The Sun. — London, England, 1839-06-03 00:00:00

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Alonzo, Mr. Warde Prosiero,lll;.Siacreaiy ; Miranda, Mies Helen Faucit ; Ariel, Miss P. Horton. To conclude with, AMILIE ; OR, THE LOVE TEST. To-Morrow there will be no performance. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The New Grand Opera of The Love Spell:" has been tri umphant in the extreme. The rich, flowing Melodies— beautiful Scenery--and the acting and singing of Miss Ro• mot-, Mr. Templeton, and Mr. Balfe, meet with undivided approbation of elegant and crowded audiences. THIS EVENING, JUNE 3, Will be performed a New Ong Act Drama, called THE MAIDS OF HONOUR. After which the Grand Opera entitled THE LOVE SPELL. With all Donisetti's Original Music of " L'Elisir d'Amore," Aline, Miss Romer ; Nemorina, Mr. Templeton ; Dulcamara, Mr. Balfe. To conclude with the successful Drama, called ALICE GRAY, THE SUSPECTED ONE. A ige ) . _ .., ""t ' Q -... ...dA ~,,,„, 0 ,, , z - .!-- --z .. ---, • frt. ~,- 0...., 6 _,,, t1 , , ,,, - ~„--....., ~- 0 ~~ ti,,•,~> ~~~~.~ ''=rte ~~~ ~~~~ Z - 1)„c LONDON : MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1339. If we thought that the Spectator's advice were likely to have any weight with the Ministers, we should think it our duty to caution them against att en di ng to what our Contemporary says on the Proposed grant for education. The Spectator urges t he Ministry to proceed with their plan, and to throw the onus of rejecting it on those who are the enemies of education. Un fortunately for this advice there are not a few of the friends of education, in a general sense, who are opposed to the Ministerial plan. The Metho dists, for example, are not hostile to a species of education, though they have taken most unwar rantable methods to prejudice the public against the plan in question. In the Hertford Reformer, a Whig paper, there is an article condemning th e plan, said to proceed from some person who speaks the sentiments of the Independents. Whenever the question of a National System of Education was brought forward in the House of Commons, of which this is a beginning, Mr. WYsE has never found many supporters. The Petitions against the plan are already most nume rous—we have as yet seen but two in its favour. However excellent, therefore, the plan may be, there is not the least chance at present, whatever may be its fate when better known, of being gene rally supported. The bulk of the Whig party would, we are aware, vote for it if brought forward by the Minis ters, but the majority of the country gentleman connected with that party must be indifferent to its success. At the same time, some Members of the party connected with the Methodists and other Dissenters, or dependent on the opponents of the scheme for their seats in Parliament, would be compelled to oppose the Ministers. By only a few gentlemen, such as Mr. HuxtE, Mr. WysE, Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH, Mr. GROTE, Mr. SLANEY, &c., would they be zealously supported ill the House of Commons, and if they per severe in bringing forward the scheme they will most certainly be defeated. We should say persevere—in the name of righteous ness, in the name of liberality, persevere—if only the Tories in both Houses of Parliament were opposed to it ; but when we find the scheme receive only a lukewarm support from any Liberals, while it is opposed by some, to persevere in it would he foolishness. The Mi nisters would break their heads against their own friends. The plan is a novelty, and its merits are not known to the public. They require time to fami liarise them with it ; and, tai they approve of it, it would be most injudicious to press it forward. However deplorable may be our system of educa tion ; however shocking and disgusting the immo rality and ignorance of the parsons' congregations, still, if the Representatives and leaders of the peo ple, in Parliament and .out of Parliament, are ad verse to the proposed improvement, the Ministers ought not to destroy the Ministry in attempt ing to force it on an unwill;ng and un discerning public. In o ur opinion, M inisters should withdraw the plan for the present. We do not know that the advice of the !Spectator is insi diously meant to taunt them into committing an act of folly, but if it were so meant it is excellent ; though now that they are warned they will not, we hope, rush into ruin. What we should venture humbly to recom mend to the Ministers is at once frankly to give up their present plan, and concoct a grand and comprehensive scheme of national education, if they are resolved to meddle with the matter at all, and make it an object of public discussion. Let them encourage the Press to explain to the public the defects of our system, and the numerous ad vantages conferred on the north of Germany by the excellent system there established, and which would be conferred on England by their plan. Let them make the people first heartily ashamed of the present costly, inefficient system. Let them ex pose the negligence, the bad faith, th e k navery of the priests of all denominations, who are leaguing together to resist the secular power and preserve their dominion over the public mind ; an d when the nation is able, by a knowledge of the defects of the present system and the advantages o f a better, to form a sound epinion on the subject, and not before, let the Ministers recommend the Par liament to give such a scheme the fo rce of law. Why should England remain deprived of the ad vantages which Scotland and Germany have en joyed for ages, and which Ireland has lately re ceived ? Whv should we not have schools for chilling schoolmasters, and teaching the most essen tial of all arts, that of instructing youth, such as Germany has had for nearly a century ? It is a deep and indelible disgrace to England that she should have allowed the excellent system which exists in Scotland, and the still more improved system which exists in Germany, to have prevailed at her own door, or in the territories of her. Royal family, and should have taken no steps to adopt either. We have received various communications con radicting the reports inserted in Tory Journals about the reception given to her MAJESTY last week, both on her way to Windsor, and at Ascot Races, but it is a work of supererogation to insert them. We believe no Sovereign was ever more enthusiastically cheered by subjects than the QUEEN was on those very occasions when these disappointed and disloyal Journalists say she was received with dead silence, or with cheers without enthusiasm. The Observer says with perfect truth—" \\Te challenge any man, the oldest and best acquainted with Ascot Races, to point to any year, or any occasion, upon which more raptu rous enthusiasm towards the Sovereign was exhi bited than upon the recent appearance of her Ma jesty among her loyal subjects. If we did not fear to damp the ardour of these loyal subjects, we might be tempted to say that it had been carried even to excess. Scarcely could that. Illustrious Lady take her seat, when loud cries of " The Queen 1" "The Queen 1" were raised, and her Majesty had again to present herself—when three deafening cheers were given, and the one cheer more had scarcely subsided when the call was again made for her Majesty to come forward and gladden her subjects." The same papers state that when Lord MEL BOURNE was recognised at Ascot he was assailed with hisses and groans. Now the fact is, that not the slightest mark of disapprobation was shown from any one individual on the race-course, and that not more than one person (anti that person was in the Stand, among the Tory gen tlemen) attempted to get up a cry, which totally failed. Would it not be more prudent on the part of those who have been disappointed by the late negotiations to remain silent than to invent lies ? The formation of a Society for bettering the condition of the native inhabitants of British India, is an undertaking highly creditaLle to the public spirit and philanthropy of all concerned in that most charitable undertaking. How necessary is such an institution to the amelioration of the mise ries of the people of India, our columns of this 'Jay furnishes ample proof, in the Report of the pro ceedings at the meeting of the infant Society, held on Saturday at Devonshire House, Hounsditch, which we recommend to the careful perusal of every reader of The Sun. Never before, per haps, were the actual sufferings of the native population so vividly pourtrayed, as in the eloquent speech of that indefatigable advocate of the op pressed of every clime and colour, Mr. GEORGE TuomPsoN. His heart-rending descriptions of the plundered and oppressed natives, under the aw ful visitations of famine and pestilence, cannot fall coldly on the ear of a nation responsible to Heaven for the almost annual recurrence of these calamities ; and we do not doubt but that when the people of this country are made, through the labours of this So ciety, fully acquainted with the enormities of which the East India Company and the Government have been guilty in India, there is not an individual in the kingdom who will not raise his voice in exe cration of such cruelties. Like