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To be followed by the New Musical Fairy Romance, entitled THE KISS, (SR B ERT HA'S BRI DA Minis, Mr. Barker; Hermann, Mr.:Clement White; Bertha, Miss Crisp; Berina, Miss Gould; Un dine, Miss Hughes. • To which will be added the New Burletta, called THE WATER WITCHES, in which Mess's. Vining, Oxberry, W. H. Bland, Bar ke- Misses Murray, Crisp, Pincott, and Hughes, will appear. ilexes, 4s. Pit, Gallery, Is. Doors open at kialf-past Six; commence at Seven; Half-price, a Quarter before Nine. Privre Boxes to be had of Mr. Grogan, at the Private Box-offiez ; ar.d of Messrs. Andrews, Mitchell, Sams, and Bally, at their Libraries. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. - La.‘t Week of the Equestrian Company. Immense tiw:cess of the Italian Olivia Dai: cers. THIS EVENING, JUNE 16. Will be acted 21 r. Leman Rede's 'SIXTEEN STRING JACK. with New Seenery and Appointments.—Kit Clayton, by Mr. George Wild ; the Dances by the Corps de Ballet of the Opera House. After which, in a more extensive and splendid Arena than ever before witnessed, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing .51r. B Arry , s unrivalled Collection of Animals, consisting of nu merous and matchless Cream-coloured Horses, Andalusian Chargers, spotted Coursers, Fairy Palfreys, and Pigmy Poneys, and the most talented Vaulters, hiders, Gymnastics, and Contortionists in the kingdom. Gorgeous Cavalcade, novel acts of Equitation, and unri valled Acrobatique Feats. To conclude wilts the grand Military and E questrian Spectacle, en. filled MURAT—THE PEASANT, GENRA L, PRINCE, AND ICING, with Battles, Grand Reviews of Horse and Foot, and gor geous Tableaux. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, anti the Public, are respectfully infortned that ON MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, AND THURSDAY ,2 , GRAND EVENING FETES will be given, in which will be em bodied all those popular Entertainments that have given to this rayon yite ialrice of recreation its peculiar celebrity, with additions and in troductions, which render them more generally attractive. The MENAGERIE has been enriched by many valuable and Im. portant acquisitions in the classes of both Quadrupeds and Birds. Feeding Time Five o'clock. The Colossal VIEW OF BOME has been repainted, and in some instances remodelled, with a Mechanical Table.o d'action, repre- Acnting the Proce-sion of the Papal Troops, Guards, and Roman Nobles, tri the Castle of St. Angelo. Th a BAND includa some of the most eminent Performers, con. ducted by Mr. Godfrey, and the Programme of the PROMENADES tp: u sIC A LES selectedf rom the noblest works of the great Masters. 17 , te I LLU MINATIONof ST. PETER'S, the CROSS of FIRE, and ttie GIR A N DOLA of ST. ANGELO, with all the gorgeous Spectaci.and magnifieent ist roductioos that have called forth ac. cianimat i on , t of delight and stir ration on each evening of their ex. hibition, term snating with the triumph of pyrotechnic splendour, the CASC ADE , 7 f , ISRILLIANT FIRE, SIX I Y FEET in height. The Gardens are apeu Daily from Ten till Dusk. The Evening Fetes with the Pt oroenades Musicales, Illumination of :t. Peter's, Giran , dola of St. Angelo, &c., will be given on Mondays, Tuesdays, ai:d Thursdays. Admission One Shilling. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Till we see the communications to which a "Friend to Fair Dealing" alludes, we cannot give any opinion concerning them. We should be inclined to think, however, that to publish them would not be discreet. All Advertlgiements of a Disgusting Character, or faun - oral . Tendency, .are excluded from the Columns of "The Sun." ‘ le* t. 4,44 • _ 4 , u L , 44 ;.- . • *i.7 , 11 :v ib Tlyt r'•!!..a—. LONDON! THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 16, 1842. Lord AsinEy's' Bill was read a second time last night ithout remark or opposition. No person can contest w its importance, and it is scarcely creditable to the House that it should pass a meas7tre affecting the bulk of the collier population with less discussion. than it would be stow on a Turnpike Bill. But ii the measure have no interest for the House, it has somefzir the public, and neither it nor the Report of the Comma49ners meet with unanimous approbation. . • We have, for example, been favoured with an extract from a yet unpublished Report of the South Shields Committee, appointed in 1839, for the investigation of accidents in mines, in which it is stated, with reference to Lord ASHLEY'S Bill, that to restrict boys going to work in mines until they have reached the age of twelve, which is, however, only one year under Lord ASHLEY'S standard, would tend to restrict the supply of pit-men, and would throw such obstructions in the way of freely working the mines, that some of them would be entirely extinguished, and all NVould be worked at a vastly in creased expense. Ultimately that would fall on the public, and be injurious to our arts and manufactures, already exposed to serious foreign competition. Already, too, the fine coal of Belgium, at about uis. per ton, is confronting with success the finest British in the markets of Rouen and Marseilles, and may eventually find its way to other ports, to the displacement of this article of British exports. "If pitmen's sons," it says, " are prevented going to their father's employment, partially to relieve him from the charge, they will,with his approval seek another, where the restriction does not apply. And if pitmen's sons turn their backs upon the ;cities, it be almost impossible to induce the grown-Pp childsvn of other sections of the community to attempt so irk some an employment, or even their parents to sanction it with *heir popular terror of its nature and its danger. The instances axe very rare exceptions in which a boy, not originally con nected with the miser, ventures upon such an undertaking. Besides after the age r?f 12, habits are beginning to be formed and tastes acquired, much snore in accordance with the ordi ►nary employment on thesnrface; and it is probable that then, even a pitman's son may have grown into a repugnance to exchange the bight of day, and the companionship of his fellows v.hioh most other trades afford, for the solitary darkness of the mine• and its confined and severe :labour." Now that we think is a very :serious consideration for those who, without being very intimately acquainted with the labour of colliers, undertake to restrict the age at which children may begin to acquire the habit of living and working in the bowels of the earth. There tire a great many arts which, being naturally difficult or disagreeable, must be acquired young, or the mind and body can never be drilled into liking and skill. 3linlog is one of these, and humanity will not be promoted by preventing the repugnance to it being conquered in very early life. We say nothing of na tional. prosperity, but we believe that the well being:. of the population would not be increased byplaoing impediments in the way of the collier youth acquiring almost from infancy the, habit of that toil which is in after life to be their daily lot. The" provincial journals, we see by the Manchester Guardian, are beginning to find out that Lord ASIILEY'S enactments " will be very severely felt in districts where a large portion of the female population is so employed ; end, where no othet means of employment are in ex istence, many cases of great hardship will necessarily arise.." _Those who support Lord ASHLEY'S Billsay that it will only compel the drunken husbands to labour more, and, without lessening the wages of a family, will make the male gain the whole ; but those who make that as sertion have not studied the Report. We have already quoted the case of MARGARET BAXTER, a widow 50 years old, by whose 'labour, for 12 years after her hus band was unfit for work, her family was maintained. There are numerous inst. vices .in the Report of women who have l ab° 4 red many' yearn: in the pit. Such as BETTY 'HARDMAN, 3 8 years old, -went into the pit when she was 7, has had eight c hildr t n ; BETTY WARDLE, who has worked in a pit sincct she was 6 years old, and has had four children ; .I"AxE Jor, - ws, aged .39, «ho mis t 74 years old when her uncle ,'rat yoked her to the carve,' her father and mother I. *iv; dead ; JANE PEA COCK, who is 40 years old, and ha s \ vrotight 33 years in the bowels oF the earth. Tirere are many more who have been accustomed to work in the pit 20, 30, or 40 years, whose habits are formed to that species:of labour, whose subsistence depends on it, and to theiti,it will be A great hardship tco be at once deprived 44=thIrinotte"dxgarfitnrtheirtitelut Tut t Lord ASHLEY Meatis well, but it 'is, a sad, mistake to suppose.that he can add to the comfoii 0r such persons . , and convert them all at onoe into neat, thrifty house wives by Act of Parliament. He will dO them great injury, even if be can per,tuade the Legislature to give them ,ps,nsions equal to the wages of which he will deprive them. The Report of the Commissioners, as well as the Bill founded on it, is beginning to excite contradiction and opposition. The coal trade of Newcastle have answered, and contradicted, seriatim, nearly every paragraph of the Commissioners' Report. To quote one example, with respect to the little trappers being without light and without companions, and almost in solitary confinement of the worst kind, as asserted by the Commissioners, the Coal trade says:— . " This is a very erroneous and exaggerated statement. The working trap-doors are all placed in the principal passages, leading from the bottom of the pit to the various works, so that an interval of seldom more than five minutes, but generally much less, passes without some person passing hrough his door and