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13, Great Marlborough-street. H E COUNTESS OF BLESSD:GTON'S T NEW WORK, "THE LOTTERY OF LIFE." 1S NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. Heury Colburu, publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MR. AINSWORTH'S MISCELLANY, ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. Price TWO SHILLINCiS. The JUNE NUMBER N of E. k*IITSWOB,TH'S MAGAZI CONTENTS. THE MISER'S DAUGHTER, By W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq. Chapters XI., XII., and MILIKSHANK. With Two Illustrati ons on Steel, byCRUIKSHANK. The Landing of the Primrose. By C. S. The Joiner.and his Matel. By John Ozenford. The Russian Prince. By Dinette. The Yeomanry Ball. By Mrs. Ward. The Songs of Italy. By Edward Kenealy. Do 1 forget thee? By 'l. J. Ousely. Beauty and Time. Miss Pardoe. Pef , pie who " Haven't Time." By Laman Blanchard. A Gossip about Edward Alleyn. The Italian Boy. By Mrs. (lore. Anacreontic Lyric. The Lonely Hearse. By Lady Harriette D'Orsay. The Murder Prevented. By Mr. Buller of Brasennose. A Pastoral Western Tribunal. By Uncle Sam. 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We have reeeived several letters giving outlines of sermons preached on Sunday, respecting the general distress, and thank our Correspondents for their attention, but we cannot find room for them. _ _--_ THE NVEATIAELC.—INOOx,'MAY M. 110 - i AL GALLERY OP•SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer.— 63 ) Highest...... 68 I Lowest 47 Barometer 30.19.—Wind S.W. ATEB AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. pl wning. :r9 minutes after It 1 Evening 'A minutes after 7. Aldvertisements of a Disgusting Character, or Immoral Tendency, are excluded from the Columns of "The Sun." LONDON WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 1, 1842. Both Houses of Parliament concurred last night una nimously in offering an Address of Congratulation to her MAJESTY. In proposing it, we are bound to say, as we profess the most unreserved hostility to Sir ROBERT PEEL'S policy, that he .made a most feeling and just appeal to the House of Commons. He was equally happy in speaking of her MAJESTY'S distinguished virtues, and in expressing the indignation and abhor rence of the whole empire of the crime that aimed at her life. We remarked, however, with regret; that when Lord Joux RUSSELL alluded to the crime being not the result of a conspiracy, and to the criminal having no associate, there was not that denial from the Treasury benches which a cheer can convey, and we were left with the impression that the Ministers be lieve that the assassin does not stand alone. Her MAJESTY'S conduct, as described by Lord PORT MAN, Sir RadERT PEEL, and Mr. LASCELLES, was truly admirable. Though she understood that she might be exposed to danger, she would not consent to make her self a prisoner in her palace, but she resolutely refused to allow any of her ladies to take their places by her side. For devoted soldiers, who know that their chief is the peculiar object of attack, to dress themselves like him, and Sc) divert the danger, is a praiseworthy strata gem ; but her 111.4T.EsTv's conduct is a nobler example of a chief refusing such a diversion, and alone confronting a certain peril. In . any young woman such conduct would be called hertiie, and why should we nut apply that epidiet to the QUEEN ? In other parts of our Paper will be found the full par ticulars of the proceedings in Parliament, of the commit tal of FRANC.I3 to Nevvgate, and of all the circumstances which have yet transpired connected with this abominable attempt. In r:7Tly to a (petition last night, put by Mr noriliEßK, relative to the increase of duties on linen yarn in France, Sir ROBERT PEEL stated, that our 3linistr y had not lest a sin g l e d a y, a ft e r b e ing informed . of theintention of the French Government, in conanu nicating with it On the subject, and in expressing much regret at such a course of proceeding. Such vigilance deserves our approbation. Sir ROBERT alluded to the commercial treaty which has been interrupted with France, and hinted that its wine-growers might have reaso n to regret the interruption. There were' oilier wine-growing countries, he said, with which we were in negotiation ; and he left it to be inferred, with something like a threat to France, that our negotiations with them might give to their wines soma preference over tho se of France in our markets.. IMrd J. Russm; alluded to such a course as one calculated to excite regret,- and triplied that re were not warranted in departing from -• . 4*); 4 * h s At , _ • in L , O ,7-40- - - • - •• • litig Sulu the true principles of commerce, because France, or any other country, chose to act erroneously. We cordially echo that sentiment. attacked Marshal SEBASTIAN' for signing the Right of Search Treaty without orders, when here as Ambassador of the Court of France. Crowded as are our columns, we must endeavour to find room for the defence of the illustrious Marshal. With what shame does it not cover the Jesuitical policy of Count Mom;, hitherto generally respected, because so little known in this country. MoLL and THIERS are, in truth, a pre cious couple—as shameless as dishonest. Marshal SE BASTIAN' said : He came to that tribune to defend an old treaty, that of 1831. He hoped the Chamber would permit him to speak of the English alliance, for it was that alliance caused the treaty. When Minister for Foreign Affairs under the Minister Perier be had been always careful to preserve the alliance as the most solid guarantee ot peace. He was also at that period engaged in a question which interested humanity, the treaty fur tne extinction of the slave trade. At that time all France ap plauded the treaty, since become the object of so many at tacks. The right of search, it is pretended. lowers France, and is contrary to the interests of the nation. It would be so had it been made in the interest of England; but the treaty was reciprocal, and reciprocity humiliates no one. How could it he onerous for our commerce when we had the right of visit ing double the number of our own vessels ? He thought we ought to be proud of a treaty which was legally made, as the means of abolishing an infamous traffic. On quitting the Ministry to be employed as Ambassador in London, said the Marshal, my whole thought and care were to main tain peace, and that alliance, the effects of which would have been felt, and which I cannot but regret now. I was then doubly occupied in the maintenance of the English alliance and the extinction of the slave trade. I have said that I was in the Ministry at the time of the treaty of 1831, that I applauded the treaty of 1833, and that I supported that of 1841, because the .question is not of zones, more or less. When the right of search is granted and contested, it must be contested wholly. I signed also the treaty of 1831 ; I applauded those of 1833 and 1841. 1 hare been consistent. I may have been deceived, but I think nut. In 1836 England proposed the extension of the zones. I sent to the President of the Council the pi oposition. I could never obtain an answer, though it seemed to me to merit one. In 1836 and afterwards, the President of the Council took it into his head to put into execution one of the treaties of 1831, which consisted in making all the powers of Europe ad here to the treaty. I own he treated with Portugal, that the instructions given to our Minister at that Court were sent to London and communicated. Nothing direct. In 1838, M. Desages, first clerk of the po:itical department of foreign affairs, was sent to London, which he reached on the 10th of December. I signed the treaty. I wrote on the 13th. We were then en gaged in a great negotiation. It was proposed to me to ago the protocol by whien the Three Northern powers were called to accede to the treaty. Why, said the British Minister, not continue the alliance? I was placed in the alternative of either engaging my responsibility, or of breaking the al liance. I signed the protocol, that is the opening ot negotia tions. I communicated these reserves; you have the terms of my letter to the President of the Council. I engaged him to make some changes, some modifications in this protocol and in the treaty. I will say more ; from 1836 to 1838 I took two journeys to Paris ; I frequently had occasion to see and to convene upon important business with the President of the Council ; he never opened his mouth to say a word upon the treaty. Consequently I thought myself authorised to en gage my own responsibility with respect to the Minister, not being able to do so with respect to the State, for I spoke of modifications, of changes, and he replied not. I leave you to judge as you will, whether a Minister should be silent upon affairs of such importance; whether he should limit himself to sending a copy of the despatches which he has sent to our Ambassador in Portugal; if there was ever an Am bassador or a Minister independent by the will of the Minister, I think it is the Ambassador of your own country. I certainly do congratulate