The Sun. — London, England, 1842-05-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM T 1 cr, EVENING pars RS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE. - ^By determining to retain the sliding scale, b ert Peeltin effect maintains the old mo nopoly. The p Teat fault of the old Corn-law was, that it excluded foi ).lign supplies till the average had brought down the duties to the lowest point ; and then the fo reign corn in the bonded warehouses was let in upon the market at one e. Under the old law, the corn of foreign growth was ex eluded from the market until the price had risen to 725. o r 735. At what lower rate will the new law admit the foreign article ? " See," said the Tory journals, " pi: vast the reduction of duty effected by the Premier's ameliorated scale of duties—the duty is absolutely 1 o wered more than one-half! Had the old law been i i operation, the duty on foreign corn would have be en 275.; it is now only 135." We admit the reduction ; but we assert—and the assertion is esta blished beyond contradiction—that the duty of, 13s. is as complett Ay a prohibition, as absolute an exclusion of the foreign article from the English market, as that of 275. Of 7 00,000 quarters in bond, not a single quarter has b et n taken out of bond for home consump tion. Why ? .Manifestly because the importers cannot afford to pay- the duty, and must, therefore; wait for a higher Tate of average, on which a lower duty will be paydbk. The Corn-law monopoly is thus practically nis intained by Sir Robert Peers new eliding-scale is effectually as it was under the old, law. The alle...ations are mere sleight-of-hand tricks played off to delude the vulgar ; but are perfectly seen through by the initiated. The exclamations of astonishment acid delight at the tricks of the wonder working Katie rfelto, are used by parties hired for the occasion, for the purpose of more effec tually keeping up the delusion, in the profits of which they are admitted to share. The dissatisfac tion expressed_ by a portion of the Tory party at Sir Robert Peel's Corn-law and Tariff, we are disposed to regard as equally dishonest. It is employed to gull the people into a belief that some substantial good will certainly be achieved by their operatio n ; seeing the monopolists themselves appear alarmed at the changes to be effected by it ! Lest the apprehen sions of the farmers that any substantial and abiding injury should result to their exclusive in terests, by the reductions of duty on the importation of live cattle and meat proposed by the new Tariff, Sir Robert Peel has employed himself in de nwnstrating the impossibility of their interests being affected by the new scale of duties, and has thus dis pelled the delusion. Indeed, so far has the Premier carried his generous purpose of relieving the anxieties of his friends, and thus proved his sincere devotion to their prejudices, that he absolutely sacrifices himself es a statesman for their sakes, and stultifies his own declared design in the grand financial and fiscal pro ject which he launched with so much pomp in the house of Commons, amid the cheers of the Opposition benches. STANDARD.—Whatever course others may take, we will not incur the responsibility of silence -while a chance remains that the New Poor law may be either repealed, or modified into a shape of humanity : this is a responsibility which we dread more than we dread the displeasure of any man or set of men. If gee have carefully abstained from aggravating the cruelties of which this law has been the occasion, and we think it will be al lowed to us that, of the opponents of the law, iVe have not been - the least circumspect in this particular—we have done the violence to our feelings in the hope that the ascendant humanity of the benrvolcnt and Christian 'part of the population would. call imperatively for a mitigation of the harsh code, and that sounder views of " a true political economy" would reach those beyond the influ ence ot human and religious feelings, with the effect of causing them to act in conformity with the call. Our hopes have been disappointed— at least their realisation has been postponed. The Whig-Radical law is to be continued for five Sears at the least, if the people will permit ; and it is now our duty to appeal from statesmen and Par liament to the sense of the people, while the people can still constitutionally interfere. Let every elector who gave a vote in the hope of a miti gation of the Poor-law, and upon the faith oF promises for its mitigation, now call upon his :Representative to redeem the pledge given ex p:emly, or by implication, at the hustings. The question is no party question in Parliament, let it be none out of doors. Let us then have no angry remonstrance ; but let gentlemen be held firmly to their engagements, and warned •of • the cer tain consequences of violating those engagements. The recess, though short, happily affords an epportunity. As we have said, the question is not in Parliament allowed to be a party ques tion, but, if not a party question, it cannot pos sibly be a Ministerial question. . The Minis ters, thr,ugh they may be disobliged, cannot be :injured by a successful opposition. On the other hand, ilefcat would he a true kindness to them. LS the to the harsh and insulting operation of the law has l'een ascribed, and justly ascribed, to its authors ; but from the day in which it shall be renewed in Sir .T.innes Graham's Bill, the obloquy under which the Whig=.3adicals have sunk • will, with equal justice, attach to the party of the present Ministers. ELECTION COMMITTEES. CORK COUNTY. Patrick O'Sullival (in continuation f.om cur Aftev /tool -ot iesterday) said—l received a corn att-on from a person of the opposite party teat it would he dangerous for him to return front poll on ?he Tuesday without an escort. He was escorted home, therefore, by a party of police ; but even so he thought it unsafe to go home the same road he came, knowire; that he would be waylaid. No voter in the Conar..vative interest could be safe, going to or from the pull, without an escort. Cross-ex).m ; ned by Mr. AuSTEN—Witness was sub agent to Lord Bantry, under the head, agent, Mr. Payne. Was not a driver, but only a collec tor of rents. Drivers. were the persons who executed warrants of distress, and drove off cattle for non-payment of rent. Witness brought over eight votere with himself—nine in • all —one, named Sims, a Pretestant, the other eight O'Sullivans, and Catholics. Witness bad no trouble in cavassing them. They were quite willing to vote. He paid their expenses until be xot into Cork, where he received front one of Leader's. ugoota the expenses of the voters he brought up. On tha way to Cork, he took on board the boat, at Bantry, five -.oters. They were Catholics, except ore Rich. O'Sullivan, -who was a Protestant. He had not canvassed those voters, but he had sent them word by one of his drivers that he would call fur them in the Bay on his passage f.enn. Beernam to Cork. The boat was about 24 tens burden. The people threw stones at them when they were in the broad part of the Bay, but could not reach them. When the voters were going ashore in a yawl from the cutter, there being aoout eighteen persons on board, stones were thrown in amongst then), and a voter named Murphy was struck. They tailed witness and his party Tory hacks, as they were landing. Symes had a double barrelled gun, by accident, which he was bringing to Cork to be re paired. Witness had brought from home a case of I pistols ; but left them with his luggage on board the cutter. After three or four of his party had been knocked down, he took the gun, and held it before him in such a position, that another move would bring it to the shoulder. They then got to the hotel, which was close at hand. Afterwards witness got his pistols, and it was going up the hill at Upton, that he thought it was necessary to take them out. Did not usually carry pistols about with him. There was no one with him but Timothy O'Sullivan. They would have been pelted by the mob, who obstructed the road, but that he produced the pistols, and told the snob that that he would take the lives of two of them at least, if they threw a stone. They did not throw after that. All the voters who went to Cork with witness, except Timothy O'Sullivan, voted for the Conservatives. .O'Sullivan would have voted, but that, having left the polling-booth with the intention of returning, he was un able to make his way back for the mob in time to vote. These voters were still in the same tenancies; but it would be. very hard to get them to go up to the poll again, if there were to be the same "goings or."—(A laugh.) There were a great many soldiers and police with fixed bayonets about the city. In fact the streets were quite lined with them. Had seen soldiers before at the Cork election in 1833, when Mr. Feargus O'Connor was a candidate. He could not swear that there were soldiers in 1837. There were either soldiers or mounted police. Would swear that th e re were not more military. in 1837 than at any elec tion before or since. Had no doubt that there were military and police at the election in 1835, and at every contested election since 1817. Mr. Longfield, the Con servative, was once returned for the county, though there was a majority of 6 , 00 against hitn.