having a word with the trapper. Neither is the trapper de prived of light by any means general, as the stationary lights (lamps) on the roily and tram ways are frequently placed near to the trapper's seat." This is confirmed incidentally by the Report of the South Shields Committee, above alluded to, in which some dreadful accidents are mentioned, as the results of the trappers having neglected their doors to go and play . with other boys. Before the Bill is further proceeded with, we shall, we hope, be able to lay before our readers some further evidence of the mistakes and exaggerations into which the Commissioners, without designing it, have fallen. We must now close by warning the Legislature to be careful how it brands a useful and necessary occupation by a hasty enactment. There are difficulties and dangers enough connected with mining to appal the stoutest hearts which are not familiarised with them from infancy; and it would be, as we have already said, a much wiser plan, if the Legislature must of necessity gratify its yearnings after the reputation of benevolence by inter fering with the colliers, were it to limit the hours in each day during which boys may be employed in mines, and place no limitation as to the age at which they may begin to learn their dangerous occupation. We are much puzzled, both by the actions and words of Sir ROBERT PEEL. He has, in his tariff, made sun dry abatements in Customs' duties, with a view, as he expressly stated, to encourage trade. He has levied an Income-tax, in order to spare industry, and he has per mitted the introduction of cattle, to promote cheapness. On Mon day night, however, he obstinately clung to the duty on exported coals, which can have no other effect than te. check trade and deprive the people of employ ment. There is no consistency, then, either in his lan guage or his conduct, and he puts down one day some thing he has put up the day before. We confess that we are quite at a loss for any clue to his conduct. He seems only to adhere to the multifarious practices which many Ministers, acting on different principles, at different times, have introduced into our laws. At one time he protects native industry, at an other he taxes it ; one day he is all for supporting pro perty, and the day after he insists that it shall bear all his new burdens. If we had not heard him dwell with great emphasis on France taxing coal, on Prussia taxing coal, and on Holland taxing coal, we should have been - wholly unable to account for his taxing coal. When we heard him say those things, however,, we knew at once that the spirit of envy and imitation were strong in him, and he resolved to tax the export of coal because they taxed the import. They tax it to encourage coal digging at home, and he taxed it to follow their example. They get a revenue from coal, so will he. Our contempt for this man, and for his shallow shuffling with the national happiness, grows on us daily. We have now come, however, to wonder more at the patience of the people under his quackery than at his undaunted boldness in daily administering remedies which neutralize each other. We are scarcely sur prized at the inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope petitioning the Legislature by the hands of Lord JOHN Itusszu„ last night, for a repre sentative government., They have suffered most of the evils which are usually experienced by the inhabitants of Crown colonies. The administration has been arbi trary, capricious, and extravagant. They have grown rapidly in prosperity, though a large portion of the popu lation has been driven, by real, or fancied, injuries, out of the colony; and though the colony has been overlooked or neglected by the authorities at home, they even com plain that the colony has been depreciated and injured by official misrepresentations. They seek therefore for a representative government, to secure for themselves a regular administration of their affairs, and a protection against official idleness or ignorance. It may serve to justify their demand, 'if we lay before our readers, an example or two of the progress of the colony : I was in this colony (said a Mr. Prince, at a recent meeting of an agricultural society at the Cape) before the British emi grants arrived, and perfectly well recollect, when the whole business of the Eastern provinces of this colony was carried on with one old ship—the Young Phoenix, belonging to Messrs. Hoets and Korsten,_ the latter of whom was the only person of business there ; and now, gentlemen, permit me to ask you, and I do with pride and exultation, what is the value and ex tent of the agriculture, trade, and commerce of the Eastern provinces of the Cape colony ? I hold in my hand a statement of the colonial produce which. was exported from the colony for the year ending the 10th October, 1841, which, with permission, I will read and com ment on. The first article is wine, of which about 8,000 pipes were exported, the declared value of which is 65,095/. The next article is that all-important one, wool, of which I perceive 1,060,4481b5, was exported last year—valued at 51,606/. The production of this article may be increased to an almost unlimited extent. We have land in abundance, and good land too, inviting people to occupy it. We have upwards of 3,000,000 of sheep in the colony, whereof, perhaps, at present about 600,000 are wool-bearing animals. The colony is capable, beyond doubt, of supporting and maintaining nine millions of sheep, which in a few years would, with capital to purchase rams and labour to tend them, render each, in wool, 35., or a sum of 1,350,0001. Gentlemen, this statement is not an extravagant one. Thirty years ago New South Wales had few or no sheep: she imported the whole of her original stock from abroad ; and the last year's value of the wool was 560,000/. Now, gentlemen, if we set heartily about it, and persevere for a few years, what, I ask you, is to prevent our converting the whole of our long haired, thick-tailed animals, into wool-giving sheep? and who is there, then, who can fix a limit to the quantity and value of wool this colony will produce? It is, we believe, because these colonists feel their growing power, that they are anxious to have legitimate organs to give effect to their own will. We applaud their spirit. Our ancestors made this a great nation, by insisting upon the principle of self-government ; and there is no surer sign of a pure descent and undegenerated race, than to follow their example. We should think meanly of the colonists at the Cape, if they did not de mand what has been conceded to Newfoundland. DR. TURNBULL.—It Will be seen by reference to an article which we have copied from the Literary Gazette, that our eminent friend, Dr. TURNBULL, goes on his course rejoicing. The public are already aware of his great, his beneficial discovery in re storing the deaf and dumb. But wonderful as that discovery was, we are apt to think his recent success in curing the blind is still more so. It is the divine attribute of true genius, never to rest satisfied in the march of improvement, but to urge still onwards, diffusing knowledge for the benefit of mankind. Such has hitherto been the happy labour of Dr. TURNBULL, and we hope he will long live to command the hearty gratitude of his fellow-men. One active man of genius stimulates a hundred others to benefit the world by his example. GERMAN OPERA. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Mademoiselle Lutzer, the prima donna of the Opera at Vienna, and decidedly the first female singer of Germany, made her first appearance before an English audience last even ing at this theatre, in the character of Isabella, in Meyerbeer's opera of Robert the Devil. In personal appearance this young lady is most prepossessing her figure is perfect sym metry, her features regularly beautiful and most ex pr',..ssive, her complexion that clear blonde which may be co'nsidered as the characteristic of German beauty, and her eyes of that peculiarly deep blue, which is so admirably adapted foe impassioned expression. Her voice is a pure soprano, cleat', rich, expressive, and powerful. It has been cultivated to the 'highest pitch of perfection. Those who re collect Mademoisei7e Sontag cannot fail to be struck with the great resemblance in penon, voice, and acting, which Made moiselle Lutzer bears to her. As a musician , howe ver, Alademoiselle Lutzer is eertain;;ther superior, and is well de serving of the title which the unanimous suffrages of her countrymen have awarded her, 1 ° the Nightingale of Ger many." Her opening scena in the third act was magnificent, and was rapturously applauded. The dueew ith Robert in the same act was exquisitely given, and her acting in this scene was of the highest order. Nothing could exceed the pathos with which she gave the beautiful cavatina, Robert mein Geliebter ; and when at its conclusion, she throws herself at his feet in an agony of tears—the tears of her auditors bore silent witness to her tran scendant histrionic powers. It is needless to say, that she was rapturously applauded throughout, and that at the' fall of the curtain she was called for, and greeted with that enthu 3iagre, which her personation of the character of Isabella could not fail to excite. For science, for expression, for pathos, few can equal her. We look forward to her appearance on Monday in the Huguenots, in anticipation of a great treat, and we trust That she will remain with us until the conclusion of the season. the house was very well attended. J UN E 11.—The agent of a HAVRE, L iverpool Steam-packet Company has been here inquiring into the port and harbour does for steam-vessels. The Liverpool Company is about to put on two vessels to run between Southampton and thi= port, in opposition to the South Western and South of England Companies. The consequence of the .opposition will be, that the fares will be redu ced considerably, Th e Li.. verpoid Company will run also a vessel between Southampton and the Channel Islands. HYDROPROBIA.