The Sun. — London, England, 1844-05-18 00:00:00

Jiy „t °l3 t' 9' 9- ° the istrat'' ili Alli f ii (?- II; I° as ,ioll , o h l i ig Joidr. T HREATENING LETTERS TO SIR • R. PEEL AND LORD ELIOT. BOW-STREET. In the course of yesterday afternoon, - a middle-aged man of respectable appearance, named William Took, residing at 2, Milton -street, in the City, was brought up in the custody of Inspector Stevens, and otherconstables of the A division, eh, arged with us i ng threatening language towards Sir Robert reel on Thursday night, with sending him a threatening to ; and also sen di ng anot h er l etter o f a s i m il ar character to Lord Eliot, the Secretary of State for Ireland. The priso ner seeme d to have suffered much from privation, an d being placed at the bar conducted himself in an orderly Manner, with ou t o ff er i ng t o interrupt the witnesses while giving their evidence. Constable 244 A division stated that being on duty about 13 ' 1 o'clock on Th urs d ay evening' in Whitehall-gardens, the . Plisoner came to him and inquired if Sir Robert Peel had yet gone awn to the Ho use o f C ommons. H e r e p l ie d th a t h e thought he had not yet left his house, but if he wanted to :T li ver anything t o h im, h e m i g h t l eave i t w i t h t h e porter i n ' , se hall, and it would certainly reach him ; upon which the Prisoner said, in an excited manner—" No ; I have already w ritten, but find that it is of no use, and, therefore, I must Make hint feel anoth er way. " Wi tness instantly laid hold of m and conveved hun to the station. inspectOr said the prisoner would have been brought "en re the Court at au earlier period, instead of having been toe01116:ntl such a length (if time, but it was deemed necessary lake some inquiries respecting his profession and mode of th e n g , from which it appeared that he had been attached to h orse patrol i n I re l an d , an d , h av i ng res i gne d hi s situa ti,eut arrived in Lo u d on i n th e mon th o f F e b ruar y l as t, i n th e uevonshire steamer, being induced by a female to take such tcourSe, . under th e impression that he could in a short time e his condition in England. Having Made inquiries on t!' Journey where he could procure comfortable lodgings, he wl? directed to the house of Mrs. Riley, in Milton-street, bad e be had resided up to the present time, for which she s ouli malle no charge, and occasionally supplied him with ers - ;,j,, 8111118 of mone until he could succeed in procuring cs .„,, — "Yment. The s everal letters produced, which were di ipet.to Sir R. Peel and Lord Eliot, were found at his lodg bes!trid on his person Another had been received from him th ef !„ n i toiJert, and two . others by Lord Eliot, in one of which fi e wing appears : tho u la ve often thought of destroying myself, but another . Petr has now taken possession of my mind. I will per- Proat, e a n act which will make a noise in the world. I will gain s t ;"„ a Change in the government of countries, and thereby ship vi s h ulYself notoriety—unenviable notoriety. Your Lord like a v . ': Be it so.' Is it not better to die thus, than be blortaCts I, le, unseen and unnoticed? I feel I have an iin- I feel already as conqueror.—Yours, tkc. Th e " WILLIAM TOOLE." wa s Co next letter was directed to Lord Eliot, part Of which 4 1 r u ched in the following terms : - w n e stl" been more than three months in London, and am cor e 6a ry ,ing. I have done everything in my power to pro- Past ' e au• I have attended at the East India Decks at half eight—vet', every morning, and also the West India Docks at s ui „,, o'clock, but there was no employment for me. My a l ,Z,sud body are sinking fast. I have an idea to destroy a r rift but another thought has passed across me. I will ntru an act that shall change the government of countries. i 'we the conon will say it is unviable notoriety ; be it so; I shall sequences. e — n Yours, &c., "WILLIAM TOOLE." dame third letter, which was sent to Sir Robert Peel, and es ran up to the inspector, was next read, a part of which er us i e e 7, 4 Y situation is no longer bearable. - My nerves are shat- r— nl mind unhappy.—l am, your obedient servant, " WM. TOOLE." c i l t ir • JARDINE observed it would be necessary that some s q ;,ness should prove the letters produced were in the hand ,iN of the prisoner. Is kt L e inspector replied that a messenger from the Irish office tli : 4, attendance to prove that he delivered a letter to Lord 1,,,; (4, which had been given to him by the.prisoner for that th -lln eet in addition to which he wrote down his address at pae .station-ho led the writing corresponded in every rticular with the rs. • Th, . prisoner, in a very cool manner, said that all the letters 1 ,7 1 t"t,nad been written and sent by him, at the same time ad maiomg that the remaining portion was also written by him, eha rf ,g„' " As you have directed such letters as bear upon the teatir against me to be read, perhaps you will allow the and e a in the possession of the inspector to be read also, sluninettiOn that my character has always been St good l'ts it ,„,„d' One. Distress has driven me to these acts, and St . I "ened in consequence of the distress I was reduced to. ' JAIMINE, in accordance with the prisoner's request, ofn e 7 "led the several documents in the possession of the ne e r ' among which were testimonials from several police of b li r t Ireland ; from Alderman Darley, chief magistrate . Ars e ul ." 1, who stated that the prisoner had served in the f or Be:vith credit to himself and honour to the horse patrol 4,1(1 coeds Years, that he had resigned of his own free will pfAeerWhertt, and his departure was a subject of regret to the bejhg and the a u th or iti es genera lly, in consequence of his .14 .1 3 N ti d th il efficient officer. Another certificate was from ' 3 "aw, the Recorder of. Dublin, to whom the pri ?G. . r as known f or s i x t een yearti. , bta ttee ü b -tuuts.E said it was a most extraordinary circum- Which how aulan having in his possession such documents, cou c h, a ,Plaeared to be genuine, could be guilty of such. rash 1 41, h el '• There was no doubt of the prisoner's evil inten i;l4ciatfiYrlotnhe manner in which he addressed the constable, it to the spirit in which the letters were written, t n rY t o wa ? his duty to take steps to prevent him doing in :4ll, hi„: 4l E Person for the future by ordering him to put in `;teh, t o - `e" in the sum of 200 1 . and two sureties in 100/. h of good behaviour, and to keep the peace towards ‘'esl a e ,,, nt aiesty's subjects but particularly towards Sir It. " Lord Eliot, fur the next 12 months. Hit ofe Prisoner —The bail you have ordered me to find is Per4„ i lly power t o procure, as I am a total stranger, but btherll6 YOU would allow the duplicate of my watch and the articles to be delivered up to my landlady, to whom I n ess s ' el-I teci, and from whom I have experienced every kind , kr lo jce my arrival in this country. We art; ,t , 13 1 -NE said there could be no objection to deliver • The ,'es applied for. "'Vector said he found two knives upon the prisoner, I'h e w ere ordered t o b e d e t a i ne d. du n k, prisoner was then removed to the cells, w h ere h e con ist o'cloc,inself very orderly, until the arrival of the van at When he was removed to Tothdl-fields Prison. P _ ' N AVAL eh INTELL ill l ia Gr in I *rd son of appointed throughtrue c the course of ins mi. INTELLIGENCE. . ti,ll:4l:;rBeZeru,T i an i 'a l m iA at Y e olf7.—thielEr.x"e'llent, has been ti,,,, !latat, after having gone and d the probationaryexa nn_ - hte e g .l 3l yea in that ship, ? Proa e rd ten is the number which 4 4/ .-.' in a degree of cr edi P t aa fo nl re ar u k n s h t e b a e rd utmnst 1 s dred of—nine po t ime _ "La d he an N e i t i n eY in gunnery, and Mr. P b e e e r l f o e b r t n ai n n v e i d ga n ti i n e n e , 914, ai 9 a : 270 is the highest nun!. plyr',(l26o o (.1 ' Was before accomplished un ; 14 months is the time al d lo er tt n ed in f e or m th nn e t e b o s— urs i e s T r. Th P ,„ 4, „ ed the examination in five mont_h r s n a e n k , a f n our d s d p a arr ys. nw, ktt 1;' "onetta, brigantine, Commander B 14,,44.were put out of dock yesterday at Chatham, and Th e j Dock on Monday, to be 'P :' 4 nd taken into Chatham Doc ~,e,..da3 anus, steam-vessel, will have her boilers put on board te i rki and fitted for s.e.a.ie new at Q e kutin6and Espiegle, experimental brigs l ath spieg , . ed, and will be undocked in 4 f ol ., . al% are both nearly rigged, 12-gun . q t `niglit. ~1 %01 1 14 exertions are being used at Chatham tb to e ''ultla,. Possible, the Cruizer, 16 guns, and l4 3 : 4l l;at e fi ß t e f t u r r ib " utio a n a , ti ' c lra 460, lightr, has been repaired, and will sail to-day Th e p k tbam for Woolwich. Dantzic, Yolcken master, atri ve , ressian ship Wilhelm, from Ys td. ' at Chatham on Wednesday with timber for the dock . 11 4 m . Chief, Admiral Si der-in t kiia e :testy's ship St. Vincent, 120, Captain R. F. Rowley,_ r l uirtri 1 ' . 3, 0e flag of the Comman • .(. t36,7w,1ey Bart went out of harbour yesterday at 1 . 4 ei '' .33) drew all tthe oe s e ight-seeing communityriiic , all which tli k ell e --..-4eit. ' Th's '' urrence (the tnngtbepin t-4 4 4Itt erY, the ramparts, the Vitoria ogle.ti tere thronged with fashionable Pi ~ 4 ,1 Ile Gosport side—the pier and beach, I The wind was fair •C'by a numberless crowd ofpeoP e. bell-dressed eaud were similarly '41.'1,7'4 extremely light. The St. Yincen t t i , en a l f l t y er sl l n et w ti t n e g t g h o e 141 „ tro w 'ir l's and under all sail, moved majestically h not stemming 'Uit t;,, Part or mouth of the harbour, ll ° r' 116 sent boats a-head to e took her in tow. I . 