The Sun. — London, England, 1839-05-14 00:00:00

RVENiNG EDITION. OF PUBLIC OPINION IN THE PROVINCES. II a continue to-day our extracts from the provincial Press on the resignation of Ministers. Of Sir Robert Peds surrender many of our country Contemporaries, as well as those in Scotland and Ireland, were not aware when the articles were written from which we are about siting the spirit We have anticipated for some time what has now coma to pass. A combination of circumstances had recently thrown into the hands of a dozen of Radicals --oi whom one half wanted honesty, and the other half e - )ininan sense—the power of deciding whether the e aint:y should have a Liberal or a Tory Government. Ta.t sume of them wished to see the Tories in power as avowed by themselves, and that others were at best iu{lbff to the change, was abundantly obvious. It quite correct therefore to say, that the Ministry ex io.td by the suffbranea of the Radicals ; and those who had observed the want of principle, wrong-headedness, and factious spirit of these persons, were well aware how t'reearious the tenure of office was which rested on z , nelt a basis. Our belief was, that they only wanted a tia..isible pretext to bring about what they were so eager to re:,lize. The result has shown that their impatience :you not wait even for a plausible pretext. —Scotsman. in common with the majority of our readers, who hat,: supported the general policy of Ministers, must f!el regret that her Majesty's advisers should have found necessary to take this step, the effect of which must be to involve the country fur a time in difficulty—in confusion—if not in danger. But we blame them not y have struggled nobly with unparalleled difficulties, ve:unst the unprincipled and factious opposition of bitter upprments, hunting for office at any sacrifice—and the injudicious conduct of professed supporters in the Radi cal section of the House of Commons, who, by their de se:aioa of Ministers upon the present occasion, have brolscn down a Government through whom alone they could have expected to oLtain their just ends, and it coy be, have helped to power their own and the people's aetermined foes.—Keho Chronicle. We have often e:;pressed our disapproval of some of th&r me tsures ; but one thing is now clear, that their Successors are not likely to prove better men—and to enleavour to retrieve the lost ground, or at least in the meantime to keep the enemy in check, is now what Re f+•rn;ors must look to. From what cause the mistrust and apathy now pervading the Reform ranks arose and :Treed, it is now far worse than needless to inquire. The question must now be, not whose has been the fault, but who 'hal now show most readiness to reme dy it. The mischief is done—the Reform forces are diserganized and scattered—the Tories arc marching ieto the citadel—and the dispute must not be whether alleal impatience or Whig inertness was the cause of the disruption, but w hi c h p ar ty s h a ll now s h ow mos t e!ee!ity in forgiving and forgetting what is past, and coming to an agreement by which their forces may be oece more united and inspirited—Berwick Advertiser. Tee event which many persons had long foreseen, Aral which no men have laboured more assiduously to render desirable, and to ensure, than Ministers them selves, has at length happened—and they are out of oliiee. We feel neither regret nor alarm at the return CZ the Tories to place, It is, after all, what they did not expect, however hungry for it ; and it is more than they will have the power to preserve, strong as may be their nalination to retain it. They cannot stand before the union of Reformers, which we feel assured will now take place without an abandonment of their principles ; and forsaking these again, as Sir Robert Peel did in 1829, t , -0 , b?come a R e f ormer , th e ti es w hi c h now bind the tortes together would be snapped asunder, and they would rapidly sink into dissolution.—Durham Chronicle. The Tories are at length gratified—the Melbourne Ministry have resigned. This, to some, rather un ieoked-for event was brought about by the House of Commons on the Jamaica Government Bill, ate Minis try having only a slender majority of five to support them in carrying out that measure. Ten Radicals — Messrs. Dunembe, Grote, Hume, J. Jervis, T. Jervis, Lea e ler, Molesworth, O'Brien, Turner, and Wakley— voted with Sir R. Peel ; and five Tories—Messrs. Gibson, Ineliam, Noel, Tollemache and Nall—supported the Government measure. Fourteen Liberals and six Tories were absent. The whole proceeding on the part of the Tories was factious and dishonest. —North Der byshire Chronicle. The Administration has fallen, and fallen nobly before the ctlbrts of Tories, seconded by a small section of the Radicals, on a question on which its members had, least ef all, reason to expect so strange a coalition.— Devonport Independent. We are in a fair way to see Sir James Graham's birds of prey", once more fastening their talons on toe vitals o f t h e country. W e trust t h e i r d om i n i on w ill be brief--we are quite sure it will not be very eereeable ; and unless Sir Robert Peel takes to himself allies very different to his former Orange auxiliaries, we will venture to predict that our wishes will be verified. But Satan now is wiser than of yore." It is probable ;hat Peel, having experienced the full benefit of his iFscciation with the Londonderries and the Knatehbulls on a previous occasion, will take especial good care to entertain no such companions in the improved edition of his Cabinet.—Gateshead Observer. We shall, indeed, see Lord John retire with some regret, as he has performed many good services for the country and for the cause of Reform, and we remember , his exertions with gratitude, but it is very clear that he has fulfilled his task. His sympathies with the pre sent popular feeling have now ceased to exist. He belongs, as a Statesman, to a past period.—Cambrian. i In one sense the resignation of the Whigs will be preriuctive of great good ; it will unite the Liberal party against the Tories. For the last four years, the zeal of the earnest Reformers has cooled, and not with cut good reason. This will rerive it again ; and al though for a time there may seem to be discourage !raent, the course of events must work for good to the eeopte aril to their eause.—Hull Journal. Orangeism is again, for a season, triumphant in this eeuntry. The natural enemies and oppressors of the ;mple are once more in power—but for how long ? That is a question which the people themselves must arawer. They will shortly be appealed to. The Orangemen cannot go on with the present Parliament. i :A dissolution is inevitable.—Liverpool Chronicle. The scene since Tuesday is changed ; the Tories eive not come into power, but the liberal Ministry will eentinue in the Government, and must act more vigo eeusly. Let them propose measures and persist in them ; I , l‘t them be beaten on them, but let them not continue the system of frittering away their own determinations t.o suit the notions of the Tory opposition. Let their future measures be honest and good, and let the Eng lish public see who will dare to thwart them. We have no doubt that some changes of men will take place, but irrnsures will thereby be stronger and more determined. —Hampshire Telegraph. The dissolution of Lord Melbourne's administration, although coming earlier than we anticipated, does not surprise us. It is an event which we have considered ia , !vitable. We are, therefore, fully prepared to meet tl:e consequences of a break-up of the Finality Cabinet. 'Neither is the nation astounded by the news ; perhaps !b, - : party least likely to derive benefit from this very proper step on the part of Lord Melbourne and his col -I.azucs, is the one w hi c h w ill step i nto t h e now vacant p`. es of office. Whig-finality has been the ruin of the lite Cabinet ; what, then, shall we prophecy as to the fats of Tory -finality ? He who runny may read. Its • o"at is registered in the heart of the nation. No effort c:f regal power, T,o endeavour of the banded strength of aritecracy, can .Avr rt it. Popular opinion is indestruc i 7 '. " -Leicestershire ilfercury. T.:e struggle is over—the Melbourne Ministry is no rte —and,as a Conservative Nobleman in this neigh bour;!o el desired it might, " the despicable thing has c aw:cd on 4o its end ;" and has become so truly ...Hrosome, *hat no man is willing to be suspected of . nornm:sserating, the fallen. Perhaps a more unprin ar politically more abandoned knot of rpver presided at the head of the buoecilz of any nation, than the Whig-Radi cals ander the dictatorship of Mr. Daniel O'Con nell. But the men were worthy of their master, their measures, such as might be expected from *man whose every act has been one of self-degra dati.4ll. Men who could enter office under fraudulent prE!enoes—who could make the " appropriation prin cio',;" the grand pegasus upon which to ride into place aid patronage—who could make a feint as though it were to prove how hollow had been their pretensions about irelond, and who could, after all resist the very principle a Lich formed the key-stone of their Government, left nothing in the way of degradation for their bitterest coamies to wish. Every step, since their abominable trickery on the appropriation clause, has been a step lownwards, until each had learned to despise and doubt niroself, and, as a necessary consequence of such poli ti,nl immorality, they had agreed to doubt and despise another.—Slieffield Mercury. We do regret and imagine that on cool reflection the Radicals referred to will regret, that in the case of the Jaknaica question they should have preferred ..tit; shadow of liberty to the substance, have refrained from correcting the abuses of an intollerent and des potic oligarchy simply because that oligarchy was called a constitution, and at the same time have acted counter to their own glorious work, as far as the rights and interests of the negro were secured by the j spirit, if not by the letter, of the Emancipation Act. For the five Tories, who, to preserve their consistency, voted with the friends of the negro on this ques . t i'm, we entertain a deep respect. Would that their number had been larger or less needed !