The Sun. — London, England, 1842-05-23 00:00:00

NEW NW/El:BY mrts. GORE. Just ready; in 3 veh. post Bve., THE AMBASSADOR'S WIFE. By•the Author of " The Dowager, " " Mothers and Daughter s, " Erc. Richard Be ntley, New Burlington-street. Just ready, in 2 vols., post Svo., "EP OMANTIC BIOGRAPHY of the AGE of ELIZABETH ; Or, SKETCHES of LIFE from the BYE-WAYS of HIS TORY. By the BENEDICTINE B RETHREN of GLEN DA L 0 UGH. Edited b W. COOKE TAYLOR, LL.D., Of Trinity College ' Dublin. Richard Bentley , New Burlington-street. Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. THEATRE-ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. THIS EVENING, MAY 23, The Performances will commence with the Farce of THE BEE HIV E.—Mingle. Mr. Harley ; Cicely, Mrs. Humby. Alter which, PICTUREOQUE AND BEAUTIFUL.—Lorimer, Mr. Barker. To be followed by the favourite Farce, called A DAY WELL SPENT.—BoIt, Mr. Walter Lacy; Mizzle, Mr. Oxberry Succeeded by the fairy Ballet of LA SYLPHIDE.—DenaId, Mr. Gilbert; The Sylph, Miss Bain: to convince with GIOVANNI IN LONDON.—Don Giovanni, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Leporella, Mr. Harley. Boxes, 2s.—Gallery, Is Doors open at Half-past Six ; commence at Seven ; Half-price a Quarter before Nine. Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Grogan, at the Private Bot-office; and of Messrs. Andrews, Mitchell, Sams, and Baily, at their Libraries. riOYAL SURREY THEATRE. Great overflows—The most splendid Novelties ever wit eased, with an immense outlay, and numbers beyond conception. THIS EVENING. MAY '23. Will be presented a New Military and Equestrian Spectacle, enti tied MURAT—THE PEASANT, GENERAL, PRINCE, AND KING, with Battles, Grand Reviews Lf Horse and Foot, and gor geous Tableaux After which, in a more extensive and splendid Arena than ever before witnessed. NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducmg .13A TTY'S unrivalled Collection of Animals, consisting of nu ei ou sand matchless Cream-coloured Horses, An.lalusian Chargers, potted Couriers, Fairy Palfreys, and PigmPoneys, and the most alented Vaulrers, Riders, Gymnastics, and Contortionists in the kingdom. PONY RAC ES, eclipsing all former efforts, and a real Monkey, the only one trained as Racing Jockey. To conclude with.the Grand Burlesque of NORMA. FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING, MAY 23, BY SPECIAL DESIRE. The Performances will comnience with LES PREMIERE ARMES DE RICHELIEU. To conclude with LA FILLE DE DOMlNlQUE—Catherine Biancolelli, Aiaolle. Dejaset Boxes, ti.. • Pit, 3s. lid ; Amphitheatre (or Gallery Stalls) , 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. 'Doors will be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Per forrnances commence at Half.past Seven. Applications to: Boxes and Stalls for the remainder of the Season, to be made at Mr. Mitchell's Library, 33, Old Bond-street; Mr. Se. lulu's, 12, Regent-street; Mr. sams's, St. James's-street; and at inc Box-otliee of the Theatre, which is open daily, from Eleven till Five o'clock. ROYAL SURREY ZOOJ.OGICAL GARDENS. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully nfOrmed that ON MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, AND THURSDAYS, GRAN D FESTIVALS will be celebrated, in which will be embo died all tkose popular Entertainments that have given to this favou rite place of recreation its peculiar celebrity, with additions and in troductions, which it is confidently anticipated will render them even more generally attractive. • The MENAGERIE has been onriebed by many valuable and im portant acquisitions in the classes of both Quadrupeds and Birds. The Colossal VIEW OF BO ME has been repainted, and in some isistancea remodelled. TIE: BAND will include soma of the most am ne:it• Performers, conducted by Mr. Godfrey. The Programme of the PROMENADES 11l WALES will be selected from the noblest works of the great Masters. The ILLUMINATION of ST. PETER'S, the GIRANDOLA„ the FLAM.NG MESSEN. GER, the METEOR of ST. PETER'S, and a Grand HYDRO PYRRHIC TABLEAU The Gardens arc open Daily from - Ten till Dusk. The Evening Fetes, with the Promenades Mug cales, Illumination of St. Peter's, Girandola of St. Angelo, &c., will be given on Mondays, Tuesdays, aial litursdays. Admission One Shilling. • THE INDIA SUN CONTAINING A MAP AND FULL ACCOUNT OF AFFGHANISTAN AND THE THEATRE OF WAR IN INDIA, t ALL THE LATEST NEWS FROM INDIA AND CHINA, IS NOW READY. THE WEATHER.—NooN, MAY 21. rtotAl. GALLERY OP SCIENCE, ♦DELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer .... 60 Highest 6O I Lowest - 40 Barometer' 19.8 1.—Wind S. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Id ruing...... 3 minutes after 61 Evening.... 2 minutes after 1. All Advertisements of a Disgusting Character, or Immoral Tendency, are excluded from the Columns of " The Sun." l* 1 >•" 4 I LONDON • )TO . NDA LNG, MAY 23, 1842. Amonvst the votes for the Navy, agreed to on Friday night, was one for the sum of 407,549/. for the Contract Packet Service, for the Post-office Depart ment. It exceeds the sum voted last year by 178,1421. The principal portion of the increase is 160,0001., for steam vessels to and from Liverpool and the West Indies; a service, of yyhieh hitherto there has been more complaint than approbation. The whole amount toted for that service this year is 240,000/. The several mails between Hamburgh and London, and Rotterdam, Fahnauth, Vigo, Oporto, and Gib raltar, Liverpool and Halifax, Bermuda and St. John's, cast collectively 135,219/. The bulk of that expense is incurred almost exclusively for the adVantage of the wealthy mercantile classes, and the promotion:of commerce. We do not object to the ex penditure ; we think money employed in increasing the communication between distant countries is well laid out ; we only wish to make mercantile claises and the public :aware of the money which is now expended for the promotion of commerce. It is not above three years, we believe, since the first vote was passed for Cunard's line of packets, and the whole of this vote is nearly of modern origin. If by this mode of expending the public money, the national greatness be augmented, it is of such great advan tage to merchants that by it the wealth of many indi viduals must be increased. A small part of this money Is recovered on post age for letters, but the bulk of it is taken from the public funds to promote trade. If to this expense of packets, we add the expense of consuls, ships of war. and various public establishments only necessary for the production of commerce, we may conjecture that not less than a 1,000,0001. a-year of the public money is employed to protect and promote foreign trade. In our judgment that is a liberal and wise policy ; but what can be said at the same time in favour of those` restrictive laws which prevent foreign trade, or cut it up by the roots ? On the one hand, the Legis lature gives the `public money to promote trade, on the other, it. continually passes laws to impede, curb, and stifle trade. Is not this a picture of a house di vided against itself ?—of a man. struggling to win a race, and yet chaining his* own legs Let the House of Commons either spare the public purse, or set trade free, so that it may yield baCk to the state the taxes laid out to pr Q i no t o it. The "landowners seem determined to worry Sir 11, p E ra, about the importation of cattle. On Friday Mr. PCSEY gave notice, " - in the event of Mr. MILES' motion," to take the day on cattle by weight being negatived, "that he will move the following series of resolutions on going into Committee on the Customs' Bill, the reasoning of which the double-faced Premier will find it, we apprehend, inconvenient to answer. 1. That a,Bill had pAed in the present session pro tecting the growth, not of wheat only, but also of other grains, usually called spring, corn, barley, oats, beans, and pease, more or less . employed in the fattening of cattle. • • - 2. That the price of such grain forming a large part of the cost of meat, and ea:nerience further showing that corn and meat rise or fall together in value, the protect ing duty on foreign meat and cattle ought to bear a proportion to the protecting diity on foreign sprint; corn. 3. That, although the average duties at which foreign spring corn will be entered for home consumption, can not 1;e precisely calcul4ted beforehand, it appears suf fkiently that the duty of Ss. per cwt. prOposed in the taritf. will not give an amount of protection equal to that w hiuh the Corn-bill wilt afford upon spring corn, and that the two measures la* therein at variance with each ofi,tr I. That in the tariff the duty of Bs. per cwt. on fureign "'vat is also inconsistent with the duty of 14s. per cn t. upon bayou, 'the 4!,'St of producing the two art_ieles not differing in the proportion of 8 and 14, eouiequently, that, if a duty of 14s. on bacon he an equitable amount of protection, the duty of Bs. on meat must he deo* iitadeiluote 5. That even if the duty of Bs. per cwt. on meat were s uttle'eat protection, that . protection would be rendered null -by the duty proposed to be levied upon fat cattle, since an ox of 8 cwt., if slaughtered and imported as meat, would pay Bs. per cwt., nearly Id, per pound, or 645, but might come in as IiVA stock for 20s'.. being 2s. 6d. per cwt,-or- 44 -d. per lb., the tallow-and hide enter- Y n deity free ; V.nd " a hog of 3 would be lial4 to titiTtt 'Onflicting rntel of duty ; namely, its. Del , te ~w t; mem: bacon and ham, as„ per cwt . on fresh . . • _. ....~ ~. -~ , ~,,...,.,-a ~ . 4 meat, but, thirdly, would pay as, live stock only 20d. per cwt., or one sixth of a penny per pound. 6. That the admission of live stock upon these terms would be a virtual repeal of the Corn-law, since foreign corn would thus come in at a nominal duty, the foreign grower also saving carriage on the bulky article corn, by introducing it into this country in the more portable form of fat stock. 