The Sun. — London, England, 1844-05-09 00:00:00

'n"----- TO BE HAD AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. HE NEW N O V E L S. JUST PUBLISHED BY MR. COLBURN. I. HARRY LORREQUER,S " ARTHUR O'LEARY," Illustrated by GEORGE CRUIKSHANR. 3 vols. 2. The WILFULNESS of WOMAN. By the Authoress of " The oetory of a Flirt," &C. 3 vols. 3. CHATSWORTH ; or, The Romance of a Week. Edited by the Author Of " Tremaine," and "De Vera." New Edition. 3 vols. 4. WHITEFRIARS ; or, The DAYS of CHARLES 11. An His torical Romance. Third Edition. 3 vols. 6. The PERILS of BEAUTY. By CAPT. CHAMIER. 3 vols. I 6. HANDLEY CROSS, a Sporting Novel. By the Author of " Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities. 3 vols. 7. THE BROTHERS. By the Author of " Oliver Cromwell." 3 vols. _ . The BARNABYS in AMERICA ; being the Sequel of The 'WIDOW BARNARY. By Mrs. TROLLOPE. 3 vols. 9. HYDE MARSTON ; or, A Sportsman's Life. By " CRAVEN." 3 vols. (In the press.) Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. WILLIAM HOWITT'S NEW WORK. On Friday, May 17th, will be published, 1 vol., fcp. B vo. GERMAN EXPERIENCES: addressed to the English, both Goers Abroad and Stayers at Home. By WILLIAM HOWITT. By the same Author, THE RURAL and SOCIAL LIFE of GERMANY. 21s. THE STUDENT-LIFE of GERMANY. 21s. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and LOIIgMIIII9. On Thursday next will ha be lf-boun d published, in imperial Bvo., price 31s. 6d., morocco, BLAIR'S CHRONOLOGICAL and HIS TORICAL TABLES, from the Creation to the Present Time ; Wills Additions and Corrections by the most Authentic Writers ; including the Computation of St. Paul, as connected with the Period from the Exode to the Temple. Under the Superintendence of Sir HENRY ELLIS, K.H., Principal Librarian of the British Museum. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Signor FORNASARI has the honour to inform the Nobility, Sub. Scribers to the Opera, his Friends, and the Public, that HIS BENEFIT will take place THIS EVENING , May 9, when will be performed Herold's Chef d'oeuvre, ZAMPA. Camilla, Madame Persiani; Rita, Madame Bellini Zampa, Sig nor Fornasari (his first appearance in this character) ; Alfonso, Signor Corelli • Daniel Capussi, Signor F. Lablache ; and Dan doia, Signor Lablache (his first appearance in this character). After the Opera, the celebrated Pas de Quatre, from " La Lac des Fees," by Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlle. Scheffer, Mdlle. Plunket, and M. St. Leon. DtdAfter wich, the Second Act of NORMA, by Madame Grid, Fay h auti, Signor Lablache, and Signor Mario. To conclude with the Grand Ballet, in Six Tableaux, by M. Tarot, entitled ONDINE, ou, LA NAIADE. The Scenery by Mr. W. Grieve. The music composed by Signor u i. frincipal characters by Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlle. Scheffer, Mille. Fer. dinand„ Mdlle. Plunket, Barville, and Mdlle. Adelaide preset ; M. Perrot, M. Montassu, and M. St. Leon. Applications Colo n Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the will Comm Opera nade. Doors open at Seven. The Opera will commence at Half-past Seven. —— - - THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. W. HARRISON. THIS EVENING. MAY 9 Will be performed the opera of the BOHEMIAN GIRL Count Arsaheim, Mr. Borrani • Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison;• Devilahoof, Mr. Stretton ; Arline, 'Miss Rainforth ; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Betts. At tha end of the . first act of the Opera, a Grand MISCELLA NEOUS CONCERT After the Oper, the Last Scene of LUCIA DI LAMMER. ;MOOR. Edgardo,a Signor Salvi ; Raimondo, Mr. Boranni. To conclude with the last Act of the Opera of THE BRIDES 01 VENICE. Count Alberto, Mr. W. Harrison; Count Ono Bonny), Mr. HOTTalli • Naiima, Mrs. Alfred Shaw ; Geraldo, Mdlle. Albortani ; Frances ca, Miss Romer. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. Sd . ; Upper Circles of Boxes 58.. /Second Price 35.; Pit 36 , Second Price 2a.,• Middle Gallery Si., /Second Price Is.; Upper Gallery 11., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSER. THIS EVENING, MAY 9, Will be performed THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Strickland ; Master Slender, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbett. To be followed by a New, Original, Occasional, and Local Extra. **gamut, founded on Fact, entitled THE DRAMA AT HOME; or, An Even,ng with Puff: Principal Characters by Mr. C. Matnews, Mr. J. Bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mrs. Glover, Miss P. Horton, and piss Lee. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled LOVE IN A SACK. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, 58. ' • Pit, Is. ; Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery, Is. Half-price—Boxes, Is. ; Pit Is.; Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at Half-past Six, and the P erformancesl commence at Seven Tickets and Places to be had of Mr L T. Archer, at the Box office, from Ten till Five. • PRINCESS'S THEATJ. RE, I. M OXFADDOXORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. A. THIS EVENING, MAY 9, Will be performed a Comic Drama, called BLASE ; or, The Man in search of a Sensation. Monsieur Blase, Mr. Wright ; °roofer, Mr. Paul Bedford; Louise, Madame Eugenie Prosper ; Madame Pipou, Mrs. H. P. Grattan. To be followed by the Petite Drama, called THE GREEK SLAVE. Sir Henry Norton, Mr. Fitsjames; Dr. Robertson, Mr. Granby ; Lord Betton, Mr. Higgie ; Zelda (the Greek Slave), Aladame Eugenie Prosper. To which will be added, the Farce of the SPITALFIELDS WEAVER. After which, BOMBASTES FURIOSO. o conclude with the Grand Ballet, entitled LEOLA; or, the M .day Bride. Patrick, Mr. T. Hill; Phelim, Mr. Gil bert; R hr ßhona, Miss Charleton ; Leola, Miss Bailin. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. HOUSE. __ Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. s. Open Sesame; or, a Night with the Forty Thieves," continues to be nightly received with perfect enthusiasm by crowded and thshienable audiences. THIS EVENING, MAY 9, will be repeated an Original Comic Drama, entitled THE THREE WIVES OF MADRID. Principal Characters by Messrs. 'Coolly, Diddear, F. Matthews, Emery, Wigan , Craven , Turner , Varnald, Miss Woolgar ' Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Miss Turner, Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, will be produced a new Comic Drama ' called THE LOVE BIRDS. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Younge, Mrs. Woollige, Mrs. Usher, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Chaplin , Miss Grove, and Miss Fortoscue. To be followed by an Apropos Bagatelle, called POLK A MANI A Characters by Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with a Grand Burlesque Fairy Extravaganza, called t.:!• 7 SESAME; or, a Night with the Forty Thieves. Cha rm:tem bc Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss T ur ner, Miss Grove_, Mrs. Wigan, Miss James, Miss Fairbrother, Ch and MTS. Keeley, Messrs. F. bla thews , Turner, Younge, Wigan, Yarnold, and aplin. _PRICES OF A.DMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes, 45.; Upper Sops, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 25. ; Upper flexes, is 6d. ; Pit, is. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier I(bhclifiing eight persons), Two Guineas Private Boxes on the Second Tler (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private poxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guinea. AST - LEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. Grand Attraction. THIS EVENING, MAY 9, VVIII be repeated the Historical Spectacle of the INVASION OF ENG,T,AND BY WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR ; er, the Battle of Hait y . vs, With all the effects of the Norman Conquest, Death of Harold, .. 4 e. E nt i r e Change of the Splendid Scenes of the Circle. th the Oriental Spectacle of THE SECRET To conclude wl `. MINE; or, the klincidPs of the Ruby Cliffs. The doors will open nightly at six o'clock, and the performances commence at seven. Box-office opened daily frem ten till four. The private boxes have been reConstruoted and decorated with care and splendour. Acting and stage-manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. AVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE, FOR T HEHIS BE EVENING M AY NEFIT OF MBARNES. T 9, Transcendant Success of Miss Barnes' Tragedy of " Octavia Bra galdi"—an entirely New Piece, and " Whitarlars" at half-pBR A rice. Will be repeated a New Tragedy, entitled OCTAVIA. OA LDI ; or, The Confessi o n. Supported by the Entire Company, ,Mse Charlotte Barnes, from New York. After' which, a New Piece for the Million, entitled LA POLKA. To be fo.'. 4 oWed by THE CAPTIVE. The Captive, Miss Barnes. To conclu 49 with an entirely Now Drama, embracing all the strong el th e c - 4 the celebrated work, eutitlei WHITEFRIARS, in which the entire Company will perform. Paces and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. ofßee, from Eleven to ,our. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. OPEN EVERY EVENING. The GREAT WIZARD o f t he NORTH is getting more and more mysterious. He nightly introduces new wonders. His Mystic Temple is thronged wit h most brilliant audiences, who proclaim him to be the only legitimate Professor of Modern Magic, the very ne plus ultra" of Cabalistic enornena. Ho performs more wonders in one n i g ht, than all o ther Professors could accomplish in a month. The " Great Wizard or the North" has no rival no equal in Europe or the world. He wilt be fouhd nightly atHome," Plucking from his Mystic Caul iron NEW. MAGICCOPICAL EXPERIMENTS of Natural Phi -1 .sophy, bringing from any Gentleman's Hat a Feather Bed and the *Ms of Fizgra. Between tic parts of the Wizard's Performances, Mr. SMITH will perform his new instrument, the CRYSTALOPHION. Mr. PHILIPS, the Banjo ist, will nightly appear. The THREE INFANT ARABS, Seven, Nine, and Twelve years of Age, ge through a new and original Performance. Dress Circle, 3s. ; Pit. Is. fki.; Gallery, 6d. Reserved Seats, and Private Boxes can be secured at the Theatre, and of all the Agents. %Second Price at Nine o'clock. Doors open at Half-past Seven—the Wizard appears at Eight. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT NOTICE. 03. TH SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLDON• MU sieal Eolf, the most magnificent and extensive Collection of llisto r C ur i o sities and Works of Art over known to have been fo ed . ny One Boson, during T wen ty-five years of elaborate research, at a cost of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in structive and Interesting man ner, the most impoCROMWELL,E rtant part of uro pean history, cis.