The Sun. — London, England, 1842-05-25 00:00:00

ORM•••••..........11•••••••111•••••••••11110111r VPM11.................---- TO THE PROPRIETORS OP EAST INDIA STOCK. that this precaution had been adopted on one line at 1 _ least, and, so far. from being impracticable or abiurd, had LADIES A NDGENTLESIEN, A VACANCY having occurred in the DIREC- been found eminently effective in preventing fatal AL. TION of your affairs by the Death of Colonel AGNEW, accidents. ' The GovernMent, therefore, would do I have the honour to inform you that it is m y determination to . proceed to ' the Ballot . upon this occasion ; and flout the well to 1 roject this. . Bill, and introduce another, numerous promises ot support which I have re_cel more strict and comprehensive. The time, too, is favour since I last presented myself to your - notice, v 1 la n k able for such a measure. The scientific men and prac with the fullest confidence fru- a s uccessful result. N hen tite day of election is fixed the necessary letter ef attorney shall twat engineers of, France have for some days been of my engaged in investigating the causes of the late catas he forwarded to my friends in the country, and if a ny supporters in town should also be desirous of voting that y prox, tro ph e, with a view to discovering a remedy. Several I beg they will kindly intimate to me their wislaeste e ffect. En g l ish . . I have the honour to be, engineers and directors of railroads, have pro- Ladies and Gentlemen, ceeded to France for the same purpose, and itis therefore Your very faithful and obedient Servant, reasonable to conclude that, within a very short p eriod, JOHN OLIPHANT, _, such a mass of information may be obtaine d as will jus . Late at the Madras Engineers. London Tavern, May 19, 18 , 12. tify the Government in rejecting the present Railways Major Oliphant's Committee sit daily at the London Tavern, Bill, and enable them to introduce another, based on Bishop... -.- - street. sound principles, and really calculated to prevent the re --,.........-.......;.............—......,—.-------.....—... ------- --- ------------ currence of such terrible disasters. TO CORRESPONDENTS. 6 , A Constant Reader," Nottingham. The description gene rally applies to one of the brothers, who appeared to be about thirty years of age. There is no political news in the Paris journals of Monday, , save what is contained in our Foreign 11th ‘N , urns, MAY . 52.. Rot' AL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer.... 57 1 Ilig,hest 6O I . Lowest 40 Barometer :9.9l.—Wind S.W. Summary. It is affirmed that Count Mule intends to publish the speech which he delivered on the 17th of May, in the Chamber of Peers, on the right of search. The Noble Peer, it is said, will add notes which will throw great light on this question. In a consistory held at Rome on the 9th of May, M. de Ronald, Archbishop of Lyons, received as we hear, the Carch. nald's hat from the hands of his Holiness. The Infante of Spain, sons of Don Francisco, are expected shortly at Paris.—Le Constitutionnel. Her Royal Highness Madame Adelaide, accompanied by the Pi ieee de Joinville and the Princess Clementine, arrived at Random on the 20th instant. A Swedish nobleman of high rank, the Count de Brake, Marshal of the kingdom, hasjust received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. The Tenore steamer which left Algiers on the 15th with the mail, and :115 passsengers arrived in the road of Toulon, on the night of the 18th. The Monitcur Alperiett of the 14th, confirms the last at• counts that are published relative to Africa. The Duke of Orleans has returned from Chantilly to Paris Commerce. BOURSE—Pmt.'s, MONDAY, MAY 23. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. 12 minutes after 2 i Evening minutes after 2. ;.~~, kirst iligßest Lowest Last Price Price. PDC , Price. Fter.ch 5 ner Cents ll9 40 ... 119 55 ... 119 49 ... 119 50 4 .',, ; e• cents lO7 50 ... lu7 50 ... 107 50 ... 197 50 4per Cents. ,.. 101 70 ... 101;70 ... 101 70 ... 101 70 3 per Lents.- ... - SI 80 ... 81 7i ... 81 75 Loan , i,r2k of emcee Laflitte Bank 1.008. 81;ares 1040 ...100 .1040 ...IC4I 5,0fa01. stares 50 5 —5065 ... 506.5 ...5005 ,letessn rani: .... • 795 50 ... 7 9 5 ... 702 50 ... 795 Begian 5 per Cents. ... lO% ... 1 , 3% ._ 11:1034 .. 11r.34 S per Cent,., 1840 111 5 1,4 ... 10:', 1 ,4 ... 10 % ... 1 0 5% SpAnish Active 24% ~. 4% ... 24% ... 24% Passim 4% —4% ... 4% ... 4% New Defcn ad Portuguese 5 per Lent:. 131% ... 31% ... '31% ... 3134 Dutch 2% per Cents. 'real:Wigan; lO7 85 ... li7 85 ... 11,7 65 ... 107 65 Raman .. . 11AILWAI .atiA,ItIS. Versailles, 11. F. L. P Rouen Orleans Stiasburg to Bale 233 75 ... 2 3 75 ... 223 75 ... 233.73 THE ALDERMAN AND THE TURBOT.-It always gives us . pleasnre to see legislators employed on themes suited. to their, capacity ; thus when certain agricultural tnem hers undertook the -Other . day to defend the interests of their foreign brethren, the colonial asses, we encouraged them in their dutiful task, well knowing that such a sub ject could not possibly be in better hands, and that from the strong inherent force of sympathy, one ass would he sure to do justice to another. For similar reasons, we feel that we cannot sufficiently applaud Alderman Hum phery's strenuous advocacy last : night of the interests of turbot and salmon. An Alderman em ployed on such a theme, is strictly - labouring in his vocation ; he is doing that for which nature and education alike eminently qualify him ; and his . opinions, therefore, are deserving of the utmost respect and deference. That Ministers think as we do, is evident from the almost reverential deference with . which Mr. Gladstone listened to the worthy Alderman's suggestion respecting the importation of turbot ; he saw that it was the result of profound wisdom and experience, and con ceded the momentous point with the readiest and most engaging suavity. Henceforth, turbots will run no risk of being damaged by the transportation from one vessel to another, and for this inestimable blessing we are in debted to their natural protector — a London Alderman l In taking leave of this important matter, we must not omit to notice the characteristic burst of gratitude with which the public-spirited Humphery hailed the reduc tion of the duty on salmon! "It' ever Sir Robert Peel," he observed with unfeigned emotion, " had granted them a boon, it was upon that article !" The Alderman is right. Compared with such a boon, the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts sinks into utter insignificance; and when the Right.. Hon. Baronet is gathered to the great and good of past ages, we trust that Alderman Humphery will erect a monument to his memory, with 1 this inscription, " Here lies the patriotic and enlightened istatesman who reduced the duty on salmon !" The' Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince of i \Vales and the Princess Royal, are expected to arrive in town this afternoon from Claremont Park, attended by their Suite. The Royal Party are expected to arrive at Buckingham Palace between four and five o'clock. EPSOM RACES. ( Tins DAY-BY EXPRESS). BETTING. 7 to 4 agst Mr. Trelawney's Coldrenick 10 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Attila 10 to 1 agst Mr..Meiklana's Agreeable c. 15 to .1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Jack 20 to 1 agst General Yates's Seahorse 20 to 1 agst Mr. - Forth's Policy 30 to'l agst Lord G.Bentinek's Chatham 40 t 6 1 agst Mr. Copeland's Coinbermere EPSOM RACE COURSE, Two o'Clock. The following horses have been weighed for, and will start about three o'cloek : Mr. Trelawny's Coldrenick Colonel Anson's Attila . . (VT. Scott) Lord Chesterfield's Jack (J. Holmes) Lord Westminster's Auckland (J. Marson) Mr. Osbaldeston's Devil among the Tailors (Darling) Mr. Gregory's Defier (Robinson) Mr. Copeland's Combermere (Marlow) Sir G. Heathcote's Hydaspes. Mr. Greenwood's Lasso Mr. Meiklam's Agreeable colt Lord G. Bentinck's Chatham (S. Rogers) Mr. P. Pryse's Cheops ( - Wakefield) Mr. Connop's The Oneida Chief (Sly) Mr. Forth's Policy (F. Butler) Mr. Forth's The Golden Rule (Bell) Lord Vernlam's Robert de Gorham (Cotton) Lord Westminster's William de Fortibus Mr. Allen's l3elcceur Mr. Etwall's Palladium Mr. Goodman's Rover .. (Macdonald) Hon. S. Herbert's Nessus.... General Yates's Sea-Horse • (Nat) Mr. G. Clarke's The Baronet. 4011 *cm- ;SUN OFFICE, Quarter to Four. A curious disclosure was made in the Hotte of Lords last night by the Earl of lltroN and the Duke of WEL- LiNoToN. It appears that they were not consulted about the emission of the QUEEN'S Letter to the Clergy, re commending a subscription on behalf of the poor. When asked about it by Lord KINNAIRD, the Noble Earl and the Illustrious Duke said that they were not 'aware of even the existence of such a letter. Lord CoLUoRNE had heard it read in church, and Lord IeiNNAIRD undertook the enlighten_ mcnt of the Noble Members of her MAJESTY'S Govern ment, by moving that a copy of it might be laid before their Lordships, which was ordered. From this it is clear that the Premier acts in the most important affairs, without the knowledge of some of his colleagues, and that he does not always take even the Illustrious Duke into his confidence. That a measure aflxting'the interests of the working classes should not have been communicated to the Noble President of the Board or Trade is indeed surprising. But the Premier knows tliat . the Tories can do nothing without him, and therefore he treats their idols as scurvily as he ple;ase;.. A lesS important point remains to he noticed. Ny their own confession it is notorious that the Earl of IZiros and the Duke of WELLINCIToN have as yet sub scribed nothing. The nation expects a noble donation from persons to whom it has given so much. Well, they have it in their power to make the donation e memorable one. Let them keep their gold,.but, give.us a free trade in corn. That is the only donation worthy of England's acceptance. Whatever else may be said of Sir RoBERT PEEL, we have neVer heard him mistaken for a ninny. He has the reputation of too much cunning ever to pass for a fool. And yet, the Eight Hon. Baronet appears wonderfully solicitous to figure in that character. Unless this be so , we cannot comprehend upon what principle he would have the llouse of Commons and the public be lieve that he has discovered a diplomatic SOLOMON in Captain ELLIOT, of whose tea-pot exploits the world has heard so much. The Gallant Captain, it appears, has had sc'verat interviews with the Premier, and quite satisfied him that the Commissioner LIN was no match for " now 1 a great Minister"-EuAoT, as the modest