The Sun. — London, England, 1842-05-18 00:00:00

a,„ THE COLLIERY SYSTEM. CRUELTIES AND INDECENCIES PRACTISED ON WOMEN AND CHILDREN. SIXTEEN ENGRAVINGS, from the Originals in Parliament, fully Illustrating these revol t ing prac- tices, and occupying an entire Page of the Paper, will be given in the WEEKLY CHRONICLE of Saturday and Sunday next, the 21st aid 22d inst.—Office, 337, Strand, and all Newsmen. Now ready, the FOURTH VOLUME of THE LIFE . AND TIMES OF T HE RIGHT, HON. HENRY GRATTAN By his Son, HENRY GRATTAN, Esq., M.P. Henry Colhurn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. TR A. Of SUNDAY NEXT, the 22d instant. will contain PEDIGREES and PERFORMANCES of the HORSES LIKELY to START' for the DERBY. And THE DERBY PREDICTION. By " VATES." Also, the Continuation of A TOUR THROUGH THE AFFGHAN COLONIES, A PILGRIMAGE TO BHADRINATHJEE. By an Officer of high standing in the Honourable East Indi a Company's Service. The ERA contains all the Political, Foreign, Domestic, Sporting, and Miscellaneous Intelligence of the week, and can be procured of all News Agents in town and country. Price 6d. Office 20, Catherine -street, Strand. THEATRE-ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. NOW OPEN FOR THE SEASON. THIS EVENING, MAY 18, The Perfirmances will commence with PICTURESQUE AND BEAUTIFUL—Principal Characters by Messrs. Barker and Wafter Lacy. Atter which, the Burlesque Extravaganza of THE OLYMPIC REVELS —Principal Characters by Mr. J. Bland, Mr. Granby, Mrs. Grattan Miss Murray., To be followed by the uccessful Burletta of ENTHUSIASM. Succeeded by the Grand Fairy Bailet of LA SYLPHIDE. To conduce with THE IRISH TUTUR.—Teddy O'Rourke, Mr. Brougham. Boxes, Is—Pit, 2s.—Gallery, Is Doors open at Half-past Six ; commence at Seven ; Half-price a Quarter before Nine. Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Grogan, at the Private Box-office; and of Messrs. Andrews, Mitchell, Sams, and Baily, at their Libraries. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Every thing New—The most splendid Novelties ever wit essed, with an immense outlay, and numbers beyond conception. THIS EVENING, MAY 18, Will be presented a New Military and Ennestriin . Spectacle, enti tles MURAT—THE PEASANT, GENERAL, PRINCE, AND KING, with Battles, Grand Reviews c f Horse and Foot, and gor geous Tableaux After which, in a more extensive and splendid Arena than ever efore witnessed, NEW SCENES'IN THE CIRCLE, introducing .B !CITY'S unrivalled Collection of Animals, consisting of nu. erousand matchless Cream coloured Horses, Andalusian Chargers, potted Coursers, Fairy Palfreys, and Pigmy Poneys, and the most alented Vaulters, Riders, Gymnastics, and Contortionists in the longtioni. PONY RAC ES, eclipsing all former efforts, and a real Monkey, the only' one trained as Racing Jockey. To conclude with a Comic Drama, called THE SPRIG OF NO. mum ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. - - (TNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Extraordinary attraction—Scenic effects hitherto unattempted —Miss Vincent and Mr. Saville again as the Heroine and Hero of Domes tic Drama. THIS EVENING, MAY Is. Will be presented a New Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, enti tled J NE PAUL; OR, THE VICTIM OF UNMERITED PER SECUTION —Jane Paul, Miss Vincent; Michael, Mr. E. F Sa ville; BM) , Brown, Mr. Gardner; Martha, Miss Coveney. After which. THE MILL OFBEREZINA ; OR, THE HOST AND THE DESERTER.—Count Romanoff, Mr. E F. Saville; ri a. Mrs. Lee. o conclude with THE FORTY THIEVES, with New Scenery, —Ali Baba, Mr. Gardner; Hasstrac, Mr. Dale; Mustapha, Mr, Paul; Morgiana, Miss Coy net. FRENCH PLAYS„ ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Sixth appearance of Madlle. Dejazet. THIS e.:V ENING, MAY, 18, The Performances will commence with LA MARRAINE. After which, VERT VERT—Vert Vert, Madlle. Dejazet. To conclude with LA FILLE DE DOMlNlQUE—Catherine Biancolclli, Maalle. Dejazct Boxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre (or Gallery Stalls), 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. Doors will be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Per. formances commence at Half-past Seven. Applications for Boxes and Stalls for the remainder of the Season, to be made at Mr. Mitchell's Library, 33, Old Bond-street; Mr. Se guin's 12, Regent-street ; Mr. Sams's, St. James's - street; and at the liox.ottiee of the Theatre, which is open daily, from Eleven till Five o'clock. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully Informed that TO-MORROW. THURSDAY MAY 19, A GRAND FESTIVAL will be celebrated, in which will be embo. died all those popular Entertainments that have given to this favou rite place of recreation its peculiar celebrity, with additions and in troductions, which it is confidently anticipated will render them even snore generally attractive. The MENAGERIE has been enriched by many valuable and im portant acquisitions in the classes of both Quadrupeds and Birds. The Colossal VIEW OF BOME has been repainted, and in some instances remodelled. Tha BAND will includa some of the most emineat Performers, conducted by Mr. Godfrey. The Programme of the PROMENADES MUSICALES will be selected from the noblest works of the great Masters. The ILLUMINATION of ST. PETER'S, the GIRANDOLA, the FLAM.NG MESSEN. GER, the METEOR of ST. PETER'S, and a Grand HYDRO PYRRHIC TABLEAU ! The Gardens are open Daily from Ten till Dusk. The Evening Fetes, with the Promenades Mus cales, Illumination of St. Peter's, Girandola of St. Angelo, &c., will be given on Mondays, Tuesdays, amt Thursdays. Admission One Shilling. THE INDIA SUN CONTAINING A MAP AND FULL ACCOUNT OF AFFGHANISTAN AND THE THEATRE OF WAR IN INDIA, 'WITH ALL 'THE LATEST NEWS FROM. INDIA AND CHINA, IS NOW READY. All A.dvcrtisements Of a Disgusting Character, or Immoral Tendency, are excluded from the Columns of The Sun." ell uit LONDON : _ 'WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 18, 1842. The proposed duty on exported coals, to which we adverted on Friday, is a specimen of the instability of our aristocratic legislation. In 1834, a similar tax was repealed to encourage trade ; and now, when that negation of law has succeeded, when the trade has flourished from the absence of a tax, as was an ticipated, the Legislature proposes, in 1842, to undo all that its predecessor did only eight years ago. Can any legislation be more unstable ? Every alteration nearly of the tariff plays fast and loose in like manner with some portion of the people's property, and leaves us with the conviction that similar changes must again be made. The distinguishing and disgusting feature of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S measures is, that they offer something to every class, to make it acquiesce in some species of spoliation, of which, by those very measures, it is made the victim. Such a general attack on property, bribing men, as it were, with their own stolen goods to be instrumental in plundering other men, when made by an aristocratic assembly, is what Mr. MACAULAY understands, pro bably, by security and stability of property, which an infusion of democracy into the Legislature would an nihilate for ever. The change in property, however, caused by Sir R. PEEL'S numerous proposal changes in the cus• toms duties, instead of first abrogating the giant mo nopolies, is not, in our apprehension, the worst effect of his measures. The worst effect is their tendency to create and perpetuate division. To the farmer he offers a pretended boon of paying half as much income-tax as other people pay, and to those who pay the full taxes, he offers, as a reward for their submission, cheaper living, by cutting off a slice from the farmer's profits. To the bulk of the people he offers - an exemption from the Income-tax, and obtains their support, to throw it exclusively on three or four hund re d t h ousand persons. It is frequently said of society that the in terest of all its members is identical. Sir R. PEEL has the great merit of disproving that dogma, and of showing all classes how they can prey upon one another, by means of laws artfully con trived. In the present circumstances of society, a wise Minister would have .been especially careful how Le added to the sources of discord between the classes. Sir ROBERT PEEL seems to be desirous to show how skilfully he can augment our dissension. If our lot has all been cast in the same boat, it cannot be denied that our present helmsman has directed all the clew to pull different ways. Hence the labourers and others rejoice at the Income-tax, and the landowners rejoice that they shall still be allowed to plunder all the consumers of bread, including the labourers. Sir R. PEEL will not be a'lowed, however, even by h's own friends, to have everything his own way. He hi.s encouraged rapacity, and he cannot escape its remonstrances. He has fostered those monopolies which prey upon the people, and they do not choose quietly to relax their gripe of the national