The Sun. — London, England, 1839-06-01 00:00:00

EVEN WO EDITION. WILLIAM BURGE, Agent for Jamaica, Lincoln's Inn, Ist June, 1630. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE At a recent MEETING of the late PUPILS of Dr ELLIOTSON at UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, it was re olved— In the Press, AGRAMMAR and VOCABULARY o f the NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE; with a Col lection of Dialogues and Songs. By GEORGE SAMUEL EVANS, of Lincoln's Inn, Esq., D.C.L. J. W. Parker, 444, West Strand. NEW WORK by the COUNTESS of BLESSINGTON. Just ready, in a beautifully printed volume, foolscap Bvo. cloth lettered, with gilt ed ges , DESULTORY THOUGHTS AND RE FLECTIONS. By the COUNTESS OF ULESSINGTON. •• Vivere cogitare est." " Life is measured but by thoughts and affections." London : Longman, Orme, and Co. THE CIVIL ENGINEER and ARCHI TECT'S JOURNAL. Illustrated with numerous T HE Engravings. Price Is. 6d. 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Alonzo, Mr. Wards ; Prospero, Mr. Maoreaiy ; Miranda, Miss Helen Faucit ; Ariel, Miss P. Horton. To oonclodo with, AMILIE ; OR, THE LOVE TEST. ROTAL SURREY THEATRE. • The production of Donizetti's Opera, " The Love Spell," sup ported by Miss Romer, Mr. Templeton, and Mr. Balfe, has been triumphant in the extreme—the frequent encores, and tumultuous plaudits throughout the Opera, confirmed its complete success. THIS EVENING, JUNE 1, Will be pe r f orme d (fcurth time) the Opera entitled THE LOVE SPELL. With all Donizetti's Original Music of " L'Elisir d'Amere," Adine, Miss Router; Nemorina, Mr. Templeton; Dulcamara, Mr. Balfe. T. conclude with the successful Drama, called ALICE GRAY, THE SUSPECTED ONE. WHITE CONDUIT GARDENS, (Open Every Evening) THIS EVENING, Julia 1, A GRAND PROMENADE CONCERT, By.. Baud of Fifty First-rate P er f ormers. The unrivalled Performanees of the Celebrated Arab, AB SHEKIR ABDALLAH. Vocalists—Miss Ford, (from the Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Messrs. Benson and Manclark. Splendid Fireworks. Terrific Awent and Desce,:t of Madame Rossini, surrounded by showers of Fire. The Gardens brilliantly illuminated by upwards of 20,000 Lamps, in various devices, &c. Fall Particulars in the Bills of the Day. smaT...sw 410 - • Ir , • LONDON : SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1339. In the Lords an attempt was made to throw out the Bristol and Gloucester Railway Bill, but it was not suecessful, as the Bill was read a second time by 44 to 33. Lord SeGaAvE stated some instances of miscon duct, which certainly show that Railway Bills require to be looked after, and ha urged the impro priety or making any such roads to the discom fort of individuals unless they were absolutely neces sary ; but the opposition assumed rather the characte ristic of individual interest, than that of the public good. - A discussion, interesting to the whole country, was provoked by some observations of Lord WINCHILSEA. The Noble Earl wished to know on what principles the Goprnment was now to be carried on, he consi dering it, after the late changes, as a new Government. Viscount MELBOURNE gave the Noble Earl, though he very courteously took notice of his remarks, no further information on this subject than be bad already supplied, being averse from making declarations ; but he admitted that the country was in a situation of novelty and of difficulty, to meet which, the Noble Viscount relied on the wisdom of Parliament. We find no consolation in such a statement, for our estimate of the wisdom of Parlia ment is very low. Lord MELBOURNE was followed by Lord BROUGHAM, whose speech will be read with very mixed feelings. It was very deservedly and very vociferously cheered by the Tories. The Dote of WELLINGTON expressed his contempt of some reports in circulation. The Marquis of NOR MANDY, thinking an allusion had been made to his Marchioness, repelled it with some indignation. As we cannot abridge the debate we refer our readers to it. The House sat till half-past eight. In the Commons the Committee was appointed, to which the London Police Bill is to be referred. Its answer to Mr. WARBURTON, Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, that the announcement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer relative to a Penny Postage had been much misunderstood, and that it was the intention of the Ministers to propose a resolution for a Uniform Penny Postage, but the scheme must be comprehensive and would require time. This is as it ought to be ; let Lord J. RUSSELL give us large and useful administrative Reforms, and we shall care less for organic changes. On the motion of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL a Select Committee was appointed to inquire into the proceed ings in STOCKDALE'S case, in which the Court of Queen's Bench yesterday gave judgment, and which brings the Court and the House of Commons into con ilict. Mr. O'CONNELL said, if Mr. STOCKDALE had not committed a breach of privilege, they might as well shut the doors of the House and walk home. The County Courts 13111 was read a second time. In a Committee on the Prisons Bill, the clause allowing a Roraan Catholic chaplain to 50 Roman Catholic prisoners was carried by 136 to 81. The House was occupied with this Bill, and the Prisons (Scotland) 8,11, also in Committee, till Half past Twelve o'Cloclc. W. insert from the Edinburgh Courant, and • our readers will thank us for directing their atten tion to it, the honest, able, frank, and very do luent speech which Mr. MACA ULEY addressed to the electors of Edinburgh on Wednesday last. In most of Mr. .....MACAULEY'S sentiments we agree, and we recommend his eloquent and spirited advo cacy of the Ballot ; his indignant denunciation of nomination under the Reform Act, as worse than nomination under the borough system ; his happy description of the greater injury inflicted by intimidation than by corruption, which was considered as kindness and charity; his exposi tion of the evils of frequent Parliaments with ex pensive elections ; his spirited account of the advan tages of having even bad laws administered by a 1 Liberal M inistry, as especially worthy of attention, the sentiments being just, the facts apposite, aid the - Y/ request a MEETING of the T./ PLANTERS, MERCHANTS, and others interested in the COLONY, at WILLIS'S ROOMS, King-street, St. num.'s's-square, on TUE*DA Y next, the 4th instant, at One o'C.ock, to take into consideration the new Bill now before the House of Commons, to provide fur the enactments of certain leas in Jamaica. " That a Subseription be entered into to Commemorate the Services of Dr. Elliotson, as Professor of Medicine at Univer sity College, and Physician to the Hospital, and the great and successful exertions he has made in the cause of science." Subscriptions from the friends and former pupils of Dr. Elliotson will be received at University College, by any of the following gentlemen :—.Messrs. Ashley, Bellingham, Clowes, Coles, Cowan, Croft (Treasurer), Hoffmeister, Howe, H. K. innes, Molini, Qnain, B. Sewell, and Warren. By Order of the Committee, C. PERCY CROFT, Chairman. language beautiful. We agree too with what he says generally of the Government ; and admit that on all questions when they have been opposed to the Conservatives they have been right. Mr. MACAULEY'S account of the strength of his party, when he left England, and their pre sent weakness, then " strong eno ugh to main'a:n itself against a hostile Court, now mainl) resting for support on the preference of a Sovereign, in whom the country see with delight the promise of a better, a gentler, a happier ELIZA BETH," is extremely just as well as beautiful. The noble historical sketch he gives of the Whigs as a party, the great authors and heralds of political improvement, though guilty of many faults, and some crimes, will be read with delight, and must, we should hope, induce that party, so deservedly eulogized, to merit hereafter the high praise their former conduct acquired. On the whole, a more just, spirited, and elo quent political oration is scarcely, we believe, to he found in our language ; and, however differing in style and thought, it is worthy of the best days of BURKE. We must venture, however, though no persons can entertain a higher opinion than ourselves, of Mr. MACAULEY, to express one wide difference of opinion from him. He describes the Whigs as the heralds of political improvement, and it is because the Ministers have at present rather lost that character and taken up the Tory doctrines of finality, and set themselves up to resist the popular will, that they have lost much of their power. The merit of the Whigs, at every period, was to be before their age ; and we complain of them, and we complain of Mr. dVIACAULEY, that he and they do not now look forward, and adhere too much, both in doctrines and in practice, to the errors of past times. One of the distinguishing features of the pre- sent age, and one that has fallen under Mr. MACAULEY'S observation, is that the vaorking classes have begun to educate them selves. They have acquired a degree of political knowledge equal to that possessed by the aristo crrcy, or the ordinary run of the middle classes. They are perfectly sensible of the wrongs they suffer, if they are ignorant—as we admit they are— of the best means of redressing them. At present their