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Now fteAdy, VOL. VII. R of MISS STRICT V_ LIVES OF THEQUEENB OF ENGLAND. _ This seventh voluwe will pot merely support, but extend, the now European reputation o Miss Strickland's excellent . and truly Lat:cnal work ; we arc not sure whether it is not the most valt able and important volume of the whole series—the one most distinguished by novelty of Mica mation, extent of research, and care arrangement, and preparation. It contaies the concluding por tion of the life of our great Elizabeth, a piece of biography which has hover been excelled in its way; and a copious, complete, and most 14tere,ting life of her successor, Anne of Denmark. The volume compr see no less than 485 closely pry. , ted pages."—s.N.iwral and Milltaty Gazette. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Published this day, post Evo., ss. cloth, AN OUTLINE of the various SOCIAL SYS TEMS and COMMUNITIES which have been founded on the princ.ple of CO-OPERATION. With an Introductoi Essay, by CHIRLES BRAY, Author of the " Philosophy of Necessity." London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Long mans. Of whom may be had, 2 vols. ilvo., 155., The PHILOSOPHY of NECESSITY; or the Law ofConstqUences ai applicable to Mental, Moral, and Social Science. Just published, 2 vols. Bvo., with Original Portrait, and other Illustrations, 30s. cloth, THE LIFE and TIMES of RICHARD the THIRD, as Duke of Gloucester and King of England; which all the Charges ag,ainst him aro carnally investigated and compared with the Statements of the Contemporary Authorities. By CAROLINE A. HALSTEAD, Author of " The Life of Margaret B. aufort, Mother of King Henry \IL" Londor•: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman,. --- HER MAJES IV'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING JUNE 11, Will be performed (first time this season), LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Lucia, Shidanse Persiani ; Edgardo, Sig. Mario; Bidebent, Sig. Paltoni ; Enrico, Sig. kornasari (his first appearance In that Ch: raeteo, fo coned le with the Grand Ballet, in Six Tableaux, ty M. Perrot, entitled ONDI NE ou, LA NAIADE, by Mdlle. Cerito and AL M. S'. Leon and Perrot. Applications tor Hexes, Stalls. and Tlctets to beer s the Box . Office, Qvera Colonnade. Dom open at Seven. The Ode= Rill cuanence at Halt-past Seven. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. M. ST. LEON 11:79the hone or to inform his Friends, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, that his BENEFIT will take place on THURSDAY NEXT, June 13, when will be performed (for the last time this season) Mozart's chef u'cieuv , e, IL DON GIOVANNI, by Madame Grisi, Mdile, Favanti and Madame Persiard ; Signori Fornasar,, Lablache, F. Lablache, Felice, and Mario. between the Acts M. Leon will play a Fantasia Concerto sur des Motits de Guillaume Tell, composed by himself. In the course of the .everiog, Mdlle Cerito *ad M. St. Leon of 11 dance the hignly sncce.aful new Spanish dance Lz Mane's. To conclude wltha he Grand Balletentatleg ALM A ; ou, La Ellie du Fe a ; (omitting tie First Tableaux), • The celebrated Pas de Troia by MNI Cerito, M. Perrot, and M. St. Leon. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be modest the Box otlice, Opera-calennade. Doors open at Seven; the Opera will com mence at Half-past Seven. 'THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKEI. MA. BENJAMIN WEBSTER; LES-EE. THIS EVENING, JUNE 11, Will be repeated Morton's Comedy of SECRETS WORTH KNOWING. Rostrum, Mr. Charles IflattLews; Plethora, Mr. Buckstone ; N•cliolas Rue, Mr. W. Farren ; Rose Sidney, - Miss Julia Bennett; Sally Downright, Mrs. Glover. 'After which, a New Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Bart., Mr. Charles Mathews; Sir Adonis Leech, Mr Tilbury; Wurzle, Mr. James Bland; Mary, Miss Ju'ia Bennett ; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs. numb). c nclur'e with THE IRISH TUTOR. Dr. Flail, Mr. Strict. land; Dr. O'Toole, Mr. Leenarc'. Orchestra Stalls, hs. ; Boxes, fis. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gall sy, Is.; Upper iallery. Is. Half:price —Boxes, _3s. ; Pit ; Gall. s f . Is. ; Upper Gallery, lid. Doors opener at Half.past Six, and tLe l'erlormances 1 !rime:fee at. Seven. _ Tickets and Places to be bad of Mr 1. T; Archer.' at the Box office. from 'Fen till Five. PHINCESS'S "IHEATRE, OXFORD-ST Ns-Z.l. LESSEE. Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING,JUNE 11, _ Will be repeated a New Drama, called BLANCHE DE V ALMY. Colone Chatinon Mr. Granby ; Franvat, Mr. Walton ; ; t. Hilare, Mr. Walter Lae'; Pierre Linux, Mr. OxherTy ; Blanche de Valmy, Mad one Eugenie Prosper ; Justiue, Bliss Noel. After which, a New and Original earce, in, One Act, called TA EN BY SURPRISE. Principal Characters by Messrs. Fitz- J awes, Walter Lacy, Oxberry, Miss Emma Stanley, and Bliss E. Benner. To be followd by the First Act of the BaPet of LEOLA or. the May day Bride. Per CS. Mr. T. Hill; /Iselin:4 Mr. nilbert ; Rhona, Miss Charl ton; Leola Miss Balhn. To conclude with THN DIVIL'S IN IT, inwhlcli Mr. Wright and Miss E. Stanley will perform. THEATRE ROI AL LYCEUM, LATE ENGL.Sti ()VERA. HOUSE. Cnder the lferragernent of Mrs. KEELF 1. " Open Sesame, Or, a Night with the Forty Thieves, 'cin.l sues to be nightly rece,ved with perfect enthus'asm by crow led abd fashionable audiences. THIS EVENING, JUNE 11, Will be produced TILE THREE FRA I)IAVOLOS. rrincipal Characters by Messrs.: F. Vining, Keel y, Wigan, Diddear, Miss Wnolgar. and M , s. Wootlidge. After which, a New and Comic Drama, cal ed TWO ti CADS BE'l TER THAN ONE. Principal Characters by Mesa. . e. Vining, Ltdclear, Keeley, and Emery, Miss E, Chaplin, Mrs. A. IVi i a.t ki Mrs. Keeley. fo be followed by - in Apropos Bagatelle. called POI 9 MANIA Characters by Mr. 1. May.hews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. IZJolay, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. 'A eclet. To conclude with a G - no I Burle- - que Fairy Extracarr: r 9, called OPEN SESAME; cr. a Sight with the Forty Thie ea. Ilassarac, iir. Keeley; Morgiana, Mrs. Keeley. PRICE*: OF A NSW, lo N.—Balcony foxes. 4i.; Upper ZuKod, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; CnllLry. 6d. Second Price—Bale rs ts..y. es, 2s. ; Upper Boxes, Is fid.; Pit,. 1 , . Private Boxes on theli dr. my Tier (holding eight person.). Iwo thtineas Private Boxe c... flit. Second her (ho ding eight persons), One Guinea and a.: - !21. Private Boxes on the Pit Fier (holding six persons), One Gui, el ASTLEY'S 110.1A1 AMPHITHEATRE Ok• A %LiS. • Prepr;eto- and ltlanager, Mr. BATTY Great Success of the Chinese Fisas 01 Lanterns, and Vt. w Military and Naval Spectacle e'VENINCi. JUNE 11, Will be repeat?cl an entire new Military and Nlva , . Equestrian Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR; or, The urn - quests of Amoy by It •itish Arms. New Scenery, Dresses, Apt nts, ikc., to realise the recent triumphs of England's Army and :Yet y. Feast ct 2:.0 Lanterns. Monsieur liege on the 'fight Rop , .—New Scenes of the Circle— Hungarian Brigade of Female Cavalrs. To conclude with THE EMPEROR OF . RUSSIA; or. The Deserter of Moecow. lie doors will open nightly at six o'clock, and the rtormances commence at s, yen. Box-office opened daily from ten till four. The rivate boxes have been recoLstructed and decorated wi n care and splendour. • _ DATIDIE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATR'.! THIS EVENING, JUNE 11, Will be re;seaZed a New Drama in Three Act • , -Milled THE INSTRUMENT OF TORTURE. in which d e s srs . S Hughes, Hicks, Honnor, Va'e, Lewis, and Johnson; Mrs. H Vining, Mrs. Hughes, ma Mrs Hicks, will perform Atter which, a New P.ace for the Million, entitled LA POLKA. 'I o conidtaie with a Grand Fan v SpectaJle c tiled aE SPRI i E OF THE SNOW DRIFT. Zimmeir the Sprite, by Mr. G. Wieland. erb Scenery and DiCSEEI. Extrao dil try effects, and 1-:its. The most extraordinary wonders in the world--tie Brockstedt F.ltnily —three Germad Lilliputians; height, 20,3 e, and 3il inches; ages, 13, IS, and 2:1, are en gage d t o per f orm i s a Ballet d'Action, arranged expressly for them. P aces and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kers: 1 aer, at the Box :glee, from Eleven *o Four. IHEAIRE ROYAL, ADELPII/ OPEN EVERY EVENING. Notwltheanding the great succcst with whlch the Gieat Wizard of the North is nightly honoured by crowded audiences, he is corn. pelled to announce his flrewe , l: his an:son will tetmlnate in a few nights. For Twelve Years ie hat nightly giveni his Entertainment (which depends solely upon his own exertions), being on each rer. formauce three hours of speaking and excitement ; he now finds his h-alth so imirdred, that, by the wish of his medical adviser, he will, in a few nights, bid farewell to the magic science, and the most generous, kind, ar,d appreciating audiences on the face of the earth. fluting the few nights the Wizard will have the p'easure o' appear. ing in his mystic circle he will I.erform all his astounding wonders, nigh ly introducing New and Original DeltrEons.