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~~. ~~. N*N-N.4N ' ~~ ,~.-• THE COLLIERY SYSTEM. CRUELTIES AND INDECENCIES PRACTISED ON WOMEN AND CHILDREN. QIXTEEY ENGRAVINGS, from the Ori g inals S in Parliament, fully Illustrating these revolting prac tices, and occupying an entire Page of the Paper, will be given in the WEEKLY CHRONICLE of Saturday and Sunday next, the 21st and 22d inst.—Office, 337, Strand, and all Newsman. - Innnediately, in 3 vols. post !Ivo., THE COLT,NTESS OF BLESSINGTON'S NEW WORK, THE LOTTERY OF LIFE." Henry Colburn, publisher, 13, Great Marlborough. street. To be bad at all the Libraries. HOS. HARRIS and SON'S TELESCOPES are warranted unequalled by any other house at the prices. Sent, carriage free, to any part of the kingdom. Cash first. remitted:. Exchanged if not approved. Tourists should not be w.thout one. 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The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains 700 MONEY DIVIDENDS, as follows: lof C.:5,000 lof £ 6OO s of X. 120 10 of £BO 1 ... 5,000 2 ... 400 5 ... 110 ... 70 5 ... 100 ... 1,000 3 ... 150 6 ... 90 593 ... 50 1.... 800 STERLING; amounting together to £72,170. BRITISH STERLING MONEY. THEATRE-ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. In consequence of their great success, THIS EVENING, MAY 19, The Performances will commence with PICTURESQUE AND BEAUTIFUL —Principal Characters by Messrs. Barker and Walter Lacy. After which, the Burlesque Extravaganza of THE OLYMPIC BEVELS. —Principal Characters by Mr. J. Bland, Mr. 6ranby, Mrs. Grattan. Miss Murray. To be followed by the successful Burletta of ENTHUSIASM. Succeeded by the Grand fairy Ballet of LA SYLPHIVE. To conclude with THE IRISH TUTU R.—Teddy O'Rourke, Mr. Brougham. Boxes, is.—Pit, 25.--Gallery, is Doors open at Half-past Six; commence at Seven ; Half-price a Quarter before Nine. Private Boxes to be hail of Mr. Grogan, at the Private Box-otfice ; and of Messrs. Andrews, Mitchell, Sams, and Baily, at their Libraries. On Monday next, Mr. Harley, Mr. Oxberry, Miss Faucit, and Mrs. Humby, will appear. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Every thing New—The most splendid Novelties ever wit • essed, with an immense outlay, and numbers beyond conception, , THIS EVENING, MAY 19, Will be presented a New Military and Equestrian. Spectacle, enti tle i AIUR AT—THE PEASANT, GENERAL, PRINCE, AND KING, with Battles, Grand Reviews of Horse and Foot, and gor geous Tableaux After which, in a more extensive and splendid Arena than ever efure witnessed, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing JIATTY'S unrivalled Collection of Animals, consisting of nu_ clean sand matchless Cream coloured Horses, An.ialusian Cnargers, I.otted Coursers, Fairy Palfreys, and •Pigmy Poneys, anti the most relented Vaulters, Riders, Gymnastics, and Contortionists in .the ieugdom. PONY RACES, eclipsing all former efforts, and a real: Monkey, the only one trained as Racing Jockey. To conclude with a Comic Drama, called THE SPRIG OF NO.. PILITY. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER TILE DIRECTION of MR..OSBADISTON. Extraordinary attraction—Scenic effects hitherto unattempted —Miss Vincent and Mr. Saville again as the Heroine and Hero of Domes tic Drama. THIS EVENING, MAY 19, • Will be presented a New Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, enti tled JANE PAUL; OR, THE VICTIM OF UNMERITED PER SECUTION —Jane Paul, Miss Vincent; Michael, Mr. E. Sa ville; Billy Brown, Mr. Gardner; Martna, Miss Coveney. Alter which, THE MILL OF BEREZINA ; OR, THE HOST AND THE DESERTER.—Count Itomanotr, Mr. E F. Saville; U tics, Mr*. Lee. 'I o conclude with THE FORTY THIEVES, with New Scenery. —Ali Baba, Mr. Gardner; Hassuac, Mr. Dale; 3,lustapha, Mr. .Paul ; Morgiatia, Miss Coy, ney. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully informed that ON MONDAY,. TUESDAY, AND THURSDAY NEXT, GRAND FESTIVALS will be celebrated, in which will be embo died all those popular Entertainments that have given to this favou rite place of recreation its peculiar celebrity, with additions and in troductions, which it is confidently anticipated will render them even more generally attractive. The MENAGERIE has been enriched by many valuable and im portant acquisitions in the classes of both Quadrupeds and Birds. The Colossal VIEW OF BOME has been repainted, and in some instances remodelled. Dia BAND will include some of the most emtneot Performers, conducted by Mr. Godfrey. The Programme of the PROMENADES MUSICALES will be selected from the noblest works ofthe great Masters. The ILLUMINATION of ST. PETER'S, the GIRANDOLA, the FLAM.NG NESSEN. GER, the METEOR of ST. PETER'S, and a Grand HYDRO PY It RH IC TABLEAU ! The Gardens are open Daily from Ten till Dusk. The Evening Fetes, with the Promenades Musicales, Illumination of St. Peter's, Girandola of St. Angelo, &c., will be given on Mondays, Thesdays, and Thursdays. Admission One Shilling. THE INDIA SUN CONTAINING A MAP AND FULL ACCOUNT OF AFFGHANISTAN AND THE THEATRE OF WAR IN INDIA, WITH ALL THE LATEST NEWS FROM INDIA AND CHINA, IS NOW READY. All Advertisements of a Disgusting Character, or Xramoral Tendency, are excluded from the Columns of "The Sun." . ,+0; • , , .6. , • o o . 4 '44 ~' • , ' , k ....: 4 51 6 ii, 416,,> *"I 11 , 1 m... "'4A. '7, T V,..40. -7)s• s , 1-• b -- ‘411 F ' ' il 0 - 4 i1,17'- , ` - c , ro , -- a b , ...."4 ~ :. ~.,071 0 4-. •, r ~,-' ', ' ' titg _SIM. LONDON THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 19, 1842. The question mooted by Lord Howlett, on Friday last, and which seems to have been misunderstood, as it Luis certainly been misrepresented, was, whether it be advantageous, or. otherwise, when duties are im posed on foreign commodities, for the sake of a re venue, to subject similar commodities, the production of our colonies, to a less import duty? Lord HOWICK broadly maintained that it is not advantageous ; and, therefore, he objected to establishing, by the tariff, more differential duties, in favour of our colonial pro ductions, than now exist. The Ministers maintain that it is advantageous ; and, therefore, they at first proposed, when they brought forward their tariff, a whole series of such diminished duties. They con tinue several of them by their amended tariff, and they:. resisted Lord Howicx's motion, which was thus worded : " That in making a new arrangement of the Customs' duties, it is not expedient to impose different rates of dutyNipon the same articles when imported from foreign countries or from British possessions, in any case where no such difference now exists ; and that in those cases in which such a difference already exists, it is not expe dient that that it should be increased." The Ministers affirmed, then, that it is expedient to impose different, meaning lower duties, on colonial articles ; and they perwadecl the House of Commons, which, more foolish than sheep, runs into danger whithlersoover its bell-nether leads, to affirm that ex pediency by a large majority. The Tories in Parliament, and the Tories out of Parliament, roar out in chorus—" You would treat the colonies as foreign countries, we would treat them as integral parts of the empire; and the lower and more numerous we can make such discriminating duties, the more we approximate the colonies to ourselves, an d t h e more we make their trade with the mother country 0 , home trade, a trade completely under our control, and the more we proniote the welfare of both States." If that be the true principle, why do they not apply it to the mother country itself? If it be good to encourage the growth of tobacco in the Wrest and East Indies, by a discriminating duty, it must be also good to encourage the growth of tobacco at home by similar discriminating duties. But what has the Le gi,ilature done ? It has absolutely prohibited the growth of tobacco in Ireland, and passed a law to root it out. The very same fact is true of sugar. A man wished to manufacture sugar in Ireland, and put the duty paid on foreign sugar into his pocket ; the Legislature forbad him. But while it is so cruel to our own people—while it will not allow them to produce an article which they might produce at the price of that article in the market as raised her the duty, if they had not to pay the duty on it which is imposed on the foreigner, —it permits the colonists, nay, it invites the .colonists , to put a p art o f all such duties into their pockets, at the expense of the duty , paying people of England. In fact, and unhappily, - o a r people have submitted with such unexampled pa tience to the continued extortions of the tax-gatherer, that the Tories have no conception that they commit any wrong, however much they may fleece them, to