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

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING, JUNE 11, Weil be performed (first time this seamen), LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Luria, Mzdanst. Perstani ; Edgardo, Sig. Mario; Bidebent, Sig. rattor acter)i; Enrico, Sig. kornas a r i (hi s fi rst appearance in that Cha _ r. e conclu te with the Grand Pallet, in Six Tableaux, by M. Perrot, ent leci ONDI NE, ou, LA NA lADE, by Mdlle. Cerito and M. M. Sr. Leon and Perrot. A pprieatiena for iJe.LC4, Starts, and Tickets to beryls is At the Box Office, Opera Cirsinna,ti, Doors op en a t li mn. o ct r a will oninwoce at Haltpast Seven. E MAJESTY'S TEATRE. M. ST. LEON has R the honour to Infor H m his Friends, Snbecribers *o the Opera, and the Public, that his BENEFIT w ill ta k e p l ace on THURSDAY NEXT, June 13, when will De performed (for the last time this season) Mozart's chef o'cruv e, IL DON l5 GIOVANNI; y Madame Gri s i, levant!, and Madame Persian'; Signori Fornasari, Lablache, F. Lablache, Felice, and Mario. Between the Acts M. :t. Leon will play a Fantasia Concerto sue des Motifs de Guillausue Tell, composed by himself; and In the course of the evening, Malle Cerito and St. Leon will dance the admired Polka dance, and the admire,' new Spanish dance Mano!a. To conclude with the Grad Ballet entitled AL3I A ; ou, I.a Fille du Feu ; (omitting the First Tableaux;, by 'Atdlie. Cerlto, M. Perrot, and M St. Leon. Applications for Berea, Stalls, and lickets to be made at the Box. Opera-calennatie. Doors open at Seven; the Opera will corn. essence at Hall:past Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKEi. MR BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LES,EI-' MC W. FARREN'S Nltifir, on which occasion. Miss Helen }'allcit will make her first and only appearance in London this Season. THIS EVENING, JUNE 10, 'WERE A Will he preseND n MA IDS AStod Mrs. InchTHEY ARE. bald's Comedy o Lord Priory,WIVES AS THEY Mr. W. Ta ren ; Sir Willi am D orrillon, Mr. Stuart ; Hronzely, Mr. Charles Mathews; Oliv , r, Mr. &r•ek,land ; Lady Priory, Mrs. Nisbett ; Lady Mary Rattle, Mrs. Glover ; Miss Dort - Won, Miss Helen Faucit. At which, the F arce of THE LOAN OF A LOVER. Peter t,iyk, Mr. Charles Mathews; Gertrude, Msdimo Vestris. In the course of the Evening Mr. John Parry will give " Tlis Aceonaplished Young Lady and her Mama," accompanying himself scathe Grand Planofor , e. To conclude with MY WIFE'S MOTHER. Uncle Female, Mr. NV. ett.Farrou Mrs. Quickfirgyt, M rs, Glover; Mrs Budd, Mits Julia /Senn Tickets, Private Boxes, anil Places, to be had of Mr. Archer, at the Box-of!lce, and of Mr. W. Fatten, 30, Brom, ton-square. PRINCESS% THEATRE, OXFORD-STltl L'l. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, JUNE 10, Will be repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled CROWN DIAMONDS Count de Campo Mayor, Mr. Weiss; Don Hen riques de Sandoval, Mr. Allen; Rebolle.lo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; La t l ttertna, Madame Anna Thillon ; Diana, Miss Grant. After which, a New and Original L , arce, in One Act, eal'ed - "AnEN BY SURPRISE, Principal Characters by Messrs. Fitz iunes, Walter Lacy, Otherry, Miss Emma Stanley, and MIAs E. To conclude with THE SPITAISIELDS WEAVER. .11EATRB ROY AL LYCEUM, LATE ENGL' PH OPERA HOUSE. Under the Kan HOUSE. of Mrs. KEELP Y. • Open Sesame; or, a Night with the Forty Thievcontinues to be nightly received with perfect enthusia.sm by crow LAI and toshionable audiences. THIS EVENING, JUNE 10, Wit lbw produced THE THREE FRA DIAVOLOS. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Keeley, Wigan, Diddear, .51iss Vlreo l dgar, and Mrs. Woollidge. After which, a New and Comic Drama, cal ed TWO HEADS 11E - ITER THAN ORE. yrincpal Characters Isy lien.rti r. Vining, Diddea r, Keeley, and Emery, Mice E. Chaplin, Mn.s A. Wigaiii, Ind Mrs. Keeley, To be followed by an Aprop os Bagatelle called Pali( AM A NIA Woolgare,rand Mrs. Keeley Characts by Mr. E. Mat:hews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. 1.. , 0/sy, Dliw To conclede with a Gran) BurleNtio Fairy Extrargri ra, called OPEN SESAME ; or, a Night with the Forty Thie es. Hassarae, 4r. Keeley; Morgiana Mrs. Keel e y . PRICES OF A iiMlSSlON.—Ealconsy Poxes. Is.; Upper Pete*, Ss.; Pit, fte.; Gallery, lid. Second Price—Bale •ny Ames, 25.; Upper Boxes, Is flcl.; Pit, If, Private Boxes on the It tle-my Tier ( olding eight persons). Two Gaineas Private Boxes c u ilsc Second Fier (boding eight persona), One Guinea and a.Har. Private notes On the Pit tier (holding six persons), One Oui, ea. ASTLEY'S ROYAI. AMPHITHEATRE OF AMTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. (haat Suctexi of the Chinese Feast of Lanterns, and dew Military and .Naval Spectacle Wlll MIS EVENING. JUNE 10, he repeated an entire new Military and Nasal Equestrian Ppectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR; or, The Conquests of Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery, Dresses, A .11'0 me nts , to realise th e resent triumphs of England's Army Ind Navy. Festal et 250 Lanterns. Monsieur /*lege on the Tight Rope—New Scenes of the Circle— Huade of Female . To conclude wit n h garian THE Br E ig CavaIn MPEROR OF RUSSIA ; •r, The Deserter of Moscow. The doors will open nightly at six o'clock, and tl - r , ..atermances eommence at seven. Box-ottiee opened daily from ter till four. The Wrote boxes have been recntstructed and decorated with cars and splendour. Acting and stage manager, Mr. W. D. Brr a !trot DAYXDOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRF.: Will be rep_ea THIS EVENING, JUNE 11, ted a New Dram in Three At 4, , •tititled THE INSTRUMENT OF TORTURE. a in which Mess c rs. Hughes, Hicks, Honnor, Vale, Lewis, and Johnson ; Mrs. H Vining, M rs. Hughes, and Mrs. Hicks will perform. Alter which, THE SCAPEGRACE OF PARIS. Lida, this Scs , egrace, Mrs. R. Helmer. 'l'o conclude with a Grand Fairy Spectacle cillsd 'I HE SPRITE OF THE SNOW DRIFT. Zimmeir, the Sprite, by Mr. G. Wieland. Superb Scenery and Drosses. Eztraord. ivy effects, and Wonderful feats. The most extraordinary wonders In the world—the Broelortedt Family —three German Lilliputians; height, 21, 32, and 38 inches; ages, 12, 18, and 23, are engaged to perform in a Ballet d'Acrtion, arranged expressly for them. Paces and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Ken: taer, at the Box oliee, from Eleven to Four. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPis 1. OPEN EVERY EVENING. Notwithstanding the great soccer,e with which the Great Wizard wf the North is nightly honoured by crowded audience., he is cons. pelled to announce his farewell: his season will terminate in a few ntghts. For Twelve Years he has nightly given his Entertainment (which depends solely upon his own exertions), being on each per. formance three hours of speaking and excitement; he now finds his Stealth so impaired, that, by the wish of his medical adviser, he Will, in a few nights, bid farewell to the magic science, and the most rnerous, kind, and appreciating audiences on the face of the earth. During the few nights the Wizard will have the pleasure of appear. ins in his mystic circle he will perform all his astounding wonders, nightly introducin g New anti Original Delusions. First Appearance of Professor Hemmings and his Son, who will apkear between the parts of the Wizard's performance. This Evening, bladlle. ROSSINI'S BENEFIT, and last Ap pearance. On Monday, 17th, the WIZARD of the NORTH'S FAREWELL BENEFIT. Doors open at Half.past Seven: commencing at Eight. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, SUCCESS UNPRECEDENTED. 0 " Monday. Tues.tay, Wednesday. and Thursday. Third Week of Carlson and Telbin's splendid Model Picture at LONDON" in the OLDEN TIME! paintiml en upward, of 303,C00 feet of canvas, and prenounced by the unanimous opinion of the public press, and other competent Judaea, to be the acme of scenic representation. The PROMENADE CONCERTS by Godfrey's oelebrated Band f Fifty first-rate Performers, conducted by himself. At dusk will be given a vivid representation of THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON, tinder the direction of the unrivalled artist in fireworks, Southey, Ect do who has been mon•hs In preparing the resources of his sit, to give thi, terrific exhibition. boors open it thinsNine—Ccert at Six---Conflagration at Dusk. The First Exhibition ason of the Royal South London arloricialtural Society, will take place in those Gardena, on Tuesday, Juno 18th, 1814. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. PT ANT NOTICE. ONE SHILLING I M Adm Oß ission to THE NAI °LEON MU /MUM, the most magnificent and extensive Coll3ceen of Histo- Neal Curios ties and Works of Art ever known to have boat formed by One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a cost of 60 ,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in structive and interesting manner, the most important part of Euro pean history, via. —CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMIVELL, an d IGOLTIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR ISAPOLEON, in 1491. This unique Museum has been visited often, daring the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of Wellington, the Voreign Princes, Ambassadors, an 1 their Ladies, disc many thousands of the Nobility and Public ; and the Pro prietcr has recently been able to increase, by several very fine ydetttrem, Stc., his previous almost incredible number and variety of INS., Works of Art, and an ultitude of valuable Rae'. and other antioeities, in this most instructive and, as hundreds have said it taiglit to be, a National Museum. Many thousand have inspected It, and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIO PRESS have Stated that it ought to be seen by every oae. The price of admis lon is reduced to ONE SHILLING. The NAPOLEON 3IUSE UM is to be seen only at the .