industry at his solicitation. " It is a great aggmvatio3," (says a " Memoir on the Colonial Timber T ra d e, " ) " of the evil now impending 0 1 er the Colonial and shipping interests, to find that tl e infliction is announced as a relief, and the effect pre d• e t e d as a benefit—([low well they understand Peel !) and, perhaps as a greater aggravati on , i t may b e ded that the calamity has originated from the quarter ; lama suspected, and will now at last be accomplished by the very hand to which they have hitherto looked v ath gratitude for haying - protected - them so long." Eris old friends, therefore, those whom he has trained up to political depredation, do not like his schemes. They have no objection to his bamboozling the labourers, the farmers, and the shopkeepers, but they warn him not to stop the. supplies of his own protegees. It certainly appears by the pamphlet that they have been admirably protected for a very long time by the hand which now proposes to take some thing from them. The consumption of timber in the kingdom is now 1,500,000 loads annually, and the discriminating duty is set down in the pamphlet at 21. ss. a load, which makes a good round sum of 3,375,0001., which the country pays per annum to encourage our North American timber trade. Having expended such a vast sum of money, year after year, for many years, we cannot be surprised that our exports to our North American provinces have risen to 3,000,0001. a year, and the tonnage employed in our imports thence exceeds 800,000 tons. Nor can we be surprised at this pic ture of prosperity, owing, as the pamphlet we have quoted from says, to the timber trade : "This last New Brunswick Province may be fairly cites; as an example of the effects of the protective and colo nial system, and, particularly, of its application to the Timber Duties ; having, in consequence, advanced from a handful of Loyalists, by whom the colony was first plant ed in 1783 to its present very flourishing state of population and trade. The former have increased since 1824, from 74,176 persons to 157,562, in 1840 ; and the latter, during ten years, from the value of 483,5451 (of imports) it 1829, to 1,435,447/ in 1839. Qf the seventeen million: of acres which New Brunswick contains less than fivt hundred thousand have yet been reclaimed from tht native forest, which covers the whole country beside . The number of mills there built for the manufacture o deals is 574, the value of which is estimated at 500,0001. and the value of other property there invested in the timber trade is considered to be of a far greater amount. Of that colony's exports, the value of all native articles, not of wood, amounts only to about 75,000/ The ship ping owned there exceeds 90,000 tons. And the export, thence give yearly employment to 2,605 ships of 381,577 tons, and 17,313 men. Almost the whole of which track and navigation is . purely British, and_with the Britisl dominions, and, principally, with the United Kingdom. And as there is scarcely any part of the world where si small a population could by their industry, under its ex isting protection, be more profitable to the manufactures, trade, and navigation of the United Kingdom ; so also is there no position where to plant and foster an enterpris ing, loyal, and powerful colony seems more useful to the security and prosperity of the British Empire." Neither can we be surprised when such is the sum annually distributed amongst rotten-ship owners. land-jobbers, lumberers, merchants, &c. &c., and such its results, that the recipients of the 3,375,0001. a year, should raise an earnest outcry against the statesman, who has stated " that above all things we should avoid doing any injury to the Canadas," and that our relations with Canada were such as to require the utmost caution. That is much too large a sum to give up quietly ; and we must admit that the mono polists are ill-treated by their friends. Only on Friday last, Lord STANLEY was expatiating, with quite as much unction, and quite as little reason, as the author of the pamphlet, on the advantage of an exclusively British trade, " which is all in our own hands ;" and he and Sir ROBERT PEEL will both find, when they come to carry their tariff through the House, that the monopolies they have nourished, and the prejudices they have strengthened, will be brought to bear against themselves. They will not easily extract the money from the grasp of those whose monopoly they have long upheld as extremely beneficial to the public. Without saying one word in favour of the North American timber monopolists, whose plain object is to continue a heavy tax on the na tion for their own advantage, we must express our un7 feigned satisfaction at seeing the Premier badgered by the corrupt interests he has nourished ; and, much as we desire to see the timber trade set free, we shall not regret-if Sir ROBERT PEEL be defeated on the point by his own dearly beloved friends. Their political dishonesty is a match for his, and they bid fair to overcome him by his own weapons. The Times of yesterday says, in reference to parish apprentices doomed to the mines " That one case came before the Sub-Commissioner, of a child so apprenticed to a collier working in a thin pit at Thornhill before he was quite five years old.' Nor would this poor creature, by name Thomas Townsend, have been brought back to the workhouse, had not its grandfather interfered, and its friends threatened an in formation to the Poor-law Commissioners." From that passage it follows that these Commis sioners have the power, and have sometimes exerted it, of regulating the age at which pauper children may be apprenticed out of workhouses. When those children are orphans, the strong interest which the Guardians have in lightening the pecuniary burdens of the Union, may induce them to commit much in justice ; and in such cases a central authority like that of the Poor-law Commissioners, may be advanta geously exercised for the protection of the chil dren. We infer from this instance that it has been so exercised, and undoubtedly it ought to be, unless their authority have been given them never to : protect but only to curb the poor. For all the orphans bound apprentice out of workhouses at the age of six or seven, since the Commissioners have had the control of them, the public will hold them to be responsible, and we trust that they will consider it to be their duty to take those orphans under their especial protection. Parish apprentices are bound only by the authority of the Poor-law, and for the mode in which that is administered, the Commissioners at Somerset House, and the Home Secretary, have to answer. In such cases, the cruelty is not parental, it is legal. The fire at Hamburgh has shown how powerful is the sympathy by which all the family of man is natu rally united, and that it requires a kind of political drilling into national and exclusive habits and preju- dices to become inimical to- one another. Fortu nately for the result, Hamburgh, as far as politics are concerned, is neutral ground. It is a cosmopolitic city. It is inhabited by men of all nations and all creeds. With no hesitation, therefore—nay, with an alacrity which convinces us that Sovereigns can act from generous impulses, and adopt a wise policy from very common motives—assistance and succour have been poured into Hamburgh from all the surrounding States. The subscriptions, too, spontaneously begun in France, in England, in Belgium, demonstrate that the people feel like their rulers, and, now that one branch of the great family is overtaken by a misfor tune, that all are brethren. Such a lesson will not be thrown away, and an appeal, in after times, to this common feeling of brotherhood, may stay the devastation of war. Why should those inflict calamities who think it is virtue to sooth and relieve them ? The general subscription for Hamburgh is an epoch in the moral history of mankind. MEMOIR OF REAR-ADMIRAL DIM VILLE, THE CELEBRATED NAVIGATOR. Jules Sebastian Cesar Dumont D'Urville, the cele brated navigator, who, with his wife and only son, has met with so untimely and disastrous a fate on the Versailles Railroad, was born on the 23d of May, 1790, and was consequently, at the time of his prema ture departure, at the age of 52. The place of his birth was at Conde-sur-Noireari, in the department of Calvados, and he commenced his naval career early in life, undertaking his first tour of circumnavigation, in 1825, being then in his 35th year. In January, 1827, M. D'Urville was the discoverer of the island which bears his name, and whose exist ence he fixed positively. It is formed of that portion of land, which terminates at the Cape Stephens of Cook, and which is divided from the mass of Tavai- POunamou by the basin of Courans. This island is high and mountainous : the coast barren, and very steep and rugged on the side which turns westward towards Lake Tasman ; its aspect, however, is much better towards the Admiralty bay; and it has some pleasant