The Sun. — London, England, 1839-05-23 00:00:00

A' F% Ar • - 4 s ' 1 NEW NVO:-K by the COUNTESS of BLESS:I - N(3l'On Just ready, in a bcautiiidly printed volume, foolh:ap 6vo. cloth lettered, with nth edges, MAXIMS, THOUGFITS, and R EFLEC- Tic h N S. By the COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON. London : Lonr.nau, Orme, and Co. _ _ - - __- Just ready. V;sls. 111. and IV., being the COMPLETION OF THE DIARY or TITZ TIAITZS 'OF GEORGE IV. 'Comprising MORE. LFATERS of QUEEN CAROLINE the PR/I\T_:ESS CHARLOTTE, &c. Henry Colburn, Po . .blisher, 13, Great. Marlborough-street. •.* CJro.ers received by all Booksellers. akS MP;jer,ty the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, - - b - svin , g AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED se‘ 'oral D - IST. RIB U TIONS of MONEY, which (though tli 7 are NO LOTTERIES), offer many possibilities 4 - / - ob . . aininf; LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH, are NC ►W SELLING SHARES for any of the said DIS ' till3l JTIONS •f MONEY. Persons desirous to purchase May re ceive, PREVIOUS to giving any order, the PROS- I'ECTI US and PARTICULARS, upon addressing, WITH OUT I )ELAY, a line to - HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH. P. S. . T. next Distribution contains portions of 11.50Ar)1., 7,0001., and 24,0001. The distributing day being VERY NEAR, NO TIME IS TO E LOST for those desirous to tiacom• shareholders for THIS NEXT DISTRIBUTION. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TI CIS EVENING, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1539. In honour of her Majesty's Birth-Day, There will be an Extra night (net included in the subscription). when will be performed, far the last time this season, Mozart's selebr tted Opera IL DON GIOVANNI, 11 ,1 M lame G. Grisi, Mulame Menani, and Madame Persiani, 6 Vnecl a Rubini, Lablacht, Morelli, and Tamburini. , coo chide with the successful Ballet (by Signor Guerra) of ROBERT LE DIABLE. Princij Jal performers, Madame Guerra, Mdlle. Bellon, Signor Guerra, M. Gosselin, and M. Mathieu. After • the Opera, the National Anthem of " God Save the signor " will be sung by Madame Grisi, Madame Persiani, oignor s Rubini, Tamburini, and Lablache, and the whole *crag of the Company. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. The Public is respectfully informed, that the PR :ESENT MANAGEMENT WILL TERMINATTh WITH THIS SEASON ; following Programme is therefore given of its final ar anoints : re Standard Plays, as brought out at this Theatre, will be performed once more, viz. : THE TWO FOSCARI, as il WERNER. THIS EVENING, MAY 23, Will be performed, THE LADY OF LYONS, or Love and Pride. elantla. Melnotte, Mr. Macready ; Colonel llamas, Mr. Bartley; Pauline Deschappelles, Miss Helen Fauoit. After which, __ _ _ . , INKLE AND YARICO. T. eenelude with SAYINGS AND DOINGS. To- Morrow. Werner, with Agnes Barnatter, and The Ori tnal. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. - -------- - - - G ran it Holiday Attractions—Miss Romer, Mr. Templeton, and Mr, Belts, in the New Opera of " The Maid of Artois," and 4 n entirel• New Domestic Drama. TR IS EVENING and TO-MORROW, MAT 23 and 24. And Two following Nights, Mr. Balfe's Grand Opera, entitled THE 3IAID OF ARTOIS. ! Minos, Miss Romer ; Jules, Mr. Templeton ; The Marquis, . . . - Mr. Balfe. A Double Chorus and Increased Band. TO isonoludo with (first time) a Domestic Drama, 'Clod ALICE GRAY, THE SUSPECTED ONE. New Scenery, tad powerful interest. We have received one or two letters relative to article which appeared in our paper of the 17th 4t "t , ref err i ng to the possibility of danger to her A , l IjRsTY were she wh o lly surrounded by Toner The , sanie subject has been mentioned at Dublin by Mr. t-TRA TTAN, and in several country papers. As One of our Correspondents thinks we went too far, We must remind him and the public that we "hurled" no suspicion against the honour of any human b eing. We q uite agree with him that her MA altrrst would be as safe under the protection of the Duke of WELLINGTON and Sir ROBERT PEEL .1 under that of any men in her MAJESTY'S domi 41cms. Their loyalty and honour, in this sense, are ti llimpeached and quite unimpeachable. Our at /Noel -it was, and now ix, they cannot answer for th e i r followers. Lord RODEN has distinctly proved that th ey are neither to be led nor driven. Their Own passions are completely their masters. We called attention on the 17th to the great Pains which have of late been taken by the priest hood of the Church of England to fanaticise the People, and to the virulence with which the Tory Press has aided their efforts, and sought to excite in the Protestants a sentiment of intense hatred of th e Irish Catholics. No terms of denunciation have been thought too strong to apply to them, while their priests have been stigmatized as if they were Perfe c t miscreants. The vile passions thus nourished b y the English priesthood and the Tory press, have b een specially directed against Mr. O'CONNELIo a nd the Ministers, and have been reflected against ,er MAJESTY, because she supports them. In Muth, - - her bounties and donations, and the bo unties and donations of her Royal Mother, t° 8 0tne of her Catholic subjects, have been pur- P ° sely exaggerated in order to excite the dislike "d hatred of bigoted Protestants. If her MA 'TESTy be the Sovereign of all her subjects, her heir is the chief of the bigoted ultra and Tory Pro testant faction. Now it might by possibility happen that some person, deeply embued with the ultra-Protestant hatred of the Catholics, and all their protectors in the State, which has been so assiduously cultivated by our -PIIILLPOTTS and I\PGHBEa, and by our Tory Newspapers, and warmly at tached to Protestantism and Toryism, might, in Spite of the Duke of WELLINGTON and Sir ROBERT PEEL, think that he or she was perform- ixg a meritorious deed, a great act of patriotism, or of heroic virtue, to contribute by any means to Place Prince ERNEST on the Throne, and so ensure the ascendancy of Protestantism and Tvryism in the State. That was, and still is the line of argument, the philosophic deduction, Which makes us think it would by no means be safe to surround her MAJESTY with the bigoted sup porters of the English exclusive, dishonest, corrupt, and tyrrannical Church, and the partizans of Prince ERNEST. Politicians never study morality, but expediency, Is all their laws show. This is a well established principle, and whenever their interest, or their presumed interest, commands the commission of a crime they never hesitate to commit it. If this were not so they never would execute a single human l';eing, and, above all, they would tremble to decree death for political offences. Never tell us that the class of men who annually consign multitudes of their countrymen and coun trywomen to death, merely to enrich themselves — who inflict the slow misery of starvation on many of their fellow-creatures to put a little pelf into their own pockets, would boggle at taking a single lif e , if they supposed that would give them the Government and patronage of this great Empire, and secure the ascendancy of their Church. Never tell us that the authors of the Corn-laws would stickle at any immorality or any wickedness which would serve their purpose, or add to their wealth and power. If ever the interests of the Jamaica Proprietors resident in this county! demanded their rigid atten tion, now is the moment for them to exercise unu sual vigilance—now is the opportunity for them to investigate what has passed, and to closely scru tinize with an eager eye what is passing in that colony. From authentic statements we learn, that for three months, at least, previous to the day Which conferred full liberty on the black population, th e planters, overseers, and others, had combined, and had held numerous meetings for the purpose of compelling the negro, partly by coercive laws, and partly by craft, to enter into engagements for continuous la!,our, ix labour un;ntermitted for sixteen hours, for the remuneration of 6d. for each dozen hours' toil. By means of pro mises of freedom and kind treatment on the one hand, and on the other by threats of eject ment and incarceration in those sinks of infamy, cruelty, and starvation, known to the black by the term prison, and to the British people by the fa miliar name of workhouse, the planters had lured many of their then apprentices to promise they would, on