-:-(Great laughter.) He got in o n q Connors disqualification. There had, with that exception always been Liber a l s returned for Cork County sinc e 1830 ; and there always would be if things went on as they did last time. Re-examined—Five voters left his party at Upton. They were intimidated by the mob that came from Cork. Two others were cut off at Bandon. Goin g up. the hill, he took out his pistols, through apprehe nsion of injury to himself and party. The stones which were thrown must have been pretty large for they knocked down all the persons that were struck. His own hat was cut through, and his skull so severely wounded, that he was in danger for months. The Bantry voters had always gone up cheerfully to vote for that party, and would go up again, but for fear of their lives. Had no doubt that the seven who were " cut off" on the way to Cork, were afraid of their lives, and were only pre vented by that fear from going to the poll. To the Cc mmittee—Witness was escorted to the poll with his voters by a l arge b o d y o f t h e i r (th e Conserva tives') own people. They were collected for the pur pose, and some of them had sticks. Mr. A. Warren Payne examined—Was a Magistrate of the county of Cork. Resided in Bantry, about fifty yards from the hotel whe re O'S u lli van an d hi s par ty put up on their way to Cork. Th ere was a great crow d ass embled in front of the hotel, making a great noise, and threatening the party. Witness, considering the latter in danger, went into his own house, and loaded a brace . of p is tols , with the intention.of going to .o'Syllivart's assistance. The mob • attacked his house in the meantime, broke, the windows, and endeaitured to force the doors. Witness produced double-barrelled:. gun, and soon after the' crowd dis- persed ; but the town remained in great disturbance, and shots were fired in several places. Witness found several of O'Sullivan's party sev e rely wounded, and a I surgeon attended them. Witness went with them to Cork, as had been arranged before. The whole party were very much, alarmed. At Dunmanway, which is the country of Mr. Feargus O'Connor, the party met with no molestation. That was owing to the interference of Mr. O'Regan, the Catholic priest. When the party were goinc , up the hill, near Upton, an immense number of large stones were thrown at them, and an old man, named Denis Sullivan, was knocked off the car in which he was with witness, and lay in the road insensible, so that witness thought he was dead. The horse ran against the side of the road, broke the shafts, and ran away with the car. Witness was thrown out, and the mob made a rush at him ; but, on his pre senting a pistol they drew back, and he made a run for it. In a quarter of a mile he reached his father's seat at Upton. The examination of this witness was proceeded with, but nothing appeared from his evidence more than was stated by the previous witness. On his cross-examination, by Mr. AUSTEN, Mr. Payne said ho was asked to canvass the voters of Lord Bantry by the Conservative Club. He did so as agent ; re ceived no instructions from Lord Bantry. He could have voted on Wednesday, but the contest was then over. Re-examined by Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM—If the state of the town on Wednesday was such as it was on Tuesday, he thinks he could not have voted, but at the risk of his life. It being now Four o'clock, the Committee adjourned .0 Eleven o'clock to-morrow. EASTERN NEWS. Our accounts from Constantinople come down to the 27th ult. inclusive., The Divan continued to be still almost exclusively occupied with the Syrian question. On the 17th (as we have already announced) Selim Bey sailed for Beyrout, with instructions to inquire into the real state of affairs in the Lebanon, and adopt, in concert with Mustapha Pacha, the measures best calculated to conciliate the in terests of all parties. On the 23d, a note was presented by the Russian Ambassador to the Reis Effendi,in which his Government remonstrated against the policy pursued by the Porte towards Syria, and especially against its refusal to recal Omar Pacha from the Lebanon. The differences existing between Turkey and Greece do not appear to have been yet entirely settled. On the 25th the Divan held a grand council, at which the prelimi naries of a definitive arrangement were agreed upon, and the activity displayed by the Porte on this occasion in duced a belief that the affair would be speedily and sa tisfactorily terminated. In the evening of the 24th ult. a violent quarrel arose between some sailors of the British steamer Stromboli and those of the Russian steamer Syllax, on the quay of Galata. Several of the combatants were seriously wounded. A flotilla, composed of a corvette, two brigs, and two cutters, was preparing to put to sea on a cruise through the Archipelago and along the coasts lately infested by pirates. The Smyrna journals of the 27th of April state, tha the Austrian schooner Aurora brought into that port on the 26th an lonian vessel, the San Spiridion, Captain Petela, who had rendered himself guilty of an y act of barratry. He had sailed from Odessa with a cargo of corn for Leghorn, but, instead of proceeding directly to his destination, he stopped among the islands of the Grecian Archipelago, where he disposed, at a miserable price, of a considerable portion of the cargo. He was ar rested at Livata, a small island situate near Patmos, by order of Admiral Bandeira, and carried prisoner to Smyrna, where he was placed, with his vessel, at the dis posal of the consul of Great Britain. The Calypso, French frigate, sailed from Smyrna, fur Toulon, on the 29th ult. Accounts from Canea of the 20th ult., announced that all was quiet in Candia. The Turkish flotilla, mentioned in our Constantinople letter as on the point of putting to sea, had actually sailed, and was met off Chesme on the 28th. It would proceed first to Scio and thence to Psara, to instal the primates appointed by the Porte. Letters from Salonica of the 23d nit. state, that the Sultan had not accepted the resignation of Namik, Pasha of Larissa. Three Greek vessels had been freighted in that harbour for the conveyance to Syria of 1,500 Alba nian, assembled at Volo, under the command of Tafil Bouzi. Mr. Charles Blunt, the English Consul, left Salonica for Smyrna on the 23d. Macedonia and Albania continued to enjoy the most perfect tranquillity, and all the attempts at disturbance lately made ut the instigation of Russian agents had completely failed. Our intelligence from Athens, received via Smyrna, only came down , to the 20th ult. A dispute had arisen at Nauplia between the staff of a regiment of artillery in garrison there, supported by part of the population, and the Bavarian Colonel Hutz. This circumstance, though trifling in appearance, would, it was thought, occasion a modification of the Greek Cabinet, the total expulsion of the Bavarians from the service, which was agitated in Council, having produced a most angry debate. The northern frontier was still infested with banditti ; but the inhabitants of the adjoining villages having sided with the military bad succeeded in driving them back on the Ottoman territory. The French naval division, under the orders of Admiral Lasusse, and consisting of the two ships Inflexible and Santi Petri, and the brig La Fleche, cast anchor at Salamis on the 14th ult. Our private correspondence from Alexandria, of the 26th ult., announces the arrival of several distinguished travellers in that city from Upper Egypt ; amongst others, Count Pallier). and Captain Basil nail. Letters had been received at Alexandria from Suez, stating that a revolution had broken out amongst the Nedsches against Chaled Bey, who was compelled to fly into the province of Lachsa. TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF THE MADAGASCAR WAR STEAMER. FIFTY SEVEN LIVES LOST, AND CAPTURE OF THE SURVIVORS BY THE CHINESE: (ADDITIONAL PA RTIC ULA Rs.) By the last overland mail from India, further and more detailed accounts have reached us, respecting the melan choly loss of the Madagascar war steamer by fire, in the month of September last, in the Chinese seas, two days after quitting Hong Kong, attended, we regret to say, with dreadful sacrifice of human life, and capture of Captain Dicey, the commander, and the rest of the crew of the ill-fated vessel, forty-two in number, by the Chinese. The particulars are as follow : The Madagascar is said to have been a powerful built vessel, upwards of one thousand tons burden. Her engines consisted of two, each 100-horse power, and she carried three guns of large calibre. Besides the commander (Capt. Dicey), the lieutenants and officers, the crew amounted to ninety-five in number, including engineers and fire men. The fire, it appears, happened on the evening of the 19th of September, and is conjectured to have originated by the coals overheating in the iron bunkers abaft the engine-rooms, almost adjoining the • boilers. Its discovery was made shortly after nine o'clock at night, when the vessel was between fifty and sixty miles out at sea, with a gale of wind blowing from northd'ard. The first to give the alarm was one of the stokers, who while attending in the en gine room, perceived a smoke issuing from betwt en the boilers and the bulkhead of the ship, but supposing it of no importance, he took nu notice of it. Shortly after wards, however, he discovered