myself for having signed that treaty, for with out that the affair would nave been immediately broken up. I will only say a few words upon the negro question, and the right ot neutrality. These questions have never been taken up. The responsibility does not reach them. The Marshal here said that he felt too weak to speak more, and would merely add that he would have followed his instructiona had he had them. Not having them, he could only do what he had done. Marshal SEBASTIAN' has acquitted himself like a brave man, whereas Count MOLE, by his own previous boast in the Chamber, that he was all the time only hoaxing England, has proved himself a person so utterly false as to be an object of universal contempt. The Moniteur publishes the following Royal ordi nance, countersigned by the Minister of Finance, M. DE LACAVE LAPLAGNE : " Having considered the 14th article of the Bth of Septem • ber, 1841, which fixes at 5 per cent. per annum the interest to be paid to the Treasury in case of any delay in paying up the instalments of that proportion of the loan of 150 millions to be adjudged in pursuance of that order ;—having considered the meaning of the second paragraph of the same article, stating that in default of payment in the course of one month, the full amount of the sum stated in the certificate may be required, and that the Minister of Finance may sell it fur the benefit of the Treasury to the amount of the sum due by the contractor; considering that the cash on hand in the Treasury exceeds the actual demand on it, and that, consequently, by modifying the terms of the aforesaid article, so as to give the contractors the privilege of retarding their payments, it would relieve the charge on the floating debt ; " Decrees—That the rate of interest to which the contrac tor of the first portion of the loan of 150 millions, adjudicated the 18th October last, as liable in ease of delay in the payment, is reduced to 3i per cent. per annum. This interest wi I be required to be paid on the fifth day atter the expiration of the term without further notice. " The delay of one month, announced in the second para graph of the '24th article of the decree of the 18th of Septem ber, 1841, is extended to three months. "Paris, May 28, 1842." " LAPLANGE." The King and Queen, returning from Bizy, arrived at Neu illy yesterday afternoon. We do not know what will become of the continuous walls when the Chambers have broken up • but at this moment there are scarcely 2,000 workmen employed on this part of the works and in the fortification of the capital. Grass is already grow ing on some parts of the works which were abandoned last year. It is not so with the forts, the erection of which is carried on with great activity. We must al=o observe that the portions of the continuous walls on which the workmen are employed are those which will seems as points d'appui to the military establishments, respecting which the Government has not thought fit to give an explanation. Our readers may remember that the military stores which were deposited in the ancient Abbey of Panthemont were removed during the winter to the building of the former entrepos of Grorbatilon, which had been transformed into a barrack. The ancient church of Panthemont was to be repaired, and to serve as a Protestant church ; the workmen had even begun their opera tions, but in consequence it is said of the remonstrances of the clergy, the work has been suspended. It is not now known what is to be done with this building. The Spanish authorities have lost no time in following the ex ample given by General Harispe, who hasforbidden the French officers and soldiers to enter the Spanish territory. A letter from Ainpoa to the Sentinelle des Pyrenees of the 26th, says : "'the valley of the Baston has just been reinforced with a battalion of the regiment of Bourbon, 25 horses and twenty mules, loaded with tools, have just arrived at Urdach. It is thought it intended to erect a corps de garde on the extreme frontier. " The Spanish officers and soldiers are expressly forbidden to enter the French territory." Count Appony will return to Paris with part of his familly by family by the end of June.— Commerce. AUSTRIAN YU SM.—VIENNA, MAY 21. five per Ccats.bletalliques • lour per Cents. l6O Three pr Cents. 0000000000 ••••••••••• 000000 76% Bank Shares 00000 ....... ...... .....• 168J We have admired none of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S free trade sentences more than that in which be expressed an opinion like the late Mr. DEACON HUME, that Eng land ought to buy at the cheapest market, let the com mercial law of other countries be what it might. If Sir ROBERT PEEL, in order to spite the French for not buy ing our linen yarn (though we are by no means sure that the smuggler will not correct the vicious policy of the Government), shall impede the English in getting wine cheap, he will inflict another injury on our trade besides that which the legislation of the French Govern ment is calculated to inflict. In Sir ROBERT PEEL this would be a much greater offence than LOUIS PHILIPPE'S conduct, because Sir ROBERT is under an obligation to promote the benefit of our people. LOUIS PHILIPPE is going to injure our linen-yarn spinners, and Sir ROBERT PEEL, to retaliate, will injure our wine merchants. Be cause the French will not take our linen yarn, that is no reason why we should not have good and cheap wine. The mischievous effects of his law would be much more certain quoad our people than the law of France. Without his interference we believe that the increased difficulty of sending our linen yarn to France must prevent the French from selling us so much wine, or they must give us an equal quantity for a less price. The impelicy of the French will punish themselves, without Sir ROBERT PEEL taking on himself the odium of inflicting an additional injury on our people. We trust, therefore, that his implied threat will die in the utterance, and that he will not multiply the ruinous restraints on commerce which Governments have imposed, as if they were the scourges which inflict, instead of the balm which heals, the wounds of society. Unfortunately for Sir ROBERT PEEL, however bad may be the policy of France, that country may plead his special example. France is only doing that—(affording what its Government supposes to be an adequate protection to the comparatively unimpor tant manufacture of one part of the French people's clothing)—which Sir ROBERT has done for the tenfold more important manufacture of our people's food. One Government deprives its subjects of a cheap dress, the other, much more criminal, deprives them of cheap and abundant subsistence. Sir ROBERT PEEL, too, is about to impose a duty of 45., or if he have relented from his malevolent plan as is said, a duty of 2s. on coals ex ported, fur the avowed purpose of depriving the foreign manufacturer of the advantage of cheap coals. The French Government, therefore, only imitates his own policy, which, considering the age and country in which it originates, deserves no other epithet than that of barbarous. If England should gradually find herself excluded from trade with all the world, it will be the consequence of the vast success which has accompanied her restrictive system without being caused by it, and will be the realization of the wishes of that unpatriotic party which placed Sir ROBERT PEEL in office. Another dispute has arisen in that abode of theologi cal strife, the University of Oxford, which we notice merely to express our contempt of the whole affair. When Dr. lIAMPDEN was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford five or six years ago, the heads of houses, at the instigation of the Pusey party, and being animated by a fierce Tory spirit, passed a statute to de prive the Whig Dr. HAMPDEN of some of the privi leges of his office. They dispensed with the students attending his lectures. At length the fierce spirit of bigotry and party strife has relented, and those of the Learned Doctors, who have recovered their senses, have proposed to do justice to Dr. lIAMPDEN, by repealing this statute. There is, however, a large body, chiefly Pusey ices, it is said, who are not ashamed of their into tolerance and their malice, who oppose this step with all their might. Between those who now wish to do right, and those who persevere in doing wrong, both having been heretofore united in enmity to Dr. HAMP DEN, all Oxford is in a blaze. The fierce contention, however, is of no interest whatever beyond the circle of the wordly monks and their pupils. It will neither cheapen bread nor add to improvement. We should, therefore, have passed by the subject in total silence had not several of our Contemporaries, by elaborate remarks, sought to invest it with public importance. The verbal and yet wrathful contentions of University Doctors, are more contemptible than the disputes of rival fidlers, of Which the proper public notice taken was— 'Tis pity there should be Such furious wrath 'twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Nothing is more natural than the universal interest excited among, and