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Admission One Shining. Concert at Six. Fire Yorks at Nine. • • TO CORRESPONDENTS. W e cou ld „„k flsert the statements of H . H• eT en if we peg se,st.d hi, n , , we and address 1440 a oi -4 Al LONDON isainpE THIS DAY. %I mum .55 IntLlts agsT I Evening .... 1,9 M inutes after 11 fie ' 4•1e44.,*-COZ- ie.sN'tAzer, o f i , • .7 " c-wxt ;•-•• -.1.,,...,... LONDON: MONDAY, MAY 1 1, 1841. If we do not remark at any length on the tiebates on the -no-confidence motion, it is that we believe; the minds of our readers are long a;o , well'inade -up as to . the enaracter of the: 'siers and. tlieir opponents. Whatever may. be titaimuf the former', that of the latter is much vrenqe.' ,, -BOWERT PEEL'S motion and his o.lln • . . sp9echlv ere both made:to.blaelieu the character ‘ 3e hieorivals„. and we never listen with any plea &fief° • • to q 1 4 1 .3 . n4t. ,the disCusgiOri. _from, a,n , infe.rior to their V ats in argument ;c-thikßon-EnT PEEL'S constitutional doctrines, as we explained on Saturday, were completely overturned, while his own conduct refutes the first proposition of his resolution. Mr. MACAULAY showed that the chief business of the Ministers was to conduct the executive government, and Sir ItoBERT I PEEL himself did not deny` the Ministers his confidence in that capacity. He voted the sup plies into their hands; he seconded the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S resolution on the subject of the sugar duties ; he de clared that he had no wish to em barrass the Government; but, as an honest representative of the people, if he had no confidence in the Ministers, it was his duty to withhold the supplies from them, and his duty to embarrass and impede men in what he supposes to be and calls a ruinous career. By taking an opposite course his practice refutes his own as sertions, and contradicts his affirmation. We cannot comprehend the consistency which de clares Ministers unworthy of confidence, and votes to place the national revenue in their hands. As the administrators, too, of the executive government, the Tories do not deny that Minis ters have shown consummate ability in defeating the secret designs of M. TRIERS, without pro voking a rupture with France. Nor do they deny that all our foreign relations have been well conducted. As to home affairs, the quietness of Ireland, the peace which has been preserved in England, while the people have been subjected to the greatest privations and greatest injuries that ever were inflicted on a nation by dastardly plundering it by law, attests the goodness of the administration. It is true that Ministers acted more harshly than we ever approved of towards the Chartists; but when we compare their con duct to that of the Tories under somewhat similar circumstances, we must concede to them the palm of equal vigour united to much greater moderation. We admit that we began to think, and so did a large part of the public, that the Ministers were fast forfeiting the confidence of the nation, and' their great superiority to their opponents is manifested by , the simple fact that the instant A they tQok 'sifip worthy of their former conduct, and'ealculated to restore them to the confidence ;)t the nation, tlje Tories vehemently assailed and defehtedl them. a' They then proceeded to record tfieir oWfp; JiptNß4' to the people by a vote )f censure• on the ainisters: for proposing to re ieve tfie' public 'tlitre . ss.: - 'ifthe Ministers by - heir late conduct,have iforieited,the confidence the House of Commons, they 'have regained that of the public, which will carry them triumphantly through the fiery ordeal into which they have been forced by the Tories. The reader will remember that one of the main arguments adduced by Sir it PEEL as a proof that the Ministers had lost the confidence of the House, was their defeat on the sugar ques tion. By that measure the Ministers intended to give relief to the peop:e, and the Tories would not allow them. They maintain that the Ministers act contrary to the spirit of the Con stitution by remaining in office after that defeat. So the Tories demonstrate their hatred of all which is for the public good, their determination to inflict distress and ruin on the nation, and their vast inferiority to their rivals. One of the circumstances which, in our estima tion, ought to recommend the Ministers to the approbation of the Tories, is made by them a sub ject of bitter reproach. They quote over and over again Lord MELBOURNE'S speeches against repealing the Corn-law, and against the agitation by proposing such a measure; and they con clude that Lord MELBOURNE must be really as mad and as wicked as the Noble Lord described those to be who would agitate the coun try for a total and immediate repeal of the Corn laws. There can be no doubt that Lord MEL BOURNE, who is distinguished for his frankness, spoke his honest convictions on those occasions. Nor can there be any doubt that he has been most reluctantly compelled, by the evidence of 1 filets, to take a part which makes him appear in consistent, and practically exhibits him as the opponent of his former statements. Every mo tive, except that of a determination to do his duty, knowing the facts of the case, prompts Lord MELBOURNE to stand by those statements; but public distress is so great,—he is so well convinced by the facts, from various quarters, that the commerce of the country has reached its maximum under this system, that the revenue is fitlling off, that the greatest danger is to be apprehended from adhering to his former opinions, that he braves all the censure to which his presumed inconsistency exposes him do what he believes to be his duty to her MA JESTY and the country. Such high-minded con duct should recommend him to the Tories, who for ever boast of their own high-minded ness; but it has brought on him the most severe reproaches. His self-sacrifice, too, which ought to convince them that the necessity to which he yielded, is overwhelming, and ought to make them give up the Corn-laws with a good grace, o ily hardens them in their iniquity. Their own base nature disables them from conceiving the existence of an honourable motive in other men, and they set down the denial which Lord MEL BOURNE is now giving by his acts to his former sentiments to a paltry love of office, instead of an honest but reluctant conversion to the Anti Corn-law creed. It is unquestionably curious to see a nobleman, who denounced the opinions which we, in com mon with the Anti-Corn-law League, have long held, as the opinions of a madman, at the head of a Cabinet which is now invoked to carry them into effect, and which is prepared, as the only means of saving the State, to take one stride towards our object. But though curious it is not unexampled, nor even unusual, to find those who have most vehemently expressed the most erro neous opinions, become the speediest and most hearty converts to the truth. Lord MELBOURNE is an ingenious, frank gentleman, and we do not despair ; we do not even doubt when the true nature of the starvation law is made known to him, by the accumulated evidence which the public press has brought to bear on the question, that he will become that madman he formerly de scribed, and go along with us in abolishing at once, as the only safe, practical, and just method of proceeding, the whole system of Corn and