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

EVENING EDITION Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., H E TRUSTEE. A NOVEL. By the Author of the Tragedy of " THE PROVOST OF BRUGES." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., THE QUEEN'S POISONER; Of, FRANCE in the SIXTEENTH CENTURY. By MISS LOW.ISA STUART COSTELLO, Author of " A Summer among the Bocages and the Vines." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. IJIDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, MAY 5, Will be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled LONDON ASSURANCE. Sir Harcourt Courtly, Bart., Mr. VT. 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 1-larkaway, 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-morrow, Leaden Assurance, with Beauty and the Beast. Doors to to opened at half-past Six—the performances to ocantaenee at Seven .'Clock. Dress Boxer, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 25.; 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 may De had upon application. Private Boats to be bad so'ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. The most powerful attraction ever offered. Third Night of Claude Duval, supported by Mr. J. S. Balls, and the ac knowledged best Company is the Metropolis, with an en tire change of Pieces. THIS-EVENING, MAY 5, Will be acted an Historical and Domestic Drama, entitled CLAUDE DUVAL, THE LADIES' HIGHWAYMAN. With entirely mew local and beautiful Scenery, extensive Ma. chinery, &c. Claude Duval, Mr. J. S. Balls. After which, t'le Comedy of WILD OATS; OR, THE STROLLING GENTLEMAN, Rover. Mr. J. S. Bulls. To conclude with the Rorcance of Diablerie, entitled APOLLYON, THE GREAT FIEND. Apollyon, Mr. 0. Smith, The Last Week of his Engagement. "THE CHINA SUN," WHICH WAS REPUBLISHED LATELY, IS NOW ON SALE, With all the LATEST NEWS. rim RAILWAY SUN WILL BE PUBLISHED IN A FEW DAYS. II on WATER, AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW M. tin 5...... 7 minnies ofttn 2 I Evening 25 minutes after The Publieation of the Evening Edition of TEE Sins coin nseesced at 10 minutes after Three. 4,41!,,.. „.. . r: ..,_,....,„ .. % „ .., 0 „.., A .. .. ....., . • •_. ~, k l , , . .. . . .7 . hi 0 ' ITITNI ,• ' ..74, 0 , . . '''' ''.' '... Cht LONDON: WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1841. The Marquis of LANsnowNE gave an important notice last night in the House of Lords, namely, for a Committee to in quire into the rate of interest paid on promissory notes and bills 01 exchange. We hope that in the inquiry both the lenders and the borrowers will be examined, so that light may be thrown on the transactions of those who have certainly turned to good account for themselves the partial repeal of the Usury laws. The Drainage Bill was read a third time. Several additions were made to it, and several amendments proposed, but Ox ford University was, at the suggestion of the Duke of WEL LINGTorr, exempted from the Bill. Birmingham was ex empted, on the motion of Lord LYNDHURST. Derby and ether towns were not exempted from its operation. After getting through the Bill their Lordships adjourned. The Commons did not collect in sufficient number to make a House, and stand adjourned till this day. --- The Provincial Papers which we received yes terday assure us that the propositions of the Ministers to reduce the planter's tax on sugar, the shipowner's and Canadian's tax on timber, and the landlord's tax on bread, are hailed with delight, and will immediately find a correspond ing and great support. It could not be other wise. These reductions are the very things the people have been justly clamorous for, and it would betoken imbecility or fatuity not eagerly to seize the good which is offered. Every where, except where some sinister and corrupt interest enchains men, they will get up meetings and forward petitions to Parliament. At present sugar is almost as much a necessary of life as bread. Last year much fruit was spoiled in consequence of the high price and scarcity of sugar. At present there is again a great show of fruit. The proposed measure of Ministers will reduce the price of sugar nearly to the Continental level, or probably not much short of cent. per cent., and enable the fruit growers both to obtain sugar cheap for them selves, and get a good price for their fruit. To all classes—for all are consumers of sugar, which is extremely nourishing, and may be substituted for other food—such an increase of the supply, and such a reduction of price, will be an im mense benefit. All the consumers of sugar, all the mothers of the empire who know how much the health of children depends on nourishing food, all fruit growers, we are assured, will exert themselves to secure the great advantages which the Ministers offer, and which they have no chance, we are sure, of getting from any other hands. The people will not so readily appreciate the value of the change in the, timber duties, though that will spare a number of long voyages, cheapen a most useful article, and save the lives of many brave mariners, who now annually perish in the timber vessels which are capsized or wrecked at sea. But the advantages of the reduc tion of the Corn tax, they will readily be sen sible of. The fixed duty, low as it will be, will reduce the price of corn to the continental level, plus that duty and the expenses of bringing it here, and will ensure a continual and steady supp ly. The price of bread will fall in propor tion, more bread will be purchased with the same money, employment will be more abundant and steadier, and all will be made happier by the change. Poverty and hunger are the p arents of many crimes, and hunger and poverty will be lessened by the Ministerial plan. All , therefore, who live by indust ry, all who wi s h to see it properly and justly rewarded, and men made virtuous and contented, will at once bestir themselves to se cure the immense advantages of cheap bread as well as cheap sugar. We are not habitually given to trust too im plicitly to the Ministers, but their pre sent Plan is so much in accordance with the principles we have espoused, and so well calculated to promote further im provement, that we call on all our readers to exert themselves to obtain for it complete suc cess. By so doing they may gain immense ad vantages for themselves ; by being supine or sluggish they will ensur e a continuance of the landlords' bread tax and the planters' To both those taxes th e To • sugar tax. Tories are pledged, and will support them to the utmost. The Tories are nearly all corruptionists, monopolists, and job bers;. hypocrites who plunde r the people in the name of the country, and in the still more sacred name of religion. The sinew s of their po wer are cut from the hearts el the people. Vampire like they live by suckin' the strength and blood of the nation. By withdrawing their nourishment, by uniting one and all, fti-st to limit, and ulti mately to stop altoi;ether, the supplies t' van! drain from u s by bread taxes, sugar taxe . n ‘ly whole host of otb .er taxes lev i ed for t l air a ' ( l, tage, we shall ¶.tarve the m o ut of existe nce , and again gather health, strength, freedom, and prosperity. Th e present Earl of RIPON, formerly Mr. Funzittcx ROBINSON, was the parent of the corn-law in 1815, whi c h was so mon strous. that it'could not be executed, and after it had been set aside in two or three in s t ances b y Orders in Council, it was at length made to give place to the present less monstrous regulation. The enactment of that law, which was so bad that it could not be executed, was opposed by the people. Riots ensued—lives were sacrificed — and human blood to this day lies heavy and dark on the Government of which Mr. ROBIN SON was a Member, and on the Legislature which, at its instigation, carried an imprac ticable law at the point of the bayonet. But that Peer, who may probably sup pose that men have forgotten his deeds as he changed his name from ROBINSON to GODBRICH, and. fled from GODERICH to RIPON, was on Mon day night so sensitive on the score of character that he pitied Lord MELBOURNE for his incon sistency, who has forsaken the vices to which the other still cleaves through the many changes of his name. He is, in truth, consistent in error and mischief, and professes, as Earl of RIPON, the same horror in 1841 for freedom and justice as he professed in 1813, when human lives were sacri ficed to the barbarous and impracticable law de vised by him and carried into effect by the Par liament. His reasoning on Monday night was worthy of his history and his colleague in oppo sition. The great Peer, who will be handed down to posterity as the inventor of the Kentish tire, far superior to the steam-engine of WATT or the safety-lamp of DAVY, joined the Earl of RIPON in exclaiming against the injustice and barbarity