The Sun. — London, England, 1842-05-30 00:00:00

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. A man, of the- name- of- B u ffaed,-- aged 44, .a-day labourer, was tried on the lath before the Court of Assizes of Angers, for the murder of-.a-gendarme named Renault. It appeared that thedeceused; on Feb ruary 22, when, accompealed by two of his comrades on duty in the commune of Manlevrier, perceived a man with a gun. ivho was evidently poaching. He de sired his - companions to stay behind whilst he Went to wards him. 'The latter on seeing him approach fled, and the gendarme pursued until his comrades lost sight of him. Suddenly the report of a gun was heard, and on the two gendarmes running up, they found Renault dead, and the murderer gone. A young man, named Gan- dreau, was arrested on suspicion, but after fourteen days' imprisonment, Buffard, who is his uncle, came forward, ands delivered himself up, declaring that, if any one was guilty, he was the man. On the trial, the prisoner, who was decently dressed in the costume of the peasants of La Vendee, appeared deeply afflicted, held his face hidden in his pocket hand erehief; and, when he spoke, his voice was inter rupted bcy. sobs. He acknowledged that he had shot the man, but declared that it was altogether sn accitlent, for when he saw the gendarme sen•euing him, he warned him not to come near, and, threevina down his hat, said, "If you pass that spot, I will I me." The gendarme still approached with his musket to his shoulder, and he, not knowing what he was doing through agitation, raised his gun, and the piece unfortunately went off. He fled and told what had occurred to his nephew, who had been arrested, LI well as to other members of his family. The Court, taking into consideration the conduct of the man in giv ing hiinself up, and the evident affliction he felt fotthe un fortunate; event, found him guilty of homicide with out premeditation, and sentenced him to eight years' confinement. Before the sentence was pronounced, the Procureur-du-Roi, who conducted the prosecu tion, informed the Jury that the prisoner had a high character for general good conduct, and mentioned that the nephew, who was in the first instance appre hended on the Charge of murder,' knew, immediately after the event, that his uncle was the guilty party ; bat, with the most generous feeling, had preferred imprisonment, and even the risk of condemnation, to becoming his accuser. The following account of an attempt s at murder, and happy escape of its intended victim from death, is given be the Breton of Nantes. M. 011ivry, re .ceiver of the registry-duties - and the revenues of the national domains at La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, .near Nantes, having discharged a male servant named Poisson, for general misconduct and dishonesty, and 'refused to'sign any certificate of good conduct, in the evening of Sunday lut a as he was, conversing with %some friends in the middle of the street of La Chapelle, Poisson came up to him, and pereinptorily demanded the certificate, which M. 'ollivry as positively re faced. The fellow immediately took a pistol from cinder his blouse, put the muzzle to the ear of his late master, and fired. M. 011ivry fell, but made efort to rise. again. Seeing this, Poisson discharged areethe:' pistol at the object of his vengeance, and re mained wishing at him, till two ladies, who were pre sent, nnateed by the frightful scene, made an attempt -to seTze the assassin, who then fled. M. 011ivry re attained senseless far a short time, but, recovering Iris faculties, it was soon ascertained that he had received no serious wound, the first ball having only see mel his head, and lodged in the wall of the church hearielsich he. stood. The second ball had entirely missed hinte Poisson took refuge in a small wood nease the towste but finding that' it was completely learreninded, an d Vs escape rendered impossible, he re loaded one of his nistols, and blew out his brains. The assassin was little 'sore than 18 years of age. A woman has been foetid guilty by the Court of Azeizes for Calvados of an attempt to murder her husband, under the following - s NiTavatect Circum stancee :—Maheut, an inhabitant of a ssny-sur-Vignes near Caen, became the ridicule of his neighbours front tile, patience with which he bore the'ejll-treat moist, and even the notorious infidelities of his'sseeife t a vseung woman aged 23. Knowing, however, that •Ohe teal an intimacy with a youth not more than eighteeN veers old, he threatened' the paramour to acquaint his - m a s ter with his misconduct. A - few days after' Ma .he at WV , knocked down, and seriously hurt by a blow of the bead. Although , this confined him to his bed foe some time, he obstinately refused to comply with the instances of his friends and of the Magistrates to de l :qui - ice the author of . this act of malice. After living far some months separated from his wife, he deter mined to , remove to Saint-Sylvain, his native place. On sth Mach he made up a small parcel of his clothes and •Ktien, and started as early as five in the morning. Wlii2e on his way he was stopped by the voice of his wife, Who coming up to him, complained of his leaving her withteut bidding her adieu. The Man euffered her to approach and embrace him, but the unprincipled woman took the opportunity to stab him in several places, and left him weltering in 2zis blood, believing that she had killed him. For tue;Uttely some men going:to work found him lying on the road," and ascertaining that he was not (lead, cam rigid him bad: to Cesny. The medical men who were called in found that none of his wounds were d ee; erieus. On being restored to his senses, he de egasineed e his' and she was arrested and committed to take her-trial. • She strenuously derlied her guilt, hut the evidence of Maheut was so strongly confirmed by other testimony, that the ,Jury declared her guilty ot` a deirrserete att'erept to commit murder, but addedthere were xet eenuating circumstances. Upon this the Court 'reduced the, penalty to two degrees, and con demned. her to imprisonment with labour for twelVe years,- and to be exposed on the pillory. A lettor from. Ariew (Algeria) May 9, in the Co;. , eitationat i. contains the following :—" Our province hasheen lately the theatre of some events of interest. Abd , el-Kader attempted a diversion, not ill-imagined, on the allicsd tribes between Oran, tascara, and Mos taganeen. But. the Emir cannot act as in the days of his prosperiV. '-At present his plans are knowin at. once, for - the territory he desires to re-conquer ' is filled' with tribes devoted to our cause. It was impcssible, ,therefore, to conceal his operations, and General •Lanioriciete, setting . out from Mascara,. at tacked and, overcame the principal body, which im- Ine'diately, dispersed ; the remnants re•assembled under the . command of Ben Harneidi in the Che • and made an attempt to surprise a - large tribe of 'lecterns, who reelide in a rich valley below Mottaganenr. The Chef-de-Bataillori Claparede, &nimancling this. place, Was informed in time, and Went out to . meet the Arabs. The latter, I:CA?. ever, 'though superior ;in numbers, avoided the meeting, and again disbanded, to re-assemble about a league above Arzeer.''' . The dettiohment in defeuce of the- place conltnht, *Om the smallness of its numbers, len.ye the" town, so it contented itself with doubling the g4arde round - the cattle, which it thought. might be an object with the enemy. The precaution was useful, in a short time the sharpshooters of Ben Ilameidi. appeared,' and beg tee firing on our men. The distance at which they stood Was. too great to do damage, and the army hastily rewired, on hearing that two squaa deons" of Spaliia, followed by the Garabats ' com manded by the fame us Ali-Bolem, and a mhundred of Douair horsemen, revere coming 'from Sidi-Marouf to attack them. These facts, though appa rently, . insignificant at the first view, give an exact klea of the parts ,played ' by the two parties. • Our Donairs and auxiliaries attack, with . a feeding of contempt, those who oppose them, and in- every. instance :have the advantage.. Seeer.g..l I:avj, lately come to Oran to : give in their suhsaiseiten, aeid the Emir will L.oon heVe no person under his command but his immediate, partisans: A letter frAm Amsterdam, May 18, in . ,the Globe, says " The 'Duke .nf O - rleans will, it is stated, repair to Lttiemhourg in the* beginning of next month, to p:a . y-, a visit to the • King of Holland to be ,01(:_,N at; that period. The ex-King of llollated is eipected in a few days at the Chateau nt'" boo, and it •• is almost - . certain' that he will visit tte . Hague. M . d e R ot h sc hild is still here; the sole 'object of his .Ylsit is the arrangement with the Mi nister Q i - rll ) 4l. we, of the capitalization of the portion of interest of .the. 'Public debt payable by Belgium." The Bishop of Bade has just published ,a pastoral letter, announcing 'to hie flock that the Pope ha.s pro mised plenary indUlgences to all persons offering up prayers for the Church of S pa i n. letter f rom Berlin, 13th i nst. , in the Augs b urg A Gazette, states that: M. de R,ochoW will continue to act as Minister of the Interior until the Ist July, when Count &Arnim wi ll comme nce his functions. This letter mentions a report that the King, of Prus sia has tai,Tered 'to lend aunilion of crowns to the city of Hams urgh for three years, without interest. The German papers give accounts of several fires which have occurred within the last ,ten Pozey, in Crof itia, where in an exceedingly shorktime, not less than 1 68 houses became a prey to the flarnqs, and 15 person s perished. Another occurred at Ameger,. , in De= ark, where 30 houses were destroyed, and a third at W irenlof, a town in Argau, where 16 houses WeiTe reduced to ashes. . D espatches have been received by the .Government from, General Bugeaucl, dated Mostaganem, , May I' ,2 e and 'enclosing reports from Major-General de Bail a the Commandant of Algiers, in the nbgence: the (governor: General, dated - Algiers, 15th instant, from . General Changarnier, dated Blidah i . 