Provision-laws. When once men have attained the 'conviction that the Corn-law curtailsd the supply of food, and annuallystarvesaco o t u is t i o e f rablenumberofmen, b existence, it seems women, and children to us not merely superfluous, of the almost i a mock ery,,: auwrosdusb,ea wasting, any less to justify the abolition mum Its e t : ca_ a e uthors com mitless imposing arguments. slow and deliberate most painful to which man be sub ject, murder by the lingering, creepinno• torments of starvation. To be shot through heart, to be exposed to instant death by assassina tion, though a crime of the deepest dye in the mur derer, is a mere change of being to the victim, aid whether it be • for good or for evil is known only to HIM to whom all things are known. But mueler by a starvation law, " foul and unnatural as at best," murder is, is "most foul and unna tural," for the torture may be said to be con tinual, and the murderers see and hear, year after year, the panes and groans of their victims, and hear And see them unrelenting and unmoved. The murder is basely committed, too, by those who are trusted with the guardianship of their vic tims. The authors of this great crime ask the obedience, ask the ri.spect, ask the reverence of the people, on account of affording them protec tion; they call themselves paternal legislators, and having obtained conhdence they use it to consign a'multitude of the people annually to the horrors of starvation aifd a premature grave. Such being ' the effects of the Corn-law on our suffering people, "and being made by those who elahaltuthority for their superior goodness, it see_ ns to us . a . greiitMnFkery to argue the ques tion of abolition on any grounds of price, or ad- TEE SUN,sIAONDON, MONDA Y. MAY 31, 1811. vantage to commerce, or extension of civiliza tion, and the preservation of national peace, tholigh all these be in our favour. The awakening perception throughout the community that such is the real nature of the Corn-law—that it withholds food from the peo ple, and dooms a great number to death, is the main cause why the question is now taken up by the ministers of religion, and is now argued as a most important moral and religious question. The public feel, and in particular the ministers of "religion feel, thatso great an injustice—so heinous an offence, never can be expedient, and they have a deep conviction that the continuance of such a crime must draw down upon the nation the punishment of the ALMIGHTY. In fact they ,see it already overtaking us in public distress land public strife—they see it in future aggra lvated and embittered by more violent quarrels, Ibv convulsion and bloodshed. What can those doomed to starvation care for a Constitution? What is it to them that our ams triumph abroad and that 'certain arts r etteouraged by wealth, flourish at (home? The sacred principle of self-preservation commands them to resist the starvation law, and, if they can, to overturn the Constitution which i sanctions it. The authors of such laws, there fore, enlist against all authority the strongest passions of human nature, and foster anarchy,if they may not be said to decree it. The Rev. Mr. BURNETT observed at the Lambeth meeting— ' ng— It was said that the aristocracy considered the Corn - Ilaws necessary to their existence andwould defend them las part of themselves. He could scarcely believe that !they would be so foolish. He did not think the Corn 'laws necessary to the aristocracy, but if they were so, !then he would say have at the aristocracy itself. Not only must they have at the, aristocracy, they must, for their own safety, if the Corn-law be continued, subdue the aristocracy—they must annihilate it. They dare not tolerate, much less !submit to, an organized system of murder. They may be told of the sanctity of property, but they will be told in vain, as long as property is the produce of a tax on their bread. What *is it to them whether the land is to be , long to a person called RICHARD PLANTAGENET TEMPLE CHANDOS Duke of BUCKINGHAM, or to some money-lender called Jon GURNEY or MOSES ROTHSCHILD? What care they who are , the recipients of the bread-tax ?—they only care ito avoid the tax. The people will not maintain a law which starves them in order to keep the estates of the aristocracy from passing out of their families. On the con trary, they have a strong motive, from being taxed to prevent mortgagees from foreclosing, t o hasten the foreclosure, and substitute the rich money-lender, who has no claim on their purses, for the poor Duke. Those men, then, risk the safety of property who confound it with taxation, and assign to it no more sacred origin than a Custom-house or Excise law. We are not sure that the right of property can be suffered to stand in the way of a starving people. We are sure that in their pre sence it is not safe, and that a right of property founded on taxing them will not be long endured. The safety of the aristocracy, the safety of the Constitution, and the security of property are all put to hazard by that wicked law, which was passed, and is maintained, to in crease tl e wealth of idle owners of rent at the ex pense of the comfort, health, and lives of the in dustrious classes. Mr. MAcAULAY, in his able speech on Thurs day evening, laid down a principle which we refer to, because it is undoubtedly correct, and because it is apart of the Tory usurpations to overlook it, greatly we think to the public disad vantage. He was understood to say, in allusion to the defeats of Ministers on certain pro posed measures of legislation, that it was the first duty of the Ministers of the Crown to admi nister the existing law ; whence it is to be inferred that the making or proposing new laws is only a secondary part of their duty. On this distinction the Right Hon. Gentleman justly concluded that it was no proof that the House of ;Commons had no confidence in Ministers if it withheld its as sent to any new legislative measure proposed by them ) or refused, when asked by them, to sanction the alteration of an old law. The Right Hon. Gentleman illustrated the distinction by several examples of Ministers who, having failed to carry the legislative alterations they proposed, never, on that account, thought for one moment of resigning the Goverikrnent, of which it was their chief duty to administer the existing laws. We think Mr. MACAULAY'S doctrine sound, but it is rather in opposition to the modern prac tice introduced by the Tories, and extended by the Whigs, of monopolising all legislation by the Ministers. Government has its own days for its own business; it has, in fact, so much control over the whole formal proceedings of the House, that it can prevent any individual Mem ber from carrying any measure to a successful conclusion. It has become, therefore, responsible, as it were, for the whole proceedings of Parlia ment, and now to oppose it on a question of le gislation may be considered as tantamount to saying, that it is by the Parliament no longer thought fit to conduct the business of Parliament. We conceive this monopoly of legislation to be a modern innovation, which lays on the Mi nisters of the Crown the burden of, initiating all necessary changes in the law, and imposes on them, perhaps, a higher duty than that of merely executing the existing law. Ministerial ambi tion thus tends, as much as anything we know, to extend the onerous