The Sun. — London, England, 1839-05-20 00:00:00

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The Public is respectfully informed, that the PRESENT MANAGEMENT WILL TERMINATE WITH THIS SEASON ; The following Programme is therefore given of its anal ar. yements : he Standard Plays, as brought out at this Tkeatre, wil 'ach be performed once more, viz.:— THE TWO FOSCARI, aid WERNER. THIS EVENING, MAT 20, Will be performed the Tragedy of lON. A After which, the New Dramatic Romance, called 'GNES BERNAUER, THE MAID OF AUGSBURG. After which, the New Farce, in One Act, called SAYINGS AND DOINGS. The Tompest, with The Marriage of Figaro. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Gran dHoliday:Attractions—Miss Ro mer , M r . Templeton, and Balfe, in the New Opera of " Tho Maid of Artois," and entirely New Domestic Drama. THIS 'EVENING, WHIT-MONDAY, MAY 20, And Four following Nights, Mr. Balfe's Grand Opera, entitled THE MAID OF ARTOIS. 11°I ino, Miss Romer ; Jules, Mr. Templeton ; The Marquis, Mr. Balfe. A Double Chorus and Increased Band. To conclude with (first time) a Domestic Drama, called ALICE GRAY, THE SUSPECTED ONE. New Scenery , and powerful interest. WHITE CONDUIT GARDENS, Will Open for the Summer Season, w, THIS EVENING, WHIT-MONDAY, Mix 20, it h & GRAND PROMENADE CONCERT, by a Band of Fifty First-rate Performers. D jhe Prop r i e t ors h ave great pleasure in announcing the en- Fgernent of the f o ll ow i ng em i nent artistes—Miss Ford, from hie Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Mr. Benson, Mr. Manelark, kadame Rossini, who will make her terrific Ascent and De ot, surrounded by showers of Fire. Also an extraordinary ; . I rab, Ab Shekir Abdallah, who will go through the whole of 141 wonderful Performances. %i _A! Firewo r k s an d Ill um i nations will be upon a more iendid scale than any former Season. Admission, One Shilling, Juveniles, Sixpence. Doors open at Seven, commence at half-past precisely. For particulars see Bills of the day. The Complaint from To C t the 1 1 14 S w P s 0 1 /1 0 D o E m N s r a s t . Aln wick shall be attended to and corrected forthwith. The Sun is pur loined. In other places as well as at Alnwick. - eiztz ..;44 • tyv: a ' 74' saMtll_ -4" - • L^V , „ f is gun. LONDON : M ONDAY, MAY 20, 1839. fa.csro_neering , I le late —ll 4 eie t• CHA RLES MATHEWS had a good story, of whi c h, w i t h ou t f ur th er pre tt'ia we will remind our r e aders. They will find Ls a moral not altogether uninstructive, as shall 4 7 made m an if est after the old iEsopian fashion. t an ele c ti on i n a certa i n corporate town, t h ere we re v _ tyr o r i va l can did ates, one o f w h om we shall ;inur e to call Mr. HUMDRUM. A stranger, who i t aa t anxious to witness the progress of the contest, L i r ded himself into the committee room of Mr. 41 c 4 turtes antagonist, and had not been there 444 g befor e a printer's boy came with a roll of ; 1) . 11 a) wet from the press, bearing the 4 In g inscription in large and legible capi " NO HUMDRUM--NO BULLOCK'S Ll tr/td At the he a d o f th e t a bl e sat a res p ec t a bl e esman (the Chairman of the committee and an Berman of the borough) to whom the stranger „dressed hi mse lf f or exp l ana ti on . g , Pray, Sir, I TO he, " what is the meaning of this—what con eetion is there between Mr. HUMDRUM and bul h!ek's liver ?" " Why, really," r e pli e d th e Chair -174, with undisturbed gravity, " I c an 't p re t en d t o 14 Y; but we've had them bill s p r i n t e d b ecause make him very unpopular." he application of this little fable will b e c l ear 4.11gh n to every sensible man who has take n u p th e it:?s ewspaper since it b ecame t h e t oo l o f th e ow n es, and the most potent declaimer against its an t ' Principles. Any trick, however shabby -4,1 artifice, however base and degrading —any ?owever shallow and palpable—has been i t iP tI TY pressed into service, and bandied vphi e t t , from day to day with an affected earnestness Itt i I ") bu t for the known character of the journal, L a t have passed for sincerity. The New Poor and the No Popery cry have been to the c oil T el what the bullock' s li v er was to the electio n tnitte e the instrument of an antagonist's un- Pa har l • ity. But the thing has not been worked discretion ; the disguise is too flimsy—the fals ehood and folly too apparent. In the maniacal of -ato rtions, the froth and fume of this CALIBAN 4. , the p ress , we see on ly th e rav i ngs o f a renegade t'd th e pran k s o f a wretc h e d i mpostor. The most i t'd of benevolent blockheads must see thr o „,,, ugh the shall ow ar tifi ce , an d recommen d t h e gejeuisoprerayotre the stocks as th e p ro p er i n fi rmar y f or so a case. Pln a recent article on the proposed establish tet of a normal school for training teachers, this h i °us oracle of the Chur c h held f ort h i n it s 441 style about Romish Priests and " Dissenters a doz en or fif ty diff erent ki n d s " apropos to 4 oo °th ing ; it poured - out a fund of useful knowledge paCerhin6 tii , I, e Bishops of COLOGNE and POSEN, s sia, and the POPE, the Emperor of AUSTRIA'S th Will and testament, Spain and the Inquisition, Bishop of LONDON, latitudinarianism, and p!" Society for National Education in the lll 'eiples o f t h e Ch urc h o f England ;" h"ing up with a foolish commentary on el e Government scheme issued by this latter con ave of shovel bats, and authenticated by the sig ollture of SA M UEL M ILLS th e i r secre t ar y and man- Q ' II-work. Now the sole object of th e ram bli ng sele in the Times, and the fussy manifesto of the e n cietv, is to p rove that littl e b o y s an d g i r l s o f ortho tt Parentage, ought not to learn reading, writing, o arithmetic in the same room with small scions of th e Dissenting stock, and the infantine progeny P apists. For ourselves, we confess that this i"Pears to us one of the most favourable features bthe plan, and we rejoice in the hope that , the mingling together of different sects of the happy days of childhood, the bitterness religious animosities may be mitigated, and to l l fistianity become in fact, what it is in name, the t c ',ion o f peace. But the parsons detest concilia t°lll, and " the bond of unity," except among them kelves, is their utter abhorrence. Well, if they 1. 44 have war, let it be so. The struggle may 4 ' 31 for y ears ; b u t if carr i e d on i n th e s pi ri t w hi c h eew pervades the Church party, it must end in the i l tt ruction of a Church which, with some justice, i h lt s been characterised as the most monstrous abuse Christendom—a Church staggering under the ,h ei ght of its own enormous possessions —a Church i l which every appointment, from the Archbishop Job ! "in to the grave-digger, is a political or personal We subjoin an extract from the minute of the r)lnmittee of Education of 13th April, which con oattis the entire subject of this political and clerical tl tbreak o f i nto l erance . It is proposed to fo un d a no rmal school for the instruction of teachers, which Ball include a model school for children of all ages, rl .to , three to fourteen. The proposals concerning :ginus instruction are contained in the following rara graphs : Ip e ll ei tt i eligious instruction to be considered as general and streligion to be combined with the whole matter of in 'ttoti. and to regulate the entire system of di:cipline. " Periods to be set apart for such peculiar doctrinal in struction as may be required for the religious training of the children. " To appoint a chaplain to conduct the religious in struction of children whose parents or guardians belong to the Established Church. " The parent or natural guardian of any other child to be permitted to secure the attendance of the licensed mi nister of his own persuasion, at the period appointed for special religious instruction, in order to give such instruc tion apart. " To appoint a licensed minister to give such special religious instruction wherever the number of children in attendance on the model school belonging to any religious body dissenting from the Established Church, is such as to appear to this Committee to require such special provision. " A portion of every'day to ,be devoted tothe reading of the Scriptures in the School, under the general direction of the Committee, and superintendence of the Rector. Roman Catholics, if their parents or guardians require it, to read their own version of the Scriptures, either at the time fixed for reading the Scriptures, or at the hours of special instruction." How on earth a body of educated men, or even the hired ruffians of the Times, could find in these seven sentences the materials for vilification and abuse, we are at a loss to conceive ; but it seems that Clergymen and their advocates are sharp hands at detecting a plot---cunning dogs that can smell a rat at any distance—keen-sighted fellows who can see further into a mill-stone than those who picked it. TITUS OATEs was their forerun ner, and not only in penetration, but in lying and scurrility they beat him hollow. Plain dealing people like ourselves see nothing more in the scheme than what is to be found in every pri vate day school in the kingdom. The children of persons of all denominations meet in such schools for instruction in the ordinary branches of know ledge, and are trained at home in those religious principles which their parents profess. In point of fact, there are few schools of this class where