The Sun. — London, England, 1834-05-30 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS. CORFU, MAY I.—We learn from Constantinople that great changes have taken place in the army of Ibrahim Pacha, especially in the higher ranks, and that a new change of stations is ordered. Important reasons are said to - have led to this measure. It is , believed that several of the chiefs were in secret league with Osman Pacha, who, since his desertion, has been exerting Vimself to the utmost to alienate the Egyptian arm y from Mehemet Ali. It is certain that the lotler is not without apprehensions as to the fidelity of his troops, for he has secret agents in the 3er:ice for the purpose of keeping him well informed as to the opinions of the officers and soldiers, and it has been found necessary to remove most of the superior officers of the regiments, and to keep the troops occupied as much as possible. In the mean time, the Ottoman government is silently increasing itt force both by sea and land. Should there be anther rupture hetween the Sultan and Mehemed All, the struggle will be decisive ; a catastrophe must be the consequence, as each of them considers -his existence at stake ; neither of them deceives himself ' on this point, and both are occupied in gaining over supporters to their cause. Mehemet has more to fear from mutiny than from war. It remains to be seen whether his troops will conduct themselves better in the field than during times of peace.—A//gemeine Zei tung, May 24. MADRID PAPERS. MADRID, MAY 21.—A decree, dated Aranjuez, 19th inst., suppresses four journals, El Universal, El Na cional, El Echo de la Opinion, and El Tiempo ; be cause, says; the decree, these journals have begun to spread 'sloctrines diametrically opposed to the conger lattve principles sanctioned by the Estatuto Real. A. Vigil de Quirones has been appointed Prefect of Madrid in place of M. Gil de Linares. Workmen are now actively employed in preparing the convent of the Holy Ghost, in which the Chamber of the Procura dores de la Reino is to hold its sittings. The soldiers of the army of Navarre are animated by an excellent spirit ; discharges , were sent to ail whose time of service. had expired, and at the time of delivering them their respective officers offered them eight piastres to re-engage for the time the civil war might be prolonged ; all re-engaged themselves with out exception, and they even refused the eight pias tres that were offered them. Five moveable columns pursued Merino in the environs of Lerma without being able to meet with him. On the 15th he was at Rivilla del Campo, where he demanded rations ; it appears that his troop was reduced to 80 horse, in a wretched condi tion, and that he was on the point of being surprised by the combined columns of Montero and San Cristobal y Fectal ; but he received timely notice, and was enabled to escape by Villemel. It is said that Merino is very weak, and looks worn out. General Rodil, command ing the Spanish expedition in Portugal, announced his arrival at Castello Branco on the 15th. The Mi guelist Captain-General of the province of Lower Beira evacuated the town on the 13th, with about 400 men, and on the 15th his rear guard was attacked by Major Maldureira, at the head of 80 horse and 20 smugglers, who made several prisoners, and carried off all the baggage of the general and those who accompanied him. Two couriers, one with despatches for General Rodil, and the other for the Minister of War, have been stopped in Estremadura by the Carlists of Cuesta. A band of Carlists, under the command of an ex-officer of the 14th regiment of the line, named Lopez, has been attacked and beaten near St. Jago by a detachment of the 16th regiment. A priest, who was second in command of the band, was taken prisoner and immediately shot. A letter from Cacires, dated the 12th, says that Cuesta has returned from Portugal into Estremadura with 50 horse. On passing the Casas of Don Antonio they burnt the house of the Alcalde. They murdered a sol dier of the provincial regiment of Logrono, because he refused to cry " Long live Charles V." They continued their march by the mountain of Guadaloupe, and falling in with five Urban guards, they cruelly murdered four of them, only one effecting his escape. The Urban guards of Forremocha and Montancher pursued Ctresta, overtook him, and routed him, with the loss of thirteen of his men—namely, seven killed and six taken prisoners.—Madrid Papers, May 21. PRICES OR s•OCKS THI: Bank Stock ...... 216 :54 16 1 4 3 per Cent. Red 91% 1 1 4 3 per Cent. Cons.l 911%% 1 414 3 1 .; per Cent. MN% Ditto Red 98% 9% 1446 New 3 1 4 per Cent l, OM I 4 t per Cent. Ann. 1726 .... 9 4 per Cent. 1826 9954% Bank Long Ann. to expire Jan. 5, 1860 17 3-16 00.10, 1859 Jan. 5, 1860 l7 7-16 Jan, 5, 1880 Aprils, 1880 Jan. 5, 1870 PRICES OP FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds 10044 Peruvian Honda "I 2 B .Ivian Bonds (18.54 Ditto Account oili Ditto Account... ........ ....98% P o rt u guese Bonds Brazilian Bonds 7614 i Ditto Account 79 1334 9?{ Ditto Account - 6% Ditto New Bonds 79 1 4 8% 9 Itienos Ayres Bonds 3l' Ditto Acc0nnt...79%%% 1 ,4% Ditto Account 10 1 4 Prussian Bonds 10314 3 Chilian Bonds ........ ......... 27% Ditto Bonds, 182•2 tin Ditto Account 27% Russian Bonds, 1822 P 5 3 4 Columbian Bonds 23% ( Ditto Account, Ditto Account .3 1 . a I Ditto 111 Ditto Bonds, 1824 ...... ... 