The Sun. — London, England, 1834-05-20 00:00:00

wards the breaches - , but the French, although turned on both flanks and abandoned by fortune, did not yet yield ; and meanwhile the detachment of the fourth regiment which, had entered the town when the San Vincente was first carried, was strangely situated, for the streets were empty and brilliantly illuminated, and no person was seen; yet a low buzz and whisper were heard around, lattices were now and then gently opened, and from time to time shots were fired from underneath the doors of the houses by the Spaniards. However, the troops with bugles sounding, advanced towards the great square of the town, and in their progress captured several mules going with ammu nition to the breaches • but the square itself was as empty and silent as the streets, and the houses as bright with lamps; a terrible enchantment seemed to be in operation, for they saw nothing but light, and heard only the low whispers close around them, while the tumult at the breaches was like the crashing thunder. _ . " There, indeed, the fight was still plainly raging, and hence, quitting the square, they attempted to take the garrison in reverse, by attacking the ramparts from the town-side, but they were received with a rolling musketry, driven back with loss, and resumed their movement through the streets. At last the breaches were abandoned by the French, other parties entered the place, desultory combats took place in various parts, and finally General Viellande, and Phillipon who was wounded, seeing all ruined, passed the bridge with a few hundred soldiers, and entered San Cris toval, where they all surrendered early the next morning upon summons to Lord Fitzroy Somerset, who had with great readiness pushed through the town to the draw-bridge ere they had time to organise fur ther resistance. But even in the moment of ruin the night before, the noble governor had sent some horse men out from the fort to carry the news to Soult's army, and they reached him in time to prevent a greater misfortune. " Now commenced that wild and desperate wicked ness, which tarnished the lustre of the soldiers' hero ism. All indeed were not alike, for hundreds risked and many lost their lives in striving to stop the vio lence, but the madness generally prevailed, and as the worst men were leaders here, all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed. Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust, cruelty, and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, im precationsithe his Sing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajos. On the third, when the city was sacked, when the soldiers were exhausted by their own excesses, the tumult rather subsided than was quelled. The wounded men were then looked to—the dead disposed of. " Five thousand men and officers fell during this siege, and of these, including seven hundred Portu guese, three thousand five hundred had been stricken in the assault, sixty officers and more than seven hun dred men being slain on the spot. The five generals, Kempt, Harvey, Bowes, Colville, and Picton were wounded, the first three severely ; about six hundred men and officers fell in the escalade of San Vincente, as many at the castle, and more than two thousand at the breaches, each division there losing twelve hun dred. And how deadly the strife was, at that point, may be gathered from this, the forty-third and fifty second regiments, of the light division, alone lost more men than the seven regiments of the third division en gaged at the castle. Let any man picture to himself this frightful carnage taking place in a space of less than a hun dred square yards. Let him consider that the slain died not all suddenly, nor by one manner of death ; that some perished by steel, some by shot, some by water, that some were crushed and mangled by heavy weights, some trampled upon, some dashed to atoms by.t.he fiery explosions ; that fo r hours this destruction was endured without shrinking, and that the town was won at last, let any man consider this and he must admit that a British army bears with it an awful power. And false would it be to say that the French were feeble men, for the garrison stood and fought manfully and with good discipline behaving worthily. Shame there was none on any side. Yet who shall do justice to the bravery of the soldiers? the noble emulation of the officers ? Who shall measure out the glory of Ridge, of Macleod, of Nicholas, or of O'Hare, of the ninety-fifth, who perished on the breach, at the bead of the stormers, and with him nearly all the volunteers for that desperate service? Who shall describe the springing valour of that Por tuguese grenadier who was killed the foremost man at the Santa Maria? or the martial fury of that des perate soldier of the ninety-fifth, who, in his resolution in win, thrust himself beneath the chained sword blades, and there suffered the enemy to dash his head to pieces with the ends of their muskets ? Who can suffi ciently honour the intrepidity of Walker, of Shaw, of Canch, or the resolution of Ferguson of the forty-third, who having in formerassaults received two deep wounds, was here, with his hurts still open, leading the storm ers of his regiment. the third time a volunteer, and the third time wounded ? Nor would Ibe understood to select these as pre-eminent, many and signal were the other examples of unbounded devotion, some Known, some that will never be known ; for in such a tumult much passed unobserved, and often the ob servers fell themselves ere they could bear testimony i to what they saw ; but no age, no nation ever sent forth braver troops to battle than those who stormed padajps, " When the extent of the night's havoc was made known to Lord Wellington, the firmness of his nature gave way for a moment, and the pride of conquest yielded to a passionate burst of grief for the loss of his gallant soldiers." ST. JAMES'S, WESTMINSTER,--Yester day morning a meeting of the parishioners was held at Willis's rooms, to elect twelve vestrymen and five au ditors of accounts for the year, under the new Vestries Act. J. Peat, Esq., the churchwarden, took the chair. The Hon. F. Byng proposed the following Persons as vestrymen :—Lord King, Sir F. Burdett, lion. W. Ponsonby, J. H. Powell, Esq., Mr. Ar nett, Mr. Gibbs, Mr. Bidgood, Mr. Nicoll, Mr. Stones, Mr. Stanton, Mr. Chapple, and Mr. Fisher. Mr. Turner seconded the motion. Mr. Kemp then pro posed the following list as an amendment :—Mr. Ar nett, Mr, Didgood, Mr. Caldwell, Mr. Chapple, Mr. Crookes, Mr. Cowley, Mr. Drake, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Per kins, Mr. Stock, Mr. Stanton, and Mr. Vickery. Mr. Lawford seconded the amend ment, and it was carried lay a large majority. A poll was then demanded, and granted upon the part of the former list. It is to com mence to-day, and last three days. WEYMOUTH.