-- ; The very moment when we were preparing to congratu tate Our 1 countrymen upon their re:ease from the ignominy I and d , nger of Whig-Radical misrule our hopes are suddenly clouded over, and the safety of the Empire Roam ' P en ned by the reluctance of the Sovereign to give her entire confidenc e to the only Statesman possessing moral courag e h o"esty, or ability, to bear up against the exigencies of so eventful a crisis.—Salisbury and • IViltshire Herald. Perhaps a change of Government has never occurred a this country under more unfavourable circumstances ti t an the present ; for never h as t h e nation, within the h a t century, I:een in such a state of agitation, How- ever discontented the people may have been with the hesitating policy of the Melbourne Ministry, it cannot be expected that their successors will, or can consis tently with their former acts and their invariable pro fessions, so conduct the Government as to satisfy the demands of the widely-spreading popular call for speedy progress in the cause of Reform. We shall soon know whether the new Administration will promote such measures as will encourage the people even to hope for an increase of the franchise, and a more free exercise of that great national privilege, without which it is quite certain the Government will be placed in insurmount able difficulties. Of this we are perfectly convinced, that no Ministry can have the slightest hope of carrying on the Government without extending, and firmly pro moting those great changes and reforms which the spirit of the times so imperatively requires.—lfrarwicic Advertiser. The country at large had scarcely perused the ex hilirating intelligence that the reign of the Incapables was closed, and by that event the Church and the throne preserved, the country rescued from destruc tion, and our foreign empire saved from dismem berment, than its joys were suspended and the most indignant surprise took place of heart-felt gratifica tion, caused by the news that Sir Robert Peel's at tempt to form a Cabinet was arrested by the daring intrigues of the Camarilla, from whose toils our young and artless Queen was on the point of being extricated. Her Majesty's judgment was convinced, and her feelings did her honour ; not able to surrender the society of the companions of her retirement without a pang, but the sacrifice she knew was inevitable, and she prepared to make it. She received Sir Robert Peel as became her nobility of blood ; at once gave to the Premier the powers, without which his charge would be a mockery, and granted the necessary stipulation on his acceptance of office. But the Camarilla—the " power behind the throne greater than the throne itself," was alarmed for its safety—the slanderers of innocence—the intri guants for office—exerted all their wiles, and worked upon their mistress's tenderness of heart, and inexperi ence in guile, to the falsification of her Royal word, and disappointment of a nation's hopes.—Hapipshire Advr. Our advice is—Reformers ! be armed at all points, and at your post : O'Connell is already in the field on the part of the Irish people ; Sir William Molesworth is already endeavouring to colour over to his constituents his late factious and injudicious vote ; and every event combines to call for immediate activity on the part of the Reform interest.—Carnarron Herald. The event for some months foreseen has taken place at last : Lord Melbourne's Government has ceased to exist ; and while we write, Sir Robert Peel may have completed his arrangements, and formed a perfect Tory Cabinet. They have damaged the cause of the people much, and Sir Robert Peel is one not likely to be slow in taking advantage of their blunders. The unhappy stand, too, made by the late Ministry against further improvements in the Reform Bill, has been productive of the worst results, by dividing and distracting the friends of Reform. " Finality" was the rock on which the Melbourne Ministry split.—Merlin. AUSTRALIA. Letters and papers from Sydney, to the 30th of No vember, state that in the southern districts of New South Wales, the grain and wheat, owing to the seasonable fall of heavy showers, had assumed.# promising aspect; and, in consequence of good pasture, the sheep were looking well, and the lambing, notwithstanding the rains, was excellent. The disease which had committed ravages amongst the docks previous to the wet weather had entirely ceased. All hands were busily preparing for the shearing. The following is extracted from the proceedings of the Council : ~ LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. " TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23.—The Governor said that the members, of course, recollected that they had met pursuant to adjournment, in consequence of a letter that he had received from the judges on the evening previous to the last day of meeting, respecting the Crown Lands' Bill; he had to ac quaint the Council that this letter had been withdrawn, and therefore it would have been unnecessary for the members to have met, had it not been for the unfortunate drought with which the colony is at present afflicted. A number of persons had proposed to him to allow the importation of flour and grain free from duty and wharfage dues, and ac cordingly he lied prepared a Bill for that purpose ; per haps it might be said that this was not sufficient, and the Council might !think further measures necessary. He found that in the year 1829, in a period of scarcity, a Go vernment order was issued authorising the substitution of a portion of meat for a portion of flour in the ration of convict servants ; at present he did not consider such a measure necessary, and if it should become so it would always be within his power to issue it. He found also that on a former occasion the Government had im ported corn on its own account ; tenders were called for and vessels hired and sent for corn, which was received into the Government store. At that time the colony was not in the advanced state it is at present, espe cially with regard to the commercial interest ; at present he was not prepared to adopt this course, as he considered it would have the effect of checking private enterprise. If ' the Government agreed to take a certain quantity of wheat at a certain price, that would of course rule the market, and perhaps prevent merchants from importing. He was aware that one vessel has been sent to Valparaiso, and he was in hopes that there is quite enough enterprise among our mer chants to prevent us from suffering from scarcity. He had directed inquiries to be made from the different police ma gistrates as to the quantities of wheat that may be expected in their respective districts, and, as might have been ex pected, the answers that have been received are unfavoura ble, but still he thought the crops would average about one half, and for that half we are indebted to the rains that have fallen within the last ten days ; had it not been for them he believed there would have been a total failure. In Illu warra the crops are looking well, and at the Patterson they are pretty fair, but generally speaking there will not be more than a half crop. It must not be forgotten, however, that our population is daily increasing; that new mouths are coming among us every day, and that we shall depend upon importation to protect us from scarcity. Still he would be sorry to do anything that would cheek the enter prise of merchants, or interfero in the trade in grain any moro than the trade in anything else, and, therefore, at present he should only lay the Bill before the Council; but should the necessity become more urgent, he would not hesitate to act on his own responsibility, and call for tenders and send ships for grain, relying on the Council afterwards to defray any expense that might be incurred. His Excellency then laid upon the table a Bill to exempt, for a certain time, from duty and wharfage rates, flour, meal, wheat and other grain, and pulse, imported into New South Wales. EAST INDIES. By an overland mail from India, which arrived in London on the 10th instant, we have received Calcutta papers ty the 14th, and Bombay papers to the 24th of March. The t are much occupied with " camp news" from the Indus, bu include no military movement of importance, Of the ad vanced force at Shikarpore, under Shah Soojah, the ope rations were mainly directed by himself, and characterised by much prudence and decision. Sir Henry Farm has ac cepted the command at Bombay, and the army of the Indus will be commanded by Sir J. Keane. An iron steam-boat has passed up the river to a considerable distance beyond Hyder abad. The progress of the army in general appears to be slow and difficult, and attended with great privations. The main body has arrived at Luckee, 60 miles from Hyderabad, but met with no opposition save that of the country and cli mate. These accounts conic down to the 28th of Feb ruary, and at that time the disposition of the Ameers of Sinde continued to be friendly. The bridge of boats at Bukhur gave way on the sth of Feb. by which several camels only were lost. Lord Auckland left Delhi on the 21st of February for Kurnaul and Simla, and General Scott has quitted to join the army. From Burmah we learn that internal troubles prevent Tharawaddie from act ing against the English, as many expected he w as prepared to do. On the 25th of January, 4,000 men declared in favour of Tse- Kya- Meng,: whom they wished to enthrone. Thara waddie's troops drove them into a jungle,after capturing some valuable trophies, viz. " a pair of slippers—a velvet mattress —and a parabark, or Burmese black book, containing the general orders of the young rebel chief." Tharawaddie says the English fomented the rebellion, especially those of 11. M. S. Favourite, and he intends to crucify his prisoners, some of whom he has already hamstrung.— In February, three attempts were made to fire Ran goon, and much discontent and excitement prevailed there.