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~~ ~ EVEN ING EDITION. LONDON : SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1839. The Usury Laws Suspension Bill was passed in the House of Lords last night, with the amendments pro posed by the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, which will very much extend its operation. The only business transacted besides receiving peti- tions was to hear Counsel against the Jamaica Bill, the second reading of which will be proposed on Monday. Some conversation took place about the busi ness of the House in the Commons, when Lord JOHN RUSSELL explained that he should proceed with the Bill for the Government of Canada, but that the Bill for uniting the two Provinces should he sent out to Canada, and not be proceeded with till the opinions of the Canadians on the subject were known. The Bank rupts' Estate (Scotland) Bill was read a third time and passed. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Bill for trying Controverted Elections went through a Committee, and is to be re-com mitted on Wednesday. The Irish Municipal Bill was also committed after some objections on the part of the Tories, and the clauses to the 20th were agreed to. The Committee is to sit again on Thursday. The Bill for improving the Navigation of the Shannon was read a second time without opposition. The House of Commons likes to vote money, so it agreed to the Bill. Ireland is the most favoured part of the empire so far as voting money for it goes. All the Members expressed regret that the rail-road project was given up. On the third reading of the Sugar Duties Bill being m oved, Mr. EWART moved the amendment of which he had given notice to allow of all sugar, the produce of free labour, to come in at the the same rate of duty as that from our own colonies. After a short debate, in which Mr. CLAY ably seconded Mr. EWART'S judi cious remarks, and in which the CHANCELLO R of the Ex- CHEQUER and Mr. THOMSON defended the Bill as it stood, giving us hopes that the question must, ere long, be coosidered on a comprehensive plan, lr. EWART withdrew his motion. Such a measure, by reducing the price of sugar, ‘o o ul l d be a present relief to the bulk of the people ; it 18 v . u d be a little step towards the end of an odious monop o l y -_ it would give a blow to other monopolies—and, there fore, we presume it was not taken. We have ever preferred practical reforms, which come into immediate operation in the shape of present relief, to speculative and org an i c re f o rms, that may hereafter elevate the national character and improve the condition of the people ; but if the Parliament is careless of all such reforms, or obstinate in denying . them, the p eop l e will and must be driven into effecting great changes. The Constitution is a very admirable thing, inas much as it promotes the public happiness ; but if its only fruits are scoundrel monopolies and vexatious imposts, producing great public misery , it may b, apprehended that this or the next generation will come to regard the Constitution itself with as much abhorrenc e as their ancestors held it in veneration. The art of making a free people submit to laws they no longer resp ect , h as not yet b een d i scovere d ; and we, therefore, earnestly advise our Statesmen to take such matters into their serious consideration, and begin as soon as possilile to abolish the numerous unjust laws which now press the most numerous classes to the earth. The Custody of Infants' Bill was read a third time. The Admiralty Courts' Bill was read a second time. Some other measures were forwarded a stage, and the House adjourned at One o'Clock till Monday. The Tory Lords, according to the Morning Post, had a meeting yesterday at Apsley House, and re solved, tuna voce, to support a motion for striking the first clauses out of the Jamaica Bill. The other Morning organ of the Tories—which was not, how ever, favoured with this information—the Times, conjures the Conservatives to make an attack on the Minute in Council concerning the Household, and on the Minute of Council establishing a Board to watch over the expenditure of a part of the money voted for education. One is to be clone in the Lords, and the other in the Commons. The Tories are determined, therefore, to have another faction fight before the end of the Session ; the contests between rival septs, which did disgrace Ireland, but which have been happily put an end to by the Whigs, being now transferred to Parlia ment. If this be so, the Tories will make the Session go out in a blaze. They remind us of those ancient weapons of war called stink-pots, which whizzed and fizzed and frightened people for some time, and then burst, doing all the mischief possible, and diffusing around a most insufferably fetid odour. So it will be with the wrangling poli ticians, whom the public will properly call Stink pot Tories. We are happy to see, by a communication from a Correspondent that the spirited electors of Brid prt are prepared to call Mr. SWYNFEN JERVIS to account for his vote on the 24th instant. A successor has already been selected as the Li beral electors do not like to be misrepresented by those whom they truLt. The debates on Mr. WA nu's motion, and on the Earl of R [PON'S motion, have brought under the notice of the public two instances of great pro fligacy on the part of former Ministers. In the case to which the Earl of RIPON had, we must say, the effrontery to call the attention of the country, three functionaries were removed, not because they had behaved improperly, but because they had little or nothing to do, and ought never to have been appointed. The first of these functionaries was the Chief Justice of the island of Malta, the se cond the Attorney-General, and the third the Collector of Land Revenue. The two latter were appointed by Lord RIPON himself, the very last was a relation of his own, and the first was appointed by the Tories to reward him for his services to their party as a writer in the newspapers. The now Sir JOHN STODART, was the notorious Dr. SLOP of the Times, for some years a writer in that jour nal, and afterwards the editor of the New Times, and who was continually spoken of by the Times in no respectful terms, as having pirated its title after he had been dismissed from its service. This man was appointed by the Tories Chief Justice of Malta with a salary of 1,5001. a-year. Our readers cannot require us to inform them, for the Duke of WELLINGTON lately stated the fact as an all-sufficient reason for not allowing a free press in Malta,.,that the island was a mere garri son. There are a few shopkeepers, merchants, and ar tizans in Malta, of English birth, but the bulk of the English inhabitants are connected with the garrison or the dock-yard, and are under military discipline. The Maltese know little or nothing of the English language or laws, and have laws and customs of their own. A Chief Justice in such a place can not be wanted, and it was accordingly stated that since his removal the business of the Courts had been more effectually done than formerly. If one had been necessary, a gentleman familiar only with our civil or ecclesiastical law, must hare been an im proper appointment. But when the person ap pointed was not practically conversant with that, having neglected his profession to write Tory po litics, his presence at Malta was about as useless as the skates and warming-pans which our specu lating merchants sent to Buenos Ayres when South America was first opened to English trade. The merchants, however, suffered for their folly, but the people of England paid for the folly of their Govern ment, in the shape of a salary to the Chief Justice of 1,5001. a-year. The Attorney-General, in such a garrison, was of course as little wanted as the Chief Justice, and his salary was so much taken from the pockets of the people. The Collector of the Land Revenue, it was proved, had a salary of 7501. a-year, and was incompetent to perform his duties. They were done by a deputy. The Commissioners who were sent out some time ago to examine into the condition of the island, found that all these three offices were useless; they recommended the abolition of them, and they wereabolished accordingly. Of this act of justice to the people, because it affected a relation of his