The Sun. — London, England, 1834-05-29 00:00:00

MA A r rived. Due. 0 America 0 O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 o Carthagena. 1 Dublin 0 1 Flanders ........ 0 1 France.... ..... 0, O Cueznstry &Jersey 0 nived. Due. 0 Hamburg ... 0 O Holland O Jamaica.. »..» O Leeward Islands O Lisbon .......... 0 O Malta O Sweden ... 0 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-31ORROw. Morning ...31 minutes after 7.1 Evening... 7 minutes after 8. This day was published, in 3 vols. post Bvo., R O 0 K WOO D. " A thorough romance. In breadth of delineation, and in depth of colouring it is most complete."—Athenaeum. " Very amusing volumes, and possetiiing great variety of talent."—Literary Gazette. " The most powerful novel which has appeared for many years."—Manchester Herald. " The ride to York is done with great vigour and wonderful variety, not only of images, but of character, being now poetical, now humourous, now smacking of the turf and stable, now of flash. There are frequently inter mingled some admirable pictures of landscape. "—Spectator. Richard Bentley, No. 8, New Burlington-street. The ostensible cause of the retirement of Mr. STANLEY and the rest of the dissentient party is in the highest degree favourable to Earl GREY. Perhaps no other circumstance or;: ound for quitting the Ministry could have beer! Jund less calculated to weaken the re maining part of the Administration, or give weight to those who have deserted them. The simple question is, whether the Legislature can assume the right to distribute and regulate Church property as the change of circum stances and times may demand. The STANLEY party say no, while Earl GREY and the general voice of the country assert the contrary. According to the principle of the former all the changes which have been made in the appro priation of church property are either violations of the law or amount to public robbery and illegal confiscation. Had this principle been adhered to, Catholicism would have remained the established religion of England and Scot land, though the Catholics do not form a twen tieth part of the population, and we should have had at the present day a Catholic prie - st in every Protestant parish, as there is a Protestant parson in every Catholic parish in Ireland. According to the same principle, the 'rotestant church must still be the established church of Ireland, though there should not be one'Protestant in the country. It is quite clear that such a principle cannot be acted on, and that any attempt to adhere to it must lead to great injustice, and to the most manifest absur dity. We are, therefore, glad that the Stanleyites have broken up the Cabinet on such grounds, because men that could be guided by such maxims are totally unfit for reforming the institutions of a country, and must be a drag on every Cabinet that can expect the sup port of the Commons. If Mr. STANLEY has retired from principle, we can only lament. his narrow-minded policy—if he has some object in view, and expects to form a coalition with another party, in order to make conservative principles predominant, he is grievously mis taken. Mr. WARD'S motion would have been carried on Tuesday by an overwhelming ma jority, and an united Conservative ministry, even if a dissolution of Parliament were to take place under the most favourable circumstances, never could get a new House of Commons that would support them. On the very first oppor tunity a trial of strength would take place, the result of which would be a dissolution of the ministry. The late changes, therefore, can only have the effect of giving courage to the op position party in the House of Lords—of thwarting Ministers, and delaying general re form. Stop reform it cannot—it. will keep up agitation—it will prevent Ministers for some time from carrying useful measures in the House of Peers, and it will embolden the Tory press to annoy and calumniate the stanch friends of the people ; but ultimately it can have no result, and the regeneration of the Irish church is as certain as if it had been supported by all the seceders. The only re gret is that the secession did not take place sooner. Had they retired at the commence ment of the session, we should have had none of those miserable delays, and none of those half-and-half measures which have within the last three months done such injury to the GREY administration. The country now know the authors of these measures—they know also their true friends, and they will judge between them. Mr. STANLEY has encouraged the waverers—he has increased opposition with out rendering it effectual, and has added to the strength of his enemies by diminishing his own power. But he has done more. He has placed the conduct of Lord GREY and Lord BROUGHAM in its true light, and afforded them the opportunity of asserting before the country those grand principles of reform, in church and state, by which we are now con vinced they have ever been actuated. They will again find themselves in their proper posi . - tion—backed by the people, and with such supporters they may look without dismay on the united army of c onservatives, waverers, and seceders. The Post of this morning says,— ,, His M AJ EST Y yesterday announced to the assembled prelates of our church, in the most solemn tone and the most impressive language, his