The Sun. — London, England, 1842-05-30 00:00:00

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A. and CI :o rtturs profit-- - b e and C°'' pulled+ lF Ice with of their cji . , rn an ifo; lb; but 0 better to g in the' hriving dopt tut! h the chapter be poor, is a . )di be, the it in Jul 0 1 of anY ' peevent 01 1 alvraYs but now t• gatherer. , divuige] ,• he a gi:„ 5 unit 0 music. trwle transitet it ' l ,;; um is not 0 wn,tber 1 .1 effect 0 0 'th the a l) ;i , is seYere Ivili ptl lll gcn t o s M "00 . ja , Wine • plea e t . 1 :0 peace, " l i o , !ir oars , 'uly di lr- i 3ek 01 tve efield, 6l bout, W U' ficl calC il lOt deof 17 , 'great ci; .0 conow, ilikavt;, ll l l iuis[e►', L high 1 1 7 1 4 . Mull; " , 0 11 .0 the aabl i imsell '11),4 , . _.... . ,_.._ . THE NEw ROYAL, 110 TEL A T The R oya l, SLOUGIII. Hotel ut the Slough station, which is to be n Pened on Wednesday next, has been erected upon a i grend Italian elevation, by Mr. Chadwick, upon land w hich the orieinal proprietor, Mr. Bonsey, sold to the I - Great We,stern- Railroad Company. On the basement ' li.n.iectin,g from the m a in buildi ng , qu it e di st i nct f rom t h e I ' hotel / ''': eisei suite of,roome,for the accomm o d a ti on o f reit '3ll passengers of all.classes, where ref res h ments can b e .eini3O. 3' telned at a. fair, remunerating price. Th ere are two -"!tre Paei.ous cii4fee- rooms, one looking o v e r a mos t exten ' 1 terrace (forming a part of the edifice itself) to the il '''' m Y. and t h e other commanding a view o ver the ex ' n B ie g ar d ens, which are laid out in the Italian style, -*qktni planted with English, French, ' and Italian exotics, 1 e te rubs, plants, evergreens &c. &c, Apart from these is ' ve t l i r l e e gaet Saloon, forty - feet long . by twenty-three wide, I e n, upon days of great faShionable resort, will be ' 4 (l for the .purpose of holding a table d'hote upon a eerar,nd continental scale. e - the first floor is occupied by a series of sitting-rooms 1 ., 1 1 having its separate balcony, and replete with entn. list are and elegance. The carpets are chiefly from France, Thee , orAmbusson and•Tournay manufacture ; very eT tl ") ., however, are of Brussels fabrication, of exquisite .xte and workmanship. Tigr e next floor consists of bed-chambers and dressing . bai —s ' tastefully ornamented, with b a th s a dj acen t, an d L e eCill ies to each; but the tri um ph o f ar t seems to h ave If" achieved in one of the bed-rooms, called a " State . teNn," which i s fit te d up i n t h e sty l e of Lou i s the Four . \r e nal kersailles, an d ,. it .is said, originally the property of ricl aria Antoin e t te . T ne hang i ngs and draperies are of Ate l,- satin, and b roca d e . Th e h ea d an d foot cus hi ons eir e t e°r ere d with g orgeous G enoa ve l vet, w i t h flowers of . etniilematical devices paint e d th ereon . I n t h e centre Lhe d A e oine is fixed a splendid mirror. 41,Z(..liiners, refreshments, wines, orders, and commie th e v . - "b of every kind, are conveyed from the bottom . to k eel "P of the budding, or interim diately, by an uniciu end ",i(eal arrangement, thereby avoiding the mingling serve °4l ing of visitors with waiters, chambermaids, and a /lt : i t; and immediate orders can by the same means, itiel, 4 4 n ngh the agency of whispering trumpets,. be si lode' ira lismitted to the kitchen, cellars, confectionary, ever'rs, ice -houses, still rooms, plate closets, in fact, to iv 113'1411.i of the structure. The chef de cuisine is the e k n o n , c4 ,!%n artiste of th e R oc h es d e C onca l e at Par i s. tavern "le opposite side of the way is a tap or minor beieh e ' not less excellent in its way than its splendid ere,,hrre and behind it are most extensive . stabling, 1 )1 . te "ses,• with l oose b oxes f or the accommodation %. e,, ho rses of th e no bili ty and , gentry following her gett'tYs hounds. The .carriaees (which are spendidly i : e nd t t e) are very numerous, and of every description, t 8,,,.e horses appear to have been selected by a person ',.r‘ii.nti judgment. 4„ e waiters, servants, coachmen, postboys, &c. (to dr r •whom gratuities are allowed to be given) are ' T es h ' e d in rich crimson liveries. e l* "in furniture throughout (most of which, with the kiti a u st , e r.Y, was furnished by Mr. Dawes, of Soho rle-1, leof the best description. !Sa e F re are 42 clocks in the various apartments of the Sion h e • jile h „ ,Whele of this gigantic undertaking has been iedo-eu, executed, and carried out under the untiring Ante st . l 7, taste, judgment, aiuienterprise of Mr. Charles slo, the proprietor. • THE O XFORD-STREET WOOD . r, . vn e PA VING. 4,, ‘eaturdav, at the meeting of the Marylebone Vestry, otr:itertninable question of wood-paving in Oxfor.d ele,;t again occupied something like five hours of d. is- On stealv Saturday the anti-wood paviors Itill l ,ge to a march upon their opponents, who, th i‘ e t 4 into security by their previous successes, failed on eie v il' e casion to attend the vestry very numerously, by or h 'ig and carrying a resolution declaring (in defiance wetr io us,resolutions of the vestry) . that no further the se ttving should be laid down in Oxford street, th o e r pr e ,: JeCt even entertained, until the expiration of tornent contract with the Metropolitan Wood-pavin g i li an Y, which does not terminate until the year 1845. titre 3 resolution roused the inhabitants of Oxford took et to action, and on Thursday last. a public meeting of t j e l ace, at which ' resolutions . strongly condemnatory CAW ~Conduct of the majority of the vestry who had e,, t -l et such a resolution were passed, and at which they to tanned that the vestry's opinion should be tho u,,R; 111 Y tested upon the question of paving or non ng Oxford-street with wood, from Wells -street to e re -st reet ti le k er Tabr - um was in the chair, and since th e p ass i ng o f ttio V estries A c t, never was there known so full an at uance of vestrymen, there being nearly 100 out of the oh" the mbers.composing i t present, amon-..:st whom we re Sit 7"' , 1, Earl Manvers, Lord Kenyon, L or d Barri ng t on , 1) - '''' Hall, Sir R. P. Joddrell, Mr. Tufnell, M.P., Col. ac re. file. kJ. T. H o p e , M r. W aymout h , & c . Th e gal " 7 appropriated to ratepayer. was also densely crowded. . r ; Mr. moved the non-confirmation of the m i nu t e . ;I'lliii course pur sue d b y the opponents to wood-paving in Nuaing and un d o i ng, week after week, was not only cal atod to bring disgrace upon the Board, but to bring 111'40 justly into ridicule and contempt with the public. .ear.) The - motion to put the wood_ paei r e off for . 11 ree years shs a most dishonourable, and sie-winded L l terapt to get rid of the question. . He called upon those l3kwishedeo enhance the dignity of the Board to act iNl_ till something like consistency, an 4 reject the continua ef such a ino iou. 041 alavvEas seconded the motion. He thought -I t h. t every one must coincide with him that the question, it,„' Perfectly nauseating. He found it - impossible to go i,"' the highest or lowest society without being asked ti1: 1 3 . 9 When will your Marylebone Vestry squabbleS N is t ' i t , `' , ootl pavement terminate ?"—(Laughter.) He Jie t i i t :t'red the motion of last week an act of crying in -441,' to the inhabitants of Oxford-street, and would g;'rt the non-confirmatiou. c 4pt ire%li.itiiir condemned wood-Riving, and declared, if ieekt4"4lt, it would inflict and perpetrate a glaring M- A , 4 t . ll Pun the whole parish. vtZtlieet"nANEs said, although he had always been the op t,,"ltpr wood-paving, still he thought the motion of evi byriestr ults heyeek so unfair, and so dishonest an attempt e,, l4 r e e °3 ' previous resolutions of the vestry, carried ''', 4 iv-huttlajorities that he -could not be a party to it, . A 4l-A"" vote for ' non-confirmation. " .4 isl s ' *h shtirr 1 similar view with Mr. Jones, and ~,,,i,i , „_o , a N I , : 11 ourable men, the vestry could not support the Mo n t o P. p o • . . ti. cII 4IIj . T ER supported the confirmation, and offe l ret t l 1 „:t p ac k .e the .supporters of evood-paving to a pol o - olild e t4 n, to test tee opinion of the ratepayers, and he t tot der elare., that if the advocates of wood-paving were 1 % 4 41 t tt , (l ,, by ten to one, he would forfieit one hundred %,,it 3' (Laueliter ) b 4 srs, wt. • G Clapp, Glacier, ee'en aymoutle Thomas, Gomm, CA 1 : 'lnd about• twenty other Vestrymen, severally ttkAt Place the meeting, and a most stormy discussion e , when bitelli sE PR, in reply, called upon the vestry not to ti , hd other parishes in the march of improvement, tl„ l ,'he 4 0 „„ °11. ' e Pnlirin this motion. _ tii,,Arttr,, s,non was then put, and the non-confirmation . ' t ,t- '''' he carried ; and a division being demanded, el:tl4).‘Peared— 'l,.'l,lnr the non-confirmation , wfir t ., 26 the i , ik , o hormation ' p„4 l4l ,iority in favour of wood-paving 24 c:! 's „%tilh -S1) 11 then moved, and Mr. Gibson seconded, t t , lee u . ' e Deport of the Committee accepting the tender 1:4:4-4,btropolitati Company to pave Oxford -street, ''ekell-street to Vere-street, forthwith with wood, be t) k... 7 e7i te tl.." p o ' i, ion the numbers were— 'iks:' t he motion 36 ' 714 I t he adjour nmen t tei''' lajurity affirming the immediate tt ,earrying out wood-paving in Ox rq, “Ar4ecreet -- 21 4 , ll ir e "As then gave notice that the vestry, having 4qa.Aliltrthicrity affirmed the principle of wood-paving,. ynove that the entire s - reets of the parish of e4 iioc . o o be paved with wood. —(Laughter.) ' ' '' `'l tAL STEAM NAVIGATION COM PAN Y. n 4 1 „1,:4, A; gr 3in the Kentish Mercury.) cl:` 4 ti kt 7 11 esday, the Bruges, a new steam-ship, 1 Nkt. r • first appearance on the Thames, having .ri n or e .. i f (100 1 . I ' . from Ostend—between which place and bf 4 , 4 , l gli t he 13 intended to run. 'We took occasion, a 4„,q* -7- j t e;go, to re'e - r- to the unhandsome proceedings C'',‘ * if,i.' 7 ',',,, , , " *l•authorities in the hostility they are h c' ,, N li4,4 - A P.lvArds the General Steam Navigation CZ"ki,s; " •I ', :v.essels on . the . Antwerp line. The 4,6;lelia'l'V presume,.:• under sanction of the Belgian 1 1 ' 4 I . :H )t i n „ . t .. _ , 'is placd upon the Ostend station, for 1 5 ` l *. pe 'Poses of opposition. 414,_41;1„rt yam jf Antwerp and . Ostend have full right 101)if ii:vessels of their own,. althoug . h . it is 1 , 14 144 e ut yen, 0 ~. J generous to do so in opposition to 1it h „ .. 