The Sun. — London, England, 1844-06-20 00:00:00

trentax LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1844. . The disciussions in the Commons last evening were Wet; but full of interest. They showed the utter helplessness of the Conservative Government in that State which is vulgarly supposed to represent the interests of the peole. On the order of the day being moved, by Mr. S. O'BRIEN, for the House going into Commit4ee on the Vestries in Churches Bill, Mr. Rusta moved that it be committed that day six months. Sir JAMES GRAHAM was in favour of the Bill, and IA: T. DUNCOMBE thought that circumstance the best :argument against it, as everything the Right Hon. 313aronet touched was doomed to ruin. The effect of - the protection afforded by Sir JAMES GRAHAM was like that . of the upas tree—it poisoned all it reached. On a division, there was a majority of 14 for going into. Committee. llumE, on this result, moved the adjournment t 1 the House. k JAI allaubing , • tuscusmon followed, for nvhich we refer to the report. Sir R. PEEL and the SOLICITOR-GENEBAL spoke in support of the Bill, though they admitted .some amendments would be necessary. Another division took place; on Air. BOMB'S motion, which was rejected by a majority of 8. On Mr. HuuE intimating that he would mov e . adjournment- on adjournment, Mr. O'Banuc moved that the House adjourn, when, according tq th e report, there was a roar of "ayes," and e House broke up, amidst shouts of laughter, at Seven o'clock. . At the usual weekly illeeting of the 2 1 .2iti-corn-law League, which took *place yesterday (A-ening in Co. vent-garden Theatre, Mr. COBDEN, 'alluding to the approaching debate in.the House of. Commons on the bread-tax, observed :- 7 "* Before we meet again in this . place for the promotion of the objects of free trade, our friend Mr. VILLIERS will have .submitte , ":, this question to - the consideration and decisior ; o f *Parliament. I will not now stay to inquire as lio the Probable manner in which the Members of the Ai ouse igl-PliV 7 46441 , h , - Retion ; it i s su ffi c i en t f or us tr • know t 1 , t; - nltt e : r-tl cir-4ze ci etion- to Parliament for V .ie par (• P. • . 1 1c/h4RI,g nd continuing mono of and f , .. .-- • ‘ opo sts, who think _ and : file _of 06", ' ii ° • ' the rank ~.,.... . . ., . _. . o tae 1 Orifice' , •av- int es t 144 f 1 co a f a r - 17 ,; right to i to their army concessions f ,\ orr y . a r e _not - ly to make • • `<-.,•,; - i _-. - ,:- _ ..„.•;-- , -....2,._ • •--.- yti . THE SUN, LONDON THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 20, 1844. Now ready, in 1 vol. post Bvo., LETTERS FROM NEW YORK. By MARIA CHILD, Author of " The Mother's Book," " The Girl's Book," "Philothea," &c. CONTENTS :—Streets of Modern Babylon—Washingtonians -Trust ing to each other's Honesty—Society makes the Crime it Punishes — The Yankee Boy and the Emperor of Russia—Music written on Sand by Vibration. action to Reformers—Macdonald Clarke, the Mad Poet —Money is not Wealth—Antiquities of New York—Animal liiagnetism—The Soul watching its own Body—Fear of Public Opinion --Capital Punishment—Mercy to Criminals—Puseyism—May-day in New York, &c. " The merits of Mrs. Child are great elegance and fluency of style, ;with an easy command of language, and a goad deal of amiable keling."—Spectator. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. To be had also of all Booksellers. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Signor COSTA has the honour to inform his Friends, Subscribers the p pera, and the Public, that his BENEFIT will take p l ac e THIS EVENING JUNE 2' ' When will be produced an entirely New Opera Serie, composed by X. Costa, the Poetry by Leopoldo Tarantini, entitled • DON CARLOS. • , With New Scenery by Mr. W. Grieve. , Philip 11. ((King of Spain), Sig. Lablache • Don Carlos (his son), Sig. Mario; The Count Posa (Friend of Don Carlos) _Sig. Fornasari; Guinea (Grandee of Spain), Sig. Glubilei; Isabella (Wife of PhiliW, Iladarne Grist. To conclude witht he Grand Ballet entitled ALMA ; ou, La Fille du Feu. Principal Dancers—Mdlle. Cerito, I Mdlle. Fanny Elssler, M. St. Leon, and M. crrot. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be m tic et the Box Oliev, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Half-past Seven. The 0,-era will commence at Eight o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKE. MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE THIS EVENING, JUNE C.O, Will be repeated the Prize Comedy of QUID -PRO QUO; or, THE DAY OF DUPES. With a Prologue spoken by Mr. Webster. Earl of Hunsdon, lUr. Stuart; Lord Belamont, Mrs. Nisbett ; Jeremy Grigson. Mr. Strickland; Hi n y, Mr. H. Moll; Captain till.pett, Mr Buckstone ; Sir George Mordent, Mr W. Farren ; Countess of Hunsdoo ' Mrs. W. Clitlbril ; Lady Mary Rivers, Miss Julia Bennett; Mrs. Grigson, Mrs. Glover; Bridget t rim, Mrs. Hun by. After which, THE TRUMPETER'S DAUGHTER. Phillipot, Mr. Webster; Ma clan, Madame Celeste. 'lb c nclude with THE IRISH. TUTOR. Dr. Flail, Mr. Strick ; Dr. O'Toole, Mr. Leonard. Orchestra Stalls, bs. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, Ps. ; Gallery, -Is.; Upper G t Ilery, Is. Half price—Boxes 3a. s Pit 25 .; Gallery, is ; Upper G illery, GI Doors opened at Half-past Six, and the Performances commc , be at Seven. • rickets and Places to be had of Mr L T. Arcier, at the Box office, from Ten till Five. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-ST It k LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MADAME SALA. THIS EVENING, JUNE tx, Will be; erformed the Opera of LOVE IN A VILLAGE. Youug Meadows, Mr. Allen; Hawthorn, Mr. Paul Bedford; Rosetta , Miss Grant; Lucinda, Miss It. Isaacs. After which, THE MORAL PHILOSOPHER, iw which Mr. 0. Smith and Miss Emma Stanley will perform. In the course of th, Evening Madame Aniade Caste lan will sing a Scena f om La Sonnambula ' and the Romanza e Preghiers from Otello. A Balle . Divertissement and the Celebrated Polka To which will be added, THE tEI TU TOIL Br. Flail, Mr. Granby; Dr O'Toole, Miss Heron, the Infant Power. To conc'ude with ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright; Cleopatra, Miss Emma Itanley. THEATRE ROY AL LYCE UHOUSM, E LAIR ENGLISH OPERA. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELF Y. THLS EVENING, JUNE 20, Will be performed aew Domestic Drama, entitled THE KO MENTOUS QUESTION. Characters by Messrs. Diddear, F. Vining, J. W. Collier, Miss Fortescue, and Mrs. A. Wigan. After which, THE THREE FRA DIAVOLOS. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Keeley, Wigan, Diddear, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. Woollidge. To be followed by an Apropos Bagatelle, called POLKA MANIA. Characters by Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with a (I-suil Burlesque Fairy Extravaganza, called OPEN SESAME; or, a Night with the Forty Thie es. ilassarac, Mr. Keeley; Morgiana, Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF A iiltlinslON.—Balconey Poxes. 41.; Upper Boxes, Ss. ; Pit, 2s. j; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; Upper Boxes, Is 6d. ; Pit, IT. Private Boxes on the it sic-my 'tier (holding eight persons), 'I wo Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Tier (ho ding eight persons), One Guinea and a. Half. Private Boxes on the Pit ficr (holding six perking), One (dui, ea. ASTLEY'S ROY Al. AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS: • • Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. Great Success of the Chinese Feast of Lanterns, and N.w Military and Naval Spectacle. THIS EVENING. JUNE 20, Will be repeated an• entire new Military and Naval Equestrian Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR; or. The Conquests of Amoy by B ntish Arms. New Scenery, Dresses, Appointments, *sc., to realise the recent triumphs of England's Army and Nav y. Feats of 230 Lanterns. • After which, an Allegorical Sketch and Living Tableaux of the Principal Events in the Cereer of the Emperor Napoleon Buena parte—Austcrlitz, St. Helena, Marengo, with Fame's Trbute to England's Hero—the. Duke of Wellington. Entire Change of scenes of the Circle—Monsieur Turnaire on Nine Parses - Herr Teisbeck—La Petit Isabelle— Mr. Newsome-- Mr. R. Smith and his Steeds of the Menage, &c. conclude with THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA; or, The Deserter of Moscow. Tae doors will open nightly at six o'clocc, and the t.• rformances commence at seven. Box-office opened daily from ten till four. The crivate boxes have been recnisstructed and decorated wi; n care and slcndour. -Acting and stagean in ager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. _ WOWS ROIAL SURREY THEATIV. Amazing Novelt y—ThreaGernian.. Dwarfs, under the Patronage of the King of Saxony—More remarkable instances of diminutive perfection than ever General Tom Thumb—Last Week of Mr. 0. Wieland's Eng tgement •• • THIS EVENING, JUNE :0, Will be repeated a New Drama in Three Act', entitled THE TNSTRUMENT OF TORTURE, in which Amts. Saville, Hughes, Hicks, Honnor, Vale, Lewis, and Johnson; Mrs. H Vining, Mrs. Hughes, and Mrs. Hicks, will perform. Alter v hich, a Lilliputian Ballet, entitled Napoleon'a Grati tude,ln whioh the Brockstedt Family—three German Lilliputians, only 29,'32, and 36 inches in height will perform. " To be followed by the Comic Piece of HIDE AND SEEK. To conclude with a Grand Fatty Spectacle oiled THE SPRITE OF THE SNOW DRIFT. Zimmeir, the Sprite, by Mr. G. Wieland. Superb Sceneryand Dresees. Extraoidi my effects, and w , inderful feats. Pisces and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box ohlce, from Eleven to-Four. • • ROYAL SURREY• ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Daylight View of • LONDON in the OLDEN TIME! Painted by Daimon and Teibin. The sensation caused by this unrivalled production is beyond all Former precedent; the artist, the amateur, the casual observer ;arc all struck with its extraordinary beauty and fidelity of delinea tion, and are unanimous in pronouncing it the most wonderful ex hibtion ever witnes4ed. To view it only as a vehicle for the terrific display at Dusk is unjust ; it should be seen in the calm stillness of the quiet Evening, wish los Towers and Steeples reflected in the spa cious Lake, to he hilly appreciated. The Evening PROMENADE CONCERTS, conducted by Mr. 441 - )dfrey, are upon a scale of more than usual excellence: but words 1k"►1I in doing justice to the awful representation of THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON. Its fearful chiracfcnsties are truthfully pourtrayed, but at the same time so beautifully blended with the Wonders of the Pyrotechnic Ait, that delight is predominant over terror; and the Thousands who nightly crowd the Gardens hail it with acclamations, and admit that Southby, the Unrivalled Pyrotechnist, h. s achieved a matchless less triumph. The Gardens and Zoological Collection are in the most perfect state, and combining so many and interesting features, are by far the most attractive lounge in or near the metropolis. teceding of the Animal; at Five—Concert at sax--Conflagration at Dirtk. Admitt ince, One Shilling. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLI . IMPORTANT NOTICE. ONE SHILLING Admission to THE NAT OLEON MU SEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Colbetten of HLsto ilea' Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed by One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a cat of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most In aMictive and interesting manner, the most important part of Euro pean history, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLI'R CROMWELL, and LOUIS XIV., to the deaths or GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR .ZAI'OLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often, during the last and present year, by the Royal FamPy, the Duke of 'Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, an 1 their Ladies, mkt), many thousands sl the Nobility and Public; an , l the Pro }pricier has recently been able to increase, by several very fine !pictures, &c., his previous almost incredible number ant variety of MSS., Works of Art, and a multitude of valuable Reiter, and other - .:uriosities, in this most instructive and, as hundreds have said it 'aght to be, a National Museum. Many thousand have inspected it, THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS acre stated that it ought to be.seen by every oae. The price of admis • Ition is reduced to ONE SHILLING. _ _ The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen only at the Egyptian Mall," Piccadilly, daily from Ten till Dusk. TIIE WEATHER.-SuN OFFICE, .TuiTE 20. rRXRMOMETER, Lowest, 49 ; Highest, 63; Noon, 62. BAROMETER, 30,1.—wiND, W. _ . NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the reezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. •IIIUFI.WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TUTS DAY. Morning ...`.26 minutes after 1 I Evening ... 44 minutes after 4 now." The probability unquestionably is, as the Member for Stockport says, that the Con servatives will vote to a man in favour of the continuance of the corn-laws ; but it is by no means a matter of certainty that they will do so, for after their late extraordinary and unhesitating changes and tergiversations, at the command of their Coryphmus, Sir ROBERT PEEL, it is impossible to speculate on the course of conduct they will be likely to pursue on any public question of moment. That they will look pretty sharply after, what they con sider to be, their own interests, may be predicated of them with great safety ; still, as their blind, cringing obe,iience to their despotic chief, and their horror of embarrassing him by any decided manifestation of independence, are apparently stronger feelings with them than even their own selfish interests, there is little doubt that if the Premier was to de clare himself a corn-law repealer, •the Conser vatives would instantly declare themselves to the same effect. Whatever measures he thought fit, in the plenitude and profundity of his po litical wisdom, to bring forward, his sycophantic adherents would be sure to stamp with the seal of their approbation, no matter how absurd or ruinous it might be to the welfare of the community. Were he even to cashier Lord LYNDIIURST, and make the Devil the keeper of the QUEEN'S conscience, we firmly believe that the Conservatives would hail the appointment as one of the most moral and virtuous that could possibly have been made! As it is not at all likely, however, after his formal announcement at the, commencement of the session, of his intention to make, just at present, no further alteration in the corn-laws, that Sir ROBERT PEEL will support Mr. VILLIERS' motion on that question, we may fairly presume that his obsequious party will exhibit equal determination to make no concession on this point, so that nothing more will be obtained by the discussion than an additional proof that the House of Commons represents the sense of the country to no greater extent than it did in the days of the boroughmongers. Mr. COBDEN next proceeded to give an explanation of the reasons which induced him to give his late vote on the Sugar question; and remarked, in reference to the present aspect of affairs in Parliament :—" He was sorry to say that such was the opinion of political parties throughout the country, that his belief was that people cared very little for one party or the other, and that there was very little to choose between them." There is but too much truth in this obser vation. Both Whigs and Tories have long lost the confidence of the country—the latter, however, to a much greater degree than the former—and what is a still more discouraging sign of the times, is the daily increasing conviction among the people, that there is scarcely a public man of any note whose consistency and disinterestedness may be relied on. For this general distrust we have, in a considerable measure, to thank Sir ROBERT PEEL, whose indifference to principle and resolute adherence to the expediency system of government, which have infected a great majority of the House of Commons, have at length fully opened the eyes of the public, and taught them what they may expect—or rather what they may not expect—from their representatives in Parliament. We have, however, one consolation. Things cannot continue much longer in their present state, for it is the nature of an evil, when once it has attained a certain height, to generate its own remedy. The conduct of the House of Commons in its two divisions, on the amendment moved by Mr. Plume MILES on the Sugar Duties Bill, has literally been marked by "double dealing." In our paper of Tues day we showed that, whatever difference of opinion might exist as to the proposed amended scale of duty suggested by the Hon. Member for Bristol, the vote of Friday night last clearly repudiated the scale set forth by the Government, in the first clause of this new Bill. Now the vote of Tuesday night as clearly repudiated the amendment of Mr. MILES, and af firmed the original proposal of Government. If in Committee of the whole House, on the night of the 14th June, a majority of 20 Members out of 462, then present and dividing, determined that the words which Mr. MILES had called upon them to expunge, in order to make room for those of his amendment, should not stand part of the original clause, it is utterly impossible for men of common consistency and plain understanding to conceive, to understand, how, on the night of the 17th, a majority of 22 members out of 488, then and there sitting—a similar Committee—could have brought themselves to decide that the same words should stand part of such clause. The common sense of, Auch self-Contra diction is as hard to perceive as its common honesty; and both the one and the other of these, qualities— if the proceedings adopted really possess them — it is as hard to detect, as it would be to define the " privilege of Parliament.' Perhaps, of that lex non scripta that undefined and undefinable right of violating its own pretensions in any given number of cases, and vindicating them in any other given num ber—that right which insists on slumbering at its own pleasure in one gallery, and being alive and militant in another—dead as to the reporters for the newspapers, alive against all the rest of mankind—of that right, this title to enact self-stultification may be part and parcel. But to any other than mere Parlia mentary apprehensions, it will be thought to have resulted, as the affair under our consideration, in one of the most pitiful exhibitions of vacil lating, timid, subservient, puerile, capricious legislation, ever recorded in the annals of a de liberative assembly. How the 20 minority of Friday expanded into the majority of 22 of Monday, we do not stop to inquire. It may have been a compromise—it may have been a bargain—it will never be thought an honest vote. It may have been a " Quid pro Quo," agreed to be contributed by one•section of the House to her MAJESTY'S Ministers, in return for the aid afforded by Ministers to that sec tion on some former occasion. A condition of things the reverse of this may really account for the strange comment of Monday's division on Friday's debate, and its consequences. The Ministry may have agreed to assist the section, in gratitude for former services, by adhering to this one scheme of duty, at the risk even of their longer tenure of office. Be this as it may—whatever party was to provide the " Quid pro Quo"—the division lists proclaim clearly enough that the 17th of June was the "Day of Dupes;" and we are much mistaken if public opinion does not pass upon the party comedy enacted at St. Stephen's, a much severer verdict of condemnation than it has pronounced on its dramatic contemporary of that name at the Haymarket theatre. That Sir ROBERT PEEL should have brought him self to the intrepid purpose of calling upon the House of Commons to cancel, and abjure, and disavow, the solemn decision they had come to, after mature de bate, in the face of the country, just two-and-seventy hours before; may astonish those who only contrast the coolness of such a request with the usual deco rous propriety of the most plausible of Premiers. It does.not surprise us, who have a lively recollection of the frolics of this factory legislator. That Sir RO BERT PEEL should have relied upon the precedent of Lord ALTHORP'S more manly and straightforward appeal to the Commons, to reconsider their vote for extinguishing the Malt-tax, is intelligible enough, on the ground that the egotistical complacency of the Right Hon. Member for Tamworth may easily over look the somewhat startling disproportion of his own popularity in the House to that of the honest Whig ClF.ncellor of the Exchequer ; but that the House 'if Commons, not content with its perilous departure from sound and constitutional practice, in the case . of the Malt-tax, and at the prayer of Lord ALTHORP, should have been induced. to hazard a similar experi meenut,mosntatnhcees of motion of Sir ROBERT PEEL, under the cir object of M r . M- debate, and the terms and s amendment, is an event that must have To,,:kecl all previous anticipations of reason able men. Are have reason to suppose