spots. It measures eight miles from north to south, and a little less from east to west. "The officers of the Astrolabe," says our modest navigator, in this account of his own discovery, "desirous of perpetuating the memory of their ,Captain, wished to have his name attached to this part of the discoveries of the voyage, and he thankfully acceded to this mark of esteem on the part of his brave comrades," "La denomination d'lle d'Urville," continues he, " pourra done rester a cette terre jusqu'a l'epoque ou I'on con naitra le nom qu'elle a recu de ses habitans." Point D'Urville, which is also called after him, lies according to the observation s Of M. Jacquinot, an officer of the expedition, y in 1Q 24' l at. S. and 135 Q 27 1 long. E. It forms ' a low point, jutting out very much into the sea, and formed by the extremity of the land, forming part of New Guinea. M. D'Urville, in his last, expedition chiefly followed the track which had been pursued by Weddell, who had preceded him in explori9 . these seas. Ile was no less guided by the labours of other excellent naviga tors who had proceeded before him in much the same course. Among these, Capt. Cook, in 1775, had penetrated, among other points of the globe, into these regions, but had kept himself in a higher latitude than that pursued by D'Urville, and who, indeed, found himself barricaded in the parallel of sixty degrees by the imm ense , o b struc t ive ice -blocks, in the vicinity of the Sandwich isles. Brans- t.,40 '; i1f1e, 4, 4. ', . t Ir7A ~,,islettir,:V ' 4, (41,..:# 11,:mobvi, , . ieb,*._t_....a,, __-___ ' . ..140 k'i • -.', iir*:::',:;•-in.7P ...- ,-16/1," ' l, ' TH.E SUN, LONDON. WEDNESDAY(EVENING, MAY lB, 1842. field, in 1820, found his route barred out within a short distance of the 65th degree by extensive ice fields. In 1821 the enterprising Powell was not able to penetrate beyond 62 deg. 30 sec.`; and more re cently Biscoe, after different excursions and trials under other meridians, left the whole of this space un explored, and was arrested in his course near the Sandwich Isles, near the same point as Captain Cook. Weddell, on the contrary, by whose course the sub ject of this memoir chiefly guided, himself, asserted that he had attained the 74th deg. without the slightest difficulty, and, what was. more surprising, without encountering any barrier, or block of ice. Accordingly, on making 'reference to his narrative, we find that in their elevated latitudes, he was in the midst of fine seas, and those of moderate temperature. Indeed, it was these considerations, and Weddell's own account, which chiefly influenced this celebrated navigator to follow his track, so as to attain the same limits, or if _favoured by circumstances, to pass beyond them. In this expedition, however, our navigator found his most strenuous efforts unavailable in passing beyond the 64th deg. of latitude, during which he had ex plored the Orkney and isTew South Shetland Islands, as also Louis-Philippe land. Copies of his route were l at the time presented by him to the Annales Mara times, as also to the Bulletin of the Societe de Geo graphie, and printed in each. M. D'Urville ranked high as a literary man : his valuable works, as they appeared, were deemed worthy by M. Cuvier, M. Arago, M. Quoy, and M. Gaimard, as also M. Latreille, to receive from them individually the best aid which lay in their superior powers, in every shape, to afford him. His travels, by these and other means are not mere empty routes, but are enriched with learned tables, observations of the most scientific nature upon magnetic inclinations and intensities, and vocabularies of savage tongues. The following will present our readers with a com plete account of the late Admiral's published works : En the year 1830, he published an account of his voyage in the corvette, called the Astrolabe, which he was engaged in writing from notes and papers in his possession, which he had carefully preserved during his first voyage in 1826-29. The separate works, which appeared afterwards, in illustration of this leading work, in the form of plates, were not less numerous than excellent. For instance, the Parisian editions furnished the historical portion with plates to the number of 40 ; the zoological with 38 ; the bota nical with 9 ; the entomological with 2 ; while the philological, hydrographical, and operative portions the work were no less lavishly and handsomely aided by design and draught. His Picturesque Voyage round the World" (Voyage Pittoresque autour du Monde), which also contains a very excellent summary of all prior disco veries in those latitudes which he himself so scientifi cally and ably navigated, .appeared in 1834, and greatly delighted the reading world, while it spread the fame of its author's enterprise and skill. The expedition to the South Pole and in Oceania, which in his old ship the Astrolabe, conjointly with the vessel La Zelee, M. D'Ury ille lastly undertook, appeared from the aris press in 1839, and his official Report thereupon to the Minister of Marine, in the Succeeding year. From this pamphlet we have prin cipally drawn up the foregoing account of his voy ages, as also from the above editions of his travels. - Rear-Admiral D'Urville was appointed Commander of the Astrolabe on the Bth of August, 1829. He was married to. Mme. D'Urville, we believe, in 1827, and his son, who has perished with them both, was only in his 14th year. His naval career extended over a space of more than 35 years ; he was created a Rear-Admiral in 1840. To recount the various islands, regions, or lati tudes visited by M. D'Urville during his arduous voyages, would be a long and tedious task; unless set off by thr: vivacity, accuracy, and nautical powers by which they are conveyed in his own words. Enough to remark that the perils in which he was involved at Tonga, where he was with his crew on the point of perishing—his fight at Tamaha with the savages— his troubles at Viti—his sojourn at Vanikoro, where he discovered the remains of La Perouse's shipwreck, and with the high generosity of a sailor's heart, erected a monument to his memory—with his visits to New Zealand and the Pellew Isles, present a body of picturesque, pleasant, and sterling reading, which will make his works permanently standard as refer ences, or delightful as narratives. We observe it stated by the Gazette de France of Tuesday, that Admiral D'Urville bestowed the name of " Adele" upon the region which he last discovered, in affectionate remembrance of his wife, who bore that name. This, however pleasing to the fancy, is incorrect, as he himself states that he named it Adele, " du nom du brick que commandait Ruault-Con tance :" so that it received its name from the ship. STRAWBERRY HILL SALE. TWENTIETH DAY. Yesterday's sale was well attended, and a very spirited competition for the principal lots was the consequence, amongst which may be mentioned the following :- Lot 25. A singularly curious and valuable old picture, on panel, the marriage of Henry VII. with Margaret of Anjou, painted with considerable power and expression ; it is a fine specimen of the fine arts of the 15th century, and may be pronounced unique -841. Colnaghi. Lot 29. A man's head, with an illuminated missal in his hand, by Quintin Matsys, a beautiful specimen by the celebrated blacksmith of Antwerp, possessing much of his singular power and effect-221 Is. Bought for Lord Derby. Lot 31. A portrait of Catherine of Arragon, first Queen of Henry VIII., by Holbein. This picture is very powerful in effect, and has been engraved by Vertue for the illustrious heads-321. I ls. Browne. Lot 32. The Holbein collection of drawings, compris ing an interesting series of 34 portraits of remarkable personages of the Court of Henry VIII. They are traced on oil paper by Vertue and Muntz, from the original drawings by Holbein in the Royal collection at Buckingham House, in black and gold frames, with plate glass, and the name of each portrait is written at the back ; they fetched 361. 15s. Lot 34. A portrait of Queen Elizabeth, when a girl, beautifully painted by Zucchero-13L 13s. Lot 37. A very curious and valuable historical pic ture, representing Frances Duchess of Suffolk, the mother of Lady Jane Grey, and Adrian Stoke, her second hus band, by Lucas de Heere ; painted with considerable effect, and is a fine instance of the early English school, being highly finished, and it is in excellent preservation. It was in the collection of the Earl of Oxford, and has been engraved by Vertue. Vide Anecdotes of Paint ing in England-92/. Bs. Finch. Lot 41. An extraordinary and highly finished carving in stone, representing a single combat before the Empe ror Maximilian ; it is from the chisel of Albert Durer -271. 6s. Tiffin. Lot 47. A portrait of Henry VIII., at the latter part )f his life, a very extraordinary and beautiful work of irt, it being a carving in box-wood, executed with sur prising power and effect, by Holbein-391. 