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COMPLETE HISTORY OF TILE CHINESE WAR, Now ready, in 2 vols. S vo., with Maps and Plates, 325. bound, NARRAT IV E of the VOYAGE and SERVICES of "THE NEMESIS," From 1840 to 1843; And of the combined Naval and Military OPERATIONS IN CHINA; Comprising a Complete Account of the Colony of HONG-KONG, and Renaurks on the Character and Habits of TIIE CIIINESE, &C. From the Notes of Ccaunander W. H. HALL, R.N., with Pers onal O/7-'r atten ,- . , In - 7". D. FsERNARD, Esq., A.M., Oxon. " This is probably the most important publication that has ap peared respecting our late contest with China. In all that relates to the Nemesis especially, and to the naval operations of the expedition, It is replete with the most lively and stirring interest. The author grasps a subject which many others have only been able to play with:' --Naval and Military Gazette. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TOMORROW EVENING, MAY 14, Will be pertormed Herold'e Chef d'oeuvre, ZAMPA. Camill I, Madame Persiani; Rita, Madame Bellini ; Zamp a, Sig nor °marl ; Alfonso, Signor Corclli ; D an iel Capuzzi, Signor 1. Lablache; and Dandola, Signor Lablache. To conclule Kith the Grand Ballet,: in Six Tableaux, by M. Perrot,entit led ONDINE, ou, LA NAIADE. The Scenery b; Mr. W. Grieve. The music compos ed by Signor Pugni. Principal cl•aractcts by Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlle. Scheffer, Mille. Fer. dinand, Mdlle. Plunket, Mdlle. Barrille, and Mdlle. Adelaide Frassi ; M. Pertot, M. Montassu, and M. St. Leon. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at th e Box Ott,c..„ Opera tv,lcunade. Doors open at Seven. The Opera will commence at Halt.past Seven. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, are re-. included in informed that there will be an e xtra Ni g ht (not in the Subscription) on THURSDAY NEXT , M a y 16, when will be performed Mozart's chef dceuvre IL DON GIOVANNL Donna Anna, Madame Grisi ; Donna Elvira, Mdlle. Favantl; Zerhna. Madame Fersiani ; Don Giovanni, Sig. Fornasari ; Le-. paten°, Sig. Lablache; Masetto, Sig. F Lablache; II Comman datore, Sig. Felice ; and Don Ottavio, Sig. Mario. To concaide with ALMA. Alma, Madame Cerito. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box office, Opera-colonnade. • THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANF FOR THE BENEFIT OF MISS CLARA WEBSTER. THiS EVENING, MAY I; Will be performed the opera of the BOHEMIAN GIRL Count Areheim, Mr. Barran': Thaddeus, Mr. %V. Harrison ; Devilshoof. Mr. Horocastle ; Arline. Miss Rainforth ; Queen of the Gipsies, Mi•s Betts. After the Cpera, tl.c Last Scene of LUCIA DI LAMMER MOOR. FAlgardo, Signor Salvi ; Raimondo, Mr. Boranni. To eonclude with the revival Grand Fairy Ballet, entitled THE REVOLT OF THE HAREM. Mahomet, Mr. Howell; Ismael. M. Silvain ; Myssouf, Mr. W. H. Payne, Z u lma, Mdlle. Lucile Grahn ; Zebka , Mdlle. Clara Webster ; The Genius of the Harem, Madame Giubilei. Ureas Boxes 75.. Second (rice 3s. 6d.; Upper Circles of Bozes Second Price as.; Pit as :lecond Price Qs.; Middle Gallery Second Price ls. ; Upper dallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE. • THIS EVENING, MAY 13, Will be revived the Comedy of LONDON ASSURANCE, Sir Harcourt Courtly, Mr. W. Farren ; Max Harkaway, Mr. Strick land; Dazzle, Mr. Charles Mathews; Mark Meddle, Mr. Webster; Mr. Spanker, Mr. Buckstone; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett; Grace Harkaway, Miss Julia Bennett; Pert, Mrs. Humby. I o be followed by a New, Original, Occasional, and Local Extra vaganza, founded on Fact, entitled THE DRAMA AT HOME; or, An Evening with Puff: Principal Characters by Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. J. Bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mrs. Glover, Miss P. Horton, and Miss Lee. To conclude with TOM NODDY'S SECRET. Orchestra Stalls, be. ; Boxes, he. ; Pit, 3e. ; Gallery. Is.; Upper Gallery. Is. Half-price—Boxes, 3s. ; Pit 2.5.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6tl. Doors opened at Half.past Six, and the Performances euvnine . Ace at Seven Tickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box ()Ince, from Ten till Five. • PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, MAY 13, Will be performed LA SO NNAM BULA. Amina, Miss Grant; Lisa, Miss 1.; Homier; Elvino, Mr. Allen. Tu. which will be added GONE TO TEXAS. To be followed by a New Farce, called CUT FOR PARTNERS. Alto which, BOMBASTES FURIOSO. THEATRE ROY LYCEHUM,OUSE LATE ENGLISH OPERA. Under the Sfanagement of Mrs. KEELEY. " Open Sesame; or, a Night with the Forty Thieves," continues to be nightly received with perfect enthusiasm by crowded and fashionable audinces THIS EVENING, MAY 13, Will be repeated an Original Comic Drama, entitled THE THREE WIVES OF .1 A DRID. Principal Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Diddear, F .oritthews, Emery, Wigan, Craven, Turner, Yariiold, Miss Woolgar, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Miss Turner, Mrs. W.gan, and Ms Kteley. After which, will be pioduced a new Comic Drama, called THE LOVE BIRDS. Filecipal Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, 'Yonne, Mrs. W ge, Mrs. Usher, Miss F a i r b r other, Miss Chaplin, Miss Grove, and Miss bort.szue. To be followed by its Apropos Bagatelle. called POLKA MANIA Characters by Mr. F. Mat-hews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeley. 4 To conclude with a (it eel B urle= q ue Fairy Extravaganza, called OPEN SESAME; or. a Night with the Forty Thieves. Cha racters by Miss Woolgrtr, Alias E. Chaplin, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Yurner, Miss Grove, Airs. Wigan, Miss Ja mes, Miss Fairbrother, ani2 Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Mathews, Turner, Younge, Wigan, yam old, and Chaplin. PRICES OF A DMISSION.—BaIcony Foxes, 41.; Upper Boxes,•; Pit, 25.; Gallery. 6d.oSecond Price—Balcony Boxes, 25.; Upper Bozes, Is Cid.; Pit, t. Private Boxes on the Balcony pier (holding eight persons). twcv Guineas Private Boxes on the Second Tier (ho dint eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on the Olt I icr (holding six persons), One Guinea. • _ . ASTLEYQ OY AI. AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS: Propr ß ietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. o:and Attraction,. TIES EVENING, MAY 13, Will be repeated the .1 - 14.tot , cal Spectacle of the INVASION OF ENGLAND BY WILLAA M THE CONQUEROR ,• or, the Battle of Hastings . With al: the affects of the Norman Conquest, Death of Harold, &c. Entire Change nl thz Splendid Scenes of the Circle. To conclude with tl.o Oriental Spectacle of THE SECRET I%IINE ;,_or, the H ncloo o' the Ruby Cliffs. The donri will open nightly at six o'clock, and the performance& eommence at - seven. Box. °thee opened daily from ten till four. The private boa:es have been re;onstrueted and decorated with care and splendour. Actitzg and stagean t.tager. Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. tr On Monday, May 20, M. Plege will re-appear, for the last week of his Engagement, and will take his Benefit on Friday, May In. OA. C IOGN'S ROYAL SURREY THEAI RE. • 1 THIS EVENING MAY 13, Will be performed a New Drama, entitled HUGH, THE GIPSY. Supported by Messrs. E. P. Saville, H. Hughes, R. Honner, Neville, •Va e, Mrs H. Vining, Miss Terrey, and Mrs. Lewis. Atter which, a New Piece for the Million, entitled LA POLKA. To conclitie with an entirely New Drama, embracing all the strong effects of the celebrated work, entitled WHITEFRIARS, in which the entire Company will perfornt: I' and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box o hee. from Eleven to Four. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL OPEN EVERY EVENING. With the astounding Wonders of the Extraordinary Being the GREAT VIAZARD OF IHE NORTH, nut the ARAB BROTHERS, aged seven, nine, and twel v e y ears of age, whose Clas•ic Groupings, and Surprising Feats of Strength, are the theme of general admiration ! A Trick worth Knowing! How to fill a Theatre by Magic! This is the Fourth Season of the Great Delusionist in London! He has coo Vitcd the '1 hirtieth Night of his present Season ! His Miracles have been witnessed by upwa:ds of rice Hundred Thou. sond Spectators! still his Magic Temple is nightly hononred with most brilliant and crowded audiences ; thus proving to the world the ecli sing superiority of his u,paralleled Entertainments. He nightly excite.; the astonishment of Hundreds, by his Scientific Experi ments ; t:,e peculiar effect of which beggars descriptierr. His new t)lusiens, THE FLYING RINGS, and THE ENCHAN TED HAT, are wonders Which have no equal ! ! ! And, Novelty being at present the''. age, the GREAT WIZARD intends MAKING A WITCH! Therefore, any Lady, desirous of appearing as the Great Witch, in cot;)unction with the Great Wizard, is informed, that the latter will be happy to initiate her in the Mysteries of his .Art. A Frisch, Germany . or Italia') Lady would be preferred. Boxes, 35.; Pit. Is. f).1.; Gallery, Ed. Reserved Seats, and Private Boxes can be secured at the 'theatre, and of all the Agetits. bees and Price at Nine o'clock. Daors open at Half.past Seven•—the Wizard appears at Eight. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT NOTICE. ONE SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON MU SEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collection of Histo teal Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed oy One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a cost of 60,000 guineas, and to completely Illustrate, in the most in structive and interesting manner, the most Important part of Euro pean history, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR NAPOLEON, in IS2I. This unique Museum has been visited often, during the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies, also many thousands of the Nobility and Public; and the Pro prietor has recently been able to increase, by several very line pictures, &c., his previous almost incredible number and variety of ItISS., Works of Art, and a multitude of valuable Relics, and other t,uriosities, in this most instructive and, as hundreds have said It ot4;ltt to be, a National Museum. Many thousand have inspected it, and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS have stated that it ought to be seen by every one. The price of admis• sion is reduced to ONE SHILLING. The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen only at the "Egyptian gall," Piccadilly, daily from Ten till Dusk. TILE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, MAY 13. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 48 ; Highest, 68 • Noon, 68. BAROMETER, 30.4.—W1ND, NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point; and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is ) ,: , ,uallv placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. MI WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. h i on i ts q, 18 minutes after 11 I Evening 45 minutes after 11. e..............-,_ . , , -• ..„,, . . -1 . - a', fro ,`„,,:sui•mA,., -=`-/ :, fl A - yi s %., $ ' ‘ r.)4 .... + 4 ...:- ' ff , ...4,1110%., , i , ....,, , , 7 .;*'.,,.: , ‘: .......' 1,6—.-, 7 , - 4. 1 ~0,.,.1. .;f0' 5, ‘,)„,, , ,:1tua44' k/20IT t , ' 1 110,6 1 :r -....er1i11iV,. ilk v 4 , :i.,ti :;,,•.;. • :.. - A. 0:!'i;. " i- • ' ' SECOND EDITION. etftniag 11:11, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1844. No man holds a mof:.= enviable position in society at the present day, than Lord ASHLEY. He has sacrificed office, end pensions, and political power for the good of those who had none to help them. He is called a visionary and enthusiast, but these are mere words, and have been applied to all reformers. The greatest of reformers and the best friend, too, of the poor had to submit to the same obloquy. Lord ASHLEY, when his p ar ty came into office, might }lave had almost any situation that he could have named, but when he found the Government hostile to the great object he had in view, he rejected any offer, he stood firm in his integrity, he followed the path which conscience dictated, and to his honour he now stands forward as the protector and advocate of the poor. And who are these p oor?— The labouring classes, the operatives, the men that perform every work of drudgery, the sailors and the soldiers who have defended our country, and rendered her name illustrious in every quarter of the globe. NEL SON and WELLINGTON are entitled to every praise, but what fame would they have acquired without the bravery of that class for which Lord ASHLEY now pleads ? When NELSON gave his last signal, " Eng land expects every man to do his duty," was there any aristocrat, any Lord, or Baronet, or Knight, or any man whose promotion awaited the result, who fought more manfully for his country than the com mon sailor ? When NAPOLEON, for eight hours, at the battle of Waterloo, made the most furious and vigorous attacks ever 'made against any army, who crowned the heights between Hougomont and La Haye Sainte ?—who stood immoveable against the showers of bullets, and the attacks of the finest cavalry and artillery in the world ?—who formed that impenetrable line which General For, an enemy, described as fixed in the earth, till at' the proper time they moved forward as one man, and achieved the greatest victory of this or any other age ? The men who belonged to that class whom Lord ASHLEY wishes to protect. It is needless to advert to the tens of thousands engaged in our manufactories, or to their skill and perseverance, and patient e ndurance, because these are known to the world, and to them the country owes much of its wealth and power. That class has never been treated as rational beings. The Legislature has taxed them and oppressed them, and has laid all the heavy burdens on their shoulders; it has made them pay a duty of 100 per cent. on tea and sugar, and many other necessaries of life; it has taxed the very staffof life for the benefit of the legislators only, and when they assemble to complain or pray for re lief, they are put down by guns and bayonets. There is no sympathy between the high and low classes. Those who have power use that power with a strong hand, and instead of consulting for the good of men, and women, and children, who contribute to their wealth, their only object seems to be to keep them under ; to pass laws for protecting the rich, and to oppose those which are intended for the relief of that class who have no voice in the Legislature. Lord ASHLEY, to his honour, hay taken up this cause, and we trust he will live to reap the reward. If some of his plans are not the best that can be devised, he has one great and lasting merit—he has awakened public attention to the subject—he has secured one half of the House of Commons In his favour — he is getting up meetings every week on the subject, and he may rest assured he will soon find many followers. In another part of the paper will be found an account of an interesting meeting held on Saturday, at which he presided. Several noblemen, one bishop, many clergymen, and Members of Parliament were present, and lent their aid in a forming a plan for the benefit of the lower classes. A committee was appointed, and to the honour of the higher classes, at least fifteen noblemen were appointed members. The sub scriptions, too, were large. Lord ELDON, sprung from the lower classes, subscribed 2001., Sir THOMAS BARING, 1001., Mr. R. B. SHE RIDAN, a name celebrated in the annals of the country, 1001., and a large number besides subscribed accord ing to their means. This is a good beginning, and holds out bright prospects. This is a triumph for. Lord .ASHLEY, greater than the most splendid vic tories; and we fervently pray that he may have firm ness and health to persevere in his noble purpose till he earns the greatest and most consolatory of all re wards, the blessings of those " who are ready to "No one, we suppose," says the Herald of this morning, in reference to Friday night's debate in the House of Commons, on the Factories Bill, "No one, even of the warmest adherents of the long-hour sys tem, will attempt to deny that the adherence of Government to that system, however conscientious, has inflicted the most serious injury on the Conser vative cause that it has sustained since the last grand mistake in 1829. That injury, too, is wide-spread, and consists of many parts. One of these, and by no means a sliglat one, is the deterioration of the cha racter of the House of Commons. This is too often the forerunner of some hazardous organic change." Our Contemporary then proceeds to comment o the late speeches of that consistent couple, Messrs LIDDELL and GALLY KNIGHT, and adds :—" No two speeches of such brevity were ever before fraught with so much loss and damage to the party to which the speakers belonged." There is a world of truth in these remarks, and what adds to their significance is the singular fact that they are put forth by a journal which is a staunch supporter of that very " Conservative cause" which it now frankly and boldly insists has been seriously injured by the ob stinate tenacity of the Government on the factory question. The mischief inflicted by that Government on Toryism, and more particularly on " the cha racter of the House of Commons"—which House, however, so far as we can see, has not of late years had much character to lose—must, indeed, have been great and undeniable, ere the Herald would have dreamed of alluding to it in such strong, emphatic terms. 'We respect our Contemporary for his manly candour, and we cor dially subscribe to every one of his observations. His allusion, in particular, to the deteriorated charac ter of the House, is true to the letter; for not a man of any reflection but must acknowledge that by its vacillating conduct on the factory question, the Im perial Senate has greatly lowered itself in public esti mation. But three short weeks since it was carried away by a sudden paroxysm of humanity ; so great was its benevolence—so ardent its sympathy with the sufferings of the factory women and children, that the awe in which it habitually holds the Premier was laid aside ; and, despite his frowns, protestations, and even menaces, it had the boldness to decide against him, and even leave him in a minority. Such was the bold, independent demeanour which the House of Commons maintained not quite three weeks ago. But since then a complete change has come over it. It has had time for reflection ; it was " drunk "—to use Mr. GALLY KNIGHT'S appropriate phrase—when it decided in favour of the overtasked factory opera tives ; but it is now " sober," and being so, it feels it its bounden duty to repudiate the claims of the poor and the helpless, and to stand by the interests of the rich and the influential. Its humanity, like ROB ACRES' valour, has fairly oozed out at its finger-ends, and it is once again the obsequious slave of the Aladdin Lamp—in other words, the ready, submissive tool of that conjuror, Sir ROBERT PEEL. True, its final de • cision is not yet made, but every one, endowed with the slightest observation, can foresee which way the debate on Lord AsuLET's clause will terminate every one can foresee that. the House will most egre giously stultify itself ; and that the Conservatives, more especially, will rush, in breathless haste, to follow the consistent—the enlightened—the high minded example set them by those twin political luminaries, Messrs. GALLY KNIGHT and LIDDELL. And all this wholesale tergiversation is to take place, because, forsooth, the Premier will have it so! and because—more and more humiliating still—if the House persists in being consistent, the Home Secre tary will feel it his duty to retire from office, and cultivate, like another CINCINNATUS, his garden at Netherby ! To think that the threat of a GRAHAM quitting public life should be sufficient to scare a British House of Commons from the broad, straight, obvious path of duty—of consistency—of common sense—of humanity !We look upon this as one of the most inglorious and humiliating " signs of the times" that has been manifested for many years. Before entering upon an examination of the resolu tions submitted to the House of Commons, by Sir ROBERT PEEL, in connexion with the terms on which he will propose the renewal of the Bank Charter, and of the speech