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U VDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS THIS EVENING, APRIL 14, Will be repeated the New Comedy, inyive Acts, entitled LONDON ASSURANCE. .Sir Harcourt Courtly, Bart., Mr. W. Farren ; Max Hark. away, Mr. Bartley; Mr. Charles Courtly, Mr. Anderson; Mr. Adolphus Spanker, Mr. Keeley ; Mr. Dazzle, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mark Meddle, Mr. Harley ; Grace Harkaway, Madame Vestris • Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. pert. Mrs. Humbv. After which will be repeated, the Grand Romantic Fairy Ex travaganza, entitled BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Beauty, Madame Vestris ; The Beast, Mr. W. Harrison ; John Quill, Mr. Harley ; Dressalinda, Miss Rainforth ; Mar rygolda, Miss Grant ; Queen of the Roses, Miss Lee. To-niorrow, London Assurance, with Beauty and the Beast. Doors to to opened at half-past Six—the performances to Commence at Seven o'Clock. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Prico, 3s. 6d.; First and Second rireles, ss. ; Second Price, %. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price. 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets ox ty oe had upon application. Private BOX LA to be had so'ely of Mr. Andre cs, bookseller, 67. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Three New Pieces, supported by Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. J. S. Balls, Mr. Hicks, and Mr. J. T. Haines, in addition to the old favourites. plendid scenery and appointments. THIS EVENING, APRIL 14, Will be acted a New Legendary Drama, entitled TOM MOORE OF FLEET-STREET; OR, THE STARLING OF THE OLD SALOUPE HOUSE. Tom Moore, Mr. J. S. Balls ; Wilhelm Stirn, Mr. 0. Smith. After which, a Spectacle of Diablerie, called APOLLYON, THE GREAT FIEND ; OR, THE LOVE TOKEN. Apollyon, Mr. 0. Smith. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled THE UNIFORM ; OR, TWO MEN AND ONE COAT. Characters by Messrs. J. S. Balls, J. T. Haines, Neville, Buckingham, Ileslop, Mrs. H. Hughes, Mrs. W. Daly, &c. Entirely New Scenery and Dresses for all Three Pieces. " THE CHINA SUN," REPUBLISHED ON SATURDAY LAST, IS NOW ON SALE, With all the LATEST NEWS. TIIE RAILWAY SUN WILL BE PUBLISHED TOWARDS THE END OF THIS MONTH. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Horning 6 minutes after 6 I Evening 37 minutes after 7: e P0i1t...11,'; • •4 0; t 5 U t ;•••"il I'e ° 4 fir> ' • 0:%1 .1 P o‘ . r' .11k, 3§11.114 LONDON: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1841. A meeting took place on Monday, at Liver pool, to consider of the propriety of petitioning tbr the Repeal of the Corn-laws, which was at tended by all classes, who acted with unanimity. Unabridged report of the proceedings, which we publish, will give our readers an idea of the sen timents which prevail amongst the inhabitants of the great town of Liverpool, and of the bold terms in which some of the first merchants of the empire now denounce the iniquitous Corn-laws. As the language which we have so long applied to these laws is now echoed in every part of the empire, we may be proud of our exertions, and look forward with the utmost confidence to suc cess. The moral sympathies of the bulk of the people—the sacred principles of right, without° b serving which societies cannot hold together, are now fairly enlisted in favour of the repeal of the Corn-laws, and against them no earthly power can stand. Referring our readers to the report for the sentiments and language of the most re spectable merchants, we must notice only one sentiment of Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY. In the last Session of Parliament Sir R. PEEL admitted that our country owed much of its greatness to commerce and manufactures. No man can for an instant compare France of Ger many with England, without being instantly convinced that trade is the principal source of any superiority we may possess. To damage or destroy our trade is, therefore, to strike a deadly blow at the relative greatness of England. Now the sentiment of Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY, to which we implore attention, was little more than an iteration of these statements ; but because it seems to be lost sight of by the public, and disregarded by those who are bound to attend to the national welfare, it requires to be continually repeated. " WE SHOULD NEVER," said Sir JOSHUA, "LOSE SIGHT OF THIS FACT, THAT IT WAS TO COMMERCE AND MANUFAC TURES WE OWED OUR PRESE?T POSITION IN THE SCALE OF NATIONS, and that IF WE CEASED TO BE AN EXPORTING COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURES WE SHOULD SINK AS RAPIDLY AS WE HAD RISEN." That opinion was an article of the national creed as warmly cherished all through the last century as any part of the national reli gion, and it seems only to have been forgotten or disregarded when the vast preponderance of power which commerce and manufactures had obtained for us was supposed to be secure beyond the reach of accident or disaster. But though that faith of our ancestors has been nearly for gotten for about twenty-five years, we hope that it is not yet wholly extinguished, for unless it be revived in the hearts of this generation in all its original strength, that prosperity, which disre garding it has nearly annihilated, will be lost for ever. In the Report of the Handloom Weavers' Com missioners there is a passage bearing on this subject, which we strongly recommend to the attentive perusal of the Legislature and the public at large. It is long, but every word of it ought to be weighed by those who by their le- gislation are making England cease to be an exporting country, and ruining her manufac. tures past all hope of redemption. The Commissioners say:— It is a well known law of manufacturing industry, that cateris paribus with every increase of the quantity pro duced, the relative cost of production is diminished, and, what is the same thing, that with every diminution of pro duction the relative cost of production is increased. The instant, therefore, that any given class of manufacturers begin to feel that their competitors are outthipping them, the instant they find that commodities similar to their own meet them in the market at a lower price, that instant they ought to know they are engaged in a contest which, f its elements continue the same, must terminate ruinously. If they can change those elements, if they can adopt the processes of their rivals, or procure for themselves similar local advantages, they may, perhaps, regain their ground. But if they are unable or unwillin g to use these means, their relative inferiority must become more striking every year. Tire less they produce tho greater will be the rela tive cost of the produce, while the more their rivals pro duce the less will be their relative cost of the production. First comes a fall of profits, next a reduction of wages, then irregular employment even at reduced wages, until the capitalist is ruined or forced to change his business, or the seat of his manufacture, and the workmen must follow his example or be supported by charity. , " We find by experience," saysGardner,.a very intelligent manufacturer, examined by the Committee of the House of Commons on Hand-loom Weavers, in 1835, " that if we lose a market one year we lose it altogether. It is not well to trifle with trade; by trying experiments for only one year, we might shut ourselves out. Once in possession of the market they would keep it." These considerations give a painful interest to the con tests now in progress, or beginning or impending, be tween many of our important manufactures and foreign producers. Great natural advantages enjoyed by the United States of America, difficulty and insecurity in the management of our manufacturing capital, occasioned by the perverseness and violence of our combined ar tisans, anti-commercial jealousy and folly on the part of contest shall not continue the same. Indeed they will not continue the same, for there is no possibility of withholding from other nations the advantages of knowledge and skill which we possess. They are fast acquiring, and even surpass ing our knowledge in machinery, so that the elements of the contest will become, in an ac celerating ratio, more and more in their favour, and bring about the ruin of our national great ness the more swiftly and the more certainly, unless the Legislature relieve our commerce and manufactures from the great disadvantages which its suicidal policy has heaped on them. There is one effect of our present commercial restrictions, which is too immediately flattering to our political pride to excite any present un easiness, but which seems to us so pregnant with important consequences that we cannot avoid calling attention to it. Our colonies are the themes of much national gratulation, and nobody rejoices more than we at our possession of those noble homes for future generations of our coun trymen. At the same time we cannot approve of a system which feeds and nourishes them at the expense of cultivating friendly