The Sun. — London, England, 1834-05-19 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY., OLD COURT. (Before Mr7;erieaTniAßAßlN.) Jean Francois Boutard, a Frenchman, was indicted for Francis stealing on the 12th of May, in the dwelling - house of Devignes, of No. 2, Golden-square, a case .of dia monds and other articles, to the value of 1,600/. The prisoner (through the medium of an interpreter), Veaded Guilty ; and he was sentenced to be transported for life. (Before the RECORDER.) James Taylor was indicted for stealing a ho r s e, value 121 •, a bridle and halter, the property of Charles Sexton, the proprietor of a cabriolet. Several witnesses were called to the prisoner's good cha racter. The jury found him Guilty, but recommended him to Mercy. James Cooper was indicted for stealing a watch from the dwelling house of David Hughes, a watch-maker, of Frith- Str eet, Soho. The prisoner in defence addressed the Court in a man licer which showed that he was possessed of a good educa '4°ll. He said he was greatly embarrassed in his circurn -24n ces, was without the common necessaries of life for uunself and for his wife, who, to augment his sufferings was , i _ e xPecting every moment to e brought to bed. On the named in the indictment b he bad been without food, and accidentally met a friend, who gave h i m a g lass o f liquor which took such an effect upo n him that he did not now what he did. Several very respectable witnesses gave the prisoner a 14 ,st excellent character, and corroborated what he had stated as to the great distress in which he and his wife Were. Two of the witnesses were pawnbrokers, in whose t!oploy he had been for some years, and who spoke in the fthest terms of the general propriety of his conduct, and Lneir extreme regret at seeing him in so degrading a situa tion as he was now placed in. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, but strongly re '44timended him to mercy, in which recommendation the Prosecutor joined. The Con itT, under all the circumstances, sentenced him the lowest punishment the law allowed, viz., one year's hard labour. -Robert Byfield was indicted for breaking and entering t he„ dwelling house of Stephen Williams, a cowkeeper at ko noreditch, and stealing 90 sovereigns and several other articles, The jury found the prisoner Guilty. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-T[llS DAY. (FROM I:iA)YD'S.) bRAL, MAY 18.—Arrived the Asia, White, from ?jelly ; Larkins, Campbell, from China ; Mary Ann, from hldia ; Wm. Manning, from St. Kitts ; Thames, and John Renwick, from Jamaica ; arrived and sailed from the river the Castle Huntley, Johnson; Rose, Marquis; ,Mi nerva, Freehurst ; Duke of Sussex, Whitehead; Larkens, Campb e ll ; and Prince Regent, Ann,Ain,rom China; Hero of laloun, Lady Raffles, and. Mary _from Bombay. PouTsmotrn, MAY 18.—Wind W. to S.W., fresh breezes.—Arrived his Majesty's ship, Raleigh, from the Mediterranean. Passed by, the Briton, Parker, from the Cape of Good Hope ; sailed March 11, and from St. He lena 22d ult. _ _ PLYMOUTH, MAY 16 AND 17.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the James Lawrie, Lees, from Sierra Leone. Off port, the Mary Ann, Robinson, from Valparaiso. FALMOUTH, MAY 16.—Wind variable, light breezes. the W. to N.W., fresh breezes and squally.—Arrived 27 th, Nightingale packet, from Vera Cruz ; sailed March . ""ni and Havannah 17th ult. ; Rio packet, Dinah, from ' 4I A a ; Royal William, Rogers, from Galipoli ; and "1 )01 10, Sherradon, from Licata. jOVVES, MAY 18.—Arrived the Antelope, Hemery, " 11 ',.,M Rio Janeiro ; and Speed, Knight, from Matanzas. i to rEalisEv, MAY 16.—Arrived the Samuel, Turner, lorto ; and Frederick Wilkelen, Schalt, and Got etzen from Dantzic. 11: Ea sX1r, M AY 16.—Arrived the Concordia, Voss, from ; Sophia Maria, Limberg, from Gottenburg. a al$TOL MAY 18.—Arrived the Fanny and Jane, Cha t% and Vielina, from jitej'lnZPOßT, MAY 17.—Arrived the Fortuna, Barlo, from tiGtERNOCIC, MAY 16.—Arrived the Port Glasgow, b llt ehhison, from Tobago; Star, Nish, from St. Thomas's, el, Nichol, from Trinidad; and George the Third, d t , 0, from St. Kitts. "MLL, M AY 17.—A rr i ve d th e Sp r i g htly, Livington, °13 c , 1 Charente and Despatch, Brown, from Cadiz. f t °UIELDS, MAY 17.—Arrived the Sovereign, Ferguson, (3131 L E g a. 111 1T Ri MAY 16.—Arrived the Gipsy, Stephen, from aia ga. The Deverin, from Honduras to Mobile, having got on the Triangles was abandoned by the crew. She was sub- Itie n.tlY carried to Honduras by some wreckers and sold, Preosous to the 31st March. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The only arrival as yet is a Mexican mail by the Night- I,Ved from Vera Cruz 27th March, from Harannah tio n f r , and from Jamaica 21st Feb. The informa 44ce. oni Th the above republic is rather of a sombre appear e power of General Bravo was not put an end e an ;:r_ was still with a force to the south of that city, and Th e „z 0 was, with 600 men, within sight of Puebla. 'resident, Santa Anna, continued at Hacunda, but P ° Pularit was on the decline. attract Eat Y kts _ of a letter posted at the North and South Ame -";:n Coffeehouse PALAIOUTII MAY 17.—The Nightingale packet has r arrived f ro m'Mexico, with a freight of 3Ei0,000 dollars merchants' account. The country is in a i - "`te fighting in every part—a regular civil wardstressed." I ,ZIIIG RATION. —Two thousand emigrants sailed from -4 baerick, to settle in British America, within these last Tiee w e ; and five hundred more will follow for the same stination, before another month. The THE FUNDS. ti o express from Paris being entirely void of informa 0, either local or foreign, has caused a dullness in the liPeenlations in fOreign Funds this morning, with the ex rir ° 1 Mexican Stock, which, on the opening of the fa :x .o et, r eceded from 2 to 3 per cent., caused by the un lin lirab le information received by the Mexican mail ; c „ e . Ihieli a reaction has taken place, and they have im- Pro Proved t o 43% th ' e rh ere being no news from Spain or Portugal as yet, th e se two Securities remain steady at Saturday's prices, lit tle 2 - n_.er at 35% t o lA, and the latter at 783/4 79, with co ulrig. D2l/ ns° ls opened at the leaving-off price of Saturday, 5 / 8 for the Account. tn..", 4 Change the unfavourable accounts from Mexico are "` t . '"ed upon to be most exaggerated. It is supposed that I) 'it-jobbing tricks continue to be played off at Falmouth. 1i 0 ,.„, FOUR PER CEN I'S. 1826. ot —, ,, e . r of Persons who received half-year's Dividend in . ~,, .• la,g, on Stock not amounting to.£•/5. 1 it".)b Above £25. and under 500 572 . 500 .. ........ ... `2„5(41 • 2,5c0 5,00 lO,OO . 10,0''0 ..„... ..... —l5; 0 , 1 SO 15,100 2•,0 09 ti , t 25,0 0 ...50,t'0 ) ... 21 50,000 . Above 1...0, , ,0d ..