The Sun. — London, England, 1839-04-04 00:00:00

14:',VENING EDITION. 11 IS Majesty the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, His Mrijsty the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, i And His 3lajesty the KING of PRUSSIA, . having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several Dis iriltutions..of Money, which (though they are NO LOT TERIES, offer a great many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES. HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH, and 'HEINE BROTHERS at LUBECK, are NOW SELLING SHARES for any of the said DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY, at various prices. The Dis tributions contain various portions, partly of most considerable amounts. Persons desirous to purchase may receive PRE VIOUS to giving any order, the Prospectus and Particulars, upon addressing, WaHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGN. P.S. THE NEXT AUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION CONTAINS PORTIONS OF 4,000/., 7,5001., and 30,0001. The Distributing Day being so very near, we are on the eve of a con s id e r a bl e Rise in Price, and NO TIME IS TO BE LOST for those desirous to become Shareholders for this next Distribtvion. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. THIS EVENING, Artit 4, Will be performed the New Play, in Five Acts, called RICHELIEU, OR THE CONSPIRACY, Written by Sir E. Lytton Bulwer, Bart. The Characters by Mr. Elton, Mr. Diddear, Mr. Macready, Mr. Warde, Mr. sin ders•o, Mr. Vining. Mr. Roberts, Mr. Phelps, Mr. G. Ben nett, Mr. Howe, .Miss E. Phillips, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Yar. !told, Mr. W. L. Payne, Mr. C. J. Smith, .Mr. Bender. Mr. Paulo, Mr. Gough, Mr. Thorne, Mr. Brady, Mr. Bur det, Mr. Smith, Mr. Kirke, Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. Wal dron, Mr. Aylitre, Mr. Andrews, Mr. T. Matthews, Miss Helen Faucit, Miss Charles, Mesdames Reed, Corder, Lee, Valandulce, Mathews, Mew, and Morgan. After which will be revived the Grand Dramatic Romance, of LODOISKA. To-Morrow, Richelieu, with Lodoiska, and Chaos is Come Again on, • e - - /tip x-4-..sorrita ~~ ~', cf LONDON : THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1839. 1 Our paper contains a Report copied from a Tory journal, of the Chartists of Edinburgh having i invaded the room at which the leading Whigs of Ithat city had assembled under the auspices of the 1 LORD PROVOST, to take measures to support her Majesty's Ministers ; and after having defeated • them, they proceeded to carry very strong resolutions against the Ministers, and adopted an address to her MAJESTY to remove diem from office. IThe LORD PROVOST and his friends afterwards as:es:Wed in a private apartment, and passed the resolutions they had intended to submit to the ineetine. We quite agree with both the Edin i burgh ~ papers of Tuesday which have reached I us, that this is very extraordinary, be crise, as the Tory Adverascr says— E&natirgh is confessedly the great stronghold of the Nl'ligs, and because as the Liberal Obsemer says, the men who were defeated on Monday, were seven years ago the cherished leaders of their present opponents. But we regard it as still more extraordinary from knowing that till a very recent period the bulk of the inhabitants of Edin burgh were not much accustomed to take part in political meetings, and till the era of Reform were hard ly known to meddle with politics. The education they then received has speedily raised them into importance, and now they have beaten their instructors. This circumstance is the more ' remarkable, because there are no large manufactories 1 in Edinburgh, no loose independent population, the bulk of whom are well-hehaved and connected with the opulent classes. There was, in fact, no , rioting at the meeting, and no violence, though Ithere was .much contention, and the parties who drove off the LORD PROVOST, Sir J. GIBSON CRAIG, and Sir THOMAS DICK LAUDER, were immediately ready to take their places, and to move resolutions to carry their own objects into effect. They were therefore persons somewhat versed in . public meetings, tolerably good speakers, and be ' a Inneine to the educated classes. Undoubtedly, therefore, they speak the sentiments of a considera ble portion of the respectable, if not the opulent, and leading classes of Edinburgh. At the same time a very few persons well organ ized may suffice to disturb a meeting. and prevent it from carrying its object into effect. If the Whigs are stren e at Edinburgh, the Tories are cunning, and they probgil!v bullied the Chartists to attain l i their object. Malting allowance for these circum stances, and believing that the public defeat will not dimimish one jot the support which the Minis -1 ters are likely to receive from the opulent classes of lEdinburgh, we cannot but regard the termination lof the meeting as a very instructive event. The Tories will say that it is a judgment on the Whigs who agitated the people to obtain reform, and who now find that they will not be put aside i by unperformed promises. The Whigs, it must be admitted, then appealed to the masses, and by no other -means could they have saved the country from revolution. Deep-rooted discontent had then taken possession of the people, aed it must be stated that it was well formed. A more patient, long-suffering, ill-treated people do not exist, than the half-starved, and over-worked, skilful and ingenious inhabitants of this Island. Continual discussion in Parliament and in the Press, had generated a general, we may say, a uni versal conviction that the laws of the country were a great jumble of ill-contr:ved measures, in i tended, under a transparent mask of patriotism, to promote the selfish purposes of those who made them. Confidence in our Constitution was amaz ingly weakened ; respect for authority was almost at an end, and what the Whigs in effect did was to place themselves at the head of the masses and guide them from the threatened revolu tion to hope for and to acquiesce in Reform. It cannot be concealed that Reform has disap pointed the people, that it has failed to relieve them of any of their burdens, and has neither added to our internal tranquillity nor to our secu rity against foreign invasion ; and while their conviction of the nature of our laws has re mained unaltered, their confidence in our in stitutions has been almost destroyed, and re spect—habitual or heartfelt respect—for autho rity is at end. There is not the stirring example of a Revolutio n in another country to kindle en thusiasm ; the reflecting middle classes are startled iat the bold doctrines and encroachments of the lower classes, but in other respects the condition lof the public mind is the same nearly as in 1830, aggravated by th e d ee p an d su b sequent dis appointments. In short, we are threatened now as we were then with great and undefined changes, which, qf then postponed, and made perhaps more quiet, were made more certain by the means which were taken to master, control, and put a stop to them. The Tories must not fancy that they could have play.cd the important game better than the Whi gs . In the present st a t e o f society they can no more ad minister our affairs without appealing to the people, Than the 'Whigs could. In fact they continually ap peal to them now, and always have appealed tothem. The only difference we see between the statesmen of different 1 arties is, that the Tories always ap peal to some old prejudices, some bye gone passion, some wool out partialities, which linger longest in the lowest places, and their auxiliaries have accord ingly been in general the unreflecting mob. The Whigs always have some apparently rational motive to justify the support they ask, and al ays appeal to reflection. The well in formed Chartists are not with the Tories; though, perhaps, the paupers are. On the in dustrious, intelligent workmen they place no re liance ; they look to the peasantry, enfeebled both in body and mind, and their rallying cry is the New Door-law. Whether the paupers will ever rise up against them, feeling themselves disappointed, is hard to say, but, they are not behind the Whigs in appeal ii} a to the peop•e ; and both, under the influence of a pwpaole necessity, have been compelled to contri bute to the political education and power of the asople, which is now become hostile to both their syste ups. • ;.V, : have never regarded the Chartists as a ,r, 'v to be despised, though we have disapproved tilt ;:vl s , of the 4..bjects they have in v i ew. -.. ' "17: they have achie. ed in Finsbury, at irl o vogliain, Manchester, and Edmburgh, and 6 .e still greater number of public meetings they i:;tv e prevented from being held, are convincing Pr.u:irs that they can arrest the progress of our ,Ical machine, which ion h is only t o b e k e pt i n mo y public opinion, if they cannot impel it ' i - I ! ~ , kir own ditection Our country cannot be _,!ot erred, as we have more than once said, by force, a.l whoever, he,at, the head of public affairs must . : to puoite opinion. The Chartists, whatever titcir crotchets, form a large part of the iil.4 -,; , , '' , l and they are g low i ng ' in influence: We , . • +. see them operating all over the kingdom, under an organization which is nearly unexampled. They cannot be put down, and must be con sidered. Concession in time might have turned them aside, or disbanded them ; the declared opposition to all