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

s par lid/ very , n follorri o t o the sol enis )11 their o!.! ne and 1' 7 4 bora)* d lat vetn [old antl ecl u she d c h u 0 0 „ nr ci fficultles, ,v retain stbol ;hruent, !onclitioni should da ; poor 11.. laug lls , .J 13111, O S' e• r miniStei: Ali re say ;6 ciir that or s , es on . t 6 L e .olutirndi pport 13'13 lite in short' ,tern of ': h t f a build twlei7i, q cshallie;ge he pec9 o f I a P e° P le to r clioiceooe ey find in or. „ , 0 !sta blisholc 1? c 0 itti ds •ode 0 Ler f , t0 n0.r.7„, i , eat th 01 . re.• 9 • ire J g bft ; g iiijg !er e ,Llte a° gar 'l i t oo in or teo _ A es4 lo L' r , Y r a wo ... answe r to anything said upon the subject, and doubtless • laughed in their sleeves to see the extent to which they duped some of the leaders of the Opposition, as well as the whole Republican press, • The Toulonnais gives the following as an instance of the dar ing courage of the Arabs : • "In the recent return from Milianah, the tents were pitched mid the soldiers were beginning to erjoy repose, when 'three mrsttnted Arabs dashed into the camp, caught up three men, !Ind made off with them before a single shot could be fired. On nearing the cry raised in consequence, the Colonel of the let Chasseurs galloped in pursuit of th em , f o ll owe d b y a ca pt a i n a nd one of the privates. These three came up with the Arabs, and would have cut them down, had they not dropped imme diately in their way the three men which they had taken. ,Tvie of these were alive, but the third was dead, having re ceived two balls in his body." " The Gassendi steamer, Capt., Gerard, with a crew of 119 men, mining from Rechefort and Cadiz, has cast anchor in our This great steamer is to remain in the Mediterannean." —Commerce. B OURSE—PAItIS, SATURDAY, MAY 28. irst Highest Lowest ~ 3.1 Pries. 1 .rrce. l'rtt- Pr , • Fre,, ch 5 per Cent: ll9 93 ..• 20 1.9 8.5 .. 120 . 'per cents. ...... 102 102 102 10 . 2 3 per Ce nts B2 8 ., 5 ... 81 05 ••• 82 4 4 , 16. ot prance Ihtt -e Lank lOU. Shares 1045 —1045 .1045 5 . 000 E sk•ares 50 5 5045 . 5065 ...50 6 5 Beiglan 33 " 795 • 705 ~. 705 ••• 705 181 ....... 1 , 50 ..10:0 —l. 50 —lO5 , ael giarls per Cents. 103% ▪ 1 1 3 K 103 % •• 1"3 % r Cent , 1 . 847.1 *** 105% 10a% ... ID ... 105 1 4 il'""l,4A.cetirve ....... .... o .. ••• ••• •• Passive.. ••• trtuguese 5 per Cent s ll% ... 914 k 31 % 31 % an ...... . 11:8 ••• '' S ..................................... 1 it t 15 3 4 10 1 8 11(5% •-• 105 % RAILWAY sHARE:s Kt Gerinain 830 „, 830 830 ..• 830 • Vel3.lii/Clll . . „, 3 . 25 " ;. 9 2 : L. ............. 1., 1 1 132 L 0 120 ••• •-• Itaugn ..................... 53, 532 51) ... 532 50 (w eans ••••••••.« .......... 53- 50 ... 582 :)11 ... 592 50 ... 580 ... !.8 Sns --s -s•rg ........ . ........... 211 25 2.1 ... 231 2.1 231 2a HAMBURGH BORSEN HALLE, MAY Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares ins Angle-Russian Loan 109% 109 .Inussian 5 per Cent. Ist Ist series, Certificate.-- .03 102% 11scription, Ist series Series Rus.sian a per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Ditto in Certificates i )u e w- 4 Per Cent. Ditto Actual Actual Debt, 2% per Ce , nt. - 5 - per Cent. N A " ' i lk n e d : — 155 -Vanish Loan 3 per Cent ;8 ' i sh. New 5 , p 13 EXCHANGES ON LONDON. Hakim RGH, MAY -13 7%, Two months 1 t.lEasautto, ;Navy 17.—Three months. 0/ 11•1!, pence. " 10 A. MAY 21. =Three Miniths, 38%. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JlAy!2l._. rA 4 PV 4 4 AND zebtic Op:itton. " ifho runs sits J read." We do not find a single leading article in the Paris journals received this morning of sufficient interest either extract or analysis. Some of them are on the quest ion of the right of search, and others are dry comments on the discussion in the Chamber of heputies. The Count de Pontois, says the Temps, will return to his embassy at Constantinople in the course of next month, and M. de Bourqueney will about the same time proceed to London to act as Minister during the absence of the Count de St. Aulaire, who, it-is said, is coming to France for three months. The voting of the war estimates served as an occasion for the small number of persons in the French Chamber, who have much at heart the merciful administration of justice, and the dread of military encroachment, to direct public attention, first to the cruelty of the French administration in Algeria, secondly to the menacing progress of the fortifications of Paris. Summary judgments and decapitatitins have been exceedingly common in the province of Constantine. There the French commanding officer was wont in solemn precession to be pre ceded by the executioners, as was the case under the Mussul man Government. The Gazette des Tribunaux denounced 44 capital punish- . . ments without trial or judgment in Constantine within a year. General Negrier commanded there. Marshal Qoult was inter pellated on this subject on Friday. The Marshal admitted the facts. He had, he said, demanded explanation on the sub ject from Africa, and had received one not altogether complete. Still he derrecated the bringing forward such facts, because of the untoward effect which the mention and discussion of them had on the African tribes, and upon those about to submit, who, it seems, read the Paris journals. The fortifications of Paris have at length awakened some fears amongst the Liberals. The monstrous extension of th e . fortresses of Vibcennes and Mont Valerien, east and west of the capital, the building of strong barracks within and adjoin ing the circular enclosure, with many other circumstances, have given rise to fears. M. Lherbette accordingly proposed, apropos of the twenty millions to be allotted in 1t343 to the works of the fortifications of Paris, that cannon should not be mountad on the ramparts unless in cise of actual war. M. Lherbette warned the Chamber that cannon were not like bayonets, which were merciful in the hands of the soldiery from close contact with the population, whilst artillery had neither intelligence nor mercy. The Ministers took no notice of these remarks. In 1840, the number of horses in France was 2,900,000; there were but. 2,500,000 in 1825. In 1840 there were 68,000 considered fit for the cavalry, but it being undesirable to take them, Government bought abroad. The cavalry horses in France being from 30,00(1 to 40,000, the annual loss varies from one-fifth to one-sixth. Eleven thousand were lost in 1841. The annual consumption of horses in }ranee is 250,000. Lisbon Papers of the 22d inst. state that Lord Howard de Walden gave a full dress dinner party on the 19th, in honour of Queen Victoria's birth-day, to the Portuguese Ministers, the Duke of Palmella, the Counts of Lariadio, Villa Real, and Bowfin ; Senhors Id. F. Magalhaes, Silva Carvalho, and Florida; M. Dietz, and M. Almeida. In the evening most of the members of the diplomatic body paid visits to his Lordship. A petition has been presented from Oporto, sign.d by thirty firms of cloth dealers, in favour of the treaty with England, and complaining, of the present high duties as only promoting the introduction of Spanish woollens late Portugal, into which they are now smuggled to a large extent. The Prince Frederick of Hesse had arrived at Lisbon with a Danish frigate and corvette, and was about to proceed with the King and Queen on a visit to Curtha and Nafra, and after spending a few days in Lisbon, would proceed to the coast of Italy. A letter from Warsaw, 14th inst., confirms the report that the Russian army in Poland is,to . ,be placed on the peace foot ing, and adds that accounts .of Pronaotions and, rewards bestowed upon Poles, on the recommendation of Prince Paskewitsch, 1 are received almost dailyin Warsaw. It has already been stated that the Univeriity of Pisa has been closed in consequettee 'of some excesses committed by the students. The cologne Gazelle now adds that several of them have been arrested: Bi.ls. Money. St Schuld Sch ' ., 4 per cent. Prussian English Bond , , 1630, per cent. 10, 1 / 3 102% Exchange on London Prussian State Gazette, May 22. MO NEY - and COMMERCIAL NEWS. • , The F CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. unds are again a shade better, and Consols are tt 92 4 for •Aloney, and 93 93 for the opening. Three . . Per Cents. Redaced, 911 911 ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. b _ • ditte Reduced, 1004 . 100 k; ditto New, 1014 1014 ,•nk Stock, 167 168 ; India Stock, 249 250 ; India Bonds, li'7Xitl;TnE.xehequer Bills, Old, 40 42, and Advertised, 35 37 bee P noreig n securiti es lik ew i se are-firm ; business, however, has sh e ~Pr i neipally confined to Dutch, the prices of which are. A ' w e - and-a-Half per Cents. 524 for Money, and 53 for the c .,. ( mint ; the Five per Cents. 1011. the Th Ac co unt quotations of Mexican are, 374 for Money, and 384 for . d the Share market has been flat, with scarcely anything : i i e n t. g. being the settling day. The only sales have been Green. b o .."' 4 1 ; Croydon, 134; Brighton, 351 ; South Eastern and 'ert 261 ex New Shares; the New Shares, 64 7 ; and ~Edinburgh and Glasgow, 4.. 1,..._7 - teorrow being the settlement in the Bonds some bargains ii . :-: beer, made for the purpose of influencing the quotations, f o New Spanish 'flares per Cents. appears to have been the "rite thi s t i me, an d i t i s quoted 24th for Money and the 3co •unt, whil e th e Fi ve per C ent. A ct i ve B onds rema i n at 3; i , Pertu guese Fi ve per Cents., 3838%; Colombian, '274. of he C a l edonia steamer has brought dates from New York the 14th May, and copious extracts from the papers will be ,iild in another column. The acco unts are genera lly l oo k e d Pon as satisfact or y, a lth oug h b ut few orders for goods have co on over, it being considered that business, although limited, now conducted on a safe basis. The non-settlement of the tariff will, leis thought, form a great impediment to any in 'l-e_ased demand for some time yet, as will the new loan also, as be ing likely to absorb much of the floating capital The markets f or co tt on are represente d as b e i ng d earer t h an t hey were at the sailing of the previous packet, which rise is attributed to the accounts being more favourable, the receipts in the present year are stated to ha ve b een 1,502,210 b a l es a.. , against 1,445,515 in 1841, and 1,830,260 in 1840; the exports ,•,, itt,t ' •to this country have been 703,599 bales in this year, against 'a,' . 48 4,699 in 1841, an d 739,420 i n 1 840 ; t h e Stock shows an in Menge falling off in comparison with former years, being now . but 294,944 bales, while the quantity in hand in 1841 was 35 7,211, and 635,230 in 1840. . Most of the low-priced State Stock had improved, conse quent upon large purchases, stated to be on foreign account, but it is to be hoped that such rumour is incorrect. Money was stated to be plentiful; Exchange on England, 108 108 a. The Canadian intelligence is also satisfactory, and several extensive operations in produce had been entered into. The buyers of flour were waiting advises from England, in order to establish prices, which, however, had a downward tendency. The Montreal Bank had reduced the premium for Bills on ' London to 94 per cent., and private Bills were quoted 884 per cent. a tl r PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. . • z?. R.4ILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O - 'e, ; ..Ditto New - 3 - , _'-' 4 ndoo an( Brighton ............50 . .34 ' - "lc: 4 n and Greenwich - ' lioadean and Croydon (Trunk)... 134 134 to - nth Eastern and Dever. .. .50 ...... 263:..... to - , D i tto Scrip 5 ...... 64 to 7 • 3 lt lehlS OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MAY 28. 4 t Cent Consols - r e , ti• t tul Half Stock 994 , Grand Canal Stock ~, - ~ trr l tto ° 'Reduced ... - i Ditto Debs. G per cent... 824 • • 4,ter a J s lew 1830... 