26 Spanish Bonds. , 37 3 4 8% 1 4 D tto Account .6 1 4 j Ditto Acr...3734 ...8N1,54 1 4 Danish Bon 4 Ditto Account 75 Ditto Account 34 1 % , ireek Bonds ;French Rentes. Sp. c. --I —c Ditto Bonds, 1895 3 3 1% i ---- E xc h ang e —; .__e. Ditto Account —' --4 per cent....... —r - c. • Mexican Bonds, 5 per rent. 34 4 1( I -- exchange ... —f —c Ditto Account Dutch, 2} p. a 52 4 A, tit o, A per cent 4354 4U 1 Ditto Account 51 1 . Ditto Account ...4 Ditto, 5 p. c. 9 734 7 Neap01itan............--......91 1 ,E. Ditto Account 97 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid, Per Share Alten Mining Company £9 11% Angles Mex. nun. ..t.. ORS. at Si. pm ' £lllO 9 Rolanos Mining Company .£l5O 137% Brazilian Mining Company 5 15 Brazilian !nu,. Min. Cn. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £2O 5914 Ditto Macaubas C0cae5............. Ditto St. John Del Rev Cata Branca Mining Company :3; .! 634 Uritish Iton Mining o , llThatiV £sl 3034 Columbia] Minim Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) 51% 104 English ltz ming Company.. 3enerai , vliiiine Association .... 12 Hibernian Mining Co. .£lll 3% Mexican Mining Co. 1:49% - 11 teal del Monte Mining C0....(unr0g.) 35 United Mex Min. Co, (iss. at 2/. om.) 40 8 • Ditto New 5crap:..::'........ ...... .. Alliance Fire Insurance Comp 0 11 , 4 erotector Insurance Comp. - Z 1 9 0 Australian Co. Canada Company ..... 18 48 General Steam Navigation Co. National Provincial Bank of England 15 14 Rio Doce , revincial Bank ,f Ireland FRENCH FUN T/S.—Pains, Matra. Five per Cents., 106 f. 105 f. 05c. 106 f. Four per Cents., 94f. 40c. Three per Cents., 79f 70c. 65c. Bank Actions, 1,822 f. 50c. Rente de Naples, 97f. 25c. 20c. Roman Five per Cents., 961 i 5 4%. Bente d'Espagne, Five per Cents-, 30;4%54, Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 44%44. Ilova Spanish Loan, 8444. Rente Perpet. d'Espaene. Five per Cents., 73%% EXCIIANGE ON LONDON. (roe month, paler, 25f. 35c. ; money, —f. c. rhree months, paper, 25f. 25c. ; money, —f. —c. o••rs Authentique. MY HALF-UNCLE. Some little time ago, a youth in tolerably good feather as to dress, but with. more brass in his face than cash in his pocket, made his appearance at a respectable farm-house in the country, and represented himself to the farmer as being sent to him as a boarder, on account of delicate health, by a gentleman engaged in extensive business in Kilmarnock, whom he stated to be his "half-uncle." The gentleman being well Ititowil to the farmer, no objections were made to 'receive a young man whom he considered so respectably connected. Next day the youngster saw, and took a fancy to, the farmer's pony, which he proposed buying, for the purpose of riding about for the improve ment of his health. A trial before closing a bargain was asked and agreed to, and the deli cate youth set off on the pony to Ayr, fur nished with a little " loose change" to defray expenses, which the farmer was strictly enjoined to put down to the account of " my half-uncle." Next night the invalid returned minus the pony, which he said had come down with him on the road and broke its knees, and he was therefore obliged to leave it with an innkeeper in Ayr. The farmer began to look grim, and the other attempted to smooth him down by telling him that his " half-uncle" was quite able and willing to pay for all. As to the ability, the owner of the pony was quite satis fied—the willingness was another affair ; he therefore thought it necessary, in order that at least there might be no mistake about the identity of " my half-uncle," to question the youth a little more closely. " And you are sure its Mr. the —?' said the farmer; " Quite sure," said the youth. " A big, stout, jolly-looking gen tleman ?" said the farmer ; " The same," said the youth. " And it's him you call your half uncle ?" " Yes, to be sure, I call him my hay: uncle, but there's enough o' him to be a whole uncle to ony body." This was the only truth, as the reader may by this time suppose, that the unfortunate owner of the pony was able to elicit. It chanced, by good luck, that during the exa mination, two of - the carts belonging to .the gentleman whose relationship had thus been claimed, came in sight, and the drivers being hailed, the youth was introduced to them, and matters explained ; the men, how ever, professed their ignorance of him, but did not like to treat with harshness one who confi dently claimed so near a relationship to their master. It was therefore finally agreed that "young hopeful" should be conveyed on one of the carts to Kilmarnock, in order to be identified by his relative. They had not proceeded far, how ever, before he manifested considerable unea siness ; at last he called out to the driver that he was terrified to go to Kilmarnock, for, continued he, "my half-uncle is always in a dreadful passion wi' ony of his re lations that break pony's knees 1" He then sprang nimbly from the cart, darted through a hedge, and quickly disappeared amid the shades of a planting. Had he gone on, we have no doubt he would have received from his " half uncle" some striking proofs of the affection with which he regards such relations. As this young vagabond is still supposed to be sorning about the country, our readers, we trust, after this notice, will be on their guard against simi lar impositions.—Kilmarnock Journal. A CHEAP LORD CHANCELLOR.—At a sale in Halifax, on Thursday week, Lord Brougham, in full orders, painted on a beer-shop sign-board, con taining 24 feet of good half-inch deal, with frame round it, and cross-bars on the back, sold for Jour shillings 1 11—Yorkshire Gazette. Etr is,*slll. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1834. Public anxiety is still great with respect to the completion of the Cabinet, but nothing definitive is yet determined on, or if deter mined, not officially known. The same parties that were yesterday named to particular offices are repeated to-day such as Mr. SPRING RICE, Mr. MORE O'FERRALL, Mr. F. BARING, and such subordinate officials ; but these and such as these, however respecta ble, will not,, we fear, add either weight or com manding influence to the administration. Their only recommendation will be, unity of purpose — as they must of course, in the Cabinet, adopt the views of those whom they have been in the habit of looking up to as superiors. The fol lowing list has been handed about in the City as the new arrangement, but we do not pledge our selves for its authenticity, nor, if correct, does it ' augur much for Lord GREY'S discernment. It may merely serve to finish this Session, but will not assuredly live to face another : Lord AUCKLAND, to the Admiralty; Lord CARLISLE, Privy Seal ; Mr. SPRING RICE, Colonies. Lord MULGRAVE, Post-office, without a seat in the Cabinet. Mr. ELLICE, Secretary at War, with a seat in the Cabinet; Mr. FRANCIS BARING, Se cretary of the Treasury. SUN OFFICE, Hay-past Three. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. Mr. SPRING RlCE—Colonies. Lord CARLISLE—Privy Seal. Lord AUCKLAND—Admiralty. Lord MULGRAVE—Post-office. Mr. E. ELLlCE—Cabinet Minister. Mr. MORE OTERRALL—Lord of the Treasury. Mr. F. BARlNG—Secretary to the Treasury. We have also heard it stated very confidently that Lord DURHAM will go as Ambassador to Paris (preparatory to being Foreign Secretary.) Earl GRANVILLE to come over, and go to the Admiralty. The Irish bishops are reported to have used these words in an address to his Majesty : " Should, however, abuses be found to exist in our ecclesiastical establishment, we profess our readiness to co-operate for their removal." So it is a matter of doubt to these heads of the Church whether there are any abuses in our ecclesiastical establishments, and they modestly require that " no alteration be made in the dis cipline and service of the Church but by the sanction and recommendation of its spiritual guardians." We are .ready to admit that the bishops and clergy are the fittest persons to make alterations in the Litany or Liturgy, or forms of worship, but least of all fit to remove the abuses, or reform the polity, of the Church. Men who_ can see no abuses in our ecclesiastical establishments must wilfully shut their eyes against the truth, and are the very last persons that anv rational Government would apply to for assistance in re-modelling the constitution of the Church. Doubt abuses in our ecclesiastical establishments, and assert that the polity of our church is modelled as closely as circumstances will admit, or the e cclesiastical institutions founded by our Lord's apostles ! Why the abuses of . the church are the crying grievance of the day. Every layman, and most church men, denounce them daily, and believe that there is no safety for the Episcopal Church till they are redressed, yet these watchful shepherds of the flock can see no danger, and quietly repose under the belief that her institutions are as pure as those founded by the Apostles. What a singular church the Apostles must have founded, if it was the prototype of the English Episcopal Church I Bishops living in palaces with 30,0001. a year, attending more to carnal than spiritual concerns, while the great Apostle, according to his own words, "had no certain dwelling place, and laboured, working with his own hands I"—pastors of the flock receiv ing wages for services they never perform, I —some of them with five or six livings, and re ceiving thousands a-year . for doing ab . solutely nothing, and the discipline of the Church alto gether so relaxed that it is more easy to punish a layman for disgraceful conduct than to find: one that ought to be a model for Chris tians, and a pattern for every moral virtue. Such wilful obstinacy leaves no hope for Church Riform from the Episcopal. Bench, and only confirms the saying that reform in any corporate body or class of men, whether in church or state, always comes from without. The Catholic Church took no steps to redress grievances till they were compelled by the people. But for the people we should still have had rotten boroughs and a mock representa tion ; and if the people had not taken the lead in ecclesiastical reform, we should still be afflicted with tithes, pluralities, non-residence of clergy, and every abuse that oppresses the people and degrades the Church. They have, however, taken the question out of the hands of the Church, and reform will be carried in opposition to the episcopal bench. We have seen what is said to be the KING'S answer to the address of the Irish bishops, and can only say that we firmly believe his MAJESTY never made use of the words imputed to him. It is evidently the composition of some secret enemy of all ecclesiastical reform. The KING has hitherto been the best friend of reform, and he will not now fail in his duty. The Pitt Club anniversary was celebrated yesterday. And such a celebration I Judging from the speeches delivered, it must have been more melancholy than a funeral assembly, not withstanding (as the Morning Post assures us) " the dinner was excellent, and the wines superb." Not a single gleam of