the Jewish rabble, shouting for the crucifixion, the bulk of the people of England knew not what they did in sanctioning she plunder of India by a corporation of public robbers. The love of conquest, a thirst for gold, and a sectarian hatred of idolaters and idolatry, blinded them to the enormity of the commission of any and every outrage against the natives of India, on the part of the servants of the East India Corn- pany. Happily, however, there are found among us a few persons who acknowledge not the prescrip tive right of evil ; who dare stand up in defence of the oppressed in every part of the world ; and who have the moral courage grounded on their innate conviction of the purity of their motives and the success which will ever attend the charitable labours of the just, to assume the mighty task of correcting evils resulting from centuries of commingled anarchy and despo- tism. To the zeal of a Society is the nation in debted for the abolition of slavery—that glorious triumph of human liberty; to the efforts of Societies do we owe the religious freedom pro claimed to the world by the abolition of the Test and CorpoLtion Acts, and the passing of the Ca tholic Emancipation Bill ; and we fervently trust that it will yet be recorded that the benevolent in terposition of a Society saved British India, and subsequently raised it in the scale of civilization and happiness to an equality with the most favoured country in Europe. We are very sensible that by the thousands who feel persuaded that active benevolence should not travel in search of objects of charity abroad, leaving masses of moral and physical misery unalleviated at home, the infant institution will not be regarded with much sympathy. It would certainly not be difficult to show that there are some millions of human beings in the British isles in a state of wretchedness not greatly exceeded by the miseries endured by the most neglected of the native population of India, and that a Society, with the leading members of the Society of Friends at its head, might, and undoubtedly would, greatly ameliorate the condition of the sufferers. What infinite good, it may be said, might not be done to the poor of Ireland and Scotland by such a Society, having for its object the reclamation of all waste lands, by means of an improved cottage system ? How many bad, or what is almost tan tamount to the same thing, how many indifferent landlords would be induced to study the happiness of their tenantry, and. the improvement of their estates, were they convinced that there was a tri bunal whose verdict none dare set at defiance, without incurring a brand of moral infamy ? Such a Society would do much to putify the moral ! atmosphere of our cities by finding em- ! ployment for the idle, and discounte nancing the pursuits of the dissolute. Where, it may be asked, in the wide region of British India, is squalor to be met with more heart-sickening than may be witnessed in many districts of this great metropolis ? Agra cannot exhibit scenes of sin and suffering more afflicting than is to be met with in St. Giles 's ; and within sight of the very Palace of our QUEEN and our assembled Legislators in Parliament is a district—Tothill-fields--which few will imagine to have been exceeded in depravity by those cities upon which the Heavens rained fire and brimstone. Whitechapel, Spitalfields, and the Borough are the receptacles of more misery than the most active benevolence could relieve in many years, without mense sacrifices of time, labour, and money. The Liberties of Dublin swarm with a population in the lowest state of human wretchedness ; and, accord ing to the Report of Parliamentary Commissioners of Inquiry, two millions, or more than one-fourth of the population of Ireland, endure far more than a fourth of every year the horrors of famine, while inhabiting a country capable of yieldinc , sus tenance for twenty millions of people I But admitting the full force of these arguments, they only demonstrate the necessity of increased philanthropical exertion on the part of the benevo lent. They show how much remains to be done by those who seek to counteract the evils produced by the crimes and profligacy of the by-gone Govern ment of this country, both at home and abroad. _ _ They likewise fearfully illustrate the certainty with which the poisoned chalice of the oppressor is re turned, sooner or later, to his own lips, and he is made to drench himself with the hitter potion which he prepared for others. Thereis,therefore, a moral retribution—a humble and an atoning acknow ledment of the guilt of this country towards India, in the formation of this Society, which we have no doubt will operate to the extension of its support even among those who are most desirous of con fining all charity to the fireside. In its success a double end would be accomplished ; it will alleviate an incalculable mass of human wretchedness, and it will remove from the character of Great Britain the stain of a remorseless neglect of her plundered and oppressed Colonial subjects. Countless and cruel have been the wrongs nationally inflicted by England upon India ; and in the eloquent language of Mr. THOMPSON, addressed to a meeting of the Aborigines Protec- I 2 PRE SUN, LONDON. MONDAY, JUNE 3, FM ion Society, some time ago at Darlington, we may ask ourselves—" Suppose to-morrow's sun were to witness the departure of every Englishman from the shores of our Eastern Empire, what memo rials would remain of the justice, the benevolence, and the piety of our sway ? Would the wide diffusion of Christianity demonstrate our zeal and success in the peaceful propagation of our holy faith ? Would the multiplication of public works of utility, exhibit our desire for the internal pros perity and improvement of the country, and the comfort and welfare of the people ? Have famines disappeared, and the reign of plenty been restored to impoverished and desolate regions ? Would these memo r ial s remain to attest the divinity of our religion, the justice of our laws, and the mercifulness of that interposition which snatched the sceptre from a Hindoo prince, or a Moham medan conqueror, and transferred it to the hand of a British Sovereign ?" Answers to these questions, calculated to harrow the humane feelings of every honest Englishman, and to bring a blush to the cheek of the most obdurate, will be found in the eloquent and impressive statement made by this gentleman, at the meeting. of the friends of India on Saturday. Let it be remem bered, in conclusion, that th e resusc it a ti on o f India, is intimately conne c t e d w ith th e commerc i a l properity of this country. Were all England one great manufactory, of all the products which form the staple of our commercial industry, we would find in India a profitable cus tomer for the whole, were but the necessary steps taken to develope the wonderful and inexhaustible resources of that fine country. The moral axiom that good works are the most profitable, even in a pecuniary sense, was never of easier demonstration than in the case of the Christian appeal now made to the nation in favour of the oppressed natives of British India. The Criminal Tables for 1838, which have just been laid before Parliament, have a most important bearing on the question of public education, that great question to which the attention of the nation is now so .earnestly turned. Of these tables an analysis appears in another part of The Sun, and the results brought out are pregnant with instruc tion, from the light which they throw upon the connection between ignorance and crime. It ap pears that in England, out of 23,094 persons com mitted for offences against the law in 1838, there were, taking males and females together, 7,943 who could neither read nor write, and 12,334 who could read and write but imperfectly. As, how ever, no one can be said to be educated even in the lowest degree, who cannot read and write perfectly, we are entitled to consider both the above classes as one, and thus we have 20,277 of the whole 23,094 English criminals—about eighty-eight per cent. who were uneducated. This is a result which, while it bears trumpet-tongued testimony to the parentage of crime, cannot fail to be considered as in the highest de gree complimentary to the soul-saving zeal of those modest and pious " spiritual pastors and masters" who claim the undivided privilege of bringing up the poor in the " nurture and admoni tion of the LORD." Another important result at which we arrive from this analysis is this, that of this vast amount of crime the portion committed by persons who had been educated beyond reading and writing is so small as, we venture to .say, must astonish even the most enthusiastic believers in the power of edu tion to restrain crime. Of this class of offenders the total number in England during the period of one year was seventy-nine, and in Scotland ninety- three 1 And when we come to look into the charges against them, we find that a great propor tion of these are, comparatively, of a trivial descrip tion, such as common assaults, breaches of the peace, &c. Can there be a stronger or more decisive proof than is afforded by these Tables, both of the great moral effect which is