relations with the neighbouring States of Europe and with the vast republic of North America. With them, and particularly with our newest and most distant colonies in the southern ocean, trade is free, while trade with the United States and with the neighbouring countries of Europe is not free. The consequence is that capital and labour, not finding profitable employment in trading with Europe and the United States, flow much faster into those distant colonies than they would did our Legislature lay no restrictions on our trade with foreign countries. For example, were trade with the United States per fectly free—could we freely import here the produce of the boundless plains of the Mississipi, there can be no doubt a copious stream of emigration would be directed from England thither, and that our manufacturers would there find a large and rapidly increasing supply of food, and a market for their produce. In like manner, were trade with all Europe free, we should find large markets for our goods in Norway, Sweden, and Germany, and should take from those countries additional quantities of timber and food. The result of that pOlicy would he to form with all these coun tries such strong and such friendly com mercial ties, that they would defy the cunning or the ambition of politicians to involve them in war. They would be as closely united as England and Ireland, or even more closely, for there would be no sense of political oppression on the one hand, and no political ar rogance on the other, to keep them hostile and separate. It does not please our rulers, how ever, to adopt so rational a system, and the con sequence is, that we have comparatively little trade, and few friendly relations, with those neighbouring countries. As a compensation, however, as some per sons suppose, for wanting them, our colonies in the southern hemisphere are growing rapidly into power. Companies of merchants and gentlemen who would gladly trade, if they could make a reasonable profit on their capital, with Norway or the United States, become great purchasers of land at the antipodes, and ship off, under a great variety of temptations, while the Government banishes to the same regions a considerable num ber, annually, of our people. Our colonies there are consequently rising rapidly into importance, and land is becoming of great price. We read of it selling, in New South Wales, for more than 5001. per acre, when put up to auction, to form a projected town. Whatever may be the ulti mate results of such a system, it has a tendency to extend and continue. All those who are concerned in purchasing land there, or shipping emigrants to go thither, become deeply interested in the con tinuance of the present system. A change in it, which would enhance profit at home, or which would make it more profitable to invest capital in a trade with the United States than to invest it in land and in transporting labour to the anti -1 podes, would be partially disadvantageous to the colonizers and land jobbers, and they, therefore, will be opposed to such changes. Thus the artificial system at present acted on directs the superfluous hands and wealth of England to cultivate the continents and islands of the southern hemisphere, instead of extend- ing, on the system of nature, our commercial and friendly relations with the neighbouring and surrounding countries. At first view we own that this appears benefi cial. The colonies belong to us, they form part of the empire, they are ours, which recommends submissivetotlewsaiimcei Government, they are politically recommends the s . y t - s ste b n e l n t e o fit o s. our a ß fi u 'e t ct t i h on e s u h n ef it o e r de 1 we inquire as to States did stand in exactlyl tiesnaie rela tion, and now they are a separate and a powerful people, having a Government of theii l • e o a l l v t n h . These distant colonies, as they grow in v and power, will follow the same course. It has been so with all colonies. Children are intended by Nature to separate from parents, and to become independent parents themselves. Na tions are only collections of parents and children. But when those distant colonists separate from England, the political tie will be severed, though the commercial may continue. The only perma nent connection, therefore, to which the people of the mother country can look forward with these distant colonies, is a commercial connec tion, from which, we think, it plainly follows I that we are now, by our restrictive system, sacri ficing a present valuable, and home or neigh bouring trade, for a trade perhaps not quite so valuable, at a very distant day, with the other side of the globe. Comparing the two systems, therefore, of encouraging trade with many of our neighbours, and a still more anti-com mercial, still more jealous, and still more absurd legis lation of our own, arc among the obstacles which op pose the British manufacturer for foreign sale. Our capital, our machinery, the excellence of our means of internal and external communication, our mineral wealth, and above all the superiority of our artisans in skill and in diligence, a superiority so great as often to render British labour at British wages cheaper than that of the lowly paid continental workman, are the advan tages which once gave to us in almost every manufacture a decided supremacy. Our advantage in mineral wealth continues. No other country has been able to avail itself of deposits of iron and coal so abundant and in such convenient juxtaposition; and we believe that as respects diligence and skill, with the exception of the operations requiring taste, our work men retain over those of the continent of Europe their general superiority. The general result of the evidence collected by the Assistant-Commissioners, by Dr. Bow ring, and by the Committee on Manufactures and Trade of 1833, is that though the continental hours of labour are longer than ours, yet the daily amount of work done by a British workman is much greater. This remark. however, does not apply to America. There is, indeed, some evidence that American labour is more effective than our own, and none that it is inferior. But twenty-five years of peace have made a vast addi tion to the capital of our most formidable rivals, the in habitants of the north-eastern par is of Europe, and of the United States of America. The means of internal com munication in America are in many respects superior to our own. We have nothing to compare with their inland navigation, or with their four thousand miles of railroad. Central Europe has made slower advances, but Belgium is already covered by a network of railroads ; many are completed, and still more are in progress in Germany, and the mere improvement in the ordinary roads, which from being among the worst are now among the best in ithe world, is a change almost as great as that from a good English road to a railroad. In machinery the advance both in America and in Europe is still more remarkable. In 1824 the Americans were considered as thirty years behind us. In 1833 their cotton machinery was in gene ral quite equal to ours, and in the coarser articles supe rior, so much so that all our recent improvements bad come from thence. Such was their progress in nine years. Again, in 1824, France appears to have been the only rival that we feared in machinery. She then supplied Germany and Switzerland, and in a great measure Bel gium. In 1833 the machinery in many parts of Germany is described as equally efficient, though not so durable as our own. In 1839, our Assistant-Commissioner, Mr. Symons, found the trade of machine-making flourishing both in Switzerland and in Austria, vol. i., p. 113-19, and Belgium bad already not only become independent of France, but a formidable rival to Great Britain. These statements do give a painful interest to the present contest which our manufacturers are waging against the manufacturers of other countries, with their hands and feet in legislative shackles. Our manufacturers begin to feel that their competitors are outstripping them, and that they are engaged in a contest which, 'if its elements continue the same, must terminate ruinously. This feeling—this thorough conviction of what awaits them, and what awaits the country, more than any existing decay, now excites our manufacturers to demand from the Legislature that the elements of this THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1841. We have received the whole of the Paris jour nals of Sunday. On Maundy-Thursday the KING and the Court attended at the chapel of the Tuileries the ceremony of the commemora tion of washing the disciples' feet before the cru cifixion. This was the first time the ceremony was performed since the Revolution of 1830. The Journal des Debats of Sunday has the following account of an examination by the KING of the progress of the works for fortifying Paris : On Friday, at two o'clock, the King visited the works of the fortifications of Paris, in the park of Neuilly and the Bois de Boulogne. His Majesty was accompanied by Marshal Soult, Lieutenant-General Dode; de la Brunerie, his Aides. de- Camp, and orderly officers. Lieut.