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' . _14. 7 6 - rtNl TN(4- . FT) i r r felt MRS. MABERLY'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready at a ll t h e Libraries in 3 vols. Fiost Bvo., with Por trait of the Authoress, THE LOVE MATCH. A NOVEL. By MRS. MABERLY. -,uthuirss of "Lulu ) ." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlbc rough-street. THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. , . Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. Bvo., 0 A N 0 F A It C, THE MAID OF ORLEANS. By T. J. SERLE, Esq. " We have read this talc with as much avidity as some years ago we re a d D r . S out h ey ' s poem on the same e xcellent subject. Like that highly-wrought work of genins, it abounds in im passioned scenes ; local descriptions characterized by infinite truth of detail; and incidents which, startling and romantic as they ere, al wear the impress of probability. Nothing can be juster, or b e tt er i n hi stor i ca l keeping, than Mr. Serie s full kugth portrait of the enthusiastic high minded Maid of Or leans. "—Sen. en r v Cnl burn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Just ready. in 3 vols. post Bvo., THE QUEEN'S POISONER; Or, FRANCE in the SIXTEENTH CENTURY. Hy :MISS LOUISA STUART COSTELLO, Author of " A Summer amongst the Bocages and the Vines.' Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEA'fR. ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. \ DER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING. MAY 11. will be repeated the New Comedy, in Five 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. Mathe ws ; M ar k M e ddl e, M r. H ar l ey ; G race H arkaway, Madame Vestris ; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. pert, Mrs. Humbv. Atter which will be repeated, the Grand Romantic Fairy Ex travaganza, entitled BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Beauty, Madam e V es t r i s : Th e B eas t, M r . W. Harrison ; J ohn Quill, Mr. Harley Dressalinda, Miss Rainforth ; Mar rygulda, Miss Grant; Queen of the Roses, Miss Lee. To-morrow, London Assurance, with Beauty and the Beast. Doors to to opened at half-past Six—the pertormances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Dress Boles., 71. ; Seeend Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second r ireleig. ss. ; Second P rice , 2 s . 6d. ; Pit, s. ; Second Price. 21.; Gallery , Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mt: G at the Box-office from Ten till Four, where Season T its easy oe had upon application. Private 80x..., to be had sorely of Mr. Andress, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning...... 7 minutes atter 5 I Evening minutes after 5. • .t. • • O.IJ 4 Vtlii Att I ' , •710.- ° , • 4' o ' l 114, task v` • • Air ff , lL 11 4 J utt LONDON: TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1841. The LORD CRAIICELL on, last night, reported to the Lords Admiral STOPFORD'S acknowledgment of their Lordships' thanks. Another short discussion took place on the Corn laws, on the Earl of ROSEBERRY moving for some re turns to show the Earl of WINCHILSEA and RIPON that the bread -tax, which is not a bread-tax, does in reality abstract a large sum from the pockets of the people. Earl FITZWILLIAM gave the landlords a proper cha racter, and showed that the present Corn-laws caused enormous fluctuations. Lord BEAUMONT deprecated such incidental discus sions, and Lord ASHBURTON insisted that the present Corn -laws were intended to keep the price of wheat about 565. par quarter, which has been the case, he said, except in two instances ; but those two instances he did not say occurred within four years of each other ; and in the one case the price was down to 365., and in the other up to 88s. What delightful steadiness in price ! The short conversation was instructive, particularly the remark of the Earl of WICKLOW, that the United Kingdom produced sufficient for the supply of the population, after the landlords:have starved the population down to the supply. Their Lord ' ships were entertained with conversation on this subject till Seven o'clock, and then adjourned. The House of Commons did nothing except receive petitions and resume the adjourned debate. Mr. EWART began and dwelt chiefly on the great commercial advan tage which would ensue from revising our tariff, of which the sugar duties were a part. It would make our country the entrepot for sugar, and place Great Bri tain in her proper position at the head of the commercial nations of the world. He had as strong an abhorrence of slavery as his Right Hon. Friend Or. LUSHINGTON, but like him he could not forget what was due to our own people out of compassion to the blacks. . 4 Mr. HEATHCOTE took up the corn part of the question, declared that the whole agricultural interest would resist the proposed alteration of the Corn-laws. He never knew them more determined. Mr. G ROTE looked at,the measure as a part of a whole, and considered them as a wise means of benefiting the people and extending the resources of the State. Mr. COLQUHOUN wished to confine the discussion to suga r • and avoid free-trade ; at the same time he advo cated protection to the West Indies, which is only free trade, and was for keeping slave-grown sugar out of the market. Mr. GREG gave his hearty support to the Ministers, and as Lord JOHN RUSSELL had carried Parliamentary Reform after much opposition, so he hoped he would carry this commercial reform. Though the people had suf fered much from the scarcity of sugar, he did not think the Sugar-laws so bad as the Corn-laws. Mr. WALTER wanted something done for our people, but he did not think that the reduction of the sugar duties was that something. He was for altering the Poor-law, and the Nottingham election ought to con vince Members that the law must be altered. Lord F. EGERTON would not deal with the financial part of the question, and did indulge at great length on the above part of the question, which, being an intangible subject, is one of the happiest themes for declamation that has been thrown before the Parliament for many years. It will supply matter for a debate till Christmas. The Noble Lord was prettily poetical at the end, and pro nounced a benediction on the ship which is to pierce, as Mr. GLADSTONE has it, the "cincture" of malaria which guards the coast of Africa, and to carry Sir POWELL BUXTON'S plan of civilizing that vast continent into effect. Mr. LAIIOUCIIERE made an elaborate and statesman like speech t full of fact and grave arguments, worthy of the high place he occupies at the head of the Board of Trade. Unfortunately the Right Hon. Gentleman wants impressiveness in his manner, and a far less able speech, delivered with somewhat more vehemence, would have had more effect on the. House, and. much less effect on the country. He adverted to the trade question, the financial question, and the slave question, and did justice to them all. Mr. GLADSTONE was the last speaker of the evening, and he was extremely eloquent about the quantity of sugar which the West Indies can produce ; about the injury the Ministerial propositions would do to the West India interest ; about the little benefit they would confer on the revenue; and about the encouragement they would give to slavery. Like other gen tlemen who have spoken on the same side, Mr. GLADSTONE insisted very strenuously on the great and abundant supply of sugar which our own possessions were sure this year to furnish us. Last year, he thought, when the price was very high, there might have been some reason for the alteration in the sugar duties, but this year, when prices are moderate and the sup ply certain, there was no pretext for it. There were at least 207,000 tons of sugar coming for ward, which was more than ever had been consumed. In such an argument there seems to us more effrontery than candour. It is alleged on all hands, that were it not for the West India monopoly, the consumption of sugar would be doubled in this country. But the West India monopoly having been very strict, scarcely a grain more sugar has come into use than our colonies could supply. Every grain they have supplied has been consumed. Last year the price was at one time so high, that foreign sugar was actually introduced into home consumption at the enormous duty of 665. The consumption, therefore, has been limited by the West India monopoly, and now Mr. GLADSTONE and his friends, measuring the national power to consume sugar by that quantity which the West Indies has hitherto grown, tell the public that the West Indies are coming for ward with an ample supply, because they are to send in 5,000 tons more than , ever the West Indians al lowed us to consume before. 