The Sun. — London, England, 1842-06-22 00:00:00

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(comprising upwards of 1,100 close pages of letter press), price 12s each (bound), either of which may be had separately. THE SPAS of ENGLAND. By Dr. GRANVILLE. Vol. 1 contains the NORTH- Vol. 2 contains the MIDLAND ERN SPAS, with 27 Illus. and SOUTHERN SPAS, trations, a Map, and Table of with 24 Illustrations, and Ta the Chemical Analyses of the ble of the Chemical Analyses various Springs. of the various Springs. Also, Just Published, Dr. GRANVILLE'S GUIDE to the SPAS of GER MANY. New and Cheaper Edition, in one large volume, with Map, and 39 Illustrations, 125., bound. I " For the invalid or tourist, in search of health, these works form perfect treasures."—Sun. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. This Theatre has resumed its tormer popular position with a Series of Grand Operas, supported by the first musical talent this coun try can prouuce. THIS EVENING, JUNE 22. Will be performed, Bellini's Grand Opera of LA SONNAM. BULA.—Amina. Miss Remer ; Liza, Mrs. Serle; Rodolpho, Mr. Leffler; Elvino, Mr. W. Harrison; with an increased Band, and a powerful Chorus, conducted y Mr. O. Stansbury. After which, a Sallet call d THE PUPIL OF LOVE, in which the Italian Opera Darcers will appear. To conclu e with Mr. Leman Bede's JACK IN THE W ATER. Jack, Mr. George Wild; Betty, Miss E. Terry. FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING, JUNE 22, The Performances will begin with LA FILLE DE L'AVARE. —Grandet, l'Avare, Monsieur Bouffe. After which, UN DUEL SOUS LE CARDINAL DE RICHE. LlEU.—Marie de Rohan Montbazon, Madame Laporte (her first appearance at this Theatre). 'fo conclude with LES VIEUX PECHES —Monsieur Girard, by Monsieur Bouffe Boxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre (or Gallery Stalls), 9s. ; Gallery, 2s. Doors will be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Per formances commence at Half-past Seven. Applications fo Boxes and Stalls for the remainder of the Season, to be made at Mr. Mitchell's Library, 33, Old Bond-street; Mr. Se guin's 12, Regent-street; Mr. Sams' s, St. James's-street; and at the iox-oltiee of the Theatre, which is open daily, from Eleven till Five o'clock. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOciICAL GARDENS. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully Informed that ON MONDAYS, TUESP , AYS, AND THURSDAYS, GRAND EVENING FETES will be given, in which will be em bodied all those popular Entertainments that have given to this favou rite place of recreacion its peculiar celebrity, with additions and in troductions, which render them more generally attractive. The MENAGERIE has been enriched by many valuable and im portant acquisitions in the classes of both Quadrupeds and Birds. Feeding Time Five o'clock. The Colossal VIEW OF ROME has been repainted, and in some instances remodelled, with a Mechanical Tableau d'action, repre. senting the Procession of the Papal Troops, Gua rds, and Roman Nobles, to the Castle of St. Angelo. Tha BAND includes some of the most eminent Performers, con ducted by Mr. Godfrey, and the Programme of the PROMENADES MUSICALES selectedf rota the noblest works of the great Masters. The ILLUMINATIONof ST. PETER'S, the CROSS of FIRE, and the GIRANDOLA of ST. ANGELO, with all the gorgeous Spectacles and magnificent introductions that have called forth ac clammations of delight and admiration on each evening of their ex hibition, terminating with the triumph of pyrotechnic splendour, the CASCADE of BRILLIANT FIRE, SIX I Y FEET in height. The Gardens are open Daily from Ten till Dusk. The Evening Fetes, with the Promenades Musicales, Illumination of St. Peter's, Giro:dots of St. Angelo, &c., will be given on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. Admission One Shilling. THE WEA THER.—NooN, JUNE 21. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE', ADELAIDE-STREET. Theanometer Highest 6B 1 Lowest 48 Barometer 29.78.—Wind S.W. iliou WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning l6 minutes after 1 I Evening 38 minutes after 0. All Advertisements of a Disgusting Character, or Immoral Tendency, are excluded from the Columns of " The Sun." • , Li I 14 4 41E3 4-Nk , Arm' k- Z l 4, \`'-' 4. 4 "c01iv, , trb -'> Aut. LONDON! WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 22, 1842. It is rlain, frdm Mr. HORSLEY PALMER'S letter, which Sir E. PF-rx. quoted on Monday evening, that we were not far wrong. in conjecturing that Mr. GOULBURN had lent himself to the purposes of the Bank of England. Mr. PALMER says, in a letter written on the 2d of December last, " which has been placed," said Sir Robert PEEL, " in my bands t"— "It is necessary for those connected with the management and use of the currency, to press upon her Majesty's Government, through Sir R. Peel, the great and growing evil we are all sustaining from the depreciation of the gold coinage. I be lieve that the Bank of England has done every thing in its power, by constant and frequent representations upon the subject, both to the late and present Ministers. The evil has been admitted, but no remedy whatever has been suggested by the Government to the present day. The prominent points .are as follow 1. The effect upon the foreign ex changes, which, in the event of an unfavourable course again existing, will either be exhibited in an advance from 1 to per cent on the price of standard gold above our Mint price, judging from the character of the present depreciation, or by draining every sovereign from the vaults of the Bank, the con sequence of -which you can estimate as well as me. 2. The present abstraction from circulation of a very considerable amount of currency, consisting of the surplus light gold that the 'eankers in London and the conntry are unable to pass through the Bank of England, or in payment to the re ceivers of the revenue. if an arrangement be made for such sovereigns being received upon good terms for account of the Mint, bank-notes would immediately issue to the extent of the receipts, and solar increase the money circulation of the kingdom, 3. The last, and which may, perhaps, be considered the most important objection in a public point of view, is the gre.tt -inconvenience to which the public are subject from this dept•eciation.' Having thus briefly referred to the evils that exist:, it seems to me that a very prompt and easy remedy may be Worded, if Sir Robert Peel can be induced to adopt it— viz.; ..to apply to Parliament, as one of his first measures after Chris trnas, to authorise the Bank to clip all sovereigns pre sented, which power was formerly possessed in the case of gui neas, and at the same time, to sanction the receipt of such light coin for account of the Mint at the standard price of 3/. Et's. lobd per oz." It: seems also that the - London bankers, those paragons o f asinterestedness and public virtue, made a represen tali( an to the Treasury, which ran thu : " Londo s n, Jan. 20,.1842. Ivy Lords, —We feel it our duty . to represent to your Lordalips that much inconvenience arises from the quantity of light gold in circulation, thatig no other mode to remedy the evil, we bo b to sugges power be granted to the Bank of El 'gland to clip b such sovereigns as may be presented to them under the proper weight, and that arrangements be also made with the Bank to take in all light sovereigns at the Mint price of 31. 17s. 100. per oz. We sha44 be obliged by your Lordship's early consideration of this subject, and have the honour to remain," &c. This letter was signed by twenty-four banking fi rms; raid, considering their wealth, united to the wealth of the Bank of England, it was not possible fur a Govern men't which reverences money to resist its application. It w as all-effectual at the Treasury. Not a thought seem s to have been wasted on artisans and little shop keep srs, ten thousand of whom were annoyed and in jured by I\lr. GOULBURN'S proclamation for one levia than .11z long money owners, whose hoards it increased. I he ..)pulent classes, as Mr. C. ButmEa remarked on Moi day , have a paper currency of their own. They make- Otte bulk of their payments by checks and drafts, and . t.uir use a sovereign or two for pocket money. To the lowt:r classes the Legislature has denied a paper curr :y, with a view, we believe, to protect them. It is on tivg)9e, therefore, who are in the receipt of weekly wags s, :and the little shopkeepers they deal with, who canal at .tlispense with gold, who keep no banker's ac corm ts, that the weight of the proclamation, and the ex_ pens e of. estoring the currency, have mainly fallen. The bank ers Leaving applied for some measure, probably anti cipat ed it, and were prepared for it. The defence of the Cabit iet makes the reality more disgraceful than we bad imagi fined it. On this, as on other occasions, the heavy ban' 1 aof the law has crushed chiefly, What Mr. Ca2- r IdLE t Itas called the du mb multitude, from their ha v i ng no Rice in high quarters. For our statesm en , they are 'OW JONS, whose blows only make any impre ss i on. I t is, :ut the same time, plain that Mr. GOITLBURN did not ,exactly comply with the bankers' :request. They solicited that the Bank of England be empowered to clip sovereigns under weight, and receive them at the Mint price fur bullion. This might have been done by an engagement bi tween the Government and the Bank, the Bank giving notice that it would act as desired. The proposition of the bankers, in fact, is in principle identical with the suggestion we yesterday threw out, but not so general nor extensive, neither applying to all public offices nor to all times. We do not quarrel, therefore, with the proposition of the bankers, but it has no resemblance to the actual proclamation. This pub licly discredited the whole of the gold coin, making it necessary to weigh every piece ; that asked that Coin no longer of full weight be quietly withdrawn from cir culation. The bankers implied that the Government was to bear the necessary expense—the Cabinet threw it on the artisans and little shopkeepers. The proclamation, therefore, was a very heedless and very unnecessary op pression of those classes which have little or no paper money. We believe that Mr. GOULBURN blindly fol. lowed a precedent, without the talent to appreciate the consequences. The affairs of Spain are in a most distracted state. In Portugal, France, and England, the struggles carried on among