The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-12 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, MAY 12. Will be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled _ LONDON ASSURANCE. Sir Harcourt Courtly, Bart., Mr. W. Farren ; Max Hark away, Mr. Bartley; Mr.* Charles Courtly, Mr. Anderson; Mr. Adolphus Spanker, Mr. Keeley; Mr. Dazzle, Mr.: C. Mathews ; Ma r k M e ddle, Mr. H ar l e y ; G race arkaway, 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 tygolda, Mi ss G ran t ; elueen of the Roses, Miss Lee. To-morrow, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with Beauty and the Beast. Doors to te opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, 59 . ; Second Price, 25. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 23.; 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 01w ne had upon application. Private Boxt,ei to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. ROYAL . UNDER THE NIANA SURREY OEMENT THEATRE OF MR;DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Wonderful success ! Haine's " Claude Du Val, the Ladies' Highwayman," decided to be a greater hit than ' Jack Shep pard ;" thousands have already witnessed the startling situa tions, intense interest, and extraordinary effects. The cur tain falls nightly amid the cheers of crowded audiences. THIS EVENING, MAY 12, Will be acted an Historical and Domestic Drama, entitled CLAUDE DU VAL, THE LADIES' HIGHWAYMAN. With entirely new local and beautiful Scenery, -extensive Ma • chinery, real horses and carriages, &c. -Claude Duval, Mr. J. S. Balls. Supported by the most powerful Company in London. After which, a New Comedietta, entitled THE BRIDEGROOM'S HOAX; OR, A WEDDING NIGHT DILEMMA. Characters by Mr. J. S. Balls, Johnson, Neville, Mrs. H. Hughes, Mrs. Hicks, and Miss Martin. , To conclude with FREDERICK THE GREAT ; OR, THE KING AND THE DESERTER. Frederick, Mr. Neville ; The Deserter, Mr. N. T. Hicks With Combats, Conflagrations, &c. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We decline, for reasons which must be obvious to Mr. Robinson himself, to publish that gentleman's letter. Our remark, at which he is displeased, was elicited by his letter to a Morning Contemporary. By that he at tacked the measures of Government Intended to relieve the people—by that he advocated protection—by that he defended the Corn-laws, and made common cause with the bands of monopolists, who are the real op pressors of the industrious classes to which we alluded. We have nothing to retract, therefore nothing to apolo gize for ; and the insertion of the , letter would only keep an unworthy subject before the public. HIGH WATER AT LONDON iiaiDG . nTiffSDAY. IPrning 47 mtriutea after 5 I Evening . ......l2minutes after 6. • -0 CLUJ • 1 / 4 4 04' 7 . .4„ ) .111i.AI:4 0.014„ , - , . • . Vt,t ,§Ukt. LONDON: WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1841. In the Lords, the Arms (Ireland), and the Slave Compensation Bills were read a second time. After receiving petitions, their Lordships, on the mo tion of the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, appointed a Com mittee to inquire into the rate of interest on promissory notes, with a view to illustrate the operation of the Act _ _ of 4th William IV. Another smart and most pleasant discussion on the Corn laws ensued, which serves to keep their Lordships' minds alive to the subject, and make the public more and more acquainted with the matter. It was proved by some re turns, which the Earl of RADNOR quoted, that Scotland had, for some time, been an importing country, and that the supplies from Ireland were gradually diminishing. We learn from the testimony of the Earl of GLENGALL that the consumption of bread in Ireland has much in- creased with the change of consumption from spirits to Lord ASHBURTON deprecated the discussion, but made a longer speech than any other Peer. The Noble Lord has always so many opinions to amend, so many matters to explain and rectify, that he must speak at great length. The Duke of WELLINGTON wished a notice to be given of such discussions,:and quoted ADAM SMITH against free trade in corn. Earl Frrzwn.Lum very properly recommended the Noble Duke to refresh his memory by a re•perusal of the " Wealth of Nations." If he follow the advice, we hope it will be to comprehend its principles, as well as to snatch up a sentence or two of its details. Before Seven their Lordships adjourned till Thursday. In the Commons, after a great number of petitions had been presented, many of which relate to the Import Duties and the Corn-laws, Mr. EASTHOPE, supposing there would be no opposition, moved for leave, according to his notice to bring in a Bill to abolish Church -rates, and to make other provisions for the maintenance of churches and chapels. Lord JOHN RUSSELL assented to the motion, declaring that he should vote against the second reading of the Bill, if the mode of making provision for repairing churches were not proper. Dr. Nicnou,s, however, said it was not fit such a Bill should be introduced altering the law, and he moved aF an amendment, that the Order of the Day for resuming the adjourned debate be read. Sir R. Nous seconded the amendment ; and after a few words from Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Mr. HOME, Mr. EASTHOPE withdrew his motion, giving no tice to renew it on Tuesday week. We approve of Bills being stopped in limine, which a majority is resolved shall not pass, because to introduce them is a mere waste of time and expense ; what the Dissenters, however, may think of this sturdy out-and-out denial of justice is another consideration. They must take care, on a gene ral election, to vote for nobody but determined opponents of Church -rates. The House, after transacting some routine business, 'resumed the adjourned debate. Mr. MACAULAY began, feeling himself called on to speak by the observations made last night by the Hon. Member for Newark. He was not then in his place, and had now no other feelings but satisfaction at the terms used by thellon. Gentleman. With respect to the laxity of principle of which the Ministers were accused, he could not understand it, for a great part of our trade was car ried on with slave countries, and the Tories, like him self, would resist all attempts to put a stop to that trade. The Right Honourable Gentleman contented himself with a short speech, in which he vindi cated the ' principle of the measure, and which he obviously would not have made but for the allusion of Mr. GLADSTONE to his father the evening before. We must pass over Sir G. CLERK, Mr. WARD, Sir R. INous, Mr. C. WOOD—who made, however, an excellent business -like speech in favour of the Ministers' measure-- and Mr. GOULBURN, whose several speeches contained nothing very remarkable, to come to the speech of Sir GEORGE GREY, which was by far the most re markable speech of the night, and perhaps the best debating speech of the Session. The Right Hon. Gentleman began by nailing down Mr. GOULBURN to an admission which, after three nights' cautious silence, he had made on the part of the Opposition as to what they would do in the present financial difficulties. That ad mission was to do nothing, and the announcement of the Tory policy by Sir G. GREY made the House quite tu multuous with laughter on one side, and noise on the other. It is good that the country should know that the Tories will not allow the Ministers to act, and have made up their mind not to do anything themselves. Sir GEORGE said that while the Tories would do nothing , and were careful not to state any principles, the gentle men on his side of the House had been clear and distinct in avowing their principles. The Hon. Member for Lin colnghire, with that straightforwardness for which he was distinguished, had openly avowed that he defended the sugar duties as an outwork of the Corn-laws, and no doubt many of the Opposition adopted his views. The Right Hon. Member for the Tower Hamlets, with that sincerity which belonged to him, had opposed the Ministers on the ground that it was wrong in any way to encourage slavery while it was possible to procure the commodities from any other source at whatever cost. Which of these prine;tples did. the Hon. Gentlemen op posite embrace ? ;They had been silent on the subject ; and the Hon. Meraber for Newark had said he did not come there to discuss principles. So it seemed ; but at one time he did elevate himself to the height of the principle of the Right Honour able Gen th anan, but it afterwards turned out that he held to the moral principle only when sugar - was at 565. per cwt., and that his high moral principle eanished when sugar was at 365., and then the expedierrzy of obtaining a supply even from slave coun tries w: Ls admitted. The Right Hon. Baronet was ex tremely happy, too, in exposing the sham humanity of the Honou able Member for Newark and his friends, which squared with their pecuniary interest, for the Honourable Member was now an East India proprietor, and, therefore, a • defender of East India as well as West India monopoly. Many gentlemen, too, the Right Hon. Baronet said, who were loud in de claiming against the introduction of slave-grown sugar, were themselves deriving profit from slaves. They formed b an k s and made advances to slave countries, and encouraged slavery. They objected to Brazilian sugar, but there were mines in Brazil. They are worked by 4nglisli companies