further reform has exasperated them, and confirmed their opposition. The first object of their hostility is the Ministry, because they have declined to reform the Reform Act ; but the permanent object of their hostility is the law itself. One of the reproaches of Mr. PEDDLE was, that the Ministers had refused the prayer or the people of Edinburgh for the repeal of the Corn-law, but the Ministers only forbore to lend that all-important motion the sanction of the Cabinet. Again, then, we find th e l aw is the real object of the aversion of the people, though it ba directed against the Ministers, because they had not the power or the will to amend the law. Already, therefore, both the Ministers and the Parliament must be con vinced that the refusal to abolish the Corn-laws is endangering the Government and threatens the Constitution itself. In another part of The Sun will be found an extract from the Manchester Times, describing the departure of a body of mechanics from Manchester for Amiens. It seems that spinners and piecers now go abroad as well as engineers and millwrights. The journal properly refers to the present facility of transport, by which persons can reach Ghent or Os tend from - Manchester, with as little expense and in less time than they could London 20 years ago, as one of the circumstances which promotes the expatria tion of our most useful hands. To this might be added, that the general disposition of our gentry to travel, in which they are imitated by many per sons, has gone a long way to familiarise our people with foreign habits and manners, to introduce amongst us a knowledge of foreign languages, and break down - the moral barrier which kept our people at home. In one great country the language and manners are the same as those of our own country, and thither our people, par ticularly our seamen, can repair, with quite as much ease as they can go from Liverpool to London. But these are circumstances which our landowning law makers are very likely to overlook. They are not engrossed in the statute book. They, however, all tend to place this country on the same level, in all things, as other countries ; and the Legislature will find it impossible to preserve a different level for the price of wheat. Either by our people going abroad to consume the cheaper food there, giving the profit of their skill and their labour to another country, and so raising the price of food there to its price here ; or by our people being starved down to the continental price, at which alone they will be able to compete with continental manu facturers, the price of food must be equalized here and abroad. Nothing can stop that pro cess, unless all the physical and moral im pediments to communication which have been overcome could be restored, and England could be walled off from the rest of the world. The only question, therefore, which the Legislature ought to have considered was, whether we are to be starved down to continental prices, or a free importation of wheat shall at once place them on a level. Unfortunately for the nation, the land owners decided that the process of starvation shall he persisted in. During the greator part of the last week it was whispersd in the political salons of Paris, that the King; in negociating the for...atiou of a Cabinet, did not concealfron. the leaders of the Coalition a determination which he had formed, rather to abdi cate than to abandon the political system which he has hitherto pursued. How M. THIERS and his friends understood this hint is not known to us ; the ex-Minister could not ask it to be made in writing, as he did the royal offers of a Premiership and an e.nbassy ; and as he could not, in the Chambers, plead the possibility of such a calamity as a justification of his accept ance of office under any terms, it is reasonable to infer that he pretended not to hear it. But as the leaders of the Coalition refused to abate a jot of their pretensions, and as the King grew more.' earnest in the repetition of this threat, the Depu ties began to discuss it among themselves, not only,. as a possible, but as a probable and desirable occurrence. The King's indiscretion removed from an otherwise unapproachable subject the rampart of treason ; and to our no small surprise we find in the Commerce. of Monday evening, two articles, the one calling attention to the marked imbecility of the Royal Councils since the death of TALLEY- I RAND, who is presumed to have supplied the saga city attributed to the King ; and the other an nouncing in plain terms that secret delibera tions have been taken in high quarters respect ing the necessity of regenerating an exhausted system of policy, and of allowing the reins of Government to pass into younger and more efficient hands. This_ question, of such moment to France, to the members of the reigning dynasty, and to Europe, is reported to have been long agi tated in the deliberations between the King and his sister Madame ADELAIDE, whose influence over the mind of her broth er i s un b oun d e d. From the Royal closet it found its way to the salons Of the Ministers in expectancy, thence to the Bourse, and thence to the public Journals. At a large party at the house of M. LAFITTE, on Sunday even ing, composed principally of the members of the left and left centre, a Deputy actually pro posed for discussion the question of the King's abdication, when it was almost unanimously ad mitted that a worse calamity could happen to the country ! This was admitting a great deal under such circumstances. But some of the Deputies did even more. They ventured to call in question the Duke of ORLEAN'S right to fill a throne va cated by his father, and the principl e upon w hi c h they founded their objection to a regular succession was not contested. These are significant intima tions, and in the event of an appeal to the Cham bers by the King, may lead to important results. As regards the King personally, nothing could be more unfortunate than his mixing himself up with intrigues which have terminated so disgrace fully. This is the language of the Courier Francais, a well-informed moderate paper. " The fact is," says that journal, " the Court has been de feated by its own duplicity. lts aim was to set aside M. THIERS ; but in directing all its efforts against this one man, it has given him an import ance beyond all proportion. It is not the liberals who have given this importance to M. TITTERS ; it is the Court journals which have described the crisis as a political duel between the King and M. THlERS—which has stigmatized him as a dictator —and which has given utterance to the culpable and absurd expression, " the dynasty of M. THIERS." The worst satire upon Louis PHILLIPPE is, that nothing is So fortunate for a candidate for public favour as to have it known that he includes the Sovereign among his personal enemies. His friendship all but ruined TITTERS ; but since he has declared against him, the ex-Premier has risen to a height of great ness which does not rationally allow his viewing the Crown itself as an obje c t o f am bi t i on. In a few days, however, the mysterious curtain will be raised, and from the first act we may be able to tell whe ther the Royal performance will terminate as a tragedy or a farce. King Louts PHILIPPE'S ad interim Cabinet is the laughing stock of France ; and this circum stance, should the prevailing distress not force upon the people more serious thoughts, may pre vent movements which might terminate in a new revolution. The Chamber meet this day (Thurs day), but the Session will not regularly commence before to-morrow. According to a statement in the Journals of Tuesday the Chambers will be opened by Commission, the King baying decided that the abandonment of his plan of personally appealing to the Chambers against the Coalition was requisite to the maintenance of his Royal dig nity. We copy from Tuesday's Journals the va rious o pi n i ons o f t h e French Press respecting the new Cabinet : THE MINISTRY. (From the Commerce.) We cannot, unfortunately, point out the manifold incon venience of the quasi Ministry, but we must just have a look at the individuals composing this Cabinet. The Duke of Montebello is unquestionably the most un popular man in France, and is deservedly so, as he is un doubtedly the representative of Austrian interests, It was he who in 1836 placed our diplomacy at M. Metternich's service, and brought on a quarrel between France and Switzerland, which M. Mole himself declared to have been the result of Austrian intrigues. It was be who in the year 1838 widened the breach between M. Mole and the Helvetic Government, and im plored succours from the Holy Alliance, and the interven- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1839. tion of Vienna, to bring Switzerland to her senses. In fact, after Belgium has been given up and Spain aban doned, his having the Foreign affairs is a direct menace to the Helvetic Diet. M. Gasparin was at the head of the police during the celebrated Conseil affair, and was one of the most furious Doctrinaires. The various rumours about Conseil's insti gators have gained additional weight from M. Gasparin being in the Ministry with Montebello. MM. Pareat and Tupinicr are not mere clerks, as has been imagined. The former has been rapidly rising ever since he advocated the law of disjunction, and the latter proposed the law of deportation. General Cubicres and M. Girod (de l'Ain) are the worthy representatives of the