own, Lord RIPON complained, the night before last, in the House of Lords. Now this Nobleman is by no means one of the worst of the Tories, but we beg the people will remark that they were so accustomed to provide for their poor relations out of the public purse, creating offices for them when ever they were wanted, that Lord RIPON looks upon it as an insult and injury to himself and his friends to have these sinecures abolished. If such are the habits of the Tories, and such are the discoveries made in one small "garrison," the reader may infer what they did in the numerous great and opulent colonies which Great Britain possesses in all parts of the world. He may be quite sure that the system adopted at Malta was followed out at the Cape of Good Hope, in Ceylon, in the Mauritius, in the Canadas, and in all the rich and extensive colonies of the West Indies. In fact, it is well known that all these colonies, the same as the Navy, the Army, and the Church, were jobbed under the Tory Ad- ministrations—and much we fear that the system is now not greatly improved—to provide for the sons, dependents, retainers, and vassals of the aristocracy. The other case of the disposal of the lands of our colonies to favour and enrich the aristocracy, brought forward by Mr. WARD, is still more mis chievous and profligate. If the Government had not taken on itself the extraordinary duty of distri buting millions of acres, and had merely protected those who fenced in and tilled the wastes, there might have been nothing to say against it ; but, undertaking to distribute the land, it was bound to do so on some known and just plan. Mr. LABOU CHERE, the Under Secretary for the Colonies, ad mitted that Mr. `'WARD'S accusations were true, that irretrievable mischief had arisen from jobbing in Crown lands in the colonies. Lord Ho wicx, too, admitted that great abuses had existed, but he attempted to excuse them by saying that they " did not so much arise from corrupt motives as from honest and real mistakes as to the policy to be pursued." On all hands the jobbing was admitted, and that it had inflicted gross injustice on individuals and gross injuries on the colonies. Such conclu sions are adopted by all inquirers into the conduct of Tory Governments whenever they closely examine it. The abuses at Malta, and the abuses in appropriating land in the colonies, are types of the abuses perpetrated by the Tories in every department of the public ser vice. Lord Howlek excused them from igno rance ; but it is singular enough that their ignorance always kept the advantage of their own class in view. Never, by any mistake, did they confer any advantage on the great bulk of the people, or pro mote their interest. L►variably the intention was to benefit the dependents of the aristocracy. We can easily comprehend this, and we are afraid that honest intentions may even now he impelling ig norant statesmen in the same or a similar course. The public interest never constitutes a strong mo tive ; while private interest for ever domineers over man ; he is biassed by that without suspecting it ; and we have no reason to suppose that ignorance will not in future, under the influence of this powerful and ever-present monitor, commit as great mistakes as in past times. We would not have Lord Howterc and Mr. LABOUCHERE flatter themselves, therefore, that sonic enlightened statesme❑ will not hereafter make the same apology for them which Lord Howtcx made for the Tories It was not their dishonesty, but their ignorance, under the influence of their selfishness, which had led them into mistakes most prejudicial to the national prosperity." There are no reforms more obnoxious to the priesthood than those which have been made in the laws affecting the celebration of marriage and the registration of marriages, births, and deaths. The undue and pernicious influence which the clerical body had usurped and exercised to an incredible extent over the minds of the unthinking and easily deluded multitude, received, by the reforms above mentioned, a shock more severe than any it has ever experienced. The Church, in fact, ceased to be the civil officer of the State. It was com pelled to abdicate its most influence-begetting functions—to renounce its arrogant claim to the exclusive right of celebrating marriage and of registering baptisms, and—which was not the least grievous of its afflictions—to renounce also the fees therefrom accruing. The loss of power was agravated and embittered by the loss of pelf, and hence the inveterate hostility which the parsons have evinced to the Marriage and Registration Acts ever since they became the law of the land. That sage, pious, solemn, pompous, empty- headed personage, Mr. H. GOULBURN, delivered himself, on Thursday night, of a considerable quail- tityof bilious animadversion on these Acts. We need not tell our readersthat GOULBURNiS apoor creature, incapable of taking either an enlarged or 'a straight forward view of any subject. He affects, on all occasions, a most profound reverence for Mother Church, winks ac all her obliquities, cannot see her backslidings, and regards every one who is not of her communion as little better than a heathen or an infidel. In the debate which arose on the motion for opening the Universities to the Dissenters, some years ago, he expressed his horror of the con tamination to which the youth of the Established Church would be exposed by such a measure, and threatened—this great man actually threatened—to remove his son from Cambridge (to the utter ruin of that University, of course) if it should be carried. From a mind of such calibre as this what is to he expected ? Its approbation of any measure must not merely cause all thinking persons to suspect the character of the measure, but ought to satisfy them that it must of necessity be factious, narrow, and sectarian. O❑ the other hand, when Mr. HENRY GouLBuRN gives way to his vituperative tenden cies, it is a no less sure and certain proof that the object against which he directs his splenetic effu sions is worthy of all acceptation. He tells us that he prophesied when the Marriage Bill was passed, that it would facilitate clandestine and illegal mar riages, and that his prophecy has been fulfilled to a certain extent. Now what the Right Hon. Gentleman may mean by these words we do not pretend to know ; but it is a fact that he only brought forward three cases of this kind to verify his prediction. One of these, from the way in which he described it, we take to be the case in which a man had, contrary to all precedent, married his grandmother—who, by the by, was not of his blood ; the second case was that of a man's marrying his late wife'sniece; and the third delinquent had married his wife's sister. Now, it is hardly to be wondered at that cases of this latter kind should occur in so nume rous a population as that of England and Wales, the more especially as it was a thing of general occurrence, and not only not forbidden by law till a few years ago, but sanctioned by dispensation from the Bishop of the Diocese as the representa- tive of his Holiness the POPE. The real matter of surprise is that with Mr. GOULEURN'S active spirit of research into the abuses of the Act, be should not have been more successful. We venture to say that bad he bestowed half the pains in scrutinizing the merits of the marriages celebrated by publication of banns, his labours would have been far more amply rewarded. Of all possible methods for getting married clandestinely, the Church method is, out of sight, the best. A man and woman have only to remove to a locality where they are not known, and a fortnight's residence qualifies them for appearing at the altar, and de manding to be united in holy matrimony. In all populous places, particularly in the metropolitan districts, where not a fiftieth part of the population either do or can attend the parish church, and where a still smaller proportion of the inhabitants are personally known to the clergyman, what pos sible check is there on improper marriages? The reading out of the names of perhaps a hundred couple of candidates for the honours of matrimony, with no more specific designation than that of " ba chelor" and " spinster" subjoined, is nothing better than a farce—a mere mockery. Such " publication" as this is the best of all modes of