promote any idle scheme which that " insidious and crafty animal," as Dr. SMITH says, a statesman," may take into his head. The instances of tobacco, and of sugar, set in a clear light the principle on which the Legislature acts. It imposes the duty on foreign commodities for the sake of a revenue, thereby it raises the price of those commodities in the market, and it will not permit its own subjects in England and Ireland, who can grow or manufactur.e those commodities, to bring a grain of them into the market without paying an equal duty with the foreigner. Why, then, should the colonists even if we consider them to be on the same footing as the English and Irish , not , like them, pay the same duties ? Is there any reason why they should be allowed to diminish the public revenue, by bring ing their commodities into our market at a less rate of duty than foreigners ? The practice, un doubtedly, has been to act on the Tory principle ; and coffee, sugar, and timber, each of which extracts large sums from the consumer here, which never reach the public Treasury, are exafnples of the pernicious effects of so acting. The Tories admit, in all these cases, that they have acted erroneously, and they only abstain from applying the same principle, of re ducing discriminating duty, to sugar, as they now pro pose to apply to timber, by considerations extrinsic from those of revenue and the encouragement of pro duction. The objection to all such duties is, that they tax the consumer to the full amount of the discriminating duty, in order to encourage tke trade of the colony. If the Legislature be bound to promote that, it is equally bound to pro Mote the welfare of the people at home ; and every farthing it gives to the colonies by such discriminating duties, it takes from the pockets of our own people. If cheese imported from Canada, and cheese imported from Holland, be of equal goodness, the cheese will fetch the same price in the market. The consumer will give 60s. a cwt., whether he buy Canadian or Dutch cheese ; but the latter, according to Sir R. PEEL'S tariff, will have to pay 10s. 6d. to the revenue, while the former will have to pay only 2s. The tax, as long as we consume any Dutch cheese, raises the price of all cheese sold in the market 10s. a cwt., and the consumer will consequently have to pay Bs. a cwt. on all colonial cheese which only pays 2s. duty. That Bs. will go into the pockets of the Canadian cheese maker, and to that extent he is benefited at the expense of the English consumer. It becomes a bounty on the manufacture of cheese in the colony. What is true of the discriminating duty on cheese is true of every discriminating duty. It arti ficially directs labour into that channel which is not naturally the most profitable, otherwise it would flow thither of its own accord. The system of discriminating or differential duties, is only the old system of bounties in disguise. Govern ment undertakes to promote particular production, and direct farmers in the *colonies how they shall employ their capital. Bounties, however, come from the pockets of the tax-payers ; Government has no funds of its own. It unjustly takes something from some of its subjects, partially and favourably to give to others. The Ministers who at this time act on that system have not yet learned the A B,C of that great social science—the production and distribution of wealth, on which, above all other sciences, depends the well-being of the community. At the same time, it must be admitted, that those who tax the consumer to give a bounty on the pro duction of wheat at home, only follow out their own principle, when they tax the producer of wheat in Eng land, to give a bounty on the production of cheese in Canada. Their whole system is based on taxing each class in turn for the benefit of some other class, and making all believe, when they have taxed all, that all are benefited. Such a system requires a perpetual re adjustment of the tariff, such as Sir It. PEEL is now about to try his hand at; and it would be prefer able gradually to alter it, on the principle laid down by Lord HowicK, and allow the prices of all com modities, and the profits of every trade, to be wholly and entirely regulated—abolishing all discriminating duties—by the " higgling of the market." " vulgarly called \\*%, COURT CIRCULAR. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yesterday. The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace, yes terday evening, included the Marquis of Exeter, Mr. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, and Captain Francis Seymour (Scots Fusilier Guards). The band of the Coldstream Guards was in attendance during dinner. The Archbishop of York, the director for the evening of the Concert of Ancient Music, gave a dinner last evening, at his residence in Grosvenor-square, to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper, and their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridg e, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Lady Somerset, and a select party. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived in town yesterday afternoon, from the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta So merset and Major Stephens, honoured Lady Antrobus with their company on Tuesday evening, at the ball given by her Ladyship, at her residence in Piccadilly. M. Tricoupi, the Grecian Minister, had an interview with the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Sir Robert Peel arrived at his residence in Whitehall Gardens yesterday afternoon. The Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council had a meeting yesterday in the Colwell Cham ber. The Lords present were—Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, the Vice-Chancellor Wigram, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. After disposing of a motion from Bombay, " Ram dass v. Dairdass;' and petitions from Gibraltar, "Hughes v. Porral ;" and from Trinidad (to dismiss), " Jackson v. Protheroe," their Lordships commenced the hearing of an appeal from the Prerogative Court, " Chambers ~ Wood?' Mr. Thesiger, Queen's Counsel, and Dr. Addams, were heard for the appellant, and the Queen's Advocate for the respondent. The case was then adjourned until this (Thursday) morning, when it is expected the So licitor-General will be heard. Wiiiitount.—THE TARIFF.—A public meeting, called by the Mayor, was held on Friday last , to take nto consideration the propriety of petitioning Parlia ment against the proposed introduction of foreign stone into this country. We understand that the proceeds alone, with the quarrying anti shipment of stone, amounts to 30,0001, per annum, expended in Portland ; conse, quently should the proposed alteration be carried into effect, it would be ruinous to the island. The ship owners of the port of Weymouth are also deeply inte rested in the protection of this trade, which is not only of local, but of national consequence, as tending to sup port our coasting trade, from which the Royal Navy is supplied with efficient sailors. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Berry, Mr. Pearse, and Mr. White, left Portland 1 on Tuesday week, for town, in order to lay the case before the members of the Government. William Eliot, Esq., banker, has also proceeded to London, on behalf of the shipowners and others. We trust the exertions making will lead to such an alteration in the tariff as will afford ample protection to the Portland trade. — Somerset County Gazette. . -- Theillemorial Bordelais gives an account of another severe loss sustained by the fishermen of Teste. On 'the sth inst. they went out as usual, and laid their nets for the night; but a storm came on, and prevailed with such force till the 12th, that they were unable to leave the shore in the interval. When they were able to go to take their nets up, they were found to have been en tirely destroyed by the tempest, insomuch that many of them have been obliged to give up their beats, and, with their families, are entirely ruined. One of the chief London houses in the corn trade, in a circular addressed to its friends last week, states, that holders of bonded wheat, by refraining from pay ing duty until the latter end of June, may rely upon ob taining a profit for their money of no less than two per cent. per week! INTREPID CONDUCT OF A SAILOR.