produced by edu cation, and the lamentable want of it which exists in this country, boasting, as it does, of its ' high civilization, its social blessings, its religious character ? Facts, such as those which are now before us, should make the wealthy and influential classes of the community blush for the cruel neglect with which they have hitherto treated their poorer brethren- with respect to mental and moral cultiva tion. If crime be the consequence of ignorance, a heavy responsibility rests with those who might have removed that ignorance, and did it not. They may yet find that retributive justice, if slow, is not the less sure to overtake them. But be that as it may,' it is now the duty of every man who sets a just value on knowledge and its attend ant benefits, to exert himself, in his sphere, in order to procure for the people not merely educa tion, but such an education as shall not inter fere with the inalienable rights of conscience. The arrogant bearing of the endowed Priesthood, who are moving Heaven and earth to get the people back into their clutches, must be met with undaunted firmness and persevering energy, and the plan which a wise and liberal Government has proposed for extending to all, without res pect of sect or party, the inestimable bless ings of sound and good education, hailed and embraced as the one thing needful. Let no man be deceived by the pretended zeal of the Clergy and their lay bottle-holders, for educating the poor. It is the sheerest humbug that even the Priests ever invented to delude mankind. It is well known that the Tories—and are not the Clergy Tories to a man ?—hold the doctrine that ignorance is the safest, most effectual, and best instrument of Government ? And when; we should like to know, did the Clergy begin to bestir themselves in the cause of education ? Never, until they were driven to it by seeing education patronised by others than Churchmen ; never, until they began to fear that the people would be educated without their co operation, and to an extent which was not compa tible with their interests. Then it was that they, making a merit of neces sity, set on foot schools of their own, not with any view to diffuse knowledge, or from any desire to promote the interests of morality, but solely to pre- vent the, to them, alarming spread of enlightened and liberal sentiments, by imbuing the minds of the young with sentiments of an opposite kind Holding education to be an evil, but now a necessary evil, they still give as little as possible of it to the people, and that little of so bad a quality that it hardly deserves the name. Their sole aim innoculate is to the children of the poor with a slavish submission to them and their craft. This craft, they perceive, would be in danger, were the seeds of knowledge sown fairly and impartially. They therefore set their faces doggedly against every plan which does not give them the means of warping the tender mind, and bending it to their own selfish purposes. We call attention to the communication of our Ludlow correspondent. The contest is between a nominee of the CLIVE family, who must follow the bidding of Lord Powis, and a gentleman of inde pendent principles, who pledges himself to vote for an Extension of the Suffrage, and for carrying into effect the real object of the Reform Bill—a full, fair, and free representation of the people. 'We trust the Reformers of Ludlow, in the words of our Corres pondent, " will seal the CLIVE domination for ever." The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday, with Papers from . Madrid of the 25th ult., have been received this morning. They contain no news of interest, with the exception of two reports from Marshal VALLEE, pub fished in the Moniker, recounting the success of his ope rations in Africa. The first is an account of an attack made by the Kabyles on the new post of the French at Djigelli, on the I7th ult., when from 4,000 to 5,000 of the natives moved upon the advanced works, and were completely repulsed at the point of the bayonet, with the loss of 60 men, including several chiefs, a n d with only 4 killed and 19 wounded on the part of the French ; the other, of a reconnoisance made from Bugia by 600 men, while the first attack on Djigelli was going on, and which had for its object to check the insolence of some tribes under the domination of a chief na me d Amezain. The expedition was conducted without loss, and completely attained its object. On Friday the Chamber of Peers passed the Copy right Bill by a majority of 109 to 78. This is a matter of great importance to French authors and artists. The letters received from Bayonne are of the 29th ult. By some it was rumoured that MAROTO was about to be removed from the command of the Carlist forces, while others maintained that he enjoyed the en tire confidence of the Pretender. The Carlists con tinued to lose ground in the Basques, but were more than a match for the Christinos in some parts of Cata lonia. The French Papers have no additional news from the East. BOURSE.-PARIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 1. HALF-PAST THREE. --TliCre been a go .d ckal of iouil - -,ees for the cttling of the Account of last month. 'rile Three per Cents. opened at slf. 30c., and after falling to Cf. be., closed at Cf. 10e„ being 10c. lower than yesterday (Friday). The Five per Cents. from 111 f. 25c., fell to 111 f. 15c., a decline also of 10c. For Money the Three per Cents. have given way 10c., and the Five per Cents. are 10e. higher. Far the end of June the Three per Cents., from 81f. 50c., rose to 81f. 60c., and after being 81f. 35c. closed at 81f. 40c. The Five per Cents. from 111 f. 50c., advanced to 111 f. 55c., and closed at 111 f. 45c. The Bank of France Shares are sf. lower. The Laffitte Bank of I,ooof. Shares unaltered ; those of 5,000 f. are 2f. 50c. lower. The Spanish Active has had but the price of 19i. The Belgian Three per Cents. for the settling on Monday, 72f. 30c; for the end of the month 72f. 60c. and 72f. 65c. The Havre Railway Shares, which began to decline on Thursday, have again been weak, but have gone down only If. 25e. The St. Germain, and the Versailles Right Bank, have rallied 5f., and the Versailles Left Bank 10f., but for the Account they have declined to 2 ifef. First Highest Lowe* Last Price. Price. Price Price French 5 per Cents ............ 111 20 111 211 ... 111 20 ... 1 1 2 0 4 per Cent s .,.... ... ...... 101 70 ... 101 70 ... 101 70 ... 101 70 3 per Cent 5............ 81 30 ... si 31 ... 81 20 ... 81 2 0 Bank of France ............... 2720 —.2725 —2120 ...2725 Laffitte Bank 1,0001. 5h.... 1075 _1073 —1 075 ••• 1 27/ 5,00./f. 5h.... 5251 _5250 ...5•25 ...5250 Belgian 5 per Cents ........... 102 ... 102 ... 102 ... 102 Bank ..................... ii 5 ... :415 ... 6 °° 81 , 9 Spanish Ac ive .................. In ... 1 0 ; ••• 1 ?,5 ... 41! Passive .................. 4% ... 454 ••• '' ... Neapolitan ........................ 101 70 ... 101 70 ... 101 63 ... 101 70 Roman RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain .................... (To .., t iso ... 630 ... 670 Versailles, 11. B .................. 713 ... '720 ... 715 "' 7 ' 13 LB. .................. 93 ... 295 ..• 289 "' 2 ' 43 Havr, 946 25 .., 947 50 ... 046 25 ... 947 5 Orleans .. Strashur , to Bale .............. 3:35 Yarn (51 " aberly's) ........... BELGIAN 1 , UNDS—Baussm.a, June I. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothsehild's Lo an , 5 per Cent ts 10114 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 72 % 92% 24 --------- 3 er . Loan of City, 1832 , 4 per Cent Cent .....« Society of Commerce, 45; per Cent llB Bank of Belgi um, 5 per Cent. ............ National Society . —Brussels Papers, June 1. HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, MAY 31. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents flank Shares 1505 1500 An 10-Russian Loan .. 107 107% Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Series Russian 5 per Cent. Hop, and Co. 3d and 4th Se Ls 984 Ditto in Certificates Dutch ,ctual Debt, 2% pe Cent. 54% Ditto 5 per Ceti' lOl Polish Bond; New icket - ................. —..•••••• .1 0 5KU 1154 72% Anglo- i)ani s h L oan, 3 per C ent. 1% 72 Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent,. 1 1G154 .. _ EXCHANGT.ES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, MAY 31.-13. 651.—Tw0 months, 13 b 3. PETKRABUROR, MAY 21. —II 24-54. STocatioLm, MAY 24,—Thirty days, 11. 411. BERLIN. MAY ;<B.—Three m> uths, G. '2234. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of English Grain last week were very mode rate, and of Foreign Wheat considerable; and the trade was slack. The fresh supplies are small. The millers took off fine Wheat at previous terms, other qualities rather lower; Foreign declined la. to 2s. per quarter. In Barley, Malt, and Pease no variation. Beans scarcely support their previous prices. Oats obtained a trifling advance on last Alonday's prices. Flour met a slack sale, and ship parcels were a trifle lower. ruiczs ON BOARD OF SHIP Wheat, Red (old) —s. —s. Beans, Small (new) 411,41 s White (old) —s. (old) 463. fs. Red ;1838) s4s. 58s. --- Tick (new) . ..... 33s 3t16 --- Fine 6 4 s. (old) 38.3.40s --- Superfine 66.3. 