- - There were immense shoals of mackerel on Monday and Tuesday floating in the West Bay, which have produced a most abundant har vest to the fishermen along the coast. Old May-day was observed here according to ancient custom, when ever the fishing season has proved prosperous, as a gala day. Numerous groups of fishermen from Ab hotsbury, Langton, Chickerell, Fleet, and Wyke, assemble on the beach, bearing garlands and other rural insignia, accompanied with music, extending on the ridge of the pebble bank for a considerable dis tance, form festive parties, in which the female and junior branches of their families always participate, and dedicate the after-part of the day and evening to mirth and hilarity. There have not, until within a ew days, been so copious a supply of fish on our coast, or have they been of so fine a flavour , as we have been accustomed to find of late years • but those now } h overing along the coast prove smaller fish, and are of a particular rich and firm quality, and, from their abundance, have induced a recurrence to the renewal of this shadow of votive offering to their tutelar marine deity.—Sherborne Journal. The Duke of Richmond has arrived in Paris. His visit is not purposely, we understand, for Political objects, but on his own private affairs. His 'chief object in coming is to strain every nerve in de feg.ee of his title to the estate of Aubigny, in France, aga.iggt the claims of his family, who consider them selves Legally entitled to share it with him, according to the laws of France. The estate was granted by Louis XIV. to Charles 11. of England, and to the first Duke of Richmond, a natural son of Charles by his first mistress, Mademoiselle Guerouille. It has continued since in the possession of the Dukes of Richmond. According to the laws of France passed in 1792, all the heirs of the third Duke of Richmond, who died in 1806, had an equal right to a share in this estate. The late duke, however, took possession of the whole as elder son, in spite of the law of 1792, abolishing entails and primogeniture, under the plea,' as he now maintains, that his title was of such a cha racter as not to be under the control of the common law of the land. Whether the French Courts still acknowledge the validity of such a title, and so far adapt the customs and prejudices of England in favour of an English duke, as to exempt his property from that division among all the children to which every other estate in France is liable, is a question which will, ere long, be tried before a French tribunal.— Galignani. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. O America 0 1 Hamburg ...... ....... 0 O Brazil ........»....» 0 0 Holland .." ....... .... 0 O Buenos A yres 0 0 Jamaica ............. 0 O Carthagena 0 0 Leeward Islands .. 0 1 Dubli n 0 0 Lisbon ...... ....... .... 0 O Flanders ........ 1 France 0 0 5weden......... 0 O Guernsey &Jersey 0 1 Waterford •.... 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO MORROW. Morning 32 minutes after 0. Evening... 2 minutes after 1 RAILWAY EXHIBITION. TIHE GRAND EXHIBITION just opened at the BAZAAR, BAKER-STREET, PORT MAN-SQUARE, representing by Mechanical and Pic torial display that great Wonder of Art and Science, the MANCHESTER and LIVERPOOL RAILWAY, has been viewed with the utmost satisfaction by great numbers of the Nobility and Gentry. The Exhibition is in a hand some Theatre built for the occasion, which has been many months in preparation, and neither pains nor expense spared to make it as perfect a representation as can be ef fected in the limited space of a Theatre. To see the whole occupies about half an hour, but it is immaterial at what time persons enter, for as soon as the view is com pleted it recommences. The Pictorial part occupies seve ral thousand square feet of canvass, and the Mechanical part displays a great variety of Carriages accurately copied from those on the Railway, and enable the visitants to form a very correct idea of this wonderful work. Admission from Ten till Dusk ;, price One Shilling. Explanatory Catalogues, with Twelve Descriptive Plates, price One Shilling. Mr. CAaPZ'TER'S Letter to Lord DURHAM is deferred till To. morrow. for want of space. , LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1834. In another part of The Sun will be found a report of the speech of Sir JOIIN CAMP BELL to his Edinburgh constituents, on his nomination on Saturday last. We have read this speech with some attention, and may say of it, that it is the most frank, the most inde pendent, and the most liberal, that ever yet fell from the lips of an Attorney-General. These eminent legal functionaries have not in general been characterized by any very exces sive ebullition of public spirit, and it is worthy of remark, that the first within our time to shake off the manacles of custom, and speak out like a man, is a Scotchman—and that Scotchman is Sir Jorm CAMPBELL. The hon. and learned gentleman boldly tells the electors that he claims their suffrages, not in the character of 'Attorney-General, but as plain JOHN CAMPBELL, the political and legal reformer, who, throughout his public career, has never once relaxed