-Colonel de Casieres, who has the superintendence of the works between the Canal Saint Denis and the Lower Seine, awaited his Majesty at Neuilly. The King found all the works stopped along the whole line that he traversed. This interruption is to be ascribed to a contest which has arisen between the Administration of the Ponts et Chaussees and that of the War Department, which is on the point of being settled. His Majesty ordered that the works should be resumed with the utmost activity. A Coun cil, which is to take place to day (Sunday) at the War-office, between the Marshal, the Director-General of the Fortifica tions, and several officer s , will definitively regulate th e di v i s i on of the works. Those of the Bois de Boulogne will be finished the first. It is also stated that it has been decided that the works should be commenced at every pad of the enceinte simultaneously. In fact, it would be difficult to expend the thirty-five millions which have been voted for this year, and to which must be added the seven millions which remained from the last, if a great extent of ground were not to be embraced, and if extraordinary activity were not devoted to the works. There is very little news of the slightest inte rest in the French journals of Sunday. On the Bth inst the Duke of NEMOURS sailed from Tou lon fbr Algiers on board the Grondeur steamer. NEW ZEALAND COLONISTS.--The Lloyd Nantais an nounces, that the French colonists sent out to New Zealand, in the Comte de Paris, had landed in that island, and com menced their settlement without any impediment on the part of the English, who had taken possession of the country in the name of the Queen. The French planters had established their own laws, and elected for their governor M. de Belligny, a young naturalist travelling at the expense of the Paris Mu seum. All the plants brought from France had succeeded. The vines, mulberries, and tobacco, were also doing well. The most friendly intelligence existed between the crews of the English corvette Favourite and the French brig Aube. THE FRENCH BEEF Tax.—lt was proposed at the begin ning of the French session to diminish the duty on the impor tation of foreign cattle, which is 55 francs the head. Since then a considerable rise has taken place in the price of meat, and by and by the poor must do altogether without it unless the Legislature permit importation. The Journal des Debats publishes the following facts : ‘‘ From 1819 to 1829, the annual consumption of Paris was 76,000 oxen, 360 kilogrs. each ; from 1829 to 1839 it was not 70,000 oxen of 325 kilogrammes, though the popu lation had augmented one-sixth. In 1825, 830,000 inha bitants of Paris consumed 463 1 millions . of kilogrammes of butchers' meat. In 1838, 920,000 only consumed 44i mil lions of kilogrammes. In 1789, Lavoisier estimated that the Parisians consumed 75 kilogrammes per head in the year; now they consume but 48i. The consumption of wine, the other great source of strength to the working population, is also greatly diminished. It is not one-half of what it was in 1809." One of the great causes of this diminution in the comfort and nourishment of the lower classes in Paris, is the octrol, or duty on entering the gates, which is for meat nearly as much as that paid on any ox passing the frontier. Both to gether amount to 4/. or 100 francs—between the one-third and the one-fourth of the price. As the Journal des Debats ob serves, the capital of the 'working classes lies in the vigour of their muscles. Paris is erecting and gilding fountains and squares. It is gradually starving its poorer population. THE EASTERN QUESTION.—The Leipsic Gazette, under the head of Vienna, 2nd inst., men ti ons t h at P rince Metter nich had lately declared, that "if the treaty of London was not executed in the spirit of humanity in which it was con ceived towards Mehemet Ali, Austria would withdraw com pletely from it, and leave to the authors of a war which would then become inevitable all the responsibility of such a ca lamity." General Quiroga, whose name has acquired some celebrity, died on the 26th of March at Santiago, of an apoplectic stroke. He was living in a state approaching topoverty. The two eldest sons of the Infants of Spain, who were at the College of Henry IV., set out yesterday to visit some of our cities and departments, previously to a journey in Belgium, Holland, and England, where they are going to pass some months. —La Gazette de France. The following is a letter from Canea, dated the 6th of March, addressed to the Lord de Manville The attempt at insurrection in this island appears likely to come to nothing. A regiment is expected at Constantinople, and there is no doubt that on its arrival tranquillity will be completely restored. Two of the English men-of-war, which were at anchor at Suda, have already left; there will remain only one, it is said, till the arrival of troops from Constantinople. It is vain that it has been contemptuously asked what there is in the name of Mehemet Ali? The question is answered by facts in Syria, as well as here--the country is not destitute of troops, and yet anarchy rages. Here the Egyptian garrison is not yet gone, it does duty as before; but the illustrious name of its former head is wanting to keep the turbulent in awe. Candia has lost not less than Syria in being withdrawn from the sceptre of Mehemet Ali. Will the Turks be able to keep it ? This country, which has riot a thirtieth part of the population that it could support, and its future destiny may become so brilliant, will perhaps be tke prey of the most adroit. It is whispered that England is not unconnected with the attempt at insurrection, its object being to have a plausible pretext, to occupy part of the island. if it is so we shall learn in the sequel, and we may expect the misfortunes which inevitably follow a Machiavelian policy. —Le Constitutionnel. AN 'Pt Bankrre ee reeP s A per Shares a r Cc .. 6° C c "ni s e t tR :tl . l :6.1 liquea '''' '''''' ********** . A .;;;: 2: 1 8 1 3 79 +4llgemeine Zettung ' ***** The Madrid Journals of the 4th instant have reached us, but they contain no news of the least interest. Letters from IV-----tras of the24th ult. state that a National Bank for the proposed establishment of Greece occupied much attentio n received Royal sanction, it ictapwiataslissatisd,thseernet to be carried out in consequence of n fe ; and although it bad takeescarcity deputy r t a b r e e s o i f is the to Amsterdam ranting the that it could not ject, but his mission was unsuccessful.pro. t i o l p e er K su il a lg de ha t d he the Interior bad issued an order, prohibiting t llhlinister of of passports to ary of the Candiots resident in jrgeece, for any part of the kingdom, besides requiring them to remain at the place where they were found at the ti me issuing of the order. ihese restrictions were complainedf the of by the Candiots as retarding their business t tions. M. Mavrocordato bad beeu appointed to the P_ of the Council of Ministers, and M. Tricoupi was named named to take his pl ac e in London. Prince - Maximilian was still at Athens. Lord Francis Egerton, M.P., has given the munificent donation of 6001. to the fund of the Manches ter and Eccles Church Building Society. our neighbours by a system of freedom, and of encouraging colonization by a system of restric tion on trade with foreign countries, so far as the wealth of England is concerned, the system of free trade appears to us of pre-eminent advan tage. We admit that the restrictive system appears to be more for the advantage of the Colonies, and of those who go thither to reside. They get more labour and cheaper commodities than they otherwise would get. But they drain England, comparatively speaking, of both po pulation and wealth, which she would re tain did the absence of restrictions allow the people to get food in any quantity while they lived in England, and add to their riches by manufacturing at home for foreign nations. The one system would increase her compact strength, while it would establish friendly relations with other civilized people; the other spreads her power over an immense surface, and ensures its breaking into fragments. Speaking politically, those colonies do not at present add to our strength—they do not in crease our navy or our national resources--they have been, in fact, hitherto a drain, and are likely to be for some time a drain, on the mother country. New South Wales has been en riched and cultivated, in fact, by taxes levied in England. In case of war with any of the neighbouring Powers they could render England no assistance. They are at too great a distance. On the contrary, the national strength would be dissipated in providing for their defence, and a large part of the seamen whom we should require for our ships of war, would necessarily be engaged in distant voyages to the Southern Ocean. The system which nourishes these colonies, therefore, at the ex pense of free trade with foreign nations, prevents the extension of our friendly relations with them, and decreases our ability, when they are hostilely inclined, to resist them. We beg our readers not to suppose that we are inimical to colonies, or wish to check our people in spreading themselves over the whole globe. On the contrary, no person feels more delight than we feel at the prospect of our native lan guage being at some period the language of the great majority of the population of Ame rica and of the southern hemisphere. At the same time we have a predominating affection for our native island, and would preserve, if possi ble, its power and greatness to the end of time. We object, then, not to the most extensive sys tem ofcolonization, voluntarily undertaken, which is not fostered by undue restrictions on other branches of human enterprise, forcing capital and industry into that particular direction. We object to restrictions on our trade with foreign countries, and say that one of their effects not hitherto sufficiently noticed, and not likely to be, particularly by those who are enraptured with our• colonies, be cause self-love will warp the judgment, is to force prematurely a system of colonization, which now weakens, and will ultimately inflict a very serious injury and degradation on, the mother -country. Hamburgh 208,200 oz Rotterdam Belgium 6,000 Hamburgh 23,000 (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL, APRIL 12.