18s. Wild. Lot 49. A portrait of Charlotte, daughter of Francis 1., who died at five years of age; it is t charming little gem -58/. 16s. Fuller. Lot 52. Henry VIII., a portrait sculptured in stone. A truly splendid specimen of art, and most minute in execution. The countenance and dress displayed with the utmost exactness in bold relief. A perfect gem, by Hol bein. It at one time adorned the Arundehan collection -671. 4s. Bought by Yates, for Mr. Dent. Lot 64. A large drawing of a magnificent chimney piece, splendid in design, intended for one of the palaces of Henry VIII. ; by Holbein-331. 12s. Donne. I, of 65. A portrait of a man in black, holding a ring, on the back is " H. H. ;" an undoubted picture by Holbein -171.175. Bevan. Lot 66. A portrait of a young lady, Costaniat Fregosa, companion to lot 65, by Holbein ; both from the palace of the Prince of Monarco-281. is. Rodd. Lot 71. An original portrait of Louis XI., with his prayer-book illuminated in the shape of a heart, &c., by Quin tin Matsys -211. Bevan. Lot 86. A splendid old picture, representing Henry VIII. and his children, an early painting, of vast merit. Ihe name of the artist unknown-2201. 10s, Bevan. Lot 87. A fine whole-length portrait of Margaret Smith, wife of Thomas Carye, groom of the bedchamber A, Charles L, an undoubted picture by Van Dyck, from he Wharton collection-78L 15s. Rodd. Lot 88. A ditto of Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke And Montgomery, by My tens-861. 2s. Seguier. Lot 94. The original portrait of Catherine of Bra 4anza, sent from Portugal previous to her marriage with Charles 11., and from which Fairthorne engraved his print-bought by Lord Holmesdale for 331. 12s. Lot 98. A magnificent portrait of Ninon L'Enclos, oval, the countenance most expressive, the colouring harmonious, and the effect truly charming ; it is the only original portrait of this celebrated beauty-bought by Fuller for Lord Northwick for 1311. ss. Lot 101. A fine landscape in Italy, with cattle, by Gaspar Poussin, bought by Lord Northwick for 581. 16s. Lot 113. The original sketch of the Beggar's Opera, representing Walker as Macheath ; Miss Fenton, after wards Duchess of Bolton, as Polly ; Hippisley, as Pea chum ; Hall, as Lockit; on one side, in a box, are Sir Thomas Robinson, very tall and' lean, and Sir Robert Tagg, a famous horse racer, fat, with short grey hair, by lfogarth ; this interesting and curious picture was pur chased at the sale of John Rich, the celebrated harle quin' and master of the theatres in Lincoln's Inn-fields and Covent-garden, for 'whom the picture was painted -571.155. Snell. Yesterday's sale realised the sum of 2,4501., which may be considered the best day since the commencement ; and we shall no be far from the mark in naming the net produce up to yesterday, at 22,0001. THE INDIAN MAIE.—The following notice has been posted up at the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le- Grand, and at the branch receiving -offices, in Lombard street, Charing-cross, and Blackman-street, Borough : " Notice.—The:next mail for India, &c. , via Marseilles, will be made up at the G enera l P os t-office, on the 4th of June. The next mails for Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, and India, via Falmouth, will be de spatched from the General Post-office on the 31st of May." We again ask, why are such notices not adver tised in the metropolitan journals ? THE CHARTISTS.—We understand that the Chartist Association in this town has been entirely dissolved, and that an Association for promoting a cordial union of all classes, sects, and parties, for the improvement of the, people, is about to be formed, .and we sincerely wish it success.—Somerset County Gazette. Javizo.l,i REPORT OF THE TITHE COM MISSIONERS FOR ENGLAND AND WALES, TO HER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT. PURSUANT TO THE ACT 6 AND 7 WILL. IV., C. 71. (Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Coth mand of her Maje Sty.) Tithe Commission-office, April 22, 1842. Sir,—lt is our duty to report to you the progress of the commutation of tithe in England and Wales to the close of the year 1841. We have received notices that voluntary proceed ings have commented in 9,381 tithe districts ; of these notices 184 were received during the year 1841. We have received 6,348 agreements, and confirmed 5,804 ; of these 442 have'been received, and 668 con firmed, during the year 1841. 2,178 notices for making awards have been issued ; of which 1,008 were issued during the year 1841. We have received 1,355 drafts of compulsory awards, and confirmed 1,030; of th ese 534 h ave b een received, and 470 confirmed, during the year 1841. We have received 5,220 apportionments, and have confirmed 4,347; and of these 1,532 have been re 4ived, and 1,715 confirmed, during the year 1841. Of the whole business of assigning rent-charges and apportioning them, it is probable that about half is Completed. The Acts under which our Commission is consti tuted will expire on the Ist day of July next. We are glad to be able to state that should a re newal act be passed, we have neither alterations in the old acts or additions to them to suggest, which affect in the slightest degree the broad principles of those acts, or the relative position and interests of the land owners and tithe-owners. During the working, however, of an operation as extensive as that of the commutation of tithes throughout England and Wales, intricate and perplexed cases occasionally present themselves wholly unfore seen. With some of these it is difficult, and indeed occasionally impossible to deal, without powers or machinery which have not suggested themselves. We have a few such cases to report for your consideration. Some tithe-owners have spent considerable sums in contesting points before us, and have died or vacated their preferment before the contest was closed. The successors of these persons reap the benefit of their exertions, while their families, who reap no benefit from them, are left charged with the expenses. We think it is just that we should be enabled, with the consent of the bishop (in the case of ecclesiastical tithes) to charge these expenses on the rent-charge Whether the successor does or does not consent to their being so charged. We have, subject to an appeal to the Courts of Law, a concurrent jurisdiction with the Courts of Equity in cases of dispute as to the liability of land to tithes. Our decisions, if not appealed against, or if appealed against, then the decision of the Courts of Law are final. These provisions of the Tithe Act were obviously meant to ensure the determination of all disputed claims to tithe before the general commu tation was finished. It often happens that suits are pending in the Courts of Equity on the very points we are called on to decide more summarily. The arrears claimed in these suits, and the cost of the suits themselves, are of considerable importance. Our decisions, though final as to the future, do not determine the question of arrears or costs in equity. Parties have still the power of dragging their oppo nents through the Courts of Equity and House of Lords, by continuing suits as to points already sub stantially determined. by a competent jurisdiction. We'beg to suggest, that it is expedient the Courts of Equity should be invested with a power of de ciding, on petition or other summary process, all ques tions as to the costs and arrears in suits before them, when such suits relate to questions already finally de cided before us, or finally decided by the Courts of Law, when our decisions have been appealed against. In cases reserved for special adjudication we are bound to base our rent-charges on the rent-charges established by award in the neighbourhood. We cannot use rent-charges established by volun tary agreement for the same purpose. There seems no reason for this distinction, which probably originated in oversight. We find it very troublesome in practice, and beg to recommend its abolition. When security is given to pay an unapportioned rent-charge, and we extinguish tithes at once, the provisions of the Act of 3 Vic., c. 15, make it cessary that we should occasionally assign differed' days for the payment of the rent-charges due from those parties whose tithes were taken in kind, and of rent-charges due from those who had compounded for their tithe. It would be convenient that we should have the power of making such equitable arrangement cf the first payments that, after the first year, the whole rent-charges should be payable half-yearly, and on the same days. The Commissioners of Land-tax have a power, in certain cases, of altering apportionments. Certificates of their alterations are sent to the parish and the bishop's registrar, but not to us. As the instruments, now in our custody, will, pro b.