4 5 1 ,;" of a Company by - whose exertions these til t ' 4t tite - f . e .e Chiefly derived whatever wealth and lin t], Dart the Possess ; but it is certainly not just, on fie' k s '° l . the Belgian authorities, to throw obsta- No th eY din ' li vtli ral s t 0 , the way of the operations of the eam It vt ssel * Navigation Company, the instant a q:eeie s _„'s Placed on the waters. We look at . such i t hs of th n attack as not simply affecting the inter ":thst N is 13.''eat Company, but as calculated to have. ri(. 1 (4 . 1. at irmeious influence upon the welfare of the 1i1 t 114 4.1 .. t ar ß'e• The example held forth is, that the Flt : j htt er tam Navigation Company, or any other cit i'l k l lll o l ' rise, may open a communication with a tier hitl er „rt, and perform regular voyages to it, for a i ; ati n " 41 e period, at alo but as soon a renm ~.. D . f _ u , . SS, , 4 ,1 0 54 r 44,01 restrietions and vexatious proceedings, en oh i ts i .' drive from the place the very vessels by ti,orl t i',, s _ .. t r.affic has been created. of sti "..7 ] . ng the immense importance to this coun- tf',l, i t : la ming the steam division of its mercantile Atrins_u•PPears to us that it should be made a point 1'1'1,4(0'41 honour to oppose these aggressions, by a lid r te rmination, on the part of Englishmen, to k 1 1 no vessels but those composed of British Viers tki\R‘' fearkii,nititi there is too frequently an indifference in on the part of our nobility. ''llt tI V are Surrounded I list, bY foreign servants—the parties usually servants-- Nt with the duty of engliging berths and cabili's I i re nee is often improperly given to the foreign tott:nt ' 1 such a enc We feel assured these things tiPa_e_rely from want Y of consideration of the im t%nl7 of their bearing ; and we doubt not that if 4 ,0 5f...1:1et :were brought generally under the atten- Nee nobility and gentry of this country, by the N i ldtlon of the press, the evil would be speedily -, ed. r h y 6, 41. tl'u' LITERATURE ON THE HYDROPATHIC CURE OF GOUT. By G. Hanle Weatherhead, M.D., Member of the Royal College of Physicians qf London; • In the midst of all the corruptionS .which, from the history of every age, would seem necessarily t o resu l t from the p rogress of what is culled civilised society, the voice of Nature makes itself heard from time to time ; but the same record also teaches us that another voice, not' so still, the voice of Worldly mindedness, comes, like a brawling Stentor, sooner or later, to drown the benign suspiration, and the •whole , some dictates which the former wou ld i ncu l cate, are scarcely uttered ere they are silenced by the sophistry and outcry . of the self-interests they oppose. .These sentiments are prompted by the reading of the little, modest pamphlet before us. Dr. Weatherhead, de serting the region of drugs, all of which we know to he more or less poisonous, asserts. with a manly em phasis the empir e o f N ature; h e s h ows us by what simple means the Alma .IWater of all mankind accom plishes her healing purposes, when the body of the first of her creatures, man, labours under diseases arising from impurities of the humours, by endowing one of her simplest and most abundant productions with remedial properties of not less power than safety —and that is water. As the able writer observes, " Water is the natural beverage of a ll an i ma l s ; whole nations, as the Maim metans and Hindoos, use it alone as their ordinary drink. Unlike spirituous or fermented liquors, it does not sate the appetite; but, on the contrary, ren ders, it keener. It is a fluid that requires no diges tion, for it is not necessary it should undergo any changes ; it is the natural menstruum which holds in solution both what is essential for the nutrition and healthy functions of the body, and what has become refuse after having served its destined office and'in tention in the animal economy." In skilful hands this element, when used externally in different ways, can be made to evince two appa rently contradictory properties as a medicine—firstly, in abating the redundant heat of a part inflamed ; and secondly, in producing abundant perspiration ; and when taken internally, there is no therapeutic agent that possesses such power in cleansing the blood of all its impurities through the means of the skin and kidneys. It is by its employment in these several ways that Dr. Weathe r h ea d s h ows the great' superiolity.' of the Hydropathic treatment of Gout over every other mode of cure, and being himself a severe sufferer from the disease, he speaks according to the best of all rules—that of personal experience. Therefore, let no one too thoughtlessly despise a remedy of so common a nature as water, for in the words of an elegant modern wr it er , " th ere i s no thi n g really worth having or caring about in this world that is 1111e0M. mon." We cordially recommend the Learned Doc, tor's pamphlet to the attention of the gouty. TENNYSOA'S POEMS. 2 VGls. Moxon, London, 1842. Nothwithstanding his frequent affectations and puerilities, Mr. Tennyson possesses much of the fancy and feeling of the true poet ; and, could he but learn "the useful art to blot," might not despair of win ning a very enviable reputation. His most beset ting defect is his want of judgement, which is con stantly leading him into absurdities, and inducing him to mistake eccentricity for feeling, and mere silliness for simplicity. When he trusts to his own natural emotions, the language they suggest to him, is almost invariably chaste, forcible, and appro priate ; but, unfortunately, he is fond of going out of his way in search of crude conceits, and hyperbolical images, and then his mode of expression becomes not merely affected, but absolutely ridiculous. He is a dabbler in metaphysics, too, and splits upon the same rock on which the genius of Shelley foundered— namely, Mysticism, though it is but fair to add that he has no passages so hopelessly obscure as those which perplex us in every page of the " Revolt of Islam." With a little difficulty we can just contrive to guess at Mr. Tennyson's meanings, which in Shelley's case was next to impossible, for his was not mere obscurity, but a deep Cimmerian gloom, unillumined by even the faintest ray of intelligence. Many readers of verse have, we know, a great fancy for this cloudy mysti cism, and because they cannot comprehend it, take for granted that it must be something very profound and sublime.; but we are of the number, of those who prefer the obvious and the intelligible, being firmly convinced that the basis of all true poetry is common sense, and that even in its wildest excesses, the imagination —as we find it in Shakspeare—must still be amenable to the laws of the understanding. Hence the very passages we most admire in Mr. Ten nyson's poems are, we suspect, precisely those of which he himself thinks the least. We turn with in difference from the ambitious and elaborate mysticism of his " Palace of Art," with whose far-fetched con ceits, and quaint, hazy imagery, it is evident th a t h e has taken a world of pains ; and dwell instead on his exquisite description of " Mariana in the .floated Grange," which has been written, apparently without effort, and whose every line is instinct with the truest feeling. But our author's best poem is decidedly the one entitled " Locksby Hall," wherein strength and earnestness of purpose are visible throughout, re lieved and softened off by occasional touches of infi nite tenderness. There is no mysticism—no cloudi ness here—no hunting about for quaint images, or striking ideas, striking only because they are eccen tric ; the poet is hurried straight onward on the broad, rapid tide of emotion, and expresses himself in the exact language that truth and nature dictate. We entertain so high an opinion of the elegance, the variety, the alternately reflective and impassioned spirit, which characterise this poem, that we unhesi tatingly give it the preference over the majority of those that have appeared within the last ten years. WAVERLEY NOT'ELS. AB OTSFORD EDI TION. No. 111. - 'Cudell, Edinburgh, 1842. In the present Number of this splendid edition of the Waverley Novels, we have, by way of frontispiece, a most picturesque view of Ifolyrood 'Palace, from the Calton-hill, Edinburgh. 'The remaining illustrations, which are numerous, are all of superiotliitrit as works of art; and among them is a full-length 'tancy sketch of Flora T\l'lvor, dressed in the Highland costume worn by chieftain's daughters in the middle of the last century ; and a spirited engraving of that famous stag-hunt among the Perthshire mountains, which Sir Walter Scott has described, with such graphic force in Waverley. TY FLEE'S HISTORY OF SCOTLAND. Vol. VIII. Tait, Edinburgh, 1842. This volume of the History of Scotland, which is the most minute and accurate that has yet appeared in print, commences with the liegeney of Morton, and 'conclndes with the death of Mary Queen of S'cots. Interspersed through the volume are several interesting extracts from secret and con fidential letters of Queen Elizabeth to 'James VI., which contain much that is characteristic of this remarkable Sovereign, and are written wholly in her own hand. We have been greatly struck with the spirited manner in whicj Mr. Tytler describes the trial and execution of the Regent Morton, and the able analysis which he furnishes o f th e character of this clever, but unscrupulous statesman. The work, we presume, will be completed in another volume. NbVV MUSIC, GEORGE LE JEUIVES -MELODIES. No 111. Turner and Co., London, 1842. This collection consists of six pieces, some of them, beyond doubt, the most -beautiful ' compositions that have for several years been brought before the public. The exquisite melody-, that runs through •at least five out of six, would alone be sufficient to secure the-po pularity. of these musical gems, but to the ear of taste they have merits of another, and far superior kind, — merits that are only to be found where the composer is a man of science. :As a specimen of what may be effected by thig thorough knowledge of the art, we would re fer our readers to a ballad, the second piece, in the collection, called " AgeS, Anger, and RepentaCe,", in which the modulations are as surprizing as they are natural and beautiful, producing an impression on the mind and ear, that must be felt to be truly understood. Never 'in fact was the spirit of language more faithfully echoed by 'Music' than in this touch ing compositiop. Like-- -many simple things, however ; it . is extremely difficult of execution, and requires a singer of gr'4o.t feeling, as Well as taste and judgment, to do it justice - , - 01-indeed to convey any idea at all of its extraordinary beauty;,; Of a very different kind, but not less delightful, area solo and quartette, with.ltalian words, "Grazie, grazie volute ;" it is in the. best and purest taste of the Italian school, and admirably adapted for the drawing-room and concert-room ; any thing more light and graceful can hardly be conceived. The " aiad's Song," though we hardly think it equal to this, is perhaps likely to be even more po pular, if it were only that it requires no very parti cular talent in the singer to give it effect, while, at the same time, it is brilliant and fanciful in the extreme, holding out strong hope to the theatrical part of. the world, that we have, in Mr. George Le Jeune, a dramatic composer of no ordinary excellence. For his sake, but still more for our own, we trust he may realise this por mise, for, with much native musical talent amongst us, it has not of late years taken a particular tendency towards the stage, which, for the m os t p ar t, h as b een indebted to the operas oataly and Germany. ------- CAMBRIDGE.