3 \ Vlic h eQ , 3 t , oh her, and the Echo steamer band of the tow where, se had, however, '' it e val )7" r eas t of the Platform, the admirable 4 'll "lnes stationed there for the purpose, , e trite '. '' • .i.iiithittfsw,..l,lli pia n yi la n , g which was r the St. Yin t'me the At this i . d struck up esponded to by ‘ '`'et to ill" kddenly shifted to the south- 1 "God save the Queen v : e ' ed her to Spithel . id, W I li ere laid her sails, and the Echo occupied st which oblige soy the t L t dr('PPecl her anchor on the tu s w pot len fo r r e ise a r w ly ny - b e r ge.u h ii'eek ef the Royal George (now Aisl ., ye ). A number ~' hicht3,'44d perseverance of Genera ' 4 4, 4 ° l. the gentlemen of the . by the feetit,,, bar ges and boats, containing pa to Spithead in Royal s ae o h f t ladies Club and ,Itge ,-'ea, attendedat the St. Vincent out of harbour, and . a 'oat ,3f!41-3' ladies and gentlemen went out A , o n ‘l,.'olicir*, 7 e 43;4, Sir C. Rowley did not go out in th tn e ek St e . f Y l i l n is ce n n i t d . t6 a 1 1,1, k i 1 44 Y to say he is suffering from an at 1 13 ,, I t. 410-1)(7 hattlesnake Master Corn. R. Brown , I) ur 1 1 the Echo off ,- it 1. to pay - and commis' was towed into i ' l led tareseetheus was undocked yesterday, C. t lit e .bY Commander John . nay. Lieut. Com' Edward ".., tel e ( o, 10-gun brigantine, 1 l 'lt “ to (it left by the Rattlesnake i , v e ist., the safety of which vessel the public journals ' - 4 ;A i . „s'Y expressed doubts), was -4 4)a " 15th Cif Mar 1 last refitting at the Island "ilie e ' r : tl l well. i 1 -t; a t letter we have seen from on l iti l„, Y'` v ',earn tliat she has been most actively and of February 1 . 15 African. .esnoefeenhesr.. 't-, employ don the coast. On the 15th '- 3 le h a d au. with her boats in the River p e i i' l l i a l . ed ' whi c h 31 ' 1 1 311 . 11g affair with a Spanish slaver, completely i ' l Pep • l lL e boats i e ut e l lPtu r i t -, i l ong galling fire of musketry '',, t elv 1 -` 33 '. 11 ,,g,uP the river, but sustain they got alongside the slave --'el the- oelow and cried for mercy. It was a gallant affair, mneb f,:(33,3 trey. of the Rapid appear to have behaved with Rapid 44 s lmt • One man was killed and two wounded.. The Itlit'll 6 4 the coast two years, during Ittterr_ed seven slave vessels, containing 1,288 slaves. q r se ll_ s aptly- " f "re Meat' which time she has , ed ~ , lolled, spea ing "o lic e33l - , 3,-ates that her deck was onlyfour feet from dec bulk, men, It' of ne of te slave ye.. l k te,,ale_ where the slaves were literally stowed in kitkii' and children all huddled together ; effluviathe tre t , ll S,ap the hatchway was not aproachable from e _ , 41 ;: gliti e rleatei 5 t i h t e h sez h piaot:mise . rab moture, and tench "cvo-ral poor creatures were found dead, trodden under_ . 3,,_ the living ; that no imagination can from th t a l t ie t s h la e ve-de k paint the suffer n 5i0r11411,14.11 the vessels captured partook inor or less o . f i t in it .. le Africans undergo; and that . i le e ondition of this one he particularised ; u c der .;l,4eTialta_ :U:• . , u , i ( c h i s i e ase, and death were prevalent in all t of a them.. -4,1 (1. i s ' s - waa preparing for another cruise, and we un a good sailer that no vessel escapes her. oh Iklieteria and Albert received the new tubular boilers 4 etic : s h ne day, and has again been taken into the covered sulitr Ito, 6 Idea now taking in her tanks, and will progress t . ttee thPanit and gilding so soon as the engineers have a i l 471 1• 1 wi t . e , en g l nerY. The old boilers are being put into t e The:3kitt,,,,oeu_ohilihnrought the others from Woolwich, to be taken ,t that arsenal. gwood is fast progressing ; she has been fitted the" th e newly invented tops. These consist of two pieces ; Illa,.4rare or after part is sent up first a mere skeleton, the 4 4 1 g or boards of the top being sent up afterwards, and Wp l : 4, Sil to fit like hatekies in panels. The fore or rounded r ilfthe top is a separate piece, and is joined to the square ahi a . ) :, 4,4)ges, which permit it to flap back under the cap a . the topmast, which in light wind or calm weather will tel‘;eBnt the topsail binding and chafing against the top rim. said Sir G. Seymour will hoist his flag in a day or two. C° (From the Deronpurt Independent.) ittte"ST OP APRIcA.—We extract the following from a ,i.r,r,eeeived from her Majesty's brig Alert, 10. Commander inidi?osanquet:--" We have been cruising off Cape Palmas iltr'-'aPe Mount fora noted slaver, but -could see nothing of li ii ti z i ~,, . ga e i n r e e n t ti traheadfoltlaowSegra Leone on the sth • Feb., and day, for the Gambia. A vessel 1 4 I.le River Nunez, having brow 0,3 us intelligence that kti:aiefs had made war with each other, and that the ha y rt, iron steamer, was up that river, in want of assistance, e4 4a3 19 .3 g had four of her men killed and seven wounded, while I"erable alaughter had taken place among the natives, . - enTl was Pd (13i enrY i. ulone l ins+ au* we left the Gambia on the 29th of February, and arrived '•at the Nunez on the evenkrig of the 4th of March. Our boats were manned and armed, and sent to the assistance of the steamer,_ Captain Bosanquet himself proceeding up the river on the 7th, and remaining until the 9th; he succeeded in effecting a reconciliation, and entered into a treaty of peace; but, nevertheless, we have left a party of soldiers on board the Albert to keep quietness. We reached Sierra Leone again on the 14th March—all well, there being not the least sickness on board. We expect shortly to proCeed northward, as far as the Cape de Verde Isles, and then cruile between them and Cape Mount until June, after which we go to the Bights of Benin and Biafra, in order to escape the wet season here. We get our letters better from Sierra Leone than any other part of the coast, OtheriYise we prefer the southward." Her Majesty's ship Cdledonia, 120, Captain A. Millie, was paid advance of wages on TilesdaY. Her Majesty's - ship America, 50, Captain the Hon. John Gordon, will be ready fur sea very shortly, the alteration of her channels having been completed on Tuesday. It is ex pected she will go into the Sound on Wednesday next. Her Majesty's packet Penguin, G, Lieut. Walter Leslie, having taken on board six months' stores, and undergone some slight repairs, sailed for Falmouth on Wednesday. She takes the Brazilian mail of July. • Her Majesty's cutter Snipe, Lieut. George Raymond, sailed on Tuesday for the Cove of Cork, to resume her station on the coast of Ireland. Her Majesty's steamer Dee, Master-Commander T. Driver, sailed on Saturday last with stores for the Cove of Cork. Her Majesty's steam-tug Confianco was taken out of dock on Monday last. Ships in Harbour—San Josef, 110, Captain Burgoyne ; America, 50, Captain the Hon John Gordon; Conflance, steamer. In the Sound—Caledonia, 120, Captain Alex. Milne. THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE'S GRAND BALL. Last night his Grace the Duke of Devonshire gave his first grand ball for the season at Devonshire House, which was honoured ,by the presence of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, and about eight hundred members of the aristocracy, including nearly the whole elite of the fashion able world. _ _ _ . . The grand suite of saloons, comprising thirteen apartments, IN ere thrown open on the occasion, for the first time since the magnificent improvements recently effected under the super-' intendence of his Grace. The rooms were ornamented with fragrant shrubs and the most choice exotic's, and illuminated by an infinity of wax lights tastefully arranged; the marble staircase and halt being likewise adorned with a profusion of plants and flowers. The company began to arrive about half-past ten, and be fore eleven the ball-room was filled, when dancing commenced to Weippert's; band, led by Mr. Charles Coote, pianiste to his Grace. Amongst the most attractive dances of the evening was the Polka, a new arrangement of which had been spe cially prepared for the occasion by Mr. Coote. Supper was laid in the dining-room; and announced at one o'clock, the adjoining apartments being appropriated to the purposes of serving refreshments during the evening. The following were among the company, in addition to the Royal Duchess and nearly all the k ()reign Ministers and their ladies : _ _ _ DuKEs--Wellington, Norfolk, Leinster, Montrose, Bedford, Roxburghe. DucHEssEs—Sutherland, Buccleuch, Bedford, (Dowager), Northumberland, Beaufort, -Norfolk, Bedford, Roxburghe, Leinster. MAnclusEs—Anglesey, Londonderry, lleadfort, Clanri carde, Normanby, Douro, Salisbury, Granby, Ailesbury. MAuCrnoNEssEs—Wellesley, Londonderry, Lansdowne, Ailesbury, Douro. EARLS—Delawarr, Jersey, Wilton, Rosebery, March, Cawdor, Auckland, Eglintoun, Chesterfield, Aberdeen, Essex, Leicester. _ _ _ COUNTESSES—DeIawarr, Jersey, Wilton, Rosebery, De Salis, March, Mansfield, Chesterfield, Mount Edgecumbe, Clarendon, Essex, Leicester, Glengall, Minto, Tankerville. VISCOUNTS—Sydney, Jocelyn, Palmerston, Ingestre, Clive, Barrington. VISCOUNTESSES—Sydney, Jocelyn, Ingestre, Palmerston, &c., 84c. - - Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge retired shortly after one o'clock, but dancing was kept up by the great majority of the company until nearly daybreak. OPENING OF THE GENERAL AS- SEMBLY. The General Assembly opened its proceedings to .day with the usual pomp and circumstance. In the forenoon his Grace the Lord High Commissioner held a levee in the Throne-room of Holyrood Palace, which was attended by a very numerous company. Among those present were—the Earl of Selkirk, the Earl of Strathmore, Lord Ruthven, the Lord Provost and. Magistrates, the Moderator, Principal Lee, Sir Robert Aber cromby, Sir James Ramsay, Sir Ralph Anstruther, • Sir T. D. Lauder, Sir P. M. Thrieplaiid, Sir William Hamilton, Sir Wil liam Liston Foulis, Sir C. G. Stuart Menteath, Sir Neil Douglas and Staff, Dr. Cook, Dr. Arnot, Dr. Brown, Greenock, and a number of clergymen. besides a numerous list of military officers, landed proprietors, and the gentry of the city. The band of the Cameronians, with a company of the same regiment, was on duty at the Palace ; and