The Sun. — London, England, 1844-06-10 00:00:00

HER MAJESIVS THEATRE. TO_MORROW EVENING, JUNE 11, Will be performed (first time this season), LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Lucia, Madams Persiani ; Edgardo, Sig. Mario; Bidebent, Sig. Paltoni ; Enrico, Sig. I.ornasari (his first appearance in that Cha racter), o conclude with the Grand Ballet, in Six Tableaux, by M. Perrot, entitled ONDI NE, on, LA NAIADS, by Mdlle. Cerito and M. M. Sr. Leon and Perrot. Applications for Bets, Stalls, and Tickets to bema.l6 at the Box (iko, Opera ( plcnnatle. Doosis open at Seven. Lb.! Overa will oa,menco at Halt past Seven. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. M. ST. LEON has the honour to inform his Friends, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, that his BENEFIT will take place on THURSDAY NEXT, June 13, when will be performed (for the last time this season) Mozart's chef ri'Letiv e, IL DON GIOVANNI; by Madame Grisi, Mdlle. Favanti, and Madame Persiani; Signori Fornasari, Lablache, F. Lab!ache, Felice, and Mario. Between the Acts M. t. Leon will play a Fantasia Concerto sur des Motifs de Guillaume Tell, composed by himself; and In the course of the evening, Mdlle Cerito ;tad M. St. Leon will dance the admired Polka dance, and the admired new Spanish dance La Manola. To conclude with the Grand Ballet entitled ALMA; ou, La Fille du Feu ; (omitting the First Tableaux), by Mdlle. Cerito, M. Perrot, and M St. Leon. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and 'tickets to be made at the Box- Opera-estonnacle. Doors open at Seven; the Opera will com mence at Half-past Seven. 'I•HEATRE IWYAL, HAYMARKEI. MN. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LES , EI 4 . Slr. W. FARREN'S NIGH I', on which occasion. Miss Helen Emelt will make her first and only appearance in London this Season. THIS EVENING, JUNE 10, Will be presented Mrs. Inchbaki's Comedy of WIVES AS THEY AN ERE AN!) Mt IDS AS THEY ARE. Lord Priory, Mr. W. Fa. ren ; Sir William Dorrillon, Mr. Stuart ; lironzely, Mr. Charles Mathews; Olivr r, Mr. Strickland ; Lady Priory, Mrs. Nisbett ; Lady Mary Raffle, Mrs. Glover; Miss Dorrillon, Miss Helen Faucit. After which, the Farce of THE LOAN OF A LOVER. Peter Sok, Mr. Charles Mathews; Gertrude, Madame Vestris. In the course of the Evening Mr. John Parry will give "The Accomplished Young Lady and her Mama," accompanying himself on the Grand Pianoforr e. To c.ne!nde with MY WIFE'S MOTHER. Uncle Fnozle, Mr. W. nrrcn ; Mrs. Quickfidgct, Mrs. (lover; Mrs Budd, Miss Julia Bennett. Tickets, Private Boxes, and Places, to be had of Mr. Archer, at the Box-office, and of Mr W. Farrcn, 30, Brom ton—square. PLIINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-ST:Le ET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. TFIIS EVENING, JUNE RI, Will be repeated a New Counc Opera, entitled CROWN DIAMONDS Count de Campo Mayor, Mr. W'ciss• Don Hen riques de Sandoval, Mr. Allen; Rebolledo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; La t:steripa, !slat - lame Anna Thillon; Diana, Miss Grant. After which, a New and Original Parce, in One Act, called — A Is EN BY. SURPRISE. Principal Characters by Messrs. Fitz- Imes, lValter Lacy, Oxberry, Miss Emma Stanley, and Miss E. . To conclude with TILE SPITALFIELDS WEAVER. :HEArRE ROY AL LYCEUM, LATE ENGL' Ski oczaA HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELF Y. Open Sesame; or, a Night with the Forty Thieves." ensittnues to be nightly received with perfect enthusiasm by crow led and fashionable audiences. THIS EVENING, JUNE 10. Wil )be produced THE THREE FIIA DIAVOLOS. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Keeky, Wigan, Diddear, Miss wonlgar, and Mrs. Woollidge.- After which, a New arid Comic Drama; cal ed TWO H EADS lIKITEII THAN ONE. Principal Characters by Messrs. b. Vining, Diddear, Keeley, and Emery, Miss E.Chaplin, Mrs. A. Wisab, lad Mrs. Kegley. To be followed by. n Apropos Bagatelle, called POT .K Aid ANIA Characters by. Mr. F. Mat . ..hews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Liaolay, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with a erne .1 Burlesque Fairy Extraragni za, called OPEN SESAME; or, a Sight with th e Forty Thie es. llassarac, Mr. Keeley; Morgiana, Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF A lON.—Balcony Boxes. O.; Upper ?loxes, 3s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Bale iny Boxes, 25.; Upper Boxes, Is rd.; I'it, V. Private Boxes on the It ilviny Tier (holding eight persons), Two Ilitineas Private Boxe. eo the Second Tier (ho ding eight persons), One Guinea and a.Halr, Private 'loxes on the Pit Pier (holding six persons), One Guir ea. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF A LUIS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. Great Success of the Chinese Feast of Lanterns, and Niels , Military and Naval Spectacle IHIS v.:I/ENING, JUNE 10, Will be repeated an entire new Mditary and N - tra'. Equestrian Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR; or, The Conquests of Amoy by R-wish Arms. New Scenery, Dresses, Apt , s . ktitments.kc., to realise the recent triumphs of England's Army and Fat y. Feast of •2:,a Lanterns. Monsieur Plege on the Tight Rope—New Scenes of the Circle— Hungarian Brigade of Female Cavalry. To conclude with THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA; or, The Deserter of Moscnw. the doors will open nightly at six o'clock, and tE I,Vormances commence at ven. Box-office opened daily from ter till four. The rivate boxes have baen recoLstructed and decorated with care and splendour. Acting and atage-manager. Mr. W. D. Brc A ttcot. DAVID i E'S ROYAL SURREY THEATIV.7 THIS EVENING, JUNE 1), • Will be repeated a New Drama in Three Act , , -Milled THE INSTRUMENT OF TORTURE. in which Ntessrs.B ivil!e, Hughes, Hicks, Honnor, Vale, Lewis, and Johnson; Mrs. H Vining, Mrs. Hughes, and Mrs. Hickq,will perform. After wh!eh, THE SCAPEGRACE OF PARIS. Ribin, the Sea iegrace, Mrs. R. Honner. To conclude with a Grand Fairy Spectacle c Med 11TE SPRITE OF THE SNOW DRIFT. Zimmeir, the Sprite, by Mr. G. Wieland. Superb Sceneryand Dresses. Extraotd , isry effects, and wonderful feats. The most extraordinary wonders in the world—Ole Brockstedl ' , orally —three Cermaii ; height, 2,1, 32, and 36 inches , ages, 13, 18, and 9'l, are engaged to perform in a Ballet d'Action, arrangcd expr , sily for them. . . P aces an, f Previte Boxes to be had of Mr. Kera; !Jaw', at the Box.. ntt , re. from Eleven 'o Four, THEATRE ROYAL, A OELPiII. OPEN EVERY EVENING. Notwithstanding the great success with which the Great Wizard of 'the North is nightly honoured by crowded audiences, he is com pelled to annaunce his farewell : his season will terminate in a few nights. For Twelve Years he has nightly given his Entertainment (which depends solely upon his own exertions); being on each per formance three hours of speaking and excitement; he now finds his health so inlp..ircd, that, by the wish of his medical adviser, he will, in a few nights, bid farewell to the magic science, and the most generous, kind, and appreciating audiences on the face of the earth. During the few nights the Wizard will li , ve the p!easure of appear ing in his mystic circle he will rerform all his astounding wonders, nightly introducing New and Original Delusions. First Appearance of Professor Hemmings and his Son, who will appear lee. wren the _parts of the Wizard's performance. This Evening, Madlle. ROSSINI'S BENEFIT, and last Ap pearance. On Monday:, lith, the WIZARD of the NORTII'S FAREWELL _BENEFIT. Day ,rs open at Half-past Seven: commencing at Eight. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, SUCCESS UNPRECEDENTED. On Monday, Tues lay, Wednesday, and Thursday. Third Weck of Lanson and Telbin's splendid Model Picture of LONDON in the OLDEN TIME! painted on upwards of 303,000 feet of canvas, and pronounced by the unanimous opinion of the public press, and other competent judges, t be the acme of scenic representation. The PROMENA DE CONCERTS by Godfrey's celebrated Band of Fifty first-rate Performers, conduced by himself. At dusk will ha given a vivid representation of THE GREAT FIST.: OF LONDON, tinder the direction of the um lvalled artist in fireworks, Southey. who has been mon hs in preparing the resources of his art, to give eff,ct to this terrific exhibition. Do9rs open it Nine—Concert at Six— Conflagration at Dusk. The Fir,t Exhibiti,n this Season of the Royal South London Floricultural Society, will taw place in these Gardens, on Tuesday, June 18th, 1814. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILL) O IM ORA. NE SHILLING AdPmi T ssion N T NOTICE to THE NAI OLEON mr sEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Colhetlen of Illsto "kat Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to hive been formed oy inc Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a ce , :t of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most In structive and interesting manner, the most Important part of Euro pean history, riz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR NAPOLEON, in 1521. This unique Museum has been viAted often, during the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, an 1 their Ladles, 41:e many thousands et the Nobility and Public; and the Pro prietor has recently been able to increase, by several very tine pictures, Re., his previous almost incredible number and variety of Mkig., Works of Art, and a multitude of valuable Relic', and other curiosities, In this most instructive and, as hundreia have said it ought to be, a National Museum. Many thousand have Inspected it, and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS hive stated that it ought to be seen by every ono. The price of admis• ion is reduced to ONE SHILLING. The NAPOLEON' MUSElThiiiio be seen only at the •• Egyptian Ball," Piccadilly, daily from Ten till Dusk. TEE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE„: uz TE 10. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 51; Highest, 74; Noon, 69. BAROMETER, 30.10.—WIND, S.W. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the treozing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is u ;tt! ly placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. NV.ITER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TWIS DAY. Morning ... mirmtes after 9 I Evening 53 nair.t.tcs after 9. , SC , • .4, E * • r U A i ls ,t17,',. ., ,A"r R Olt SECOND EDITION.. eltelling VITAL LONDON, MONDAY, JUNF 10, 1844. Y _. The resolution of the Ayr Town Council, and the " reasons " that operated with them in affirming that resolution, we have transferred, in another column from the published copy, extracted from the records of the Council of that burgh. The "reasons " are • valuable as a succinct summary of the mischievous principles of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S measure for "ex tending or limiting the issue of Bank notes, in obe dience to the action of the foreign exchanges." The second reason proves the ultimate tendency of the measure to call.gald, as the instru:nent of exchanges, into much greater use than heretofore; to thereby enhance the val Lie of money, and aggravate the burden of all debts and engavments ; and, by this conjoint effect, to renew that fatal panic u hich, on three memorable occasions, since the passin g of the Act of 1819, "have spread ruin and baukruptev over the land?' The third shows that the gradual appropriation o f the profits on Ow issue of Bank notes, obviously contemplated by the G overnment, will prove an in strument of taxation, the effect of which must fall ul timately upon the public, not upon bankers. The • fourth reason cautions the people of Scotland against being lulled into a fond belief, by the Minister's present abstinence from any pledge with regard to that country, that he will not, at the earliest conve pported by the sancti on of plant opportunity—if supported Parliament—apply the same legislative process as the now pending measure comprises, in respect of Eng land, for suppre:sing or curtailing the currency of Scotland. The fifth reason is an admirable exposure of that almost unaccountable and certainly most un founded analogy which Sir ROBERT PEEL, in defiance of fact and all fair inference, endeavoured to deduce in his speech of the Gth of May last, "that competition in the business of banking must lead tiexcessive issues"—from the experience of what had occurred in the United States of America. " We, ourselves, should marvel at the Premier's having ven tured.on such an analogy, had we not read his still :our: startling - a sseverat i on that these American banks j_wt!rful banks generally, with unlimited re -4)111 arancl wise regulations." As the Ayr ":C9l:4rve, this isWith a o rlpable and most r at purpose Sir Ito. With uttera fe flee t o tt an • error” so no- C\ c .•-7 - - 141 a bi toriously wide of the notorious truth, is yet more un accountable. " They were almost without any ex ception, Chartered State Banks, with limited re sponsibility; their paid-up capital—the only guaran tee for their liabilities—being in reality, almost illusory, and their notes were depreciated, not from excess, but from general discredit and fraudulent bankruptcy!" This is the real history of their case, in a few words, sketched by the Magistrates and Council of the town of Ayr. How came the Premier so to pervert a plain tale, as he has done, in his speech of the 6th ult.? It is time, surely, that Members of the Legislature should shake off the fatal apathy with which they have hitherto looked on at the progress of this blun dering but most fatal proposition, with which the rash incompetency of the Premier--unwarned by his more juvenile experiment of 1819, unabashed by the commercial ruin and social disasters which in suc ceeding years have associated his name with the de tested recollections of that statute of imbecile pre sumption and the wanton misery which it has in flicted—is now again, about to vex the monetary sys tem of this country. Five-and-twenty years might have afforded him, one should have thought, leisure for a searching examination into the results of his destructive blunder, if they could not bring him to a profound sense of his fault, and becoming sorrow for the evils it had inflicted on the empire. Contrasting those evils, recurring serious and ac cumulative as they are, with the impassable and complacent igoisme to which we so lately referred, as distinguishing the whob deportment of Sir ROBERT in reference to this question—we beg to refer him to another letter from Common Sense, which will supply him with a reflection of his own capacity and powers for dealing with a subject so complex and multi plied and vital in all its relations as our monetary system, far more just, simple, and true, than the estimate he has himself, so unhappily for the public, formed of those properties. The letter we allude to is headed " A Nearly Incredible Fact." The Banner of Ulster contains the following re marks, in reference to the Government Landlord and Tenant Commission :—" This Commi.sion are not to report, it is now understood, during the current ses sion. The question which most deeply interests the tenantry of Ireland is to be left over for another year, and perhaps indefinitely postponed. The remon strances of the press were successful in compelling the shadow of inquiry, but the shadow refuses to be embodied in any palpable shape, at least for twelve months, and the investigations of the press must be recommenced. The report is delayed on account, it is said, of the importance attached to the subject, and the anxiety of the Commissioners to avoid rash recommendations. The importance of the matter cannot be doubted, and the anxiety to recommend no course without due consideration is highly laudable ; but the loss by delay should not be forgotten. People want to know whether they are really placed in favourable or unfavourable circum stances. The majority of the farmers are perfectly confident that an improvement could be made, but then they want to know whether it will be effected." When this important Commission, from which so much has been, and still continues to be, expected, was first issued, it was concluded as a matter of course, that no time would be lost by the Commissioners in putting the public into possession of the result of their inquiries; and now, it appears, that no report is to be issued for the space of twelve months—a most injurious delay, considering the present excited state of Ireland. The very importance of the question is the best reason why no dilatoriness should be manifested by the Com missioners. It is not • expected of them that they should issue their report with railway speed, but surely there is no good cause why they should delay it for the space of one entire year. The truth is, Government in this, as in every other question con nected with Ireland, seem unwilling or afraid to show anything like activity or decision. They are in earnest only in coercion, and shrink with the utmost sensitiveness from the adoption of any step that wears a conciliatory aspect. They have no hesitation in putting down the monster meetings and sending Mr. O'CONNELL to prison, but they cannot find it in their hearts to apply a remedy to the admitted grievances which caused those meetings, and have been the means of arming the Liberator—despite his incarceration— with all but sovereign authority. The session is now more than half over; the House will probably rise about the beginning of August, in order that the amusements of the sporting gentlemen may not be interfered with; and what, let us ask, has been done— what will be done for the benefit of the sister coun try ? The answer is soon given —nothing—abso- lutely nothing ! The Registration Bill—such as it is—is abandoned, or on the eve of abandonment ; the result of the inquiries of the Landlord-and-Tenant Commission will be an Eleusinian mystery for the protracted space of twelve months, during which period agrarian disturbances will of course 'con tinue in their old spirit; and as for that colossal nuisance the Irish Church Establishment, "it needs no ghost from the grave"—as HAMLET says—to assure us that it will be permitted to exist in all its present enormity. When such is the policy —say, rather, the no-policy—pursued by the PEEL Cabinet towards the sister country, can we wonder that the repeal agitation progresses ; that the indomitable spirit of O'CONNELL, though he himself is locked up within the four walls of a Penitentiary, pervades every quarter of the country, infusing hope into the timid, quickening the energies of the hesitating, and arming the bold with additional determination of purpose; and that the repeal rent turns in without the slightest appearance of abate ment, to the amount of several hundred pounds a week ? Doubtless Ministers confidently calculate on the gradual subsidence of this popular ferment ; but they will find themselves, we suspect, wholly mistaken in their calculations ; repeal—thanks to their blundering, vacillating, suicidal policy—is fast becoming a principle—a faith—a religion with the vast mass of the Irish community ; and that move ment on the part of Government which it was hoped would cru s h it— namely, the imprisonment of Mr: O'CONNELL--i s the very step which will be the means of imparting to it a tenfold impetus. t does not seem to be the Premier's destiny to be more fortunate in dealing with the silver, than he has hitherto been in meddling with the gold element of our currency. In former articles we have demon strated—(to those of our readers who had not already arrived at the same conclusion by the light of their own experience and judgment)—on the authority of the "Enquirer after Truth," that the Premier was " hurrying on the measure " now before Parliament " with indecent haste." We have showed, from the same pamphlet, the confirmation of our previous charges against the Right Hon. Baronet:-Ist. That he had really exhibited an incapacity to understand the nature and properties of " money " in the larger and more legitimate sense, wherein it is necessary to consider it, in reference to any scheme for regulating the general monetary system of a country. 