—We have great pleasure in stating, that it is probable Sir Robert and Lady Peel will honour Cam bridge with their company at the Installation Festival in July. Amongst the distinguished persons who will visit us on the occasion we have already named the Duke of Wellington and the Lori Chatcellor, and we would now add to them the Duke of Buccleuch and the American and Dutch Ministers.— Canabridpe Chronicle. Mr. George Buckle, Scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, who has so highly distinguished himself at the late classical and mathematical examinations, is a son of the late Captain Buckle,. RN., and was educated under the Rev. Dr. Rice, and the Rev. W. Webster. TO EDITOR OF 'THE SUN.. an extract from the Courier inserted in The Sun of the 25th, it is observed, that After what the Premier had said of Captain. Elliot, it was imperative on him to visit. with displeasure the gallant Gough ! Now, I beg to point out that Sir Hobert' needs no urging upon this point—that he has already turned him, out of the command ofthe Madras army' The Whigs, about a year ago, conferred upon Sir Hugh the im portant and lucrative situation of Commander-in-Chief at Madras, as a reward for his gallant, and, in every way merito 7 rious conduct in China. Why has he been thus suddenly turned nut? There has been nothing on his part but a conti nuance of the same zealous, able, and gallant conduct ! Can it have been for the sake of patronage; to get hold of his appoint ment for some needy supporter? Sir Hugh was peculiarly qualified for the command of an Indian army at the present time, as, in addition to his proved gallantry, which always tells with the soldiers, he has the merit of having gained the affections of the Sepp serving under him—no mean merit at any time, but peculiarly .valuable at present. I have nothing to say againstthe Alarquis of Tweeddalp, but he is an untried man for the situation; and I fear he owes his success to a recommenda tion which Sir li. Gough wants—viz., a connexion with the family of the great Duke. He might, however, have been satis€ed with the situation of Governor, with 16,C0W. a year, without grasping at the plurality of Commander-in-Chief. At all times the union of these two situations is of doubtful advantage, but at the present critical juncture of affairs in India, it is psi.. tively dangerous. Now, when disaffection, and even mutiny, has been showing'ifself the Commander-in-Chief ought to he able_ to devote the whole of his time and attention to the troops, and to be" continually moving about them, visiting the different stations, and becoming personally acquainted with the men, their state and temper, their wants and their wishes, their treatment and behaviour. 'I his a Governor cannot do, for he has not time, and his presence is always required at or near the see, of Government. The lamented Sent]Ouse is not within the reach of Sir Ro bert's displeasure, but he has taken the only opportunity which offered, to show a total contempt of the opinion and advice of that gallant Officer. Sir Humphrey, in the last despatch which he ever penned, stated that he felt SO convinced of the absolute necessity of putting the Government at home in pos session of the actual state of affairs in Chins, as to impel him to send home an officer for that purpose. Will it be believed that this officer, so selected and sent, has sever been consulted by the Government, not even as to the fitting-out the ships, stores, &c., for that servic e ? Yet such is the case, as far as I can learn on inquiry! I have been truly concerned to learn, from the last accounts from India, that a Gallant Officer there, Sir Robert Sal e , i s going backward in point o f s t a ti on , though forward in point of fame ! This Gallant Officer was then in command at Jellala bad, and continuing his. heroic and successful efforts against the overwhelming numbers opposed to him. When the re-inforcements reach that place he will find himself not in command—not second —no, but only in charge of a brigade ! 1 It is not uncommon to reinforce an inefficient or unsuccessful 'Commander a superior officer, b u t se ld om i s suc h a t hi ng b done to an eff i cient an d success f u l one. For a ease in point we must go back to the good old Tory times of 1808, when the gallant Wellesley of the morning found himself in the evening, not in command, not second, no, but only third in command of his victorious army ! Is there none of our 658 senators to stand up for our absent Commanders, when they arc fighting the battles of their coun try in distant climes? What has become of the Gallant Na pier?—lie must surely have a fellow feeling for them ? I am, &e., AN ENEMY TO CLASS LEGISLATION AND Go- VERNMENT, AND AN OLD CORRESPONDENT. May 27, 1842. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sett,—A very odd mistake (probably of the printer) appears in The Sun of last evening under the head " Law and Police," in which it is stated that Lady Galmoy brought an action for alimony against "Sir Thomas Staples, LL.D., commonly called Lord Galmoy." Sir Thomas Staples, Bart., happens to be Queen's Advocate for Ireland, and was in that cause Counsel for the impugnant. Ganef Butler, calling himself Lord Galmoy. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, - J. H. BROWNE. 40. Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn—Saturday. [The paragraph was copied from a Morning Paper.] NAVACINTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Trkgraph.) PORTSMOUTH, MAY 28.—The Nautilus, 10, arrived to day from Brighton. The Curlew, 10, Lieut. Ross, arrived at the Cape from Rio de Janeiro, on the 13th March. The Isis, 44. Captain Sir John Marshall, was at Rio de Janeiro on the 10 th February. The Ardent, steamer, Commander Russell, was at Bahia on the 18th March. The Avon, steam vessel, being found inefficient for the surveying service, her officers and crew have been trans ferred to the Columbia, which vessel will be fitted for the command of Captain W.'F. Owen. The Black Eagle returned on Monday from Ostend, and landed Count Mensdorf and four sons at Greenwich. The Geyser is in the river, trying her speed and proving her compasses, off Greenhithe. The Dee steam-vessel is ordered to be commissioned as a transport, and to be commanded by Mr. Thomas Driver, Master, R.N. The Spider schooner, 6, sailed, on Wednesday, for the South American station. The President, 50, was taken into dock on Thursday. The Volcano steame r arr i ve d on Th urs d ay from Ply mouth ; and the Lightning steamer sailed on the same day for Sheerness. The Crocodile troop ship, Mr. Elson. Commander, now at Spithead, is intended for North America. Or ders are received at the Dock yard here, to ship stores in her , for Halifax. The freight ship Equestrian, Cromarty, master, with upwards of 700 tons of provisions on board, will sail to morrow.(Sunday) for Hong Kong; she will be followed On Tuesday by the Lord . Lowther, Dudma.n, master, which ship has upwards of 2,000 casks of bread in her hold, for the use . of the ChineSe Squadron and Army. In Ilarbour- . ---St. Vincent, Victory, Excellent, Royal George, Winchester, Satellite, Albatross, Nautilus, Vol cano and Echo (steamers), Sylvia (cutter), Gipsy (ten der), and Adventure (naval transport). At Spithead—LCrocodile (troop ship), Lord Lowther and Equestrian (freight ships). The following men received pensions, on the pay ing off, of the President, in addition to those recom mended for the medal and gratuity :—Thomas Bottle, 22/. Bs. ; John Jackson, 2.51. 88.1 John Ilopgood, Isl. 4s. William Robinson, Quarter-Master of the Benbow, re ceived a medal and a gratuity of 151. on the paying off of that ship. On the paying off of his Majesty's ship Daphne, the ship's company presented Colour-Sergeant Samuel Poser with an elegant sword and . sash, as a toke n o f t h e i r hi gh esteem and good feeling towards him. PLYMOUTH, MAY 26.-41le Adventure transport. arrived on Saturday from Deptford ; she is taking on board st a res from th e Vi ctu alling -yard,.; and will return to Deptford in a few days. On Monday, the Prince Regent, transport, Lieutenant W. Boys, from Bermuda, anchored in the Sound for a short time, landed letters, and soon after sailed for Woolwich. She left Bermuda on the Ist instant, and brought home a party of sappers from that island. On Tuesday, arrived the Pigeon packet, Lieutenant Thomas ,James, Com mander, from Fahnouth, and will be paid off at this port. Arrived the Alban steamer, from Portsmouth, and waits for orders. The Canopus, 84, was undoked, haVing had a complete repair. On Wednesday, the Volcano, steamer, Lieut. Featherstone, Commander, ar rived from Greenock, and sailed the next day with su pernumeraries for Portsmouth. The Wolf,'lB, was un docked having had her defects made_ good. The Espoir, 10, was taken into dock, to be.repaired and brought for ward for commission" - In Harbour—Caledonia, San Josef, Philomel, Pigeon, Alban, Confiance, and Adventure. In the Sound—Malabar. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. PROMOTlONS.