The Sun. — London, England, 1839-05-17 00:00:00

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THE CHARTER of SUNDAY, May , will contain full particulars of the Insurrection in Pari l9 s The Letters between the Queen and Sir Robert Peel ; Lord , B roughava's Letter to Lord John Russell ; full account of . c•Paom Races ; the Convention in Birmingham ; with original articles on the principal topics of the day, and all the News of the Week. * Resolution of the London Trades Combination Com mittee:— " That this Committee earnestly call upon their fellow workmen throughout the country to support 4 THE I ARTER' Newspaper by every means in their power, it iein the only Paper published really belonging to the Work- Uasses. " THOS. STEPHENSON, Cooper, Chairman. WM. LOVETT, Cabinet Maker, Secretary." . Give your orders early to the Newsmen ; O ffi ce, 16, Cathe nuerstrret, Strand. a t ts '3O ice full 1114 ood re e if ! stet. Mel circle H a lt, ig ismi roJ• lino: ►spiel Incas. ied b: ;, a na oar to h is i d the )th e 03 , :CBS''' . 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THTS EVENING, MAY 17, Will be performed the New Play, in Fire Acts, galled RICHELIEU, OR 'I HE CONSPIRACY, Written by Sir E. Lytton Bulwer, Bart. The Characters by Mr. Elton, Mr. Diddear, Mr. Macready, Mr. Warde, Mr. km derson, Mr. Vining. Mr. Roberts, Mr. Phelps, Mr. G. Ben nett, Mr. Howe, Miss E. Phillips, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Yar nold, Mr. W. h. 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. Ayliffe, Mr. Andrews, Mr. T. Matthews, Miss V andenhoff, Miss Charles, Mesdamee Reed, Corder, Lee, Valanduke, Mathews, Mew, and Morgan. After which, the New Dramatic Romance, ealled AGNES BERNAUER, THE MAID OF AUGSBURG. After which, the New Farce, in One Act, Sailed SAYINGS AND DOINGS. To-Morrow there will be no performance. ROYAL SURREY EATRE. The Greatest Attraction a London— TH those distinguished Vo calists Miss Romer, Mr. Templeton, and Mr. Balfe, aided by a Double Chorus and Increased Band from the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Brilliant and overflowing Houses. THIS EVENING, MAT 17, Will be presented Bellini's Opera of Coln, LA SONNAMBULA. Rodelph, Mr. W. Balfe ; Elvin°, Mr. Templeton ; Amina, Miss Romer. After which, the Burletta of NO! L• e/.rederick, Mr. H. Bedford. VIDOCQ oncle ith the Meo-Drama udEv l 4. FRENCH POLICE of SPY. -47,,,..,=, ~ - -t-,4‘ ,4‘ ' vio. ~ rfi• -- l's.c.r.t :tV',,. lA.. -.•- ~.q_k, ' 4 l- %$< ...-- - N 0...... , ..., , - - .:a.::_: - .. . , '-C);,,vf.., Zln atn. LONDON : FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1839. ; ,a l p, ~ The Peers' met yesterday but only to adjourn, like the Commons, to the 27th instant. Lord BROUGHAM took t he Opportunity of presenting a petition in favour of the Glasgow Cotton-spinners, whom he recommended to the merciful consideration of the Government. Several pe titions in favour of a penny postage were also presented. Som e of the Tory papers assert that the Ladies o f the Household, connected with the Whigs, ought to have resigned with their husbands and brothers ; and they are vilified by the Tory scribes, for not h aving done so. It has, however, been stated, and we believe correctly, that the Marquis of TAVIS 'r,OCK intimated to the Duke of WELLINGTON tnat his Marchioness should resign, and the Mar chioness of NORMANBY actually tendered her re signation. No doubt, too, the rest of the Ladies would have resigned in time, as they saw her MA JESTY reconciled to the new associates forced on her by the T or i es , h a d t h ey fi xe d th emse l ves i n o ffi ce , an d had her MAJESTY not expressed a very strong opinion against their resignation. When the Marchioness Of NORMANBY tendered her resignation, her MA JESTY declined to accept it, and is said to have then observed, 6' I HAVE DEFERRED, AND AM ALWAYS WILLING TO DEFER, TO THE WISHES OF THE PEOPLE, BUT I WILL NOT GIVE UP EVERY THING TO A PARTY, NOR BE THE SLAVE OF A FACTION." Her MAJESTY gave all her Ladies plainly to understand that she did not wi s h t h em to resign — t h at s h e wou ld not accept their res i gnat i ons ; an d t h ey wou ld have been as false and f a i t h less t true toner t o the QUEEN, as her MAJESTY was own heart and the affections of her youth, had th-. , e . ir -Y per s i ste d i n res i gn i ng , an d l e f t h er w h o ll y - ou m n o d redaii The w ith new and strange companions. loyalty an d ti Of the T or i es i s on a p ar wi th th e i r was the dut thei r lova of liberty, for they assert it Ladies, to 7, and would have been a virtue in the have d o eserted their friend and benefac tress when she mor e tha n e ver requ i re d th e ir s ervi c e s and proofs of their d evoted hv affection. The letters w e a us that e recei ve d f rom var i ous quar ters satisfy the peopl e o f E ng l an d wou ld have seen, with great appreh ens i o n, not to say ENGLAND anxiety, the Queen o f wholly Sur rounded by the friend s of th e heir to the throne. We sty nothing against the honou r of any man or woman, o f p but it is possible that so me • pr ince ERNEST'S Very zealous and ye!), religious friends, convinced, perhaps, from the d iatribes of the Times, Herald, Protestantism i s en d angere d by the QUEEN Standard, a nd Co. that being in posse ss i on o f the throne, and ready, for a ll f a natics are, to sacrifi ce t h e obligations of mora lity to promote what t hey are told, an d w h at th e y b e li e ve to be the service of cod, and promotinc, . .t, which is to ensure them eternal happiness--- i t i s possible, we will not sa y . it is probabl e , b ut might it i s p oss ible, and have filled t h e People with great apprehension, that some over acalous, religious friend of Prince ERNEST, were there no person bu t h his friends about the . QUEEN, might conclude th at he or she was doing an acceptable public service, and fulfilling a reli gious duty, by hastening Prince ERNEST'S acces sion t o t h e th rone o f E ng land. Those who dread Princ e ERNEST'S accession to power here as a sure and great calamity, only performed a sacred duty when they remained about her MAJESTY, and would only have done their duty had they refused to leave her till they were actually driven from the Palace. Such great pains have been of late taken by the Priesthood of the Church of England to fanaticise their followers, and their efforts hare been so zea lously seconded by the anti-Catholic and ultra- Protestant press, that there would be just cause to he alarmed for the life of her MAJESTY were she surrounded only by those who have embraced the politico-religious opinions taught at Exeter hall and by the Times and Standard. To the zeal with which these opinions have been en forced Sir ROBERT PEEL is mainly indebted for his political power, and he is their avowed organ. lie is the head and representative of the bigots and the Tories, and could only have placed persons about the QUEEN who share, or hypocritically pre tend to share, in the bigotry and Toryism of his party. The Duchess of KENT, who has not lost a mother's rights, or a mother's watchful care, we are well convinced, would have seen her daughter, with the greatest anxiety and horror, surrounded exclu sively by the friends, partisans, and political fol lowers of the King of HANOVER. Fortunately for the empire the over eagerness of the Tories to clutch power has frustrated their own scheme, and the resignation of Sir ROBERT PEEL has . both secured the public peace, and relieved the country from daily apprehensions for her MAJESTY'S safety. We have copied from a Welsh Paper, thinking it our duty to take every opportunity to warn our countrymen against violence, an article drawn up by ALEXANDER SOMERVILLE, describing with considerable force the immense disadvantages a po pulace, though armed, would have in a contest with a disciplined force. Such facts as he states cannot be too strongly impressed on the people, in order to deter them from incurring the certain destruction to which, for no adequate object, they would expose themselves. At the same time we feel bound to inform those who might be disposed, from relying with implicit confidence on obtaining an easy vic tory over the multitude, to goad them into outrage by adding insult to oppression, that Mr. SOMER VILLE does not probably take a complete view of the warfare which would be carried on, if the in citement of some foolish leaders, and any injudi cious harshness on the part of the authorities, were to drive the Chartists into rebellion. In their mani- fest° they say—" The once boasted manufacto• ries of England will perish by an agent soldiers cannot cope with, nor policemen avert." They think of other means of warfare besides engaging in the open field with artillery. A population uni versally and thoroughly hostile, possesses so many means of annoyance, when from despair they dis regard their own lives, that no Government should