- First Appearance of Professor Hemmings and his Son, who will appear be - ween the parts of the Wizard's perforrnancg. t )n play, 17th, the WIZARD of the NORTH'S FAREWELL PENEFIT. Doors open at Half-past Seven: commencing at Eight, ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, SUCCESS UNPRECEDENTED. On Monday, TueS , ay, Wednesday, and Itititday. Thin! Week of s-anson and Telbin's splendid Model Picture of ' 1 ONDON in the OLDEN TIME! painted on upwards of 303,000 feet of canvas, and pronounced by the unanimous opinion of the public press, and other competent judge., to be the acme of scenic representation. The PROMENADE CONCERTS by Gotlfro's celebrated Band cf Fifty first-rate Performtrs, conduc:ed by himself. At dusk will ha elven a vivid representation of THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON, under the direction of the untivalled artist in fireworks, Southey, who has been mon hs iq preparing the resources of his ant, to give effect to this terrific exhibition. Doors open it Nine—concert at Six— Conflagration at Dusk. The First Exhibition•this Season of the Royal South London Floricultural Society, will faze place in these Gardens, on Tuesday, June 18th, 1814. - • : Et.YI'TIAN II ItteCAOILIA IMPORTANT NOTICE. ONE FIIITLLI.).:G Adinisaion to . THE AAi OLEON FEUM, the most magnificent and extensiva.ColliXen of Hlsto- Heal Curiosities and Works of Art ever 'known to base been formed oy One Person, daring Twenty-five years of eiriborate research, at a cost of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in structive rust luteresting manner, the most Important part of Euro earl ;Iktory, vIz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER. CROMWELL, and : LOGS XIV., to the deaths of GEOIR 111., and tt e EMPEROR NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been grafted often, during the last and rresent year, by the Royal FainEy, the Duke of iVellington, the Foreign , Prhides, Ambassadars, aat their Ladles, many thousands e► the Nobility and Public; ttn I the Pro- , priet6: lies recently been able to increase, by several very fine pictures, Re., his previous almost incredible number fUI 1 variety of MSII., Works of Art, 'rid a multitude of valuable Itere• . and other eariositir.., In this most instructive and, as hundredd have said it ought t o be, a National Mnseum. Many thousand have inspected it, *la THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PrThit,ie pitEss have stited thit it ought to be seen by everyone. The price Of admis• lon Is reduced to. ONE SHILLL.NG. 'Thy NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen only at the ' Egyptian 11,11." dray from Ten till Dus... THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, ALINE 10. Tni.taiostr.liat,•Lowest, 51; Highest, 74: Noon, 69. BA ROM ETER, 30,, 1 0.-- NV S.W. • . NOTE.—Tlie number 32 on the Therrnometer - denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Baron'Ateis 'fair is nutally ntaced oporite 30 and rain at 29. DWI' WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE' TICS 'DAY. Mt* !ling . 22 minutes after 10 t Evening ... Ws- cnit.i.ter after , L -4"4.4. / 40.4 liV • 11 • ...• 4 , Anitxu ,„ ,ftb_ 4. LONDON, TUESDAY, 7 JUNe '1.844. f In the House of Lords , last high,some r ou ti ne business was advanced.a stage or two., The Marquis of LANSDOVf,i2,I6 consequence of the Report of the Select Counnittee on the IMb-h ea d Harbour Bill not'being - yet before their Lordships, postponed till this end of ~the .week, .his motion re specting the Chester; and Holyhead Railwarßill. Lord MONTENaLE and the 'Earl of WICKLOW thought these repeated postponements very hard upon the prcimoters of the Bill, which ought to be allowed to pegs. . . , • • The Earl of DALHOUSIE announced it to be the in tention of Government, in the event of a direct line of communication being established between London and Holyhead, to make a grant fur the improvement of liolybead Harbour.. . • . • The Marquis of CLARRICAUDE thought the whole subjeCtought to be referred to a Select Committee, „ 13.13fail.thts Bill shoUld be adOpted, in order that its details ;night be' thoroughly investigated. It was essential that immediate and efficient provision should be Made f or t h e formation of a proper harbour at . Holyhead, and .thaCompany'should be bound to coU - atruct a good bridge eicross the lsienal.... Lord IlArrsanu• said the CoMpany intended to apply to Parliament for leave to build strati. bridge. Lord BROUGHAM was averse to any departure from their Lordships' standing orders, in the case of a ' private Bill ; and thought it would be highly credit able to the House of Commons if that House of the Legislature would adopt those orders. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was also averse (though friendly to the progress of the Bill) to any such infraction of the orders of the House. The Duke of WELLINGTON, after briefly repeating the stages through which the Bill had passed, said that the Committee of the Bill, having reported that the line must be carried over the Menai, which could not be done by the present bridge, no special instruction to that Committee was requisite in respect of the new bridge which must be built. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE denied that there was any obligation on the Company, as the Bill now stood, to build a new bridge at all. The Bill, ultimately, was read a second time and ordered to be committed. The " Law of Libel Amendment " Bill was passed through a Committee and reported, and their Lord ships adjourned. _ In the House of Commons a variety of petitions were presented for and against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill—against monopoly at present enjoyed by the Bank of Ireland, and praying for the adoption in Ire land of the Scotch system of banking, &c., &c. Lord JOHN MANNERS presented a petition, signed by several Members of the Established Church, for the convening of the convocation of the clergy. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER, the second reading of the Bank of England Charter (Renewal) Bill was postponed till Thursday next. Sir J. GRAHAM, in answer to a question from Sir GEORGE GREY, said it was the intention of Ministers to proceed with the Committee on the Ecclesiastical Courts' Bill to-morrow. Mr. PETER BORTUWICK gave notice of a motion, to be brought forward at the earliest open day, for the production of any correspondence between Don C4aLos and her MAJESTY'S Government in this country, and Don CARLOS and the Government of France, having for its object the pacification of Spain. Mr. VERNON SMITH, Sir 0. GRAHAM, Mr. 'l'. DUNCOMBE, and Sir R. PEEL, offered several re marks on the Irish Registration Bill. Sir ROBERT declared that her Majesty's. Government were very anxious to take the sense of the House upon it ; and, he would to-morrow fix a day for that purpose. He could not, at pre3ent, resolve the question of another Hon. Gentleman (Mr. M. J. O'CoNNELL), as to when the remaining Irish Estimates (two only in number) coted be brought on for discussion. Mr. M. GIBSON gave notice of an amendment he meant to bring forward on the reading of the pre amble to the Sugar Duties' Bill, for abolishing all destructive and differential duties imposed on sugars of various growths. _ _ _ Sir R. PEEL, in answer• :to a question from Mr. Baal nwiCK, stated that propositions but of an in direct and informal character certainly had reached the British Government, .with respect to certain pro posals of Don CARLOS, touching the Queen of SPAIN. Their substance was, that . the latter should marry the son of the former. Although these propositions had been but indistinctly put, Don CARLOS in making them had not abandoned for himself and his son a claim to the throne of Spain. Our Government had immediately communicated his propositions to the Government of Spain. _ At the close of a conversation of some interest, in which Sir R. PEEL, LOrd PALMERSTON, and Lord J. MANNERS took part, Mr. BORTHWICR said that, after all which hail passed, he should continue on the book the terms of his motion on the subject. On the motion for the House resolving itself into a Committee on the Sugar Duties' Bill, Mr. JAMES contended that the Bill had not been sufficiently discussed on the second reading, for the due information of the House upon its effects and tendencies. As one of " those unfortunate beings called West India planters," the Hon. Gentleman en tered upon a history of the hardships to which that body had been subjected, at the inequitable manner in which their property had been treated by successive Governments, in their desire to give effect to the rash projects of free traders and ulstart abolitionists. He vuu hopeless. Mr. EWART vindicated the policy which had been pursued in respect to what his Hon. Friend called the "rash projects" which he (Mr. EWART) had advo cated. The Honourable Gentleman concluded by moving, as an amendment, the abolition of the diffe rential duties, or the equalising all duties on imported sugars, without reference to the country where they have been produced. Mr. M. GrusoN supported the amendment. Mr. llumn and Mr. LABOUCHERE, though friendly to its principle, entreated the Hope and Learned Gentleman nut to press his amendment at present. Mr. VILLIERS and Mr. BRIGHT supported the aMendment, and insisted that Government ought boldly to assign the reasons upon which they pro posed to confer this invidious favour on the Wt..; India interest—for such it was meant to be—of pro tecting their sugars by such a scheme of duties ? Mr. P. M. STEWART and Mr. GLADSTONE vindi cated the claims of the West India interest and the policy of the Government in regard to them. Mr. Conn Ear, in an able and argumentative speech, supported the amendment. Mr. BERNAL, Lord Viscount SANDON, Mr. WAR- Birro:pr, and Mr. MACLEAN, having severally ad dressed the House, the Committee divided, and the amendment was lost. Ayes, SG ; noes, 259. Ma jority, 203. The Bill then went into Committee, pro Anal. After which, a great amount of other business on the paper for the night was proceeded with, and