fervent attachment to the ecclesiastical institutions of the country, and his resolution to oppose every innovation by which their rights should be assailed, or their utility endangered." Our contemporary here shows himself worthy to vie even with Lord LONDONDERRY himself, in ,his discovery of mares' nests. Who ever imagined for an instant, that his MAJESTY, as head of the church, would' do other than sup= port the just rights of the church ? The London and Westminster Bank has, among others, been represented as an instance of the weakness of Ministers, because upon this bill they suffered themselves to be beaten in the House of Commons. We, on the contrary, consider this bill as a proof of the power of truth and justice, and a warning to Ministers how they take it upon them to support that which is wrong. The very question whether there should or should not be joint stock banks of deposit in London or Westminster was de bated when the Bank Charter Renewal Bill was pending last year in the House of Com mons, and, upon the opinion of the then Attor ney and Solicitor-General, was carried in the affirmative. Why the present Solicitor-General has thought fit to set his opinion upon the present occasion in opposition to that of the present Attorney-General and Sir WILLIAM HORNE last session, it is for that learned gen tleman to settle with himself. But having been then in Parliament, he might have recollected that, upon this and some other grounds, the Bank of England having complained that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had broken faith with it, Lord ALTHORP denied that he had, but if the Bank thought so, he released it from its bargain. What the Bank had got, however, was too good to be relinquished, and the Bank Charter was renewed on the express under standing that the exclusive privilege again con ferred upon the Bank was confined to banks of issue in the metropolis, and did not extend to banks of deposit. The London and West minster Bank has been established upon the faith of this understanding. That it is a legal establishment cannot be questioned, otherwise an attempt would have been made by the Bank to put it down. Is then the facility of suing and being sued in the name of one of its officers to be withheld from it, which has been granted by bills like the present, specially applied for by every joint stock insurance company in Lon don and Westminster? Is the safe deposit of their money, which is matter of every day's occurrence, of less importance to the inhabitants of the metropolis than the insurance of their houses against fire, accidents from which hap pen to few ? and, what is more germane to the matter as it regards the Bank of England, are the inhabitants of the metropolis to be prevented from, or is any obstruction to be thrown in the way of, their obtaining interest upon the de posits they may choose to make in the Lon don and Westminster Bank, which that bank is willing to give them, but which the Bank of England thinks proper to withhold from them ? We will not—we cannot believe it. It now appears that of The amount of 10,708,9641., 4 per Ceiits. to be reduced, there will be dissentients to the amount of up wards of 3,000,000/., or nearly one-third •of the total amount. The Bank, it is said, . has proffered its liberal assistance to the Govern ment for the purpose of paying - the dissentients.. It is no doubt for its interest to do so, because it will thereby be enabled to put forth so many more of its notes than it could otherwise do. But what will be the consequence thereby brought upon the country ? Home prices will be raised by all the amount of the over-issue, and be again depressed by all the amount of the subsequent contraction of the currency. ThoSe who sell at the increased prices will gain, and those who are obliged to sell -at the di minished prices will lose. This is the inva riable consequence of the expansion and con traction of the currency. Our contemporaries are continuing to deceive themselves and to deceive their readers by tak ing the Mint price of gold and the course of the exchanges, that is, the usance at which bills are drawn upon London from places abroad, as the means of judging of the relative value of gold here and elsewhere. In so doing they as sume a thing which no longer exists, and they further assume the commercial exchange as evi dence of the money exchange. What they as sume as existing, but which has ceased to exist since 1816, is the Mint price of gold, which, previous to 1816, was 31.175. 10-J-,d. per ounce, because, until 1816, one Mint pound of silver was coined into sixty-two parts or shillings,, and if we inquired ho* much silver at ss. 2d. an ounce was required to purchase an ounce of gold, in the proportion of 15.2096 to 1, which is the proportion fixed by our mint regulations, it was exactly 3/. 