—THE I'RESIDENT.—A report ob ained circulation this morning that a letter had been re ceived by Mr. Roberts from Captain Roberts of the Pre sident, that the steamer had put into Madeira, hands and passengers all saved. The writer of this paragraph was present when the communication was brought to the Un derwriter's room, and immediately instituted inquiries. The result was that there proved to be no truth in the matter, and is merely mentioned here for the purpose of contradicting any rumour that might possibly reach the North and South American Coffee House. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 12.—A very con sideraLle business has been done in the Cotton Market to day, the sale comprising from 5,000 to 6,000 bales. Spe culators and exporters have been more active, the former having purchased 500 bales, and the latter 1,400. The better descriptions of Americans have been sold at very full rates. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 12.—The follow ing are the transactions :—Eastern Counties, 91 ; Ditto Debentures, 7i; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 341 ; Glas gow, Paisley, and Greenock, 25a ; Grand Junction, 211 ; Great Western New Shares, 644 ; Lancaster and Preston Junction, 32,; •London and Birmingham, 1571 Shares, 24; 321. Shares, 54; Ditto New Shares, 251 ; London and South-Western, 571; Manchester and Birming ham, 244. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 12.--Manches ter and Birmingham, 244; Manchester and Leeds, 66 ; don and South Western, 57* ; Lancaster and Preston, New, 25* ; South Eastern and Dover, 184 ; Manchester and Salford Bank, 10k; Manchester Assurance, 9*. The Oriental steamer has arrived with the remainder of the overland letters from India, sailed from Alexandria the 25th of March, Malta 31st March, Gibraltar 6th April. Sir Charles Napier has arrived by the above steamer. PORTUGUESE, INDIA—The Portuguese authorities at Goa, alive to the languishing stare of trade in the Portu guese Settlements of India, and the necessity of an effort on their part to endeavour to revive it, to this end have, by a public ordinance, declared the ports of Goa, Dier, and Dernaun, free for the admission of merchand . ze of every description, and of all nations, on the payment of the trifling duty of 1 per cent. The British Funds continue inactive at present, and opened at the same quotations as they left off, both for Time and the Account, 89i 90 ; but for next Account the continuation is rather lower, for the 25th of May next, 904, Exchequer Bills, 11 12 prem. ; Bank Stock, 171 k 1721. India Stock, 253 254. In the Foreign Market nothing doing as yet, and the prices are nominal. Spanish Active as it left off, 24; Deferred, 121 ; Passive, 54 1 ; Portuguese as it closed, 331 ; Three-per-Cents., 19a 20a ; Brazilian, 69 70 ; Chilian, 59 61 • Colombian, 24 23 ; Mexican, 30a , Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 514 52; Five per Cents., 981 4. Shares :—Great Western, 27a 24 prem. ; New, 13. prem. ; London an d B r i g h ton, 4 4-2 dis • Backwell, 54 die. ; Birmingham, 68 70 p rem; Southampton, 54 57a per share ; Croydon, 14 per share ; Greenwich, 8 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 14 15 dig. ; South Eastern and Dover, 154 144 dig. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties Great Western London and Brighton London and Blackwell London and South Western ...... 38i 57}..... to Midland Counties York and North ...... 50 We have this morning a report that an extra train has arrived from Liverpool, bringing intelligence that the Pre sident steamer has arrived there in a very shattered state. As yet we cannot confirm the above report, nor is there much credit given to it; still it has caused a great stir in the City. The British Funds have been in a stagnant state during the morning, with scarce a bargain doing, although money appears to be plentiful. Twenty thousand pounds was lent yesterday in the house at two per cent. This is a circumstance rarely known. The settling in the Share Market is going off heavy. Consols at present 90 for the Account ; for Money 89a 90; Exchequer Bills 13 11 13 prem. ; Bank Stock 172 171 ex. div. ; India Stock, for the opening, 254; India Bonds, par 2 prem. In the Foreign Market only three bargains have been done; Spanish Deferred, 121 • Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 52 51, ; Five per dents, 98a Shares—Very little doing, it being Settling Day. Eastern Counties, 4; Great Western, 92, ; London and Brighton, 46 ; Blackwell, 194 ; South Western, 57a ; Midland Counties, 904. Consols for Money, 89a 90 ; Ditto May Account, 901 ; Mexican, 304 i; Portuguese, 334 1; Spanish, 23 to I. No news of the President by the second train from Liver poo CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock .„ 172/ India Stock 3 per Cent Red. B9 Ditto Bond s 2 pal 3 per Cent Cons B9l, Ditto Old Annuities ... 86L 31 per Cent Red 97-L [Ditto N ew Annuities... 87,i New 3i per Cent 99 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 13 pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 500/ l3 prn Long Annuities to expire Ditt o S mall lO pm Jan. 1860 l2l Bank St oc k for 0pg.... Oct 1859 l2 11-161 India Stock f0r'0pg....954 Jan. 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent lO2/ Ditto, New Ditto 333 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 23/i Ditto, 1824. ;Ditto, Deferred .. 12g Danish, 3 per cent 7B 'French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — 'Exchange —f. —c. .Mexican, 5 per cent.... 30i 'French, 3 percent —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 511 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. 'Ditto, 5 per cent 9B/ SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid ...... ..... 9i Ditto Debentures ( 4 paid) 7i Great Western Railway (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 64 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Blackwall Railway (25 pd) ... 19/ London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 158 Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) 25 London and South Western ... ........... Ditto Tenths London and Croydon Railway ( Trunk) Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ... Ditto New Shares (30 paid) 27i Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) ••• 90/ York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 81 COURSE OF EXCHANGE—( YESTERDAY). Amsterdam CF. 12 7 Gibraltar 4B Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...... ...2 U. 12 7* Genoa . • 25 85 Antwerp . 12 6i Milan Hamburgh M. B. 13 12i Venice ... ... 47 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60 Palermo, per oz 119 Ditto, 3 months ......... 25 80 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 85 Rio Janeiro 27 Frankfort on Maine... 150 i Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres , . 46 Vienna, Berlin. - e11 : c . c .. . . 11 ... . ... . El.. 10 7 3 0 Philadelphia del OF BULLION, PER oz Trieste, ditto Madrid .. Cadiz 35/ Foreign Gold, bars... 3 17 9 Bilboa .. 35 Neiv Doubloons 0 0 0 Barcelona Seville STREET ROBBERY. —Yesterday an elderly gen tleman was regulating his watch in Trafalgar-square, accord ing to the clock of the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. While he was holding it in his hand and winding it up, an elderly woman accosted him, and put to him a series of idle questions. She thus engaged his attention, when it fellow ran across the street, who, pushing asHe the gentleman and the woman, snatched the gold re peater from the former and ran away with it. nTehssci e e w t o h m e an, who was an accomplice with th e robb e r, also made off. The g en tl eman %%as completely astonished by the unexpected interference of those unwelco me fri ends. So s oon as h e recovere d hi mse lf he cried out " Stop thief." A consta bl e o f t h e A di v i,ion came up at the time and w e nt in p ursu it o f tie thief, and succeeded in capturing him and the woman. The watch was found, two the parties s er w . ere lodged in the statio n-house, w hen w 0 gentl emen came f orwar d an d deposed to having wit. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. There was again a very marked indisposition to ent.. into speculative operations in the English funds. For immediate transfer Consols realised 90 to 898, and for the Account in May, 908 to 90/. This shows the abundance of money, as the continuation for the six weeks gives a rate of interest equal to only 2 per cent. per annum on the deposit of Stock. Exchequer Bills were marked 11 to 13 premium ; and India Bonds par to 2 premium ; Bank Stock was worth 171 to 172/ ; and India Stock for the opening, 254. The New Three and-a-Half per Cents. realised 98k to 99 ; the Three and-a-Half per Cent. Reduced, 97/ to 97-i- ; and the Three per Cent. Annuities, 888 to 89. This afternoon a few of the Foreign Bonds ex changed hands at the following rates, which exhibit a trifling rally on the reduction of yesterday. Spanish Active Bonds 23 to 8; Portuguese, New 338 ; Mexi can, 308 to 8 ; Danish, 77/ to 78 ; and Dutch Five per Cents. 988 to 98/. The settlement being fixed to take place tomorrow, checked business. The account in the Share Market was adjusted to day, after which the demand became more animated for the principal lines, and at improved rates. Great Western Railway Shares obtained 27/ ; the New 13} to 14 ; the Fifths 7i to s : the London and Birming ham 68 to 69k ; the New 23 ; the York and North Midland 31 ; and the South Western in premium ; Brighton were 31 ; Blackwell .54 ; Midland Counties 98 ; and Eastern Counties 131 discount ; Commercial Bank of London Shares were at 25 discount ; and Lon don Joint Stock at 2/ premium. The Foreign Exchanges were firm this afternoon. Paper drawn at three months' date on the principal continental cities, was negotiated on the following terms :—Paris 25 70 to 72f ; Amsterdam 12 3/ to 4 ; Antwerp 12 3/ to 8 ; Frankfort 150 ; Hamburgh 13 9f to / : and Trieste 10 2 to 2f. The failure of another official assignee, Mr. Clark, created some sensation in the City to-day. The following are the official returns of the export of bullion from the port of London for the week ending Thursday last : Silver Coin to Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto Bars COURT CIRCULAR WINDSOR. TUESDAY.—TiIo Qiinen qnd PrinPp vc,.lked this morning for some time on tin , 'L twee of the Castle and the pleasure ground and Slopes ; after wards his Royal Highness the Prince rode out, attended by Colonel Bouverie, Colonel Wemyss, and the Hon. C. A. Murray. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken for her accustomed airing this morning, and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent walked out in the fore noon attended by Lady Anne Maria Dawson. This afternoon, about hall-pa,t three o'clock, her Majesty and Prince Albert rode out in a pony phaeton, his Royal Highness driving, into the Great Park. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady A. M. Dawson, and the Maids of Honour in Waiting on the Queen, the Hon. Misses Pitt and Devereux, drove out at the same time. The Royal party returned to the Castle a little before five o'clock. The Duchess of Bedford has arrived to-day at the Ca-tle, and has succeeded Lady Barham as the Lady in Waiting upon her Majesty. Lord Lilford has arrived, and has succeeded the Marquis of Headfort as the Lord in Waiting ; and Mr. Rich, succeeds Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Otway as the Groom in Waiting on the Queen. Lady Barham, Lord Headfort, and Sir R. Otway have taken their departure. The Right Hon. Sir William Fremantle, the Rev. Dr. Keate, arid Lieut.-Colonel Hall, of the Ist Life Guards, will have the honour of joining the Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening. is Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left town yesterday morning for his residence at Kew, where his Royal Highness spent the day, returning to Cam bridge House, Piccadilly, in the evening. Viscount Melbourne left town yesterday afternoon on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Somerset, at their residence in Wimbledon Park. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex honoured the Duke and Duchess with his company at dinner. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, and the Lady Louisa Fitzmaurice, left Lansdowne House yesterday morning for the residence of the Noble Mar quis at Richmond. Despatches from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and also from the Governor of Malta, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday. The Solicitor-General concluded his address for " Helps and others" in the will cause of " Wood v. Goodlake," and was followed on the same side by Sir William Follett, who was heard by their Lordships until the rising of the Court at four o'clock. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE ARRIVALS. Mrs. Temple West, at Montague-place, Montague -square, from Monkton, Somersetshire ; the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, at Beaufort House, from a visit to Hon. Lady Anne Culling Smith, at Hampton Court ; the Earl and Countess of Milton, in Grosvenor-square, from Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray ; the Countess of Darlington, and Lady Augusta Paulett, in Upper Brook-street, from Leamington Spa; the Hon. Sir Fleetwood Pellew, in Grafton -street, from Brighton; the Earl of !pinto, at the Admiralty, from Portsmouth ; the Earl of Roden, in Albemarle street, from Italy; Lauy Alice Peel, at the Countess of Newburgh's, in Wilton-crescent, from the Continent; the Dowager Countess of Sefton, and Ladies Molyneux, in Arlington-street, from Stoke Farm, Bucks; Sir Philip Malpas De Grey Egerton, Bart., M.P., and Lady Egerton, in Jermyn-street, from Oulton Park, near Middlewich, Cheshire; Viscountess Chelsea, in Wilton-cre scent, from a visit to Lady Anne Murray; Sir James Cock burn, from Staffordshire ; Colonel Fox, in Pall-mall, from Portsmouth ; the Earl of Chesterfield, at Chesterfield House, from Breby Park, Derbyshire; the Earl and Countess of Du cie and family, in Seymour-place, from their seat in Glouces tershire. The Duke and Duchess of DEPARTURES Somerset, from Park-lane, for Wimbledon ; the Earl of Radnor, from Grosvenor -street, for Longford Castle, Wilts ; Sir Felix Booth, Bart., from Re gent's Park, for the north ; Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart., M.P., from Jermyn-street, for his seat in Devon ; Earl and Countess De Grey, from St. James's-square, for Pansanger, on a visit to Earl and Countess Cowper; the Earl and Countess of Denbigh, from Maddox-street, for Warwickshire ; Lord Camoys, from Great George-street, for his seat in Oxford shire; Sir Arthur Brooke, Bart., M.P., for Colebrooke House, Fermanagh, Ireland; Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, from Curzon -street, for Wortley Hall, near Sheffield ; Lord Howard, for the Grange, Rotherham, Yorkshire • the Earl of Ilcheste r , accompan i ed by Lord Haverdale and Cady Caroline Strangways, from Burlington-street, for Melbury. House, the family seat, in Dorsetshire ; Lady Somerset, for Hastings ; the Right Hon. Sir George and Lady Rose, from Eat on - square, for Sussex ; th e E arl and Countess of Essex and Lady A. Capel, from Chapel-street, for Cashiobury Park ; Mr. and Lady Fanny Howard, from Belgrave-square, for Compton place, Eastbourne, Sussex ; the Hon oura bl e C harles C. Cav en di s h , M.P., and Lady Catherine Cavendish, from Burlington House, for Latimers, Bucks ; the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, from Grosvenor -crescent, for their seat in Hertfordshire ; Mr. T. Sheppard, from Great George-street, Westminster, for Surrey; Colonel Baker, M.P., from Old Cavendish -street, for Salis bury, Wilts; Mr. W. Wrightson, M.P., from Lower Gros venor-street, for Cusworth Park, near Doncaster ; Mr. G. W. Heneage, M.P., from Dover -street, Berkeley-squa re , for Compton Ba sse tt, Wil ts; t h e H on. Capt Pechell, M. P., from Spring-gardens, for Castle Goring, near Worthing ; Mr. G. Byng, :11.P. and Mrs. Byng, from St. James's-square, for Wrotharn Park, Herts ; Lord and Lady Carteret, from Hill street, for their seat near Ampthill, Bedfordshire; Sir Hussey Vivian, Bart., M P., from Fall-mall, on a tour of inspection ; the Earl and Countess of Rosebery, and Ladies Primrose, from Piccadilly, for Herts; Lord Melgund, M.P., and Hon. Mr. Elliot, from the Admiralty, for Minto House, Roxburg shire ; the Earl of Clare, from Belgrave-square, on a visit to the Earl and Countess Cowper, at Pansanger, Herts; Mr. W. R. C. Stansfield, M. P., from Jermyn-street, for Es holt Hall, near Leeds ; the Bishop of Lincoln, from Re gent-street, for Willingham, Market Raisen ; the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, and