on the levee being finished, his Grace, with the usual cortege, pro ceeded from the Palace to the High Church to hear sermon by the Moderator ; he was escorted by a guard of honour from the Scots Greys, and preceded by the band of the Cara bineers. The Noah Bridge was lined by the Cameronians and.by the Scots Greys, and the High-street to St. Giles's Church, by the Greys and the Carabineers. The procession from the Palace attracted as usual a great crowd of spectators along the whole line; and the brilliancy of the equipages, the fine appearance of the troops, both ca valry and infantry, joined to the beauty of the day, gave an effect to the cavalcade which has not been witnessed for some years. - After sermon by Principal Macfarlan, his Grace proceeded to the new Assembly Hall, when Dr. Macfarlan took the chair, and opened the Assembly by prayer. He then ad dressed the meeting, congratulated them on being able to meet in the elegant hall provided for their accommodation, thanked the members of the last Assembly and the Church at large for the kindness they had shown him in electing him to the office of Moderator last year, and concluded by pro posing the Uev. Principal Lee as his successor in the Mode rator's chair, on whose talents and accomplishments he passed a high eulogium. The proposition was hailed by loud cries of " Agree, agree ;" and Principal Lee was introduced and took the Moderator's chair. _ _ _ _ _ Her Majesty's appointment of his Grace the Lord High Commissioner, and her letter to the Church of Scotland, were then read ; after which • His GRACE addressed the Assembly, and intimated that her Majesty had directed him to state that 2,0001. should be placed in the hands of the Assembly, for the promotion of Christian knowledge and the principles of the reformed reli gion in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. This being the first occasion when the Assembly was able to occupy their new building, he felt the more grateful' that her Ma jesty had been pleased to select him on this occasion -as lies Commissioner.—(Applause.) The greatest pains, had _been , taken to arrange the adjoining apartments for their conve nience, and he hoped that that end had been attained. He trusted that their Church would continue, under' the Divine blessing, to hold her Assemblies in this place for many many years, and that she would prove alike the best security for the liberties of the people and for the authority of the Crown.—(Great applause.) The MODERATOR begged_ leave, in name of the General Assembly, to return her Majesty their warmest thanks for her munificent donation of 2,000/. for the .promotion of Chris tian knowledge in the Highlands and Islands. They would take an early opportunity of returning a dutiful and loyal answer to her Majesty's gracious letter, as it was particularly incumbent on them to expiess• their gratitude for her Majesty's frequent recognition of her solemn pledge when she ascended the throne, that she bound herself to main tain the Church of Scotland in all its rights and privileges. He begged leave also to state, on the part of the Assembly, that they hailed his Grace's re-appearance among them as the representative of her Majesty. He had conferred many be nefits upon the Church of Scotland, not only in times of prosperity and tranquillity, ,but in seasons of trouble and perplexity, and he (the Moderator) trusted the Assembly would merit the approbation of one who had ever been a firm and decided friend of the National Church. In adverting to the elegant building in which they were now met, he could not help expressing a fervent •and earnest hope that in this place, through future generations, • the Lord God of Hosts would command peace; and that, added'to all the embellish ments which belonged the spot, they might Trope to see the Lord, the Head of the Church, spread over them the buckler of his protection, like the pillar of cloud and fire over the hosts of Israel, and that over all the glory there should be a defence.—(Applause.) • The Assembly then proceeded to appoint various Commit tees, and transact other matters of routine, and adjourned about half-past three o'clock. The Assembly of the Free Church met this forenoon, in Tanfield Hall, Canonmills, when, after sermon by the last Moderator, the Rev. Henry Grey, of Edinburgh, was elected Moderator for the ensuing year.—Ediaburgli Courant. LATEST FROM CHINA. (From the Devonport Independent.) . Wo have received letters, by the Overland Mail, from our • correspondent at Hong-Kong, dated February 14th, 1844, from which we make the following extracts : " A Court-martial was held on board H.M.S. Minden, on the sth January, to try two seamen for desertion, Rear-Ad- miral Sir Thomas Cochrane, Knight, C.B„ being President. They were found guilty, and sentenced to receive 100 lashes each. - "Jan. 9th.—This morning, one of those mournful spec tacles which used to be very , common during the revolu tionary war, took place at Hong-Kong—that of flogging the two deserters through the fleet. There were altogether four teen boats manned and armed. At daylight a gun was fired from the Agincourt, and the yellow flag (which, I under stand, is the signal for punishment) hoisted at her fore-top gallant-mast-head, and kept there until it was over. It was rather an astonishing sight to the natives, although many of their punishments are more severe. " Vice-Admiral Sir Win. Parker, the Commander-in-Chief, left Manilla, for Singapore, in the Cornwallis, on the 2d January, so that he will not return to China. " The Emperor, transport, which was supposed to be lost, having been ninety days on her passage from Anger, the run being generally made in a fortnight or three weeks, has been found in a very crippled state. " Lieutenant Hancock has been appointed to the Minden. Mr. Wise, late clerk of the Cornwallis, has gone to England in the Childers. " Jan. 31st.—Lord Saltoun embarked on board the Dido to-day. She sails with two millions of dollars, one to go to Calcutta, the other to England in the Wanderer, from Singa pore ; the Childers will also take one million to England. The Cornwall, freight-ship, has sailed for England, with in valids and old stores. "All the salt meat (naval) in India has been found to be bad; therefore the Alligator troop-ship is ordered, on her arrival, to take up 1,000 casks of beef and pork for convey ance here, whiclr will, no doubt, be as bad as the other when it arrives. " Feb. 2d.—The Dido has sailed, with her purser under arrest. " A very severe accident has happened to Mr. Aplin, mid shipman, of the Agincourt. He was out shooting, when by some strange mismanagement the gun went on; and both his . hands being over the muzzle, the contents passed through them. The medical men have not yet been able to determine whether it will be necessary for him to lose either or both of his hands. Mr. Whipple, assistant- surgeon, happened fortu• nately to be on the spot, or the unfortunate sufferer would have died from loss of blood. " I hear it is proposed to make the Sapphire troop-ship a hulk or hospital-ship, as she is found to be in too weak a state to be trusted on a voyage to England. Should this be done, it is most likely the Minden will be sent home. " Feb. 10th.—The k'airlie transport is now coming in with troops. Great fears have bees entertained for her safety, as she ought to have been here nearly two months since. . " Her Majesty's steam-frigate Driver is ordered to Chusan, • to bring down ; with the Vixen steamer, the right wing of the 55th regiment. "The Proserpine iron stearnav, Captain Hough, has been n shore and knocked a hole in her bottom, ani4 13 PPW on lle beach, undergoing repair. " Feb. 14th.—Her Majesty's surveying-vessel Samarang is a just arrived, and tta she was not expected for nearly twelve THE SUN, IiONDON, - SATITMD - AY - rTIV'ENING, MAY 18, 1€144: • months, something must be wrong. On inquiry, I find the Second Lieutenant, Wade, is under close arrest, and will, it is generally supposed, be tried by a court-martial." SAURED CONCERTS-EXETER- HALL. The concerts given by the Sacred Harmonic Society at Exeter-hall were resumed yesterday evening, under the most favourable auspices. Mr. George Perry's beautiful oratorio of the Death of Abel was selected for the evening's enter tainment. The Hall was numerously and fashionably at - tended, as usual. The vocal performance,_ with but one ex ception, was composed of native talent, Herr Staudigl being the only foreigner amongst the professionals. His re-appear ance caused much delight, but it would be unjust to say that the approbation of the audience was lessened in consequence towards his friendly rivals, among whom were Miss Rain forth, Miss Poole, Hobbs, Manvers, and Phillips. The fol lowing was the programme : PART I. Introduction. Resit. Air Rejoice; 0 my beloved. Ilecit Solo and Chorus itecit .. . . Air . 0 thou Omnipotent. lteeit. Hear'st thou rot Eve. Quartett and Chorus lieeit. What sounds of joy. Air Reeit Air 0 dearest Father. Reed. _ _ ..... What means this sternness. Air I cannot smoothly smile. Reeit. 