public men, under the guise of patriotism, are struggles for office ; but in Spain we find weeks 2lapsihg, while the Ministerial departments are a-beg ging for persons to fill them. The REGENT, in fact, has experienced the greatest difficulty in forming his new Cabinet, which, notwithstanding the time left for deliberation, is still wanting in elements of strength. A telegraphic despatch from the Spanish capital of the 17 th inst., apprises us that the new Ministry had then been formed, and that it consisted of General RODIL, Count ALMODOVAR, and Senors ZUMALACARREGUY, RAMON, CALATRAVA, CASSAZ, and TORRES SOLANET. Most of these Ministers have been already tried, and found wanting. ALMODOVAR, CALATRAVA, and Zu- MALACARREGUY, are respectable names undoubtedly, but none of them are men of such commanding intellect as are required by the present energies of Spain. Insurrections are breaking out in several provinces, and there is every prospect of another summer being con sumed in civil wars. On the 16th inst., a mob paraded the principal streets of Barcelona, shouting for the Con stitution of 1812. They were charged by a body of cavalry and dispersed. Another mob proclaimed the Constitution of 1812, at Figueras, in Catalonia, and was also attacked and dispersed by the mi litary. Large bodies of troops were concentrating around Madrid, which was strongly garrisoned. Dis affection was general, and the people were ready to adopt as a remedy for their distresses the evils which occa sioned them, namely, another resort to arms. ESPAR TERO'S exalted position is far from being an enviable one. No Sovereign in Europe has a more difficult task to per form than the REGENT of Spain. The Carlists, the Christinos, the Republicans, are all his enemies, and these abound among all classes in the Peninsula. Like every nation who snaps the bonds of tyranny, without gradu ally unloosing them, as we have done in England, the Spaniards are running wild, and injuring themselves, be cause they have not learned to make a judicious use of freedom. The REGENT committed a fatal error in sanctioning such rigorous prosecutions of the inferior clergy. Had he known how to have made a proper use of the services of these men, and taken only ordinary means to obtain them, there would be less discontent in Spain, and no disposi tion to have again recourse to the sword. But by pro secuting them he made them objects of pity, and there is no sentiment which it is the duty of every Government to be more careful not to have felt for the fops of the State. Whatever be a man's faith, or even if he have no faith at all, provided he has been educated in the profession of one, the sufferings of a priesthood will move him to compassion sooner than the same evils, if endured by the laity. The REGENT was therefore manifestly wrong in wantonly courting the hostility of the priesthood. To strip them of their overgrown wealth and power was just, and Spain applauded it, but not so the prosecution of them before Courts of Law for exercising the most inoffensive to all Governments of their spiritual functions without seeking a recognition of right from the civil authorities. The ob servance of the Canon Law in the mere matter of celebrating mass was surely enough to require in Spain from a priest not demanding to be supported by the state. Governments should never attempt what it is impossible for them to accomplish—much less what, in addition to being impossible, must raise up against them a host of invisible but active enemies. When the RE GENT seized the Church property he got possession of the golden egg, and might have listened unmoved to the gabble of the goose. The office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland may be useful to the people of Dublin, and the Castle may be found a very 'convenient dining-place for the nobility and gentry of that country, but, in other respects, it is of no service whatever to the country. We have reason to believe that during the :interregnum which now exists no ap pointments whatever are to be made without re ference to the Supreme Government here, and if this system is adopted for one week or one month, we cannot see why it may not be continued for the whple year. At present nearly all the leading men are absent from Dublin. Lord DE GREY iS about to start for Germany, the LORD CarANCELLOR is in England, Lord ELIOT, and the ItEcoanmat, and the LORD MAYOR are attending to their duties as Members of Parliament, and affairs appear to be cond acted during their absence with as much regularity, andc ertainly with fewer personal disputes, than when they have all assem bled in the Irish capital. In fact, the Lox LIEUTE NANT, unless happen to be a man endowed with sound judgment, and exempt from political prejudices' a rare circumstance, does more harm thane good. He favours one party, and consequently given offence to another ; and, from residing on the spot;, has great difficulty in avoiding an appearance of partiality, so in jurious both to his influence and the good government of the country. Affairs in Scotland, witlicmt a Lord Lieutenant, are much better conducted than. •those of the sister island ; and we cannot, therefore, see why the same law should not apply to both. Intelligence from the two capitals can be conveyed to Lon don in the same time; the laws of Ireland are similar to those of England, they h a•ve the same Church establishment, and other similar institutions, while in Scotland the reverse is the case. Ai ere Ireland governed in the same way, there would mot only be a saving of needless expense, but the union 'between the two countries would every day become more et .nsolidated. From the tone of the French Liberal :,Journals we augur that their party has a poor chance at ~ the ensuing elections. The Liberals are the war party, cc asequently it is plain that war is popular only among the de .magogues of Paris. This is, indeed, most gratifying initelligence. A great quantity of rain fell in Paris on Suna . ay to the delight of the parched inhabitants. Oa Saturday the KING, who appeared in kxcellent health, accompanied by Count MONTALIVET, Colonels D'EsnssAc'and CLIABANNES (Aides-de-Camp), and his architects, Messrs. FONTAINE and CAILLEX X, left Neuilly for Versailles at two o'clock P.M. Ids MAJESTY stopped at St. Cloud, where he inspected th.e works in progress of construction. On reaching Versailles, the KING was received by the civil and military authorities. His MAJESTY likewise inspected the alterations and im proiTments now making in the Palace, and: returned to Neuilly at seven o'clock. According to a Ministerial journal of this rooming, Spain is in a 'violent crisis. Lanege, the chief of Eapartero's staff, en deavonrs to restore the Constitution of 1812; the Carlists stain show themselves in the northern provinces; in short, the greatest confusion and anarchy prevail in that unappy country. The disclosures of M. Louis Bland show us that all these evils are to be ascribed to the fatal influence of the doctrinaires, of whom M. Guizot is the complete representati ye. The Nuremberg Correspondent publishes a 'letter from the banks of the Rhine, dated June 9, which says— " It isseriously in contemplation to publish an amnesty for ix atical offences, without any exception. It is affirmed that ti us measure will originate with the Diet of the German Confed eration."— Ga zette de France. His Royal Highness Prince Albert has b een gracious], plc aced to accept the office of President o f the Queen s Clinical Hospital at Birmingham, recently - erected, for the purpose of affording, in connexion wi th the Royal School of Medicine; practical instruction at the bed-side to the students of the medical profession in. the midland counties. EXTRAORDINARY EXPIx ESS. EXTRA INDIAN MAIL. The long-expected extra Indian Mailari ived. at Mar seilles on Tuesday morning at six o'clock. is said to have brought no news. A British officer, the bearer of despatck .es, left Mar seilles immediately, for London via Paris. An insurrectionary movement took place at Barcelona on the 16th instant. The mob attacked th e prison with cries of " Viva la Republica," but were dis, persed by a charge of cavalry. Tranquillity was complet 4 ply restored. A telegraphic despatch from Madrid, dat. - Al the 17th instant, announces the formation of the 1 finistry Rodil, Minister of War and President of tilt Council ; Almadova, Foreign Affairs ; Zumalacarregui, Justice ; Ramon Calatrava, Finance ; Capaz, Marine ; Torres Solanet, Interior. It gives us sincere pleasure to be able ' to. announce that the Bishop of Lichfield, Dr. Bowstead, hi s so far xeoo vered from his late severe indisposition, as to g ive his friends the best founded hope of his speedy and entim recovery. He has been in the country since the Ist inst., aol; is daily gather ing strength.— Carlisle journaL SUMMARY OF r4Evis AND I)ttbftc eptittott. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. An English packet-boat has arrived at Marseilles from In dia, with despatches for the Government. A British officer, who came passenger by her, started, immediately on her arrival, for England. An extraordinary express from Paris announces that a Re public was proclaimed at Figueras (Catalonia) on the 17th. A second express informs us that the movement was almost im mediately suppressed. It was reported in Paris on Monday (yesterday) that a so ciety of 5,000 Republicans had been formed in Lampererdan, having for its leader Abdon Terrados, who was ill at Perpignan. On the 16th inst. some dissurbances occurred at Barcelona, which led to no serious results, but fears were entertained that tranquillity would not be preserved. The Carlist band; wen becoming more numerous, and had appeared in the neighbourhood of Barcelona. A Cabinet courier arrived on Sunday morning from St. Pe tersburgh, with nespatches for the French Government, which were instantly taken to M. Guizot, at Auteuil. Sunday's Moniteur contains a Royal ordonnance, prolong ing ;he provisions of the decree of the Bth of December, 1839, in favour of the tariff of the French Antillas. The principal change is in the permission granted for shippers of foreign merchandise in French entrepots to pay the duties, in order to enter into consumption in the French colonies at the colonial custom-houses, instead of France. Teneriffe and Madera wales are to be admitted at Martinique and Guadeloupe at a duty of 60f. per hectolitre, instead of the former one of 100 f. Prohibited merchandise may be admitted to be bsnded in the Anti.las. The Bayonne Sentinelle des Pyrenees, of the 16th, calls for the interference of the Government for an insult on the French flag by a search made by a Spanish gun-boat which left the port of Fuenterabia, and searched a French boat eff the port of St. Jean de Luz (France.) The cause of the " right of visit" is not explained. The Marseilles Papers of the 16th contain an account of the burning of an American merchant-vessel, the Louisa, which might have been attended with serious results to the numerous ships crowding the port. The fire was the work of an incen diary, the steward of the vessel, a native of Manilla, who, having been put in confinement for robbing the captain of nearly 800 Mexican dollars, in revenge threw phosphoric matches amongst some inflammable materials. The villain subsequently threw himself into the river, but was taken out, landed, and sent to prison for trial. Fortunately the fire was discovered in time, and the vessel was towed by a steamer out of the port, when it was got under in an hour, the damage being confined to the hold. A great meeting of Kings and Potentates will take place on the Rhine in autumn. The Emperor of Russia will attend. PAELIAVIENTATLY. The Earl of Clarendon presented a petition from the colonists of the Cape of Good Hope Lora Cousititution, which was warmly supported by the Noble Earl and Lord Howden. 