becoming free agents, enter into agree ments of the character described. The object, however, of these repeated meeting s of the planters, &c., gradually oozed out, and the authorities had become cognizant of the artifices by which these gentry sought to entrap the negro, and to perpetuate, under the mask of liberty, a species of slavery more galling than that from which he had just emerged. The contract, having the ap- pearance of a voluntary engagement on the part of the blacks, would in a great measure have de deprived them of that sympathy which had for years cheered them with the hope of ultimate free dom, and had thereby softened down much of the rigour under which they suffered. The difficulty which presented itself, and which the powers of the Government were inadequate to remove, was that the black population, on attaining freedom, had a perfect right to enter into any sort of engagement for labour which might appear beneficial to them, and that therefore the Executive Power ought not, indeed could not, interfere beyond a general admo nition upon the subject. At this juncture the Missionaries stood forward, and, with much zeal, explained to their several fol lowers the nature and the character of the agree ments into which the managers of estates intended to wheedle them; they earnestly exhorted the blacks to pause before they signed any document wherein the term continuous labour, or other words of a like signification, were used ; pointing out to them that the colonial penal laws, which were applicable to a state of slavery, were yet in existence, and might and would be brought into force against them upon a trivial allegation of a dereliction of their duty. On the arrival therefore of the eventful Ist of Au gust, the planters discovered that their machina tions were completely defeated, and that instead of the black being willing to part with his labour for an unlimited time for 6d. sterling for each twelve hours' labour, he demanded Is. sterling for a fair day's work ; that is to say, from six in the morning until six in the evening, allowing out of that time, as is the practice in England, half an hour for breakfast, one hour for dinner, and half an hour for supper. Upon the announcement of this determination by the labourers, the angry feelings of the managers burst forth. In their rage they attacked, in their own Societies, and by means of the Press, the Mis sionaries, with a virulence of abuse which beggars description. Nor were they contented thus to asperse and vilify these good men : they presented memorials and petitions from various quarters to the Governor, embodying in stringent terms their dissatisfaction at the interference (as they called it) of the Missionaries between the master and servant. Turning round on the blacks they vented their rage, in some cases, by forcibly ejecting the negro from the cottage he had built, and from the garden he had cultivated with his own hands. They also entered into a compact not to pay the demand for wages, and not to hire theinegro even for 6d. a day, unless he entered into an agreement by which he would at the same time render himself liable, upon a frivolous accusation of idleness, to be imprisoned for three months with tread-wheel labour and the occasional torture of the lash. Now comes a point to which we entreat the serious consideration of the Jamaica Proprie tary resident in this country. The parties to the compact in Jamaica wrote home, represent ing to the absent owners of plantations the importance of resisting the demands made by the labourers at the instigation of the Missionaries, and of sanctioning the scheme which would compel the negroes to come into the planters' terms. The West Indians here listened to this counsel, view ing- the question as one which related to a combi nation of labourers against masters. They accord ingly deemed it both prudent and expedient to leave the affair in the hands of their attorneys for adjust ment.. On the arrival of these letters in Jamaica the plantations of the absentees were left to be cultivated by the seasons, while the plantations of many residents soon became more fertile than they were before the emancipation. Some parties in the colony in truth availed themselves of the labour made redundant by parties at home acquiescing in the views of their agents to resist the demand of the labourers for wages of one shilling a day. It is as if a steward here had stated to his landlord cogent reasons for delaying his harvest, in order that he, the steward, in the mean time might enjoy abundance of labour at a cheap rate to gather in his own. Hence, too, the accounts from Jamaica about the sugar crops are conflicting and contra. dictory. We have confirmation of the good cultivation of some of the estates by the arrivals of the new sugars ; and we can well believe the reports that other estates in Jamaica have had little or no attention paid to them, and that the canes must and will stand over for a month or six weeks beyond the usual time for cut ting them ; but we do not believe, because these canes stand over, that they will not make sugar when they are cut. The statements industriously circulated, as news from Jamaica, that the canes on this estate, and on the other, have been destroyed by delay, are erroneous and absurd. In Antigua, last year, the crops were so uncommonly abundant that, with every disposition to labour, the blacks were unequal to the task of boiling down the whole of the cane juice in the period allotted for sugar making. Did the Antigua planters under those circumstances wring their hands, and declare a part of their canes were destroyed ? No ; they wisely allowed them to stand until the labourers had time to boil down the juice ; many acres were therefore left standing over from August, 1838, until the following February, and those canes so allowed to stand over yielded abundantly ►hen cut, although the sugars made from them were of inferior quality to that made from canes cut at the proper season. In fact this is a matter of notoriety in Mincing-lane, where samples of them were exhibited for sale, and the inferiority of the quality attributed to the cause stated above. The owners of estates in Jamaica, which have been se dulously cultivated, will reap a double advantage ; first, they will have sugar of the usual quality, and. secondly, the sugars will arrive here at a time when the market price is extraordinarily high ; while the owners resident in England will have sugars of inferior quality, which will arrive when t he market price has fallen Bs. or less. per cwt.—a punishment for listening to the advice of agents instead of managing fur themselves. Public meetings continue to beheld, and petitions to pour in, on the subject of the uniform penny postage. Never was there such unanimity on any other question. All classes, however diversified by political or religious opinions arc agreed on this— that the penny postage must be adopted. Not a murmur or even whisper of dissent is heard from any quarter within the wide range of the social circle. On the contrary, all men meet together on this common ground, all lay aside their differences in other respects, and unite heart and hand for the * For an account of Jamaica attorneys, planters, over seers, bookkeepers, et hoc genus omne, let our rratiers v.