in his efforts to promote the welfare of his country. It is here he takes his stand. His actions are before his countrymen—let them speak for themselves. He is a friend, but not a tool o ministers. He is ready to do their bidding, and sail in their wake, so long as the cause in which they are embarked is a just one, but wil part company the instant he finds them going on a wrong tack. Plain, straight forward language like this would, in the old days of Toryism, when Attorney-Gene rals were little better than ministerial mouth-pieces, have been deemed little short of heresy ; surely, then, that man is worthy the support of all honest and enlightened citizens who is the first to lend independence and dig nity to the situation! As a reformer, Sir JOHN CAMPBELL takes the only line that has the sightest chance of being attended with advan tage to the community. He is a reformer within, not without, the pale of the constitu tion. He takes common sense, not enthusiasm, practice, not theory, as his guide. Steer ing clear of the two extremes of Ultra- Toryism on the one hand, and of Ultra- Radicalism on the other, he will pursue the mean path of safety. It is impossible that an enlightened constituency, like that of Edin burgh, can fail to perceive the benefit of having as their representative a gentleman who ad dresses them in language like this—who, de spising all the usual electioneering trickeries, speaks to them as one friend would speak to another, in words of manly sincerity. Still less can their national pride (never more justly called into action) fail to be gratified by the circumstance that their representative is, first, their own countryman, secondly, at the head of the English bar, and raised to this exalted rank, not by aristocratic connexion—not by dexterous time-serving, or seasonable apostacy—but by the unwearied exercise of his own unassisted energies ; by study, patience, perseverance, backed by a bold, independent spirit. The path which Sir JOHN CAMPBELL has trod has not always been strewed with roses. Hear his own account :—" As has been stated by two of my. kind friends, I have risen from humble life to a situation of great eminence (Hear), and I will venture to say, that I have done so without any sacrifice of principle or consistency. I had many disadvantages to struggle against. I had no party to support me—no patron to advance my in terests. But with these disadvantages, I had the advantage of Scottish education—l had the advantage of early habits of application and industry. By the use of these I have attained independence ; I may say eminence ; as I am now at the head of the Dfiglish bar, t o which several of my countrymen, -by the same means, attained before me." In . alluding to his constant efforts to improve the laws, the hon. and learned gentleman speaks in the way that becomes a gentleman and a man of in tellect, when necessity requires him to play the part of an egotist. Sir J. CAMPBELL barely touches on the delicate topic, wherefore we feel it our duty to say of him (what we are sure he will never say of himself), that as a legal Re former, he is one of the most efficient we ever had, and bids fair, if opportunity be allowed him, to confer still greater benefits on the country. " In my individual capacity," says he, " I have done the best I could to improve the laws of my country. Placed at the head of a commission for revising the laws of England, by great exertions of myself and others, we pointed out many improve ments, and these have been carried into ef fect by the government. More has been done in this way, within the last three years, than had been done in the long period which had intervened since the days of EDWARD I. (Cheers.) Measures for greater improvements are still in contemplation ; and in one of these I trust Scotland will be greatly benefitted ; I mean in the improvement of the law of debtor and creditor, with a view to the abolition of impri sonment for debt. (Cheers.)" Bearing in mind Sir JOHN CAMPBELL'S public deserts, and the just and enlightened character of the Edin burgh electors, we do not for an instant permit ourselves to doubt of his success. The very doubt would be insulting to his constituents, as tending to imply that they had not sagacity enough to appreciate his worth. It will be seen from the Brussels papers that the PRINCE ROYAL is dead. This will be felt as a very serious calamity by the King of the BELGIANS, and, indeed, by the people of that country, as well as by the relations of the Royal Family in France and England. A projet de loi was introduced to the Cham ber on the 15th, by the Minister of Justice, which enacts severe penalties against any one abetting or encouraging the pretensions of the Nassau family. This projet was hailed with bravos by the Chamber. The rejection of the Belgian Minister at Berlin is to be followed immediately by the re moval (on leave of absence) of the Prussian envoy at Brussels. BRUSSELS, MAY 17.--The young Prince Royal died last night. The following are the terms in which the news is given by the Moniteur this morning : " Laeken, May 16, 9 o'clock, P.M. " The Prince Royal, who was yesterday in pretty good health, had a relapse last night, which puts him in the greatest danger. " SECOND BULLETIN. " Laeken, 11 P.M. " The fits increase ; convulsions succeeded. The Prince Royal expired at 35 minutes past 10 o'clock at night." We learn that the Belgian ship the Mercury has arrived at Constantinople, under the national colours. It was not molested either on the voyage or on its arrival. The Courrier de la Meuse contains a brief of the Pope, addressed to the bishops, approving their plan for a Catholic university. In the sitting of the Chamber of Representatives, the Minister of Justice read a project of law for repressing public demonstrations in favour of the Orange family, which will afford the legal means now wanting, and, by showing the people that the Government will punish all such imprudent manifestations, will induce them more rea dily to give up the criminal, anti-social notion of doing themselves justice ; and will, in reality, increase the per sonal safety of the two partisans of the deposed dynasty, by protecting thorn against the consequences of their own im prudence. Art. I. Whoever shall have publicly called for, or insti gated (appele en provoque), the return of the family of Orange or Nassau, or of one of its members, shall be pu. nished by imprisonment for not less than one, or more than five years, and a fine of from 500 to 10,000 rancs. Art. 11. 'Whoever, with an intention hostile to the con stitutional government of Belgium, shall have made a pub lic manifestation in favour of the same family or of one of its members, shall be punished by an imprisonment of from six months to two years, and a fine of 200 to 500 francs. Art. 111. prohibits the hoisting or wearing, without the King's permission, a standard, cockade, or distinctive insignia of a foreign nation, under the same penalties as in Art. 11. Art. IV. prohibits the publicly wearing, without the King's permission, of the insignia of any order whatever. This offence shall be punished by imprisonment for one month to one year, and a second fine of 50 to 500 francs, and be liable, if occasion should be, to the penalties of the above second article, and of article 259 of the penal code. Art. V. Articles 111. and IV. are not applicable to diplomatic agents or consols and their suite, or to foreigners having a mission to the government, or travelling with the consent of the government. Offences under this law to be tried by the court of assise. The law will cease to be in force when the definitive treaty between Holland and Belgium shall be concluded. The minister presented another project of law on the suppression of disorder by the local authorities. —Brussels Papers, May IR. PRUSSIAN FUNDS—BERtIN, MAY 13. St. Schuh'. Jell. 4 per cent. 99% 98% Prussian English Loan, 1818, 5 per cent.... 103% Ditto lq22, 5 per cent.... -- Ditto Bonds lB3O, 4 per cent.— 9514 94% ODESSA, APRIL 22. The Governor-General, Count Woronzoff, arrived on the 9th at Katerinosloff, where he took the necessary measures to furnish the in habitants with provisions and seed corn, and then pro ceeded to visit other parts of the province. —Prussian State Gazette, May 15. EXCHANGES ON LONDON. 1-ll.mataw, MAY 16.-13 9% ; two months, 13 8. BREMEN, MAY 13.—Two months. 60A. CHRIKTIIANIA. MAY 7.—three months, 5 60. BERLIN. MAY 13.—. Three months. 6 25 1 %. STOCKHOLM. MAY 9.—Two months, 12 31). —Hamburg Papers. May 16. The following are extracts from the German Papers : The General Assembly of the States of the Kingdom opened at Hanover, on the 12th instant. As appears from the message of the Cabinet ministry, read at the beginning of the sitting, the whole system of taxation is to be revised. His Royal Highness Frederick Christian is on his way to Iceland. The King of Prussia and the Princess of Leignitz will go to Toplitz at the beginning of July. We learn that the French government has given pass ports for Calais to the five fugitives who have arrived in France, and who were concerned in the attempt to libe rate Dr. Wirth. Two of the six (not nine) who were ar rested have been already set at liberty. The Spanish Cortes are to be convoked on the QUEEN REGENT'S birthday, July 24. Little doubt is entertained that the Duke of TERCEIRA has entered Coimbra. The appropriation to national purposes of church property seems to be generally adopt ing in Catholic countries. The Finance Com mittee appointed by the House of Representa tives in Mexico have brought up their project of law, which is based on the application of monastic property to State purposes. Too many persons in parishes have profited qy the abuses of the poor laws to leave room for the expectation that a struggle would not be made by such persons to preserve their ungodly gains. The love of power is too great, and the possession of it too sweet to the nature of man, not to induce magistrates to clamour against an extensive interference with them in the exercise of it. But notwithstanding the personal ani madversions in which some journalists have thought fit to indulge, we trust the CH A N.. CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER and the members of the government will remain firm, and give their sanction to the grant of such powers and such protection to the Central Board as are ne cessary to enable it to execute the great work to be intrusted to it, in pulling down this parish hydra, which is :destroying industry and morality among us. GOD forbid that the men who are to form this Board, or any set of men in this country, should be re lieved from responsibility. But we insist upon it, that ample protection shall be extended to them. When so much hostility and animosity has been shown against the correction of these abuses before the law has come into operation, can it be supposed that malignity will not be at work after it is in action ? When thousands of pounds of parish money have been squandered in disputes about Settlements, can it be other wise than that parish money will flow in abun dance to bring actions against the Commission ers, .if they be not kept harmless in this re spect ? They must be protected against the bad passions of mankind, otherwise they will never be able to put down their bad practices. In giving their sanction to what is necessary for this purpose, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER and the Members of the Government will receive the approbation and support of every honest and considerate man in the empire, and they know that the approbation of the honest and intelligent outweighs a thousand fold all the influence that can be used by the profligate and the ignorant. Though that in fluence, acted upon by self-interest, is noisy and forward, still it is short-lived; while the former, though silent and unobtrusive, is exten sive and permanent. We would call the serious attention of the journeymen tailors of the metropolis to the advice offered them in the Circular from the Committee of Master Tailors on Saturday last, and implore them, as they value their respecta bility as men and as fathers of families, " to return to reap the fruits of honest industry, in stead of idling and loitering away their valuable time." The men may rest assured that this is the advice of their best friends. Have they not been already sufficiently deluded ? Has any one of the inducements held out to them by the manifesto of " the Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Operative Tailors" been realized, or likely to be ? Has the promised money to sup port their wives and families, while they threw themselves out of work, been paid to them ? Is it respectable for men, in any station of life, to be assisted by charity ? Are not the journey men tailors obtaining a beggarly pittance from other mechanics, who can, probably, very ill afford such a tax upon their industry ? It gives us unfeigned pleasure to find that many of the journeymen begin to see the strike in its proper light, and that although it may be very advantageous TO A WELL-PAID COM MITTEE OF JOURNEYMEN TAILORS to per suade the men to the contrary, they nevertheless are anxious to return to work ; and in one of the lodges of the union a large number have seceded from a combination which has already proved so injurious to the great body of the trade. It is perhaps not generally known that, in 1811, owing to the imbecility of the Govern ment at home, the base conduct of the Portu guese authorities, and the want of money, WEL LINGTON was once on the point of giving up the contest in the Peninsula. Sir JOHN MOORE'S brave spirit sunk under the load of a similar complication of difficulties ! WEL LINGTON deserves great praise for his well concerted plans and skill in battle, but still greater for that stern resolution, that moral and enduring fortitude, which enabled him, while everything appeared to be against him, to per severe in all but a hopeless contest. After de scribing in vivid colours the causes which led to the embarrassments of the British army, Col. NAPIER thus states the reasons which induced WELL I NG TON to maintain the dreadful struggle : "Pressed by such accumulatettlifficulties, and not supported in England as he deserved, the general, who had more than once intimated his resolution to withdraw from the Peninsula, now seriously thought of executing it. Yet when he considered that the cause was one even of more interest to England than to the Peninsula ; that the embarrassments of the French might be even greater than his own, and that Napoleon himself, gigantic as his exertions had been, and were likely to be, was scarcely aware of the difficulty of conquering the Peninsula while an English army held Portugal ; when he considered also, that light was breaking in the north of Europe, that the chances of war are many, even in the worst of times, and above all, when his mental eye caught the beams of his own coming glory, he quelled his rising indignation, and re-tempered his mighty energies to bear the buffet of the tempest." This is written in the true spirit of military genius. Why does not our Reforming Ministry add to its other claims on public approbation by simply performing an act of justice—confer ring on Colonel NAPIER some mark of dis tinction or promotion commensurate with his acknowledged merits ? Sure we are that no thing would redound more to their honour, or be hailed with more delight by the army. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. This day being a close holiday, both at the Bank and Stock Exchange, some of the brokers met on 'Change this morning, but little business is doing either in Foreign or English Securities. Consols, which closed yesterday at 92%, opened this morning at the same price. The only foreign arrivals announced this morning are French and Hamburg mails. The former states, that the joint loan of Don Miguel and Don Carlos for a million sterling, which early in the course of last week was said to be in contemplation, had been contracted ; but this is not credited. HALF-PAST ONE. Spanish Stock has been done at 36 1 %, owing to the an nouncement in a Morning Journal of the convocation of the Cortes, to assemble at Madrid the 24th July. The price has since declined to 36 sellers. Portuguese Bonds have been 79 1 ,4,'n0w 79 1 4 ; Mexican 43 3 / 4 44 ; Consols 92%%, and 73 1 ,E for July. We are still without any arrivals from Lisbon. Consols, 92% % THREE O'CLOCK Mr. John Bates has been a ppointed Secre tary to the Royal Yacht Squadron, in the room of Mr. Richard Stephens, appointed Collector of Customs at St. Ives. NEW COMET. Professor Schumacher, Astronomer Royal of Denmark, announces in his Astronomische Nachrichten of the 7th instant, the discovery of a new comet on the Bth ultimo, by Pro fessor Gambart, of the Marseilles Observatory. Al though it disappeared on the 13th, and from the state of the weather, and the temporary imperfection of his micrometer, his observations were interrupted and im perfect, Professor Gambart assigns its place, on the 10th, at 16h. 32m. 455. of sideral time, to be 20h. gm . 7s. of right ascension, and 22 deg. 33 min. of south declination. When first seen it was near the horizon, having a nebulous appearance, and situated in the constellation Sagittarius, very near the nebula .2,064 of Sir John Herschel. The comet was of a pale light colour, of a very round form, and with a diameter of about four or five minutes.—Atheneum. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. SENTENCES UPON THE PRISONERS. This day at noon, th e RECORDER, attended by the She riffs, and Aldermen Venables and Copeland, entered the Court in order to pronounce judgment upon the prisoners convicted during the session. For the first time during the last 150 years, two convicts appeared to receive sentence of death,---viz., Henry Quick, for maliciously stabbing and cutting a person, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm ; and Wm. Francis, for burglary. The following were ordered to be transported for the term of their natural lives—William Henry Jones alias Bascall, John Hudson, Alexander Watkins, Henry Ed wards, James Best, James Taylor, Robert Byfield, John Steele, Thomas Keith, Joseph Seal, William Richardson. FOR FOURTEEN YEARS—Charles Duff alias Tubbs, William Dolley, Benjamin Gawthorne, Samuel Gaw thorne, Samuel Westbrook, William Dillo n , J o hn John son, John Davis, Jemima Davis, William Smith, Charles Berwick. FOR SEVEN YFA Rs. —Thomas Wedders, Thos. Knight, Amelia Anne Richardson, alias Brockbank, Sarah Anne Trail, James-Foley, Mary Pearce, Catherine Lee, Francis Mayne, William Brown, James Stockman, Wm. Good ge , Abraham Dupree, John Currie, Thomas Flint, Henry Grig, John Jones, John Smith, Samuel James Hodgson, Peter Thomas, William Taylor, Samuel Clarke, Amos Barrett, Johanna Coleman, Charles Misson, John Hatton, Samuel Hubbuck, Thomas Williams, George Robinson, John Finletter, George Freather, Thomas Burleigh, William Lavender, Anne Deane, John Christmas Hobbs, John Smith, Cornelius Mahoney, John William Miens, Anne Wilks, William Wright, William Hitchcock, George Dixon, T. Lewis, Geo. Green, Jane Vrent, J. Sheffield, Samuel Levy, Daniel Bryant, Martin Alfred Lindsey, D. Brown, A. Nottage, T. Browning, J. E. Richardson, C. Beaumont, and Capt. H. C. Kirkwood. A great number of prisoners were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment and hard labour for periods varying from two years to seven days, and several juvenile offenders were ordered to be whipped during their confinement. The court then adjourned to Thursday the 3d of July. By the Nightingale Mexican packet, which arrived at Falmouth on Saturday, advices have been received from Mexico (city) to the 22d, and from Vera Cruz to the 27th March. Bravo and Canalizo had been driven out of Oaxaca, where they had for some time maintained a strong footing. Canalizo was in the neighbourhood of Mexico, with about 500 troops, cavalry and infantry. A letter from the city of Oaxaca, dated the 14th . March, says :—" Tranquillity is per fectly maintained in our state, and measures have been taken to prevent Canalizo, and the insurgents under him, from again visiting us."— Times. _ There is a spot - in the Green Park, near Rosamond's Pond, about twelve feet in circumference, where, if a person stand and look in any direction whatever, he cannot see house, chimney, nor any part of a building, and nothing but the verdure of the park, trees, and water, and the whole prospect appears as rural as though he were in an inland county at a con siderable distance from the metropolis. The Liberal Journals have lately recalled to the memory of Louis Philippe his declaration to the republicans of 1830, that " a crown of gold is too cold to wear in winter, too oppressive to wear in summer ; a sceptre too heavy for a weapon, too short for a sup port • and that a good beaver hat and stout umbrella are fairly worth them both."— Court Journal. The Caledonian Mercury states that one of the first subjects which will occupy the attention of the ensuing General Assembly is the question—whether those who have declared themselves opposed to the alliance of Church and State can be permitted to take their seats as members of the Supreme Court of the National Establishment of Scotland ? So numerous are the omnibuses which now run in and about London, that the mileage duty alone amounts, it is said, to nearly 200,0001. per annum. FELINE PHENOMENON.—A poor woman, named Workman, living in Rutland-street, in this town, has a favourite cat that lately brought forth four kittens, three of which were immediately taken from her and destroyed, and she has ever since suckled two young weasels, and her remaining kitten, with equal care.—Cheltenham Chronicle. _ The reigning Pacha of Tripoli is at this time negotiating a loan with one of the great capi ta'ists of Paris, under the influence of the Porte and Russia. _ _ _ The East India Company's ship Prince Re gent arrived off the Start the 15th instant : she left China the 26th of January, cal St. Helena the 31st of March. LIFE OF A SOLDIER.—Few officers in his Majesty's service have seen so much of military life as the field-officer to whom the public are indebted for the striking and varied contents of the work desig nated as above. His career brought him in contact, not only with many foreign generals, but with most of the illustrious chiefs and nobles of his native land, of whom he has told a series of characteristic and origi nal anecdotes. Among these will be found traits of Sir R. Abercrombie, Lord Cloncurry, Duke of Lein ster, Duke of Wellington, Lord Collingwood, Gen. Spencer, Sir John Doyle, Lord Hill, and Marshal Beresford. SAVINGS BANK IN PARIS.—The receipts and prosperity of this useful institution continue to in crease. On the 11th and 12th of May there were 2,519 deposits made, of which 448 were new accounts. The total amount was 322,054 francs. The demands on the bank for the week amounted to 125,500 francs. CURIOUS CHRISTENING.—The Rev. Dr. Young, P.P. of Baldoyle, administered the sacrament of baptism on Thursday under circumstances not a little singular. There were present, first, Mary, the infant, christened; next, Elizabeth, its mother; next, its grandmother ; next, its great grandmother ; and next, its great great grandmother. The latter is still an active and healthy woman, though she is supposed to be very nearly in the hundredth year of her age. ' —Dublin Morning Register. The Journal cf Anvers contains the following news :—" A letter from Holland announces that the natives of Sumatra having risen against the Dutch government at Batavia, have chosen a native King, and expelled the Dutch from their posse s ;ions in that great island." THE NAVAL AND MILITARY LIBRARX OF ENTERTAINMENT. —This work, so highly inte resting to every class of readers, will be completed on the Ist of June, by the publication of the " Night Watch, or Tales of the Sea," in two vols. ; contain ing the Captain's Story, the Master's Story, the Boat swain, a Forecastle Yarn, and the Prisoner of War's Story. Independently of this work, the collection contains " The Naval Officer," by Captain Marryat, three vols. ; " Sailors and Saints," by Captain Glas cock, three vols ; " The Chelsea Pensioners," by the Author of " The Subaltern," three vols. ; " Tales of Military Life," by the Author of " The Military Sketch Book," three vols.; and " The Tales of a Voyager to the Arctic Ocean," first and second series, each in three vols. Either of the sets in the collec tion may be had separately, at only 4s. per volume, bound. The price of the whole being 4/. RETALIATION. —A pig on board the ship Curler having taken a fancy to the jacket of one of the seamen, ate it up sans eeremonie, which being observed by the owner, he, with as little ceremony, drew out his knife and decapitated the pig on the spot. The Captain being on the poop, and witnessing the transaction, gave the seaman into custody, and he was committed to the Quarter Sessions for the offence. —Sydney Herald. LYNN, MAY 14.—0 n Friday afternoon, as some boys were fishing in the mill-pond, they drew to shore a handkerchief that was floating on the surface of the water, which was found to contain the body of an infant. It was in a state of nudity, and the features had been much bent to compress it into the package. From its size we should suppose it to have been de stroyed almost as soon as born. How long it had been in the water would be difficult to say, the body beginning to be much decomposed. At a Coroner's Inquest held the same evening, the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person un known." COLBURN'S MODERN NOVELISTS.—The Mmy Number of this cheap New Monthly Library of Entertainment contains the last series of Mr. Theodore Hook's." Sayings and Doings," comprising his stories of " Cousin William," and " Gervase Skinner." The purchasers of the former series have, therefore, an op.. portunity of completing their sets at a very trifling cost, the volumes being published at -only 4s. per vo lume, bound. This collection, which must not be confounded with other advertised libraries, already comprises the complete works of Mr. Ward, three of Mr. Bulwer's, and the principal productions of Lord Mulgrave, Mr. Theodore Hook, Mr. Horace Smith, Mr. Lister Mr. D'lsraeli, Mr. Grattan, Mr. Gleig, Lady Charlotte Bury, &c. ; and the public tire re quested to observe that, the copywrights of these works being the sole property of Mr. Colbura, they cannot appear in any other collection. EDINBURGH ELECTION. (From a Third Edition of the Caledonian Mercury', dated Saturday, six p.m.) CITY REPRESENTATION-SIR J. CAMPBELL. MEETING IN WATERLOO ROOMS. This day, at one o'clock, Sir John Campbell, his Majesty's Attorney-General, met as numerous a body of the electors of Edinburgh as the large Waterloo Room could contain. Sir John was introduced by the Lord Provost and Sir T. D. Lauder, and his appear ance was hailed with the greatest enthusiasm. The Lord Provost, on the motion of Sir Thomas D. Lauder, was called to the chair, and shortly con gratulated the meeting on the object for which it was assembled. Mr. SKENE, advocate, then rose, and in an eloquent t whichanswered e h re e dh:lth heard much stated humo ur aagainst and and amusing speech, pointed out the qualifi ca tions of Sir John Campbell to represent the metrop o lis of his nativect every the learned Attorney-General for England, and then most humourously contrasted his preten sions with those of the two honourable gentle men by whom he was opposed, nam e ly, Mr. Learmouth and Mr. Aytoun. Towards both these gentlemen he professed the highest respect in their in dividual character ; and for Mr. Aytoun he expressed the greatest friendship as an individual ; but in respect to their talents, business habits, experience, and poli tical character, he begged the electors of Edinburgh to consider if they could for a moment be put in compe tition with those of Sir John Campbell as fitted to re present and defend the wishes and feelings of the in habitants of Edinburgh in Parliament ? He concluded by moving that Sir John Campbell was a fit and pro per person to represent the citizens in Parliament. The learned gentleman's speech will be reported at full length in our paper of Monday. Bailie TuomsoN shortly seconded the motion. Sir John Campbell was a native of Scotland, and the son of a Scottish clergyman, and he was delighted to see him, and to welcome him here. (Cheers.) Sir JOHN CAMPBELL then rose, and was received with loud and long cheering, waving of hats, &c., and proceeded to address the meeting as follows : ___Fellow countrymen, I know that I shall have a patient hearing from you. Whether you approve or not of the sentiments I shall utter, this I know, that I shall have the satisfaction of being listened to. Gentlemen, in the arduous struggle for reform in the representa tion, I had the honour to bear a part. I heard the calumnies then uttered by those who opposed it against my countrymen. They said Scotsmen were incapable of freedom—that if the Reform Bill passed, Scotland would become a scene of riot, confusion, and blood shed—for, said the enemies of reform, Scots men can never meet in large numbers, on any political occasion, without not and confusion, ending in bloodshed. Gentlemen, Scotland has al ready given the lie to this calumny. (Cheers.) We observed, in the southern part of this island, with de light, the manner in which you exercised your privi leges as freemen. The manner in which the new born liberties of Scotland were exercised did credit to our native land, and put to shame all those who doubted of your qualifications to act as freemen. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I, without the slightest hesi tation, accept of the invitation offered to me of be coming a candidate for the representation of the me tropolis of my native country ; nor do I feel in the slightest degree mortified, because I was not the first choice of a leading portion of the citizens of Edin burgh. ( Hear, hear.) I am not mortified, for this reason, that what has happened has shown that I and now brought forward as your voluntary choice, n not as suggested to you by the government of th e country. (Cheers.) Thank God, the days are gon e by when a man was suggested by the treasury , an when thirty-three individuals of Edinburgh had, n ° choice but to return the nominee of the ministry. asg°_` would now despise and scorn any such dictation, ,enw.. the person who is to represent you. (Cheers.) maes tlemen, although certainly connected with h is I lain ty's government, I present myself here as p who John Campbell—as one of your countrymen, od has done the best he could to earn y our g0..i113 opinion. I may say I was born and b red in country, and I glory in the name of Scotsman. (Cheers.) I have ever boasted of my coun try ; and I have ever striven that my country men should not be ashamed of me. ( Loud cheer ing.) As has been stated by two of my kind friends , I have risen from humble life to a situation of great eminence ( Hear), and I will venture to say, that I have done so without any sacrifice of principle or con sistency. I had many disadvantages to struggle against. I had no party to support me—no patron to advance my interests. But with these disadvantages, I had the advantage of Scottish education—l had the advantage of early habits of application and industry. By the use of these I have attained independence ; I may say eminence ; as I am now at the head of the English bar, to which several of my countrymen, by the same means, attained before me. Need I men tion the name of Erskine (Cheers), and may we . 11(34 also fairly boast of a countryman, in naming Broug_h (Greet cheering), a man who was born and bred in this city—who has reflected honour not on this coo n? ; h he belongs try only, but on the species to wh-e- a m ost (Loud cheering.) Gentlemen, it would forbe all my distinguished honour and high rew ard arepre struggles and all my labours, to be cho sen as Cheers.) I sentative of the city of Edinburgh. ( T say . without would disdain to flatter you; but this - themost flattery, that you are the most independen t, the Bri intellectual, and the best educated society in e with , tish empire. And I may say of myself, I hop ithout out presumption, that I am not altogether w will pretensions to the honour to which asp ire• efer you not deal in promises or professions ; but I r d to my past life, if I have not always been Ir.„, to be the devoted friend of the religion 0 1 "*.' for I country. (Cheers.) I am the son of oue who, ongreg a fifty-four years was a pastor of the same c ntle tion in Scotland ; and I hope (said the learned g les man with great feeling) I shall never forget t he ,., o t he sons which he instilled into my youth. I bealiebuis- Church of Scotland to Le the purest, the mo s t ev er tian, and the most useful establishment wir,,, av not appeared upon earth. I will not say that she ot hav e be capable of improvement ; that she nlaYcl;ilegious I errors to be corrected ; but I say, let no fsaScotland. hand touch the fabric of the Church 0- d, how (Great cheering.) Let it be well under stoo ever, that I would wish to see removed all the g antes of those who conscientiously dissent frost s o ,! e doctrines. I would not act like those of the aa'„ party to which my opponent, Mr. Learmonth,bel on p a i His friends in the southern part of the island sat, the the dissenters have already too much liberty—that ought to be restricted—that they ought not to he . ~,s ; lowed to marry according to their own forms-'• they should not be allowed to register their marri a g e % or baptisms, but according to the rules of the char . ., —that they should not be allowed to take degrees_"; the universities,—in short, that all their grievalltre should be fixed permanently upon them. These, gen men, are not my sentiments. I would have e r v o 'f i practical grievance removed from the dissenters. Lo ud ago r a cheering.) But I maintain that it is the duty t 0 state to afford religious instruction— a'd c hoose to education to all classes in the coun try, and who sou te hisses.) avail themselves of it. (Cheers_ e b oa st of Sept- Whai, gentlemen, has been al , Sour ce OI its prosperity? land—what has been the great an_ d that not left to Has it not been educ atio f individuals, but to a na merely voluntary efforts o al l have been instructed and tional system, by whic h .1 With regard to politic s, enlightened ? ( Cheer s . ) f ro m my earliest youth the , gentlemen, I have be en friend of every free institution. , steady and devote d. ments. I fought the battle o f have sat in three Par la lf to the utmost to Sea the reform. I exerted myse se native country. I have d e l shackles struck off my ht to a successful termination , an f this struggle broug ht do, that history' ° all must reioice, as we like it, Wher e the world does not afford an examp le ts r e revolution has been effected without s d ti n vulsion. What was the state of SaP' — i t Fos within the last three years ? Till thel un i ci pal sessed education and intelligence, but 1 10 ILL,d the freedom. You now possess th e liberty e a t. l . : bed O f franchises of freemen, and all the old h ( Cheers. 3 corruption is removed from the coun try. he best I c° ll l , l e In my individual capacity I have done fit !Ti to improve the laws of roY country. Placed law of Engia" head of a commission for rseelf 4 fa t others s , we pon d by great exertions of t m s y -and these have been 'coo% out many improvem %ernment. More hAs been dor,' into effect by the, gn the • three h ha d bee° last ree years, titan in this way, wit period which had inte rvene d shie done in the long F" r' irst. Cheers ) e a ; days o f Edwar the r i m rovements are still in contemplatiour for g reate ofthese It trustbe gr eat ' . an d g , one fitted • I mean in the improvement of the 1p bene a b °' d e btor and creditor , with a View to olitiP t ' imprisonment for debt. •( Cheers.) This, • of Ow ti