2d. That lie has essentially misstated the history of" one pound" in attempting to trace it from earlier periods of the monarchy to the present. 3d. That he has com mitted a double mistake in saying that "subse quently to the reign of WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, a great alteration was made, not in the name, but in the intrinsic value of the pound sterling, by debasements of the currency ;" for, the " debasements" of our currency have been probably less than those of any other European State in all that interval ; and the alterations of the coin, which have diminished its " intrinsic value," have been produced by the diminu tion of the weight of that coin. 4th. That his asser t tion that the pound sterling means a definite quantity of the " precious metals of certain weight and fine ness," is refuted and disproved by the very historical J data which he had adduced to establish that assertion affirmatively. 5. That the allegation of Sir ROBERT on the 7th inst., " that it was not until a late period of the reign of ELIZABETH that silver, being then the stan (lard of value, received that determinate weight, which it retained without variation, with constant refusals j to alter it, till 1716," is utterly overthrown by the fluctuation in the relative value or proportion of silver to gold, in that lapse of more than 200 years, from 10.095 to 1, to 15 to 1.6. That subsequently to the late period (namely, 43d year) in the reign of ELIZA BETH, this "determinate fixed value" ascribed by Sir ROBERT PEEL to " the gold pound of the value of 20s. of our present money, was so little determinate sa fur from fixed, that it was altered, in 1604, to a ;old coin of fineness and quantity value 255.; in 1625 to 225. 9d. ; iu 1675, to 215.; and in 1815, to 20s. It is curious to turn from blunders of fact, and misconceptions of principles, like these, to this petu lant and contemptuous notice of that bold measure of PITT'S, which, far unlike that paralysing Act of 1819, restored the public confidence, gave energy to our commerce, vigour to our finance, development to our capital, and enabled us to sustain eighteen years of subsequent warfare (intermitted only for some fifteen months), against the combined strength and resources the navies and armies, of all Europe, confederated under the vigorous directorship of France. " Gold," said Sir ROBERT PEEL, " continued to be the measure of value, legally and practically, until 1797, when that fatal measure for restricting cash payments by the Bank was passed, enabling parties to issue paper money at their own discretion, without its being con vertible into coin." We cannot quite blot out of our minds some school boy recollections associated with lEsor and the fable of a dead lion, kicked by a quadruped of a different race from that which, in a moment of post-prandial excitement, last autumn, the Premier was betrayed into a promise to purchase for the Tamworth farmers, at Birmingham, at whatever price. To read this flippant allusion to the daring experiment of 1797 and its wonderful author, does awaken recollec tions which it would be highly disrespectful not to dismiss. We return, therefore, to the conclusion of the sentence. The "fatal measure" of 1797, was one, it seems, " which disturbed not only the speculations, but " (Oh ! horror of horrors ! Here we have the true ground of quarrel on the part of the bullionist- Minister with the Bank Restriction Act)—"the theories and speculations of men with respect to the standard of value." Happy had it been for this em pire had it scared Sir ROBERT out of his wits, or at least his theory of the standard of value out of his head ! We should then have been spared the monster production of 1819. How bewildered Sir ROBERT himself is in the expression of his own notions about this " standard"—nhether he means simply " mea sure of value," or " standard measure of value"—is shown by the "Enquirer after Truth," in his admir able tract, of which we this day give a further notice. We had intended to advert, in detail, to the Pre mier's plan for regulating the future circulation of banks of issue, by an average most unfairly taken on their issues during the last two years. Those years were, notoriously, seasons of agricultural, and, in most respects, of manufacturing depression. The average is, therefore, an unfair one, as selected to govern the extent of this future business. But we protest against the whole principle of the proposed interference with the joint-stock and private banks, as to their issues, as an unwarrantable, impolitic, and most mischievous intervention with the first element of all trading and commercial property, namely, the unfet tered investment of private capital. The same inter. eeption, though contemplated with much more favour able intentions towards the Bank of England, is cal culated to work not less detrimentally, in the long run, on the interests of that establishment. In the disastrous disorganisation of the State Banks of the United States we have had recent and irrefragible evidence to the dangerous results of the mania of na tional legislation on the appropriation of private capital. We are willing, albeit against hope, to suppose that the House of Commons cannot allow itself to be led, unresistingly as it were, into the full adoption of the crude fancies which Sir R. PEEL has advocated, as grave conditions that ought to be recognised for those which shall hereafter regulate the relations of a fixed and an inexpansible currency with a commerce per petually in movement, and exercising its tendencies to expand and advance. The'data on which his pro positions are founded have been disproved and dis comfited risque ad absurdum. The propositions are not less to be distrusted than the data on which they proceed. To affirm, in its present shape, the scheme which the Premier has manufactured out of such ma terials, would be an act of, folly and recklessness the enormity of which can alone obscure, by rivalry, the recklessness and folly of the Premier, whenever he ventures so much beyond his depth, as he is sure to do in the troubled waters of " banking and " cur rency!" 'We have much pleasure in referring to our adver tising columns of this day for the announcement of a lecture by Mr. CAPPS, at the British Coffee House, on Tuesday next, at one. The lecture is to consist of an examination of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S plans, show ing their tendency and effects. It may not be generally known that Mr. C4rrs is the author of the well-known pamphlet, entitled " Tho Nation in a Dilemma," and of another " The Currency Question in a Nutshell." If the writer's knowledge of the subject on which he treats is to be estimated by his having foreseen the issue of princi ples under discussion, then may the writer of these publications, by the following passage taken from the latter of his productions, fairly lay claim to deal with the subject of the currency as one perfectly his own The passage is in answer to the inquiry put in 1838— " What will be the result if the present gold standard of value be obstinately persevered in, when it is evi dent that gold is so underrated, compared with other articles ?" "The effect will be, as has been stated already, that gold will have a tendency to leave the country; or, if it be compelled to remain, the prices of all goods must be forced down until they are as low as gold, which in many cases will be below prime cost. To reduce the cost of goods, therefore, there will be an outcry against the corn-laws, that we may have cheaper bread, thus ruining the agriculturist. The order of Providence will also continue to be subverted by un naturally forcing women and young children into factories, that the cost of labour may be as little as possible, thus destroying the legitimate effect of ma chinery, which ought to be the diminution of human labour, and not the increase of it. And finally, we shall have the mortification of discovering that these expedients will be of no permanent avail ; for, after all these sacrifices have been made, we shall find that, as other nations gradually approximate to us in the power of their machinery, we shall, with the im mense debt that we have hanging upon us, be unable to compete with them. We shall then, also, pain fully perceive that this debt could only have been reduced while we possessed the superiority we now enjoy ; and that, when we had the power, we insanely debarred ourselves from profiting by it, by fettering ourselves with a false system of currency ; enabling the foreigner thereby to abstract from us that wealth which ought to have been applied to the redemption of our own debts." It is only necessary to add, that the year after this prediction was made the stock of bullion was so reduced in this country that the Bank of England was obliged to seek a loan from that of France. All the other effects, too, have equally followed. Accounts from Madrid are to the 2d inst. Queen ISABELLA arrived in Barcelona on the Ist. Though the Royal party did not land till half-past ten at night, Queen CHRISTINA with Queen ISABELLA im mediately proceeded in the midst of crowds