•use Mr. Wvlalion's book, compiled from Cicts which came under his ow', observation ; the author being a kind of King's evidence against his quondam colleagues. promotion of this object. Is there any difficulty in solving this popular problem ? None whatever. The reason is as obvious as anything can be. The question is one of universal, not of partial interest, and the people are thoroughly convinced of the practicability as well as the utility of the proposed measure. These are the two points upon which the popular support of the question hinges. Had there been any doubt as to the pos sibility of carrying the plan into effect, however beneficial it might be allowed to be, we should have seen it meet with a very different kind of reception. A shrug of the shoulders, or, perhaps, a smile indi cating something akin to contempt for the under standing that could bestow a serious thought on so wild a scheme, would have been substituted for the eagerness with which Mr. HILL'S simple, and we may almost say, self-demonstrating plan, is every where embraced. Some people may, at first, be startled at the apparent absurdity of attempting to con vey a letter from London to Edinburgh for the small sum of one penny. Small, how ever, and inadequate as this sum may appear, it is nevertheless thirty-six times the actual cost. Mr. HILL has proved by the incontestible evidence of arithmetic, that the expense incurred by the Post Office, is about the ninth part of a farthing. It is, therefore, clear, that even at the uniform rate of a penny, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would derive a very handsome per-tentage for the purposes of revenue, supposing, which we altogether deny, that the Post Office were a legitimate source of taxation. But there is in reality not the least foundation for the fear, which the Right Honourable Gentleman is said to have at one time expressed, that the revenue, enormous as it is, which he now extracts from the people through the tax levied on letters, would be diminished. It is an axiom in taxation, though official financiers are slow to acknowledge it in practice, that the revenue derived from an article in general consump tion is increased by lowering the duty on it. Con sidering letters, then, as a commodity, which in a ' financial point of view they are, and a commodity which, were it not for the shameful rate at which it is taxed, would be in more general use than any that can be named, bread alone excepted, is it pos sible for any rational mind to doubt that the reduc tion of the postage of letters would add immensely to their number ? Would it be any way extravagant to suppose that if the transmission of each let ter cost only a penny, twenty times as many letters would pass through the Post Office as do now ? We are satisfied that this would be far under the mark. Why, every hand that could hold a pen ?—and wherelis the hand now that cannot hold a pen—would be scribbling every day of the week for the post. Epistolary communications would be the universal order of the day. The ge neral mind, relieved from the pressure which has hitherto kept down its energies, by depriving it of the most powerful inducement to the exercise of thought, as well as of the social affections, would rebound with an elasticity the effect of which no man can calculate, while all men are persuaded it must be great. The happy result would be that not only would a mighty stimu lus be given to commerce through the means of unrestricted communication, but a far greater benefit than any that can be summed up in pounds, shillings, or pence, would be conferred on society in the shape of intellectual and moral advancement. Not that we are disposed to blink the pecuniary, or rather financial, view of the question. Quite the contrary. There is no aspect in which the subject can be looked at, in which Mr. HILL'S plan will not approve itself to the judgment of all who are capable of exercising reflection. That gentleman, who will, we venture to say, rank hereafter among the greatest benefactors of his coun try, has formed his calculations on a scale so mo derate as to disarm the fears of the most timid for the interests of the revenue. He has merely as sumed that only eight times as many letters as are now sent by Post will be sent when the postage is reduced to a penny. This is an assumption which no one can cavil at, because it clearly errs on the safe side, for the third, or perhaps the half of this number consists of letters which, under the present high rate of postage, are smuggled, all which con traband dealing would immediately cease when the new plan came into operation. So that if we sup pose the number of letters written at present to be no more than quadrupled, we shall find that the revenue is in no danger, even as regards the amount which it receives directly from the Post Office, and without taking into consideration the indirect be nefit which the Customs, Excise, Stamps, &c., must derive from the multiplication of commercial transactions. King Louis PHILIPPE'S is still a winning game. By his adroit management of the recent insurrection in the French capital he has snatched victory out of the hands of the exulting Coalition—thus conquer- ing another " impossibility." But this success will rather establish the KING'S character for cun ning and remorseless selfishness than for that great ness of mind which triumphs over obstacles seem ingly insurmountable. Without adopting the in ferences of that portion of the French press which regards the late plot as an old familiar engine of State policy—as a bloody drama of which the KING and the Minister of the Police were the principal concoctors, we may express our contempt and de testation of that narrow, base, anti unfeeling policy which prompted a Sovereign surrounded by bleeding subjects, to make his first care the converting of their wounds to his individual ag grandisement—to the realisation of his own despot ical ambition. There is a baseness inexpressibly detestable in being perpetually on the alert to take advantage of the unsuspecting confidence, or the momentary alarm of the people to filch from them some right, or to refuse them some well-merited concession. Now, whoever were the authors of all the conspiracies which broke out in France since Louis PHILIPPE ascended the throne of the elder Bourbons, it is notorious that not one of them found him unprepared to turn the preponderance which they gave him against the liberties of his people. The failure of each was to him a double victory. The late insurrection is no' exception to the previous coC•se of the Royal po licy. While the streets of Paris were the theatre of a bloody conflict the KING was signing the ordinances by which he secured a triumph over TIIIERS and the statesmen of the Left. That was the auspicious moment which he chose for appointing a Cabinet, rendering abortive the con stitutional proceedings of the Chamber for the last four months, and of the admirers of the principles of the Revolution of July for a period of five years. While terror and dismay filled the capital the KING saw but the happy opportunity of crushing the Coalition, and he did not omit seizing upon it. Is it then surprising that those who see and mark the avidity with which the KING turns treason in every form to account, should suspect a Police. office as the most likely place of its concoction ? But there are sounds and objects with which it at Gratz. is dangerous to make the eyes and cars of the peo. pie familiar, and treason is one of them. It is a crime which Governments should rather affect to believe impossible, than to pretend to discover in the acts of a few madmen, whom poverty or fancied wrongs may have driven to desperation. The triumphs which its exhibition may enable a Sove reign to obtain over the liberties of his people, are, if it be often repeated, dearly purchased in the end. Every new law passed is a record of the weakness of the C► own—an attestation of the Sovereign's fears, 1 and of the formidableness of the smallest combi- ( LtN i its S A nation against him. The discovery is made that treason is, after all, but a aynonyme for defeat—that a combinaton of the people against themselves is impossible. A familiarity with re sistance imparts to it the idea of a courageous daring, flattering to the vanity of a military people ; and the game of revolt thus bc..comes the fashion able resort of the desperate. By the mass of the community resistance comes to be regarded with apathy, if not with secret approbation, and thus are the seeds sown on an anarchy which eventually overthrows thrones, and sets aside the most power ful dynasties. And this is the present state of the French capital. During the late insurrection the people witnessed the bloody conflict between the in surgents and the National Guards as they would have done a military spectacle at the theatres. But had the insurgents been able to maintain their ground for twelve hours, the Government would have had a very different tale to tell. All the youth of Paris would have joined them, and Louts PHILIPPE, instead of exulting in the defeat of the Coalition, would ere this have sailed or Edinburgh, or set out to visit his royal relatives But of the ultimate success of the KING's policy, the French Government has yet no certain assurance. The Coalition is confounded, but not defeated. However compliant the new Ministry may be, there are certain questions which it will be almost impossible to put off till the end of the present Session of the French Chambers, and there are others that will only acquire additional cogency