—Mates—Robert A. E. Scott (1836), late of President ; Edward D. Ashe (1836), late of the Daphne ; and D. 11. McNeill (1836), late of Acorn, to the rank of Lieutenant. Assistant Surgeon—John Rees (1831), late o f the Pre *lent, to. the rank of Surgeon. APPO INTMENTS. —Lieutenants—A. Lavie (additional in Winchester) to the Calcutta ; Thomas Heard, to the Albatross ; A. Young, to the Satellite, vice Heard ; CharleS G. Butler, to command the Alban ; G. Snell, to the William and Mary, for service in the Lightning, vice Pearce, promoted. Masters—Thomas Driver (1809), to command the Dee steam-vessel ; John P. Rees, to the Phnom]. Mates—James Dunbar, to the Talbot ; Constantine G. Glinn, to the Excellent. Acting Master's Assistant John W. Lowe, to the Winchester. A new candidate for honours in the leading cha racters of the drama is, it is rumoured. about to appear on the London stage in the person of Mr. Henry 13 , ,tty, son of the famous performer of that name. When yet a boy, his wonder ful talents for acting were known and admired at almost every provincial theatre in the country ; but for some time past a severe illness has been the cause of depriving the public of these talents. He has now, however, rectiNered Ins health, and will, it is said, shortly make his appearance on the,London stage. Sir Robert Peel has spoken wisely on the subject of reciprocity ; he has said, let us do what is right and politic without waiting for our neighbours; the example is in our po'wet", and will sooner or later have effect; but u bile according to this excellent doctrine, he lets foreign competition into some of our markets, he continues a law protecting monopoly which as completely shuts us ou t o f certain foreign markets as an express prohibition to enter them could do. • Here our legislation inflicts upon as a greater disadvantage than the most barbarous interdict of foreigners could accom plish, and the Corn-laws hive 'done what the Berlin and Milan decrees of Napo!eon, in the height of his power, could not effect. How strange to foreigners must appear the sound doctrines respecting recriprocity, and the wisdom of presenting the right, principles to the world, and leaving it to discern their virtues and adopt them, proceeding from the lips of the man who main tains the evil example of that common nuisance to all the world, the sliding -scale Corn.laws.— Examiner. FOREIGN RAILROADS.— The Assembly of the States of Baden was opened on the 23d inst. by the Minister of the Interior, in the name of the Grand Duke. The Railway from Naples to Rome has at length obtained the approval of the Holy See. It is said that an arrangement has been made between the two States, according to which Naples will undertake the work and the expense, and Rome repay its share in annuities. A railway from Rome to Florence is spoken of as a thing quite resolved on. ROMANTIC SUICIDE.--A literary friend in Scot land, who was personally acquainted uith the unhappy young man who last week committed suicide at Croydon, has furnished us with the following particulars respecting him :—" The youth's "is Willi am B arr i e, a native of the Isle of A isine, . He" he sufficient for hi s su b s i s t ence , a am hada says, patrimony but was liable to a nervous affection, which made him shun society, and turn hypochondriac. He wrote to me on the 17th, statirg that he was going to commit suicide by throwing him self from a steamer into the Thames. Next, on the 18th, a letter (received by me at the same time) stated that he had made the attempt, but had been fished up. A third letter, written a day or two after, stated that he had determined to use a pistol, and to commit the act in a field near Croydon, to which he would proceed by the railway. There can be no doubt, therefore, that 'William Barrie is the individual whose body has been found. He lived at No. 6, Snow's-fields, in an obscure lodging, with a number of books and philosophical in was yesterday buried i n the parish churchyard of struments around him, and which were his only companions. " The body Croydon.-- Sunday Parer. 'We are authorised to state that the report of Lord Coventry's death, which has appeared in some of. the papers, is destitute of foundation : His Lordship still c on ti nues under the care of Dr. Munro, in the neighbourhood of the Regent's-park. Aglionby H. A. Antrobus, Edward Bannerman, A. Barnard, E. G. Buller, C. ... THE SUN, - LONDON, MONDAY "MORNING, MAY 30, 184 PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. . ----..-------.- ' (From the Votes and Proceed:nog,' the House of Commons.) • FRIDAY, MAY 27. CUSTOMS AC7'S.—(ln the Coinntitiee.) DIVISION ON MR. LYALL'S MOTION. MAJORITY —AYES, 108. A'Court, Capt t. Flower, Fir James Philips, M. ^Nam, William Follett, Sir William Plunkidgc, Captain Milx, Jolm _Peter .Fulter. -A, K Polhill, i.. reilerick Arbuthnot, Hon. H ' G as k eli, James Milaes Pollock, Sir F. Arkwright; George -Gill, Thomas Freed, W. T. Bantle, Colonel h. Gladstone, W. E. Pringle, A. Baring, W. B. Gordon, Hon. W. Bice. B. a Baring, F. T. Goulnuni, Henry Rielialik, It. Bernard, Viscount GrAani, Sir James Rose, Sir George Blakemore, It. Greenall, Peter Scott, Hon. I'. Bodkin, W. H. Grogan, Eiward Sibthorp, Colonel Boldtro, H. G. hainpden, Kenn Smith, B. Potfield, Beriah inarcourt, G. G. Somers. J. P. Bowring, Dr. Hardy, John Sonter>et, Lord G. Brotherton, J. Herbert, Hon. S. Stanley. Lord Browne, If. D. Hope, lion. C. Stansfield, W. R. C. Browne, lion. W. Howard. H. Stanton, W. li. Buckley, Edmiin I Hume. Joseph Stewart, John Busteild, William Jackson, Serjeant Stuart, Villiers Charteris, Hon F. Jerinyn, Lord Sutton, Hon. H. M Clietwode, Sir John Johnson, W. G. i Tennent, J. B. Cleik, Sir G eorge 1 Johnstone Hope , Thesiger, F. Clive, Robert h.natchbuil, Sir E. - Thortiely, Thomas 4 .2ohdeti, Richard Langton, Col. G. Trench, Sir r. • °chi - tine, A. Lincoln, Earl of Turner, Edmund Cockburn, Si r G. Lockhart, William Vane, Lord Harry Come, Sir C Long, W. Verner, Colonel orry, Right Hon. H. Lowther, J. ,H. Villiers, Charles 1. Cripps, W. Manners, bird J. ;Vivian, J. E. Darner, Hon. G. Marsland, H Wakley, Thomus Denison,i.ail,G n em d ge a ll i a t r c t h o e n ii. G i eo . r A g . e Wilbraham, tr i m, Hon. B Dennistoun, J. Monism', James Yorke, ti. R. Divett, E. Nichol!, J. Young, John Douglas, Sir C. Owen, Sir John TELLERS. Esco.t, hickham Patten', Wilson Fremantle, SkT. Fielder), J. Peel, Hon. Sir It Bating, H. B, NORITY-- NOES, Hay, Sir A. Henley, J. Warner Hill, Lord A. M. C. Hinds; J. H. Hodgson, Richard Humphery, J. James, Sir W. C. Mangles, R. D. Martin, J. 111,stennan, John Morris, David Napier, Sir Charles Neeld, John O'Brien, J. O'Brien, W. S. 41. Pluraridge, Captain Posey, P. Russell, J.oid John Sandell, Lord Smith, John Abel Somerville, Sir W. Trotter, J. Tufnell, H. Wawn, J. T. • Williams, W. Wood, G. W..,. TELLEkS. Palmer, George Lye, George ARTISTS' tiENERAL I3ENEVO- - WANT OF ROADS IN THE 'HIGH LENT INSTITUTION. LANDS. ... .. . - - The Annual Dinner , of this institution took 'place at ; .The following. documents p o i n t ou t con d uct on t h e _ . . the Freemasons' on Saturday, Sir Martin ' part of the Parliamentary Commissioners for making Archer Shoe, Presidentloi the. ROVall'Aeftdeniy,-in the ! roads in the Highlands.of Scotland which requires Chair.. He was supported by ',Samuel Jbnes Loyd; I. , :sq. ; . the imtnediateattention of the Lord Advocate and the Daniel Maclise,':Esq4ltA: ; Du.vid7Roberi, Esq., ILA. ; Heine Se'c'Tetary.. 'An Act wits j)asse.d in 1 805 di \l. C..RUS,.Esi.,•A.l.l.A;7.Thornas-"Landmitir,:liSq., and: .. • -'- . rectuer roads to be made in certain districts, and Com many gentlemen of uotein art antt-literatUre. • • a thissioners were appointed for carry i ng t h e works into It may be neces sar y t o st a t e t h at two c h ar i ta bl e f un d s have been est a bli s h e d f or p urposes re l at i ve to those who effect. Whether, owing to the m ore power f ul interest have been unfortunate in the practice of the Fine Arts ; of the landlords in the favoured district, or the par one entitled the Artists' Benevolent Fund ; the other, tiality of the Commissioners, the money has been ex the Artists'. General Benevolent Institution. pended on a few of the lines, while o ne di s t r i ct, ' eon- The 'first established w as _The-A rt i sts Benevolent I taining a population of 9,679 individuals, and corn- Fluid, in 1810. That fund is - exclusively appropriated prehending more than one-third of the extensive to the relief of.the widows and orphans of a society of county of Ross, has been totally neglected. This is artists, associated for the laudable purpose of mutually not Only unjust towards the landlords, but it is the 1 assisting each other, durinc , the: pressure of sickn ess , or . the infi rm i t i es of old' age,' tinder the n ame o f th e A r - cause of great suffering to the inhabitants. C r i me i s tists• Joint. Stock Fund. It does *afford relief to an thereby encouraged, industry is c h ec k e d, an d th e y artist, however great his _merit. or .unfortunate unfortunate his cir- poor people, having no means of communication with cumstanecs; nor.can it afforaiidteithe widows or f am ili es the sea or the neighbourin g co u n t r y, are , i n b a d sea of those_ who died previous to'- its foundatio n . It has sons, reduced to absolute starvation. In addition to this since.been incorporated, by Royal Charter, with the Ar- the ends ofjustice are defeated, as the county town is tists' Joint Stock Fund, under the nam e o f the Artists distant some fifty miles, and owing to the want of roads, Fund, but still specifically preserving its own name and and the enormous expense of prosecutions, not one object. criminal in ten is brought to trial. In fact, during As the principle upon which the Artists' Benevolent Gi seasons of scarcity, the - districts of Lochbroom and Fund is founded thus precludes the possibility of its af fording aid to distressed artists, or to the widows and Artists' the county of Tipperary. This is not a m ere ques - Joint Stock. Fend (and m a ny ar tists, f rom a d vance d age, children of those who have not subscribed t o th e A r tion of pounds, s hilli ngs, an d pence—it concerns the m from blindness, or f rom i m p a i re d h ea lth, cou ld not b e oralS, the. industry, an d th e peace of the community, admitted members of the Joint Stock Fund), the expe- and a humane Government must, therefore, be anxious diency of establishing an institution without such restric- to , abate the evil. A correspondent, in adverting to Lions, for the purpose of extending relief to distresSed the small sum - requ i re d f or f orm i ng the roads makes meritorious artists, as well as to their faMilies, soon be- this significant remark : " The 6,0001. given to the came evident. - ~. . Scotch parsons to build them a splendid house in Edin- The Artists' General , Beneyolent Institution was burgh, or Temple of Discord for the General Assem- therefore founded in 1814. Its object is to extend relief bly to wrangle been nearly sufficient in, would - have . to all diStressed meritorious artists, whether subscribers to its fund or