The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-26 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, arrived in town at twenty minutes before six o'clock yesterday afternoon, in an open carriage and f air, escorted by a party of Hussars, from Claremont. Colonels IVemyss and Wylde, and Dr. Preetoriug, followed in another open carriage and four. H'er Royal Highness the Princess Royal and her attendants occupied another carriage, and in the la t carriav and four were Lady Portman, Baroness Lehzen, Baroness Spa.ith, and Lord Poltimore. Her Majesty and the Prince were received at Buckingham Palace by the Lord Sitward, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert, Earl of Aboyne, Lord in Waiting, the Treasurer of the Household, and Major the Hon. George Keppel, Groom in Waiting. The Duchess of Kent dined with the Queen last evening, and afterwards acconstilthied her Majesty and Prince Albert to the Italian Opera. The Prince and Princess of Leiningen also accompanied het Majesty and his Royal Highness. The Royal Suite consisted of the Marchioness of Normanby, Lady Anne Maria Dawson, Hon. Miss Murray, Earl of Aboyne, Major the • Hoe. George Keppel, Colonel Wemyss, Colonel Wylde, and Captain Francis Seymour. i'he Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. His Royal High neWs Prince George of Cambridge also paid a visit to her Majesty yesterday. The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday at Clarence House, St. James's. The Duke of Cambridge honoured the Marquis of Ely with his company at dinner, last evening, at his residence in Bel grave-square. Tice Duchess of Gloucester and the Princess Sophia Matilda, visited the Duchess of Cambridge yesterday at Cam etge House. The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, took an airing yesterday afternoon in an open carriage. Mr. J. Parker and Air. Ward had an interview with Viscount Melbourne yesterday, in Downing. street, on the sub ject of the Sheffield Address to her Majesty. Mr Gillespie had an interview with Lord John Russell yes terday at he Colonial-nffice. Despaichei frost the Governor of the Honduras were re ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday. Mr. Baron Parke gave judgment in "Dalzell v. Burrodaile, ' Commissioners of Compensation. The Sui:eisor-General was heard in the Appeal relative to the will of the late Mr. James W oo d, of Gloucester, and con cluded his address soon after four o'clock. The Court then lose. Commodore Sir Charles Napier visited the Panorama of Acre and Damascui yesterday, and was highly gratified at the correetn933 of the views. PRICE OF CORN, AND WAGES• TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIA,—As regards the corn duties the chief objection seems to be that the proposed alteration would lower the price of labour, - and surely, if it would have a tendency: to lower wages much below the present point, it would be . a matter of very grave consideration ; but I believe it would rather have a contrary effect, as the price of la • hour, like every other article, is regulated by the de mand, and not by the price of food. Now, I think Vou have it in your power to procure very valua!)ie information on this subject. The Corn laws have had a fair and long trial, and if, on inquiry, it is found that wages have not only kept to their former rate, but have gone on increasing, I should then say let things remain as they are. What I wish is that you would be so kind as to call on your Correspondents in the fol lowing places to give you the average wages of a good . workman each year for the last ten years, in order that we may see what increase has taken place. The places, I think, would give a fair . estimate. I will now name Norwich, Tiverton ? Macclesfield, Manchester, Sheffield, Stroud, Birmingham,: Shepton Mallet, Nottingham, Tewkesbury, Witney; and Kidderminister. F-thicti a return of those places would give a fair view of the case as it regards manufacturers, and personS: sending them to you would confer a great favour on the working ince in London. It would also be desirable to. have a return from many agricultUral places of the weekly wages of the labourers ; say from Warminster, Bedford, Burford, Tamworth, Dorchester (Dorset), &c., the more the better. I think, Mr. Editor, with such in formation, we (I mean the working men of London) . would know how to act. I am, Mr. Editor, your constant reader, A POOR WEAVER. Bethnal-green, May 24, 1841. [We shall be happy to attend to the request of this Correspondent, if any of our readers in the places men tioned would favour us with returns. Let them state, for instance, what was the rate of wages at Birming ham, Manchester, B.cc., for the staple manufacture of each, commencing with the year 1831, and giving the rate for every year, as far as can be ascertained, up to 1841, and the same as regards a few of the agricultural 4:<•*--:-.-I.] ELOPEMENT.—A great sensation has been ex cited at Camberwell by the elopement of a widow lady named Milian, of Cottage-green, with a Mr. Abraham Horne, of the Foxley-road. The paramour of the lady has deserted a wife and four young children in the most heartless manner, besides having absconded from his creditors to a large amount. The. guilty parties were traced to Montreuil, on the road to Paris, where they were ea-rested under a false passport, the man having assumed the name of Alfred Hallan (the lady's name). It is sup posed they intend to proceed to America. Colonel Thompson has announced himself at Hull as the candidate of the working classes ; and says, " While we have life and health and strength (and it is not very likely we shall all break down together), let us go on hore.and every where to the promotion of our object, which is the attainment of a fair share of political influ ence for the Industrious and the unrepresented." This announcement was received with loud cheering. Tag MONOPOLY QUESTION.—The cause of monopoly is deemed strong by its friends because they hear no clamorous outburst of feeling throughout the country against it. They descry no danger in the stern silence for the mo ment preserved by the people on this subject. They esteem all is safe because the whispered notes of alarm reach not their ea 8. But lot them not be deceived : the people are silent be cause t'tey are determined—they make no outcry because they are resolved to wait for the time when they can attain their object. They know the opportunity will be afforded them, and they clamour not about what they will do, because already in their minds the thing is done. But though silent, the people are not inactive: theirs is the stillness which precedes the storm. In what do the monnpo:ists put their strength ? In the counties is all tin it cry, and it is a fallacy. The counties cannot save them if the cities, towns, and boroughs be against them. The 53 counties of England and Wales, with the Isle of Wight and the two Universities, return 103 mem bers; and there are 201 cities, towns, and boroughs, which re torts 337 : thus the latter send more than double the number of Members to Parl ament. Neither in Scotland nor Ireland is there hope for the monopolists. It depends then on the towns and cities of England to free the country from the into lerable oppressions of a fettered commerce and overwhelming taxation. The question iv, will the majority allow themselves to he swamped by the minority ? Will the country consent that a few should be enriched, while an universal misery crushes the remainder ? Cambridge Advertiser. REPRESENTATION OF EAST SUSSEX.—It seems now to be pretty well understood that two members in the Tory interest will be returned for this division of the eternity at the next election. This is by no means an encoura ging fact; but the course taken of late by Mr. Cavendish goes a great way towards reconciling Reformers to that which appears to be an almost inevitable consequence. In the vain hope of conciliating the Tory Aristocracy, the lion. Member aban doned his Whig friends on the great and popular principles re cently announced by thi-m. By so thing, he has thrown off the support of the towns, without, we believe, winning over a single opponent from the Tory camp. —Brighton Guardian. REPRESENTATION OP LivEßPooL.—We are happy to say that the fiends of Free Trade in this town are full et activity and confidence, and are determined to contest the representation on Free Trade principles. Arrangements are in RI ogress which it is hoped will enable them to take the field in a day or two with candidates in every respect qualified to fight the battle with success, and to do honour to the borough of Li verpool.—Liverpool Times. ..ELEcTiox MOVEMENTS.—It is pretty gene rally btliered in Warrington, that William Stubs, Esq., has declined coming forward on the Liberal interest in the event of a general election. Mr. J. B. Smith, chairman of the Man chester Chamber of Commerce, and the late candidate for Wal sall, has (so goes the report) since been applied to.—Liverpool Times. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.