concealment—it is a complete cloak to the designs of the parties who resort to it. How easy would it have been for Mr. GOULBURN, had it suited his purpose, to have instanced multitudes of cases from the records of the police offices, illustrative of the facility with which a man may supply himself with half a dozen, or indeed any number of simultaneous wives, merely by adopting the Church plan of marriage by cele brationof banns The trial of the prisoners of the 12th and 11th of May commenced before the Court of Peers on Thursday. This is the only subject of any import ance in the Paris journals of that day, the whole of which we have received, with the exception of some comments of no interest on the aspect of affairs in the East. We subjoin a report of the proceedings before the Court up to the departure of the mails for London:— TRIAL OF THE INSURGENTS OF THE 12TH AND 13TH OF MA Y. - COURT OP PEERS. -THURSDAY, JUNE 27. This important trial commenced this day, and excites great interest, from the many lives which arc at stAk", and from the expectation that the ramifications of the extensive Republican conspiracy which has been in progress in France since it was discovered that the barricade" Monar chy was not the " Best of Republics" will be completely developer'. The following are the names of the prisoners: — Armand Barbes,man of property, aged 29 ; M art i n Bernard; Pierre Nougues, printer, 23; Jacques Bonnet, engraver. 28; Louis Bondi', umbrella maker, 19 ; Hyp_ polite Guilbert, currier, 37 ; Joseph Delsade, toymaker, 32; Jean Mialon, stonei , ason, 56 ; Redolphe Austen, b.,ot-maker, 23 ; Jean Lemicre, toymaker, 23 ; Joseph Walch, carpenter, 27 ; Lucien Philippet, ropemakcr, 40 Jean Le Barzic, stoker, 23; Fiorent Dugast, cabinet maker, 34; Jules Longuet, traveller, 23; Pierre Martin, ropetnaker, 19; Eugene Marczcal, mechanic, 33; Louis Gregoire, mattress-maker, 40; and Ame Pierce, stocking maker, 18. All the preparations being completed by about two o'clock the President, Baron Pasquier, entered the Cham ber in his robes of office. Ile was shortly afterwards fol lowed by all the Peers. M. Frank Carte, the Procureur-General, then en tered the Chamber, attended by his two assistants. They were attired in their scarlet robes of office, trimmed with ermine, and were seated opposite the scat erected for the prisoners. The prisoners were then introduced, each attended by a gendarme in uniform. A general buzz was heard around the Court at the ent , ance of Armand Bathes. This indi vidual is one of the ringleaders of the rioters, and has ob tained an unenviable notoriety by the violence of his revo lutionary principles, his education, and superior intellectual powers. It was he who led the insurgents to the attack at j the Palais de Justice, where he shot with his own hand the I unfortunate Lieut. D7ouineau. Pasquier, the President, afterwards proceeded to call over the prisoners by name.. Armand Barbes, on being asked his name, professi)n, Now ready, in 3 vols. post Svo., price It II s. 6d (1 ATTAIN MAR " DIARY IN AMERICA." London Longman, Orme, and Co. Now ready. in 3 vols. post Svo. H E FORESTER. By the Author of " The State Prisoner.' London : Longman. Orme, and Co. 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Church ‘ , londay rievr 0 violent c igno• Paella invades of Tut. ds that (tan to Syria. ;ement porary, .mentF, Syria is to be omina done, rather tall be Otto llovred L esta- I Mol- Servitt. _...you eria - 'ns has e difice m pire 1 •nmen! --- n , and oy this ttempt is the ar. At exer ,__the T pur rarded n sup iioa of e the uth of Me would s ago, ,hority Syria They 1, but :est.— make to the :,. can th re- never v ents 'meat may noW ex- funds )1V of ank on ►n Ition tatcs lieu y to ly a 6rith oro- and eery dg ' THE SUN. LONDON. SATURDAY,JUNE 29, 1839. place of birth and residence, answered in a firm tone. His bearing was exceedingly determined. When called upon to give the place of his residence he said in a loud voice, " The prison of the Luxembourg." The President said, that it was his usual place of resi dence that was requested. He then replied, " Carcas- sanne." The questions put by Baron Pasquier were—Birthplace? Usual residence ? Age ? Profession ? Name of counsel, and whether counsel was present? The requisitoire of M. Frank Carr 6, Procureur-Gene ral, the arra (le rcnvoi of the Court of Peers of June the 12th, and the act of accusation took two hours in reading. During the reading of the act of accusation the prisoners maintained a silence, which was broken by Phillipet only, who once or twice could hardly be re6trained by the gen darmes. He occasionally vociferated " C'est faux, c'est faux ;" and then, when told by the President that he would be able to defend himself, he replied that he would not submit to hear such abominable falsehoods. Barbes was observed to smile contemptuously during the reading he yawned frequently, and appeared overwhelmed by ennui, from which he was only awakened by some passage in the act of accusation which referred to him individually. He then shrugged up his shoulders and glanced at the greflier with a withering smile of disdain. He is the only prisoner who has the slightest pretensions to be a gentle. man, either by birth, rank, or appearance. Aft n- the Leading of the documents had terminated, the names of the witnesses were then called over, and they were withdrawn. M. Arago, the counsel for Barbes and Martin Bernard, then commenced his speech in favour of his clients by taking a legal objection to the Court's jurisdiction. Bat hes, during his counsel's speech, was amusing himself by reading the report INhich we gave our readers exclu sively some days since. lie appeared perfectly distrait, and was twirling his mustachios with great sang j;-oid. A letter from Stuttgard, of the of June, says : " The Minister of France, at our Court, refused to il luminate his hotel in hono . ur of the marriage of the Princess Sophia, because it was the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, which day was especially chosen for the celebration of the marriage. I: is said that our King li.is again expressed some reg-rA that the Government at the Hague he, not chosen another day."— Courrier Francais. 130 (IRS E. —PAars, THURSDAY, JUNE 27. HALF-PAST THREE.—There has been a fair quantity of business in the French stocks. For the Account the Three per Cents. opened at 79f. 30c., declined to 791. 15c., and closed at 791. 23c., a fall of sc. The Five per Cents. opened at 111 f. 3.5 c., and. closed at 111 f. 20c , a fall of 15c. For Money the Three per Cents. are 5c., and the Five per Cents. are 15c. lower. The Bank of France Shares are 101. higher, as are the Laffitte Bank of 1,000 shares. The Belgian Three per Cents. are the saaie price for time as for money. The Belgian Bank Shares are unvaried. The Spanish Active has given way e, it opened at Ifq, and closed at 191. The Versailles Right Bank Railway Shares have declined 71. 50c., and the Versailles Left Bank 21. 50c., and the Strasburg to Bale 15f. The Havre and the St. Germain have not varied. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price Price French 5 per Cents 3 per Cent: 79 30 ... 79 30 .. 79 20 ... 79 20 Bank of prance - .t. 1 ,9 2 31..21195 Laffitte Bank I.OOOE Sli 1055 ...10.13 ...L{6s —1065 Belgian 3 per Ccnts 72 10 ... 72 10 ... 72 10 ... 72 10 Bank 7S9 ...780 ... 780 ... 739 Coupons Spanish Ac inc RN ... 19,'", ... mA ... 1944 Passive ;sTeao:9itan Roman IiAILWAY SHARES. St. Gennai , Versailles, It. B 6t;o ... 680 ... 672 s') ... 672 50 L.B. 132 50 ... 140 ... 132 50 1:1i 50 Havre Orleans .. Strasburg to Bale 250 ... 230 ... 27J 2.7,; BELGIAN It UNDS—Baussrio, JUNE 26 Actual Debt, 2,4 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cant I IN, Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. S per Cent. 7l Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent. 9.5% Society of Commerce, 4 , -., per Cent IIS Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cen* National Society . —Brussels Papers, June t2ti. HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, JuNt: 25. Bills. Money. A ustrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares An 10-Iluosnin Loan Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Series . Russian 5 per Cent. Hop : and L. o. 3d and 4th Se i-s Ditto in Certificates Dutch , ctual Debt, 2;4 pc Cent. st Ditto o per Cen` l t ,l Polish Bonds New I icket Ang,lo-Danisli Loan, 3 per Ceti' Norwegian Lean, hs.3l, 4 per Cent............. EXCHANGES 0 •; LONDON. HAMBURG, JUNE :2 3 .