• 2 3,514 HALF-PAST ONE. % e We h ave recei ve d th e f o ll ow i ng l e tt er f rom M e xico of ra e , 24 t th March, by which it will be perceived that no too,,! °11 is made of th e di sas t rous repor t s p reva lent this tin g :, The political state of this republic continues still un _Wye& The insurrection in the south, headed by General been 'l o, and another force of 5 0 , 3 c a v alry, have not as yet suppressed, and the force of Government are em -11,..10yed against them The inysuzsarve 'Oniinated in a few days, the tion of the priests wa t s . D',.. Anna is still at his estate for tlien,ecr..e,c.er; - `eforof his health. pp ~ rns are progressing; and the property of the church ,1 ; I : t: convents will probtbly be applied for the payment of the I°4 al debt." Itiascls have continued during the whole of the morn- The 92 % % for the Account, with scarce a b arga i n doing. as• pig Funds are also in a state of inactivity Spanish, iv otuguese, 78 3 / 4 _79. ° account s f rom Portugal as yet. Co THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, 92% li'i• h. s z n i, „ C LONINu VIIICE.S.—FOUR O'CLOCK. ,2. 3 per ,t m , _!0 3 1 ,, t r Cent. Re d . ai l ' C.nu . Cons 9ll ; Ditto Bonds ................ IU , s pm. 9 & . South Sea Stock .•..... 8 3 ",' Unt. 99 4 Per c, nt. Rcd w• • Ditto New Ann. ...... WI I h ., 3, per Cent. 1.7„,' t i c nt E L t ; t!l , ltt, 1 5 0 1, 4•1 . ................... 5 5 1 1 r , .. Pk Ann. to expire 12 " 4 51 Pm Ditto Small ik;s 4 ' 181 c l) "%s'tt. I ,;3!) ;7 "R. 1861) l7! Coniols for Op g 94 India S , . For 0 --- FOREIGN FUN I'S. Pg 1 4 4 15tr4„ 5 percent . - 78 1 9s Ditto, no g . B ond . kti.P., 4 „ 11 , 5 per cent Ittgi'an Bonds a n, 5 per cent , e hilc, ° ' AYres, 6 per Lent. :33 3 11 guitsts.34,,n:clii:' per cell it.,, ,ors•ltiir:'n per cent z 3 Spanish, a per cent l . !. :s'a zi 6 per cent 06i Ditto, 82:i ................ 351 ttath .. i -.7t . , 4 .•••... 6 , Yti ca ,, i ter cent 3311 Exchanp , 2sf 4oe. b itt( ) q rk -er Cents, 1825 334 : French per Cent._ _... f. _ ...c. ' e r i lvtat:ieent,,lB2s„„„ 434 , Dutch, 21 per cent ......... 524 14, Cent. ,„„„ 23 i Ditto, 5 per suit _ _ _ L Ther e w " . ,ers of t , aS a numerous meeting of the mem qirs a r ue Established Church held at Rugely a few 4 1E4 '''), which was attended by nine-tenths of the Iho ,P,' i Piujation of the town, and the entire gentry of rii%sioc_gonpourhood, when a petition against the ad -444,113"1 r the Dissenters to the Universities was una- Y agreed to. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke of C , lfi bel la d went on Saturday to his residence at Kew. Prince Esterhazy (the Austrian Ambassador) has left town for the Continent. His Excellency paid visits on Saturday to the members of the Royal Family, and had an interview wish Viscount Palmerston on Friday afternoon at the Foreign Office. M. de Moraes Sarmento (the Portuguese Minister), M. Tricoupi (the Greek Minister), and the Marquis de Miraflores (the Spanish Minister) visited Viscount Palmerston at the Foreign Office on Saturday. Earl Grey left town on Saturday afternoon for Wo burn Abbey, Bedfordshire, on a visit to the Duke of Bedford. Lord John Russell has also gone to Woburn Abbey. Viscount Althorp left town on Saturday morning for Althorp Park. Mr. Burnley transacted business at the Colonial Office on Saturday. - Viscount Melbourne has gone to his seat, Brocket Hall, Herts. At the recent meeting of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in the case Bye Rotteen Koowur v. Reevee Budra (Bombay), on the application of counsel for the respondent on petition, the East India Company were appointed to act on the part of the re spondent. WINDSOR, MAY 17. ( From the Windsor Express.) In addition to the usual suite who returned to the Castle last evening with their Majesties, were Lord and Lady Howe. Prince George of Cambridge also arrived last evening. This day his Majesty rode out in his close carriage, drawn by four grey horses, and called at Frogmore to see her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta. Her Majesty rode out on horseback, accompanied by Prince George of Cambridge, and her usual suite. The Dean of Hereford arrived at the Castle this morning. On Monday next their Majesties will go to Sand hurst, at which place a military inspection will take place, and their Majesties will also dine there. On Friday next the King and Queen will visit Kew, and return again to the Castle in the evening. MONAGHAN ELECTION FRIDAY-SECDND DAY. Westenra Lucas . 1061 . 961 DUNGARVAN ELECTION. WEDNESDAY-THIRD DAY. This morning the polling was resumed, but evidently the constituency were nearly exhausted : the spirit of party feeling, however, had not diminished amongst the partizans of the candidates. After some smart skirmishing through out the day the poll closed, and the gross poll was declared as follows : Jacob 286 Barron 255 THURSDAY-FOURTH DAY. It was evident at the close of the polling last evening that the election must have terminated this day, for though the hostile feeling between the parties was unabated, the electors were not forthcoming, there only remaining un polled those who were determined to stand neutral, and the immediate friends of the parties. Of these Mr. Barron had the most unpolled, and they were enabled to reduce Mr. Jacob's number six, leaving the majority on the gross poll what it was on Tuesday. A protest has been entered by Mr. Purcell O'Gorman, on the part of Mr. Barron, against the return of Mr. Jacob. The following was the state of the poll at the close:— Jacob... Barron . Majority for Mr. Jacob . 24 The respective candidates and their friends then addressed the assembled multitude, after which they separated with out any disturbances worth noticing. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Marchioness of Hastings, from Brussels; Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, from Leamington ; Lord Yar borough, from his seat, in Lincolnshire ; the Dowager Lady Sitwell, and Mr. Smith Wright, and family, at Hertford street, from Runestone Hall, Notts ; Colonel Jones, at the Blenheim Hotel, Bond-street, from Dover; Albert Broughton, Esq., at ditto ; Thomas Holesworth, Mrs. H. and two Misses H., at ditto, from their seat, Worcestershire ; Abraham Jolliffe, Esq., and Mrs. J., at ditto, from Bath; Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, at Ellis's Hotel, St. James's-street, from Southgate ; Mr., Mrs., and Miss Phillips, at Bryant's Hotel, Hanover-square, from their seat in Lancashire ; Mr. and Mrs. Tomkinson, at ditto, from ditto; Mrs. Beadon, at ditto, from the Paragon, Richmond; Charles Eystan, Esq., and Mrs. Eystan, at ditto, from Hendred House, Berks ; Edward Morris, Esq., at ditto, from Folkingham ; Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Copley, in Arlington-street, from Brocklesby, near Brim, Lincolnshire ; Colonel Markham, at the Coburg Hotel, from his seat in Yorkshire ; P. Brune, Esq., at Greillon's Hotel, Charles-street, Grosvenor-square, from his seat in Devonshire ; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hopkinson, at Craw ley's Hotel, Albemarle-street, from their seat Gloucester