991 I Ditto 4 per cent ... - ' „,,k, tvt?t , Debs. - IRoyal Canal Stock - 'I; thel2 o l. COTTON MARKET, MAY 28.-Was quite with -P, et ~t variation in prices ; the sales amount to 4,500 •,mars a :nieh 800 were on speculation, and 200 for export. : L. - 4N 'Doe 'SHARE MARKET, MAY 28.-There is no 4 e r aar Te to otice n he demand f Railway Stock, and • "'Reit " nt wasn i heavy ; t a few of the or following were sold : • _ 1‘14,, l i C ountie s , 14s. 2d. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, St er ,; Lond on an d Birmingham, 32/. shares, 594 ; lan • i. oete, 7 4 nd Bir m i ng h am , 27 ; and South Eastern and Dover, itl 4 19 a Nein,. 41, -SUR, STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 25.-We con - Z i rrei a „'"L t in Shares, our only quotations are, Manchester and e a . " u i; 017 44 1 , sat 27/. ; Manchester and • Leeds Half Shares, '' • t '! 11 P• Bank, 24. ' tie -kr I • . -..(:) , 1 7 b . /01 toe 4 S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) ...., bl 4 14 41 7, MA Y 30. -Wi n d thi s d a y a t N oon , S.W. A trcl y L i tlA It 28.-Wind W.N.W.-29. Wind S.S. W.- Si erra r °u n Forster, Krieft, Cape Coast Castle ; Rosalind, gyi l -eor te. Arrd. from the River and old. Harlequin, •• .I.!tis W e l iatitilus, Mauritius; Cape Packet, Care; Mar , :‘ nLpe, etadalbane, Ceylon; Ellenborough, Madras ; Velore, •re - 41° ntre a l 4(1 . 1 °w, Antigua ; Arcturus, Quebec ; Susannah, 1 C ow ; , v l instrel, St. Jago. aslant' MAY 28.-Arrd. St. George, London for New 11, 4 , "A RTMOUTH, MAY 27.-Isabella Ellen, Gambia. e4.101:111, MAY 28.-Wind N.W., light, 29.-Wind tndt In nderate -Arial. Planter, Kirk, Mauritius • Clara Vtoe M e n ' h a, Demer . ara ; Duke of Welington, Honduras ; ? Apollo, '"lary. a “arieston ; Josh. Chrystal, Hive, Maid of Cashmere, and ',., 4 Rite s A TYrna ; Caledonia, Brander, New Orleans ; Wash 'Ake,' ; "Ikinson Mobile ; Cambridge, Barston, New York ; Iyctzahtanti n t r ne ( , , tAeaintobe ' irl j.: B oston. Arrd. off, Severn, Texas ; Echo and Roscoe, New York. Sld. iteiatOtini, Matanzas ; United States, Boston ; Jessy, -New. ,tebi a. Ch ; Seagull, Monte Video • A aliant, Demerara ; Ze rtale,t; ine ; Jane Walker, St. ' John's, New Brunswick ; Ntorp r ' Quebec. The Elza and Susan, Bertrand, was Iltrl s . 4 7' Tobaseo Bar on the 14th ult., and expected to be- Vi la taie: r !'ck. The Andrew M•Kean, from St. Domingo, Stale i nto Nassau the latter end of last month. . • P 4 -, ' nQaTE CREEK, MAY 29.-Arrd. Fairy Queen, Corfu Oa s i s, L m , ne i zit, M AY 29.-Wind S.S.W.-Arrd. Alice, de 80„,... gnorn, sailed 24th u lt. Sld. Eque s tri a n, China. t ralla;:r ita airroN, MAY 9 8.-Sld. Royal Tar steamer, Gib • 0 • V ettts P T P"AY, MxY 27.-Cigar, Amsterdam for Cape de . ~ Pi :," River Plate ; Kronprinsen, Messina. • • a loef t ,„ 4 "Tit, Mar 29.-Wind S.W.-Arrd. Greenhow, .ili a , - ,, J Sierra Leone; Rowland Hill and Rover, Ancona • ' tlas t aT u rer Bruce, Leghorn. Arrd. off, Zephyr, Teneriffe fur ..t, . 4 ur g e . •e, , ,' 42 Itt e q N°r Nernian, Holinstra, from Helsingfors to London, ndered off Havre, crew saved. r .a. T IT -,---•-. _. '.:"E -MARKETS.-(THIS DAY,) I ,,Lalt. ~,, CORN EXCHANGE. f l• -lib t r , ~!eit-'s arrival of all grains Were moderate. Wheat, 'e a ' ' mor e C e g," , h and Foreign, brought :former prices. • Barley sold • ' tnod e 'Y than of late. Beans and Peas unaltered. Oats of ''' • ?het a l 'i_ u ality rather dearer, other descriptions anvaried. Flour 4 , 1, Alt.. antelerat e demand at last quotations. e t t. 'vAt 's OF OrtAiti IN LONDON DURIN(t LAST WEEK. ' it?elish Wheat. Barley. oats. Flou , I ,,sh ........ 4. 952 q rs 2,42,, qrs. 5,'1; 5 -r. I 5,792 sacs s 1 Turei'""... .... - ' - • 118-t.) - ; 210 _ K: , gn ...... ----- ~ tiv ... 6.687 - 2,483 : 1,024 1 / 4 .4 ee aatft midis ON BOARD OF %VIP ~ ~., (old) ....... s. -s. Beans, Small new) 37. 34. .............. rivtnit.e (0 1d).......-- , . -", (old) 42' .ti. , ...,_'.'""----........ 84 .) •......50s. 545. - Tick (new) 27 30, • ---............. rue ............ 555. 60s. --- 0 1 ( 11 38,. 40s. 1 .."."-,.... vv,9P e erfine 62 5 , 645 . - Harrow new) 31,.;135. • •,........... V,tne( .........)........ V s . , Brank - -.."- 01d)... ... 38$. 425. ~. „.":-...„,... L ., Stiperfine ...... 668. 70s Oats Feed -s I , rtyk .oeigntree ..... 725 . . ' Ne. 4 .. . .... .• .... ............garl„• waiii . ;i : n r ;,. ................... 2 38 6:: 3404.. .r Poland New -s. * 18. i 21.. I „ - . alalt g g .......................... 3 2 .2 8 5 5 . . -____P__otatoe „ Jew $ -s. ! rOLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.-011 Saturday, Dr. i . ......., piviz .................... ses. ees - S c otch 2 32 5'; 2 1:s . Payerne repeated his experiments, of which we gave an as!" 14s. l 7 s. eel. he (4 New .. ......... 628 . 648 • lish !count last we ek, . in the presence of several Lords of the Ad •••••••-..! Ai r pi, • N,ew ......... 20s: 325. . Flour ToWn (per sack)....e4s ais miralty, of Sir Arthur de Capel Brooke, General Sir Moore ....„..._ ~...P e .ew . ..... ad, at ; _ Seconds 50, :As: Disney, Sir W. Gage, Sir Edward Parry, Sir G. Symmons, , ....„,,z arra:re .............. .34s . 365: --....... Ilaurth Country 48,. t i. os, 11 '.. ' Drs. Beget, Sa) er, Ilooke, Des Jardins, and Granvile ; Messrs. .......... . . .36$ . 3 88 . Bran es ". Koenig, Kater, Jelf, Addams, &c. The air tube having been • Th e , SMITHFIELD. : taken from the diving -bell, and a plug inserted in its place, he and ~r :_ t l e P Ply was about an average one, but trade was heavy ; Tur k , 2,7.41' ! generally lower, from • , d. to 4d. per stone. Beasts, descended in it at a few minutes after ten o'clock; and rem .intd be e f ; S heep acid Lambs' -- 27 'lOO • Pigs 417; Calves, 137. under water for the space of three hours and a half. He took with him, wrapped in a handkerchief, a parcel about eight .-.3 ' -s • to 4s oa . . ' , ; •- . , Mutton, 3s. to 4s. 2d. , Veal, 3s. 2d. to inches square, first covering the window of the diving-bell well as. Bd, to 4s. 6d. ; Lamb, ss. to 6s. .' T - he demand for Free 'Trade 'fea was very limited, and at _ TEA MARKET. : paper, in order that the public might not be sble to see what he did when under water. He gave signals, by agreement, s ral the Plzblic severy ten minutes, by removing the paper from one of the win- It S. ales ,,, e . e scarcely any was sold. Prices nominal for all 1 a m , • TALL'OW are arrivals of Tea AiA n ß ea K r a E t T h . and. ~ and waving his hand, had this not beend done reguinlaorlryd,ertlt; s(litiovwi diving that bella l I wouldtvas i fight have 4, r_ IN ere few purchasers, but holders were firm at 48s. 3d. There • , laur„trnallparcels ot fi t quality on the spot. and 495. 3d. for been raised. His ascent was witnessed by a very large as,sern . , uelivery i t, the last thr ee -- tal3.utter sold slztycj. __ months of the year. vfiISION AIMIKET. blage of persons, the gallery and floor of the institution being crowded with company, to all of whom it was evident that Dr. Payerne had trot suffered by his confinement. He, of course, • `Bac on dull, and p r ices; i cLe n e_l e ini p n t ' keeps his invention a profound secret ; but it is believed, that gut......chrisa.t to 96 s s 6s. lo p 9 e B r s e . ,A p t e . r cwt. in his parcel he takes a galvanic battery, and decomposing car ,e, ces firm, and a lair business done. The accounts from ' • Pri bonie acid generates oxygen gas. He had previously made two HOP MARKE ...a plantations are favourabTle. MAit private descents at this institution, remaining under water each MARKET, time nearly two hours. He will make another public descent, ..,A. fair business don F e ß , U ar l id at firm rates . but the day is not yet fixed. The Progres d'Arras relates that in the morning of stat . . k.N. .ttAILROADs ---- ..L: ‘ , OR, I _ „.,:---...„... The Assembly of the Saturday last, the customer of a barber of the town entered the shop, and desired to be shaved. The barber called from itit thefrom T,,a l a r t, :,..1. ; rpiloers, to on Romet he namehasan upper room that he would come down immediately, but, , a of Baden was opened OnhetghtGeh Gran by inst. by the Minister of as a quarter of an hour elapsed without his ap,'earing, his son ofa lent d ain D ed uk t e h . e ap T p h l o e v ß ai a o il i ty t a h y e l ie sace. It is said tha,t arcoradr.rangement has been made went up to hasten him, and found that his father had hun • g himself. -undertake the work and the expemngse, , " - Ween the two States toanadvhich Naples will • A German Paper states that a fire took place in „ti, as a th in g nnui t (i ie u .?c te A res. r o a l i v lw ect ay e . nfr.om Rome to Florence is spok i e f n share in a '', the n i ght of the 14th inst. in the village of Niedereisenhauser Rome repay " s (Duchy of Hesse), which oonsumed 20 cut of the 50 houses of which the village was composed. - Private letters from Madrid of . the 21st, assure us that re mittances will be duly forwarded to this country to pay tile dividends on the Three per Cents. cn the 15th ass June. It is also possible that the admission of British cotton goods, if not an actual treaty of commerce, may be resolved upon be:ore the close of the Cortes this session. 7 , The Spanish Senate has voted the 160 millions of reals rea sury Bills Law, as passed by the Congress by 78 against 2. IVIONEY—TRADE—COMMEIZZCZ. At Bradford, business is steady, but the prices unsatisfactory; at Huddersfield, the demand has been flat, except in fancy goods and the foreign branch ; at both Lzeds and Manchester trade has an improved tone. In 1839 there were in the township of Kendal alone, 618 paupers ; in the present year, there are 1,351, showing one eighth of the population to be thereby receiving relief. The expenditure for the past year amounts to 1,059/, Vs. I Id. A copper mine has been discovered among the Port Royal mountains, in Jamaica. The nec e ssary capital has been sub scribed, and operations commenced on its valuable stores. PTTIIXOCC IIiMPUOV=IIETITTS. The question of wood-paving for Oxford-street was brought before the Marylebone vestry again on Saturday, and the party against the measure were defeated on its bring put to the vote by a majority of 24, and the order for the Metropolitan Com pany to pave it forthwith was carried by a-majority of 21. ELECTIONEEMZIZG. The Reform Candidates for Ipswich are Mr. Thomas Gis borne, formerly Member for Derbyshire, and subsequently for Carlow, and Mr. Moffat, a merchant. The nomination will take place on Thursday, and the polling on the following' day. ~~ LAtW AND 1 4 0 LICE, The will of Lord Arden, of Warwick, late First Registrar of the High Court of Admiralty, has just been proved at Doctor.' Commons. The property is sworn under the sum of 500,1001., the duty upon which is upwards of 12,000/. LITERAUY AND SCIENTIrIC. At a meeting of the subscribers and supporters of the " Lon- don Library," in Pall-mall, on Saturday last, the Report stated. that there were 499 subscribers, furnishing an income of nearly 2,0001., which, with the eptranee fees, 2,6001. and 'donations. formed altogether a sum at the disposal of the Committee of 4,6541. Upwards of 13,000 books are already on the shelves. Messrs. Combes and Senarmont, the engineers for the de partment of the Seine, have made their report on the accident at Versailles. and attribute the origin of the accident to the small four-wheel locomotive at the head of the train, which was one upon the old construction, with outside framings and bear ings, the evils of which consist in the great liability of fractut ing the axles, as was the case in this instance. There are only ten engines in England at the present time upon four wheels which have outside bearings, and these are either used for the conveyance of goods or on lines where the rate of travelling is so limited that no danger is likely to occur. TEEATRXCAL. Mademoiselle Rachel will arrive