14th, and I 'rorn General d'Arbouville, dated gaseara,;9th.: The Governor-General merely announces :his' in tentio 9. of getti n g o ut o n hi s i n t en d e d -expedi tion on the lath, which would enable him; he says, to give two daye' rest to the troops under•Getieral d'Arbouville, who are to form - part of the expedition. Gene de Bar states that, on the 14th, Lieut. de Miraudol, who had been taken pris oner near Mascara, arrived at Blidalt, having been released by order of Abd-el-Kader, and announced that 84 other captives, also released, were Waiting on. the banks of the Chelifffor the means of conveyance to Blidah. The report states that Lieut. de Mira rtdol did not appear to have any very 'positive notions as to the motives' which bad induced Alxl-el- Kader taseet these prisoners at liberty. The report from G et ies-al Changarnier announces his having been per fectly successful with his convoy for re.victualling • ,-Medeali..lle-met with no obstruction, and .during his march attacked the tribe of the Mouzaia9o4l - liii,g:five, -. - taking thirty prisoners, and carrying off 40 head of cattle. General d'Arbouville's report mentions several slight affairs, the result of which Was the capture of about 120 prisoners, and 3,000 head of cattle, and the submission of some' tribes who had until then persevered in their hostility. On his way to Mascara he found three pieces of small artillery, which had been concealed , at Saida by Abd-el-Kader, when he evacuated. that .place. We . extract the 'following statement of the num bers of the Catholie . .elergy in France, and the pro vision made fur them, from the Budget of the Minister Of Public Worship. The total amount of these ecclesiastics is 36,014. They comprise 15 Arch bishops, of whom the Archbishop of Paris has at pre sent an income of 25,0001. a•year, which, however, is proposed to be increased to 40,0001., and the other 14 have from 14,000 f. to 15,000 f. ;65 Bishops, having 10,000 f. ; but the three Cardinal Bishops of Rouen, Lyons, and Arras, haVe an additional 10,0001. SUch prelates 'as have two departments in their diocese receive 1,5001. for the expences at their visitations, and the rest have I,ooof. Sums of from B,ooof. to 10,000 E are granted to Archbishops and Bishops towards the charges' of their first establishment. There are 175 Vicars-general. Those in the Arch bishopric of Paris receive 4,000 E, in the other Arch bishoprics, 3,0001., and in the Bishoprics, 2,000 f. for each ; 661 Canons, those of Paris having 2,400 E, and the rest 1,500,f. ; 3,301 Cures, with incomes of from 1,200 E to 1,500 E ; 26,000 desservans or curates — such as are under 60 years of age receiving 800E — between 60 and 70 years, 9001.—and of 70 and up wards, I,ooof. ; 27,600 Cures are established or au thorised ; '5,77d Vicars, with allowances of 350 f. (6,276 are authorised).; 21 Bishops' Canons, having 8,000 f., being dignitaries and canons of the second order belonging to the Chapter of Saint Denis. There are also 3,000 seminarists. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE.--Sir Robert Peel's perpetual disposition to do the pTausible has got him and his majority into a mess on. the Compromise and Bribery question. It is clear they do not wish to punish bribery when they can possibly help it ! Ipswich to wit ! It is equally clear that they do not like inquiry into bribery. This was sufficiently evident from the reception of the several speeches last night on Mr. C. Buller's motion to include Bridport in that in quiry. They are, however, constrained to vote on the. plausible side with the Prime Minister. Now that vote is a second contradiction to their conduct towards Ipswich. The case of that borough was expressly referred to their consideration by the Com mittee which reported it. On the evidence adduced before it, the election had been declared void; and it was notorious that as much evidence again might be .. had for asking. Now here was - a case which came regularly. before the House for special inquiry. That inquiry was negatived. In the case of Bridport, on the other hand, the petition of Mr. Warburton is a sort of answer to the advertisement which the House has published for fancy inquiries. We defy the Minister (or a clever tempter) to explain . on what possible-.principle inquiry is granted in this case, after inquiry has been refused in the. other. And what sort of inquiry is it, after all, that is going to be made ? Here. iVe frankly confess that, after reading the second claUse of Mr. Roebuck's Bill, and the last night's speeeh of Lord Stanley, we are as much in the dark as the House must be. It is not to be a ,judicial inquiry at fill ; - for a judicial inquiry draws after it a judicial sentence; and no sentence, it seems, is to he passed on anybody, whe ther bribers or bribees. For what purpose, then, is Bridport added to the subjects of this inquiry ? Not for the purpose of adjuiicating between the conflicting parties. Not for the purpose of reinstat ing one, or of branding another—not for the pur pose (said Lord Stanley) of visiting of Mr. Warburton, or either of those Honourable Members, with any penal c onsequences—"the less," said Sir R. Peel, "those pro ceedings possessed of a criminatnry character towards ludividuals the better. The House ought not to con template individual punishment ; he did not mean in dividual punishment so much as individual degra dation ; that ought not to be the object in view, because it was out of the question to deny that, for the last twenty or thirty years, compro mises of this sort had constantly been entered into." Here is a precious mess new ! Here is a special in quiry into local and personal cases—without any in tention to found special proceedings upon its result— without any purpose either of unseating Members, or of disfranchising boroughs—nay with an express opinion, on the part of its institutors, that the less it partakes of a criminatory character towards indivi duals the better, and with an express provision for indemnifying those subjected to it from all its eonse quences ! STANDARD.—AIIusion was last night made in the Houses of Parliament to the improving condition of the Irish peasantry. That the character of the Irish population is improved we rejoice to believe ; and that a part of the improvement is due to the land lords we as cheerfully admit. Irish landlords are no better and no worse than other men. While it seemed for their interest, as it did until the establishment of a system of Poor-laws, and until they found that degradation could be carried so low as to make the peasantry mere unreasoning instru ments in the hands of their enemies, they were indifferent to a debasement of the' population w :Sch, at leapt, seemed to give them higher rents than cnild be paid by a higher order of human brings. The introduction of the poor law, hovieve, and some sharp lessons they have had at elections, have taught them that in the de basement of the peasantry they have no longer an advantage, but the reverse, and they naturally now exert themselves to raise the character of the popula tion. This, in part, accounts for the improvement that is acknowledged to have taken place. But another beneficial influence, and a far more efficient one, has been at work, in the exertions of the always ()wad landlords, and of the societies of good Men who have devoted themselves to the instruction of the people. In Ireland, the extension of true religion has not merely made Protestants, it has made Roman Catholics .better than they were. What we have to say of the temperance movement involves something . more like a paradox. The prevailing opinion is, that until lately the Irish were universally a nation of drunkards. This opinion is founded on the fact, that the Irish labourers in this country have been seen to indulge more in . the use of ardent spirits than our native peasantry, and on all that we have heard of fighting at Irish fairs. The truth,, however, is, that the. Irish peasantry were never at any time habitual drunkards--they have been always, we firmly believe, less deserving of the opprobrious cha racter than even the English or the Scotch. The Irish labourer whom we :see here, is one who finds himself for the first time in the possession of a superfluous shilling, and before habits of saving are acquired it is the most natural thing in the world for him to carry it to the gin-shop. As to the fights at fairs, they prove nothing of intemperance, for they are generally arranged beforehand, and fought out by men and women most usually sober. Drunkenness, indeed, in the Irishman's life, was fox' the most part merely casual, and rarely habitual, probably occurring once or twice a year, and therefore signalised by mere violence. Were it not for this, Mr. Mathew's success would be miraculous ; but where there was no habit to be conquered, it is easy to believe and to under stand. the facility with which the temperance roll has been filled. This does not in the least detract from the merit of the teacher of tem perance, although it somewhat diminishes the im portance of his achievement. Nor must we leave out df sight the influence of the great religious movement of which we have spoken, which, to its extent, has disposed men to temperance, as well as to all the other practical virtues. The female adventurer Desjardins, who has figured before the public under the names of Countess d'Arjuzon, Countess de Mussy, Baroness Victoire de Vandeck, and nu merous other aliases; who has been condemned by default to ten years' close confinement for an attempt to impose a sup postitious child upon a family, and also sentenced by default to further ten years' imprisonment , as an accomplice in the ,? enormous system of forgery and fraud, detected and ex -Tuss2d by the London Times, and who was given up to France by the Government of Turin, but on her way to Paris escaped d in the most unaccountable manner from the gen darmes of Bourgouin, in the Isere, has at length been found -•El resi d i ng in the Maison de Sante of Dr. Pinel, in the Champs endeavoured to disguise ysees. It appears that she arrived in Paris only a bar days ago,and e a deeper hue than its ,natne of Mme. Douvill u e . afterthe English fashion. natural colour, and wore mourning She applied to Dr. Pinel under the producing t a passport in which 'she was so called, pretending wh v ic:h ssp o r o ec r i t u i i n red h medical advice. Among fectiOn of the chest be . greatly suffering from an al= itlerk belonging her effects was found a a i t e name of Louis Honjars, a travelling to of Marseilles, which she declared she had obtained with t ' h u e ' departure oi - the Count d'Arjuzon, who o nnt of facilitating the had been previousl y arrested in Paris, 'and whose escape from prison she hoped to be able to con trive. The Count was t o havebrought been trial during .the present session, but, iii consequence of o the rupture of this accomplice, it has been postponed. The searc h among her baggage produced the d iscovery crime. A of another • ' .A small file was found , .upon which m were remaining ev i dent aining evident traces of its having been recently used upon silver. On the Director and servants of the Mahon" de .Sante being interro - grated, they deposed that.since the arrival of the p r i soner, considerable quantity of plate' belonging to the establishment a had been mtSsed. Further inquiries being made, a silver smith came forward and declared that , on the previous day, young woman hail offered him for sale several s p oon s and fo - rk a a , the engravings on which had been effaced with a file, b ut h e declined purchasing them. On being brought in presence with Dejardins, he at once reeogni,ed her as the person. u pon this, as well as the other charges against her, this adventurous woman was committed to prison, and rill be brought to trial with Count d'Arjuzon, Ict soon as the preliminary proceedings can be got through. THE CONFLAGRATION AT HAXIBURGH. • HAMBURG*, MAY 24.