• Egyptian flail." I'B aadtlly, daily from Ten till Dusk. TIIE WEATIIER.—SuN OFFICE, JUNE 10. TIiEratOMETER, Lowest, 51; Highest, 74: Noon, 69. BAROMETFR, 30.10.—W0m, S.W. Norm —The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barornettla fair is mania's , placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. AfomTHOU WATER AT LONDON-IRRIDGE TLIIS DAT. mint:lca after 9 I Evening ... i. 9 Minuet After O. , •; C 10 1* 1_ 4 : - r -4^6s cif 7 W ~. SECOiI) EDITION., o 11 t LONDON, MONDAY, 4L - Nlf: 10, 1844. The resolution of the Ayr Town Council, and the "reasons" that operated with them in affirming that resolution, we have transferred, in another column from the published copy, extracted from the records of the Council of that burgh. The " reasons " are valuable as a succinct summary of the mischievous principles of Sir Ronane PE 2OS measure for "ex tending or limiting the issue of Bank notes, in obe dience to the action of the foreign exchanges." The second reason proves the ultimate tendency of the measure to call gold, as the instrument of exchanges, into much greater use than heretofore; to thereby enhance the value of money, and aggravate the burden of all debts and engagements; and, by this conjoint effect, to renew that fatal panic which, on three memorable occasions, since the passing of the Act of 1819, " have spread ruin and bankruptcy over, the land." The third shows that the gradual appropriation of the profits on the issue of Bank notes, obviously contemplated by the Government, will prove an in strument of taxation, the effect of which must fall ul timately upon the public, not upon bankers. The fourth reason cautions the people of Scotland against being lulled into a fond belief, by the Minister's present abstinence from any pledge with regard to that country, that he will not, at the earliest conve nient opportunity—if supported by the sanction of • Parliament—apply the same legislative process as the now pending measure comprises, in respect of Eng land, for suppressing or curtailing the currency of Scotland. The fifth reason is an admirable exposure of that almost unaccountable and certainly most un founded analogy which Sir Romar PEEL, in defiance of fact and all fair inference, endeavoured to deduce in his speech of the 6th of May _ a in't, "that competition in the business of banking must ,-~ lead to excessive issues"--from the experience of what • had occurred in the United States of America. " We, • ourselves, should marvel at the Premier's having yen- NS ?Atiiit , don such an analogy, had we not read his still pe ,- '1 3 71.4 0 re gtFtling asseveration that these American banks - ' Wi t re" . 09 ark' bank s generally, with unlimited re ;• . ' tin epensilai: . and wi se re ular°n " As the Ay r eAaig..2observe, " th is W is It / , g a l p s' alpable an d most ,-:fle-- - WiaacnT, table.error" ith what A- Purpose " Sir Ro -!..1 , misi coal have given utterance to a n " error so n0.1.-;4 .1. - ;4 11 S The Banner of Ulster contains the follon ing re marks, in reference to the Government Landlord and Tenant Commission :—" This Commission are not to report, it is now understood, during the current ses sion. The question which most deeply interests the tenantry of Ireland is to be left over for another year, and perhaps indefinitely postponed. The remon strances of the press were successful in compelling the shadow of inquiry, but the shadow refuses to be embodied in any palpable shape, at least for twelve months, and the investigations of the press must be recommenced. The report is delayed on account, it is said, of the importance attached to the subject, and the anxiety of the Commissioners to avoid rash recommendations. The importance of the matter cannot be doubted, and the anxiety to recommend no course without due consideration is highly laudable ; but the loss by delay should not be forgotten. People want to know whether they are really placed in favourable or unfavourable circum stances. The majority of the farmers are perfectly confident that an improvement could be made, but then they want to know whether it will be effected." When this important Commission, from which so much has bee n , an d st ill continues to be, expected, was , first issued, it was concluded as a matter of course, that no time would be lost by the Commissioners in putting the public into possession of the result of their inquiries ; and now, it appears, that no report is to be. issued for the space of twelve months—a most injurious delay, considering the present excited state of Ireland, The very importance of the question is the best reason why no dilatoriness should be manifested by the Com missioners. It is not expected of them that they should issue their report with railway speed, but surely there is no good cause why they should delay it for the space of one entire year. The truth is, Government in this, as in every other question con nected with Ireland, seem unwilling or afraid to show anything like activity or decision. They are in earnest only in coercion, and shrink with the utmost sensitiveness from the adoption of any step that wears a conciliatory aspect. They have no hesitation in putting down the monster meetings and sending Mr. O'Comszia. to prison, but they cannot find it in their hearts to apply a remedy to the admitted grievances which caused those meetings, and have been the means of arming the Li'verator —despite his incarceration-- with all but sovereign authority. The session is now more than half over; the House will probably rise about the beginning of August, in order that the amusements of the sporting gentlemen may not be interfered with; and what, let us ask, has been done— what will be done for the benefit of the sister coun try ? The answer is soon given —nothing—abso- lutely nothing ! The Registration Bill—such as it is—is abandoned, or on the eve of abandonment ; the result of the inquiries of the Landlord-and-Tenant Commission will be an Eleusinian mystery for the protracted space of twelve months, during which period agrarian disturbances will of course con tinue in their old spirit; and as for that colossal nuisance the Irish Church Establishment, "it needs no ghost from the grave" —as HAMLET says—to assure us that it will be permitted to exist in all its present enormity. When such is the policy —say, rather, the no-policy —pursued by the PEEL Cabinet towards the sister country, can we wonder that the repeal agitation progresses ; that the indomitable spirit of O'CONNELL, though he himself is locked up within the four walls of a Penitentiary, pervades every quarter of the country, infusing hope into the timid, quickening the energies of the hesitating, and arming the bold with additional determination of purpose ; and that the repeal rent turns in without the slightest appearance of abate ment, to the amount of several hundred pounds a week ? Doubtless Ministers confidently calculate on the gradual subsidence of this popular ferment ; but they will find themselves, we suspect, wholly mistaken in their calculations ; repeal—thanks to their blundering, vacillating, suicidal policy—is fast becoming a principle —a faith—a religion with the vast mass of the Irish community ; and that move ment on the part of Government which it was hoped would crush it—namely, the imprisonment of Mr. O'CosmEtst,—is the very st©p which will be the means of imparting to it a tenfold impetus. does not seem to be the Premier's destiny to be more fortunate in dealing with the silver, than he has hitherto been in meddling with the gold element of our currency. In former articles we have demon strated—(to those of our readers who had not already arrived at the same conclusion by the light of their own experience and judgment) —on the authority of the "Enquirer after Truth," that the Premier was " hurrying on the measure " now before Parliament " with indecent haste." We have showed, from the same pamphlet, the confirmation of our previous charges against the Right Hon. Baronet:-Ist. That he had really exhibited an incapacity to understand the nature and properties of " money" in the larger awl more legitimate sense, wherein it is necessary to consider it, in reference to any scheme for regulating the general monetary system of a country. 2d. That he has essentially misstated the history of " one pound" in attempting to trace it from earlier periods of the monarchy to the present. Id. That he has com mitted a double mistake in saying that "subse quently to the reign of WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, a great alteration was made, not in the name, but in the intrinsic value of the pound sterling, by debasements of the currency ;" fur, the " debasements" of our currency hare been probably less than those of any other European State in all that interval ; and the alterations of the coin, which have diminished its " intrinsic value," have been produced by the diminu tion of the weight of that coin. 4th. That his asser tion that the pound sterling means a definite quantity of the " precious metals of certain weight and fine ness," is refuted and disproved by the very historical data which he had adduced to establish that assertion affirmatively. 5. That the allegation of Sir ROBERT 011 the 7th inst., " that it was not until a late period of the reign of ELIZABETH that silver, being then the stan dard of value, received that determinate weight, which it retained without variation, with constant refusals to alter it, till 1716," is utterly overthrown by the fluctuation in the relative value or proportion of silver to gold, in that lapse of more than 200 years, from 10 . 