horror expressed by, all classes of British subjects, upon learning that a second attempt has been made upon the life of one so dear to every British bosom as our young and universally-beloved SOVEREIGN. Taking a cursory glance at the crime, and its consequences, had Heaven been less mindful of the protection of our QUEEN, we repeat it was not only natural, but appeared only decent that the two Houses of Parliament should be adjourned, and that a meeting of Privy Councillors should be held to examine the mise- Table man who could be guilty of so cruel and unprt yoked an enormity. But calm reflection can hardly defend such a line of proceeding. The great object to which the attention of the Government, the Legislature, the Magistracy, and the public should be directed, is the prevention for the future of all similar attempts upon a life so precious in the eyes of her people as that of Queen VICTORIA. Now the experience ofall ages shows that by extraordinary notoriety crime may be made as contagious as a fever, the plague, ' or any other infectious disease. This is peculiarly the case in great cities, where wretches abound who care nothing for life, provided they are sure of acquiring un bounded notoriety. The extraordinary trial of FIESCHI in France, for attempting to take the life of King LOUIS PHILIPPE, was followed by repetitions of the crime, and which only ceased when the public took no notice of them, and the KING declined to give the climax to their vanity by cutting off their heads. The BURKE and HARE atrocities found imitators, and when a young woman, in a fit of insanity, threw herself from the top of the Monument, others, as insane as herself, chose tlit same place for " shuffling off this mortal coil," till even the City authorities became alarmed at the prospect of establishing a perpetual Coroner's Court in Fish-street hill. We arrive, then, at the conclusion, that the less no toriety is given to such crimes, and the less such criminals are paraded before the public eye, the better fur the safety of the Illustrious Personage thus rendered peculiarly the object of a nation's solicitude. The person guilty of such an attempt must be mad, or may safely be assumed to be so. No man in his senses, however wicked, however instigated by the Devil, could be guilty of such a crime, knowing, as he must that, whether successful or otherwise, benefit he could have none, and escape would be impossible. The worst men do not voluntarily thrust their necks into halters—do not court national execration— without sume selfish notion. It is otherwise with mad- . . men, crazed with a longing for notoriety in any shape. They will commit any crime merely to be talked of. When, on a former occasion, the wretth OXFORD fired a pistol at the QUEEN, had he been sent to Bow street to be recognised, and thence conveyed as a lunatic to some asylum, there to be kept in strict seclusion for life, we should not now have to record the repetition of such an atrocity by JOHN FRANCIS. Let some such measure be adopted now. Parliament is sitting, so that ne time need be lost in preparing and passing a Bill for the greater safety of the Royal person. There are plenty of people we know who, in the exuberance of their loyalty and the paucity of their wisdom, would recommend the gibbet and chains ; but, as we observed before, this would only serve as a provocative to the diseased imaginations of the crazed creatures who are to be found in every street of this vast asylum of crime and madness. Make all attempts against the life of the SOVEREIGN convictions of incurable madness, and let the poor wretches be for ever dead to the world, and there will no longer be any danger of repetitions of such crimes. But, except the Secretaries of State, no persons should be allowed to visit them from without the walls of their prisons. The violation of this rule in the case of OXFORD we deem highly objectionable, and of dangerous tendency. PROMPTITUDE AND STEAM POWER. Monday night we had the melancholy duty, mingled with grateful joy, to announce exclusively before Post-time the atrocious attempt on the precious life of our beloved Sovereign. The news was brought to The Sun office about a quarter before seven. We had our doubts of its truth, and despatched messen gers on horseback to ascertain the fact. Meantime to save post, if possible, we wrote the account, the ac curacy of which was soon confirmed, and by half-past seven o'clock upwards of two thousand papers of the Third Edition were printed off, packed up, and posted in St. Martin's•le-Grand, a mile from The Sun office. By half-past eight an Express Edition of about fifteen hundred more, containing the sudden rise of both Houses of Parliament, and long addi tional particulars of the assassin-attempt, was sent off by the Railways to all the large towns—North, South, East, and West. We mention these things not by way of boast—for The Sun has no occasion to boast of such matters — but merely to show what can be done by the com bined agency of steam-printing and railroad expedi tion. The Third Edition of The Sun of last night conveyed the news of pain and pleasure all over the empire. Yesterday morning it was read in Lanca shire, Yorkshire, &c. ; last night it was in Dublin and Scotland ; and will be everywhere to the extremest verge of the United Kingdom this morning. So much for steam power—the power to go a-head ! SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. THE DERBY AND OAKS. will however,' awPvler-, Some three or four hundred persons of different ranks entered the yard yesterday a ft ernoon, its tile vain hope of settling thei r acco unts on the Derby and Oaks, and they were, one and all, miserably disappointed. The heavy defalcation already an nounc,d, would alone have been sufficient to produ ce a owae of sen sible effect, but when we add that from p arties who di d not show at all, and those who di d attend. and only p aid in p ar t , a further su m amounting to upwards of fort y thousand pound s letter mwas to n "want ciated. It was stated y esterda y that the names of severalle par ing ," the nature of this so called " settling" ties had been made f ree with, and we fear, in more instances thanshow showed e a , n a d - i p t with i some partreason; anothertw o f n o r r w t three d eeo of his principal creditors, stating that hisloss was so heavy as to render it utterly impossible for him to meet his engagements on the day, but that he felt c infid ent of realizin g such securities as' will enable him to settle with every person in full in a very short time. In the other quarters the cases are not considered desperate, and as they differ in this respect from the one we treated so uneeremoniou-ly in our last, it would scarcely be fair towards their creditors to publish their names, or ir.dulge in any allusions that would have a tendency to prevent an ultimate adjustment. With the exception of Colonel Ansen, the large amount of whose winnings must have enabled him to realize a portion, we do not believe that a singl . person quitted the yard a winner • one gentleman was 7.0001. short, by bad or parried debts, ine liding 4,0001. by Mr. Beaks, the whOle of which was commission money ; another n earl y 5,000/. ; and several o'T two, three, and four thousand each. Such is the present state of the turf money market; in another week or ten days, the intentions of those in arrears will have developed themselves, and we shall return to the subject ; in the meantime, it is almost superfluous to mkt, that betting is out of the question. The French Journals are in extacies at the mortifica tion which the English Press is 'expected to experience from the result of the debate in the French Chamber of Deputies on Saturday, upon M. LACROSSE'S motion for an increase of 1,240,000 francs upon tbe marine budget. The Government had asked for 23,356,000 francs, which the Opposition considered too little, and moved and carried the r.bove amendment, in order to kcal) i n a state of immediate service for a NP,r with England eight sail of the line, which the Minister of Marine proposed laying up i„ ordinary. Now for our own part, we feel no mortifica tion whatever that such a vo*.e should. be carried by the Opposition. A Government never refuses money when it finds the people such fools as to pour it spontaneously into the Exchequer. The more France spends in this fashion the more she exhausts herself, and the less have We reason to fear her. In the course of the debate M. MAot;INN, who has latterly talked more nonsense than any man in France, contended that France wanted no army ; what she wanted was a good fleet, and she ought, instead of twenty, to, hare sixty sail of the line con stantlyin a war footing. Continental France without au , There a war . statesman for you, of the ..in9clija French school ! M. MAGUINN next ASCOT RACES. Potentate is declared not to start for the Vase, Cup, or Stakes. Little Wonder does not start for the Cup. FRENCH PLATS.