—The Lord Mayor's proclamation for the confinement of dogs, or to have them staciently muz zled during the present very warm weather, to prevent •that dreadful malady, hydrophobia, is little better than a dead letor; swarms of dogs, without muzzles, being to be daily seen running along the streets unmolested by the police or any body else. 7 7 . TRO:-.:sr,Vr . VlwpoN, ,, T. auRSDAY-PYYNTN . O . 7 O ;' - .J11774,T5._. N I 1842.1. LITERA'T'URE. FATHER CONNELL. 3 V. Newby, London, 1845.' **-- The chief interest of this story centres in rather. Connell—an Irish Catholic priest, whose character Banim has unfolded with great minuteness and particularity, as though it were an especial ftivourite with him. The worthy Father is represented as being all that a Christian pastor should be—meek, generous, lofty-minded, tolerant, courageous in the discharge of his duty, and ever ready to whisper the words of encouragement in the ears of those who have erred, but who have repented of their errors. It was difficult to pourtray such an exemplary character as this, and not throw an air of insipidity over it, arising out of its very perfection ; but Mr. Banim has suc ceeded in overcoming this difficulty, and produced a portrait full of spirit and interest. The introductory chapters, however, where the old man is first brought on the scene of action, are somewhat tame and formal ; the descriptions of his every-day costume, of his chapel, of his private dwelling, and of his Twelfth night's merry-making therein, have the preciseness of an auctioneer's catalogue; and it is not till we become better acquainted with him, and his exalted worth developes itself, not by set descriptions, but by action, as in the drama, that he wins our admiration, and slides into our heart. In the earlier scenes we find him playing the part of friend and guardian to a fatherless boy, Edmund Fennell, for whom he obtains the means of earning a decent livelihood, and whom he marries at a fitting age to Helen Mac Neary, an affectionate, comely young girl, the petted daughter of a rough, kind-hearted Protestant farmer. Un fortunately, the elder Mac Neary disapproves the match, and on learning that his opposition is fruitless, the parties having already been secretly united, he turns his child out of doors at midnight, in a paroxysm of rage, and forbids her ever again to enter his house. Driven thus an exile from her home, the hapless girl wanders away towards the parsonage of Father Connell, in the hopes of finding her husband there, who is about to start for Dublin on business of moment ; but on her road she accidentally encounters a party of ruffians who have just perpetrated a murderous assault on a young beggar-woman, who, disgusted with her calling, has left her mendicant associates, and sought the protection of the good priest's roof. The bride is discovered and carried off by these ruffians ; and a few hours after, her husband, passing near the spot where the supposed murder has been committed, is taken up on suspicion, and com mitted for trial at the assizes. Perjured evidence having been adduced against him by the very parties who were themselves the criminals, he is found Guilty, and sentenced to be hanged. Meanwhile his friends —Father Connell, in particular—are active in his behalf; the beggar-girl who was supposed to have been slain, is 'found .to be still living, having been found weltering in blood by her own mother, and conveyed, while in an insensible state, to a place of safety ; and Edmund Fennel is, in consequence, libe rated, and almost immediately afterwards, his young bride is restored to him, and her father being at length reconciled to the match, they are left at the clOse of the narrative, in a state of very ecstatic con nubial felicity, with but one drawback on their hap piness—namely, the death of Father Connell, who has expired at Dublin on his way to seek an interview with the Lord Lieutenant, on behalf of his young friend, Edmund Fennell. The story, in places, is told with uncommon vigour ; the description of the sup posed murder on the heath ; of old Mac Neary's angry parting with his daughter; and of the last interview between the ruffians previous to the perpetration of the crime, is replete with sombre interest as pro found as that which pervades every volume of the author's master-piece " The Nowlans." We quote a passage which, we think, will fully warrant our assertion. While wandering -at midnight from her enraged father's house, Helen Mac Neary meets with this tragical adventure : The next morning as the thought of the long, long night came upon her, she once more started up, and tot tered in the direction of the river. The noise of the falling water grew more distinct. The clouds had now almost entirely passed away from the moon, which, quietly mounting higher and higher in the heavens, flung her almost perfect light over the open country ;. and gaining a little courage, from this seemingly good omen, Helen, with increased pain and suffering, slowly proceeded on her course. She passed two fields, crossing their dividing fences with the utmost difficulty. She reached the summit of a third boundary ; the noise of the weir came with certainty upon her ear, and she was sure that she saw the moonbeams glittering and dancing upon the white foamy water which the barrier caused. She praised God again, and scrambled, and sometimes crawled forward, on hands and knees. One field only remained between her and the river -side, and that was a rapid descent. Suddenly men's voices, in angry discussion, fixed her attention, and the sound seemed to arise between her and the very point she had to attain. This was terrible ; instinctively, she looked round for a hiding-place. Above where she stood, was a little hollow on the hill side, partially screened by briars, and bushes. To it she crept, and down into it, again lacerating herself with thorns and broken branches ; and crouching among the bushes, listened with all her power of hearing, to the very voices that filled her with horror. She had lost, without attending to the loss, her bundle, her bonnet, and even her cloak. The loud talking ceased, and there was but one man's voice nOw heard, but this one was fearfully harsh and abrupt. Then female tones, in prayer and expostulation, mingled with it ; then, female screams, shrill, long, and piercing, rang through the night air ; and then, Helen heard the noise of a heavy blow, and the long shrieks suddenly stopped, subsiding into a low, melancholy cry, followed by deep, deep moans ; and a second blow, ac companied by a hissing sound, of the human breath, such as workmen utter, when they labour with the hatchet. Perfect silence ensued, for a short time, only interrupted by the whispering of the night breeze through the grass, and through the bushes, and by the gentle fall of water, I near at hand.. _ _ Oh, that was a pause of thrilling horror to Helen ! for, above all her previous suffering, fear, and confusion, the conviction that she had overheard the doing of a murder, curdled her pure heart's blood, arid made her very soul cower within her ! Hasty footsteps entered the little hollow, and paused within a few feet of where she lay concealed.! " This is the place that the ould divil bid us wait for him," said a hoarse, deep voice, but in cautious tones. "It is," answered another person—and the two words were spoken with a shudder. " That was a black act," continued the first voice. "Oh, it was a bloody deed ! Oh, the thought of this night will never lave my mind, never, never ! I would'nt wish for all the world's coin, if 'twas laid before me this moment, that I didn't stop the hand of that hell-bird ! Oh, she was a darlin', poor young crature ! Why didn't we save her, Paul ?" " That oath ! that frightful oath !" " I'd break fifty oaths if I had the power of savin' her over a„,cren or if I could bring back the life to my poor beautiful ! frlary—l would—l would," and the man whom his confreres called Molocth, or the wicked, suddenly stopped speaking, for his throat filled un to suffocation, and a throe of very agony was labouring in his black bosom. SIR HENRY CAVENDISH'S DEBATES. Part V. Longman, London, 1842. The Parliamentary debates reported in this Part are all of the session of 1770 ; and the first thing that will strke the reader on perusing them, is the ex traordinary zeal and activity displayed by Burke. Not a question of the slightest moment arises, but he figures among the prominent speakers. His tongue seems never still for an instant, and his observations —judging from the Ministerial replies—are evidently those which most rivet the attention of the House. Charles Fox, as yet but in his dawn, appears, com paratively speaking, but seldom on the tapis ; and when he does get upon his legs, it is but for a short time, and his eloquence is by no means of that corn manding character which it afterwards assumed. We know, from the statements of his contemporaries, that at this period Burke was the recognised leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons, and we here find him on every question figuring as the great hero of the day ; and never was a post so hardly won, and so gallantly maintained, in the face of a thousand difficulties ! Those who live in the present times, when the barriers that separate the aristocracy from the commonalty are considerably weakened, and in some respects broken down ; who are in the daily habit of seeing upstart wealth assume that position in society, which of old was occupied exclusively by the patrician classes; and who find