duties and responsibility of Ministers, and to make it almost impossible to carry on the QUEEN'S Government. Within, our political experience, most of the great disputes which have either broken up or tended to break up a Ministry, referred more to the alterations in the existing law, or to making new laws, than to any neglect on the part of the Ministers in performing their chief duty, that of executing the law. The abolition of the Test Acts, the emancipation of the Catholics, the Committee on the Civil List, the Reform of Parliament, the little improvement made in the Irish Church, the Irish tithe question, &c. &c., were all questions of legislation; and the modern practice of the House, some what contrary to Mr. MACAULAY'S just theory, made the passing or rejecting such measures the test of the confidence placed by Parliament in the Ministers. It is more easy to account for the origin of the franchise than to defend it. Under the borough mongers a union of a few aristocratic families, for whose especial advantage the laws were both made and administered, sufficed to turn out or keep in a Minister. The same parties were, in point of fact, the law-makers and the law-ad ministerers, and it was for their convenience that no laws should be made which they did not like to carry into execution. Hence they usurped, and placed in the hands of the Executive Government, -- which since the Revolution has been carried on for their benefit--the power of making as well as admi nistering the laws. The Ministers were the servants of a dominant party of the aristocracy, who employed the same hands to conduct legis lation, as well as the Executive Government, for the advantage of the aristocracy. Now that we have weakened this aristocratic domination, and have got, in a Reformed Parlia ment, something like a popular representation, the strict union of these two functions in the hands of Ministers is no longer either convenient or necessary. Hence we conclude that Mr. MACAULAY'S theory is more correct than the modern practices of the House of Commons. We conclude, too, that it will be for the advantage of the Executive Government to abandon a large part of its usurped control over the House of Commons, and leave re forms and alterations of the law, much more than at present, to individual Mem bers of the House of Commons. There are many cases, such as the Corn-laws, and most of our taxes, in which it is necessary for the Execu- tive to take the initiative; but there are others, such as bribery at elections, registration of voters, which they may with propriety leave to such Members as choose to propose alterations in them. Mr. MACAULAY also expounded a just theory, when he stated, in opposition to Sir R. PEEL, that it was highly inexpedient to affirm a state of things to be contrary to the spirit of the Consti tution, which might be inevitable. He gave, as ant illustration of his theory, the present balanced state of parties in the House of Commons, and the scale being turned now to one party and now to another by a few independent gentlemen would, by first defeating one party and then the other, render all government impossible if the resolution of Sir R. PEEL were adopted. Mr. MACAULAY by this remark, gave a practical illus tration of our statement a few days ago, in refe rence to the dissolution, that now, as at first, circumstances domineered over laws and constitutions, and that whatever circumstances command is fully justified though opposed to constitutional practices. But into circumstances the Tories will not look ; they look only at pr,:- cedents ; for them the House of Commons is the whole world, and its former deeds the only pos sible wisdom. So Sir ROBERT PEEL, far from examining if the conduct of Ministers be justified by the new circumstances of society and of go vernment, growing partly out of the Reform Act and other Acts of modern legislation, but chiefly out of the natural progress of society, consults only the votes of the House of Commons and the speeches of former Members. But if circum stances, as Mr. MACAULAY and we say, are to overrule constitutions and laws, it is a valet kind of policy to take advice and instructions or, ty from the latter, and never inquire what the former command. Second-hand or valet policy is, however, the highest ambition of the Tories. scarcity did not so much arise from high import duties as from their imperfect knowledge of agriculture, and the bad system which prevailed in the rearing and management of cattle. So because French farmers do not know how to rear cattle, the people of Paris are to go without animal food ! Foreign cattle are to be excluded from French markets, because the French do not understand the art of rearing any them selves! What a convincing and conclusive argu ment from the mouth of a Minister of State ! In excluding foreign beef from the French market in a season of unusual scarcity and dearth, ordinary persons would have expected that the Government would have attempted to show that the home supply was fully equal to the demand. The Finance Minister knew this to be impossiblo in the face of the eating-house keepers' eagerness to obtain even horse-flesh for their customers, and therefore with cool effron tery attributed the scarcity to French ignorance of the art of cattle-rearing—just as if that were not the strongest argument that could be em ployed against the imposition of any import duty whatever. Were it an easy matter to mantle the brow of a Minister with a blush, the mouth- piece of the French Cabinet ought to have looked scarlet on offering such an insult to the common sense and long-suffering of the starving popula tion of Paris. But something is to be done next year. " Live horse, and you will get oats," is an old proverb which few Governments fail to turn to account whenever starvation makes the millions clamorous. The reported pledges made by the July Go vernment to abandon the conquests of France in Africa, were brought under the notice of the Chamber on Thursday. As the subject is one of some interest, we quote a summary of the pro- ceedings : In the course of the discussion on Algiers, M. Guizot, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, rose and declared most formally., that the Government of the King, since 1830, had not pledged itself in any manner to the Foreign Powers to abandon iii giers, or any portion of the French possessions on the African coast. "If the letters containing such a falsehood," added M. Guizot, " had been produced at the tribune, I should have stigmatised them as they deserved. But no one has had that courage.. The session beire , about to close, I have deemed it my duty to give those calumnies the most formal denial. Every thing that has been done in Africa since 1830 clearly proves that we have no intention of relinquishing our conquest, and all assertion to the contrary is a calumny." The Duke de Valmy—The Royalist Deputy then rose and said, " I thank the Minister for Foreign Affairs for giving me this opportunity of defending here what I lately published in a pamphlet to the ;;Itamber." A Voice—Who cares about your pamphlet? Another Voice—Now is the time to produce the letters. The Duke de Valmy—'Twas because I thought the pam• phlet was alluded to that I considered it incumbent on me to reply to the Minister._-(" No, no," " Yes, yes.") • 1 thought it was of national interest to