from delay. To the first class belongs the Spanish question, and to the second Electoral Reforms, of which M. ()DILLON BARROT and M. TRIERS are the respective champions. Notwithstanding the joy which now irradiates every countenance ac the Tuileries, the close of the session may yet prove as politically stormy as its commencement. The extravagant falsehoods told at the Maryle bone Police Office by runaway boys from the Cape Colony, and the wicked imputations cast on the " Children's Friend Society," have within these few days received the most signal refutation. We have already noticed the opinions of Lord GROSVENOR, Lord ELDON, and other noblemen and gentlemen on these fabrications. Mr. Sergeant A DAMS, who knows well what benefit the Society has conferred on children deserted by their gin.drinkinE, , parents, and brought before him for judgment, said but two days ago—" It was monstrous to think that while the few supposed cases of ill-treatment which had happened under their management had been cre dited, the great quantity of good which they had perfected should be overlooked." Our Mansion I-louse report contains another proof of the good accomplished, and another refu tation of the calumnies by one who had been sent out by the Society, remained under the superinten dance of the Committee there for five or six years, and who confirmed his statements as to the treat ment of the boys by the best of all arguments—an application to the Society for leave to return. But the mischief has bean done. Ingratitude, we fear, has paralysed the efforts of the charitable in this good cause, and the death of Captain BRENTON will for ever remain a blot on the conduct of those who have raised and promulgated the calumny. The trial of the individuals made prisoners during the late eineute in Paris, is the principal topic of discussion in the French Journals of Tuesday. Why a task so generally invidious should be imposed by the KING upon the only body entirely devoted to his interests—the Chamber of Peers—is more than any rational being can comprehend. Here is a case where it would be quite safe to trust to the honest verdict of a Jury, even allowing the Court to be ever so desirous of the condemnation of the prisoners. Taken with arms in their hands, and in the act of shedding the blood of their fellow-countrymen, the most Republican Jury would find them guilty, while the public would acknowledgs that they had what the Charter proclaims as the sacred right of every French citizen, the benefit of a fair trial by their peers or equals. But the trial of the accused —of a number of individuals in the lowest rank in society, by an assembly of titled Legislators, can not be impartial, however just may be the sentence ; and thus the Peerage is degraded lower and lower in public opinion, while the ends of justice are nota jot more advanced. It is well known, however, that a great number of the Peers represented to the Go veriancnt their decided disapprobation of being called upon to try the accused, both on public and private grounds. and that more than one of them intimated to M. TESTE their surprise that the KING should so ill reward their loyalty to his per son and Government as always to select them in periods of excitement for the performance of the most unpopular acts. So many others have desired to absent themselves, that the KING has been under the necessity of personally interfering to in sure the attendance of a requisite number of the noble and illustrious judges. General TIIOLOZE has been formally dismissed from the Commandantship of the Polytechnic School, for permitting the students to contradict the Jouinal des Debats' statement of their outrageous loyalty to the ORLEANS dynasty during the late re volt. The fact is thus announced in the Moniteur : 4‘ By a Royal decree issued at the instance of the Mi nister of War, General Vaillant, Commandant of the engineer department of the army of Africa, is named Commandant of the Ecole Polytechnique, vice General Tholoze. General Dagunan will, until the arrival of General Vaillant, dischargo the duties of Commandant, under the title of Inspector-General and Commandant Su perieur." The ignominious dismissal of the veteran com mandant will not increase the loyalty of the youth ful students, nor will it blind the public to the fact that Louis PHILIPPE is no longer the idol of any party. According to the Nouvelliste seventeen young men were seized on Monday last in the act of making ball cartridges. Marshal GERARD has published a flaming Re port of the loyalty of the National Guard . of Paris in suppressing the late insurrection . in the capital. This is all fudge. The National Guard evinced a decided reluctance to fire upon the insurgents. Had no shots been levelled at them it is doubtful whe ther they would h ave dr a wn a trigger to save the Tuileries from pillage. The latest news from the Spanish frontier is con tained in the following telegraphic despatch :-- " BATONS', MAY 18.—Last night Munagorri carried the fort of Urdach, which bad been guarded by fifteen Carliats." " MAT 20.—Munagorri was attacked yesterday, capi. tulated, and re-entered the French territory, where he has ma a o been disarmed." M U NAGORRI'S career has been st worse than even tha t of General E‘o,ANdsistr_nud s;; suppose that i t is not teritn,vin.ap . MAY 21.te AT d. im D OURSE, ?A, That Highest L owe , Pries Price. Price. Pri ce . French 5 per Cents ........... . 1 2 0 5 1 1 1 0 1 5 tO S 111 . ... I I : 4 1 8t 3a .81 ot 710' 4% per Cent 5......... 1.6 RR SKI ... t;0 "' .*- 25 4 per te nt 5............ 3 per Cent 5............ ___!!!, 40 :7.0 5 20 1 45 ... 51 4i; •.:: ....97.20 _ 2720 Rank of Prance ............... ` l7 . _ Bel g ian 5 per C ents. ........... 112. 1 ( /' •••••. 02 Bank ..................... 752 . : ? 72 75 4.3:1 73.7 50 2 per I. e at 5............ 7; 75i 1104 .a 75 Sanish Acive ...... ......... l 9 19 2 0,4 Neapolitan . Pa55iv .................................... ; , 0 1 1 14 4111 1 0 0 1,"3 1 1 ( e irl so 10 1 7 4 • Roman .............. 014 LONDOI:i. "' 1 " .27,1 12 ; three months , mon e y , .h, money, Within the ---- se few wee and parti cu l ar l y s i nce Sir R. Peel failed to make a Cabin e t, the Duke of Waington has been annoyed beyond measure by applications to beco me a member of different So cieties---among the rest . the Agricultural Society and th e Temperance Society. s answers to both applications arc very c haracteristic. However,. much I may ap prove the Tem perance men he says, of temperance, I decline to becom e a mem b er of the T e mperance Society , or bind myself by any written engagement, or to accept the office which the Society has been pleased to offer me as one of their Vice-Presidents." And to the Agriculturists he replies in a note to Lor d S p encer—. If I were not quite ignorant of the art, and persuaded that I should be quite unable to render the Society any service, I would with much pleasure undertake the duties of the office; but I hope th at I s h a ll b e excused for declining, a nd I intreat you t o urge t h e Members of the Society to fix upon one to be their President more likely than I could be to promote their views." Why should not the next application be from the Chartists? !A I t 23 MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIvERPOOL COTTON MAkKET, WeDNErDAT. —We have had a fair demand for Cotton to day, c: nsidering the dull state of the market. The sales are 1,500 bags, without change in prices. Our arrivals this morning are a French and Ostend mail ; ship letters from Madeira and Port-au-Prince ; Calcutta, 9th December ; Cape of Good Hope, 28th February, and New York, by the Westminster, of old date, the 20th ult. From Cape of Good Hope papers received to the 14th March : A further addition of German emigrants reached Table Bay, via Amsterdam, consisting of fifty-two mon, women and children. The measles continue to be of a very mild and modified character. Upwards of 3,000 cases have occurred since its beginning. There has been eleven deaths only, of which number more than half have died of neglect, and other accidental complications. CunaENcy.