—On Tuesday afternoon, about half-past two o'clock. a woman named Dodds, living in the neighbourhood of Ratcliffe-high way, in a fit of despair and heated by liquor, threw her self over the swing-bridge in Old Gravel-lane, Wapping. A l arg e c ro w d of persons very soon c lr • llected, but from the quantity of shipping and the height of the bridge from the surface of the water, no one could render her the least assist ance. She was sinkint, for the third time, and in an almost lifeless stat e , when the alarm attracted the atten tion of a Scotch seaman, named Archibald Macdonald, belonging to the Robert of London, who instantly jumped from the ship's side, and atter many efforts succeeded in rescuing the female. She was all but dead upon her being brought on shore. So pleased were • the s pectators with the gpaelnlacnet, sixpences, tend ofd Macdonaldshillings, f t o h r at h isthebyenseufibts.eribed their PILILADELPHIA, APRIL 29, 1842.—D ISCHARGE OF NICUOLA s BIDDLE AND OTHERS.--The opinion of the majority of the Court of General Sessions (Burton and Conrad), was this morning read in the case of Nicholas Biddle, Joseph Cowperthvvaite, and John Andrews, in dicted for conspiracy to defraud the stockholders of the United States Bank. Both these Judges agree that there has not been sufficient cause shown to send the defend hats before a jury for trial, on the merits of the accusation ,—they were, therefore discharged. Thus ends all this muter —in smoke. Øn Friday morning were deposited a nd arr anged .iiththeminutest care, in one of the rooms belonging to the registry of the tribunal at Versailles, a great number of articles taken from the ashes of the late fire, such as gold, silver, and copper money, watches, spec i taeles, rings, brooches, gloves, handkerchiefs, shawls, umbrellas, parasols, canes,_ &c. Many are in a state ' of fusion, others are blackened by the fire, and other ' wise much damaged. % THE-SUN, LONDON; TRUASDAY EIVENIG, MAY t 9, 1642. gave birth to a child in our travelling carriage, in whici i she had taken . refuge. Many women were takeii the same way in the open fields. The dying breathed their last sigh in the streets and highways. Words cannot tell the Miseries we have witnessed. At present we only think of doing all the good we can—of saving and cherishing; but the lower orders now think they may do what they like. They take possession of all the houses that have escaped; they. transport thither the goods they have saved ; and establish their shops in them. In this manner our house has became the dwelling of a tailor and his family ; but that is not all. The master of an .oyster cellar, finding the situation a favourable one, has brought thither all his merchandise also. Do not think I have exaggerated the miseries I have spoken of; no pen or words can even depict the reality. I shall write again next post, that you may know how we go on. Fot to-day, adieu. Kindest love and remembrance from us all." TURKEY. MEVLOOD, OR PROPIIETS BIRTH-PAY. CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 27.—Although this cere mony is closely connected with the first source of Mussulman belief, it may be regarded rather as a civil court pageantry than as a general religious fes tival. With the exception of its being one of the three days upon which the Sultan annually proceeds in state to the Mosque of Achmet, and of salutes being fired at the hours of prayer, it is not distin guished by any public signs of devotion or respect. Business is not suspended, shops are not closed, work is performed as usual ; no special prayers are offered up during the day at the ordinary mosques, and it is not regarded as a holiday by the common people, as is the case at Beiram. The preceding night is, h ow ever, included among the seven holy nights dedicated to the great mysteries .of Islam, during which the mosques are illuminated within and with , out, and the faithful, summoned by the shouts of the Muezims, crowd to the temples after dark to perform their devotions in lieu of saying the prescribed night prayer in their houses or elsewhere. Attendance at the mosque is not enjoined by the canonical code, but I orthodox Mussulmans hold it to be more meritorious to maintain the observance. Y Upon this night, called Leily ul Mevloody, as upon the other six mystic nights, it is also considered ;praiseworthy to abstain from all sensual gratifications. Thus few true be lievers, not excepting the Sultan, pass the threshold of their harems from sunset until dawn. Indeed, it is a received opinion that all children born in conse quence of the transgression, will come into the world as blind as bats, and go out of it as humpbacked as camels, and be subjected, moreover, to leprosy, rickets, and divers other bodily afflictions. Nearly a thousand years elapsed after Mahomet's birth (A.D. 596), without either caliph or sultan having thought proper to institute any peculiar pa geant or outward ceremony to commemorate the an niversary. No inquisition or allusions to that effect are to be found in the Koran or sacred writings. Thence, perhaps, the omissions In fact, many ultra rigid Musselmans consider the practice not only as a work of supererogation, but as mundane and unor thodox. It was not until the year 1558, that is 133 yearS after the conquest of Constantinople, and in. the 99Gth year of the Hegira, that Sultan Mourad 111. first ordained the celebration of special prayers in all the imperial mosques, and a public ,mperial procession in order to record and do ho nour to the Prophet's nativity. This event, so preg nant with important religions and political changes, took place on the 12th of the month Rebi-ui-evei, corresponding this year with. the 23d of April. The day is thence called Mevlood (the nativity). Thence also the hymn in Turkish verse composed by a devout sheik in Sultan Mourad's time, and directed to be chaunted in the privileged-mosques, is termed Mev loodich, or song of nativity., . • This hymn is far inferior, however, in beauty and solemnity, to the celebrated Borda, or Arabic " poem of the mantle " written in praise of the Almighty and of the Prophet's immortal glory, by one of his disciples, Kish Ibna Shoeir. The Borda was thus designated because Mahomet rewarded the author by bestowing and placiiig upon his shoulder a coarse camlet cloak long worn by himself: This cloak, called Bourdeh Sherif was, it is asserted, preserved by the descendants of Dm Shoeir, until, it was pur chased for an immense sum by one of the early Caliphs, and - eventually passed into the possession of the Ottoman dynasty, by whom it was removed from Cairo to Constantinople. It is now preserved with rigid care and veneration in an apartment or chapel of the great 'seraglio called the " member of the holy month " among other precious relics of the Prophet, such as the holy banner (sandjiak sheriff), one of the four teeth lost by Mahomet at the battle of Bedr, a portion of his beard, and the impression of hit foot upon a stone. Thse relics are forbidden to be exhibited to unbelievers'lvjKt obtain firmans to visit the great seraglio. They are only disclosed to the Sultan and grand functionaries of the empire upon the 15th day of Ramazan, and this with exceed :ng caution and ceremony. , - It is the Kislar Aghassi also, in the character of Inspector or 'Treasurer-General of the Holy Cities (liaremain 'ush sheryfain Naziry), who is deputed to deliver into the !Sultan's hands the reply of the Sherif of Mecca to the complimentary letter annually addressed to the latter by his Imperial Majesty. This letter is entrusted to the chief conductor (Surreh Emini) of the caravan of pilgrims, who invariably leaves Constantinople upon the 12th of Regieb, and conveys the Sultan's presents to the holy cities. The time usually required for the pilgrimage is about six months, but as delays and accidents frequently occur, the Sherif's answer is forwarded from Damascus by a special messenger, called:Mouhedshi Bashi (Harbinger of Peace), who is required to reach Constantinople in time for the ceremony of the Mevlood, that is within seven lunar months from the day of the caravan's de parture from .Stamboul. As the Mussulman day commences with sun-set, its last rays had scarcely disappeared behind the heights of Daoud Pacha, now crowned with thegreen tents of the numerous battalions encamped around the barracks, ere a salute from all the ships and batteries announced night. . Shortly, also, the clusters entwine the circular galleries of the approaching of lampsthhatoly the minarets on both sides of the harbour and Bos phorus, were gradually lighted, and sparkled like groups of stars in the darkness ; the imperial mosques of St. Sofia, Achmet, Mahomet, Soliman, Osman, the Princes, the Sultan Mother, and others, being distinguished from the rest not only by their command ing position, but by their double and treple illumi nated galleries, whence the Muezim chant forth the call to prayer. The front of the Imperial Cannon ?sate, at Seraglio point, those of the Arsenal and Custom-house, those of Sultana's and Pacha's pa aces,' and of all . public buildings, being likewise adorned with illuminated