The Sun. — London, England, 1839-05-25 00:00:00

I ADDRESSES TO THE QUEEN. HULL—GLORIOUS DEFEAT of the TORIES. i (FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) HULL, MAY 23.—We had yesterday a public meeting in the Guildhall, called by the Mayor on the requisition of 123 Reformers, to thank the Queen for rejecting the pro posals of Sir Robert Peel to render her a prisoner in her own Palace, and to pray her Majesty to surround the throne with such advisers as will lead on the march of Re form in all our institutions.' The Tories held a meeting. on th g i recedingadd, addicts seven theirin andt,c scouts tcame wereto a e arizolu sentt resolution outto op pose to endeavour to swamp the meeting, and the trick was only found cut in the morning by Ale great numbers of Tories of all sorts who flocked into the Town Hall. They were confidentof victory, and one of the leaders said to a Reformer, " we shall, beat you to-day." The result, however, was a glorious defeat. All classes of Reformers, Whigs, Radi cals, and even Chartists, were united against the Tories. The Mayor, GEORGE COOKMIAN, Esq., was called to the chair, and in opening the business made a few judicious remarks upon the occasion that had called them together. The Tories acted very disgracefully during the time the Mayor was speaking, and one of them, a Mr. Quin, wished to interrupt him to make a speech, but was put down by the meeting. The Mayor went on to say, that in his opi nion, the Queen acted right in refusing to submit to the dictates of Sir Robert Peel, with reference to the ladies of her household. She had shown a love for her own and her people's rights and sacred regard for liberty.—( Loud cheers.) This event had given fresh hopes to the Re formers. He trusted they would rally again and unite to carry out those greet principles for which they were con tending, and support the Queen in upholding those privi leges which she had determined to maintain.—(Loud cheers.) B. M. JALeARD, Esq., who was Mayor in 1837, and is one of the borough Magistrates, moved the first resolution. He first proposed to show what powers have usually been granted by the Sovereign to persons forming an Adminis tration, and then to ascertain what really were the condi tions attempted to be imposed on her Majesty on the present occasion. In support of the first, he referred to the re quirements of Lords Grey and Granville in 1812, and the late statement of Lord John Russell on the subject in the Horse of Commons. It was evident from these he con fessed that the powers demanded were unusual, and never before granted, He then referred to th e s t atements o f L or d Melbourne, Sir R. Peel, and the Duke of Wellington, to show the real extent of the powers demanded, and the intentions of the party demanding them. It was evi dent that nothing short of the entire thraldrom of her Majesty would ultimately have satisfied the Tories.-- ( Much cheering and interruption from the Tories.) They demanded restrictions to support the power of a faction which was incompatible with good government. Sur rounded as she would be, it would be impossible for her Majesty to become acquainted with the opinions of the public as to the acfs of her Ministers and the wants of the people. Mr. Jaleard concluded his speech by calling on all Reformers to rally round the Queen. He moved— " That this meeting would tender to h er M a j esty i ts expression of th e hi g h amiration it feels for her noble and dignified conduct in rejecting the offensive proposals made to her to discard the female friends by whom she is sur rounded—those whom she loves, and who are devoted to her person—in order to give strength to a party adverse to the liberties of the people, and to render her social condi tion worse than that of the meanest of her subjects."— (Much cheering from the Reformers, and hissing from the Tories.) Mr. GRESIIAM seconded the resolution. Dr. ALDERSON rose to move an amendment, and was loudly cheered by the Tories. It was their duty not to allow a party acting under a mere temporary triumph to send forth to the throne these opinions as the voice of the people. Unbiassed people would admit that Sir Robert Peel had acted an honourable part.—( Cheers and hisses.) The concessions required by Sir Robert Peel were not more than were necessary to enable them to carry on the Government. He moved—" Thai no address be presented to her Majesty open this occasion."—(Loud cheers from the Tories.) Mr. QetN, in a violent speech, abusing the Reformers and the Ministers, and endeavouring unsuccessfully to coquette with the Chartists, seconded the amendment. Mr. T. B. &Fru, a working man, made a very eloquent and sensible speech in support of the resolution. He ably exposed the acts of Toryism, and inferred from their attempts against the Queen's liberties what danger would ensue to thejiberties of th e p eo pl e if th e y s h ou ld succee d in holding office. It was clear that the Queen would have been nothing else but a splendid slave in her palace. If there remained any of the ancient chivalry of the country—if they felt any of that spirit which once animated their ancestors—( , Oh," and groans for the Tories)—they would show to this high-minded and dignified woman that she is surrounded by people determined to be free them selves, and determined that she should be free.—(Great cheers.) It had been said that this was a mere squabble about Bedchamber women, but it was something beyond this—it was on political grounds alone that Sir Robert Peel had the audacity and impudence—(Much cheering, for some time, and great interruption and groans from the gentlemanly Tories)--to make these proposals. Mr. Smith continued in a strain of much eloquence to show up the proceedings of the Tories, and concluded amidst much cheering. Mr. WARDLAW said, Otis was an attempt to bolster up a Government which had not the confidence of the people. The old constitutional Whigs were included in Sir Robert Peel's Government, for there was Lord Stanley—(Groans) —and Sir James Graham—( A burst of disapprobation, , and cries of " The renegade," and " Has his right arm forgot its cunning 2") Mr. Wardlaw read a list of the Ladies of the Household, from the Times, to show that they were with one exception Whigs. He said Sir Robert Peel had acted in the most honourable way, and unless he had the same control 4n the Household it was impossible he could carry on the Government. Mr. W. NOBLE, in answer to Mr. Wardlaw, referred to the Tory Household in the reign of William IV. when Lord Grey and Melbout ne were Ministers, and when Re form was carried. They had had a list of the Whig con nections of those ladies read, but the gentleman had omitted to give the Tory relatives of all of them but two or three.—( Loud cheers.) For instance, there was was the Marchioness of Normanby, whom the gallant and truth-loving and moral Times had so often vilified, and whom the Morning Post charged with pouring obscenity into the ears of the Queen—she was the daughter of Lord Ravensworth, a Tory, and the high and honourable lady was attacked with all the scurrility that the Tories were masters of.—(Cheers.) This was a question that came home to all. How would any present like to see a domestic tyranny established in their own dwelling, to which their wives and daughters should be subject—sur rounded by spies, and eompelled to associate only with those whom they suspected and feared.—( Cheers.) That was the condition in which our beloved Queen would have been placed, had Peel been permitted to carry his most audacious--( Cheers, and interruption) —most unconstitu tional measures—(Renewed cheers, and interruption)-- propositions repugnant to the Queen, and obnoxious to the people.—( Cheers.) What they had done was an indica tion of what would be their policy. If they sought at the commencement to make a slave of the Queen, they would 'ewe finished by making slaves of the people.—( Cheers, and hisses.) .Ilhe Me'yort put the Tory amendment to a show of hands, when it was lost by a large majority, as declared by the Mayoir, of twenty to one. The cheers of the Re formers were deafening upon this announcement. Three cheers for the Queen were then called for, and given again and again. The Tories clamoured for a division, and their desire was gratified by the Mayor, who divided on the original resolution, when the result was even more appa rent ; ?or on the show of hands several Tories held up both hands. The division gave the Reformers a majority of at least three to two ; but the Tories for some time wished to insist that. i they had the victory, and for about a quarter of an hour tie meeting was in the greatest ex citement, both parties cheering at the top of their voices. At length the Mayor declared the resolution to be carried. The Tories were frantic—Messrs. Quin, Frost, Craven, Alderson and others were livid with rage, and actually foamed at the mouth. They soon after loft the hall, amidst the cheers of the triumphant Reformers. H. Lownisiop, Esq. an Alderman and Magistrate, moved, after a neat speech, ‘. That this meeting expresses a fervent hope that her Majesty will surround her throne with such advisers as will upheld her Majesty's preroga tives ; and at the same time give to tile people that in crease of political power and protection in its exercise, to which •f'liey are entitled, and which the exigencies of the times demand," Mr. Alderman BELL seconded this, and it was carried unanimously. Mr. W. NOBLE moved the address to the Queen, a copy of which you shall have to-morrow. It is to be signed by the Mayor, and presented by Earl Durham. T. MURANT, Esq. seconded the address, which was carried unanimously. After a vote of thanks to the Mayor, carried with three times three, and three times seven enthukjastic cheers for the Queen, the meeting separated. WINCHESTER, MAY 23. (FROM OUR OWN. CORRESPONDENT.) A public meeting of the inhabitants of this city was held at the Guildhall on Wednesday, to address lief Majesty on the fitainess she had lately shown in rejecting the insult offered: to her Royal Person by Sir Robert Peel, in wish ing her to dismiss from her presence those female attend ants who comprise her Court. At the appointed hour the hall was crowded, and we were glad to see such a respect able assemblage met together to testify their loyalty to their Sovereign. It was currently reported that the Tories intended to move in adjournment, but they did not show, land everything pasted off without a dissentient voice. The Mayor, in opening the business of the day (after the requisition to him to convene the meeting had been read), expressed a hope that every person who was about to address the meeting would receive an attentive bearing. Among the gentlemen who were on the bench we observed R. Brown, Esq., J. V. Earl, Esq., R. Knight, XI., James Aldridge, Esq., H. Knight, Esq., George Twynam, Esq„ Dr. Twynam, of Lainston House, several members of the Town-council, and the greater part of the Liberal constituency of the borough. The Mayor (John Parmiter, Esq.), having been called to the chair, R. Brown, Esq. proceeded to address the meeting. After apologizing to his hearers for intruding himself on the present occasion, he embraced the opportunity of coming forward to move an Address to her Majesty for her spirited conduct on the late occasion. The speaker, in the course of his address was repeatedly cheered, more especially on his applying to Sir Robert Peel some very sarcastic re. marks, which were heartily responded to by them. The the Address,•which was worded so as not to give offence to T w Tor ies if khey had been present, was seconded by G. to lY_ l r , Esq., and carried unanimously. It was ordered sent tolgteoldbr the Melbourne presentation. After giving ' nine hearty cheers for her ( tribute of respect t the meeting separated. liiisre is a grand To or Majesty, and passing a similar o her Majesty's Ministers and the Mayor, this e rnig. ii v n ,to celebrate the for St. Tory spread at John's Rooms ,CsimieTative Association, at which h ion of the NVinchester tves po` The company, Captai n Neville , R. N., I bear, is rather above 200, com fm,4o( e heads of the College and Church, with their * - 7 ; • 44 hangers-on. Some persons from the neighbouring villages, a few of the gentry, some agriculturists sent to swell the number by the Tory landlords, and last, not least, the far famed trio who would like to rule the city—his Grace the Duke of Buckingham, Mr. J. B. East, M.P., and Mr. B. Evcott, the rejected at the last election. To make the greatest show they could, the Com mittee distributed a number of tickets gratis, to those who were unable to purchase them. I dare say a Report of the speeches will appear in to-morrow's Standard, and the number present in the room will be stated at 300 instead of what it really was, and that it was a meeting of the Conservatives of Winchester,in stead of which it should be called a meeting of the Con. servatives of the county. HANLEY, STAFFORDSHIRE, (Flom A CORRESPONDENT.) May it please your Majesty—We, the undersigned in habitants of Hanley aad Skelton, in the Staffjrdshire Pot teries, have heard with honest indignation of the demand made upon your Majesty to dismiss from your Household the ladies who have attended upon your Royal person, and who have acquired your affection and obtained your confi dence, a circumstance unexampled in the changes of Mi nisterial office, and which would subject your Majesty to the sacrifice of personal friends and comforts peculiarly due to your situation, and beyond what either Princes or pea sants are called upon to make. We therefore congratulate your Majesty on the noble spirit which has prompted you to reject a proposition so un becoming to your Majesty and so unworthy of the states man who presumed to offer it ; and we beg to tender your Majesty our dutiful thanks for the determined stand which you have made against this attack on your Royal preroga tive, and to assure your Majesty of our determination to support you in the enjoyment of your Majesty's rights and privileges to the utmost of your power. And we trust your Majesty will be pleased to call to your councils men who will uphold the dignity of the Throne not by wantonly insulting a Queen entitled to the affection and sympathies of all classes of her subjects, but by throwing around her Royal person their protection and best offices by advancing in the course of progressive Re form, by enlargi ng th e e l ect i ve f ranc hi se of the British people by adopting a just and intelligible policy both at home and abroad, so that the nation may be satisfied, the dignity of throne upheld, and the Administration made a blessing to the empire and the world. And especially our prayer is that your Majesty may be preserved and prospered of God, so that your life may be happy, your reign glorious, and your Majesty long reign in the hearts of a loyal and grateful people. METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Courier of last night, observes in the course of a leading article suggested by the late Hertford election— " The last Tory lie is, perhaps, one of the least, yet it is worthy of notice. The Hon. Mr. Cowper, who justly declared that the decision of the Hertford electors was a verdict condemnatory of the conduct of Sir Robert Peel,' is therefore accused of having shown that this verdict in his favour was an iniquitous verdict, inasmuch as he himself had, only six days before, pronounced that Sir Robert Peel's conduct had been per fectly ' loyal and proper' towards her Majesty. Pure, or rather most impure invention this is, and nothing more. Mr. Cowper, as we stated a day or two since, admitted the loyalty and propriety of Sir Robert's motives : and in doing so, acted, as we conceive, with an excess of handsomeness and liberality. But Sir Robert's conduct, and the principle of control for which he contended, he from the first unspar ingly condemned, as he does now." The Globe, in a leading article on the subject of national education, says:—" The Government is bound to have re gard to the great principles of religious freedom, which have been established by struggles that have left a deep trace in the history of this nation. No statesman who has studied the history of this country will do the national spirit the injustice of supposing that it will ever again submit to the yoke of intolerance. What ever remaining imperfections may exist in our laws, intolerance has ceased from being a blot on the statute book. The institutions of our country provide an equal protection to the religious creeds and rituals of all. A Dissenter may now rise to the highest offices of the State. Hopeless and frantic, therefore, are the struggles to seize the public funds for intolerant purposes. No Go vernment—we say it in the name of the reformed consti tuencies—no Government can ever again in this country apply the funds of the State to national purposes, from a participation in the benefits of which any shall be excluded by reason of their conscientious religious convictions." The Standard alludes to the Queen in the following respectful terms :—" The Morning Chronicle to-day says, that ' devotion to the Queen is everywhere associated with an expression of a conviction of the necessity for further reform.' This is not a strictly correct statement. A dis. satisfaction with the constitution under which her Majesty holds her crown is,indeed,universally associated with the ex pression of what is called devotion to the Queen,' but the reciprocity affirmed by our Contemporary does not exist, for at many meetings called for the expression of a con viction of a necessity for further reform,' the Queen's name has never been mentioned—her Majesty appears to have been as completely forgotten as if in the progress of reform she had been already de throned. The Morning Chronicle itself has in the same number of this day given a report of one such meeting at Edinburgh. Our Contemporary has indeed, in its devotion to the Queen,' very gene. rously assigned the report in question to its compila tion of testimonies to the ' the Queen and her Ministry' —a title substituted for the Crisis' since the appear ance of our modest thesis upon the latter phrase ; but through the whole report there is not one mention of the Queen's name, or one syllable of reference to her Majesty's conduct, and the allusion to her Ministry,' are any thing but complimentary. Thus it appears that while none pro fess such ' devotion to the Queen' as is now talked of but the most thorough.going revolutionists, there are many revolutionists who profess no such devotion.' " The Times olltbis morning, in the course of a leading ar ticle, characterized throughout by the most rampant and envenomed bigotry, thus speaks of the Ministerial scheme of National Education :—" The attempt of the Queen's Ministers is a downright fraud : it is to smuggle Popery into England, as an item in Mr. Spring Rice's budget, to pass the overthrow of our Church as a clause in a money bill, which the House of Lords, by Parlia mentary usage and convention, cannot resist without an approach to indecency, and which, therefore, would possess the credit of an act approved by both branches of the Legislature, although one of them, were a fair opportunity offered, would condemn it to be burnt by the hangman. Finally, however, this is a speculation which Providence, in its mercy to the youth, the manhood, and the age of England, will not permit to prosper. It is one with whose memory its reckless and desperate authors will be reproached, while Christianity shall live within this land, and while the spirit of pure re ligion shall be upheld amongst us as a regulation of social action, as a guardian of human law, and right, and happi ness." The Morning Chronicle, discussing the two modes of extending the suffrage alluded to by Mr. Denison at the Reform dinner lately given to him at Dorking, says :-- " Mr. Denison relies on the intention of Ministers to propose the alteration of the rate paying clauses in the Re form Act, and the inclusion of 101. householders within the the comity franchise. Neither of these measure srems liable to any reasonable objection. The first simply gives the Reform Act a clearer stage for its operations than has been hitherto afforded. It makes that Act, so far as it goes, real instead of nominal. It is recommended by all the reasonings that were urged for the adoption of the Bill itself ; and the objections may be considered as having been then finally disposed of. It will produce the constituency that was expected from the Bill in all previous calculations. The anomaly will be removed that transformed a charter of en franchisement into the screw of a tax-collector; and the extension will be in the direction of the poorer classes, while yet it overpasses not the limits prescribed by the spirit of the Reform Act. To the former it may, there fore, be an acceptable concession; while the authors, or the most exclusive admirers of that measure, may make it with the most perfect consistency. The enfranchisement of the 10/. householders in the country and in unrepre sented towns, as county voters, connects itself with the Re. form Act as a needful corrective to the innovation upon it of the 501. tenancy clause. It will introduce a much more independent class of county voters, nor can any question he consistently raised about their qualification. A 10/. county franchise is, on the average, equivalent to a 20/. borough franchise. The exclusion of the (in a pecuniary sense) superior portion of this class, while the inferior possesses the right iindisputably, is a manifest ab surdity. It will not be pretended that a man has less po litical sagacity or honesty for not living within the limits of