—The best currency yet invented is a cur rency consisting of paper and the precious metals ; the paper being promissory, and payable at sight, without de duction, by the promiser to the presenter in the precious metals. This is the only restriction recognized in modern times by the best writers. It is sufficient ; all other re strictions are injurious and nugatory. Wn EAT. —By a Royal Proclamation, dated Bth February, 1822, it is directed that for the term of ten months subse quent to that date, all wheat and flour coming from foreign ports, in any vessel whatever, shall be admitted, subject to the duty of 3 per cent. in lieu of 10 per cent. then levied ; and that a further deduction of one-fifth from the above rate shall be allowed on wheat from India; and that in all time coming wheat and flour imported in British ships, or in foreign ships trading to this place under the Order in Council of th e 12 t h July, 1820, be sold here subject to the duty of 3 per cent. on the market price, when that price shall be at or above 160 rupees per load. This Pro clamation was repealed in 1830; we wish to see it re enacted. We have very few arrivals this morning, consequently there is a dearth of intelligence, which causes the British Market to be inactive at present. Money, haying become more plentiful within this day or two, had the effect to keep the Market in a buoyant state. In the British Market money is only worth 4 to 3 per cent., and in the Foreign Market about 5 per cent. The first-rate merchants' and bankers' bills can be discounted from 4 to 40; per cent. This being the Queen's birth-day, it is not expected that much business will be done in the City, as a great number of persons will take advantage of the fineness of the :morn ing, and proceed westward. We have the arrival of an American packet, the West minster, of an old date; she has b'en due for some time, ~nd great fear was entertained that she had met with some accident at sea. The date she brings is of the 20:h ult. : we have had those of the 25th ult. Consols closed yesterday firm at 931 Money, Account 931 and opened this morning at 931 Sellers for Money, 931 Boyers for Account, and for July 93i:j-. Exchequer Bills, 32 34; India Bonds, 35 37 ; Bank Stock, 1953 19G; India Stock, 2551 2561. In the Foreign Market, Spanith Active closed at 19+ 114, at present 194 191 ; Portuguese, 35+ 354; Thrt e per Cents., 21+ 214 ; Brazilian as they closed, 791 s ; Belgian, 10* 102+; Colombian. 311 ; Mexican, 261 26 ; Dutch Two-and -a-Half per Cents. rather improved, closed at 56k 56k, at present 56+ 56} ; Five per Cents., l 03 1 _ _ The Dutch mail that has arrived brings the prices of Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 54 1-16 to 55i; Five per Cents , 1021. tRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock ISA 6 ( 4 , 5' India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons. S3k %% South Sea Stock 3‘„, per Cent — Old Annuities SI i i i Ditto Red. IOQ New Ditto New 3 per Cent .lOlBl lA, lA 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. Sank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 ... 34 32 pm. Jan. 5, IWO l4 };, 7-16 Ditto Small 34 32 pm. Oct. 10, 1659 — Ditto Commercial — pm. JAIL 5, 1560 Jan. 5, ISSO — Bank Stock for Account ... April 5, 1850 — India Stock for Account Jan. 5, 1570 — Consos for Account 93%yY DUTCH k'UNDS.—AaisTr.knAst, MAT 21 Ilonev. B•1Is . __ .. ~.. _. . Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Alum t srndie, 4 per cent , , ,5, 1 1 53 y Ditto, ditto, 3IY per cent. 7 9 43 604 Commercial Company, 4'.., per cent 181%: 1824 Ditto (1i;32 and 1833) 5 per cent. Ditto 1 , 37. 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 rer cent. Exchange on London, One month !2 Two month; BELGIAN l' UNDS--Bitussime, MAY 21. Actual Debt, 2!-, per Cent. Rothschild's Loan f 5 per Cent. ....... Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 3 per Cent. 72 Loan of City, IM2, 4 per Cent 9 ','i Society of Commerce, 4t per Cent llB Rank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 7B National Society . WO —Brussels Pipers, May 21. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, MAY IS. live per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1531S .—AllgenzeipieZeitung, May 18. HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, MAY 19. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares An 10-Russian Loan 1117% 107% Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, lit Series. 1024, 182 Russian 5 per Cent. Hop ! and t,o. 3d and 4th Se i s Ol4 98 Ditto in Certificates Dutch ~. cilia' Debt, 2V, pe Cent 544 514 Ditto 6 per Cent 1 1 Polish Bond, New lickct Anglo- i anish Loan, 3 per Cent 7 2 1 /4 - 72 Norwegian Loan, 1531, 4 per Cent........- lOl% 11,14 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN. MAy 12. Bills Money. St. Schuh!. Sch., 4 per cent 108.4 10..2!.4 YruAeian lingiish Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 1027 i 101% 6xchnnge on Louden, three months ti 20% —Prussia' State Gaz,tte, May IV. lIALF-PAST ONE. To the present hour ;ye have no further arrivals. The British and Foreign markets continue in the same state of inactivity as they were in the early part of the morning, nithout a feature worth noticing; and there appears to be a general pause, both for speculating; in the Feuds and commercial affairs. Consols, which were in the course of the morning 93i for Money and Account, are not quite so good, and may he quoted 93k, both for time and money. Exchequer Bills lower, 34 32 ; India Bonds, lower, 36 34 ; Bank Stock also receded to 1951 ; India Stock, 2501 ; SpaniTh Active ah.o receded from 191 to 19i; Portuguese, 354 ; Colombian ; BrEzdian, 79 .&; Dutch Two-and-a Half per Cents, 56 ; Five per Cents, 103 CLO6ING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS Bank Stock 195j,, India Stack 251 1 1Y, 3 per i ent lied 3 per Cent. (7eds. 43„, I Ditto Old Annnitie- . 91! ii 314, per Cent. Red leo3/;Ditto New Annuities Ness 31, per Cent 1015. lEx. Bills, 1,000/ 2.1 'l2 pm. New S per Cent Ditto Sal 12 pm. Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5110! 15 pm. Jan. NEI • Oct. 1359 Jan. 1560 ........ rConcols for Act... .......... 93% FOI{EICI Asturian, 5 per cent 108 Belgian, 5 per cent Brazilian Bonds 6O Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent `27 Colomb.an, 6 per cent Ditto, 1824 Danish, 3 per cent Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct — Mexican, 5 per cent. — Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 — Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent lB Sli. Eastern Countios London and Brighton Itailw: London and Croydon Railty, 46. • , morzßl L z7 Cure aqui LONDON : THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1139. Oni de ri 01 1 1 I On' 3'e VP. 10 AV 110 of Arcie ed W is of i Tarr , Cor to be i s the m ded Lord lota. L 1 De- First Chief " n iter f Ren. %akin' i Led of the hater• Isjesti. cil, and of th• Lens• Ain, the ruvd. Palace to town ICE. fr ,,o lintooo, Coull t nt ; the c. fro"" frato cc ti ; re. 61)1 ' 1 venc'f le' { roar aa ord. r vope d M rs ' a nd, °- , ofenor bbot"nci Lint In— •ighcon; Ire, for ; L aa e l nd Hies ich fi e id ; Cohn u n ; .l 110' ( Je d G or,e Tr jjoo Vie t he vb Or 4u~~ t s< 'e Hlllmen ,C B ich e fi t he PeWluiiged r P 0 1 1 0 ccide F r i nCe We . 1 1 WO• • antlerr° Se' xs' n ' 0 00' y r . s, °t „. 00 5 ,. P od ct°" 0 Oet" of , " as re oe The! ,ot o s •ed n of pr. , ing ul6 i r c rt• r the 6 ; he lion 0 ' )tained, or tllc n' o r in ee t that 0 6 a no The • st j a y 0 ••• curiousl" ' rh e rang, Th each N FUNDS Portuguese Bonds, Spec cent. Ditto New Ditto .. . ; l''% Prussian, 5 per cent Russian Bonds, 5 per cent ll2i, Ditto, Metallic Spanish, h per cent. ........ Ditto, Deferred B% French, 5 per cent.......... —f —c. Exchange French, :3 per cent f. Dutch, `7.,' per cent. 5 9 ,4 Ditto, 5 per cent. 103% FARES ay ay (Trunk) l37's GRANDMAMMA NAPPING. —As the old lady appears to be worn out with asking questions about the Court, and has omitted one of the greatest im portance to the Established religion of the country, we will endeavour to put it for her in nearly her own venerable words:—" To-morrow is the Queen's birth-day, yet it is celebrated to-day. How is this ? Is it true that the Popish traitor, Daniel O'Connell, applied to Lord Melbourne on the sub ject, and that Lord Melbourne applied to the Queen, and that the celebration was commanded to take place on Thursday in place, because Friday is a day maigre in the Catholic calendar ? If this be true, we may ask again, and we ask with sorrow, " What will this Protestant country come to at last ?" HER MAJESTY'S BIRTIIDAT.