at One o'clock, there not being forty Members present, the House adjourned. It ought to surprise no one if the infection of slavery —so long as that degraded condition of exist ence is permitted among any civilised and Christian nations—should be found still to pollute their most frieadly intercourse .with doubts and jealousies, fears, and suspicions. Perplexity and misgiving are the symptoms which bespeak the presence of this infection ; and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S new scheme of sugar duties is the test which' has detected them. This scheme, our readers are aware, comprises two resolutions ; whereof, the first provides that !Trim and after the 10th November next there shall be charged on brown, Muscovado, or clayed sugar, " certified to be" the growth of China, Java, or Manilla, or of any other foreign country, the sugar of which her MAJESTY in Council 4)111 1 have declared to be admissible, "as not being the pro duce of slave labour, per the hundred-weight, 1/.145., together with an additional 'duty of 51. per centum on that rate." The second authorises her MAJESTY, from and after same date, to give effect, by Order in Condi, to the 'provisions of any treaty now in force which binds her. MAJESTY to admit sugars the pro. duce of a foreign country "at the same duties are imposed on sugar 'the prodUce of the:, most favoured countries." As to foreign grown sugars, this altered and much dimi nished duty is assuredly equivalent to a large re duction of price ; , and everybody must concede to the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER the truth of his state.ment-- 4 that sugar has almost become a neces sary of life in this country; that at all events it is essential* to the health and comfort of a large portion of the people—and that it is, therefore, expedient that' an ample supply of this commodity should be kept, up." It must also be allowed, that whereas the maintenance of this ample supply was formerly se cured by legislative measures, from time to time passed for that purpose, 'previously to the, emanci pation of the negroes in 1834—that emancipation has since so crippled it that the supply has become 'altogether inadequate, even in. those very West Indian islands and colonies of ours, which used to produce 40 much more anger than was equal to the consumption of these kingdoms, thatwehaadraonwntuh forally a' surplus of about one-third of the year's 6iportation to foreign States, 'after fully providing for our home market, Thus, 'we had the further benefit of keeping the prices of sugar here oriii level with those it commanded in the foreign markets, into which our surplus importation had been annually poured. But, with the consequences of emancipation, this ,productiveness declined, and prices advanced here ; 'notwithstanding that, in the interval, an. ticipating the diminished crops which, in the beginning of ' such an experiment, • free labour was likely to raise, Parliamerit - largely approximated, by an extensive redaction of the • duty on sugar the growth of the East Indies, the price of that sugar to the price of sugar imported from our West Indian possessions. Still, the whole supply of sugar received into this country has proved insufficient, and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER therefore is no doubt justified in his anxiety to supply the vacuum (we should have called it " deficit"), by admitting sugar the growth of foreign colonies, on such terms as may enable the English consumer to obtain an adequate supply (at prices not so much dearer than those paid in all other European markets, as he is at present subjected to) of this im portant article. The great qualification which it has been the Right Hon. Gentleman's endeavour to secure, is—that such sugar shall he the produce of free labour. Believing ourselves, with Lord J. RUSSELL and Mr• EWART, that it is not possible to exclude altogether slave-grown sugar from a market once opened to the produce of foreign colonies—(on the principle, that► were the United States, for example, to supply us with 50,000 cwt. of " certified free-labour grown" sugars, they would replace that amount by importing, or by raising, for their own consumption, so much of slave grown sugar) ;—still we do think that the CHANCEL LOR of the EXCHEQUER'S proposition is an advance in the right course. 'We shall not be accused (we trust) of estimating lightly the crime, the suicidal impolicy of slavery. It is an outrage on human nature, and its first and most sacred rights, against which we shall ever solemnly and indignantly protest, wherever and under whatever circumstances we may encounter it. But the application of slave labour to the cultivation of sugar is an usage so long established, so widely diffused, so unremittingly persisted in by various nations that it were romantic to hope, by any mere fiscal devices—any mere tariff of discriminating or differential duties—to put it down. We fear that that happy and most desirable consummation must be left to the influences of civilisation and the operation of time. We fear that our satisfaction at the results of our own efforts at its extinction—noble and mu nificent as they have been—must now be limited to the proud consciousness of having discharged our own duty, at sacrifices costly enough to attest the national sincerity. Since the commodity, then, will continue to be raised, in defiance of our own legal restrictions, in other countries whose practices we cannot control — since the quantity raised in our own colonies, under the restrictions against all slave labour imposed by our own Legislature, is obviously inadequate to the supply of these kingdoms—and since the article itself is either a necessary of life, or a luxury almost indis pensable to the comforts of all classes—surely the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER is justified in a pro position for reducing the duties on its foreign pro duce, where grown by free labour, and in thus pro viding for the adequate supply of our own markets. It is curious, however, and instructive moreover, to observe at how serious a sacrifice of principle this apparently simple operation must be performed. Mr. EWART'S proposition amounted, as the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated, to the discontinuance of any distinction of duty whatever, between English colonial and foreign sugars, imported for the supply of the British consumers. But this would be too ex tensive a jump for free trade, it seems, to be permitted to take at. once ! And yet, if the CHANCELLOR'S modified application of Mr. EWART'S principle be good, the principle itself, unmodified, must be better ? But Mr. MILES is prepared to show, not only that such principle could not be adopted coincidently with the longer existence of our West Indian inte rest and its relations, but that the protecting duty of 10s. per cwt., still- retained by the CHANCELLOR in their favour, is altogether insufficient ; and that, if the foreign sugars are to be admitted at 345., our . own sugars should come in at a reduced duty of 205. , to insure them a more equitable preference or priority of the home market. Mr. GOULBURN and Sir Ro- BERT PEEL, intimating their decided opposition to any such reduction, yet broadly admit that the resolutions of the former, in favour of foreign sugars, are calculated to work;.a great, but an unavoidable hardship, on the British West Indian interest. Finally, Lord J. RUSSELL happily enforces the folly of persevering in any such futile attempts to discriminate between foreign slave st wet bug - az - , Luau lisle %u Mlgur Llie pluuut...c va free labour. He is sarcastically sceptical about the genuineness of American "certificates." lie appre hends that the Right Hon. Gentleman's scheme could only be carried into practical execution by converting Custom-house officers into office-bearers of Dissenting congregations, or tide-waiters into waiters on PRO VIDENCE. And the House concurs, apparently, in the justice of his Lordship's reasoning, though it re jects his amendment. 'We ourselves may think that the Noble Lord was tempted to handle his subject with somewhat too much of levity ; but he did his bidding very ably; and we can make large allowances for his -vigorous perception of the absurdities into which the trammels of our colonial policy are continually plunging us. But the resulting truth is, we must be content to take, thankfully, the portion of good which the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER can spare us in this matter ; and we honestly believe that he would have given more, but for the disabilities under which any statesman labours who has to deal with interests —however important to the empire, as one of its in tegral bodies—that have once been tainted in their elements and relations with the guilt of slavery. The Banner of Ulster contains the following re marks, in reference to the Government Landlord and Tenant Commission :--" This Commission are not to report, it is now understood, during the current ses sion. The question which most deeply interests the tenantry of Ireland is to be left over for another year, and perhaps indefinitely postponed. The remon strances of the press were successful in compelling the shadow of inquiry, but the shadow refuses to be embodied in any palpable shape, at least for twelve months, and the investigations of the press must be recommenced. The report is delayed on account, it is said, of the importance attached to the subject, and the anxiety of the Commissioners to avoid rash recommendations. The importance of the matter cannot be doubted, and