and English_ capital. He violated no confidence in referring to the Hon. Member for An trim (Mr. IRVINE), for he saw his name as Chairman of an English company which obtained gold from the mines in the Brazils, and supplied the capital ; but the gold, on which they made their profit was brought out of the mines by the bones and sinews of slaves. Such a home truth excited indignation against the Tory hypocrites, and will cover them with shame. We must refer to our report for a few more of the many capital hits which Sir GEORGE GREY made ; all, we are aware, are not given, for, un fortunately ; the Right Hon. Baronet speaks with such rapidity, though with such power, that his splendid speech will be in a manner lost to the world. He created quite a tumult in the House, which was con vulsed with different sentiments. He flurried the wordy and solemn Mr. GOULBURN, he astonished the prim Lord SANDON, he held up to eternal ridicule the shallow and pert humanity-monger Mr. GLADSTONE, and he quite overwhelmed the stolid Mr. IRVINE. Accordingly he no sooner took his seat than three of these gentlemen rose to explain. Lord SANDON was ashamed of what he had implied, and was in haste to disavow it. Mr. Gout,- BURN backed out, as he best could, of the do-nothing policy of which he had been the sponsor, and Mr. GLAD STONE was silent and ashamed. Not so Mr. IRVINE ; the unfortunate gentleman, smitten to the core by the keen truth told of him in the face of the world, stammered out in defence an apology. But, like all men in his situation, he made the matter worse for himself and his party. He said he did not know why the Right Hon. Baronet singled him out from amongst many ; the poor conscience-stricken man implying that he was surrounded by gentlemen, at that moment, and every day of his life, who, like him, make a profit out of the bones and sinews of slaves, and yet get up a factious opposition to the Government, and are ready to throw the country into confusion, lest the half-starved people of England should consume a grain of slave grown sugar. A more complete and damning exposure of drivelling, avaricious hypocrisy was never seen, and was proper to be the crowning work of the evening. Honour, great honour to the bold, manly, truth-telling Sir GEORGE GREY ! Shame, eternal shame, to the monstrous hypo crites who refuse, on the plea of humanity, to al low the English to use slave-grown sugar, and who revel in wealth, extorted from the bones and sinews of slaves ! We expect that the speech of Sir G. GREY will effect a revulsion in the feelings of the philanthropists, and make them heartily ashamed of their new associates, and of that hostility to the rights and liberties of their own countrymen in which they are now unfortunately engaged. The debate was adjourned, after Mr. IRVINE had exposed himself and his party ; and at One o'Clock the House adjourned. The debate on the Sugar Duties is full of in struction for the people. Alarmed at the state of the finances, .Itnd at the deterioration of trade, the Ministers came down to Parliament with propositions which they assert, and we certainly believe, though we wish their schemes went further, will relieve the pressure on the finances, mitigate the distress of the people, and improve trade. Those propositions include an alteration of the Corn-laws, one of the most iniquitous enactments that ever disgtaced a Christian country. To avoid, if possible, a discussion of that law, the Tories will not allow the Ministers to go into Committee, where their propositions can be discussed in detail ; they oppose them at the outset with a declaration that it is not fit and proper to give relief to lour suffering people, 27,000,000, and extend our trade, lest so doing might, perchance, injure the comparatively scanty negro population, 800,000, of our West India Islands. What is this but an avowal, an open bare-faced avowal, on the part of the Tories, that they will seize any pretext, however absurd, to prevent the borne-down and crushed industrious classes from obtaining the least relief'! They refuse even to consider the means of relieving them. All their sympathies are with the blacks. They hate their suffering countrymen with all the bitterness of conscious oppressors, and they fear them equally. They have no fear of the blacks, and they make bene fiting them the pretext for grinding the people of England. Let the reader remark, too, the serpent-like hypocrisy of the Opposition. The saintly Lord SAN DON—the Puseyite Mr. GLADSTONE—(we know from Mr. NEWTON'S late work in what Jesuitical school he has studied)—object to the Ministerial scheme, that the reduction of the sugar duty will give the p ople little or no relief. They expatiate on its being only a benefit of a halfpenny in the pound, and that benefit they say has disappeared while the discussion is going on. They being so regardful of the people, and the benefit so small, what should be their conduct? Lower the duties still more. Reduce the duty on West India sugar to 155., and on foreign to 205., by which the consumption would be surely doubled, and the revenue augmented at least one-fourth. Do they propose such a generous measure? Not they. They refuse to give the people the little benefit the Ministers propose to confer on them, and at the same time complain of its smallness. If they proposed the large measures we have indicated, we should be lieve in their sincerity. It is natural that bread taxers should make common cause with sugar taxers, but we deeply regret to see the professed lovers of liberty unit ing with them in their refusal to take the Minis- tens' plan into consideration. They take un doubtedly a narrow view, and. forget in the par ticular case their general principles. At the same time they much over-estimate their power either to do good or evil to the population of Africa and the slaves of Cuba and the Brazils. It is a preposterous supposition that to lower our sugar duties a few shillings should influence the fate of that vast population. Acts of Parliament are often impotent even when they relate to England ; their authors are grievously deceived and disappointed; and is it to be supposed that a law directly altering our import duties a few shillings will indirectly have a mighty effect on slavery and the slave trade? Sir FOWELL Bu x•• TON and his schemes are examples of the power lessness of Acts of Parliament; and it is quite Quixotic to deny the smallest particle of benefit to the people of England, on the supposition that it may at some remote time provoke cruelty and cause suffering in the Brazils. All the evils of which Dr. LUSIIINGTON COM, plains exist with our prohibitory system. It has not put an end to them. The foreign market is open to the Brazilian and Cuba sugars, and will continue to be open to them. Nay, we refine their sugars for our colonial and the foreign markets, and, according to Dr. Lusllt NeTON, encourage horrors, against which he protests. But neither he nor any other per son has brought the smallest tittle of evidence, except their own fancies, to show that slavery will be made more onerous, and the slave-trade in creased by lowering the price of sugar. On the contrary, the high price kept up in our market by the duty, and the hope of obtaining that, stimulates slavery ; and were the price of sugar to be lowered by a general competition, it would cease to be an inducement to extend sla very and the slave-trade. We look on the ob jections of the philanthropists to be as shallow as those of the Tories are hypocritical. In one thing they both agree. Both utterly disregard the people of England, and would pinch and starve them, while they overflow with psuedo humanity for the negro race. By the arrival of her MAJESTY'S ship Dee al Portsmouth, at half-past six o'clock on Monday evening, from Antigua, we have received news from that island to the sth of April inclusive. The Dee did not touch at Bermuda. and brings no account of the President. On the 3d a dread ful fire broke out in the city of St. John's, the capital of Antigua, which reduced the greater part of the town to ashes. Of the immense pro perty destroyed no part is said to be insured, so that a whole community is thus reduced to abso lute destitution. The Dee spoke to no vessel on her passage homeward. With the Paris Papers of Sunday we have re ceived the Report of the Commission of the Chamber of Peers, respecting DARMES, the regi cide. The printed Report occupies seventy-six pages—verbosity here being synoniinous with loyalty. The only important fact established by this document is, that a secret society does exist in France, the members of which have sworn to extirpate Royalty. The date of the origin of this society is not given, but from an examina tion of details and circumstances, we have no doubt that it is the spawn of that monster, the Holy Alliance. When Kings openly combined to crush their people, desperate men con spired for the destruction of Kings. DARMES is proved to have accomplices, of whom two, DUCLOS and CONSIDERE, will probably be brought to trial with him. Sixty others arrested have been set at liberty. The Report was to be read in the Chamber of Peer's yesterday. The conspirators are all work ing men. DARMES is a man of bad character in every relation of life. He was a bad son and a bad husband ; and whoever is both, is capable of any villainy. _ _ The Bishop of PAMPELUNA, banished from Spain by the Regency, arrived at Bayonne on the Gth instant. This ecclesiastic chooses rather to obey the POPE than the civil authorities of his native country. The Gazette du Mida of the sth states that it was decided at the Cabinet Council held by the King 'on the 27th ult., to reduce from twenty tarins to eight the duties on sulphur. His Majesty, however, taking into consideration the immense quantity of that article recently exported from Sicily, and wishing to avert all commercial disasters, had ordered that the new tariff should only come into operation on the first of January next. We find the following article in the Gazette du Dauphine : We learn from an official quarter that the seizures of the Gazette du Douphine are on account of the conspiracy of Grenoble. We are said to ;have accused his Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans of having been the accomplice of Didier in 1815. This article, which is repeated this morning in several of the Paris Journals, makes us hope that the truth will be at length known respecting this important affair. We must wait for the public proceedings. The Tribuneaux will doubtless call for the testimony of those men who are acquainted with the fact. The well known character of the person who acted the prin cipal part in putting down this attempt, is a pledge that he will not keep back the truth, which every body now seems de sirous of knowing.