—The Hulfsverein, or Com mittee of Aid, established here as soon as the rava 'les of the fire were stopped, are doing every thing in their power to mitigate the misery which so exten sive a conflagration has produced. The poor have been well provided for, not only by the benevolence of their fellow-townsmen, but by the ready liberality of all Europe. They are all sheltered, clothed, arid regularly fed, and their condition leaves them nothing ' to repine at. Indeed, those who will most severely feel the effects of- this . fire are the middling classes, whose trade is suspended, and whose property has been injured, or in many instances is entirely lost. The property and furniture of a large number of persons were insured in different local insurance companies ; and it is feared that the vast destruction of property which has taken place will render it impossible for some of these companies to meet their engagements, and thus parties, who a few days ago were living in a state of comfort and re spectability, find themselves reduced in a moment almost to beggary. The Hulfsverein, havingprovided for the immediate wants of the destitute, are now at tempting, as far as their means will enable them, to comfort and assist this class of sufferers. The Com mittee of Aid is divided into several sections, by which arrangement cases k)vhere assistance is needed are more easily discovered and investigated, and succour is offered in different ways. To some a small advance ofmoney is given, and others who, in the present state of things are exposed to great embarrassment, from the difficulty of getting their bills discounted, obtain, I have been told, value for them when they are not of a large amount from the Hulfsverein ; and these opportune loans and accommodations, by which the funds in the hands of the Committee are economised, render the most essential service to those who are the objects of them. Another very useful object to which the attention of the Com mittee of Aid has been directed, is to diminish the number of the destitute, by furnishing them with employment. During the conflagration, many of the citizens lost their implements of trade, and were thus dispossessed of the only means by which they could recover themselves, through their own exertions, from the destitution to which they were reduced. These tools a* purchased for them by the Committee of Aid, and whenever it can be done work is procured to enable them to support themselves. The following paper, placed in my hands by a gen tleman versed in the affairs of this city, will be found interesting, on account of the information it contains. It will be seen that in this paper the value of the houses destroyed is estimated at 47,000,000 marks currency. This is no doubt correct as far as regards the houses exclusively, but as I have before stated, on very good authority, the value of the houses destroyed, together with the loss attaching to the land, is much greater : " The loss by the late fire is immense, and falls particularly on the State, that is, the houseowners and the higher and middle classes of the inhabitants. " 1. All the houses are and must, by law, be in sured by the State—that is to say, by mutual insur rance of the houseowners (Feuer Casse). " Now the whole value of the burned and remain ing houses is about 200,000,000 marks currency ; the loss is calculated at 47,000,000 currency, which makes a loss of 254- per cent. on all the houses, burned as well as standing. This is impossible to be paid by the houseowners without their total ruin, as most of the houses are mortgaged 90 to 95 per cent., and the mortgagees are in a great part orphans and widows and small renters. The property of the first must by law he invested in this way. " The State must therefore provide the greater part. To do so by loan would make the taxes very high. They are at present about 2/. sterling a-head,* which is more than Great Britain pays. Direct taxes would drive the wealthier classes from Ham burgh ; taxes on trade by heavier duties would banish the trade from Hamburgh.. (The duties on export and import are at present i f per cent., partly per cent., and partly duty free.) Without great assistance from all Europe, it is difficult to say what will become of the once flourishing free town and trade of Hamburgh. The present generation will be ruined; and certainly it is the interest of the whole commercial world to keep up the free institutions and the free trade of Hamburgh, as the first commercial. town of the whole continent. "Every assistance to the State is a direct assistance to the whole community, its middling classes, and all its inhabitants. For the poorer classes provision has immediately been made by the inhabitants and our neighbours, and now there is plenty of work for them. " 2. All our fire-insurance companies, I think, are ruined ; the shareowners must pay in the whole amount of their shares (80 per cent.). This loss may be estimated at 5,000,000 marks banco ; and, be sides, the insured will probably not get more than 50 per cent. This loss falls principally on the wealthier Masses. " 3. The loss by the Mutual Insurance Company of Bieber falls on the wealthy and middling classes. The Mutual Insurance amounts to about 80,000,000 marks. The insured are answerable 4 per cent., which amounts to about 3,000,000 marks banco ; and as the loss of the destroyed property, for which this company alone is responsible, is estimated at about 15,000,000 to 20,000,000, they will hardly got 10 to 15 per cent. indemnity. Merchants, trades people, and private families have been principally in sured for their merchandise, furniture, &c., in this way. " So the whole loss may be calculated : Marks Banco. " 1. HOUSE'S, 47,000,000 currency, ab0ut...36,000,000 "2. Insurance Companies, and loss by them, about ... 9,000.000 " 3. Bieber's Company, about 15,000,000 Total 60,000,000 " If, by the assistance of foreign Governments and subscriptions of private individuals, half the amount could be raised, the other half would fall still heavy on Hamburgh, but it would not ruin the present gene ration. "The credit of the State and of the mercantile class remains intact, and any loan the State wants would, I should think, be easily made at reasonable terms, and the interest regularly paid ; but, should no large assistance come from foreign parts, the energy and spirit of this free and mercantile State would be lamed at least for a century, and the trade of the whole world suffer by it. " A FRIEND TO lIAMBURGH, NOT A HAMBURGHER." • " llifilburgh, May, 18 , 4." The great question discussed here at present is the probable extent to Which .the''Local Insurance Com panieswill,be.able to meet their obligations ; and as so many persons are interested in the solution of this question,, it is not surprising that it absorbs general interest. The insurance • upon houses is effected, not by private companies, but is a town con cern. When one house is burned down, the whole town contributes to make up the loss, and hitherto the pay ment of this sort of insurance money has fallen lightly on - individuals ; but the case will be very different after so extensive a conflagration as that which has lately taken place. But,,b:iides this system of insu rance, there exist here insurance companies for goods and furniture, Conducted upon the same principles as the London esablishments, with the exception of one, Bieber's Company, which is a sort of Mutual insurance for moveable property. After such an immense sa -1 crifice of properry, it is not to be wondered at that doubts should arise as to the capability of all these companies paying the demands on them in - full. As no such suspicion, of course, exists in reference to the English companies, it' is not unlikely-that these, though great losers at present, will ultimately benefit by the confidence which is felt in their stability, and that a much larger amount of insurances will in future be eftected in English companies. SubscriptionS for the support of the sufferers from the fire are daily collected in this city, and continue to flow in from abroad. The total amount collected up to Sunday lust, I am informed, reached to nearly 1,000,000 marks bunco. Accounts :from Berlin state that the King of Prussia had offered to lend the town of Hamburgit 1,000,000 dollars for three years with out interest. In Vienna the news of the calamity which befel this town caused a deep sensation, and the Emperor of AuStria has directed, by a letter addressed to the Grand Chancellor, Count Ilittrowsky, on the 13th inst., collections to be made throughout the whole of his dominions for the relief of the sufferers. Similar letters have been addressed to the Chancellors of the-Royal Courts of Hungary and Transylvania. In Frankizlt the subscriptions already amount to and Rothschild has given 25,000 .... 