-13. tli.—Two months 13. 374. P T E o r iz s u n i i .Cit, Ruk ilN j' L IS.—Thirty S 3 days. 11. 39. BERLIN. JUNE 22.—Three m•iiths, 6. 21 1 ,6. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vmvsa, JUNE 18 Five per Cents. Metalliques Emir per Cents. IOIN Three par Cents. Bank Shares 1516 —4PgemeineZeitung, June 22 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JUNE 22. Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent. 10 3 ,X 103; 4 Prussian Engiish Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 103 , .t 1N . % k.xchange on London, three months 6 2156 —Prussian State Gazette, June :14. THE UNFAITHFUL MEMBER FOR BRIDPORT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stu,—ln your analysis of the division on the Education question you remark, " One Liberal, Mr. Svvynfen Jervis, voted against Ministers on the 24th, for which his con stituents at Bridport will hardly thank him." As one of that body I can assure you that you have formed a most correct appreciation of our sentiments. The extraordinary tergiversation of this man, has indeed filled us all with the deepest indigna tion. Though be continues our Member, he has ceased to be our representative. No candidate ever appeared upon the hustings with more liberal professions, or more the. roughly and heartily responded to the sentiments of his supporters on all the great qucttions which agitate the nation. He declared himself the devoted friend of the Negro, yet voted against the Jamaica Bill on that division which was the means of turning out a Liberal Ministry. Nothing could he more disgraceful than his conduct on this occasion. Some day s before this division took place that ßo b r e should t b e the Secretary of an Anti- Slavery Committee wrote to re quest tha c t er h ti e an T y ul d d o su s p or r f t or th h e e ßdl. considered e Siried , r epl Peel's motion a factious one , intended •to embarrass the Government. In 48 hours after writ in g this letter , no change whatever having having taken place in the aspect of the question in the meantime, he voted against the Bill! ! Again, no man ever profes , ed himself a greater friend to education, or more earnestly desircd to see effectual mea sures adopted by the Government to disseminate its bless ings through the country. Yet upon this momentous question, one that he is well aware his constituents have greatly at heart, he has again played them faize. What motives he may have for such ccnduct I will not pretend to speculate upon here, but we are told by the highest authority that " a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit." One thing is certain, that with the present Parliament his career terminates. No Liberal constituency will ever trust him again, and the Turks do not like men on whom no dcpendance can be placed. I am, Sir, Yours obediently, AN ELECTOR OF BRIDPORT. Bridport, 28th June, 1839. COWES-ISLE OF WIGHT. (£RO➢I 01R OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. June 25th.—The Amazon cutter, Sir John B. Walsh, from St. Helen's; Matilda cutter, Henry Oglander, Esq., from the westward. Light breeze, S. S. W. 26th, 7 A.m.—The Arundel yawl, William Hanham, Esq. from Portsmouth and Southampto n. Fresh breeze S. S. and rain. 27th, 6 15 A m.—The Sultana cutter, Henry Robinson, Esq., from London. 945 A M.—The Turk cutter, Captain James Kean, R. N , from the westward, and proceeded to the eastward Fresh breeze W. S. W. 11 A bl.—The Kestrel yawl, Commodore Earl of Yar borough, from the westward, and proceeded to Portsmouth. 28Lh, 2 P.m —The Kestrel is just returned from her cruise, and the Commodore has taken up his residence at the Squadron House. SAILINGS. . June 25th.—The Kestrel yawl, Commodore Earl of Yarborough, on a cruise to the westward. Light breezo, S. S. W. 26th.—The Matilda cutter, Henry Oglander, Esq., for Southampton. 27th.—The Ganymede cutter, Thomas Halifax, jun., Esq , for London. Fresh breeze W. S. W. YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION. Schooners.—The Dolphin, Peri, Wanderer, Ariel, and Arundel. Cutters.—The Nautilus, Ann, Alarm, Lord of the Isles, Hebe, Earl St. Vincent, Breeze, Medora, Albatross, Au rora, Giulia, Fanny, Elizabeth, Owen Glendwyr, Midge, Amazon, and Sultana. W. Hanham, Esq., is to sail on Sunday, in his yacht, the Arundel, of 210 tons, for St. Petershurgh. The Secretary has sold Sir Joseph Copley's yacht, the Witch, of 70 tons, to John Hanibrough, Esq., Ham brough Castle, Ventnor. The Marquis and Nlarchioness of Hastings, who had taken a suite of rooms at the Vine Hotel for six weeks, have given them up, in consequence of the illness of Lady Flora detaining them in town. The Governess and chit drew have taken apartments at Moir's Library. Part of Lord Durham's luggage arrived at Harriet Lodge yesterday, but his Lordship is not expected here till next week. Sir W. Jolliffe baa taken Beach Villa; Sir W. C or n, Rose Lodge; G. Holland Ackers, Esq., Norfolk House; and E. Jekyll, Esq., Earl Dc Grey's villa. Several smaller houses have also been taken this week. The weather continues showery, and the hay is secured with difficulty; but the growing crops never looked better, and there is every prospect of a most productive year. i Miss Johnson has postponed h er Concert till the 2d of July, when it wil l take place at Connaught• squar e We are informed that in the case of a p risoner named Jahn 13u 11, who wa s convicted at th e Central Cri minal e manslaughter,sears, with zo !itary con finement and sen finement and hard lab our, the p unishment of hard labour t e n ce d to Court ln p i i n i s l o i' n elz n a t ry fo rlatshtreoef y has been remitted. The Portuguese Government is said to have received positive information that a marriage is o n the Lapis between Don Miguel and a daughter of the Duke of Modena, who has pledged himself, in case a certain con tirgcncy vhould arise, to furnish his son-in-law with an auxiliary corps of 4,000 men. CARLOW ELECTION COMMITTEE (THIS DAY.) The objection to the vote of Patrick Hanlon was pro ceeded with until a quarter past two, when the Committee adjourned until Monday. THE MARKETS_(THIS DAY). COVENT-GARDEN MARKET. Every description of vegetables and fruit in great profusion ; trade lively, and pr;ces much the same as those of last week. Carrots, 6s. to 8s per dozen; Turnips, 4d. to 6d. per bundle; Celery, Is. to 2s. per bundle ; Asparagus, 3s. to 4s. per bundle ; Cucumbers, Is. to 2s. per brace; Strawberries, sd. to 10d. per pottle ; Gooseberries, 2s. to 3s. per sieve; Cur rants the same ; New Potatoes, sd. to Bd. per lb. ;. Peas, 9s. 6d. to 10s. per sack ; French Beans, 2s. and 2s. Gd. per 100. UNGERFORD MARKET. A good supply and a busy market. Butchers' Meat not brisk in sale, and prices a shade lower. Beef, 7d. to &Id. ; Mutton, 71 , 1. to ; Veal, Bd. to 9d. ; Pork, 7d. to Bd. per lb. Tur bot, ss. to Iss. ; good Salmon, Is. 3d. to h. 6d. per lb. ; Soles, 10d. to 3s. 6d. per pair; Mackerel, 6d. to Is. The Vegetable Market was lively, and prices ranged much the same as those of Covent-garden. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Supplies good, and so was the demand. Prices stationary. Turbot 4s. to 15s. Good Salmon Is. to Is. 6d. per lb. Mackerel 4d. to &I. Soles 6d. to 3s. 6d. per pair. Lobsters 10d. to 3s. 6d. Whitings 3d. to Bd. Haddocks 6d. to Is. HAYAIARKETS. - Supplies good, and the demand was equal. Prices much as before. Hay 60s. to 84s. and 88s. Clover 80s. to 1003. and 112 s. Straw 365. to 425. per load. NENVGATE AND LEADENHALL. Supplies good, demand mode, ate, and prices much the same as last quoted. Beef, 3s. to 3s. Bd. ; Mutton, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 10d. ; Lamb, 4s. 4d. to ss. 6d. ; Veal, 3s. Bd. to 4s. Bd. ; Pork, 3s. 6d. to 4s. Bd., Irish, 3s. to 3s. Bd. ; Geese, 4s. t) 6s. 6d. ; Chickens, Is. 6d. to 25.6 d. ; Rabbits, Is. to Is. 6d. ; Leverets, 3s. to 6s. ; Fowls, 4s. to ss. ; Ducks, 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. ; Pigeons, 6d. to 10,1., and Quails, Is. to is. 6d. ; Eggs, 4s. 9d. to ss. 9d. per 120; Plover Eggs, 4s. to ss. per dozen. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERTOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.— We have had a very unsatisfactory market since our last report. The depression has increased, the demand being more limited, and a further decline of -id. per lb. generally has been submitted to. The accounts per the Great Western, up to the 13th instant, received here to-day, are without enc )uragement, and the unimproved condition of the ma nufacturing interest in this country, leaves us no hope of immediate amendment here. We are flat to-day, and the sales are only about 1,500 bales, of all kinds ; 100 B e ngal, and 50 Surat have been taken or export. Sydney papers have been received to the 14l March. By the accounts from Hobart Town, it is stated that in the principal corn districts on the STuthern side of Van Diemen's Land, the grain crops were generally more than equal to an average of seasons, but the vegetable crops were a general failure; the pastures were totally burnt up—on the whole, however, the farmers had a prospect of a profitable crop. All the wheat had been brought to Hobart Town, and bad been readily bought at from 9s. to 10s. per bushel; and extensive contracts bad been made for future deliveries, at the same rates. THE FUNDS During the course of last week money still continued scarce, and in demand at high rates of discount, sine.; which monetary affairs have taken a turn, and money has become more easy, and can be obtained at lower rates, par ticularly at the Bankers and at the Stock Exchange. On the British Stock, nevertheless, we must not imagine that all daculties have ceased and the danger is entirely over. It was the general opinion that the Bank Directors' operation some few days since would, base had the effect to improve the Foreign course of Ex change, but we' are, sorry to observe that there was no alteration yesterday in the rates, consequently we must wait a few days longer to ascertain the event ; at the same time it has not operated to prevent the further exportation of bullion, which, according to the official report, has in creased to the Continent, as compared with the returns of last week. Silver in bars • has been exported between the 20th and 26th June, to the amount of 43,090 ounces, and in coin to the amount of 247,344 ounces. Gold in coin, during tho same period, to the amount of 11,750 ounces, end in bars to the amount of 6,570. By the accounts from Manchester, it appears that the increase in the rate of interest by the Bank of England, has not had any serious effect upon the trade of that neigh bourhood, and the banks • have experienced but little pres sore ; for money and credit continue firm, but little specu lative business has been carried on in the neighbourhood for some time past. We have very few arrivals this morning—only a French mail, and ship-letters from the South Seas, Pernambuco, and Sydney. , _ _ There being no Continental intelligence this morning of importance, and in general, Saturday not being a busy day in the Funds, we do not hear to the present time of any feature worth observation, with the exception that Consola are not quite so go:id as they closed at 931 1 ; opened 931- 4. for the Account ; Reduced 92k 4 ; Exchequer Bills, 27 29; Bank Stock, 189 191 ; India Stock, 255 256. In the Foreign Market Chilian Stock has improved to 35 37, near four per cent. since yesterday morning; Co. lombian, 32 ; 1 331, also improved ; Spanish Active, shade lower 19k 1;. Brazilian 771; Mexican, 261 27 ; Belgian 1021 ; Dutch Taro-and•a- Half per Cents., 551 56 ; Five per Cents. 1024 103. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT OYE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock .. 19J India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. - - Ditto Bonds 3O 27 pin. 3 per Cent. Cons. South Sea Stock - 3'4 per Cent 9J ~ Old Annuities 9t;l4 Ditto Red. 1)9% i , New Ditto . . . ._ . - New 3ii per Cent tie* 5 per Ctent.• — Exch. Bills, Xl,OOO 27 2F,26 pin. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 .. 30 'O3 on. Jan. 5, 1800 14% 5-1 n Ditto Small... ........ -.. - .8 39 pm. Oct. 10, 1859 I 1 3-16 ' Ditto Commercial...... pin. Jan. 5, 1860 — Ditto Advertised ..... pin. Jan. 5, 1880 — Bank Stock for Account ... —. April 5, 1880. — India Stock for Account ... --- Jan . 5. 1870 _ - _-- Consos for Account 933iM _ . _ PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONL O'CLOCK Austrian Bonds — Peruvian Bonds _ Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account .. ...., _ Ditto Ae Di it., - - . - , I CCOUIit Chilian Bonds D tto Account Columbian Bonds — Ditto Account . Ditto Account — 1 Ditto Metallic Columbian Bonds, 182,4. —l Spanish Bonds 19% li Ditto Account 32% 31 Ditto Account. l9S;yi Danish Bonds Ditto Account — I Def rred — 8 Greek Bonds — I French, 5 per cent....... —f. —c. Ditto Bonds, 1825 —l ----- 4 per cent ....... —I. —c. Ditto Account -- 3 per cent. -f. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. , --- Exchange. —f. —c. Ditto Account I Dutch, 2!4 per cent. 5314 Ditto, 6 per Cent. 26 % Ditto Account — Ditto Account — Ditto, 5 per cent . 103 21( Neapolitan... ! -I COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY. Amsterdun C.F.12 5%, fitibraitar 4B Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2U. 12 6 IGenoa .. 25 70 Antwerp... kiztriburg. Altona Pari,, 3du s' sight 25 35 J Palermo .., ..... —........per oz. 1` 0 Ditt0....... ........... 3M525 s 5 iLi=bon 1 34 Marseilles. Bourdeaux Frankfort en Main; Ex. M. 151 1 ,,, Bah:a 27 Pdtershurgh, ruble... 3 Us. 1034 ' Buenos Ayres Berlin Vienna, effective 0.-3 M 10 6 Philadelphia ... ~ .... ........ 4(1 Tricste......ditto lO 7 PR ICE OF BULLION, per OZ. Madrid 37 Portugal Geld, coin.,.. .0 (1 0 Cadiz :37% Foreign Gold, in bars... 318 0 Biboa .... . 26% New Doubloons ..... ..... 00 0 Barcelona Seville 363 Silver in Bars HALT -PAST ONE. In general, with the exception of the speculators and monopolizers of cotton, it gives great satisfaction by the in formation received this morning from Liverpool, that the cotton rig will soon die a natural death. The market was very heavy, and prices lower, and we have no doubt in a short time cotton will be reduced in price to enable our manufacturers to contend with those of the Continent, and the spinners in the various manufacturing districts will be enabled again to work full time. The dulness of the weather has added to the inactive state of commercial affairs, Some anxiety prevails with the merchants and those who deal with the United States to ascertain what effect it will have when they hear of our Bank Directors' late opera tion in raising the discounts to 51 per cent. Consols may be quoted at present not quite so good as in the morning, when they were 93i, at present 934. Ex chequer Bills rather lower-27 28 26 ; •India Bonds, 30 27, also lower; Bank Stock, 190. ... . . . Spanish Active rather improved, 19.}; Portuguese, 34,21: Colombian, 32 33 ; BrJzillan, ; Mexican 261 ; Dutch Two and.a-Half per Cents., Five per Cents., rather lower, have been 103, now 1021. No further arrivals. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS Eank Stock 1 , 0 India Stack `riper Cent. Re 4 - ..... 3 per Cent Ccas. l Ditto Old Ann u i t ie5........•.... ffo% 3t4 per Cent. Red 99>h Ditto New Annuities tic efN per Cent 100 lEx. Bills, Lew/. ..... .sl.. ..... pm. Ncw 5 per Cent Ditto 59 1 1 •B pm. Long Annuities to expire Ditto 500/.. ............ —3O pm. .Tan. 1880 Oct. 1559 Jan 1660 FOltEltiN FUNDS Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese Bonds, sper cent. Belgian, 5 per cent. ........ Brazilian Bonds 77% Prussian, 5 per cent Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent..... Russian Bonds, 5 per cert Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic. ............. .... .. Colombian, 6 per cent. 3l Spanish, 5 p er cent 1914 Ditto, 1621 12'4 Ditto, Deferred B% Danish, 3 per cent 74% French, 5 per cent:,.„,... —f. —c. Greek Bonds, 1825, sper et — Exchange —f. —c Mexican, 5 per cent French, 3 per cent ---f. e. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825......... 26 Dutch, 2% per cont. Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent.... 17% Ditto, 5 per cent. lO3 SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Cheltenham and Great Western Rsiway 5 Eastern Counties Railway . ll4 Great Western Railway Gosport Junction Railway — .. i London and Brighton Railway. . - ..... 