17s. laid. But in 1816, one pound of silver was directed to be coined, and has been since coined, into 66 parts, or shillings, of which the Mint retains four for seignorage; and silver, which was theretofore a legal tender to the amount of 251., is now a legal tender only to the amount of 40s. From thenceforkard there ceased to be a Mint price of gold in this country. There is now only a market price here as there is every where else ; and . in order to ascertain the relative value Of gold abrOad, for instance, at Hamburg or Paris, as com pared to London, we must go into the bullion market of the three countries, and if the same quantity of silver will purchase an ounce of gold in all the three markets, then the price of gold is the same in all. If more silver is required to purchase an ounce of gold at Hamburg or Paris than in London, then gold is dearer in Hamburg or Paris than it is in '1 London, and vice versa. The other mistake, by which our contempo raries deceive themselves and their readers, is by taking the usance at which bills are drawn as a means of estimating the price of gold in any country. Com Modifies are valued on the Continent in silver, for silver is the measure of value on the Continent. In this country home prices`are valued in its currency, which ought to be of the same exchangeable value with gold, which is our standard of value, and foreigners will not give us credit for our articles valued otherwise than in gold, the value of which they ascertain in their own market by the quantity of silver required to purchase it. This country then exchanges its commodities valued in gold, for the commodities of other countries valued in silver. The media of making and settling such exchanges are foreign bills of exchange for the amount, or the balance of the amount, of the commodities so valued. But the usance at which such bills of exchange are drawn will not of itself determine the relative value of gold in the countries where they are drawn, as com pared to the value of gold in this country. As already said, such value can only be determined by ascertaining the quantity of silver which would be required to purchase a given quantity of gold in the bullion market of the countries where the bills are drawn and of this country. Thus deceiving themselves and their readers, some of our contemporaries think the favour able state of the foreign exchanges may enable the Bank to issue the quantity of notes required to pay off the dissentients with safety. Even though they were right in their mode of esti mating the relative exchangeable value of gold abroad as compared to its exchangeable value at home (which last they have never inquired into at all), still an over-issue of 3,000,0001. at the present time would make the exchanges so adverse, that every sovereign which the Bank has would soon be drained from it. We trust, therefore, that government will pause before it avails itself of the willingness of the Bank to over-issue, and thus bring upon the country a crisis not less disastrous than that of 1825-6. Brussels papers are filled with particulars respecting the presentation of the address of condolence of the Chamber of Representatives to King LEOPOLD, and his Majesty's reply :--- BERLIN, MAY 10.—Letters from Frankfort state that the efforts of M. de Kanitz, to bring the Duke of Nassau to an understanding relative to the Belgian question, have not been more successful than those of Baron Neuman and M. de Reede. The Duke declared that he owed it to himself not to deviate from the principles he had manifested during his last residence at the Hague. At that pe riod the Duke quitted his royal cousin and family, without any other demonstrations than that of pure etiquette.—Allgemeine Zeitung, May 22. BELGIAN FUNDS.--BRussELs, MAY 27. Actual Debt, 2 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 99 IA Loan of the City, 1832, 4 per Cent.. 94 ft —Brussels Papers, May 28. SUN OFFICE, Qaarter past Three. PLYMOUTH, MAY 28, 1834. The Countess of Pembroke steamer, Mat thews commander, arrived here this morn ing at five o'clock, from Lisbon, Oporto, and Corunna. She brings Mr. Krans, King's messenger; with despatches for Government, together with the ratification of Don Pedro of the treaty of amity, between the four Powers. The Pembroke having been off' Brest, the news of her being the bearer of the ratification has anticipated her arrival by telegraph. The fact, however, of the treaty being thus far complete is now placed beyond all doubt. The Pembroke has been many days on her passage, having left the Tagus almost im mediately subsequent to the Espoir. Colonel de Grand, and a barrister connected with the embassy, have arrived in the Pembroke ; and all these gentlemen went off by the mail for town this morning. There has nothing of par ticular moment transpired by this arrival. It is, however, confidently stated, that MIGUEL'S power " totters to its fall." SUN OFFICE, Four o'clock. EPSOM RACES THIS DAY. ARMES OF T'OCKS TOTS PAY AT ONE o'cLocK. Bank Stock - 3 per Cent. Red ....... - 91 , India Stock n r e, ("COL COlib. 9 .2% 2 ;Ditto Bonds VI pm. !IV. per Cent. !South Sea Stock .... - ...... 10:1% Ditto Red Did Annuities — New 3 1 4 per Cent l ' -' 0 1,4% New Ditto — n per Cent. Ann. 1726.... —l3 per Cent Ann 1751 4 per Cent. 1826 99% i F.x Bills, Xl,O OO 5O 51 pm. Bank LoogAnn. to expire Ditto 'OO 50 51 pm Jan. 5, 1P60... ... 17% 3-16 I Thtto Small Oct.lo, 1R59 --,. Ditto Commercial pm. Jan 5, IFI6O - Ditto Advertised — pm. Jan. 5, 1880 — Bank for Account — Aprilk 11:sAo — India for Account ... Jan. 5, 1870 — ?Cons. for Account q2.14 % PRICES OP FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Autstrtan Bonds 10044 Peruvian Bonds Ol 2 $ 'elan Bonds 9P•l‘ Ditto Account 21 3 4 Ditto Account 98% Portuguese Bonds 79 U Brazilian Bonds 70 1 0 Ditto Account 794 1 / 44 Ditto Account 76l Ditto New Bonds .....754 l• Buenos Ayres 80nd5...... 