that it amazed no man So utterly as Sir ROBERT PEEL himself! On. the merits of the main question between the Go vesnme,nt scheme of duties and Mr. MlLEs's, we do r,ot offer, at present, any opinion ; but we cannot refrain from observing, that if ever a speech, by its proverty, its feebleness, its irrelevancy ; its tone of dictation to one great party; its attempted intimida tion of another, by a hollow menace of resigni ng office in the event of defeat to the Ministerial project ; was calculated to ruin the cause it was meant to ad vocate, it was the lamentable address of the Right Honourable Baronet to the Committee on Monday' last. To reconcile its own concurreppe in such .a sacrifice of consistency and opinion to the deficiencies, a plea that, in all respects of force, argument, and exa. pression, has been allowed on all hands to have been the most signal failure of which Sir ROBERT was ever guilty, must now form the pleasing occupation of the miserable majority of Monday night. To reconcile the respect, the sympathy, or the confidence of the British people, with the shipwreck it has made of its public spirit, its moral consistency, and its constitu tional independence, will be the more difficult task of the House of Coramons. Madrid Journals of the 12th announce that the bank of San Fernando had advanced money for the pay ment of the next dividend, but no arrangement had been agreed to between the Finance Minister and the committee of capitalists. The Three per Cents. were done at 26t for cash, and 27 at 60 days; and the Five per Cents. at 20f at 60 days. The discussions in the bureaux of the French Chamber of Deputies on the Education Bill, have excited much interest at Paris, and leave little doubt that the ob noxious measure will either be materially altered, or rejected altogether. Most of the journals are opposed to it, and it does not find even one supporter among the members of the Committee appointed by the Chamber to draw up the report. In the debate which took place in the Committee on Monday, M. TRIERS made a strong attack upon the. Jesuits—in other words, the Church—defended the claims of University, and announced his determination to op pose the Bill in every legitimate way. Other Mem bers also spoke against the Jesuits. Possibly this result may convince the clergy that they have disclosed their scheme prematurely, and that they must make more converts among the people, before they can contend against the State, and also public opinion throughout France. On this subject the Presse has the following remarks :—" The ultra-University spirit yesterday carried off a signal victory, in the nomina tion of the Commissioners on the Secondary Instruction Bill. The nine Commissioners are thus distributed—for the liberty of instruction, more or less extended, Messrs. DE TOCQUEVILLE, CARNE, and ODILON BARROT.; for the University monopoly, Messrs. Sr. MARC GIRARDIN, DE REMUSAT, TRIERS, QUINETTE, and DUPIN. M. DE SALYANDY attacked the Bill in general, without declaring to which side he leant. The question will, therefore, behold in the opposed camp& the Left Centre, represented by Messrs. TRIERS and BEMUSAT, and on the other the Left, represented by Messrs. ODILON BARROT and DE TOCQUEVILLE. This result is equiva lent to an indefinite adjournment of the solution of the question ; and we are firmly convinced would have been altogether different had the clergy—com prehending that all agitation on its part must inevit ably have the effect of raising up against it old dis trusts badly extinguished—abstained from interfering in the question by means of the daily press." The quarrel between the French Vr and the Pre sident of the Cour Royale still continues. M. SEGUIER will make no apology, and the barristers consequently refuse to plead, so that public business is en tirely at a stand. The subjoined account of what took place in the Court on Monday appears in Ga lignant's Messenger of Tuesday : " Several conferences having taken place between the Pro cureur-General, M. Hebert, the Judges of the Cour Royale, and the Batonnier of the Order of Advocates, with the hope of bringing about a reconciliation between M. Seguier, the President, and the bar, of the differences which we have no ticed, there was great agitation yesterday morning at the Palais de Justice, and the first chamber, over which M. Se guier presides, was full of advocates in plain clothes, anxious to learn the result of the steps taken by their council. Messrs. Chaix d'Estange the Batonnier, Marie, Bethmont, and Lion ville, were the only barristers who appeared in their official costume. At half-past nine the Court sat, and the President called the first cause, without taking any notice of what had passed. On this M. Pecan, the avoue, moved that the hear ing might be postponed for a week, on account of the absence of his advocate. This was done, with an announcement that if there were no pleadings on the part of the suitor, the law officers of the Crown would be heard. Two other causes were called, and put off in like manner, to be judged on the report of the counsellors of the Court.. All the rest of the causes on the . list, were, afterwards deferred for a week, and the Court broke up." . . The. Messager publishes two dispatches from the Duke D'AustALE, giving an explanation of the un fortunate affair of Biscara, and casts some blame on the officer who had command of the small garrison ; while the National attributes the calamity entirely to the negligence or imprudence of the Duke himself. "Before accusing M. PETIGAUD," says that journal, " the Duke D'Amtiaxx should 'have begun by justify= ing himself from the fault which he had previously committed, in allowing himself to be surprised in an attack which he neither knew how to foresee nor pre vent, and in which a great number of our soldiers were killed through the want of skill of their too young general. Let each be judged according to his deeds." THE BOURSE-TUESDAY, JUNE 18. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Pike. Price. Price. French Five perCznta.• •• •• 122 .. 122 20 .. 122 .. 122 20 Four-and-a-Half.... 113 .. 113 .. 113 .. 113 Four per Cents. lOB 20 .. 108 20 .. 108 20 .. 108 20 Three per Cents..••• 82 60 .. 82 65 .. 82 60 .• 82 60 Bank of France 3060 ..3060 ..3060 ..3060 Lailltte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesll3o ..1130 ..1130 ..1130 5,000 f. Sharessloo ..5100 .. 5100 ..5100 Belgian Bank ...... le •• •• •• 660 .. 660 .. 660 .. 660 Belgian Fives,lB3l ••••• •• 104; .. 104; 104 • • 104 1840 .• •• .• 1051 .. 105; .. 105; .. 105 i 1842 .• •••• 109 .. 109 .. 109 .• 109 Spanish Active • ....• .• .• •• 301 . • 301 .. 301 • . 301 Threes •• •••••• •• • . 341 .. 341 •• 34; .. 341 Portuguese Five per Cents•• 461 .. 46; .. 461 .. 46; NeapOlitan ••••••• • • • • • • • • 99 :55 . • 99 60 . • 99 50 • • 99.60 Roman ..'104} .. 1041 1041 .. 1041 - RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R. 8... .• • • • • • • • • 370 .. 375 370 .. 375 L. 8.• . 245 .. 246 25 .. 245 .. 246 25 Rouen.. Rouen to Ilavre• Orleans Strasburg to Dale.. ••—• • •. 237 50 .. 2 3 8 75 .. 2 . 3 Avignon to Marseilles— •• •• 757 50 .. 7.57 50 .. 757 50 • 757 50 RAILWAY SHARES FOR 30TH JUNE. St. Germain Versailles, R.B•• L.B•• • ...... • •• 247 50 .. 247 50 .. 247 50 .. 247 50 Rouen ............. Rouen to Havre• . • . Orleans .... •• 756 25 .. 750 .• 756 25 .. 975 - 967 50 .. 970 Strasburg to Bale • . .. • ..... 238 75 .. 238 75 • • 235 .. 235 Avignon to Marseilles...• .. 760 .. 761 25 .. 750 760 DEPARTURE OF TUE KING OF SASONY.—His Majesty took leave of the Queen this morning, and quitted the Metropolis, by the London and Bir mingham railway, for Scotland, wherein his Majesty will make a tour. Prince Albert left town this morning, to lay the foundation-stone of the new building at 'Eton College. The Sacred Harmonic Society have announced a performance of Mendelssohn's " St. Paul," on Friday next, the- 28th instant, the composer having under taken the task of conducting it. THE SHEIEVALTY.—It is rumoured that Mr. Lau rie, the wealthy coaehmaker, is to be one of the She riffs for the ensuing year. RUNNING REIN V. ORLANDO.—There is not the slightest prospect of the Running Rein trial coming on before Monday week. PRESENTATION OF THE DUBLIN PETITION ON THE LATE STATE TRIALS.—The Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, and Corporation of Dublin proceeded in State yesterday to the House of Commons, for the purpose of pre senting the petition of the Dublin Corporation on the subject of the late State trials in Ireland. Having presented the petition, his Lordship and the other members took their seats under the strangers' gallery, where they remained for about an hour, at the end of which time they left the House, and returned in pro cession. MORTALITY IN TUE METROPOLIS.—The total number of deaths during the week ending June 15, was 855—average for the last five years, 946. In the first class of diseases, called zvmotic, which includes small-pox, measles, scarlatina, &c., there is a consi derable increase, the number being 194, while the average is 178. In nearly all the other cases there is a decrease. Deaths from small-pox are unusually great, the average being 15, while last week they amounted to 47, and of these 46 had not been vacci nated. • Among the unvaccinated are reckoned a fe male, aged 11 months, who was vaccinated only 10 days before death ;" a female, aged 3 years, who had been " vaccinated 3 times without effect ;" and a male, aged 6 years, who had been " vaccinated with doubt ful success." Among the vaccinated are included a male aged 25 years, who " had been vaccinated young —one indifferent cicatrix ;" and a female, aged 23 years, who had been " vaccinated when 6 rears old— one small cicatrix scarcely perceptible." The deaths from this disease, occurred at the following ages : Eleven under 1 year; seventeen, 1-3 ; three, 3-5 ; seven, 5-10 ; one, 13 ; five, 20-30 ; and three, 30-40 years. Deaths from consumption, 136—average 147. The following is an analysis of the violent deaths : Fracture or contusion by falls; 4 cases; drowning, 7 cases, of which 4 were accidents, 1 suicide, and 2 manslaughter; hanging, 3 cases (suicides); suffoca tion in bed, 1 case ; and at birth, 1 case. In the re maining cases, respectivel y, " injury," "manslaughter," " murder," the means by which death was caused are not stated—total, 19 cases. The thermometer was highest on Thursday, the 13th-83.1; and lowest on Tuesday, the 11th, 47.5 degrees. The total amount of rain for the week is marked at the unusally low degree of 00.2. In the account of the .Waterloo banquet in The Sun of iesterday, the Duke of Wellington is stated to have given Mae health of Colonel Macdonald. It should have been Lieutenant-General Sir Janne Macdonell. THIS 3i_A'S;(''S NEWS. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) THE BARON DE BODE V. THE QUEEN ' ON A PETITION OPPMHT. This case was specially appointed for trial at bar to-day. Shortly after ten o'clock Lord Denman, Mr. Justice Pattison, Mr. Justice Williattis, and Mr. Justice Coleridge took their seats on the bench. Several eminent foreign counsel were in atteturance. On the Judges taking their seats, the case was called on, and ajury sworn. Mr. MELLOU opened the pleadings, and Mr. HILL proceeded to address the jury on behalf of the Baron de Bode, and in favour of the petition of right. In the course of the address he should have to make to the jury, it .would become his duty to explain the nature of the proceeding which they were called upon that day to consider; but before, doing so he would make a few observations, as introductory to the case. He thought it was almost impossible that any gen tleman on the jury should not have heard of the case of the Baron de Bode. They must have seen his name frequently in the newspapers ; and that very circumstance, he felt no doubt, would induce the jury to look well into the merits of the claim, Eleven years ago the case of the Baron de Bode was investigated by Sir Thomas Wilde. At that time he lost his seat as a Member of Parliament, and he, Mr. Hill, tained one ; and in consequence of that, he was re quested by Sir Thomas Wilde to study and advocate this great case, and after that investigation he was every day more convinced of the soundness of the claim, and of -the in justice, the cruel injustice, done to the Baron de Bode. The present Baron was a claimant under the treaty of 1814, be tween England and France, by which the lirench Govern ment set apart a sum of seven millions for the satisfaction of the claims of English subjects who had been spoliated during the time of the French revolution ; and the Baron was one of those who had. been spoliated. Now with re spect to tho history of the case—it was this :—the father of the pysent Baron was a noble of the German Empire, and had no connexion-with France. Early in life, however, he entered into the !French ''''"nerviee, -- -but he still remained a foreigner, or native of Germany; in 1775, the Baron came to England and married an English lady, in which country the present Baron de Bode was born at Luksley-park. The Baron entered the French army, and attained the rank of Colonel in the Nassau regiment. In 1787, he possessed a lease of certain salt works at Soultz in Lower Alsace. It was necessary to spend considerable sums of money on these salt works to make them available. The Lords of Soultz had formerly been independent, but prior to the time of Charlemagne, the Lord of Soultz, like many other petty Sovereigns, placed himself under the protection •of the Elector of Cologne, reserving to himself all his independent rights, but engaging to perform military service to the pro tecting power, who, on the failureof issue male, had a right of making a presentation of the Lordship of Soultz to some other person in the same terms. At the end of the thirty years' war, Alsace was ceded to France by the Emperor. The Emperor giving up all that he had a right to give up and no more. The Baron of Fleckenstein, Lord of Soultz, was by nlkme excepted from this treaty, except that politically he was'tinited to Ffance. If he sought for justice, he was to seek it in the Imperial Chamber, and the succession to Soultz was to be regulated by the laws of the empire. The treaty of Nimeguen re-established the treaty of Munster, which was again confirmed by the treaty of Ryswick, and various other treaties—more particularly by the treaty of Versailles in 1783. At this time the Baron de Bode became connected with Soultz. The house of Fleckenstein had become extinct in 1720, and the French house of Soubise Rohan was pre sented to it by the Archbishop Elector of Cologne, and that family possessed it at the time Baron Charles de Bode became connected with the property. The Rohan who pos sessed the estate was without heirs, and the Baron Charles de Bode used all his influence to become the successor of the Bohan family. A considerable portion . of his wife's property was expended in douceurs to persons to interest themselves on his behalf, and the Baron Charles became possessed of the Lordship of Soultz. He derived a revenue from his vassals, who held under him, and there were great mineral riches on the property ; there were salt mines, asphalte mines, petro leum mines, and coal mines. Part of the land had been re stored to the Baron by the French Parliament, but he claimed compensation for having been deprived of his pro perty so long, and for the portion he had lost. Before the Baron Charles had completed building his mansion, the Re volution broke out. The Baron. Charles had taken care, be fore that period, to leave his son, the present claimant, in vested as his successor. At the commencement of the French Revolution the English were the most popular of all foreign ers ; and as the present claimant was an Englishman by birth, and an English subject, it occurred - to the Baron Charles that it would be better he should abdicate the land, which he had the power to do, in favour of his son. This was in the year 1791, the Baron Henry being 14 years of age. The Baron Charles administered, the property in the name of his son up to the year 1793. In the October of that year, the father and son, in order to avoid the fury of the revolution, determined to quit Alsace for Germany, and their property was seized and confiscated as the property of emigrants. Great spolia tion was committed OA the property: The Baron de Bode ultimately took refuge in Russia, and the present claimant entered the Russian army, and again saw Alsace, when, along with the victorious army, he pursued the French across the Rhine, and was present at the treaty of Paris. By that treaty it was provided that France should, from time to time, advande sufficient money to pay in full all English subjects who had been sufferers by undue and unjust confiscations. The French Government had fulfilled that treaty with strict honour and unexampled liberality. The fund was immedi ately set apart by the French Government, and the sufferers were entitled to the interest of the money until the claims were finally settled. A mixed commission had ascertained the probable amount of these claims, and the French Govern ment transferred 6,000,0001. to the English Government on those terms. The English GoVernment undertook to satisfy all.claims in full. If any surplus were left it was to be the property of the English Government; if there were any deficiency the English Government was to make it good. It was enacted that no claim shduld be admitted unless sent in within three months. Unfortunately no officer was ap pointed to receive these claims. The Baron de Bode sent in his claim by Means of the French Ambassador, the Duke de Richelieu, who, th ink ing the Baron was a French subject, had omitted to insert the Baron's name on the register. The Baron came to England and consulted Sir S. Romilly, who convinced the Duke de Richelieu that the Baron was a British subject; but unfortunately his name did not appear in the register, and therefore he was not within the Act of Parlia ment. This, however, did not vitiate his claim. 'All the effect would have been, that if the Commissioners had refused to hear his claim, he could not have conic to the Court of Queen's Bench for a mandamus. His claim, however, was admitted by the Commissioners, and lie came to England in 1819. Three years elapsed before lie was called upon by the Com missioners to substantiate his claim. Now, under the cir cumstances of the case, it was adding injury to insult to insist upon the same strict proof as would be required in a court of justice; yet, with an ignorance as lamentable as it was ridiculous, these Commissioners required from the Baron de Bode, in the greatest possible haste, the production of certain documents, which, by the law of the country, he never could have had in his possession, and of others which had been destroyed by the spoliation= of his property, and, under these -circumstances, the Commissioners rejected his claim. In other cases, on the production of fresh evidence, the Commissioners had opened their award, and allowed claims which they had before rejected, but that which had been granted to others was refused -to the Baron de Bode. It could not be on account of the amount of his claim, for claims of a larger amount than his had been admitted after previous rejection. He could conceive reasons for this, but as he was without proof, he would not further allude to them. The case was brought before the House of Commons successively by Mr. Littleton and Mr. Stanley, now Lord Stanley. It was met by assertions the most preposterous. He, himself, then brought it forward, and was counted out. In the next ses sion, by the help of Sir F. Pollock, he procured a Committee for investigation, and it was thought right by the- House of Commons to let in a flood of litigant claimants to oppose the Baron on the ground that his claim if admitted would exhaust the whole surplus, and thus the affair was protracted until nearly the close of the session, when the Committee re ported that the case was nearly completed, and that if they were re-appointed in the following session, they would be able to make a report. That Committee required the production of documents, which, with great sacrifices, the Baron pro cured; and having reduced the Baron to absolute starva tion, they refused to re-establish the Committee, and never, in the course of his reading, had he, except once, read of such a shameful proceeding as this refusal, and that was the decree of Robespierre, that the' trial of the Girondists should come to an end, whether the evidence were finished or not. The Commissioners considered that the cession of the lands to the claimant was a form to deceive the French Government, and -therefore rejected the claim. It was not a thing done in a corner, nor with the purpose of deceiving; but that was a mere question of six years' income ; for ad knitting that cession was not valid; he would succeed as heir to his father, who died in 1797, and as it was discovered that the Baron de Bode's claim had never been investigated upon its merits, it was determined to apply to this Court for a mandamus to the Lords of the Treasury to liquidate the claim; but, as the amount of the claim had not been ascertained, thateatiplication