complaint, we may say their determina tion, to have redress, fills the country with alarm. The Reform Act excludes thousands of intelligent, honest, well-behaved men from the Constitution. All below the inhabitants of 10/. houses, amounting to nearly four-fiths of the whole, have no more to do with making the laws, though their dearest interests are affected by Legislation, than the Catholics had when the penal laws were in existence. In fact they have less. Our whole Constitution is framed, the franchise in particular is based, on the principle of property, and those who have no property have no part in the Constitution. The Catholics could vote for Members of Par- liament before 1829, but our poorer classes can neither sit in Parliament nor vote for those who can. In this system the creature of man's labour—property, is all in all, and man him self, with all his rights, affections, and interests, is degraded below his own productions. In theory this is wrong, in practice it is the parent of im mense evil. The chief legislative source of the overwhelming influence of property over the public mind, producing much crime, is the importance given to property as the basis of our system. Now Mr. MACAULEY declared his firm adherence to this erroneous and mischievous principle of the Reform Bill. He goes with the Whigs, he goes with the middle classes, he thinks the elective franchise ought to be extended to every ten-pound householder, but he is not prepared to go further. He is not prepared, therefore, to apply any remedy to the most serious political disease which now afflicts the country. He is not prepared to take one step—for the Ballot and a four years' Parliament would be no boon to the working classes —to remove the just grounds which the bulk of the population now to have to complain of being put out of th- pale of the Constitution. Not to take into consideration the present condition of the un represented, and not to look forward to the changes which their growing knowledge, power, and intelli gence will compel, is, in our opinion, to act unworthily of the general character which Mr. MACAULEY so justly gives to the Whigs. We felt bound to say so much, to express our dis sent from one part of a speech, the general principles of which command our hearty approval, while its eloquent language makes us feel proud of belong ing to the party on which Mr MACAULEY sheds so much lustre. It must confer equal benefit on all his friends and honour on himself. It required little foresight to guess what would e the result of the late motion in the Common Council. The Courts of Aldermen and Common Council no more represent the citizens than the old rotten Parliaments represented the people of Great Britain and Ireland. These two bodies represent their own interests, and those of their relatives and dependents, and because these were endangered by the Police Bill, and were threatened with still greater danger by a Corporation Reform Bill to be introduced by a Liberal Government, all the friends of corruption—self called Reformers as well Tories, and ail those looking for a share of the City plunder of half a million a year, have been moving heaven and earth to get out the ii.en whose political existence is identified with Reform. The insult the Corporation received at Buckingham Palace, was often adverted to in the discussion, and that was made one pretence for re fusing the address ; but the real cause lies much deeper, the craft whereby they had their wealth was in danger ; their great goddess, the corrupt Corporation, was despised, and about to be destroyed, and they raised the cry of the silversmiths and goldsmiths and crafts men of old, " Great is Diana of the Ephesians." . fliat the inhabitants of London should acquiesce or join in the cry is not very creditable to their good sense or independence, and that such a mo tion should have been made at the present con jucture is a proof of anything but absolute wis dom. Could any person who has mixed with the enemies of Corporate Reform in the City for the last month have anticipated any other result ? Sir ROBERT PEEL and the Tories are the men for all rotten corporations. A report, we see, prevails in the City, that a requisition is to be presented to the LORD MAYOR, to call a Common Hall for the purpose of address ing the QUEEN on her firm and magnanimous conduct in rejecting the humiliating terms of Sir ROBERT PEEL. We should be delighted, for the honour of the City, to see the Liverymen make amends for the discreditable conduct of their repre sentatives. Madrid papers of the 22d ult. have been received, with advices from the Frontier by telegraph of the 29th. The latter announce that on the 27th, the Carlist Ge neral, D'EsPAGNE, gained possession of Ripoll, a for tress in Catalonia. The Garrison fortified themselves in a Church, but after a few hours capitulated. To counterbalance this loss, ESPARTERO has taken the towns of Amurrio and Orazco, and compelled Don CARLOS to think of flying to CABRERA, he being no longer safe in the Basques. The Madrid Gazette publishes an official account of the insurrectionary movement at Valencia, on the 18th ult. It turns out to have been a very insignificant affair. There is no domestic news of interest in the French journals of Thursday. It was rumoured that MM. GUIZOT and TRIERS, finding there was no longer a hope of imposing their own conditions upon the KING, and influenced by an inordinate longing for the sweets of office, were smoothing the way to the re-occupation of seats in the Cabinet. M. Passv ridicules the idea of political consistency in the Chamber, and TRIERS and GUIZOT are preparing to applaud the doctrine of the apostate President by their conduct. It is a deplorable fact that political honesty is at a lower ebb in France than in any other country in Europe. M. GuizoT gravely proposes in his bureau " that an inquest should be held on the Turkish empire !" While the organ of the Republican party the National avows a willingness to allow Russia to occupy Constantinople in the event of Alexandria and some other maritime towns of Egypt hi in; ceded to Franc e In the C ourr i er F ranca i s o f T hurs d ay we fi n d t h e f o l. lonrig correspondence from Constantinople : " A warm altercation took place on April 25 between the first dragoman of the English embassy and the Reis Eff,•ndi, on the question of a permission required for an English squadron to enter the Dardanelles. On receiving a positive refusal the dragoman, in a moment of passion, told the Turkish Minister that England made the applica tion merely as a matt er o f form, arid in consideration of the respect wh ic h ought to b e o b served between Powers in friendship with each oth e r, b ut that, in spite of the re fusal, the British fleet would enter the Dardanelles, and that much sooner than was expected.' The truth of this statement may be relied on. The Sultan visits the arsenal every day, where he superintends the fittin g out and equip.. ping the ships. The Capital] Pacha ha s engaged that the whole fleet shall be under sailin three quarters of an hour THE SUN, LONDON t SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1839. after he receives an order to that effect. This improvement in the naval tactics of the Turks, is attributed to the in structions of the English officers." BOURSE.—PARIS, THURSDAY, MAY 30. HALF-PAST THREE. —Business has been dull. For the Account the Three per Cents. opened at 81f. 15e., rose to 81f. 30c., and closed at 81f. 20c„ a rise of sc. The Five rr Cents opened at 111 f. 15e., and closed at 1111. 20c , a rise of 13c. For Money the Three per Cents. and Five per Cents are bc. higher. The Bank of France Shares have advanced 5f , as have als' the I,ooof. Laffitte Bank Shares. The Belgian Five per Cents. are 4 higher The Bank Shares unaltered. The Three per Cents., 72f. 40c. for the Account. The Spanish Active bas declined The Portuguese Three per Cents. for the Account 214. The Railway Shares !n ye been weak, with the ex ception of the Ye, sailles Left Bank, which have rallied to 17f. 50c. There are odd reports abroad on the Havre Railway, and the Shares have declined 7f. 50c. The alto rations in the St. Germain, and in the Versailles Right Bank, are limited to a fall of 2f. 50e. each. first Highest Lowest Price. Price. Price French 5 per ( ents 4 per ( ents lOl 65 ... 1-1 65 ... 101 65 ... 101 65 3 per Cents Bl 15 ... 81 2 ... 81 15 ... 81 20 Bank of Prance Latfitte Ba, k I,ooof. Sli 1075 ...,080 ...1075 —llBO 5,00,f :h 555 ...52i5 —.5255 ...5255 Belgian 5 per Cents lO2 ... 102 ... 102 ....02 Bank ... . B l ,l ... hll l ... 810 ... 810 Coupons Spanish Ac ive lini, ... 19% ... 19 ,, ,, ... 19; Passive 46 ... 46 ... 4% ... 46 Nea olitan Roman RAILWAY SHARE,. St. Certnai , Versailles, it. B 7lO ... 710 ... 705 ... 705 L.B. •.9i ... 31.5 ... 295 ...:' . 05 Hay) , Orleans .. -trasbure to Bale . 335 ... 335 ... al 250 ... 332 50 Yarn (Maberly's) .. Last Price LLOYDS' sHIPPING—(THIS DAY FALMOUTH, MAY 30.—Wind E.— Off port, the Teazer, Airth, from Sr. Michael's. Sailed the Mary Halket, Sinclair, for Gloucester. LIVERPOOL, MAY 31.--Wind E. to S E.—Arrived the Margaret Scott, Eldridge, from New York, sailed the 25th ult. ; Plod, Trieste ; Hope, Bayes, Rotterdam ; and Emerentia, Culberg, Gottenburg. Mei the Mr. Lockerby, Parker, for Calcutta ; Ann Monde'', Roberts, Berbice ; Mary Ann, Child, Philadelphia ; Columbus, Penheath, Quebec ; Antiocho, Nassenberne, Trieste ; Wean, Milliman, Ancona ; and Mersey, Martin, Oporto. Off port the Brooklyn, from New York ; and Lord Glenelg, Leghorn. SCILLY, Mar 22.