4revious accounts incor rectly florins, florins, e there had been col rineposteratdedo.f..,A,l;l6-als lected, Darmstadtup st;mtphae.th3lytfhor thenst , f.otirst6ci, florins.which 1431! happened to llamburgh pervades' all classes of society. On the 17th inst. there had been collected in that city 11,497 florins. In Zurich stihScriptiom were also being raised for the same benevolent purpose. The appointment of a special commission, em powered to Manage - the affairs of the State, is spoken of as a not unlikely measure to be adopted in the pre sent state of things. It is said that the Constitution - contemplates the nomination of such a commission in timesof ex i gency. If formed , it will consist of a cer tain proportion of senators and bergerschafr, and be endowed with extensive authority. 4 ' The budget of the Hamburgh State is about 5,000,000 marks currency ; inhabitants about 150,000. 17 marks currency r-_-_ 1/. sterling ; 13 marks banco = 1/. sterling. A boy only ten years old, belonging to the com mune of'Clercy, near Troyes, is in custody upon a c harge of wilful murder, by throwing into the river and drowning a OW fellow, on l y l o t years old, wh o h a d o ff en d e d hi m . A German Parr states that a fire took place in the ni g ht of the 14th inst. In tile Tillage of Niedereisenhauser (Duchy of Hesse), which oonsumed - 20 out of the 50 houses of which the village was composed. 4* PRE SUN, LONDON , MONDAY MORNING, MAY 30, 1842. PRICES OF CANAL, DOCK, AgSUR ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &c. LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 27. *Taber Otv. taiat race of per CANALS. per Shares. Annum. Pala. Share. 1,706 7 per cent. Ashton& Otelham...Average97l.lBs.sh. 94 1,482 41. • Ash by.cle.le-Zotich ... ..Awcrage 115 I.sh. , 71 1,260 Basingstoke... ... leo 5 1,065 51. Brecknock 4rvi AbCrgaVenny lsoi.sh. 92 1",000 It46th. 101. Birmingham.l.l6th share ...811. & 711. 194 4,000 ...«« « Ditto & LiverpoolJunct.lwll. sh .10 0 p 4 21 600 3 1. Bridgewater and-Taunton.loo l .sb. all pl - sOO 51. Chelmer and Blackwater ..... lool..sh . 101 SOO 021. Coventry 1001. sh. 305 ....... Croydon , . Average3ll.2s.lod. sh. - 2,060 '5l. es. Dud1ey..................... lool.sh. 94 600 Isl• Derby .... .. - ...........- ... ... . lool.sh • 120 00,000 4 per cent. Danube and • M ' ayne 411.135. 4d .pd 31 3,5751 4' • Ellesmereand Chester Average 133:.5h. 6 ) 201 69.1 Erowasn .. ,. ...M OS.'''. 735 6,485 8111. Forth and Clyde M. in. 1001. pd . 1:0 1, '454 , is. Grand ./ unction lOW. is il 124 2.8491 255. Grand Union lool.Bh . 27 ~500 „. ...... Grand 5urrey..........., 1001.3 h. 15 1,0001 41:percent . Ditto (optional) Loan 1001. .006 Grand Western 800 13 124.8 d. Glamorganthire, Aver. cost 1721.155.4 d. 210 749 121. Oranthasn .... l5O/. sh. 229 6 238 V., us. Huddersfield, Average ili. 6s. 6d. al' :9 100 . 90,329 1 . 1.105. Kennet and Avon, Av. 391.185. 10ti.sh 17% 11,6991 .U. 103. Lancaster Average 471. (is. 8d 27 11,8975 301. Leed s and Liverpool lool.sh 7(0 545: 11. 100. Leicester 1401.0 149 ,897 51,$s Leicester & Nortkaturnon Av er B3l. i 0: 72 2,409 101 Monmouthshire lOll .51 YOO 254 131. Melton Mowbray • • 1061. s h. 200 400 151. Mersey and Irwell lee/. sh . 510 3,000 11. 10s. Macclesfield lOOl. sh. all pd 15 247 171. Ncath lOOl.Bl. 3415 1,40 5/, Peak Forest A ver.ge about 721.5 h. (3 1,419 Si. Regent's (or London) A v . 33/.100.8d. eh. 1134 5689 N. Rochdale Average 41.11 h. 62 500 8/. Shropshire SOO 111. 10s. Somerset Coal 3,0001. 6 3-icon! Ditto Lock Fund Stock 1 7 21. 10s. sh. 11% 7 0 8 3rifford and Virc oester 140/.sh. 680 530 151. Sta Shrewsbury 300 W. Staurbridge ..,.....„, 1451.5h. 396 3,647 21. us. Stratford-on-Avon A ver....791. 9s. kl . eh. 33 533 1111 Swansea I COL sh, '265 1,762 21. 12s. Severn and Wye &Railway Av.2o‘.os. sh. 45 2461.101 eh, 321.105. Trent and Mersey, 1 share lOOl. ah 473 8,149 ......... Thames and Medway Av. 19 1. 3, . B d. eh. 2 I . ( " lh 'i 14/. Warwick add 114=Ingham lo o l.sh 200 1,0013 h. 980 10. Warwick and Naptmv i 001.8 h .I 9 . 7,000 41 Worcesttr & Birmingham Av.711/.81.5h 56 5,000 355. Wilts and Berko Average 1;71. IN Bd. sh, 20 800 6. . Wyilev and Essington 1251. sh '74 .26 . Wisneitcn ........ 'f',sl sh. ! , .1.1 go t II Wey and An! llOl. rO. 20 DO,' R.S. 2,000 ik 1 tip , C. Commerc al ~...,. '.. tio i.i h. el 1,96515 h. ' 5 per tent. East and West India 1,238,310; 1 31 1 . p. ct. London .... ~...Stock 8 5 i 34 Ditto Bonds 100% 2,209 3/. 6s. sd. Bristol .. .. ...... .... . . Average 11'1. 9s. st . 75 68,3241.51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amount, l6B '322,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock lee 500100 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds 100 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 yea rs . ...... ...... •• • • Deptford Piet .. 0 01.3 n. 20). pd 10 BRIIHIES. 1.600 I!. Haminersmitl 5O/ ..• ti. 2134 1,231 Southwark , Old . . ..... .. Av. GIL 2s Bd. sh. 1,700 1/. 159. Ditto, Now, of 71 per cent., sol.sh. 15% i,OOO .... ... Waterloo 5,000 thls. Oti. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/ 00/. p 4 31 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. 4Ol. pd 1834 iO,OOOl, 5/. per cent. Ditto 80nd5 9934 5,818 27s Vauxhall .........Average 701. 103. 3d. sh.' 28 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3110 s Albion 5OOl. sh.. 50!. pd 70 , ..,. ~., 16 er centi ... 7 ,, , , . i a nd 15 8. Anianceßritish & Foreignlool. sh. 11/. pd 13% 00,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marini lOOl. sh. 51. rid 5k 24,00" 11 per eh. Atlas 1,20015 h. 5!. Birmingham fire 0 50/. sh. 55/ pd 107% 10,000 41. percent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50!. pd 41 12,000 61 per cent. British Commeretv.l 501..8. 51. pd 6 5,00! 51. percent. Clerical & Medical Life, Wel. sh.2llos pd 64 4,000 310 s County n p d e 3(h e hi t.. .l 100/.3h. IN. pd 10 5,000 38. Eagle 501 . sh. 51. p d 4 % 20 0 fa Economic LW: 10001. sh, 250/. lid 400 2,271 223. percent. European Li. 0 0/. sh. all pd 22 10,000 21. Ditto, New 201. sh. 2/. pd 1% .000,000/. fl.per ct Globe Stock 1(5 20,000 51. Guardian 30,000 4s. 01. Hope 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 54. 2,400 51. 124.6 d. Imperial Fire 000/. sh. 50/. pd 140 7,500 10s. fd. Imperial Life lOOl. sh. 101. pd II 13,459 51. per cent. Indemnity Marine .........1 01 01. eh. SI. pd 3134 2,020 SI IN Kent Fire 5O/. sh. all pd 91 31. Ditto Life 5O/. pd 10,000 '253 Law Life lOOl. sh. 10!. pd 32% 5,000 Ins. London, Firo 251. sh. 121. 103. IA 16% 3,900 IN. London, Ship .. . .......... eh. 121. 10s. pd 16% 1.000,000/. ........ Minerva fife 1001. sh. 25,000 Miter cent. National Loan Fun.. 201 sh 2/. 10, TA 2% 38,000 51. per cent. Palladium LW 501. sh. 2/. d 50,000 5/. per cent. Protector I;fe 2O/. sh. 21. ppd 17s Fd 11,5 0,000 IL 00 4 per cent. Protestant P rov ident Lire bisseaters .••• 1001. . sh. 101. pd 20 5% 100,000 4s. Od. Rock Life n 9,2201 51. per c••nt. Royal Exchange Stork 170 6,009 5 per cent. University Life 100/. ;h. 51. pd 11 10,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 1001. sli. 51. pd JOINT STOCK BANKS. 9.5.000 Agric. and Coin. of Ireland2s/. sh. 10!. pd 15,000 8 per cent. Australasia 401. sh. 401. pd II 10.000 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham se/. sh. 10/. pd 13% 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 00/.5h. IN. lid 13 33,000 6per cent. London & West minster 1001 sh. 20!. p d 221,, 60000 5/. London Joint Stock 501. sh. 10!. pd 12% .1,000 4 per cent. Lancaster lOOl. sh. 201. pd fio 25,0)0 Ito per cent. Liverpool 100/ eh. 121/..pd 19 50,000 71percent Manchester and Liver / 501.8 h. 151 pd 1934 pool Disaonnt 20,000' 7 per cevt. Manchester IOOI. sh IN, pd 4 3 ,(, 10,000 8 pe' eent. Provincial Bank of IrelandlOOl. sh. 251.0 43 10,000 8 ;,er emit National Bank of Ireland 101. sh. 1711. pd 15% 10,000 6 per cent National Prov;•iclal Eng.loo/. sh. 351. pd 35 10,006 Ditto New 10i. sh. 101. pd 11) 10,000 Gloucestershire 501.5 h. 101. pa 32 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5Ol. sli. 5/. pd 9% GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 Itis 'AI Bath 20!. sh. 16/ pd V 2 5,000 British 401. sh. 161. pd 19 5/ pet cent. 3.000 1 ' 1 Ditto Provincial 2Ol. sh. 191. pd 23 and Bs. Cs. 928 51 lOs Birmingham 50t sh. 101 1,250 21 Os Bristol ...... 2ot. sh. 736 2,250 31 IN Brighton 2Ol. sh. 14 750 31 10s Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 181. pd 9 2,471 41 per cent Brighton General 2Ol. sh. allpd 934 4,000 71. 105. Continental Consolldattid ....75/. 62j1 pd 11(1 1,000 101. City of London.... ..... ..' .100/. oh. all pd 105 1,000 61. Ditto, New 104)1. sh. 75/. rd 150 4,000 31.01. Equitable 5Ol. pa 20 10, 00 3 0 1. perlmperial SOO 51. per ce n t. nt Thanet 251. sh. 20/. pd 19 5,350 61. per cant. Independent 101. sh. alit.. 58 0,000 51. per cent. Phcenix 5O!. sh 39/44 30,i 1,000 41. per cent. aatcliff • 1001. sh. 801. pd 03 4,000 Smith !totropolitan s°!. oh. 134/. pd 17 9,000 51. per cent. United General 5Ol. sh. 471.0 30 240 51. per cent. Warwick 5O/. sh. 50 400 51. per cent Wakefield .. ... ........ 2,000 31. Westminste r ..... 0/.s ,5; 6,000 121 Ditto New 780 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2Ol. Hr. IPI pt.! WA r Eel WOR KS 1,600 345. . eirminghant . 22' eh. '21 . .0 •el 1,433 71. East I.ondon loof .h. ;7' 5,500 2/ 15s. Grand Junction Average 411 I's. Id. h. 60 ,000 11. Kent 1110/. sh, NI, 372 101. Liverpool Bootle 220/. oh. 325 i,500 nllOl lit a River London Bridge Water Ann... 00 6,48 6 gi ins Manchester and Salford lOOl, oh. 54 1, 5 per cent . South Londoi- l Oa oh. 98 8,294 41/. West Middlesex Average 6:31:125. 9tl. sh, i'4 1,360 It 145 York Building Co. Lessee Prop. 1001. sh , 05 -- .. •it unAinc IRON RAILWAYS 0.300 2/. Rs. Birmingham and Derby .... ...... AM/ pd 49 9,5110 3 pet cent. Birmingham and Glonce;ter...... !COL pd t. 4 1.0,0 4 per cent. Bristol and Exeter 1001. sh. 70 pd 44 1 , , 7,& - 10 .... ..... Cheltenham &G. Western 1001.8 h. 72%1. 2 4 vow ..... ... Clarence 1001. f , h 1001 pd 20 8. e, 0 0 .....,,, Dublin and Drogheda......loo/. sh. 5!. pc 50,006 .»..... Eastern Countlea 251 . oh 231. pd 91, 10,000 5 per cent. Great North of Englandl ool . sh. 100 /. pd Si 109:8 12 percent. f irandJunction lOOl. sh, all p c Irs 25'00 4 per cent. Great Western 11301. sh. 651. pd !01st'' 25,000 8 per cent. Ditto New 50/. pd 61 1 . 6,000 5 per cent Gosport Junction.. 5O/. sh. 50/. pd :9 2,000 8 per cent. Hartlepool mt. sh. 100/ pd 1154 8,000 ......... Hull and lelby 501. oh. 504. pd 40 2,100 4 per cant. Leeds and Selby MO sh. f 5 5010 10 per cent. Liverpool& Manchester 10( Lsh. 100/.pd 18S4: 7,908 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares sf 4. pd 91 11,495 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 251. pd 45 36 (3013 ....... .. London and Brighton 501. sh. 501 pd 35 ,4 24.000 ......... London and Blackwell 25/. sh. 251. pd 11 1 : 2::::250 002 00000000 g 220 7 .11... .i. r ),..... . 