the anxiety to recommend no course without due consideration is highly laudable ; but the loss by delay should not be forgotten. People want to know whether they are really placed in favourable or unfavourable circum stances. The majority of the farmers are perfectly confident that an improvement could be made, but then they want to know whether it will be effected." When this important Commission, from which so much has been, and still continues to be, expected, was first issued, it was concluded as a matter of course, that no time world be lost by the Commissioners in putting the public into possession of the result of their inquiries ; and now, it appears, that no report is to be issued for the space of twelve months—a rnostinjurious delay, considering the present excited state of Ireland. The very importance of the question is the hest reason why no dilatoriness should be manifested by the Com missioners. It is not expected of them that they should issue their report with railway speed, but surely there is no good cause why they should delay it for the space of one entire year. The truth is, Government in this, as in every other question con nected with Ireland, seem unwilling or afraid to show anything like activity or decision. They are in earnest only in coercion, and shrink with the utmost sensitiveness from the adoption of any step that wears a conciliatory aspect. They have no hesitation in putting down the monster meetings and sending Mr. O'CONNELL to prison, but they cannot find it in their hearts to apply a remedy to the admitted grievances which caused those meetings, and have been the means of arming the Liberator—despite his incarceration— with all but sovereign authority. The session is now more than half over; the House will probably rise about the beginning of August, in order that the amusements of the sporting gentlemen may not be interfered with ; and what, let us ask, has been done— what will be done for the benefit of the sister coun try ? The answer is soon given —nothing—abso- lutely nothing ! The Registration Bill—such as it is—is abandoned, or on the eve of abandonment ; the result of the inquiries of the Landlord-and-Tenant Commission will be an Elensinian mystery for the protracted space of twelve months, during which period agrarian disturbances will of course con tinue in their old spirit; and as for that colossal nuisance the Irish Church Establishment, "it needs no ghost from the grave" —as HAMLET says—to assure us that it will be permitted to exist in all its present enormity. When such is the policy—say, rather, the no - policy—pursued by the PEEL Cabinet towards the sister country, can we wonder that the repeal agitation progresses; that the indomitable THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE li, 1844. spirit of O'CONNELL, though he himself is locked up within the four walls of a Penitentiary, pervades every quarter of the country, infusing hope into the timid, quickening the energies of the hesitating, and arming the bold with additional determination of purpose; and that the repeal rent turns in without the slightest appearance of abate ment, to the amount of several 11undred pounds a week ? Doubtless Ministers' confidently calculate on the gradual subsidence of this popular ferment ; but they will find themselves, we suspect, wholly mistaken in their calculations ; repeal—thanks to their blundering, vacillating, suicidal policy—is fast becoming a principle—a faith—a religion with the vast mass of the Irish community ; and that move ment on the part of Government which it was hoped would crush itnamely, the imprisonment of Mr. O'CONNELL—is the very step which will be the means of imparting to it a tenfold impetus. Accounts from Madrid zre to the 2d inst. Queen IsAnELLA arrived in Barcelona on the Ist. Though the Royal party did not land till half-past ten at night, Queen CHRISTINA with Queen ISABELLA im mediately proceeded in the midst of crowds of citi zens and soldiers to the cathedral, where they conti nued singing Te Dems and praying before the sanc tuary of St. Eulalia till midnight. The reception of their MAJESTIES, though not particularly warm, seems to have been satisfactory. The alarm created by the measures of M. MoN, so far from diminishing, appears to be on the increase. At a meeting of capitalists, held at the Bank of St. Fernando, on the 2d, a committee was appointed to confer with the Finance Minister upon the subject. A loan has been offered to the Government to the amount of 1,500,000,0 00 of reals to meet its present exigencies, but it would appear that M. MoN hesi tates about the terms. If matters are not soon ar ranged, there is every probability of a break-up of the Moderado part, and it is difficult, in the present circumstances of the country, to foresee the result. The Envoy Extraordinary of the Sublime Porte landed, from the Fenicio, Marseilles steamer, on the 2d. The troops concentrated at Barcelona on the occasion of the QUEEN'S visit amounted to about 8,500 men. The funds" continued to decline, the Three per Cents, closing at 26.1 for cash,_and at 27 at 60 days; the Five per Cents., at 201 at 60 days ; the Float ing Debt, at 441 at 30 days; the Coupons at 23 at 60 days; and the Debt without interest at 51 for cash, and 6/ at 60 days. The Paris journals of Saturday are again occupied by the affairs of Algiers, with regard to which, how ever, any new or positive information has not been obtained. The Courrier attributes the increased energy shown by the Arabs in their hostility to the French, to the interference of England, the Emperor of MOROCCO having been incited to the declaration of the " holy war" by the British Consul in that country. " British hostility," says the (?eurrier, " conspires secretly with the natives whom we have conquered, and with their neighbours, who are in dignant at seeing a country of Islam under Christian domination. The English fan the animosity of the children of MAILOMRT against France. For the last fourteen years Great Britain has made war upon us in Africa. Four Consuls are the generals of this campaign of the Cabinet of St. James's against us—the Consuls of Tangiers, Algiers, Tanis, and Tripoli." _ _ . i. private letter gives the following account of the massacre of the little garrison of Biscara :—" Ser geant-Major PELISSE, the only man of the French that escaped, either through the facility with which he speaks Arab, or the protection of a Marabout, and his agility in jumping over the walls of the Casbah, relates the melancholy event as follows :—On the 12th, towards two in the morning, some shots were heard,in the plain, and this signal was responded to in the interior of the Casbah. At the same time the conspirators opened the gates to the Khalifat BEL ADJ-HAMET, their former chief, whilst others assas sinated the offioers. Lieutenant PETITGRANS, the officer in command of the camp, was killed in his bed by a Zouave attached to his personal service. Liantartant Conn. •AT AT rag •-•C ruse..w44 -- 1 -0 great courage, who certainly would not have been taken alive if he had not been asleep, was assassinated by the sentry placed at the door of the clothing store, near which he lived. Sur geon MARTIN was killed at the moment he was leaving his room to inform M. PETTIGItAND of the tumult which he heard outside. The corporal received a hall in the groin, and the poor man lingered on for three days, tortured by those monsters, who refused to give him anything to quench the dreadful thirst that devoured him. The dead bodies of all these unfortunates were afterwards dragged to the mosque, and hung up by one foot. They would have been, without doubt, found in this situation, were it not for the energy and courage of a young girl, who re mained in the power of the Khalifat, who himself was present at the carnage and pillage of the Casbah. This girl obtained permission, by dint of supplica tions and prayers, to have them buried. They were accordingly placed in the tomb which contained the body of Captain Boadr, killed two months previously at the Aures mountains. This tomb was the only thing they respected." The place has been retaken, and given up for two days, to pillage, by the French soldiers. The revolt and massacre above alluded to formed on Thursday evening the subject discussed in the Cham ber of Deputies. Marshal SOULT read two dispatches from the Duke D'AUMALE, describing the affair, and throwing the blame of it upon the two officers who had been its victims, and whose neglect or want of caution would certainly appear to justify the accusa tion. The National, however, regards the charge as ungracious, disingenuous, and unfair, on the part of the youthful General, and, coupling it with the late narrow escape of his Royal Highness from being made prisoner, argues against intrusting a command so important to a young man of his inexperience. In Friday's sitting, the Chamber of Deputies dis cussed the Bill lately presented by the Government for improving several of the French ports. A sum of 18,980,000 f. was voted for Marseilles, and another of 1,800,000 f. rejected, which had been demanded for the opening of a maritime canal from Bouc to Martigues. The Chamber then adjourned to Monday, owing to the grand theatricaLate to be given by Louis PHILIPPE at Versailles, oft Saturday evening. Some of the Opposition Members, who had not been invited, indignantly opposed this adjournment. The Three per Cents. closed on Saturday at 82f. 45c.; the Five per Cents. at 121 f. 90c.; Spanish Ac tives, 301 ; Passive, 5-1 ; Spanish Three per Cents. were not quoted. THE BOURSE-FRIDAY, JUNE 8. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents l2l 50 121 55 .. 121 45 .• 121 55 Four per Cents. IOS .. 108 .. 108 .. 108 Three per Cents..• Bank of France Belgian Fives, 1831. •••. • • • • 105 105 .. 105 .. 105 1840 lOB .. 106 .. 106 .. 106 Spanish Active . • Passive 5l •• bi .. 5 1 •• 5 1 Portuguese Five per Cents • • 461 •' 46 .. 46; 46 Neapolitan ............. .. 100 .. 100 .. 90 •• 100 Roman • • RAILWAY SHARES. St. 'Germain ...... 885 • • 8 85 • • 885 " • • 885 Versailles, R. 8.. • ••• • • 372 50 .• 375 .. 372 50 375 ~ 250 .. 250 .. 250 • 250 Rouen 990 .. 992 50 .. 990 • • 992 50 Rouen to Maws. • 770 770 .. 762 50 • • 767 50 0r1ean5................... 995 . • 997 50 .. 992 50 • . 992 50 Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 245 246 25 .. 245 • • 246 25 Avignon to Marseilles_ • 770 .. 770 . 770 770 RAILWAY SHARES FOR 15tH JUNE. St. °ennui - ..... ........ 885 • • 885 " 885 885 Yemeni- 377 50 .. 377 50 .. 372 50 376 25 250 Ro nen . 990 252 992 5 5 0 0 2 9, 4 0 7 50 9924 _ • so Rouen to re......,.. , .. 760 .. 770 .. 760 .. 766 25 Orleans 995 .. Inoo .. 995 .. 997 50 Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 246 25 .. 252 50 245 .. 246 25 Avignon to Marseilles,..... 770 .. 770 .. 760 .. 767 50 EGYPTIAN lIALL.—His Grace the Duke of Devon , shim visited the Napoleon Museum yesterday, accom paniedr by a private gen tl em an. rim QUEEN DOWAGER.--BRUSSELS, JUNE 6.—Her Majpty Queen Adelaide had indeed given up the plan of coming to Antwerp, as we have stated, but not her visit to Germany. Her Majesty left London on the 3d, went by way of Dover to Calais and Lisle, and arrived at Coudray on the 4th, whence she came by a special train to Ghent, where she arrived at five o'clock in the afternoon. She was received at the station by the civil and miit.ary authorities, and a com pany of Grenadier s p a id h e r the honours due to her rank. Her Majesty entering the city alighted at the Hotel do la Port, accompanied by Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar and a numerous suite. In the evening she visited the Cathedral of St. Bavon and some other remarkable monuments in the city, and on the sth in the morning Set out by special train to Cologne. A letter from Cologne of the sth says : ' —That her Majesty arrived in that city, and put up at the Royal Hotel, where apartments had, been engaged for her, and her suite. Her Majesty was to proceed the following i morning to Mentz, i n th e Victoria steamer, belopging to the Dusseldorf • Steam Navigation Company, which the - Queen had caused to be engaged some days ago through the LOndon Company. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vittair Optitton. " Who run...i may road." POULIGN. The King of the French on Thursday, accompanied by Generals Athalin and De Rumigny, went to Versailles, after stopping about an hour at the Palace of Saint Cloud. His Majesty did not return to .Neuilly till eight o'clock. In the evening their Majesties received the Austrian and Belgian Ambassadors, the Wurtmiberg Minister, Marshal Vale, Counts De Breteuil, De Mornay, and De Montesquiou, Baron d'Effaudis, Generals Hecquet and De Mornay, and M. Terme, Deputy. General Prim (Count de Reuss) arrived at Bordeaux from Spain on Tuesday last, on his way to Paris and London. lle ii said to have received leave of absence for four months. The Frankfort Journal states that, according to letters from Constantinople of the 15th ult., the Porte has adopted the preliminaries of a new convention with Persia, through the mediation of England and France. Several artists are reported to have quitted Paris on a mis sion to Africa, for the removal of the Itoman triumphal arch of Djonisah. It is said that it is to be placed in the middle of the Place du Carrousel. M. envier, engineer of the Ponts et Chausss, in the department of the Allier, the nephew of the great naturalist, has just put an end to his life, by means of lighted charcoal. A letter from Montlucon, of the 3d inst., which narrates this melancholy event, states that he had intended to erect his death a week before, but had been prevented by various cir cumstances. He was a well• conducted young man, and fond of his profession. He had left the Polytechnic chool the 12th, and entered the fonts et Chaussees in consequence, with great eclat. The cause of his suicide is supposed to be an insurmountable disgust of lifd. The French dramatic critics of the classic school have just had a signal triumph, in the complete success of Sophocles' tragedy of Antigone, or, rather, of a literal translation, re presented at the theatre of the Odeon ; the celebrated actor, Bocage, played the part of Creon. The preliminary examinations into the revolting affair of the association in the rue du Pot-de-Fer Saint Marcel, which has been marked with the name.of the .Atfaire de la Tour de Nesle, have at length been gone through. Eight of the par ties are to be tried before the Court of, Assizes, and seven be fore the Tribunal of Correctional Police, which last will be brought up on Wednesday next. The rest of the persons ar rested have been discharged for want of sufficient evidence against them. A letter from Rome, of the 25th ult., says :—" The court • martial called on the 26th of August last, to sit at Bologna, has passed judgment on the persons engaged in the revolt of the Bth September last, against their Sovereign and their Government. Three are condemned to the galleys for life ; five to the same punishment for twenty years; twenty-nine for fifteen years ; one for ten years ; and three to imprison ment for three years. The property of the whole foity-one was confiscated, but the Pope has been pleased to remit this part of the sentence. The Refbrine states, that all the Parisian citadels are at present guarded by military, and their entrance forbidden to any person not furnished with a ticket of admission. Towards the close of the present summer all the detached forts will have been completed with the exception of seine barracks in tended for the military. Baroness Pasquier, wife of the Chancellor of France, died at Paris, on Wednesday, in the 83d year of her age. Mr. Balfe,i the composer, received, by 'order of the King of the French, on Thursday last, the great gold medal, bearing his Majesty's effigy, accompanied by a highly complimentary letter fi o:ii Baron Pain, the King's private secretary. COUItT-rasHIONILIS LB. The Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe leave Thomas's Hotel, where they have resided during the season, at the close of this or early in the ensuing month, for Fleurs Castle, near Kelso. The. Archbishop of Armagh entertained at dinner, in Charles-street, on Friday, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs. Howley, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, Lady A. Poulett, Viseount and Viscountess Beresford, Lord lleytes bury, Hon. Miss A'Court, Mr. George and Mrs. Dawson, Mr. O'Brien, Mr. Holford, Captain Jones, &c. The Earl and Countess Beauchamp entertained on Satur day at dinner the Swedish Minister, Count and Countess Bjornstjerna, and other foreigners of distinction ; also the Earl and Countess of Antrim, the Countess of Charleville, &c. In the evening the guests were much gratified by the distinguished vocal talents of Madame Castellan Giampietro, lately arrived in this country. The Marquis of Salisbury entertained the Earl and Countess of Rosebery, Earl and Countess Cowper, Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Lord Ind Lady R.G rosvenor, and a distinguished circle at dinner on Friday last, at his mansion in Arlington street. . Lady Williams has arrived in Grosvenor-square, from Paris. Sir John B. Pechell is still suffering from severe illness. Sir George and Lady Napier have arrived at Warren'. Heel, from the Cape of Good Hope. On Saturday last Sir Loftus and Lady Otway entertained at dinner, at their house in Grosvenor-square, Lord and Lady and Miss Camoys, the Earl of Belfast, Lord William Lennox, Lord and Lady Trimleston, Sir Winston and Lady Barron, Sir John and Lady Paul, Sir W. Clayton, Colonel and Mrs. Ashworth, Hon. Craven Berkeley, Mr. and Mrs. Butler, and Mr. J. Clayton. MISCELLANEOUS. The Governor-General of India, Sir 11. Ilardinge, em barked at Brighton, on Saturday evening, for Dieppe, en route by land to ➢iarseilles, where he embarks for Alex andria. _ The Wells Diocesan Training Sehool from which so much was anticipated on its establishment, about five years ago, is to be finally broken up at the Midsummer quarter. Not withstanding the great sacrifices made by the promoters and superintendents, it has been found impossible to meet the un avoidably large expenses in the absence of assistance from the Committee of Education The directors, being unwilling to incur runner responsibility, nave, thertore, being other re source than at once to abandon the undertaking. A movement has commenced in the extensive and popu• lous parish of Islington, and.. in some feW other places, to carry out the late decision in.the Court of Common Pleas on an appeal from the Revising Barrister's Court, viz., that all lodgers and occupiers of small tenements, although not pay ing the parochial rates, are entitled to the franchise, if they pay a rent of not less than 101. a year, or 4s. per week. A matrimonial alliances is said to be on the tapis between Lord Charles Wellesley, youngest son of the Duke of Welling ton, and the daughter of the Right Hon. H. Pierrepont. The statue of Goethe meets in Frankfort with a similar fate as that of Byron in .London, which has lain in the Cus tom-house for several years. The magistrates of Frankfort did not appoint any