—Mr. Rou shanv, an old and meritorious public servant, at this Theatre, has announced his benefit for Friday, the 28th instant, when a favorite Comedy will be performed, followed by other novel entertainments. The uniform civility and attention of the ser vant; at this house, and of Mr. Routham, in particular, call for a in , arty remunerating expression of the public thanks. We wish Mr. Ronaham every success. OLYMPIC THEATRE. —We are glad to p erce i ve that this establishment is gradually making progress in popular opinion, aad that the audiences are nightly improving in num bers and fsshion, under the able direction of Mr. G. Wild, with sirs Beker as his a:age-manager. Last night an amateur cf private celebrity, but whose name has not been publicly promulgated, appeared in the Fickle, in the farce of the character of 1 ristram Irentkereock, and we have .mseen a performance evince more promise. Messrs. Brookes arid Tumour supported their respective parts with great success. T o - morro w evening ‘ l l5ll be revived Mark Lemon's drama of Gwynneth Vaughan, with nearly all the origina • I cast of characters, when T. M atthews, the celebrated clown, will make his appearance. Ati It T CONSOLATION..--I remember when I w,:aa young student of divinity at the University of Glasgow, that an old man, by his confession and by general reputation a great sinner, tatted upon me and begged me to explain the seripterre doctt ine as to future punishments. His anxiety was to ascertain whether they were to commence immediately after death, or only after the day of judgment. I told him that I was but a raw student of theology, but I conceived it to be the general opinion of divines that no punishments would com mence tilt after the day of judgment, or the general destruc tion of the world. " And how long will it be," he asked, " till that period comes?" " Why, I cannot positively tell you," said 1, " but I believe astronomers conjecture that our globe will be safe for 1,000,000 years." " Oh, come then , " said the old sinner, " I shall have 1,000,000 years to rest in any pray, —and there is no saying what may happen in that . time."— Campbell a Life of Petrarch. 1-1 Eurri NG "1 . n A D E.-- Our accounts from Thurso state that the herring fishing has commenced at that place, and to the we-tw Ira of it. Fora Etot trial, the few boats out have pruned tudy as succi ssful as :.oel.l have te , r, looked for at so early a per.od cf the sica , on. At Sa-dside a trial has also been made, and attended with some succesv. Mr. Me thuen, fir:-curer, Leith, always the first i n th e field, has had 21 i) al res brought to Wick, and despatched by a boat to be shipped by steamer at lnvergordon er Cromarty fur Leith, and thence forwarded for the Hamburgh marker, where we hope 1:e wi I find a demand and price equal to what he merits for his greet elation% in prcsecuting Ute early fishing. Ap pearances of ash on the west coast are said to be very good, but %t will be a few weeks before the boats aro all equipped and ".47. With us at Wick, preparations are now going on with florae degree of briskness. The rope works are all very " 41 Y* Panel making and boat building are in active progress. Bark is getting into demand, at 10s. per cwt. for birch, and !2s. for oak bark. Staves cell at 4/. per thousand, and head.. lug at ' IL A s. POr ditto.—John o' Groat's Journal. A broker, living in the neighbourhood of the Seven Dials, that he has forhassate some a Placard in exhibited his window, stating articles of furniture which belonged to E iza Grimianod, the unfortunate furniture, wo man who was murdered in the W a t er l oo . yoad. ten woineas for an old piece o f broker modestly asks the original cost of which could not have exceeded 12s. NAPIER FOR MARYLEBONE. IPHE COMMITTEE for CONDUCTING 1 the ELECTION of COMMODORE SIR CHARLES NAPIER MEET DAILY at the ROOMS of the REFORM and REGISTRATION ASSOCIATION, No. 62, Warren street, Tottenham- court-road. Electors are earnestly requested to enrol their Names in ad dition to the numerous recorded Supporters of the Gallant Commodore. By order, May 24, 1841. JOSEPH IVIHEY, Hon. Secretary. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNIDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING. MAY 26, 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, M r.i Anderson; Mr. Adolphus Spanker, Mr. Keeley ; Mr. Dazzle, Mr. C. Mathews •, Mark Meddle, Mr. Harley ; Grace arkaway, Madame Vestris; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Pert, Mrs. Humbr. _ _ Atter which will be repeated, the Grand Romantic Fairy Ex travaganza, entitled BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Beauty, Madame Vestris ; The Beast, Mr. W. Harrison ; John Quill, Mr. Harley; Dressalinda, Miss Rainforth ; Mar rygolda, Miss Grant ; Queen of the Roses, Miss Lee. To-morrow, London Assurance, with Beauty and the Beast. Doors to to opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 61; First and Second rircles, ss. ; Second Price, 'ls. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price, 25.; Gallery Is. Tickess an.i places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may ba had upon application. Private Bolt, to be had so'ely of Mr. Andre Rs, bookseller, 67. New Bond-street. AOYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Extraordinary Novelty. Last Week before the Holidays. Last Nights of Mr J. S. Balls. An entire change of pieces, supported by the most talented Company in the Metropolis. THIS EVENING, MAY 26, Will he acted the Comedy of JOHN BULL. Tom Shuflleton, Air. J. S. Palls. After which, THE BRIDEGROOM'S HOOD. Alphonso, Mr. J. S. Balls. To conclude with THE PILOT. Long Tom Coffin, Mr. Hicks. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Miss Vincent as the Heroine of Domestic Tragedy. Immense sensation created by the affecting Drama of " Simon Lee." The Legendary Romance of " Rockwood !" with a New Pit, a New Gallery, and New Splendid Decorations ! THIS EVENING. MAY 26, AND TO-MORROW. A New Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, entitled SIMON LEE; OR, THE MURDER OF FIVE-FIELDS' COPSE. Simon Lee, Mr. E. F. Saville ; and Grace Hatherleigh, Miss Vincent. After which, the Romance of ROOKWOOD ; OR, THE LEGEND OF THE OLD LIME TREE. Dick Turpin by Miss Vincent, with the Flash Songs of " Hurrah for the Game of High Toby !" " Nix my Dolly, Pals, Fake away !" and " Mv Bonny Black Bess." To conclude with the Laughable Barletta of THE LORD MAYOR'S FOOL. Richard Witless, Mr. Gardner; Mabel, Mrs. Howard; Mar garet, Mrs Lee. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, ls.— Gallery, 6d. Half-price at Half-past Eight. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Whit Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. SPLENDID AND EXTRAORDINARY NOVELTY !! ! THE first grand ROMAN FESTA, in imitation of the rejoicings which take place in Rome at the celebration of " 11 giomo di S. Pietro," will be given on MONDAY, MAY 31st, when will be presented an exact fac-simile of the superb GIRANDOLA from the Castle of St. Angelo, the greatest and most magnificent display of Fireworks in the World, with the ILLUMINATION of St. PETER'S, when the whole of this vast and glorious edifice is brilliantly lighted with count less myriads of lamps, presenting together a coup d'ceil of in conceivable splendour hitherto unattempted out of Italy. The unrivalled Band of this Establishment, conducted by Air. God frey, augmented by the addition of many performers of emi nence, will give the first Promenade Musicale et Champetre, commencing at Six o'Clock. The Menagerie, including the great male Orang Outang, and several other rarities, is exhibited daily, with Dansou's Colossal Pictorial Model of Rome ! Open at Ten. Admission One Shilling. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot give " A Constant Reader" any more specific in formation than that he must procure a ticket from some sub scriber to an hospital. HIGH WATER AT LONDON IRIDGE TOMORROW Worning :IS minutes aftzr 6 I Evening 7 minutes after 7 ~,~ ~✓ y.~ ~~ e LONDON: WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1841. Their Lordships were informed last night that the adjournment for Whitsuntide is to be from Friday to the following Thursday. As the Duke of WELLINGTON asked the question, we are inclined to infer that his Grace is disposed to follow the example set by Sir ROBERT PEEL, and move some vote against the Ministers. Again their Lordships were haunted by the Corn-laws. The Earl of RADNOR referred .to the Earl of RIPON'S quotations, some nights ago, of the amount of exports, and delicately hinted that the 'Noble Earl had insinuated, by keeping back the last amount of declared value, the thing that is not. The Earl of RADNo showed that while the official value of exports had risen from 56 to 102 millions in the last twelve years, the declared value had only increased from 35 to 51 millions, showing that while the manufacturer had had to contend against a high price of corn, his own produce had been continually falling in price. The Noble Lord also showed many examples that no densely peopled country had provided for its own population, and that an exporting country was always a poor country, and that our country had made the most rapid advance since it had become an importing country. The Noble Lord also proved, with great clearness, that it was injurious to the country, injurious to agriculture itself, to depend wholly on our own produce, which, in bad seasons, di.l not suffice to feed the people, and in good seasons could not be disposed of. In conclusion, he referred to a misquotation which Lord ASHBURTON had made on a previous evening from ADAM SMITE, and was rebuked by Lord WHARNCLIFFE for violating their Lordships' order by referring to previous debates. The Earl of RIPON did not successfully defend himself, and, to conceal his plight, raised a cloud of dust about re inissicn of