that the vessel was on fire, and instantly came upon deck and informed the chief Lieutenant, who happened to be with the watch, of the circumstance, and on the word being passed, every soul in the ship rushed from below in the utmost state of excitement. The Commander, Captain Dicey was amongst them, and acted with great fortitude. lie im mediately ordered the pumps to be got to work, and the hose with which the vessel was provided screwed on, winch was directly done, and the branch pipe taken down into the engine room. By that time the smoke had greatly increased, but it was full an hour and a half before the exact locality of the fire could be traced out. It being found that the smoke issued through the coals over the bunkers (for there was an • immense quantity in the ship), the sea men commenced tearing up the deck with axes, and then set about removing the coals, which occupied much time, and they were not cleared away till two o'clock the following morning, when the fire was found raging fiercely underneath. Every possible means were taken to get it under, but without success, and it spread with fearful rapidity. At four o'clock Captain Dicey ordered five feet of water to be let into the hold of the vessel, thinking that it would have the desired effect. This, however, produced no change ; but the terrible element continued to progress with increased violence, and before six o'clock it burst forth through the deck, and the masts and sails were in a blaze. Amidst the confusion, no one thought of saving any of the provisions or .water, and on an attempt :being made by one or two seamen for that purpose, about twenty-five minutes after the dis covery had taken place, it was found utterly impossible to exist between the decks, owing to the suffocating smoke and intensity of heat. Her magazine being ex pected to blow up every moment, Captain Dicey ordered the boats to be launched, and at seven o'clock the crew crot into them, and left the unfortunate vessel to its fate. 'At that period it was impossible to stand upon her deck, and in a very few minutes after they had left, the masts gave way and fell overboard. By eight o'clock she was completely enveloped in flames, and preseited a most awful, though magnificent, spectacle ; and in about an hour and a half after, the powder in the magazine ig nited, and occasioned instant destruction to the wreck. The report was of a terrific description, as will be sup posed from the circumstance of there being upwards of a ton of powder stowed in the magazine. It resembled a tremendous roar of thunder, and must have been heard at an immense distance. Tne vessel was shattered to pieces, and disappeared under water. Respecting the fate of her Crew, we subjoin the fol lowing statement, by one of the officers, to a merchant at Macao, dated Jan. 8, 1842 : " Immediately on Captain Dicey acquainting me with his determination to leave the ship, I was confident that many a poor fellow would meet with a 'watery grave. Captain Dicey took command of the first cutter himself ; giving me the second ; the second mate the third boat, and the third mate the gig. from h Iwa t sp e os s i h ti i v p e , t w h h a e t n th t e h y e third cutter and gig departed would not outlive the gale, which then existed with a heavy sea, which turned out too true, for they were never seen after. Soon after, the vessel had blown up, we made sail to keep the boat ahead a the sea, which was increasing.. The'second cutter kept us company. You may imagine better than I can describe our situa tion, when I say that we were upwards of fifty miles from land, with forty-two in the boat, which was only twenty feet long, and six feet six inches in breadth. At about. twelve o'clock an accident happened to the second cut ter's mast, in consequence of which she fell over on her beam-ends, and continued so for a „length of time, 'with the sea every now and then completely. going over-her. She was about a quarter of i mile Trom us astern,.but to reader her assistance was utterly impossible, for to have niE SUN, LON brought our boat alongside would have been instant and certain destruction to l. Shortly afterwards we saw h ;?, go down. It was a dreadful night. Some of the poor fellows managed to get clear of her, and commenced swimming, in the hopes of reaching us ; but in the course of a few minutes they all disappeared, along with the rest of their unfortunate companions. Our only chance was by holding on sail and running right before the wind, whieh we contrived to effect. Even, however, as it was, the sea astern came rolling after us so high, that our sail was constantly becalmed, and we were only preserved by making the men sit all round the gunwale, thus breaking the sea that came in with this living bulwark, and employing others constantly iu baleing the water out of her with their hats and. shoes. At four o'clock on the following morning (Mon day) we were gladdened with the sight of land, immediately on our larboard bow, between fifteen or six teen miles distant. In about four hours we managed, by vigorous exertions, to come up alongside of the breakers, but to attempt to pass over them would have quickly swamped us, consequently we were forced to pull out to sea again, and it was a miracle that we succeeded, all being so exhausted and so dreadfully cramped by our position in the boat. We remained all that day and fol low ing night endeavouring to effect a landing, but were unable to do so, until about four o'clock on the morning of the 22d, when we were thrown amongst the rocks and breakers ; and ultimately, through God's mercy, effected a safe landing. During the meanwhile our sufferings were truly frightful, every one had expected their hour had arrived, and were praying fervently to Heaven. I had just got into a doze, notwithstanding the sea had been rushing over us, when three breakers broke over the mast-head and awoke me. The next moment she was dashed on the rocks, and went almost immediately to pieces. The general impression amongst us was, that she had got on a reef, and we were prepared for a watery grave. You can imagine our joy, on being thrown out of the boat, by the concussion, at finding footing and being able to walk ashore, on reaching which, most of us fell on our knees, and returned thanks for our deliver ance. Several of the crew soon afterwards proceeded along the coast in search of the two other boats, and succeeding in finding them bottom upwards, two miles from the spot where ours was stranded, and in the course of the morning several of their unfortunate occupants were washed up on the beach by the sea. In about an hour after our landing we ascertained, through our Chi nese carpenter that we were within 60 miles from Amoy, which had ten or twelve days previous been taken by our English troops, and an immense number of natives killed. This circumstance threw us, as you may,imagine, into great excitement ; but escape was out of the ques tion, for the boats were complete wrecks ; in fact, they were all in pieces. Waited patiently till day-break, when between 200 and 300 Chinese made their appear ance and came up to us. The carpenter met them, and explained to them our disasters, at the same time offering a large sum of money to get a boat for us, so as to pro ceed to Hong Kong. They listened with considerable attention to the carpenter's statement, but refused to get the boat. They however procured for us some cold rice and water, and as soon as we all had partaken of it, they ordered us to a village some distance up the country. On our arrival at that place we were suddenly surrounded by a large body of natives, who were completely naked, and armed with knives, spears, and various other implements of war. We were immediately attacked, and plundered of every thing we had in our possession, even the very clothes on our backs were torn off, and had we offered the least re sistance, death would have been our reward. Some of the poor Lascars were stripped nearly naked ; not one of them had more than a shirt. Captain Dicey was stripped as well as the rest ; they would not stop for his pulling his trowsers off, but they cut them off, and he was left with nothing on but his shirt and drawers. When they had got all they could from us, a proposition was made by the Chief to murder us, and they were preparing themselves for that purpose, when some Mandarin's people came up, and interfered, saying that we were Americans, and not English, as they thought us to be, thinks to the carpenter for telling them so, for had the truth come out we would have to a certainty been sacrificed. Shortly afterwards we were conducted, in custody of a body of natives, to a dirty cow house, which was filled almost with filth, where we were confined for two days. They brought in some straw for our beds, and supplied us with two meals, consisting of red rice and a few heads and tails of the worst description of salt fish. On the third day, having recovered from our fatigue, we were escorted to a place twenty miles distant, followed by thousands of Chinese, who conducted themselves most outrageously, hooting and shouting as we went along, and every now and then making signs that our heads would be cut off. On our arrival at the place (I forget its name) we were placed in a kind of square, guarded by. upwards of forty-thousand Chinese, and remained there for an hour or more, until