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THE LATE MASSACRE IN AFFGHANIS TAN, and SUBSCRIPTION in AID of the FAMI LIES of the SUFFERERS. Messrs. GRINDLAY, CHRISTIAN, and MATTHEWS, beg to announce that, as a preliminary measure, they have opened a Book at the East India Rooms, 8, St. Martin's-place, Charing-cross, for the enrollment of the names of parties desirous of contributing to a Fund for the Relief ef the Unfor testate Sufferers by the late Events in Affghanistan. The following appeal to the Indian community has been eir ealated by the desire of the Comrnander-in Chief in India, and fully explains the objects of the proposed fund, which, in the course of a few days, at two or three military stations, had amounted to upwards of 11,000 rupees. usba, " Head Quarters, Camp.Bussee K March 12, 1842. " There are few cases in which the Commanderin-Chief sanctions the circulation of pape.rs. for charitable subscriptions, withoet reluctance, feeling that individuals may make, donations who would not spontaneously do so, or may be hat - aced to give to their inconvenience. On the present occasion this feeling does not exist. The sufferings of our fellow-soldiers on the retreat from Cahoot, and the distresses their widows and fatherless children, will meet the sr:apathy of all, and the misery of those who have no claim upon Government for pay or pension, and many of the viidows will readily receive relief from those who can afford it. / " I am, therefore, desired,lrf his Excellency to circulate this paper, and to add that t..;e donations will be for the relief of such of our countrywomen as have either had husbands killed in the late disasters in Affghanistan, or whose husbands, being yet alive, are in the hands of the enemy ; or for their children ; also for the relief of all other persons, followers of the camp who have no claim upon the Government for pay or pension, to be left to the discretion of a committee. " The General Officer commanding the Siihind division will be requested to form a Committee at Kurnool, for inquiring into the cases of all applicants, and to distribute the funds; and branch committees will be formed at Peshawar, Ferozepore, and Loodianah, to carry the object of the fund into effect. " The subscribers at Futtehgurh and Delhi, and all other places, will he invited to co-operate with the Kurnool cora mitte, and transmit the funds subscribed for the purposes of being distributed by that Committee. (Signed) " JOHN LUARD, " Lieut.-Colonel, Military Secretary." The names of the members of the Committee now forming, and the Bankers who have consented to receive subscriptions, will be published next week. COMPANION TO THE LIVES NELSON OF COLLINGWOOD AND . Now ready, in 2 vo LIFEIs. Bvo., with Portrait, 'THE OF ADMIRAL VISCOUNT KEPPEL, FIRST LORD of the ADMIRALTY in 1782-3. By the Hon. and Rev. THOMAS KEPPEL. Henry C,olburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 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Harris an d Son are neither related to, nor in any way connected with a firm of the same name. • H IS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain. LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Are now Selling SHARES for the said DIS FRIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase may receive, PREVIOUS to giving any order, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICU LARS, up 'n addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION -contains 700 MONEY DIVIDENDS, as follows: lof £_5,000 l of £ 6OO sof £l2O 10 of £BO 1 ... 5,000 2 ... 400 5 ... 110 20 70 1 ... 1,500 2 ... 200 5 ... 100 43 ... 60 1 ... 1,000 3 ... 150 6 .•• 90 593 ... 50 1 ... 800 • STERLING, amounting together to £72,170. BRITISH STERLING MONEY. THEATRE-ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. THIS EVENING, MAY 24, The Perf irmances will commence with the Farce of THE BEE HIVE.— Mingle. Mr. Harley; Cicely, Mrs. Humby. After which, PICTURESQUE AND BEAUTIFUL.—Lorimer, Mr. Balker. To be followed by the favourite Farce, called A DAY WELL SPENT.—BoIt, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Mizzle, Mr. Oxberry Succeeded by the Fairy Ballet of LA SYLPHIDE.—DonaId, Mr. Gilbert; The Sylph. Miss Baffin. Io conduce with GIOVANNI IN LONDON.—Don Giovanni, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Leporella, Mr. Harley. Boxes, s.—Pit, is Doors open 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 Bally, at their Libraries ttOYAL SURREY THEATRE. Great overflows—The most splendid Novelties ever wit essed, with an immense outlay, and numbers beyond conception. THIS EVENING, MAY 24, Will bs presented a New Military and Equestrian Spectacle, enti tle I MDR AT— I'HE PEASANT, GENERAL, PRINCE, AND KING, with Rattles, Grand Reviews cf Horse and Foot, and gor geous Tableaux After whic!s, in a more extensive and splendid Arena than ever bctine witnessed, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing .B kTTY'S unrivalled Collection of Animals, consisting of nu. etott sand matchless Cream-coloured Horses, An ialusian Chargers, potted Coursers. Fairy Palfreys, and Pigmy Poneys, and the most cleated Vaulters, Riders, Gymnastics, and Contortionist. , in the kingdom. PONY RAC ES, eclip?ii.i; all formet efforts, and a rail Monkey, the only one trained as Racing Jockey. To conclude with the Orand Burlesque of NORI,,IA ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully informed that ON :MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, AND THU RsDAYs, GRAND FESTIVALS will be celebrated. in which will he embo. died all those popular , Entertainments that have given to this favou rite piace of recreadon its peculiar ciilebrity, with additions and in. trothictions, which it is confidently anticipa.cd will render them even more generally attractive. The MENAGERIE has been enriched by many valuable and im portant acquisitions in the classes of both Quadrupeds and Birds. The Colossal VIEW OF ROME has been repainted, and in some instances remodelled. The BAND will include soma of the most ern ne it Performers, conducted by Mr. Godfrey. The Programme of the PROMENADES M •JSICALES will be selected from the n oblest works of the great Masters. The ILLUMINATION of ST. PETER'S, the GIRANDOLA, the FLAM.NG rnESSEN. GER, the METEOR of ST.. PETER'S, and a Grand HYDRO PYRRHIC TABLEAU! The Gardens are open Daily from Ten till Dusk. The Evening Fetes, with the Promenades Mus.cales, Illumination of St. Peter's, Girandola of St. Angelo, &c., will be given on Mondays, Tuesdays, and 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. • THE WEATHER.—NooN, MAY 23. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer .... 59 1 Highest 65 1 Lowest 4( Barometer 29.00.—Wind S. =--- - HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. ►I >riling...—. 2 minutes after I i Evening ..... 56 minutes after I. All Advertisements of a Disgusting Character, or Immoral Tendency, aro excluded from the Columns of " The Sun." - r;'4 7 ' '`'. • - . . ii ~ c", „, • ._ ~ . , ...... . „ 4, , . • ri,.... ' ir 4 ,- ,41; sx.)- .114, I; , oL ....„,) , Ain :4119 10 . t,,,,, .4466,0,, t .‘, ~,,, xi i„ 4 11 .4;1::• i s mas ,2 1 Kirt V 4 ',, , _N' - .N. 0- :, -, , ~, • -L, -• :, , ..,... suit, ett LONDON! TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 24, 1842. To hear insincere men unwittingly do homage to so me great principl es w hi c h t h ey at o th er ti mes d e ny, is a great satisfaction. While it adds to our contempt for them, it establishe s the principles be yond the reach of controversy. By what fatality it was that Mr. GLADSTONE, the son of a Liverpool ship owner, got linked up last night with provisioning ships cheaply, and with the unfairn ess o f c l ogg i ng our shipping with he av y duties on their provisions, because they have to compete with the foreigner —as the case of the manuf ac t urer if that were not precisely who sends his cottons to the Brazils, where they meet the cotton of the United States and of Germany— by what secret, but unfortilnate, connection Mr. GLADSTONE,' one of the great champions of taxes on the people's food, last night became the advocate of provisioning ships cheaply, we do not care to inquire, but we record the fact with infinite satisfaction, and Can assure the Right Hon. Gentleman that every word he said in answer to Mr. CALLAGHAN, and in favour of allowing our bhipping to get cheap beef, was equally an answer to Mr. GLADSTONE himself, when he argued against allowing the manufacturers and consumers to have-cheap bread. Mr. GLADSTONE'S broad doctrine was that salted beef had become so dear in Ireland, and the laws for preventing ship owners from provisionin g their vessels on the plea of exporting foreign provisions was so inefficacious, that it was unjust to continue the restrictions, and there fore he resisted Mr. CALLAOHAN' s motion for levying a t ax on foreign salt beef, equivalent to the tai on living animals. Mr. COBDEN or Mr. VILLIERS could n ot have expounded the principles o f f ree - trade, on ) they ask for a total repeal of the Cora-laws , k kg Vf'4' a r "ied more broadly than did Mr. GLADSTONE, But those gentlemen, and the manufacturers of Manchester, will require to know why those principles are not to be applied to them as well as the more fortunate Liverpool shipowners. The inconsistency of our present insincere and dishonest Ministers is, on many occasions as well as on this, very remarkable. On the 15th of last month they strenuously resisted Mr. LABoucuzuz's pro posal to remove the duty which they have levied on flour imported into Canada. 