'Tic Envy. Air Reeit. Chorus Recit. Air Rejoice all Nature. Recit. Forgive me, Abel. Duet -Recit Thus ever, 0 my children. Chorus PART 11. Recit I will ascend to Earth. Air The favourite of Heaven. Chorus .. Recit Air I am not glad. Air My children. Recit Most calm. Soli and Chorus Recit Air Recit. Chorus The Lord is my Shepherd. Who shall ascend. He that hath clean hands. Recit.... Air Behold, 0 Cain. Recit What mighty Tumult. Air Hear, 0 Lord. Recit O, miserable man. Recit " • " Turn not away. Duet Chorus Recit What hath my fury done. Recit Stop trembler. Air and Chorus A vengeance. Recit Gracious and Righteous. Air Recit Chorus The Death of Abel, as a performance, has been so often criticised, and acknowledged to rank high in the musical world, that an elaborate comment upon it in the present in stance as a whole is superfluous; suffice it, therefore, that the melodies are elegant and flaming, and light and spirited by turns. The ear is first charmed by a quiet serenity, the heart pants with the impress of a holy fear, and then swells forth with a burst of praise to the Almighty; ! anon we feel the approach of the dark hour, in which man slew his fellow- man, and the mind is led to reflect upon the infinite power of the Creator, and the meek and helpless state of mortal existence in itself. The remorse and repentance of Cain is then pour trayed ; and finally the chorus bursts forth in a gust of me lody—" Give the Lord the honour due unto his name." The soft, the pathetic, and the triumphant, follow with harmonious rivalry—all has been perfect, and the oratorio is finished with the just approbation of the scientific, as well as with that of the humble amateur. . . . Miss Rainforth sang with her accustomed sweetness and power. Herr Standigl was able to prove the brilliancy of his voice in the part assigned him, to which the audience re sponded. Mr. Phillips was effective throughout, and appears to improve upon acquaintance, though he has long been a favourite. Miss Poole, Hobbs, and Manvars, each sang with effective precision and discernment. PIUCES OF SHARES :N CAZIALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE. AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 17. MOVEMENTS OF THE COURT Previously to the Court taking its departure, on Thursday, from Claremont for Buckingham Palace, the Queen com manded that the mansion should be prepared for the recep tion of the Royal Family on Thursday, the 23d intant, on which day the Court will leave town. Her Majesty's birth day will be celebrated at Claremont. His Majesty the King, of Saxony is expected to arrive in England, upon a visit to her Majesty, either at tfie end of this month or the commencement of June. His Majesty will be received by the Queen, upon his arrival, at Bucking ham Palace. In the event of her Majesty's illustrious guest not reaching this country until after the 29th instant, it is the Queen't intention to remain at Claremont until the Wed nesday in Whitson week. The King of Saxony, after remaining a short time at Buckingham Palace, and spending a few days with her Majesty, as it is expected, at Windsor Castle, will make a tour, for some three weeks or a month through the provinces, which it is not improbable may be extended to the mining districts in some of the Welsh counties, and also to a portion of the mote southern Scotch counties, including the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. It is not now expected that the Queen under any circum stances will honour the Eton Montem with her presence on Whit-Tuesday. The expectation is (in the event of the arrival of the King of Saxony being delayed beyond that period) that • Prince Albert will leave Claremont early on that morning, take breakfast with the Reverend the Provost and the authorities of the college, and proceed thence to Salt hill, to witness the ceremony of flourishing the flag on the mount. His Royal Highness will afterwards return to her Majesty at Claremont. Notwithstanding that these are at present the arrange ments which have been decided upon, the authorities of Eton College still indulge the hope that (the weather being favourable, and her Majesty continuing in the enjoyment of her usual good health) this celebrated triennial festival may yet be honoured with the presence of the Sovereign. sudden when THE tuie took WET plete llE on ß.—A Thursday, change tethermometer ra fell nearly twenty degrees lower than it was on the previous day. The weather still continues cold and boisterous. Last night the temperature in London was only two degrees above freezing, and this day, at noon, the thermometer marked forty-two, being twenty-seven degrees lower than on some days during the present week. DEATH CAUSED BY A LUCIFER MATCH.—MT. Wakley yesterday held an inquest at the Lord Portman, Broadley-terrace, Dorset-square, on the body of Maryanne Martha Benyon, aged three years and a half. About two o'clock in the afternoon of Monday week, deceased's sister was left in charge of deceased and a younger child, whilst her 'father and mother went to fetal some linen to wash. The deceased was playing with her doll near the fender, and all of a sudden she screamed, and witness then saw her pinafore in flames. She called up a lodger, and with much difficulty they were extinguished, but not before the deceased was burnt about the neck and breast in a frightful manner. The remains of a lucifer match were found on the floor, and it was witness's belief that deceased had picked one up, and having ignited it, the fire caught her clothes. She lingered until Tuesday evening last, when she expired. Verdict, " Acci dental death:" We have reasons for surmising that a new move is ust about to be made, more startling than any which has yet occurred in these exciting times. • What will be thought of a new London and Birmingham Railway, guaranteed by the Great Western and Grand Junction jointly ? Stranger things have come to pass ; but a few days will make a reve lation, and show how well we get into the" secrets of the pri son-house."—Railway Record. . SINGULAR DEA.Tlh—Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the Horse and Groom, Bing street; SeVen-dials, on the body of William Duncan, aged forty-eight, who expired on Tuesday last. When the jury went to view the body they had some difficulty.min obtaining an entrance, as the room was full of company, assembled to wake the body. It appeared from the evidence that the de ceased was in the employ of an undertaker, and resided at No. 1, New Turnstile. On Tuesday last he hailed an omnibus from his residence, and placed a coffin on the top, saying to the driver and conductor, " Here is a coffin for one of us three." He then got inside. After the omnibus had pro ceeded as far as Compton-street, Soho, the conductor looked at the deceased, and was so much struck with the change in his countenance that he stopped the vehicle. The deceased opened the door himself and got down, and then became in sensible. He was conveyed into the shop of Mr. Fitzgerald, a surgeon, .in High-street, and placed on a chair, where he bled profusely at the mouth and nose, and died in about two minutes, although every effort was made to save him. Mr. Fitzgerald gave it as his opinion that death was caused by the rapture of some large artery in the chest, and the jury returned a verdict of " Natural death." FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—The arcnoisnop of Ar magh's carriage, on Thursday night, shortly before ten o'clock, met with and occasioned accidents that, it is to be .feared, will be attended, if not with fatal, at least with very serious results. It appears that his Grace was proceeding in his carriage across Westminster-bridge, when the horses be came unmanageable, and dashed off at frightful speed, and in a moment came in collision with a cab, then with a second, and lastly with an omnibus, directly in front of Mr. Painter's, the Horseshoe and Magpie, in Bridge-street. The force with which the carriage struck 'these several vehicles caused the most extensive damage, and the drivers were thrown and se riously injured. In the confusion attendant on the sudden ness of the accident, it was difficult to obtain a very exact ac count of the various injuries that resulted. The Archbishop's carriage was itself at length thrown over on its side, and the coachman hurled with great violence from his box. Assis tance was immediately at hand, and his Grace was taken out at the window. It proved, fortunately, that the Archbishop was not injured, though muck alarmed. His coachman, and, as was stated, some others who had also received injuries from' the accident, were taken immediately to the hospitaL STRANGE DEATH.—On Thursday Mr. J. Payne, Deputy Coroner for London and Southwark, held an inquest at St. Bartholomew's Hospital on the body of James Brown, aged 29, a journeyman tailor. It appeared by the evidence of Henry Blundell, a waiter at a beer-shop, No. 70, Leather lane, that on Saturday fortnight deceased called on him, and they began to play at a game called "puff the dart." The game is played with a long needle inserted in some worsted and blown at a target through a tin tube. Deceased . placed the dart at the wrong end of the tube, and drawing his breath strongly to puff it with greater force afterwards, he swallowed it, and asked witness whathe should do ? Witness took deceased to the hospital, and one of the surgeons exa mined his throat, but could not feel the dart, and said he could do nothing for him then. After this deceased was taken home, and attended by Mr. Walker, who could not ex tract the dart ; and eventually, on Tuesday week, lie returned to the Hospital, and was admitted next day as an in-:door patient. Everything was done to extract the needle, but without success; and he died on Wednesday last. Mr. Bell, one of the Hospital surgeons, opened the body, but could not discover any trace of the dart. Both lungs were much in flamed and mortified, which might have been caused by cold, and have been of long standing, or it mighthave been aggra vated through having swallowed the needle, which, if swallow ed, must have passed through the body. The disease oft he lungs was the cause of death. Verdict, "Accidental death." BERLIN, MAY 11.—A rumour, which. found its - - - - way, some time ago, into the public journals, about an in tended marriage of the King of Hanover—born July sth, 1771--q0 the Grand Du c h e ss Dowager of Mecklenburg Sebweria—born Feingry 8 1803—haa been revived, and gains credit iu our higitor 6w910, Dividend per Annum, 51 per cent. 41. Names of Com panies. Canals. Ashton and Oldhaut Ashby-de-la-Zoneh..av Basingstoke Br ecknock & Abergay Birmingham,l-16thsh Do. and Liverp. June Chelmer & Blackwater Coventry Crom ford Dudley Derby Danube and M. - tyne Ellesmere anti Chetter Erewash ....... Forth and Clyde Grand Junction ......... Grand Uni0n......,... ., Grand Surrey Grand Western.,,,.._ Glarnorgansh., ay. cost Gloucester & Berkeley Grantham Huddersfie.d Kennet sod Avon ll Lancaster Leeds and Liverpool.,. Leicester Leicester & Northamp. Loughborough Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire . 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A & ti. too o 0 41 13 4 14J - 71 0 100 0 0 Account of the 'is: Bankrupt in th( with the Amours can be ascertain( 839... 540.. 841.. 8 I''.. s-~5..~ 'Number of BankL. ruptcies. IVATE lumber of Pri years 1839, Lt of Dividends Of which were Banks of Issue. BANKS. .vate Banks which became 1840, 1841, 1842, and 1843, Paid, so far as the same 'Number that Paid Divi dends, and Amount of Dividends. At 1 under ss. • 1 under 10s. 7 no dividend. 2 under ss. 4 under 10s. 1 under 15s. 17 no dividend. 5 under ss. 6 under 108. 1 under 15s. 1 under 20s. 13 no dividend. 2 under ss. 9 no dividend. 1 dividend not ascertained. 2 under ss. 1 under 10s. 1 under 15s. 1 under 20s. 11 I L 4 -t 6 1 6 dividend not ascertained. BRITISH AND FOREIGN ANTI SLAVERY SOCIETY. The following are full reports of the speeches made by Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Bright, which we were obliged to omit yesterday for want of room : Mr. D. O'Coss.asm, M.P., who looked remarkably well, was received upon advancing with the most vociferous cheer ing, which lasted for some time, 'spoke as follows :—The reso lution which is intrusted to me to move is in these words : " That this meeting, in common with a great mass of their countrymen,. have read with feelings of indignation and horror the sentence of death pronounced by Judge O'Neale, of South Carolina, on John L. Brown, for aiding and abetting a slave woman to escape from the intolerable yoke of bond age, by which sentence, and the terms in which it was pro nounced, not only were the sacred principles of justice vio lated, and the forms of law prostituted to the most atrocious purposes, but the Divine system .of Christianity itself grossly outraged and dishonoured." Nobody who has heard of that trial and sentence but must concur in every word of this resolution, and that being so, I really have very little to say to it. At one time I anticipated that I should have to address you at considerable length, and upon a most unpleasant topic—a topic which has created something like division amongst ourselves. Fortunately, however, that division is healed ; the appeal is made to the proper tribunal, and all I have to say is this, that I beg I may not have my opinions upon tins subject judged of by the fervid eloquence of my friend George 'Thompson.— (Loud cheers.) I rejoice •in being allowed to raise my voice in an assembly of the old and tried friends of human liberty amongst the enemies ofslavery in every country and in every clime, amongst the advocates of morality and Christianity, which can never be perfect or valuable in any country till there is neither master nor slave.—(Cheers.) I rejoice to stand amongst you, and, whatever may be my own lot, I shall have the gratification to recollect that I have joined in one more effort to strike the fetter from the slave.—(Cheers.) I don't know whether you understand what our cause of. quarrel was a while ago. It seemed to me once or twice that it was something in the situation of my svoethy countryman, Sir Lucius O'Trigger, who, having sent a challenge to a man, and, being asked the cause of it, said, " It's a mighty pretty quarrel as it is : explanation 'll spoil it."—(Cheers and laughter.) For my part. lam bound to say that lam a free trader, perfectly attached to the principles and the practice of free trade.—(Cheers.) I am convinced that it is injustice to prevent men from buying their food in the cheapest market, and that it is a crime to make the rich richer at the expense of increasing the poverty of the poor. I am a free trader in corn especially, though I stand here the representative of 750,000 of an agricultural population—of a population that have no means of paying their rents or sup porting their families but by the produce of the land—who sanction me, and join with me, in asserting, for the labour ing classes of England, the privilege of having their food as cheap as they can possibly get it.—(Hear, hear.) If I, on an anti-slavery question, differ with those who agree with me on the principles of free trade, they, I think will do me the justice to say that I may be mistaken, but that I am not designedly wrong. The question between us, to be disposed of by the Committee, when I shall not have an opportunity of appearing, is this—"whether slave-grown sugar ought to be more taxed on coming into this country than free-grown sugar —whether the produce of free labour ought not to have .the preference in our market over the produce of slave labour ?" —that is all. I confess lam for giving a preference to the produce of free labour.—(Hear, hear.) Ido not think there is anything opposed to free trade in that. If less is to be paid for slave-grown sugar, recollect the mode in which it has been produced. Remember that no wages have been given for its production, no gratuity to the men who fainted even under the labour. It was not half-a-crown or a shilling a day, but the lashes of the whip if they did not work heartily.—(Cheers.) 1 cannot bring that to my notions of free trade. We had at one time a slave trade in England, openly carried on by the sanction of the law. There is not here one human being who would be for a free trade in slaves ; and I see no distinction between being for free trade in slaves and for free trade in an article which would augment slavery.—(Cheers.) As to your fifty per cent. cheaper, why I think honesty is still the best policy. There was a man transported a year ago, named Money Moses, who was in the habit of receiving all the stolen plate he could get, paying the thieves a very small sum for it. That man would give you 50/. worth of plate for twenty-five sovereigns, and the conse quence would be, that you'd have a free trade in plate.— (Cheers.) Free trade's a good thing, but honesty's better ; and the country which gave that sublime example, without one murmur, from one end of the land to the other, from Land's End to the north of Scotland, from Cape Clear to the Giant's Causeway, freely contributed 20,000,0001. to the cause of humanity, cheaply purchasing the liberty of 800,000 human beings.—(Cheers.) I have heard of the difference between Royalty and Republicanism ; but Royalty has beaten' Republicanism in the race altogether, and has at least the advantage of having totally abolished the horrible crime of slavery. Wherever the English flag waves, or our Queen's power extends, slavery is at an end, and man is on an equality with his fellow-creatures.—(Cheers.) No; I cannot bring myself at all to do anything that shall have the least appearance of augmenting slavery. It is, indeed, Said, that if you don't buy slave-grown sugar, others will ; that they will have it in the markets of other parts of Europe. It is said, too, "If you adopt this principle, why not apply it to cotton and tobacco ?" I think I have a very good answer to that—" Because it is not in our power to do it."—(Cheers.) If I could possibly prevent a single pound's weight of slave-grown cotton, or a single ounce of slave grown tobacco from entering . this country, I would sacrifice my existence, and gladly perish on the scaffold, to prevent such a foul crime being enacted—(Cheers) — but if I cannot do that, is it any reason why I should not prevent what I can ? We cannot cure one evil by committing another. Crime should be diminished as much as possible ; unlike wealth, it does not become more valuable by accumulation. I therefore stand up amongst my brother free traders to state that I cannot consent to increase the number of slaves by en couraging slave-grown produce.—(Cheers.) I came here, as you may perceive, tolerably well prepared to defend my opinions ; and if I should be able to attend the Committee I should defend myself there. lam sure I have not said a word disrespectful to my able friend ; but Ido hope this Society will never be a pro-slavery society, either in England or anywhere else, and though other markets should be open to slave grown sugar, that England never will.—(Cheers.) I will ask any man, is not England the best market in the world for any commodity ?—(Cheers.) It has the two great ingredients—plenty of money and certitude or pay ment.—(Cheers.) In some other countries the payment is not quite so certain.—(Cheers and great laughter.) Pardon me for having detained you so long. I was brought up in abhorrence of every adjunct to slavery—of everything that could assist—of everything that could increase slavery. I have Spent a long life in struggling against tyranny . and op pression of every kind, and 1 shall not be a participator in anything that can augment the misery to the alleviation of which I have devoted all the energies of my life.—(Loud cheers.) But I come to the resolution before me, and I must say that 1 heard with great.pleasure the Americas gentleman who spoke with so much moderation and good sense while condemning slavery in his own country. Was there ever a thing equal to this trial of John L. Brown ? He was charged with attempting to aid a woman in escaping from bondage ; he was tried, and was convicted. I wonder what kind of a jury he had.—(Cheers and great laughter.) Judgment was pronounced against him—alas! by an Irish judge—not an American, but an Irish judge. Are there no strange ones nearer home ?—(Cheers.) Humanity and morality were so trampled on, Christianity made such a mockery of by this prosecution, that I wish I had language to pour forth the torrent of my contempt upon a country and its institutions where such a horrible crime as that can be perpetrated under form of law.