host of cour tiers and favourites which infest the Court. This quasi Ministry consists of four Peers, two Depu ties, and an employe, who belongs to neither Chamber. The four Peers are all compromised in the policy of the last Ministry, and the two Deputies are part of the minority vanquished by the elections, and the employe was one of the nogotiators for the evacuation of Ancona—in a word, are an exact echo of the last Ministry. And in another article the same Journal says— Certainly, if the aim of authority was to place its im prudence under the protection of ridicule, it completely succeeded. It would be difficult to give an account of the stupefaction, mingled with pity and laughter, with which the entire capital, without distinction of opinion, greeted its new —. What shall we call this unaccountable work ? Shall we call it a Cabinet ? The Moniteur pre vents us, for it says, in announcing this collection of seven surnames, "the negotiations commenced for the formation of a Ministry have not as yet obtained any result." We have no Ministry, and all the porteleuilles are occupied. (From the National.) So at last we have a Ministry, or at least something which do as•well in the ridiculous ceremony of the opening the session. We wonder that the mountain has taken a month to bring forth such a miserable mouse abortion as this. What a glorious thing is representative Monarchy —how much better is it than an absolute Government ! With a stroke of the enchanter's wand we Lave Montebello in Richelieu's place—Gasparin to defend the electoral ma noeuvres, which Mirabeau, with his transcendent powers, failed to justify. At all events, it is something new all this. These phantoms of Ministers, these men of straw, are the worthy representatives of the Court faction; but they can't last long, thank God—their hats arc placed on the Ministerial benches only to show that the places am are kept in order that no one may presume to seat himself there. M. Montebello has obtained an enviable notoriety by his expulsion of Louis Bonaparte and the Conseil af fair. In this respect he has rather the advantage over his colleagues, who have, in spite of their efforts, been unable to emerge from their pristine state, which was some dis tance below mediocrity. Let us not be told that this pic ture is overdrawn—we defy even the warmest advocates (if, indeed, there be such) of the present Ministry to show one redeeming point in the present set of effigies. (From the Constitutionnel.) It is as we suspected—the Mole Ministry virtually open them a on by ommision. Lot us, ho . Wever, examine the spirit cf the Administra tion, and not its component parts, for they are beneath no.ice. This denoument of the crisis has produced a de plorable effect throughout Paris, the Departments, and the Chamber. The statu quo system is to be adopted, end the Cl:amber ought to remember that the responsibility of the new Cabinet rests with the Isth of April. Let us adhere to the Charter—let not the King meddle with the attributes of the Chamber, and the Chamber will nut in terfere with him. It was not enough for the Ministerial crisis to separate men into different parties, but the Cham ber is thrown into such a state of anarchy and confusion as will put a stop to its assembling for any legislative purpose. (From the Temps.) It is the affsir Conseil, it is the police of the Chateau, hick triumphs in this Cabinet. Its first acts complete that series of ordinances which latterly has pillaged the public Administration to make room for fallen Ministers, or for their agents who are most compromised. In conse quence of the deplorable powers which have been given to the Crown for a year past, public opinion has been slighted, and to chide it recourse has been had to a system of passive resistance, which it flatters itself is without dan ger. By going resolutely to the Chamber with a provi sional Ministry, it is hoped to induce the Deputies to aban don their prerogative. The King is deprived of his power, and forced to remit to the Deputies his incontcstible right to choose his Ministry. We are about to see a Cabinet come out of the scrutiny. The Chamber will be a Con vention. The future Ministry will be a Government Com mittee. Royalty exists to more but in name in France. The Royal power created by the Charter is abolished by this event. (From the Courrier Francais.) Seven Ministers have been found who have willingly countersigned the interim, what the Moniteur calls a Mi nistry of transition. They will continue the Ibth of April system, of which the Court will only disembarrass itself at the eleventh hour. We agree with the Journal des De bats, it is a great proof of devotion. Let us only remark, to diminish its merit, that there are people who would not think any price too dear to have the honour or pleasure of being Ministers, if only for a moment. Whoever would have thought of M. Tupinier, or M. Parent, and of M. Girod (de l'Ain), except as an an interim, As to General Cubieres, who is neither Peer nor Deputy, he is at least known by his administration at Ancona. Coupled with the insignificant names of the new Ministry, we meet with one which is, however, but too significant; we speak of M. de Montebello, whose unskilful and violent diplo macy has-twice all but embroiled us with Switzerland. M. de Montebello has neither the consistency nor the ex perience of M. Mole ; he is altogether blindly devoted to the Court policy, so devoted that he encourages espionage, and is implicated in the affair of Conseil. Perhaps he will furnish the Chamber with some occasion to exact from him an enlightenment on that ignoble affair, which has no yet been thoroughly sifted. In the meantime royalty wil be undefended, and the throne will sink in the esteem of the country. In the midst of these awful dangers let us fervently hope that tragedy may not succeed the farce. (From the Quotidienne ) It has been said that, in consequence of the Court not having been able to form a Cabinet, the Session would be opened by Commission. This proj,ct, which had been received by the public with incredulity and contempt, has been realised, for we must be permitted not to consider as a Ministry the men named in the Moniteur. They are there to open the Session, not for any other purpose, and they will retire as soon as the Chamber has made known its sovereign pleasure. The only difference which exists between the original project and the present Act is that instead of five Commissioners there are seven ; instead of Marshal Soult, the Duke de Broglie, MM. Hmann and Duchatel, the Honiteur has published the names of M. Gasparin, the instrument of M. ec Montalivet in the affair of the spy Conseil ; of M. de Montebello, who has so skit.. fully seconded the clever policy of M. Mole in the Swiss question; of NI. Cubieres, the right arm of General Bernard ; of M. Tupinier, director of the posts under M. Rosamel ; of M. Pareat, the alter ego of M. Bantle ; of M. Gauthier, sub-governor of the Bank ; and, finally, of M. Girod (de l'Air), whom every Ministry has found do cile and complaisant since Casimir Perier. In every thing which passes, there is such a forgetfulness of political usages—such a contempt for the constitutional obligations of the representative Government—that we are induced to ask, what are likely to be the results of such blunders, and what fatal risks the party of aide-de-camps has decided upon incurring ? Men who trace effects to their causes must at last understand that it is the revolution itself which contains the germ of its own dissolution, which we now see approaching with such frightful rapidity. (From the Journal des Debuts.) Was it possible to make a solid and durable Ministry, in which great talents and noble names should figure ? It was possible, and the King wished it; but all his attempts to concoct this Cabinet have been frustrated. What was then to be done ? There remained one re source, an ad interim Ministry, which should be self.evi dent was intended only to be ephemeral, a Ministry which should neither decide upon nor compromise anything, but should only keep the places for its legitimste successors. Such is the Ministry which has been formed, The crisis is not, therefore, yet finished, but it has been shorn of its dangers and evils, and the Chambers will lend their influence to its final extermination. Such are the opinions of the Paris Press respect ing the new Ministry. In a day or two we shall be in a condition to Inform our readers the convic tions of the Chambers upon the subject. The little news there is in the French Journals of Tuesday will be found in the subjoined extracts:-- The preparations fur the Royal sitting of Thursday, which is to take place on the 4th instant (this day) in the hall of the Chamber of Deputies, have been for some days entirely terminated. The Deputies are to hold a preparatory meeting on Wed nesday, for the purpose of installing their temporary board, and receiving tickets of admission to the ceremony of Thursday. On Friday the Chamber will commence its labours under the presidency of the senior member. It will afterwards re. tire into its Standing Committees to appoint their respective Chairman and Secretaries. After their organisation those Committees will proceed with the verification of the powers of the deputies, and name, agreeably to the new form in troduced into the regulations of the house, under-commit. tees to inquire into the merits of contested elections. The reports of the committees are to be read at the public sittings of Saturday and of the following days. Those indispensable operations will be followed by ballots for the choice of a President, four Vice-Presidents, four Secretaries, and two Questors. The members will sub sequently meet in their respective standing committees to elect the Commissioners of the Address. The Chamber of Peers, in conformity with its usage, will name, on the first day, the committee charged with drawing up the address. —Journal des Debals. The King's intended journey to Fontainblcau had been postponed until the latter end of April. King Leopold is also to repair thither to concert with Louis Philippe res pecting the mode of delivering up Limburg and Luxem burg to Holland. The King of the French, however, does not expect to be able to leave his capital before the com mencement of May.