—CHARLES 1., OLIV and ',LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR STAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited eften, ,during the hst and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of NW/Wins-ton, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies, 0144 many thousands of the Nobility and Public; and the Pro prietor ligs recently been able to increase, by several very fine pictures, tr.e., his previous almost incredible number and variety of MSS., Works ,of Art, and a multitude of valuable Relics, and other ititiOolties, in this most instructive and, as hundreds have said it Aralto be,. 4 National eta. en Many thousand have Inspected it, Aral THIWItY PitINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS hito statidthatit ought to be so by every one. The price of admix • h,g ibis is 7e AP SHILLINC,I. The •NAPLEOSI MUSEUM is to be seen only at the "Egyptian Han," mospliT, daily from Ten till Dusk. Tirr', E.B.WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, MAY 9 . rritraist _ , Lowest, 51; Highest , 64 ; Noon, 67. t 'B.A.nomirrEn, 30 04.—WIND, S.W. iblors.4The number 32 on th e Thermometer denotes the flat. IniArint, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is tistok sP4jk.M opposite 30, and rain at 29. STAiliTi AT LONDON-BRIDGE TIIIS DAT. 3,724/ainutt.`a after 6 I Evening... 21 minutes after 7. _ e =- bvtrux . - 4 4 LONDON, THIIIISDAY , MAY 9, 1844. The Anti-Corn -law League still continues to hold its weekly meetings at Covent-garden Theatre, an d the crowds who flock to hear its speeches stir! continue as. numerous as ever. What stronger proof than this t on -ld be adduced of the justice, the common sense, and ,the policy of the principles which it advocates ? League appealed merely to the passions and prejudic es of the people , instead of grounding its claims to consideration, on their calm, unbiassed judgme n t, it would long ere this have lost its Prestige, and sink, like ;other ephemeral clap traps, into. insignificance : but it h as p referred rather to appeal to the intelligence and interests of the community, and its appeal has been triumphantly answered. The very opposition that it has encountered has tended only to , increase its influence, and stimulate its energies ; and perhaps the very best thing that could have happened. for the cause, is the establishment of by eProtection 'Society, 'whose egregious sophisms, comi n g into direct contrast with .the strong, clenching arguments of the free-traders, b p.ve enabled even the most thouobtlegs I and superficial to see the immense superiority of the latter, in point of reasoning. At last night's meeting of the League, Mr. WARBURTON de livered one of those plain, emphatic, hard-hitting speeches for which he is so remarkable, and, alluding to the progress of free trade, said :—" There was another instance which there was cause to con gratulate them on, not only in having their prin ciples acknowledged, but also in having, in the reduc tion of the price of sugar to the consumer, a prospect of reaping the benefit. He said that, because he thought considering all the opposition that the landlords and the West India proprietors gave to the principles of free trade, they ought not to bear too hard upon a Minister who had even but partially carried the princi ples of free trade into effect." We cannot agree with Mr. WARBURTON that it is inexpedient to " bear too hard" upon Sir ROBERT PEEL, merely because he has from time to time given a cold, reluctant, hesitat ing support to the doctrines espoused by the League. On the contrary, we think that a constant pressure should be kept up against him ? he should be squeezed without mercy, for it is thus only—as he has himself hinted in no very ambiguous terms—that anything is to be got out of him ; and in exact pfoportion to the vigour of the squeeze will be the extent of the conces sion. If forbearance is exercised towards him, he will immediately, with his usual tact, allege that forbearance as a proof that the public interest in favour of free trade is on the decline, and adhere with more tenacity than ever to the RICHMONDS, the BUCKINGHAM, and the rest of that amiable, intelligent, and most disinterested squad ; but if he be urged and remonstrated with in a bold, downright spirit of perseverance on every suit able occasion, the chances are that in time he may be brought to make those concessions which it is in finitely to his discredit as a sagacious statesman that he has so long withheld. To appeal merely to Sir ROBERT PEEL'S sense of justice is perfectly hopeless ; the thing has been tried a dozen times already, and has failed as often ; he is accessible only through his apprehensions and his no tions of expediency, and these can only be roused by the League's boldly resolving, and persevering in its resolution, to give him no respite, but beset him in cessantly with its vigorous importunities, which it is bound to do, representing, as it does, such vast masses of the intelligent and industrious portions of the com munity. We are glad to learn, on the authority of Mr. VILLIERS, who briefly but significantly alluded to the subject last night, that it is the intention of the