ex-Plenipotentiary styled himself in one of his memorable proclamations which excited such merriment at the Celestial Court of Pekin. Now if Sir IlonEnT PEEL would keep the Gallant Captain at home, who cut such a formidable figure as Commissioner LIN'S prisoner, he might present him with the next vacant Garter, for all the Liberal Press would care about the matter. But Sir ROBERT'S praises of the Captain's " ability," " integrity," and other apocryphal qualities, are thrown out to cover the landing in Texas of this precious diplomatist. Sir It PEEL does not lament the appointment of the Gallant Ceptain as Consul, as one of the embarrassing legacies left him by his predecessors. On the contrary, he is so charmed with the ex-Plenipoten tiary- that he adopts him as his own especial pet. Sir RoBERT does not care three straws for public opinion out of doors. It gives him no concern to send a man, whose incompetency has made him a laughing stock, from the Yellow Sea to the Gulf of Mexico, to carry on our relations between this country and the rising republic of Texas. Where a man of energy, of promptitude, and of firmness, is most wanted, the Government is about to send a meddling, wavering, bombastical chatterer, the very mention of whose name the Tex ans will resent as an insult. To the interests of this country the appointment of such a Consul to Texas must prove exceedingly injurious. This is not the opinion of one part of the Press, but of Journals the most opposed to each other in politics. That no doubt of this may be enter tained, we quote the following article upon the subject, from our venerable Tory Contemporary, the Morning Herald : Captain Elliot has, then, to go out as Consul-General to. Texas. Sir Robert Peel will quickly find out the mistake he allows Lord Aberdeen to unwillingly commit. The represen tative of • Queen Victoria will be ecceived at Austin, Houston, at Galveston, whichever may be the seat of Government, when he lands in the new republic, with laughter. There is already a contemptuous curiosity—commingled with not a little indig nation—in Texas, we learn, to see so re a diplomatist. Sir Robert Peel, alleges, in defence of his confirmation of Lord Palmerston's appointment, that the intercourse he has had with Captain Elliot leads him to place confidence in his ability to discharge the duties entrusted to him, and that there is nothing in his official correspondence which shows that con fidence could not be placed in the recalled Plenipotentiary. All that we can say is, that Captain Elliot must have tongue of an angel if he can charm away from Sir Robert Peel the odium which he has universally inspired, and that . his correspondence must be something very diffe rence from his acts if it beset confidence. Captain Elliot may Barry from England the confidence of the Cabinet, but he does not possess the confidence of the nation ; and to reward a public servant far degrading the national reputation.is not what was anticipated from Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Welling ton. We trust, however, that this appointment will yet b' formally brought under the consideration of the House of Com meas. Can the appointment of a Consul-General be legal when i• - • is made to a State as yet um ecognised ? The Texan treaties are still unratified, The sooner, however, there is (some representative of the British Crown in Texas the better ; he will find plenty to do when he is there ; much that requires g reat ability and no little tact. President Houston has declared the coast of Mexico to be in a state of blockade, and has established, to some extent, an effective blockade ; already have the combined Texan and Yuca tan navies, amounting. we believe, to about eight small ships of war, captured one or two Mexican vessels. Will this block ade be recognised by England? This is a question of great importance to British commerce. is it one on which Captain " great abilities" can be of any service? The question, too, of annexation to the United States is not disposed of. There is a powerful party at Washington more desirous than ever that Texas should be admitted into the Union, and divided into two States—one a slave-holding, the other a free State. The course that England will pursue will probably decide this ques tion. Can the course of British policy be safely trusted to the' " great abilities" of Captain Elliot ? The Railways Bill now before Parliament has been drawn up in such a slovenly manner, and is admitted to be so defective by a ll p ar ti es w h o h ave the safety of the public in view, that it would be infinitely better to reject it at once than endeavour to patch u' such an abortive piece of legislation. It hardly con tains one-clause that will materially protect the lives of passengers, and has been drawn up, it would seem, to make the public believe that something for their benefit was intended, while absolutely nothing has been done. The few remarks made by Lord RIPON last evening., fully bear out these statement,. In answer to a question respecting the locking of carriages on the h Great Western Railway,e said inquiry had been made on the subject, and he had learned from the Inspector-General of Railways that it was a most dan gerous practice, and ought not to be continued. He stated further Unit the Government had no power to interfere ; yet here is a Bill passed through Committee without any clause to remedy the defect, or in any way to modify or abolish a regulation which a paid inspector describes as a dangerous practice. Now, we should like to know what is the use of such a functionary, if he do nut point out to his employers the evils of the system, and, above all, such a glaring evil as that which has thrown a gloom over the whole of France, and which, fur aught that Sir J. GRAHAM or General PASLEY has dune, may in a moment afflict this country with a similar calamity. It is singular, too, that the useful motion of Mr. HARDY received no aid from the Home Secretary, and was knocked on the head by a brief but very speech from the Chairman of that very railway on which the dangerous practice still prevails. The French Government, aware from sad experience of the fatal copse , qamtees of running passengers' carriages immediately be hind the engine, have decre e d t h at on :very line there shall be a luggage waggon between the engine n et the car riages; and when - the number exceeds five, a second shall be placed, in order to lessen the rislz, sor,:e 'the better remedy be devised. This was the a] o • 'll Mr. HARDY's motion, which wa:4 d.,,,, ibed as fin e ` - ' t ticable, and rejected w ith i ns ulting haste, wi thout PrA t he slightest allusion to the evidence given -before the R a ilways Committee, in which it was distinctly proved THE DERBY. The Derby Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft, for three yrs old, colts, Bst 71b;" and fillies, Bst '2lb ; the last mile and a half ; the owner of the second horse to receive 100 "sovs. out of the stakes. The winner to pay 100 sovs. towards,the police: and the regula tions of the Course. (183• Subs.) • Colonel Anson's Attila (IV. Scott) 1 Lord Verulam's Robert de Gorham .... (Cotton) - 2 24 ran At hull, on the 10th inst., after a protracted ill ness, borne with truly exemplary patience and resignation, the Rev. Geo. Lee, in the 73d year of his age. Mr. Lee was one of the original establishers and proprietors of the Rockingham, thirty-four years ago, in conjunction with the late D. Sykes and J. C. Parker, Em i rs., and with Mr. Spence and other gentle.. men, whose names are still cherished by their fellow-townsmen, and he soon after that time assumed its editorial management, which he continued to exercise almost to the time of his death. Mr. Lee upheld the cause of Reform when Reform was but another word for sedition, and the columns of the Rockingham contain record of the unflinching, consistent, and, at the same time, temperate way in which he discharged his honourable duties.--110 Rockingham. • A letter from Antwerp, May 20, states that the English steamer, the Rainbow, arrived that morning from London, having 60 passjtigers on board, comprising those of the Soho, which had gone aground at the Caloot. It was at first supposed that she would float with the tide, but a letter from Flushing states that at four o'clock on the morning of Saturday she was still aground. A letter from liainhurgh, in a Frankfort paper, states that M. Solomon Heine, the hanker, in addition to his munificent donation of 150,000 f. to the fund for the relief of the persons who had been reduced to poverty by the late fire, ordered a thousand rations of soup to be distributed daily at his expense. The Director-General of the Customs has sent a circular to the . Directors of the Customs at all the ports, an nouncing that in future there is to be no distinction of duty between the Granadilla or red ebony, and ordinary ebony. Hi therto the former wood was subject to a special ditty. The Droit gives the following. as a communication made to it, bet declines vouching for its truth :—" During the late catastrophe a t Meudon, a child, five years old, who was in wa ggons, was put out of the wind o w by a and held until a man, dressed as a l o a i: t e y of whoth the satb bug t coun tryman, received it in his arms, and carried it out of danger. Ihe parent: have since made every search and inquiry for it, without twing able to discover it. All they have been able to learn is, that the ma n was seen with it in his arms crossing the fields at a distance from the fire. The concealment is the more extraordinary, as the child was very intelligent, and could give the names of its family, with every particular that might be required. Information having be en g iven to the Prefect of Police, officers are by his order actively engaged in all direc tions in endeavouring to recover the child. Tilt' Memorial of Pau relates that on the 9th inst. a man, named Idiart, alias Garrat, who had been condemned in default to hard labour at the hulks for life, upon an indict ment for murder, was taken by a party of the r genda viorment ra tioned at Irrissary, in the Basses Pyrenees, afte a l sistance, in which he received two sabre wounds. During the term of his evasion, he robbed his own mother of two' ows. THE SUN, LoNnolc, WEDNESDAY EVENINC - r, MAN 25, 1842. " Sir Robert exclaimed on Monday evening,' I wish we could make a considerable reduction in the price of meat.' It might, perhaps, have been not less patriotic to express a wish that the means of consumption enjoyed by thy labouring classes might be increased. The two wishes are by no means identical. A lowered price of meat by no means