3: : :,. . , : ddh t ... . L i i ,o ooDD l nn i d diditt o oot o n non a ctaNa n nte c iaß i wa riGcrtsierrnhoeriaeynsrrdie,:hvsaniarcin Birmingham 1001. .... 1 ..U . 0 25 1 1 .. 1. 5 , . 1 r hh 9 :2 50 0 11 1 .. . pdpd pd 1:7387 6 3‘ 32/. sh. 32/. pd 31 1 4 36, 000 3 per sh. London and S. Western Av. 30/,175. Pd. 6.3 4.5121i,c11111:(0.61(41.1•:ent. South Eastern and Dover Av. 13 ! lss. Od 13 % 13,00030, 0 4 ! .. . ........... :$ h . NN b onD D a t r n titi i i thtth c t tt:heoo:seinisNNl Counties i t d e n e al rlwfasnShdc Extension r a t L e r P ;: s e . d . s . . .1001 . . 50 0 1 3 1 (7 0 11 / ... pd p d p d . 37 11 3 2 1 % 10.000 ......... Manchester and Birmingham 701. s h. 40/. :83,, ...... ... Midland :o o: ooo 2s6 'OO/. sh. 100!. pd 75 " n an d d Eastern... i .. ( s l i l l . l. sh sl . ). l 4 4( s )oo l l .. pd 43 366 Preston and Wyre 5O/. sh. 3,1 1 /. pd 38 :',Ol. pd 281 101. per cent. Stockton and Darlington .........101:Lsh. 265 Thames Haven 50/. sh 5/. pd :ii::,10000000000000 ......... 6,000 10/. per cent. York and Nerth Midland 50 . sh. 501. pd P 334 MINE, 8,000 ........ Albion Copper W. If 41. pd 12 4,000 IL I"' Allen l5l. sh 121. Its pd 14 10 000 ......., Anglo 51csican,iss. 51. pin.lool. ah.al 1 d 2 Ditto Subscription 951, pu 24.. . Bolanos l5O/. sh all p 4 114 2 6 : 6 :::::::: Ik ß ia al ca l i i i . l b s es n ' l n t:Ca s e . : E U . P ort e - d .2 2 5 5 1 [ 8 5 h h . ..2 ) 5 11 /. 10.000 IL lOs pd 4 9 ,4 , Ditto St. John Del Rey 2Ol sh. 141. pd 14i 11,000 ......... Bolivar Copper Company 201, sh. 20/. pd I 104 sh. 10/. pd 2 100/. sh. 70/ pd • 8 me • British Copper 5/. sh. 411. pd tb, .... ..... 6gl. Pd 5 1 / 4 Cati Branca 20. 1 . 6: 000 000 vw ......:•......:::: arDitlistthoiSrcornip ...... ... Candonga....... 7i/. pd 5 10,000 1 / CordaPo ...ff.. ...t 2O!. sh, 134 pa 0 8,500 ~ ~ .... Columbian, iss, Di. pm. 551. sh. 551. pd WA 2,850 , 11. English 20,000 6,155 Mexican Company 100/.01. Gel pd 3,000 Polozrou Consols .. 10!. sh. 81. pd 4 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered 2 3, Ditto Loan Notes 1501. pd 5 , United Mexican, iss. 2 pm. 40!. sh. all pd 13 1 , Ditu. Scrip l l /4 Ditto New Scrip 4! pd 3 , % West Cork ........ .......... ,50/. sh 50/. pd 313 io,ooe LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,006 „ London with Bronze Ticket ..75gs.sh. 13 1,500 700 King' College 1001. 19% MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 31s. Australian Apricultural.loo/.'sh. 28/ pd 33 6 ,'•Gti 1. per cent. British Amerkan Land Company 3, gi. pd 9 "MA , 61 per cent. Canada Company WI. sh. 32ii. pd 30 :o,ooe 51 per c-ut. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds. 4 p ar _ cent ICO it. ns, G en eral Steam Navigation 151.: h. 141. pd 24% 10/.per cant. Hudson 's Ba y Stock It. London Corn. Sale Rooms ....Av. 73/. sh. 19% Caoutchouc Company 12d1. pd 1,04 New Brunswick Land Comp.. y...5e1 pd IC 5 . 1 87 4/, per cent. Reversionary tnt 50c...100/. sh. 1601. pd 95 1 . 6 34 5/. per cent: Ditto New ......... lon/. s 50/. sh. 11Nr. pd 107 'AO 1".") r3s. Van Mr new's Land...JlM& sh. 14/ ! ,,t to ___...------ :u►.oolr LIST ot St,o7-7'ISH COMPANIES' PRICES MAY 21, 1842. HAN Ka. .S q' 0 . 0 (0' ct. Bank of Scotland .4831. ha. Scl. th all pci 1,000,0001 52 et. p. ct. Rt yal of Scotland 1001. sh . all pd 151 . 0 0.000/. 81. ct. British Linen CompanY 1001 sh• "05 600 ,0001. 71 p. ct. Commercial 5001.6h. lOC/. pd 159 500,01k1t. 64. et. National lOOl sh. 101. pd 14 ‘ ) ' 1,0001 , B'. p. ct. Glasgow Union 250/. sh. 501. pd 81% . 1,0(.10,0001. 6p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 401. pcl INSURANCE 'OSIPANIES. 21.0.0005 h 6i p. ct. r.,cottish Union 201.01i. 11. IA 24s Od. 7,500 • 10 p. et. Hercules lOOl. sh. 101. pd 12 1 j, 1 09 ,000 1U p. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland . 101 . sh. all pd 9 50,000 109.00/. sh. 10/. pd 10 p. ct. North llritish 1,000 10 p. ct. Caledonizn Fire 1001. sh. 101. pd 20 5,000 10 p. ct. Edinburgh Lae 100/. sh • 10/. pe. 15 10( 1 ,000 31 p. et. West of ........ 10!. pd I,IISCELLANEOUS. 4,818 Edin. And Glas. Un.Canalso/.sh. all pd Ditto Allocated 00/. sh. all pd 41% 225,40( Pi per cent. Edinb. Joint St.ek I,Vatcr 251, sh all pd 33 1 ,.%°° 0 ,,,,,, , b 2 4 per cent. Shotts Iron k0un derv......50/.sh 48/ pd 38 W A " 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass.2ol.sh. 161. pd 3% 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas.... 95/.sh. all pd 511 1,450 10 pet cant. Glasgow Gas . ..... 25/. sh all pd 52 750 7i per cent • Lett h Coal Gas 2O/. sh all pd 25 1.1b4 Ed inbu rg h and Daikeith Rat; 4,-,y 50/.Bh 30 Towards the end of last week, the bodies of a fe male and of a young man, aged about 21, having been found dead together, were taken to the Morgue. On an autopsy being made, the traces of an active poison were discovered, and their deaths attributed to it. They have since been recognised to be those of a married woman, who, having committed adul tery, Wia driven by remorse or fear of detection, to commit suicide, and of her paramour, whom she had induced to join her int he fatal act. tracrdinary The. Havre Journal mentions, as an instance of ex , speed, that a diltnee from Paris to Havre arrived at its destination on Sunday in 12 hours and 10 minutes, and another diligence in 12 hours and 25 minutes—the distance being 52 leagues. LAW INTELLIGENCE. co UI To F G !LANCE i>. Rpr.Eßs V. GRAZEBKOOKE.-JUDGMENT. The Loan CHANCELLOR ,'ave judgment to•dsy in this case, which came before his Lordship a short time since, upon appeal troth the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor ot,,England, order ing thn sum of 1,000/., the produce of a policy of insurance, to be paid into Court, for the benefit of the creditors of the bank rupt in this cause. His Lordship varied the order of the Court below, by directing only half the amount to be paid into Court. The COURT then proceeded to hear appeals. VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT, May 28. The VICE-CHANCELLOR or ENGLAND took causes to-day, none of which possessed any point of interest. COURT OF QUEENS BENCH, May 28. THE QUEEN V. THE CORPORATION OF YORK.-MANDAMUS. In this ease the ,SOLICITOR-GENERAL had obtained a rule for a mandamus, calling upon the Corporation of York to pay a certain compensation to Robert Clay ton, an attorney practising in one of the local courts in York, which had been thrown open under the Operation of the Municipal Corporation Act. The return to the mandamus denied that Robert Clayton was entitled to any compensation, inasmuch as the Court still existed, and he was still practising in tLe same, and that the only alteration made in its co..stitu firm was, that whereas fnrmerly certain persons had possessed a monopoly of the tractiee of that Court, that monopoly ha been broken up, and the Court bad been thrown open to the profession► generally. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL contend,d that the return was bad, that Ciao ton if he practised at all, practised as an attorney of Westminster Hall, that he had hell an office within the meaning of the Municipal Corporation Act, which had by that Act been aboli.hed, and that he was entitled to compensation. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL contended that the return was a good one, that there was nothing to show that Clayton, practised as an attorney of Westminster Hall, and that, for aught that appeared to the contrary, he m;ght be practising solely by virtue of his f ;rrner admission as an at torney L.f the Cunt in question. He denied that Clayton held an office within the meaning of the Act, and argued that if Clayton were entitled to conq,ensition, every tradesman whose manopoly of trading had been broken down by having the mar kets thrown open in certain towns, would be cqualiy entitled to compensation. The COURT took time to consider its judgment. THE LIVERPOOL ABDUCTION CASE. CRELLIN V. LEYLAND AND BULLER. Mr. JEavis applied to the Court on behalf of the defendants, who are !milkers in Liverpool, for an interpieadcr rule calling upon Ann Credm and John Orr Macgill to come in and decide their respective rights to a cert in sun of money in defenda , 4's p. t .session, to recover which an action had been brought by Ann Crellin against the defendant. It appeared that Ann Crellin had Ithiged in the cl-f,ndant's hands a sum of motley, of which a balance of 1,601/. ISs. 9d. remained. She had brought an action to recover this balance, and defendants had r. ceived a notice, signed John Orr statng that he was the lawful husband of Ann Crellin, warning them, at their pefil to pay the said money over to Ann Lrellin alias Maegill, and demanding from the defendants that they shou\d pay the said sum of 1,6011. 18s. 9d. over to him. This they refused to do, as it was nt4torious that the said Alacgill was at this moment in the gaol of Kirktiale, charged with having been guilty of the abduction of Ann Crellin, of which char.;e, should he be convicted, the marriage would be null and void. The defendants were perfectly willing and desirous of paying the money to the lawful owner, but it was rather hard that the question of the validity of Miss Crellin's marriage should be tried in this manner at their expense, more especialy while criminal proceedings were pending by which the question would be decided. An application had been made for an in terileader rule to Mr. Justice Wightrnan but his Lordship had ' directed the application to he made to the full Court. Lord DEsimAN l —Who would be the parties to the issue? . . Mr. Janvis-1 am afraid the husband anti wife, my Lord ; but the Act says nothing abaut that. The object of the Act clearly is to prevent parties standing in the situation of the de fendants, who are willing to pay the money to those who have a right, being placed in this manner between two fires. Lord DENMAN—VoI may take a rule to show cause, on bringing the money into Court.—Rule nisi granted. INSOLVENT' COUR7, May 28. IN RR THOMAS WARE. Ile insolvent was &scribed as a surgeon and chemist. carry ing on business in Holton New Town. His debts and liabili ties were described as amounting to about 870/., and his a?sets were comparatively trifling. He attributed his insolvency to the fact of losses trom speculations which he entered into with regard to the Cornish mines, which had b.•en the ruin of so many; as appeared in the, investigations in Cave's bankruptcy. His petition was unopposed. A few trifling debts having been inserted in the schedule, the insolvent was ordered to be discharged forthwith. PREROGATIVE COURT, May 27. There were many motions disposed of, in which probate was refused to papers not executed in conformity with the New Will Act. IN RE GOODS OF THE MOST NOBLE CHARLES MARQUIS OF HERTFORD. Dr. ADDAMS applied for the grant of probate to the will, and 33 papers offerer as codicils, of the late Marquis of Hertford, who died on the Ist of March last. The will was dated on the 25th of February, 1623, and with the codicils were all in the handwriting of the deceased nobleman. Some of the papers were written abroad, others in Eng• land, with many interlineations and alterations. Of the codicils executed since the New Will Act. came into opera tion, some were not is conformity with the provisions of the law. The executors mused in the will were Lord Low ther, Mr. (now Sir Robert) Peel, Mr. Henry _Cooke, Mr. John Wilson Croker, and Mr. Hopkinson. These parties were also appointed residuary legatees in trust, and the Earl of Conway (the present Marquis) residuary legatee. A codicil, dated in 1830, revoked the appointment of Mr. Robert Peel, and Mr. Cooke and Mr. Harvey were named instead. A codicil of August, 1834, appointe i Mr. Meynell as an executor also. The Learned Advocate, in sup port of the grant to Lord Lowther and his co-executors, ob served that there were duplicates and triplicates of some of the papers. Some were gilts conditionally. It was, however, necessary that a representation should lie given to the vast property It ft by the testator, especially as there were civil and criminal suits no' ogon. . _ Sir 11. J ENNEIt FUST grimed probates to the wills p.nd ,ueh of the codiclls as could pass. And the Learned Counsel, wish - he proctor and the registrar, were directed to 1 ,, 0k over the wht,le of the papers, to discover which should be parsed o f en :Med to the grant. A question arose as to s ime valualile property cnnta;neil in a box at Milan ; and which, by a indica, was given to the Countess Zichy . 1 he COUftT directed the box to b opened in the practice of the Countess. DANES V. FEUCHEKES. The Cou KT was occupied the rest of the clay in hearing ar• guments as to the admissibility of an allegation in this case. The further hearing was postponed till the next session. SECO VDARIES' COURT, May 27. LAWES AND* ANOTHER V. SHAW. In this case Edward Huits-n Vitruvius Lawes and William Barber, ItegiArars of the Bankruptcy Court, were plaintiffs, and James thaw the defendant. The action was brought to recover the sum of 1,0001., being the sixth part of a bond of 6,0001., catered into by the defendant and five o hers, by way of security for James Clark, late an official assignee of the Court of Bankruptcy. The defendant having suffered jur , g. ment to go by default, the Jury were now called upon, under a writ of inquiry, to a. secs the amount of damages to which the plaintiffs were entitled. Mr. PLATT, in opening the case, said that in January, 1832, Mr. Clark was appointed an official assignee of the 13 .nkrupicy Court, at which time the bond was given that was tip. sultp-et of this inquiry. From that period various sums were entrusted to his care, arising from various bankrupts' estates, and he 12th of April, 1841, he wrote •a letter to Sir Charles Frederick Williams, the Commi , sioner, tendering his re signalion, and informing that learned gentleman, of his (Mr. Clark's) defalcation, and his inability to meet it. He had kept, it appeared, large sums of money in his possess:on, amount.ng in all to about eight thousand pounds, and which he ought to have paid into the hands of the Accountant- General. It, therefore, became necessary that the CoUrt of Bankruptcy should call on the sureties, but on inquiry being made, some of them it was found had become insolvent, and others were Lying abroad and were not worth a farthing. The plaintiffs had, therefore, proceeded against Mr. Shaw for the recovery of the sum of 1,000/. It would be proved that from fourteen different estates the assignee had received aboie 1001. and retained those sums in his ow.) possession The Learned Gentleman then detailed the several amounts received by Mr. Clark from the estates of various bankrupts, the most of which, he said, had found their way to Mr. Clark's private banking account. A number of witnesses were examined, connected with the Bankruptcy Court, in support of the Learned Counsel's state ment, and the bond, signed by Mr. Shaw, the defendant, was out in. It also transpired, in the course of the inquiry, that in the case of Marriss and Nicholson, in which Mr. Clark had re eeived upwards of 1,700/. and in other instances in which he was a defaulter, that the fiats ansi commissions could not be found, but the evidence, exclusive of those cases. showed that Mr. Clark had rec , ived the sum of 3,459/. 16s. 11d. It was stated that 473,000/., and upwards, had passed through Mr. Clark's hands during the time he was official assignee. Sir Charles Frederick Williams, the Commissioner of Bank. ruptcy, was, examined at considerable lendth, in the course ( f which he stated that he 'Jai entertained a very high . opinion of Hr. Clark as an effi'lient offi .er. The per ceotage to which the assignee was entitled offhts receipts was 1 / i per cent. over every 1,000/., 1 per cent. under that sum, 2 1 / 2 per cent. for 500/., and 5 per cent. below that sum. He was also allowed 5/., 10/., 151., or '2Ol. for the examination of a bankrupt's ac counts, according to the discretion of the Commissioners. Mr. Clark, in his cross-examination, stated that he believed the Court owed him as much as he was deficient, and "a little more." lie admitted that some years ago he was deficient of 4,000/., and that he had me,tioned it to Mr. Commissioner Fane, during the absence of Sir C. F. Williams, and Mr. Fane had told him (Clark) that he should be bound to report it, but he would do so favou.ably. Oa that occasion b , bor rowed the money, and made it all up but 1,200/. He had allowed 990!. and upwards, which was in h.a banker's hands, to remain there until it could be appropriated towards his defalcation. Mr. Sergeant SHEE addressed the jury for the detendant, and made some stringent observations upon the culpable neg ligence of the Bankruptcy Commissioners in suffering the deficiency in Mr. Clark's accouias to remain so lung undis covered. The Learned SECONDARY having summed up. the Jury retired to consider their verdict at a fee minutes before five o'clock, and after an hour's absence they returned into Court with the following special verdict :—" We assess the damages at 600/., and tt is the opinion of this sped:it jury, from the evidence brought before them upon this inquiry, that great negligence has been proved in the management of the Court of Bankruptcy with regard to the security of the property arising from the estates under their control." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Leonard Nichards, a man who stated that he was 52 years of age, w a s brought bef ire the Lord Mayor charged with having presented a forged cheque, purporting to be the cheque of Capel, Cuerton, and Co., of Pope's Head alley, Cornhill, for the .sum of 1,7911 Mi. 2d., ut the banking-house of Messrs. Curries and Co., 29, Cornhill. Mr. Bush, the solicitor to the Committee of Bankers for Protection against Forgeries and Fraud, appeared fill- the prost • >.cution, and .Mr. \Vontner attended upon the part of the prisoner. Mr. John Robinson, cashier in the banking house, stated that the prisoner presented the cheque in the usual way at the counter. It was dated 25th May, 1842 7 and was as follows :—`• Messrs. Curries and Co. - Pay Mr. L. Richards, or }fearer, 1,7911. 16s. 2cl. Capel, Cuerton, and Co." The banking-house had a house of the name a customer. Witness referred the cheque to Mr.. Wel ford, another clerk in the establishment, after asking the prisoner whether he would leave it a short time, to which he replied in the affirmative. Mr. John Welford stated that upon receiving the cheque, he went to the partners, and immed;utely after. tads ran to Mr. Cum Il Cumin in Pope's ea&-alley, and on his return told the prisoner, who was still in waiting a the counter, that he must be given in charge, as the cheque was a forgery_... The pri6oner titted. that he hail received it of a Mr. Watson. Mr. Richard Ccertou, of t and Co., stated that he nei the prisoner. nr. of C. Cu ert 11_‘r Mr. Bush said he had not had Sufficient time to make the necessary inquiries, and requested vt.hat the Lord Mayor would remand the prisoner for a few days, while John Forrt stet' was engaged in the investigAion. Mr. Wontner said his client had not the slightest ob jection to the mo s t scrup u l o us investigation into the circumstances. The LORD MAYOR said that there were some matters connected with the case which induced him to look upon the prisoner with a great deal of suspicion. The prisoner was then remanded. GUILDHALL. Wm. Henderson, a young man of respectable appear ance and connexion, a warehouseman, in the employ of Messrs. Morrison, Dillon, and Co., the extensive silk mercers in Fore-street, was brought before Alderman Thompson, upon a charge of extensive robbery of his employers. Mr. Humphreys appeared to defend the prisoner ; and Mr. Clarks6c, the barrister, and A:r. A,hurst,for the prosecution. _ Mr. Clarkson stated the charge against the prisoner at considerable length, and observed that after he had examined his witnesses he sheuid pray a remand, as some of them had gone to Scotland to pursue the in quiry connected with the prosecution. Mr. John William's stated bat he is one of the firm of Morrison, Dillon, and Co., and the prisoner was a sales man in the ribbon department. Great confidence was reposed in him. Ile received 100/. a-year salary and board and lodging. Witness,teceived a complaint from a customer at Peterhead, in•Seetlend, complaining about the price of ribbons supplied from their warehouse ; and this led to an inquiry, which resulted in the apprehension of the . prisoner and a search of his apartment. A manufacturer of the name of Merry supplied their firm with all the ribbons of a particular fabric, and those found in one of the prisoner's boxes are part of the stock so supplied. Two other salesmen .elept in the same room with the prisoner, and the keys he gave up un locked the be:Ls. It had been ascertained that a corre spondenee had taken place between the prisoner and Burney and Co., drapers, at. Peterhead, and this was cenrirtned by a letter found in the prisoner's box. Wit ness questioned him as to how recently lie had corre spondence with Messrs. Burney and Co., when he male a statement which was at vatianoe ebb thtedate of the letter. He said at first that he never had any dealings with Burney and Co., bA afterwards admitted it. In the third box was found a quantity of betting-books, which the prisoner said were his, and that he hail been in the habit of betting upon horse-' for some time. One of the bets booked was 1001...t0 61. on a certain horse. He said he had been carrying on the betting business some time, and had been very fortunate. He had wen 5001., which he' had investt d in a concern of his bro ther's at Newry. He alto said that 6001. were owing to him for bets which Ile had won. The letter written by Burney and Cu. to the prisoner, was add, essed to him at'.