League to make every effort in its power to procure the return of a free trader for South Lancashire. This is a struggle well worth making—as much, per haps even more so, than the late triumphant struggle for the representation of London ; and should its issue be fortunate—and we see no reason why it should not be, if the advocates of free trade exert themselves with becoming vigour—an immense im pulse will have been given to the League; the sphere of its influence will have been widened tenfold; and the crazy, unwieldy fabric of Monopoly will have received a shock, the decisive effects of which not all the Protection Societies in the world will enable it to overcome. The approaching contest in South Lancashire is a subject of such interest and importance at the present crisis, that it behoves all free-traders, not only in that electoral district, but throughout England, to spare no pains to ensure success, for they may be assured that, to a considerable extent, the great question between Monopoly and Free Trade is staked upon the issue. A sudden vacancy in the representation of such a constituency must, under any circumstances, create considerable difficulties in all parties; there are rival claims to be adjusted, family interests to be considered, private jealousies to be conciliated, and inveterate prejudices to be respected. If the League were regarded as an ordinary political party, these circumstances would create perplexities which might seriously impede its course ; but now the League stands before the world as a national association formed for national purposes, and, therefore, all that is merely local must be placed out of sight on the present occasion. The free-traders of South Lan cashire must not look so much to what would please themselves, as to what they have led the nation to expect at their hands. England looks not to them for a man of any particular family, or connected with any particular interest ; the general body of free traders, which has come forward at their summons throughout the country has little knowledge and less care about local connections, prejudices, and asso ciations ; they look to see a great principle asserted, and they care as little about the name, family, local influence, or conventional position of the person chosen to represent that principle, as they do about the colour of his hair or the cut of his coat ; they ask for " free trade," not this or that free-trader. Under ordinary circumstances such a wealthy and numerous constituency as that of South Lancashire would have a right to require a combination of varied qualifications in the candidate offering himself for their representation. But they have themselves ap pealed to the constituencies throughout the empire to merge all qualifications in the one great principle in volving not merely the prosperity, but the very vitality of England's commerce and manufactures, and they are bound to give an example of the ex clusive devotedness which they have so strenuously recommended to others. We are glad to see that the Council of the League has already addressed the constituency in this spirit, putting forward not a man, but a principle ; canvassing for a national object, not for an individual or a party. Many, we doubt not, are ambitious of the honour of representing such a constituency as that which is now vacant, and the task of selection may perhaps be difficult and invidious; but the free-traders of South Lancashire have so often given proof of the un bounded confidence which they repose in their leaders that we believe they will not object to any one who has satisfied those leaders of his steadfast ness in the cause of free trade, and his unflinching determination to use every exertion to bring the war against monopoly to a successful issue. Under such circumstances the canvass should not be delayed until the candidate is named, for the individual candidate is about the least important person in the struggle ; the free-traders of England are not so much in terested in procuring for any individual, however worthy or exalted, a seat in Parliament, as they are in obtaining a triumph over a system of ruinous mis government, pernicious in its present effects, and threatening to be still more destructive in its future consequences. We never remember an election in which national interests were more directly involved in a local con test, and we are therefore anxious to impress on the constituency of South Lancashire, not merely the importance, but the absolute necessity, of sinking everything local in the great national object. The electors must vote for free trade, and for nothing else ; attention to any other consideration is a breach of confidence to the thousands and tens of thousands, who, at their call, have come forward to aid them in the great struggle against monopoly. When the Lom bard cities, in the olden time, took up arms to defend their liberties, some dispute arose respecting the choice of a standard-bearer, but the dissensions were ended when the soldiers exclaimed with one accord, "We will fight for our banner by whomsoever borne !" They marched forward to assured victory, and so trifling did the dispute respecting the coveted banner appear, that history has not recorded to whom the standard was committed on the day of battle. Such should be the