The Sun. — London, England, 1842-06-03 00:00:00

(1 over adicap miles cice jail,' 1 1I L CO BANK OF ENGLAND, JUNE 2, 1842. V I URT of DIRECTOR S of the GO- IobERNOIt and COMPANY of the BANK of ENG- Th gire notice TORS at 4 SPECIAL GENERAL COURT of PROPRUEI - will be held at the Bank on Mori DAY next, the , 6! Ht o, at ta rive o'Clock recise;Y, to consider ADDRESSES Alte l aiesty the QUEE P N and His Rol al Highness PRINCE thle attempts 0 11 tic, providential protection from the late treason empts against the life of her Majesty. JOHN KNIGHT, Secretary. 11,: ). fAL EAT G . W HER..—NOON, JUNE 3. e^teLLERY OP SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-.STREET• r.... 69 I Highest 7O I Lowest 45 Il arottieter 30.25.—Wind S.W. • 4 . — ni" g r Ett AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. after 8 I Evening ......17 minutes after 9. 5 t _ krtontEbition SUN OFFICE Three o'Clock. c _... INDIA N NEWS. ti all }:xlraortlinary Express from Paris we learn tow ' e Dyed:old Mail from India arrived at Marseilles chiila (. :r d' l u lleBd aY night. It brings no news from ,d ;:t irl d . , : , e "Peet any, as sufficient time has not elapsed IL ( I '°,ll- ' e lleg the operations which Plenipotentia i ry k S in. - 11'e ha te designed to carry on against ' in- Itli.„ ave important, and to some extent distressing news li the from Afghanistan. The most painful . 'ilk t surrender of the strong fortress of Ghuznee, ' r e Col , ,-, the celebrated lit one, PALLIE R commanded, min witi g of which by General KEANE was rewarded t 5 rage e l 4 l'e, and a pension. Compelled by hunger tiqwhaPitulaLe, Colonel PALMER agreed to evacuate the i I>o li t ll4 Promise for a safe conduct for himself and ' ll 4 t rl i to Caubul. From this circumstance we may . ' 4. th e lat he knew nothing of the destruction the f - 4,111.1 Y commanded by General ELPHINSTONE, r a , n out to of and M`NAGHTEN. The fait „,. Order BITRNEs 01,"' el l b rought the first account of the destruction th. 4 , tro o .._ 4:fr ~ VS in Caubul, brought likewise the news that 1r,, - ;""ans had taken the town of Ghuznee, and that . Ittr,:t-'' I'ALUER was shut up with a single Sepoy r T egi- e 451)41 1: 1. tile Cita del, with provisions for six monthS. h 14 tt ilit Y is, that he had not supplies for one third of 1)el 44 ' The snow was then very deep, and the bler,l6su'areustomed to the mild climate of Hindostan, I fq , "ring dreadfully from the cold. That so strong f i_te,ll.:ee? should have been left in so weak a state .. . o Vkl ia ''S Very discreditable to the British authorities in I.l li4 il i t : t . ll ' ~tes iri - w'e sad side of the picture. Fortunately, the re tcrottoe"—: reg entst r es a more cheering appearance. Colonel jr t4e t i forced the celebrated Khyber Pass, and t t44 kh; 411 the works commanding it, preparatory to tb k , t ' ll g to the relief of General Sir R. SALE, at Jella- Ilt 1 , 1 ,That Gallant Officer not only held his ground, : i l(. l ., a t : i : Ea Sortie, in which he routed and killed a con- Aa , bod y of the enemy. General KNOT, at Can -4 hie th acre frequent sallies upon the insurgentso . 'At) tet .ey invariably had the worst of it. He was in t ' i llto: l e t L E ' l l of being joined by General ENGLAND with Th e 'teents. , (4 ', th Pu i s.s "sient of the Khyber Pass is some consolation t ' tr:; t osB of Caubul and Ghuznee. It places one of °4 l shut agates of the kingdom in our power, to open "hat 1 , 11 4 t R t : t °lir pleasure. We have not yet heard 11 - %4, t r e rifiee of human life this advantage was pur Its,„ but we should suppose it considerable. . . 41,1 'ears w ere ~ o at that SHAH SoOJAH was poisoned, FL tir 'til t ie t , the assassin ao AKHBAR KHAN was severely ")0 4 ,, c "" This news, if true, is very important. SHAH 4 1: 11 ' Could not die at a more propitious moment, u r d 1 1 4 ti : the interests of this country. His death would o the 4 di ait ~,O f a treacherous ally, in favour of whom ,li.iall '''overnment entered into engagements totally at Ili!! ales with every dictate of sound policy. At half i 'ta ti "Pt nse of a single campaign in Affglian kko a " GOD knows how many more cam thc, 8 are before us—we could have purchased ' I r r( . 111111 frie n d s hi p of DOST MOHAMMED, whose ' , I°ll to Russia was at no time so great as to give Na tile influence o f a well-timed present. We pre -4k1.1 Or rather Lord AUCRLAND preferred, trusting to N I , ' not remembering that in ninety-nine cases out of I r' k ,, / hundred,' where you find a fool you find also a t ai' !' We do not exp ec t th e arrival of the India papers Mond a y. 44 China we have no news whatever. 1.1 411 --...- 4t. • 6 Y of Our English readers know little, and probably lkitt(l-4,st about the disservions which have so long pre •lt3 br ill ", t he Scotch Church, but as missionaries from 1, 1 : 1 kd o ,,;" sections are to proceed to this part of the th he tNar ° enl ighten the benight e d i n h a bi tants, i t may it t Net ) to give the public some insight into the 14:4ttii j ii i ‘ , o ll:i t i i t lt i li fo e i s . e pi d e i t v y in aensd . However much they may be zeal against Non-Intrusion, and (ir ,i.oe 44,1tialities which they regard as great virtues, seem utterly th at "Ill'ute that of mercy, they We i t ' t ll i theriero"llY ;heir fruits ye shall know them." a I, teel. ~., re s tate a fe w facts, in order that . those in t, c. 44 the be able to judge. The dissensions date rtl c'cl Ye a' 1 834 when the party that had long Pt‘ 11(1134 ; ; lin()Ti ty in the Church gained the ascendant y ill s 4 a 1 4 , 4 held it with a high hand ever since. T 41, and " which all the civil Courts pronounced e k lt f i ' ' 4 „ e ; 0,1, wit h a view to enforce that law, they hav l I: ( stry ; 'rear after year, deposing holy k th itili ll th ° „ 1:11 , e °f the most useful members of the Church. d from the p:"t 4 4 " utst thirteen months only they have deposed la li c d tel lee s , It i " or eighteen clergymen, under various R ead Iles' brit virtually for obedience to the law of the N i , to a "eiNd only one of their own party, but that .h 'it t q ii 114:bet' hi Ali offence, a scandalous case, which t he s e . easys concealed from the iit I,rit w . this public eye. Some ~_ Year mark in a peculiar degree 4, lt tl iat (4 111‘.eo animates these men. One of these ii '4 ll , l3r Ye ars l WILsoN, of Stranraer, now about ;e t , ' " r erty, 'if age, who had filled the office for . 1)41(-4st of -'etal's, and was much beloved. The other is Ill lttit„, t q ll ,„' l% b tonin presented to a living by the ti lty V . rif L—,"l:', With ' the approbation of a vast . NI " 41 ' rrlshiotiers. In addition to these penalties, 411 qni,e4-48Pended from their judicial functions eleven (11 :t il l ° l'ef: t "ee, and threaten to suspend or depose ki n 'ilt t ti-,e oboe, to their illegal Veto Act. Con- tliC t h ~l ' has all the appearance of madness, and (~tellit4tit'gatded u ith pity, were the consequences As to a '4 4 : 4 4 t o ti °t . it of the Church not so afflicting._ hir 4 ts I, this the tray add, that till the Is, on-Intrii t4lll:.)plititi,tt'elil'e'elLl t ie majorit„;in the Assembly, the depo tY f, not !, n ot ,V .man was a matter . of rare ccurrence, • la itu t.vner than once in ten years, and gene li et eh ty. 411 d: Ireet% „---------.0.--____ tiltl l li_ti the iitttujirvvnita:.s of every shade of opinion, londlj n , 4 tht. Chatribee of Deputies, for the rejectio , Ti k 4 Y. 4 , ,,,,, , r i s Bills mentioned in The San of t l il lb tl% 5 , 1 4 dearth of news of any interest in the French Zrtl' At ita ' l ye w hat is given in our Foreign Summary. 01 ,17,,ip'41.. st_t.cauler , ' at Toulon on the 2Sth of Ma ir,'' P Y4l( ll i l 44 \l 'oeh it l e 4l7l o v n ed the 25th, with 350 passengers, as e t4,',,,the others. It left at Algiers the jwyneeleothn, ti .1 / 4 tC 4 rta tna, the Vautour, the Fulton, the a Ti v r , e 23ti re. tt,4411:4,,44q(,„6f AI the expedition left Algiers to join the 4, 1 11 t 1,N. - Val at iliatiah, or in the environs , _ as have"emets (4 4 4: t c; t 4l, It , vne several corps commenced their iO l l. t i a . elp , r f . ° ;`,'ed to the B which farick, and N4llititi t'''etit ena `ue Chiffa, between BTidah, point of union, ino w ye as said tk l) t et. nlvards jit-Colonel Regnault is mar t ° u u vring with a ► Ptel„ i t is ~,,.'" aPproaebes of the 11lasm , o jirot , ...ct the i,,;',,, Arad iln 1(1 , rierally affirmed that the crop of hay will be 'illligral ) , tant. 0%6 ..,°w themselves at almost every point in the 14‘„11,11", -ahel• They are seen sometimes in ba e n r d o s us o . f y1ki1,,h;,,4 cuu,t,,o,lnetimes they are much more num_ .nos 4 ) , 4 mt act : a% many as 300 horsemen. Aceo . rdi eht l i ) ,e , ilp, 4 tit () , ( !noi nai _en r !he side towards the Ilassanta, h ( r.,,,l ,ait i i i, l e il e ,:ai ewililill6,loyed in mowing i r C ce olo t n l w M e a r rengo n h e e battalion h P ee. he has taken a m' p ‘l iece to or artillery m with him.- 43 II • I t ( ..)U It s Sth PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1. . la, ;Ott r. First Highest Lowest Prier.gi 1,..t . N r -N, Price rrice. Pr." 119 90 th tt °l 0 , Len t :: ....... . 120 5 ... 124 5 ... 119 90 ... Si 85 1 i c h44 ,.tc,,, . ............. 82 5 h e t 2 5.. 8 1 6 5 ...1340 t kit t I ,4i : _. ... rap ...40 ...73:31°) "..:1(.:0 oN, ' 13,14'1%r. 4 1 r r g e; gil : ..1 5 1 ; l i :145 :••5,1,5,, 50 11 t h /, ....... ..... ... 79/ 50 ... 707 50 ...797 50 ... •,, . ON i 41,1te in •'. 115% ... 19A ... 11 . 5 S ... Hetl 4, c ii 44 kvt ................ 1 / 4 A ... •.;4.. ... 2•4 i ••• 4 4 vt,, ~... . :::. .................. I 44,4, ... 4ii .. 444 107 7i) ... 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IFA 7 ,,, ,! _ wi kr Ccns. .......... .. ..... ..!....,. 