shire; the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Paley and family, at Mor ley's Hotel, Trafalgar-square, from Bury St. Edmund's ; M'Kenzie, Esq., at ditto, from Dublin ; Mr. and Mrs. Hudson, at ditto, from a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Strutt, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from their seat, in Der byshire ; Sir Charles and Lady Gray, at Gould's, late Hitchcock's, London Hotel, Albemarle-street, from a tour; Lady Elizabeth Duton and family, at ditto; Mr. and Mrs. R. Wilson, at the Burlington Hotel, from Norfolk ; Mr. and Mrs. Norton, in Harley-street, from Elton Manor, Nottinghamshire ; Hon. Mr. Dutton, at Fladong's Hotel, Oxford-street ; Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, at ditto, from a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Philip Button, at ditto, from a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Pollit, at ditto, from Brighton ; Lord Ong ley, at ditto ; Mr. and Mrs. Bateman, at ditto, from Derby ; Mr. T. and Mr. W. Earle and the Misses Earle, at ditto, from Workingham ; Mr. Pierrepoint and Lord and Lady Warren De Tabley, at Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook and Davies-streets, from Italy ; Lord and Lady Orkney, at ditto, from Taplow, Berks ; the Countess de Salis, from Brighton ; Generals Montague and O'Leary, at ditto, from Spain ; the Earl of Lisburne, at the Pulteney Hotel, Albemarle-street ; Lord Vaughan, at ditto ; Sir Hedworth Williamson, Bart., M.P., at ditto ; Lady Wil liamson and suite, at ditto ; the Hon., Charles Stewart and General Stewart, at the Sackville Hotel, Sackville-street, from Glasgow, N.B. ; Col. and Mrs. Colquhoun, at ditto, from Paris; Mr. and Mrs. Wigram and family, at ditto, from Bath ; the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, in St. James's-square, from Newmarket; the Duke of Buccleuch, at Montagu House, from Portsmouth; the Marquis and Marchioness of Bristol and the Ladies Hervey, in St. James's-square, from Putney; Sir William and Lady Cooper, in Portland-place, from Sir George Pocock's villa, at Twickenham ; Lord Charles Townshend, from Rainham Hall, Norfolk ; the Earl of Coventry, at Coventry House, from Croome, Worcestershire ; Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Stopford, at the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-street, from the Continent ; the Earl and Countess Beauchamp, in St. James's-square, from a tour ; the Duchess of Bed ford and the Ladies Russell, in Belgrave-square, from Endsleigh, Devon; the Hon. Alexander Talbot, at the London Hotel, Albemarle-street, from a tour; the Earl of Jersey and Viscount Villiers, in Berkeley-square, from Newmarket ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Headfort and family, at their new residence on Cumberland-terrace. PROTEST. COPY OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR's PROT ES .i' AGAINST LORD WYNFORD's BILL. FOR THE BETTER OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH. Dissentient. 1. Because I consider that this bill has a direct tendency to bring odium upon the observance of the Sabbath, and contempt upon sentiments so virtuously felt and so strongly expressed by the people of this country in behalf of the Sabbatical institution. _ . 2. Because it seeks to interfere with the occupations and relaxations of men and their ordinary habits, and attempts to effect by legislative provision what can only be advanta geously or even safely brought about by the manners of the people being amended and their religions and moral feelings strengthened. • 3. Because it forbids many acts which men may be ,jus tified, and even compelled, to perform on the Sabbath Day. 4. Because, like all legislative interference with the habits of the people, it tends to beget the far worse habit of violating the law, and thereby both impairs the charac ter of the subject and lowers the authority of the lawgiver. 5. Because the pressure of its provisions is most une qually distributed among the different classes of the com munity, and bears almost exclusively upon the poorer members of it. . . 6. Because the bill itself is so framed as not to attain its avowed object merely, but to disturb the whole transactions of mankind at all times ; and because most of its provi sions must be remodelled in order to confine its operation to what alone it intends to accomplish. 7. Because it appears to me exceedingly discreditable to any legislative assembly to entertain a measure which is admitted to be framed in so careless a manner that it pro hibits in its present shape innumerable things which it cannot be intended to affect in any way, and which if those errors were corrected would still be found to abound in enactments wholly impossible to be enforced. 8. Because this bill, even if corrected as to its admitted mistakes, would still prohibit a poor man from travelling, whatever necessity might require it, at certain times, by the only conveyances he can afford—viz. public carriages. 9. Because it would prevent all classes from making their wills, though in extremities, on the Sabbath, if the aid of professional men were required for that purpose. 10. Because it appears also to intend to prevent any one from travelling post on the Sabbath, and so to compel travellers to remain at public-houses unnecessarily on that day. 11. Because it subjects all keepers of public-houses and beer-houses to the visitation of constables during seven hours every Sabbath, though no beer or spirits be sold during those hours ; and to the like visitation at all hours of any day when liquor is sold, for the purpose of removing from those houses any friend or relation who may be calling or visiting there, not being a customer traveller, or lodger . 12. Because it avowedly seeks to check drunkenness, as if that were the only vice now calling for prevention, and attempts doing so by making the publican liable to penal ties, and to the loss of his license, and consequently to ruin, for the intemperance of his guests, which he cannot by any possibility prevent, if he furnishes any quantity of liquor at all to them, and does not previously ascertain how much is required to intoxicate them ; and even if he shall succeed in ascertaining that point, it makes him liable to the penalties if he furnishes liquor to more than one guest in the same room, unless he also remains present while they drink it, or cause his waiters to remain present, in order to see that each guest only consumes the quantity which he is capable of drinking without intoxication, and because I verily believe that no measure of so extravagant a nature ever yet received the sanction of an assembly of rational beings. 