demonstrate that the diplomacy of France never contracted similar engagements with any of the Foreign Powers, and, I learn with satisfac tion, that none have been contracted ,by the , existing Go vernment. The English Cabinet has excited the Restoration to abandon Algiers. I conclude from that that such importu nities had been made use of under the present Government. I have nothing to retract. (Bravos from the right, laughing from all the other benches.) M. Guizot again rose and said that he had not denied the right of any one, and he had not accused any Government which was contrary to his taste and custom, and not in the sphere of his duty. What he said, and repeated, was that since 1830 the interests of France had been defended without hesi tation. He had been told that reports were in circulation to the contrary, and from the tribune, therefore, he gave them a formal denial. Here the matter dropped, and the consideration of the bud get was proceeded with. A new subject of annoyance to the Court be gins to occupy public attention. The Govern ment having authorized the prosecution of a Gre noble Journal for some remarks relative to the Grenoble conspiracy of 1816, SIMON DIDIER, son of the principal leader of the insurgents who was executed by command of Louis XVIII., has addressed a letter to that Journal, stating that he is prepared to rescue from infamy his father's memory, and hinting, in pretty broad terms, that the rebellion was organized by the t'ien Duke of ORLEANS, now King of the FRENCH. It is said, too, that letters exist written by the Duke of ORLEANS to the elder DIDIER, which leave no doubt-of his being at the bottom of this attempt to dethrone the Bourbons. The whole affair is likely to give rise to much scandal. The trial of DARMES and his accomplices was expected to conclude early on Friday. The con demnation of DARMES to lose his head was con-, sidered certain, but not less so that the KING would commute the punishment for imprison ment for life. The proceedings in the British Parliament excite the liveliest interest in Paris. All the Journals which the Treaty of July provoked to repudiate a British connection, are delighted with the futile efforts of Sir ROBERT PEEL to upset the Cabinet. For some days past the heat has been constantly increasing. On Sunday last the centograde thermometer of Mr. Chevallier marked at its maximum 21 deg. 5 min. On Monday it was at 26 deg. ; yesterday, at two o'clock in the afternoon, at 29 deg., at midnight 23 deg. 3 min.—Le Constitutionnet We find the following article in a journal :—" I have this moment learnt the piece of news which, if it should be con firmed, will form a new incident in the famous trial of the letter published by La France. It is said that the Contem poraine, irritated at having been accused by the French Mi nistry of forgery, has resolved to bring in France an action for defamation and calumny, and offers to send the originals of the letters in question to a person who can be depended upon, in order to be produced in a judicial and public inquiry." Letters from Madrid of the 20th, after confirming the list of the new Ministers, which was announced by the, telegraph, say that by a decision of the 14th the high office of General-in- Chief of the Armies, which was held by Espartero, is abolished. Serious troubles have taken place at Bilbao. The following is an extract from a letter dated the 19th, which we have re ceived from that city : " Yesterday, on occasion of the fete of a patron saint, in the porch of the church of Albia, a violent quarrel took place be tween the inhabitants and the military. 'lhe populace, exas perated, suddenly assailed the soldiers with showers of stcnes and dispersed them. A similar scene occurred at the begining of the night. The authorities succeeded in restoring order by making the soldiers gradually return to their quarters by back waifs.' The Prince of Capua and his family are now at Boulogne, for the benefit of sea bathing.— Gazette de France. BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, MAY 27. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Prick. Price irerich t per Cents ll4 55 ... 114 0 114 50 ... 114 55 4 per Cents 99 10 ... 99 30 99 30 3 per Cents....." 79 25 ;1) 25 79 20 .. • 9259 20 of e ranee Lattitte Dant I.( 031.61 aras I I mo ...I( 60 ...5125 5.000 f. Shares 532 51 .4132 50 ...5125 Belgian 5 per Cents. ...... 101% 101% 10.% .. 101% New Loan 1(4;6 1.1% 101% ... 101% Active ......... 24 1 , 24% ... 24% ... 24% Passive 5;4 ... 5% ... 534 ... 5 Portuguese 3 per Cents 20% 20% ... 20 1 / 4 ... 20% NvApOilista lO4 40 IP4 40 ... 1 9 4 30 ... 30 .... 101% ... 101% ... 101% ... 101% BALI-WAY SHARES. rt. Germain Versailles. LB „.„. 170 195 ... 171) 194 It. 11 330 ... 315 327 50 'lnnen 4 § 7 457 50 457 50 ... 457 50 4 , 7 50 .., 487 20 ... 487 5J 487 '0 itrsiburg to Bale 220 227 50 ”. 220 ... 2e7 LO We are glad to find that some of our old staunch Reformers are likely to be returned at the next ge neral election. Ur, Roebuck has every chance fbr Bath, and though itt Acme points we differ from him, we believe there is no man in the country so much wanted in Parliament, He has no hypocrisy about him. He attacks the trieks of Whigs, Tories, and Radicals with equal im partiality, and, is, besides, one of the most eloquent speakers of the present day. The people of Bath have found out how much they have suffered by his rejec tion at the last election. Colonel Thompson, too, is in a fair way to recover his former position in Hull. The- Whig party, and we may now say the Liberal party, have given in their adhesion to him, and have promised to sup port him on the question for cheap bread, cheap sugar, and good timber. In many of the independent boroughs other men of a similar stamp are coming forward, and if we may judge from what we have learned from different parts of the country, Sir Robert Peel,, the Duke of Buckingham, and the other great monopolists will have no cause to rejoice on the dissolution of • Parliament. The Conservative candidates for the City are Messrs. Cr, Lyall, J. Mastertuan, Alderman Pirie, and W. Att wood, M.P.—Morning Post. PUNIAMMENT OF DEaTn.—The Bill for taking away the Punishment of Death in certain cases, as amended in Committee, lam been ordered by the House of Cam, mows to be printed. ft exempts from capital punish ment the following offence.; ;—Embezzlement by servant of Bank of England any note, bill, bond, &c., belonging to the Company, or relating to Irish or other annuities, transferred to the Bank ; embezzlement by servant of South Sea Company of similar notes or bonds ' • secretly using stamps or dies for deeds, or gold and silver plate, to defraud her Majesty ; and the riotous demolition of churches. By the Bill the first class of offences is to be punishable by tranv33°tati9j). for life, or for a term not less than seven years, or imprisontnOlt for a period not cxceetlino• three years. For the last, riotous demolition of churches, the punishment is to be transportation for seven years, or imprisonment for three years. Rape, and another eapi tal offence, are also exempted, and are to to be punished by transportation IOF life. The Act to commence and take effect on the Ist October, 1841. A public meeting will be held this evening at the Eforns Tavern, Kennington-common, for the purpose of ob taining a grant of land for a park or public walks on the south