31 Ditto Acconnt...79% 80 l'93s Ditto Account 'IN IPrussian Bonds 10 3 14 3 Chilian Ponds ..-.... ......... 274 Ditto Bonds, 1822 ll'3Ditto Account .......... .....274 Russian Bonds, 1822 1154( Columbian Donuts 234 1 Ditto Account, Ditto Account ‘Yltiu ! Ditto 111 Ditto Bonds, 1824 1) tto Account "6 1 4 Ditto Ace 373b4% Danish Bon i Ditto Account 75 I)itto Account 334 Greek Bonds.-- ........... French Bentes, 51 , . C. —t —c !Mtn Bonds, 1 8Fit 334 '— Exchange...-. —r —c. Ditto Account — 4 ncr cent. —r - c. Prirltiran Bonds, 5 per rent i'34 - Exchange —f —c Ditto Account Dutch, 21 p. c....... ............ 524 tut o, # per cent ut-t( Ditto Account 52', Ditto Account ...44'4 Ditto, 5p c. 9714 7IA NeaPol'tan • • VRICFS OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Pkid. Alten Mining Company X9 • Ang, .oex. —O. kiss. at 54. pm ' £l4lO Bolnvins Mining Compan, Brazilian Mining Company 5 Brazilian imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £2O Ditto Macanbas Ditto St. John Del Rev 10 Cata Branca Mining Company 33, Ltritislt Iron Minim , Comoanv Columbitti Minim Co. (iss. at N. pm.) 52ti English Mn.tng Company (3..r•ral Mining Association l2 Hibernian Mining Co. £lo Mexican Mining Co. £4934 4eal dcl Monte Mining C0....(unr0g.) U Merl Mex Ntin. Co. (iss. at 2/. mn.) 40 Per Share 11►,U 9 137% 15 59% 20U - Ditto New Set ip 5 Alliance Fire Insurance Comp 0 Prrtertor 1 ns, irance Comp. Australian Co. Canada Conitrinv lB Genera! Steam Navigation Co. l3 National Provincial Bank of England 15 Rio Docc Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 PRICKS OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MAY 26. Pan k stock Consols 3 tier cent. 91% Royal Irish Ditto Gov. Stock, sg, per cent. I)St4 :National Ditto Ditto. New ........... 981 , 4 !Patriotic Ditto 4 per Cent Hibernian Bank Gov. Deb. 3k4 percent.... Provincial Ditto Royal Canal Stock Royal Irish Mine Grand Canal 5t0ck......... imperial Mine City MAI. 4 per cent Ballast ()Mee Deb. 4 to. c. Commercial Buildings . riT ) ) - _ LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1834. In our Second Edition, yesterday, we gave the following : " We have heard it stated, on what may be termed very good authority, that besides the resignations of Mr. STANLEY and Sir JAMES GRAHAM, those of the Duke of RICHMOND and the Earl of RIPON have since taken place. These four constitute all the changes yet known ; but it is confidently stated that three of the vacancies have been promptly filled up, as follows : " The Earl of DURHAM succeeds the Duke of RICHMOND in the Post-office. ".Lord MULGRAVE succeeds Sir JAMES GRAHAM at the Admiralty ; and "The Hon. J. ABERCROMBIE succeeds Mr. STANLEY as Secretary for the Colonies. This will necessarily occasion another new Election for Edinburgh. " There is no successor yet named to the Earl of RIPON. Mr. SPRING RICE is mentioned as likely to join the Cabinet, but nothing cer tain is known." Up to the period at which we now write (three o'clock), nothing further is definitively known, with the exception of the four resigna tions, though the town is inundated with a va riety of reports. Among these the most prevalent is, that Mr. SPRING RICE and Mr. ELLICE are to join the Cabinit, as well as Lord MULGRAVE. But Lord DURHAM is not mentioned with the same confidence as- yesterday—neither is Mr. ABERCROMBIE. The real difficulty is not in selecting good and proper men to join a Reforming Ministry, but in securing their return to Parliament, in consequence of the re-action in public feeling, owing in a great measure to the crooked, hesitat ing, and crab-like movements of the Govern ment, for some time back, in their general policy, foreign as well as domestic. The best well wishers of Lord GREY'S administration, cannot honestly pretend to say that liberal measures have been brought forward in a liberal Manner, so as to command that success which some of thein deserved. Every thing was so framed that it might please or conciliate the House of Lords—not satisfy the people. Now this Was not the way for a reforming ministry to : deal with a reformed Parliament, and hence the difficulty of fixing on men whose principle's are undoubted, but whose return is problematical. The result of the late elec tions is now felt in all its force. As each election ran counter to the wish of the government, it was considered merely as a hint that things were not going on as the constituent body expected, but now the cffect of all these is felt with accu ectYepqrsibility, not only by the sksOi ' ii t a e Ministry, but by those A!, 9 ;t4';''' '''' .a 5 - . t 'oin them. That Lords 11 1 * " 1"" d it E ' : .,4 l isY. ?iiiCo II ANI will eventually ~ - , rat ' vQ.lriiwh we have, - - 1 le doubt ; but to do so ..., -411-4. c cx,L, . - \s, 10i," 1114 £1 9 0 "4 % 4M4 their course must be straightforward and clear. No - half measures will answer any great and decisive end, and if Ministers hope to suc ceed, their measures must be such as the majority of the people—not the House of Lords—will support. The great interests of the people are paramount to those of any party ; and any ministry that hopes to stand, must consult these and these alone. Among the parties likely to join the Minis try, with a