— Gazette de France. Madrid Papers to the 3d inst. have reached us, but without any political news of interest. On the 2d was celebrated the anniversary festi val of the rising of the Spaniards against the French in 1808. The concourse of people was immense, and the rites consecrated by religion to patriotism solemn and imposing. There was no meeting of the Cortes on that day : The following ceremonial has been ordered by the Senate when the oath is taken by the Regent or Regents elected by the Cortes:— "Ist. When the Cortes are assembled in the place desig nated by Governinent, the' President shall order one the Se cretaries to read aloud the list•of thenotnina:tion of the Regent, or of the Regents.-2dly. Eight Senators and Eight Deputies shall then proceed to meet the Regent or the Regents.-341y. On the entry of:the Regent or the Regents, the Senators, and the Deputies shall rise, the President alone to remain seated. 4thly. The Regent or the Regents shall then take their places, standing, to the right of the President; who, also stand ing and holding open the book 0 t the Holy Gospel, shall proceed to read aloud the form of the oath, which is as follows :—• You swear, by God and by his holy Gospel, to observe, and to cause to be observed, the constitution of the Spanish monarchy and the laws of the realm ; being determined thereunto solely by a con sideration of the public welfare and interest, and to be faithful to the august Queen of Spain, Donna Isabella the Second.' The Regent sr the Regents having placed their hand upon the Gospel, shall reply aloud, I swear it.' The President then shall say, So God reward you as you render him an ac count.' bthly. The Regent or the Regents shall then proceed to occupy the seats placed before the steps of the Throne. The Senators and the Deputies then to reseat themselves, and the President to pronounce these words :—• The Cortes have regis tered the oath which the Regent (or the Regents) have Just taken of fidelity to the Constitution, to the Spanish Monarchy, and to the laws of the realm, as also to the Queen.' 6thly. The Regent or the Regents then to retire with the ceremony and the procession of introduction. The humanity of Mr. Gladstone, which as sumed a sort of conventicle tone, was quite con spicuous in the House of Commons on Monday evening. How much of it was prompted by in terest, and how much by a fellow-feeling with the blacks we will not pretend to say, but it re minded us of the stor3 of the lady who died of love and the small-pox. The passion had a very small share in producing the fatal result, and so much a share, we fancy, had Mr. Gladstone's affection for the blacks in producing the torrent of sweet humanity which he poured out. That gentleman is the unfortunate possessor of a name notorious in the annals of slavery and hill coolies, and being confounded, perhaps, with another person, will be very likely to incur the suspicion of promoting private interests by an affectation of love for the negroes. A GENERAL ELECTION.—The prevailing re ports on this subject induce us to say to all Radi cal and Liberal constituencies, Look out for pro per candidates, and reject all quacks, and return none but honest and determined Anti-Corn law men. THE PRICE OF SUGAR.—MINUTE LBGIBLA TION.-It must be very satisfactory to the people of England to see their interests discussed in the House of Commons in so minute a manner. A great law is made to depend on a few cwts. more or less of sugar to be grown in the Antilles. A reduction of taxation is to be determined by a Gazette price, which a little speculation may lower or raise. Nay, according to Mr. Glad stone, the price has already fallen to the price contemplated by the proposed sch,:.'me of finance, and therefore there is no occasion to reduce the duty on sugar. How singular that a connection of a great sugar house should come prepared with that argument ! Could any nominal sales effect it ? How still more singular is it that a permanent law affecting the welfare of England should be influenced by the momentary price of speculation! That, however, is a 'specimen of the minute manner in which our legislators exa mine the great questions brought before them. Whether they are likely by such close investi gation of particulars to form a clear comprehen sion of the whole, we must leave the public to decide. For our parts we are' somewhat afraid that, in so dealing with the national welfare, they are more like the critic fly scanning St. Paul's, than an architect like Wren capable of inr the whole. P! THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12,1841. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY T UESDA Y EVENING. The feature in the Money Market, is still an undefined and vague feeling of apprenension that capital may soon become scarce, and a consequent tightness of dis counts. As regards the Funds, there were further amounts of the unfund e d thrown upon the mar ket, and this led to a renewed though not se rious decline in the premium—viz., from 7s. to 4s. and 6s. East India Bonds were at ls. discount, and ls. pre mium. Bank Stock was at 1671 to 168, the Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. brought 97* to 1/ 3 , and the Three per Cent. Annuities 888 to 881. Consols, at four o'clock, were 898 sellers for Account, and 894 for Money. There was not much d o i ng i n th e F o reign. Stocks. The Active Spanish. Bonds were at 231 to 24 ; the New Por tuguese Five per Cents. a t 33i ; M ex i c an Stock at a de- 1 cline, from 291 to 28* to. a ; Peruvian at 161 ' • Vene zuelan Deferred at 8+ to ; Buenos Ayres at 22; Belgian at 100 to ; French Five Cents. at 114 f. 25c. ; and Dutch Two-and-Half per Cents. at 52 1 , to I. The market for Rail wa y Shares has become dull. London and Birmingham were at 69 ; South Western 18* ; Great Western New at 14, and the Fifths at 7i premium. Brighton w ere 3* t o 28; Manchester an Leeds 14 ; Northern and Eastern 22 ; and Birmingham and Gloucester 28 discount, ex-New Shares. Colonial Bank Shares were HI- premium, and Union Bank of Australia 9 premium ; Brazilian Imperial Mining Com pany's Shares were 15 discount. The Foreign Exchanges were on the whole without Frankfortat 25f . 62 f act. 14any marked alteration to-d a y. O n P ar is bills were taken to 65c., on Amsterdam at 12 3 1 1 to on to 1, erate on of Hamburgh exc exchange n..e on 13 9-4-to Londonan d on Trieste at 10. comes over steady from Hamburgh, and the price of gold still rather high. A letter received at the North and South American Coffee-house states that the writer had been .on board the Lord Saumarez, arrived at Liverpool, and which re ported having seen a large steamer on her way home from the Cape, and had ascertained from the mate that the steamer was disabled, had three masts and one very large funnel, with her . sails set upon the main. The track of the President steamer answers to this description. The steamer seen, which is proved not to be the Hard wicke (arrived safe at Liverpool), might therefore have ' been the President, out thirty days, and disabled, attempt ing to make the Cape de Verde islands. (From The Sun of Last Night.) We regret to learn, by the following communication from Liverpool, that a collision took place off that place on Sunday, between two vessels, and one of them went down with all on board:— The Brooklyn, Richardson, which sailed yesterday from this port for New York, when off Port Lynns last night, about ten o'clock, came in collision with a vessel, name and destination unknown, but thought to be a brig. The Brooklyn sunk the unknown vessel in midships, the latter went down with all hands. Captain Richardson reports that he hod a light upon deck, that had the master of the unknown vessel ported his helm the collision would have been avoided. LIVERPOOL COTTON bIARKAT, MAY 10. The sales of Cotton to-day are about 2,000 bales at steady prices. The market continues depreised. . LIVERPOOL-SHAKE -MARKET, MAY 10.—The following comprise the transactions at the Stock Exchange to-day : Glasgow; Paisley, and Greenock, 29i ; Grand Junction. 