—Arrived the Commerce, Stein, from Lisbon; and Richard, Roder, Messina. Off port the 28th the Engo, Hone, from Marseilles. BRISTOL, MAY 31.—Arrived the Wohlfast, from Memel ; and R ,bert Henry, Ellis, from Lisbon. Sailed the Ville de Paris, Trott, for New York; and Earl of Liverpool, Bail e , Nevis. DUBLIN, MAY 30.—Arrived the Harp, Fletcher, from Bordeaux. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. - - The qu aterlv average of the weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of England have been published in last night's Gazette, from the sth of March, 1839, to the 28th of May, 1839, both inclusive, from which it appears that the circu la•ion is less by 136,0001., and the deposits less by 293 0001. The Securities are more by 431,0001., Bullion less by 904,0001. Arriva , s this morning—French mail, and ship letters from China and Mauritius, Feb. 15. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY.—We have had more doing since our last report, and on the whole, a healthier market. The trade seemed in the earlier part of the week inclined to extend their purchases, but having to compete in the on et with speculators, the apparent re turn of confidence on the part of the consumer has been checked, and his suspicions again roused that the operations fur re-sale here were not legitimate; but although it is understood that they are decidedly of a bona fide character, it is much to be regretted that the market was not left for a while at least, to the natural bias of the regular demand, and which alone is calculated to produce a permanently sound state of things. Rather better prices are now current than during last week. Speculators have taken 3,700 bales of American, and exporters 770 bales of good and prime American, and 160 bales of Surat. We have a more general demand from the trade to-day, and the sales are 3,000 bales, at full prices. The Great Western steamer was spoken with on the 20th ult., in lat. iO. 28 long. 9. 30., two days at sea, from Bristol to New York. The Minister of Commerce and agriculture at Paris, has addressed the following to the Chamber of Commerce : " Gentlemen,—The navigati on o f th e Mi ss i ss i pp i i s sub ject to th e regulations of the Police of the Interior, and it is the duty of all foreign ships to obey the regulations on entering the above waters.- -I learn that two French vessels having tried..to take their cargoes on board with out complying with the usual formalities ; the violation of the law of the Union would have had the most serious consequences, had it nat been for the active intervention of the French agents, and it was with the greatest diffi. culty they obtained from the Government at Washington an amicable arrangement." Consols, which closed buoyant yesterday at 931 94 for the Account, Money 934 i, opened at the above prices this morning. Most of the Foreign Exchanges yesterday had a favourable appearance, and were done at higher rates. Exchequer Bills 25 28; India Bonds 28 30; Bank Stock 1941 1951 ; India Stock 256 2.57. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 191 20; Por tuguese 354 1 ; Three per Cents., 201 1; Belgian 1001 102 ; Colombian 304 31 1 4 ; Mexican 261 ; Dutch Two and-a- Half per Cents. 551,- 564 ; Five per Cents. 10211. We have no arrivals of the least importance. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY Al' ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stuck I9SX, 4 , ,, 5 India Stock .1 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons. 93.X y s ,N, South Sea Stock — 3;,. per Cent — ; Old Annuities — Ditto Red. New :14 per Cent ... —.1014 N % 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. sank Long Annuities toexpire I Ditto 500 .. 28 2'i pm. Jan. 5, 1560 l4 7-16% Ditto Small —2B pm Oct. 10, 1859 .. - Ditto Commercial --, .. 77 pm , —...._ Jan. 5, 184311 —' Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, 1880. ...... ............ —1 Bank Stock for Account .. April 5, 18811 — India Stock for Account ... I Jan. 5. 1870 — Consos for Account 9 3 74, 4 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONL O'CLOCK Austrian Bonds 1 Peruvian Bonds — Belgian Bonds .. —; Ditto Account — Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Diti:o New Bonds Ditt , ) Account 35% Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chilian Bonds D tto Account ' Ditto, 3 per Cent. - - 1 Ditto Account i Prussian Bonds — t Russian Bonds, 1821 — Columbian Bonds — Ditto Account Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1824-- 31 Spanish lion& 1 9 .4 Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account — Def red Bl4 Greek Bonds... — French, 5 per cent. —f. —v. Ditto Bonds, 18'25 — ---- 4 per cent. Ditto Account — -- 3 pev cent. Mexican Bonds, :3 per Cent. --- Exchange. Ditto Account ......... ...., Dutch, 2i per cent. Ditto, 6 per Cent — . Ditto Account 56 IA Ditto Account Neapolitan — Ditto Account eRICES OF SHAKES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Per share. ea,tern Counties Railway l6 Edinburgh and Glasgow lO I. twor, and Birmiugham Railcar Company ,„ go Al nchestor and Birmingham Railway l5 South Eastern and Dover (New) l5 Comnial Bank PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS. DUBLIN, MAY 30. 3 per Cent. Consols 13• 2 per Cent. Stock - Ditto, 4 per cent. Ditto Reduced - Ditto Sew, MO ........ 59% , City of Dublin Steam Comp. 3t.‘ par Cent. Debentures.., 9211, National Insurance Company Bank stock ..• 19 , 1, City Debentures, 4 per cent. Grand Canal Mock Royal Canal Stock HALF-PAST ONE. Mauritius papers have been received to the 13th Feb. Exchange on London, Government Bills, 30 days sight, Two-and a- Half per cent. premium ; Mauritius Bank Bills, 90 days sight, par; Private Bills, 90 days sight, Three to Four per cent. discount. It being fine weather, with very few arrivals this morning, and no information having been received, that the speculators in the funds could act upon, a number of them have taken their departure for the country, consequently very little business has been done during the course of the morning in either of the markets. The north easterly wind still pre vents the arrival of the New York packets. We may ex pect the Liverpool steamer on Monday, giving her fifteen days from New York. . _ Consols have continued during the morning at 931 S for Money, for the Account 93-1,- 94 ; Exchequer Bills, 28 26; India Bonds nothing done; Bank Stock 1951 1941 195; India Stock nothing done. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 191, rather lower than they left off; Portuguese, 351; Three per Cents., 211, also lower ; Colombian 31, lower; Dutch Two-and a- Half per Cents. firm at 561 ; Five per Cents., 1021. ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—Sir Peter Laurie waited upon the Lord Mayor on Monday last to present a requisition from several members of the Court of Aldermen, requesting his Lordship to convene an early Court for the purpose of taking into consideration the pro priety of presenting an address of congratulation to the Queen Dowager on her Majesty's safe return to this country. The Lord Mayor fixed Tuesday next for the consideration of the subject. The number of British vessels which entered the Dutch ports in 1838 amounted to nearly 900. This is a gratifying proof that the intercourse between Great Britain and Holland has increased considerably since the conclusion of the commercial treaty between the two Rations in 1837. Mr. Oxberry and Mr. Vining have entered into an arrangement with the Proprietor of the Pavilion, White chapel Road, and part of the Olympic company will appear next week. CORONERS INQUEST.—An inquest was held at the Unicorn public-house, Greenwich, yesterday even ing, on the body of James Witcher, an engineer, who was killed by the bursting of a boiler on board the Arche medes steamer, on the day before. The inquest was adjourned to obtain further information. From the evi dence given, it appears that the unfortunate man died not from external injury, but from swallowing the steam, which caused inflammation and suffocated him. ADDRESSES TO THE QUEEN.—We stated yesterday that the citizens of Cork had voted an address to her Majesty. Mayo and Dundalk, as well as St. Michan's parish, Dublin, have also severally congratulated her Ma jesty on the noble stand she made against Peel and his party. DEAL, MAY 31.—Wind N. E. —Came down from the river and sailed the Orynthia, Telford, for Demerara ; Forager, Deane. Grenada ; Henriette, Burghes, St. Kitt's ; Roscoe Castle, Murray, Constantinople; Eu phaasee Alexandria ; and Sarah, Russell, Malta. . _ • PORTSMOUTH, MAY 31.—Wind E.N. E.—Arrived the Maria, Cockerell, from Leghorn. PLYMOUTH, MAT 31.