of taxing the people's bread. One said such a thing was never heard of in any country. The other summoned the Lords to arm to resistit. Both professed the utmost horror of a bread-tax, while the one was the inventor and the other a supporter of a bread-tax so enormous that it could not be levied, and both now support a bread-tax at least four times as onerous as the bread-tax which the Mi nisters propose to substitute for the pre sent exaction. To be sure the Lords pre sent laughed at both Peers, and, were it not a breach of privilege, such a mighty chuckle would have been elicited from the gallery as would have for ever silenced both the orators. It would have broken forth spontaneously, and would have been as much superior to the Kentish fire as the works of nature are to those of art— thunder to a pop-gun, or the roar of the Nia gara to a cascade at Eastwell. But the respect visitors bear to Newgate kept down the almost irrepressible laugh, and now it is bursting forth in all parts of the empire. Did these Lords suppose they were playing at conundrums, one asking " When is a tax not a tax ?" and the other answering " When it is a protection." Yes, a protection to them, and a dire extortion from the people. But legislation is some thing ofmore importance than word-catching, and they only exposed their terrible hypocrisy and their terrible desire to delude themselves and others, which latter is now beyond their reach, when they called their 235. duty a protection, and the 7s. or ss. duty to be proposed by the Ministers a bread-tax. For their denunciations, however, against all bread taxes we heartily thank them, but they are guilty to a fourfold enormity of the very crime they denounced in Lord MELBOURNE. That other great and potent lover of a bread tax which is not a bread-tax, the Duke of BUCK INGHAM, fancied he had made a deadly thrust when he quoted against Lord MELBOURNE his eloquent description of the effects of a struggle to repeal the Corn-laws. But if the heavy Duke is not wholly unconscious of what is going on in society he would be aware that the struggle Lord MELBOURNE fancied is actually stirring society to its foundation, calling into question the right of the Peers to their estates, and throwing doubts on the whole right of property as it now exists. It is dividing the people into parties, and filling their hearts with the deadliest animosity. Who can submit with patience to be starved to death ? Cries of distress and threats of revenge, the supplications of hunger and the imprecations of crime, are resounding through the land. All the dreadful evils which Lord MELBOURNE sketched as the result of a struggle to repeal the Corn-law, and which the Duke of BUCKINGHAM quoted as a justification of his support of that law, arc now continually engendered by its existence. Who can look at any part of society and not see it heaving with trouble and anguish ? Who is at ease ? Not even the landlords, for they live in dread of a change, because they are conscious that their law is unjust, and dread the fellow men they trample on. We say nothing of their starving labourers and serf-like tenants, who are in a sad state of fear, dependence, and poverty. Who is contented? Not even the priests, for their rapacity cannot be satiated by anything short of absolute mastership over the property and being of the whole community. The only class which appears at ease and contented, because honestly thriving, are the lawyers. For them new courts are to be opened and new Judges appointed. Endless suits promise them endless fees. Swind ling, forgery, casting away ships —now common occurrences—with fraudulent insolvencies and bankruptcies, assassinations and murders, and all the endless villainy that grows from a system of legislation of which the main principle is plunder, make a rich harvest for the lawyer tribe. They thrive most when the community is most in straits, and are now the only con tented class. If the Duke of BUCKINGHAM would look into the world he would see, we re peat, that all the mighty evils he dreads from repealing the Corn laws are actually inflicted on society at this moment by that very law of which he is the foremost champion. Mr. WILSON, whose pamphlet on the Influence of the Corn-laws attracted so much attention, has published another short and able work on " The Revenue ; or, What should the Chancellor do ?" Though the promulgation of the B u d get on Friday has answered the question, as Mr. WILSON himself answers it—that he should re duce, not increase, the taxes on articles of con sumption—there are several statements in the pamphlet of considerable interest. Mr. WILSON states that from 1821 to 1831 the population of the whole kingdom increased at the rate of one and a halfper cent. annually on the population of 1821, and he assumes that from 1831 to 1841 the increase has been at least in the same ratio. The progressive increase, we very much doubt, and are much inclined to believe that the increase of the population in the first six of the ten years was considerably greater than in the last four years. The census which is soon to be taken will inform us of the whole increase in ten years, but it will not inform us of the increase in every successive year. In the absence of all pos;: L i ve information on the point, we must state ;,hat we look on the slow increase of consumption in the last four years, the proof of which we are about to quote from Mr. WILSON'S pamphlet, to be an indication that the progress of population, in that time, has been arrested ; while the comforts of those who have been brought into life, or who have remained in life, have been abridged. Before copying Mr. WILSON'S observations 1. - fe must make one remark. Population f• given space does no t i ncrease by ar _in any ber of human bein gs every ye - - equal num , of v-ears, but if it inerer tf. ... , r through a serie s - -.ed 360,000 i n t h e year 1821, adding that .14,00%00G, the incr ease next tinned, v year (nig ht to ' of!, twevid'eti t h e same ratio con tion , r y newt - 0,300 m ore; an d so - popul a - should go on increasing year after year through the whole series till the increase in the single year 1841, instead of being somewhere about 360,000, should be somewhere about are 4l 0n1y2,000 We do not calculate to a ni cety ; we pointing out a principle which corrobo rates and enforces Mr. WILSON'S view, much more than his own assumption of an equal in crease of population year after year. Accord ing to this statement the increase of the reve nue, so far as that depends on an increase of po pulation, ought t o h more in the year 18 Z y t e h than t h e e nearlyincrease on e n - f l o B u 3 r 6 t . h Assuming, however, With Mr. WIZ.. SON, that THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1841. We will now borrow a long passage from Mr. WILSON, which will show how, and by whom, the benevolent provisions of nature are contravened: From 1833 to 1836, notwithstanding a reduction was made in each year both in the Customs and Excise duties, yet the receipts rapidly increased, even in a greater ratio than the sup posed increase of population, showing that the consumptive ability of the community was also as rapidly increasing; but, as we have already seen, from that period to the present time we have experienced a great falling off. So striking a change in the condition of the country, indi cating so great a diminution of the command of the great ne cessaries and comforts of life, cannot but excite much anxiety; and we are surprised that a greater effort has not been used to arrive at a satisfactory solution of this melancholy fact :—some will no doubt be content to say that from 1833 to 1636 com merce and trade were particularly prosperous, labour greatly in demand, and wages good, and that, consequently, the peo ple possessed a great power of purchase and consumption ; and that since 1836 the contrary has been the case. Such has no doubt been the fact ; but this distinction could not have ex isted between the two periods without some primary cause, which we have no doubt will be found to arise fr , J rn the great difference in the price of food during the two periods alluded to. In 1834, 35, and 36, the whole cost of wheat to the com munity, calculating the consumption at sixteen millions of quarters annually, at the average price of each year, was -1834 s. £36,933,333 1835 ............ 