'I he Earl of Ripon said the position of the colony militated against the request of the colonists. Lord Brougham said that he, too, should oppose such a plan, till the state of society in the colony was considerably improved. Some further explanation was given by the Duke of Welling ton relative to Mr. St. George, both whose dismissal from the Magistracy of Ireland, and whose restoration to it, met his Grace's approbation. The Lords were engaged till very nearly midniTht in dis cussing the Income .tax Bill. The Marquis of Clanricarde moved that the third reading be postponed for three months ; and supported his motion by an able speech. He was sup ported by Earl Stanhope and Lord Monteagle in a useful speech ; and opposed chiefly by Lord Fitzgerald and the Earl of Ripon, who supported the third reading of the Bill. On a division, the Contents were 99, and the Not Contents 28 ; so the Bill was read a third time, and by a majority of 71, passed. The Lords adjourned at Twelve o'Clock. In the Commons, Sir G. Cockburn gave a further explana tion of the story that the crew of the Pique had been paid in light sovereigns. The sovereigns were in fact given to the sailors all full weight, but some of the tradesmen at Portsmouth had endeavoured to persuade the sailors they were under weight, and they returned to the Dockyard to have them weighed. Li reply to a question by Mr. Foster, Mr. Gladstone stated that he believed the apparent scarcity of silver coin arose from the momentary depreciation of the half-sovereigns. But the subject had received attention, and an issue of half-sovereigns would take place almost immediately. In reply to Mr. Hutt, Sir Robert Peel said the Hanoverian Minister had rejected the proposition of her Majesty's Govern ment relative to the Stade dues, and he could give no further information on the subject. In reply to Sir Charles Napier—by whose remarks it appears that the famoui lightning inventor, Mr. Warner, is no more contented with the present Government than he _wa3 with the last—Sir Robert Peel stated that Sir George Alurray, at his desire, had nominated r Howard Douglas and Sir J. Hastings to examine Mr. Warner's invention. Mr. Warner seems to complain that the Gallant Officers desire to worm his secret out of him. Lord J. Russell's Bribery at Elections Prevention Bill was read a second time. . 11. r. Ward brought forward his resolution touching the Ballot, and made a long and valuable speech in support of his motion. It was seconded by Mr. H. Berkeley, who illustrated the effect of the present system by occurrences at Bristol. The debate on this subject, which was rather animated, occupied the House till nearly twelve o'clock. Mr. Shell and Mr. O'Connell spoke in favour of the motion. Sir James Graham and Lord John Russell opposed it. There were a number of minor speakers, pro and con., but the greater part of them spoke in favour of the Ballot. Mr. Wakley spoke against it, but said he should vote for it ; he meant, however, to oppose its passing into a law, unless he could couple with it an extension of the suffrage. On a division the numbers were—for, 157 ; against, 290. So Mr. Ward's motion was lost, but we hope the night was not thrown away, since it served to rub up the arguments which can be urged for and against secret voting. The House adjourned at One o'Clock. MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE. It is expected that the Eastern Counties Railway will shortly come to completion—the bridge at Widford, the viaduct at Chelmer, and that over the river Cam are now finishing. At Wolverhampton the depression in the iron-trade conti nues with unmitigated severity. Two or three more blast fur naces have been put out, and several hundred hands discharged. More than 200 miners are stone-breaking at the union poor house, and work, if to be had, is at wages almost nominal. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. The market closed to-day with much firmness, which may be mainly attributed to the absence of operations, the, jobbers being fearful of transacting speculative business, in the apprehension that further sales may be attempted on ac count of the Savings Banks. It is probable, in the present state of the Aloney Market, consequent upon the large influx of gold into the Bank, that that establishment may appear as purchasers of stocl; and securities, in order to extend the circu lation, which must necessarily, to a certain extent, be con tracted, under the effect of the large payments now made into it. It is, therefore, likely that this cause, combined with re investing a great portion of the dividends, payable in about a fortnight hence, will tend to maintain the prices of the Funds at their present rates, if not to drive them up still further. Al though there has been a demand for money, and the rate has risen to 4 per cent., yet Exchequer Bills keep their premium ; and, though too late now, this tact would appear to prove the position, which has always been held here, that the sums ne cessary for the immediate exigencies of the country, could easily have been raised, by means of these documents, without pressure on the 31arket, or having recourse to the new tax lately imposed. The last prices were, as in the morning, Consols 911 for the opening ex dividend ; Reduced, 91i, tellers. Bank Stock, 167 1553 ; Exchequer Bills, old, 45 47, new, 40 42 prem. The Dutch Bonds, bearing: two-and-a-half per cent. in terest, declined to 52i 52 3 / 4 ; and the Five per Cents., to 100 L lOU ; the other Securities remained as before : Belgian 102 103 ; Danish, 60 1 / 2 81%; Brazilian, 66 67. Mexican was quoted 36136 g. The Share Market was flat. London and Birmingham 175 177 ; Great Western, 87 1 / 2 88% ; the Half Shares, 615 611 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 50 52 ; South Western, 614 62 ; North Midland, 62 64; the New Shares, 31 32 ' • South Eastern and Dover, '24 3 / 4 255 ; the Scrip, 55 511; Eastern Counties, 81 95 ; Northern and Eastern, 40 41 ; hlackwall, 95 10; and Brighton, 353/ 4 36. The Foreign Exchanges were as on Friday, but a greater amount of business was negotiated. The rates were—Amster dam. 12 5 ; Rotterdam, 12 54 ; Antwerp, 12 45 12 4 3 / 4 ; Hamburgh, 13 111 13 125; Frankfort, 1515 151 1 / 2 ; Paris, 25f. 75c. 25f. 80c. ; Genoa, 25 80 ; Marseilles, 25 80 , Vienna, 9 534 954 ; Trieste, 954 9 55 ; Leghorn, 29 95 30 00 ; Madrid, 364 ; Cadiz, 364 37 ; Lisbon. 521 ; Naples, 405. Ihe nominal quotations for the Bonds were—Colombian, 254 254 ; Peruvian, 17 18 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 374 371 ; the Three per Cents., 22 225 ; Spanish Five per Cents., 214 225 ; and the Three per Cents, 234 234. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The principal feature in the Stock Exchange to-day, is a scarcity of money, which has been currently worth five per cent. The quarter from which this has arisen, has not trans pired, it has, however, had no effect upon the prices of the funds which generally are firmer than yesterday. Consols are 91* 914 for the opening ex div. ; Three per Cents. Re duced, 91 1 / 2 914 ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 1005 1005 ; Bank Stock, 167 168; India Bonds, 23 24; Exchequer Bills, Old, 45 46; New, 40 42 premium. Business in Foreign Securities has been limited to Dutch ; the Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 525 521 ; the Five per Cents., 1004 1004. Prices of the others remain as before Mexican is not quoted to-day. The Share market is steady, and a slight improvement has taken place in Brightons, which have been sold at 36, and are now 36 1 / 2 . The other transactions have been Great Western Half Shares, 614 615 ; South Western, 61 ; South Eastern and Dover, 25 ; Eastern Counties, 81 95 ; and Northern and Eastern, 40 41. Beyond the usual daily bargain in Peruvian at 17%, Spanish Bonds are the only others quoted to-day ; the Five per Cents. being marked 21 • 7 8 22, and the Three per Cents. '231. The conflicting nature of the intelligence from Spain, which, from Madrid, states that a Ministry had been formed, and the money for the dividend obtained, while, from various provinces, out breaks against the Government are of daily occurrence, appears to have rendered speculators averse to operations. The conversation in the House of Commons last evening on the subject of the coinage has been read with much attention. The arguments used against tl.e proposition, "that the deteriora tion should have been borne by the public," are generally con sidered to be untenable. The fear expressed, that if the Go verninent had determined to call in and re-issue the gold, great facility would have been given to fraud, is thought to possess but little weight. The coin is too much distributed to have rendered it worth the while of holders to have taken any means for further depreciating it, and if such should have been done, the result would have been too small to render tlie process in any degree profitable. On the other hand, should it have been attempted on a large scale, it is held that the risk would be too great, and the punishment too severe to compensate for any trifling profit which might have been procured. The rotunda of the Bank need only be visited to ascertain the effect of the measure in the metropolis, and some approximation may thereby be formed of its opera tion in the country, where it must be more severely felt. In dependently of the loss in money, the loss of time must by considerable, and so numerous are the applicants, that it is 'stated two hours are scarcely sufficient for procuring change. Many persons suspicious of gold are willing to take only silver, and here they are met with another difficulty. Whether from scarcity, or from an unwillingness to part with it, the Bank most obstinately refused to give it in exchange even for their own notes. Amounts as low as five pounds have been denied ; and a party who keeps his account at that establishment has been unable to obtain ten pounds' worth of silver. Altogether the measure is fraught with so much inconvenience, loss, and delay, that an alteration, or in creased facilities are imperatively called for, and when it comes fully into operation thee serious injuries will be materially in creased. Another evil which presents itself, is the large amount which must necessarily be taken from the circulation. This must, temporarily at least, tend to raise prices. It is said that the officers of the Mint are busily employed ; but if means be not promptly taken to supply the deficiency thus created, serious consequences may be expected to result. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JUNE 20, was dull without any further alteration in prices. 800 bales American, chiefly fair to good fair, were taken for export, and the entire sales amounted to 4,000 bales. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JUNE 20.—Rather more business was done this day than of late, but the market still wore a dull aspect. The sales were, Edinburgh and Glasgow, 474; Ditto, New, 81. Bs. 9d. ; Grand Junction, 188; London ' and Birmingham, Quarters, 351; Brighton, 354 ' • South Western Consolidated, 605 ; North Union, 7 0 ; South Eastern, 241 2 . New, 54. MANCHESTER. STOCK EXCHGANE, JUNE 20.—We have ' no improvement to note to-day, and Stock is pressing on the market. South Western, 61 to 62; Edinburgh and Glasgow ' Quarters, %to 1,4 prem.; South Eastern Scrip, to prem.; Manchester and Birmingham, 25 to 255 ; Bank of Manches ter, 4. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE 22, 1842. ECCLESIASTICAL The will of the late Earl of Ma c clesfield has just been proved at Doctors' Commons. The personal property is sworn under 1.10,0001., out of which his niece, Louisa Georgina Parker, has a legacy of 1,0001. bequeathed to her. His Lordship desired to be buried in the old vault at Shinburn, and urdercd that no banners or escutcheons should be used at the funeral. FINE .A. .TS. 'I he Jacob Ruysdael, forming part of the Lichfield House sale, and which was esteemed the masterpiece of that painter, was yesterday sold to Mr. Bond for 250 guineas. LITERARY AND SCIENTIPIC. A collection of fortification models, executed by Captain Jekyll, late of the Grenadier Guards, and exhibiting the dif ferent systems of Carnot, Choumara, Bordwine, Vauban, &c., has just bean added to the Royal Polytechnic Institution. THEATRICAL. A numerous and fashionable company visited the St. James's Theatre on Monday, to witness theperformance of Mons. Bouffe in Les Enfans des Troupe. illtille. Rachel performed the character of Hermione in An drontaque on Monday at the Italian Opera House. She was received, as usual, with enthusiastic applause. COUILT-PASHIDATAI3I.E. The Right Hon. C. W. Wynn and family left town on Sun. day by the steam-ship Batavier, for Rotterdam and the Rhine. Miss Burdett Coutts' ball on Monday was one of the mos' brilliant assemblies of the season. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ely give a large dinncr , party on Monday. .:Y/XSCELLANEOUS. The Spitalfields Ball at her Majesty's Theatre realized 1,004 d., and the whole disbursements amounted to 2,2001., of which 1,8001. was expended in remodelling the theatre. lIVIIIIYIOURS or TL DAY. Strict orders have been given at the Castle, Dublin, with a view to control the " Crange Managers," that no appointment of the slightest consequence is to be made ,without reference to the Home Office. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held a Court yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Pala, c. . - Ali Effendi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from the Sublime Porte, had his first audience of the Queen, to present his credentials. His Excellency was introduced by the Earl of Aberdeen, K. T. , her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Master of the Ceremonies. Her Majesty was attended by Viscount Hawarden, Lord in Waiting, and General the Hon. Sir William Lumley, Groom in Waiting. His Excellency, after presenting his credentials to her Ma jesty, had an audience of his Royal Highness Prince Albert. '1 heir Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians visited their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester, at Glou cester House, the Princess Sophia, at Kensington, the Duke of Sussex, at Kensington Palace, and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, at Cambridge House, yesterday. Lord Stuart de Rothsay, her Majesty's Ambassador at the Court of St. Petersburgh, was presented to the Queen yester day, at an audience, by the Earl of Aberdeen. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the King and the Queen of the Belgians yesterday at Buckingham Palace. The Counts Mensdorf visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday at Clarence House. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, were taken an airing in a car riage yesterday. The Duke of Cambridge visited the King of the Belgians yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yesterday evening included their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, Earl of Liverpool, Earl of Aberdeen, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Madame la Comtesse de Merode, Baron Dieskau, and M. de Moerkerke. The band of the Coldstream Guards attended during dinner. In the evening the following performers had the honour of performing before her Majesty and her august visitors :—Mrs. Anderson, Mdlle Lutzer, M. Duprez, and 11.1. Staudigl. Her Majesty's private band was also in attendance, and as- The Countess of Char lemont has succeeded th e Countess of Dunmore as the Lady i n Waitin g on the Queen ; and V iscount Hoe arden and Gene ral the Hon. Sir William Lumle y have succeeded Lord Rivers a nd Mr. R. Ormsb y Gore, as the Lord and Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. 11,e Queen and Prince Albert, and the King and Queen of the lelgians, inspected yesterday the splendid centre piece of the service of plate made for Count Woronzow. TI ht Duchess of Kent visited and inspected, on Monday, Mr. Dunn's Chinese collection, in St. George's-place, of Models of Bridrz, Boats, and a Summer-house ; also Paintings, Books, and Furniture, Minerals, Shells, and other curiosities. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knesebeck, honoured Miss Burdett Coutts with his company on Monday evening, at her residence, in Stratton-street. Sir Allan M'Nab, Baron di Poro, from Malta, and Lord Crofton, had Interviews with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office. The French Ambassador and the Prussian Minister trans acted business yesterday, at the Foreign-office. The Committee of the Baronetage for Privileges, met and transacted business on Monday, at the Clarendon Hotel. The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday. In " Wallis v. Maughan," from the Prerogative Court of York, Dr. Addams appeared for the appellant; and the Queen's Advocate, and Mr. Teed, Queen's Counsel, for the respondent. Lord Wynford gave judgment on the part of their Lordships. The Court then rose. A petition has been presented against the last election for Ipswich, at which two Tory members were re turned. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 167 3 per Cent. Red. per Cent. .. 3i per Cent. Red.• • ••••••100i New .3i per Cent New 5 per Cen: — Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 .... . . Oct. 1859 ......... Jan. 1860...... !India Stock • pm Ditto Bonds Ditto Old Annuities ... ' Ditto New Annuities... Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d. 40 pm Ditto 5001— .40 pm Ditto Small Bank Stock for Acct — !India Stock for Acct — Consols for Opg. - FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent. llOl Belgian, 5 per cent Brazilian Bonds... Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. Chilian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1824 Danish, 3 per cent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent -- Mexican, 5 per cent Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. .17i Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 per cent — Ditto, Metallic ...... . Spanish, 5 per cent 22 Ditto, Deferred...... — French, 5 per cent. —f. —e. Exchange —f —c. French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Dutch, 2), per cent. 524 Ditto, 5 per cent. .. 1001 SHARES. Cheltenham and Creat Western (80 paid)... 28 E n , orn Countlos Railway (23 paid) ..... Ditto Debentures « ... 101 6s Sd Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid Great Western Railway (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) .. _ Ditto Fifth (4 paid) - London and Brighton (50 paid) ~ London and Blackwall ( paid) ...... ...... 9i London and South Western (431 15s Od pd) 60i- South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 25 Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid) COURSE OF EXCHANGE--(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam CF. 12 8 Gibraltar . ..... ......... 46 litto, at sight ......... 12 5 Leghorn •. R)tterdam ...2 U. 12 8i Genoa . ... 25 95 Antwerp .................. 12 8 Milan Harab urgh ALB. 13 15 Venice 47 Alton 3. ................. , 13 15i Naples ......... ..... 40 Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 65 Palermo, per oz 120 Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro '26i Frankfort on Blaine... 152 Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres Berlin. Vienna, effec. 11. 