doc ' trinal points are discussed at all ; and the reading of an occasional chapter in the Bible is the full ex tent of the master's interference on so critical a subject. Whatever difference exists then, is de cidedly in favour of the Government scheme, for it is provided that religion shall be combined with Me whole matter of instruc tion, and regulate the entire system of discipline. " But it is not the religion of the Thirty-nine Ar ticles," roars a red-faced Rector. May we not venture meekly to ask why it should be so ? Are the taxes paid exclusively by Churchmen ? Is reli gious freedom sanctioned by law, that it may be a hoax and a delusion in fact ? If the public purse is to be opened for educational purposes, let it be opened for the benefit of the people at large ; and if a preference must be shown, let it be a preference dictated by justice. Give to each party accord ing to its necessities, and pour not your entire wealth into the lap of a Church already bloated with excess of good things. In the rural districts the parsons have long had it all their own way, like the bull in the china-shop—like him, too, they have made a pretty concern of it ! The fruits of their labour must be looked for among the followers of COURTENAY, alias THom, in Kent, and the rick-burning peasantry of Sussex. Large towns (in which the Clergy have had little or nothing to do with the education of the people) have usually been remarkable for the intelligence and good conduct of the working classes ; and if, at this moment, exceptions can be pointed out, it is because the incendiaries of the Times have kindled the commotion and encouraged an armed resistance to the law. Should the streets of Birmingham unhappily become the scene of bloodshed, they who, to serve the vilest of purposes, raised the outcry against the New Poor Law, ought to be made responsible legally, as they will be morally, for the consequences. The first call to resistance was made by the Times—it was responded to by STEPHENS and OASTLER, and the present position of the Chartists has gra dually arisen out of Tory agitation. Sir ROBERT PEEL had much more to fear from his frantic sup porters than from a few Court Ladies, though he made the latter serve as an excuse for deserting his QUEEN, and dropping once more into the station of a private individual. Backed by the Times and the Orange faction he would have been mad to at tempt the formation of a Government. There was a great and enthusiastic meeting held at Bristol on Friday, at which it was unanimously resolved to present an Address to her Majesty. Two strong resolutions were passed, expressing the indignation with which the meeting had heard of the attempt of the Tories to control her Majesty, and interfere with her right to choose her own so ciety ; and requesting her Majesty ouly to give her confidence to those Statesmen who would improve our institutions and secure the rights of the people. The general tone of the meeting was extremely libera', and worthy of imitation. Not one of the speakers, though many of them very judiciously praisJd the Ministers for what they had done, said that they had gone too fast or too far ; on the con trary, Mr. TOTHILL expressly said that they had gone a great deal too slow, and dwelt on several circumstances which had almost made him and others despair of the Ministry. If the tone of the Bristol meeting should be generally responded to throughout the kingdom, as we earnestly hope it may be, it will give strength and confidence to the Liberal party, and convince the Ministers that the greatest danger they can run, will be not to support their own friends. We copy from the Bristol Mercury an ample report of the meeting, to which we refer our readers, proceeding ourselves to make a few remarks on an important word, thrown out by one of the speakers. A general election, it was said, was close at hand. In all the country papers that fall under our notice, we see preparations making for this contingency as if it were likely speedily to arrive. It is right, therefore, that everybody should be prepared for it. The Ministers said when the present Parliament had assembled, and they found the Liberal party comparatively weak in the House of Commons, that it was impossible for them to carry any extensive and liberal measures. They found in the lukewarmness of the constituencies a sufficient reason for not themselves being energetic, and Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S first declaration against further reform at the opening of Parliament in 1837 was only the supposed reflection of the opi nions of the people, as exhibited in the elections. Now, to take away such a plea from the Ministers, it is the duty of the people at once to exert them selves, and everywhere make their prepara tions to return Liberal Members, and the most Liberal they can find. Extension of the suffrage was much insisted on at the meeting at Bristol, and we are inclined to think no better object could now be aimed at. Were the middle classes heartily to take up that cause, and make a point of electing no man who was not friendly to an extension of the suffrage, they would take a great step towards healing the lamentable division which now exists between them and the lower classes, threatening the public peace and endangering pro perty. We cannot with propriety call on the Mi nisters to propose measures of reform of any de scription, when we know that such measures would be opposed by the House of Commons. For the contentment of the people, and it is infinitely better to content them than to be forced to put them to death, a further extension of the suffrage has become necessary, and if the constituencies do not elect men on that principle the Ministers neither can nor ought to propose it. Wi t h t h e ex tension of the suffrage the abolition of the Corn-laws, and a uniform penny postage should be united. These are practical measures which would gratify millions, not only by the immediate benefits they would confer, but by excit ing hope that more, and indeed all which justice demands, would in the end be peaceably and righteously obtained. An earnest endeavour on the part of the middle classes to procure those measures, would separate the lower classes from a few misleading mischievous orators, and go a long way to restore that harmony between the lower and middle classes, without which it is impossible for the country to prosper. Whatever measures may by the electors be deemed proper, now, when there is a probability that t hey may be called on t o ex ercise their suffrage,is the time for them to bestir themselves ; and as they shall vote and determi ne at the general election, come when it may, so will be the conduct of Ministers for some time hereafter, By the packet ship Siddons, which sailed on the 25th ult. from New York, and arrived at Liver pool on Saturday, we have received American papers of a date three days later than those brought by the Great Western. They are not, however, of any political importance. Tranquillity continued on the frontier, and the Boundary Question had ceased to excite any apprehension. The only topic of general conversation in New York when the packet sailed was an account of a great fire in Albany, which took place on the 20th of April, and burned upwards of forty houses, with property liiSM. 1 than tells ;outset police ist, ill i The Ewson, a m by 2 ale , their ill . 1 '1:: ,'.7i UN , LON !, )i', N , Nil C/N DA I', to the amount of 75,000 dollars. The fire origi nated in a stable and burned several valuable horses, but it was not reported that any persons lost their lives. With a humanity worthy of the highest commendation, the Governor had thrown his house open for the reception of the wives and children of the sufferers from this great calamity. The accol,ints from the Canadas continued fa vourable. There were isolated border outrages frequently occurring, but the horrible system of midnight burnings and reprisals was disappearing. " MONEY-MARKET, &c., APRIL 24. " We have again to notice the increased activity in the stock-market, the business to-day having been very consi derable, and in most instances at a further improvement,:at the advanced quotations of yesterday. The amount of floating capital in the street within the last few days has been increased a good deal, and has of course exercised a favourable influence on the market to a certain extent, until the banks resume a more liberal course of discountts, however, no very permanent relief appears anticipated. Sales were made to-day of United States Bank at 114 ; sellers 30 days ; Dry Dock Bank, 1061 ; Delaware and Hudson, Sli ; Vickburg Bank, 62; Stonington Rail road, 35a; Haarlem Railroad, 63; and Paterson Rail road at 69i. 1,700 dol. Delaware Hudson 6 per Cent. Bonds sold at 90. " The sales of exchange on London for transmission by the Liverpool packet, leaving to-morrow, showed no varia tion on the prices obtained by the Great Western, closing at 81- to 81 per cent. premium. " The Mechanics' and Traders' Bank has declared a dividend of 4 per cent, for the last six months. " We have the first intelligence of the effect produced on the southern cotton markets, by the Great Western's advices, from Charleston under date of the 20th instant. The market up to the period of the receipt of these ac counts had been very heavy, when it once rallied, and several hundred bales were taken on Friday at cent. ad vance, and with a disposition on the part of the holders to await higher prices. Quotations are 14c. to 181 c. In long cottons, 62 bags Santee, at 53c., and a small lot Maines, at from 40c. to 50c., comprised the business of the week. " The Report of the Bank Commissioners to the Se nate of the State, of the affairs of the Brooklyn Bank, is an awful disclosure of frauds and villainy. Fortunately the public have not been cheated, but the stockholders have been swindled out of one-half of their stock, and all the surplus. The principal persons whom the report re presents as figuring in the operations of the Bank are Abel Corwin, Peter Poillon, Robert T. Hicks, Peter Poilion, jun., Mr. Willoughby, and Mr. Cromelin." Brussels, Dutch, and German papers, with ad vices from Berlin, Vienna, Pesth, Rome, and Con stantinople, were received last night. The follow ing are extracts from them BRUSSELS, MAY 17.