distinguished literary and scientific men moving, as by right, and on terms of equality, in the highest circles, can have no idea of the difficulties that in the last century beset the path of the ambi tious adventurer who, like Burke, had nothing but his talents to rely on for success. The English aris tocracy was then the haughtiest, most jealous, and most bigoted in Europe, and the Rockingham, or old 'Whig section of it, was decidedly the worst in these respects. And it was among this inveterately preju diced portion of the nobility that Burke's lot in early life was thrown. Had he possessed manner, address, the graces of polished drawing-room conversation, or a weighty purse—such as the Peet family have always possessed—to back his•pretensions, his course, though still a troublous and difficult one, would have been far smoother than it was ; but he possessed none of these requisites ; he Was an abrupt, uncourtly scholar ; lie was embarrassed by an obnoxious byogue ; he had not the slightest power of small talk • and, what was still more to his disadvantage, he had scarcely a sixpence in the world that he could call his own. Yet in the face of these multiplied and almost insuperable difficulties, he won his way, step by step, to the loftiest eminence, showing—as he has himself told us with a generous pride, in his match less Letter to the Duke of Bedford—" his ticket at every toll-bar," and trusting to nothing but his own gigantic ipopept and indomitable perseverance. To wards the close of his cF§r, he became decidedly the most influential politician Europe, though he held no official post, yet if 'was his iyrifings and speeches Aug most of all tended to precipitate the armies of the Allies on Revolutionary France, and his example that atrengtheue44l4 howls ef the hflais try, by breaßing up''the unity of the Whig party. We do not saY this by way of euloglum, for Burke's conduct from 1791, down to "the close of his public life, was 'anything but commendable, or in accordance with thepiinciples which he had, till then maintained ; but we instance it, merely as a proof of the astonishing ascendancy he had gained over men's minds. And that ascendancy which he exercised when living, he still continues to exercise, through the medium of his works. Though the man himself has long since passed from among us, yet the better portions of him —his .wisdom, his philosophy, his imagination, and his eloquence—still survive to delight, to instruct, and to elevate our minds. In the Part before us, his speeches are reported in a most meagre and unsatis factory manner ; but scanty as are the records, they nevertheless enable us to form a tolerably correct idea of the powers of the speaker. From the structure of the skeleton, we can judge of the strength and sta ture of the man. STANDARD NO i'LL$, No. 88. Bentley, London, 12., In this number of the Standard Novels, we have a republication of the late Theodore Hook's clever tale of " All in the Wrong," complete in one volume. The work is embellished with two engravings, each illus trative of some remarkable incident in the_story. -THE CURE OF BLMDNESS. (From the Literary Gaz , :tie of June 11.) It - has often been the provinse of this journal, dup. ing more than the quarter of a century of it exist ence, and during a period of unparalleled, cultivation and progress of almost every science, to lend its best influence towards the knowledge and success of dis coveries which promised to promote the well-being of mankind. Among other efforts of this description, the Cure for Stammering, by Mr. Hunt, obtained its warmest commendations ; and the result has at length arrived when, after a very few years' struggle, amid all the conflicting claims to mastery over this afflic tion, the simple and natural system of that gentle man has been called into full practice ; and his pupils from every part of the kingdom can bear viva yore testimony to the entire efficacy o *- 1' his instructions in removing the impediments to perfect speech. To have a faculty improved or restored is of inap preciable value to man, and especially in all the prin cipal -professions and pursuits of civilised life; but even throughout all the grades of society the most importani s events may hinge upon the possession or non-possession of some common human power. Thus, the other day, the very preservation of our young and interesting Queen did, to a certain extent, depend _on the want of ready utterance in the boy Pearson, when agitated by the threatened act of the assassin !* And this has offered a remarkable illustration of the nature of the affection itself, and of the excellence of Mr. Hunt's practice. Young Pearson has attended his lessons since the event alluded to ; and with such effect, that, when produced to give evidence on the trial of Francis, we have no doubt in saying he will be able to utter his testimony without the slightest hesitation of any kind, or remaining disorder in the organs of speech 4 A fact like this is preferable to volumes of testimo nials, however high, and of arguments, however well supported ; but we have only adduced here for the sake of intreducing to notice another momentous covery touching another sense, with experiments in which we last week felt it to be our duty to make ourselves acquainted. Three weeks ago (Literary Gazette, 1322), in a Notice to Correspondents, we mentioned that we had " heard of Mr. (Dr.) Turnbull's Cure of Blindness by the Fumes of Prussic Acid, but had no personal knowledge of the process ;" which notice immediately procured us an invitation from Dr. Turnbull to wit ness the cases of several patients, from five or six to above twenty years of age, who were under his treat ment for this sad calamity. We accordingly attended; and it is not easy to express our astonishment and gratification at what we saw. The various stages of cure, advanced in our presence, by the simple appli cation, for about half a minute, or until a little warmth was felt by the patient, of the vapour of hydrocyanic acid, in a small phial, held up to the eye, with an aperture fitting the form of that organ ; the various nature of the diseases so assailed—opacities of the cornea, inflammation, cataract, amaurosis, irritis, &c. &c.; the various stages of relief which the patients , had reached, with sometimes one eye opened to sight and pleasurable to look upon, and the other left nearly blind and in its pristine deformity, to show what had - been achieved; the various appearances of films re moving, cataracts breaking up and being gradually reabsorbed, pupils being redeveloped, and other alto gether extraordinary symptoms of remedy and rege neration filled us, we 'repeat, with wonder and de light. One child had been totally blind from six days old; had been taught to read on the raised letters by the humane system taught in the Blind School ; but it could now see these letters, and it was a curious phe nomenon to behold—could equally read them by touch and by sight ! ! The only difference was a singular alteration in the tone of voice and pronun ciation when reading in the two ways ; that by the eye being far more natural, and like the usual reading to which we are accustomed, than the other, which was monotonous, and with an air of difficulty even amid the singular readiness acquired by this method. Other cases there were of the wonderful production of the power of vision to those born blind ; but we select the case of a girl twenty-two years of age, and therefore fully capable to comprehend and to answer any question put to her. In utter darkness for thirteen years previously to her comming under Dr. Turnbull's treatment, she now can see her way, and can distinguish countenances and colours. If possible, a more marked instance of the efficacy of the curative process was exhibited in a young man, who had worked for many years at bookbinding. In flammation, and subsequent eminent treatment, lancing &c., had rendered him so totally blind, that for some, time before, and during the first two or three attend • antes for the application of the prussic acid vapour, he was obliged to be led. But he told us, that now he could safely dispense with such aid, and readily discern objects. Soon, we have little doubt, he will be re stored.to his calling and to independence. Another most interesting example of the value of this discovery was that of a gentleman from Canada. He had been afflicted in one eye with cataract and blindness for ten years. His remark to us was, that when he first came to England he could not, with the diseased eye, distinguish a cow from a horse. He now with it could mark and recognise countenances, and could appreciate the visible distinctions of a sovereign and a shilling: This he did in our presence, but much more readily after the vapour of the highly concen trated acid had dilated the pupil, and, to a certain degree, even in the short space of time occupied by the action of the vapour, attenuated or dispersed the cloudy coats of the cataract. Having witnessed and assured oumelves of the rea lity of these things, we sought the rationale, the source of the discovery, and the causes of the effects. Dr. Turnbull's answer was, that the datum which had suggested the first experiments to him was the evi dence afforded in all cases of death from poisoning with prussic acid ; it was recorded, in every instance, that the eye of the corpse was observed for days as clear and lucid as if still in life. This led him to conceive that the acid exerted a specific action on the eye. He argued that any medicament which produced such a symptom after disease, must possess certain powers over the living subject s and he ventured upon his course of investigation accordingly. The princi ple was speedily developed. The eye and all around it soon dilated and reddened. It