—MdIIe. Dejazet acted on Monday as a Ravadeuse in the amusing little piece of the Comtesse du Tonneau. After the first piece, she came on the stage in the character of a brave soldat, and sang the " Trompette de Marengo," in which she has been so much applauded in Paris. We regret to hear that Mdlle. Dejazet can play only to-morrow and Friday, when she" will be obliged to return to Paris. THE SUN, LONDON , WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE L 1842. Bank Stock 164 3 per Cent. Red. 9li 3 per Ceut. Cons.... 3 per Cent. New 3i per Cent... loli New 5 per Cent — Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 . Oct. 1859 - Jan. 1800 124 FOREIGN Austrian, 5 per cent. ... Belgian, 5 per cent Brazilian Bonds... Buenos Ayres6 per cent. Chilian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 per cent Ditto, 1824 Danish, 3 per cent Bli , Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent 37i Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. a report that an attempt had been made on the life of her Ma.. jesty the Queen ; and immediately the report was confirmed by the statement of Sir Robert Peel in the House of Commons. 'I here followed an almost universal burst of commingled shame and indignation—of shame that there should be an Englshman so brutalised and degraded as to desire to terminate the exist ence of a Soveteign who bears her great faculties so meekly, who sympathises so deeply for the sufferings of the humblest of her subjects, and the happy and graceful tenour of whose domestic lite is equally instructive to the highest and the lowest —of indignation,. that England should be a second time dis graced in the estimation of the world by so wicked and atro cious a treason. If earnest devotion to the public welfare—if unaffected zeal for the Constitution, which is still the admira tion of mankind—if brimming kindness, tenderness, and cha rity—if the love of a nation, and the affection of a people could shield any Sovereign from harm, then indeed would Queen Victoria bear a charmed life. Happily, however, Providence has again guarded her Majesty against a treasonable attack from , which her own excellence and purity ought to have been suffi cient protection." MONEY—TRADE — COMMERC E. The South Shields ship-owners have signed a memorial to the Privy Council against the new duty of four shillings a ton on coal exported abroad, whether shipped in British or foreign vessels ; and stating that the indiscriminate levy of such a duty will have the effect of transferring a large portion of our home trade from the hands of the present coalowners. Sir Allan N. APNab. Dr. Thomas Rolph, and Mr. R. Brown arrived in Glasgow at the close of the last week, as a deputation to bring the subject of emigration under the con sideration of the inhabitants of that city and its vicinity. A meeting on the subject wa' held on Tuesday last in Edinburgh, and on Friday a similar meeting is to take place. ELECTIONEERING. The Election Committee for the borough of Lyme Regis, after a protracted inquiry, which has lasted for twenty days, terminated on Monday, when Mr. Hussey was declared the sitting Member. Mr. Robert Bateson has been elected for Derry without op position, in the room of Sir Robert Bateson. 1.1-I.W 11. ND PO LICE. Eleven desperate burglars have just been captured at Bath, after an attempt on a private house. They have long been a terror to the neighbourhood. I.TTER.ANCY AND SCIENTIFIC. Dr. Payerne's invention is likely to prove of importance to a great naval country like England, as he considers that he can by his process render respiration easy for three hours, and sup port any number of men in deep water : it is likely therefore to prove invaluable in the examination of the bottoms of ships, foundations of piers or bridges, &c. THEATRICAL. '1 he English Opera House is displaying itself in the appear ance of Harley, Mrs. Humby, and Miss Faucit. The latter lady last night played the principal character in One Fault, a piece in whi':h Miss Ellen Tree used to act very finely at the theatre in 3111 to- street. SPORTING. The sale of the hunting-stud of the Earl of Rossiya took place at Tattgrsall's on Monday. Lord Rosslyn's horses were the private pJperty of his Lordship, who is Master of the Staghounds, and which were well known with her Majesty's hounds : of these Muon.ight fetched 125 guineas, and Twilight 150 guineas. Lord Cassilis's horses, which have been hunted with the Pytchley hounds, were put up to sale at the same time, and fetched fair prices : among them Grasshopper was knocked down at 115 guineas, and Embassy at 58 guineas. The Earl and Countess of Shrew bury are daily expected at Mivart's Hotel, from Paris, on their 'mum from Italy. His Excellency Count ensdorf and his sons, attended by Colonel Wylde, visited the Tower on Mixiday morning, and also inspected St. Katherine's Docks. Lady Sondes gave a splendid ball at her mansion in St. James s-square on Monday night. The roams were crowded with the elite. Prince Dolgowroky left. Mivart's Hotel on Monday afternoon for St. t'etersburgh. The Prince has made exteasive purchases of British manufactures during his brief visit to this country. The Duke and Duchess of L.eds, Baron Van Heckeren and family, and General Ellice and family, left town on Sunday morning, for Rotterdam. The ord Chancel.or has issued cards for a grand dinner to day, in George-street, Han..ver. square. MISCELLANEOUS. A gas explosion took place in the interior of the Oriental Club House, Hanover-square, on Saturday afternoon, by which damage to the extent of 100/. was done, and Weaver, the porter, dangerously burnt. The state apartments of Windsor Castle will be closed to day, in consequence of some alterations which are about to be made. On Sunday 6,921 persons landed from the steamers at Chelsea, and 4,162 at Putney. MONEY and COMNIMICIAL NEWS CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. To-morrow being the shutting of the Bank preparatory to the payment of the dividends, a great pressure for money to ,‘ take in" Stock existed during the day. At the latter end of it, the Broker who usually operates for the Bank of England, came forward and took in some heavy accounts, and it was supposed that he was acting for that body. How ever the case may be, the .11arket experienced great relief thereby, and Consols closed at 921 921 for Money, and 93k 93k for the Opening, the 15th July. Bank Stock, 167 k 1664 ; India Stock, 250 '252 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 41 43; Advertised, 36 38 prem. The settlement in Foreign Securities has been easy, and prices remain as yesterday, Belgian Bonds 102 103; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 521 53; the Five per Cents. 101 1011; Danish, 80 1 / 2 81 1 / 2 • and Brazilian, 67 68 . The quotation of Mexican is lower, being 37k 38. • Great Western Railway Shares were nut quite so high, and Brighton were a shade better, the others remained stationary ; London and Birmingham, 179 181 ; Birmingham and Glou cester, 50 52 ; Great Western, 91 92 ; the Halt Shares, 611 62k; South Western, 62k 63; North Midland, 65 67 ; the New Shares, 32 33; South Eastern and Dover, 26k 26k ex divi dend, and New Shares, the Scrip, 6k 7 : Eastern Counties , 9k . 9k; Northern and Eastern, 42 43 ; 11 ; and Brighton, 35i 36 per Share. The Foreign Exchanges were all 'arm, and improved upon the rates of Friday. - Hamburgh, 13 10k, 13 101 ; Amsterdam. 12 44, 12 4; ; Rotterdam, 12 41; Antwerp, 12 4i ; Frank fort, 151; Paris, 25f. 77 1 e. to 25 f. 80 c. ; Vien n a , 9 52 1 , 9 ..3 k ; Trieste, 9 9 55; Madrid. 361; and Lisbon, 53, The last Account in the Bonds having proved to have been a " Bull" one, the opposite party have taken advantage of it, and accordingly depressed the quotations, which were—Colombian, 26k 261; Peruvian. lBi 19# ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 371371 ; the Three per Cents., 22 22k ; Spanish Five per Cents., 221 23*; and the Three per Cents. 24k 241, Money bas continued excessively high in the Market the whole day. (From Tiie S'utionast Night.) As might have been expected, the greatest excitement and indignation at the event of last evening exists in the City to day, and but one feeling of sorrow at the disgrace which it has brought upon the country is visible. Some fear was expressed at the early part of the morning that it might be the result of a conspiracy, and in consequence the Funds gave way ; but since then confidence has been restored, by the certainty that no one but a maniac could have been guilty of the crime, and Consols are 92a 92/ fur Money, and 93* 93a for the opening. Three per Cents. Reduced, 911 ; Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Re duced, 100% 101 1 4 ; ditto New, 1011. Bank Stock, 1671 1681. India Bonds, 21 23. Exchequer Bills, Old, 40 42; Advertised, 35 38 premium.. The settlement in Foreign securities is proceeding satisfac torily ; in fact, it is now a rare occurrence for a time bargain to be made in them. A pressure for money has rendered the market flat ; the Dutch Two-and-a. Half per Cents. 521 53 ; the Five per Cents. 101 101 i ; and Danish, 81. Mexican Bonds are quoted lower than yesterday, being 37i for Money, and 37/ fur the Account. Very little has been done in Shares, and transactions have been confined to South Western; 63; South Eastern Scrip, 61; Eastern Counties, New, 41. 