a represented borough—nor is there any reason why he should be considered as virtually represented, either by the Members for boroughs or the representatives of freeholders. He clearly belongs — to a distinct class or interest, which is entitled to its share of representation. On a rough esti- mate, we reckon that f;om one hundred thous'a'nd to a hundred and forty thousand voters would be added to the county constituencies by this extension ; and perhaps nearly as many, by the other, to the town voters. This would be an infusion of life-blood into the system." The Morning Post endeavours, with more zeal than adroitness, to sow dissensions between the Wbig and Ra dical party, in the following remarks on the subject of the Speakership :—" Had Ministers intended to give a demonstration' to the Radical Members of the House of Commons of defiance and contempt, they would have been . puzzled to find out a mode of demonstrating those feelings better, or more clearly, than by putting in nomination for the office of Speaker one of the hacks of the Whig party, whose only peculiar claim to, or qualification for, so eminent a position, consists in the fact of his having been a steady-going hack."; Our fitricky, but not dexterous, Contemporary, then goes on to state that, "if the Radicals submit to this, all we can say is, that they are a body of persons to kick and trample upon whom can be no sin." The Morning Herald thus discusses the claims of the two candidates for the Speakership of the House of Com mons. Its sketch of Mr. Goulburn—and more especially its allusion to his " large measure of talent," and his uncommon accomplishments"—are exquisite specimens of unconscious irony :—" Let every Conservative Member of the House of Commons exert himself to secure the election of a Speaker fitted to grace the elevated office that is vacant. Few men possess qualities more valuable towards the effective discharge of the duties of that office, than Mr. Goulburn. That Right Hon. Gentleman possesses a large measure of talent. His accomplishments are of no ___ .... common order. His experience is great. His manners are most urbane. When we turn to the Whig candidate, Mr. Shaw Lefevre, we are puzzled to discover on what his pretensions to occupy the Chair of the House of Commons rest. Few people have ever heard of the parliamentary being of Mr. Shaw Lefevre ; and the curious in researches as to obscure political existences can scarcely report much in the Honourable Gentleman's favour. Mr. Lefevre is Member for North Hampshire. He is, moreover, a sort of Whig jackal." The Morning Advertiser thus speaks of the necessity of an early attendance on the part of the Liberal Members at the House of Commons, on Monday next :—" We are as assured of our success, as the Tories are of defeat, on this condition, that we do muster strong. If, however, any body should be so foolish, or so treacherous, as to r.b;.ent himself, why the Tories, who are always on the watch for a o'iarce opportunity, will not fail to rob us of a victory, which is ours upon the terms of being at the trouble to t,ke it. The Liberal Members should recollect that th, House meets at three o'clock—that there will probably be few speeches—and that in consequence the division may take place early. They should therefore he at their post at the earliest moment after the meeting of the House at the hour we have named, on Monday next." FACT SOMEWHAT SINGULAR.--Two gentle men, both grandfathers, were yesterday walking in the low street, North Shields—" Do you observe that broken pane?" said one of them to the other. " Yes ; what of that?" " I saw a boy break that identical pane seven years before you were born." " Impossible ! how can you suppose it is the same 9 " " Why I feel somewhat impli cated in the mischief of my companion, and have had a conscious eye upon that very pane for sixty-two years."— Tyne Pilot, WEST BLATCHINGTON.—On Thursday night, a carrier pigeon, half bred, tail and head white, body blue, was picked up in an exhausted state on one of the build ings at the Tideraill. It had round its neck a card, printed on one side " Bennock," and in pencil on the other side was written " Bloomsbury," the name of the winner of the Derby stakes. A heavy fall of snow took place just as the race was decided, which, together with the Northerly wind, no doubt drove the bird out of its course.—Sussex Express. ROBBERY IN AN OMNIBUS.—On Tuesday, about one o'clock, as one of the Conveyance Company's omnibuses from Islington to the Elephant and Castle was opposite the Post-office, a fellow, dressed in the first style of fashion, was detected in attempting to pick the pocket of a lady ; and on an alarm being given, one lady missed a purse containing gold and silver. The fellow was given into custoCy, and taken to the Compter. STRIKING SCENE.—A rencontre (not of the most pleasant sort) took place in Basinghall-street yesterday forenoon between eleven and twelve o'clock, much to the amusement of the bystanders, and to the enlivening of the usual dullness of the place, between two young mercantile gentlemen (apparently Germans), in which the assailant (who seemed very much excited) most unmercifully horse whipped the other for full thirty seconds, without any resist ance being offered by the sufferer; who, on being asked why be did not give the party hi charge, merely replied, " What should I gain by that ?"—be is a fool." The as sailant, after the other had taken refuge in a mercantile house, loaded him with the most scurrilous epithets, ex claiming, " You coward, you have stopped my credit ! I have come two hundred miles to do this, and I have done it publicly in the face of your friends Give me in charge I I wish you would!" CITY OF LONDON CORPORATE REFORM.— On Saturday a Deputation of this Association were honoured with an interview with Lord John Russell at the Home Offiice. The deputation consisted of the Chair man of the Association, Mr. Hannen, the Secretary, and Messrs. Pritchard and Elliott. The main object of the deputation in obtaining a conference with his Lordship was stated to be a desire to ascertain how far the scheme of the city corporate reform, embodied in the petitions to Parliament, which had been proposed by the Association, and signed by upwards of eight thousand householders and occupiers of premises within the city, were in unison with his Lordship's plan of corporate reform for Lon don. After the members of the deputation had each, with the exception of the secretary, entered into some statements for the purpose of the better put ting the Noble Lord into possession of the real objects, opinions, and views of the Association, Lord John Russell said, that as yet he had not been able to devote sufficient attention to the various points of the scheme of the Asso ciation to judge how far it was in unision with his own views. However, he might say, that he assented to its principles. From the state of the public business before Parliament, he feared there was no chance of his having an opportunite of bringing forward the Bill for the Cor porate Reform of London in the present Session. His Lordship, prior to the deputation leaving his presence, ex pressed his willingness to take charge of, and to present their petition ; and furthermore said, that if he should find it impossible to introduce the Bill this session, he certainly would bring it forward in the course of the next year. SUICIDES BY HANGING.—On Friday, at an inquest held on Captain Galloway, whose melancholy sui cide was noticed in The Sun a day or two ago, it was stated by one of the witnesses that when found the legs of the deceased gentleman touched the ground and his knees were quite bent. The Coroner (Mr. Wakley) remarked that it was a most extraordinary fact, and said he did not know one case of suicide by hanging which had occurred since he had been Coroner in which it had not been sworn that the feet of the parties when found touched the ground. In fact, so determined had some been on self-destruction, that they had even hanged themselves while sitting on a chair. At Isleworth workhouse he had a few days since held an inquest on a man who had hanged himself while sit ting on the floor, and had effected his object by leaning back. CARRIAGE ACCIDENT.—On Thursday after noon, between two and three o'clock, the carriage of Lady Neale, residing in Baker-street, Portman-square, drove up with her Ladyship and another lady to the shop of Mr. Walstuck, druggist, Oxford-street, when the coach man got from his box the horses started off, and the coach man, who ran to their heads to secure them, was knocked down and trampled on, the wheels of the carriage passing over his chest and head. He was corveyed to Middlesex Hospital, where he lies without hope of recovery. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.—OII Monday as the Rev. Rice Rees, Professor of Welsh in St. David's College, Lampeter, was returning from Cascob, Radnor shire, where he had been on a visit for a few days, to his respected uncle, the Rev. W. J. Rees, he called at New bridge, about six miles from Builth, to bait his horse, and complained of illness, but left apparently strong and hearty ; he had, however, scarcely crossed the bridge into Breck nockshire, when he fell dead in the road from his horse's back. The Rev. Gentleman was an accomplished scholar, a most amiable worthy man, and an ornament and honour to the Church of England. —Hereford Journal. The Dublin Pilot of Wednesday says:—" We have just been made acquainted with the result of the de liberations of the Committee of the Precursor Society, appointed at the meeting on yesterday to make arrange tnents for the great demonstration of to-morrow in favour of the Queen and of Ireland. The Committee, of which Mr. O'Connell was Chairman, met this day, and resolved that inasmuch as it has been notified to them that the fac tious would endeavour to mar the effect of the loyal re joicings of the people by creating a riot on Thursday night, the Committee have called upon the well-affected citizens not to illuminate. Citizens, obey the call of the Liberator, and do not gratify the Orangemen by giving them an op portunity to create disturbance." DETERMINED ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE OF A YOUNG FEMALE. —On Thursday night, between seven and eight o clock, an interesting young female, about twenty years of age, was seen standing near the plying-place at Waterloo-bridge, and was at length accosted by a water man named Tisdale, who asked her if she wanted a boat, to which she replied in the affirmative. - She then entered the boat and desired to be rowed down the river. On reach ing the Southwark-bridge she said she should like to pro ceed on to London-bridge, but immediately said she would return ; accordingly the waterman was coming back when, on arriving opposite Somerset-house, the unfortunate woman jumped into the river. Tisdale, with great presence of mind, immediately leaned over the boat and seized her by the gown with his right hand and called out lustily for assistance, when Thomas Godfrey, one of the Thames police, rowed to the spot, and, after great difficulty, suc ceeded in getting her again into the boat. She was imme diately taken to the police station-house in Bow-street, where every means were adopted to obtain her name, which she resolutely refused to give. She was ultimately con veyed to the workhouse in Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn. EFFECTS OF GEOLOGY ON MANUFACTURES AND MAN.