side of the metropolis. SIR CHARLES NAPIER. The following paragraph has appeared in a Sunday paper, evidently. concocted by Lord TEIGNMOUTH or Mr. YOUNG to make an impres sion against the Gallant Commodore : " Sir Charles Napier has received orders from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to proceed in the Pelican to Lisbon, and take command in the Tagus,vice Commodore Coffin, who is at Plymouth." It will be seen from a communication in another part of the Paper, that the statement is entirely destitute of foundation. The parties who put forth the paragraph must have known well that Sir CHARLES NAPIER, after his speech at a dis• trict meeting in Marylebone, on Friday, could not have accepted such an appointment, and they must also have known that they sent the com munication to the Sunday Paper with the sinister purpose of influencing the next election for the borough of Marylebone. We wish them joy of their knavish tricks. We are glad to learn from various qu aters that the Chartists are everywhere beginning to make common cause with the rest of the people in demanding a repeal of the Corn-laws. They are to have a great open air meeting at Manches ter. In all cases they go for a total repeal ; and it is, we believe, quite hopeless to expect their co-operation in prder to establish a fixed duty. It will be incumbent, there fore, on those who look for their aid to as sign some good reasons why a fixed duty is to be preferred to a total abolition. It will not do to say that the landlords will not grant more. The same force which can extort a fixed duty from them can extort a total abolition ; and we own that we scarcely think it worth while to excite the public feeling for so small a boon as an Bs. fixed duty. The Chartists and the League are wiser, and in conjunction they will be able to achieve the total abolition. We trust the example set by the Cltrtis:,s at Manchester and other places will not be without its beneficial influence in London. The great meeting to be held at Guildhall to-morrow will, we are sure, be undisturbed, and will carry its resolutions unanimously. It will do Ministers no harm whatever to urge public opinion a little beyond the point at which they think, from pru dential motives, it is at present expedient to stoi . The address of Colonel TnompsoN to the in habitants of Hull will be read with interest by the unrepresented, as well as the represented, throughout the country. It places the questions of monopoly and free trade in a shape suited to every capacity, and cannot fail to make an im pression among his old friends and suporters in that borough. The Poor-law and the Corn-law are justly contrasted. The Tories are enamoured of both, and it therefore remains for the middle and lower classes, on whom the grievances of both entirely fall, to say whether they will have a Tory Government, with Corn•-law and Poor law in full vigour, or a Liberal Government, de termined to neutralize the evils of the one by the abolition of the other. We have letters and papers from Madrid of the 22d instant—the date of the telegraphic despatch announcing the formation of the Spanish Cabinet, which appeared in the Afternoon Edi tion of The Sun 6f Thursday. On that day the new President of the Council, Senor GONZALES, presented himself before the Cortes, and sub mitted the following three propositions as the basis of the Ministerial policy : " 1. The continuance of the present Cortes ; " 2, The reduction of the effective of the army ; and, finally, "3. Finance and Reform." We are without any accounts of the state 01 . the Money Market. The 20th being Ascension Day the Bourse was closed. By extraordinary express from Paris, we have received the French Journals of Fri day. In the sitting of the Chamber of De puties on Thursday afternoon, the Minister of Finance, M. HUMANN demanded, and obtained, leave to inscribe upon the great book of the public debt, and to negotiate by public competi tion the amount of rentes, or Government securities, necessary to raise a capital of fbur hundred and fifty-eight millions of francs to cover the deficit . in the Budget. The Gazette de France,' Quotidienne, Conz meree, Ben Francais, National, and Journal du Peuple, were seized at the Post oftice on Thursday, for having published SIMON DIDIER'S letter relative to the Gre noble conspiracy -of 1816—a copy of which will be found in another part of The Sun. The French Government ought by this time to be aware of the folly of libel prosecutions. Had the French Cabinet regarded with contemptuous silence the publication of La Contemporaine, the DIDIER correspondence would never have been heard of. But to prosecute libels is sure to ol►- tain for them notoriety, as the unreflecting, can not be made to comprehend that any thing is unimportant or unworthy of perusal which engages the grave consideration of a Ministry. If we may advance so trifling- an illus tration of this position, we would ob serve that, having read DIDIER'S letter, we had deemed it of too little importance for publica tion in the present crowded state of our columns, but after the notice taken of it by the French Government we feel that it would not be dealing fairly with our readers to withhold it from them. The French Papers :,.nnounce, on the autho rity of the Augsburg Gazette, that the SULTAN has made further concessions tJ the Viceroy of Egypt. The extent of such concessions is not stated. There is no other important news in the French Papers of Friday. ,~ The monopolists have triumphe. in FOAM!. In the Chamber 'of Deputies on Thursday se veral propositions for reducing.the import duty on cattle were rejected—the Ministers parodying the declaration of Sir ROBERT PEEL that they !would take another year to meditate upon the utility of the measur e. The Mi n ister of Com merce did not bl u sh to tell the Chamber that the reports of the distress of the working classes, and of the scarcity of butchers' ;meat, were ex aggerated; and that if meat was scarce the MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS. (From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Mll - 28.—Our Cotton Market this week, for inactivity, has only been a continuation of the last, or, if possible, more inanimsite ; and though we do not notice any decided alteration in our quotations, the pricesof last week are barely main!ained. Nearly the hole of .• ea Island cotton offered at the public auction to-day was bought in. Exporters have taken 650 bales American, 100 bales Pernams, and 100 bales Surat. . - - , LIVERPOOL SHARE-MARKET, MAY 28.—A very limited business has been transacted in the Share Market to-day:— Eastern Counties, Debentures. 6 3 , ; Chester and Crewe, 60 ; Great Western New Shares, 63. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 28.—There is a little more demand for Shares, although the Market is still anything but lively. Manchester and Birmingham, 24k 25 ; New North Midland Thirds, 5/ ; Grand •Junction 200 202 ; Bristol and Exeter, 36 37 ; South Lancashire Banks 5k ; Bank of Manchester 7. LATER FROM AMERICA. New York Papers received by the St. James, two days later, to the 4th May ALEXANDER APLEOD.