deem it safe to oppress them from a conviction that they can be easily subdued. With such a population every line of communication must be in their hands. A few pounds of gunpowder, a crow-bar, and a sledge-hammer, might suffice to blow up a bridge, and render a rail-road impassable. It is impossible to exercise a vigilance sufficient to controul and keep in check a complete hostile population ; and, therefore, while we warn the working classes (in Mr. SOMER-• VILLE'S language) of what they will be ex posed to by an outbreak, we must also warn the middle classes and the Government against driving the bulk of the people to despair. We still think, as we said yesterday, that this condition of society cannot be cured by ordinary means. In Parliament we see the stunted intellect and narrow passions of a SIBTNORP and a D uNGANNoN foremost in recommending coercion ; in the Press, we find the simpering Post opening its columns to the communications of some half or whole pay officer on the advantages of the soldiers, whenever they come into conflict with the people, taking at once a sure and deadly aim, accord ing to order from the Horse Guards. If men of large and comprehensive mind do not coun sel better courses—if humane and friendly spirits do not step between the organised soldiers, anxious to cultivate their trade, and the violent leaders of the people thirsting probably for notoriety, great and serious contentions, and great calamities will overwhelm us. We think with horror, of the dense and crowded population of our towns coming into contact with the soldiery, of the immense danger to property which must ensue from its being surrounded with enemies, and of the vast distress and misery, of the famine and terror, which would result from the suspension of traffic for one single week. We have no hope that our priesthood, intently engaged, under the name of preserving the rights of the Church, in aggravating the public discord and provoking calamity, will or can use any bene ficial influence in this peculiarly difficult posture of our affairs. But there is another class of men who have long been distinguished by their zeal in all good works, who have shunned no danger and spared no expense in setting free the slave and in striking the axe and the halter from the hand of the executioner. The beneficent and kindly beings belonging to all sects and parties who have taken the lead in ameliorating our criminal code, and in extinguishing slavery, are now summoned, as it ap pears to us, to perform the nobler and more difficult task of stifling contentions, and checking violence, legal as well as illegal, in their native land. They will in many cases, we are aware, have to conquer their own prejudices, accustomed to look to the law, and accustomed to rely on the law for protection ; but the law has now lost much of its force, and those who have contributed to bring it into dis credit must make up for its inefficiency by their moral influence. They must in many cases, too, be prepared to sacrifice their own presumed inte rest, for they belong to those classes of whose oppressions the working classes complain, anti of whose exclusive legislative power they demand a share. Nevertheless as we are well convinced that the working classes neither can nor ought to be sa tisfied with their present condition, and as we are equally convinced that the course which they are taking to attain their object, and the course the Government and Magistrates are taking to put them down, must in the end be most disastrous, we earnestly implore the reflecting and intel ligent friends of humanity, to bethink them of in- terposing and staying mutual violence, while they demand justice, and see that justice be done. Un less they do bestir themselves, the cause of humanity will be dishonoured in its chief seat, and the eman cipation of slaves be every where retarded. According to the accounts we received last night *rom Birmingham, several of the London Police lad gone thither, and were watching the Conven ;ion, dressed in coloured clothes. It was stated that they were in possession of warrants to arrest some of the leading members, and it was expected, should any attempt to arrest them be made that it would give rise to a disturbance. Several of the members of the Convention, however, had left Birmingham, which one of those who remained described as treat ing the Convention with great contempt. The affairs of that body seem approaching a crisis. Contemptible in all respects as is the new French Cabinet, it is the prevailing opinion in Paris that it will get through the present Session without change or modification. The recent insurrection will work upon the fears of the middling classes, and deter them from sanctioning any policy which the organs of the Court represent as fraught with the seeds of another revolution. It matters little that M. TIIIERS, M. °DILLON BARROT, and the other independent Members of the Chamber, know or suspect the real origin of the bloody drama which has been again, for the fifth or sixth time, acted in the streets of Paris since the accession of LOUIS PHILIPPE. They, no less than the Court parasites, must acquiesce in measures openly or tacitly throwing all the blame upon the people, instead of rightly attributing it to the bad faith; petty intrigues, and despotical policy of the KING. They are in the delicate situation of spec tators at the funeral of a father sent to the grave by the bad conduct of a son impatient to succeed to the possession of his wealth and worldly distinctions. They must seem to sympathize with the affliction of a person whom they know to be scarcelyable to conceal the fullness of his joy. Were they to do otherwise, that arch-hypocrite, the world, would denounce them as devoid of every feeling that does honour to huma nity —as heartless monsters incapable of ap preciating the depth of Royal affliction, and of sharing in the virtuous indignation which a ll s h ould feel against those who in any way contribut e t o trouble the repose ofthKroiwngsa.s much Louis PHILIPPE will be able dust as he pleases theets dictated eyes of bthe the oumultitude,tward who always confound in a nd respect due to a sovereign from a subject—the homage etiquette—with a vo l untary an d entire acquiescence e r ri e prescribed b u ee y in th e measures that demandßut is our faith in th e ultimate them. triumph of the French people, shaken by the events of the last week ? Far from it. Though indignant at the ter giversation of the Chamber in preferring f or t h e n pref err i ng S AUZET addr esses as t h e t a o d pTtlionnE R o s f a a s s m Pr a e o s y ide e n ro t, o cahni d ag KING may . require, on the subject of the late insurrection, we feel assured that the peo ple will eventually confound the miserable in trigues by which the KING has succeeded, for the last eight years, in withholding from them the fruits of their glorious Revolution. The trick of treasonable plots will fail the Court at last. The evocation orthe spirit of treason is dangerous to the subtlest Royal magician, as that is a demon easier to raise than to dismiss at pleasure. Of this the occurrences which took place ,in Paris on Sunday an d Monday, must have convinced many of the KING'S friends. Though several of the insurgents were surrounded singly by groups of the peaceable citizens,who persuaded them to desist from an impossible enterprise,not a hand was stretched forth either to disarm them or to make them prisoners. The rich shop-keepers looked on with as much unconcern as they would have regarded a perform ance at the Opera. Not a soul appeared to feel that he had a duty to perform to the Government in a season of so much peril. This is an ominous circumstance, inasmuch as it proves that Louis PHILIPPE is no longer the idol of the shopocracy of Paris. Still the apathy of the people will not affect the stability of the new Ministry, and this is now the paramount consideration with the KING. If he can manage to get through the present Ses sion, he will trust to his good fortune, his money, and the chapter of accidents, to prepare the Court to meet the more distant dangers. The late attempt of Sir ROBERT PEEL to con stitute himself Mayor of the Palace, and play the part of Viceroy over the QUEEN, has roused, as was to be anticipated, the indignation of the people from one end of the country to the other. We know not which feeling is just now most predominant in the popular mind—abhorrence of the projected des potism of the Tories, or admiration of the firm, high-minded resistance of the QUEEN. Perhaps we should say that both sentiments hold equal sway over the people ; for we find. them both expressed with unwonted energy in all the provincial speeches and addresses that we have yet perused. At Liver pool—at Bristol—at Snenton—at Edinburgh— at Brighton —at Newcastle —at Worcester at Sheffield—at Truro—at Dublin, and generally throughout Ireland :—at all these places, and nu merous others that we could mention, the language held is, we repeat, significant and energetic in an unwonted degree. The QUEEN is uppermost in every one's mind, " Rally round the Throne," and " Down with the Tories," is the cry of every one who takes the slightest interest in the well doing of his fellow-countrymen ! On this point, Whig, Radical, and Chartist think and speak with equal fervor. After a display of strong feeling like this, who shall talk of Tory re-action ? Who shall dare to allege—as the faction has so often of late—that the public have become indifferent to Reform, and only wait a favourable opportunity to fling them selves into the out-stretched arms of Sir ROBERT PEEL and his squad? Why,they are just now as eager for Reform as ever they were during the memorable period of 1832 I The late despotic conduct of the Tories has roused all their worst apprehensions ; confirmed all their strongest suspicions ; and put them universally on the alert. We see no more apathy—no more sullen, perilous inertness. The present aspect of the people is one of vigilance and determination. • Like a giant refreshed, they are rising irresistible in their strength. Pray Heaven, Ministers do nothing to check or blight these auspi cious impulses on the part of their fellow-country men I The game is now in their own hands. The QUEEN is with them ; her subjects are with them ; and they have only to be true to themselves, and the illustrious Lady whom they serve, to suc ceed in every just and liberal measure they may bring forward. As for difficulties, they must really cease henceforth to urge any sorry excuse of this sort ; for the people have had the phrase dinned into their ears, till they are as sick of it as HENRY the FOURTH was of the name of " MORTIMER." An energetic, enlightened Government, so far from taking fright at difficulties, should re cognise in them only a reason for exerting renewed energy. In fact, there is no difficulty so herculean but what may be overcome by steadiness and resolution. Is the Aristocracy the great stumbling-block in the path of Minis ters ? Let them bring the overwhelming moral force of the people to bear upon it. Are they dis trustful of the continuous zeal of the country ? Let them dare to deserve their good opinion, and they will be sure to maintain it. Nothing can prevent their success in any good measure they may under take, but a want of heart in themselves. Toryism is at their feet, and at best can do no more than snarl and growl, for the late " explanations" have had the effect of drawing the teeth and paring the claws of the monster. Again, then, we say to Ministers, be firm —be energetic—and, above all, place a manly, generous reliance on the people, bearing in mind, that it is for their benefit, and by their agency, that you hold office. There are ro other means that we know of, by which you can maintain yourselves in power ; but these are all snfficient. Yes, even though Norwich, the great and influential city of Norwich glo rious exception to a general rule I may send up an address to her MAJESTY, lament ing in most pathetic terms the downfall of all the Tory hopes—even though this most disinterested city may array itself in solitary opposition to Ministers, and launch the heavy thunders of its Corporation at their head—a Liberal Government need have nothing to apprehend, for, as we said before, its means are all-sufficient for doing good. In the Tory journals of this morning appears the following announcement, which we copy verbatim : "We are enabled to state that on Monday, the 27th instant, the Right Hon. HENRY GOULBURN will certainly be proposed for the office of Speaker, vacant by Mr. A nExcitomnY's resignation of the Chair, and that the House will proceed to the elec tion at halt-past three o'clock exactly. We ear nestly hope that every Conservative Member will be in his place on that day, to secure the election of a candidate so eminently qualified as the Right Honourable Gentleman is on all sides admitted to be for the high and important office of presiding over the debates of the Commons' House of Parliament. There is, perhaps, no duty which a Member of Parliament can be called upon to per form more important in itself, and involving con sequences of more importance to others, than the one of which the discharge is, on this occasion, required of him ; and assuredly it is one which every constituency in this kingdom will demand a strict account of, at the hands of their respective representatives." This bears upon the face of it the stamp of the Carlton Club, and it is a proof that the defeated faction are determined to put forth all their strength on the question to which it relates. They are stung to the quick—mortified beyond expression by the signal discomfiture which they have sustained from a quarter whence they least expected it, and they imagine that an act of retaliation on the Crown may be made under the pretext of discharging a constitutional duty, which shall have the effect of at once displaying their strength and retrieving in some degree the disgrace which has well nigh overwhelmed them. Every nerve will therefore be strained to the utmost to ac complish their purpose by the election: of their candidate for the Speakership, and we need not add, that the country expects a corresponding energy to be exhibited on the part of the Liberal Members of the House of Commons, to place their chndidate in the chair. The fact is, that unless this great point is carried, and carried triumphantly —unless the noble and constitutional stand which her M AJESTY has made for the liberties of the people, be seconded by a similar display of principle and energy on the part of their representatives, that stand will have been made in vain. Were the de cision of the question to rest on the respective merits of SHAW LEYEVRE and HENRY GOUL- BURN it would soon be settled, for the former pos sesses in a very high degree all the main requisites for the office of Speaker, while the latter has not one of them. But we know that with the Oppo sition, maddened too as they are at the pre s e n t moment, qualification goes for nothing. E very consideration is swallowed up in party feeling ; i t is therefore the more necessary that every Liberal Member should be at his post prepared to do his duty on the day appointed. The Chamber of Deputies has elected for its Vice- Presidents MM. GANNERON and JACQUEMINOT, the first a prominent member of the Coalition, and the se cond a regular Court hack, whose house is the focus of every intrigue against the liberties of the French people. They had an equal number of votes, namely 201—a fact which has filled the new Ministry with apprehensions of not being able to carry on the Government. It is likewise stated in the Opposition journals that M. TRIERS would have been elected President of the Chamber bad not the Marquis of DALMATIE, son of Marshal SOULT, ran about the Cham ber on Tuesday, telling the Deputies of the Left and Left centre, that if TRIERS was President, the Marshal would resign, and all France would be plunged into a revolutionary anarchy. This being an open violation of the Cabinet compact, leaving the Pre sidency an open question, is said to be resented by 11111. PALSY, TESTE, and DUFAURE, who boast of having voted for TRIERS. A Cabinet (no more than a house) divided against itself, cannot stand. But if it land the Session, the KING will be contented. On Wednesday, 70 of the victims in the late insurrection were consigned to the grave. It was a sad spectacle, but it excited among the people no horror of the insurgents. On the contrary, their bravery was the theme of universal eulogy wherever there was a crowd assembled. The Journal des Debats of Tuesday published a long article, in the course of which it stated that the insur gents sought to prevail upon the heroic students of the Polytechnic School to join them, but that the only an swer they received was a discharge of musketry, which killed three of them and dispersed the rest. Upon this statement the Debats founded a string of arguments all tending to show the difference between the state of France now and in 1830, and particularly dwelling upon the immense popularity of Louis PHILIPPE. Unfor tunately for this correctness of the Debats' statements, the Students of the School no sooner saw the article, than they addressed in a body the following letter to the Editor of that Journal : " Mr. Editor—The Students of the Polytechnic School feel bound to give the most strict denial to your assertions of the 4th of May. According to your report they would have had the infamy to fire upon an unarmed mass who de manded an asylum, and three men would have fallen under their fire. This is totally false. They saw an unarmed crowd, dragging a corpse, engage them to follow them in friendly terms. They invited the crowd to retire, saying that they could