in London in a few days, to fulfil her engagement at the Italian opera. Iler representa tions are limited to six, among which will be Tancrede and Ariane. . . Madame Ducrow and her 'company are about to take. up their quarters, for the rem ainder of the summer season, at the Surrey Theatre, where, in a few days, she will commence her equestrian performances. M a demoiselle Dejazet playa to-morrow evening at Covent garden. COURT-FASHIONABLE. It is said that the Emperor of Austria has requested Prince Esterhazy to resume his official character at our Court. The Countess of Zetland's assembly for this evening is post poned,in consequence of the death of a near connexion. The Marchioness of Londonderry and the Countess of Jersey' are arranging sets of quadrilles to be danced at the Almacks' ball on Friday by parties dressed in fancy costumes. The Earl of Westmoreland takes his departure in the course of the week for Berlin, to resume his diplomatic duties at the Prussian Court. The Earl of Wiellow had a dinner patty on Saturday. The President of the Royal Society, the Marquis of Nerth ampton, entertained the members of the Council on Saturday at dinner in Piccadilly. The Duchess of buccleuch intends giving a grand fete champetre in the course of the ensuing month, at Queensber, y Villa, Richmond. _ _ The Duke of Devonshire will, it is said, give a fete cham petre at Chiswick, and the Duchess of Northumberland one at Sion House. Preparations are making at Arundel Castle for the reception of the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk. -MISCELLANEOUS. The Ornithological Society have just constructed two floating islands in the Serpentine river; awl 900 young trees, planted and labelled'as in an arboretum, have been added to this fa vourite place. • Her Majesty's theatre will shortly be the scene o' another grand concert, which is now in preparation by Moscheles, for the benefit ot'the Hamburgh sufferers. The Bishops and Dignitaries of the' Church were entertained at a grand banquet in the Egyptian-hall of the Mansion-house, by the Lord Mayor, on Friday last, on the occasion of the 141st anniversary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, held by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the other Prelates at the cathedral of St. Paul's The Pitt Club held their Anniversary Fe,:tiral on Saturday, at the London Tavern. Above 100 gentlemen. Members of the Club, and visitors, attended. Thf: Hon. Lord Kenyon pre sided. Among the toasts drank were—" The Immortal Me mory of the Right Hon. William Pot," " Lord Kenyon and the Pittites of Wales," and' The Duke of Buceleuch and the Pitiites of Scotland." DISGUSTING ADVERTISEMENTS TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Six,—Although no " new tale," allow me, as an Englishman, to thank you for the admirable example you have shown to the public press, in refusing the insertion in your paper of adver tisements of a certain description. This conduct has not been lost on your subscribers, and it is to be hoped tray also not be lost on the proprietors of other journals claiming respectability. Their still tainting their columns with advertisements of such di-gusting tendency, merely for the sake of a little filthy (in the present instance how truly filthy 1) lucre, is matter of 'equal regret and surprise to, Sir, yours obediently, Bath, May 28. ALIQUIS. fRE SUN, LONDON. MONDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1842. LAW INTELLIGENCE ROLLS' COURT.--(THIS DAY). T:IE ATTORNEY•GENER.AL V. THE MERCHANT VENTU:tERS' SOCIETY OF BRISTOL The arguments in this part-heard cause, which en ,g Court. the entire of Saturday, were re sumed to-day. It . came on upon an ex officio ialifilna lion against the Masters, Wardens, and' Commonalty of the Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol, and James Hellican, their treasurer. The information, after setting forth the in corporation of the Society, stated that in November, 1708, Edward Colston, of London, merchant, had by deed con veyed upon trust to Sir J. Duddleston? and nineteen other trustees, the great house in St. Augustine's Back, Bristol, the manor of Bere, in Somersetshi , e, and various other lands, to be appropriated to the boarding and education of 50 poor boys in the above-mentioned house. The yearly rents of these lands amounted. to 720/., which covered all the exp uses of the establishment, and left a balance yearly of 19/. Colston afterwards added 50 more boys to the school, and to provide for the additional expense conv , yed to trustees certain fee firm rents to the amount of 555/. 16s. a year. The information prayed that the charity might be es tablh.hed, that it ,might be ascertained of what the property consisted, whether the Society was indebted in any and what sum to the charity, and for an account. Mr. PEMBERTON replied to-day, and at the conclusion of his observations the Court rose.—Judgment deferred. VICE-UHANCERY—(THIS DAY.) (Before Vice-Chancellor Wm RAM. ) BOND V. GRAHAM. His Horrotta delivered judgment in this ea , e. The question for the Court to decide was a question of account. the tes tator, Clements Brown, was in India, as were his three ex ecutors, at the time of his death. One of the executors had declined to prove. All that was prayed by the will as amended was, that one of the executors, named Graham, might account for what he had, received, and it. was insisted that this might be done without having before the Court a personal represen tative of the testator. Graham, on the other hand, insised that he had accounted in India, that he still rem•tined liable to the parties beneficially interested in the estate, and that in order that a proper account might be rendered it was necessary that the estate should be duly represented. His Honour said the only question was, whether the residue of the estate administered had assumed the new character of a trust fund, unconnected with the estate of the testator. From the answer of the de fendant it appeared that he had always acted as executor, and had dealt with the property as part of the estate of the tes tator. However much, therefore, he might lament the delay. the only decree he could make was, that the case should stand over in order that a rept-, sentative in this country might be duly constituted. QUEEN'S, BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) IN THE .HATTER OF ALDERMAN THOMAS WOOD. In this case, which arose out of the disputes existing among the Shareholders of the Talacre Coal Company, Mr. Roebuck had obtained a rule in last Michaelmas term, calking upon Alderman Thos. Wood, who was one of the Directors ot. and, in conjunction with his partner, Mr. Ellis, Solicitor to th, Company, to answer certain allegations made in the affidavits of the applicants, and also to show cause why he should not de liver up to the applicants certain papers belonging to the Com pany in his posses-ton. The Solicitor-General and Mr. Butt had shown cause against the rule last term, and Mr. Kelly, Mr. Jervis, and Mr. Roebuck had been heard in support of it. On that occa sion the Attorney-General had attended to watch the proceed. ings on behalf of Mr. Alderman T. Wocd's co-trustees in the Company. The Costar this morning gave judgment in the case, dis chatkinDlie Rife without costs. P0L1CE...",. 1N,r.17 E 1, LIG EN CG;. BO WSTREET.-(THIS DAY.) • A simple-looking young fellow, very tolefably'dressexl, urn , brought up hi custody of police constable A 63, charged vtitl; being, foundin,the neighbourhood of Whitehall tinder-suspicious circumstances. , The po iceman briefly stated the facts to be that the prisoner had beea . seen„lately for some days lurking about the premises of Sir Robert Peel, and as he appeared to have no businrs there, and - coUld l give no satisfactory account of himself, witness took him ititiY-ctiitddy. In answer to queaions from Mr. Hall, the prisoner 'stated that he was in great destitution, and could not succeed in ob taining employment ; as a Bernier resort, he determined on making application to Robert Peel, to see if he could pro• vide him with a situation, and with that intent he had been waiting about the Right Hun. Gentleman's residence. Inspector Pearce stated that w hen the young man was taker, to the station-house, he appeared very reckless, and said he di( nut care what lie did ; rather than be as he was at present h' should wish to be transported. Mr. HALL gave the prisoner a Very aevere reprimand for 114 i foolish conduct. It was not at all likely that Sir Rohm. Peel would speak to him, or provide him with a situation unless he were properly introduced to him ; and if such con duet as this were to be allowed, Sir Hobert Peel would be con stantly molested by impudent persons, either fools or knaves. For ss hat he had done he was now liable to he transported, ant, he could assure him that he would not find prison food or prison discipline so agreeable as he seemed to think. The prisoner, who appeared to have had enough of prison discipline limn what he experienced in the cells of the Poliei Court last night, expressed his contrition for his foolishi conduct, and promised, if he were discharged, now to go home to his friends and not offend again, _ _ On this understanding Air. HALL consented to discharge him MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY.) Mr. Henry IF kiting, a respectable tradesman, was charger with plucking off a sprig of red-coloured blossom May, as he wa. proceeding along the North Walk of Kensington-gardens last night. He was walking with a lady at the time, and snatched off a very stnall — portion of the blossom to. suf.:mit to her admiration, upon which he was immediately pounced upon by the constable No. 8 of the Gardens, who took him into cus tody, amidst a large assemblage of persons, and walked him. with a crowd at his heelS, to the Station-house, in Vine. street. Regent-street, where he was consigned to "durance vile," 'until he could procure bail. The defendant said he had not the slightest intention of doing wrong, or of committing injury of any kind. Seeing the blos som of heautirtil colours, he did thoughtlessly pluck off a twig to show to the lady (his wife) he was walking with. Mr. HARDWICK said if every person who visited the gardens did the same very little of the shrubberies would be lett. No doubt it was heedle3sly done, and he should therefore fine the defendant only 75., instead of the full penalty, 40s. The fine was immeiliately paid. CLE - RKESWELL.—(THIS DAY.) The Rector of St. Peter's Church, Saffron.hill, attended a• the office this morning, and stated that it was a constant prac• Lice with some persons residing in the neighbourhood of the church, to get on the tops of their houses during the hours of divine service and commence firing blunderbusses and pistols at pigeons ; others threw stones, by which the windows had been repeatedly broken. The noise was so great, that he could hardly make himself intelligible to his congregation. Yester • day the Bishop of London had been visiting him, and his Lord. ship felt very much annoyed by ir. Mr. GREENWOOD said he could do nothing but bold the parties to bail. He thought it would be useless for him to summon them, as he could hardly make out a case against them ; but complainant had better apply to the Commissioners of Police. UN:ON-HALL.-(T HIS DAY.) IMPUDENT ROBBERY. —John Morgan, a well-dressed young man, was committed on a charge of stealing a watch, the pro perty of Air Reid, a watchmaker on Newington-causeway. AGGRAVATED ASSAULT.