was unsuc cessful. IThere remained one resource open. The law has provided' that the Subject shall have redress even against the Crown, by petition of right. A subject having a claim against the Crown petitions that right may be done. The Queen, under the sign manual, endorsed the writ " Let right be done," and the writ was returned to the Court of Chancery. A commission issued; a jury was impanelled in the year 1842, and witnesses wore examined. If the Crown had thought proper to appear, the case might have concluded at that time; but the law officers of the Crown did not think proper-to appear; they rather chose to take advantage of the Chances of i rehearing. The jury found for the Baron to the amount of between 300,0001. and 400,0001. In Europe it was believed that an English jury had com pelted the Government to do justice, but the Govern ment 'had no idea of paying the money. They deter ! mined to have the case tried again. The Crown refused to give the Baron any facilities for investigation, but if the ob ject was to stifle investigation they would be disappointed, for the Baron's witnesses were in Court to prove his right. The Crown chose to traverse, that was to deny every fact of the case; and they had moreover, which was to him a matter of unmixed astonishment, chosen to plead the Statute of Limita tions. Could the statute apply to a case of this kind? Could the trustee, a rich and powerful nation, turn round upon a poor old man like the Baron , de Bode, and say, " You are too late. You have submitted to in justice so long that you must submit to it for ever ?" How strange it was that men should make use of this plea on behalf of the Crown, while under similar circumstances they would be ashamed of making use of such a plea for themselves. Where did it come from? Not from the Soli citor-General; he had been too short a time in office. Not from the Attorney-General, he well knew that there was no limitation to the petition of right. Not from Sir Frederick Pollock, he' had admitted the rights of the Baron de Bode. He could not even say that it was at the instigation of the Devil, for he had had the satisfaction of knowing that gen tleman—[Here Mr. Hill, amidst much laughter, turned and e bowed to Mr. Waddington]—for many years, and he would not forfeit his friendship even on account of that plea, which, however, was innocuous, for there was no limit to a petition of right. It was pleaded, thirdly, that the cause of action had occurred before the reign of the present Queen. Yes, and before the life of the present Queen. For thirty years bad the Baron de Bode been seek ing in vain for justice. Would the jury refuse it him ? Would they consult the miserable pecuniary profit of their country rather than her honour? If ever there was a case to task a jury for favour it was this. But lie did not ask for favour for the Baron de Bode ; he only asked for justice. The Learned Counsel having concluded his opening speech, several witnesses were called to prove the statements made by him, and a variety of documentary evid ence was put in and read. The case had net concluded when we went to press. CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.) Edmund Jones, a carpenter, was charged with having been drunk and creating a disturbance in the Board-room of St. Seplilchre's workhouse. Mr. Bickell Stanley, one of the oversee rs, de?osed that qnthe previous evening the prisoner came to the workhouse in a state of intoxication, and having been desired to leave, became riotous. Mr. Andrew Andrews, another of the overseers, deposed that in consequence of the prisoner having been so disorderly, lie was directed to go into the yard at the wo rkhouse, but instead of doing so, he rushed into the passage leading into I . , the Board-room, and there lay down across the door-way, so as to prevent ingress or egress. It required the united exer tions of three persons to remove him. He was a very bad _character, and continually drunk. He had been expelled from the workhouse for creating a spirit of insubordination among the paupers, whom he told not to work. Police constable Jackman deposed that he took the pri soner into custody. He was drunk and disorderly, and offered to treat witness in several public-houses on their way to the station-house. The prisoner was sentenced to find bail for his good be haviour for a month, two sureties in 101. each. MONE V' AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITYI QUARTER TO THREE. A large business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yester day, and prices were Ad. per lb. higher than Friday. Sales 10,000 bales, about one- third to speculators.—Shares were rather better, and a fair business was done Birmingham and Gloucester were 934 ; Grand Junction, 220 ; Great Western, 121 ; Ditto, Half, 774 ; Birmingham, 219 t 9 2184 ; Ditto, Thirds, 36 ; South Western, 864 ; Midland Counties, 934 ; North Midland, 934 ; South Eastern, New, 11; Lyons and Avignon, V. 3s. 6d ; Paris and Lyons, 34 ; Ditto and Rouen, 38; Orleans and Tours, 2A. The Swift brings the mails from Rio de Janiero, with dates to the 29th April, and from Pernambuco of the first fort night in May. The Brazilians do not appear in the least to trouble themselves concerning the treaty with this country, which expires in the course of the present year, conceiving probably that with our present scale of duties they are on the best side of the hedge if they allow it to lapse, and throw themselves open to the general trade of the world : not that our custom is a matter to be de spised, but that the terms upon which we give it render it of less moment, in comparison with that which Might arise from the establishment of a livelier trade with other Powers of Europe._ -.After having so long received in different advices from itio; our merchants are gratified at the improved tone Of their letters by the last and present arrival, and which it is hoped may continue, as, upon the prosperity of the Brazilian traders themselves depends not only the extent of our intercourse, but, perhaps more than with many other countries, the punctuality of the remittances, since it must be admitted that on this ground, if not at present, at least, not many years since, there was great cause of complaint. The ship arrivals,bring no late letters. The public securities have been firm again to-day, business being, however, rather slack. Consols tbr the opening rea lised 981 to 984, and Exchequer Bills are at the premium of 735. to 755. The Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. obtain 101 to 102, and the Three per Cents. 981 to 99a. Bank Stock has been nominally at 1974 to 198. There has been very little doing in the Foreign invest ments. Spanish Active Bonds are marked 234 to 234 ; and the Three per Cents. 341 to 35, being previous rates. Por tuguese Converted Stock has been at 464 to 47. Mexican Bonds have been steady at 34; to 4. The next West India mail will not bring any news from that quarter ; and, ,consequently, the Bonds will be left to mere local influences. , The Spanish dividend, it is now confidently stated, will be paid in due course, though not yet advertised, and it is apparently upon this presump tion that the purchases of the stock have been made. Colom bian Bonds have been quoted .12A to 12; ; and Brazilian are without alteration; Dqtch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. ob tain 614. The Railway Shares have been rather better. • BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3% per Cent- Annuities, 1818 lO2 ' 3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities ......... Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860,...,„„, 12% Consols for Account 9 6% Exchequer Bills, I%d. 136d -1,0001. • Ditto Small - ; .... „,„.. 75 pm. Ditto Advertised......... FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Belgian Bondi, 5 per Cent 104% Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent Chilian Bonds, 6 per' t • • • 103% Columbian Bonds. - • • - • 12% Mexican Bonds, 1 837, 5 per Cent. .................. 34 Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 23 Ditto for the Account Ditto Three per Cent " • • Ditto for the Account. • • • • • ;IS Dutch 234 per Cent& Ditto for the Account ..... 61% Dutch 5 per ...... 109%% Ditto for the Account lOO% PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. . RAILWAYS. • PAID. PLR SHARE. Birmingham and Gloucester.-- 100 ..... 93 Eastern Counties Ditto New Registered 81. Os. Bd. Great North of England ' 100 Great Western - .75 to Ditto % Shares ..... - ... London and Birmingh - am.... IOQ 2lB London and Brighton .... ....... .... 50 ..... .... 41% London and South Western 41% Manchester and Leeds 7O lO6 to Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 .... ..... 56% Midland Counties Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 21 North Midland Ditto % Shares 4O 46% to Norwich and Brandon South Eastern and Dover .... ..... 32% 3 4%% ... to York and North Midland Ditto % Shares Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux... 1 Paris and Orleans ............. ........ 20 Paris and Rouen.... ........ ....... .... 20 Roucn and Havre. - MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 19.—Our mar ket is somewhat quieter than yesterday, without alteration in prices :—Eastern Counties, 114 ; Ditto, Perpetual, No. 1, 325. 4d., 325. 10d., 325. 4d.; Manchester and Leeds, Quar ters, 84; North British, 24 ; Blackburn and Preston, 4 ; Shef field and Manchester, Quarters, 11 3-16. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) SAY DIARKETS. SmintFrELD.--Coarse • Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 41; use ful ditto, 41 4s to 4/ 8s; fine Upland ditto, 4/ 10s to 4/ 15s ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 51 15s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 6s to 118 s . Wheat Straw, 1/ 8s to 11 10s per load. Supply moderately good, and rather dull. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay 3/ 15s to 414 s ; use ful ditto, 41 8s to 4/ 12s ; fine Upland ditto, 4/ 14s to 51 ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 5/10s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 7s to 1/9s; Wheat Straw, 11 lOs to 11 12s per load. A fair average supply, and a steady demand. WIIITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 4/; use ful ditto, 4/ 4s to 4/ 8s ; fine Upland ditto, 4/ lOs to 41155; Clover Hay, 4/ 15s to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 1/ 6s to 11 8s ; Wheat Straw, 11 8s toll lOs per load. Both Hay and Straw moved off slowly, at the above quotations. New Meadow hay was selling in the above markets at from 2115 s to 3l 8s per load. MEAT MARKETS. SOUTHALL, JUNEii:=4swWgicTi;iir6 supplies on offer to-day, the demand was in a very depressed state, and last week's prices were with difficulty supported. Beef from 2s 6d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 2s Bd. to 4s ; Lamb, 44 2d to 5s 2d ; Veal, 3s to 4s ; and Pork, 2s 6d to 3s 8d per 81bs. Supply— Beasts, 41; Sheep and Lambs, 3,089 ; Calves, 52 ; Pigs, 55. Roswoan, J ukat 12.