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

13 . , Great Marlborough-street. THE,. COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON'S NEW WORK, • . " TAE LOTTERY OF LIFE." IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. Henry Colburn, publisher, 13, preat Marlborough.street. EDITED BY THOMAS HOOD, ESQ., AND ILLUSTRATED BY LEECH. THE JUNE NUMBER OF POLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND HUMORIST, Contains, among other interesting Articles:— The Schoolmaster Abroad. By the Editor. Spring, aNew Version. By the Editor. Woman s Love, a Tale founded on Facts. By Sheridan Knowles, Es q. Reminiscences of a Medical Student—The Adventures of a Night. The Barnaby's in America. By Mrs. Trollone. Graduates and Under-Graduates. By the A‘uthor of " Peter Priggins." No. 9. The Soiree Musicale. An Essay on Legs. B' Laman Blanchard, Esq. Phineas Quiddy ; or, Sheer Industry. By Jan Poole, Esq., Author of " Paul Pry." Professional Idiosyncracy. Some Account of the Nacaronick Poetry of England and Soot land, with Specimens. Literary Prophecies. The Whispering Gallery, &c. &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Riehard Bentley, New Burlington-street. NEW .i,':OVEL BY MRS. GORE. Now ready, in 3 vols. post &le.; AMBASSADOR'S WIFE. By the Author of " Mothers and Daughters," ." The Dowager," &c. To be bad at all the Libraries. T IDE 'l AE NEW PERIODICAL WORK, BY THE AUTHOR OF " STORIES OF WATERLOO," &c. With the Magazines on the 31st inst., Part 111., price One Shilling, with characteristic Illustrations, of THE FORTUNES OF lIECTOR ()'IIALLORAN, By W. H. MAXWELL, Esq. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street ; John Cumming, Dublin ; Bell and Bradfute, Edinbtu . gh ; :lrapel, Liverpool ; and all Booksellers. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS by GBORGE CRUIKSHANK, LEECH, and CROWQUILL. • The JUNE NUMBER, Price HALF-A-CROWN, of BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.. Contents: — THE LAY OF ST. CUTHBERT, or, the Devil's Dinner-party. A Legend of the North Countrie. By THOMAS INGOLDSBY, Esq. With an illustration by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. John Roll in Tartary, by the Author of " Hajji Baba," " Zohrab." Kai-Chee Megissee, or the Great Eagle, by a Man about Town. The Green-wood. The French Cook, by Albany Poyntz. A Chapter on Beards, and My First Shave, by Wil liam Collier. Precautionary Measures, by H. R. Addison. Old Companions!—where are they? by William Jones. RICHARD SAVAGE, A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE.. By CHARLES WHITEHEAD. Illustrated by LEACH. The Philosophy of Marriage, edited and Illustrated by Alfred Crowquill. Anacreontics. Hullah-Balloo ! Illustrated by Alfred Crowqnill. Robins picking-up the Crumbs ! Illustrated by Alfred Crow quill. , Dirge, by William Jones. A Detachment in the Highlands—Corgarff Castle, by H. Car ling, H.P. 52d Foot. THE LIFE AND SONGS OF ANACREON. By BARNEY BRALLAG HAN. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE-ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. THIS EVENING, MAY 30. The Performances will commence with a New Domestic Drama, entitled ONE FA UTT. Principal Characters by Miss Faucit (from. the Theatre Royal, Covent-garden), Mr. Oxberry, Mr. F. Matthews. and Mr. T. Vining. After which, the Musical Farce of THE AGREEABLE SI7R PRISh.— Lingo, Mr. Harley; Cowslip, Mrs. Humby. To which will be added, GIO VANNI IN LONDON—Don Gio vanni, Mrs. H. P. Gra' tan • Leporella, Mr. Harley. With the Grand Ballet ' of 'THE DAUf,HTER OF THE Di&- NUBE, in which Mr. Gilbert and Miss Baffin will appear. 'To conclude with THE OLYMPIC REVELS—Jupiter, Mr. Bland; Pandora, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Mercury, Miss Murray. Boxes, 4s. Pit,-2s.- Gallery, Is. Doors of en at half past Six,; commence at Seven ; Half-price, a Quarter before Nine. Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Grogan, at the Private Box-office ; and of Messrs. Andrews, Mitchell, Sams, and Badly, at their Libraries ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Thirl Week of Murat, and the grandest Novelties ever witness ed, with an immense outlay, and numbers without conception. THIS EVENING, MAY 30. _ Will be presented a new Military and Fquestrian Spectacle, en titled MURAT—THE PEASAMF, GENERAL, PRINCE, AHD KING, with Battles, Grand Reviews of Horse and Foot, and g n'- geinis Tableaux. After which, in a more extensive and splendid Arena than rer before witnessed, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing blr. BATTY'S unrivalled Collection of Animals, consisting of i iu merous and matchless Cream-coloured Horses, Andalusian Chargt rs, Spotted Coursers, Fairy Palfreys, and Pigmy Poneys, and the m , talented Vaulters, Riders, Gymnastics, and Contortionists in t be kingdom. Gorgeous Cavalcade, novel acts of Equitation, and un.u valied Acrobatieue Feats. To conclude with an entirely New Comic %Drama, entitled TAM GIMLET EYE. FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING, MAY 30, The Performances will commence with LES FEES DE PAII IS. After which, the favourite Cliansonette, Le Trompette ee Ha renzo,'' chante en costume, par Madlle. Dejazet. To conclude with ( f ,r the first tune), LE CO MTESSE DU TON NEAU • OU, LES DEUX COUSlNS.—Jeanneton. Ravaudeirae, Matle. Dejazet. Box , tin. ' • Pit, Sa. 6d. • Amphitheatre (or Gallery Stalls), 3 s. ; Gallery, da. Doors will be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Per turmances commence at Half-past Seven. Applications for Boxes and Stalls for the remainder of the SoaArai, to be made at Mr. Mitchell's Library, 33, Old Bond-street; Mr. :ie._ ui it's 12, Regent-stie,t ; Mr. Sams's, St. James's-street; an d at the Box-office tf the Theatre, which is open daily, from Eleven. till Five o'clock. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully informed that ON MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, AND THURSDAYS, GRAND EVENING FETES will be given, in which will be em bo lied all those popular Entertainments that have given to this favou rite place of recreation its peculiar celebrity, with additions and in trod;ictions, which render them more generally attractive. The MENAGERIE has been enriched by many valuable ands portant acquisitions in the classes of both Quadrupeds and Birds Feeding Time Five o'clock. The colossal VIEW OF BOME has been repainted, and in sot se instances remodelled, with a Mechanical Tabletu d'action, refs •e -sewing the Procession of the Papal Troops, Guards, and Rtn.l an Nobles, to the Castle of St. Angelo. Tha BAND includes some of the most eminent Performers, cti n ducted by Mr. Godfrey, and the Programme of the PROMENADES MUSICALES selected from the noblest works of the great Masten,. The ILLUMINATION of ST. PETER'S, the CROSS of FlItE, and the IGIRANDOLA of ST. ANGELO, with all the gorgeous pec•acles and magnificent introductions that have called forth ac , isin mations el delight and admiration on each evening of their ex hibition, terminating with the triumph of pyrotechnic splend. the CASCADE of BRILLIANT FIRE, SIXTY FEET in heh,lit. The Gardens are open Daily from Ten till Dusk. The Evening Fetes, with the Promenades M usicales, Illumination of St . Peter's, Giraiidola of St._ Angelo, &c., will be given on Mondays, Tuesdays, ai.d Thursdays. Admission One Shilling. THE INDIA SUN CONTAINING A MAP AND FULL ACCOUNT OF AFFGHANISTAN AND THE THEATRE OF WAR IN INDIA, WITH ALL THE LATEST NEWS FROM INDIA AND CHINA, IS NOW READY. sail Advertisements of a Disgusting Character, or Immoral Tendency, are excluded from the Columns of "The Sun." 4- . , u • i1L5•.:5 .o i reo - • "iie '` 4 .1 3 • $3 • rig _Sun. LONDON! MONDAY MORNING, MAY 30, 1842. Both Sir R. PEEL and Lord STANLEY, on Friday evening, explicitly stated that the inquiry into the Bridport case was not for the purpose of criminating an y person. Of course, it Cannot, therefore,' have for its object the dispossessin g any Member of his seat. From the whole course of the proceedings, it is plain that the inquiries to be entered into by Mr. ROEBUCK can have no such effect. It would be monstrous for the House of c ommons to single out, on the representation of Mr. ROE nucx, or any other Member, five or six Members, and institute an inquiry into their mode of g ettin g their seats, when it is notorious that scores of Hon. Members have got into Parliament by similar means. On these reasons it seems certain that Mr. ROEBUCK S inquiries can have no other effect than to establish the existence of bribery and compromise to serve as a basis .of legislation.. They will bring the matter clearly and -with evidence before the public, and they will damage the diameter of the House of