'They stated explicitly that they did not impose this duty with any view to our own landed interest, or to impede the entrance of American flour through Canada into our markets. It was all to protect the consumers of Newfoundland. The spokesmen on that occasion were this very Mr. GLADSTONE, Lord STANLEY, and Sir ROBERT PEEL, and they said that the markets of Newfoundland were open to Canadian flour free of duty ; that the flour from the United States paid a duty ; that the flour from the United States, being the needed supply, would regulate the price of flour in Newfoundland ; and that the consequence of allowing flour to be imported free of duty into Canada would be, that the merchants of Canada would send it to Newfoundland, without allowing the con sumer there to have it one farthing cheaper than Ame rican flour, and they would put the duty, which was paid on the American flour, into their pockets. They rightly denominated this as most unfair, and most unjust. So it is. It is a monstrous thing to levy a tax on the American flour consumed in New foundland, and allow the Canadians to import United States flour into Newfoundland free of duty. The true remedy for the injustice, is to allow flour to he imported, equally free of duty, into Canada and Newfoundland. When Lord Howicx, however, applied the prin ciples which the Ministers applied to Newfoundland, without the smallest difference, to commodities im ported from Canada and other colonies into England, the Ministers resisted him most stoutly. Though they would on no account give the Canadian 2s. a barrel on flour imported into Newfoundland, they will give him 13s. or 155., as the case may be, on a quarter of wheat, Bs. per cwt. on cheese, 10s. 6d. per cwt. on bacon, 15s. on butter, 6s. on salted pork, and soon, imported into England, and levied here on the price of his articles, that price being raised by corresponding heavy duties on the produce of Holland. In the case of the consumers of Newfoundland, the Tories think honestly and justly, but, as the consumers in England may be plundered at discre tion, they refused to apply to them, on Lord Ho crimes motion, the principle they had insisted on applying to the consumers in Newfoundland on Mr. LABOUCHERE'S motion. That is only one other spe cimen of their dishonest inconsistency. 'We are, however, inclined to think that some part of the tenderness shown by Ministers to consumers in Newfoundland, and disregard of the consumers in England, arises from the fact that they look on the colonists as their protegees, and the people here as their masters. They favour the former therefore, as head servants will shower their kindness on a footboy or a kitchen wench, whilst they think it their duty, as members of the serving fraternity, to curb and plunder the latter all in their power. JOHN Bum . , has borne their exactions so like a careless, good natured master, that the habit of plundering him by laws has grown for them into a second nature ; and while they will not take a farthing from the bread-eaters of Newfoundland, they will, on any and every pretext, take pounds from the bread-eaters at home. They seem at length, however, to have come to the end of their tether. Their pretexts are now stifling one another. Their cunning devices have become so numerous, that one puts another to death. GLADSTONE 011 the tariff slays GLADSTONE on the Corn-laws ; PEEL, the free trader, puts an end to PEEL the bread taxer ; and we live in hope that, before the Session is over, we shall have the satisfaction of seeing the first speeches of these insincere and dishonest politicians completely refuted by their last speeches. In common with many of our Contemporaries, we rejoice at the little good, though it be but very little, which these men are constrained, in spite of themselves, to perform ; but we never can entertain any other sentiment than the most thorough contempt for such inconsistent, heartless gamblers with a nation's welfare. A return of the total amount of taxes levied in some of the different States of Europe, &c., just published by the House of Commons, enables us to lay before our readers a comparison of the taxes levied in Eng land and in one or two other countries. In Denmark the whole amount of taxation, general and local, is 18,160,000 rix dollars, paid by 2,020,000 people, and, taking the rix dollar at 2s. 2d., it gives about 19s. per head. The whole taxation of Sweden is 1,335,5871., its population, with Norway, is about 4,106,000, giving, as the rate of taxation, 6s. 6d. per head. This sum, mirabile dictu, includes all the payments for the churches and for the clergy. The taxes in the Netherlands—the most heavily taxed country of Europe—exclusive of the municipal taxes of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, amount to 5,368,8741., the population being 2,960,000. rate per head is 11.165. _ The whole taxation of France is 46,425,7251., which, on a population of 33,540,000, gives a rate of 1/. 7s. per head. The amount of taxation in Russia is not given in the returns, but it appears to be very small, and Prussia is not mentioned. We pas by the smaller States, as not affording any ground for comparison with this great empire, and come to England. The general ordinary taxation of England, ac cording to the financial accounts for the year, in- eluding the cost of collection; amounted for the last year •to 53,596,2501. The lccal taxation, county rates, poor rates, &c., amounted last year to 6,351,8281.—[5ee Parliamentary Return, No. Hay, 1842]—making .a total of 59,948,078/. Tills is exclusive. of the enormous tax we pay for the support of the Church (the expense of the Church in France is included in the taxation); it is also ex elusive of Sewers-rates (the expense of keeping up the dil.:es is included in the Netherlands taxation); Water-rates, Church-rates, London tax on coals, Borough-rates, and several other municipal vexatious imposts ; it is exclusive of the Poor-rate and Police rate in Ireland, and exclusive of the sum devoted to the poor in Scotland, all of which, or corresponding items, are, we believe, included in the taxes of the foreign countries we have referred to. But, ex cluding all these heavy drains on our incrust. y, and taking only the public and the' local taxes at 59,948,0781., and assuming that the population is in . i•ound . nuinhers 28;000,000, than will give 2!. 2s. sd. per head as the annual rate of taxation, in England. Of . course we do not include Sir R. PEEL'S new taxation, which will add pretty nearly 3s. ahead more. As the matter now stands, there fore, the English are by far the heaviest taxed people in Europe. They pay the most, if Government be good for anything, for the least efficient adminis tration of their affairs. But to these enormous burdens—and most enor mous they are—which are all-borne by industry, fcr every farthing of the annual income of the country is annually created and annually consumed, and it is all created •by industry—must be added the taxes on corn and provisions, and other protecting duties, as well as the descriminating duties on tim ber, coffee, sugar, &c. &c. But excluding these, our people are seven times as heavily taxed as the Swedes, three times as heavily taxed as the Danes, nearly twice as heavily taxed as the French, and one time and a quarter more heavily taxed than the heaviest taxed people of Europe. But, as we have indicated, the comparison is not accurate ; for many of our local taxes are excluded, and thei:•'s are in cluded. Thus England, we repeat, is by far the hea viest taxed country in Europe, with a Government which does the least. The heavy general taxation has been assigned as a plea for taxing the people's bread. To this notable artrument, which is not now for the first time in vented, Dr. SMITH, in the "Wealth of Nations," long ago returned this memorable answer : Taxes upon the necessaries of life have nearly the same effect upon the circumstances of the people as a poor soil and a bad climate. Provisions are thereby rendered dearer, in the same manner as if it required extraordi nary labour and expense to raise them. As in the na tural scarcity arising from soil and climate it would be absurd to direct the people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals and industry, so it is likewise in the artificial scarcity arising from such taxes. To be left to accommodate as well as they could their industry to their situation, and to find out those employments in which, notwithstanding their unfavourable circum- P THE SUN, LON stances, they might have some advantage , either in the home or in the foreign market, is what in both cases would evidently be most to their advantage. To lay a new tax upon them because they are already overburdened with taxes, an*because they already pay too dear for _the necessaries of life, to make them likewise pay too dear fur the greater part of other commodities, is certainly a most absurd way of making amends. Such taxes, when they have grown up to a certain height, are a curse equal to the barrenness of the earth and the inclemency of the Heavens, and yet it is in the richest and most industrious of countries that they have been most generally imposed. No other countries could support so great a disorder. As the strongest bodies can only live and enjoy health under an unwholesome regimen, so the nations only, that in every sort of industry have the greatest natural and au quired advantages, can subsist and prosper under such taxes. Holland is the country in Europe in which they abound most, and which, from peculiar circumstances, continues to prosper, not by means of these, as has been most absurdly supposed, but in spite of them. England, as we have just shown by the compari son, has, since Dr. SMITH'S time, taken the lead of Holland in this ruinous career, and now far surpasses it in the amount of taxes levied on the people. In' spite, however, of the warnings and admonitions of Dr. SMITH, Sir ROBERT PEEL is pursuing his dis tempered course of adding to the national burdens, mocking us with