31,400,000 1836 107,133,333 While, in the three following years , by the same calculation, the cost was-- £44,666,666 1838 1839 £152,,665 showing a diff erence i n t h e cost of wheat alone of upwards of forty-five millions during the latter three years, as com pared with the former, which sum must necessarily have been abstracted from the channels of expenditure in which it had previously flowed, and, by diminishing the demand for all other articles to the same amount, at once embarrassed and curtailed commerce and manuractares, and diminished the re venue derivable therefrom. The high price, arising from the Corn-laws, is clearly the cause of the deficiency of the re venue, of the people being deprived of the ne cessaries and comforts of life, of many of them being starved to death, and of the progress of population and national greatness being impeded. The passage points out, also, the cause of fluctu ation. Confining the supply of our people to a narrow space, when the whole world is at their command, necessarily exposes them to the enor mous fluctuations in the price and quantity of food, and in the demand for other articles indi cated by the above passage. The extent of inter change will be in proportion to the commodities to be interchanged, and the fluctuations of commerce must, to a considerable extent, follow the great fluctuation of the harvest in our island ; while in the whole world there are perhaps no fluctua tions, but a steady increase. Prices were low in 1834,1835, and 1836, and then commerce spread all her sails. Prices were high, as the crops were short, in 1837, 1838, and 1839, and poor com merce, assailed by the landlords' storm, was almost reduced to bare poles. The worst of the matter is, that commercial men, who adapt their canvass to the landlords' weather, are blamed by ignorant observers for those changes in their conduct, which are made necessary by the Corn_ laws. The aim of commerce is to diminish fluctuations. The business of the inC:rchant is to buy when and where commodities are cheap, and sell them when a n d wher they are dear. His exertions, when left f ree, tend to n e ut ra li ze the variations of the seasons, reduce to no fluctuations i n th e con di t i on thing those ter r ibl of society—worse, probably, than positive and un varying pri-iation—which it has hitherto appa rently been the delight of our legislators to cause. The Paris Journals of Monday have all been received. They are filled with accounts of the celebration of the KING'S fete and the Christen ing of the Count de PARIS, of which ample de tails will be found in another part of The Sun. The infant Count, who is just two years and eight months old, performed his part in the ceremo nies with great good humour. Though there were three Cardinals present at the baptism, the Royal neophyte did not, like Madame JIJNOT'S daughter, take a fancy to the head-gear of any of them. He contented himself with affection ately kissing his nurse two or three times, to the edification of sundry husbands, wives, and lovers who were watching his every move ment. Kissing will, therefore, be fashion able in Paris this summer. When the sword was presented the Count said. to the Municipality " Merci," (thank " maiden speech w hi c h," say nic s a Mu 21pals,1 ite ,„. , i " deeply affected th e M etro') We do not wonder a t it. r •fhe Parisian Atunici. - tearted race, and a monosylla bicvery full of pathos, must have pals s are pee a ci t i en:l o er touched them deeply. The Itfoniteur should have told us that all preSent were dissolved in tears at such a rare instance of Royal precocity of intellect. The Prefect of Police of course swooned away, and required the attendance of the Court physician, although the Moniteur says nothing about it. The Parisians are above me diocrity in comedy, but in farce they are un rivaled. Th^.' lr travesties of sentiment are th e most la ) :Ighable things in the world. Take as an the following extract, from the address °, 4 : the Municip a lit y o f P ar is, read to th e K iNo by the Count DE RAAIBETEAII, Prefect of ow Seine : chief of a dynasty, who lin saved h , ;.,. country from so trimly What a grand spectacle in that evils, and has done it so mv.,:a good; -7 the iiiie timiiy, in which every virtue is + :,..ught and transmitted by example; the Prince, on cathedral ! :' ne K i ng, the whose brow valour sits radiant over pitcticions sap ' -ity ; the young m o th er, whose noble, penetrating, and gracious l oo k s revea l t h e destiny for which Providence has gifted her ; the Royal infant, bending his young head under celestial grace :—all this, Sire, was holy and beautiful ! It will • be easy for him to be just and strong. Happy infant, whose career Rill have been smoothed by so much wisdom, and who ' will find ad near to him powerful and noble lessons of instruc tion ! Sire, deign to permit the Comte de Paris to accept the sword of the city of Paris, an d may this souvenir ever be a pledge of union 'between the Prince and the city: A sword a pledge of union 3 A. pair of tailor's scissors a pledge of the indivisibility of broad cloth! And then the picture of the Duke of ORLEANS, with " Valour siting radiant over precocious intellect on his brow !" So the radi ance of valour outshines intellect in the heir apparent, The Duchess too, 'f whose noble, penetrating, and gracious looks". proclaim hey . " every inch a Qu c e n ;" is comprunentedi not, for . her virtues but her air of dignity. The " bend- population has gone on increasing year after year, since 1831, at the rate of 360,361 persons, we put down after him the whole population of 1836 at 26,158,524; 1837, 26,518,885; 1838, 26,879,246; 1839, 27,239,607; 1840, 27,599,968. The years prior to 1836 are unnoticed, because in them considerable alterations and reductions were made in Customs and Excise duties. Sub- sequent to 1836, no alteration of any importance was made in the duties, till the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER levied the increase of 5 per cent. in 1840. On these premises, as the revenue of 1836, from Customs and Excise, was 36,392,472/., Mr. WILSON says it ought to have been respectively— In 1837 £36,938,363 but wa5...... £33,958,421 1838 37,484,254 34,478,417 1839 38,030,145 1840-- 38,567,036 The last year includes the additional duty of 5 per cent. " From the calculation," says Mr. WILSON, " it appears clear that if the population have increased in the same ratio that it did be tween 1821 and 1831, and that if each individual in the community possessed the same command of the necessaries and comforts of life which he did in 1836, then the nett produce of the con sumption revenue in 1840, without any additional rate of tax whatever, should have been at least 3,000,0001. sterling more than it has actually been, notwithstanding an increased rate of five per cent. which the community have paid on every thing consumed." From our emendation of Mr. WILSON'S principle it follows that the increase in the revenue should have been greater than he states, and the real falling away of national pros perity is more alarming than he imagines. In all statistical calculations we must always bear in mind that nature has implanted in man a power ful spring of prosperity and of increase, capable of surmounting even all the hardships of savage life and all the severities of the most rigorous climate. Consequently a nation is not prosperous when its resources do not increase, or increase only slowly,—they ought, consistently with the wise provisions of nature, to increase rapidly, and the more rapidly the further a nation is advanced in knowledge and skill. The Eidgenosse, of Lucerne, says that the new charter will not obtain any vote in the valley called Surenthal, it is pro nounced, says the same journal, that it will be also rejected in the whole of the Wiggerthal, and in several communes in the district of Willisau, and at Eschenback, Munster, Bc.c. This sudden revolution in the minds of part of the people has arisen because the ultramontane aristocrats have not kept fair promises when they set about the work of revising the Constitution. They have betrayed here and there a tendency to reaction by relieving the convents from the principal bur dens by requiring the payment of a certain amount of taxes as a qualification for admission to the discussion in the Com munes, and by neglecting to lighten the burdens of the pa)ers of tithes.— Le Commerce. PA RIS, MAY 2.—The Duke of Orleans has transmitted f o the Archbishop 10.000 francs, to be distributed among the parents of poor children who shall be brought for baptism to-day, to-mor row, and the day after, in the several parishes of Paris.—Le Constitutionnel. BOURSE..—PARIX, FRIDAY, MAY 3. ?tit Highest Lowest Last French 5 per Cents .... ..... ,„ Price Price. Pri er . P rice 4 per Cents., 113 75 ... 113 75 ... 113 65 ... 113 70 ...... .„ 99 20 ... 99 20 ... 99 20 ... 99 20 3 per Cents,..,, 79 40 79 45 79 3 - 1 ... 79 30 Sank of trance ...... 2190 ...31.50 ...3183 „,3185 iseigian Bank 1841.... ...1050 5 N pe ew r L0 Ce a n n t5 . .................. : 1014 ... 10114 • ... 101 1 4 .. 10114 :banish Passive 1 2 0, 5 1 1 11, 1( 1, 4 1114 1 • % l ' 2u s - !L! Neapolitan ........ ~) 3 75 ie3 75 Roman RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R, B L.B 23.5 225 ... ... 