take no part in their quarrel. Persuaded and deceived by their hopes, the crowd retired, when the Municipal Horse Guard fell upon those that remained, and killed two under the eyes of the indignant Polytechnic School. " This is a true relation of the affair. ;he authenticity of this upon our honour." We guarantee And this is the red hot loyalty trumpeted by the Debats of Tuesday! Here is the strongest sympathy expressed for the insurgents—the strongest indignation at being thought capable of such a display of attach ment to Louis PHILIPPE, his Government, or his dynasty. Nor are the students the only persons of whose loyalty the Government Papers boasted, who would flatly reject such commendations if they dared. The Correspondent of the Post, in a letter, dated a quarter to five o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, which he begins by stating that during the day he had been all over the city of Paris, asserts that not a person with whom he conversed, except the Government hacks, who did not admit the soldiers of the line were exceedingly unwilling to perform their duty, and that the National Guards displayed great indifference as to the result. He continues If I had entertained a doubt before of the unpopularity of Louis Plizzarres Government it would have been removed by the late scenes. At such a terrible moment one would have expected the univer sal cry of horror and indignation at such an attempt. What do I hear ? Flaming eulogia on the bravery of the heroes of May, the imitators of the July barri cades." On Wednesday a Royal Ordinance was read to the Chamber of Peers, constituting it a Court of Justice, for the trial of the Insurgents. M. FRANK CANE is appointed Procurcur.General, assisted by MM. BOUCHY and NAUGUIER*. The trials are to commence immediately, that the Co urt may have advantage of the popular excitement. It is said that unequivocal proofs have been disco vered that the plot was a Bonapartist a ff a i r . B e it what it may, the Police had previo us no ti ce o f it s existence, but the Court had its own reasons for allow ing it to develope itself. Can policy be imagined more atrocious than this, amounting , as it vi r tu a lly do e s, to the inveigling men in plots with a view t o b r ing their necks under the knife of the guillotine ? BOURSE, FARTS, WIDNESDAY, MAY 15. HALF.PI.ST TTILEE.—This has not been a brisk day. For the Account the Three per Cents. opened at 81f. 75c., fell to s lf. 60c., and closed at 81f. 65c.. a fall of 20c. The Five per Cents. opened at 1 1 lf. 50c., declined to I Ilf. 35c., sad closed at 111 E 45c., a fall of 15c. For Money the Three and the Five per Cents. are 25c. lower. The Bank of France Shares are 15f. lower. The Laffitte Bask of I,ooof. Shares are sf. lower, and those of 5,000 f. are sf. higher. The Belgian Five and Three per Cents. are unaltered. The Spanish Active has continued at 20. The St. Germain Rail way Shares 2f. 50c.; the Havre 2f. 50c. ; the Orleans If. 26e., and the Versailles Right Bank sf. lower, The Versailles Left Bank have advanced sf. First Highest Lowest Last trice. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents ..... .. 1 11 25 ... 111 23 ... 11l 15 ... 1.1 20 3 per Cents 61 60 .., 1 6 , 3 in 0 ... si 45 Bank of France ... 2710 ...2710 ...2710 ...gm) Laflitte Bank 1,600 f. Sh 10 75 —.1075 „,1015 _ 10 75 5000 f. Sh 5 205 ... 527 0 ...5265 —5270 Belgian 5 per Cents 102 ... 102 ~, 102 ....02 2 per Cents '7l 90 ... 72 90 ... 72 110 „.. 72 90 Bank ' 632 50 ... 032 50 „, 03r1 „, g.O Spanish Ac.ive 2O ... 20 ..„ 20 ... 20 Neapolitan ... 1 0 2 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain . .. ... 1 . 0 Versailles, It. B 755 ... 755 ... L.E 21.0 ••• 2 E 37 50 ... 910 ... 225 Havre ... 965 ... eO5 Orleans , Strasburg to Bale ..... ASFPIALTES AND BITU MEN& Galvaniz.d Iron DUTCH FUNDS.—ANSTERDAM, MAY 14 Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. A wort Syndic, 4% per cent. 95 954 Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 79 SO Commercial Company, 4. 4 per cent lBO% 160 Ditto (1632 and 1633) 5 per cent. Ditto 1 , 137, 5 per sent. Loan 1837, sier cent. 98% 99 Exchange on London, One month ll 95 Two months BJ BELGIAN I' U NDS—Bacss6Lo, MAY 15 Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Ruthschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. l. 1% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. .... 3 per Cent. ..... ... 72% Lean of_Cilv. 1632.4 per Cent 92 Society of Commerce, 4 Sigel. Cent. i In Bank of Belgium, b per Ceria....--.........-- HIM National Society —Brussels Papers, May 15. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vizsms, May 7 Five per Cents. Motalliques .........„ ................ .... 107% Four per Cents. 102% Three per Cents. Bank Shares ._ 1503 ... 480 ---- ---- -- - . —4llgemeine Zestung. May 12.1 HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, MAY 11. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares An lo. Russian Loan ll'B 107% Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Series 102% 182 Russian 5 per Cent. Hop t and Lo. 11d and 4th Se: ire Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pe Cent 5314 53% Ditto 6 per Cen' l' I Poli4i Bond. New : icket Angle ,atiish Loan, S per Cent 71% 72 1 4 Norwegian Loan, 1e34, 4 per Cent lOl% IL I% PRUSSIAN FUNDS,—BERLIN, MAY 10. Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent IO3N 102% Prussian English Loan, Ittlo, 4 per cent 102% 102% b:xchange on London, three months 6 2U% —Prussian State Gazette. May li. Letters from Bayonne of the 11th, stake that Es- PARTERO and MAROTO were on the 7th inst. in pre sence of each other, but for eight days not a shot had been fired. This is the Spanish mode of conducting military campaigns. Don CARLOS, in commemoration of his wife's birth-day, has published an amnesty as comprehensive as the clemency of his dear Consort. He excepted from this act of grace all those guilty of treason Priest-murder coining incendiarism smuggling—subordination—fraud—resistance of justice —duel—or malversation of the finances! This should be called the Princess of BEIRA'S amnesty for the inno cent. But we forget. Though smuggling is excepted parricide is not. Well, then, call it an amnesty for parricides. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. There is a moderate Tatum this week of all sorts of Frain, both English and Foreign. There was so little disposition to do business, that the factors were inclined to take rather lower prices for wheat than on Monday. The sale of other grain was limited at no variation in value. The Flour trade very dull at last quotations. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Firm r. English ...... 2,690 qrs. 1,590 qrs. 9 , 610 qrs. 8, 6 :10 acks Irisn ...... Foreign 9 , 720 r - 1,860 790 brls. SMITHFIELD. Beef heavy of sale, but prices not lower. Mutton and Lamb in good request, and the latter a little higher. Veal and Pork not much in request, and prices stationary. Beasts 496, Sheep and Lambs 8,500, Pigs 395, Calves 318. WHITECHAPEL MEAT MARKET. The supply not large, and prices still very high. Beef, 3s. 2d. to 3s. Bd. ; Mutton, 4s. 2d. to 4s. 6d. ; Lamb, ss. 4d. to 6s. 4d. ; Veal, 4s. 6d. to bs. 4d. ; Pork, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 10d. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Supplies good, and so was the demand; prices showed but little variation. Turbot, ss. to Ws. ; Cod, Is. 6d. to Bs. each ; Soles, 6d. to 3s. 6d. per pair; Lobsters, Is. to 45. ; Haddock, Bd. to Is. 2d. ; Salmon, Is. 3d. to 2s. per lb. ; Mackerel sd. to 10d. ; Whiting, 4d. to Bd. ; Red Mullet, 2s. to 2s. 6d. 9 COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE Wheat. Barley. a. S. :34 35 21 26 .1 Oat,. hea,s. WEEK 8 . to fi. 42 44 42 44 PP.se S. V:: • Per Quarter.: s. to s • s• to s. 25 2g Blandford ..---' 61 • 5 i or, 74 24 a ) 8rigg............... 75 25 Cambridge.... 7 . 6 40 20 . .: 4 , Chard —,..,...j 64 Huntingdon.. 56 7 0 0,1 0 ° .i.. 29 Long Sutton-1 58 76 '273 32 j, ( 2 20 Louth .........—. 58 7 8 'o 24 1 .. . 77 2 , 2 31 lfi 20 31 19 28 ! ynn............. ..... Newark ......—.l 62 82 2 . 8 24 Nottingham .. 1 64 70 42 99 reterbormigh 59 82 35 29 . 14 3 20 ti Plymouth ..... 5 8 84 30 Pontefract...-. ' ,-; 38 27 43 Sleaford ...-- 1 6 5 80 80 _ ,' 28 41 43 84 Uppingham .1 63 26 32 44 Wisbech—,,,,L 63 82 24 a , 18 20 30 32 DEVIZES CORN 51ARKET.—May 16 Per Sack. ................. ....... . 33 5. .10. to 438- de a First W heat 355 --6 s. d. 0 pe to 36 0 Barley r Second 31 0 34 Oats._ .. , ............. 20 0 30 1' Third '27 0 C '•-•- • 0 Beans (per sack)... 18 0 1:501293 Sacks of Wheat sold./ 33 4 Flour (per b ag s 55 0 at the average ef. ....... 3 IBread (per gall.) / 5 L. VERPOOL CORN MARKET.—May 14 WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. ..................... 11.. 0.1. to Ili. 9d, Red ....................................... 10 3 10 9 Scotch, Welch, and Manx .............. ....... 