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Britannia, from Cadiz. MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE The most attractive feature in this number is the poetry, all of which is unusually good. Some of it is dated from the Arkansas river, beyond the Mississippi, at the trifling Ormribits distance of " two thousand miles from New York !" The poems thus dated are entitled, " Hymns to the Gods," and are the production of a transatllntic bard who rejoices in the Chartist-like name of " Pike ;" and states that a copy of Blackwood re gularly reaches his log-hut—for we take for granted that, being a poet, he lives in a log-hut, (which is equi valent to cur attic), on the borders of a tremendous forest, full of bears, rattle-snakes, and Red Indians, who threaten him with a summary process of of scalping twice a-week—Mr. Pike, we say, who is thus pleasantly and poetically located, states that a number of Maga reaches him with remarkable punctuality seven weeks after its publication in Edin burgh ! Here is a proud compliment to Christopher North, and his pet periodical Well may that " old man eloquent " exclaim, " rpm regio in terris nostri non plena laboris ?" We have read Mr. Pike's mythologi cal Canticles with much atte nt i on, an d mean to pay h i m a very high compliment when we state that they might almost pass for free translations from the Hymns of Callimachus. As a specimen of the free and easy play of his rhythm, we quote an extract from his Address to Venus : Where'cr thou art, oh Venus I hear our song-- Kind goddess, hear 1 for unto thee belong All pleasant offerings; bright doves c oo t o th ee The while they twine their necks with quiet glee Among the morning leaves; thine are all sounds Of pleasure on the earth; and where abounds Most happiness, for thee we ever l ook ; Among the leaves, in dimly lighted nook, Most often hidest thou, where winds may wave Thy sunny curls, and cool airs fondly lave Thy beaming brow, and ruffle the white wings Of thy tired doves ; and where his love-song sings, With lightsome eyes, some little, strange, sweet bird, With notes that never but by thee are heard— Oh, in such scene, most bright, thou liest now, And with half open eye Drinkest in beauty—oh, most fair, that thou Wouldst hear our cry I Oh thou, through whom all things upon the earth , Grow brighter : thou for whom even laughing mirth Lengthens his note : thou whom the joyous bird Singeth continuously, whose name is heard In everp pleasant sound : at whose warm glance All things look brighter : for whom wine doth dance More merrily within the brimming vase, To meet thy lip : thou at whose quiet pace Joy leaps on faster, with a louder laugh, And Sotrow tosses to the sea his staff, And pushes back the hair from his dim eyes, To look again upon forgotten skies ; While Avarice forgets to count his gold, Yea, unto thee his witlred hand cloth hold Fill'd with that heart blood : thou. to whose high might All things are made to bow, Come thou to us, and turn thy looks of light Upon us now In manner, this is not much unlike some portion of Keates's " Hymn to Pan," but it has more pith and vigour, and, at least, equal luxuriance of epithet. We would advise Mr. Pike, however, when he next ad dresses Venus, to make as few allusions to the Cyprian Goddess of that name as possible, for she was no better than she should be—in fact, we blush to say it, as lax in her morals as a Strand street- walker. We have it on the best authority—namely, that of the poets, who, it is well known, entertain quite an utilitarian horror of fiction—that the Cyprian Venus was the half-proprietor of more illegitimate children than even the Grand Seignior ; and the ruins of the Foundling Hospital she built in Cyprus may still be seen in that island, about a hundred yards from the butcher's shop, as you turn down by the Post-office. " The Vision of Caligula" is a poem from the pen of Mr. Syrnmons. It is a stately, impassioned production. We subjoin a couplet, the last line in which suggests a bold and striking image to the mind : " I looked along broad Ocean's hushed expanse, Filled with the strength of midnight's countenance." " Whig Decline and Degradation" is a rampant ultra- Tory diatribe, abounding in misstatements. The very first sentence involves a gross historical blunder. Thus, speaking of the first French revolution, the writer states expressly that " Necker doubled the representation of the tiers eMt, with the cordial " concurrence of the Crown." Now it happens that the Crown gave no such cordial concurrence. On the contrary, the double re presentation was wrung from it, as though it had been its life-blood—which it really was—and infinite were the shifts and expedients to which Louis had recourse, be fore he could be prevailed on to agree to Necker's rash proposition, which was the real cause of all the blood that was afterwards shed. Again, in alluding to the Re form Bill, the writer tells us that "it was the forcible usurpation of power by the middle classes." What stuff is this"! The usurpation was quite the other way that is to say, on the part of the boroughmongera ; and the middle classes in insisting on Reform, only insisted on the power which the Constitution gave them, but of which they had for ages been unjustly deprived. " Dii Minorum Gentium" is a graceful criticism on the writ ings of Carew and Herrick, two small poets who twinkled in the days of the First James. The Re viewer, we think, scarcely does justice to Herrick, who possessed both fancy and tenderness in no slight degree; neither does he quote his most successful poems. He should have given us the "Mad Maid's Song," which was founded on the circumstance of a young lady losing by death a lover to whom she was devotedly attached, if only for the last stanza, which (we quote from memory) runs as follows : " He's kind and gentle; pray, take heed, With bands of cowslips bind him, And bring him here—but Ws decreed, That .1 shall never find him." The sudden return to sanity, as the recollection of the Mad Maid's bereavement flashes across her brain, shown in the lines we have quoted in Italics, has al ways struck us as most pathetic, and true to nature. " My First Client," is a story told with admirable skill and simplicity. One reads it as though it were quite a homely matter of-fact, though there is no doubt it is a pure fiction. The " Late Political Events," are penned in a very dismal spirit. We can imagine the author sitting down to write it, with a face at least a yard long. The remaining articles prose and verse, are of the usual calibre. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. -- Mrs. Trollope's " Widow Married" is the great gem of this number. The Burnaby comes out in fatuous style in the chapters descriptive of her voyage home from mouth of uxoriousness. Th am We ( . S 100 evince vin Australia, with her d as hi ng , bl ack -whiskered husband ; and her lamentatio ns f or t h e l oss of his splendid whis kers and mustachio s , w hi c h h e heartlessly shaves off u c p e on a most while sailing a delectable p spirit the the plump Widow, with her great flashing dark eyes, her well-oiled ringlets, black as the raven's wing, and her incomparable assurance, which nothing earthly could disturb, as one of the best and truest portraits to be found in the whole range of modern fiction. In this sort of character Mrs. Trollope is quite at home ; but she fails in the sentimental, and when attempting to be Pathetic, becomes maudlin by mistake. The two en gravings illustrative of her present chapters, hit off the widow, her husband, and their promising daughter, to the life. We quote Mrs. Barnaby's—alias O'Donog hough's—lament for the loss of her spouse's whiskers : " Good Heaven 1 Major Allen," was her first involuntary exclamation, " what on earth can have induced you to make such a figure of yourself ?" The gentleman suddenly ceased to smile as she spoke, and answered in a low growling voice, which showed that he bad not, like Samson, lost his spirit witn his hair, " And what, madam, can make you call me by a name which I have commanded you never to utter again ?" Poor Mrs. O'Donagough was really frightened, and not withstanding the high spirit upon which she prided herself, condescended to say, Oh, dear me 1 Mr. O'Donagough, don't be angry 1 I will never say it again, upon my word and honour. And nobody heard me, you know—that's a comfort. But what did you cut off your beautiful whiskers for ?" " You are a fool, Mrs. Allen O'Donagough," was the short reply ; and never again was the circumstance alluded to between them. But it cannot be supposed that Mrs. O'Donagough forgot it ; or that she could avoid feeling rather uncomfortably anxious as to what motive could have induced so very handsome a man to disfigure himself so dreadfully. " If it bad been only his mustaches," thought she , " I should not h ave cared•• and indeed I know that it w o uld have perfectly necessary_how else could he possibly pass himself off for the Reverend Mr. O'Donagough ? No reverends ever do wear mustaches, that's quite true ; lout those beautiful whiskers that gave him so completely the air of a man o f fashion ' there could have been no occasion to shave them ! I know the irreaular clergy, like my last poor O'Donag oug h , wear whisker's quite as often as not— not little shabby whiskers either, suc h as a bishop might wear, and n o h arm done—but just; such full noble-looking whiskers as the Ma —as this foolish mans wore—howev er, it's no good to f ret. If any thin. wa s to happen to him, and I vas to m arry again, I'd take good care to k n ow , if 'twas in the old world'or the new, w h e ther there was any likelihood of th e man ' s wanting to, scrape his skin, for all the world lik e a p i g prepared for roast i ng . This one only wants singein g a little, to make him perfect." " A Stir in the Household" is a smart domestic sketch—or rather a series of sketches —illustrative of the injurious effects of selfishness in a husband and wife who are at the head of a large establishment. The author of this clever story is Mr. Theodore Hook, and account of thi s p o p ulous city, he has not o f ten w i elded h i s pen withpore effect. 