policy of the electors of South Lancashire ; they are to struggle for the success of a cause, and not of an individual, and their battle-cry should be "Fight for the banner of Free Trade by whomsoever it may be borne 1" At the Mansion-ho Saturday last, one of of ff those cas es occurred Mansion-house heartless on oppression on the one hand, and domestic suff ering on the other, which painfully depict the penal ties su that social legislation, in this as in every other Europe an r capital, visits upon helpless poverty. That th e rights of property should be capable of prompt and eas g the first conditions, as well as y mort di in telligible signs, of that high civilization to which the community must have attained where the processes for their vindication are to be with so much facility invoked. It is lamentable to think that the results of their exercise are perhaps a daily source of incalculable misery to some of the most forlorn and desolate of our fellow-creatures, struggling against the temptations to crime and dis honesty and violence, through the most bitter physical privations, and under the keenest sense of mental an guish. Surely such a case as that to which we are referring imperatively calls upon the Legislature to de vise—if not some landlords' guarantee of less stringency and peremptoriness, yet, at the least, some tenants' protection against its tyrannous abuse of its terrible powers. It is instructive to observe, in the case of the poor victim of such an abuse in this case, ELLEN MYERS, how a failure of punctuality, which it is scarcely within the pale of human possibility to avoid at all times in the transaction of human business—a delay of three minutes (!) in the payment of a week's rent, may involve the hopeless and irretrievable ruin of a poor, industrious, unprotected woman ; and how it may give to some unfeeling ruffian, clothed with a "little brief authority," an all but safe impunity in enforcing, with savage pertinacity, against such a suf ferer, the inconceivably oppressive enactments of a scandalous and atrocious law : for, taking the facts as they appear in the report, we fearlessly apply these epithets to a law which, it seems, from the LORD MAYOR'S admission, may subject the pauper debtor of four shillings, in three minutes after the period has lapsed within which she might have re ceived a quittance upon that payment, to five shillings and sixpence (nearly a hundred and fifty per cent. additional) expenses ! The most capricious savagery of mob law, or revolutionary tribunals, never dictated any principle of payment more despotically unreason able. ELLEN MYERS is a shoe-binder, lodging in some one of the miserable tenements which swarm in the vicinity of Bishopsgate, and had contracted a debt of 4s. to her landlord. One of those people who earn a hard-hearted livelihood by " collecting rents" and distraining on the goods and chattels of needy tenants, a species of legal scavengers who perform that work which other men shrink from, under warrant of the law, by wringing from the wretched the last rags and shreds which have clung to them in the last stages of their destitution—a broker, was sent by the landlord of MYERS to distrain upon her goods. This man's man—for the law will have deputies for its officers down to the last and most_ binding of them all (who compels payment of the last debt of our common nature)—calls on the young woman, and tells her that if she can contrive to pay the amount, 45., in twenty minutes, no expenses will attach to the war rant. She runs off to some neighbours, and returns, as she assures the LORD MAYOR, within the time specified ; but then a demand of ss. 6d. additional is made, and BROWN threatens to sell off all her goods if she refuses to pay the whole sum of 9s. 6d. With the utmost difficulty she raises the amount, and pays it to BROWN, who refuses to deduct a farthing from his demand. Under these circumstances she appeals to the LORD MAYOR for redress. On inves tigating the case, the broker, one BROWN, impudently pleads that as the young woman had returned too late by nearly five minutes, it was proper to demand the expenses. The wretched complainant solemnly af firms that far from being over, it was within the time allowed to her by CAPEL, BROWN'S man, that she brought the rent ; and she states that a little while since BROWN " had threatened to be even with her, and do for her; and she was afraid he would be." CAPEL, examined by the LORD MAYOR, admitted that the young woman was only three minutes over the time; and then BROWN, with the cowardly instinct which always prompts such bullying and cruel natures against those whom they have already wronged, interposed that "the landlord wanted to get rid of MYERS, for she was a bad 'un." The unhappy girl, on this fresh outrage, referred the LORD MAYOR for her character and good conduct to the respectable employers whom she had served for four years ; adding " that she had paid her landlady four shillings only the night before, and had never experienced such cruel treatment." We hope not. Such cases are a disgrace to a Christian country—infamous to those who countenance or direct such iniqui- tous oppressions. After all, the LORD MAYOR expressed his regret that he could not punish the fellow BROWN, for his charge, but held him to bail for twelve