festoons and devices, sur rounded with transparencies, formed a scattered but pleasing spectacle, when seen.from the water, or from the summit of the adjacent .eminences. During the Beiram and Ramazan, it is customary to connect the minaret . galleries of the imperial mosques with fes toons .of lamps suspended to ropes, which, from their anging in the shape of half-moons, the points up wards, are called Mahizeh ( moon Crescents), but this extraordinary illumination is omitted at Alevlood. The dawn of the festival was ushered in with sa lutes similar to those that announced the close of the previous day. Then all was hustle and movement throughout the vast city find its suburbs. The bums and trumpets of the immense garrison and nu merous fleet, mingling with the' voices of the 3luezems, ;ummoned the soldiers to arms and the pious to their de votions. Kaiks - belonging to Ptichas and public pe - sons, and heavier boats laden . with troops of all arms, ;lided across the harbour and Bosphorus from Scutari ind other adjacent villages. Led horses, clothed with rich housings thronged the streets, and the popu lation, especially the female portion, thronged to wards the points through which the procession usually passes on its way from the Imperial Seraglio gate, near. St. Sofia, to the square of the Al Maidan. This augmented by the double line of guards , fornnowedd, u >led a sea of heads, and the port io n s allotted to, or cp on either side of the narr ow streets, resem taken poSsession of by, the women might be com ?ared to the white foam upon the waters, from the waving to and fro of their snow-white veils. Right ;gravely do these ladies cause themselves and their places to be respected. Woe to the individual, Mos lem:heir pla ces , or Ghi aour their attempts to encroach upon even hands are no t wanting ight. Tongues and there to punish offende rs. or impede their ' s This was exemplied, in one instance, by two or three elderly dames unmercifully buffetting some marine soldiers, who attempted to force a passage through their party, and in another by a Frank gentleman and his wife receiving most unpleasant hints of noli me tangere from some younger ladies: Both had the satisfaction to " eat" a most indigestible dose of thumps and pinches rbr a similar offence. In London, they would most probably have met with harsher treatment than this, and with the loss of watch and purse as a compensa tion. But these samples of female rigour were not limited to intruders. In a corner near the Al Maidan a feud arose between two ladies of " colour," sturdy damsels, whose white yashmaks formed a striking contrast to the jet black cheeks and noses that peered through their folds. After causing each other to de, your an abundance of filth, they threw off their feridjee (mantles), 3/24 fell to work with their hands, after such a fashion as would hay,c clone honour to the great Mendoza. The combat of tlese two black tigress seemed to afford so much amusement to the spectators ofboth sexes, that no one interfered ; until at last a kavass ( po li ce . sf argeasit) stepped forward and interposed an olive branch un4er tie shape of a bots falo s hide, courbash. This he alministe, rgsl Risen their shoulders in the most unsparing manner, and at length succeeded in producing a truce. At Beiram it is customary for the Sultan to pro ceed to the mosque' in time for first- or drawn prayer, but the festival of the Mevlood being of human and not .of divine institution, regular pryers ilre not per- formed.,. The propitious moment for the ceremony !, senger and first Chamberlain silently step forward, and is selected between the morning and mid-day prayers. proceed with the Reis Effendi to the seat of the Kislar the one said to have been first practised by Adam, and Aghassi. The latter then takes the letter from the hands the other by Abraham. The Sultan therefore quitted of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and ascending the his palace of Beshiktash, after performing hi s devo ,tairs of the Sultan's gallery, presents it to the Sovereign, tions privately, and then proceeded in cogn it o i n his who breaks the seal, and reads the contents. Having small fourteen oared haik to the gate a t Seraglio p o i nt , done so, his Imperial Majesty returns it to the Kislar whence he ascended to the hall of audience. Here his Aghassi, who re-delivers- it to the Reis Effendi, by imperial Majesty held a levee, to which were admitted whom it is placed in the archives of his department, the vizier, moufti, grand dignitaries of state, and all or rather in that of the State Paper-office. At this persons entitled to the privileges of the rikhiah, kissing moment dresses of h onour, or equ i va l en t p resen t s of hands, or more properly speaking, slippers, the same great value, are given by the Sultan to the Chief of honour being paid to the Sultan's foot by Moslems, as the Eunuchs, who, in his turn, present similar gifts to to that of his Holiness at Rome by Catholics. Each the bearer of the letter, to the singers of the Mevloo individual having made his obeisance in the prescribed dick, to the Reis Effendi, and other persons who as form, by doing homage on both knees, and touching the sisted in bearing the letter to the foot of the Royal imperial slipper with his forehead, they withdrew, and gallery. This being done, and the Mevloodich being mounting their horses, left in the outer court, placed terminated, the whole assembly resume their seats, themselves in their proper places in the procession. and following the voice of one of the Imams, recite a Those of inferior rank in front, and those of higher short prayer with which the church ceremony closes. grade nearest the Imperial person, which is alway im- The whole of the vast multitude then retire in si mediately preceded by the Vizir, Sheik-ui-Islam, and lence, and resume their places in the procession. The capitan pacha, and followed by the master of the horse Sultan, when all are mounted, descends from his and kislar aghassi. The grand marshal Reza Pacha, gallery, and in a short time the gorgeous cavalcade having announced that all was prepared, the. Sultan returns to the seraglio nearly in the same order as descended inio the first court, and being assisted to that pointed cut for its passage to the Mosque mount his charger by the master of the horse, the bands struck up the Imperial march, composed for the late Sultan by the s brother of the celebrated Donizetti, who is director of the Padischah's music. The pro cession then commenced to file through the different courts, and thence under the great gate of the old Seraglio, contiguous to Santa Sofia. The procession of the Mevlood differs in so few respects from that of the Beiram, that a repetition would be superfluous. It is necessary to observe, however, that according to the injunctions of Sultan Mourad, the founder, it was directed that the dresses worn by all persons should be less brilliant than those exhibited at Beiram. Consequently, although the Pachas and others appeared in their full dress coats, and with trappings and housings not to be surpassed in splendour, the attire of the Sultan was less gor geous than that worn by him at Beiram. Thus, in lieu of a Dolman braided with diamonds his Imperial Majesty wore a blue and military coat, richly em broidered with gold sprigs. But the same invaluable Nishan Was suspended from his neck—diamonds of equal lustre adorned the collar of the Imperial mantle, and the housings of his dark bay horse were equally resplendent with pearls and precious gems. The Sultan appeared to be in good health, and the lustre of his dark full eye was no less piercing than upon the last occasion, when he attracted the admiration of his female subjects and the pride of the male population. It is not considered etiquette for the Sovereign to bow or return salutes. The only permitted mode of re cognition, and this generally towards Franks, is by gazing at them as he passes, and keeping his eyes fixed upon their faces, without turning his own head. This produces a very singular effect, and is not easily fdrgotten by those who have encountered this gaze— full, piercing., and commanding, yet gentle and com placent in the extreme. We will pass over the procession, therefore, which only differed from that of Beiram in the above respect, and from the royal escort being composed of infantry and cavalry, and proceed to the mosque, where the ceremonies appointed for the day are of a mixed civil and religious character. Upon reaching the gate leading into the square enclosed court opposite the grand entrance, all present dismount, and entering, take the places assigned to them by the master of the ceremonies, under the superintendence of the kislar