4. Westminster of Old" i s , as the title implies, an anti quarian as it existed some centuries ago, wh en " Chariog" was a rura l little village about a mile from London, and the Strand abounded in fruit and flower gardens sloping down to the Thames. " Boar hunti ng " g i ves some spirite d d e tails respecting a long day's chase amorr, the hills and fore sts o f India. The death o f t h e wild boor is an impressive bit of de. scription. " The Life and Times of Peter Priggins" developes no ordinary powers of ready dialogue. " A Domestic Scene" is a vamped-up an ecdote of Nepoleon, Maria Lo u i sa , an d the sculptor C a nova. " The Carol of Content" is gracefully versified by Sir Lumley Skethiigton. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. There are many graphic touches of descripiion in the present chapters of Jack Sheppard, which show that Mr. Ainsworth is an adept in the ad captandurn style. His account of Jonathan Wild's museum of professional curiosities, though perhaps verging on the extravagant, is very effective ; and not less so, his sketch of the great thief•taker, whom he somewhat quaintly calls .• the Napoleon of knavery." Here is our author's catalogue of the items in Jonathan's Museum : Following his guide, Sir Rowland found himself in a large and lofty apartment, the extent of which he could not entirely discern until lights were set upon the table. He then looked around him with some curiosity ; and, as the thief-taker was oc cupied in giving directions to his attendant in an undertone, ample leisure was allowed him for investigation. At the first glance he imagined he must have stumbled upon a museum of rarities, there were So many glass cusses, so many open cabinets ranged against the walls: but the next convinced him that if Jonathan was a virtuoso, his tastes did not run in the ordinary channals. Trenchard was tempted to examine the contents of some of these cases, but a closer inspection made him re coil from them in disgust. in the one he approached was gathered together a vast assortment of weapons, each of which, as appeared from the ticket attached to it, had been used as an instrument of destruction. On this side was a razor with which a son had murdered his father ; the blade notched, the haft crusted with blood . on that a bar of iron, bent, and partly broken, with which a husband had beaten out his wife's brains. As it is not, however, our intention to furnish a complete catalogue of these curiosities, we shall merely mention that in front of them lay a large and sharp knife, once the property of the public executioner, and used by him to dissever the limbs of those condemned to death for high,-treason ; together with an immense two-pronged flesh-fork, likewise employed by the same terrible functionary to plunge the quarters of his victims in the cauldrons of boiling tar and oil. Every gibbet at Tyburn and Hounslow appeared to have been plundered of its charnel spoil to enrich the adjoin ing cabin, so well was it stored with skulls and bones, all pur porting to be the relics of highwaymen famous in their day. Halters, each of which had fulfilled its destiny, formed the attraction of the next compartment; while a fourth was occu pied by an array of implements of housebreaking almost innu merable, and utterly indescribable. All these interesting objects were carefully arranged, classed, and, as we said, labeled by the thief-taker. Mr. Ainsworth's character of Jonathan is quite as vigorously and consistently maintained as Fielding's, but it wants those sparkling and lively touches with which the latter has relieved his portrait. It is too stern and sullen—in short, all shadow, without a single sun-burst. The interview that takes place between Jack Sheppard and his mother, after the young thief has made his escape from Willesden cage, appeals to some of the best and tenderest feelings of our nature ; but its effect is somewhat marred by the sudden melodramatic appear ance of Jonathan Wild, whose " satanic countenance" peeps out from the " back of the bed," too much after. the 0. Smith fashion. " Vincent Eden" improves greatly. If we mistake not, this tale will become popular, for it is a lively, unexaggerated picture of Oxford life. The incident of the grave proctor, Doctor Burnaby Birch, and the basket in which was a fine baby sent him by way of present, is a rich bit of drollery. " Rambles among the Rivers," is a string of very pleasant, gos sipping anecdotes, gleaned with praiseworthy diligence from local guide-books, and divers other sources. The " Night-Watch" is an affecting tale from the pen of poor Haynes Bayley, who paid the penalty of genius the other day, by dying, as we have heard, in a state of utter destitution. It suggests a train of very pain ful ideas, to think that while he was lying helpless and hopeless on that bed from which he was never more to rise, thousands of the young, the hippy, and the affluent were, at that very time, seated in the most picturesque of attitudes, and with the most sentimental of faces, at the harp or the piano, singing his plaintive ballads ! The " Veterans of Chelsea Hospital" is a clever idea, cleverly worked out by Mr. Gleig. Sonic Passages in the Life of Olinthus Jenkinson" is just a passable narrative, and no more. " Legacies of Intellect" is a neatly told anecdote, and points a useful moral. We should be glad to see more of these sort of tales, for the " Miscellany" is too much taken up with minute, piquant, and scientific records of the exploits of thieves, fences, burglars, and highwaymen. Indeed, after perusing Oliver Twist and Jack Sheppard, with the attention due to the shrewd ability they display, it must be the reader's own fault if he have not acquired all the knowledge necessary to make him an accom plished cracksman. " Colin Clink" is excellent. We like the healthy, manly spirit that pervades this story, which is a picture of genuine English country life, painted with the combined truth and energy of a Mor land and a Gainsborough. FRASER'S MAGAZINE. In the article headed the " Modern Pythagorean," we have a critical notice of the prose fictions of the late Dr. Macnish, in the justice of much of which we agree, though there are portions of it written in a style of such extravagant panegyric, as to wear almost the aspect of irony. Thus, speaking of one of Macnish's tales which was inserted in Blackwood's Magazine about ten or a dozen years since—we mean the " Man- Mountain" the Reviewer says, " Some passages of it are worthy to be learned by heart. Witness the vision of the Mtn-Mountain through the window-blind. Milton's Satan is scarcely more tremendous." Now this is supremely ridiculous, and none would have laughed more heartily at it than the object of the eulogy, who was a modest, discreet man, and had no taste for extravagance, whether in the way of praise or blame. " Catherine, a Story," is here and there enlivened by a gleam of humour, and in its dia logues is easy and natural. The engraving illus trative of the tale is a very grotesque production. " Paris Pastimes for the Month of May," gives an amusing account of the late enzeute in the Fre nc h ca pital. The description, in particular, of the manner in which a barricade is formed in Paris, is exceedingly comic, and we have no doubt—from all we have heard and read upon the subject—correct in all the essential points. " Anatomy of the Chess Automaton" is an ex planation of that clever juggle which some years ago oc casioned such a sensation in England, and puzzled so many of our most scientific men. Croker's " Popular Songs of Ireland" is a review, much too long, of a dull, twad dling piece of book-making. " Familiar Epistle to the Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia" is in O'Doherty's most marked and broadest style of humour. In the essay on " Greek Comedy" the introductory portion is the best. We quote some of the writer's remarks on the perishable character of wit :-- To preserve the perfect savour of wit, is almost as difficult as to define it. Nothing, says the most fam .us humourist in English literature, is so very tender as a modern piece of wit, or so apt to suffer in the carriage. Wit has its walks and pur bees, out of which it may not stray the breadth of a hair, upon peril of being lost. The moderns have artfully fixed this mer cury, and reduced it to the circumstances of time, place, and person. Such a jest there is, that will not pass out of Covent garden ; and such a one, that is nowhere intelligible beyond Hyde-park. These are the words of Swift, whose own inimi table satires have long ago begun to feel the changes of fashion and of time ; and whose luxuriant imagination loses half of its richness and verdure, in the uncongenial atmosphere of modern habits and education. The same remark applies with equal force to the pleasantry of Lucian, the buffoonery of Rabelais, the malignity of Martial, and the urbane gaiety of Horace. In proportion to the personality of the wit, seems to be the rapidity of its evaporation. The brilliant portraits of Dryden—the poetical Rembrandt of his age—and the more delicately finished