18 --4 SUMMARY OF NEWS D public Optuton. " Who runs ,nay read." FOREIGN. The Overland Mail from India arrived at Marseilles, on Wednesday night. The garrison of Ghuznee, we deeply re gret to state, had capitulated, on condition of being safely con ducted to Caubul. This is our second serious reverse in Aff ghanistan. As a setoff against this disaster, Colonel Pollock had forced the far.famed Khyber Pass, and taken possession of the forts commanding it. Ile was preparing to march to the relief of Jellalabad, where the heroic General Sale had made a sortie, and driven off the insurgents. There were rumours that Shah Soojah was poisoned, and the as-assin, Akhbar Khan badly wounded. General Knott had gained some advantages at Candahar, where it was daily ex pected that he would be joined by General England. No news from China. The French Chamber of Deputies has rejected, by 206 to 63, the project of law affording the Government aid, by way of loans, to the Strasbourg and Basle, Bordeaux and Teste, and Paris and Versailles (Left - Bank) Railroads. The Pcbals, the Constitutionnel, the Courrier Francais, and the Paris Globe, disapprove of the rejection. On Wednesday afternoon the Chamber of Deputies passed the Rouen and Havre Railroad Bill by 173 against 99. The execution, by the articles, is assigned to C. Laffitte and Co., at their risk and peril, by the prolonging of the Paris and Rouen line to Havre. The State offers a loan of ten millions of francs, payable by tenths, besides a free gift of eight mil lions from the Government. _ _ The ordinary mails from Madrid are only to the 26th. On that day the Fete Dieu was celebrated, and the Regent and his staff accompanied the procession. The Queen and the In. , fanta, her sister, viewed it from the balcony of the Munici pality House. Captain Vasse, of the Paris, which arrived yesterday morn ing at Havre from Hamburgh, reports that the inhabitants of that city hare imposed upon themselves a mourning of six weeks, during which period there are to be no amusements of any kind, and music is entirely interdicted. Workman are actively engaged in removing the ruins of the houses which were destroyed, and wooden barracks are being constructed in different quarters for the accomodation of the houseless. He states that in one street, that of Holzdamni, 127 houses were burnt, and only two escaped, as if by miracle. Bills are paid, and mercantile engagements respected as if the calamity had not occurred. We learn by a letter from Trieste, 21st ult., that the Aus trian Lloyd's Steam Navigation Company, which hithei•to only occasionally sent their vessels to Constantinople and Syria, passing by Smyrna, have now established a fixed and regular communicaticn by that line. The Emperor of Austria, taking into consideration the advantages rendered to the public by this company in its different lines of navigation, has granted in its favour a diminution of 20 per cent. on the Post-office duties. The Augsburgh Gazette announces the undertaking by Russia of a powerful attack on the Circassians. It is to be directed against the districts of Schapsuk and Saduk, the central points of resistance ; whilst on the south another corps will proceed from Gagra of Sutcha against the Abasians. The War Minister, Ceernitschef, will command in person. General Grabbe will command under him. Some hope as little from these active operations as from the blockade of last year. Gutz Beg, whom Bell called the Lion of the Caucasus, is dead. Alansur Beg is the most influential chief in the north. The Abasians obey Hadschi Dukhum Oku. PARLIAMENTARY. The Income-tax Bill was last night carried up to the Lords, and read a first time. It is to be read a second time this day week. Lord Kinnalrd moved for a Committee to inquire into the general distress; but after the Duke of Wellington had made a few objections to the motion, the Noble Lord withdrew it. Their Lordships sat till nearly Nine o'Cluck. The Commons did not make a house. PUBLIC OPINION. In an article on the subject of bribery at elections, the Times contains the following remarks :—" We cannot hope for any real check to corrupt practices till the arm of justice is enabled to reach them; and justice is not enabled to reach them till it is enabled to reach them cheaply. It is a mere farce to expect that the crime of bribery will be followed up generally by Parliamentary petition, as long as these petitions are encumbered by the enormous ex pense and uncertainty which at present impede their progress. In many cases the hope of ultimately reconquermg a seat in Parliament may lead nun to spend their thousands in unseating an adversary. But this motive is now, it appears, to be de nounced as corrupt ; at least the House of Commons has thought itself bound to arm one of its Members with strange and unprecedented powers, in order to detect and punish those who have been content to take and act upon this view of a Parliamentary petition. In some few cases personal animosity may lead a rich man to undergo all this expense to avenge himself on a successful rival. In some—very few indeed, we are afraid—the same sacrifices may be prompted by burning indignation at rampant and notorious venality. But in all alike some very powerful and unusual stimulus is necessary to urge men through the enormous difficulty, and expense, and trouble, and uncertainty, by which their course is impeded." The Chronicle returns to the subject of the Bishop of Lon. don's defence of his Right Rev. Brother of Montreal's sectarian exclusiveness, observing :—" An attempt is made by the Times to strengthen the Bishop of London's defence of the sectarian exclusiveness of the Bishop of Montreal in - refusing to allow the erection of monuments in churches to any parties that did not take the sacrament according to Church of England forms. We therefore return to the subject, which, although of limited interest in itself, is yet of great and national importance in the principles involved in its discussion. The regulations in ques• tion were, we are told, occasioned by circumstances which had given reasonable offence to members of the Church.' But the persons offended by the exclusion are members of the Church also ; and very reasonably are they offended ; and to a much greater extent than the particular members (i. e. some of the frequenters of some one church in Canada) could possibly have been by the absence of any such exclusion. Were not the officers who wished to erect the tablet, members of the Church? Are not thousands and millions whom the regulation will ex clude from posthumous honours, members of the Church ? We are all born members of the Church of England, and re main so, unless excommunicated. To take the sacrament is not the rule, but the:exception. This may be an inconvenience to the Church in a religious view, but it is the price of being a national Church. A large majority of its own members are therefore injured and insulted by this prohibition. The dis tinction is most arbitrary. Many abstain from the sacrament for fear of partaking unworthily. The principle may be a mis taken one, but it is the mistake of religious humility. And the Bishop's dictum is that the humble in life shall be dishonoured in death, and by their lowliness of spirit forfeit the well-earned memorials of virtuous character, public services, and eminent achievements." The Post says :—" We, once for all, most emphatically pro claim that we consider an hereditary enmity to Ft ance the feel ing the most opposed to the dictates of civilization and Christi anity. Of all nations it would ill become our countrymen—no nation has a more mixed origin. Our highest blood comes from a Norman source, and our Royal dynasty, the object of our warmest affections, comes from a foreign land, and is constantly recruited from a foreign stock. It is the glorious constitution of our polity, and, above all, the blessed influence of our reli gion, which makes men wise, noble, and good, in this dear land of ours, which even a negro cannot touch without becom ing a child of freedom. The only men we hate (politically) are the men who, like a Palmerston and a Thiers, make the bad passions of men minister to their personal designs, and to the gratification of their vanity or their ambition. We consider that far the most judicious ceurse would be to leave La Jenne France, like a spoilt child, to vent her wayward humours un noticed and in isolation, and avoid the chance of receiving un- pardonable insult." We take the following from the Herald :—" Mr. Crawford's motion on Monday night was downright nonsense ; it asserted the incapacity of the Legislature to increase taxation because the House of Commons did not represent the people, and Set proposed that Parliament should at once set about extending the suffrage. Now, if the House be incompetent to impose taxes to evalise revenue and expenditure, by how much more must it be incompetent to extend the suffrage ? If it be morally incompetent to perform the minor, it must be still more incom petent to enact the major act. Mr. Crawford complained that the legislation of the house was class-legislation ; if so, it is in the matter of taxation class-legislation very favourable to his adopted clients, the working classes, for it limits increased taxa tion to those who are removed from the necessity of earning their daily bread by their daily labour. The class-financial legislation of Sir Robert Peel's Government proposes to tax the richer sections of the community only. As the Chartists complain of this exceptional legislation, do they demand the extension of the income tax to their wages ? To be consistent with their own principles they should do so. Universal dis tress, urged Mr. Crawford, is a proof of bad legislation ; admit this assertion—which is, however, in reality a vague falacy— and what does Mr. Crawford's argument gain thereby ? Uni versal suffrage would not remove universal distress in a country where population presses against the means of subsis'ence." MONEY-TRADE-COMM E RCE. The United Hills Mining Company held their Annual Meeting yesterday in Old Broai-street. From the Report it appeared that during the twelve months, to the 36th of April, the net profits of the mine in Cornwall were 2,787/. 6s. 4d., and the operations generally successful. The India Homeward-Mails leave Bombay this year, 1842, on the lollowing dates :—May 2 and 23; June 18 and 1J; and August 27. '1 he first has just arrived. The number of persons now out of employment in Dudley and its neighbourhood cannot be estimated at less than 15,000. Of these, at least 14,000 are voluntarily absenting themselves from work, and depriving their families of sustenance. There are at least 1,000 others in a state of comparative destitution. The resistance of the colliers to the terms of the masters con tinues most determined. Messrs. Wigney's " reclaimed property " was sold on Monday at. the Old Ship, Brighton. The jewellery realised about 100 guineas, and the " celebrated candelabrum " and its plateau fetched the same sum. Lord Monson was the purchaser of several fancy articles, and the harp was bought by Mr. E. Wright for 501., its full value. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. The sum 0f25,000i stated by the Directors of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway Company to be required for the pro posed extension of that line to Daley, has been agreed to be advanced by the Commissioners of Public Works for that purpose. NAVAL AND MILITARY. The Royal Marines were inspected yesterday by Lieutenant- General Lord Bloomfield. LAW AND POLICE. The total number of prisoners in the House of Correction at present is 1,074 ; in the New Pi ison, Cleikenw(ll, 122. 'I he long-contested case of the Deanery of St. l'atridc's was decided in the Consistory Court at Dub.in on Wednesday, ar'judging the Rev. Dr. - Daly to have been duly elected Dean. Dr. Wilson has ncverthless given notice of appeal to the Court of Delegates from this decision. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. At the Institution of Civil Engineers, held at the beginning of this week, a paper was read upon the periodical drainage and replenishment of the subterranean reservoir of the Chalk Basin of London, from which it would appear that the rapidity of the demand exceeded that of the supply. The depression of the London wellsduring the week Has about five inches. THEATRICAL. A new opera, entitled Linda di Chamouni has just been produced by Donizetti, and brought out pith complete suocess at Vienna. Taglioni is at present at Milan, and engaged for 20 sights at La Scala, where she has made her appearance in a new grand ballet, under the title of Satunella. SPORTING. The Royal Yacht Squadron promises to have a brilliant season. The Duke of Rutland, Resolution schooner, 243 tons ; Lord Wharncliffe, Romulus cutter, 30 tons; Mr. J. H. Pigott, Ganymcde cutter, 69 tons; Mr. J. Quantock, Naiad cutter, 70 tons; and Mr. J. C. Blackett, Alnatross, 75 tens, were last week unanimously elected members of the Club. Sir Hyde Parker arrived in the Loui.a schooner last week from a cruise of several months in the Mediterranean. • COURT-P.A.SHIONABLE. The Duke of Sutheiland gave a sumptuous banquet yester day, at Stafford House, to the leading members of the Royal Academy. IRE SUN, LONDON, FRIDA% EVENING, JUNE 3, 1842. The Duke of Devonshire had a large dinner party on Wednes day at Devonshire House. The Duke of Norfolk left Norfolk House yesterday, for Arundel Castle. Lord and Lady Leigh left Belgrave-square last week, for Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire. His Excellency Count Mersdorf, with his four sons, paid a visit yesterday to the Polytechnic Institution. Lady Ravensworth gave an elegant dejeune•a-la-fourchette yesterday at Percy-e.ross, Fulham. Lord Maryborough was prevented from attending the Levee on Wednesday by a severe at tack of influenza. LAW INTELLIGENCE HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day to hear Scotch appeals. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord 'Brougham, and Lord Campbell. MACDONALD V. LORD MACDONALD. The further arguments in this part-heard appeal were post poned sine die. KERR V. COCHRANE. The arguments in this part-heard appeal, which were com menced in March hat, were resumed to-day, and had not con cluded when our Evening Edition went to press. ROLLS' COURT.--(1111S DAY). No ease of interest came before. Lord Langdale to-day. VICE-UHANCERY-(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) Unopposed petitions and short causes occupied His Honour the whole day. (Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) ' COMBE V. THE CORPORATION OF LONDON. The Court was occupied the whole morning, with the further argument in this part heard case, which came before his Honour upon a motion for the production of certain documents in the possession of the City of London. The bill was originally filed by the Corportion of London for the purpose of obtaining the decree of the Court, declaring the right of the corporation to the metage on corn landed at the Savoy-wharf, belonging to the Messrs. Combes, the eminent brewers. After the institution of the suit by the Corporation of London the Messrs. Combes tiled a cross-bill, for the purpose of discovering certain documents in the possession of the Corporation of London, which thry asserted would show that the corporation had no right to the metage. (Before Vice •Chancellor \Vic RAM.) Causes of no interest occupied his Honour the whole of the morning. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) The Court was occupied the whole morning in hearing ar guments in cases in the Special Paper, all of which turned upon points of law of a purely technical character. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) The Court was occupied during the morning in hearing a number of minor cases, which involred no point of general in terest. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) SALTER V. BORTIIWICK. Mr. BEST moved for a rule, calling upon the defendant to compute. The application was grounded on an affidavit, stat ing that the place of residence of the c'efend,int was unknown—that the deponent went to serve him with a rule nisi, to the Cailton.club—that the servant told deponent he was not there, though he bad been there twice on the same day—that he went to the House of Commons, of which defendant is a Member, to serve him, but he was not there. That he went to his la,t known place of residence in Upper Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, and a second time to the Carlton Club and the House of Commons, and was not able to find him in either place. Under the cir cumstances, he hoped the Court would interfere. Rule granted. The COURT having waited a considerable time to dispose of other cases, then adjourned. PALACE COURT.-(THIS DAY.) A Court was held this day, at the Court-house, Scotland yard, but the cases which came before it were uninteresting, being chiefly undefended actions. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) The only interesting cast on the paper to-day, was th a t o f the Queen on the prosecution of Frederick Wood v. Stroud Lincoln, a Churchwarden, which Mr. Doane applied to have postponed till the adjournment day in July next. Mr. CLARKSON concurred in the requst for adjournment, and it was granted by the Court. POLICE INTELLIGENCE, MARLBOROUGH•STREET. (THIS DAY.) Mary Ann Baker, a young woman of interesting appearance, was placed at the bar, charged with uttering a counterfeit crown-piece. A shopman in the employ of Messrs. Stephenson and Allen, of No. 144, Regent-street, silk-mercers, hosiers, &e., stated that between five and six o'clock yesterday afternoon the prisoner entered the shop, and having selected a pair of stockings of the lowest price they had, tendered in pay ment a crown-piece ' which the witness immediately detected to be a bad one, and recollecting the prisoner to be the per son who had passed a counterfeit shilling to him about six weeks ago, he detained her, and gave her into the charge of the police. The prisoner strongly protested that at the time she offered the money she was ignorant of its being spurious. Respecting the shilling the witness must be mistaken as to her identity. The witness said he was quite positive on that point. Inspector Plume, of the U division, stated that she had re. fused to give her name or address on being brought to the station-house, and still persisted in not giving any account of herself. _ Mr. Hannwicx to the prisoner—How do you get your living ? Prisoner—l am so situated I cannot answer that question. Mr. HARDWICK—If you are expectable you would have no hesitation in giving a proper account of yourself, and of whom you received the bad money. Prisoner—lt was given to me by a friend of mine, but whose name I will not be induced to disclose. lam placed in a most unfortunate situation, which prevents me from clearing myself of the charge made against me. Mr. HARDWICK inquired if the prisoner was known to the ushers of the Court or the police, and received an answer in the negative. Ile then ordered the prisoner to be :remanded until this day week, in order that the Solicitor to the Mint might attend and see whether he knew her. The prisoner, on hearing that she was to be sent to gaol, wept bitterly. John Davis, an intelligent lad only between twelve and thirteen years of age, but who has been three times convicted of felony at the Central Criminal Court, and undergone dif ferent periods of imprisonment, with the addition of being twice privately whined, was again committed for trial from this Court charged with stealing a book ( Bogatzky's Golden Treasure), from out of the shop window of Mr. Alfred Sharp, of No. 14, St. Martin's-court, bookseller. He was detected in the act by a police-constable of the C division, and the pro perty found upon him. UNION-HALL.--(THIS DAY.) MATRIMONIAL MISERIES.— George Davis, a lighterman was charged with violently assaulting wife, and threatening to murder her. The wife said that the defendant was in the habit of ill- treat ing her, and that on the previous afternoon he snatched up a knife and swore that he would serve her as Good served the woman at Putney. He then approached her and made a stab at her with the knife, which cut through her clothes and in flicted a slight wound. The defendant said that he and his wife were in the habit of fighting with pokers, and that he was certain slaughter would ensue if they lived much longer together. Mr. COTTINGIIAM said that if the parties led such an un • social life, it was quite time that they should be separated to prevent murder. Both of them agreeing to the suggestion, they left the Court to have a deed of separation drawn up, the defendant having en tered into his recognizance to keep the peace. EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OF A BOY.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Cooper's Arms, Brick-lane, St. Luke's, on the body of Richard Wilson, aged 16, who committed suicide by taking poison. It appeared that the deceased, who was very lively and intelligent, was appren ticed to Mr. Perry, boot and shoemaker, of the City-road, but re ided with his parents at No. 7, Rose -street, Brick-lane. A few days since the deceased inquired of his master whether it was not two pennyworth of arsenic that Cooler, who shot the policeman at Highbury, took to destroy life, and whether that amount was sufficient to do so, and if it could not be taken on bread and butter, to the whole of which Mr. Berry replied that he did not know. On Monday Is t he had a holiday, and, having played with other boys during the day, he in the evening partook of some ale with his brother, and all at once said he should go and get some salts and go home, as he felt unwell. He was seen to mix up in a cup What was supposed to be salts, and drink the contents before he went to bed. He slept well until four o'clock on the following morning, when his groans awoke his parents, but he persisted that he had taken nothing but salts, which he declared he had purchased of Mr. French, chemist, in Brick lane. Mr. James, a surgeon, was sent for, but deceased died in excruciating agony an hour after. On opening the body a large quantity of arsenic was found in the stomach. Mr. French, the chemist, proved that deceased came to his shop on Monday, and asked for two-pennyworth of arsenic to clean leather. lie objected at first to serve him, but ultimately did so. The word e poison" was marked on the paper. He ap peared very lively in spirits when he asked for it. Other evi dence was adduced, w hich went to prove that deceased's father had been for 18 weeks affected with madness, as also other branches of the family. Verdict-" Temporary Insanity." The General Steam Navigation Csnipany's luail prcket John Bull, Captain J. P. Corbin, arrived at a quarter to eleven this morning off the Tower with the Hamburgh mail. A POLICEMAN DROWNED IN THE LONDON DOCKS. —Yesterday morning police constable Charles Reynolds, 21 11, who was stationed in the interior of the London Docks, was u issed, about half-past one o'c'ock, from his beat near the Brandy-quay, by a brother constable, No. 53, and, havin g been searched for and not found, a suspicion a rose t hat he hadfailen into the basin. In consequence drags were procured and used, anti in a short time the body was found in the water. It was removed to the receiv ne-house of the docks, and Mr. Bloom field, a surgeon, having been sent for, promptly attended, and had recourse to the usual means of restoring animatio n , but without success. Since the intro duction of the me tropolitan police into the London Docks, this is the third instance of death by drowning amongst them. FEAT OF STRENGTH.