095 to 1, to 15 to 1.6. That subsequently to the late period (namely, 43d year) in the reign of ELIZA BETH, this "determinate axed value" ascribed by Sir ROBERT PEEL to " the gold pound of the value of 20s. of our present money, was so little determinate so far from fixed, that it was altered, in 1604, to a gold coin of fineness and quantity value 255.; in 1625 to 225. 9d. ; in 1675, to 215.; and in 1815, to 20s. It is curious to turn from blunders of fact, and torfously wide of the notorious truth s is yet more un accountable. " They were almost without any ex ception, Chartered State Banks, with limited re sponsibility ; their paid-up capital—the only guaran tee for their liabilities—being in reality, almost illusory, and their notes 'ere depreciated, not from excess, but from genera; discredit and fraudulent bankruptcy r This is the real history of their case, in a few words, sketched by the Magistrates and Council of the town of Ayr. How came the Premier so to pervert a plain tale, as he has done, in his speech of the 6th ult.? It is time, surely, that Members of the Legislature should shake off the fatal apathy with which they have hitherto looked on at the progress of this blun dering but most fatal proposition, with which the rash incompetency of the Premier—unwarned by his more juvenile experiment of 1819, unabashed by the commercial ruin and social disasters which in suc ceeding years have associated his name with the de tested recollections of that statute of imbecile pre sumption and the wanton misery which it has in flicted—is now again, about to vex the monetary sys tem of this country. Five-and-twenty years might have afforded him, one should have thought, leisure for a searching examination into the results of his destructive blunder, if they could not bring him to a profound sense of his fault, and becoming sorrow for the evils it had inflicted on the empire. Contrasting those evils, recurring serious and ac cumulative as they are, with the impassable and complacent igoisme to which we so lately referred, as distinguishing the whole deportment of Sir ROBERT in reference to this question —we beg to refer him to another letter from Common Sense, which will supply him with a reflection of his own capacity and powers for dealing with a subject so complex and multi plied and vital in all its relations as our monetary system, far more just, simple, and true, than the estimate he has himself, so unhappily for the public, formed of those properties. The letter we allude to is headed " A Nearly Incredible Fact." THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 10, 1844. trading and commercial property, namely, the unfet tered investment of private capital. The same inter ception, though contemplated with much more favour able intentions towards the Bank of Englaud, is cal culated to work not less detrimentally, in the long run, on the interests of that establishment. In the disastrous disorganisation of the State Banks of the United States we have had recent and irrefragible evidence to the dangerous results of the mania of na tional legislation on the appropriation of private capital. We are willing, albeit against hope, to suppose that the House of Commons cannot allow itself to be led, unresistingly as it were, into the full adoption of the crude fancies which Sir R. PEEL has advocated, as grave conditions that ought to be recognised for those which shall hereafter regulate the relations of a fixed and an inexpansible currency with a commerce per. pitually in movement, and exercising its tendencies to expand and advance. The data on which his pro positions are founded hare been disproved and dis comfited ?tape ad absurdum. The propositions are not less to be distrusted than the data on which they proceed. To affirm, in its present shape, the scheme which the Premier has manufactured out of such ma terials, would be an act of folly and recklessness the enormity of which can alone obscure, by rivalry, the recklessness and folly of the Premier, whenever he ventures so much beyond his depth, as he is sure to do in the troubled waters of" banking and " cur rency !" We have much pleasure in referring to our adver tising columns of this day for the announcement of a lecture by Mr. CAPPS, at the British Coffee house, on Tuesday next, at one. The lecture is to consist of an examination of Sir RODENT PEEL'S plans, show ing their tendency and effects. It may not be generally known that Mr. CArrs is the author of the well-known pamphlet, entitled " The Nation in a Dilemma," and of another " The Currency Question in a Nutshell." If the writer's knowledge of the subject on which ho treats is to be estimated by his having foreseen the issue of princi ples under discussion, then may the writer of these publications, by the following passage taken from the latter of his productions, fairly lay claim to deal with the subject of the currency as one perfectly his own The passage is in answer to the inquiry put in 1838— "'What will be the result if the present gold standard of value be obstinately persevered in, when it is evi dent that gold is so underrated, compared with other articles ?" " The effect will be, as has been stated already, that gold will have a tendency to leave the country; or, if it be compelled to remain, the prices of all goods must ho forced down until they are as low as gold, which in many cases will be below prime cost. To reduce the cost of goods, therefore, there will be an outcry against the corn-laws, that we may have cheaper bread, thus ruining the agriculturist. The order of Providence will also continue to be subverted by un naturally forcing women and young children into factories, that the cost of labour may be as little as possible, thus destroying the legitimate effect of ma chinery, which ought to be the diminution of human labour, and not the increase of it. And finally, we .hall have the mortification of discovering that these oxpc.dients will be of no permanent avail ; for, after all these sacrifices have been made, we shall find that, as other nations gradually approximate to us in the power of their machinery, we shall, with the im mense debt that we have hanging upon us, be unable to compete with them. We shall then, also, pain fully perceive that this debt could only have been reduced while wo possessed the superiority we now enjoy ; and that, when we had the power, we insanely debarred ourselves from profiting by it, by fettering ourselves with a false •ystim of currency ; enabling the foreigner thereby to abstract from us that wealth which ought to have been applied to the redemption of our own debts." It is only necessary to add, that the year after this prediction was made the stock of bullion was so reduced in this country that the Bank of England was obliged to seek a loan from that of France. All the other effects, too, have equally followed. Accounts from Madrid are to the 2d inst. Queen ISABELLA arrived in Barcelona on the Ist. Though the Royal party did not land till half. past ten at night, Queen CHRISTINA with Queen ISABELLA im mediately proceeded in the midst of crowds of citi zens and soldiers to the cathedral, where they conti nued singing Te Deums and praying before the sanc tuary of St. Eulalia till midnight. The reception of their MaJr.srms, though not particularly warm, seems to have been satisfactory. The alarm created by the measures of M. MoN, so far from diminishing, appears to be on the increase. At a meeting of capitalists, held at the Bank of St. Fernando, on the 2d, a committee was appointed to confer with the Finance Minister upon the subject. A loan has been offered to the Government to the amount of 1,500,000,000 of reels to meet its present exigencies, but it would appear that M. MoN hesi tates about the terms. If matters are not soon ar ranged, there is every probability of a break-up of the Moderado part, and it is difficult, in the present circumstances of the country, to foresee the result. The Envoy Extraordinary of the Sublime Porte landed, from the Fenicio, Marseilles steamer, on the 2d. The troops concentrated at Barcelona on the occasion of the QUERN'S visit amounted to about 8,500 men. The funds continued to decline, the Three per Cents. closing at 261 for cash, and at 27 at 60 days ; the Five per Cents., at 20i at 60 days ; the Float ing Debt, at 44 at 30 days ; the Coupons at 23 at 60 days; and the Debt without interest at 5/ for cash, and 6i at 60 days. The Paris journals of Saturday are again occupied by the affairs of Algiers, with regard to which, how ever, any new or positive information has not been obtained. The Courrier attributes the increased energy shown by the Arabs in their hostility to the French, to the interference of England, the Emperor of MOROCCO having bean incited to the declaration of the " holy war" by the British Consul in that country. " British hostility," says the Courrier,l " conspires secretly with the natives whom we have conquered, and with their neighbours, who are in dignant at seeing a country of Islam under Christian misconceptions of principles, like these, to this petu lant and contemptuous notice of that bold Measure of Perris, which, far unlike that paralysing Act of 1819, restored the public confidence, gave energy to our commerce, vigour to our finance, development to our capital, and enabled us to sustain eighteen years of subsequent warfare (intermitted only for some fifteen months), against the combined strength and resources the navies and armies, of all Europe, confederated under the vigorous directorship of France. " Gold," said Sir ROBERT PEEL, " continued to be the measure of value, legally and practically, until 1797, when that fatal measure for restricting cash payments by the Bank was passed, enabling parties to issue paper money at their own discretion, without its being con vertible into coin." We cannot quite blot out of our minds some school boy recollections associated with "ESOP and the fable of a dead lion, kicked by a quadruped of a different race from that which, in a moment of post-prandial excitement, last autumn, the Premier was betrayed into a promise to purchase for the Tamworth farmers, at Birmingham, at whatever price. To read this flippant allusion to the daring experiment of 1797 and its wonderful author, does awaken recollec tions which it would be highly disrespectful not to dismiss. We return, therefore, to the conclusion of the sentence. The " fatal measure" of 1797, was one, it seems, " which disturbed not enly the speculations, but " (Oh ! horror of horrors 1 Here we have the true ground of quarrel on the part of the bullionist- Minister with the Bank Restriction Act)—"the theories and speculations of men with respect to the standard of value." Happy had it been for this em pire had it scared Sir ROBERT oat of his wits, or at least his theory of the standard of value out of his head ! We should then have been spared the monster production of 1819. How bewildered Sir ROBERT himself is in the expression of his own notions about this " standard "—whether he means simply " mea sure of value," or " standard measure of value"—is shown by the "Enquirer after Truth," in his admir able tract, of which we this day give a further notice. - We had intended to advert, in detail, to the Pre mier's plan for regulating the future circulation of banks of issue, by an average most unfairly taken on their issues during the last two years. Those years were, notoriously, seasons of agricultural, and, in most respects, of manufacturing depression. The average is, therefore, an unfair one, as selected to govern the extent of this future business. But we protest against the whole principle of the proposed interference with the joint-stock and private banks, as to their issues, as an unwarrantable, impolitic, and most mischievous intervention with the first element of a THE BOURSE—FRIDAY, JUNE 8. First Highest Lowest Last . ce. . FrenCh Five per C en t s l21 1 50 .. 121 Pri 58 • • 121 Price 45 .. 121 Price. SS Four per Cents. Three per Cents.— 82 50 .. 12 50 .. 82 30 .. 82 40 Bank of France BO9O • • 3090 ..3080 ..3080 Belgian Fives, 1831.. ...• •• • 105 • • 105 .. 105 .. 105 1840 106 .. 106 .. 106 .. 106 Spanish Active ..... Passive 3a • . 3 5f 0; .• 301 • • 10; 5 •• .• .. 51 Portugueee Five per C en t s .. 46 1 • • 46f • • 44 f •• 46} Neapolitan .. 100 100 .. 90 .. 100 R0man.......... . ....... 104/ .. 1041 1041 .. 1041 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Versailles, 11.13 372 50 375 .. 372 50 .. 375 L. 8.• .. Rouen. .. 990 .. 992 50 .. 990 .. 992 50 Rouen to liavre 770 • • 770 .. 762 50 .. 767 50 Orleans op •.•• • • • . 995 • • 997 50 .. 992 50 .• 992 SO Strasburg to Bale•• • • •• •• 945 .. 246 25 .. 245 .• 246 25 Avignon to Marseilles • • 770 •• 770 • 770 •• 770 RAILWAY SHARES FOR 15Trt JUNE. St. Germain • 883 .. 883 .. 885 815 Versailles, 377 50 .. 377 50 .. 372 50 .• 376 25 „ „ 250 • • 252 50 • • 247 50 . • 230 Rouen •990 •• 992 50 . 990 .• 992 50 Rouen to Havre.... • • ...... 760 • • 770 .. 760 .. 766 25 Orleans Strasburg to 8a1e....................246 25 . • 252 50 .. 245 •• 246 25 Avignon to Marseilles.... •• 770 •• 770 .. 760 .. 767 50 DEPARTURE OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. The Emperor of Russia, with a rapidity charac teristic of all his movements, left Buckingham Palace sLortly after five o'clock last evening, for Woolwich, and having inspected the Royal dockyard at that place, in less than two hours embarked on board the Black Eagle steamer for Rotterdam, en route for his own dominions. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT.-It Rill be seen by The Sun of this day that his Royal High the founda ness will perform the ceremony of layi ng tion stone of the New Hospita for C onsumpt i on an d Diseases of the Chest, at Brompt on , at one o ' clock, to-morrow, precisely : Every p reparat i on has been made by the Secretaries and Committee to render the affair as impressive as possible ; and immediately his Royal Highness has performed his benevolent task, a sort of Italian Festa, or fancy bazaar, will commence in the spacious grounds of Chelsea College, Nhich include those of the renowned Ranelagh. There will be no less than three military bands in attendance, and everything promises to pass off W ith the greatest eclat. During the course of Saturday last the office of the Secretary to the Institution /vas literally be sieged for tickets of admission, both to witness the ceremony and to the grounds of the intended fete,' which will last until Wednesday evening. Tents and every provision has been made in anticipation of any Change in the present propitious weather; and re freshments will be supplied by the eminent Gunter. There can be little doubt that the efforts of the bene volent founders of this truly Samaritan charity will meet with that success it so richly merits. TEM QUEEN DOWAGER.-13RUSSELS, JUNE 6.—Her Majesty Queen Adelaide had indeed given up the plan of coming to Antwerp, as we have stated, b ut not her visit to Germany. Her Majesty left London on the 3d, went by way of Dover to Calais and Lisle, and arrived at Courtray on the 4th, whence she came by a special train to Ghent, where she arrived at five o'clock in the afternoon. She was received at the station by the civil and military authorities, and a com pany of Grenadiers paid her the honours due to her rank. Her Majesty entering the city alighted at the Hotel de la Port, accompanied by Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar and a numerous suite. In the evening she visited the Cathedral of St. Bayou and some other remarkable monuments in the. city, and on the sth in the morning set out by special train to Cologne. A letter from Cologne of the sth says: —That her Majesty arrived in that city, and put up at the Royal Hotel, where apartments bad been engaged for her and her suite. Her Majesty was to proceed the following morning to Mentz, in the Victoria steamer, belonging to the Dusseldorf Steam Navigation Company, which the Queen had caused to be engaged some days ago through the London Company. CATCHING A TARTAR --AS Deaf Burke, the Pu gilist, was on Wednesday afternoon passing through Smith field, accompanying a friend and his wife in a phaeton, intend. ing to pass a few hours in the country, the party were grossly insulted by an athletic country wagoner—one of those nu emscearopueswriuttfih a in n i s p w un h i o ty ar i e n mostly to be found in that vicinity, and who thi n k, f rom their physical streng th an d p rowess , to On this oc cas i on t h e yokel was a nycomp l etelywoeult d o r f es h s i e s d p re e c r k so on n : ing ; the deaf-un, with true gallantry, allowed the carriage to pass on to a short distance on account of the lady present, and then returned to the aggressor. The insulting terms were repeated, the Goliah of a countryman looking down with contempt upon his dwarfish opponent. A " set-to" im mediately took place, the countryman was floored three times in almost as many seconds, and much punished about the face before he could tell who he had to deal with. The countryman having declared he had had enough, the deaf-un retired amidst the congratulations of several respectable per sons who had witnessed the insult, and its speedy and ef fectual chastisement.—Sunday Times. DELUSIONS OP DRUNKARDS.-- - 0n Saturday an in quest was held by Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the Middlesex Hos pital, on the body of a man named Sheen, who died on Thurs day last, from the effects of injuries received by his falling down stairs while i n a state of intoxication, on the night of the 23d ult. Deceased, while in the hospital, repeatedly stated that he had been pushed down the stairs by some one. Mr. Wakley said it was remarkable under what delusions persona laboured when intoxicated. There was at that time a carpenter in the hospital who had injured himself while tipsy, by falling down stairs with a chisel in his pocket, but who persisted in saying he had been thrown down. It was doubtless the same with the deceased. It was only a short time ago that Dr. Burne had cut a man for two apparent tumours in the neck and back, and bad extracted a handle of a fork from one, and the iron work from the other, and the man had not the slightest recollection how they came there. It could only be presumed that the fork had been swallowed by the man — (Laughter) —while in an unconscious state. After citing several other instances, which went strongly to prove the inability of either man or woman to speak to facts while intoxicated, the Jury returned a verdict of " Natural death." SINGULAR PRESERVATION FROM DEATII.