9 3 9 9 Irish, White ........................................ 9 6 10 0 Red ...........................................7 9 8 6 Foreign .. ... ~ .............. ... ......... . .............. '7 6 10 6 OATS, English, Welsh, and Sco tch , per 451 b. 451 b..... ... 40 4 4 Irish ............................... ...., ...................4 0 4 6 English, malting, per nip. quarter ......... 42 e 46 0 Foreign . . ........................ ..................... i• 0 0 0 Banutv, Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. .................. 5 0 5 4 --- Feeding ...... ... ............... . ...................... 4 9 5 0 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter ............ , ..... 44 0 48 0 -- Irish, Ba. ...... -. ...................................... 40 0 43 0 Foreign .............................. ........................ 40 0 45 0 PEASE, English, per Impe rial q t ................. as. 0 52 4/ ---- Foreign ................................................. 48 0 50 0 FLOUR, English, per 2601 b. Irish .... . ............ 4K 0 55 0 OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 24(ilbs. 1?0,1AN CORM, pc r 44 00 ). ........... ''"' ................ —42 0 46 0 RYE, per Imperial quarter ••..,......... 38 0 43 0 MALT, per Imperial quarter ........... ... 62 9 68 I 37 ii 38 42 30 34 35 42 30 32 31 43 35 42 38 48 Sta 38 .- 40 42 32 31 3, - O CARLOW ELECTION COMMITTEE (THIS DAY.) The vote of John Flazledon was again proceeded with this morning, with little prospect of being brought to a conclusion before to-morrow. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) John .Henman was indicted for burglary, and had pleaded Not Guilty, but his counsel, Mr. PAYNE applied to the Coart for permission to with draw that plea, and insert that of Guilty, because he should be able to prove that the prisoner was insane. This was accordingly agreed to. Catherine Donovan was arraigned for uttering forged coin, knowing it to have been counterfeit. The evidence clearly traced the bad coin to the prisoner, and, under the statutes relating to Mint prosecutions, the record of a pre vious conviction, for the same species of offence, seven years ago, was put in evidence. Mr. PAYNE, who appeared fur the prisoner, submitted that it was very unfair that the minds of the Jury should be prejudiced by allowing the fact of a previous conviction to be put in evidence before the verdict was returned. In all other cases but Mint prosecutions, the fact of a pre vious conviction was reserved till the verdict had been given in. Mr. Justice PATTE3ON said this observation had no force ; inasmuch as the previous conviction for uttering forged coin, did in fact go to constitute the felony, as showing that the prisoner was in the habit of uttering such forged coin, and that she must know it to be counterfeit. Besides which the Act imposed a higher penalty on prisoners after the first conviction. The prisoner was found guilty. In the course of the proceedings the Judge remarked upon the evidence of a linendraper's "assistant," which was required to prove the case, and which was given in a very inaudible voice—that linendrapers' men made the worst witnesses, for that being constantly in the habit of talking soft things to ladies about silks and velvets they acquired a way of speaking so gentle and lisping that in a Court of Justice the evidence was with diliaculty heard—there was no getting them to "speak up."—( Laughter.) LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, MAY 16. —Wind W. S. W.—Arrived the Eliza, Galton, from Grenada; Oscar, Barrett, Cadiz. Arrived from the river and sailed, the Selma, Luckit, for Calcutta; Jane May, May, St. Lucia; Union, St. Michael's; Sup ply. Scott, Marseilles; Placet, Hill, Cadiz: " PORTSMOUTH, MAY 16. —Wind W. S. W.—Arrived her Majesty's steamer, Echo, from Antigua, sailed 28th March. Off port the Wellington, Sidder, for Madras, sailed from Cape 9th March. PLYMOUTH, MAY 15.—Wind FALMOUTH, MAY 15.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Abeona, Gsinforth, from Monte Video, sailed 17th Ja nuary ; Livorno, Dady, Macao; Ulysses, Purdy, Odessa; Intrapcndente Unghero,:Pareno, Trieste ; Meteor steamer, on a cruise. Off port, Marseillais, Marseilles. LivEnroot., MAY 16.—Wind, N. W., fresh.—Arrived, the Jessie Logan, Major, from Charleston; Josephine, Scott, Barbadoes; Falcon, Nassau; Carrol of Carrolton, Bird, Mobile; Margaret, Chalmers, Ditto; William Clark, New Orleans ; London, Patten, ditto ; Eleanor, M' Pherson, ditto ; Franklin, Farwell, New York ; Troy, Wood, ditto; Isabella Dick, Mackay, Leghorn ; Donor, Odessa; George the Fourth, Phillipps, Cadiz; Trinity Yacht, Johnston, Lisbon ; Iris, Stettin. Off port, the Liverpool, Mobile ; Columbus, Savannah. MARGATE, MAY 16.—Off port—The Elizabeth, Hart, Honduras. The Welcome, of Sunderland, 7th inst., reported that a large ship, the day previous, ran on board the Medora, from Demerara to Dublin, the Master, Mate, and Car penter jumped on beard the large ship. The Welcome sent her Mate on board the Medora to bring her to Eng land, by the Mary Young, spoken with by her Majesty's ship the Echo, arrived at Portsmouth. The Vestal, from Palermo to London, 12th instant, and supplied with provisions by the; Meteor, arrived at Falmouth. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY.—Notwith standing the depressed state of the market holders continue firm at prices of Friday last. Sales 2,000 bales ; all to the trade. Our arrivals this morning are French and Ostend mails, and ship letters from China, Monte Video, Honduras, Demerara, Madras 16th January (all old dates), and Cape of Good Hope 9th March. We have received the Cape of Good Hope Gazette to the 9th of March, which does not contain any news from the border. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date; it does not contain any political news of conse quence. It gives accounts from Frankfort of the 9th May, that Count Munich Bellinghausen had arrived there; and recording to the letters from thence, he was furnished with instructions to arrange the differences with Belgium. The Dutch Funds came the same as received by the Dutch mail yesterday. THE FUNDS. The notice from the Bank of England in the course of yesterday was generally anticipated during the morning. Consequently, on its being officially known, it did not make any impression on the British Funds, although 50,000 Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced was brought to market by the Bank broker, no doubt with an impresson that the Funds would recede. It is also apprehended that the Bank Directors wish to limit their discounts. The immense quantity of corn imported of late into this country must be paid for, and to accomplish which no doubt bills to a large amount will be presented to the Bank for discount, which may not meet the approbation of the Directors. It cannot as yet be ascertained what effect it will have on the foreign Exchanges, and there is a differ ence of opinion in respect to the weight it will have on the Exportatlon of the precious metals from the' Bank of England. •- . •- • • , Consols opened this morning as- 1 ` The Citising- prices of yesterday, 93i Money; 93k for the' Account, for the July Account may be quoted at 931 ; Exchequer Bills, 33 35 ; Bank Stock, 195 196 ; India Stock, 255-2156; Spanish Active, 191 ; Deferred, 8+ i; Passive 4+ -4 ; Portuguese 35+ as they closed; Three per Cents 211 - 1,; Belgian, 1014 1024; Brazilian 784: Colombian, 304; Mexican, 25i ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 561 ; Five per Cents, 10i 2R. The Hamburgh mail has arrived with papers of the 14th inst., bringing the following account from Riga of the 6th of May : " Messrs. Strausses and Co. state from Riga that they have accounts from Werdaw that seven ships, laying five miles from Domperness were lost in the ice, from the folloning ports, bound to Riga, Sunderland, Aberdeen, Montrose, Perth, and Newcastle ; also a Dutch vessel from other ports. It is also mentioned that the breaking up of the ice has been attended with fatal consequences. Crews saved of the above ships." PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stack I9 India Stock 3per Cent. Red. 02M,',14 Ditto 80nd5..... ........ 41 33 pm. S per Cent. Cons. 83 14 3 ii South Sea Stook - 3!v per Cent - Old Annuities - Ditto Red. 89 ~ isi, li !... s i New Ditto - New 2W, per Cent 11.6%;3. ' 3 per Cont. Annuities, 1751 - New 5 per Cent. - Exch. Bills, £l,OOO ... 34 32 pm. Bank Long Annuities toexpi re Ditto 500 ... 34 32 pin. Jan. 5, 1850 l4 7-IC4I Ditto Small 34 32 pm. Oct. 10, 1650 -) Ditto Commercial - - pni. Jan. 5, llern - , Ditto Advertised - - pm. Jan. 5, 1580 1 Bank Stock for Account ... 136 April 5, 1880 =l India Stock for Account ... - Jan. 5. 1870 - I Consols for Account - 811f /1. 