13. Because the publication in churches of divers no tices, by virtue of various statutes, is abolished, without the least precaution being taken to provide a substitute, in asmuch as the affixing to the church door, without any pro vision to prevent, or even any prohibition of removing or defacing, the same immediately after, whereby much im portant business will be at a stand, and because this part of the bill has been framed without any regard being had to the great difficulties presented by the subject of publishing parish and other notices, a difficulty which is known to have been the origin of those salutary enactments requiring publication in church. 14. Because it encourages workmen to be guilty of dis honesty towards their masters, by first obtaining payment of wages on a forbidden day, and then again suing, as the bill authorizes them, for a second payment of the same wages. 15. Because it appears altogether absurd to hold, that by rejecting a bill professing'to have a good object in view, on the ground of its total inefficiency to accomplish its pur pose, and of its tendency to create far worse mischiefs than any it pretends to prevent, any discountenance whatever is given to the proposed object, or indeed any opinion at all is expressed upon the matter. 16. Because, upon the whole, it appears to me that the countenancing a measure so framed, and liable to such ob jections, is calculated to lower the authority of this house, exposing it to be charged with motives creditable neither to its wisdom nor impartiality, while the tendency of giving such a measure such high countenance is to injure the cause which it professes to serve, and to bring every thing connected with the subject into unmerited contempt. DEPARTURES, The Earl of Oxford, from the Blenheim Hotel, for Wales ; Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Coulson, from ditto, for Dover ; I. Phillips, Esq., and family, from ditto, for ditto ; Joseph Wilson, Esq., from ditto, for Brighton ; James Elden, Esq., and Miss Elden, from ditto, for ditto; Thomas Latouche, Esq., and Mrs. Latouche, from ditto, for Ireland; Colonel Robinson, from ditto, for Hants; Lieutenant Walpole, R.N., from ditto, for Dover ; John Down, Esq., from ditto, for the Continent; Colonel and Miss Webb, from Ellis's Hotel, St. James's -street, for ditto ; Mrs. F. Webb, from ditto, for Adwell, Oxon ; the Rev. J. T. Smyth, from Bryant's Hotel, Hanover-square, for his seat, Cringleford Hall, Norwich ; Dr. Saunders, from ditto, for Norwich ; General Sir Henry Warde, Bart., and Captain Warde, from ditto, for Hants ; G. H. Cherry, Esq., from ditto, for Hondred House, Berks ; Mr. Grey, from dit to; Le Marchant Saumarez, Esq., from ditto; the R ev . W . Gray, and Mrs. Gray, from ditto ; the Duke of Devonshire, for his seat, Chatsworth, Derbyshire ; the Earl and Countess of Bradford, for their seat, Castle Bromage, Birmingham ; the Rev. T. Egerton, for Stoke ; he Hon. John Gray and Mrs. Gra v y, for Leamington, War-, wickshire ; Colonel and Miss Webb, from Ellis's Hotel St. James's-street, for the Continent ; Mrs. F. Webb, from ditto, for Adwell, near Tetsworth, Oxon ; the Dowager Marchioness of Clanricarde and Miss Kington, from Craw ley's Hotel, Albemarle-street, for Charles -street, Berkeley square ; Mr. and Mrs. Derin g , from Chapel-street, Grosvenor-square' for their seat, Ayott W e l wyn , H erts ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne for Lord King's seat, Oakham Park , n e ar Ri p le y , Surrey • the Earl of Ranfurly, from the Pulteney Hotel, Albemarle street ; the Hon. Colonel Knox, from ditto, for Ireland ; Mrs. Hitchcock and suite, from ditto ; for Devizes ; the Baron de Montmorency, from ditto, for Paris ; Peter Ark wright, Esq., and family, from the Saekville Hotel, Sack ville-street, for Cromford, Derbyshire; Charles Ark wright, Esq., Mr. and Airs. St:John and family, from ditto, for Hasting s ; Major Hackett, from ditto, for toublin ; Major and Mrs. Rivett Carnac and family, from Upper Harley-street, for Lymington, Hants, MEETING. OF THE DISSENTERS. ( Concluded from The Sun of Saturday.) ' Mr. ABERCROMBIE, M. P., said he had been twenty years in Parliament, and had never been called on to vote for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, though during the whole of that time he would have been most ready to give his vote for such a measure. (Hear.) But the consequence was, that when the measure was at length brought forward, it was brought forward in such a manner as insured its triumphant success. This plan had succeeded with regard to. the Test and Corporation Acts ; and it might perhaps be worth their while to consider whether such a plan would not be that most likely to insure the ultimate success of the voluntary church principle. As a mem ber of the legislature, he would not look only to the views of one party. He was not, he would not be, a partisan. His duty was to do equal justice to all his fellow subjects. (Hear.) He would try to remove all practical grievances. (Hear.) He would be the friend of all reasonable reforms in the church, and in saying that he showed he was no partisan, for if he were he should oppose church reform, and leave it with all its blots as an argument in their hands. He had thus stated his opinion, and he hoped that no man imagined that by attending that meeting he intended to give the most distant encouragement to an opinion that he, as a member of Parliament, was about to embark in a con test for the purpose of asserting the principle for which they contended. ( Hear, hear.) He spoke only as a sincere friend to religious liberty; but he had a higher and a nobler duty to perform in doing justice to all classes of his fellow subjects. It was not his purpose to defend the course which his Majesty's ministers had taken. ( Hear, hear.) He might be wrong, but he knew and esteemed many of them, and he believed that they were sincere in their wish to redress the grievances of dissenters. ( Hear.) What he wished to bring about was a good understanding between the government and them. He wished them to recollect that union was power, and that disunion was the sure way to defeat their own objects, and to retard the ac complishment of their just desires. (Hear.) Under the peculiar circumstances of the country, the threat ened separation between the friends of civil and reli gious liberty and the present administration, would be, in his estimation, one of the greatest calamities that could befal his country. ( Cheers.) Mr. BAINES expressed 'considerable surprise that the learned gentleman who had spoken with so much ability (Mr. Brown) should hold up the conduct of the electors of Dudley as worthy of imitation. When they had, on the one hand, a man, from whose general opinions and principles they wholly differed, and, on the other, one with whose general principles and opinions they agreed, he thought nothing could be more injurious to their cause than permitting the Con servative to succeed, when, by the slightest exertion, they could have excluded him. The Dissenters did not require a national appropriation to themselves. The principle of the Dissenters was not that there should be two established churches, but, if he under stood it rightly, that there