place within the town to erect Goethe's statue; it will be placed in a lonely alley, without the gates of the city of his birth. The invitations annually circulated by the Duke of Wel. lington, to those general and other officers who took part in the memorable battle of Waterloo, for the Duke's banquet on the anniversary of that sanguinary struggle, have been issued. It was very generally stated on Saturday, that the Empe ror of Russia had sent for a ticket for the Polish ball, and paid 5001. for it. . At the meeting of the Fell9ws of the Royal Botanical Society, held on Saturday, Sir Thomas Baring, Bart., in the chair, a ballot took place, and the following ladies and gentle men were added to the Society ;—The Marquis of Westmin ster, the Earl .of. Auckland, the Rev. Christopher Erle, Sir Henry Oxenden, Bart., Sir Thomas Rokewood Gage, Bart., James Matheson, Esq., M.P., G. F. Matheson, Esq., Robert 0. Walker, Esq., Thomas Douglasse, Esq., C. Speare Toswill, Esq., the Hon. J. C. Talbot, the Hon. Lady Cockerell, Lady Hume Campbell, Lady Buxton, J. Smith Wright, Esq., J. E. Boulcott, Esq., Mrs. G. B. Carr, Mrs. Cartwright, and Mrs. Elliot. _ _ _ On Saturday, the Lord Bishop of London consecrated another of the new churches of St. Matthew, Bethnel-green, this being the sixth that has been erected in this parish. It is called the Church of St. Bortholomew, and is situated in the Cambridge Heath-road, near the Mile-end turnpike. It is a plan brick building, capable of containing nearly 1,200 persons, the sittings being almost all free. • The receipts of the Great Western Hallway Company, on Thursday last, the cup day at Ascot, which greatly exceeded those upon any former occasion since the line has been opened, amounted to more than 4,100/. The passengers amounted to the extraordinary number of 16,766, in addition to 229 gentlemen's private carriages, and 551 horses. COURT CIRCULAR. His Royal Higness Prince Albert went yesterday morning to the Society of Arts in the Adelphi, for the distribution of prizes. His Royal Highness was attended by Mr. George Edward Anson, Lord George Lennox, and Major-General Sir Edward Bowater. His Majesty the King of Saxony left Buckingham Palace at half-past ten o'clock yesterday morning, at tended by his Excellency Baron Gersdortf, the Earl of Morton, Lord in Waiting ; Lord Charles Wellesley (Clerk Marshal), Equery in Waiting, his Excellency Mons. de Minckwitz, Count Albert Vitzthum, Major Reichart, and Dr. Carus, for the purpose of visiting and inspectinc , a number of the institutions and public build ings of the metropolis. The King viewed the Tothill-fields Prison, the Peni tentiary, the Thames Tunnel, and also went to Lambeth Palace, to pay a visit to the Archbishop of Canterbury awl Mrs. Howley. Soon after the arrival of the King at Lambeth Palace a dejeune was served to his Majesty and suite. The King of Saxony also walked through the Surrey Zoological Gardens, and inspected the interior of the extensive brewery of Messrs. Barclay and Perkins. His Majesty, attended by his suite, returned to Buck ingham Palace at half-past six o'clock in the evening. The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday morn ing in the royal gardens of Buckingham Palace. Their Royal Highn esses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken their accustomed daily airings yesterday in the royal gaidens. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace, yes terday evening, included his Excellency Baron Gers dorff, the Duchess of Buccleuch, the Earl Delawarr, the Earl of Jersey, the Earl of Morton, and Lord Charles Wellesley. Shortly before half-past eight o'clock yesterday even ing, the illustrious party left the Palace in six of the royal carriages for the Hanover-square Room', to honour the performance of the Philharmonic Concert with theirpresence. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, his Majesty the King se.Saxony, and the Duchess of Buccleuch, occupied one of Me carriages. The Royal Suites consisted of the Countess of Gains borough, Lady Caroline Cocks, Hon. Miss Lister, his Excellency Baron Gersdorff, the Earl Dela warr, the Earl of Jersey, Viscount Sidney, the Earl of Morton, the Hon. Charles A. Murray, Lord Charles Wellesley, Admiral Sir Robert Otway, Colonel .Arbuthnot, Major-General Sir Edward Bowater, Mon sieur de Minckwitz, Count Albert Vitzthurn, Baron de Reichert, and Dr. Carus. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major Stephens, honoured the performance of the Philharmonic Concert, at the Hanover square Rooms, with his presence yesterday evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge honoured the performance of the French plays with her presence yesterday evening. • A deputation, including the Rev. Dr. Stewart, the Rev. Dr. Cooke, Mr. Boyd, and Mr. Macreny, had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday, at his official aesidence in Downing-street, Sir George Napier (lately Governor of th Q C ape o f Good Hope) - had an interview with Lord Stanley yester day, at the Colonial-oflice. Baron de Moncorvo, Portuguese Minister, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign -office. . Dispatches were:received yesterday at the Colonial office, from the Governor of NeW South Wales, and also from the Governor of Van Dieman's Land. AMERICAN NEWS. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVENING. The fine packet-ship Queen of the West, Captain Woodh use, arrived here to-day from New York, with intelligence to the 21st ult., five days in advance-of the last packet. The treaty for the annexation of Texas was still before the Senate ; but that body, feeling the inconvenience of discussing it with closed_doors, it had been resolved to admit the press in order to report the proceedings. General Cass, one of the candidates for the Presidency, and recently Ambassador at the Court of the Tuileries, had, in a published letter, declared in favour of the an nexation. The President had addressed a message to the Senate, in which he declares that he had sent a ma ritime force to the Gulf of Mexico, and - provided a land force on the f Intim of Mexico, in case that Republic should have declared war against the United States on account of the annexation project. This message hid been violently assailed by the opponents of Mr. Tyler, who is declared to have acted most illegally in doing all this in the dark, without acquainting Congress with his movem( nts, and his impeachment is loudly called for. Bishop Hughes, of New York, had addressed a long letter to the Morning Courier relative to the Philadelphia riot, pointing out the political causes in which they ori ginated, and showing that the violent sectarian animosity of which they were the result, had been encouraged by certain parties for political purposes. The writer is ►he Catholic Bishop of New York. The various electioneering manoeuvring to get certain favourite candidates adopted by the Baltimore Conven tion, which were about meeting in that city, increased the nearer the time approached. The annexation ques tion seems to have thrown both parties into an anoma lous position. As regards Mr. Tyler, who introduced it, no party seems inclined to take him by the hand, although it is clear that an eye to his re-election was the guiding feeling in that movement. In all probability Mr. Van Buren will be the democratic candidate—whe ther he will be the next President is another question. It is stated by parties who profess to look only at the result, irrespective of party bias, that Mr. Clay's chances of success have been strengthened by that apple of dis cord—the annexation. The Provincial Parliament of Canada is summoned for the 26th of June. The neighbourhood of Montreal had been the , scene of two slight shocks of earthquakes. The Cotton market at New York was in a depressed state ; the Stock market, which had been very lethargic, was improving, and business upon the whole is repre sented as being in a sound, if not thriving condition. LATEST. COMMERCIAL NEWS. NEW YORK, MAY 21.—Little business is doing in foreign exchanges, which are dull at 1081 to 109 on London, and 5 27i on Paris. _ . . _ _ The foreign advices received yesterday do not appear to have had any effect . upon our markets. Cotton is inactive at former prices. Tho weather continues unfavourable for out-door opera tions, consequently the transactions in Flour are limited— prices, however, are firm. Genessee 4 dolls. 75c. ; Ohio and Michigan, 4 dolls. 624 c. to 4 dolls. 75c. ; Brandywine and Georgetown, 5 dolls.; Baltimore, Howard-street, - Richmond County, Alexandria and Fredericksburg, 4 dolls. 87ic. to 5 dolls. ; Rye Flour, 3 dolls. 12ic. ; Cora Meal, 2 dolls. 62ic. to 2'dolls. 75c. The, market is well supplied with Southern Corn—i,9oo bushels sold at 48c. measure, and 2,500 bushels at 49e. ; 150. bbls. Pot Ashes were taken at 4 dolls. 3lic. ; 50 bbls. Pearls, 4 dolls. 75c. (From the New York Herald, May 21.) Stocks advanced to-day very much. The sales were rather limited, but prices show a very great improvement. Norwich and Worcester advanced 10 per cent.; Stonington 4 do; ' Long Island, Ido • Canton, sdo ; Ohio 6's, do ; Illinois, # ; Farmer' Trust, 1; Mohawk, 1* ; Pennsylvania, s's, 4; Indiana, 4, since last sale. Kentucky 6's closed firm at Saturday's prices. This rapid rise is almost unprecedented. It is undoubtedly caused by the course adopted by the banks in extending their discounts. There is very little else doing in Wall-street, but Stock operations and speculators are in fine, spirits. FLANDERS MAIL. GOTHENBURG, JUNE I.