—Unexpectedly to most of cur citizens the city of New York is to be honoured to-day with the State prisoner whose name has excited so many remarks, and so much feeling o both sides of the Atlantic. M'Leod was in Albany yesterday, from Niagara. We understand that M'Leod has been removed by habeas corpus from Lockport, to be placed in' confinement until his case has been decided upon by the Supreme Court of the State. By the Schooner Patriota from Sisal, we have reessivcd Yucatan papers to the 10th inst. The Tobasco Journal of the 11th of March, contains the following : Cita PIAS. The progress of the ttderal troops in this pre vince is so rapid, that they have already embraced the hue of Chapias, and have hemmed the centralists in the fort of St. Christoval, the capital of the province. The Yucatan Con greis, after having adopted a constitution for the state, ad journed en the 2d inst. Exchange on London decreased at the close of the day, yes terday. and was heavy at 107 i per cent. The appointment of three appraisers is announced in the express to-day from Washington ; they will give general satisfaction. The Money Market continues quite abundant. The circulation of the United States Bank at the present time is estimated at 2,700,000 dollars, the money deposits in the Bank in this city are under 308,000 dollars. The Directors are making every effort in their power to ef fect an arrangement to enable them to liquidate bosh these claims at the earliest moment possible. United States Bank Share, , , 17. The above Papers, we, are sorry to say, bring no account of the President steamer. Montreal Papers, received to the 30th April, do not contain any news of coniequence. The St. James spoke a ship from New Zealand full of oil, left nine months back, in company with another full ship for London. The Quarterly Average of the - Weekly Liabilities and As- Fets of the Bank Of England, from March 2 to May 25, 1841, both inclusive, has been published. The following is the result : Present circulation Last report E , 1 6 ,6 1 5 ,000 16,537,000 More circulation... 78,000 Present deposits ... Last report £ 7,242,000 7,212,000 More deposits.. 30,000 Securities present ..... ... •• • Last report ..£21,817,000 .. 22,328,00 511,000 Bullion present ... Last report ..£ 4,921,000 4,339,000 582,000 THE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning at the leaving, off prices of yesterday, 90A for the Account ; Money, 90A. The mar ket at present is in a state of inactivity. Exchequer Bills, 10 12 prem. ; Bank Stock, 168 170 ; India Stock, 252 i 2531 ; India Bonds par 2 premium. In the Foreign Market nothing doing as yet.; prices the same as they left otr, Spanish Active 23 4 24 ; Deferred, 11i 4 ; Passive 5 1 / 4 ; Portuguese 34%; Three per Cents., 20i ; Colombian, ; Mexican, 2.8 i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52% 3 4 ' • Five per Cents., 99i 100. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. London and Brighton London and South Western 3Bi 55i..... to Ditto Tenths ........ York and North Midland Ditto New Shares JOINT STOCK BANKS. British North American ......... 40 The only feature worth notice during the morning in the British Market was the purchase by the Chancery broker of 40 thousand Consols at 90A for Tuesday next. Consols are a shade lower than in the earlier part of the morning, 90 1 2 for the Opening, 16th July; Money, 90. chequer Bills improved, 10 13 prem. ; India Bonds, 2521 Ditto Bonds, 2 premium ; Bank Stock, 169. In the Foreign Market very little doing. Spanish Active rather lower, 231; Portuguese a shade lower 34* ; Colom bian 22 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52a ; Five per Cents., 99i 100. In Shares scarce anything doing. London arid Briditon, 45i ; Ditto South Western, 55i ; York and North Mid land, 71 ; Ditto New, 21. Consuls, Account, 90i• ; Portuguese, 33k 34k ; Spanish, 23* Scarcely any business doing. • CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank !Mock ... 169 India Stock 252 3 per Cent Red B9 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons 9O Ditto Old Annuities ... 3} per Cent Red 974 Ditto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent 99 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 13 pm New 5 per Cent — 1 Ditto 5001 ll pm Long Annuities toexpire 1 Ditto Small l5 pm Jan. 1860 ... 124 Bank Stock for Acct... -- Oct 1859 I2A India Stock for 0p,..... Jan. 1860. — Consols for Acct 9oi FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent -- Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto 33i Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent...... Ditto, Metallic — Colombian, 6 per cent... 'Spanish, 5 per cent 234 Ditto, 1824 Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 18:45, 5 per cent — Exchange f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 28,i French, 3 percent —f. —c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1625. Dutch, 21i per cent. ... 523 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent 100 SHARES Great Western Railway (65 paid) — Ditto Fifth (4 paid) IIA London and Brighton (50 paid) 45, London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 19 London and South Western Ditto Tenths (1* paid) Midland Counties Railway ( 100 paid) .. ...... 89::, Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) ...... ... 22 North Midland Railway (100 paid) Ditto New Shares (40 paid) 33 11 York and North Midland Railway (50 pd 1 72 Ditto New Shares (10 paid) HAYMARKET THEATRE.—The play of The Stranger was performed here on Friday, Mr. C. Kean apk)ear ing, for the first time in London, in that character. there was, it may be serviceable to remark, an occasional indistinct ness in his self-c..mmunings, amounting, in fact, to inaudibi lity, which it would be well for him in future to mired. In his personation of this character, Mr. Kean more than ordinarily reminded us of his father, and we observed that he was always most applauded where he most resembled his " great original." Miss Ellen Tree (alto fur the first time) appeared as Mrs. Haller, and by the touching tones of her voice—the appropriate energy and feeling with which she sustained the character throughout, imparted not only a deep interest on the pa.sing scene, but excited also a warm sympathy for the fate and former frailties of the fair penitent—as the sobs of the audience but too surely evinced. The other parts were carefully performed. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ON THE GREEN- N./mu RAILWAY.—On Friday afternoon, as the train which leaves the terminus at the Greenwich end at a t,uarter before three o'clock, reached that part of the line which crosses Blue Anchor-lane Bermondsey, and where the junction of the Brighton and Croydon line unite with the Greenwich, thu engine came furiously in contact with a post which had incau tiously been left across the tramway. The wheels of the engines and tender passed safely over the post, but the iron which attaches the tender to the train was broken by the col lision, and the carriages thrown off the line. The train continued its way some distance without the engine and tender. The conductor, whose name is John Nash, was thrown from his seat, and part of the train passed over him. He was picked up immediately after the accident, with one leg broken and many severe contusions of the body, and conveyed without delay to Guy's Hospital. One of the men employed by the contractors for finishing the London ter minus of the Brighton Railway, frightened at the danger he was in, made a leap over the parapet of one of the arches, and fell into the grounds of a market gardener. The first carriage of the traits was twisted round upon the partly-finished arches of the Brighton line. The poor fellow was precipitated from the top of the wall to the garden ground beneath, about thirty feet, and was much injured and dreadfully frightened. He also Wag conveyed to the same hospital. Fortunately there were no passenger in the first carriage, which has received damage to the amount of only a few pounds. The post was one of a number brought up by the trains from Deptford for the purpose of snaking a temporary fence on the side 11.0Xt the Brighton line, and ought to have been removed immediately on its being thrown down. The train,' after a short time, proceedpd to the terminus. Nash, the conductor, has since had his leg amputated, it being so dreadfully fractured as to admit of no cure. CALAIS, MAY 26.