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Ben. nett, Mr. Howe, Miss E. Phillips, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Yar. nold, Mr. W. 1. . Payne, 1!r. C. J. Smith, Mr. Bender. Mr. Pat* Mr. Gough, Mr. Thorne, Mr. Brady, Mr. Bur net, Mr. Smith, Mr. Kirke, Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. %Val. 'lron, Mr. Ayliffe, Mr. Andrews, Mr. T. Matthews, Miss Vandenhoff, Miss Charles, Mesdames Reed, Corder, Lee, Valanduke, Mathews, Mew, and Morgan. After which, - ANHLIE ; OR, THE LOVE TEST. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Tlse New Grand Opera of " The Love Spell" has been tri naiphant in the extreme. The rich, flowing Melodies— beautiful Scenery —and the acting and singing of Miss Ro• mer, Mr. Templeton, and Mr. Balfe, meet with undivided apprelsation of elegant and crowded audiences. THIS EVENING, JUNE ct am ~ ibe performed a New One A D rama, called mg THE MAIDS OF HONOUR. 41.154" After which the Grand Opera entitled THE LOVE SPELL. With all Doniaetti's Original Music of " L'Elisir d'Amore," Adine, Miss !Ismer ; Nemorina, Mr. Templeton ; Dulcamara, Mr. Balfe. Ts conclude with the successful Drama, called ALICE GRAY, THE SUSPECTED ONE. :ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Under her MAJESTY'S IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE. GRAND " PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAM PETRES ! !! THIS EVENING, .10vg 6. And Monday, Tuesday, and Thursdav, Next Week, fly a splendid Band, composed of the most * distinguished Instru mental Performers in the Metropolis, Selected and conducted by Mr. Godfrey. Commencing at Six o'clock, and terminating at Nine. The magnifloent Day-light View of MOUNT HECLA, and the anesinalled Menagerie, are exhibited daily. Admission One Shilling. LONDON: THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1839. The Lords did not meet yesterday. Their services are a great deal too valuable to be obtained every day. We should perhaps despise them were they to labour too frequently. The Commons were mainly employed in receiving petitions, great numbers of which were presented for the penny postage, and against the Ministerial plan of education. It was ordered on the motion of Sir ROBERT INGLIS that Mr. BURGE should be heard against the Jamaica Bill. We hope the Learned Agent is not paid sepa rately for his labours as Gounsel, otherwise it is likely that both his clients and the country may regret that Jamaica should have a barrister for its agent. In reply to a badgering question or two on the part of Sir STIATFORD CANNING, Lord PALMERSTON stated, lout would state nothing more, than that he was using his beat efforts, both at Paris and Buenos Ayres, to put an end to tius French blockade of the latter place. The Clerks of the Peace and the Copyholds Enfran chisement Bills severally went through Committee. A grant of 70,0001. out of the Crown Land Revenues for rebuilding the stables at Windsor was agreed to. The House was up at Half-past Eight. We find soma difficulty in understanding the re cent policy of Ministers, as exhibited in their acts. A breath of opposition from a rabid rabble of Methodist parsons and Church of England priests induced them at once to resign a favourite and esteemed project of their own for improving educa cation. They seem to have planned it with care, anti to have expected it would add to their reputation. They have, however, at once frankly, and, as we think, properly, given it up, demonstrating that they have no obstinate attach to their own schemes—no invincible reptig eance to sacrifice their own views to the demands of the people. At the same time, whatever the Reformers ask, they sturdily refuse. The Liberal Press has lately cautioned the Reformers not to press on the Ministers. " Only give them time," it was said, " only trust them ; do no not tease them ; they do not like to be urged ; they are ob stinate men, who will only be driven by your soli citations and demands more firmly to resist yau." All this was believed by the Liberals ; they held their peace ; they drew back ; they urged nothing ; they confided implicitly ; and the result is, that the Cabinet tells them it can give no countenance to . their demands; it is obstinate in re sistance to them, and it yields like dough to the touch of the parsons. Till the night before last we found some consolation, under our disappointed expectations, in believing that it was a firm adher ence to their own principles and peculiar views, which made the Ministers resist the' wishes of their best friends ; but we have no longer that consolation, for they have evinced no obstinate attachment to their own position, and retire from it with the greatest cele rity at the approach of a Tory foe. We can only explain this seeming inconsistency by supposing in them a disposition to be friendly with the Tories, and to separate themselves from the Reformers. Such proceedings, so contradictory, on the sunpo sition that they are inclined to the Radicals, make us fear that the Tories have got a firm friend in the very citadel of the Reformers. Our fear is strengthen e d by believing that the Cabinet had not the smallest occasion to take the course it adopted, on Sir HESKETH FLEET WOOD'S motion. That is a new proposition ; that particular franchise is demanded by no class, tainting it will allay no discontent, hut probably augment the discontent of the unenfranchised masses of the towns ; its bearings are wholly un known; the country gentlemen might well be as tounded at it ; the Session draws to an end ; and on all these grounds the Cabinet might, without going, any further, have declined now to entertain the pro position ; Sir HESKETU FLEETWOOD would have withdrawn it, and there would have been, for the present, and probably for ever, an end of the matter. ' But that did not satisfy Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who went far beyond the safe line we have drawn ; he discussed the principles of Reform—he was care ful to make it distinctly understood, whatever may be his own individual opinions, that the Cabinet has become Anti-Reforming, and can neither now nor hereafter give its countenance to any such de partures from the Reform Bill. And . for giving the Reformers this uncalled for hearty slap on the face, Lord JOHN RUSSELL was zealously compli mented by his supporters, Mr. SLANEY and Mr PrIILLIP HOWARD. Now, having gone out of his way even to tell us that the Cabinet will not help the Reformers, having gone out of his way to extinguish hope and confidence in the Radicals, we wish to know how the present Cabinet is to carry on Ate Government ? We see no practical means of euceess. The Tories will not keep them in office ; he Radicals will not. They had the ball at their leet, alai they have broken it to pieces. The game was in their hands, and they have thrown up their cards. Time was working for them ; the possession of.the Government, properly used, was a tower of strength ; they refused to wait, and cut themselves off from these manifold advantages. Such poli c y we do not understand. The zeal of the country for them must be, we are afraid, ime mediat e ] y cooled ; been the enth us i asm t h at was rat h er slumbering tha n kindled, b u t might have fanned into a flame, will be hopelessly smothered; and, if they have the feelings of generous men, they will have to weep to see daemselves deprived of the power to serve the young Lady who has thrown herself' on them for protection. Th e gentler, the happier ELIZABETH, as Mr. ' . A ,P e . 