The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-21 00:00:00

MORNING EDIT lON DERBY PROPHECY. BY YATES. _ _ . __ ......_. TH E E R A Of SUNDAY NEXT, will contain in addition to its usual Origin&.l, Political, Commercial, and General Intelli gence, the DERBY PROPHECY, by YATES. With Horses likely to start, Jockeys probable to ride, analysis of odds, from the commencement of the betting, &c. &c., - with all the sporting events of the week. Newsmen are requested to give early orders to prevent disappointment. An Edition for the Railway Train will be published at Five o'clock, on Saturday morning. - Office, 20, Catharine.street, Strand. 13, Great Marllx.rough-street. MRS. MABERLY'S NEW NOVEL, THE - L - OVE MATCH, IS. NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES, soli. post Bso., with Portrait of the Authoress. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 13, Great Marlborough-street. m It • AND B 0 U B R A K R E is ;S NEW PE ERAGE ETAGE FOR 1841 WILL BE READY FOR DELIVERY ON TUESDAY NEXT, MAY 26. *.• This new and greatly improved edition has been en riched with numerou- additions from the public archive., and private communications of great interest to the Nobility ; and forms a comp!ete book of reference for the history of every dis tinguished family in the kingdom. Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry C,olb - urn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. U*;DER the. MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, MAY 21, 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 ; Mark Meddle, Mr. Harley ; Gr ac e arkaway, Madame Vestris ' • Lady Cay Spanker, Mr s . Ni s bett ; Mrs. Pert, Mrs. Htunbv. Alter 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 rygolds, Miss Grant; Queen of the Roses, Miss Lee. ,-MTomorrow, Lesdon Assurance, with Beauty and the Beast. Doors to evened at half-past Six—the pertormancea to tommenee at Seven o'Clock. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Pric®, 3s. 6d.; First and Second 'rire'ex, ss. ; Second Price, 'Js. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price. ; Gallery Is. Tie.eti and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Boa-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Ti , .tkets 123 ly De had upon application. a'rivate Bose,. to be had so'ely of Mr. Andress, bookseller, if% New Bond-street. ttoYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Triu:npha.it Career of "Claude Du Val, the Ladies' High wayman," no drama since the praduction of " Jack Shep pai:d " has made SO decided a hit. Revival of Rafael the Line: tic, anA first appearance of Mr J. S. Balls in the cha racter of Raf.i,eT. THIS EVENING, MAY 21, Will he acted a Grand Rcmantic Drama, entitled LOVE; HATRED, AND REVENGE; OR, THE CON QUEST OF TARANT/E. _ Characters by Messrs. H. Hughes, Hicks, Haines, Hislop, Puckingliam, Mrs. IT. flughei, &c. After which, an Historical and Domestic Drama, entitled !LAUDE DV VAL, THE LADIES' HIGHWAYMAN. ,Pith entirely new local and h. autiful Scenery, extensive Ma chinery, real horses and carriages, &c. Claude Duval, Mr. J. S. Balls. Agtported by the mast powerful Company in London. To conclude with ~RAFAEL THE LIBERTINE. •-- slr. .1, S. Balls ; Pedro, Mr. W. Smith ; Maria, it ; Miss Martin. R 074 L,VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRIt:f. 7 ITION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Miss Vincent as the Heroine of Vomestic Drama, and the New Legendary Romance of " Rockwood !" with a New Pit, a New Gallery, and New Splendid Decorations ! THIS EVENING. MAY 21, AND TO-MORROW, A New Domestic Drama, is 1 love Acts, eniitled SINICN LEE; OR, THE MU RDER OF FIVE-FIELDS' C_ _ _ _ Simon Lee, Mr. E. F. bar:110 and Grace Hatherleigh, M:ss Vincent. After Which, the Romance of ROOKWOOD; OA, THE LEGEND OF THE OLD LIME TREE. —..— Dick Turpin by Miss Vincent, with the Flash Sorg of "Hurrah tor the Game of High Tobf !" "Nix my Dully, Pale, Fake away !" and " My Bonny Black Bess." To conclude with a New Drama, called THE ROOK OF FATE. Krantz Tidlitz, Mr. Gardner; Gabello, Mr. Howard; Rosa, .Mrs. Howard. Boxes, 25.-1 3 :t, Is.—Gallery, 6d. Half-price at Half-past E4rt. ROME ! NOVEL AND EXTRAORDINARY EXHI BITION AT THE ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. DPI2N DAlL`:—The New PICTORIAL MODEL, of AN CIENT and MODERN ROME! exemplifying on a scale of enormous magnitude nuver before attempted, the former glories and present aspect of the once-proud" )listress of the World ;" and comprising amongst its mo.t striking features the ancient Bridge and Castle of St. Angelo, the Vatican and Pontifical Pa lace, the Toriditiona Theatie, the Ospitale di S. Spirit., and the xast and:marvellous Basilica of St. Peter', ihis magnificent re presentation has been entirely constructed from the designs, and under the superintendence of Mr. Danson, assisted hy nu merous eminent artists. The delineation is so strictly accurate, and the proportions so stupendous, as to offer a perfect realisa tion of those wonders of architecture which still render the " eternal city" the most interesting spot on the face of the . globe. It will be exhibited Daily from Ten till Dusk, together %with the splendid ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTION, which i4nc udes several recently-acquired rarities, and specimens of anequared size and beauty. Admission, One Shilling.—Feeding hour, Five o'Clock. TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Constant Reader, Portsmouth, whose letter was overlooked, is informed that the bet history we know of the Rise and Progress of the Taxe: on Corn is to be found in Mr. N'Culloch's Commercial Dictionary. His request we will .endeavour to comply with. lIIGEI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. in , Luicis ati.2: 1 1 Evening 5-I minutes alba 1 4 O•• CIV I 4i al k 4110 , 4* 1 121itp F.T r ktf • • -;^ • • .'‘= ~~ 4 pIS 9 U 2 -- 0§11,11.& LONDON: FIZIA, MAY 21, 1841. THE InEIS CAST ! (From our Second E ( Ztim of Last Night.) Thank GOD ! the cause n: 1 freedom and the people still prevails, and the days of mono poly are numbered ! 'Up! men of EC . Tland, Scot land, and Ireland, and do your duty ! Prepare to set the houses of your new represe:datives in order, and cast those who have deceived you and the country to the winds! Success` is the handmaid of those only who resolve to win her good graces; woo her, therefore, like your' fathers of old, and assert the dignity of men. Be no longer the slaves of monopoly at home, while you expend your treasure, your blood, and your glorious, but hithert o va i n , humanity in the l o pe of extin,guishing slavery abroad. There tile sugar monopolists have leagued, and still do cabal, to defeat your noble endeavours. Taut the rup of bitterness will return to their own.lips, if be . now but true to yourselves. A OISSOLUTIOIsi of Parliament is RE ..,}-SOLVED ON, and, before that day tomes,it is your duty to be prepared, To be forewarned is to be fore-armed: Your enemies know, by intuition, that the' danger is coming, and they tremble while they believe! A • It is yours, like honest men and prudent gene irals, to be prepared for what may happen. Look then to yourselves and your country — look to your wives and your dear children, and :then look out for good men and true, to repre - • sent you in Parliament—men who will protect your rights, assert your remaining liberties —n ien . who will arrest the onward march of the op pressor, relieve the poor, and do equal justice to ALL. Such men ought to be the representatives of people who boast in calling themselves free. Men of the three kingdoms ! so truly loyal to a patriotic and beloved QUEEN ! now pro your loyalty to her, and your duty to yourselves, by returning at the ensuing General Erection Gentlemen who will support the Throne, protect the people, and do honour to themselves by setting a brilliant example to posterity! A DISSOLUTION IS AT HAND ! and th e d ays of Monopoly are numbered ! Long live the Qtrzzx • Great expectations were excited yesterday that the Ministers would make some declaration in the House of CoMmons, and great crowds of Peers, as well as Members 4 - the Douse, attended tO 'hear the revelation. Their curiosity wag, only 'whetted by its gratifienti:nt ) 3 40g momentarily delayed, b. consequence of Mr. F rEL DEN making a complaint of want of order on the par/ of the SPEAKER. The lion. Member stated that his motion to adjourn the debate on Lord J. RUSSELL'S re solution on Tuesday, was duly seconded, that he was asked to withdraw it, but declined, and that the SPEAKER ought to have put it. The SPEAKER explained that he understood the mo tion was not seconded, and therefore he did not put it. Sir R. INGLIS confirmed the SPEAKER'S view. No doubt the confusion was very great, and Mr. FIELDEN and the House were satisfied by the' explanztion. The Hon. Gentleman, however, amused the House'by threatening to print the speech which the House would not allow him to speak. Then came the announcement which the crowd had assembled to hear. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice that he would on Monde: - move for a Com mittee of Ways and Means to grant the annual sugar duties. We mentioned in our Evening Edition yesterday that Ministers would probably do so, arid we assured them that doing so would be an unerring sign that Ministers mean to dissolve the Parliament. What steps the Tories will take we cannot tell, but we presume that they will not oppose the passing of the Sugar Bill, or venture to stop the supplies. Lord JOHN RUSSELL then, in the midst of the most profound silence, moved that the Rouse do adjourn to Monday, and, saying nothing more, the astonishment was great, till it dissipated itself in laughter and cheers. In reply to the Earl of DARLINGTON the Noble Lord announced that he would bring forward the Corn-law question on the 4th of June. Lord G. LENNOX gave rise to a brief discussion, by moving for a Committee of the whole. House, to take into consideration so much of the Report of the Naval and Military Commission as relates to the Marines; but being assured by Sir H. VrvrAN that the Govern ment was anxious to do all in its power for that gallant corps, and several other Honourable Members, hav ing spoken in praise of it, the Noble. Lord with drew his motion. The principal . subject of his com plaint was that the officers of Marines were not placed on a level with the officers of the other services. Some motions that are briefly mentioned in the de bates having been disposed of, and the Vaccination Bill having gone through Committee, the, House adjourned till Monday. The question of a dissolution naturally occupies public attention. The Whigs cannot now do otherwise than dissolve. The public expects that of them. They would disappoint their friends and destroy their own character were they to take any other course. They have thrown the gauntlet to the monopolists, the monopolists have taken it up, and the Whigs cannot run from the lists without being for ever stigmatised as cravens. After the announcement of last night, however, there is no fear but they will appeal to the people, and make them the judges of one of the greatest questions that ever • men had to de cide. The period of the dissolution is not fixed, though it cannot be far off; but a dissolution is unalterably decreed. The Tories object that it is unconstitutional for a Ministry to appeal from a Parliament which has been called under its auspices, and should it do so they threaten it with punishment. The pub lic, not the Tories, will decide the propriety of the dissolution, as well as the question of monopoly or no monopoly, and we have a firm faith in the justice of its decision. Circumstances dictated all constitutions, and must now, as at first, overrule all human laws. The course of nature is not suspended by our artificial regulations, and they must give way to it. The men of the present age have not forfeited or given up their right to judge and to act as circumstances dictate; and they have all the powers and privileges of their ancestors. If an act were unconstitutional, i. e. contrary to what those ancestors did, and circum- • stances commanded it, that act would be fully justified. While we deny that the proposed dis solution is in any respect or degree unconstitu tional, we contend that circumstances justify it, and that the Ministers would not be true, either to her MAJESTY or the people, were they not to dissolve the Parliament. Since the present Parliament was called to gether an entirely new set of circumstances have grownup, and now divide the different par ties. In 1837 the Corn-law agitation was un known. A series of somewhat abundant seasons then gave the people, previously starved down to the capabilities of the narrow skill and li mited capital of the agriculturists, plenty of food. The high prices, the dearth of 1838 and 1839, which is the real source Of Corn-law agita tion, had not then come into existence. The present Parliament was consequently elected without any reference to the retention or the abolition of the Corn-laws, now the corner-stone of party policy. Is it proper that so important a question should be settled by a Parliament summoned without any reference to it, and, therefore, not representing the opinions or the interests of the contending parties on that ques tion, which is one of life or death to multitudes? Again, the price of sugar only rose so inordi nately as to check consumption, and impede the expected increase in the revenue, within the last three years. That circumstance has forced. the Ministers to propose a reduction of the discrimi nating duty on sugar, which keeps the supply short, and their proposition has brought before the public an entirely new view of the discrimi nating duty. It was laid on years ago, for the commercial purpose exclusively of giving an ad vantage to the slave-grown sugar of our colonies in our market. But since that time slavery has been abolished in them, and the purely commer cial or fiscal duty has been clothed in the at tributes of pure morality. In consequence of the people of England having purchased the redemption of slaves in our own colonies, it has become an incidental effect of the discriminat ing duty that it is supposed, not only to encourage the consumption of sugar grown in English colo nies, but to discourage the growth of sugar by slave labour.' The reduction of the discriminat ing, duty is now- resisted, therefore, because it will encourage the slave trade. At the time the pre sent Parliament was assembled, slavery, under the attenuated form of apprenticeship, still ex isi.ed in our own colonies, and, consequently, the very important question on which the Ministry has been defeated was then totally unknown. It is riTht, therefore, before the Ministry give up, that it should learn what the electors think of this novel idea of limiting the food of the people of England, for sugar is food, in order, as is sup posed, to Suppress slavery and the slave trade. We do not say much of the Timber Duties, because they are more a question of a mere fiscal nature, and they had been discussed in all their present bearings, before the existing Parliament was assembled. They are of great importance to our shipping interests, and our manufacturers; an alteration in them is required by the wants of commerce, and the principles of civilization. At the same time they du not affect so closely the bulk of the people, nor stand on such high g, rounds, of moral principle as the Sugar and the Corn-laws. One very important, and at the &line tim e novel, feature connected with th ese new ques tions, is the great principle of monopoly or no monopoly which they involve, and which is now, perhaps, for the first time, mooted in Par liament by :I.uthority. The Ministers have been compelled to moot that question by the march of events, including the r';.)cently discovered impos sibility for the industry of' !be nation to susta i n the Government, and at the sani°.time to.nourish that large body of vampires which fu; Lively suck its blood. The conduct of Ministers, t 'l l iough dictated by circumstances, has roused the who.; of the monopolists to unite in .one body to op pose them. A totally new feature is now made ap parent, for members of the Legislature openly and scandalously- avow that they have used, and Nvill use, the power of making laws to tax the people for their own benefit. Whoever may be at the head of the Govern ment ought to ask the people whether they sanction that new constitutional principle. Shall legislation be based on a principle of avowed plunder ? That is so great a novelty in the his tory, not only of our own country, but of the world, that any Ministry would deserve to be impeached which should undertake the:Govern ment until after the I;ation, 1 avin, .been made aware of the fact, shall have resolved to be go verned on this detestable principle. It is worse THE SUIT, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1841. than the ruling principle of banditti, for thieves' 4, will be received by the people with the enthusiasm which tl.