—Yesterday the King gave audience to a deputation from the town of Hubert, to General Magnan and to Count, Lalting, Charge d'Affaires at Madrid, who took leave, being on the point of returning to his post. His Majesty transacted business with the Minister of the Interior and of Foreign Affairs. By a Royal decree of the 15th, a commission, composed of fourteen members, is formed to make all the preliminary arrangements necessary to prepare for the pecuniary set tlement that will have to be made between Belgium and Holland. M. Raikem, President of the Chamber of Representa tives, is much spoken of for the post of Minister of Justice. Advances have been made to the Government by a great number of candidates, but it seems that at present M. Raikem is the only one who has a chance of success. It is said that his nomination will not be published till the close of the Session. The Reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg is expected to. day at Brussels with his son, brother to the King of Portugal. The Chamber of Representatives has commenced the debate on the project of law respecting the Scheldt toll. ROME, MAY 4. —His Majesty the King of Bavaria ar rived here this afternoon from Naples, and alighted at the Villa de Malta, which belongs to him, and which the Crown Prince left yesterday because there is not room for both. It is said that his Majesty will stop here a fortnight before he returns to Germany. His Majesty is in excel lent health. PESTH, MAY s.—The election of Deputies from our country to the Diet of the kingdom took place. The electors (all of them nobles settled in the country) came in great numbers to Pesth to give their votes. On the day preceding the election a great entertainment was given to a great many electors at the expense of Count Radoy. On the morning of the election many of the electors ap peared with flags inscribed " Count Gideon Radoy and M. Szent Keralpi." It was resolved that the election should not be made as usual by acclamation, but by ballot. Out of 1,419 votes, Count Radoy had 1,140. His most for midable opponent had only 230, another 17, and another only two votes. The election of the second Deputy was then decided by acclamation, and fell on M. Szent Kiralpi. It is possible that there may be some difficulty in consequence of former circumstances, with regard to the confirmation of the election of Count Radoy. Two sons of the Archduke Charles arrived yesterday in the steam-boat. VIENNA, MAY 9.—The Court is expected to remove to Schonbrunn on the 18th instant, and the Archduke Charles to Weilburg, near Baden. The Archduke, Viceroy of Italy, will probably stay here two months, unless some alteration takes place. Prince Esterhazy will set out this week. CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 21.—The accounts from the army of Hafiz Pacha are not very favourable, and seems to have put the Sultan out of spirits. He intends, for the present at least, to under take no active operations, and has formally promised this to the Representatives of the Great Powers. He will even order Hafiz Pacha to withdraw his troops into the cantonments which they occupied a few months ago, as soon as assurance is given him that Ibrahim Pacha will also make a retrogade movement with his army. Till then he will leave Hafiz Pacha to set according to his ownjudg relent, that he may not have reason in the sequel to repent having yielded too precipitately to the wishes of the Great Powers. The state of things is therefore little changed, as it depends on Ibrahim Pacha whether i the armies shall separate in peace, or continue to threaten each other till some unexpected event shall bring on a collision. It is therefore the duty of the Foreign Ministers to use energe tic language to Ibrahim ; if they do this, things will re main on their old footing. THE HAGUE, Nov. 17. (Official.) We, William, &c. &C.—On the report of our Minis ter for Foreign Affairs of the 9th of this month, stating, that since the publishing of the Treaty of Commerce be tween the Netherlands and the German Commercial League, the ratifications which were then wanting by the kingdom of Wurtemberg, the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, and the Principality of Reuz Geritz, have since been exchanged, at Berlin, by which the business is entirely- completed, Order, that notice of these four ratifications shall be given in the Staats Courant. The Hague, 10th May 1839. (Signed) WILLIAM. By his Majesty's Command, (Signed) VAN DOORN. , Published 16th May, 1839. THE HAGUE, 16th MAY.—We learn that his Majesty has signed a resolution by which the men of the levy of 1832--1833, are to be sent to their homes with unlimited furloughs. AMSTERDAM, MAY 16.—T0-day was the thirteenth General Meeting of the Netherlands' Society for the Moral Improvement of Prisoners, at which M. C. J. Vaillant presided. Several persons were elected honorary members, among whom were Mr. Samuel Hoare, Presi dent of the British Society, London ; William Allen, Stoke Newington ; Pierre Bedford, Croydon. THE HAGUE, MAY 16.—His Majesty the King, and Princess Albert went yesterday to the Palace at the Borsh. His Excellency Count Van der Duyn Van Maasdam has returned from Stuttgard. We learn from the Scheveningen that a fisherman has picked up off the Texel, and brought to Scheveningen 16 bales of hops, damaged, and that he saw a great many more drifting about, which he aas not able to take on board. AMSTERDAM, MAY 17.—Sir Richard King, Bart., and Sir James J. Duckworth, Bart., officers in the British service, arrived here to-day. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTEADAM, MAT IS. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 234 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Amon Syndic, 4 % per cent 94% 95% Ditto, ditto, 35¢ per cent. 70% 1105 4 Commercial Company, 40,4 per cent 182% 1823 1 Ditto (1832 and 1833) 5 per cent. Ditto 1837, 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 9 8 34 99% Exchange on London, One month ll 97 Two months BELGIAN k U NDS—BaussEta, MAY 17. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lOl% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 3 per Cent. ...... .. 72% Loan of City, 1832,4 per Cent 92 Society of Commerce, 434 per Cent. llB Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent Bl% National Society . lOO —Brussels Papers, May 17. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—ViaNNA, May S. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents Bank Shares 1531 .—AllgemeineZeitung, May 13 HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, May 17. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1530 1528 An, 10-Russian Loan 107% 107% Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Series 10254 112 Russian 5 per Cent. Hop! and Co. 3d and 4th Series 9854 98 Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 24 4 pe Cent 5454 54% Ditto .__ _ _ Polish Bonds New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 7 2 14 72 Norwegian Loan, 1534, 4 per Cent. lOl% 1(.1% EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, MAY 17.-13. 6.—Two months, 13 4%. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN. MAY 13. Bids. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent 103% 103 Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 102% 102 1 A Isxchange on London, three months 6 20% —Prussian Slate Gazette, May 14. The reverses sustained by the Carlists have not been confined to the Basques. CABRERA was in full retreat towards Salmeron on the 9th, pursued by Generals AYERBE and NOGUERAS. The division com manded by AYERBE took from the Carlists two pieces of cannon, and made three hundred prisoners. The whole of the Paris Journals of Friday and Sa turday have been received. The new French Ministry are not wanting in endeavours to acquire popularity among the Liberal party. M. F. BARROT, brother of the Republican Deputy, has been nominated Standing Counsel of the Treasury—a lucrative post hitherto held by M. TESTE, and an offer of, a seat on the judi cial bench of the Court of Cassation has been made to M. DurotcT(De L'Eure). On Saturday M.SA uzET, the , sew President of the Chamber of Deputies, took the Chair for the first time, when he addressed a speech to it soli citing the indulgence extended to his predecessors. We select the only paragragh in it of a political tendency : " The Chamber will accomplish that noble mission of peace, of progress, and labour, intrusted to it by the wishes of the country. The preceding Legislature have solved great political questions. Many causes of discontent have disappeared ; parties have shown a disposition to forego their former feuds; the Chamber can do a great deal towards effecting their reconciliation ; the country stands in need of our union. This union, based on principles of order and generous ideas, can alone insure its repose and promote its future prosperity. It will impart to the Cham ber an additional strength, and ultimately consolidate, on a broad basis, the Throne and institutions which France has founded." When M. SALTZET had concluded, M. DuctiATET., Minister of the Interior, presented a project of law for a grant of 1,200,000 f rancs as a secret service fund. The Minister contended that the insurrection of the 12th and 13th in the capital imposed upon the Chamber the necessity of granting that suns. The Opposition Journals openly charge the Police with having secretly encour age d t h e recent i nsurrect i on, which was designed, according to them, to cover de mands for secret service money, and to sanction new laws which are in preparation for more effectually gagging the press. of - political news of interest there is an absolute dearth in these Journals. We have the following letter from Toulon, of the 15th of May:— " Preparations are making, but without any noise, to receive some eminent person. It is supposed, not without some reason, that this person is a member of the Royal Family. Orders have been given very secretly to prepare an entire steam-boat for his service, and some splendid articles have already been ordered to fit up the Crocodile for this mission. The Ro3al Barge has been put in order to convey on board the Crocodile the person for whom these mysterious preparations are designed. It is thought that the Crocodile will go to Oran, and another steam-boat will escort it. The Jupiter is just ordered to sail for the Levant. The Trident will soon follow. The Legere schooner, Lieut. Lefrapper, sailed yesterday on a special mission to Tunis. The 4th regiment of the line, which lately arrived from Lyon; is very shortly to embark for Africa. The Diademe of the line, which sailed on the 10th for Algiers, has orders to return ac soon as it landed the effects which it had on board.--Le C ,, mrrterce, May is. BOULOGNE, MAY 13.---A fine steam-boat from Havre has just put into our port, being compelled to do so by the bad weather which has prevailed for some days, and has on board between four and five hundred monkeys and parrots, sixty Russian travellers, and other foreigners. Gazette de France. BOURSE, Pains, SATURDAY, MAY 18. HALF-PAST THREE.—The market has been very dull, and very little business done. The increase in the rate of discount by the Bank of England has occupied public attention. For the Account the Three per Cents. opened at 810 55c., and declined to close at 81f. 35c., being a fall of 20c. on yesterday (Friday.) The Five per Cents, opened at Illf. 20e., and closed at 1110 10c., also a fall of 20c. For Money the Three per Cents. are 10c., znd the Five per Cents. 20c. lower. The Bank of France Shares have, on the con trary, advanced 20f. The Latfitte Bank Shares again, to-day, have not been quoted. The Spanish Active has varied only from 20 to 19i, closing at the former price. The Belgian Five per Cents. and Three per Cents. not quoted. The Railway Shares continue without any very material variations. The Versailles Left Bank have advanced 5f., and the Versailles Right Bank, which have lately taken such a start, are 100 lower. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents 4 per Cents lOl 90 ... 11,1 90 ... 101 1 , 0 ... 101 91 3 per Cents Bl 40 ... SI 4 , ; ... 81 :1i ... gi 3 5 Bank of France ...,730 Belgian Rank 825 ... 827 50 ... 1:25 ... 807 50 Coupons Spanish Active ‘ , -.0 ... 20 -.. 19% ... 21) Passive 4% ... ”i; ... 4% ... 4 Neapolitan RAILWAY SHARES. St. Cermaiq .. Versailles, rt. B 740 ... 740 ... 73.3 . 740 L. 8.250 ... 285 ... 277 50 ... 280 935 ... 005 ... 965 ... stis 475 - ... 475 ... 475 47!" ....- .. ___ Havre . Orleans .. Strasburg to Bale: 336 75 ... 3;iB 73 ... 3.57 56 3:37 Mulhausen to Thann METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Morning Post of this day still persists in the ridi culous, thrice- refuted statement that the resignation of Sir Robert Peel was occasioned by a Whig intrigue, and blames the " Bedchamber party" for throwing the onus of such intrigue on the Queen. " Among the many circum stances," says our captious Contemporary, " d ee pl y an d indebilibly disgraceful to the Bedchamber party, which have marked the course of the late public transactions, there is none more dangerous or more odious than the use which has been made of the name of the Sovereign. The Queen,' they say, has done it all.' In the first place this is a very cowardly assertion, Nothing can be more dastardly than that certain old and ' callous' intri guers should so manage a transaction—whether designedly or fortuitously matters not to the point in question—as to return suddenly to situations which they appeared to aban don, and then, lest haply public inquiry into their conduct might be too vigilant, that they should throw the whole responsibility upon a young and inexperienced Sovereign. If the whole affair was a mere stratagem, as it certainly appears to have been, how gross to throw the imputation of partnership or leadership in such a business upon one who in the course of nature can have neither capacity nor disposition for that discreditable species of ingenuity F' The Morning Chi.onicle still renews its exhortations to the Ministry to go forward briskly in the straight-forward path of Reform There cannot be a doubt that the feelings of the people have everywhere been strongly ex cited in favour of the Queen ; and there can be as little that if Ministers know how to take advantage of the sympathy, the Tories will be completely baffled. No thing less than the spirit so opportunely displayed by the Queen, and the chivalrous feeling which it has aroused, could have again brought together the various sections of the Reform party. Where there is a will there is a way. If Ministers really wish to prevent the Queen from fall ing into the hands of the Tories, the means by which they can effect this object are sufficiently obvious. They must do something to satisfy the Reformers." The Morning Herald, true to its ultra-Tory creed, abuses Ministers in the following figurative, and would-be facetious style :—" The efforts of Whig- Radical emis saries and sycophants to lay on the steam of popular agita tion throughout the country, in support of the Chamber maid Ministry, have only served to show more palpably than cyst- to what a depth of public scorn and contempt Whig gery has sunk in the land where a few years ago it' wielded at wili the fierce democracy,' and threatened the institu tions of the country with a force that seemed almost irre sistible. Whiggery, repudiated by the country, entrenches itself in the palace, behind a strong circumvallation of pet ticoats, and, acting upon the hint thrown out by a gallant Chartist leader, who suggested that, in case of a collision with the military, the females should be placed in the front line, gets behind the Bedchamber women, and hugs itself on its ignominous security. The Chartist leader, to whose gallant proposal we have alluded, declared that the mili tary would not fire if the women were placed in the front rank, and certainly Lord Melbourne has found his imme diate safety in adopting similar tactics." The Times, alluding to the public demonstrations now making throughout the country in favour of the Queen, observes, " The Ministry, returning to office, were pre cisely where they had been when they quitted it ; the same slender and hollow majority was to be set up against the same Conservative force, and the same Radical contempt. The only new circumstance, the only point that could be put forward as making the slightest difference in the position of the Whigs would be a popular impression of injury to an innocent and lovely Princess. Excite the people, then. Through every city, and town, and village, and hamlet spread the inspiring cry that shall call Englishmen to the rescue of their Sovereign Lady from the overweening sway of the Tory leader. Admirably projected, but lamentably disappointed. The beacons refuse to catch fire, the praise is denied, and the plunder baulked. What waste of inge nious chivalry I What dulness in the lily-livered multi tude that lack gall to make bitter a Royal suffering so romantically prepared for their sympathies! Yet so it is. The fictitious wrong does not take with the people; the sham grievance will not circulate among them ; the false die the counterfeit presentment of their Queen's coun tenance—is detected and broken." It can be no " fictis tious wrong," though it may suit our Contemporary's pur pose to say so, that induces the people to meet (as they have done 'during the last week, and are still doing), and send up addresses to her Msjesty. The whole of the above passage is based on falsehood. The Morning Advertiser, commenting on the proposed grant for the purpose of national education, of ed u re ca m t a io r n k , s a a re s follows : —" Some ardent people, friends discontented at the smallness of the grant ; but had the wealth of Creasus been assigned to the holy work, it would have been an useless parade of prodigality. The Committee for Education have conceived that the imme diate want to be provided for was not so much schools as schoolmasters; that there was not so much lack of education as of a good servicable education, suited to the condition havetionof the workmen and se rvants ' of this bus y realm, They therefore, tasked thems elves with the dut y of p r o v iding better ' schoolmasters, and a better system of education. For these purposes there must be a normal and a model sc h oo l , to in cloann.