—Perhaps there are few localities in which the advantages of geographical situation, combined with cheap fuel, arising from geological position, are better exem plified than at Swansea, where not only the copper ores of Cornwall and Ireland, but those also of Cube and Chili, are brought to be smelted ; these advantages even render ing it profitable to transport ores from the western shores of South America round Cape Horn to the fossil vege tation entombed in South Wales. It is not impro bable that at some future period the South American cop. per ores may be reduced to metal more profitably in other and nearer countries in which sufficient coal may be disco vered; but should this change take place, it would still be due to geological conditions. Merthyr Tydfil in Glamorganshire, may be cited as an excellent examplo of the economic value of geological conditions; the proximity of the carboniferous limestone, the coal, and ironstone, to each other, in that part of the country, producing a cheap combination of flux, fuel, and ore scarcely to be surpassed. It will readily be under stood, that, where a considerable portion of any given population, all other things being equal, lives by labour requiring constant skill, ingenuity, and judgment, that habits of reasoning and thought will be produced which would render it mentally superior to another given popu lation in which the greater number of persons merely followed some routine occupation during their whole lives, in doing which they were not called upon to exer cise any of the mental powers they might happen to pos. sess. To those whose pursuits take them among the labour_ ing part of the population, the variation in the mental con dition of the people in the district under consideration is remarkably striking. This variation is no doubt due to many local causes; but among them the geolo gical structure of the country would appear to hold a more important place than might perhaps, at first sight be anticipated. The chief contrast would probably be found between the labourers on the poor lands of the car bonaceous series of North-western Devon and the mi ners of Cornwall, both considered in the mass. While the' former are thinly distributed over the country, full of preju dices against improvement, and still often firm believers in witchcraft, ghosts, &c., the miners are thickly con gregated together in the neighbourhood of the work ing lodes, abound with intelligence, and from the constant exercise of their judgment, upon which, indeed, the living of a large p ro p or ti on entirely depends, able to take correct and enlarged views of many other objects than those connected with their ordinary occu pations. The miners in Cornwall and Devon labour under considerable disadvantages as regards education, when com pared with those of many other countries, where mining col leges or schools are founded. There is not a single place in the whole district where they can learn the results of the mining experience ofother countries, and by combining it with their own, advance both their knowledge and its practical application. Neither is there any school to teach them those sciences that bear upon their labours, and which would be so useful to them. The necessity of studying the varying conditions of their lodes has nevertheless so accustomed theil minds to the habit of reasoning, that they certainly, as a mass, greatly exceed in intelligence the other labour ing population of the district, which, with the exception of the fishermen and sailors, is chiefly agricultural ; the manufactures carried on in the towns, omitting Tiverton and Chard, not being sufficiently important to impress a manufacturing character on them.—De la Beche's Geo logical Report. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Mir 24. JACKSON V. BULL This was an action for a malicious information. The defendant had lost some f mey boxes, such as those now commonly seen in grocers' warehouses—black varnished ground with yellow figures. His servant named Alison, having seen in the window of plaintiff a box like that which had been lost, went in and asked to look at it, and inquired where the plaintiff got it. Plaintiff replied that he would not answer such an impertinent question. Afterwards, however, he said he had the box of a person who was now dead. Alison forthwith laid an information against plain tiff, and procured from Sir John Key a search warrant, with which he proceeded, in the company of a policeman, to the plaintiff's shop. The box was found under the counter. Plaintiff accounted for its being there by saying that he had seen defeudant and his shopman looking into the shop win dow, and thus annoying him, and drawing a crowd round the door. He further said that if defendant had come to him and fairly asked him about it he would have given him every information, The house was searched, but no other box was found., The Magistrate discharged the case. The action was tried before the Lord Chief Justice, and a verdict found for the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant Wilde had obtained a rule to show cause why there should not be a new trial, on the ground of its being against evidence. Mr. SHEA now supported the verdict. He contended that it was quite evident that the information was laid maliciously, because the boxes were of so common and uniform a description that a man could never, without malice, suspect another of felony f rom t h e mere circum stance of possessing a similar box. The plaintiff had dis tinctly proved that the box was his. The question of " reasonable and probable cause" for the information, was for the jury alone. They had decided it, and the Judge could not disturb their decision. Mr. Sergeant WILDE argued that there was quite suf ficient reasonable and probable cause for the defendant's servant (himself being liable to be suspected of stealing the box) desiring that the investigation should take place, and the plaintiff's refusal to give information was very suspicious. The COURT intimated an opinion that there was such doubt as to the absence of reasonable and probable cause that a nonsuit should have been entered, and that a new trial ought to take plaue. Would not a stet processus be advisable ? Mr. SHaA wanted the costs. This, however, the Court refused.—Rule absolute. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW -STREET. William Jones, a well-known thief, 19, Great Wild street, was charged with picking the pocket of Mr. Justice Coleridge. William Lightfoot, 165, S division, stated, that he traced the prisoner in company with two others, who were following the complainant from St. Martin's-lane, into Little St. Andrew's-street, where the prisoner very adroitly relieved the Learned Judge of his handkerchief, and put it into his trowsers pocket. Witness instantly seized him, and recovered the handkerchief, and although he kicked violently, and assaulted him several times, with the assistance of others, he was secured and taken to the station-house. Sir John Taylor Coleridge, one of the Justices of the Queen's Bench, identified the handkerchief produced as his property, which he valued at 2s. It was safe in his pocket on leaving Westminster Hall, a few minutes before, and he was not aware of the circumstance until he was in formed by the police constable. Sir F. ROE ordered the witnesses to be bound over, and the prisoner to be fully committed to Newgate. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) CUSTOM HOUSE, MAY 24 ENTERED INWARDS.—The Phoenix, Lefort, Havre; Wm. Joliffe, Pershley, Calais; Daring, Millar, St. Mi chael's; City of Boulogne, Tune, Boulogne ; Columbine, Norwood, Rotterdam ; Antwerpen, Brettin, Antwerp ; Earl' of Clancarty, Williams, Rotterdam; Stedfast, Smith, Amsterdam ; Charlotte, Spiegelberg, Amelain ; Jupiter, —, Wolgast; Frederica Gustava, Black, Dant zic ; Botley Wood, Culling, Terceira; Meanwell, Duck, Montevideo ; Hunter, Stern, Zante ; Commercial Packet, Hart, Rotterdam; Highlander, Telford, Dantzie ; Car natic, Vago, Madras ; Atalanta, Macman, Stettin ; High flyer, Newton, Lisbon; St. Guiseppe, —, Genoa; De naint, Harper, Antigua; Maria Cecilia, Vionnee, Ha. vannah; Venerable, Thin, Memel; Hoop, Newland, Wor cum; Yonge Jan, de Jonge, ditto ; Mary Mitcheson, Lewis, Leghorn; Emma Rocnehl, Griefswold ; Artemise, Smales, Alicante; Princess Victoria, Smith, Darazie ; William, Carr, Leer ; Gen. Rebow, Lightfoot, Lisbon; Speculant, .Wolgast; Agnes, Forester, Port-au- Prince. ENTERED OUTWARDS.—Batavia, Dunlop, for Rotter dam ; Giraffe, Straunack, Havre ; Tancred, Adamson, St. Lucia ; :Earl of Liverpool, Lomax, Ostend ; Forager, Dean, Grenada ; Middlesex, Munro, New South Wales ; Angerona, Dyet, St. Kitts ; Staffa, Barker, Sierra Leone ; Maidstone, Wimble, Calcutta; Neptune, Fyer, Emden, and Leer; Clarendon, Godley, Berbice; Penelope, Lee, Calais ; Belle, Robins, Elsinore ; Mountaineer, M'Caskill, Demerara; Hope, Boxer, Rotterdam; Antwerpen, Brettin ; Antwerp, ,Singapore; Lack, Porte Adelaide, South Australia; Alert, Nantes. CLEARED OUT WITII 4 CARGO.--Earl of Liverpool, Lomax, Ostend; Thesia, Cooper, Lisbon ; Neptune, Whitting ham, Hambro; Giraffe, Strannack, Rotterdam; Edward, Wassals, Bremen ; Magnet, Spark, New York ; Childe Harold, Willis, Bombay. CLEARED OUT IN BALLAST.—EIiza Ann, Stephenson, Riga; Franks, Cousins, Harlingen; Hawkesbury, Briggs, Quebec. APOTHECARIES' HALL.— The Court of Examiners was occupied in the examination of Candidates until half-past twelve o'clock on Thursday night, when the following gentlemen were granted Certificates of Qua lification, viz. : James Bedingfield Bryan James Bennett John Francis Steedinan 1 Edward Halford Henry John Wolstenholme Henry Raven William White James Peterkin William Skinner Robert Hole John Bredale Francis Spencer Thomas Lewis Robert Crowther Oliver Manger Horace Pnrdy NEW VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD.—We are requested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marl borough -street, has this day published " The Narrative of the Voyages of H. M. S. Adventure and Beagle, detailing the various incidents which occurred during the examina tion of the Southern shores of South America, and during the Beagle's circumnavigation of the Globe," by Captains King and Fitzroy, and Charles Darwin, Esq., Naturalist of the Beagle, in 4 vols. Bvo., with numerous maps, charts, and upwards of 60 illustrations, by Landseer and other eminent artists, price 3/. 