'They put food beyond the reach of a hungry man, and then vow, because he eats not, that he has no appetite. On the whole the defender of well-poisoning made a clever speech in favour of protection and against the slave trade, humanity and 'interest coinciding charmingly ; and, as it was propounded with a somewhat solemn t o n e , it was supposed by the House to be very earnest and imp ress i ve . On the Hon. Gentleman concluding, the debate was again adjourned. The House Adjourned at a Quarter before One. A Pamphlet has been published by Messrs. LONG 31 A rr, on the Corn-laws, which, from it s title, style,'and appropriateness, is to be taken, we presume, as an official statement of the rea sons for proposing a fixed tax on corn, instead of totally abolishing the nefarious impost. Amongst those reasons) it is said that the land is heavier taxed than the capital of the m4infacturer or the merchant. At least, the writer presumes that it is, and on that presumption justifies the fixed duty as a protection to the owners of rent. We will not enter into the question whether rent be heavier taxed than other property, though we are inclined to believe the statement fallacious ; but if it be, what is the proper remedy—what does . justice require? That other property be taxed equally to rent. Let the proportions be accurately ascertained, and we should make no objection to such an equalization. But does the writer propose to tax manufacturing and mercan tile capital.? No, he proposes to tax the poor man's loaf. What a monstrous proposition ! What a complete non sequitur ! An injustice is done by taxing rent higher than interest and profit, and to remedy the injustice the writer proposes to tax a third party, who receives neither rent, profit, nor interest. Such a writ( r will be laughed out of court, and if the Parlia ment adopt the proposition, it will only add to the contempt—if to increase i, be possible—with which that assembly is now regarded. The supposition, too, that land is heavier taxed than mercantile and manufacturing capital, and that, therefore, the poor man's loaf is to be taxed by a tax on a foreign corn, as a protection to the landowner, leads to another proposition almost as monstrous as the one adverted to, namely, that the agriculturist is entitled to a drawback when corn is exported, in order to enable him to sell corn cheaply abroad. Foreign corn being taxed to swell the rent of the landlords, the cost of the production of corn is enhanced to the farmer, and the public is to be doubly taxed to enable him to sell it. We understand what a drawback means when a tax is imposed on an imported commodity, and taken back when that same commodity is exported; but it seems to us an abuse of terms to call a sum given on home-grown corn, when exported, equal to the sum paid on foreign corn, when imported, a drawback. It is not a drawback—it is a bounty. It is an extension of the protective system It is another device to plunder the people for the benefit of the landowners. The reader must be well aware why it is pro posed. The effect of a fixed duty being to raise our prices, in ordinary and average years, high above those of the surrounding countries, we s hall never be able to export, and shall gene rally import. In very plentiful years, there fore, as the people would be fed in average years, the price of corn would fall below what would Temunerate the farmer, while he ha s to pay the landlord's tax. To guard against this effect, not of nature, not of any laws of society, but of that very tax, and nothing else, which this writer recommends, the bounty is to be given. Is there never to be an end to such preposterous legislation—such smiting labour, which pays all taxes, on one cheek, and then smiting it on the other to make both sides suffer equally—such abortive attempts to remedy one injustice by the infliction of another ? This is a childish and silly, if it be not a wicked, device, which will find favour with no party. If nothing better is to be the re sult of the Ministerial propositions than such a cumbrous and vexatious scheme, the sooner they are given up the better; and the sooner the Tories in office are compelled—for they do know, at least, how to submit—to do justice to the people, the better. We have given, in another part of the Paper, a letter from Kendal, with the address of the Kendal Abolitionists, which we earnestly re commend to the attention of Dr. LUSHINGTON and his friends. The just and humane view taken of the Sugar question, does honour to the sub scribers, and, we trust, will find many imitators. While we feel for the negro in bondage, let us not forget the sufferings of the many thousands of our Christian brethren, who, on account of the high prices of the necessaries of life, and want of employment caused by our wicked monopolies, drag out a life of greater misery than even the African slave. With a miserable pittance of Bs. or Os. a-week (and many of them have not even that), with chil dren crying in vain for bread, and a broken-hearted partner stinting herself for food to preserve her beloved offspring, and without any prospect under the present laws of relief, an operative manufacturer is perhaps of all other men the most miserable. If Dr. LUSH INGTON and the other one-sided philanthropists will not listen to such suffering, will they listen to the precepts of' that sacred book that forms the present consolation and the future hope of every Christian ? "He that provideth not for his own, and especially for those of his own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel." Infidels, and void of charity, are those who can reserve all their sympathy for Africans they have not seen, and refuse relief to men of their own - blood and their own religion. But they will not succeed. The war is now kindled against the monopolists in every quarter. Even the people of Ireland, till now in favour of the Corn monopoly, are roused to a sense of its injustice, and will join the English and the Scotch hand in-hand in support of the beneficent measures of the Government. -- The German Papers publish alarming accounts of insurrectionary movements among the Chris- Can population of Old Servia, Bulgaria, North ern Roumelia, Bosnia, and Albania. The object of the insurgents is to shake off the Turkish yoke, which galls and oppresses them, and to add another to the independent Governments of Europe. These provinces are of little value to Turkey, and contain within themselves the ele ments of a nation capable of checking the ambi tion of Russia. Those who have watched the progress of political events for the last quarter of a century, must have observed the slow but sure development of principles which rendered the con tinuance of the Porte's sway over so many Euro pean provinces an impossibility. To them the ru mours of associations in Servia, Bulgaria, Roume lia, Wallachia, and Moldavia, fbr the purpose of asserting their independence, will occasion no surprise. They must have been prepared to see the other European provinces of Turkey follow the example of Greece. Instead, therefore, of uselessly deploring such an event the Govern ments of Western Europe should direct all their thoughts to the rearing up of such a Power in these provinceS as would for ever prevent Rus sian aggression in that quarter. In the present wretched state of these provinces, Russia's in fluence over them is stronger than that of the Porte; but this influence would be destroyed by their being declared independent. Jealousy Of a Power which now pretends to protect them would spring up in every bosom. To the estab lishment of an independent Kingdom in Euro pean Turkey we look for the confounding of Russia's deep-laid designs upon Constantinople. Nor would the loss of these provinces weaken the Turkish Power in Asia—the only place where it really has a vital existence. The prompt suppression of the present insur rectionary movement will (produce no change in our opinions. The pear may not be ripe, but it will ripen and fall of itself if no hand gather it. The Koran must disappear from among the codes of Europe, and therefore the greater should be the vigilance of those States whose in terest it is that it should not be succeeded by the Ukases of an Imperial Autocrat. There :5 very little French news of interest in the Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday. Queen CHRISTINA has arrived in that capital, and is supposed to be intriguing against the Constitu tional Government in Spain. Her MAJESTY'S influence cannot be considerable, except with the Court of Rome, and Papal bulls make no more impression on ESPARTERO than paper pellets. The age when the world was go verned by the maledictions of an old priest is disappearing even in Spain; and it requires but some wanton exercise of the power claimed by the POPE, to effect a true spiritual reformation—the freedom of mind—throughout . - the Peninsula. By a proper distribution, and wide subdivision of the Church property, Es- PARTERO will surround himself by a host of Spaniards ready to resist the Papal power at the musket's muzzle. Every man is a patriot and a hero when_ his own house is attacked; and every possessor of an acre of Church land, or an ounce of Church bullion, wilt see an enemy in the ecclesiastic who threatens to deprive him of the one or the other. In the debate in the French Chamber of De puties, on Friday, on the Navy Estimates, Ad miral LA LAN DE recommended the construction of heavy frigates, and the keeping together of a great number of well-organized ships' crews. One crew, three years on service; was worth-six Just put in commission. He admitted that the expense would be great at first, but, in the loug run, the nation would find that the system wa, based on principles of true economy. The Semaphore states that the Persian Envoy at Constanti nople has officially notified to the Porte that the differences be tween his Government and that of Great Britain have been ter minated to the satisfaction of both parties. The ten battalions of foot chasscurs had a g , imd field-day on Fr'clay last at Vincennes. The Duke of Orleans was on the ground at nine o'clock to superintend the preliminary prepara tions. At twelve the Queen, the Princes, and Princesses ar rived, accompanied by Marsl)al Soult, Minister of War, Mar shals Gerard, Grouchy; and Molitor, and a great number of Generals and superior officers. 