was evident that the red arterial blood rushed into the minutest fibres of the veins, and excited a strong action throughout the whole of the capillary processes. Not the slightest pain arose ;. a sedative influence appeared to be exer cised on the nerves of sensation, and even, if inflam mation existed, it was rapidly removed. The eye, however,. presented all the symptoms of violent in flammation, which is the truly natural curative pro cess, yet without the suffering of the struggle between nature and disease. The humours became quickly and singularly active; by degrees the seat of the dis ease was assaulted, and a healthful tendency created, either to supply • deficiencies or to remove obstruc tions. By repeating the applications the cures were completed. • • . The first thought that suggested itself to us, having no near or dear relative so heavily afflicted, was the restoration to the blessings of the faculty of vision of an amiable and much-befoved Prince. Painful opera tions have been tried with little or no success. Here was, then, a treatment involving no suffering, entailing no distressing consequence, endangering no other faculty ; hut, to our conviction, ensuring relief and restoration. " Why not at once make known this dis covery to•the Prince of Hanover ?" we exclaimed. In answer we were pleased to he informed that on that very morning four gentlemen had witnessed the treat ment, had been, eqpally with us, delighted with the wonders of the hydrocyanic vapour, and with the hope of cure for the illustrious scion of our Royal Family. One of them, personally intimate with the King, had expressed his intention 'forthwith to communicate what he had observed to Prince George of Hanover. On inquiry what the results might be on old or short sights, Dr. Turnbull laughingly replied, that hydro cyanic acid would soon supersede spectacles ; it so al tered and helped the vision in either case, that no doubt could exist of its applicability to their relief and restoration. Be this as it may, we hesitate not strongly to recommend the wonderful discovery of the Cure for Blindness. * Had it not been for the information conveyed from this boy Pearson to Sir Peter Laurie, and by him promptly communicated to the Court, it is a fearful pro bability that the Queen would have perished. To the appointment of equerries (Cols. Wylde and Arbuthnot), to ride on each side of the carriage so as to cover her Majesty's person, on the Monday, we firmly believe it is, under Providence. owing that the nation have to bless Heaven for the failure of the assassin's blow.— Ed. L. G. _ _ _ f When he endeavoured to tell Sir Peter Laurie what had happened, he could not utter a word ; and now, after a few lessons, we have heard him repeat Mrs. Norton's touching lines on the former attempt of Oxford, without stumbling at a single syllable.—Ed. L. G. THE CASE or MR. CAREW, THE SCULPTOR.—This ease, which was heard in the Insolvent Debtors' Court, was incidentally mentiooed in the Court on Tuesday. In the course of an opposition the case of Mr. Carew was referred to, and at the close of the investigation the Learned Chief Com missioner said, that as the case had been alluded to, he would state a circumstance which came to his knowledge on the pre vious day, which had occurred with regard to Mr. Carew. He had been informed be a gentleman that the executors of Lord Egremant had actually paid the costs of the action which Mr. Carew brought against them to establish the claim he alleged he had against Lord Egremont. The bar also said they had so heard, and Mr. Cooke remarked that the executor had made the same offer before, but Mr. Carew declined at that period to consider the matter sufficiently final. The Chief Commis sioner added, that he thought the conduct of the executors very liberal. It will be recollected that Mr. Carew brought an action against Sir C. Burrell, M.P., and Colonel Wyndham, the executors, to try the questior of his claim, and on which he was nonsuited. The executors had uffe?ed to pay the costs of the said action, which were about 600/., but it was not con. side: ed by Mr. Carew that they :esti n had been finally d. 040. The costs had, however, now been paid. Sir 11. Williamson took . departure for the North last evening in the Gerstral Steam Navigation Company's am steer City of Hamborgh, fur Newcastle. THE WEATHEE..—Noox, JUNE 16. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer.... 66 Highest 7l I Lowest 5O Barometer 30.08.—Wind N.V. METROPOLITAN IMPROVE• MENTS. Yesterday a deputation from the Metropolitan Improvement Society, headed by Lord Robert Grosvenor, had an interview with Sir Robert Peel, in Downing-street, the Earl of Lincoln, Chief Commissioner of Woods and Foreks, being also present. The Deputation consisted of the following gentlemen :--Lord Robert Grosvenor, M. P., Sir Charles Leman, Bart., M.P., Hon. H. Fitzroy, M.P., Gaily Knight, Esq., M.P., J. Wyse, Esq., M.P., Dr. Bowring. M.P., Colonel Sykes, H. I. Hope, Esq., H. E. Hickson, Esq., Dr. Southwood Smith, J. L. Do naldson, Esq., S. Mills, Esq., C. Fowler, Esq , J. Martin, Esq., G. Godwin, Jun., Esq., J. Dillon, Esq., T. Oldfield, Esq., H. Austin, Esq., and other gentlemen. One object of the Deputation was, that Government should advise with the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and other competent . parties, upon the practicability of carrying out the plans now in progress upon a scale better adapted to the end proposed. But the principal object of the deputation was to obtain a better agency for future improvements than that which had hitherto been employed. They wished, as a basis for fu ture legislation on this subject, thit Government should cause to be prepared an official scientific report upon the general cha racter of the improvements reqaired in the metropolis, in re ference to new thoroughfares and open spaces, roads connecting the railroad termini, the most practicable means of throwing open the banks of the Thames, and the steps to be taken for the drainage of unhealthy districts. The Deputation did not propose a commission in the ordi nary sense of the word ; they did not wish to see the subject intrusted to a board of virtuosi of amateur architects, or of parties who might be interested in any of the plans which had been discussed by the Committee of the House of Commons. They desired to see a report from parties possessing the special qualifications ,required in the highest degree, and upon which two or three of our first civil engineers and architects, or sur veyors, of equal ability to those who had been employed in the Irish survey, would stake their professional character. Sir R. PEEL said, that without troubling the Deputation to enter into any particular explanation, he might at once say that the subject was one which had engaged his serious atten tion, and that with the general 'views expressed by the Depu tation his own opinions coincided. Without pledging himself to the exact course which he might deem it desirable to take relative to the appointment of any board. he certainly thought that the object would be promoted by taking a broad and comprehensive view of the whole subject, instead of legislating wholly upon detail; and that for this pur pose a Committee of the House of Commons—open, perhaps, to local influence—was not the most desirable body to whom such an inquiry should be intrusted. fie might fur ther add, that as the object appeared to him one of pa ramount importance, both in reference to the sanatory state 'of the poorer districts, and the greater facilities of communi cation required, he did not think the consideration of a merely trifling expense should stand in the way, and he should pro bably not hesitate to propose such a grant as would be sufficient to render the inquiry effectual. Some conversation then en sued relative to the character of the improvements now in progress, plans of which were produced ; Lord Grosvenor especially urging the attention of Sir R. Peel to the fact, that if the formation of the new main thoroughfare streets were built of a width of 52 feet where 60 feet at l..est were required, and made crooked where they ought to be straight, the opportunity lust might be eternally regretted, but could never be recalled. Mr. MILLS. Chairman of the Commissioners of Sewers for Finsbury, in adverting to the importance of drainage, expressed a hope for the speedy publication of the evidence which had been taken by the Poor-law Commissioners relative to sewer age, and the Deputation took their leave, Lord Robert Gros venor thanking Sir Robert Peel, in the name of every gentle man present and of the public, for the extremely satisfactory result of the interview. IRELAND. CLARE RIOTS. Duntaw, Juwx 14.—The Government inquiry commenced on Friday, and was continued till Saturday evening. At this early stage of the inquiry it might be, perhaps, out of place to pass any opinion either as to the origin of the riot, or as to what course might have been adopted by which the loss of human life might have been averted. The Clare however, appears to think that much of the calamity would have been avoided had the resident Magistrate, who brought out the police, remained with them, as it was his duly to do. and have prevented them from firing, especially when, according to his opinion, he did not cousider they had received : sufficient pro vocation to oblige them to do so in self-defence. Instead of this Mr. L. Smyth becomes himself so greatly alarmed at the first fire, that he retreats for shelter to the house of Dean Shaughnessy, arid there remains for ten or fifteen minutes, not thinking it safe to leave without having for an escort a Roman Catholic clergyman. The evidence given by Mr. Fitzsimon, the Constabulary Inspector, would lead to the inference that the discipline of the force is not yet on a par with that which governs the army. Mr. SMITH, Queen's Counsel, in opening the inquiry on Friday, said—ln consequence of certain representations having besn made to his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant, relative to recent loss of lives in this town, arising out of dif ferences between the constabulary and the people, I have 'been directed by the Government to investigate the conduct of Mr. Smith and the police, and to report thereon for the sa tofhis Excellency. I am now rea d y t o h ear any win a cet witnesses s that may be produced r e lev an t t o th e proposed t f e e in quiry. The mode I intend to adopt is, that gentlemen em .ployed on both sides should entirely abstain from making obser vations as to the nature or tent'eney of the evidence produced. 