12% London and Birmingham Railway 161 Ditto chillier Shares Ditto New Shares . London and Croydon .. Railway (Trunk) 1 2 14 Manchester and Leeds Railway Manchester and Birmingham Railway Ditto ditto Extension sii Yesterday, at Alarlborough-street Police-office, the coachman of Mr. Story, of Bryanston-square, was fined 20s. and costs. for refusing to move on when directed, and for assaulting the police. The Magistrate, Mr. Dyer, in giving his decision, expressed his entire ap prebation of the police regulations for keeping order at public places of resort. Mr. White, of Queen-square, some time ago gave an opinion directly opposed to this, and held out an encouragement to these big coachmen to commit an act for which Mr. Dyer fines them. Be. tween the administrators of the law, and those gentle men who take the law into their own hands, the police men have no agreeable task. What the law may be, we do not take upon ourselves to decide, when these high authorities differ, but common sense points out that these, or similar regulations, are necessary to prevent cadless confusion. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) THE GOLD DUST ROBBERY. The trial of the prisoners charged with the above offence was this morning- resumed, at ten o'clock, before Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE. The case for the prosecution having closed last night, Mr. Sergeant Bomras, at the opening of the Court, took an objection to the indictment, as against Moses, on the ground that it stated a certain evil.clisposed person had stolen the goods, and charged Emanuel Moses as an ac cessory ; now, as the evil-disposed person was known, an d had not been brcught to trial or convicted, he contended that in point of law it was impossible to convict any person as an accessary, as there were no charges of a substantial i -. CHAMBERS followed on the same side, and contended the indictment was also bad, for uncertainty, as not naming the evil-disposed person. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE slid there was another indict ment in which the evil-disposed person was named. Mr. CHAMBERS said that the present indictment must be bad, because if tried on the second indictment, the prisoner could not make out a plea of autrefois acquit or autrefois convict. Mr. ADOLPHUS, for Alice Abrahams, contended that she stood in regard to this indictment in precisely the same ti tuation as Emanuel Moses. Mr. PRF.NDERGAST followed on the same side. Mr, C. PHILLIPS, for the Caspars, objected first, that ELis Caspar was charged on this indictment with two felonies, and that he ought not to be called upon to answer for two offences at the same time; and oa behalf of both Caspsrs he contended that, being accused as accessories, the principals oug h t t o b e name d in the indictment. With respect to Lewin Caspar, there was a most important ob jecdon, which, if it held good, would vitiate their pro ceedings altogether, he contended, according to the evi dence given, that if Lewin Caspar ought to be indicted at al', he ought to be indicted as a priacipal ; and that if so, the principal being revealed, the indictment with regard to all the other prisoners must fall to the ground. Mr. C. JONES on the same side submitted that iu crder to support this indictment, it was necessary to prove a pr'ncipal felony—but he contended that there was no such felony proved—as it had not been proved that Moses went to the wharf with the intention of committing a felony. Mr. CLARKSON replied to the objections. In the first place, with regard to the objections of Mr. Phillips and Mr. C. Jones, lie was free to admit that if, when all the circumstances should be laid before the Jury, they should be of opinion that Moss was an innocent agent, then Lewin Caspar was the p r in c ip a l ; b u t if hi s Lordship could not know that the Jury would say Moss was an innocent agent, then the case must go to the Jury. That was a ques th n entirely for the Jury to decide, and if Moss was not an innocent agent, thee Lewin Caspar was properly in dicted. With regard to Ellis Caspar, he was charged with being an accessory before the fact, and also after the fact. Now he contended that these were not two distinct felo nies, but a carrying out of the same crime. With regard to the objection of the Learned Sergant to the indictment, it was framed in that manner because it was impos sible to know how a Jury would decide with regard to Moss. He contended, in opposition to Mr. Chambers, that a parson showing he had been accused of receiv ing goods, for receiving which goods he had formerly been tried could plead autrefois acquit or autrefois convict. With regard to the objections of the Sergeant as they were on the record, he thought they might as well have been raised at the commencement of the five days as at the con clusion. He contended that there was in the indictment a charge for a substantive felony, and that in such an in dictment it was not at all necessary that the name of the person stealing the property should be mentioned, and that it would have been good had it been merely alleged that certain property had been stolen, without stating by whom. He trusted his Lordship would permit these objections to have the highest consideration, and suffer his own excel lent and superior judgment to be assisted by that of the other Judges. Mr. BODKIN followed on the same side, and contended that Mr. Sergeant Bompas was too late with his objection; he ought to have declined the trial, and not have permitted his client to be given in charge to the Jury, because all these objections appeared , upon the record. He under stood a substantive felony meant that you might indict an accessory before the conviction of the principal, and with out including him in the indictment; bet this term sub stantive felony was new to the law, and had never yet been defined by the Judges. Mr. DOANE followed on the same side; and the trial was proceeding when we went to Press. COURT CIRCULAR, The Princess Augusta and the Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty yesterday at Buckingham Palace. The Marquis of Normanby and Viscount Melbourne had audiences yesterday of the Queen. The dinner party at the Palace last evening included the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, the Mar chioness of Normanby; the Earl of Uxbridge, the Earl of Burlington, the Earl of Mulgrave, Lord Lilford, the Right Hon. G. S. and Lady Agnes Byng. Her Majeaty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Princess of Hohenlohc, and attended by the Hon. Miss Hope Johnstone, Hon. Miss Boyle, and the Lord Cham berlain, visited the National Gallery yesterday. The Duchess of Cambridge visited the Princess Augusta yesterday at Clarence House. The Princesses of Hoherilohe visited the Duchess of Cambridge yesterday at Cambridge House. The Duke of Cambridge honoured the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster with his company on Thurs day morning. His Royal Highness and the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, at tended by Miss Kerr and Baron Knesebeck, honoured the r Earl and Countess of Craven with their company on Thursday evening, at their re3ider.ce in Charles-street. His Excellency Andrew Stevenson, the American Minister, transacted business at the Foreign Office, and with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday. Lord James Stuart, Lord Dalmeny, Mr. W. Hutt, M.P., Mr. Aglionby, Mr. R. Chamberlain, and Lieut.-Colonel Abereromby, had interviews with the Marquis of Nor mnby yesterday at the Colonial-office. Captain Watts, R. N., had an interview with Viscount Melbourne yesterday in Downing-street. The Belgian Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Mr. Edward Montagu had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Home office. Despatches from Sir John Colborne, Governor of the Canadas, and also from the Governors of South Australia and New South Wales, were received yesterday at the Co lonial-office. AFFAIRS OF THE EAST. Answer of the Sublime Porte to the pacific representa tions of the Austrian and Russian Ambassadors.