204 ; Chester and Crew, 50 ; London and Birmingham, 160; Lon don and South Western, Si. Shares, 21. ; Manchester and Leeds, 52i. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 10.—The Share Market continues in a depressed state. Manchester and Bir mingham, 25f; London and South Western, 58; Ditto, Tenths, 445. ; Alliance Bank, 17 ; Bank of Manchester, 71. Is. 3d. ; S outh Lancashire Bank, 5/. 6s. 3d.. ; Marine As surance, 9i. We have received Cape of Good Hope Papers to March 14. On Tuesday last his Excellency the Governor arrived in Cape Town, on his return fron the frontier. From Graaff-Reenet a Correspondent writes:—" A great deal of rain has fallen here lately ; in fact, every season ap pears to be better than the last ; all the necessaries of life are cheap and abundant. The following are the prices of the principal articles : —Meal from 9 rds to 13s. 6d. to 12 rds 18s. per muid; Wheat from 6 rds 9s. to 8 rds 12s. ; Barley 3 rds 4s. 6d. to 4 rds 6s. ; India Corn 3 rds to 5 rds ditto ; Butchers' Meat 1 lid. per lb. • Wool from 6d. to 9d. ; Goat Skins Is. 6d. to '2s each."— Graham's Journal. LIST OF CAPE Towrr PKICES.—Beef, good, 3d. per lb. ; Mutton 2 1 ,4 d. ' • Pork 6d. to 7 d. ; Tea 4 s. to 4 s. 6 d. ; Sugar 4 1 4(1. to sd. ; Coffee 9d. ; Rice IlAd. to 2*d. ; Flour 2 3 / 4 d. ; Potatoes 2 3 / 4 d. ; Candles Bd. to 9d. ; Soap sd. ; Salt Id. ; Butter Is. I lid. to Is. 3d. Consols, which left off yesterday at 89/1 4 for the Account, opened this morning w ith rather a firmer appearance, and may be quoted 894 Account, Money 89i 4. Exchequer Bills, 57 prem. ; Bank Stock, 167 169 ; India Stock, 250 252 ; India Bonds, 1 dis. 1 prem. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, 234 24; Deferred, 19i ; Passive, .51 i ; Portuguese, 331 344 ; Three per Cents., 20} ; Brazilian, 68} 69} ; Colombian, 24 23 ;Plea'. can, 28 3 4 29; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52/ ; Five per Cents. 99* 4. SHARES.—Great Western, 27 28 prem. ; New, 13} 14 prem. ; London and Brighton 3} dis. ; Blackwall 6} 6 die. ; Birmingham 69 71 prem. ; Southampton 57 58 per share ; Croydon 134 14i per share ; Greenwich 8} per share ; Manchester and Birmingham 15 14 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ... .. 72 Great Western Ditto Fifths London and Brighton Manchester and Leeds - JOINT STOCK BANKS. Colonial ~.. 25 MINKS. Brazilian Imperial (at 61. pm. )... 21) Since the early part of the morning there has been more busine-s doing in the British Funds than for several days past. One of the first-rate brokers sold some Exchequer bills, and purchased 60,000 consols, which gave a tone to the market. The public were also selling money stock prior to a dissolution of Parliament, which is generally reported will take place in about ten days. Money is in demand ; from 4to 5 per cent. is asked in the house. Consols continue steady at 89% for tha Account ; Money, 69% s ; Exchequer Bills, 5 4 b prem. ; Bank Stock, 1671 168 ; India Bonds, 1 dis., 1, prem. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 2. I ; Portuguese, 33/; Mexican, 2845; Dutch Two-and-a; Hal f-per-Cents.,s2l ; Five per Cents., 991 In the above Market there is scarce anything doing. The Share Market is quite idle. Birmingham and Glouces ter, 72; Great Western Fifths, 11; London and Brighton, 46 3 / a 47 ; Manchester and Leeds, 56. Consols, Account, 69X 90; Mexican, 28i 1 ; Portu guese, 341; Spanish, 23/ 24/. Markets generally firm. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock l6B India Stock 3 per Cent Red. BB4 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons 894 Ditto Old Annuities ... 35 per Cent Red.. New 34 per Cent 983 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....24d 6pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 500/ 4pm Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small spm Jan. 1860 l2 9-16 Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 lndia Stock for °pg.._ Jan. 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian 80nd5.... Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres. 6 per cent 22 Russian, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent...... Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 234 Ditto, 1824 .... Ditto, Deferred . 114 Danish, 3 per cent....... French, 5 per cent.ll4f. 25c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent Exchange —f. c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. —c, Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 24 per cent. ... 523 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. 16.1 Ditto, 5 per cent 9 91 SHARES. Biroingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 72 Great Western Railway (65 paid) Ditto ,New Shares (50 paid ... 64 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) . 114 London and Ilifh . ton (50 paid)... 475 London and Buracigham Railway (90 pd) 159 Manchester and Leeds London and South 'western ,70 paid) ... .... 56 .. 28 Northern and Eastern (50 mid) YESTERDAY). 1 COURSE OF EXCHANGE- - ( _ _ Amsterdam CF .I2 6 Gibraltztr ~. ...... Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...... ...2 U. 12 64 Genoa ..,....,• •••••• •.•• 25 85 Antwerp l2 6 Milan Hamburgh ...... M.B. 13 12i Venice Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 55 Pale rmo, p er oz ..••.1184 Ditto, 3 months 25 75 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 80 Rio Janeiro 27 Vninkfort on Maine... 150 Bahia Petetsburgh, 3 Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres 8er1in..... Vienna, effec. 11. 3 M lO 0 Philadelphia 46 Trieste, di t t o l‘ladrid ... ...... ... Cadiz 354 Foreign Gold, bars... 3 17 9 Bilboa ................. Barcelona .......•..•••.. 35 New Dollars... 0 4 lOi Seville ... ..... 3 5 Silver in Bars 05 Oi HAM DL/ KU ISORSLNHALLE, MAY 7. Bills. Money ..... 107 HoPe and Co. 3d and 4th BankAur ThnasrePf..c.C.c.e.nn.t...! .... 1655 Anelo.ltussian Loan — Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Cartiticate MA lOS Inscription, Ist Sew 103% 103 102 _ Russian 5 pCX Series ........ ; .... 97% 3T Ditto in Certilicati., ~, 97 3gli New 4 per Cent. (164,;' „ ent 87% h7 g, Dutch Actual Debt, 2% k .`er , 5 pea Cent SN 51 Ditto... ..... . .. ..... ........ _ Polish Bonds .................... .... l4l ... New ticket ... .......................... Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ....... 747i 74% s N p o al t wai , an Ne L w oa s n p , .... 16% EXCHANGES ON LONDON, elrS34anttrer Celt..., HAMBURG, MAY 7.-13 (A. —Two months, 13 5 PETRRSBURGII, APRIL 27.-I\vo months, 38 ... N PeOce, CHRISTIANIA , APRIL 2,-.--Three months, 460. SToCICHOLL APRIL o.—Seventy-five days, 12, 1, BREMEN, MAY 4 —Two months. 6 14. - THE CORN-LAWS, &c. A densely crowded meeting of the inhabitants of Kendal was held on the evening of Monday, the 10th inst., in the Town Hall, James Machell, Esq.,in the chair. 'The resolutions were moved, seconded, and unani mously and rapturously cheered, by a meeting which, nevertheless, resolved that if these propositions be re jected, they would never relax until the whole restric tion on bread be abolished. Allan Simpson, Esq., Alderman J. Wilson, Coun cillor Gibson, John Whitwell, Esq., Rev. Edw. llawkes, John Thompson, Esq., Rev. Gilbert Elliot, Vicar of Kesley Thore ; Rev. 1). Jones, Independent clergyman ; Rev. John Guthrie, Presbyterian minister ; Mr. John Somerville, Alderman R. Wilson, J. J. Wilson, John Gill, Chartist, and Lawrence O'Connel, weaver, took part in the proceedings, and a petition was agreed to and forwarded to Mr. S. W. Wood for presentation. The following are the resolutions :- 1. That this meeting regards the existence of all monopolies that fetter and crush industry, and which have already told with such alarming effect upon the trade of this kingdom, as part of a system which, if con tinued, must sooner or later bring ruin upon the natiou at large. That the interests of all classes, and especially of the agricultural and manufacturing labourer, impera tively demand their abolition, and require the establish ment of such a system of free trade as would open to the wants and products of this country the supplies and markets of the world. 2. That the high price of sugar, the protection so long exclusively enjoyed by the West India planters, and the danger of entirely closing our trade with the Brazils, as well as the financial state of this country, call for an im mediate alteration of the sugar duties to the full extent proposed by the Government ; and this meeting con templates with indignation the possible rejection of so wise and necessary a measure. 3. That in the opinion of this meeting the indispen sable means of supporting human life ought not, under a wise system of legislation, to be subject to taxation of any description ; yet, believing that the alteration of the duties on grain proposed by Lord Johnßussell will be a vast benefit to the country, it views with cordial satis faction such a change, and regards with determined op position all attempts to frustrate this approach to a more equitable system. 