—Letters from Suddeah, Upper Assam, mention that the adjacent English station was attacked before day light on the 28th of January, by six or seven hundred Kamptces, who fired the sheds and cut down or speared every man, woman, and child, they met with. Captain Hanway, Lieut. Marshal, and a few sepoys, with a 6-pounder and a 12 pound carronade, ultimately drove them off, and burnt Suddeah and three or four other villages, with the tempo rary loss to the service of Lieut.-Col. White, who received were r 3 e children, severely nine spear and four da gg er wounds, 1 soobadar major , 1 naick, 1 bugler , and 25 sepoys, dohe w es h , who an wounded ; 6 men, 8 women, 2 killed at the station, and many others dreadfully maimed. Lieut. Marshal was attacked by three of the enemy at once, one of whom he shot, then cut down a second, and put the third to flight.—Sunday Paper. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—May 13. THE DERET. 2 to 1 agst Scott's lot—taken 5 to 1 agst Sleight of Hand—taken 6 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Lot 6 to 1 agst Thornhill's lot—taken 7 to 1 agst Mr. Ricisdale's Bloomsbury—taken fi to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Euclid—taken 9 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Caesar—taken 10 to 1 agst Clarion—taken 10 to I agst Lord Chesterfield's The Corsair 12 to 1 agst Mr. G. Clark's Dragsman—taken 18 to 1 agst Mr. F. Craven's Deception—taken 20 to 1 agst Sir G. llcatlicote's lot—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Sadler's Dart--taken 20 to 1 agst Melbourne—taken 25 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Valaineckrt—taken 30 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Dey of Algiers—taken 30 to 1 agst Deception winning Derby and Oaks—taken :35 to I agst Montreal—taken 40 to 1 agst Lcrd Albemarle's Domino 40 to 1 agst Ilderim—taken 40 to 1 agst Ether—taken to 1 agst Diamond—taken 100 to 1 agst Bosphorus--taken Large quantities of foreign grain are still pouring into the Scotch market, and from the rate of duty being at present 10s. Bd. upon the quarter, less of the imports are cleared at the Custom-house, consequentlye, and consequently the grain bonds are again rapidly filling up. THE SUN, LONDON TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1839. THE CRISIS. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) The courage of the Queen having rescued the country from the fangs of Toryism, and restored a Liberal Ministry, the serious question arises, how they can exist ? It will not be disputed that, united and energetic, the Reformers are more than a match for the Tories. Disunion and damped hopes have produced their pre sent weakness. No Liberal Ministry can expect to exist for a month which does not take instant and decisive measures to restore the union and rekindle the energies of the people. This cannot now be done by an empty cry of " the Queen !" That has been raised once before, and nothing came of it—the people will not be caught by it again. They want measures ; —they can be roused only by some present prospect of practical good. The Queen's name by itself would carry no weight, but let it resound through the country in connection with a series of popu lar reforms, and it would be omnipotent. It appears to us, then, that only by some such policy as the following, can the Liberal forces be sufficiently re-animated to maintain a Liberal Government in ac cordance with the patriotic wishes of the Sovereign. The finality members of the Cabinet must retire and give place to some proved advocates of progressive Re form. This done a series of popular measures should be laid on the table of the present Parliament. Among them should be the Ballot, an Extension of the Suffrage, a Penny Postage, Church Reform, and Law Reform. The new Ministry should candidly avow that they have little hope of carrying them through the present Parliament, but that they desired to give the opportunity. They should declare that such are their measures that they desire a full discussion of them in the House and in the country, that a division should be taken on each of them, so that every Member may have an opportunity of making known his views to his constituents. That if rejected, they should appeal to the country, whether it was will ing to accept those measures ; by the answer returned by the country they would abide. If the country, thus fairly tried upon specific measures, should declare in their favour, they should use the necessary means to make these measures law. If on the contrary, the country should reject those measures, they should bow to its decision, and resign their trust to the proper hands for conducting the Government of a Tory people. We have little doubt that a frank and manly pro ceeding of this sort would receive the support it deserves. Even if it should fail at first, a party would be formed, powerful enough as an opposition, to prevent any ex cesses of Tory tyranny, and prepared to take the Government whenever public intelligence shall be sufficiently advanced to call upon them to do so. RATIFICATION OF THE FRENCH AND MEXICAN TREATY. (From the New Orleans Bulletin, April 10.) By the arrival of the steam-ship Meteor, from Vera Cruz, which place she left on the 2d inst., we have re ceived information of the ratification of the treaty by the Mexican government. The subjoined documents explain so fully all the circumstances of the case, as to render comment unnecessary. Extract from a letter, dated " Vera Cruz, April 2, 1839. " All the difficulties between France and Mexico have been terminated to mutual satisfaction. The conduct of Admiral Baudin during the whole course of hostilities has been highly praiseworthy, and in the negotiations, while advancing the interests of France, he treated the Mexican Government with the utmost deference, and spared it even the shadow of any humiliation that might wound her amour propre. " Vera Cruz has resumed its activity. The confidence of the inhabitants in Admiral Baudin is such, that the debates in Congress having made them fear for a while that the treaty concluded by the plenipotentiaries at Vera Cruz would not be entirely ratified, they were all deter mined to hoist the French flag, and place themselves under the protection of the Admiral. The ratification arrived. however, at last, on the 25th. It was full and satisfactory, " An imposing ceremony took place on the 27th for the funeral services of the French who had died during the expedition." ORDER OF THE DAY. " Frigate Nercide, Port of Vera Cruz, March 28, 1839. " The Admiral announces to the officers and soldiers of the squadron and garrison of L 7 lloa, that he has just re ceived from the Mexican Government the ratification of the treaty of peace concluded en the 9th of the month,; between France and Mexico. The conditions were such 1 as were required by the Admiral. The Cabinet of Mexico has abandoned the operations it intended carrying into effect ; the doubts which had arisen respecting the sin cerity of the Government, have been entirely dissipated. " The Admiral, as the interpreter of the generous and benevolent intentions of France, has imposed very mode rate conditions upon Mexico. The object of the expedition is, however, obtained. Mexico pays an indemnification of 3,000,000 of francs to those of our compatriots who had claims against her previous to the war. " The necessary guarantees for the future safety of the persons and property of the French have been obtained. " The amount of the indemnification to be paid to those who have suffered loss by the law of expulsion, shall be settled by arbitration. " Our commerce in Mexico will hereafter be on the same footing as that of the most favoured nations. " In consequence of peace, the fortress of Ulloa will be restored to Mexico. This restitution will take place in the beginning of the ensuing month. The squadron will then return to France, with the exception of a few vessels in tended to remain in the neighbourhood. " Sailors, cannoneers, miners—each of you, in quitting the coast of Mexico, will feel the satisfaction of having co-operated in a service useful and glorious to France. The country against which you have fought, which you could have greatly injured, from which injury you have nevertheless abstained, will feel grateful for your modera tion and your generosity; and your Admiral will always be happy to bear testimony to the spirit of order and subordination, the courage and the devotion you have ex hibited throughout this expedition. (Signed) " CHARLES BAUDIN." " A true copy—the French Consul, " DAVID." Intelligence from the interior of Mexico states that Santa Anna received 200,000 dollars from the merchants of Mexico for signing the treaty. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) VasseLs SPOKEN WlTit.—The North Briton, Smyrna to Liverpool, lat. 44., long. 17. ; Somersetshite, London to Van Diemen's Land, 29th ult., lat. 47., long. 10. ; Monarch, bound to Antigua, 4th inst., lat. 48., long. 7., by the Nymph, arrived at Dartmouth ; L'Escualduna, from Bourbon, out three months, 21st Feb ruary, very leaky, and supplied with provisions by the Sarah, arrived at Madras ; Clothelde, Antwerp to New York, Bth ult., lat. 45., long 42., by the Hirondelle, ar rived at Antwerp; Mary, Gilmore, Mauritius to Bristol, 18th ult., lat. 42., long. 30. ; and Isabella, bound to Pictou, 25th ult., lat. 46., long. 20., by the Casseopea, arrived at Cork. MAD DOGS !—Some timid gentlemen of the Press join in the eternal cry of " mad dog" so vociferously as to beget a suspicion that they themselves have been bitten. Some of them, however, are sane enough to laugh at the alarm they have excited amongst the old women by horrifying accounts of dogs which are in reality as harmless as lambs. FRONTIERS OF POLAND, APRIL I.—lt is long since there were such great movements among the Russian troops as at this moment. Almost all the regiments here change their quarters, and large reinforcements arrive from Russia to the army under Prince Paskewitsch. It is thought that the object is to be merely in readiness against any extraordinary event that may occur in conse quence of the state parties in France, and tho religious differences in Germany, which excite great apprehensions at St. Petersburgh. MURDER IN THE STREETS OF PARIS.