—Courrier Francais. The Pilote of Caen states that a number of soldiers who had just returned to their families on indefinite fur. ..... loughs had been suddenly ordered to join their regiments, which arp in garrison at Paris or in its immediate neigh. bourhood. The Siecle affirms that there are at present two batteries of artillery, and three siege pieces, with their caissons, placed under a large shed, in a court of the military school, on the side of Grenelle. The same journal adds, that two new regiments of infantry, and two of cavalry, are to arrive in Paris for the opening of the session. The Echo du Peuple of Poitiers states that two aqua. drons of the regiment of Lancers garrisoned in that town had been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to march upon Paris. The horses had been bridled and saddled, in the anticipation of an immediate order of departure, and the Colonel had proceeded to Tours to receive his instruc tions. Admiral Duperre, President of the Subscription Com mittee for the sufferers of Martinique, has addressed a let ter to the Tribunals of Commerce in several large towns, soliciting the aid of the mercantile classes in favour of the victims of the late earthquake in the above-mentioned island. Le-d Brougham was present yesterday, at the slt ing of the Academy of Sciences, where he conversed with seve ral of the most distinguished of its members. His Lord ship took notes at frequent intervals. Mlle. Rachel, Mme. Dorus Gras, MM. Derivis, Massol, Warta, Alexis Dupont, Mlles. lssler, Noblet, and the most distinguished ornaments of the different theatres of Paris will unite on Thursday evening at the I heatre de l'Odeon in giving some of the most favourite pieces, with a ball and concert, for the benefit of Mlle. Jenny Vertpre, on her retirement from that stage of which she has lung been one of the most irresistible attractions: - In October, 1836, the house of a man named Rolland, at Lurs, between Sisterton and Manosque, in the Basses Alpes, was assailed by robbers, who shot the servant, and severely wounded the man's wife; but being alarmed by the outcries of Rolland, they retired without effecting their object of plunder. Eugene Lardeyret, a youth only seventeen years of age, was arrested on suspicion, and con fessed the crime ; but pleaded his youth, and his having been forced into it by his uncle Gabriel Lardeyret who had been condemned in 1819 to hard labour for six years fur another night-robbery, but had made his escape from the hulks at Toulon. Gabriel Lardeyret was not to be found after this last affair, and he was arraigned in his absence with Eugene Lardeyret, and condemned to death in contempt. Eugene was also found guilty, and sentenced to hard labour for life. Since 1836, Luberon, and the county round, has been constantly a prey to an organized band of robbers, of which Gabriel Lardeyret was one, and his name has become quite notorious throughout that part of France. He was arrested in the Tarn towards the end of last year for robbery, and was sent to Digne to plead in arrest of the judgment pro nounced upon him in 1836. He was brought to the bar of the Court of Assizes, a few days since, but having proved that on the day of the attack upon the house of Rolland, in 1836, he was at Luna Tiel, near Montpellier, and the next day at Nismes, and Rolland's wife not being able to identify him, he was, after a trial of three days, acquitted of any participation in that crime. He, of course, remains in custody to answer the other accusations laid against him. The proceedings against this win, who is a robber of the most determined character, have created much sensation in the departments where his exploits have been performed. ISOURSE.-PARIS, TUESDAY, A PILL 2. Hat. sr-rasT TnRSE.—The status qua being that which suits the monied interest and speculators, and the appointment of the provi sional Ministry being a continuation of the policy hitherto pur sued, much business has been dose to-day, and the French Stocks have not only been very firm, but have advanced. Fer the Account the Thrce per Cents. opened at tiOf, , declined to 791. 95c , rose to 80f, 15c., and closed at SOf. 10c , which is an improvement of 10 cents. The Five per Cents., from 1091. 40c., advanced to 1091. 43c., an improvement of 20 cents. For money the rise in the Three and Five per Cents, is the same as for time. The Bank cf France Shares are 3f. lower. The Laltitte Bank 5,000 f. shares, are unaltered. The Belgian Five per Cents. have declined; the Three per Cents. are 40 cents, lower ; for the March account they closed at 71f. 20c., and for the end of the month 71f. 40c. The Spanish Active is I per Cent. better, haring been done at 204 and 20f. The Railway Shares have but little varied ; the St. Germain and the Versailles Left Bank, sr. lower, and the Versailles Right Bank sf, higher. First Highest Lowest I.ast Price. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents W9 20 ... 109 35 ... 109 'ZO ... 100 35 4 per 1 ents lO2 ... 102 ... 10 , 90 _lOl 90 2 per Cents 79 93 ... 00 5 ... 79 93 ... 80 3 Bank of Trance Laltitte Ba' k 1,1100; Sh 5190 —.5190 ...5190 —.5190 Belgian 5 per Cents 109.14 ... 1014 ... 102 LA ... 102 q 2rr Cents 7l ... 71 ... 71 ... 71 Bank 6 ,4i ... 095 ...615 ...6:15 Coupons S anish Aelve .20.,4 ... 20% ... 20N,' ... 2(127i Neapolitan Roman RAILWAY SHARE. St. Corrnal , Versailles, R. B go ... 667 30 ... dtio ... iris L.B. 2:35 ... 335 ... 230 ... 24d Hay], . .. Strasburg to Bale . &V 50 ... 84 ' ... 3:7 30 ... 340 AS?HALTES AND BIM,IENS. SeYssel (A) Yarn (Maberly's) ........ :1:10 ... 330 230 330 Galvanized Iron BELGIAN I UNDS—BRussirLs, APRIL 2 Actual Debt, 2%i per Cent. Rothachild's Loan, 5 per Cvnt 1 ll,i Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. „„ -2 - - 3 per Cent. Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 95 Society of Commerce, 4 ~per Cent l2i Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent l9'4 National Society . —Brussels Papers, April 2. Letters and Papers from Madrid of the 26th ult have been received. General At, Aix was engaged in a ridiculous crusade against the Liberal Journals, one of which had incurred his lasting hatred, by intimating that his Excellency had at a former period of his life officiated as groom, not of the stole, but of the stable, in South America. The dissolution of the Cabinet was regarded as in evitable. No news from the provinces. W e are glad to see by a letter from a Correspon dent at Lerwick, inserted elsewhere, that the Ad miralty has judiciously availed itself of the means afforded by the Shetland Islands for procuring men for the Navy. There never was a time more fa vourable than the present for getting recruits in that quarter. The failure of the crops and of the fishery for several successive seasons has reduced the inhabitants to great misery, and the falling off in the consumption of herrings in the West In dies, which used to take off so large a proportion of that commodity, leaves them little hope of bettering their condition by their own exertions at home. Now this is the time for holding out the temptation of a bounty to these hardy fellows. The Shetlanders, it is well known, are in ured to the hardships of a seafaring life from their earliest years ; they are sober and steady in their habits, and when they can be prevailed upon to enter the naval service of the country, they generally turn out seamen of the first class. We have little doubt that by officers of such address as the gentleman alluded to by our Cor respondent, armed with the power of granting a bounty, as many sailors as would man a first-rate might easily be procured in those islands. During the last war, we have been given to understand, there were upwards of three thousand Shetlanders in the Navy. DISGRACEFUL TORY RIOT IN DEVIZE S. (FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.) On Monday last the adjourned Chartist Meeting was held in Devizes„ The rain poured in torrents all day, which prevented thousands of the Chartists attend ing from a distance. The greatest precaution was taken by the authorities to preserve the peace. A troop of the 12th Lancers were under arms about 20 yards from the place of meeting—the county yeomanry were ordered out, and hundreds of special constables sworn in. The shops of the town were closed. Bills had been issued all round the country by the Tories, stating that the Chartists wished to establish the new Poor law, &c. At three o'clocka procession of about 3,000 peo ple escorted Messrs. Vincent, Roberts, and Carrier into the town. On passing through the streets to the Market-place, the