miniatures of Pope, require the reviving hand of the accom plished annotator. They must be hung in the light of criti cism, before the character or the individuality of the picture can be ascertained. So it is with the sparkling dramatists of the reign of Charles the Second, those fire-flies, whose airy evolu tions and glancing plumage emit an unhealthy lustre in that night of all that is noble and inspiring in our literature. The leprosy of vice has, indeed, eaten into and corroded the richest colours of their pencil ; but this disease, venomous and deadly as it is, would not alone have obscured the vividness of their wit, or benumbed the vivacity of their invention. Their cos tume and conversation, their puns and their paintings, their sallies and their scandal—all wear a faded look ; and the Pel ham, of the nineteenth century, scarcely recognises the Sir Fopling Flutter of the seventeeth. HEADS OF THE PEOPLE. This lively little periodical " runs on its course re joicing." The present Number is one of the smartest we have yet seen, and contains a continuation of " Tavern Heads," the " Old Housekeeper'' and the Postman," which last is by Douglas Jerrold, and in his most successful manner. LIFE OF THE DUAE OF WELLINGTON. The present part, which is the third of this biography, comes down to the year of the memorable siege of Sa. ragossa, where Palafox acquired such glory. His character is justly and impartially drawn by the writer, who strips him of one or two of his laurels. LAW MAGAZINE. The " Metropolitan Police Bills," throws out some serviceable suggestions, of which some of our Police Magistrates would do well to avail themselves. There is but too much truth in this remark, which occurs in cidentally in the course of some observations on Quarter Sessions—" At present, thanks to the highly culpable carelessness of the Benchers of our Inns of Court, any person may be called to the bar, without the slightest reference to his moral or intellectual fitness, his attain ments or abilities, his aim or object." In the article entitled " The House of Commons," there is a sour, envenomed spirit of party manifested throughout, which is anything but reconcileable with common sense or jus tice. Still, whatever be its political defects, it is im possible to deny that the " Law Magazine" is a journal conducted with much talent and energy. THE SPORTING REVlEW—Ackermann. THE SPORTING MAGAZINE—Pitman. THE NEW SPORTING MAGAZINE_Spiers. The number of Sporting periodicals is becoming so great, and there is necessarily such a sameness in much of their contents, that we are constrained to notice the principal of them under one head. Those enume rated above appear in the order in which we estimate them severally. They are tastefully embellished with two engravings each—those of the Sporting Review being executed with a degree of care which reflects credit upon the artist. The articles by Nimrod are excellent. UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL. There are some curious facts stated in the " Exami nation of the law of Storms," which is a scientific paper of no slight merit. " Past and Present State of• Fort ifications in Europe," gives an elaborate account of the progress that this art has made during the five or six last centuries. To military men it vhil prove nccepta} le r sling ; but w ill b e cav i are to t h e genera lit y of readers. " Joe Sims, a Galley Yarn," is another of these rough, vigorous, naval sketches which have been so popular of late years, but are now on the wane in point of attrac tiveness. Altogether, the Number is a fair average one, THE SPORTSMAN. A spirited number of a very clever and uniformly well conducted sporting magazine. The embellishments are both by Beckwith, and do credit to the abilities of the artist. The first is " Lottery," the winner of the Cheltenham and Liverpool steeple chases, from a paint ing by Turner, and the second is " Pike-fishing" from a painting by Giles. Both are full of character, and, by all true sportsmen, will be valued at more than the price of the number. THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. The title of this periodical is enough to obtain for it the most extensive patronage, the more especially as it abounds with information, commercial, statistical, and agricultural, of great importance to the practical farmer, not in one only, but in every branch of his business, The present Number, in addition to a series of very in teresting papers on cattle-breeding, draining, manuring, &c., is embellished with two well-executed engravings by Beckwith, the one an enormous specimen of the short horned bull, bred by Mr. Baker, of Rutlandshire, and the other the winner of the Goodwood Cup for 1839. THE CATHOLIC MAGAZINE. We are no admirers of religious controversy, and have, therefore, no sympathy with the conductors of periodicals in which it forms a leading feature. We, moreover, know enough of Catholicism to be perfectly sensible that as a religious system it is by no means what the contributors to the Catholic Magazine would represent it. They appear to know nothing of the Ca tholic religion beyond what may be gathered from an ob servance of its rites in England ; hut we can tell them from a more extended acquaintance with it, that it is elsewhere a very different affair. At the same time we admit that the writers may find an apology for their zeal in the rabid attacks made upon them by ignorant bigots of the Church of England, who know about as much concerning the tenets and practices of the See of Rome, as they do about the religious system of the Persian Fire-Worshippers. A Catholic Magazinemay be necessary to counteract the effect of the absurd ravings of the " Churchman" and the harlequin exhi bitions at Exeter-hall, but the honest Christian will be greatly deceived if he select eitt.er one or the other as an unerring guide. We may ob serve, however, that " 80-Peep" is more than unu sually sarcastic this month, and as the world is always full of ill-natured people, his article only wants circulation to have a world of admirers. The " biogra phical memoir of the late Abbott of La Trappe" is very interesting, as showing the domination which religious or rather superstitious enthusiasm frequently establishes over the most cultivated minds. From the notes for the month we learn that Catholicism is rapidly gaining ground in every part of England. Among the recent converts at Weymouth we find the name of Mr. George Gustavus Monk, son of the Rev. Mr. Monk, author of several religious works. The reported rumour of the building of a Catholic cathedral in London, which was to have been consecrated by the Pope in person, turns out to be a hoax which some wag payed upon the fa natics assembling at Exeter Hall. The Editor, with well sustained mock gravity, deprecates a rumour which might have qualified a whole batch of the " saints" for strait waistcoats in St. Luke's. MONTHLY MAGAZINE. There is a very judicious essay on " Milton," in this number, which is the production of Mr. Heraud, who sounds the depths of his subject, and brings up thence much valuable ore. No modern critic, however, has yet equalled Dr. Channing on this point. His analy sis of Milton's prose and poetry, is, on the whole, more satisfactory than any other with which we are acquainted. It is not so showy or animated, but more consistent and argumentative, than Macauley's, in the " Edinburgh Review." Of the remaining arti cles, (which are few) in the number, the most enter taining is the digest of some new works, under the appropriate name of " Library Monologue." THE NAW MONTHLY BELLE ASSEM- BLEE. _ In this receptacle of the first offerings of unfledged poets and youthful romancists there are many tender effusions of considerable merit, and still more of great promise. Mrs. Cornwall Baron Wilson has contributed some touching eligiac stanzas to the memory of the much lamented Thomas Haynes Bayley, and a lyric of great beauty beginning " Not now, not now." A number of gaudily-dressed young ladies in all conceivable attitud es display the fashi ons f or the month—thus supplying an ample stock of dress-making knowledge for the study of such as delight in the intermixture of nice bonnets and nice love-ditties—tales of broken hearts and French sleeve-patterns. THEATRES. HER MAJESTY'S. We confess to the having heard of three fragments of operas being, once upon a time, successful ; but we did not experience it to be so last Thursday night. An act of the Puritani, another of Lucia di Lammermoor, and a third, the Nozze di Figaro, did cer tainly not produce that general effect which is known by the name of unity. Still the experiment was well meant. The new opera, Lucretia Borgia, was to have been in readiness for that evening; but it was not then anticipated that Ascot Heath, with a thousand charms, would draw the whole town to do honour to its attractions. It had, therefore, been found necessary to postpone it, and get up something less interesting in its place. The result was the trio of broken operas, which, however, were remarkably well performed, encores being most profusely insisted upon. The house had a very respectable appearance. 