—This morning was ushered in by the bells ringing a merry peal, in honour of her Majesty's natal day, and the Royal Standard " floated in the breeze" from various steeples. The river presented a gay appearance, vessels of all nations dis playing their colours. The Park and Tower guns fired a Royal Salute. At the departure of the morning mails, the guards and drivers appeared arrayed in their new suits of scarlet and gold, although the general effect was shorn of its beauty by all the mails not going out together. Mr. HUGHES HUGHES AGAIN.-This gentle man, we understand, has written to one of his old sup. porters to say that he will certainly stand again for the representation of Oxford ; but we cannot learn whether upon Whig, Tory, Radical, or Chartist principles._ Oxford Chronicle. • THE DERBY.—The Jockey Club would do well to establish some stringent rule which might prevent for the future the raising such questions after the race as are now raised in the case of the winning horse Bloomsbury. One feature in that rule should be, that all objections to the age or pedigree of a horse should be made a month before the race, so as give all parties time to make and answer them ; but the race being run and over, no such objections should be allowed, on any pretence, to be made ; at any rate as regards bets, as there are always shabby people enough to be found glad to seize, or invent, any pretence for keeping their money in their pockets. Wednesday evening the easiness of money at the Stock Exchange, where in the English market it is worth only from 21 to 3 per cent., and in the foreign mar ket net more than 5 per cent., has contributed to improve the prices of the leading stocks, notwithstanding the con tinued sales by the Government broker on account of the Savings' Banks. The amount thus brought to market was net less than 20,000/. to .day, arid some uneasiness respec ting, the cause is still prevalent. Consols advanced to 931. —Times. THE MURDER IN CADOGAN-PLACE.—On Wednesday morning. at nine o'clock, the remains of Eli zabeth Paynton, who was so barbarously murdered on Friday last, at her master's residence, were removed for interment to Chelsea New Churchyard, from the residence of Mr Capmer, undertaker, 24, Kinnerton street, Sol vy/a-square. The body was f,)llovred by the deceased's sister, as chid . -mourner, and twelve friends. There was a vast concourse of persons present on the occasion. ST. MAIZTIN-IN-THE FIELDS. MEETING TO ADDRESS HER MAJESTY. A meeting of the parishioners of St. Martin-in-the- Fields was held this day at the Board Room, to consider the propriety of addressing her Majesty on her spirited and firm resistance to the recent attempted interference with her Majesty's Household, and to, convey to her Ma- Majesty their determination to support her. Mr. Staunton, Churchwarden, in the Chair. Mr. Pot;Neel proposed the first resolution, to the etrAtt that the recent attempt to force her Majesty to give up be — Household is t 3 rannical arid cruel. It was admitted on al' hands that it was unusual to call for so extensive a dismis— sal as Sir Robert Peel had demanded ; and if ever there, was a case in which the common rule ought not to be de— parted from, it was in the case of a young and inexpe— rienced Sovereign. Cheers.) With respect to the Ministry, he considered that their return to the position from which they had been driven would be little shot t a f madness, and he was firmly convinced that some cha ngi must take place with regard to their future proceedin gs; and this would certainly be the case if the people expres.sed their opinions in a firm and becoming manner. Mr. HADDINATON seconded the resolution, which was carried with only seven dissentients. Dr. BAINBRIDGE, in proposing the second resolution, sand that such a proceeding as that of Sir Robert Peel had never been attempted in any former reign to the extent propose& on the late occasion.--( Hear.) In moving the resolution„ he wished to state that he did not altogether approve of the: conduct of the liite Ministry,who had not carried out the prin.. ciples which they professed at the time of the passing of the- Reform Bill. He, however, cordially supported her Nlajest) in her resistance to the re-entrance of the Tories to power,, and concluded by moving, that after her Majesty's declara-• tion to Sir Robert Peel that she parted with her former I advisers with great reluctance and regret, he could not.• believe that he enjoyed her Majesty's confidence, and that, to demand the dismissal of her Majesty's Household was in effect requiring her Majesty to participate with him in a practical falsehood to the country. Mr. HAW YES seconded the motion, which was carried , with five dissentients. Mr. 0. WEBB moved the next resolution, although he should have been better pleased if it had been stronger. He bad always been a friend to Reform, and was deter. mined upon all occasions to carry out his principles in meetings of such a description as the present. And be did not doubt that the present meeting would have been much larger, if Reformers had mot been broken down by the vacillating conduct of toe Whigs, who had acted on expe diency in a triost disgraceful way..—.(Cheers.) Hemmed " That her Majesty's spirited and fires resistance to such a course' - of 'proceeding, • calls for the approbation of her iltijesty's attached and faithful subjects; and that this parish resolves to,support her Majesty therein to the utmost of its power,. convinced -as it is that her Majesty will deeply feel the necessity that the advisers in whom she confides must take such measures in progressive Reform, as, accord ing with the just demands of a tree and enlightened people, will conduce effectually to prevent the return to power of the party who have offered this insult." Mr. HOOPER seconded the resolution, which was sup ported by Mr. BouverttE, and agreed to. Mr. WEST said the resolutions were good so far as they went, but in his opinion they ought to go further. The Ministry ought to be told the feelings of the people, and therefore he would move— " That it is the opinion of this meeting that it would not have been requisite for her Majesty to have sent for Sir Robert Peel had Lord Melbourne progressed the im provements desired by the country, and that, from the expressed sentiments upon the hustings, and in other places, of some of the Members or the Cabinet, it was ex pected that " The Repeal of the Tax-paying clauses in the Reform Act, " The Extension of the Electoral Franchise to at least all Householders, " The Restoration of Triennial Parliaments, and " The Voting by Ballot at Elections, would have been carried into effect, or the people would no , have carried them back into office, in defiance of the Aristocracy and the Sovereign, when they were expelled in the year 1835." Mr. H. POUNCEY and several other parishioners begged Mr. West to withdraw the resolution. They had no doubt it would be carried as all agreed in it, but it was better to leave the measures of the Government alone for a short time. The resolution was then withdrawn. An address, founded upon the resolution which had been passed, was proposed by Mr. WILSON and seconded by Mr. GEEGAN, and the word "false-hearted, as applied to the conduct of Sir R. Peel, was altered to " crafty", and agreed to with only one dissentient. The meeting then separated. COMMON PLEAS-(THIS DAY.) The Judges, in honour of her Majesty's birth-day, sat in their scarlet robes. Instead, however, of the ermine, the weight of which in the warm season would probably be oppressive, a kind of light purple-coloured silk was sub stituted. The Court rose at one o'clock. The Lord CHIEF JUSTICE delivered judgment in the fol lowing two cases, neither of which presented any public interest. PADGETT V. CHAMBERS. The question in this case was on a rule obtained and argued last Term, for discharging an Attorney, named Wilton, from the rolls, for some alleged breach of the usual regulations. The COURT thought there was no fraud, and dismissed the rule with costs. TOTLIS V. GRAVE.. In this caw the question raised between Mr. Toplia, the eminent auctioneer, and a solicitor of high standing, re garded the right of the former to an indemnity from the Litter for certain sales, and involved many dry points of law. The deeisich was in favour of Mr. Toplis. FhNDALL V. NOKES. - This case was one of no small interest. It was an appli cation for a rule to show cause why there should not be a new trial of an :action, brought by the propri,tor of the well.known Coffee-hou.e in Bridge -street, Westminster, to recover a bill of 271. 