strictest order was preserved. On arriving at the hustings, Messrs. Vincent and Roberts mounted. A stone struck Mr. Vincent on the back of the head, and caused him to fall from the waggon. Horns were then blown in all directions, and an indis criminate attack immediately commenced byupw upwards of 2,000 drunken bludge o n men , l ed on b tradesmen, and other Tories. " Death toyfarmers,Vincent, Roberts, and Carrier," resounded f rom t h e d esperadoes. " kill the Reformers—kick their brains out ;" the scene ryas truly awful—the Chartists appeared to do all in their power to prevent a conflict, but they were com pelled to fight in self-defence. Mr. Vincent and Roberts, and Carrier had several narrow escapes fcr their lives. The confusion rendering a meeting in the market impossible, Mr. Vincent and Roberts retired with a large body of the respectable inhabitants of Devizes and other friends, and addressed them from the window of the Carriers' Arms. Mr. Roberts spoke about 20 minutes, briefly explaining the principles of the People's Charter ; and Mr. Vincent's speech did not last ten minutes, in consequence of blowing of horns in the distance. They then advised their friends to leave the town, as the dusk of the evening was approaching, lest a dreadful riet and bloodshed occur. When the Chartists retired the drunken mob of Tories surrounded the Carriers' Arms, and threatened to murder its in mates. The High Sheriff arrived and ordered the mob to disperse, but in vain. Several gentlemen, in the com pany of the High Sheriff and other authorities, gave Messrs. Vincent and Roberts safe escort from the town —they were much injured by the mob. The Reformers of Devizes state that it was the determination of the Tories to murder Vincent, Roberts, and Carrier, if possible. The Chartists behaved with the greatest for bearance, and had anything like a retaliatory spirit been evinced, a frightful toss of life and property would have occurred. Messrs. Vincent and Roberts did all they could to preserve the peace. Are these Tory ruffians to go unmarked, when the Press rings with violent threats of the Chartists? The Chartists have but talked. The ruffian Burdett party of Devizes and its vicinity have made a diabolical attempt openly to de stroy the lives of Reformers. "No Reform" is their cry, " Corn-laws for ever" their motto ; but let them, beware! If the people once imitate the violence in flicted on them in Devizes, woe, woe, to the aristocracy. W e hear that great excitement prevailed in the sur rounding districts, and had anything happened to Mr. Vincent or Mr. Roberts, a scene of violent commotion would have occurred for miles around. Well may the Chartists talk of "providing arms for self defence!" The Count ess o f Mi n to purposes giving several grand balls at the Admiralty the latter end of this and early in the next month. Earl and Countess Cadogan and the Ladies Augusta and Honoria Cadogan, who have been passing the winter in Italy, do not intend returning to this country before the first week in the ensuing month. The Earl and Countes s and their accomplished daughters, were to leave Rome, last wee k, for the South of France. ERRATUM.—In the third paragraph of the third leading article in yesterday's Sun, there is a:misprint which alters the sense—the word " scare" having- been substituted for " seize," the words should stand thus, " and holding out every encouragement to the Toriet to seize the government." LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, APRIL 3. —Wind, E N.E, strong breezes. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 3. —Wind, E. N. E.—Arrived the Chaise, Mitchell, from Cadiz ; Dossitoi, Trieste: Sym metry, Gill, Cork. Sailed the Hibernia, Fowler, for Quebec ; Sir F. B. Head, Revely, ditto. PLTMOUTN, APRIL 3. —Wind, E.—Arrived the Stakesby, (packet), from Rio Janeiro, St. Helena, and Ascension ; Nelson (packet), Nassworthy, Hamburgh. Sailed the De Cog, Williams, for Batavia; Bolivar, Richards, Quebec. FALMOUTH, APRIL 2.—Wind, N.E. to S. E.—Arrived the Altersnimbe, Christensen, from Dram ; Ambrosio, Howell, Longsound ; Karen Elise, Blom, ditto ; Favou rite, Christenson, di-to; South Durham, Appleton, Stock ton, to stop a leak, bound to New York ; Juno (steamer), Moriarty, London, and proceeded for Cuik. Sailed the Satellite (steamer), Gordon, for Calcutta ; Maria Victoria, Palfrey, Newfoundland ; Minstrel Boy, Moyes, Naha; Dolphin, Miller, Belfast. Ofrport, the Waterwitch, Ro bertson, Messina. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 3. —Wind S. E. fresh.—Arrived the Halcyon, Lelasure, from St. Domingo; Countess of Wil ton, M3x ell, Cephalonia. Sailed the Ann, Williamson, for Monte Video ; Rosindale, Friend, Bahia : Antigua, Fisher, Antigua ; Elizabeth Bruce, Russell, New York ; John Cumming, Clare. do. ; St. Mark, Varnain, do. ; Sirius, Crowell, Montreal ; Vesper, Black, do. ; Don, Thompson, Quebec; Jane, Villet, Pictou ; Fanny Connell, Joy, Ge noa ; Premier, Newman, Gibraltar; Amelia, Colditch, Trieste ; Ace of Trumps, Lidstone, St. Michael's ; Emma, Irving, Lisbon. Off-port, Tamerlane, Savannah ; and the Snakspeare, New York. STATE OF 1 RADE. (From the Manchester Guardian ) The demand both for goods and yarn yesterday was ex ceedingly limited, and the market was in a very depressed state. Very little business was done, and that at a trifling reduction from the prices of the preceding Tt.eiday. Most of the ordinary descriptions of yarn have receded about 4d. per lb. and printing cloths about 3d. per piece. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, APRIL 1.-We have had a brisk demand for flannels to-day, and many pieces have been sold.' Low and middling-priced goods have been most inquired after. Though the buyers have purchased freely, the manufacturers have not been able to obtain any advance in price. Wool remains steady, and prices firm. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, APRIL 2 —We have little or no change to note this week, excepting that the demand has not been quite so great as for some weeks past. Yet a large quantity of goods were cleared, especially in fancy woollens, the demand for which is greater than the supply. Heavy woollens, both for home consumption and exporta tion, were in fair demand. Light fancy goods ; owing to the continued cold weather, are not in very great request. On the whole, a good bu-iness is doing generally, and the warehouses exhibit symptoms of an active trade. Wools remain firm, some sorts inclined to advance. The mills, for the most part, are working full time. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, Fcr the Week ended March 2":), 1 , t.19, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Englan 4 and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat fa:. I ld. Oats I Bar!ey 375. 11.1 Rye IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE E:x WEEKS PRECEDING. Id. Oats B: 2,1 I ltye DUTIES OW FOREIGN CORN. Vhcat 2s. Bd. I Oats Barley 4s. 10.4. I Rye THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HUNGERFORD MARKET Good supplies, but trade dull. Turbot, to 10s., 155., and 20s. ; Cods, 2s. 6d. to 55., 103., and 12s. ; Soles, Iod. to 4s, per pair ; Lobsters, Is. to 4s. 6d. each. Beef, 7d. to Bd., and 81d. ; Mutton, 7Ad. to 16 , 1. ; Veal, Sfl. to 9d. ; Pork, 7d. to 80. CITY FISH MARKET Supplies not very good, and trade not very lively. Prices :he same as at Hungerford Market. TEA SALES—(THIRD DAY.) The attendance of the trade was good, but the mass of the tea put up being of an inferior order, not above one third of it was sold, and prices were rather lower than those of last quarterly sale. CITY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, APRIL 3.—Only 1,500 bags have been sold to-day, without change in prices. The arrivals from Manchester received this morning state the demand for goods and yarns was exceedingly limited, and the market was in a very depressed state. Very little business was done, and that at trifling re ductions from the prices of the preceding Tuesday. Most of the ordinary descriptions of yarn have receded about id. per lb., and printing cloths about 3d. per piece. Monday's prices of the Dutch Funds, Two-and a- Haif per Cents., 54 11-16. THE FUNDS. Owing to the northeasterly winds, the New York packet of the 13th ult. has not yet arrived. This morning we are quite dull in the City for want of arrivals and intelligence, in consequence of which there is no operations of any magnitude doing either in the British or Foreign Market. The intelligence from Belgium is now of no import. Consols opend this morning at the same price they closed at, 021 for Money, and 921 .11 for the Account. Exchequer Bills 38 40. In India Bonds nothing doing. Bank Stock, for opening, 201 202 ; India Stock, 251 252. 1 In the Foreign Mark e t no b us i ness d o i ng up to t h e pre sent time, and the prices a r e nom i na l. S pan i s h, as t h ey closed, 201 ; Portuguese, 331 ,f ; Three per Cents. 201 4 ; Belgian, 102. 1 ,,-; Colombian, Al 29f ; Mexican, 23 24 ; Brazilian, 76 77, ex div.; Dutch Two-and- Halt' per Cents., 55 -.: i '-; Five per Cents., 1001 f. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock - - ' India Stock - 3 per Cent. Red. - Ditto Bonds -pm 3 per Cent. Cons. 92 ~,N South Sea Stock - fN per Cent - Old Annuities . - Ditto Red, - New Dit to - New.3sl per Cent 1001 i 4 14 3 per Cent. Annuities, 17a1 - New 5 per Cent. - Exch. Bills, X1,(00 ... 34 40 pm. Bank Long Annuities to expire Ditto 500 ... 