—A salute of ' artillery an nounced the arrival, yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, of his Majesty. We need hardly say that the streets through which he passed were crowded with thousands of citizens, who received him with loud acclamtnations, and surrounded the carriage, on which showers of bouquets were thrown. To-day the King is to lay the first stone of the new Exchange. The enthusiasm of the people is boundless. RUSSIAN FRONTIERS, MAY 23.—According to the latest accounts, the war in the Caucasus will .be carried on with greater energy than ever its soon as the army now there is reinforced by the fifth corps of infantry. The Emperor has thought it necessary lately to issue a proclamation to the troops, in which he is pleased to express a hope that they will show -themselves, in the field of honour, worthy of Lis Majesty's expectation, and endeavour to draw on themselves the entire attention if his Majesty the Emperor. POsEx, MAY 31.—A great sensation has been caused here by a remark of the German journal of this city. It states that the sudden journey of the Emperor of Russia (though accounts from St. Petersburgh received a few days ago, said that he would not leave the Empire this year), is connected with his plan to abolish the kingdom of Poland, and to incorporate the country with the Empire, and give it the name of a Russian Go vernment. What ground there may be for this intelli gence is not stated, and we must wait to see whether it is anything more than an idle report; it is,',however cal culated to excite the greatest alarm amongst the Poles ' • for if the name of the kingdom o f P o l an d; i s once struc k off thelist of European kingdoms, it will soon be com pletely Russianised. The name is of great importance in these matters. Judging by th e consistent conduct of the Russian Government in Poland hitherto, such a step may certainly be expected in time, if not so soon. ConLErrz, MAY 31.—1 t is said that the - Address to O'Connell, which has been circulated in several towns of the province of the Rhine, has given occasion to some discussion between the English and • Prussian Govern ments. HANOVER, JUNE s.—Mr. Charles Frederick William Evers, our Synde having been chosen by the magistrates of this capital, and presented to his Majesty as Director of the City, his Majesty has been pleased to confirm 'his election to this important office. This being the King's birth-day, who completes his 74th year, his Ma jerty has created a new distinction in honour of fifty years military service, and gave it the name of the Cross of Ernest Augustus. The first officer who receives this cross is his Royal Highness the Duk• of Cam bridge.—Hamburgle Papers. A " LEETLE" OVERSIGHT OF SIR ROBERT PEEL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Our inestimable Premier, lost in the profun dity of his never-to-be-sufficiently -stared-at contri vances, about the circulation, has, alas ! overlooked one microscopic interest—that of the depositor ! The vast resources of the Minister's mind have been exhausted to provide for the safety of A. 8., the holder of perhaps three five-pound notes ; but C.D., who has, possibly deposited fifty or a hundred thousand pounds with his bankers, is left to take care of himself as he can. The ratio of deposits to circulation varies im mensely—being low in manufacturing, very high in agricultural, districts. - In two cases, under my immediate observation, the proportion is, in one instance, a thousand pounds' de posit to a hundred pounds' circulation ; in the other two thousand to a hundred pounds. Let us imagine a scene.—The Hon. Mr. Rentscrew, proprietor of 6,000 acres in the county of ' --- has occasion to draw out 50,000/, of the 100,0001. he has deposited with the Messrs. Flash and Grasp, the Tory bankers of Rentscrew would not trust his money to Whig free traders), and walks into the bank one fine morning for the purpose. The nature of his business being un known, he is, of course, bowed into the room of the principal partner, who receives him with the blandest smiles, congratulates him on the last division in the House, &c. But, alas ! business must come at last ; and what a change "comes o'er the spirit of the dream" of the hitherto smiling Mr. Flash ! After much fumbling with the watch-chain, and biting of the pen, Mr. F. is at at length obliged to confess that the 100,0001. of the Hon. Mr. Rentscrew must be numbered with the things which were ; that the firm had speculated deeply in American bonds, which the Yankees had nobly repudiated (" base is the slave who pays"), and that the said firm, issuing only Bank of England notes, or sovereigns , and being ther e fo r e free from the supervision and suspicion of numerous small holders of its securities, had been enabled to go on till the ratio of its assets to its liabilities was as one to seven hundred and fifty-seven ! In this case, what benefit will Mr. Rentscre w d er i ve from Sir Robert's regulations of the Bank of Eng land, his "issue department," fourteen millions based on •Government debt, &c.?—Yours, &c., COMMON SENSE. COLLISION OFF BLACKWALL.—On Sunday evening, shortly after seven o'clock, a serious occurrence took place on - the River, off Blackwall-pier. A waterman, named Guard, who had charge of a barge used for supplying fresh water to ships, and which was moored in the Thames im mediately facing the entrance of the East India Docks, had just left his craft in a boat with his three sons, when he noticed the Waterman steamer, No. 10, coming from Woolwich, making for Bl ac k wa ll , an d t h e C oquette steamer leaving the latter pier, 'and steering, round with the tide so as to proceed on to Greenwich. Seeing the close proximity of the two vessels, and being desirous of gaining the shore, he thought it the most prudent comic to lay to, so that both steamers might clear him ; for, by pulling out into the stream, he might come in contact with the Waterman No. 10, and by .rowing'clear of the water barge, he might also come in .collision with the Coquette. The former steamer cleared him some yards, but the latter came in contact • with the frail craft, and as quickly capsized it, throwing immediately Guard and his three sons into the river. The Coquette was stopped, and a rope was lowered from her bows by one of the crew, which was caught. hold of by Guard, who managed to keep himself afloat as well as one of his younger . sons. Before this, however, the eldest, perceiving that the boat would be run down, prudently caught hold of the bulwarks of the steamer, and thereby rescued himself. Guard tied the rope that was thrown to him round the body of the boy, who was safely haule.l on board, and he then scrambled up the side of the vessel on to the deck. It was found that another of the boys was missing, and in the next moment be was seen floating just by the paddle-box, and a waterman's boat, which had arrived at the spot, promptly picked him up, although in a very exhausted state. Nothing was afterwards seen of the skiff. The waterman and his sons were speedily taken ashore, and removed to their homes. The Coquette is the property of the Blackwall Railway Com pany. In ' the early part of the afternoon, another vessel, called the Flirt, belonging to the .same Company,was much damaged through-coming'in eollisionyoff.l3lackwall, - with the Meteor, Gravesend steamer.. - BRITISH INSTITUTIDN. We attended on ; Saturday a private view 0 1 Exhibition, which was opened.tathe public Ye st " er t The pictures are,___for the. most -- part; the ductions of the . old .masters of th e SPLun s ii Flemish, Dutch, and French schools, -and thoubl not quite so numerous as usual, are remark' 1 1 well . selected, making up in quality for 'Whai t the ,;( want in quantity. There are'some fine specimens... Canaletti, and one or two first-rate.Ruysdaels , te d thing of some landscapes by Wouvermans, the most carefully finished m anner of that great il f tl4. s o' Hawking •Party in a Landscape, in particular,. I) , ler most striking production of his pencil we li t ive seen, and the colouring is in excell en t preset being as fresh as if , it had been painted only nt years since. The. spacious . foreground, u'hi_,,,tse" covered with gracefully dispOsed groupes of spa e xrcu ol men, displays infinite skill_ of manageme nt ' 1 ,0 nothing can surpass the ease and propriety-wit h w T be a very difficult perspective is handled. ost picture is full of life and bustle; and of the 'yr cheerful character possible. Head of a Rabb i hibits much of that impressive expression and of shad-,w for which Rembrandt is so retnarhltdia The Discovery of Calisto is one of Titian's sP le ly pieces of colouring ; the flesh tints of the fel t , figures are exquisitely true to life, and the n il tudes full of 'grace and ease. Cleopatra Sebastian del Piombo; The countenance of boi Egyptian Queen realises all one's conceptions of o i voluptuous beauty, but there is rather 008 the blonde than the brunette about it. Red ns from the Chase is another of Wouveraold lively and spirited productions; the canvass is• filled ; without being crowded. Landscape by 11; dael is painted with matchless truth and vigour . hrs . still sheet of water in front, overhung by tali , u n ', - 0 J geous.trees, shows some wonderful e ff ects of lig h— t o shade ; and the rough, knotted bark of the be eche „%t the right of the' Spectator prove with what sins i d minuteness S and fidelity this observant artis t °P oo nature. Head of our Saviour . possesses ° ll 11 0 divine repose and beauty of- expression bib Guido knew so well how to impart. t o , , c r r li, sacred portraits. The Sybil's Temple , / i r e is one of Salvator Rosa's picturesque ", 13 , f ed Mantic productions. The entire fOregroun a ,if tn icif finely executed.; The Marriage of the Doge 0 .1 is . a...very--. gorgeous pictUre, painted in C° 115 ., 0 9 5 most careful style. • The LastSUpper is by 11 ° ;,at a first-rate work of art. The best portion ot least the most expressive—is,the face and fig ur° oo , traitor, Judas. Portrait tf the Cardinal ,: ~ by. Guido is ricbiy,.,l?ut chastely, coloured, on I of calm dignity: Of the remaining Pictures th e n i;s striking are those 'by „, y Berghem, Vandervel , and Wouvermans. UNE YANJLI Cuiv MtaCIAL r s4P • CITY, MONDAY E ll it/ i ll The Public Securities, close rather better th' l c l ' o , ol: '' AA' morning, as we anticipated would be the ease' , e .sn' ti o 98* to for the opening, and Reduced ,rt . t Half per Cents., 1011. The Unfunded Del" 3e same as in the Morning. Spanish Bonds also improved, going ev en nt: - ; ft ; above Saturday's values. The Fi,e p e r Ce, find 221 to *, and the Three' per Cent- , „ 33i to 33Pids Fete time up to 34. , Portuguese 13 , 111 Conveited se' marked 464 to Colombian were I3i to were firm at 118. 