aghassi, whose place is upon a raised cushion near the small stair whio conduct to the Sultan's gallery. The positions occupied by some of the higher func tionaries is nearly as follows :—ln front of the altar or niche in the wall, showing the direction of Mecca, are two elevated stools or cushions for the Grand Vizier and Sheik-ul-Islam ; and to the right of these are other cuhsions somewhat further hack, for the Capitan Pacha, Minister of Finance, and Seraskier, who sit in the place formerly occupied by the Agha of the Jannisaries. Behind the Minister of Finance, and directly under the Sultan's gallery, are seated the whole body of scribes and principal civil clerks, named " khodjakean," each placed from left to right, accord ing to his rank, upon small praying carpets called thramler. On the opposite or left side of the Sheik ul-Islam, carpets are also spread for the ullemahs of the first rank ; such, for instance, as the hekim Bashi (chief physician), the kade esker (grand judges) of Roumelia and Anatolia, the Stamboul effendessi (mayor of Constantinople), the chief magistrates of Galata and Tophana, and some others. This first line is continued immediately under the pulpit of the' preachers, privileged to recite certain prayers in the Sebath. Behind this line runs that of the several class of ullemahs. Behind these, again, are placed the teachers of colleges and lawyers of different grades, all designated by the title of muderiss. Between the first and second lines of ullemahs, opposite the imperial gallery, carpets are placed for the reis effendi and sera mushir (marshal of the palace) ; and to the right of these are also seated the members of the grand council of state, amongst whom are the Sultan's two brothers-in-law ' Halil and Felch Achmet Paella, both destined, ere long, most pro bably, to rise to higher functions. The former is re markable for his handsome features, a gift of nature, for which he was indebted to the favours showered upon him by Sultan Mahmoud, and his consequent elevation from a common Circassian slave, to be the husband of the Sultan's beautiful daughter, Saleheh Sultana. • Upon this occasion the chief of the emirs, or Pro phet's kin, 'and who is one of the highest ullemahs, receives distinguished honours. He is seated upon a green cushion of state, under a species of green canopy, close to the pulpit of the sheiks, or first preachers, the deans of the cathedral. He is attired in his green caftan and head shawl, and is guarded by a body of Cavass, all Prophet's kin, and likewise distinguished by green ornaments and shawls twisted round their fez. It would occupy too much space to describe the remainder of the immense number of civil, military, and ecclesiastical persons who fill the body of this vast edifice, and who are divided from the multitude of spectators by two lines of Hademeh (body guards) and by the Tchaoush (sergeants) of the Imperial police. Before the Sultan reaches the mosque each person is seated ; therefore, immediately upon his Imperial Majesty ascending the private back stairs conducting to his gallery, the lattices are thrown open, and the whole assembly rise. The Grand Vizier and Sheik-ul- Islam step forward and bow to the Sovereign. The whole assembly make a similar obeisance, and the lattices being again closed, all re-seat themselves, and the ceremony commences. This consists, firstly, of an oration or eulogium of the Prophet, divided into three parts. The first portion upon this occasion was delivered from the pulpit called Kursee, by the Sheik of St. Sofia, who takes precedence of all others, and may he considered as the (metropolitan ; the second was recited by the Sheik of Achmet, and the third by the Sheik of Nouri Osmanich (the light of Os mar), whose turn it was to perform this duty. In the middle of this portion of this panegyrical dis course, and not between the intervals, the two senior Capidgi Basshi (Chamberlains of the Household) pre sent to the Sultan a vase and ewer filled with rose water, which the one pours over his hands, whilst other offers a richly embroidered towel, and then the two other chamberlains wave before him cassolets of silver filled also with burning aloe wood. At the same time a number of tchokadar basshi (grooms of the chamber) step forward with similar ewers and cassolets, and offer rose water and perfumes to the Vizier, and all the ullemahs sand dignitaries. When each sheik has terminated his portion of the eulogium, he descends from the Kursee, and is met by officers (eunuchs) attached to the siklar aghassi, who com pliment him, and present him with a pelisse of honour lined with rich furs, and a purse of gold. This being ended, the muezims of the mosque, who occupy the lofty gallery allotted to them on the southern side of the great dome, chaunt forth a hymn of praise to the prophet. When they have finished, a body of other singers, stationed in a species of move able pulpit, recite in chorus the psalms or prayers selected for the occasion ; and this being ended, the Mevlood-Khananbir ascend this pulpit and recite the Mevloodich. In the midst of this the Hademeh, who perform the duties of the ancient battle-axe guard at tired in their green and gold uniforms and state caps, surmounted with immense plumes, set aside their axes and advance with a number of trays, some covered with a variety of sweetmeats and preserves of the rarest kinds in baskets and chrystal vases, and others laden with bowls of the finest sherbets in sea son. Two of these trays are then placed before each of the grand dignitaries and first rank of ullemahs. These trays are afterwards carried with their contents by the servants of the Mosque to the respective abodes of those to whom they are presented. Similar trays of exquisite form and immense size are likewise offered by the ldslar aghassi to the Sultan, :to whom they are presented by the first officer of the:seraglio. The latter are then conveyed to the palace, and are destined to be distributed to the seven kadins (or wives), or to such favourites as the Sultan may choose to dis tinguish. Those gifts are said to excite nearly as much jealousy and satisfaction as the portions of lamb or mutton distributed at Beiram. It is during the chaunting of the Mevloodich, at the moment when the Prophet name is first pronounced, that the " Harbinger of Peace," who holds himself in readiness near the foot of the imperial gallery, steps forward with the Scherirs letter, which he holds up in its - embroidered green cover above his head. At this signal the whole assembly arise in silence—not a breath is heard but the deep-toned voice of the offi ciating Mevlood lihanan. _l'he first secretary of the G ra m Vieier then advances towards the hearer of the letter, and beckons him to approach. The latter obeys, and passing to the side of the Vizier, delivers his all precious charge into his hands, which the Vizier re spectfully receives, and then hands it over to the Reis Effendi. A pause then ensues, during which the Grand Marshal and Master of Ceremonies, the Mes- CRITICAL RETROSPECT of the MASQUE. Congratulatory introduction to Her Majesty's Birth-day braving-room, with a, complete List of the Company—the Duke of Devonshire—the Royal Visit—the Horticultural Fete —the Duke of Wellington's Ball—the approaching Epsom Races, &c. &c. The only Exclusive and Correct Particulars of the above, and all events connected with the Fashionable World, will be found in the COURT JOURNAL of SATtrit• DAY NEXT, May 21. The -eaf e r forwarded by all Booksellers and Newsmen postage free. W. THOMAS, Publisher, 19, Catherine-street, Strand. NEW NOVEL BY MRS. GORE. Just ready; is 3 vols. post Bve., 911: IIE AMBASSADOR'S WIFE. 11 By the Author of " The Dowager," " Mothers and Daughters," &c. 