135 Rouen 455 ... 457 50 ... 4.55 ... 457 50 Orteam . 4BS - 483 75 ... 48750 457 50 Strasburg to Bale 238 75 238 75 ... 237'50 ... 237 50 DUTCH FUNDS,—AMBTREDAI/, MAY 3. Money. Sills. /mai Dabt, 2% per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Amart Syndic,44 per cent 9O 91 Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 74 7434 Commercial Company, 444 per cent 16 5 14 166 Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. ..... Ex an l 10136 97 102 L0i 1 37, 5 per cent. 97% % change on London, One month l2 0234 Two mon the Dutch Pap ers , May 4. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Viensa, Antic 24 Five per Cents. Metalliques Three per Cents. Bank Shar es 77 %1(63 -Altgenreine &flung. April 29 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— Beaux, APRIL 30. St. Schuld. Sch., 4k Bids. Money, ~ per cent. ........ 10S% Prussian English Loan. 1830,4 per cent. 10136 101 Exchange on London, three months „. 6 21 —Prussian State Gazette. May I. Madrid Journals of the 7 ult. announce that the Regency has removed the Bishop of Pam peluna from his See, for publishing a pastoral ad dress in favour of the Papal Allocution. This is going the right way to work. A few such re movals will set at rest the scruples of the Prelacy. Bishops are not the stuff of which to make mar tyrs. There is no news in these papers of the lease interest. The Regency question is still pending The Fives had risen on the 27th to 27,1 for cash. COALS, CINDERS, D CULM. The following, from a return made to the House of Commons, are the quantities of coal, cinders, and culm, exported from the United Kingdom to foreign countries, with the amount of duties received : Coals, 1,592,283 tons ; Cinders, 13,783 tons • Culm, 247 tons; and the t o t a l d uty, 6,9781. About one-fourth of the coals are sent to France, In 1839, 2,625,323 tons of coals were brought coastwise to the port of London, and 12,933 tons by inland navigation. In 1840 the quantities respectively were 2,566,899, and 22,188, making a total for each year of 2,638,256 and 2,589,087 tons, brought to London. NEWS FROM CHINA. We have received the following intelligence in anticipation of the Overland Mail from India : The . Indian Mail has arrived in town, bringing dates from China to the 12th February, Calcutta to the 22d March, and Bombay to the Ist April. The intelligence so received is not satisfactory. The Chinese Chief Commissioner Keshen, in his in terview with Captain Elliot, evinced an intention to procrastinate, which, added to a report that warlike orders had been received from Pekin, produced an impression that hostilities must be renewed. The accounts from India are also of =unsatis factory character. In Scinde and Affghanistan considerable ferment prevailed. The fort of Kajuck was unsuccessfully attacked by our troops on the 20th of February. Colonel ✓iisou was mortally wounded, Lieut, Falconer killed, and Lieutenants Shaw and Farquharson wounded. In an engagement between some troops of the Bengal establishment and a tribe of Khybenries the latter were defeated; but two European officers, Capt. Douglas and Lieut. Pigou, of the Bengal Engineers, were killed. It was believed that the Persians meditated another attack upon Herat. Lahore was still the scene of riot and blood shed. Shere Sing was still the nominal King of the Punjaub ; but the state of that unfortu nate country was deplorable, and forbade all hope of its being early arranged. The Levant correspondence which has come to band with the foregoing contains no news of im portance. Our Alexandrian letters of the of April state that the reply of the Sultan to the rP 7iionstrance of Mehemet Ali had not yet been received.—Times, gut - manses were issued yesterday to the Mi nisters to attend a Cabinet Council to-morrow (Thurs.t.lay) evening, at the Foreign-office. Vis count Melbourne will come from Windsor Castle to attend tile Cabinet. DIFFICULT OPERATION.— On Wednesday last a very difficult uperatiOn for the cure of the deformity Capui Obstipum, or Wry-neck, was performed by Mr. R. J. Lear, surg eon , of Plymouth, cn a female 21 years old, named nottiblyioiVing at Morice-town. The deformity had existed at birth, which makes the case more novel, and the head was nearly level with the shoulder, thus rendering her appearance most frightful. The operation was completely successful, the bead on its termination taking an upright and natural position, we need scarcely add, much to the comfort and delight of the patient. The deformity is caused by the contraction of the muscle, which when perfect draws the bead to one side and bends it forward; and the operation consists in dividing this muscle; but great discrimination is required to ascertain whe:her the hopes of the neck (copical vertebrae) have ieconii implicated in the deformity. This Pi the first in? :rine; of trying and difficult operation being per k rmad in this peighbenrhoOd • and we base beard very th opinions expressed of the skill displayed by Mr. !Le tr.....Devosport Indspendent. ing of the young head under celestial grace" is one of those flowers of rhetoric which could only bloom in Frapce. How a really sensible man like Louis PHILIPPE could have listened to such servile twaddle without laughing in the face of the deputation, is only to be accounted for by his proficiency in King-craft. The Prefect of the Seine might study the words of FENELON and BossurT with advantage. The Opposition Journals are angry with the KING for concealing his route to the Cathedral, and for going in a carriage only drawn by two horses. These Journals ought to be aware that there is no human being without some weakness, and that among those of the KING must be classed his extreme dislike of being shot at by his loving subjects. Though sometimes reason proof, his MAJESTY is not bullet-proof, and there fore he objects to the Parisian p rac ti ce o f n , „ R _ ing a target of him on all grea t State o-,casions. Nor do we blame the KI NG f or e-,-tercising due ppruebclaicu.tiorrnhe r-faction 'As appeara nce i n ;las - shown itself capa ble of attempting nrarder on a scale less limited than the theatre of Europe. Nor were the dis contented a? Together idle on Saturday and Sun day, as :Ippears from the following extract from the Debats of Monday :-- The factious, with that fatal sagacity which never fails them, were perfectly aware of the advantage to he derived at the approach of .o important a popular movement, from the melan choly success which they had recently obtained in the presenne of justice for a moment blind and impotent. A profusion of copies of this deplorable trial was distributed amongst the peo ple • they we re th rown by th ousan d s i nto t h e reading-rooms, coffee-hous es , and shops of the metropolis. It was expected at least to irritate the people's minds, if they were not able to ex cite them to acts of violence. " Such was the calculation of the factious. The event has proved that it is false. The factious had calculated without considering the good sense of the people, who repelled all their insinuations, and treated their calumnies with more justice than the Jurors themselves. There was no shooting, however, because the KING, being the only object upon which a Pari sian mob spends powder and shot, was not visible. Our readers know that the new constitution adopted by the great Council of Lucerne must be approved by the Com mercial Assemblies of that canton on the Ist of May. The Hevetie, of the 30th of April, has the following remarks on the subject : " The accounts which we receive this morning from that canton are favourable to the liberal cause. As the day ap proaches which is fixed for the people to vote on the fate of the new constitution deserters become more considerable in the ranks of the Constituante, so that we ale almost obliged to doubt whether ultramontane aristocracy or liberalism will triumph in the great struggle that will take place on this oc casion. GUILD HALL-(TH IS DAY.) Wm. Strong was placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman JOHNSON, charged with breaking into the house of Mr. John Bateman, of 10, Fish-street Hill, and stealing a valuable mi croscope, and various other articles. Mr. Bateman said he was a working optician, and the pri soner had served his time to him as an apprentice. The pro perty stolen had been entrusted to witness by Mr. Dolland, the celebrated optician and mathematical-instrument maker, to execute some repairs. On last Friday morning he found his workshop broken open, arid the articles named taken, which were subsequently found pawned by Strong. The prisoner some time since had likewise stolen a smaller microscope, in an unfinished state, which he sold to a person named Allan Ser geant, in Leicester-square, who by a singular coincidence brought it to him (Bateman) to finish. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. THE MARKIETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The fresh supplies of Grain since Monday have been small, but a disinclination to purchase was manifested by the buyers, and all sorts of Grain was as last quoted, with scarcely any thing doing. The Flour trade also very heavy. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. There was a good show of Meat, but trade was rattier slack, and prices much about the same as last quoted. Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 2d. ; Mutton, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 2d. ; Lamb, ss. to 6s. ; Pork, 3s. 4d. to ss. ; and Veal 3s. 4d. to ss. per stone of 81bs. Poultry in good request. Prices as follows :-Rabbits, tame, Is. 3d. to Is. 9d. ; Leverets, 3s. to ss. ; Fowls, 4s. to 6s. ; Large Surrey Fowls, 6s. to 10s. ; Pea Fowls, 7s. to 10s. ; Guinea Fowl, 3s. to 4s. ; Sussex Chickens, 4s. 6d. to 6s. ; Barn-door ditto, 2s. 9d. to 3s. 6d. ; Goslings, Fs. is 9s. ; Ducklings, 4s. to 6s. ; Pigeons, 6d. to 10d. ; Cock Turkeys, ss. to Bs. ; Turkey Poults, 48. to ss. Live stock fur shipping: -Live Turkeys, 48s. to 545. ; Ducks, 275. ; Geese, 465. to 545. ; Hens, 245. ; Old Pigeons for shooting, 10s. to 12s. per dozen. Eggs in large supply ; trade dull, and prices unaltered. COLONIAL MARKET. There was little business done privately, and the public sales were extremely smal. Nothing definitive being known with respect to the Customs Duties Bill, caused the transactions to be extremely limited, and prices had still a downward tendency. The arrivals keep small. TEA MARKET. There was a fair demand for Free Trade, and the last rates were fully supported. For several parcels of Company's Congou Is. sid. paid. The stock in the kingdom is 37,000,000 lbs. TALLOW MARKET. Prices of Russian were sustained, and a fair demand existed for parcels on the spot at 48s. per cwt. The accounts from St. Petersburgh state that prices were on the advance. IRISH MARKETS. DUBLIN MARKET NOTE for the WEEK ending APRIL From 383 Wheat,per barrel 'et swim." 28 0 0 Bcre ......... ....... 16 s tole 0 0 513 Barley l6 stone"... 15 0 618 Oats '4 stmt..... 12 6 p.. 0 Flour, per cwt... 8 stone, — 0 4112 Oatmeal 8 stone l2 0 Sold to Bakers only. 0,124 Cv..t. 1' lour lO 0 1 24 0 I 21 2 Average price of Wheat and 'lour 51. 'Bd per sack • Receipt/1 of Flour, fi Fir5t.5............ from 2. s. Od to 2-1 s Od Sail's of Do. 10;355 MR •- - - / Sccon.le ....... from 17s. ed. to °ls .0d Trords ......... from 10s. Od. to 12, Od To Average 3 4 0 33 4 II U 0 17 6 16 6 14 6 13 7 I) - 0 14 6 13 7 -- PRICE or BREAD. Quarters Loa! 9d. ; Half Quartern CORK 1%1 AR KETS.— May 1, Wheat (per 205e.)2,05 N. lA, 335. Oa, oats (per 145 t. ...11 4 04. to 135. 6d Barley (per lest.)ll 0 13 9 'Floor (per cwt )...11 24 0 Oatmeal (per ..... Od to 165 Cd beef, 4d. to Wt.—Mutton sd. to 6d.— Veal, 4d to fel Pork, 4id. to sd.—Fresh Buttes, 10d. to lld per lb. PRICE OF BUTTER. To the Merchants. To the Country !First 00000000 „..•••••.) 12 t ....... ..... 10:t• Second lOB ••••• eve 0.0 • el A.. 8. Third ••• ......... •••.. ......... ••• 103 ••••••••••...et v • SJO Fourth • 9O Fifth (32 Sixth 56 46 CLONMFLL MARKETS—May 1. Per (wt. s. d. it. d. B, cf. s. d New Butter . ..... VS 0 tcloo 0 Hides (raw).... ..... . oto 24 0 Oatmeal I'2 0 11 3 13aconP:gs... ..... ... 42 C 43 0 Rendered Lard 0 52 0 k1ead5•.............,...2:1 '.I t l'er Bag. flour, Second - 0 AS 0 1110ur,11iird5.....,.. 0 2778 —Household.-- 0 36 0 1-- Fourscs..... 20 0 0 Per Barrel. Rapeseed 2G 0 —Ol Barley ... 12 u 13 0 Bere lO 0 l C.-Ws ..... ............. 0 .... 0 KILKENNY MARKETS. wheat ,per barrel)2Bs. Od.to 353.(41. Gect ',:ster tr. OE Od. to Os. Pd Har , ey ...... ..........12 0 15 U Matto ........... 0 5 0 8 bats . 14 () 15 I Pork ........ ....—.. ,1 4 0 i Flour (Fr bag)... 20 0 1,8 0 Veal ............. ... 0 0 0 7 Butter ercwt.)...2o 0 101. 0 krest, Butter .. 0 0 1 0 Bacon igs ... ...... SS 0 42 6 halt Ditto .... .... 0 6 OJo Coals 1 0 1 2 Potatoes (per st . .) b 9 0 0 !MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, .MAY 4.—There is a con tinued depression in the Cotton trade, and all the business transacted this day amounts to about 1,000 bales only to the trade. In prices there is no alteration to report since Friday's quotations. LIVERPOOL SIIARE MARKET, MAY 4.—At the Stock Ex change this day we have had a tendency to decline in price, the transactions reported are as follows. Edinburgh and Glasgow, 37i ; Grand Junction, 209 ; Great Western, 94i ; London and Birmingham old one, third shares, 54 ; Midland Counties, 89; North Midland, 76i. Nothing to report. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 4.—A fair busi ness has been done to-day, but no improvement in prices : Manchester and Birmingham, 25i 25k; Manchester and Leeds, 55 ; Ditto, Halves, 22i ; London and Birmingham, 162; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 114 ; Manches ter and Salford Bank, 10 ; South Lancashire Bank, 5 6 3 ex. div. ; Manchester and Salford Water Works, 534. The fears of some of the underwriters at Lloyd's has much increased in respect to the safety of the President steamer, and the premium, in consequence has risen to ninety guineas. Accounts from Brest of the 28th of April state that the frigate L'Erigone has sailed for the Chinese seas, having on board five Catholic Missionaries, and also a commercial agent. The absence of the above frigate will be at least for two years. Accounts have been received, in eight days, from Tampico, at New York, stating that the authorities there were daily in expectation of an outbreak of the Federalists in that city. Se veral arrests had taken place of individuals for speaking freely against the conduct of the Government. The streets were pro tected by cannon, and great anxiety existed at Tampico. THE FUNDS. The British Funds opened this morning rather flat. Consols which left off yesterday at for the Account, may be quoted at 894 ; and 893 for Money, with nothing doing as yet. 1 he speculators and monied interest, as well as the merchants, are looking towards Friday next for Lord John Russell's ex planation in respect to the duty he intends to fix on foreign corn. In the interim it causes a general stagnation in all com mercial speculations. We hear that orders have been sent al ready to the Continent:to purchase corn, fearing that a rise will take place there in that article. Exchequer Bills 8 10 prom ; Bank Stock 165 167 ; India Stock 251 253 ; India Bonds 2 4 prem. In the Foreign Market Spanish is the chief speculation this morning, left off 234 ; at present 23 1 4 3 4 ; this improvement may be attributed to the mixed commission being approved of without any discussion of consequence ; Deferred 123 3 ; Pas sive 53 S ; Portuguese a shade better, left off 33i 344 ; at pre sent 34 ; Three per Cents., 20i ; Brazilian, 684 69} ; Co lombian, 22 1 4 i• ; Mexican, 28} 29; D u t c h T we - an d. a -H a l f per Cents., 52*- ; Five per Cents. 99i. SHA xEs.—reat Western 29 30 prem. ; New 1414 15 ; prem. ; London and Brighton 23 3 dis. ; Blackwall 6i 54 dis. ; Birmingham 71 73 prem. ; Southampton 58 59 per share ; Croydon 13i 144 per share ; Greenwich Eli per share ; Manchester and Birmingham 151 15 dis. The Dutch mail has arrived. Prices at Amsterdam, May 3, Two•and-a- Half per Centa., 51 13-16; Five per Cents., 99g. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto New Ditto Fifths - 1 liii.. to London and Brighton London and South Western 3Bl 58*..... to 58 Manchester and Leeds ... 70 Vlanchester and Birmingham ... 40 North Midland ... IOO York and North Midland... SO Ditto New Shares lO - JOINT STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster . ... .. 20 Ditto New ... .HALF-PAS 7 ONE. We have an exceeding dull morning both for arrivals and in telligence, consequently, we have not a feature of any import ante to communicate to the present time. The British Funds continue inactive, so little business is doing that several of the Members have left tots n. teth.idis life at present 894 i for the Account ; have been 89i ; Money, 88 1 5. i ; sink Stock, 1651; India Bonds, 3 prem. ; Exchequer Bills, 8 10 prem. In the Foreign Market nothing doing except in Spanish Ac tive, *lntii may be quoted at 231 i ; Portuguese, nothing done ; Belgian, 101 ; Colombian, 22* ; Mexican, 29 ; Dutch Five per Cents., 99g. Shares.—Great Western, New, 64 ; Fifths, 11 i I * ; Lon- ' don and Brighton, 47a i ; South Western, 58* 58 ; Manches- ' ter and Leeds, 56* ; Manchester and Birmingham, 25; North Midland, 89; York and North Midland New Shares, 23. . _._ TWO O'CLOCK. It Is reported that the West India merchants have resolved, in the event of the Sugar Duties' Bi:1 passing the House, to refuse acceptance of all drafts drawn from the sugar estates. QUARTER TO 7'LIREE. Consols, Account, 89/ 90; Mexican, 28,1 29 ; Portuguese, 346 ; Spanish, 23g Very little doing; prices firm. The late lessee of the Bath Theatre, Mr. Woulds, who has lately suffered such unmerited reverses and dif ficulties, is just conveyed to Pcheiter Gaol, for contempt of the Ecclesiastical Court, st the suit of Mrs. Woulds. He is, in consequence of this, obliged to leave his children unprotected, and is totally deprived of the means of pro • viding fur them—Bath Journal. CORN-LA WS..--WESTBURT.—In consequence of the Mayor of the borough having refused to call a public meeting, to petition Against the Corn-laws, in compliance with a requisition of the inhabitants, numerously and re spectably signed, application was made to W. Matravers, Esq., for the loan of his factory for that purpose, which was cheerfully granted. On Friday evening se'nnight more than 500 persons were convened, when the chair being taken, several resolutions were .moved and seconded . by the inhabitants, and a petition prepared and adopted, wbichis now in course of signature.... Wills Paper. VICE-CHANCERY. -(THIS DAY.) His Honour was engaged throughout the entire morning in hearing motions by order, and cause petitions, none of which possessed any general interest. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) WERNER V. RUIIPHREYS. This was an action brought by the erecutrit of a tailor, her late husband, f o r 41. 16 5 ., b e i ng t h e price of a coat which' was made to order, but which being finished after the husband's death, defendant refused to take. The defence was that the coat was unfinished (the collar not having been put on) when the testator died, and Mrs. Werner having married a person named Trickett befure the completion of the garment, the property passed to himt so that if there were any ground of action it should be laid in his name. The verdict was for the defendant- Mr. Sergeant CHANNEL!, last term, obtained a rule nisi for a new trial, on the ground that the verdict was against evidence. Mr. Sergeant 803tr;,3 this ( ! a y showed cause against the rule, and Mr. Se:geant CIIAIVNELL replied. The Cot-4,T was of opinion that these had not been suffi cient 'proof of the property passing over to Trickett before the delivery of the coat to the defendant, and a new trial was granted. COURT CIRCULAR. Wttinsoa, TuEsDAt.--fler Majesty and Prince Albert rode out this afternoon in a pony phaeton, his Royal Highness driving, accompanied by the Princess of LeininA gen, and attended by the whole of the Royal Suite. her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent walked to Adelaide Cottage and returned in a pony phaeton. The Queen and Prince Albert inspected this morning a proof of a portrait of her Majesty by Ross, engraved by Mr. F. Bacon, which was submitted 4 Mr, Martin Colnaghi, of which her Majesty and his Royal Highness were pleased to express their high approbation. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester ho noured the Russian Minister and the Baroness Brunnow with her company at dinner last evening, at his Excel lency's residence, Astiburnhana House, Dover-street. Viscount Melbourne left town last night, on a visit t.) her Majesty at Windsor Castle. General - Alava, the SpanishMinicer, and Mr. Hodgson ; M. P., had interviews with Lord JOhn Russell yesterday ; at the Colonial-office. The Right Hon. Sir George Murray. and Major 111‘Namara, M. P., bad interviews with Viscount Mel bourne yesterday, at his official residence in Downing. eet. Mr. Oswald, M.P., had interviews with the Marquis o Normanby yesterday, at the Home-office. SURREY THEATRE. A melodrama of considerable merit, from the fertile pen of Mr. T. J. Haines, (author of " Poll and my Partner Joe," the " Yew Tree Ruins," &c ) was produced here on Monday night, and was eminently successful. It is entitled Claude Ducal ; or, The Ladies' Highwayman, and is founded on the recorded adventures of that eccen tric and celebrated Knight of the Road. In the principal incidents, we believe, the author hat adhered pretty closely to the recorded actions of the hero ; but we are unable to say, at this moment, whether he has more largely drawn upon Johnson's Lives of Highwaymen, or upon the well-known romance which some years ago had the run of the libra•ies under the same name as this drama, and combined in some degree the cha racteristics of the "fashionable" school of novels with those of the Jack Sheppard" school, which have not yet ceased to be " the rage." The time at which the drama opens is that of the siege of Oxford by the Parliamentary army, and the splendid scenery of the locality, admirably painted, called forth great and merited applause. Indeed the scenery throughout, in all the various passages cf the hero's career—in the woods, in remote villages, mills, cottages, and solitary lanes—in the neighbourhood of London (as it was two centuries ago)—with the domestic and public ar chitecture of the city itself at that period—is suffi ciently curious and excellent to form an attraction by itself, even if it were not, as it is, an adjunct to clever acting and well contrived incident. A love story (not very commonplace or destitute of pathos) forms the tbs.( ad by which the adventures of Claude are bound into a dra matic form. But the main interest is fixed upon the for tunes of the polished and handsome robber himself, whose whimsical gallantry to the ladies, whom be overtook in the way of this business, obtained him such a reputation, that it is said to be a fact, that many ladies" rich and fair," contrived to send letters to him, informing him of their In tended journeys and praying for the pleasure of being waylaid and robbed. This extra ordinary and almost incredible part of history is made a merry use of, and tickled the fancies, especially of the female portion of the crowded and respectable audience assembled here last night. There is so much archness and fun, perhaps also of grace, in the robbing scenes, that the roguery is overlooked, and the gay bandit becomes as great a favourite with the theatrical spectators of his feats as he was with the actual objects of them. The part of Claude was sustained with much vivacity and spirit by Mr. J. S. Balls. A puritan hosier, and soldier, named Never-right, who is driven by the ingratitude of the Par liament, and the loss of his business, toijoin Claude's gang, is admirably drawn, and was represented by Mr. Hicks with energy and judgment. His more comic follower, Shern Scraggs, received equal justice in the hands of Mr. W. Smith. On the whole, the style in which the piece has been produced does great credit to the management, and there can be no doubt of a long run. DEPTFORD ANTI-CORN-LAW ASSOCIATION. [An error or two having yesterday occurred in the following Petition, we re-insert it corrected.] Petition unanimously adopted at a crowded meeting, called by public advertisement, in Dept ford, on Monday, and lying for signature at the White Swan and various other places: To the Honourable the House of Commons in Parliament assembled, The Petition of the Members of the Deptford Anti-Corn•law Association and others. Sheweth—That your pe itioners are connected with trade and navigation, and live in continual sight of the memorials of England's naval greatness, which they have been taught is mainly founded on the same. That the existing Corn-laws amount to a confiscation of their property, of the same nature as would have been inflicted on the owners of the soil, if the owners of the commercial and water-borne properties within the country had prohibited the sale of the produce of the soil in a free market. That your petitioners also believe the wealth, revenue, and standing of the country in relation to foreign States, to be cut down in the same manner as if your petitioners had roguishly and foolishly procured the prohibition of the free sale of the produce of the soil, for the sake of importing more provisions from abroad. They therefore pray for justice and compensation, first, through the removal of the present Corn-laws by the subtrac tion of three shillings annually from every grade of the exist ing scale ; and afterwards, through the substitution of bounties on the importation of foreign corn, by corresponding augmen tations of three shillings annually on each grade of the existing scale, till the bounties equal the present duties, and then to be continued for twenty-six years, or so long as shall correspond to the period during which the property of your petitioners has been subjected to confiscation. With reservation always, that such bounties shall at any time be commuted for a per manent tax on rent, of such magnitude as to your Honourable House shall be proved to be a fair equivalent on the part of the owners of the soil. THE CORN-LAWS. At a Meeting of the London Woolstaplers, held at the South wark Arms Inn, Tooley-street, May 3, 1841, the following Petition was adopted unanimously : To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled. The Petition of the Woolstaplers of London, Sheweth, That the Corn-laws render the first necessaries of life, in sufficient quantity, unattainable to vast multitudes of the work ing classes. That a want of food is the prime motive to crime, the fore runner of disease, and the cause of linger:ng and premature death. That any portion of a population in a state of famine will necessarily undersell the workmen already employed, who in their turn are brought to starvation ; thus tending to reduce the whole labouring community to the lowest point at which existence can be supportsd. That a population thus degraded by famine are ignorant and fit instruments in the hands of designing demagogues, to be used for the purposes of rebellion and violence. To avoid these imminent perils, rapidly tending to involve the whole community in one common ruin, Your petitioners pray for a total and immediate Repeal of the Corn-laws. CHARLES COOKE, Chairman. THE WEATHER.—NOON, MAY 5. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE—STREET. Barometer Thermometer —.60 f Highest 7O J Lowest ...... 50 Wind S. W. —Freezing Point 32 Deg. HOP INTELLIGENCE. MAIDSTONE.—Within the last few days the bines have made great progress in this district, but in the neighbourhood of Coxlicath they have been seriously injured by the flea, and it is feared that in the latter case, unless a fresh supply of shoots come quickly and kindly, few hops can be grown. The pre sent showery weather is, however, highly propitious, and if it continues will enable the bines to make great progress. Poll ing is nearly finished, and tying in some cases is proceeding rapidly. The general opinion in this quarter is, that hops will be grown this year where they succeeded last year, and that in those grounds where the crop failed last year, the bines were so severely blighted that they will scarcely recover them selvet in one season.—Maidstone Gazette. MEREWORTH, WATERINGBURY, TESTON, &c.—The hops have grown rapidly during the late warm days, and have a very healthy appearance. The flea has made its appearance in many grounds to an extraordinary extent, and is committing great ravages upon the young weak bine; indeed, we may say that it was scarcely ever known to do so much mischief in so short a time, and some of the growers have had recourse to the ex pedient of catching them. BOROUGH, MAY 3.—The market is M a firmer position than heretofore, and several holders have withdrawn their hops from sale. The accounts from those districts where the blight was severe last year, continue to state that the bine is weak, while from Mid-Kent they are favourable. ,f the COMMODORE NAPIER.—The festival o Caledonian Asylum, to be held at the Freemasons' Tavern on the 11th instant, is expected to be more than usually attractive, from the number of True Highlanders who have pledged them selves to support The Chisholm, by appearing in the Highland garb. Among other distinguished individuals, the Gallant Commodore Sir Charles Napier, K. C. 8., has promised to support with his presence on the occasion this excellent insti tution, which provides for the children of Scotch soldiers and sailors who have died or been disabled in the service of their country. BODY OF A GENTLEMAN FOUND IN THE TifA3IES. —On Tuesday an inquest was held by Mr. Baker at the George, High-street, Shadwell, on a male adult, name unknown, and whose dress showed that he must have been a person of respectability. A waterman, named Heddington, of Shadwell, proved finding the body on Friday forenoon last, in the river, off New Crane-stairs, Shadwell. The body was muelf decomposed, and the bridge of the nose broken. De ceased in height was about five feet seven inches, of robust make, age about forty-five, and, from the appearance of his hair, must have worn a wig. The left-hand little finger was contracted. He was dressed in a new black Brighton riding coat, green plaid waistcoat, with silver buttons, dark Tweed trousers, and Wellington boots. He wore a black figured scarf, fastened by a gold pin, around the neck. His linen was not mi*'ked, nor in his pockets was found anything that could determine his identity. Mr. D. Ross, surgeon, of Shad well, said the deceased came to his death by drowning, and that the injury to the nose was done after death. Verdict, " Found drowned." This day (May 5) being the anniversary of the death of the great hero, Napoleon, who died at St. Helena, in the fifty-second year of his age, a grand funeral service will be celebrated in his honour in the Church of the Invalides. Miss Chambers, we perceive, intends giving a Grand Morning Concert on Friday, the 7th May, in the Con cert Room of her Majesty's Theatre. As it is announced to be under the immediate patronage of the Queen and her Royal Mother, and the vocal and instrumental performers are all of first-rate excellence, we have no doubt that the Concert will be fully and fashionably attended. It has been decided by the Directors of the London and Brighton Railway to open twenty miles of.that line, from London to Hayward's Heath, in June. The whole work wall be completed and opened to the public in August. The number of deaths by drowning, which occur an the river Thames between Richmond and Gravesend, are calculated to amount to the large number of 500 annually, of which about one-third occur in The pool, principally among seafaring persons, rv . PNiver LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LoNbox, s.—Wind this day at noon light breeze from S.\V., fine clear weather. DEAL, DIAY 4. —Wind W. S. W. —Arrived the Friendship, Richmond, from St. Michael's .Remains, the Penelope, for St. Lafiretice: Poitzsmourit, MAt 4.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived the Sa marang, from London for Madras. Sailed, Prince Rupert, for New Zealand, COWES, MAY 4.—Arrived the Prince Rupert, for New Zet►l~nd. DA nrmouni, SlAit g.—Arrived off, the Diamond, Ta)lor, for Calcutta ; Lady Katharine Barham, Freeman, Jamaica. FALMOUTH, MAY 3.—Wind N. to N.S.E,, fresh breeze.— Arrived the Eugenie, Cosel, for Nantes. Salted, the She). drake, I acket, for the West Indi-s, Tagus, and Vigo. PLYMOUTH, MAY 4.—Wind E. S.E., strong.—SAiled the St. Anne, for Quebec. THE LIZARD, MAY 3.—Arrived off, the Vesta from Chat" leston for Elensburgh. SCILLY, MAY 2.—Arrived the Argus, from Cardiff for Portsmouth, N. H., leaky, and must be hauled ashore; Vin tage, William, Oporto, for Jersey and Bristol, leaky. The Rapide, from Rio Janeiro to Antwerp, put in here this morn. ing with loss of main and mizen masts, &c., has had seven feet water in her hold, and it is expected must discharge. LLANELLY, MAY 3.—The Effort, bound to London, on leaving the harbour this morning took the ground in Llanelly Dock Channel, and is so much damaged that she must dis charge. DUNDALK, MAY 3.—The —, Jackson, from Workington, (coal laden) struck a rock off the Mount of Corby, yesterday, and sank, crew saved. MLIYERPOOL, MAY 4.—Wind S.S.E., moderate.—Arrived the Independence, from New York. Sailed the Princess Royal, Robinson, for Calcutta ; Athol, Bombay ; Frances, Barbadoes; Jane, Demerara ; Stormont, Belize ; Caledonia, steamer, Halifax; Sylvanus, Jenkins, New York ; Lee, Mon treal. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.-Triad, bound to Kirkaldy, 26th ult., lat. 45, lon. 32; a barque with P. G in her burgee. and a brig with B. W. in her burger, 2d, lat. 48, lon. 23, by the Acadia steamer, arrived at Liverpool. John, Bristol to Quebec, 18th ult., lat. 45, lon. 24, by the Iris, arrived at Liverpool. Woodstock, Austin, Liverpool to Mauritius, 16th ult.. lat. 38, lon. 16; Swift, 30th, lat. 50, lon. 9, by the Sarah, arrived at ditto. Latona, of Sunderland for Falmouth, 23d March, off Messina; Libra, Naples to Liverpool, sth ult., off Cape de Gatt, by tie Courser, arrived at Falmouth. Victoria, of Liverpool, 18th ult , lat. 44, lon. 29; Emerald. of London for Montreal, 22d. lat. 43, lon. 21, by the Car shalton packet, arrived at ditto. Rapid, bound to Bow, deaux, with loss of main and mizee-mast, Ist, lat. 50, toe. 7, by the Swallow, arrived at ditto. Edward, River mail to Hamburgh, 19th ult., lat. 43, lon. 27, by the Guernsey Lily, arrived at Cork. Dennison, of Liverpool, 25th ult., lat. 49, lon. 8 ; Schooner George, of St. John's, 18th ult., lat. 47, lon. 10, by the Naden, arrived in the Downs. Mary, of Whitby, 23d, lat. 46, lon. 17 ; Harold, of Exeter, 26th, lat, 51, lon. 9, by the Britannia, arrived at Bristol. A large steam-ship, 11th ult., lat. 45. lon. 31, by the Glasgow, arrived at Longhope. Elizabeth Walker, bound to Mauritius, lat. 37, lon. 15 ; Huskisson, Liver pool to Africa, lat. 38, lon. 15; an English brig, No. 217, lat. 44, lon. 12 ; Mary, cf Newcastle for Quebec, lat, 48, lon. 9, by the Lord Redesdale, arrived in Ihe River. SCOTLAND. PRESBYTIERY OF HAMILTON.--This Presbytery met at Hamilton on Tuesday the 27th ult. After some routine business, Mr PROUDFCOT, of Avondale, brought forward his mo tion for an overture regarding the principles of non-intru sion, and the exclusive spiritual jurisdiction of the Church, and for an address to the Duke of Argyll, to thank bias for his defence of the spiritual privileges of the Church, and to assure him, that a Bill to secure the principles of non-intrusion and exclusive spiritual jurisdiction, will proves satisfactory. Dr. RUSSELL, of Dalserf, seconded the motion. Mr. DEBAR, of Stonehouse, moved, that the Presby tery dismiss the overture and address, on the ground that patronage is inconsistent with the right principle. Mr. BUCHAN, of Hamilton, seconded the motion. Mr. MONCRIEF supported the overture and address. Ho said, that, while the majority of the Church could con- • scientiously act under the law of patronage, as formerly understood, they found it necessary to act in opposition to the Civil Courts in some of their recent decisions. The important point, therefore, was to get matters into a state in which they could conscientiously avoid the collision. The roll was then called, when the overture and address • were carried by a majority of SYNOD OF MORAY. The Synod of Moray met in • Forres on Tuesday, the 27th ult. After a sermon by the Rev. Mr. Maclachlan, of Cawdor, they were occupied with several subjects of minor importance. The seven suspended ministers of Strathbogie did not appear, and a motion was made and seconded to strike their names off the roll of the members of Synod until the suspensioa be removed, which motion was carried. On Wednesday the Daviot ease was brought up on s complaint, by Mr. Clark, on a deliverance of the Presby tery of Inverness, refusing to make the minutes in which , a person of the name of William Macintosh claimed to be admitted to the roll of communicants a part of the re ference made by the Presbytery of Inverness to the ensu ing Assembly. Mr. Barclay moved, and was seconded by Mr. Gentle, that the Synod dismiss the complaint, and affirm the sen tence of the Presbytery of Inverness. The motion having been unanimously carri6d, Maclennan, for the presentee, appealed to the ensuing meeting of the Assembly : and Mr. Clark entered reasons of protest upon the record. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princesses Augusta and Mary, attended by Ba ron Km•sebeck and the lion. Miss Kerr, will embark at Ca- , lais on Monday next for Dover, en route to Cambridge House. A Government steamer is ordered to be in waiting on that day. The Countess of Brownlow's grand ball on Tuesday next, is given in celebration of the debut of her Lady ship's second daughter, Lady Catherine Cu=t, who was pre sented at her Majesty's drawing-room on the 22d tilt. The Duke of Wellington has a grand dinner party to-morrow evening at Apsley House. The Duke of Buckingham gave orders that Stowe and its spacious and enchanting pleasure -grounds should be opened for the season to the public on Monday last. Sir Thomas Dvke Acland, Bart., M. 1 "• 9 left town at the close of the last week for Killerton Park, Devon, ri where the Ashantee Princes were to have arrived on Saturday from visiting the Plymouth and Devonport dock-yards. The Princes embark i n a f ew d ays f or I n di a. ,„ . . HER MA JESTY ' S T HEATRE —A s we antici pated, Giisi's execution of the concluding scenes of Anna Bolena on Saturday were too fine not to yield us the perform ance of the whole of that opera. Its two acts were played last to a numerous though not a very crowded house, and gave all the pleasure that was to be expected from such a work en trusted to such singers. Signora Grancha personated Gi ovanna Seymour ; and Mademoiselle Ernesta Grisi, whom we were sorry to see looking indifferent in health, the ' page and minstrel, Smeaton. A new ballet, in two acts, was afterwards produced, under the title of La Fille de • As the subject is taken from Madame Cottin's well-known and deservedly popular tale of the young g irl Elizabeth, who wandered from the remotest part of Siberia to Moscow, in order to implore the Emperor's clemency in be half of her father, we need not enter into any detail of the plot. Madame Guy Stephan, who was entrusted with the heroine's part, and acquitted herself of it with much intelli gence, was very near meeting a serious accident as she was descending, " exhausted and almost dying, the banks of, the frozen Votga." In compliance with the libretto, at this part of her journey, a band of savage Cossacks, in quest of plunder, meet and insult Elizabeth, and their leade ris about to lay hold of her, when the stream breaks forth from its boundaries, ' and, while the inundation puts the Cossacks to flight, Eliza beth is carried away with a wooden cross, beneath which she.. has sought a refuge. Under the cross, therefore Madame Stephan sheltered herself, but it afforded her anything but pro- tection. Owing, seemingly, to some rope breaking whilst it was rising, she experienced a heavy fall or heavy blow which some loud shrieks denoted. The curtain was dropped as fast as it could be brought to a horizontal position, whist the Vol ga's billows proved that it was their dehut at her Majesty's Theatre. A very protracted interval ensiled, general anxiety being expressed as to what had befallen Madame Stephan. At length, when the call for M. Laporte was fast increasing, the • curtain rose again, and the heroine came forward amidst the loudest demonstrations of sympathy, and fortunately reached Moscow in such manner as to make everbody hope that she was not a sufferer from the accident. The music is well adapted to the action, and in some parts very pretty. Many of the costumes deserve praise likewise. A recent decision in the Court of Exchequer, pregnant with most serious consequences to the common brewers of England, is, we understand, about to be brought, under the notice of Parliament, with a view of obtaining redress. By the decision just alluded to, which is neither more nor less than a new construction of the laws, revers ing a practice of immemorial date, the whole prope r ty of brewers vested in barrels is placed in imminent peril, those barrels being liable to be seized and sold wrenever the landlord of a public-house has occasion to distrain upon his tenant. Throughout the country districts, where the prevailing distress of the times is pecuriarly felt, the brewers feel there is no certainty whatever in their tran sactions, while, by such a decision, their property is ren dered liable for their customer's rent to an extent double that of any other tradesman who is accustomed to send out goods upon credit. The subject has therefore been warmly taken up by the principal provincial towns, and a great number of petitions are now in town awaiting a fa vourable opportunity for presentation by the respective Members. The case of the brewers in this instance is very clearly set forth, and its hardships properly exposed, in an appeal to the Members of both Houses ocf Parliament, by the agent entrusted with the representation of the brewers' claims, of which we shall give further partimulars b fore the question comes on for discussion. —Morning Advertiser. ATTORNEYS.—No fewer than 168 1 gentlemen have given notice of their intention to apply ,to be admit ted attorneys of the Court of Queen's Bench on the last day of the present term. THE LATE BISHOP OF WORCESTER.—The mortal remains of the above venerable prelate were in ttrred in the family vault at Hartlebury, on Monday last. The funeral was strictly private. The shops were gene rally closed, out of respect to the memory of the diocesan. UNTO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT As- SEMBLED.—(The petition of the undersigned, being mem- , hers of one family), humbly sheweth—That your petitioners believe that God is good.—That your petitioners consider as a proof of His goodness and also Hie wisdom, that He has made different parts of the earth suited to the 'produc tion of different products.—That your petitioners believe, that by the interchange of products, resulting from the difference of production, He intended to establish a cont- • munity of interests among the various branches of the great family of man, and to ensure do each being compost. in; that family, a sufficient supply of the good things of His Providence.—That your petitioners inform your Ho nourable House, that the law, called the Corn.law„is a law in direct opposition to the benevolence and wise. ar- - rangemcnts of the Supreme Being; and being so, has iv- ffieted much hardship and evil-, on your petitioners, who therefore pray that such law may be forthwith...repealed- Let all families wha-would_have cheap bread, go - Arlo:1 . -4 0 . likewise!