Marquis of Blandford, from Park- lane, for Blenheim Park, near 'Woodstock, Oxon; Sir James Graham, Bart., M.P. ' and Captain Graham, f rom Grosvenor place, for N e th er b y , the family seat in Cumberland; Mr. W. L. Buck, M.P., and Lady Elizabeth Buck, from Green-street, for Moreton, their seat near Bideford, Devon ; Captain Win nington, M.P., from Montcombe-street, for Brighton ; Mr. W. L. Bruges, M.P., for his seat near Devizes ; Mr. J. H. Cal craft, M.P., from Carlton House-terrace, for Rempstone Hall, Dorsetshire ; Mr. Bruce, Chichester, from Charles street, St. James's, for Arlington Court, his seat near Barn staple; Sir George Crewe, Bart., M.P., for Calke Abbey, near Derby; the Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons, and Mrs. Lefevre, from Eaton-place, for Heckfield place, Hartford-bridge, Hants; Mr. W. S. Dugdale, M.P., for his seat in Warwickshire ; the Right Hon. Sir Augustus' Forster, for Leamington Spa; Lord Aylmer, from the Bruns wick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris; Viscount Acheson, AI. P., from ditto, for I3eccles ; the Hon. M r . R ous, f rom ditto, for Henham ; Sir Gorge and Lady Crewe, from ditto, for Suffolk; Captain and Mrs. Du Cane, from ditto, for Windsor; Monsieur and Madame Fleirsham, from ditto, for the north ; Mrs. Raper, from ditto, for Peterborough. CHANGES. Mr. and Mrs. Hudson, from their seat in Shropshire, to Park -crescent; the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, at Boughton House, near Kettering, from Bowhill, N. B. ; Sir Horace Seymour and Dowager Lady Clinton, at Hampton Court Palace, from their seat in Sussex ; Sir Frederick John stone, Bart., and Lady Louisa Johnstone, at Ditchley Park, Oxon, from Leicestershire ; Mr. and Lady Caroline Maxse, at Brighton, from Woolbeding House, near Midhurst ; the Archbishop of York, at Newnham Park, Oxon, from Bishop thorpe, Yorkshire; the Hon. G. Cavendish, M.P., and Lady Louisa Cavendish, at Leamington Spa, from Harewood House, the seat of the Earl of Harewood, in Yorkshire ; Sir W. Cockburn, Bart., at Bath, from Staffordshire; Lady Lester, at Bath, from High Hall, Derbyshire; the Earl of Enniskillen, at Florence Court, from a visit to Mr. O'Wynne, at Hazle wood, Sligo; Sir Charles Burrell, Bart., M.P., at his seat in Sussex, from town ; Lord and Lady Adare, at Dunraven Castle, Glamorganshire, f rom Ad are H a ll , county Limerick ; Lord Frederick Beauclerk, at Portsmouth, from Brighton ; Sir William and Lady Pole, at Cheltenham, from Shute House, their seat in Devon:. ST. MARY, ISLINGTON- The Report of the Assessors and Auditors was yes terday made in this parish, particularly referred to two charges, the one for expenses incurred in the attempt to put down Sunday trading, and the other for a font to St. Stephen's Church, a font to All Saints, a font to St. James, and for baptismal registers for three churches, the item fOr the former being 401. 7s. 2d, and the item for the latter being 33/. 7s. 2d. The Assessor and Auditor observed, in reference to the charges for sup pressing Sunday trading, that although they thought by law they were bound to allow them, yet that they were of opinion that the expense was not judiciously incurred, and that the sanction of the Vestry ought to have been first obtained ; and in reference to the charge on ac count of the district churches, they agreed that as these edifices were raised by voluntary subscriptions, that the expenses for the font, &c., ought to be defrayed in the same way, aril that, therefore, th e money charged against the parish ought not to allowed. After some discussion the Report was in part adopted, and the sums paid by the Churchwarden for fonts were disallowed, and a resolution passed calling on the late Churchwarden to repay the parish the money he had improperly expended. A considerable discussion was expected on this subject, but it was avoided by the Church party giving up the point, they being too happy, apparently, to s l ur over th e proceeding as quietly an d speedily as possible. The sum expended to put- down Sunday trading was allowed, though strongly protested against, and only allowed from an assurance given by the same party that the expression of the Vestry's opi nion would prevent any such application of the funds in future. - - - THE ROYAL DOCKYARDS' POLlCE.—Yes terday morning, at six o'clock the change in the watching of the Royal Dockyards at Deptford and Woolwich took plac e , the old constabulary being supplanted by the me tropolitan police. At Deptford the duty will be performed by two inspectors (Mr. Jenkins, from the E, and Mr. Ro binson, from the G divisions), seven sergeants, and twenty nine constables. At Woolwich Mr. Feltham, of the T, and Mr. Field, of the L divisions, have been appointed as inspectors, with seven sergeants and thirty men under them. When the introduction of the metropolitan police into the Dockyards of Plymouth, Portsmouth, and Pem broke will take place is not yet decided upon, as it is con sidered it will be necessary to pass separate Acts of Par liament to enable Government to carry out its purpose. FRENCH VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY.—One of the most curious portions of the extensive collection brought home by Admiral Dumont d'Urville from hi s voyage of circ umnav i gat i on i s a large series of casts of heads and busts taken flora the islanders in the Pacific. These curious objects have been exhibited in the dock yard at Toulon, and are now on their way to Paris. LITERATURE. ALICIOUS DEER KlLLlNG.—lnformation was received at Bow-street yesterday that on the morning of the 6th instant, about oue o'clock, five men entered the park of Sir T. B. Lennard, Bart., Avely, and, with dogs, bunted and killed t wo d eer w hi ch were left upon t he- ground. It is believed that the above act was one of malice, and 401. reward is offered for the apprehension of the offenders. The British races at the beginning of the seven teenth century amounted scarcely to 10,000 ; 000, and at present they amount to .50,000,000 in both hemisphere?. It was only at the beginning of th e seven t eent h centur y t h at the first per mane ntßritith colony was planted in America. In 1780, the British races there amounted to 2,000,000. It has been calculated that, independently of fresh emigra tions, they double themselves about every twenty years, as the following will show : . In 1780 - 2,000.000 1800 4,000,000 1820 8,000,000 1840 According to this calculation, in the year 1940 these races will amount to 567.000,000, and so on in regular pro gression until arrested by the chief physical checks to po. pulation—want of food and want of space.. Work by Dr. Verity. WHAT'S IN A NAME ?=The inhabitants of the village of Squankum, in Jersey, recently held a meet lag, and unanimously resolved to change the name to the more mellifluous title of Williamsport. The character of the village was believed to be injured by the name it bore. —Philadelphia Gazette. MORNING EDITIOI PAISLEY PRESBYTERS'' SPORTING INTELLiGEN°I' TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 15 . 4to 1 ag s t R a l p h I 6to 1 agst 0„. ty sto 1 agst Wahab f 7to 1 agst Joad 6 to 4 on these agst the field. THE DERBY. to 2 agst Scott's lot—taken to 1 agst Lord Exeter's lot to 1 agst Coronation to 1 agst Van Amburgh—taken to 1 agst Rosalie colt—taken to 1 agst Knight of the Whistle to 1 agst Prince Caradoc to 1 agst Palmmon to 1 agst Ralph to 1 agst Eringo—taken to 1 agst Marshal Soult to 1 agst Wahab—taken 35 to 1 agst Metternich—taken 35 to I agst Cameleon—take 40 to . 1 35 to 1 agst Belgrade—take 40 to 1 40 to 1 agst Joachim 50 .to 1 agst The Duke of Welling [OOO to. 15 agst Young Quo Minus—taken 1000 to 15 agst Mosque—taken ,000 to 10 agst Hereford —taken 000 to 10 agst Gammon Box—taken 1000 to 10 agst Morning Star—taken • taken 25 to 1 agst Belgrade and Erineogardis 4. ken 26 to 1 agst Mosque an d c o neleon—A. (the Van Amburgh, Aletter • Cameleon, Belgrade v two at 40 to 1 each, and the Duke of 'Wellington, ye; backed freely, and the odds about t Scott's Wellington—taken freeff lot were take t 4 , about three or four hundred pounds. The Rosalie co e li also in favou r , b u t except i n the case of Metternic h , t hen were not affected by the result of the day's racing. bef o4 The unpromi s i ng s t a t e o f t h e weather immediat el y tt e the time of departure for the heath, had a visible effeet e o ro e attene/ance, whi c h f e ll considerabl) short of the 3v AO Two o r th ree f a ll s o f rain, hail, and snow, however, cle ar :J0: atmosphere, and b e f ore t h e sport was brought to.a c l os e tl . i c e;tji a very fair s p r i n kli ng o f fashionable company. We n° t ; cle" Duke and D uc h ess o f B eaufort, Duke and Duchess o of' land, Duke o f Rutland, Duke of P or tl an d ; MarquiseF ° f t ol e ' tester and Norma n by ; Earls Jersey, Ch es t er field, .4 - 11 '5, Stradbroke; Countesses of Albemarle, Chesterfield; .1 1, P p , dolphin, C. Mar i n ers , Villiers, and 3. Fitzroy, Co j °l.s ' Ge ° :ir tinck; Sirs H. Mildmay a n d . Graham ; Honour A bles' d ral Grosvenor, Colonel (and Mrs.) Anson, G r i. ( 20 3 cl Agnes) Byng, A. Villiers, Captain Rous, T. 1 7 ,30u5 , ., 40 t , t 1 Fitzroy • Colonels Hornhy and Peel ; Mes srs. 6ar' Sloane, Stanley, Batson, Portman, J. White, Forester, nor, Crommelin, Payne, Waddington, New'con, juu: 4 , 3l ' pb e oe Neville, Thornhill, j un., F ulwar Craven, Piawker,.,':7 Codrington, The o b a ld , W reford, Gully, &c Mr. vv' A s to" were sorry to hear, was confined to his aprArtment ~t of influenza. TUESDAY'S RIDDLESWORTIL-All, have t Wahab, Abydos, and colt by Mundig, out of Theoes• AL e 5 For the 50 S ews. S takes (Tuesday )—All have P al "' Nick, Oak Appl e co l t, G obemouche and /Eolian. autble— di For a Swe e p s t a k es of 5 Sovs. each ( Tuesday) Jessica, Audrey, and Remnant are named. PULPIT _RECOLLECTIONS. By the Rev. Sir W, DUNBAR, Bart. Smith, Elder, and Co., London, 1841. The spirit that breathes throughout this col lection of sermons cannot be too warmly ap proved, for it is one of unfeigned piety, simple and unassuming in its character, and inculcating " peace on earth and good-will towards men." author In the chast e e l oquence of his style the reminds us at times of Dr. Blair; and in his ser mon entitled " Piety manifesting its Blessings in Old Age," we catch something of the impassioned tone of Chalmers, but without any of that profilse display of trope and metaphor in which the Doctor is so prone to indulge. Sir William Dunbar makes no attempt at abstrUse, metaphy sical reasoning. He does not bewilder his readers with points of controversial or scholastic divinity, but enforces the great leading truths of Chris tianity in simple and perspicuous language. His volume app ea l s t o t h e h eart as well as th under standing; and, utterly devoid, as it is, of anything like bigotry or sectarianism, is calculated to be of great service in these days of religious scepticism. 'EVA VON TROTH-2 Vow. Thomas, London, 1840. The period to which the principal tale in these volumes refers, is that of the Reformation, when the German States were distracted by civil and religious broils, and the disputes between the Catholics, and those who held the doctrines of Luther, were raging with the greatest fierceness. Duke Henry of Brunswick, who was one of the most determined enemies of the Reformed faith, figures conspicuously in the story, and his bold, uncompromising character is vigorously con ceived, and consistently maintained. The tale is well translated by Miss Addison from the German of Blumephagen. Of the minor stories in the volumes, the utmost we can say of them is, that they are neither above nor below com mon-place. 12 13 17 18 ASIATIC JOURNAL. The most interesting article in the present Number of this periodical, is one headed " Ram bles in Ceylon," in which occur several lively graphic descriptions. The " Asiatic Intelli gence" is, as usual, very full and circumstantia PR. f' oi dedf r iA EAST SUSSEX HUNT R ACES.—M°I4- The Farmer's Stakes of 3 Sovs. each, and I ctage:k. the New Course, were won in two heats by . Lord G, I, i • Agilis, aged (Mr. J. Lipscomb) beating Louisa, .Si;a (136 apple, 6 yrs; Diana, aged (dis), and HolingburY, and The East Sussex Hunters' Stakes of 3 sovs. el ) b I added, the New Course, 12st each, were won in t",ea,illtica Sir J. Langham nd Little Tom (Mr. Johnston), u a n t ep by Wamba, Honest John, Maid of Sussex, Advance , j oree or three others. The Hack Race was won by Mr; s 00 1 ' Battledore, and the Hurdle race by Mr. J. Saxby's 'ACTICAL RULES for the MANAGEMENT of a LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE, in the STA TION, on the ROAD,:andincases of ACCIDENT. By CHARLES HUTTON GREGORY, Civil Engineer. John Weale. In the present stage of railway travelling three eading considerations ought to engage the at tention of the civil engineer. The first, of im mense importance, is to seriously deliberate upon such arrangements as may be calculated to give the greastest amount of security to the lives of the passengers, and to endeavour to improve those arrangements as much as possible. He ought not only to consider the means of af fording protection to the lives of the passengers in the event of an accident, but also the means of obviating the unfortunate delays that have often been experienced in such cases. The third consideration is of a more general nature, and refers principally to the more mechanical and purely scientific advancement of his profession, the possibility of making improvements on the way as well as in the mechanism of the engines, more particularly as regards speed, consumption and wear. Mr. Gregory's book is devoted exclu sively to the two first and most momentous ob jects, and his rules and directions, which bear evidence of great judgment, are clearly and con cisely written ' and they are g i ven i n the best possible form for the use of the working engine man. At page 41 the author observes : " The most essential personal qualifications of an en gine -man are sobriety and • steadinese, activity, presence of mind, and unceasing watchfulness ; and whenever these are combined with an accurate knowledge of the construc tion of a locomotive engine, and the principles of its ma_ nagement, they tend in no small degree towards rendering railways what they properly are, the safest as well as the most agreeable mode of travelling." We hope that the work may become a hand book, and be well digested by every engine driver on the various railways. Though small in dimensions, the matter is exceedingly compre hensive and valuable, and it does great credit to Mr. Gregory's talents and assiduity. / AP' Douglas, Major-General Si r Neil K.C•L i ' s ; die Lady Dougl as , h ave b een p l unged into the d eer - sek• a t tress by the death of their daughter, on Thursday Murrayshall, Perthshire. „ nfce r We were happy to see amongst the galian' f itr assembled on Monday at the Roal Naval Club r ig,, e ,fostd? —We oldest iwAn geptuph m nßed e oea m rnAs b ut e ciav r n : eid , ria NatrhGye of mp re L l o ißrn rd ßinl ß iAr o i d s n E e a y e g N v a ic ivr tr e , a r i d y G • yilar i dr3l/ re S s : for the marriage of Sir William Heathcote, Bar t " irdi S for North Hants, and Miss Shirley, dpeghter of i" r " John Shirley, M P. for South Warwickshire. , rho tiol l MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE. On -- A r „ s gb' at R 'gate Church, Sussex, Miss Geor iana Paget , ",:i " the' ter of the late Hen. Sir Charles Pag g et, and nieee , " Marquis of Anglesey, to Lieutenant %V. H. Ke llne4. eil° Numerous robberies have been committed ' li m o . Insolvent Debtors' Court. For some time past h atii v oeo disappeared in the twinkling of an eye, whilst the °es;te have had thei r e lb ows at the side of them. It 113 ... 17 0314 mary for pers ons to p l ace their hats on the reporte rs thel or on the tabl e p rov id e d f or attorneys, and whilst the have listened to a n exam i nat i on or asked a questt i en t ; n ot hats have been mixed, an d i n their stead nye 1,0001 worth picking up. Th ere i s a set of skulking ;009 about the Court, and many d epredations have re'ripe•- been committed. M r . H utton, news-agent in Cat" h e9hoA street, lost a g oo d h at i n t h e manner described smitark time back ; and a gent l eman l ast week was 51 sn a ' robbed. Oth er ro bb er i es ' h ave been corantitte -5 .1 ,1 1 those wha visit the place cannot be p u t too m u ' their guard. c dir Died on the 31st March, a t M arse ill es , 0. a f t he ease of the heart, Colonel John Canpbell, lat e Z a rtol 42d Highlanders. This gallant officer entered in 1804, at the age of 16, a s ensign in the 42d Regi'" o its and during his period of service, (never having b e , c t i e et any other corps), was engaged in the following.' e of Binatihgens,Pwenhienrseulaheanladd'innneForatntchee, v a : t z n . r , m ß in u g saco , v e g . Ss partiesderas, lamanca, Nivelle, Nivo, Orthes, Toulouse, Quartr_ t hes and Waterloo. He brought the 42d out of action at urrcgi and Toulouse, and succeeded to the command of that oa rs ment early in the action at Quartre Bras, Sir Robert tier.. having been killed, and Lieut.-Colonel Dick (now Ma io General Sir R. Dick) wounded. He retained the co rn h ser on the 17th and 18th June, at Waterloo, for whi c f t he vices he was honoured with a cross of a Compaaje a ° 80 6 Bath, medals for Orthes, Toulouse, and Waterloo,ok of also the Russian order of Sr. Vladimir, and the r n a _ so ot Brevet Lieut.-Colonel. He was the second survirvt t o p of his Excellency the !we Lieut.-General Si r, an d Campbell, who died Lieut.-Governor of a G i mt , b e r . a y l u t was 18 years a Captain in the 421 Regiment, a years Senior Captain of that distinguished corps. Bo l vv n .s f t o r r e m v t a: t i h o a n t a h m as an be n c a n me f d or j w a a m rd es ed Go t a o ,, t b n e eit P a l i ic c oa e l ic l i f the Higher Btackburn division of the county of o f A b 01 " 1° ' mancons Constabulary u t l h a e r y roa f d or n c t e t , w a e f e te u r ß h u a r v n i l n e g y and wounding him in a moat savage and brut-At! a a n t d tem pa p d te a c i t had left his victim and absconded. He was formerly sup _t: s i'd serjeant in her Majesty's sth Fusiliers, and be is P to be in London, as On • DEC API TA T I 0 N.