—John Cockrell, a man of respect able appearance, was charged with throwing a red hot poker at his wife, setting fire to her clothes, and injuring one of her legs. The complainant stated, that on Friday evening, as she wa , sitting at the fire, the defendant, to whom she brought a for tune of 2,0001. on their marriage, drew the hot poker out of ti e fire, and threw it at ber. It struck her on the leg, and set fire to her clothes. She added, that she had been subjected to ill treatment from the defendant ever since their marriage. The defendant said that the poker dropped out of the fire b) accident and did the injury. He was adjudged to enter into his recognizance of 100/. to kcep the peace. Mr. Bunn will take a benefit at Covent-garden _on Tuesday next. We have the greatest pleasure in saying that the performancep chosen for thl occasion have the utmost at traction, and are not likely to be equalled during the season at any theatre. Mr. Bunn has been chiefly instrumental in afford ing the public the rich treat they now enjoy in the presence of a German opera, and Mr. Bonn's long and valued services in ca tering for the public are so well appreciated that he has a right tu . expect an overflow. Beethoven's Fidelio will commence the evening's entertainment, including the entire strength of the company, after which La Fine de Dominique will be per formed, expressly for the appearance of the celebrated actress, Illademoisefle Dejazet ; and during the evening, the charming Guy Stephan wi:l introduce (by Mr. Lumley's permission) her celebrated Spanish dance, and M. Desplaces and Mdlle. Fleury will execute a grand pas de deux. . DEATH THROUGH INTOXICATION.-Between ten and eleven o'clock on Saturday night, James Chalcraft, a sawyer, was crossing the carriage-way by the Marsh-gate turnpike, Lambeth, in a state of extreme intoxication, when he stumbled, and staggering back a pace or two, fell directly in front of one of the Atlas" omnibuses, on its way from Paddington to the Elephant and Castle Tavel n, and before he could scramble out of the way, altht:ugh he appeared fully sensible of his danger, and feebly endeavoured to do so, or that any of the many per. sons who witnessed the occurrence could rush forward to render him assistance, the fore and hind wheels on the near ride passed over his chest. The unfortunate man, as the heavy vehicle passed over him, gave a piercing and long continued shriek, dining the utterance of which he rolled several times over in the road, evidently convulsed by the agonizing struggh s of death. He was removed to the surgery of Dr. Brooks, near to the Marsh-gate ' who, detecting the fracture of at least six or seven ribs on the left side, with a corresponding depres sion on the cavity of the stomach, at once pronounced the injury to be fatal The deceased remained at Mr. Brooks's for three-quarters of an hour, and some signs of life being still displayed, it was thought expedient to remove him to West minster Hospital, whera be expired in a short time after his arrival. The deceased, who was a well behaved, hard working man, has left a widow and several children totally unpru vided for. BRUSSELS, MAY 27.—The passengers from London via Antwerp have arrived. Those by the General. Steam Navigation Lompany's British steam-ship, Rainbow, which left London yesterday at one in the afternoon, came in at half-past sevrn this morning ; dm, the journey from London to Brus•el: has been performed by the passengers of the Britishsteam-ship, Rainbow, in hours. This morning returned here the Antwerp Com pany's steam-ship Princess Victoria, Captain Winter. Both her outward and inward passages, between Antwerp and the St. Katharine's Steam-wharf, Tower, were effected in 19 hours. EXTRAORDINAR Y TRAVELLING.--A gentleman left London this morning by the Liverpool Train who was at Ant werp yesterday afternoon ; his passage from Antwerp to London, by the General Steam Navigation Company's British steam ship, the Rainbow, only occupying 15/ hours. The following have been the passages made by this extraordinary steam-ship since she has been on the Antwerp station this season : May 12, London to Antwerp, 16 hours, 35 minutes ; May 14, Antwerp to London, 16/ hours; May 19, London to Antwerp, 18 hours, 20 minutes (detained 2 hours) ; May 22, Antwerp to London, 16 hours, 20 minutes ; May 26, London to Ant ,wceeek r p : a l6 wa h x oursllay 29, A n t wer p t o L on d on , 15/ h our s. impression At the meeting o f t h e N um i smat i c Soc i ety l as t thegold medal about to be presented to the Pacha of Egypt was exhibited. The medal is of large size; obverse, a full-faced portrait and bust of the Pacha, from originalpaintings , with n ame . an d t i t l e. R everse , " Th e Friendof .Science,. Commerce, and Order, who- protected the subjects and property of adverse Powers, and kept orn the overland route to India, 1840. From the Committee.' AMERICAN NEWS A RIZIVAL OP THE CALEDONIA. T.,IVERPOOL, Srsn.t.v EVENING. 'The stonin-hip, Caledonia Captain Lott, arrived Itt•re frail iluli , o- a •.. at no+l t d• v tit). the rim from - pilot to pi!: in ton days, bringing fifty-seven passengers. 'Tliciit•ws by this arrival, ext.•nds .over a fortnight, but it is more than usually barren of• interest. Mr. Webster : had addressed a communicatb t to the clo v,.rnors of Maine. and •, Massachusetts, relative to the mission of Lord..Ashburton,..for 'the settlement of the boundary question. He urges the necessity of having that oft mooted question . brought to a close durityr the present sitting of CongreSs. The Governor of Maine had, accordingly, issued a proclamation, convening that state legislature for the 18th inst. It is gratifying !o obsetWe _the altered and more friendly tone of the Ame rican papers on this and other subjects at issue with this country, The missipn of bind Ashburton has evidently flattered the pride of the Americans, and may be regarded as having poured oil on the troubled waters. Nothing decisive has taken place between the. Mexi cans and Texitins, bitt bath were'preparing for a furious encounter. Santft• Annii,lfrthe'NeW York papers are to be credited, had been raising tii . .s'itieWs of.. war with a vengeance, having obtained a loan of nolessAhan three :nillions sterling in London, guaranteed by the BOA Government, the condition, being that British mantif,-,e .Eured goods should be admitted into the Mexican ports at a merely nominal duty. If this heavy loan had t•x isted any where but in the imagination of the American editors, Santa Anna's chance of successfully opposing the Tekians would have been materially strengthened. Mr. Dickens (Boz) and hig lady had taken_ their pas sage for Liverpool in the packet-ship, George Washing ton, which would sail on the 14th ofJune. Nothing of consequence had occurred within the walls of Congress, but duels w ere on t h e tads outside. Two reports had been presented relative to the tariff—one from the Secretary of the Treasury, the other from the minority of the Committee of manufacturers. The Exchange on England was 1081 to 108:1. Money plenty, but from bills offering on England. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO THE GOVERNORS OF MASSACHUSETTS AND MAINE. Department of State, Washington, April 11. TO HIS EXCELLENCY JOHN FAIRFIELD, GOVER NOR OF MAINE. Your Excellency is aware that previous to March, 1841, a negotiation had been going on for some time between the Secretary of State of the United States, under the direction of the President, and the British Minister accredited to this Go vernment, having for its object . the creation of a joint commis sion for settling the controversy respecting the north-eastern boundary of the United States, with a provision for an ultimate reference for arbitrators, to be appointed by some of the Sove reigns of Europe, in can an arbitration should' become neces sary. On the leading features of a Convention for this purpose the two Governments were agreed, but on severarmatters of detail the parties differed, and appear to have been interchang ing. their respective views and opinions, projects and counter projects, without coming to a.final a rrangement, d own to A ug . , 1840. Various cause s , not now neces sary to b e exp l a i ne d, ar rested the progress of the negotiation at that time, and no considerable advance has been since made in it. It seems to have been understood, on both sides, that one arbitration having failed, it was the duty of the two parties to procee I to institute another, according to the spirit of the treaty of Ghent, and other treaties; and the President has felt it to be his duty, unless some new course should be proposed, 'o cause the negotiation to be resumed, and pressed to its con • elusion. But I have now to inform your Excellency that Lord Ashburton, a Minister Plenipotentiary Special, has arrived at the seat of Government of the United States, charged with full powers from the Sovereign to negotiate .and settle the different matters in discussion between the two Governments. I have urther to state to you, that he has officially announced to this department that in regard to the boundary question, he bye authority to treat for a conventional line, or line by agreement, 'on such terms and conditions, and with such mutual considera ions and equivalents, as may be thought just and equitable; and that he is ready to enter upon a negotiation for such con ventional line so soon as this Government shall say that is is l l Authorised and ready, on its part, to commence such negotiation. Under these circumstances, the President has felt it to be his duty to call the serious attentiumof the Governments of Maine and. Massachusetts to the subject, and to submit to those Governments the propriety of their co-operation, to a certain extent and in a certain form, in an endeavour to ter minate a controversy already of so long duration, and whitth seeins very likely to be still considerably further protracted before the desired end of a final adjustment shall be attained, unless a shorter course of arriving at that end be adopted, than such as has heretofore been pursued, and as the two Govern ments are still pursuing. Yet, without the concurrence of the two States whose rights ire more immediately concerned, both having an interest in the so 1, and one of them in the jurisdiction and government, the duty of this Government will be to adopt no new course, but, in in m?liance with treaty stipulations, and in furtherance tf what has already been done, to hasten the pending negotia tions as fast as possible. But the President thinks it a highly-desirable object to pre vent the delays necessarily incident to any settlement of the question by these means. Such delays are great and unavoid able. It has been found that an exploration and examination • if the seve!ul lines constitute a work of three years. The i existing commission for making such exploration, under the authority of the United States, has been occupying two sum mers, and a very considerable portion of the work still remains to be done. if a joint commission should be appointed, and ,hould go through the same work, anti the Commissioners should disagree—as is very possible—and an arbitration on that weount becoine indispensable, the arbitrators might find it necessary to make an exploration, and survey theinsel:es, or cause the saute to be done by others, of their own appoint bent. If to these causes, operating to postpone the final de cision, be added the time n, cessary to appoint arbitrators, and and for their prevaration to leave Europe for the service, and the various retarding incidents always attending such opera tion., seven or eight years constitute, perhaps, the shortest pe riod within which we can look for a final result. In the mevntime, great expenses have been incurred, and further cx penises cannot be avtiided. It is well known that the contro versy has brought heavy charges upon Maine herself, to the remuneration or proper settlement of which she cannot be ex pected to lie indifferent. The exploration by the Government of the United Stites has already cost 100,000 dollars, and the charge of another summer's work is in progress. These facts may be sufficient to form a probable estim ate of the