months for threatening the poor complainant; and he then gave her the amount of the extra costs. Is such a landlord and tenant law as this to be upheld in times like these of indus trial distress and penury ? And are such creatures of an abominable law as BRowx and his man to be permitted, on the wonderful security of their oaths, forsooth (we presume that he is a " sworn broker"), i to be permitted any longer to administer it ? Madrid journals of the Ist instant have been re ceived, and fully confirm the accounts already published of the alarming fall in Spanish Funds by the change in the Ministry. A Ministerial paper, the Castellano, admits the fact in these words, " The opera tions on the Bourse commenced to-day under the in fluence of the news that the whole Administration was about to be changed. The Funds fell to 29, then rallied to 29i for cash, and 30 at sixty days. After wards on the news spreading of the Cabinet's resig nation having been accepted, the Funds 'experienced a disastrous fall." In fact, they were offered as low as 28i. They rallied a little, and on the Ist instant, the Three per Cents. closed at 291 for cash, 30 at sixty days, and the Fives 21 at sixty days. The Paris papers in general simply announce the formation of the NARVAEZ Cabinet. We are not surprised at this. There have been so many new Cabinets since the flight of ESPARTERO, and the people of Spain have fallen so low in public estimation, that any change of government hardly deserves notice. The Government, the army, the church, and the nobility, are evidently favourable to the old system of despotism, and in a few months probably the Cortes and the Constitution will be formally, as they are in reality, thrown aside like old almanacs. The Consti tutionnel, almost the only journal that condescends to make any remarks on the " Sabre" Ministry, evi dently anticipates such a result. " The accession of NARVAEZ to power," it says, "may give rise to various conjectures, but whatever those surmises may be, the political meaning of this Ministerial revolution is evi dent. It is no other than the result of a restoration. In the time of EsPARTERO it was the reign of the Exaltados. A defection of this party overthrew Es- PARTERO, although the OLOZAGA Ministry was com posed only of Progressists. A fresh defection throws the power into the hands of those who brought to the moderate party the zeal of fresh converts. Now the old Moderado party govern alone, and the new Cabinet brings back Spain to the time of the ministries of the Duke DE FRIAS, or of Count D'OFALIA. If this re trograde movement continue, it will bring into power the authors or the partisans of the Estatuto Real, of en - lightened despotism behind which Carlism can alone be found." Little has been published in these journals lately about a commercial treaty between England and France, but the exposition made by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has called new attention to the subject. When France finds that England will make no reduction of the duties on wines and brandies until France exhibits more liberal commercial views, and there is otherwise little chance of raising these articles from their present state of depression, the Govern ment may deem it necessary to show something like an intention to act on reciprocal principles. The Globe, a Ministerial paper, throws out the fol lowing, probably as a feeler, on the question : was in known ttoi actiovm t e h mi a n t e nt thcheee by yu E en diminishings g t i l o i s n h ofr: uenGovernmentreducing ht duties intended oenn tariffs, d w e diannte and at t t a hi lt ea ‘ t t tx h i c e s h brandies. The budget, presented by the Chan ce ll or o f equer, has disappointed those hopes. It would ap pear that the British Cabinet refrained from adopting a mea sure so important until the Customs Bill, now before the French Chambers, should have been discussed, and that the question relative to foreign threads and linens should have been definitively solved. Notwithstanding this adjournment, negotiations respecting the reduction of the tariffs of the two countries have been opened by the English and French Go vernments, and will be prosecuted with greater activity dur ing the interval of the session. Persons engaged in the wine and brandy trade must not, accordingly, lose all hope. The question is adjourned, and not decided, and sooner or later it must be settled in the interest of the extension of the com mercial relations of the two kingdoms." - - - - It is stated in some of the journals that negotiations for a commercial treaty between England and Naples have been again renewed, and that the conditions will prove highly favourable to British interests. The French Funds continued to advance. On Tues day the Three per Cents. closed at 84f. 65c., and the Fives at 122 f. 40c. THE BOURSE—TuEsDAY, MAY 7. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French:Five per Cents•• .• .. 122 05 .. 122 25 .. 122 05 .. 122 15 Three per Cents.•... 84 60 .. 84 65 .• 84 55 .• 84 60 Bank of France LafAtteßank, I,ooof. Sharesll67 50 .. 1170 1167 50 .. 1170 1 1 0 03 i 5,0001. Shares 5162 50 —5162 50 ..5162 50 ..5162 50 Belgian Bank. Belgian Fives, 1831. 10 0 6 311 1 1 0 0 6 3 f 1840 ........ 6 1842 .....: 104 1081 108} Spanish Active ...... 32* 32i 32 • • 32 Threes 35 .. 