not, "whoseknown and works are es- for that purpose, now that the price of labour is fallen, 'teemed by the public, as well as to their widows and or- and would surely have been as well bestowed in giving phans," merit and diStress constituting the elaiths toi-its -justice to the nine thousand inhabitants of Lochbroom benevolence. . and Gitirloch as for the convenience of the Scotch _ For •the attainment of means to effect this desirable clergy." The letter of Mr. Jardine, the Sheriff of end, the Directors of the Artists' General Benevolent the county, ought to have some weight with the Go • Institiition appeal to the liberality of the public, respect- vernment. "It is scar ce ly p oss ibl e ,' says h e, " w h en fully endeavouring t o i m p ress u p o n t h e m i n d s of the pa- any crime is committed in that district, to reach the trons of the fine arts the consideration, that, as the object delinquents." This is a disgrace to a civilized com a this Institution.. is so nearly unrestricted, and conse- munity. But the statements require no comment ; quently so extensive, it stainis in need of great and ex - with and we, therefore, lay them before the public, tensive support. • the hope that immediate steps will he taken to do 1 After the cloth was removed,theCHAlßMAN gave "The justice to the landed proprietors as well as the dis- 1 Queen," the Patroness of the Institution, and announced • a donation from h er M a j esty o f 1001. The toast was tressed population : drank with grea t ent h us i asm. STATE OF THE DISTRICT OF LOCHBROOM i The CHAIRMAN AND GAIRLOCIL next proposed " The health of Prince -• . Albert," who was kn own not a l one to possess i n an em i- The district of Lochb room a n d G a i r l oc h, on t h e west nent degree all th e v i r t ues whi c h apperta i ne d to hi s - ex- coast of Ross-shire, c om p re h en d s i n extent more t h an one-third of the county, w ith a p o p u l a ti on , b y t h e la te abed station, but wh o was a l so reporte d to b e hi mse lf an census, of 9,679 individuals, ne ar ly a ll engage d i n t h e artist. This toast w as d ran k w i t h a ll t h e honours. ,He then . gave " The Prinei, of . Wales," " The Q ueen fisheries. Dowager," " The Duke of Sussex, th e P a t ron , an d t h e There is not a single passable ro a d i n th e w h o l e o f t hi s i extensive and populous district, nor a road of communi- Vice-Patrons of the Instit u ti on ," " Th e A rmy an d Navy, and the Greatest Captain of the age —The Duke of Wel- cation from it to the other parts of the county passable 1 lington." by even a small cart. The consequence of this is, the people are in a state of poverty, often almost of starvation ; half civilised and lawless ; and committing outrages unknown in other parts of Scotland, and which the constituted authorities have hitherto been unable, from the rugged and imper vious state of the district, to punish or prevent. 1. They are poor, because they have no access to mar kets, a circumstance which would soon reduce any dis trict, either in England or Scotland, to poverty : they cannot sell to each other articles which all possess, and have no means of carrying them elsewhere. Should their potatoe crop fail, and their families be starving, they have no way of bringing provisions to them. When their corn-crops are damaged by a wet harvest, which often occurs in that wet climate, they are obliged to sow their damaged see d, which occasions another defi cient crop, there being no road by which - they could pro cure sound seed. When their cattle are dying, in a severe winter from want of provender, they cannot, if they had the money in their hand, bring hay from the more culti vated parts of the county for their relief. Is it any wonder, then, that these unfortunate people should often be in a state of distress requiring public aid ? and the public have often given them generous relief. 2. They are in a half civilized state, from want of in tercourse with the more advanced parts of the country. They are, in point of civilization and the arts of life, at least a full century behind the inhabitants in the eastern extremity of the county, intersected as it is with roads, and occupied by farmers who vie with those of the Lothians. In the district of Lochbroom and Gairloch, with its nine thousand inhabitants, there is scarcely a dozen carts. On it, while improvements are so rapidly advancing elsewhere, with railroads, &c., a cen tury has made no difference. The people are still in the same condition as their ancestors, without industry, or an impulse to industry. 3. And they are lawless, as a necessary consequence of their uncivilized state, and of their distance from the courts of law. They think the law cannot reach them, and they therefore take the law into their own hands, and commit outrages, such as incendiarism, firing shots through windows, houghing cattle and sheep, cutting the throats of horses, and other barbarous acts, not one of which has hitherto been fi)llowed by punishment, because the officers of justice say that they cannot, in that wild impenetrable country, get hold of the delinquents. Such is the state of justice there. Even a small debt,, too, cannot be recovered without the parties and the U'itnesses going. to Dingwall, a distance of from forty to seventy or eighty miles from the mass of the population, without roads or bridges, and at the loss of a week of time, which is often more than the debt is worth. Now, her Majesty's Ministers may no doubt say, "if the people are poor from want of access to markets, let them starve, we are not bound to relieve their poverty, or to support them." Granted ; hut it is humbly con ceived that a population of 9,679 individuals have some claim on the Government of the country to protection to property and access to justice. If the roads, which were directed by Act of Parliament to be made in that quar ter had been executed, as the Act di both e•-ls • The CHAIRMAN said that he should now beg to call the attention of the Company to the next toast on his list, namely,--" The prosperity of the Artists' General Benevolent Institution.' He could have wished that so good a cause had found a better advocate ; but he was consoled for his own deficiency by the certainty that eloquence could not be necessary to recommend to that meeting an Institution established for the aid of those employed in the same occupation as the greater portion of the gentlemen present, though unhappily not with the same share of success.—(Hear.) To shelter the declin ing years of those whose ambition was greater than their good fortune—to succour their families on their death—was the object of the. Society; and those objects he was convinced would never be overlooked or disre garded by those he saw around him.—(Hear.) As artists themselves, they .were, no doubt, all acquainted with the difficulties that beset the paths of art ; and every one who heard him was aware that those who failed of success fell lower, and their fall was felt by them much more acutely, than persons in any other profession —an unsttecessful artist, of all men, was the most helpless. He was generally unfitted fbr other occupations, and independent of that, felt the morti fication of defeat to his dying day, much more than he felt misfortune, and poverty, and distress. That feeling, of course, no institution could alleviate ; but it could prevent his utter destitution—and what perhaps lie would feel still more—it could prevent those dependant on him for support from utter want. An artist might not be the best advocate for his suffering brethren, and he (Sir M. A. Shee) admitted his incapacity for the task ; but he was certainly the best authority on the subject of their distresses and misery.(llear.) There were very few persons connected with the arts in this country, who suffered from want, that - did not find their way to the President of the Royal Academy; and 'few days indeed passed over his head that he did not hear stories of suf fering and sorrow on the part of artists which he could, unfortunately, only sympathise with, be cause it was not in his power to offer them any other alleviation. That distress was by no means confined to a lower clasS of artists ; for there were some suffering under its infliction who had been great in their day, and who had enjoyed even the favour of Royalty. It was creditable to the artists, however, that when they fell into misfortunes, it was not from prodi gality or from vice—their occupation raised them above crime, but it also kept them without that providence in their affairs, wanting which, success is but little in com parison. Hence they had no 'resource to fall back upon in their - day of sadness and sorrow. But lie should not enlarge on the subject further. Ile should leave it to the hearts of those present,. satisfied that he committed the cause of the charity to its most powerful and effective intercessors. One observation only lie should - make before he concluded : In the fifty years' experience he had had of arts and artists in this country, he was sorry to say that he never knew a period when the benevolence of the public was more needed by them than at the pre sent moment. The Honourable .Gentleman concluded by proposing, " Success to the Artists' General Bene volent Fund." The toast was drank with the usual honours, followed by loud applause.' S. J. LOYD, Esq., proposed the health of the Chair man, the President of the Royal Academy. Sir M. A. SHEE, in. returning thanks, said, in filling the high station which he held he had ever endeavoured to maintain its just (Hanky, and to act impartially with out regard to personal interest or favour. The Secretary in the course of the evening read the Annual Report, by which it appeared that the relief con tributed from the Fund had increased year after yeir with the increase of its means, until that of th e l ast year doubled th e average o f i ts three predecessors. , The list of subscriptions for the present year was then read, among the most conspicuous of which were the names of the Duke of Sutherland for 10/. 10s. ; Sir John Swinbourne, 10/. 10s. ; the Lord Mayor of London, 101. los. ; B. Bond Cabell, Esq., 101. ; the Earl of Car lisle, Si. ; Clarkson Stanfield, Esq., R.A., 51. ; the Duke of Norfolk, 5/. ss. ; Daniel Maclise, Esq., ILA., 31. 