-0)1y, always constitute a great central body of docu ments, in which the majority of searches will be made, we think it may be expedient that a copy of all such certificates of alterations in apportionments should also be lodged with us. The acts under which at present exchanges can be made of glebe for other lands are apparently expensive and troublesome in their operation. We are very frequently applied to to authorise such exchanges on the commutation of parishes. We think that our machinery would enable us, if we had the power, to assist parties in making such exchanges cheaply and with great mutual advantage. The consent of the diocesan should, we think, be made necessary. Cases also occur in which, although a certain quan tity of glebe is known to exist, its identity cannot be established. The parties are frequently willing that we should set out and assign a known and defined quantity of land as the real glebe. We think such a power would be of public use. A rather complicated state of circumstances occa sionally presents itself, with which we find it difficult to deal equitably. Land at some past period has been given in exchange for tithe in a manner clearly ille gal, and one which leaves the tithe-owner's right to his tithe, on his abandoning the land, valid. It is not quite, clear even that he is obliged in all cases to aban don the land ; and if he does, the persons entitled to receive it back can rarely be traced. In such cases, if we find the land a fair equivalent for the tithes we think we might properly be enabled to confirm and render valid the transaction. If the land is not an equivalent for the present legal rights of the tithe-owner, then if we were empowered to assign him a rent-charge which, with the land, would be such an equivalent, much confusion and injustice would, We think, be prevented. Doubts have been thrown- on our power to sanction voluntary agreements after certain litigated stages of a compulsory award have been gone through, and also on our power to deal with claims of exemption from tithe in one particular and limited class of cases. We give no opinion on the reasonableness of such doubts, but they prevail extensively enough to make it expedient to remove them.—We have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servants, W. BLAMIRE, T. WENTWORTH BULLER. R. JONES. To the Right Hon. Sir James R. G. Gtaha,m, Bart., &c. CORN AVERAGES.—The following fact which may be relied upon, shows how fallacious the present mode of taking the averages is as a test of the price at which good grain is selling. The Liverpool average for the last week was only 465. 9d , owing to the inferior qua lity of the Irish and English wheat sold here, but it is within our own knowledge that some thousand quarters of free foreign wheat were sold in Liverpool last week at from 10s. 9d. to I Is. the 701b5., that is, at from 775. to 795. per quarter. The real average of the week was thus much n earer 70 s . than 46 5 . 9d. ; but as foreign grain does not count in the returns, it goes forth to the country that we are buying wheat at Liverpool at from five-and-twenty to thirty shillings less than the real price of good grain.—Liverpool Times. FATAL STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.—Mr. Baker held an inquest yesterday, at the ship, High-street, Wapping, on the body of a man, name Unknown, apparently. about forty-five years of age. Charley Grey, a labourer, at the Tunnel Pier, Wapping, said that at half-past-five o'clock on Saturday 'afternoon last, the Royal Tar Greenwich steam-boat arrived at the pier, to allow passengers to embark and debark; When the signal was given for starting for London, witness removed the gangway by which the people passed to and from the vessel ; but he had scarcely done so, when a man on board ran to the side and, when the boat was about five feet from the pier, endeavoured to leap upon the latter. The distance being too great, he fell into the water, and was drowned. Wit ness,did not know why he wanted to leave the boat so suddenly.. His dress consisted of it brown Petersham coat, with-a velvet collar ; black plush waistcoat; and hat with the name of " Townsend, maker, Bread-street, Cheapside," marked in it. Ile was about five feet seven inches in height, and his hair and complexion light. 'Ver dict, " Accidental death." TILE Bisnor of LICIIFIELD.—We are truly sorry to state that no improvement has taken place in the state of this amiable prelate's health, and that but faint hopes are entertained of his recovery. We understand that prayers have been daily offered up in his Lordship's behalf, in the cathedral church of Lichfield, for the last three weeks ; and we have authority to state that a similar expression of pious and respectful sympathy, in all the churches of the diocese, will be as acceptable to the relatives of the reverend sufferer, as it cannot fail to be accordant with the feelings of the clergy, and their several congregations.—Stafford Advertiser. The monthly meteorological table for Greenock shows that not a drop of rain fell in that town during the month of April. It will be remembered that Greenock and Glasgow bear about au equal reputation for being the Dreepdailics of the west of Scotland.--Glasgow Gurier. UNITED STATES NE WS. (Further particulars from the New York papers of the 28th ult.) STATE OF THE COUNTRY. Thank God at last. This country—this glorious land—has at length reached the bottom. We hr.ve touched the solid rock—in commerce, currency, ,politics, religion virtue, demoralization, folly, charla tanism, and good sense. From this day forward, the march of the republic will be onward and upward, in every element of civilization and sound economy. Our negotiations with England are making great progress, and every symptom indicates a long, last ing, and honourable peace. Our difficulties with Mexico do not look so fair, but the Mexicans can be thrashed into decency. In domestic politics we are in a very interesting state. FOr the first time since the revolution, we have a President making the ex geriment of governing the country without a party, hint simply trusting to the principles of common sense and rectitude of a free people. This has produced some confusion in the action of Congress—and caused spme discredit to the public finances—but things will yet come right. The next Presidency is three years qff—and little can be said of the result of the pre sent state of parties. i In commerce and currency there can be no mis thke. In the greater portion of the country, the rot ten banks have been closed, and things are adjusting themselves to a specie basis. The Bankrupt law has less effect than had been anticipated. The season is promising, and great hopes are formed of the coming crops. The whole active commerce of the nation is reorganizing itself, on ,a sound basis. Congress will, unquestionably, pass a new revenue law, increasing the duties—but the embarrassed States cannot re cover in many years. The great State of New York is the first to lead the way in resuscitation of public credit, and the principles of honesty. . In morals, philosophy, and religion, we are also in a fair way of improving. Extravagant habits of living have gone the way of th e br o k en b an k s an d financiers, that is, to the devil. The great temperance reform is increasing. Every month we have, a new science, or a new religion starting up—hut Prophet Joe Smith, the Mormon, seems to be the most successful among modern apostles. On the whole, we begin to feel quite comfortable in this country, and hope they get along pretty well in Europe. FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS. Lord Ashburton is getting along very elegantly in Washington. His first official public dinner was a brilliant affair, and went off with great eclat. The wines and fruits from England were much admired, and swallowed with great gout. He has had several dinners and fetes given to him, played at cards with Mr. Clay, drank wine with the President, and had an old familiar with the veteran lion of literature, John Quincy Adams. He is likely to make his mission suc cessful and pleasing to all' parties. Our two leading literary characters have left us • Irving has gone to Spain, and Paulding gone to New Orleans and the Hermitage, in the suite of ex-Pr es id en t V an B uren , to see General Jackson, and hear the old lion roar once more before he dies. Mr. Van Buren and Mr. Paul ding, are by this time at Louisville, whence they go to Ashland to meet Mr. Clay. The latter gentleman is by this time at Pittsburgh, or even nearer home. Lord Morpeth, when last heard from, was at New Orleans. He, too, will probably visit Mr. Clay at Ashland. Boz and his lady have arrived at Cleveland, on their way to Niagara Falls, where he spends a few days, then down to Montreal and New Yak ; he will be here the latter end of May, and return to England in June. THEATRICALS IN THE UNITED STATES , The summer season not having fairly opened yet anywhere, we have little to tell relating to theatricals other than to chronicle the whereabouts of the actors. The Seguin troupe appear likely to succeed at the Park for a few weeks. They had a good house the first night, a poor one the second, and a tolerably good one the