‘ No. 35, Great James-street." Witness and Mr. Randall, their principal clerk, went to the London Par cels Delivery Company, and use,- ratified that a young man had 'been in the habit yf bringing narcels to the office, to be forwarded to 'eliurney and Co., of Peter head." Ile went with them to the warehouse, and pointed out the prisoner as the person. Mr. Merry stated that he is a ribbon-manufacturer, living at Coventry. The articles produced—those found in the prisoner's box--'-were fabricated by witness. Never sold any one of the patterns or quality to the prisoner, or any other person. beyond Messrs. Morrison and Co. Patterns of other ribbons found in the boxes of the pri soner were also made by hint (Mr. Merry), and they were sold exclusively to the firm in question. -, Mr. Clarkson said that Mr. Randall, the principal clerk to the prosecutors, and Roe, the officer, started yes terday fur Scotland, in order to examine the stock of Messrs. Burney and Co., of Peterhead ; hence he should require that the prisoner should be remanded, as in all probability he should have to examine, into other facts, for which he was not at present prepared.• Alderman THGMPSON said he had heard quite enough to warrant a retine!, and it was finally ordered that the prisoner should be brought up :for final examination on Thursda3, the 9th of June next. Some gold coin, a watch, and some other property, which had been taken from the prisoner, were restored to him, to enable him to make his defence. • MARLB 0110 UGH-STREET. CHARGE OF RAPE.—On Saturday, fames Greenland, regimental orderly servant to ,-Lieut.-Colonel Yorke, of the Fusilier Guards, who stood remanded from the pre vious clay, was brought uz) for re-examination, and wily committed to take his trial at the ensuing sittings of the Central Criminal Court, on t•Ccharge of violating Jane Matilda Arnold, aged twelve years and nine month,i, the daughter of a respectable hairdresser, living at No. 4, Hart-street, Oxford-street.- • • Mr. liobertbon, the solicitor, attended on the part of the accused. The examination was a very lengthened one, but the detail is unfit for publication, The offence was 'com mitted at the house of Mr. Ball, of Doh:. -street, Grog venor-square, where the prisoner wits lodging at the time, and the prosecutrix living as nurse-maid in the family. The pri!soner admitted partially the truth of the state ment of tiv prosceutrix, but attagi . •d in his justification, that she was " a forward girl," and had " often taken liberties with him," and that she was a consenCug party ; at the, same time expressing deep regret tor what had occurred. - On that he was t.. be sent to New gate, he shed twari, and said that il,tice had not been doriC , girt, of, in aliptTrauce at lw:J, 17 years of ago. CLERK : N WELL. Francis Day, clerk H r. t„• a:. to-ney ,L 7,•:, • ,• !La. Thu complainant stated t 0.,;. cp. diAindant came to hi house and rung. his bell, witL...h aes , ,ered by hi. Yalu, wIL,, according to witic,:s .Lietions, told the cuaed that be (complainant) n‘i at home. The prison:A. insisted upon seeing hi und kept ringing at the bell and knocking at the door ix so annoying a man lier, that witness eventually sent fora policeman, and gave him in charge. Mr. CoomnE (to defendant)..--Wrbat have you to say to this ?—Defendant—l was sent ymy master to de mand payment of 91. f rom him. Mr. COOMBE —What is that sum doe. !'or ! Defendant —lt. has been due to bin .for fees upwards of six years. Mr. COOMBE (to complainant)—Jo you owe this ino;. ney ? Complainant—Not legally. Nlr. CoomnE---Ah ! not legally. I know what you mean. You know that a barrister is in the same predi cament as a physician—that is, that he cannot sue for his fees. Do you deny ever having employed Mr. Tyr rell ? Complainant (hesitating)—l did not employ him, but he did some business in an affair in which I was engaged. Me. CooMBE-And dill% you have the papers ? Co.nplainant—Yes. Mr. Coo MBE I thought so. Now, to my knowledge, there arc a set of scamps of attorneys who have not the ability to transact any business that may come into their hands, and when that Is the case they employ some bar rister to do it, and afterwards shield themselves from payment on the ground that, according to your own words, he cannot legally enforce payment. Now, if I were the clerk of Mr. Tyrrell, I think I should dun you a little more. Defendant—Whenever I go to his house he is denied me. I should not have rang the bell a second time if he had not been denied. I knew he was at home, having seen his face at the window when I went up to the house. A policeinan, in answer to the Magistrate, said no disturbance was created by dtlendant. Mr. COOIIIBE-I am a barrisl.er, and will give an opi nion and advice gratis. In the first place, y::u had no more right to give the accused iii charge than you have to order an offie , . r this moment to lock to , , up ; ithd if Day can ascertain that you are worth pow&r and shot, I recommend him to bring tin swami against you. I am, however, of opinion, that you are one of those LY ttyfog ging fellows so dangerous to society aial disgraceful to the profession. You may now go. ARMY AND NAVY.—The June Number of Col burn's United Service Magazine, and Naval and tiilitary Journal contains, among other important p :per. —Brit:A Arms as th?y sere and as they are, c , mpared with the Opinions of Foreigners— Ilygieia's Vi4t to the Brit ::h Fleet— The United States and the`slay'-trade—Sketches of the Aus trian Cavalry SerYiee . —Journal of an Excur,ion into the In• terior of the Northern Island of Ne y Zvaland, by Captain Duttin Best, 80th Regiment—Our Naval Chi&s o , a hei by a Tar of the Old Sehool—Ri,saves in the L fe of a Sailor —Confessitws of a D,serter—Tom Plunkait—Oid Englano's Navy—Original Letters of G , tieral F.llio t (L. rd Ileaihtie it) on the Siege of Gibraltar—Memoir of the late General Earl Ludlow, G.C.13. Meld-officers at Waterloo—LEe of Admiral Keppet—The Affghan War—The Niger Exixiiitiou—Exatni nations at Sandhurst, pith the Distributions of the Army and Navy, General Orders, and all the Naval and Mditary genre of the Month. - SUICIDE BY A FEMALE.--Oi► }WRY evening Mr. Higgs held an inquest at the Chequers, Totl;in-street, West minster, on view of the body of Sarah Adams, aged 2J. .lary Lynch, of No. 3, King's ileaci-eohrt, Broadway, Westmin,ter, stated that she lodged next door to the deceased. La t Thurs day afiertioori, attar one o'clock, witness was called to the deceased by her landlady. Deceased was lyi gin the bed, ap pirently in a dying state. Witness found two papers marked "opium," " poison," concealed in the bosom part of Elects./ ed's gown. lay Beazley, et' L. 3. King's head court, Broad way, Weilninster, corroborated the foregoing evidei.ce, and stated that deceased's lips were quite black, as if from the effect of poison. Lat Wedn• slay, deceased told witness that she was suffei log under great poverty, and that she could not bear it any longer ; the list twopence she got she would certainly pure• chase some poison and destroy hers-11. Deceased had latterly been compelled to get a subsistence by walking the streets, but always expressed the utmost disgust at that mode of lite. Verdict— Temporary DEATH FROM PLAYING AT KISS IN THE RING.— On Friday an inquest was held betore Mr. Baker, at the Peg well Cottage, Dalston. on the body of Miss Benfield, aged eight years. Sarah Benfield said that deceas, d was her sister, and on the morning of the 25th ult. was playing with several boys and girls, at the game of kiss iii the ring, when, to avoid being kissed by one of her playmates, she stumbled and fell backwards, her head rec.iving a sore,e wound by fall ing on a stone. She was removed home, and a Mr. Cochsll, surgeon, attended her. Ultimately dangerous symptoms set in, whi .h produced blindness, and she died in very great pain on Wednesday last. Verdict—" Accidental death. " The Progres d' Arras relat.s th, , ,t in the morning of Saturday last, the customer of a barber of the town entered the shop, and desired to be shaved. The barber called from an upper room that he would come down immeitiately, but, as a quarter of an hour elapsed without his spearing, his son went up to hasten him, and found that his father had hung himself. A Vienna fitter of the 16th inst. says :—" The works nn our railroad• are ping on with greet rsereranee. that to Prague will be finished in three years; and that to Tneste.in six years." ELECTION COMMITTEE. . LYME REGI S. The vote of James Whicker, objected io by the petitiont.l ou the groun,l,..f bribery and treati , g, W 3. ag ain broug. t nude!: the consideration of the Committee this morning. .11' dence against. rhi- vote was gone into yo_sterday. Mr. AUSTIN this morning addressed the Committee in or port of the vote. Mr. COCKBURN addressed the Committee in reply, but he wai stopped by The CHAIRMAN, who informed him that it was less for the Learned Counsel to go on, as the Committee but of one opinion with respect to the vote. r. Mr. CocxnuaN said he was extremely happy to be 50 i3tg ;u ,red. The vote was then ordered to be stench The Committee then proceeded to consider the v* almost of an elector named Trait, objected to on the, ""-- grounds as the preceding one. The evidence and sil ments on this vote occupied the Committee up O tt ; quart,r to four, when the room was c!eared, and i r ; Committee decided that the v o te should be struck 0") and adjourned till twelve o'clo .k on Monday (thi3 NAVAL INTELLIGVNI - E. WOOLWICH, MAY 27.