-011 Wednesday morning, at daylight, the body of a man, who appeared to have been murdered, was found in an open piece of ground, rue Chateau Landor, near the rue La fayette. The body was almost entirely stripped, having nothing on but a pair of ragged trousers, and a shirt torn and stained with blood ; large stones smeared with blood were found about the body. It was discovered that the death of the man had been caused by strangulation, and that he was a journeyman mason, named Longueville, ' lodging at 107, Faubourg St. Martin, at a woman's named Morlot, where also one of his fellow-workmen and his brother-in-law lodged, who were arrested, and examined, but, proving an alibi, were set at li berty. The examination of the body was mado in a straw warehouse in the rue Lafayette, where it was depo. sited at five o'clock on Thursday morning. A substitute of the Procureur du Roi and the examining magistrate Ber thelin, were present at the operation, from which it resulted that Longueville in a state of intoxication, and assailed by several persons, had, after a prolonged struggle, been strangled by a cord, and afterwards, as he probably gave some signs of life, finished by being beaten with stones. On the morning of the murder Longueville had fifty francs upon him, which he had received on Saturday-night for his week's work, and of which, it appears he had spent but a small portion. Active search is being made to discover the murderers. WESTERN UNION OF CHURCHES. —The se cond annual meeting of the " Western Christian Union, and Fellowship of Churches," was held at the old dissent lig chapel in Crediton on'Wednesday last. This Society, although at present confined almost entirely to persons professing Unitarian sentiments, has no sectarian objects in view. It is / designed to promote the union of the Chris tian Churches, fur the purposes of mutual support and en couragement, on the sole principles of acknowledging the truth of Christianity as delivered in the Scriptures. In the language of the report laid before the meeting on Wednesday., "the churches of this Union declare that they are cognizant of no sectarian peculiarity, that they disclaim all party names and badges, that they have no prescribed creed, that they foreclose Scrip tural controversy, that they will pledge their members to nothing but freedom of mind and fidelity to Christ." The Society was addressed on this occasion in a most powerful and luminous sermon, by the Rev. George Arm strong, B. A., lately a beneficed clergyman in Ireland, now one of the pastors of Lewin's Mead Chapel, Bristol. Ile is undoubtedly a very fine and accomplished preacher. Ills style of composition is Miltonic, and his elocution highly effective. In some of his startling tones, and espe cially in the overwhelming rapidity and sustained onergy of his utterance at times, he reminded us strongly of Lord Brougham. We understand that he is to preach at George's Meeting in this city, on Sunday morning next.— Westein Times. LORD DURHAM'S REPORT IN AMERICA, A multitude of American and Canadian newspapers have come to us by the Great Western. They abound in extracts and notices of Lord Durham's Report, which seems to have produced a great sensation in that part of the world. Many papers reprint the whole Report by instalments ; and there are advertisements of several re prints in the pamphlet form. We extract two notices from leading Canadian papers of opposite politics : " It is not too much to say that Lord Durham's Report will satisfy all parties in the province who arc honestly desirous of good government in connection with Great Britain. These parties must and will unite in support of his Lordship ; and the interested official clique and the determined Republican separaratists (if such there be) will be left in a miserable minority."—Turonto Exa miner, a Radical Reformer. We believe this Report will be considered by all as the most luminous, comprehensive, and best arranged document on the affairs of the colonies which has ever been submitted to the British Parliament ; and by going to the bottom of our difficulties, Ministerial ignorance and blundering, it will work far more efficient reforms than have ever been previously hoped for."—Montreal Herald, a High Tory Loyalist. PARISH OF ST. PANCRAS. ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN. Yesterday a special and extremely full meeting of the St. Pancras Vestry was held at the Vestry Rooms, in Gordon-square, fur the purpose of taking into consideratiou the propriety of presenting an address to her Most Gracious Majesty, in reference to the present state of affairs, and in support of the course she had taken with respect to the change of Administration. Mr. R. HonsEroot , having been appointed to the Chair, Mr. llououTos rose to move " That the Vestry forth with address her Majesty npon the present crisis." There never was a time when the youthful Sovereign of these realms more demanded the support and loyal expression of her subjects than at present.—( Hear, hear.) She had, in his opinion, been subject to an attempt upon her rights and privileges the most arbitrary and unconstitutional, and such as it was the duty of all her subjects, possessing the slight. est loyalty, to resent.—( Hear, hear.) The neighbouring parish of St. Marylebone had set a noble example, and he (Mr. Houghton) hoped that not Only St. Pancras, but the whole country, would come to a similar determination to support the Queen, by which means they would not only be maintaining the prerogatives of the Crown, but at the same time secure to the subject those rights and liberties which it was the only aim of a selfish oligarchy to deprive them of.—( Loud cheers.) Mr. BRETTINGFIAM briefly seconded the motion. Mr. CLARKE would not yield to any member of the Vestry in loyalty to the Sovereign; but whilst be enter tained those teelings, he could not consent that the time of that Vestry should be wasted in a subject which was any thing but parochial. He maintained that that was a body not established for political but exclusively for parochial matters, and under such circumstances ho protested against the course about to be pursued.—(oh, oh.) The motion was here put from the chair and carried with one disentient. Upon the motion of Mr. Houghton, a Committee, con sisting of Mr. Vigbrs, M. P., Mr. lye, Mr. I3rettingham, Mr. Charnock, and Mr. Houghton, were appointed to frame the address, and place it before the Vestry forth with. They withdrew for this purpose, and whin they re returned, Mr. Houghton read the address as follows : TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. The humble Memorial and Petition of the Churchwardens and Vestry, representing the loyal, populous and wealthy parish of St. Pancras, Middlesex. Showeth, That this Vestry has heard with feelings of deep indig. nation that an attempt has been made to banish from your presence the female friends for whom your Majesty enter tains affection, and, thus to render your social station more painful and degraded than that of any other woman in your dominions. . That this vile attempt to make your Majesty a state prisoner in your own Palace, to place a spy over every one of your domestic movements, and to make your office a mere pageant to bo used solely for the purposes of a reckless oligarchy, arc not in accordance with the consti tution of this Kingdom, and are insults which your people, this Vestry doubts not, will resist in your Majesty's behalf. That this Vestry, relying on your Majesty's firmness and Constitutional principles, dreads not attacks on Liberty from the Crown, but from the selfish and ill instructed part of the Aristocracy ; and therefore this Vestry humbly prays, That your Majesty will be pleased to call to your Coun cils such Ministers as will uphold the prerogatives of the Crown, support all necessary Reform in our Institutions, amplify and freely extend the broad basis of the Represen tation of the People in the Commons' House of Parlia ment, thus forming a bulwark to the Throne which will prevent its being trampled upon by a self-seeking oligar chy, enlarge the bonds of civil and religious liberty, and carry prosperity over your Majesty's vast dominions. " And your petitioners will ever pray, &c."—( Loud cheers.) Mr. HOUGKTON—I beg to move that this address be adopted by this Vestry, and placed in the hands of the Secretary of State, for immediate presentation to her Ma jesty.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. VIGOR., M. P., in seconding the motion, observed that he never knew a more important subject come within the province of that Vestry than the present, and seeing that they were the representatives of a parish containing nearly 140,000 souls, he thought that a memorial emanat ing from them would have its due weight and influence on the mind of her Majesty.—( Hear„hear.) Ile,was one of those, however, who wished that their voice might not only reach the ears of the Sovereign alone, but also the ears of all her Majesty's people, that they might profit by the example, and join in the same expression of feeling, from one end of the kingdom to the other.—( Loud cheers ) Mr. SIMPSON conceived it would be preferable to en trust the presentation of the petition to Earl Durham, as they were not yet certain what Ministry would come into office, and it might come into the hands of a Secretary of State, who would take care it should not go before her Majesty at all.—( Hear, hear, and No, no.) Mr. VlGotts said, that in the event of the memorial being entrusted to Earl Durham, they must either request his Lordship to obtain a special audience of her Majesty or the presentation must be deferred until the next levee, which will not take place before Tuesday week. The course recommended was not advisable, and he (Mr. Vigors) would pledge himself that if the address was placed in the hands of the Secretary of State immediately, no time would be lost in laying it before her Majesty.