should be no established church at all. ( Applause.) He, was of opinion that the time would shortly come when every church would support itself, and that every church would find its advantage in such a mode of support. The honourable gentleman concluded by eulogising the services which the house of Lambton had rendered to the cause of civil and religious liberty, and by moving the tenth resolution. On the resolution being proposed of a vote of thanks to Lord Durham, his lordship rose and said he had ac cepted the offer of presiding at the meeting . most readily, because he was most anxious to show his re spect for the dissenters as a body, and the attachment he felt to those principles of civil and religious liberty which constituted the basis of the Society. ( Cheers.) When he looked back to the list of tile illustrious and excellent men who had, on former occasions, filled the chair, he confessed himself deeply impressed not only with a sense of the great honour now conferred upon him, but with the consciousness of his own unworthi ness to succeed them ; for he could in no way pretend to any of those qualifications which had so eminently fitted his distinguished predecessors for their task. He could pretend to nothing but honest intentions, and he would add, an uncompromising and unsullied iategnty. (Loud - theers.) He must also take this op portunity of returning his thank s to the meeting for the conduct it had o b serve d , b y wh i ch i t ha d cons id er ably lightened his labours a$ chairman. There had ' I een but one interruption, and that was of a slight character, proceeding more, he believed, from the mis ' apprehension of the rev. gentleman who was address , ing them than from any thing e se. That interrup tion was occasioned by its being considered, per haps, that there was a little want of taste in breaking in upon the arrangements. It was this View that had possibly induced them to say anything unpleasant that I might have been addressed to the rev. gentleman, who, I he was sure, had not given them any other reason for so addressing him. ( Hear, hear.) He might have he e closed the few observations he intended to offer to them, and should , have done so, as he felt consi derably exhausted by the length of time that the meeting had lasted, and the attention he had endea voured to pay to the interesting and beautiful senti ments which had been addressed to them by many who attended, but a question in the second resolution of such vital importance had been mooted—a question on which he had heard the opinions of all those who be longed to them as a body of dissenters, and upon which they ought to know the opinions of all who were engaged in public life—that he must entreat their at tention for a few moments. The question he alluded to was the one of the separation of the church from the state. And his hon. friend near him (Mr. Wilks) would admit he had said to him frankly and fairly that he could not consent to any proposition which involved a question as to the propriety of the church being se parated from the state • these sentiments he had al ready expressed in Parliament, and they were such as he should always consider it his duty to express in any society or place in which he might hear the separation of the church from the state recommended. His con scientious opinion, then, was, that the church was bound to tender religious instruction to all the members of the state. In the present ignorant and uneducated condition of the great mass of the population of this country, he considered that it would be most im proper to leave them avithout any religious instruction at all. ( Hear.) He thought it would be most unwise to leave such persons to the canvassing of religious sects, some of whom might endeavour to gain favour and support by increasing their prejudices and flatter ing their ignorance. If, indeed, all were as en lightened as were the Association which he was now addressing—if all were as capable as were those pre sent of forming a correct judgment—they might be safely left to the formation of their own religious opi nions -without assistance at all ; but such was unfor tunately not the case; and he should, therefore, con sider it as improper in him, as a statesman, not to ten der religious instruction to the people in their present condition, as it would be culpable in the parent not to provide it for his children in their state of infantile or imperfect judgment. The religious, as well as the moral or secular instruction of the people, was one of the most imperative duties of the State ; and, in the present condition of large masses of the community, should not be left to chance, or, to speak in their words, to the voluntary principle. He was aware, from what had passed that day, that they were not agreed in this principle ; but it was his conscientious opinion, and such were his reasons for differing with those who advocated a separation of Church and State, or rather, according to his view, Religion and State ; his object being to advance the cause of religion, as the best security for the welfare, happiness, and pro sperity, of every community. But he hoped they would allow him to put it before them in another point of view. Even if he could agree with them in prin ciple as to the propriety of the separation of the Church from the State, still he must press on them, in strong language, the expediency of not now urging that question on the attention of the Legislature. They ought clearly to understand that both branches of the legislature were hostile to it. In the House of Commons, from the best information he had been able to collect, out of upwards of 600 members, not thirty would vote for it • and in the House of Lords not a single' peer would be found to support it. The coun try, he was bound to tell them, was not now prepared for it. It had been admitted by some of its most ar dent supporters, who had made the most sanguine calculations, that they could not expect a majority of opinions in favour of the separation. There was not one single individual (and he wished it to be under stood that he spoke this advisedly) in public life whose support they could calculate on, whose aid and assistance was worth having ; whilst, on the other hand, the bare agitation of the question raised fears and prejudices, and bitter hostility—operating not on the speculative question itself, but affecting the redress of those acknowledged grievances of which nothing but their own wilful imprudence could pre vent the settlement. They would disqualify their friends from acting in their behalf, and increase the power of their enemies ten-fold. In looking to these effects he alluded to the delight with which this point had been taken up by that intolerant faction which had ever distinguished themselves by opposition to the Dissenters' claims, and by the avidity with which those who only hoped to raise themselves to eminence by confusion and civil discord have seized on the, decla