—Prime sheep and lambs sold freely, at very full prices. In other kinds of stock very little business was transacted.—Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 10d ; Mutton, 2s 6d to 4s ; Lamb, 4s 4d to 5s 4d ; Veal, 3s to 4s ; and Pork, 2s 6d to 3s 8d per 81bs. Sucking Calves, 18s to 285; Quarter-old Store Pigs,l6s to 19s ; and Milch Cows, with their small calves, 161 to 19/ each. LEWES, JUNE 11.—We had a fair demand this morning, and prices were supported.—Beef, from 2s to 4s ; Mutton, 2s 8d to:4s 2d ; Lamb, 4s 6d to 5s 2d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s ; and Pork, 2s 4d to 3s 6d per Blbs. ST. STEP (' H rn E I N S 'S D I A V Y AL .) BROOK. STATE OF. THE CHURCH. fai A vestry meeting was this day held in the vestry-room of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, for the purpose of taking into con sideration the dilapidated state of the Church and other matters, The Rev. Dr. CROLY, D.D., took the chair and said—that the meeting had been called in consequence of the state of the church in - which they were then assembled. They were all aware that one of the large windows of that church had re cently fallen in. He was happy to say that" they were not at that moment stained with the blood of any of their fellow citizens—they were happily not at that moment called upon to attend a coroner's inquest to .account for extraordinary negligence which amounted almost to criminality. But, such might have been the case. When the window fell into the street, no one, at the moment, was present. He might say that this was most providential, seeing that underneath the window was a spot where per sons frequently congregrated, and the absence Of persons in that part of the street at the time the accident occurred, was only to be accounted for by its having happened just at the moment when a shower of rain was falling. Had the window fallen an hour before, that street might have been strewed with lifeless bodies. Such was the heavy material of which the window was composed, that had it. fallen down when persons were in the street, it would have been impossible for many of them to have escaped without being, if not killed, at least, seriously wounded. This was a warning to them to prevent such an accident again occurring. A letter had lately appeared in one of the papers,, stating that steps had been taken to repair the church. That letter purported to come from their late—he would not call him their present—churchwarden. He (Dr. Croly) had been so much struck with what appeared to be the reality of that letter, that lie immediately made inquiries, and found that the keys of the church had not been given up by the person who usually kept them. He therefore concluded that the letter which he had seen was founded on an extraordi nary error. The next day, however, another state ment appeared, and such was the appearance of that letter also, that lie was at a loss to know which of the two was genuine. The letters were similar in form, and bore the same name, and he really was quite at a loss to know which was the real Simon Pure.—(Laughter.) But, however, he would say no more, on that subject. One thing was quite clear, that the present state of the church could not continue. —( Hear, hear.) He thought that the parishes were anxious to:come to any arrangement which looked like a fair settle ment of the matters in dispute. The state of the church he believed was such that it was not fit for the congregation to assemble in it.—(Hear, hear.) . This was not a personal question at all,.and he thought' it would be well for Mr. Alderman Gibbs and his brother churchwardens—if churchwardens they could be called—to lay a statement before the parishioners which could be submitted to counsel or any body else, so as to bring the whole matter to a final settlement. He thought Mr. Alderman Gibbs in the first instance, ought to resign—(Hear, hear)—and leave the church to them, and he (Dr. Croly) felt that every negotia tion between Alderman Gibbs and the parish would be con ducted in a spirit on the part of the parish of fairness, justice, and even of indulgence—that indulgence which ought to be shown to a man who found himself in difficulties, out of which he could not extricate himself—(Hear, hear.) The Alder man could not desire to be churchwarden for ever and ever. It was the duty of a church Warden to render his accounts every year.—(Hear, hear.) He (Dr. Croly) did not.ask whe ther Alderman Gibbs had done that or not. The vestry were able to satisfy themselves on that point. His next duty was to attend to the repairs of the church.—(Hear, hear.) Whe ther Mr. Alderman Gibbs had done this was a matter into which lie (Dr. Croly) would not enter, although he thought facts spoke pretty strongly on the subject.—(Hear, hear.) The next duty of the churchwarden was to take care that all payments necessary to the support of the church, and other matters connected with the parish, should be made good within the year.- Whether this had been done in St. Stephen's Walbrook was a question. The next duty of the churchwarden was to take care that the parish did not get into debt to anybody ; and whether all these duties had been performed by Alderman Gibbs he (Dr. Croly) left it to the vestry to decide. But another, duty which a churchwarden had to perform was that of being present on a Sunday in the parish church during the solemnisation of Divine service. It was his duty to be there as the protector off' the congrega tion. Hei(Dr. Croly) was unwilling to speak of Mr. Alder man Gibbs's conduct in this respect from obvious per sonal reasons. Probably Mr. Alderman Gibbs did not at tend because the parishioners were not • sufficiently sanc tified for him—(Laughter)—or that he was such a pro found theologian that their form of worship was not deep enough for him. During the last two years Mr. Ald. Gibbs had only been present once or twice, when he (Dr. Croly) had written to him to attend on the occasion of a charity sermon, being preached. A PARISHIONER—TO receive the money perhaps. Dr. Cnorx—Certainly. Alderman Gibbs took the Money — (Laughter)—it was the churchwarden's duty to receive it. Why Alderman Gibbs should remain in an office so distasteful to him he (Dr. Croly) could not under stand.—(Hear.) It was desirable, however, that this matter, respecting which they were met, should not be allowed to linger any longer. It was desirable that repairs should be done to the church. He thought the first step to be taken towards an amicable arrangement was for Mr. Alderman Gibbs to resign ; and after that, that the church should be closed for a certain period for the purpose of having a tho rough survey, not merely of the windows and tower, but of the roof, and every other part of the building. He thought this ought to be done immediately; for, next Sunday, if there should be the smallest indication of any portion of the church giving way, the consequences might be most frightful, as an immediate rush would be made by all_the congregation out of the church. This was the suggestion lie had to make, and he would, therefore, leave the matter in the hands of the meeting. The CHAIRMAN then read the following letter, which he had received that morning.:- " Sir,—ln consequence of your note, I have attended at the church, and have inspected the tower. It appears that the border of the window in the inner side of the tower had been filled in with glazed lead lights in lieu of couvre boarding, as is the case with the other three windows in the east, south, and west side of this part of the tower. These lead lights caused an obstruction to the passage of th e wind through the tower in that direction, and from this circumstance, and also in consequence of the decayed condition of .the lead lights, and of the iron work by which they were secured to the masonry, the wall work of the window was forced out wards. It will be necessary that the window on the northern side of the tower should be protected, either with a strong frame or, a couvre board and lead lights properly secured It is also necessary that the frame and louvre boarding of the three other windows should be repaired forthwith. I also re commend that the stone balusters round the other part of the tower should be secured, and that any portion of the stone ornaments which may be found loose should be removed. Scaffolding should be fixed for the purpose of a proper exa• mination of the other parts of the masonry, which I will direct on receiving instructions to that effect. " I am, &c. (Signed) "JOHN GRIFFITHS." Mr. ROCK said, that Mr. Alderman Gibbs had expressed his intention of not defending the Chancery suit respecting the churchwardenship ; and, therefore, the only question be tween the parish and Mr. Alderman Gibbs, was a question of accounts. If Mr. Gibbs, therefore, would produce an honest account, such an account as an honest man would pass, the parish would accept it; nor would they scrutinise them too minutely, or consider whether the Lord Chancellor would re calve them or not. Their object was not to punish Mr. Alder man Gibbs, but to provide against the future.—(Hear.) . . Mr. FLIGHT said k that no Olficial information had been re ceived by the legal adviser of the vestry from Alderman Gibbs' legal adviser, that Mr. Alderman Gibbs did not intend to defend the Chancery suit ; and therefore they must con sider that it was proceeding. Mr. Rom said they had received the information from a respectable person. He thought it would be well for the Rector to make a specific proposition respecting this matter himself. The CHAIRMAN repeated his former suggestion, and added that their first grand object was to get rid of Mr. Alderman Gibbs.