of citi zens and soldiers to the cathedral, where they conti nued singing Te Deums and praying before the sanc tuary of St. Eulalia till midnight. The reception of their MAJESTIES, though not particularly warm, seems to have been satisfactory. The alarm created by the measures of M. Mox, so far from diminishing, appears to be on the increase. At a meeting of capitalists, held at the Bank of St. Fernando, on the 2d, a committee was appointed to confer with the Finance Minister upon the subject. A loan has been offered to the Government to the amount of 1,500,000,000 of reels to meet its present exigencies, but it would appear that M. Mow hesi tates about the terms. If matters are not soon ar ranged, there is every probability of a break-up of the Moderado part, and it is difficult, in the present circumstances of the country, to foresee the result. The Envoy Extraordinary of the Sublime Porte landed, from the Fenicio, Marseilles steamer, on the 2d. The troops concentrated at Barcelona on the occasion of the QUEEN'S visit amounted to about 8,500 men. The funds continued to decline, the Three per Cents. closing at 264 for cash, and at 27 at 60 days ; the Five per Cents., at 20t at 60 days ; the Float ing Debt, at 44k at 30 days; the Coupons at 23 at 60 days; and the Debt without interest at 51 for cash, and 6/ at 60 days. The Paris journals of Saturday are again occupied by the affairs of Algiers, with regard to which, how ever, any new or positive information has not been obtained. The Courrier attributes the increased energy shown by the Arabs in their hostility to the French, to the interference of England, the Emperor of MOROCCO having been incited to the declaration of the " holy war" by the British Consul in that country. " British hostility," says the Courrier, " conspires secretly with the natives whom we have conquered, and with their neighbours, who are in dignant at seeing a country of Islam under Christian THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 10, 1844. domination. The!English fan the animosity of the children of MALIOMET against France. For the last fourteen years Great Britain has made war upon us in Africa. Four Consuls are the generals of this campaign of the Cabinet of St. James's against us—the Consuls of Tangiers, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli." A private letter gives the following account of the massacre of the little garrison of Biscara :—" Ser geant-Major PELISSE, the only man of the French that escaped, either through the facility with which he speaks Arab, or the protection of a Marabout, and his agility in jumping over the walls of the Casbah, relates the melancholy event as follows :—On the 12th, towards two in the morning, some shots were heard in the plain, and this signal was responded to in the inter:or of the Casbah. At the same time the conspirators opened the gates to the Khalifat BEL ADJ-ITAMET, their former chief, whilst others assas sinated the officers. Lieutenant PETITGRAND, the officer in command of the camp, was killed in his bed by a Zouave attached to his personal service. Lieutenant CROCIIARD, an officer of merit and of great courage, who certainly would not have been taken alive if he had not been asleep, was assassinated by the sentry placed at the door of the clothing store, near which he lived. Sur geon MARTIN was killed at the moment he was leaving his room to inform M. PETTIGRAND of the tumult which he heard outside. The corporal received a ball in the groin, and the poor man lingered on for three days, tortured by those monsters, who refused to give him anything to quench the dreadful thirst that devoured him. The dead bodies of all these unfortunates were afterwards dragged to the mosque, and hung up by one foot. They would have been, without doubt, found in this situation, were it not for the energy and courage of a young girl, who re mained in the power of the Khalifat, who himself was present at the carnage and pillage of the Cas . :Jah. This girl obtained permission, by dint of supplica tions and prayers, to have them buried. They were accordingly placed in the tomb which contained the body of Captain BOROT, killed two months previously at the Mures mountains. This tomb was the only thing they respected." The place has been retaken, and given ug for two days, to pillage, by the French soldiers. The revolt and massacre above alluded to formed on Thursday evening the subject discussed in the Cham ber of Deputies. Marshal SOULT read two dispatches from the Duke D'AUMALE, describing the affair, and throwing the blame of it upon the two officers who had been its victims, and whose neglect . or want of caution would certainly appear to justify the accusa tion. The National, however, regards the charge as ungracious, disingenuous, and unfair, on the part of the youthful General, and, coupling it with the late narrow escape of his Royal Highness from being made prisoner, argues against intrusting a command so important to a young man of his inexperience. In Friday's sitting, the Chamber of Deputies dis cussed the Bill lately presented by the Government for improving several of the French ports. A sum of 18,980,000 f. was voted for Marseilles, and another of 1,800,000 f. rejected, which had been demanded for the opening of a maritime canal from Bouc to Martigues. The Chamber then adjourned to Monday, owing to the grand theatrical file to be given by Louts PIIILIPPE at Versailles, on Saturday evening. Some of the Opposition Members, who had not been invited, indignantly opposed this adjournment. The Three per Cents. closed on Saturday at 82f. 45c.; the Five per Cents. at 121 f. 90c. ; Spanish Ac tives, 308 ; Passive, 5i ; Spanish Three per Cents. were not quoted. THE BOURSE—Fru - DAY, JUNE 8. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents l2l 50 •• 121 55 .. 121 45 .. 121 55 Four per Cents lO3 108 .. 108 .• 108 Three per Cents.... • 82 50 .. 82 50 .. 82 30 .. 82 40 Bank of France..." •• ••.• • 3090 • • 3090 ••3030 • • 3080 Belgian Fives, 1831.....• •• • 105 .. 105 .. 105 . • 105 1840 .• .• 106 •• 106 •• 106 •• 106 Spanish Active sof •• 30 • • 301 • • 31 Passive • 51 ••• 5 ; 1 .• 51 .. Portuguese Five per Cents•• 461 • • 461 .. 461 .• 46Neapolitan ...... .• . 100 • • 100 .. 90 .. 100 Roman RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain • • •..... 885 • • 885 .. 885 885 Versailles, R. 8... 250 • • 250 .. 250 .. 250 Rouen • • • • • • 990 • • 992 50 .. 990 Rouen to Havre.... .. .. .. .. 770 Orleans •• 770 •• 097 50 • SU MARY OF N AND itbitc loptuto " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. U. The King of the French on Thursday, accompanied by Generals Athalin and De Rumigny, went to Versailles, after stopping about an hour at the Palace of Saint Cloud. his Majesty did not return to Neuilly till eight o'clock. In the evening their Majesties received the Austrian and Belgian Ambassadors, the Wurtemberg Minister, Marshal Valee, Counts De Bretcuil, De Mornay, and De Montesquiou, Baron d'Etfaudis, Generals Hecquet and De Mornay, and M. Terme, Deputy. General Prim (Count de Reuss) arrived at Bordeaux from Spain on Tuesday last, on his way to Paris and London. Ile is said to have received leave of absence for four months. The Frankfort Journal statesthat, according to let ters from Constantinople of the 15th ult., the Porte has adopted the preliminaries of a new convention with Persia, through the mediation of England and France. Several artists are reported to have quitted Paris on a mis sion to Africa, for the removal of the Roman triumphal arch of njonisah. It is said that it is to be placed in the middle of the Place du Carrousel. M. Cuvier, engineer of the Pouts et Chauss63s, in the department of the Allier, the nephew of the great naturalist, has just put an end to his life, by means of lighted charcoal. A letter from Montlnon, of the 3d inst., which narrates this melancholy event, states that he had intended to effect his death a week before, but had been prevented by various cir cumstances. lie was a well conducted young man, and fond of his profession. lie had left the Polytechnic chool the 12th, and entered the Ponts et Chaussees in consequence, with great eclat. The cause of his suicide is supposed to be an insurmountable disgust of life. The French dramatic critics of the classic school have just had a signal triumph, in the complete success of Sophocles' tragedy of Antigone, or, rather, of a literal translation, re presented at the theatre of the Odeon ; the celebrated actor, liocage, played the part of Creon. The preliminary examinations into the revolting affair of the association in the rue du Pot-de-Fer Saint Marcel, which has been marked with the name of the Affaire de la Tour de Nesle, have at length been gone through. Eight of the par ties are to be tried before the Court of Assizes, and seven be. fore the Tribunal of Correctional Police, which last will be brought up on Wednesday next. The rest of the persons ar rested have been discharged for want of sufficient evidence against them. . . — A letter from Rome, of the 25th ult., says :—" The court • martial called on the 26th of August last, to sit at Bologna, has passed judgment on the persons engaged in the revolt of the Bth September last, against their Sovereign and their Government. Three are condemned to the galleys for life ; ti-re to the same punishment for twenty years; twenty-nine for fifteen years; one for ten years; and three to imprison ment for three years. The property of the whole foity-one was confiscated, but the Pope has been pleased to remit this part of the sentence. The Reprnie states, that all the Parisian citadels are at present guarded by military, and their entrance forbidden to any person not furnished with a ticket of admission. Towards the close of the present summer all the detached forts will have been completed with the exception of some barracks in tended for the military. Baroness Pasquier, wife of the Chancellor of France, died at Paris, on 'Wednesday, in the 83d year of her age. Mr. Balfe, the composer, received, by order of the King of the French, on Thursday last, the great gold medal, bearing his Majesty's effigy, accompanied by a highly complimentary letter from Baron Fain, the King's private secretary. counnr—rAsHlON.A.33 LE. The Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe leave Thomas's Hotel, where they have resided during the season, at the close of this or early in the ensuing month, for Flours Castle, near Kelso. The Archbishop of Armagh entertained at dinner, in Charles-street, on Friday, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs. Howley, the Duke and DuChess of Cleveland, Lady A. Youlett, Viscount and Viscountess Beresford, Lord Heytes bury, Hon. Miss A'Court, Mr. George and Mrs. Dawson, Mr. O'Brien, Mr. Holford, Captain Jones, &c. The Earl and Countess Beauchamp entertained on Satur day at dinner the Swedish Minister, Count and Countess Bjornstjerna, and other foreigners of distinction ; also the Earl and Countess of Antrim, the Countess of Charleville, &c. In the evening the guests were much gratified by the distinguished vocal talents of Madame Castellan Giampietro, lately arrived in this country. The Marquis of Salisbury entertained the Earl and Countess of Rosebery, Earl and Countess Cowper, Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Lord and Lady R.Grosvenor, and a distinguished circle at dinner on Friday last, at his mansion in Arlington street. Lady Williams has arrived in Grosvenor-square, from Paris. Sir John B. Peel►ell is still suffering from severe illness. Sir George and Lady Napier have arrived at Warren's Hotel, from the Cape of Good Hope. On Saturday last Sir Loftus and Lady Otway entertained at dinner, at their house in Grosvenor-square, Lord and Lady and Miss Camovs, the Earl of Belfast, Lord William Lennox, Lord and Lady Trimleston, Sir Winston and Lady Barron, Sir John and 'Lady Paul, Sir W. Clayton, Colonel and Mr. Ashworth, Hon. Craven Berkeley, Mr. and Mrs. Butler, and Mr. J. Clayton. MISCELLANEOUS. The Governor-General of India, Sir H. Hardinge, em barked at Brighton, on Saturday evening, for Dieppe, en route by land to ➢iarseilles, where he embarks for Alex andria. The Wells Diocesan Training School from which so much was anticipated on its establishment, about five years ago, is to be finally broken up at the Midsummer quarter. Not .withstanding the great sacrifices made by the promoters and superintendents, it has been found impossible to meet the un avoidably large expenses in the absence of assistance from the Committee of Education. The directors, being unwilling to incur further responsibility, have, therfore, no other re source than at once to abandon the undertaking. A movement has commenced in the extensive and popu• lons parish of Islington, and in some few other places, to carry out the late decision in the Court of Common Pleas on an appeal from the Revising Barrister's Court, viz., that all lodgers and occupiers of small tenements, although not pay ing the parochial rates, are entitled to the franchise, if they pay a rent of not less than 101. a year, or 4s. per week. A matrimonial alliances is said to be on the Lapis between Lord Charles Wellesley, youngest son of the Duke of Welling ton, and the daughter of the Eight Hon. 11. Pierrepont. The statue of Giiethe meets in Frankfort with a similar fate as that of Byron in London, which has lain in the Cus tom-house for several years. The magistrates of Frankfort did not appoint any place within the town to erect Goethe's statue ; it will be placed in a lonely alley, without the gates of the city of his birth. The invitations annually circulated by the Duke of Wel• lington, to those general and other officers who took part in the memorable battle of Waterloo, for the Duke's banquet on the anniversary of that sanguinary struggle, have been issued. It was very generally stated on Saturday, that the Empe• ror of Russia had sent for a ticket for the Polish ball, an: paid 5001. for it. At the meeting of the Fell9ws of the Royal Botanical Society, held on Saturday, Sir Thomas Baring, Bart., in the chair, a ballot took place, and the following ladies and gentle men were added to the Society :—The Marquis of Westmin ster, the Earl of Auckland, the Rev. Christopher Erle, Sir Henry Oxenden, Bart., Sir Thomas Rokewood Gage, Bart., James Matheson, Esq., M.P., G. F. Matheson, Esq., Robert 0. Walker, Esq., Thomas Douglasse, Esq., C. Speare Toswill, Esq., the Hon. J. C. Talbot, the Hon. Lady Cockerell, Lady Hume Campbell, Lady Buxton, J. Smith Wright, Esq., J. E. Boulcott, Esq., Mrs. G. B. Carr, Mrs. Cartwright, and Mrs. Elliot. On Saturday, the Lord Bishop of London consecrated another of the new churches of St. Matthew, Bethnel-green, this being the sixth that has been erected in this parish. It is called the Church of St. Bortholomew, and is situated in the Cambridge Heath-road, near the Mile-end turnpike. It is a plan brick building, capable of containing nearly 1,200 persons, the sittings being almost all free. The receipts of the Great Western Railway Company, on Thursday last, the cup day at Ascot, which greatly exceeded those upon any former occasion since the line has been opened, amounted to more than 4,1001. The passengers amounted to the extraordinary number of 16,766, in addition to 229 gentlemen's private carriages, and 551 horses. FINE ARTS. BRITISH INSTITUTION. We attended on Saturday a private view of this Exhibition, whit& is opened to the public to-day. The pictures are, for the most part, the pro ductions of the old masters of the Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, and French schools, and though not quite so numerous as usual, are remarkably well selected, making up in quality for what they want in quantity. There are some fine specimens of Canaletti, and ode or two first-rate Ruysdael s , t o say no _ ___ • ;king of some landscapes by Wouvermans, executed in the most carefully finished manner of that great artist. .Hawhing•Party in a Landscape, in particular, is the most striking production of his pencil we have ever seen, and the colouring is in excellent preservation, being as fresh as if it had been painted only' a few years since. The spacious foreground, which is covered with gracefully disposed groupes of sports men, displays infinite skill of management, and nothing can surpass the ease and propriety with which a very difficult perspective is handled. The picture is full of life and bustle, and of the most cheerful character possible. Head of a Rabbi ex hibits much of that impressive expression and depth of shadow for which Rembrandt is so remarkable. The Discovery of Calisto is one of Titian's splendid pieces of colouring ; the flesh tints of the female figures are exquisitely true to life, and the atti tudes full of grace and ease. Cleopatra is by Sebastian del Piombo. The countenance of the Egyptian Queen realises all one's conceptions of her voluptuous beauty, but there is rather more of the blonde than the brunette about it. Return from the Chase is another of Wouvermans` lively and spirited productions; the canvass is well filled, without being crowded. Landscape by Ruys dael is painted with matchless truth and vigour. The still sheet of water in front, overhung by tall, umbra geous trees, shows some wonderful effects of light and shade ; and the rough, knotted bark of the beeches to the right of the spectator prove with what singular minuteness and fidelity this observant artist copied nature. Head of our Saviour possesses all that divine repose and . beauty of expression which Guido knew so well how to impart to his sacred portraits. The Sybil's Temple, Tivoli, is one of Salvator Rosa's picturesque and ro mantic productions. The entire foreground is very finely executed. The Marriage of the Doge of Venice is a very gorgeous picture, painted in Canaletti's most careful style. The Last Supper is by no means a first-rate work of art. The best portion of it—at least the most expressive —is the face and figure of the traitor, Judas. Portrait of the Cardinal tThaldini, by Guido is richly, but chastely, coloured, and is full of calm dignity. rh' the remaining pictures the most striking are those by,Berghem, Vanderveld, Teniers, and Wouvermans. THIS DAY'S NEWS. HOUSE OF LORDS.--(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day to hear appeals. • The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, and the Earl of Beauchamp. THE IRONMONGERS COMPANY V. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL. In this appeal their. Lordships have affirmed the judgment of Lord Cottenham with costs. BOURNE V. OATLIFF. The further arguments in this writ of error were then pro ceeded with and occupied their Lordships the whole morning. THE SUSSEX DUKEDOM. It was generally supposed that their Lordships would have sat to-day in a Committee for privileges, for the-purpose of proceeding with the claim of Sir Augustus de Este to the. Dukedom of Sussex; but on a previous day it had been ar ranged that the matter should be adjourned to Thursday next. A rumour prevails that it is likely the subject will not come again before their Lordships, as it is said to be the intention of her Majesty to confer on the claimant a Scotch title. lire give this merely as the rumour of the day. VICE - CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) The VICE-CitANcEmott of ENGLAND took causes to-day, none of which possessed any points of the least importance. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) THE QUEEN ON THE PROSECUTION OF MR. MICHAEL SCALES V. THE CO3I3IISSIONERS OF THE SEWERS FOR THE TOWER HAMLETS. In this case Mr. Michael Scales had obtained a rule nisi for bringing upn sewers' rate made by the Commissioners of the sewers for the Tower Hamlets, in order that it might be quashed. The grounds on which this application had been made were—first, that he was not benefited by the sewers to which he was rated ; and second, that he had never been rated to the sewers' rate until 1841, and that he had always resisted the rate. Mr. KELLY now showed cause against the rule, and con tended, that in fact Mr. Scales did receive benefit from the sewer, but that the Court had nothing to do with that cir cumstance, that being a question of fact to be decided by a jury upon an action of trespass, which Mr. Scales might bring against the Commissioners when they distrained for the rate. Mr. Scales' affidavit did not set forth that the rate was bad upon the face of it, and, therefore, the Court could not interfere to quash it by certiorari. He, therefore, submitted that the rule must be discharged. Mr. SCALES, in reply, stated that, in 1829, a similar rate had been quashed by this Court, since which time no attempt had been made to impose a sewers' rate upon these premises until 1841. Further, he contended that as his premises were situated upon a tide stream, he was exempt from the jurisdic • Lion of the Commissioners of Sewers by the Act of 3d Jaynes I. He denied that he received any benefit whatever fi om these sewers, inasmuch as his premises were thirty-eight feet above high-water mark, and therefore the water could never regurgitate upon his premises. - (The case was proceeding when we went to press.) BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.) IN THE MATTER OF HENRY HART. Mr. Stevens, in this case, moved for a rule for a certiorari to remove into Court 104 orders for the payment of 3,821/. 17s. lop., in order that they might be quashed. One of the orders was for the payment of 7021. 10s. 7d. for the consta bulary force of Dover. The objection to this order was, that it purported to be signed by three Members of the Town Council, whereas, iu reality, it was signed by only two, the other who signed having been a Town Councillor indeed when he signed the order, but not when the debt became due. He had signed the order pros pectively, which he (Mr. S.) submitted he could not do. 'The 102 other orders related to the payment of various local expenses, and the objection to them was that they were to be paid out of moneys .not legally applicable to the payment thereof. The remaining order related to the compensation awarded to G. W. Ledger, and the objection to it was similar to the first. A rule nisi was granted with regard to the first and last orders, and leave was given to amend the affidavit, which was defective, with regard to the other orders. EXCHEQUER COURT-THIS DAY (Sittings in Banco.) RUNNING REIN AND ORLANDO. COLONEL PEEL V. WEATHERBY AND ANOTHER. This case, which stood over from Saturday, for the pur pose of an affidavit being filed on the part of Mr. Wood, who claims the Derby Stakes as the owner of Running Rein, that he was such owner at the time of the race, was again brought before the Court this morning. Mr. MARTIN, who appeared for Col. Peel, intimated that the affidavit required by the Court had now been filed by Mr. Wood, and that on the part of the plaintiff he was quite sa tisfied with it. Mr. Platt and Mr. James appeared for Mr. Wood. The COURT stated, that being the case, there was no neces sity for hearing the matter further, and that the arrange ment as to the terms of the issue, as agreed to en Thursday last, could now be adopted, and the rule drawn up accord ingly. The issues will then still be whether Running Rein was a colt foaled in 1841, by the Saddler out of Nab, and Colonel Peel allowed to give in evidence the acts and declarations of Mr. Goodman, provided he proves on the trial that Levi Goodman was owner, or part owner, at the time of such acts and declarations. The cause will, it is expected, be appointed for trial by a special jury at Westminster about the first week in July. (Sittings at Nisi Prius.) FRANKLIN V. NEATE.' This action was brought to recover the value of a chrono meter. In 1840 a person of the name of Gilbert, a seafaring man, pledged a chronometer of the estimated value of 501. or 60/-with the defendant, who is a pawnbroker, in Duke-street, Manchester-square, for 151. This person being about to leave the country for some time, and being unable to redeem the chronometer, sold the ticket to the plaintiff, who is a nursery man at Kensington, for Si. The plaintiff, however, could not get the chronometer into his possession, the defendant having refused to give him any satisfactory information respecting it —in short, refusing to g►ve it up. • The defendant, by his counsel, contended that the plaintiff could not sustain the action. Mr. Baron PARKE having summed up, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 401., less the amount lent by the defendant, and interest from the time the chronometer was pledged. CRIMINAL COURT . -(THIS DAY OLD COURT: The Sessions at the Old Bailey commenced this morning before Sir C. Marshall, Mr. Alderman Johnson, the Recorder, and other .Civic authorities. The grand jury having been Sworn, The RECORDER proceeded to deliver his charge. He said that the calendar contained the names of 300 persons for trial, and he had no doubt that number would be considerably augmented before the termination of the sessions. There were six. cases in the calendar in which parties were charged with cutting and wounding with intent to do some grievous bodily harm. There were two cases of manslaughter, and five persons were charged with the crime of wilful murder, four of those persons having been engaged in the same trans action, and the other being charged upon a separate and per fectly distinct transaction. Although the cases were many of them of a very serious description, yet on a reference to the depositions they did not appear to involve any diffi cult question of law. He then referred to the charge of mur der against Au►ustus Dahlias, and after having explained the general principle of law with respect to the crime of murder, he said the most important question the jury would have to consider in coming to a conclusion upon this case, would be the declaration of the dying woman ; and if the jury should find any difficulty with respect to this fact of the case, it would be well, if they would immediately apply to the Court, and every assistance and every information would be afforded them respecting it. There was a case of man slaughter of some magnitude, in which several persons had met their death by the upsetting of a boat. The question in this case the jury would have to consider was, whether there were more persons in the boat than it could with safety hold ; and also whether the party who stood charged was instrumental in causing the boat to be so overloaded. If it did appear that the unhappy event had been the result of accident, and riot of the overloading' of the 'boat, he apprehended that the charge of manslaughter could not be maintained. He then briefly alluded to the other cases in the calendar, and after generally explaining the duties of grand juries, remitted the jury to their labours. The Court then proceeded to swear in the common jury. EWS CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY. Henry Prince, a smart, clean-looking lad, about 16, was charged with gambling in Crawford-passage, Clerkenwell. Police-constable 113 G deposed that, on the previous day, he saw the prisoner playing at " heads and tails" with another boy, in Crawford-passage, Clerkenwell. A gentleman di rected witness's attention to the fact, and complained of the nuisance. MAGISTRATE—Did they attract a crowd, so as to obstruct the public thoroughfare? Policeman—No, they did not. MAGISTRATE—Then how did they play ? Policeman— They were tossing up as they walked along they street. MAGISTRATE (to the prisoner)—What have you to say to the charge? Prisoner—Yesterday, my grandfather was in a dying state in Clerkenwell workhouse, and I was going to see him. I agreed with the boy who was with me to toss for a bottle of ginger beer, the best five in nine. We were tossing when the constable came. My grandfather now is dead in the workhouse ; (the poor boy cried bitterly). The MAGISTRATE, after a gentle exhortation not to gamble on the Sabbath, discharged him. UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.) James Carr was charged with committing the following fraud. Ann Cloudaley, a young woman, stated that she lived at Banstead, in Surrey, and her parents being very poor, she came up to town on Friday to sell six bottles of ketchup. On arriving in town she called at several houses, but not succeeding in disposing of the ketchup, she was at length accosted by the prisoner, who said that he was in the habit of selling smuggled brandy; but added, if she entrusted him with the ketchup, he would soon find a customer for it. She accord ingly consented and she accompanied him a short dis tance, when he availed himself of the opportunity and got away from her, by running down one of the turnings lead ing out of the Borough. The poor young woman having given a description of the prisoner he was taken into custody soon afterwards, but he had managed to get rid of the article. The Magistrate having characterised the fraud as ore of a very heartless description, sentenced the prisoner to six week's imprisonment. MARYLEBONE.-(THIS DAY.) Caroline Clurh, one of that unfortunate class who seem to be doomed to bear the sins as well as the odium of society, was placed before Mr. Rawlinson on a charge of having stolen from the person of George Stone, who described himself as " an interpreter of languages, residing at 22, Great Portland.• street," the sum of 3s. 6d. The complainant said that he was returning home between three and four that morning, and met the prisoner not many yards from his own house. She accosted him, and he spoke to her for about five minutes, when, telling her that he had no time to wait longer, he put Lis hand in his pocket with the view of giving her a shilling, when he discovered that her hand had been there before his own, and had abstracted the 3s. 6d. alluded to. Mr. RAWLINSON-BUt why, pray, should von give her a shilling ? Complainant—Oh, I don't know ; I was sorry for her, that's all. Mr. RAwuNsoN—Were you sober ? Complainant—Yes, rather sober. Mr. RAwuNtoN—Which means rather drunk, I suppose. (To the prisoner)—Well woman, what say you to robbing drunken men in this way ? Prisoner (crying bitterly)— Oh, Sir, bad enough, as poor wretches like myself must be, but I never, never robbed in my life, never, never. The worthy Magistrate made some further inqin— ascertained that the prisoner had never been in cl ist fb u i L.. fore, and that when searched at the station - h ouse, only a halfpenny in money upon her. I Mr. Itamassox—Under all the circumstances, do l. you go, although I think I am straining a poi nt in 50 E E . NONE Y AND COMMERCIAL - N • 7 - IRE lu CITY, QU 1 ARTER TO c kir The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were unbaeplc! rate scale. Prices were firmly maintained, and c t, amounted to 3,500 bales. Dovor Shares were in refit B ete a good business was doing in French. Other shar''retiah. without alteration. Dublin and Cashel, 5; Grand " 6 3 i to 220; Birmingham, 221 to 220; Paris and Lyons' 31. 16s. 6d ; Lyons and Avignon, 2/. • 1 The American advices received to-day, as to Pr c e e sjd o; Tyler's having sent a fleet to the Gulf of Mexico, cited surpTise, and, in sonie quarters, a little anxietv;Z Congress is against the annexation of Texas, it will doubt, be against such a demonstration. Trade was but the banks are said to be issuing too much paper,: drjea Much indignation is excited in the City by t i " e Tosth from Lisbon, of the continued imprisonment of ateA' out' the British merchant, accused of fermenting the _ d break, but who has never yet been brought to trial, conduct of Lord Howard de Walden, unless there To& cumstances of a very peculiar character as yet uncap is not considered to be easily justified. The arrivals from all quarters continue large, bu t r i h t er e is°lllo , l in a few instances they bring anything later. ' 1 7,, e0 tb dates to April 16, from the Cape of Good Hope, " t " o f the weather was excessively sultry, and in one pa r t i t elo° eastern province locusts had again appeared, VI , c holg, not seem that much damage had been done. VI per on London for Treasury bills at 30 days was 21 Wets'- premim. as 0, 6 ' 4 ee nothing of interest in the Port Plain Par - te ir sth February. The colonists were evincing much en in their agricultural and pastoral pursuits. decl i r The Funds have opened flatly to-day, a t c e ro o of to per cent. on Saturday's range for pe r t and this is considered to be the effect of the et can news respecting Texas, together, perh"P i s ' A ; 1 e po; indifferent accounts from the Peninsula, an d f te .bler,; pect of a war between France and Morocco, in all ° though not ourselves involved, we must feel some drb l es , interest. For special Transfer and Money, CenTotor° been 99 to and for Account 94 to 98. 11'e musk „d e ril! that there is very little business doing, and that a moer demand for stock would no doubt rally the market co — recover all that has been lost. Exchequer Bills p a „ c o' tinned at 71s. to 735. premium. The Reduced Thrce"'d the .Half per Cents. have teen marked 1011 to 10 1 11 , 119 9 )_; Three per Cents. 981 to g. Bank Stock has been /irnl e t, Dr We have not had much doing in the Foreign ga r ,„ t prices share , from similar causes, the depression in :; 2 ),• 0. .„ Funds. Spanish Actives have been down to 21i t °- toP, the Three per Cents. to 33h A . Mexican have druln, and 35. Colombian are 13h. Portuguese Converles been dull at 46i;and Dutch Two-and •a-Half per Cenl, s 'ol s' The Railway Shares are in fair request, and g en ' . fully previous rates. n CIC BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0% , " -- . (From the Official List.) .. ..... ....... 1 Bank Stock.. 914 4 .......... ..... 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ... 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities.--.. ........ 334 per Cent. Annuities, 1818 Ol%lB 3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities ...... Consols for Account ..... Exchequer Bills, I. 134d -1,0001. 5001 Ditto Small Ditto Advertised — .......:: *** ****** *********** '177- " 3 p m ' 1L /kJ.' FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 3 Crii4 Columbian 80nd5.35 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. .... ******** -•••• 444 Ditto for the Account IPA Ditto Deferred Stock Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. "' - 4i3i Ditto Converted 215 Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840.........••••" 22 1 / 2 , Ditto for the Account.... .......... ......•"*". 54,t Ditto Passive Bonds. ..... . ....... ........ .. ...."" 3.9Y0^4 Ditto Three per Cent. ............—..........•••" 04"' Ditto for the Account Dutch 234 per Cents lOO 4O Dutch 5 per Cents. _,L PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ..;;;e. RAILWAYS. PAID. PIM °D I. - Birmingham and Derby ..... ..... 100 Ditto Thirds. Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester 3O 48% • to Chester and Holyhead Dublin and Cashel. ... 234 5 14 •" to' ' Eastern Counties Vi * ' Ditto New Registered 81. fts. Bd. . Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 6634 ..... to . , Great Western Ditto 36 Shares Ditto Fifths l2 22% ''' l9 , London and Birmingham. lOO 2-21 •••""' , to i London and Blackwall 1634 ...... r t • ... 1 a London and Greenwich .... ~ 1 . London and Croydon Manchester and Leeds '7o lO3 Ur' .0, Ditto 34 Shares .... 0 flit o 4 Shares 2 ... ..... B'4 . . 0 , Midland Counties Northern and Eastern 45 5 1 S • "*. t ° pi/i' North Midland Ditto 34 Shares Norwich and Brandon ..,, ... ~, .. South Eastern and Dover ..... .... 3234 Ditto New ............. no .... -. Yarmouth and Norwich lB ......... ..- .. w , Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux... JOINT STOCK BANKS. . I ° Itti Union of London lO ......... 12U We ' .... h oe iv "j Q n. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE ~. - -„ i, tinr,tp. I v a fair business to-day, a n d th e wee k c loses "' aues:# , prices. Manchester and Birmi ng h am , 5Th ; pi t h l l 519 4i prem.; Manchester and L ee d s , 103 ; I)itto, 94. 43; Paris and Lyons, 31. 11s.; Midland Counties, AY' ) MARKET NEWS.-(THIS - D ~ f a'4o rt CORN-EXCHANGE—Ma -.T o .- I t, 50 The stands to-day were ra th er scan tily supPmv a e ve ll f r 4 pies of English Wh ea t, y e t th e d eman d was in a l ite ilo gish state. The finest parcels of both red and f in l n as!", off at prices about equ a l t o th ose o bt a i ne d o n ' - er go but the middling and i n f er i or ki n d s were a b ou t la P rn . 11 ice d lower than on th a t d a y. Th e s h o W o f f ree For e ' b it, at o oo‘ was good, while the amount of business doing i i ! te s. ~%, 0 as in bonded parcels, was limited, at barely late r i t opt i° o 5,000 quarters have been on hand for home cons iv filf s l l the 17s. duty since our last. We had scarcely t a i l o i l s. s o t Barley on offer. Foreign qualities at full quo 13e at late rates. The prices of Oats were support' trifle dearer; in Peas and Flour no alteration. . 0 , CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEA stilt 0 WHEAT—Essex & Kent, I MALT—Chevalier...sl ..t, red 4ss to 57s OATs—Yorkshice_, ... KO Ditto, white Norfolk and Lin- 52s to 63s Lincolruh., 11-..., Potatoe .g4 K , ~,,to if d o coin, red 4os to 43s Youghall an ..... .'" d __.. !! to Ditto white 42s to 47s black ..... •••••:-..„ 17", 1 6; 4) Irish, red 478 to 50s Cork, white ••••..... gt ) ,:o's Ditto white .... 5 6 t o ur Rirs—Old New 36s to 3fisl Pigeons ...................... .:0 BAllLET—Grinding 24s to 27:sinus- Grey .•.••«' «.«••." 331.1,0:0 Maltby ... ......... _ ~ , Chevalier........, ns to 35s MALT—Suffolk and Nor folk s6s to 62s Brown 50s to 51s Kingston and Ware 56s to 62s FOREIGN GRAIN A 3 WaEAT—Dantzic Hamburgh ' 36s to 40s BARLEY 3os to 335 . i OATS—New Feed l4s to 16E AO t ei SMITUFZELD. Fa te I to' $ l9 W 1 The Beef trade ruled excessively . dull ; an su oi t brv„ quite 2d. per 81bs. on last week's' prices was c po' e pecii The highest figure realised for the best Scots an j fot o , pi, did not exceed 3s. Bd. per 81bs. The &Ws° u m -nil , ' was unusually heavy, at a decline in valu e : f alai:l 5 ,0 5. g: 81bs —the best old Downs no t rea li s ing In" dt° 6' 4 per 81bs. Lambs at a declin e i n va lue of fivin 2 5 ' s. pe . ot 81bs.—the extreme price not being more thaT 8 de" Calves at a decline of 2d. per 81bs. Pigs ha tendency. 1° FLOUR-150W;1Hade••• 54! o ' $0 Suffo Stockton & „ t p. 0 CD FLOUR IN 4 0 ',,0„P" BEANS ........ fr.co. .............. .••••••:: 4,0 FLouß—AlileriCan •••• pP . Baltic ...... s, d. s. k i°s I Per 8 1 bs. to sink the otfal. s i l 5 0 ad.tos. d. . ji lts••• 3 . a Inferior Beasts 2 4 2 6 Second quality ~,... , 0 , Second quality ditto 2 8 3 0 Coarse-woolled dlrii, 3 ' y 6 Prime large Oxen 3'2 3 4 Southdown W et- irol 11 ' ° Prime Scots, &c. 3 6 3 8 Ditto o ut of the v'l 3 9 4 , Largecoarse Calves 3 6 4 0 Large Hogs ••""'''•• 2 01 ° Prime small ditto 4 2 4 6 Small Porker 6 .•'" '''''''' 0 Suckling Calves, each 18 0 27 II Quarter old 14/30te- 4 haferior Sheep Beasts. I 3,082 s u 2 pr a hLe ey : . A ti T L i r A b ß s c . K . a . ET . 1 . v .. e . 5 .... '''' ...t" j;ggi 0. 1e 3 35,650 178 is!igl l ‘q . o ,6. r 1 ' 0 ArENITGATE AND ILEAM. - a nd - f ill ..1 For the primest Bcef and Mutton the de n . ds o o r steady, at about previous rates; but all other I ' lll o o have moved off slowly, and prices have ha d $ tendency. At per stone, by the C arcase. 6 °11 : 0 s. d. toe. d. 0 5 i Beef, 2 4 2 6 Mutton, infcrint ** 6 ---middling 2 8 10 m iddling ''''' 5 6 0 ',rune large 2JO 3 0 g 6 - prime small 3 2 3 4 Pork, 1arge....... ••••' :, Veal ....... 3 4 4 4 --small...o.ow' Lamb, 4s Od to 5s 2d. fit ARRIVALS DURING THE PAS : A ny Beasts. Sheer , 4. 1 ", 5 250 8 380 4 40 o" Scotland Yorkshire Norfolk Suffolk 7 5 3 Cambridgeshire 14 1 ;1 Essex Surrey 1? 212 46 Devonshire Wiltshire ~.,..,, Other parts ___,........ t:P .......... ........... - ,40 le an Total 72 1,173 ' . 50 ...>.. Previous week's arrival ..........-- Si' . --.---- a& el DiffhrenCe since our last o :,10 .., ei oe 8 Xi °ROUGH HOP PIA - lag.V" .. ili a bi n 00 .he e t The reports from the Plantations state that e t ti , ,ill . purchavl'been dolts fly has been observed within the lases ew' daYsqlis, tet; Or presents rather an unfavourable appance. ~,"r , Co \nth the unusually small supply of llopson ,i` % oto s. 0 demand to rule steady, at fully last weeks (1 1 -00. there ~ BOROUGH .O.ND SPITAX•ir cl osed, . e O i l The season for old Potatoes being nearly vottio very little disposition manifested to lams, however, being scarce, higher rates ha little is 11 for such ; but in all other kinds exc,eedong/Y ot er° ll o s ,* . WOOL 2YLARSZT• been 0 o to ate The pulic sales held since ou r last have e be . e „ tt t 1 attended by buyers ; yet the biddings lia , , e , Do do' spirited. 13y private contract the demo rates. i'' rates. TALLOW . Tbe The demand is very good for the time of year t b e i c a do oti , supply will probably be falling off, Owing t° Jo el* . 1 1 tinued drought. At present, however, the pri c — e gow I ' l notwithstanding the arrival of new It". G: later than usual. Town Tallow is unaltered 10 ---- ---- -- 1 - 1 15 , ji „ ft 4.4 , LLOYD'S sHIPPING ( 04. LONDON, JUNE 10.—Wind S., li , ght 1 breexe, W. 9. ing clouds. oderst,'"stiPtj' LIVERPOOL JUNE 8. Wind W.S.W., 0 ,,,. Cri w e; S.S.W., do.—Arrd Columbine, Wakin, SYcl!..7lfe'dchar"-tej; Felcitcher, China; Henry Bell and John Jar" 0 rellt. Eliza Johnson, Petrie, Aricati, March?_elJtetP Majestic, Tyrrell, Old Calabar 1) inN,..7,-- 14,111iLiol! Cameroons (21st do.); Terpsichore, Tr, ,Ir iso " o ', 4.300: Wood, Crosbie, Barbadoes: Donald, A i iio oo, li c i4o s o :l Regina, Cay, St. Domingo ; Lynx and T0rn..„.0, C r $ New Hampshire and Rappahannock, galisborP pi, British Queen, Lancashire, Louisa, ; ; olitdoil: Sweden, Mobile ; Scotland, Mills' Savallil . s d S. lilartil„j Queen of the West, Woodhouse (21st ult.),,:baboe; nu e",, New York. 9th._Arrd. Queen,: Dixon,dlLowther,:cotit Lawson, Valparaiso (March 3); 1 - 1 01 /" .°° ' ilioe v a pe /- Ayres ; Countess of Durham, Illiller, ditto ; ~1 04 , 00J, de l , lish, and Royal Mint, Seanight, Jamaica ; : 1 -, e ' r, 1t. 0 5 a: Tobasco (April 20); John Bolton, Leo"`coorter:.' 0P: son, and W. U. Anderson, New Orleans ;_,..__, yt ? 1 , , La r li, Duko of Cornwall, Apalachicola; Hercules, •i ) ,_l7 } , t, ! *f . ' r ive , Malabar, Calcutta; Native,.Apalachicol,a,,d• i n t i oo , for r•'''' easier and Wien, —. Put back, Nr'u ' Elizabeth, for New Orleans, leaky. DEAL, JUNE 9.—Wind A.3t., light a nd ,_l3, ; igbl-t°l3 C ljr Wei ll " S.S.W.—Aud. John Bull, Crivrford,l CL'i •• 992 50 •• 762 50 .. 767 50 992 50 i. 9' , 92 50 •• 246 25 •• 770 Strasburg to Dale 245 .. 246 25 .. 245 Avignon to Marseilles.. RAILWAY SHARES FOR 15rn JUNE. St. Germain 885 .. 1185 • .. 885 .. 885 Versailles, ...• • • 377 50 • • 377 50 • • 372 50 .. 376 25 L.B•• ••• . • . Rouen .. Rouen to Havre— ••.•• • • • 760 • • 770 .. 760 Orleans .. ..... •••• • • • • 99 5 •.1000 .. 995 Strasburg to Bale •. Avignon to Marseilles• ••• • • 7 7 0 • • 770 .. 760 •• 992 50 •• 766 25 •• 997 50 •• 246 25 •• 767 50 DEPARTURE OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. The Emperor of Russia, with a rapidity charac teristic of all his movements, left Buckingham Palace sLortly after five o'clock last evening, for Woolwich, and having inspected the Royal dockyard at that place, in less than two hours embarked on board the Black Eagle steamer for Rotterdam, en route for his own dominions. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALDERT.-It will be seen by The Sun of this day that his Royal High ness will perform the ceremony of laying the founda tion stone of the New Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, at Brompton, at one o'clock, to-morrow, precisely : Every preparation has been made by the Secretaries and Committee to render the affair as impressive as possible ; and immediately his Royal. Highness has performed his benevolent task, a sort of Italian Festa, or fancy bazaar, will commence in the spacious grounds of Chelsea College, which include those of the renowned ilanelagh. There will be no less than three military bands in attendance, and everything promises to pass off with the greatest eclat. .11uring the course of Saturday last the office of the Secretary to the Institution was literally be sieged for tickets of admission, both to witness the ceremony and to the grounds of the intended fete, which will last until Wednesday evening. Tents and every provision has been made in anticipation of any change in the present propitious weather; and re freshments will he supplied by the eminent Gunter. There can be little doubt that the efforts of the bene volent founders of this truly Samaritan charity will meet with that success it so richly merits. THE QUEEN DOWAGER. - ;—BRUSSELS, JUNE 6.—Her Majesty Queen Adelaide had indeed given up the plan of coming to Antwerp,. as we have stated, but not her visit to Germany. Her Majesty left London on the 3d, went by way of Dover to Calais and Lisle, and arrived at Courtray on the 4th, whence she came by a special train to Ghent, where she arrived at five o'clock in the afternoon. She was received at the station by the civil and military authorities, and a com pany of Grenadiers paid her the honour s d ue t o h er ran k. Her Majesty entering the city alighted at the Hotel de la Port, accompanied by Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar and a numerous suite. In the evening she visited the Cathedral of St. Bayou and some other remarkable monuments in the city, and on the sth in the morning set out by special train to Cologne. A letter from Cologne of the sth sa y s: —That her Majesty arrived in that city, and put up at the Royal Hotel, where apartments had been engaged for her and her suite. Her Majesty was to proceed the following morning to Mentz, in the Victoria steamer, belonging to the Dusseldorf Steam Navigation Company, which the Queen had caused to be engaged some days ago through the London Company. CATCHING A TABTAH.—As Deaf Burke, the pu gilist, was on Wednesday afternoon passing through Smith field, accompanying a friend and his wife in a phaeton, intend ing to pass a few hours in the country, the party were grossly insulted by an a thl e ti c coun t r y wagoner— one of those nu merous ruffians who arc mostly to be found in that vicinity, and who think, f rom th e i r p hysical strength and prowess, to escape with impunity in insultirg any well - dressed person. On this o ccas i on t h e yo k e l was co mpletely out of his reckon ing ; the deaf- un , w ith t rue g allantry, allowed the carriage to pass on to a short distance on account of the lady - present, and then returned to the aggressor. The insulting terms were repeated, the Goliah of a countryman looking down with contempt upon his dwarfish opponent. A" set-to" im mediately took place, the countryman was floored three times in almost as many seconds, and much punished about the face before he could tell who he had to deal with. The countryman having declared he had had enough, the deaf - un retired amidst th e congratulations of several respectable per sons who had witnessed the insult, and its speedy and ef fectual chastisement.—Sunday Times. DELUSIONS or DRUNHARDS.—On Saturday an in quest was held by Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the Middlesex Hos pital, on the body of a man named Sheen, who died on Thurs day last, from the effects of injuries received by his falling down stairs while in a state of intoxication, on the night of the 23d ult. Deceased, while in the hospital , repeatedly stated that he h a d been piished down the stairs by some one. Mr. Wakley said it was remarkable under what delusions persons laboured when intoxicated. There was at that time a carpenter in the 'hospital who had injured himself while tipsy, by falling down stairs with a chisel in his pocket, but who persisted in saying he had been thrown down. It was doubtless the same with the deceased. It was only a short time ago that Dr. Burne had cut a man for two apparent tumours in the neck and back, and had extracted a handle of a fork from one, and the iron work from the other, and the man had not the slightest recollection how they came there. , It could only be presumed that the fork had been swallowed by the man — (Laughter)—while in an unconscious state. After citing several other instances, which went strongly to prove the inability of either man or woman to speak to facts while intoxicated, the Jury re turned a verdict of " Natural death." SINGULAR PRESERVATION FROM DEATII.--On the 29th ult., a boiler at South Towan mine, in the parish of Illogan, exploded while the engineman was standing on the tap of it. The poor fellow was blown through the roof of the engine-house, but after a little time he was so far recovered as to be able, with the assistance of a friend, to walk home._ IVest Briton. 44 11 4 sk, Yrg.:::4)l 4 111