—On Wednesday week untie , the engine being the swifter run her can' of R a t i l b w e a t y r n h s a r w e a r s a p n r oc alongee din t gh the a o il n ile g a no t e h f a c trh eLlVltolwdn Long n E d s oa career b eb e fri t r epaorstuerd.den stop to b t o e o h k e a d P i o n o g r h e p r u . -D a n e d r by putß am .. di; DE CLIFFORD ; OR T.F7IF COYSTA..VP At a roecti:47,-. cf ths n ,:,b) La) en W i:duvs MAN.- 4 VoLs. the tellowing scene occurred : Coburn, London, 1841. in oci d . c6 Mr. M`FARLANE, without remark, -- tr,- a4 Mr. Ward is one of those few novelists in overture for the admission of all Orthodolv,oi whose fictions we always find something better Ministers with their congregations into the Fr than mere amusement. He improves our under standing, as well as delights our imagination, by , n v the' ....,T. . LEMING opposed the overture. If _ . f Church. his healthy, unexaggerated views of real life, the , elevated tone of his philosophy, and the truth , such a motion they would take away that crow!g le and rejoicing which had hitherto been the . M.: l and force of the moral rellections—which seem the Church of Scotland. By such a PrV l : c i e r all to be the result of a long and attentive stud wou ld admit persons who had not stadic a , (l ,% of human nature, and not gathered second-hand Church, but perhaps in some academy. "'el from books —which he scatters throughout his keep narratives. It is no slight praise to say of Mr. students, and remember they were the Church i themselves by themselves ; do justice to the r ic Ward, that he is the most rational novelist of the land, not, the Church Universal. day. He gives no undue prominence to mere sentiment; keeps unitbrmly within the limits of Mr. M‘NAUGHTAN had great pleasure ie se.::: the overture. He thought there could be bil:i" s d the probable; and has ever an eye to inculcating a serviceable moral lesson. In his present tale, nion as to the propriety of ~ i ving them the ers, Hoi of being elected to tlie churches of the Dis—l f A his object —to quote his own words in the as it would give the Dissenters the advanfags. preface—has been to show " the impres- elected to the congregations of the Church. ll sions made by men an d manners on a Mr. DOUGL AS h a d never g i ven up t h e bes l l e OO l very young and unsophisticated mind, just union with Dissenters, even in the heat of the v starting into life, beginning event front his boyish tia o controversy. clays; and this, the total inexperience of the ~,t o f a ~p Mr. BREWSTER rejoiced in the progp-- Le is,- hero, and the very varied knowledge of those with Dissenters. Such a step might injure the Whom I may call his tutors, gave one, I thought, ens of the students of the Church ; but co g w eek a good opportunity to accomplish." This object provernent cculd go on without injuring some h i e f f e our author has satisfactorily fulfilled in his re- Another reason for this brotherly spirit was , o ftlr o cord of the personal experiences of his hero, De the experiment frequently made use of by m a°l ,te ls Clifford—a character conceived in a lofty spirit, brethren of late, unless these declarations we'. 01 , 0 ' and exhibiting, in the progress of its develop- rrtracted many amongit themselves world lot mem, a perfect acquaintance with the springs of; to go out and join the Dissenters. He h a ; t hol / and motion to, action. The incidents of the preached in the pulpit of a Dissenting rniniste r io 0 story are somewhat meagre, and—in opposition he could not invite that minister into his pullil t . ot i t d'' to the author's opinion —we must confess that it He, therefore, was not only anxious for the I d 0 1 , is too much encumbered with prolixity, and templated, but he would go further, he Wt , 0: " passages that lead to nothing." De Clfford, the every man into their pale who took the niu' e t b e sl i principal male personage, forms in early life an at- guide this would in reality be making tachment to Bertha Hastings, which he cherishes, national' Claurah. toe ° when the chances are a thousand to one against Dr. FLEMING could not sit and hear suchen ° , l e ft/ his success, but is ultimately rewarded for his Why, the Bible ! Every Dissenter took the be 0 11/ ( 11 constancy by the hand and heart of the girl his guide ; every Unitarian would tell you L Bible. whose favour he had so long coveted. This is the guided by the Bible ; and if they admitted 0 . e ., flici main outline of the story, and threadbare as their rule, they would get plenty of pa rt; foo t enough it is; but there are several subordinate would ask nothing more, and who would ITll l _ ce t iatti° l ' characters, who serve to vary and heighten its ball of the Bible. He protested against sues v 0 0 ' interest, by the skill and chastened vigour as an encouragement of that schism which tu e ' with which they are delineated. The style is sworn to put down. 4 1 polished throughout, but has enough animation rig" ta Mr. BREWSTER said it was those intolerant,, 0 04 about it to redeem it from insipidity. We quote an entertaining pas s a ge , w hi c h , if i t h ave a fault Dr. Flemi ng w hi c h encouraged dissent. Dr. P t o th i it is that it is t oo e l a b orate l y worked up. Ma , views had a l ong way to expand to come 0 terianz sztper u t o p us : 1 bel ° spirit of th e age . Dr. FLEMING said, if Mr. Brew s t e r a nd 6: 4 1 61 00 i which alw a y s l ays h o ld o f t h e mind, quietly indeed, and But even without thi s , t h ere i s someth i ng in a brook such views, and t oo k t h e Bib le, in place of to '' oos' to' almost imp ercept ibl y , b ut w i th an increasing and lasting ards of that Ch urc h, f or t h e i r guide, then the y be d attraction which scene s more tumu l tuous do not possess. keep by the Bible, and not come into theo 6 01 i Whatever your humour, a b roo k a d m i n i sters to it. It They would n o t, h owever, do this :they want° It adapts itself t o every sense ; i t soothes, it exhilarates ; it the loaves aad fishes. moans, it laughs; it si g h s , i t s i ngs; i t i s s il ent, i t babbles; The overture was agreed to, with the ace it loiters, it rushes; it is darksoire, it is brilliant; it Dr. Fleming. stands still, it leaps forward; it is all melancholy, all gay. Then again, it has a freshness which nothing else can con, fer, no art imitate, or luxury reach : it gives coolness to the feeling, and sweetness to the taste. But its moral effects are still more pleasing. It dispels gloom and lan guor; promotes benevolence and gratitude; sympathizes with the, low in spirit, and will not suffer the proud to set up their horn. It has vivacity for the young, tratr .quillity for the old ; it promotes a love for elegant nature, and a taste for elegant poetry ; above all, it is so hallowed and peaceful, that it will suffer no guilty or tumultuous thought to pollute its vicinage, but diffuses holiness, innocence, and cheerful virtue over everytLing around. He who possesses such a brook may, almost laugh at the world. What a fortune was this retreat to any contemplative man—particularly a contemplative lover. But its effect upon me, after a very short ac quaintance with it, was anything but what I intended— that is, in the leisure it afforded to fortify me in my resolu tion to forget Bertha. For two days the early morning always found me there, and I could scarce leave it in the late evening ; for every murmur of the water—every flower on its margin —and, above all, the sweet freshness of its banks, spoke, looked, and breathed of nothing but Bertha. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING' . F URTHER PARTICULARS OF MONDAY'S ILA.„vs--a" THE CRAVEN S TAKES.— Fl am b eau cut out the 7.,°01"; good pace, followed closely by Mountain Sylph, Er ir rboe v i ,; about two length s b e hi n d t i ll they reached the Ab. „ where he ran by Flambeau and the mare, and won e 3- 'o ll ' . lengths ; th e mare b eat Flambeau for second p l ace very The other f our were b eaten off some distance from b ° ,„% l ' t sP e : HANDICAP. —The Tragedy colt made play at hi,": 0 11 :; to the ne w groun d , where he resigned to Young ‘4ll",.byt.,i' who mad e th e rest of the running, and won in a carte arty lengths, R o d osto b eat i ng the Sir Hercules filly for se,e° very easily ; T rage d y an d Janus made a sorry finished all t i fi 100 SOVEREIGN STAKES. —Escort had a slight way, and after a fine race up to the cords with Bend Decision, won with difficulty by The match between Menalippe and Perseus 'was coot with great spirit, and won in the last stride, but the e ther a hollow thing, and fully sustained the betting. BETTING Al' I'ER THE RACES. MI ToT bsla t y l e l ls ( t b n l ( the prom this ,repeal 0 l 'oclY of it t i te ti t ush e ctia d ridm a ja s n.t Charles {.Mr. w . ' Shell, M Public m4convened Petitioner Coro•latv taut wh e , r ecently , Commo n !hat des noport an st ye on a seriou s it satisfied which bo of the cc danger tl but the I I 1 I ,