—(Cheers.) Tried for his life! For what? For an act of humanity; for that for which he should have been rewarded—for a virtue—for a noble, a manly virtue ; for a feeling of compassion for a wretched female.— (Cheers.) Then he read the manner in which the judge pronounced the sentence. He defied his God; he; used the holy scriptures to aggravate the bitterness of the sentence of death. He intro duced the name of the ever-adorable Redeemer, the only me diator between God and man, as if he would make a sin of a compassionate and humane act. Oh ! pardon me, Sir, I can not continue— " Just Heaven ! What must be thy look, When such a wretch before thee stands, Unblushing I—with thy sacred book, Turning its leaves with blood-stained hands, . And wresting from its text sublime His law of hate, and blood, and crime." —(Greatjcheering.) Something should be done to mark the disgust with which England views such conduct. For my own part, I would no more speak to a New Orleans man than I would to a pickpocket or a felon thief. They don't deserve to be placed upon the same footing with civilised men. Eng land should say to them, " Stay at home : come net among us : don't pollute us with your presence ; for we will hold no commune with you."—(Cheers.) We have no other mode of controlling a nation but by the' expression of public opinion— Republicans are naturally proud ; let us meet their pride, and show them that they shall have in return nothing—but our scorn, our contempt, our hate, and our reprobation.— (Cheers.) Pour out your indignation on them. Let them know that they are out of the pale of society—that they 'shall be excommunicated from intercourse with Christian men, whilst 'they have their statute-book stained by so bloody a law as this. The blood in their statute-book shall blush in their countenances, and they shall be marked as men of blood throughout the civilised globe—(Cheers)—the wretch that pronounced the sentence—that Judge O'Neale, oh ! I abhor him for his name. Let his 0 be blotted out any rate -(Cheers and laughter)—and then nail the rap to the counter as soon as you please.—(Cheers.) Our public press is too calm : we have had, to be sure, some important remarks on the subject, some good sentences of reprobation; but they haven't repeited them often enough ; they haven't marked with sufficient strength their sense of the iniquity, of the abo mination, of the scoundrelism of it.—(Cheers.) Representing large masses of my countrymen, I denounce the miscreant who 'derives his pedigree at least, if not his birth, from my country in the presence of this great meeting assembled in the cease of humanity. Sacred Heaven ! where else NUM rush a meeting as this be got together, net for any personal or private object, but at the impulse of generous hearts, with the single desire of making the cause of humanity triumphant throughout the world ?—(Cheers.) Oh! it is a glorious meeting, ft o 'delightful it. is to take a part in it. Pa I Pellnet yet pass from O'Neal() and his sientenee, It has been said that Brown has nut been executed, and It has been boasted in the Arne -rican papers that he has been pardoned. That is not so. The sentence has been commuted—to what? To a flogging by the common hangman at the gallows' foot,-,.(01004.14 and cries of " Shame I") Why, that is worse. than death, lie might have perished, as many men have perished, innocently, but that is treatment you would not subjectyour dog to —no, nor your enemy's dog; it was a canine punishment, and worse than the wolves that prowl the forests were the' non sters that inflicted it.—(Cheers.) It is not to bs such conduct as this, and I thankCyl tilot" will be wafteci 211 11 0 . ‘ 4 6 1 . 1 p, ' „41 , 11 ,d ' pr0 • A • idlssotiri tAç'Wkiiiit44 4 4lo NYUQ od Kates and the miscreant O'Neale, with the:wretches who joined with him, shalkbemade acquainted with the shouts of indignation which his conduct raised here.---(Loud cheers.) But the excellent and patriotic gentlenian who spoke to you a while ago seemed to entertain stronger hopes than I do, that the annexation of Texas with the American republic would not be agreed to. Recollect, if Texas be united to the southern States, nine new slave States will be created. Hitherto the progress of slavery in America has been retarded by the northern States being free from that taint ; but, if there be nine more slave-holding States, there is an end of any check whatsoever. The nor-• them and western States will be completely swamped by the additional force un the other side ; nine States, where at pre sent there are scarcely any, to be peopled by slaves and the hideous process which is called " raising slaves." Bringing up human beings as they do cattle in stalls, in the same total absence. of morality and religion, and by such means that I would not pollute the present meeting by describing them. I hardly dare pollute my own thoughts by thinking of them. —(Cheers.) Yet nine States more are to be so peopled ; and is humanity to stand heedless by ? and are generosity and pity for the *retch who is not his own property, but cattle in the hands of his master—are they to be silent ? Is there to be no British and Foreign , Slave Society ?—(Great cheer ing.) Is there to be no indignant voice to be raised against it ?—(Cheers.) I want the Government to take a more active part in this matter.—(Chelrs.) The President of the United States has actually signed the treaty for this annexa tion. It is already on the table, and the only question now is whether it shall be ratified. Pardon me for dwelling so long on these topics, strange to you, perhaps, but not indif ferent to us.—(Cheers.) They quite come within the scope of the object for which we have met, and are all in the pro vince of the British and Foreign - Slave Society. lam only an humble advocate ; but I sill on you to become apostles of this persuasion,. which calls for the enforcement of rules of humanity and of morality as the first duty of a Government, which its subjects should stimulate them to exercise. —(Cheers.) I now beg you to remember that we are engaged in this mighty strife : recollect that it is our object to make man his own property, to bring him within the scope of education—for it is a crime in the North Ame rican States to teach a slave to read or write—that it is our duty to have the book of God opened before him, and to see that the book of science is not closed to him—that it is our duty to prevent the child being separated from its father, the infant being torn from its mother's bosom—to prevent the mother (instead of rejoicing when a man-child is born) from weeping with sorrow at her dusky-coloured babe, remember ing that she has produced a man not for the purpose of hu manity, but of Slavery.—(Great cheering.) The division which has arisen amongst ourselves will require a stronger and more general appeal to the entire country. There never was a period so fit for making that appeal. There never was so great a necessity for having your ranks increased : the Mi nistry and their supporters, every man engaged in the Go vernment of this country, should rally, to prevent, if possible, the annexation of Texas; to prevent murders such as that contemplated by O'Nealt, to cheer one another on in the cause, to open the door of Christianity to the ignorant and uncivilized, and, above all and before all, to place the glorious name of this Society in - the first ranks of those who battled nobly and manfully for the liberty of the human race.—(The Hon. and Learned Gentleman resumed his seat amidst loud cheering.) _ _ _ The ii(;v. Mr. Aims seconded the resolution, which passed unanimously. The Rev. J. SIIER3IAN, of Surrey Chapel, without any prefatory observation, moved the next resolution, as fol lows ' " That this meeting would earnestly call the attention of the friends of the anti-slavery cause, throughout the United Kingdom, to the fact that a large portion of the existing slave population of Brazil, the Spanish colonies, and Dutch Guiana, entitled under treaties with this country, as well as by the municipal laws of the States, into whose territories or colonies they have been illicitly introduced, to their liberty, are. nevertheless subjected to an atrocious system of bondage. That to this large and unhappy class of persons must be added many thousands of Africans, manumitted at various times by the courts of mixed commission, established in these countries, in a state of slavery of the most cruel cha racter. That in the Spanish; Dutch, and French colonies there are many British subjects, estimated to amount to several thousands, illegally held in bondage, who ought to be free. And that, therefore, appeals should be made to her Biskjesty's Government promptly and perseveringly to urge upon the Brazilian, Spanish, an d D u t c h G ov ernments the duty of removing every obst ac l e t o th e i r i mm ediate and entire emancipation. That this meeting having further learned the existence in countries, or the dependencies of countries, at peace with Great Britain, of laws which affect the rights and liberties of British subjects, being persons of colour, who may have omosion to resort to them on their lawful business, they would in this case also urgently call on the Government to obtain the repeal of such laws, 'as at variance with friendly relations and the stipulations of treaties." The Rev. T. Smrrit, of Rotherhithe, in seconding the reso lution, expressed his regret that any difference of opinion should have arisen in the course of the discussion which had taken place this day. Mr. BRIGHT, M.P., having been loudly called for by the meeting, next presented himself to its attention. The Hon. Member said he had not had any intention to take up the time of the meeting: but he felt extremely glad that lie was permitted to make a few observations, particularly after the .speech of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman who sat next the Chairman (Mr. O'Connell). He agreed with that Hon. and Learned Gentleman in every word of reprobation he had used when speaking of the atrocious trial and sentence which had taken place and been pronounced in the United States ; but. at the same time he thought there had been something too wholesale in the manner of speaking of that country, for he (Mr. Bright) was prepared to state from what he had known of its citizens, that there were hundreds and thousands of men in the United States who would be worthy to stand on any platform in this country when the interests of humanity were to be vindicated. It should be borne in mind that the American abolitionists were not in the same position as the abolitionists in this country. Here they saw the horrors of slavery at a distance, and those horrors had been, if it were possible, magnified.