involves increased means of consumption by the labourers, to whom meat is now, in many cases, a forbidden luxury. When Sir Robert Peel wishes that he could makd a considerable reduction in the price of meat,' he might, not unfairly, perhaps, be requested to specify in what element in the price of meat he would desire to see the reduction effected? Would Sir Robert rejoice to see the reduction in price effected at the cost of the grazier ? The grazier gene rally loses by fattening stock. He is enabled to sustain that loss, only in consequencenf the increased facilities for farming which the fattening of stook places at his disposal. " Would Sir Robert rejoice to see a reduction in the price of meat effected at the expense of the labourers, to whom the rearing and fattening of stock furnishes employment? Scarcely—for Sir Robert laments t he diminishing means of consumption now at the disposal of the labouring classes? Or, finally, would Sir Robert Peel rejoice to see a reductio n in the price of meat effected at the expense of the owners of land? If so, then it might be well, if Sir R. Peel would inform the landowners of England, that he deems the returns which they now receive from their investments in the roil exhorbitant. These returns may be equivalent to two and a half, per cent." The Herald cursorily remarks, in a leading article on the subject of the tariff:—" Mr. Miles professed an intense admi ration of the principle of Compensation which Sir Robert Peel's commercial proposition offered for his compulsory aug mentation of public burdens ; but from such compensation he was proposing to strike out the most important item. Cheap coffee, butter, bread, and cheese, arc all very good things ; but cheap meat is, we venture to think, a much better thing. Sir R. I'ecl's Scotch correspondent thought cheapness of all sorts of provisions—save herrings—very desirable. Mr. Miles opines that dear meat is the only exception that ought to be made to a general reduction in the cost of living. The shoemakersapprove of every reduction save that of baots arid shoes. Major Beres ford's Channel clients loudly demand that the present prices of cod and turbot be supported. The cork-cutters allege that it is a monstrous injustice to lower the price of British cut corks ; while some of Mr. G. Batikes constituents protest against the freer admission of foreign stones. The same vice runs through all these objections ; the interests of the con sumer is wholly overlooked that high prices may be maintained. We shall be told that push this argument to its full extent, and the Corn-law is indefensible ; but this is not so ; bread is the basis of food, and its price the regulator of wages ; these considerations remove the Corn-law from the application of this principle ; low price of bread cannot compensate a people for dependence ; but the same proposition cannot be predicated of any other commodity." zaop . pir--Tizamoz—corrOmnco. The Emperor of Austria has issued an'order for the opening of subscriptions in all the provinces of the empire in favour of Hamburgh. CX.r S X.EISTY.CAT.- The question of a Church-rate was put to the vote at New port, in the Isle of Wight, on Thursday last. when the Anti church party gained the day by a majority of 70 over 61. rx.brxi In the City a Committee has been organized, with many in fluential names, for the purpose of presenting to the l'asha of Egypt a gold medal, as a slight mark of their esteem for the ready facilities to the conveyance of the mils to and from India through his territory, notwithstanding the war. Lieut. Waghorn, It N., is active in the business. Ihe treasurers of 'all th 2 sea-ports in France have been au thorised by the French Minister of Marine to receive contri butions towards setting up the proposed monument to the late Admiral D'Urville. litTER.AILY 13. ND SCIENTIFIC. A prize has just been awarded by the French Academy at Paris, for the best eulogium on Pascal. At the anniversary meeting of the Linnman Society, held yesterday in Seho-square, the Council stated that, owing to their purchase of the collections and library of Linnmus, pur chased by them of that great naturalist's executors in 1828, amounting to 3,0001., a debt of 5001. still pressed upon them, A sum of 6001. had already been collected by subscription, but there were still outstanding debts tothe amount of 6071. 13s. 5d cctl. tT-7-briksaxoNanzz. _ The Duchess of Sutherland gave her grand fete at Stafford• douse last night, and the whole suite of her magnificent apart ments, with the exception of three of the Duchess's private rooms, were thrown open to the brilliant company. The sup per took place at one. There was a royal table hid for 20, m the green library, with gold plate. T.ll3aliTß XC Rubini is expected to arrive in town in a fortnight, or three weeks at the latest, to fulfil hi s engage ment at the Italian Opera. Ivanoff, the Russian t enor , i s now s inging at the opera al Bologna. RUMOURS or 'run DAY. It is reported that a new claimant to the honours of the ancient barony of Chandos, of Sudeley, is about to appear. The new aspirant claims as heir male of the body of Robert, son of William, fourth son of the fourth lord. It has hitherto been concluded, in the absence of direct evidence, that the above-mentioned Robert Brydges died without male issue. AWFUL AND HEARTRENDINU SCENE. • FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) CHESTERFIELD, MAY 2.l.—Yesterday evening the peace ful and romantic village of Ashover became the scene of one of the most deplorable and heartrending tragedies that ever oc curred in this, or perhaps any other, country. Mr. Richard Eaton, a gentleman in independent c ircumstances, about sixty years of age, in loading his gun in the house, to go in pursuit of a mad dog, accidentally shot his son, a youth about 16 or IS years of age, and immediately after, in the phrensy of the moment, took a pistol and shot himself through the head, and fell dead upon the spot. The gun was loaded with slugs, and its contents first struck the young man's arm, and, after pass ing in an oblique direction and shattering the bone, entered his side. He of course instantly dropped, but he did not expire till about seven o'clock this morning. On seeing his son fall, the father was seized with an agony of grief, and exclaiming— " My dear son ! What shall I do ? what shall I do ? M y dear, dear son !"—he took a loaded pistol, rushed out into 'the gar den, applied the muzzle just below his right ear and fired, when the bullet, after penetrating the head, passed out a little above the left ear, causing instantaneous death. Inquests were this day held over the bodies before Mr. Hutchinson, the Coroner for the Hundred of Scarsdale, and verdicts returned to the effect that the son was accidentally shot, and that the father put an end to his own existence in a fit of phrensy consequent upon the previous accident. Mr. Eaton was a gentleman very highly respected by an extensive circle of acquaintances, to whom his urbanity of manners and his known worth had greatly endeared him. Hi 3 melancholy end will be a subject of unfeigned grief to all who knew hint. He has left a wife and dauqhter who resided with him at Ashover, and a son who is in business in Nottingham. The younger son, who has lost his life as above described, was also an apprentice with Mr. Hicklin, the bookseller in that town, and had returned to spend a few weeks at home, in consequence of indisposition. What adds, if possible, to the deplorable character of this sad catastrophe, is the circumstance that the elder son was to have been. married this day, and the wedding party were to have visited Ashover, in commencing their tour of pleasure, and preparations were made to receive them, but, alas ! how changed the scene ! Ashover is about six milesto the south-west of Chesterfield ; Overton-hall, the seat of the late Sir Joseph Ranks, is within about half a mile of the residence of poor Mr. Eaton. Mr. E. was formerly Governor of the County Prison, Derby, and had retired with a comfortable independency, and purchased a pretty little property in Ashover, and was, as it were, the leading man in the place. Aglionby, H. A. Aldam, William Bodkin, J. J. Bowring, Or. Brotherton, J. Browne, W. Christie, W. D. Cobden, Richard Colebrooke, Sir T. E. Crawford, W. S. Dennistoun ' J. Duucombe, T. S. Dundas, Admiral easthope, Sir John Elphinstone, Howard Gibson, T. M. .NORITY—AYES, Humphery, J. . • Johnstone, Alex. Marshall, "W. • Marsland, H. ' Martin. John Mitcalfe, Henry Muntz, G. F. Napier, Sir Charles Oswald, James Parker, John Pea ell, Captain Philips, Mark Protheroe, E. Scholeflehl, J. Scott, Robert Smith, Benjamin Acland, Sir Thomas Ackers, James Alford, Viscount Allis, John Peter Antrobus, Edmund Arbuthnot, Hon. H. Archbold, R. _ _ JORITY-NOES, Farnham, E. B. Fellowes, Edward Fitzroy, Captdiu Flower, Sir James Follett, Sir W. W. Forster, Matthew Fuller, A. E. Gaskell, J. M. Ashley, Load Bagge, Wm. Bantle, Colonel Gill, Thomas Gladstone, W. E. Glynne, Sir S. R. Godson, Richard Gore, Montague Gore, W. R. 0. Gore, Robert Goring, H. 1). Goulburn, H. Graham, Sir J. Banke;, George Baring, F. T. Barnard, E. G. Barrington., Lord Beckett, William Bert sford, Major Blackburn, John 1. Blackstorie, W. S. Boctitin, W. H. Bolden), Henry G. %Meld, Beriah Greens l, Peter Grirnsdiich, T. _ Hamilton, W. J. Hamrden, Renn Harcourt, G. G. Hardinge, Sir H. Hardy, John Heatheo;e, G. J. Heneagc, G. W. Henley, J. W. Hepburn, Sir T. B. Herbert, Hon. S. Hodgeon, F. Hodgson, R. Hogg, J. H. Broadley, Henry Broadwood, H. Buck, Lewis W. Buckley, Edmund Buller, C. Burrell, Sir C. M. Burroughes, N. N. Busfeild, W. Campbell, Sif H. Campbell, A. Cardwell, Edward Carew, H. S. Cavendish, Hon. C. Cavendish, Hon. G. Cayley, E. S. Chelsea, Viscount Chetwode, Sir John Chute, W. L. Clayton, R. R. Clements, Lord Ciive, R. H. Codrington, C. W. Collett, W. ItiCkford Colville, C. R. _ _ Holmes, W. A'Courl Hope, Charle; ttnwirk, Lord Jackson, J. D. James, Sir Walter Jeriuyn, Earl Jocelyn, Viscount Johnson, W. G. Jones, T. Kelburne, Lo d Kerrison, Sir E. Knatchbull, Sir E. Labouchere, H. Langston, J. H. Lascelles, W. S. Legh, George C. Lemon, Sir C. Lincoln, Earl of Litton, E. Loch, James Lockhart, William Lowther, J. H. Lyall, George Lygon, General Mackenzie; Thomas Macoeachy, F. A. Mainwaring, T Manners, Lord J. Marsliam, Viscount Marton, G. R. • Mislertnan John Meynell, H.