courage, viva city or confidence was elicited the whole even ing. The spirits of the guests were flatter.tban the flattest small beer at a cheap boarding school. Even the great Duke was in the blues—as his Grace is Colonel of the Blues, this, perhaps, is not to he wondered at —and Lord ELDON " refused to be com forted." If such was the melancholy of the meeting, while the daintiest viands Were before them, and the rarest wines in brisk circulation, what must . it have been when the time of parting arrived, and the landlord's 'ac count was sent in ! Rabelais has well observed that the hour of reckoning is the most melan choly, whether to peer or peasant, in the whole twenty-four. Poor Lord ELDON must have felt, to his very pocket's core, the truth of this assertion. The landlord's bill must have ope rated on his sensitive nerves like a Reform Bill. The different Items must have shocked him like so many Schedules. How he survived them, we know not. To pay, is at all times, under every circumstance, an exceedingly painful duty ; but to pay when one- has had no enjoyment for one's money, is an affliction not to be thought of without a shudder. We hope the respected landlord of the London Tavern has no reason to regret yesterday's Pitt anniver sary dinner. We do not imagine that he has (for . GoD forbid that we should impute unworthy mo , Lives to his guests !) though it is remarkable that at about " eleven o'clock," when all the wines on the table were exhausted, a sudden rush was made to the door—or to use the more courtly phrase of our morning contemporary, "Abe company broke up in the most per fect harmony !" Why or wherefore this abrupt evanishment took place, a sense of de licacy prevents us from inquiring. The chairman, Colonel CoNoLLY, who was the chief speaker of the evening—and this, by the bye, . may go far to account for the general dullness of his hearers—made one remark that struck us by its exceeding truth and justice., He " felt convinced," he said, " of the feeble ness of his own powers." Exquisite critic Never was the old adage, " know thyself," more happily illustrated than in this instance I The gallant colonel went on to observe, that "he was addressing an audience which bore a grateful and lively remembrance of blessings un numbered and unequalled, derived from the pursuit of the councils of WILLIAM PITT." The gallant Colonel, it is manifest, is a wag of the first water, or he would not apply the terms " blessings unnumbered and unequalled" to the monstrous pension -lists, sinecures, jobs, and so forth, entailed on the country by the Pitt system. By the " blessings unequalled," he, of course, means the Tory boroughmon gers ; by the " blessings unnumbered," the eight hundred millions of debt, which the " heaven-born" Minister has saddled on the na tion's back ! Was ever irony equal to this ? And then the sly allusions to the gratitude and vivid memories of those who had profited by such a system! Had the gallant speaker's hearers not been in the lowest state " - of de spondency, they must have laughed, fit to kill themselves, at such irresistible facetiousnes. Our Contemporary, in calling attention to the speeches delivered at this dismal anniver sary, takes the opportunity of comparing Lord CASTLEREAGH! to CROMWELL. How pro foundly stupid, or how broadly ironical I Sup posing, however, that the Moining Post is serious, where, we "ask, lies the resemblance bet Ween the two men ?. CRonI WELL was a hero who made the name of Englishman re spected throughoui Europe ; CASTLEREAGH a statesman who made it everywhere a by word for scorn and ridicule. CROMWELL freed his country from the shackles of a mo narchical despotism ; CASTLEREAGH riveted those shackles still closer. C RONI wELL was to lerant, CASTLEREAGH intolerant, in matters of religion. CRONIWELL, as an Englishman, loved England ; CASTLEREAGH, as an Irishman, hated Ireland. CROMWELL saved his coun try ; CASTLEREAGH betrayed it. CROM WELL was a stern, unbending republican soldier; CASTLEREAGH a pliant, sycophantic tool of tyranny. CROMWELL sent an English army to 'succour his persecuted dissenting brethren in Switzerland and Piedmont; CASTLEREAGH sent. an English....arniy to enslave his Catholic fellow-countrymen - in Ireland. CROMWELL set all the monarchies of Europe at defiance ; C AS TLEREAGH bowed the knee to the Holy Al liance. In one respect only our Contemporary's parallel holds good. CROMWELL never opened his lips in the senate but to perpetrate some absurdity or other ; CASTLEREAGH had the same intuitive genius for blunder. CROM WELL was vague, wordy,. obscure ; CASTLE.. REAGII possessed equal talents for mystify ing and bewildering. But enough of this. The Irish apostate is now forgotten, or lives only in the deep, settled hatred of the country he betrayed. ; A practice has become prevalent among journalists of quoting the prices of wheat at Athsterdam, Hamburg, Paris, and some other places, and contrasting them with the prices in London- We marvel why they do not quote the prices at Dantzic also ; if they did, they would find the price of wheat lower at Dantzic than elsewhere, and they would thus perceive that here, as in almost everything else that relates to the Corn Laws, there is a fallacy which re quires to be detected. The price of wheat is found to be uniformly greater in London than it is in Paris, or any of the places where the prices are quoted,and the reason is that the demand for wheat is much greater in London, and in Great Britain, than