—(Clieerso After some conversation it was proposed that Mr. Gibbs and Mr. Whittaker• should be called on to meet Messrs. Rock and Flight, to come to some determination on the question of repairing the church. Mr. Flawar objected to this, and suggested that, as the validity of the election of the new churchwarden would be tried in the course of a fortnight in a court of law, it would be well to leave the consideration of this subject until after that time. Mr. WHISTLER said he believed there was property avail able for the necessary repairs, amounting to 800/. a year, and that had been stated in 1840 to Mr. Alderman Gibbs, but he had not thought proper to make any reply, further than by sending a specification of repairs, amounting to about 2,000/., at the end of three years. With respect to the motion under consideration, he should strongly object to two persons chosen by the parish acting in unison with two other persons whom the parish did not recognise. I.lr. BRANDRUM said he would not meet the persons re ferred to. Mr. ROCK said his proposition had been made in the spirit of peace, and not because he wished to appear in the unwonted position of the eulogist of Mr. Alderman Gibbs. It was absolutely necessary that the church should be repaired, in order that public worship might continue to be celebrated in the church, and this was the main object; to be kept in view. —(Hear, hear.) He thought it quite possible for Mr. Flight and himself to meet Mr. Alder man Gibbs and Mr. Whittaker, to discuss this subject, with out entering in the least into any question of right. There seemed to be some difficulty in the churchwarden of St. Ben net's meeting them, on account of come funds on which that parish made a claim. Mr.. BRANDRUM said his conviction *as that that parish was liable to a third of all the expenses. After a short conversation, the motion was withdrawn. The CHAIRMAN said he thought they ought not to sepa rate without coming to some resolution. It was not safe for the church to continue in' its present state, and he trusted that the vestry would relieve him from the responsibility under which he felt himself 'to be placed. They must at least say whether the church should be closed or not. Mr. ROCK observed, that according to law, the spiritual court might excommunicate every inhabitant of the parish if the church was left unrepaired. Mr. WILLIAMS then proposed, " That in consequence of .the obvious dilapidations of the church tower, and the proba ble dilapidations of other portions of the church; it is abso lutely necessary to close the church of St. Stephen's, W it i_ brook from this day until further notice. Mr. HENRY Roca{ having seconded the motion, it was car ried unanimously. Mr. TIBBITS moved, and Mr. Howirr seconded, a motion .for adjourning the vestry until that day three weeks, at eleven o'clock, which was carried with one dissentient. A vote of thanks was then given to the Chairman, after 'which the vestry dispersed. CROW THE JIM CROW PARLIAMENT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Coke gives the following names to different Par liaments, viz.:- 42d Henry lll.—lnsanum Parliamentum. 12th Edward H.—The Parliament of Whitebands. sth Edward 111 .—Parliamentum bonum. 10th Richard ll.—Parliamentum quod fecit mirabilia. 21st Richard ll.—Magnum Parliamentum. 6th Henry IV.—Parliamentum indoctum. 4th Henry Vl.—Parliamentum fustium. • 14th Henry VIII.—The Black Parliament. 3d Charles I.—Benedictum Parliamentum. Perhaps you will allow me to suggest that the present Parliament be denominated so as hereafter to be known in history as • THE JIM CROW . PARLIAMENT. It will only be for historians to point to the different divi sions on the Factories Bill and the Sugar Duties Bill, in order to explain the appellation.—l am, Sir, yours obediently, Ilfracombe, June 19, 1844. D. VICTORIA PA/M.—The chief derby in the com mencement of operations for the new park having been from six of the proprietors of land holding out against the Govern ment award, the cases will be assessed in a few days at the Sheriffs' Court. The tenants of the houses on the site of the park have received notice to quit on - Michaelmas -day, and those of the land, now the property of the Crown, will give up possession on the Ist of October. .„ e , • ' , • ' - 4. • • • _ „,EvnccvßOlT , NNT.: SECOND EDITION. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended June 15, IE4I, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities .and Towns in England and . „ Walmper Imperial Quarter, Wheat...—. 5.55. 91. Oats 8ar1ey......... I 311. 10d. Rye AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS. Weeks ending WHEAT. BARLEY.( I OATS. RYE. BEANS. I TEASE 31 8 31 7 33 4 31 1 34 1 34 1 May 11 .......7 1 . 18 - 1 25 June I 8 15 55 1 55 10 55 10 55 6 55 6 55 9 31 5 31 1 30 7 30 9 31 4 31 10 20 5 :1 4 32 5 21 0 31 2 33 3 21 2 31 7 33 11 21 21 1 7 1 11.3 171 gt 22 6 32 4 36 11 . . IMPERIAL • AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX ViE XXII Wheat.... ..... 55a. 7d. 1 Oats 8ar1ey......... 31a. 2J.1 Rye .... ..... 32i. sd.Peale 325. 101. DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. _. -- - Wheat .........17s. (Id. Oats .....—.. 6s. Od.l Beans B.. &I I Barley .... is. Od. Aye ..... 10e. 6d.1 Pease.... lO Cd LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LoNrioN. JUNE 20.—Wind this day at noon, fresh westerly breeze, and rain. DEAL, JUNE 19.—Wind, light and varieus—Arrd. Hope, Havannah ; Ark, Virginia. Sld. John, China ; Plumstead, Gre nada; Ariadne, Ichaboe ; Spheroid, St. Vincent's; James M'Queen and Robert, St. Kitt's ; Florence, Madeira ; London, Havre, and Mauritius. OFF DOVER, JUNE 19.—Drie Maris, Amboyna, and Europa, all from Rotterdam, for Batavia. Porrsmourri, JUNE 19.—Wind • N.W.—Arrd. Her Ma jesty's ship Wanderer, China, with 1,000,000 dollars, sailed from Penang Feb. 22, Cape April 16, St. Helena Ist ult. Sld. her Majesty's ship Apollo Eastward. COWES, JUNE 19.—Arrd. llannah Speague, Pearce, Ma tanzas. OFF THE OWERS.—Ann Hall f Hubert, St. John's, N.B. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 19.—Wind N.W., strong.—Arrd. Her Majesty's. ship Fox, .Ireland; Nautilus, London, for Quebec, with bowsprit sprung. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 19.—Wind N.W., fresh.—Arrd. Robt. Burns, Messenger, Apalachiola, with damage, leaky, and part of cargo thrown overboard, having been ashore on the Bahama Banks ; Susquehannah, Philadelphia. Sld., John Chutian, China ; Good Hope, Bombay ; Lady Sale, Co lumbia River ; Vine, Africa ; Scotland, Savannah ; Bri tannia (steamer), Halifax. Arrived off; Rival, Nassau. LEITH, JUNE 18.—Arrd. Gazelle, Robertson, Mauritius. , . SIUELDS, JUNE 17.—S1d. Hearts of Oak, Marquesas Islands. CLYDE, JUNE 15.—S1d. Lavinia, Cape of Good Hope; Re trieve and Lalla Rookh, Demerara.- 17. James Stewart, Ichaboe. FALMOUTH, JUNE 19.—Wind N., strong breezes.—Arrd. Swift, packet, Rio Janeiro, sld. April '29, Bahia, 7th ult., and Pernambuco, 14th ; has on freight about 30,000/., in gold and diamonds. Off, Kentucky, New Orleans, for Havre; Aden, Mobile, for Hamburgh. PENZANCE, JUNE 18.—Sld. Earl of Devon, Ichaboe. OFF THE WIGHT, JUNE 16.—Eliza Kineard,Brown, Africa. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 19.—The sloop Eleanor, of Pwllheli, grounded on the rocks on Holbree Island last night, and tilled ; crew saved. BALIANA, JUNE 17.—The Stormont, for London, ashore inside May Bar, has become a total wreck; cargo lost, crew saved. FOREIGN FRlllT.—During the last few days there has been a very large importation of cherries from France, which has been the cause of a very plentiful supply in the markets. They are of quality quite equal to the English, and realize 4d. to 6d. per lb. The present season is most redun dant of gooseberries, and there was yesterday a large supply at the east end from the Isle of Ely, which sold at 2s. per bushel, out of which Is. had to be paid for carriage, besides the expense of commission, &c. The 'Marchioness of Lansdowne's concert, • which was appointed for last night, was suddenly put off, in conse quence of the alarming illness of the lion. Miss Fox, only sister of the late Lord Holland, who, we regret to hear, is suffering from very severe indisposition, and doubts are seri ously entertained of her recovery. Last evening, to inqui ries at Little Holland House, Kensington, the answer given was that the 'Hon. Miss Fox was in a very. .precarions condi tion, and had throughout the day been gradually getting worse, so as to give not the slightest hopes of her eventual re covery, unless a sudden change for the better ,took place in her disorder. DOVER, JUNE 19.—Yesterday considerable sensa tion was created at Dover by a report that a man had killed unfortunate his wife, in a brothel in New - street, on the preceding night. On inquiry we have learned that the supposed murderer, an ing Irish. The tramp, he wayw a a s n taken mannerk en into in custody wh ich the last night, wife, whom he had most welly beaten, died ear ly thi s morn met her death is variously reported, but we forbear giving currency to these rumours till the coroner's inquest ou her body has been concluded. ' • F, , t 4 r‘q k ill 5 a gi k4O it 4 rth ~:~.;~ ~r r Q t tO U• kit S. way read." .70,1tZza , 3.1. F ren c h, the On Monday the King and Queen of the _4 Duchess of Orleans, with the Count of Paris a nd the Puj hr of Nemours, again visited the Exhibition of Sati. ° 2! , r eot dustry. On this occasion the King examined wit' T ta et attention the machinery and sonae of the most irel o ) ; ) cioe lc, products, and did not leave until between five and six when the Royal party returned to Neuilly , t h e ltri l The Marseilles journals announce the arrival, on „ e Dee instant, at the Hotel d'Orient, in that c it y , of mange' Governor-General of British India, Sir Henry 13"-- with his son and his aide-de-camp. wa s P r • The Suffren ship of the line, on board of which lea d s et Admiral the Prince de Joinville, arrived from the , Hyeres, at Toulon, on the 13th instant. Br sel.4 *; The Archbishop of Bruges, according to the ail tbe papers, ordered prayers for rain to be put o ui ti i i n tit. d_sl;: churches last Sunday,. and in the afternoon terrible hail-storm came on, which did much injurY perty. In some of the fields the hail lay four inclianits The Courrier Francais states that the Parisian it interested in the trade with Morocco, having aPPli. e° formation on the subject to the Ministry of Foreig n f Or had been answered, that " there was no probability °ranged between France and Morocco, and that all would be diplomatically. • „bee The 3foniteur contains the official returns of the Pcorr and consumption of domestic sugar, from which l it i r e - j ilt that on the Ist of April last there were 325 MitnufacW operation, or 69 less than in April, 1843. i t ao..A °ll The.,Bulletin des Lois publislAps a convention, cone ~T oi ce. the 9th of November, 1843, between France and mho l ets States of America, for the mutual extradition of pa l set . The receipts, of the Belgian railroads in 184 3 f01 t P 2 •;,.. 