- care of the members of the Comm it stitute which, to put them a perfect condition, as plan tations h! would, therefore, tations of good teachers and examples for es and the guidanc e of other schools, will funds leavet than require all ee. provide la rger been useless for the present to thelt thoughts they now seek from Parliament.' CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . (THIS DAY.) - _ Nothing of any public intere2t took place at this Court up to the period when our reporter left. Colonel Thompson is once more a candidate for the honour of representing Hull in Parliament, and has most successfully canvassed his former constituents. Hull Paper. At a meeting of the Institution of Civil E n ,i. neers held on the 14th inst., William Tooke, E s b q ., F. R. S., was e l ecte d an honorary member. The Marquis and Marchioness of Tavistock entertained a few select friends on Saturday even i ng, at their house in Spring-gardens. STORIES OF T O RRES VEDRAs.-—This work is written by Dr. Millingen, who, as a medical staff officer, was present during the whole of the memorable Peninsular War. His stories are various in their nature, sometimes detailing with intense interest the startling inci dents which characterised many of the sanguinary strug gles between the French and English forces, and at others describing the humours of a camp—the boisterous fun of the men, and the revelry of the officers. These again are varied by the stories either of love or war with which the tedium of the bivouac was occasionally beguiled. lAY 20, THE LATE HORRID MURDER IN CADOGAN-PLACE, CHELSEA-CORONER'S INQLTEST.-(THIS DAY.) This morning, at 9 o'clock, Thomas Waklev, Esq., M. P., and a most respectable Jury assembled at the Bed ford Arms Tavern, Pont-street, Cadogan-place, Chelsea, for the purpose of investigating the death of Elizabeth Paynton, aged 20, the unfortunate young female who was discovered brutally murdered on Friday night last, at the residence of her master, Mr. Edgell, of No. 21, Cadogan place, Sloanc-street. The shocking occurrence has created a most painful ex citement in Chelsea, and the surrounding districts, and at a very early hour vast numbers of persons were as sembled round the above house. The anxiety was con. siderably increased, in consequence of Alarchant, the murderer of the poor girl, being in custody. On the arrival of the Coroner the Jury. room was crowded to excess. Captain Bague, Mr. France, and other Magistrates were present. After the Jury were impannelled in the ordinary way they proceeded, accompanied by the Coroner, to view the remains of the ill-fated girl, which laid on the carpet in the drawing-room of Mr. Edgell's house. The sight was both horrid and afflicting ; the head was nearly severed from the body, and from the general appearance the latter presented it is evident the deceased made a determined resistance to the murderer's attack upon her. On the return o f the Jury to the inquest-room the CORONER briefly addressed them on the subject of the melancholy duty they were called upon to perform, in the course of which he observed that the difficulties in the case were in a great measure done away with by the ac cused having surrendered himself into the hands of justice. By the Coroner's order the prisoner, who was conveyed from Hounslow (where he surrendered himself) by In spector Lawrence of the T division, was brought into the room, but immediately afterwards he became dreadfully agitated and fainted. On his neck-kerchief being loosened he came to, and looking wildly round the room, went into a paroxysm of tears, in which condition he was removed from the room. He is a man of youthful appearance, and of rather a forbidding expression of countenance. The following evidence was then brought forward touch ing this dreadful affair:— John Middleton, coachman to Harry Edgell, Esq., a Magistrate of the county of Middlesex, residing at No. 21, Cadogan-place, Sloane-street, was first examined.-1 knew the deceased, who was under housemaid in the same family. I also know Merchant, the young man in custody charged with the murder. He is footman to my master. I saw the deceased last alive about a week since, when I went with my master to North Cray, in Kent; about eight I o'clock on Friday evening I returned to town with the carriage, my master remaining at North Cray; whilst in the stable the cook and housemaid came to me and said they had been knocking for admission to the house for the last hour but could make no one hear. I went round to the back door, accompanied by a fellow-servant, and clam bered up to the back staircase window, but found it fas tened ; ultimately he burst the back-door open ; on going into the kitchen I found neither light or fire. I then opened the street-door for the housemaid and cook. By the CORONER—I found the door only fastened by the spring-lock—a person going out would leave it in that state. I went to the top of the house, but found no one. On coming down stairs, I went into the drawing-room, ac companied by Elizabeth Gough, the head housemaid ; she entered first, and exclaimed, " Oh my God, here is Ann, with her throat cut." By a Juror—The deceased was called Ann to distinguish her from another female domestic in the house. Examination continued—The unfortunate young woman was lying on the carpet, rather reclining on her left side, and her feet towards the folding-door of the back drawing room. Her throat was cut from ear to ear, and a pool of blood surrounded her head. She was quite dead, but her body was warm. An open razor, covered with blood, was lying about a yard distant from the corpse. Mr. Jay, a surgeon, was sent for, who on first seeing the position of the body thought she had committed suicide. By the CORONER—When I entered the house I found that William John Merchant was absent. I understood from the cook that he had been left in the house with the deceased. By the Foreman—l know of no attachment that sub sisted between the deceased and Marchant. I never heard the latter threaten to injure the deceased. I cannot ac count for the commission of the murder? By a Juror—The deceased, when found dead, had only one shoe on, the other was lying near the razor. Her stockings were down. William Cox, the head footman, was next examined—. On Friday evening I returned to town with the last wit ness. I was present when the body of the deceased was discovered. (This witness's deposition was, in the main points, a corroboration of that given by Middleton.) By the CORONER— I knew of no quarrel between Marchant and the deceased. I am utterly at a loss to account for Marchant committing the murder.—( The razor with which the sanguinary deed was perpetrated was here produced; the blade as well as the handle was covered with blood.) CORONER (to the witness)—Look at that razor, and say whether you know to whom it belongs. , Witness (examining the razor)— Yes, Sir, it is my razor. Coeoteee—When did you last use it? Witness—On Friday morning, Sir, after which I put it in a case, aed placed it in a drawer in the pantry. By the Foreman—Marchant knew where I kept my razor. He (Marchant) was not in the habit of shaving. The deceased and Merchant always seemed to be on the best terms. lam not aware that any courtship existed between Marchant and the deceased. The latter had no male followers to my knowledge. Merchant is between 18 and 19 years of age. By a Juror— When I left my razor in the drawer it was quite clean and keen edged; it is now notched at the edge, and covered with blood. Inspector Moran of tho 13 division hero produced a napkin, which was besmeared with blood. The witness said he had found it in the pantry drawer. The witness, Cox, identified it as the property of his master. Elizabeth Strike, cook in the family, was next brought into the room for the purpose of being examined, but fall ing into violent hysterics, she was carried from the room. Henry Jay—l am a surgeon, residing at 42, Sloane street, Chelsea. I this day examined the body of Anne Paynton. I found two deep incisions extending across tho neck; the longer incision appeared to have been inflicted by two cuts. I judge there were two, from the great breadth and length. The incision was about eight inches long, and it was cut down to the bone, at the deepest part, more than an inch. The wound on the left side was the immediate cause of death, both the carotid artery and jugular vein being divided. There was a cut on the inside of the thumb and index finger of the left hand. I could not ascertain that any personal violence had been commit ted. There was another surgeon, Mr. Goodger, with me. The wounds in the thumb could not have been inflicted by the deceased. There was a a small portion of hair in her left hand, and it corresponded with the hair on her own head. It appeared as if it had been recently cut by a sharp instrument. There was no evidence to show that her person had been violated. There were no bruises or marks of violence on the legs or thighs. Wm. Frederick Goodger, 13, I3entinck-street, Man