70s. ---- Harrow (new)......355.381. White (1838) 695. fi2s• (01d).......425.445. Fine fiics 70s . . Bran k ................. ... —s.---8. ---- Superfine 725. 755. Oats, Feed —Foreign free 58s. 78s. ------ New 245. kis. Ryr 40e. 425. --- P o l an d Barley 304 — s. 7 - s 375. Grinding 30s 345. Malting 404 425. Malt 565, 655, Fine New Gds. Pease, Grey, New 355. 38s. Maple New 375. White 40s. 425. Boilers 425. 445. ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LO Wheat. I English Irish Foreign ---- - Potatoe New Q 5,285„ 28,.30x, `2.84.305. Scotch •zo ps 1ri5h..,,,,,,.... 233. Flour Town (per sack) 603.61. seconds. 54 i. 5 is . —......-- North Country 511,52 . Bran )NDON DURING LAST WEEK 1 ;ariey. ont.n. Flon, 523 qrs. 1,814 qrs. 4,941 . aeks 6,271 --- 1,185 3431 brls. 4,454 SMITHFIELD. Sheep and Lambs were numerous. Beef advanced slightly. Mutton and Lamb dull of sale, and 4d. lower. Beef, 3s. 6d, 4s. 6d. Mutton, 4s. to 4s. Bdj Veal, 4s. Bd. to ss. Bd. Pork, 4s. 4d. to 6s. Lamb, ss. 4d. to 6s. B eas t s , 2,536 ; Sheep and Lambs, 25,620; Pigs, 510; Calves, 169. CITY FISH MARKET. Supplies plentiful, and the demand in proportion. Prices much as last quoted. MONTHLY TEA SALE. This sale, consisting of 30,869 packages, containing 1,933,7121b5. of various kinds, was not well attended, and pro gressed heavily, but prices were nut lower than those of last sale. NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE —June I. Wheat, Northumberland N ew , Old. 504. 72s s4s. 74%1 Norfolk and Suffolk 64s. 76s 696.76x. Berwick and Scotch 62s. 6i5....... —s. s. ---- Foreign Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk 32s 38s —B —L —Foreign Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Sufiblk 4ls. 435. —a. —s. Grinding and Feeding ....... Malt, Norfolk and Suffblk fifes ftl: —4 . — s• Beans, Small —B. _s 44k. 471. Tick ._..,s —8 434. 465. Pease, White sos. 525..... —s. —s. Gray 42s 45s —B. —l. Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe ..... .... 27s 28s 27s. Ms. Feed Foreign Flour (per sack) sff s. 528 —s. —..s. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK, The Liverpool steamer has arrived, bringing New York Papers to the 19th May, she vvas 16 days in going out, and returned to Liverpool in 14 days. United States Bank, 1814 119. Exchange, 91- to 9i. Vcre have received Jamaica Papers to the 20th April via New York. (From the above Papers.) THE Housa or ASSEMBLY. —Since the arrival of the last packet, a rumour has prevailed that the Government will recede from the position in which it has placed itself with the House of Assembly, and that the House will be convened, and a correspondence proposed. We do not vouch for the truth of the above rumour. There is little news from the country. The statements respecting the progress of the crops, and the preparations for next year, are so conflicting that we cannot hazard an opinion. In some parishes we learn that matters are get ting on remarkably well, in others as badly as they can. Our St. Thomas's correspondent, under the date of the 11th of April, says several people are here at present from St. Jago de Cuba, for the purpose of buying German, French, and other foreign goods suited for their market, which they can always find in this place at moderate prices ; they also purchase British goods to a considerable extent. If Jamaica were free of any restrictions as to imports, and supplies of foreign goods were to be found in Kingston, then the people of St. Jago would, as a matter of course, go there for what they wanted. We have received Gibraltar Chronicles to the 24t1t of May, the news they contain from Spain is anticipated by the French papers. HOUSE OF LORDS-(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day to hear Scotch Appeals. The Peers in attendance were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Cowper, and Craven. CAMPBELL AND OTHERS V. CAMPBELL. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave the judgment of their Lord ships in this appeal, which was argued before the House some time since as to competency. The short facts of the case appear to be the following. An action was brought against the appellants, who are members of a Company for dis tilling spirits, for a breach of the Excise Laws, and a verdict was given against them for 1,0001. An application was then made to the Court of Session for a new tr►al, which was re fused by that Court, and an appeal was then presented against that decision to the House of Lords. That appeal was declared incompetent, and then the present appeal from the decision of the Court of Session, ordering the payment of the money, was brought. A petition was then presented by the respondent,praying that the latter appeal might be dismissed on the ground of in. petency, and on that petition the Lord Chancellor now gave judgment, ordering it to be dismissed, thereby establishing the competency of the appeal AIL CO UHT.-(THIS DAY.) THE QUEEN V. THE BRI S TOL DOCK COMPANY. The ATTOI 5I 1-6 E 1;;;ITI . ;;;;(10;;;;Iei;:hOw cause why a mandamus should not be directed to the Dock Company at Bristol, commanding them to maintain and keep in repair the banks of the river Avon.—Rule granted. THE QUEEN r. THE JUSTICES OF MANCHESTER. Mr. L. PEEL moved for a rule calling on Mr. Potter and Mr. Kershaw, two of the Magistrates of Manchester, to shoe cause why the appointment of overseers made by theth, should not be removed into this Court by certiorari.— Rule granted. THE QUEEN U. LOAD JOHN RUSSELL. - In this case an application had been made by Mr. O'Malley Ii win against Lord John Russell, for a rule calling on his Lord ship to show cause why an attachment should not be issued against him for having disobeyed the,subpoena of the Court in the action brought by the applicant against the Marquis of Nor manby. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE this morning granted the rule nisi, stating at the same time that it was easy to foretell the result from the slight ground stated in the affidavits. THE QUEEN V. O ' CONNELL. Mr. O'MALLEy litwiti then applied for an attachment against Mr. O'Connell on the same ground, but his Lordship at once refused the application, for which he said there was not the slightest ground. LUDLOW ELECTION. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) On Wednesday evening last a highly respectable and nu. merous meeting of the friends of Mr. Alcock took place at the Compasses Inn, Cerve-street. The excellent and liberal Member of the town, Colonel Salwey, in the chair. The Gallant Col one l struc k home to the hearts of the elec tors by his able and spirited observations. He eulogised her Majesty's late conduct, and spoke in high admiration of the talent, zeal, and integrity of Lord John Russell, but with all wishes to support him, yet he could not pin himself to the sleeve of any Ministry who did not concede to the people tbs ,ballot and the penny postage. Mr. Alcock then, in an able address, detailed the principles on which he intended to act. They tended to the correction of all abuses in the public institutions, and the widening of the basis of franchise. He would not go to Parliament to legislate for the Aristocracy, alone but for the poor man. The mechanic and the cottager should find in him a con stant and zealous friend. He then alluded to the natural beauties and resources of the town, and, in the event of becoming the representative of this constituency, he would study by every means in his power to give them a share in the advantages of the general prosperity of the country. The Hon. Gentleman then delivered some justly severe strictures on the means the Tories bad em ployed on this occasion to influence votes; but he would publicly pledge himielf that for every man who suffered in any way by Tory intimidation and resentment, he would undertake to place two men in the town in a better situa tion in their calling than that man so injured had been. The poor but honest voter should never have occa sion to regret recording an honest vote in his favour. The meeting separated at a late boor after having conveyed to W. Downes, Esq., the Town Clerk of the Borough, an ex pression of their esteem for his past exertions and services in the cause of the people. Juan I.