the Mandarin ordered us before him ; and at the con clusion of some ceremony, which .I was unable to under stand, were taken to an old distillery irs the outskirts of the village. We were in utter distress • our feet were bleeding and blistered, and we were almost dead from exhaustion, owing to being exposed the whole day to a broiling sun. About two hours after being locked up, a scanty meal of rice was brought us, which was the first we had tasted since the previous night ; we however soon fell asleep, notwithstanding our bed was the ground, and our arms our pillows. A few days afterwards we were tried here by the Mandarins, and some Chinese gave evidence, but they could not prove that we were English. Before the examination took place our Chinese carpenter contrived to forward a letter to our friends at Macao, or elsewhere in China, by the man who guarded over us, describing our situation, but at the same time precaution was taken in case the letter should be opened by the Chinese, to prevent our identity. At length we were marched off, on our way to Canton, and were daily dragged along and fed with the coarsest rice, with occasionally a few rotten salt fish, by way of luxury. We continued our march till the 12th of October, when we received a letter in answer to the one we sent, from an American of Can ton, demanding the Chinese to deliver us up. This, how ever, was not granted, and we were impris' ne 1 at a 'lace called Wichow, where we underwent a second examina tion. Here Ice remained imprisoned till the 31st of De cember, when we were released, through the constant and increasing applications of an American, named Ryer, living at Canton, and another benevolent gentleman named Matheson. We are at present living with tho: e gentlemen, and shortly will take our departure for Calcutta." The loss of the Madagascar is variously estimated from 30,0001. to 40,0001. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS SUN.—But little business was done in the English Funds yesterday. The markets generally have an im proved tone of firmness, and Consols left off at 92 + 9 2 + for Money, and 928 924 for the Account. Bank S:ock, 167 168 ; India Stock, 2494 2514 ; Exchequer Bills, 39 41, prem. The prices of Foreign Securities are firm ; Belgian, 102 103 ; Dutch, the Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 521 521 ; the Five per Cents. 101 1014 ; Danish, 804 811; and Brazilian, 67 68. Railway Shares were not materially altered in price, hut transactions to a fair extent were entered into. London and Birmingham, 180 182 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 53 55 ; Great Western, 92 93 ; the Half Shares 64 644 ; South Western, 634 64 ; Gosport, 634 64 ; North Midland, 65 67, the new shares, 324 334 ; South Eastern and Dover, 291 30+, New 7+ 7+; Eastern Counties, 94 91 ; Blackwell, 114 Ili, New 94 91, and Brighton, 354 361 per share. The quotations of Mexican bonds were 37+ 374, at the close of business. In the bonds of the insolvent States Colombian were quoted 26+ 271 ; Portuguese Five per Cents, 37i 37i-, the Three per Cents. 22-+ 221 ; Spanish Five per Cents. 231, and the. Three per Cents., 23 231. It will be observed, that the nominal rate of Colom bian is about one per cent. above that on Satur day. To the uninitiated in the manoeuvres of the mar ket in which these documents change hands, it would doubtless appear that some circumstance had oc curred which might influence the quotations. It is true that such an event has happened, but it is one that does not alter the position of the bondholders. To-morrow is the day fixed for the settlement, and upon every simi lar occasion the price of one or the other of these things is raised or depressed, as may best suit the accounts of the principal speculators. Spanish, for a long time, had the preference in these fluctuations, but since dishonesty of that nature has become so glaring, that even the chief operators themselves were ashamed to make any further attempts to bolster up the bonds, Peruvian and Buenos- Ayrean succeeded. For the two or three last settle ments the whole were in such bad odour with the public, that they all were allowed to be quiet ; but this time an effort has been made to revive the " rig" in Colombian —it has, however, fortunately been unsuccessful. By the Britannia steamer from Halifax, accounts from New York to the 30th instant have arrived, the fullest possible details of which appeared in The Sun of this evening. Private letters mention a report that Lord Ashburton had offered to settle the boundary question by paying for the land in dispute ; this, however, was Thought could not be acceded to from the constitution of the Federal Union, which forbids any portion of the ter ritory to be sold. THE CONFLAGRATION AT HAMBURGH.—The Queen, with her usual sympathy and feeling for the sufferings of the distressed, has ordered 2001. to be transmitted by , Messrs. Coutts and Co. in aid of the fund for the relief of the Hamburghers deprived of their homes and all they possessed by the recent calamitous fire. Prince Albert has sent 1001. for the same benevolent object. The number thus deprived of shelter is estimated at 30,000. 10,0004 was sent over in dollars and money by the steamer, subscribed by some of the public com panies, merchants, bankers, and others in the course of three days after the news of the catastrophe was known in London. THE QUEEN'S MASQUE.—It is a gratifying cir cumstance, that notwithstanding, the unprecedentedly magnificent display of diamonds and jewellery which took place at the late splendid entertainment of her Ma jesty, very few losses were sustained, and those were generally of articles of trifling value. The only loss of any moment was that sustained by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, froin the girdle of whose gorgeous dress is supposed to hive dropped a valuable brilliant of the first magnitude. POTATOE LAWS.—In the Isle of Man, people are much alarmed at the intended reduction of the duty on imported potato is ; and are afraid of being inundated with Dutch,. German, and French potatoes. Really this is saying very little for own own country. Surely we can grow them as cheap as they can, and we have a market at home. Our land, labour, and skill are equal to.theirs. and if the difficulty lie in the rent, taxes, and tithes, these must give . way rather than live our pota. toes made dear.—The . Stiug§k. ' ". ON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1842 NAVIGATION AND PORT OF LON DON COMMITTEE. - THE GREENWICH PIER COMPANY AND THE FLOAT ING PIER CO3lPANY.—Yesterday being the day appointed for the 'consideration of the several petitions for and against the floating-pier at Greenwich, by the Lord Mayor and the members of the Navigation Committee, several of the persons connected with the permanent pier, and many of those whose interests are involved in tEe property of the floating-pier, attended at the Guildhall, for the purpose of hearing the decision of his Lordship, and the Committee. Mr. C. Phillips and Mr. Clarkson appeared for the Watermen's Steam-packet Company,'and the other in dividuals connected with the floating-pier, for whom Mr. Newbon acted as solicitor ; and Mr. Chambers, the bar rister, Mr. Carttar, and Mr. Bristow, solicitors, ap peared for those connected with the permanent pier. There was a petition from five hundred persons, who were described as inhabitants of Greenwich, in favour of the floating-pier. Mr. Clarkson, who represented the Directors of the Watermen's Steam-boat Society, using the stairs at Greenwich called Garden-stairs, stated that the question upon which the Navigation Committee was called to de cide so unnecessarily was one of the utmost importance. The principal ground of the complaint against the float ing pier was, that it was a public nuisance, and he was convinced that they would not attempt to exercise what ever power they might possess for the removal of that pier before it was fully proved that such allegation was true. After having argued at some length upon that al legation, the Learned Gentleman proceeded to contend with great force against what he considered to be the monopoly of the sohd or Permanent Pier Company, to whom, in fact, no exclusive privilege attached by law, any'enorethan an exclusive privilege attached to the first pier Company formed at Gravesend, about which so much had been said and done. He called upon the Committee to look at all other parts of the Thames, which presented, in the numerous piers projecting into the River, both above and below the great bridges, grand evidences of the competition excited by steam, and he ridiculed the notion of permitting Greenwich alone to be exempted from so beneficial a privilege. It was with great confidence he looked to the Committee for giving to the Floating Pier Company the opportunity of applying to the only tribunal capable of legally deciding upon'the merits of the case—a jury. In thus expressing himself he delivered the sugges tions of those officers of the Corporation who were best qualified, from their knowledge, skill, and experience, to advise the gentlemen he had the honour to address. To a jury the question as to whether that which was charged as a nuisance vas or was not a nuisance ought surely to be submitted, before the Committee could proceed to punish it as a nuisance. The Committee could