3s. ; Samuel Jones Loyd, E5q,....21/. ; Lady Chantrey, 211., &c. The amount in all was upwards of 5001., with which the compa# were highly gratified. would have be en remove d ; b ut this, by Ar a ec oth gross breach faith, on the part of the Parliamentary Commissioners, was not done. All, then, the people ask is, that these unexecuted roads be yet proc ee d e d w i t h , wh i ch may be now done at a much less expense than was formerly estimated. On this point, at least, they have a claim on the honour and good faith of the Govern ment, since they paid for the other roads in the county, on the express words of the Act, that their own roads should likewise be made, as will be seen by the Memo rial to the Parliamentary Commissioners. At Loch carron, where a Parliamentary road has been made, the inhabitants carry their fish and other articles to Ding o all, and bring seed-corn, hay, and provision, for their families in return. Last year more than 100 carts have been seen on that road in one day, carrying herrings to Dingwall, Easter Ross, and Inverness, while not one could go from L oc hb room and Gait-loch. Were the roads which the Parliamentary Commissioners left no executed only made, the 9,679 inhabitants of the Loch broom and Gairloch district would become useful, indus trious members of the community ; distress would be re, moved, and the law be respected ' • and as it is essentialle a fishing population, th ere would not be a better nur-ser .) ,'• Cr hardy seamen, accustomed from their infancy to a most boisterous ocean, in her Majesty's dominions. It is, therefore, hoped that the Ministry will take the state of this neglected; ill-used district into their consideration, and see at least justice done to them, and they ask no more. . Should it please Providence to give us a favourable harvest, which after so many seasons of scarcity may be looked for as probable, the despondent tradesmen would gain cus tomers, and the pining workmen would find employment. The Money Market has been effectually relieved ; the Bank of Eng land stands strong, and the exchanges are in our favour. The Bank, it seems, has increased its issues, b e t ween t h e 2d of April and the 30th of April, from 16,894,0001. to 18,404,0001. —partly, it is said, in advances to railway companies —but an increase which seems to us undue and unsafe, though it will give immediate relief. It is stated that " the recent arrivals of ves sels from distant countries have brought more orders for goods from almost all quarters except Australia and the United States than were expected." We trust, therefore, that the light is breaking on the verge of the thick darkness. —Leeds Mercury. THUNDER AND HAIL '• STORM. During the evening of Friday last, between seven and eight o'clock, a se vere storm of thunder, lightning, and hail, passed over the village of Mattersea, and the adjoining villages, near Retford, which did considerable damage. The thunder and lightning were ex tremely awful, but the injury done to vegetation was by hail, which was from two to three inches in thickness, and consisted more of large and irregularly formed pieces of ice, than of common hail ; an d such Wall it s density, that, on the following morning, it lay exposed in large masses under the hedges-in every direction. HOSIERY .1.NI) SILK r .FRADE.—We think the silk glove branch has amended a shade, but the hosiery trade in -almost every branch is in a truly . lamentable state. If anything, the cut-up is the best, but then that branch is destroying all others. It will scarcely be believed that plain silk-hose are made cut up. The father of the knotted trade, after struggling . with dif f iculty upon difficulty in that branch for years, has de parted this life. We have long considered him as the main pivot of keeping this declining branch together by his attention and devotion to business, and what may be termed raking up employment from the warehouses,— Nottinpham Journal. ANTI-MALTHUSIANS.—A man living in the neigh bourhood of Brookborough, named George hilday, was twice married : his first wife had ten children born to him, and at her death he had sixteen grandsons ; the second wife, on Sa turday last, had the twelfth child born to him—making in all 22 children, 16 sons and 6 d aug ht ers, a ll i n good health mi spirits.—D ublin Evening Post. SUISCIIIPTIONS.—TIIO subscription of the King of Denmark for the Hainburgh sufferers has been erroneously stated by the papers ..to be in English money 150,0001. sterling. The sum,,given was 100,000 mark., the value of a mark being only is. 6d. British, it should have consequently stated the 100,000 marks as equal to 7,500 i. starling. The Greenoa - and-Baisley papers contain accounts of a severe thunder storm which occurred in and near these towns last Monday. It does not seem, however, that any Se, rious damage or loss of life was occasioned by it. The s to rm was not felt very severely at Glasgow. COST OF THE SUGAR MONOPOLY. —A beautiful sample of foreign refined sugar costs 31s, per eat. ; it to this were added 325. for duty--reckoning the duty equal to that on British plantation sugar, and estimating 1 cwt. of raw sugar to be required to produce 1 cwt. of refined--the total would be 635. per cwt. But at the same time British plantation refined sugar, of equal quality, was selling for 89s. per cwt., being 265. per cwt., or 2id. per lb., more than th e foretoo— 1 A sample of Manilla sugar was shown, which 'was sold for 225. per cwt. in bond add 245. for the duty, equal to the duty on British, and the total would be 465. BOt at the same time British plantation raw sugar, of equal quality, was selling for 665. per cwt.—being 20s. per cwt., or more than 2d, per lb. more than the foreign ! Such are the sweets of monopoly. —Leeds Mercury. CHIMNEY SWEEPIN(I.—A meeting of the principal master chimney-sweepers of Bristol was held in that city this week on the subject of the Act (3 and 4 Victoria, cap. 25) which comes into operation on the ensnil Ist of July, wt e i, was resolved that the requisitions th ereo tt witbs and recommended their adoption," - 611 " 1 " 1 ue complied The meeting also requested ' benefit to the trade. .ploy only those . at ore.: v. —moments of the town to em nt in the t ra d e , an d to a id i n appren- P ci Yg .to trades, those boys whose indentures will be can celled in July, as the Act of the Legislature will then cast them on the world, unless some provision is made for their future em ployment. John Jardit e, Esq., Sheriff Depute of the County of Ross, to M. Mackenzie, Esq. My Dear Sir,—.l am happy to find that you are re newing your attempt to get the aid of Government in executing the roads from Dingwall to Tillapool and Poolewe, which were left unexecuted by the Parlia mentary Commissioners ; and I sincerely hope you may succeed in your endeavours, and thus open up an impor tant portion of the county of Ross, which, at present, is almost entirely inaccessible. As matters stand at pre- sent, it is scarcely possible, when any crime is committed in that district, to reach the delthquente, and the want of a road puts it out of the power of the Shfiritr to hold Circuit Courts in that district, while theotirstance front Dingwall is . such as in 44 great measure to preclude the inhabitants from acoosis to a court of justice, and induces them to take the law into their own hands. I am sure you will do a most essential service to the county if you can succeed in this object, for which you have my earnest wishes. Ever, dear Sir, yours, Edinburgh, ( 11th April 842, JOHN JARDINE. . Mr. Freshfield, M,P., has been placed in mourning by the demise of his lady, eldesPlat:ghter of the late J. Sims, Esq.. of Church-hill House s The Licensed Victuallers of this city met yesterday, and the Birmingham Licensed Victuallers' Society on Tuesday, and both determined upon a petition against the clause pro posed to be introduced by Mr. Pakington, in the Bill now be fore Parlianieut for the better regulation of public-houses, for preventing the opening of all such houses before one o'clock on stMijays.— Worcester Herald. A fire broke out at Brussels, on Saturday night, in a warehouse at the corner of the. Rue Manq, and for a time raged so furiously, that great alarm was felt for the adjoining property. By prompt assistance, however, and a plentiful sup. ply of water, the fire was restricted to the building in which it originated. This was burnt down, causing a loss of about 100,000 francs. Four firemen are said to have been seriously injured. , M. de Reck, Privy-Councillor of the Grand Duchy of *Alen, arrived last week at Basle, for the purpose of coming to some understanding with the authorities, for bringing the railroad, which crosses the Duchy, to the walls of the town. The negotiations have been already begun, and give promise of a happy result. There is some question of prolonging the line to Schaffliousen. A letter from the Mague, Nay 20, states that the King of the Netherlands, Who is now making , a tour in son: of the provinces, where he is enthusiastically received, will, after his return to the Hague, proceed to Luxemburg, to open the session of the States in person. Toulon letters of the 22d, dwell on the frequent collisions of French ships-of-war when manoeuvring, attributed to the lubberly mana gement of the c rew s. "It is r emar k e d with p a i n ," states a French Correspondent, "that these acci dents are frequent in our navy, and occur so rarely in the British fleet, and it is not known how to account for it, unless it be that our officers know the theory of navigation well, but are bad sailors when manceuvring in a squadron, mid this is a powerful reason for France, who has the just pretension to be a maritime power of the first 'tank, to have permanent squadrons at sea, as, `:; * ithout practice, she will experience great reverses at th e be ginning of a war. When Admiral Leland° was r eca ll e d from the Levant two years since, his squadron was in admirable ordtr for evolutions, and the English did justice to the skill of our sailors and to the fine trim of our vessels. Since that period all the crews have been changed, and the vessels have rarely left port. The ship of war O cean, and t h e mace, are severely damaged by their late collision, and several persons severely wounded, who have returned to Toulon in the Veloce steamer, with Vice-Admiral Hugon himself hurt in the bead." Cayley, E. S Chip Man, A. Clay, Sir W. Colborne, W. N. R. Douglas, Sir H. Duncan, George Dundas, Admiral ' litrroy, Captain Grimsditch, Thomas Hawes, IL BRIDPOR7' ELECTION. . • . DIVISION ON MR. C. BULLER'S MOTION,, MAJOR I T Y—AYEs, 156. Acland, Sir Thomas Graham, Sir J. Pakington, John S. Acton, Colonel Granger, T. C. Palmerston, Viscount Aglionby, H. A. Greei.e, T. G. , ,_ Parker, John Aldam, William Grey, Sir (1 . -' • Peel, Sir It. Archbold, R. Grogan, 'l.:Award Philips, G. R. Bailey, J. : Hall, Sir B. Plumridge, Captain