with which he introduced them on Monday last, we are desirous again to call the atten tion of our readers to some important and significant facts in the present aspect of the country, on which the Right Hon. Baronet observed a very guarded silence. It did not consist, we can readily imagine, with his purpose of exalting the merits of a currency measured by a gold standard of value, to notice the facts to which we are about to recur. They were too palpably indications of its immediate and disas trous effects, under and with the aid of the enact ments of a statute like the Currency Act of 1819, to have been introduced upon the canvas which he spread before the eyes of the House, and tricked out with such showy but unsubstantial tints. Nevertheless, to enable the public at large more accurately to ap preciate the fixed and baleful shadows which the existence of these facts throws over the actual face of affairs, we shall briefly recapitulate these phenomena. The first and most important of them is—the anomalous state of a vast majority of our industrial Population. This community, as we lately remarked, is composed of two great sections ; the one, in em ploy, at wages generally inadequate to the demands of mere physical subsistence for the toiling artisan or ' labourer and his family ; the other, out of present employ, and with little or no prospect of soon ob taining any in the districts wherein they have been reared, or the factories and mills in which they have worked. The second fact is the confirmation of this deplorable aggregate of pauperism, coupled with that n o n f its progressive of ssive a ggravation, which is aff or d e d b y the Returns of Poor-rate Assess ments levied in England and Wales in the successive years 1839, 1840, 1841, and 184/ The third fact consists in the result of a comparison between the accumulating amount of those assessments, and that TOE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 13, 1844 of our manufacturing production within the same interval. The fourth is suggested by the evidence which this pauperism and disorganisation afford that there is no principle of corresponding distribution at work to diffuse this enlarged amount of manufacturing production among those classes of the community who are suffering so grievously from the want of them. The fifth is the fact, undisputed by the bul lionists themselves, that between thirty and forty mil lions of taxes are paid by the producing and indus trial labourers of this country, which should, on every principle of common sense and common fairness, and according to the contemplation and meaning of the Legislature itself in imposing that taxation, be borne by the consumer. It may seem sufficient apology for our re-stating these points, that they were wholly omitted by Sir, ROBERT PEEL in his laborious but very ineffective statement the other evening. No man knows better than he, that the facts in question are all explicable solely, upon grounds which are conclusive against the folly, the dishonesty, and the mischief inherent in his monster blunder of 1819. That blunder either he has not the manliness to acknowledge, or he lacks the spirit to retrieve. He is either the self-complacent, egotistical dupe of his own mistakes, which are now patent and palpable to half the world ; or he is the political slave of that Ministerial embarrassment which compels him to wear the trammels of Bank assistance —conceded on exorbitant terms, but perhaps neces sary to keep fast in his seat the man who drives the " strong Government" of May, 1844. Now, this vast proportion of industrial labour, thus under-paid or unemployed, is one of the most signal consequences of a monetary system which has been so tampered with by the empirical nostrum of a fixed gold standard, as to leave to the manufacturer no prices but gold or natural prices for his goods, and no wages, therefore, to the operative but those which can be afforded out of such reduced prices. Then the progressive aggravation of this pauperism is shown by the Parliamentary Return (No. 63, H.C., of the pre sent session), which gives the following summaries of the " Total Amount of Money levied for Poor-rate for the Year ending Lady-day" in each of the follow ing series : viz., for all England and Wales — In 1839 1840 1841 6,351,828 184 9 Such has been the increase of poor-rate in a period in the last term of which the first product of the new income-tax was received ; in the whole course of which manufacturing production , was so largely increased as compared with the preceding years ; and which introduced at its close a progressive improvement of the public revenue, which has, in the year ended sth April last, resulted in a surplus of income over expen diture of more than 4,000,0001. This increased burden of pauper charge, then, has been coincident with an increase in the capital of the country, so far as that is measured by the amount and yield of its taxation. The charge of pauperism has advanced after the following rate in the pound of money levied on annual value of real pro . pertv in 1841, for each of the following years, ending Lady-day, viz. (for England and Wales) :—ln 1839, one shilling and tenpence in the pound ; in 1840, one shilling and elevenpence ; in 1841, two shillings ; in 1842, two shillings and a penny. This difference of threepence in the pound between 1839 and 1842, calculated on the total annual value of real property assessed to the poor-rate at Lady-day, 1841 (namely, 62,540,0001.), exhibits an aggregate increase of charge of no loss than 781,7501.; and this infers an enormous increase of industrial distress, both in the agricultural and manufacturing classes. But how much is the in- tensity of that distress aggravated by the reflection that if there had existed a currency equal in amount and facility to represent the exchangeable value of floating and fixed property, the increased production of manufactures, instead of lumbering up our home warehouses, or stopping our home factories, or glut ting foreign markets, would have been distributed to an enormous and a meritorious body of agricultural and manufacturing producers, whose wages would, under the same better system of currency, have enabled them to become the purchasers of such necessaries and conveniencies of life, in the shape of manufac tured goods, &c., and at prices remunerating to the manufacturing employer. If, with a paper currency, it is evident that the manufacturer would have been thus benefited, it is equally certain that the thirty or forty millions of taxes now paid by the poor producers in various forms, and especially on the Custom and Excise duties charged on various articles indispensable to their subsistence, would not have beers, as now, NOT reimbursed or replaced to them on the starving minimum wages of their maximum labour, but added to these, and included in the charge of the manufacturer as an element of the cost of production to the consumer, the party in right and equity liable to its payment. These points were adverse to the Premier's theories of a " standard of value," " convertibility," " sound currency," and the twenty other crotchetty necessities flowing from his rash and ill-digested scheme of 1819, and therefore, we presume, were omitted out of his speech of Monday last. We are desirous that they should not be forgotten, and have thus disposed of them before we approach the con sideration of that speech and the resolutions it in roduced. Madrid journals of the sth have been received. If we are to credit the statements in them, put forth by the Government, the decree abolishing mar tial law is only the beginning of a new system, which is to be in accordance with the Constitution. The present Cortes is to be dissolved forthwith, and a new assembly is to be convoked, to meet in the month of August, for the dispatch of business. Most of the State prisoners have been released, now that NARVAEZ has obtained the object of his wishes. LOPEZ and MADOZ who were committed to prison at the breaking out of the insurrection at Alicant, had presented themselves before the Political Chief,, and there being no charge against them, they were set at liberty. 1311AVO had also been rewarded for his services by a valuable appoint ment. "We know," says the Heraldo," that the ex- President of the Council is animated with the best sentiments for the triumph of the order of things to which he so powerfully contributed, and we are aware of the ardent desire which animates him to give to the QUEEN and the country new proofs of fidelity and devotion." The ex-editor of a scurrilous journal has been ap pointed Ambassador to the Court of Lisbon. The Three per Cents. were done at 30i cash, and 31 5-16, 60 days, and the Five per Cents. at 211,60 days. The French Chamber of Deputies are still engaged, to the exclusion of all other business, in discussing the clauses of the Prison Bill, and on Friday the Government submitted to a material alteration in one of them proposed by M. VATOUT. The original clause declared that all prisoners should be shut up in separate cells day and night, with one hour for recreation ; whereas the amendment restricted that terrible punishment to criminals condemned to the galleys or imprisonment with hard labour. Several Members were opposed to the clause even in its amended shape, and contended that with the cellular system nothing but absolute torture could maintain discipline. The clause as amended, however, was ultimately adopted. The domestic news in the Paris papers is without interest. It was the general belief at Paris that LOUTS PHILIPPE seriously intended_to pay a visit to the Queen of ENGLAND this summer, either, at Windsor Castle or London. "The report of the KING'S journey to England," says the Courtier Francais, "begins again to obtain credit. The Mari time Prefect of Cherbourg has commanded at Havre several silk flags, on which are to be embossed the arms of England and France. The KING, after having crossed the Channel to London, where it is said he is shortly expected, will proceed to Brest with the squadron which is being prepared to accompany him on his voyage. His MAJESTY is said to have given orders to prepare for his reception at