not, under the circumstances, omit the serious consideration, that if they decided according to the prayer of the petition of the persons who were hostile to the floating pier, they would do so at the hazard of human life. The bread of hundreds was dependent upon the result of their judgment, and everything was to be apprehended from a decision which would throw the watermen, with their wives and families, who were, supported by the floating pier, into a state of destitution. Mr. C. PHILLIPS followed at considerable length on the same side. He stated that the Permanent Pier Com pany had broken faith with the watermen who plied to Garden-stairs, and who would, if this competition were not interfered with, be totally betrayed. He described the advantages which the public obtained from the re duced amount of the fares, occasioned by the establish ment of the floating pier. He denied that the Navigation Committee had any colour of right to usurp the functions of a jury. They could not examine witnesses upon oath, and they had, consequently, no power of testing the truth of the representations made to them. It was impossible for the Committee to decide the question. He wished they would take the opinion of the Recorder and the City Solicitor as to the course they ought to pursue. The Learned Counsel then referred to the de cision of Mr. Ballantine, at the Thames Police - court, and also to a judgment delivered by Lord Ellenborough on a case which was considered to be analagous as re garded a complaint against a nuisance. He then appealed to the Committee on the ground of the danger to human life likely to arise from a conflict occasioned by what the watermen would, no doubt, con sider an unjust decision, and called upon them to avert such a calamity by sending the case to be tried by a legal tribunal. Mr. NEWBON made some observations in favour of the Floating Pier Company. Mr. CHAMBERS, for the solid or Permanent Pier Com pany, contended that his Learned Friend had been all the while advocating . the cause he came forward to support. The cause in which he appeared, was in sub stance and reality, the cause of the Waterinen at Green , with ; and the Committee, in removing the nuisance of the Floating Pier, would not injure or destroy, but protect and establish, the right ofethe body. He went upon facts, while his Learned Frienddrew upon their imaginations for pictures of excitement, in order to influence the Com mittee by the apprehension of dangerous violations of the peace ; but the Committee would not be deterred from the performance of their duty, particularly as the removal of the nuisance would be the surest way of putting a speedy termination to the bar rassing squabbles which were constantly taking place, and which might, if not checked, lead to the very calamities which his Learned Friend anticipated. The Learned Gentleman next contended that the Lord Miiyor, in the Navigation Committee, possessed the power by law of removing any nuisance or obstruc tion to the navigation of the river Thames, and that they were bound to exercise that power fur the benefit and protection of those who could not protect themselves. 'The idea of prosecutin g by indictment in a case where such an authority existed was futile. -What would be the result of an indictment ? Why two or three poor men might be indicted, and the cases might be taken into the Court of Queen's Bench and prosecuted for two or three years, at an enormous expense to both parties, the nui sance continuing all the while without abatement—the evil remaining without alleviation. There was no analogy between the Gravesend Pier cases and the present. If tho Floating Pier Company took the means which the Permanent Pier Company had taken, by going to Parliament, there would be no opposi tion to the formation of the second pier ; halt was pre posterous to say that the floating pier, for which there was no Act of Parliament, and which no man could say was not a nuisance and an obstruction, could be per mitted to remain in its present condition. The Learned Gentleman then gave a rapid history of the permanent pier and the floating pier, in which he stated that most of the watermen who d been induced to join in the latter speculation, had regretted the connection, and re turned to the former, in conviction of the advantages which it was calculated to bestow upon them and their families, by the allotment of a sixth part of the profits as -a recompence. After having addressed the Committee at great length upon the power which the Lord Mayor most assuredly possessed of removing the floating pier, without the assistance of Judge or Jury, the Learned Gentleman concluded by calling upon his Lordship to ex ercise his authority his authority with firmness, by di-' recting the Harbour-master to proceed in order to carry into execution so necessary an object. Mr. Carttar and Mr. Preston argued strongly on the tame side, and declared that all the signatures to the petitions presented were undoubtedly genuine. The Committee-room was then cleared of strangers, and the City Solicitor having (as we were given to under stand) addressed them for some time, the do - ors were ordered to be thrown open. • The CITY SOLICITOR, at the desire of the Lord Mayor, read the following resolution, which he said was agreed to unanimously. Resolved—" That it appearing to this Committee that, since the construction of the floating pier complained of, three assizes and sessions of the peace for the county of Kent had intervened, and that a Court of Conservancy for the district has been held without any proceedings having been taken to remove the alleged nuisance, the Committee are of opinion that there is no circumstance or pressing necessity to induce them to recommend the Lord Mayor to take any present proceedings therein."—The Committee then adjourned. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, MAY 14.—The King set out the day before yesterday in the morning for his seat at Ardennc. The agent of the Cashier-General at Arlon absconded on the 9th of this month, leaving a deficiency, it is said, of 250,000 francs, which is supposed to be of three years standing, and to have been hitherto covered by very un lawful means. _LUXEDISOURG.—M. Marchard, conductor of the public works which the province is causing to be exe cuted, shot himself through the head with a pistol on Friday last, at Chatilion. CAESTRAY, MAY 12.—The works on the iron railway from this town to the French frontier, are carried on with the greatest activity, and advance rapidly, so that we are persuaded that they will be completed next month. Equal activity is observed on the French terri • tory towards Lille, for we are assured that the works are carried on every evening by torch light. &WUHAN i•UNDS—BRUt•SELB, MAY 14 Actual Debt,234 per Cen t . Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent Loan of thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. sper Cent. ..... ------.Thirty.seven------ .., ..1 .......••••••••(1840) IC4% Loan of City, 1932, 4 per Cent. l l ,l Society of Commerce, 4)i per Cent F6 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ....... National Society Exchange on London (short) ..... ........ ...Brussels Papers. May 15. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA. MAYA fireper Cents. Metalliques • 109% Four per Cents• ••••••••••••••••••••••••• .......... . .. ....... Ile IGO Three per Cents. ....... 76% ••.. ..... ........... .............. Bank Shares HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, MAY 13. Bills. Money. .. Austrian 5 per Cents. ••• Bank Shares •••••••••••••• ....... •••••••••• 1700 Anglo-Russian Loan llO 10934 Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate 102% Inscription, Ist series . ........ .., . .... Russian 5 per Cent. Hope ade"o., ...3d and 4th Series — Ditto in Certificates f 9 New 4 per Cent. (1840) B9 89 Dutch Actual Debt, te)6 per Cent. Ditto 5 per Cent. Polish Bonds .............. . ............. ....... 155 New Tickets.. .............................. 4 .... Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. lB% 79 Spanish, New 5 per Cents. .................... EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURGH, MAY 13.-13 84, Two months 13 61i. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—lizamo, May 10. Bills. Money. St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. Prussian English Bond-, 1830 , 4 per cent. 10 - 2 %102.ys Exchange on London .. ....... Prussian State Gazette, May 1 l. GREENWICH AND WANDSWORTH FAIRS. - Yes terday, Whit-Monday, from the remarkably fine state of the weather, the steam-boats from Hungerford Market and London-bridge were crowded at an early hour by holiday folks of both sexes, proceeding to Greenwich and Wandsworth fairs. The carriage trains on the Greenwich Railway were crowded with passengers, and extva trainslave been put ou •to convey the company to Greenwich. . • CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT OLD COURT. DOINGS IN THE FLEET.