• Miles W. Mitchell, T. A. Morgan, Octavius Morris, David Morrison„Jaines Mundy, E. Miller . MR. W.S. O'BRI. JORITY—AYES, Greenall, Peter Grimsditch, Thomas Hamilton, W. J. hainpden, Reim Hardy, John Hcneagc, G W. Hepburn, Sir T. B. Hervey, Lord A. Hope, Hon. C. Rowick, Viscount Hume, Joseph Huraphery, J. Jackson, Sergeant Jermyn, Lord% Johnson, W. 0.1 Johnstone, A. • Johnstone, Hope Knatehbull, Sir Lahotichore, H. ' Langston, J. H. Lose, Hon. C. E. Lemon, Sir C. Lindsay, H. H. Litton, &'ward Lyall, George MacKenzie, W. F. M'Geachy, F. A. Harsham, Viscount Marsland, H Martin, J. Kistennan, John Mitcalfe, Henry Mitchell, 'l. A. Morgan, Octavius Napier, Sir Charles Nicholl, J. Norreys, Sir D. J, Parker, John Pechell, Captain Peel, Hon. Sir R Peel, Colonel J. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.( ..,. CITY, - QUARTER TO THREE. The English funds are quite without business, the price q are nominally, Consols 921 9'21 for Money, 921 for the present Account, and 93 931 for the Opening, which is fixed for the 15th July ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 91i ; Three-and.a- Half per Cents. Reduced, 99% 100%; Bank Stock, 167 ; India Stock, '249 251; Exchequer Bills, old, 37 39, and the adver tised, 33 35 premium. Foreign securities are as yesterday. Purchases have been confined to the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., at 52%; and the Five per Cents. 101%. Mexican is quoted 361 P. A fair extent of business has been done in Shares ; Edin. burgh and Glasgow, 53% 531 ; New, 44.; York and North. Midland, 931 ; North Midland, 66 ; Manchester and Leeds, 841; London and Birmingham, 179 180 r Great Western, fifths, 94 ; Northern and Eastern, 431 ; Eastern Counties, 9; South Eastern, scrip, 7%; and Brighton, 364. The Bonds which are quoted are Portuguese New Bonds, 38 ; and the Three per Cents., 22%; and Peruvian, 19. Business, as is usual on this day, is virtually suspended in the City, and there are no foreign letters of recent date. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties Edinburgh and Glasgow ...~ Ditto New Great Western Ditto Fifths London anc Brighton ... .. 50 ...... 36%..... to London and Birmingham '4O . 179 Ditto % Shares London and South Western 3B-1 634 to 64 Manchester and Leeds Northern and Eastern North Midland ...100 South Eastern and D0ver......... 50 Ditto Scrip 5 ...... 718 ... to York and Narth Midland 5O 931.•. . to COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY. ) Amsterdam CF. 12 71 Gibraltar . . ...... 46 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 7% Genoa , ... 25 95 Antwerp l2 7 ; Milan Hamburgh M. B. 13 13% Venice Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 65 ( Palermo, per oz 120 Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 95 Rio Janeiro 27 Frankfort on Maine... 152% Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 364 Buenos. Ayres . Berlin... 7 New York, 21days sight 46% Vienna, effee. fl. 3M. 956 Philadelphia Trieste, ditto ... 957 PRICES OF BULLION, PER 07. Madrid ... 36% Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9 Cadiz 36% Portugal Gold Com ...3 17 5 Bilbao Barcelona Seville ... 36 Silver in Bars... ..... 0 4 lls LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 24.—The Market was very steady, and the improvement noticed yesterday was well maintained. The total sales amount to 6,000 bales, of which 2,000 American were on speculation. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MAY 24.—There were few sales effected in any description of stock, and the market was dull and languid. Some trifling transactions took place on the following Railway shares :—Eastern Counties, 101. I Is. "Bd. ; Debentures, 4/. Bs. Bd. ; Ditto, New, li ; Grand Junction, Old Quarters, 46 ; Great Western, Halves, 64%; Manchester and Leeds, Quarters, 51 ; North Midland, Halves, 32% ; Thirds, 211.55. 10d. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 24.—Our market continues firm, with but little doing. The following have been done to-day : --NI anchester and Birmingham, 27 3 % ; Eastern Counties (New), 41. 14,. 2d. ; Bank of Manchester, 41. Is. 3d.; Rochdale Canals, 62 ex div. CLOSING PRICES. _ - • BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 1671 India Stock pm 3 per Cent. Red. .. ...... 9111 Ditto Bonds • • pm 3 per Cent. Con. 92/ Ditto Old Annuities ... 31% per Cent. Red......... 100% Ditto New Annuities... New 3% per Cent... ...... 101 b Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2%d 39 pm New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001...... 39 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small Jan. 1860 ... ...... 12 7-16 Bank Stock fur Acct — Oct. 1859 - Jan. 181.0 124 ,Consols for Acct ...... ... 92/ FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent. ... '.--. Portuguese, 5 per cent. 65 Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto 3B Brazilian Bonds... — 'Prussian ' 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. jßussian, s per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent 'Ditto, Metallic ...... . .... Colombian, 6 per cent — 'Spanish, 5 per cent...... Ditto, 1824 27 !Ditto Deferred.... . Danish, 3 per cent lFrench, 5 per cent. —f. —e. Greek, 182.5, 5 per cent — ;Exchange —f —c Mexican, 5 per cent lFrench, 3 per cent. —f. —e. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 (Dutch, 21 per cent. 52,1 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. 19 , Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 101 i SHARES. Bristol :.nd Exeter (70 paid) .. . ... .. 44% Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) 9 Edinburgh and Glasg ow (50 paid) .....• ... 5 3% Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid.. Great Western Railway (65 paid) Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Birm n;ham (90) ...... ..... Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) 361 Ditto Thirds (32 paid) ••. London and Greenwichßailwav (12/ 15s 4d pd) 5% London and South Western (384 17s 9d pd) 634 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ......... .. 841 Northern and Eastern (45 paid) . 43% North Midland Railway (100) Ditto New Shares (40 paid) ..• • 32 Ditto Thirds ( paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 29% Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid) York anti North Midland (50 paid) ... ...... 93% PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House qf Commons.) TUESDAY, NAY 24. • CUSTOMS ACT DIVISION ON AIR. VILLIER 'S MOTION. Somerville, Sir W. Stanstield, W. It Strickland, Sir G. Strutt, Edward Tancred, H. W. Thornely, Thomas Troubridge, Sir T. Ward, Wawn, John T. Williams, Wm. Wood, Benjamin Yorke, H. itedhead TELLERS. Villiers, Charles P. Hume, Joseph 209. Murray, C. R. S. Neeld, John Neville, Ralph Newport, Vi count Nichol!, J O'Brien, A. Stafford O'Brien, W. Smith O'Connell, M. J. Ogle, S. C. IL Owen, Sir J. Paget, Frederick I'almer, R. Palmer, a Patten , John Wilson Peel, Sir IL Peel, Jonathan Pigot, Sir R. Polhill, F. Pollock Sir Price, Richard Pringle, A. Pusev, Philip Rashleigh, William Roid, Sir J. K. Rice, E. B. Richards, Richard Rushbrooke, Colonel Russell, Lord John Sanderson, It. Sandon Lord Scarlett , Hon. R. Scott, Hon. F. Seale, Sir J. t Seymour, Lord Shaw, F. Sheppard, Thomas Sibthorp, Colonel Smythe, Hon. G. •Somerset, Lord G. Somerton Viscount Stanley, Lid Stanley, W 0 Stewart, John Stuart, W. Villiers Stuart, H. Sturt, H. C. Tomline, George Trollope, Sir John 'trotter, John Tufnell, Henry Turner, E Tyrrell, Sir J. Vernon, Granville Vesey, Hon .T. Vivian, C. C. Vivian, J. H. Vivian Hon. Captain Whitmore, T. C. Williams, I'. P. Wodehouse, Edmond Wood, C. Wood, Colonel Wood, Colonel T. Worsley, Lord Wyndham, Colonel Yorke, Hon. E. T. Young, John TELLERS. IV'reinantle. Sir 1. Clerk, Sir G. EN'S MOTION. 121. Philips, M. Polhill, Frederick Pollock, Sir F. Pringle, A. Rashieigh, Wm. Rice, E. B. Round, C. G. Rous, Captain • Russell, Loid John Seymour, Sir H. Shaw, Frederick Smith, R. Vernon Somerset, Lord G. Somerville, Sir W. Stansfield, W. R. C Stanton, W. H. Stewart, John Sutton, Hon. h. M 'ferment, J. L. Thesiger, F. Thornely, Thomas Trench, Sir r. Trotter, J. Turner, Edmund Villiers, Charles 2. Vivian, John H. Vivian, J. K Ward, H. G. . Wemyss, J. C. Williams, W. Wood, B. Wood, C. Wood, Colonel Wood, Colonel T. Wood, G. W. Wortley, Hon. J. S. Wyndham ,Colonel Yorke, H. R. TELLS RS. Fremantle, Sir T. Clerk, Sir George. 32. Plumptre, J. P. Pusey, P. Rcade, W. M. Smith, Abel Stanley, Hon. W. 0. Vcre, Sir C R. Wodehouse, Hon. E. Yorke, Hon. E. T. TELLERS. Miles, W. O'Brien, W. S. S rf FFt E.= w S AND public Optttion. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The leading articles of the Paris papers of Monday possess no general interest, being on subjects with which the public is already acquainted. We may, however, make exception to one in the Constitutionnel, on the Budget. It will be found in another column, under a proper head. The Minister of the Marine, says the Commerce, has sent express orders to all the ports at which steam-vessels are on the stocks, to have them finished with the utmost expedition. The Constitutionnel, considered the special organ of M. Thiers, contains on the subject of the right of search a long and most violent article against M. Gil:ant, who is held up as the only French Minister, who, to remain in office, wilfully sacrifices the honour of his country. The ltloniteur Parisien, having stated that it is the inten tion of the French Government to raise the duty on linen threads imported into France to 20 per cent., as soon as the preSent session shall have closed, the Courrier Francais has an article in which it strongly condemns the conduct of the Government en the subject. The Minister of Marine then brought forward a Bill for determining the strength of the navy of Spain, which is to be fixed as follows :—Orte line-of-battle ship, four frigates, one corvette, nine brigs, eight schooners, four steamers, nine ves sels of smaller dimensions, making a naval force of 36 vessels. The crews are to be fixed at 3,260 men, and the marine artillery at 2,400, making altogether 5,660 working hands. Barcelona papers of the 171 represent that city as being in a state ef great uneasiness. The Carlist bandit chief Felip, who was supie.sed to have taken refuge in France, had re-ap peared in the mountains of Upper Catalonia with more nume rous forces. The Constitutional says that it is able to announce, from a good source, that the French authorities lately cantuted four of those brigands who hsd arrested Luis Plantes de Tortilla, and conveyed him to France. Our accounts from Madrid are of the 16th inst. The ban quet given by the Regent on the preceding evening commenced at seven o'clock and terminated about midnight. Mr. Aston, the Duke de Glucksberg, the Ministers of Mexico and Bel gium, the Captain-General, the Military Governor, the Poli tical Chief, the Presidents