19s. 2d. ; Greenwich, 4*; Great Western, New, 62 1 %; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 52; Ditto, New, 4%. The quotation , of the Bonds are— Colombian, 26a for Money, and 26h. for the Account; Por ugues Five per Cents., 37i ; Spanish Five per Cents., 23, the 'three per Cents., 24i for Money, and 24i for the Account. Money has been in great demand, and 5 per cent. has been paid for it in the English Market ; while, in the documents named immediately above, the rates vary from 8 to 10 per cent. An estimate appears in one of the American papers,, of the loss which has been sustained by the holders of various securi ties issued by portions of that country ; and, by four items only, the amount is calculated at 326,936,000 dollars, or nearly 80,000,0001. sterling. This is altogether exclusive of the numerous failures of mercantile houses, which may rea sonably be set down at 8,000,0001. more; and more than two thirds of the whole has been borne by this country The decline on the current rates of Indiana and Illinois Bonds, from August 1841, to the present time, has been from 60 per cent., to 17 and 18. These calculations arrive very opportunely at the period when every probability exists that great efforts will be made to induce European capitalists to subscribe for the new State Loan the endeavours so raise which in the country itself, have hitherto utterly failed. It has been acknowledged that " the immense number of mer cantile failures, and the curtailment of dividends have checked the accumulation of capital • at the same time prices of all de scriptions of goods have fallen so low, that the floating capital which remains . finds a more profitable investment than even seven per cent. Government Stocks ; these com bined have operated powerfully to prevent investments in the new loans created." The excess of expenditure being ten millions of dollars annually, it is evident that money must somehow be procured, and it is doubtless the policy to raise it if possible, abroad; and the germ of a national debt being thus formed, it may be extended to an indefinite amount, for which no adequate security can be given, while parties in Congress are so divided on the plan by which the interest is to be provided for as' they ate at present. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 30.—Several spinners visited our market to-day, and purchased rather freely at the last quotations. On the ahole an extensive business was done, 6,000 bales having changed hands, including 1,500 American taken on speculation. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MAY 30.—A good demand was experienced for Eastern Counties New Shares, but there was little inquiry for other Stock, and the transactions con sisted altogether of a few sales in Eastern Counties, New, 5i ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, New, 5a ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, New, ; Midland Counties, Quarters, 17*; South Eastern, New, 7. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 30.—Although we have had more buyers of Railway Stock, yet little business has Veen done. Eastern Counties, Old and New Shares, and North Midlands, are in good request. London and Birming ham 321. Shares, 60 ; Manchester and LOSING PRICES. Salford Banks, 10a. C BRITISH. FUNDS. India Stock pm Ditto Bonds .... 21 pin Ditto Old Annuities ... Ditto New Annuities... Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d. 43 pm Ditto 5001...... 42 pm Ditto Small ...... —pm Bank Stock for Acct.-168i India Stock for Acct.... Consols for Opg.July 15 93/ / FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 per cent ll4 Ditto, Metallic •• •• Spanish, 5 per cent...... 222 Ditto, Deferred . 10% French, 5 per cent —f. —=••• Exchange —f —c French, 3 per cent, —f. —e. Dutch, 2i per cent. 524 Ditto, 5 per cent. .. 1011 SHARES. Cheltenham and Creat Western (80 paid)... 31 Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) 9} Ditto New Shares ( paid) Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...••• 52 Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid 4l Great Western Railway (65 paid) ........... 90 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ...... 62i London and Brighton (50 paid) ........ 351 London and Birmingham (90) . .. 189 London and Greenwich Railway (12/ 15s 4d 14) London and South Western (43/ 15s Odpd) 63 South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) Ditto Scrip. ( 5 pain) A _ TTEli ve ON E assassin. The following particulars have been obtained by one of our Correspondents, and their authenticity may be completely relied upon : The prisoner's real name is John Francis, and he is about twenty-five years of age. On the 14th of January last he engaged the second floor back room at the house of Mr. Foster, a respectable master tailor, residing at 105, Great Titchfield-street, Mary lebone, and he occupied that room with another young .man, named William Elam, and they :ointly paid the rent. The prisoner was considered a good tempered inoffensive young man, and came home regularly •to his meals, and was never out late at night. One parson, of a rather superior class of so ciety, from his dress and general appearance, has lat terly been in the habit of visiting him, and remained for some time alone with him in his room ; but no parcels were ever sent to him, as ap peared from very particular inquiry made upon this subject by the police. During the last few weeks the prisoner has been backward in paying his rent, but My. FOster, from his good opinion of him, did not press him upon the subject, and on Saturday last the arrears amounted to 1/. 14s. The prisoner's conduct during the last few days ap pears to have been most extraordinary. lle had all along been getting his livelihood by working as a jour neyman carpenter, but on Monday week he engaged a shop aid parlour, at 63, Mortimer- street, which adjoins Great Titchfield-street, at the weekly rent of twenty-four shillings, and expressed his intention to open it in the trade of a tobacconist. Ile then em ployed a painter to put his name over the door, as it now appears—" Francis, Tobacconist," and expressed his intention to open it on Thursday morning.. In the meantime he caused cards to be printed, and a great quantity of snu tobacco, cigars, and other articles, we. sent in, and on Thursday morning the slop was olden and the prisoner attended to it all day. On that nigl having closed the shop, he went home to bed as usua and the next morning he again proceeded to the snu shop, and remained there until his fellow lodger.bn gone to work, and he was then seen to go up into If : (From our Evening Edition of Yesterday.) The name of the assassin is John Francis, and the room, and remain there a short time. , when h e ago.] left the house. Upon the young man , Elam, return following is the description of his personal appearance :. He is about five feet six inches in height, rather stout, in g, he found that his box had b een brok e: but exceedingly well proportioned, dark complexion, open, and that five - pounds ten shillings in go.. small black whiskers, dark, sparkling, and rather ex- had been stolen. .He immediately gave information t Mr. Foster, his landlord, who at once p roceeded pressive eyes, and his countenance and general appear- the snuff-shop in Mortimer-street, where be four ante are handsome and prepossessing. He was risoner sitting, in a most unconcerned dressed in a black dress coat, black waistcoat p , andunconcernedMann!! dark mixture trousers. After he was conveyed behind the counter. He immediately said tes! Inn " What have you been about ? I suppose; ye to Tothill-fields Bridewell last evening, he was sullen and silent, refusing to enter into conversation; in- know what I have come here for ?" The prson . e tL deed Lieutenant Tracy, the Governor, very properly immediately replied, " Oh, I suppose you want a . abstained himself from questioning the prisoner , an d money ; and he directly pulled out the gold , and g gave strict orders that others should be prevented it to Mr. Foster, who then told him not to enter h house any more. The prisoner expressed sac from doing so. At a quarter before twelve this morning the pri- anxiety about his boxes, and said he supposed sone r, accompanied by Lieutenant Tracy, the Gover- Foster • would not object to letti n g him hai nor of Tothill-fields, and guarded by two of the them. Mr. Foster, suspecting fro m the discovel wardsmen of the prison, was taken in a hackney-coach that had been made that the prisoner might hal . to the Home-office. The coach drove up to the committed some other depredations that won; principal entrance in Whitehall, and Lieutenant be discovered by searching his box - es, determine Tracy having alighted, and ascertained that all was upon retaining possession of them; and he toi prepared for the prisoner's reception, gave a signal, him that he would take care of them f; when the prisoner, in custody of the two wardsmen, him, but that he should not have :possessie who each held