7. That such an enactment would contradict the whole course of our commercial policy, and the avowed prin ciple of the tariff, by repelhng the importation of the raw material (spring corn ), which affords employment to labour in the feeding of cattle, in favour of the finished article, fat stock, which it would admit almost duty free. , 8. That cattle being now fattened extensively upon arable I land, with food often purchased by enterprising farmers at the expense of many hundred pounds in a year, not with a view to profit on the price of the animals, but simply to the production of dung, the improvement of agriculture would be greatly hindered, if encouragement were given to the constant importation of fat stock, in preference to the occasional introduction of those grains on which cattle are fed. 9. That the levy of an equal fixed duty per head upon lean and fat cattle would also tend to discourage, com paratively, the entrance of the unfinished product or lean animal, which affords employment to the farm labourer, and to impede the production of manure, according to the improved method of husbandry. 10. That the proposed duties, so far as they apply to lean stock, would not afford to the, occupies of farms in exposed and inferior situations f whose chief dependence is placed in the breeding and sale of store cattle, protec tection commensurate to that which is held out to the grower of grain by the Corn-bill. 11. That if a small supply of foreign cattle and meat be expected to arrive, it is still inexpedient to impose in the tariff conflicting rates of duty upon meat, and upon cattle fit for immediate consumption as meat, but that if such a supply be looked forward to as would materially reduce the value of live stock at home, it would be highly unjust to rake away indirectly, by means of the tariff, that protection which the Corn Bill has recently given. 12. That further inquiry be, therefore, instituted into a proposal which deeply involves the property of farmers, and has alarmed them the more, because in the Corn Bill they have 'only exchanged one scheme of to fied protection for another ; but in the tariff are unex pectedly calted upon to pass at once from absolute pro hibition to virtual free trade. We and all free-traders could at once get rid of Mr. PUSEY'S statements, but we do not see how Sir R. PEEL, who has just induced the House of Com mons to pass a law to secure, as it is called, a certain degree of protection to the landowner can now pass another law, which diminishes that or takes it away. There are various other amendments to be proposed in the tariff which depend, like that of Mr. FUMY'S, on the-relative cost of different articles, like spring corn and fatted cattle. To ascertain that, and to be able to adjust accurately all the different shades of pro tection proportionate to prices, our legislators ought to be intimately conversant with all the details of every trade in the country, otherwise they will give, ac cording to Mr. PUSEY'S statement, an inadequate amount of protection to one article or another. But no . legislators can be acquainted with all these details. Neither the cost of spring corn, nor the cost of fatten ing:cattle, is a certain and definite sum; it varies with the seasons and with places, and the protection which would be ample for the fat vale of Evesham would be wholly insufficient for the stony hills of Berkshire. Even farmers or traders can scarcely be acquainted with all these particulars ; and if they were, nobody else would say that they should be suffered to make or dictate the laws by which other people are to buy their produce. The difficulty of adjusting a scale of protection between cattle and corn, and between them and all other commodities, is not an argument for adopting Mr. PUSEY'S scale, but for scouting alto gether such pettyfogging halfpenny, farthing legisla tion ; and at the same time as Sir ROBERT PEEL adopts, and acts on the principle of adjusting protect ing duties, we hope that Mr. PUSEY may persevere with his amendment, that he may be supported by all the landlords in Parliament, and that he may annoy and perplex the self-sufficient Premier. The title of the Louis PHILIPPE of our system, which we assigned to Sir ROPERT PEEL, somewhat more than a month ago, is so appropriate, that other Journals have given him the same name. His mea sures have accorded with no man's expectations—they fulfil the wishes of no class—they are not compre hensively just—they are not even temporarily expe dient—they neither mitigate present distress, nor pro mise much for the future. One of them is a great addition to the public burdens—yet they are all car ried, or certain to be carried, and what he ordains is sure to become law. He has thwarted and opposed the landowners and monopolists, who brought him in ; he has not courted the assistance of the free-traders, who strove to keep him out ; but there he stands in Parliament, superior to them all—one party ready to do his bidding, when the other party declines. • These are all plain and palpable facts, observed and recog • nised by almost , every journalist. There is another fact, however, deducible from these circumstances, worthy of consideration. If both countries have their Louis PHILIPPE, in both countries there must be some corresponding frame of the public mind, which makes in both a Louis PHILIPPE the necessity of the moment, The career of these men forbids us to assign to either of them a higher character than that of a clever and a fortunate trickster. WELLINGTON, BONAPARTE, PITT, were men of genius, who created eminence for themselves ; the two others have watched and waited, have taken advantage of this tide and that tide of public sentiment, have sided with Revolutionists or Conservatives, with rigid bigotted Tories or Emancipationists, as a man was wanting to d. 9 their bidding, till they have made them selves the indispensible organ or instrument of some prevailing sentiment. In France, LOUIS PHILIPPE reigns by virtue of the dread of Revolution and change which pervades the middle classes there, which he nourished till he acquired the throne, and became for the bourgeoise the means of preventing further revolution. To that dread they sacrifice present liberty. Our Louis PHILIPPE holds place by a similar fear. Men of pro perty, with the Middle classes, dread the unpropertied, or despoi!ed multitudes. In ,office and out of office; Sir R. PEEL has augmented that fear. He has con tinually sided against all attempts to extend the suf frage, because an extension of the constituency would endanger property. To that fear he has made himself indispensible to support him ; therefore the middle classes accept an Income-tax, and the land lords submit tochanges in their protecting laws which th e y would take from no other hands. The dread of change, the fear of the multitude, is the si milar frame of mind amongst the politically influen tial classes in France and England, which makes a Louis PHILIPPE now essential to both. If a man may make what laws he pleases he is very little short of a despot, though he may use his power, as both these' men use it, with modera tion' and discretion. No man who has an idea of justice affirms, we believe, that Sir ROBERT PEEL'S arrangements can be lasting, or that they will put an end to public distress and discontent. Neither the wretched monopolies which he has instituted here, nor the suppression of public discussion in France can be the law of either nation a very few years hence. Tamed as both these quasi despots are by that subserviency to some prejudices and bad passions which they have noted and watched to gain their ends, neither of them* is ever likely to be very tyrannical, and neither will be able to transmit his power and his system to any successor. In truth both depend on an unworthy 'apprehension, which cannot last. More continual misery is produced by by the means employed to relieve it than could possibly ensue were it realized. Lord ELIOT on Friday night, in briefly adverting to the disturbanc es which have prevailed for some time in the county of Tipperary, admitted that they had slightly increased lately, that the district was in a very unsatis factory state, and required the prompt attention of the Government. The only remedies, for the outrages daily committed, he seemed to think, were increased reinforce ments of police, and more stringent laws to prevent the pea sentry from procuring tire-arms. These are the old Tory cures fur Irish grievances. The Lord-Lieutenant and his Secretary call out for more _ tr oo p s an d more l aws people, b u t d o no t i nqu i re i n to to keep down the the causes which drive them to such madness. The Irish, when well treated, conduct themselves, in general, as «ell as the inhabitants of the , other parts of the empire ; and if any proof were wanting, we have only to refer their calumniators to the remarkable change prod uce d by the just, mild, and conciliatory Gov ernment of Lord NORMANBY. The nu mber of troo ps W AS greatly diminished, outrages were every day becoming less fre quent, and Ireland, some twelve months ago, was more tranquil than. England. There must be some ca use f or these disturbances, and would be well, therefore, to inquire whether they arise from the harsh treatment of the landlords or the middlemen, or from a want of that impartial and merciful administration of justice which peculiarly marked the Government of that Noble Lord and his successor. If force, therefore; be resorted to for the protection of life and property, let an inquiry also, take place at the same time, in order to convince the people that their complaints will be heard. They are the'greatest sufferers froni this anomalous state of society; and can have no object in view but to get rid of some more insupportable evils. It will be grati fying to all the friends of the Irish clergy, to know that Lord ELIOT paid them .the