certainty of being returned, we have heard the names of Mr. TENNYSON, Sir H. PANRELL, Mr. ABERCROMBIE,LOrdEBRING TON, Mr. ROBINSON, &c., mentioned; but no doubt Lord GREY will make a proper se lection. We are certain, to give strength to his Government, he could not select more worthy and liberal men. The general opinion seems to be, that the session ought to be cut short, in order to give the government more time to strengthen itself, with men likely to consolidate the public con fidence in the integrity and capability of the Administration, to carry those measures best calculated to serve the ge neral interests of the country. Such a consummation is unattainable in the short period now before them. It were better to pro rogue Parliament after passing some of the more indispensable measures now before it, and to re-assemble in October or November to legis late on those questions of graver importance which may be delayed but cannot be eventually put off. BY EXPRESS. EPSOM, THREE O'CLOCK. The DERBY STAKES of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., for three year old colts, Bst. 71b.; and fillies, Bst. 21b. Mile and half. The owner of the second horse to receive 100 sovs. out of the stakes. 124 subscribers. Mr. Batson's Plenipotentiary 1 Duke of Cleveland's Shilelah 2 Lord Jersey's Glencoe 22 started. Won by 2 lengths. A few days ago, a lady resident at Balby, near Doncaster, who is in her eighty-fifth year, cut eight teeth in the front part of her. mouth.—Hull Observer. The great works for improving the port of Dieppe are going on with great activity. The mag nificent basin on the west is completed, and was used for fitting out the vessels for the whale fisheries. This year a further sum of 200,000 fr. will be expended on these improvements. LARGE PIKE.—A pike, weighing 221b5., was taken by drawing, on Thursday last, in that part of the Derwent lake which belongs to the Earl of Egremont.— Whitehaven Herald. " LANG SANDY WOOD."—This medical gentleman, better remembered in Edinburgh by the name of " Lang Sandy Wood," was no less distin guished for his eccentricity than his benevolence. One of his peculiarities was an affected severity of disposi tion, which, however, was continually giving him the slip in spite of himself. The effects of Mrs. Siddons' acting upon him, we have heard described by those who witnessed it as laughable in the extreme. He could not resist the temptation of attending the theatre night after night, during the period of her engagement ; and the command she exercised over the feelings of all mankind found no exception in him. From the moment she came on the stage, indeed, to the conclusion of the piece, he was engaged in a con tinual and uniformly effectual struggle to maintain his usual appearance of sardonic indifference. We have heard an old gentleman, who was present, relate the following amusing anecdote respecting Mr. Wood's demeanour on these occasions. Mrs. Siddons was one night personating Desdemona, and the perform ance had just come to that affecting scene where Othella strikes her, when Mr. Wood discovered that he was actually—crying. Abashed and irritated at being beguiled into such a display of feeling, he held down his head, and was overheard thus endeavouring to reason himself into composure, as he impatiently dashed away the tears from his eyes : " All d d nonsense this ; all c—d nonsense ! I'm sure I know well enough it's all nonsense This is just the Edin burgh theatre ; and I'm Sandy Wood ; and she there __why she is just —just--just that b—h Mrs. Sid dons I"—Allan's Life of Scott. PRONENESS TO SERVILITY.—It is a great error to suppose that man naturally loves independence —this is only the taste of a few rarer spirits : to look upwards, to fawn, to flatter, and to lick the dust be neath the feet of riches and of power is not only the destiny, but the taste of the majority.— Two Old Men's Tales; the Deformed. COURT OF EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) LORD CHURCHILL V. JONES. Mr. Sergeant COLERIDGE applied to have this cause removed from the King's Bench, on the ground that as the noble petitioner only sued as Ranger of the Wychwood Forest, his Majesty was the real petitioner, and all suits, under such circumstances, were heard in that Court. He was about to cite authorities, when The COURT interfered, and said, as it was only a motion for a rule to show cause, he was entitled to it as a matter of course. They wished to know whether he applied on the part of the Solicitor-General or the Attorney- General ? Mr. Sergeant COLERIDGE, on behalf of the Solicitor- General, in the absence of the Attorney-General. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-THIS DAY. (FROM LLOYD'S.) DEAL, MAY 28.—Wind N.E.—Arrived from the river and sailed, the Coromandel, Boyes, and Orontes, Currie, for Madras ; Britannia, Penis, for the Cape of Good Hope ; London, Pickering, for Calcutta ; Tro pic, Phillips, for Barbadoes ; Eliza, Gallon, for Gre nada ; Falcon, Kingston, for the South Seas ; An dromache, Hunter, from Quebec ; Roslin Castle, from Sheerness for New South Wales ; and Ida, from Rams gate for Havre-de- Grace. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 28.—Wind N.E., W.S.E.— Arrived from London the Coromandel, Boyes, for Madras. PLYMOUTH, MAY 27.—Wind variable. FALMOUTH, MAY 27.