'One person making a remark would draw forth another, and the discussion would become interminable. Therefore, what I 'propose is, that the evidence shall be taken without commeot, and leave me to draw the most befiting conclusions I can from its import. A number of witnesses were then examined, but, with the ex ception of the terrible responsibility fixed upon the stipendiary Magistrate, by his own admission, little more than a repetition of the evidence produced at the inquest had been elicited. Up to the close of Saturday's proceedings the charge of having given the order to fire hadbeen brought home to no one individual in particular ; and the evidence of Mr. Fitzsimon, sub-inspector, in common with that of other credible witnesses, tends to show that the police engaged acted throughout independent of all control. Indeed, so culpable was the apathy amongst their officers after the fatal occurrence, that neither the cartouche boxes nor carbines of the men were inspected, in order that it might be ascertained who had fired upon the wretched mob of their famishing fellow -creatures. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL OCIETY.—The ordinary meeting was held on Monday evening, R. J. Murchison, Esq., V.P., in the chair. The presents announced were very nu merous and valuable, consisting, amongst others, of ten in lumes from the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences; 392 sheets, and many folio volumes of the great cadastral map of. Bavaria,. by the King of Bavaria ;48 charts from the Depot de la Marine, and - the Depot de la Guerre, at Paris; with 47 charts from the Lords of the Admiralty. From Admiral Kru seristeirn was a copy, made by himself, of a rare map in the collection of the Duchess of Parma, of that country in 1367. From Colonel Napier was reads abort notice of a route through part of Palestine. across from a point near Beyrout to the site of the ancient Tyre. Dr. Deiffenbach communicated some interesting particulars respecting the large lake of Tewanga, in the Arekauri or Chatham Islands, which, having broke through the low range of sand hills, had opened a communication with the sea two miles in width. Mr. alurchisen presented to the meeting two large and elaborate maps of the Oural. Mountains, which have recently been surveyed by order of the Rteisian Go vernment. The mines were celebra:ed even as early as Hero dotus, and it was probable that the Romans derived t heir sup ply of precious metals from them. The Chairman stated some interesting facts on a suhjrct which would probably come under the notice of the Society. It was that a gentleman had, in ascending the river Juba, in Africa, from east to eest, fallen in with a considerable tract of country inhabited by a curious race of pygmies, not exceeding 4 feet in height, with very strange notions. of religion and government. and exactly resem bling the type of Herodotus, and singularly confirming some opinions on the subject recently brought before the Aborigines Protection Society. INTREPIDITY or A I3ov.—On Tuesday evening, one of the most extraordinary instances of intrepidity upon record, and which resulted in saving human life, took place in the Regent's-canal, near Camden-town, under the following circumstances.—About six o'clock, a boy named Lodgeti, residing with his parents at No. 1, Pear .Tree-court, Clerken • well-close, who is between 14 and 15 years of age, had been bathing in the canal, near the bridge, at the back f St. Pan cras workhouse, when suddenly he got out of his depth into six fe e t o f wa t e r, and sunk. The screams o f his companions brought a little boy, but II years of age, named Joseph Lague, living with 'his mother, a poor widow, at No. 4, Oxford , terrace, King's.road, to the spot. On hearing what had hap pened, the gallant little fellow, regardless of consequences, threw off his jacket and cap, and at once dived into the water. In half a minute he made his appearance with the boy Lodgett above the surface, but the latter being nearly double his size, the strength of the pOor little fellow w as unable to maintain him, and he again sunk. Lague again went do wn a f ter hi m, and was equally successful in bringing him to tne surface, but his strength again failed him, and he was forced to let the older boy ga. After recovering himself for about a minute, the little fellow, who is scarcely 3 1 ,E feet high, dived down for the third time, and making a desperate effort, brought the body of Lodgett again up, with his head under his arm, and managed to reach the wood-work passing along the canal at this part, against which he rested the body till some of the boys caught hold of it, and they were both with the greatest difficulty then got out and conveyed to the St. Pancras work house. La gue b e i ng ver y much exhaustei, was pl ace d i n t h e Dr.orr. teEr ;tt eeingt infirmary, and s ti mu l an ts were administered; but the boy Lodgett bei ng t o a ll appeara nce perfectly lifeless, was plac e d i n cso,he as parish he the dead-h ouse , an d was a b ou t to be left, when Grist, the gate for, two h ours use d every endeavour to restore su s p en d e d ani mation, which at the end of that period p rov ed entirely success ful, and on ma ki ng i nqu i r i es yesterday morning, it was found that Lodgettras well as his youthful p reserver, Lague , were in ethousugrlint, surgeon, the who o y move, instantly r an f or promptly a tt en d e d , an d a fit state to leVoe-the infirmary. The intreoidity of the boy has excited the greattigt,admiration, and it is understood to be the intention of the Directors and Guardians to amply to the Royal Human e s at iety; e r a i n ilog,,atkiheir hands such reward as they may think the merits of the ease deserve. The Earl and Countess of Carlisle r( e?ived letters from Lord Morpeth by the Acadia steamer, from New York, the day before. yesterday. His Lordship talks of returning home from his tour in the United States and Canada the latter end of August. His Lordship, after leaving New Orleans, visited the chief cities and ports in British America, and ex press:A himself pleased with his tour, and had been hospitably entertained by the Governor-General at Quelec. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland are said to save received an intimation of the intention of her Majesty the Qtieolt aid Prince Albert honour their Graces with a visit at their splendid seat, Trentham Half, Staff:m(lolre, it the elps6 of the season in town.— Wolrfrhohipton Chronicle. - I On Wednesdapwill be published, price 2os. THE TENTH AND CONCLUDING VOLUAIE OF AE II IS T 0 Y of EUROPE. By ARCHIBALD ALISON, F.R.S.E. Wm. Blackwood .and Sons, Edinburgh and London. IS MAJES i . Y.- the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MQNEV UIVIDENDY, which (thnngh they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain. ing LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Are now Selling BONDS for the said DisTetiirti Per , ons desirous to purchase may revive. PREVIOUS to giving any order, the PROI-)P.CTUS.-and PARTICU LARS, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line either to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAM BURGH, or to HEINK BROTHERS, at LUBECK. The NEXT DIS;TRIBU'fION contains 700 MONEY DP/MENDS, as follows:- 1 . of E:_t;,o'Jo Sterling .....£25,000 Sterling. 1 1 1 1 • 800 1 -.AI 2 2 3 5 5 5 6 10 20 43 - 60 593 ..... 700 Money Dividends, amounting t 0... £72,170 Sterling. P.S. Tice NEXT POLISH DISTRIBUTION of MONEY DIVIDENDS, guaranteed by hi. Majesty the EMPEROR of RUSSIA will take place on 'lst July. Direct for SELECTED and GENUINE BONDS WITH OUT DELAY to HEINE BROTHERS. Hamburgli and Lubeck, June, 1642. HIGH W 4TER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning r 0 minutes after 71 Evening L 9 minutes after 7. - -, -1,--0 , i4 ..,-T, i , ~.., gr g , ,-F,: - „,:i.....?