highest compliments for their praise-worthy conduct in denouncing illegal so cieties, and exhorting their flocks to respect and obey the law. These are the men who, when the Tories were out of power, were described by their organs as traitors and surpliced ruffians. A curious discussion took place in the French Cham ber of Deputies on Thursday, upon the order of the day being moved for voting the expenses of religious worship throughout France. M. CARNE complained of the interference of the clergy in political affairs, as un befitting the sanctity of their character. He dwelt particularly upon the conduct of the Bishops in circulating the Papal Bull respecting Spain, and in alluding to the relations, political and religious, of that t , country in their pastoral letters and sermons. He also con demned the conduct of the Archbishop of PARIS in praying the KING to adopt measures tor the better ob servance of the Sabbath. M. DUPIN said he was obliged to confess that the clergy allowed their zeal to carry them too far. He protested against their conduct with respect to Spain. That was an fildependent kingdom, and oughtao be allowed to judge for itself in every matter. Their pastoral letters and sermons were an irregular and offensive interference with the independence of a neighbouring natibu, with which France was at peace. We give the Minister of PubEc Worship's defence of the promulgation of the Papal Bull, as we find it re ported in the Journals : The Minister , of Public Worship disavowed completely, in the name of the Government, the violent attacks of certain Journals in favour of religion, and declared that all the clergy to whom he had spoken on the subject were opposed to such attacks. As to the Pope's letter, it simply recommended the prelates of other countries to do what he had ordered his own to do at Rome—namely, to put up prayers for the unity of the Church. The mandate of the Archbishop of Paris had fol lowed, and it had excited the solicitude of the Government, lest some violation of the law, xhich orders that no bull should be promulgated in France without the consent of the Govern ment, should take plane. A correspondence followed with the Archbishop of Paris on the subject, in the course of which he showed that there was no violation of the law, the mandate simply requiring prayers for the unity of the Church. Now while we entirely disapprove of the conduct of the French Hierarchy in promulgating the Brief relative to Spain, we can discover nothing whatever unbecoming the sacred functions of the Archbishop of PARIS in praying the KING to have the Sabbath better observed. On the contrary, we think the Archbishop did but his duty, and that the thanks of the poor of France are due to him for it. The Sabbath is the LORD'S day, and he has mercifully and bountifully given it for a day of rest for the over-toiled members of the human family. The rich man may make a Sabbath for himself of every day of the week, but it is only on the seventh that the hard-working artisan, and field-labourer, can claim a cessation from drudgery. We are as opposed to the hypocritical observance of the Sabbath, recommended by Sir ANDREW AGNEW, as M. CARNE himself ; but it does not follow from that that we should desire to see the ordinary business of life gone through on that 'day. Now this is what is done to a very great extent in France. The poor there, under the pretext of not being compelled to observe the Sabbath, are actually i , robbed of that day. They are made to labour without receiving a fraction of more wages than they would get did they only toil six days in the week. Thus they have no time for self-culture—none for that calm and wholesome re flection to which a day of rest must give rise in the bosom of an honest hard-toiling man. The Sabbath is the peculiar gift of GOD to the toiling children of mea. Do not deprive them of it, neither compel them to observe it after your fashion. It is their own, as much as any thing else that GOD has given them, and is intended for their happiness. To compel them to labour upon it is to rob them of this precious inheritance. France ought, therefore, to feel grateful for the solicitude of the clergy for the observance of the Sabbath. The Right of Search question was again debated in the Chambers of Peers and Deputies on Thursday. The speakers against the treaty were more violent in their condemnation of it than on the preceding day. M. BILLOUT, in the Chamber , of Deputies, and Viscount DUBOUCHAGE, in the House of Peers, denounced the treaty as a scheme of England to obtain the sovereignty of the seas. M. GUIZOT replied to both at great length. He showed the inconsistency of his opponents, and proved that France had quite as much to do with form ing the treaty as England. He would not, however, ratify the treaty, although he could not pledge himself for the conduct of future tit erninents. If our space will allow it, we shall on Moiday give an outline of the speech of the French Minister -We can only repent wly.t. we have again and again stated in treating this question. Our wisest, safest, and most humane course, will be to abandon the treaty al together. We can make nothing of it but evil, with France and the United States opposed to us. We cannot enforce the treaty without war, and that is an evil greater than that which we would remedy. We find the following in the Pr esse :—" The nomination of a Special Commission at Naples, for the purpose of concluding a treaty of commerce between Great Britain and the two Si cilies, has been already mentioned. We now learn from good authority that the two contracting parties will take as the basis cif their negotiations the draft of a commercial treaty drawn up three years ago by Mr. Macgre;;or, who was sent to Naples for the purpose. The difficulties which arose respecting the sulphur question, on that occasion, suspended the negotiations when tole rably far advanced. On the solicitations of Sir K. Peel, who seeks for new openings for the languising industry of his country, they are now to be resumed.. Should, Mr. Maegregor's plan be acceded to by the Neapolitan Government, the commerce of France would immediately suffer from it severely, for that gentleman proposed nothing less than to grant to the English flag in the ports of the Two Sicilies a reduction of 10 per cent. on the import duties paid by other nations. This preference in favour of English commerce, which possesses the island of Malta, a few leagues from Sicily, would entirely destroy the commerce of Marseilles with the Two Sicilies. It is to be hoped that the French Government will not rest inactive in face of the danger which threatens so immediately our principal town in the Mediterranean." _ _ Subscriptions in favour of the sufferers by the fire at Ham burgh have been opened at Bordeaux. A letter from Philippeville, dated 6th inst., says :—" A courier has just arrived from Constantine with the following news :—General Negrier marched. out on the preceding day, with 3,000 men and 1,000 horses, towards the south-west, with the purpose, it is believed, of visiting the tribe of the Hakactas. He is expected to remain 40 or 50 days in the field col lecting the taxes. Colonel Brice, commandant of the upper circle of Philipperille, having learnt that the Kabyles, ex cited by a fanatical Marabout, had assembled in great num bers, and threatened our convoys, set out on the Ist inst. in all haste, determined to disperse them, but taking with him only 1,200 foot and 200 horse. On the 3d he was attacked, in a narrow defile, by several thousands of Kabyles ; but our troops at the first s tood firm, and soon afterwards be came the assailants. From eleven in the morning till nine at night, they disputed the ground foot by foot, till at last they put the enemy to flight. In this close fighting our men dis played prodigies of valour, and killed a great number of the Kabyles. .We,' however, have to regret the loss of two officers, and, ten non-commissioned officers and soldiers killed, and have fifty-seven wounded. M. Lepelletier, surgeon-major of the 19th Light Infantry, was killed while dressing the Wound of one of the men within the line of fire.' The column returned in the evening of the 4th." BO L USE—PARIS, THURSDAY, MAT 19. Fast Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pric... Prier. r'serteh t per rents ll9 60 ... 119 60 ... .119 50 ... 119 50 4per Cents. ... 101 70 ... 101170 ... 101 70 ... 101 70 s per Cants.... - Bl 90 _. 81 90 ... 81 9J ... 81 9,1 lank os France ....... ........ 3355 .... 1160 ...3355 ... 3360 leteian Sans Belgian S per Cent 5......„ W3% ... 1.33 ... 103% .. 103 1(s 5 per Cents., 1840 10534 ... 105% ... 10 % ... 105% 3 per Cents 7S 45 ... 7 3 45 . ... 73 45:... 73 45 ;palish Active ......... Paid./ 4% ... 43 , ... 4% ... 4% Portuguese 5 per Cents. 31% ... 31% ... 3;% ... 31% Neapolitan lOB ... 1 , 8 ' ... 11/7 90 ... ill 90 Roman __ _.,. 2 .... 8.15% .. .... J 0534 ...135J44 ... 105% • , 17 AprAl itZ e t e. 4 - " • s*ANIVP'IOIc:r-- 1 0 „a; ~, • • ‘. ett-nn, THE SUN, LONDON. MONDAY MORNING, MAY 23, 1842. RAILWAY SHAKE S . Versailles. R. P. Hid 25 1138 '75 • 16, 166 25 Rouen 5O 75 ... 548 75 548 75 ... 548 75 Orleans Stiaaburg to Bale 215 ... 2 5 ... 235 ... 235 REPRESENTATION OF WAKEFIELD.—We see, by the Leeds Mercury, that Air. Lascelles has declined to accede to the request of the Electors of Wakefield, and resign his seat, which he owes to a decision of the House of Commons, contrary to the expressed wishes and votes of the majority of the electors of that borough. If the House of Commons may in one case elect a Member contrary to the wishes of the majority of ' the electors, it _ may do so in all, and it wou ld b e advantageous, probably, to public morality—it would spare the commission of much bribery, lying, intimi dation, and coercion, were that Hon. House to nomi nate its successor. In Mr. Lascelles's case, the return ing officer, Mr. Holdsworth, was elected by the ma :ority, and when an election Commitee unseated Mr. 