ration, to which they would irrevocably bind the Dissenters. He earnestly prayed that the unhallowed designs of both parties would be defeated. Let them not adopt so impolitic a course, and they could not fail in the attainment of those practical objects in which they would demand, and indeed must obtain, the assistance of every true lover of his country. In humbly tendering to them this advice, he hoped they would not misunderstand WM. He had told them he wished to connect religion with the state, but he did not wish to identify the state with the abuses and cor ruptions of any church establishment. ( Hear, hear.) This led him to an observation made by his hon. friend Mr. Wilks, in reference to which he would say that the evils of which they complained were not found in the establishment itself, but in the abuses and corrup tion which disfigured the establishment. As regarded the correction of those abuses, in whatever quarter, form, or shape they were found to exist, he would have them dealt with most firmly, and most unspar ingly corrected, and to that end they might ever de pend on being able to command his best services. Now, as to the grievances under which the dissenters laboured, they had been detailed to them with so much more power and effect than he could speak of them, that it was not necessary for him to say more than that on that subject he agreed in almost every' word that had been uttered. He might, however, be allowed to allude to one fact, because it was one with which he was personally acquainted. A complaint bad been made of the exclusion of dissenters from the universities, and allusion had been made by one of the reverend speakers to the University of Dur ham. When that question came under discussion in the House of Lords, he, and he alone, did make an attempt to get that university thrown open, so that the dissenters might have their share in the benefits and advantages that were to be derived by -those who were members of the church of England. Having expressed his cordial concurrence in the devo tion of all their energies and power to obtain the re dress of their practical grievances, he begged they would permit him now to say, that no man more deeply regretted than he did, on private as well as public grounds, the inadequacy of some of the mea sures that had been proposed. Their course, he ap prehended, was plain. Such of those measures as they could agree to, consistently with their just ex pectations and wishes, they should support. As to those that they considered insufficient, let them pray for their withdrawal. Let them at the same time press on this government, or on any government which political events might create, the knowledge of their firm determination never to rest satisfied till they had a full unqualified compliance with their just claims. ( Cheering.) By pursuing this course, in his opinion their success must be certain. In doing this, they would not banish their friends, but would combine all, wh?ther of the church or dissenters; whose retirement from their ranks, on a question of speculative policy, and notoriously impracticable, would tend more than anything else to retard the march of reform and ame lioration in which they had been so long and so bene ficially engaged. ( Cheers.) He once more begged to tender them his kind acknowledgments for the reso passed, and for the manner in which religious T he supported him in the chair ; and, in conelu tlhuetiy reso lution ' had sion, would assure them, that whenever his services might be calculated to 'advance the cause of civil and liberty, they should command them. (Much cheering . ) meeting then broke up, it'being about half -past four o'clock. MR. HARVEY'S CAlsE7lon Thursday, on a special motion in the House of. Commons, Mr. Ni choll, Mr. Evelyn Denison, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Frankland Lewis, Lord Eastnor, Sir W. Rae, Sir F. Vincent, and Mr. Alderman Thompson, were added to the committee appointed to investigate Mr. Harvey's case. The committee met on Friday at half-past eleven o'clock, chose Mr. O'Connell chairman, ar ranged as to the course of proceeding, and adjourned. The committee sat with closed doors. The Rose arrived off the Wight the 16th instant ; she left China the 25th of January, and .St.. Uelena the 10* April. LITERATU RE. TYTLER'S HISTORY OF SCOTLAND. Vol. V. London 1534. We have just received the fifth, and, we be lieve, the conCluding volume of this history. As it is the only one •we have yet seen, of course we cannot form an opinion of the gene ral merits of the work—unless, indeed, we read it backwards, like the Hebrew Bible. If Mr. Tait will send us the History entire, we will en deavour to do it justice ; but to send us one volume (and that one the last !) is just as ab surd as if Sir Jeffrey Wyattville were to send us a brick as a sample of his new improvements at Windsor Castle. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. YORK SPRING MEETING. York, Saturday after won. The meeting commences on Monday, and will termi nate on Wednesday. The following horses have arrived , for the York Derby and other stakes : THREE-YEARS-OLD. Lord Kilburne's br. f. by Jerry—Emilia Duke of Leeds'sbr. c. by Blacklock—Lady of the Vale Duke of Leeds's b. c. by Blacklock—Mrs. Rye Mr. Armitage's b. c. by Velocipede, dam by Whisker Mr. W. Richardson's b. c. Beverley, by Y. Phantom Mr. G. Crompton's b. c. Mellerstein, by Corinthian Mr. G. Crompton's b. f. Mayflower, by Jerry Mr. Skipsey's br. c. Wyndham, by Chateau Margaux Mr. Skipsey's b. c. Warlaby Baylock, by Blacklock Mr. Powlett's br. c. by Figaro or Lottery—Miss Fan ny's dam. Mr. Hebden's ch. c. Rifleman Mr. Armitage's ch. f. by Velocipede—Nonplus's dam Major Yarburgh's b. f. by Velocipede—Laurel's dam Duke of'Leeds's ch. c. Valparaiso, by Velocipede Mr. Smith's b. f. Rectitude, by Lottery Duke of Leeds's ch. f. Medea, by Whisker Duke of Leeds's b. f. by Whisker—Young Mary Mr. Skipsey's gr. f. Nell, by Blacklock Mr. S. Fox's ch. f. by Blacklock—Mrs. Fry Mr. G. Crompton's b. f. Flight, by Velocipede Mr. R. Bower's b. c. Mr. Merryman, by Comus Mr. Maxwell's ch. c. Buccanier, by Blacklock Sir W. Milner's ch. c. Currency, by Velocipede Lord Sligo's ch. c. Bran, by Humphry Clinker Mr. Salvin's b. f. Isabella, by Lottery Mr. Bowes's ch. f. Maid of Lune, by Whisker General Sharpe's ch. f. by Malek—Perlet's dam Mr. Gascoigne's b. f. by Blacklock—Repealer's dam Lord Sligo's b. f. Ellen, by Starch Lord Chesterfield's b. c. Mammoth, by Leviathan Lord Sligo's b. c. Spume, by Roller Lerd Kilburn's br. f. Sister to Retainer, by Jerry Mr. Gascoigne's Zohrab Mr. Marson's bl. c. London Of the above the first eleven are in the York Derby, the next three in the Wentworth, the next six in the Oaks, the four following in the St. Leger, the succeeding five in the filly stakes, and the next four (with Warlaby Baylock) in the Shorts. TWO-YEARS-OLD. Mr. Smith's b. c. by Memnon—Chorister's darn Duke of Leeds's b. c. by Actaon, dam by Reveller Mr. Petre's ch. f. Lucia, by Granby, Juliana Mr. Jaques's ch. f. by Actozon—Comedy Sir E. Dodsworth's b. c. by Mulatto—St. Patrick's d. Mr. Edmundson's b. f. Rosamond, Sister to Richmond Mr. Walker's ch. f. Alice, by Langar Mr Ridsdale's gr. c. by Tramp—Flora Mr. Powlett's b. c. py Langar—Giovanni's dam Duke of Leeds's b. c. by Actxon, dam by Reveller Duke of Leeds's ch. f. by Malek—Rhodacantha Duke of Leeds's ch. c. by Actaeon—Gin Duke of Leeds's b. c. by Longwaist, dam by Walton Major Yarburgh's br. f. by Lottery—Belinda Mr. Wilson's b. c. Winkley, by Velocipede Mr. S. Fox's b. f. by Langar—Lady of the Tees BETTING in ST. JAMES'S.