—The candidates in the field are Mr. Alcock in the Reform interest, and Mr. Henry Clive, a nominee of the Earl of Powis. The Tories of this town are in melan choly dudgeon that they have at this season of the year to put up with a warming pan candidate—particularly as my Lord Clive, for whom he is to make things so comfortable, will be of age next November. He is supported by the wealth and influence of his patron, and all the little contemptible tyrants of the neighbour hood put on more or less pressure. They have re sorted to threats and intimidation in every sort of way, but finding the independent electors of better stuff than they themselves appear to be made they have endeavoured to cajole a few voters by plentiful promises. But unfortu nately for the Tories they have indiscreetly used the same dosen families as their stock in trade of pro mises for all sorts of tradesmen. Yet it is to be la mented for the peace and respectability of the town that they have not stopped at the usual means of in timidation, but they have let loose the flood-gates of drunkenness and debauchery, and the town for some days has presented a scene of disgusting pollution. The public houses in connection with them have been thrown open, and even women and children were to be seen drunk about the streets. One public-house, rented at 251. per annum, had a bill for one night only of 1301. Another of the same description consumed ati dozens of wine, besides ale and spirits at one sitting. The poorer classes were cary rying carrying cans of wine in every direction, nor did persons, usually passing for respectable, hesitate to appropriate a few bottles for their family use. One person connected with a Conservative building now in the course of erection here was very actively engaged de positing wine and spirits amongst the timbers—the Reform party happened to detect him in the overt act, they cap tured hiiii*ty and bore it away in triumph. The gentle man is now dubbed the Five .Bottle Conservative. " Are you for the Church Appropriation Bill," said a little urchin the other day to five-bottle Atkins. " What do you mean you rascal," said the great man. " Oh I" said the boy, " I knows you be'ant, you be for the wine appropriation." But alas I these doings are carried on by the conservators ofpublic morals, the high Church party forsooth. Are there any vices, one would ask, springing from the humble classes so disgusting and debasing as these scenes drawn upon them by their superiors in station ? And in this borough there are some ten or twelve clergymen, who countenance, by their presence and activity for their party, these abo minations. When the minister of God's word is seen in the humility of his sacred calling, comforting the poor and sick—teaching patience and obedience to the Divine will, and counselling the weak of faith, how noble and en viable is that character—but when the same man steps into the world, joins the pot-house shout, breeds strife and contention wherever he goes, and walks about unaffected, in the midst of vice and pollu tion—that man not only creates disrespect towards himself, but hatred and uncharitableness towards the reli gion of which he is an unworthy teacher. The writ has been proclaimed—the candidates will be nominated on Tuesday, and the electors polled the following day. It will require great vigilance and energy on the part of the Reformers to secure a triumphant victory. \Vin they assuredly will, but to win well is the object, that a spirit and confidence may be given- to the Liberals here and elsewhere, that shall shakeToryisrn to the centre. The Tories are already talking of a scrutiny, which at present is ridiculous, as it is unknown yet who will perhaps want scru tinizing ; but it speaks volumes for the weakness of their party. Yesterday and the previous night they had entered the liberal camp by surprise, but the independent electors scorned their golden temptation, and the reaction which it has produced in favour of the Reformers is immense. Or der and unanimity is the Liberal motto ; they have energy, heart, and determination. Mr. Alcock's canvas was most successful, and there is not a doubt we shall have to re cord next Wednesday his triumphant election, and to seal the downfal of the Clive domination in this borough for ever. That the Tories of this borough have money out at use the following anecdote is conclusive :—One Mister Cook, Tory, and mace-bearer to the defunct corporation, was anxious, for certain reasons, to record his vote for my Lord Clive's nominee next Wednesday. But not having the means wherewith to live as in the good old times— he had managed, some how or other, to get into debt some 110/. A writ had been hanging in terrorem over his head some months, and the wide-awake Tories sounded a re move for a few days, and entered into the minute book Mister Cook to be smuggled here next Wednesday. Mr. Cook was therefore removed to Shrewsbury, which saved his creditor the expense of doing so, and then secured, amid good cheer in a three-pair back of the Crown and Anchor. But the Liberals put one Ambrose Jones, a Sheriff's officer, to work, and a very devil of a fellow he is in scenting a Tory, and in be popped unex pected, on Mister Cooke—the surprise, however, was soon at an end, as Ambrose began his acquaintance by some thing touching the grace of God, which translated into Quod explained the whole mystery. Mister Cooke has raised the wind, and returned here into the bosom of To ryism ; and being so neatly whitewashed, the Liberals say there will be no occasion to have him raddled. The election proceedings shall be sent to The Sun without a moment's delay. HOLLAND AND BELGIUM. Saturday being the day agreed upon for the final ex change of the ratifications of the Treaty of Peace between Holland and Belgium, the different members of the Con. ference assembled for that purpose at the Foreign Office. There were present— Prince Estcrliazy, Viscount Palmer. ston, Count Pozzo di Borgo, Baron de Bourquency, the French Charge d'Affaires, and Baron Werter, the Russian Charge d'Affaires. Baron Bentick and M. Van de Weyer, the Dutch and Belgian Ministers were in attendance. The Conference met at half-past two o'clock, and did not break up until after six. We understand, however, that, owing to some accidental delay in the arrival of the Belgian ratification, the exchange did not take place, and that the Conference adjourned to some future day, probably early in the ensuing week, in order to afford ti me f or t h e arrival of the ratification from Belgiam.—Observer. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen attended Divine Service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal St. James's. The Queen Dowager and the Princess Augusta also attended. The preacher was the Rev. H. Todd, who took his text from St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, chap. xii. verses 3d, 4th, and sth. The Prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Knapp, the Lessons by the Rev. Dr. Wesley ; a:id the Afternoon Service was read by the Bishop of London. the Rev. Mr. Knapp, and he Rev. Dr. Wesley. The Chaunt was the Earl o Wil ton's; the Te Deum and Jubilate King's in F; the Sane. tus and Responses in F, by the Earl of Wilton. The an hem " God is our hope and strength," (Green), was sung by Messrs. W. Knyvett, Hobbs, Welsh, and J. B. Sale. Sir George Smart presided at the Organ. Her Majesty was attended by Lady Lyttelton, Hon. Miss Spring Rice, Hon. Miss Paget, Earl of Uxbridge, Hon C. A. Murray, lion. Major Keppel, and Colonel Wemyss. The De •n of Hereford was the Dupl:ty Clcrk of the. Closa in waiting. THE FUNDS. Arrival* this morning ;--two French, two Ostend, and one Dutch mail ; also a mail from Lisbon, by the Royal Tar, sailed on the 27th of May, from Gibraltar May 24, Malta May 16, Cadiz May 25, Corfu May 10, Oporto May 28. _ _ _ Consols, which closed on Saturday at 931 i far Money, and 931 94 for the Account, opened this morning at the above prices, with little doing as yet ; Exchequer Bills, 24 27 ' • India Bo n d s , 26 28 ; Bank Stock 1944 1951; India Stock, 256 257. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active closed on Satur day at 191 i, at present 1944 ; Portuguese closed at 254, also receded to 341 a ; Three per Cents., 204 1; Bel gian, 1014 102; Brazilian, 7941-; Colombian 301 31 ; Mexican, 24 264 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 554 56k; Five per Cents., 1024 1. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Mare. 73 Great Western Railvray ComPanY... ******* ''''"" 17 7 % % Brighton Railway 11 9 London and Blackwad ililvray % London and Croydon Ra ilwa y Company 164 es. 12 1 4 British North America n Bank . 5 211% PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS. DUBLIN, JUNE 1. 3 per Cent. Cons ols - .3%per Cent. Stock - , Ditto, 4 per cent. Di tto Reduced - I Hibernian Bank Ditto New, IRIS - City of Dublin Steam Comp. -- 354 per Cent. Debentures... -- 'ationdl Insurance Company -, Bank Stock . - *rand Canal Stock - Pia ast Office Debentures, 4 Royal Canal Stock - per cent HALF PAST ONE. We have received Hobart Town papers to the 2d Fe bruary. The Directors of the Bank of Australia have ordered a dividend of eight per cent, for the half year, to be paid the holders of the Bank Stock on all capita paid up. TIIE FUNDS. The private letters from New York , state th a t M r . Web ster's visit to Eng land does not re ate to political affairs. The British Market continues firm, and Consols have reached 94, at present 93i, 94; Exchequer Bills, 27 25; India B(sis, 28 29; Bank Stock, 1951 196.° In the Fore i g n Market Spanish an d Portuguese stoc k s have be( n the chief speculation. Portuguese has rec e d e d, owing to"; he bad state of their finances, andimay be quoted I per cent. lowe r, 34i ; Three per C ents., 201; Belgian, Danish, 754 Spanish also receded to 19k ; D utc h Two-and - a . H alf p er Cen ts. 56 Five per Cents. 1021 h ave been at 1 02 1. LI'VERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY.--Th e Cotton Market has be en very quiet, with a mode ra t e d eman d f or small parcels. Sales, 1,500 bags, at ye s t er d ay ' s prices. CLOSING PRICES. _ BRITISH FUND S sank Stock ... ............. .. ..... 