1 4 PRICIS OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Austrian Bonds ' Peruvian Bonds - Belgian Bonds - Ditto Account - Ditto Account - Portuguese Bonds . Brazilian Bonds - Ditto Account - Ditto Account .........351(%N Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chilian Bonds D tts Account - Columbian Bonds 294 ( Ditto Account - Ditto Account -I Ditto Metallic Columbian Bonds, 1824 ...30% I% 1 Spanish Bonds - Ditto Account - Danish Bonds - Ditto Bonds, 1834 Ditto Account , Ditto Account. 1 9i;.14% Greek Bends... -1 French, 5 per cent...-. -t. -c. Ditto Bonds, 1825 , ---- 4 per cent -f. -c. Ditto Account 1 ------ 3 per cent. -f. -c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent - ----. Exchange. -f. -c. Ditto Account ......... - Ditto, 6 per Cent 25% 6 : Ditto Aecount Ditto Account Neapolitan --! Ditto Account.... ...... - _ _... - .. PRICKS OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONS O'CLOCK. - --- Paid. Per Mare. R +al del Monte Mming Co., Registered !SW. 10s. lid. ISDitto Unregistei ed Inndsin and Blaskwall Railway lt 6% Manchester and Birmingham Railway l5 II North Midland Railway Com! any 65 61 (0)i Lon lon and Westminster Rana 21.) 93 % HALF-PAST ONE. At present in the City there is a dead calm both in the Funds and commercial affairs, and money continues very scarce, and in demand. Both the British and Foreign markets have continued inactive during the morning. No Continental news of importance having been received, the speculators had no ground to act upon. Consols may be (voted at present 93.4- ; Money 934 ; Exchequer Bills receded to 32 ; India Bonds, also, 41, 36 ; Bank Stock, 195 ; India Stock nothing done. The Foreign market.—Spanitli Activel9A-; Portuguese, 351- ; Three per Cents., 211 ; Brazilian, 78; Colombian, 31 ; Mexican,:2si 26; Dutch Two-and•a-Half per Cents. nothing done; Fire per Cents., 1021 No reports of any description. ,m111•I•11 THE MARCIIIONESS OF SALISBURY.—WC are happy to hear the health of her Ladyship has greatly improved during the last few days. Lord Alfred Paget, equerry to her Majesty, waited upon his Imperial Highness yesterday, at his hotel, inviting the Grand Duke to the state ball at the Palace on Friday next. GRAND DUKE OF RUSSIA.—The Marquis of Tweeddale, Earl Cadogan, Lord Brougham, Marquis and Marchioness of Ely, Lord and Lady Andover, Marquis of Douglas, Earl of Mount Edgecumbe, Lord Kianaird, Lord and Lady Oranmore, Sir George and Lady Pocock, Lord and Lady Margaret Marsham, Marquis of Lans downe, Hon. C. W. Wynn, Sir W. and Lady Eustace, Countess do Salis, the Ladies Montague Scott, Sir W. Ker Grant, Mr. A. and Lady Elizabeth Drummond, Lord Milton, Sir J. Astley, Lady A. Loftus, Hon. Charles and Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortle y , Sir J . R. Reid, Mr. and Lady Anne Mackenzie, Sir Robert and Lady Wilmot Hor ton, Mr. Spencer and Lady Louisa De Horsey, Hon. General Grosvenor, Sec., visited the Grand Duke yesterday. The Grand Duke of Russia was so pleased with the appearance and manners of the boys belonging to the Royal'lMilitary Asylum at Chelsea, that his Highness issued an order, directed to Messrs. Gunter, to send to each of the 340 boys a box of choice sweetmeats, several pounds in weight. The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos is to preside at the anniversary dinner of the Noblemen and Gentlemen educated at Eton, to-morrow evening, at the Thatched House Tavern. The Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesey entertain his Imperial Highness and the Prince of the Netherlands at dinner, this evening, at Uxbridge House. EPSOM RACE M. (THIS DAY.) THE OAKS----BY EXPRESS. The Oaks Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., for three-yrs-old fillies, Bst. 41b. Last mile and half. The owner of the second horse to receive 100 sovs. out of the stakes, and the winner to pav 100 sovs. towards the expenses of additional police constables. Ninety-six Subs. Fulwar Craven's Deception Sir G. Heathcote's Carolina ..... 9 13 Ran—Won Easy. " THE SUN" EXPRESS. SIR ROBERT PEEL'S RESIGNATION. :DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15. Your Express of yesterday morning really took us by surprize, and created an extraordinary sensation here. We had made arrangements to get over the London Morn ing Papers by express, but that of The Sun reached us fully an hour and a half before our own, and we lost no time in circulating it. We have much pleasure in sending you an acknowledgment of its being the first paper to con vey to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and the Irish Government the important proceedings in the House of Commons on Monday night. Yours, &c. J. K. JOHNSTON and CO. PIICENIX PARK, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 15. Mr. Fortescue is desired by his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant to convey to Mr. Johnston his thanks for his obliging attention in forwarding The Sun of yesterday morning, which brought his Excellency the first intelligence of the proceedings in Parliament on Monday night. Mr. Johnston, Eden Quay. WONDERFUL CELERITY.—By the instrumentality of Messrs. Mansell, the extensive News Agents of Bir mingham, to whose extraordinary exertions, in procur ing the rapid transmission of the London Journals, we, amongst others, are so greatly indebted, a Morning Sun of yesterday's date was received at our office shortly after one o'clock, P.m., yesterday. The distance, nearly 140 miles, was travelled in less than six hours. Yes wonder ful as it may appear, the morning papers can now be re ceived in Worcester an hour after noon, on the day of their publication in the metropolis Worcestershire Chronicle. EXPLANATIONS IN PARLIAMENT.-Fur our report of the Parliamentary proceedings on Monday night we are indebted to the polite attention of Mr. Wilmer, with a copy , of whose Express Edition of The Sun, published yesterday morning, we were supplied about five o'clock in the afternoon. The regular Morning Journals, we suspect, would not be altogether disposed to relish this encroach ment on the part of the Evening Luminary.—Liverpool Courier of Wednesday. The Morning Edition of The Sun of yesterday arrived in Birmingham the same morning, at the early hour of half-past nine, containing the debates of the preceding evening, from which town it was immediately despatched by Messrs. Mansell, the agents, to Manchester, Liverpool, Dublin, Edinburgh, &c., the most distant of which places would be in possession of Sir IL Peel's explanation this morning (Wednesday). This instance of despatch is. we believe, almost without parallel.—Wolverhampton Chroni. de, Feb. 14. " The intelligence of this race (the Derby) was con tained in a late edition of The Sun of yesterday, copies of which were received in this town at ten o'clock on that night."—Birminyham Herald, Thursday, May 16. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS' TIME S.—The long-expected notice of an advance in the rate of interest was issued at the Bank this morning, and is in the following concise form : " Bank of England. " At a Court of Directors, held 16th May, 1839, it was resolved—' That the rate of interest on Bills of Ex change and Notes discounted at the Bank of England be 5/. per cent. from this day.' " No one objects to the course here taken by the Bank ; on the contrary, all arc aware, from circumstances per fectly notorious, that they had no alternative, and the only questions arc, whether they have begun early enough, and whether the measure will be effectual for the purpose they have in view. It will furnish a good plea for an ad vance in the rate of discount all over the country, but as regards that !department of the Bank separately, it' money is w anted, the terms will not keep out applicants, and their functions as a bank of deposit, independently of every thing else, will allow an increase of the circulation by draughts upon them, over which they can have no con trol. The more likely too is this to happen when there are other banks of good security, where interest is allowed upon deposits. Their inevitable fate is, do whatever they may to prevent it, to merge gradually into a bank of issue only ; the exact period may be sooner or later, but it be comes a mere question of time, and then they will have ar rived at the proper functions which belong to them, which must, under proper control, give as much steadiness to the circulation as is compatible with the issue of paper at all. At present the movements of the Bank of England and the Corn-market have a close and most important bearing upon each other. The harvest being so near, all may still be right ; but in the city, as in Downing-street, we are at the mercy of contingencies. The sales of Stock on account of the Bank were con tinued to-day, and 50,000/. 3. 