Brest, where he proposes to pass two or three days." The beer riot at Munich seems to have been rather of a serious character. The following account of the affair, probably derived from official sources, appears in the Journal des Debats " Up to this moment no other cause has been discovered for the riots which have been now coutinuing for four or five days than the r i se i n th e pr i ce o f b e e r . This beverage is one of the first necessity among the inhabitants of Bavaria, par ticularly of the working classes ; the price has therefore con siderably increased or late years. It has been the general custom to advance the price during the summer mbnths, and that change has usually taken place on the Ist of May. This year, unfortunately, it occurred just at he period of the sale- i whatever came within his reach. lie was observed to take bration of the marrir ge of the Princess Hildegarde with the some meat off a stall, and when stopped, the bag containing Archduke Albert. The people made grievous complaints the articles above described, were fmmd upon him, all of that on this occasion there had beui no public rejoicing which, there was no doubt, he had stolen from tradesmen's ordered by the Government, no illumilations, nor fireworks, shops. nor theatres opened gratis. These muses united provoked, The prisoner made a curious defence :he said that he was during the Ist of May, some disordegy proceedings, which on the road to Manchester , and that the " her " found in his went on increasing on the ' following dais. About five o'clock bag was given to him by different people to help on the way. the garrison beat to arms, the mol had attacked all the Evidence, however, beinr , adduced that the prisoner was in breweries, breaking the windows, anddestroying everything ! the habit of pilfering, he was accordingly committed for a that fell in their way. Barricades were begun to be thrown i month. up in one of the principal streets. Tie cavalry on reaching the spot were obliged to charge on the mob, when two or three persons were killed. "On the following days the city was pretty quiet ; the people assembled in considerable lumbers before the houses which had been destroyed, but without making any hostile demonstrations. Numerous detachments of troops patroled and kept the streets clear. But in the evening the disturb ances recommenced in the same quarter as on the previous day, and it was necessary to have again recourse to the cavalry. These tumultuous scenes took place whilst the King and Royal Family were at the theatre. A nume rous mob bent their steps in that direction, exclaiming that they would not allow the rich to divert themselves whilst the necessaries of the poor were advanced in price ; but the guard at the door presenting their arms on the approach of the people, made them draw back. The people within the theatre were in great alarm, fearing the building might be set fire to, and several retired as fast as they could. The King and Royal Family, however, stopped out the first act, and then retired. In the course of the evening mimerous arrests took place, and it was hoped the discord had ceased ; but on the following day some disturbances again took place, and several bakers' shops were entered and pillaged. His Majesty .went out each day in his carriage. The director of police issued a proclamation prohibiting more than ten persons assembling together at the same time. On the following day, the troops of the garrison, who were very much fatigued, were relieved by the garde bourgeoise, and this display et force was the means of preserv ing order. In the meantime the Government deemed it pru dent to make some concession, and the burgomasters circu lated placards, announcing that beer would be sold at the old price. This news was soon spread thrOugh the city, and tended so much to restore quiet, that the sth passed without disturbance, and the King was preparing to set out for Rome on the Bth. " There is every reason to hope that there will be no re currence of those violent scenes, tranquillity having been se cured by the timely concession made to the roused passions of the multitude." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT THE WEST END. GORHAMBURY STAKE. 2 to 1 agst Devil-to-pay. THE DERBY. 9 to 1 agst Col. Peel's lot—taken , 1,000 to 25 agst Ford's lot—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Dawson's lot—taken 9to 4 agst Mr. John Day's The Ugly Buck—(t sto 2) 13 to 4 agst Mr. Crockford's Ratan—(take 7 to 2) 17 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Orlando 25 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Akbar 40 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Campanero. OAKS. 6 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Sister to Martingale—taken 12 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Merope—taken. 12 to 1 agst Crenoline. On Saturday Ugly Buck was backed at 5 to 2 and Ratan at 7 to 2 and 4 to 1 for nearly 1,0001. each ; Col. Peel's lot at 9 to 1 and Orlando at 16 to 1 for large sums ; Running Rein at 1,000 to 60, Bay Momus and T'Auld Squire at 1,000 to 50 each, Campanero at 1,250 to 50, King of the Gipsies at 1,000 to 20, and Scott's lot at 9 to 1 to 2001. or 3001. • (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) EGLINTON PARK STEEPLE-CHASES — FRIDAY. The Heavy-weight Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, with 100 added. Four miles. 13st 71b each. (10 Subs.) Lord Waterford's Blueskin, aged. (Owner) 1 Lord Glenlyon's Mountain, aged 0 Mr. Harrington nd Ragweed, aged Sir W. Scott nd Bourdeaux, 6 yrs Mr. Robertson's Tinder-box 0 Lord Maidstone's Emperor, aged Blueskin tank the lead, kept it throughout, and won by nearly half a mile. The judge did not place a second. A protest was then made, that Blueskin had gone on the wrong side of a flag, on ascertaining which the stewards decided that the whole race was void. The Light-weight Sweepstakes, 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, with 100 added. Four miles. 12st each. (10 Subs.) Mr. Ramsay's Binks the Bagman, aged 1 Lord Maidstone's Cmsar, aged Lord Waterford's Brutus (late Viscount), aged 3 Lord Glenlyon's The Mountain, aged 4 The following also ran :—Mr. Moore nd Goblin, Mr. W.:F t Hamilton's Grace, aged, and Mr Willington's Grace Dar ling, aged. A good race, won cleverly at last by two lengths. Handicap Sweepstakes flO sovs. each, h ft, with 50 added. Two miles. (14 Subs.) Lord Waterford's Blueskin, 13st 71b ...............(Owner) 1 Mr. W. R. Ramsay's Binks the Baginan, 13st 2 The following also started, but were not placed :—Lord Eglint on's Scraper, 9st 51b—LordGlenlyon's Hotspur, 11st Ilb —Lord Maidstone's Emperor, 12st 71b—Mr. Robertson's Tin der-box, 12st Ilb—Capt. ovd's, the Pony, 9st 91b—Lord Maidstone's Caesar, 13st 41b--llr. Johnstone's Red Ribbon , lOst 111 b, and Mr. Willington's The Veteran, 9st 51b. A fine race. Won by half a length. ME BOURSE-SATURDAY ' MAY 9. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents • • .• • • 122 55 •. 122 55 .. 122 45 .. 122 45 Fourper Cents. • • 106 90 106 90 .. 106 90 .• 106 90 Three per Cents... • • 84 40 .. 45 • • 84 40 .• 84 45 Rank of France .3120 ..3120 . 3120 —3120 Belgian Bank..• ••• • • ...... 687 50 .. 647 50 .. GBO .. 680 Belgian Fives, 1831. • 1840 •• 100 .. 106 .. 106 .. 106 1842 ..••• •• 1081 .. 1081 .. 1081 1081 Spanish Active .. ••• • • ..... 321 .. 321 .. 321 .. 321 Threes . ...... 36 .. 36 .. 36 .. 36 Passive .• •.•• • • 61 .. 61 .. 61 .. 61 Neapolitan • Roman, ex div RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain •.• . • • •....... 830 .. 830 .. 830 • • 830 Versailles, R.ll. .......... 377 50 .. 377 50 .. 377 50 .. 377 50 247 50 .. 247 50 .• 245 .. 247 50 Rouen.. Rouen to Havre . 737 50 .. 737 50 •• 736 25 .. 736 25 Orleans •• •••• • • • ........ 983 75 .. 983 75 .. 982 80 .. 983 75 Strasburg to Bale.. 275 .. 275 .. 272 50 .. 273 75 Avignon to Marseilles-- 766 25 .. 766 25 .. 766 25 • • 766 25 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. N rev allies, R.B. 245 .. 247 50... 243 75 .. 246 25 Rouen 976 25 .. 978 75 .. 976 25 . 978 75 Rouen to 737 50 .. 737 50 .• 737 50 .• 737 50 Orleans • 982 50 .. 985 •• 982 50 .. 985 Strasburg to Bale.. • 2/1 25 .. 275 .. 271 25 .. 275 Avignon to Marseilles.. • • A Cabinet Council was held this afternoon, at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers as sembled at two o'clock. All the members of the Cabinet were present. THIS DAY'S NEWS QUEEN'S BENCH.--(THIS DAY). (Before Chief Justice DEN3IAN, and a Common Jury. LOCKIER V. PATERSON. Mr. Platt, with whom was Mr. Gunning, appeared for the plaintiff, Mr. Jervis and Mr. Bramwell for the defendant. This action was brought by Mary Lockier, executrix of her late husband, to recover compensation in damages of Mr. John Paterson, a baker, carrying on business at 10, Green street, and 72, Princes-street, Leicester-square, for an alleged illegal distress. The facts, as detailed in evidence and by the Learned Counsel, are briefly these :—ln the month of August last the defendant entered into possession of the premises at No. 10, Green-street, which were formerly occu pied by a baker of the name of Miller, who became a bankrupt, and of whose assignees he purchased the premises and business. The shop is situated at the corner of Green-street, Leicester .square, and adjoining thereto is a small shop, in which the plaintiff carried on the business of a tobacconist and newsvender. In January last the defen dant, after repeated endeavours to obtain the rent then owing, put in a distress, which was withdrawn on the following day on the payment of the rent. The distress was stated to be illegal, on the ground that the plaintiff was a quarterly tenant. It appeared in evidence that an agreement was entered into between Miller the bankrupt and the husband of the plaintiff to pay 15s. a week for the shop and adjoining premises ; but as the plaintiff's late husband received a sum of money in quarterly payments, Miller consented to take the rent quarterly, but the agreement did not appear to have been altered. On the part of the defendant, it was contended that he acted en the belief that the plaintiff was a weekly tenant, and that, whe ther that were so or not, he was entitled to make a distress if only a shilling were owing at the time. Lord DEN MAN having summed tip the evidence, The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 91. 