—A large number of th e re spectable farmers in the neighbourhood of Market D rayton, as,embled at the Phcenix len, on Wednesday, the I 1 th ti , st., to witness the decision of a wager, alien James Beardmore the third son of Mr. Francis Bea rdmore, of the Dai ry - hotoe, near Drayton (a youth only 17 y ears of age), was backed t o lift up from the floor, and get upon his right shoulder, a bag of wheat (of three bushels, weighing 11 score and 91b., b ag included), with his right hand alone, unassisted by hi s left hand, with which he was not to t ouch the ba g . This very extraordinary feat of strength he very cleverly p er f orme d in the market-room of the Phcenix Inn, before the assembled 1 53 i ng the bag on his lap w i t h hi s company, by stooping down, right hand, then turning it round his hip upon his back, after wai ds hitching it up his back and bringing it to his r ght shoulder, keeping his left hand and arm down by his left side, quite clear away from it—a most nnparallelled performance. he free and generous burst of o!tl English cheers by the com pany, when he stood up with the bag upon his shoulder, proved the view which the farmers took of the performance_a perfor mance which very few could do with both hands in the middle of a roam. _FRENCH RAILROAD PRECAUTIONS. — The members of the commission for making researches and experiments as to improvements in the manufacture of axletrees for locomotive steam-engines, the resistance they have to sustain during their use, and the proofs to which they ought to be previously sub jected, and secondly, to study the various means which ought to be employed to diminish the effects and dangers to arise from shocks and collisions on railroads, have been nominated by the Minister of Public Works. 'They amount to seventeen in num ber, Laving M. Cordier, the Peer, for their President, and M. Teisserenc for their Secretary. Th e y are all scientific and practical men. On Sunday afternoon last. a man who was lying asleep on the parapet of the Quai de !'Hotel Dieu fell suddenly into the riverr The immersion awoke him, and his cries ' being heard he was rescued by two persons of the h os pit a l, ' into which he was conveyed, and he was soon perfectly re stored. IPSWICH ELECTION. IPSWICH, THURSDAY.—The nomination being fixed for this day, at an early hour the friends of the Conservative can didates met at the Assembly Rooms to escort them to the hus•- ings erected on the Cornitill. The supporters of the reform party met at the Suffolk Hotel for the like purpose. At ten o'clock both parties made their appearance, accow panied by bands of music, with flags, banners, &c., bearing appropriate mottoes ; the blue party taking their position on the left of the Cornhill, and the ref trm party on the right. After the usual electioneering greetings had taken place, and silence restored, J. C. COBB01:1), Esq. , the Mayor, came forward, and remarked that circumstances of a peculiar nature had occurred, which rendered it necessary that the electors should again exercise their rights and privileges, and he trusted they would do their duty honestly, and with temperance—( Hear, hear). 'I he Town Clerk then read over the precept, and the usual preliminaries being gone through, The MAvon called upon the Conservative party to propose their candidates. The candidates were then proposed in the following order : Lord Desart, by Mr. C. Fonnereau ; • Mr. Moffat, by Mr. W. May; Mr. Gladstone, by Mr. R. Rodwell ; and Mr. Gisborne, by Mr. Benjamin Brown. Lord DESANI, in addressing the electors, said he came for ward as the zealous supporter of those principles which he be lieved every Englishman wished to support.—(Loud cheers ) It had been remarked that he had been proposed by a Whig ; he gloried in the nomination, as it showed a return to right. mindedness.—(Cheers.) His principles were a firm and entire determination to support the interests of the Church and State. It was the Constitution of our forefathers and lie hoped i; would not fail to he cherished by their children.—( Cheers. ) He felt assured the prtsent Government was formed of men determined to support those principles, and lie would also throw in his support, it they returned him as their representative. With respect to the Poor-law, he would support it in that way which he conceivtd to be most conducive to the benefit of the people.—( Hear, hear.) The Nob'e Earl concluded by observing he was opposed to Universal Suffrage and Vote by Ballot.—( Cheers, and cries of "Oh, oh.") Mr. MOFFATT said he gloried in supporting those measures which were for the good of the people.—( Cheers.) The Whigs might nut be popular, nevertheless they deserved the well -wishes of the peop e. He was opposed to finality, and was favourable to a more equitable arrangement of the representa tion. He would give Isis support to any measure which would put down bribery and corruption.—(Cheers.) He was for a larger extension of the Suffrage and Vote by Ballot, and in fa vour of shortening the duration of Parliament.—(Cheers and hear.) He would lend his hand to an efficient Church Reform, and a modification of the law respecting Church-rates ; and he would be glad .to see the Poor-law carried out with a more lenient spirit.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) Mr. GLADSTONE then came forward and addressed the elec tors. He had heard it said that her Majesty would never be stow her confidence on a Conservative Government; but the fact was, it had her most implicit confidence, experiencing as she did the loyalty and attachment of their feelings.—( Cheers. ) He had no doubt they would continue possessed of that confidence as long as they pursued an honest and straight forw rd course of duty. He had witnessed the Whig party, which no longer merited the name, gradually giving up their ground and approaching Radical opinions, one day advocating the Corn-laws and another a low fixed _duty—catching at a straw like drowning men.—(Cheers.) A London news paper the other day stated that he had been a proprietor o f slaves. That was utterly false.—(Cheers.) His family were holders of West Indian property, but who made them so? The legislature of the country. He had had the honour of voting with Mr. Gisborne for the extinction of slavery in the British dominions. He never was an advocate for slavery, and he felt surprised that such a charge had been brought against him. He referred them to his past conduct as a guarantee for his future behaviour in Parliament, if he were returned. Mr. GISBORNE presented himself, but the feeling was so much against hearing him, that atter several unsuccessful attempts to be heard he retired amidst great uproar. Mr. NICHOLSON, a Chartist, then made his appearance, and was assailed with the most deafening yells and groans from both parties; notwithstanding, he kept his position for some time, and occasionally made an attempt to address the assemblage, but to no purpose. The uproar gradually increased, and a fight took place between the two parties. The efforts of the returning officer to restore anything like order were quite unavailable. Several rotten eggs were thrown at the hust►ng+, one of which struck Lord Desert on the breast. Other missiles then followed, when it was deemed most prudent to at once de mand a show of hands, which was declared in favour of Mr. Gisborne and Mr. Moffatt, and the proceedings terminated. The poll takes place to-morrow (this day). FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. William Peareth, Esq., and Mrs. Peareth, at Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish.square, from Kent; Mrs Thtye, at ditto ; Mactaggart, Esq., and Mrs. Mactaggart, at ditto ; Edmund Bacon, Esq., and Mrs. Bacon, at the Wa terloo Hotel, Jerrnyn-street, from Bakewell, Derbyshire ; Mrs. Richardson and Miss Richardson, at ditto, from the Continent; John Gough, Esq., and Mrs. Gough, at ditto, from Bath; Lady Sherbrooke, at ditto, from a tour; H. P. Lowe, Esq., Donagh, Esq., Gilbert, Esq., and Russell Kendall, Esq., at ditto, from a tour ; John Pagott, Esq., and Mrs. Pagett, at ditto, from their seat, Cranmore Hall, Somerset ; J Little, Esq., and Miss Little, at Nelson's Hotel, Portland place, from Abergavenny ; Cornelius Heyle de Wormo, Esq., at ditto ; Carlos Raynsford, Esq., at ditto; Captain Pitt, at ditto; and Sir Robert Barclay, Bart., at ditto. DEPARTURES. Edward Fyler, Esq., and Mrs. Lewis, from Nelson's Hotel, Portland-place; Rev. H. T. and Mrs. Lumsden, from ditto; W. C. Towers, Esq., from ditto, for Cheltenham ; Captain Boulby, from ditto ; Rev. Archdeacon Law, from ditto, for Weston Super Mare ; Mrs. Scott and Miss Rayne, from ditto, for Reading. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JUNE 2.—At a Congregation held this day the fol lowing degrees were conferred : DOCTOR IN DIVINITY.—Rev. C. A. Ogilvie, Balliol Col lege, grand compounder. DOCTOR IN CIVIL LAW.—Rev, R. Grant, New College. BACHELOR IN MEDICINE.—Chamber., Christ Church. 11lAsTEas OF ARTS.—Rev. G. S. Harding, Brasennose Col lege; R. Eddie, Brasennose College; A. R. Harrison, Queen's College ; W. S. W. Vaux, Balliol College ; H. N. T. Bus. feild, Worcester College ; C. J. Quartley, St. Edmund Hall ; Rev. G. W. Hutchings, Magdalen Hall ; Rev. C. W. Bagot, All Souls College ; D. Jones, Jesus College ; E. H. Plumptre, University College. BACHELORS OF ARTS.—II. S. Sawyer, Merton College; R. Al. Richards, Merton College ; B. James, Queen's Col lege ; H. 0. Nethercote, Balliol Cortege ; G. S. Munn, Tri nity College; B. C. Kennicott, Oriel College; R. Roope, Vtradham College. CONCERTS.—The present is the season for concerts, which are very fashionably attended, whether in the morning or evening. Yesterday the Hanover-square Rooms were crowded for the benefit of Miss and Mr. Dorrell, which went off with great eclat. To-morrow Mr. Kiallmark will test the liberality of his friends and the public, no doubt with success ; and on Monday Mr. Frederick Chatterton will give his grand annual morning concert, the bill of fare for which is particu larly attractive. . ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE HER MAJESTY.—It is with pain and indignation we announce that a second attempt has been made upon the life of our Most Gracious Sovereign the Queen. This event, which has excitedone universal senti ment of abhorrence, occurred on Monday evening, precisely on the very spot where Oxford reads his diabolical attempt, and the first intimation of which was conveyed to the country in the columns of a third edition of The Sun.