18s., bound. Agents: for Scot land, Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh; for Ireland, Mr. John Cumming, Dublin. THE COURT OF GEORGE IV.—(From a Cor respondent. )—The intense curiosity which has long pre vailed as to the second and concluding portion of the cele brated " Diary of the Times of George IV." is on the point of being gratified by the publication of the third and fourth volume, which, as we understand, are at least equally senseti n h g e i rfr evidence and d fam ju e st d thi ac p te r . e z o e T c . e hg s ee s oi persona s et . rosoo T nrae h lfi e outcry ndeedt aaiinsd w w e - h h ni i le c i hgh enlightened endd theet o allow of ca n t f or a ti me usurp i ng the place of common rm d the appea rance o f t h e fi rst port i on of this work is a strik ing of piqu an t ma t er i a l s , b ot h soc i a l an d po l itical, as were staple of this singular work are legitimate objects of public curiosity, whenever, as in the case of these amusing volumes, they relate to public persons and the writer who dares to promulgate them deserves the public thanks, always provided he or she adhere to the truth. ST. PAUL AT ATHENS.—Th e house occupied by the American missionary as a school, stands on the site of the ancient Agora or market-place, where St. Paul " disputed daily with the Athenians." A few columns still remain; and near them is an inscription mentioning the price of oil. The school-house is built partly from the ruins of the Agora; and to us it was an interesting circumstance, that a missionary from a newly-disco vered world was teaching to the modern Greeks the same saving religion which, eighteen hundred years ago, Saint Paul, on the same spot, preached to their ancestors. Winding round the foot of the Acropolis, within the ancient and outside the modern wall, we came to the Areopagus or Hill of Mars, where, in the early days of Athens, her judges sat in the open air, and, for many ages, decided with such wisdom and impartiality, that to this day the decisions of the Court of the Arcopa gites are regarded as models of judicial purity. We as cended this celebrated hill, and stood on the precise spot where St. Paul, pointing to the temples which rose from every section of th e c ity, and towered proudly on t h e Acropolis, m a d e hi s ce l e b ra ted address: " Y e men o f Athens, I see th a t i n a ll t hi ngs ye are too superstitious." The ruins of the very temples to which he pointed were before our eyes. —Stephens's Russian and Turkish Em pires, Greece, 6.c. SUICIDE FRO M D ESTITU TION.—On Thursday an inque s t was h e ld before Mr. Payne, at G uy ' s H o spital, on the b o d y o f J ames Blake Mr. Whit e , a li censed victualler,formerly in the employ of of High-street , Maryle bone, who destroyed himself by taking oil of vitriol. From the evidence it appeared that the deceased had no settled home, and was in a state of destitution. On Sunday evening, about six o'clock, the deceased was found lying on the road between Wandsworth and Clapham Common. He was moaning, and suffering severely from the effects of oil of vitriol, which h e sa id h e h a d takes, as "he was tired of his lif e , and wished to kill himsel f . " H e was con veyed to St. George's Hospital, where he ling ered till Monday evening, when he expired. Verdict — " Tempo raryFOßTUNE TELLING.—On Tuesday night week a woman, who pretended to tell fortunes, appeared at a respectable house in this city, and told one of the ser vants that if s h e would allow her to sew up four half crowns and a gold ring in her (the girl's) clothes to act as a charm, and she to open it out next morning , she would find somethi ng very consoling. The unsuspecting girl did as requested, but on the Wednesday morning on opening the charm, she found four penny pieces. Such characters deserve severe punishment. — York Courant. • Upwards of 900/. was deposited in the Lincoln in sums varying from Is. t o 30/. Lincoln Mercury. Savings Bank on Friday last, by servan t s and labourers, CIiRisTiAN A S TOCKHOLM , • MAY 14. Official news h as b een received from Ch r i s tiana, that on the Bth of this month the Storthing registered unanimously, and without a d e b ate, two of the Royal propositions for changes in the Constitution, that for the introduction of the Absolute Veto, and that a resolution of th e Stor t h ing, for the Natu r alization of Foreigners, still required the Royal sanction. In consequence of the frequent sittings of the Central Criminal Court the committal of person for fe. lony to the Middlesex Sessions is nearly discontinued. At the late Sessions the Calendar contained but four. PRICES OF CANAL, DOCK, ASSUR ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 24 Number Dividend of per per Shares. Annum. fah!. Share 1,766 7 pet cent. Anstalt and °Wham.. Average97l. itig.sh. ISO ~082 4/. Ashby ..e.le-Zu -11 ......A-...age 1131.5 h '7Ol 1,260 Basingstoke lOO/ .., h 1,005 V. Brecknock and Abergavenny 1501. sh. 90 8,0001..!!=fa. 91 6s. Birmingham, 1-16th share 811.8. 711. 223 I 0 0 0 c..,..... Ditto and Liverpool Junctlgq sh. 100 pd 26 600 il. Bridgewater and Taunton .100/ sh. all pd 64 400 41. Chelmer and Blackwater 100/. sh. 101 500 481. Coventry 100/.sh. 735 4.545 2,0601 41. Os. Dudley lOO/.sh. 9l 600 141. Derby 100/. sh . 105 ?0,000 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne 411.135. 4d .pd 25, 3,574 4/ . Ellesmere and Chester... Average 133/.sh. 81; - 231 621. Eyewash 1001. en. '775 1,297 301. Forth and Clyde ....Average 4.1101.165. th. 615 ~600 10/ Grand Junction 100/. Bh. 181,1 2,8491 11. Grand Union 1001. sh V 4. 11,500 Grand Surrey IOW. sh. 20 0,000/ 41. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan 100/. 13 3'196 600 13/.125. 9d. Glamorganshire, Aver. cost 1721. 13s. 4d. 23€ 749 10s. Grantham 1501. sh. 203 6,238 21. Os. Huddersfield Average 571. Os. 6d. sii. 354 100 Kensington 100 sh. all pd. 10 - 1 6.1 11. ss. Kennet and Avon, Aver. 391. 186.10 d. sh. 2 2,8971 201. Leeds and Liverpool 1001. sh. 740 514 14/. Leicester I4OI. sh. 228 1,897 61. Os. Leicester and Northampton Aver 513/. 10s. 90 2.400 101. Monmouthshire 100/ .sh. 202 150 10/. Melton Mowbray 100/. eh. 200 500 251. Mersey and Irwell 100/. sh. 560 3.000 11. 10s. Macclesfield 1001. sh. all pd 51 217 171. N eat h 100/.sh. 325 2,400 51. Peak Forest Ayes “ge about 78/. sh. 104 1,518 Ifs. Regent's (or London) Av. 3.9/. 16s. Bd. sh. 13 5,669 61. per cent. Rochdale Average 85/. sh. 112 500 8/. Shropshire .1'151. sh. 138 8./0 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 1511 3,600/. 41) per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 12/. lOs. sh. I 1 i 700 40/. Stallbrd and Worcester l4O/. sh. 710; 500 91. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 280 300 91, Stourbridge ......A...... 3,647 2/. Os. Stratford-on-Avon Average 791.95. bd. sh. 45 533 161. Swansea 100/.sh. 280 Price CANALS. S.TO. 1/. 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway Av. 35/. sh. 39 2,60015 h. 221. 10s. Treat and Mersey, I share 1004 sh. 585 8,149 1, 000Ish i " h i 161 Warwick and Birmingham 100/.sh- 281 910 15s. Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh. Rol 6,000 4/.os. Worcester and Birmingham Av.7B/.Bs. sh. 72 ; 5,000 255. Wilts and Berks Average 67/. 10s. Bd. sh. 25 600 3/. W piny and Essington 125/. sh 75 26 1105 li. Wey and Arun 110!. h. 221 DOCKS. 2600 & 1, , 065i5h. ' ] Sp• C. Commere al 0:001. sh. 661 East and West India Stock 111 3.238,310f1. 555. p. ct. London . ..... ......Stock 67 Ditto Bonds lOl 2,09 21. lOs. Bristol 63,3241. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll3 1.352,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 109 500,000 4 1 1 per cent. Ditto Bonds 200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years lOO 4590 , .... Deptford Pier 201. sh. 201. pd 11 BRIDGES. 1,600 003. Hammersmith 50/. sh. 21 7,231 1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, New, of 71 rc cent. 5O/. sh. 14 5,000 5,000 29,. Od. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/. 6O/. pd 216 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 201 60,000/ 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds l2O 5,848 17s Vauxhall ...... ....,Avsrage 701. 10s. 3d. sh 2511 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. Albion 5001. sh. 50/. pd 74 2,000 3110 s k , 50,000 f "1 i ..7 1 171 Alliance Britian deForeignloo/. sh. 1014 pd 15 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. 54 pd r 4 24,000 11. per sh. Atlas 50/. sh. 51. pd 144 1,200 ish. Si. Birmingham l' ire 250/. sh. 551. pd 1074 20,000 4!. per cent. British Fire 2501. sh. 50/. pd 40 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 5O/. sb. 51. pd 6 5,000 51. percent. Clerical & illedi.il Life, 1601 sh. 2/10s pd 4 4,000 2! les County 1001. sh. 101. pd 42 20,000 ss. Eagle 200 [ 5 P er cent i Eco nomic Lite l6OO/. sh. 2501. pd 400 and 301 bs. 2,271 225. percent. European Lite. ‘ , 04 sh. all pd 22 60,000 2s. Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 2/. pd q 1,000,0004 61. per et Globe Stock 1354 20,000 51. Guardian lOOl. sh. 2741 pd 3sa 40,000 6s. 6d. Hope 501. sh. 51. pd 51 2,400 5/. 7a. 6d. Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 501. pd 1374 7,500 9s. Imperial Life 100/. sh. 101. pd 101 13,458 44 per cent. Indemnity Marine 100!. sh. 81. pd 25 2,020 31 10s Kent Fire 501. sh. all pd 92 3/. Ditto Life 504 pd 79 10,000 16s. Law Life 1001. sh. 101. pd 291 5,00 u 10s. London, Fire 254 sh. 121. His, pd 171 3,900 108. London, Ship 254 sh. 12/. 10s. pd le 1,000,0001. ... ..... Minerva Life 1001. sh. 500,0004 30,000 5/. per cent. Palladium Life 50/. sh. 2/, pd 2/ Fs 50,000 4/. per cent. rroteetor Fire 2Ol. sh. 2!. pd 16. Od 2,500 11. Provident Lite lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 20 00,000 ss. Rock Life. 2O/. sh. 14 pd of 89,2201 5/. per cent. Royal Exchange Stock... 227 6,000 5 per cent. University Life lOOl. sh. 51. pd 51 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 1001. sh. 51. pd 74 JOINT STOCK BANKS. 25,000 8 per cent. A gric. and Com. of Ireland 251. sh. 10/. pd 5,000 Australasia 4Ol. sh. 40/. pd 68 10A0 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham 5Ol. sh. 10/. pd 13 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 50/. sh. 5/. pd IS4 3 i,OOO 5 per cent. London and Westminsterlool sh. 201. pd 234 69,000 51. London Joint Stock. 50/. sh. 10/. pd MI .1,000 4 per cent. Lancaster...... .......... ... ..... 1001. sh. 20/. pd 50 25,000 50,000 '7l per sent, Manchester and Liver.] 501 pool Distrizt .sh 151 d 1 . p 34 20,000 7 per cent. Manchester, 1001. sh. 25/. pd 27 20,000 Provincial !lank of Irelandloo/. sh. 25/. pi 4'; SO,f 00 National Bank of Ireland 50/. sh. 171/. pd 15 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. 