— (Hear, hear. ) The motion on being put from the Chair, was carried unanimously with acclamation. Mr. Hoocicros, in moving that the address be adver tised in the public newspapers, said he hoped instead of defraying the expenses attending it out of the parish funds, that the Vestry had loyalty enough in them to do so out of their own pockets, and he would also move that that prin ciple be acted on.—( Cheers. ) Captain O'NiEL seconded the motion, which was also carried, and a liberal subscription having been entered into, the meeting broke up. GREAT PRECURSOR MEETING AT THE CROWN AND ANCHOR. Last evening a very numerous meeting of the Pre cursors of London was held at the above tavern, for the purpose of remodelling or forming a new Precursor Asso ciation in London. The price of admission was one shil ling : this did not prevent the people from mustering i❑ large numbers. Mr. O'Connell arrived some time before nine o'clock, and was received with great applause. Upon his taking the chair his invitation to the meeting to give three cheers for the Queen was responded to in the moat enthusiastic and deafening manner. The meeting was severally addressed by the Chairman, Mr. O'Brien, Mr. Sankey, and others, and the resolu tions were passed without much dissent, the Chartists getting a pretty fair hearing. MUNIFICENT DONATION.—On Friday, after Dr. Duff had concluded his lecture on behalf of the Indian miisions, an anonymous note was handed in to the Rev. Doctor, which contained /00/., to be applied in bringing the Heathen within the pale of Christianity.— _ Edinburgh Post. BOROUGH OF NEW SIIOREHAM.—WC under stand that it is the intention of Mr. Salomons to conic for ward for this borough, in the event of Mr. Gorin i 3 r's re signation, w hi c h i s anticipated. Mr. Salomons , who doubtless, be backed by the interest of the Duke of Nor folk, will, we presume, hardly find an oppone it. Dr. Spangenberg, the celebrated Hanoverian Physician, w h o has been for some time in attendance upon the Crown Prince, has given it as his opinion that his Royal Highness's eyesight has improved. Baron Graeff does not, however, incline to the same way of thinking, and being uncertain whether it would be safe to attempt an operation this year, has ordered the seab aths of Nordeney, whith er the Prince will proceed at the usual season. A KEEN SCENT.—A Tory paper of this city speaking of the resignation of Ministers, opines that the ev ent is creditable to his 4 , pugnostications." That the Editor should have thus voluntarily unkennelled himself is too much t o suppose. a f ter ever y allowance m ade for his known modestyg and love of truth : no, he wrote, in all probabilit y , " pro nos ti ca tions ;" but the " printer's devil," with that attention to the eternal fit ness of things" which characterises that " little unknown" in all his interferences with the composition of matter for the press, chose so to alter the MS., as best describing his master's birth and breeding. Truly the dog hath a keen nose ; and might immortalise himself by becoming the founder of a sect of Pug-gnostics ! Now, no fawning, pray, at this complimen tary pat on tho head. Down, Pompey, down I —Bristol Mercury. THE CHARTISTS.—The Manchester Guardian of last Saturday says—" In this neig hbourhood all a pp ears ' to hav e been perfectly peace able since l ast S aturday ; the drillin gs which were public and notorious in various parts of the district, have been either wholly discontinued, or carried on with so much caution that they have passed unnoticed; the public sole of arms has been to a great extent discontinued ; and we have n ot beard of any gather ings out of d oors i n the slightest degree worthy of notice." In the Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin, on Satur day, in the libel case of Gray v. Barrett, the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, 100/. damages and costs. AN OLD CALF.—On Thursday last, at Ayton cattle market, Mr. Hood, sold a cow and a calf, bred by him, for the sum of 52/. The calf was one year and four days old, was sucking the mother in the market, and was considered to weigh 42 stones !—Berwick Advertiser. HANOVER, MAY 6.—His Majesty the King has been plea se d to co nfer the title of Privy Councill or on the Danish Count Otto Von Blume. He is son-in-law of the Privy Councillor Count Von Plattin Hallermiend. COURT CIRCULAR The Marquis of Normanby, Viscount Melbourne, and Lord John Russell had audiences yesterday of the Queen. Her Majesty rode out on horseback yesterday, attended by the Baroness Lehzen, Viscountess Forbes, Miss Quen tin, Earl of Uxbridge, Lord Byron, Right lion. George Stevens Byng, Colonel Buckley, and Sir Frederick Stovin. Abraham Van Buren, Esq., eldest son of the Presiden of the United States, accompanied by hislady and her bro ther, Mr. Singleton, were among the passengers recently arrived in the Great Westerm, and reached London on Sa- turday last. Mr. John Van I3uren returns to the United States this week. Captain Hobson and Mr. Roebuck had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Colonial Office. Lord Clive, the Right lion. C. Wynn, Sir John Seale, and Colonel Clive, had interviews with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Home Office. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne gave a State Dinner last evening at Lansdowne House to his Imperial Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia, and his Royal Highness Prince Frederick Henry of the Netherlands. Covers were laid for 26. The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yester day included the Earl of Uxbridge, Viscount Melbourne, the Ladies Eleanor and Constance Paget, the Right lion. George Stevens Byng, the Hon. Colonel Cavendish, and the Hon. William Cowper. Her Majesty gave a concert last evening. The grand saloon was fitted up as a music-room, and the drawing-rooms leading into the saloon were also opened for the reception of the company. Refreshments were served in the green drawing-room during the evening. The following was the programme of the concert : PRIMA PARTE. Duo, " Bel Paese," Signori Tamburini c La blache ( Regina di Golgonda) Donizetti. Duo, " Chiedi all' aura," Madame Persiani e Signor Rubini (Elisir d'Amore) Donizetti. Barcarole, " Urea Barchetta in mar," Signor Tamburini (Gianni da Calais) Donizetti. Duo, " Con pazienza," Madame Grisi e Signor Lablacho (II Fanatico) .. Aria, " Quando it core," Mademoiselle Garcia (Ines de Castro) Persiani. Duo, " Un tenero core," Madame Grisi e Fioravanti. Signor Rubini (Roberto D'Evreux.) Donizctti. Aria, " Oh cara memoria," Madame Persiani ( Adele di Lusignano) Carafa. Quartetto, " A to, o cars," Madame Grisi, Signori Rubini, 'Famburini, e Lablache (I Puritani) SECOND& PARTE. Aria, " L'Amor sue mi fe beata," Madame Grisi (Roberto D'Evrcux) Donizetti. Duo, " 11 Pallor," Madame Persiani e Signor Tamburini ( Lucia di Lammermoor) Donizetti. Aria, " A to diro," Signor Rubini (Roberto D'Evreux) Donizetti. Duo, " Sappi the un rio," Madame Grisi e firldlle. Garcia (Bianca e Faliero) Rossini. Tarantola, " Gia la Luria," Signor Lablache ( Soirees Musicales) Rossini. Duo, " Sulla Salma," Signor Rubini e Tam burini ( Straniera) Bellini. Cora, Pastorale, " Felice eta," Madame Per siani, Mdlle. Garcia, Signori Rubini, Tam burini, Lablachc Costa. Signor Costa presided at the pianoforte. Among the company were her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, his Imperial Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia, his Royal Highness Prince William Henry of the Netherlands, Prin cess Sophia Matilda, the American Minister and Mrs. Stevenson, the Danish Minister and Baroness Bionic, the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, the Russian Ambassador, M. Hummelauer, Austrian Charge d'Af faires ; Mr. John Van Buren, son of the President of the United States ; Baron Bentinck, Netherlands Charge d'Affaires ; the Spanish Minister, the Earl and Countess of Lichfield, Lady Wheatley, the Misses Wheatley, the Duke of Wellington, Mr. George and the lion. Mrs. An son, the Marquis of Normanby, the Earl and Countess of Rosebery and Lady - Primrose, the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, Lord Glenelg, Lady A. Fitzclarence, the lion. Fox and Mrs. Maule, the Earl of Cardigan, Lord Villiers, Right Hon. Edward Ellice, Baron Knesebeck, Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Earl of Ilehester, Lord Stavordalc, Lady Strangways, Lord Adolphus Fitzcla rence, Earl of Mansfield, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Earl of Aberdeen, Duke and Duchess of Somerset, Lord and Lady Lilford, Viscountess Forbes, Earl Compton, Colonel and Mrs. Anson, the Speaker and Hon. Mrs. Abercromby, Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, Lord and Lady Ashley, Earl of Lovelace, Countess of Sandwich, Earl and Countess Grosvenor, Ladies Grosve nor, the Countess and Lady Fanny Cowper, Mr. Vaughan, Lord and Lady Seymour, Lord Jocelyn, Viscount and Viscountess Clive, Hon. Miss Herbert, Hon. S. Cowper, Earl and Countess of Munster, Lord and Lady Gardner, Lord Folkestone, Earl and Countess Cawdor, Ladies Camp bell, Viscount and Viscountess llowick, Lord Melgund, the Marchioness of Normanby, Lady F. Hastings, lion. Miss Anson, Lady Harriet Clive, Baroness Lehzen, Miss Davys, Lord Byron, Colonel Armstrong, Lord Alfred Paget, Hon. C. A. Murray, Earl and Countess of Surrey, Lord Fitzalan, Lord Edward Howard, Marquis of Heil- ford, Lord and Lady Barham, Earl of Belfast, Right lion. T. Spring Rice, Hon. Miss Spring Rice, Earl and Lady G. Grey, Mr. and Lady C. Barrington, Lady Agnes Byng, Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane, Countess Dowager of Clare, Lady J. Fitzgibbon, Duke of Argyll, Countess 'Lavadowsky, Lord and Lady C. Fitzroy, Marquis of Headfort, Earl and Countess of Harewood, Lord and Lady Burghersh, Earl and Countess of Zet land, Lord and Lady Portman, Earl and Countess of Dunmore, Marchioness of Tavistock, Earl of Clarendon, Duke of Norfolk, Lord Carrington, Sir G. Anson, Duchess of Hamilton, Marquis Douglas, Duchess Dowager of Richmond, Duchess of Northumberland, Misses Percy, Colonel Buckley, Sir F. Stovin, lion. C. and Lody Catherine Cavendish and Misses Cavendish, Hon. Mr. Clive, Viscount