Baldwin, C. Barry '' Hamilton, J. Hans Plumptre, J. F. Baring, W. B. Hamilton. W. J. Praea, W. T. Baring, F. T. • Hamilton, Lord C. Pusev, Philip • Berkeley, C. Harding; Sir H. Rashleigh, William Berkeley, Captain Heathcoat, John Iteddingten, T. N. Berkeley, H. F. Herbert, Hon. S. Rice, E. B. Bernal, Captain Hervey, Lord A. ftushbrooke, Colonel Blackburn, John I. Heron Sir ft. R ussel l , L ord John Bortain, W. H. I Hill, Lord Marcas Scliolefield, J. Bolden), Henry G. H owar d, C . W . U. Scott, Hon. F. • Bowring, Dr. Howard, J. K. Seale, Sir J. slramston, T. W. Howard ; EG. Seymour, Lard nlt n e i ne F , a S il ir John Stanley,Stal Broadley, Henry Hum e , J osep h Seymour, Sir H. B. Brocklehurst, J. Hutt, W. Shell, It. L. Brodie, W. B. Edward Lord Browne, W. Jelliffe, Sir W. ' Brotkerton, J. Stanley, Hon. W. 0. Bunbury, Thomas Kn a t c hb u ll, Si r E . Stanstield, W. It. Busfeild, W." Johnstone, Langston, J. H. Staunton, Sir G. Byng, George Lascelles, W. S. Strickland, Sir U. Chapman ' Benjamin Lawson, And rew Stuart, Lord J. Childers, J. W. Lefroy, Anthony Sutton, Henry M Cnristie, W. D. , Lincoln, Earl of Tancred, H. %V. ( layton, It. R. Lindsay. H. Thornely, Thomas Clerk, Sir G. Li , ton, E. Towneley, John Cockburn, Sir 0. Lowther, J. H. Trail!, George Corry, H. L. Mainwaring, T Trollope, Sir John Dalrymple, Captain Mangles, 11. U. ruffled, Henry Dawnay, Hon. W. Marsland. H. Turner, E . Dawson, Hon. T. V. Martin, John Vane, Lord H. Deinson,JohnEvelyn Meynell, H. Verner, W. Douglas, Sir C. E. Mitcalfe, Henry Vesey, Hen .T. Duncan, Lord Morris, David V illiers, Charles P. Dundas, Admiral Mundy, E. Miller Waddington, H. S. Dundas, F. Muntz, G. F. Ward, H.G. East, James Buller Napier, Sir Charles Watson, W. H. Easthope, Sir John Newry, Viscount Wawn, John T. Ellis, Wynn Nichol!, J Williams, Wm. Elphinstone, Howard Norreys, Sir D. Wood, Benjamin Evans, William O'Brien, W. Smith Wood, C. Fielden, J. O'Connell. D. Wood, G. W. Flower, Sir James O'Connell, Maurice %Vorsley, Lord Forster, Matthew O'Connell, M. J. Yorke, H. Redhead Fremantle. Sir T. O'Connell, J. Young, John Gill, Thomas Ogle, S. C. U. - TELLERS. Gore, Robert Packe, C. W. Buller, C, ' Goulburn, H. Paget, Lord Alfred Manners,Wilde, Lo Sir T. 37. rd J. Milnes, R. M. Neville, Ralph O'Brien ' A. Stafford Pollington, Viscount Richards, Richard Roos, iron. Captain Stuart, H. Trotter, John Walsh, Sir J. Allix, John Peter Bagge, Wm. Baillie, Colonel baillie, H. J. liankes, George Bradshaw, James Broadwood, H. Burrell, Sir C. M. Carnegie, Captain Christmas, William Colville, C. it. Cripps, J. Darby, George Dodd, George :NORITY—NOES, Douglas, J. D. S. Ferrand, W. B. FfoMott, John /littler, Sir E. Fuller, A. E. Goring, H. 1). Henley, J. W. Hodgson, F. Knight, F Winn Leicester, Earl of Lockhart, William Mackenzie, W. F. Mac6eachy, F. A. TELLERS. Inglis, Sir H. U. Escott, Bichkani RAILWAY RETURNS. We extract from the RaiWay Magazine the sums re ceived on the principal Railways of Great Britain tor the week ending on_ the day of the month prefixed to each. The return includes the money received for passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer chandize Week 111 il es Total. Name of Railwa. ended yOpened. £. s. d. 111ay 21 Birmingham & Derby Janet. 48 1,267 16 5 20 Birmingham and Gloucester 55 1,715 8 10 14 Brandling Junction 25 • 954 1 6 20 Chester and Birkenhead .. 21 Dundee and Arbroath .... l6l 231 11 11 22 Eastern Counties ....:.... 21 Edinburgh and Glasgow Glasgow and Ayr .. .. - 21 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 22i 800 4 6 21 GrandJunet., Chester &Crewe 113 _8,613 6 3 21 Great North of England 45 1,438 1 5 22 Great. Western 23 Hayle ... is 217 6 3 21 Hull anti Selby — 31 874 10 3 21 Lancaster & Preston Junction 201 52 9 1 3. 9 20 Liverpool and Manchester 3l 5,135 9 0 21 London and Birmingham__ 114 16,2 5 5 3 3 26 London and Blackwall ... 3* 917 18 .5 21 London and Brighton , 404 3,094 7 9 Ditto Shoreham Branch - -- 24 London and Croydon lO4 490 3 0 26 London and Greenwich 3 .i 952 1 8 22 London and South West ern 19 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 643 4 8 23 Manchester & Birmingham 21 Manchester and Leeds 21 Midland Counties 574 2,921 18 1 21 Newcastle anti Carlisle 604 1,582 6 5 19 Newcastle and North Shields 7 420 16 10 22 Northern and Eastern ... 21 North Midland 20 North Union ... 21 Preston and Wyre 194 252 19 7 23 Sheffield and Manchester 7 519 5 4 22 Ulster - 5 21 York and North Midland 2B 1,654 9 0 WINE TRADE. On a former occasion (April 23) the explanations on the part of the wine trade of a statement contained in a letter from Lisbon, dated March 30, were noticed at some length. The . explanations were to the effect that, although the statements of the correspondent were numerically correct, and port wine was 'Very abundant, an important omission had- been made, by not taking the quality of the port wine into consideration, as, in fact, the wine which was in such great plenty was of such an inferior de scription, that it was absolutely unmarketable in this country, and good . wine was as scarce as ever, and could command as high a price. These explanations seem to have escaped the notice of Messrs. Quarles Harris and Sons, who have issued a circular, in which the. same doctrines are set fOrth. This circular, however, though in tendency the same as the explanations already noticed, contains some calculations not before given, and which may be in teresting to the trade ; these, therefore, may be in serted. To the following numerical statement, which is the same as that contained in the Lisbon letter, Messrs. Quarles Harris agree : Vintage of 1841, classed as Pipes. Ist quality - 3d ditto Refum .,456 77,89-1 Stock in Oporto, Villa Nova, &c., classed as Ist quality 153,257 Ditto, old, in the country 20,9f)7 252,088 This stock is, however, greatly reduced, the possibility of disposing of the wine in th e English market is concerned, by the/following analysiz, which is contained in the circular : as far as VINTAGE 1841. Classed as Ist quality 01 this amount far less than 8,000 pipes ate of a quality adapted to this market, the situ age being mere wine and water, but We will strike off only Fives. 58,083 50,000 Leaving 8,083 pipes available, in order to be on the right side Classed as 2d quality) none being fit for ) Classed as 3d quality tle English Classed as refuse 3 market. 3 In Oporto, Villa Nova, &c., classed as first quality Deduct as only fit for wine shops, burning for brandy, and converting into vinegar, at a very low estimate indeed ............ 33,3b7 Old in the country we w3l throw in, as all fit for England, though this is far from being the fact , $,083 0,000 20,907 The lowest depot stock f or an e xport of 30,000 )48,990 - pipes is 120,000, which deduct....- 120,000 Leaving a surplus of • " • 28,990 on the lowest estimate for the regular and necessary depot. Messrs. Quarles Harris add, that 140,000 p i pes would not be too large a depot, an estimate which re duces the surplus to 8,990, remarking that if the vin tage next year should prove short, •(-) small a surplus would leave the mark e t in a v ery 'dangero us state. On an assertion that ma n y houses in Oport o , susta i n an annual loss of f rom 2,000/. to 3,000/., by ,holding from 1,000 to 2,000 pip es o f wine, .Messrs. Q uarl es Harris remark, on their own experience, that it is im possible to conduct business well without keeping a stock of old wine exceeding 2,000 pipes, and that the loss is fully compensated by the improvem en t th e wine acquires from keeping.— Tunes Money . Market. APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH. LIFE.--The nuptials of Lady Elizabeth de Rede de Ginkle and - the: Mi l , "season. ..eon arrang e d. Captain Fred er ick Villi ers , son o f th e E a rl of Jei sey, are, - wo hear, not likely to b e so l emn i se d un til th e iliThe of A. - The preliminaries for th e marriage ~~~ On the other hand, the King's Procurator has brought an action against the same pilot for having ill-trotted the mate of the Forth, and against an officer of the nhxri time police, who, far from opposing his ill-treatment, lent his staff: The amount of subscriptions for Hamburgh raised by Mr. Bucker, the Hanseatic Consul, is nearly :::I,ooof. CONSTANTINOPLJ-2, MAY 4.-1 have just learned, from good authority, the real funks relative to the arrests of the Chiefs !if the Druses. Above a month before the Chiefs of the Druses had entered into a conspiracy among themselves to throw off the Turkish yoke. The Turkish authorities pretend that they were impelled by foreign influence. They attempted to engage the Mare nites in their conspiracy, and with this view applied to Tranzis, the great Maronite Sheik in Horan. This crafty man entered into negotiation with them, which he artfully protracted, constantly making them promise, sad assuring theta that. he had gained over a great. number of Maronites to their cause. That the authorities of the Turks might not be attracted by their frequent Meetings, he persuaded them to correspond in writing. As soon as he had his written proof from the principal Chiefs, he. secretly sent them to the Seraskier Mustapha, Pacha. Mustapha saw from this correspondence the danger of his own situation and that of Omer Pacha, and immediately took all necessary mea sures. lie gave information to Nedseib Paella, in Da mascas, and ordered him to march with 5,000 men In the Horan, under the pretext of compelling the payment of arrears of taxes. The Government of Beyrout and Saida received orders to have their garrisons in readi ness to march and to be on their guard, lie also opened a communication with Egypt, in order, in ease of ex treme need, to receive assistance from that country. He intrusted Oiner-Pacha to seize, by stratagem, the eight. chiefs, against whom he had written proofs in his hands.. Omer Paella prepared an entertainment, after which ha assembled the chiefs in a conference, in which he enee. getically demanded the restitution of the property that 'they had unjustly taken. When the Druses refused thin he caused them to be surrounded by a battalion or troops, and made pri soners . A s for the have declared f or th e T ur k s, an d offered Oriler P ac h a an auxiliary corps of 2,000 men to march against the ) Dr ay uses, which h e , h owever, d ec li ned.—Algenteiae Zeituati, M 23. ROTTERDAM, MAY, 24. This afternoon the war steamer the Brom°, intended for the East-11 Ales, waN launched here f ront t h e R oya l Dockyard. THE HAGUE, M.tv 20.