whole expense likely to he incurred before the controversy can be settled by arbitration, and our experience admonishes us that even another arbitra tion might possibly fail. The opinion of this Government upon the justice and va lidity of the American claim has been expressed, at so many imes, and in so many f orms, that a repetition of that opinion is not necessary. But the subject is a subject in dispute. The Government has agreed to make it matter of re,crence and arbitration, and it must fulfil that agreement, unless another mode for settling the controversy should be resorted to with the hope of producing a speedier decision. The President pro poses, then, that the Governments of Maine and Massachusetts should severally appoint a Commissioner or Commissioners, ernpowered to confer with the authorities of this Government upan a conventional line, or line by agreement, with its terms, conditions, considerations, and equivalents, with an ;under standing that no such line will be agreed upon, without the assent of such Commissioners. This mode of proceeding, or some other which shall express assent beforehand, seems in dispensable, if any negotiation for a conventional line is to be had, since, if happily a Treaty should be the result of the ne gotiation, it can only be submitted to the Senate of the United States for ratification. It is a subject of deep and sincere regret to the President that the British Plenipotentiary did not arrive in the country, and make knowb his powers in time to have made this communica tion before the annual session of the Legislatures of the two States had been brought to a close. He perceives and laments the inconvenience which may be experienced from re-assemb ling those Legislatures; but the British mission is a special ‘eie ; it does not supersede the resident mission of the British Government at Washington, and its stay in the United States is not expected to be long. In addition to these considerations, it is to be suggested that more than four months of the session of Congress have already passed, and it is highly desirable, if any treaty for a conventional line should be agreed on, it, should be concluded before the session shall te rm inate ; not only becau se of the necessity of the ratification of the Senate, but also be cause it is not impossible that measures may be thought ad visable, or become important, which can only be accomplished by the authority of both Houses. These considerations, in addition to the importance of the subject, and a firm conviction in the mind of the President that the interests of both countries, as well as the interests of the two states more immediately concerned, require a prompt effort to bring this dispute to an end, constrain him to express an earnest hope that your ExcAlency will convene the Legislature f Maine, and submit the subject to its grave and candid de liberation. I am, with great respect, your Excellency's obe dient servant, _ (Signed) DANIEL WEBSTER. The following is the proclamation of Governor Fairfield, calling a special session of the Legislature of the State of Maine for the ISila inst. : ' "STATE OF MAINE. " BY TILE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MAINE. " A PROCLAMATION. " Deeming the pres nt posture of the question relating to the northeastern boundary of this State and the matters connected therewith, to form one of those 'extraordinary occasions' con templated in the Constitution, for convening the Legislature. I do, by these presents, appoint Wednesday, the ISth day of May next, for their meeting, at the State House in Augusta, hereby requiring the respective senators and representatives then Legislature,i in order to receive such andm hmeurrei c o n assemble a s m i a n y then be made to them, and to consult and determine on such me asures as they may c o nsid er co t will best promote the welfare of this State and nation. "In testirro , ny whereof, I have caused the seal of State to be hereunto affixed, and signed the same with my hand. "Done at Augusta this 29th day of April, in the year of our Lord 1842, and in the 66th year of the independence of the United Statei.. " JOHN FAIRFIELD. " By the Governor, Philip C. Johnson, Secretary of State." .NEW YORK MONEY NDl4th COM MERCIAL NEWS, MA A Y, . _ • • The demand for money is more limited, and that which exists is readily supplied. T he banks discount quite freely, and in .the street, first class,paper can be negotiated at legal interest. A; the summer advances, we ;.re of opinion that money will grow more abundant. In Philadelphia it is more difficult to . We q uote on an , se; Fir emen 76c. Some im rovem ent is manifest in our quotations of domestic London 108/, Paris sf. :30, be obtained, and several m ercantile failure s have been reported. • • Fneeign exchanges are in fair d ema nd , and the supply of 'billcisAtioderate. It is tho u g ht the i nquiry will fall off after the steamer has left, a s the spring business may b e considered pretty Am ste u rd i much over: 309 a v i er; 39i, Hamburg .) exchanges. The business is , ho w e v er, quite limited, if we ex cept the notes of this state and the ea s t ern states, in both of p which quite a large amount is offering. The weak banks are gra dually disappearing, and we confess ~we s h a ll be glad when the financial atmosphere is pui WO wholly from every banking institution nc:t able and williv to :pay.specie for its obligations on presentation. So far as we cla Judge, the fallacious idea about •, preparing to resUine, ,but not resuming" are nearly dissipated, atid all classes of the:community are convinced that the only correct policy, t h e only one that will !ully restore us to prosperity, is to preserve a sound c urrency , cre di t i ng only those institutions which pay in s p ec i e, and discrediting all others. 'I he transactions in Stocks have been quite limited during the . presein week. Prices of solid Stocks generally have been maintained, and in some descriptions a small improvement has been realised. In fancy Stocks the Illarket has been somewhat depressed, and closes at prices lower than our last quotations. The impression which was quite prevalent a few days since on the subject of the negotiation of the Government loan, is now • believed to have been unfounded, and it is stated that offers at par have been received for only a small portion. We still en tertain no doubt of its negotiation within a short time, and we think we cannot be mistaken in our estimate of the favourable effect it would produce upon business generally. Yet while the matter is at all uncertain, the community will prefer to re main quiet. RATE OF SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE. $5OO Corporation Sixes, 1844 99 25,000 New York Sixes, 1862 b6o days 91) $l,OOO Ohio - Sixes, 1860 $lO,OOO Kentucky Fives $l,OOO Illinois Sixes, 1870 20 shares Delaware and Hudson . 25 do North Riv -r Bank , 5 do American Exchange Bank 50 do Farmers' Loan and Trust Company 40 de Firemens' Insurance Company B5 150 do Long Island Railroad 5 O l, 50 do Paterson Railroad 100 do Mohawk Railroad .. 44 10 do : , toriinp.;ton Railroad s3O days 18 100 do Harlem Railroad 85 do Canton Company - v Somewhat b e tt er f ee li ng animated the Stock Market to-day ; a rather more than ordinary busi 'ess was done, and prices im proved a shade. ......cash 99 PORTi. U GA L. FALMOUTH, MAY 27.—The accompanying despatch was re ceived, per Lady Mary Wood steamer, arrived this afternoon with Peninsular mails, having left Gibraltar on the 19th inst. ; Cadiz, 20th ; Lisbon, 23d ; Oporto, 24th ; and from Vigo, •25th. Lisnox, MAY 23.—The occurrences of the past week have been wholly devoid of interest. The Government has Conti nued to occupy itself in procuring every means likely to en sure a triumph in the approaching elections, and to baffle by every. assiduity the arduous exertions made use of by the Op position to obtain the same. Its financial, resources are at the lowest ebb and • the ruinous arrangements it is still compelled to make, to raise funds to meet the interest doe on the different loans it has contracted, render it wholly out of its power to defray the current expenses of the State. It is next to an impossibility to calculate upon what plan or new invention it will have recourse to to relieve it from the embarrassments which are daily increasing and threatening the country, as I mentioned befo•e, with an inevitable insolvency. Another loan is currently affirmed to be already negotiating, for the character or nature of which, whatever it may be, can only tend to involve the place in deeper ruin, and hasten the calamity universally predicted. The commercial treaty with England was submitted for discussion to a Council of State, held a few days ago. Its final conclusion is the subject of general anxiety and interest, and bn Thursday last, the 19th, a sumptuous dinner was given by Lord Howard de Walden, at which were present the whole of the Ministers : Count Villa Real, Count Bomfim, Count Lavradio, Jose da Silva Carvallio, Rodrigo da Fonseca Magalhaes, Chevalier Deitz, Comfnandador Almeida, and Florido Rodrigues Pereira Ferraz. On Friday;. ; the Danish frigate, Thetis, and corvette, Flora, arrived in thi; Tagus with a passage twenty days from Copenhagen; the former having on boatil his Royal Highness Prince Frede rick d'Hesse, nephew to the King of Denmark. Letters from Oporto continue to be received, fraught with the most distressing intelligence of the state of the Upper a u The treaty is most clamorously called for, and representations have been made from all quarters, petitioning dispatch in the termination of the same. GREECE. ATHENS, MAY 10.—Political news is quite confined to the movements of ships of war. The Monarch and Medea are gone to Rhodes, to embark from the opposite coast some splendid remains of antiquity for the British Museum. The Vernon, 50, Captain Walpole, has relieved the Monarch on this station, and is now at Sglamis. The French Admiral Lasusse is on board the Inflexible, 90, which vessel, as also the Acheron war-steamer, Bougainville brig, and Licurge steam-packet, are in the Pirwus harbour. The Cornaline, 32, is gone to Candia ; the Santi Petri, 80, to Beyrout ; and the Cal)yHo, 60, to Toulon. The English squadron is expected at Corfu. The hotels of Athens are so full of English travellers that some were compelled to go on by the last Austrian steamer, not having been able to find accommodation in the capital of Greece. Among our last arrivals is Lady Davy, widow of the celebrated philosopher. Accounts jest received from Patras state that the proprietors of the currant plantations there, and in other parts of the Alorea, had become excessively alarmed on account of the ap pearance of immense quantities of locusts, which had already nearly destroyed the wheat crops, and would undoubtedly be equally fatal to the currant vines, should they take wing. The local Government of Patras had caused nearly the entire popu lation to go out into the vineyards and adjacent country, in the hope of exterminating these obnoxious insects, and thus avert ing the impending evil, which, it appears, has heea an in creasing one ever since the year 1838. OXFORD. The attention of Members of Convocation is earnestly re quested to the fact, that a,i appeal is now in circulation, if it has not already reached them, having for its object to impede a Statute, which has passed the Hebdomodal Board, and w►ll he proposed to Convocation on Tuesday, June 7, abrogating Statute of May 5, 1836, and re-instating the Regius Professor of Divinity in certain priv►leges annexed to his office. This appeal, though professing only to ask time for conside ration, originated with that section of the resident Members of Convocation who are either Tractarians, and advocates of Tract 90, or are scarcely distinguishable from Tractarians in their at tachment to the