—Derby and Chesterfield Reporter. POACHING IN THE PRESERVES AT WINDSOR CASTLE. —ln the extensive slopes on the north side of the Castle, and that part of the Home-park adjoining, the game with which they abound has been preserved for some time past with great care by command of her Majesty; and yet, notwithstanding the sharp look-out of the keepers, poaching has been carried on to a very considerable extent for some time past. Wires have frequently be found in the preserves, but until a day or two since the poachers effected their depredations undetected. A well-known character, named Hancock, was apprehended in the slopes on Tuesday morning, between three and four o'clock, by John Orme, one of her Majesty's keep ers, just as he and another man, his accomplice ; ( who escaped) had snared a fine hare. Upon searching the plantations five more snares were found, with the wire of sufficient strength to have secured a deer. The prisoner was taken before the Windsor Bench of Magistrates, and committed for one month to hard labour in the county gaol at Reading THE AMBASSADOR'S WIFE.—Mrs. Charles Gore, by her present most admirable novel, has tilled a place hitherto left blank in our works of fiction. " The Ambassador's Wife" is a romance of the Court, wherein almost all its brilliant scenes occur. Whatever is dignified in that magic circle, and whatever is mean (and there is much of both), find in our brilliant novelist an adequate expositor. Her sketches of kings and queens are made with a free, unhesitating pencil, and look from her canvas, with an air worthy their dignity, while some of their courtiers appear, it must be confessed, with rather a pitiful effect. It is astonishing how speedily an appearance at Court lowers the pretensions of a man. All manner of snares are laid to turn him into ridicule ; and, though valuing himself on his wit, he will too often find that he is a laughing.st ,, ek to fools. As people are fond of seeing themselves reflected, every courtier will read Mrs. Gore's nen - novel, while the uninitiited will peruse it with ardent curiosity mixed occasionally with no little wonder. AGE OF ELIZABETH.—The sixteenth century, more than any period of the world, was rendered conspicuous by the prominence and remarkable characteristics of the personages who then figured on the stage of life. It has been the great defect of h'story " through fear of giving offence, or excitir,g disgust, to veil the realities which it was reluctant to con template, and induce ordinary readers to believe that heroes and heroin( s arc tot men and women, but beings of a superior nature." The victims of this long and grave deception are on the point of being disabused. They will be able, under the guidance of a work, called-" The Ro • mantic Biography of the Age of Elizabeth," " to explore the terra incognita of human folly," and to probe the hollowness of human pretension. They will be possessed of recently-dis covered facts, by which they can accurately estimate the cha racter of Queen Bess, and of her layout ite the Earl of Leicester; of Catherine de Medicis, Henry IV. of France, and his Queen. Margaret de Valois ; and will be acquai' ted with some circum stances, hitherto not suspected, in connexion with the mas sacre of St. Bartholomew, and with many other great events of the time. The Memorial of lioutn states that on- the 25th ult. a man was found dead on the road between Roche Guyon and Vernon, having discharged a pistol in his mouth, and lodged the ball in his brain. After a day had passed, he was recognised to be a wine-merchant of Bercy, near Paris, named Auaanne. _ _ _ _ Jasmin, the poet of Agen, had the honour of being received by the King and Queen, and the Duchess of Oilcans, at Neuilly, be'ore the departure of the Majesties for Bizy. He recited p its of his composition, for which he re ceived the most flattering praise. On the 11th ult., about 250 acres of underwood in the forest of Troncais Allier) were consumed by a fire be lieved to have been wilful, but the incendiaries have not been discovered. Another conflagration, at. Martinpuich near Arras, also attributed to malevolence, has reduced to ashes fourteen houses, twenty barns, and other out-buildings, and a quan tity of furniture and live and dead farming stock, caus ing a loss estimated at 120,000 francs. A Rheims journal sf Friday states, that, in the night of Thursday, a tire broke out at Notre Dame de Liesse, and after having destroyed twenty fire houses and fifty out-buildings, was still burning. One man was suffocated in his cellar, while endeavouring to remeve a part of his property. The Courrier de Lyon, of the 27th, states that a fire took place there on the eve, which, however, was of no extent, as only one house was bur n t, but four persons were more or less injured. MESSES. HOBIIOUSE AND COBS ESTATE.—The As signees commenced the payment of the dividend on Tuesday, to the Bankers, and yesterday to other creditors. The amount already paid exceeds 20,000/.---Bath Chronicle. ilLit ..MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Owing to the illness of Signor Glasco, who was to have performed the part of Alma viva, in the Barbiere di .Ferialia, that opera last night was c h an ged for Le Cantatrice Virane, and Don Marco Bomba and his rival, occupied the stage ins ead of Rosins, Bartolo, and Figaro. 2.I2ISCELMANEOTT S. Sir Arthur Chichester, Bart., died at Youlston, near Barn staple last Monday, aged 51. His eldest son, Arthur, born in 1822, succeeds to the family honours. The Middlesex Magistrates met yesterday, when an Address to her Majesty was agreed to with acclamation, on the occasion of her safety, and ordered to be presented. EX-KING OF HOLLAND. A letter from Amsterdam, of the 30th of May, contains the following singular statement :—Our ex-King arrived to day at the Loo. On this occasion the Ki g has not thought it pro per to let his father come into the country without paying him his respects as a son. At this moment we suppose their Ma jesties are together. It has been remarked that the old King makes every body fly at his approach. The King goes to Luxemburgh ; the Queen has hastened to the pavilion of Soets dyk, accompanied by her daughter, Princess Sophia. The Princess of Orange, at the first notice, hastened to Stutgard to take refuge at the Court of her father ; the Prince, her hus band, speedily followed her. Prince and Princess Frederick, just as they did last time, go from Holland to Berlin just at the moment when the ex-King came from Berlin to Boland. Prince Henry sets out to-day for Farshing, to embark on board Ryn for St. Petersburgh ; lastly, Prince Alexander, it is said, accompanies his father to Luxemburgh. The ex-King, therefore, if he comes to the Hague, will absolutely find no body. Are all these simultaneous departures owing to mere accident? In my opinion this is rather hard to believe. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The English funds are very flat to-day, with scarcely any business ; Consols are 913 ex-dividend ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 91% 91/ ; Three-and-half per Cents. Reduced, 100% 1001 ; Ditto, New 100%; Bank Stock, 168%; India Stock, 250 252 • India Bonds, 22 24 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 42 44 ; Advertised, 36 39 prem. The prices of Foreign Securities and Belgian, 102 103 ; Dutch Two-and-a. Half per Cents, 523 52%; the Five per Cents., 101 101%; Danish, 80% 81%; and Brazilian, 67 68. Some few bargains have been made in the Mexican at 36% for Money, and 363 for the Account. The Share Market is dull, and transactions only comprise the GI eat Western, 62 ; Fifths, 9%; South -Eastern Scrip, 6*; and Edinburgh and Glasgow, 51%; New, 4%. Quotations for the Bonds are—Portuguese Five per Cents., 36'4 ; Spanish Five per Cents., 22% 22a ; the Three per Cents., 23% 23%, all for the Account. The proclamatton issued by the President of Texas announc ing the blockade of the Mexican States, attracts much atten tion. The possibility of enforcing it is very winch doubted, but the annoyance and obstruction which it will give to com merce is viewed with much apprehension. The jealousy with which the navigation of the Atlantic is felt by the Americans is well known, and every obstacle which could be thrown in its way by th4t Government has been carried into effect ; the prohibitory regulations relative to the West India steamers, for instance, and it is feared that this opportunity of crowding the seas with privateers, under the Texian flag will not be lost. The conduct of our own Govern ment with regard to this document is pretty freely commented upon, and the uncertainty in which our commerce is placed thereby, severely condemned. Already orders for manufac tured goods, which had been given, have been countermanded , and although it is stated that Captain Elliott has left for that country, still the general feeling is, that our South American trade is in a vary insecure state. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. R A ILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Edinburgh and Glasgew Ditto New Great Western Ditto New 5O - 62 Ditto Fifths South Eastern and Dover. ... 50 Ditto Scrip 5 ...... 6% to -- LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JUNE 2.—The market continues without any change in prices ; a good demand is kept up both by the trade and exporters, and prices may be said to be firmly supported. The sales to-day have been about 4,000 bags, of which 500 American were for shipment. LIVERPOOL SNARE MARKET, JUNE 2.—The market has been dull, with little business doing; the quotations are— Eastern Counties, New, 4/. 17s. 11d. ; Edinburgh and Glas gow, 52% 52 ; New, 321. 6s. ; Grand Junction, 183%; Half Shares, 91%; Great Western, Half Shares, 62%; Liver pool and Manchester, Quarters, 42%; Midland Counties, Quarters, 17% 17%; North Midland, 63. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 2.—We have bad a better feeling in our market to-day, and more business trans. acted. Our quotations are :—Eastern Counties, 9% ; Edin burgh and Glasgow, with New, 53% ; Ditto Quarters, 41. Bs. 9d. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 27 ; South Eastern Scrip, 6%; District Bank, 10%. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 168% !India Stock — pm 3 per Cent. Red. ...... 91g Ditto Bonds s O e ld w Ex.DDiitt Bills, 1,000/....2d. 43 pm o o 3 3 is p e p w p e r e r3CiCe pernt .t . C C l e i n n e t d e . .. ..... .... 0 0 9 0 2 1 1 New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001...... 44 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small Jan. 1860 ... l2 9-16 Bank Stock for Acct Oct. 1859 Jan. 1800 12% Consols for Opg. 913 FOREIGN FUNDS. • Austrian, 5 per cent. ... 'Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent 102% ! Ditto, New Ditto 37 Brazilian Bonds... —j Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres6 per cent. ;Russian, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent. — IDitto, Metallic . Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent..... 22% Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred.... . 10% Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent 36% French, 3 per cent. —f. —e. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 2% per cent. 52% Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 101 SHARES. Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... sli Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid. 41 Great Western Railway (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 62i Ditto Fifth (4 paid): London and Brighton (50 paid) London and South Western (431 15s Odpd) 63 South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 251 Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) ... ...... 92 Ditto New Shares (15 paid) ... 32i INDIA AND CHINA. BY EXPRESS. The Indian mail, which arrived at Marseilles on Wednesday night, brings, we lament to say, an ac count of the fall of Ghuznee. The place capitulated and surrendered, on condition that the garrison be safely conducted to Caubul. On the other hand, Colonel Pollock had forced the Khyber pass, and taken possession of the forts commanding it, and would, no doubt, march to the relief of Jellalabad. General Sale, in a sortie from that place, overthrew the insurgents. A rumour prevailed that Akhbar Khan had been badly wounded. General Knott had gained some advantage on the side of Kandahar, but General England had not yet joined him. It is reported that Scha Soojah had been poisoned. There is no news from China. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of Grain have been this week moderate. Wheat continues firm at Monday's prices, with only a retail demand. Barley rather dearer. Beans and Peas unaltered. Oats obtained Is. advance or. Monday's terms. Flour met a moderate sale at former rates. SMITHFIELD MARKET. The supply being rather short, trade in general was a little better, and prices about '2d. per stone better than on Monday last for the best qualities, but the middling and inferior s ,rts arc much the same. Beasts 435, Sheep and Lambs 8,630, Pigs 418, Calves 418. Beef, 3s. to 4s. 4d. ; Mutton, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 4d. ; Veal, 3s. to 45.. 10d. ; Pork, 2s. 4d. to 4s. 6d.; Lamb, ss. to 6s. COLONIAL MARKET. There was little business done, but holders were firm, and obtained full rates for all articles. TEA MARKET. A fair business has been done, and at firm rates. Com pany's Congou could not be bad under Is. Bd. cash. TALLOW MARKET. There were few buyers of P. Y. Candle, but prices kept . high, and there were no tellers on the spot under 48s. 6d. per cwt. ; for delivery in last three months 495. was asked. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) - - LONDON, J UNE 3.—Wind this day at Noon, S.W. STAFGATE CREEK, JUNE 2.—Arrd. Gangec, Jones ; Odessa, Larbach ; Persian and Lorranese, Cigancich, Trieste. RAMSGATE, JUNE 2.—The Helens, M'Culloch, from In verkeithing to Rouen, has been assisted in here. stern stove, &c., having been in contact with the Montreal, Tucker, from New York to London. DEAL, JUNE 2.—Wind E.N.E., moderate.—Arrd. from the River, and sailed, Kitty, Scuth Seas; Bolivar, Launceston; Waterloo, Hobart Town; Athenian, China; Jane Lockart, Dominica ; Emily, Cape Coast Castle ; Ana Victoria, Tene rifle ; Horatio. Arrd. Chieftain, northward, and sailed f,or westward. FALMOUTH, JUNE I.—Wind S.W. to W.S.W., light.—Arrd. Cowan, Odessa; Thetis, Elwcod, Ancona. Arrd. off, Nordstjernan, Prahm, Bahia for Stettin. OFF SCILLY. MAY 31.—Minerva (barque), of Whitby ; Lima, Lownds, Bahia ; Circassia, Satchell, Valparaiso. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 2.—Wind S, W. to E. N. E.—Arrd. Pomona, Robson, Sierra Leone, sailed March 31, and sailed for Newcastle. 81d. Ellenborough, Madras ; Toronto, New York ; Orestes, St. Lawrence. Arrd. off, Glenalvon, Courts, Nassau, N P. _ COWES, JUNE 2.—Arrd. Mark, Benny, Cuba; Legonia, Waterhouse, and Ramohun Roy, Young, Matanzas. OFF PORTLAND, JUNE I.—Louisa, Wright, Sydney, with 2,200 barrels; Maria, Reineke. OFF Itsmacomnc, JUNE I.—Superb, Manna, Trinidad. BRISTOL, JUNE 2.—Sld. Robert Bruce. Quebec. SWANSEA, JUNE I.—Arrd. Baronet, Wylie, Rio; Ilelen SiMpson, Seisk, and Elizabeth Bunion, Lour, Cuba. LIVF.REOOL, JUNE 2.—Wind, N.W. light.—Arrd. Mal colm, Malcolm, Valparaiso, left 25th Jan. Sir John Franklin, Rorthwick, Buenos Ayres ; Harrison, Chieton, Havannsh ; Vulean Davis, atnpi^,o ; Adel a id e , D a d y , obile ; Eliza Ann, R e id, and Enterprise, Muir, St. John's New Brunswick. Sailed, Virginian, New York • Victoria, Quebec. CORK, MAT 3L—S l d. Bachelor, Queb ec . OFF CROOKHAVEN, MAY 30.—Gypsy, Messina. The Queen held a Privy Council this afternoon at Buckingham Palace, at which it is understood a Form of Prayer for her Majesty's recent providential escape was ordered. His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, the Chancel lor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Buccleuch, and other Cabinet Ministers, were present. The Council met at one o'clock, and continued in deliberation until near two o'clock. LEVANT MAIL: j By an extraordinary conveyance from Meta, the Prome theus steam-packet, proceeding to Genoa to embark Lady Can ning for Constantinople, we have accounts from that island to the evening of the 18th of May, at which date the fleet under the command of Vice- Admiral Sir E. W. C. R. Owen, Con sisting of the Queen, 110, flag-ship ; Impregnable, 104; Cal cutta, 78 ; Vanguard, 80 ; Cambridge, 7.s ; and Devastation war-steamer were all ready for sea, with four months' provisions on hoard, and boats all in, but its destination was a profound secret, and it was generally supposed that the ships would weigh anchor immediately. Sir Francis Mason in the Howe, with the Thunderer and Savage in company, were signalised on their hourly expected return from Tripoli. In consequence of the inability of Sir Samuel Roberts to resume the command of the Calcutta, at any rate for some time to come, being still in a precarious state of health, the Commander-in-Chief has appointed Captain Rich, of the Queen, to the Calcutta, and given an acting order as Captain of the Queen to Com mander Henry, of the Devastation, appointing to this latter also, with an acting order as Commander, his Flag-Lieutenant Robinson. Sir Samuel Roberts has not invalided, and will, consequently, continue drawing full pay. The Phoenix, war• steamer took her departure with the mails for Corfu and Pa tras on the 15th.; and the Alecto steam-packet, for Gibraltar, with the mails for England, on the 16th instant, on which day the-Vesuvius war-steamer was dispatched to the eastward, report says, for Tripoli; the Inconstant is looked for from Bey rout. Our Malta Correspondent furnishes us with dates from Naples to the Bth of May, Tripoli in Barbary to the 12th, Con stantino?le to the sth, Alexandria to the 6th of May, and Bey rout to the 27th of April NA rLEs.—The anticipations of a rupture with Holland and Naples appear to have been premature, and the Lastiness of the Neapolitan sovereign to show his weakness by recommending the mercantile racy to borrow other colours, cannot be ac counted for. What with the panic of war and the impress ment of all merchant seamen into the navy, to man a squadron destined for the Brazils, to do honour at the nuptials of the Emperor with his Sicilian Majesty's sister, has so distressed commercial shipping that the owners are dismantling some. Tnirom IN BA ABA ItY.—The affairs of this ill-gaverned Pachalic, neglected as they have been for many years, appear to have at length attracted the attention and notice of the British Government. Steamers arrive continually from MAO, with despatches for the_ British. Consul, which are answered instantaneously, and this has called forth the anger of his Highness the Pacha Askar Ali. Two important objects, it is said, the British Government has in view—the abolition of the inhuman traffic in slaves, and the re moval of the obnoxious Pacha. Lately, and immediately after the arrival of the Devastation steamer of war from Malta, an appeal, printed in Arabic, was posted up at the Bri tish Consulate, inviting and entreating in the name of her Ma jesty's Government, all those now engaged in the slave-trade to abandon such heartless traffic, as revolting to justice and humanity; and the whole is wound up by setting forth that such are not the only personal feelings and desire of her Ma jesty the Queen of Great Britain, and her Ministers collec tively and individually, but of the entire nation, and that on a future day her Majesty might have occasion to show her good intentions towards the people of Tripoli. This document, by express directions of the Pacha, was torn down, and ever since his desire to pick a serious quarrel with the Consul has been incessant. An Arab of the advanced age of sixty has been thrown into prison heavily ironed, and is in jeopardy of losing his head, for no other crime than having been seen conversing with the son of the British Consul. This latter having had the commander of the Locust (who lately materially assisted a Tripoline schooner of war off the rocks), lining with him, sent his dragoman to solicit a permit for the British offi cers to l ass the town gates after the usual closing hour, a permit which has heretofore never been refused to any of the Consuls, whereupon the Pacha spat in the messenger's face, and heaped upon him the most insulting epithets, Zilch will not bear repeating. Several British subjects signed a de claration, to the effect that such was the excited feeling of the l'acha towards the nation, that they considered their lives in jeopardy ; this docoment was dispatched to the Admiral, at Malta, on the 3d of May. Abdel Gelil, the Arab chief, has been much encouraged by the late visit of the British Consul, and is said to have not only defied, but absolutely threatened to attack the Pacha. Some assert that the Arabs are march ing in a strong force against Misurata, and others go the length of saying that the garrison have already had a skirmish with the people of the desert; that these latter came off vic torious, and were close upon Tripoli ; which, added to a report of the approach of a British naval force, had in some mariner intimidated the Pacha, who nevertheless refused to render sa tisfaction to the British Consul for the acts of insolence offered to him and others under his protection. Abdel Gelil has solemnly promised to liberate 4,000 slaves, and pass the most rigourous laws and enactments for the aboli• tion of slavery, immediately his tribes are freed from the yoke they are now under by the removal of Askar Ali, and the no mination of an Arab chief to the Government of Tripoli, under the obligation of recognizing the Sultan's supreme sovereignty by a heavy annual tribute. CONSTANTINOPLE.—The divan appears exclusively engaged in deliberations upon finance schemes, which appear to be of difficult decision, inasmuch as the Imperial treasury is nearly in a state of bankruptcy, notwithstanding which, strange to say, the Sultan continues pensioning his favourites. BEYBOUT. —The Druse chiefs continue in durance vile, and nothing is yet known as to what is to become of them. Seve ral Maronite elders have been invited by the Seraskier Mus• tapha Paella to repair to Beyrout, to assist at a general con ference ; but these, having the fate of the Druses so recently before them, have declined the invitation, fearing to be en trapped. Albanian troops have arrived from Salonica, and horrible excesses are looked for, from the well-known bloody disposition of this undisciplined hand. Mustapha Pacha, desirous of limiting within the narrowest bounds, if not destroying in toto the influence of foreign Powers in Syria, has called upon several of the Consuls to withdraw their protection from several rayas. Colonel Rose, the British Consul, has been attacked outside the town gates, when on horseback, by an Albanian, who presented a pistol to his breast, but which happily missed fire, and the Colonel was indebted to the swiftness of his Arab charger for saving his life. The Turkish authorities pretend they have been unable to trace the delinquent. The plague rages in various parts of Syria, but more particularly at St. Jean d'Acre, Sevi, and Dar , el -Kam ar. . _ ...... . ALExannnta.—His Highness the Pacha arrived from Upper Egypt on the night of the 30th of April, and took up his residence at the Palace of Ras-el-tin, where, on the day following, amidst the salutes from the batteries and ships of war, he received the European merchants, and, indeed, one might almost say the entire population of Alexandria. Learn ing the stagnant state of trade, he immediately set about a movement by selling off 200,000 ardebs of wheat and beans, the former at 66, the I atter at 36 piastres, but which prices, being purchased payable in assignments, or Government bonds, which bear a discount of about 25 per cent., reduces them to 53 and 31 piastres respectively. Several ships have been taken up for Malta at fourteen to fifteen tari freight per salm, which is an advance of from two to three tari upon what has been lately paid. A Greek house has purchased from 30,000 to 40,000 ardels sesame seed of the sew crop, deliverable by the peasantry in five and six months, at 125 to 130 piastres per ardeb, and the Pacha promises to reduce his pretensions for cotton, for which thus far he has held out for ten dollars the kintal. The Egyptian navy has at length adopted the Sultan's uniform, and no doubt the army and marines will do the same before long. Mehemet Ali continues in his deter mination of devoting the remainder of his days to benefiting the country. An engineer has received orders for damming the Nile in a mode to protect against overflows on the one hand and scarcity on the other. The plague still hovers over the place. A French Company is about establishing itself at Cairo, to undertake the conveyance of passengers through the desert, at prices much under those of Hill and Waghorn. JESUITICAL PLOT HAPPILY DISCOVERED, AT MALTA, AGAINST THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT. You will see by the Mediterranean newspaper. of which I send you two copies by this mail, that a Maltese canon, of the name of Annetto Casolani, the son of Sir Vincent asaloni, collector of land revenues, and of whose family one is to be found in every public department of the island, has been de tected in corresponding with the Papist Peer, Lord Clifford, in a manner ill becoming one who, through the intrigues of his lather, was raised to one of the highest dignities of the church, over the heads of hundreds, at the early age of 14 (! !), by the very Government be so unwarrantably and ungratefully abuses. 'I he pretended excitement of the people against the Governor for suspendino . the Jesuits' preaching is false ; the pretended interference of the Italian refugee is equally false, for whatever may have been their crimes against their own Sovereign here at Malta, they are the most inoffensive characters in existence. Attacked as they have been by the beardless canon and Lord Clifford, doubtless some unpleasantness might have been anti cipated, but nothing of the kind has occurred. The Rev. Mr. Casolani fled this morning, in the French steamer, for the Levant, where it is hoped he will find a wider field to exercise his jesuitical talents, and indeed, but for the high wind which prevails, it was intended to mark the auspicious event of there being one Casolani less on the island by a general illumination. St. I'aul, in freeing the island of venemous reptiles, appears to have overlooked some ancestor of this snake in the grass. The British Government are much indebted to Lord Clifford's having bunglingly published that which was never meant for the public eye. MALTA, MAY 19.—The Vesuvius steam frigate, which left Malta on the 16th, returned to port yesterday afternoon, having been off Tripoli to order back the Howe, 120 (bearing the flag of Rear- Admiral Sir Francis Maion, second in com mand), and the Thunderer, 80 ; both of which have just an chored here. It appears that these ships, whowhich left Malta on the 1 9 th inst., having . reached Tripoli, stood off and on for several days, during which frequent communications were kept up between Colonel Warrington, the consul on shore, and the Rear-Admiral, by fumigated despatches, through the medium of the Savage brig of war, which vessel, on the arrival of the Vesuvius, was sent in with orders for the commanders to land and proceed in person to the Consulate ; whereupon, the steamer and liners 'withdrew before, as it is reported, bringing the Pacha to his senses. Such a proceeding is very impolitic, for if they had no orders to carry their point, they ought not to have been ever sent. Admiral Sir E. Owen continues in port, with the fleet under his command. Lieut. Bedford has succeeded to the acting flag lieutenancy. THE RXILROAD QUESTION IN FRANCE. ----- - _ The Chamber of Deputies rejected on Tuesday the three bills relative to the railroads of Strasburgh to Basle, Bordeaux to La Teste, and Paris to Versailles, along the left bank of the Seine. The Ministry had proposed to authorise the former to borrow 6,000,000 f. for the completion of the works, but the Chamber on being assured that the Company possessed ample means to complete them, and that one of the proprietors still held 34,000 shares unsold, thought proper to withhold the authorization. By the second bill, the Minister of Public Works asked to be empowered to lend 2,000,000 f. to the Bordeaux and Tes!is Railroad Company, and to dispense the Paris and Versailles Company with paying the interest of a sum of 5,000,000 f., loaned to it last Fear, until the Ist of January, 1859. This demand was likewise negatived by the Chamber, and the ballot on the three bills produced only 63 votes in their favour, arid 206 against their adoption. The Journal des Debate fears " the Chamber of Deputies will have reason to regret the rejection of the Bill brought in for the purpose of assisting the directors of the Strasburg and Basle Railroad, together with that from Bordeaux to La Teste, and that from farts to Versailles. The bill prayed a loan for the Bordeaux line of two millions—a trifling sacrifice in favour of a department which is suffering so much, The demand for the Strasburg Company was still less. The bill merely prayed that the company might be permitted toborrow the sum neces sary to complete the road, without which both Strasburg and Basle will be deprived of all advantage from it. This would appear to be the least which could be done for a railroad des tined to form an integral part of the great line from the Medi terranean to the Rhine, and which its skilful and enterprising contractor completed in four years less than the stipulated period at his own risk and peril. " The vote appears to be the more to be regretted, because it is of a nature to extinguish all spirit of enterprise, and is calculated to diseou t age the format io n of companies, or if in future any s hould offer themselves , it will be on terms un favourable to the public." The National observes, that the result of the vote on the I Strasburg and Basle Rrlroad Bill in the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday last, will be I, that henerforward no compani l be found to u n dertake the construction of the lines reserved for public competition by the Railtoad Bill which passed the C . ham iber of Deputies. Here after the late bill will becomeinexe eutable. " We congratulate our:elves on this result,l adds . the National, ~ but we would Tattier not have obtained it at th e cost of private misfortune, as was the case on Tuesday, co nsequ nee of the improvidence of the Chamber, and ihruugh the incapacity of the Minister. " The present season may be considered as one to be added to all those already lost in regard to 1 üblic works of utility. This last check is dus to the Ministry, Ile most impotent which has yet appeared. M. Guizit was twce defeated, and aban. Boned even by his friends, on the English question. Again,, on Saturd iv last, the Minister of Marine was obliged to accept 3,000,0001. which he did net wish for, and which M. Lacare Laplagne, so prodigal towards M. Rothschild, declared to be beyond the means of the Treasury. On Tuesday, M. Test. saw his system of public wo ks fall to pieces. We ask, then, where is the Ministerial majority ?" SPAIN. MA nain, MAT 125.—The Deputy Esperone.'a was buried yesterday evening with great pomp—Parliamentary, civil, mili tary, and literary flowers were strewed along the road the funeral cortege had to pass. A military band preceded his hearse; many Members of both Houses followed— , ristorratts and plebeians—beauty and ugliness—literati and ignoramuses thron,get around the funeral car. On the coffin being de posited, Don Lureque Gil, an intimate friend of the de ceased, moved almost beyond the power of utterance, uttered amidst the religious silence of the bystanders, a farewell ode in praise e f the departed bard, whose genius the hums eulate glory of Calderon, of Lopez de la Vega, and of Cervantes awaited. So far this was moderate, modest, appro.. priate, and 1 had almost said deserved ; but the Deputy Don Joaquim Maria Lopez would not be satisfied with so little, and rather over did a good thing, by launching out into the most extravagant panegyrics, more calculated to depress than to exalt the genius of his departed friend and colleague; for, not content with comparing Esperoneda's fancy with that of the living Chateaubriand, he played his pen or pencil by the side of Homer's ! risunt tcocatis omici! It requires ill the self-conceit, all the intoxicating admiration of Spanish pa triotism, to mention an epic poem in celebration of cne Guardia, a National of Madrid, wounded ith October last, and since dead, in juxtaposition with the Iliad—with Achilles, the son of Peleus—the conqueror cf . Hector and of Troy ! If poor old Homer was ever caught napping and nodding, Lopez exhibited himself reeling—nay, sprawling on the ground. Homer has never been so insulted as by his—the first poem in the world —the first within the memory of man—being put on a level with one, whatever its met its may be, scarcely known beyond the Pyrenees, and as yet not much within them. After this, you will pardon my passing in silence the orations of Count de las Navas and Signor Romero Larranaya,.delivered on the same mournful occasion. IRELAND. THE ATTEMPT ON THE QUEEN'S LIFE. DUIbLIN, JUNE I.