11? 5 India Stack 3 Per Cent Bed .................. ilx Ditto Bonds .. 3 per Cent. Ct.n5..... ........... P. 31, Ditto Old A l l ....... ... 3 )i Per Cent. Red ....... .... ..... 80% Ditto New AnnuitT s. " ..... "" 9°34 ew 3N a per Cent ............... 101 Ex. Pills, 1.0001 ... „ _ New 5 per Cent. .................. Ditto 501 , ... 2 a * ) 5 pm India Stock for Op - g Long Annuities to expire.. Ditto 500 i 95 pm. Jan. 1860 ................. Li% Bank Stock for O p g 26 pm, Oct. 1859 ... ..... ... ...... 196 Jan 1860 ................. li% Consols for Aa - - FOBEIG -- 94 Austrian, 5 per cent .............. 1 . i;8 1 ,i Belgian, 5 per cent ............. 11 Brazilian Bonds .................. Buenos Ayr, s, 6 per cent.... Chilian, 6 per cent ............... Colomb,an, 6 per cent.......... Ditt, 82 14. ......................... 7-7 Danish, 3 per c ent ............ ... 751 1 Greek Bonds, 1825, Spa ct. Mexican, ()per cent. ............ Ditto, 6 per cent.. 182. 5 ......... 1 Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent.... N FUNDS. Portuguese Ronds, sper cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent Russian Bonds, 5 per ccrt 1% Ditto, Metallic — Spanish, ii per cent. ... BY, Ditto, Deferred SY. French, 5 per cen Exchange t .. .... ... . —t —c. ..................... French, 3 pe r ce —f. —c Dutch 2,y, per cent. Ditto, 51 cent. ... . . ..__ SHARES Bristol and Exeter Railway ................ Eastern Counties Radway ............. l 2 ...... Great Western Railway .............................. •10 London and Brighton Railway .............................. London and Blackwall Railway ................ London and E.riningham Railway London and Greenwich Railway London and Southampton Railway .................. 17 London Cr,ydon Railway (Trunk) South Easte:r and Dove: •............................................ Ditto New Shares ..... LATEST NEWS FROM AMERICA By the arrival yesterday at Liverpool of the fine steamer Liverpool. from New York, whence she sailed on the evening of the 18th ult., we have received files of Ameri can Papers of a date twenty-four days later than th ose previously r ece iv e d. Th e y Liverpool has brought 86 cabin passengers, among which were the lion. Daniel Webrter, the celebrated orator, and his lady, and the bearer of despatches, from the Governors of Upper and Lower Canada to the Colonial Secretary. The news brought by the Journals is not, politically speaking, of much importance. All was comparatively quiet on the frontier. The following official correspondence from the Washington Globe is all that appears on the still perplexed and seemingly interminable boundary question:— (Eatract. ) - MR. STEVENSON TO LORD PALMERSTON. Lord Palmerston has probably already been apprised than among the proceedings of the Congress of the United States at the close of its late Session, provision was made for a special mission to Great 13ritain in relation to the subject of this con troversy, should it, in the opinion of the President, be (learned advisable to appoint one. In virtue of this provision, the un dersigned has now the honour of acquainting his Lordship that the President of the United States, desirous of conforming to the indicated wishes of Congress, has directed him to announce to her Majesty's Government his willingness to institute such a mission, and change the place of negotiation, which had here tofore be en agreed on, from Washington to London ' ; provided it. should be agreeable to her Majesty's Government to do so, and would, in their opinion, be the means of hastening or faci litating the final adjustment of the controversy. In submitting this proposition to the President, which he has now the honour of doing, the undersigned flatters himself that Lord Palmerston will net fail to appreciate the motives which have influenced the President in making it, and see in it, not only an additional proof of his desire to terminate amicably this protracted and painful controversy, but the earnest solicitude which he feels to place the relations of the two countries beyond the reach of those casualties by which, in the present state of things, they are so liable to be injured. To this proposition the undersigned has been directed to urge the early consideration of her Majesty's Government. (Signed) A. STEVENSON. 23, Portland-place, 'March 30, 1839. (Extract. ) LORD PALMERSTON TO MR. STEVENSON. Her Afajesty's Government consider the communication which Mr. Stevenson has been instructed to make to the under signed upon the subject of the proposed mission of a special envoy to England as a fresh proof of the friendly disposition of this President, and of the frankness which it is hoped will always characterise the intercourse between the two Govern ments ; and her Majesty's Government hasten to reply to that communication in the same spirit and with the same frankness. Undoubtedly if the state of the negociation were such that the two Governments were at liberty to arrive at a final and immediate settlement of the controversy, by a conventional division of the territory in dispute, her Majesty's Government would be of opinion that advantage might arrive from the mission proposed to be sent to this country by the Govern ment of the United States. But Maine having refused to agree to a conventional line, and another reference to arbi trrtion being in the present state of the matter out of the question, the only course left open for the two Governments, with a view to arrive at a solution of the controversy, is to cause a fresh survey of the territory to be made, for the purpose of endeavouring to trace upon the ground itself the line of the treaty of 1783 ; and the undersigned is sending to Mr. Fox, for the consideration of the President, a draft of a convention for the purpose of regulating the proceedings of the Commissioners to be appointed by the two Governments for this end ; and her Majesty's Government hope that the report of these Commissioners will either settle the question at issue, or furnish to the two Governments such informa tion as may lead directly to a settlement. But this being the present state of the matter, it appears to her Majesty's Government that a special envoy now sent from Ame rica would not, upon his arrival in this country, find anything to discuss or settle in connection with this question, the discussion or settlement of which could be of importance commensurate with the expectations which such a mission would naturally excite on both sides of the Atlantic; and that if, in consequence thereof, the envoy so sent were to return to the United States before the two governments finally settled the whole question, a disappointment might thereby be created which, however unfounded it would be, might, nevertheless, pro duce bad effects in both countries. ller Majesty's Government having thus stated, without re serve, their impression on this matter, leave the decision of it to the President; and the undersigned has only further to assure Mr. Stevenson that her Alajesty's Government are ♦ery sensible to the spirit of friendly confidence which has dictated Mr. Stevenson's communciation. ( Slimed) Foreign Office, April 3, 1839. PALMERSTON. The following are extracts from the American Pa pers:— NEW YORK MONEY MARKET. SATURDAT MORNING, Mar 18.—The Stock Transactions yesterday were extremely moderate, but prices were very well sustained. The only fluctuation that occurred on the rates of the day or two preceding, was a decline of about 1 per cent. upon Harlem Railroad Shares, which is about the advance that was obtained on that stock on Thursday, on the previous rates. The Money Market. remains very much in the condition in which it has been for the past week or more—and the most unfavourable feature that we perceive in it at this time, is the advanced rates in exchange upon Europe. There appears, however, but little likelihood that rates on England and France will go so high as to cause any considerable demand for specie for the purposes of exportation to those countries at pre sent, as the extensive shipments of Cotton now going forward to those marts, will tend to so far equalive the Exchanges, as to prevent such a call upon our merchants and Banks, of that nature. The high prices that American Securities command in England, also operates materially against all demands for specie for any balances of trade there may be against the United States. United States Bank Stock, too, is a more profitable remittance to England, at 118 dollars per share, than Bills of Exchange at 10 per cent. or specie at its present prices. The rates of Exchange upon England, throughout the week, and for transmission by the steamer Liverpool to-day, have been large at .1,85 dollars to 4,86 dollars (9i to 9i per cent.) the pound sterling. A considerable amount of British Govern ment Bills also have been sold at 4,87 dollars (.c.q per cent.) the pound sterling. Bills on France 5,15 f. to 5,17 ii. The Manhattan Fire Insurance Company have declared a dividend of ten per cent. payable on the Ist of June. Upon the Southern and South Western Securities of the country, there has not been any material alteration in the state of the Monet Market or the Exchanges for a week or two. SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE-111Ar 17. 