of the Supreme Tribunals, the Queen's Guardian, the Intendant of the Ci v il List, the Pre ceptor of the Queen, the Patriarch of the Indies, the Duke of Baylen, M. Olczaga, and a number of other notable persons were among the Regent's guests. In the Madrid Chamber of Deputies the report of the Corn , mittce on the Bill relative to the levy of a contingent of 25,000 men was brought up and read, in which it is proposed that coil scripts in the infantry shall serve eight years, and those in the cavalry seven. Some disturuances took place at Seville on the 10th, 11th, and 12th, among the workmen employed at the tobacco manu factory. The cries of " Death to the Regent ! " and " Viva la Republica! " were shouted by some of the rioters ; but the prompt and energetic measures of the local authorities soon re stored order. Also, at Chiclana, near Cadiz, serious disturb ances broke out on the llth, occasioned by a tax imposed by the ayuratamiento, for fitting out the provincial militia. A troop of cavalry was sent against the mutineers, who had several men killed and a great number wounded. A letter from Alexandria, 26th ult., in the Lcipsic Gazette, states, that the chief of an Abyssinian tribe, at war with Egypt, having been taken prisoner in a conflict with some Egyptian troops, Mehemet Ali has ordered that he shall be retained as a hostage until M. Blonde], the Belgian Consul, who, whilst tra velling in Abyssinia, was made a prisoner by this tribe, on the pretext of his being a spy, shall have been released. The Cologne Gazette states that the Dervish who has ac companied the Turkish Ambassador to Vienna was lately pre sented to the Princess de Metternich. At his entrance into the drawing-room, he flung a rose in the face of the Princess, which caused some surprise. This was, however, speedily dis sipated when be declared that it was the custom of his order to salute ladies of distinction in this manner. The famous Hurseff Pacha has got a pension of 30,000 piastres per month, with liberty to move about freely, instead of being cooped up in his country house. The ex-Grand Vizier, Rauff Pacha, has also a similar pension, and some people judge from this that the present Vizier, Izett Mebmed Pacha, will, at no distant period, require such an allowance, by being placed on the retired list. His zeal for religion and firmness have made him many enemies among the Franks, but he has been an ad. mirable Minister to the Turks. PARWAIVIENTAILY. The subject of locking passengers into Railway Carriages, was again mentioned last night in the House of Lords, and the Earl ot Ripon stated, that after consulting with the Inspector- General ot Railways, and having ascertained that locking the ! doors was dangerous and unnecessary, he had written to the Railway Directors, recommending them to discontinue the ' practice. Lord Campbell was sure the communication would give public satisfaction. Several petitions were presented by the farmers' friends against the tariff, and the Duke of Richmond expressed a strong opinion against the great changes it would make. The Earl of hipon defended the clause relative to horned cattle, and denied that it would be productive of injury to farmers. Both Earl Fitzwilliam and Lord Kinnaird expressed their satisfaction at this statement. Lord .Kinnaird said of their Lordships that they did nothing but throw out (rood measures and pass bad ones, and, to give them something better to do, he will, on Thursday, move for a Select Committee to inquire into the distress of the people, when he is also to move for the ',re duction of the Queen's letter to beg for the people. Their Lordships then adjourned. In 'the Commons Mr. O'Connell moved a new writ for Meath, he having being elected for that county and for Cork, having decided to sit for Cork. Mr. Miles not having succeeded about oxen, Mr. G. Palmer gave notice of a motion to stop the importation of foreign ve getables. - Sir 11. Peel mentioned that the intercourse he had had with Capt. Elliot induced him to place the greatest confidence in his (integrity and ability. We presume, therefore, that the Gallant Captain will soon depart on his mission to Texas. As to his qual,fications, we differ entirely from Sir R.. Peel. Sir R. Peel fixed Friday week for a discussion on the Sugar Duties, without reference to the state of the tariff. On going into Committee on the Customs Acts, Mr. Miles stated that his wish was to impose Id. per pound on meat, and ss. 6d. per cwt. on cattle of all kinds. Sir Robert Peel, in spite of some coaxing by Mr. Pusey, would not assent to this proposition, and a short debate ensued, of which Mr. Milner Gibsdn's straightforward speech is worthy of notice. He called on, the Ministers not to attempt to gull the people any longer. Mr. Ward said the speeches of the Members were mere valuable than the tariff itself, and he assured Mr. Gladstone, the Corn-law advocate, that he would be unable to answer Mr. Gladstone, the advocate of cheaply provisioning our ships. Mr. Villiers made an excellent speech, pointing out very forcibly the distress which existed amongst the people, and moved to substitute Is. per head for horned cattle,. instead of 20s. The Committee divided on this question; but the smaller duty, which was opposed by Lord John Russell, was lost by '209 to 44. Major Vivian proposed that the duty on cattle, meat, and other provisions should be the same imported from Canada as from other places. This -gave rise to another debate, during which Sir Robert Peel said that 22,000 quarters of corn had been entered at a 12s. duty under his new law. Major Vivian, however, did not press his motion to a division. Mr. O'Brien was not so modest, and he divided the Com mittee on a motion to substitute 4s. a cwt. for the ss. per head on hogs, but the motion was lost by 12 1 to 32 . The Committee continued to sit through the whole evening, getting through the article fish, and at one o'clock, after a smartish debate, divided on a proposition to substitute 5 per cent., ad valorem, for the proposed duty of 6d. per bishel on apples, which was lost by 51 to 101. The House then - resumed, and after passing the Incumbents Leasing Bill, adjourned at Half-past One. PUBLIC OPINION. We take the following :from the Chronicle :-..." An analysis of the division on Mr. Miles's motion on Monday night girt a the following results:— Against. ' .212 Tories 168 Liberals For.' 86 Tories 27 Liberals 360 • 113 Tories 'who voted for Mr. Miles Liberals present 281 Supposing the whole Liberals present had voted with the 86 Tories, Sir Robert Peel would have hem left in a minority of ••• Sir R. Peel, as all who have paid any attention to the de bates in Parliament must remember, never omitted, on all oc cassions, taunting the Whig Ministry with their obligations to him for supporting them against their own friends. It happens, oddly enough, that, thus early in his Government, he should be reduced to the predicament of owing his safety to his oppo nents. The fact is the more striking, as it is not on an unim portant question he has thus been indebted to his political op ponents, but one which he deems the boast of his administra tion. The measure which he has dwelt on, affording to the country a compensation for the Income-tax, is the one which would have been thrown out but for the sup port of the Liberals. It may not be amiss here to notice, in connexion with this circumstance, the avowal made on Mon day night by Mr. Gaily Knight. He did not hesitate to admit that the Tories did not see anythinr , objectionable in the free trade principles of the Whigs—had 'no fault to find with their budget—but, disliking the Whigs, opposed their measures merely to displace them. " When they were taunted by Hon. Gentlemen opposite with their sudden conversion to free-trade principles—(Loud cries of ' Hear, hear,' from the Opposition) —he would take leave to inform those Hon. Gentleman, that it was not of those principles they had been afraid ; it was Radi calism they dreaded They had never been afraid of coffee or sugar—(Hear, hear) —or any, such minor considerations."—(Laughter.) In short, the apposition to the Budget was founded in no hostility to the Budget. The Tories viewed the Budget merely as affording them an opportunity of trying the strength of their party. The farmers were, no doubt, under a contrary impression. They were taught to be lieve that the Tories really viewed the Whig measures as fraught with ruin to the agriculture of the country, and in that belief they gave them the most strenuous support at the last election. '1 his may have been very clever; but the worst of these experiments on general credulity is, they do not bear re ' petition. We have never failed to notice with satisfaction the liberal language held by Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Gladstone in the course of these discussions. The conversion appeared to 1 us complete, in as far as principles were concerned, however much the application might fall short ; and we only regretted that the conversion had not been effected prior to the Budget of 1841, that the country might have been spared the infliction of the long delay which has taken place before receiving the benefit of measures for the relief of trade. The Times says :—" The much-expected motion of Mr. Miles has at last come on, and gone off. It has, of course, proved what every one knew it would prove, a demonstration of displeasure 'et nihil amplius,' Sir R. Peel finding himself, at the end of the debate in a majority of 267. We are glad to tee the temperate tone taken by those who opposed the Govern ment measure, and not less glad that their opposition has been ineffectual. Indeed the motion never had the appearance of a winning horse. Even if it had been carried, it would have left the farmer in a state of most complete uncertainty whether his protection was to be increased or diminished—it merely pro posed that the duties to be levied on all live stock imported from foreign countries, for the purposes of food, be taken by weight.' They were to be charged at so much the hundred weight, instead of so much the head. It is clear, however, as was pointed out in the course of the debate, that the question in which the farmer is really interested is, that of the amount of duty, not of the manner of its levying. He could not pos sibly know whether Mr. Miles's 'proposal were to be a gain or a loss to him, till he heard whether the duty of 20s. a head now proposed by Sir R. Peel, were to be superseded by one of Is. or of Ss. a hundred weight. The Members of the Government, however, who spoke on Tuesday evening, rightly addressed themselves, no t so much to the terms of Mr. Allies's motion, as to the feeling which it is understood to indicate, and laid down in a clear, manly , and convincing way, the grounds of their proposed Change. The Post thus pithily comments on a remark let drop by Sir Robert Peel in the House of Commons on Monday last ; ROLLS' COURT.