—The horses and elleriarseyonf his Majesty King William Frederick Count of are to be sent to-morro w f rom t h e l lague to till, LcrJ.. -u ' A dreadful thunderstorm passed over the Luvearden and the environs on the 24th, Three or four farm. houses were struck by lightning and totally consumed. DUTCH FUNDI—AIdsTaILDAM, Mky 27. • ?stoney , Actual Debi, 2% per Cent aitto. ditto 5 per c e nt. Amos t SYndie,4% per cent.... ............ 93 4 fi,l l ditto, 3% per cm Commercial Company, 4!i per cent 152 % • 76 4 79 Ditto (1835 it gy, and 1837) 5 per cent.loo4i Loan 1e37, 5 per ' Exchange on London, One month.... • yll .014 Two months liamburgh, One month. '"»• • 8 i , 4 Two mom , , g 35 43 Dutch Papers, May per Cent ... 14; t.. 6 lAN u ... 13 ..BRUSSEUI 3 1A ' 7 Actual Debt, 9)( 1 r . 4. C ent. ... Rothschild's Los . ",, Loan of Thir.,s per **6'; ... .. . .. ••••• • . Spec Cent. .... . ' 73 —;1340) % Loan of 04,1732 leo ,4 per Cent. 93 Society et Commerce, 4% per Cent Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent... ...... tiatio33l Society Exchange on London (short) .......... ...Brussels Papers, May 27. lliirty.seven. AUSTRIAN FUNDS...4I2ms*, MAY 18. (Pieper Colts. Metalliques •.... .............. Four per CCM... •••••••••• ....... 11• •••••••••••••••••• ...... .304.1 BThree pfa Cen ts • •... .......... ••••....•••• ...... ••••••••••••• 76% ank shares *a« ........ ••••••••••••••••• ........... .1 WEST INDIA MAILS. IFALMOI:T11, Miv, 2 6.—The Royal M a il Steam Placket , Company's steamer Solway, Captain Brittaiu, arrived I , ,ere tbia evening with th e M ex i can and West India mails, having sailed from the Savannah the Ist inst Nassau the 4th, B erin uda the .sth, and Fayal th e 20th. Freight, 400,000 dolkts, 4-ti serous of cochineal, and four boxes of venilia. Pas,:eng,ers, General , Bustamente, ex-President of Mexico, accourpanied by Senhor I d'Estrada ; Mr. Ryan, child, and servam ; Mr. and Mrs. Kerrison ; Messrs. Murat. Hancarte. "Newell, Muriel and servant, from Mexico; Messrs Calth!ron, Beltran, .luan L. Nova, Gentle, and Shaw, front Havannah ; 111 r. and Mrs. Beer, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, servemt, and child ; Mr. and Mrs. Salomon, and two servants; Mr. Kemble, servant, and two children ; Mr. Pemberton, and three children, Reverend Archdeacon Pope, D.D.; Messrs. m Forsyth, A. H. salon, William . Ch r i stie Wright, M'Corrnaek, and servant, Cipriani, Angus, Pollard, Lewis, and son, Ratnos. and son, Captain %Bock, R.N,, Dr. 14renau, R.N., Captain Moffat, 46111, Dr. Conan, front Nassau ; Sir Joseph de Courel Laffan, and servant, Mr. Reed, and servant, from Bermuda; Lady Leith, and servant, Mr. and Mrs. Meiklam, child, and three servants, from Fayal. Besides the toregoirg passenger., the Solway carried whets betneen the intermediate places, The mails from the Gulf of Mexico were brought to the Havannali by the steamer Teviet. She would replace the Solway, andperform the service of the Guif. When the Solway ii, sailed the 'reviot was coaling. The elections in Mexico hut given a great majority to the Republicans, so much so tbat it was supposed Santa Anna would m - pt open the Chambers, or if he did, they would soon be dissolved. Santa Anna was raising a large army, greater than '_has ever been known to exist in Mexico, to maintain which affected the treasury so much that very little was left for the civil list. It was rumoured that Santa Anna proposed raising a loan of 14,000,000 dollars 'on the guarantee of the State of California, funds being wanted to meet the demands o f the army. Matamoras had been fortified ; some artnlery ad been sent thither to act against the Telians. Affairs in Central America were in a very disturbed state. Miguel Quizano was in command of San Juan de Nicaragua. The Illustrious, being Sir Charles AdaM's tlarr,, Racehorse, Racer, Charybdi s , El ec t ra, and the steamer tivdra were at Honduras, and the steamer Spitfire hourly rArßeted. The. British m an - o f -war Sa P phO sailed fro m Bermuda on the ith inst. for Halifax, on het way to England to be paid off. The Solway requires a supply of coils, before she can pro ceed to Southampton. Does not tl4a argue in favour of Fal mouth? If so circumstanced in fine weather, what would she have done in an easterly gale ? N • IIWsPA PER. PRESS BENttroLENT Assoc The fifth anniversary of this Association was celebrated on Satur day, at the Trafalgar Hotel, Greenwich, by a private disses, jconfined to the members and their friends, the ladies (as usual) oining the gentlemen at the table—a happy innovation upon ear national manners., which the association has the merit of having set one uf the earliest examples. Thomas Thornton, E. sq., a past - Chairman of th e di rect i on, presided on the occa. 1 ; 0 ;s, and from the ability and urbanity w hi c h h e di sp l ayed in executing the duti es of his office, afforded the greatest satis faction to. the conpany, consisting of between sixty and seventy ladies and gentlemen. The day was altogether one of great enjoyment, to which the efforts of a select party of professional ladies and gentlemen (including Miss Betts, Air. Horneastle s Mr. Allen, Mr. Jones, Mr. Young, and Mr. Leonard, the latter an Irish singer of considerable celebrity, who has just arrived in London), greatly contributed. From the states ments made after dinner, it appeared that this institution, though established but a short time, and before the rules permit its complete operation, has been the means of relieving several cases of unforeseen exigency, amongst the families of persons connected with the literary department of the news paper press. It also appeared that during the last year several new members had joined the assoeiasion ;1 that 200/. had been funded, and that the permanent fund of the society was already 1,400/. THE LONDON SAN \TORIUNI..-0 11 SattirtlitS• a meet ing of the friends of this Institution was held in the Hanover Rooms, to receive the Report. of the Committee, and to transact other matturs of business. The Marquis of Norruanby was called to chair. The institution, which is now opened, is in intended for the lodging, nursing, and care of sick persons of the middle classes. Amongst the classes for which this institu. tiosi is designed arc audents of literature, science, fine arts, me. divine, anti law, teachers arid literary persons, especially those merit connnted w ;O A the peri o di ca l p ress, persons engaged in govern-. offices, the church, nsereliau:s counting houses, bauking houses, and oth establishments. commercial travellers foreigners. and sick, persosis visiting London for medical or surgical advice. The parsons admitted are to pay two guineas per week, in re turn fir which they will have every comfort, and a ll th e medi cal httention and skill which could be obtained in the happiest and most opulent home. The Report having been adopted, Lord Ashley addressed the meeting on the necessity, utility, and desirableness of such an institution. Various other gets tlemen moved and seconded appropriate resolutions, and dwelt on the great advantages Which would result from a Sanatorium. The following subscriptions were announced to the meeting • The Marquis of Lansdowne, 20/, ; the Marquis of Normanby, 10/. ; the Earl of Harrowby. 101. lOs. ; Lord Sandon, 5/. ss. The late Captain Conolly, in his amusing Travels in the North of India, carried away a napkin which did not be long to him from a bath. Discovering his mistake, he ordered his Persian servant to go back and restore it to the owner ; } r ut the man protested against so unusual a proceeding, sayinesthat he should be taken either for a thief or a madman, and, con cluded by a recommendation to his master to keep the napkin, aad to satisfy himself with putting up a pray er f or the seau's prosperity. This i s th e way w i t h our rulers. They keel) the Corn-law, and instruct the Archbishop of Canterbury to put up a prayer for charity, and the relief of the distress w hivb . they have done so much to cause. Restitution is in such eases worth myriads of aspirations.—Examiner. BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET, MAT 2.7.—A fair Nisi - Hess has been done in sugar s d ur i ng t h e wee k, and prices t nay be quoted Is. to Is. tid. higher than at the lowest point of I,be recent depreession. Extensive pnrchases of refined in Il e I.ondon market, appear to be the cause of this improveme at, for the demand in groceries is but languid for the time °fp s tr , n ow , near Chichester, on Atm. —Arrived the Adelaide 400 hhds.—iirielol Mercury. • DEATH OF V IcE _A Dm I BA HALL.—This veneral Ile entered the service in 1772. H. flag officer died anVestgate day, in his 77th year. The Admiral was one of the oldest 18th November, 1 799, Rear-A di. vy, 1830, and Vice Admiral 10th Janua_ry, 1 1 37 s n w o r ti c a e s i t n h promoted t j h u e ly i tlo a pest having rank The of Coroner for the Tower of London mid' taking rank next to Vice-Admiral Sir A. Drummond, K.C.I I. i t e h e c t i g ht its ffie h e as become vacant. The situation Libertieso Grace the Duke of 'Wellington, bein is g at fl Constable of that fortress, and by whom the office was bestowed on the late gentleman about two years ago. Several emits slates have applied to his Grace for the honour. i s VALI-AISLE 111-STLE.—SoMe amusement was oc• casioned one day this week by the town crier proclaiming the l oss of a lady's bustle, and offering a reward for its restoration. But great was the surprise of all who heard the public orator when he announced that this elegant appendage contained a large suns of money its notes and gold. It is to he hoped this this notice may meet the eye of the finder, who is, perhaps, unaware of the:value or use of the artide.—.Monmoutlislsirr Beacon. Five pieces of besieging artillery, of 10 inches dia meter have recently been call at the Royal foundry of Vege for the Paella of Egypt. . • ... , ~> c i. FLANDERS AND DUTCH M IL. -.- l)Ce' BRUSSELS, MAY 26.—The average price C-whest .. --i last week was 23f. 46c. ; and that of rye, l3f. 2 . e . :.:': '-- -: ' T ''.- ‘ 1 On the.22(1,,-23d,--and 24th, there were viole Worms. of hail; and Uri - ants- of- rain, in ditfierentpla . ' 4.4 1 ;"I , ~.> Veneehe and the neighbourhood the hailstOnes c ,....:.1.-- -- ' large as walnut's, and fell in such quantities-, that 4 atl folloiing day they l a y in s e v e r a l pla ces t o th e d 4 VLISM more than a foot. At ',Hahne, great damage was done to 'the hothouses and greenhouses of the botanic gar dens of Many private houses. ANTWERP, MAY 25.—The mate of the English ship the Forth was sentenced yesterday by the Correctional Tribunal to a tine of 25 francs and the costs, for resist- . ing the Sub-Chief of the Pilots.