'Holdsworth, because he was disqualified to sit, it had no business nor right to seat. Mr. Lascelles. In that case a Committee of the House of Commons 'have usurped the rights of the electors, and Mr. Lascelles wrongfully sits in Parliament for Wakefield. We direct the attention of our humane readers to a letter respecting the Royal British Female Asylum, at I)evonport. It expresses feelings in which all who are grateful for the services rendered to the country by our brave soldiers and sailors will concur, and when such a small sum is wanted for the benevolent purpose of pro viding an asylum for their orphans, we cannot believe that the appeal to the public will be made in vain. A letter from Belgrade, May. 4, in the Augsburg Gazette, states that a plot had been discovered at Kragojevax (Servia) in the course of last month. The object of the con spirators was to pillage the town and assassinate the adminis trator of the district, who had rendered himself odious by his vexatious exactions. Trade was in a state of stagnation for four days, and the most exact surveillance was observed over the Greeks, Servians, and Bulgarians. By the last intelligence it a ears that tranquillity had been completely restored. --- rdiTkle — nd of ss. in tae pour .d has been declaz d on the joint es;.ato of Messrs. Hobhouse ,Phillott, and Lowder, !milkers, of Datb.-4ath Ever. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Ptibite eptutou. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The discussion on the treaty for the right of search is again a leading feature in the original columns of the Paris journals, but as there is nothing novel in what they now say, and as our readers must be pretty well tired with the subject, we abstain from giving extracts. The National makes some severe remarks on the late Court Ball in London, as being a striking and offen sive contrast to the profound misery of the working classes. One of the London journals having in its account of the ball said that the quantity of diamonds was so great that it could defy any other country to .pro duce the like, the National places in juxta-position with this defiance extracts from several of the papers, showing the poignant distress of the multitude. Our Contemporary, for the purpose of giving a good climax to the article, notices the recent, and certainly in foreign eyes at least, not very creditable facts avowed in the House of Commons with reference to the practices at elections. Having done.this, the National says—" We have thought it right to place these two political 'facts (the misery of the people and the admission of the exist ence of certain practices at elections), by the side of the information about the profusion of diamonds. It is cer tainly true that there is no country in Europe which has so much, wealth as England, but there is also none that offers an example of such odious misery and suet bare faced corruption." The question of the religious observance of the Lord's Day, which is again brought before the public by the discussion in the Chamber of Deputies on the Address of the Archbishop and Clergy of Paris to the King on the Ist instant, is noticed by some of the Journals, but, generally speaking, not in so con secutive a way as to admit of our giving extracts. The following observations are -made by the Temps : We are far from declaring that the rest of the Sab bath is not necessary. If the Divine Legislator made it a religious law, he did it because he knew thiit the mul titude were incapable of 'reasoning.. But it is a law of political economy, as much 'as one of religion—public health, humanity - , the best mode of employing the strength of a nation, declaee in its favour. We should desire to see the conviction of this truth penetrate into every mind; and it is really annoying to see a good cause compromised by weak advocates, who do not understand it, and who, above all, do not preach by example." MONEY—TRADEI- 1 00NIAIERCE. The city of Hamburgh has several times suffered at former periods from extensive inundations. In 1510 the Elbe over flowed it, and damaged it to the extent of 5,000,000 of mark s ; in 1771 a like calamity destroyed merchandise and property of nearly 13,000 , 000 marks value ; and in 1790 the river rose to the height of 20 feet, occasioning incalculable loss and many lives. MAW AND PO LICE, At the Thames Police-court on Friday, John Rutherford, second mate of the ship Ann Hall, on her voyage to London from Charleston, and two of the crew, were committed to take their trial for mutiny. Twelve of the sailors have already been committed on the same charge. They all admit having taken possession of the ship, and are prepared to prove that the Cap tain was insane. Among other strange orders given by the Captain was to east anchor in the Western Ocean, where there were no soundings. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. The Harrow speeches this year will be delivered on Wed nesday, June 1, and Wednesday, June 29, in consequence of the Cambridge installation. COUICT—rASNIONABLE. Sir Robert and Lady Peel issued invitations on Friday for a grand dinner on the 4th of next month. The Countess of Zetland has an assembly on the 30th inst. mxscramarisouis. Matthew R. Poulton, Esq., the only son of the celebrated Matthew Boniton, whose name stands conspicuous among the men of mechanical genius in our country, died at Birmingham, on Wednesday last, in his 72d year. M. Pouche, a French gentleman, residing near Leicester square, has re ached the patriarchal age of 107, and has a son alive above 80. He was born at Rouen in 1737, and since his twentieth year has resided in England. The authorities of Hareburgh have requested Mr. Lindley, the English engineer, whose exertions contributed materially to save a great portion of the town, to furnish plans for the re building of the city. Mr. Lindley' has sent over to this country for a copy of the plan proposed by Sir Christopher Wren for the rebuildin* of London after the great fire, to aid him in making out his designs. A boat containing two gentlemen, one of them Mr. Robert Henderson, of the mercantile firm in London and Glasgow, was run down by the Shannon steamer last Tuesday, in the Clyde, and both drowned. At the meeting for the Counteraction of Infidelity, held on Friday at the Hanover-square Rooms, Mr, Brindley, the lecturer on the occasion, !dated that during his three years' crusade against Socialism, he had travelled more than 30,000 miles, had attended 500 public meetings, and had written and published 100,000 books and tracts. At a meeting of Reformers on Friday, held in John-street, Adelphi, it was resolved to form a new Reform Society, to be called " The Metropolitan Parliamentary Reform Assaciation,", Mr. Warburton to be Chairman. COURT CIRCULAR. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Mr. George Edward Anson, Treasurer of his Household, and Colonel Wylde, Equerry in waiting, left Bucking ham Palace, shortly before eight o'clock on Saturday morning, for the office of the Duchy of Cornwall, in So~• merset House, His Royal highness returned to Buck ingham Palace soon after two o'clock. 'l'he Queue, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royedi walked in the Royal Gardens in the forenoon. _ _ _ - At • half-past three o'clock on Saturday afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert left town in a carriage and four, escorted by a party of . Hussars, for Claremont. Colonel Arbuthnot, Equerry in waiting to the Queen, and Colonel Wylde. Equerry in waiting to Prince Albert, followed in a chariot and four. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal and their attendants occupied the next carriage ; and Lady Port mah, Lady in waiting, and the Marquis of Ormond, Lord in waiting, were in another Carriage and four. The Queen and Prince Albert were conducted to their carriage by the Master of the Horse, the Vice-Chamber lain, the Master of the Household, and Captains Dun combe and Francis Seymour, the Grooms in waiting on her Majesty and his Royal Highness. The Earl of Liverpool, Lord Steward, arrived at Clare mont from town on Saturday, and joined the Royal Circle at Dinner. The band of the Coldstream Guards attended in the evening at Claremont. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and the Duchess of Saxe Weimar, attended Divine Service yesterday morn ing in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Sleath, who took his text from Romans, chap. 11, verse 33. The prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Povah, the Lessons by the Rev. Mr. Haden, and the Communion Service by the Rev. Dr. Sleath, and the Rev. Mr. Povah. The Musical Service was Arnold's in F., the Sanctus in F. Davy, and the Anthem " Behold how good." (Nares). Mr. Turk presided at the organ. The Bishop of Norwich, Clerk, and the Dean of Here ford, Deputy Clerk of the Closet, were in waiting. - The Queen Dowager was attended by the Viscountess Barrington, Hen. Miss Hudson, and Earl Howe. Among the Nobility present were the Duke and Du chess of Beaufort. the Marchioness of Westmeath, Earl and Countess of Wilton, Earls of Erroll, Bandon ' Effing ham, Bective, and D unra ven , Lord and LadyJeitima Eliot, Lords Hawarden and Canterbury. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge attended Divine Service, yesterday morning, Kent, in the Chapel of the Female Orphan Asylum. Lady y D al uc H h i e g s h s ne , s f se K s. Her Royal aiti ng , attended A ugus t a Somerset, Baron Kneesbeck, and Colonel Jones were in w Highness their thßeo Lady Anna Maria D D awson and Sir George Couper, rt., visited F rog more Lodge on Saturday mor ning , and returned to town in the 'afternoon. In the evening her Royal Highness, attended by Lady Anna Maria and Sir George, honoured the Italian Opera with her presence. The Duchess of Cambridge visited the Queen Dowager on Saturday. The Duchess of Gloucester visited tier Majesty and the Duchess of Saxe Weimar on Friday, at Marlborough House. ' The Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Duke Ber nard and the Duchess of Saxe Weimar, and Prince Ed ward of Saxe Weimar, honoured the Italian Opera Rouse with her presence on Saturday evening. The Duchess of Saxe Weimar visited the Duchess of Cambridge on Saturday, at Cambridge House. The Duke Bernard of Saxe Weimar left town on Sa turday morning for Windsor Castle. His Serene High ness returned to Marlborough House in the afternoon. A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Moore, Wocestte, Evans, Hall, Browne, Percival, aad Robinson, accompa nied by Mr. Tatton Egerton, Mr. 'Tollemache, and Air. Brocklehurst, had an interview; with Sir Robert Peel on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-street. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign -office. It was attended by Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of W e lli ngton, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Buccleu e h, E ar l o f Ab er deen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, th e Ch ance ll or o f tm Exchequer, Earl of Ripon, Earl of Haddin Lord Fitzgera ld ; Sir Edward Knatch bull, and Si r H enry H ar di n ge• The Council sat two h o urs. • The Danish Mi n i ster a nd the Right Rev. Dr. Gri ffit h s, gton, Roman Catholi c Bi s h op of the metropolis , had interviews with Lord St an l ey on S a turday at the Colonial-office. Mr. Lyall, M.P., and Air. Vigors, had interviews with the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone on Saturday, at the Office of the Board of Trade. Despatches from the Governor of New South Wales were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. F - -AIL, weßeltnliwsassEL2s 3 , r. N 4 l 2 A c Y ., l t 9 h . 'LANDERS AND DUTCH M_ a — t of 'fh Two ship s i n t h e b as i ns o f Antwerp are taking on r e y a e v l e 3 r t age l3 p e r . ice of wheat last board cargoes of til es o f boom for Hamburgh. His Majesty is expected from Ardenne this evening. BRUSSELS, Aar 20. A n arrangement has been made between the Minister of the Interior and the Steam Na vigation Company of Antwerp, by which that Society continuing at all events a weekly communication between Antwerp and London, shall likewise provide a weekly communication between Ostend and London. The Society Cannot fix a higher charge for the conveyance of merchandise between Antwerp and London than the mean of the charge for the conveyance of goods during the first four 'months of 1842. Between Ostend and London the maximum on a great n umber of articles is much below the prices hitherto charged. Among those articles are fruit, poultry, but ter, eggs, and most heavy goods, such as are charged by measure. The steamers, which ply between Ostend and London, are treparing to enter into it rigorous competition._ One asiuhas slaegai raised..slit *Fe 43,4%-.141100. This reduction (as long as it lasts) will probably greatly increase our intercourse with England. Already a party of fifteen persons at Brussels propose to go to London next week for their pleasure, and we do not doubt that a great number of English will come to Ostend. _ The Precurseur of Antwerp says, "We learn with pleasure that some captains of vessels, ready to sail from Ghent and Antwerp to Hamburgh, intend to offer a free passage to every workmen of good character, whose professions is connected with house building, such as masons, bricklayers, plasterers, carpenters, smiths, and provided they have subsistence during the voyage, and for a week after their landing. AMSTERDAM, MAY 18.—The King of Prussia, at the request of General Du Moulin, has allowed him to retire on a pension, after having been for 26 years Governor of the fortress of Luxemburg. The inhabitant: greatly re • gret the retirement of the General, who has acquired in the highest degree the confidence and the esteem of the population. His Majesty, who set out yesterday afternoon for Qveryssel is expected between the 3rd and 6th of June at Luxemburg, where he will open on the 7th the first as sembly of the estates of the Grand Duchy. AMSTERDAM, MAY 18.—The committee for collecting subscriptions for the sufferers at Hamburgh has already received 7,400 florins, besides the sums received by the Handelsblad, 3,739 florins, and other considerable dona tions. • THE HAGUE, MAY 20.—Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Frederick of the Netherlands left the Hague to-day to proceed to St. Petersburgh, to be present at the twenty-fifth anniversary of the mar riage of their Imperial Majesties. Lord Vivian, Lieutenant-General in the service of Her Majesty, the Queen of Great Britain, has arrived here, and lotes in the Hotel cl..e Bellevue. DUTCH FU N 93.— A Mental/AM, MAT 20. Money. Ellie. Actual Debt, (2)4 per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. Arnett Sendie, 4 g per cent l-13 95). Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent.... 4 77 Commercial Company, 4;{, per cent 152 153 1 ( Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per tent P)O,4 1001 i Loan 1857, 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month l2 10 Two months (15 Hamburgh, One month 35 75 Twomonthg 35 31 Dutch Papers, May 21. EL€ 1A N 1. Ds—Bau,SELS, MAY 23. Actual Debt, .4% per Cent. Rothg:tild's Loan 5 per Cent Loan of Thirty Ainlions, I per Cent. Spec Cent. 7214 .(H4O) -.Thirty.seven torn of City,l2ll2, 4 per s Centi. n•t Society et Commerce, 4 y4per Cent Ftl Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent..„ ........ National Society Exchange on Londe* (short) ........ " — —Brussels Papers, May 20. AUSTRIAN FUNDS..-VIENNA, MAT 12. flveper Cents. Metalliques FOtir per Cents. ............ sown.. Three p Cents. Rank Shares ............«.«.«.»... MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, SATURDAY EVENING. The reduction on the rate of interest on Exchequer Bills still finds favour in the City. A dis tinction has, however, been made to-day in the rate of premium between those which fall due in June, and those for which no immediate necessity exists to provide for. The difference is but trifling, the Bills still running being at the former rate of 37, 39, and those in which the alteration is about to be made 33, 35. When it is considered that a large portion of the latter de scription will not be renewed, but actually paid off in money, and that the whole are blended in this quotation, the premium being totally sunk on the latter, the favour. able state of the Money Market at present will be perceived. The improvement in the Funds, consequent upon this annsnncement, has been well maintained, although busi ness has been upon the most limited scale, and Consols left off, nominally, at 921 92} for Money, and 92} for the Account. Bank Stock, 167 168, and India Stock, 249 230. The prices of the 'Foreign Securities were, Belgian, 102 103 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 524 53 ; the Five per Cents. 101 101+, and Brazilian, 67 68. No bargain having been made in'Mexican to-day, a quo tation cannot be given. It is understood that a meeting. of the Chilian Bond holders is to be held on Monday, to receive a proposition from Senor Resales, who, it is stated, is now in London, on behalf of the Government. The creditors of this re public have patiently waited for nearly fourteen years for some payment on account of. - their claims; and , a hen it is considered that the home creditor has been paid in full, such patience must I.e looked upon as most exem plary. The delay in settling their claims, which has hitherto taken place, has been submitted to, in the firm belief in the integrity of the Government, and' in the re sources of the country, which hitherto was held by those likely to be well informed, not to have been mis placed. ;The difference between the demand of the con ditions, and the offer made by the Republic, is too trifling to stand in the way of any nation serionsly inclined to actly fairly ; and if Senor Rusales be fully credited, .one. of the debtors to this country may shortly . be cleared off, and in an honourable manner. It is satisfactory to be able to state this fact to parties who have for a long period held the bonds, having paid full value for them, and which have never formed a ground for speculatiOn. The Share Market Was firm, and rather more was doing, London and Birmingham. 180 182 ; Birmingham and GlonceSter, 52 54 ; Great Western, 92 93 ; the Half Shares, 64 64k; South 'Western 631 (A!, ; Gosport. 63 641 ; North Midland, 66 . 68 ; 321, 331 ; Eastern. 29i 29i ;' the Scrip, 74-._7:4;..E%:pera Comities, 9 9i ; Blackmail, 11 114 ; the New Shares, 9 94 ; and Brighton, 361 361 per share. .. Spanish are the only bonds n hick find a place in the official lists to-day. The Five per Cent. Active Bonds, with the Coupons front May 1837, being marked 231 ; and the Stock hearing Three per Cent. interesc formed from the Coupons from 1837 to 1840, four years, 224 per cent. From The 'Sian of Saturday Night.) . . The improvement in the English Funds has continued to day, and as a proof of the great abundance of capital, the pre mium on Exchequer Bills, with the certainty of a reduction of one-ninth for the interest, is higher than yesterday, being 36 to 39. or very nearly the same as it was before the alteration was sussected or known. Consols are 94 94 for Money, It ri ri 921 94 for the Account Three per Cents. Reduced 911 9li ; Reduced Three-and•a- Half per Cent‘., 99i 100 ; New Three and-a-Half per Cents. wol 101 ; India Stack, 249 250; Bank Stock, 164 ; India Bonds, 21 prem. All the above ale a shade better than yesterday, and the Market has an appear ance of great firmness. Business in foreign securities has been confined to the Dutch Two. and-a-Half per cents. at 53. Mexican is without a quo- tation. Rather more inquiry has existed for Railway shares, and the sales have comprised Edinburgh and Glasgow, 531, 54 ; York and North Midland, 93 ; Midland Counties Quarters, 17i ; Manchester and Leeds Quarters, 51 ; London an i Birmingham, 181, Thirds, 60; New, 311 ; Cheltenham and Great Western , 22 ; South Western, 634 ; South Eastern Scrip. 