third night. They are a singular in stance of an operatic company being successful without having one really gr ea t singer among them. Seguin is the best. They are all capital musicians, but none of them have a first-rate voice. Mrs. Seguin is a beautiful musician, very correct, and very cold ; but her voice is thin„ and in its upper notes wiry and harsh. Still, the whole of them combined caused the opera of Norma to be received with considerable applause. Mrs. Sutton and Nagel are giving concerts with great eclat at Mobile, where Brown has taken his last benefit before coming north. Barton and Mrs. Rich ardson, and Bill Chapman, are also there. Fanny Elssler had not left Havana at the last ac counts. She was drawing good houses at the Tacon, - which she has again takeiron her own account. Buckstone and Mrs. Fitzwilliam have left New Orleans, on their road to the north. The Italian troupe have not succeeded well there: FOrrest is in Boston playing a round of tragedy. Clara Fisher is also there, with a company containing Miss Lee the dancer ; she is makin,.. honey. A new drama called Harry Lorrequer, has been got out there. Lave is also there. Miss Turnbull, Madame Stephan, and Sylvain have reached New Orleans, from Cuba, where they were only tolerably successful. A. Adams, Wemyss, and Harrison are playing in Baltimore with Mrs. Lewis. Burton had a good benefit at the Chemut-street Theatre, Philadelphia, the other day. He brought out Bubbles of the Day, which was highly applauded. None of the theatres are doing much iu Philadelphia. Butler, the tragedian, the pretty Miss Reynolds, Lambert, Thayer, and Mrs. Lewis, are playing in Washington. Dinne - ford and Jamieson are making money al Pittsburgh. _ _ Latham and Miss Melton are in this city doing nothing. Jim Crow Rice has just closed a fine engagement in Boston. Chippendale, Billy 'Williams, Mrs. Knight, &c., are all at the Park, where they are great favourites. Thorne at the Chatham, and Mitchell at the Olympic, are doing a first-rate business. 'The Bowery is going down, Miss Cushman's is going up, and Niblo will open rich shortly. Braham is at Philadelphia, on his way to the west. HORRIBLE MURDER IN CONNECTICUT.—HaIsey Coon went, on Sabbath evening last, to the house of one of his neighbours, and informed th e f am il y th a t his wife was either dead or dying from a dreadful accident, and begged them to accompany him back to his home, which they did. Upon their arrival they found the woman still living, but burned in a most shocking manner. A physician was sent for, and he pronounced it impossible for her to live more than a few hours. Previously she had refused to give any satisfactory account of the condition she was in ; but now, finding she could not live, she confessed it was the work of her husband—that he had beaten her till she was insensible, then tied her to a chair and threw a shovel full of burning coals upon her body. The wretched woman died in about two hours after she was first found by the neighbours. A jury of inquest was called, which pronounced a verdict of death by the hands of her husband—whereupon he was immediately arrested.—Norwich Courier, April 23. UNITED STATES TROOPS.—It seems that our Go vernment are apprehensive that the 'Western Indians will take part in the troubles between Texas and Mexico ; they are, therefore, concentrating a large body of troops near the frontier line. The present force, under the command of General Taylor, consists of the following troops :—Dragoons at Fort Towson 184, at Fort Jessup 123, at Fort Gibson 71 ; Infantry at Fort Gibson 140 ; Dragoons at Fort Wayne 142 ; total 669. To this force is to be added the 6th regiment of Infantry now at Jefferson Barracks, 800, to march immediately to Fort Towson; five com panies of Dragoons to move from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Towson, 360 ; and the Ist regiment of In fantry from Jefferson Barracks to Fort Leavenworth, 75. The whole disposable force under the command of General Taylor will then be 2,004. MURDERS IN ARKANSAS.—The Helena (Ark.) Shield, of the 9th, contains in that one paper ac counts of three murders in the State. The first arose from a dispute between a Captain Morehead and a man in his employ named Robert Lyons, which resulted in the death of the latter, by Morehead shooting him with a shot gun. The second was at Pine Bluffs, where a man named W m . Mac daniels, with a bowie knife, committed an unpro voked murder upon the body of an old and respect able minister of the Gospel named Gross. The mur derer made his escape. Of the third, in which a man named Samuel Gillespie was killed by the , Seneca Indian Agent, the particulars had not transpired. HORRIBLE MURDER IN lOWA.—By a letter in a St. Louis paper of the 14th, we notice a terrible outrage at Burlington, lowa. J. P. Bradstreet having a diffi culty with a citizen of the place, S. W. Ross, bro ther-in-law of the latter, provided himself with one of Colt's revolving pistols, met Mr. B. in the street, and discharged the contents of five of the barrels at him, each shot taking effect. Mr. 8., though terri bly wounded and dying, returned the fire, and •dan gerously wounded Ross. Mr. B. has since died. • Miss Hamblin, or Miss Goodrich, who murdered her husband in the Mobile theatre, has, it is supposed, committed suicide. It is said that she was a wild girl, ," looking as if she was going into a state of I lunacy, while her husband looked like a poor victim; ized idiot." The body of a young lady was found in the Ohio, near Warsaw, about th e 17 t h i nstant, sup posed to lave been the victim of murder. A LADY MURDERED.—Mrs. Estes, residing about four miles from Owentown, Kentucky, was inhu manly murdered in her own house, a short time since, during the temporary absence of her husband. Her skull was broken by a club. FLORIDA WAR. It is now said that really and truly the Florida Indians are so nearly, used up that there are only ninety 'maim left there.. Our army-is every other day capturing . a squaw or two, and a few children and negroes; and in the mean time some wag has penned the following : Hurrah for our lads of the sabre and trigger ! In history's ages they'll make a great figger, No heroes on record were braver or bigger, They've captured three children, two squaws, and A nigger. From an officer of the army, we learn that there are not probably more, on a fair estimate, than ninety warriors left in the territory of Florida. A portion of these. under Sam Jones and the Prophet. are now in the 'Everglades —the rest, under Halleck Tustenuggee, and a Creek chief, Oteaka, whose name now, for the first time, we believe; is entered upon the military annals, are at present in the cove of the Withlacooche. Col. Worth has plan* the most judicious attack upon this strong-hold of the enemy, and the 15th of April was the day . fixed upon for the assault, which will be made by six different columns of troops, who will concentrate from as many different directions. I'Ve have intelligence from St. Augustine to the 16th inst. inclusive. Nothing important had trans spired connected with the campaign. Colonel Harney arrived at St. Augustine the 13th inst., and reported himself for duty. His health had greatly improved. On landing he was gieeted with hearty and spontaneous huzzas from a large crowd of citizens. Some corn fields and vegetables near Fort Pierce had been destroyed by a scouting party. Fresh bo dies of Indians were discovered at the south. Every day, says the St. Augustine News, adds to the con viction, that the ,only effectual mode of putting an end to the war, is for the Commander-in-Chief to offer a bounty for 'every Indian. This, that paper adds, would bring into the field the Western hunters, and gave security to the numerous settlements of the East. A company of regulars had fallen upon a small body of Indians between the Apalachicola and Olock nee rivers, killed three, and taken two children. Indians had come into Middle Florida, and in the course of their depredations killed two negroes, and one soldier, and, wounded others. MATRIMONY AND MURDER.—We copy the fol lowing from the La Grange (Tenn.) Gatherer:— " We are pained to learn that on Thursday even ing last, a most horrible transaction took place in this county, nine or ten miles from this place, which resulted in the death of David Jarnegan, and the wounding of several other persons. The gene ral facts w e will state as we heard them. It ap pears that a Mr. Morgan had arranged a matrimo nial elopement with. a daughter of the deceased, which, with the aid of friends, was accomplished on Thursday.; the parties having repaired to a house in the neighbourhood where the marriage ceremony was legally performed. Upon learning the fact of the elopement, Jarnigan became very indignant, and determined to go in pursuit. Taking a few friends, he soon reached the house where the marriage party was assembled. We learn that he forced the door, and entered, when an attack, com menced, in which the deceased received several wounds, which produced his death early yesterday morning. Some others were wounded ; among them J. F. Simmons, who we understand is seriously, if not dangerously injured. With the deceased we were well acquainted. He was a wealthy planter, and pos sessed many fine points of character. His untimely end is much regretted by his numerous friends." EMIGRATION TO OREGON.