taxes, the currency, improvements of machi nery, &c., &c., which he implored their Lordships to consider before they said anything about doing justice to the people. He complained, too, that he had been held up as introducing a law to fix the price of corn at 80s., but that was the maximum, not the minimum price, and the fact was, that the average of six years after passing this law, was 695. lid. lie said that in the management of his property he had always proceeded on the assumption that the price could not reach 80s. He expected, how ever, that it would rise considerably from the effect of the law ; but he and other Noble Lords would have us believe that those expectations had no influence whatever on their conduct. Would they, did they ever, pass a law to lower the price of wheat ? Lord ASHBURTON denied that the distress in the manufacturing districts was caused by the Corn laws destroying the markets of the manufacturers, who do not manufacture solely and exclusively for the landowners of England, though the law would con fine them to that. The Noble Lord quoted Mr. FIELDEN'S speech, which we quoted on Monday to show that all the distress in the manu f acturing districts was caused by the extended use of machinery. According to Lord ASHBURTON, to abridge human toil to provide cheaply for the wants of man, is to cause distress. Poor Lord ASHBURTON, to find him turned a Luddite in his old age is a pitiable spectacle. Knowing the foul source of the change, we can only weep over the polluting and degrading effects of avarice. The Marquis of LINSDOWNE deprecat e d warmly ex pressing opinions on the subject. He, however, described the sliding scale as a delusion, and advocated a fixed dnt He observed that those countries which depended on other countries never suffered from scarcity. The Noble Marquis referred to the lean cattle of France, which Lord ASIIDURT had quoted the evening before, and ob served that they were objects of protection. The Duke of lyELLp.toTol , was for avoiding all irri tating topics, but waS favourable to the present .law. Prices under it had been more steady in England than in other countries. He attributed the lowness of prices to the extended ma of machinery, and expressed an opinion that the lower classes of manufacturers were in a state of distress. But, looking at the exports, he was of opinion that the manufacturers were not in such a state of distress as they represented. He recommended, however, a general discussion on the Corn-laws. Earl EITZWILLIAM was rejoiced at the recommenda tion of the Noble Duke. Fat oxen were prohibited to be imported into France, which explained why the French were so badly off for cattle. The prices quoted by the Noble Duke were medium prices—not the high est and lowest—and therefore gave no such information as that the Duke had drawn from them. After the presentation of petitions, the Peers ad journed, at Half-past Eight, till Thursday. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE having presented a number of pe- 4, 4,,k50,41 t , , = , "0 0-, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, lB4l. titions for the release of political offenders, one of which was signed by 1,300,000 of the industrious classes, went on to call the attention of the House to the petitions. He knew that it was a delicate subject, but there were times and cases when it was necessary to advise the Crown in the exercise of its prerogative. He referred to cases in which' the prerogative had been exer cised to release political offenders, and said the persons at present confined were worthy of the favour. His motion was confined to the home prisoners, exclud ing Mr. Frost and his companions. The petitioners par ticularly alluded to the case of Captain DUFF. Mr. DUNCOMBE, on the part of that gentleman, stated that he was found guilty because he did not choose to excul pate himself at the expanse of another person, and that he was not present when any violence was committed. The number of persons sentenced to imprisonment had been 444, and 398 had been released on account of bad health. After a just and able exposure of the evils to which these persons were subjected, and making a feel ing appeal to the House, Mr. DUNCOMBE moved an Ad dress to her MAJESTY to extend her merciful considera tion to all per;ons at present confined for political of fences in England and Wales. Mr. LEADER seconded the motion. Mr. Fox MAULE, by virtue of his office, opposed it. He objected to the proposed interference with the prerogative of the Crown, adverted to the few persons now remaining in prison, and put it to his Hon. Friend to withdraw his motion. Mr. O'CONNELL announced his intention of voting with Mr. DUNCOMBE ,if the motion was pressed to a division. Mr. LEADER contended that several of the prisoners had committed no moral offence, and he contrasted their severe punishment with the slight punishment inflicted on Lord WALDEGRAVE for a serious offence, who suf fered no other inconvenience than. being unable to drive his cab to Epsom races. Mr. Gil... Lox trusted much to the returning good sense of the Chartists, and would give his vote for the motion. Mr. HUME would not discuss the conduct of the Char tists, but the severity of the punishment inflicted on these people; and he hoped Government would restore them to liberty. Mr. WABBURTON took the same side, and Mr. WAK LEY taunted Sir R. PEEL into expressing his opinion. Sir R. PEEL said, the real object of the motion was, to release those prisoners, and he should vote, as he always would on such cases, to leave the matter in the hands of the Crown. He thought they would place the Crown in an improper position if they took into their own hands the power of showing indulgence to prisoners. Mr. EASTHOPE, Sir DE LACY EVANS, Sir B. HALL, and Mr. AGLIONBY severally supported the motion. Lord SANDON concurred with Sir IL PEEL. Lord JOHN RUSSELL objected to the motion as inter fering with the prerogative of the Crown, and not likely to promote the object proposed by the Hon. Member, for it was proved by experience, that pardons granted even when such motions were not pressed, were attributed, not to the favour of the Crown, but to the House. Colonel SIBTHORP opposed the motion, and Mr. WARD, while he pressed on Ministers the propriety of par doning the prisoners, recommended his Hon. Friend not to press his motion. Mr. DUNCOMBE, however, divided the House, and the motion was lost by the casting vote of the SPEAKER ; 58 being for, and 58 against. The SPEAKER gave his vote in the negative. Mr. EASTHOPE moved for leave to bring in a Bill to put an end to Church-rates, and enable the Church wardens to let the pews of churches. We have not space further to advert to the proceedings, but the motion was agreed to. _ Some other business was disposed of, including the bringing in a Bill for the drainage of large towns, for which Mr. MAULE obtained leave, and the House then adjourned, at Half-past Twelve. All the papers published in the manufacturing districts—all the letters we have received from those quarters—all the speakers at public meet ings held in those districts, who could be so easily contradicted if they stated what is false, agree in representing the people there as plunged in the deepest distress, yet Lord ASHBURTON opposes the repeal of the Corn-laws, lest the starving people should be reduced to substitute black rye bread, like such as the Germans eat, for no bread at all. At a late meeting at Manches ter, for example, Mr. HEARNE, a Catholic priest, told the following remarkable tale of some of his own population : "In his ministerial character among the people he had witnessed the effects of a famine now and again, but he would say that this was no temporary distress ; a famine had been raging in the district where he lived since 1838, which proved the evil could not be a passing one, and he attributed it to nothing else but the low rate of wages— (Hear, hear)—which scarcely afforded the poor labourer the means of feeding himself and offspring. The meet ing could scarcely form 'a conception of the misery and destitution prevailing in the district, of which he was a witness on this occasion. He went lately to administer the consolation of religion to a poor dying woman. On arriving at her bed-side she seemed to be alone. He asked if she was. Johnny,' said she, and immediately a sack in the corner of the room began to move, and then another began to move, and out of these tumbled the poor woman's sons, their only bed being the inside of sacks filled with shavings.—(Hear, hear.) He had about 20,000 of his flock living within half a mile of his chapel. Scarcely a single Catholic, unless in cases of sudden death, breathed his last without sending for the priest, and of these, and he spoke from personal observation, at least one-half died from starvation.—(Hear, hear.) Talk of war ravaging a country !—better by far was he who died by the sword than he who was stricken by famine.— (Hear, hear.) He could bear but too strong testimony to the opinion expressed by Mr. M'Kerrow that men in want of temporal comforts were but ill-fitted to receive the consolations of religion—for he had found how diffi cult it was, when the poor man was dying, with his starv ing children around him, to stop the word of blasphemy issuing from his lips, in his parting breath." Yet, with this appalling distress, Lord ASH BURTON refuses all relief, because rye bread is black. At the same meeting the Chairman stated— " That in the township of Manchester, in 1836, there were thirty-two empty warehouses; there are now 340. In 1836 there were in Manchester 300 or 400 empty houses ; there are now about 2,6oo.