principles of that School of Theology. The names of Dr. Pusey, Mr. Newman, and Mr. Ward, are, indeed, not apparent in the printed circulars ; and this is not withuut r. ason, when the appearance of such well-known watchwords o f the party,might excite suspicion of the character of the pro ceeding. But the great majority of the names are of those who arc known in the University to belong to the Tractnrian move ment. Let members of Convocation, then, be warned against a set of men, whose professed object is to " unprotestantize the National Church," who say that " the Church of England can not stand where it is," and that " we must recede more and more from the principles, if any such there be, of the English lieformation." Many of the persons whose names are on this list, are pledged to support, or at least not, to oppose the Statute, in the event. But without this explanation, the appeal referred to might give the impression that a great number of members of Convocation were unfavourable to a rescinding of the Statute of 1536, which is most certainly very far from the case. Let non-resi.tent members, then, be on their guard against the delusion wh,cli may be passed on them. Let them at the present crisis stand up for the Church of England, as it was settled at the Reforma tion, by a due support of a mea.ure recommended by its con stituted guardian• in Oxford. A MEMBER OF CONVOCATION. Oxfincl, May 23, 1842. WOOLVVICH-SATURDAY. The Dee steam-vessel is ordered to be brought forward for commission immediately, and Mr. Thomas Driver (Master, 1809) has been appointed to command her. Captain Fisher, Harbour Master of the Port of London, has received instructions to commence operations upon a collier vessel recently sunk off Gravesend, for the purpose of raising her, as she has been found to impede the navigation of the river. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have issued an order to enter 12 shipwrights' apprentices at Woolwich Deck yard immediately, that number being a regulated proportion, according to the men borne on the books of this dockyard. Their Lordships have also decided upon entering 100 apprentices every year to be distributed amongst the various dockyards in the proportion of men borne on their books. This measure has been hailed w itllllPie greatest satisfaction, as it is considered a security to the public that good workmen will be brought up in the service, and be of more advantage in an economical point of view than taking on men who have acquired only a slight know ledge of the profession by having been employed on small vessels, the workmanship of which and mode of putting together bear no comparison with the solidity and strength required for the navy of Great Lirita:n. At no period in the history of this country has the navy been in a more efficient state than it is at present, and the excellent measures adopted and under consideration for being introduced, if proved to be of an ad vantageous nature, by the present able heads of this important branch of her Majesty's service, afford ample guarantee that the naval appointments wili always be in such a state as to be ready for immediate and active service at a few hours' notice. Much alarm has been created in certain quarters, where the parties are ignorant of the resources of the country and of the nasal department in particular, in consequence of the recent measures adopted in France to increase the steam navy of that country to a very great extent; but the public may rest satis fied this country is fully prepared for any emergency or symptom of aggression, as, in addition to the present steam-frigates and ships of war of the best construction and power at the command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, a gallant naval officer, who was the first to suggest mounting large guns on steam-vessels, gives it as his opinion, that in less than 48 hours' notice of hostilities being about to take place, the whole of the General Steam Navigation Company and other large steam vessels employed for the conveyance of the mails, could be be brought alongside the Royal Arsenal or any other of her Majesty's depots at home or abroad, and be mounted with 32- pounder guns ready ter active services, should their mode of settling differences hare to be resorted to. BLAXLAND'S SUBMARINE PROPELLER. Among the many inventions, the object of which has been to substitute for the old avowedly disadvantageous system of paddle. wheels some mechanical power which should act from the stern of the vessel, and below the surface of the water, none has been hitherto formed more efficient in its working, or more completely overcoming the difficulties attending the problem, than that of Mr. Blaxland. The propeller itself is extremely i simple in form, consisting of a variezle number of arms. radiating from the centre, the extremity of each arm Wing pro- vided with a number of flat blades in close succession, and each ' being placed transversely to, and forming a slight angle with, that immediately below it. The whole surface presented by each set of blades meets the water at the greatest depth in an angular position, and in rising or descending allows the water to pass through the small openings between the plates. One of the most important and remarkable points of the invention is the method of conveying the motion to the shalt of the propeller. This is effected through the medium of drums and pulleys connected by straps or ropes, the working of which is perfectly smooth and noiseless, a great advantage compared with the system of spur wheels and pinions previously employed, the noise and tremulous motion from which is represented as intolerable. In bringing his invention before the public, Mr. Blaxland has followed a course which by establishing a direct comparison with the old system, settles the question of superiority in the most unanswerable way. Its first application of the propeller was to the Jane, a paddle wheel steam-boat of three tons, with an engine of i-horse power. Retaining the same engine, he moved this vessel at a speed of 7% miles per hour, obtaining an increase of 2% on its previous velocity. The propeller has been now applied in the same way to another steam-boat, the Swiftsure, from which the paddle-wheels have been removed, while the engines, of 20-horse power each, are retained, and en Satur day last, at 12 o'clock, five of the Lords cf the Admiralty, namely, Lord Haddington, Sir G. Cockburn, Sir W. H. Gage, Sir G. F. Seymour, and the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corrr, together with the lion. S. Herbert, the Secretary, were received cn board by Mr. Blaxland and Mr. Steinman, Co. 'proprietor with the inventor of the patent. The vessel then proceeded down the river to within a short distance of Dept ford Dockyard, and returned to Whitehall-stairs by a quar ter -past two o'clock. During the whole of the trip, their Lordships paid the closest attention to the working of the system, and informed themselves minutely on every particu lar. The apparatus by which the proper degree of speed is communicated to the propeller, which, in this instance, was moved by ropes laid in grooves over the drums, appeared in particular to raise their admiration at the smoothness and quietness with which it worked, and on leaving the vessel I their Lordships expressed themselves very much pleated with all they Lad seen. Mr. Blaxland was ordered to bring the propeller to the Admiralty in the course of the week. That w hich was used on the occasion was constructed with only tw arms, the plates at each extremity being five in number. Not • withstanding the disadvantages presented by the build of the Swiftsure, which renders her name somewhat ironical, Mr. Max ! lind has succeeded in increasing her speedfrom 7i miles to 9 per hour. An increase of speed such as this, which Mr. Blaxland in every instance promises, together with the other advantages I of getting rid of such ineumbrances, both in weight and built, as paddle-wheel's and boxes, and the absence of all swell from the motion of the propeller, render it almost beyond a doubt that Mr. Blaxland will shortly see his invention generally adopted. It Was elpected that the Jane would also have been in attendance last Saturday, but this was prevented, in conse quence of her having been sent to Endfield, where the capabi. bties of the invention for canal navigation were to be tested. THE LINEN TRADE. It is et ident from a conversation which took place in the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday last, 'that the French Go vernment will raise the duties on linen-yarns and linen manu factures by ordinance, within a few weeks from the present time. We shall not pause to expose the folly of such a rrea suie, or to contrast it with the policy of the British Govern ment at the very same juncture ; but the following figures w.ll prove, that in attacking the linen t ra d e w i t h G reat Britain the French Government is shutting up by far the most important channel of commercial intercourse between the two countries. That trade is of a very recent creation, for the duties were raised to prohibition in 1826; they were, however, lowered in 1835 and 1836, and the result was as follows Linen-yarns exported from the United Kingdom to France lb. Value. In 1E32 ........... 76 512 £ 6,516 1833 1834 ... 1,430,369 130,561 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 Our whole export of linen-yarn to all countries (including France) were in 1840, 17,733,5751 b. • consequently the por tion sent to France is more than two-thirds of our whole foreign and colonial trade in that commodity. The total declared value of British exports to France in 1840 was 2,378,149/. ; consequently the value of the linen-yarns ex ported amounts to mere than ono quarter of the value of the whole export trade of this country with France. Such is the extent of the evil—such is the enormous blow about to be aimed at the commercial relations of the two greatest countries in the world, in order to gratify the claims of a few unruly constituencies in the north of France! lONIAN BANK-(THIS DAY.) A meeting of the Shareholders in this Company was held this day at the Guildhall Coffee-house. Two of our reporters attended the meeting, but they were informed that reporters could not be admitted, consequently we are unable to give any account of the proceedings. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. SUN,—The Funds completely recovered from the de pression of Saturday, and considerable buoyancy was manifested in prices, although but little business was done. Consols closed at 92i 94- for Money, and 93-k for the Opening, 15th July ; Bank Stock, 167 168 ; India Stock, 249 251 ; Bxchcquer Bills, old, 39 41 ; ad 'te'rtised; 35 37, premium. The Fokeign . Securities were firm. • Belgian Bonds, 102.103 ;, Dutch Two-and•a-Half per Cents., 521 ; the Five per Cents., 101 10 ; Danish, 80i 81} ; and Brazilian, 67 68. The Share Market somewhat improved. London and Birmingham left off at 179 181 ; Birmingham and Glou cester, 50 52 ; Great Western, 90 91 ; the Half Shares, 621 63+ ; South Western, 624 63,1- ; 4 :"Gesport, 611 621 North Midland, 65 67 ; the New Shares, 32 33 ; South Eastern and Dover, 261 27+ ; the Scrip, 6* 7k; Eastern Counties, 91 91 ; Blackwall, 11 ; the New Shares, 81 9 ; and Brighton, 35i 3.5*.. Tli,e Bonds were thus quoted :—Colombian, 26* 27* ; Peruvian, 19 194- ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 38 38* ; the Three per Cents., 221 23 ; Spanish Active, Five per Cents., 22123 i ; and the Three per Cents., 23i 23*. Fine green peas were exhibited in Exeter market on Friday, at only 12s. per peck ! ANIERICAN PORK.