- (THIS DAY.) BATHYANY C. THE EARL GI cnitsTrariELD. Lord LANGDALE was engaged, throughout this day, in hear ing the arguments in this cause. His Lordship sat in his Chamber, which was not open to the public. EXCHEQUER.--(THIS DAY.) The Court was occupied, diiring the morning, in hearing somt unimportant cases, of a purely technical character. UNION -HALL.-(THIS., 'DAY.) t : l7 - e boys sitting on the s tep s thath he s aw Two boys, the eld est onl y twelve years of age , were charged of a doer at a late h our on the p recedin g night , and on ques tioning them, their account. wa3, that they were orphans, and und A er po th li e ce f m oll a o n w s t that they sold luci fer matches to kee p th e m f rom starving ; that they usually slep t in the shambles of th e Bo rough market , having nowhere els e to go. When brought before the Magis trateitnagt s tated cir cumstances their statements were different, for they admitted their parents were alive, and that they sent them from home every morning, and unless they brought home money, no matter which way they got it, they were severely beaten, and to i.re vent this, when they got none, they stopped out all night. The father of one of the unfortunate children being present, the Magistrate severely reprehended his scandalous conduct in acting in the manner described, and only regretted that he had not the power of punishing such delinquency. The boys were then discharged, after an admonition. LLOYD'S ,HIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MAY 25. — Wind this day at Noon, S. to S.W. DEAL, MAY 24.—Wind Light and variable.--Arrd. Alex andria, Thomson, Port Philip; Apollo, Shields; for Havannah, having been in contact with the James and Mary, of Newcas tle, in Yarmouth Roads. Arrd. from the river and sld. Ca therine, Greene, St. Kitts ; Charles, Tobago; Glengariff, Jo anna, and St. Vineents, Planter, Jamaica; Elizabeth, Quebec. The Margerether, for Batavia, remains. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 24.—Wind N. N. E. to W. S. W. Arid. Finland, Wason, Havannah, for Hamburgh ; Hercules, Ashluan, Batavia, Copenhagen ; Earl Yowls, Mauritius ; Cla rendon, Jamaica. Sld. Northumberland, Calcutta. Cowles, AIRY 24.—Arrd. Aigle, Van Steen, Havannah. 'T O RBAY, Alav 23.—Acrd. off, Emma, Havannah, for Ham. burgh. The John Bartlett, from China, has gone to Leith. FALMOUTH, MAY 23.—Wind S.W. to W. S. W., fresh.— Arrd. Janet, Slater, Genoa. Ski. Montrose (steamer), Vigo. DUBLIN, nlpy 21.—Arrd. William Large, Hobbs, Trinidad. Ski. Sir Charles Napier, New York. LIVERPOOL, May 24.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Columbine, Cape and Bombay; Auckland, Pelhey, Honduras ; Lauriston, Laguna; Ondiaka, Child, New Orleans; Dibdin, Higgins, and Countess Louden, Hutchinson, Mobile; John Keen, Waterson, Havannah. Sid . Ann, Rio; WhampoaDemerara; St. George Halifax. Arid. off, Dorothea, Valparaiso. Coax, MAY 21.—Arrd. Persia, London for Ceylon. Skl. Kate Kearney, Jamaica; Silkworth, St. John's. OFF DOYEN, MAY 24.—Froya, Abo, for Leghorn ; Hamis burgh brig, N o . 57 OFF HASTIN GS , MAY 24.—Vulan, Patrick, Maur;tius. THE -. Ivr ARKET ( THIS DAY.) —_______----- C OR N EXCHANGE. The arriv a l s o f G ra i n s i nce Monday have been moderate. Wheat firm , with littl e d o i n g. In other G rain no variation. Flour met a f a i r trade. COLONIAL MARKET. The market was very thinly atten ded, not a sin g le p ublic sale was b roug h t forward, and so fe w transactions took place privately, that it was more like a holiday than anything else. TEA•SIARKET. The Tri ees h ave not un d F rgone the least chan g e, but the Market r ema i ns inactive On acco unt of the large public sales that are co m i ng forward. -- TALLOW MA RKET. The few os wtr. per cwt.ansaetions suiviirted previous rates , but the feel ing wa s d ec id e dl y in favorif' of town pr ices. P. Y. C. on the spot 47 5 . 9d. to 485.,5., andrfor delivery in the last four months of the has recently been SEAMEN 's , --, , , issued from the AdMiraley respecting the deposit of soamen's clothing, which contains i-1, , important provision with the view of preventing fires froM'sontaneous combustion, several v:eil defined cases of which have recently occurred in the Govern- CLOTIII.--All order Govern ment dock-yards. It 4141 -nits s eamen, on being paid off, to deposit their hammocks aril clothes, if they think fit, in the storehouses of th e di j ek_ var d, e special care being taken that such things-are clean, and-that no canvass, flannel, or linen, be impregnated with oil. Proper lists are to be taken, and a ticket given to ea c h man, s p e cifying the exact building , room, and rack in:, 4 which hi s h a mock: is to be found, as at the end of three months, if not claimed, it will be sold, and the proceeds given to the Seamen's Hospital Ship. Should the seamen re enter the service at another port, his things will be sent to him. Corry, H. L. Courtenay, Viscount Craig, W. Gibson Creiswell, Baker Dallier, Hon. Dawson] Dawnay, Hon. W. Dawson, Hon. T. V. Denison, E. Beckett Oivett .E Douglas, Sir Howard Douglas, Sir C. E. Douglas, J. D. S. Duff; James Duncan, George Duncombe, O. East, James Buller Eaton, Richard J. Ebrington, Viscount Egerton, W. T. Egerton, Sir P. G. Eliot, Lord Ernlyn, Viscount Escott, Bichkam Esmondc, Sir I', Evasn, William,: DIVISION ON DIA Adare. Lord Agllonby, H. A. An trobus, Edw Ird Haillie, Colonel H. Baird, W. Baldwin, C. B. Baring, W. B. Baring, F.l'. Barnard, E. G. Beresford, Major Blakemore,.R. Boldrro, H. G. ' Botfield, Beriah Browne, Hon. W. Buckley, Edmund Buller, C. Busfeild, William Childers, J. W. Christie, W. D. Clive, Robert Cobden, Richard Cockburn, Sir G. Connolly, E. Copeland, W. Crawford, W S. Denison, E. B. Douglas, Sir H. Drummond, FL H. Duncan, George Dundas, Admiral Egerton, W.T. Eliot, Lord Fitrroy, Captain Flower, Jir James Forster, Matthew Gaskell, James Milnes till, Thomas Gladstone, W. E. Clore, Montague Goulburn ' Henry Greham, Sir James Granby, Marquis of MINORITY— NOP:S — John Peter Halford, H. Arbuthnot, lion. H Henley, J. Warner Barrington, Viscount Rink, J. H. Berkeley, Grantley Knightley, Sir C. Buck, L. W. Mackenzie, T. Cayley, E. S. March, Earl of Chetwode, Sir John Morris, Da v id Clayton, B. 11, Neeld, John Colville, C. R. O'Brien, J. Coote, Sir C. O'Connor Don F,smonde, Sir T. Palmer, &bort Fuller, A. E. Palmer, George DEATH OF SIR ROBERT KEG. PORTER, THE PAINTER AND TRAVELLER. " Traveller rest! Thy journey's o'er; Sleep the sleep that knows nut breaking, Dream of foreign homes no more, Days of wand'ring—nights of waking. Dr. Porter, the physician, at Bristol, has just received news from St. Petersburgh, of the untimely death, by apoplexy, of his brother, Sir Robert Ker Porter. The father of Sir Robert Ker Porter was an officer of Dragoons, of an Irish family. He was, moreover, a younger brother, who, dying in the prime of life, left his widow with five almost infant children, in very low and slender circum stances ; and who, from time to time, were relieved by the Royal Family and other persons of distinction. Three of the orphans were sons ; the two eldest early entered professions, which they tilled in a manner honourable to their name ; the third was Sir Robert Ker, who was born in the year 1780, at Durham, and who, consequently,- at the time of his death, was 62 years of age. The two daughters were Miss Jane and Miss Anna Maria Porter, both of them so well known as authoresses, in the literary world, and of whose productions, " The Hun garian Brothers," " The Scottish Chiefs," " Thaddeus , of Warsaw," the " Village of Mariendorpt," and other works of a like nature, need only be mentioned to present copious proofs of their -wide-spread tame and celebrity. Sir Robert Ker orter, as regards genealogy and family, sprang from a race of brave and talented ancestors. Amongst the foremost of these are to be numbered Sir William Porter of the Field of Agincourt; Endymion Porter, of classic end loyal memory ; the Lord Chief Justice Sir Charles Porter, who transplanted his father's branch" of the tree to Ireland; and another who, adherieg to the cause of James Stuart, fol lowed that Monarch's ruined fortunes to the Continent, after wards settled at Bruges, and ultimately became the founder of an opulent and highly influential house. On his mother's side, Sir Robert counted the old Anglo- Saxon Barons of Blenkinsopp and Hilton, and the learned Adamsons, farther north, amongst his forefathers. As one of the modern offsets derived from these venerable progeni tors, the subject: of our memoir was frequently delighted to mention the name of John Tweddell, the celebrated traveller of Greece, now entombed, in the Temple of Theseus, at Athens—a shrine visited by every Englishman who goes to that classic land. - Mrs. Porter, the mother of Sir Robert, has long been known to the world, from coternporary friends, as one of the most exemplary women of the day, dedicating herself entirely to the comfort and education of her children; indeed, from the slender circumstances in which the widows of military men are left,- she, from prudence no less than from inclination, sought a retired life. Under her care and tuition all her children gave early proofs of mental superiority, which ap peared more particularly alter Anna Maria, the youngest, with her sister Jane, and their brother, iir Robert, had been some tirne,under the tutorship of Mr. George Fulton, who then kept a celebrated day-sishool in Edinburgh, and is well known as the compiler of an excellent dictionary. On the removal of Mrs. Porter from Scotland to England, where she, with this her young family, resided fora few years in one of the northern counties, in the near neighbourhood of one of the late Bishops of the Church, young Sir Robert, with his two sisters daily , formed a group in the Episcopal library, to which they had free access whenever they pleased. The boy, who was then but the embryo artist and traveller, drawing from missals and ilium nated books : the girls, as di ligently reading some:of the excellent works they found there, especially the 01-IChronieles, many of them in the olack letter. One of Mr. Northcote's choicest paintings was struck off in commemoration of this little group, and their early habits. He was a long-esteemed friend. The subject, as treated by him forms a slight but beautiful sketch of three happy-looking children, in a Gothic sort of chamber. One of the brightest ornaments of the world of letters, having beheld this scene, apostrophized it thus : " Lo ! he is there—within that Gothic chamber One of a cherub-group—the book unsealed — The well-spring opened;—they are drinking deep Of knowledge and of beauty ! old Romance And fairy spells are round them. His young eye, Instinct with rapture, hails the witching vision, And straight transmits its glories to his mind, And precious seed-store for the future hour." The residences of Sir Robert Ker Porter and his Tamil] were various on their coming to London. About 1823 they lived at a pretty ivy-mantled spot on the banks of the Thames, at bitton, and shortly after at another little abode of a similar description, situated on a hill at Esher, where in the June of 1831 his mother died. After this bereavement they sought change of place, and after residing different times at Hyde park and Portland-place, took up their residence at a friend's house on Banner-down, near Bath : they then proceeded to .Bristol, to visit their brother, Dr. Porter, who had been fur some years settled in that.town as a physician, and where on the 6th of June, Anna Maria Porter died of typhus. On referring to the Catalogues of the Royal Academy of past years, he appears to have been a constant and attractive exhi bitor. In the exhibition for 1804 he exhibited two paintings, one of a Russian Cuirassier, and another of a British Light Dragoon. 