14s. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL. ELIOT V. ALLEN AND ANOTHER. This case, which has already occupied the Court two days, was resumed this morning, when Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD replied on the part of the plaintiff. Lord Chief Justice TINDAL summed up the evidence and left it to the jury to say which of the defendants was liable, if they thought either of them was—whether they had esta blished their plea that the plaintiff was a pauper, or that the state of his mind was such as would justify them in confin ing him in the workhouse, and if they had not established their plea, w h a t amount of damag es th e y cons id ere d th e plain tiff entitled to. The jury ret ired: to consider their verdict, but had not re turned into Court when we went to press. INSOLVENT COURT.-(THIS DAY.) IN RE DANIEL FRYER. The insolvent in this case had carried on business as a piano ffirte maker, and was opposed in person by two creditors, on the ground of having fraudulently made away with property. The Learned Chief ComusstoNEß said, that although very strong grounds existed for suspicion, yet the facts, as proved in evidence, were not sufficient to ehable him to remand the insolvent. The insolvent was then ordered to be discharged. CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.) An elderly little woman, of singular appearance, was charged with having been drunk, and using abusive and in sultinglanguage. ller name was as remarkable as her parson, Jane Seymour. Police-sergeant Peek, of the E di v ision, deposed that the prisoner, who sweeps a crossing, was drunk, and used lan guage of an insulting description to a lady who gave her only a farthing, saying "What a pretty lady you are, to hand me a farthing. Sergeant Lester said the prisoner was in the habit of getting drunk, and there were many complaints of her using insulting language towards persons at her crossing. Mr. LONG—What have you to say to this charge? Pri soner—l am very sorry for it your Worship, and I promise you it shall never occur again. Mr. LONG sentenced her to pay a fine of ten shillings, or seven days' imprisonment in the House of Correction. me woman had not the money, and she was locked up. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY.) Ann Wright, a tall powerfully grown young woman, about 27 or 28 years of age, dressed in extremely gaudy and vulgar style, was placed at the bar, charred with stealing a purse, containing gold and silver, to the amount of 101., from the person of a gentleman of very high respectability, resid ing at the West-end, but whose :name, for what reason or cause, we could not learn, was not allowed to transpire. The following are briefly the circumstances of the case. Between twelve and one o'clock this morning, the complainant was stopped by the prisoner and another female in her company, in Cleveland-row, and while stopping for a few seconds in conversation with them, they succeeded in extracting from one of his trouser's pockets the purse and contents in ques tion with which there is no doubt the prisoner's companion instantly made her escape. 'The complainant, however, after some resistance, succeeded in detaining the prisoner until the pollee took her in charge. On being searched by a female at the station-house, neither purse or any money was found in her possession. • On the prisoner being placed at the bar, Inspector Frowd, of the E division informed .Mr. Maltby that the complainant had not made his appearance, although he had been ex pressly directed to be in attendance by half-past ten o'clock. Mr. MALTDY asked if the prisoner was known. Inspector Frowd said—As a very disorderly and drunken character as a prostitute, but not, as he believed, a thief. She was ordered to be detained until a later hour. Ann Wilson, a nymph of the pave, well known to the pi>. lice, was charged with robbing a gentleman in Burlington gardens, at twelve o'clock last night, of a purse containing 10s. or 12s. in silver, under precisely similar circumstances. The complainant not being in attendance, she was also pat back. UNION HALL.—(THIS DAY.) Thomas Jackson was charged with stealing a quantity of plate from the house of Mr. Josiah Westley, pempsey's-ter race, Camberwell. Harriet Jewel, the servant, stated that sho was cleaning the steps of her master's house on the preceding morning, and had occasion to leave the door for a moment ; when she returned she saw the prisoner coming up the area steps, putting something in his pocket. She knew he had been in the kitchen, and followed him about a mile, and meeting with a policeman, gave him into custody. The witness here identified the two silver forks and the two spoons as her mas ter's property. • Mr. George Taylor, of South-place, Camberwell, stated, that on the morning in question he saw the prisoner walk quickly along, and when he came in front of witness's house he threw something into the front garden amongst the flowers, which he (witness) found to be the silver forks and spoons produced. The prisoner, w ho denied the charge , was remanded , as the other articles of plate have not yet been found, George Hyatt, a smartly-dressed young fellow, was charged with stealing a purse containing 2/. Bs. 6d. from the person of Mrs. Ann Wade. The complainant stated that as she w9,s walking along the Borough she caught the prisoner's hand in her pocket, and held him until a policeman came along. She then gr.ve him into custody on missing her purs e containing the above sum. The prisoner, however, contrived to "ding" the purse and its contents to a companion who is expected to be taken into custody.—He was remanded. John Downs, an extraordinary looking old man, was charged with pilfering various articles from different shops in the New. cut. A large bag, which the prisoner carried was produced, in which was found a variety of articles, consisting of pieces of beef, mutton, veal, kidney, mutton chops, red herrings, salmon. &c. It was stated that the prisoner was an the habit of sneaking along by the sides of shops, and snatching Up MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE-MONDAY. Business in Wheat fresh up, owing to' the factors demand ing from Is to 2s per quarter more money than last week, progressed slowly; eventually, however, the demand became steady, but not the slightest improvement was noticed on last week's rates. The show of fine foreign Wheat was mo derately good. Fine Dantzic qualities moved off steadily; other kinds slowly, at last week's currencies. Bonded Grain almost nominal in value. Fine malting parcels of Barley sold at full currencies; in other kinds very little was doing. Malt at unaltered currencies. Full prices were obtained for Oats. Beans and Peas at an advance of from is to 2s per quarter. Fur Flour prices remained about stationary. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. WHEAT—Essex & Kent, IMALT—Chevalier..... . 63$ to red 40 3 to 58$' OATS —Yorkshire and Ditto, white .... 52$ to 63s Lincolnth., feed ... 23s to Norfolk and Lm Potatoe ..„. ........ 25$ to coin, red ... ...... 4os to 43s Youghall and Cork, Dittowhite 42. to 474 black Irish, red 47s to 50$ Cork, white .... ..... 19* to 20s Ditto, white ..... 49s to 545, Scotch, feed fiva—Old .....„.„....».. 214 to Ms Br:errs—Tick... ....... New 36$ to 99s Pigeons 36s to Ws BARLEY —Grinding 24s to 2'7s PEAS— Grey ...«.«....».. 303 to 3.1 s Malting .....„.».« nss to 36s Maple ........„....«..... 29s to 33$ Chevalier, ..... t 328 to 35$ White .... ....... ....... 33s to 374 MALT—Suffblk and Nor- 80i1er5............... 32. to 39i folk s6s to 62. }lona—Town made ... 48s to 536 Brown 50s to 54s Sufto k ..... "' N _._- ........ 348 to 381 Kingston and Ware 5 6 s to 62 5 , Stockton & Norfolk 34s to 3, s FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND. WHEAT--Dantzic Hamburgh ...... BARLEY OATS—New ....... Feed ..... .......• l4s to 16s SMITHFIELD. The Beef trade was unusually dull ; indeed, we scarcely ever recollect a worse market for Beef. Notwithstanding the salesmen gave way m prices from 2d to 4d per 81bs, scarcely any progress was made in sales, and the very highest figure obtained for the best Scots did not exceed 3s 8d per Blbs . . The numbers of Sheep were again extensive, yet the primest old Downs sold at prices fully equal to those obtained on this day se'nnight. The middling and inferior kinds, however, were a shade lower. For Lambs last week's prices were sup ported. Calves at previous currenci e s. For Pork no altera tion to notice. • Per Bibs. to sink the offaL s d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. inferior Beasts • 2 4 2 Secondqualityiltto... 3 6 3 2 Second quality ditto 2 8 2 1 Coarse-woolled ditto.. 3 4 3 6 Prime large Oxen 3 2 3 4 Southdown -Wethers 2 6 S it Prime Scots, &c 3 6 3 8 Ditto out of the wool large coarse Calves 3 4 4 2 Large Hogs -............ 3 0 310 Prime small ditto 4 4 4 8 Small Porkers..." ... . 4 0 4 Suckling Calves, each 18 0 28 I. Quarter old Pigs,eachl6 0 21 0 Inferior Sheep SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. Calves. I Pigs. I 3,105 30.430 . 121 I 380 NEWOATE AND I.E.A.DEINHAZ L. The general demand has ruled heavy, and prices, in most instances have had a downward tendency. In addition to the arrivals noticed in our tabular statement, nearly 700 carcasses of Lamb have come to hand from various parts of England, in good condition. At per stone, by the Carcase s. d. to s. (1.1 . s. d. to s. r . Beef, inferior.... ..... 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior 26.2 10 midd1ing......... 2 6 28, middling 9 0 3 2 Fume large ...... 210 3 0----- prime prime small ...... 3 2 3 4, Pork, large..„ 2 4 3 4 Veal ••••••••••••••••••••... 3 4 46 P —sinall ......... •3 6 4 2 Lamb. 4s 10d to 5s 10d ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK. Beasts. Sheep. Calves. Pigs. Scotland 7 450 400 Yorkshire ............. ...... .. Norfolk Suffolk.. ...."......... ..... ....... Cambridgeshire. Essex ..... •••••••••••••• .......... . Surrey."