4. That the alarming increase of disease and poverty in the land is attributable to the high price of provisions and the stagnation of trade ; and that the principles of religion, humanity, and justice, require that there should be a free supply of the necessaries, rather than the luxu ries of life. (From the Liverpool Chronicle.) th e ail_ca.:—ate UMW with all men of all classes is, of course, the an nou n ce ment ma 4" last night week in the House House of C ommons b y Lord juL:. l Russe- on the s u 1 i s ject of the Cor n -l aws . H onour to the 111i n i s i rs for announcement ! The people have now something fin gible, something palpable, something real to struggle for in the political warfare. The Reform Bill was only a means. We are now about to wrestle for an end. The electors of this country will, in all probability, before many weeks are over, be appealed to for their verdict upon the bread-tax. Wh a t s h ou ld the p e ople do at such en important crisis ? There should be pub lic meetings m every quart er o f the land to ad dress both Houses of Parliament on the subject. .. "1 schisms, all differences of opinion, amongst the several sections of the Liberal party should be cast to the winds, and they should work as one man, with one heart, for " a consummation so devoutly to be wished," There should be unceasing agitation. And, above all, the con stituents of every county and borough in the land should have a candidate ready, who, if elected, will support the Ministers in their endeavours to settle this momentous question. The cause now rests with the people them selves. The Ministers have nobly and gallantly put themselves in the front of the battle. The issue is with the country. _A.WICK.- On .uesday morning, a heavy shower of snow fell here, which has been succeeded by cold ungenia weather, with heavy raize, Ty ne Eliot. CALEDONIAN ASYLUM. The twenty-second anniversary of this institution was celebrated yesterday . at Freemasons' Tavern, The Chis holm, of Chisholm, in the chair, and supported on the left by Sir Charles Napier, and on the right by Sir Augustus D'Este. Among the company were Sir James Clark, Bart., the Hon. C. Hope, Charles Barclay, Esq., P. M. Stewart, Esq., Capt. Charles Forbes, and the Rev. Dr. Cooke. On the entrance of the Chairman, accompanied by Sir Charles Napier, the applause was most enthu siastic. Sir Charles Napier was dressed in his usual way, with a white waistcoat, black cravat, and blue coat, and - attracted universal attention, of which he seemed not at all a ware . It wou ld b e difficult to meet with a man of such simplicity of manner, or so far removed from anything like pomp or ceremony, as the hero of St. Jean &Acre. He came among the company as a com mon visitor, and seemed surprised that he was received with such enthusiastic applause. After the usual loyal toasts had been given, the Chair man gave " The Army and Navy." Sir A. D'EsTE returned thanks for the army. Sir C.. NAPIER, in returning thanks for the navy, said he believed he was the senior officer of the service pre sent. , He had been in the navy for for forty-one years. He had served in all parts of the globe, and he had never yet seen any navy to be compared to that of his own country.. On the coast of Syria, the British navy had distinguished itself not only by its bravery, but its scienti fic skill. On that occasion the army and navy acted in unison, and he trusted they would always do so, and thereby maintain the high character which this country had so Justly obtained for the efficiency of the two great bulwarks of the nation. • , _ . The CHAIRMAN thengave " The Duke of Sussex, the President of the Caledonian Asylum," and paid a high compliment to the Royal Family for the support which they had, given to the . Institution. Three of the Royal family had supported it—the Duke of York, the Duke of Kent, and the Duke of Sussex. Two of these were gone, but one remained, wet he would therefore propose the health of the Duke of Sussex, the President of the Caledonian Asylum. The piper of his Royal Highness played the reel of " Tullochgoriun," to which the whole assembly responded by the loudest applause ; and while the shouts continued, The ,Chisliolm, as a good Highlander, dressed in the costume of his country, left the chair, and was fol lowed by Sir Charles Napier, and two Highland Chief tains dressed in the garb of Old Gaul, and danced in pre sence of the company, and to their great delight the dance of " Tullochgornm." Smite Englishmen who were, present seemed astonished at the exhibition, but the Highlanders were delighted, and- said when they saw " The Chisholm" and " The Napier," dancing together, that Charley Napier could dance as well as fight. The CHAIRMAN then gave success to the Caledonian Asylum, when the boys, to the number of fifty or sixty, marched round the room to the great delight of the company ; they appeared in the best health, and attracted great attention. Previous to the reading of the Report the CHAIRMAN stated that he had visited the establishment, and he was never more gratified in his life than he was by the pro ficiency of the boys, and he therefore took that opportu nity of paying a just compliment to the Rev. Mr. Lees, for the admirable manner in which he performed his duty to the establishment. The SECRETARY then read the list of the subscrip tions, for which we cannot find room, but we are happy to state that it was most liberal, and that the amount altogether was not less than 8001. The dinner was excellent, and the attendance good. The company broke up about twelve o'clock. THE SHIPOWNERS' SOCIETY. Our readers will see from the following letter, ad dressed by Messrs. G. L. Jackson and Son, shipowners, Water-lane, to the Secretary of the Shipowners' Society, they have withdrawn themselves from that Society in consequence of its hostility to the measures proposed by Government with regard to sugar, timber, and corn : " Water-lane, May 8, 1841. " Sir,—Our attention has been called to a copy of a letter addressed by you on behalf of the General Ship owners' Society, to the Secretary of the British North American Association, in which you intimate the readi ness of our Society to unite with them in concocting measures of immediate and energetic resistance to her Majesty's Government with regard to the proposed al teration of duties on the importation of sugar, timber, and corn. • "We cannot, therefore, refrain from expressing our opinion that such reduction would be highly favourable, not only to the general interests of the country, and especially to the poorer classes, but also highly advanta geous, in particular, to the shipping interest ; and disap proving, as we do, of this act of the Committee, as inju rious to the interests committed to their care, and as sa vouring too much of political bias, we have to request that you may consider us as no longer members of the Shipowners' Society. " We remain, respectfully, Sir, " Your obedient servants, (Signed) " G. L. JACKSON and SON. " W. Oviatt, Esq., Secretary to the Shipowners' Society. " P.S. As shipowners, nothing would conduce to our interests more than so near an approach to a free-trade, in corn and sugar especially, as the circumstances of the country might permit." The above, we learn, is far from being a solitary in stance. The conduct of the Committee of the Society has called forth many letters of the same import from mem bers of the Society.—Chronicle. ANTI-MONOPOLY PETITIONS: A numerous and most respectable meeting washeld at Leeds on Monday, consisting of delegates from all the towns, arid many of the most important villages of the West Riding of York shire, for the purpose of supporting her Majesty's Ministers in their noble effort to promote the public good by reducing the taxes on the chief articles of food and consumption." The meeting was attended by the first men of the place. There were present also Francis H. Fawkes, Esq., the Hon. Sir Ed ward M. Vavasour, Bart., and numerous Magistrates and in fluential gentlemen from Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Barnsley, Sheffield, Doncaster, Keighley, Bing ley, ley, Heckmendwike, Cleckheaton, Batl e y, Wakefield, Pontefract, o Utley, Idle, Pudsey, Rawden, Saddleworth, Mirfield, &c. &c. Strong resolutions were unanimously adopted, and the fol lowing petition to the House of Commons, numerously signed, was to be sent off this day, or to-morrow at latest : " That your Petitioners approve, in the fullest manner, of every relaxation of the fetters on trade. " That very deep, general, and long continued distress and embarrassment prevail throughout this great manufacturing district. . . . " That your Petitioners believe the most effectual and legiti mate relief for their distress would be found in a revision of the commercial and fiscal system of the country, abolishing or re ducing the duties on the main articles of food and consump tion ; thus extending and securing our trade with the coun tries from which those articles are imported, and lowering the price of the chief neeesiaries of life to the people. " That your Petitioners therefore humbly pray your Ho. nourable House to give the most favourable consideration to the measures announced for reducing the import duties on several of the chief articles of food and consumption ; espe cially for the reduction, of the Sugar and Timber Duties, and for the repeal of the Corn-laws." THE CORN-LAWS AND IMPORT DUTIES. At a meeting of the Directors of the Glasgow Anti- Corn-law Association last week, it was resolved, in ac cordance with the mode of action prescribed at the re cent Free Trade Demonstration in this city, to petition the House of Commons in favour of a repeal of the Corn-laws, and of a revision of the Import Duties. The petition agreed to is an ably drawn up document, and commences by congratulating the House upon the recent movement in advance of her Majesty's Ministers, and concludes by praying for the repeal of the Corn-laws, and for a revision of the duties upon goods and produce imported into the United Kingdom. Although the peti tion was only laid down at the Bar of ' the Royal Ex change, and at other places throughout the city on Saturday, we umlerstand that several thousand signa tures have already Lean appended to it, and we cannot doubt that it• will prove one of the most numerously signed peli ion; 'Oat ever emanated from Glasgow.