1805, A draWing from the Avenger, or the Wrongs of Lady Herinegeld. 1797, A horseman run down by a lion. Portrait of a gentleman as Hamlet ; and about half-a-dozen various other portraits. He was then living in Newport-street. 1793, A Saracen flying from the enemy, and portraits. Living at 66, St. Martin's-lane. 1793, The defeat of King Stephen at the battle of Lincoln, from Rapin. He was then living at 38, Bedford-street, Covent-garden. Sir Robert became a student at the Royal Academy, under the auspices of Mr. West, and two years after commencing his studies at the Academy, he was employed to paint his picture of Moses and Aaron, for the communion-table of Shoreditch Church ; in 1794 he presented an altar-piece to the Roman -Catholic Chapel at Portsea, representing Christ suppressing the Storm ; and in 1798 he gave to St. John's College, Cambridge, the altar-piece of St. John Preaching in the Wilderness. At only 22 years of age he began his large picture of the Storms ing of Seringapatarn, which was succeeded by the Battle of Agincourt, and was presented to the City of London. The painting, however, which attracted most attention, and which was exhibited in the year 1801 at the Lyceum, was the fine historical subject of the " Siege of Acre," relative to the late contest which had then taken place in Syria under Sir Sidney Smith. This production was a piece of very excellent colour ing, the groupings good, and the whole, from its truth and exe.: cution, drew large numbers to see it. In 1803 he was appointed a Captain in the Westminster Militia; in 1804 he was invited to Russia, and appointed his torical painter to the Emperor. During his residence at St. Petersburgh he gained the affections of the Princess Mary, daughter of Prince Theodore de Sheibatorff, of Russia, and was about to marry her, when Ministerial differences com pelled him to leave Russia; in the year, 1,111, however, this marriage was solemnized, and the Princess now survives him. Sir Robert accompanied Sir John Moore into Spain, and shared in the hardships and perils of the campaign which ended in the Battle of Corunna. In 1807 he was created a Knight of St. Joachim of Wurtemberg, and on his return to England, 1813, he received the honour of Knighthood from the Prince Regent. Sir Robert's fame, as a traveller and literary man, was first made known to the world by his " Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden during the years 1805-6-7-8," and which in the ensuing year were given to the public. lie sailed from England on this extensive tour in the August of 1805, and passing the Sound, visited first Elsineur, where he followed Hamlet everywhere, and " measured the shadows on the platform." From Zealand, he next struck across to Cronstadt, and thence to St. Petersburgh. Here his lucubrations grow entertaining and full ; 'the Church dedicated to " the Mother of God at Razan," the architect of which was formerly a slave of Count Strcgonoff, where, too, were hung up the keys of Johmael, Okzakow, Derbent, and the standards and trophies of Pultowa, Noir, and Alessandria, was not among the least noticeable of the things there seen by him. From Moscow he journied through Finland and across the Gulf to Stockholm, where he visited the King Gustavus and his Queen, the latter of whom—then a most beautiful woman—he considered the " Fair Helen of the North." He visited the spot in Daleearlia, where Gustavus Nasa took refuge from the Danish usurper, and was next carried by his military ardour to Gottenburg, where he resolved to enter on immediate service with the English army, then assembled in that port, and ulti mately came to England. . Sir Robert Ker Porter's second series of travel was begun in the year 1817, and he was engaged the three consecutive years in following them up. During this period he traversed Georgia, Persia, Armenia, and Ancient Babylon. Having from childhood been an ardent lover and sedulous practicer of the arts, the study of antiquity, during these travels, shared no small part of his attention, and the plains of Babylon afforded him even ampler scope than those of Per sepolis, while Kurdistan, a county of which little comparatively was known, of whom the people and country too were highly picturesque, was explored by him to a great extent, avid he travelled over this latter portion of country with much careful geographical precision, which lie rendered more particularly interesting by tracing the march of Xenophon. In 1818, he enjoyed the company of Mr. Rich, the late Consul, at Bagdad, and in concert with that gentleman made many excellent excursions and antiquarian researches among the old ruins of Babylon: his observations with his sextant were unceasing, and astronomy kept him constantly alive. His much-lamented friend Bclino died at this period. Of the great quantity of relics which he collected at Mujelebe, El Kur, or the palace, Al Hymer, Persepolis, and Maelishi-Itoustan, va rious allotments were presented by him to the British Museum, where every day visitors may inspect them, as also to the Edin burgh and Dublin Museums, in which are the smaller speci mens, while others are deposited in the Imperial Museum at St. Petersburgh. In 1819, he was created a Knight of the Lion and Sun of Persia. In the diplomatic and in the military service .of the State he had much distinguished himself, having served in both capacities, in Russia, in the Peninsula, various parts of the Continent, in Persia, and in South America. In the year 1832, he was created a Knight Commander of the Hanoverian Order by William IV. His most recent appointment was that of Consul at Venezuela, from which place he returned in 1841. DREADFUL SUIciDE BY A FEMALE.-Yesterday evening Mr. Payne held an inquest at Bartholomew's Hos pital, on view of the body of Ann Johnson, aged 35. Susan Hall, of 29, Cock-lane, Smithfield, stated that she and de ceased lodged in the same house together. About eight o'clock on Thursday evening last witness's daughter (a child about eight years old) heard a knocking in deceased's room, and thinking she wanted someone, the child went in. On entering the apartment she found deceased lying on the bed. She appeared to be unable to speak, but made a sign to the child to go and fetch her mother, which sho accordingly did. On witness going into the deceased's room she went up to her bedside, and asked her if she was not well? Deceased, in reply, shook her head, and then significantly drew her right hand across the bed clothes over her throat. Witness said, Good heavens, you have cut your throat! Deceased replied in the affirmative by nodding her head. Witness rushed out of the room to procure assistance. The bed was soaked with blood, and there was a tub at the end of the bed with a great quantity of blood in it. She had evidently cut her throat with her head hanging over the end of the bed, and then drawn her self up into the bed. Deceased had been drinking during the previous week, and had subsequently suffered severely from low spirits. She died on Sunday last. Yerdict—" Temporary Insanity." THE DEANERY OF ST. PATRICK ' S. — It IS under stood that Dr. Radcliffe will pronotince judgment to-morrow in the long litigated question arising out of the election to the Deanery of St. Patrick's, vacant by the death of the lamented Dean Dawson. —Dublin Pilot (Monday). The Austrian Observer, of the 16th inst., contains an order from the Emperor of Austria for the opening of sub-, scriptions in all the provinces of the empire, in favour of Iram burgh. The contemplated improvements in Piccadilly have been postponed until the ensuing autumn, in consequence of some difficulties on the subject which have arisen on the part of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, whose limits extend to the basin in the Green Park. The parish of St. George, Hanover square, are willing to accede to the proposals of the Commis sioners of Woods and Forests to facilitate the widening of the street, anti there is no doubt that this desirable improve ment, though now at a stand-still, will be ultimately carried into effect. An interesting ceremony took place, on Saturday, at the Church of St. Pierre, at Montmartre. It was the cele bration of the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage bet Ween a woithy couple named Rouselet. The Cure, in giving them the usual benediction, declared that it was the first known instance of the kind within the parish, THE FRENCH BUDGET. (From the Constitutionnel of Monday.) . M. Etienne, reporter of the Committee charged with the examinationof the Bill for definitively regu lating the estimates bf 1840,. has. laid his Report Olr . the bureau of the Chainber. This document, drawn up with a conscientious sagacity, belongs to that class of State papers which put us into possession of the. real situation of our expenses and our receipts. Budgets are now becoming merely vague estimates, and the laws of finance, which fix beforehand the expenses and receipts, are in general so little respected, or so badly combined in their elements, that at the moment of the closing of the estimates, they are always sub jected to' important modifications by the creation of supplementary credits. Thus, at the moment when. the Chambers voted the supplies of 1840, the budget presented not only an equilibrium between the re ceipts and expenses, but, in addition, a presumed excess of about sixteen millions, the expenses being esti mated at 1,099,913,487 f., and the receipts at 1,115,765,222 f. But apecial laws soon added,' in tb.s sessions of 1839 and 1840, further credits amounting to 68 millions, so that the bases of the budget were, disarranged, and the equilibrium was already de— stroyed at the period when the Eastern question forced' the Governinerit to increase its military and maritime forces. Tlie total resources of the year 1840 amounted to the sum 1,242,980,600 f. These receipts were com posed of 1,115,765,222 f. of ordinary resources, of 73,985,000 f. appropriated to public,. works, of 8,847,948 f. brought forward from the estimate.