... ........ ......•—• l7 240 100 300 Devonshire Wiltshire , Other parts ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 5 100 100 200 Total. ............ ..... 66 1,878 4t6 2, 180 Previous week's arrival - 3B 1,4(.2 480 14( 2 Difitrence since our last. 2B 476 11 778 WOOL IVULIZZET. Since this day se'nnight the imports of foreign and colonial Wool have not exceeded 1,200 packages. Privately, the de mand is in a sluggish state, yet the factors remain firm at late fates. TALLOW. This market is steady, and prices, both on the spot and for forward delivery , the same. There is very little specu lative business doing. Town Tallow is abundant, at 39s to 39s 6d per cwt. net cash. BOROUGH AND sprrax.rxELns. The arrivals of Potatoes at the water side, since our last import, have not exceeded 900 tons ; yet, as large supplies are in warehouses, the demand is very heavy, and prices are with difficulty supported. BOROUGH BOP MARKET. The accounts which have reachedus from Kent and Sussex state that an increase of fly is apparent amongst the growing Hop bines ; yet they appear to have had but little influence v ery the demand here, which, however, is certainly firm, at very full prices. As yet no betting has taken place upon the duty. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY LONDON, MAY 13.—Moderate Northerly breeze, and hazy. DEAL, MAY 11.—Wiad, N. by - W. to N:E.; 7, P.M., fresh. —And. Rajathan, Stewart, Bombay. - Sld. Canton, Valpa raiso; Agnes, Jamaica; Trent, Miraniichi. OFF HASTINGS, MAY 12.—Calcutta, _Hawkes, Hobart Town ; Caroline, Porto Rico, for Lubeck. - P OR TSMOUTH, MAY 11.—Wind, N.N.E. to S.S.W. ; 12th, N.N.E.—Her Majesty's ship Rattlesnake, Hong-Kong, left the Cape of Good Hope March 5, Ascension, 25. Sid. the transport Nautilus, Eastward; Hendrik Hudson, New York. Off, Gloriana, Webb, Calcutta. OFF WORTHING, MAY 11.—Regina, Stace, Calcutta. COWES, MAY 12.—Arrd. Mary Dick, Bahia. OFF TEIGNMOUTII ° MAY 11.—Traveller, Trinidad. OFF SALCOMBE, MAY 10.—Chieftain, Brown, China ; Vesta, Stubbeman, Matanzas for Bremen ; Pocahontas, Higgins, Baltimore. 11th, Varuna, Mauritius. OFF ARUNDEL, MAY 12.—Wilson, Houston, Sydney, New South Wales, Jan. 4. BouniAmrroN, MAY 12.—Arrd. Lady Mary Wood steamer, Gibraltar, sailed 3d inst. HULL, MAY 10.—S1d. Regent, Quebec.. DUBLIN, MAY 9.—Sld. Lady Lilford, Prince Edward's Island. 11th, Xarifa, for Barbadoes. CORY, MAY 10. - -Arrd. Templar, London, for Sydney, New South Wales. Off, Maid of Athens, and schooner Ann, Ichoboe. Sld. Cornelia, Ascension ; Albion, St. John's, N.B. DUNDEE, MAY 10.—S1d. Mountaineer, Cape of Good Hope. The Whitby, Ferlis, of this port, with lime, from Shields, took fire in this harbour, and subsequently sank, and appears to have become a total wreck. SHIELDS, MAY 9.—Sld. Commerce, West Coast of Africa;• Caroline, Cape of Good Hope. YARMOUTH ROADS, MAY 12.—Arrd. Meese Packet, Grange mouth, with damage, having been in contact with a brig last night, off Cromer. ABERDEEN, MAY 9.-51 d. Red Rover, Ichoboe. LIVERPOOL, MAY 12.—Wind N., light.—Arrd. Malcolm, Lemon, Calcutta ; Blackness, Murray, New York ; Shaks peare, Miner: Samuel Hicks, Bunker, New York; Cropper (17th ult.), New York. Off, John o'Gaunt, China; Wilsons, Demerara. Sld. Helme, Calcutta; Union, Bombay; Lard Stanley, Cuba; Olive and Eliza, Boston; Woodstock, St. John' New Brunswick ; Stirling , Wis casset ; Broad Oak, Calcutta; Llama, La Guayra ; Fear Not, Nassau; Princess and Roscius, New York ; Abercrombie, Quebec. FALMOUTH, MAY 12.—Wind N., moderate.—Off, Invoice, Rio ; James Turcan, Turcan, Batavia. JERSEY, MAY 7.—Sld. Tiphys, Labrador. BRISTOL, MAY 12.—Arrd. Eling, Tucker, Trinidad. Sld. Clydesdale, Ichoboe ; Lucy Anne, Africa. DEAL, MAY 12.—Wind N.N.E. to N.E., moderate.—Arrd. Diadem, Fox, Galveston. Sld. Alexander, Cape of Good Hope ; Lord Goderich and Euxine, America ; St. George, ditto. OFF THE START, MAY 11.—Margaret Thomson, Harvey, Demerara. OFF PLYMOUTH, MAY 10.—Seawitch, Baker, Gambia ; Medora, Havannah for llamburgh ; Andres, Bozeson, Bahia for Stockholm. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 12.—The Sterling (apparently a brig), water-logged, with a white masthead, was passed, a few days previous to the 4th instant, by the Leontine, from New Orleans to Bremen , whi ch w as spoken on that day by the Gloriana, off this port. CowEs, MAY 12.—The schooner Tom Wood, of Baltimore, was fallen in with, water-logged and abandoned, lat. 38, lon. 53, by the Neptunus, off the Wight. A large American barque, with sails unbent and lower masts standing, was seen ashore on the 25th ult. near Cape San Antonio. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS, companied by compensation to the Bank Proprietors Or CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. the injury done to them. There was no doubt that this was the battle between the rabbit and the boa-constrictor,- but The sales of Cotton in the Liverpool Market, on Saturday , for his own part he felt bound to say the measure of the were 4,500 bales, at steady prices.—The Share Market was Government ought not to be accepted without compensation; without any new feature: Eastern Counties Registered, 14i ; Great Western Fifths, 211; Brighton Loan Notes, 11% ; South and he, for one, would not hold up his hand fur the forth offered.—(Hear, hear.) Western, 851; Paris and Orleans, 38%; South-Eastern, New, Ili. . Mr. FIELDER believed that the: present was the first time nga i n st Much interest is taken in the discussions which arc now that he had - felt himself bound to hold up his hand measures approved of by the Court of Directors. Let the in progress at the Bank of England, relative to the renewal of the charter, and the future mode by which the banking Proprietors look to the letters that had passed Let the Government and the Directors ; did they not .to a mid currency of this country is to be conducted. No strenu ous opposition will, however, be offered to the Bank Pro- man disagree with them, except on one point, and that 1 that no obstacle should be presented to the course proPos _ prietors to the terms proposed. The managers and proprie tors of the joint-stock banks are, upon the whole, well satis- to be pursued by the Government to put the currency on e proper footing. Ile did not admit the question of currency fied ; and at a meeting held of the private banks, resolutions in this case at all. The question was, what was fi have been passed approving of the general policy of Sir R. and what unfair between the Government and th e ‘ Peel as far as they are concerned; but, having asked for Bank of England.—(Hear, hear.) It was important for the another interview, for the purpose of suggesting improve- Court of Directors to show Co the nation at large what the ments in the plan about which their long experience as Bank of England is, aud what it was. Now if he reineet i : bankers gives them the opportunity of rendering information bered rightly, the Government now paid 248,0001. to the Ball to the Premier, therefore it is confidently expected that, for managing the public debt ; and it was now proposed t ha n with some modifications as to details, the immense interest they should have only 120,0001., and pay, in additio connected with banking and currency, including the renewal 11,000/. in lieu of stamps ; with respect to the latter item 1, ,e of the charter of the Bank of England, will be based upon the had no objection, but he thought, considering how much_ the scheme that has been already propounded to Parliament. Bank had done for the Government, it was entitled to receiv e The commercial advises from New York continue favour the 248,000/. Now what was the capitalof the Bank in 1694 able, but it seems that political agitation was still kept up , He believed about 1,200,000/., but that had increased , for the Texas and the Presidential election engrossing chief attention. accommodation of the Government but to the loss of the Dana ' The trade of New York seems to have been particularly to 14,000,000/. ; added to this, the Bank had been most bole active this year. ficial to the Government ; it had lent them money at 3 Per From Van Diemen's Land we have accounts to Jan. 19. cent. when the current rate of interest was 5 per een t j, The revenue continued deficient, but the new Governor had (Hear, hear.) In 1801, when Consols were at 55, the 1 38 n already effected some material reductions in the expenditure. The Bushrangers had not been entirely rooted out. lent the Government three millions sterling for six * Yew - 8 i per , and that too at a time when money ,cent .4i The Funds are not quite so buoyant, a broker of some at 3 "°f standing having made sales of Consols sufficient to occasion 7 per cent. In fact, when all the springs of pri vate ha a decline of about 1 per cent., viz , to 994 to 4. There have were dry the Bank of England alone supplied the rneansrl,. carrying on the government and business of the co unt a, also been some parcels of Exchequer Bills thrown upon They had also enabled the Goverment to pay the divideno the market, and the premium has dropped in consequence on the public debt ; nay, he believed at one time the Bank-2, 1 ,4 to 725. and 745. East India Bonds are 925. to 945. premium. Bank Stock has been quoted 194 to 1941, a decline again of actually lent money to the Government without any istl i ","i at all, and at other periods when Consols were at 100 L; ' ,a 1 to 11 per cent., which indicates that some of the had lent large stuns to the Government. By this coa, holders do not exactly like the new terms. East there was a large loss to the Proprietors, not only of 0.1; India Stock has been at 288, being steady. The interest but their capital. The Hon. Proprietor Pim New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have obtained 1021 to 1; the Reduced, 101 i to 4 ; and the Three per Cents., 98 / to 4. proceeded at some length to show that every action•Of bile Bank had been for the good of the Government; s' the The Commissioners for the Savings' Banks , &c. , have t aken every act of the Government had been detrimental to 13, Consols at 994. Beni. Now, if such was the case—and such, he thought , t b d The Foreign Market is rather dull. Spanish Five per had clearly shown it to be—it would be better to sen d nce Cents. have not been higher than 241, and the charter to the winds of heaven than submit to such inittir Three per Cents. have realised 354 to 36. Mexican —(Hear, hear)—and then the Old Lady of Threadneun,ts Active Stock has been 35/ to 4 ; and the Deferred, 151 to 4 ; street would set for herself in spite of the inh abit being not quite so good, owing to the intelligence of the pro of Downing-street and all their officers.