—A special messenger reached the Caitle yesterday evening, bearing the tidings that another attempt had been made on the life of her Most Gracious Majesty. Im mediately on the receipt of the intelligence, the follovtin official communication was forwarded to the Lerd Mayor a locum tencns " Dublin Castle, May 31, 1842, Quarter to 7. "My Lord,—l am directed by his Excellency, the Lord- Lieutenant to inform you, that he has just received, by special messenger, the intelligence that the Queen has had a most pro ♦idential escape from an assassin, IA ho fired at her ”sterday evening, on her return from her drive. Her Majesty is per fectly well, and maintained the most entire composure. " I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's most obedient servant, "ARTHUR MAGENIS. _ _ " The Lord Mayor of Dublin." VICEREGAL COURT.—The ball given at the Cagle last n:ght was on a scale of great splendour in honour of her Ma jesty's birthday. The announcement of the attempt on her Majesty's life, and her providential escape, was circulated throughout the room, and produced, of course, very considera ble sensation. DEANERY OF ST. PATRICK'S.-Dr. Radcliffe gate jeulg ment this morning in the Consistory Court in this long• litigated and important cause, which excited so much of public interest. The Learned Judge, after an elaborate judgment, decided that the Rev. Dr. Daly had been duly elected Dean of St. Patrick's. The judgment occupied nearly three hours in the delivery. At the clese Dr. Wilson, through his advo cate, gave notice of an appeal to the Court of Delegates from Dr. Radcliffe's decision. STATE OF TIPPERARY.-1 here is a manifest improvement in the condition of the North Riding, although there are still manifest symptoms of a disease not yet wholly eradicated. Threatening notic s continue to be served with unabated vigi lance; but so long as there is no absolute bloodshed, or at tempts to take away life, it is only reasonable to suppose that the disorder is giving way to the prescribed remedies. There was a meeting held on Sunday, at the Roman Catholic chapel of Silvermines, which was convened for the purpose of adopt ing the best means of bringing to justice the authors of the infamous notices recently served on Lord Dunalley's caretaker. General Sir Parker Carroll attended, and addressed some very, seasonable observations to the peasantry. The Gallant Officer implored of them to follow the advice of their clergy and co operate with them in the great work of pacification. The Nenagh Guardian states, that a Roman Catholic priest (the Rev. Mr. Nolan) yesterday delivered up twelve stand of arms to Major Priestley, " which he obtained through the in fluence of his good advice and friendly admonition." PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House qf Commons.) WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1. PUBLIC HOUSES BILL.—( In the Committee.) DIVISION ON MR. HUMPHERY'S CLAUSE. Question put,,“ That the Clause be now read a second time ." MINORITY—AYES, 27. Aglionby, H. A. Layard, Captain Philips, Mark Bannerman, A. Martin, John Becklington, T. N. Bowring, Or. Mitcalle, Henry Roebuck, J A. Browne, W. Mitchell, T. A. Row, Hon. Captain Christie, W. D. Muntz, G. F. Seholefield, J. Heiden, J. Murphy, F. S. Seymour, Lord Gill, Thomas Napiet , Sir Charles Tanen, Henry Hill, Lord Marcus O'Connell, M. J. TELLERS flume, Joseph 0 Connor Don Humphery, J. James, W. rechell, Captain Duucombe, 'l'. S. M AJORI T Y-NOES, Acland, Sir Thomas Flower, Eir James Acton, Colonel Graham, Sir J. Allis, John Peter Granger, T. C. Bagge, Wm. - Grogan, Edward Bankes, George Hardy, John Baring, W. B. flashy, A. Blackstone, W. S. Hawes, 11. Bodsin, W. H. Henley, J. W. Brotherton, J. Hervey, Lord A. Buller, C. Hodgson, IL. Bosteild, W.: Howard, P. H. Cnartcris, Hon. F. Hutt, W. Cheßea, Viscount Inglis, Sir H. H. t la) ton, It. It. Jerniyii, Earl Clerk, Sir G. Knatclibull, Sir E. .2oehrane, A. , Lincoln, Earl or Cripix, J. Lindsay, 11. Darby, George Lockhart, William Dickinson, F. 11. MacGeachy, F. A. Douglas, Sir C. E. Manners, Lord J lhincoinbe. 0. Marshall), Viscount 69.- Miles, W. Moir, Octavius Mor an, C. Morris, David Murray, A. Neville, Ralph Newry, Viscount. , A. Stattbrd I'akington, John S. Parker, John Plumptre, J. P. Pollington„ Viscount Round, C. G. Ruslihrooke, Colonel Sandon, Lord Scutt, Hon. F. Smythe, Hon. G. Stuart, Troubridge, Str T. Walsh, Sir J. Wynn. C. W. EScott, Bichkam Evans, William Ferguson, Sir K. A. Ferrand, W.,8. Martin, C. \V. Master, T. W. C. Mas:ennan, John 'rouxKits. Sutton, Henry M. Wortley, J. :quart BRIDPORT BOROUGH. Order read, for resuming adjourned Debate on Question [27th i%lay], " That such inquiry be referred to the Select Committee appointed to inquire whether such compromises have been entered into, and whether such bribery has taken place in the towns of Harwich, Nottingham, Lewes, Penryn and Falmouth, and Reading :"—Question again proposed; De bate resumed :•:—Queition put :—The House divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 44. Acland, Sir T. D. Ginger, T. C. O'Connell, M. J. Aglionby H. A. Greene, 'l'. O'Connor Don Raring, W. B. Hervey, Lord A. Pakington, .1. S. Blacknone, W. S. Hill, Lord A. M. C. Parker, John Bodkin, W. H. Hodgson, Richard Plumptre, J. P. Bourring, Dr. James, William Roebuck, .1. A. Brothertmr, J. .lermyn, Lord Sandon, Lord Christie, W. D. knatchbull, Sir B. Sutton, Hon. h. M . lerk, Sir George Layard, Captain 1 ufnell, H. Oenison, E. B. Lincoln, Earl of Wood, B. Dicsinson, F. H. Lowth•r, t olonel Wottley, Hon. J. S. iouglas, Sir C. Mangles, R. 1). Wynn, C. W. Donconle, 'l'. 5. Martin, C. W —vans, W. Morgan, C TELLERS. Gill, Gr..ham, Sir James Nur — phi, F. S. Napier, Sir Charles Buller, C. Hawes, B. Allix, John Peter Bankes, George Escort, liickham Ferranti, W. B. Henley, J. Warner Lockhart, William 31. G each y, F. A. .NORITY—NOES, 16. 111anners ' Lsrcl J. Scott, Hon. F. Neville, Ralph Smythe, Hon. G. Newry, Viscount Walsh, Sir John O'Brien A S. Pollingt6, %'iscouu TELLSRS. Itushbrook, Colonel Darby, George I3agge, W. MONEY M .RKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. CHRONICLE.—It appears by the American papers lately received there is an impression in the United States that the leading European capitalists have come to the determination not to enter into any contract for a loan to the United State., or a state government, until effectual measures shall have been adopted for the restoration of state credit ; and we are informed that declarations to that effect have been made by houses bete of great influence. If the capitalists referred to did make d] any stu c ontract, it does not seem prob?ble that the Erialists 11ould take the :OPII from them for investment. Stock issued by American states, whose resources are beyond ques (ion, is at present without demand; which we can only ac count ti,e, in the situation of our Money Market, by the exist. awe of an apprehension that the principles of repudiation, in respect to public engagements, evinced in some of the states. pervade the whole country. Danish Three per Cents. and New York Fives are at about the same tate ; the Threes very cur rent andthe Fives unsaleable. There can be no doubt, how. ever, that in population and wealth New York very much sur passes Denmark. While the United States Government is un able to raise money in London, it is currently reported that the Government of Mexico have been offered an advance of 15,000,000 cf dollars by the British merchants in Mexico, on condition that Santa Anna brings forward a liberal tariff. SUN.—The demand for money in the English Market has still continued, and consequently the prices of the funds are a shade • below Wednesday. The near approach of the: fourth of the month is most probably the proximate cause; since bills drawn at six months frian the commencement of the year will then fall due. Some ideas have been promulgated that orders for foreign corn are now being sent out, but the state of the *ell.- tiler, and the favourable sate of the Exchange, would sees* to forbid the supposition to be correct. Consols kit off at 91% 91% ex dividend. Batik Stock, 167% l 68%; India Stock, 250 252 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 41 43 ; Advertised, 36 38, premum. Foreign securities remain without alteration. Belgian, 103; 109 Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, 52% 521 ; the . ire per Cents., 101 101%; Danish, 80 % 81%; Brazilian , 6 ... , 68. Mexican is quoted rather lower, namely, 36% Shares were dull, but prices generally nearly the same; London and Birmingham, 178 180 ; Birmingham and . Glon- Half . S . ha . rfs, 61 62; cester, 50 52 • Great Western, 88 89 ; Western,sou h 7 62% 63%; North Midland, 65 ; the New Shares, 52 33 ; South Eastern and Dover, 2.74`- 264 ; the New Shares, 61 ; Eastern Counties, 9i 9%;_ , Nor . th Eastern, 43 44 ; 13Iackwall, 11 I 1 ; and Brighton, 3ag 35i per Share. The quotations of th e Bond., ab, , , were below those of ye s _ today; Colombian, 26h ; Peruvian, Port u. e 21 % 22 ; goose Five per Cents., 36'4 3, A ; he •; l isrlisli Five per Cents., 22% 22i ; the fhree per Cents., 23% 234. It will be seen that the Spanish Three per C en t s. h ave n early recovered the depression caused by th e i nte lli gence of the ►e:rignation of senor Hull. The p u bli c now happily happily evince so much distaste for the se s peculations that but little difference is made as to who may lie Minister, sines even the Bondholders themselves have almost given up their case as hopeless. The King of Prussia will, says a letter from Ber lin, commence his journey to St. Petersburgh on the Bth or 10th of thin month. After visiting some of the eastern pro vinces of his own kingdom, he will embark at Dantric in the Russian Government steamer, Ischora, for Cronstadt, whence he will preceed to St. Petersburgh. The Brussels Journals of Saturday give an account of a hsil storm, accompanied with thunder and lightning , a t Vervic‘rs, and the arljoining country, on the 24th ult., whic h , IS stated to have done immense damage to the crops. At Ner • viers a house was set on fire by the electric fluid, but through prompt assistance the fire was rapidly extinguished. tors )od, the ing, ider Iga thiS that ►eak Art, the ban' liCtS Direr tc(l, ent tpo.ll ery, Elers the ws was the viz., the mse lute ['the own Ada- who, ) an 4hly t the pure !affic ,our, n in, rass- e im !nt on Qs are 'e had Lining re ap :lassie of the ion to name Don : once) Fran- Nob, C yrs, t:2lb. e) I 2 colts, bs.) gY 1 ... 2 Won and a d) 1 2 Pot -4 yrs, st 81b. 3 to 1 Won 501.; lolb 0 I 1 2 0 0 2 dr dried- t) 1 s -- 5 - 1 T. R ;ton's Mr. Haws: R of ,wdoo etary, t the y Pre wag ed ra bord, anti o vert, )f the or4er atorb upon rdal orti exe, 311. 00 have ex' ivy,' an! , 'ici •tiei Oil toe r.:15 i