-g ' - , 11,11„ b ....., • ~. , ..,,,„., ,A. , . tom 1,2,13,-,titts,trt SUN OFFICE Three o'clock. The SPEAKER of the House of Commons has behaved in a most unwarrantable manner to the Non-Intrusionist clergy of Scotland, and he may be very thankful that he does not belong to the Kirk, for excommunication would have been the slightest punishment the General Assembly would have deigned to inflict upon him for his wanton cruelty., The Member for Argyleshire some months ago brought in a Bill to regulate the exercise of Church patronage in Scotland; the hopes of the party, consequently, were greatly excited ; the Government, they fondly imagined, were inclined to listen to their claims, as ut the request of the Home Secretary the . Bill was postponed for six weeks, in order. that matters might be arranged, and Wednesday, the 15th of June, was finally settled for the discussion of this important measure. A great number of gentlemen, according to the statement of the Right Honourable Member for Edinburgh, posted up to London to be present, at the debate ; they had obtained Speaker's 'orders fbr admission, and were waiting in breathless anxiety for speeches trout Mr. CAMPBELL, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and Mr. Fox MAULS, when, to their utter astonishment, they found themselves wickedly deceived. lifter the ico had been broken by the great patron of the Non-Intrusionists, Mr. Fox Mama:, the SPEAKER rose and said, " The Bill in terfered with the patronage of the Crown, and should not have been intruductd, without the consent of her MAJESTY. Under these circumstances I think the House Of Commons cannot permit the measure to pro ceed farther." Cruel mockery I . Did nut Mr. SPEAKER know when the Bill 'was introduced, that the Crown had the patronage of nearly one-half of the livings, and that before Mr. CAMPBELL could move one step, the cunsent'of the Crown must be obtained ? Sir Romer PEEL .of course knew this quite well also, yet he hai allowed these men to march up and march down again; like the French King's mot, without the slightest attempt to atone .or the insult. He would not promise the QUEEN'S consent, because it would be contrary to a_..,precedent fully established in 1833, and the Hon.. Member for Argyleshire must there fore seek some other mode of bringing on the question. No wonder that Mr. Fox Matrix . was in a towering 'passion when he found that he and his party had been led on such a goose chase, and that the Premier only added to the insult by refusing to yield one inch. All that could be obtained was the appointment of a day, the sth of next month, for diScitssing the question, and, we trust, Sir R. PEEL will throw no obstacles in the way of this arrangement. It is desirable that the question r.hould be set at rest, vast numbers in Scot land are greatly interested in the matter, ..and are anxious to have a decisive answer from the Go 'vernment. The forty deposed Clergymen should not be thus left in suspense, and some regard also should be had for the feelings of those who are exposed to a similar visitation. If we may judge from the capricious and conflicting tone of some of their daily organs, and the significant hints dropped, accidentally, as it were, from time to time in the House of CoMmons, by those who usually act with them, the Tory .Party would seem to be in a very unsettled, uneasy, and even ricketty condition. True, they have a majority, but it is not one to be re lied on at a pinch, but is liable to a thousand fluetua . tions. While one section of the Tories " goes the whole hog" _ with the Minister, another gives him but a quali fied support, and a third intimates pretty plainly its sus picion that he is unfaithful -to his trust. On great occa sions, when their very existence as a dominant party is jeopardized, they may make a momentary show of unity; but, generally speaking, they are no longer, like the old man's bundle of faggots, bound firmly and strongly together in the bonds of one common interest -; but are a mere loose collection of sticks—and such sticks! —liable at any time to be displaced, snapped, and scattered to the winds. Sir Romer PEEL, in fitet,laa succeeded in completely unsettling them, and4litiging in the apple of discord among . them ; and more than once during the session, both he mid they have owed their safety to the timely support affirleil them by the Oppo sition. • Never were a Chiet. and his clan placed in a queerer position towards each other ! While he pro fesses to lead them, by virtue of his .vigilant attention to their interests, lie does his utmost to impair those in t.:rests ; and they in return, while formally acknowledg ing him as their head, .lend him a sullen, reluctant support, and now and then break .out into open mutiny, and flatly refuse to.' march through Coventry' with him. Have any of - Our readers ever seen a pig -driver conducting a refractory porker to Smithfield ? If they have, they will not easily forget it, for it is one of the most amusing exercises of ingenuity that can possibly be witnessed. The man, well - knowing the obstinate nature oof the brute he has to deal with, holds him fast by a string attached to his leg.. which, however, lie pulls with great gentleness, so as to lead the animal to suppose that he is taking his own direction. Thus by dint of coaxing and adroit management, and giving a slight tug when he wishes him to gee down a particular street, he gets him, say, as far as the purlieus of Smithfield, and is &ready beginning to congratulate himself on his success, when suddenly the stubborn brute comes to a dead halt, and refuses to go an inch further! In . vain the poor driver tug; and thumps, and endea vours by all possible stratagems to persuade him to alter his resolution ; his efforts are wholly unavailing ; and at length, driven, to desperation by the swine's invincible obstinacy, he gives the string one mighty jerk—it snaps —off goes the emancipated animal—and the bewildered driver, like Sir JOHN Moons, is " left alone with his glory!" Sir R. PEEL'S management of the Tories is just a parallel case with the above. He is the pig -driver, arid they are the pig. The, string with which he holds them fast, and by which, he, hopes to lead them in his - own direction, is their sense of self-interest. Of cours e he handles this guiding agent ith the greatest care and adroitness, so as •to give them the least possible alarm ; but wishing them on some particular occasion to take a road different to that which they have selected for themselyes, he tugs at the string somewhat too strenuously—and offgo his party, and he is left alone, cut sing his infatuation in ever having consented to lad them ! This dilemma has certainly not yet befallen our Tory pig -driver, but let him carry out his free-trade theories a little more boldly, and there needs no great sagacity to predict that his pig will leave him in the lurch long before he reaches his journey's end. The awkward truths blurted out by the Tories the other evening, in the House, when he was absent at Windsor Castle, is a proof of what he.has to expect, if he tugs too strongly at the string which binds him to his party ! We have received the Palls Journals of Tuesday, which contain long loatling articles on the dissolution of the CliAw i hers. The journal des Debat. , , after praising in high terms the principles on which the Cabinet lil.vu acted, ar.d particularly during the last session, thus ap peals to the electors : _ The electors will do well to, elect, without vaying atten tion to a mere shade of politics, a majority ! which never al- ~_ .. ; . lowed shades of opinion to operate Ashen it we, hettfnna r l rescue the country from the disastrou - • consequences w tv errors of M. Thiers. Mere shades of m optnion never diar; a majority its disunion must have its origin in rivaiV is, meal passions, and; envenomed pretensions , trud t o . ' , ; there has been none in the majurity of October 29. Bu t majority — we do not fear to declare it in the fa , v of 1 whole country, and thereby render justice to the Ml'vistel this majority, we say, owed much to the firmness of t he bittet, the union of its members, and the simple, frank , 1 straightforward conduct of the Government. Dutittg 1 ; two last years have we bad those internal debates, lg upset more minorities than votes ot the Chambers? The' position of ten raises an outcry . against the exclusive spirit the Cabinet, and accuses, particularly M. Guizut of sekno: ledging no other shade of opicion than his own, and of prettc' , inns it mercilessly to others. Facts reply vi c t o riously to ,1 calumny, for what Cabinet ever showed itself more favoura to the spirit of conciliation than the Cabinet of Octoberi,.! What I'slinistry has laboured more happily to unite togett, real conservators and good citizens of every shade, with` demanding from any person the ,saerifi ce of his ol'ig'W, Does not the very composition of the Ministry offer }, example of enlarged conciliation? I n q uestions, e tome dissent manifested itself amongst the majority —in of electoral ref,rm fur instance--the Ministry procil in :. loudly their police; but in dung se, did they exclude majority. did they treat as adversaries those who, es 'hi' , g r, cial question, professed a different (pinion ? With uho then, was it that Mieisters ought to have formed an oPfn i ' s Was it with their sworn enemies? With M. Thiers? tenth Odilon-parrot? There was oule one line of recolt"?'";', open—that of the Conservative party—and the. N ln 'e adopted it both in their own body and In the Chamber. their .own example they inculcated union, the sacrific e particular interests for the general good, and the giving t ,. of small matters to achieve great ones. I n a , e ord, years Pearce has been governed, and let the electors not fc 4 that she is so, because there has been not a confusion of ties -that would lie a political chaos—but t h e d raw i n g tog , of the elements of the same party, a united Ministry and 1° 1 ;, majority. At present the country has her destines i" own hands, to be strengtheted ot destroyed as she Ple, ag „ This majority, which has saved Fran ce , may be consogg':', or mly b.! dissipated into dust . ' Let her make her ebw c ; but,n" doing so, let* her not forget- that m a j or ities o" ci strived are not reconstructed, except under the pressure some grand danger, or some politi c al calamity. I‘ lo „,fint more easy than to maintain the pres en t majority. i'"" t " -- , would be more diffi'cult than to reconstruct after having on dissolved it. For our own parts, we have confilence in tar, triotism of the electors, and we reckon on the sound reasq' the couutry. The Opposition journals generally take a very cliff°, ent view of the late Chamber, and, far from reconintes', log. that ;the electors should reform it on the old moat urge them to infuse as much Radical blood as pos' ib into the new body. The Courrier Francais, i 0 I language on this occasion very much resembles its ctg : 14( t temporaries of the different shades of Opposition+ , however disunited in other things, are cordially tig r7 " • in their efforts to overthrow the present Ministry,: , Thu Constitutionnel disapproves o f th e - period P t year which has been chosen for th e di sso l ut i on . It ti ll'al; it ought to have been delayed un til A ugus t, so t1“11 , convocation of the new Chamber might have been November, for the dispatch of business, thus complYi, with the constitutional law, whi c h requ i res t hat & e Chamber shall assemble within three months after dissolution of the former Chamber.. The following are the only other extracts worth 110.