—(Hear, hear.) In Stockport there are 2,000 empty houses ; in Oldham, 1,000 ; in Bolton, 1,200 ; in Bury, 1,200 ; and in Sal ford, 1,400; making, as Mr. Heyworth has stated, nearly 10,000 in the whole, in this neighbourhood." Does any person hear of uninhabited houses, deserted stores, and starving people in Germany? Lord ASHBURTON, however, is quite clear and po sitive that the abundance of Germany would be fatal to the happiness of England. It might, perchance, render the people somewhat more independent, and less the submissive slaves of the priests and the Peers, and Lord ASHBUR TON will not allow abundance. Need we remind our readers of those harrow ing pictures of the deep-seated and almost uni versal distress of the labouring classes, which the excellent representatives of Finsbury and Wol verhampton so recently brought before the House of Commons, without, perhaps, tinging the cheeks of the DARLII%IGTONS and the HAND LETS with one blush of shame. It will suffice to re-quote the following description of the happy white-bread-eating English, which Mr. S. DUN COMBE quoted from one of Mr. OASTLER'S letters from the Fleet : " It is almost, nay, it is actually incredible ; but never theless, it is true—absolute fact—which can be proved by incontrovertible evidence :—Not six miles from this place, on the edge of the Moors, a cow dying of dysen tery, is considered by the poor weavers and their families as a honey-fall—a God-send ! She is called by them a green tail.' I will not trust my own description of this horrid fact, I will merely transcribe the notes of a friend, which notes I know are true. In the course of our in quiry into the state of the labourers, one of our questions was—` how often do you get butchers' meat ?' In the neighbourhood of Dean Head and Scammonden the ge neral reply was, never nobbut wen'tle green tail butcher gets a ka-ah' (cow). This expression, of course, re quired explanation, which was in the following terms ; When a farmer had gotten a sh—tering ka-ah, and wen t' doctor sed shu'd dee, they sent for t' green tail butcher, to sell hur tull him ; then a lad wor hired to drive her past ski' and sich hauses ; they all knew wat hit meant, and thou began to mak a collecshun i their folds ; an if ss. cud be raised, a whole quarter wod be brought in't t'fold, to be devided amang t'foulk ; but if they cudent raise ss. they tuk wat they hed, and gat a lump of hur for thur brass.' Now this was all the butchers' meat they had tasted ull the year round, except now am'. then, when they c ou ld a ff or d a few pence for ' su'it' to boil with their pot'ates."The landlord of the public-house (who had not been long there) related the following aneotiote. He told us, "That he had once allowed a `green tail' to be killed in his mistall, but he would never allow another to be killed on his premises, no, not for fifty pounch;.' He said, the poor people could not wait until she was cold, that they ' slapped' their knives into her before she was stiff—that they cut collops off, and held them a short time befbre the fire, and actually devoured them before they were half fried'—such savage work,' the landlord said, he never saw before !' And is this a prosperous state of trade ? These are manufacturing labourers—hard working hand-loom weavers. This is an English scene —a scene in the thriving parish of Huddersfield." r. VILLIERS mentioned, amongst other facts, that the starving people near Oldham had dis interred the carcass of an animal which had died of disease, and devoured it. We can conceive only one greater horror to which the people may be driven; but they will, perhaps, take another remedy into their hands before they allow the landowners to degrade them into cannibals. Nevertheless, with these accumulated horrors filling a great portion of the land, Lord ASHBUR TON in one House, Sir ROBERT PEEL in another, and the bulk of the landlords, speak slightingly of the people's sufferings, and will not abate one jot of their lawful plunder to put even a morsel of wholesome black bread into the mouths of the famishing people. The calmest language we can apply to such conduct is that it is a most impudent aggravation of a foul legal robbery. Were the tortured and half-famished multitude to be driven into the last degree of crimi nality, and embrue their hands in blood who would be most to blame, the mad dened people or the iniquitous law-makers? Bread or blood has been, on several oc casions, the cry of a starving populace ; and if our law-makers wickedly withhold bread from our people, which is abundant, not only in America, and Poland, and Russia, but even in the bonded warehouses in our own ports, can they expect that the laws of human nature will be suspended for them, and that they should live as safe and secure amidst a famishing, as amidst a well-fed people ? For our parts, we tremble to think of the yet greater horrors than those we have quoted, which await the country—though Gon knows, what with books written to recommend a painless extinction of in fant life, and law-makers putting men to death by the lingering 'pain of starvation, we have had quite enough—should the starvation law be continued. We must, before concluding our observations on Lord ASHBURTON, notice another circum stance. He dwelt with much force on Monday evening, on the greater consumption of meat and sugar iu England than in France and Ger many. Be the statistical account correct, how does that throw light on the condition of our hand-loom weavers, our agricultural serf's, or the lumper-fed Irish? They rarely or never taste either meat or sugar. The fact is that rich, commercial, and manufacturing England possesses a numerous and opulent middle class, who enjoy undoubtedly all the comforts of life. Our middle class town population is probably six times as numerous as the same class of per sons in France, and three times as many as in Germany. Now it is the consumption of this numerous and comparatively favoured class which swells the average consumption of meat and sugar in England above the average consumption of other countries. In no other country of Europe, however, is there the same mass of destitute, hard-working, skilful labourers as in England, and their distress may be great, their sufferings may be, as they are at present, most poignant, and yet Lord ASHBURTON may be able to quote, with smiling satisfaction, the tes timony of a Liberal, that Englishmen, on an average, consume more meat than Prussians, and more sugar than Frenchmen. The terms of com parison, in fact, are not identical. Lord Asx- BURTON compares the middle classes of England, the great consumers of sugar and meat, with the middle classes of France and Germany, and from that comparison he infers the well-being not of our middle classes—but of our labourers. The Noble Lord's logic is of a piece with his consis tency, and both are a disgrace to an honest and right-minded man. M. GuizoT's praise of Holland reminds us that it was the great object of Louis XIV. to crush that then young republic, and that Hol land was only saved from destruction by the assistance of England and the victories of MARL BOROUGH. France then wished to destroy Hol land, and now M. GUIZOT vaunts its utility to France. Such are the results of the schemes of politicians. They build up in one year, or in one century, what they destroy in the next; they destroy at one time what they have before taken the greatest pains to aggrandize. The re lations between France and Holland are a type of those between England and Russia. At pre sent Russia is the bugbear of England, and for many years prior to 1815, except during the short interval that PAUL sat on the imperial throne, one of the great objects of our policy was to strengthen and civilize Russia. We in troduced her officers into our navy; we sent out our officers to organise her fleet; and having made her formidable, we now live in apprehen sion of her, and would feign check her power. Such is political wisdom ! From the pressure of Parliamentary and othe r matters, we are compelledto defer till to-morrow a report of the great Anti-Corn-law meeting which took place at Liverpool on Monday last. The proceedings throughout were of a most satisfactory character, for nothing could surpass the earnestness and animation exhibited by the different speakers, and the favour with which their convincing arguments were received. The Paris papers of Monday have been re ceived, together with the first day's Report of the trial of DARMES and his two accomplices, DucLos and CONSIDERE, for attempting the life of the KING, 011 the 11th of October last. The trial excited no interest, and none of the usual precautions were taken to preserve the peace of the metropolis. This augurs well for the Govern ment, and for the state of public feeling in Paris. It must also satisfy the KING that a Government which outrages the public sense of justice by unduly magnifying offences, in order to glut its private vengeance in their punishment, is sure to provoke their almost immediate repetition. Still enough has not been done to discourage the atrocious crime of DARMES. While a villain, who has earned from the justice of his country a verdict of detention in chains and hard labour for life, can by the per petration of an additional crime make him self