—Wind E. to S., moderate breezes.—Arrived the Countess of Pembroke steamer, from Lisbon. LIVERPOOL, MAY 27.—Arrived the Swan, Lamb, from Antigua. GREENOCK, MAY 26.—Arrived the Emerald, Boyd, from Demerara. CORK, MAY 26.—Arrived off port, the Cecilia, Inglis, from Demerara ; Saladin, Fuzer, from New foundland; and Grace Brown, Higgins, from Sa vannah. DUBLIN, MAY 27.—Arrived the Hopewell, Lewis, from London. ABERDEEN, MAY 26.—Arrived the Alexander, Brand, from Riga. ARRIVALS OFF ANTIGUA.—The Heroine, Russell, and Dunlop, Press, from Liverpool ; Hope, from Bristol,- and Henry, Davidson, from London. AT HAVANNAH.—The Agnes, from Liverpool. IN THE RlVER.—Tranby, Smith, from Riga; Haabet, Cleminensen, Keil, Christian, Maria, Boack, and Amphion, Wadbury, from Norway. SMYRNA, APRIL 29.—Piracy has recommenced in this neighbourhood, and our piratical mistics have at tacked several small vessels in the Gulf of Contesse Cavalle and Tassos, and very recently a Turkish armed galliot, from Salonica, was attacked, and thirty men massacred. The Fanny, Lockeyer, from Poole, was totally wrecked off Newfoundland on the 27th ult.—crew saved. The Maria, from Hamburg to Newfoundland, missed stays in working into Bugle, and went on shore, but it was expected would be got off without much damage. EDINBURGH ELECTION. The flight from Egypt was a bagatelle to the appear ance of Edinburgh this day. It is the annual "flitting day," and the entire population seems turning out : it will not benefit Sir John Campbell on Friday. I send you a squib just published. It will be the closest run ever seen.--May '26, 1834. The following is the squib : COACHMAKER JOHN. When city corruption, and Tory misrule, Were the' life and the pride of each privileged fool ; When bribery's beams from the Treasury shone, Oh ! these were the days for our Coachmaker John ! When our Bill was thrown out, and the last nominee Was sent, the last time, from our last Thirty-three ; When the Provost was hissed from the Cross to the Tron, Who slunk at his tail, sir, but Coachmaker John ? But the times are all changed, and we all of us see What a liberal coachmaker John is to be. The Tory Lord Provost is dead and is gone, And he comes forth a patriot, Coachmaker John ! He abuses the Whigs, and he swears 'tis severe To keep on the house-tax another half-year ; But who for the last fifty years laid it on? Who, who but the Tories, like Coachmaker John ? But all ye Ten-pounders, do go, I beseech, To hear John thu Coaehmaker making a speech ; For though Patrick has given him his lesson to eon, He's but slow at the uptak', our Coachmaker John ! Such a humming and hawing, to get out a word, Such a bungling and boggling sure never was heard ; He'd mak' but a poor representative, von ; Sae back to his coaches send Coachmaker John ! GREENWICH RAILWAY. The following is, we under icipated income and expendii Dr. Per Annum.' ['o interest on Capital rstand, a summary of the an iture of this Company : Cr. Per Annum. By foot passengers, Id. each £20,000 (The bridge over Dept , f,rd Creek yields up w rds of 9.,000/. per 1 annum.) Rent of 1;1)0 arches 20,000 Conveyance of passenge rs 1 in carriages, and parcels 80,000 of 5 per cent on 400,0001., fir construct- ing . the Railway .£20,00f , Annual expenses, sates, - - taxes, &c 20,000 Bonus of 41. per share on 20,000 shares of 201 each 120,i 00 .£120,00,1 THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 6' CL 0 CK. The anxiety and excitement increase in the city respecting the formation of the new ministry, which, our city politicians say, it will be a difficult task to accomplish ; and if not formed on a solid basis, will not be of long duration. Up to the present time, we have nothing official of any new appointments. All we know is, according to West-end information, that his Majesty has given a carte blanche to Earl Grey, to make up the deficiency in the cabinet. The general opinion is, that the resignation of Mr. Stanley is a severe blow ; but Earl Grey will do all in his power to make up the loss. THE FUNDS. At any other period, so important an event as the breaking up of an administration, would undoubtedly have had a great effect in depressing the funds, but at present it is quite the contrary. The Funds continue firm ; Consols, which left off yesterday at 921 for the next Account, and 92i- for Money, opened at 92 #, with little doing as yet. Spanish, 371 ; Portuguese, 79i -3. This being the anniversary of King Charles's Re storation, the Royal Exchange was closed until twelve o'clock ; the moment the gates were opened the usual assemblage of speculators took place, who commenced their operations, although the races has thinned the City with the amateurs of that sport. We have been favoured with a letter from Oporto, four days later than the last arrival from that quarter, the 18th May, stating that the Duke of Terceira had reached Permes, a short distance from Santarem ; also, satnad that e they ea yt consideredetheOporto, po t north o of thatth theerPortugaleß that oya was tl ohep Oporto droa tranquil. mcao mw pa sa Company y t wa s stated ar as l willy enjoy all their former privileges for a limit e d p er i o d ; closed. We have this moment heard of the arrival of the Countess of Pembroke steamer from Lisbon ; the con tents of her information have not as yet transpired. HALF-PAST ONE. The Countess •of Pembroke steamer, which has brought th e ra tifi cat i on o f t h e treaty b y Don Pedro, has arrived at Plymouth, having been seventeen days at sea---sailed from Lisbon on the 12th instant; there fore she cannot bring later news than we received by the Espoir. lip to this morning we understand that the dissen tients were about four millions on the four per cents. Consols are at present 92i I for the Account. Spanish, 371 I ; Portuguese, 79+ THREE 0' CL CX. Consols for the Account, 9111 i. CLOSING PRICES.