—(A 1 -a ° , o ) posed annexation of Texas to the United States. Colom- Why, he would ask, was not that establishment t o he "nbo bian Bonds have been 144 to 4. Belgian Stock has realised 103% to 1024 ; and the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. as well by the Government as the East India Conn:1 0 0, the are 60/ to 64, which is rather firmer. had never lent them any money ?—(Hear, hear.) Tak i f i b ,,i 1 0 There is not much doing in the Railway Shares, and prices whole of the subject into consideration, he felt corePeZ 10 move the tollowing amendment to the motion subreit" generally are about the same. the Court for its adoption by the Directors : 4 ., c ar BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the O ff icial List) " That this Court of Bank Proprietors, taking 1 11 " hSr Bank Stock 19436 194 aideration the risk and charges attending the banking .'" tl e pt; 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ........- 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 99 % cannot accede to the payment of 120,0001. for w.- 1 t o , 3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities lO% % % New 3% per Cent Annuities 1 0 , 2% 3i Bank Proprietors will not receive an adequate remunellot Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 7460 Mr. YoueGE seconded the amendment. He did no m 0" India Stock 258 the amount offered by the Government was worthy Oe'' India Bonds,l,ooo 92 ceptance. o n e l ; Ditto under 1,000 94 M for Account 99%)6 r.WEEDING could not assent to the amendment p I9 S, aid Consols Exchequer Bills, I%cl. I)4d. The proposition had proceeded from a master mind. „:01,1 1,0001. ........ ........... ..... ..«.«..... 74 pm. not consider it any disadvantage that their issues '" tlf ee 5004. ....... . ..... ......-..... ........... 73 pm. be restricted to fourteen millions, for they bad freq,laiir Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Li o Belgian Bonds. 5 per Cent . 10 3 14 102% tended proposing a resolution, but an amendment ha or li Columbian Bonds. ............. . ...... ................. 1435% already proposed, and therefore he did not know hew Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent Ditto for the Account. 3 SU % A short discussion here ensued on the-point of order , a Ditto Deferred Stock 15)6% termination of which. B3l Spanish Bonds. Five per Cent RAO...—. Ditto for the Account Ditto Three per Cent. part of his speech. (The Hen. Proprietor here read -. tb Ditto for {the Account Dutch 2)6 per Cents 614 60X 61 % solution, which was an expression of acquiesceneeo , .. Dutch 5 per Cents ..... 100% Government propositions, accompanied by an eltP' nu bll A ‘ PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. • of approbation of the sense, intelligence, and 10" RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHAM spirit with which the negotiations had been ens vti l Dire' 41 Birmingham and Gloucester - Iv Ditto New 17% 2'44 to lie .4). 76% to 78 which entitled them to tike approbation of the pu r or Bristol and Exeter 7O Caledonian Dublin and Cashel Eastern Counties - Ac t ' Ditto. New Registered 81. (is. 8d ) a clause into „ te es Grand 3unction Great Western Ditto )6 Shares 5O 75% to Mr. SALTER thought that it was introducing '"„ r igy, Ditto Fi ft hs Leeds and Bradford 5 ......... 24U,% ... to 24 ofall issues above fourteen millions. It had alwaYs heeto do London and Brighton 5O 44% to ing 1 London and Greenwich ... to 51 , policy to keep the' Government from having a nyth co ot° London and South Western 41% BSU% ... to with the issue of bank notes. They ought to haves ) ~ London and Croydon • Manchester and Leeds '7o lO9 to Sir PETER LAURIE thought the gratitude of the t'bSa Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct 18 ... ...... 41 1 4 40% to 4111 v./. vet jle due to the Directors and the Government. 1 03 • - 0. North Midland South Eastern and Dover ... ..... . T. 2% Ditto New York and North Midland .....«.. 50 Ditto g Shares Ditto Scarboro' Branch Paris and Orleans ••••••••••••••••••••• 20 3 8 3436 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Union of London MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, mAy 11.—Our market to-day is heavy, and several stocks are lower :—Chester and Birkenhead, 301; South-Eastern, 38 374; Trent Valley, 11i 10; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 6 1-16 them. ved °f Mr. LEVY considered that the Directors apPr e hort e Lil terms, because they had urged a renewal of ten years instead of twenty. No one liked to talt . 5 11 for a long term. calls feed ok Mr. JONES LOYD, in obedience to repeated es,, e p parts of the Court, rose and said, he had not intend ifr.A4 dressing any observations to them, but ash e r t se called for he would at once state his opinion. Those now opposed the original resolution had at the ijitect°'ol nary meeting moved a vote of confidence in the He had at that time thought such a vote untlee, e 'p, no advantage could be derived from its yOtr when an adequate cause had arisen for such : I _oo when it would be most valuable, they seeme d to .°,.% It appeared to him that those who conducted tw- of; to position should recollect, that it was fr ee to the" hot cept or to reject the Government proposition Cieetsi; was not free to them to modify them.—( l,°° d e That consideration would get rid of many of the are ot which had been used by the other side. If they were. . 0 0,„ e pared altogether to reject the Government proposdl would be better to accept them by a unanimous v cit • . oe" questions had all been, no doubt, most anxiously dlsctor, between the negotiating parties, and they had co' e 0 1 : agreement which was submitted to the propriet7o acceptance or rejection. If they rejected it" : „„ suit would-be" to re-open the whole quest' -' ' e o the consequences might be most disastroeas•cs no, question of our monetary system would assume et arts feature. The question divided itself into o r° r t • the ° ) ,,f first, the arrangement of the monetary systen' t ° l t h e . try—a question with which the Governmen t an d the ° c° ! lature were more immediately concerned ; 4,11-4. he , the consideration of the pecuniary condition 0 1 ` no ir question which more immediately concerned the _ontie,t.,o The two questions, however, were intimately ' ide s re The negotiations had been conducted on bothougbtlie, manly, honourable spirit of fair dealing. u e 1„,,,bie 12 ,„ feel grateful to the Directors for the manner in co es e ic had met the difficulties which had occurred in the O t ved ° the negotiations.--(Hear, hear.) He apPr° gree fij oll conduct—(Loud cheers)—and believed that the le nt del which they had entered into with the Goverons soUfe calculated to place the currency of the country 1110rity footing, and to conduce to the success and prosP e banks of the country.—(Cheers.) ' Mr. G. W. ROBLYSON did not consider the terte'oco!„:3 advantageous. He did not disapprove of the oie,;o made to the joint• stock banks ; but it should be n 0 0 ' 0$ they had been made at the expense of the 133 131 q o verof o tir —(Hear, hear.) He objected to the , 0 10 participating in the profits of the issues eI O OV teen millions, and he did not think it was r e to be tied down to 3 per cent. for ten years. I'l/ 1 ,,b1e of a war, money would be worth 8 per ceatibe r 1 1 ; vernment had acted with great ability, for f ol:. 0 0! ) : but they had been hardly fair to the ct ioa 3 believed, that if they looked back to the transa, h od A to last forty years, they would find that the_publlcod quite as much indebted to the Bank as the No" •,,I4 the public.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. SALAMON urged the necessity of the Cour t of a unanimous vote, approving of the proposition vernment. 10 " After a few words from Mr. BARRY, 0 1 4 , Mr. FIELDER, with the consent of Mr. Yot - ° Qu'A his amendment. 0 ' 4 tios , e a 0 10 Mr. TIIO3IPSON, amidst loud calls of " Que s Al a rip tion," and other manifestations of impatienceiLer 0 1- amendment that the Bank should have the Pe^ oo o/• e. to the amount of 20,000,0001., instead of 14,00' ,10",‘ A PROPRIETOR seconded the amendment. ,epaered Mr. BLACKBURN drew attention to the leg al t ie He objected to the money of the country being to be o f , j ,• to any corporation or individual ; it ought Ac ice o f ', e ) hands of the Sovereign, acting under the % jok e oo:De sponsible advisers. He objected to the en n .;,,, notes of the banks of issue, and substituti eciloy of the Bank of England for them, and t 4) t he vote Bank itself into two departments. H e should tie r the proposal. • , for _, lll OO O ll The GOVERNOR then put the amendme nt „ the amount of the circulation of the Ban k instead of 14,000,0001., which was lost 1:01 w , o f majority. roe ' The original resolution for accepting th e P Government was then carried unanimously,. 