• ' Whigs are endeavouring to excite. If it succeed, which, in deed, we think, cannot be doubted, the success will he owing rather to that class, so rapidly increasing in England, which represents her commercial wealth. These men feel that the Continent is avenging itself on England fur ifs prohibitive policy, by adopting in its turn a similar plan, and they per ceive themselves by degrees becoming excluded from the great commercial markets of the wcrld. Manufacturers in England cry out against this state of things, and their cry most be heard, for her real strength is in her manufactures. The able men who, in the opposition as well as in the Government; direct the destinies of their country, are aware of this perilous position, and, for our own part, we are convinced that one of the first acts of Sir R. Peel, on coming to power, would be to reform the Corn-law enactments. honour will not allow them to plunder one an other, while to plunder one another is the essence of the so-called system of protection. Upon the ground, then, that these very im portant' questions are new—that the present Parliament was not assembled with any view to them—that -_the people would not be contented with a decision pronounced by a Parliament so assembled, we hold that the circum stances not only justify, they command the Ministers to appeal to the people by dissolving the Parliament. Is it to be supposed, were a Parliament assembled expressly on account of these questions, involving such great moral prin ciples and such great commercial interests, that Liverpool would be represented by Viscount SANDON and Mr. CRESSWELL ; that Bath would have sent such Members as my Lord POW ERSCOURT and Mr. BRUGES ; or that Sunderland and Whitby should find no better organs of their interests than Mr. Alderman THOMPSON and Mr. A. CHAPMAN? The princi ples now at issue, and the interests now involved, demand for the public service the most high souled, most energetic, and most sagacious men of the whole empire; and the present Parlia ment, called in peaceful quiet times, and for holi day purposes, . contains very few such men. Whatever the Constitution may say, though, as we read and recollect it, the Ministers will act perfectly. in accordance with its letter and its spirit, the peculiar circumstances we have adverted to, and circumstances overrule all human enactments, fully justify the appeal which we are now confident the Ministers mean to make to the people. As the electors decide, so will this magnificent empire be renovated by a really honest policy, or stifled and destroyed by its laws being made to promote corruption, favour dis honesty, and sanction 'plunder. I The Debats mistakes the temper of the English people, why are never indifferent to political questions bc. , cam - e they are not promised all that they want. Their greatett struggles have been for half measures, among the fore.: most of which we class the Reform Bill. They are always ready to fight manfully for what they can get, we:l knowing that the slightest change in a good direction necessarily produces others. Perhaps there is no people in the world whom slight modifications; of a system satis fies so well as the English. The reason, is because we are an eminently practical people, and never step in the dark if we can help it. The bulk of the people are certainly in favour of a total repeal of the Corn laws, not for the reason assigned by the Debuts, but be cause the Corn-laws were a political experiment, which has failed after a patient trial of twenty-five years. Ne vertheless, they will not, on that account, less cordially and enthusiastically support the Ministerial proposition. They know that the social and political machine, once set in motion, will not stop at one rotation of the wheels. Besides, they are fully sensible, that in a great commer cial country- like this, the proposed amount' of fixed duty will have very little influence upon the price of bread. We enter not here into the merits of the Corn ques tion. This is done at sufficient length in other' articles in The Sun. - The Debats falls - into the vulgar Conti nental error, that the support of the Church falls'exclu sively upon the agriculturists. No fleece escapes the ecclesiastical shears in England. Even the goats are as closely clipped as the sheep. The- Paris Journals of Tuesday have all reached us. In the Moniteur of that date we find the following telegraphic despatch : ToutoN, MAY 17, 1841. (Received at Half-past Seven o'Clock in the erening.) THE MARITIME PREFECT TO THE MINISTER OF THE NAVY. The expeditionary corps re-entered Algiers on the 9th instant. The Governor and his Highness the Duke de Ne mours arrived there on the 10th instant, after having re victualled Aletleah and Alilianah. On the 3d instant the enemy assembled, upon the mountains above Alilianali, from 5,000 to 6,000 Kabyles, and his regular infantry, which, in case of need, was to he supported by a mass of 15,000 cavalry, collected in the plain of the Chelif. After a feigned retreat, the charge was beaten along the entire line, and the Arsbs fled in the utmost disorder, leaving several hundred d ad on the field. The left wing, commanded by his Highness the Duke de. Nemours, was the one most seriously attacked, and, in repelling the charge, his Highness led on bravely the 24th regiment of the line, of which the Duke d'Aumale is Lieu tenant- Colonel. We learn with pleasure that the shipowner s of Gateshead have taken the field against the Corn-laws, and we are only surprised that the shipowners as a body have not before come for ward to aid this cause in every part of the empire. Whatever augments our commerce must increase the demand for our shipping. The repeal of the Corn and Provision-laws would not only increase our trade, enabling our manufacturers to export and import much more, but they Would enable the shipowners to pro vision and sail their ships cheaper. Ma terials would not cost so much, :and the ship owners would have more to do, and they would have more profit on what they did. Though a great outcry was made against Mr. HUSKISSON'S alterations on account of the injury it was said they, would do our shipping, there is at present no intelligent shipowner who will not admit that they have benefited the shipping interest. But the Corn-laws are bound up with other injurious restrictions. The timber duties injure no class of men so much as ship-builders and ship owners. They compel the builders to use worse materials and the shipowners to give a higher price for a worse article. They induce them to shove off needful repairs, on account of the great expense, till ships, and crews, and cargoes, are lost. Trade is the daughter of freedom, and will extend, as restrictions are lessened or re moved; shipowners have a great interest in re moving restrictions on trade ; they are amongst her most favoured servants and instruments, and can only thrive as she thrives. It will be disgraceful, we think, therefore, should the shipowners of London, Liverpool, Leith, Greenock, Newcastle, Bull, Shields, Whitby, &c. &c., not imitate the' good example set at Gateshead, and exert themselves to procure a repeal or the Corn-laws and a reduction of the duty on sugar and timber. Trade depends on production and consumption, and both will be increased, causing more to be exchanged, and augmenting freights by removing vexatious restrictions. Sailors, too, and all who are con ' nected with them, love freedom and honesty, and they, will not be true to their character if they do not exert themselves to set trade free and put down the knavery of the landlords. " On .returning from. Pont-el-Kantara, on the Chelif, an affair took place between our gensdarmes, the Moorish gent darrnes, and the regular cavalry of the Emir. It produced a razzia ; 175 Arab cavalry, were put hots du combat, several chiefs were killed, 60 women or children, some of whom were of distinguished rank ) were capture - I, together with 17 other prisoners, and from 1,500 to 1,600 oxen or sheep were seized. "On the Bth inst. a razzia was made against the tribe of the Sourmata with the greatest success. " During the expedition we have had 10 cr 12 men killed, and 50 wounded. The loss of the enemy is rated at more than 500. killed. Coleah was attacked vigorously on the Ist inst., but notwithstanding the weakness of the gams= the enemy was repulsed with lms upon all points." The, utterly destroying whole villages, called razzias, is a favourite mode of warfare with the French in Africa. It would appear that there is something pleasantly exciting to the French sol diery in surrounding suddenly•with a large body of troops an isolated Arab village, and regul .rly fusillading every unfortunate wretch attempting to escape from the flames by which he finds him self encircled. The war in Africa, like the Ame rican war against the Red Indians of Florida, is a war of extermination. Such wars are hardly more hurtful to the destroyed than the destroyer. In the one life is extinguished; in the other, every moral and good feeling which elevates man above the beasts that perish. The soldier becomes a demon. He murders without necessity and without remorse. The unarmed finds no protection upon his knees, begging for what GOD gave, and what GOD only has a right to take away—life. A musket ball or a bayonet thrust arrests the prayer fo'r mercy in his throat. And this is the school in which the sons of King Louts are perfecting themselves in the art of war I • Letters from Tiflis, of the 25th March, announce that a Russian army of 45,000 men, and 80 piece of cannon, had set out on its march against the Circassians, whom NICHOLAS does not despair of reducing to a state of vassalage. The following details are feoni a letter in the Constitationnel of Tuesday : This army is accompanied by an immense waggon-train. It is destined to act particularly against the brave Schamil and the Tschetehenks, opening its operations with the siege of Cheskei —a place so well defended, both by nature and art, that the Circassians believe itto be impregnable. The Russians at tacked it during, the last campaign with an imposing force, but were unable to carry it. It is the ordinary residence of St:ha -roil, whose indefatigable ardour in defending his native land against Russian aggression excites universal admiration and sympathy. He is making great preparations by raising the country, calling the Mussulmans to arms in the names of reli gion and liberty, and encouraging them to