—On 29th ult., a boiler at South Towan mine, in the parish of Illogan, exploded while the engine Man was standing on the top of it. The poor fellow was blown through the roof of the engine -house, but after a little time he was so far recovered as to be able, with tile assistance of a friend, to walk hoin,— Welt triton. • ,• domination, The English fan the animosity of the children of ItAmosirr against France. For the last fourteen years Great Britain has made war upon us in Africa. Four Consuls are the generals of this campaign of the Cabinet of St. James's against us—the Consuls of Tangiers, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli." A private letter gives the following account of the massacre of the little garrison of Biscara :—" Ser geant-Major PEusse, the only man of the French that escaped, either through the facility with which he speaks Arab, or the protection of a Marabout, and his agility in jumping over the walls of the Casbah, relates the melancholy event as follows :—On the 12th, towards two in the morning, some shots were heard in the plain, and this signal was responded to in the interior of the Casbah. At the same time the conspirators opened the gates to the Khalifat BEL ADJ-HAMET, their former chief, whilst others assas sinated the offi.ers. Lieutenant PETITGRAND, the officer in command of the camp, was killed in his bed by a Zouave attached to his personal service. Lieutenant CROCIIARD, an officer of merit and of great courage, who certainly would not have been taken alive if he had not been asleep, was assassinated by the sentry placed at the door of the clothing store, near which he lived. Sur geon MARTIN was killed at the moment he was leaving his room to inform M. PETTIGRAND of the tumult which lie heard outside. The corporal received a ball in the groin, and the poor man lingered on for three days, tortured by those monsters, who refused to give him anything to quench the dreadful thirst that devoured him. The dead bodies of all these unfortunates wore afterwards dragged to the mosque, and hung up by one foot. They would have been, without doubt, found in this situation, were it not for the energy and courage of a young girl, who re mained in the power of the Khalifat, who himself was present at the carnage and pillage of the Cas: - Jah. This girl obtained permission, by dint of supplica tions and prayers, to have them buried. They were accordingly placed in the tomb which contained the body of Captain BOEOT, killed two months previously at the Aures mountains. This tomb was the only thing they respected." The place has been retaken, and given up for two days, to pillage, by the French soldiers. The revolt and massacre above alluded to formed on Thursday evening the subject discussed in the Cham ber of Deputies. Marshal SOULT read two dispatches from the Duke D'Aussami, describing the affair, and throwing the blame of it upon the two officers who had been its victims, and whose neglect or want of caution would certainly appear to justify the accusa tion. The National, however, regards the charge as ungracious, disingenuous, and unfair, on the part of the youthful General, and, coupling it with the late narrow escape of his Royal Highness from being made prisoner, argues against intrusting a command so important to a young man of his inexperience. In Friday's sitting, the Chamber of Deputies dis cussed the Bill lately presented by the Government for improving several of the French ports. A sum of 18,980,000 f. was voted for Marseilles, and another of 1,800,000 f. rejected, which had been demanded for the opening of a maritime canal from Bouc to Martigues. The Chamber then adjourned to Monday, owing to the grand theatrical fete to be given by Lotus PHILIPPE at Versailles, on Saturday evening. Some of the Opposition Members, who had not been invited, indignantly opposed this adjournment. The Three per Cents. closed on Saturday at 82f. 45c.; the Five per Cents. at 121 f. 90c. ; Spanish Ac tives, 30i ; Passive, 51; Spanish Three per Cents. were not quoted. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND 4)ubitt Optnton " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. Lady Williams has arrived in Grosvenor-square, from Paris. Sir John B. Pechell is still suffering from severe illness. Sir George and Lady Napier have arrived at Warren's Hetel, from the Cape of Good Hope. On Saturday last Sir Loftus and Lady Otway entertained at dinner, at their house in Grosvenor-square, Lord and Lady and Miss Camoys, the Earl of Belfast, Lord William Lennox, Lord and Lady Trimleston, Sir Winston and Lady Barron, Sir John and Lady Paul, Sir W. Clayton, Colonel and Mrs, Ashworth, Hon. Craven Berkeley, Mr. and Mrs. Butler, and Mr. J. Clayton. IViVICZLZAWMOUS. The Governor-General of India, Sir H. llardinge, em barked at Brighton, on Saturday eveni ng , f or Di eppe , en route by land to Marseilles, where he embarks for Alex andria. The Wells Diocesan Training School from which so much was anticipated on its establishment, about five years ago, is to be finally broken up at the Midsummer quarter. Not withstanding the great sacrifices made by th• promoters and superintendents, it has been found impossible to meet the un avoidably large expenses in the absence of assistance from the Committee of Education. The directors, being unwilling to incur further responsibility, have, therfore, no other re source than at once to abandon the undertaking. A movement has commenced in the extensive and pope• lous parish of Islington, and in some few other places, to carry out the late decision in the Court of Common Pleas on an appeal from the Revising. Barrister's Court, viz., that all lodgers and occupiers of small tenements, although not pay ing the parochial rates, are entitled to the franchise, if they pay a rent of not less than 101. a year, or 4s. per week. A matrimonial alliances is said to be on the tapis between Lord Charles Wellesley, youngest son of the Duke of Welling ton, and the daughter of the Right Hon. 11. Pierrepont. The statue of Goethe meets in Frankfort with a similar fate as that of Byron in London, which has lain iu the Cus ' tom-house for several years. The magistrates of Frankfort did not appoint any place within the town to erect Goethe's statue; it will be placed in a lonely alley, without the gates of the city of his birth. The invitations annually circulated by the Duke of Wel. lington, to those general and other officers who took part in the memorable battle of Waterloo, for the Duke's banquet on the anniversary of that sanguinary struggle, have been issued. It was very generally stated on Saturday, that the Empe ror of Russia had sent for a ticket for the Polish ball, and paid 500/. for it. - At the meeting of the Fellows of the Royal Botanical Society, held on Saturday, Sir Thomas Baring, Bart., in the chair, a ballot took place, and the following ladies and gentle men wore added to the Society :—The Marquis of Westmin ster, the Earl of Auckland, the Rev. Christopher Erle, Sir Henry Oxenden, Bart., Sir Thomas Rokewood Gage, Bart., James Matheson, Esq., M. 1., G. F. Matheson, Esq., Robert 0. Walker, Esq., Thomas Douglasse, Esq., C. Spears Toswill, Esq., the Hon. J. C. Talbot, the Hon. Lady Cockerell, Lady Hume Campbell, Lady Buxton, J. Smith Wright, Esq., J. E. Boulcott, Esq., Mrs. G. B. Carr, Mrs. Cartwright, and Mrs. Elliot. On Saturday, the Lord Bishop of London consecrated another of the new churches of St. Matthew, Betlinel-green, this being the sixth that has been erected in this parish. It is called the Church of St. Bortholomew, and is situated in the Cambridge Heath-road, near the Mile-end turnpike. It is a plan brick building, capable of containing nearly 1,200 persons, the sittings being almost all free. The receipts of the Great Western Railway Company, on Thursday last, the cup day at Ascot, which greatly exceeded those upon any former occasion since the line has been opened, amounted to more than 4,100/. The passengers amounted to the extraordinary number of 16,766, in addition to 229 gentlemen's private carriages, and 551 horses. FINE ARTS. BRITISH INSTITUTION. We attended on Saturday a private view of this Exhibition, which is opened to the public to-day. The pictures are, for the most part, the pro ductions of the old masters of the Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, and French schools, and though not quite so numerous as usual, are remarkably well selected, making up in quality for what they want in quantity. There are some fine specimens of Canaletti, and one or two first-rate Ruysdaels, to say no thing of some landscapes by Wouvermans, executed in the most carefully finished manner of that great artist. Hawking -Party in a Landscape, in particular, is the est _striking.production of his pencil we have ever seen, and the colouring is in excellent preservation, being as fresh as if it had been painted only a few years since. The spacious foreground, which is covered with gracefully disposed groupes of sports men, displays infinite skill of management, and nothing can surpass the ease and propriety with which a very difficult perspective is handled. The picture is full of life and bustle, and of the most cheerful character possible. Head of a Rabbi ex hibits much of that impressive expression and depth of shadow for which Rembrandt is so remarkable• The Discovery of Calisto is one of Titian's splendid pieces of colouring ; the flesh tints of the female figures are exquisitely true to life, and the atti tudes full of grace and ease. Cleopatra is by Sebastian del Piombo. The countenance of the Egyptian Queen realises all one's conceptions of her voluptuous beauty, but there i 3 rather more of the blonde than the brunette about it. Return from the Chase is another of Wouvermans' lively and spirited productions; the canvass is well filled, without being crowded. Landscape by Ruys dael is painted with matchless truth and vigour. The still sheet of water in front, overhung by tall, umbra geous trees, shows aome wonderful effects of light and shade ; and the rough, knotted bark of the beeches to the right of the spectator prove with what singular minuteness and fidelity this observant artist copied nature. Head of our Saviour possesses all that divine repose and . beauty of expression which Guido knew so well how to impart to his sacred portraits. The Sybir s Temple, Tivoli, is one of Salvator Rosa's picturesque and ro• mantic productions. The entire foreground is very finely executed. The Marriage of the Doge of Venice is a very gorgeous picture, painted in Canaletti's most careful style. The Last Supper is by no means a first-rate work of art. The best portion of it—at least the most expressive —is the face and figure of the traitor, Judas. Portrait of the Cardinal Übaldini, by Guido is richly, but chastely, coloured, and is full The King of the French on Thursday, accompanied by Generals Athalin and De Rumigny, went to Versailles, after stopping