it is at Paris, or in France, where, in general, the prices are higher than in any other country than Great Britain. The numbers of persons engaged in manufacture, and in other pursuits than agriculture, are as three to one of the latter in Great Britain. There is no other country in the world where the numbers engaged in agriculture are so few, compared to the entire population, as they are in Great Britain ; and it is the extensive de mand of two-thirds of the population upon the labours of the other third who supply the whole population with food that increases the price so much in Great Britain. At the present time from the absence of any great demand, the price of wheat at Dantzic is less than 20s. a quarter, when the home price comes up to the importation price, and the duty ceases to amount to a prohibition, the price of wheat at Dantzic rises nearly to the same amount with the price here. Does it not then necessarily follow, that if our great demand were allowed to operate at all times freely at Dantzic as it. does at home, the price at Dantzic would always be the same with the price here, with the difference only of the expense of bring ing wheat from Dantzic to the markets of this country? If there were nothing to hinder our great demand from so operating, the price at all places where it did so operate, as well as at Dantzic, would be the same with the price here, with this difference only, that is, the price would be equalised, and the increase of price at Dantzic and other places would be great, but the diminu tion of the price in Great Britain would be little. The consequence then would be that grain could not be purchased abroad cheaper than it could be at home, and a preference would thus always be given to home grain, because it could be immediately sold by the dealer as soon as the state of the market enabled him to realize a profit ; whereas, if he purchased grain abroad, the home price might fall before it could be brought here to be sold. In the one ease, "that in pur chasing home gram, he could always purchase so as. to be sure of a profit, whereas, in the other case, that in purchasing abroad, he always ran the risk of a loss ; and this was the state of things before 1815, when agriculture flou rished. Our owners and occupiers of land, therefore, stand very much in their own light in maintaining the present Corn Laws, on this ground alone, even if there were no other reason against them, though their apprehension of the fall of price is the main, but mistaken ground upon which they maintain their laws. Hamburg papers of the 27th instant have been received. They state that the Russian Government has published an extremely severe ukase against all Russian subjects residing out of the empire without permission. No " noble," it seems, is to reside more than four years out of the empire, and no " non-noble" more than three years, unless he can assign the most satisfactory reasons for his absence. The Frankfort, papers contain no news of public interest : HAMBURG, MAY 27 .—BoRsEN HALLE.—Funds were higher to-day, and the market animated. New Aus trian were sellers at 1151. Discount, :;4 per cent. End of May. A nglo-Danish Loan, three per cent. 72 Anglo-Russian 102% Russian Inscription, 5 per cent., 182 4 , Ditto, ditto, 1831 95% Ditto, ditto, 1832. 95% Certificates 9B Polish Bonds 124t1 Prussian Bonds, 1832 Austrian Bank Shares 1300 Ditto Metalliques PI Ditto 4 per Cent..... Spanish 3 per Cents. Spanish Cortes (A. F. Haldimand and • ons) 35% Ditto 1 per Cent 53 yi Dutch 2y 2 per Cents. Ditto 5 per Cents 9 3 14 Portuguese Regency 7 5 14 The English mail of the 23d inst. had not arrived when we went to press, and the Dutch mail brings us no additional intelligence from England. The Russian Government has published an ex tremely severe ukase against all Russian subjects re siding out of the empire without permission. T he following are the principal enactments of this specimen of autocratical legislation : A regular passport authorises a noble to reside four years out of the empire, and a non-n9ble three years. If any one exceeds this term, without express permission, his property is to be placed in the hands .of trustees, and after a suitable deduction has been made for the maintenance of such of his family as may have remained in Russia, the remainder of his income is to be applied to State purposes. If, on his return, he can prove that unforeseen and inevitable difficulties prevented his return, the property will be restored to him ; but should he not be able to do so, his property is to remain in the hands of trustees till his death, and then to be handed over to his legiti mate heirs. _ . A Russian female marrying a foreigner, and quitting Russia with her husband, if possessed of landed pro perty, is to sell the same, and one tenth of the produce of the sale is to belong to the Government. A Russian nobleman, lately deceased, has left a legacy of 50,000 rubles to increase at compound interest till the year 1925, when the accumulated ca pital is to be given as a prize for the best history, in Russia, of the reign of Emperor Alexander. The capital, it is calculated, will then amount to nearly two millions of rubles.—Hamburg Reporter, May 27. EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, MAY 27.-13 8 3 4 ; two months, 137%. BERLIN, MAY 21.—Three months. 6 24%. ST. PETERSBURG'', MAY 20.—Three months, 10 17-32. STOCKHOLM. MAY 16.—Two months, 12 38. —.Hamburg Papers, May 27, - SUN OFFICE, Four o'clock. EPSOM. RACES THIS DAY. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 'yew 5 per Cent. India Stock Ditto Bonds ........... 30 2c pm. South Sea Stock..... • Old Annuities New Ditto 3 per Cent Ann. 1751 - Ex Bills, £l,O OO 49 51 pm. Ditto ~ 00 49 51 pm• Ditto Small 49 51 pm. Ditto Commercial 53 pm. Ditto Advertised ' 49 50 pm. Bank for Account India for Account - Cons. for Account 90%44 BY EXPRESS. EPSOM, THREE O'CLOCK. The OAKS STAKES of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., for three year old fillies, Bst. 41b. Mile and half. The owner of the second horse to re ceive 100 sovs. out of the stakes. 94 subs. Mr. Cosby's br. Pussy ... 1 Mr. Forth's b. Louisa 2 Mr. Richardson's Jenny Mills' fillly ... 3 15 started. Won by a length. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY) CITY, T WELVE 0' CL 0-OK. lip to the present hour we still continue i n th e same situation as yesterday, respecting the new ap pointments in the ministry—nothing is known in the City to be depended upon. We have also a very great dearth of information, as the French mail and express from Paris have not ar rived. They are anxiously looked for, as they are expected to bring us the Parisian accounts of the effect produced in the above capital by the dissensions in our Cabinet, and the resignation of some of our Mi nisters, which, no doubt, will cause some depression in the French funds. They will likewise cause a great sensation in Holland, and encourage his Dutch Ma jesty again to procrastinate the settlement of the Bel gian affairs. THE FUNDS. Owing to the non-arrival of the express from Paris this morning with the French prices, the British funds at present are in a stagnant state. Consols, which left off yesterday at 9214 fo the account, and 921 to for money, opened at 921, and soon after reached 921; at present they may be quoted at 921 1, with little doing. Spanish has improved from 37-a 4 to 38+ ; Portuguese is not so good as yesterday ; and may be quoted 791 f. It appears that on the Bth inst. another Spanish brigade, under the orders of Don Francisco Serrano, entered Portugal. It is stated that after they have formed a junction with Saldanha new operations will take place. . _ Spanish has just been done at 381, owing to a report that it comes higher from Paris. We have a report of an express from Paris, which brings the Spanish stock there 2 per cent. higher. This has caused the rise of that stock in our market this morning. To-day is settling-day in the foreign market. The most as we t e o d s settle t tl not e hear Spanish and Por tuguese failures. C so important HALF-PAST ONE. We hear from good authority that the following is the new administration : on s ls to , c 9 k 2 s i buyers. Lord Auckland, to the Admiralty ; Lord Carlisle, Privy Seal ; Mr. Spring Rice, .Colonies; Lord Mul grave, Post-office, not in the Cabinet. Mr. Ellice, Secretary at War, with a seat in the Cabinet; Mr. Francis Baring, Secretary of the Treasury. The report in the morning of an express from Paris, bringing the Spanish Stock two per cent. higher is not correct. By an express from the above capital we have the following, after the breaking up of our Mi nistry was known,—Spanish, 30i ; Rentes, 79f. 60c. Consols may be quoted at present 92i. for account. Spanish 38 to 38k; Portuguese 794 -f. The Foreign account goes off well. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 924. A DISAGREEABLE HYPOTHESIS.—Two persons were once engaged in an argument. " Sup pose," said one of them, " that you owe me two thou sand crowns." " I wish," replied the other, " that you would suppose some other hypothesis." GIVING WARNING.—A gentleman, unfor tunately linked for life to one who made him feel the weight of his chain, was one day told by the maid that she was going to give her mistress warning, as she kept scolding her from morning till night. Ah, happy girl !" said the master, " I wish I could give her warn ing too l" RISING IN THE WORLD.--" What news to-day ?" said a merchant to his friend lately. " What news !" responded the other, " nothing, only times grow better—people are getting on their legs again." " On their legs !" said the first, " I don't see how you can make that out ?" " Why, yes," replied the other, " folks that used to ride are obliged to walk now ; is not that getting on their legs again?"—Anterican Paper. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION.—.A gentleman, not long since, took up an apple to show a niece, six teen years of age, who had studied geography several years, something about the shape and motion of the earth. She looked at him a few minutes, and said with much earnestness, " Why, uncle, you don't mean that the earth really turns round, do you?" He re plied, "But did you not learn that several years ago ?" " Yes, sir," she replied, " I learned it, but I never knew it before."—American Annals of Education. ABSURDITIES OF INTOLERANCE.—The I Chancelier de I'Hospital was called an atheist, because he refused to be a prosecutor : Galilelo for thinking the earth turns round : Descartes for saying there are innate ideas : Gassendi and Locke for denying them. Father Hardouin proved, very much to his own satis faction, that Malebranche, Pascal, Arnaud, and Nicole, 1 (the most pious of men), would certainly be damned. The mother of Louis XIV. was shocked by the notion that Jansenists might be saved, and cried out, " Ah ! fi ! fi ! de la Grace." In Hispaniola, some Spaniards made a vow to sacrifice every day twelve Indians in honour of the twelve Apostles. When Savoy and Geneva exchanged a village or two, Geneva engaged to tolerate the Catholic inhabitants for twenty-five years ! If the Mahometans conclude a treaty of peace I with Christians, they forthwith proceed to the mosque, i and ask pardon of God Almighty for discontinuing to I cut the throats of his children, on whom they impre cate calamities.