1 2 - per Cents. Reduced were then brought to market by the Bank broker. But what excites the most curiosity is the further sales on account of the savings -banks, 15,000/. Consols more haring been sold to-day. These, with the Bank notice for raising the rate of discount, would have contributed in ordinary cases to depress the funds considerably, but Consols left off at a very alight depression, being 93 to for Money, and 931- to for Account. Bank Stock was 195 to 6 ; India Stock, 255 to 6 ; Exchequer Bills, 335. to 355. premium.. HERALD—The above notice has created no surprise whatever amongst] the monetary and commercial interests, since the late evidences of the state of our money market, which has for some time been labouring under au adverse position of the exchanges with the Continent, as well as other concomitant circumstances, have pretty well pre pared for it. PO ST.---The commercial classes had been so fully prepared for this advance by the statements which have been made in the public Journals respecting the de. mend for specie, and the fall in the Foreign Exchanges, teat the appearance of the above announcement caused no surprise among them. The rate previously charged by the Bank was four per cent., and the change will necessarily produce a corresponding rise in Lombard-street. The private bankers and discount brokers have, however, been lately obtaining full 4!-, per cent. on first-rate paper, and, in some instances, we understand, as much as five per cent. has been demanded and given. The letters lately received from Liverpool represent the Cotton Market there to be still extremely unpromising. progress can be made in sales of the article, so that prices are gradually declining to a lower scale, and are, moreover, but little better than nominal. The American houses are already speculating upon the probable effect which this altered state of things may have on the New York Money Market. It is considered that bills on Europe Hill become very scarce again, the consequence of which must be a corresponding advance in the rate of exchange. The step taken to-day by the Bank of England—that of making money dearer—necessarily tends to defeat the views of the monopolists both in corn and cotton, and it must, therefore, be regarded as one by which the country at large will be most materially benefited. The Cotton Market seems to have been upheld in a great measure by the banking power of the United States, but, to add to the embarrassments which the holders must experience from the increased value of money here, they have, as we men tioned a day or two ago, to contend with the yet greater disadvantage arising from a considerably reduced demand for the commodity. C HRONICL E.—No material effect was produced upon the English Stock Market by this announcement ; but Consols, on the contrary, continued firm, for the mea sure adopted by the Bank is considered more one of caution than of absolute necessity, and the serious effects which would otherwise have been produced by such a step are not, consequently, apprehended in the present instance. It cannot be denied that the Directors have acted circum spectly, for there never was, perhaps, a moment when trade and commerce were in such an unsatisfactory state, with so little appearance of amelioration, while thd exchanges continue against this country, and the exportation of bullion is going on to a great extent. The stock of gold and silver at the Bank is conse quently reduced to a very serious extent—to less than one-fourth of the circulation, we understand. Under these circumstances, therefore, the general opinion evidently is that the Bank has acted wisely, but the tone which matters may assume from this proceeding cannot, of course, be correctly ascertained for a day or two. Consols, as we have already said, remain firm at 034 for Money, and 93 f to 4 for the Account. Exchequer Bills are 335. to 355. prem. ; Bank Stock, 195 to 196 ; and India Stock, 255 to 256. This was settling day in the Foreign market, and the scarcity of money which has existed for the last few days was particularly felt, as much as five per cent. being given for loans upon the best securities. In other re spects the adjustment of the Account was unattended by any remarkable feature. Most of the Foreign Stocks were heavy throughout the day. Spanish Active left off at 184- to 19 1 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 354 to 4 ; ditto Three per Cents., 211 to ; Dutch Five per Cents., 410 to ; ditto Two•and - a - Half per Cents., 56 to 1; Belgian, 1014 to 1021; Colombian, 30- to 31'; Mexican, 25i to 26 ; and Peruvian, 18 to 19. In Shares there has been little going on, and scarcely any variation in the prices has occurred. Birmingham, (old) are 69 to 71 prem. ; ditto (new), 20 to 21 prem. ; Southampton, 43 to 44 per share ; Great Western, 7 to 8 prem. ; Leeds and Manchester, 10 to 12 prem. ; Bir mingham and Derby, 15 to 13 dis. ; Gosport Junction, 2 to 3 prem. ; Brighton, 91 to 9+ dis.; Blackwell, 21 to 2 ( Hs. ; Greenwich, 17 to per share ; North Midland, 4 to 3 dis. ; Glasgow and Greenock, I dis. to s prem, ; and Eastern Counties, 6+ to 54 dis. BRUSSELS, MAx 14.--The average price of Wheat last week was 241. 13c., and of Rye 13f. 75c. Im portation is therefore still free of duty, and exportation is prohibited. General the Marquis of Anglesey, and the offi cers of the 7th Hussars, will give their annual grand dinner at the Clarendon Hotel on Monday, the 17th of next month. The noblemen and gentlemen, members of the Catch Club, give their annual entertainment to "the ladies," at Willis's Rooms, on the 25th of this month. Sir Robert and Lady Peel, accompanied by their family, purpose leasing town in the early part of the e nsuing week, to pass the recess at Drayton Manot. BIRMINGHAM. (FROM OUR OWN CORRE,SFONDENT.) THURSDAY E VININ(s. / There was another meeting of th e working men t hiV evening, which took place in Smithfield. Mr. FUSSELL read from The Sun a . Report of the pro ceedings of the National Convention yesterday, narrated what had taken place to-day, and read the manifesto adopted by that body, which was listened to with great at tention. He also read the Report of the examination of the Chartists at Bow-street. , . .. . . .... ! The meeting was subsequently addressed by Messrs. Neesom, James Taylor, and Brown, who commented on the proceedings before Sir Frederick Roe, and declared that agitation among the working clasces would never erase until Universal Suffrage and the Ballot became tilt law of the land. There were about 1,500 persons present. There is a rumour that the whole of the Delegates are to be arrested early to-morrow morning. and carried off tw the seven o'clock train to London, but I do not think it is entitled to any credit. METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Times of this morning abuses its Evening Con temporaries of yesterday for stating that the Tories in their recent negociations, endeavoured to domineer over her Majesty. " The chiefs of the Ministry," observes our captious Contemporary, " have publicly in Parliament fully acquitted Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Welling too of the charges contained in these paragraphs; and yet the expectant slaves and ready tools of the same Ministry repeat the accusations with daily exaggerations in the journals they disgrace, and rival each other in attempts to patch up the cast-off slanders of their masters With newly, woven lies of their own manufacture ! Surely, there-has . been enough of this dirty work to satisfy the most spiteful of those good angels of Lord Melbourne, whose drapery sweeps the back-stairs of Buckingham Palace ; and ludeed, to give the Devil his due, we do believe that his Lordship would, now that the end which he and his colleagues had in view has been answered, bid the Ministerial Swiss scribes to bait, only that some of the more cautious of the Cabinet think it is necessary to propagate and foster in the provinces that disgraceful humbug which the Palriterston print tells us is " proceeding throughout the country most satisfactorily." We are yet to learn that the Tory leaders have been acquitted of an attempt ro domineer over . the Queen. On the contrary, they have been proved guilty of the fact, on evidence that would be quite strong enough to condemn a man in a Cuurt of Justice. The Morning Chronicle, in the course of a leading ar ticle, suggested by Sir R. Peel's recent Parliamentary ex planations, urges the Ministry to renewed exertions in the following terms :—" Nor can the Tories mystify the na tion as to the present position of the Government. It cannot be, as they would have us believe, that we are just where we were before the division on the Jamaica Bill. The wheels of Time are not turned back a fortnight. The facts of that interval are never to be obliterated. The crested billows of Toryism have dashed themselves against a rock, and fallen back in foam and slush. The Queen has given the country a pledge of intellectual and Moral charac ter that will bear higher sway than her sceptre. The restored Ministers have, by