— Glasgow Argus. The decision of the Cabinet to fix the duty on wheat at Bs., on barley at 4s. 6d., and en oats at 3s. 4d., has given great satisfaction. It is lower than we had been led to expect, but it will not be the less popular with the country. Lord Lansdowne explained on Friday night, in the Lords, that the matter had been fully and delibe rately considered in the Cabinet, and that the decision had been come to with a view of promoting as well the agricultural as the commercial prosperity of the country ; 312 d the well-known caution and moderation of the Noble Maxquis are a sufficient guarantee for the honesty of pur pose of those who are now promoting this enlightened commercial policy.—lbid. HEREFORDSHIRE. (FROM a CORRESPONDENT.) Conti-LAws.—The Tories and Monopolists are become dreadfully alarmed at the determination of Ministers, to afford relief to the poor of this country, by a repeal of the odious duties on corn, timber, and sugar ; hand-bills have been circulated by two or three hungry lawyers in the town of Ross, for the purpose of alarming the agricultu rists of the country, and calling upon them to petition against their repeal. But we hope the landed interest of Herefordshire is not so easily deluded. Every well wisher to his country 'should be up and stirring, and sup port the present patriotic Government in their struggle for free trade, and to afford relief to the " starving millions " of their fellow-creatures.: NEWBURY.—The effects of the Great Western Railway are severely felt in this town and neighbourhood, p ar . titularly Speenhamland. The spacious premises of the Peli can Hotel are closed, and business is completely at a standstill; the other inns must also feel the loss of the coaches. Previous to the opening of the railway nearly 30 coaches ran through Speenhamland in the spree of 24 hours ; the number is now reduced to six ! The large and populous village of Thatcham, s i tua ted about three miles from this town, i s neariy deserted ; eight coaches used formerly to change horses and coachmen but the road waggons are also taken off, and thrown out of employ in consequence of several there, consequently there were 16 regular coachmen and three T . vtinheoonn:Aieeyne:l4net,hitsitnewyder,elaltsiolens. rr four odd ones residing at that place, besides horsekeepers -&e. Only two coaches now change there, and not only the ne : a u i a l ul u e r hb' e e' s g i ae t r h eg e 7h sm e"' all trade, and the little tradesmen are fast re ducing : A by al,n railways ispluwffTaeyrHsi suffering,' 7 s until o almost STEAM A alwayssociety ie Ft involve ykpilGace s partial Tizts eGlfßi i n n E c hA o a n rT: ducing to the level of the _pauper classes. Great changes like of Wight) on Monday night, ~ • wESSOR THOMSON.—it. IS : tIVELIPOOL.—Th fine steamer arrived at the Mother is '- , th of John Thomson; Esq., "h took place at his 1 (off , _ ,--;,,,,, the last i ban k _ _ , veak ' at eleven oclock. Her mails and despatches were landed ' Southampton, and brought up by a special train yes -ming, ,-,,,, CURRENCE.—On Sunday last, -, the preacher in one of the Es "n prayers - for the con °n¢ natice:- - -44 the ACID G AS. ' I h.e mavrity of nature—animal, vege of what is CARBONIC Is gas, which 15 presern , ,;neral.--has some very remarkable table, and n.. • , 1 properties ; be table, only ingredient in th sides which, it is Originally id almost every production sold as soda water. ,- ' .7 in gaseous 1 -at of a fluid, form, ais by ex treme pressure reduced to t.. „ allowed to escape from the cm- tamin g vessel by a stop-crick b ox , becorne a ?now -white powdered into a small cir cular so cold, in fact, is it,. that with a few solid, intensely c old ; drops of spirits of wine added, it will instane,:usly freeze and -nlidify mercu These facts were exemplified is: a very sa andperfect manner, by experiment, at a lecture de . „ even ing at the Royal Institution, on the ma- tisfactoi ~ livered on Friu ... nufacture of soda w.. - DEATH OF Pfit.,... . _ with regret we announce the ae.. Professor of Music in our University, yea,..... house in Howe-street, yesterday afternoon. ,p,_ College concert, Professor Thomson had be en i n rat h er a .. state of health, brought on in a great measure:by his exertions a „ _ fatal tendency. Dlr. sTROPZ ‘,.-- on that occasion ; but it was not until the last three or four t e rday m..- weekssaupmpeodinated under the liberal i z the afternoon service, k. Thom 1...- Thomson that his as thedisease endowment of the late General Reid, and the' appointment tad4brlind Churches was about to offer .., gave universal satisfaction to the musical public, and conferred ation, the precentor save b ut the lobos., credit on the patrons.of the Chair.—Edsrzburgh, Courant of greg . 4i A 3 oun , g man entering into business, earnestly 50w..., Saturday. ) ers of this coogregation."—Dundee Advertiserg firs t (drops y( Profss o u r YraY grasp LITERATURE. THREE YEARS IN PERSIA. 2 Vols. Colburn, London, 1841. Though these volumes cannot be said to add much to the stock of useful and entertaining in formation respecting Persia and the adjacent provinces, with which Fraser, Morier, and other recent travellers have supplied us, yet they will be read with pleasure, penned as they are, in a light, easy, familiar style, by one who has not wandered through the country deafand blindfold, but made good use of all his faculties. Though Mr. Fowler's accounts of Persian manners, tastes, scenery, &c. amount to little more than sketches, which are strung together in the loosest possible fashion, they are superior in interest to many more formal and elaborate details, if only for their evident truth and freshness, and the general vivacity of their character. The w or k is one of those rambling, desultory ones, which it is not necessary to read regularly chapter by chapter, for, strictly speak ing, it has neither beginning, middle, nor end, but is merely an unconnected series of personal reminiscences, jotted down, apparently, just as they occurred to the author's memory. Per haps the most important, if not the most amus ing, portion of them is that which is devoted to a consideration of the present political re= lations between Great Britain and Persia, which Mr. Fowler assures us are far from being of an amicable character. "Of the British residents," he says, " only three remain; of the British com merce r am not aware _that there are any re mains. Where our name formerly was exalted; it is now degraded; where our influence was predominant, now it is null. We are held by the Persians in contempt.; nay, onr military prowess is derided, in consequence of some paltry rencontreslately . with the natives at Bushire, in which they were successful." The author adds that Russia, a subtle, sapcious Power, which, unless we keep I our energies on the alert, seems destined ere long to circumvent our in fluence in the East—is looked up to by Persia as its natural protectress, and, as such, treated with a deference denied to every other foreign State :—" Men of rank," continues Mr. Fowler, " fed by Russian bribes, attack the vitals of Persia, betray her interests, and they accelerate her downfal. They make no secret of being in the Russia pay; her merchants engross the commerce, and exercise a tyranny in the bazaars which the native merchants cannot exercise. Greek establish ments are formed under Russian protection. Thus Russia in every way insinuates herself, which it might have been imagined to be British policy as far as possible to coun teract." In the second volume—which by the by, is by far the most interesting of the two— occur some curious particulars respecting the late Shah of Persia, who, it appears, was the richest man in the world, as respects family ties, having not less than one hundred and fifty sons and about as many daughters ! The work is embel lished with several characteristic lithographic plates. ANCIENT AND MODERN YORK. Linney, York, 1841. An instructive little volume, which antiqua rians of the Britton school may consult with ad vantage, inasmuch as it contains minute details respecting the Roman, Saxon, and Anglo-Nor man antiquities of the city of York, and exhibits, besides, a statistical survey of the city as it now exists. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess of Leinin gen, and attended by Lady Caroline Cocks, took an air ing yesterday afernoon in an open barouche and four. Lord Alfred Paget attended her Majesty on horseback. Prince Albert and the Prince of Leiningen rode out on horseback at the same time, attended by Colonel Wylde and Captain Francis Seymour. The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen and Prince Albert yesterday, and remained to lunch. Viscount Melbourne and Lord Hill had audiences, yesterday, of her Majesty. The Princess Royal was taken an airing, yesterday, in a barouche and four. The Royal Dinner Party at Buckingham Palace, last evening, included the Earl of Erroll, Earl of Morley, Lord Portman, and the Right Hon. George Stevens Byng. Poltimore and the Hon. William Cowper have succeeded the Earl of Listowel and Frederick Stovin, as the Lord and Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. Her Majesty honoured Mr. Baxter by inspecting his specimens of oil-coloured printing, representing the closing scenes of the lamented Missionary, the Rev. John Williams, which were presented by the Countess of Mount Edgecombe. The Princess Sophia Matilda came to town yesterday, from her residence on Blackheath. Her Royal High ness, attended by Lady Alicia Gordon, did Mr. Hayter the honor to sit to him to be painted in the picture of her Majesty's Marriage. The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Prince and Princess of Leinin g en, and attended by Lady Anne Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper, honored the Italian Opera with her presence last evening. Baroness Spaeth was in waiting on the Princess of Leiningen. The Queen Dowager, attended by the Hon. Charlotte Hudson and the Hon. Sophia Wheatley, took an airing yesterday in an open pony-phaeton and four. The Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Duke of Sussex, visited the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major Stephens, left Cambridge House at seven o'clock yesterday morning for Dover. A deputation of the Flint Glass Manufacturers of the United Kingdom, consisting of Mr. Scholefield, M.P., Mr. Muntz, M.P., Mr. Oswald, M.P., Mr. Benjamin Wood, M.P., Mr. Benjamin Hawes, M.P., John Christy, and Apsley Pellatt had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday in Downing-street, relative to the Excise Duty upon Glass Manufacture. Lieut.-Colonel Lloyd (late Colombian Engineers) transacted business yesterday at the Colonial-office pre vious to resuming the duties of. her Majesty's Surveyor- General of Crown Lands, and Engineer-in-Chief for Mauritius. The Spanish Minister and Mr. John Abel Smith had interviews with Viscount Melbourne yesterday in Down ing-street. The Earl of Belfast, Mr. Noel, and Mr. Kennedy, had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home-office. Lord Lyttleton and Lieut.-Colonel Doherty had inter. views yesterday with Lord. John Russell at the Colonial office. Mr. Scholefield and Mr. Thomas Attwood had an in terview yesterday with Viscount Melbourne in Down. ing-street. Despatches from the Governor of Ceylon were re• ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING. TUESDAY.-$Ol. • for three yrs old, 6st 21b; four yrs, Bst ; five yrs, Bst 711;; six yrs and aged, Bst 121 b. T.M.M . The winner to be sold for 2001., &c. Duke of Portland's Ramadan, 4 yrs Nat 0 1 Mr. Beresford's Audrey, 3 yrs Mr. W. Ridsdale's Yaratilda, 3 yrs . Duke of Bedford's Joujou, 3 yrs Betting-2 to 1 agst Ramadan, and 2to 1 ag l st Au rey After the dead heat, 6to 4 on Ramadan, who won in a canter 501. ; for three yrs old colts, Sat 71b; and fillies, Bst 41b. R.lll Duke of Bedford's Taurida, by Taurus Robinson ] 0 2 Mr. Thornhill's St. Colomb • Duke of Grafton's Nick . The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr. Bradford's Vigilance, Lord Orford's Bettina , Colonel Peel's Hawk's-eye, Colonel Anson's Witrh of Whorley Hill, and Mr. Crockford's c. by Bentley, out of Emma. Betting-6 to 5 agst Nick, sto 1 agst Hawk's-eye, and 5 to 1 agst Taurida. Won by a length. Match, 100/.. h. ft.—Duke of Bedford's John O'Gaunt, 3 yrs, 7stslb, received 35 sous. forfeit from Lord Exeter's Bos phorus, 5 yrs, Bst. tOlb. THE LIBRARY AT Touu.s.—There is a pub lie library, consisting of thirty thousand volumes, at Tours ; and I have frequently heard the advanced state of. the public mind in France attributed to the exist ence of such in most of the provincial towns. Now, as the old monastic authors of these thousand volumes —the pillage of the monasteries, certainly —poor men, did not write with any i ntent i on of producing the total demoralization that is now uncivilizing the country, which, with fatal fatuity, proudly points to the spread ing cancer as the proof of its progress, I think it but fair to their memory to let it be understood how much they have, in Tours at least, had to do with it. Be it known, then, that all the influence which these thirty thousand tomes have exercised on the public mind in Tours, has been accomplished in the space of two hours per week, as they are most safely and inno cently sleeping on their shelves, under lock and key, during the remainder of their lives.—Trollope's Summer in Western France. GRAND BALL AT THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY. —On - Monday Baroness Brunow, the lady of his Excellency the Russian Minister, gave a splendid ball at Ashburnham House to upwards of 400 of the leading nobility and gentry in town. The fete was on a scale of unusual splendour, and may be con sidered one of the most delightful entertaioments of the season. His Royal Hignness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major Stephens, arrived at half-past eleven, and was received in the vestibule by his Excellency. His Royal Highness re tired at ten minutes to one. NEW SPECIES OF CLOVER.—As an addition to our spring food, a new species of clover has lately been introduced from Italy into the. agriculture of this country. It is called " trifolium incarnatuna," and bears a beautiful head of bright and red flowers, resembling sainfoin in colour. It requires a good soil, and the mode of cultivating it hitherto pursued has been, to plough up a wheat stubble immediately after harvest, and so the seed at the rate of eight pounds an acre. It produces a large burden, which comes to use at the commencement of the following May, a period when such a supply o f green food must be of incalculable value, and which will admit of ttuvips following in succession.—lpswich Ex press. M OR E " CHURC II -RATE " VICTIMS Wednesday last citations from the Court of "Charles James, by Divine permission, Lord Bishop of London, were served .upon seven inhabitants of Hackney, at the suit of the Church. wardens, for the recovery of " divers sums of money" levied on tbe- sa id inhabitants for the support of the Establi s h e d Church! .~ P"` MORNING EDITION. NEGRO EMANCIPATION. The intense interest felt in the negro emanci pation question through the United States ren ders the opinion of its observant philanthropists well deserving of attention from British Aboli tionists. The part taken by the eloquent Dr. Charming is well known. From a tract, by him, entitled Emancipation," published at Boston, U.S., in November last, we take the following remarks, occasioned by Mr. J. Gurney's " Let-' ters" ' "V 4 hat matters it that the staples of the West Indies are diminished ? Do the people there starve? Are they driven by want to robbery? Has the negro passed from the hands of the overseer into those of the hangman? We learn from Mr. Gurney that the prophecies of ruin to the West Indies are fulfilled chiefly in regard to the prisons. These are in some places falling to decay, and everywhere have fewer inmates. And what makes this result more striking is, that since emancipation, many offences formerly punished sum marily by the master on the plantation, now fall under the cognizance of the Magistrate, and are, of course, punishable by imprisonment. Do the freed slaves want clothing ? Do rags form the standard of emancipation ? We hear not only of decent apparel, but are told that regro vanity, bardlysurpassed by that of the white dandy, suffers nothing for want of de coration or fashionable attire. There is not a sign that the people fare the worst for freedom. Enough is produced to give subsistence to an improved and cheerful population ; and what more can we desire ? In our sympathy with the rich proprietor, shall we complain of a change which has secured to every matt his rights, and to thou sands, once trodden under foot, the comforts of life and the means of intellectual and moral progress ? Is it nothing that the old unfurnished hut of the slave is in many spots giving place to the comfortable cottage ? Is it nothing that in these cottages marriage is an indissoluble tie ?—that the mother presses her child to her heart as indeed her own? Is it nothing that churches are springing up, not from the donations of the opulent, but from the hard earnings of the religious poor 1 What if a few owners of suaar estates export less than for merly ? Are the many alwags to be sacrificed to the few ? Suppose the luxuries of the splendid mansion to be retrenched. Is it no compensation that the comforts of the labourer's hut are increased? Emancipation was resisted on the ground that the slave, if restored to his rights, would fall into idleness and vagrancy, and even relapse into barbarism. Bet the emancipated negro discovers no indifference to the comfor ts of civilized life. He h as wan t s var i ous enough to keep him in action. His standard of living has risen. He desires a better lodging, dress, and food. He has begun, too, to thirst for accumulation. As Mr. Gurney says, "he understands his interests as well as a Yankee." He is more likely to fall into the civilized man's cupidity than into the sloth and filth of savage: Is it an offset for all these benefits that the Custom house reports a diminution of the staples of slavery ? " What a country most needs is, not an increase of its ex.- ports, but the well-being of all classes of its population, and especially of the most numerous class ; and these things are not one and the same. It is a striking fact, that while the exports of the emancipated islands have decreased, the imports are greater than before. In Jamaica, duriug slavery, the industry of the labourers was given chiefly to a staple, which was sent to absentee proprietors, who expended the proceeds very much in a luxurious lite in England. At present not a little of this in dustry is employed on articles of subsistence and comfort for the working class and their families ; and, at the same lime, such an amount of labour is sold by this class to the planter, and so fast are they acquiring a taste for better modes of living, that they need and can pay for great impoi is from the mother coun try. Surely,' when we see the fruits of industry diffusing themselves more and more through the mass of the community, finding their way to the very hovel, and raising the multitude of men to new civilization and self-respect, we cannot grieve much, even though it should appear that on the whole the amount of exports or even of products is decreased." THE GHOST OF JUVENAL-STREET.—For some time past, more especially for the last ten days, much annoyance has been occasioned to the inhabitants of Juvenal-street, and the neighbourhood, owing to the immense crowds of persons who nightly assemble there in consequence of a rumour that " some phantom of the other world" is in the habit of paying his or her (for the sex is doubtful) nocturnal visits to the 'house of a re spectable gentleman residing at No. 2, Juvenal-street. Several respectable inhabitants of the neighbourhood have assured us that most unusual noises are frequently heard in the house alluded to, although they smile at the idea of these noises being occasioned by supernatural agencies. A lady residing near, a person of education, and not likely to have her fancy led astray by a belief in supernatural beings, told us that the nuisance occasioned by the ringing of bells in the house, without apparently anything to account for seutin them in motion, became so great, not only to the inhabitants of the house, but to the neighbours, that it was deemed necessary to take them all down, and they remain unhung at the present time. This unusual occurrence commenced about three months ago. After the bells were taken down, a greater nuisance occurred, owing to an unusal and unaccount able noise being heard at intervals in the house, occa sioned by the sudden and simultaneous bursting open and banging to of the doors of the different rooms. No later than yesterday at noon, so great was the noise thus occasioned, that it might have been heard a hun dred yards off, and the vibration was such as to cause the house to shake to such a degree as to attract the at tention of the police-officers (who have for some time been appointed to parade before the house), and persons in the street. These statements we had confirmed by several of the neighbours, and they may be depended upon as facts, let what will occasion the effects named. The police and others have investigated the matter, but no clue has yet been obtained to account for the unusual occurrence.—Liverpool Journal. The survey of the western provinces of India seems to have been nearly completed, and the definition of agricultural rights and boundaries, which was in cluded, in the, work, has proved of great benefit in re moving a fruitful source of litigation, as well as violence, and has, in consequence, greatly enhanced the value of landed property. The extension of this survey to tha Benares district appears to have been a recent enlarge ment of the original plan. After the portion of the Azinghur district, which is beyond Benares, had been surveyed, and the revenue had been settled, the collec tor proposed to the Government that they should con tinue the survey to Pergunnah of Secunderpore, not to make a new settlement of the revenue, but to obtain a clear definition of rights and boundaries. The desired survey was effected, and the benefits that resulted were so obvious, that the western provinces solicited an ex tension of the plan to the whole of Benares. Lord Auckland readily sanctioned the scheme, which, after a few interruptions, arising from the disapproval of parties at home, and the loss of some money, has been allowed to proceed, and is expected shortly to be completed. VACCINATION.—A Bill has been introduced into the Commons to amend an " Act to extend the practice of Vaccination." No express provision having been made in that Act to defray the expenses of carrying the same into exe cution, the Bill authorises the Guardians to defray these out of the poor-rate, and at the same time declares that the vaccina tion or the surgical or medical assistance incident to vaccination of any person resident in any union or parish, shall not be cun sidered parochial relief. The large steamer which was seen on thll 10th of April in lat. 13 north, lon. 23 west, steering north-west, is supposed to have been the Earl of Hardwicke, arrived in the Downs from Calcutta, which vessel is fitted up . as a steamer, but usually uses canvas. She would have been in this track. SOURCE OF THE WEALTH OF THE PRIEST HOOD AND THE ARISTOCRACY.—(From a Correspond dent.)—Another source of plunder should not be forgot ten, namely, the various funds left by our pious ancestors for the education of the poor. The Tories contrived in numerous cases to get possession of these funds and ap ply them to electioneering purposes, or as sinecures for active parliamentary canvassers in their interest. The Commission on Public Charities brought many infamous acts of this kind to light, and there are many interesting facts named in Lord Brougham's letter to the late Sir Samuel Romilly, published in the "Pamphleteer" for 1817 or 1818, and in his speech in the House of Com mons, 29th June, 1820, published in the 16th volume of the "Pamphleteer." A very Babel has been created in both Houses of the Legislature by the word of fear pronounced by Lord John Russell ; and if there be among the Free Trade agitators any men who know what they would be at, and possess courage and energy to put it in act, they may say of our legislators as Cromwell said of the Scots at Dunbar, " The Lord hath delivered them into my hand."—Spectator. Ass-To RYlSM.—People - are poor because the corn is taxed. The landlords tax the corn for their own benefit. Therefore—The landlords work the poor like beasts of burden. Again :—They who tax the poor, and make beasts of burden of them for their own benefit, must be selfish brutes indeed. The landlords do this : therefore, the landlords are selfish brutes indeed. ing Paper. —Even- DELICATE APPETITE.—The Lady Beatrix, says the legend, was a great gourmette in her way. She was, as people often profess themselves to be t " fond of children." She liked them newly born, and dressed simply—on the gridiron ; an d she had a cook whose broiled babes were chef d'oeuvre s of the t hen infant not so plentiful as new-laid eggs ;an art of cookery. But new-born infandtstbareeladfoyrtoufnaTtealhy " checic on po pulation." strong w i so the b r a e pi i ) r e 'a n s ed no t t ha i p m uol n at t i 's on. da " ily U digie o r ne ac oe ted cas e i s ona 3., 4 f a fine boy iac lt only child to be had for love or mone the cook's wife became the motheriH s c o redit„ his wanted half an hour to dinner. and coo k, gg in his bosom, between the father . t he edge of his perhaps, his characterd dwanltsgenrtdiosurtaksoin !at But t,the And ueetc the hati l length n t la r gv : ta sh e : y n l eticr e a i : ea . i . professionally,initsenlimdobuss.he stood feelin g th , and casting a side glance, long knife withH el o h k , e s from time to time, at the gri • ture triumphed over art, and the cook y ielded to the fa ther. Dashing his white cap from his b row , he rushed into the pres ence of his hun g ry mistress, a nd spoke to her so eloquently of the impropriety of indulging, as she did, in the pleasures of the table, that she not only, with noble self-denial, renounced f or t h e future the fa vourite luxury to which she was so partial, but deter mined to expiate her past dinners by walking barefoot on thorns from Talmont to Fonte ll T 1 ' ne e.— rol ope s Summer in Western France. Progress is the nature of man in society, and men will not willingly submit to unnatural restraints upon their advancement.--A Tory Advocate of Corn-laws and other monopolies. A moat brutal case occurred last week, - between Worcester and Hereford, in the night time. A fothale passenger in a waggon was suddenly missed, but in sh9r,t, time returned. In the interval, she had delivered herself of a child, which she left by the roadside to pe rish. Some hours afterwards 'another waggon passed, anal the waggoner's dog having observed the poor babe, which was still alive, stood over it whining and barking till it attracted the attention of the man. The man No ! the brute ! For the unfeeling wretch, less humane than his dog, left the naked infant to perish. He passed several cottages, yet gave no alarm nor mentioned the circumstance he came to a turnpike -gate ; and thq toll-collector, with kindred brutality, made no effort to save the pOor child's life.. The dead body was picked up by a publican on the following morning. The mother has been apprehended and committed for trial.