- cr A violent thunder-storm broke over Brest on the 10th, / t I :, hail of enormous size, which broke the windows and the 9 11 , of the roofs. The lower streets of .the city were under 01 ; the quays were transformed • i n to f ur i ous torrents. .A.l° woman, carried away by the wat ers , was taken from a "e ,r a deplorable condition, and expi re d i n a f ew m i nutes . 'l'"`i of Brest also suffered. The roofs over the vessels that ar e a ,; up are damaged by the hailstone s , some o f w hi c h were tn„ .rt e- r seven millimetres in diameter. Th e roo f o f t h e • J ea n Har t perforated like a sieve: A great number of windows 1t0n, 2 .0' -' " ere broken, principally at the Pavillion of the Maritio 3o Mi neers, the Naval Museum, and the M as t M agaz i ne . A ,, hundred pane, of glass were broken in the Military Hop'-' Le constitutionnel, June 16. M. Schnitz, a German mineralogist, hatdiscovezed'f f .,7l mine of quicksilver in Bo sn i a . S pec i mens h ave been" ' y Constantinople and examined by M. Paulin, Chief of th s se ss ministration of the Mines, in the presence •of a scientific mit tee, and they are acknowledged to be of the best quelitt Pau and its environs were, on Th urs d ay l ast, v i s i te d "),' i f ' terrific thunder -storm, attended with an i mmen s e f i ll of r• and with hail-stones of su , l a size that the cross places were entirely destroyed. In the town itseif the dam was chiefly to the wind o ws, h un d re d s o f wh i ch were trul,-t` A child, who was returning f rom he school, was hotcev e 1 . much injured by the hail that his life was for ashort timegfP'°' I despair. d of. • der The south and w e st of F rance are a h noFt ent i rt i v r en desolate by the long and extreme dr( ughf. The Rennes, and o her prelates, have ordered prayers to be P it for rain.— Galignuni's Alwenger. RAliw A I sHAREb. 5 10 ..... 31” :3 1 209 75 - . 1150 111 725 is in If) 517 So ... 517 5n 517 0-• 0; 5 urleans Strasburg to 8a1e ... .......-.. 2toi 75 .., t 94 75 ... 2LS 7 5 0* Versailles it, r. MONEY and COMMLRCIAL 1 4 CITY, QUARTER To The whale of the ma kets are exceedingly h eav y, o d e _ o dt; lower. Variou s rum o u rs are afloat, which canno t be 9- . 0 14 any authentic source, but th a t unp l easant feeling, r3Bt:d have exited some fo r tni g ht s i nce , appears to have reviv increased force. It is stated that accounts are in•toen t. alarming state of the King of th e F renc h ; an d 'it ealrito conceaied that should hi s d em i se occur at the pre,er'j come serious con-e qu e nees might wise between o 9 an er• nation. The feeling of the French towards us 15 ft' dently unfavourable, and .an observat;on whic h oo o ; from Sir R o b er t P ee l a short time since 0, that it is sernev.hat reciprocal on the part of e ur pod` Cabinet, with regard to matters of commercial pejo% i l ed' den demand for mone y, an d some extensive sales in °Le-deo' have added to the d e p ress i on , an d C onsols are 91i foe t.P e f iree' inn ex div.; Three pe r C en t s . R e d uce d , 914; R011'00.4,10' and-a-Half per Cent s ., 1001 ; I n di a Bonds, 21 ; E EC' . B;11s, 46, ditto 2d., 40 prem. re Beyond a bargain in Dutch Five per Ce n t s ., a t 101, th e nothing to notice in the Foreign Securities. is °j " 13usimes in shares h as b een li m i te d to Birminghato% Derby, Thirds, at 14; Ch e lt en h am an d G reat Wester ° and Brighton at 35. l et Spanish Five per Ce n t s . are quo t e d 21i , and the T y r ee Cents., 234. The alteration in the timber duties appears to have ro i tetl!; much dissatisfaction in Canada, and it is stated, - will P 03 : ruin the trade and country altogether. This is fartoo g 96111 a view of the subject, the timber of that colony having u tott, e ' high rate of protection, and, even were it not so, agr w - 0 fel°: which was originally abandoned for the timber Wade, a profitable substitute. For many years after the se le et of the place, the cultiv a ti on o f w h eat f ormed almost the 004 cupation of the inhabit an t s , an d it was discontinued . 01 C quence of the bo un ty o ff ere d on t h e exportation of tirnber,,.ticle has always been admitted th a t th e qua li ty of th i s l at ter is far inferior t o th a t p rocure d f rom the Baltic and ot h e r Y' v eo and hence it may be concluded, that the - trade in it bad t et/ injudiciously f orce d, t o a certa i n extent at least. Be t I vi° very reasonably be doubted if this be the only e 011 1 . 1 0,10 which the C a nadi ans may lo,k for cu,tomers for their ti bo r The West India Isl a nd s and the Easte rn coas t o f South A r t rica, are ad depend en t upon ot h ers f or their supplies, 31 , e /P quite possibl e t o open an d carry on an eatenolst eic h ," profitable t-ad e w i t h t h em as welt as with us. he so, this reduction may almost be viewed as boa for inasmuch as an impetus will be given I . ° ie . commerce of Canad a , a s we ll by open i ng new vents f or Ifort , duce, as by the inc r e ase d consumpt i on of i ts cornel o which may now reasonably he expected in-this countr y PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT Oil it AIRWAYS. Paid. Per Share. 4 .. • Wrmingham and Derby lOO ..... ...... to Ditto Thirds to • London am Brighton sees 50 354..... London and South Western — 62 ...... / to li, PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, .0/1' 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 991 Grand Canal Stock ..... .." Ditto Reduced Ditto New 1830 994 ; Ditto 4 per eent......••' 34 per Cent. Deter. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JUNE '15.--A fair of bu4ness was done, and pi ices steadily supported' 91µC1 5,000 bales were sold, of which 1,000 American were 00 t lation, , and 800 for expo r t. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JUNE roS se J was very, flat, and the only stares sold were •Edieburg,4ile Gbsgow New, 41. ; Mid.and C oun ti es, 7 0 ; N ort h Hakes, 324. chi MaecuzsTite. STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 15.--Tb e ci y l ed Market is dJi and i nac ti ve , th e on l y transact i on t"" London and Birmingham Quarter Share. a t 364 per all.. CLOSING PRICES. BAITISH FUNDS. India stock ............... Ditto Bonds ....... Di to Old Annuities Ditto New nnu ities.'oS 'Ex. Mils, 1,000/....14',40r Ditto 500/... ' Ditto Small ..... ..••• 'Bank Stock for Acct. , ' India Stock for Acet.'"9ll i Consols Opg. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... 'Portuguese, 5 per cen t ' Belgian, 5 per cen t Ditto, New Ditto... .... Brazilian Bonds... —Prussian, 5 per cent. ei Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. Russian, 5 per eent...*" . Chilian, 6 per cent. — Colombian, 6 per iSpanish, 5 per cont..'" Ditto, 1824 Ditto, Deferred.... Danish, 3 per cent — ,'French , 5 per cent. *"7l Greek, 1825, 5 per cen t — !Exchange........... Mexican, 5 per cent 364 French, 3 per ceut. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1637 IDutch, 24 per cent''' . 1 01 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. 'Ditto, 5 per c ent. SHARES. Birmingham and Derby Railte - ay (100 pd) '• Ditto Thirds (25 paid). ....... ........... Cheltenham and Creat Western (80 paid) . " 46i Edinburgh and Glasir:aw (50 paid) ...••• •"*. 31 Ditto New Shams ( 3 paid ....- ......... *" Great Western lisilway (65 paid) ........... 611 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ........ London Grand Junction Railway ............... Ditto Half Shares (50 paid) ............... London and Brighton (50 paid) .. ......... . • London and Birmingham (90) .... . . •.." 3 0 . 1 • Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid.) ........ ,;; 6„1 London and South We s t ern (431 15 s OdPu ) ite Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... " Y / South F.:astorn and Dov er (50p ....... ": t " . t, Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid) ....................... , . Bank Stock '3 per Cent. lied. 3 per Cent. Cone 311 per Cent. Red l6o} New 3i per Cet.t... New 5 uer Cent Long Annuities to expire Jan. 186fi Oct. 1 t=s9 Jan. Ib6o . ----- --- ,-,A.Y.) .:'. THE MARKETS.--{THUS J , - - CO fi L r 2 l, N a l n A d L a fair hlA b ß us K h E ie T o . te a bf . or _,:. The markets we re ~,,s , tra . iL 0 clai-4 the home trade ; hut fnr ‘hippino not touch bu,iii es% w e, 0 1 , ;. !.-P The imports ,re wi l mall.• Raw sugar ti'm in Pr i ti c r oer cr, p f ß a e i ur r me r: f ti ut. t i t l e r st at ; es lirown West India was not to b had --0 t ., Good were. com pa 7 . Ce Five 3-1 i i n l I: , i Coff ee f. i . 5 7 s 6 . 5 ,, , .I . pe r rCg 51100.13 J. .i. , I There was a fair 13r -14-. wer° TEA usine s 3dnne, MARKET. Company': Congo'', Is. Id. cash. and fall rates 5 1, - Ow :4( TALLOW .11A (MET. The demand wa. limited, but prices wet , - stea d ,/ s ja,t 4: •* on the spot, and 495. to 49. 3d. for d , livery in ui . , : 4:S ' mouths 61 the tear. Town Tallow 465. bd. nett „r WHITECHAPEL HAY MAHICEjdeO;OI., There was a very moderate supply. With 8 g ° "" toe': It 1; prices remain without alteration. Clover, 21. 11)8 ',0 4 .-. 10o• Hay , 21. to 41. ; New Hay, a to 31. 35.; Straw, 11. his.