—FOUR O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 9l; I Ditto Bonds... ............. 30 pm. 3 pet Cm. Cons 9 ,/ South Sea Stock 31 per Cent. 991 i Ditto Old Ann ........ .. 89.1 fli per Cent. Red 99; j Ditto New Ann. 90,1 gevt -3g per Cent lO,l Ex. Bills, IOnP/ 5l pm 1 per ( per 99 Di t to 500/ 5l pm Long Ann. to expire j Ditto Small 5l pm Jan. 1860 l7 3-16 1 Bank S. for Ace. 216 Oct. 1859.. i 7 Consols for Opg 92i Jan. 1860 l7l India St. for Opg 269; FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per:cent 1(01 Portuguese, 5 per cent.... 79; Belgian, 5 per cent Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent. 31i Russian Bonds, 5 per cent lO 5l Chilian, 6 per cent. 27/ Ditto, Metallic .... Columbian, 6 per cent 23; Spanish, 5 per cent. ........ . .. 7 ,i Ditto, 1824 26 Ditto, 18Z3 ...................... .....J.,.. Danish 75 'French ! per Cent.... --;_f t.. ...,'. Greek, 5 per cent 33 Exchange ............... Mexican 5 per Cents, 1825 3:2 French 3 per Cent,. ........ 521 Ditto 6 per Cent., 1825.-- 2 1 44 i Dutch, ' Pe: ee t n . :: . ' .. ....,.. u'il Peruvian 6 per Cent...—. 21ii Ditto , 5 per 'en COURT OF CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY ) JONES V. WATERS. Mr. KNIGHT was heard in defence, and Mr. Sot,t ctroft-GENERAL in reply upon this appeal which occu pied yesterday. - The LORD CHANCELLOR reserved judgment. CLAYTON V. ATTORNEY—GENERAL, AND OTHERS. 7 This was a motion which stood for to-day by pointment. pc, Sir CHARLES WETHERELL appeared in support bi the motion. The LORD CHANCELLOR presumed it would occupy a considerable portion of time. Sir C. WETHERELL said thore was no doubt that 1$ would. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, for the defendants, con- sidered it a very important case, and that it could not fail to occupy a long time. The LORD CHANCELLOR observed that he would sit till five o'clock ; and, if it would be an accommoda tion, till seven this evelaing. Sir C. 'WETHERELL stated, that in the present m°". : tion Sir Wm. Clayton was the plaintiff, and the late Attorney-General (Sir W. Horne) and the Lorda . Commissioners of the Treasury were the defentiacts• Although this had assumed the form of a suit in equib"! yet, in reality, it was a petition of right to the Crown; a petition p resente d upon t h e groun d t h at t h e Peti tioners had the right to the renewal of certain leer' The LORD CHANCELLOR wished to know whetnet• Ca bitinweot u m l n b i e s t e e o r s s i h d o e u r l e d d h right t h t i h s a c t a h u e s , e, as w h a i c s h i n i g n l v e ov a question, as he understood, t ouc hi ng th e persona f l interests of the Prince. He was merely a servant °' the Crown, holding office during the pleasure of the Crown • the King was interested on the one side, an d the subject on the other ; would it not be necessarYt therefore, that he should have the assistance of a Puisne Judge and the Lord Chief Baron? Loi Sir C. WETHERELL—This iS a petition, my of right, which must be heard by the Chancellor. The LORD CHANCELLOR—I am aware of that. Aro you for the subject ? _ Sir C. WETHERELL—Ye3, my Lord, I ant , tr , 1)6 The LORD CnAricELLoa—AVell, then, I a ' ... interest called upon to dispose of a very valuable int erest, which is don't peculiarly go the Duchy of Cornwall—it is private exempt prop erty of the crown, which th e Kin g ma y gr ant if he pleases ioto citrhcoumstan revenue, ced but If iytoubeflauinl,gs tlitoe The SOLICITOR-GENERAL —This is an application to restrain the granting of leases. those who have presented this p e titi on t o li s Sir C. WETHERELL—It iS SO, u pon the ground that m a jesty have a right to the renewal: 131 'he _ ea dy and righ, ...v renewal ; int they are re,- willing to take any course your Lordship may th ink fit. The LORD CHA NCELLOR —I rea lly cannot help ing that it may b e sa id, if I d e cide ag ainst your clienti no wonder that I so decided, because it was the n deciding icnroi its n owndeciding favour in throughit own i f t a s v o o w u rn—s etanco ow Sir C. WETHERELL—A petition of right addressed to the crown, is fou nded u p on these p rinci p les, that al though the subject m a y have no le g al claim a g ainst the cr own, he may have that equitable claim by which the t r . crown is bound ; or, failing in that, the petition i$ founded on the ground of moral justice. it The LORD CHANCELLOR—I shall hear you arg ue upon that, but my view at present is, that a case h.ft'' tween the crown and the subject stands precisely. .ett, the same ground that a case does between subject en" subject, with this exception, that the process in the case of the latter, issuable out of the Court, is e° 111 ; e pellable on the defendant, being a subject , but tha in the case of the subject against th e crow' the proceeding