103 for variJus refreshments sup plied to the witnesses in a case for one of the parties, in which the defendant was attorney. The Jury found for the plaintiff Lord Longford was the party fur whom Mr. Kokes was concerned. Early in the morning of the day when the trial was expected to come on, his Lordship entered titv coffve-room, where the witnesses on his side, to the number of 40, were assembled, and told them to " call fur what they wanted, and make themselves corn furtable;" a permission of which they did most assuredly very liberally , avail themselves, for they had 20 bottles of wine, 212 , lasses of brandy and water, and innumerable quarts of ale, half-and-half, and other malt liquors. It was not pretended that either the attorney or his clerk were in the room then ; they came in however in the course of the day ; and it was contended that the attorney was the party liable. Mr. Sergeant ATCHERIAT argued for the rule, insisting that the mere fact of a gentleman being attorney for a party could never in justice make him liable for any ex pense ordered by his client. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE observed that the attorney could recover from his client. Mr. Sergeant ATCHERI,EI said that point had been used with great effect at the trial. The fact, however, was not so, nor was it to be expected that any attorney would be allowed to recover so extravagant a bill from his client. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE (with whom Justices Bosan pet and Erskine concurred) held that there had been sufficient evidence to go to the Jury, and that the verdict ought not to be disturbed. Mr. Justice COLTMAN gave a contrary opinion, and thought there was not even a prima facie case for charging the attorney. Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY—Now the case is over, my Lord, I will just read from the defendant's plea a note of hand, signed by the proprietor of Fendall's coffee house, agreeing to take Lord Lan ford's bill at three months for the amount of the bill. Mr RICHARDS (who had been for the plaintiff)—Why did you not prove that at the trial? Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY—Because your witness, who had the document, ‘• bolted" with it out of Court.—( Loud laughter. ) LLOYDS' SHIPPING-('PHIS DAY.) DEAL, MAT 22. —Wind, N. N. E. Arrived, the Elizabeth, Read, from B trbadoes ; Abano, Trieste Principe Euditario, Ditto; Deruit, APLcan, Barcelona. Arrived from the river, and sailed, the Lady Clarke, Law rence, for Jamaica ; Tino, Richardson, Charleston ; Emma, Burgess, Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 22.—Wind, N. E.—Arrived, the Westminster, Moore, from New York ; Aurora, Wilkin, Memel. Sailed, the Shepheod, Jardine, for Swan River. PLYMOUTH, MAY 22.—Wind, N.—Arrived, the Nauti lus, Lee, from Sierra Leone ; Rapid, Barret, Taragona ; Reform, Soper, Barbary. Sailed, the Recovery, John ' son, for South Australia; Ratcliffe, Honey, St. Andrew's, New Brunswick. FALMOUTH, MAY 21.—Wind, N.N.E.—Arrived, the Mary Halket, Sinclair, from Odessa ; Britannia, Francis, Leghorn, with loss of bulwarks and se,ils split; Allison, Hunter, Marseilles; Rover, Duckels, Lisbon. Off port —Thomas, Scallay, Odessa; Carolina, Trieste. LIVERPOOL, MAY 22. —W ind, N. N. E., fresh.—Arrived the Dapper, Nimrod, and Denv‘rara, Manning, from Charleston ; Symmetry, Anderson, St. Michael's ; Falcon, Thorns, Smyrna; Monarch, Douglas. Leghorn; Victory, Jarvis, Tarragona ; Adriana, Ball, Lisbon. Sailed, Dido, Holmes, Africa ; George Canning, Harvey. New Orleans ; Breeze, Tozer, Wangeral ; Seanderberg, Lisbon ; Nova Amizide, Miller, ditto. Off port—Chilton, Maranham ; Isabel, Antigua; Chesbire, ifirbadoes. THE MAR KITS.-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS. . Supplies moderate, demand good, prices much as before. Hay, 70s. to 925., Ws., and 98s. ; Clover, 80s. to 100 s. and 11623. ; Straw, 375. to 445. per load. HUNGERFORD MARKET. Supplies good, ;nd trade brisk. Turbot, 4s. 6d. to 20s. ; Cod, Is. Gd. to Bs. ; Soles, 10d. to 3s. 6d. per pair; Salmon. Is. 6d. to 2s. 6d. per lb. Beef, 7d. to Bd. ; Mutton, 70. to Bid. ; Veal, Sd. to 9d. ; Pork. 76d. to 80. BI L L IN G S MARKET. Supplies good, demand lively, and prices firm. Turbot, 5s to 21s. ; Cod, Is. 6d. to Bs. ; Soles, 9d. to 3s. 6d. per pair Lobsters, 10(1. to 3s. Gd. ; Salmon, ls. 3d. to 2s. per lb. Whitings, sd. to 10d.; Haddocks, Bd. to Is. 2d. GRAND REVIEW IN HYDE PARK TO-NlOR now.—Yesterdav orders were issued from Lord Hill's (the C om mander-in-Chief) office to the Generals of the House hold cavalry and infantry, for a review to take place in Hyde Park to-morrow, at eleven o'clock, before his Impe rial Highness the Grand Duke Alexander and his Royal Highness Prince William of the Netherlands, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Hill, and a numerous suite of foreign and British officers. It is stated that her Majesty will also be present. The troops under orders for exercise Are—the Ist ai:d 2d Regiments of Life Guards, Oxford Blues (from Windsor), 14th Light Dragoons, four brigades of Artillery (from Woolwich), aid the whole of the battalions of Household Infantry. i ) /TO r ito.• litELAND. DUBLIN, MAY 21. , I Mr. O'CONNELL.—The Hon. and Learned Gentleman • arrived in town on Sunday. ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN. A numerous and respectable meeting of the .hlhabitants of St. Paul's parish, assembled yester (Pity, in the open air, near the New Chapel, ,Arran_ tir say, for the purpose of addressing her MajesSy on ::tit e manner in which she repelled the insulting demeur!s of the Tory party. Mr. O'Connell on his entrance %vas I loudly cheered by the meeting. Mr. Henry Grattan was I alst ) present, and was received with cheers. 3 cue-leer. THUNDER, Esq., was called to the Chair, and Ak. BRENNAN was appointed to act as Secretary, j r. li GRATTAN, in proposing the adoption of the Ad dress,. dwelt on the subject which had occasioned the me e ti e , , , with hi s wonte d zea l and e l oquence. ' He coneska l ed his speech in the following. words : i " Wily," eai.2 Mr. Grattan, "if the demands of Peel and the Tot i ea were granted, the Queen of England- I would be a state preloner in i e er palace.--( Ileer, bear.) I I believe you know wieci thte King of Hanover is, and that he is the next heir to aie throne.--(Groans.) Aristotle has spoken of that great and silcut invention by which his friend's life—Alexander's life--was' taktin away by no ap parent system of disease, end I do not think .be Queen's life would be safe in their hands.—(Hear, hese%) There are impressions abroad concerning that inthsidual (thy King of Hanover) that justifies us in suspecting- hilt of `very thing bad and desperate. —( Hear.) I say again, ass an Ineueet man, I don't think that the Queen would be epe`v in :err place if she were surrounded by, the minions of the King iaf Hanover, the next heir to the throne. We should support her, for she has come forward nobly, and said she would rsitheF resign her throne than her friends.—( Cheers.) We have everything to fear if the Tories come into power. We i despise Tory threats and enmity, for we have the beam of • '.• honest men, aye, and the hands also. I have had letters from various parts of the country, from Cavan, Meath, Wicklow; the people are up and stirring, and if the To ' ries rotate the Irish wolf-dog, they will find him a match for the British lion."—( Great cheeting.) • Mr. O'CONNELL then presented himself, and was re. ceived with tremendous cheering, which lasted for several minutes. He addressed the meeting in a speech, the re. -port of which occupies several columns. The exeraordi ' nary pressure on our space to-day leaves us roots for • - the following extra c t only :—" I regret that th a t vvNich: ,bould hav e b een d one for Ireland has not been done, Ire, , land, to be sure, may submit to privations ; but I tell yea that it is only when she gets something for these privations, i :and I can further state to you, that I am determined not to wait long for that.—( Hear, and general cheering.) My ' c ountrymen—you will, I know, give me credit when I as :sure that I speak to you in the fullest sincerity of my heart. --(Renewed cheering.) What would be the consequences if the aange party were once more to get into power at the other side. The Orange faction would, in such an .event, again inundate this country, and trample upon the :most sacred rights and liberties of our nation.