—The Geyser steam-frigate. v7fs; mender E. J. Carpecter, proceeded down the river yes ter fp from Woolwich to Greenhithe, and will remain till Saturdlo adjust her compasses. She will then return to Woolwi e j • D e o is to proceed to Deal, so as to arrive there on the 6th 0 1 i) „ when a course of experiments wiil be made with her large F t i v i and after their capabilities are sufficiently tested at ol' gruj o will be landed to compare their range with the other larg e r' so i about to be experimented with by Captrin Macbean's e, of the Royal Artillery, already stationed' at Deal for that Purl ore The Colunibice stem - I -vessel, having been considered ni 1 - suitable for the s•rvice fur which the Avon steam-ve°, l :v; commissloned, the officers tk.pointed to the latter vess el "f„l -been transferred to the Columbine. Their names are 0 st . lows :—Lcut. Alfred Kortright (1828), Lieut. P. F. S , ‘4 land (1842), Master T. W. A Pike; Second Master Eur . :": Mackenzie; !11r. J. C. Dryden, clerk in charge • and NV''' . Revell. Ist, John Cawley 2d, and John Maggs 3d engineerg; )0 The Lords Commissioners cf the Admiralty have iss ., i7 ic ji order to enter tweive shipwrights' apprentices at the Wts"`', Dockyard iturivetiately, that number boirer, a re g ulated Pr°',:it , rim, ace , rding to the men borne on the hooks of thi' li t yard. 1 heir Lordships have also decided Upon cu tering, o o apprentices every year, to be distributed amongst the or' dockyards in the proportion of men borne on their books. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, MAY 28.- Wind this day at NOon W es terly 4 DEAL, AIAY 9 7.-Wind S. W. moderate .- A'rea. Eleptu' ve l Row, China; Charles Brooke, Hunt, St. Vincent's. sled; from the River, and sailed, Thomas Hanson-New 270, Berbice, Berbice ; Underico , St. Kitts. The - Withal - for AL uritius. and Barrys, for the Cape, remain. arra' PLYMOUTH, MAY ::7.-Wind S., thick weather.--m,) Apolleine, London for Hobart Town. Sld. Aerate pi r o• Alexandria. Arrd off, William Gotherd, up, for Boston fi ; o f videntia, Rio, for Cowry; Ellen, London, for Tobago; „'fa delle, ditto. for St. Vincent's; Caroline, Ada, and liO a ' i leo , ditto, for Jamaica; Albion, -C rk (for troops); Isabella Swe.tland, Gambia, Eeliase, and Jare, Malta. Jobot - Africa, supposed to be arrived riff. The John, from Africi i ; Coax, MAY 25.-Arrd. Planter, Kirk, Mauritius, 10 1 “ for Li, erpool. Sid. City of Cork, Barbadm.s. grid' LtvattrooL, MA Y 1:7 . -Wind S.W., light.-Arrd- Buenos Ayres; Willliam Russell, Paraiba, sailed Ar!, er of , Alice, I :arbachies. left April 26 ; Superb, Mobile ; Conclu v e Charleston, left 26th; Mary Randall, Alexandria. Ski• nard Dobbin, Bombay; Birmingham, New York. FALMOUTH, MAY 26. Wind W. to S.W., moderate n elf ; -Aird. s;•olway (a.), Britton, Havannah, hft lst inst., q yr k 4th, Bermuda 10th, Fayal 21st, with 400,000 dollars; Brown, Odessa. Arrd. off. Lindisfarne, Stephens, do. p a NEWPORT, MAY 21. - Sld. Maria, Havannah ; F el.° Messina ; Tenedos, Gibraltar. Orr Sa Lcoataz, MAY 27.-,Arrd. Fortuna, Charlesta• SWANSEA, MAY 26.-Arrd. Columbus, Valparaiso. COWES, MAY 27.-Arrd. Gibraltar, Joraem, Matanzagf ire o MILFoan, MAY 26.-The Sir William Curti s , Cotton' ' ti oi Yarmouth to Haverfordwest, grounded ou a bank TW 5 r, et place, place, and is strained considerably ; part of cargo ( barleYr pected to be damaged. .1 Downing-street, 27th May, 18 i• oil Sir,-I am directed by Lord Stanley to r,ques t .r you will state to the Committee at Lloyd's that a P" ipl house has been erected at Mouille Point, Table IWt e c that you will move the Committee to give the mos t f tensive circulation to the accompanying instructio o ships entering that Bay. am, Sir, your most obedient servant, c, (Signed) G. 1\ lIOV P To Wm. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's. , • The instructions referred to are or too great a for insertion. They are posted at Lloyd's for i. Honduras, April 14, Sir.-I request your reference to the annexed which you will see we have a squadron of ships here consisting of her Majesty's ship Plush-ions , tniral Adams, Electra, Racehorse, Racer, sloops of war, and the Hydra steamer, and mot pected; such an assemblage being unexpect anxiety as to i s object. The Admiral observes profound secrecy. It is known that our Govt al`Dontild, has had unpleasant correspondence, lision with the authorities of Central Am , Government have claims on them, and it is la to make some demonstration, which, if he prove very incurious to the nactchar is or this lam &c., (Signed) LLOYD'S II Wm. Dobson, Esq., Secretary. Since writing you this morning, I have been that her Majesty's steamer Spitfire, is daily here, and that Admiral Sir Chits. Adam, till her to Yzabal, to convey Captain Fitzg•eral(l, (' mander of the Racehorse) en route to Gtv,tetr mission from the Admiral to the authorities Oa ty's :ship Sprat' is expected to rein , squadron here, and the whole will remain til Fitzgerald returns from Guatemala, a peri od weeks or a tOotalt. . I Wt,, &C., LIMY (Signed) Wm. Dobson. B,e r. ry. • SIGNA L i tIiT AT NEVIS. NEVIS, Aran. S:gml Port has been to the N.E. (II the MI the pint to the som the ti u. .Ves-;els bouml to Jumiiiett make, th if aiiy shimld - show their numbers the rev: , rteti. PROJECTED NEW LIGHTHOUSE AT CBELLO. A letter, r,o4ved at - Lloyd's from their Porte Cubed°, states that the attention of the authorities there had been directed to the ni the erection of a Light 13eaeoa, in con-eque steamer Medway having run aground on the mainland on the 11th of March, while passini the Island of Alcatrass (about five miles to the port) and the mainland, as the place slio was formed of sand and soft coral stones, under of the island, well sheltered, and in smooth water' received no injury. THE MA HKETS.-NA T 04' WHITECHAPEL. / The trade was very indifferent, though the s t iff 0.0 ly much larger than usual. Pric , s declined on all kinds O: 70 , 4 ;; and some portion remained on hand unsold. Beef, to 3%. lud. ; Mutton, 2s. Bd. to 3s. 10d. ; Veal, 21. , 4s. 4d. ; Pork, 2s. Bd. to 4s. Bd. ; Lamb, 4s. to ss. B "; ep t suindy of Clover and Hay during the week has been V l with a dull demand for all descriptions, and prices hO e s.. way considerably, as noticed in our quotations. Of SU supply middling, with a good trade, and prices steady. I " 2/. to 5/. 4s. ; Hay, 1/. 16s. to 4/. ; Straw, 1/. 10s, to TEA MARKET. There was scarcely airy business transacted in the 're g di , ket, and prices had a d .wnward tendency ' • indeed+ 5° the state of the Market, that it was difficu lt to elln' t f, Congou of fair quality, Is. bid. to Is. 7d. per lb. Larb" sales were declared for Monday. TALLOW MARKET. . The Market was inactive, but holders were firot quired 4bs. 6d. for P. Y. Candle on the spot, and 495 . delivery in the last Vrree months of the year. WOOL MARKET. There were few buyers of Wool, but holders were 6 1 : 0 0 ° Y former rates fully sustained for both English and , Public sales were declared. SPIRIT MARKET. cre Rum sells slowly, and prices on the decline. , o f Proof Leeward, 2s. 31 per gallon. Brandy was du ,- " - and prices declining; the stock large. FROVISION 31A14KET. Butter sold slowly ; fine Dutch at 965. to 9:... 3 tir Bacon dull of sale at 475. to 51s. per cwt ArAKEt. - IELD CORN litARhF,;• The supply was good, and prices of best Whet, ° I / Shelling, were rather higher. No variation. in Berle! , and other articles. W 111.411., Essex and Kent.... -3.65 . '7“ C 6 Ape" , 6 s to „ 0 0.4) Lill. and Caul. - o va , Yorkshire White Feratigt., tied t 04.• f • tVl;i t c . "'"• • Barley NotriOlk ar • . ll ` 2l l ;;pelf •• Linculeishiro Yurlutore IN.IO - Fore;Gti Bean:, New - Clti • Outs, Pout -ti Poland -s -a to:II" ort , , Vrieslan.Z anti Small ........... -a. to 9' • . 9h,lling • XBs. it, 311 g. :;a• r Malt t to ...... ........ - .._ te.e -„ e t Retested ~... ....... ... .. ....... .......... —t.Os ti 4i. or. 35t. ' l r ll e la h i t 1 ( 1 0 A schoolmaster i n th e A veyron , w h o , du r i be,; , last year, was condemned by default to hard labour a t ,4 c 0. 0 t ,, r twenty years, for an Mimi:tons attempt upop a P, s boo was arrested in Paris, two ev e ni ng s a go , as he ." / enter one of the theatres. of BIRTHS. On the 24th inst. at Brockham, near Dorking. 113 e 'Fif e 0 1 0 Frederick "la)ler, inst., of a daughter, still-born. j 'fo g , On the 26th inst., at Lower Belgrave-place, Airs ' . i dif i of a son. Oo the '26th inst., at North Oekendon Rectory, the ,O f the R..v. Richard Croft, ot a son. I, ii 1 0°°P. On the 26th inst., at Aiaida-hill Nest, Mrs. . 10 •• a daughter, stilt-burn. : MARRIED. eil' o ofr On the 23d inst., at the Lutheran Church, Alten3. lo ,l , ~ W. sale. Esq., of Manchester, S o li c it or , to Fiji ( ' •t-f o , j , r: daughter of the late W. Cobden, Esq., of 111idliurst . ..: to pet' i tle On tie 25th lost., at St. George's Chapel, East h tel e r, Charles H. Mack.nto h, M.D., to Henrietta. da" Al , 0 09 late John Val ack. Fsq., R.N., o f Kh. gsa nd Hous e t e ll 0° On the 211th n it., at Bridp , rt Dorsetshire, Ge ° „_ rg oer ° Esq.. of P.yrnouth, to f . ..lizabeth Mary, only da u b late Joseph Gundry, Esq. 'OP hi DIED. „,1101 jl On the It 4 th inst., at Uxbridge, 3liddlesex, Ap -- JO' ar eldest tlaughter of the late John Hu 1 wife 111 , 1, On the 25 , 1iin-t., at Uxbridge-common, Jaan 14 ;J. Fell, and y pungest daughter of the above named, )- , a v . On the 23d inst., at Margate, Allan James, thrd -° o co t fo Sinclair, Esq., aged 15. Jr*' p i On the 2:id inst., at Appleby, Leicestershir e, 'O l, 4 oh Smith, aged 71. .ct r ieo , ~ On the 24th inst., Airs . Ch r i st i na 'M ar i a 0 t-• , 04 par f ' the late John O'Brien, Esq.. aged 50. Fitte r 0 , On the 25th ir.st., at Hammersmith , Henri dits aged 90. i rio l ' i" On the 26th inst., at Barton Rectory, s' e-r -'-' w n tourP Francis Lanky, son of the Rev. Vitzgerald 1 Al v( l, .' o tir n , I, • . 1• RIV .p :2, . , nice. u nt i ) i lo . the County of Middlesex. Monday, lay ' . a jar • a. 400 • ins 44 14. 1 ' bit xed hips of .sus, 7'2 !o i s Char) e s' nore are 9 1 eted, ice, an neriess; A is V ulotirt`;.o l s strut o „ AGES P I en infor °r 4 ,4 .ily ill , (late ( '" o i , eu sal3, • t a there. ;I juror& till CiirT4 ,d of th AGEN ' nowt' ° r ibs edge ° ,d , iing :I, wa t r " 111 trader c c s d (rt '' ; t ::131c1 I 1 in A 4 ei a~ b Z I F i