is by petition, the crown agr ge- t h e ing to kthat which is not compellable on Crown, but which would be compellable on the subject. As you desire to proceed I shall hear you, and I shall endeavour to discharge my duty without the least regard to who my master is but a questi° l l% l , e _ wears the Crown for the moment. I this sort is peculiarly interesting to the individualf who supposing that any prince in this country woul eventsi lc; ill of a judge for deciding against him ;at all 1,1 am perfectly convinced that the present King Iv° u • be the last to entertain such a feeling. the ease Sir C. WETHERELL then proceeded to open at length. am very far br.onn. VICE-CHANCERYYCOCRT-(THIS DAY) THE QUEEN OF SPAIN, V. MENDIZABEI, AND MACHADO• sfouri suit instituted . orde r restraining in his na me t the abated, teexdm the i examiner l ' cl u o u t e o n t inio of Spain motion from delivering out to the plaintiff the depos e ition o s u o rt f witness in the cause of the " King of. Spain. v. Mew.' dizabel." Upon the death of the King of Spain the Sir E. SUGDEN applied this morning immediately filed a bill of revivor against the defend ants, r a t n h d at th b e il e i x h a e m s i h n o e u r lodf deliverthe C o o u u r t t t h h e ad dep s tf t d i 0 n t s h a o t t. witness unless ordered to the contrary by the Court- His HONOUR, there being no opposition, immediately made the order as prayed. MACMASTER V. LOMAS. Mr. COOPER applied in this case under the old prac tice for an attachment against the defendants for not putting in their answer to the plaintiff's bill. the or The application being for the purpose of obtaining - der of the Court to take the bill pro confess° agains f t the defendant, it was ask ed that it might be parto the order that the attachm ent should be carried into any county the Six Clerk s might name. It will be recollected that in this case his Honour some tl time since ordered a subpoena t o be served in Sand, which was the subject of much discussion, and upon the case being brought before the Lord Chancellor, a con sultation was had with all the Equity Judges,vvhen it %vas determined that no order in future should be made for tsllithepcesenravitcheeodfefaensduabnptces napapienareSdc,otland. Upo n that and obtained sec& ral orders for time, all of which had long since l it out without any thing being . done on their beka_ The plaintiff, despairing of being able to settle matter G NG 'S v. B i‘ E io N NT C pR iI I . v with the defendants, was obliged to have re d e r the present application. The Court made the nttl' TH K E IN KI as prayed. AD Y.) ---.----!.r— iiiq —..0.-- This morning the defendants, Richard rivetMontP_ and John Joseph Stockdale, were brought up to_ re f ceive the judgment of the Court for a misdemeaner °,O which they had been convicted, in having conspired .1, extort money from the Marquis of Cornwallist c) means of threatening to publish a series of libels af fecting the character of the lady of the noble prosecd tor. The particulars of the case have been a ir° )1 before the üblic. Mr. Justice L A n i tOf . —ITTLEDALE delivered the jl l 4 - ea the the Court. The sentence of the Court Was , a titat the STOCKDALII. defendant Montvat be further imprisoc- in d e . King's Bench for d o ne month, and that the other he ---( AT T AI I : fendant, Stockdale, be further imprisoned unt il t 10th day of February next. The defendants were then removed in custody. _-..-............--__,_ . COMMON PLEAS._ (THIS DAY.) • ..—...m.-- - . of 59(W. for work This was an action for the sum - tiff as attorney and solici- • and labour done by the plaul the Lord Chief ' for for the defendant, tried beforea Justice at the London sittings, in May, 1829, when defendant. A rule had been verdict passed for the the Court, to show cause subsequently •granted by • I should not be had, on the ground that why a new trial the verdict bad been a gainst evidence. _ • eata ci Mr. Sergeant WILDE now appeared to show -: ~__t IKEY v. against the rule. It had appeared to the Jury: tu' t ' s there was no proof of the service of the bills of et, t at the residence of the defendant, who had sincveM • become a bankrupt. He contended that the cellor to set aside the commission o w— cf the, had been strictly in conformity with evidence, n.i.ain" was that a petition was pending before the ty. sole cause of the plaintiff now coming forwr -- c . r d Chau - The defendant was now a man of propertY, an- f hislaim ;. expected to be able to recover the amount °tic Cif the but if that claim had been founded uP on itiS `v eould not plaintiff had had a shadow of right--he after he have suffered a period of five years to elapse had been nonsuited. a ; NOY' Messrs. CROWDER and PAINg were hear,..n. noit, Their Lordships severally been their judgi_e..k, had been laid before the 1 - ,° '. s i. As no further evidence d for s ending the case again to trl there was nog roun d. Rule dischare„ . cons ists Of bankdrutlPleeplaintiff 'rise Medical Establishment of Bath const of one h undred and flue individuals. ", 01 1 HAILSTO RNI. —At rub Sunday week, at 2 p.m., a storm or hail was e s ,P w t : rieneed, which not only broke the dwelling- of the u n , houses, but the windows of several W II :a ; one hailstone, which we measured, was an 1 / 1 0 "-- quarter in circumference.--Hull Observer. '