make the most ob stinate resistance. The Russian Commander-in-Chief, fear ing than the Khan of Shamkaal, who some time back made his submission to the Emperor, and whose territories lie be tween the Tschetchenks and the Caspian Sea, may be seduced by the impressive appeals of Scha.nil, and the exam l .le of the neighbouring people, has sent emissaries to watch his conduct, and keep him, if poesible, faithful to Russia. Gen. Grabbe is to command the right wing of the Russian army, and direct operations on the line of the Kouban ; and Generals Aurep and Raiefsky are to conduct those in Greater Abasia, should the Russian Government decide upon sending troops to resume the offensive in that part of the Caucasus. We have been often puzzling ourselves to learn from the French Papers what becomes of the French troops sent to Africa. In all tele graphic accounts of battles fought with the Arabs, the usual proportion of French killed never exceeds two to a hundred of the enemy, and as we never hear of any extraordinary mortality among the French soldiers, we should like to know what becomes of the 20,000 men per annum, which, according to M. DuriN, and other Members of the Chamber of Deputies, her conquests in Africa cost France ? Do they disappear from among men, like RomuLus and Nuys; or, are they undying, like . a constitional Sovereign of Great Bri tain ? Can their precise fate be surmised, like NionE's, by a moisture; or, Dr. FA USTUS' by an intolerable smell of sulphur? It s certainly very odd that so little is heard of them, save in connection with their countless victories, after their departure from Toulon. There . is another, and a very different, matter upon which we should like to ob tain information. The National states, that M. GulzoT, anticipating a change of Minis try in England, applied to Sir R. PEEL to know in what way would he conduct the re lations between the two countries. The slippery Baronet assured him that no exertions on his part would be. wanting to re-unite the two coun tries in the bonds of friendship, which assurance so gratified the .French Minister, that all the Journals subservient to him were ordered There is very little domestic news in the Paris Journals. The following remarks on the acquit tal of another Journal for publishing the alleged Louts PHILIPPE Correspondence, is from the Courrier Francais:— The Calvados Court of Assizes on the 14th inst., acquitted the Earn, a Caen Paper, on the Government prosecution for an indictment of offence against the King's dignity, in an ar ticle on the Louis Philippe letters. The Lmancipation, of Toulouse, was acquitted on a similar accusation. It is impor tant to remark that every prosecution by the present ;Minister of Justice, ot a departmental Paper, has ended in an acquit tal. The Journals prosecuted have been the Echo du Nord, the Liberal de Douai, l'Espoir des Ardennes, the Nouvelliste, .the Patriote de l'Ain, the Memorial Dieppois, the Journal de Rouen, the Ema: cipation, the Haro, the Gazette du Dau phine," &c. Out of the Court of Peers the French Govern ment is never sure of a verdict. What a satire this simple fact is upon the general conduct of that Government ! How deeply engraven upon the heart of France must be the record of official oppression, when twelve men cannot be found to bring in a verdict of guilty upon any charge brought forward by the Minister of Justice, un- Tespf the jurors happen to be Peers. In England a Government prosecution rarely, if ever, fails in France, unless he has to face the Peerage, every political offender is more than a match for the official prosecutor. It is easy to understand from this, how different is the position of the Go vernments in the two countries: A modification of the Cabinet is still much talked of. Upon tide subject the National has the following o b serva ti o ns The intestine st rugg l es o f the Ministry would furnish an ex cellent subject for a come dy. Marshal Soult no longer undo -- stands anythin g , intellect,and th e rust of h i s sca bbard. The Marshal's brain is and throws always on othe rs the faili n g o f his in two parts — one in h i s own h ea d, and the other in that ot M. Teste. Both t oget h er t h ey make a phrase — the latter being the verb, the M ars h a l t h e su b s tantive, and .M. Villemain being always the adjective in the council. . When M. Teste does not explain, then Marshal Soult only sees cloudily, and he gets angry ; then he speaks of himself, of former times, of Aus terlitz, and of Genoa. He always meets with a mute but very marked sympathy from Admiral Duperre, who stands up in support of th e espr i t m ilitaire. AS to M. Humana, he has come back t o hi s o ld c h or us of ' I im no doctrinaire, I have always dete s t e d th e d octr i na ires.' Although he appears united at this mo men t t o M ars h a l Soult, by their common detestation of M. Guizot, he does not profess great esteem for the lavish manner in which the Minister of War has used and abused the votes of the Chamber. M. Guizot, on his side, has the utmost difficulty to restrain the contempt he feels for the united capa cities of his as soc i a t es, an d hence his desire to draw t o him - elf so able any any a s 111. Dufaure ." The French Budget was voted in the Chamber Deilutieti on Monday, votes agai ns t 46.0 f by a majo rit y of 198 The following are extracts from theoe paper; : _ . _ to take every occasion to recommend a change in the British Cabinet. .Hence it is, according to the National, that the Debats, which supports the Ministerial plan for modify ing the Corn-laws, endeavours to make it appear that Sir ROBERT PEEL is the only proper person to carry it into, effect. Has, then, Sir ROBERT explained his Corn-law policy to the French Fo reign Minister? Is his shuffling pledge to the Tories to do nothing for'a year, to be followed by his throwing such another political summerset as he did upon the Catholic question ? If the Right Hon. Baronet has concealed his intentions from the Liberals, it cannot be said that he was more communicative to the Tories. HaS he deposited his secret in a French bosom, and are we to con clude from the Debats, that he wants but a year i n office to betray the aristocracy by abolishing the Corn-laws? The Journal des Debate of Tuesday has another long article, on the Corn-laws, the debate upon which, in the British Parliament, in connection with the sugar duties, excites the liveliest interest upon the Continent.. The Debats is the Court oracle, consequently all its articles have a decided leaning towards the aristocracy. It may be proper to premise, that the Debate' reasons upon the assumption that the Ministers would at once resign if beaten upon a division, and that upon the Tories would devolve the consistent and pleasing task of supplying the working classes with cheap food : The English people in general only embrace with ardour questions in their totality. What is popular in England is the total repeal of the Corn-laws. The Ministry propose simply a reforming measure, and not a revolutionary one. Its moderation will gain the approbation of all persons moderately inclin e d ; but th e same qua l i ty will just as certainly deprive it of the support of the masses. For our own part, if we had numbers, seen in this question onlithe prospect of a struggle between which the Ministry the :ich and and the poor, or the sacrifice of property to ed loudly as we I ,:ve denounced the factious character vvitli we . should have reproved these measures as reform appears to us fowl, prietor a protecting right 4 .‘d as much on equity . as on Invested overthe them. agric humanity, bee.au,e, whiht it lessen; the charges w'erugi,a)o. heavily on the consumers, it preserves to the- landed last-named class in England support the greatest part of ti., public charges, pay tithes, d P llspeaking, the poor -, , genera y rates It • is only justice, then, that they should be protected against the competition of foreignproduction by a due equi valent to the taxes which they The abolition of all i duty imported pay. on corn would not. be equitable unless it was accompanied by the abolition of tithes. The great, the nsi ful effect of the proposed reform will be to introduce economy amongst the poor, by holding out to them the ee1..., tainty of fixed prices, and. this in the minds of reflecting men, is undoubtedly a real benefit. But slow arid moderate reforms, which are the most, durable, are also the least po put.r. The mere principle 'of safety 'is 'not a matter sulfi-' ciently palpable to strike the perception of the masses, and it is not in human nature to exhibit enthusiasm for mere tranquillity. Hence we doubt much that this proposed reform ultßuraatl :Pos. said that he had given notice of this intention to the Council of ! Ministers, and that it is resolved that the loan shall be au noonced next month, to be decided in July. A great deal has been said of the failure of a great banking house at Lyons. It appears, according to report, that this house has made numerous loans on pledges, which have not been repaid, and that it is corpequently embarrassed, though its debts are much below its effects. The reports of a speedy modification of the Cabinet