1001. sh. 351. pd : , 6 10,006 Ditto New lOl. sh. 10/ pd 10 10,000 Gloucestershire 50/. sh. 10/. pd 20 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 501. sh. 5/. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. _ _ 2,500 t 16s Od Bath 201. sh. 161. pd 21 5,000 British 4O/. sh. 161. pd 21 . Ann r5/.percent./ Ditto ProYindial 201. sh. 19 pd 25 " 0 " - "" /and B 6s. 928 5/ lOs Birmingham 5Ol. sh. 98 4,250 2/ Os Bristol 2Ol. sh. 30 2,250 3110 s Brighton 20/. sh. 11 750 3110$ Ditto, New 201. sh. 18/. pd 9 2,471 41 per cent. Brighton General 20/. sh. all pd 17 4,000 51.105. Continental Consolidated 75/. 621!. pd 100 1,000 101. City of London lOOl. sh. all pd 195 1,000 61. Ditto, New lOO l. sh. 60/. pd 114 4,000 3/.os. Equitale 50/ pd '4, - . 10,000 21 per cent. Imperial 800 5/. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sh. 20/. pd 18 2,350 61. per cent. Independent 9Ol. sh. all pd s'l 11,000 41. per cant. Phrenix 50/. sh. 391. pd 58 1,000 41. per cent. Ratcliff 1001. sh. 801. pd 6t.i 4,000 South Metropolitan 5Ol. sh. 191. pd 17 13,200 4/. per cent. United General 5Ol. sh. 461. pd 31. 210 51. per cent. Warwick 501. al, 50 400 51. per cent Waaefield 251. sh. 22 2,000 31. Westminster Chartered 6,000 128. Ditto New ........w 51/. sh. 101. pd le 7SO 51. per cent. Yarmouth 201. sh. 181. pd WATER WORKS. 4,800 10s. Birmingham 251. sh. em. pd 20 4034 61. East London lOOl. sh. 170 6,500 21 lOs Grand Junction Average 411. Ms. 4d. sh. 69 2,000 2/. Kent _ - 100' sh. :17 0 10/. Liverpool Bootle 9 204 sh. 1,500 2! 10s Now River London Bridge Water Ann 6,186 2/ les Manchester and Salford lOO/. sh. 1,000 4 per cent. South Lon,ioti 100!. sh. 8,204 4/. West Middlesex Average 03/. 12s. 9d. oh. 1,360 11148 York Building Co. Lessee Prop 1001. sh. IRON RAILWAYS. 6,300 Birmingham and Derby 7O/. pd 9,51(0 Birmingham and Gloucester _pd 15„100 Bristol and Exeter !OW. sh. 95 pd coo Calcutta and Saugur 5Ol. sh, '2l. pd 7,500 Cheltenham and G.Western 1001. sh. 201. 3,000 Clarence lOOl. sh. 1001. pd 12,000 8,000 Dublin and Kilkenny 100/. sh. 5/. pd 60,000 Eastern Counties 0 5/. sh. Mt. pd Grand Junction 1001. sh. 951. pd Great North of England 30/. pd 5,000 Great Western IOW. sh. 65/. pd 2,000 Hartlepool 100/. sh. 1001. pd 8,000 Hull and Selby 501. sh. 254, pi 10000 Leeds and Manchester 100/. sh. 51. pd 2,130 SI. per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 1,500 11.55. Leicester and Swannington .50/. sh. all pd 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchesterlo(/.sh. 100/. psi 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 251. pd 36,000 London and Brighton 5O/. sh. 17/. pd 12,000 London and Blackwall 501. sh. 111. pd 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich - 20/. sh. 201. pd 25,000 ... ...... London anti Birmingham 100/. sh. 90/. pd Ditto Quarter Shares 5/. pd 36,000 London and Seu thampton Av. 38/, 17s. Id, 14,600 ......... London and Croydon Trunk 181. pd 6, 1 '00 Ditto New Scrip 71. pd 12,000 London Grand Junction 50/. sh. 5/. pd 1:3 , 000 Manchester and Leeds -.1001. sh. 50/. pd 10,000 Manchester and Birmingham 70/.sh 151. Ditto Extension. 7/. pd North Midland 1001. sh. 651 pd Northern and Eastern 100!. sh. 131. pd 2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 30/. pd 8000 1,1 , 00 101. per cent. Stockton and Darlington 7OOl. oh. 9,000 Thames Haven 5Ol. sh 2!. 10s. pd 1,400 .... ..... Westminster and Greenwich 501. sh. 2/. pd 6,000 York and North Midland 50 . sh. 12/, pd MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 5l. s' , 11/. pd 4,000 U. ss. A Iten 151. sh. 121. at ipd 10,000 .... Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/ pm.loo/. sh. a. , i 4 Ditto Subscription 2,11(10 Pl. Bolanos ISO/. sh all p I 10,000 12. lOs Brazilian Imp. iss. 5!. pm 35/.sh. 20/. pd 6,000 Macatibas & Cocaes United 25/. eh. 2:%/. pd 11,100 Ditto St. John Del Rey 20!. sh. 14/ hid 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 20/. sh. OW. pd 10,000 .......... Ditto Scrip 10/. sh. 10/. pi 20,000 British Iron 5O!. sh. 50/ lid 6,000 British Copper Si. sh. 41,/. pd Cata Branca till. pi Candonga 7il. pd 10,000 1/ Copiapo 004 sh l3/. pd 8,500 .. Columbian, iss. 5/. pm.... 551. s h 55/. pd 2,850 3/. English 12/ Its. pd 20,000 General Mining Assoclation2o/. sh. 18L pd 6,155 Mexican Company 1001. sh. 554/. pd :1,000 Polberou Consols lO/. sh. 84 pd 1,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered Ditto Loan Notes 150/. pd v. , 00 United Mexican, iss. 2 prn..4o/. sh. all pd DIM. Scrip Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd West Cork 50/. sh. 501. pd LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. ,000 London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. sh. 1,500 London University 100/. sh. all pd 700 King' College 100/. pd 30, f. , 0 0 - . MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 15s. Australian Agricultural.loo/. sh. 2C4/. pd 46 6,000 41. per cent. British American Land Company 23/. pd 9 10,010 (11 per cent. Canada Company 1001. sh. 301. pd 29 201,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent lOO 20,000 1/. 6s. General Steam Navigation 15/. sh. 14/. pd 24 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 255 2,000 11. London Corn. Sale Rooms Av. 75/. sh. 111 8,000 Caoutchouc Company: 12a/. pd 12 New Brunswick Land Compawyp..so/ pd 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary Int. Soc. —lOO/. sh. 1001. pd 150 0,033 51. per cent. Ditto New 1001. sh. 83/. pd 118 4,000 10,000 6s. Van Die-Lien's Land 1601. sh. 171, pd 10 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, MAY 11, 1839. BANKS, 1 1,500,0001. 61. p. ct. Bank of Scotland...B3/. 6s. Bd. sh, all pd 180/. 2,000,0)01. 59 p. ct. Rryal of Scotland 100/. sh, all pd 1634 500.0001. Bp. ct. British Linen Company-lOU sh. :ill pd 238/. 3,000,000/. 6/. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. s h. 100/ . pd 1751. 5.000,000 i. sn. ct. National lOO4 sh. 10/. pd 16/. 2,000,0001. 61. p. ct. Glasgow Union 250/. sh. 50/. pd 85/, 4,000,001. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 401. pd 574 INSURANCE COMPANIES. 25( .000 sh. 61p. ct. Scottish Union 201. oh. 1/, pd 20s. ,W/O 6f p. ct. Hercules lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 12/. 10Q. 104",000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland .10/. sh. all pd 101. Os, 50,000 6p. ct. North British 200/. sb. 10/. pd 20 1 4 /. 1 ,000 sp. ct. Caledonian Fire 100/, sh. 10/. pd 19/. lOs 5,000 6p. ct. Edinburgh Ltfe 100/. sh. 101. pd 14110 s 100,000 31 p. ct. West of Scotland lO/. pd 71 0 s MISCELLANEOUS. 4,810 .. ..... Edin. and Glas. Un. Canalso/. oh. all pd 10/. Ditto Allocated 961. sh. all pd 471. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb, Joint Stock Water.2s/. sh. all pd 351 Carron Iron Company -.250/. sh. all pd 441, t,ooosh 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundcry 50/. sh 48/. pd 52/, 10,060 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass-20/. sh. 16/. pd 81 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 251. sh. all pd 601. 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas 251. sh. all pd 50/. 75') 7f per cent. Leith Coal Gas 20/. sh, all pd 481. 1,200 Edinburgh sod Dalkeith Rai!wayso/. sh 37/. ;000 5 ner cant. Equitable Loan Company ".51. sh.prl 9., 1111 On Tuesday morning waggons came into this town covered with snow to the depth of two or three inches. During the whole day it hailed and snowed alternately, and the following morning (Wednesday) the ponds in the neighbourhood were covered with ice, in some cases an inch or two thick. Thursday the weather was finer, and and the sun shone brightly, but an easterly wind chilled both the animal and vegetable world. There has been a great check given to vegetation—the early blossoms (par ticularly those of the cherry tree) have been affected, and peas and other vegetables much retarded. Brighton Herald. THE MARKETS.-(YESTERDAY.) ( From the London New Price Current of May 24.) SUGAR.—The arrivals from our West India Colonies having commenced to come in largely, 8,010 hhds, &c., having been received since this day week, h.,s rather ope rated against the sale of all kinds of Sug..r for consump. tion ; the demand has beets limited for West India Musa), vadoes from grocers as well as refiners, they purchasing only sufficient to supply their immediate wants. On Wednesday, which was the first market day, the saps amounted to only 200, and yesterday to 300 hhds and tierces, and none has been offered at auction; importers, however, remain firm, and the rates previously established have been supported for brown as well as for yellow descriptions ; of brown quality nothing is to be met with under 63s ; the highest point of the market for superior yellow is 70s. This afternoon the entire cargo of the Lithcrland, just arrived from Barbadoes, consisting of 352 hhds, 55 tierces, and 12 brls Sugar were offered at public sale ; it attracted a good attendance of the trade, and all was disposed of readily Is above the general valuations, mid yellow sold at 67s to 67s 6d, good 68s to 695, fine 69s 6d to 70s 6d, one lot 71s, brown 66s to 66s 6d per cwt. REFINED.—The grocers have not evinced much anxiety to purchase refined goods this week, still there has been a fair demand, and the supply being small, former rates have been fully maintained, standard lumps fetching 82s 6d, brown and common patent lumps 79s to 81s 6d. For ship ping some parcels of crushed Sugar, made from Foreign have been sold at 365, and Hamburg loaves at 46s to 483. Pieces have maintained previous rates, and have been in good request. MAURITIUS.—The purchases by private contract have been rather limited : but 9,220 bags at public sale, a good parcel were taken readily by grocers as well as refiners, and former rates were fully maintained, par ticularly for Sugars which sold under 65s ; the follow ing are the prices obtained:—fine brown 63s 6d to 645, good 62s 6d, low yellow 64s to 64s 6d, good mid 65s to 65s 6d, good 675, fine 67s 6d, white 68s 6d, one mark, Le Breton, was however taken in at 70s. EAST INDlA.—Bengal 68s 6d for good white, a good middling at 665, damp and washed,67s ; 468 bags for exportation only went at 35s 6d to 37s 6d for good and fine white, 34s 6d to 36s for damps and damaged, the bulk fetched 37s for fine dry white. Manilla—low and good mid yellow have brought 24s to 25s 6d, ordinary to fine brown 22s 6d to 233 6d, damaged and 'damps 20s 6d to 245. Java—low middling white at 29s to 30s 6d, middling yellow and fine grey 24s 6d to 28s 6d, damps 23s to 295, being its full value. Bengal at rather higher prices ; Manilla at 24s 6d per cwt. FOREIGN.—YeIIow Havannah of the new crop sold at 28s to 29s for good middling, and good middling 275, good greyish 29s ; the private operations have been only 100 chests brown Pernams for export, at 22s per cwt. MOLASSES.