0L YMPIGr. Last night Madame Vestris closed her house for the Season. At the end of the performance she spoke the following Ad. dress : " LADIES AND GENTLEMEN--For the ninth time I have the honour to drop my courtesy and my curtain at the close of a prosperous season, for which in Mr. Mathew's name, and ray own, I beg to offer you our best acknowledgements. " There have been peculiar circumstances connected with the season ai out to conclude, which I conclude I had better say but little about. I may, however, safely and truly say, that I left you with unfeigned regret, and returned to you with un bounded joy. And though it must be confessed that the mode in which you manifested your regret at my absence was more calculated to feed my vanity than my treasury, your kindness since my return has left the latter nothing to complain of. " Encouraged by the approbation my managerial efforts have re ceived, we have become lessees of the Theatre Royal, Covent Gar den. lam aware that we shall have many difficulties to contend with. 'We propose to face them manfully and womanfully—to pre serve the good points of former managements, and reject the bad— to take with us the best results of my experience here, and to trust to the public to do the rest. " Some kind friends have already prophesied that I shall not sue. ceed there. My only answer is, that nine years ago they said should never succeed here. " The most absurd reports are in circulation about the characters which we mean to appropi late to ourselves. Two of them, and two only, I shall notice, for if allowed to remain uncontradictcd, they may do us serious injury —Mr. Mathews will not play Macbeth, and I have positively refused Queen Catherine. " In conclusion, Ladies and Gentlemen, I beg to state that the great increase of our business having justified us in taking more extensive premises, I most respectfully, for the performers and myself, bid you farewell until we meet, in September next, at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden, where I entreat a continuance of your custom and recommendation for the house of Mathews, Ves_ tris, and Company." ST JAMES'S. Yesterday evening being the last night of the Reason Mr. Roxby came forward at the conclusion of the farce •f Teddy the Tiler, and delivered the following valedictory address •._ " Ladies and Gentlemen,—Mr. Hooper having, from a profes sional engagement in the provinces, been compelled to deprive himself of pleasure of addressing you this evening, he has deputed me to discharge for him that duty which otherwise it would have have been his cheerful task to have himself performed. To-night, therefore, it becomes my office to state that the performances you have now witnessed terminate a season fraught with even more than the customary risk and expen. diture attendant on theatrical speculations of the present day —a season during which we have striven, with the aid of monkeys, goats, lions, tigers, and other expatriated denizens of the forests, to obtain your patronage; and for the flattering approbation with which you have honoured our efforts, we now beg to offer our mo.t sincere and grateful acknowledgments. In addition to having laid all quarters of the globe under contribution for your enter tainment, our most cheering retrospect consists in having afforded a shelter for that portion of a company thrown out of engagements by unforeseen circumstances in the unex pected and premature closing of a patent establishment. Although the season has not afforded by any means a reali zation of the term successful, in all that relates to the public the pro prietor has every reason to be satisfied and grateful. An adequate share of patronage has been extended to this establishment ; and we may at the same time affirm that genet al approbation has rewarded the endeavour to provide you with a place of amusement in all re. apects calculated for the purposes and objects of dramatic representa tion. This, Ladies and Gentlemen, is the gratifying retrospect of the past; I need not detain you by a detailed anticipation of the fu. ture. The time that may elapse before we meet again shall be em ployed in renewed exertions for your patronage, a continuance of which it will ever be our constant study to merit, and pride to ob tain. Once more, in the name of Mr. Hooper and my brother and sister performers, allow me respectfully to bid you farewell." HAYMARKET. Miss Maywood took the part of Mrs. Haller, in The Stranger, on Thursday night, and we are glad to be able to speak more decidedly in her favour than when she appeared as Bianca, in Fazio—a part on which the whole weight of the play depends, and requiring more strength and aptitude than so young a performer could possibly yet have acquired. Miss Maywood's Mrs. Haller was marked by a great deal of genuine feeling and natural tenderness, and the represen tation possessed an entireness and a smoothness which could not be said to belong to her former effort. She also looked very interesting, and the lady-likeness of her deportment was remarkable. Nothing can render the play otherwise than disagreeable, without at all joining in the maukish cry against its morality; and if originally it had a long run, it was indebted for it to the acting of John Kemble and Mrs. Siddons. Miss Mowood's performance certainly tended i to lessen our repugnance, and Mrs. Hall e r h as se ldom been shown n a more amiable point of view. We think that the audience hardly did her justice, for though she was applauded now and then as she proceeded, particularly in the last act, there was no attempt to call for her at the fall of the curtain. This coldness might in part be attributable to the distressing effect of the last scene, withits truly German conclusion. Cooper played the Stranger respectably, and the other characters were adequately filled by Miss Mordaunt, Lacy, Strickland, Buckstone, The Augsburgh Gazette of the 26t h ult , pub lishes a letter from the pol ish frontiers of th e 18 th ult., which states " that the mo v e ments of troo p s in Pol an d and in the interior of Russia continue, and that the concentra. tion has for its object to establish a camp in this month, which is to be honoured with the presence of the T , Amperta i Family. Many foreign Princes have also been invited, and the division encamped will consist of 70,000 men." EVENTN cz- ED I TTOIsT COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty arrived in town at ten minutes past three o'clock yesterday afternoon, in an open carriage and four from Windsor Castle. Her Majesty was accompanied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Leiningen. Tire Royal Suite followe:i in three carriages and fo ur ' and included Lady Lyttleton, Lady Flora Hireling:. Ho nourable Miss Spring Rice, Honourable Miss Paget, Lady Gardiner, Baroness Lehzen, Earl of Fingal!, Ho nourable Major Koppel, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel Buckley. The Royal Party were escorted by a party of Light Dragoons. On her Majesty's arrival, the Royal Standard was hoisted from the marble arch at Buckingham Palace. The Earl of Surrey, Treasurer of the Household, re ceived her Majesty at Buckieghain Palace. The Earl of Surrey and Lord Byron joined the Royal Dinner Party at the Palace last evt ning. At Windsor Castle on Wedneaday evening dancill, commenced at eleven o'clock. Weippart's band being In attendance. The Queen danced in quadrilles during the night with the Hereditary Grand D u k e o f R uss i a , Prince cderick Henry of the Netherlands, the Earl of March, and Lord Levesen. At half past two o'clock her Majesty led off a country dance with the Heriditary Grand Duke of Russia. Quadrilles were also danced at the Castle on Tuesday night. The Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia, accompanie d by Prince Fred, rick Henry of the Netherlands, and at tended by Viscount Torrington and the Noblemen of his suite, went yesterday t o D ep tf or d i n one o f t h e Queen's carriag, s. His Serene Highness Prince Ed ward of Saxe Wenner, accompanied by the Rev. J. H. Wood, also ar' rived at Deptford from :Marlborough House, the resi dence of her Majesty the Queen Dowager. The three Princes embarked on board the Firebrand steam packe t ' on their return to the Hague. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty th e Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. The Princess Augusta took a drive to Kensington yesterday in a carriage and four. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured the Earl and Countess of Wilton with their company a t din ner last evening, at their residence in Grosvenor-square. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Princess Augusta yesterday at Clarence House, St. James's. Viscount !Melbourne returned to town at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, from a visit to her Majesty at sor Castle. Lord Stuart de Decks had an interview with the Noble Viscount in Downing. street. The Turkish Ambassador and the Prussian Charg e d'Affaires transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. Lord Chichester, Lord Stuart de Decies, and CiPta in Hobs n, had into rviews with the Marquis of Normanby at toe Colonial Office yesterday. MEETING IN FAVOUR OF TiO POLES.-EXTRAORDINARY ROW. A meeting of the " Friends of Poland " was summoned yer e terday eveni ng a t th e A ssem b ly Rooms, Theobald's-roa d . an early hour the room was filled with a very mixed audience, a large proportion being working men. The gallery was crowded, and ex hibi te d many respectable females. The ell.