—(Cries of " No, no.") If not magnified, the difficulty of abolition had been diminished by the dis tance. Why, if there had been slavery existing in Ireland or in Scotland, would there have been that union of parties engaged in seeking its abolition? No : on the contrary, there would have been all that bitter party feeling which arose in this country on the consideration of every great poli tical question, and year after year would have rolled on be fore that great triumph which Great Britain had effected in its own colonies would have been achieved over slavery at home.—(Hear, hear.) It was not the love of slavery that perpetuated it in America ; on the contrary, look at the writings of Tappen, Levitt, and all the best men who have come to this country from America—all of them express a horror at the system with which their country was accursed. While the crime of Judge O'Neal() was execrated, let it not be forgotten, that it required in America the greatest possible courage and daring to defend abolition at all.—(Hear.) He (Mr. Bright) equally deprecatedthe argument by which su periority was ascribed to the Crown of this country over the institutions of America. It was not wise for this country to ridicule the institutions of America ; nor would it be wise for America to speak harshly of the institutions of Great Britain. There were in America millions of men who had descended from English ancestors, and who were carrying on the great and glorious work of civilising that great continent, and he thought the object of this and all other meetings should be to counsel America kindly, but firmly, to get rid of all that was bad amongst its people, and to endeavour to draw closer the ties which bind America to her mother coun try.—(Cheers.) As he was speaking, perhaps he might be allowed to say a word or two upon the question which had very nearly divided the, meeting in opinion. He agreed in the terms of the amendment which had been moved by his friend Mr. Thompson, inasmuch as it ascribed every good and honest motive to the Committee, who, he believed, had risked much popularity and had encountered agood deal of odium from the course they had taken, and he was quite sure that in all they had done they believed they were act ing not-only as their constitution empowered them, but that the course they had taken was likely to serve the great ends of total abolition. He believed the Committee to have been purely honest, but mistaken, and it was for the meeting to decide whether the principle they have adopted was or was not essential to the working out the objects of the Anti- Slavery Society. He waS of opinion that it was not essen tial.—(Hear, hear.) To lean on the Government (either the past, the present, or the next), was to lean upon a broken reed. The moment it served the object of the party in power they would sweep away all discriminating duties between slave and free-grown produce, and the great arguments which' Sir Robert Peel had drawn from the memorials of the Com mittee would only be regarded for what they had effected, and would be useless for the future. He (Mr. Bright) was persuaded that public opinion was going in the direction to overthrow such duties as those which they had been dis cussing; and he would ask the Anti-Slavery Committee whether, even if they should succe e d f or a t i me, i t would not be but a very short time, in preventing the abolition of these duties, and whether it was worth the sacrifice they were making to adopt a principle which had weakened the Anti-Slavery party in this country ?—(Great cheering, and cries of " No, no.") He knew that in some towns many of the most zealous of their body had declined to co operate in the measures recommended by the Committee. He was most anxious to prevent disunion. If the principle was absolutely necessary for the prosecution of their efforts, he should be disposed to agree with their recommendations ; but when ho saw it was a doubtful principle, he contended it would be wiser for the Committee not to allow the apple of discord to be thrown among the anti-slavery party, but leave the matter an open question, and not to act in their official capacity. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman opposite (Mr. O'Connell) had said, that the most powerful instrument to be 'used in the matter was public opinion. In that sentiment he (Mr. Bright ) agreed. There was a proposition now before Parlia ment fixing a duty of 345. on free-labour sugar, and 635, on slave-grown ; and the effect of this he contended would be to stimulate slavery in Brazil, and evils would arise from the mode adopted by the Government, and based on the scruples which the Committee had felt. Mr. SCOBLE here rose to order; but Mr. BRIGHT proceeded to urge the necessity for the aboli tion of restrictive duties, and concluded by express i n g a hope that, with the abolition of slavery, there would also be an abolition of all monopolies. The CHAIRMAN said, before he put the resolution he hoped, as Mr. Bright had dilated upon matters notliwas con tained in it, he might be allowed to say a few words. his (the Chairman's) firm conviction that, if the differential duties proposed were not adopted, and if the sugars of Brazil, Cuba, and other slave- labour countries were admitted on equal terms to the market of this country, it would be produced by the lash, and the lash alone.—(Cheers.) He was certain it would be the means of consumingthe sinews and lives of the unhappy slaves of those colonies, and those lives would only be replaced bi a traffic in slaves from the coast of Africa.—(Hear, hear.) plat admitted of no dispute; and he was astonished at the assertions and in cons i stent de clamation of his two friends, Messrs. Thompson and Bright, Mr. TuomrsoN rose to order. He had withdrawn his amendment on the understanding that his proposition was not to be canvassed.—(Cries of " Order, chair.") He had not been dealt fairly with ; for It had been discussed by Mr. O'Connell, by Sir George Stephen, by Mr. Buxton, and now the Chairman was entering upon it. He called upon the Chairman to adhere to the strict line of his duty. Terms had not been kept with him ; and he should now again move the amendment he had previously witharawn.—(Confusion.) Mr. O'CcoINELL 'Acilied that he had violated any pledge; for he was not aware that any had been given. Mr. TnOSIPSON—You have misrepresented me y and I shall reply to you, even if th ere are on l y twenty persons left in the room. Renewed uproar.) Mr. O ' CONNELL—Tppeateti that he had only spoken his own intiiyidpfil sentiments, and they had been ably replied to by Mr. Bright. Where was the necessity for further dis cussion? Mr. Thom-sox again rose amidst great confusion and uproar, and insisted that his amendment should be put to the meeting. He complained of the Chairman designating his spteell as inconsistent declamation." A long and angry conversation, carried on amidst the indescribable uproar and confusion, followed; was put an end to by anti at length it • The CHAIRMA N cWiplilg his intention to put le. Thomp son's the meeting. aToncll4o . tp,A show of hands was then reI. C PI RCTIWW I it the Chairman declared the amendment to earriect. 'This announcement was received with loud cheers, Mr. JOSIAH CONnER thentmave4 the resolution which bad been lost, and in addition to it the fellOWIRg - - " That this weetingz, whilst okleotiug to the various colo nial and Government schemes already propounded for supply ing the British colonies with labourers, admit the wisdom and necessity, so long as the present plan is permitted to exist, of confining emigration from Africa to the West India colonies strictly to the British settlementS undor the control of Government. That this meeting, however, offer their dc- • cided protest against the regulation which authorises the shipment of male labourers alone to these colonies, as mani festly injurious to the moral elevation and religious culture both of the emigrants themselves and the emancipated classes among whom, for a time, they will be settled. That • whilst this meeting loudly protests against this permission in reference to Africans imported into the West India colonies, they would especially reprobate it in its application to the export of coolies to the Mauritius, and the contemplated emigration of Chinese labourers to the British colonies gene- , rally, as fraught with the most melancholy consequences. ; and would earnestly call on the Imperial Legislature to inter pose its authority to prevent the further occurrence of so • great a social evil." The R►ev. G. EVANS seconded the resolution, which was also supported by Mr. ELIJAH WRIGHT, of Boston, who took occasion to defend his countrymen from the attacks of Mr. O'Connell. _ _ _________ Mr. O'CONSELI said he had been evidently misunderstood by Mr. Wright. His censure was upon the American slave holders and those who countenanced slave holding in Ame rica, and he thought he had made a distinction between them . and the abolitionist party in America. The abolitionist in America was to be highly esteemed, because he took part against the prejudices of his countrymen, and against their , supposed interest.—(Cheers. On the motion of Mr. G. CARLISLE, a Dissenting minister, . seconded by Mr. SCOBLE, a vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman ?or his kindness in presiding, which was briefly ac knowledged, and the meeting separated. COURSE OF EXCHA3 Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Ditto, at sight l2 4 Rotterdam 2U. 12 61, Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 141 A Rona . Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65 Ditto, 3 mouths 25 85 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Frankfort on Maine 122 Petersburgh, 3Us 36i Berlin Vienna, enc. fl. 3 M 954 'lrieste, ditto Madrid 36 Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Sevilla GE.—(YESTERDAY.) Gibraltar Leghorn 3O 45 Genoa 25 90 Milan Venice ....... Naples 39 Palermo, per oz ll7 Lisbon 634 Oporto Rio Janeiro 23 Bahia .. 23 Buenos Avres NewYork:2ldYs sight Philadelphia PRICES OF BULLION, PER oz. Foreign Gold, bars. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 Now Dollars 0 4 9i Silver in Bars 0 4 Ilb COURT CIRCULAR. Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Gloucester, visited her Majesty yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. The Queen and Prince Albert walked out yesterday morning in the Royal Gardens of Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday at a meeting of the Commission for promoting and encouraging the Fine Arts in the re-buildi ng th e Palace of Westminster. The Commissioners assembled shortly before three o'clock in the afternoon at Gwydyr House. The Prince arrived, attended by Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting. The Commissioners present were the Duke of Suther land, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Lincoln, Lord John Russell, Lord Colborne, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Mr. H. Golly Knight, M.P., Mr. Berkjimia Ilawes, M.P., Mr. Henry Hallam, Mr. George Vivian, Mr. Thomas Wyse, M.P., Lord Mahon, and the Right Honourable T. B. Macaulay, M.P. The meeting broke up shortly before five o'clock, when Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Wylde, re turned to Buckingham Palace. Their Royal highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice were taken air ings yesterday in the Royal Gardens. The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yes terday evening, included the Earl of Liverpool, Mr. Charles and the lion. Mrs. Bruce, and Mr. George Ed ward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Glou cester House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday. In the evening the Duchess of Cambridge honoured the Duko fl Devonshire with her company at the ball given by his Grace, at Devonshire House. A deputation from the Committee of Joint-stock Banks consisting of Mr. Patrick, Mr. Stewart, M.P., Mr. Joshua Walker, Mr. Samuel Perceval, Mr. Edward . Smith, Mr. James W. Gilbart, Mr. Daniel Robertsor. Mr. John Amery, Mr. Georg e Webb, and Mr. Cha r l es Geach, had an i n t erv i ew w i t h Sir Robert Peel yesterday at his official residence in Downing -street. The Health of Towns Commission had a meeting on Thursday at Gwydyr House, Whitehall. The Com missioners present were, the Duke of Buocleuch, the Earl of Lincoln, Mr. Robert A. Slaney, Sir Henry Thomas de la Beche, Dr. Lyon Playfair, Dr. D. Boswell Reid, Mr. William T. Denison, Mr. J. Ranald Martin. and Mr. James Smith, of Doanston. A deputation on the subject of vinegar, consisting of Sir Thomas Wilde, M.P., Mr. C. Pott (London), Mr. W. Pott (London), Mr. Edward Evens (Worcester), and Mr. Joseph Underwood (Norwich), had an interview with the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. The Commission of Metropolitan Improvements had a meeting on Wednesday at the office in Whitehall-place. The Commissioners present were the Earl of Lincoln, Lord Lyttelton, Lord Colborne, the Right Hon. J. C. Herries, Sir R. H. Inglis, Sir Charles Lemon, Mr. 11. J. Hope. Mr. H. Gaily Knight, Alderman Humphery, Mr. A. Milne, Hon. Charles Gore, Sir Robert Smirke, and Mr. Charles Barry. • The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had meeting yesterday afternoon, at the office, in Whitehall place. There were present the Bishop of Rochester, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Earl of Besboroagh, and th© Right Hon. H. Hobliouse. The Governor of the Bank of England, and the! Deputy-Governor, had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, and Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, had interviews' with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, yesterday, at his official residence, in Downing street. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sal yesterday. Mr. Burge, Queen's Counsel, was heard on Stephons's petition (New South Wales). Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, Queen's Counsel, was heard or " Panton v. Williams," from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. The motion was granted. Dr. Addams was heard for a protest (on the part of the respondent) against an appeal, " Handley and Jones v. Edwards," from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. The Queen's Advocate, and Mr. Erle, Queen's Counsel. wore heard for the appellant. Dr. Addams replied. Lord Brougham gave judgment on the part of thele Lordships, for the first protest and against the appeal (relating to the rejection of evidence in the Court below), dismissing this appeal with costs. As to the second protest. It was necessary for an applicant to amend his appeal, and this being a matter of favour, must be upon terms ; their Lordships ' there• fore, directed that p a y men t s h ou ld b e made by the appellant of the costs of the appeal up to the present tulle,, The Court then rose. TODMORDEN.—At the sessions, on Thursday, a young man, named James Greenwo od. of Sowerby, wait charged with disgraceful conduct in a Wesleyan chapel, at Cragdale, and with assaulting a parish constable. It appeared from the evidence, that on Sunday last, the defendant, in company with a man, named Farrow,eitterecl the above chapel intoxicated, and created a great dia. turbance. On the Rev. Mr. Fairbourn, the minister, remonstrating with them, they pushed him about, and used violent language. Their conduct was so diegrace ful, that he left the chapel, and went to the - house of the pariih constable, who, it appeared, was unable to protect him. Several of the congregation requested them to withdraw, and Farrow, who was the most violent, refused, declaring that the minister had invited them in, and they should stop. A member stated to the bench, that the constable was afraid of the par. ties. After much difficulty, the,y were ejected, and taken into custody, but made their escape. The bench was surprised that the constable should allow the prisoners to escape, and asked where his handcuffs were and his baton of office. They would recommend him to go into the county constabulary , under th e training of Mr. Fowler, for three mon ths.—The cone stable said, he had not done much business, and did not like to over-run himself ;he was a man of peace.—The bench asked if there was a pair of stocks in Cragdale ; if so, they would certainly order the defendant to be put in them. A more disgraceful case never cane before them.—The overseer stated that there was nom The bench convicted the defendant in ss. and costs, and granted a warrant for the apprehension of Farrow, but refused to give it to the constable who had acted in so cowardly a manner. BEATING THE PARISH BOUNDARIES.—Thursday being Holy Thursday, or Ascension-day, th e c h ar i t y children of the various parishes throughout the metro polis, headed by the churchwardens and other parochial officers, made the usual annual perambulation to beat the bounds of each parish. The ceremony forms a day of recreation both to the parish officers and the children. THE WEST INDIA MAIL.—The following notice was Issued yesterday, at the General Post-office, St. Martin's le-Grand, and the branch offices :—" General Post-office, May 17, 1844.—Letters transmitted by packet, between the United Kingdom and the colony of Berbice, in British Guiana, will in future be liable to an internaleolonialpostag© of 2d. the half-ounce, &c., for the inland conveyance between New Amsterdam, Berbice, and George Town, Demerara. where the mails are landed and embarked. The internal rate will be combined with the packet rate of ls., making the total postage to ho taken on a letter not exceeding half an ounce, to or from Berbice, ls. 2d., and so on in proportion. By covamand.—W. L. MABERLY, Secretary." The next mails far Madeira, the British and Foreign Colonies in the West Indies, Venezuela, Mexico, Honduras, Havana, Bahama% Chagres, and New Granada, will be made up on the morning of the Ist of June, to be fbrwarded via Southampton. THE C.B.I.EDONIAN BALL.—The Duchess of Suther land and Marchioness of Ailesbury are, we understand, fbrming fancy quadrilles for this annual ball, now fixed fox the 28th instant, and two other sets are said to be in contem plation. The Ladies Vat renews have already disposed of the number allotted to them, and they meet on Tuesday nex t re f speetiag a second issue of vouchers, but th e i ssue is likely to ho limited, as the original price will not be altered. %addi tion to the late Duke of Sussex's piper and the Duke or Sutherland's piper, the celebrated Stewart piper is engaged to come from Scotland for the perfbrmance of Scotch reels. The Duchesses of Norfolk, Somerset, Buccleuch, Montrose, Roz. burghe, and Sutherland, Marchionesses of Abercorn, Ailes buty, and Breadalban e , an d twenty other l a di es o f t i tle COD* nected with Scotland, have undertaken the patronage, under the immediate recognition of her Majesty. It is expected that at least 1,000 tickets will be taken, so that the surplus fund iS likely to be handsome. per cent. 81. 151 71. 11. ss. 3i 12s. 13.1. 1. 10s. 341. 101. 171. 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