—We understand that private letters show the people of the United States to be greatly pleased with that part. of Sir Robert Peel's tariff which allow s of the introduction of salted provisions at moderate rates of duty. Preparations are making to send large supplies of pork, hams ' &c., to this country , not only from the back states, but from Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, &c., where the p;gs in numerous herds run wild in the woods, and feed on acorns and maize. From the habits of the animals and the food they live upon their flesh is of superior flavour; and we may anti cipate a large importation at a moderate price. This will be an advantage to both countries.—Leeds Mercur y. THE PLANET MERCURY.—A favourAle opportu nity is now afforded for observing this rare and interesting object. Being very near Venus (a little below it), it may rea dily be discovered on the western horizon by the naked eye about 9 o'clock in the evening ; and by the help of an ordinary telescope, steadily supported, a clear iew may be obtained. It was rumoured on Saturday night, at the Opera, that " the differences" between Signor Mario and the directors of her Majesty's Theatre were in progress of amicable adjust ment. It is not. generally known that Mario is the scion of a noble family in Piedmont, where his father was formerly Go vernor of Nice, and on terms of personal intimacy with many of the English nobility who have sojourned in that city. Mario was an officer in the Sardinian service, but he subsequently determined to renounce the profession of arms, and make his debut as a singer at the Theatre Italian at Paris, under his present nuns de theatre, and it was after he had undergone the ordeal of a Parisian debut that he was engaged by the late M. Laporte for her Majesty's Theatre. SIGNS or THE TimEs.—There are at this moment more prisoners for debt from Brighton in Horsham gaol than was ever known before.—firighton herald. SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.—A few days ago a fe male of the name of Isabella Birkett, a resident in Troutbeck, died very suddenly. About two years ago she was seized with a fit of apoplexy, which deprived her of her sight. A short t me previous to her death she went to visit some relations in the same dale, and on her entering the domicile of those re lations she observed, " Now lam coming to die among you." Her sight was immediately restored so as to enable her to read the Bible, but, alas ! the verification of her own words took place, for she departed this life before the sun of that day sunk below the western cloud. Isabella Birkett was for many years previous to her apoplectic attack the shroud maker of the township of Troutbeck, and for many miles round, and kept a ! punctual register of all the last sad offices in which she had been engaged. She was often also consulted as to dates when deaths had taken place, which she was able to give with great I accuracy.— Westmorland Gazette. A GAOLER REWARDED.—The King of Prussia, says a letter from Berlin, 23d inst., has just conferred on Gen. Sir Hudson Lowe the Order of the Red Eagle, first class. A letter from Seville states that the cultivation of the cotton-plant, which has been recently attempted in Anda lusia, promises to answer the most sanguine expectation. A soldier, named Ambrosio dit Costa, was hung last week et Lisbon, for the murder of a youth named Torres, ou the Cintra-road last year. The murder was committed in the evening; the young man was coming on an ass with his gun, to rejoin his father at Cintra, and the latter having set out to meet him, was the first person who discovered his dead body. Plunder was the object, but the gun and a few coppers were all that were taken, and the murder was discovered by the sale of the gun. Two other persons hid been previously murdered by the same man. ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—This morning, before six o'clock, Joseph Bolton, footman to the Hon. Admiral Thu verie, having passed the night out of his master's house, and decidedly under the influence of drink, went into the room of Louisa Palter (who is lady's maid in the family, and between 40 and 50 years of age), with a knife in his hand, and attempted to cut her throat ; fortunately the incision was not so deep as to compromise life, but she received some cuts under the chin, and upon the shoulder and breast. She was asleep when at tacked, but her struggles were successful, and she happily reached the female servants' room. Bolton then quitting the room, went to the butler's chamber, told him what he had done, and added, it was because she was always aggravating him ; meaning thereby, it is presumed, she had either told her mis tress of some former acts of his mi,conduct, or had threatened him she would do so. The Admiral and the household were speedily alarmed, and a policeman was called in, and Bolton sent in custody to the gaol. At the Magistrates' sitting to-day at noon, he was remanded till Thursday next, that it may be then ascertained in what state the wounded woman may be. The man is about 24 years of age, and is a native of Devizes, Wilts.—Hampshire Telegraph. Alexander Johnstone, Esq., formerly of this city, merchant, perpetrated suicide by cutting his throat, in Glas gow, on Thursday last. It is said that commercial reverses, caused by placing confidence in a house in that city, led to this disaster.—Limerick Reporter. Monday a man named James Lougimane, care taker to the late Henry Cole Bowen, Esq., was murdered within a short distance of Toomavara. in this county. A bullet passed through his neck, and his head was shockingly mangled. —Tipperary Free Press. HAMBURGII, MAY 29.—The papers contains nu merous accounts of subscriptions and contributions for the sufferers by the fire. Among them are 20,000 dollars from the merchants at Magdeburg.-2At the instance of Mr. George Delaval, the Royal Hanoverian Custom-House at Stade has agreed to let all remittance of money, tents, and blankets from London, for the sufferers at Hamburgh, pass free of duty.— We learn from St. Petersburgh (May 16th) that besides the 50,000 silver roubles sent by the Emperor, a collection made by the Duke of Leucbtenburg in the Imperial family, has pro duced 140,000 silver roubles. TROOPS FOR INDIA.--The utmost activity prevails in the military department of the Hon. Company in Leadenball street, in freighting ships for the conveyance of troops. The large ship (general Kyd has been taken up, and is now fitting out as a troop ship in the ducts, and will sail about the middle of the next month, with 450 of the 84th and 29th regiments. Tot' LON, Mn( 23.—Such serious differences have arisen with the Bey of Tripoli and of Barbary, that. Rear- Admiral Owen, commanding the British squadron in the Nleditt.rranean, sent from Malta to Tripoli, on the 12th of this month, the Howe, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Mason, and the Thunderer, of the line, with the Savage brig. Eng land seems to demand the renal of Bey Askra Ali. For some time past steam-boats have been constantly going backwards and f•rwards between Malta, Tunis, and Tripoli. BRussEt.s, MAY 21.—1 t is said that the King and Queen will go in the course of next week to London. A letter from illuslutu (Prussia), 12th May, states :—" Prince Puckler, who has for some months hail in his service the famous pedestrian Meusen, sent him off this morn ing fur Cairo, giving him letters of recommendation for several persons of distinction. Meusen is to pass by Jerusalem. He is charged by the Prince to discover the sources of the White River, as well as to determine the real position of the moun tains called the Mountains of the oon, which, up to the pie sent time, have been considered fabulous by most persons. Aleusen formerly took a journey from Calcutta to Europe, through Affghanistan, Persia, and Syria, and did not meet with the slightest accident. He can easily walk 20 German miles (92 miles English) a-day, requiring for food only a loaf of bread. He is to embarll on the Nile for Karthum, and, as the pretended Mountains of the Aloon are, it they exist, only five degrees of latitude from this place, he could reach them in four d a y s . Great hopes are entertained that his journey will be clowned with success." In the night of the 16th inst. the house and premises of M. Rohart, at Rheims, took fire, and in less than half an hour the main body of the buildings with its contents was reduced to ashes, causing a loss estimated at 80,000 f. One of the tenants of the house had in his apartments 15,000 f. in bank-notes, which he was so fortunate as to save, though every other part of his property was consumed. A gentleman residing at Passy was, at few nights ago, about ten o'clock, walking in his garden, when he heard a rustling noise, which made him suspect there was some in truder. H e ma d e a minute search, but he could not disc over either any man or animal. Returning to the house, he went up to his bed-chamber, the window of which looked into the garden, and was open. After a time he heard sounds of dis tress from the grounds, and descending again, was led by , them to a large cask sunk in the earth, for the purpose of holding w ater. It was covered by a lid, which was down, and h as t e ned by a catch, which could only be withdrawn on the outside. On undoing this, and raising the lid, out came a youth 15 or 16 years of age, who at once a cknowledged that he had scaled the wall, in the hop e of hind some thing worth stealing i 0 a pavilion at the bottom of the garden ; but hearing some one moving, he concealed himself in the cask, and the lid falling dow n upon him he was caught as in a trap. The hopeful youth was up to his shoulders in water, and nearly stifled for want of air. He was secured, and the next morning committed to the Prefecture of Police. r SPORTING. The great events are over, and Queen Anne is dead—l bear - • the reader say to himself. To pursue my usual course, without preface or prelude then, I will begin at the beginning of the past eventful week, carefully eschewing the lies of the day. nor setting down aught in malice. The weather could not have been more unpropitious for the opening of the ball, if the gods had been even so spitefully in clined ; it rained incessantly all Tuesday. The entry for the Craven was good as far as the number was concerned, hut the quality was inferior. Satirist was the only horse entered of any pretension, and although the weights for this stake are decidedly in favour of the three-year-olds, the winner of the Doncaster St.. Leger was hacked even to win. Mr. Dixon's mare won by a head, carrying 30Ihs. less weight than the favourite ; a good three-year-old would be tried with Satirist at 14 lbs. Mr. Forth won this same stake last year with Miss Stilton, afterwards second in the Oaks. A pretty race followed between Nessus and Tole, won (solely by good riding) by Nessus ; this was succeeded by a decla ratir.n that Canadian would not start, the reason assigned being lameness behind. I believe the horse to have been un sound more than once during the winter ; hence his condition when he first appeared in public at Newmarket. He was as fat as a Smithfield ox. When you have stood on a horse all the Icing, long winter, it certainly is unpleasant to hear a declara tion that he will not start four-and-twenty hours before the race ; such things are hard to bear, and we cannot be mi.. prised at any remarks we hear at the moment on the subject. The least reflection, I think, must convince any one that the blow falls heaviest on the purchaser of this horse, and how ever, in common with many gentlemen on the turf, 1 may de precate the system of selling a Derby favourite so immediately before the race, it must be and is a considerable gratification to know that the horse went into a good stable, and barring this untoward accident, would have started under every advan tage with one of the best jockeys living on his back. Some equally efficacious accident, but sans the declaration, appeared to have befallen Auckland : he fell in one minute from seven to seventy to one, and it was generally believed he would not start. I suspect the policemen were not sent down to watch this horse without reason, but more under the head of Wednes day, the Derby day. The description of the different roads to Epsom is no doubt very amusing, and doubles, many of your readers like the annual repetition. They will not find it here, for I believe everybody in the world now goes to Epsom ; therefore they know all about it. I first speak of the proceed ings in Epsom opposite the Spread Eagle, and on the steps leading you from the street into the hotel (one of the very con venient spots chosen to form a ring). Contrary t o th e infor mation conveyed to you by the cards of the day, we were here informed that Barrier, Moss Trooper, Fireaway, and the c out of Miss Craven's dam would not run; thus the number actually starting was reduce Ito twenty-four, the number that I stated would positively run in my letter prognosticating Auckland, the ill-fated Auckland, as the winner of this unprecedented large stake, value 4,9001. The most important change in the town batting was the fall of Jack front 3to 18 to 1. It is true, but scarcely credible ; 8 to 1 was taken about Jack to several hundred pounds on Tuesday evening. 