20 Shares Hank of Commerce 1 0 do. Union Bank 50 do. Dry Dock Bank losk 50 do. Leather Maud. Bank 18 do. Seventh Ward Bank 100 do. Delaware and Hudson s ads 80 50 do. Ohio Trust Co 20 do. N. American Trust and Banking Co B5 63 do. United States Bank 28 do. Vicksburg Bank ... 61 25 do. Bank of Kentucky sl9 June 89A 50 do. Morris Canal b 306 50 10 do. Canton Co. s &Is 46 25 do, Mohawk Railroad ...b ads 64A 40 do. Stonington Railroad 36A 1.50 do. Harlem Railroad TRADE OF• BUFFALO.—The Journal of the 15th inst. says— " Notwithstanding the favourableness of the weather the past has not been an active week. This may be attributed to the frequent breaks in the canal, and also to the continued easterly winds which have blown, thereby keeping back many vessels, particularly schooners, which after all bring the most wealthy and acceptable cargoes. As regards the canal, the disappoint ment is unfortunate and vexatious in the extreme, many of our merchants not having yet received their fresh goods." Mir lIIGA N.—The same paper remarks : " Affairs in the interior of Michigan still wear a gloomy as pect. Bills only of a few banks out of Detroit are taken in trade, and the community are suffering for want of a circu lating medium. In Detroit, however, matters begin to assume a better prospect. The Post says, "fhe city is teeming with life and activity : our wharves are crowded by arriving and departing steamboats—flour, grain, and the other necessaries of life, pouring into our warehouses, waiting for trans-shipment across the lake—swarms of newly arrived emigrants are crowd ing our railroad cars, in pursuit of a settlement in the bosom of our beautiful peninsula, and give cheering token of a busy and a profitable season. Real estate has also taken a start, a fourteen foot lot on Wood and Avenue, somewhat removed from the business part of the city, went off for 5,000 dols. cash.' " The affairs of the Michigan State Bank, are in train of amicable adjustment ; 70,000 dollars of its bills have been re deemed, and its present circulation is said to be about fifty thousand dollars.' THE MARKET. ASHES—Pots arc active at 85 ; and Pearls command 6 dols. 57c. per barrel. Corroti.—The sales since Saturday last are estimated at 5,000 bales, and the decline of about ?„ of a cent that imme diately proceeded the advises per steamer Liverpool, has been re covered, and further advance of to cent per lb. has within a day or two very readily been acceded to by purchasers. FLOUR—continues without any material variation in prices. Western may be quoted at 7 dots. 23e. to 7 dols. 50c., and all descriptions at the notations of Alonday last in our weekly re view. Corn has advanced to 94c. a 95e. and Rye to 1 dol. 20e. to 1 dol. 25c. Wheat we note at 1 dol. 60c., without any important movements. Rice—S a l es mo d era t e at 4 d o l s . 50 . c. a 4 dols. Si*. and some prime parcels at 5 dols. per 1001bs. cash. A few days since, a woman named Delaru attempted to mur der her husband by striking him on the head with a hatchet while he was on his knees at prayer. His skull is shockingly fractured, and he is not expected to live. The parties resided in the suburbs of Montreal. The ship Edward Quesnel was wrecked on Monday night on the Long Island coast ; the Second Mate and Fix men were drowned. She was laden with oil, and will be a total loss. TILE BRAGANZA PIRATES SENTENCED.—Yesterday morn ing Wilhelm, the Pirate of the Braganza, was sentenced by Judge Thompson to be executed on Friday, the 21st of June. Ilas Knudsen, who was recommended to mercy, sentence sus pended until next Term. The Judge delivered an impressive address, which Wilhelm listened to with indifference. A superb steam-boat has been built by the Americans as a packet on Lake Erie; she is the largest steam-ship on the Ame rican waters ; her burden is 781 tons, length 186 feet, has 60 state rooms, besides 86 open berths in the gentlemen's cabin, and 24 in the ladies'. The (lining room is 121 feet long, she has three masts, a jib, and is called " The Great Western." There are 378 uteam-boats now running on the western rivers. The citizens of New York are going to present Professor Combe, of Edinburgh, the celebrated phrenologist, with a ser vice of plate. Messrs. Perrine, Hagin, and three other Americans were murdered by the savage Seminoles on the sth, at S.nta Fe, East Florida. A revolt occurred last week among the prisoners in the Peni tentiary at Baton Rouge, Louisiana. One named :Murray was shot, sever al were wounded, and the revolt was quelled ; some of the worst having been severely flogged. Returns of all the bank s o f the United States have been pub lished up to 1839; at that time there were:—banks, 663, anches, 154, total, 817 ; loans and discounts, 841 ,631,6b7 ; specie, 35,184,112 dols. ; circulation, 116,138,910 dols. ; deposits, 84,691,184 dols. ; capital, 317,036,778. dolt. UPPER CANADA. The Parliament was Oxpected to adjourn on Saturday List. Among the Bills passed by the Home of Assembly was o ne authorising the Receiver-General to issue bills of credit, to the amount. of 250,000 doll., for carrying on the public works; by another Bill the Receiver-General was authorised to nego tiate a loan of one million in England, at three-and-a-half per cent., upon the debentures of the provin ce . The Clergy Reserve Bill passed by the Assembly, would probably be lost in the Council. The Assembly had thrown out a Bill providing for the expenses attendant on the safe keeping of the prisoners taken at Prescott and elsewhere, on the ground that those expenses ought to be defrayed by Great Britain. The banks are to resume specie payments on the Ist of Au gust. —Noe York Commercial. THE LAST OF THE PRI•ONERS.—SeVeII of the eight Ame ricns !.alicn at Amherstburgh in January, 1838, and confined EVENING EDITIO) in the citadel at Quebec for the last 16 months, were set at ii loerty on the boundary line, at St. Regis, by Mr. Sheriff .•Martin, of the Eastern District, tipper Canada. Mr. H. W. Tucker, of Hogansburgh, Franklin County, attended to reeeire them. 1 General Sutherland was of the party on the journey frepa l Quebec to Cornwall, but at tho latter pace it was discovered that his name was not in the order far their liberation, probably an accidental omission, and he was, therefore, detained untii further orders. SOUTH AMERICA. CKILL—The news we published on Friday has been con firmed by recent arrivals. The " spoils of the victors" were ' 3,400 prisoners, all the Protector's artillery, horses, &c., and 90,000 dollars in money. Generals Moran and Urdinea were killed, and five other generals were made prisoners. Santa Cruz escaped with only twenty men. The Chilian General, Lafuente, expected to reach Lima on the 28th of January. There has also been a naval engagement, in which the Peru-. Bolivians were equally unfortunate, losing one vessel, and the other three much damaged. The castle of Callao still remained in the possession of the forces of Santa Cruz, who had there a garrisun of 1,500 men. LATER FROM VERA CRUZ.—We have dates via New Or leans to the 17th of April. General Mejia still remained within fifteen league; of the city. Reports had reached %era Cruz ore the 18th that the delay of General Mejia was caused by the non-arrival of some of the vessels which he had chartered to bring his artillery, &c. All the French and English vessels of war had sailed front Vera Cruz, excepting five French and two English. The United States slows of war Vandalia and Ontario sailed on the 10th instant for Laguna. The United States revenue cutter Woodbury was to sail for Tampico on the 18th. Business was at a stand ; great confusion prevailed among the people ; prepa rations were making to defend the city, and the attack front General Mejia was hourly expected. MEXICO. NAVAL.—The United States bi4,;l)olpli in, Lieutenant Com mandant. Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, arrived on the 17th ult. at New York, from Rio Janeiro, Bahia, and last from Pernam buco, 26th April. Captain Mackenzie informs us that the blockade of Buenos Ayres by the French continued, without any prospect of a speedy termination. All was quiet at Rio, Bahia and Pernambuco. {CORRESPONDENCE Or TM! ',NEvr TOME mrtzss.l Rio de Janeiro, March 23, 1839. Since my last, per Amazon, on 16th, no American vessels have arrived, neither is there anything important from Buenos Ayres. From Rio Grande the appearances are more favourable for the Government party. Several detachments of troops have lately sailed from this, and there is now a better prospect for the restoration of order in that province than for some time past, particularly as it seems almost certain that Frutas Riviera is in favour of the Brazilian Government, having, it is said, been well paid for doing so. Coffee continues very scarce, and prices are fully 200 rs. higher than on the first of the month ; the present shipments to the United States are costing 9 to 101 2 cen's on board, ac cording to quality. The stock is only 2,500 bags. The receipts from the interior will be very limited till the new crop comes in abundantly, which will not be for 3 or 4 rn ,, nths. The total sales of Fleur this month are about 20,000 bids. from 19 to 22 ; the last sales are about 1,300 brie. of the Grand Turk's cargo at 22-2, 4 and 6 mos. The stock in first hands and speculators is about 11,000 brls ; holders *e very firm. Sales of domestics, 29 inches, at 160 re., 6 Ines. ; drillings in small parcels at 210 to 215 rs. The stocks are still heavy ; lumber, 35 ; rosin, 6 ; sperm candles, 760 rs. Exchange, in consequence of the short supply of coffee, has declined to 29i to 29,/ t ; 60 days' sight bills at 90 days ; sights arc rlways difficult to pass even at id. higher rate. Patriot doubloons, 31,200: Spanish ditto, 31,400; Patriot dollars, 1,440; Spanish do., 1,850. Freights are very dull ; the late vessels to the United States have gone partly loaded; to Europe, 21. ss. to 21. 