3 M 958 Philadelphia 46 Trieste, ditto 9 .59 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Madrid Cadiz Bilbao 36 New Doubloons 0 0 0 Barcelona Seville THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE. _ The following General Officers were present at the Waterloo Banquet on Saturday last :—Prince Castel cicala; General the Marquis of Anglesey, K.G., G.C.8., and G.C.H. ; General Lord Hill, G.C.8., G.C.11., and K.C. : General the Hoe. Sir Charles Colville, G.C.B. and G.C.H. ; General Sir J. Kempt, G.C.B. and G.C.H.; General Lord Stratford, G.C.B. and G.C.H. ; General Sir J. Lambert, G.C.B. : Lieut.-General Sir Peregrine Maitland, K.C.B. ; Lieut.-General Sir T. Reynell, Bart., K.C.B. ; Lieut.-General Sir E. Kerrison, Bart., K.C.B. and G.C.H. ; Lieut.-General Sir Andrew Barnard, G.C.B. and G.C.H. ; Lieut.-General Sir G. A. Quentin, C.B. and G.C.H. ; Lieut.-Geveral Lord Seaton, G.C.B. and G.C.H. ; Lieut.-General Lord Fitzroy Somerset, K C.B. ; Lieut.-General J. W. Sleigh, C.B. ; Lieut.- General Sir J. Waters, K.C.B. ; Lieut.-Genera Sir Henry Hardinge, K.C.B. ; Ma j or-General SH. Willoughby Rooke, C.B. and C.H. ; Major-Genera] Sir J. G. Woodford, G.C.B. and K.C.H. ; Major- General Sir C. Brooke Vere, K.C.B. ; Major-General Sewell, K.C.B.' ; Major-General H. Wyndham; Major- General Sir E. Rowater, K.C.H. ; Major-General Sir W. M. Gorman, K.C.8.; Major-General H. D'Oyly; Major-General Sir John May, K.C.B. and K.C.H: ; Major-General Sir H. Dalrymple Ross, K.C.B. ; Major- General Mercer, C.B. ; Major-General Reeve; Major- General Sir Robert Gardiner K.C.B. P K.C.H. ; Major-Gen era l F reeman tle ; Gardiner, Sir Horatio G. P. Townshend, K.C.H. ; Colonel Money, C.B. 3 Colonel Egerton, C.B. ; Colonel Miller, Colonel Browne, Colonel Drummond, Colonel Allix, Colonel Gurwood, Colonel Stowell, Colonel Lord Sandys, Colonel Wildman, Colonel Rowan, C. 8.. Colonel Ellison, Colonel Ellis, Colonel Olive, Colonel E. Buckley Colonel Hunter Blair , Colo nel H. Web s t er , H o n. C o lonel Dawson Darner, Hon. Colonel Anson, Colonel Bentinck, Colonel Sir C. W. Dance, &c. At a quarter past ten precisely the company , broke up, and shortly before the half hour his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the Marquis of Exeter and Sir Ed ward Bowater, left for Buckingham Palace. The Marquis of Anglesey and the other guests took their departure shortly afterwards. Information has been received that great progress has been made in the gigantic and useful undertaking of erect ing a lighthouse on the Goodwin Sands. It is stated that the caisson is already placed perfectly air and water-tight at low water mark, and that as soon as the tide will allow, which it is expected will be to-morrow, it will be floated to its place. THE TARIFF, The Bill to amend the laws relating to the Customs, which embodies the tariff, declares that all the new duties and regulations shall come into operation on the passing of the Act. There are a few exceptions, but cattle and potatoes are not amongst them. Thus beef salted, not being corned, is not to be admitted under the new duty till October 10th. Pork salted is subjected to the same restriction. These two articles, chiefly used as ships'. provisions, are now admissible at a duty of 12s. per cwt., and will come in under the new tariff at Bs. The increased rate of duty on nutmegs imported from foreign countries is not to take effect till July sth, 1843. The same date is fixed for the commencement of the new duties on onion-seed, on train-oil, blubber, and spermaceti, the produce of foreign fishing ; and on cork. Thu alterations on the timber duties, our readers will recollect, are to take effect from the 10th of October, 1842, and 10th of October, 1843. The Customs Bill likewise contains enactments re pealing the prohibition to import cattle and meat, slightly salted ; it prescribes that no fish of foreign taking, ex cept anchovies, eels, turbots, and lobsters, shall be im ported in fishing vessels, or any vessels, unless they be regularly cleared out from a foreign port ; and it reduces turbots, hitherto exempt from all Custom-house control, under the same discipline as other fish. The Bill makes also a number of regulations about the exportation of tobacco ; allows spirits to be imported in stone bottles not exceeding a quart ; makes Southampton a free port for the importation of foreign silks ; it amends the War ehousing Act, and permits wine for the use of officers of the navy to be shipped at Liverpool. Respecting the IMPORTATION of 1300K9 7 it repeals that part of the General Customs Act which allows the importation, for private use, of English works reprinted abroad, because great abuse has prevailed respecting it to the injury of authors ; and it prohibits the importation into England of all books wherein the copyright shall be subsisting, first printed in the United Kingdom, and reprinted in any other country. It requires, however, the proprietor of the copyright to give notice to the Commissioners of Customs that the copyright exists. The Bill further makes a number of regulations about ships, goods, cargoes, and smuggling. It enacts the new duties, called the Tariff, according to two tables marked A and B, and confirms the additional duties le vied in 1840 on spirits, and of five per cent. on all cus toms. It gives the Lords of the Treasury power to re duce local charges, duties. &c., where treaties of recipro city are entered into. It abolishes the bond now re quired by ship-owners that they will land beef and pork which they take on board as cargo, and shall not-con sume it as ships' stores, which abolition will enable our ships to be victualled as cheaply in London as in Ham burgh. Altogether, the Bill, independent of the tables of ditties, contains 57 clauses, many of which make minute regulations, of interest only to the parties to whom they apply. The main feature to which we call attention is, that the new duties, except in the cases we have specified. will come into operation as soon as the Bill receives the Royal Assent. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Monday night the German Company performed, for the first time in this country, Meyerbeer's opera, The Huguenots; and if an overflowing house, an attentive audience, and repeated and enthusiastic applause, be the test of a composer's and the vocal and instrumental performers' merit, then we may indeed say that Meyerbeer is a great composer, and that Messdames Lutzer and Heinefetter, and Messrs. Staudigl, Mellinger, Breiting, &c., are unrivalled in their art, for the house was crowded to excess, and we never heard more constant and rap turous applause. But it appeared to us a great part of the au dience came ready prepared to admire, as if the fiat had gone forth that Meyerbeer's Huguenots was an admirable composi tion, which every person of taste must admire, and thus every individual derived an additional impulse in the rap ture of his neighbours. When compared to the scenery and all the other accessories to theatrical representation hitherto employed by the German Company, the scenery and embellish ments prepared for the Huguenots was indeed splendid, and so far justice was done to this opera, hitherto unknown to an English audience. Fraulein Lutzer, the new star from Vienna, our old favourite Heinefetter, and the ever new and ever delightful Staudigl, could not fail to do justice to any music they might undertake to sing. But here our praise of individual performers must stop. Herr Breiting, the new tenor, can never be a fit or pleasing ErsterLeibhaber. It is true he sings with taste, and his falsetto is sweet, but his singing wants vigour and expression; and then his figure, his whole appearance is as unsuited to the part of Raoul, or indeed of any lover, as can possibly be conceived. Herr Mellinger ( delightful as Papageno) is not capable of representing the fiery, energetic conspirator, who, by his strong mind, induces others to follow where he leads. Thus all the points necessary to bring out the story, and put something like coherence into the disjointed mass—for such the opera is—were lost on the audience. Fraulein Lutzer well deserves the epi thet " Nightingale," which her countrymen have bestowed on her, and she delivered the endless flowery pas sages in her two ,great scenas with a flexibility of voice we never heard excelled except by Sontag. She acts well, and with her coquettish archness and goodnatu re, gave a glimpse of the character she represented (Marguerite ee Valois). Heinefetter sang delightfully; and Staudigl appeared to greater advantage than ever in the first scene; indeed his Hymn ( Luther's Hymn) was grand, and the following battle song, so charaeteristic, so almost savagely expressive, that it reminded us at once of Balfour of Burleigh, the very best proof of his correctly representing the character. Thus much of the per formers. The music is so much admired and praised, that we are almost afraid to say that we cannot give it unqualified praise. It contains some exquisitely beautiful passages and airs, but its grand and overwhelming fault, the constant striving after effect, and seeking after now combinations of sound, causes those beauties to be obscured, and all admiration to be absorbed in a feeling of painful fatigue and exhaustion. The instrumentation is generally noisy, and only now and then, as in the introduction to the second act, do we recognise the hand of t i tle great composer. It is impossible to give an outline of the plot, as the opera has no story, but con sists of a seriesof scenes representing events occurring imme diately heft re and during the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, in the last efw hich the three principal characters are slain. The only idea we could trace throughout the whole opera, was an attempt by the composer to represent the character of the two opposing re ligious parties by means of music, but the confusion which prevails through the whole, and the noisy character of the music, which proved to us quite overwhelming, did not perhaps allow us to do the opera justice. While attempting to do too much, we think, Meyerbeer has not even done as much as he might do; but if, after a second hearing, we should find cause to alter our opinion we will not fail to inform our readers. THE LATE MELANCHOLY OC CURRENCE AT ISLINGTON. INQUEST ON THE BODY Yesterday, at eleven o'clock, Mr. Wakley, M.P., Coroner for the Western Division of Middlesex, and a most respectable Jury, assembled in the large room of the Sutton Arms Tavern, Chalk-road, Islingtcn, on view of the body of Martha Carter, aged, thirty-nine, who was found in a well, in Mr. Backing ham's rope, ground, 155 feet deep, with very dreadful injuries to the head, and serious bruizes on other parts of the body, on the morning of Monday last. Several witnesses were examined, and among the rest Joseph Carter, husband of the deceased, who stated - that he last saw his wife alive between one and two o'clock on Monday morn ing in bed. She had been very ill, and he missed her shortly after five. He then searched for her and finding the well much broken, he had suspicions that she had fallen down there. She was very bad in her head and mind for some time, and was at tended by Mr. Taylor, of King's Cross. Sarah Carter, niece to the deceased, proved that the de ceased was in a bad state of mind, and after some further con sideration, the Jury returned a verdict—" That the deceased destroyed herself, being in a state of unsound mind, and that there was not the slightest suspicion attached to the husband of the deceased." It is quite decided that Mr. Nicholls does not re turn to this country, in capacity of Poor-law Commis sioner. Indeed, the whole system is about to be revised and remodelled. Next to the Poor-laws, we look upon the Board of Wt rks as standing number two of the " Miseries of Ireland."