—(THIS DAY). The following is a statement of the odds up to this morning:— THE YORK. DERBY. 5 to 4 on Watlaby Baylock (taken) TILE DERBY. 7 to 2 agst. Plenipotentiary 9 to 2 agst. Bubastes 5 to 1 agst. Shilelah 16 to 1 agst. Olympic IS to 1 agst. Bentley. 20 to 1 agst. Brother to Marpessa 22 to 1 agst. Comet 30 to 1 agst. Guardian (taken) 50 to 1 agst. Morotto (taken) 550 to 400 on Olympic agst. Bentley (taken) THE OAKS. 3 to 1 agst. Cotillon (taken) Mr. Walker's Oaks filly, Velocity, broke her leg in the stable a day or two since. LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING. FRIDAY.-The Kirkdale Stakes of 2.0 sovs. each, h. ft., with 20 added for three and four-yrs.-old. Once round and a distance. Three yrs., 6st. 91b. ; 4 yrs., Bst. bib. Sir R. K. Dick's b. f. Miss Margaret, walked over. The Stand Cup, value 100!., added to a Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for all ages. Twice round and a distance. Three yrs., 6st. 101 b. ; 4 yrs., Bst. 21b. ; five yrs., 83t. 101 b. ; six yrs. and aged, 9st. The second horse to receive 20 sovs. Sir R. W. Bulkeley's Birdcatcher, 5 yrs I Mr. Thompson's ch. c. Fitzdictor, 4 yrs 2 A Handicap, for all ages, of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft., with 20 added. One mile and a half. Sir T. Stanley's Les Grace, 4 yrs 1 Mr. Ross's b. c. Pretender, 3 yrs 2 Marquis of Westminster's Mary, 3 yrs The Liverpool Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft., for horses not thorough bred, 3 subs. or no race, did not fill. The Ormskirk Plate, value 100/. ; three-yrs. -old, 6st.lolb. ; four ps., Bst. 21b. ; fire yrs., Bst. 101 b. ; six yrs. and aged, 9st. Heats, twice round. Mr. Shepherd's Revolution, aged 1 1 Mr. Powlett's b. c. Lambkin, 3 yrs Mr. Dawson's ch. g. Pestilence, 5 yrs Two others drawn. • KELSO SPRING MEETING, April 13. A Sweepstakes of 5 sm. each, for hunters bona fide the property of subscribers. Two mile heats. Gentlemen riders. Mr. W. Boag's br. g. The Pilot Captain Pott's gr. g. The Cornet Two others drawn. Match. Three quarters of a mile. Mr. Boag's gr. h. by I. 0. U Mr. Duncan's br. m. Hack Race. Heats, once round. Mr. Harper's ch. m. Lady Mary 1 1 Mr. W. Pye's b. m. Silk Sleeves Mr. Gow's b. h 4 3 Mr. J. Curry 's br. m. by Mac-Orville 2 4 The British Museum closed on Saturday last for the holidays, and does not open until Monday, the 26th. A circular has been forwarded from Calcutta to the merchants of London for the purpose of point ing out to them the outline of a plan which they con sider best calculated to carry into effect the proposed steam communication between the East Indies and Europe, and calling upon the capitalists of the metro polis to use their best exertions in securing the ulti mate success of the undertaking. According to this scheme, it is proposed that a capital of 12 lacs of rupees (120,0001.) should be raised, and four steamers of 200 horse power each to be built—one to run be tween England and Alexandria, and the other three to be employed on the eastern side of the Isthmus, one at Bombay and two at Calcutta. The steamer from Bombay is to be despatched so as to arrive at Socotra two days previous to that from Calcutta, which is to call at Madras and Ceylon. On the arrival of the steamer from Calcutta, the Bombay steamer having had two days to clear the boilers, &c., the passengers will be immediately transferred to that vessel, which is to start without delay for Suez, and there receive the passengers from Alexandria by the Mediterranean steamer, as the departure of the vessel from England is proposed to be so arranged as to insure a punctual arrival. The Bombay steamer is then to return to Socotra, there transfer the passengers for Ceylon, Madras, and Bengal, into the other vessel ; and 'then pursue her course with those for sombay. Th e com munications are intended to be quarterly. A contract for the conveyance of despatches, mails, &c., is pro posed to be entered into with the government for five lacs of rupees for five-years, Government receiving the postage of the letters. We are not very sanguine, from what has heretofore been done, of a very cordial rece ption of this project by th e merchants of Loncien, but it now appears to be nearer completion than hai yet been the case, and as the Eazt In is company and the Government have, vatl.cany speaking, a de cided interest in its success. it certainly will be highly disgraceful to all concerned should it be suffered now to drop. The merchants resident in the whole of uny East India possess:ons have acted nobly, and 41 4 0wn a degree of public spirit which cannot be tqo, highly praised. Those of the mother country will not, it is to be hoped, suffer themselves to be outdone. ri w :: it Et. tt * From Whence. et , F 5, , • r : 4 . - ......... Qrs. Qrv. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. I Qrs. jrcks V Iclborough 397 ::25 14 90 Alemouth on,ton • 713 2510 _ Rridport Clay ... — 280 ,_ Colchester 297 309 395 23 88 14 545 `.;.• llarwich Leigh 447 25 ._ B5 10 ' Maldon B7O 27 20(i t. , 8 144 71 (37f1 c. x (ler — 1 , 98 Grimsby 137 450 lull 1136 470 Ipsw,ch 154 609 782 12 72 968 'ent 735 . 85 90 4 al4 31 663 Louth Lowestoft 205 71 44) i .ynn — 2'15 510 Newcastle — 75 170 _ _2 Newhaven — 401 Newport Poole 35 8 , tockton Wells l3O 160 _ Weymouth Whitby Wisbuach 1207 748 Wood) ridge I7S 87 29 4 '261 Yarrncuth 317 1616 3535 50 1392 Aberdteri .... .1 rbroath : 328 Banff ... — 2642 43 i)cr w i c k Dunbar — 51 —.- Lundee l7 80 _ _ 1 verness l5O 550 Slontrosa f3s __ 7347 4502 €Ol2 i 12201 1473 126 !14t:8 1 RUM. Galway — 15C0 Limerick Sligo — 700 —i Waterford . 32 50 1330 120 Fo IGN. C. G. Hope Ne*.v York Rostock l33') 52 --.— --I Total - 6042 15787 1473 )78 9318 AGGREGATE' QUANTITY OF OTH aye, 0--Tares, C—Linseed, 1733-1 Mustard, 49--Set '15747 ER ki Rapesec ads, 76. 1473 tins 01 ed. 275, F 1.1/1.% k—Branl SMITHFIELD IV .ARK ET. . 0-. This day's supply of 13easrs, Sheep, and Lambs, was moderately goal; of Ca!ves and Porkers, limited; and the trade was dull; at the following prices : PRICES PER STONE OF SLBS. TO SINK THE OFFAI.S. s. d. to s. d. a. d. e. inferior Beasts 2 2 2 41 Large Lambe,........ 0 0 0 0 Second (malty ditto .2 6 3 0 Pri:ne small ditto... .1 8 6 0 Prime large Oxen 3 6 3 6 Large coarse Calvet. 2 6 4 0 Prime Scot, &c 4 0 4 2 Prime small ditto... 