'the first practice was in per forming the ordinary evolutions of infantry of the line at the gymnastic step, all of which were executed with the greatest precision. Next came some movements peculiar to the foot char Burs, displaying their utility in active warfare, firing while on their backs, &c. A feigned attack on Charenton afterwards exhibited their double utility in the field. Having taken a battery of cannon, they almost instantaneously turned them against the supposed enemy with all the skill of regular ar tillerymen. The men atterwards proceeded to make use of their field ovens, and produced excellent bread ; and they exhibited their powers as pioneers by clearing away a number of trees six inches in diameter, using no other instruments than their sabres. The whole of the practice being gone through by five o'clock, they were promptly formed into line, and tiled off before Marshal Soult who expressed his entire satisfaction. The praises of the ge nerals and other officers present were unanimous. The force of the ten battalions in the field was 9,000 men. The De• bats, in giving an account of this review and fiele, says,— " The platoon tiring might appear to be imperfect to those who are not aware that in giving the word of command to these battalions of foot cha•seurs, after the present is is uttered the soldiers fire at will, without having as usual the word fire given, each man being thus allowed to take deliberate aim before he pulls the trigger. This innovation is very important, and will it is probable, be adopted in all the infantry regiments, whereby firing by battalions, instead of being as they now • frequently are, mere ineffectual reports, will become murderous dis charges The carbine is an improvement of Commaadan. Thiery's, upon the plans of M. Delvigne and Colonel de Pont charra. It requires only seven grammes of powder for the charge instead of nine." Colonel M'lntosh, the representative of the Texian Govern ment at the French Court, has formally contradicted the state.. ment in the Paris papers that Texas was threatened with inva sion from Mexico. The Diario di Roma announces that the three individua's who robbed Don Miguel some time ago while sporting in the neighbourhood of Rome, had been executed at Velletri, as guilty of tese-Majeste. The same paper announces the death of Cardinal Gambe rini, Minister of the Interior, who died at Rome on the night of the 24th ult. He was born at Imola on the 31st of Octo ber, 1760. The Letpsic Gazette states that the Prince of Lucca has re cently been converted to Protestantism, a circumstance which has created great sensation at Rome, and throughout Italy. Extract of a letter from Alexandria in the &id of Mar seilles:— •• '1 he Paella continues to have frequent conferences with the Count de Rohan Chabot, to whom he lately presented a fine horse richly caparisoned. The English war steamer Gorgon has arrived here from - Malta, being sent by Admiral Stopford to keep this station in the absence of other ships. She brings a letter to his Highness from the Admiral, inform ing him that as certain of the conditions in the Hatti sheriff of February 13th were contrary to the spirit of the convention entered into with hint, he (the Admiral) approved of the Pacha'a refusal to accept them. The Viceroy continues to reside at his country house, on account of the plague having made its appearance in the environs of his palace of Raso el Tin. This scourge continues to afflict the country, without, however, making any great ravages, although the season is fa vourable to its progress. It also prevails in several villages of Lower Egypt as well as at Cairo, whore, as is the case here, eight or ten persons die daily." A ConstantinoVe correspondent of the Sud says that two caravans, going from Aleppo to Damascus, as well as several •illages in the neighbourhood of the former city, have been lately pillaged by the mountaineers. Letters from Turin, dated the 27th ult., state that the agent of Don Carlos had at length succeeded in securing a future provision fur that. Prince. All the Conservative Courts had agreed to contribute a proportional share. The Russian Go vernment alone had not returned any answer to the proposal ; it was not doubted, however, but that the Emperor of Russia would come forward like the others. The enttre yearly sum to be contributed for Don Carlos's support was fixed at 200,000 f. Another letter states that a diplomatic note bad been for warded from the French Government to the Court of Naples relative to an indemnity claimed by a French mercantile house in Marseiiles iu consequence of the sulphur contract having been cancelled, and which contained some strong lan guage on the injustice of refusing compensation. It is true, it is added, that in the year 11+39, the Neapolitan Government. received a note from the French Minister, in which an indem nity was demanded on account of the sulphur question, but in the mean time the French government offered her mediation between the 13ri i,h and Neapolitan Governments, and although an arrangement was concluded last year in consequence of that mediation, no mention was made of the Marseilles merchants. A letter from Naples of the 28th of April has the following news : The day bt.fore yesterday there was a Council of Alinis ten, at which the Marquis de Pietra-Catella presided. Mr. Temple, the English Minister, was asked to be present, doubt less on account of the question which is still pending, of the re duction of the export duty on sulphur. " The day is not yet fixed for the departure of the King to Apulia and Sicily. His Majesty came yesterday from Ca serta, and presided in the Council of his Ministers. He is ex pected again on the 30th. " The Prince of Casiano, formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs, whom the King ordered to leave Naples, has not re turned to the capital. " The Prince of Salerno will leave Naples on the 3d of May. He goes to Vienna with his only daughter, Princess Mary Caroline Augusta, whose marriage is finally decided with his Royal Highness Francis Ferdinand Geminiano, Hereditary Prince of Modena. It is affirmed that the King of Naples will go in person to the Austrian capital in the beginning of June, on account of the marriage of Princess Caroline, his sister, to the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, brother of the Queen of the Two Sicilies."—Le commerce. DISCOVERY or Com—M. Tienen has made a fortunate discovery in his garden of a jar, containing 3,000 small pieces of coin of 12 and 13 centimeS, most of them belonging to Hainault and Flanders.— Brussels Paper. Bitter complaints are made in the lonian Islands of the new civil laws, by which the expenses in the Court of Police are much increased. 'TURKISH FRONTIERS, APRIL 22.—According to accounts from Bucharest the well-known . Wallachian Colonel Campa niano has been lately set at liberty, at the instance of the Russian Court. T P, SUN, -LON'DON. Tr rgnA Y, - KAN I I - , 194 i. BOURSE—PARIs, SATURDAY, MAY 8. fast Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pric. Price ..•se.ich :, per Cents ll4 CO ... 114 65 ... 114 60 ... 114 0 4 per Cents ... ...... 3 per tents 7l) 65 ... %9 65 ... 19 5a ... 19 55 d•f , G t erance....... Laiitte Rank ! , ,./001. stares 5157 5U ...51Y7 50 ...5157 50 ...5157 50 .gnat Sank 5 per Cents. 3 per Lents 7l 60 ... '7l 60 ... 71 59 ... 71 50 New Loan... ...... Spanish AcLive eassive 5 ... 5% . Neapolitan Homan lOl% ... 101% ... 101% ... 101% RAILWAY SHARES. St Uerinatr. Ve. sallies, L.B 245 ... 245 ... 240 ... s4O B. B . ,67 SO ... 267 50 ... :36 N ... 365 Orleans .. ._ YtrArburgio Bale ',37 50 ... Y3B 75 ... 237 L 0 .. 2..7 50 The Madrid papers received are of the ]st inst. The '2d, being the anniversary of the rise of the Spaniards against the French in 1808, was to be celebrated as a festival. The Cortes were still occupied with the Regency question, the debates upon which were exceedingly prosy. On the Bourse the Fives were at 27 for cash. A private letter from Bordeaux of the 4th instant states that tie Bishop of Saragossa, who has resided some time in the forme; city, had published a charge to the clergy of his dio cese, which it was believed would produce a great sensation. 'I he Bishop orders all the parish priests to publish it in their respective churches, together with the Pope's last allocution to the secret Consist ory. M. Durou, the Spanish Consul, immediately wrote to the Ambassador of Spain in Paris, and applied at the same time to the Prefect of the Gironde, requesting his interference to prevcnt the introduction into'Spain of a document written by a refugee who was receiving French hospitality, and which was calculated to kindle civil war in a neighbouring and friendly country. The Consul also cautioned the Spanish frontier authorities, and, from suchttimely notice being given, it was hoped that the episcopal firebrand would be stopped and miscarry. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, visited her Majesty and Prince Albert, yesterday at Buckingham Palace. Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday o: the Queen. Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked in the garden of Buckingham Palace yesterday forenoon. His Royal Highness Prince Albert; and his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, attended by Colonel Wittle, and Captain Francis Seymour, rode out on horseback yesterday. ller Royal Highness the Princess Royal, was taken an airing yesterday in a carriage and four. Prince Albert and the Duke of Cambridge visited .her Majesty the Queen Dowager, yesterday at Marlborough House. The Royal'dinner party at Buckingham Palace last evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, Lady Anne Maria Dawson, Viscount INltl bourne, the Right Hon. George Stevens Byng, Baroness Spaeth, Mr. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson. The Band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards was in attendance at the Palace during dinner. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Sussex and the Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duke of Cambridge, at Cambridge House, on Sunday. Lord Lyttleton and the Commander of the Forces had interviews with Viscount Melbourne yesterday at his official residence in Downing -street. ILord Brabazon and Colonel Westenra had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home office. MONEY and COMMERC4AL NEWS. -CITY,~tMo DAB EvENIxo. All the markets were heavy to-day, whether for Stocb:s, Shares, or produce. Money also was tight again, the increased demand for it having been apparent on Saturday. It is strange that no one can give a.satis factory reason f o r th ese f requent c hanges, while to all appearance commercial speculation is so entirely dor mant ; but it is supposed by some that they have their origin in the:. advanced price of gold abroad within the Cast few diya, or in the fear of a dissolution of Parlia ment.- •To-day the decline in Consols - was about f per cent. For immediate transfer the quotation was 90 to 894 up to an advanced hour of the day, and just before the close of business, the price dropped to 89# to 893-. For the 25th instant the range was from 90 to 89,f. There was only a moderate business transacted, and very few speculative bargains Were entered into. The con tinuation upon Stock, it will be observed was equal to from sto 6 per cent. Exchequer Bills were at ss. to is. premium. India Bonds at ls. discount to ls. pre .nium. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 984 to qB;} ; and the Three per Cents. Reduced at 88# to 881 India Stock was dull at 2501 to 251. • Foreign Stock confirmed rather heavy, but little was d )ne in them: he same may be said of Railway Shares. (From Tlie Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON 111 AAK MtY B.—Since our last re port our market has undergone no change. Prices of all de scriptions remained at Friday's quotations. The sales this day comprise 2,000 bales, wholly to the trade. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MAY 8.--The business at the Stock Exchange this day has been very depressed :—Grand Junction have declined 21. per share, and are now sold at 205 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 37i; Glasgow, Palley, and Greenock, ; Ditto, new shares, 21. Is. 6d. In Bank Stock has been sold South Lancashire, 5h ; Borough Bank, ],q. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY B.—We have had a fiat Market to-day. Manchester and Birmingham, 254; Manchester and Leeds, 51. to 53 • Ditto, Halves, 21; Bank of \lanchester, 7h ; Manchester and Liverpool Bank, 101. 18s. 9d. ; larine Assurance, 9i. We hr- - id of J e have received Port Phillip Papers to the & ;armory. " On Wednesday last a meeting of the colonists, convened by the requisition of six Magistrates of the territory, was held for the avowed object of considering the recent instructions of I►er Majesty's Government, relative to the division of Port Phillip from New South Wales, and the remarks made by some of the Members of the Council of Sydney, relative to this matter. Ist Resolution, resolved—That thin meeting receives with the ut most gratification the intelligence that her Majesty has been graciously pleased to assign to this Province a part of terri tory commensurate with its growing importance, and of which the boundaries are clearly deferred by the natural features of the country, and in strict accordance with the desires and in terests of this community. The despatch of Lord John Russell upon transportation has been made public, by which it appears that Norfolk Island is discontinued as b. penal settlement for secondary punishments. Goat and King Islands has been selected in lieu, or rather re commended. British goods are very low. Timber has undergone a con siderable decline in value. BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, 111Asy 7.—At the opening ofle Bourse the price of the National Funds inclined towards a fall, but during 'Change hours some purchasers made their appear ance, and the prices improved and remained above the, rices of yesterday. It was the same with the Ardoin's Spanish, the transactions were animated in the course of 'Change hours, and they closed higher than they closed yesterday. TWo-and4- Half per Cents. 51 13-16; Fiveper Cents. 998 ; Ardoin's22/1. The British Funds opened this morning at the leaving-off prices of Saturday, with an inactive market. Consols may be quoted at 89% 90Money ; for the Account 90%. Exchequer Bills, 5 7 prem. ; Bank Stock, 168 170; India Stock, 250 252 ; India Bonds, 2 dis, 2 prem. Itr the Foreign Market the prices are nominal. Spanish Active, 24% ; Deferred, 19% ; Passive, 5% ; Portuguese, 34% 6 ; hree per Cents., 20% %; Brazilian, 68.% 69%; Co lombian, 22% 23 ; M ex i can , 2834 29 ; D u t c h Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 524 ft ; Five per Cents. 99%. SHAKES.—Great Western 28 29 prem. ' • New 131 14% prem. ; L o nd on an d B r ighton 2% dis. ; Blackwall 6% 44 ets. ; Birmingham 69 71 prem. ; Southampton 57% 58% per share ; Croydon in 14% per share ; Greenwich 8% per share ; Manchester andßirmingham 15 14 dis. The agitated stre of our domestic affairs entirely paralyses all opei ations in the British Funds, likewise in commercial af fairs, which we have no doobt will continue during the present critical state of the Ministry. All eyes are now fixed on this night's debate and its results; consequently everything remains in a stagnant state. A vessel has arrived from Antigua, but to the present time we cannot learn her date of sailing. It is generally supposed, had the President'been there, it would have been made public before this. _ Consols at present are a shade lower than in the morning, 90 for the Account; Money, 89i ; Exchequer Bills, 6 5.7 prem. ; Bank Stock, nothing done ; India Stock, 250 k 251; India Bonds, 1 dis. In the Foreign Market only five quotations. Spanish Ac tive lower, receded from 24* to 23 ; Portuguese, 34g.* ; Three per Cents., 20i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half-per-Cents., 52g ; Five per Cents., 99g. In Shares nothing doing. Birmingham and Gloucester, 73 ex. d'v. ; Cheltenham and Great Western, 30 1 4 ; Great Western, 92k ; London and Brighton, 47 ; London and Birmingham, 159; London and South Western, 57k. Money is rather in demand. - Consols, Account, O9y s 90; Mexican, 284 29 ; Portu guese, 34b ; Spanish, 23i '24. Markets have a firmer ap pear an ce. The following has been posted at the North and South Ame rican Coffeehouse : " A large steamer, under canvas, no steam, was seen on the 10th April, lat. 13, long. 23, steering N. W., by the Lord Ponsonby, arrived at Deal." CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS, Bank Stock .. India Stock 251 3 per Cent Red .. 884 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons B9i Ditto Old Annuities ... 98 ... fr Ex. i ß tt i o lls, 31 per Cent Red 97a Ditto New Annuities... New 3 / per Centl, so l l /....2id 7pm New 5 per Cent Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small Jan. 1860 ... 12 11-16,BaTk Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 124 Jan. 1860. FOIiEIG India Stock for Opg. Consols for Acct B9 1 FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. -7-- Belgian, 5 per cent — 'Ditto, New Ditto . —c 7 Brazilian Bonds — Prussian, 5 per cent; ... Buenos Ayres. 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent Ditto, Nletallic Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent • 231 Ditto, 1824. Ditto, Deferred .... Danish, 3 per cent. Frenc h, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 18;0, 5 per cent. Exchange............ c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent. -f.-c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 211 per cent. ... 523 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et Ditto, 5 per cent 993 SHARES. • Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 73 Ditto New Shares ( paid) Cheltenham and Great Western (624 paid) 30 Great Western Railway (65 paid) ... 