—A meeting has been held in the western Raft of Missouri, for the purpose of organizing a company to emigrate to the Oregon territory. Thirty were enrolled, and pledged them selves for the expedition. A committee was appointed to visit the neighbouring counties for the purpose of en listing others in the enterprise. The emigrants take their families with them, and look forwar4 to a per manent settlement beyond the Rocky Mountains. We notice these movements, since they are indi cations of the times worthy to be noted. Oregon will soon be brought under a territorial Government, and will be recognised as a part of the United States, just as lowa and Wisconsin are. Mr. Senator Linn has not succeeded yet, we believe, in getting his Bill through Congress, but he may be sure of success In the end. If Great Britain, in reference to the Oregon country, pursues the procrastinating course which she sometimes adopts in her diplomatic manceuvres, the result will be that the question and the country will both be settled at once, without any trouble to her ambassadors. Boz IN ST. Lous.—The Boz Soiree " came off' on the 13th inst. We take the following, relative .to it, from the St. Louis Gazette of the .14th.—The soiree last evening, at the Planter's House, in of Mr. Dickens ' was attended by about 300 p ers o ns ; and is admitted to have been one of the most elegant and agreeable parties ever given in that Hall. In the absence of undue formality and embarrassing restraint, all seemed to feel perfectly at their ease, and to enter cordially into the spirit of the occasion. Mr. D. himself was highly gratified, and has fre quently expressed the pleasure he has derived from the attentions paid him West of the Mississippi. The Indian Council, held last week, resulted in the unanimous adoption of an agreement, intended to be the basis of a new treaty, that, it is hoped and be lieved, will be entirely satisfactory to all parties interested. The Council for the making of the new treaty will be held on the 16th of next Maya About eighty chiefs, headmen and warriors were present at the late Council. Uninterrupted by a crowd of officious interested white men, they managed their affairs according to their own suggestions of right. The fullest explanations were given and received, all past differences were forgotten, friends and relatives who had been estranged in consequence of the un happy disputes of the past few years became recon ciled, and the result augurs well for the interests of onr city, the welfare of the red men, and the cause of humanity. In anticipation of the treaty so soon to be made, it is not deemed expedient to give publicity to the agreement entered into, but we can assure our readers it is such as all must approve.- Bu f falo Cont., April 18. CANADA. All seems quiet and comfortable in this quarter of the globe. Governor Bagot has left Kingston to lay the ibundation of a college at Toronto—thence he proceeds to Halifax, where he expects to meet his wife. The Toronto papers contain long and'glow ing accounts of his arrival there, and say it was the most brilliant affair ever witnessed in British' America. Sir George seems to be a great favourite. Lord Sydenham has left his property, by will, to his brother Poulett Scrope, M.P. He has a large landed property in Canada that cost him nothing. It will be sold in farms, and the cash sent to London. The miserable fool Hogan, it seems, after all, had nothing to do with the burning of the Caroline, and is now treated as a puppy by all parties. Mr. Hill, Mayor of Rochester, has addressed a letter 'to Mr. Counter, Mayor of Kingston, on the Hogan case, to assure Mr. Counter that there is a good feeling here towards a steady continuance of commercial inter course—that Mr. Hogan was treated with great ten derness—but that his visit was a matter of regret. So far so good. Trade is improving, and every thing seems tolerably smooth in Canada. TIIE INSTALLATION AT CAMBRIDEIE.—We have every reason to believe that an extraordinary number of visitors, including ma n y di st i ngu i s h e d i n di v id ua l s , w ill honour Cam bridge with their company at the Installation of the Chancellor. The preparations for the grand ball in the Fitzwilliam Museum have already been begun, and in addition to the arrangements, steps have been taken for holding a grand horticultural exhibition on Thursday, the 7th of July. The musical performances will take place as follows :—Saturday evening, July 2, a concert ; Monday evening, J u ly 4, an ora t or i o ; Tues day morning, the performance of the Installation ode ; Tuesday evening, a concert ; and on Wednesday morn ing, an oratorio, " The Messiah." The oratorios will be held in Great St. Mary's church, and the concerts in the Senate. house. The band and chorus will consist of up wards of 140 performers, including the elite of the Phil harmonic and Opera bands. Engagements will be offered to the most eminent vocalists.—Cambridge Chronicle. Last week a woman named Leger, residing at Pont-Saint-Martir, near Nantes, was left alone with her grand-daughter, a little girl three years old, her son-in law and daughter having gone to the fair of Villeneuve, when some malefactors entered and pierced the unfor tunate woman with nineteen blows of a knife, and the unfortunate child with twelve. They then robbed the house of 4,000 f. and departed. Their two victims are since dead. Active search has been instituted to discover , the perpetrators, but without effect. On Sunday last, the tower of the Church o f E poye, near Rheims, was struc k b y lightning. The electric fluid descended into the body of the church, where a con gregation was at vespers, affected .1 - our or five persons slightly, and escaped without doing any further damage. SIR G. LEWIN.--Sir Gregory Allnutt Lewin re ceived from Government, on Thursday last, the appoint ment of Recorder of Doncaster.—Leeds Journal. COMPTON-MOUSE, SOHO.—Sewell, Evans, and Co., (late Sewell and Cross), having now completed their pur chases in the Home and Continental Markets, beg most re spectfully to inform the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, that their premises, which in th e interval have r ece i ve d consider ableimprovements to render them more commodious than be fore, are now opened with a magnificent stock of goods, which, in extent and variety, they feel confident cannot be surpassed in the Metropolis. S., E., and Co., in enumerating a few of the articles of which they have purchased extensively, would parti cularly call attention to an immense variety of rich Spitaltields and French silks, foulards, satins, and velvets, Lisle and Valen. ciennes lace, blonds of every description, British and Oriental shawls. Novelties in great variety seleeted in — Paris, Lyons, and Brussels. The Furnishing department comprises Brussels and French carpets, rich chintzes, silk and merino damasks, satin tabarets, Utrecht velvets. In the Drapery department are Balzorines, de leines, muslins of all sorts, linens of every description, manufactured expressly for this establishment; a lei ge assortment of the French and Paisley shawls, now so much in use, together with an endless variety of articles in the hosiery, glove, and haberdashery department. Sewell, Evans, and Co. trust, by the strictest attention, to merit a continuance of that patronage which h as b een a l rea dy so liberally bestowed on the late firm of Sewell and Cross, 44 and 45,91 d Compton street ; and 46 and 47, Frith-street, Soho-square. N. B. Or ders from the cowry punme4 1 7 101411344 t°' CASTLE MILL :AND WHARF, .T..EICESTER. MO BE PEREMPTORILY SOL D , p ursuant ' . 0 madeade in an a C O a r n d s e e r nf of F t L h o e W H E IG R H y. C H O A U R R T T op of p, CTt th N , C th E a It ar % probation of Sir GIFFIN WILSON. one of the Masters ofty Court, at the White Lion Inn, Leicester, on MeirmaT , 6th day of June, 1842, at Five o'clock in the . Afteenoonpre" cisely, in One Lot, A FREEHOLD WATER CORN MILL, situate in t Borough of Leicesier, called the CASTLE MILL, w ith 1b : house, Dwelling-house, an d other Buildings adjoining ; ..i a Wharf or Millbank, and Pi ec e of Ground, near the ab°le l all in the occupation of Mr. Thomas Flower and (idlers ; an a Piece of Ground near the Mill, on the west of, and adloiv ing the Navigation and River Soar. Printed Particulars may be had (gratis) at the said 51asfer'° Chambers, in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-iane ; of Steele, Solicitor, 1, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London ; Kempson, Solicitors, 31, Abingdon-street: Westminster; Messrs. Rogers, Solicitors, Manchester-buildinp, Westmin . ster ; Mr. Sheppard, Solicitor, Leicester; and of Mr. .130 aik jr mia Payne, Auctioneer, Leicester ; and at the Place of S A. R. STEELE, , 1 Lir coin's Inn-fields, Dated May 11, 1842. Plaintiff's Solicitor. THE RECENT CONFLAGRATION at HAY' BURGH.