gains grornd, and some persons pretend that it is very possible that Humann may not have to direct the negotiation of the loan. Linder the influence of these circumstances stocks have declined a little. On Saturday last Count d'Appony, the Austrian Ambassa dor, had another conference with M. Guizot, at the depart ment for Foreign Affairs, and on the same day a courier of the Austrian Legation set out for London, with important despatches for Prince Esterhazy. It is said that M. Guizot and Count d'Appony have fully agreed respecting the manner in which France is to return into the general system of Europe. The Toulon Journals of the 14th say :—" We are assured that the two ships of the line, the Jemmapes and the Fried land, arc ordered to join the squadron in the Mediterranean. By this reinforcement the squadron, which was' reduced to sixteen ships of the line, in consequence of the separation of the division under Admiral Lassuse, will be composed of eighteen ships of the line, forming two equal divisions, each commanded by a Rear-Admiral. Rear-Admiral Casy will command the first, and Rear-Admiral De Moges, it is said, will command the second. Admiral Casy's squadron is pre paring to sail in a few days to the Heires Islands, to relieve that of Admiral Hugon, which, it is said, is coming into port for some repairs. It is said that Admiral Casy will soon go and cruise off the Balearic Islands."—Le Commerce. BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, MAY 18. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price French ti per Cents ll4 95 ... :14 9n 14 80 ... 111 SO #t er cents ..+9 30 ... 99 30 ... nu nO,„ 99 3,) 3 per Cents 7947 .... 79 40 ... 79 35 ... 79 35 lank of Prance Latlitte Bank I,ooof. St ares 116 i ...1065 ...If 65 ...1065 5,000 f. Shares 5155 ...51,3 .4153 .4155 Heigian Bank 1841 lO .11 ...1030 ...1039 ...1030 5 per Cents. New Loan Hit .. 101% Spanish Active ?.4% ... 24% ... '24% 5% ... 5% 5% ... 5% Portuguese 3 per Cents 2O ... 20 20 ... 20 Neapolitan ........ 104 IC4 10 ... 114 Roman IC2% ~. 102 1 % ...1025 ... lo2q Dutch 2% per Cents. 52% ... 52% ... L 2% ... 5.% PAIL WA Y SHARE.B. St Germain Versailles. LB ......«.......» 232 50 232 50 ... 232 50 ..:3d 50 B 347 50 ... 357 50 ... 257 50 ... 357 50 Rouen 460 450 ... 460 ... 460 Montpellier to Cette 2,10 230 ... 230 :30 Orleans . • 4BB 75 458 75 ... .88 '75 ... 418 75 'tarburg to Hale '232 ... 232 _5O ~ 232 232 50 DUTCH FUNDS.—AsisrEruAas, MAT 17. Money. 0i ls. ulna' Debt, 2 34 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Amin t Syndic, 4% percent.... 76 91% Ditto, ditto, 356 per cent 74 Commercial Company, 4 , 4 per cent...., ltla% 1631 i Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. .. lOl% 102 Loan 1837„.5 per cenL ......... ....... 9,% 97% • EXchange on London, One month l2 e 23 Two months 11 92 )4 Dutch Papers, May 18. e ELM AN U NDS—BausvaLd. May 19. Actual Debt, 258 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cont 103% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent....., 93 .3 per Cent. Thirty.seven --- - 70% (L 4O ) lOl Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 81,4 Society of Commerce, 4%per Cent lOO Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent... ....... National S&ciety . — Exchange on London (short) . ' 1195 —Brussels Papers, May 15. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vtansra, MAY 11. tive per Cents. 111eta11ique5•.............. lOl% FOAt per Cents. ......... ....... ......... .............. 100 • Three Ira Cents...„.„ 78% Rank Shares ... ........ ....... ........ 1644 .—Allgemein ..... e Zeitung. May 15* - • - PRUSSIAN •FUNDS.—Bitaufsi , MAY 14. Bills. Money St. Schuld. Sch., 4 1 ,, per cent. 1114% 103% Prussian English Loan, 18341, 4 per cent 101 101 k luxeliange on London, three mouths 0 19% —Prussian Stale Gazelie„ May 15. HAMBURG 13ORSENHALLE, Max - 15. gills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares A nOo.liussian Loan .. 10- % .004 Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Se • c's lO2 Russian 5 per Cent. Hop:: and Co. 3d and 4th Series ... 9'54 97 1 4 Ditto in Certificates New 4 per Cent. (1$40) 87% t,";% Dutch ,ctual Debt, 2% pe Cent 5154 51 Ditto 5 per Cent -- Polish Bond: New ! . icket Anglo. Danish Loan, 3 per Cep * N. , ' wegi an Loan, 1834, 4 per C.a:. • Spanish, New 5 per Cents. 16% THE GREAT MONOPOLY DEISATE.—A Morning Con temporary, sadly annoya that The Morning Sun out stripped it and all the other Morning Papers, by send ing off a full report of the debate by the first trains on W ednesday, asserts that it " was dispersed throughout the country by the very earliest trains on every line ofrailroad from London." Will our Contemporary stick to the truth, and tell us how many copies of that paper were sent off by the Six o'clock Birmingham train, which carried The Sun to alt the great manufacturing towns and counties in the north ? If he tells the truth he will answer, none, except a stray one in the pocket of some lady's maid. The same veracious paper calls The Sun a reprint, which contained the whole of the debate that finished at Four, and was sent off by Six, at least two hours before it, with " its nine columns, &e.," started. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. Independent of the improvement which is occurring gradually- in the value of Exchequer Bills, the premium on which to-day was as high as 4s. and 75., the Funds generally begin to assume an appearance of greater buoyancy, the continuance of which, however, must de pend upon the course of political affairs. The Stock market generally was pretty steady to day, and a fair average business was done. Consols for immediate transfer ranged from 89 : 1 to 90, 'and for the settling day on the 25th inst. from 89i to 90. There was an idea that the Bank of England might have issued some notice relative to an extension of its discounts, but the transfer books, it must be remembered, will not close till next month. India Stock for Account was at 250, and India Bonds were at par. The New Three-and-a- Half per Cents. realised 981- to 984; the Reduced Three and-a-Half per Cents. 971 to 971; and the Three per Cent. Annuities 888 to 884. As to Foreign Stocks there is scarcely any business doing, and sales when attempted are only made on in different terms. The Active Spanish Bonds remained all day at 234 to 23i the Deferred were at 111 ; Colom bian Bonds were marked: 228 ; French Five per Cents. 114 f. 50c. • Austrian 109 to 1091, and Dutch Two-and-a- Half per dents. 521. This comprised the sum total of the business done, not a bargain having been reported in Portuguese Securities. The Railway Shares met rather an easier market to•clay, and were better supported. Great Western Railway Shares were at 28 to 29; London and Birming ham at G 9; South-Western at 178; and Croydon at premium. Brighton were 32, Manchester and Leeds, New, 8 ; North Midland, 281 ; the New, 51 ; and the South-Eastern, 171 discount. National Provincial Bank of England shares were discount ; Provincial Bank of Ireland, 17 premium ; and Union Bank of Australia, 9 premium. It is satisfactory to state that Dr. Rolph, the able pro moter of emigration to Canada, has declared his inten tion of standing entirely aloof from the proceedings of the British North American Colonial Committee, in re lation to the timber and corn duties. This gentleman justly prizes his noble cause too highly to suffer it to be made a mere party question, with which it might ulti mately be confounded, if not crushed. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET MAY 19 . — We have to notice no improvement in the MARKET, Market to-day ; the sales amount to 4,000 bales at former prices ; 150 Pernams, and 250 Surats have been taken by exporters. In speculation there is nothing doing. LIVERPOOL SHARE-MARKET, MAY 19. The Share Market is still much depressed as to Grand Junctions, which to-day sold at 203. In other Stock the following are the quotations :--Eastern Counties, 81. es. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 293 ; Ditto, New Shares, 23; Leicester and Swan nyford, 53; London and Birmingham, 321. Shares 53; North Midland Shares, 11/ e . MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 19.—We con tinues very inactive. Edinburgh and Glasgow, 373 ; London and Birmingham, Thirds, 24; North Midland, Thirds, 275. prem. ; South Western, 57 58; Midland Counties, 87 88 ; South Lanca,hire, 53. We have received toe Journal of Antwerp of es'erday's date : BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MAY 17.—There has been some business doing in the Actions of the Society of Commerce, owing to the liquidations ; some demand has kept up the pike ; 1 4_ tog per cent. has been paid for continuation to the 15th July ; the other National Funds are firm ; Ardoin's is not so good. By the Batavier Dutch steamer we have received the Dutch Papers of the 16th inst., bringing the Amsterdam prices of the 17th inst. Two-and•a- Half per Cents., 52: Five per Cents., 1,93 ; Ardoin's Spanish, 221. The general topic of conversation is, what do Ministers intend to do? Report says that they will go on for some days longer, and afterwards dissolve. This state of affairs continues to pa ralyze all commercial transactions and damp the spirit for spe culation in the funds. Consols opened this morning at the leaving off quotations of yesterday, 693 90, both for Time and Money ; Exchequer Bills 4 6 prem. ; Bank Stock 178 179 ; India Stock 2503 251/ ; India Bonds 2 dis. par. In the Foreign Market, the prices are nominal as yet. Spanish Active, 233 24 ; Deferred, 113 3 ; Passive, 5g r ; Portuguese, 331 34 ; Three per Cents., 203 ; Brazilian, 673 66; Colombian, 223 3 ; Mexican, 28g 3 ; Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents. 523 3 ; Five per Cents., 99% 100. SHA RES.