chester-square. I am a Member of the London Col lege of Surgeons. I assisted at the examination of the body. I was present with Mr. Jay, and have no doubt the wounds in the throat were the cause of the death. I did not examine whether the carotid artery had been di vided, ,bu. from the depth of the wound I infer that it must have been divided. Her person had not been violated— that I can state positively, from anatomical examination. The wounds were such as were likely tc have been inflicted by a sharp instrument, such as a razor. It is quite im possible they could have been inflicted by the deceased herself. The housemaid, Elizabeth Gough, was . then brought in. She appeared in a ',fainting state, and was accommodated with a chair. She stated that she was unmarried. On Friday last I left my master's house about a quarter past two in the afternoon. I left the footman (Marchant), the under housemaid, and a carpenter in the house. They were in the kitchen. We had just done dinner. Nothing particular had passed that day at dinner. They all appeared on the best terms with each other. The clock was striking eight when I returned ; I met the cook be fore I got come, and she told me she had been knocking and could not get in. I rung, but could not get in. I went round to the stables to try if the servants had re turned. They got in at the back-door, and let me in at the front. We found tho deceased in the drawing-room, lying: dead (witness here appeared much affected). There was a partiality towards the deceased on the part of Marchant, but not on hers. She was a very steady, well conducted girl. I thought there was partiality, from his kindness and attention to her. She used sometimes to play with him. I never heard him threaten her in any way. He was always ready to do anything for her that he would not do for the rest of the servants. I never heard her say that there was any other person paying her attentions. She was a very lively girl, and use to receive his attentions in play. Elizabeth Strike, Cook to Mr. Edgell.—l left the de ceasedi in the house about half-past two in the afternoon. She was then in her bed-room, where we all three slept in the top part of the house. I left W. J. Merchant in the lower part of the house, where the knives and boots arc cleaned. The upper housemaid had gone, and the car penter. There were no other persons in the house but the footman (Merchant) and the deceased. I returned home shortly after six, and remained at the door till after seven, knocking and ringing. We got in about half-past eight, when the other servants got admittance, and let us in. I saw the deceased after the carpenter left the house. She dressed me up stairs. Both prisoner and the deceased told me not to hurry home. Marchant was gone when we got into the house. I saw him this morning. He had an at tachment for the deceased, such as one servant would have for another, but nothing more. She always kept herself very neat. I never knew her to come down stairs with her stockings hanging down. I have not seen her garters since. I have not examined the stockings which she wore. She was dressed as usual for the afternoon when I left. The bed up stabs was just as I had left it. Marchand was then brought in. He appeared exceed ingly pale and agitated, and was supported to a scat. The CORONER said he bad been sent for to make any statement he might think proper to the Jury with reference to the death of Ann Paynton. He was not bound to make any statement, nor was he bound to answer any questions that might be put to him, but if he choose to make any;voluntary:statement, which might be made use of in another place and on another occasion, he was at liberty to do so. The prisoner, who had never looked up from the time he entered the room, here said, in a low voice —" I have nothing to say. The CORONER then said that Marchant had made a statement to the inspector of police, and he had thought it right that Marchant should be present to hear what he had to say. If he wished it, however, lie might retire. Marchant said he would remain. Wee Lawrence, inspector of 3d division of Horse Patrol, was then examined. Last night, at ten minutes at Staines, when the prisoner Witness i in tr l y e s s here station past six, I met the prisone r ; I w c a a s in n e ea to r tmhee.g_at(e identified him. ) He asked me if I was an inspector, and I replied " Yes." I said " Why ?" He said ‘• I wan to give myself up." I asked what for, and he then said ii was for the murder of a young woman at No. 21, Cado. gan-place. I took him into the station. I had not pre viously heard of the murder.—( This remark occasioned some surprise.) I then cautioned him that anything he might say would be us•:(1 against him hereafter. He then said—." Its no use to deny it." I took down in writing, in a rough state, what he said. I took it down before him. This is the paper. He stated that he murdered— CORONER—If you wrote down his words you had better read them from the paper. Witness reading—" Wm. John Marchant stated, that about half-past four on Friday afternoon, the 17th of May, lie murdered Anne Paynton, by cutting her throat with a razor —that he immediately left the house and went to Windsor, to the Two Brewers public house. He left there to-day, and surrendered himself to me at ten minutes before six. He is servant to Harry Edgell, Esq , 21, Ca. dogan-place, Chelsea." As I was conveying him to Hounslow, I saw him looking about several times suddenly, as if meditating an escape. I asked him what he was looking at, and he said—" Don't you see her ; she has been haunting me the whole of the day." I then left a man with 'min all night. I said, as you left the house immediately, per hapsishe is not dead ? He said he knew too we that she was dead. I asked him how he did it, and he said he cut her throat in three places, and he was certain she eas dead. I asked him why he did it, and he said he scarcely knew, for he had been good friends with her half an hour before, and had taken water, and, as I understood, coals up for her. I asked if he was jealous of her, and he said " rather." He was then in a very agitated state, and gave him in charge to some of the men. I found on him a watch, and a du. plicate for a chain pledged in the name of John Davis. He said he did not wish to be known, and that was why he gave the name of Davis. His waistcoat sleele was covered with blood—the left sleeve. He showed it to me himself. [The top coat worn by the prisoner was then removed, and he held up the sleeve of his coat, which was completely co vered with blood. His appearance produced a thrill of horror in the room.] I found no money upon him, but this bit of rope. The prisoner here rose and said—lt was net intende d for self-destruction, but to carry a gentleman's portman teau a few evenings bcfcre. After the evidence had been read over, the Inspector added that he said she had called him names, but had not inquired what they were. Ile also stated that it was usual to inform the police of any act like the present that was committed. Generally the next morning, except in this individual case, which he believed arose from the neglect of a serjcant at Hammersmith. The CORONER then asked Marchant if he had an to say as to the testimon y atilt-, Inspector ? Marchant said there was a mistake in that part about his having taken up water and coals to the deceased. He had not taken up any water. Mr. Jay, the surgeon, said that on first seeing the body he thought the deceased had committed an act of suicide. Mr. Edgell observed that his servant, who came down to him in the country seemed fully impressed with the belief that the young woman had committed suicide. He had not the least suspicion of the prisoner, with whom he had received a most excellent character with regard to mildness of disposition, good temper, and diligence.—The prisoner was then removed. Policeman 2 B went to the door of the house a little before one, and entered at two on Saturday morning. I was the first policeman that entered. I saw the body in the drawing-room. I found a razor lying about a yard from the feet of the deceased. On the sofa I found the upper part of the razor-case, and close to her body I found the remainder of it. Down stairs, on a chair in the pantry. I found a white-handled table-knife. There was blood on it. The cap of the deceased was was her feet, as was also a white apron, and one side hair comb. The articles I produced are in the same state in which they then were. This being the whole of the evidence, The CORONER summed up. He was desirous of abstain ing from making any remarks that might complicate a case which seemed to be simple. In the Coroner's Court no person was on his trial—their duty simply was to inquire into the cause of death, and investigate all the particular circumstances relating immediately to that cause. If a person made a confession, he conceived it was the coroner's duty to give that person an opportunity of being in the Court to hear what all or any of the witnesses had to say against him. That appeared to him to be acting but with strict justice to the accused party, who had confessed. In this case there could not be a doubt as to the cause of death or of the person who com mitted the act. What they had to determine was, whe ther there was malice prior to the act, or whether it was committed in a moment of excitement or passion. Whatever might be said by hired advocates, or by persons who appeared