about an hour at the Palace of Saint Cloud. His Majesty did not return to Neuilly till eight o'clock. In the evening their Majesties received the Austrian and Belgian Ambassadors, the Wurtemberg Minister, Marshal Valle, Counts De Breteuil, De Mornay, and De Montesquiou, Baron d'Effaudis, Generals Hecquet and De Mornay, and M. Terme, Deputy. General Prim (Count de Reuss) arrived at Bordeaux from Spain on Tuesday last, on his way to Paris and London. He is said to have received leave of absence for four months. The Frankfort Journal states that, according to letters from Constantinople of the 15th ult., the Porte has adopted the preliminaries of a new convention with Persia, through the mediation of England and France. Several artists are reported to have quitted Paris on a mis sion to Africa, for the removal of the Roman triumphal arch of Djonisah. It is said that it is to be placed in the middle of the Place du Carrousel. M. Cuvier, engineer of the Ponts et Chausales, in the department of the Allier, the nephew of the great naturalist, has just put an end to hie life, by means of lighted charcoal. A letter from Montlucon, of the 3d inst., which narrates this melancholy event, states that he had intended to effect his death a week before, but had been prevented by various cir cumstances. He was a well conducted young man, and fond of his profession. He had left the Polytechnic School the 12th, and entered the Ponts et Chaussees in consequence, with great eclat. The cause of his suicide is supposed to he an insurmountable disgust of life. The French dramatic critics of the classic school have just had a signal triumph, in the complete success of Sophocles' tragedy of Antigone, or, rather, of a literal translation, re presented at the theatre of the Odeon ; the celebrated actor, Bocage, played the part of Creon. The preliminary examinations into the revolting affair of the association in the rue du Pot-de-I'er Saint Marcel, which has been marked with the name of the Affaire de la Tour de Nesle, have at length been gone through. Eight of the par. ties are to be tried before the Court of Assizes, and seven be fore the Tribunal of Correctional Police, which last will be brought up on Wednesday next. The rest of the persons ar rested have been discharged for want of sufficient evidence against them. _ — A letter from Rome, of the 25th ult., says :—" The court martial called on the 26th of August last, to sit at Bologna, has passed judgment on the persons engaged in the revolt of the Bth September last, against their Sovereign and their Government. Three are condemned to the galleys for life; fire to the same punishment for twenty years; twenty-nine for fifteen years ; one for ten years ; and three to imprison ment for three years. The property of the whole forty-one was confiscated, but the Pope has been pleased to remit this part of the sentence. The Reforme states, that all the Parisian citadels are at present guarded by military, and their entrance forbidden t• any person not furnished with a ticket of admission. Towards the close of the present summer all the detached forts will have been completed with the exception of some barracks in tended for the military. Baroness Pasquier, wife of the Chancellor of France, died at Paris, on Wednesday, in the 83d year of her age. Mr. Billie, the composer, received, by order of the King of the French, on Thursday last, the great gold medal, bearing his Majesty's effigy, accompanied by a highly complimentary letter from Baron Pain, the King's private secretary. COTTIZT-rAsszoNA.a The Duke and Duchess of Roxburglie leave Thomas's Hotel, where they have resided during the season, at the close of this or early in the ensuing month, for Fleury Castle, near Kelso. The Archbishop of Armagh entertained at dinner, in Charles-street, on Friday, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs. Howley, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, Lady A. Poulett, Viscount and Viscountess Beresford, Lord Heytes bury, Hon. Miss A'Court, Mr. George and Mrs. Dawson, Mr. O'Brien, Mr. Holford, Captain Jones, &c. The Earl and Countess Beauchamp entertained on Satur day at dinner the Swedish Minister, Count and Countess Bjornstjerna, and other foreigners of distinction ; also the Earl and Countess of Antrim, the Countess of Charleville, &c. In the evening the guests were much gratified by the distinguished vocal talents of Madame Castellan Giampietro, lately arrived in this country. The Marquis of Salisbury entertained the Earl and Countess of Rosebery, Earl and Countess Cowper, Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Lord and Lady R.Grosvenor, and a distinguished circle at dinner on Friday last, at his mansion in Arlington street. of calm dignity. Of the remaining pictures the most striking are those by Berghern, Vanderveld, Teniers, and Wouvermans. THIS DAY'S NEW HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers preSBlll were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, and the Earl of Beauchamp. THE IRONMONGERS COMPANY V. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL, In this appeal their Lordships have affirmed the judgment of Lord Cottenham with costs. BOURNE V. GATLIFF. The further arguments in this writ of error were then pro ceeded with and occupied their Lordships the whole morning. TILE SUSSEX DUKEDOM. It was generally supposed that their Lordships would have sat to.day in a Committee for privileges, for the purpose of proceeding with the claim of Sir Augustus de Este to the Dukedom of Sussex; but on a previous day it had been ar ranged that the matter should be adjourned to Thursday next. A rumour prevails that it is likely the subject will not come again before their Lordships, as it is said to be the intention of her Majesty to confer on the claimant a Scotch title. We give this merely as the rumour of the day. VICE - CHANCERY. -(THIS DAY.) The VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND took causes to-day, none of which possessed any points of the least importance. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) THE QUEEN ON THE PROSECUTION OF MIL MICHAEL SCALES V. THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE SEWERS FOR THE TOWER HAMLETS. In this case Mr. Michael Scales had obtained a rule nisi for bringing up a sewers' rate made by the Commissioners of the sewers for the Tower Hamlets, in order that it might be quashed. The grounds on which this application had been made were—first, that he was not benefited by the sewers to which he was rated; and second, that he had never been rated to the sewers' rate until 1841, and that he had always resisted the rate. Mr. KELLY now showed cause against the rule, and con tended, that in fact Mr. S c al es did rece i ve b ene fi t f rom t h e ' sewer, but that the Court had nothing to do with that cir cumstance, that being a question of fact to be decided by a jury upon an action of trespass, which Mr. Scales might bring against the Commissioners when they distrained for the rate. Mr. Scales' affidavit did not set forth that the rate was bad upon the face of it, and, therefore, the Court could not interfere to quash it by certiorari. He, therefore, submitted that the rule must be discharged. Mr. SCALES, in reply, stated that, in 1829, a similar rate had been quashed by this Court, since which time no attempt had been made to impose a sewers' rate upon these premises until 1841. Further, he contended that as his premises were situated upon a tide stream, he was exempt from the jurisdic • tion of the Commissioners of Sewers by the Act of 3d James I. He denied that he received any benefit whatever from these sewers, inasmuch as his premises were thirty-eight feet above high-water mark, and therefore the water could never regurgitate upon his premises. (The case was proceeding when we went to press.) BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.) IN THE MATTER OR HENRY HART. Mr. Stevens, in this case, moved for a rule for a certiorari to remove into Court 104 orders for the payment of 3,8211. 17s. 10d., in order that they might be quashed. One of the orders was for the payment of 7021. 10s. 7d. for the consta bulary force of Dover. The objection to this order was, that it purported to be signed by three Members of the Town Council, whereas, in reality, it was signed by only two, the other who signed having been a Town Councillor indeed when he signed the order, but not when the debt became due. He had signed the order pros pectively, which he (Mr. S.) submitted he could not do. The 102 other orders related to the payment of various local expenses, and the objection to them was that they were to be paid oat of moneys not legally applicable to the payment thereof. The remaining order related to the compensation awarded to G. W. Ledger, and the objection to it was similar to the first. A rule nisi was granted with regard to the first and last orders, and leave was given to amend the affidavit, which was defective, with regard to the other orders. EXCHEQUER COURT-THIS DAY. (Sittings in Banco.) RUNNING REIN AND ORLANDO. COLONEL FEEL V. WEATHERBY AND ANOTHER. This case, which stood over from Saturday, for the pur pose of an affidavit being filed on the part of ISfr. Wood, who claims the Derby Stakes as the owner of Running Rein, that he was such owner at the time of the race, was again brought before the Court this morning. Mr. Maltrix, who appeared for Col. Peel, intimated that the affidavit required by the Court had now been filed by Mr. Wood, and that on the part of the plaintiff he was quite sa tisfied with it. Mr. Platt and Mr. James appeared for Mr. Wood. The COURT stated, that being the case, there was no neces sity for hearing the matter further, and that the arrange ment as to the terms of the issue, as agreed to on Thursday last, could now be adopted, and the rule drawn up accord ingly. The issues will then still be whether Running Rein was a colt foaled in 1841, by the Saddler out of Mab, and Colonel Peel allowed to give in evidence the acts and declarations of Mr. Goodman, provided he proves on the trial that Levi Goodman was owner, or part owner, at the time of such acts and declarations. The cause will, it is expected, be appointed for trial by a special jury at Westminster about the first week in July. (Sittings at Nisi Prins.) FRANKLIN V. NEATE. This action was brought to recover the value of a chrono meter. In 1840 a person of the name of Gilbert, a seafaring man, pledged a chronometer of the estimated value of 504 or 601. with the defendant, who is a pawnbroker, in Duke-street, Manchester-square, for 15/. This person being about to leave the country for some time, and being unable to redeem the chronometer, sold the ticket to the plaintiff, who is a nursery man at Kensington, for 51. The plaintiff, however, could not get the chronometer into his possession, the defendant having refused to give him any satisfactory information respecting it —in short, refusing to give it up. The defendant, by his counsel, contended that the plaintiff could not sustain the action. Mr. Baron PARKE having summed up, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 401., less the amount lent by the defendant, and interest from the time the chronometer was pledged. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY, OLD COURT'. The Sessions at the Old Bailey commenced this morning before Sir C. Marshall, Mr. Alderman Johnson, the Recorder, and other Civic authorities. The grand jury having been sworn, The RECORDER proceeded to deliver his charge. He said that the calendar contained the names of 300 persons for trial, and he had no doubt that number would be considerably augmented before the termination of the sessions. There were six cases in the calendar in which parties were charged with cutting and wounding with intent to do some grievous bodily harm. There were two cases of manslaughter, and five persons were charged with the crime of wilful murder, four of those persons having been engaged in the same trans action, and the other being charged upon a separate and per fectly distinct transaction. Although the cases were many of them of a very serious description, yet on a reference to the depositions they did not appear to involve any diffi cult question of law. He then referred to the charge of mur der against Augustus Dalmas, and after having explained the general principle of law with respect to the crime of murder, he said the most important question the jury would have to consider in coming to a conclusion upon this case, would be the declaration of the dying woman; and if the jury should find any difficulty with respect to this fact of the case, it would be well if they would immediately apply to the Court, and every assistance and every information would be afforded them respecting it. There was a case of man slaughter of some magnitude, in which several persons had met their death by the upsetting of a boat. The question in this case the jury would have to consider was, whether there were more persons in the boat than it could with safety hold ; and also whether the party who stood charged was instrumental in causing the boat to be so overloaded. If it did appear that the unhappy event had been the result of accident, and not .of the overloading of the boat, he apprehended that the charge of manslaughter could not be maintained. He then briefly alluded to the other cases in the calendar, and after generally explaining the duties of grand juries, remitted the jury to their labours. The Court then proceeded to swear in the common jury. CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY. Henry Prince, a smart, clean-looking lad, about 16, was charged with gambling in Crawford-passage, Clerkenwell. Police-constable 113 G deposed that, on the previous day, he saw the prisoner playing at "heads and tails" with another boy, in Crawford-passage, Clerkenwell. A gentleman di rected witness's attention to the fact, and complained of the nuisance. MAGISTRATE—Did they attract a crowd, so as to obstruct the public thoroughfare? Policeman—No, they did not. MAGISTRATE—Then how did they play ? ° Policeman— They were tossing up as they walked along they street. MAGISTRATE (to the prisoner)—What have you to say to the charge? Prisoner—Yesterday, my grandfather was in a dying state in Clerkenwell workhouse, and I was going to see him. I agreed with the boy who was with me to toss for a bottle of ginger beer, the best five in nine. We were tossing when the constable came. My grandfather now is dead in the workhouse; (the poor boy cried bitterly). The MAGISTRATE, after a gentle exhortation not to gamble on the Sabbath, discharged him. UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.) James Carr was charged with committing the following fraud. Ann Cloudsley, a young woman, stated that she lived at Banstead, in Surrey, and her parents being very poor, she came up to town on Friday to sell six bottles of ketchup. On arriving in town she called at several houses, but not succeeding in disposing of the ketchup, she was at length accosted by the prisoner, who said that he was in the habit of selling smuggled brandy; but added, if she entrusted him with the ketchup, he would soon find a customer for it. She accord ingly consented and she accompanied him a short dis tance, when he availed himself of the opportunity and got away from her, by running down one of the turnings lead ing out of the Borough. The poor young woman having given a description of the prisoner he was taken into custody soon afterwards, but he had managed to get rid of the article. The Magistrate having characterised the fraud as ore of a very heartless description, sentenced the prisoner to six week's imprisonment. MARYLEBONE.-(THIS DAY.) Caroline Clark, one of that unfortunate class who seem to be doomed to bear the sins as well as the odium of society, was placed before Mr. Rawlinson on a charge of having stolen from the person of George Stone, who described himself as " an interpreter of languages, residing at 22, Great Portland street, the sum of 3s. 6d. The complainant said that he was returning home between three and four that morning, and met the prisoner not many yards from his own house. She accosted him, and he spoke to her for about five minutes, when, telling her that he had no time to wait longer, he put his hand in his pocket with the view of giving her a shilling, when he discovered that her hand had been there before his own, and had abstracted the 3s. 6d. alluded to. Mr. RANN'LINSON-But why, pray, should you give her a shilling ? Complainant—Ob, I don't know ; I was sorry for her, that's all. gr. RAwuNsoN—Were you sober ? Complainant—Yes, rather sober. Mr. ItavvwesoN—Which means rather drunk, I suppose. (To the prisoner)—Well woman, what say you to robbing drunken men in this way ? Prisoner (crying bitterly)— Oh, Sir, bad enough, as poor wretches like myself must be, but I uiver, layer robbed i7l my Life, infer, never. ni ; les, - c lia a The worthy Magistrate made some furthe r ineaJusts be ascertained that the prisoner had never been in eu fore, and that when searched at the station-hou,e, sue wily a halfpenny in money upon her. I i si Mr. RAWLINSON— Ende r all the circumstances, „opS. S. you go, althou g h I think lam straining a point ins° MONE IC AND ComMERCIAL - kyr , W E CITY, QUARTER TO -- o odr The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 0 11 ,a, sa le rate Mile. Prices were firmly maintained, and tou st, ol d amounted to 3,500 bales. Dovor Shares were in reria e ,, f ee a good business was doing in French. Other sbar7,etico, without alteration. Dublin and Cashel, 5; Grand 220 ; Birmingham, 221 to 2 9 0 ; Paris and Wa s, 3/. 168. 6d Amer Lyons and Avignon, i, re side 4 The can advices received to-day, as to vee r . Tyler's having sent a fleet to the Gulf of Mexico, ba cited surprise, and, in some quarters, a little anxietYl iso vo Congress is against the annexation of Texas, it will 4 ; t odif doubt, be against such a demonstration. Trad e was but the banks are said to be issuing t o o much pape r ' drib Much indignation is excited in the City by the a vie r i from Lisbon, of the continued imprisonment Of m•teoP the British merchant, accused of f ermen ting the - t he break, but who has never yet been brought to trial, a a°"cir. conduct of Lord Howard de Walden, unless there ateinei, curestances of a very peculiar character as ye t unexPl'" is not considered to be easily justified. The arrivals from all quarters continue large, but iL i : e °l3l .o l in a few instances they bring anything later. T•t,`,l, the dates to April 16, from the Cape of Good Hope, " m ' o f the weather was excessively sultry, and in one .IN tt it de° eastern province locusts had again appeared, bu t , c haeg not seem that much damage had been done. The per c ent ' on London for Treasury bills at 30 days was 211 pr em Wesee nothing of interest in the Port Phillip PaPe-terpnee sth February: The colonists were evincing much °- in their agricultural and pastoral pursuits. d e cliel The Funds have opened flatly to-day, at a c o sse' r of to j per cent. on Saturday's range for and this is considered to be the effect of the ' '' tb t he can news respecting Texas, together, perhaps, L i roe' indifferent accounts from the Peninsula, and of Welt' pect of a war between France and Morocco, in all of though not ourselves involved, we must feel some der4co interest. For special Transfer and Money, C on sols seg o been 99 to I, and for Account 983 to 98. We ma st o der° that there is very little business doing, and ,that a l l i° demand for stock would no doubt rally the market 7, con' recover all that has been lost. Exchequer Bills 1 1 % 1 0 tinned at 71s. to 735. premium. The Reduced Th ie s e . , 116 Half per Cents. have been 'marked 101 i to 104 , " i - t 199 1 ,' Three per Cents. 