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THE LATE .ANZURGH. ._......,---- The following letter from a young lady in Ham burgh to her parents in this country, gives a most vivid picture of the dreadful scenes that accompanied and followed the late conflagration : " Hamburgh, May 9, 184'2. " I know not, my dearest mother, -whether my few . hurried ,ill-written lines of Friday last, penned in the midst of the most terrible anguish and trouble, and confided to the care of a passer-by, who was going to Altona, have ever reached you. At all events, before you receive this, you will have heard of what a dreadful misfortune, and of what a heart rending spectacle this poor city has been the theatre and the prey. Before continuing, however, or rather commencing, my sad recital, I must hasten to assure my dear papa that his houses, in the Neuer Jungfern stieg, have remained untouched ; for though I know i they are insured, this news will certainly be agree ! able to him, after hearing of the disasters which have reigned here—l may say, which still reign, and will for a long time. Oi. Thursday morning, Ascension Day, the sth inst., my sister, her husband, and I, walked ti the French church. Frederick, on taking away the breakfast, told us that since eight or nine o'clock ti terrible fire had been raging in the Deich Strasse. Papa, who knows the distance between the Neuer Jungfernstieg and the Deich Strasse, will agree that we had no cause for alarm. In coming out of church. the servant said to Madame Parish (who you are aware lives in the country, and had come thence this morning direct) that she could not go to her town house in the carriage ; that twenty-two houses had been totally burnt; that, in fact, hers was in great danger, and that the fire was becoming more and more formidable. A few hours afterwards came the news that the house of Mr. Parish was no more, and that the flames were spreading every instant. To wards four • o'clock in the afternoon, from our attic window, we witnessed the destruction of St. Nicholas's Church. It was terrible to see this beautiful build ing become the prey of .the element, which was be coming more fearful the more ground it gained. My sister and her husband were to have gone to the opera in the evening, but it was announced that, in consequence of the calamity, there would be no per formance. The spectacle became from hour to hour more shocking. The whole city now began to show the most lively alarm. The bells, the firing of can non, the cries and confusion in the streets, all pre saged a night of anguish and terror. Our apprehen sions, alas! were but too faithfully realised. It was not, however, till night had spread her sad wings over the scene that we could perceive the whole extent of the destruction which menaced the whole city. The heavens became as red as blood—the devouring flames, increased more and more by an impetuous wind, rose to a gigantic height. At seven o'clock Madame came to us in a wretched state. She told us that her sisters at Holzdamm (who were further from the fire than we, - the flames having taken the direction of Dreck Wall and Pleichen) had sent all their valuables to her, so great was the fear they were in. We could hardly avoid smiling ; for we thought it incredible that the fire could possibly reach Holz denim. At ten Madame went home, and my sis ter retired to bed towards eleven, but afterwards we received a visit from some gentleman, who came to say that some serious measures were about to be taken, by blowing up some houses which were likely to - cause the fire to spread further. At half-past twelve I went to bed myself ; but the noise of the explosions, the rumbling of the carriages and carts, the cries, the large flakes of fire which every instant were driven impetuouslY by the wind across my win ' dows, threatening to set fire to our house, the exces sive light of the conflagration the whistling of the wind, and, as you will easily think, the idea that the lives of persons in .whons we are interested, were in continual danger, not to. mention the conviction of the num berless misfortunes that were happening, pre vented all sleep. The windows trembled with the.re doubled concussiong• of the explosions, and the whole house seemed as if it would be annihilated. In such a state I could not .. close an eye ; ' visions and dreams, but above -all, still sadder realities, presented themselves to my imagination, continually. Before three o'clock had struck, I found myself again with my sister, who, like me, had been kept awake by the dreadful noise caused by the blowing up the Eathaus. At this moment an order of the police was announced to us to wet the roof of our house, and to cause the water to flow in the gutters. Frederick had flown to the assistance of his brothers. We were therefore alone, and mounting on the roof, scarcely dressed, were soon throwing over it pails of water, and our neighbours were doing sthe same. We prepared ourselves for the worsts—threw on our clothes—the sionfusion increased—we could not remain. We Packed up in sheets andin boxes some of our effects. With the appearance of day our fears increased. It was a spe'ctacle as sublime as it was fearful, to view the sun, clear and brilliant, rising in all its. splendour over the Lombards'-bridge, and on the city side to see nothingsbut a single mass of flames. II was not, however, a moment for contemplation, but for action ; for the worst was to come. We called for the coachman to carry away the things we had packed; but . how ridiculous to think we had any longer servants at our disposal. The city, or the passengers, had become masters of . the coachmen, of my brother in-law and his mother, and not a man was to be got to carry away our effects for love or money ; our horses were harnessed to the fire-engines, and the greatest confusion prevailed.. . Now succeeded hours which 1 cannot describe to you. The old Jungfernstieg began to be endangered. The Alster, before our windows was covered with barges full of burning fur niture ; the old Jungfernstieg heaped also with goods on fire. On the promenade even of the new Jung fernstieg, I do not speak too largely when I say there were thousands of cars full of furnitnre and merchan dise, and of people who were saving themselves. Two carts were burning before our house: With our own hands we helped to extinguish the flames. A woman was on fire before our eyes; fortunately I per ceived it in time to save her. The horses became unmanageable, and fell down with fright almost into the Alster. A tremendous shower of ashes and of flakes of fire nearly suffocated us, and obstructed our sight. The wind blew with great' violence, and the dust was frightful. The fire had now gained St. Peter's. The people . thought the Day of Judgment was come. They wee, they screamed, they knew not what to do at the sight of so much misery. The horses, without drivers, were dragging the carts about in disorder over the Esplanade. Soldiers escorted from the city the dead and the dying, and prisoners who had been plundering. At last, after the greatest efforts, we obtained carts, and horses to transport our goods, but the exhausted :horses, as well as men, re fused to work. With bread in our hands we oursevesled them. Whole fainilies fell down and fainted before our doors. Along all the walls and out of the Dainthor, and other . gates, nothing was to be seen but one spectacle of misery—a camp of unfortunates in bi vouac,,-groaning, exhausted, famishing. I saw some who had become deranged ; mothers with infants at breasts which had-.no nourishment for them. Fan teuilles of gold and satin adorned the ramparts, and the poor exhausted firemen were reposing on them. An Englishman, Air. Skinner, who acted as chief en gineer' came into Madame 's house, whither we had retired on Friday evening ; he had eaten nothing for nearly forty hours, and devoured what we were able able to give him, for provisions were be ginning to be scarce, and 'we knew not where to pro cure more. He told us that if the wind should not change in a few hours the Jungfemstieg and the Es planade would_ be swallowed up by the fire, and that the whole city was ininiminent danger, for that half the people were intoxicated. The Club-house would have been blown up if the wind had not changed. My brother-in-law would not quit his house till the last moment. We were on : the Esplanade ; Madame and her sisters had . gone to her country house. Our house was nearly -empty ; we had ourselves stripped it of everything that was most valuable, and carried whatever we could carry. How we had the strength to do it I know,pot. Our women servants worked like horses ; but since some hours we have not been permitted to remain at the Jungfernstieg. Although, the direction of the wind having changed, the flames and the gunpowder have spared the club house, they have revenged themselves on the p oor Holzdamm,_ the fire continuing to rage with vehe mence, and the city . becoming more and more in revolt. One family has been hunted in this manner from four different places. There being no longer any certainty' of safety on the Espla nade, at ten o'clock in the evening we set off for the country, but the next morning early we returned to town. I believe Madame has at least 25 people in her house. She says the siege of Ham burgh . was nothing in comparison. The rights of property have ceased. After raging nearly 100 hours the fire stopped at the Steine Thor. Fears were en tertained for St. George. I enclose a plan of the city, with the part marked which has been destroyed. The 1 new Exchange has been saved, though surrounded by the conflagration. I cannot describe the confusion that prevails everywhere. All the gentlemen are patrolling like soldiers, for in no quarter is one in safety. The S—'s were fortunately in thecountry. Their house in town was saved by the efforts of the firemen, but has been pillaged by the mob. Almost all the furniture was saved, I have seen Madame Swartz since these terrible occurrences, and . she has ralated to me how touching it was to see the firemen exert their last efforts to save her house, saying, that, having been built by so wor . thy a man, that house at least should not be burned, for they knew and loved the good senator, and hold leis memory in great respect. Many of our friends' houses are 'destroyed — all our tradespeople burnt out. All the old Jungfernstieg is down. Streit's hotel was blown up. Poor Mr. Streit was still in the house when it was. done; he was behind a door, and has been much injured, though still living. Frederick's sister-in-law, during one of the terrible nights, la* kir •P ' 54V. ! IL$ 4AL f . - - Ito au -- ? 