—( Healey I have shown to you the danger that would result to Eng land from the vile faction again assuming the direction of ' public affairs. I conclude, my fellow countrymen, by re peating my call to you from this place, to join with me and the Precursors, that we may thereby either secure the lull measure of Reform, or e nd it with repeal."—(lmmense4 cheering and waving of hats, which continued for some minutee.) . It was then moved that both th. , :eity and county Mem bers, and Mr. Henry Grattan, M.P., and other gentlemen, should wait upon the Marquis of Normanby with the address, the same to be presented by him to her Majesty the Queen. The motion was passed by acclamation. Mr. Francis Morgan was then called to the Chair, thank s returned to Mr. Thunder, and the meeting separated witl► three cheers for the Queen, and three cheers for O'Connell and old Ireland. THE Crites' BARON.—We are authorised to state that there is no truth in the Tory rumour that the Chief Baron•. is going to retire or to exchange.—Dublin Evening Post. GREAT AGGREGATE MEETING..--The meeting to address her Majesty on Thursday next will be (me of the most im pclea.it demonstrations that has yet occurred in the event ful history of this country. It will show the feeling of this great metropolis upon late events, of vast and para mount importance, and prove to the world that the heart i of Ireland throbs with gratitude and thanks for her exer cise of the Royal prerogative in favour of the suffering and oppressed. It will show the enemies of social freedom that we are still united, and more determined than ever to oppose them ; nay, even to peril our lives, if need be, in resisting those gross aggressions against the person of her Majesty, which have so long been directed against the liberty of her subjects. ACCIDENT ON A RAILWAY.—We regret to say that an accident, which we fear will have a fatal result, occurred last night on the railway at the station-house in Kings. town. The crowds returning from the gardens were so great that persons eager to obtain seats pushed each other violently in order to get into the train which was about to start at ten o'clock, and in the midst of the confusion a woman was knocked down and fell under the wheels of the carriages, which were still in motion, the train being then only coming to the place. The poor woman was taken up, we hear, severely bruised, and it was the opinion of those who saw her that her life was in danger.—Freeman's Journal._{We have heard the accident has proved fatal.] GENERAL ASSEIVIBLY OF TRE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. AUCHTERARDER CASE. We stated in a former number that two notices of motion had been given on this question—one by. Dr. Cook, the loader of the Church-and State party ; and the other by Dr. ell:ill:lens, the Professor of Divinity at Edinburgh, tilo leader o a sort of nondescript party. The substance of their motions, however- are substan tially the same. Dr. Cook's motion is to the fiallo , itig effect That the Act of Assembly, mulled 'the Veto Act, havizig been declared by the Supreme Courts to it,tlinge on rights with which the Oturrili has avower: i , s detirc not to intermeddle, as being maters ineompe tcot to them, it be an instruction by the General As sembly to ail Proihyteries, that they proutted henceforth to the settlement of parishes, according :to the practice which prevailed previously to the passing of the Act." Dr.Chnhuers motion is: "That the Gemeral Assembly considered the judgment of the House of Lords, afErn: in{; the decision of the Court of Session, and being s a . tisfied that by the said judgment all questions of civil right, so tar as the Presbytery of Auchterarde r is con cerned, are substantially decided, do now, in accord once with the uniform practice of this Church, and with the resolution of last General Assembly, ever to give and inculcate implicit obedience to the decisions of Civil Courts, in regard to the civil rights and emoluments secured by law to the Church, instruct the said Presby tery to offer no farther resistance to the claims of Mr. Young, or the patron, to the emoluments of the bene• flee of Auchterarder, and to refrain from claiming the jus devolutum, or any other civil right or privilege con nected with the said benefice. " And whereas the principle of non : intru,sion .. i3 one . coeval with the Reformed Kirk of Scotland, and forms an integral part of its constitution, embodied in its standards, and declared in various Acts of Assembly, the General Assembly resolve that this principle can not be abandoned, and that no presentee shall be forcA upon any parish contrary to the will of the congregation. And whereas by the decision above referred to it ap. pears that when this principle is carried into effect in any parish, the legal provision for the sustentation of the ministry in that parish may he thereby suspended, the General Assembly being deeply impressed with the unhappy consequences which must arise from any colli sion between the civil and ecclesiastical authorities, and holding it to be their duty to use every means in their power, not involving any dereliction of the principles rind fundamental laws of their constitution, to prevent such unfortunate results, do therefore appoint a Com. mittee for the purpose of considering in ,ihat way the privileges of the National Establishment, and the har mony between Church and State may remain paired, with instructions to confer with th. Government of the country if they shall see cause." As no other motion has been proposed it may be taken for granted that the General Assembly will ac quiesce in the decision of the Supreme Courts. The discussion was to commence on Wednesday. We shall , rive an abstract of the debate at the earliest oppor tunity. BRUMMILS, MAY 21.—Duke Alexander, of Wurtrnburg (widower of the late Princess Marv), ar rived at the Palace of Laeken on Saturday. The Prince of Hasse Cassel, the new Governor of Luxemburg, ar rived in that fortress on the 17th. The Crown Prince of Prussia is expected there on the 24th and will leave it on the following day. The Prince do Chirnay arrived hero yesterday, and will set out for London to-morrow. A detachment of 33 rank and file of the first battalion of Coldstream Guards, now king at tlx Welling- Inn Barracks, left barracks this day for Canwir, to fill up the vscancirs that have taken place in the 2d battalion since its sojourn in that colony. Colonel Hay and other officers go out with the detachment. Yesterday morning two companies of the Royal Artillery landed at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, One company commanded by Captain and Brevet-Major G.rdon, of the first battalion, and the following officers:—Second Captain Laurence, Licuts. St. George and Irving, and Second Lieutenant Ratcliffe: their last station was Bar hadoes. The other company, commanded by M:jor Sa bine, of the sixth battalion, Second Captain Harrison, with Lieuts. Riddle and Elliott: their last station was Jamaica. During the voyage they lost eleven men from sickness, and one bombardier met with a most serious accident lay falling down the hatchway, which probably will render him unfit for duty for several months. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIPE ASSURANCE AND DEFERRED ANNUITY SOCIZTY.—( From the Dumfries Courier.)—This philanthropic scheme of deferred an nuities is calculated more than any other we know to meet the circumstances of the poorer and middling classes of the community, and shows what important results may ID y de. rived from the inv estment of even the sri allest • Op savings ; and sure l y whatever tends to ma ke the operative that his pr os p erit y is in his own p ower, and that hor a n w g e ra a t lt u h latT ' en d ensuring i n dependence, must be constitution gi rn l ti a li t et t ur e: L juio: n within his reach the means of accumulaotfinego. novifnll3.enefit to remedyinie a l e f, re a c s rs i , t i n n T e s r t e b n e t to every e th ve e r It is to So cieties, thet the National Loan Fund Deferred Annuitioa on a So ciety proposes to submit a plan of e Assurance new principle, which will not only afford a mere ample provision for ald age, end p , r t o . t e ee n t . ion against sickness and rni4ertune, but, in addition tiny, his energies in motion, and h in the at all t o i f me r s e o m f a p ru u re death, a better prot ect i on to hi s fam il y. . 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