— Win. Clark, sen., and Wm Clark,jun., two most respectable-looking individuals, were I charged, the former with feloniously breaking into and entering the apartments of Mr. Southend, on the Bth of March last, and stealing therefrom two 101. notes, and other property, and the latter with receiving the same, well knowing them to have been stolen. Philip Rose (in continuation from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday) said—Can't say how many coats we had in pawn when this one was left. Thinks the younger prisoner was not the person who pawned it. James Aldridge, another clerk, deposed that a person very much resembling the younger prisoner redeemed the coat on the 18 th of March, and he tendered in pay ment a 101. note. John Roe, an officer at the Mansion-house, deposed that he made a search on the Ist of April in the Fleet. Mr. Southend was present, with Mr. Clarke. He did not find anything that had been stolen. He afterwards traced one of the notes in question to Mr. King, the pawnbroker of Holborn. He afterwards saw the younger prisoner at a shop in St. Paul's Churchyard. The wit ness Aldridge was then with him. Aldridge described the young man who pledged the coat, which tallied with the appearance of the prisoner. Cross-examined by Mr. BODKIN—He traced the other 101. note to a Mr. Barnard. Mr. Barnard was examined before the Magistrate, but he did not recognise the pri soner. The younger prisoner came to-day voluntarily to be placed upon his trial. He was not bound in his own recognisances. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. BODKIN addressed the Jury for the defence, and called the following witnesses Eliza March deposed that she was in the employment of Messrs. Smith and Lapouli. Knew the younger pri soner at the bar. „He was in the' same house, and had been there for six years. On the 18th March last saw the prisoner at the warehotfie ; he was there during the whole of that day. There is a'porter at the warehouse of the name of Hardiman. He was sent out with goods. The younger prisoner was in the warehouse at the time. He gave the porter.several parcels for the West end of the town. He gave him a shilling for his dinner ; that was about one o'clock. The prisoner, Clarke, slept at the house on the Bth of March ; when he went out at night he had to be in at half past ten. Sometimes the shop was not shut up till ten o'clock. The prisoner had no business at the Fleet on the 18th of March, and he was required at the warehouse, as they were busy at the time. He could not be away without being missed. James Aldridge recalled, said that the coat was re deemed before dinner on the . lBth of March, at about one o'clock. William Hardiman deposed that he was a porter in the warehause of Messrs. Smith and Lapouli in St. Paul's Churchyard. He was directed by Mr. Clarke to go to the West end with a parcel on the 18th March ; this was about a quarter past one o'clock. The prisoner gave him a shilling for his dinner. Cross-examined by Mr. Payne.—lt was a very unusual thing to have money given to him for his dinner. Never recollects it to have been done before. Re-examined.—The fact of having the shilling given him impressed the time upon his memory. George Grey, another porter in the establishment of Messrs. Smith and Lapouti, on the 18th March, at one o'clock in the day, he was going to dinner when he was called back by Mr. Clarke. He had to take some goods out, and by the time they were packed up it was half past one. He went out, and did not return till five o'clock. Mr. Marks deposed that he entered certain goods on the 18th of March, which goods were sent out abont one o'clock. The younger prisoner called the goods out, and he (the witness) entered them. The prisoner could not have gone on that day to High Holborn without witness missing him. Witness was in the warehouse from nine o'clock in the morning till night. Thomas Cooke deposed that he was a tailor. On the 16th of last March he was in the Fleet Prison. Knew the elder prisoner Clarke. Knew a clergyman of the name of Clarke, from whom the witness received an order to make a coat. A conversation ensued in the room of the prisoner as to the style of the coat. A coat was produced by the prisoner's step-son. It was the sumo coat as that produced by a former witness. It was the property of the prisoner. The coat that was ordered by Mr. Clarke, the clergyman, was to be made in the same style. Witness did not make the coat to order, the order having been countermanded. The coat was ordered as the clergyman was to be liberated in a few days, when he had to give evidence before a Committee of the House of Commons. He was liberated a few day afterwards. James Clarke deposed that he was a private gentleman. Mr. BODKIN—Are you in the Church ? Witness — Yes ; I was brought up to the Church, but never ordained. He was in the Fleet on the 16th of March. He is still there, and was brought up by habeas corpus. He cor roborated the last witness. Alexander M'Donald, the step-son of the elder pri soner, who lived with his sisters, corroborated the state ment of the witness Cooke. Wm. French and John Cooke, prisoners in the Fleet, also corroborated this evidence. Mr. William Smith, of the firm of Smith and Lapouli, gave the younger prisoner an excellent character. The wife of the elder prisoner was the widow of a general officer. Her daughters lived at Walworth on their pro perty. Several large sums had passed through the hands of witness's father. This being the case for the defence, Mr. PRENDEItGAST addressed the Jury upon it. and the Learned Recorder having summed up the evidence, the Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty against both prisoners. The trial lasted upwards of nine hours, and did not terminate till half-past six o'clock. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Joseph Pittott, the driver of the cab, No. 2,015, was committed to take his trial at the Central Criminal Court, for stealing a purse containing two sovereigns and three shillings, the property of Mrs. Dorothy, Elizabeth ' Edwards of No. 35, Bedford-road, Queen's - square. It appeared that on Thursday last, the prosecutrix and another lady were driven by the prisoner in his cab, to the exhibition of paintings in water colours, in Pall Mall, and that in alighting the prosecutrix accidentally droppea her purse, and passed on without missing it ; the prisoner was then seen to pick it up, and, jumping into his box, drove off as fast as he could. He was, however, traced, from the description given of him by police constable, No. 174 of the G division, who ap prehended him yesterday morning at his lodgings in Little Guildford-street, Rassell-square. The prisoner denied all knowledge whatever of the purse. Mary Ann Cornell, a young woman of respectable appearance, was charged with robbing her master. Mr. Aaron Henry Hart, of No. 356, Oxford-street, cvbinet maker and upholsterer, stated that the prisoner had been but a few days in his service. On Sunday Mrs. Hart missed a pair of silk stockings, and yesterday morning saw that the prisoner had got them on her feet. She was taxed with the fact, but persisting in asserting that they were her own, she was given in charge to the police, and, on searching her box, a bottle of brandy, which, byl sonic means she had contrived to extract from a beaufet in the drawing-room, which was kept locked, was found. The prisoner begged to be forgiven, as she said it was her first offence. She was remanded until Monday next, in order to give time for Mr. Hart to ascertain if any other property was missing. WORSHIP-STREET. • Robert Peck, alias "long Bob," an athletic and deter mined young looking fellow, who stated himself to be a costermonger, was charged with having taken an actile part in a desperate affrays ith the police, whet-, in James Carrel, police constable, H 160, received such injuries as caused his death. Several policeman of the H division were examined, from whose evidence it appeared, that the deceased con stable had taken a drunken man into custody, in Church street, Shoreditch, ut two o'clock on the morning, of the 23d of September last, when he was assailed, and severely beaten by a mob of costermongers, and other low characters, who succeeded in rescuing the prisoner. Several other officers who came to his assistance, were se riously maltreated, and the constable Carrol, whose skull was fractured, was removed to the London Hospital, where he died five days after the affair. The police were unable to secure more than one of their assailants, a man named Thomas Smedly, who wrs committed from this Court, and tried at the Old Bailey for the murder of the policeman, but he was found guilty of au assault only, and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. All the other rioters had since eluded justice, but on Saturday last, the prisoner, Peck, was taken into custody at Green wich on a charge of drunkenness, and being recognised by policeman R 157, as one of the gang who assaulted the deceased constable, Carrol. Mr. Jeremy, the magis trate, ordered him to be conveyed in custody to this Court. Police constables, Townshend and Phelan, of the II division, identified the prisoner as having taken an active part in exciting the mob to resist the police on the oc• casion in question, but neither of them saw him commit any actual violence. sergeant Teakles stated that he attended the Coroner's Inquest that was held on the body of the unfortunate policeman, and that two witnesses then deposed to the fact of the deceased having been kicked and struck by the prisoner, but they were not at present in attendance. In consequence of the evidence they gave he was desired by Mr. Baker, the Coroner, to use his best exertions to apprehend the prisoner, who had kept out of the way ever since. Police constable R. 157, stated that on being taken before Mr. Jeremy, the prisoner admittehving been t h e a ffray, but denied that he a took part present during in it. • Upon being asked •by Mr. BROUGHTON if he wished to now to say anything, the prisoner declined doing so. Mr. BROUGHTON said that he should remand the pri soner upon the charge, and he directed Segeant Teakles to secure the attendance of all the necessary witnesses at the next examination. The prisoner was remanded until Saturday next. CROYDON POLICE. SINGULAR DELUSION.