- was to be taken at eight. That hour having passed, and v° symptoms of a Chairman, considerable impatience began to h e manifested by the crowd ; at last some person proposed that a General, or Major, Beniowsky take the chair. This w „,.e as the signal fo r an exp l os i on of frantic fury on the e of a portion of the crowd which defies description• and all that we could gather, for a period of somet hing like half an hour, wa - th a t anot h er person had proposed Dr ; Wade. What was the origin of this tremendous outbreak w a could not divine. But certain it was, that the people as began a fierce attack upon each other—blows were dealt ovn energetically and indiscriminately ; and a hundred voices! hoarse with rage, all shou ing at once, rendered the scene exciting as it was unaccountable. The platform was regvi i. s co " " stormed," a dozen or two times, and lost as often ; below pulled the occupants of 'he disputed position down by 1 legs. Those above kicked ferociously their assailants , an precipitated headlong into the crowd such as had daringly as cended. Innumerable single combat., mingled with trios, qu a: tets, and ever . ) other description of pugilistic encounter:. diversified the general affray ; and many a bloody visag e ', l4 ,b tered hat, and blackened eye betokened the sincerity co,l ph e combatants. All we could do was to watch the issue, 11 " ; ''", turned out, as in most similar cases, that all parties liv v ;r: seothle t bumped and bellowed themselves to exhaustion, began ° The what it was abo u t, an d f oun d t h at it was " a mistake. Wad, Chartists had " come u p on th em, " and objected to Dr' (as we were i n f orme d), an d t h e Poles generally we re infuriated against Beni ows ky, w h om t h ey considered as a spy; and as! f u or; fortunately, they all began to tight before they knew wh b e a ` t and as, when men once get into a row, they are sein ew one is capacitated trom argument ; and as, indeed, whelk el an shouting no one can be heard, it was impossible that a t T l i s de but sheer exhaustion could terminate the battle. "h ;r King sirable consummation was attained it was agreed that a • should take the chair, and he endeavoured to of the meeting which we collected to be, to convey to Polish exiles the expression of the sympathy of the wt i k c i t classes for the oppression and cruelty which had been infl on them by the Russian Emperor. In the horrible confusion of the meeting, of course note-taking was out of the question' The The audience, however, appeared cordially to concur i sentiments of ' Mr. King, and a resolution was agreed to es_ Pressive of the abhorrence of the atrocities which had bee n explain the object of practiced on Poland, and their contempt for the Grand Doke' now on a visit to this country. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CO VENT- G ARDEN. Supply good, and prices lower. Gooseberries are becoming, plentiful, and the fine weath er f or th e l ast f ew d ays h as caus ed the vegetables which have been in some time a o be r a ther cheaper. Trade on the whole was not good. Cabbages is. per dozen. Greens Is. 6d. Brecon 3s. to 4s. Asparagus 4s. to 7s. Carrots Bs. Rhubarb 6s. per dozen bunches. Celery Is. to Is. 6d. French Beans, per 100 s., 4s. Peas 12s. to 20s. per half sieve. Strawberries 9d. to ls. 6d. per ounce. Gooseberries 5s to is. per sieve. Cucumbers Is. to 3s. per brace. Spinach Is. per sieve. Cauliflowers 9s. per dozen. Grapes 4s. to_los._per lb. New Potatoes Is. 6d. to 2s. per lb. NEWCATE AND LEADEN HALL. A good supply, but the demand was dull, and prices droop ing. Beef, 3s. to 3s. Bd. Mutton, 3s. to 4s. Lamb, ss. 4 4 to 6s. 2d. Veal, 3s. Bd. to 4d. 10d. Pork, 3s. 6d. to 4d. li?d* Irish, 3s. to 3s. dd. Geese, 4s. to 6s. Rabbits, Is. to Is. bd. Leverets, 3s. to 3s. 6d. Ducks, 2s. to 3s. Chickens, Is. 3d. t o 3s. Fowls, 3s. 6d. to 4 s . 6d. G u i nea F ow l s. s s. D ottie ll, 2s. tia• Pigeons, 4d. and Bd. Quails, Is. 6d., and Pea Fowls, 10s. Egg s ' 4s. to ss. per 120. HUNGERFORD MARKET. Supply good, and so was the demand. Prices stead!* Turbot, ss. to 18s. Cod, Is. to 6s. Soles, 9d. to 3s. 6d. per pair. Lobsters, Is. to 4s. Salmon, Is. 4d. to 2s. 6d. Per lb Beef, 7d. to 80. Mutton, 70. to Bd. Veal, Bd. to m • Pork, id. to Bd. per lb. _ . HAY MARKETS. to Supply good. H a y 70 s. t o 90 3. an d 100 s. ; Clover 803 100 s. and 112 s. ; St raw 35 5 . to 42 5. per l oad. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. r bot Tu Supplies good, and th e d eman d was i n proportion. sal. ss. to 15s. ; Cod Is. t o 6 s . ; S o l es 6d . to 3s. per pa i r . ; dock mon ls. 3d. to 2s per lb. ; Mack ere l sd . to 10d. ; Hadd ock sd. to Is. 2d. ; Whiting 3d. to Bd. ; Lobsters is. to 4s• COAL MAR S. 4 . 5. cl 1 0 0 A ilurdon Main dair's 18 $' %Valls End Lambton ..... ..... 0 , 1 0 Carr's Hartl y 8 6 . Walls‘ 'V E. End . North Russell'st t ti:o on ll t 0) s r ; t . ~. : Tanfied Moor Butes 2l 6 Walla End Stewart's ......... ;It; 0 Tantield M00r.... .. 21 0 t Harney'WesHarney'2l 1 Walls End B arre tt ........... to 9 West Tantield l5 6 Walls End South DurhaM•• 2 0 9 Wylarn 2u 3 , Walls End Seymour Teed , •* ;2 l 0 Walls End i .race 20 li Walls End Tees ............... Walls End Gosforth.. 2 . i 9 Walls End Heaton Walis End Newmarch :: 2190 ( t ) i ;I Wallsi n End ... .. ... E n .... West .. . Tee 5.............. . 17, g Walls End Todd's Ben s h am 1 8 6 Hartley ... ..................... p 3 Walls Endllraddyll'sH e tt on 22 ' Howard's * Netherton Main 19 0 Walls End ll aswe ll - :'. Stavey Main .... . ............... hips arrived since last market-d .y, 112. Pi, ICES OF SEEJS.-May 81. • er' w 44 K , . New English R P ed CI C os t. Per quarter. 1 A er 70s. 114 s St. Fon t 40s• , 4 0, Old Di t to :./itto -s. -a. -s Rye Gr ass 20' 35- 45, 0 , 4 .. ,„„,.. New Foreign Ditto ...a.. 90s. 119 s. l'.&cey Grass -s. 40s. Cos. Linseed, for feeding 40 5 ',.... 63i - .2, ~-' Old Ditto Ditto New White Clover 6os. 80s. 80s. Ditto, for sow ng ...... -s , lr 50 , Old Ditto Ditt0...... -1. 455. 60s. Ditto, for crushing... --s ei n -4. 9 9 ties Trefoil . 20. 25s 20s. Canary ---s ads 49' Old D tto -s. :Ss. 22. Hemp -s Tretolimn Ins lls 138. Per Bushel , c , Cif. English Carraway - s. 43 5. 46s White Mustard...lls. '' , i. J" -- :51 22 Foreign Di t t o -s. 40s. 44s Brown Ditto ......lss • IV• I - i Oti Co riander -s 131 21s Tares 4s. Da - 301 Rapeseed, Engls.h One ;per Last) 38/. 381 PRICES OF POTATOES AT SPITALFIELDS York Reds ~from vessel) 4/. 10s. to 5/ Os per to. Scotch Reds ditto 4l. ss. to 41. 15, ditto Kidney , : Shawn PRICES OF fIOP 2II S. : 1-13' s. 51. 1 3151 1 .. . 54"5: d'ilitttt6P° Farnham i ,cket. (per cwt.) 6 Os. 'U, 15i. to 91 s' , East K.:), Pockets. 10 , ‘ Ditto Bags 4,. 4s. 51. 10. to 7 • „, Mid Kent Pockets SI. 15s, 5/. ss. to f' ;,.,, Dittt Bags '3 . 10- 4 10. t , .. , 0 . Sussex 1 3 3 ' 15s. to 4 ~, Yearlin gs 2l. 10s. 31 Os to 41 , 4 ) , Old olds - ermamaimmur PL ET.—May 31. A TE') CORNER DISHES, Sk , GUINEAS the SET.—A. B . S AVORY and S n s-' iv, Manufactu r i ng Silversmiths, No. 14, Cornhill, London t, ° _P t ; posite the B an k of England), submit for choice in their Rooms, ma n y patterns of strongly Plated Corner Dts),:r. with Silver handles and Shields, for Engraving, from 7 " die , fleas to 10 G u i neas the S c. of four ; by removing the h an from the c overs , e i g h t di she are formed when required. N.B. A Pamphlet of the Prices of Plate may be had on a PP cation. LONDON MADE WATCHES.- L OX SAVORY, 47, Cornhill (Seven doors from Gracechurch street) London, off ers a very l arge Stock of Sil ve r Watches at the following prices (Warranted) : Superior Watches on the Vertical Construction, jewelled, with hand to mark the seconds, double back e d eng i ne - turne d cases £4 4 0 Watches on the celebrated patent-lever con struction, jewelled in four holes, capped, hand to mark the seconds, double-bottomed engine turned cases Either of the above constructions in hunting-cases would be 10s. 6d. extra. . Second-hand Watches taken in exchange. BIRTHS. On the 17th ult., at Anniston, the Lady Clementina Bait, of a son. On the 27th ult., at Brompton, near Chatham, the lady of Captain Thomas Shadforth, 57th Regiment, of a son. On the 27th ult., at the Rectory, Ould, Northa mptonsbi rd, the wife of the Rev. Richard Ha r i ngton, of a son. MARRIED. On the 28th ult., at Clifton Campville, Staffordshir e, Margaret Anne, third (liughter of the Rev. Robert Taylin M.A, Rector of Clifton Campville, to Sir T. Gaspard Marchant, K. C. S . F ., and K. S C., Major in the 99th Reg'' ment, second son of the late General Le Alarchant. On the 28th ult., at Sholden, James Symington Shortt, Lieutenant 4th or King's Ov(n, son of the late Lieutenant' sChooloidneenliSohd e, ortt, Ke o n f t. her Majesty's 41st Regiment, to 1%1a 14 . (laughter o f Vi ce -Admiral Sir Thomas Harvey, K.C.8., DIE D. On th e 27 t h ult , the Lady Eleanor Lindsay, sister of the Earl of Lucan, aged'7l. On the 31st ult., Mr. Joseph Galbraith, Printer, late of Glasgow, aged 4s. On the 29th ult., at Upper Deal, Kent, the Rev. John Gregory, Rector of Elmstone, Kent. London : Printed and Published by AI I 'IWO Y 4 ; ° f No. S trand, at 7'he Sun (Mee. No. 112. A the county of Aliddlessex.—Saturday, June 1, 1e39. of Dor bea be; Th of / AM ire tn i titt lip, Pur use Ind tip', try, siblE preli port: one] ---an towa Aron Itself Its b Plan of a] sric lutl e4 th e i Peru the , arice by tl Corr, due' to it In di the i Om. fl.