in a Court of Law, and who were paid to distort and destroy the truth, no one should influence his (the Coroner's) conduct in that Court. He had learned what the law was, and he would endeavour, as far as his duty permitted, to see that the law was upheld and enforced. With regard to this particular crime, the jury had to determine whether it was manslaugh ter or murder. They knew that in all cases of manslaughter there must be an absence of malice. If malice were proved, or could be inferred to have existed by the facts developed in evidence, that was undoubtedly a ease of murder and not of manslaughter. In a case, which he would not allude to further than to say that where the parties had not spoken for a week, and one killed the other, it was held to be only manslaughter. Here the prisoner in his confession stated that he and the deceased were good friends only half-an-hour before the crime was committed. Were they in such a case at that to presume there was no malice at the time the act was committed ? ha order to create a respect for the law, and to make the people love the institutions of the country, it was of the utmost importance that I the situation of the party, or his position in life should have no effect either on the decision of a Judge or a Jury. They were to look singly to the facts as they found them. Therefore, if it were proved that no malice existed that would be evidence:of manslaughter; but when th e y f oun d a razor h a d b een taken from the I pantry, where it was placed by the footman, when the party himself had acknowledged he saw the razor was placed there, when they found the deceased was destroyed not in the pantry but in the drawing-room, he feared they would be able to come to no other decision than that the deadly instrument was taken out of the pantry to the drawing-room for the malicious purpose of committing the act. thin, After recapitulating the evidence, the CORONER said he would leave it in the hatds of the Jury, being fully satis fied that the dignity and utility of the law would be main tained by the decision to which they would come. A Juror thought that there was an absence of all malice, and that the act was not maliciously premeditated. The CORONER had restrained from dwelling on that head, because he thought it might have appeared harsh towards the prisoner. There was no evidence to prove he had attempted to violate her person—there was no marks of violence on her 'body—there was nothing but a confusion of her dress ; but it was not palliation for one felony, that a man had been baffled in attempting to commit another. A Juror—Would you explain the law on manslaughter ? Mr. WAKLEY said that in cases of manslaughter there must be an absence of malice. The Foreman—h there any reason why a verdict of x•ilful murder should not be at once returned? The Juror dissented from such a verdict—there was no ill will proved. It was only the impulse of the moment. The Jury then expressed a wish to retire, as there was one of a different opinion from the rest. They returned in about half an hour with a verdict of " Wilful Murder against Wm. John Marchant." The witnesses were then bound over to appear at the next Session of the Central Criminal Court. The prisoner was then removed in custody. THE MARKETS.-(YESTERDAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. During the past week there were fair arrivals of Wheat, a good supply of Oats, but trifling of other Grain. The trade for Wheat was very heavy at a decline of 2s. to 3s. per quarter. Barley in moderate request at declining prices. Beans and Pease without alteration. The demand fur O.A. %Nas caered ingly slack, and lower prices must be submitted to. The Flour trade has partaken in the general dullness, the consumers anti cipating a fall in the price. ?BIDES ON BOARD OF Silt? Wheat, Red (old) s . -.5. Beans, Small (new) 439 4ts -- White (old) ..... .-s. s. -lied 1838) r4l. 58s --- Tick (new) 33s 36.. - Fine CO3. n4s. • (old) 3Bs. 40a • Superfine 665. 68s -- Harrow (new) 355.38 8 -White (1838) ....695. 625. Fine 66s. 703 Brank -- Superfine ...... 725. 745. Oats, Feed s. s, --Foreign free 58s. 783. Rye 40s. 425. - Poland -s.-s, Barley 'Os. 37s New °ss.2Bs. - Grinding 30s. 345. - Potatoe 28,30 a. - Malting 4os. 425. Malt 565. 655, - Scotch 205.305. - Fine New 665. Bss. - Irish 'As. ... 245.265. Pease, Grey, New 3',11. 365. Flour Town (per 5ack)....605.625, - Maple New 37s. 40s. - seconds 545.585. ---- White 40s. 423. -...-- North Country .... 505.52 . - Boilers 425. 445. Bran l2, 13s. ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WELK Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour, English 3 , ,91 qrs. 2,237 qrs. 8,552 qrs. 4,981 sacks Irish - - 17,703 - roreign SHIT :FIELD. Last week's prices for Mutt tained ; Beef, dull trade, inferi demand for Veal and Pork Beasts, 2,965 ; Sheep and Calves, 98. ton and Lamb were fully main tor qualities a trifle lower. The underwent a slight reduction. Lambs, 20,320 ; Pigs, 65 ; DREADFUL FIRE IN BUCKLERS• BURY, CITY.-(THIS MORNING.) FOUR LIVES LOST. A fire broke out this morning at about two o'clock, in Bucklersbury. It originated on the premises, No. 30, in the occupation of Mr. Richard Unwin, wholesale stationer. Two engines were turned out, but great delay occurred for a supply of water. Just as the fireman reached the spot, a female in her night dress jumped out of the second floor window, and fell on her back on the foot pavement will) great violence. She was picked up and taken into one of the adjoining houses, and it has been since ascertained that she is much injured. From her the firemen learned that she was the only one that had escaped, and that there were eight persons in the house at this critical moment. Mr. and Mrs. Unwin were seen at the windows of the third floor, supplicating for assistance. The assembled multi tude called upon them to jump out, but they seemed un conscious of what was said. Mr. Baidwood, the superin tendent of the brigade, who arrived with the engines of the Watling-street station, perceiving their perilous situa tion, gave direction to his men to fix the scaling ladders that are carried with the engines to get at the unfortunate creatures„ which was speedily carried into effect, and they were brought down safely to the ground. Mr. Unwin's children, who were in bed in the back room on the floor that they ( Mr. and Mrs. Unwin) escaped from, were forgot in the fright, and the feelings of the parents on this dis covery, was, as may be easily imagined, agonizing in the extreme. One of the brigade, of the name of Dwight, rushed up the ladder to save them if posssible, but was nearly killed by the attempt by falling from the ladder. Every effort was made to discover whether all had EVE \I N escape], but no tidings what, /owing to the consternation that time (.t being two o'clock), the bui_ every part, the flames raging most terrifica,'ly. Within half an hour after the outbreak there were no les: , than eight of the fire brigade engines playing on the flames, c's were also, the engines of the West of England. The Lol'd Mayor was on the spot by two o'clock, and offered every assist ance to the unfortunate sufferers ; we must likewise ob,'erve that the conduct of the firemen and inhabitants was beyo.nd all praise. The fire burnt with increased fury till five' o'clock, but by six it was extinguished. Since then three .1 bDdics have been discovered in the ruins ; one is that of the servant maid, about 20 years of age, and the others are t the remains of the children, both girls, a;ed nine and ten. ) A young man, an apprentice to Mr. Lewin, there is no I doubt has perished, and the firemen are en,vged searching I for his body. The cause of tho fire has not been ascer tained. The property is insured in the Phoenix. i TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Silz— A report appeared in the columns of your valuable Journal, of a meeting of the St. Pancras Vestry, to address the Queen on her late magnanimous conduct, and a speech in opposition to that address having been made by a member of the vestry, bearing the same name as myself, many of my friends have erroneously attri huttd the speech to rue, and have severely censured ray conduct in consequence. I trust you will permit me to state I am not a vestryman of St Pancras. but on: of the Auditors of Accounts, which office entirely excliuigs me from taking any part in the proceedings in the vestry. I remain, Sir, your very humble servant, C. T. CLARK. 68, Albany-street, Regent's Park, May 18, 1839. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The arrivals this morning are two French, two Ostend, and one Dutch mail, also mails from Jamaica, by the Pan ' dora, to 9th April, St. Thomas's, Gth: April; and Hayti, 12th April ; with a great number of ship letters both from the East and West Indies. We have received Jamaica Papers to the 9th April, from which we quote the following : " There is little news from the country. The statement. 