a pretended relief, while the cause of our distress is excessive taxation. We may, like other criminals, flatter ourselves that we shall always escape, but the whole course of human experience proves that this is a delusion, and that punishment of an appropriate kind as assuredly waits on the folly and the guilt of nations and individuals as water flows from a higher to a lower level. When we read pas sages like that we have quoted from the great teacher of the best social science, pregnant with wisdom, and know that he never hesitated to denounce legislative meddling with "the employment of stock and indus try in the way the people judge most advantageous to themselves, as a manifest violation of the most sacred rights of mankind," we can but mourn over the degradation of this noble science in the hands of those who seem to us to have undertaken to expound without comprehending it. Satur's science never formed, perhaps, a part of the popular knowledge—it never was really in grafted into the hearts of the people, and became part of their being, and we cannot on that account believe that society has retrograded concerning it. On the contrary, society has made on this point prodigious advances, and whatever may be the case with the Legislature, has gone ahead even of Dr. SMITH. At the same time, it is apparent that the strict verbal logic of MILL, the arithmetical precision and pro portions of RICARDO, and the mere statistics of Mr. M'CULLOCII have degraded the noble social science, to which SMITH, be it remarked, gave a more signifi cant name than political economy, to the level of their own much humbler pursuits. He is a contemplative philosopher who essays, however short coming may be his efforts, to grasp the whole phenomena of sta ciety, and detect the natural laws which determine its progress and its welfare ; they are engaged with a pedantic verbal logic, which never gets beyond its assumptions, with the calculations of a loan contractor, who can see nothing but a balance of profit and loss, and with masses of details, which bury the under standing under a load of profitable books. In his hands, therefore, the science , of national wealth was a guide to nations ; in theirs, it seems degraded into the handmaid of political tricksters, and would-be despots. We regret to see by letters from Hamburgh, that her MAJESTY'S subscription for that devoted city, which is strictly a personal subscription, and comes from her privy purse, is spoken of slightingly and dis paragingly. It is compared to the more magnificent Subscription of the Emperor of RUSSIA of 9,0001., and regarded, therefore, as unworthy of England's QUEEN. We must remind the inhabitants of Ham burgh that the Emperor of RUSSIA'S gift is as the head of the Government, that of her MAJESTY is a gift from a private person. The British Government can give nothing but by a vote of Parliament, and, in the present condition of our own .people, that is not to be recommended. The EMPEROR neeC.:l no such sanction. The great distinction, therefor::, between the two sums is that the 9,0001. sent by the Russian EMPEROR is the',gift of the Government of Russia—her MAJESTY'S gift is that of a private, but enalted, person. Let us further observe, • that Russia will probabiy. not contribute much more by its merchants 17.n , 1 citizens, while England - has already subscribes not less CIL:, twenty thous-and pounds, and probably double, or p.:::rhapsfiye times that amount will he collected. We trust that by thee - fevrtemarits have placed her MAJESTY'S subscription, as compared to that of the Emperor of RUSSIA, in a proper light before the citizens of Hamburgh. Her MAJESTY, in ' stead of disapprobation, deServes great praise for her prompt and spontaneous contribution. However dark the doings, under the illegal operation of.' the truck system, which Mr. FERRAND'S Committce may bring to light, they will not tell stronger agair.3t the manufacturers that the Report of the Commissiono:s of Inquiry, as to the condition of the poor people in the mining districts, does against the great landed aristocracy. The very opening of this huge record of aristocratical oI:- pression is enough to make any man shudder whose heart avarice or dissipation has not ossikied. _ . which way we may, there is not a ray of hope to comfoi.t us in wading throught this terrific folio. We find old young, married and single, male and female, indifZerently in these districts,—without education, without religion, without morals, without even a knowledge of the exist ence of GOD, or a belief in a future state, toiling like beasts, and revelling every leisure hour -in the grossest sensuality. While tls_e children of Lord LONDONDE3aY and Lord LONSDALE have troops of menials to wait u9on and carets them, while they are provided with horses exercise and amusement, and the ornaments of the Un: versities for their instruction, mark how the child of the poor collier upon their estates is " dragged" up to a precocious manhood. What say the aglicultural abhorrers of manufacturing tyranny to the followinf; graphic description of the life of the little " Trapper," which vie extract from Dr. MITCHELL'S Report ? The child has been three years tit ork, be it remembered , for his father cerried him to the mine at five years old.— The little trapper of eight years of age lies quiet in bed. The labours of the preceding day had procured sleep. It is now between two and three in the morning, and his mother shakes him, and desires him to rise, and tells him that his father has an hour ago gone off to the pit. Instant he starts into conscious existence. He turns on his side, rubs his eyes, and gets up, and comes to the blazing fire, and puts on bis clothes. His coffee, such as it is, stands by the side of the fire, and bread is laid down for hies. The fortnight is now welladvanced, themoney all spent, and butter, bacon, and other luxurious accompani ments of bread are net to be bad at breakfast till next pay-day supplies the' means. He *en fills his tin bottle with coffee, ant takei a lump of bread, and sets out for the pit, into which he goes down in the cage, and walking along the horsewty for upwards of a mile, he reaches thebarrow-way, over whinh the young men and boys push the trams with the tubs on rails to the fiats, where the barrow-way and horse-way meet, and where the tubs are transferred to rolleys, or caxriagesdrawn by horses. He knows his place of work. It is inside one of the doors called trap-doors, which is in the barrow-way, for the purpose of forcing the stream of air, which passes in its long, many-wiled course from the down shaft to the up-shaft of the pit ; but which door must be opened whenever men or boys, with or without carriages, may wish to pass through. He seats himself in a little hole, about the size of a common fire-place, and with the string in his hand ; and all his work is to pull that string when he has to open the door, , and when man or boy has passed through, then to allow_ the door to shut of itself. Here it it is his duty to sit, and be attentive, and pull his string promptly as any one approaches. He may not stir above a dozen steps with safety from his charge, lest he should he found neglecting his duty, and suffer for the same. He sits solitary by himself, and has no one to talk to him ; for in the pit the whole of the people, men and boys, are as busy as if they were in a sea-fight. He, however, sees every now and then the putters urgin g f orwar d their t ra ms through his gate, and derives some consolation from the glimmer of the little candle of about forty to the pound, which is fixed on their trams. For he himself has no light. His hours, except at such times. are passed in total darkness. For the first week of his service in the pit his father had allowed him candles to light one after another, but the expense of three halfpence a-day was so extravagant an expenditure o ut of tenpence, th e boy's daily wages, that his father. of course, withdrew the allowance the second week, all except , one or two candle s him, seated in darkness in the morning, and the wee k after the 'mance was alto gether taken away ; and now , exce p t a neighbour kinder than his father now and then drop him a candle as he p asses, the boy has no light of his own. hours own. Thus hour afte r hour passes i a n w - ay, nothing of the ascending or descen din g s u n. Hun g er, however, though silent and unseen, acts up o n him, aandbe ale but bnwe what ls nf are the F r a s rth to ? He knows he be takes to his bottle of coffee and slice of bread ; and, if desirous, he may have the luxury of softening it in a portion of the water in the pit, which is brought for man and beas t. In this state of sepulchral existence an insidious enemy gains upon him. His eyes are shut, and his ears fail to announce the approach of a tram. A deputy overman comes along, and a smart cut of his yard-wand at once punishes the culprit, and recalls him to his duty ; and happy was it for him that' he fell into the hands of :he deputy overman , rather than one of the putters : for his fist would have inflicted a severer pain. The deputy overman, moreover, consoles him by telling him it was for his good that he had punished him ; and reminds him of boys, well known to both, who, when asleep, had fallen down, and some had been severely wounded, and others killed. The little trapper believes that he is to blame, and makes no complaint, for he dreads being dis ' charged; and he knows that his discharge would be attended with the loss of wages, and bring' upon- him the intligea- I lion of his father, more terrible to endure than the mo t mentary vengeance of the deputy and the putters all taken together. Such is the day-work of the little trap per in the barrow-way. At last the joyful sound of " Loose, loose," reaches his