—Great Western, 26 29 prem. ; New ,131 143 prem. ; London and Bi ighton, 43 33 dis. ; Blackwell, 7 6 dis. ; Birmingham 68 70 prem. ; Southampton, 56 57 per share; Croydon, 133 4 per share;. Greenwich 83 per share; Man chester and Birmingham, 153 143 dis. ; South Eastern and Dover, It 4 174 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western London and Brighton London and Birmingham ... 90 Manchest•er and Leeds Ditto New Shares North Midland South Eastern and Dover An Alexandrian Correspondent of the Sud of Marseilles - - S per Cent. Consols JOINT STOCK BANKS. writes on the 26th ult. : 115 " 41 T 4 he y, gen cl er f a t l he m se or a t e a a l t i t h y dbeCt:iereon h 7 a o s a risen o t o a f r r e o from o l m lO th to e ' . , Union of Anstralia,, . Ditto New, 1830 .-- Ditto 25 . 34 PRICES OF IRISII STOCKS, DWAIN, MAY' Is. PI • 88j- Bank Stock. -..., 20, but the-mortality is , Here Three and Half 97 Grand Canal Stock. "' Ditto Reduced Stock Ditto llebs. 6 per cent... 85i otlertsd the more alai►uing ia tlke quarter occupied by foreign- , ... 4 . h . • -. d t . is true the Eu.97i Ditto 4 percent 14)aegduaeiV40111e4grattetheiiki.iatrsoe, several high p_rsonages. ll.•re ~,.„ • etto exempt, b ecom ing idea* •j• , ~. 89; Royal Canal Stuck ropeans,.who 1.. . r'f! take ;I . l:it ill ::;ciiC u l o gr. u .e : a e .a:nn , and their are the victims pf The unsettled state of our local affairs causes a great dullness time shown . • ' 4'" " a -..v be attributed to the ab- in tti - e City. Bgth speculators and the moneyed interest are at hive this i 3 i per Cent. Debs. pru,..... surd which fl oorage, d . •.ten-contagionists, .1 n w da.e 2 X OUSI waithrs the deter time -II loss Qk o hpw to pd . , all r I) I „.Y ... , r -- I Money continues much the same as yesterdays from 4 t 7 1 ati.m of Al' .- . ' opinions of some physicians, who are .- disseminated. The' !ague o their 114 .re oer t' 8. 'ante m•" Ousters in re§PePt t . 1.. P it KM being A' • slacient preeautioni, has also made its app,... On board" two' A - •and two has. ships, The la,,t ' ~c ording to the security offered, . 0 French ustrian ter cent •• - notch mail of the 19th inst., with steam-packet refused to take any passengers. 'l•he i' . w •, - - VI 1 cero., ro J m the same motive,. continues to live retired at his p • e have receiveo iii. - . —.ordain prices of the enn"try residen The English war-steamer, Phoenix, has. apers of the same date, bringing the An—. - . ' s. arrived to- day' ce. .....-aws f ro _ .-. • ~ h inst. ' f wo• _ . , er Cents. 51 ; Five p,•r ~...... 18 t I wo and a Ha.f p I p The, future' T ._ E , II opia. • 1:N , , Ardnin's 24 . lhe Exebauge comes 12 guilders 5 een subjectof • t . • loan' is" still the times t shyer better. nge. The- report of the day was, that Al. Hamann, not . ..., • . ha ' %ring been able to come to an agreement with M. Rothschild, h ay ., : • uonsols 'whic ' the early tart of the morning at , h were in 90, had resolved to have recourse to public aijudication. It is since continued at 89; 90, with scarce a bargain doing. MORNING EDITION. Money, 891 90 ; Exchequer Bills, 5 6 4 6 prem. ; Bank Steck, nothing done ; India -Stock, `250; India Bond=, par. In the Foreign Market little or nothing doing. Spanish Active 23-; Colombian, 23k; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 524; Five. per Cents., 100. In the Share Market scarce anything thing. Great Western, 934; London and Brighton. 44 ; London and Birmingh4nl, 159; North Midland, ilk ; South Eastern and Dove:, 154. No reports or news. We have a report of another failure in the West India line. No change in any of the Markets since the report at half past one. Nothing whatever doing. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS, .. Bank Stock ~. India Stock 3 per Cent Red. BB4 Ditto Bonds --par 3 per Cent Cons 9O Ditto Old Annuities ... 34 per Cent Red 974 Ditto New Annuities... New 31 per Cent.. New 5 per Cent — Ditto 500/ spm Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small 6pm Jan. 1860 .. 12 11-16 Bank Stock for Acct _250 Oct 1859. . India Stock for Oi Ipg. ... Jan. 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent lo9a Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto , New Ditto — Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres,6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent...... Ditto, Metallic.. Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 231 Ditto, 1824. 22i Ditto, Deferred . 12 Danish, 3 per cent. — Frenc h, 5 per cent.ll4f. 50c. Greek, 13:45, 5 per cent — -l Exchange —f. -- e. Mexican, 5 per cent.... I French, 3 per cent —f. —c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. 'Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 52f Peruvian, 182.5, 6 per ct. , Ditto, 5 per cent . 100 SHARES Great Western Railway (65 paid) . London and Brighton (50 paid). London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 159 London and South Western London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l3i Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) • • Ditto New Shares (30 paid) ...... ...... ... 22 North Midland Railway ( 100 paid) Ditto New Shares (40 paid) 34i South Eastern and Dover (33 paid)... 15ir COURT' CIRCULAR,. The Queen held a Court at half-past two o'clock yes terday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. The Right Rev. Dr. Pepys had an audience of her Majesty, and did homage on his - translation to the See of 'Worcester. The Marquis of Normanby, her Ma jesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home De partment, and the Dean of Hereford, Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Waiting, assisted at the ceremony. The Marquis of Normanby had an audience of her Majesty. The Queen was attended by Lord POltimore, Lord in Waiting, and the Hon. W. Cowper, Groom in Waiting. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by Lord Alfred Paget, visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty yesterday afternoon. The Princess Royal was taken an airing yesterday in a carriage and four. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess of Lei ningen, took an airing yesterday afternoon in a barouche and four. Prince Albert honoured the Archbishop of Canterbury with his company at dinner last evening at Lambeth Palace. His Royal . Highness was attended by Lord R. Grosvenor, Groom of the Stole ; Mr. G. E. Anson, Treasurer ; Earl of Morley, Gentleman in Waiting ; Sir G. Anson, and Captain Francis Seymour, Groom in Waiting ; and Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting. The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace last evening, included her Royal Highness - the Duchess of Kent, their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, Earl of Surrey, Earl of Uxbridge, Lady Anne Maria Dawson, Baroness Spaeth, Lord Portman, Lady Barham, and Sir Henry Wheatley. - The Queen Dowager attended Divine service yester day (Holy . Thursday) in the Chapel Royal. St. James's. The Bishop of London preached the sermon. Her Majesty's suite included the Countess of Brown low, Hon. Miss Wheatley, Hon. Miss Hudson, Earl Howe, and the Rev. J. R. Wood. The Duchess of Gloucester and the Prince of Leinin gen visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday. Prince George of Cambridge arrived at his residence in St. James's Palace on Wednesday evening from Dublin. Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar 'arrived at Marl borough House, the residence of the Queen Dowager, yesterday, from the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. The Duke of Cambridge and Prince George visited the Queen Dowager yesterday. The dinner party at Cambridge House, on Wednesday evening, included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Mrs. Howley, the Archbishop of York and Miss Vernon Harcourt, the Bishop of London and.. Mrs. Bloomfield Baron de Nieumann, the Austrian Minister on a special mission, the Duke of Wellington, Earl Howe, Lady Caroline Legge, Lord and Lady Burghersli, Lord Ellen borough, Sir John and Lady Shelley, and Mr. Culling Smith. The Lord Chancellor will give his usual breakfast to the Judges, Queen's Counsel, &c., at his Lord Ship's house in Bruton-street, on Saturday next, the first day of Trinity Terin. Colonel Westenra had an interview with the Marquis of Norrnanby yesterday at the Home-office. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes— terday. The Attorney-General was heard in "wood. and others v. Goodlake and. another." At the conclu sion of his address their Lordships adjourned the further hearing of the case until Tuesday next. CHRISTCHURCH, .SURREY.