92i Ditto New Shares (60 paid 64 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) ll London and Brighton (50 paid)... 461 London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 180 London and South Western Ditto Tenths Northern and Eastern (50 paid) South Eastern and Dover (33 paid)... 16 IAN .lUNDb—BitvestiLi. MAY P.. Actual Debt, x% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Csnt MO){ Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent by 3 per Cent 7u% • -(1-40) 1(096 Loan of City, 183'4 4 per Cent. ........ 81 .34 Society of Commerce, 44per Cent lOO Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ........... 78 ) National Society • Exchange on London (shot t) —Brussels Papers, May 8. AUSTRIAN FUN US.—V isPINA, APRIL 30 " five per Cents. Metalliques Fo r per ............ Three par Cents. .. .................. Bank Shares ........«.« ........... ........ ........... 1648 Zeiltang. ilay 5 Thirty.seven. SUGAR 'DUTIES. Scale of Sugar Duties to be proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Committee of Ways and Means, as a substitute for the duty of 365. he at first pro- _ posed : That towards raising the supply granted to her Majesty the following duties shall, from and after the sth day of July 1841, and for a time to be limited, be paid on the importation on Sugar, under such regulations and conditions as may be provided by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament :—(that is to say) Per Cwt. Brown or Muscovado, not being clayed or re- s. d. fined.. 36 0 Clayed Sugar, not refined 42 0 Brown or 'Muscovado, or clayed, not being re- fined, the growth of any British possession in America, and imported front thence 24 0 Brown or Muscovado, or clayed, not being re fined, the growth. of any British Possession within the limits of the East India Company's Charter into which the importation of foreign Sugar is prohibited, and imported from thence Brown, Muscovado or clayed, not being refined, other British ally and imported fromefi n possessionedth, e n the c. i. t. growth h..i.n : t.i.l .o. s. e . o. limits,... . .......................... 32 0 MolasSegr:. ................................................. 13 6 Molasses, the produce of and imported from any British possession 9 0 Refined ............................................. . . . .. • Candy Brown .......................................... 63 0 Candy White ........................................... , Duty of 5 per cent. on the produce Together ofa with il a s n uchb e additionalfor e . mentioned Rates. 24 0 DEVIZES, MAY 7, 1841. • (FROM A CORRE SPONDENT.) • In this neighbourhood "notices to quit," on purpose to raise the rent, have been served very freely by nearly all the .great landlords, on those tenants who have no lease, - although in many cases_ the rent was raised only last year, and in not a few rases rent had been raised twice before within the last four years. . Most of the farm farmers are very cool about the Corn-laws poor man's b e lly, b ecause t h e a v n er d y a r r e e a cbvegtinoning to open thei r eyes, and w i ll not b e landlord immediately p icks i t o ut of their pockets again. Many of the ten ants hereabo ut, before the - Poor-law passed, were allowe d ten. to twenty p er cent . o ft; b ut when the owners f ou nd the savi ng to the far m er by the Poor-law was worth notice, the y allowed the per centage no longer, and hav e since g iv en pick the them one or two lifts beside. . DR. LUSHIN GTO N AND SLATE GROWN SUGAR. • TO THE ED ITO R OF THE SUN. SIII,-1 suppose that you are not aware. that Dr. Lushington is the proprietor of a sugar estate in Jamaica. Perhaps this accou nts for the Le arned Doctor's hostility to the Ministerial measure for th e altera t ion of t h e Sugar Duties. I think this ought t o b e made known. Th e e s t a t e is known by the nameof (I believe) the Seven Plantations. . , . I am, &c., yours, respectfully, Wigan, May 8, 1841 . J. T. TORIES AND CHARTISTS-. • Where the carcase is, there will the &tours be. gathered together." Under whatever plausible pretext the Chart ist may attempt to justify his recent conduct at Nottingham, to every reflecting and consistent Reformer, his coalition with the Tory faction will appear most "foul, base, and unnatural." View it in whatever light you may, it still presents itself. in hideous deformity; and, so far from being calculated to•make proselytes to the cause of Chartism, will have the effect of deterring many who were otherwise favourable to a very extended suffrage - , from advocating its adoption, viewing, from recent proceedings, what would be the result if additional power was placed in the hands of men, *hose.. party have proved them selves ignorant or criminal in the exercise of what they now possess. It is of no avail the Chartists attempt to screen their folly under an assumed opposition to the Poor-law, bad as many of the provisions of that Bill may be, which provisions it was the earnest desire of the enlightened Larpent to see revised; its enactment (saying nothing of its being as much a Tory as a :Whig measure), is but an effect produced by causes, upheld, maintained, and advocated by the very men their infatuation has led them to unite,themselveS with. Who most strenuously and tenaciously uphold the cruel, famishing, unjust system of Corn laws ? Who imperiously denounce, from selfish impulses, freedom of trade and extended com merce ? Who riot in luxury and extravagance, by means of the scanty pittance abstracted from a toil-worn and suffering people ? I answer, the Tory aristocracy of the country—the men who, by the assistance of the Chartists, have succeeded in misrepresenting Nottingham, in the person of the Berkshire apostate. It is, I maintain, from the Corn and Provision laws, from a restricted commerce, and from the system of extravagance ever upheld by the Tory faction, that the present distressed state of our manufacturing districts is to be attributed, and consequently that a system of Poor-laws, though aversive to the independence of Englishmen, is unfortunately rendered necessary. How incon sistent, then, is the conduct of that man, who, while condemning a law, votes for the political weathercock who advocates the perpetuation of those abuses that renders such a law inevitable ? And how unprincipled and Jesuitical must that apostate be who attempts to blind the people by declaiming against a law, which is the offspring of the pride, avarice, and selfishness of _himself and class. The Chartists again attempt to vindicate their conduct by pleading the imbecility and inertness of the Whigs. Is it consistent, because they can not obtain all they demand from those whose dis position is to grant an extensive reform, were they not frustrated in-their intentions by the phi lanthropic Tories, to throw themselves into the arms of those Tories, to hug the chains of slavery forged by them for their inheritance, to abjectly fawn upon the tyrant who waits only his oppor tunity to trample them under his feet, to pros trate themselves before the enemies to all im provement, the supporters of every species of injustice and oppression ? To the Chartist, I would say, beware of such infatuated conduct. Can he suppose for a moment that the Tories feel any sympathy, or such an alliance with him, ex cepting as a means of advancing their own inte rests? Can be doubt but that while they are making him the stepping-stone to power, they', at the same time despise his pusillanimity, and Me ditate his destruction when that power is attained? Let not the Chartist lay the flattering unction to his soul that his infatuated conduct will secure the friendship of his avowed enemies. Toryism is composed of different materials to gratitude and forbearance ; it may use the ho neyed languag e of fl attery, but bitter indeed will be the results. Once secure in place, depend upon it one of their first acts would be the extirpation of the Chartists as a party, for however they may disguise the fact, their hatred to them will be sa tisfied only by their extinction. It is therefore idle in men possessing reasoning faculties to plead in justification of their misdeeds enmity to the Poor-law, and hostility to the present Administration. Let them ask themselves first, if they are taking proper means to redder Poor-laws unnecessary by their opposition to the repeal of a principal cause of beggary—the Corn laws; and secondly, whether the suspension date Habeas Corpus, and a return to the palmy days of Castlereagh, are to be desired in preference to that progressive reform, those principles of Civil and Religious Liberty, and those generous feelings towards suffering Ireland, that animates the councils of the present Ministry, which prin ciples, carried out, could not fail of promoting the interests and happiness of the people,l but which are unhappily thwarted by the madness of Toryism, aided by the wild fanaticism of igno rant, deluded, and, as was evident at the late election, venal Chartists. An indignant, non-resident BURGESS OF NOTTINGHAM. May 3, 1841. PARKS AND ENCLOSURES. EAST LONDON. TO THE EDITOR OF THE -SUN. As one who long in populous city pent," &c. &c. SlR,—Your Correspondent, a