the occasion and the very fact of re. suming office under the circumstances. come undPr ho nourable obligations to strengthen her Majesty's Govern ment in the contentment and gratitude of the people. We have no doubt they will do so, and that measures arc in contemplation which shall tend to the cordial co-operation of different classes of Reformers. The people do not for get Reform in their gratulatory addresses to royalty. They fittingly tell truth, while they praise truthfulness. For wisdom and honesty the path is clear, and the junoturg most propitious." ` The Morning Herald, discussing the question of na tional education, says—" The national education project has, in like manner, no other object, than the subversion of the authority of the Established Church. Why should secular education be a " national" concern' Why should Government commissioners supersede the authority of parents? The means of education are already, amply, at the disposal of all classes in the community save the loss favoured portions of the labouring poor; and . the miseries of the labouring poor are, obviously, not to be re moved by such an education as Lord Brougham, or Go vernment Commissioners might impart. The labouring poor want justice;—they require a fair reward fot their toil; they claim to be relieved from destructive competi tion with machinery, and with untaxed foreign producers; _they protest against fraudulent schemes of currency— ' schemes which reduce the value of labour, and aggravate the despotism of money. These are amongst the evils under which large bodies of the labouring classes groan ; and these evils are not to be removed by Lord Brougham's plan of • national education.' " The Morning Post falls foul of the " Whig-Radical organs"—as it calls some of its Morning and Evening Contemporaries—in the following choice Billingsgate terms :—" False and stupid as the Whig-Radical organs are, there is still some amusement in marking the infinite impudence to which—chiefly by the aid of their stupidity-_ they succeed in attaining. They go on lying away at more than a railroad pace—fussing and clattering, with more than a steam-engine's smoke and noise, about the iniquity of Tory violonce to "our young Queen," in requiting !hat s as Ministers, they should have complete controul O'er the Royal Household. But this is precisely shat the Whigs have had, and still have. If there were any wrong in what the Tories required, there is wrong in what the Whigs possess. But stupified by ignorance, or drunk with impu dence, the Whig roisterers take no account of this." Thin is not exactly the sort of language to please the boudoir or the drawing-room, for whose delicate tastes our Contem porary is usually so anxious to cater. The Morning Advertiser draws the following character *of the two candidates for the Speakership of the House of C ommon s :_‘• Of Mr. Goulburn we are unwilling to say any thing harsh, but we think it will be generally admitted by his psrty that it would be very bold indeed to allege that he possesses either the mental or personal requi sites which are indispensable for the present state of Parlia mentary affairs. He is far from !seing popular in his man ners. He is averse to change; the servant of routine ; contracted in his views, and a servile adherent of his party, his services to which we believe to be the sole cause of his being selected by them as their candidate. He has taken lit tle part in the conduct of private business, in which Mr. Le fevre has been laborious; and though, from having been for many sears in Parliament, he must have a tolerably ex perience in Parliamentary affairs, he has never done any thing but what his official position required, and may be recounted a somewhat inactive Member of Parliament. Mr. Lefevrc, on the contrary, has pursued a course of constant useulness, though of a very quiet kind: in fact, he has br.en one of those unobtrusive Members who have great weight with their friends for their prudenoe and ap plication, although they do not unceasingly parade them selves before the House and the public."' THE ITALIAN OPERA. The admirers of Mozart mustered in great force last night, in consequence of the announcement of the most de lightful of comic operas, Le Nozze di Figaro. The pi t was crowded, and (though it was not a subscription night) the boxes were filled, excepting those usually occupied by the fashionable amatows of modern music who do not pa tronise the antiquated strain's of Mozart, and who are be ginning to vote even Rossini tot pcu passe. The opera was admirably performed, and went off with great anima tion. The plaudits were incessant, and the overture and all tlze principal airs and ducts were warmly encored. A damp was thrown over the early part of the perSormance by the indisposition of Grisi, who (as was stated by wny of apology for her) had been suffering under a severe cold and fever. At first she appeared weak and languid, ar►d was, at times, almost inaudible; but she became by degrees animated by the spirit of her captivating part, and, though she did not recover her usual strenghth of voice, sang and acted it delightfully. It even appeared that the subdued sweetness of her tones gave a charm to her singing, which, when in full possession of all its power and brilliancy, it sometimes wants. She omitted the most difficult air of the part ; but in the many beautiful things she had to do in the second act, she left nothing to be desired. Persiani, as the Countess Almaviva, acted with dignity and pro priety, and sang exquisitely. Her two airs, " Porgi amor," and " Dove sono," were models of execution, taste, and expression. Lablache, as Figaro, and Tamburini, as Count Almaviva, were, as asual, admirable. The Page (a part seldom done justice to) found an agreeable representa tive in Ernest Grisi, the young relative of our great eanta trice. She was very timid ; but timidity, mingled with es pieglerie, is a feature of the Page's character; nor was the scenic illusion impaired by the evidentand pleesing anxiety which Madame Grisi showed for the success of her youthful protegee. The subordinate parts were well sustained by Mrs. Seguin, Morelli, and Tad ; and the concerted pieces, in which the voices of all the perform* were com bined, were magnificently sung. An opera so gratifying to the public, and (we should presume) so profitable to the manager, ought to be fro,- quently repeated. It is one of those things which caneot be repeated too often. The Duke of Wellington gives a grand ball this evening at Apsley House, in compliment to the Grand Duke. From the preparation it is anticipated that k will prove the most splendid fete this season. TILE HEREDITARY GRAND DUKE OF RUS- SlA.—Yesterday his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Alexander, accompanied by Prince William Henry of the Netherlands, attended by Lord Torrington, Lord in Wait ing on her Majesty, M. de Tolstoy, Prince Bariatinsky, Prince Dolgourouky, M. de Patkul, Col. Yourievitch, M. d'Adlerberg, Sze., left Mivart's Hotel shortly after one so visit the Mint. Their Highnesses stayed nearly two hours . in inspecting the process of coining, and, as we understand, - were highly amused. Oa leaving the Mint, his Imperial Highness, and the Prince of the Netherlands, and suite, proceeded to the manufactory of Messrs. Storr and Morti mer, in Harrison-street, Gray's Inn-road. Mr. Mortimer received the Grand Duke, and showed his Imperial Highness every process in the manufacture of plate, and to whose ex planations his Imperial Highness paid great attention. His Imperial Bigness, and the Noblemen and gentlemen in his suite, appeared particularly interested at the facility with which a medal, bearing the likeness of the Grand Duke, was modelled and cast in his presence. His Imperial Highness was presented with the medal by Mr. Mortimer. His Imperial Highness and attendants did not ride in the Park yester day. The Grand Duke entertained his Royal High ness the Prince William Henry of the Netherlands at dinner yesterday, when the Russian Ambassador, 'M. de Kisseleff, Count Alexis Stroganoff, M. de Benkhausen, and a select circle, joined the party. Covers were laid for twenty-four. In the latter part of the evening his Imperial Highness and the Prince of the Netherlands witnessed the performance 4 at her Majesty's Theatre. Despatches were forwarded yesterday, from the India Board, for Lord Auckland, the Governor-General of I n dia, and for the officers administering her Majesty's Government at the Presidencies of Madras and Bombay, and from the Colonial Department, for Sir John Colborne, he Governor of the Canadas. The venerable Earl.. of Mount Edgecumbe ar rived at Mivart's Hotel, yesterday, from his seat in Su rrel• S U I . .....,,.;: - N:::.):7! -. : !i. ~ ..:- , , •,..., 4 2 _ Th ~f~jy~jsn{ bh ' 7l) ---- - ICATEM to GEN. LORD HILL, G.C.8., &c. 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