an object of European curiosity, and demand, for his Judges, the Peers of France, du* he may insult the Court and set the laws at defiance, and so act the desperado on a na tional theatre, there will exist a strong tempta tion to the morbidly vain in villainy to aim at the life of the first Magistrate. To deter from such a crime it should be punished with the utmost obscurity. No Court of Peers, no Cham ber of Deputies should be consulted, or made officially acquainted about the matter. The busi ness should be left to a common Jury, an ordi nary Judge, and the few witnesses capable of bear ing testimony to the mere crime for which the accused stood charged. "But," cry the courtiers, " would you afford the KING 110 more protection than you would the meanest of his subjects ?" Unquestionably we would. We would enable him to do more good than others, and so make himself more beloved than any subject could do. We would grant him such prerogatives as, if properly exercised' would alle viate the sufferings of the afflicted, improve the c mdition of the industrious, satisfy the wishes of fie virtuous, second the exertions of the benevo -1 ant, and force even the evil-minded to respect in him the majesty of virtue. These are the true protections of Royalty. But to punish with greater eclat, and with more severity, offences against the person of a Sovereign than against the obscurest of his subjects, is but to exalt him as a target courting the bending of the bow of the hardly thought-conceived crime of regicide. DARMES, the principal criminal, when brought before the Court, presented the appearance of a rather stupid, common-place man. He is of fair complexion ; and.when asked if he had fired at the KING, admitted it at once. His age is forty three. DucLos' age is forty-four; his hair and complexion black, and his eyes exhibiting in their wildness i n di ca tions of insanity. T he third conspirator is only thirty years of age, but his appearance manifested nothing remarkable. To the preliminary proceedings of the Court, such as reading what in England we term the bill of indictment, which occupied two hours, the pri 4oners manifested the utmost indifference. The unfortunate affair of the LOUIS-PHILIPPE Correspondence excites an hundred times more lively interest than the trial of DAIIMES. The Government has been sadly at fault with regard to this correspondence. It abandoned: the charge of forgery, which it, at first instituted . against the France—a Royalist paper. It set at liberty two Editors which it imprisoned, without :daring to bring them to trial: it brought charges against six Journals, abandoned five of them, and was defeated by the sixth in a Court of Justice. At the very outset we besought the French Govern ment to take no notice whatever of this corre spondence. Unnoticed by the King and the Ministry, we well knew that, after serVing for a nine-days' wonder, it would be thrown aside and forgotten. But the prosecution of it, by the Court has acquired for it an immense importance. Already do the Opposition Journals declare that they will not be satisfied—that France will not be satisfied—with a Ministerial pledge. to the Chambers that the letters are fyrgeries. The fact must be proved—proved by Judges, and before a Court where the originals cannot be seized on their production by the creatures of the KING. They therefore de mand the prosecution of La ContempOraine in London, where the correspondence is, offered to be exhibited, and where it actually is at present. See to what mischief the foolish vindictiveness of a Government may lead ! The KING has con trived to get himself into a very troublesome scrape. Relative to the late news from French Africa we find the following in the National:— It appears, as well from General Bugeaud's despatch as from several letters from the head-quarters of the army in Africa, that it was the precipitation with which, without orders, the Duke de Nemours charged at the head of the 24th Regiment, of which his brother, the Duke d'Armsale, was Lieutenant• C olonel, that preventedthe complete success of General Bugeaud's plan, and the entire destruction of the Arabs under the com mand of Abd-el-Kader. It was known in Paris on Monday that the French Government had ordered its representa tive at the Court of London to sign the Treaty for the pacification of the East in concert with Eng land, Austria, Russia, and Prussia. We have good authority fbr stating that the Treaty was so signed on Tuesday at the Foreign-office, so that there 1 -s an end to the isolation of France. The influ ence of France in the East has suffered greatly, from the adoption of the puerile policy of M. TRIERS. But TRIE RS was intoxicated at finding such warlike Allies as King WILLIAM, of Holland, and his eleven thousand Dutch horses. Had M. TRIERS added to King WILLIAM and his Dutch horses, ST. URSULA and her eleven thousand virgins, the force against England would indeed have been overwhelming! The following extracts include what other news there is in these papers : Orders have been sent to Cherbourg to fit out a Govern ment cutter, selected for quick sailing, and t o s t a ti on it i n the Bay of St. Brieuc, for the protection of the oyster beds from English fishing-boats. A water-spout burst over the village of Revermont, in the Rhone, a few days since, and extended its ravages over that and several adjacent communes. A great deal of damage was done, the water washing away gardens on the sides of the valley, and swelling the streams to torrents. No lives were lost. Several Journals quote advices from Cuba of the 15th April, which state that sixty-two negroes from Jamaica had landed on the southern coast of the island, and that thirty had been immediately shot, being suspected as emissaries to excite the slaves to revolt. From Vienna we learn that, on the 15th instant, Prince Metternich celebrated the 68th anniversary of his birth at his summer palace, in the suburb of Rennweg, and gave a grand diplomatic dinner, which was attended by all the Foreign Mi nisters. 'l'he Prince, in the couree of the day, received an au tograph letter of congratulation from the Emperor. Prince Metternich was expected to remain only a few days longer at Vienna, being prepared to visit his estates in Bohemia, and thence proceed to Johannisberg, where he will have the honour of receiving the King of Prussia during his Majesty's intended tour through his Rhenish provinces. Extract of a letter from Athens, 30th ult. :—" Our last arrivals from Candia inform us that the Sfaxiotes had come down from the mountains to Argrocoma, where the main body of the Christians were assembled. A corps of the latter remained in the environs of Canea that they might not lose sight of the Turks, and the inhabitants could not leave the town, even for their ordinary business in the country, without permission from the insurgent commandant. The other strong places of the island were in the same position. Mustapha Pacha had not dared to take any active steps before the arrival of the promised reinforcements from Constantinople. A report is spread that Mount Athos has revolted, and that the insur gents have beaten the Turkish garrison." BOURSE—PAnits, MorwAy, MAY 24. irst Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pric.. 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Bank Shares 1639 —Allgemeine Zettung, May 20 German Papers have been received this morn ing with some accounts from European Turkey, which, having reached us through another chan n'el, appeared in The Sun of yesterday. Madrid Journals, of the 17th instant, have reached us. Senor CLOZAGA had failed to form a Cabinet, and the REGENT had charged Count ALMODOVAR with powers to try what he could do. At a Cabinet Council it had been resolved that the title " Highness" should be prefixed to the name of the REGENT. Letters from Corunna of the 14th inst., state that Madame Mina had been appointed governante of her Majesty Queen Isabella, and of her sister the Infanta, at the special entreaty of their mother, Queen Christina, ex-Regent of Spain. El Castellano of the 17th states that the Commander Don Miguel Matan had surprised the famous Carlist Chief Jose Canela in a farmhouse near Agramont. He had come from the valley of Andoura, with a commission from Tristany to raise guerillas in the Segara. Before he was executed he made some important confessions, which might serve to defeat the plans of several other Carlist Chiefs, who purpose making similar attempts during the summer. Canela suffered death with resignation ; but to the last moment he besought an in terview with Espartero. The business transacted on the Madrid Bourse on the 17th inst. was but trifling. The Fi v e p e r C en t s . c l ose d a t 27 3-16 k cash, and 28i at :ixty days. GENERAL ASSEMBLY.—Friday, as usual, Was spent in prayer, and on Saturday a variety of subjects came be fore the Assembly. They were, in general, •of little interest to the public, with the exception of the case of Mr. Wright, of Borthwick, one of the most useful mem bers of the Kirk of. Scotland. He has published several excellent works on the ditties of Christians, which have had a general circulation, not only throughout Scotland, but England, and the north of Ireland, and have been greatly admired by those who derive consolation from the Gospel dispensation. Some of them, however, have given offence to the Evangelical party in the Scotch Church, who consider them heterodox, and that party, therefore, has persecuted Mr. Wright for the last two or three years. He appealed from the inferior Courts to the General Assembly, and that body as now constituted, of coarse decided against him on Saturday, by confirm ing the decisions of the Synod and Presbytery. It is not at all improbable that the wild men who now rule the Kirk may eventually depose him. The more we see of these agitators, the more are we convinced that the Church of Scotland is now really in danger. EFFECTS OF PENNY POSTAGE IN THE LONDON DIS TRICT POST.