38 40 f 411!. Jan. 5, 1560 - ' Ditto Small 3ll 40 pm. Oct. 10, 1859 - Ditto Commercial - - pm. Jan. 5, IS6O l4 13-1674 Ditto Advertised - - pm. Jan. 5, ISSO ' -; Bank Stock for Account ... 201 k« April 5, IMO - : India Stock for Account -.252 11. Jan. 5. 1870 -' Consols for Account 9:2% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds , Peruvian Bonds - Belgian Bonds Ditto Account - Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account ..« ..... ..... - ' Ditto Accoun' 53% Buenos Ayres Bonds - Ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account - Chilian Bonds ' Prussian Bonds I) tto Account - Columbian Bonds - Ditto Account Ditto Account - ' Ditto Metallic Columbian Bonds, 1304 _ Spanish Bonds Ditto Account Danish Bends - Ditto Account - , Ditto Account. Greek Bonds - • French, 5 per cent....... - f. -c. Ditto Bonds, 18:25 - ---- 4 per cent. Ditto Account - -- 3 pee cent. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. -' -- Ey.ch,•nge. -f, - 4 , Ditto Account ! Dutch,2sz percent. 5 54 l Ar Ditto, 6 per Cent ' Ditto Account Ditto Account ......... - Ditto, 5 per cent 100? Neapolitan - Ditto Account - PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Sham Mining Company of Ireland 7 13 b:Lst trn Counties Railway l3 8 7N 8 great Western Railway Company 65 7()Y. 70 Brighton Railway London and Birmingham Railway Company Ditto 1A Shares 5 75 I ondoii and Greenwich itailway,Compan- 2O 166,, % HALF-PAST ONE. During the whole of the morning, till within a short period, the Funds continued stationary at 921 k, for the Account, since which they have rather impr o ved, an d Consols done at 92 a for the Account, Money, 9t ; Ex chequer Bills, 38 40 ; India Bonds, nothing doing; Bank Stock shut ; India also. It appears that Consols are better for Money than for the Account. In the Foreign Market the chief business doing is in Spanish Active, which is not quite so good as in the early part of the morning, and may be quoted at 20, Passive, ; Portuguese, 331-; Three per Cents., 204 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 554-; Five per Cents., 1003.. Ccnsols have just been done at 02,1 a Money, 92i 93 for the Account. The great delay which has taken place in fitting out the British Queen steamer has caused great surprise to the merchants. This is not the case with the building of the President at Mr. Curling's yard at "Poplar. This vessel is already in complete frame, and has a majestic appear ance. No new', or is there anv further arrivals. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock ....................... India Stack — 3 per Cent. Red — I Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Ccos. 42% I Ditto Old Annuities :N, per Cent. Red. 101 Ditto Sew Annuities New :”,', per Cent 100% Ex. Bills, 1,0001 ~1 42 pm. New 5 per Cent Ditto 50 , / 42 pm. Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 42 prn Jan. ISM Jan. 1860 FOREIG N FUNDS. Asturian, 5 per cent Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian Bonds — Prussian, 5 per cent Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent — Russian Bonds, 5 per cent ... Chilian, 6 per cent — !Ditto, Metallic.. Colomb.an, 6 per cent — !Spanish, 5 per cent — Ditto, 1821 29% !Ditto, Consolidated Danish, 3 per cent i French, 5 per cent. —f . — c. Creek Bonds, 1825, 5 p er c t — I Exchange —f —c. Mexican, 5 per cent — French, :3 per cent —f. --c. Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 — Dutch, 2% per cent. 's% Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent..... Ditto, 5 per cent. lOO% SHARES. Eastern Counties Rallway ......... ........ ..... ... ........ .. 7 % Gteat Western Railway London and Brighton Railway London and Birmingham Railway 156 Ditto Quarter Shares London and hreenwich Railway I6N London and Southampton Railway 4f2N, London and Croydon Railway (New Scrip) Manche:ter and Birmingham Railway... .... ........... 1 tiq North Midland Railway South Eastern and Dovar THE GREAT STRUGGLE-SIMULTANEOUS NIEETINGS. —From all quarters we are gratified that the spirit of the people is raised to the great struggle, and on the 7th we are certain the simultaneous meetings will prove how universal is the abhorrence of a Tory Govern ment over Ireland. You cannot take up a Tory newspaper now without being convinced that the Tories hove staked their strength as a party on the issue of the debate of the 15th. The simultaneous meetings seem to have alarmed them, and they also fear that the confusion and convul. sion which must inevitably follow a Tory Government in Ireland may have an effect of influencing the more prudent leaders of the English section, and cause them to avoid the consequences of surrendering Ireland to the tender mercies of Irish Toryism. —Pilot. _ _ The Marquis acid Marchioness of Ailesbury re sume their elegant dinner parties the week after next, when the Noble Marquis and his amiable lady purpose giving a sumptuous entertainment to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester. COURT CIRCULAR. H , 1- Majnty honoured Drury-lane The Are with her presence last night to witness the perform;)nce of a new afterpiece. Her Majesty arrived soon after nine o'clock, attended by the Marchioness of Taviaock, Hon. Miss Murray, Lady Theresa Digby, Viscount Torrinuton, lion. C. A. Murray, lion. Major Keppel, and Col. Buckley. Her Majesty honoured Mr. W. C. Ross, A. R A , .with a sitting, yesterday, tor her portrait. Her Majesty rode yesterday in the riding-school near Buckingham Palace. The Duchess of Kent visited the Princess Augusta yesterday at Clarence House. The Earl of Clarendon had an interview with the Mar quis of Normanby yesterday at the Colonial office. His Lordship transacted business at the Foreign-office. _ _ The Russian and French Ambassadors — transacted busi ness at the Foreign Office yesterday. Lord Morpeth is staying at Panshanger, Herts, the resi dence of Earl Cowper. Viscount Howick is staying at Datchct. The Marquis of Lansdowne returned to Lansdowne House yesterday, from Holland House, Kensington. The Lord Chancellor has left town for 11;s residence at Copse Hill. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) These Sessions commenced this morning at ten o'clock before Mr. Sergeant ANIDREW3 and a bench of Magiatrates, at the Sessions House, Westminster. The Calendar contains the names of 9S prisoners. After the usual preliminaries had been gone through, the Grand Jury having been previously charged by the Learned Chairman, railed to perform their duties. Samuel Evans, alias Young Dutele Sam pleaded guilty to the charge of assaulting W. Mackenzie, a policeman, when off duty. Mr. BALLANTINE, for the prisoner, stated that this as sault had been commited at a public-house in the Hay market while the prisoner had pleaded guilty from his own feelings, and had since made every compensation possible to the prosecutor. In this assault he had been encouraged by menliigh in rank and station, who were Eli- worse than he; by Noblemen and Gentlemen who had not in the least as sisted him in making compensation to the prosecutor. After having got him into this scrape, the prisoner, ever since the assault, had done everything in his power to re medy the mischief he had occasioned. He therefore trusted that he wonld receive the merciful consideration of the Court. Mr. DOANE said that he attended for the prosecution. The prisoner, in a drunken frolic, having been encouraged by Lord Waldegrave, and other low company with him ; had assaulted the prosecutor and dislocated his should: r. The prisoner was a pugilist, and he did not mention this as against the prisoner, because he believed that since the rural magistracy had put down pugilism, stabbing had in creased. The prosecutor had had overtures made to him to compromise the charge, which he had refused to do. He thought the Court should be made acquainted with these cirearnstances. The CUAIRMAN—SamueI Evans, you have, in pleading guilty, perhaps acted with as much sagacity as you could act. Knowing that you were possessed of great bodily power, you chose for the amusement of yourself and your companions to exercise that power in assaulting a police officer. You put his life and body in danger, and you must abide by the consequences of your act. The only miti. gating circumstance is, that perhaps you did not intend to do the injury that you have done. The sentence of the Court is, that you be imprisoned for three calendar months. Mr. BALLANTYNE applied to have the estrcat taken off the prisoner's recognizances. The COURT would consider of it. Mary Brown was charged with stealing one shirt, one sheet, and two towels, the goods of S. Lumbers. Mrs. Lumbers lives in Ryder• court, Ryder-street, had a sheet, shirt, and two towels, hanging out in her yard ; she put them up safe in the evening, and missed them the next morning. Saw them afterwards in the possession of the policeman. • Policeman 138 C, met the prisoner carrying the linen ploinced, and stopped her. Mrs. Lumbers swore to the linen being produced as her property. The 'prisoner, being called on for her defence, said she was destitute and had three children. The CHAIRMAN summed up, and the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The Chairman, in passing sentence of six months' imprisonment and hard labour, told the pri soner she was an old offender, and if she came there again she would he sent abroad. Thomas Homan was indicted for stealing two pounds and a half of