1 gave my opinion, I believe, without any mistake about Jack a week, aye, thirteen weeks ago - . lie started last for decency's sake ;he came in last —because he could not help it. Two to one was betted to a considerable sum on Coldrenick against Attila. Before I say more, allow me, Sir, to give that explanation I promised you in case of defeat, an explanation, I regret to say, much too satisfactory even for my own liking. In selecting Auckland to win the Derby, I alluded to my contempt of all good and evil report, and the immense sums ef money laid against him in the winter. Now, I care sot who says nay ; we stood on a good horse. Why did he go to 4tol in the betting the day before the race? Why did Osborne, his trainer, lease his horse arid go to London to see the Marquis of Westminster on the Tuesday And why, at the el venth hour, was the jockey changed? Tommy Lye is not a bad jockey, but he is not exactly the man I should put on a large arid powertul horst, like Auckland. Would that 1 could reply to these questions. And, after all, the horse runs third, and, I believe, %right have been second, had he persevered. Perhaps it is :s well he disl not win : settling would hardly have been the word for the ceremony usually gone through on the 'I uesday after Epsom. • It does not it uch matter what is second, but trusting to those usually so accurate in their trials, and to the liberal manner in which the Dancbury gentlemen backed their nag. I fancied Coltherliek must be an extraordinary good horse: Reader, ti d you ever come over in one of the Irish packets? If you have, you remember the appearance of the ill-fed animals that crowd the deck, and squeal with delight at leaving their native land Ido not allude to the Hamp shire hogs, but the Kilkenny porkers. When I first be held Coldreniek, I could not but think of the ill-treated and hungry animals, all legs and ribs. How different the ap pearance of Attila! The public thought him fat, hence his fall in the odds just before starting. This horse was purchased when a yearling fa. 2110/.. and although 1 said nothing about his winning, I certainly said not one word against him. this is the second time John Scott has ever won a Derby. John Day has never trained or rode the winner; and, with due de terence to honest John, Ido not believe he ever will. In the first place he over-works his horses ; in the second place he over-rides them; and I believe where John Scott tries once, John Day will try four times. No horse can run every day in the week. 1 always endeavour to give the devil his due; and, I must say, this is the first instance of so awful an impostor appearing from Stockleidge. The question has been asked fifty-nine times, " How came Robert de Goreham second ?" 'Faith, and it is not so easy to answer. Attila won in a canter. Auckland, dead amiss, was a good third, 13.1eceur being close upjto him ; then came the Agreeable colt, a horse universally pronounced to be the greatest brute ever seen, when at Tatter sall's in November last. It does not appear from these remarks that the horses of the year are first rate ; but time will show. " Chitham pulled up lame," as I read in your reporter's account of the race : I much question if he started sound. My tale of the greatest Derby ever known ends here : so many horses will probably never be backed to win one race again, and, in the absence of the huge yearling books which last sear monopolised the market, such odds will never again be obtainable about those which are backed. Thursday was a miserable blank : one stake and two races with heats, attracted to the course some twenty horsemen, an extremely limited portion of the ring, and a few straggling gip sirs. Why the cup, which has made many a good t ace ert now, is abolished, I know not ; any h I should think a handicap stake, now the leading feature at every racecourse in England, might be got up for the quantity of old horses anti hacks sent to Epsom to lead gallops for the animals engatted in the Derby and Oaks: think of this Mr. Lumley, for I believe sou are chef de cuisine at Ersom• The Oaks betting was heavy ; emboldened by success, the Scott party laid out their winnings freely, and it certainly is a pull to stand on velvet. Tile Adela mare was also backeJ. Faso,. v.—The Oaks has certainly lost caste. The public do not take the same inter.st in this great race that they did some few years ago. People hate betting about the race even in the winter; the fact is, that the betting has been so bad during the last four years, the • favourite having always " thrown in," that the public will not stand crucifixion any longer. The present race is an exception as tar as the betting is concerned. Passion was backed for a great deal of money at 6 and 7to 1. Belle Dame and Sir Gilbert Heathcote's lot were also among those that did not venture to the post—so much dead money to bookmakers, while the winner, the Fury filly (the property of Mr. Dawson, I be lieve), was never heard of before the second week in April. I have never had to record a worse race : Deception did not win easier, and the pace was wretched ; they seemed to be travelling at about eight miles an hour, until round the corner. 'here were several false starts, and Nat, not wishing to break another collar-bone, threw himself off Ma Mie, as the well-bred spaniel descends the stairs, when he sees prepara tions making for his departure by a more precipitate retreat. The mare was exceedingly restive. The Adela mare was coughing ; strange to say, she was as good a favourite as ever, after her preparatory gallop. Mr. Forth once more gets the hundred sovereigns for being second, but, as usual, no one knew, besides his worthy self, that Meal was better than Lucy Banks, the latter being much the best favourite of the two. I have heard that the training ground at Mitchell Grove is peculiarly favourable in dry weather. Twice has Mr. Forth won the Derby, when the ground has been, during the previous month, as hard as adamant. I certainly saw no stud at Epsom more blooming than old Forth's. fancy there was not much money won or lost on this race, the settling for which and the Derby takes place on Tuesday, that is, to-morrow ; and considering that one of the favourites has won, I believe the needful will be forthcoming to a s:attis• factory extent. We cannot surely regret that the Hippodrome is ab lished. Four days' rest between Epsom and Ascot are good for man and beast' If either think otherwise, there is racing at Newton on Wednesday and following days. May 30. J UDE X . MEETING FOR COMPLETE SUF FRAGE AT KNIGHTSBRIDGE. A meeting of the friends of Complete Suffrage was held on Saturday night last, at Thornton's Coffee-house, Knights bridge; Mr. Denshaw in the Chair. The adjourned discus sion on the necessity and practicability of an union between the middle and working-class Reformers was resumed, and the result was the approval of Complete Suffrage Unions as the best means for the purpose. The following Address to the Electors of Nottingham was read by the Secretary, Mr. Westerton : " TO THE ELECTORS OF NOTTINGHAM. FELLOW,COUNTILYMEN.—You will shortly have an op portunity of removing the disgrace brought on your town by the protli 4 acy of some of its inhabitants, and enabling you to regain your former position in the estimation of your country and the world. Are you prepared? Do you participate with us in fee ling that, morally and politicaliy, y ou are d egra d e d and despised? 1-lave you yet perceived, that by bartering your votes for a bribe, your representatives assume the right of sell ing them to the highest bidder for their own ? " Men of Nottingham !—Had you witnessed the contempt manifested for your past conduct by foreigners, as well as your countrymen, the hand extended for the bribe would have been severed rather than you would have exposed yourselves to such Ihumiliation You would at once resolve to be men, and act like free men! " Show that you feel compunction, and your repentance is sincere, by doing what you can to secure the return of Joseph Sturge as your future representative. " Let those among you who have scorned the bribe—despised the intimidation—and withstood the influence of your former Members, crown their past exertions by supporting that good man, and thereby securing the approbation their noble conduct has already deserved. " Men of Nottingham !—The result of the forthcoming eh e- Gm is anxiously looked for by numbers of your countrymen. Your town is to be the arena of a deadly struggle between prin ciple and corruption—and that struggle will show whether suf ficient patriotism remains in our people, to scorn the bribe of the despot, and declare for the freeman ! " On one side there is corruption from those who flatter, despise, and sell you ;on the other, the unt irin g exert ions of one who will do his utmost to secure the pe ace and prosperity of all. " Rise, therefore, and acquit yourselves as men ! Be as the men of old ! The men whose names make radiant the pag e on which they are recorded — whos e restznmplaces are hallow e d i n our memories—and whose lives were sacrificed for our rights and liherties ! 't hat poi will do so, and secure the return of that great Joseph Sturge, is the hope and prayer of and; ood man, Your friends and well. wishers, the men of Knightsbridge and its neighbourhood." ANNIVERSARIES.—Thiti day is the anniversary of some interesting events, particularly i the b urn i ng o f th e cele brated heroine , Joan of Arc, n the year 1431 ; three years. previously she repulsed the English at the siege of Orleans.. It will also be the anniversary of the death of P. P. Rubens s the celebrated painter, who died in 1610, and the anniversary of the death of our popular and accomplished inlet. Alexander Pope, who died in 1711, and of Voltaire, who died in 1 775. and of Sir James Macintosh, who died in 1332. The next day will be the anniverstiry of the taking of Spiritu Santo, and of the death of Sir Janie; Malcolm, in 1833 ; and the day following will he the anniversary of the death of the distinguished author C. Marlowe, in 1593, and of the birth of that great artist N. Poussin, 1594,and of the splendid victory of Lord Howe, nu 1794. A- boy only ten. years old, belonging - to the corm rnune Of Clercy, near Troyes, is in custody upon a charge of wilful murder, by throwing into the river and drowning a play fellow, only six years old, who had offended him. Five pieces of besieging artillery, of 10 inches ilia-• meter have recently been cast at the Royal foundry of Liege for the Pacha of Egypt. OP `s: I k„ k C I