—The revenue in this post (after deducting the receipts on General Post letters collected by this de partment), for the year 1838—the last year totally unaf fected by the great reduction of rate—was 118,000/. ; for the year 1840 about 104,0001., so that an increase of 13 per cent. only is wanted to make the revenue of 1840 equal to that of 1838. But the present rate of increase is 14 per cent. per annum, so that, assuming this rate of increase to continue, the lapse of another year is all that is required for the complete restoration of the gross re venue of this department.—Mr. Rowland Hill's Postage Paper, read before the Statistical Society, on May 17. CALM DISCUSSION, FOR THE CORN•LAWS. —The landowners want to have the Corn-law question discussed with calmness. These men with full bellies, ask the hungry labourer to be as placid as they are. They should have made the request in 1835 and 1836, when food was abundant, and prices low ; but the men to whom calmness must th:n have been recommended, were the fidgetty, fretting landowners. Their request comes now too late ; and as they have taken great care to con vince the public that it has nothing wLatever to hope from their sense of justice, they must expect that the pub lic will appeal to another sense. THE NEW CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL.—This morning, at seven o'clock, the first stone of the projected Ca tholic Cathedral, which is to be erected in St. George's Fields, opposite to the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, was laid by the Rev. White, assisted by the Rev. Messrs. Til ford and Macstay. Although admission could be obtained by tickets only, nearly two hundred persons, whose appearance bespoke the highest respectability, were present at an early hour, and remained on the ground some time after the cere mony had been performed. The service was read in Latin by the Rev. White, and the responses, which were ehaunted, were given by Messrs. Tilford and Macstay. After the stone had been laid the. Rev. Gentlemen walked the bounds of the projected edifice, and retired, A NEW HAY STACK.—Yesterday, Mr. G. Rumble finished his haymaking, and got all stacked in excel lent condition. For so early a mowing the crop is greater than usual.—Lincoln Gazette. COMMON PLEAS._(THIS DAY.) CHALLICOIVIBE V. EDGHILL. This was an action upon a promissory note for 201. It ap peared that some days after the note was over due, a person sent by the defendant tendered the principal and interest to the plaintiff's attorney, who refused to take it unless he was also paid 6s. 8d for writing a letter of application for payment on the bills becoming due. This the defendant refused•to pay, and this action was brought for the entire sum, with interest and costs.—Verdict for the defendant. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) Michael Connor and Catherine M' Grath, a boy and girl, both about fourteen years of age, and without shoes or stock ings, were placed at the bar before Mr. Twyford, charged with having broken into the house of a Mr. Smith, who resides in Church-street, St. Giles's, and stealing therefrom a coat, waist coat, and other articles, to the value of three pounds. It appears that the prisoner, who is well known to the police, having been many times convicted of felony , and, on one oc casion, had been sentenced to tea years' transportation, which sentence was afterwards commuted to a term of imprisonment, had been seen loitering about the premises of Mr. Smith, with a number of other equally bad characters; and, yesterday, while Mr. Smith was fr• u .ome, he (the prisoner) succeeded in ob taining the key" . one of Mr. Smith's rooms, from his daughter, a little girl of twelve years of age, and effected the robbery of which he stood charged. As soon as Mr. Smith returned, and had discovered his loss, he gave information to the police, and the prisoners were taken into custody. The female prisoner was with the other prisoner when the robbery was committed, and when taken into custody she con fessed to the officer, George Restieaux, the whole of the transaction. The prisoners were committedfor trial. REVIEW AT WOOLWICH. On Monday afternoon orders were received at the garrison at Woolwich for the whole of the troops to be held in readi ness to be reviewed on the following day, by Sir Hussey Vi vian, Bart., G. C. B. and G.C. H., who intended visiting Woolwich for that purpose, and thirty rounds of powder were ordered to be served for the occasion. In the course of the evening it was made known that firing could not take place on the common, in consequence of the serious indisposition of Mrs. Savage, whose husband holds a situation of trust in the Royal Military Academy, where they have their residence. Yesterday morning, at a quarter-past ten o'clock, the rocket service, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Dyneley ; the batteries of the Royal Artillery, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Hunt; and the field batteries, under the command of Major Sweeting, marched to the marshes, where they were shortly afterwards joined by Lieutenant-General Lord Bloomfield, Colonel, G.C.B. and G. C.H., Sir Hew D. Ross, K.C.8., Deputy Adjutant-General; Colonel R. J. J. Lacy, Colonel Cockburn, and Colonel Cleaveland ; Lieutenant- Colonel R. Jones; Lieutenant-Colonel J. E. Jones, Assistant Adjutant-General; Lieutenant-Colonel Dundas, and Lieu tenant-Colonel Blachley ; Major Romer and Brigadier-Major Cuppage, of the Royal Artillery ; Lieutenant-Colonel Harding and Major Vicars, of the Royal Engineers; and a great number of officers connected with the Ordnance Department, over which Sir Hussey Vivian, Bart., is Master-General. At eleven o'clock the Master-General arrived at the marshes attended by his aides-de-camp, Major Vivian, and accompanied by General Bangaloe, in the service of the King of Wirtem berg, and about twenty ladies and gentlemen, friends of Sir Hussey Vivian. Lord Bloomfield and his Staff received the party, and escorted them to a mock fortification constructed at nearly the extremity of the marshes, next the river, containing embrasures, and a great number of old guns, unfit for service, mounted on carriages, and others lying on the ground. The practice immediately afterwards commenced from a battery of 32, 56, and 68 pounder guns, at a range of 800 yards. The shots were excellent and told with great effect. The field batteries were then drawn up at a range of 450 yards, and fired six rounds of canister shot at a target. Six rounds more were fired by the field batteries at a range of 800 yards, with spherical case shot, of so destructive and effec tive a nature, as almost to shatter the strongly made target to pieces. The rocket service then commenced operations, at first with single rockets, and afterwards with six, eight, and ten at a time, presenting a most imposing spectacle. An inspection of the Royal Arsenal afterwards took place. GRAND ENTERTAINMENT TO THE BISHOPS AT THE MArrstow-Housx.—Monday being the day ap pointed for the anniversary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, and numerous other Prelates, the Lord Mayor, and several of the Aldermen, with a large body of the clergy, attended the service at,St. Paul's Cathedral, where a useful and affecting sermon was preached by the Bishop of Ripon from Isaiah xlii., 1, 4. On leaving St. Paul's the Archbishop and Bishop, the Dean of Chichester, the Vene rable the Archdeacon Pott, Archdeacon Hale, and other digni taries and clergy, proceeded to the Mansion-House, where a splendid entertainment had been prepared for between eighty and ninety guests in the Egyptian-hall. We noticed amon g the company, besides the distinguished persons already named, the Bishops of Bangor, Chichester, Ely, Lichfield, Lincol n , Llandaff, Rochester, Salisbury, and St. David's, with many other ecclesiastical and civil dignitaries. COLIN CLINK, BY - CHARLES HOOTON.