—( From the Augsburgh Gazette.) " The Sultan prefers to the present state of things an ar rangement of some kind or another, favourable or unfavour able. He can no longer tolerate the insolence of a rebel how vassal who tramples under his feet the sacred princi ples of Islamism, and shakes the foundation of the State ; who refuses to acknowledge in the Sultan the Chief of Islamism, and wishes to supplant him; who makes no secret of his projects against the Throne and the cause of religion ; who has the audacity to drive from the tomb of the Prophet the guardians a; pointed by the Sul tan in his quality of Grand Mufti and Calif, and replace them by men of his own choice. Other measures also taken by the same person in the four sacred cities are fur ther proofs of his criminal deSigns. For several years he has threatened the Porte, to which he owes his present power, not to pay the tribute due from him, as if he wished to make a merit in the eyes of the whole world of the con tempt he entertained for the Sultan. He has in his blind ness taken upon himself to decide questions affecting the interests of the territorial sovereignty of the Ottoman Porte, without waiting for the orders of his legitimate Sovereign He has bad the audacity to refuse a passage to the troops of a power allied with the Ottoman Porte in the closest bonds of amity ( England). As an enemy to the friends of the Porte, Mehemet has intrigued with the Yeman and Tehamah to prevent England from gaining possession of Aden and establishing herself there. He has traversed Arabia from west to east, carrying war with him, and mark ing his course by bloodshed and devastation. After having seized the islands of Banrein, in the Persian Gulf, making them the bases of his operations, he has approached Bassorah and Bsgdad as nearly as he could (Kurchid may reach Bassorah in fifteen days' forced marches), and has excited the faithful inhabitants of these provinces to acts of sedition which could not fail to alarm the Porte. In all parts he has acted like a traitor, and as if he was the surrirne chief of Islamism. Tbis state of things cannot be permitted to exist any longer. The Porte will never submit to the exaggerated pretensions of the Pacha, nor will ever take into consideration any of his erroneous propositions. His duty is to obey ; if he does not, war must decide. The Porte has sent an envoy to Alexandria to summon the Pacha to obey the commands of the Sultan ; and if be refuses, the Scraskier Hafiz shall make an immediate attack. The Ot oman Porte will find means of introducing into the Haouran sufficient forces to assist the faithful Druses against their tyrant. England will sustain the Porte with all her power : the Sultan, if be has nut an absolute treaty, has her word given most unequivocally. The Porte re quires from the Viceroy the - unconditional' acceptance of the following propositions :—A reinstatement of the guardians of the Prophet's tomb appointed by the Sultan, and a suppression of the abuses introduced into the sacred cities, in consequence of the ordonnanccs of the police. A regular payment of the tribute, and an abstinence in future from all threats of withhokling it under any pre tence whatever. An abstinence front the exercise of all rights of sovereignty, except those specially delegated, end, consequently, a complete acknowledgment of the supreme sovereignty of the Sultan." ENGLISII OPERA-HOUSE.--Mr. Giubilei and Mr. Stretton had a benefit last night at this theatre. The house was crowded to the slips or gallery boxes, a just compliment to the beneficiaires, and to the excellent per formances selected. These consisted of Rossini's favourite opera, La Gazza Lad. a, adapted to the English stage by Bishop, and called The Maid of Palaiseau ; a concert, embracing the names of Dorus Gras, Albertazzi, Miss Bruce, Miss Birch, Miss B. Hawes, Ihlfe, Parry, Iv muff, &c. ; and amongst the instrumental and vocal performers were Dulcken, Duehler, (piano), Blagrove (violin), Richardson (flute), Chatterton (harp), including the Rus sian Family. The whole concluded with the admired farce of the Married Rake, capitally cast. In the opera Giubilei took the part of Podesta or Justice, and gave the tine music which belongs to the character, with much effect; the other characters were well sustained by Franks, Allen, Stretton, Miss Poole, Mrs. Martyr, (late Miss Inverarity, who made such a successful debut a few years ago at Covent-garden, in Cinderella), ably sustained the part of Annette, the Maid of Palaiseau. Mrs. Martyrs possesses the same splendid voice, and her singing, if any thing, improved in all those qualities dependent upon practice and riper experience; her execution is perfect, and hcr taste delicate and rcanod. She was loudly ap plauded throughout, EVENING EDITION. (ADVERTISEMENT.) TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,— Two facetious reports against an individual having been taken in by the Times, I sent, on the 12th of this month, to the Editor a letter for insertion. As. that the simplicity of a Magistrate was as well de serv-ng notice es the rhetoric of a Tinies-Bow-strect reporting- Commissioner or I extracted— " The prisoner said, ' I would rather not say anything at present.' (S fined) " JAMES ROWLAND MINSIIULL." Sir, I have the honour to be, Your obedient Servant, G. D. LOWNDES. . 4G, Lincoln's Inn-fields, June 28, 1839. LLOYDS' SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, JUNE 28.—Wind W. moderate.—Arrived the Recovery, Green, from the South Seas; Emerald, Ha vannah ; Caroline, Jones, Lisbon. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 28.—Wind W. S.W., fresh breezes and squally. PLI mount, JUNE 28.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Triton, Wakeman, from Odessa. FALMOUTH, JUNE 27.--Wind variable and light.—Ar rived the Amelie, Hodenburg, from Pernambuco; Ex press, Mann, Leghorn ; Woodman, Blagdon, Marseilles. Ott port, the Reform, Lofaur, from Sfngapore. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 28. —Wind N. N. E to N., mode rate.—Arrived the Henry, Towson, N.nv Orleans ; Mary land, Berry, ditto ; Fortitude, Mobile ; P. H. De,:n, Smyrna; Cornelius, Botts, Ancona; Mayflower, Lisbon; Atalanta, Kinco, Rostock; Matilda, Vactz, Dantzic, Dant zic packo , Tanner, ditto. OF per., the Cheshire Welsh, Antigua; Thomas Leitch, Trieste. Sailed, the Rebecca, I-Lolon, Pernambuco; Cybele, Armstrong, ditto; Ma- Neckols, New York ; Henry Leeds, Marshall, ditto ; Gulnare, Burnand, Baltimore ; British Queen, Dudney, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Tregartha, Tonkin, Seville. ANECDOTE OF A CELEBRATED BUFFO.—In 1777 Volange was an excellent buffo at the opera—he made his first bow to the public at a fair ; his splendid in crease of reputation he (lid not bear with the calmness of a philosopher. He had been called, by way of eminence, Geannot. This important personage once was invited by the Marquis de Bruncas to his hotel, with the view of entertaining his company. When he was announced, the Marquis led him to the assembled guests, and said, " Ladies, gentlemen, here is Geannot, whom I have the honour of introducing." "My Lord," interrupted the austere buffo, " I was Geanoot, when I played at the Boulevards, but at present lam Monsieur Volange." " So be it," said the Marquis ; " but as we don't choose to have any but Geannot, let Monsieur Volange be led out of doors." This Volange was nevertheless a man of great importance in the theatre. One of the pieces in which he performed was played twice a day during a whole year 1 His bust was engraved in the fine porcelain of Sevres, and was the fashionable new year's gift.—Musical. World. Wednesday an inquest was held at the Shadwell Dock Ceffee-house, on the body of Catherine Curley, who died in consequence of injuries she received from her bus baud, a coal-whipper, who has absconded. The jury re turned a .verdict of " Manslaughter against Joseph Curley," for whose apprehension a warrant was issued, and en rusted to the police. DEATH BY LIGHTNING.