—Yesterday morning, at threw o'clock, the English schooner, Hope, of Bristol, - Tucker, commander, came on shore about two leagues to the eptward of this place, owing to the thick weather. She was laden with stmes, and bound to Chester. This is not the only accident to be deplored. On the same day at one o'clock, p.m., a fine three-masted vessel, the Henry Wellesley, Captain Castles, came on shore near the same spot. It is true that the weather was foggy, and the wind blew strong from the eastward, but how it should happen that a vessel bound for Hobart Town, manned with 17 hands, and having only left tpin riper the same morning, should find herself so much out of her course, is extraordinary. The French say that the pilot, an Englishman, whAwe on board, deserves to be hanged. Phis is too severe, but eertait3 y Were mug Imre been great neglect somewhere. The three passengews who weee on tpgir4 were got on shore safely ; but one of the crew unfortunately fell from the yard this morning, broke his thigh, and otherwise, hurt hOself, and, in falling, seriously injured a French car penter who come on board. Both were taken to the hos pital, but without hopq of r ecovery for the sailor. It appears there are some doubts whether the vessels will be got off. DEATH FROM LOCK J AW ,--7:2Q11 Frillay an in quest was hold at Kensington Qrcspl-pi4' On the }turfy of George Saville, a greetigrovr, at Notting-hill, who died from the effectrof tetanus, or lock jaw. It appeared from the evi. deuce of the witnesses that the deceased about a fortnight ago accidentally ran a nail into-the sae of 12is right foot. He paid no attention to it at the time, but some days afterwards finding it sore applied a poultice to it, which was, however, of no avail, and on Sunday last lock jaw ensued, when medical a,sis tanoe q,(4.3 palled in. Every effort, however, to alleviate h s suffering was of Ho avail, and hp died on Wednesday last. Ver dict, " Died from the otlect4 of igiallits, or lock jaw." WORKSOP.—The hay harvest has already com menced in this neighbourhood. On Tuesday last, twelve men were hard at work in one of the flood fields belong ing to his Grace the Duke of Portland, cutting down one of the most luxuriant crops we ever witnessed.—Doncas ter Gazette. FLANDERS AN!) DUTCH MAIL.. AMSTERDAM, MAY 9 7.—A letter from Anisterdarn, iltislislied in the Emancipation, of 'Brussels, -speaks of _ll report that forged notes of the Bank of the Net herland.* were in circulation. We have made the necessary in quiries on this subject of the Directors of the Nether lands Bank. We have the pleasure of assuring ou r readers that no forged notes have been presented at the Bank, and that consequently the report in question must he considered as wholly destitute of foundation. Tea: .H . AGUE, MAY 2G. - -It is genera reported It day in the higher circles, that M. Van lly Dam V a n Isseg is appointed Governor of Gelderland. r) al RoTTERD - Am, MAY 26.—We hear that his .).- Highness the Prince de Joinville is expected here this ' evening, and that the King's steam yacht is to be readj at that time to take his Royal Highness to Flushing, to view our marine establishment, and then to vi sl ` Helvoetsluys for the same purpose, after which the Priuci will return to thiS city. 'Tit: IlicuE, MAY 28.—1 n the sitting of the rill!: Chamber of. the States General to-day, Section made its report on the project of law relative t o the institutions for lunatics. The debate on this law to fixed for to-morrow. His Serene Highness the reigning Duke of Nassau, arrived here yesterday evening. , GOTTENI;URG, MAY 19.-1 t is stated and positively I certain, that an unermmonly large ship's deck which is esumed to have belonged to a great steam-boat , ben found by fishermen in the Cattegat, and towed Marstrand, ' the Central into MENTZ, MAY 23.—Yesterday evening, the f°l"' lowing .accident occurred here. Of the Vi c° floating baths, which lie on our bank of the river, . . cads containing at least thirty apartments for bath er i one suddenly sank yesterday evening a little idler o'clock, so that the persons of b o th se x es who were ba thing . had scarcely. time to escape, a few in their shirts, An' most of them quite naked, by running across oniule barges, and thus saving themselves from certain dol t , The bath sank immediat e ly with the clothes of til‘ bathers and all that it contained. Heaven be prai sed,i'C lives were lost. As soon as the circumstance was known' thousands of inhabitants hastened to the bank of L tli wk e Rhine, many of them to lo o k f or th e ir r elations, ""°—• they knew to be in the bath, and t o b r ing them elothin,!-. As far as is yet known, the accident was not caused i e any external . violence, nor - by w i n d or s t o rm, CO ° t bottom of the vessel, which is said to be Old und 6 '01'4 Baussims, MAY 27.—Count G-orowski has. Abu? , for these three days past, pei*iissien to go about the ( " t i c ° w:tlsent r;straint, giving his word o f honour n°,,t„(- of a leant weather was calm; but by th e s p r i ng i n , go to any distance out The day before yest e r — ji the would be son-in-law of the Infant Don Francis t , Paulo, was seen drivingin the Alleeverte, in a ll °})e , - chariot, in company with Prince Linoski, his Coli ntr ,. l ; man, who arrived on Monday from London, at Ann"' on hoard the Princess - Victoria steamboat. On the 24th of this month, a: farm-house in the c c ; 1 ; mune of Hernsentruberg, was struck by lightning ; . whole was in flames in an instant, so that the arcs had scarcely time to escape. The damage amounts t) 25,000 francs. t ha s The heat of the weather for some days P" . '" t hat been so great, that it is difficult to air the mine s, so ,l-1 fresh accidents are apprehended in those coal Mines' - f the province of Liege, which are subject to explosinn ° fire-clamp. ffin e - f BRUSSELS, MAY 28.—Baron Dieskau, orderly-n„ the to his Majesty the King, and another officer 01 f household, are gone to Ostend to receive the Duchess ° Kent. • . ot POSEN, MAY 16.—We understand that the-detail' ~a the grand reviews for this year Piave been received, .30 that it is not only finally determined - that the rZ!‘',le.ve, shall place. near Leitnitz in Silesia, but that orders 70 been given to the 7th Corps of the Army to be the be the same time with our sth Corps, so that there wl.' 60,000 men, with more than 200 pieces of cannon. .'' • , i DUTCH FUNOS.—A3IIITXKDAM, MAY tS .;! ' Money. 0, .* ,Ifil t etual Debt, `2% per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per ceut. A mos t Svintic, 4 Y,:, per cent 9 ,s 4 IA 4,, glI Ditto, ditto, 3 ;4 per cent 7 .kt I A 4 ' 0,! Commercial Company , 4.4 1.