4 u‘ 11 gre, SUN OFFICE Thpec o' Cluch. The farmers of Buckinghamshire have recorded in silver, the golden services of their " friend," the Duke of BUCKINGHA.M.. They represent him as the peculiar patron of ploughmen, shepherds, sowers, reapers, mowers, and , inilkmaids. The arts and sciences are left by his brace to take care of them selves, or rather, he sacrifices them to the previously enumerated objects of his legislative solicitude. No merchant, artisan, or man of science, mars the rural harmony of proportion Observed in the design of the CHANDOS testimonial. It would have appeared too like a satire upon the public career of the Noble Duke, to have intermingled with the agricultural group of rubicund visages, the squalid, starved looks of the pincb 7 baied artisan, and his mi serable family, for whom sixteen hours of daily toil suffices not to provido breed. And yet the proper or naments ftr a testimonial to the Duke of BUCKING.. HAM are supplied by the. condition of the working, charity-fed poor of Paisley, Kilmarnock, Manchester, and London. Our Gracious SOVEREIGN, converting all the churches of the land into begging boxes for the relief of her starving sub ects might, supply materials for a proper trophy in honour of such class legislators, such robbers of the indUStrious classes, to bolster up landowners, as the Duke of BUCKINGHAM. The speech of the Noble Duke upon receiving the " Chandos testimonial" savours rather of the second bottle. It is too pious- for a first bumper, espe cially for a Peer. The devotion of Lords, rarely appears in after-dinner speeches without con siderable wine-warming ; and the Duke was prodigal of his benedictions and blessings. Ile boasted of his consistency as a class legislator for twenty-four years, and took credit to himself for caring for no in terests but those of agriculturists. We certainly never heard a contrary opinion of the Noble Duke, and as his son the Marquis of CHANDOS promises to walk carefully in his footsteps, we presume posterity will be called upon to extend this record of Dear bread-Buc KINGRA IVI consistency. Dr. PIIILLIMORE has addressed a second letter to Lord ASIIBURTON,. retatiV r e to the celebrated Creole case, which is now exciting such popular interest in the United States. It is a, masterly production, every way worthy the Learned Ad . vOcate's high legal reputation. Before statingDr.Pitimmioan's opinion, it may not be unnecessary briefly to recapitulate the facts of the case, which we fear are not very generally understood in this country. We canna do this better than in the words of the pamphlet before us :—A brig belonging to a subject of the United States, called the Creole,. sailed on the 27th of October 1841, with a cargo of merchandise, and one •hundred and thirty-five slaves, from the Hampton Roads for New Orleans. During the passage the slaves killed a slave-owner, who resisted. their attempts to free themselves, wounded the captain, and • compelled the rest of the crew to take the vessel into the port of Nassau, in the Island of New Providence, belonging to the British Crown. On their arrival the American Consul charged them with piracy, and demanded that a guard should take charge of theM. This was done. An inves tigation into all the circumstances of the case was made by two British Magistrates, the result of which Was, that nineteen of the persons charged were im prisoned as being connected with the murder, and .the rest -allowed to go about their business. The Consul demanded that the whole of the accused per sons should be delivered up to him; but the autho rities refusell to do so without instructions from Eng land. Such, in substance, is the Creole case, now threat ening to involve us in a war with the United States. Dr. PHILLIMORE argues it very learnedly, and with good temper. Ife proves that we cannot recognise a state of slavery, and that from time imme morial it has been a recognised principle of English and French jurisprudence, that slaves setting foot on their respective soils be come free. He cites instances of slaves set free by France belonging to other countries, who were driven by stress of weather into French ports. He contends that we have nothing to do with the municipal law of the United States, and that if the slaves now become freemen are accused of piracy they can only be tried by the Court in whose custody they now are. America may become the prosecutor if she pleases, but only British subjects can sit in judgment. The High Court of Admiralty claims unquestioned juris diction in the case of all persons charged with pi racy in a British possession, no matter against hat State or country the piracy was committed, or to what nation the pirates belong. There is very little news in the French Journals received this morning. What little there is will be found in our Foreign Summary. BO URSE-PAUIS, TUESDAY, MAY 17. First' Highest Lowe Last Prte. Pr/re Pricu l'ricr . Frer.en 5 per Cent, ll9 60 .. !11/ 85 ... 1:9 75 ... 119 '75 04 te' Cents lO7 50 .. 1 , 7 50 . 107 50 ... 107 !It 4 per Cents. ... lin in) ... 101 shl ~. 101 9A ... WI W ) per cunt. Bl 85 . 81 9:5 ... cl .45 ... 1-11 Pj Loan 3plik 31 franc: Lattitte Bank 1,0001. 814. true 1040 ...IN° .104.1 ...1C4(7 5,0001. Shares 566'1 ...5060 ~. 5060 ...5060 ielgian Bank 1811 Belgian 5 per Cents. :psnlsh Old D eferred., .11• 04 50. ......10 0 :40 :2 1. 11 5 1 7 ...1 1 , i 5 per cent,., 1840 •11,54 ... 105% ... ItrA ... 1 0, 5 i p eferred. ..... 0 5 1 1% 85 ...... 1 •.;:1 7 t ...... :2.1,7)4,585 85... V. '2.1• ? 1 / 4, 4ermlits. ... R0 , 1an.,.....„„ ..... ~, , 1 ,04 .. .4 1 ,1 3 „. t 414% ~, ,iI A , •-•.. iiA/1..W i• .. s r.t.et ,1,' , .. YetSailieS, It. 1. - ... a 2l) ... S2O ... 821 LB l7O . ... 110 ... 18j ...165 Roocin 552. Tirleaps Saasburg to Bale 235 _5O ... Lsi 5n Sill 30 233 50 ... MISCELLANEOUS ESTIMATES.— Estimates of t he charges for defraying the Civil Establishments in the . Colonies for 1842, have been laid before the House of Commons, and show a decrease, as conipared with 1840, of 70,6881. The. total amount in 1840, Was 258,934/. ; in 1841, 243,522/, ; and for 1842, 1884 248 ' The following are the principal estimates for the cur rent year :—Bermudas, 8,188/. ; Sierra Leo ne ! Gambia, and the Gold Coast, 10,680/. ; W e ster'? Australia, 7,0991.; Clergy (in North America and New .Zealand), 12,340/. ; Indian Department , Ca nada, 18,895/. ; Governors, and others, West In' dies, 18,6671..; Justices in West Indies, 3laur itilS and the Cape, 52,8201. Negro education, 24,00 1' St. Helena, 11,50 W. The Expedition to the Nigeria 1840, cost 61,2631., and in 1841, 39,974/. There is no estimate for this year, and consequently the great er production of the saving arises from that eircudrs stance. The estimate for Port Essington,.,,, J 3 1,0341., and for the Falkland Islands, 2 1' , The miscellaneous charges for Scotland, including ' s expenses, grants to Universities and other char formerly defrayed from the hereditary re venues, an not provided for on her Majesty's civil list, nor on the consolidated fund are estimated at 75,854/., of wh ieh j sum 62 4 600/. are for sheriffs' accounts, and crim ilw prosecutions, and 7,0801. for the Universities. • MONEY and COMM ERCIAL NEW S, CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. it The demand for Mon e y h as su b s id e d as suddenly a s t. sprang up, and it can now be readily procured at We r rate of two-and-a-half to three-and-a-half per cent. Fe„ annum. The funds are all firm, with a slight imPe°;, ment, although the amount of business has been liini te ": Consols being 92i 1 for Money, and 921 for the Aee° llllt , Three per Cents. Reduced. 