74. ; Eastern Counties, 9%, New, 4/. 14s. 2d., Debentures, 101. 14s. 2d. ; Greenwich, 5i ; and Brighton 36i. In reference to the question of reducing the duty on coffee still further than it is at present proposed, it is now apparently understood that the Government are averse to any alteration in their rates. The view taken of the trade in the memorial, al luded to yesterday, is one that certainly deserves great anti serious consideration, since the high duty with which it has hitherto been charged, has acted as a great inducement for adulteration, and that intended to be levied, is not sufficiently low to discourage effectually the mixture of other matters. Instances could be mentioned in which all sorts of trash bearing the smallest resemblance to chicory in outward appearance, have been cleared from the Custom-house, to be used as a substitute for the substitute itself in times of scarcity, and without the slightest reference to the properties of the article, and the duties of 755. and 375. 6d. per cwt. will still afford a bonus for perpetuating the fraud. PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MAY 19. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 99 'Grand Canal Stock ... Ditto Reduced Ditto New 1830......... 99i i Ditto 4 per cent .... 31 per Cent. Debs. . EIVERTOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 20.—The week'com menced with a moderate demand for American, which since Tuesday has improved, and the lower qualities have been more saleable, but without any advance in price : good still remains scarce, and the market is firmer. Email is again in request, and Egyptian and Surat without change. Out of the 31,250 bales sold during the week, speculators have taken 4.500 American, and 500 Surats, and exporters 2,000 Americans, and 100 Pernambuco. Between the Ist January and the 20th Slay, the trade have taken 421.000 bags. an increase of 46,640 over the similar period of 1841. In the same time 63,800 have been sold on speculation against 120,380 in the last year ; and the quantity exported has been 30,750 bags in the present, and vies 11.890 in the former part of the past year. LIVERPOOL .SHARE MARKET, MAY 20.—Business was dull and heavy, and the prices of most Stocks declined, parti cularly Eastern Counties and South Eastern, the quotation for the latter 2e, and of the former 41. 18s, Bd. fir the New, and 101. 1 ls. Bd. for the Debentures. The other prices were— Edinburgh and Glasgow, New, 2 prem. ; Grand Junction, 186; and the New Quarter Shares, 2514. CLOSING PRICES. BRITI4H FUNDS. Bank Stock 16!•4 4'1(119. Stock —pm 3 per Cent. Red. .. ...... 916 , Ditto Bonds ...... 3 per Cent. C0n5......... 92i 'Ditto Old Al - multi. s - 3i per Cent. Red lIJO ;Ditto New Annuiti.—.., - bi r .w 1i per Cer.t... ... : MI Ex. Bills, 1,000/......1id 3tl pm New 5 rer Cent — Ditto 500/..... .39 pm . Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... —pm Jan. IS6O ... ...... 12 9-16 Bank Sock for Acct.—, -- . Oct. 1859 Jan. 18a) l2 13-16 Consols for Acct FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent. — Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent 'Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian Bonds— — ,Prussian, 5 per cent. ~ Buenos A yres6 per cent — Russian, 5 per rent....,, Chilian, 6 per cent Ditto, Metallic • .... Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent..,,., 22$ Ditto, 1824 261 Ditto, Deferred.... .. lOl Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. — e . 'Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —f —c. Mexican, 5 per cent — French, 3 percent. —4. —e. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 21 per cent....... 53 Perwvian,lB2s,6 peret. Ditto, 5 per cent. ~ ... SHARES. Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 H) 491 Cheltenham and Creat Western (721 paid)... 22 Eastern Counties' Railway (23 paid) ... ..... 9i Ditto New Shares ( paid) Ditto Debentures .. .... . Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... 531 Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid.... Great North of England Railway (100 pd) 83 London and Brighton (50 paid) .. ......... , , "i6l London and Blackwall (25 paid) llk Landon and Birmingham (90) ....... .. 180 Ditto Thirds (32 paid) Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) ... 3ll London and Gmenwichßailway (12/ 15s 4d pd) bi Ditto Preference, or Privilege London and South Western (381178 9d pd) 64 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 5l Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ... 28 1 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) -- Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) l7l South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) — Ditto Scrip. ( Apaid) York and North and (40 Aid) •••••,... 23 FINE ARTS. - PANORAMA OF CAUBUL. So far as picturesque effects are concerned, this Panorama of Caubul is one of the most successful that Mr. Burford has yet painted. It is also, we under stand, strictly accurate in all its details, which adds greatly to its interest as a picture. The view is taken from the Asha Mahi ' the western of the two hills which form th e na t ura l defence of Caubul ; and from this elevated position the whole city is embraced at one glance, reposing at the foot of the opposite hill. The course of the river Caubul—a small, but clear and rapid stream—is seen dividing it into two unequal parts. On its right, are the great mass of buildings, the principal bazaars, the tomb of Timour Shah, &c., together with the fortress of the city, arid the Royal Palaces on the rise of the hill; and also the pass between the hills leading to the valley of Chahar Deli,;by which Caubul is approached. On the left bank of the river is a spacious suburb, with many detached houses ; and towards the east, a vast extent of plain ot . the most beautiful description, presenting meadows, orchards, gardens, vineyards, &c., in the highest possible state of cultivation and luxuriance, interspersed with small villages, and the castellated mansions of some of the .wealthiest of the Affghan nobles. In the remote dis tance, the view is bounded by an immense range of lofty, precipitous mountains, a branch of the stupen dous Himalayas, which encloses the city on . all sides, and forms a natural barrier most difficult to pass. Some of these lofty eminences are covered with eter nal snows ; others are of a dark, frowning character ; and some of the lower and more gradual uplands are clothed, apparently with a sort of copse-wood, and crowned with mud-forts. Notwithstanding the au stere dignity imparted to it by some of its tremendous gloomy mountain precipices, the view, as a whole, is essentially one of a cheerful character; the beau tiful is blended with the sublime in equal proportions; and the impression made on the spectator's mind is, that Caubul, and its immediate vicinity, is one of the loveliest and most picturesque spots on earth. To break the appearance of still-life, Mr. Burford, with great skill, has introduced several effective groups of na tives, and represented Dost Mahomed, and. his fol lowers, together with Sir Alexander Burnes, and several other well-known individuals, bivouacking on the slope of a hill contiguous to the city. This group is arranged with much ease and grace, and the figures delineated are all, we believe, portraits. The colour ing of the Panorama is skilful throughout, .and, in , particular, the vivid green of the luxuriant orchard trees is brought out with the happiest effect. PORTRAIT Y . ihi> DUKE of WEILINGTOA We have beea favoured with a private view of Mr. Salter's full-length portrait of the Duke of Wel lington, which is now in the course of exhibition at Messrs. Welch's and Gwynne's, in St. James's-street, previously to its being engraved in line. When we say that this portrait is one of the most successful ever painted of his Grace, we do it no more than justice. It is full of characteristic expression, and there is a simplicity about it, and an absence of all meretricious effect, that cannot be too highly praised. Without in the slightest degree detracting from the likeness, the artist has had the rare skill to impart an elevation and thoughtful intelligence to the Duke's countenance, which has been missed by the majority of those who have attempted his portrait. The attitude is remarkably. firm, and dignified, and at the same time perfectly easy ; and nothing . can be more graceful or natural than the manner in which the Duke is made to hold his hat in his hand. He is represented in full military costume, aid the setting sun in the back-ground of the picture forms a touch ing poetic allusion to the declining age of the illus trious veteran. As regards the colouring, it possesses all that chasteness and harmony for which Mr. Sal ter's paintings have long been celebrated. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Lord Byron's tragedy of Marino Faliero was performed at this theatre on Friday, for the benefit of Mr. filacready. The impression it made upon a thronged audience stay be regarded as the completion of that tribute which, though late, has now been fully rendered to a poet who has been so unduly .depre elated since his death as he was, perhap, in some respects, overpraised during his life-time. There is no Oecasion for criticism on a drama so well known as this of Marino Faller°. The dialogue has been very ju diciously cut down, giving increased rapidity to the action of the piece, but leaving unimpaired the poetry of its passion. It was pleasant. ever and anon, by some magn!fieent burst- of emotion or splendour of imagery, to feel revived, as fr,rn the dead, sensations of long passed years, whee Lord Byron first, by " thoughts that breathe arid words that bum," commanded the world to acknowledge him for a pet. Such an instance is that of the passage. in the scene be tween the Dog. an.l Angiolina, commencing "where is honour, innate and precept-strengthened," of wh,ch Mr. Macready's superb recitation produced an effect only surpassed by the sustained grandeur of his delivery of the prophecy at the close of the drama. The Doge is nicely discriminated by Mr. Macrearls from other characters in some respects similar, in- which he has so often and so powerfully wrought upon the feelings of the audience. This is a tine, full bloodedold man. His irritability is that of the heart and not of the nerves. There ii no dotage in his tenderness. TheVe is no imbecility in his %mall. Our homy to is always rendered to the rmlity.and intensitv ol hi, expression. The air of reality imparted by the Amt.; runt hiltivg presence of Mr. Maeread) in the scene; is aided by thee aCtrssorie: which he so well know; how to direct ss hen numbers are required; as in the gathering of the conspirators, and the sitting of the council. her appeal to the senators, and her parting scene with the Doge, the skilful acting ot Miss I-1. Faueit preserved all the dilbity and sweetness of the character of Angielina. Mr. Phelos Mr. Elton, as Israel Bertuecio and Bertram, were thoroughly efficient. Mr. Macready was called fir, alter the play, to be greeted with enthu , iastic acclamations. IIiIrORTANT EXPERIMENT AT THE ROYAL POLYTECHNE' INSTITUTION. Dr. Payerne, on Friday, in the presenee of many scien tific men of undoubted skill and grew - reputition, deseended below the sorfa,e of the great weal iu R. , yal Polytechnic Institution, and remained ihere for the space of three hours, shut up within the divine bf 11. and totally - excluded from all possibility of obtaining external air, inasmuch as the only aperture by means of whiCh air is supplied to the ordinary tenants of this diving apparatus Was cenipletely and - effectually closed up. The sole apparatus n which, Dr. Payerne pro • - 'titled himsel was a small square box,. which he carried otporn with him, and in which it must be iresurned were kept con tained the magical in4redients by means of. which he kept life in himself during his prolonged sojourn under water. A lighted candle was also, for the coi,renience more of the spec tators than of the experimmtalist, taken down with him, and on his return to the surface, after three hours s' ay, Dr. Payerne protested, that it had given him as much trouble to keep the .flame burning as it would ave done to have supplied the means of breathing below the surface of the water to seven ordinary men. . It was arranged previous to his descent, that Dr. Payerne should give a signal to the observers of his being still alive every five minutes during his stay under water, an engage ment which he punctually fulfilled to the great gratification of the spectators, who sat wondering what the experimentalist could be about, and how he contrived to get his supply of air. At the expiration of the three hours Dr. Payerne made his appearance again, without seeming in the slightest degree ex hausted or inconvenienced, but, on the contrary, expressing an earnest desire to renew the experiment if any person present remained incredulous as to what he had witnessed. On inquiry, Dr. Payerne stated that the .mode by which he sustained life beneath the surface of the water was so simple that a child might practice it successfully. and that there was no danger that the materials would be exhausted however pro longed the stay, or whatever might be the number of persons dependent upon them for the means of breathing; as a proof of the perfect calmness with which the experiment was conducted; Dr. Payerne registered the variations of the ther mometer which he carried down with him every 10 or 12 mi nutes, the result showing a difference only of 14 degrees, the two extremes being 59a to 61 degrees. The experimentalist further stated, that he had first essayed the efficacy of his pro cess in a chamber hermetically sealed, and that he had never had an opportunity afforded him of making a trial under water before the occasion at present relerred to. The results were perfectly satisfactory, though at the same time they appeared very surprising to the vereons assembled to witness the experiment, and there will be little or no doubt felt as to the reality of the whole proceeding, wit! , n we state that amongst the most attentive and watchfol observers of the process were General Pasley, of the Royal Engineers, Profes sor Faraday, Sir W. Baynes, Bart., Captain Kerr, Air. Vi- Earl, and other scientific persons. ELECTION COIIIIIITTEES. (CORK COt TY). 11)7ne Committee met yesterday mf,t n ng at t e usual hour. s,me delay te.ok place in c0n.4pn.m.,....1 certain documents ot having been produced; ;t was, I lot% ever, arranged among CM lie' that they should be put iri at a later stage in the pro • Ott ngs. vn further evidence having been adduced, Mr. Salmi addressed the Committee at leng,h in support of the case of the petitioners. The Learned ( titleman, after quoting the' statute which enacts " That elections shall be free," cited saveral instances in which the statute lied been enforced. and elections bad been declared invalid on the ground that they had been disturbed by riots. That course vras taken in the case of elections fur Southwark. Westminster, Pontefract, and other places. The Learned Gentleman then.went over the evidence adduced before the Corftmittee, for the purpose of shoe ing that. at the Cork (dreamt, serious tints had taken place—that the voters of Mr. Leader had been intiund.teil. end that several of them had been ill-treated. On these gr •unds he contended, that the election could not be considered a fair or valid election. LYME REGIS, The Committee met at the usual hour. Counsel were heard at length on the vote of Joseph Curtis, which had been yesterday wider the consideration of the Corn mittee. After some deliberation, the Committee cl , eided that the vote should be retained. Mr. Covicatiast then announced, on the part of the peti tioner that he should not proceed any further after the deci sion to which the Committee had just come with that class Of votes; but he should pass to the class of vote., objected to on the ground of br►bery and treating. The first vote he should object to on that ground was the vote of Abraham A.'arid. Mr. TALBOTT stated, that as he had been taken somewhat by surprise by the announcement of his Lcarnen Friend, he was not at the moment prepared to defend the vote objected to. It was arranged in consequence of this statement that the inquiry into the vote should not then be proceeded with ; arid the Committee therefore adjourned till Monday, when the nquiry will take place. The Memorial de Rouen states that the King is expected to visit, towards the end of the month, his Chateau de Visy, at Vernon. PH7LADELPHIA, APRIL, 27.—The " Hungarian singers," well-known vocalists, are said to have been murdered by brigands, near Puerio Principie, Cuba. Two of the robbers were found dead by their side. SALISIHIRL.—H a y making has alread commenced in the meadows in t hi s ne i g hb our h oo dnd rhe..erop -y promises to he one of eitraordiparybaxuritp.. , • ---, 4f r at:, bourne 41 - 00744 - : : „~..,• ROYAL BRITISH' FEMALE • ORPHAN ASYLUM. . ~,,,..5 TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN' ,' . „ o is ij de S vo i t n e ' d — t A o s q t ti he esti o o l i of ns in f te y re o s u c r a ffecJournalting arethe f r r e l ;l y. : 1 0 ' cl ii i: military services, I trust that the following short a: ' of the rise and progress of an asylum for : thee:s.o destitute female orphans, of our decease& Soldiers 7...., sailors, w ill so far elicit the sympathies of your nametlf: readers, as to induce them to contribute out of their aDT,,iI dance for the erection of a building for their en hi 7 v accommodation. I beg to lay before you a list of the present inmoafCa, of the Asylum, wherein are exhibited the descripti n_ .. , orphans already elected, and their claims to our sY"'_ . , ,, pathy, • As their places of birth or abode do not in al . way tend to influence their election, many parishes ,a r D relieved from their pauper burdens ; the Instittql () J; therefore, becomes a national one, and advances itselatire.j. to ask assistance from the Empire at large ; and I . f :sa il, supporters of this interesting Charity are of this optrip, from the numerous contributions already retch, amounting to 1,3181., they will not plead in vain 77 those who delight in showing gratitude for the prtec , tion afforded to our country by our soldiers and sal and can feel pity for their female orphans. 'Benevoi: . individuals will rejoice in the opportunity thus affo!!!,f for removing these candidates for their bounty i'-`'..12., scenes of vice, teaching them to earn an ; honest - 5 1 1 . sistence, and 'to bt 7 cOine the virtuous wives` dour pour brethren, fulfilling the commands of our God, in pr gel the fatherless. Ido not think that there can be a , . charity, nor one more in accordance with our holy r fai il No locality ought to be allowed to sustain alone burdl i f i l. which in justice belong . alike to all, for Devonportqiii which the Royal British Female Orphan AsYlu ill o d, f established, efficiently maintains her numerous ' ~,,',, charities, besides cheerfully contributing to various ` nt , stitutions at a distance, whose claims are advocate' rfs t riodically by visitors ; and this is the first insfal ii , „ which Devonport has solicited assistance from the,,c,ittal. citable and humane who reside beyond her inshi e " l t a;) limits ; and where can be found one truly Christian fl o it; son who ai.l not admit that all ought to step far 11 , r . and aid this interesting and national Institution? . n i 4 amount wanted for the building is 'only about 3, 0 4 t and if all gave a little the required sum would be c e ; soon collsctett The Lord of the Manor has in the mle ~ h Ion; generous spirit presented to the Asylum as mut- - off" as may be required, upon an eligible site, for a ter - ooh n 99 years, at a nominal rent of one shilling per so , and the public are appealed to for funds to•enahleof Directors to avail themselves of this gra nt,' I also '4l l you a copy of the - last Report, with its Rules, in iil' ia , are set forth its patronage and government. No eTssi• attends the management, except the actual outs 4 k food, clothing, &c.; every subscriber has the privilsg v g nominating a candidate upon each e l ec ti on . Ain, the list of donors and subsariberS will be f ou nd the° h et of Lords Hill and Vivian, and many general and ( 4 0 . 