1/'il hal l ' 44 The additional transactions in Railway S afternoon were as follows : —D u blin and Co s soul,. Great Western, Half, 28 • Birmingham, 12 1 ,; , e e35 ,3 ;:i Western, 46* ; Croydon, 5 9 ; Manchester and Ditto, New, 134 ; Ditto, Quarter, 7 ; No r rte, D to Eastern, 1:i. ; Trent Valley, 5* ; South-Eas „ s, 64 ; Yarmouth and Norwich, 41 • Scarboro n gd 17 ; Paris and Orleans, 18i ; and Rouen as all IG premium. Brighton, 2i.; and Greenvei c "' ; AO J count. Australasia Bank Shares were 3.11- to of Australia, 2 ; and Provincial of Ireland, ""' British North American, El discount. (From The Sun of Last Night.) 00 eit i The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday iver e , t tba rate scale. Prices were firmly maintained, at at tePool amounted to 3,500 bales. Dovor Shares were in iies;; o o , a good business was doing in French. Other s',; JOT without alteration. Dublin and Cashel, 5; Gralius, 220 ; Birmingham, 221 to 220 ; Paris and Lyon 1° 1 Si. 16s. 6d; Lyons and Avignon, St to , 0° The American advices received to-day, as . to Tyler's having sent a fleet to the Gulf of cited surprise, and; in some quarters, a little an l . l ".ill sf e Af' Congress is against the annexation of Texas, it doubt, be against such a demonstration. Trade s c but the banks are said to be issuing too much paP e i r ies 4 . 4 :ser , Much indignation is excited in the.City_bY;ilt. 'or from Lisbon, ' of the continued impnsonment ' late, t bi the British merchant, accused of fermenting tu. e i 10)'" break, but who has never vet be e n b roug ht to t e r: ar e conduct of Lord Howard de Walden, unless thee`glP cumstances of a very peculiar character as yet une c plr isnot considered to 6e easily justified. 't 50 The arrivals from all quarters continue large, b u lllereo in a few instances they bring anything late, _'• ot 0 1 :00 dates to April 16, from the Cape of Good weathar was excessively sultry, and in one g at i" eastern province locusts had again appeared'oo et c ceP t ‘ not seem that much damage had been done. " - 0 per on London for Treasury bills at 30 days was to o premium. nareflete We see nothing of interest in the Port Phill,P ee l , sth February. The colonists were evincing M u ' A iu their agricultural and pastoral pursuits. at A , o pe, The Funds have opened flatly to-cleert, f o r ' At tie; of to per cent. on Saturday's ra n g", the • and this is considered to be the effect 0 . eltder can news respecting Texas, together, erbsP" the r V and ff li indifferent accounts from the Peninsu l a, o pect of a war between France and Morocco, bi me depot', though not ourselves.involved, we must .feel so cons°/,b.eqg interest. For special Transfer and Mont e ri vist;,„le o ,, been 99 - to A, and for Account 98i to 98. 1 ' i _ at A 5. 1 , 4 that there is very little business doing, and t i' ar iet s ve; demand for stock would no doubt rally the v i lla hs,Aci4 recover all that has been lost. Exchequer F„. 0 0 n tinned at 71s. to 735. pnatium, The Reducedii i i, 0 . 9 . 1 4 Half per Cents. have been marked 1011 t ° e firm) 4 Three per Cents. 98i to Bank Stock has be n _ n gat or o t o We have not had much doing in the Fore'6-- ie 0e.+ 5 , 5 i prices share, from similar causes, the deer esl „ i i to to f f Funds. Spanish Actives have been down r( 1-- do pen the Three per Cents. to'33f Mexican hav,l oe cerntu,l and 35. Colombian are 13A. Portuguese pod Centesio been dull at 46i, and Dutch Two-and •a-Halfl3'_d gett The Railway Shares are in fair request , I' bits .o7 e / fully previous rates. *ll,---s 1060 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, wit.P 1 1 a fair business to-day, and the week clo ses Q cb prices. Manchester and Birmingham, 57 .,te.; tte , Salo prem.; Manchester and Leeds, 103 ; 43; Paris and Lyons, 31. Ils.; Midland c° un CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. .......... Bask Stock 1549% Indian Fonda.o 3 per Cent. Red ...... ..... 96% Ditto a • Any, 3 per Cent. Cons. 3per Cent. Red lol4' Ditto New A,,,12R New 3% per Cent 'l Ex. Bills, ..... ql New 5 per Cent Ditto 500 1 •••"": . :•." Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ............... to, Jan Iql9 l2 7.16 Bank Stock for Oct. 1859 Consols for 014,i;t.„. Jan. 1860 lndia Stock for ' • FOREIGN FUNDS. j per Cen t . Austrian. 5 per Cent Portugu ese 'pitio ...... 11' Belgian, 5 per Cent ~....,,. Ditto, New co t • ... Brazilian Bonds .......... ..... Prussian , 5 PCcrit'' ... Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent.. Russ i a n, 5 per ..... C per Cent Ditto, Metal!! e .... .... Colombian, 6 per Cent 13% Spanish, 5 Pej ent . . Ditto 1824 ... Ditto, 3Pc ......... t . . ... /: Cuba Bonds , 6 pet Cent ' — Ditto, Defeerrr Ceo l "''' • • 'r Danish, 3 per Cent 381( i French, 51 Greek, 18:5, 5 Ce nt ent. /Exchane i ce• nt• Mexican, 5 per 1837.......,...... iFrenchq e C en t Ditto, 6 per Cent., — Dutch, - - cot •••• Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent... Ditto, 5 per gl • SHARES. 49;4 Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) ...... ........... • .................. Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid ................... Chester and Holyhead ( paid) ....................... j!! Dublin and Cashel, 2 )4 paid ..••• ............. .••••• 1?J Eastern_Counties (23 paid) . .................... ........ Ditto Registered (8/65 Bcl paid) .................... ,5 4 Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 ........... , (Treat. Western (75 paid) ................. Ditto Half Shares (50 paid) .........................• .. Ditto Fifths, 12 paid .......... ............ ••• ..... London and Birmingham (Stock) .............. ..... London and Blackwall (161. 13s. 4d.) ........ 1 4i Lon ion and Brighton (50 paid) ..••••••••'"', ......• .. Ditto Loan Notes, 10 paid ................. ........ London and Greenwich (1•21. lbs• 44 . pa P ai d) •'' Londoa and South Western (411. 66. 14 London and Croydon (Trunk) ................• •.• Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) .• „•"•• Ditto, Half Shares, SO paid • .... . ................. r Northern and Eastern (45 paid) ......... „ South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4tl Ditto New Shares ( 4 paid) .............. Trent Valley, '2 paid ........... ... .............. .. Yarmouth and Norwich ( 18 paid) ..... ....... York and Scarborough Branch (936 0 1 .......... Paris and Orleans NO paid) ....................... Rouen and Havre , IU pa id ........ st/rAf VISIT OF THE ICING' OP SAIItIIOOa ' :50'14beP, THE ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL tx t jesty and suite visited these garu erj r ' ou ' i lds, 0.1,45 Majesty was escorted through . the p▪ lease d Il d prietor, Mr. Tyler, to whom w tb himself in terms of the higliestesonitdiseinacTtii°ollle.lls tic picture of " London in the ed, 0/ . who rem' en. so. t , admired by his Majesty, had ,t se o r) , ri s most wonderful production he oce,f,te, FATAI ACCIDENT ON .7 1 _ .. j ‘ 0 ,, s hip Tor k e r t morning, shortly before 2 o'clock, London, o o f! o t , Dangerfield master, on her y y 4 Zto London , • om r o if; for` ` is waiting for the tide to procee a wit h 0%09 0 tv! 10,5 1 , t o end, a large lighter, heavilyal s „ le: time, shce s toce iou s and, a fresh breeze blowing ti a the concussion, that the lighthesersabZdsicasgwteirieteer::eortd_tildepesi‘l less than two minutes, notwit Ae „ crew, she filled and went dowr! _7 l . l ; r rove e l▪ Y the st ei t ' t iogol consisting of two.men and A D°) drowned by taking to the bo at e : t o ta f c a b b e r n ig t :fe e k el ts i ; o l o p : o _ er . be add, assistance,that n h n i e l s o t ft them, n c timed 0 .- e t ; e r p l o. t r o egre r e nder ard was drowned. No Warn the a t was bolStv 0 • rtv master of the Ruby, as she signal light _.,0 0 lying at anchor, and had a r 1! 8 .,„,.b0tT 4 or fic il (), FATAL ACCIDENT , Nn.afternoon,29;intghrnepe ,oyElhiloctt;utsidoevtdaseii'aiiironissnc,tl;;;ltgaisitr:et!,,,rJ,b,fref o ff the r , a ra te 1' ter. west bre wa z s e, abob a e n uat ci t when mer from r to reel w the Royal Adelaide steamer, , t bet jeep ,e made caused the itg w i _ great swell she of ta ck wo do wn P re ss iie e of water, and while in - the =, " she went ,3110 Dogs and Greenwich Hoe g 8 : 0 „ it ) 0 0! .406 1 Three of the crew ran into the rtb po vfo r , an d , ri p boats which put off to their r e _ e es n r ' lit Jo was in the cabin et the time of t he. -.7 been drowned. About twen t y re r . • remain above water. ~ J ,... ~n . wi t 4 em ;,be • kr,