him by an elbow, alighted from the of them for the present, and he went awa: coach and was conveyed up the stairs of the Home- It appears that on this same day ' the pe office to the Council Chamber. We attempt ed to sons of whom the prisoner had Purchase gain admittance, but were refused by the police of the the articles to stock his shop, and to whom 1 A division, who were stationed in the lobby of the had promised immediate payment, came to him ar Home-office, and who stated that their orders were insisted upon receiving the amount of their goa d imperative to refuse admission to all except Members He told them he was unable to pay them, and the of the Privy Council, witnesses, and those immedi- insisted upon having back their property, and tl ately concerned in the examination. Strict orders had whole of the goods were accordingly removed, and tl also been given to afford no information whatever shop cleared. This occurred in the latter part of the da, on the subject. and about dusk on Friday the prisoner shut up the she As early as ten o'clock the witnesses against the and was seen to walk away. He then, it appear prisoner began to assemble at the Home-office, anl not having the opportunity, for the reason abes; were accomodated with seats in the lobby. At the stated, of going to his own lodging, proceeded to time of the prisoner's arrival there must have been at coffee-shop at the end of Oxford-street, where I ldast twenty waiting in the. obby ; among them was hired a room, and where he remained unl the soldier in the Scotch Fusilier Guards, who arrested the Monday, when the desperate act was cote the prisoner. The prisoner cast a hasty, unconcerned mitted. It has been already stated that the . poll' glance round the lobby as he was being conveyed to obtained access to his apartment in Titchfield•stsee the stairs. He looked well, and did not appear in the and that they searched his boxes, but although ft " least haggard or care-worn as he was reported to the sake of establishing the identity of the accuse( have looked when taken into custody last evening. In- it was deemed advisable that they should be take deed, a spectator -who had been ignorant' of the cir- charge of by the police, we are enabled to state th; camstances of the case, would never have im a g ined there was nothin g at all suspicious discovered in b that in the handsome. intelligent looking youth before boxes, and the contents were merel y dirty linen OX' i him, he beheld a traitor, and all but a regicide. • • s some scraps of poetry, and other writings of no 1 .0 It had evidently not been expected that •the exa- portance, and nothing of a political tendency vs' mination would take place at so early an hour, for discovered. The conduct of the prisoner on enteric there were not ten persons at the door of the Home- the snuff-shop was looked upon by the persons wl office at the time of the prisoner's arrival.. knew him, as a very singular proceeding, as e l A crowd, however, soon collected, the arrival of was known that he had not the slightest knowledi the Ministers and the other autherities having given of that business, and was entirely without means notice that the examination was about to commence. carry it on ; and it is supposed that being pressed f Mr. Hall, the Chic: Magistrate of Bon'-street, ac- the Money by the parties of whom he had obtain' companied by Mr. Burnaby, his clerk, had been in the goods, he was induced on the Friday morning attendance at the Home-office from a very early hour steal the money of his companion under the .circus: At about twelve o'clock, the Attorney -General, ac • stances above described. companied by Mr. Maule, the solicitor io the Trea- Since the remand of the prisoner, it has been !sad' sury, arrived at the Home , office, and the crowd began factorily ascertained that the pistol actually explode ;t now rapidly to collect. and a search has this morning been made, in order Among the members of! the Privy Council who ar- endeavour to discover the bullet, if possible ; but '!!!, rived by the principal entrance in Whitehall, we ob- ! yet the result of the search has not been made knos c i served the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of As in the case of Oxford, the overt act of treas 6 ' Ripon, the Earl of Jersey , the Duke of Buccleuch, being a direct attack upon-the life of her Majesty', ti and Lord Wharncliffe. The Solicitor-General arrived ordinary forms in cases of high treason will not aPPt shortly after twelve o'clock. and the culprit will be tried in the ordinary form. Sir James Graham had .been i n attendance at an the pistol had not exploded, the offence_ of atteraP -• early hour in the morning , and S ir Robert Peel, as to shoot, supposing the weapon to have been 1( 01 4! we understand, had been early at the Treasur y , and I is one of equal magnitude as if it had been act u a l ! : passsed into the Home-office by the private entrance discharged, and the circumstance of the failure to s?' leading to the Treasury. The Duke of Wellington plode, would not in the slightest degree -mid:: arrived on horseback at about ten minutes after twelve. either the character of the offence or the punishraei. The crowd immediately divided a line for his Grace to which the party convicted of it would be to approach the door, and all present took off their I found guilty. hats. The Duke acknowledged the compliment, with which he seemed to be much pleased. The Earl of Aberdeen, the Lord Chancellor, and Colonel Wylde, Equerry to his Royal Highness -Prince Al bert, arrived shortly afterwards. At half-past twelve o'clock, the Cabinet Ministers having arrived, the prisoner was taken before the Council, and-the examination commenced. The Council chamber looks into the Park. It is the room on the second floor, which is lighted by three French windows, reaching to the floor. An excellent view of the assembled Council was obtained from the parade in the Park, fronting the Horse Guards, which was crowded With spectators. Mr. Maule, the Solicitor to the Treasury, was seated in the recess formed by the windows and was busily engaged in tixleing,notes of the proceedings. We understand that the pistol was actually dis charged, and that when the prisoner was taken the barrel was discovered to be warm and fouled, exhibiting every appearance of having been recently discharged.. The lodgings occupied by the prisoner have been searched, but nothing suspcious has been discovered. The Police o'' the A division distincny stated that no reporters w.,uld be achn - qted even into the . loh'sy of the home-otlice. The coreluct -0: the aiithorities was polite in the ext.-eine s and the sentinels who were on duty up to a quarter after twelve, also performed their duty with great forbearance, but yet with ex cellent effect. At that hour, however, the sentinels were changed, and the one stationed at the door of the a nne-office (a tall, stupid-looking fellow, with . a long nose, the redness of which, emulating the colour of his coat, betokened that the man behind it was better acquainted with the smell of gin than of gunpowder) waxed valiant, and com menced trending on the toes of one of the bystanders . instead-of remonstrating, the gentleman thus assaulted' laughed at the fellow's impertinence, observing that he should as soon think of reasoning with a loco • motive, or any other piece of mere machinery, as with sufli i a mere soldier as the sentinel who hai. thus exhibited his Jack-in-office propensities. • This had the effect of raising a loud laugh among the crowd, at the expense of the officious sentinel who seemed heartily ashamed of his conduct, and from that time did his duty temperately, and therefore effectively. The sentinel in question belonged to the Grenadier Guards. The neighbourhood of Buckingham Palace has been crowded the whole day by persons anxious to ascer • taro that the Queen had not suffered from the fright. As early ci ten o'clock several persons had inserted their names in the book at the Palace-lodge, as having called to make inquiries after her Ma esty's health. We are happy in being able to state that her Ma jesty has suffered no ill effects whatever from the alarm occasioned by the diabolical attempt of the .~ , (FURTHER PARTICULARS.) HOME OFFICE, Three o'clock.. The prisoner, Francis, is still under examinatip• and there is every probability that the proceedinf will last for some time longer. Shortly after, o'clock the prisoner was ordered to withdraw the Council . Chain . er, and the Council remainea deliberation for about a quarter of an 1 14. • At the expiration of that time the prisoner was fig called in, and.the Council proceeded to hear the deuce of Alien, the soldier in the Scotch F 115 1:: GuardS, who arrested him.i The prisoner's father is in attendance at tile 1 04 , 2. , office. . Among the witnesses waiting to be exam ine .1 Mr. Smith, the gunsmith, of Bridge-street, of it is said the prisoner purchased the pistol with ("' , he made his diabolical attempt. • • .. • . , (ANOTHER ACCOUNT.) DESCRIPTION OF THE PRISON' t The prisoner, John Francis, is the son of a re.l; - ri able man of that name, living in TottenhaUve e , road. He' is about 20 years of age, about 4,, i 5 inches :, hi height, - and at present rather shau4o appearance. - ,He has a foreign cast of Colinteil e lf though by no means such as to warrant .triee, ll ', irk first entertained that he was a German. is le, very dark, and he has dark whiskers,' . ilise a. plexion is sallow, and allowing for the P." .. o f natural to him in such a - situation, r ather ii ii light olive. There is certainly nothing t° It, cate ferocity in his countenance. It appear s 'Of he has been absent from his family for more" 0 six months past. His father• had not he o :./ him for nearly that time. The father, `` ci ,ok a very : respectable, honest-looking m_ an,. cause, to the Home-office, in a state of the °. i anxiety. He was, it appears, at . Deptfork o . 