Torrington, Count Orloff, Bishop of Peter borough and Mrs. Davys, Earl and Countess of Albemarle, Mrs. B. Paget and Miss Paget, Earl Delawarr, Earl and Countess of Wilton, Lady C. Underwood, Sir S. Higgins, Col. Wemyss, Lord Eastnor, Earl and Countess of Erroll, Lady A. Hay, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Cottenham, Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, Earl and Countess of Charleville, Count C. and Countess Pozzo di Borgo, Madlle. D'Este, Earl and Countess of Radnor, Lord and Lady Stuart de Rothesay, Miss Stuart, Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, Lord Saltoun, Lord Emlyn, Duke and Duchess of Richmond, Lady C. Gordon Lennox, Earl of March, Lord and Lady Mahon, Lord Radstock, Earl and Countess Minto, Lady F. Elliott, Marquis of Anglesey, Lord Morpeth, Lord George Paget, Lord and Lady Cowley, Honourable Miss Wellesley, Lady Adelaide Paget, Earl Sandwich, Marchioness Dowager Conyng ham, Sir \V. and . Lady Maria Somerville, Earl of Fingall, Duke of Dorset, Sir Hussey and Lady Vivian, Archbishop of York, Miss Vernon Harcourt, Viscount Palmerston, Lady Byron, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Coulson, Dowager Lady Cawdor, Earl and Countess of Durham, Lady Lambton, Earl and Countess Craven, Countess Manvers, Lady M. Pierrepont, the Ladies Fitzwilliam, Lord and Lady Vernon, Lord Ossulston, Hon. Charles Gore, Sir James Clark, Sir John Hob house, Hon. Mr. Ponsonby, Mr. Rich, M. P., Earl and Countess de Grey, Lord Leveson, Earl and Countess Cowper, Lord Hill, Marquis of Tavistock, Countess Euston arid Lady Fitzroy, Lady and the Hon. Miss Lyt tleton, Lord Fitzharris, Viscountess Falkland, Lady How den, Colonel Caradoc, Right lion. 11. Labouchere, Hon. Mr. Fitzwilliam. Supper was served between the parts, and at the close of the concert, in the dining-room. NEW STRAND THEATRE. A three act burletta, founded on Auber's last grand Opera, " Le Lac des Fees," which has produced such an extraordinary sensation at the Academie Royal de Musique in Paris, was produced last evening at this Theatre, with triumphant success. The plot is exceedingly simple Albert (Mr. J. Binge), a student of Cologne, having been haunted in his dreams by the vision of a lovely fairy, de termines to go to the Fairy Lake, in the Hartz Mountain, in search of his spirit love. The Fairy Lake is situated in the midst of the Hartz Mountains, and the Fairies descend to it in the evening for the purpose of bathing. These fairies have no wings, but cleave the air by means of a magic veil, which they spread over their head. Al bert sees the fairy of his vision 7,,da (Mrs. Way lett), and, while she is bathing, gets possession of her veil, arid thus confines her to earth. She in the mean while, before she discovers her loss, sees and falls in love with Albert. In the second act we find Albert returned to Cologne, and Zela, disguised in shepherd's atrire, at tending as servants on Margeruite (Miss Selby), Albert's hostess, and to whom he is engaged to in default of payment of twenty-five golden crowns. This sum, how ever, he borrows on bond of a Jew. Zela , meanwhile ex pressing a wish to return to her sisters, he restores her the magic veil, but Ler love for bins is too strong, and she consents to remain, and be his bride. His bond, which the Jew has sold to Rodolphe, whom Margcruite has in duced to marry her, becomes due, and in consequence of his being robbed by gypsies of the money which he had provided to meet it, he is ar r e s t e d. Z e l a , b y means of her magic veil, escapes t o F a i r y L an d, an d b y the assistance of the Fairy Queen rescues Albert, for whooe'slte she consents to become mortal, from his dungeon, and their marriage is celebrated at the fairy lake by the Queen of the Fairies and her court. The weight of the piece fell upon Mrs. Waylett, who, we are glad to hear, has recovered her voice completely. Mr. J. Binge sung with taste and feeling, but the smut in the last act was too much for his voice. Miss Barrington, who was one of the Fairies, conduced considerably, by her fine contralto, to the efficiency of the music. This young lady is im proving considerably. The music is light and pretty. The gem of the Opera struck us to be the duct—" Like sun beams gaily dancing," in the third act, which was admirably sung by Binge and Mrs. Wavlett, and rapturously en cored. The scenery is magnificent. At the conclusion Mrs. Waylett was led on by Binge, who announced the Opera for repetition every evening until futher notice. It is a decided hit, and will probably carry Hammond tri umphantly through the season. The house was crowded. Sir Robert and Lady Fitzwygram entertained at dinner yesterday, in Connaught-place, the Duchess Dowa ger of Richmond, Lord and Lady Cowley and Miss Wellesley, Earl and Countess of Bradford, Mrs. George Dawson, Lord and Lady Bloomfield, Viscounts Maidstone, Leveson, and Cranatoun, Lady Catherine and Miss Stewart, Sir Fred. Trench and Mr. Parnther. His Grace the Duke of Wellington was prevented honouring Sir Robert and Lady Fitzwygram with his company. In the evening her Ladyship had music. The Hon. Grantley Berkely, M.P., has under gone a successful operation for the thorn, which was bro ken in his ankle joint at the commencement of the last hunting season Mr. Berkeley is fast recovering. THE NEW ZEALAND EXPEDI TION. --- The following intelligence from Plymouth, of the ar rival of the barque Tory, will be read with interest. The aim and prospects of the expedition were fully explained in the account of the dinner at Black , ,vall, which appeared in our paper at the time. " PLYMOUTH, MAY g.--Among our last shipping arri vals is the barque Tory, from London, bound to New Zea land, which reached the Sound early yesterday morning. She is a fast-sailing new vessel of 400 tons, having been only one previous voyage, and is the property of the New Zealand Land Company lately formed in London. The pre sent voyage is a remarkable or.e, being the first expedition despatched by the Company, with the view of exploring the country in order to the establishment of regular thitish set tlements in New Zealand. The Tory left Gravesend on Sun day at six o'clock P.M.. (where i party of gentlemen con nected with the Company had asFembled to take leave of their friends in the expedition), amidst the cheers of the spec tators on the shore, which were ans,„-tired by a salute of eleven guns from the ship. She was tow - °d by a steamer to the mouth of the Thames, and had a very ::uick run of thirty-eight hours from the Downs to Plymouth Sound The Tory carries eight guns, and is equipped in a 7e l 'Y superior style. She carries only specie and such article: of merchandise as are suitable for barter with the natives for land. The expedition is under the orders of Colonel Wakefield, a very distinguished officer ; and the ship is commanded by Mr. Chaffers, R.. N., a skilful nautical sur veyor, who was Master of her Majesty's ship Beagle in Captain Fitzroy's Surveying Expedition in the South Seas. The Tory carries a surgeon, another gentleman devoted to medical statistics, a naturalist (Dr Dieffen bach, of Berlin), a draftsman (Mr. Hoafy), a few young gentlemen as volunteers, and an interpreter, Nayti, a New Zealand chieftain, who has resided in England for two years, and has acquired the English language and habits. It is understood that this expedition is a preliminary one, for the purpose of selecting the site of a town and acquiring correct and scientific information in regard to the country. The Tory is ordered to proceed to the Company's tcryitory on the West coast of the Northern Island, which embraces the harbours of Kiapara and Hokianga, and also to Cook's Strait ; where it is probable a settlement will also be formed in the neighbourhood either of Cloudy Bay or Port Nicholson. It is said the Company are fitting out another vessel to follow the Tory in a few weeks, and that a large body of emigrants, consisting of most respectable families, will embark from Londun in the course of the present summer. The wind being now favourable for sea, the Tory is to sail from the Sound this evening, or early on Friday morning at latest. The final instructions from the Company in London reached Colonel Wakefield on board the Tory yesterday." JAMAICA BILL. Sir Charles Grey last night gave notice that he would to-morrow move in Committee, " That the following pro viso be added to the second clause of the said Bill :—Pro vided always that nothing in this Act contained shall extend to authorise or empower the said Governor and Council to levy or impose any tax or duty within the said island, ex cepting all existing taxes and duties, which existing taxes and duties, if it should by them be deemed expedient, it shall be lawful for the said Governor and Council to levy during the whole time of the continanee of this Act, whether the said taxes and duties would otherwise have ceased within that period or not ; and excepting also such duties as by any law, statute, or ordinance the said Gover nor and Council may impose for the regulation of -com merce; and excepting also such duties, taxes, or rates as the inhabitants or freeholders, or the major part of the in habitants or freeholders, of any parish, town, county, or district within the said island, lawfully assembled and met together for that purpose, either according to any existing law, or according to any new law, statute or ordinance, may, with the consent of the said Governor and Council, assess, levy, and apply within such parish, town, county or district, for the purpose of making roads, erecting ani re pairing public buildings, or for any other purpose respect ng the local convenience and economy of such parish, town, ounty or district." METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Times of this morning contains a lengthened sum mary of the explanations that took place in the House of Commons last night between Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Russell. As there are no political opinions put forth in this summary, it is needless to give extracts from it. The Morning Chronicle speaks of Sir Robert Peel's ex planation in the