ears. The news of its being four o'clock, and of the order " Loose, loose," having been shouted down the shaft, is, by systematic arrangement, sent for many miles in all directions, round the farthest extremities of the pit. The trapper waits till the last putter passes with his tram, and then he follows, and pursues his journey to the foot of the shaft, and takes an opportunity of getting into the cage and going up when he can. The General Assembly met at Edinburgh, on Thurs day, when the Marquis of BuTE sat for the first time as Lord High Commissioner, and Dr. WELSH, Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University, was appointed Moderator. The proceedings were not of much impor tance, but they sufficiently displayed the spirit which prevails among the majority of the Members on the long agitated question of Church Patronage. Two re turns were given in from the Presbytery of Strath bogie, one containing the names of three members chosen by the deposed ministers who form the majority, and the other the same number chosen by the minority. Some discussion took place, anti a division followed, when the members elected by the former were rejected by a majority of 130. The speeches made by the leaders of the Non-Intrusionists must give the public a very un favourable idea of the solemnity with which affairs are conducted in that reverend Assembly. One speaker said the dignity of that House would have been less in sulted by a commission from seven scavengers or tinkers, than from the seven men who had been deposed. This excited great laughter. Dr. CHALMERS made a warlike speech on the occasion, in which he maintained to the utmost the high prerogatives of the Church, and talked loudly against the enemies of the Church. " The proposition," said he, " discovers to what a fearful extent of anarchy and disorder the enemy within (meaning, of course, Dr. Coot( and his party) — whether, by the instigation and encouragement of the enemy without (meaning Lord ABERDEEN and Sir JAMES GRAHAM), he could not say—are resolved to plunge the Church of Scotland." This, he asserted, was making " a farce" of the As sembly, and presented a strange contrast with the mighty notes of preparation, and the " pealing of clarionets" with which the Reverend Fathers bad been ushered into the House. There can be no doubt, therefore. as to the result of the ' debate on patronage, which was fixed for yesterday; and t Sir JAMES GRAHAM will therefore be saved the trouble of introducing a Bill to heal the divisions in the Scotch Church. The Non-Intrusionists are determined to maintain their privileges, and, as hitherto, set the law of the land at defiance. It is melancholy to witness pro ceedings like these, which must end either in the seces sion from the Church of a large number of her members, or in the destruction of the most useful ecclesiastical establishment that ever existed. M. Guazow is a man of high moral courage. The French Chamber of Peers and Chamber of Depu ties have both been for months trying to hunt him down upon the Right of Search Question, but all the wounds received during the conflict are exhibited by his noble and honourable assailants. Amid shouts of disapprobation he told the Chamber of Deputies on Friday that France was morally bound to sign the treaty, although he would not be the instrument for compelling her to do so. He would not ratify the treaty inasmuch as public opinion was against it, but that did not diminish the moral obligation of France to erform a duty which she was the first to propose to herself and others. M. DE LAMARTINE was the only supporter of the Minister for Foreign Affidrs. M. THIERS made a curious speech. He admitted that he was not opposed to the exercise of a Right of Search by any power but England. He hated slavery much, but he hated England more. The ex-Minister put forward a pretended excuse for this hatred, and kept back the real one. He said, that England had insulted France, when a regard for strict truth would have compelled him to substitute for that assertion, the admission that Lord PALMERSTON'S superior statesmanship, and Commodore Sir CHARLES NAPIER'S headlong valour had driven him out of the Cabinet. We quote an extract from the ex- President of the Council, and ex-Minister for Foreign Affair's speech : He had, he said, been reproached with not being favourable to the suppression of the slave-trade, but this was a calumny. When he joined the Cabinet of the 11th of October, the treaty of 1831 was made. When he came to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he found the treaties of 1831 and 1833 signed ; he exe cuted them faithfully, and he defied any one, however hostile he might be to the principle of the right of search, on arriving to power in presence of treaties already signed, not to execute them. As long as certain parties had not acceded to the treaty it was comparatively of no avail, for the traffic might be carried or under the flag of those non-acceding countries—under those of Spain and Portugal for instance ; he had procured the accession of Spain, and the Mole Ministry had after wards obtained that of Tuscany and Sweden. England pro fited by the difficulty of these accessions to propose a ni-w treaty, in which those concessions were inserted which it was now regretted had been granted to her. „,He had no part whatever in the position which France had assumed with re gard to the treaty of 1841. In 1839, M. Guizot, then Ambas- I sador to the Court of London, wrote to inform him that a meeting I had taken place at the Foreign-office, at which was introduced on the tapir, the protocol of IR:AA, the frosty 1841. His (M. Thiers's) reply to this information was, that he was repugnant in the then situation of Lffairs to sign a treaty with a Power which had just acted towards France as Great Britain had done. This, he said, was the part he took in the treaty of 1841, and he would repeat, that after the treaty of July 15, he could not comprehend the enormous concession which had been made to England. Hatred of England, then, is really what prevents M. THIERS from supporting M. GuizoT. Jealousy of England actuates the Chambers in opposing the treaty. We cannot remove this jealousy of our country. Let us seek to prove that it is unmerited. As a partial exercise of a Right of Search can not but give zest to the slave trade, the best thing we can do, is to recal our cruisers froM the coast o Africa, where they can now do nothing, save putting the country to an enormous expense. The pirates of every nation—and there are abundance of such pirates in moral England—will, under the protection of the flags of the United States and France, carry on the slave trade more briskly and openly than they did during the last quarter of a century. To insult the political and outrage the moral feelings of this country all who have a spite at us will be sure to lend a helping hand to the slave trade. Instead, therefore, of bettering we will only increase the sufferings of the kid napped AfriCaus by our expensive but futile attempts to accomplish what we now know to be impossible. Nearly all the articles' in the Paris Journals received this morning are upon the debates in th Chambers upon the Right of Search Question. This question is now brought forward by the Opposition to embarrass the Go vernment at the ensuing election. It is a clap-trap, and promises to answer the purposes of one exceedingly well. The late frightful railway accident in France has turned the attention of scientific men to the discovery of the means o f preventing such awful occurrences. Various plans are, therefore, daily suggested, which from time to time we shall publish, for the benefit of British engineers, and the probable safety of English railway travellers. BOURSE--PAnis, SA.TURpt.Y, MAY 21. i net Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price Pric e . Wrench 5 per 119 55 119 55 ... 19 40 ... 1W 45 3 per Cents .....« Bl 90 . 81 80 ... 151 75 ... 81 75 'lank of 336 Lattitte Sank I.ooof. Slings! 1045 ...104E5 .1045 ...1C450 5,000 f. Shares 50 4 0 . 5060 ...5060 Belgian Sank ............. 790 ... 796 •.. 790 ... 795 18 1 1 Belgian 5 per Cent s 103% 113% ... 103% .. 103% 3 verCent,., 1840 lO5 105% ... 10 X) ... 105% Neapolitan Roman RAILWAY SHARES Versailles. R. P. L.B lti7 W ... 167 50 16 leo Rouen ..... Orleans Stiasburg to Bale ' SIS ... 215 ... 233 75 ... 233 75 A NIGHTINGALE IN LINCOLN'S INN-FIELDS.—On Fri day morning last, a gentleman, on passing Lincoln's nn fields, heard, to his great astonishment, a nightingale singing lustily among the trees and shrubs in the square! It is seldom that this bird is heard singing by day, at least in England ; and never before, we believe, did it venture to select such a locality for its musical perform ances. It is fortunate that no attorney happened to hear it, for his keen professional instinct would instantly have induced him to enter an action of trespass against it, with a view of obtaining heavy damages ! Count Mensdorff and his sons arrived r.,t Buckingham Palate yesterday from the Continent, on a visit to her Majesty. rish of Wisborough-green, ______------ of a labourin g man res idi n g at New Pou nd-common, in the p a- BELLIN GSHURST .—A woman na.tned B uns, the wife being unabl e t o a cc o unt for her indisp osition, su pp osed, as did woman of about forty ea rs of age , having bee n i l l for a lon g time, and her neighbou rs a l so , th a t she was be w itched , and lookin g said to be a very about them f or th e caus e of the evil , their suspicio ns fell on a de cent, inoffensi ve creature y ; this idea had been entertained for a long time, a n d many sc h e mes were put into operation to destroy her influence, but ail had failed up to the latter end of la s t A p ril; when by some moans they became possessed with tke notion that if they got some pigeons and burned t hem alive, keeping every part of the room stopped up close, and not .speaking while the ope ration was going on. they would effectually destroy the wiicb's power. I n or d er t o re duce this schem e to p ra c ti ce , th e y pro cured pigeons and tied them in pair s back to back by their wings and li g ht e d a l arge fire, and stopped up the room as close as possible ; soma of the poor pigeo ns the y o p ened at the breast in ord er that the fire might burn their hearts while alive. How neighbour st a t e th at h e hi m self burned four , and he thought many were burned the writer cannot sa y , but he heard a they should have destroyed the witch if the house had'been closer. It is supposed by the neighbours that from a dozen to sixteen pigeons were destroyed in this cruel manner.—Sussex Express, • ROBBERY AT THE ExECUTlON.—Amongst other robberies eornmitted at the execution was that of a young female who had been standing in the crowd in Giltspur-street, who had her pocket cut, and the money she had in it stolen. On getting out of the crowd she felt the blood trickling down her side, and, on examination, it was found that the first at tempt had failed, her clothes having been cut through and a wound inflicted in her side. She had several friends with her at the time. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND public Opt Mon. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. With one or two exceptions, and those altogether un importaut, the leading articles of the Paris Journals are all on the discussion in the Chamber of Deputies, re lative to the non-ratification of the treaty for the Right of Search. We have already given so much from the columns of the Opposition Journals on this subject, that we will now merely state that all the arguments against ratification, and all the abuse of M. Guizot for having entered into the treaty , are on this occasion, and probably not for the last time, repeated. The Toulonnais of the 17th instant states, that it was re ported in Algiers, that General Belleau had defeated the army of the Emperor of Morocco, with the loss of 300 killed, and a great number of prisoners. We have received advices from Madrid to the 15th instant, which reached Paris on Saturday by special courier, but their contents are principally confined to lengthy details of the grand dinner which was given on that day by the Regent to the In fante Don Francisco de Paulo. The,Ministers of State, the Presidents, the Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of the Senate and of the Chamber of Deputies, the Members of the Corps Diplomatique, the Captain-General, the Political Chief of Madrid, the Commandants of the National Guard, and the Municipal Authorities, were among the distinguished company present. Senor Arguelles, as the Queen's guardian ; Senors Cortina and Gamboa, of the Regency Ministry; and Senor Olozaga, as an intimate friend of the Regent, received special invitations. The Corresponsal has the following :—" The Bill relative to the capitalization which was laid before the Chamber by the Minister of Finance, at its sitting of the Ilth, is thus worded — "G Art. 1. The Treasury Bonds which have been issued in payment of the six months' dividend of the interest of the fo. reign debt which expired on the Ist of November, 1536, will be received for capitalization according to the decree of the Provisional Regency of the 21st January, 1840. " ' Art. 2. The interest of the capital represented by the said bonds will be increased at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum from the Ist of November, 1836, to the 31st of 1)e- cember, 1840.' " It was rumoured in the financial circles of Madrid that the Government contemplated to issue a new loan, bearing interest at 3 per cent. to the amount of 1,500,000.000 reals. Govern ment proposed receiving in payment of it 1,000,000,000 reals of existing securities (5 per cents. ), and 100,000,000 in specie, and provides out of the proceeds for the payment of the divi dends down to the month of June, 1843. The Government would moreover deposit iu the bank of San Fernando 160,000,000 reals, guaranteed by the revenues derived from tobacco and quicksilver, and bills on the Government of Cuba and Porto Rico, in order to secure the payment of the subse quent dividends to the 30th of June, 1845, inclusive. A letter from Berlin, 13th inst., in the Augsburg Gazette, states that M. de Rochow will continue to act as Minister cf the Interior until the Ist July, when Count d'Arnim will com mence his functions. This letter mentions a report that the King of Prussia has offered to lend a million of crowns to the city of Hamburg for three years, without interest. M. Pateot and his lady, according, to announcement in the Berlin Journals, had arrived in that city, Query— Is the worthy gentleman still beating about the bush, respecting the marriage of the young Queen of Spain? PARLIELAIENTARY. The Lords sat for only a short time, and received a few petitions. Lord Campbell inquired if it were necessary to sanction by law locking passengers up in railway carriages; but the Lord Chancellor, who said that he had be n locked up in one yesterday, as well as his Noble Friend, could nut answer the question. In the Commons, after the presentation of numerous petitions, Mr. Rushbrooke moved that a new writ be issued for Ipswich. Mr. Wynn opposed the motion, and after 'a short debate it was settled that the Right Hon. Gentleman should, on Thursday, move a resolution in structing the .attorney-General to prosecute those per sons who are accused of bribery, and till that period the issue of the writ should be suspended. On the motion for going into a Committee on the Cus tom's Act—the Tariff—Mr. Callaghan moved a re solution which went to impose a heavier duty than is now proposed on salted meat, but after a brief, though not uninstructive debate, withdrew his motion. On the House going into Committee, Mr. Miles moved his resolution that the tax on cattle be levied by their weight, and not by the head. The debate which ensued was dull, though pregnant with more proofs of the in consistencies' of the Ministers. Mr. Gladstone again advocated cheapness, and proved that the distress of the people required relief. Sir Robert Peel laboured most assiduously to calm the fears of his followers, and con vince them that the people would get no benefit from the reductions he proposed. Lord John Russell taunted the Ministers with their inconsistencies, and pointed out that their arguments in favour of cheapness were appli cable to corn as well as cattle. Mr. Villiers took a similar view, and reproached the Gentlemen on. the Ministerial side with thinking of nothing but how to keep up their rents. This produced a great explosion in a House that, through the whole even ing, was not remarkable for silence and attention, and the last half hour of the debate was passed amidst noise much like the bell, te ing of the cattle which were under discussion. At half-past twelve o'clock the Committee divided, and Mr. Miles' motion was lost by 113 to 318. The first four items of the tariff, as far as oxen and bulls, were agreed to. On oxen and hulls Major Vivian has an amendment ; the House therefore resumed, the Chair man reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again. The House adjourned at a Quarter past One o'Clock. • PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Herald insists on the nece,sity of Mr. Roe buck's Committee not being limited in their inquiries, observ ing :—" Mr. Roebuck's Committee, at first an object, in cer tain interested quarters, of poorly affected ridicule, is now looked on with well-grounded apprehensions; and the motion of Sir John Walsh to restrict its investigations to the fact of compromise is warmly supported—the Honourable .Baronet himself, is, however, roundly and rudely censured, because he did not attempt to carry his limitation on Friday night. There is something miserably selfish. and ridiculously mean in this ' opposition, which, though speciously obscured, cannot deceive any one. The corruption and bribery which disgraced the last Nottingham election must be concealed, no matter at what cost of principle or sacrifice of purity; that concealment is an object before which troth vanishes and honesty disappears. Nottingham must. be screened, thought the Constitution suffer, and the House of Commons be disgraced in public estimation. We are, however, very much mistaken if the House will con sent to any such limitation of the Committee's inquiries. If it do, then was the Committee appointed for no good purpose, and the House will stultify itself, and trifle with its own character and the purity of election." The Times remarks, in an article suggested by M. Guizot's speech on the Right of Search question The inference to be drawn from the present conduct of France and America on this subject is of more importance tit:in the occasion of it. It is henceforth clear, that in deMocratic communities, where public opinion, misdirected by a profligate press, invests the prejudices of the people with a paramount authority over the diplomatic rela , ions of the State, the faith of the most honest statesman, and the conclusions of the most enlightened, will at any time be broken and set at nought by a forced compliance with popular clamour. In the judgment of mankind and of history, it is less shameful for a nation to keep an ignominious treaty, than to violate an honourable one ; and in the annals of diplomacy, there is no one convention which it is so irra tional and dishonourable to evade, as that which has given rise to this discussion, since it is a convention in which no party to it has any selfish object to accomplish. Personally, M. Guizot is less to be blamed than ttio , e who have allowed the tide of public feeling to turn them against him on this sub ject; but what are we to think of a state of society which im poses on a Minister the sacrifice of his own convictions and of the good faith of the country ?" The Chronicle contains the following remarks :—" The more that transpires of the feelings and movements of the Tories, the more we are inclined to believe that a large number of them will take part in the rebellion of Miles. Some will do this without regard to consequences. But the greater part will not, in shaping their conduct in this matter, overlook the interests of their party. They know that their defection will be more than supplied by Liberal votes for the tariff. They will give a safe vote against the Minister; and without damaging him or their own interest at the Treasury, will play off another trick in addition to the many by which they have already de luded their rustic constituents. The Minister himself will look with iadulgence on a hosti'e vote given by his supporters in order to retain their seats. We hear some surmises that the forces of the discontented Tories may on this occasion be swelled by some accession of Liberal country gentlemen. We do not believe that to any great extent they will. A few Liberals may vote against the tariff, a few stay away ; but the otal number will be small. We trust, however, that the better thinking mass of the Liberal party w ill attend in force." The Post says :—" A Whig-Radical Member of the House of Commons has given notice of his intention to move for leave to bring in a Bill for the abolition of Church-rates. Of , tourse this is only a little bit of agitation.' The respectable senator who proposes to bring in the Bill is shrewd enough to snow that he wilt never either set the Thames on fire or carry any such Bill. But his name may be mentioned in connection with the agitation of the Church-rate question, and that will answer his purpose. We do not complain that the subject of Church-rates is to be brought under the notice of Parliament. We should prefer that a ConServative Member had brought it forward, but if the beginning is with the other side, that is no reason why the Conservative Menibers of the House should net do what is right when they have the subject before them." The Advertiser strenuously advocates a further Parliamen tary Reform, and adds :—" Events hate now fully established the fact that the Whig Reform Act has by no means fulfilled its object. It has introduced more corruption into the people's House than has been known from the days of Walpole ; in stead of answering expectation it has blighted every hope formed of it, and has emphatically proved itself to be a means of assailment of the popular rights, immeasurably more than of their protection. Probably, never before the period of Mr. Duncombe's bold confession, did it occur for a Member of the House of Commons openly to declare that he gained his seat in that Assembly by the disbursement of so much gold. Not that the Honourable self. incuipator is to be deemed the worse for his daring disclosure ; but taken as an index of public circumstances, and of the Constitution as it exists in these times, what opinion is to be entertained of that mea sure of Parliamentary Reform under whose sanction st.ch an avowal is made—such undeniable abuses perpetrated? It is only likely that if the whole of our Parliamentary annals were cited, there would be nothing exhibited equal to the corruption f the present period." STATISTICS. The number of associations established in Great Britain at present for the circulation of the Scripttaes is 2,228; in Ire land, 550 ; Continental Europe, 1.500 ; Asia, 8:3 ; Africa. 16; America, 2,800 ; Australia, 17 ; and the West Indies, 226, 69 of the last beicg con ucted by freed negrocs. ELECTIONEERING. The inquiry into the contested election for the county of Cork concluded on Saturday, when the sitting Members, Mr. O'Connell and Sir. E. Roche, were .affirtned to have been duly elected. NAVAL ND MILITARY. Prince George of Cambridge, on taking his farewell of the 12th Lancers, in which he served three years, entertained the entire regiment at dinner, and made presents of money to the troops, women, and children. IIAW AND PO LICE, Another murder has taken place at Neriagh, on the person of Michael Laffan, whose business was to summon trespassers on the Bowen estate. The Lords Juoices have proclaimed a reward of tool, for the discovery of the perpetrators. Mr. Charles Matthews, the late manager of Covent-garden Theatre, was discharged from the Que , n's Bench Prison on Saturday, till the .9th of next June, the day appointed for his hearing. His two sureties were Mr. Levy, wine-merchant, of Norf.lk-street, Strand, and Mr. Bernarno Goldshede, of No. 95, Piccadilly, for the amount of 5,0001. FIZIE The colossal equestrian statue of George 111, in Windsor Park, executed by Sir Richard Wesimacott in 1831, is about to he cleansed and rebronzed, under the superintencencc of that architect. LITERARY AND scirmnric. The British Association held their meeting this year at Man. eester, on the 23d of June. The general Committee for the section of officers commences on the day preceding. SPORTING. The Chantilly races commenced at Paris last Thursday. The Derby, or 7,000 francs plate. was to be run for on Sunday. Epsom races begin to-day. 62 Derby horses, with their riders, have already arrived or are expected at the course. COITZT-F.A.SIIXOISTAI ME. Count and Countess Bapt ste Metaxa's dinner-party will take place on the 31st instant, in Bryanston-square. The Marquis of Northampton left town on Saturday for Castle-Ashby, Northamptonshire. The i,arehiness di Sala, Lady Strachan, arrived at Mi vart's Hotel on Saturday last, from Naples. The Earl and Countess of Zetland had a dinner-party on Saturday last, in Arlington-street. We hear that the Bishop of Lichfield continues in such a state of health that his recovery is considered to be almost hopeless. MONEY and COMMERCIAL N'ES'S• CITY, MONDAY EVENING. The Money Market has been completely inactive to-day, and from the small number and amount of bar gains, prices quoted must be considered but little more than nominal, although the various securities are firm, and, since the reduction in the rate of interest on Ex chequer Bills has been made known, have a decidedly upward tendency. Consols closed at 921 924 for Money, and for the Account ; Bank Stock, 167 168; India Stock, 249 251 ; Exchequer Bills, old, 37 39, advertised 33 35 premium. The Foreign Securities were—Belgian, 102 103 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52. : ; : 53 ; the Five per Cents., 101 10 1 k ; Danish, 80 813 ; Brazilian, 67 68 ; and Chilian, 88 92. The quotation of Mexican was 36i for Money, and 36 3 7 -, for the Account. The other Bonds were quoted— Colombian, 26i 27 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 37 37,i; and Spanish Five per Cents., 22i 23 ; and the Three per Cents., 22,-3. 23*. The meeting of the Bondholders of the latter State took place to-day, and Senor Rosales, on behalf of the Government, proposed that the arrears of interest, now ' amounting to 81 per cent., should be converted into a Three per Cent. Stock, the first payment on which is to commence in 1847 ;• that a sinking fund of nearly 20,000/. per annum should be established, and that the foreign holders should have the option of changing the new into local stock, payable at St. Jago de Chili, re ceiving a bonus of 10 per cent. for the difference of ex change. These propositions, so nearly approaching the demands of the creditors, the only difference being one year as to the time of paying, i. e., whether in 1.846 or 1847, and the unsolicited offer of the sinking fund, and optional conversion, were unanimously adopted by the Committee, and are to be laid before a General Meeting of the Bondholders on Friday next for their approval or rejection. London and Birmingham Railway Shares were 180 182 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 52 54 ; Great Western, 92 93, the Half Stares, 64 6-11 ; South Western, 631 64 ; Gosport. 63i- 64 ; North . Midland, 66 68, the New Shares, 32 331; South Eastern and Dover, 291 29i-, the Scrip, 7* 7 ; Eastern Counties, 9-k 9i ; Blackwall, 11 111, the New Shares, 994 ; and Brighton, 36i 36i per share. Accounts from the Cape of Good Hope give the official statement of shipments of produce, for the quarter end ing; sth January, in the present year :—Nine. 1,311 pipes, of which 560 were to this country ; Flour, 223,676 pounds ; Wool, 154,872 lbs. ; Tallow and Candles, 142,733 lbs. ; Beef and Pork, 229 casks ; ard several other articles, of the total value of 80.1641. ; and the value of the imports during the like period was 188,266/. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The improved appearance which the English market had on Saturday has continued to-day. and Consols are very firm at 92a 921 for Money, and 92a 921 for the Account. Three per Cent. Reduced, 91i 911; Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Re duced, 995 100, New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1005 101 ; India Stock, 2491 2501 ; Bank Stock, 167 168; India Bonds, 19 ; Exchequer Bills, old, 37 39 ; Ditto advertised, 33 35 premium. Prices of foreign securities are steady at the former quota tions. For Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 525 53; the Five per Cents. 1011; Brazilian New Bonds, 1839, 63; and Danish, 81k. Mexican Bonds are quoted 36a for Money, and 365 for the Account. The Share Market has been quite neglected to-day, and business has been confined to South Eastern at 29i, the Scrip at 7* ; and Edinburgh and Glasgow, New, 4%. The Bonds are quoted—Portuguese Five per Cent. New Bonds, 371, the Three per Cents.. 224; Spanish Three per Cents. 221 for the Account, and 23 for Money. Scarcely a bargain has been made to-day in any security. Money is easy, at from four to five per cent. ..lccounts from Rio Janeiro to the 22d March state, that al though the quantity of piece goods cleared at the Custom-house had been large, yet great complaints continued to be made that business was dull, and that but little was doing. It is to be feared that owing to the reduction in the rate of exchange, and the heavy stock, that the prices had been far from remunerat ing. The supplies of Coffee had been much increased, and consisted principally of interior qualities; prices had fallen, and purchasers were difficult to be met with. The decrease in the shipments during the month of February had been large, being but 86,074, or 10,882 less than the average of the last thu ee years. The stock was 55,000 bags, and the current prices from 2.900 to 3.808, according to quality. Money was com paratively easy, and discount readily obtained at 8 per cent. per annum. The rate of Exchange on London had fallen from 283. to 281, at which about 100,0001. had been negotiated; local stock, 705. Papers from Buenos Ayres possess no interest—Exchange on England 3d. The above were brought by the Pigeon packet with the Brazil Mail, as well as dates from Bahia of the sth March, and Monte Video, '26th February. In addition, there are letters from Singapo.e to the 30th December, Sydney 27th, and Port Phillip 27th December, which have been anticipated by the India Mails. CLOSING; BRITISH ;PRICES. FUNDS. Bank Stock l6B !India Stock 250 pm 3 per Cent. Red. 9li 3 per Cent. Cons 3i per Cent. Red 97i New 31. per Cent... lOl New 5 per Cent Long Annuities to expire Jan. 186(1 Oct. 1859 Jan. 18u0 Ditto Bonds . ... 19 pm I Ditto Old Annuities ... Ditto New Annuities... Ex. Bills, pm Ditto WU.... . pm Ditto Small — pm Bank Stock for Acct — India Stock for Acct — .i.Consols for Acct . N FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent. ,Ditto, New Ditto 37 Prussian, 5 per cent. FOREIG Austrian, 5 per cent. — Belgian, 5 per cent Brazilian Bonds... Buenos A yres 6 per cent. I Russian, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent 9O Ditto, Metallic ....... _ Colombian, 6 per cent 26a Spanish, 5 per cent. 23 Dii to, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred .... 104 Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f — e . Gieek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange ... ... ••••• —f --c. Mexican, 5 per cent 361 French, 3 per cent. —f. I )itto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 2i per cent 5 4 . 5- Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. ... 101 . SHARES. Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) •• Ditto New Shares ( '3 .......... 5 London and Blackwall (25 paid) .ll London and South Western (3S/ 17s 9d pd) 63 South Easton and Dover (50 paid) 294 Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) ... 93! SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. For the first. half hour, a majority of the subscribers congre gated within the yard, and, forgetful of the .uperior accommo da!i‘m of the room, opened on Thursday last, commenced bet. ting on the Derby, amidst the noise and codusion of the sale ; in this vicinity, Jack and the Agreeable colt, were backed at 16 and 18 to 1, and 'eaherselreely at 30 to I. An adjourn ment was then moved and carried, and the business of the day proceeded with comfort and regularity. Our notice of the odds t n yesterday's paper. placed AAila at the head of the list, Cold renick setood, and Canadian with the call of Auckland. The betti .g this afternoon completely reversed these positions ;—the Danebury party came out with a ven geance, and after a large outlay at 3 to 1 and 5 to '2, closed by taking 2to 1 eagerly ; many of the bets, we should add, having been taken by individuals who stood heavily against him. Attila, we believe, had the call at the commencement, and was backed in several places at 3 to 1, but what with the rush to get en Coldrenick, and the avidity with which the four teens, the twelves, and, in some quarters, elevens to one were snapped up about Jack, he gave way to 7 to 2, taken once or twice, but offered currently at the close. Auckland was backed to a large amount at 6,7, and 8 to I, the larger odds being granted to those only who sought to hedge ; the lona fide price was 13 to 2 (taken). If we were to give credence to the ridiculous reports in circulation about this horse, Lord Westminster will have as much trouble to prevent his being made " safe," as YIN Rawlieson had last year with Coronation. Canadian relapsed to 8 to 1 (taken), but not with much spirit. The Agreeable colt had a strong party, at an improved quotation (14 to 1 taken fieely); and a feW scores and ponies were laid out on Seahorse, at Z;0, 28, and finally 26 to 1. Forth's lut—Policy, Comberinere, and Hydaspes— were the only outsiders in any favour. The field is not ex pected to exceed three or four-and-twenty, at the outside: THE OAKS.—Scarcely anything doing, and nothing worth notice, but an offer of 1,000 to 30 against Dark Susan. CLOSING PRICES. HERBY. 22 to 1 agst Forth's lot 35 to l agst Sir G. Heathcote's lot—taken 2 to 1 agst Mr. Trelawny's Coldrenick—taken freely 7 to 2 agst Col. Anson's Attila—taken and afterwards off 13 to 2 agst Lord Westminster's Auckland—taken 8 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Canadian—taken 11 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Jack—taken 14 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Agreeable colt—taken 26 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Seahorse—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's Policy—taken and afterwards off 30 to 1 agst Mr. Greenwood's Lasso -50 to 1 agst Mr. Copeland's Combermere taken and afterwards offered 50 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Hydaspes—ta en 66 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Barrier—taken 66 to 1 agst 111 r. Ramshay's Moss Trooper 100 to 1 agst i lr. Allen's Belcceur --taken 100 to t agst Mr. Pryse's Cheops—taken and afterwards off OAKS. 7 to 2 agst Lord JersPy's Adela filly 12 to 1 agst Mr. Newton's Ma Mie 16 to 1 agst Air. Shackel's Meal 33 to 1 agst fir G. Ileathcote's Dark Susan At the sale of Lord Chesterfielers hunters yesterday, Mar mioa fetched 300 guineas ; Fakeaway. 270 guineas ; Isaac of York, 160 guineas; Actaeon, 140 guineas; Railroad ; 160 guineas; and Aaron Bang, 120 guineas , several other lots were sold at fair prices. THE RETORT COURTEOUS.—BetheI, an Irish bar rister, was the opposing counsel in a case in which DM•Nully, the ct.lebrated witty barrister, was employed. Bethel made several rude personal observations on M'Nally, who on that account interrupted his opponent in his speech. Bethel, vexed at this, at last exclaimed, "Brother M‘Nally, you have taken :he liberty of forcing your remarks in the middle of my statements, and have several times broken the thread of my discourse." " Bro ther Bethel," said "ss by (:idn't ou wax it better ?" Bethel's father had been a shoemaker, and his sou was ashamed of him. COURT CIRCULAR. His Excellency Count Meus , iorl, a General in the Austrian Service, Uncle of her Majesty - and of his Royal ilighness Prince Albert, and Brother-in law to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent , to g ether with his four sons, Count Hugh, Lieut.-COL in the Austria n Servicnts Count Alphonse, ...I.:ajor in the same s ervice ; ices Alexander and A Mtn., Captains, arriv ed. at Buck ingham Palace in two of the Royal carriages a nd four, shortly before twelve o''.9lock• yesterday, from Woolwich, attended l'y Captain Fr ircis Seymour, Scots Fusilier Guards, GrJem in Waiting on Prince Albert, and vve:4 lo e received on their arrival by ti:e 111.ast , r of the Hor se„ Vice-Chamberlain. and the Ma7ter of the Household. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent orrice(' a t , Buckingham Palace, shortiv aA,rvva.-ds. Count Mensdors and the Courts Hugh, Alphonse, Ale - ,_:ander, and Arthur, visited the Royal Duchess at .her residence, Clarence House, St. James's. Shortly before five o'cloeli, Iris Excellency Count Mensdor . l, and the Counts Hugh Alphonso, Alex a n der, and Arthur Mensdorf, left Buckingham Palace in two ° , f the Royal carriages and four, on a vi sit to her Majestyau Claremont. The Hon. Miss Liddell, and the Hon. Miss Page att , Maids of Honour in Waiting on the Queen, arrived Claremont Park yesterday afternoon, from Bucking a Palace. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by their Serene Highnesses , th e Duke Bernard, andt h° Duchess of Saxe Weimar , and the Princess..is of Sent O.° \Vein - Jar, visited the Zoological Garden s ; in the Reg's park, yesterday afternoon. He r Ma j est y , and the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Weimar also took an airing open carriage and four, in the Parks. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen Dowager on Sunday, at Marlborough Hbuse. f The Duchess of Saxe Weimar visited the Duch ess '0 Cambridge yesterday, at Cambridge House. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Tales' had an interview with the Chancellor of the Elchequer - • yesterday, at his official residence i n Downing-street. Mr. Wood. Chairman of the Excise, had an intervieW with the Right Hon, Gentleman on Saturday. Despatches from the Governor of Newfoundland pets received yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Lord and Lady Stanley had a din ner party on Sat °. day, at. their residence in St. James's•square. The patty included the Duke and Duchess of Sutherl and, IS' i• Elizabeth Leveson Gower , Earl and C ountess of Clar` e ",: ' don, Lord and Lady Bruce , L ord Robert Grosv ell„rl!, _•.' Lord Melbourne, Mr. CoWper , L ord Alfred Paget, 31:.