10s. per ton. LATEST FROM PORTUGAL. LISBON, MAY 27, 4 O'CLOCK, F.M. A pecuniary panic has disturbed the monotony of the week, occasioned by a breach of confidence in the Treasury on Wed nesday last. A measure the Ministers had under considera tion, to capitalize the internal debt of the nation up to the 30th of June next ensuing, had no sooner become known, than numerous creditors of the state, such as public employes, army and navy officers in arrears, widows and and orphan pensioners, flocked to the various combistas or money-changers, who had hither discounted the claimants' promissory notes on the Treasury. The latter, however, hav ing had previous information of the supposed determination of ti! Government, declined to receive them at any price, and consequently from that moment they ceased to be of value. This circumstance produced a general clamour, which for a short time threatened serious consequences. The expressions of discontent soon re-echoed within the walls of the Legislative Assembly, when the members of the Finance Committee, in order to allay the popular excitement, immediately retired from the Chamber and drew up the following proposal fur a loan of 1,400 contos de rcis, about 320,0001. sterling:— " 1. To raise a fund upon the excess of the coffers of the Board of Public Credit by means of a mixed operation, in which paper securities and cash will be admitted. " 2. That this fund be anplicable to the payment of former debts, and also to assist in the current expenses of the year 1839-1840. " 3. That the decima for 1838 and 1839 be applied towards the actual expenses of 1839 and 1840, and that the whole revenue of the latter year be applied to meet the ex penses thereof. " 4. That the interest of the consolidated fund be paid by the Board of Public Credit.. " ALBERTO CARLOS CERQIJEIRA, Reporter of the Committee." This document, far from having the desired effect i• was in tended to produce, has only served to irritate the popular feeling and considerable dissatisfaction and mistrust still exist. How. ever, it will be modified by a proposal for a monthly loan of 200 contos de reis, to be raised upon the decima already de' as sufficient for the current expenses until the Ist of December next, at which period the forestalled bonds upon the tobacco contract will expire. Notwithstanding, pecuniary embarrassments have so increased as to make it compulsory for some immediate remedy to be ap plied, however weightily it may fall upon some classes, to alle viate the present distress. I ant informed from an accredited channel, that it is under contemplation to fund the internal debt, if not as far as the 30th of June next, at least up to tho 31st of December last, at an annual interest of 5 per tent. This project will in all probability be brought under the consi deration of the Cortes to-morrow. Intelligence received from Mozambique, up to the 31st of December last, briefly states that on the morning of the 27th of that month a rebellion broke out among the privates of the garrison of that place, the object of the rebels being nothing less than to assassinate the commandant and officers and pillage the city, as well as to murder those who might attempt to oppose them, then to embark in whatever vessels might be in the port and make the best of their way to North America. The authorities, however, forturately succeeded in suppressing the intended outbreak by capturing the ringleaders, who up to that time were being tried by a court-martial. Since the year 1S•?i there have been no less than eight rebellions there of a similar description. The numerical force of the standing army has been fixed at 21,800 men, of which number 6,7'20 are considered to be on furlough. Exchange upon London, at 30 days' sight, 54d. per milree discount on ca-paper money, 50 per cent. METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Times of this morning still continues to harp upon the Goverment Education project, which it calls a '• Strange Academical Babel," and abuses in the most grandiloquent style possible:—" This artful educa tion plot may be regarded as the deadliest aim at the vitals of our Establishment which the O'Connell n.aiignants have yet retorted to. They do not avow an explicit wish to overturn the Church at once, because they know well how such an avowal would be received and disposed of by the country ; but they arc investing her garrisons with disguised traitors, they are assaulting her buleva•ks under covered trenches, and their obvious design, Providence per mitting, is to finish her by sapping and mining. In a word, the tendency of the whole scheme, as studiously de grading the national clergy, and proclaiming their assumed unfitness for superintending the education of the country, is just to engender a belief that the Established Church is unworthy of public confidence." The Morning Chronicle, alluding to th• difficulties which Ministers have to contend against, observes, that " The people will not withhold their support, if they only see evidence of a sincere desire to remove recognized abuses, impediments to the just exercise of the franchise," and adds, " the present week will supply abundant oppor tunities for testing the inclinations of Ministers to conci liate Reformers. The people are not unreasonable, but will make due allowance for the difficulties in which the Government is placed." The 41Iorning Herald speaks in the following reckless and violent style, of the Ministerial scheme of education : •' All really religious Dissenters must, we think, be as de cidedly opposed to the Government scheme as the members of the Established Church ; for it is the handle to the Popish axe which is to strike at the parent tree of the Ito formation and its iffshools. Let Popery only succeed in eradicating the Reformed Church, and she will soon crush every sect of Protestant Dissenters, which are the yotnger offspring of the Reformation. The strength of the Church is their protection. By its overthrow would their doom be sealed." The Morning Post observes, in the course of a leading article on Mr. Macauley's late speech at Edinburgh : " Mr. Macauley seems to hare introduced into his oration just as much Radicalism as he thought necessary to deter the Edinburgh Radicals from starting a candidate of their own distinctive opinions; and just as much praise of the present Ministers of the Crown as be thought necessary to propitiate thu Edinburgh Whigs, and pave the way to an other lucrative appointment for himself " The Morning Advertiser, referring to Mr. Macauley's speech, speaks of it in these terms of praise :—" His address whether for soundness of opinion, candour of expression, cogency of argument, or fluency and classical elegance of style, may be regarded as one of the happiest effoits ever made on any similar occasion. In this address will be found no evasion nor indulgence in delusive generalities, with which modern statesmen are so wont to suit their song to any tune that may befit the hour, Mr. Macauley grapples fairly with his subject." BRITISH AND FOREIGN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY.—On Saturday a large and highly respectable meeting of the friends of the above Society was held at Devonshire House, Houndsditch, for the purpose princi pally of listening to statements from Joseph Sturge, Esq., and other gentlemen, upon this important subject. Mr. Sturge having spoken at some length, Joseph T. Price, EF,q., of Neath Abbey ; Wm. Forster, Esq. ; Somers Ilareouit, Esq. ; Wm. Gurney, Esq., and many other gentlemen of high respectability, then addressed the meet ing previous to its breaking up, and a copy cf Mr. T. F . Buxton's book on slavery was delivered gratuitously t o the persons who attended. Much of the information on the subject communicated by the Speakers will be found in Mr. Buxton's book, of which an accent has already ap peered in The Sun. THE WATERLOO BANQUET.---.IMT. Salter, with whose pencil our readers will be familiar, has now upon hi s easel a picture which, when finished, will be the most interesting if not the most valuable production of the d a y in the historical branch of art. It is a representation of the banquet annually given by th e Duke o f W e lli ng ton at Apsley House on the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. The subject is an extremely bold and difficult one, but Mr. Sstltcr has treated it I:ith con t m:.iatc and his sae;:ess clay be said to be corni.lete 1 r CIE