10 The minutes having been read, the meeting $ P ' po I'l Sir Robert and Lady Peel entertained pol g ivl i jf lency Prince Castelcicala, his Excellenq li'lotey,ol9 and Duchess of Buccleuch, Viscount and V lsc°o AIP Viscount and Viscountess Villiers, Sir Henry ed„, Id Hardinge, Sir William and Honourable L 3, iffilall'" Right Hon. George and Mrs. Dawson, Balfour, Mr. Repton, and a select party, at diellei last, at their house, in Whitehall-gardens. rrt •cll JO T f 1 1 , OPERATIVE JEWISH CONVERTS ts 0 . The subscribers to this Institution, the ellie t e i A fte" t tie, to convert young Jews to Christianity, whicllbegl protect them from the violence and insult to 40 , exposed from those of the Hebrew peen o g,l, P re eo ninth annual general meeting on Friday t he ch ll bea o e; hall, Bishopsgate. Sir G. Rose, Bart., P d tteri t - tstv tet tbi peered from the report, that a persevering %toes, made to create dissatisfaction among the !n it i o o I, t iotlw, cite in their minds a spirit of insubordin.auei pe e d officers of the Institution. This attempt ° thr ee , 10 ,1 Jews averse to the conversion of their br . e . , ol ;ttee ot her s ,,or o 7 Colonel co z unfortunately, too successful, and the CO"' w hilet, , compelled to dismiss some of the ininates,__d left voluntarily. They had refused to prec .. ` de 0 , 0 t; o%i t e , in which they had been instructed, and 111" 00 1 ificl of tl3 o cruelty having been exercised towards had bee 0 1 . c j of the establishment. Their complaints. " Sol _VI into, and found to be without foundater•, rot . P vi oi ,, ,,! inmates had become schoolmasters, or,Disin"gaefdi2l:ootio missionaries ; and the number at prese%oted,,,t reP t A ta i fifteen. The receipts during the year an' 0 0.w, o ve'„3 a balan" h iey sec with deducting the expenditure , As . with the treasurer. The Hon. WilliaT adoption of the report, and the motion o v e tei . and carried, the meeting separated. „ e o f ."it i e Mn. DUNCOMBE.—In Co cotslV combe's manly conduct, in respect to s „ sloe s o o , e cive Masters and Servants Bill in the T e d a f ie th ° 0 1 ' e eW CHAPEL ROYAL, WHITEHA the e C t t t o he th w e o H rk o i n ng . m m em en be of r N . ottingham hatle......paLondia.site bility who attended Divine servicetlTe• pu m ol;obetfiar,i o e l 3 Whitehall, yesterday morning, we ht Kola. S ir ', the „ois t ri l the Duchess of Buccleuch, the 11),, o u, Lady Peel, and family' the Earl c l e' l a t oilY r iat! , Lincoln and family, his Excellen y iady s o ot . 00 . vi y Governor-General and family, o L f a l d n y d G ia :o an dse d r; h t i_ eau.... c at nt o es! d dieton f • i o f and Lady Jane Stanhope, e. 60 1/ l ten ce o Middleton, Sir Walter James, & is Bo se° to- 0 THE WILLS FORGERIES. --1t nd th ere r ted olwich , a . ec Majesty's Dockyard, Wo that transportationthe cnv convicts de iFinleinteedihear,teryelertel?edooti.l'of to which is e P ays• Th e •fiti f Government transport Barossa. 0 _ a d New South Wales in the course t te`,4 o , i n oe A t el itsAnicEr• t tots' bl/ P- rte WAKEFIELD WOOL 4 a lroOS (1. , l ß if ar e, b s e b r all an l ) wool trade continues in a state at .. purposesand price prices are few s nominal . ales ha e t ! e n en s e h _ o : .e r e b te d at ic)lP tations. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, MAY 10.—To-day, at noon, the King received the great deputation of the manufacturers of the province of Liege, which it was said at first would not be received till Sunday. The Journal de Liege says, " We have received this morn ing the following particulars relative to the proceedings of the great deputation of our manufacturers and merchants at Brussels. On Wednesday evening the deputation waited on the Minister of li inance and the Interior, and some of the members stated the great objections of our province to the system of differential duties, but they got only evasive answers. In the interval that will elapse before they have an audience of the King, they will wait on some of the representatives, and endeavour to convince them of the immense injury which the differential duties would do to the country." A correspondent at Madrid informs us that Senor Bermudez de Castro, formerly Secretary to the Council of Ministers, has just been appointed Minister for the Queen of Spain at Brussels. The Theodorea will leave Ghent to-morrow for St. Thomas, with one hundred and thirty settlers. It is calculated, that when they are landed, the European population of the colony will amount to eight hundred souls. As from this time a vessel will be dispatched every month, the European popula tion may amount, at the end of the year, to nearly two thou sand. Its subsequent increase will certainly be rapid. BANK MEETING.—(THIS DAY.) This morning, at twelve o'clock, pursuant to adjourn ment, a Court of Proprietors of the Bank of England was held, for the purpose of considering the proposition which the Government had made for the renewal of the Bank charter. At twelve o'clock precisely the Governor and Directors en tered the Court Room. The GOVERNOR said that this was an adjourned Court of Proprietors, and, consequently, there were no minutes to be read, but it might be as well for him to state how the case stood. At the prior meeting, of which the present was an adjournment, the correspondence which had passed between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Court of Directors on the subject of the renewal of the charter, had been read ; it had been printed immediately afterwards and distributed among the Court of Proprietors. At that meeting he had read a resolation of •the Court of Directors, recom mending the Court of Proprietors to accede to the pro positions of the Government for the renewal of the char ter of the Bank, if the regulations referred to in the letters of the Chancellor of the Exchequer should be proposed to Parliament and adopted. His duty would be, when the proper time came, and when the subject had been sufficiently . discussed to enable the Court of Proprietors to came to a decision, to ask them to accede to the proposition of the Court of Directors. He would not then further detain the Court by making any ob servations. . Mr. HAMIJOND wished to impress upon the Court the pro priety of acceding to the propositions which had been made by the Government. He was surprised at the reasons which had been urged to induce them not to consent to the proposition. Something had been said about their having raised 1,000 men thirty years ago—why their charter had been twice renewed since that period. There was one observation which had been made by Mr. Levy which ought to have a great effect upon the Court, and that was that it was almost impossible at the present moment to get profitable employ ment for. capital. He thought the Government offer of three per cent. was a gfeat boon to the corporation. There was nothing but danger if they rejected the proposition. If it were rejected by the Court there would be no difficulty in picking out 100 gentlemen in the City who would at once accept the propositions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and give him a premium. Sir Robert Peel had taken a very enlightened view of the state of our monetary system. The Bank would now stand upon more secure grounds than ever. The division between the issue and the banking departments would enable the Directors to turn their attention to the banking department, and make it much more profitable to the Proprietors than it was at present. They would pursue their avocations as bankers as extensively as others, now they were freed from the trammels of the Go vernment. This would be a great advantage. He would ask one question before he concluded, and that was, if the depo sits were to be considered as part of the circulation? The GOVERNOR replied, that their deposits were no more part of the circulation than Coutts's. He offered no opinion on the matter under discussion, but he was anxious to pre vent misunderstanding. The worthy Proprietor had alluded to their capital of 11 millions, for which the Government allowed them 3 per cent. That was a part of the foundation of their circulation. If the interest on that had been reduced, the 180,0001. a year which they paid to the Government must have been reduced also. It should be recollected that out of that 3 per cent. they paid 60,000/. a-year stamp duty, and 120,0001. a-year to the Government. Mr. HAMMOND believed that, in point of fact, the position of the Bank of England would be nearly the same as it had been before the discussion. He implored the Proprietors not to reject this excellent measure. Mr. Cook thought they should well consider the circum stances in which they were placed. They had recently re elected the Governor for another year. The motto on his diadem ought to have been Justice to the Bank Proprietors. The Governor and the Directors were by their position un fitted for defending the rights of the Proprietors. They were ' tied down by the Government. They could not serve two mas ters, and the Proprietors and the public had conflicting interests. Their duty was to support the Institution, but they were tied down by their position and their connection with the Govern . ment ;so that the interests of the Proprietors were not taken care of sufficiently. Twice had their rights been taken from them, in the opinion of some of the most eminent lawyers. Such, also, was his opinion.--(A laugh.) He was not a lawyer by profession, but he understood something of law. The Duke of Camliiidge was an excellent performer on the violin, and surely it would not be said that his Royal Highness was not a master of music because he had not made it his pro ' fession, and was not paid for his services. The Directors had not defended their interests. Two years ago he had sent a petition to Parliament, expecting the question to come for ward, and he had sent another stringent petition to Sir R. Peel, which had been kept, by some means or other, from the public eye. He had, within the last fortnight, had a reprint of the letters that he had sent to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Sir It. Peel, the truth of which he would defy them to deny. A copy of those letters he had sent free to every Proprietor. The petition contained nothing but relevant matter to the subject at issue, and it remained with the Proprietors to say whether or not they would hear it read. He had done all a man could do on the subject, and it was more than probable that he should, ere long, institute a suit in equity against those who had done so much against his interests, and those of the Proprietors at large. Would the Proprietors hear his petition or not ?—(Cries of "No, no.") Well, all he could say was, he had done his duty ; and there was no clause in the Bank Charter Act that authorised the Directors to put an end to the rights and interests of the Proprietors. The measures proposed by Sir Robert Peel were no doubt of great im portance, and would probably aid in the _ welfare of the country ; but they ought to have been ac-