bacon, the property of Thomas Bourne. The prosecutor saw the prisoner and another boy steal the bacon from his shop and seized the prisoner, who im mediately dropped the bacon. The prisoner in his defence said the other boy bad com mitted the theft. The prisoner's brother was called to speak to his cha. racter. The CHAIRMAN haring summed up, The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. Sentence, six month's imprisonment and hard labour. The prisoner had previously been before the Court. George Willis was charged with stealing certain pewter pots, the property of John Minte. Alfred Robinson saw the prisoner in the act of stealing a pot in St. James's•street, and gave him into custody, when other pots were found on him. The policeman who took him into custody produced the pots found on him. _ John Minte swore to certain of the pots as his property. The prisoner said that he was obliged to walk the streets through distress, and picked up the pot in a doorway. Verdict —G uilty. The prisoner was again indicted for stealing a pewter pot, the property of James Nicholls. The evidence was the same as in the last case. Mr. Nicholls identified the pots as his property, and the Jury found the prisoner guilty. lie was also convicted of steal ing a third pot, the property of W. Verey. The CHAIRMAN sentenced the prisoner to three months imprisonment and hard labour on each indictment. Thomas Collings was indicted for stealing a pewter pot, the property of Richard Edwards. Wiliam Horseman, a Mendicity constable, produced a pot which he had found upon the prisoner. Richard Edwards identified the pot as his property. The prisoner made no defence, and the jury returned a verdict of Guilty,; and, at the same time, expressed their decided opinion as to the ill effects produced by house keepers leaving the pots outside their doors. The CHAIRMAN sentenced the prisoner, who had already been in prison six weeks, to two months imprisonment and hard labour. William Nott was indicted for stealing 51bs. of beef, the property of Thomas Cowell, a butcher of Knightsiridge. The policemen who took the prisoner into custody with the beef in his possession, deposed to the prisoner's having confessed that he had taken the boef from the prosecutor's shop. The prosecutor had not missed the beef. The prisoner offered no defence. Th.! Jury returned a verdict of Guilty ; and he was sen tented to two months' imprisonment and hard labour. Samuel Saunders, an . old man, b 7 years of age, was indicted for stealing a pewter pot, the property of John Attwood, a publican, in Ficcadilly. Isaac Hurst, a servant of the prosecutor's, met the pri soner coming out of his master's tap-room, found the pot on him, and gave him in charge. The policeman who took him into custody produced the pot. The prisoner said he was a porter, and that he took the pot for the purpose of fetching some milk, and that he intended to return it. Two witnesses, one of whom had known the prisoner fourteen years, gave him a most excellent character. The Jury found him Guilty. The prisoner was again indicted for stealing a pewter pot, the property of William Dawson. The pot had been found on him when he was taken into custody on the last charge. His defence was, that he had picked it up in the street.--'Fhe Jury found him Guilty, and he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour on each indictment. The Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire, and Lady Charlotte Hill, intend coming to town from Elsthamptstead-park, for the season, on Saturday next. The Earl and Countess of Hillsborough, Hon. Cap tain and Lady Mary Hood, Viscount Hawarden, the Hon. Miss Maude, and a distinguished circle, are at present as sembled at the above elegant seat. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bute, who are sojourning at Bognor, are not expected to return to town until the week after next. FRIGHTFUL DEATH FROM MACHINERY.- Yesterday an inquest was held at the London Hospital, before Mr. Baker, the Coroner, on view of the remains of John Cosbern, aged 34 years. Thomas Breeze stated that he was foreman to Messrs. Briggs and Gardner, seed crushers, in Primrose -street, Bishopsg,ate-street, in whose employment the deceased also lived as waggoner. On Wednesday last, about eleven in the forenoon, while in the lower part of the premises of his employer, he heard the loud groans of the deceased, who sass in the loft over his head, which caused him instantly to run to his assistance, and on reaching the spot he found him lying on a shaft which was turned by a steam-engine, and by which a chaff cutting machine on the hay. loft was occasionally set in motion to cut up food for the horses. The deceased, who, though writhing it, the greatest possible agony, was per fectly sensible at the time, told him (witness), " that while in the act of placing the cat-gut from the shaft to a wheel by which the chaff-cutter was put in motion his smock frock got entangled in the former, and rolled him round between it and the wall"—a space of only twenty-two inches, so that both his legs were smashed in different places and several of his ribs fractured. Waite thus rolled about on the shaft his legs touched a wire which communicated with a bell that had been constructed and placed under neath the loft merely to give warning in case of accident, and to enable the engineer on its being rung to throw the shaft out of play so as to stop it, and the engineer on hear hie it ring at once stopped it. The deceased was taken off the wheel and conveyed to the London Hospital, where he afterwards died. The witness added that the shaft in question was perfectly smooth, and he was at a loss to ac count how the smock frock of the deceased could have got entangled in it- Verdict—" Accidental death." SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF A Boy.-Yesterdav considerable excitement prevailed in the neighbourhood of Cato-street, Edgware-road, in consequence of the sudden death of a boy, about ten years of age, named John Sullivan, residing with his parents in the above street. It appeared that the boy went t o s cho o l in the morning in perfect health, and returned ho me to his dinner. H e h a d not been there long before he complained of being si c k and ill. He became so bad that it was deemed advisable to send for medical aid. A surgeon in the neighbourhood attended and wanted to bleed him, but the mother would not consent under any circumstances , to such a proceed ing,a nd the poor bey expired in a short time after. In• formation had been sent to the Corone r , an d an inquest will be held on the body this day. EVENING EDITION. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1839. ITEDNI3DAY. Subscription Plate of 501. : for three years old, 7st ; four years, Est, 71b, ; and five years, 9.it. T. Y. C. Lord Stradbroke's Fifer, 5 years Mr. Rayner's Minima, 3 yrs.— Mr. Howe's Seamander, 3 yr. 2to 1 on Minima. Won by two lengths. The Column Stakes of 50 sews. each, h. ft. ;:for three-]ear old colts, Bst 71b. ; and fillies, Bst. 41b. ; those by untried stallions,or out of untried mares, allowed 3lbs, ; if both, slbs. (20 Subs.) Duke of Portland's f. by Ti res i as ( m . un t r i e d) (Nat.) I Mr. Batson's c. Boother to PI-nipo, by Emilius ............ Lord Exeter's Bosphoru s , by R eve ll er ( m . un t r i e d) ...... ..• 3 Lord Exeter's c. by Reveller Mr. Cooke's ch f. Romaik e , by R ow t on (h. un tri e d).. 5 Betting-7 to 4on Souvenir, 4to 1 asst Bosphorus, and 4 to 1 agst Brother to Plenipo. Won by half a length. Mr. Thornhill's b. c. Ephemeron received forfeit from Lord Suffield's Sphynx ; Bst. 71b. each. R.M. 20, h. ft. Lord Suffield's b. f. Alms asst Colonel Anson's b. f. N' s " narde ; Ist. 71b. aach. A.F. 200, h. ft. Off by consent. Tuesday Night. ARRIVALS.—Dukes of Portland and Rutland, Marquis of Exeter ; Lords Jersey, Verulam, Lichfield, Albemarle, Godol phin, S. Osborne, G. H. Bentinek, Stradbroke, J. Fitzroy, C. Manners, and Villiers ; Sir D. Baird, S. Graham, and J. Shel ley ; Lady Chesterfield ; Hons. General Grosvenor, G. Anon (and Lady), G. S. Byng„J. Villiers, Villiers, Grimston , H. Ron., W. Rous, and W. Fitzroy ; Colonel Peel; Me""' C. (and Mrs.) Wilson, Thornhill, Thornhill, jun., Portman, Etwa.ll, 111. P., Watts, Bowes, M.P., Gardnor, Payne, Gre vale, Clive, Cotterell, Delme Radcliffe, Hunter, Crommelifi, Worrell, Foulis, J. Bayly, Dolphin, Irby, Sloane Stanley , Hawker, Newton, Newton. jun., &c. The weather from an early hour this morning was miserable in the extreme ; a strong easterly wind, with alternate storms of snow, hail, and rain ; fortunately a change, favourable for the sport, took place about noon, but the wind was consistently violent and cold to the close of the day ; as a natural consequen ce the heath was not very numerously attended. The following are additional details of the races decided Oatlands.--Caravan, now under new and more fortunate Co lours, made play at a good pace from beginning to end, and won by ten lengths. I 'wish-you-may-get-it seconded him through' eut, and might, had it been prudent, have made the finish & little nearer ; but Chapple, on finding at the Duke's Stand th a t the game was fairly lost, eased her in the run to. Daedalus and Caroline Elvina were beaten off a long way. I-wish-you - m a r get it was van'd part of the way home the same afternoon. Tuesday's Riddlesworth.