—Two gentlemen living at Mit cham, waited upon Messrs. Reid, Adams, and Currie, the presiding Magistrates, to apply for the order of the bench, to admit a lunatic into the Surrey Lunatic Asylum. A third person also accompanied them, and appeared to be deeply interested in the application. The applicants said that the person whom they wished to get into the Asylum, was decidedly insane, and they considered it necessary that he should be placed under restriction. At the same time, his friends did not desire that he should be a burden to the establishment, but they were willing to pay for his maintainence. The BENCH asked if the alleged lunatic was at present chargeable to the parish ? a ppli cal as said he was not. and upon this, said they did not think they had the power to grant the application. Upon hearing this, the person who had accompanied the two gentlemen who made the application, interfered, and with great earnestness said, he had filled the offices of overseer and churchwarden, and he assured the Bench that the man was insane, and that he ought to be taken care of. The Magistrates having inquired who the individual was who had just addressed them, were told that he was the lunatic, but that he was under the extraordinary de lusion that he was another person, and that he had come with them to apply for the order of admission of some other party whom he believed to be insane. The person referred to, hearing the Magistrates hold ing communication with the others, again addressed them, and said that they might take his word, the poor man was insane, and he hoped the Magistrates would take care of him. Mr. REID said the Magistrates would do what was right. The lunatic again addressed the Bench, and said, Gentlemen, you know me ; I am the postmaster of Mitchem, and I am a very good cricketer, and get a great many runs. You must know me very well. Mr. RElD—Have you any property ? He answered — I have immense property ; I have a number of houses, and thousands, ah ! millions in the funds, and I am shortly going to town to take my dividends. The CHAIRMAN asked him in what stock his money was invested, and he replied in the 3i per cents., but he added that this had nothing to do with his application, which was to get an insane person into a an ttie Asylum. The BENCH having remarked among themselves upon the singularity of the delusion of the lunatic, said that they could not grant the application, and that it must be made in proper form through the parish officers. The lunatic appeared very angry at the decision of the Bench, and he took the arm of his companion and walked out of the Court, saying, as he went down the stairs,that he thought it was a great pity the Bench had not granted the application, for the poor man might come to some harm if he was not placed under restraint. THE LATE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT VERSAILLES. (From Galignani's Messenger of Saturday.) Yesterday the funeral mass ordered by the Archbishop of Paris for the repose of the souls of the victims in the late accident was celebrated in all the churches, We learn that the unfortunate widow of Mr. George, the Englishman, engineer of the railway, who lost his life by the late terrific accident, has received a letter from the directors of the railroad, expressive of their sympathy for her sad bereavement, and assuring her of a provision for life—an act of prompt and generous hu manity which reflects the highest honour upon the par ties, and well merits general publicity. Men under the superintendence of police-officers have been employed in sitting the ashes at Meudon, and every article thus obtained is carefully preserved. The opera tion has produced fragments of linen, races, and other parts of dresses, twenty gold rings, a considerable quan tity.of money in silver and gold, and parts of watches, chains, and ornaments; gloves, canes, umbrellas, and various other things, which may, in many instances, be recognised as having belonged to sufferers. Already one gentleman has found among these relics a chain and medallion which belonged to his young wife, to whom he has very recently been married. One of the chief clerks in the office of the Minister of the Finances has ascer tained the loss of a young person to whom he was affianced, by seeing among these remnants the case of a watch he had presented to her. A mother has also found the fragment of a box, and a ring belonging to her only daughter, who went on Sunday to Versailles with her cousin, but neither of whom has returned or been heard of. One of the most afflicting results of the late railroad accident is the case of M. Brioche, the merchant from Nantes. He has lost both his legs and both his arms, and remains a mere trunk with the head upon it. In the endeavours po draw him out of the fire, the hook of the pole which was used caught him by the mouth, which wrs dreadfully lacerated. Nevertheless, he has recovered his senses, and his speech, and is able to give a relation of the horrors he has undergone. He was accompanied by the nephew of M. Sicard, a merchant of the Rue Thi beautode, and a traveller of the house, who had arrived only three days before from Nismes, both of whom were by his side, but perished in the flames. In addition to the death of M. le Pontois, the Advo cate, we have to announce that of his own brother, a merchant of Lorient, M. Lemarie, jun., and his nephew, all of whom were together in the same waggon, and perished in the flames. The only one of the party who escaped was Mademoiselle Lepontois, fourteen years of age. She was put out of the vehicle b y some one, but wom she does not know. She was so much injured that her life was despaired of, and it was not till Wed nesday evening that she was able to speak and give any account of the frightful scene. She still fancies herself surrounded by her lost relations. The announcement of the death of Mlle. Descottes, of the Theatre of the Folies-Dramatiques, was erroneous. She returned from Versailles by the ten o'clock train of he right bank. THEATRICAL DISCLOSURES. The following is an extract from the schedule of Mr. C. Matthe vs, filed in the Insolvent Debtors Court last week. The debts in the aggregate, from December, 1837, are set forth at 27,499/. 17s. 11d., of which he had received consideration for 26,2001. 2s. Ild. ; and the remainder relate to Madame Vestris. There is one debtor of 50/., and about 220 creditors. Property in jewellery, &c., amounting to 2001. has been given up ; and there is a considerable quantity of property mentioned in the pos session of the proprietors of Covent Garden Theatre, who are inserted as creditors for the sum of 6,166 L ; and op .. posite the claim is-a long statement of circumstances connected with the undertaking of the establishment. The insolvency is attributed to several causes—to the loss incurred at the Olympic, to the failure of the engage meats in America, to the expense of the voyage and out fit of the insolvent and his wife, to the loss sustained at Covent Garden Theatre, to law expenses, and the heavy amount paid for "money accommodations" and interest. Some particulars are given of the trip in 1838 to Ame rica, showing that the whole amount received was only 1,7501., and the expenses were considerable. An opinion may be formed of the extent of " law matters" by men tioning, that 1,5001. have been already paid,' and about three thousand pounds'-worth of law is set forth in the shape of debts. The insolvent allowed Mrs. Matthews, his mother, 200/ a year, and his wife allowed her mother a similar sum. The schedule has been drawn up by Messrs. Lewis, of Ely-place. The statements detailing the speculations in Covent Garden Theatre present some striking features. The proprietors (Mr. Surman, Mr. C. Eemble, Mr. - Willett, and Captain John Forbes) are inserted as creditors for the amount already stated. The theatre, according to the statement of Mr. Mathews, was taken with an agree ment to pay a rental of 5,0001. to 7,0001. a year, after de ducting 60/. a week for himself and Madame Vestris. It was rented three seasons. During the first season 5,0001. was paid for rent ; the second season, 6,150/. ; and the third, 2,3841., independent of 700/. to be received from private boxes, and 1,400/ from the conductors of the German - Opera, now performing at the theatre. The following is an analysis of the receipts and expenditure ' Receipts during the first season £48,673 17 6 Expeuditure in the same period .... 52,903 1 2 The season was 199 nights, averaging 2441. a night, whilst the expenditure was 266/. showing a nightly loss of 221. Second season—total receipts Ditto expenditure 51,440 4 7 Being 221 nights, showing a loss of 10/. a night. Third season, ending April 29 receipts 42,535 17 0 Ditto ditto expenditure 55,691 8 9 The season was 165 nights, averaging 2161. a night, whilst the expenses were 2581. showing a nightly loss of 41/. 