% of 1838 and 1839, of 11,632,871 f. of excess realised from the departmental resources, and of 32,749,558!x. the excess of produce over the original expenses.. From these sums must be deducted 17,274,027 L carried on to the following estimates for de -partmental expenses, leaving for 18401,225,706,572 f. ; and as the payments effected amount to 1,363,716,102 f., the defiCit of receipts of the esti mates of 1840 is fixed, by the Bill presented to the Chamber, at 138,009,529 f. This deficit affects the ordinary expenses to the amount of 48,597,732 f., and. on extraordinary expenses for 89,411,790 f. In 1839) the budget presented an excess in receipts of more than three millions, and the last report on the bill of accounts has announced that the expenses had been completely paid with the ordinary revenues laid apart for that purpose, without there being any necessity for applying to such funds of the other estimates as might be free. It is to such a position that we ought to return, but unfortunately the budget of 1843 does not present itself in such a way as would lead us to hope for such a result. It shows at the present moment a deficit of 33 millions, without our foreign policy im posing on us the same sacrifices as in 1840. Besides the deficit already stated, the Committee on the bud-. get specifices certain necessities which will absorb. considerable sums. Already I,Boo,ooof.have been de manded for the PalaiS de Justice at Rouen; the effee tire force of the army in Africa is only put down at 38,000 men—a number • altogether below the most favourable probability. No credit has been provided for the .transatlantic steam packets. The interest to be paid for the emission of a further portion of the loan are not comprised in the credits which have been demanded, neither have the expenses of the central prisons, nor the prAniurns on the whale and cod. fishery, &c., been provided for. Supplementary and extraordinary credits will reveal to us all the chasms in these estimates, and will show, 'as to the expenses, nn enormous difference between the finances and the estimates. Almost all the committees give proofs of these anomalies, and that on the accounts of 1840 gives also, through M. Etienne, salutary. warnings to the Government. We desire with all our heart that the Government may take the warning, and be more exact and regular for the future in its calculations. FIRE AT HAMBURGH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Slll,--We think it may be of interest for you to have the fol lowing particulars of the fire ; it appears now that the follow ing is the rectified statement. Burnt down • 61 Streets. 120 Courts. 1,992 Houses, and 1,716 Dwelling floors (Etages, Sable). 498 Cottages. 468 Dwelling cellars. 21,526 Inhabitants roofless. „r~? DEPARTURES• Major Cotton, frorn Nerot's Hotel, for Scotland ; Dr. Y e t ; ton, from ditto, for ditto ; Mrs. Alleyne and family, fro, n P. son's Hotel, Portland-place, for Brighton ; Capt. Cmcp it ditto, for . Sandford Park, near Woodstock ; Capt. Airos,y, ditto. • The Municipal Council of Paris has voted the of 350,000 f. for the immediate widening of the Rue de .1A `l,lfci by alterations on the right side, from the Marche aux Fleska" the Rue.du Marche Neuf: wieP BIRTHS. t IO On the 14th inst., at Muinder House , Monmou thshire, wife of Captain Newall, East India Service, of a. eon. On the 16th inst., the lady of Captain Vidal , R.N., o f a t o On the 19th inst., at Bath, the wife of Lieutensu t La lo , Browell, R.N., of her Majesty's steam-frigate Vixen , of a ,00, On the 20th inst., at Bow, Mrs. Edward E. Calton, 01.'170 On the 22d inst., in Titchficld-terrace, Regent's-park , lady of Captain Manners, R.N., of a son. (10' On the 224 inst., at Camden-cottages, Camden-town , T. T. a Beckett, of a daughter. •01 On the 24th inst., in St. James's - place , the wife of Still Cripys, Esq., M.P., of a daughter. - . 3 Churches. 2 Synagogues. 3 Watermills, with 36 wwlves. The spinnhaus and zuchthaus, with their churches (houses of correction). The Detentions house. The Senat house. The Old Exchange.--N.B. The new Exchange, only built last year, is saved, and after a few days repairing, in we again. The Eimbeck-house, containing Court of Commerce, Court of Common Pleas, with offices; the" Custom-house offices, the Stamp-offices, the Lottery saloon, the Citizen Guard offices, and other pszblic °Cies. The Bank. A great many, and all of the largest. hotels, and all the libraries. • 3,786,300 square feet is the superficial extent of the burnt portion of the city. Respectfully, Sir, your most obedient servants, ABRAHAM BAUER AND CO. Hamburgh, May 18, 1642., MARKET and MONEY and CITY NEWS. FROM TILE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. er mille TIMES.—The premium which, at the English Mint on gold at Paris 13 10 p priceof 31. 17 5 . 100. per ounc e for standard gold, gives an exchange. of 2.5 .404, and the ex change at Paris on London at short being 25 55, it follows that gold is 0.58 . per cent. dearer in London than in P aris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 428 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10 1 / 2 d r . pe ounce for standard gold, gives in.exchange of 13 63/4, and tire exchange at Hamburgh on London-at'-short being 1 3 8, it follows that gold is 0 .6 9 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. The jobbers are now employed. with the arrangement of the six weeks' account in Consols, which is fixed for Thursday ; it is not expected to be a heavy settling day, but the scarcity 0 , money..out of doors has had some influence in its value here* and therefore the rates vary from 31,4 to 5 per cent. for tempo' rary accommodation. SUN.—The extent of business in the English mark et has not ',) increased since the morning; prices, however , are rath er better 7` than at the commencement, Consols being 925 for Money, for the Account; Bank Stock, 167 168 ; India S toc k, 240' 251 Exchequer Bills, old, 37 39, and those advertised for payme nt ' . 33 35 premium. The only variation in Foreign Securities is that of Dutch , ' being a shade below yesterday, the Two and a Half per Gen"' leaving off at 524 521, and the Five per Cents., 101 1014; Belgian remained at 102 103 ; Danish, SO/ 61/ ; and 13re" zilian, 67 65. Shares were rather flat, although the alteration was veil trifling. London and Birmingham, 179 181 ; Birminghs to and Gloucester, 51 53 ; Great Western, 914 92 3 / 4 , the Half - • shares, 63 3 4 64/ ; South Western, 635 64 ; Gosport, 63 3 / 4 6 4 ' North Midland. 65 67, the New Shares, 32 33 ; South Eastern I and Dover, 294 295, the Scrip, 75 74; Eastern Counties, 9 95; Blackwall, 11 114, the New Shares, 9 91 ; and Brighto' 36 364 per Share. A great improvement in the rate of Exchange en the pro , " cipal Continental cities was observable to-dav, Hamburgh being 13 10% 13 104 ; Amsterdam, 12 4 3 / 4 12 44 ; Rotterelanb 12 434 ; Frankfort, 1514 151 Paris, 25f. 77 3 / 4 e., 25f. 82 3 / 4 c. The quotations of the various Bonds were—Colombia n ' 261 27,1 ; Peruvian, 194 19 3 4 ; Portuguese Five per Cents.; 376 36; the Three per Cents., 221 224 ; Spanish Five 1 4 Cents., and the Three per Cents., 225 23. By the way of Sydney, intelligence has been received frl New Zealand. It would appear that the various settlements are progressing rapidly and successfully , which is a t t ribot solely to the fact, that wherever the Anglo - Saxon race ere placed they are determined to go ahead. The Legislati ° Council had assembled, at which the Governor had de livered* speech which was generally deemed satisfactory, . In menticei ing his late visit to the several locations,. it may be gathe r e that the emigrants were comfortably situated , and he state*, that at whatever settlements had Leen farmed, the best fee liao continued to prevail between the E'oropeans and the natives' that the former were to a certain cxtent dependent upon latter for many of the necessary supplies, which were reel" and willingly granted. FASHIONABLE INTEI:OI4IGENCi ARRIVALS. ' Mr. and Mrs.' Beresford Baroke, at their Aouse in Chanel street, Cavendish-square ; Townshend Ince, .Esq., and , Ince, at Nerot's Hotel, Clifford and Cork-street:', from cheste, — Edward Fyler, Esq., and Mrs. Lewis; at Nelson's Hotel, F°P,:, land-place, from Bath ; Mrs. Scott and Miss Ra vne , at flitb; from Reading ; Mr. and Mrs. Lurnsden, at diii`o ; captt, Boulby, at ditto; .1. Monkton, Esq. , at ditto ; the I'.ev. Aro'd deacon Law, at ditto; Major-General Sir Henry l(ing 11 : 0 , Lady King, at the Gloucester Hotel, Berkeley-stye at, ap d fr Brighton ; the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Lander, at. ditto ; Mrs. Rimmington, at ditto ; Hon. Colonel C. Westenrst, sl. at ditto. MARRIED. On the 24th inst., at St. John's, Paddington, John ''''' i . DI forth Beckett, Esq. , to Gert r ude Eiizabeth, elder datl,) , V./ the late Sir William Ho‘re Mulcaster, R.N., K.C. if. t ,l‘_, l 9o. and C.R., and niece iif Lieutenant-General Sir rrt- William Mulcaster; K.-C. H. ---------404—_ DIED. On the 22d inst., at Richmond, Surrey, John li or i g ir Tredgold, Esq., the late Secretary of the 'British and 1 ... 9i . Anti-She I§ 7 th inst., at /I '—i. Ellen, youngest delen -i On the r 0..... ~ .arpeno, ,ik, of the lateltnbort Bent , Esq. 1 0 1 ' 4, n , i. On the 22d inst., at Upper Kensington-,ore Char Esq:, aged 77. ffir. On the 22d inst., at West Farm, Herts, Ann, µ ld late late W. Anderson, Esq., of Highwood-hill, Middle• ite k' On the 22d inst., at Harlow-mill, Essex, Jane, the Mr. Barnard, aged 72. 1 , up io, ip Londcn: Printed Lnd Publishad by MURDO It' s9 c 07 6 No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No 112, lg. the County of Middlesex, Wednesday, May 22 , 1 ' ~ y~ ~:. i - ;*`* F ...' CE ro, Ab Ab Pet 101. per be I Poi et re thrt 2 65. 235,