98k to 1 3. Bank Stock has been fi,,„ra i k - e t,lt We have not had much doing in the Foreign al 3l : T rov, prices share, from similar causes, the depression in , ) - A Funds. Spanish Actives have been down to 21i t ° ''',;l; s • l the Three per Cents. to 33i i ) 3 -. Mexican have dropPe A " hay and 35. Colombian are 13A. Portuguese Converte been dull at 46i, and Dutch Two-and •a-Half per Cents. a siji The Railway Shares are in fair request, - and ge tter fully previous rates. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE o'o,o (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 190 1 4_ 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ***************..••• „,,148 /‘3O 11 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuiti es 334 per Cent. Annuities, 1818 *********lo2 3% per Cent. Reduced Annu......... 9 Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, . I 3id. 134( 1 . 1,0001. 5001 73 P lll Ditto Small ......... Ditto Advertised FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE o'Co i Columbian Bonds. 35 ,ii, Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. .. ..... 55 0, Ditto for the Account 15% Ditto Deferred Stock Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. ''. , 184 Ditto Converted 2IY4 Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 ...... ......••• 2 . 2 4 Ditto for the Account. Ditto Passive Bonds. Ditto Three per Cent. Ditto for the Account Dutch 234 per Cents ............ 1000 Dutch 5 per Cents PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT 00', RAILWAYS. PAID. PEE to Birmingham and Derby........... 100 -• t A' ....... "'.. Ditto Thirds. Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester Chester and Holyhead to Dublin aid Cashel .. 234 54 ...... t , ...0 Eastern Counties Ditto New Registered Si. Os. Bd. Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O .....«.. 6834 .... to Great Western Ditto 34 Shares 7736 to to ••• Ditto Fifths l2 WS ' . 1o" London and Birmingham lOO ...2•21 .•"•"". to 1 London and Blackw..ll London and Greenwich London and Croydon Manchester and Leeds 7O Ns 10434 t o ,' Ditto % Shares Dit o 4 Shares Midland Counties to ~. Northern and Eastern 45 57t ..... to 9 „ 3 141‘ 1 North Midland Ditto 34 Share, -7 ... 55 ' Norwich and Brandon South Eastern and Dover Ditto New Yarmouth and Norwich Paris and Orleans ............. ........ 20 Parisand Rouen .............»....» .. 20 Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux... *" JOINT STOCK BANKS. to ..', 4 / 12% ...... a P '-_, 1 Union of London lO „, We h a ' f osev MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, J uNE o.'" -- ." , I pp• - • ej, a fair business to-day, and the week closes "It" Quart e r m prices. Manchester and Birmingham, 57k; Ditt o, f ;bald' 4A prem. ; Manchester and Leeds, 103 ; Ditto, Sa l m', 43 ; Paris and Lyons, 31. 11 a. ; Midland Counties, 7.' . MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DA • CORN-EXCHANGE—MOND--A 1 413'' itb id" ' The stands to-day were rather scantily suppl i e d w r y s '" id pies of English Wheat, yet the demand was in a v e ' p s t oov 4 gish state. The finest parcels of both red and w r ilt t a tl y l ,lo off at prices about equal to those obtained on M, claa". 4 t but the middling and inferior kinds were about la P`' 01 1 "11 lower than on that day. The show of free Foreigl 03 s'i`j was good, while the amount of business doing i°, l l iti'" ) ... as in bonded parcels, was limited, at barely late ra' e o tioa,, 5,000 quarters have been on hand for home coris tira Vfig,, ll ;it the 17s. duty since our last. We had scarcely ant's,l, iu ji Barley on offer. Foreign qualities at full quotatip 30 0 at late rates. The prices of Oats were supported. trifle dearer; in Peas and Flour no alteration. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASUItr-,.. ltot° WHICAT—Essex & Kent, : M ALT— Ch eva lier ........ 1 red 4ss to 57s OATS—Yorkshire an ° Ditto, white Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe ..... srl: llf to coln, red 4os to 43s Youghall and 0 20, Ditto white 42s to 47s black .. . ............ ilis to,m Irish, red 47s to 50s Cork, white ... ...... os ( t it Ditto white ... ars—Old 214 to 33s BEANS—Tick ...... . ......... 3e/ 0 ,0 New 36s to 38s; Pigeons . ......... •••• 90 ,0 sii BARLEY — Grinding 24. to 27. PEAS Grey . ........... "" :3 , , :30 . ... to Malting '33.1 to 36s Map , o .............. *, 00 Chevalier 32s to 35s White .... .............. ,o 0 ...... 4 8,, t o MALT—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers... ...... - . to , ' folk s6s to 62s flona—Towii wade "• 346 pi .... :44 to Brow,. 5O. to 54. Sutto k... ........ .. i .: O Kingston amid Ware 56s to 625, Stockton &N" -., 0 0 IN .1301 4 v'os U / p FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR .... td 1 WRRAT--DaritZiC Harnburgh 36s to 40s P.,..AS ..... .. ................... ,i,,1.,,;. BARLEY ............. 3os to 33s FLOCat--AlneriCan ...... , tib ' Oars—New Feed l4s to 16s of ent SMITHFIELD. bate n e a t°' The Beef trade ruled excessively dull; a° 3 „ b „ itt _ D o quite 2d. per 81bs. on last week's prices was sa ii - o ' webP e p The highest figure realised for the best Scots a nd-i, r . iliv er did not exceed 3s. Bd. per 81bs. The demand ;:', , ),cl., P o d, was unusually heavy, at a decline in value of flu,' 35.. ' e s ,hate 4 , : i I P to, 81bs—the best old Downs not realising more per 81bs. Lambs at a decline in value of from - r , p er 8 a J , wai slbs.—the extreme price not being more than . do sva Calves at a decline of 2d. per Blbs. rigs bad a tendency. it. s• J. to„ 0 Per Sibs. to sink the offal. s d. to S. d. ; 0 ; 6 pt.— , 4 4 0 Anterior Beasts Second quality ditto 2 2 8 4 3 2 0 Coarse -w qu oo al l i l t ed Y Prime large Oxen 3 2 3 4 Soutbdown Weihe rs .... v 0 1 0 Prime Scots, Ikc. Large coarse Calves 3 6 4 0 Large Hogs ............ 8 ~a v Prime small ditto 4 2 4 6 Small Porkers ........ . 0 .- . bl 6 Suckling Calves, each 18 0 27 0 Quarter old Pigs, eac 4 0 luterior Sheep SUPPLY AT MARKET. fig' Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I 1 0 3,082 35,650 1 ~,,, i le a zwEIVG.A.TE EL .ND X.E.B.lyZigli'''d 'bas r il ed For the primest Beef and ➢tutton the denia l ? i d s of I ' l ol steady, at about previous rates; but, all ether ix clow nW have moved off slowly, and prices have bad 3 tendency. ditto.. 3 0 .. .` l ' At per stone, by the Carcase. s. J. te e 10 s. d. to dee*, inferior 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior ...... ! 0 6 ,1 0 4 - middling ..... 10 -- middling •••• ',' 3 ti ; 4 ---- prime large 2lO 3 0 --- Prim e ........ .a 6 4 4 . 7 7 - 7 prime small 3 2 3 4 Pork, larg! ...... . ........ :3 6 ------•....... 3 4 4 4 I --lama.. ... . ........ Lamb 4s Od to 5s 2d. ..,„ T c AR RIVALS DURING THI PAST tv. ,-- PP' Beasts. Sheep. Calves. op Scotland 5 2W -- 45 0 Yorkshire :,,,e Norfolk - a. Suffolk 7 52 --- 3° Cambridgeshire .. Essex Surrey 1 26 Devonshire 212 ° 90 (/ go ° o 4 Wiltshire Other parts - —.— ...--- Q , ;,- Total 72 1,473 040 I,' g 0 Previous week's arrival MI Difference since outlast ....... sonouGH HOP nlitUßS 'r ' • ocre aS. e The reports from the Plantations state that no ! tio blo t , fly has been observed within the last few days, e , i s t toge ti , i D e e presents rather an unfavourable appearance. ' , i co ses w with the unusually small supply of Hops on otThr , . , i 4. demand to rule steady, at fully last week's qUotatiop. i 5 33011,0UGU AND sprrai..rxxlair, tliere The season for old Potatoes being nearly clost.,_,ro, 0 A very little disposition manifested to purchase. l_riobtgioe" lines, however, being scarce, higher rates have been Aoia. for such ;but in all other kinds exceedingly little 1 " sag s a p tt ir e i n te d d e( . l bL y b p t7 i e v r a s t ; e WOOL rvitaN.Z.Z..e. nar uero of The pulic sales held since our last have been ~. to , rates. 3c-oertAtrialectbtkllideufeirnatr isnfilfacbteiscue at late TALX OW. The 11°11'e - The demand is very good for the time of ye ar. supply will probably be thlli gto the lot!bdo be vv, tinued drought. At present, however,the price k`e Pl'vni notwithstanding the arrival of new Y. C. Tallo later than usual. Town Tallow is unaltered in value' DA y') LLOYD'S L: NTE RI,O°I j u S1:1:111" -PING.--( THIS Lo r LONDON, JUNE 10. —Wind S.W., light breeze, w't lt 13 S.S.W in q clouds. ~ do.—Acrd windColu—mbine, Wakin, Sydue.Y ; ichaboe; Feleitcher, China; Henry Bell and John Jardine, repo rte; Eliza Johnson , Petrie, Aricati, not Pernambuco iq Bias Majestic, Tyrrell, Old Calabar (March 1); Maosi:;izabetli Cameroons (21st do.); Terpsichore, Trinidad ; r..'_,,i,..a5; Wood, Crosbie, Biu-badoes: Donald, Allison, -81.1:,Tisti; Sweden, Regina, Cay, St. Domingo ; Lynx and Tomlinson, opriails i W.S.W., moderacter.i.;-09e; New Hampshire and Rappahannock, Ne w rs , 41° British Queen, Lancashire, Louisa, Salis_b t ! i: le y ' Lawson, Valparaiso (March 3) ; Queen of the West, Woodhouse (21st ult.), aoil .'sarth 1 New York. 9th.—Arrd. Queen Dixon, Ichabolie , r, v on c o i : Mobile: Scotland, Mills, Savannah ; J‘,oll,aidwint: Ayres ; Countess of ilDurham Milille°l.l,Ydlt°tOci; EL?lowgt.d,:,,vfai' Cpreirl; lish, and Royal Mint, Seaniglt, JainfliCa ; Pearl o'.'Ailtieoci Tobasco (April 20)' John Bolton, Lea nd c ef o ," .,r. i t t : ernic s . y rb i r : son, and W. G. Anderson, New Orleans ; Duke of Cornwall, Apalachicola ; Hercules, :Sew %1 Ls°. Malabar, Calcutta; Native, Apalachicola . siiiP s ' - f o r rive r ' caster and Helen, —. Put back, Wickiingtol3' Of' ' Elizabeth, for New Orleans, leaky. aka „riable,Lata DEAL, JITNE 9.—Wind A.M., light S.S.W.—ilad. John Bull, Crawford,, C h 4 r I 4 11 )3 ( Y, a S-