—A PUBLIC MEETING of the merchant and others trading to Hamburgh, to which all perone terested in the fate of the unfortunate and destitute suffer from the recent afflicting catastrophe in that city arc vited, will be held, by the kind permission of the Righe"" the Lord Mayor, in the Egyptian Hall, at the Mansion . b o l; on FRIDAY next, 20th instant, at One o'Clock, 1..31. 7 , Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR has most obligiuglY CO " . rented to preside. THE WEATHER.—Noorf, MAY 18. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADE 0. LAIDE•STI I : Thermometer .... 59 Highest 6O I Lowest...... Barometer 30.09.—Wind N.E. Hititt WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS IM • & Morning 46 minutes after 7 I Evening 21 minutes sneer `i . vlt • - ejtir '"' Er t ntli7 7l* Otitt 0 11 SUN OFFICE Three o'Clocii.: A more sound feeling with regard to foreign- 10 1 fortunately prevails in this count r y a t th e prese nt time than at any former period, and as that has be en caused by sad experience, it is likely to continue' Thousands have been crippled in their resourose4!A many utterly ruined, by lending money to banksT States, or to States that are able, but unwillia! to pay their just debts ; and our loan contractors 10 0, 4 therefore found public opinion so strong against tI I .T , instances of bad faith as to prevent them eVezi: lo attempting to negotiate new loans for unprinb,l, 0 Governments anxious to get still deeper into debt, ... 14 question now is, will that feeling act as an . effeot check to the loan which the Government of United States is about to contract? If 11 - judge from the tone of the public press, the questl°,o may ba answered in the affirmative. Scarcely journal takes a favourable view of the s il t ; ject, and some ,even, go so far , as to O se . that no house in the . City, hoWever PI; erful, would dare to take upon itself w. to of introducing American 'Scrip , the, notice of their fellow-citizens, under existing c; ; cumstances. We are glad to see this new Moog' for not many months ago, sonic who denounced ill such strong terms American Scrip were ' ref ' favourably disposed towards' a new loan to a coun tr i that in all probability will never pay eit l : es 0 4 principal or interest—namely, Spain. The ljn i . ol , States certainly are not in such a desperate condi t ' le as that country; the Government we believe 'are tit i Ld honest' in their promises to pay interest, and Ohl - , the principal at the stated period; but till t ,,,,. Executive and the Legislature obtain more, po' be and influence over the separate States of t r o Union, we should consider the credit of the Fe4e Government of a very doubtful character. The e l° ple of Great Britain have lost vast shims by lowly,: some of the States and public bodies; the money has expended in improving the cou n t r y, in ma ki n g can° ; railroads, bridges, and other great works ; yet= ic 4ii , of the separate Legislatures have repudi ated' these 1 0 $ 1x and left the unfortunate creditors to shift for 010; selves. The object of this new loan is to get ni° l l4 . from other people, and, save the citizens, of the T-Tri lt rs ; States from additional taxation ; and, among °t he ; those very States which have refused to Pitl,l their just debts. If the representativ es sith certain States can thus evade paymen t 1 , u s i theyf of th e exhortationsr remain respectivea ofi n i,r u e n s t i n d oi tL d Tit eitl i r wr o . r . b : i t in he rn ‘ ' - ity, i i r i tuC is i a tures, v ; a 'i` the President s security is there that the people, finding the inter,; of the new loan rather burdensonie,..wili not return* majority of Members of Congress pledged to rejitlOT also the Federal debt ? T bo ! here is no se c urity r t , e ' d national honour and morality, and these, when. tru sted to in Spain, in South America, and even arnt g e i people of our own kindred and language, have "' oi , found but little better than broken reeds. Borr0ic1;( is not the way either to better their conditi oll ' y fl raise their credit. We wish well to the pt s of the " United States ; they have long 7 t ,‘ good customers of this country; the Pros Per, o 'l of one nation is intimately connected with, that'„ the other ; and therefore, in the most friendly ,cliseo 1 tion, we advise them to reform their condttct, to P i i, ,i within their means, pay their just debts, and 6 9 0114 lish their credit on a sure footing ; and aftei l O r ,/ should they want a loan for any national uncle taking,. they will find no one so ready and willid, .-.13 JOHN BULL to assist them. • . , '' - :!: . ourrOw' - 7 , , There is but little news in the French Joi ceived this morning. A rumour prevailed . tha .t `ll Chamber of Peers would, not adopt the RatlsvaY in its present form, to which, however, we attach r importance. • uat I,)°.' The Courrier Francais has the following re t- of : on the suppression of the Temps, as announced .. ,11 columns of yesterday : sti; . " The whole Press is thrown into commotion v) t v o rle: event which is without precedent in France, or el. e cf in any other country. One of the most inoffens ° so oe: the Opposition Journals, a Journal which fori e ol l months was inclined towards the Ministry—the `,,jbl e —has, throUgh the persons of its two resP 6 r, 1 1 ; editors, been condemned to pay fines ainounn il t ;'lo t rn 93,000 f., which, with the war decie, makes a to 102,000 f. This exorbitant penalty is equivalen i t confiscation of the whole of the caution-money. i , l i tlO S f dition to this the Correctional Tribunal has ordain e . o o° the Temps shall cease to app ear . Th us a confiselt/090 the caution-money and the suppression of the Jour t/ ti orl e „ the consequences of a prosecution for a mere 0,1 offence, against a paper which was not hostile t'l,lo, Government. What may be expected by Jourtnils, ° n : o o,;f' have a more open and decided character of oppe 9- 06d The National has observed that the tribunal bqf , applied the minimum of the penalties, and that / Judges had gone to the full extent of their powel . ' might have condemned the Temps to pay 231,500 1 fi n' judgment, therefore, is lenient, and, as it seems' i t ' fi j formity with the law. Thi s i s , h owever , a greu, great complaint against the existing l a w s regulatitil'bc press. is it not extraordinary, is it not mon stro o ;l.l9 a Journal should be liable to in c u r , f or con t ra ventl r etell omissions purely fiscal, pecuniary fines t e n times g than those which could be imposed upon it foq' against the King, or an attack on th e C ons tit u tion , On Monday afternoon the Chamber of D e pt'" voted the Sugar Bill for another year. T he root growers are therefore safe' for the Present' ti t 0 ' Some of the Paris J ourna l s re t urn t o the -11igt;ilig Search question, whi c h serves f or a h an dl e f o r 1 ," h England. 'We are so accustomed to such abu se se we have grown quite reconciled' to it. A.-4 1 , • tribute paid by one n a ti on to the grea t n ess O. rTO f The alarm created by the railway, acCid el,P subsided in Paris, the number of passsenger s same line being nearly as great as before. in tens The Toulonnais mentions a rumour that it 1 5 o f ' templation to discharge from the navy all sue!' sailors as have been two years in service. The Armoricain of Brest states that, after the t T o of the despatches conveyed to th e French Consul a jiers by. the squadron which arrived there froil t; i g t h P, the Grondeur steamer proceeded to Oran, 1e0,...„0 Jena and Africaino waiting for instructions clO r ' Governor of Algeria. , e r These vessels, after the departure of - the U T t cruised between Tanjiers and Oran, and had g, 11 _ 1 ; 1 . vise daily. It was the noise of this firing vuh ic rise to the report of the bombardment of Tanjiers' un was current at. Tarifa. l l f s of The packet Leonidas, which; arrived at Dia, „o sto r of the 11th of May, has brought letters from L/ 72, 6t1 1 nople of the 27th, • and from Alexandria of th e • April. •t „ .s 3`, Letters in the Sad de Marseilles say, that re 0 0 tib 0 ported at Constantinople that the Five P o wers tied with the promises of the Porte to recal Ona e fo r ; ;0 0 when an opportunity shall present itself, and $ .1 11 ,9 investigation of Selim Bey, the Commissioner 0.7.,e101 the Porte. 6 ` 'f,s; il ! ) BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, MAY 2.; - - First Highest 1- 0- Frent h 5 4 p pe er r c C e e n ti t t F r Prig . 110129 1' 5 ... 1 1 0 1 . 2 177% 3 per ... . . Bl 75 81.80 3gfu • Rank of france Little !lank 5,01111. Share, iimo ". .i.inan Bank ... ........ '790 :Z7O ••• (I • a 1, Belgian 5 per Cents. 104 104 I ° 4 iL 5 per Centi~ . spaish .The 14stc",I,' .Th e ,- bu ' 411 4, _ . Prayer ktt4 e',\, t to b 4ll .11.