—Dublin Evening Mail. THE INCREASE OF THE BAPTISTS IN MONMOUTH sumE.—The Monmouthshire Baptist Association held their annual Meeting at Pontypool, on Tuesday and Wed nesday last, the 31st ult., when it is supposed that nearly four thousand persons were present. By the reports re ceived from the churches belonging to the Association, it appeared that fifteen hundred persons had been baptised during the past year, to which might be added at least one hundred more, in churches from which no account was received at the ineeting.--Monniouthshire Merlin. The Marquis of Tweeddale's family arrived on Mon day morning 1 rem Edinburgh by, the General Steam Na vigation Company's new ship Princess Royal, Captain J. W. Morris, after an excellent passage of 39 hours. The Chancellor has nominated the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Mr. Justice Burton and Mr. Baron Lefroy, Commissioners for the custody of the Great Seal, during his Lordship's absence in England, which is to extend to the first day of next Term. The Queen's letter having arrived, the seal was delivered to Judge Burton on Wednesday, on the evening of which day Sir Edward and Lady Sugden, and all their family, left for Boyle Farm, their beautiful and picturesque resi deoce in the neighbourhood of London.—Dublin Evening Post. THE WEATHER AND CROPS.—Although we have had a few days of cold north-easterly winds, The present season is, beyond all comparison, the finest we have had for many years. Never were the fruit-trees hovered with a gayer load of blossom ; and never was the attire of the forest more gorgeous, or of a more luxuriant green. There have been no blighting winds or destruc tive insects to mar the progress of vegetation. Wheat, barley, and, in a few instances, oats, are in the ear ; and although the straw will not be very abundant, and the oats in several cases have suffered from the grub worm, the promise of an early and abundant harvest is more ample than for a number of years past. The tur nip sowing is nearly completed ; and many fields of early-sown Swedish are already singled out. The crop of hay is light, but of excellent quality, and to the south and east of this c it y a considerable portion is cut down ; and the farmers, availing themselves of the fa vourable weather, have studded their fields with ricks. The potatde crop looks well, and, although sadly in want of mois*ure, there is no appearance of failure.—Scotswan. CURIOUS PHENOMENON—AIoNziE, JUNE 15.—0 n Monday, the 13th inst., at two o'clock in the afternoon, while enjoying the heat and splendour of an almost tropi cal sun, we were roue-id by a loud clap of thunder nearly overhead, very much resembling a discharge of musketry. To this succeeded many other peals, accompanied with vivid flashes of lightning. A neighbouring hill, covered chiefly with heather, and having an elevation of about 1,000 feet, was ignited near the top by the lightning. The smoke, which rose slantingly in an unbroken wreath, when seen in contrast with the black thunder cloud be hind, produced a striking effect. The conflagration con tinued to spread, throwing out immense volumes of smoke, until checked by the rain, which soon began to fall. No longer upborne by the atmosphere, the smoke now shrouded the summit, and subsequently covered the side of the hill, and sunk into the valley. We had here several adjuncts of a volcanic eruption—the conical hill towering above the surrounding heights—the thunder — the lightning—the pillar of smoke, first rising into the air, and then settling down in a dense mass upon the hill, and falling into the valley below ;—there seemed to be nothing wanting but a shock of an earthquake from Comrie (six miles distant) to complete the representa tion of a veritable burning mountain.—Perth Paper. THE LATE ELOPEMENT-APPRE HENSION OF THE FUGITIVES. We copy the following from the Freeman' s Journal : The particulars of the elopement, on Monday last, of Miss Eliza Kennedy, with John Devereaux, Esq., appeared in the Freeman of Wednesday. On the previous day a warrant was issued by Mr. Studdert for the apprehension of the fugitives. The warrant was entrusted for execution to Con stable James Fitzgerald, 178 D. At half-past seven o'clock on Tuesday afternoon that officer, accom panied by Mr. Magan, Mrs. Kennedy's• solicitor, and .Mr. Monaghan, the receiver over the minor's property, proceeded in pursuit of the parties, and learned at Enfield that they had passed through there at half-past ten o'clock the same morning by the Galway day coach. Quick posting, by short relays, brought the pursuers to Ballinasloe by five o'clock the next morning. There the differQnt hotels were visited without loss of time, when, in less than an hour, Miss K. and. Mr. D. were most dis agreeably surprised, while in the act of sitting down to breakfast at Grady's Hotel, after having secured seats in the mail for Galway, to pass at seven o'clock, by the intrusion of the agents of natural guar dians, legal rights, &c. The young lady appeared very much distressed on the occasion, and altogether, it would seem, on account of her companion. She exclaimed that if any fault there was in it, it was hers, not his. But it was of no avail. The "happy pair" were doomed to separation. Mr. Stud dert's warrant consigned Mr. Devereux to the charge of the coustable, while Miss Kennedy was restored, by Mr. Magan and Mr. Monaghan, to the domestic roof of her family at Peamont. The luckless swain arrived in town at seven o'clock last evening, when he was taken to the Bridewell-lane station-house for the night. The defendant has since been examined before the Magistrates, and committed for trial ; but liberated upon bail in two sureties of 501. each, and himself in 1001. COLLIERY BILL.—As the prohibition to employ females or boys under thirteen, will increase the ex pense in some collieries, it occurs to us that provision should have been made, in one way or another, for the relief or tacksmen who have taken leases of mines on the faith of the existing mode of working being permanent. —Scotsman. INHUMAN CONDUCT.—On Monday an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at the Red Lion, Tottenham, on the body of Thomas Game, aged sixteen. William Game said that the deceased was his brother, and on Friday after noon, about half-past one o'clock, he accompanied him to the River Lea for the purpose of bathing. He could not swim, but went into that part of the river were some other boys were bathing and learning to swim. He went into the water, but had not been there more than ten minutes before he got out of his depth, and began struggling. Seeing him struggle witness called to some haymakers who were near, but they took no notice of his cries. He also called to some gentlemen who took no notice, and he was drowned. The Jury, after commenting in severe terms on the conduct of those persons not lending assistance, returned a verdict of " Acci dental death." ANOTHER GRAHAM PROVIDED FOR.—The Gra hams are in the ascendant. We yesterday announced the ap pointment of a cousin of the Home Secretary to the Consul ship of Bayonne ; we now learn that Major Graham, Private Secretary and brother to Sir James Graham, has been appointed Registrar-General in the room of the late Mr. Lister. We are glad to learn that an appeal, which we trust may be eminently successful, has been made to public sympathy in behalf of the suffering wives and children of our army in Cabul. The list of subscriptions is appropriately graced by having at is head the name of the Queen for 2001. ; Sir Charles Forbes has given 100 guineas, the Hon. Mr. Elphin stone 501., and a number of ether charitable individuals have sent in to the Committee sums of less . amount. The case is one of a very urgent nature, and we hope the general body of our countrymen, and countrywomen as well, will aid in the promotion of so pressing an object of benevolence. CHICIIESTER CATHEDRAL.—The beautiful window, which it was announced some time since it was the intention of the Very Rev. the Dean of Chichester to place in the Ca thedral, has been erected. It is intended by the Dean as a mo nument to his sister, the late Miss Chandler, a lady distinguished by her many and rare virtues. The window is meant to be an emblematical illustration of the 35th and 36th verses of the 25th chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel, and contains six separate groups of figures, representing the six acts of mercy described in that passage of Scripture, and scrolls with mottoes bearing a reference to the character of the deceased; at the bottom is in an inscription—" In memoriam Mario Chandler, pine, beneficm, 1841." The appearance of the window, ter minating the east end of the south aisle, is extremely beau tiful. Such a memorial is greatly to be preferred to the taste less masses of marble by which so many of our finest Cathe drals are deformed. _ _ _ DISTRESSING SUICIDE AT GRAVESEND.