Resident of the Tower Hamlets," has confirmed me in some opinions partly formed some time ago, and with a reference to the most confined suburbs of Lon don and those least favoured by circumstances, which I beg permission, in the first instance, to submit through your widely disseminated paper. To prove to you that I think this the very last subject which ought to partake of a political com plexion, I will candidly avow that on the subjects which you are at present discussing I differ from you toto ca.lo. Your Correspondent specifies se veral tracts of land, each of which comes far short of what, I believe, were the proposed dimen sions of " the Parks"-200 acres. It has also been stated, I am sure correctly, that there would be great difficulty in finding a single tract which would not be from two to three miles dis tant from several parts of the whole, formed by Bethnal-green, Shoreditch, Spitalfields, White chapel, with part of Stepney, not to mention the long shore" line. This brings me to my point. Why one Park or enclosure only—why not three, or more ? Division here would be so far from frittering away the good, that it would multiply it tenfold. In a case where things cannot be done on a gigantic scale, as in a "Park" of 2,000 acres and upwards, it is surprising how much can be done by " laying out" with a limited space. " Example is better than precept." I will refer your readers to a place not very distant or un known—Brighton, to the " Royal Gardens" be yond the New Church, and to the " Pa - rk." In the former the limits are entirely lost sight of, from the beautiful disposition of the ground. The latter has a wild and spacious appearance, and certainly would conveniently hold 30,000 or 40,000 persons ; yet, if I recollect right, though double the size of the former, it only includes sixteen acres. Like the besieged cook, in the " Fortunes of Nigel," a person of taste can do a great deal with small means. " Capability Brown" would not have wished for more than 25 acres. Trees— those of quickest growth—may be planted,—an artificial precipice may be formed--or a sunken level, to be filled with water; and with the earth excavated, ti "mound " may be formed 40 or 50 feet high, and upwards, from whence not only a view, but, what is here of intense importance, " a snuff of fresh air" may be obtained. In fact, large erections of this class, even without a " Park," would be of the utmost value. The primary expense of all this would be con siderable ; but, like Zeuxis' paintings, it would last, with moderate care. Of the tenacity of earth-works, where no care has been used, many an ancient agger, Valium, and castrum, affords incontestible proof. The object is not to form a " public establish ment," with a" staff," butto do the greatest good for the multitude, with whatever means can be procured. Even if the expense ofkeeping up se veral proved more, it ought not to deter. I should be glad to live to see this idea spread ; that other suburbs of London, as well as towns in the country, where it was needed, should each have its " little Park," where a grandf a th er could sit on a bench on a summer's eve, and tell his grandson of " the things that are gone"— places loved in youth, and loved for memories in age, when the spirit is but half of this world, and longs to rejoin the friends of its y ou th. Don't call either of these by such a conceited term as h a s been used at Derby—a r b ore t um , ("arbour eaeem I" I believe the honest rustics term it): to one who has not had the advantage or accident of a clasical education, this conveys as clear an idea as abracadabra would, or Xeno phon's nafaLicros in the original Greek. Call it by the old English word, a Parh, which is quite sufficient to convey the idea of meadow, wood, water, hill, or valley. I am, Sir, yours respectfully, May 7, 1841. P. THE WEATHER.—Noox, MAY 10. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Barometer . 30.23 In. rhermometer... 62 I Highest 64 I Lowest Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. The number of corporal punishments inflicted in the royal navy in 1838, amounted to 1,730, and in 1839 to 1,381. INTREPIDIfir 01 -4- Li POLICE- CONSTABLE. The Magistrates sitting at the Town-hall, Croydon, last week had to dispose.of a charge against two noto rious poachers, named Nicholson and Page, and a third man named Denham, of being in Sanderstead-park, for an illegal purpose, and also with committing a violent assault upon Thomas Tappin, one of the police-con stables of the P division. It appeared from the evidence of Tappin, who had his head much cut and his nose split in the affray, that while on duty, about half-past two o'clock in the morning at Sanderstead, he saw the de fendants and two other men get over the hedge into Sanderstead-park, and suspecting they were about com mitting some offence, he shortly afterwards followed them, and -on his going into the rookery he found that some iron chains had been fixed in one of the trees, and two of the men had ascended, and Page was about following them, when the constable seized him by the leg, and pulled him down, and a struggle took place between them, and on Page calling on his comrades to assist him, Durham and Nicholson did so, and they all attacked the constable. The constable, however, being a very powerful man, would not relinquish his hold of Page, and he actually succeeded in getting the other two men down, and they all struggled together, as afterwards appeared by the state of the ground for a distance of thirty yards ; and during this time the constable was kicked and struck in the face and very much hurt. By this time an alarm had in some way been given, and a private watchman who sleeps at the residence of Mr. Hills the tenant of Sanderstead-park, got up, and armed himself with a gun, and accompanied by a blood hound, he proceeded to the spot, where he found the three prisoners and the constable struggling on the ground. The dog immediately seized one of the men, and dragged him off, and with the assistance of the private watchman the three prisoners were eventually securedand placed in safe custody, b u t th e o th e r two made their escape. Upon an examination being made, the ground presented very plain appearance of the desperate struggle 1 that had taken place, and six young rooks were also found lying dead, so that the prisoners' object was, no doubt, to plunder the rookery. The next day the prisoners were taken before Messrs. Sutherland and Currie, at Croydon, when the above facts were deposed to, and the constable in addition, stated that he did not draw his staff in the affray, because he was afraid they might get it away from him and use it about his persons The Magistrates ultimately committed the defendants for three months to the House of Correction. The pri soners are notorious characters, and one of them stnne time back underwent an imprisonment of twelve months for a violent assault upon a gamekeeper. It is said that the Commissioners of Police have directed a gratuity to be given to the constable Tappin for his intrepid conduct upon the occasion. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, MAY B.—On Saturday, June 11, the annual _election of postmasters will take place at Merton College. There are three vacancies. Candidates must be between 17 and 19 years of age, and are required to deliver the usual certificates and testimonials to the Warden on Mon day, the 7th of June. The examination will begin on the Bth. These postmasterships 'are 14 in number ; 12 of them were founded in 1380, by Dr. Wylliott, Chancellor of Exeter ; and two were subsequently added by J. Cham ber, Canon of Windsor. There is now an exhibition vacant at Pembroke Col lege founded for the sons of clergymen in the diocese of Gloucester. Candidates are to present the proper certi ficates and testimonials to the Master on or before Wed nesday the 26th inst. The election of a Vinerian Scholar took place on Thursday last in Convocation. At the close the num bers were— John Gordon, of Brazenose College S. H. Northcote, of Balliol ditto 34 G. L. Browne, of St. John's ditto These scholarships are tenable for ten years—value 30/. per annum. _ In the same Convocation it was unanimously resolved to contribute 1,000/. to the fund for the endowment of colonial bishoprics. The Regius Professor of Divinity has given notice that his public lectures will commence on Wednesday, June 2, at twelve o'clock, and that he will resume his private lectures on the Epistle to the Hebrews on Tuesday next, the 11th inst. The Sedlian Reader in Natural Philosophy has given notice of a course of lectures on Newton's Prmcipia, and another course on the Principles of Mechanics, on Tues day next, the 11th inst. The Professor a Botany has issued notice that he in tends to begin a course of eight lectures, comprehending a sketch of the characters of the principal families of plants, on Friday, June 4, at two o'clock. C. 0. Bowles, Esq., has presented the Rev. R. Brown, of Pembroke College, to the vicarage of North Aston, in this county. The Rev. G. W. Langmead, of Exeter College, has been appointed Chaplain of the Citadel, at Plymouth. THE SUGAR DUTIES. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) You observed on Saturday that Dr. Lushington spoke with energy, and carried conviction, because he spoke with sincerity ; nevertheless, it cannot be denied that he has been so much hurried on by his honest feelings of alarm lest the great question of universal freedom for the black population should be retarded by the proposed reduction of the sugar duties, that he has omitted to give the subject that calm consideration which it merits, or he would have perceived that the duty of 365. per cwt. applied only to Muscovado sugar ; that, for the ostensible sake of protecting the British re fineries, but really for the purpose of excluding them from home use, an additional duty would be im posed on all clayed and white sugars. This is tapping the right nail upon the head, for if the planters of Cuba and the Brazils wish to participate in the advantages of the British markets, they must relinquish the toilsome process of partly refining their sugar for sale. The admis .sien of brown sugars only would lead to the abolition of the laborious practice of whitening them. This dimi nution of work would confer at once an immense be nefit upon the whole body of slaves in the two coun tries. It may be safely computed that one-fifth of the whole is now employed at this arduous and unhealthy task. This fifth would be put to assist the field-gangs, and thus diminish the labour of the remaining four-fifths. Moreover, the planters, having more slave strength at their command than the cultivation of their respective plantations needed, would cease to purchase hands in the slave market. This stagnation would presently bring down the value of slaves until the price of them fell below the costs of stealing and conveying them • to the Brazils or Cuba, checking by this plan the abominable slave-trade more effectually than all the vigilance of our cruis ers, and all the results of our slave treaties. put together. It is therefore fair to assume Dr. Lush ington has not investigated the question very closely, or he would have arrived at the conclusion we have pointed out. This country has already suffered in purse enormously for the sake of the negroes in our own sugar colonies ; first in the price paid for their freedom, and secondly in the vast amounts extracted by excessive prices paid for all West India produce, bolstered up, as it has been, by an active and vicious monopoly ever since the date of emancipation. We will plainly tell Dr. Lushing ton and the other influential friends of the blacks, that so long as they advocate a system of mo nopoly in sugar, so long they continue to sti mulate the cupidity of the proprietors of es tates. It is now a matter of notoriety that all our West India settlements are sugar gardens from end to to end ; and they can only be maintained in that high State of cultivation by the painful exertions, the ex torted labour of the negroes, who can by no possibility be a happy race, while the drift of the law made by their taskmasters, is to compel them to pursue unhealthy and exhausting labour. What does it matter to the black whe ther he be forced to the field by the lash, or whether he is coerced by crafty and cruel laws, which merely take the whip from one hand to put it in another, to the same description of toilsome labour ? This evil, the source of wretchedness to the black population, is within our grasp. The Government measure will bring the Eastern grown sugars into competition with that from the West Indies—the rubbish, which the low classes of sugar from the Brazils and Cuba certainly are, will be rejected on account of quality by all consumers in Great Britain. NEW CARRIAGE ENTRANCE IN HYDE PARK. —Her Majesty, we understand, in compliance with the numerous applications addressed to her by the inha bitants of the vicinity, has formally signified her approval of a plan for making a carriage entrance into Hyde-park from Knightsbridge ; and powers have been given by Parliament, enabling the Dean and Chapter of West minster to sell, and the Commissioners of Woods to pur chase, sufficient ground to secure a wide and handsome approach, and the erection of houses of a class and cha racter which must eventually effect an improvement of the whole neighbourhood. Difficulties, we are informed, are likely to arise in meeting the demands of some of the tenants ; and these, if persisted in, will necessarily delay the measure, and render another application to Parlia ment indispensable.—Observer. DISCOVERY OF AN ANCIENT WELL.--.Hav ing heard that a very ancient well had been lately dis covered at Wilmecote, in this county, in which many an tiquarian curiosities had been found, we very naturally felt a desire to obtain some further particulars on a sub ject so interesting ; and being unable, at present, to visit the spot, we wrote to a v er y t a l en t e d young friend, wh,, had been " an eye-witness," and is a very promising classical student, under the tuition of a learned and worthy clergyman, resident in the immediate neighbourhood of the discovery to which so much interest is attached. From that young friend we have received the following communication : Stratford, April 24th, 1841.. Dear Sir,—l received your letter of yesterday, i n which you express a desire to have the particula t r e s . of th e well well that has lately been discovered at Wilmecote. well is in a quarry belonging to Mr. Mills, k in which have been found horns of the e son% e skulls of size, being from two to three feet long ; to them ; animals of the cow kind, with short horns affixed elk, of i a lle gr sie e Y al d a together with some Roman pottery, an .ure ,. , (a Roman few coins, one of which has the inscription of taus 4 . _ , laul verysthheapser and and the letters T. P. D., which signify Tri u . Emperor, who reigned abou . t b 4 w w hi ho c l h e being i mperfect. The well is the other characters being n itia A. P e ote ) state Donati,— d wi th th e :constructed being regularly built in perfect symmetry ten Other wells, of less size, have . vieinity : there have also been a si n m d il i a s r 9 tea in nadrznal elpenetrates several solid rocks, if . they had i. theevestkeelleitClins, lying asbeendeposited . Dugdale mentions that Wesley, ad ,, was antiently a place of some im joining h place,ee t " l and that, in his time, " there 'WU no more polo' . ' h manor home, and *calve half the Church with be n found g clis r og e c ai s care left than i e in there. , that antiently stood ere.. that antiently me, Dear Sir, yours very faithfully, OULIZIAIJS DE STRATFORD. monxiNer EDTTION, THIi; EXI - RESS STEAM-PACKET. (Er,,m th, The Express st.am-packet is noW fairly at wofitliti . ing betwixt the new town of Fleetwood and Bardsea. Hence, the Bardsea people- are looking forward, hop ing to see many fresh faces in their neat, pleasant, and healthy little village—the Ulverston people are looking forward to visits from their relatives and friends ; indeed, the steam conveyance is an accommodation to the man of business or the party of pleasure—to the invalids who seek to have their health restored 'by the bracing sea breeze or the mountain air, for which the localities about Ulverston are so admirably fitted, while the scenery which meets the eye of the traveller to the Lakes is diversified and beautiful. To those who are in populous cities pent, accustomed only to the glare of pavements and the dull-red brick of long-continued streets—those there is a sweet repose to the mind which the works of Nature can alone afford, and in the district to which we allude Pro vidence has been most bountiful in displaying his Lundy work. But while we feel thankful for the accommoda tion of a packet from Fleetwood, we must not forget that our oid friend, the Windermere, is ag,:in ploughiug the briny sea betwixt Ulverston and' Liverpool ; we ought, and we do remember, that great has been the accommodation she has given to Ulverston, and that at times without any adequate remuneration ; but we wish . . hearty success to both—land with such convenience none need fear to land upon the shores of Morecambe Bay. If you land at Bardsea, you are about three miles from Ulverston. If iou wish to ride, you have conveyances from Mr._ Smith s, the Braddyl's Arms, and Mr. Parker's, the Sun Inn. with good horses and ca'reful drivers, and accommodation at each place fit for any noble of the land. We have just had a peep into Mr. Parker's establishment, the Sun Inn, which has undergone not only a thorough repair, but has also been newly and elegantly furnished, and tastefully painted and papered throughout ;and both the sitting aixf o th er room ; are fit for England's Queen and her Royal Consort. Then if you wish to have a drive, either in your own carriage or a conveyance. from the inn, think of the splendid scarlet liveries of Mr. Parker's post boys, and with his excellent cattle, how soon you are landed at Newby Bridge (if that be your route). If at Newby Bridge you don't wish to remain for any length of time, you can take a snack of Mrs. White's far-famed potted char and Westmorland hams—and then again forward your post boys, clean and neat, dressed in a livery matching Mr. Parker's. But who would not spend a night with Mr. White, when they remember that close to the Swan Inn, at Newby Bridge, is the Lake of Win , uermere—not only the largest, but one of the prettiest in the lake district—on the glassy waters of which you may sail and feast your eyes with the beauties of nature — wild, rugged, and fantastic—with which her banks are clothed, and which has been the theme of many a poet's song. fiat we must not forget to remind the traveller. there are other roads which may be travelled to much profit ; the pedestrian should take a survey of Conishead Priory. the tinnily ksidence of T. R. G. Eraddyll, Esq., and not forget to have a peep at the neat sweet little Hermitage behind. I3ardsea, too, is five miles from the Ruins of Furneis Abbey, and here, in the vale of nightshade, might the botanist luxuriate in what has been truly called a botanical paradise. The geologist, too, in Low Furness, might find that geology might there be studied to profit. The traveller should not miss sing the iron ore works about Lindal Moor, nor the slate quarries at Kirkby Ireleth, from whence he might proceed to Conis ton copper ore works, at which places he'would find both pleasure and profit from his visit. But it is not for ua point out the route of the traveller—though we ag*in wish, in conclusion. " Success to the Steam Packets." i°l ~~ -./ .