40 ' gers were, 5;482,259f., and the carriage of goods o afte r giving a total of 8,994,5391'. The expenses of were 5,000,000 f., so that the profit has been 3,994,53' , deducting 3,594,539 f. for the interest of the capital It Pr which was 137,573,077 f., there remains asuin 400, dividen a re d. Ki kij n • -- In cent duel between a professor of a m ilitari tithe Netherlands and a lieutenant, the former 'O s l o ier'; The survivor has been tried before a c,ourt-martial, a ds 0 1 tented to five years' imprisonment. The two sO° ll condemned to three years of the same punishment- by e s ' The Memorial de la Sambre records two calami ties / 0 -0 ; plosions of gas in coal mines last week, at Marchie „wee; Pont By one of them, seven men were killed , and el'icilleth more or less injured. In the other, two persons user e and five other; severely wounded. es LAW AND POLICE. at e" In the Court of Exchequer, an action penalti ;04 instance of the Attorney-General, was brough t e + gi e l l l : person of the name of Pool, who held the office ;,,,,cti,`!; ing-waiter at the Custom-house, arising out of tralse et connected with the Custom-house frauds. Th e c les e '":1 opened on the part of the Crown and several we,s,,tes amined ; but before the case on behalf of the Cuswej, concluded, a conference took place between th e coun,lit a verdict was taken by • L l consent for the Crown for 4,-Ifersia" At Guildhall Mr. Humphreys applied to Mr. „" for s Gibbs (the sitting Alderman), and Sir Peter Lanri,,‘, warrant to recover summary possession of certain rod situated in Printers-street, Blacktriars, under the ,Is'oeloce' of Victoria, cap. 74, commonly called the Small: l : t he P r ; Act. Sir Peter Laurie inquired, in litnine, whet ' 410 61 mises consisted of an entire house, or only of P le ?OA hired by a lodger? Mr. Humphreys replied that;,eter to be proceeded against was only a lodger. Sir soytbie;, that such being the case he should decline to have Wo)_,,i to do with the adjudication, and then left the Cont`. *o'o after Alderman Wood entered, and Mr. HuroPh re, t renewed his application. Alderman Wood said, tli clearly of opinion that the Act applied to 1001 Alderman Gibbs concurred, and a warrant for tP.e ; ies ias recovery of the premises was ordered to issue ; i t peremptory. COOET—PASIIIXONAIgX.V. d 0 V e it Count Reventlow, the Danish Minister, re turne n e o be day to his residence in Wilton-crescent, from Scoas he Cte b , his Excellency has been to attend and accompany t is , t e a- Prince of Denmark on his R o y a l Highness s Highlands. d ° ll O Prince Rospigliosi, accompanied by his son an Ludolf and suite, arrived yesterday at Nivart's „ Rome. s p Ol d " The Duke and Duchess of St. Alban's give a ' lelb cliampetre to-morrow at Holly Lodge, Highgate - is le The Duke of Devonshire paid' a visit yestere American dwarf, "General Tom Thumb," at the geal.f.o Hall, and presented him with a magnificent goe'„,; t ed z;,a engraved with beautiful devices, brilliantly nn e p. turquoise, and bearing the General's initials on tu e Alfred Paget accompanied his Grace. A s • ting e or The Earl and Countess of Verulam received a Goo —le party at dinner on Monday, at their residenc e in eado square. on Earl and Countess Cadogan had a dinner pa rt Y v4 ci last, at their house in Piccadilly. The Earl and Countess of Albemarle left Berk!lllreec the day before yesterday for Newmarket, where ins was to inspect his valuable racing stud, and thencjolealr to Quicldenham Hall, until the annual races in Park. veste'cal The Duke of Devonshire left Devonshire House An afternoon for Brighton. The Duke will return to Saturday, to meet the party at Stafford House. _ A i t 4 P515CWW.25.3511M0103. n* ill regari'd The statements of facts relating - to the new -"" he triw i e, Savings' banks, submitted to the Government t si d e .ri 5 j and managers f the Provident Institution, St. hori c isb, and those of the deputations from the Englis",,reet: Scotch banks for savings, have had a useful be e" , e cti‘ t ; Bill is now considerably altered, and many of able provisions have been modified. But the moel l , jet r - 0 c oncession towards depositors is that touching u 2 1,1, F It will be now 2/. 15s. per cent. (and not 2 1 . 135. . first proposed). rrO l of The intelligence received at Lloyd's by the late Li a. 0,1 the Britannia steam-ship details the particulars of the English ship Saladin, near Halifax, under iter , j;er circumstances, it being feared that the captain , Mr. have Pre.hile his wife and tinnily an - 1 several of his officers , len der murdered by the crew in order to enable them to Pio' 0 sd e vessel. c The half-yearly examination of the gel-100010 .' li . t ies studying at the Royal Military A ca demy at Wonl w g ' e c e tle e ti a place on Tuesday last, and at the conclusion the illoo It, cadets obtained the usual period of vacation, and i ' v t tbe their studies on the Ist of August. The whole c',.epao,o tlemen cadets, about 180 in number, assembled oil if e j o o ground in front of the Academy shortly before 1 0 'Z i a, tr y ( the day of examination, in full military coostunieto;o,li to new carbines and accoutrements, under the c miscb c ` Captain R. B. Burnaby, with the other officers the Academy. j 5 55 LONDON COFFEE AND EATING HOPSV Associnnox.—The friends and subscribers t o this illy' ° 5 ; dined together yesterday at the London Tavern . t do e ' - ti burton, M.P., presided. About 120 gentlemen T o ol t oo rr, table. Upon the removal of the'cloth the usnal,,d ; Doe were proposed • and acknowledged with all e u t t e lve t l:Jtil e , " The President," and " The Vice-Presidents" 'e,.,repo were heartily responded to. Mr. Blackburn then ec,e } ,,,c' toast of the evening, " Prosperity to the London toe ft ion Eating House Keepers' Association " d ein forge casion to advert to the benefits conferreduP° ll 3 by ° J eri ,: of-the middle, as well as of the working classes,the e- 0 and eating houses of the metropolis, and t ° tbe °l „ l bre character of the charity, which had for its ohie c o piorr t hea,: of decayed members of the trade, their widoV e cert ke ool He said he hoped all who were present Igor , t ong , ; e V" selves among their friends for the purpose or iTh s e T' l , t tl the nature of the association, and inducing nsf se bsr r 10,1 of the trade as they possibly could to been ° , - dists n ' it; if they did this the day could not be Jo; sto e dr, e they would have the pleasure of laying tho.,"7.phatish building to receive the destitute widows an," ( , ) „1; ici a t " es l ll !l parted members of the trade. The toast was ur t 4o 's times three. Mr. Hare proposed "The Chair rio - M eer which was very heartily received. The Chs„ l st of thanks. Mr. Humphreys read a handsom e " t he 111*. :a tions. Among them were 20 guineas froni_.:, 10v e l t en, Westminster, 10 guineas from Mr. Waelor",;°,.'lllo_,:tersel from Mr. Paulson, M.P., and 5 guineas front IL" . d an the M.P. Several other toasts were proposed , 0 4; separated at an early hour. e ' h 0 • ' j g STAMP DUTIES.—The Government from h , . 5 rightly in reducing the duty upon stall: l l; 9 6a t . ,",i 0 0 1 5‘ :/, 2s. lid. • and would also act wisely by t he pr e ; s o , upon indentures of apprenticeship, where be ,ffer_ . ,`g under 301. As it now is, where the prerniuln,„ evil p ' e tic e ,, the stamp duty is 1/. • and this sum has • „ Ite t at preventing vast numbers of poor people fr°7,oP .- their children ; also, by a reduction, it is n°" t hose bh ete di l that the revenue would be increased upon w ho e''';itl y: ments in consequence of numbers being bound the would not be. This is really a subject dcservneb tion of the Government. ,r ~' ~~ r ~A GRAvI L ip salowrs.:( 4t Seve ; Ilav_pa t —....--"—l''--- -- 14 .'. BIRTHS. • 13 ,,tb e e On the 28th of May, at Toronto, Upper Caw . '" ro;, Foskett B. Beddome, Esq., of a daughter. e i n trt e o , On the Bth inst., at his quinta, St. Thi a g ° 'fe O P ,I tugal, the lady of Sir George Sartorius VisconlP of of a son. G o rg e we ,be On the 11th inst., at Oporto, Mrs. Ge° 4 ° bite,, daughter. ~,.e o rel ss ,he On the 13th inst., at Aymestry Vicarage , •'"? - 4 dii",jt ' lady of the Hon. and Rev. T. C. Skeffington,c4 "iintgl ti " 1 OOn the .14th inst., at the Rectory, Houghton '-'- r 3 n lady of the Rev. H. J. Rose, of a daughter. Sae' On the 15th inst., in Chester-street, Grosr en° c ui , George ScoVell, of a daughter. r° • , r On the 16th inst., at Upper Berkeley-etreet'r. 1 sqdate; the wife of John Hicki, Esq., of a d'grugbebteeff cl' D r On the 16th inst., the wife of Thomas `s . t ev t „t, Grove-lane, Camberwell, of a daughter. colc1)%ofe" On the 17th inst., at Stanway Hall, ne 3r aI"S eP ~e, wife of Cardinal Brwster, Esq., late of the WY sil tor of a daughter. gont 3 g li‘ On the 17th inst., in Montagu -place, Mrs. S. Steward, of a daughter. +fel' P., MARRIED. k D ew h oci On the 6th of January last, at B. °f 0 s c .. b r l g i t i t , bourne, Port Philip, Edward Barker, Esq , .° o lio C, fr iyil Port Philip; and of Aylesbury, Bucks, to xt 4 ,,,,,,., of ' Skene, eldest daughter of the late A. S c ott, r-,---. ,,,..49,11 Edinburgh. _.' . - • Oh S Vi - tr iell. el . On the 11th inst:, at the residence of the Br oaco 0 01 , Switzerland, Wade Brown, Esq., of °ll r J. i'' i f House, Wilts, to Selina, second daughter of SI, o d. ~ fe •IN ilmot,.flaronet, GoVernor of Van Diemen'sk.ster, ci! te Alf' On the 13th inst., at Putney, Mr. Alfred 'i tlie is church-strect, to He/eir, youngest daughter el John Stewart, of Putney. - Si'• DIED OfO r On the 7th inst., Edgar Albert, tldest soli of . /r iff Yarrow, of Rose Cottage, Holloway. b a rtee sblre: l ,3 q o On the 7th inst., at Garscube House, Pura' c ab, jo e Campbell, wife o Sir Archibald Campbell' of Stie.oooo,o ( I) On the 15th iust., at Addison-terrace, .'"elgi'irgeell 6 Baird, Esq., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Senior .. De 9 Infirmary in that town. On the 16th inst., at the Circus, OF relict of Gideon De Bic, Esq., aged 76. Y ° Charl'3l'' 53 Minories, 31P ....0 On the 16th inst., at Walworth, Alice 10 0 daughter of Charles Barry, Esq. On the 17th inst., Frederick, the ”ungest son of 1 54.. , Rhodes, Esq., of Handsworth, Stafforushire. ,_ _,„ 0 0, 9 011 1 ' On the 17th bast., at East Dulwich, John.Ja.,',"e7olo, ~ On the 17th inst., at the Vicarage, Great .1. , mis to , Ann, the wife of the Rev. John Ward, M.,.,,„, rg e I;ts. On the 18th of January, at Hong -Kong, ur's' Meggs, eldest son of G. Meggs, Esq., ofAiversto___ketl.,o,a,‘ r,--•-•_2__--------.—__;,--6 .04); iv London: Printed and Published by Matu;,fliee, i'_.,,tl No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun . L l , O cou- Strand, m the Precinct of the Savoy, In ' 4 " Middlesex, Thursday, June 20, 1844.