4 i itk .'" Vil <- - Eln flui. MACAULEY appropriately called her MAJESTY, must summon to her aid, we fear. the manly spirit of that heroine, or, perchance, the patience and resignation of ELIZABETH's mother in her latter days ; for her Cabinet by openly separating from the Reformers, has cut off the right arm by which they might have protecte her MAJESTY, both from her olp and from the people's enemies. We alluded yesterday in our summary of the proceedings of Parliament to Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S notice, that he intended to propose a grant as usual for the National and for the British and Foreign School Societies ; and to-day we must return to the subject in a more formal and serious manlier. Mr NYSE objected to a grant for any particular Societies. We echo his objection ; and we hope that Mr. HUME and other Members, who are strenuous advocates both for economy in expending public money, and liberality in thought, will resist the grant whenever it shall be proposed. We do not know much of the British and Fo reign School Society, but we observe that those who advocate its principles—th e Patriot, for in stance—object to a scheme of education which shall be equal for all. They are opposed to the Ministerial plan, and are the advocates of one species of intolerance. Why should the Ca tholics, the So c i n i ans , t h e Jews, and the Infidels, pay money in the shape of a tax, to promote the views of these somewhat intolerant sectaries ? But if such an argument apply ever so feebly to the British and Foreign School Society, it affects with irresistible force that exclusive intolerant So ciety which promulgated its opinions to the world on Tuesday' week. Lord A sistGEit, speaking at that meeting, and for the National Society, declared "utter hostility at all times to any scheme of national edu cation, that did not confine that education to the prin ciples of the Established Church? The first resolu tion was that instruction should be under the su perintendence of the priesthood of the Established Church. In supporti ng that resolution the Bishop of L ONDON declared that the National Society held that all education should be combined with religion, and that this religion should be exclusively the religion of the Church of England. Now, why should the Dissenters pay one penny—why should the Catholics pay the smallest fraction of a penny, of taxes to promote the success of such a narrow, exclusive, bigotted set of priests ? Why should the hard-working artizan, who out of his scanty earnings pays 20s. or 255. a-year to a Mechanics' Institute, for the purpose of educating himself, and, being averse from polemical strife, carefully stays away from Church, preferring to worship his GOD in the green fields, and wandering over the pleasant hills, and through the sunny vales in the neighbourhood of the Metropolis, to listening to the Rev. Mr. This or the Rev. Dr. That, while lie pours forth the vials of his Protestant wrath on the Catholics or on the Whigs—why should such an industrious, careful, really religious man—and the Metropolis abounds with them—be compelled to pay, by a so-called paternal legislator the smallest conceivable portion of a copper farthing, to place funds in the hands of the Bishop of LONDON and Lord ABINGER, wherewith to nourish in the rising generation their own intense unsocial ex clusiseness and bigotry ? It is a gross injustice. It is taxing industry to foster arrogance--it is bur dening honest humility to nourish priestly pride. The grant comes out of the taxes, to which men of all faith contribute ; and as these two Societies are narrow, selfish, and exclusive, and have lately exhi bited a strong determination to resist the extension of the benefit of such grants equally to men of all faith, ;t will be discreditable to the Legislature to give them one farthing of the public money. All those who are friendly to general and equal educa tion, should immediately, therefore, petition against the proposed grant as proposed by Lord J.RUSSELL. All Members of the House of Commons who wish to sec education dissevered from bigotry, should op pose the grant. In the House and out of the House, all the Liberals ought to bestir themselves to resist the plan of placing one additional farthing of the public funds at the disposal of the Anti-Na tional Society. After the proceedings of last Tues day,and after the resistance lately made by our eccle siastics to the Ministerial plan of education, we are bound to affirm that to vote a single sixpence to the Anti-National Society is to increase the resources of the avowed opponents of the secular power. We se. by the accounts from Ireland that great distress prevails in that country. The people com ' plain of dearth, destitution, and famine. How is this ? They have the Corn-laws. For Ireland, it was said during the debates on the subject by all the advocates of the Corn-laws, that those laws were indispensible. The eulogists of the scoundrel enactments were never tired of dilating on the immense advantages of the Corn-laws to Ireland. ( What would become, it was said of Ireland if those ' laws were repealed ? We echo the question ; what would become of Ireland ? `Would her people starve as at present ? 'We answer no. Rent would fall, the price of seed-corn and of potatoes would fall ; there would be much less temptation, and much less power, to export corn ; there would be less competition for land ; ever ythi ng on which man lives would be obtained by industry at a less cost, and there would be greater plenty of food. But the scoundrel law-making landlords—and we never shall cease to speak of them as they deserve—with most deliberate villany, bring famine on the people to enrich themselves. The London and Croydon Railway was opened yesterday for the public, anti we are glad to find that the Directors have consulted the convenience of the public, and we believe also their own ad vantage, in starting a train every hour from 20 minutes after 8 in the morning till 20 minutes after 9 in the evening, with the exception of three hours, from 20 minutes past 11 to 20 minutes past 2. We only wish they would consult their own interest a little more, and reduce the fares. There never was a greater error than the practice hitherto adopted of making the railway fares only a trifle less than the coach fares for the purpose of attracting passengers. The Directors ought to put the competition with coaches entirely out of the question, and consider only in what way they can attract the greatest number of passengers at a remunerating price. The charge from London to Croydon, we see by the advertisement, is is. 9d. by the first class, and Is. 3d. by the socond—both too high. We are convinced that is. 4d. and is. would be quite high enough—nay too high, and we appeal to experience and facts. The lowest charge on the Paris and St. Germain Railroad, a distance of twelve miles, was last year 10(1., and when it was re duced to 71 r d. at the beginning of this year, the profits increased 3001. for the first two months, and we believe go on increasing. The same rule must hold good here. The expense of conveying eight carriages full, or half full, to Croydon, would be nearly the same ; and what an absurdity to make the fare so high as to prevent many from going at all, and making others go by roaches, or find some other mode of conveyance Railroad Directors will in time find, that the only way to obtain success is to make the charge so small as to attract the greatest number of passen gers. The steam-boats to Greenwich now pay bet ter than they did when the charge was twice what it is now. In cases of this kind, two and two never make four. We are glad to see that the important question of National Education is beginning to be taken up by the Metropolitan parishes. There is not a more determined enemy to the general education of the people than the Bishop of LONDON. CHARLES JAMES was the very first man to sound the trum pet of alarm to the Church, when the QUEEN 'S Ministers proposed a grant of the public money for this noblest and best of purposes. He was the first to distort and misrepresent the Government plan, in order to enlist against it the passions, the prejudices, the bigotry of the priesthood, and those who blindly follow these blind guides. It is therefore peculiarly incumbent upon the inhabitants of the Me tropolis to raise their voices in favour of giving light to the millions, whom their Metropolitan would condemn to the blackness of darkness, rather than see them cheered by a single ray from Heaven, which had not first passed through a dis colouring medium prepared for the purpose by him and his pious brethren. Let the people of the various parishes in and around the metropolis speak out on this question with the same manly freedom as they do on others, and they will soon silence the senseless clamour which the Clergy h ave raised. Let the meetings be public, and the discussion open, and we shall then see how small THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1839 We publish a letter from a Correspondent recom mending small adhesive stamps for letters, and to show how they might be applied, our Correspondent ingeniously affixed one. His suggestion, however, is not new, and if he have not borrowed it from the evidence given before the Postage Committee, it is a proof that several minds have arrived at the same conclusion. We copy an article from the Examiner, which gives an amusing description of the manner in which the irresponsible Justices of Middlesex dis pose of the rate-payers' money. Our readers are well aware that the county-rates for Middlesex have doubled within a few years ; they are also well aware that the rate-pavers have no voice in elect ing those who vote away their money, and no control whatever over its disbursement. The Magis trates are altogether irresponsible and despotic over our purses ; and the way in which they use their power, is admirably exemplified by the Examiner. Four thousand pounds for warming a building, being two thousand pounds more than the esti- ' mate is one item ! Contract prices stated at 7s. 9d. when they were actually only 6s. 9d., is another. There is no means, unfortunately, of punishing such conduct; but breaches of trust like these, combined with peculation, are more dan gerous and injurious to society, more sweeping in their mischief, than any common larcenies ; and, as long as any punishment is inflicted for some one or two species of theft, while whole genera es cape, they ought to be more severely punished than housebreaking or highway robbery. Such acts, however, approach those national robberies which are committed by legislators, and by armies, and share their impunity, or even receive part of the honour which is bestowed on such enactments as the Corn-laws, or such exploits as burning a vil lage, and plundering every house in it. Our readers will, we are sure, be much amused with the correspondence between sundry Tories of Shrewsbury and Sir ROBERT PEEL, which ap pears in another part of The Sun. The aforesaid ' Tories have, it seems, been so mortified at the loyalty expressed by the Liberal inhabitants of Shrewsbury in their late Address to the QUEEN, and so galled by the Right Hon. Baronet's conduct on a recent occasion having been in the same Ad dress charactaized—in our opinion most justly— as " disloyal insolence," that they deemed it expe dient, in order to give some vent to their overwhelm ing sensations, to send a sort of counter-address, not to the QUEEN, but to the great " Statesman" (!) who stands charged with the very unstatesmanlikeof fences of disloyalty and insolence towards his So vereign. The Shrewsbury Addressers compliment Sir ROBERT in words which his own feelings, if he have any feelings, must tell him convey the bit terest of all reproaches, by imputing to him qualities the very opposite of those by which he is distin guished. They ascribe, for example, " Constitu, • PI onal principle to a man who htis done more- zhough he has done it, according to his nature, meanly and sneakingly—to sap what they and their party consider the foundations of the Constitution than any man now alive ; "disinterested honesty" to one who is wholly made up of selfishness and duplicity ; and " genuine loyalty" to the Gallant Cavalier who is still smarting under a rebuff re ceived from his Lady Sovereign for the most un constitutional, and, withal, the grossest, the coarsest, the most unmanly attack ever made upon the Royal prerogative, It is in vain, utterly in vain, for Sir ROBERT to attempt to justify his conduct. He has com mitted a faux pas, and it will stick to him as long as he lives. What does he mean by referring to the conduct of Lords GREY and GRENVILLE as a screen behind which to hide his own misdeeds ? This is perfectly in character--a complete JOSEPH SURFACE trick, and serves only to expose ii► a more striking manner the iniquity which lurks behind. This slippery gentleman— Dolls instructus et arte Pelasga, would fain have the world believe that he, modest and moderate man that he is, did nothing more in demanding the sole, undivided, despotic, controul of her MA3EsTY's Household, down to the very kitchen, than did Lords GREY and GRENVILLE, when they required merely " that the connexion of the Great (Ocers of the Court with the poli tical Administration should be clearly established in its first arrangement !" Where is there the least similarity in the two cases ? Yet these are the cases that Sir JOSEPH would, if possible, twist into parallelism ! and that too in the face of his own admission in the House of Commons, that there was no precedent for his conduct in this " untoward" affair. To what meagre shifts your 'eery crafty people are sometimes obliged to resort Sir ROBERT delivers the following mag nanimous determination in his reply to the Shrews buryAddressers, f I shall never accept office upon any condition or understanding which may appear to me incompatible with the constitutional authority of a Minister of the Crown." We are very glad to find that this resolution has been adopted. We now know exactly the terms upon which Sir RO BERT can " accept office." As long, therefore, as VICTORIA sways the sceptre, he must be excluded —that is to say, if he stick to his principles. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S principles I ! I --,....-- Internal divisions and dissensions threaten to upset the French Cabinet. No sooner are the new Ministers abandoned to the contempt of the coun try by the Opposition than they begin to quarrel among themselves ; the apostates among them, in a fit of remorse, being anxious to have it thought that the C a bi net represents t h e L e f t Centre, while their colleagues as strenuously claim for it the re presentation of the JACQUEMINOT and MOLE pally. To mark the latter tendency of the Cabi net, M. DuFALTßEobtained the dismissal of M. LE- Is the number that will side with the priests against the education of the poor. The parishioners of St. Mary's, Newington, have done themselves honour by the stand which they have made for popular education and the rights of conscience. A meeting of the rate payers of this parish was held last week for the purpose of considering what steps should be taken in reference to the Government plan. Re solutions highly approving of the plan were passed, and petitions to both Houses of Parliamen' , v:ay ing that it might be sanctioned by the Legi lature, were adopted. The first resolution was moved by Mr. STCRGE, and was to the following effect :—" That this meet ing hails, with peculiar satisfaction, the intention of her Majesty's Government to propose a system of national education in accordance with the sacred rights of conscience." Mr. STURGE stated that an attempt was making to get up a hole-and corner petition against the measure, and that that petition had been stuck up in various parts of the parish, headed with the words " Mutilated Bibles and Socinian Teachers." This is an excel lent sample of the spirit of falsehood and misrepre sentation, which animates the exertions of the Clergy in their unholy cause. Who can doubt that this petition and its heading are of priestly origin, when one of the sp e ak ers a t t hi s meet i ng declared that on Sunday last he had heard a certain Clergyman of the Established Church denounce all who favoured the Government plan of education as " traitors to GOD, to the Church, and to the country." Here is fine language to proceed from the sacred seat of everlasting truth and universal charity I Had any Dissenting Minister desecrated his pulpit by language even half as bad as this, how the impiety of Dissent would have formed a pretext for the out pouring of clerical bile ! With what fervid zeal we should have been reminded of the prostitution of the pulpit to political and factious purposes by men calling themselves Ministers of the Gospel of CHRIST I Another of the resolutions passed at this meet ing was expressed in these words :—" That the claim of the Clergy of the National Church to have the education of the people placed under their exclusive controul, is a violation of the principles of religious liberty, opposed to the spirit of the British Constitution, and subversive of the very design of universal education." We cannot tell how the Rector, or Vicar, or whatever else he may be who presides over the Church-and-State con cerns of St. Mary's, Newington, may relish this plain speaking, but we are delighted with it. This resolution says a great deal in few words, and says it well. We trust it will be adopted as a model by all who are opposed to the insolent pretensions of a pampered, worldly-minded Priesthood, who would, if they could, trample under foot the dearest rights of their fellow-men. Let but the spirit of this reso lution become general, and we shall soon see an end of sacerdotal domination, with all its mind blighting influences. GRAND, a partisan of the Left, from the office of Woods and Forests, and appointed as his succes sor, M. BRESSAU, a staunch Doctrinaire. Hardly, however, was the change effected before M. PASSY saw the drift of it, and insisted that B BAU should be dismissed and LEGRAND restored to his former office. The KING'S friends opposed this as subjecting the Cabinet t o r idi cu l e, b ut P ASSY threatened to resign, and penitently seek again an alliance with TIIIERS, and by this means carried his point. In truth PAssy is ill at ee and bit terly regrets the sacrifice s which he .nade for a seat in the Councils of LOUIS P . ,ILLIPE. He ex pected to be opposed, and only finds himself de ....;.:ed and I,y tho se w h ose con fid ence was a solace, and whose friendship was an honour to him. The Gazette des Tribunaux of Tuesday has the following account of the judicial proceedings in the Chamber of Peers : " The Commissioners appointed by the Court of Peers to conduct the examinations in the prosecutions for the late riots have ordered the discharge of a great number of persons arrested on suspicion, and nearly fifty were re leased yesterday. There are about 200 remaining in custody, the greater part of whom will be sent to the orison of La Force, and will be brought before the Court of Assizes. M. Merilhou will lay a Report before the Peers in the course of the present week on the cases of eight or ten of the culprits, and the Court will then decide whether there be sufficient grounds for bringing them to trial. If this decision be in the affimative, the hearing will commence as soon as the requisite notices have been given, and other formalities fulfilled, so that the fate of the first class may be fixed before the end of the month." The Madrid Journals received are of the 28th ult., but their contents are of no importance. The only news from the frontier is given in the subjoined extracts from the French Journals : that Espa r t ero i s f ort if y i ng Orduna, .‘ BAYONNE, MAY 31.—W e learn by letters from Du. to plac e a garr i son, Alaroto, who r in an w g h o i , ci o i f he the int 2 e B n t d h s , guards the line from Amurrio to Llodio, has ordered Arciniego to be abandoned. That place has been deserted as Orduna had been. Before he resolved to retire from Balmaseda Moroto sent Colonel Alvarez de Toledo to the head quarters of Don Carlos, to lay before the Supreme Council of War the question whether Balmaseda should be retained ? The answer was, that Balmaseda should be held as long as possible, leaving, however, Moroto liberty to order the retreat of the troops as occasion may require." The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of the Ist of June has the following paragraphs : " Moroto, haring recovered from his indisposition, has been to the head quarters at Durango, to have an inter view with Don Carlos end the Ministers, relative to the military operations. " In consequence of the resolution adopted in a council by all the Generals of the Carlist army, in which Moroto presided, Balmaseda has been evacuated. " Llodio is on the confines of Biscay, and is part of the Province of Maya; it is eight leagues from Vittoria, five from Orduna and Bilbao, and the meeting of three roads, the principal of which leads to Bilbao."--Le Commerce. BOURSE. —PARIS, TUESDAY, .JUNL 4. HALF -PAST TEMZE.—The market has been very brisk. For the Account the Three per Cents, opened at elf. 30c., declined to elf., and closed at elf. 10c., being a fall of 26c. The Five per Cents , first price, Illf. 35c. ; they closed at Illf, loc., a fall of also 25c. For Money the Three per Cents. are 30c. lower, and the Five per Cents. 20c. The Bank of France Shares are 10f. higher. The Laffitte Bank 5,000 f., are unaltered, and those of I,ooof. not quoted The Belgian Five per Cents. have not varied. The Bank Shares 2f. 60c. better. The Spa. nish Active has declined i per cent., having had but the price of 191. The Portuguese Three per Cents, are : 1 2 - per cent. lower. The St. Germain Railway Shares and the Versailles Right Bank have declined st. each. The Versailles Left Bank have fallen 12f. 50c., notwithstand. ing the intention of Government to propose to the Cham ber to grant a loan to the Company, and that this resolu tion has been taken after an inspection of the line by the Minister himself, who considers it extremely injurious to the surrounding country to continue in its present cut-up state, independently of the exertions made by the owners of land and houses in the Faubourg St. Germain, who wish to see the Railway completed, in the hope that it may give life to that part of the metropolis, which is com paratively dead. first Highest Lowest Price. ('rice. Price French 5 per Cents 4% per Cents loti 106' 1“(3 Last Price 1095 106 4}lei- Cents /01 60 ... 161 CO ... 101 60 ... 101 69 3 per Cents SI 5 ... 81 5 ... 8, 90 ... 30 90 Bank of trance Laffitte Bark 5,004. :Ai 525'1 ...52A —.525 , —.5250 Belgian 5 per Cents 10 1 34 ... 101 3 ... 101% ... i 01.% Bank 767 50 ... 800 ... 795 ... 1101 Coupons Spanish Aeive 19% ... 19% ... 195 ... 19% Passive 4% ... 4% ... 4% ... 4% Portuguese 3 per Cent s ... 21 ... 21 ... 21 Nea:.olitan Roman RAILWAY SHAREa. St. Germain Versailles, R. B 7 ,5 ... 70 , ... 700 ... 760 L.B. •• 90 ... 292 50 ... 282 50 ... 2.12 SO Havre Orleans . Strasburg to Bale ... 335 ... 335 ... 365 ... 335 Bordeaux to La '1 este MAGISTERIAL ADVICE.—Mr. White, the Police Ma gistrate of Queen's-square, is reported to have said yesterday to a policeman, " If I were at the Opera, and you ordered my carriage away, and got a good beating for it, I think you would richly deserve it." If this is not a gross libel on the Magistrate, we knew not what to make of it. It is a rule at the Queen's Levees, and we believe at all places of public meetings, that no car riage is allowed to stop longer than merely to take up the party, yet here a Magistrate is made to say, that if a policeman were to enforce such a rule against him, he would deserve chastisement. This is very like hold ing out an encouragement to a breach of the peace ; and possibly some of those portly coachmen, that are in the habit of treating the police with great disregard, may take advantage of it. If they were taken to Queen's-square, of course Mr. White must commend them for committing the assault. THE HON.GRANTLEY BERKELEY AND THE COUNT DE SALIS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sts—lt having appeared in some of the papers that " a correspondence, having a hostile object," was going on be tween myself and the Count De Salis, when the warrant for my apprehension was issued, I beg through your paper to correct that statement, and to declare, that neither mes sage or correspondence passed between us, and that the first intimation I had of any hostile proceeding was the execution of the warrant so late as six o'clock OR Tuesday afternoon. . Your most obedient, GRANTLEY F. BERKELEY. St. James's Club, June 5, 1839. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY Their Lordships met this morning in a Committee of Privileges. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Earl of Rosslyn, the Earl of Craven, the Earl of Cork, the Earl of Carrington, Lord Vaux, and the Bishop of 'Hereford. EARL OF SEFTON'S CLAIM. Their Lordships after hearing Counsel, and examining witnesses, resolved that the Earl of Sefton had made out his claim to vote at the election of Representative Peers for Ireland. EDINBURGH ELECTION. Mr. MACAULEY was returned for Edinburgh on Tuesday witho u t opposition, and takes his seat this evening. LUDLOW ELECTION. STATE OF THE POLL. Ten o'Clock. i Six minutes past One. Alcock Clive Eleven o'Clock. 1 Quarter past One. Alcock Clive Half-past Eleven. I Quarter to Two Alcock Clive Twelve o'Clock. i Twenty minutes to Three. Alcock Clive Half-past Twelve. I Three o'Clock. Alcock Clive Thirteen minutes to One. 1 Half past Three Alcock Clive One o'Clock. Three minutes to Four. Alcock Clive FINAL STATE OF THE POLL. Four o'Clock. i Alcock .................................. 186 Clive ....................................... 182 Majority for Mr. Alcock 4 This was the severest contest ever known in Ludlow. All went off peaceably. The Tories talk of a petition At a late hour last evening, the Clive party brought into the town upwards of 70 men, armed with strong clubs, under the direction of the notorious Tom Brown, the pugi list. The alarm of the inhabitants was beyond description, for they expected a general turn-out during the night, and the almost certain danger of life, but the Mayor, under the instruction of the Town Clerk of the Borough, took decided steps, and the ragamuffins have as yet conducted themselves peaceably. It is a fact, no less remarkable than degrading to the principal actors in the affair, that the persons who ac tually received them on their arrival and domiciled them, at noon disavowed all participation it, the intimidation that had become so barefaced that they bribed the voters, nor had they requested the support of any man but by fair and honest canvassing. And this was said by Mr. George Dansey, who, in co npany with Mr. Williams, and the Town Clerk, and Agent for the Clives, were immediately in at tendance on the disgraceful import, a set of men evidently fit for the worst purposes of Toryism. The bribery and infamous modes of menacing which the Clive ram:ly have brought to bear on the electors has not a parallel in the history of elections. But, to the honour of the majority of the independent voters of this borough, they have won a victory upon principle alone, heedless of the pecuniary gain held out to them. At a quarter-past one o'clock there were only forty-six votes to be received, and the most strenuous exertions were made by both parties. Within half an hour of the close of the poll bribery to a great extent was resorted to by the Tories, but as the result shows, without effect. About eighty ruffianly-looking fellows, all pitmen, and all dressed in smock•frocks and scarlet handerchiefs, were brought into the town from Bridgenorth. At present al' is quiet. fire broke o u t in , t ena nted by eleven . IRE.—Thi s mornina, about three o ci ~ a a dwellin consisting of a b out thirty persons, situate in Smit h's. buildings, L ong -1 g fam hies, -ace, Borough, and we regret to state a woman named Humphries, who had been bed-ridden for some time past, tell a sacrifice to the devouring element ; the rest of the inmates escaped with difficulty, in a state of nudity. It is supposed to have originated through a child awaiting the risturn of its parent, who was at wor k , and falling off t o sleep. Th e body has since been found, and was removed to the workhouse to await a Coroner's Inquest this evenin g . The late C ountess d e Li pona , according to a letter of th e 26th ult., from Fl,,rence, has named i n her will her nephew Joachim Murat, son of Lu cien Na poleon, her residu ar y legatee. Sh e d es ires that the Piirice may be brought up i n F rance, and permanen tly fix his residen ce in this country; and to hi m is to belong all that the Em.. peror Napol eon b equeathed to the C oun tess—viz., his b e d, his sword, p ortrait, &c. Her d aug hters Letitia a n d Louisa (th e C ountesses of Pepoli and Responi) will re c ive no m ore t h an the shares wh i c h t he law secures th em . Her sons will have such articles as are calculated to remind them of their father. The pecuniary and specific legacies are stated to be considerable, and two inhabitants of Flo- rence ore appointed executors. i _ RENCH LEET IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. —We learn from our Correspondent at Toulon, that con siderable activity prevails in the arsenal of that port, and all the workmen are in full employ. Orders had been received by the telegraph for several vessels to repair to the Levant. It was stated at Toulon that the Mediterranean squadron would be composed of eleven ships of the line—le Jena, le Hercule, le Triton, le Jupiter, le Genereux, le Montebello, le Trident, le Santi .Petri, le Diademe , l'Alger, and le Marengo, with six frigates, and ten corvettes or brigs. It was supposed that the squadron, would be commanded by a Vice- Admiral, and that it would form two divisions, one to watch the Turkish fleet and the other to observe the Egyptian squadron. There is to be a large levy of seaman at Toulon. Our Correspondent ic. Coates that Sir Robert Stopford would probably ask for a reinforcement of the English squadron in the Levant, so that the combined English and French squadrons might amount to fifty sail, the force which the combined Russian and Turkish fleets would present.--Evening Paper. MARRIED.—At Bodu Church, June 4, by the Rev. George Burrard, Robert Southey, Est,. Poet. Laureat, D.C. L., to Caroline Anne, d aughter of the l ate Charles Bowles, Esq. , of Buc kl a n d , North Ly wingtoe. COLO NEM —Rowle Y, Lord F. S omerse t, Waters. M'Alpine, Horner, Pasl e Y, Charretie, Feilding, Browne, J. E. Jones, Bouvorie, H. Burney, Harris, Boldero, Sir J. S. Lillie, Whinyates, Crosse, G. Higginson, W a lcott, H. eHriablu),r3Darner, Rolleston, M.P., Dales, Vigoreux, Brack- Proctor', T G u . rr , L e a r n , gt H or o i. n. H. Molyneux, Warre, Tynte , MAJons—Du Flat, Lardy, C. Barton, C. Christie, J• Campbell. CAPTAINS—J. Rowland Smith, Caledon Egerton, Rus sell, Des Vceux, Ellis, Corbet, Drummond, Skinner, Hodge, Merryweather. Beadon, Straubeuze, Eames, Mig non, Henderson, W. W. Ross, Margary, C. Denton._ LIEUTENAN'TS—Cavendisb, T. H. Tonge, Ranciolpb Roberts on , B roo k e , Ma r ti n , B es t. C. Mill s , Walker Cornock, Everard, R. N. Meade. CORNETS—A. R. Miller, T. Jacob. EWING V. BURNS. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment in this appeal reversing the decision of the Court of Session, with costs BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY. THE QUEEN V. KENNAWAY AND OTHERS. Mr. ROGERS moved for a mandamus against William Kennaway, Robert Maunder, and Thomas Owen, command ing them to hold a Court for the election of two assessors for Trinity Ward, Exeter. Mr, Justice COLERIDGE granted the application. THE QUEEN U. THE GUARDIANS or THE POOR OF ST. ANDREW, HOLBORN. In this case a mandamus had been granted against the Guardians of the poor of St. Andrew, Holborn, command ing them to pay the sum of 3,7001. as their contribution towards the Holborn Union. To this mandamus a return was made, stating that the Guardians were not liable, as they had not been legally elected. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL now applied to have the re turn quashed, and that a peremptory mandamus might go. If the present return should be taken as an excuse for dis obeying the mandate for payment, the Poor-law Amend ment Act would be a dead letter, and its operation would be completely suspended, for there would be no means whatever of providing for the poor of this country. Sir F. POLLOCK and Mr. ERLE appeared to oppose the application, and after a short discussion, Mr. Justice COLERIDGE said, as this was a case of great importance, it oug►ht to be fully argued, and he therefore granted a rule to show cause. THE QUEEN V. THE GUARDIANS OF ST. MARY, LAMBETH A rule was also granted against the Guardians of S Mary, Lambeth, under similar circumstances. CORN AVERAGES. (*.ENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, Fel' the Week ended May 31, 1%30, nude up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Englan , am! Wales, per hnperial Quarter. Wheat 7os. Sd. i I Oats Barley 3es. I'd. 1 Rye IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE !IX WEEKS ?RECEDING. Wheat......... Oats Barley Ws. hd, I Rye DUTIES OW FOREIGN CORN. Wheat 6s. Rd. Oats Barley 2s 4,1. I Rye MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, JUNE s.—We continue to have an improved demand for Cotton, and higher rates have been obtained. To-day's sales are 4,000 bags, at an advance in the quotations of last Tuesday of fully id per lb. Our arrivals this morning are the French and Ostend mails ; ship-letters from China, Honduras, Teneriffe, and Rio Janeiro, Calcutta sth January, St. Helena 3d Fe bruary, and Cape of Good Hope 3d April. We have received Belize papers to the 31st of March. " CENTRAL AMERICA.—By the kindness of a gentleman in one of our large mercantile houses here, we have been favoured with information of a most distressing description as to the state of this unhappy country. It was expected that after the hostile operations of General Carrera ceased quiet would be allowed to reign for a considerable period, and the attendant blessing of commercial prosperity which the country is so well calculated from its fertility and re sources to enjoy ; it would appear that these hopes are far as ever from being realised, and this ill-governed Republic is still in the greatest anarchy and confusion. The people of the:i:l . Leon, in conjunction with a party from Honduraso.• on their march to oppose the Federal troops. On or about the 28th of February last, 1,500 men of the Leonese party took possession of San Miguel, which had been abandoned for some days previous by its miserable inhabitants, who well knew the horrible scenes of pillage and murder that would ensue on the arrival of the hostile troops. " The insecurity of property in a country so distracted as that of the State of Guatemala, is so glaringly great, that we should think few merchants would be influenced to run the risk of investing any of their capital in its purchase, or to hazard the loss of their goods by sending them to cor respondents there, however tempting may be the profits. When this deplorable state of things is likely to be put an end to, we believe none can guess.' From the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date : " They write from Brussels that the ratifications of the treaty of peace will be sent off this evening to M. Dutp, Secretary of the Ambassador at London." Exports of manufactured goods to the United States.— The exports of British manufactures to the ports of the United States would seem to be brisk, judging from the cargoes of the ships for New York. The Indep the packet of the 25th ult., was quite full; and the Vir ginian, the packet of the Ist inst., refused goods. The Carroll of Carrolton, and the Troy, transit ships, are crammed full, having shut out merchandise. The first Baltimore spring ship, the London, will carry out about 1,400 tons measurement goods. Even the Philadelphia packet of the Bth has more goods awaiting for shipment than she can take. Consols, which closed yesterday at 931 94 for the open ing, opened this morning rather lower, 93; ; and the Three per Cents. Reduced at 924. At present there is not a feature in the British Market worth observation. Exchequer Bills, 28 30; India Bends, 29 31; Bank Stuck, 1934 194} ; India Stock, 257 for the opening. Spanish Acti7e is a shade lower, 19i I ; Portuguese as they closed, 34 ; Three per Cents. 20i 21 ; Colom. bian, 301 31} ; Brazilian 79 44 • Mexican 252- 26-1 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 54 56; Five per Cents., 102 i 4. - PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock... 194 India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 53 2% Ditto Bonds 3O pm. 3 per Cent. Cans. per Cent — Old Annuities 9:04 Ditto Red. 10:;% 100 New Ditto New 3% per Cent New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 .. 29 37 pm. Jan. 5, 1860 14% 5-16 Ditto Small 27 29 39 pm. Oct. 10, 1859 — Ditto Commercial Jan. 5, 1860 l4 5-10% Ditto Advertised ...25 '29 33 pm. Jan. 5, 1880 — Bank Stock for Account . 195 , , Aprils, 1880. — India Stock for Account ... Jan . 5.1870 Consos for Account 94 1 4 4 3N 4 HALF-PAST ONE The non-arrival of her Majesty's packet Shelciralte,;ith the Jamaica and Carthagena mails, which was due on the 26th ult., has caused some disappointment to the merchants trading with the above island ' • but we are happy t o s t ate , by the arrival of the Jamaica Papers of recent date at the North and South American Coffee-house, all anxiety re specting the Sheldrake has ceased. It appears that she bad a very long and tedious passage out, and did not ar rive at Jamaica before the 17th April, and was to leave again for England about the 25th, and she may be ex pected every day. Arrivals from Rio Janeiro state that a reinforcement of 600 men was on the eve of sailing for Rio Grande, in three ships of war, and that 500 men more were to follow, accompanied by the Minister of War. The Antwerp Paper of yesterday states that a plan is forming in England, to establish an earthenware manufac ture in the environs of Antwerp, and that Messrs. Roths childs, of London, are to be the chief directors of the Company. . . Money has become exceedingly scarce in the Foreign Market, and from 10 to 12 per Cent. can be obtained till the next Account. In the British Market it is rather easy at the rate of 5 per Cent. There is sot much business doing in either of the Markets, and Consols have been during the morning at 931, alternately buyers and sellers, at present, 94 ; Reduced, 924; Exchequer Bills, 29 30 ; India Bonds, 30; Bank Stock, 194. Spanish Active, 194 j ; Portuguese, 344-; Colombian, 31; . Dutch Two and-a- Half per Cents., 564 ; Five per Cents, nothing done. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS Bank Stock 193% India Stack 3 per cent Red 93% Ditto Bond, 3 per Cent. Cols. ....... ........ Uitto Old Annuities 354 per Cent. Red 99% Ditto New Annuities New 3y.i, per Cent Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d 'a pm. New 5 per Cent Ditto 500/ .................18 prr. Long Annuities to expire Ditto 500/ 32 tar. Jan. 1860 Oct. 1859 Jan 1860 — Consols for Act 95% FOREIG N FUNDS Austrian, 5 per cent. Portuguese Bonds, sper cent. —_ Belgian, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian Bonds Prussian, 5 per cent Buenos Ayr: s, 6 per cent — Russian Bonds, 5 per cent .., Chilian, 6 per cent Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent. Spanish, 5 per cent. 19% Ditto, 1824 3C% Ditto, Deferred •• Greek Bonds, 1825, sper ct. Exchange' —f —c Mexican, sper cent French, 3 per cent ...._f. —, Ditto, 6 per cent. 18 25 _ Dutch, 2% per cent 4 5 6 1 13 Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent.... Ditto, 5 per cent ... SHARES, Bristol and Exeter Railway London and Birmingham Railway ,64% London and Southampton Railway 45% London and Cr o yd on Railway ( Trunk) 12% South Eastern and Dover Ditto New Shares .. 3% F F- THE D IVISION. List of Pairs on Sir Hcsk Tuesda .eth Fleetwood's Motion on y night. AG•TNST. Lowther, J. H. Broadwood, H. St. Pa 1, Horace Manners, Lord C. Parke, C. W. Ossulston, Lord Seale, Colonel Planta, J. Lockhart, A. M. Trench, Sir F. Foley, E. T. Hawkes, T. Adare, Lord Bradshaw, James Cartwright, W. L. Young, Sir L. W. Grimston, Lord Powell, Colonel Knight, Henry Gaily Duncombe, A. Patten, John Wilson Jackson, J. D. ff in favour of the motion. • FOR. Power, John Hayter, G. W. Fenton, Jehn Cave, Otway Easthope, John Hoskins, K. James, Sir W. Hill, Lord A. M. C. Dundas, J. C. Dundas, Sir R. Dundas, W. D. Morris, David Barron, W. H. Roche. Sir 1). Reddimgton, T. N. Rice, Edward Villiers,' Charles 1 3 . O'Connell, Morgan O'Connell, M. J. Lister, E C. Wyse, Thomas Beamish, F. B. A. Speirs, Esq., paired o: SHREWSBURY.-I.OYAL DE4,144- RATION. We, the undersigned inhabitants of Shrewsbury, hereby declare that we are restrained by dutiful re,pect to the Crown from entering upon the public discussion of trans. actions in which the Sovereign 1); , s been personally eu. gaged. We should have been wholly silent respecting the late Ministerial overtures, which have ended in the temporary disappointment of her Maje , ty's faithful sub jects, were it not for the eager effort of a few partisans in this borough to revive their decaying influence by a dexterous but dishonest use of the present conjuncture. We cannot allow them, unreproved, to assume for the first time the virtue of loyalty, nor, uncontradicted, to carry to the foot of the throne their own dangerous opinions, as possesing the general sympathy of their townsmen. We therefore owe it to ourselves and to the town of Shrews bury to declare that we regard with strong indignation, but with still stronger contempt, the false and calumnious as• sertions by which it is sought, for factious ends, to fix the charge of disloyal insolence on those statesmen who are, under a gracious Providence, the mainstay of the monarchy, and, as we humbly trust, will yet become its preservers. We assert, on the contrary, that the conduct of the Duke of Wellington and Sir R. Peel in the late negociations was eminently distinguished by constitutional principle, disinterested honesty, and genuine loyalty ; and we shall be prepared to unite with those illustrious men in defending the just honour and dignity of the Crown And the integrity of our constitution in Church and State. May 20. Whitehall, June 4. GENTLEMEN—You could not have transmitted the de claration which I have this day received from Sir Richard Jenkins through any channel more acceptable to me than the hands of a gentleman, your representative in Parlia ment, who has recommended himself to the favour of his Sovereign by his conduct in public trusts of great import ance, and has received the distinction specially appropriated to the reward of civil service. I have a strong conviction that in expressing your opi nion that my conduct in the recent transactions to which your declaration refers has been in conformity with consti tutional principles, you are anticipating the judgment which after the lapse of a very short period will be pronounced by a very large majority of that portion of the community whose deliberate sentiments ultimately prevail over misre presentation and calumny, and constitute public opinion in this country. Be this, however, as it may, you may depend upon it that I shall steadily adhere to the principles of which you have approved, and that I shall never accept office upon any con dition or understanding which may appear to me incom patible with the constitutional authority of a Minister of the Crown, or which would restrain me from advising such an exercise of that authority as I might deem neces sary for the efficient performance of the great public trust for which a Minister is responsible. I am firmly persuaded that the Constitution of this coun try does not recognize any distinctions in respect to public appointments prodded fur by Act of Parliament, and in stituted for purposes of state, on account of the six of the parties holding ' them, and that no .Minister would be justi fied in divesting himself of all control or responsibility in respect to a particular class of such appointments. If I deemed certain changes in that class necessary for public purposes, it was as clearly my duty to advise them as it was the duty of Lord Grey and Lord Grenville, in 1812, to require " that the connection of the great officers of the Court with the political Administration should be clearly established in its first arrangements." They claimed for themselves the credit, which I claim, of having acted on public grounds; and they assigned as the justification of their conduct the very same ground which is the justification of mine—namely, their firm con viction " that it was necessary to give a new Government that character of efficiency and stability', and those marks of the constitutional support of the Crown, which were required to enable it to act usefully for the public service." If the Constitution does recognise a distinction Letween public appointments on account of the sex of the parties holding them, the example of Lord Grey and Lord Gren. ville in 1812 is certainly no authority. If the constitution does not recognise such distinction, there is no difference between the principle for which I contended and that upon which Lord Grey and Lord Grenville acted. At the same time no one can feel more deeply, nor admit more fully, than I do, that the constitutional right to advise changes in the Household is a perfectly different question from the exercise of that right, and that the exercise of it, particularly in respect to those appointments in the House. hold which formed the chief subject of recent discussion, should be restrained by every possible deference to the wishes and every possible consideration for the feelings of the Sovereign. But I must contend, that if I deemed it necessary to advise any changes in those appointments, I am much less responsible for the necessity than those Ministers who bad not merely given to this department of the Household a political character, but who had established its immediate connection with the Administration, by permitting their nearest female relatives to occupy the chief appointments. With respect to the various calumnies at which you ex press your indignation, I have a perfect assurance that they will ultimately recoil upon the authors of them, and that the course I have pursued in public life for the period of thirty years will effectually protect me from the imputation of hav ing acted with " disloyal insolence" towards my Sovereign. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your most faithful and obedient servant, ROBERT PEEL. SOUTHAMPTON-WEDNESDAY (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF FORGERY.—A circumstance has occurred here which, from the respectable station in society occupied by the parties implicated, has excited in tense and universal interest. The facts of the case, as detailed at the examination of the accused individual, are shortly these :—Mr. John Spencer, a farmer, of North Stoneham, was charged by Mr. Mott, a person of inde pendent property, with having uttered a bill for 4.51., know ing it to be a forgery. The prosecutor stated that in De cember last be was solicited by the prisoner to advance the money to take up the bill in question, which had been protested. He did so, and obtained possession of it, and subsequently discovered that the name of the acceptor, John Spencer, a brother of the prisoner, was forged. In a se vere cross-examination of the prosecutor, sufficient was extracted to justify a strong supposition that he knew per. fectly well that the acceptance was forged when he took it up ; but having since quarrelled with the prisoner, he now prefers this serious charge. Yesterday the case was finally gone into, Mr. Missing appearing for the prosecu tur, and Mr. Moody for the prisoner. The former gen tleman argued, that supposing Mr. Mott was aware of the forgery (which he denied), still the offence had been com pleted when the bill was first uttered. Mr. Moody made A powerful appeal for the prisoner, and justly maintained that the proceeding originated in sheer malice on the part of the prosecutor, in consequence of his quarrel with the prisoner, but for which it would never have been heard of. The prisoner was fully committed for trial at the next Hants Midsummer Assizes. OPENING OF THE LONDON AND SOUTIIAMPTON RAIL -ITAY.—This " great event," which involves so large a degree of the interests of this town and neighbourhood, will certainly " come off" on Monday next ; and it is gratifying to find that the respectable portion of the com munity here have, led on by the well.known zeal of one of our most disinterested and sincere Reformers, Henry Cunliffe, Esq. (now mor e w id e ly k nown as t he best brewer in Hampshire), de/ermined upon giving a public dinner, on a scale of magnificence heretofore unknown in this town, to the Directors of the great undertaking to ' which the heading of this notice especially refers. As such a company will on this occasion congregate as will, no doubt, constitute a faithful exhibition of the state and prospects of this undertaking, the attention of those in terested in the question is invited to The Sun of the fol lowing day, which will contain a full Report of the pro ceedings. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) The Division of Monday night is perhaps one of the most curious in the annals of the Whig Ministry, and ought to be received by the Ministers as a hint they should p ro fit b y f or th w i t h. Th e H ouse was quite crowded when Lord John Russell made his statement on Sir H. Fleetwood's Bill, and that declaration Was so repugnant to the feelings of his Lordships's usual sup porters, and altogether so indef . ( rtsible, that all the Libe rals left the House, before the Division, except 122, and of these 83 voted for the Bill, and against Lord John Russell, and only 39, (tellers, and his Lordship, included), voted with the Tories, who were 169 in number. The majority, therefore, was composed of 169 Tories and 39 Whigs, including 11 Ministers and office-holders); whilst the minority contains the most zealous of the supporters of Ministers! Do you call this backing or supporting the Queen ? The following 39, usually voting as Liberals, voted with Lord John Russell, and the Tories against the motion, of whom 11 are placemen.t Alston, Rowland—Hertfordshire Lennox, Lord A.—Chichester t Baring, F.T.—Portsmouth Moreton, A IL—Gloucestershire ilowes, John—South Durham I Morpeth, Lord—Yorkshire Briscoe, J. I.—Wes:bury Pendarves, E. W.—W. Cornwall Busfield, W.—Bradford t Rolfe, r•ir R. M.—Penryn Cavendish, [lon. C. C.—E. Sussex Rumbold, C. E.—Yarmouth Cavendish, Hon. 3. H.—N. Derby t Russell, Lord John—Stroud Cayley, E. S-4. Yorkshire sRutherford, Rt. Hon. A.—Leith Chetwynd, Major W.--Stafford Smith Benjamin—Norwich Crawley, Samuel— Bedford Stansfi,ld,W R C. Huddersfield Erle, Win.—. , xford Stewart, John—Lymington Ferguson,Sir R. A.—Londonderry Stuart, Villiers—Waterford Co Harland, William C.—Durham Tapered, H. W.—Banbury Heathcote, Sir %V.—Hampshire frroubridge, Sir T. E —Sandwich Heathcote, G. J.—Lineonishire Vivian, John Ennis—Truro Hebhouse, Right Hon. Sir J. C. tVivian, Sir R. H.—East Cornwall Nottingham tWood, Charles—Halifax t tiowick, Vi, c.—Northumberland Worsley, Lord—Lincolnshire Labouchere, Right Hon. Henry And Two Tellers. Taunton ',Toward. P. H.—Carlisle Lemon, Sir Chas.—W. Cornwall Slaney, R. A.—Shrewsbury EVENTNG 1 D T ON. HER MAJESTY'S LEVEE. The Queen, attended by Lady Lettleton and the Mar chioness of Tavistock, Ladies in Waiting, the Earl of Fingall, Lord its Waitiatg, Hon. Major Keppel, Groom n Waiting, Colonel Wemyrss, Equerry in Waiting. Master Cowell and Master Cavendish, Pages of Honour in Wait ing, went yesterday from Buckingham Palace, with her suite, in three of the Royal carriages, escorted by a party of Life Guards, to St. James's Palace, and held a Levee. His Royal Highnotss the Duke of Sussex, and their Serene Highnesses Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg., the Hereditary Grand DuAe of Saxe Wiemar. the Prince of Leinergen, Prince Augustus and Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, attended the Levee, and were ushered to the pres.?ncc of the Queen in the Royal Closet. H er ,I , Tt.tjesty entered the Throne Room, when the fol lowing Foc,eign Presentations to the Queen took place in the Diplomat:,? Circle Count Valentine Esterha;ey and Baron Thysebaert, Cham berlains of the Emperor of Austria, by Prince Ester hazy, the Austrian t; mbas sador. The Prince Galitzin, Ge.rleral of Cavalry, and Governor- General of Moscow; bjs son, the Prince Wladimir Galitzin, Officer of the 1 - lorse Guard ; and M, de Stekel, Attache to the Russian Embassy at this Court, by Count Pozzo di Borgo, the K:issian Ambassador. Ali Effendi, Charge d'Affaires of the Sublime Porte, by Lord Viscount Palmerston, her .M . !iesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Mons. Mayroyeny, Counsellor to the Turki?li Embassy at Vienna, by Ali Effendi, Charge d'Affaires at this Court. Baron de Dieskau, Belgian Charge d'Affaires at the Court of her Most Faithful Majesty, by M. Van de Weyer. the Belgian Minister. M. Rosales, Charge d'Affaires from Chili a t P ar i s , by M. Garro, the Mxican 'Minister. After the Foreign Presentations, the Entree Company were introduced. The Bishop of Peterborough (elect) was presented to the Queen, on his appointment, by Lord Melbourne. The Right Hon. Sir Brook Taylor delivered up to her Majesty the Riband and Badge of the Order of the Bath worn by his late brother, Sir Herbert Taylor. Sir William Betham, Ulster King of Arms, was presented to the Queen by the Marquis of Normanby. Mr. Betham, Cork Herald, by the Marquis of Normanhy. The Levee was attended by the Austrian and Russian' Ambassadors, the Wurtemberg. Belgian, B a varian,. Hanoverian, Spanish, Mexican, Port ugts,se, and the Saxon Ministers ; Baron de Bourquessey, French, French Charge d'Affa:rcs; Baron R, hausen, Saedisb Charge d'Aff a i res; Baron Werther, Pru ssi an Charge d'Affaire s ; Cornmandeur M. Li s b oa, B razilian Ch ar ge d'Affair es ; B aron Bentinck, Netherlands Chase d'A f ; faires ; Ali Eff endi, Charge d'Affaires for Tur.keY. and Mr. Salam e , h er M a j esty ' s Oriental Interpreter; M. H um " melaner, fi rs t S ecretary to the Austrian Embassy; M. Kisseleff, Secretary to the Russian Embassy ; M r. Benjamin Rush, Secretary to the United States' i t, ega" ;ion ; M. de Hamel, Actual Councillor of State to his Majesty the Emperor of Russia; M. de Wagner, Cha In* berlain of his Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand DuVe of Saxe Weimar; and Count de Beust, Captain and Aide de. Camp to his Royal Highness Baron LeLzeltern, Attache to the Austrian Embassy; Chevalier J. de Sandoval, At tache to the Spanish Legation ; Count Kirsky ; the Lord Privy Seal ; the First Lord of the Treasury, the Sect etaries of State for the Home, Foreign , and Colonial Departments, the Chancellor of the Ex" chequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the President Of the India Board, the President of the Board of Trade, th e Secretary at War, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, the Earl Marshal, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain , the AI, e'er of the 1 - I , :rse, the Commander of the Forces, t he Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms. the Captain of he Yeoman Guard, Viscount Comberinsre , ' Gold Stick in Waiting, the Master of the Buck Hounds , the Master-General of the Ordnance, the Vice Chamber lain, Marquis of Huntley, Aide-de -Camp to the Queen, air Edward Di s b rowe , h er Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary an d Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of the Netherland s, the Comptroller of the - Household, Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Judge Advocate-General, Mr. Stanley, M. P., Se cretary of the Treasury, Sir Henry Parnell, Paymaster- General, Hon. Edward Butler, Lieutenant of the He ; nourable Corp s o f G ent l emen at Arms, the Master of the Ceremo n i es , Si r Willi am Woods, Garter King Arms, Col. Cavendish, Ist Life Guards, Silver Stick 'll , Waiting and Cl er k M ars h a l ; Sir Thomas Reeve, Stand ard-bearer to the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms ; Dr. Chambers, Physician in Ordinary to their Mt jesties the Qu een an d t h e Queen Dowager ; Hon. Cap e• Nav a l Aid e- d e-Camp in Waiting ; Col. WY ll ' yard, Aide-de-Camp to the Queen ; Colonel Buckley,. Equerry to the Queen; Mr. Sheriff Wood • the Dean et Hereford, Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Waiting; Major _ Hyde, Assistant -M ars h a l and Master of the C er emonies; Mr. James Bunc e C ur li ng, C lerk of the Cheque to le Kyle Hon. Corps of G ent l emen at Arms ; Rev. John Ky Wood, Chaplain t o th e Q ueen Dowager; lir: Samuel Hancock, Exon i n W a i t i ng; C apt. Pechell, R• Equerry to her Majesty th e Q ueen Dowager; s zliertnorp, Clerk of the Ch eque o f t h e Y eoman Guar d i l r. S F ir el ß d enjamin Smith; Col. Hi gg i nson, G renadier Guar d s , Officer in Brigade Waiti ng; C apt. Green, Gentleman Usher in Waiting. Among thegeneral e c r o u n]Bpaohvia company were in Great Britain, DonVicente P;an sod the I following_ DUKES—Cleveland, R ox b urg h e , S omerse t, Newcastle, Beaufort. m pK nA U Huntley, Do wns bi re , Ta v istock, London derry. ~ EARLS—Selkirk, Rosebery, Lovelace, Ilchester, Al v be t : merle, Erroll, D ur h am , E uston . B at h urst , Chichester, . fingham, Edwin, M arc h, Mil town , D en bi g h , Sh e ffi e ld Howe, Desert, Stanhope, De Grey. VISCOUNTS-Maidstone, Ipswich, Templetown, Falk land, Morpeth, Strangford. . LORDS Talbot de Malahide. Waterpark, Charles Rus sell, Tenterden, Godolphin, Marcus Hill, Segrave, Polti more, Oranmore, Sandon, Kensington, Wallace, Stanley of Alderley, Ellenhorough, Lurgan, Bexley, Willoughby de Eresby, Mary borough, Teynham, Stuart de Decies, Charles Fitzroy, James Stuart, Rayleigh, Dynevor, Aber dour, T. Clinton. BISHOP--Hereford. RIGHT HONOHRABLES—C. D'Eyncourt, George Byngv M. P., H. Labouchere, M. P., W. Sturges Bourne, Josepb Planta. Hoeouneeees—The Champion Dymoke, W. Templer Locke King, Charles Langdale, M. P., Charles Noel, Richard Cavendish, A, Barrington, D. H. Mackay, , 13 * Lawley, W. O. Stanley, W. M au l e, M r. C urzon , Berkeley, Mr. Spencer. BARONET!—Traytou Eliott Drake, John Yarde Henry Lambert, IValter Riddell, C. Lytton Bulwer, Jacob Astley, John Seale, D. J. Norreys, Thomas Pelham Hayes, Ed. Marwood Elton, Wm. Brabazon, Charl es Style, Wm. Br owne F o ik ee , W. Rowe Dunbar, John Boileau, E. Blackett, E. Colebrooke, M. Wood, George Staunton, Wm. IVlolesworth, H. Fleetwood, John M° r " daunt, E. Knatchbull. KNIGHTS.—James Duke, M. P., G. Houlton, J. Wil son, H. Richardson, James Pearl, H. Austen, F. manney, Henry Russell, R. Ferguson. DEAN.—EIy. ARCHDEACON.—lllacdonald. REV. DOCTOR.—Russell. REV. MESSIEURA.---ThOlTlas Gamier, Charles Leices ter, Thomas S e h r i e b er , W i lli am B ridgman S i mpso n, W. St. John, Thomas Randolph, E. S. Ireland. xf P. DOCTORS..-- Hendley, O'D onne ll, S ergeant , MESSIZURS.—Spence, Q. C., Edward Buller, M• P '' A. k'Noel, Ormsby Gore, Greene, M.P., Butler Dan vers, R Ormsby Gore, M.P., John Davies Gilbert, 3 1 W donald Lockhart, M. P., IVincbcombe Howard Hartley ' Walter, Gaily K n i g h t , S eymour S adler, Patrick etewarj; Henry Maxwell, J. A. Hankey, John Round, M.P . . Spring Rice, G. Byng, R. Lambton S ur t ees , EasthoP e ' M. P., Wy nn Ellis, M. P., Phillpotts, M. P., 14°1 : degate, Sharpe, Albert William Woods, 110430"' M.P., Redington, M. P., Bellew, M. P., Chester, M. P., Standish, O'Connell, M. P. , R. Hutto n, M.P., G. E vans , M.P ., H . Grattan, M.P. , w. M.P., John O'Connell, Rich, M.P. J. T. Briggs, Co'' H. Sturt, M.P., Ramsbottom, Gordon, Gillon, Shell, Morgan, M.P., Brownrigg, M.P., Stanley, R. O'Con nor, Mayan, Hodges, M.P., E. Rice, J. Dugdale, Bryon Robinson, H. Pownall, Howley, Q.C., J. R. Rod, s ' Fitzpatrick, M. P., J. T. Mayne, Dennistoun, M. P., Neville, D. Sibbald Scott, F. Buxton, Tancred, M. G. B. Roche, George William Wood, M. P., fi g ' Stewart, Clay, F. Beamish, M. P., W. W. Snell, ". Broadwood, M.P., Courtenay, M.P., Divett, R. Walker, M.P., A. Wight, Alaule, A'Becket, Slaney, M. P ,; M. Gibson, M. P., J. Hazledine, Burr, M. P., • Drane, J. Marti n , L. J ones , N orreys, B . Wrightson, De la Mar Morison, William Scholefield, H. Gordon, J. Cookson, Chalmers, M. P., James, M. P., W. Wynn, G. 0. Irwin, Gratwicke, D. Selby, Stephens, M r . Hughes, Geo. Dodd, W. Hughes Hughes, jun., J. Clark, G. H. Holland, Archibald, Graham, A. de Can dolle, Stirling, H. L Murray, J. G. Lawson, J. Dalryn!: pie Horsman, Stuart, A. I. O'B r i en Ali son Griffith, E' p ' , Armstrong, S a v or y, R o b ert A lexander, Stur t, NV. H. Barrington, Greenaway, M.P., Lloyd Flo enne . Courtenay, M.P., C arr i ngton, E . N. Buxton , R. P AL p f S. Allen, Selby, W. J. Blake, A g lionbY. o ward, PP • H W. E. M a l co l m , E. T. B a i n b r i dge, M P., iiitz-y, M .P., J. Martine au , M. H. P er l ey, C . D on ,ro Ilo:royd, G. Bankes, T. Heneage, Denman , Strutt, W. Handley, Denison, W. Ramsay, Stepney, A. Orr, C. F. Higgins, Monteith, Heathcote, Bromley, Powys, Wyndham, Harcourt, George Tudor, F. Mac gowan, A. Jones, Shirley, C. Crewe, W. Barron, M.P., J. Power, M.P., J. C. Ord, Holroyd, Vivian, Talbot, Tnompson, Jo L n . es, mrTr.hompasillwAymni,ot,MElAtrndra,an*yMnneP,"JD. Duff, D. Trent, H. F. Wood, F. Fellowes, J. Rankins, Thos. Attwood, M. P., George Constable, Thornley, 51. p., John Fish olefi Pow nali, el d,ill. PB Aiii d n e es N,fomun.p. teneyv,erJn.erF: Galb Gratwicke,raitb Alston, M. P. GRNERALS.—Sir Thomas Reynell Sharpe, Sir Charles Lomax,Egerton, H S o i rn.Jon H. L m a u mb rra c y r , t, sSiirr Jackson, Mn kso n,oßrei Briggs, 3 0rd , E 1 phinstone, Sir William Macbean, H. Fraser, Sir J. Doe ton, Sir J. F. Burgoyne, Hon. Sir H. Pakenham, Sir J. Fraser, Sir T. Downman, Sir C. Napier, Sir P. Riall, Berkeley, Shrapner, Sir D. Lloyd, Lord C. Manners, Sir F. Wetherell, Sir W. K. Grant, Sir G. Anson, Hon. Sir W. Lumley. I 1