Commons. That, and that alone, will be their result. It will be curious, how ever, to see Hon. Members still retain their seats, after they have been reported to the House by Mr. ROEBUCK'S Committee, or any other Committee, as guilty of bribery or'a corrupt compromise. How will they look the House in the face? How will they look the public in the face ? llow will the House itself appear before the public, with several branded and con victed bribers on its benches ? Either the House has gone too far in allowing the inquiries to take place at all, or it does not go far enough in not allowing the Committee to report criminally. By the present ,betwixt and between course the Rouse will find itself at last in a dilemma, from which it can only es cape by a speedy prorogation. ,In the explanation which Lord STANLEY gave on the 19th of April of the condition of our colonies, in respect to their present capacity"for receiving emi grants, after explaining that New South Wales was completely overstocked With labourers, that South Australia was bankrupt and pauperised, his Lordship said that New Zealand offered better prospects for emigrants, or seemed more likely to absorb labour than any °f l our settlements in the South Seas. The little hope ftnd little consolation which the Noble Lord's statement seemed calculated to afford to the thousands who are perishing at home have been, we are afraid, entirely dOe>llo,ray by the latest arrivals from that part of the world. The Patriot of Wed nesday published a letter from a Mr. QUALM, a mis sionary in New Zealand, which contains some intelli gence calculated to excite alarm for the future pro gress of that colony, and even for the future safety of the colonists. .The letter, we must remark, is without date, but it quotes_ a document of the 4th of December. The Patriot says it " has just come to hand," and as the latest arrivals from that colony are of the date of January the Ist, it has ,come, we presume, by them. Besides this uncertainty as to date, Mr. QUAIFE has been the editor of a newspaper which was suppressed, and his disappointment on that head may give a colour to his remarks, against which we must warn our readers. We shall quote his account of the matter, both in order to place him fairly before them, and in form the public of the arbitrary law, as to the 'press, under which the colonists_ are placed. After giving a history.of the up-hill establishment of his journal, of his desire to promote order and obedience, and of his growing conviction that the trimming proceedings of the Governor would require him to take a bolder course, he says — At length, the celebrated "Act of Council" arrived, and was published in our Gazette. The moral objects for which I had entered on my undertaking were now too manifestly at stake to admit of further delay in taking my ground. That Act annihilates native property, and stands in direct and glaring contravention of the pub lished declarations of the Ministry, and of the promises made, in their name, to the native chiefs, both on the acknowledgment of their independence and the cession of their territory. I knew that, in other colonies, conse quences the most calamitous to the aboriginal races had resulted from the non-recognition of aboriginal pro perty ; and my eye instantaneously glanced through the vista of years, pervaded by a chain of oppressions, retaliations, wars, subjugations, &c., terminating in the slavery of the New Zealanders, or their entire destruction, as in Van Dieman's Land. The prospect was. appalling, but I could see no other. The only hope appeared to rest in the growing enlightenment and phi lanthropy of the age. I hesitated not a moment to adopt my course ; I resolved to write against the Act with all my power, and to enlist the interest of the settlers against it, by showing them how much they were in volved in the calamities it entailed. This I did ; and I flatter myself I demonstrated the iniquity and absurdity of the Act to the satisfaction of all. When the Commis sioners arrived, they could not put it in force. The New Zealand Government, however, took the alarm, and sent me a notice, placing me under the Sydney Newspaper Act passed by Governor Darling, requiring 6001. recogni zances, and subjecting an editor to arbitrary trial, and, for a second conviction, to transportation. TheLieutenant •Governor, Hobson, told a deputation that he should persist in applying this Act, although when he found the whole colonial press against him, he .relaxed his se verity; but it was too late, for our paper was then extinguished. From such laws and proceedings we are not sur prised that Captain HOBSON is not popular in New Zealand, and the danger to be apprehended from the natives, which Mr. QUAIFE thus describes, would be less alarming were the settlers united and the Go vernor respected.' On the 20th of November a most atrocious murder was perpetrated upon all the members of a family living at Paroa, Island, only some five or six miles from Koro rareka, and within the Bay of Islands. The family, named Robertson, consisted of Mrs. R., a widow lady, with two of her own children, a little boy about six years old, and an infant daughter eighteen mor.ths old ; a little half-caste daughter of Captain Brind, and Tho mas Bull, a servant man. The last named had his head cleft horizontally with an axe, while asleep in the gar den, in the afternoon. The little boy is supposed to have been thrown over the rock alive into the sea. The others were found in the kitchen, burnt to a cinder, but with deep gashes still visible on the back of the neck or the occiput. The house was plundered, and then burnt to. the ground. A Coroner's inquest being called, it came out, in evi dence, that certain natives charged a young chief, named Makatu, with the horrible deed ; and they pro duced some articles as a part of the plunder, which they alleged were received from him. To obtain this informa tion, two gentlemen, residents at Kororareka, and jurors, were under the necessity of risking their safety, by going to that island alone, and spending an entire day among the natives, to the amount of two or three hundred, who are in a state of most equivocal excite ment on the occasion. They stated that they were seve ral times greatly alarmed for their personal safety. They would not have gone unprotected ; but the Police Magistrate peremptorily refused to act or give orders, and, without those orders, the constables would not pro- teed to the island. The Favourite, a British frigate, lying in the harbour at Russell, with two of her — Ma; jesty's discovery ships, was applied to by the Coroner for boat's crews to aid in capturing the murderer or mur derers, but refused to take any part in the affair with out the Magistrate's orders. If anything was to be done, therefore, Messrs. Spicer and Wilson were under the necessity of endangering their lives to accomplish it, and this they did. They could not, however, get the young man away. He was the next day brought up in a canoe, by his father, Rube, evidently with a view to reward, and then he would deliver him only into the hands of those two gentlemen, and that, on condition that lie was to remain with them till the inquest was over, when, it is clear, it was expected he would be given up again to the . natives _ _ _ Titer; was a reward offered to the parties who disco vered the murderer ; but it appears that the real cause of their readiness to make the disclosure, was the mur der of the little half-caste, who was the grand-daughter of the great chief, E Rewa (Rivers). This circutu stance seems most providentially to have interested him; and he has not expressed regret, as far as I am informed, for any other part of the massacre. While Messrs. Spicer and Wilson were at the island, and fully expecting the aid of police, or military, or of some boat's crews from her Majesty's ships, for the pur pose at once of protecting them, and securing the per son of the alleged murderer, those ships left the bay, and did not deem it proper to wait for further communica tions from the Police Magistrate; thus proving that they fully concurred in withholding every endeavour to cap ture the assassin. The Favourite has this very day re turned to her post, almost three weeks after the emer gency which required her prompt interposition. Native witnesses were examined on the inquest. They all regarded him as the murderer ; but there was nothing more than circumstantial proof in their state ments. Their evidence, added to a number of other cir cumstances, led me to conclude that they did not bring forth all they knew. He acknowledged the deed himself, described the manner of its perpetration, and stated some motives by which he was prompted. To