4 8 5 2 Inferior Sheep 2 4 2 8 Large Hogs Second quality ditto 3 4 3 8 Small Porkers 3lO 4 Coarse.woolled ditto 3 8 310 Suckling Calves 12s. to3o each. SouthdownWethers 4 0 4 4 Quarter old Pigs 12.s.to16,eaelt SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. Beasts Sheep stud Laml;s. I Calves. pig, 2,tISO_ _ 16,800 130 I 400 Aim;ut 70 o't the ve;ists came up the St. Alban'sroad ; about .s!i up the other northern roach; shout 100 ;including Irish) frog. the western and midland districts; at..nit 1500 irom folk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire ' • about 1( 0 from Kent and gli,sex and most of the remainder from the marshes, &c in the neighbourhood of London, .r..vt GAVE ANI) LEADENHALL MAttKET,3. At per stone, by the Carcass. 5. d. to s. (I. see, inferior 2 0 2 2 1 Mot ton, inferior.., --- middling 2 6 210 I middling.. -- prime large... 3 0 3 4 prime...... -- prime small... :3 2 3 6 I fork, large yea' 2 8 4 8 -sing!! ....... Lamb ...........-- 4s. 6d. to ss. &L 5. &Ins. d. 24 2 R 30 3 4 36 4 a 2 2 3 O. 2 8 31 NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET—May 17. Having a large fair in our neighbourhood to-day, few farmers attended our market, and the little Wheat offering went off readily at fully last week's prices. Oats were in better demand, and sold freely at an advance of 64. per quarter. Little doing in Malting ißarlev, with more in quiries after Grinding Parcels. Malt and Rye steady sale. White Peas, if breakers, wanted. Few Beans offering. Fresh well dressed Flour sells readily. New. 01,-. :Vhc - .,t, Nortlitimbvrland 40s. 48s. -s • 1 - - Norfolk and Suffolk .4t, 48...... -s. -r. - Berwick and Scotch -10,. 44s -a -,.. 1 - Foreign itye, Norfolk and Suffolk .321 436. -s. -... - Foreign Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suithlk...P.fis. 311 i ....., .-„_,. -,... - Grinding .dui Feeding ' - l• tin:. .‘„, -,s. --s., ( Halt, Norfolk and Suffolk '-0:. M; -5...., fteano, Small 30, B*, .. -,s. --.4. - Tick .11. als -s --s. Pease, White :Xis. 38a. ... - 4 ....% ----. Gray t .„„ 0 % als —s ~ —s. )ars, N,•rtlitnnUerland, Potatne ' 18, 19s 193. f,2();. .„ Fend 174 IBs —s .....,, Foreign Fleur, Fine (par sack) .—.3. —s 1, - .1;. 34,,, Earl Gray and Lord John Russel are on a visit to the Duke of Bedford, at Wooburn. The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges and King's Counsel at his house in Great Stanhope street on Thursday next, the 22d inst., being the first day of Trinity Teim, Between Friday noon and Saturday ni,ht the thermometer in the shade varied no less than 24 degrees. LIVERPOOL COTTON -?MARKET, MAY 17, We have had a very general and extensive demand for cotton throughout the week, and the trade has pur chased freely, at full prices, fox common American, at d. to adyanee on fair to good, and Brazila are , fully id. per lb. higher. There is great steadiness in the market, which closes healthy. Speculators have. taken 6,000 American, 2,000 Pernarn,..oo Bahia, and 500 Maranham ; and exporters WO American, 400 Maranbam, and 400 Surat. The import this week is 33,309 bags, and the sales are 46,790 bags --namely, 640 Sea Island, 144; to ttd. ' • 60 stained ditto, W. to 131 d. ; 13,00 Q Boweds, 7p. to sp. ; 14,080 Neat nd. to 90. ; 7,240 Alabama, &c., to, ( t yl. ; 3,390 Pernams, loid. to 12d. ; 2,300 Bahia, 9-4-d. to 101-d.'; 4,120 Maranharn, 9d. to 113 d. ; 280 Para, _ Bp. to sp. ; 120 Demer ara, 1 1 Ad . to 12d. ; d. ; and 80 com mon West India, 7 p. ; 100 Egypti an , li 1,320 Surat, sid, to "id. per lb. There Las been a fair demand, to Cotton to-day, although less business has been done than on any former day this ut, k; the .piantity sold is about 4,000 bales, at steady prices—. namely, 420 Marranams, lid. to 11 7 0. ; 3( 0 Saw ginned ditto, 9:ld. to 9 d. ; 100 Peinams, llid. ; 60 Sea island, 16 d. to 17d. ; 140 Suats, 6Ad. to bid. ; rdrernaladq• in A.mericana from U. to tyr.l er lb. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR S —I was greatly disappointed at the pr )cc( ding! , of the Protestant Society on Saturday. 1. The room was not so full as I h Ire seen it on f)rmcr occasions. 2. The majority showed, that alth,u ;II liberty was in the mouth, they did not feel it to the ext •nt implied in their hearts ; for they received a learned ald intelligent man who differed from them kith hisses, and would scarcely permit him t) express his opinions. 3. The resolutions were printed and circulated before it was known that they, would pass, which shows that the Committee did not intend the meeting to be one of delibe ration and discussion, but merely one to sanction their sentiments and conduct. 4. The Noble Chairman should have had sufficient influence with the meeting to have induced them to give fair play to those who did not agree with the spirit of some of the resolutions, which it is clear thit he had not. The treatment received by Dr. Carpenter discouraged many who would have been glad to have disproved some of the assertions which were made by Dr. Brown and the Secretary, the two legal advisers of the society. 5. No Treasurer was appointed nor any account fur nished of the diposition of the funds or the number of members and contributors. Hoping that the meeting may, notwithstanding this, do good, I am glad that you allowed so much space for the re port in your columns. A NON-CONFORMIST OF THE OLD SCHOOL. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. In the past week the arrivals of Wheat and Mont were good—of Oats and other Grain moderate. The Wheat trade remained very heavy, but Spring Corn looked up wards. This morning the fresh supplies of all Grain are moderate. Wheat met a very slow sale, and last week's terms were made only for the finest parcels. Barley for grinding is again rather dearer. Beans, though not plentiful, have not exceeded last week's terms. Pease of both kinds are rather higher. The Oat trade on Friday last was full Is. per quarter higher than the previous Monday, with a free sale ; this morning the advance is maintained, but the trade is not so lively. Considerable - d,'lness still prevails in the Flour trade at previous prices. The rain of last week was very beneficial, and to-day the weather is very fine. mien ON BOAR!) Oi Sill? Wheat, 'fed (old) —s. —s. Beans, Small (new! --....White (old) s• `. --- Ilea : !833) ... 42 4 46k. Tick (new-. Fine 48.. 50s i —-- Superfine.. 50s 52.5. ; Harrow (ne --White (14.33). 45s 50s. ' ••••••••••• Fine s2s 545. Brank —..--- Superfine.. 5.34. 585.: Oats, Feed , Foreign free —s —s. ! Bye ' _ _ -S. -s. 31,. 334 ... 32 . 32 , 34s I). 35s 365. 17. '22, - Grinding -- Malting Malt -line New Pease, Grey Neu - Maple Ni -- White ---- Boilers , 25s ---- —New.. —s. —s.; Irotatoe 29:.305. New 445. 50s. 50s. 545. ---- 12i. 345. Flom ew.... 35s 36, 30s. 3Ss. Sic 40s. 1 Brae Scntch it Town &vim Nortl nu ii. ArittivALS OF GRAIN IN 1.01(00 per sac alas th Coto) ING L. t 9, 21. 7s. 19. 2 Is. !k) 45 , 4S, .43a 49 try :16, 40 , , —.10.114. ,ST WRFC . 1