-er ccnt Ditto (1635 and 1537) 5 per cent. Loan 1537, 5 per cent. trsg 91 ;1r 4 g exchange on London, One Month O5 •stii " )1 Two months Dutch Papers, May 29. ~11., ' ' ..,,, ' - n et.131A14 b UNDS—Situssins, MAY 1,. •.i.ri• s Actual Debt. 2% per Cent. Rcthsvhild'6 Loan, 5 per Cs.nt MN ~' .Af Luau 01 Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 0 . 3 per Cent. — - 70 . , • • Thirty.Beven• --- .. ---------(L40) It0; Loan or City, 1832,4 per Cent 606 '• Society of Commerce, 4 Y.i per Cent lOO • E Rank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ••••• WI 71 q Nationa I Soziety . - Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, May 28. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Viimma, Msy '2l 10 4 Five per Cents. sletalhques • OIL Foes per Cents. ••..•. 000000 .. 0000000 •••••• ........ •••••••• Three 1,,,r Cents. Bank Shar, .. 1669 ....frit,,,...tne leitner,r. May 25. FRUSSIAN FUNDS.— I.lsstin. MAY 25. Bids. mate,' St. Schuld. Sch.. 4 , , per cent. ltti% 116% Prussian Engiish Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 11>:101 ), h.xchange on London, three months 6 19% —Prussia , : Slate Gazelle, May 26 TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUS. Sat, —The Editor of the British Queen been kind enough to appoint me to the uto i command at Lisbon. I have to request you iii` have the goodness to contradict this statemell t, and say that I have resigned my command in th e Mediterranean, and am now endeavouring to op" tail' a command in Marylebone. I have the honour to he your obedient servant, May 30,1841. CHARLES NAPIER• • COURT CIRCULAR. • " 1!. The Queen and Prince Albert and the Queen Dow gr ' ge: attended Divine Service yesterday morning, in _!11 Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Sermon was pr eae l by tile lion. and Rev. Mr. Eden, from Acts, - clO4 , I' verse 45. The Prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. 1 314„ ; ham, the Lessons by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the AliTo Service was read by the Rev. Messrs. Barham and man, and the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The muscal s 1 "'" - et was Boyce in A, and the anthem, " 0 pray for t he r e fire of Jerusalem" (King). Mr. J. B. Sale presided At organ. Th the e Bishop of Norwich, Clerk of the Closet, a n " - Dean of Hereford, Deputy Clerk of the Closet , wer,e f waiting. The'Royal suite included the Marchiun t li ti rl Normanby, Hon, Miss Murray, Hon. Miss Lister+ of Aboyne, Earl of Morley, Right Hon. George Stev e ri j Byng, Major the Hon. G. Keppel, Colonel Wemyssi e j Colonel Wylde. The Queen Dowager was accornp,"ll,j by Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and was atten" by the Viscountess Barrington. Hon. Miss Whc3ile ' r lion. •Miss Hudson, and Earl Howe, of TI Duch- '"— • he .. Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Au E ,--- fa . Cambridge, • and the Duke of Sussex, visited h e ; ice , jesty and rinee Albert yesterday at Buckingham 1 - ) ' 310 .- Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by th e A tos ehioness of Normanby, Hon. Miss Murray, Bon. voi o Lister, Earl of Aboyne, Right Hon. George S te .fdr, Byng, Hon. M a j o r Keppel, Colonels Wemyss and W 3 4 . honoured the I ta lian Opera with their presence 09 " turday evening. Her Royal High ne ss the Duchess of Gloucester ci:l i a teti c o the Queen on Saturday. His Royal Highness r' George of Cambridge paid a visit to Prince Albert. 5 o f Viscount Melbourne and Lord Hill had audience .‘e her Majesty on Saturday. Her Royal Highness s o d Princess Royal was taken an airing in a carriag e four on Saturday. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Jil l ' el4o was pleased to inspect, on Saturday, the o' Ascot C o d a , The subject of the reliev e is Alexander and 8MW:10.4 Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were gran °' pleased to express their approbation. Her Royal Highness th e D ne h ess o f Kent .arrive At Ostend soon after four o'clock on Friday morning. „if eleven o'clock, her Royal Highness, accompanied by Serene Highnesses the Prince a n d P r i ncess o f Leiniiio( ii ; and attended by Lady Anne Maria Dawson, Colonel l e ft George Cooper, Bart., and Captain F ranc i s Seymour, Jr Ostend for Brussels, on a visit t o th e i r M a jesties'; t King and Queen of the Belgians. The Queen Dowager, accompanied by P r ince FAl"'",ti of Saxe Weimar, attended Divine Service yesterdal,ti o ternoon in the Chapel Royal, Bt, Jaws's, 'fir countess Barrington, Hon, Mi*39s Wheiltlviiid 1149 4 ' and Earl Howe, were in waiting on her Majesty; '" • • th 6 The Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, 4 ''` ii ded Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, George,'" I. ; Divine Service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chsar4 Lady Augusta Somerset was in waiting on the Duchess. The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine Se [ yesterday morning in the Chapel of the-• Female ok Colonel Jones • was in waiting .on his lt 0 Y,„ 1 Highness. ; • ; , ~ • • Her Majesty the Queen Dowager , •'and stritelef fs e 9 r An giattlFelk) , morn en ii MFi/)10' 414 .- residence . in' Busby Park, Her !A - Ifijesty was le c ,f as • - ; panied by his Serene - Highness Prince tlf4weril.4 • 4 ' n or. Weimar, and was attended by the ViscOUnttisi far ton c. Hom , Alisi-Wheatley,' Hon. Miss Hudson, And O v a 'Howe.i:Her Majesty, Prin c , t Ed war d and • s uite, retains, to Marlborough House shortly before eight the evening., The - Duke of Sussex visited the Duchess of Glouee s yesterday. at Gloucester House. - 'lhe.Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major Ster e w 1 t left :own on S a t ur d ay morn i ng f or Windsor Casafrleoli. atter d the. funeral of Linut,-Colonel the Ifo' noaux. His Royal Highness afterwards we",.'o ( 31- We: tbourne- g r een to . lay the found a ti on -stone ; new Lock Hospital. Iyl4aollndtohne.Minisv- The.Dachess of; Gloucester visited the Duchess of CI?: brint•e yesterday. Y h e e s i\ i t i s e . ! ( l tl x a l :y e r :f t i n l e r 9 j l to a ll f e j:! ltli nla 9 : o e h tn A tor7r il y ii 4 . l4s in en is c t e e , r, aft l e ef r t. ' : ' ''°ich • F Cabinet oreign-office. Council ne. li w w a a s s h a e t i t d e P n c e t d i Saturday aftert lo %o,.. st( ti' 7 l T i he Council sat two hours. TH F. PITT CLult.--The triennial . coulig e • y . i i 7 ,4 ll ..s o , f i NV i lLiarp Pitt took place on Friday at Olt - TVg Earl Of Elden presided at the dit7ue r '' IV 5,S supported by the Earl of Harewood, the 6 f, d ; chilsea, and Lord Kenyon. Several Members of the 11 40 0 Commow al , o att en d e d on t h e occas i on , an d a lt o gether • T ls:ge:;lemen t oo k ME their places at the tables. `rtiO MEETING OF REFORMERS TO ATOP" uErs.— Iin CoRN, SUGAR, AND TI3IDER I Ver. A meeting of the Reformers of Belfast, says the Letter, was held yesterday in Devlin's Great-rooliia tree4o NOO cone,i4cifig the fi Ro - priosy an addr ess t o t h e Q ueen , p ra yi ng her M a jesty 1° _ 1 ;00 to the n a ti on b y a dissolution of Parliament on thet.lsoo measures of f mercantile policy lately introduced 1 1, 0 Of Government, Minister::" R P e r s ' ltio si n Y s tion were unanimously , adopted.. t i o n aLe n e fo p t nn i n the ui t r h e s t g e n v nius MORNING .EDITIO