—West India are held for previous rates. This afternoon 31 puns Barbadoes at public sale sold at 36s 6d per cwt for fine quality. COFFEE.—There continues to be a good deal of inquiry after the mid and good clean qualities of British Planta tion Coffee for home consumption at very full prices; unclean sorts, however, have commanded previous rates. Ceylon, good ord pale went at 100 s, fine ord coloury 100 s 6d to 101 s; Mocha has been in increased demand, and 468 bales at aucticn found ready buyers at 2s advance, good mid yellow went at 121 s to 123 s 6d, good and fine ord 96s 6d to 9Ss 6d. For Brazil, 43s to 44s for low ordi nary mixed to good coloury pale fine coloury qualities, however, are still held firmly, and 51s has been paid for a small parcel. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS—Previous rates have been maintained for Jamaica as well as Leewards; of the former only 50 puns have been sold, 26 to 32 per cent over proof at 5s • 3d to 5s 4d, and in the latter the sales are not worth reporting. Brandy prices advanced ld to 2d per gallon ; large purchases have been made in Cognac of the first brands of the vintage of 1837 at 4s 7d in puns, and 4s 9d in hhds ; Bordeaux is held for 3s. Geneva there are sellers at 2s. British Corn Spirits 10s 4d, but at lOs 3d there appear to be a good many orders. TEA.—There has been scarcely any business done in the market this week, the attention of the trade being directed to the sale which takes place on the 3d of June ; 30,000 pkgs, intended for that purpose, have already been in spected, the principal part of which consists of good quality. OttA.—Prices of common Fish Oils have undergone no change since our last. For small quantities of Sperm 951. continue to be paid for first quality. Linseed Oil has be come difficult of sale, and prices are rather lower. Rape is is cheaper. SHCES.—In Pimento holders are not inclined to submit to lower prices ; at auction 50 bags sold at :id for good mid coarse shipping quality. Pepper at full prices, 4d paid for parcels of fair Sumatra. Cassia Lignea -80 chests at public sale, imported from Rio, were mostly taken in at 68s for good middling, and ordinary quality at 62s ; for the best 66s was offered. East India Ginger prices are not lower; at auction 1,400 bags were taken in, mid Malabar at 20s, and Bengal at 19s; West India sells more freely, and the principal part of 750 bags Barbadoes at auction found buyers at 46s to 56s for'mid to fine quality. TALLOW.—Petersburg Yellow Candle, 52s 3d to 52s 6d for first quality on the spot. For delivery in the last three months several purchases have been made at 46s 9d, and in some instances 47s per cwt. 'ANI ) - " I • • \ 4 jl s ~' 1 '. I PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 100. for the 41b. Loat, Good Bread may be had at Bd. COAL MARKET.-May 24. s. d I s. d. Adair's Felling Main . l7 0 ' Walls" End Lyons 2l 3 Holywell Main 2l 0 WalliEnd Pemberton Ord's Itedhugh Tanfied Moor Butes 2l 6 Walls End Stewart's 23 0 West Hartley 2O 6 Wails End Whitwell ..... .... 21 3 Wylam Walls End (iosforth 2l Walls End Adelaide 2l 9 Walls End Heaton Walls End Hotspur Walls End Kiliingworth 2O ( Walls End Tennant 2l 6 Walls End Newrnarch l9 6 Walls End Tee. 22 0 Walls Endllraddyll'sHetton 22 Walls End Victoria Tees .... 20 0 Walls End Haswell 22 , Walls End West Hetton 2l 0 Walls Ynd Hetton chips arrived since last market-diy, 91. PRICE OF SEEDS.-May 24. Per Cwt. Per Quarter. New English Red Clover 70s. 112 s. St. Foin 40s. 441 48t. Old Ditto Ditto -s. -s. -s. Rye Grass 28s. 355. 40s New Foreign Ditto ...as. 90s. 995. Pacey Grass -s, 40s. 455, Old Ditto Ditto -s. 408.605. Linseed, for feeding 465. 525. 56.. New White Clover 6os. 80s. 90s. Ditto, for sewing -s, 58s. 634 Old Ditto Ditto -s. 455. 60s. Ditto, for crushing...-s 435. 50s. New Trefoil 2O: 255. 30s. Canary -s 905., 98s. Old Ditto -s. I6s. 225. Hemp -s Sils. 425. Trefolium 10s. Its. 13s, Per Bushel. English Carraway -8. 435. 465. White Mustard...lls. NI. 15s. Cd. Foreign Ditto.- -s. 40s. 445. Brown Ditto lss. (ld. 225. I'd • Coriander -s 13s. 21s. Tares 4s. 6d bs. Od Rapeseed, Engiiih One (per Last) 361.381. Foreign 341. 361. PRICES OF POTATOES AT SPITALFIELDS. York Reds (from vessel) 4l. 10s. to 51 Os. per ton. Scotch Reds ditto 41. ss. to 41. 15s ditto Kidneys 1/. los. to 51. Os. ditto Shaws 2 . 15s. to 31. ss. ditto PRICES OF HOPS.-May 21. Farnham Pockets (per cwt.) 6' Os. 71. 15s. to 91. 51. East Keiit Pockets. . . 4l 10s. 51. 15.4. to 81 80. Ditto Bags 4!. 4s. 5/. 10;. to 71. 10s. Mid Kent Pockets 3/. 15s. 51. ss. to 8; 8". ' Ditto Bags 3l. 10;. 4/. lOs to 7i. 7s, Sussex '3' 3s. 31. 154. to C. 10.. Yearlings 2l. 10s. 3/. 3s. to 4/. 4,, Old /Ms PEDESTRIANISM.--Mr. Stevens, of the 61st Regiment, who wagered that he would walk 75 miles in 12 successive hours, commenced the feat on the Anglesey ! road, Newport, on Tuesday morning. An immense num ber of spectators, and some hundreds of them from this ` . . 3 city, lined the road at each side. When he had walked ,et 45 miles, which he did in 6 hours and 45 minutes, he vea l' tured to wager 5001. that he would accomplish the whole 1. within the given time. Before he started again, however, he took a tumbler of brandy and water, which, heated as ' he was, completely overcame him and rendered him inca pable of proceeding further. The wager was therefore .2 lost. —Limerick Standard. Sunday next being the first Sunday in Trinity Term, the Lord Mayor and the Corporation will go in State, on the occasion, to St. Paul's to meet the Judges. The service will commence at three o'clock. As a young man in the employ of Mr. Holman of the Golden Cross Mews, was on Saturday evening driv i ing his master's gig along the Grand Parade, the horse bolted, and running against the rails of No. 43, broke them down, and was precipitated into the area. Fortu nately, neither horse nor driver received any serious in jury.—Brighton Gazette. On Wednesday afternoon a most distressing accident occurred at the works of Messrs. Wm. Adam and Son, Milnbank. While a woman of the name of Ellen M'Lean was endeavouring to replace a weight that had fallen from the levers of the squeezers, she unfortunately slipped a foot, and her clothes being seized hold of by two spur wheels, she was drawn in and crushed to death so in. stantaneously that the exclamation " Oh I" was all she had time to utter. —Glasgow Chronicle. On Tuesday morning, between three arid four o'clock, a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Read, in Union street, Kingsland-road. The flames raged with such fury that before the engines could arrive the house (which was a small one) was reduced to ruins. On search ing- fur Mrs. Read she was not to be found anywhere. Yesterday morning the body was found amongst the ruins, burnt in a shocking manner. The body was placed in a shell and conveyed to the workhouse, to await an inquest. It is not known in what manner the fire occurred. BAD BANKING.—The great source of the ge neral and growing depression in Dublin is to be found in its defective monetary system—in a system of banking by which capital is distributed, through favouritism, capri ciously —now encouraging gambling, and now denying the means to practical industry. It is in bad banking —mono poly—the constant growing depressing is to be traced, and at present over the empire as well as Dublin, by the ruin ous speculation which bad banking stimulated. —Pilot. STAWBERRIES.—We received yesterday a dish of strawberties, perfectly ripe and full sized, grown in the fine gardens of Sir John Gordon of Earlston. This far surpasses anything we have heard of in point of earliness, and shows what may be effected by skill and care, aided by a mild climate, a blessing enjoyed by the inhabitants of Borgne in a greater degree than most others in tho south of Scotland. This present called up visions of delight which will be long in being realized, for many of the strawberry banks around Dumfries are only beginning to show blossom. —Dumfi ies Courier. UPSETTING OE THE MAIL.—In the afternoon of Sunday last, the mail coach running between Manches ter and Colne was upset, on its return from Colne, near Fletcher Bank, about four miles on the other side of Bury. The accident was caused by the sudden breaking of one of the fore axles. One gentleman from Colne had his leg severely fractured, and several of the other passengers were more or less hurt, but not very seriously.—Manehest er Courier. DOUBLE MAIL TO DUBLIN.—It was fully in tended that the morning and the evening m ail-boats to Dublin should commence running on the first of May ; and the City of Dublin Company were ready to fulfil their part of the contract. The Post-office authorities have, however, postponed the commencement of the double mail until the first of June. The London and Birmingham Railway Company will not, it is supposed, be ready to expedite the mail trains, which are intended to be in connection with the steamers, so early as had been expected. —Liverpool Albion. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. WAR-OFFICE, MAY 24, 1839. Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Charles Earl of March to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Bradford, who retires, May 24. 12th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet H. J. St. George to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Peyton, who retires, May 24; Cornet and Adjutant S. A. Capel to have the rank of Lieutenant, May 25 ; Ensign F. D. Gray, from the 32d Regi ment of Foot, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice St. George, May 24. Scots Fusilier Guards—Ensign and Lieut. W. J. Ridley to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Lord W. Butler, who retires; the Hon. S. Lyttleton to be Ensign and Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Ridley'', May 24. sth Regiment of Foot—Second Lieut. H. P. Baker to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Eyre, who retires ; G. B. Milman, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase , vice Baker, May 24. 21st Foot—Sergeant-Major J. Vale to be Quartermaster, vice Fairgrieve, deceased, May 24. 28th Foot—Lieut. H. D'Arcy Kyle to be Captain, by pur chase, vice Moore, who retires; Ensign W. G. Cormick to - be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Kyle • H. M. Owen, Gent. W be Ensign, by purchase, vice Cormick,l May 24. 32d Foot—C. D. Rnshbrooke, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gray, appointed to the 12th Light Dragoons , May 24. 37th Foot—Lieutenant J. 0. Lewis to be Adjutant, vice Durham, promoted, May 24. 39th Foot—Lieutenant W. Munro to be Adjutant, vic e Nixon, promoted, May 24. 41st Foot—Lieutenant 13. J. Grty, from half-pay of the Royal Africa n C orps , to b e Li eutenant, v i ce Nepean, appoint to the 77th Regiment of Foot, May 24. 