Commons last night, in the following terms :—" The worth of the late transaction, as an illus tration of the spirit of Toryism, makes itself increasingly felt by the public. The more it is brought to the light, the stronger is the impression it leaves of cowar dice, deceptiveness, and eagerness for a degree of power which has never been so coveted without the disposition and the purpose to abuse it. The Tory leader tells his story with a seeming and pro ably a real unconscidasness of the exhibition it affords of mental and moral qualities such as no enlightened country would desire in its statesmen. But he must justify him self to his party ; and he knows that, to them, his having pursued a simple, manly, straightforward, and patriotic course, would be no justification. So be tells out all the unscrupulousness with which he endeavoured to coerce the Queen in her do mestic arrangements, to abridge the prescriptive ex tent of the Royal prerogative, and to lay, in false hood, the foundations of a power that, once established, should defy either Sovereign or people to effect its removal. The case he endeavours to make out is, that he has done all that could be done for the restoration of the faction, without being particular as to the means, and has only failed because truth and feeling were too strong, as it is their nature to be ever too strong, for all the weapons and wiles at his command. And with the faction to which such a pleading can be addressed, let him stand excused. The moral sense of the country will appreciate his explanation somewhat differently." The Morning Herald is quite delighted with Sir Robert Peel's explanation last night, observing :—" In the House of Commons, the explanation furnished by Sir Robert Peel was of the most ample and gratifying nature. Lofty as are the claims which the Right Hon. Baronet has long possessed on the confidence of the country, those claims will, we venture to assert, be multiplied and augmented by his most constitutional and most statesmanlike conduct during the late extraordinary transactions." The Morning Post, as a matter of course, snakes the discovery that Sir Robert Peel's explanation was all that it should be ; and that his proposition to the Queen, to dismiss from her service some of her best and most attached friends, had but one fault, namely—exceeding modera tion I This is a true Tory sentiment:—" The speech delivered by Sir Robert Peel in the House of Com mons, every material point of which was confirmed by Lord John Russell, in the name and by the authority of her Majesty, must confound and abash the vile and audacious slanderers who for the last three days have engaged in wilfully misrepresenting the whole conduct of this able and manly statesman, in the delicate and important negotiation in which he has re cently borne so distinguished and honourable a part. It will be seen that the Right Honourable Ba ronet, so far from intending to remove all the ladies to whose society her Majesty had been accustomed, contem plated only such removals as were necessary to show to the country that his Administration had her Majesty's confi dence, and was not exposed to the danger at every moment of being overthrown by some Palace intrigue, got up by the wives and sisters of politicians who are avowedly his competitors for power. That, in all the circumstances of case, this was a very moderate, perhaps too moderate, a de mand the country will unanimously agree." The Morning Advertiser comments to the following effect on Sir Robert Peel's explanation :—" There was one point established beyond all doubt by the admission of Sir Robert Peel, upon which Lord John Russell fairly laid great stress. He asked for more than any other monarch had ever conceded ; more than any other monarch had ever conceded was granted to him. Sir Robert contended that because Jamaica, Canada, India, Ireland, and England were disturbed—he should have added, by the obstructive policy of the party—it was necessary, in order to show that he had full power, that he should disturb the Ladies of the Bedchamber. He made one or two Parliamentary hits ; of his views as to a dissolution, and hi s i n t en ti o n t o d o without one, and therefore urged the necessity of having the control of the Bedchamber women. A more shallow, special-pleading, yet artfully-contrived Parliamentary jug gle, could not be made. In the meantime we recommend a perusal of Lord John Russell's speech, and the beautiful appeal of the Queen to his patriotism. It is truly worthy of a British Queen." The Tories are a moral people. We do not usually point to the moralities of public men; but there has been so much ado made by the Tories of their own superior virtue, that it will not be improper to point out to the public Members of the intended Government of Sir Robert Peel in whose persons that virtue was to be ex hibited. Of moral Chancellors:—That of England was to be Lord Lyndhurst—that of Ireland Sir Edward Sug den ;—in the Household, the Duke of Beaufort, the Earl of Wilton, the Earl of Chesterfield, and Lord Castlereagh were to fill high places. There arc none of these Noble men and Gentlemen who would not despise the cant that has been indulged in by the Tories and their trumpeters. But is it not singular that the cautious Sir Robert Peel should have followed up the general outcry of his party by selecting men who do not pretend to a superhuman degree of immaculateness ? They are certainly not men whom considerate persons would select as the Representatives and guardians of the morals of the Court. —Morning Ad vertiser. SAGO BREAD.—The hint which we threw out on the 17th of February last, respecting the conversion of sago into bread, seems to have been taken up with ala crity, and pursued to some purpose. A series of experi ments, we learn, have been carried on for some time past by Mr. H. C. Baildon, Prince's-street, " with the view of ascertaining whether that most important article of do mestic economy bread, may not, by one and the same process, be improved in quality and reduced iu price (namely, by the admixture of a certain quan tity of the best Pearl Sago with the finest flour,)" which experiments, we are glad to learn, have been completely successful, and bread of this description may now be had in various shops throughout the town. The recommcndetions of this bread (according to Mr. Baildon) are, "that it is as light as that made from the finest . wheat flour ; that it is more agreeable to the palat e ; that it is capable of being kept much longer without deterioration ; that it is more wholesome than that made in the . ordinary manner, and of the usual ingredient s ; and that it capa blo of being manufactured at a lower price than bread made exclusively from the best flour." —Scotsman. The Paisley Advertiser says, " The state of weather for some weeks past, has been everything that th e farmers could wish ; th e braird has " come away" beauti fully, fresh and strong, and oats, wheat, and barley, present the finest appearances of health and verdure. A great portion of the potatoe seed has been committed to the soil, under circumsta nces hi g hl y favourable, an d the grass fields are already affording a luxurious bite. EVENING- MARKET ERDAY•) ' BREAD. le Metropolis is led. for the 4111, i PRICE 0. The highest price of Bread in C Loat. Good Bread may he had at COAL MARE s. d Adair's Lcaze's Main l6 01 Ord's Itedhugh Original Windsor's Pont%) 20 6 south Hartley Townley lB 0 West Hartley Wylana Walls End Bewicke and Co 2O 0 Walls End Dunn's l7 0 Walls End Gosforth Walls End Newmarch .... , l9 9 Wall, End Walker lO 6 Walls End Belmont Walls EndßraddylPsiletton 22 6 . Wale.. End Haswell '2s 0 Wal a rnd Hecon Walls End Lambton " ' ships arrived since last `PRICE OF SE._ Per - Cwt. 4A 444 4. "' New English Bed Clover 70s. 112 s St. Foin ...... - Os Old Dtto ditto s 3. -s Bye Grass 281 : ,1 " - 4 ,, New Foreign Ditto ...61".5. 90s. Ws. Pacey On ---" 4° ' ''. Old Ditto Ditto a. 40s. 60s. Linseed, for feeding 46a. . 52 ' l ':;:* .Cew White Clover CO, 80s. 90s. Ditto, for sawing ...... -,, -)g '" .. . 1- AP& 01,1 Ditto Ditto , 455. 60s. Ditto, for crushing... -, ''. 7 i ris ' N ea, T re foil 2O. 255. POs. canary -s 9Ctt ' -a 368- 42'. Old I..'tto -s !Ss. 22a Hemp Trofolit . on lOs Ila 13s, Per Bushel. . 6. E ag lis: ; i i , Carraway --s. 435. 465 White Mustard...lls. ' , l• 154 ' :,,, Foreign Ds tto S. 405.445 Brown Ditto ......153.00. -225. Coriandat" •.. -s. 13s 21s Tares 4s. ed 55_,..061 Rapes , e d, Eitgloh fine (per Last) 311/. 38i PRlletk- S OF PoTAToEn AT SPITA LEI ELDS York Reds 1 ,( ,. .'n vc"c l ) l/. los. to 51 Os. per too. Scotch Red' &LW • 4l. ss. to 4/. 155 ditto Ks '1 I s. to 51. 115 . di tto Shan's idney .......... ..... ~,,,,,,,,,,2 . 15s. to 3... sa. into Pall: Es OF HOPS.-May 17. Farnham • as,. A , (per cwt.) 6. Os. 71. lbs. to 01 fis. East K‘.ii, Pock , ts. Ditto Bags 4;, 4s. 51. 104. to 71 JO*. - 31. 15s. Si. ss. to 81 f'r d. 1 Walla End Stewart's ......... 20 • Wails Find Whitwell ..... . Walls End Hart1ep00 1....... : 79. Walls End Adel , ido ......... Walls End Barrington Tees 19 3 .Walls End Brown's Deanery 16 0 Walls End Clarence Tees... 19 6 \Valls End South Durham.. 2 0 9 Walls End St. Helen's Tees 21 Walls End Seymour Tees... 20 0 Walls End Tees Tanfichl ltt 0 Walls End Tees ................. 2'3 ' Walls End Victoria Tees Walls End West Hetton...... 21 ! Brampton Main ............... " Hartley .......................... 21 loward's .. Netherton Main 17 h E"P.—Ma) . market-diy, :?9. ;,):i.--May 17 Per Quat te, Mid Kent l'ockets • • . 3 , 10. ,W4s to 7.. 7s Ditto Bags • .. 3.. 3s. 3/. 154. to 4 . 7 0- Sussex ... Yearlings .... Old Olds - 11 . 10s. to 2,- % PRICE OF SU - . h .-- EFFECT OF MONOPOLY. Table showing the ex-duty price. •f West India Sugar is Mine• ing.lane, and comparing the same aga last that of foreign sugars ,-- London, May 11 th, 11339. Per CO. The Gazette of Friday night quotes the average price of $ British Plantation Muscovado Sugar,. exclusive of 40s. Ol d. duty, at .. The actual quantity sold in the week ending the 6th inst. 00 ohich the above price is computed, consisted of 1,706 hhdL, 13 , 1 ties •ces, and 111 barrels, and not of 2 , 000 lihds. as estimated in th e r carket. Museov,,do sugars produced by free labour in the Manilla ha" been sold thi,,, week at from 225. 