—Monday, at noon, an inquest was held at the Town- hall, Gravesend, before Mr. Carttar, on the body of. Miss Elizabeth Jarman Browne, a fine young woman aged 22, which was picked up off Gravesend, on Friday morning last. Mrs. Sarah Brown, a widow, living at Lower Tooting, Surrey, identified the body as that of her daughter. She left her home on Monday to go to a situation as governess, in a ladies' school at Islington, and nothing further was heard of her till Saturday, when she (witness) received a letter, stating that the deceased had greatly annoyed the family by 'her strange conduct, and had left on Thursday morning. Witness made inquiries, but beard nothing of her until Saturday, when she saw an ad vertisement of a female having been picked up at Gravesend, and discovered it was her daughter. The deceased has been in a very distressing state of mind for some months past, owing to the excessive trials which the family had undergone, and had often complained of pains in the head. She had had no less than three situations as governess within five months, and be fore going to the last she observed that she was more fit for a mad-house. Deceased had formed no attachment. Verdict, " Found drowned." SUICIDE OF A RETIRED TRADESMAN.-011 Sunday afternoon, Mr. Wrenn, who was living at 7, Weymouth-street, Walworth, On a small income, which he had accumulated while in business, committed suicide by drowning himself in the water butt. He had been missing some time, when on being searched for, he was found with his legs projecting from the butt. On being taken out life was found quite extinct. He was nearly 80 years of age, and had been observed to be melancholy several days previously. STEAM ABOVE BRIDGE.—In consequence of the numerous visitors who daily visit Putney and Kew, the old Company are having four boats built to run from London bridge-to those places every hour. The engines are on the locomotive principle, similar to those of the boats that run from the Cadogan pier to Greenwich. The General Steam Navigation Company's Mail Packet Caledonia, Capt. A. Cheesman, arrived off the Tower on Monday morning with the Hamburgh Mail and several passengers. Major Graham, Private Secretary and brother to Sir James Graham, has been appointed to the office of Registrar-General of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, in the room of the late Mr. Lister. Miss CHAMBERS'S CONCERT.— This lady, daughter of the late banker, gives her morning concert to-day, at her Majesty's theatre, and brings together a richer display of vocal talent than any concert of the season has yet aggregated, or set forth. Freszolini, Moltini, Persiani and Ronconi are among the female vocalists ; Signors Puzzi, Lablache, Guasco, Mario, and Regondi, have also offered their services. Of the instru mentalists, Mrs. Anderson plays a fantasia on the piano, and D'Espourrin another on the harp. Miss Chambers herself sings some of her sweetest melodies, which will form not the least exquisite part of the entertainment. It is with true delight we observe so many great names coming forward with their generous assistance to aid Miss Chambers, what, together with her family, would no doubt at this time have been in the en joyment of much better fortunes, had her father been allowed to manage his own affairs. We hope that the handsome treat she on this occasion sets before the public will meet with as handsome a return. QUICK PASSAGE.—We have just seen a gentleman who arrived at Blackwell, yesterday from Granton Pier, by the Prince of Wales new, iron steam-ship, in the unprece dented short period of 36 1 / 2 hours, being the quickest voyage that has ever yet been made by steam between Leith and Lon don. We understand the Prince of Wales was built by these eminentengineers, Messrs. Tod and Macgregor, of Glasgow. CLAIM OF THE BARON DE BODE.—On Saturday the long-pending claim of the Baron Clement de Bode was brought to a close before the Commissioners, Messrs. Fraser, Williams, and Smyrke, and the Jury appointed to inquire into the claim. The whole of the evidence was got through on Friday, and on the evening of that day Mr. Commissioner Fraser commenced summing up; but owing to the numerous allegations contained in the petition of the Baron, he was obliged to adjourn the Court, and resumed his summing up on Saturday morning. He concluded at three o'clock in the after noon, at which hour the Jury retired, and, having found the Baron's title to be good, returned into Court at six o'clock, awarding the Baron 9,106,650 francs, or 364,2601., being the sum, with interest, to which they thought he was entitled for the loss of his estate in Alsace- The amount claimed, with in terest, by the Baron, was 1,600,000/. THE PRINCESS. ROYAL STEAMER.—LIVERPOOL AND GLAscow.—There is now running between Liverpool and Glasgow a beautiful steamer, for the conveyance of pas sengers, called the Princess Royal. She left the Mersey the other day at four p.m., and reached Glasgow four hours in ad vance of the mail. This is not a solitary instance of the rapid conveyance of the metropolitan journals to Glasgow by this steamer. She has frequently gratified the public of that city with highly important London news hours in advance of the mail. We understand she is splendidly fitted up, and is one of the fastest steamers on the station. The Glasgow Chronicle of the 15th says, "We have been again to-day put in possession of the London journals hours before the arrival of the mail, by the attention of the agent of this splendid steamer. In addi tion to this we received by her a file of American papers, brought by the Acadia ( Halifax steamer), which arrived at Liverpool yesterday, after a splendid run across the Atlantic of less than 11 days." READING ELECTION.—We have heard it reported several times during the past week that an election for this borough will take place very early in July, and many persons are found to give credence to this statement. It is at present a most unlikely thing that Mr. Roebuck's Committee can pro ceed to examine and report on the Reading and other election cases within so short a time, and in the present temper of the House no writ will be allowed to boroughs impeached of cor ruption. It is, in fact, perfectly impossible to predict, with reasonable grounds of certainty, when an election will take place. That there must be a vacancy before the close of the session there can be no doubt whatever. The Conservatives are prepared for a eontest, and only anxious for its speedy termination. —Berkshire Chronicle. The brilliant weather during the last fortnight has been most favourable for haymaking. In the immediate.neigh bourhood of Hertford we believe the grass crops have nearly all been got in, and in good condition, though from the long continued drought they are rather light. The wheats are in the first order, although they begin to feel the want of rain almost as much as the spring corn. The general appearance of the corn crops promises an abundant and early harvest. Herta County Press. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, accompanied by the Countess De Grey, intend leaving Ireland the first week in July, en route for the German Spas, which have been recommended by the physician for his Lordship's health. He continues, we regret to say, to suffer severely from the effects of rheumatic gout. —Dublsn Evening Mail. A shocking circumstance happened at Romsey, Hants, during the thunder-storm on Tuesday. Two lads, sons of Mr. May, of that town, were fishing near Lord Palmer ston's seat, Broadlands, and when the thunder-storm came en they sought shelter beneath a tree. The tree was struck by lightning. One of the lads was killed on the spot, and the other was most severely injured. It is a singular fact, that there has been no storm in Hampshire for many years past that has not been more severely felt in the neighbourhood of Romsey than in any other part, and in every instance sone fatal accident has resulted, or some considerable destruction of property. The hay harvest has commenced in several places in Wales, though the crops are but of scanty description. There is at present residing at Seaville a young girl who can boast of having four mothers living, viz., her own mother, her grandmother, her great grandmother, an d her great great grandmother. Even the eldest of these mammas is in good health, and they all reside in the parish of Home Cul tram r arlisls Patriot. THE CAPERCAILZIE.—The " Cock of the North," this noble, fine-plumaged rara avis, with the capercailzie hens, presented by the Marquis of Breadalbane to the Duke of Hamil ton, and placed for breeding in a large, curiously-construc ted pavilion aviary, near Brodick Castle, have, by the unremitting and most assiduous care and 'attention of the head gamekeeper, been finely preserved. Last year eggs,were placed under moor, game for hat ching, and as there was no shooting in Arran , . a n all the game strictly preserved, it is probable that some young capercailzies may be seen in the forests or in the mountains' This season proper care has been bestowed to get more egg!, hatched, so that there is a reasonable prospect of this grand se" rare species of game gradually becoming abundant in Aswan , '" YilmarnGcle Journal. THE IRoN TRADE.—We have heard it rumoured that Sir John Guest is about to erect and put into blast three more new furnaces. Gude luck to him, we say. This ange r° well for the iron trade. The clouded visages of many of t ll. • shareholders of the Taff Vale have all at once become ger charming and strikingly bright ; Johnnys and Billys have ster denly put on the amiable. This indicates the return of pond * shillings, and pence. —Cambrian. Boz oN THE STAGE.—Private theatricals We e r e , among the amusements of the people of Montreal whilst Charles Bagot was there. The performances took place at th e Theatre Royal, with Mr. Charles Dickens as stage-manag er ,' who with his lady, sustained leading parts in the pieces selecto r ' Soon after the doors were opened, says the Montreal HeroT t the boxes and pit were filled with tiae beauty and fashion the city, and the gay uniforms of the different regimeete: , the garrison, interspersed with the costly dresses and jewelled brows of the ladies fayre, presented a beautiful scene. Moue the audience were his Excellency Sir Charles•Bagot and suite' The first play in the bill of fare was A Roland for an Olive t. ' ' the part of Mr. Selborne by the Earl of Musgrave • Alfr e d ~ 1 .. Highflyer by Mr. Charles Dickens. The Monirealller e l says the performers elicited thunders of applause and fogs ? laughter from all parts of the house. The laughable interluee of Past Two o' Clock in the Morning followed, Mr. Snobbinr; ton by Mr. Charles Dickens. This was the performance o f the evening, and was most admirably acted. Mr. Dickens e e , ' disguised his person and voice, that some time had elaps e( ' after the play began before he was recognized. The closieg piece was the farce of Deaf as a Post, in which Mrs. Dicke ° played the part of Sophy Walton. An accident from phosphoric matches occurred 9 , few days since near Versailles. Two persons were travelling in an open cart, when they suddenly were alarmed by fain° flames bursting through the bottom, and communicating :1 . 