-- This production is already so well and so extensively known, from its appearance, by successive portions, in Bentley's Mis cellany, which all the world reads, that any praise from our pen might well be deemed a superfluity in the market. Yet we cannot allow its publication in a detached or collected form to pass unnoticed. By thus presenting " Colin Clink" to the world, Mr. Bentley has paid a just tribute to the high talent and genius of its author. Great skill is evinced in the con struction and conduct of the fable, in the grouping, in the con ception, and support of the characters. Mr. Hooton possesses much force of humour, considerable pathos, great power, and variety of power. In the number of very striking illustrations now added to the volumes, the artist has been eminently suc cessful in seizing and embodying the ideas of the author. Al • together, we can but repeat our gratification on seeing the work as it now lies before us. —Naval and Military Gazette. PARLIAMENT WISER THAN GOVERNMENT. —The Waterloo-bridge Committee (or Government) strenu ously opposed lowering the toll, but the Assembly (or Parlia ment) reduced it one-half ; and already the halfpenny pay ment produces more than the penny used to give. The ave rage number who pass, will now be about 16,000 daily, where by the Company will in one year, benefit by a halfpenny dona tion 5,840,000 passengers, most of them persons in humble circumstances. Thus, this noble bridge is become the noblest charity in the metropolis ; and the public are exceedingly obliged to those gentlemen who called a special general assem bly, to contravene the narrow policy of the bridge govern ment. Hence it may fairly be inferred, that in proposing to reduce duties, and thereby increase consumption, the Govern ment is wiser than the Parliament, which prevents them from thus at the same time providing for the wants and revenue of the country. _ _ _ We understand that the renegade Member for the Kilmarnock district of burghs has written to certain of his constituents, intimating his intention of voting for Lord John Russell's motion on the Corn-laws, which is N be brought for ward on the 4th of June. The wily saint imagines that, by this proceeding, he will compensate for his vote in favour of dear sugar, on Lord Sandon's amendment • but we much mis take the character 'of the men he has to deal with if they are de ceived by a trick so glaring in its character.-- Glasgow Argus. DEATH OF HENRY ARABIN, ESQ.—With sincere regret we have to announce the death of this tried and uncompromising patriot, who departed this life on Thursday last, at his seat, at Corkagh, at the patriarchal age of ninety years. He was one of the last survivors of the Volunteers of l7B2.—Dublin Pilot. TRIESTE, MAY 13.—The steam-boat which arrived yesterday brought the suite of his Royal Highness the Prince of Salerno Colonel of the R eg i m e n t o f Prince Leo• paid of the Two Sicilies, which is here in garrison. The Prince himself, accompanied by his Consort and daughter, travel by land, and are expected here to-day or to-morrow. BRIDI'ORT ELEcTIox.--(From a Correspon dent).—Mr. Mitchell, an eminent Russia merchant, has started on the Liberal interest, and Mr. Cochrane (who ap peals to the constituency as heir-at-law• of " Naval Glories," on the Tory. Both have commenced the canvass, the former wish great success. Mr. Warburton's seat will of course not be disturbed. TURN-OUT AMONGST THE COLLIERS.- The colliers in the neighbourhood of Whiston have turned out for an advance of wages, and the redress of what they look upon in the light of grievances. They go so far as to Insist upon having their own banksmen, instead of one appointed by the coal proprietor, thus leaving him no check upon their honesty in settling the amount of wages due. Some colliers from Wales have been brought to the neighbourhood to fill their situations, and the consequence is that a large body of the police have been compelled to I emain on duty day and night to preserve the peace, and escort the Welshmen to and from their work.— Liverpool Times. THE. PRESIDENT.--(EXtract of a letter.) — The following is what I consider to be most favourable in the new hopes opened to us by the steamer seen on the 22d, in lat. 29, lon. 40. The Times of this morning contains all that is known on the subject, except the certainty that the steamer then and there seen could not have been the Dee. On the same day the Dee spoke the Thompson, from Palermo to N. Y., (New York, I presume), in lat. 41, lon. 42, (compare this with the other, and there is no possibility of their identity. ) This intelligence has been received from the agent of the Na vigation Company at Liverpool, and will, I have not the least doubt, be confirmed by the log of the Dee, for which an appli cation has been made to the Admiralty, as yet unanswered. THE CHARTIST PETlTlON.—Yesterday after noon a great crowd was attracted around the approa,hes to the House of Commons, it having been announced that the Chartist petition, with 1,300,000 signatures, was to be brought down in procession, and to be entrusted to the care of Mr. Thomas Dun combe, by him to be presented to the House, previously to his motion for an address praying her Majesty to release all persons at present confined for political offences. Shortly after four o'clock the procession arrived opposite the Abbey, the enormous petition being borne on a strong framework, placed upon the shoulders of eight sturdy labouring men, dressed in fustian coats. This proces sion was headed by some of the leading Chartists, many of them well known for the conspicuous part they have recently taken in the political meetings in and around the metropolis. A short delay occurred at the side entrance to the House, through the iron gateway, as the bearers stopped to send a message to Mr. Duncombe, to announce the arrival of his protege. An an swer was soon returned for the petition to be carried up, and it was accordingly conveyed through a dense crowd (contain ing. many Members of Parliament among it) to the lobby, where it was received by Messrs. Duncombe and O'Connell, who, with some difficulty, managed at length to roll it through the entrance, along the floor of the House, and in front of the table, opposite the seat, where Mr. T. Duncombe awaited the opportunity of presenting this tremendous pe. t ition. PORTUGAL AND THE HOLY SEE.—The Augsburg Gazette, under head of Rome, 10th inst., states that the Portuguese Ambassador, Viscount Carreira, was that day admitted with grand ceremony to deliver his letters of credence from the Government of Donna Maria to the Pope, and that a solemn Te Deum was in consequence to be sung4n the Portuguese Church to celebrate this formal recognition of the Government. Don Miguel is stated to have made some difficulties about accepting the apanage offered him by Portu gal, and to have demanded a million of crowns once paid, or about 5,400,000 f. It was] expected that, in the next Consis tory, the Pope would appoint a Nuncio for Portugal. THE WEATHER AND CROPS.—Although sun shine and bleak winds have alternately predominated during the past week—the former advancing what the latter retarded— it is universally acknowledged that a finer season for vegetation has scarcely ever been known, as there has been neither ex treme of wet or aridity to cheek the healthy progress of the herbage and the grain crops. The somewhat cold and stormy features of April, which did partial injury to the young grasses and early fruit trees, have been succeeded by the balmy sweet ness of the present month, which has produced a renewed out burst of genial warmth and that vivifying spirit, which has eiven birth to the " beauty of abundance ' which now meets the delighted eye in every direction over the sward. Fruit trees, which are remarkably forward, are literally hoary with bloom. The growth of pasture during the last few days l uoi been magical. The grain crops, its we before observed, are looking very promising, and bid fair to realize the most san guine hopes of the Risbandmen. Sheffield Iris. A cottage r a t sallow, near Caistor, has withi n the last fortnight buried five of his children. EVENING EDITI EPSOM RACES. THIS DAY-(BY EXPRESS). THE DERBY. The Derby Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft, for 3 yrs old, colts Sst 71b, and fillies Sst 9.11); the second to receive 100 sovs. out of the Stakes , and the winner to pay 100 sovs. towards the police and regulations of the course. L'i st mile and a half. (154 Subs.) Mr. Rawlinson's Coronation Lord Westminster's Van Amburgh (Holmes) Won cleverly. THE MA lIKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. There was but little Whea toffered for sale, and prices we!! much the same as on Monday. There was no alteration 1" other articles. - LLO YD'S SH IPPING—(THIS DA LONDON, MAY 26.—Wind this day at noon, light air° from the north-east, fine clear weather. ' ed DEAL, MAY . 25.—Wind N.N.E., fresh breeze.—Arri ved from the River and sailed the Fuma, for South Australia Commodore, Jamaica ; Richmond, Hill, Berbice ; Mahaie t ' Barbados; Numa, Quebec ; Marinero, Bilbao. SUEERNESS, MAY 25.--Arrived the Moore, from Havre with loss of anchor and chain. LIVERPOOL, MAY 25. —Wind variable.—A rr i ve d the Plfoto er, from Apalachicola; Messenger, Taylor, New Orlean_, o Nelson Wood, Barclay, Savannah. S a il e d th e U n ited KW; dom, for New South Wales ; Eliza, Thornton, New Y° r!" Tamerlane, ditto; Glengarry, St. John's, New Brunsiticav Rowena, Quebec ; Jane, Ancona ; Mary Ann, Webb, Ch in : Arrived off, the Sarah, from Savannah. The Mail, ' l)°4 to Malta, has put back, having been on shore. DevEn, M A Y 25.—Arrived eff—The Ob eron , Shie lds, Rio Janeiro. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 25.—Wind N. E. —Arrived the 1 01114 from London, and sa il e d f or H o b art T own. S a il e d the „„ Orates, for Mauritius ; and Mercury, Quebec. Arrived (err The Phcenix, from Rotterdam for Batavia. WEYMOUTH, MAY 24. —Sailed, Geo. Welsford, for Quehe_t FA LstOUTII, MAY 24. —W ind v ar:able.—Sailed the SW7 . Dordrecht, for Bata v ia ; S w if t , Q ue b ec ; B raga nza, _vier and Comm3rce, Antwerp od NEwroaT, MAY 25.—Sa led the Hel ene , f or A ncona ; I) Greyhound, Syra. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE Ws' CITY, TWELVE O'CLOWN . LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 25.—The for Cotton to-day has been ex remelt' I sited; the dews, Li tions furchasel by the trade consistei chiefly of Araerle':'''' about 1,0 )0 hales, without any n ateriat change in prices. LIVERPOOL SHARE-MARKET, MAY 25.