`.~ \ ~/ ~~~ ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON. A general meeting of the noblemen and gentlemen, members of the Royal Yacht Squadron, was held, on Sa turday, at the Thatched House, St. James's-street. The Right Hon. the Earl of Yarborough, Commodore (Kestrel yawl, Cowes), in the chair. There *ere present the Earl of Belfast, Vice-Commo dore, the Earl of Ilchester (Petrel cutter, Southton), the Far! of Wilton (Xarifa schooner, Cowes), Viscount Powerscourt (Antelope cutter, Portsmouth), Sir Hyde Parker, Bart. (Louisa schooner, Cowes), Sir Archibald J. Murray, Bart., Sir Bellingham R. Grahnu, Bart., Sir Simon Clarke (Kate schooner, Southamptca),, Spencer De Horsey, Esq., M.P., Thoffias P. Williams. Esq.; M.P. - (Hussar schooner and Gazelle cutter, Beau marls), Joseph Reynolds, Esq., Thomas Halifiu, Esq. (Sparrow Hawk cutter, . Cowes), J. L. Symonds, Esq.: (Emerald cutter,. Cowes), James Lyon, Esq., John' Moore, Esq. (Reindeer cutter, Cowes), Williturt Beach, Esq. (Aurora cutter, Cowes), Almon Hill, Esq, (Ariel schooner, Cowes), William Lyon, Esq. (Merlin schooner and Circassian schooner, Portsmouth), John Bayley, Esq. (Nymph cutter, Dover), George Bentinrl:„ Esq. (Dream cutter, Portsmouth), Edward Hemage„ Esq., M.P.., Thomas P. Halsey, Esq., John Bendwore„ Esq. (Harriet schooner, Cowes), John Petre, Esq. (Midge cutter, Cowes), F. P. Delme Radeliffe, Es q . (Fanny cutter, C owes ), an d C apta i n A. L. Corry, R.N. (Phoebe cutter, Cowes). The Right Hon. Chairman having addressed the meeting explanatory of the nature of the business to be transacted. Mr. JOHN BATES, It N., the secretary, read to the meeting a financial statement, from which it appeared that the funds of the squadron were in a very flounslking condition. His Royal . Highness the Prince of Syracuse (brother of his Majesty the King of Naples) was elected an ho norary member of the squadron, without ballot. The following gentlemen were th en e l ec t e d b y b allot, members of the Royal Yacht Squadron.. Robert. William Gaussen, Esq. (Gossamer cutter, 35 tons.)—Proposer, the Right Hon. the Rar! of Yarbo rough ; seconder, F. P. I)elme Radcliffe, Esq. • William Peareth, Esq. (Aritulne cuter, 85 tons.) — Proposer, Sir J. W. Copley, Bart. ; seconder, Captain 1 ferringham, R.N. Thomas Legh, Esq. (Breeze cutter, 54 tons.)—Pm poser, the Earl of Belmor© ; seconder, the Bight Hon, the Earl- of Yarborough. The following gentlemen were elected by ballot ho norary members : Caiitain Francis P. Blackwood, R.N.—Proposer, John Moore, Esq. ; seconder, Spencer Dc Horsey, Esq., M.P. Captain Lewis T. Jones, R.N.—Proposer, Captain N. A. Herringliam, R.N. ; seconder, Captain A. L. Corry, R.N. Commander William Knighton Stephens, R.N.—Pro poser; Captain A. L. Corry, R.N. ; seconder, A. W. Cor bet, Esq. Captain James Wilkinson, R.N.—Proposer, the Right Hon. the Earl of Yarborough ; seconder, Captain A. L. Corry, R.N. Commander William Alexander Willis, R.N.—Pro poser, the Right Hon. the Earl of Yarborougli ; seconder, the Hon. W. H. Hare. The regatta will take place at Cowes in August. The anniml, club cup, hitherto given by the Royal Yacht Squadron, will not be sailed for this year. The 17th is the day appointed for the contest between yachts of the first - class (under 40 tons) for the cup given by her Ma jesty the Queen, On Wedne s d a y, the 18th, the annual ball, given by members of the Royal Yacht Squadron, will take place, and on Thursday, the 19th, the squadron, will celebrate their anniversary festival at Cowes. An engraving, in mezzotint°, by Mr. George Raphael Ward, after a picture by Mr. Mr. Briggs, li.A 4 of the Right lion. the Earl of Yarborough, was exhibited to the meeting, and met with universal approval, both as a, likeness of the Noble Earl as well as a work of art. The customary compliments having been voted to the Right Hon. Chairman, The Earl of Yarborough, in a suitable speech, returned thanks, and the meeting separated. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. • (From the Malta Times of April 14. ) The Bellerophon, Hastings and Implacable will sail shortly for England, calling at Gibraltar for orders. The Thunderer as ordered to proceed to Gibraltar and is to be stationed there. The Magpie surveying vessel sailed on the 13th for Candia and will be followed shortly by the Beacon. The Dido w ill sail short ly for Soda in Candia. The Britannia, hearing the flag of Rear A dmi• al Orocaaney, and Rodney are hourly expected from Marmoriue. The Hydra steam fzigate and 11Iegtera steam packet are ordered to proceed to the West Indies. The con tract steam packet City of Dublin arrived on the 11th inst. with mails from the lonian Islands and Greece. Those for Gi braltar and England will not be sent on until the lOth inst. The City of Dublin returns to-day with the London mails of March 31 and April 3. '1 he Edinburgh, which sailed hence for England on the 4th inst. was fallen in with off Pantellai ia on the 11th, having encountered strong contrary winds. The Trinculo, arrived at Gibraltar the 31st ult. in two days from. Lisbon. The Siren, 16, is to be commissioned by Lord Fre derick Reauelerk and proceed to the 11Iecli ter r a nean. Nine Frenchsail of the line, under the command of Admirai Hugo% sailed from Toulon, and were lying in the Bay of Hyeres on the A StrombolirrorN a' the 9th inst. mENtotrs.th E —Lieutenant xcel et It' t l u h a e s i te li L n a g o m n e Y d r o a n a rd rr m . i arrived T. d and his i si 4 ' pointed Naval Storekeeper of Malta Dock- a the eldest son of T t". tion at the Admiralty is to be filled b y N 3 V E . r. C F . r!..:nhcai,m, Clifton i s .s fro k_ ak Gr l a N n p t, lA Es A q i . , , tl o L f s. t_he i R oyal Clarence rCealatreLn ic,cerNpool port on t he 12th inst. at SIX A•M'' . g day Syria, taking likewise with those for India, Egypt. and by with ct which arrived the Alecto, from 31st oh., and proceeded to Alexandria on the followin g from London of the sth, Marseilles, on the 13th inst. SHIPPING INTEyin LL IGENCE. • (14,9.) „,,,, 19 .— Wind this day at noon fresh South ' Lorroox, At..-- „,.,.. 9. _ in \V., mo derate.—Arrived the Lord DEAL., it,. M`Lean, from Port Philip • Falconer, Dominica; Warblington, Cadiz; , Henrietta, South Earl of Hardwicke, Calcutta ; Tobago, Boyle, Anti gua;Seas ; Mediterranean ; Walter Hamilton, Westward Mail, rather w . cl d oudy. i • insmonarch, Sheerings, for Portsmouth. °lll2.l4llChina, Sydney, New South Wales ; Am- Arrived u (ewLs n iaeca da utt u r'Eaan n l:ya t ea f e ir r nnA'd'Y),me6dirtb. bre ez y ,ev Gr o ve, River, ilitrite, Mauritius; Vixen, Cape of Good Hope; Eliza, Wil liams, Trinidad; Goor, *Lean, Cape Coast Castle; Dewdrop. Miramiehi ; Mariner, Quebec. Put back, the Boadicea, for Rio Janeiro ~ Ceres, Demerara. LtvrerooL, MAy 9. Wind N.N.W., light.—Arrived the Lightning, Melh u i s h , from Monte Video; St. Vincent, Shep herd, St. Vi ncent ; Splendid, Croker, Mobile ; Sheffield., Allen, No w York, sailed 15th ult. ; Amazon, Hohnis, Cal cutta; John, Garlow, Bombay; Herald, Ray, Cuba ; Richard, Kraft, and Stadt Cammen, Miller, Stettin; Neptunus, Voss, Rostock. Sailed the Royal Saxon, for Bombay; Cantab, Rio Grande ; Matthew Pearce, St. Thomas's ; Ohio, New York; Navigator, Manilla; Enchantress, Calcutta ; King ston, Demerara; Brooklyn, New York ; Leigh, and Shenan doah, Philadelphia; Ellen Bryson, St. John's, New Bruns wick. Arrived off, the John o'Gaunt, from China; London, Syren, and Lanca s hi re Wi tc h , Triumph,Calcu; Monte Video ; M oun t a i neer, Ri o e en la hence Hackieto (ship, not sure.) Th e Ch ron i cle, a c d Buenos Livi n gston, wrecked near th e l a tt er port ; crew saved. h d igiers W DOVER, May 7.--Arrived off, the W ave , C umm i ngs, from St. Michael's; Hoppett , Trepani. Algiers, is Washington IN THE CHANNEL.—The Trident, Smith, from Porto Rico. H YE, MAY B.—Sailed the George Marsden, for Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 9 . -- Wind S. S.W....ArriTed the Nymph, Parnell, from St. Mic , ,ael'a ; Garnt.,a, River Gambia; John Frederick, Matanzas; Toronto, New York. r ~;:~~ 'l, i