0, officers in the army, who, as well as their families' h i ar l . ' generously stepped forward with their pecuniary - , 3 0.; flag and other naval officers, with their' wives and P as s': lies ; and a goodly - list of widows ' and oltali• of our departed heroes who contribute a s ' to. from their limited means. Nor ought' ' ~ti.: omit directing your attention to the long list of P° l , l ii,?: and Subscribers comparatively unconnected with e'". 0 army or navy, who say, when they transmit their mol l ? to the Treasurer, that they do so fr om th e gratefullso they entertain of the indefatigable exertions , which' i ii„ successfully sustained the honour of the British Ef,i l PA' kept the enemy from invading the shores of Englt i iie protected and extended her commerce, gave empil—, 4 1 to her people, and added to h e r we a lth an d . pro That her soldiers and sailors may alw a y s discharge 4 ' duty faithfully, and the country evince its •gratitatia., their zealous services, is the sincere prayer of ' ir • -- :s' Your obedient servant, , i 4,„ G. F. SOMERVILLE, Comma nder R. sti+ 4 , • Honorary Treasurer. ' )'' DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF 4 :- 11 /1 15.! GEORGIA EAST INDIAMANFIVE_ .14. LOST. On Saturday afternoon, the melancholy intellige nc° A the loss by fire of the ship Georgia, of Nawcastl e ' re t Indiaman, Captain Mitchell, bound to London, • was es, ceived by the underwriters at Lloyd's, attended7 . " l oo` great- to say, with deplorable sacrifice of human' s i The ship was between 800 and 900 tons -burthen• the was valued at 7,000/., being splendidly fitted up t l ' t t ol accommodation of passengers ; she had a rich m ba rc board, consisting of jewellery, merchandise, an i s ii valuable property, which perished with the vessel, 3 in total of neorly 20,0001. • A 0 ._ :. f i The unfortunate s esent occurred on the ion,orpiPg ° A . O O) lst of last month while on h er passage to England o v Calcutta, which place she l e ft in the early part of Vr"„, ) , L e ary. From the account br oug ht over by t h e s hip ', i s inas Sparks from China, whi c h arr i ve d o ff D ar tmott .. .f",4 Friday. morning, it appears that early on the tn"'W mentioned, the watch on deck, when the vessel A s under close reefed topsails, and in latitude:.iea south, and longitude 36 east, off Mad a g asc ar; n° ti t bst , somethises burning about the ship, and suppossa t tai' one of the crew had left his candle burning, angissY he had fallen asleep. The officer went int o . ost forecastle to ascertain •if such was the case, s it found the interior apparently safe, and the light-14f extinguished. On returning to the deck he ohae,aid, 4 that the stench increased, which excited his susPi.el be and ultimately aroused the cornmanders, Captain :iit i c ''.o and the rest of the ship'S cr e w, an d a strict s ear , c l ! d ' th i ,l deter:nine:l upon. 0, 1 th e ho.a g s bein r , ' , ":: vid i a to or t maim. h Alt tees taken otf, . ti.,: buming bvz l " s - ' t n t remove' recoil the Clego, 'when orders were i'''',-, '' - " ° i; c reWt' s h ° o rn sve 4 v P 4 r ,ta n d7l r ot i i t ir,.7c 9 s twit upon them, and shortly afterwarda it - becam e -(3 , e re e •a d s e ' d to rab e e t I.( u .. t ro t a lle vo tir ti o ni ; e t.:_ ssinoi te . tense, accompanied with excessive heat that they ‘(:iini forced ..to desist: and issive the hold, notwithstan ot4 largo quantities of ws ter had been thrown down ato °ll ,l:it the cargo. Captain Mitchell then had the hatches $ plac(al, and blocked up every aperture in the ship' eluding the cabins, in the hope of stifling the fir e ki4 this proved unavailing, for in a bout two hours the fl t'st broke through the cabin Windows, and likewise frP° l o, hat Away over the Strecastle, to the terror and dist> of u 1 i cm board. Capt. Mitchell, who was a youngsa i d s ii acted with surprising fortitude. Perceiving that the sbti,i struction of the vessel was inevitable, hedirectedhett crew to prepare themselves to leave the ship, whic h t O O immediately set upon doing, by lowering the boa ts ~ i fig in number) over the vessel's side. It aas a most tr) 01 1 moment, for the sea was extremely rough, with a h 8 00 , gale of wind ; and with the knowledge of their being si es l or 900 miles from land, every soul expected to with a watery grave. • . 2.. ., s af i si At about eight o'clock, the chief mate, with Tatia't! the crew, left the burning v e s se l i n th e jollyshos": i ;he, they were directly followed by C a pt a i n Mitchell, an ell rest of the ship's company—four i n number—in th e 5 ro, boat. In the course of a quarter of an hour a fterloo the work of devastation had reached the masts, 0 .,g0 appeared embodied in one mass of 'flames, 01'0.01 terrible though magnificent appearance. At this 01 , period, a vessel was observed at a distance, bearing t°V. the ill-fated ship, and the chief mate turned round to d e known the joyful intelligence to Capt a i n Mitchella?dingS rest of the crew. He was horror-struck iri n il , se, that the boat had foundered, and none of them w e 'i t ea t : be seen. They r o wed abo u t i n h o p es o f picking l isse up, but unfortunately none of the poor fellows eve, r d , after. The ship Thomas Sparks, which proved ; ai e ,,,f the vessel they saw bearing down to their assl s o" came up alongside 'soon afterwards, and took the i tlif Y, and the rest of the Georgia's crew on board, no cl ,. 9 kii remained within a short distance of the burnint7 i s at until she went dewn, which event took place_ ,at a hour in the afternoon. ' a d The slip Thomas Sparkes, with the survivors, is th e ' . yesterday morning off Dover, and she i s expect e ' .s: , 0 afternoonAt )31ack well % lie soa Tfie Georgia and cargo are report e d t o be insu . the extent of 25,0001. .. 1 SIR J. WALSH'S 1110 - 7 1 10. m- TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN t;,"' '' 4 28, Berkeley-square, May 21, 107' s , 4 Sta,—My attention having been directed to ~i lt! iil , l tide in the Times of this morning, in which` conduct is much animadverted upon, for not 0 pold brought forward a motion of. which I had gis: er :,e,:'' tice with reference to Mr. Roebuck's Commi t ' 00, beg your insertion of the following explanation , ` r, ,' ~,e, lam unwilling to defer a day : . • ' if' '', o ' I.had in the first instance conceived that 1 11 ,: p , tion would have been entitled to precedence ass ~ , ter of privilege, in which case I could- have b ;i:,;4! public ;t before a full House, at the commeneetnen t t Os , . • 0 c business. I subsequently ascertained 0 0 was mistaken in this supposition. The Spetike f i ' . j ruled Mr. Charles Buller 's attempt to bring ' YA , the Bridport case upon the same ground. 4 1 , - , ,' t i Fridays orders of the . day have precedence of ,P; A 4 of motion, and as I found I could prefer no _ 1 14.. ,. ; '•:t 1 privilege, my motion was necessarily postpo ll % tif a very numerous list of orders of the day l c "' ' posed. of. 11 5 " . 0 ° ' . With every wish to bile the sense of the ,titil i . upon a question which I consider of great 011 r - c is: e st tional importance, I must still think that I e%,„e, n.: A a sound discretion in not attempting to brut,llo' subject under its consideration at a late . in ij o be rs v . : when there - was a very thin attendance of 11e ro sse`' .4 ',P i Those who are familiar with Parliamentary P ` , e bze t i ings will be aware that such a course would 1111 ,: 4' , most unusual, and calculated to prejudice I P e o f I _s ~t tion. No full discussion or deliberate decisio n 17170`,,1 House could, under such circumstances, 1 10 ' ' . I ', obtained. k . :,. opt I have the strongest conviction that no ift e ' p.;i , " : tunity of bringing this matter forward has 'at 41' by me, and I shall be most anxious to do $?4,,,5A earliest period the forms of the House will 1 111° - ',. 0 9 • 5 . "611 I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient servem 4 f ,Sii• JOHN 101 ' ti' c ---- i vs A Constantinople letter of the 27th ult. g on o se, i , following particulars of the conflict between some r i sr. $ 4 14? English sailors, of which a slight notice was coPie d " I sev e ' - er °. days ako, from the Malta Times :--,. On the 240,,,,, „ s r '',. o , the sailors of an English steamer and a Russian 9 4 '7 Gs' o rt waiting in their boats for their officers, at the VIP of l‘to One of the Englishmen snatched a pipe from the ni t say Russian, anti, having smoked a few whiffs, thre:„ s l ,i2 os „ l ie 4 him, spat in his face, and then struck him. The r ; : h - 03 . " ell," e fe' s in a body to avenge their messmate, and the Eng,"'„, - d .10, e r t ° s ' out for assistance . Upon this, a body of EnglisP f I L,s, Saii:' armed with knives and sticks, assailed the Ras s ' - to rW 3 ':' n w o ho m se uc o h ffice fe r r s o w ci a t s y, k n t o h c a k t e d they kille d i'he aßnusEsipagnisisrh Aeraset,;s Maltese, trampl e d th e i r b o di es under t h e i r f e et; 01 ,74staPSW' ' put their oppo nen t s to fli g h t. Th e B r i t i s h . 01 %i l f.it A -made representations of env affair to the Russiatro` - • "It QatheiltrtigigliCovauzzat,lNiimpaiiik. Oil I