-011 Wednesday morninc , last, between eleven and 'twelve o'clock, this town and neighbourhood were visited by a severe storm of thunder and lightning, and at Writtle, where it was par ticularly heavy, we regret to state that a boy, about six years old, was struck dead. The child was the sin of Samuel Bush, in the employ of Messrs. Porter and Butler, wine-merchants. Mrs. Bush was sitting in her cottage with her four children, and the boy, who had just returned from seho..l, was in a chair, leaning across a table under the window, playing with a pewter spoon, when the light ning entered, and striking the unfortunate child, caused his immediate death. A younger child was playing under the table, and was slightly burnt on the foot, whilst the mother, who was at the moment stooping at the further end of the room, was preci pitated to the ground, but was uninjured. The window curtains were at the same time ignited, and the mother having picked up the little one who had been playing on the floor, rushed out of the house, not observing the fate of the other child, and alarmed the neighbours, but imme diately- re-entering with others, the poor boy was foend upon the floor lifeless. The flames were speedily extin guished, and on examining the child, the electric fluid appeared to have struck him at the back part of the neck, making a small round orifice, and setting the collar on fire ; it then passed under the atm to the breast and down the chest and stomach, which are much dis coloured, and proceeded down to the right leg, scorcaing him to the aucle. The inner clothing of the child was much burnt, the front of the shirt being entirely consumed. The fluid appears to have entered at the back of the cottage, passing in an angular direction to the sitting room, and forcing its way out between the top of the window frame and the brick work, two panes of glass being also broken by the explo sion. The storm was also severely felt in other parts of the country. At South House Farm, West flanningfield, a poplar was shattered, and at the same instant the electric fluid entered the house, and struck Mrs. Blyth upon the head, and Mr. Blyth felt the shock on the leg; the former still suffers in a slight degree from its effects.—A man named Quiller, whilst sitting _in a shed in a field by the river side, near this town, was similarly struck, and for a short time rendered insensible, but be has since quite recovered. At Great Beddow, an ash tree was struck, and partly stripped of its bark,— Chelmafi,rd Chronicle. THE CHARTISTS.—In the parts of the Scottish Highlands, where Gaelic alone is spoken, the Chartists have not been able to establish a single lodge. The like holds good with regard to Cardiganshire and Mario and those parts of Wales who! e the pet ple still con& e themselves to the language and customs of the Cymri. SHOCKING ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER..-- Between three and four o'clock yesterday afternoon Jo seph Naughton, aged fifteen years, errand-boy to Messrs. Lovell and Co., of Gcorge.lane, Botolph-lane, Eastcheap, importers of foreign fruit, was in the act of stepping from one barge to another lying in the river eff Fresh Wharf, London Bridge, when he slipped between them just at the instant that a steam-vessel, starting from the wharf, heeled against the outer barge and jammed it against the other with tremendous force, catching the legs of the unfortu nate youth up to the middle of the thighs, He was fortu nately saved by a boatman from falling into the water as the barges receded from each other. The bones of his legs were, however, crushed in a most dreadful manner. He was conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital. DEATH FROM NOXIOUS VAPOUR.—Last eveniag an inquest was held at the tap-house belonging to the brewery of Alesq.s. Manners, Furze, and Marshall, in Old Castle-street, Whitechapel, before Mr. Baker, on the body : of David Field, aged 33 years. From the statement of Thomas Fanning it appeared that on Wednesday after noon the deceased, who was a drayman to the above firm, was sent to pump a bucket of stale beer from a tank in the flour about seven feet deep. Finding that he could only pump up about half the bucket full, and thinking that there was something the matter with the pump itself, the dcceascd raised a flap at the end of the tank, and having procured a ladder descended into the tank, where he was suffccated from the accumulation of carbonic acid gas, which was ge nerated by the late contents of the vessel. He was missed in about ten minutes afterwards, and the witness Fanning had very narrowly escaped a similar fate in attempting to go down the ladder to his assistance. Deceased bad been for many years employed in the brewery, and was well aware of the danger consequent on entering a vessel such as that in which he had lost bis life. The jury without hesitation returned a verdict to the effect that deceased bad lost his life by accident and misfortune, and that no one was to blame in the unfortunate transaction. The Opera was so full on Thursday evening that. upwards of one hundred persons were absolutely refused admittance. We regret to state that the performances foe the hem& of the General Theatrical Fund were very thinly attended at Covent Garden Theatre last night. But as Mr. Macready gave the free use of the house, and Mr. Charles Kean presented the institution with fifty pounds, some addition would be made to the funds of this praise worthy institution for the relief of decayed actors. DEATH FROM DESTITUTION.-011 Thurs day evening police-sergeant Coleman of , the 11 division, who tray on duty at the station-house in Spitalfields, re ceived information that a young woman was lying in the passage of a house in Rose lane, apparently in a dying state. He immediately dispatched two policemen to the spot, who, on their arrival, found tha unfortunate creature lying in the condition described, and, upon being ques tioned, she said that she had been discharged some days before from the hospital, since which time she had been wandering about houselcss and destitute, and was then perishing from want. Her squalid and emaciated appear ance bore out her assertion, and the policemen supported her between them to the station-house, but immediately after she reached it, before any assistance could be ren dered her, she fell back into their arms and expired. The unfortunate woman, whose name was Elizabeth Billings, was a wife of a private in the Horse Guards (Blue), but she lived apart from her husband for several years, and had lately been compelled to sustain her miserable existence by prostitut ion. NATIONAL EDUCATION—The following peti tion in favour of the Government plan of National Educa tion, to meet a counter-petition sent down from London for signature, has been respectably signed by the rate payers of Claughton. They don't mince matters as will be seen :—" To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled. The humble petition of the undersigned freeholders and rate-payers of Claughton• in- Lansdale, Lancaster,—Showeth, That your petitioners, seeing the organizA, mendacious, and unmanly opposition uniformly given (by a political party) to every proposition. for national popular education or the improvement of man kind, therefore pray your Honourable House, to enact such laws as will cause the greatest diffusion of knowledge among children of every growth throughout the British dominions, without interfering with their or their parents' faith ha any mode of worshipping the Deity, which their sense of religion may suggest, as the only means, in the opinion of your petitioners, of enabling every person to Tee the knavery of every such unmanly opposition, as well as the knavery of Popish priestcraft, and of any other fraud that may be attempted to be practised on their credulity. And your petitioners will ever pray, Ste."—Lord John Russell has kindly consented to present the petition, whi c h he did most likely on the night of the adjourned debate on the Education' Plan of Government.—Manchester Guar dian. REPAIR OF] HIGHWAYS AND THE POOR RATES.—It has been decided at the County Petty Sessions. held at Salisbury, that the practice of employing aged m en, instead of able-bodied labourers, to repair the roads, with a view of lessening the amount contributed to t he support of the poor, and thereby, in fact, increasing the way rate, is Mega', and ,that an order on a filmier to c ontrihote an u: reasonable sum, chi-aged to him in common with the (Aber inhabitants, for highway repairs could in t be sus tained. The case in question was an Nppeal entered against the way-rate by Mr. W. Hurnhy, farmer, of West Harp. bam, near Salisbury. T HE CONSTITUTIONALIST, Price 3 1 ,: 2 d. 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