52d Foot—Lieutenant E. H. F. Pocklington to be Car taint by purchase, vi ce E cc l es , Wh o ret i res; Ensign, 11. M. Brown r i gg t o b e Li eutenant b y purchase, vice Pockling ton, May 24. 67th Foot—Captain C. Ogle, from the half-pay of the 28th Foot, to be Captain, vice IF. Fothergill, who esehang es ' May 24 ; Li eu t. th e H on. A. G. Stuart to be Captain, bY purchase, vice Ogle, who r e ti res; E ns i gn T . P . O ns l o w to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Stuart ; W. C. Pratt, Gent., t ° be Ensign, by purchase, vice Onslow, May 25. id A- MEMO RA ND UM. —The Christian name of Captain Bulkeley► Paymaster of the 68th Foot. is Lempster, and not DemP 3 t' er ' as stated in the Gazette of the 10th May, 1839. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MAY 23. Royal Regiment of Artillery—First Lieut enan t A. Gosse t d t to be Seco n d C ap t a i n , vice Lyster, retired on h a lf-p a y; Sec°n 1". Lieut. R. S. All en t o b e Fi rst Lieutentant, vice Gossett, Mai ' Second Captain A. R. Harrison to be Captain, vice Pring le ' placed on th e R e ti re d Li st; Fi rst Lieutenant S. J. Skinner to be Captain, vice Harrison; Second Lieutenant W. Swinton t° be First Lieutenant, May 16. Commission by the. Lord Lieutenant of Sussex. Royal Sussex Regiment of Militia--C. Goring, Gent. tote Ensign, May 14. CROWN-OFFICE, MAT 24, MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESINT _ . _ PARLIAMENT. BOROUGH of HERTFohnd.—Th e Hon. William Fri ll° Cowper. BANKRUPTS. JOHN LAMBERT WEST, victualler, Charles-stre et ! Soho, to surrender May 31, at one, and July 5, a t twelve , a ' the Court o f B an k ruptcy. Green, Aldermanbury, official 19- signee; Branscomb, Wine-office -court, Fleet-street. WILLIAM DAWES, bookseller, Tavistock-street, Col t ; garden, J une 4 , at one, and July 5, at half-past eleven, ale:isl Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, Copthall-buildings. offi assignee ; Kearns, Red Lion-square. r ite, WILLIAM HAMILTON NEW'gON , b oo k se ll er , Au, the „,, Ireland, M ay 30 , at half-past one, and J u l y 5, at twe l v e, a'" Court of B an k ruptcy. Abbott, official assignee • Lacy Bridges, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street, London. WILLIAM KEENS, trimming-seller, Bedford.place, mercial-road, Middlesex, June 6, and J u l y 5, a t o ne, at , Court of Bankruptcy. Gibson, Basingh a ll- s t ree t, official signee ; Phipps, Weavers'-hall, Basinghall-street. Jun RICHARD WARING, grocer, Luton, Bedfordsh i re , Ju f 4. at halt-pa s t one , an d J uly 5, at eleven, at the Cour t 1 0 . Bankruptcy, L on d on . Gibson, official-assignee, Basingh 3l street ; Sharp, Devonshire-place, New-road. THOMAS GOWAR and WILLIAM DEAN G OWA 1 11 1; coach-makers, Blackheath-road, Greenwich, May 31, an'l' u j 5, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington, ow e t : tree assignee, Coleman-street-buildings ; Holmer, Bridge- 5 Southwark. JOHN ADAMS, matt r e ss manu f ac t urer, G eor ge-9W et ...c1 Thrawl-street, Brick-lane, Spitalfields, June 10, at 0ne,...,.; July 5, at eleven, at the .ourt of Bankruptcy. Clark, ll . . e d. . Broad-street -court, New Broad-street, official assignee; Oa' wick and Co., Cateaton-street. c ot " FULTON and LUMSDEN FULTON , e° ton spinners, Rochdale, L ancas hi re, June 7 and J u ly 5, at three, at the Commis s i oner ' s - rooms, Manchester. 31skins°n r , and Sanders,'Elm- cour t, Middl e Temple, London; Atkins°► Birch, and Sau n d ers , M anc h ester. - - JOHN PIERCE, thimble manufacturer, Birmingbarat June 8, and July 5,.at two, at th e N ew Royal Hotel, Birnl" Liam. Taylo r , Sharpe, Field, a n d J ac k son , Bedford-row, Lon don ; Ryland's, Birmingham. JOHN CHI'fTLE, linen draper, Warminster, Warmin ster. 3 and July 5, at eleven, at the Bath Arms Inn, , Chap man, Holme, Loftus, and Young, New Inn, London • man, Warminster. Staffordshire, HENRY HICKMAN, builder, Sedgley, Hotel, June 7, at ten, and July 5, at eleven, at the Swan . son Staffordshire ; Williamson and Brown, Bilston, and SN JlleTlyHs,WatßtlwGeHlveT; atgr otcheer, and Hill, Verulam-buildings, Gray's Inn, London. Wiltshire, Broderick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London; Pillars, S w aff ham, Norfolk. a Th rfo e lk tiord J . une ße l l t WILLIAM HENRY BROWNE, stone-merchant, Man , - chester, June 8, and . July 5, at ten, at the CommisSioner s- A W nch at or inn N , rooms, Manchester. Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, Temple, London; Hitchcock, Manchester. a nd EDGAR BOWYER, merchant, Liverpool, June S, July 5, at one at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Vincent and Sherwood, Temple, London; Littledale and Bardswell , Liverpool. WILLIAM MOORS, innkeeper, Newark-upon-Trent, Not' tinghamshire, June 12, at twelve, and July 5, at nine, at the Castle and Falcon, Newark-upon -Trent. Falknor, Newark upon-Trent ; Capes and Stuart, Bedford- row , L on d on . JOHN SMITH, boiler-maker, Liverpool, June 8, and July 5, at twelve, at the -Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool Worthing ton and Holt, Liverpool ; Taylor, Sharpe, Field, and Jackson, Bedford-row, London. THOMAS POTTS, brass founder, Birmingham, June 8, and July 5, at ten, at the New Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Marshall, Birmingham ; Harrison, Birmingham ; Adli n gton, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follet, Bedford-row, London. THOMAS IRVING, dyer, Wheatley, Yorkshire, June 1 1, at ten, and July 5, at half-past two, at the Shakspeare inn, Halifax. Edwards, Halifax ; Jaques, Battye, and Edwards, Ely-place, Holborn. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. G. Richardson, linen draper, Regent-quadrant, June 14, at half-past eleven—J ames E roo k, s ilk mercer, St. James's-stree June 14; at eleven—J. S. and W. Eveleigh, hatters, Vole!, street, Southwark, June 14, at half-past twelve—J. C. CO3' man milliner, Basinghall- s t ree t, J une 1 4, at one—N. 113T , i. bookseller, Piccadilly, J une 17, at h a lf- past twelve—S. a nd Munday, clothiers, Bradford, Wiltshire, June 12, at eleven t J., G., and H. Wi m bl e , w h ar fi ngers, M a i dstone, June 14'e; two—J. Plummer an d W. Wil son, merchants, Feneher street, June 15, at eleven—E. Wilson, bookseller, Sweeting alley, Cornhill, J une 15, a t two—A. Hider, cheeseroonge!' Otford, Kent, June 15, at one—W. King, common brewer' South Lambeth, J une 15, a t twe l ve— M . Tate, clothier, C„hee ford, Gloucestershire, June 14, at one—M. Shepherd , li n draper, Warwick, June 14, at half-past twelve. In the Country. ‘ , O at M. Kew, victuall er , T orr i s h o l me, Lancashire, •11,n4„.e twelve, at the Royal Oak Inn, Lancashire--J•_,Tpres currier, Presto n , J une 20 , at twelve, at the Town "'"teshire, ton—R. Bragg, w i ne merc h ant, Southmolton, PevBraith, June 17, at t wo , a t t h e G eorge Inn, Southm olten-- - ,J* the victualler, Nottingham, June 18, a t one, at t he e li7, a er- Fourth In n , Nottingham —A. F., J., an d F. ~ru chants, Liverpool, June 17, at one, at the Clarenuo June 14 ' Liverpool —G. Ilickerdike, vi c t ua ll er, H udders field, at ten, at the Pack Horse Inn, Huddersfield. CERTIFICATES—Ju NE 14. hton, H. S. Winter, comb manufacturer, Bristol—W• 11" g ma' tow spinne r , Kirkham, Lancashire—J. Newsome, blanket nufacturer, Dewsbury, Yorkshire. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. H. Br own , S . B . Ingham, and J. B. Ingham, a come ° Bradford, Yorkshire—T. Wicken and T. Witherden , brewers, Tenterden, Kent—C., H., and A. Harris, banked;,i Bradford, Yorkshire—G. Pearson, R. .Mothersi , l, an - d G. Mothersill, common carriers, Manchester—J. Crump an . od Farrington, mercers, Walsall, Staffordshire—A. Je lne 'F J. W. H. Allinson, wine merchants, Carlisle—A. Goff and F. Bligh, silk mercers, Bristol —T. Proud and R. Pearson, e ° ,-, „ nd I . mon brewers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne —H. Share a • 1. Johnson, printed calico agents, Cateaton-street— • l' ee ' d- Jerdein, and A. E . Shelley, coal merchants, Upper Gronub. street, Blackfri ars ( so f ar as regards A. E. Shelley)-- - J' 8 Holroyd, fancy manufacturers, Halifax. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. JOHN SCOTT and PETER TAYLOR, flax SP' the Kirkforthar, Fifeshire, May 30, and June 15, at one , a " British Hotel, Dundee. . . ... .11 T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, &c., 47, Cornbtlb; London (Seven Doors from Gracechurch-stret), in f , f°r 4 ns ND Public, that he has a considerable variety of SECOND —HA GOLD WATCHES, any of which he offers at r4 7 lLi id GUINEAS each. They have all been carefully examie., are warranted. Watches purchased in exchange. RS, PLATED TABLE DISH CO ,5 Guineas the Set.—A.B. SAVORY and SONS , site the turing Silve rsm ith s , N o. 14, Cornhill, London (Tr r oom , ' Bank of England), su b m i t f or choice in the i r many patterns of strongly plated TABLE DISH ' hie id s for with Silver h an dl es an d mountincrs, and stout Sil ver s gu ineas engraving the C res t or C oat of Arms, price trora 15 to 20 guineas the set of four. h. had en N.B. A Pamphlet of the Prices of Plate May application. BIRTHS. On the 18th inst., i n Alb any - s t ree t, Regent's-park, t h e lad! of A. A. Mackey, Esq., of a daughter. On the 19th inst., at Chichester, the lady of Robert Thant! , Esq., of a daughter. On the 22d inst., at Newington, Surrey, the wife of R. G. Welton!, Barrister-at-law, of a son. On the 23d inst., at Sloane-street, Mrs. John Jay, of 3 daughter. On the 23d inst., at Aylesbury, the wife of Thomas Sanis Chapman, Esq., of a son. - - MARRIED. On the 2 0 d inst., at Margate, William Brooke, Esq., 1° Ju iana Dirs, eldest daughter of H erman Wi ll i am M er tens, Esq., late of Clapton, Middlesex. On the 2 2 d inst ., at Winfrith, D orse t , C apta i n Wigstont of the 18th Regi ment, to Ann e , widow of Lieutenant-Colone l llaverfield. On the 23d inst., at St. Mary's, Newington, e Henry Ed lieDeputy m ondes, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Peace for the county of Middlesex, to Sophia Catherine, eldest daughter of Mr. Elwyn Statham, of Newington,l DIED ' On the 15th inst. , at Dart orth row, Blackheath, l thl. Mary Alathews, aged 87. m - On the 15th inst , at Bonaccord-square, Aberdeen, J l l n Leith floss, Esq., of ' Arnarre and Bourtie, a Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Aberdeen, aged 62. b a - r g ri ' s t e ." rrat c •!l s a t r e v r , , On the 23d :nst , at ' Greenwich, Mary, relict of Henri Cornet', Esq., aged B . G. Bs q•, On the 23d inst. at Lancaster, Ann, wife of L. Thre,l.ltll.: -..........P.Vire' ° l a , n em A ple. mother-in-law of M. T. Baines, .r,,,i London : P r i n t e d an d Publi s hed by MURDO YOUN.I. _ f No. 11 9 , Strand, at The Sun Office. No. 112, Strand'' the county of Middlesex.—Saturday, May 25, 1639. w in eodi from Not th e c of Jun 01 3 1) , Ogee; PE2 Inter e °Mee. 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