0 he was informed of the tact that a youth, wh„ . ,0 1 believed to be his son, had committed this ~.,,b- 1 Scarcely believing the possibility of the thll, e 4 nevertheless hurried up to town, and the firs' o re he had heard of his son for so - many months. L l l O out to be that he was in the hands of the law 7 .t i f , with this most serious offence. At first an _ was made, probably from a. humane motiveii 0 l the poor man to believe that he was mistake o A - -7 ultimately .turned out that his fears were 174. - „, When asked about the residence of his son, he,' i 0 did not know. The last he had heard of hiv three or four months ago, when he lived il l. Portland-street. The father was not examined last night, 1 / 6 , l ti the evidence already before the Council was . -011) for the remand. It is understood that he '. P I examined this day. A large square. deal bost, r, as we understood at the prisoner's resideUtfc brought to the Home-office and examined ; 2 contents were did not transpire. From a different source we have received' it account of the prisoner. It will be found to . 1 stantially corroborative of the above : _ . lt, t The name of the prisoner is John Franc i s ' l i 20 years of age, his height five feet five ineb e io,,. ° to person somewhat corpulent ; bearing, notwitP4o 4 ,i( the latter circumstance, a very strong reser°' 9. Oxford. He was dressed in a dark frock ei c stt - y too large for him, a light waistcoat, 111 1 ( .':,, with a pin in it, drab trousers, boots,. and • f l? brimmed il' One particular circumstance observable reel' prisoner's appearance is, that he has s .( jen rolling eye. „t-r ( lto, He is the son of a machinist at Core 0 0 , 0 ci Theatre. His father, who is a very clever A o pt ot trious man, brought his son (the prisoner) e t ~,,,t• same business, but some months since 11 °,._yi;o 0 confirmed loose habits, and deserted l'''',„ 1 11 0 Since then he has had no direct con' - r iV with him. . jes r es Several of his relations and acquaintall.o, CI , him as being of a very quarrelsoine dispotu:o o , 3 l When the prisoner arrived at Tothillje's, vernor, Lieutenant Tracy, placed him -i n . _ cell, leaving a turnkey to watch him. .. e 'oi.All 7 4 , It is stated that the prisoner has for sci_•-- 0' been seen lurking about Hyde-park. ,_ pO i , r lytt_ nit The prisoner had been searched by the o•orr as given into custody by C olo foits after he w o f„, not, the Equerry in Waiting. There 'e re r ri t1( 1 7 , 1011 his person a pocket book, without name ° inc h (P . ,ge ii , any clue to the party's occupation, a li t . ) , cl - v.,,, and a small pocket knife. There was 1 r votb i l i;e 'lt any kind, nor any ball, or cartridg.' ; ‘ , O O lll i s . s . 3 fact, from which any idea of re loading 'd; it 1 ,. 0 4 . ferred. The pistol had been disch3ll: f e n te eth small pocket pistol, about seven inche s l o t ' r appeared to have been recently loadedtar , e r ': c ii with ball or large shot, we could not le e ' s rs}'?'"c e t lie It has been stated in some of the n ii op ot .' il ,, • counts that a soldier of the 2d batti a , o inl' e t hel', , Fusilier Guards was the first lvho, i ' l far A (D or , prisoner ; such, however, we learn, ti.P° of th e 0 cl li r i , quiry, was not the fact. A on hill, ti bou i ' t i l e r ti ,c sion, on duty on Constitution-hill, hau_otice:l,l),:4l) ter of an hour prior to the occurrence, P ro vic to twa t soner leaning on the pimp, and was I;F isol ieri somewhat strange behaviour of the P QUE EN'S LIFE. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND public 010014011. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The French Cabinet is in a curious position. The outcry now against it is, that it is not extravagant enough. The journals bring the result of the debate in the Cham ber of Deputies on Saturday night, on M. Lacrosse's amendment, to increase the navy estimates three millions of francs, in order to enable the Minister of Marine to keep, en disponibiiite, eight ships of the line and ten frigates. This in crease, in spite of the opposition of this Ministry, and of the Budget Committee, was carried by a considerable majority. The Republican and Royalist journals are in ecstacies. The Quotidienne says:—" All pretext of ratification of the treaty of 1841 is removed by Saturday's triumph. The Government is armed, and it has in its hands all the means to cause the will of the Chambers and of the country to be respected. The ratification would now be an act of treason as well as cowardice." The National revels in the anticipated enjoyment of the rage of the English journals, and of the mortification of the British Government. The Odillon Barrot mouthpiece, the Siecle, is also in the seventh heaven. Never, it alleges, was a Ministry so degraded as to be compelled to have larger sums of money than it asks for to maintain the honour of France, and the dignity and independence of her flag. The Constitutionnel (M. Thiers's organ) observes:—« This result is of the greatest importance, for it is the most signal check that the ultra-pacific policy of the Cabinet can receive. It has rarely been witnessed that a Ministry is obstinate enough to refuse money offered by the Chambers. It is because here the finances were not thought of, but England only, who clings so strongly to our disarmnaent, and who will be singularly dis pleased by this vote. We praise the Chamber for having com prehended its duty to the country. Its decision is the most significant commentary of its amendment on the Right of Search question." The Courrier Francais remarks " that the vote will make a great noise, as it was the most marked defeat sustained by the Government this session, and as the appropriate winding up of a four months' discussion on the right of visit. The Ministry wished to disarm our naval forces as it has disarmed the land. forces. It had promised this to the Powers, hoping to conciliate by that course the good graces of the coalition. The Chamber has not ratified this disgraceful engagement, for it has proved that it has thoroughly comprehended the tendency of its vote on the right of visit, by requiring that France should be prepared for all events." " We do not regret," observes the Presse, the Mee organ," the present that the Minister of Marine has been forced to accent. He ought to be delighted, for Atimir. , l Dinierre has no,e ~,ore than he asked for. Three millions more is perhaps not much, but coming from the economical Left party, its generosity must not be declined. We are, however, of the opinion of the Mi nister of Finance, that the money would be better there for the mate; id than for the personnel, for men are to be had at the first signal, but stores not quite so easy. Nevertheless, it is always something gained when the Left begins to be less parsim nious." The Journal des Debats also approves of the increase. " The amendment," it says, " means that the fleet is to be reduced as little as possible. We have no objec,tion to this wish of the Chamber to maintain our naval armaments. The Opposition is at liberty to see in this vote a cheek of the Cabinet, and a small success for itself, and to claim all the honours of the sit ting, as it. did at the time of the memorable vote on the Right of Search amendment of M. Lefebvre. We shall not humble .s last triumph ; we only wish it may never gain any greater one." TheMoniteur contains the following notice :—" Difficulties which have arisen between the kingdom of the 'Uwe Sicilies on one part, and those of Belgium and Holland on the other, having assumed a serious character, the Neapolitan Govern ment considers it necessary to apprise all merchants and ship owners that they may take such precautions as prudence shr..ll suggest. The Minister for Foreign Affairs apprises all Am bassadors and Foreign Ministeis of this fact, in order that they may have no cause of complaint through ignorance of any con sequences to the commercial interests of those nations which they represent." There was a reportin Paris on Sunday, that three emissaries of Secret Societies had been discovered and arrested in the neichbourhood of the Chateau de Bizy, where the King was residing. Several arrests in Paris were also said to have been made. It is to be premised, however, that divers alarming reports, all false, were lately