9 lt:to 911 ; Reduced l.ll , - : and-a-Half per Cents., 99e to 99i ;. New Three - a"" A . T; .Half per Cents., 1001; Bank Stock, 167 to 168 ; Stock, 249 to 250 ; the Bonds, 19 to off ; and Eg e ' l- ' quer Bills, 37 to 39 premium. The Foreign Market has been quite inactive, all transactions have been confined to Brazilian, at 671, an the Dutch Two and a Half per Cents. 63. A sly bargain has been done in Chilian at 84, t he quotations nominally being 83 85. The small quantity of , this last description of St`„ offering in the Market, has hitherto afforded a ICIDP" n i tion too strong to be resisted of making a barge"' some four or five per cent. ; but the subject belef, s o ' riously taken up by some parties interested, prices I ' 3 been brought into something like a just approximat i°° ' The quotation of Mexican has receded to 361. 5 Scarcely anything has been done in Shares, and Pr'crteit are a shade below those of yesterday. York and I`: ( ' ds , Midldnd, 94; London andßirmingharn,l79l 180, ; 31+ ; South Western, 634 ; South Eastern_ Scrip, Eastern Counties, 41. 16s. Bd., Debentures, 101. 11 5 • '„ Great Western New, 641 ; Blackwall, 111 ; and Gve 4 " . "' wich, SK. bt. The bonds of the insolvent States are extremelY Colombian being quoted 271; Peruvian, 20 • Portugt. Five per Cents. 371 ; the Three . per Cents. Spanish Five per Cent. and the New Three per C e Stock, 23i. It would appear that the liberal offer said to have made by the.Periivian Government to the bondholde 0, of assigning the right of. collecting the dung °f s , e oi fowls for the future payment of the dividends, ha' the been duly appreciated by the public, inasmuch as '%. quotation has not materially advanced. The Stock J. • change people say that they are averse to accept Or: ment in- this article. pheP, Private letters, received this morning from "Aiall• - •, - ter, hold some slight prospect of improvement. usual at this particular season, but little has been ° ° ' . o owing to the holidays. However, the deniand had b ee o , more extensive than could have been expected, and be t prices had been obtained. . It is satisfactory to obser.sbe that the shortness of stock is 'mentioned, and if it he f . correct, that the quantity now' on hand is so smal l . any new orders will have to be manufactured, the 'een step towards a return of prosperity will have gained. The large quantities of cotton goods rent( ing unsold at most of the speculative ports, forbid hope of fresh demands for them, but in the rrieanoll'o inconsequence of further shipments being stopped, t ° will be gradually worked off: het. Beyond some old dates from South Australia, are no'foreign arrivals. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. A ILWAYS. Paid. -Per Share. Eastern Counties Ditto New. Ditto Debentures ... 81. 6s. Bd. 10/. 13. °- • Great Western - . • Ditto New London and Blackwall London and Birmingham 9O 1791...„, to 1 " Ditto New London and Greenwich London and South Western 3122 *** 3 81 * * 6531 to **** ** ***** to South Eastern and D0ver...,..... 50 ..... to -- Ditto Scrip 5 ,„ to o - 9 - 4 York and Narth Midland... LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 18, h" 3f late; aspect to-day, and more business was done thatinosp,.o, SOO American of, middling quality were te e i n c o c :, lation, and the entire sales amount to s,ouv . 0 00' LIVERPOOL SIIA.RE MARKET, Mof IS. ---17e. : 1 and actions took place in any description of.stoek fol• the market closed heavily. A small number of th e Jeo -, lowing Shares changed hands :-Eastern Counties , 2i premium ; Grand Junction, 186 ; New Quarters, 254 North Midland Halves, 321 ; South Eastern, New , ' 4. LLOYD'S SH I PPI.N G-(1 1 HIS D A') LONDON, MAY 19.-Wind this day at noon S. to SP DEAL, MAY 18.-Wind N.N.E. to E.N.E. moderat%; Arrd. from the River, and sld., Neptune, Mtu i o Ellen, Jamaica. 1‘ St° C' OFF DOVER, MAY 18.-William, Brayus, for holm. v ;,•"; , I' l ° OFF BEACHY HEA.D, MAY lb.-Calypso, Bedford, for Bremen ; Xavier, Jorgenson, Lagunayier SOUTHAMPTON, MAY U.-Sid., Tay (s.) We st: u Little - Nile (s.) Alexandria. B tithe! OFF PORTLAND, MAY 17.-Rotterdam, Feat , for Rotterdam. te 4 OFF SALCOMBE, MAY 17.-Hortensia, Baltig34t Maria Sophia, Benicarlo. A vessel, with her torpl heads out of water, was passed . 7th inst., Lundy E.S.E. 45 miles, by the Brilliant, arrived here. c i n t,' PLYMOUTH, MAY 18.-Wind var.-Sld. Trial, h t./. FALMOUTH, MAY 17.-Wind variable and at' trif Arrd. Acbar steamer, London, for Singapore' steamer, Southampton, for West Indies ; Justicia,h, port, for Plymouth, with loss of bulwarks; sta ulic s . o l4 , &c., having been in contact, 15th inst., off th e port' Stone, with the Paradise, from Ancona to this_; 01" which lost jib-boom, &c. Arrd. otf, Clinton,- 7 -"` leans, fur Havre. Orp, CLYDE, MAY 16.-Sid. Duke of Gordon, Dece LIVERPOOL, MAY 18.-Wind E.S.E., lig,ht• Broad Oak, M`Kay, Bahia, sailed 14th March' . 4cii" Oberon, Magellan, and Highlander, Lima • .. 4 0 ; Barbadoes ; Sisters, Nassau ; Papineati, St. ' ' l , O -" . - hed' Cornelia, New Orleans ; Leonore, Boston ; • St. John's, , M AY 16 f or Die DUDLIN, MAY 16.-Sld. New City of Cork , - does ; Hugh, Trinidad. r M KINGSTOWN, AY 17.-The schooner Dove, ford, grounded on the east pier, but has been got - D PI brought to anchor in the harbour ; cargo slightlY: a pOr t , CORK, MAY 16.-Arrd. Llantarmin Abbey, 1 .-'„ - 0 1 -` 5 Cuba, sailed Bth ult. Sid. Xarifa, Barbadoes ; Kingstown ; Ruth, St. John's, New Brunswick. Soy OFF NEWHAVEN, MAY 18.-Duke of Sussex' Australia, sailed Dec. 24. CORN AVERAGE..s. s coOIPU rho' GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH , 1 0 , For the Week ended May 13, 1842, made up from the,,' • ;ist , 1 the liispector in the different Cities and Towns in s''' 9P, Wales, per Imperial Quarter. sl'' Wheat bls. Pd. Oats ~ ,i Barley 26s. I I 3d. Rye AVERAGES OF THE LAST $ll WEEKS. . .E , i . X Week ending WHEAT. BARLEYI OATS. RYE. IBR _ ..... .A 14 '" I —......-- ...—..—..--.-...... --......-...-.......- : ~.' 7 1 April 8 SS 2 'l6 2 19 11 133 10 ;2 9 11 ' .1i • 15 - 4 .22 ....: ,A4i 29 6l 0 27 6 19 1 31 7,! 31 8; , 5 May 6 6l 8 27 4 19 14 33 Si a 0 Ys 13 59 9 26 3 .9 6 i 31 3 31 ~,., rt. IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE 1 1 .` "ivier , Wheat 6O. Od i Oats ......... 19s. 3:14 Beans....'" :jii*, / Parlej.... DUTIES OW FOREIGN CORN. -' - 10 4 ' tiff Wheat B'rley " ? J- , THE MARKETS.—(THIS A 9 il r- COLONIAL MARKET. tir''''erf The demand was limited, b ut h o ld ers W ere or obtained full rats for most articles. T he were fair. fel TEA The market dull, without alterat T i o n in P ces ; r l * ' 1 parcels offering privately—stock increasing. kb 'elf TALLOW ARKET. . v te° 1145 II The holders ask high price M s, but the trade d - e -' purchases in expectation of more advantsg e° whcn the new Tallow arrives. . '0 IVHITECHAPEL. P d O e •erf The market was moderately supplied, th e Clo' to . 'middling, and prices without alteration. li. 10i' fl. ss. Bd. ; Meadow Hay, 21. 4s. 4d. Straw , ' 11. 14s. Selj DR. REID'S LECTURES ON CHEMISTRY. , delivered another lecture at Exeter-hall, last which opened • with a disquisition upon the Pr °13 . : . stoves in general, more especially 1)r. Arnott o ; 04' 0 ,1 subject of 'spontaneous combustism led to 6) 1. , 1 , 0 11 5 taming memoranda upon the readiness of flaid!,the or spongy matters, over laid with oil or simil 3l. t i stances, to ignite spontaneously, when acted 01'1)4511y oxygen of the air. Combustible substances '", 1 • 0 o' by the lecturer,• to lurk to an incredible extc rl , a ' 1 3 011 : ranges of the. older houses of London ;_ fr °- ",,ns them in the city, he had himself removed ten 1- o f o" ° ` flammable matter in the shape o f sma ll s i gi ving tt t o l e o and he gave it as his opinion that there . our of I to I law of inspection instituted, whereby' s c ien adil l grte ei ' should be appointed in the cases of all new ":00 - 01 3 remove such matter anteced e nt t o their beilesPls° Some excellent experiments on the n ature and sulphur concluded the evening's lecture. V I ,ii. An inquest was held yesterdayat tbe- 11°se l / 4 'lfl v " Jermyn-street, on th e b o d of 'Col.-Aeklorn, ag . e .," 0 0 t ilf died on Saturday, i n consequence of a c oner n l 4 s 0 1 1 brain, caused by a fall from some loose P l°l by, !I' Vat about Pier. lie was knocked down 0 ;0 1 ? about forty feet long, which a workman o ls . t it . 0 ° the time, and heinfr - dell' from % wound r ecto,. lc ; ot t , b v ‘.. s , ande.s t ob: l XO' of the aS. h ;Tv ar,:d the dcceit,ied ttS ci and the Jury accordingly returned a verai6 cidental Death." .*, . 5 .. 1 tot e, .tandi G 4 ‘11; TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have received a letter from Birmingham, signed " Feargus O'Connor," in, reference to the remarks made by Mr. Roebuck on the Charter and Petition, but it does not appear to be authentic, and of course is rejected. •