2 their pantaloons. They instantly sprung in haste to the untie . , and had scarcely time to get the horse out of the shafts lie f the vehicle, even to the wheels, was involved in the fi re, se. the whole were consumed before any endeavours could be mea t : to stop it. The matches, the ignition c,f which had • cans. the accident, were in a basket, w"' er things, at the bathe of the cart. - A violent storm passed over Bourges on Saturday in the last week, and fell upon the surrounding communes 9' Barry, Marmag,ne, Melum, Quincy, and Varna, doing este!' sive damage to the crops. The same storm wa y s aiso ;revere/ felt at St. Amand and its neighbourhood. On the same (let a violent storm did considerable damage to a great part of t. department of the Allier. The hail fell in great abenclauce, and of considerable size. lea The emigration from Germany to the Um • States of America continues unabated. Three vessels have re.' cently been chartered at Antwerp to carry 499 of these em . r grants to New York. Of these, 164 have already taken theo departure in the American ship Albrec. The village of 'l'ourteron, in the Ardennes, Was , $ few days ago, in great part destroyed by fire. Not less thee, 45 houses and the church were reduced to ashes, andi ft) families all at once found themselves without an asylum. I P ,: cattle were saved, but the furniture and other effects in •"- houses were totally lost. asa,bel H E R MAJESTY'S THEATRE. — Mademoiselle _ay.-- performed the character of Ariane on Friday evening, se before remarked. The play itself, by Thomas Corneille, ‘‘. written in seventeen days, to a manager's order, and ottn, therefore, could not be expected from the author. But we; we read the .4riane of the writer, and lay i own the book el t ti out sympathizing with the deserted woman, not so with Rane e ,: by her the woman fills the soul, drawing tears from the eZ i and rage from the heart ; and the triumph of the actress i,..,0" is fully recognised. The high and palmy days of the ur;il_,. appear to have come again, for a more brilliant and distinguism,e assemblage than on that night could not have been witnessfa On Thursday Deshayes takes his benefit, when 1 Puritaai ;,, will be played with a fine cast. Persiani take the part of Elsl : 6 . supported by Rubini, Ronconi, Lablache, &c. Cerito 7 .7 afterwards appear in the new ballet, Alina. A frightful accident happened on Wednesday Off' ing at the brewery of M. Dresh, in the Rue du Faubourg St. i!:; toine. As one of the men was in the act of pouring I % i syrup into the great copper, which was in full ebullition, 1:a, vessel in his hands slipped, and in endeavouring to save it A ; lost his balance, and fell in with it. Another man, who 1 standing by had the courage to plunge both his arms up to , i shoulders in the boiling liquid and draw him out. The - man lived in agonies for about three hours, and then eel , ' 4 The man who so generously endeavoured to save bins from .., frightful death is suffering most severely. . , EXPORTATION OF MACHINERY.—Never at • time since the bobbin-lace machinery was first expor ted John Cutts, in 1816, were lace-machines taken out of the It dom in greater quantities, than during the last month ;.? from the best information we can obtain no less than thiiit , , v warp and bobbin machines have been taken out of this di , within that period, one person having taken, we are ass, i , no less than eight to Lille. So boldly has this trade carried on, that machines were openly packed at a neigh. ~ , ing village, and taken to a wharf in open day. By the ~ tice of the English Courts of Justice, in excise and ens ' and some other affairs, a carrier is held to be irresponsibl h. all goods he carries ; this has been taken ample advan as one of our carriers has had the machines brought SI • wharf, and packed there. Yet, by a decision of the 1.30 w - although these machines may he seen thus psO and the parties should declare they were going to Fraud ' ' i Germany, they may be taken by river or canal to Loan* declared not water-borne, according to the statute,lunti _l. ' ' are put on board a vessel or boat on the Thames, with tar Ad it.': tent to be shipped. Thus, if the Excise or Customs seiselW on the canal or on a London wharf, they are too soon ; & s ok they watch to see them on board, the ship is soon under and then they are too late, the packages being entered as ( I l k, goods. Such is the manner in which the manufactiViEg e o terest, or rather the productive interest, has be latterai r ': i tected.—Nottingham Journal. tlik ST. DOMINGO.—The island of St. Domingo, ~, has been visited by such a fearful earthquake, is nearly !Is "Tit., as Ireland, and carries on an extensive trade, exporti e r,ol; nually to the value of a million sterling. The Haytien el f ori, nity is deeply interesting, as constituting a free colony oty' loured people, who have a constitution, which is a repreiLitt tive republic, under a President, in conjunction with a __,7„ VI and House of Representatives. It has a standing erf„lo 28,000, with a militia force of 40,000, although there PAO , than a million of people—thus making, one man in ever/ o r b a soldier. No white man is permitted by the law of the "to lie to hold a foot of land within its territory ; no whila.to can marry a Haytien woman, and thereby become ent'bco";. her real or personal estate ; and no white man can trade " - o ft out a special license, renewable yearly, with a heavy fine ;i s % indeed, generally speaking, can he trade at at all without • ; associated with a Haytien partner. The men of Hayti are 01' to pass much of their time • " in sauntering, talking, idlingl if e_ playing games of chance and skill." They merely work to Or AWFUL THUNDER-STORM.—On Sunday los t ' yoir ing a severe thunder-storm, a cottage about a mile fro°, Op cedwin House, in this county, was greatly injured ,v e li tY. lightning. The electric fluid appears to have ascen e 4iel l pendulum rod of the clock until it came to the crutch , ;; 0 01,. being at right angles, changed its direction ; it here d, 00 through the clock case to the wall, up which it pes s !„, , u: sler made its exit through the roof in two places. The r" P, of the house, who was in the room at the time, was A 40 , down, and the extremities of the pendulum rod were i n ,oo l ' and appeared like a scorched quill. The same storm did 7 40 $ mischief in and near Carmarthen. The electric fluid i s , OW the flag pavement in front of a house near the Town-hal l' toei it shattered to pieces. It also ettered a house in John 'Y 00 the furniture in which was much damaged. Two horse t eS o or valued at 1001.), and some cattle, were killed in the ne i gf o org' hood, and other serious damage was sustained in hot" Pi Pi &c. 'I he lightning was the most vivid ever remeuht the oldest inhabitants.— Cambrian. 4 10 COUNT WORONZOW'S SILVER SERVICE OF Pii' 1 7 . 4 . ,: We were present on Saturday at a view of a sin*: service of silver plate, which has been manufactu'';Os , Messrs. Mortimer and Hunt for the Russian COO' (Pk 1 ronzov,'. The designs for this service are as el -1 , 14 ;1 4 ' they are various ; and among them is a repres el ' o f ,I`l * of some of the principal fabulous achieverneu ts . 0 6„ George, the patron saint of England. The grouolf e; , the different figures in this representation is ful l _" turesque grace and spirit, and the richness of th r oe , : sets oil' the subject to the greatest advantage. " blO ~ the groups St. George is represented on al. f , under a tree, rescuing the daughter of the Solduti ° i . : i . ri ° from the grasp of the dragon ; and nothing 0 0 1 . r i the apparent flexibility of the branches, and the e .:„ tracery of the foliage, which have been mane 1 .4 ' ;„i i p consummate skill. The magnificent candel u ts iket, highly wrought plates and dishes, tureens, 1 . 3 : 4;" viewed altogether, ranged as th e y are along 0 . ~ pable of holding at least s i x ty i n di v id u als, P_,4 1 0 . 10; very imposing effect upon the spectator. The. r the most costly, tasteful. and expensive, prop ': ~ 0 ' has been manufactured in England for many Y •'•• , BIRTHS. ist S V On the 14th inst., at Hanwell, Middl esex , the 14 .** Rev. J. A. Ernerton, of a daughter. D. On the 16th inst., at Leamington, the lady of C. „At. bald,daughter. f On the 16th inst., at Glazeley, Salop, the wif e ° J. W. Bromley, M.A., of a son. td l o' On the 18th inst., Mrs. W. Storrs Fry, of a (bhe ugn", of On the 18th inst., at Hillingdon, Middlesex, t Garratt, jun., Esq., of a son. sbal , On the 21st inst., in Great Russell-street, B lo°°3 Joseph Eldridge, of a son. On the 18th of April, at Purneah, in Bengal, 1. Hon. Robert Forbes, Company's Service, of a ano• sh ; On the 15th inst., the lady of Thomas Hen n ' Brixton, of a son. On the 17th inst., at Darlington, Mrs. W. OBE VP. daughter. f Gran • On the 18th inst., the wife of Mr. Sambourne, ° square, of a son still-born. -ste arn On the 20th inst., in Orchard-street, Portman Peyton Phelps, of a son. tiO MARRIED. l a Pa t e. di ll. On the 9th inst., at Westend Church, 1 1- mosgh , William Roberts Worsley, Esq., to Mary, "IY irl e ' the lid. Rev. John Fowler, of Harefiel, Southampto n. R. Choesco On the 14th inst., at St. John's, HackneY,, , ti t r e , Ist ° e od Torkington, to Anna, second daughter 0 .! j o hlis Powell, Esq., of Carey-street, Lincoln's In" - 14 401 1, Clapton House, Hackney. fel ti On the 15th inst., at F r amfield, Sussex , -: Avis. Esq., of Rakeengrany, Wicklow, Ireland, t° ,• daughter of A. Donavan, E s q., ofFrarnfield - P o ' OOP' DIED. m• 011011 f 6 t On the 16th inst., in Gloucester-place , ...4,104 a a.• - surviving sister of the late Lord Rolle. Pt" As. On the 16th inst., at Mitcham, S. Adams' ono`/'...a1.v- - Totnes, Devon, and late barrack-master at Ho mast op - • On the 16th inst., at Old 'Change,l4"' h° 0,,' 2,;„ London : Printed and Published by P . b 11% ° 10 . 4 , , No. 112, Strand, at The Sus Office , '' hip e Os • the County of Middlesex, WedneadOP i k ,' 1 1 ~. ~~i: