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Just published, Embellished with Original and highly finished PORTRAITS of Earl GREY, the Marquis of LANSDOWNE and Lord PALMERSTON. Part the Eighth, in imperial taco., price 35., and in folio, with Pro,fs on India Paper, is. 6d. of THE REFORMERS' PORTRAIT GALLERY, comprising PORTRAITS and ME MOIRS of the most DISTINGUISHED LIVING POLI TICAL REFORMERS. Published by the New Proprietor, J. Don ding, 82, Newgate street, and to be had of all other Booksellers in town and ecultrv. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, JUNE 22, FUR THE BENEFIT OF MR. G. STANSBUY, Will be performed the Popular Opera of FRA DIAVOLO. Marquis San Carlos, Mr. Collins ; Lorenzo, Mr. H. Bedford ; Zerlina, Miss Romer. After which, A VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT, And other Entertainments. To conclude with STATE SECRETS. LONDON: SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1833. In the Lords the Archbishop of CANTERBURY took notice of Mr. SPRING RICE having quoted in the House of . Commons, the night before, some supposed expres sions used on a former occasion by his Grace, and complained of the inconvenience which he suffers, in common with no inconsiderable number of politicians, from having their speeches revived. It would be a charming thing for statesmen if the press had no records and the public no memory. Alter a little conversation, in which Lord LYND HURST made the somewhat naive observation, that their Lordships could not hear two counsel at the same time —one is generally more than enough to distract atten tion—their Lordships settled that Mr. 111311 . GE should he heard against the Jamaica Dill on Friday. PETER PURCELL then occupied their' Lordships, till Lord BROUGHAM put an end to the trifling by ex claiming—" Surely we have had enough of Mr. PETER PURCELL r Lord WINCHILSEA presented a petition for the re peal of the Roman Catholic Emancipation Act, and denounced that Act. In this he was supported by Lord RODEN. Both Lords BROUGHAM and WICK LOW praised the Act, and pointed out some of its ad vantages. What the over-righteous part of our Protes tant politicians would bring the country to, may be known by this specimen. They would kindle civil war in the name of religion. They would sacrifice the happiness and the lives of thousands in the name of the God of Mercy. The modern Mouse'', were his alta .5 not overthrown, would be more Woody than the MoLocx of antiquity. The Noble Lord who presented the petition, was not prepared, he said, to ground any motion on it. He fortunately has not the power. A Bill to confine the practice of the Court of Com mon Pleas to the Sergeants at-Law was introduced by the LORD CHANCELLOR. In the Commons the Redcar Harbour Bill was lost, after a division, by 118 to 32. Some time was wasted by the City of London Police Bill, which was postponed till next Wednesday. It resulted from conversation, that Sir J. 11PNEnt., the Persian Envoy, is still accredited to the Court of Persia, and receives a portion of his salary, though he is now in England ; and that Sir FREDERICK MAITLAND had not been , so grievously insulted at Bushire as has been st.ited, and received an apology from the Governor of Bushire. A series of questions followed, which are as shortly stated in the report as we could state them. Sir R. PEEL announced that his party meant fac tiously to oppose the vote for an Education Grant on Monday. The Prisons Bill was read a third time, after the bigots bad made an attempt, on account of the clause allowing Catholic priests to Catholic prisoners, to defeat the Bill, which the good sense of the House overruled by 126 to :21. Lord TEIGNmouTit made another show of fight after this division, but gave it up, and the Bill was passed. Something like a squabble then took place as to what Bill was next to be proceeded w i t h ; Mr. Fox illaut.r desiring to bring on the Metropolitan Po lice Bill, and Sergeant TALFouItD the Copyright Bill. At length the Learned Sergeant was obliged to give way, and the House went into Committee to vote the salaries of the Commissioners of Police. This stage of the proceedings puzzled some of the Members, and it was a considerable time before they could understand what the House was about. Finally the resolution fixing the salaries of the Commissioners at not more than 1,'.200/. was agreed to. The House afterwards, under a protest from Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD, who complained of being ill treated, went into a Committee of Supply, and some of the miscellaneous estimates were voted. The House sat till half-past One o'Clock. The notice which the Bank of England deemed it wise to issue, on the 20th, is considered to be a strong proof of the weakness of that esta blishment, and its incapacity to maintain the inte grity of its issues against the long continued draw of adverse foreign exchange. This notice is consi dered also to be a breach of contract, with the public, of so flagrant a kind, that it has been subjected to the condemnation of every right-minded commercial man in the City. By a former notice of the Bank of England, which would not expire until the 15th of July, money could be borrowed on several kinds of secu rities—by Stocks, India Bonds, Exchequer Bills, and Bills of Exchange, and at five per cent. in tetest, while by its present notice the Bank confines its advances to " approved Bills of Exchange only," advancing its rate of interest to five and a half per cent. This violation of contract, although no doubt it will be most commented on, will have, in reality, far l ess ser i ous e ff ects than the course the B ank it simultaneously pursuing in rejecting some paper. Not only do the Bank refuse to grant the usual accommodation on securities, hitherto favoured by its loans, %but it is understood to have reject e d the paper of firs , t-rate Joint Stock Banks, accepted by,. t some o f City, the wealth ies t banking houses in th e vA 1 he object of the Bank Di rectors in all this is obvious, and it reuires but li tie reflection t o f oresee q its immed:ate conse quencew. The Bank of England is hard presse d — i ts stock of bullion h as run low, and if the demand for go ld is not dimi n i s h ed, it will be involved in serious difficulties. A viol ent monetary panic, should one ens ue, roust shake to it s f oundation the credit and resource s of every mercha nt and trader in the country. On the part of the Bank Directors it has been asserted that prices are too high, and that orders exist for goods which might be sup plied if the contraction of the culency had effected a sufficient reduction in the prices. To effect this, and force an :export of the pro ducts of industry, is one expedient the Bank Direc tors have adopted to save the Bank of England from gnat danger or a bank restriction Act, which will produce incalculable mischief, depriving of employment millions of the operative classes, and endangering the tranquillity of the country. It will not only be ineffectual for its intended object, but will greatly aggravate the evils it is intended to remedy. The result of the debate on the Ballot is espe cially important in one point of view—it shows that the minority has made a considerable advance, and that the question, whatever difficulties it ma) yet have to contend with, has already overcome the greatest of all—the overwhelming opposition of the House of Commons. The debate itself affords another ground of con. gratulation. Instead of dealing with the principle of the Ballot, the speakers, for the most part, ap plied themselves to the consideration of how far its adoption would be consistent with the settlement of the elective franchise under the Reform Bill. It would appear, therefore, that the time is past for discussing the merits of the proposition, and that nothing remains now but to show either that it is not inconsistent with the Reform Bill, or that if it be, the necessity for embracing it is so urgent as to overrule that objection. When we find the arge ments on such a measure growing languid on both sides, and the discussion gradually dropping its elementary character, and taking a shape of mere expediency and convenience, we may fairly assume that the period of resistance is drawing swiftly to its close. The assertion that the Ballot would be a viola lation of the understanding upon which the Reform Bill was passed is intrinsically worthless, and will produce no other effect upon the country than to stimulate the people to more vigorous efforts to ob tain it. Lord GREY, or Sir JAMES GRAHAM, or Lord ALTIIORP may. have contemplated in the Reform Bill a measure that would render the Ballot unnecessary, and may have distinctly made up their minds, believing that they had secured by that Bill the free representation of the constituen cies, never to step out of its schedules in search of any farther means of improving the electoral sys tem. But the opinions of individuals, however distinguished for abilities or public services, are of no avail against stubborn exigencies and the pres sure of public feeling. The crotchet about the finality of the Reform Bill is already scat tered like dust upon the winds ; and there is not a man in England, Whig, Tory, or Radical, who is not at this moment thoroughly con vinced that we can no more stand still at the Re form Bill as it is than that we can stop the pro gress of population, or suspend the motions of the earth. Why then waste time paltering about theo ries and abstract principles in the face of accu mulating and irresistible facts that must, sooner or later, bear down all such flimsy opposition ? We are not aware of any understanding entered into at the passing of the Reform Bill which should deprive the people of the right of amending that Act; nor are we aware that any power was dele gated by the country to any individuals to form such an extraordinary compact ; nor can we admit, even if such a power were delegated, that it would be valid either in a moral or a constitutional sense. The Legislature cannot bind the hands of posterity; it can only make laws for to-day—it cannot make laws for to-morrow. The people of 1839 are in reality as much the posterity of the people of 1832 as if a century had elapsed .be tween them. The experiences and influences of the interval have all the practical effects of time on the temper and tendencies of the age ; and this important truth is rendered still more visible and impressive in seasons 'of excitement and experiment. The Reform Bill itself created the very machinery by which it was to be sustained in the event of success, or modified and improved in the event of failure. It created new constituencies, and threw open the franchise to individuals who never before enjoyed the right of voting, and who were called upon under its operation to exercise that right for the first time. Is it reasonable that these indivi duals should be bound by any imaginary agree ment between the Legislature and the old constitu encies ? Is it reasonable to confer privileges upon electors, and at the same time to prohibit the legi timate use of them ? Is it reasonable to make new constituencies, and to continue to legislate in the spirit of the constituencies they displaced ? Then it must also be recollected that numerous accessions have been made to the electoral body since the date of the Reform Bill. During the five years that have intervened from that time to the present, the re gistration lists have been constantly receiving fresh infusions of voters, and the natural and un avoidable consequence of all this is, that popular sentiment has been maturing in forms wholly dif ferent from those in which it appeared when the Reform Bill laid the foundation of this progressive change in the representative system. To remain as we arc, under such a powerful action of altered circumstances, would be even more difficult than to have prevented the pacific revolution of 1832. But it is wise, while we recognise these pressing con siderations, to treat the matter calmly and cautiously. We do not advocate any rash movement, but we desire to see vague fallacies abandoned, and specific improvements set in motion—sl.ch improvements as are consonant with the genius of our represent a ti ve Constitution, and as are likely to remove the obvious causes of just and universal complaint. We regard the Ballot as a complete remedy to many exist ing g rievances amongst the constituen c i es , an d which will render other changes unnecessary. And we urge it chiefly, because it is imperatively de manded, as a means of giving full effect to the pro visions of th e R e f orm Bill—an argument which we cannot help thinking sufficiently cogent to disarm the opposition of those who maintain that the Re form Bill is adequate to the ends it proposes, and w o refuse to accede to more extensive Reforms until that measure shall have been fully developed in practice. We also believe that the Reform Bill, if it were relieved from the impediments that clog its machi nery, would be found an efficient instrument for securing an honest representation of the people. But it cannot be fairly tried, until the elec tors, who derive their franchise under it, are enabled to vote conscientiously without prejudice to their Interests. It is not enough that the regis tration should be simplified, the rate-paying clauses repealed or modified, and other matters of detail accommodated to the convenience of the voters. When all this work of relief shall have been done, there will still remain behind the most formidable ohstacles of all—bribery, intimidation, and coercion. How is this flagitious evil, eating like a cancer into the heart of the system, to be sot rid of, except by the Ballot ? H ow can we get at t h e f ree operat i on of the Reform Bill until we have ensured to the electors the independent exercise of their votes ? If all the minor difficulties of the present system were removed to-morrow, we should still be exposed to that monster of arbitrary power, which forces the elector into the commission of a fraud upon hims e lf and his country, and stultifies in practice the whole theory of the elective principle. We may clear his path to the booth, but unless we protect him when he arrives there, the Reform Bill will be just as much a dead letter as before. We know not how those who advocate the logical propriety of trying the Reform Bill fairly, can escape from admitting the Ballot. It is essential to their own argument ; and they cannot dispense with it, unless they are prepared to relinquish the Reform Bill altogether. There lives, according to a Brighton paper, a man at Lewes, who takes great pains with his garden, and he has a neighbour who is very fond of cats. He of the garden some time ago shot his neigh bour's cat, for which he was carried before the Lewes Bench on Tuesday, when it was established that he had both killed and buried his neighbour's favourite. For his defence, it was said that a man had a right to protect his property, and it was very vexatiou s to have the labour of perhaps a week destroyed by a cat in one night. But he was told by Mr. ELLMAN, a Magistrate, and great advocate for starving men, women, and children by a Corn-law, that he had no right to constitute himself cat-killer to the parish. His opinion l‘va3 that a cat did infinitely more good by killing vermin than it did harm by scratching a garden. " Wlnit do, you mean," our perhaps impatient reader will ask, "by this cat story ?" Impatient reader, we . answer, it is an illustration of conduct you and we are daily called upon to comiler, and we are even stunned by continually hear ing of it. Our Bishops, and those who fol low after them, are great fanciers of epis copal gardens, and they worry, if they can not kill, all Catholic 3, Infidels, Socinians, and Dissenters, as he of the cabbage-garden killed the cat. There is no Mr. ELLNIAN to tell them they have no business to constitute themselves cat-kil lers to the parish ; but the STANLEYS, ASHLEYS, COLQUHOUNS, etc., who meet at Westminster, encourage the Episcopalians to constitute them selves the judges of the faith of other men, and halloo them on in their worrying and tormenting career. Instead of fining them, as Mr. ELLMAN did the Lewes cat-killer, the Legislature gives splendid revenues and great honours to the Episco palian worriers of men who differ from them about subjects perhaps not quite as important as whether cats do more harm by scratching in gardens than good by killing vermin—it places them in col leges, it places all the youth of the empire under their controul, and by so honouring, much encourages that persecution which Mr. ELLMAN heavily amerced when it was applied to cats. But the similitude in one point tells unjustly in favour of the Episcopalians. In the Lewes case it is not said that the man of the garden had walled in and appropriated to himself what belonged to the com munity ; he is not accused of usurping the common good, aird ,killing the animals who, in trespassing on it, do but follow their natural instincts. But the Bishops and their followers have walled in the common good, they have appropriated the Gospel exclusively to themselves, they declare that they alone are the successors of the Apostles, the true and only heirs of salvation ; and though they cannot, as we have said, kill, they deny civil rights, deny education, deny an equal • share of all the funds destined for the general religious instruction of the people, to all who are not able to bolt, from the beginning to the end—from the great capital letter at the commencement to the smallest comma, the whole Thirty-nine Articles. In a usurped domain they constitute themselves general cat killers, and the Legislature, which should protect the rights of all, aids and abets both their usurpa tion and their persecution. We were rather surprised to learn from Mr. O'CoNNELL's speech the night before last, that the joint education of different sects in Prussia has turned out a failure. We have no distrust of the Honourable and Learned Member's assertion, but, as he has not, we believe, been in Prussia, and it so completely contradicts our own experience, that we should like very much to know on what au thority Mr. O'CONNELL makes the statement— to w hat part of the Prussian dominions it applies, and the date at which he finds the proof of the failure. It is, indeed, a matter of public no toriety that the Catholic Priests of Prussia have entered into a contest with the Sovereign. Mr. O'CoNNELL himself, and the Dublin Review, have carefully and repeatedly informed the public that the King of PRUSSIA has framed a body of laws, and artfully contrived his regulations, and bestowed his rewards, in order to seduce his Catholic subjects from the faith of their fathers. The whole dis pute betwixt him and the Archbishop of COLOGNE, on mixed marriages, arose from the mutual efforts of these contending powers, the one to make prose lytes, and the other to keep his flock within his own Church. Now, we can readily . conceive that the Catholic Priests of the newly-acquired domi nions of Prussia on the Rhine should have laboured effectually and successfully to render vain the attempt of the Monarch to seduce their flocks, and dreading the effects of education, should have com bined to defeat the plan of education. Mr. O'Cosr- NELL'S account of its failure was probably only the expression of their exultation at their presumed success. What may have happened on the Rhine, under the very peculiar circumstances of the case, is no index to what has occurred in other parts of Prussia, where, if the failure have taken place, it is a failure after the experiment has succeeded for about a century. We beg the Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin, therefore, will be specific on this important point, and inform the public where and when the failure of the joint system of educa tion has been proved, in what part of Prussia it has failed, and what are the circumstances which have brought it about. Mr. O ' CONNELL may be in clined to conceal the ambition of the Catholic priesthood from the public notice, but we are not, any more than we are anxious to promote the success of the Anglican priesthood ; and if the wise and kindly efforts of the statesmen of Prussia to stifle the seeds of bigotry in the hearts of youth have failed, we should like that the public were in formed at whose door lies the guilt. We perceive, by the Vote paper, that Mr. EWART will, when the House goes into Commit tee on the Sugar Duties Bill, move, as an amend ment, that sugars raised by free labour shall he admitted to home consumption. We heartily con gratulate the public upon the circumstance of this subject being likely to undergo discussion in the House, because it will be shown that for years past the West Indians have, with trifling exceptions, been enabled, by the aid of their monopoly in sugar, to wring from the industry of the people of this country very large sums of money in the shape of excessive price. Our City article, headed "the price of Sugar," has shown, for months past, that this excess has amounted to seventeen pounds per ton, which, on the aggregate importation of sugar since 1836—the period at which the negroes were manumitted—would give an amount equivalent to the compensation paid for the blacks' freedom, and is in effect the same thing to the nation as though that compensation had been forty in lieu of twenty millions. 'We therefore trust that the friends of the people in the House will sup port Mr. EWART'S views, and thereby rid us of an indirect taxation as enormous as it is unjust. The West Indians have had enough of our money in all conscience. We continue without any news of great political interest from the Continent. The French jonrnals of Thursday are altogether as sterile as those of the last three weeks ; and though the Spanish papers enumerate sundry petty Carlist and Christino conflicts somewhat akin to the Irish row, which ended in the total demolition of an old woman's tobaceo-pipe, and the German Journals aristocra ticise their columns with the speech of the Em peror of Austria, at the opening of the Hunga rian Diet ; they contain, nevertheless, very little worthy the attention of an English reader. The Nouveliste has the following paragraph respecting the naval preparations now making by France in anticipation of a rupture in Syria : " The reports received at the Ministry of Marine from the Rear-Admirals commanding the harbours of Brest, Cherbourg, and Toulon, state that all the vessels which the Minister had ordered to be prepared for sea would be ready to join the Levant squadron towards the close of July. Levies of seamen were in progress throughout all the maritime districts of France. It is believed that our naval forces in the East will be divided into two fleets, one of which will remain at the mouth of the Dardanelles, and that the other will cruise on the coast of Egypt. They will remain on those stations so long as war shall not have been declared, but will unite with the British squadron the moment that events shall become at all menacing.': The Chambers met on Thursday, but their pro ceedings are of no i n t ere st. Advices from the Spanis frontier confirm the account published in The Sun of this morning, of the occupation of Amurrio and Balmaseda by ESPARTERO. Letters from Madrid of the 13th instant assert that the Carlist Generals CABRERA and ESPANA have ad dressed a memorial to DoN CARLOS, in which they denounce MAROTO as a traitor, and declare that they hold themselves at liberty to disobey the orders of the PRETENDER while he remains a prisoner in the hands of that chief. This memorial is represented as having divided all the Carlist functionaries, some into declared partizans of MAROTo, and others into as violent supporters of the pretensions of CABRERA. If the Christinos had the patriotism and the ability to take advantage of these divi sions among their enemies, they would easily send Don CARLOS to share the fortunes of his worthy compeer, Don MIGUEL. h c trial of the prisoners of the 13th and 14th of May, before the Court of Peers, is fixed for Monday next. The accused have been removed to the prison of the Luxemburg, which is strongly Luarded by troops of the line : The Madrid Gazette of the 13th 'inst., publiFhes a Ro) al Ordonnance, stating that the Queen Regent had reeepted Don Casimiro Vigodet's resignation of the Ministry of Marine, an d a ppointed Don Primo de la Rivera to that post, . , . Cardinal the Ouke d'lsowd, Archbishop of Auch, has been I"°':.ed to the see of Lycns; and M. de Pins, late Archhi .:nop Coadjutor of Lyons, will have the see of , A. ...cn. Cardinal d'lsoard is a native of Aix, and his family ! has always been intimate with that of.the Bcnapartes. M. de Nourquer du Camper has been appoiutcd Go- vernor of the French settlements in the East Indies, and his former post of Governor of French Guiana has been assigned to Captain Gourbeyre, of the navy. The Queen of the Belgians is expected at Neuilly at the end of this month. _ . _ The latest news from the East is from the Carlsruhe Gazette, which, under date of Constantinople. May 29, sta • the t di-p; t hes from Hafiz Pacha, dated Mty 15, an nounce that the Turks had entered Syria without meet ing any resistance, and that no act of hostility had oc curred between the two armies. A body of Turkish troops, commanded by Aliz Paella, had marched upon Adana. The Turkish fleet was about to sail for the coast of Syria. Great hopes were entertained in Constanti nople that an insurrection against the Egyptians would be declared in Syria. HUNGARIAN DIET.—The Frankfort Post Ampt Ga zette of the 17th instant publishes the following translation of the Emperor of Austria's speech on opening the Diet of Hungary on the 6th instant at Presburg : In order to confirm by all our Government acts what we have announced several times in solemn terms, that we desired nothing more earnestly than obedience to the laws and the maintenance of the institutions sanctioned by ages, we have convoked the faithful States of the kingdom, and in finding ourselves amongst them, and ac we propose ' principally to equal our ancestors in their line of confi dence in a generous nation, we do not doubt but that the faithful States will devote their care and attention to prove that they are worthy descendants of their forefathers, who have earned for themselves and to Hungary the imperishable renown of a noble•minded people. Amongst the measures which are submitted to the examina tion of the States there is one which, from its very na ture, will meet with support in the noble character of the na tion, because it has reference to maintain in the Hungarian regiments an organization in correspondence with their bra very and heroism ; we have, therefore, resolved to treat with our faithful States respecting this affair, and in full confidence of their devotion, we are convinced that they will consider with the same soliditude as we do what we look upon as the principal object of our Royal func tions. Our Royal propositions include what we have de cided upon in the interest of public welfare, and we have drawn them up in such terms that the observations which the States may present to us on the subject will be favo tr ebly received. In communicating ' these propositions we declare the session open." The disturbances which took place at St. Amans were not on the estates of Marshal Soult, as the journa►s have reported. They arose in consequence of a sale of timber ordered by the Commune, and it is impossible to assign any reason for them but the wilfulness and false notions of a small part of the country people, relative to tights which they fancy they have to the forests of the State. —Le Mo niteur. We find the following paragraph in the Journal of the Eastern Pyrennees ( Perpignan) of the 15th The Spanish steam-boat Delfin arrived yeiterday evening at Port Vendres, where it landed the Baron de Meer, Cap tain-General of Catalonia; General Breton, second in command in the principality ; a Lieutenant-Colonel, and an Honorary Secretary of her Majesty the Queen of Spain. Other passengers said that Baron de Meer had left Bar celona at the moment when the Isabella frigate was in sight of the port with his successor General Valdez." Major- General Psstin, Governor of the citadel of Bar celona, arrived at Perpignan on the 17th. —Commerce. BOURSE.—Pwais, THURSDAY, JUNE 20. HALF- PAST THREE.-0 4 the whole this has been a dull day for business. For the Account the Three per Cents. opened at 79f. 65e., and declined to 79f. 50c., at which they closed, 10c. lower than yesterday. The Five per Cents. opened at 111 f. 50c., and after having been at 111 f. 55c., closed at 111 f. 45e. a fall of sc. For Money the Three per Cents. are unvaried, and the Five per Cents arc 15c. higher. The Bank of Fiance Shares are 10f. higher, Es are also the Laffittc Bank 5.000 f. shar F. The Belgian Five per Cents, have not varied. The Spanish Active has had but the price of 191. The Versailles Right Bank Railway Shares have declined Iof. The Ver sailles Left Bank have improved sf. The St. Germain, not quoted for money, are 6651. for the Account. I Ina Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price Price French sper Cents 3 per Cents 79 53 ... 79 60 ... 79 45 ... 79 50 Bank of trance Lattitte Bank 'moor. 1072 50 ...1072 50 ...1072 50 —1072 50 Sh 5 35 ...5240 ...5 - 240 Belgian sper Cents 10254 1W54 ... 10254 ...:0254 Bank 7O 5 1 89e ... 797 5 ... 800 Spanish Ac lye 1 9% 1 93 4 ... 194 Passive 4%... 4% ... Portuguese 3 per Cents Nea. olitan 99 ?0 1,9 . 0 ... 99 30 ... 91 30 Roman B.AILWAIrSHARE6. Versailles, R. B 2.85 (i 8 68 CSO L.B. l5O ... 160 ... 159 ... 152 50 Havre 950 ... 950 950 ... 950 Orleans . Strasburg to Bale 3,7 50 ... 310 ... 3(7 5, ... 31U ASPHA LTES AND BITU►IENS. Seyssel (A) BELGIAN 1. U NDS—BauesELs, JUNE 18 Actual Debt, 2% per Sent. ' Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent l l'l% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 0 2 14 3 per CenL ..... ... 71% Loan of Cite, 1832, 4 per Cent O3 Society of Commerce, 4. 5 per Cent llB Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ............ National Society . —Brussels Papers, June 18. HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, JUNE 14. Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank shares 1501) 1438 fin 10-Russian Loan lll9 107% Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Seri. Russian 5 per Cent. Hop, and Lo. 3d and 4th Se i. s CS% 95 1 4 Ditto in Certificates Dutch -,ctual Lied, 244 pe cent 5l 53, Ditto a per Ceti` 1 1 Polish Bond, New ticket Anglo- . 'anish Loan, :3 per Cent 72% 72 Norwegian Loan, It-31, 4 per Cent lOl% It 1 !,‘ AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vis:›ms, JrNE 111 Five per Cents. Mctalliques ............... ............... ICS' Emir per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shams 1521% —AllgemeineZcitung. June 15. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, JUNE IS Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Anion sradie, 44 per cent..... Ditto, ditto, 32 per cent. 8 0 34 El Commercial Company, 44 per cent IFO 1101% Ditto (H 32 and 1833) 5 per cent. Ditto 1 , 437. 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 ter cent. 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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. The Public is respectfully informed, that the PRESENT MANAGENIENT WILL TERMINATE • WITH THIS SEASON. THIS EVENING, Jut :z 22, Will be performed the Historical Play of KING HENI..Y V., From the Text of Shakspeare. King Henry the Fifth, Mr. Macready. After which, HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Under her MAJESTY'S IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE. ERUPTION OF MC6ili'l-11E6LA! ---- -- The First and Second Representations of the Eruption of Hecla will take place on MONDAY and WEDNESDAY NEXT, Commencing at Dusk. GRAND " PROMENADES 111US1CALES ET CHAM- PETRES ! ! ! On TUESDAY and THURSDAY NEXT, Commencing at Six o'clock, and terminating at Nine. Admission One Shilling. f r : zun fllx. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY> JUNE 22, 1839. LLOYDS' sHIPPING—(THIS DAY. DEAL, JUNE 21.—Wind, W. S. W. moderate.—Arrived from the river, and sailed, the St. James, Sebor, for New York ; Glencoe, Brown, Quebec; City of Hamburg, (steamer), for Lisbon. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 21.—Wind, W. to S. W.—Ar rived) the Boadicea, (packet, Stevens, Bermuda, sailed the 24th ult.; the Furtuna, Shipliere, for Dantzic. PLI MOUTH, JUNE 20.—Wind South. FALMOUTH: JUNE 20.—Strong variable breezes. LIVEEPOOL; JUNE 21.—Wind W. moderate.—Arrived the Alpha, Turner, from Monte Video; Rapid, White, Ma ranharn, sailed, the 9th ult. ; Medina, Leslie, for Ma ccio ; Rapid, Bolton, Demerara, sailed, the 11th ult. ; the Charlotte, Vaughan, Savannah; Gossypium, Brown, do. ; Lady Rowley, Knight, Nattes. Sailed the Patriot Queen, Hoodlcss, Calcutta ; Adironstack, Hackstaff, New York ; Rowland, MacLellan, Philadelphia ; Republic, Coffin, Boston; Margaret Bogle, Smith, Quebec; Post Boy, Lovening, Genoa; Cardele, Cardcllo, for Messina; Hat per, Charmar, Oporto. Off-port, the flavannah (packet) for Africa ; Pactoluq, Mobile; Britannia, Savannah ; Quebec, St. John's, New Brunswick. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COVENT-GARDEN MARKET. Supplies plentiful, trade lively, and prices a trifle lower. New Potatoes, 6d. to 9 d. per lb. ; French Beans, 2s. to 23. 6d. per 100; Peas, 10s. per sack ; Currants, 2s. to 3s. per sieve ; Gooseberries, 2s. to 35. 61. per sieve; Cu cumbers, 21. to Is. per brace; Strawberries, 6d. to Is. per pottle; Apples, 4F. to 20s. per bushel; Cherries, 33. to 4s. per lb. ; Carrots, 63. to 83. per dozen bunches; Onions, Is. to Is. 9d. per sieve ; Celery, Is. to 2s. 6d. per bundle; Asparagus, 3s. to 4s. per bundle: Turnips, 4d. to 61 per bunch ; Spit.ach, Is. per sieve. HUNGERFORD MARKET. Supplies good, and business brisk. Turbot, 4s 6d to 15s; S.,les, 10d to 3a 6d per pair; Lobsters, 10d to 3s 6d ; Good Salmon, is 6d to 2s per Ib; Bear. lid to 81d ; Mutton, 7:ld to 8 1 1 1 d ; Veal, Rd to 9d ; Pork 7A-d to B}d. CITY FISII MARKET. Supplies good, and so was the demand—prices steady, Turbot, 4x 6d to 153. Salmon, Is 6d to 2s per lb. Soles 8d to 3s 61 per pair. Mackarel, 5d and 101. Whiting, 4d to Bd, and Haddocks, 8d to is 2d. HAY MARKETS. . ----- Supplies tolerably good, and the demand equal to it; prices a little lower. Hay, 703 to 883 and 959; Clover, 80.3 to 1003 and 110 s ; Straw, 363 to 40= per load. NENVGATE AND LEADENHALL. Supply good ; demand moderate; and prices rather lower. Beef, 33 61 to 3s 101 ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 2 d ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4 3 8d ; L am b , 4s 4d to Ss 6d ; Pork, 35 8d to 43 8d ; Irish, 3s 2d to 39 81. Geese, 4s Gd to 69; Chickens, is 6d to 2s 6d ; Rabbits, Is to Is 6d ; Leverets, 33 to 6; ; Fowls, 4s to ss; Ducks, 2s 6d to 3s 6(1; Pi geons, Gd to 10d; and Quails, is to is Gd; Eggs, 4s 9d to 5s 9d per 120. DREADFUL ACCIDENT FROM THE KICK OF A HORSE —On Friday as a groom in the employ of Messrs. Gye and Hughes, 111, Fleet-street, was in t he act of placing the crupper u n d er t h e t a il o f a spirited h orse, the animal suddenly became restive and " threw out" with great violence, catching th e unfortunate man on t he jaw bone. The sufferer was immediately conveyed in a coach to Bartholomew's Hospital, where on examination it was found that the jaw was fractured in two places. He lies in a most dangerous state. Si NGUL A R ACCIDENT. —Friday afternoon, about three o'clock, one of Bugbic's rubbish carts was standing on the quay at Hungerford Market with a load to be sent off by the barge, and the driver haying acciden tally backed the horse to far to the edge, horse, cart, and burden went over into the barge. Fortunately no one was hurt, and the horse was gut out, having suffored little injury by his shipment. The " Waterloo" men, residing in this city, ( Norwich) were enabled, by kind friends as usual, to cele brate, in their humble way, the splendid issue of that im mortal field of triumph, by dining together last Tuesday ; on which occasion the "b a ttle of bailee" was conviviall y " fought o'er again ;" whilst Wellington, an d their surviy. ing comrades were in cheering toasts " freshl y remem. bered."—Norfolk Chronicle. FATAL ACCI DENT ON THE EASTERN COUN TIES RAILWAY.—T wo L IVES L O ST. —Friday afternoon the boiler of an engine running on the Eastern Counties Railway burst, when near Stratford, whereby the engine man and stoker were killed. None of the p assen g ers w e r e injured. The b. - idies await a Coroner's inquest, when, no doubt, the cause of the calamity will be fully inveAigated. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) Henry Allen was indicted for having committed a rape on Ann R.,)wen, on the evening of the 29th May last. . It appeared that the prosecutrix luec: a Felt): m o ad on her way home, on the evening in question, from Twicken ham, the prisoner came out of a beer-shop, where he had been drinking, and folloned her, attempting to enter into conversation with her. She endeavoured to avoid him, but he persisted in following her, and committed the offence complained off. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. Chief Justice TINDAL, in ordering sentence of Doath to be recorded against the prisoner said, he hardly knew whe ther he was not erring on the side of leniency, in not sentencing the prisoner to suffer the cat? eme. penalty of the law, but that although his life would be spared, he would be scat out of the country for the remainder of his days. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITE TIVEL VE O'CLOCK LIVERFOOL COTToN MARKET, FRIDAY.-The trade having again curtailed their wants, the demand has pro porti.enally fallen, and the Market resumed a flat appear ance, with unsteady and yielding prices. , Sales are now being made at a decline of per cent upon our quotations of Friday laF,t, but particularly for American. There is very little doing to- day, under 2,000 bales. Arrivals this morning—French mail, and ship letters from St. Vincent, Bermuda, St. Jago, Demerara, Tobago, Maranham, and Savannah. The official returns of the exporta.ion of bullion, between the 13th and 19th June, both inclusive, are as follows: Gold bars, 3,430 ounces ; coin, 2,075 ounces ; silver in coin, 1,360 ounces. THE FUNDS. We are exceedingly short of airivals this morning, con sequently we have no continental or any other intelligence to communicate. By private letters received yesterday from Hamburgh, it is stated that discounts have got up there from 3 to 41 per cent; first-rate parr discounted at 4 per cent., middling at the rate of 41 per cent. ; this of course took place pre vious to its being known that the rate of interest bad ad vanced in this country from 5 to 51 per cent. We have no doubt that the moment the above is asser tained at Hamburg, a further rise of discounts will take place there. Gold was lower at Ilamburgh, but higher at Amsterdam, when! money was plentiful. In the course of yesterday both the British and Foreign Markets were affTted by the notices issued at the Bank, and Consols receded to 931 for the opening ; closing at 93+ ; opened this morning, at 93 ; Reduced 91i- Exchequer Bills 10 12 ; India Bonds, nothing doing ; Bank Stock, 189 190; India Stock, 254 256. The Foreign Market continues in the same state as yes terday, and the various prices may be quoted as nominal; st present Spanish Active, 181- 19 ; Porttwuese, 331 341; Three per Cents., 201 ; Braziian, 78 79 ; Co lotobian, 31+1; Mexican, 25 26 ; Buenos Ayres, 18 20; Russian, 114. 113 ; Spanish Deferred, 8+; Passive, 4 ; 1 4 - Dutch Two and a- Half per Cents., 554 1; Five per Cents., 102-,1 We are very dull in the City, both in respect to com mercial afftirs and speculating in the Funds. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY ATW;E O'CLOCK. Bank Stock )9O F 9 3 per Cent. Red: 91%% 3 per Cent. Cons. 3 per Cent —l Ditto Red. 9'N% India Stock Ditto Ponds :2O pm, South Sea Stock Old Annuities New I)itto New 3% per Cent fi9;; New 5 per Cent. Bank Long A nnuifiei toexpire Jan. 5, 1860 14% 1-16 Oct. 10, 1859 14 1-16 14 Jan. 5, 1801 Jan. 5, 1880 April 5, 1880 Jan . 5. 1870 3 per Cent. Annuities, 17:)I Exch. 1 ill 5, .£l,OOO H: 8 pm. Ditto 500 —lO pm. Ditto Small l5 10 pm. Ditto Commercial — pm. I /itto Advertised Bank Stock l'or Account India Stock for Account ... Consos for Account 03.4 3 PRICES OF FOREIGN FU NDS THIS DAY AT ON[. O'CLOCK Austrian Bonds Peruvian Bonds Belgian Boosts Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chilian Bonds Ditto Account 341 3fl 431 Ditto, :3 per Cent. Ditto Account Prussian Bonds - D tto Account Columbian Bonds 3 0 14 21/5i . Ditto Account — Ditto Account - ; Ditto Metallic Columbian Bonds, 1614 Ditto Account ' l ll l Ditto Account. 13,0i% Danish Bonds Ditto Account — Def , rrcd Greek Bonds — French, 5 pet cent. f. —c. Date Bonds, 1615 — 4 per cent. Ditto Account — 3 pee cent. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. ~ . . _Exchange. . . .......... ... .., Ditto Account ......... — • Dutch, 2!.i 2 per cmt. 55 , A% 5 ! i c, Ditto, 6 per Cent Ditto Account ...b.5 I, 5 Ditto Account Neapolitan — Ditto Account — t' IMES (IF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per !Share. Bo'anos Mining Company 150 _. . Ditto Scrip 25 L 0 Brighton Railway ... .... 1 o.mon and Birmingham Rath:ay Company 9O 159 60 North Midland Railway Company 65 6 , y, British North American Bank Lon.zon and Westminster Yank 2O 2314 _HALF PAST ONE. To the present hour very little has been doing in ether of the markets, the speculators being agitated, fearing that another notice will be issued by the Bank Directors, with a further rise on discounts Money continues very scarce, and high rats would be given if it could be obtained,'parti cularly those persons who have carried over their accounts in the Foreign and British Mallets. The former is approach• log, and great fear is entertained that much difficulty will attend its adjustment. There has been an increased heaviness in the commer cial markets ; and, with the exception of Sugar, no alte ration in the prices have taken place. . • _ Consols may to quoted at present 93 to 93, 1 1 , for the openin2 - ; in the morning they were MI ; Exchequer &11s lotrer, 12 8 ; India Binds 20 prem. ; B ink Stock lower, 190 189. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 1% 71 ; Portuguese lower, 33'1 ; Colombian lower, 31 ; Mexican 251 ; Spani.sll Passive 4 ; Defcrred S ; Dutch Two-and-a. Half per Cents. 55 ; Eve per Cents. 102. No further arrivals, or news of any deeription. The excitement which now prevails in the City as to the conduct of the Bank of England, has had "a powerful effect in drawing attention to the new scheme of Joint-stock Banking in 1.0001. shares, by the proposed Commercial Bank of London. All acknowledge the necessity of a great change, but many doubt the Joint stock Banking system without a paid-up capital in large sums from tach shareholder. If this proposed new bank be joined by all the malcontents which the extraordinary departure from constant usage and good faith by the Bank has occasioned, it will be the greatest banking establish ment ever known. There are not two opinions on the subject—Morning Advertiser. The weather during the last few days has been excessively hot and sultry, the thermometer in the shade varying from 72 to 75. On Tuesday evening there was heard a few claps of thunder, apparently in the north, which were followed by a smart shower. Everywhere the country has a most promising appearance. —Glasgow Argus. SALE OF THE OLYMPIC THEATRE.—On Thursday the lease of the Olympic Theatre was brought to the hammer at the Auction Mart. The biddings com menced at 2,000 guineas, and the property was u!timately disposed of to a gentleman, whose name did not transpire, for 5,850 guineas. TROUBLES IN SWITZERLAND.—We learn from the Swiss papers that hostilities in the canton of the Valais are considered as imminent. Upper Valais, whose troops were commanded by General Rothen, formerly one of Mina's aides-dc-camp, was about to attack tie troops of Lower Valais, should the Directory at Zurich refuse the demands of the inhabitants of Val d'llliers. The Lower Valais had the advantage of having the arsenal of the canton, but Upper Valais is said by the Constitutional Neuchalelois to be well supplied with arms and ammuni tion. The cantons of Schwytz and Neuchatel have pro tested against the establishment in the Valais of any Con stitution inconsistent with the existing laws, and the can tonal clergy have universally rejected the new Constitution proposed by the Lower Valais. Religious differences have been the origin of the troubles in Switzerland. The Federal of Geneva announces the departure of M. Morier, the English Minister in Switzerland, from Berne for London, but he does not intend to resign his post, as had been stated by the Swiss papers. - - The Dublin Evening Post of last Tuesday, has the folloning paragraph ;—" There is not now any longer a doubt, even amongst Tories (such of them as are still in the possession of their senses), of the stability of her Ma jesty's Ministers. They (the Tories) have written to this effect to their sorrowing friends on this side the Channel. We have seen one letter from "a high man," which is written under the influence of the blue devils. On the other hand, the Liberal party were never more united ; and it is perfectly well understood that the Radicals have given in their adhesion. The Ballot is an open question, and will, no dolibt, be supported by a great portion of the House of Commons. We do not know whether the ten pound suffrage will be tried this Session, but some effort will be made to place the registries on a better footing. The Jamaica 8.11 will be passed, we think ; but we doubt whether anything reasonable or practicab!e can be done for Canada —finally, there will be a grant for railroads in Ireland." GIN-DRINKING IN LONDON.—In the course of an inquest held lately, Mr. Wakley said he had reason to believe that from 10,000 to 15,000 persons die in the metropolis annually from the effects of gin-drinking, on whom no inquests are held. " Since I have been Co roner," said the Honourable Gentleman, " I have seen so many murders, and suicides by poison, drowning, banning, and cutting the throat, in consequence of drinking ardent spirits, that I am confident the Legislature will, before long, be obliged to interfere with respect to the sale of liquors containing alcohol. The gin -seller will be made as responsible as the chemist ; and I think it is right that publicans should know that even now they are, to a certain extent, responsible in the eye of the law. If a publican allows a man to stand at his bar, and serves him with several glasses of gin, and sees him drink it until ha becomes in toxicated, and if the man should afterwards die, and a surgeon depose that his death was accelerated by the gin so drunk, then is the publican liable to be punished for having aided in bringing about that death." MEETING OF THE QUEEN'S COUNTY.— The meeting of the Queen's County to address her Ma jesty, took place at Maryborough, in the Court-house, snd was attended by a great number of landed proprie tors and the great bulk of the freeholders of the county. Shortly after two o'clock, Wm. Delany, N., of Dar row, J. P., was called to the Chair, and Edmund Scully Delany, Esq., was requested to act as Secretary. The following gentlemen took part also in the proceedings : Shelly, Price, Cassidy, Dunar, Lalor, Lyons, Egan, Treacy, and Conroy, Esqs. The Tories offered no op. position. Much difficulty exists in procuring the requisite number of Knights and Esquires for the approaching tournament at Eglintoun Castle. Those already enlisted meet at St. John's Wood barracks every Tuesday for practice. It is expected that this fete will cost Lord Eg lintoun nearly 20,0001. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held a Court yesterday afternoon at Buck ingham Palace. The Bishop of Peterborough was presented to her Majesty in the Royal Closet, and did homage on his ap pointment. Lord John Russell, Secretary of State for the Home Department, and the Dean of Hereford, De puty Clerk of the Closet in Waiting, assisted at the ceremony- Count Pozzo di Borgo, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from the Emperor of all the Russias, had on audience of her Majesty to take leave. His Excellency was introduced by Viscount Palmerston, G. C. 8., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conduct :d by Sir R9bcrt Chester, Master of the Ce rcmonies. The Court was attended by the Marchioness of Nor manby, Lady in Waiting, the Lord Chamberlain, Lord Byron, Lard in Waiting, Mr. Rich, Groom in Waiting, Col. Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Prrncess of Hohenlohe, and attended by Lady Clinton, visited her Majesty yesterday. The Queen Dowager was received by the Honourable Nl:ss Cavendish, Lord Byron, Mr. Rich, and Colonel Wemyss. Her Majesty and the Princesses afterwards visited the Duchess of Kent in the Palace. The Queen rode out on horsebaek yesterday afternoon, attended by the Honourable Miss Cocks, the Honourable Miss Cavendish, the Baroness Lehzen, Miss Quentin, Earl of Uxbridge, Colonel \Vern) ss, Lord Byron, Hon. C. A. Murray, Mr. Rich, and Sir Frederick Stovin. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty yesterday. The Royal dinner party at the Palace last evening, in eluded the Earl and Countess Cowper, the Earl of Surrey, Viscount Melbourne, Lord and Lady Ashley, Lord Leveson, Honourable Colonel Cavendish, and the Honourable William Cowper. _ _ . At the Queen's Drawing Room on Thursday, Lady Scale rcas presented to her Majesty, on coming to the tide by Lady Theresa Lister. And L.idy Jcphson Nor rqs was presented to the Queen by the Marchioness of Normanby. Her Majesty and the Princess of Lciningen,the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Duchess and the Princess Augueta of Cambridge, remained at the grand bill given by the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster until past three o'clock 3 esterday morning. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Princesses of llohenlohe, and attended by Ludy Clinton, Hon. Miss Hope Juhmtone, and Hon. Miss Boyle, went on Thursday to Bushy Park. Her Majesty and the Princesses returned to Marlborough Home in the evening. The Princess Augusta, attended by i\liss Wynyard, went to Kew on Thursday, where her Royal Highness spent the day, returning to town in the evening. 'Her M.j-sty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Princesses of Hohenlohe, visited, yesterday afternoon, the Princess Augusta, at Clarence House, the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, and, the Duchess of Cambridge, at Cambridge House. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knesebeck, left town on Thursday afternoon for Maidstone. The Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar visited the Duchess of Cambridge at Cambridge House yes. terday. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the residence of Viscount Melbourne, in Downing-street. It was attended by Viscount Melbourne, the Lord Chancellor, Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Duncan non, Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Marquis of Normanby, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Tinto, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Holland, Mr. Poulett Thomson, Viscount Howick, and Lord Morpeth. The Council sat two hours. A Deputation, consisting of Sir William S3merville, Bart.. M. P., Mr. Hutton, M P., Mr. Chester, M. P., Mr. Redington, M. P., Mr. W. O'Brien, M. P. (Lime _ rack County), Mr. Wyse, M. P., Mr. Moffatt, Mr. El more, Mr. F. B. Smith, Mr. Bellew, M.P., and Mr. Grattan, M. P., had an interview wit`► the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Thursday. in Downing-street. Mr. Anstruther, Colonial Secretary at Ceylon, had an interview with the Marquis of Normanby, on Thursday, at the Colonial-office. The Duke of Riamond and tLe Duke of Norfoik had an interview with Lord John Rus:el on Tuursday, at tEe Home Qffice. The Chairman and Solicitor of Excise, Lord -Dungan non, M P., Alderman Thompson, M.P., Andrew White, Esq., M. P., James Hartley, Esq., of Sunderland, and Joseph John Wrighs, Esq., of Sunderland had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yester day on the subject of the duty upon glass. The [tight Hon. T. Grenville entertained at dinner, yesterday, the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, Lady Anne Grenville, Earl Clare, Earl of Devon, Lord and Lady Mahon, Lord and Lady Delamere, and a select party. The General Steam Navigation Company's packet, the Caledonia, from Hamburg, arrived cff the Custom-house at ten o'clock yesterday forenoon. Mr. Hume voted against I\linisters on Wednes day night on the Jamaica question ; he is the only one of the ten gentlemen who voted against the measure on the f,rtner occa&on that repeated his vote on that night. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has recently ap pointed Lieutenant Sir James Carmichael Smyth, Bart., son of the late Sir James Carmichael Smyth, Bart., the virtuous and talented Governor of British Guiana, to be one of his Lordship's extra Aides-de-Camp, vice Captain Burke, of the Royal Dragoons, resigned. LADY I LORA HA STI N G S.—The pulllic not have failed to notice the absence of the name of Lady Flora Hastings in the announcements of Court movement f the last ten days or a fortnight. We deeply regret the explanation of this circumstance which it is our task to give ; fritis a tt uly melancholy explanation. Her Lady ship is labouring under serious and alarming illness.— Morning Post. 1-Listings was visited on Monday evening by one of the most terrific thunder storms ever known there. It bTan about eight o'clock, and lasted till near twelve. The incessmt claps of thunder re- echoed by the majestic hills by which we arc surrounded, greatly increased the rwful sublimity of the scene. We have not heard of any da mage.—Brighton Guardian WIT EA T.—The oldest inhabitant throughout the rich Vale of Pewsey, never remembers wheat having such a luxurious appearance at this season of the year as at the present time,— Wilts Independent. COMMISSION OF LUNACY.—Yesterday a Com mission de Lunatico Inquirendo (on the petition of Sir R. H. Inglis, M. P. for the University of Oxford) was opened at Vinall's Hotel, Sloane-street, Chelsea. The object of this Commission was to inquire into the state of mind of Mrs. Susannah Harriett Gordon, the mother of Lady Inglis. The Commission was opened before Chief Commissioner Phillimore and Commissioners Wins low and Blunt. The Solicitor-General appeared for the petitioner, and Mr. Brie for Mrs. Barclay, a relative of the late husband of the lady who was the object of the in quiry. No one appeared for Mrs. Gordon. After hearing the evidence of the witnesses the Jury proceeded to Mrs. Gordon's house for the purpose of examining that lady, and on their return Sir John Scott Lillie (the foreman) said they were decidedly of opinion that Mrs. Gordon was of unsound mind and incapable of managing her own affairs, and he.d been so since the 19th of September, 1835. The Grand Duke of Sase Weimar, accompanied by some other Gentleman or Nobleman, in the House of Lords on Thursday, were accommodated with chairs be tween the Throne .and Bench of Bishops. The gambling speculations in Russian tallow have scarcely ever been carried on to a greater extent than than they have this year. The sales for time—that is, a prompt of 14 days, are carried on to such an extent, that 100 casks of tallow, during that short period, represents a fictitious trade in that article, to the amount of 1,000 casks, whilst most frequently the pretended merchant in St. Peters burg, and his agent here, have not a single cask to deliver, consequently a settlement of the differences upon the value of that article is made every fortnight, and the custom has obtained not only of drawing bills against these fictitious bargains, but even of paying the differences in an equally spurious kind of paper. So that, on the one hand, we have a fictitious trade in tallow carried on, somewhat after the manner in which business is effected at Crockford's, and other dens of equally reputable resort, whilst on the other hand, the country is deluged with paper in liquidation of these reprehensible and unmerchantlike transactions, of a character scarcely so valuable as some of the I 0 U's which pass current at the West-end Pandcmoniums. It must, therefore, be a matter of congratulation to the commerei2l interests of the country that the bank direction has had the foresight not to defile their hands by discounting piper like this, not based upon an actual interchange of valuable com modities ; therefore, in that quarter, we may anticipate a few bubbles to burst. On Thursday afternoon last, as a boy named John Blurton, twelve years of age, and son of a soldier in the 15th Hussars, was bathing in the Medway, near the barracks, he suddenly disappeared, and was observed to rise only once. An alarm was immediately given at the barracks, when Colonel Brotherton and a number of the soldiers instantly rushed to the spot, and the Gallant Colonel, throwing off his coat and stock, plunged into the river, hoping to recover the poor lad before life was extin c t. Unhappily, the humane end intrepid effort was unsuccess ful, as it was nut until a considerable time had elapsed that deceased was found, by means of drags, twelve feet under water, and of course quite dead.—Maidstone Journal. THE LATE CASE OF ABDUCTION FROM Ban SSELS. —At the Marylebone Board of Guardians yes terday, Mr. Potter called the attention of the Board to the case of two females, Catharine Trinet and Anne Josephe Drewer, who had been abducted by a rascal named Eustache from Brussels, under the pretence of giving them good e nployment. Since they had been in the workhouse the Belgian Consul had called, and finding they were females of an excellent character, he had left 21. for their present support, and had intimated his intention of sending them back free of expense. After sonic discussion Mr. Potter moved, and Mr. Ilodden seconded, a resolution to the eff. et that the Belgian Consul be conferred with on the subject, knd that the two Belgic women be allowed to re main in the workhouse till arrangements can be made with the Consul for their return to Brussels. The women are not, as stated, " young and interesting in appearance." Th eldest is upwards of thirty-five years of age , and the other e above twenty-five. They are employed at needle-work in Vie workhouse. ALARMING FIRE IN DRURY-LANE.—This mottling, at one o'clock, a fire broke out at the shop of Mr. time Douglas, threatened hatter, Vinegar-yard, destructioni n egar - y a to , their ru s r u y r - r l :u n :d , which u l a d t i n o g n s e . The flames were first perceived by the policeman on duty. In a short time the engine belonging to Drury-lane Theatre was brought to work, and that was quickly followed by the West of England, County, and others. There was a plentiful supply of water. After a considerable time the flames were entirely subdued, without the sacrifice of any human life, the inmates escaping wi'h difficulty lyy the rcof. The property is insured. METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Courier of last evening comments, as follows, on last night's division in the Commons on the Education qncstion —" The Tories were last night defeated, on grounds as disgraceful to them as any they ever took up, by a majority of five only. The announcement was re ceived by them with protracted cheering. Wild would have been their joy had the five been the other way; but this crowning triumph, for which they struggle so hard, is still unattainable : and, wanting that, they cannot in every instance prevent the accomplishment of some good. They will not, we fervently trust, in the present instance. Even with majorities of five, Lord John Russell will be justi fied in persevering ; and it is gratifying to witness indica tions of a resolute and animated spirit in the Noble Lord, under circumstances so vexatious and discouraging as those against which he last night struggled." The Globe urges Ministers to persevere in their educa tion scheme in the following terms :—" Ministers have now only to carry out their plan with discrimination and firm ness, looking to the benefits it will confer on the people, as an ample compensation for the misrepresentation and male volence with which they have been so unsparingly assailed ; for a justification of their motives; and as the best exem plification of the merits of the plan they have succeeded in carrying, in the face of an opposition which invoked the sacred name of religion to sanction and aid the cause of bigotry, and which endeavoured to perpetuate national ignorance under pretence of protecting Christianity r' The Standard, speaking of the Ministerial majority of five last night on the Educatiofi question, says : " Nevertheless, Lord John Russell had the amazing bold ness to attempt moving the grant, and would have done so, but that he was prevented by the firmness of Sir Robert Peel--thus placing his majority of five above the voice of the country, as pronounced in 3,500 peti tions. And how was this majority of five composed ? 46 nominees of the Irish priests, 40 professed Papists, voted in that majority by which it is proposed to fix the charac ter of the education to be given to the Protestant people of England; for mark, this is exclusively an English question —the grant is to be demanded on Monday. Will Ministers dare to persist in it? We believe they will, and we call upon every one, in Parliament and out of Parliament, to do his duty in resisting the monstrous wrong and insult." The Times of this morning, in the course of a virulent leading article, the text of which is furnished by the Mi nisterial majority on the education question, says :—" What but a Government on sufferance' are they now, with a majority for their Anti-Church Education Bill of five in a house of almost six hundred Members—the same majority, to a fraction, which caused ostensibly the former advice to her Majesty to summon to her assistance the Conservatives :vith Sir Robert Peel ? The resignation majority was on a third-rate question, which did not imply a general dis trust of Ministers. The education majority is on a ques tion vital and tremendous, involving the whole empire, embracing its moral and religious, that: is to say, its highest and most enduring interests, grasping our most sacred institutions, aiming a death-blow at the monarchy through the bleeding sides of the Church. If the Jamaica majority caused and justified a resignation, can the Minis ters be justified for treating this majority as one of less importance." The:" bleeding sides of the Church " is a pathetic metaphor enough, and would be still more so, if it happened to be an appropriate one. But, unfortunately, Nlotlier Church—opprcs , ea though she is with a plethora — has a most invincible dislike to being bled, and no one has yet been found capable of overcoming her opposition to this remedial process. The Morning Post, alluding to the late debate in . the House of Commons, on the eeucation project, remarks as follows :—" When the House of Commons shall make a grant of public money for the promotion of national educa tion, and shall subject the money so granted to the control and distribution of a Committee of the Privy Council, it will legislate, or attempt to legislate, upon one of the most important of all subjects in conjunction with the Executive Government, but without the concurrence of the House of Lords. We do not ask whether it is a wise or a decent proceeding on the part of Ministers to urge the House of Commons into such a course. What we ask is, whether it is wise or decent to urge the House of Commons to pursue this course in favour of a system of education which the House of Commons itself, within five votes, has already pronounced to be a bad and vicious system. This is what Ministers are about to do." The Morning Herald thus launches out into fulsome praise of Lord Ashley's proposed system of national edu cation :—" Let it be borne in mind that Lord Ashley ad vocates such a system of national education, and such a system alone, as shall be based upon the pure and unadul terated word of God ; a system of ecucation scriptural and Christian in essence and character; a system, therefore, which has truth, inspired truth, for its guide, and the dis semination of sound religion and morality for its object. If such a system be too narrow for the comprehensive libera lity of her M,jesty's Ministers, it is wide enough for every sincere friend to Christianity, whether he be Churchman or Protestant Dissenter." The Morning Chronicle exhorts Ministers to persevere in their education scheme in the following terms We trust that Ministers will persevere in th scheme. The fruits of their resolution will affurd the best refutation of the objections of the Opposition. A more factious and disgraceful attempt than that of the opponents of the scheme never was made in any country. We rely with confidence on the good sense of the country, which must loathe the vile iwolerance in which the opposition to the scheme originates. The scheme, indeed, is far below what the wants of the nation demand : but the endeavour is praiseworthy ; and those who see the difficulties with which 'Ministers have to contend in carrying this measure against a dishonest confederacy of Churchmen, and the Wesleyan Ministers who have shamefully abused the con• fidence re posed in them by their flocks, will make due allowance for the deficiencies of the scheme. The people will not fail to perceive, too, that as the opposition grows in numbers it grows is intolerance." The Morning Advertiser remarks to the following effect on Lord John Russell's speech on the Education question : We trust that Lord John Russell's speech on educa tion will be read by all who desire to understand the bear ings of the Government plan, and also the principles upon which such a measure should be framed. A more calm, temperate, and statemanlike speech was never uttered within the walls of Parliament ; and we confidently ask ... _ whether there exists in the present day any public man who might be expected to exhibit the same enlightened views, the same moral courage, and the same considerate appreciation of, and the same forbearance to, the position and feelings of all the parties concerned ? Throughout the whole of the speech there was not a single clap-trap• It went plainly and directly to the subject." FATAL ACCIDENTS ON THE RIVER—SEVEN Lives LOST.—During the major part of Thursday even ing and night the Thames was in a state of commotion but rarely witnessed, owing to the prevalence of high winds, which blew a perfect hurricane. The storm did not pass over without loss of life, and that to a very considerable ex tent, as in the course of that night no less than seven persons were drowned in Chelsea Reach, a part of the river at all times rough, but when the wind is high , tremely dangerous for small craft. About a quarter P h ' eleven cries for assistance were heard procceeding fro m t middle of the river by several lightermen Islet middle men living on the banks of the river, Chelsea side. lighterman named Wright, with another man, immed iately put fY in a boat, and when they had arrived a s the reach opposite the Yorkshire Grey, they found a wherry capsized, and two persons clinging to it ; these they imme diately lifted into their boat and conveyed to shore, an d afterwards to the Magpie public-house, where ti,ey gav e their names as Heath and Bath, and stated that, with ano ther boat, they had in the earlier part of the evening Pe e up the river accompanied by four other gentlemen whose names were Croker, Wilkins, Roberts, and George. The boats kept company on their return until their arrival in Chelsea Reach, ahem the heavy swell first capsized the boat containing the last mentioned gentlemen. Scarcely had the news of this sad occurrence spread abroad when cries were again heard in that part of __ the river near the Red House, and in a few minutes a gentleman was seen buffeting the waves, and ultimately made a safe landing. He was immediately taken to the Red House in a very exhausted state, and every attention was paid him. In a short time he recovered himself so far as to be able to give an account of the accident. It appeared that he was coming down the river in a wherry with three gentlemen, named Henry Rush, son of the Rev. John Rush, vicar of Chelsea Old Church ; Fry, a gentle man holding a situation in the Registry-office; and -- Graham, a clerk in the Ordnance-office. Upon passing through Battersea bridge the wind was very high, and the tide at the time running down, the boat was taken down the river at ar, extraordinaiy speed, all the time rocking in a fearful manner, and having arrived opposite the Red House, a gust of wind came which capsized it. Fry and Graham sunk immediately; Rush kept up for a little time, and succeeded in catching at an oar which Mr. Latham , the gentleman saved, threw to him, but he soon became exhausted, and sunk. In the course of half an hour, the bodies of Rush and Graham were washed ashore, and taken to the Red flou,e, where an inquest will be held On Mon day next. A correspondent, who does not give us particulars, mentions that five other persons were dr owne d in the River during the storm m The most numerous and powerful clan New South Wales are the Camerons ; no fewer than 106 of the name arrived out in one vessel from Cromarty, last J anuar y . the d REASONS OF SECESSION.—The attention of the Synod having been called to the present state of reli gious deliberation, to prepare iberation, it iwas unanimously parties in th agreed this country t o a app, p , o n k f i t t e r m a c s o o nan e it and issue a testimony, designed to show that the reasons of Church .rhea are t hi. not hs o ta n t secession from the Established valid, but have greatly incre ased , bed fwbhoincdhage to the secular powers ; l eve s nt i s l h c a h v u e rc re h c i e s nt in ly a oc s c ta u t r e re o d P C r o f h v nu e ng t}e Ea yblis still the fin de pendenceyis and that the Secession Church have reason g ratefull y ' to acknowledge, and w isel y which it enjo:mp and rove, that the do m and Rev. Doc tors Brown, Young, and Wm. Johnston, be appointed a Com mittee for the purpose above specified. The Committee be requested to proceed with as little delay as possible.-- Scotti.sh Pilot. FRAUDULENT TRADESMEN.—Yesterday Hat ton-garden office was crowded by tradespeople who wer e prose cuted by Mr. Child e , t h e Inspector of weights and measures, for having false and unjust weights and scales in their possession. The cases being proved, the ' wer e con victed in the p ena l t i es of from al. to 3/. and 21., and costs. THE ANTI-CORN-LAW MISSION. Mr. Paulton had a full attendance on Monday at Paisley. an d a bump er au di ence on T ues d ay. A smart skirmish oc curred between Mr. P. and some of the Chartists, but the result was such as to be gratifying to the friends of free trade. We arc happy to be able to announce that the state of preparation for Mr. Paulton's reception in and around Dundee, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Dumfries, is such as to entitle us to anticipate a lecturing tour in each of these districts equally successful with what is now in progress here.—Glasgow Argos. WHITE ROOK.—the day last week a white rook was caught in one of the plantations of Colonel Yale, of Plas Yale, near Llangollen, which only lived two da after its capture. EVENING EDITION. I I i F Lc Cl eo tters of Lhoul Righ t hat 1 !nod wa s said tl ti e E to hi, to th, Nip s hav e also y en : th e forl