14s. Total losses during the three seasons 13,286 16 2 It will be remembered that Madame Vestris was de clared a bankrupt, and the fiat was superseded. It ap pears that the creditors under that estate were paid a composition of ss. in the pound. The judgment debts are about 10,000/. as set forth in the schedule, which is, in many respects, a curious docu ment, and the above extracts will no doubt afford much speculation in the threatrical circles. The hearing of the case is appointed for the 9th of June. Bell's Life in London, of Sunday next, May 22, will contain " Derby and Oaks Anticipations," by Pe gasus ; the "Prophecy of the Winner of the Derby," by Agrippa, with a correct " List of all the Derby and Oaks Nags," arrived or expected at Epsom. The latest and most authentic betting, and a variety of exclusive infor mation connected with these important events. And on the Sunday followinc , Bell's Lifu in London, in addition to a full report of the " Doings" at Epsom, will contain a "Portrait of the Winner of the Derby." Price of Bells Life Fivepeuce. T H E WAKEFIELD ELECTION.—This borough, in its representative position, is now similar to that of the county of Middlesex, near eighty years ago. By the proceedings of the House of Commons, through its Com mittee, it is now represented by the candidate who had a minority only of votes. It is true that case was attended with more barefaced effrontery, and apparently more direct violation of the Constitution, but this of Wakefield is more absurd, and equally dangerous and pernicious to the representative b ranc h o f the Constitution, and if s fered to remain as a precedent, will ultimately uproot it. The House of 1766 ordered the Clerk of the Crown to attend with the writ, and on their own table to erase from the Sheriff's return the name of the candidate with the majority of votes, and insert the name of him who had the minority. The decision on the Wakefield petition is a refinement on the same principle. The Committee have decided that Mr. Holdsworth is disqua lified, being the only legal returning officer. and that therefore, Mr. Lascelies was duly elected, and ought to have been returned. Where and when is this to end ? Let any man point out any substantial ditlerence between the two cases, as regards the principle of representation. A large meeting of the inhabitants of Wakefield, was held in the Court-House, on Thursday evening last, to present an address to Joseph lloldsworth, Esq., the late Member for the borough, who has recently been deprived of his seat in Parliament by the preposterous decision of an Election Committee of the House of Commons ; and to call upon his successor, the Hon. Wm. Sebright Las cellos, to resign his seat. A memorial to Mr. Laseelles, and a resolution in conformity with the resolution, were unanimously adopted.—Leeds Times. ROYAL GEORGE.—Lieutenants Hutchinson and Gallon, of the Royal Engineers, have been appointed to assist Major-General Pasley in the operations for the destruction of the Royal George, which it is fully ex pected will be completed this season. A party of Royal sappers and miners were detached from Woolwich on '' 11(1 ' 17- • v . 9, to proceud t,, 1 1„, untiertaking: Five or six of the men are skilful divers, having been employed . last year on that work. SPORTING. The Gorhambury races take place to-morro- W and next day. The programme is capital. Thee e are seven races in the list for the first day, amo og them theGorhaniburyHandicap, for which last year twenty one accepted, and twenty started. On this occli asion eve, eleven only are left in ; they will all run, I be except Fat Jack. Bob Peel car ries 51b. extra for winning the Suffolk Stakes, but the distance (two miles) will hardly suit his complexion so well as the the last mile and a half of the Round - Cou,rse. Out of' fourteen two-year-olds entered in th e Park gtnestakes, there are on the spot — Bastile , Espera nc, e f., Rooks , Vitula, Humbug, sister to Indolence , c. by Redslianlc and Jamal. All entered in the Bre StAkes are als° at Gorhambury. It will be remembei•ed that the Acacia colt, receiving 31b., beat Archy lumn at Newmarket, and that,Archy aftei Wards b eat the winner of that race, the same distance but over an easier course, the hill at the end of th; Rowley Mile not suiting the roarer. There may be a. onle, be gument about this; but I think the Column wilt There wrong, and Archy right ; who shall say ? in the Co will not be a very large field for the officers' ra ce ' which, unless the hour of starting is advanced, t w : o'clock being at present fixed, will probably con te about eight; this is a bad and indigestible arreige" ment, and, I trust, the Noble Earl of Gorhamb.'ls will read what I say in sufficient time to remedy t t ie defect. There will be halfa dozen races on these -- cond day, and two matches, and Verulain, Lora' March, and Lord Maidstone , are the Stewards —a st,lf ficient guarantee that all the n ew rules and reguw tions of the last few years will be strictly adhered to. I gave you on Monday last a rough list o f the horses likely to start for the Derby. I have vet*); little alteration to make in that list at pres ent ; OT I , Ballinkeele, and substitute one o f John Day's outsw.e horses for Curator, and I should leave it until tb day week, when we shall pr obabl y know what So.n;t and Forth will run. John D a y , senior, will rlue Coldrenick ; William Scott and Holmes the tvv o-- softie say the Scotts will run five. Pooh ! :\lar. 4l will ride Auckland, Nat will ride Canadian, Robinson will ride Barrier, Marlow will ride Combernletv' Chapple for Sir Glbert, Templemvi Lasso, Chia. I understand, is engaged \ for the Agreeable Co."t Rogers must ride something in Keids lot, depon na ,, knoweth not what ; Darling has boen applied to c behalf of Cheops, and there remain Macdonal d, Mann, Wakefield, Lye, Whitehouse, Ca-rtwright, ev'ci loway, Butler, Edwards, fat Pettß, Sly, 3 , 1 ' Francis. ;No offence if I omit any jockey of ee,l brity, but at this moment I recol lect no °titer gre't man. h t it Tattersall's yard was very full yesterday ; will be on Sunday next I leave you to guess. h e re was very little betting. Coldremck and Attila 16 :', 0 , severally backed for several hundred pounds at Pl : le 4 which equal even betting on those two horses age 4 the field. Jack was also in favour, 11 to 1 el , o taken freely about him. The same s ide would 11,,,,. been taken about Canadian and Auck l an d, and t`i—o, by many, is thought a good moment to commen ce book. You certainly might get round with g iro luck, and you would perhaps have. Robert de Gol l ' o § to win you all your money; this, if the settling" t, tolerably , heavy, would be a very profitable itrves,o ment of time and capital. The new s u bscript,' room is to be opened, I believe, on Monday next. DO May 16. JU" TATTERSALL'S.—YESTEILDA.Y. From three o'clock until . nearly seven the re o 1 0; thronged with spectators from all parts of the ce"ll;fis but business, except against the principal f a vourite. 4, less animated than is usual at this sea son. The J' der, bury nag, Coldreniek, was in greater f o rce than °vibe The first bets taken were 5 to 2 to 1,2001 . , and i ll A course of the afternoon several hundreds were Ode; fi t the immense stake previously investe d ; he left °l' o f offers of 9to 4, or takers at s to 2 . The supporters, Scott's stable turned their attention chiefly to At oe taking 7to 2 eagerly, and offering to go on up °de* P r last moment. Canadian and Auckland h ad good ~," at 11 to 1 each (takers), but Jack , after a few be-fiet• 11 and 12 to 1, gave way ; 1 , 400 to 100 was laid °cor 1,500 to 100 twice, and 13 to 1 afterwards offered o rd rently. Lasso receded two or three points, and the Y ive re of Holderness and Meteor, nominally at 20 to 1, . iie tis quite friendless. Chatham. too, underwent an 0 1 : 111 1 .eti decline ; 3,000 to 100 was betted twice, and no ti VO, 5 left. The only outsider backed to any amount vti s , Trooper, who is now on his road from the nort h ; "Slit to 10 was taken repeatedly, with some effect on odds. The Oaks betting was not worth notice. THE DERBY. .5 to 2 agst Coldreniek—taken 7 to 2 q;st Atilia—taken 10 to 1 agst Canadian—taken 11 to 1 agst Auckland—taken 13 to 1 agst Jack—taken 22 to 1 agst Lasso—taken 30 to 1 agst Chatham 30 to 1 agst Lord of Holderness 30 to 1 agst Meteor 4 56 0 06 tttooo 1 1 1 agstlio agsts Moss i • e eable colt Barrier—taken Trooper—taken 50 to 1 agst Fireaway—taken 1000 to 15 agst Tiptoe—taken 100 to 1 agst Clibops—ta,ken 100 to 1 agst The Oneida Chief—taken 100 to 1 agst Baronet.—taken OAKS. 7 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Adela filly—taken_ 7 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfiehrs el! co o , 9 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinek's S. to Yorkshire' 13 to 1 agst Firebrand—taken " ' sine fillY d coif 20 to 1 ast Duke of Richmond's Bait. f We beg to repeat our hint as to the necessity t!, 0 0 paring bets on the coming races ; those who 1t0,,f so must not be surprised if they have the worst; reference that may arise out oheir neglect. KELSO RACES.— f t TIMRSDAY. or The Hunter's Stakes of 5 so vs., 12st each. Heats,. 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