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 than matters are get ting on remarkably well, and in others as badly as they can. Of course, even in the same parish, that may not be dike. On some estates, after the canes have come to maturity, the managers have set fire to them and burnt them, finding it impossible to take them off, from the indis position evinced by the labourers. This is deeply to be deplored, and it can scarcely be supposed that those who incurred an expense of 201. per acre in cultivating the cane would consent to burn them." We have received Barbadoes Papers to the 24th March, (From the Port of Spain Gazette.) " We never witnessed, in this island, such an assemblage in point of numbers or respectability, as paid the last tri bute of respect to the remains of our late Governor, Sir George Fitzgerard Hill. " We have been informed that there is no want of ground- provisions on the estates generally, but as :he la bourers foolishly refuse to take that food in part payment of their wages, hence comes the scarcity, as it is not worth while for the planters to send it a great distance to be sold." We have received Demerara Papers to the 28th March. " This day, in presence of a large coneonrse of spec tators, his Excellency the Governor announced that the Combined Court had waived its resolution of the preceding day, respecting the British Import Tax. The Estimates being proceeded with, many reduc tions were made, to take effect from the Ist July." From Tobago it is stated that Lieutenant-Governor- General Darling opened the House of Assembly, and the reply to his Excellency's speech states that "the House muq record with great concern that, notwitstanding the free labour system may heretofore have worked better than might have been anticipated before its coming into operation, yet daily experience has of late sot only proved that the labouring population are becoming less industrious, but that a bad spirit and great indifference to their em ployers' interests at present are prevalent among them." ST. VINCENT'S.—A letter published in the Gazette of the 14th, on the prospects of the planters, states—" There are many fine ships that have lain long in our portS, awaiting a load, few of which have as yet got a hogshead of sugar on board. DEMARARA.—On the 24th ult. the French steamer of war, Corsair, arrived from Cayenne, having on board three French Commissioners, appointed by the French Go • vernment to inquire lilt) the woikiag of the Negro Emanci pation Act through the French Colonies. It appears, according to the accounts received by the Siddons, of the 26th ult. from New York, commercial affairs in the United States arc considered as improving. Money was more plentiful, and the Stocks are getting up. United States Bank, 114 i; Exchange, 81 to 81. We have a very great number of arrivals this morning both from the East and West Indies; the former are of an old date, and the latter brings the West India news of a conflicting description, so that no just opinion can be formed. In some parishes the labourers work, in others it is not the case. Accounts have been received from the Mauritius, of the Ist of February, which state, from the country districts, that things are going on satisfactorily, and that the la bourers employed are doing their duty. Consols opened this morning, 93% buyers for Money ; for Account, 93+; and 93i for July Account; Exchequer Bills, 32 34 ; India Bonds, 33 35 ; Bank Stock, 195 196:; India Stock, 255 256. In the Foreigh Market, Spanish Active, rather better, 1911; Portuguese 35i 36; Tnree per Cents. 211 22; Belgian, 1011 1021; Brazilian 781; ; Mexican nothing done; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 56±; Five per Cents. 102,i 103. The above market has rather improved on Saturday's Icaving off prices. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock ' India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons. 9314 i i i South Sea Stock -- 31.4 per Cent - Old A nnuit i es --- Ditto lied. 99% N ew Di tto . ---. New 2 ! i i per Cent... ... ... ILOA, 1 3 per Cent. Annuities, 17 1 --. New 5 per Cent. - Exch. Bills, £1,090.. 32 85 pm. Bank Long Annuities" toexpire Ditto 500 ... 32 25 pm. Jan. 5, Igtill l4 7-16% Ditto Small 32 35 pin. Oct. 10, 1859 - Ditt o C ommercial pm. Jan. 5, 16(51 Jan. 5, 1580 - B an k St oc k for Account ... p. April 5, IRSO. - India Stock for Account ... Jan. 5. 1570 - Consols for Account.- bra,. .41 ‘,i PRICES OF FOREIGN FU NDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds — Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds - Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chilian Bonds D tto Account Columbian Bonds ' • Ditto Account — Ditto Account Columbia 1 Bonds, ItiN .....3114 4§ - Spanish Bonds.. Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account - Ditto Accoust. lili !,41„i Greek Bends — French, 5 per cent...—. —I. —c. .Ditto Bonds, Ins - 4 per cent. Ditto Account — 3 per cent. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. • • Exchange. Ditto Account ... ...... ..... — 1 Dutch, 91.•,', per oent. Ditto, 6 per Cent Ditto Account ... Ditto Account Neapolitan , Ditto Acc0unt........ ...... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Brazilian Imperial Mining Co. (Wiled at 5/. pen.) '.:.0 15!,;;; R,.. , 1 del Monte Mining Co., Registered M. We. lid. Ditto Unregiitereil — B}4 Eastern Cistiwries Railway l6 10 13: ighton Railway Lon .on and NVestminster Bank 2O 2314 lIALF-PAST ON-11. :VERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATEEDAY.-The Mar.. ket is still dull, and prices rather in favour of the buyer. The sales about 1,000 bags, almost wholly American, at 74d. to 94d. Pernambuco Papers are rec&ved to the 243 d March'. they are devoid of interest. Exchange 30k. This day being both the Hebrew and Christian holiday, and there being a thin assemblage at the Stock Exchange, very little business has been done during the course of the morning either in the British or Foreign Markets. Private accounts from Canton state that an arrangement had been made with the Hong merchants, for securing all the ships in port, on a guarantee that the vessels had no opium or Syree silver on board of them while in the river. Consols may be quoted at present 932 Menu ; 931 , for the Account; Exchequer Bills 32 35 ; India Bonds 34 36 ; Bank Stock nothing done; India Stock 256. Spanish Active 194 lower; Portuguese :36; Belgium 102 1014 - Colombian 31-1 ; Mexican 26i ; Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. 56i; Five per Cents. 1021. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS Bank Stock , 'lndia Stock 256 3 per Cent. Rest 92 14 ;Ditto Bonds :3 per Cent.CCUS 93l4lDitto Old Annuitle: 354 per Cent. Red... .......... ... 99i Ditto New Annuities New 3% per Cent 101 Ex. Bills, 1,0001 2d '6 pm. New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001 '3(i pre. Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 36 pm. Jan. IS6O Oct. 1059 Jar. 1060 FOREIGN FUNDS, Portuguese Bonds, sper cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent R uss i a n Bonehr, 5 per cent ! T 27% Ditto, Metallic.. Spanish, 5 per cent 1 9 .1E Ditto, Consolidated — French, 5 per cent. i c. Exchange French, 3 per cent f. r Dutch, DX . , per cent. IDitto,s per cent. lO3 RES Asturian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent. 10.1 n, Brazilian Bonds 72% Buenos Ayr,, 6 per cent — Chilien, 6 per cent — Colombian, 6 p=r cent 29 Ditto, 182.1. 31% D 411.11, 3 per cent _ 6reek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct — Mexican, 5 per cont. — Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 — Peruvian, 1823,6 per cent — SH, Eastern Counties London and Brighton Rniwz London and Greenwich Hail London and Croydon Rai IA icy L 3, xay ty (Trunl.) 11?;.y The General Steam Navigation Company's packet, the Giraffe, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Cus. tom-house yesterday, and the Neptune, from Hamburgb, at eight o'clock this morning. _ AYLESBURY.—A most infamous and cruel hoax has been played off in this town, by which several indivi duals have been seriously inconvenienced, the feelings of a respectably family deeply injured, and the whole neigh blurhood thrown into a state of alarm and horrified excite ment. Some young men of Aylesbury, posseqed of more le:sure than sense, and influenced by the basest :ri I mat corrupt feelings, spread a report of the dcath, by suicide, of Mr. John Rolls Gibbs, the Editor of the Ay/es/Ju r? News, wrote to the Coroner , and also to the consta b le, advising them of the ho rrible details, and th e regular pre parations P parations were gone in to for holdin g a n inquest. Mfr. Cowley, the Coroner , was p ut to the ex pense cf a• jour ney, and the consta ble to the tr ouble of surn mo ,i ng a jury. A pre tended re p ort of the Proceedi ngs was also diabolical sen t to some of the Provincial Journals, and th e account peGibbs'rs. oefn th is is now going the round of plot have, by a o th f e lucky accident, been discovered, and means are now being resorted to for the purpose of subjecting the villains to that punishment they so richly deserve. Her Majesty and Court remove from Burling ham Palace, on Saturday next, to Windsor Castle, during the Ascot week. i tt • f'A . _ . ' - ';'-iitbrt4 .- 9:e) • . -- /,..v 74wer4eLIbc. get; i n s : I: : :ever - C.,. hiAt .... e ... „, --,,,,...:_ •• • . apiirdeivna:zii: •••• , ...MI a he I r his 1 Teat ir 5, 0•f arti that I be )tion nded aalor M el )uld. ;laws it he hope 11 do ,o re- ender o re ,,ung a nd leath ones have losed ;iven heers it the and w ere good their con- , and that d not n her 1 and )ther- end‘, tying ously g ave ooke, I the r De- at ti, broil pro o th e to the t the Hon. lerick I m al a % berm , And esti l t the ~t e r, Lady , Lord the Mee" sabl e iber fee" Vice' i Sir ;.orlo s ia Mr. goo. gual2 tb° [Ad)? [ion as 1 tO Cd at Ong' An t Ste and klis! frau rrge 4