6d. to 24 5. per cwt., being ll°. per cwt. less th.an the average price of West India Sugar. The produce o / the refiners in London working foreign sugars under bond for ex.ne t tation onl y , has been sold this week free 00 board as follows : ca t• Refined Sugar at 365., ..ieducting the cost of shipping, at 34e. Per Bastard ditto... 245. ditto di tto 235. T re acle 0 „,, The produce, precisely ,the same quality as the above , of the fine., in London, working West India Sugar and Molasses Or the Home Market, has been sold, ex-duty, as follows : I Refined Sugar .... at 575. per cwt. Bastard ditto Treacle The British nation therefore p stye , exclusive of the duty 0. d per cwt., 235. per cwt. for refined Su g ar, 185. p er cwf. for be Sugar, and 175. per cwt. for Treacle, more than the prices et Wh o ,. foreign nations are supplied, with ex. ta tt y similar articles, Main; ;„ tured and sold in London at this rate, . the a gg re g ate indirect 18-0-e tion levied through the operation of thse West India monopoll - Sugar alone amounts to about 4,000,000,'. per annum. Three or four ships laden with Sugar bare succeeded in " Stif f the. , r way into the Channel against a head wind, but they are tin ab ; to get round the North Foreland, we have consequently 0 0 12 . 1, hip to add to our stock of Sugar. In thin state of affairs , ic a r te , ten have availed themselves of the immedi ate wants of the publlC._-_ obtain higher prices for the comparative] ly, for this season of th e year, fet v hhds. purchased. Instead of 1 300 hhds ., as we an t i le j i t pated, the falling off in the delivery of the docks of this port 0t. ,.: f week, as cot - spared with the delivery in ti to corresponding we the previous .year, exceeded 1,200 hhds., equivalent on theses '' .e . on the short . venue of 26,0004. delivery of other Sugars to a diminution in the.,:m '• for that week. As we have before remarked, 110/ people will but at there to this laudable mode of rigid eec ° , ° _, D e the avarice of the i mporters and speculators must alternatetY defeated either throw, gh the stock of West India Sugar t h e : lating beyond the men. 'Y p owers of these p arties to hold th through the admission to home use of other Su g ars at a similar rite., of duty, in order to make cood the deficiency in the revenue nfet7e stoned by restricted conso, nlption ; indeed, it may haPP en ' i ,,,... people continue to limit theist stock,cooo. use of Sugar to the smallest 11;;,,_ sary quantity, that both thes.e causes, namelly, a large the admission of free labour .roreign Sugars 'co home use, m a y _.„ O , bine to neutralize the wicked c 'ffects of the: West In dia Sugar Do." poly. too se' We cannnot too frequently Call public attention to, .Or pro. verely censure, the unprincipled e tystem of admitting C of Comae duced by slaves to home consum, ption. The qua nt ,.. itl e e r Good so cultivated recently imported by the way of the A so generously paid twenty millions for the extinction in duty the British people, who haN'e so nobly an - Hope has been unusually large. lb , this trickery andalfleouritisra nies, are made unconsciously not only W support slaverY , b= o a r r on Coffee g cat encourage the slave trade itself. The di at y ch ar g ed in Cuba or in the Brazils, if shipped via che Cape, is 845. Pet C . ir , while Coffee raised by free hands in St. Dot ningo, if imported direr. is liable to .a duty of 140 s. per cwt. of slavery in our °evil Colto The duty protecting West India Coffee as ainst the latter sliaeriP tion is equivalent to 250 per cent. ad valorea 1- ,tie of s 1 " THE HIGHLAND INN."— The tit, in l work will call up a circle of pleas ant associations thi minds of a large class of cultivated renders ; and they efili be more than realised in the perusal of the volumes, the, include much agreeable and piquant r ceding in the vox' form of tale, descrii.Ntive sketching, d o li n eation of pers ooe character, original r eflection, &c. &c., all most pleasal held together by atk read of consecutive interest, ie, emanates from the scene—" The Highland Inn "—wt' the various narrators anal interlocutors naturally, thong" accidentally, meet togethe r. This work, which d e serve! especial popularity among the beautiful scenes t o wbc" much of its title fers, is understood to be the ing production of an eminent phy re sician, who , is equally distuished O his literary and his professional acquirements. n o EL THE LIFE AND ADVENTUR E S 07 es,ARMSTRONG, THE FACTORY BOY. —Never can ore such as Mrs. Trollope unquestinnably possesses, it itnd beneficially employed than in the exposure of eruellnd in barbarity, and in exciting the sy,•npathies mo tiv e a re behalf of oppressed and suffering humanity. tol h a s dein .0. therefore exceedingly glad that Mrs.. Trollope the energies of her powerful and fertile iniad to the duction of this at once striking, amusitig, in which the fair authoress paints with the hand of a . rn't t i i ter the portraiture of the great factory Lord, r olling in i 'si tt , the wealth and luxury of the world, and contrasts there'', ;to the poverty, the misery, and wretchedness of the iv; ' o ._ slaves in too many of the factories of England. Th! 1 ,1/ and useful woi rative is well written, the characters introduced stdMirs rot hit off, and the illustrations much superior to the ge, ll : e v run of the cuts which accompany periodicals of this " 1 —Conservative Journal. „ E BURKE'S HISTORY OF THE LANDE D , Ge• TRY.—This splendid and elaborate Work, which is t be ncalogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners to dg United United Kingdom, who enjoy territorial possessions, tue are uninvested with heritable honours, is now eelsP ie b by the publication of the Sixteenth Part; it may also be corn plete,in four handsome volumes. We hailed with nee lli :, r l degree of pleasure the appearance of the first Mr. Burke's arduous undertaking, and then express c oos' opinion that, if the work proceeded as well as it bar' hi e stOri menced, a lasting benefit would be conferred on the of our country, as supplying personal and biegr e P„ details of thousands of persons recorded in its PIP 1 1 :0 whom scarcely anything, beyond their public career.° 00 hitherto been known. It is, therefore, gratifying t ol ie now enabled to state that the progress of the History e t t og Commoners has not only realised our expectations, NI 140 each succeeding Part has added tenfold to its interestw'ork , gentlemen's library can be complete without this t fir which comprises not only accounts of all the enlie eu hatr portion go milies in the kingdom, but particulars of nearly one dred thousand individuals connected with them I - "n'".f; s''. SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVI- 0f,40 T. COX SAVORY, 47, Cornhill, London (Seven De °r o t or Gracechurch-strect), offers for selection an elegant and It o foie tensive assortment of Silver Tea Services, varying in.j; fifir. 151. to 301., the service of Teapot, Sugar Basin, and Ail i tip Ede The ground-floor, fin t, second, and third lours, aro it" ,rt ' pressly for the display of Plato and Plated Gooilei e joas• Pamphlet is given gratis , with Drawings, and a li st • ' T. CO). SAVORY, Goldsmith, Watehma..kor, and Silvorsmitk, 47 , C.rshilis London. 14° W PLATE.—A. B. r SAVORY and SONS site facturing Silversmiths, l'sji.'. 14, Cornhill, London y 14 the Bank of England). The best wrought FIDDLE P1'011•31 SPOONS and FORKS, at ;Ts. 2d. per ounce. The 013 are the weights recommended, but the articles 32 0 1 4 , lighter or heavier, at the same price per ounc. A. y 4 Of. g• i i 1 0 • 0 12 Fiddle Pattern Silver Table Spom 15 30 at 7 ,;•• 7 0 0 12 ditto Dessert dit to 20 7 " ... IC/ ' a 4 12 ditto 'I able Forks . r i 7 7 :::: 3 1 1 1 j 12 ditto Dessert ditto... 2 ditto Gravy Spoons 1 ditto Soup Ladle ll ( 0 ) 7 7 f; .• .. S s 1 0 1 P e 4 ditto Sauce ditto lO 7 • 1 j g P 4 ditto Salt Spoons (gilt sis Tong) .............. .:: , ~ i 1 ditto _Fish Slice 12 ditto Tea Spoons 1 pair ditto Sugar Tongs (strong ) ..................... a A Pamphlet containing detailed Lit is of the r Tea a various Patterns of Silver Spoons and Forks, Silv la e te i Ws"; Coffee Ser- vices, and of the different artic:es 0 f F o i e o , l l f t a may be had on application, or will be sent. int ° this '''' -i in answer to a paid letter • the Plate Rooms i ° : snai l ' t. blishment contain a large selection of ivory artic l e complete a service. - BI R 7'H S. • $1 . 4. Cie. On the 11th inst., at Earl's-terrace , Kensing ton, ment Dale, of a son. of C a P t‘l or On the 28th ult., at Chudleigh , Devon , the la dy fotrY, John Evans, late 15th Regiment Bengal Native I. r• l a so O n. Re v. n the 10th inst , at East Sheen, the lady of the a H. Reeves, of a son. e pber3. ir On the 11th inst., in Mecklenburgh-street , Meckl e 1 squar Mrs. Henrill, of a daughr. e In 'Holies-street y H , Cavendish-squatere, the lady o ' , colee Llwellyn, C. 8., of a daughter. vi lie, t he On the 1 0 th inst., at Claremont-square, penton wife of Dr. Wilkinson, of a daughter. MARRIED jobs' On the 11th inst., at St. George's, . H ano ver-squ a j e u ' a rils o , r t Rowland Smyth, Esq., Captain in the 6th Drago cage- Carabineers, to th e °" on. Catherine Alice Abbott, Y daughter of the late Lord Tenterden. . second On the 4th in s t. at Brixham, William Fron de, E!'00 0:' son of the V enera bl e A rc hd eacon Fronde, to Catherin o e f .widdi youngest daughter of Arthur H. Holdsworth, Egl• combe and Brook-hill, in the aunty of Devon. DIED. On the Bth inst at Glebe-house, Camberwell, Mrs. l ee r, Smith, relict of Richard Smith, Esq., late of the aged 86. gent' On the Bth inst. at Ventnor, isle of Wight, Francis gomery, of Brantford, aged 22. - TING ' London : Printed and Published by AILTIIDO YO- - s d' its No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office. No. 112, Still the minty of Misldlesex.—Tuesday, May 14, 1 ____—...--,='' Iz t bey, ( iou eye, tritr Jtliti :0, ~.._ t oe, . s p 0 Are rj Deng ye' ) kYs