-A. most nume rous meeting of the inhabitants of the above parish was held in the large room of Newton's Hotel, Blackfriars road, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of petitioning the Legislature for a repeal of the Cora-laivs. Mr.. Myles, the churchwarden, Was.una nimouslisallekto the chair. Mr. Pellet, and several other gentlemen addressed the meeting at great length,. and a petition, thanking her Majesty's Ministers for the measures they had brought forward, was subsequently carried unanimously, with a request that the Members of the Borough do, present and support the prayer thereof. Thanks were then voted to the • Chairman, which, was duly acknowledged; and the meeting sepa rated. REPRESENTATION OF SCOTLAND.—A foolish paragraph in the Aberdeen Constitutional of Friday has been republished in some southern papers. It intimates that all the Liberal Members of Forfarshire are to be opposed by Liberals—Sir Henry Parnell. in Dundee, by Kinloch of Kinloch ; Lord 1). G. Hallyburton, in the county, by the llon. Lauderdale Maule ; Mr. Chal mers, in the Angus burghs, by a gentleman from Lon -don, name unknown. The following statement may be relied on, as regards Forfarshire:—Kinloch of Kinloch certainly intended to oppose Sir Henry Parnell in Dundee, and with every prospect of success ; but the development of the Ministerial policy will prevent any contest in that town, if Sir Henry is willing to retain his seat. The Hon. Lauderdale Maule would not oppose the present Member for Forfarshire, if his Lordship wished to continue its Member. From the weakness of his health, however, it is most probable that he will not again offer his services. We know, indeed, that his Lord ship, so far back as last election, was anxious to retire. In that case Mr. Lauderdale Maule will be doubtless put forward for, and carry Forfarshire. He will be opposed by a Conservative gentleman, connected with the Airlie fa mily, who will give a little trouble, but cannot carry the county. Mr. Lauderdale Maule is a younger brother of Mr. Fox Maule, and holds his opinions. Mr. Chal mers will meet no opposition in the Angus burghs. There was lately some disagreement betwixt hiM and a portion of his constituents, because he refused to pledge himself to the total and immediate repeal of the Corn laws. Mr. Chalmers refuses to give pledges, but we can say assuredly, that he is favourable to more liberal mea sures than those proposed by the Ministry. He enjoys the confidence of the electors of the Church party, who are numerous in the Angus burghs ; and there would be no more hopeless contest than one against Mr. Chalmers, on the part of either Whig or Tory. We are quite certain that the Constitutional's nameless gentleman will never be named in Montrose or Arbroath.—Aberdeen Banner. GRETA BRIDGE, SATURDAY.—AWFUL OC CURRENCE.—On Thursday evening, between the hours of five and six o'clock, the village of Londonderry, near Bedale, was throWn into the utmost state of alarm by a female running out of the house of one Robinson, a trflrdener, covered with blood, and faint6d on the road, who turned out to be the gardener's wife, whom her hu . sband had nearly killed. On some persons going up to the house, a most shocking spectacle presented itself. The son of the unfortunate man lying dead, murdered by the hands of his father—the father himself pacing the room with a gun in his hands, no one -daring to approach the house ; but in a few minutes the re port of a gun was heard, and on entering the house " the maniac," for what else can we call him, was .weltering• in his blood, with his head nearly blown off. But faint hopes are entertained of the recovery of his wife, whom he had mutilated to a shocking degree. The two corpses of the father and son • were interred on Saturday last. The rumour is, that the cause of the melancholy aftiiir was the loss of his place, combined with a series of misfor tunes that have reduced him, or was likely to do, to a state of poverty. — Tyne Mercury. THE LOSS OF THE WILLIAM BROWN.— HAVRE, MAY 16.—The surviving pa,sengers of the William BroWn, brought to this port by the ship Crescent, request that their names may be inserted for the satisfaction of their friends at home. Subseriptions are in prozress here for the purpose ,1 of getting them all sent out to New York with the next packet. The following are the names of those saved, many of them being witnesses to the awful, heart-reraling scene of their brothers, sisters, cousins, and other relatives 'being - launched into a watery grave ;—Mrs. Margaret Edgar, Isabella Edgar, Susannah Edgar, Margaret Edgar, and Jane Johnstone Edgar, all from Lochm a be n ; J ames Bl ac k and wife, from Dublin ; ! James Patrick, and Matilda Patrick, and child, from Co'e mine ; Bridget Macgee. Drogheda ; Bridget Nugent; West- ! meath; Ann Bradley. Sarah Corr, Mary Corr, and Anthony Corr, :41 from Coleraine; Julia M'Adam, from Dublit. It is not correct that the hands were cut off from those who clung to the sides of the boat LITERATURE. i BUCKINGHAM'S AMERICA, 3 Vas. • Fisher, London, 1841. Mr: Buckingham has penned these volunies in the kindliest spirit towards o u r transatlantic brethren, though we are not aware that lie 110 allowed is partialities to get the better .of sense of justice. On the question of slavery, particular, as it • exists at present in th e United States, he speaks out with - com mendable boldness, and laments the " 3 1 ) " parently almost unconquerable prejudices 5 ° prevalent among persons of all political parties, on the subject." So imperfect, it seems, ar e , Jonathan's notions of freedom, as " th e natural an d inalienable right of every man"—according to the famous national Declaration of Independence -- that lie scarcely considers it to be a blot on his re publican escutcheon, thatthe several States of the, Union, which slavery still exists, should boll` so many thousands of their fellow-men in unjus t ' and unwilling bondage. " But what i s the nu', surprising of all," observes Mr. Buckingham, "is the fact that so large a number of th e clergy, but especially those of the Episcopal Church, theta ding those who call themselves evangelica l should be, not merely palliators of this state of slavery, but advocates Itir its continuance , and deprecators of all public discussion or agitation on the subject; so that if "the Be, publicans understand civil an d politica l liberty.. but imperfectly, the Christian P 1 ;" fessors seem to understand the liberty of rr ; giun and• justice still less." This ser i ou s ileT e r in their national char a cter • exc e pt e d, ou r • mita% was much pleased with the Americans. He folla d them quick, intelligent, sincere, courteous, a 3, hospitable to a degree ; b u t more sens iti ve to to . e opinions of foreigne rs th an h e was p repare d to ex' pect: Captain Maryatt, if we remember rightlij was struck by th e same nat i ona l pecu li ar i t y; 3 1 we can scarely wonder, •therefbre, that Jonatha3 is not over-partial to John Bull, considerl how often the latter ; has made him the su"; ject of his severest, sarcasm. The preseu f volumes will, -we suppose,. act as a sort r ?„ salve to the wounded van ity o f our Amer' " brethren, for unquestionably M r . B uc kinglia u, ,; is more favourably disposed t owar d s t h em ti3 l " any of his English predecessors. Of N ew Yon ,, " where he landed, he speaks in high terms ()far probation; according to him it is a most imPes i l, and improving city, all bustl e , activity, cheerfa ness, and variety, and containi ng a p o p u lation lit tle f short of three hundred thousand. Th e beauty ° the American women, too, greatly struck 1 1 1 "The women," he tells us, "ar e mu ch 11 33 somer than the men. They are almost uniforuilit gOod-looking—the greater number are vc lla would be called in England p re tty woine" d which is something between good-lookino - , 3 i a i . handsome, in the nice distinctions of beauty: f li t .; uniformity extends also to their figures, which 3. almost universally slender, and ofgood symmetry Very 'few large or stout women are seen, 31 ` 0 none that we should call. masculine. A mare t l , l b a sr usual degree of feminine delicacy, enhanced ;§' the general paleness of complexion and slikh W e , of figure, is . particularly character stir of A t ta rican females; and the extreme res e 3 ; deference shown to them ever y w h ere by tilet has a tendency to i ncrease t h a t delcacy, v ictcY, . n .l O making. them more dependent on the a :tent?-0 and assistance of oth ers , than Erglish lidiea the same class us ua lly are ." OtlV ashing,t v o oi r the. capital of the U n it e d St ates , our aut,i! be speaks in qualified terms of praise• le o city, it appears, is ab ou t f our t een E ng lish O t , in circumference, but the dwellings are ' e. tered over it in detach e d portions, gra il ' ) 8 0 1 fragments of streets, and isolated building'? to that it has the appearance of a town rising 111 ,, 5 , f existence, but grad u ally arres t e d i n i ts progre'e and now stationary in its condition. the public buildings, however, are fine' • r a ,,ie foremost among them is the Capitol, wo, 'Ja i , the Congress hold their sittings, and w";:i e if we may judge from the engravings of it the if we may judge from the engravings of it first volume, must indeed be a splendid e lice. The. greet Canadian lakes, of course/ ! te a cited Mr: Buckingham's curiosity, and he V iSi them all in succession, amazed at their apparen,g, ocean-like extent, and the variety and rnag ni o cence of the adjacent scenery. His descriptions.it, this branch of the subject are replete with 5 1 ) ,.' 