the question, whether other parti e s were concerned, he would give nu very decisive denial. here the inquest failed of its point. Subsequently, at Auckland, he stated he was induced by his father to commit the horrid crime, and that he, the father, had a claim upon the island. One of the wit nesses showed a previous knowledge of his murderous intentions. On the close of the inquest, Makatu was committed by the Coroner's warrant, and not given up into the hands of his father ; and from that circumstance has arisen tio excitemen t above mentioned, which has nearly spread itself over the whole of this island, north of the Thames. Now, there is every reason—l speak deliberately, and from a twelvemonth's observation—to believe that this miserable state of things arises out of the absurd en deavour of Captain Hobson to set up British authority in these islands, without being furnished with physical means, or intellectual capacity to do so. Trade has been everywhere crushed ; prosperous settlements have been ruined.; his own capital is perishing ; British law cannot be enforced ; the native mind is roused to a most dangerous state of irritation ; the missionaries them selves are full of apprehensions ; and all, I believe, attri bute the crisis to the Government follies. And it may be safely affirmed that Captain Hobson and his Colonial Secretary have not a single friend, native, English, or foreign, in the whole country. The gloom which rests, both on public and private affairs, is appalling ; and where the scene will end I do not know. Let it be remarked, that the inhabitants of the Bay of Islands are, at the present moment, indebted for their safety to a most providential and singular occurrence. One day last week, the tribe to which Makatu belonged had taken a threatening position at Waitangi, or Ma tarva, on the side of the bay opposite to Kororareka. There they exp resse d t h e i r detertrunation to be avenged on the white people for the detention of the young chief. And I am particularly informed by a gentleman, who says that he can bring native evidence to prove the fact, that, on one evening, there was a decided plan to make an immediate rush upon Kororareka, : to kill, plunder, burn, and ,c d ao e r s i c tp da y al .11 Commandant ' aa That te(Li guns, came in with a ry Powerfully upon the native fears to CV. E, 2e 2' and g t the l l "6 sight h o fr f ig t a b t a e ; distressed A übt d u t t° t ( l ) leir plGt into execution. .Most kindly, p tip mi h t a t s h ze i operated sit a u s at w m e n i , je h e e tlas soon as Captain Lavaud heard of our ut tered to remain ibr our protection as !ono it necessary for cur . security, although he 6 had no other me object whatever in remaining here. All address was sent him, acknowledging our sense of his kindue,:s, t o w hi c h we have received a most courteous reply. Compare his conduct to that of our own men of war and officials; 'and think especially of the remarkable interposition of G o d for our" preservation, when our natural protectors, on whom we had every rightful claim , ab a n doned us to our fate. Of the unpopularity of Captain HousoN and the disturbed state of the colony, unfortunately, other evidence is at hand. The inhabitants of Port Nichol son have petitioned her MAJESTY to recal him, an d the New Zealand Gazette, published there, uses'this language : It appears, then, that large sums of money are col lected in Port Nicholson , and remitted to Auckland. That these funds are imperatively required for the im provement of our port and for public buildings. That there is not the smallest chance of any portion worth , mentioning of the Port Nicholson contribution 'ever finding its way hack : front Auckland here ; 'Because—the GnVernor is our foe, and the majority.of the Legislative Council are his. tools. .As long, there fore, as the present men are in office, and the existing system is upheld, we must be expected to be victimized. Shall the wrong be quiety endured ? Has the spirit of resistance to injury, cherished in England, become ex tinct in New Zealand ? There' is that on the pages of our journal which forbids the supposition. The consti tutional right of petition for redress of grievances has been exercised, and the removal of a Governor viru lently prejudiced against this settlement, has. been re quired from the Queen. Nothing has occurred to show that the colonists acted unwisely or precipitately on the occasion referred to. On the contrary, they took a just measure of the man they had to deal with. We see the necessity of again petitioning for the recal of Captain Hobson, and for responsible Government. In. these circumstances, and having a much less fa vourable opinion of New Zealand as a place for settlers than is generally entertained, which makes us infer that the colony may be filled with disappointed and discontented persons, we see considerable cause for alarm. The mischief has, to a great extent, been caused by Government appointing a Governor, and a whole host of officials, who seem to have nothing else to do than to harrass the settlers. Lord STANLEY is not the man, we are afraid, toremedy the evil ; 401vill be for interfering still more, when, in truth, besides affording to the colonists the general protection of sending a ship of war, now and then, to look after them, they Cannot be too much left to themselves. At this vast distance from the spot, we will not think of saying what ought to be done—we will only express our fears, that more mischief is likely to ensue from the rash interference of the Colonial-office than from its forbearance. LONDON ,TO THE NORTH.—We perceive that the London and Birmingham, and Grand Junction Rail ways, are about to extend the facilities for travelling to Liverpool and Manchester from London by altering the present two o'clock afternoon train to half-past one. This will enable passengers to leave London two hours and a half later (the last day train starting at eleven), and arrive at Liverpool or Manchester by a. quarter past eleven at night. The-only wonder is, that an improve ment so obvious had not occurred to the Directors long ago. Possibly the new line of Railway from Manches ter to Crewe has quickened their praiseworthy appre hensions. Of course a corresponding train v ill leave Manchester and Liverpool at the same time for London, otherwise the advantage will be all one way. The change takes place on Wednesday, the Ist. of June. The collection of Oriental literature, collected by Jas. Bruce, of Kennard, extending to near one hundred vo lumes, and announced for sale by auction in our columns of to-day, is probably the finest MS. that ever was pre sented to public competition. A LETTER-CARRIER'S FUNERAL.—In Islington, yes terday, a letter-carrier, of the name of Greening, re cently deceased, was followed to the grave by a consi derable number of his brother letter-carriers, dressed in their uniform. Such a mark of respect must be gratify ing to the deceased's widow and family. It is a proof that he was esteemed, and his loss regretted by his use ful brethren. The effects of Lord Lichfield, in St. James's-square, are to be sold in a fortnight, and will occupy a whole week. The service of gold and silver plate is said to be magnificent ; and, in August, Mr. George Robins announces a sale, extending over eighteen days, at Shug borough Hall, of the same Right lion. Peer, which will create a sensation little short of Strawberry-hill. The gallery of pictures and the statues are accounted of the first order. The furniture is throughout splendid, and within the cellars are 20,000 bottles of wine of a quality most recherche. PRE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY: EVENING, MAY 30, 1842.' FLANDERS AND• DUTCH MAIL. MiUSSELS, MAY 26.—The average price of wheat last week was 23f. 46c. ; and that of rye, 13f. 29c. On the 22d, 23d, and 24th, there were violent storms of hail, and torrents of rain, in different places. At \reneche and the neighbourhood the hailstones were as large as walnuts, and fell in such quantities; 'that on the following day titey lay in several places to the depth of More than a foot. At Maline, 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 fine of 25 francs and the costs; for resist ing the Sub-Chief of the Pilots. On the other hand, the King's Procurator has brought an action against the same pilot for having ill-treated the mate of the Forth, and against an officer of the marl • 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 31,000 f. CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 4.—1 have just learned, from good authority, the real facts relative to the arrests of the Chiefs of 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 Maro 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, and assuring them 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. He gave information to Nedseib Pacha, in Da mascus, and ordered him to march with 5,000 men to 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 ou their guard. He also opened a communication with Egypt, in order, in case of ex treme need, to receive assistance from that country. He intrusted. Omer Pacha to seize, by stratagem, the eight chiefs, against whom he had written proofs in his hands. Omer Pacha prepared an entertainment, after which he assembled the chiefs in a conference, in which he ener getically demanded the restitution of the property that they had unjustly taken. 'When the Druses refused this he caused them to be surrounded by a battalion of troops, and made prisoners. As for the Maronites, they have declared for the Turks, and offered Omer Paella an anxiliary corps of 2,000 men to march against the DruSes, which he, however, declined.—Algemeine Zeitung, May 23. ROTTERDAM, MAY, 24. This afternoon the war steamer the Bromo, intended for the East Indies, was launched here from the Royal Dockyard. THE HAGUE, MAY 20.—The horses and carriages of his Majesty King William' Frederick Count of Nassau, are to be sent to-morrow from the Hague to the Loo. A dreadful thunderstorm passed over the Luwarden and the environs on the 24th. Three or four farm houses were struck by lightning and totally consumed. DUTCH FUNDS..-.AMSTERIDAtd, MAY 27. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 2 34 per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. Allan t Syndic, 4% per cent 93!; 9104 Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 7634 76% Commercial Company, 4!., per cent 152 1529. Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cent. ... 99 9914 Exchange on London, cpte m0nth............ 12 12% Two months .... 12 05 Hamburgh, One month 25 814 Two months ... Dutch Papers, May 28. , 4EL6IAN 1. UNDS—Baussus, MAY 27. actual Debt, 214 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent IO3 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 94 -----3 per Cent. —Thirty.seven--- .. 73 -------- (1 s4O) 1( 4 3 4 Loan of City, 1e32, 4 per Cent t,3 y.. Society of Commerce, 4%per Cent f-ti Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.... ........ National Society Exchange on London (short) .... - -Brussels Papers, May 27. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, MAY 18. five per Cents. Metalliques - 10834 FONT per Cents. IGO Three per Cents. Bank Shares NEWSPAPER PRESS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. — The fifth anniversary of this Association was celebrated on Satur day, at the Trafalgar Hotel, Greenwich, by a private dinner, confined to the members and their friends, the ladies (as usual) joining the gentlemen at the table—a happy innovation upon our national manners,. which the association has The merit of having set one of the earliest examples. Thomas Thornton, Esq., a past chairman of the direction, presided on the occa sion, and from the ability and urbanity which he displayed in executing the duties of his office, afforded the greatest satis faction to the conrany, 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, Mr. Horncastle, 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 state ments made after dallier, it appeared that this institution, though established but a short time, and before the rules permit its complete operation, has been the means cf 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 hado;ned the association , 4 * , that 200/. had been funded, and that the, permanent fund of the society was already 1, 4001. • THE LONDON SANATomum.—On Saturday 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 matters of business. The Marquis of Normanby 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 tion is designed are students of literature, science, fine arts, me dicine, and law, teachers and literary persons, especially those connected with the periodical press, persons engaged in govern. ment offices, the church, merchants counting houses, banking houses, and other establishments, commercial travellers foreign er , and. sick persons visiting London for medical or surgical advice. The persons admitted are to pay two guineas per week, in re turn for which they will have every comfort, and all the medi cal attention 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 aesii ableness of such en institution. Various other gen tlemen moved and seconded appropriate resolutions, and dwelt en 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, 10/. 10s. ; Lord Sandon, 51. 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 ; but the man protestedagainst so unusual a proceeding, saying that he should be taken either for a thief or a madman, and con cluded by a recommendation to his master to keep the napkin, and to satisfy himself with putting up a prayer for the man's prosperity. This is the way with our rulers. They keep the Corn-law, and instruct the Archbishop of Canterbury to put up a prayer for charity, and the relief of the distress which they have done so much to cause. Restitution is in such cases worth myriads of aspiratitins. —Examiner. 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, between the 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 yes sols 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. The office of Coroner for the Tower of London and its Liberties has become vacant. The si nation is at the dis posal of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, being the High Constable of that fortress, and by whom the office was bestowed on the late gentleman about two years ago. Several candi dates have applied to his Grace for the honour. A VALUABLE BUSTLE.—Some amusement was oc casioned one day this w eek by the town crier proc:aiming the loss 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 Le announced that this elegant appendage contained a large sum of money in notes and gold. It is to be hoped that this notice may meet the eye of the finder, who is, perhaps, unaware of the value or use of the article.—Monmouthshire Beacon. 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 Air. Henry Betty, 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 cf these talents. He has now, however, recovered his 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 sour neighbours ; the example is in our power, and will sooner or later have effect; but while 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 out of certain foreign markets as an express prohibition to enter them could do. Here our legislation inflicts upon US a greater disadvantage than the most barbarous interdict of foreigners could accom plish, and the Corn-laws have done what the Berlin and Milan decrees of Napoleon, 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. ROMANTIC SUICIDE.—A literary friend in Scot-. land, who was personally acquainted with the unhappy young man who last week committed suicide at Croydon, has furnished us with the following particulars respecting him :—" The youth's name," he says, "is William Barrie, a native of the Isle of Sian. He had a patrimony sufficient for his subsistence, but was liable to a nervous affection, which made him shun society, and turn hypochondriac. He wrote to me or, the 17th, stating 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 struments around him, and which were his only companions." The body was yesterday buried in the parish churchyard of Croydon.-- Sunday Paper. The Havre Journal mentions, as an instance of ex traordinary speed, that a diligence from Paris to Havre arrived at its destination on Sunday in 12 hours and 10 minutes, and another diligence in 12 hours arid 25 minutes—the distance being 52 leagues. THE WEATHER.—NooN, MAY 30. 0i At. GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET liermometer .... 66 Highest 6B •1 Lowest 43 Barometer 30.05.—Wind S.W. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert attended Divine Service yesterday morning, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Sermon was preached by the Hon. and Rev. R. Eden, from Psalm xxxiii., verses 10, 11, and 12 ; the Prayers were read by the Rev. Mr.Barham; the Lessons by the Rev. J. Haden; and the Communion Service by the Rev. Messrs. Barham and Haden. The Musical Service was Rogers iu 1), and the Anthem, " 0 grant the King a long life." (Nares.) The Bishop of Norwich and the Dean of Hereford, the Clerk and the Deputy Clerk of the Closet, were in waiting. The Royal Suite included Lady Portman, Hon. Miss Liddell, Hon. Miss Paget, Earl of Morton Lord Colville, Captain Meynell, and Colonels Arbuthnot and Wylde. Among the nobility were the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Duchess of Bedford, the Marquises of Nor.; manby and Headfoi t, Marchioness of Westmeath, Earl and Countess of Wilton, Earls Howe, Bandon, Cawilor, Effingham, Sheffield, and Errol,:Viscountess Palmerston, Lords Eliot Canterbury, Hawarden, Cantilupe, and Go dolphin. Their Serene Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Meiningen, the Duchess of Saxe Weimar and Prince George of Saxe Meiningen visited the Queen and Prince Albert on Saturday afternoon, at Buckingam Palace. His Excellency, Count Mensdorf and Counts Hugh, Alphonso, Alexander, and Arthur Mensdorf, attended by Colonel Wylde, visited St. Paul's Cathedral, on Saturday morning, and aftere ards inspected the exhibition of Painters in Water Colours. In the afternoon, the ' Counts visited the Duchess of Kent, at Clarence House, St. James's, and also paid a visit to the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, at Marlborough House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty and Prince Albert on Saturday morning. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken an airing in a carriage on Saturday afternoon. The Dowager Lady Lyttelton accompanied their Royal Highnesses. Prince George of Cambridge visited the Counts Mens dorf on Saturday at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Arbuthnot, visited the Duchess of Kent on Saturday at Clarence House. The Duke of Saxe Meiningen visited Prince Albert on Saturday forenoon. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Counts Mensdorf and the Duchess of Kent, honoured the Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday even ing. The Royal suite included Lady Portman, the Earl of Morton, Colonels Arbuthnot and Wylde. Lady Anna Maria Dawson was in Waiting on the Duchess of Kent. . . The Duchess of Kent attended Divine Service yester day morning in the Chapel at Kensington Palace, Lady Anna Maria Dawson was in Waiting on her Royal Highness. The Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, attended Divine Service yester day forenoon in Kew Church, Lady Augusta Somerset, Baron Knesebeck, Major Stephens, and Colonel Jones were in Waiting on their Royal Highnesses. he Royal party returned to town in the afternoon. The Duchess of Saxe Meiningen and the Duchess and the Princesses of Saxe Weimar, and suite, attended Divine Service, yesterday morning, in the Royal German Chapel. The Rev. Dr. Kuper preached the Sermon. The Duke Bernard of Saxe Weimar and Prince Ed ward, attended by Captain Koch, left town at three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, by the South-Western Railway, for Southampton, on their way to Paris. The Duke visited the Duke of Cambridge, in the forenoon, at Cambridge House. • The Duke and Duchess of Saxe Meiningen and suite, and the Duchess of Saxe Weimar visited the Duchess of Kent on Saturday. Prince Gecrge of Cambridge also visited the Royal Duchess on Saturday. The Counts Mensdorf visited her Royal Highness yesterday. The Duke of Saxe Meiningeu and the Hereditary Prince visited Prince Albert and the Counts Mensdort; yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. Their Serene High nesses also visited the Duke of Sussex, the Duchess of of Gloucester, and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at their respective residences. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major Stephens, honoured the Marquis of Northampton with his com. pony on Saturday evening, at the soiree given by his Lordship, at his residence in Piccadilly. Prince George of Cambridge visited the Queen Dow. ager, and the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Meiningen, on Saturday. The French Ambassador transacted business on Sa turday at the Foreign-office. Mr. Sheriff had an interview with Lord Stanley on Saturday, at the Colonial-office. DeSpatches from the Governor of sierra Leone were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. On Saturday Lord Denman gave judgment in the long-disputed case whether Miss Burdett Coutta should be rated to the relief of the poor in respect of a box which she held in Drury-lane Theatre, and the Court decided that the box in question was a tenement, within the meaning of the Act of Parliament, and that, therefore, Miss Coutts was liable to be rated. _ _ _ -- REPRESENTATION OF IPSWICH.--The candidates in the Conservative interest are the Earl of Desart and Thomas Gladstone, Esq. Mr. Thomas Gisborne, formerly M.P.• for North Derbyshire, with Mr. Moffat, a merchant of London, are the candidates in the Whig interest. The nomination is ex pected to take place next Thursday, and the polling on the following day. We learn from Geneva, that Messrs. Calame and Diday, the two most distinguished painters of that city, have received from the King of the French insignia of the order of the Legion of Honour, in testimony of his Majesty's satisfaction at seeing the pictures they sent to the late exhibition at the Louvre. ITER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The following Royal and distinguished personages honoured this theatre with their presence on Saturday evening :—Her Majesty, Prince Albeit, Duchess of Kent, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Princess Mary and Prince George of Cambridge. Count Mensdoi lf and tour sons, Lady Portman, Earl of Warwick, Lady A. M. Dawson, Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh, Duke of Brunswick, Marquis of Ailesbury, Marquis of Salisbury, Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne., Marquis of Normanby, Marquis of Tavistock, Marquis of Worcester, Marquis of Huntley, Count and Countess Flahault, Earl of Westmorland, Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Lady A. Fitz darence' Earl and Countess of Cardigan, Countess of Charle- Lady Fitzwygram, Miss Coutts Burdett, Lord and Lady Maynard, Earl of Sefton, Lady Beckett, Lady Glengail, Honourable Mrs. Fitzgibbon, Sir W. Massey Stanley, Lord ('antilupe, Lady W. Paulet, Lady Pymm, Lady Shuckburgh, Lord Macdonald, Lord Templemore, Lord Sandys, Lord Templetoun, Lord Norbury, Lord Charles Wellesley, Lady E. nynne, Baroness Calabrella, Lady Doraville, Lady Gerard, &c. &c. A schoolmaster in the Aveyron, who, during the last year, was condemned by default to hard labour at the hulks for twenty years, for an infamous attempt upon a young girl, was arrested in Paris, two evenings ago, as he was about to enter one of the theatres. LITERATURE. WAVERLEY NOVELS. .! I; 0 TSFORD EDI- Cadek Vic! illuivii,. 1842. In the present Number of, this splendid edition of th 9 Waverley Novels, we have,' by way of frontispiece, a most picturesque view of Holyrood Palace, from the Edinburgh. iihe remaining illustrations, which are numerous, are all . qt superioi.morit as works of art ; and among them full-length fancy sketch of Flora '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. TYTLER'S HISTORY OF SCOTLAND. Vol. VIII. Tait, Edinbutgh, 1842. This volume of the History of Scotland, which is the most minute and accurate that has yet appeared in print, commences with the I:egency of Morton, and concludes with the death of Mary Queen of Scots. 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 which Mr. Tytler describes the trial and execution of the Regent Morton, and the able analysis which he furnishes of the character of this clever, but unscrupulous statesman. The work, we presume, will be completed in another volume. NEW MUSIC. GEORGE L T, E irn .l er E a U nd NE . S L M on E do t , 0 1 D 84 1 2 E . l. S. No Il This collection consists o f 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 this thorough knowledge of the art, we would re fer our readers to a ballad, the second piece in the collection, called " Ages, Anger, and Repentance," in which the modulations are as surprising as they are natural and beautiful, producing an impression on the mind and ear, that must be felt to he truly understood. Never VI fact was the spirit of language more faithfully echoed by music than in this touch ing composition. Like many simple things, however, it is extremely difficult of execution, and requires a singer of great feeling, as well as taste and judgment, to da it justice, or indeed to convey any idea at all of its extraordinary beauty. Of a very different kind, but not less delightful, are a solo and quartette, with Italian words, " Grazie, grazie volate ;' 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 " Naiad'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 a 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 pro 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 most part, has been indebted to the operas of Italy and Germany. THE SOUTH-EASTERN COUN TIES' RAILWAY. The carriages on the Dover line do great credit to the judgment and taste of the Directors, both in mechanism and finish. For the first time on an English line whole trains composed of carriages on Mr. Adams's bow springs, and fitted with his elastic buffer. arrangement, are in daily use. Hitherto these carriages have been mixed up with others on the common plan, marring their perfect action, but now that they constitute entire trains, the result is uniform motion. It is only needful to ride in both kinds of trains—the bow-spring and one on the common plan—to be satisfied of the immense superiority of the former. Not merely a blind man, but a paralytic man, or one with nerves like cart-ropes, would find out the difference. In the common carriages there is a con stant hard vibration, accompanied by noise and incessant lateral shocks, from the action of the flange on the rails. These effects disappear in the bow-spring carriages, the motion of which is soft and easy, analogous to that of a sailing-boat, while the starting and stopping is free from all startling movement. One carriage that we tried was even still superior, being fitted with wood wheels, which appeared to absorb the sound generated between the wheel tyres and the rails. This wheel, we were given to understand, is also a plan of Mr. Adams's. The colour of the carriages is novel on railways, and will well distinguish them from those of the Brighton, Croydon, and Greenwich. It is a rich brown, known as the Wellington brown ; in fact, it is the family colour of the Duke of Wellington, with whose peculiar carriage, on four equal-sized wheels and bow-springs, most carriage connoisseurs are familiar. With the ex ception of the large Dover arms on the panel, the gene ral painting of the Dover carriages resembles that of his Grace on a large scale. We hope that all these circum stances combined will have the effect of inducing the Duke to become a patron of railways in general, or at least of this-line, of whose seaward terminus he is the Warden. It would be a novel sight to see his equal wheeled bow-spring road-carriage on an equal-wheeled bow-spring railway truck, which we have heard a rail way engineer remark, "is the perfection of all travel ling." We trust his Grace will try it, if only as an ex periment calculated j to give eclat to a line over whose terminus he claims jurisdiction.—Railway NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMoUTII, 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 an 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 steamer arrived on Thursday 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, Dudman, master, which ship has upwards of 2,000 casks of bread in her hold, for the use of the Chinese:Squadron and Army. In Harbour—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—Crocodile (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, 221. Bs. ; John Jackson, 251. Bs. ; John Bopgood, 151.45. 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 i with an elegant sword and sash, as a token of their high esteem and good feeling towards him. PLYMOUTH, MAY 26.—The Adventure transport arrived on Saturdayfrom Deptford ; she is taking on board s t ores from the Victualling - yard , and will retu rn to Deptford in a few days. On Monday , the P r i nce R egent, transport, Lieutenant W. Boys , f rom Bermud a , anc h ore d i n the Sound for a short time, landed l etters, and soon a f ter sa iled for Woolwich. She left B ermuda on the Ist i nstan t, an d brought home a party of sappers from that island. On Tuesday. arrived the Pi geon pac k et, Li eutenant Thomas James, Com mander, from Falmouth, and will be paid off at this part. Arrived the Alban steamer, from Portsmouth, and waits for orders. The Canopus, 84, 'NUS undoked, havin g had a complete repair. On Wednesday, the Volcano', steamer, Lieut. Featherstone, Commander , ar rived fr om Greenock, and sailed the next day with su pernumeraries for Portsmouth. The Wolf, 18, was un docked having had her defects made good. The Espoir, 10, wa s t a k en into clock, to b e re p a i r ed and brought for ward for commission. In Ilarb our —C ale d on i a , San Josef, Philornel, Pigeon, Alban, C on fi anef . , and Adventure. In the Sound—Malal PaoMoTioNS AND APPOINTM ENTS. PaouoTioNs..—Mates—Robert A. E. Scott ( 1836 ) , late of P res id ent ; Edward D. A s h e (1836), late of the Daphne ; and D. If. McNeill (1836), late of Acorn, to the rank of Lieutenant. Assistant Surgeon—John Rees (1831), late of the Pre sident, to the rank of Surgeon. APPOINTMENTS.—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 m the Lightning, vice Pearce, promoted. Masters—Thomas Driver (1809), to command the Dee st eam-vesse l ; John F. Rees, to the Philomel. Mates—James Dunbar, to the Talbot ; Constantine G. Glinn, to the Excellent. Acting Master's Assistant John W. Lowe, to the Winchester. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 2- minutes alter. 5 I Evening - 59 minutes atter 5, •L <4 t:',.'l4::. % ..,,t ; .... ~- •:!i>./..1 , ,. ,e" , ,- , 4 1 .... ....„..;!" -.....,.,.. . eto ;.11144411Ittivn SLY OFFICE Three o'Cluelt. We are happy to observe, in the several files of Ame rican papers received this morning from New York and Washington, the return to a friendly tone in the discus sion of questions jointly affecting British and United States' interests. In none of them do we find a word about war, or the necessity of preparing for it. Lord ASHBURTON appears to have entered upon the delicate ne gotiations with which he was entrusted with ability, good temper, and a wish to conciliate such Members of Con gress as were under the delusion that England desired rupture with the United States. The consequence has been a marked improvement in the public feeling to wards us throughout the Union. The Secretary of State, Mr. WEBSTER, addressed a circular letter to the Governors of Maine end Massachusetts,.. calling upon them to take measures for constitutionally settling the North-eastern Boundary question. This document appears at length in another part of The Sun. The Governor t,f Massachusetts stated that the representative body of that State had given him full powers to adjudicate upon the question; and the Governor of Maine convened by procla mation a meeting of the Legislature on the 18th of May. As the people of Maine are the most difficult to be dealt with, Mr. WEBSTER intended to be personally present at the meeting of the State Legislature, with a view to employ the influence of the Federal Government in the removal of any difficulties in the way of a pacific and speedy arrangement. The Secretary for the Treasury, the Hon. Mr. Foe wAktn, had made a Report to • Congress of his Bill for settling the new tariff. It is a long, and to English readers, exceedingly uninteresting document. The new duties will be in several instances more than twenty percent., and he calculates from this source to supply the deficiency in the revenue, and pay off the public debt in three years. Many branches of trade will be completely ruined by it ; as for example that of sugar refining, ten per cent. of the present drawback duty: upon which is to go into the Treasury. Redun dant importations - are to be checked by the duties being required to be paid in cash. Need we say more about the Bill to show its utter absurdity? True, if passed as proposed, it will greatly injure the commerce of England and France. But it will do ten times more injury to the Americans themselves. Rhode Island continued in a very diiturbed state. One party was for maintaining the old constitution and the other for universal suffrage. The President of the United States had interfered, but to little apparent good purpose. It was not expected that the conse quences would be serious. Moderate men were for re storing harmony by extending the suffrage to the whole of the male population above 21 years of age. This would satisfy the disaffected. The New York Commercial Advertiser of the 14th of May, says that the merchants in that city were doing very little business. The activity in trade which existed fur some weeks before had disappeared. For some years mercantile transactions had not been so few during the spring months. Merchants had large stocks on hand, of which they sold but little during the winter, and as the policy of the sound banks is now restrictive, they receive little assistance from them towards emptying their ware houses. In the meantime the unsettled state of the tariff was playing the deuce with all parties. Some weie doing nothing because they dreaded to hazard purchases for importation, and others were, idle, in expectation that the tariff would raise the price of goods already imported, and locked up in their warehouses. The Journals, as little conversant with the true principles of commercial science as their readers, cry aloud for the protection of clasS interests, just as the Ultra-Tories are doing in the House of Commons. Could the American press foresee what evils it is about to inflict upon that country, we have sufficient confidence in the integrity of its conduc tors to believe that it would adopt a very different course. The error that is now about to be made, cannot be rectified without inflicting severe hardships upon the fictitious interests created by it. From Canada the news is cheering. The people were peaceable, and gradually becoming more prosperous. The rebellion had taught the Government to look more to their wants, and in this instance it really appears to have acquired wisdom from experience. , . The Session of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland closes this day, when the last of its acts for this year will be a vote of censure, or perhaps deposition, against seven of the Members, for taking part with the mi- nisters of Strathbogie. Dr. GRANT, Dr. STIRLING, Dr. BRYCE, and a great number of the most pious and excellent clergymen in the Church, sympathising with seven of their brethren who had been cruelly deposed by the last Assembly, visited them in their affliction, and assisted at the celebration of the LORD'S Supper, in the different parishes. For this r eligious act of charity they were denounced by the Commission at Edinburgh, and being summoned to appear and answer for their conduct, they were placed at the bar like culprits on Thursday last. The parties, from respect to the Church, accordingly appeared, ad mitted the charge, and a Committee was appointed to " deal with the said Ministers." What may be the nature of this dealing we cannot tell, but the proceeding altogether was considered so unjust and arbitrary that not one clergyman or elder on the other side would sit on it, wisely leaving the whole odium to the Non-Intrusionist party. But why did they not go farther ? Four hundred ministers at least are equally guilty, they deny the validity of the judgment, and have declared their firm determination to set it at defiance. Dr. CHALMERS and his brethren should not do the business in this miserable, - timid manner; they should have brought the main ques tion to an issue - at once, and arraigned the whole of the .four hUndred at the bar of the Assembly. This, no doubt, would have been the reductio ad absurdum, but they know the affair must either come to this at last, or the authority of the Assembly will be utterly annihilated. A great number are anxious to imitate the conduct of Dr. GRANT and his friends. One gallant elder (Captain DALarmeLE) said he had committed the offence with many others. Professor ALEXANDER denounced the principles of the dominant party as essentially Popish. " These principles," he said, " were ,subversive of the law of CHRIST, and of the rights of the people of Scot land, which they would override and overbear in an un checked, irresponsible, and spiritual despotism." This pithy sentence was loudly cheered. Another member charged Dr. CHALMERS and his colleagues with " preaching sedi tion, and stirring up rebellion." The Church of Scotland is reduced to a melancholy condition She is indeed a house divided against itself, and unless the hearts of those who direct her councils be speedily turned to wisdom, nothing but the most disastrous consequences can be anticipated. Lord MONCRIEFF and Dr. CHALMERS must now lament the day when they threw that firebrand, the Veto Bill, among a peaceful, religious, and moral community. From 1834 to the present time there has been but one continued series of battles, increasing every year in animosity, destroying the usefulness of the Church, alienating from one another the best friends and rendering the most excellent ecclesiastical establish ment in Christendom a bye word among the nations, The result has only been what we anticipated. This Journal has ever taken the same view of the question. Four of our London Contemporaries at first supported th e Vetoists, and contend e d th at t h e i r claims were just, and `that the Legislature would do well to pass an Act against Non-Intrusion. The madness of CHALMERS, CANDLISH, and CDNINGHAME soon convinced them of their error. Three of them are now silent as the grave on the subject ; and a fourth, the Times, is decidedly opposed to them. The principle of election and an establishment are declared incompatible. CHALMERS is justly accused of seeking only the aggrandisement of the clergy, and mocking the people with a shadow. This has been our doctrine all along, and as our Contemporary so cordially concurs with us in this view, we quote with pleasure the following extracts:— As friends of the Church of Scotland, with no di position to underrate the advantages either in the abstract, or to that country, of the Presbyterian form of Church government, we deeply lament that the General Assembly have precipitated mat ters in that country to a result which we may safely assume ren ders the preservation of the Establishment a very difficult matter. At the present moment, when all mankind, except apparently themselves, are alive to the difficulties in which the Church of Scotland is placed—while all feel the ext:aortimary forbearance which has been shown to that Church as an esta blishment—when it has contirued systematically and boast ingly to act on and enforce the veto which the House of Lords found to be a violation of the statute law of the land—while hitherto they have been professing to contend solely against the intrusion into parishes of improper presentees without adequate ehecks, and had been inducing their friends to unite in support of the Duke of Argyll's Bill, which was based on the maintenance of patronage as a matter of principle, the General Assembly in one of these tumultuous debatea, in which (as in the French Constituent Assembly) the most vital matters are carried by clamour, at one sitting have voted, on the motion of the Rev. Mr. Cuninghame (without modification), that patronage is a grievance, have declared that it is " the main cause of the dif ficulties" in which h Church iiinvolved, and that it ought to be aboliehrd ; and they have resolved to petition Parlilrn ev for that object. This is really too bad. It, is time now to say very P wins' thct the course which that Establishment has been folle; requires serious attention. For three. years since the soe judgment which the Hou se o f Lords and on their oi."0 appeal, they have, in defiance of l aw , and in a tone and e`ciloi a degree of insolence calculated to awaken the authority and order among all ranks of the people. acted on that veto r i ' be ,. lotion which the Hou s e o f L ords d ec l are d to be illet-0 13 ,_ n . . ( rc 1, yond their powers. This i s th e con d uc t o f an establishe'de" to We say, Air. Cuninghame, Mr. Candlish, and one rarities' other ardent spirit s , a re th e so l e cause o f these (I u' eu They are in principle Independents, though they retain emoluments and exercise the 'Amer of an establishment, they ought to leave the Church, the laws and condition' " which they will not comply with. Having told these arctent spirits what they sho uld J o Yr . with themselves, th e wr i ter t h us l ecture s poor CAMPBELL and Dr. CHALMERS : N Here is a declaration whi c h sets at d e fi ance and lault o ds/ scorn poor Mr. Campbell and t h e D u k e o f A rgy ll's Bill'istert other remedies. Election by th e peop l e o f a ll their to if; if; alone will satisfy them. "By the people," did we S q . ii eV made a mistake ; for Dr. Chalmers, who, with that the e ticity of conscience" which he has said he posses-es ° V questions, is found speaking in support of this resolutialo4 having propounded the veto, as he declared, in suppor t , ip tlo the preservation of patronage, takes great pains to exP o a rt„ tiV "household or resident election," or anything, it , real popular election, he abhors and repudiates. f S e Two questions wo would w i s h t o as k t h ese ininistersl, land. if patronage is a si n f u l mo d e o f o b ta i n i ng a IVO do not they resign, and see if th e peop l e w ill NS." , o d churches? What would be th e f a t e o f Ai r. C un ingba_ t `l e e his miserably small let sittings?—and, again, if the M i r e oft to choose their own minist e r, w hy not t h e wholePeeP.- to t parish? and why are they to be restrained in their cluoreopeo; minister of the Establishment, or of any sect, if they est:)., 10 another whom they lik e b e tt er , w h o can e dif y t h e m I ,'S is in all respects more acceptable ? How can an estabor" be defended, if the principle of election be conceded ? . lO The Council of th e Bi rm i ng h am " Na t i ona l Coal 0 , Suffrage Union" hav e j us t i ssue d a d ocument w hich e ° , ,, tains some pertinent comments . on Mr. SHARMAN FORD'S proposed amendment on the third reading ° t o hateful and inquisitorial. Income-tax Bill. I r l id e doeument the Council boldly state that " the P`ot of Commons is corrupted, and that, no longer organ of popular feeling, it has become the ' I/ I ment of a class ;" and add, that they "P ri) d) against the infliction of any new tax until t a.radical change has taken place in the represen . system, as may effect the destr uc ti on o f t h a t eet l A j4 ; - .0 class-legislation, th e c on ti nuance o f wh i ch t h e y believe would be fatal to our very existence as a f ree ,,,;( independent nation." I n thi s pro t est we f ee l str ° '.s dispowd to coincide, for it is in strict acc ordance that principle of the Con s tit ut i on w hi c h prov ide‘th ill t i man shall be taxed witho u t hi s • own consent , or his representatives in Parliament. And haie thee.; their own represent a ti ves i n P ar li ament ? rtc e9 ,, , extent they possibly may have, but not to an extent cep ble of producing substantial good ‘;- for 'the. 1' ;:f lar voice is heard there' only in faint, timid ,: being drowned by Abe. : loud, clamorous 111 :p of the selfish advo ca t es o f class-legislation.- 'MtiV sent constituted, the Ho use of Commons--notwit's ing the Reform Bill—h as unquestionabl • few ° f co f sympathies in Comm on w ith t h e great b ulk of tbeofY .munity. It expresses th e o pinion s o f parties, not people. It gives utterance to the purblind Preil l pe of tho Few, not th e ca l m , sett l e d conv i ct i o n s o f t he ' e yi: 4 , Had the case been oth erw i se — were t h e H o use IV and truly the advocate of national, instead of clas s ' rests, never would. s uc h a fl agrant l y un j us t III : " as the Income-tax Bill h ave b een a ll owe d t°, Y even a second reading. The suceess of 6 ' 5 testable impost has been achieved sole l l„ f iii means of the veriest t r i c k ery —b y a d exterou s P 7 off of one. party against another, and hoaxing bot h Throughout the discussion the popular intereal',o' been wholly lost sight o f an d t h e quest i on tretae'.o Whig and Tory were _th e on l y part i es conce rned Y, But all things —even an I ncome - tax --" work t4t.i for good," and the present notoriously corrupt s t i 2 l the House of Commons is the best possible ga 4 _,, for its refl:rm at no distant p er i o d. W e can not lo w ;ti on as we are no w d o i ng . Th e popu l ar vo i ce vast u n t i itself heard in P ar li ament; an d sound, enlarge d must supply the place of miserable party i tT g l ,d, What between the equivocal, time-serving refb r./ f ° the Whigs, and th e se lfi s h , t hi c k -skulled o b s tinsc , ,4 the TorieC, the country has been brought to a &i ncl . : l l from which nothing can extr i cate i t, b ut a trdrthli abandonment, on the part o f th e monopo li sts , do t, iniquitous system of class-legislation ; or, failing ,rat such a desperate convulsion as shall s h a ke the social and political fabric to its foundations, and.. 51,0 to atoms the two wretch e d, f ac ti o n s that have se ,0 made the people the mere bli n d i ns t ru ments of the ir bition and cupidity. The PITT Club Anniversary day at the London Tavern—and such a miserable po;iticia of Members ! Not a man of the slightest Wma. s a ce l l t el:t c e ir d ß o v iL:: nence was present ; there were_no_PEELs, no WEL l ' l ,t TONS—not even - a GOOLItURN ,thing but a couple of KENYONS, a couple of Duicco3C,/ -three- small Baronets, one Mili t i a C o l one l, anti two dozen or so of the - tiniest 'possible 111embi e l Parliament. Such being the attendance, it niay be gu . ? what were the speeches.! The Chairman—one of KENYoNS aforesaid—twaddled pathetically abm i !' f ii "days of good old King GEORGE ;" and then. 11 :lf duly wiped his eyes, proctcded to institute a rat' ° .1 tween PITT and PEEL. They certainly resembl e other in this respect—namely, that each has four I' in his name, and that each name begins with a. 11;;, we are not aware of any other paints of i - blance between them. As for his " in° l 7,t• periority," on which the Chairman . merited . Sir MAIER'' , PEEL, what a face .o s ll must have,had_to have made such- a remark 1/, superiority" indeed ! The allusion must certaiillY been hazarded in joke; and as a joke we accept of alit, though at the same ti me we are b y no PIO ":1, pressed iTith an exalted sense of its brilliancy, it -what better could have been expected from the cM. of a Prrr Club, and that Chairman a KENYON •ir ift We have received the Madrid Journals of the . In the Chamb e r of D e p ut i es , on t h e 20t h , a pre if, was made for t a ki ng i n t o cons id erat i on a Bills, of, to the Chamber by severa l o f the DePtitiesti the object of which is to permit the ita`P" into Spain of foreign cotton manufactures , are now either n o min a lly or v i rtua ll y pro M. Gtnnup, a warm oppo nen t o f the Pr ° 7„ p ! ~ system, reproached th e Mi n i s t ry w i t h i ts delay'" ' 4 l senting the long-promised Government Bill on th e I ject ; and, although the Minister of the I 112 91 4 1 1: declared that in a very .few days a Bill 01(1 ,',t presented, and requested M. G UIBUT to w i t hd r aw 11 ' if, motion, that Deputy persisted in going to the v ° , t , e : t it was decided by a ma j or ity o f 7 4 to 36, t " - c`7, Bill proposed by M. GuinuT should be taken into ej sideratiun. M. MATH then asked th e Mi n i ster of hether, not , lithstanding this vote, the Gove-r, l) would bring i n it s own Bill th i s session, an d was swercd in the affi rmat i ve , t h e d rawing up of the /311' nearly completed. In the sitting of the Deputies- ' 1 ; 21st, M. TOR RENTO ca ll e d t h e attent i on of the Ci'f)lol°, to the circumstances under which Mr. Ttiniclat i O 4 t la:e British C onsu l at t h e Havannah, has cOnt' ,l 2‘ - f , reside there. H e h a d, sa id M . TORRENT°, Wig,' privet' of his functions as Consul, on the rertv° l " ot j ces of the Spani s h G overnment, b ut wa s - 1 " e 0 5,1 7 , at the Havannah as p ro t ec t or o f s l aves . U' 4 ' 1 0' 4 capacity he sought to exc i te t h e negroo; t ° .;pl l l against their own ers . Th e H o d oura El e 'A; indulged very freely i n remar k s aga i nst • the Government, which, he said, was anxious- t rebellion of th e s l aves , i n or d er t h at the tragic , 7 8 1 " Havannah might b e ru i ne d, a nd that it might 117.,i'reHit: monopoly of the su ppl y o f i ts ' own sugars in`-: markets. He concluded by calling upon the 4 , 1=1 ;1 Government to demand f ro th England the."',il Mr. •TURNBULL. The Pr es id ent o f th e OP- 1 ';`7, 0 10 Ministers, in reply, stated that he had alrettatt the the demand, and that if Mr. TURNBULL were ri g . moved by his own Go vernment , t h e au thor 1 " e ;0 1 ; Havannah would expel him from the island bY - oc dP i force, as the Spanish Ministry wou ld never i r t nise him in the office which had been conferreu him.• The Bill authorising the Government to '' sue sury bonds, to the amoun t o f 160 , 0 00,000 o f r adopted by th e S ena t e on t h e 21 st i nst., by a 111:113 of 78 to 2. Th e re i s n o ot h er news o f i ntere st ' l/ 00 i 1 journals.—A Madrid lett er o f t h e 2 1st a lludes 'I port of the failure of the eminent house of SO%e ,'!, Co., which has been talk e d o f a t t h e P ar is 13°11 „ . ,1( 1 the authority of mercantile letters from Madrid, Glares that it is utterly without foundation. 4 The debates in the French cs a Chamber of P e P L id Friday and Saturday were rather interesting. td e . cussion arose respecting the c on d uct o f the Cjov o. . i te o , in keeping Gen,:ral NEGRIEE in Africa, a fts ' 1. •:11 1:1 • generally known that he always walked about attcn the public executioner, and that he p u t wen to deatbf th out trial, after th e old T ur ki s h fashion %6i1 1 ; Pachas. Marshal SOULT excused himself 1 1,, d re grc li : despatches, showing that NEGRIER had aecluiT,43lo.' influence among the Arab tribes, and by contenulwel'r the reports were exaggerated, as the persons exe cLi r f i e i,:ter' d murderers. This was poor work for a French alt lain The system of fortifying Paris was next o° 4- fro' of, and an attempt made to extort a Pr° ll ', is e e j to ; 11 Ministers that no cannon would be P l° oc1 11 " . them save in case -of invasion. W hftt , 11 " rt: site si mp li c i ty ! Wh at were the w alls r'';ioos. but to m oun t guns to play upon the turbulent cijoci.i; The Parisians are the only enemies dreaded 11 co rd PHILIPPE. The Ministers declined to s a y 11' ti.4,,_ s ' '•1 %` t; ` , i ll x; t 4;,, 1, •S! 091 11 0 Q :q R ~V w n^ ~ M,JJ`w~ ~ e V~ ~~:. 01 :4 3 NI&