-7 to 2on Ilderim. The Leeway filly made play at her best pace to the bushes, where Ilderim,, who had been second to her, went up, t oo k a d ec ided lead, an a won in a canter by three lengths. The Priam filly was "no where." 100 SOlr. Stakes.—The Advance colt cut out all the work to the cords, where Joanna and Boa challenged. A tolerably good race home ended in Joanna winning by a length, and the other two making a dead heat for second place. Boz seemed very much inclined to run out towards the end. 100 Soy. Sweepstakes.—A slow-run race, but all in favour of Flambeau, who made all the play, and won easily by three lengths. The following is t list of the betting after the races : THE DERAIT. 5 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Caesar—taken 10 to 1 egg Colonel Peel's Dey of Algiers—taken 20 to I apt Lerd Albemarle's Tros—talcon 25 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Flambeau 35 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Accelerator 40 to 1 agst Mr. Thorzihill's Euclid (Maria colt) —take n 40 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Darrynane—taken 40 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Ilderim—taken 40 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcot . e's Valaincourt_taken 40 to I agst Duke of Grafton's Montreal 200 to 100 agst Caesar and Scott's let—taken 500 even on Caesar agst Dey of Algiers, Tros, and Flambea u ' taken 900 even between Ilderim and Darrynane—taken 300 even between Camelion and Darrynane...taken OAJCI. 9 to 1 agst Mr. lleseltine's Shadow=taken 16 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Kathleen O'More—taken LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. CHESTER, TRADES' CUP. 7 to 1 agst Mr. Copeland's King Cole—taken fq to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Harkaway 10 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Cardinal Puff 11 to 1 agst Captain Berkeley's Caravan 12 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's lon—offers to take 16 to 1 agst. Sir T. Stanley's Cowboy hi to 1 agst Mr. lileiklam Modesty—offered 18 to 1 agst Mr. Heseltine's Slashing Harry 20 to 1 agst any other. TAINIWORTH STEEPLE CHASE—MoxpAr.. This event came off on Monday last over a well-chosen 110_4 country, and was won by Mr. H. Cooper's b. g. Bendigo, (Mr. Barton), beating Hr. Capenhurst's Betsey, 6 yrs. ; „; G. Ball :.a. br. m. Mar y A nn , age d ; M r . W oo dh o use'. br• g Solicitor, aged; and Mr. Godwin's ch. g. Nimrod, eleverif GRAND EIGHT-OARED CUTTER MATCH' , The great contest between the g e ntl em en of the v., 12 "; versities of Oxford and Cambridge, which has for 00 '" 0 , weeks past engrossed a tt en ti on , came off yesterday, fr l le Westminster to Putney, a di s t a nc e , ca l cu l a t e d to try t lasting power of aspirants in this sport. The well-kW: le qualities of the men, th e i t y ou th, s t am i na , an d long-es'id blished game, had warranted the conclusion that this vio tl an , be the very no plus u lt ra of row i ng , nor were the most pine disappointed in th e i r ex p ec t a ti ons . This was 11 , their first appearance, the same p ar ti es h av ing before 414 tered the lists, from which the Cantabs, it is said, tbr ous c e . the superiority of their boat, came off victorious. , 11 „,; 3 that period the Cr.ntabs had been twice in a wager,', r ;b; Westminster to Putney against the g r e at Leander ‘,." in the fist struggle, which was in 1897, Cambriag , plucked the laurel from their brows; but in the contest of last season between the same parties it was a successi °l !„, s l fouling from their nearing the ilorseferry until their arr l ' h at Putney, which bridge the Leander went first throti and claimed the honour of the day. The umpire, l i r. Searle, however declared this to be no match, and dissat'": faction prevailed. In this contest the auri sacra faine h ' was cast on one side, the wh o l e a i m b e i ng to di scover w bic" of our two Universities could produce the best rowers. The Cambridge crew were the favourites, from tu g supposition that having rowed two matches on the Par ticular water appointed fo yesterday, they would b e more au fait at their work, and th e o dd s o f 5 to 4 5 ,, er e, ,„ e freely given aid t a k en t o th e amoun t o f t h ousan ds- -1 " Ø : very hewer of each College b o at had b een selected both hands. They had been tried and approved, and sfe r e. ef the very men fitting for a struggle in which for six I they bad to work with almost breathless activity. sue At tvto o'cicek th e note of preparation" sounde d , e el/ as the tide increased towards high water, the resp club galleys turned out from the causeways of Sea r ,:, Lyons, Roberts, Chandler, &c., and moved towards ` b , starting-place, the wind blowing fearfully from the 108 .„, cast. At half-past four the combatants made their ag e ' '1 ante. The boats were thus manned : OXFORD. CAMSRIDGIC. Names. Colleges. Names. Colleges wo h Messrs. Lee Q ueen ' s Col. Messrs. Shadwell ....St. J °l— Merton Smythe 'Nail,: 1 . Moberly . Christ's Abercombie Csie s Garnet ...Ditto Paris ,,,CarpusHalls l 3razennose Penrose Trinity Hobhouse Balliol Yaleman CS igs Poweys ...Ditto Berwick ..University I s l t r a e n tt ley The last gentleman in each list took the stroke, 311 this occasion each cutter was steered by a collegian' t o names of whom we did n o t c atch. On th e previous col ue match of last se ason P ar i s h an d N ou lt on h a d been'4, coxswains, but, in order to make the affair as even Or sible, gentlemen operated yesterday. v i rest The attendance on shore was extraordinary. '',„ll‘ rninster B r idg e , th e Bishop's Walk, Milibank, Vatam-0, and Putney B r idge pre:ented one solid mass of specta t° ,o anxious to obtain even a glance of the gentlemen. A t . 00 , minutes to five o'clock, the gentlemen were at their Wl l l 4 and a finer set of men for such an arduous under were never seen. They looked in the best condition. . t Cambridge gentlemen went to the outside station, 1 , ‘ 9 l ord termed, at the pier of Westminster Bridge, the 'o4 be n gentlemen having won the inside and best position. t o the signal was given they took it admirably, and f°r ibe it first four or five strokes appeared to do nothing ; but ibef speed, when the way was well on, was wonderful. oa were stroke and strok e u n til th e y ne a red th e Horse where Combridge showed a slight lead. Their antlibo;/ nists disputed the advantage wi t h all the strength,i t cauld muster, but in vain Off the Penitentiary the v a s & ITidge men had increased their advantage, and %relit in ile vance through Vauxh a ll Brid g e. In each succeeding : o i. the difference of their strength and style was more P l us h fest. The Cambridge gentlemen arrived first throoj Putney Bridge, amidst deafening shouts one minu te 20 seconds in advance of their opponents. Ol d The distance was done by the winners in 31 minute A in' a half ; tha losers had a slow stroke, but that of the w,r ners was like lightning, although at first sight theP peared under-boated. The accounts received at the Earl of Derbi ,s ' t oo Grosvenor-square, yesterday, from Knowsley-park, °bole that his Lordship had again rallied, and was on the r e e dit considerably better. Dr. Brandreth, of Liverpool, A tt uSE his Lordship, who has derived much benefit from t he of a salt bath. The Here.litary Grand Duke of Russia aril '§ l§ at Cohlrntz on the 26th ult , in the Cologne CePPt'fi steamer Count de Paris. After examining the 0)8 .. 1 : the tions his Imperial Highness continued his j o urneY 1 , 31 ,pr same vessel, next morning, to Cologne, Dusseldorf, guen, and Rotterdam. m aste r ' It has been stated erroneously that t h e - i do ship of St. Katherine's is in the gift of Queen .A de o be n The appointment rests with the Queen Consort, Co y there is one; but a Queen Dowager is not a Queen to the sort, and when there is none the appointment lapses Crown, as it did in the last instance.—Globe. boci Paganini, who has been f or some time in able state of health, is at pretent sa id t o b e in cous lu " danger. rt il l A LORD FRANCIS EGERTON, M.P.s."-•-- kill ford great pleasure to a numerous portion of our „ — f f e rilt to learn that the above Noble Lord, who has been, 5 , 0 ut,`,1 for several weeks past from a severe attack 0 1 r b - t 011' gradually recovering from its effects, and it is thouggiont. be present in the Hous e o f C ommons on the 15th In ill' His Lordship, accomp an i e d b y his lady a nd f i ll I,B o ' tended to have pas se d t h e recess at Worsley ' cashire, but was un a bl e , on account o f his heal th ' whole of the family are at Oatlands, Surrey- fool. st fi ti e r i e r , The Tories of Salisbury, to judg e paper published there, are, as almost all a most inconsistent and scurrilous race_for in Lora number they, in a !ow style, personally attacke;lo6, Radnor for having voted for a repeal of the G: r and (in the same number) the liberal MT- .L„ 0 46 1 bury, Mr. Brodie is similarly attacked for hav_ ll6 , or tion against their repeal. In the same paper a sty le of a column is devoted to an attack in a st r uT oo d a ll, upon two Town Councillors, of Salisbury, N 1 foule r use the and Mr. Cooper (Liberals), merely heed a _ o p°. made and the latter seconded, at a Council, ..F, e bo - Torterecent tion to reduce the salary of the Recorder °f i L: Dio ra rough, on the ground that the sum now e 06 0 ; than commensurate to the light duties of t° to be The only object of those gentlemen appe ut_ risek ol praiseworthy one, viz :—to reduce the heevY esF the borough,