—Sharp's Letters and Essays. THE POVERTY OF THE RICH.—His father, in spite of his vast estates, he knew to be excessively poor—poor with the poverty of a very great man—be fore the wretchedness of which the poverty of a com mon beggar sinks into insignificance—his is the indi gence of nature—the want of a few things which the accidents of the next hour may relieve—anxieties, however pressing, which reach not beyond the present moment ; but the poverty of the great is a system of hopeless, irretrievable em barrassment —often the work of successive generations —inextricably interwoven with a web of their existence—a yoke—a burden, shackles which every successive proprietor puts on at his accession to lay down only in his grave.— Two Old Men's Tales ; The Deformed. VEGETATION IN THEITIMALAYA MOUN TAINS.—It is well known that the laws of climate, which were formerly suffered to govern animal and vegetable life, and the limits of the zones of vegeta tion, have been materially modified since our acquaint ance with the Himalayan country. Snow is there found to vanish, at an elevation of nearly 17,000 feet. Ve getation extends, in Kunawur, to 16,000 feet ; nay, the Tama, or Tartaric furze, is found at 17,000 feet ; birches reach as high as 14,000 feet, and the Rhodo dendron Lepidotunt, above them. Crops of barley, buck-wheat, and turnips, were seen by M. Gerard, at an elevation of 13,600 feet (though in Chimborazo, even grasses disappear, at 13,325 feet) ; and, a little lower, the ground was covered with thyme, sage, and other aromatic herbs, sweet-briar, and gooseberry bushes. At 10,000 feet are apricot orchards ! It is a curious scientific fact, and an interesting circumstance to European travellers, that the zoology and botany of these Alpine regions exhibit many of the ordinary and familiar species of Northern Europe.—Royle's Natu ral History of the Himalayas. THE PICKPOCKET ' S TEST OF SKILL. — When the sneak comes into the hands of the pick pocket, he is instructed and practised every hour of the day, until made tolerably perfect : he is then taken into the streets, to make his first essay in the presence of those who have taught him ; and it has been given in evidence, that they dress up a lay figure, hanging bells all over it, on which they practise. When the tyro can empty all the pockets of the figure, without occa sioning a bell to sound, he is considered fit for the street. He generally begins with a pocket handker chief, whilst another takes " ding," that is, receives it from him. In almost all cases of robbery, 01 10 commits the act, and another receives the article fr_oT the thief, which is called takingding." If they: , S. a boy dull, they forthwith turn him out of their p t HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Suffolk, Lorti Howard of Effingham, Lord Wynford, and t h e Bishop of Rochester sat in the Heim or Lords at tvrelit o'clock to-day to hear English appeals. _ - qr . lordships on the part Mr. KNIGHT addressed their lordships heard appeal of Toulmin v. Copland, the question in which related to extensive partnership transactions between the husband of the appellant and the re spondent, who some years ago carried on the business of navy-agents, in Surrey-street, Strand. COURT OP CHANCEitt.-(TiiiB DM;: CLAYTON V. ATTORNEY-GENERAL. The Loan CHANCELLOR WaS occupied till 12 o' i clock in hearing the further arguments in this pa case ; at which time his Lordship left the Court for the purpose of sitting in the House of Lords to be& appeals, ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The Master of the Rolls proceeded with consent cause petitions and causes to=day, but no case of coif public interest Cline Wrote his; Hotiolli. VICE-CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY.) His Honour the Vice-Chancellor was occupied tb e t whole morning with the further arguments in the p ar heard case of Studdy v. Farwell, which related to the construction Hof a deed of purctiase. COMMON PLEAS:-(THIS DA'iT.) COOPER V. I3LANDLEY. This was an action of replevin tried betortl l l Lord Chief Justice: Tile ilekinlant, as lan had distrained certain goods of plaintiff for two Y i e:i le rind three quarters' rent due on the premises callea:.4 Three Tuns, in Fetter-lane, of which it was allevpd the plaintiff was proprietor, and a verdict had Posse for the defendant for 1651., being the amount of claimed for two years and Ulf& tinaiterS at 6° • r e d annum. A rule nisi had been subsequently obtainnev, by Mr. Sergeant Aitcherly to show cause why a' diet trial ham nr should .gn e n va o n t ati be i h E a lel d Ev , wi on the n groundnow of the ver 1 cause against the rule. the ground4spup: rule had been obtained were, first, that the defend e_ t had not proved a legal title as landlord to the P r e mises, and, secondly, that the plaintiff was not th tenant, but a man named Webb. He contended that the plaintiff, having taken the premises under the tenant Nightingale, and having paid rent ptevlously to the defendant, he was now prevented from disputing the title of defendant, and on these grounds he trusted the verdict would not be disturbed. CHIEF JUSTICE—Who do you say is the tenant , o ar n e ii a h. to ich pli_ tan o.4 brother Jones ? Mr. Sergeant Jonas—We say that Webb is the tenant. • CHIEF JUSTICE—Very odd, then, that all Cooper . ' property should have been on the premises, and s hould have been distrained. Why did not Webb bring the action ? Mr. Sergeant JONES and Mr. KELLY were hea rd in support of the rule. The COURT, after hearing the arguments, , t that there had appeared nothing before it to vrarrsnt in exempting the case from the usual rule as bet"L a landlord and tenant. All the defendant was W in ' ' t prove was, that the plaintiff was the actua l tenanthad the time of making the distress, and no e vidence been produced to show that any other person excfr . s _ the defendant had a title to the premises.— charged. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-TH IS DA theF2A7LOt3,-TIHAY, DEAL, MAY 29.—Wind N. E. to S. w., (FROM LLOYD'S.) —Arrived the Sampson, Chadwick, from New York.. Arrived from the River and Failed the Fox Hotta' Grey, for the South Seas; Betsey and Sarah, Blooali for Leghorn ; Anne, Dryborough, for Oporto ;. in Maria, for Malta. , s 'led PORTSMOUTH, MAY 2 9.—Wind S. to NY •- ---al his Majesty's ship President, for Halifax. Arriv ed Pt.ymoLITH, MAY 28.—Wind variable.—, the the Countess of Pembroke steamer, from LiSbc', - t sailed the 14th instant, Oporto the 18th, and Br" rate breezes. .pretl, LYNN, from Riga. LANCAStER, MAY 28.—Arrived the Success, L *ti‘ c ' ei LIVERPOOL, MAY 28.—Arrived the Sarah, from Memel. from Denmark. DovEa, MAY 29.—Arrived the Orient, Ellis, from Matanzas, very leaky, with loss of bulwarks/ 8;c " bound to Hamburg. r, SCILLY, MAY 27.--Arrived The Sarah, Wehbe from Charente. LONDONDERRY, MAY 27.—Arrived the Sarah, 11°- binson, from London. WATERFORD, MAY 27.--Arrived the Portland, BO' from London. 21‘8'1AYA 28 r . r: el; itthl d e j v o a h r variable, b p i eu,n Dunn, n n . d°Ccl:o neir:a.i : i t lece.: berts, Arrived in the River the Liberator, Angel, froi Waterford ; and Dandy, Clark, from Norway. been received at The following . f d o , l s lo : _wing communications have " 15, Cambridge-street, Connaught-squaro " May 29, 183 4 . " Sta,—You will much oblige me by m aking kuol the following official statement, for the information 0 all merchants interested. " I have the honour to be, &c. &c. . (Signed) "H. S. MINAS ! ~W m. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's. " In consequence of the existing differences bet ,ny his Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies and the r-', ll. peror of Morocco, his Sicilian Majesty has ordertcho " Naples, May )3, 1 83 vi 4 : 0 ,1 for the protection of vessels under his Royal Fly' Gi following naval division to cruise in the Straits 0 r ._ braltar, viz.—the frigate Isabella, the corvette underCli '-, tina, the brig Zeffiro, and the schooner Lampe, ~ the command of Rear-Admiral Staiti, which sailed w its destination this day.' " ___.-.... SUMMER CIRCUITS• HOME—Lord jhuiesfticleusltlycnedialei NORTHERN—Lord Lyndhurst and Baron Gurney' MlDLAND—Justice Park an,. Justice Taunton. NORFOLK—Just ce Gaselee and Justice Bosanque' NORTH WALE — Justice Vaughan. ,anyjusantdiceJina.aCeledsPaiteteSoo. : 2 c A ,F— O; a l- t i - • D or-General-- -- - 13 - aronAiders s on ir an j a a J m ust e i s ce Witiellyia:esi.i, a Da ip so U l'H WALES—Baron Parke . _ t 11° Royal Highness's the Duke of Cambridge, I ° 4l-- Piccadilly from Hanover. Wednesday night was even colder t h a n th e preceding, the therm having fallen to 43. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT FiscilLEV. 0 Yesterday morning early a most destructive fire brolc flaivmeislyweersecapl:sdt. in f r I egg, carpenter and tor out on the premises of A• • v. bley. TV dertaker, situate near the church, i inc.. • night clothes, and happily 1 2 c , N or% shops, &c., were destroyed. At present nothing' Ttilheeirwhole of the premises, known as to the cause of the fire. *alit Yesterday- evening, about half-past ellobe o'clock, the flillovving accidents occurred through too furious riding of a " gentleman" returning from b i d i s rli races. At the corner of ilorsemonger-lane, an el e_ . ., and respectable woman was knocked down, and, fort", nately, escaped with a fractured arm ; at nia A e rvr llB3l, street, an individual, named Tibbs, was knocket.e 004, and on being conveyed into the shop of M r ; • t /4 : a s s fond surgeon, corner of Lant-street, Borough' but veil that his skull was so severely fractured thato very ; at tb little hopes are entertained of bie ree° woman vias corner of Union -street, another elderly stopped ; run over, the rider thrown, and the h orse r wonlasu the the rider, however, escaped by givi n g P° and a fie , who was not severely hurt, a few shillings,a H e the titious address to the persons who interfere •• ,uro iti rode off, and it was understood that a lad Wei a,,,, and rider at the foot of -lA' down by the ho rse bridge. . taken LIVE AND LEAK N.--it is quite a rais%Tts 0, idea to suppose that sugar injures the teeth. 0 : 1 ) 1 11 0f sons have whiter teeth than the negroes, perl'l.—te during crop time ; and it is equally absurd to sif iv' that the use of sugar produces worms in eb i , l •o Worms arise from an insufficiency of salt and Pl.lO, in the food of infants ; provided those tonics be Pp be the more sugar is given to a child the greater al its health and strength. --Sir .I. 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