman, Mr. Williams, very strongly descanted upon the artful address put forward by Mr. Tooke, the Tory lawyer, and trusted that, notwithstanding his persevering attempts to intrude himself upon the electors, his object would be triumphantly defeated. Several resolutions were passed regarding the readiest and best method of sup porting the Liberal Members, and Mr. Thomas Duncomhe in particular. _ _ _ Count Gerowski, the Polish nobleman, who created such a iensation in Paris from doping with the Prin cess Isabella of Spain, arrived last week at Dover, where he has engaged a mansion. SOUTH AUSTRALIA:—The value of exports from the United Kingdom to South Australia, according to a return made to the Hou s e of C ommons , h as increased since 1836 from 25,5051. to 138,4381., the amount in 1840. MURDER. IN LlVERPOOL.—inquisition was yesterday made before P. Finch Esq. , into the circumstances which led to the death of Wm. Crummer, aged 30, who, with his wife, kept a brothel in Preston-street, Liverpool. On merely interfering with the prisoner, James White, who, with another female was creating a disturbance in his house, he was stabbed in the stomach by the prisoner, from which he died on Sunday afternoon. The Jury returr" . !d a verdict of " Wilful Murder. "—Liverpool Courier. CORONER'II INQUEST.—On Wednesday even ing Mr. Payne held an inquest, at the Bull Inn, Leadenhall street, on the body of James West Shrewsbury, aged 52, soli citor, of 16, Took's-court, Chancery-lane, who terminated his existence by hanging himself to one of the cloak-pegs at a chamber in the above house. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Thomas Downs, who has known the deceased for nearly sixteen years, that the latter was the plaintiff, and appeared in person in the Court of Common Pleas, in the month of November last, in a cause respecting some mining transactions. The defendants were De Veer and others. The decision having been adverse to the deceased, and the ex penses thereon having been very heavy, his mind had ever since been so seriously affected as to cause him to neglect and lose a great portion of the excellent practice he had previously enjoyed. He had also drank considerably, and had occasionally absented himself from his family, and committed many other acts tending to show a disordered mind, and also to Increase his pecuniary embarrassments. The waiter, chambermaid, and other servants at the Bull Inn, depo s ed that deceased called' there about half-past one o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, and stated that, having been up three nights, he wanted rest, • and wished to be shown to a room, being particularly desirous'! to have a room that was dmk. He said that he expected the - last witness to call about six o'clock, who was to be shown up ; but, should he not call, the chambermaid was to rouse him at a quarter before seven. At flits time, after knocking at the., do: r for some time, and receiving no answer, the door, whitth was fastened, was tOreed open, and the deceased discovered suspended by a black silk handkerchief, attached to one of the pegs in the room. He was instantly cut down, hut he had evidently been dead about two hours. Verdict, " Ternperar3 derangement." SUICIDE AT WATERLOO-BRIDGE.—Abotit five o'clock this morning as Carsline, the Jack-in-the-w a t er , was down on the shore on the south Fide of Waterloo-bridge, on the Surrey side of the Thames, he observed the body of a man lying a short distance out. He immediately obtained assistance, and brought the body ashore, when it was found to be that of a young man, who, between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock last night, committed suicide by throwing him self from the third arch of the Surrey side of Waterloo-bridge. The deceased was seen by some persons, who were paaAng at the time, to step,quiekly on the seat and spring over the parapet. An alarm was instantly given, but from the darkness of the night all trace of him was lost. The deceased appears to be highly respectable from his dress, which was black, and wear ing a black silk stock, in which was a pin. In hig pocket was a red and white silk handkerchief, and twenty-three shillings in money. His shirt is marked W. M No. 3, and upon a piece of paper, which Anderson the beadle found in his pocket, was written several lines over the name of William Mansell. The deceased appears not to be more than 22 years of age. The body was conveyed to the vault of St. John's Church, Waterloo-road. NORTHERN AND EASTERN RAILWAY.— Yesterday a special general meeting of the proprietors of this rail say took place at the London Tavern, for the purpose of forfeiting certain shares, the calls of which were in arrear. The chair was taken by William Crawshay, Esq., who pro posed a resolution for declaring forfeited seventy shares, the calls on which remained unpaid. The motion was se conded by a proprietor, and carried unanimously. The Chairman said the shares all belonged to one proprietor. Several new bylaws were then passed unanimously. In answer to various propriet&s, the Chairman said the weekly average receipts from September to the present month were 455/. ; during the time of the late floods they only received 1121. weekly. Taking the average from last February it was ewe wee kly. He expected they would shortly have 6001. weekly. Out of this they would have to pay the Eastern Coun ties Company 200/. per week, which would leave 4001., and the average expenses in the latter would not exceed 50 per cent. weekly. In censequence of the reduction in the capital. the shares had been reduced one-half, that was from 100/. to 501. It was now 720,0001., in 14,400 shares of 501. each. The line lo Harlow was expected to be opened by the fi rst week inf August, when there would be ten coaches on the line. At present there are three coaches, but several left pas sengers at Broxbourne. A vote of thanks was then given to the chairman, and the meeting separated. DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.—It iS ge nerally supposed that the large arrear of public business neces sarily created by the sudden dissolution of Parliament will sug gest the necessity for the assembling of the new House of Commons as speedily as possible. The last Parliament was dissolved on the 18th of July, 1837, and the writs were made returnable on the 15th of November following, thus al:ow ing an interval of nearly four months for the elections, which, considering the mode of canvass, and the short time allowed . . for taking the poll under the Reform Act, was a much longer period than could by possibility be required. It is, however, conceived, that the utmost despatch, compatible with the con venience of the several candidates and constituencies, will be* employed, so as to ensure the opening of the new Parliament at an early period. The choice of a Speaker will be the first act of • the new I'a li.tment. Mr. Manners Sutton (Vise. Canterbury) held the chair for eighteen years, and presided over seven new )louses that on r s i nce of Commons ; Mr. Ab ercrom b y (L or d D un f erml i n e) ,ltihae Parliament 2 the nB year 1509 (wlnsn it i 5 t t h e f o f thel‘ LaNfor four years ; and Mr. C. Sh aw L e ' evre f or two pin., The he willl a e l e s t o i b o f neb theforoth Spe akere en was h Pa King dom.t It appears by a return prepare d from t h e ro ll s and L, i rteTn 9 d .The n supposed the d ura ti on o f P arl i aments was extended b eyon d one year), only four Parliaments have existed beyond seven yrs.'s* and only nine have had a sexennial duration. Of the rests only nine Parli amen t s h ave l aste d a b ove fi ve years , t hr ee above four years, and three above three years. Only ten existed above two years, and no less than thirty-six for a shorter pe riod. The' average duration from 1509 te the presen t time (includin g th e Long Parliament in the reign of Charles 1., and that in the reign of Charles 11., which lasted nearly seventeen years) does not exceed the space of three yearn each ; so that, although nominally septennial, Parliaments may be said to have not more than a really triennial existence. RAILWAY AND STAGE CARRIAGES. —POST - HORSE DUTY.—A return has been made to the Howe of Commons of the amount of mileage and composition for duties on railway and stage carriages, and also the atoot r of l 7 39, s t horse duty for Great Britain, paid in the years l to r and 1840. The amount of composition is tirnifiiinpagi, itemsand er e therefore omit it. The followin are the P c for g 1838, 36 2.51 t. ; 1839, the three years :--Railway mileage,' 70,837/. ; and 1840. 112,21>!U.Stage csma": red uction mileage, 1834, 494,138/. ; 1839, 497,193/. ; and 1 640, 438 -° 2l . took place in October in the mileage duty on stage carriages ' 1839, which it was estimated would amount to 100,000/. p er annum. Post-horse duty, 1838, 237, 452; 1839, 224405: • and 1840, 212,6351. It thus W that there has been noears w as diminished only by little more reduction in 1839, which falling off in the stage carriage duty , except t hat caused by th e than half the amount estimated. The falling off in th e post. horse duty has been about 24,800/. SUDDEN DEATH IN THE STREET.--On Wed nesday afternoon an inquest was held at the Fish and Bell pnb lie-house, Charles-street, Soho-square, before Mr. Higgs, Co roner for Westminster, ou view of the body of a m an , whose name is unknown. About eleven o'clock on Wednesday morn ing a phaeton stopped at the door of the above -named boar*. The driver of the ve hicle was the de cea s ed , who went in door., and had h a lf a pint of porter at the bar. Deceased having drank the porter, remounted his box, but scarcely had he done so when he fell down lifeless, his head being supported by the iron railing of the dickey. The Jury, in the absence of far ther evidence, returned a verdict—'. Died by the Visitation 11 , God." Vv CAUTION TO TRAVELLERS BY RAILWAY.— That industrious fraternity, the " Swell .Mob," appear to have transferred their operations upon the travelers in the omnibuses to those by the railway, and the publie will do well to be upon their guard against their pro ceedings. On Monday afternoon, an e'derly gentleman, named Scott, who resides at Guildford, tcok a plact: , by the train of the Southampton Railway to Wok ng, and in the same carriage with him were three well-dressed persons, one of whom, during the journey, soresd im open cloak upon his knees. Mr. Scott observed that thin person sat very close to him, but nothing occurred to ex cite his suspicion, and when the train arrived at the Kingston station, the three "gentlemen" politely wished him a good evening, and left the carriage. Afew minuto afterwards lie put his hand in his pocket, and found thtil his purse, which contained upwards of five pounds h o , gold and silver, had been stolen. Upon his arrival 14 Esher he gave information to the railway police, who instituted an inquiry and search aftQr the " gentlgnien. ll but without Sheens',. The police hnye r(.4seived it forms tbiuotniotfissetvoebraelioloapieedr robberies of caution will put, a stop tv them for the future.