circulated, such as that the King had been shot at Neuilly, &c. The King and Queen returned to Neuilly, from their jour ney to the Chateau of Bizy, on Saturday . evening. " Their Majesties," says the Moniteur, were received everywhere on the road with spontaneous demonstrations of loyalty and lively acclamations," PARTAAATENTARY. The Lords met in great numbers to agree to an address to her Majesty, which was proposed by the Duke of Wel lington, and unanimously adopted. Lord ' Howden brought under the notice of the Peers the exclusion of a tablet from the church by the Bishop of Quebec, which some officers had prepared in memory of a brother officer. The Bishop of London defended the conduct of the Bishop of Quebec, and said the Bishop might make what regulations he liked for the churches of his diocese. He thought many of the churches of England were profaned by monumental inscriptions, and he expressed regret that public opinion did not allow him to exercise the same power as his spiritual brother had exercised in Quebec. Lord Brougham condemned the one Bishop's opinion, and the proceedings of the other. The manner in which religion and the administration of the law have of late been perverted and profaned, AS in the case of Good, to gratify a morbid sympathy, was brought under the notice of the House by the Marquis of Clanricarde, and was re probated by Noble Lords on both sides of the House. Sunday travelling by railways was brought under notice, by a petition, and we heard, with great satisfaction, Lord Wharn cliffs declare in its favour, and stigmatize, in common with Lord Campbell, the absurd desire prevalent in Scotland, to put estop to it. Their Lordships adjourned at a Quarter past Seven. A great crowd collected also in the House of Commons to concur in the Address to her Majesty. We have eleswhe re adverted to that, and also an important conversation concerning the trade with France. In answer to an Hon. Member, Sir R. Peel stated that the Government was indebted to the East India Company 340,0001. Mr. D'lsraeli adverted to the posthumous publication of a letter from Sir Alexander Burnes, in which he characterised the publication of parts of his despatch as a trick and a fraud, and the Hon. Member asked Sir John Hobliouse to explain the matter. Sir John, in many words, asserted it never was customary to publish the whole of any despatches, and he had only with held such parts of Sir Alexander Burnes's letters as he thought ought not to be made public. The conduct of the civic authorities, in relation to the con • demned sermon, was censured in the House of Commons by Mr. Vernon Smith and Sir J. Graham, as well as in the House of Lords. The remainder of the evening was occupied with the ad journed debate on the third reading of the Income-tax. Mr. Hume opposed it, and condemned the extravagant policy of the Government. The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave an explanation of the machinery he is to employ, and its proba ble cost. After a prolonged debate the Bill was read a third time, after a division, by 255 to 149, showing a majority of 106 for inflicting an Income-tax on us. Several amendments were suggested by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which were agreed to—one proposed by Mr. G. Ward was lost. The Bill was then passed, and, being a money Bill, it is now certain that it will become a law. The House adjourned a Half-past Twelve. PUBLIC OPINION. _ The leading articles of the Morning Journals are all on the subject of the infamous attack made on Monday on the life of her Majesty, on which public opinion is of course unanimous. The Times says:—" Among the various reports that are given upon the subject, it was not for some time decided whefner the pis tol actually went off, as we now find it did. The one great point, however, about which all Englishmen must feel the warmest anxiety, is happily clear—that the Queen herself is uninjured. We are truly glad to find—what, indeed, we should never have doubted—the zeal and anxiety with which an assurance to this effect was everywhere sought for. In the Houses of Lords and Commons, as on the spot where this wretched man made his attempt, the earnest and lively feeling which was elicited was such as to satisfy the wishes of the most enthusiastically loyal of her Majesty's subjects. We cannot for an instant suppose that this miserable attempt is anything else than the wild and causeless act of another lunatic. It is impossible_ or, at least, almost incredibly monstrous—that any one who is m cr a im st e e . r of mind can nimotives ha th ve found motive o ereisnoroom ; f a r such nda as to political ones, we are certainly far wrong in our estimate of human, much more of English, character, if men are to be found among us so transported by the little animosities of poli ties as to harbour murderous designs against such a Sovereign as our present Queen —a Sovereign interesting, independent of her own personal character, from her sex, her age, her circum stances—one, too, who has hitherto shown herself certainly not more unfavourable than prudence warrants to those persons and classes among whom alone any such political feelings exist as could suggest such a crime. It is, however, the duty of those who have her Majesty's safety under their charge to investigate the matter as closely as if there existed no such prima facie incredibility as we suppose." The following is from the Post :—" The attack upon the life of her Majesty, which excited last evening, throughout the metropolis, one universal sentiment of horror and indignation, will arouse a similar feeling in every part of the country. We have collected, in another part of our paper, all the intelligence to which we could obtain access as to the nature and circum stances of this atrocity. That our information is yet imperfect will occasion no surprise, when it is recollected that one of the first objects of a prudent Government on so deplorable an oc casion would naturally be to acquire information rather than to impart it, and to take care that the yet undiscovered accom plices in this atrocious crime—supposing that there be any should be detected and brought to condign punishment—even at the expense of withholding for a brief season from the public that knowledge of the details of tne odious occurrence which it might be in the power of Government to communicate, and which the country are panting to possess. Let us, for the honour, we do not say merely of British loyalty, but of human nature, cherish the hope that the perpetrator of this odious and revolting crime may turn out to be a maniac, one who can be shown, by the clearest svidence, to have been previously in a state of mind which must , absolve him from responsibility. To contemplate the possibility of such an act as was attempted last night having been conceived by any rational being must be in tolerably painful. It is an idea from which the mind shrinks with instinctive horror." We take the following from the Chronicle:—" We feel ashamed to have to record another attempt on the life of our beloved Queen. We had thought that. if ever a human being stood clear of all that couldpregoke the hand of violence, it was her Majesty. Nothing has trans fired respecting the assassin or his comexions. In another part' the paper we have laid before our readers all that we have been able to collect re specting this most diabolical attempt, which must excite in every breast feelings of strong indignation and abhorrence. The Advertiser thus alludes to the same subject:—" Her Majesty has had another escape from the hand of an assassin. The particulars of the diabolical attempt, as well as of the sensation created in both Houses of Parliament on its an nounccment, are detailed in their appropriate places. '1 he horror instinctively excited by the act, however, must gradu ally change its character on the reflection that there can scarcely exist any cause for its commission, save aberration of intellect. Never did a Sovereign reign in this country upon whom the affection and respect of the people concentred with more true devotion and loyalty than these sen'iments now most deservedly rest upon our present Queen. We do not believe that throughout her 3lajesty's extensive dominions one indi vidual could be found to assail her life, unless under the influ ence g o bap fso p m il some mons trous alienation of mind. The succession being happily provided for, nothing could be gained in this re gard, unless—but the supposition is too extravagant and odious to he for a moment entertained. A morbid desire of notoriety has been most probably the motive of the attempt, in which case some means should be devised to make the demented mis creant feel the full volume of the public execration. Instead of having him, like Oxford, ' lionised' as an extraordinary assassin, he should be made to feel that he is not so much an object of curiosity as of disgust and abhorrence too strong to afford a place even for pitp" The Herald says e---" London was startled last evening with sio r tio t saf Q fa ct to r 'lett z en the ha U s , be ( th h a l l' e , Iva: