The Sun. — London, England, 1842-06-09 00:00:00

;e 7. mos. hey • 2 .OS% 6y4 77 • 152 S 100% v 3 • 1.5 (15 b 8732 5 - 0 t 54 104% ••.. •••• .•• 3 0 ;; ...... 1031 . ..... . ,weesoott !sills. 500 160 k, 1 , 414 v so 101 ' 04 g% Age 5134 - p$ ' . S ' Y. 0 F ;-;", A ND lattbitr Opltzton. " Who runs may read." POR.EICOLTs Must of the leading articles of the Paris Journals are on the ;approaching elections; generally speaking, •hey are without interest. There is a short notice in the Debefs of the article of the Courrier Francais on the policy of Al. Guizot, in which . that Journal attempted to show that M. Guizot's presence at the head cf affairs was rather calculated for war than peace. Debats congratulates the Courrier on its sudden anxiety s ee the peace of the world preserved, and regards it as a P,reel that th e organs o f t h e O p p os iti on are no t o f o pi n i on t h at 'the Clamour for war will do touch good for their party at the L ier, ti.. • but it does not think the electors will be easily rais ] by the Courrier into a belief that 11. Guizot's remaining 'hoffice would endanger the repose of Europe, and that he °tight to be roplaced by M. Thiess as the type of peace. The Commerce again notices the deficit of the public treasury France, It reminds the electors that this deficit amounts to s 2 Millatels, 135 millions, and that the expenditure of the ordi • a ar,l budget for age exceeds the estimated receipts by 116 • ttliglisns. The Commerce asks the electors whether they will ele ct men who contr i buted by their votes to such a result ? Galignani's Messenger of Tuesisay contains the following ! e mi-of:Octal paragraph :—" As some of our Paris Contempora s. so 'les continue to draw inferences front the alleged fact of the Ssaittsh Ambassador having called upon M. Guizot for an ex ' Planation on the course the French Cabinet would pursue in •- • e"hseeueece of the vote on M. Lacrosse's motion for an in 'crease of the French naval force, we think it right to state, `hr i hich w e d o i n t h e most pos i t i ve terms , t h at no suc h represen " .: a ticsi as that alluded to ever took place. The assertion is s "ally unfounded." ▪ •The Presse, in an article on the relations between France England, expresses its conviction that there is no danger , silsar bet ween th e t wo countries, but that the prospect of an -is, ..nth:nate union is more distant than ever. It seems to place its l eli anee less upon the de s i re of E ng l an d t o rema i n a t peace with •sarice than on her own isolation in Europe ; for, according ''s : it 'a the Presse, England is really in a state of isolation, not only egards France, but also as respects the Continent, parties:- : 7„ I Y Russi a , w hi c h our C on t emporary describes as the real ' ;rev of Engl an d, h er i n t eres t s b e i ng di ametr i ca ll y oppose d to . - lush interests. Vie.. 1 , 3 It was stated on the Paris Bourse, on Tuesday, that Baron s- ce 'Rothschild had declined to avail ' himself of the late ordi rane', signed by the .Minister of Finance, permitting the con t: of the l as t l oan o f 150,000,000 f. to h o ld over t h e pay s=' o,"'- "ht- of the i ns t a l men t s till d ue ,'b u t h a d pa id i nto t h e T reasury Le amount of the monthly instalment due on the 12th instant, tg^ 'B 1 5,000,000 f. tat s t ,Glee of the horses to the Kin , ' cf the French's carriage down t, on Saturday in the Notwithstanding St.. Cloud, and the pole tsei r . at o' broken by the shock. Notwithstanding the steepness of 6.. iee thad at the point where the accdient occurred, the horses ' instantaneously stopped end held in without further jl v tr 4:;./ being done. An eas i er approach to th e Ch a t eau o f St. A lt iss his now in the course of construction. IIA rt Y-lre Minister of Finance, whose re-election as Member of 1 siss , s Chamber of D eput i es was ren d ere d necessary b y h is ac :• I.:.,tizsanee of offi c e, h as j us t b een re t urne d to th e Ch am b er b y „. elector a l co ll ege of Alirande by 250 votes, out of the total Iti mher of the college, 266. s . Sher ioros did not meet yesterday. N r Inglis in the Commons, presented a petition from „ t 'seghain, for the issue 0 f the writ for that place, and gave 4, 1 4 ce that lie will to-night make a motion to that effi ct. Manslaughter Bill was thrown out, the Government • !sleetin g to g i ve the Coroners the power of reasing on bail. The chief business of the evenino was th e tas ff. On the • !!!'','lsosal to levy a duty of 5/. on Lydia cotton, Mr. Mangles • wklicted. 7he duty wa s carr i e d by 56 t o 42. duty on cotton-wool was objected to by Dr. Bowring, Af o " was, suppo r t e d b y M r. M ar k Phili ps, M r. B rotherton, 'eekzauir.4Wilson Patten, ar.d others. It was supported by M r . It kie ltjs ! t ( me, who wa s q u it e th e l ocum t enens o f a i r R. Peel for nght.. It was no t poss il-le, he said the Government could t,t l P sock a sum as the duty involved, 640,000/., and the tista'sooll'hijn.;tee decided by 97 to 44, that it was better the people lto sa " .2 •l c4 d'a be idle and starve than the Government should want oa , s. h l he duty on sheep wool was objected to by Mr. C. Wood, f was ably supported by Mr. Beckett, the Tory Member 'eeds, but Mr. Gladstone had the same argument to defend ll • ' a i- ulttee fbe insati a bl e wants o f t h e G overnmen t ; an d th e Com decided in the case by 122 to 65, that the Government s have th e tax t h oug h t h e peop l e perish. also second division took place on the wool duty, which was ase..,cansied in favour of the Government by 96 to 47. l'efsedule No. 12 was passed, and the House adjourned at a t• v-rter past One o'Clock. punzac OPINION. The Herald animadverts as follows on Mr. Ferrand's recent • conduct in the House of Commons The scene which took Place in the House of :Commons on Tuesday ni g ht was discre .ditable t o e i t h er side. The good sense of th a t asse:n bl y oug h t 7. 0 be suffi c i ent to check at once any tendency to indulge in 4 ` l~blic'hieh disorders; until it is th e H ouse cannot ant i c i pate much respect. Mr. M. F ors t er , one of the few Hon. 'Alem -4!”. 'hers who appeared to be sensible of the diegiace with which I. these f racas are attended, warned the House that it had not a s• Much characte r t o l ose; an d t h at a repetition of the scene it had tolerated was the -easiest anode of getting rid of the little that still remained. Mr. Ferrand is certainly no great acquisi .‘-itionto the House of Commons; he is oftentimes in possession of z h , I'materials, by th e j u di c i ous use of which other men would dis s;:lsrastinguish th emse l ves, and benefit the country ; but he ap t pears to be incapable of rising above offensive personalities, ''"and manages so to speak the truth as to bring con teMpt and discredit on it. Mr. Ferrand has more -• I?yer given the deepest Once to the noisiest, most vul 4ar, and - disorderly section of the House—the Whig-Racti ,'„ !nal ma nu f acturers ; and no sooner does he rise to speak than it,',-,:‘lleY commence to yell. On Tuesday Mr. Ferrand merely re- V13,.„ -14 fted a remark which bad been made to him as to the conduct 15,C 3 .144t. /levering in S w it zer l an d —t h e truth of which every man Ls d , - s so s e has read the learned Theban's' Reports on the commer- Statistics of that or any other country he h as v i s it e d' at Public cost will at onc e recognise —than he was the butt of delirous fury of these w ild men o f L ancas hi re. H ad Mr. `47. If •at d given up hi s au th or it y , h e wou ld h ave b een unworthy 11 ~..'l4 l; 4' e noti ce o f any gentleman; had lie withdrawn or apolo "1. • for his statement, he would have sacrificed the truth. • we blame Mr. Ferrand ; the remark was, in the first had - 'ge, wholly unveiled for it resulted from nothing that , i s . s - s• • s ceded It ;it was apropos des bottes and worse than all, ire. %So ""ted a foregone conclusion' to attack Dr. Bowring per- Y" if a, •s eo limes observes, in reference to the proceedings of the s 4 ' General Assembly :—" Having entertained no high t4 e t . li e ' 4 tion of any prudent or pacific measures from the tOeS 4 ,7_ General Assembly at this time, we feel the less disap e'eleeke cot at the results of their deliberations. But we were it s A s '.IY prepared for the extrtvagant pretensions which they 'so ais,nladvanced, or the extreme pains which they have taken to 1 4 ''' ' I trair t the exertions of the friends of the Establishment, and to d t he malevolence of its enemies. If the resolutions of e neral A ssem bl y are t o b e v i ewe d as f a i r exponents of Is„ 1 4, 0 !t:nerai feeli ng o f t h e c l ergy , or o f th e l ay c h urc h men of %41,1, 0 7 d, NVO should despair, or at least very greatly despond, As ksr Je probable adjustment of the existing disputes. The t the c s ulY has :n substance declared that - ,the main cause' of j,olchercli's difficulties is one of which the removal is not to • sea ter for. The g rea t source o f th e ev il i s sa id t o b e th e ill teci eof patronag e , the a b o li t i on o f w hi c h i s i n d ee d for , ssasi„ demanded, and is likely to be attained about the same ei• s,4lPerioel with the abolition of primogeniture. In such nuance s , it seems useless to attempt a mere palliative treat :, '•,aiseathhere the disease is incurable, and where the relief • a °llg ," May not compensate the trouble of the operation. So os a toth7 Patronage exists, the main cause' of the mischief must • s„ ( . naSural effects and SO long as a majorit of the shs, ascribe her condition to that. causo, they will probably neh e as ir best to verify their own diagnosis by keeping the pa salle I s i. ,e l ":ty and as feverish as ever." ,7t t i t ost says It is really legh time that a peremptory •atUito Mieuld be put to the vexatious and most unconstitu :; ,ItS.,t-!areer of the clique in the House of Commons who, ttr Peter eight, are grat ifying their personal, or venting 1010,irrarnal animosities, by gravely moving, ma the most hi i,nd unfounded pretences, for the suspension of the eke obe;.;','llsges of one constituency after another. Whilst Sir .vet es , t '• eel and Lc.rd John Russell are avowing their deli • 4 1 - 4 ° Pinion as to the increased efficiency of Committees of keti se of Commons a, a tribunal for the determination of acti 4 s - ap u isOutes, the Hou•e itself is as assiduously recopied in • "S4 tiii 'Y declaring the decisions of such Committees to be pe e t aetory and incomplete ; and in handing their reports 41 r. /140 second commissions for more thorough investigation t tl sw e buek has already got, some five or seven such verdicts • . , 1 1 for a fresh trial—the case of Southampton is in some tess,arriatling gentleman's hands, undergoing a similar pro , • t s ilt liv si t h-night that untainted and immaculate champion of lfels " t s O'Connell, has a motion for suspending the sat it aucle,,: 3 t• till a fresh inquiry can be in,tituted into the facts, I .. , It t le Ti l ‘ a decision has bee., pron iuriced by a Committee chosen sso j system introduced by Sir 11. Peel. and applauded by s, frRu sse ll.Where,' we would ask, in sober earnest o is all this to end . litepe' rat 11111.1a t s:l e : s •hiesnes fg: w p ri progress regulatingft, r o , uem sts . fi h r s e ft colliery Icac Chronicle:—" busorhuar ueowatpetcoeahsonefnd"oh. bti etyhandLtvtofe- ehrld; adding to those which have already greeted his beneficent r ` a b' ace The Bill strikes at once at the four great points Y` kbi t ,h ;he employment of females in mines ; the early age Stony ot . deco have been put to underground labour ; the :te.4es o llequi se u hstlng the young with the working machinery ;`c- most careful attention as well as physical strength ss t h °rrible accidents to life and limb ; and the bar : st. r as b oYear s '' s t (l 9 , ef apprenticing pauper children, for a long term ca l : se ° ignosant, bt mai, and irresponsible masters. These Seesw: vvretchedriess, s'emoralizatinn, amid cruelty, the s F e ` t hae s s iri 'e: h te stop immediately in their operation. Arid , the t t _ass ods to stitch !he measure was introduced by Lord Asnley • z .,,;:r e were are in the praise due to it on its own account. ' aiii'llthteth he sickly sentimentalities, useless criminations, jag f t topical cla t • The startling and Impress fact= wer p- raps. `. 4, ,q11 itn ee h e b uses and lucidly arranged. Each ei s y, orrible and suffering—not told rhetoric. up either for the House or the public, but • haAtt Put zyature as given in evidence—was made to bear upon ItiOs s ; e l or h urna " necessity of the projected remedy. In the 4 1.0:' - . %o e rne, and ratty', we say, blessings on the man by whom this hl ess _ nre one se well. The laurels of party are vile and `, i tsei t 7tss oie, ....c.par.ed with the wreath due to this generous en trust, will be as successfully accomplished as ratVspiciously commenced." I 41ktifiiI4,•ballott 3.1}1 —COMMERCE, e ta,‘. , e or a Director to the East India Company, in th e *idatc"-„I Lieutenant. Agnew, took place yesterday. Th_ ttcyt, and he nutnhers at the elose were :—Elliot Mac .;:Majorii, James . Oliphant, 782 ; J. Clarmo n ,as„ eee ls tt, nk _ hou N orth America he'd its annual meeting that tstir s! on Tuesday, when it appeared from the Re -4. 44. 4 situ! of the Bank was (5,000/., and the :paid 4.the _ ti3o,uool. o ,, ll4 lie s s a tj 'gan-build ers ' IL •y „ Benevolent Institution held its meeting ‘1417.1,2,1,0e',4170,41..._A1ti5ic-hall, Store -street. It appears that l e uu Persens connected with the trade at present. sn donations were announced. Star J: Z • I4Zo.f . r •ILIONE=ISSING. Lrnerson Torment, VVin. G. Johnsen, and D. R. `tlitaii7ffe annonnced themselves as canoidates for . the repre ea of Belfast as soon a. the new writ is issued. _ us . xac artzeuovxmr,?ArTs "14 Parnivation of the children of the City of ' London Na. '" - ' o4o ols took place yesterday, at the Mansion House. It ttr• atk.thas. e 4 - in 1, there are new about 000 who are edu hlhese..* h&c ,schools in White- street Mom fields ; Sh lan • ass;;.salid Old Fish-steet Da.'"fourtth, '4el7ltrl7l'hhw contemplated in Doctors-commons; Acj.. or intechapel. eirlsenwells yesterday, bric'slaye r of the name of Vertu, Air. J. lardon, of Ics.loimnotist,iatna, rsosbitbleir;t.oppfin'hge • hi o s :Zhed . t ares'she nighwa, vvith an intent to resistt;d, when a struggle teed ( place and on the up the prisoner was arrested. Th' Magistrate 'lt!!tr lin in the penalty of 40s, and two of heis comrades I Tir orwas so oar attemptieg a rescue. iss t :4,, a , , Viva.eis, a private •in the lloyal Artillery, was corn_ far for robbi::1), young I s .t Ceno Crissonst t ae. g a woinan to whom he had promised At the meeting of the Croydon Magistrates on Monday, the decision of the lierrlt was made as to the liability of the build ing used as the Croydon Literary and Scientific Institution being rated. The Bench decided that it was subject to the rate, as being in the occupancy of those to whom it belonged. .1L1T1. , 11.4."2..V AND SC:tlr:lNl'll'lC. • The whole of the Thames-tunnel, 1.172 feet in length, is now completed, anti so soon as the staircase on the \Yapping side is erecied, will be opened as a public thoroutlh fare. The " shield " by which this great work has been accomplished contains 150 tons of iron, atid cost 10,0001. ; it is to be sold by Messrs Pullen on Monday. Liszt, the celebrated pianist, gave a grand concert at St. Pe tersburg!' on the 22d ult., for the benefit of the city of Haut burgh, which produceca sum of 40,000 rubles or francs. Lord and Lady Francis Egerton had another theatrical re piesentaiion last night. 11.1adlle. Rachel was among the number of the guests. On Tuesday next Jerrold's popu!ar comedy of Bubbles of the Day will be brought out at the Haymaiket, Farren and Mrs. Nisbett resuming their original characters. Cell ste s' ill commence a short engagement next week at the Haymarket. Madile. Rachel will make her first appearance for the season at the Queen's Theatre to-morrow night, in the ch . .aacter of Cz.mille, in Les Horaces of Corneille. COLT 1. ..T-Pl - ISI-13017ABLE. The Duke of Wellington left town esterday for Windsor Castle, on a visit to her7Majesty. The Duchess of Buccleueh'i morning parties commence at Montagu House on Thursday next, from three to seven o'clock, The grand pavilion next the I limes has been rebuilt. Ihe Lora Pi e,ident and Lady What - nob& arrived in town yesterday from Windsor Castle. A matrimonial alliance is about to take place between the Earl of Desart and one of the daughters of the Earl of Cawdor. The Earl and Countess of Cadogan have taken Beach Grove Cottage, Sunning Hill, during the At:cot races. The Martpas of Conyngham and family arrived early last week at Kingston, from Slanis Castle, on their way to Cowes. Lord and Lady Southampton have at rived at Paris front Bourtleaux. The Earl of Cardigan had a dinner party on Monday in Portman-square. mxscr.zza)NrellE. Itlalmaison, the once favourite residence of the Empress Jo sephine, F.as been purchased by Queen Christina of Spain for her residence. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Money Market has been comparatively neglected, in con sequence of superior attractions to be found elsewhere to-day. Consols are 914 f. r the opening ex-dividend ; Three-and-a- Half per Cents. Reduced, 1004 I; India Bonds, 23 25 ; Ex chequer Bills, 48 50 prem. In the Foreign Securities the prices are nominally, Belgian, 102 103 ; Dutch Two-end-a-Half per Cents., 52i- 521 ; the Five per Cents., 101 1014 ; Danish, 804 814 ; and Bra zilian, 66 1 / 2 67 1 / z . Little has been done in Stares :—Great Western, 87 S 8; the Half Shares, 61 6( 4 ; Cheltenham and Great Western, 44; South Western, 624 634; Eastern Counties, 9 94; and Brighton, 354 354. The quotations for the Bonds are, Colombian, 264; Peru vian, 184 194 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 374; the Three per Cents., 214 ; Spanish Five per Cents., 224 224 ; the Three per Cents., 234 234. It would appear by the accounts front Madrid, that the opinions held with regard to the payment of the next dividend upon the Thri e per Cent. Spanish Stock, have not been in correct. • In the early part of the present year, the Finance Minister laid his budget before the Cortes, which showed the income to be equal to about the half the expenditure, in which, however, was included the half year's dividend upon the home and foreign debt. The first items by which it was proposed to meet the deficiency were these dividends, which were to be postponed, and the ' remainder burros ed. Immediately after this the scheme for converting the over due coupons appeared, and after eumerers delays, the Com missioners arrited here, and the conversion was effected. Every exertion was used to give a value to 'he Stock, and it was almost officially announced, that not oily was the money actu. lly in hand for the amount which has been paid, but also for the dividend due next month. Great doubts, however, existed as to the correctness of the statement, in conse quence of the state of the finances above alluded to, and as to the method by which the sum Pad been pro cured. It would now appear that the conjectures thus formed were not incorrect; and it may be fairly concluded that the plan was, in reality, intended to raise money for the Government, under the pretext of doing an act of justice to the foreign creditors. The Ministo y was chal.enged with having deposited with the contractors a large amount of coupons which ought to have been . ca .celled, arid by converting these coupons into stock, and selling the stock, the money could be raised and two or three dividends paid out of part of the pro ceeds. The scheme, however, has apparently failed, and the bonds are at a discount of 78 per cent., while capitalists are invited to come forward and lend the money to pay the next dividend. No more need be said to show the utter worthless ness of the document;, and that no reliance can be placed on what are miscalled " Spanish" securities. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE B.—The Share Market remains very inactive, but priers have undergone little variation. Manchester and Leeds, 82 83 ; ditto Half Shares, 36 364 ; South Eastern Scrip, 6 64; London and Birming ham, 1774 1784; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 51 514; London and South Western, 6263; Manchester and Salford Banks, 10g. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock l6B India Stock —pm 3 per Cent. Red. .. 913 !Ditto Bonds .... 23 pm 3 per Cent. C0n5......... [Ditto Old Annuities ... 34 per Cent. Red......... 1004 !Ditto New Annuities... New 34 per Cent......... lEx. Bills, 1,000/ 2d. 49 pm New 5 per Cent -I Ditto 500/...... 50 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 50 pm Jan. 1860 12 9-16 ißank Stock fur Acct.... Oct. 1859 Jan. 18u0 — !Consols for Opg. sees.. 911- FOREIGI , i FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portu„__euese ' 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent — Di tto , New Ditto Brazilian Bonds... — Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent — !Ditto, Metallic . Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent...... 224 Ditto, 1824 264 Ditto, Deferred.... . 104 Danish, 3 per cent 'French, 5 per cent —f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —f —e. Mexican, 5 per cent..... 364 French, 3 per cent —f. —e. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 24 per cent....... 51.4 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. 5 per cent sees. SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) sees Ditto New SIL res ( paid) ....... Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... 51 Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid... Great Wrstern Railway (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 624 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) .. . 94 London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Birmingham (90) ...... 1784 Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) London arid Greenwich Riilwav (12/ 15s 4d pd) 64 London and South Western (431 15s odpd) 624- Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Paris and Rouen (16 paid) •.. South Eastorn and Dover (50 paid) 254 Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid) York and North Midland (SO paid) ......... Ditto New Shares (15 paid) , ........ 321 Co RN AVE it A tii.E GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF ERITISH CORN, For the Week ended June 3, 1542. made up from the Re erns of the Inspect, r, in the different Cities and "i . .`,11T in En ,:an.. ai d I.vales,pet Impuriai v,:artvr Wheat... ...... 6is. Cd. Wts . 19s. 7d.1 Beans... ..... .32s rd B,ir;ev 6d. Rye AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS. Wavle endini,r WHEAT. BMILEY.I . OATS. I Mit. BEANS. it )9 IFa 7 31 6 1 19 9, 33 3 31 S 30 7 19 ti ;31 3'31 0 :41 3 A prilt24l ilay 6 13 01 0 6) 8 59 9 6 27 4 2fi 3 160 u 27 Jane 3 t3 6 25 11 1) 5 1 9 31 7 3l 4 25 11 tll 7 3 7 3a 1 31 11 t. A) 7 33 6 32 5 32 5 IMPERIAL. AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WI K Wheat 6ls. Rd. Oats 19, 0.1 31A. 11 Harley,. `°6a. 7d. f Rye DUTIES OM FOREIGN CORN. Wheat lls. 04.1 Oats Barley los. 0.1. l Rye THE MARKETS.-(Tfith DAY.) COLONIAL MARKET. Most parties being at the races, no public sales, and privately little business was done. The in.ports light from all quarters. Raw Sugar was little asked for, but prices were susta;ned. Coffee firm, and in request, but Cocoa was dull of sale, and prices still low. Rum in better ' , quest. TEA MARKET. There weie few buyers of Free Trade Tca, but ho'ders were firm, and obtained lull rates. Few parcels wets offered for sale. Company's Congou Is. Bd. cash, TALLOW MARKET. Prices firm, but with few buyers. Parcels on the spot, 48s. 6d., and 495. for ile;ivery in last three months of the year. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. There was a good supply, with a fair demand for all descrip tions ; prices without alteration. Clover, 21. to 51. 4s. ; Hay, 11. 16s. to 4/. ; Straw, 11. 10s. to 1/ 14s. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY) HELFORD. JUNE 7. —The Mary Simpkin, Clements, from Newlyn t to Colo,ester, hai put in here leaky, and has been placed on the grout d. PENZANCE, JUN E 7.—Arrd. Mary Pope, Barnes, Ancona: Arrd. off, John Horrocks, Bona, Berbice ; Marchioness Bread albane, London, for Ceylon. GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY. Traffic returns for the week ending June 4, 1842: Passengers £Bo9 7 6 Merchandise 445 17 9 Darlington, June 8. £1,255 5 3 W. O'BRIEN, Secretary. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY FOR JUNE.—The fine ro mance of " Richard Savage" continues the leading paper of Bentley, and is, with the admirable illustration from the pencil of Leach, worth nearly its entire price. A tale combining such great variety of incident, such profound knowledge of life and character, and having every stirring scene so powerfully and graphically renthred, that the actors therein seem actually to live and move before us, would add to the reputation of any magazine. It has increased the popularity of the Miscellany vastly, and procured it a permanent place in the van of light periodical literature. Then Ingoldsby, that quaint and inimi table rhymester, whose style has a thousand imitators, but not a single rival, why, he is in himself a host. His " Lay of St. Cuthbert," with Cruikshank's embellishment, f .rnis one of the many aitractions of the Number tor June. " John Bull in Tartary," by the author of " Zolwab," is a good story, illustra trative of the habits and life of the wild children of the Desert. " The Great Eagle," " The French Cook," and " Precau li - tionary Measurer,' are capital magazine papers, full of inte rest and amusement. " The Philosophy of ,11arriage," " ," and " Robins picking tro the Crumbs," with their numerous illustrations by Alfred Crowquill, each one of which is in itself a fund of humour, bring up the rear nobly, and combine to form one of the best numbers of the Miscellany that has ever been issued.—Darblin Eening Packet. 'TILL •LAN G 1: AGE OF PLOWERS.—" 'The L =gin ge of Flowers" funds:it s us with a complete dictionary of their meanings It is, in fact, a perfect translation of all the sweet thins said by the sweet voices of these children of the sun. With this book in hatid we may ramble o ee the meadows and he fields, and, consulting its page a, render vocal all the thou ,and bio:soms that have hitherto delighted our eyes vaguely and sweetly, without conveying explicit thoughts to our hearts. This little work muit indeed elihance the pleasure of the coun try in no ordinary degree, as well as invest with fresh charms the beds of every flowery parterre. We can sc ircely imagine a more acceptable present for the hand of taste to bestow, or the hand of youth to receive, than this insist elegant and beauti full).-i.lin,tiated volume. It, own l cetiliar tastefulness is a far less merit than that of conclucting to so much new and refinci enjoyment. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 9. 1842. (7 LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day to hear Scotch Appeals. The Peers present were—the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and Lord Campbell. Mr. LEWIS—The plate has not been paid for yet. The ComatisstoNE it—l can't consider that the property of Mr. Mathews. The insolvent was then ordered to be discharged forthwith. POLICE INTELLIGENCE MARLBOROUGHSTREET. (THIS DAY.) Eliza Gosling, who, during the last four years, has been repeatedly brought before this Court, and has passed at least ten months out of twelve in gaol, was again brought up for drunken and disorderly conduct. So violent is her conduct generally, that of late the precaution of handcuffing her before she is placed at the bar is invariably adopted. Police-constable, No. 145 of the C division, stated that about half-past one o'clock this morning, as he was proceeding on duty along New Bond-street, he found the prisoner sitting on the step of a door, completely naked : her clothes, which she had taken i f I.ing beside her, and amusing herself by singing or rather shrieking out at the top of her voice " Heel a heart for falsehood framed," &c. Witness desired ' her to dress, and put her elt:thes on, but she refused, and vociferated a torrent of abuse, abounding with the most grossly obscene expressions at him, and he was ultimately obliged to send for the police stretcher, and with the assistance of several other constables conveyed her to the station-house. Eliza—Dn you think I was such a fool as to walk when such skulking lazy fellows as you are prowling about all night?loo; l'd see you jolly well Mr. HA DWICK --Eliza, I mast send you for another month. Eliza—Much obliged to you I am for that kindness. You've done the like of this several times before, but I'll pay you out some day. I would not even regret two months if your worshipful •elf was obliged to sit there till I return. She was then, after a violent struggle removed to the lock up cell. OXFORD CIRCUIT. Days and places appointed for holding the Summer Assizes, in the sixth year of the reign of Queen Victoria, before Lord Chief Justice Tindal and Mr. Justice Erskine. Berkshire—Monday, July 11, at Abingdon. Oxfordshire—Wednesday, July 13, at Oxford. Worcestershire—Saturday, July 16, at Worcester. City of Worcester—Same day, at the City of Worcester. Staffordshire—Wednesday, July 20, at Stafford. Shropshire—Wednesday, July 27, at Shrewsbury. Herefordshire—Saturday, July 30, at Hereford. Monmouthshire—Wednesday, August 3, at Monmouth. Gloucestershire—Saturday, August 6, at Gloucester. City of Gloucester—Same day, at the City of Gloucester. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) CITY OF WATERFORD. The proceedings of this Committee terminated this morning. The grounds of the petition against the return of Messrs. Christmas and Reade were, the improper rejection of an im mense number of votes tendered for the Liberal candidate, on account of what was consid -red an erroneous wording of the certificates. By the decision of the Committee those rejected votes were placed on the poll for the petitioners, and thus reversed the position:of the parties. The late Members being thus ejected, claim a scrutiny into the votes of the late petitioners, and opened their case with the vote of Charles Bianconi, which they applied to have struckloff the poll of Messrs. Barron and Wise. On the other part, it was contended that the Committee could not go into a scrutiny at all, as it only had to try the legality of the return on the grounds mentioned in the petition. The Committee, on meeting this day gave its formal decision, that it could not strike off the vote objected to. Messrs. Barron and Wise, both Libe rals, the Committee contains a special Rep or t t o t h e H ouse, b y are theref o re the sitting Members; which the ejected Members may, if they thi n k fi t, app l y b y a but the resolution of petition within fourteen days for a scrutiny. FIRE IN ELY CATHEDRAL. ELY, JUNE S.—About eleven o'clock this morning, during the hour of Divine Service, an alarm was given that the Cathedral was on fire, which soon showed itself by the flames to sting through the roof on the north side of the great nave of the edifice, and really at first sight appeared to set all attempts to extinguish it at defiance ; but by the greatest promptitude and alacrity of the citizens, aided by their most indefatigable exertions, the venerable and magnificent building was rescued from destruction. The fire originated from the carelessness of the plumbers engaged in repairing the leadwork of the Cathedral. The following hand-bill with reference to the spirited ex ertions of the inhabitants has been extensively circulated : " The Rev. William Selwyn and the Rev. John Ashley, on behalf of the Dean and Chapter of Ely, present their best thanks to the inhabitants of the city of Ely, male and female, by whose most active and willing exertions, the fire which broke out this morning in the roof of the Cathedral, was, under the blessing of Almighty God, so promptly extinguished. " College, Ely, June 8, 1842." REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS. (racial A CORRESPONDENT.) When this valuable Act came into 'operation, we were told that the clergy of the estalishment were most inveterate in their denunciations of it; but we hoped that after a short time their hostility would have abated; but it appears they still negle t no opportunity of expressing their detestation of this wise and salutary enactment. A clergyman in the %Vest of England, not 100 miles from Plymouth, has done much to mislead his parishioners on the nature of it, and with this view always, when the child is baptized, inserts in the register of baptism, the date of the child's birth, in violation of repeated decisions in the Law Courts to the wantrary.—(See Wihen v. Law, 3 Starkie, 63; Duins v. Donovan, 3 Ha g gard, 301; Rex v. Clapham, 4 Car rington and Payne, 29). He then tells the parents not to go to the Registrar ef Births, as his entry of the time of biith is sufficient. The Registrar has detected many in stances already where parents hare been thus misled. The Reverend Gentleman has also made it his business to personally wait on the different nurses in his neigh bourhood, and caution them not to inform the Registrar of any births that may take place, threatening them, that if he dis covers any births have been registered through their informa tion, they will incur his displeasure, and he will withhold from them their share of the charitable gifts in the disposal of him self and: the churchwardens. His anathemas have been also thundered from the pulpit against the authors of this "wicked End infidel Act;" and only a few weeks since he refused to allow a child to be bwied in the churchyard, because the child's birth had been registered, and it had not been baptised. Some of the Rev. Gentleman's parishioners have also been guilty of the awful crime of getting married at the Registry-office and Dissenting chapels : to those this apostle of Christ holds out no mercy in this world or . the next; and the poor creatures are consigned to eternal damnation without any ceremony. It would fill many columns of your paper: it 1 were to re count a tithe of the infamous conduct of the clergy respecting the registration; and I do hope the present Government will be informed by the Registrar-General that if the parsons are al lowed to.ebstruct the operation of the Act with such impunity, it will be impossible to give anything like a correct estimate of the annual number of births; and therefore that the Act should be extended so as to make the register of births obligatory, not optional, in order to obtain a complete statistical table in the Registrar-General's Annual Report. Ply„t9istoti, St. Mary, Devon, June 6, 1842. KNIGHTSBRIDGE COMPLETE SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION. This Association held its weekly meeting last night, at Thorn ton's Coffee-house. Mr. Thomas was called to the chair. A Secretary and Treasurer were elected, ant! a committee, consisting of four electors and five non-electors, chosen by ballot. A letter was read by the Secretary, Mr. Westerton, which had been sent to him by a person, whose signature was " An Honest Elector of Nottingham, " and who declared him self to be a supporter of " honest John Walter," in answer to the address of the Association to the electors of that town. If, to afford amusement, was the object of the writer, he was emi nently successful, for the reading of the letter excited repeated bursts of laughter. In the course of the evening, the follow ing resolutions were passed : " That the Council, at the ame time, record their warmest thanks to that portion of the public press which has honestly and temperately advocated the political and social rights of the people, and trust that such papers and periodicals will always have the preference in their libraries, reading-rooms, coffee houses, and places of public resort. " That this Council respectfully request that the proprietors of the newspaper press throughout the kingdom will report proceedings in connexion with the Complete Suffrage Move ment; and this Council will be obliged by copies of any news papers, containing such reports, being forwarded to the office of the Union, at Birmingham, where they will be duly filed; and this Council further I esolve to pay for all copies of such papers which may be so forwarded." THE CHRISTINO-CARLIST CON- SPIRACY. The belief has been long current in the higher political cir cles of a new Christino-Carlist conspiracy against Espartero, as Regent of Spain, but no direct proofs of it have as yet been obtained. Some light is new thrown on this subject by an im portant document which has been communicated to us, being a note written by the ex• Queen, Maria Christina, residing at pre sent in Paris, to her brother-in-law; Don Carlos, now a state prisoner in Bourges. .We subjoin the original letter as well as a translation. " A SON ALTESSE ROYALE D.C., INFANT D'ESPAGNE, Bte " Par suite de la reponse que vous m'avez faite par l'organe du General N- a mon premier message verbal, je lie crois devoir plus limiter de vous temoigner toute la confiance que m'inspire votre caractere personel. Le sort m'a poursuivi comme votre Altesse Royale, et ce que plus est, je suis pour le moment separee de Ines augustes enfans. Au nom de la sainte religion qut nous anime, ainsi que pour le bien etre des Espag nols, qui, entraines par un homme que j'ai comble de mes bien faits; peuvent pour un moment avoir oublie leur saint devoir, nous co-opererons a sine entreprise, qni bien qu'elle n'ait point reussi a mon gre en Septembre dernie:, ne manquera cepen dant par son effet salutaire du moment que nous agissons de concert. Je souscrirais volontiers aux conditions raison nables que vous jugerez a propos de me faire soumettre. Votre affectionnee, " Mars 14. " M. C." " TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, D.C., INFANT OF SPAIN, &C. " In consequence of the answer you have given, through General N—, to my first verbal message, I think I should not hesitate any longer in testifying to you all that confidence with which your personal character inspires me. Fate has persecuted me as well as your Royal Highness, and wh a t i s more, lam for the moment separate d from my august children. In the name of the holy religion which inspires us, as well as for the good of the Spaniards, who, carried along by a man whom I have loaded with benefits, may for a moment have for gotten their sacred duty, we will combine in an enterprise which, although it did not succeed as I would have wished last September, will not fail in its salutary effect from the moment we act in concert. I would willingly subscribe to such reasonable conditions as you may deem it expedient forme to submit tn.—Your affectionate, M. C. " March 14." This document will, no doubt, call forth the attention of our Government, who are entitled to ask-for some explanatiou from that of France, provided they believe it to be genuine. We are not without expectation of some further information on this matter.—Morning Paper. KERR V. COCHRANE. The further argum ills in this part-heard case, the facts of which we have already given, occupied their Lordships the whole day, and had not concluded when our evening edition went to pres,s. I T ICE-Ul - I.A.NUhRY—(THIS DAY.) ( Before Vice-Chancellor WIG nA3t. ) HALL V. LOVER, His HONOUR gave judgment in this case, v% Bich was purely a question of cosi s. QUEEN'S BENCI-1,-(THIS DAY.) The arguments in the case of Doe dem. the Duke of Beau • fort v. Gough were resumed thin morning. At the conclusion of the algunients the Court gave judgment, making the rule for a new trial absolute. The Court then proceeded to beer motion.% EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) THE QUEEN V. DONALDSON. The Court delivered judgment this morning in this case ; which has been repeatedly argued. The point at issue was, as to the right of the Commissioners of sewers to assess Kensington Palace to the savers'-rate. The Court decided in favour of the Crown, declaring that. the palace was not liable to the rale. The various cases which afterwards came before the Court afforded no point of general interest. - - - BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY, ) , (Before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.) APPLICATION FOR A CERTIORARI. The Sohicrroa-GEfiElt4 Moved for a certiorari to remove into the Court certain tetttrns,of toe Town-Council of the bo rough of Leeds The applieakion was made under the Ist of Victoria. and arose from the following,proceedings. An elec tion for Town-Councilkirsjiicilt.pkice in' the borough of Leeds in 1840, and a dispute ,arose whither Mr. Potts or Mr. Richardson was elected. Mr. Richardson was, however, Ed mitted by the Mayor, but Mr. Potts applied to the Court of Queen's . .Bench, and was declared to he duly elected. Then a question arose as to the payment of 201. or 301. paid by the slayor for advice taken by him in the case, and also of 541. costs. A motion was made that these sums should be paid out of the borough funds, which was negatived ; but another elec tion having taken place, a similar motion was made, and car. tied, which he (the Solicitor-General) submitted was irre gular, and therefore that the rule should be granted. Rule nisi granted. SHERIFF'S COURT.-(THIS DAY.) Several undefended causes were taken at the sitting of the Court. VETTIT V. ORD. This was an action brought to recover the sum of 1271. for furniture supplied to the plaintiff, «ho suffered judgment to go by default. 'John Dixon proved that he had delivered goods for the plaintiff to the defendant, comprising a 100 table, value thirty guineas, another table of the value of 121., and an occasional table of the value of 151. Air. Under-Sheriff 13uncHELL—What do you mean by an occasional table; one had occasionally? Witnes s —\o, it is a table intended to stand before the sofa in the dining-room. Several other articles were supplied to the amount claimed. The Jury returned a verdict for the full amount. NSOLYENT CO CRT-(TiiIS DAY) IN RE CHARLES JAMES MATHEWs, The insolvont in this case was the well-known lessee and manager of Covent-garden. Atter having been sworn and taken his stand in the box al lotted to insolvents under examination, the Registrar of the Court inquired if there were any opposition to the insolvent's discharge, when a long time intervened without any person an swering. At length a person from the body of the Court, in a stentorian voice, with a strong Scotch twang, shouted out 1, Alexander Login, oppose Charles Matheus'discharge. The individual who made this announcement having entered the witness-box prevented such an outre appearance as to excite a roar of laughter throughout the Court. The Learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER having inquired if there were further opposition ? Mr. LEWIS, the insolvent's solicitor, said that this was the only ersditor who opposed out of 225 who appeared in the schedule, The opposing creditor (iho appeared in person) then, by the direction of the Court, proceeded to examine Mr. Mathews, after having stated that he was a theatrical ornament maker in the dew Cut, Lambeth, and that the insolvent was indebted to him in the sum of 48/. 18s. 30., out of which 5/. was paid through his attorney. Mr. Commissioner REYNOLDS—For what was the debt contracted ? Legie--For sp..ngles, lace, tinsel, and all kinds of theatrical decorations. Mr. Commission; REYNOLDS—Does counsel appear for Mr. Mathews ? Mr. Lucas—Yes ; we have retained Messrs. Cook, \Voodroffe, and Nicho Is. In reply to the Learned Counsel, the opposing creditor said, with much vehemence and eccentricity of manner, that he should keep Mr. Mathews for a fortnight under examination. Logic (addrrssing the insolvent)—What has become of Madame Vestris's jewels? Insolvent (handing the key of a small box into Court)—They were sold in the year 1838. Mr. Commissioner ItErNoLns— All ? Insolvent—Yes, all. Logic—Do you know a person called Mrs. Cassidy ? In solvent—Yes. [ The manner and expressions of the opposing creditor at this part of the proceedings was such as to call forth a severe reprin.and from the Court.] I don't know where she is at present. About two months ago she was discharged from the theatre in consequence of not paying some bills the amount of winch she was given. Logie—Did she ever pawn any things for Madame Vestris ? Insolvent—Certainly not for Mrs. Mathews, but she has pawned articles belonging to her without her knowledge or permission. Logie—Do you know Lewis Levi, the proprietor of the Vic toria Theatre? Insolvent—Yes, lam a Creditor of his for 1001. Logic—That is a lie—Lewis Levi would not lend any man twopence. Mr. Commissioner REYNOLDS-1f such language be used I shall order you to leave the Court. You are at liberty to put. any questions you think proper, but it must be done in a proper and respectful manner to the Court. Logic shrugged his shoulders, and continued—Have you made away with any books? Insolvent—l have sold some books to Mr. Willis, of the Piazza, Covent-garden, for 801. I have no specific agreement that the books should be returned to me, but there is a tacit understanding that if at the end of four months I should be able to raise the sum of 801., I would get them in preference to a stranger. They are books of no intrinsic value, but they were some which I had seleled myself at various times. Mr. Commissioner REYNoLns—Are there any scarce edi tions amongst them of the ancient drama? Itisolvent—Ne, they are modern works, collected chiefly while I was on the Continent. Mr. CooKE said, those books were sold about two days before the arrest of Mr. Mathews, and if they were not thus disposed of, they would have been swept away in execution and the creditors would have been minus the SO!. The insolvent said the value of them (although he would not lose them for a much fat ger sum) was rather below 801., as he wished to have everything clear, in case the Court would r9uire Mr. Willis to be examined. I'he opposing creditor here entered upon a rambling and in coherent statement, which he concluded by saying that he should carry his case no further, as he thought he could not get jus ice. tlr. Mathews was next subjected to a short examination by the Court, in which he stated that he attributed his insolvency to losses sustained in the management of the Olympic Theatre during his absence in America. During that tme it was under the management of Mr. Manche, and no man could have fulfilled his trust with more fidelity or talent; but, circum stances incident to the absence of Madame Vestris and himself led to the losses he suffered. Mr. COOKE said, during their absence in America, debt to the amount of 3,4001. was contracted—he stated this fact without the most remote imputation up Mr. Planche—and money, to the amount of 1,700/., arising from the engagement. of Air. arid Mrs. itlathe., s in America, was sent over to pay off a portion of this debt, and it was so applied. The insolvent, in reply to the Learned Chief Commissioner, said the money which had been paid into Court was the pro ceeds of jewellery and wearing apparel the property of Mrs. Mat thews. Mr. Commissioner BEYNOIDS—Do you know of any pro perty now in the possession of Mrs. Mathews or ekcwhere ? Insolvent—l solemnly swear Ido not. The Learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER said, although he had no dotbt of the iruth of Mr. Mathews' statement relative to the value of the books sold to Mr. Willis, still he should wish to ave his evidi nee pt o fo; ma, and as he understood he was not in Court at that moment, he should order the case to stand over fcr a short time until the messenger procured his at tendance. Mr. LEWIS said that the messenger he had sent to Mr. Willis had returned, and it appeared that Mr. Willis had gone to Ascot. He having attended before without being served with a subrcena, he (Mr. Lewis) had not taken the precaution to subrcena him on the present occasion. The CHIEF Cosousstort Eft said he would enlarge the bail of Mr. Mathews till Monday. Mr. LEwts said he would send for Mr. Willis's foreman. Josiah Robert Aliwhen was then call, d and examined by Mr. COOKE—What are you ?—I am employed by Mr. Willis the booksellt r as his foreman. _ _ _ Have you seen some books that. were sent by Mr. Mathews to Mr. Willis?-1 have. Are you cowpetent to 'r'orm a judp,ment of the value of those books ?—I am. What kind of books were they ?—They were principally foreign books; they were a miscellaneous collection ; there were fewer d•amatic works than I could have expected. They were principally French works. What do you value them at 9—l shuuld say about 801. I believe that is a fair price for them. If they were to be sold by auction would they bring that ?—.. I don't think they would fetch that. Mr. Willis would be very happy. to sell them for that. Where is Mr. Willis?-4e is at Gravesend now. The COMMISSIONER—Why they sent him to Ascot half an hour ago.—(Laughter ) Alr. LEWIS-1 hat was the message I received. Air. COOKE—You sce on such a day as this, people think of nothing else but Ascot. Witness—No, Sir ; Mr. Willis is gone to Gravesend for the benefit of his health. The COMMISSIONER (to (Mr. Mathews)—Do you know of any prof erty to which you have any right, either yourself or by your wife, that you are not possessed of? Insolvent—Cer tainly not, Sir. Mr. COOK E —lt may be satisfactory to state that those fonds spoken of on a former occasion, when mention w:s made of the disposition of the property, were disposed of in a manner highly creditable to Mrs. Matthews. In 1837 difficulties arose, and a fiat in bankruptcy was issued against her, but it was not persisted in, she having mate a disposition of all the pro perty she possessed in the world; upon trust, and the suns of five shillings in the pound was given to the varitttty t creditors. To Mr. Valentine these jewels willfki assigned over, for the purpose of raising money to Bleat thtfC: composition. That gentleman sold them the following pia.' for the purpose of reimbursin g himself for the money he lied advanced : and every tim e that Mrs. Mathews had used thein• they had been hired from th e person to w h om M r. V a l ent in e had, sold them. The CostaltssloNEK—ls that information correct, Mr. Mathews. Mr. Mathews—lt is, Sir. I have beetv-apeaking to Mr. Lewis respecting a spresent the performers of Covent Garden Theatre are about to make us. They are going to pay us a compliment in the shape of a piece of plate; andil wish to state that it was shown to me, and I was aboutto thank them for it, when it was abruptly withdrawn, from a notion that it would be taken for the benefit of the creditors. I wish to know whether that can be considered the property of the creditors. The COMMISSIONER —'Vas it given to you? Mr. Mathews —No, it never %%as presented, but I can't but know ti a: it is for me • su I thought I ought to mention it. The me; su did perfectly right. ATHLONE, The labours of this Committee also terminated this morn ing ; the objection to the return being exactly the same as in the Waterford case. The decistoa was governed by the same arguments and precedents. The Member returned was Capt. De La Peer Beres!brd ; the defeated candidate was Mr. Ferrall (Liberal), on whose behalf a petition was presented by two electors, named Dowd and Glynn. The Committee declared this morning that Mr. Ferrall ought to Lave been returned, as the rejected votes were good ones ; but, as in the Waterford case, a special Report to the IL.use will leave it open to the ejected Member to petition for a scrutiny within the usual period. By the decis;ons of the s e two Committees, the Whigs gain three votes, and the Conservatives lose the same number. ASCOT RACES. (THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.) Her Majesty arrived at the usual time, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Duke and Duchess of Saxe Meiningan, Duke of Wellington, Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Duchess of Buccleuch. the Count Mensdorf and a numerous suite. Her Majesty was received in a most enthusiastic manner. The Windsor Castle Stakes of 100 Sovs. each, for three years old, &c. Lord Exeter's Aminia filly 1 Lord U. Bentinek's Misdeal . The Buckingham Palace Stakes of 200 Sovs. each, &c. Greville's Gunter, 3 yrs 1 :Lord G. Bentinck's Flytrap, 3 yrs. 2 Lord Exeter's Albion, 3 yrs The Windsor Town Plate of 601., for 3 yrs old, &c. Mr. Graydon's Miss Heathcote Lord G. Bentinck's African 2 Lord Exeter's Patchwork.... 3 The Cobourg Stakes of 100 sous. each, h ft, &c. Mr. Gregory's Bar.ier THE GOLD CUP. The Gold Culp, by subscriptions of 20 sous. each, with 200 added from the fund ; 3 yrs old, fist l Olb; four. Bst 511); five, 9st; six and aged, 9st 31b. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. To start at the Cup Post, and go once round, about two miles and a half, (I 1 Subs.) Mr. Orde's Beesw•ing, aged (Cartwright) 1 Mr. Combc's The Nob, 4 yrs (Rogers) 2 Mr. Pettit's St. Francis, aged (Robinson) 3 Mr. Thornhill's Eringo, 4 yrs . . .(R. Pettit) 4 Mr. Kirby's Lanercost, abed (rempleman) 5 MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—The proclamation published in yesterday's Ga zette about the light coinage has created a considerable sensa tion in the City. The bankers have already been weighing every sovereign singly tor two days, and to-day the shopkeepers are beginning to act on the some principle, so that no light sovereign will pass as current. Much, of course, is said of the loss which the holders will incur by suddenly having their sovereigns reduced from the nominal to the bullion value ; but the general impression is that the evil of a light coinage had reached such a pitch that it was necessary sonic remedy, even if a violent one, should be taken to arrest its progress. For some time past the bankers have been unable to refuse to take light coinage, lest they should offend their customers, and the consequence was, that they were encumbered with a quantity of coin which was inadmissible at the Bank of England. A simi lar difficulty occurred at the Stamp, and other revenue offices, and the complaints of individuals who, having a coin that was considered a legal tender in all transactions of business, could not pass it at Somerset House, were often repeated. By the proclamation, at least, the anomaly is put an end to according to which a coin which was currency between man and man was not currency with respect to payments to the Govern ment. Much inconvenience, of course, arises at first from the money being slowly weighed at the bankers and the puhFc having a considerable quantity of coin forced back upon their hands, but this inconvenience will, it is expected, have its attendant good, and the vigilar.c which those who receive gold coin wil be found to exercise in their own defence will prove a serious check to the practice of " sweating," which has deteriorated the coin to a great extent. That there is much dissatisfaction on the subject is, of course, neces sary. in a matter which will entail a loss on so many of the holders of gold coin; and among other complaints is one that an office has not been formally appointed to take the sovereigns at bullion value—a complaint which is founded on the belief, , that the holders of light sovereigns will be driven to the bullion merchants, who would, of course, pay only seich a price as would allow a profit to themselves, and thus the holder would sustain a further lost, in addition to that created by the difference between the nominal and the bullion value of the coin. How ever, the fact that the Mint is ready to coin all bullion that is taken to them would seem sufficient to obviate all alarm of that sort. improvi r g, and busi ness ri general market, and he is sittei limited.ane nt securities Aioney hiareeassyloi in y he therefore there is no scarcity in the Stock -exchange. SUN.—Some purchases in Reduced by the' Bank broker yesterday caused an improved feeling in English Seem ities, and Consols advanced to 91% 914, for the opening ex. div.; Reduced, 914 914 ; Bank Stoc k, 167 41684 ; Exchequer Bills, 47 49 premium. Fereign Securities remain as yesterday; Belgian, 102 103 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 32/1 521; the Five per Cents., 101 1014 ; Danish, bO4 814 ; Brazilian, 67* 684. The quotation for Mexican was somewhat higher, being 364 for Money, and 36% for the Account. In the Share Market,. London and Birmingham, 177 179 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 50 52; Great Western, 67 68 ; the Ha f Shares, 614 624 ; South Western, 62 1 4 63 1 / North Midland, 65 67; the New Shares, 32 33; South Eastern and Dover, 25* 251 ; the New Shares, 3i 64 ; Eastern Counties, 9 94 ; North Midland, 43 45 ; Blackwall, ; and Brighton, 35* 354 per Share. An improvement is to be noticed in the quotations for the Bonds, but with what legitimate reason it is difficult to ascer tain. Columbian are marked 26* 24; Peruvian, 184 194 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 37 374 ; the Three per Cents., 214 22* ; Spanish, 22 224 for the live per Cents., and 224 23 for the Three per Cents. A particular class of persons connected with City business are loudly complaining of the new regulation respecting the coinage, namely, the bankers' clerks. The representations made by these gentlemen are worthy of attention, inasmuch as they may be taken as an index of the feeling of the commu nity in general. It is stated that the number of unpaid bills now brotight back tar exceeds what was formerly the case, while their labour in collecting them was more than doubled ; turd this, not arising from commercial embarrasment, but in `consequence of the coin provided being short in weight. If this inconvenience be felt by those parties, it has been asked hOw much more severe sufferers the persona must be who have to provide other money, and lose time in running to a banker's and taking up the bills. Biwrit.—On the Bth inst., at the Parsonage, St. George's, Camberwell, the lady of the Rev. Samuel Smith of a son. CRUELTY Ti) ANIMALS.—The Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, was held yesterday in Hanover -square. Auxiliary Societies, it was stated, had been formed at Liverpool, Ply. mouth, Leeds, Bath, Belfast, and Dublin. The magnificent donationof I,OCO/. by a lady hai enabled the Society to do away with bull-baiting at Stamford. Two prizes of 51. vie e presented to Mr. W. H. Brown and Mr. W. Romanie,pupils of Christ's Ho4itai, fur th, tw) th-it essays against cruelty to BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, JUNE b.—The fears that have been excited by the intentions announced by the French Cabinet in the Clam ber of Deputies, to augment the import duty on thread and linen immediately after the session, are at this moment the subject of examination by several Members of the two Chant hers belonging to the province of East and West Flanders. They have had one meeting, at which they discussed the ques tion whether measures of reprisal should he immediately pro posed. We are assured that the only difference of opinion was with regard to the time at which it would be advisable to bring such a proposal before the Chamber. Something extraordinary is at this moment passing in the sun. A sort of crater is perceived in it, which emits clouds of smoke, which spread over a portion of its surface like an enormous moveable spot. BRUSSELS, JUNE 6.—The King of Bavaria has written a letter from Rome, dated, May 22, to Mr. Abel, Minister of the Interior, in which his Majesty says, that having learned from the journals the immense misfortune that had befallen Hamburgh, he would, therefore, have a general collection throughout the kingdom. The celebrated Wicheking, author of numerous important works, and member of many academies, died at Munich, on the 27th of May. The Moniteur publishes a Royal decree, which contains a most valuable concession. It grants to foreigners permission to try on our railways all kinds of machines intended to be used on railways which they may bespeak of Belgian engineers. Neither England or France can offer such strong pledges for the safety of the engines, since their railways are the property of companies which would not allow such trials to be made. An Indian Prince who has come by land from Calcutta (Dwarkanauth Tajore), has visited the Museum of Arts to day, accompanied by an Aid-de-Camp of the same nation. Both of them speak English perfectly, and are well acquainted wiih the latest improvement in the physical sciences. They have visited Palmyra, Balbish, Pompeii, and Munich. We are this moment informed that a man bad ju,t thrown himself into the canal when, the English Ambassador who was r msin g by saw him, and pulling off his coat, jumped from his carriage, and plunging into the canal, saved him. Sir Henry Seymour had lost his hat, and as may well be supposed, was wet to the skin. He t etired on foot, taking the arm of the Spanish Charge d'Affairs. On the Boulevard some children, ignorant of the cause of the singular plight in which the Minis ter appeared, began to hoot after him. Sir H. Seymour laughed heartily at this recompense fur his humanity. AMERSFOORT, JUNE 6.—This morning, about half-past eltven o'clock, his Majesty King William, Count of Nassau, accompanied by the Countess and by Prince and Princess Albert and suite, passed through this town on their way from the Loo to Soetsdyk. They returned at four in the afternoon. His Majesty appeared to be in good health and in very good spirits, and was as usual extremely affable. LILLIPUTIAN PADLOCK.—A sample of skill in lock-making which may compete with any recorded by the veteran historian of the county, Plot, or with any of the ingenious stieguards of the day, has recently excited considerable admi ration among the cognoscenti in the art. It is an uncommonly small silver padlock, on the principle of Chubb's patent de tector lock, weighing only one pennyweight, and measuring only three-eighths of an inch across : the interior of this mi nute piece of workmanship contains all the requisite tumbl ers and springs ; it readily locks and unlocks, and, as its name indi cates, detects any furtive attempt made to bpen it with a false key. This singular specimen of mechanical skill was con structed by Mr. James Hunter, a young man employed in Messrs. Chubb's manufactory, in this town. The key to this Lilliput;an curiosity is also of silver, and weighs one grain.— Wolverhampton Chronicle. . _ The General Steam Navigation Company's British steam-ship Wilberforce, which left Antwerp yesterday after noon at one o'clock, landed her passengers this morning at seven o'clock at Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall, after a delight ful passage of only 18 hours—The same Company's steam ship Columbine landed her passengers and mail from Rotterdam at a quarter past eight this morning, 22 hours after they had em barked at Rotterdam. FATAL LEAP.—Between eleven and twelve o'clock on Tuesday night, a fine young man, named William Gunner.. son, a sailor, nineteen years of age, was killed on the spot, by jumping from a second floor window. He bad been residing at the Lor Nelson, Ratcliffe-highway, since his ship was paid off, and leading a very dissipated life. On Tuesday he had been drinking very deeply. He wanted to go out again on Tuesday night, and in order to prevent him his friends locked the door of his room, on which he threw up the window and jumped into the street, a depth of forty feet. He fell uron his head, frac turing his skull i n a shocking manner. He was removed to the hospital, but life was quite extinct. A letter from Rotterdam states that the largest steam. engine• cylinder ever made in Europe, England included, has just been cast at the foundry of Fyenvocrd, near that town. It is intended for a 500-horse power engine, to be placed in the Freugh steamer Vauban. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. --- At a meeting of the Metropolitan Parliamentary Reform Association, held on Friday, June 3, at the offices of the Society, John-street, Adelphi, Mr. Place in the chair, the Secretary drew attention to the flattering prospects and progress of the Society. Numerous letters had been received from various parts of the country, explaining the views and expectations of Reformers of all denominations. Amongst others one had been received from a large landed proprietor in Devon, J. D. Bassett, Esq., for the long space of fifty years, one of the Magistrates of that county, and a well-known Reformer—that gentleman expressing his gratification at the establishment of the Associa tion, sending a donation of 201., and engaging to aid the cause in his neighbourhood. A letter from France was also read, it having been addressed to Mr. War burton, as Chairman of the Association. It referred, in relation to the suffrage movement in England, to the system of voting in the French Electoral Col leges, explaining and lauding that system as prevent ing bribery and intimidation. The Secretary fur ther reported that the number of members daily in creased, numerous active Reformers in various lo calities having joined, and also that the Liberal Pro vincial as well as the London Press had materially assisted the Society, by spreading a knowledge of its objects and proceedings to all parts of the kingdom. The following Address to the Electors of Notting ham, upon the subject of the recent bribery and corn. promise, and upon the approaching election, was agreed to : THE METROPOLITAN PARLIAMENTARY REFORM ASSOCIATION. TO THE INHABITANTS or NOTTINGHAM. More than sixty years your town was one of the chief places in which that good man and father of Parliamentary Reform, Major Cartwright, numbered many of his most zealous co-operators. In your town the "Twenty-four Worthies" signed their cele brated declaration, condemning Pitt's unholy war against human freedom. And from those periods up to the passing of the Reform Bill, Nottingham has stood forward the champion of Universal Suffrage, which has served as the rallying cry for Lord Ran cliff in utterly routing the Tories again and again. Since the passing of the Reform Bill there has been no agitation for any great principle to counteract the subtle election practices of the aristocracy, and corruption has consequently crept on, little by little, till Nottingham is at length on the point of being ranked as one of the most venal boroughs. You have now an opportunity of wiping off this stain of corruption, of regaining your lost high cha racter, and at the same time of setting an example to the rest of the kingdom. Can you hesitate in choosing between purity of election and degrading corruption ? Can you go on selling yourselves to the base traffickers in Parliamentary seats ? Will you now, when an agi • tation for Radical principles is begun again, and the country is everywhere rising to demand a thorough reform of the House of Commons—will you abandon the cause you have so long cherished, and brand your selves with indelible disgrace ? No. It is only a comparatively small number of the present electors whose criminal love of gold will induce them to turn traitors to their town and their country. They must be known. Can no entreaties of their townsmen and neighbours rouse them from their hateful seduction ? Are there no appeals to honest feelings—no repre sentations of the vileness of vote-selling that will in fluence them ? Honest inhabitants of Nottingham, try all kindly and persuasive means to bring your corrupted electors back to the path of honesty, and if they fail, let them know that bribery will hence forth be exposed and punished, and that you will make out a recreant list, and publish it to the scorn of the whole kingdom. The late Tory candidate has declared his intention again to contest the approaching election, and af firms that the enormous sums of money spent by him in his two previous contests at Nottingham, have been most innocently devoted to legal expenses. You know, and lie knows, that his only chance of s uc c ess is in his purse. lie is a man of business, and will not venture his money carelessly. Depend upon it, therefore, that his agents calculate upon purchasing the votes of so many miserable dupes of corruption, as they and he think will secure his return. We need not call upon you to bestir yourselves, for that you are doing, very many of you with a vigour worthy of an honest cause, and the pure and elevated character of the man who has boldly espoused that cause. Joseph Sturge stands forth the consistent ad vocate of freedom, religious, social, and political. After acting as a leader in freeing the black slaves of the colonies, he turns now in commiseration of the white slaves at home, and puts himself at the head of the movement for their political emancipation, utterly regardless of the prejudices which the bribery classes have too successfully inculcated to deter the peaceful and philanthropic from mixing in political affairs. We await the result of the contest, confident that you will not relax in your efforts, nor leave any fair means untried of securing a victory for purity of election over the utterly detestable bribery system. By order of the Business Committee, FRANCIS PLACE, Chairman. J. ROBERTS BLACK, Sec. 0, John-street, Adelphi, June 3, 1842. THE CONFLAGRATION AT HAM BURGH AND THE JEWS. Amid all the melancholy reflections connected with this awful visitation, we could not help feeling an addi tional pang at the too ready facility with which our Contemporaries of the English Press lent currency to the false report that " the fire originated in the house of a Jew," adding, that " he was in custody, with fair reason for believing him an incendiary." We are now told, that this was, in all its essentials, a fabrication, arising, probably, from the illiberal prejudice entertained towards our people in some continental cities. Not only private correspondence, but the proclamation of the Hamburgh Senate, gives the lie to the charge—a pro clamation, moreover, not necessary for the protection of the Jews, but of Englishmen, to whom so practical an illustration of the character of a popular prejudice might have suggested more caution in spreading a rumour. We do not find that the same papers have observed upon the extraordinary exertions made by Jews in aid of the sufferings, though their own columns record that Saloman Heine, a Hamburgh Jew, was the first to have his house blown up for the protection of others ; and that, besides munificent gifts to the sufferers, he and others are refusing first-rate paper, and negotiating only the bills of the humbler merchants, sufferers by the fire. These Journalists also overlook the extraordinary proportion (considering our mumber and means) of Jew ish aid and contributions for the sufferers, recorded in London,* Manchester,f Liverpool, t &c., not to speak of foreign cities, as evidenced in the constitution of com mittees, in the proceedings of public meetings, and in the subscription lists ;—and all this for general objects, notwithstanding the heavy losses sustained by Hamburgh Jews, and the circumstance that two synagogues and a minor place of worship fell a prey to the flames. We remarked, in No. X' VI., upon those who only seemed disposed to parade " the Jew" when the object was to pick a hole m his coat ;—it is, at least, consolatory to know, that however they may ba inclined to overlook the real traits of Jewish character, they cannot deprive us of the satisfaction of exercising them. INSTITUTION FOR THE — RELIEF OF THE INDIGENT BLIND OF THE JEWISH PERSUASION.—Two additional pensioners have been added to the list relieved by this Society.—The Voice of Jacob. The first subscribers on the list, after the Steam Naviga tion Company, were the Rothschilds, and there are four Jews on the London Committee. 1- Here. nearly half the Committee are Jews. The Warden of the synagogue seconded the first resolu tion, moved by the Rector of Liverpool, at the meeting to pro mote subscriptions. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, Ju NF 8. —The Pique frigate, Captain Forbes, came into the harbour on Monday morning to be refitted. &c. She is last from Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, which she left 10th May, leaving there the Tweed corvette, senior officer's ship, Rover, 16, and steam-vessel Flamer. The Warspite, 52, was expected there, to proceed thence to Antigua and Jamaica. The Leeward Islands were much more healthy, and the crops promised abundantly. The Admiral, Sir Charles Adam, was gone to Honduras in the Illustrious, 72. The Hydra steamer was to leate Jamaica for England about the end of July ; also the Racer, 16. both to be paid off. The brig Weazle, 10, has passed by, from the Mediter ranean, for Chatham, to be paid off. The Lieutenant, Edmon stone, is promoted to be Commander. She has had a long passage, having left Malta 20th April. Letters landed at Ply mouth state that the fleet under Sir Edward Owen was to sail from Malta on the 20th May ; destination not known. Rear-Admiral the Hon. D. P. Bouverie has struck his flag on board the Victory, 104, and gone on temporary leave. This officer's period of service as Superintendent sf Portsmouth Dock-yard will shortly expire. Rear-Admiral the Hon. Josceline Percy, with his flag in the Winchester frigate ? at Spithead, is waiting further orders, prior to proceeding to the Cape of Good Hope. She takes despatches for Vice-Admiral Sir Edward King. The tender-brig Nautilus, 10, Lieut. Paulson, has returned to the coast of Sussex to give protection to our fishermen. Letters from the Ringdove, 16, Commander Sir W. Daniel, state that she arrived, all well, at Bermuda on the 4th May, where she was to wait the return of the Admiral. The President, 52, is in dock, undergoing repairs. Rumour says she is to be re-commissioned, and proceed to the Mediter ranean. The steamer Pluto, Lieut. Blount, is shortly expected from Ascension. The Lieutenant commanding is promoted. The war-steamer Geyser, Cnmmander Carpenter, is daily looked for from Chatham, her armament having now been per fected ; her destination is not aecuratelsknmsr.. Captain Sir Thomas Hastings has paid off and re-commis sioned the Excellent in this harbour, for the further practice of naval gunnery. All the officers have been re-appointed. At Spithead—Winchester, 52, flag-e&iip. In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Pique, Satellite, Alba tross, Excellent, Royal George, and Volcano and Echo steamers.— Brighton Gazette. Hay making has commenced in good earnest in our neighbourhood. The swathe is excellent, and we bear of no complaints in any quarter. It is hardly possible that there should be better weather for this branch of rural economy than that which has prevailed during the past week. Bath Chronicle. Our French neighbours have paid the artists of this country a compliment in inviting Mr. 'Woodward, a gentleman well known to many of our readers in this city, to paint the likeness of Plover, the winner of the French Derby of 7,000 f., at Chantilly, au Sunday, the 22d ult.— Worcestershire Chron. 1' .. ; `~ 4... t IPSWICH ELECTION \ TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sm, —As you have given circulation to 10,..„ k . - Rennie's letter, I am sure you will have pleasure performing the justice of inserting my reply to that uncalled-for production. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, RIGBY WASON. 9, Pall Mall East, May 26, 1482. TO THE EDITOR OF THE IPSWICH EXPRESS. Ipswich, May 18, 1842. Sir,—l have read, with no little astonishment, a letter from Mr. Rennie, published on Tuesday last, containing statements and opinions which I shall notice separately; for, in the whole letter, I find only one opinion in which I can coincide, and that is, where he says, " he will prosecute those witnesses whose perjuries and mis-statements misled the Com mittee, if any of our friends are prosecuted." I have already taken the necessary steps on this point, and know that our friends' best protection is the infamy of the character of the witnesses. Mr. Rennie's con cluding paragraph runs thus:--"I have now stated, to the best of my recollection, all the material facts of the proposition to which Mr. Wilson has alluded in his letter to Yr. Stephens; and whether the course I recommend was right or wrong, I leave to the consi deration of the constituency." Mr. Rennie may most safely appeal to the consti tuency, for no doubt the 600 Tories who voted against us at the election will declare that he was right hi the recommendation he gave—for that in fact was. what the Tories wished—that was their game—it does. not tbllow that, because it was their game, it might not be prudent to accede to it ; but without the slightest fear of the result, I appeal to the Liberal electors, to those who voted for us at the late election, to say whether they most approve of the conduct of Mr- Rennie or myself upon this occasion ? and I will take. care that in this and subsequent letters the points. shall be fairly and fully stated, so that their opinion may be formed upon all the facts of the case, and not the meagre outline which Mr. Rennie has made, and which he most truly calls "a simple narrative." Mr. Rennie says, that he holds the doctrine " Hitt discretion is the better partof valour." I hold the same principle, and the only difference between us is our different application of it ; he considers that " dis cretion" is better shown by embarking in a contest, every evil of which was clearly foreseen, foretold, and pointed out to him by myself, and then, when the danger c a m e , b o lti ng f rom th e con fli c t ; whereas, I venture to thi n k, th a t no con t es t s h ou ld be entered into without a full and careful consideration of all the consequences, but that when commenced, in 99 casei; out of 100, it is better to fight it out to the end rather than to concede that which was refused previous to the conflict ; and is it to be a proof of Mr. Rennie's discretion, that he thinks this case ought to be the exception—this case wherein, if a compromise had taken place, Ipswich would have been classed in the same catalogue with Nottingham, and with Har wich—beginning with an exposure infinitely greater than that which has taken place, and ending-by the probable expulsion from the House of Commons, with out the feather-bed of a Tory Committee to break the fall ? I cannot help thinking, that when Mr. Rennie was penning his " simple narrative," it would be better tbr him to have begun at the beginning instead of the middle, and to have stated all the circumstances as they occurred previous to entering into the con test, and which would have undoubtedly thrown con siderable light on the subsequent proceedings. But, however, as he has chosen to begin in the middle-- viz., with what occurred when I returned from Ips wich—l will follow him in the path he has chosen to pursue, doubtless thinking that it would be more ad vantageous for his purposes, although those purposes may be much more easily implied from his letter, than collected from any explicit declaration. Mr. Rennie has, It appears to me, very unneces sarily paraded the names of Mr. Hill, Mr. Austin, and Mr. Summers Haribrd—and the Lewes election and the Brighton electionhen he saw in my let ter to which he has adverted, a plain and distinct pro position, which he might be ss e ssin I was always ready to defend without seeking , fa 'selter under the opinion of any person, or under any case which might or might not be analogous. The 81 :,stement I made is this :—" Yes, it was gravely propos,'d that I should resign my seat, with a personal charge of bribery hanging over my head; with the unquallOed approbation of every man of honour and integrity, I refused to listen to the proposal." When I wrote that paragraph —nay, until I read Alr. Rennie'. letter, I had not the slightest recollec tion, nor do I at this moment remember, or do believe that Mr. Rennie ever urged me to resign. On the contrary, I should have said, if asked the• question, that Mr. Rennie had behaved during the discussion with the most proper and delicate feeling, and that he left the question to be decided as it ought to be by those who had no personal interest or feeliag; in it. I know not under what circumstances Mr- Harford retired from Parliament, or why it was that Mr. Austin counselled him to do so; I know not whether these circumstances had or had not anything to do with the recent contest at Brighton, or why it was that the Reformers, who in July last had a majority of some hundreds, were beaten at the last election, and in the proportion of two to one. What have these things to do with the plain statement made in my letter ? If Mr. Rennie differed from that opinion, why did he not openly state his reasons, and then I could have com bated them ? But to appeal to circumstances which are not fully known—to refer to opinions, wh en we are in total ignorance of the facts on which those opinions were given, does not appear to me a very satisfactory mode of arriving at a just conclusion ; and I think it might have occurred to Mr. Rennie, that if Mr. Harford was justified in resigning, be cause he was advised to do so by his counsel, Mr. Austin, I was also justified in refusing to entertain • the proposition, when advised not to do so by the unanimous and decided opinion of Mr. Hill and Mr. Phillips; surely he cannot be so ignorant of the'feel ings of the bar, as to put the opinion of these gentle men, for high and honourable conduct, below that of Mr. Austin ; and most assuredly there were passages before that Committee, and to which I have already publicly alluded, which should have led Mr. Rennie to retract such an opinion, if, indeed, he had ever formed it.. Having now replied to the interlocutory matter introduced into Mr. Rennie's letter, I will, in my next, follow his statements, paragraph by paragraph . and will then cheerfully abide by the opinion, not of the "constituency," as Mr. Rennie wishes, but of the Liberal electors, whether I have not acted with dis. cretion and integrity on every point Mr. Rennie has - raised. Ar.d then I shall in my turn ask the Liberal electors whether they approve of Mr. Rennie's conduct in the House of Commons when he volunteered his statement the evening I endeavoured to defentlLucasi and also whether he did right in leaving me to finish the contest at my own expense, when it was 'entered( into under the circumstances I will narrate; and lastly, whether if a compromise was to be entered into, it ought not to have been before the Committee was appointed, and when both parties, having an equal chance of obtaining a Chairman, would be more reasonable in their demands ; besides the important advantage of being able to take the opinions and cc' - sult the wishes of the Liberal electors on so important' a step. I ventured to think at the time that such a course was one of " discretion." Mr. Rennie was of differentopinion,but he will not deny that such a course would have have been attemled with all the advantages which he has enumerated, and would most assuredly have given him more right ." to have exonerated himself from all respOnsibility or charge of selfish ness," than he possibly can have in making an offer of his seat, which he was told would not be accepted. It may also be worth while to consider whether Mr. Rennie has exercised a very sound " discretion" in commencing this discussion: at any rate I most sin cerely thank him for using the word " discretion," which I cannot think has been a very distinguishing trait in. Mr. Rennie's .conduct as evinced in his con nexion with Ipswich. I am, Sir, your very obedient Servant, RIGBY WASON. The following account of an arrest made on Friday in the neighbourhood of the Place Vendome is given by the Gazette des Tribunaux :—" On the 25th April the London correspondent of a large mercantile house at St. Petersburgh intrusted to a broker, named Thomas Gowrester, the d4l - rants for a quantity of goods, amounting in value to about 200,000 francs, in French money, for the purpose of effecting sales. Gowrester immediately west to a London banking house, and obtained from it a considerable sum in advance upon these warrants, and immediately absconded, end came over to Havre with the money. riot speaking a word of French, he wandered for a time through Normandy and Britanny, and at length found his way to Paris. In the meantime, three persons belonging to the house he had defrauded were sent off in pursuit of the fugitive, in as many different direc tions. One of them, Mr. C., accompaniedby an English police officer, came to Paris, and with the assistance of the Pre fecture, soon succeeded in finding and arresting their man, who, although hebada passport in the name of Harry Tandem, signed by the English Consul, as well as the French authori ties at Brest, having the fear of Botany Bay before his eyes, immediately acknowledged his identity, confessed the rotibery. and, entreattnt, mercy, voluntarily delivered up 117,000 f., all that remained out of 1 70,000 f. he had brought over with him. Mr. C., upon this, with praiseworthy generosity, returned hiss 2 00 f., recommending him to go with it to America or India a nd there endeavour to obtain an honest livelihood. Mr. C. also left him some jewels, a chronometer, and several other sr tides of value, which he had purchased since his arrival in France. Gowrester, who since his flight has been declared a bankrupt, has lett debts to the amount of 1,000,000 f., all of which he lost in the hells of London." V e• MILITARY ba Gossn..—The authorities of the Horse Guards are about to substitute an Austrian cap for that now worn by the Rifles, as being far more convenient and suitable for the peculiar services or that distinguished corps. Our mi litary friends who have grumbled at the horsehair on the new helmets of the Life Geoids being whits, will be glad to hear that it is to be forthwith dyed Mich.—Observer. On Saturday, in the Marylebone Vestry, a resolu tion confirming the last minute of the Vestry, for paving Ox. ford-street with wood, NI Is carried by 40 to 11—majority 29, which entirely terminates the question. ~~;~/ / ~~ , 1