• Ponsonby, Lord Ebrington , and Lord Leveson _Gower. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat Pl i m : terday, to hear an appeal from N ewfoundland, Kielley v. William Carson and others." g The Lords present were the Lord Chance the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Cli,,, eb i , d Bench. Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, "P"..,n0 Campbell, the Lord Chief Justice of the •Coill'Ll • Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron of the the Vice-Chancellor , Mr. Baron P arke, Mr.' S; tice Erskine, and the Judge of the A d m iralt y Coca The Hon. William Bathurst was the C lerk of the cil iu waiting. Mr. Henderson for the Appellant , and 'Mr. • Queen's Counsel, for the Respondent, having been bor .— . their Lordships adjourned. lei The Marquis and Marchioness of .Donegal have; it.'.' • Farrance a s Hotel for their seat, Ormean Park, Belo7 Ireland. MR. WILSOS'ts CONCERTS. ".jp. This gentleman, who has acquired so much 0 ,k,, earned fame from his illustrations of Scottish rninstirelZei, repeated yesternight, for the last time, at the 111114;, Hall, in Store-street, Bedford-square, before a fashi° l4 auditory, his illustrations of English minstrelsy. s air The programme of the entertainment was preq the same as Monday last, and as we noticed that excellent entertainment last week, we shall say . rto at present than that yesterday Mr. Wilson was in 'ent voice, and sang with a great deal of spirit. Is. tion to a delightfully melodious voice, a fine ear, anti s conception, Mr. Wilson possesses a distinct enuncif which makes the entertainment so much the delightful. In the sublimely beautiful ballad of " The Old Gentleman" he was deservedly encored, and this highly intellectual entertainment 'the al quently expressed their approbation in a m be mistaken. 1 THE BRIDPORT M.P.'S TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIR,—In fairness you should have admitted Mitchell's confession into your valuable paper. is the " expediency" of his votes that the indepet complain of. The electors of Bridport do not like of expediency ; it is troublesome to watch their 11r. Mitchell gained support by his determined i " the small band of monopolists who fatten at the the rest of the community,"* and to the abomir scale; indeed so fierce were his denunciations that even declared on his canvass his readiness "to musket" in the cause ; and yet he subsequently sliding scale ; and the accursed Income-tax doubt true that he obtained his majority of thirty no ordinary sacrifices,"f and great exertion his supporters. Two hundred and eighty-two for him, eight have since died, and five have left so that 269 remain—of these 269, 142 (his maj nearly five times told), have freely and voluntaril requisition calling upon this expedient Aiember b trust " lie has abused," and a very large majorit; maining 127 who have not signed it, declare their mination not to vote for him, should he again shot the borough. His few remaining advocates, cling to the hope that in his future gyrations " hi right at last," although he has already done as ' as he may have a chance of perpetrating during session. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, ' TO) Bridport, May 20, 1842. •A N gLEc . Mr. Mitchell's address, May 19, 1842. • • t Mr. Mitchell's letter to B. Gale, Sept. 16, 1841..: u l MR. MITCHELL AND THE - ELECTO R S Or' , PORT. 1 TO THE EDITOR. (SF THE GLOBE. Sir,—The Editor of The Sun having published a le t ' Bridport, containing remarks to my prejudice, and ha' unjustly refused to insert the following reply to it, , most influential of al my constituents, I shall feel nta, , , your allowing it to appear in your columns. — l am, S ir ' 1 , 3 1 humble servant, London, May 17, 1842 . T . A. MlTCitEl;kj' IP - f I , 7'O THE EDITOR OF THE SU iv• it , so " 1. i tgil Sir,—My attention has been drawn to a paragrafte_ri. r ,j paper of Monday, purporting to emanate from BrldP" 00 couched in terms of extreme malignancy towards our / ~ sentative, Air. Mitchell. As that gentleman's proposrisii to inform you that the electors are still disposed top 174 fidence in him, although we differ from him as to 0 diency of some few of his votes. The requisition you p 0 4 "005 has only been signed by a few of the electors out of a z, ~,. tuency of 558 voters.—l am, Sir, your obedien t servaaksj,e Bridport, May 13, 1 8 12 . T. C. HOUNSP ' HAMBURGH MAIL. 04 AIX LA. CRAPELI.I.:, MAY 15.—The InsuranCe4tr , pany gives-notice that it will be able t o meet i t 4 claims upon it arising from the fire at Hambuegh:4 1 E L D3RFELD, MAY 14.—Yesterday, and the u, oilfore, fore, a collection for Hambu r g h was made WO! such r.necesi that 24,000 marks banco (nearly '"-., sterling) was remitted. . 41 1 ' BERLIN, MAY 12. — The cel ebrated Prores Theology, Dr. Neander, has contributed 1,00 0 . I '4 ,' for Hamburgh. or o WEIMAR, MAY 14.—The Grand Duke ha s collection from house to house in the whole D 1 1; i ) the sufferers at Hamburgh. ' 0 The Cassel Gazette contains a notice, datect,- tes May 14, in which the Assurance Company ga t : A i it will be able to meet all claims a r i sin g from t h e -0/7 IP'' Hamburgh, without affecting the secur it y of.. LI - , ,(i tinned or new insurances. . 1 ' • - I i ' ll • tIAiIAN P OROS...Batmen', MAY . 9 . 5 :4 1 , IL L / • actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Ratilllfillid'S Lean, 5 per Cent............. l i gi a ", t, 1 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. ..... .----.---.-..—. 3 per Cent ; 7 1' --,_ ~ir ..---..Thirty.seven--.--..- -- ... o ----w)) lv- • i , i OW . ,kk Lean of City, 1c:32,4 per Cent 6 ". Society et Cornmqrce, 4 %per Cent IA ' I ! Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ............. National Society Exchange on London (short) .... .... ,t 4,., _Brussels Papers, May 21. . •. : JO ? AUSTRIAN FtJ NDS.—VIENNA, MAT lg• 14f110 /d t teener cysts. sletalliques FOMT per Cents. / Three p:r Cents. ...•............. ‘6 l, er Bank Shares HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, Mae 19. , Bill& Austrian 5 per Cents. ' .... 4 ' Bank Shares „ Anglo-Russian Loan lo9g ' o', Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate...." 102.Y. 1 ./-!'tl Inscription, Ist series Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th - .-. # 1, , • Series .... 4 , Ditto in Certificates New 4 per Cent. (1840) '2Styr 6 Dutch Actual Debt, % per Cent........ .. - ~ Ditto 3 per Cent. Polish Bonds •...... .- 44 New tickets Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 7O - !e 4 Spanish, New 5 p-r Cents. EXCHANGES ON LONDON. ~ " ' , 4 tt HAMBURGH, May •,C.—l3 7%, Two months 1,3 S•A. ' ''' . L i ll RIGA, MAY 2 '. -Three Months, 311 1:-16. ,; 11, STOCKHOLM, Ms v 13.-Seventy-five days, 12 18. . • ' .:jr" Ht.:v.l,lN, May 17. Three months, 6.1:3. •- , LEIPSIC, MAY t3.—Two mo .ths, 6. 24. :,..; .1 4 1 A. iliP AP * DIF.,TRIBUTING BILLS Aq,-- , 't, THE ARMY IN BIRMINGHA M ' o r* BIRALINGHAM, SATURDAY EVENING.—ThiS .° OIO:O e , i , the police-o ffi ce the Magistrates were engaged ial e c os" charge against a man named Samuel Hines, which I a ~., sieerable interest. ' The room was quite full, af t , 0 _.• those present were, Mr. Joseph Sturge, some of t" _4. 41$ the Staff, and many of the Society of Friends. G S , 4 Sergeant Walter Crone'', of the Ist Royal Foot ..0 , reared to prefer the complaint. and stated that he ", ti ,,A i in Smithfield the day before, beating up for recra' was interrupted by a great crowd, who collected rot. and his party. He saw the prisoner delivering.a i g a t /,,,, fr of bills among the people, who were using vog ue etb He heard the mob say, "To hell with the n, hell with the Government," " To hell with o !i c i,. , l o ,', I He applied to one of the head officers of p " t : $ i what he should do, and was told that he raa g t bdt 00, 0 the prisoner, or any man who obstructed him it' ll r of his duty. He then proceeded throutgo b,• o il Egoe , and the yrisoner came close to him, deliveriti. ' ol d he (witness) took one of them out of his haulm 04 was an advice to the people not to enlist. l t . ps t , , " Hints to the Army," and eh through was Agt.• , / When lie saw the nature of the hill, and found " 1 .: s ea, structed by the people, he took hold of the pr isone'. o liCe• j ot him into the ranks of hit party, and then cal:ed roe A(2 and gave him into custody. He could not ssve ar at ter 4,0 was with the mob when he made use of the laljr dl . i puil the Government and the soldiers. The prison.e,o„, -,, 1 2; him by causing a crowd to assemble around aloe di ca i t Sergeant) was not a police-o ffi cer, but he RD 6o', f i''' wasles bounden duty, as a soldier, to protect fba i b ic, ti ltO and when he found the nature of the bills 'l b „ c i t e: 300 delivered out, he thought he ought to takelh e P e e 4iti li g jet Air. Alcmene . , the prisoner's attorney, cr:f9;reilie,lll - who said he should not have in' e. w 0 prisoner had it not been for the bills which be ; a j. ' s pre_As e - I ' v t. l , ed that.__lie say ttO !';ifel l was in el,ait, rit. In. sT,' - fi gr : a heo r n , in a t n dhn t e: l l.o, o o; il: niit ; i: . d througl7.7e! audience Y 'tanner 11°; ' l . •!' .ka.l,-., ' ' . „ . sUN. pi' d l% A Whys i t if t ,4`' '' , en dent wrie like these•.: - V !h. cont,°.„i' ~ d opposi t ', - ,' the exp.. ?! ninable $. st . ` at I alit ' 11 to y voted sp. .toot o t irty.ebt '„ 0:, ) j on the . ),. • o eleet:oo,,4L o ft the bo-0 . ! iajority oi i . .„1- tr, arily aigi?' OW r to rol e 0 ority 0f .., i.tgi heir fixoa 0:,,,it show his 4 1-- i • 5, howev er '' ', he ma/ s much to .., , ,ring the,, :I, nt, ELECTOtio 1 ~ ,t 4 4 1 ' , 1841.- ' I A,' BRI-D 1 RS Or - 1 " ..„ X. 1.,.fr0r, ~, bed a le t `7 o oer and half ," 0 4; to it, I- , c ll feel oblig e d _ Qin 'ill ~ j litt (I I , . tatiie hbvi