1 0 and even eloquence. He lauds the beauty t h e American autumn, as its effects are visible on' e t vast forests of the lake district, in the warm est terms of panegyric, observing that in some 1" 3 , 6 ',4 Some 0a the scenery at this period of the year supa- , u, anything be ever saw in the Old Wor/ His volumes, as bein g th e resu lt of three r' , yea ri close and patient observati on , are worthy Of ev hie attention, and certainly furnish us Witt', ....at • clearest ideas we hav e y e t h a d , o f the PreeNeve aspects of society in th e U n i te d States. , „, o r quote a curious pass age , w hi c h w ill sho w exceedingly sensitive brother Jonathan is 0 11 " . subject of slavery : American actor, was engaged at the ,s During our stay at Washington, Mr, Forrest, the grek . : connected with his performances, some anecdotes came of my knowledge, which, as they are strikingly illustrative the state of feeling in the slave States, on all .nl,a' gi ' e j, touching negroes and slavery, deserve to be inonr t he After his representation of Othello, the editor ° ,J a lt Native American, published here, denounced t he ,., t l i ert , principal theatre; and, as one wholly cult to be permitted in any 06 " e „ f e , State, where it was revolting, as he thought, to: 'foil sent the .dark Moor, Othello, paying his suit to the ot d, Desdemona. This was an outrage w hi c h h e d ee med it th e so rt of every white man t o resen t ; and he shadowed forth tl!!_, by of resentment whi c h h e th oug ht oug h t to b e pu t in praetu; er e saying that " even if Shakspeare, the writer of the plaYt ehef l; to be caught in a n y S ou th ern S tate , h e oug h t to b e LY/ I „, re a,) (that is, summarily p un i s h e d b y b e i ng tarre d an d . for having written it !" In strict harmony with this. sen,.°ool was the other in c id en t th at occurr ed . M r. F o rrest had fle"° l t his the part of Sp ar t acus , i n t h e p l ay o f t h e Gl a di ator ;an bet is represented, first, the sale of a wife and child away frog' es , husband, all Th rac i an cap elv tives, at which great bort° is pressed by th e characters of the play themses; t i re , andoe l ., glaliators, who a . e all slaves, are incited by Spartacos obr Volt against their. masters, which they do suceessfullyi. P r ot' , lain th e i r f ree d om . O n t h e d ay f o ll ow i ng th i s,- Mr • - I "" r *,,, - ell benefit was attended by the President and his Cabinet, s s tf re aimembers of both Houses of Congress, and a full !bare re' re' sidents and strangers. But the manager of the th___ (4 %; ceived many anonymous and threatening letters, icarPt o ir against ever permitting this play to be acted inV B9 l;i again; and one letter from a member of Congress, O it a that if he dared to announce it for repetition, a card suss addressed to the public on the subj , et, which the , r - n - g would repent. Such is the feverishness of alarm, ,,- E n ' u ttir populati o n w h ose cons t ant o bj ec ti on to any efforts fort hej o lf and legal e man cip a ti on o f th e s l aves , i s, t h at t h ey arc and cont e nt e d th a t th ere i s no nee d o f change!. and: 01 0 014 are so sati.fied with th e i r p resen t con di t i on , th a t they not accept of their freedom if it were offered to thew !' • MADNESS IN THE STATES.—Fanny "" side-combs w ere ra ffl e d f or i n N ew O r l eans f or 5,00 vie The lucky winner exhibited such decided ev id e nces of der' ment that confinement was found netvasary. Ledger. bils lilivssEL4, MAY 16,—The Princess Isa p bn Ferdinand, daughter of the Infant Don Francis Derau' r e 'too arrived at Brussels on Friday, set out yesterday on he r to Paris, accompanied by two of her brothers. A jee il : BRUSSELS, MAY 18.—The King, anti by - and their suite arrived at Laeken last night at ten e'cl °c " special train from Courtray ; they left Paris on Surielak i ;ie: o iag and slept at Amiens. Her Royal Highness the of Kent is expected at Brussels in a few days. t wer C A NCIENT CONCERTS. —Th e seventh CPljigly; took place on Wednesday, under the direction of his 80Y 3 , 1 , j o g of ness the Duke of Cambridge, for his Majesty the " Hanover. Conductor, Mr. Bishop. 'T II I MONOPOLIES. CLASS INTEREST -. s o- Constitution (said Burke) is not made for great. e ne , ra the o proscriptive exclusions sooner or later . it wia d e stri y or they will destroy the Constitution. . • • ve . o tir BERLIN, MAY B.—We are able gl 0.1 readers the joyful intelliimnee that the conventions r e late „d -the continuation of the ' German Customs Union, Nct re alr yesterday, and that several of the plenipotentiaries have left Berlin to return home. --Prussian State Gazette. . t , e o MORTALITY IN EGYPT.—We have feC! l o d a private letter from Alexandria, in which is given an ac e op oil of the ravages whi c h the plague i s makini, in Egypt,' 1 ' 1 i %0 1 the tle'ails of which the most implicit reliance ' may . be P" e fy ; We extract the following therefrom g e fi llser mortality at Cairo is g reatly on the inc rease , ar id the is now computed at 115 a day. Of these deaths,' „s r b e severity and eighty arise from the plague, and regre y p e that among them may be reckoned several distirtmli' be „ed cd ~, sonages. In this city the' diurnal average alre'ady. twenty, and serious alarm is beginning to be rnanires,„.l consecpence of the quarter which is inhabited by WI:0cl and which hitherto hail been exempt, having become v , 01l and presented a distressing scene. The Europears , " l ey t o a i always obtained a rer.own for the precautiors which t 1 / 01! invariably resorted to, have this time, by their owf' ha ttl den- e, been the victims of their wonted courage, irlatlY„ s , been lid away by the absurd opinions of certain physiel a- , - , se a hare dnbbed themselves non-contagionists. I have al' ° ,,tes i that the plague has made its appearance on board two A ,,too l f ; and two gritish ships, and that in consequence i,f the nance thereof its Egypt, the last F r e nc h s teamer " this port refused to take any passengers." . it Bs On the subject of the recent elopement wh: c i t ri d caused so gniat a aensatiun in th e. F renc h a gy Imlepciulent, of Brussels, has th e f*.ttlowing ta ders.ard that the Comte G urows ki au d the illf"11 tare} belle have declared to the authorities of N a mur th it were mayried by a priest before leaving Paris. aff 4 ir shall have been furth er se t t l e d the Pri nc ‘7itie g j q.:itted the hotel d'ArsAirnp, and is gone to re,iot4 the house of the Burgotint.ster of Namur." Itbr !tea th e of that Oh. • ....,. .._ ~,,:etc is the individual who solidi-- to ol) , • BURGLARY.—lnformation was - given.at Bow . o street on Wednesday, that the premiges of. Messrs. tory r.:fitsal. The. Eina ke ip a ti on , gian l l 3 .v „,,,, e Of M: „ Aile. Rachel some time back, and met with .00 Edward Hainos and Sun% printer's, and or Messrs. Baines t•ays that the Princess Isabella was brought t o e 1 0 1 1 th and Newsome, hooksellent, Leeds, were ,on Satarilky from Namur on Friday last, .and lodged - at °l ' another Bei night broken open and robbed of - from 120 . 1. to 130/. in principal hotels. . We re notes, gold, and silver. About loot. of the money was , ANTIQUITIES - Certain iinpravements e pro' in 5/. notes, - principally of the Leeds Banking Company. •' . itra n ' th Pei . lately conimeceed r,und the woods of Drutncou Jae A reward is offered for the detection of the thieves. c tor, 10 0 petty 0111 r. Heron, of Duncow ; and the contra_ Ti _ e, ~ , THE. QUEEN AND THE TORIES,—We have per„ii;.; sson, while engaged in forming a sunken fe `usuf ors, c urio as ° it on very fixcellent an 1, ; /' t o or.ty, t o at her ;Majesty has again, surprise came upon a whole posse of arcient sw _ wea ve to , and very recently; expres9ed in the strongest terms her ex. formed, of a brittle material, and very unlike t l , iike Du" tretne reluctance to accept the resignation of AliniAers under . the present day. ,'',lost of them are small, and mq_ 00041 any circumstances; and th er e is e very r e ason to believe, that piers than either a hafted or Daina9ctis blade. One," ol „ch t s ' o f though a & so l ut i on w il l i„, a ll p ro b a bility take place, that ber appeared to have been a halberd, the handle ot c _ rro sioil .a , the ..present Mi n i s t r y w II remain in . power at been br. ken off in tie act of tai , ing it, or by the ff ne er° a neve f0e...,, - - • The people have evely 'rea:son time. An old peel or keep is st.ll habitable at I) ; t .,1 A lpo le4st for some months longer. he has most zealously stood by distinctlyvi sa. ' and the traces of a Homan camp are to stand by the Queen, for s • 1 mile off.—Pamir/0. Cugrter, them.— Clte/ten4M gt"i f "? C r: . . !,,,, , 1 1 . 1 '', - i { ~:~ t ~ . r~ 4 ~ u) ,j jW.~ 1..'~~ eq,