—The transaett7; to-eai omprise C: ester aid Cre we, 50; Great Western , ~,4 , Lon , ion aid Bright, ii, Third Shares, 53i ; Borough Bank t o , M.awcErzsTin STOCK EXCH A NGE, MAY 25 : l'he Alar continues dul, for all descriptions of Share 3. Manchester a Leeds, 51 ; Manchester and larmingham, 241 25; Lon de and South Western, 56 57; North Midland, Thirds, prem. ; Bank of Manchester, 7 7i. Yesterday was settling day in the British Market, and ta ; day is pay day, which will also go off well, as the differene el .11 pay are not to any great extent, and there is no doubt that drafts will be honoured. Great excitement begins to prevail in the City on the itill )c h . ; tant event which is to take place to.morrow night in 0 House of Commons, on Sir R. Peel's notice, that the Alinists do not possess the confidence of the House of Commons. d We have no arrivals this morning, with the exception the French mail, and ordinary express from Paris, n ot eve single ship letter; such an event has not happened for a 0101 past. The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon were muck: same as last post day, Ns ith the exception of Hamburgb, wb was rather better. ERRATUM.--WC stated yesterday in our City article at 13 ,' 0 5 114. Bast one, that it turned out to be a Bear account, which tie rever i e; in the afternoon it was a strongßull acconfAt• . • THY FUNDS. a 0 Consols opened this morning at 89% 90 f or IVoley, an ilh, the 16th July 904 a , same as they left off. Exchequer 0_ 4 . 8 10 prem. ; Bank Stock, 168 169 ; I n di a Stock, 25 1, ". '.. ; In the Foreign Ma r k e t Sp an i s h A ct i ve c l ose d at Oa t l . ; opened rather lower, 234 1 ; D e f erre d, 11i 3 ; Passive, 5 A !l Portuguese, 344 ; Th ree p er C ents ., 20* 204; B r azilian , 6 I . 684 ; Colombian, 224 4 ; Mexican, 284 1 ; Dutch Twe-a° a -Half per Cents. 524 4 ; Fi ve p er Cents., 99 1 / 2 100. 1 21( i SHA UES. —Great Western, 26 27 premium; New , „ , e 13 prem. ; London and B r i g ht on , 414 premr. ; Blackwa,"' ar (,: • dis. ; Birmingham 65 67 p r e m . ; S ou th ampton, 55 5 6 per s u „„ ii o ' Croydon, 13* 131 per share ; G reenw i c h , 84 per s h ar e; .`": chester and Birmingham, 154 15 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE': ' RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Bristol and Exeter 6O „..... 34i..... to --* , Great Western - Ditto New .. 50 - London and Brighton - London and Croydon (Trunk)... 131— 134....•• to ... Northern and Eastern - North Midland - JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia. .. 40 to T HALF-PAST 0 Scarce anythinz doing in the British funds to the pi:v .. .. ! time, and the hou se i s thi n o f it s mem b ers. It a lso being ' holiday with the Heb rews f ew o f th em are in atten d an ce;i e 0 sequently there is a pause in all operati ons i n b oth the Ina'v to the present hour. Tit Money appears to be rather more easy. Epsom Races are -- order of the day, and nothing else is thought of. Consols continue the same as in the early part of the mol l ' ingi - 89 ( i 90 for Money, and 90i for the Account. Excbr, , quer Bills 8 10 p rem . ; B an k S toc k , 168 169 ; ; India Stogy' 252 254 ; India Bonds, par, 2 prem. jt The Foreign Market is also inactive, with not a feature noticing. Spanish Activ e , 23i %; Def er red, I 11, °; • Passive, 5 1 / 2 % ; Portuguese, 341; Brazilian, 671 681; lombian, 22 a ; Mexican, 2S i; Dutch Two-and -a-P 521/ 3 / 4 , ter Cents., • Five per Cents., 99i 100. Everyt h " ivery dull in the City. QUARTER TO TIIRE'D° Consols, Money, 89 7 T 90; for Account, 90 &. Money market heavy; that for time good. Nothkag ever doing in any of the Fortign Funds. ROWLAND HILL,—Th e p o p u l ar ity which 0 divine, during a long series of years, enjoyed 3 5 P" preacher, appears to be chiefly indebted to his sinD. ns reties. rte once commenced a sermon by sh ( Y u e " Matches,• matches, matches 1" " You wonder , continued, in a loud voice, " at my text ; but this inn, ing, while I was engaged in my study, the devil Wr i i pered me, ' Ah, Rowland, your zeal is, indetid, 12°1- . t I and how i n d e f at i ga bl y you la b our for the' sitivat i°7l souls !' At the very moment a man passed uuder t s o window, crying Matches !' very lustily, and consci e said to me, Rowland, Rowland 1 y ou nev er labo n to save souls with half the zeal that thiS man does to matches !" POTATOES.—The late shipments of this al' : ed to Londo n h ave prove d t h e most disastrous expe riev since the forward spring of 1833. Last week see`' cargoes sold at from 30s. to 40s. a ton, not the price P 0 14 for them here, exclusive of freight, shipping charges'; ov salesman commission, which usually average 2.55• fl u . el' Here pri ces h ave not f a ll en i n prcportion, as small eloi tities are daily wanted t o ma k e up cargoes, b u t yeste ~,, i$ feW bro ug ht a b ove 7 s. the boll. The forward sea son mainly the cause o f thi s great d epress i on, b ut i n the -,' of of the Scot s R e d s , t h ere i s no d ou b t the prev alene- t dry rot has tended to increase it. In the mean tirq .oe , reduced price is in favour o f th e wor ki ng classes whose wages still continu e ver y l ow , w i t h no inw le ‘i e .e. at prospect of r e li e f f rom a genera l i mprovement i n treo Perth Courier. " THERE'S AN ESPEC I A L PROVIDEN CE T re 4 LarTLE CHILDREN."—One of th ese m i racu l o us e y from death by accident, which good folks say c%hildr Ice and drunken men alone are favoured with, took P is o e, on Sunday last, a t th e Whi te Hart, Cleme-nt' s.. c atS e Strand. The wife o f t h e l andlord of the ahove nee' , wason Sunday after noon v i s i ted by a feraale who brought with h er a li ttle son, aged three ).* 'Whilst the friends we re c h att i ng i n the front rom n of the: second floor, one of th e w i n d ows of which Was oP el eir restless urchin climbed unperceived upgn. a Cllt ir p ub i f immediately inside the open `window and fell Grp,,,,?' a height of at least thirty-five feet. A• wom an the opposite pavement saw the acc i dent, a nd s- 1 1 .4 . across the lane caught the child by the clothes ionieut,ea scent, but its weight, incteased by the ra ° l . l , ovag of its fall, was too much for her, tol d „ s it. Tig forced to let the child fall on to the paverat, fall, however, was brtiken, and though t..- o , g 's was taken up insensible, and conveyed to re' College Hospital, Carey-street, it soon its face covered. None of its li m b s were broken • its face ",„ of was injured, and the tre a t ment o f the medical otbt ila the hospital has been s o success f u l that to-day the "" will be discharged sitfc.iy cured. gs' THE BULL ETED SKUL L OF AN OLD SOLI"' f t i —'We eight or nine sw an . s h ot, or their remains, imbed" e ;: re the forepart of th e h ea d . But the most s i ngular feat ,`t, which this curiosity presents is, that in the internal Sid forming the concave of the apex, and far fromr„ro' opposite to th e e xte r nal bullets, are portions o', jetting metal, apparently lead, favouring the presu b oe tion that they. are shot of some dimensions, whie ll Milk been received externally ; at the same time. Th e e' was dug up by the sexton in Tarporley church - J o e during th e p rogress of excavation, about six wet / 411 c The prob a bility' is, that the p erson to.whom tilLriey* of antiou:ty b e l onge d, was a volunteer, from Tarri,, e, le and was engaged during the si ege o f B eas t on fitlt the reign of Charles 1., abo u t th e m iddl e o f the wt . ' century. That so many l arge s h ot s h ou ld hare bat found in a skull is not matter of so great surprise li e d that the individual who received them.should hav e n t 1. 14 so many years afterwards, ( as i s d emonstrate d by u_ ivga r sutures of the head bein g near l y o bli terate d,) is o r larly wonderful, to the a na t om i st, as well as to w` evo le Binary observer. A ccurate drawings have bee n ea at' by Mr. Musgrave, a n a ti ve art i st, b eau tifully reP r ing a side, as well as a front view, of the subject ° co ifed paragraph. We hope th e a b ove rar i ty will be d e P I,IOY in some museum, f or the purpose of re servation' . t his we name the Chester Water Tower,as the neares t in locality ?—Chester Chronicle, otjO TION r ' In the en d f ree trade must triump h, must be abolished, roguery must be banished from Pats or it t% nit] the nation. But, in the meantime, be t ::: s pt t e:e t : i much of it in the nation and in Parliament, so mall l o bsb l l s bound up a ith monopoly, that in the first instance P ew , i v the monrpolis's may triumph. A great contest, h°'' v o now beginning, or rathei has begun. It play, and our readers may at once . gird up their min",;. sq. discuss:on of first princ;ples. Falsity, mockery, "nu n _ Jo° l , what Mr, Carlyle calls simulera. will no longer st, l , glxltind, Truth, honety, reality and justice, and ;OW All that is falsa, hollow, and artificial in politics an" in int. will be scorched out of existence in the conflict now b a l th o ; The human mind hates fahchood, hates delusion; " ut ioti:°,7; who calculate on maintainuir , a dominion over it by cr ow delusion and ing falsehood" will see 'their dominl°' a g. away and their power extinguished —Brighton G uard' I JL Of SUNDAY NEXT, A Will contain THE MYSTERIES OF EPSOM, with Comments on the various Predictions. " BY VA TES." Together with all the News of the Week, Foreign and Domestic. Office, 20, Catharine-street, Strand. I