354 .. 35 .. 36i Passive 6 .. 6 .. 6 Portuguese Five per Cents— 464 .. 46t 46 .. 464 Neapolitan . •• ••• .• 102 .. 102 05 .. 102 .. 102 05 Roman, ex 419.• • • ..... •• • • 104 104 .. 104 .• 104 *. 4 • -yr-- - , • lo oz b . A 7;„,../„ctriEvk s \E GOND EDITION. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1844. RAILWAY SHARES, Versailles, R. 8... ••••• • • • • • 375 .. 380 375 .. 380 L.B. ...... •• • 252 50 . • 257 50 .. 252 50 .. 257 50 Rouen • • • • • • • • • • •• • • Rouen to Havre • • • • • • • • • ••• 737 50 • • 737 50 .. 735 .. 735 Orleans .••••••......•••••• 972 50 .. 972 50 .. 972 50 .. 972 50 Strasburg to Bale • • • • • • • • • • 275 . • 277 50 .. 275 .. 275 Avignosito Marseilles ••• • • • 710 • • 770 .. 768 75 .. 768 75 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. ............375.••• •••• 375 .• 380 .. 375 380 L.B. ...... 252 50 .. 260 .. 252 50 .. 260 Rouen •••• •• •••• •• •• •• •• •• 970 .. 970 .. 967 50 • 967 50 Rouen to Havre ..... •• ••• • 737 50 .. 738 75 .. 736 25 .. 736 25 Orleana .• •••• ..... •• •• •• 9 . 17 50 .• 977 50 .. 972 50 .. 972 50 91astntrg to Bale.••••••••• 277 50 .. 277 50 .. 275 AmistionAoAlaruilles...... 770 .. 770 . 768 75 .. 768 MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS. —During the week ending Saturday, 4th May, the number of deaths was 877, the average being 883. In a num ber of cases there has been a decrease; and the in crease has occurred chiefly in deaths caused by small pox, croup, and consumption. The number of deaths from small-pox was 31, and of these 20 had not been vaccinated, average 12 ; from croup 13, average 8 ; consumption 168, average 155. The number of vio lent deaths was 17, of which 1 was from murder, 2 from suicide, 3 from burns and scalds, and 2 from falls caused by intoxication. The thermometer was highest on Thursday, the 2d of May, 67.3 deg. ; and lowest on Monday, April 29, 35.9 deg. The fall of rain for the week is marked 0.02 of an inch, which nearly approaches to nil. THIS DAY'S NEWS. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY). (Sittings in Banco.) This was the first day of the sittings in banco after term, and the Court took cases in the special and the new trial papers. No case of any public interest came on up to the hoar of our going to press. EXCHEQUER COURT-THIS DAY. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Baron GURNEY and Common Juries.) STEVENS V. MA.GUIRE. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, Messrs. Stevens and Fearon, solicitors, carrying on business in Gray's Inn, to recover of the defendant, who is a solicitor, in Dublin, a certain amount, as charges for conducting through a com mittee of the House of Commons a petition; having refer ence to the election for the borough of Athlone, in Ire land, in 1842, when Major Beresford was the unsuc cessful candidate. There were two petitions from a Captain Kelly and another person, members of the borough constituency, against the successful candidate, and Mr. Maguire was employed by them as the solicitor to conduct the affair. On the 20th of March, 1843, the defendant, who had engaged the plaintiffs to act as his agents in the matter, signed an undertaking to give them 50/. if they con tinued to conduct the petition, and in two days afterwards the Committee concluded its inquiry, up to the 20th of March, when that undertaking had been signed by the defendant. The plaintiffs expenses were, he alleged, upwards of 901., and for the continuance of the agency to the rising of the Com mittee, he brought a charge which increased that sum to 140 L, and for this amount the present action was brought. Mr. Peacock appeared for the plaintiffs, Mr. Petersdorff for the defendant. The following witnesses were called. James Lennox examined—ls a solicitor. Knows the plaintiffs and the defendant. Saw the memorandum now handed in signed by the defendant Mr. Maguire, on the 20th March, 1843. (The memorandum was here read. It was an undertaking on the part of the defendant to pay the plaintiffs 501. for acting as his agent in conducting the peti tion through the Committee of the House of Commons.) Mr. Bramble examined—ls a solicitor, carrying on busi ness in Verulam-buildings. Was formerly in the plaintiffs' office. Has looked through the plaintiffs' bill, and examined the charges made in it. Its amount is 1401. 4s. 6d. ; the amount of the bill to the 19th of March, 1843, is 971. Con siders the charges very reasonable. Cross-examined—ls not sufficiently acquainted with Parliamentary business to state with certainty that the charges are reasonable. Had attended one Parliamentary Committee previous to that which was the subject of the pre sent action. Does not think that there is a difference made between the charges of a solicitor, when acting as agent, and when acting as principal in the conduct of a petition, through a Committee of the House of Commons. These were the only witnesses called. Mr. Baron GURNEY suggested that the better course would be to take a verdict for fifteen guineas, with liberty to the plaintiff to move to have the verdict increased to 501. if the Court should think proper so to direct. This arrangement was ultimately agreed to by the parties, and the jury, by the direction of the Learned Judge, returned a verdict to that effect. There being no other cases to come before his Lordship, the Court then rose at half-past twelve o'clock. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY. OLD COURT. THE MARYLEBONE MURDER. At ten minutes after ten o'clock Mr. Justice Coltman took his seat on the bench. Immediately afterwards William Crouch was placed at the bar. The jury, who had been in deliberation during the night, then entered the Court, and having answered to their names, The Clerk of the Court asked them if they had agreed on their verdict ? The Foreman said that his brother jurors and himself were desirous of having those portions of the evidence read over which related to the prisoner's sanity or insanity. The Learned JUDGE said he would dispatch a special mes senger to Mr. Baron Alderson, before whom the prisoner was tried, and who was then engaged at Westminster. The jury would therefore retire until his Learned Brother arrived. The jury then withdrew. Shortly afterwards, it having been represented to the Judge that some of the jury were in a faint and exhausted state, from their long confinement, Dr. M'Murdo, the physician to the prison, was directed to see the gentlemen of the jury, and report to the Court on their condition. Dr. M'Murdo entered the Court, and said that the whole of the jurymen were much exhausted, but more particularly seven of them—they had all been used to stimulants. He thought them unfit to exercise their mental powers. Mr. Justice COLTMAN—Do you think they are in danger, if not immediately discharged? Mr. M'Murdo—No so as to destroy life, my Lord. Mr. Justice OoLTswc—ls there a probability, unless they are immediately discharged, of their health being injured? Mr. M'Murdo—l think so, my Lord. The Learned JUDGE directed the jury to be brought into Court. On their entrance he said he had received a commu nication from Mr. Baron Alderson, in which he stated that he would be there directly, or in half an hour ; and if he did not arrive in that time, he would send for them again. Shortly after twelve o'clock Mr. Baron Alderson arrived, and the jury having entered the box, the Learned Judge read over the evidence, minutely detailing the circumstances of the case, and, in fact, charged the jury a second time, who retired at a quarter pa st twelve o'c ock, again to consi der their verdict. THE LATE ABDUCTION CASE.—On the application of Mr. Wilkins the trial of William Burton Newenham, charged with the abduction of Miss W ortham, was postponed until the next session. At half-past one o'cloc k the jury returned to the Court, was sa d gainplaced at the b ar , an d th e names over, the Clerk o f th e C ourt as k e d t h em the ha v ing prisonerbeen called if they had agreed on their verdict, and whether they found the prisoner guilty or not guilty. The Foreman—" Guilty the , my Lord." B ar on ALDERSON—" Let prisoner be brought up again on Saturday." The prisoner was again removed, but in a few minutes Baron Alderson desired that he might be again placed in the dock. He was accordingly brought forward, and silence having been proclaimed, the Learned JUDGE proceeded to pass sen tence of death upon the prisoner in the most impressive manner. Having put on the black cap, he said :—William Crouch, the jury, after a long and painf u l cons id era tion, have come to the conclusion that you were in a responsible state of mind at the time when the act was done with which you stand charged—that you were not in a state of mind which rendered you irresponsible for your actions. Of the fact itself no one could entertain the slightest doubt ; it was committed in the open day, in the presence of others, and committed towards one to whom you were bound in all the ties of love and duty, and at a time when the unfortunate female was administering, from her own bosom, nourishment to your unfortunate child. All that now remains for me to do is to tell you the fate which awaits you. The end of these things is death—death which will be eternal. Throw your self on the mercies of Christ, and employ the short time you have to live in seeking pardon from the Almighty. The sentence of this Court is, and I am but the minister of the law in that respect, " that you be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and that after your death your body be buried within the precincts of the prison." During the delivery of the sentence of the Learned Judge the prisoner was unmoved, but listened with great attention. At its conclusion he bowed slightly to the Bench, and was understood to say, " I am an innocent man." He walked from the dock with a firm step. MARYLEBONE.-(THIS DAY.) Frederick Hamilton was placed at the bar charged with horse-stealing. James Roustage, farmer, at Kilburn-lane, said that he missed one of his horses from the straw-yard on Thursday morning last, and gave information to the different police stations. He on the same day, accompanied by police-con stable Himbury, 102 D, went to Mr. Winkley's slaughtering yard, 23, Green-street, Blackfriars-road, and found the stolen animal. The constable gave similar evidence, and said that he took the prisoner into custody yesterday evening, in the tap-room of the White Lion, Edgeware-road. He endea voured to conceal himself below some seats,- but was disco vered by the witness. He denied all knowledge of the robbery. Richard Lindsay, in the employment of Mr. Winkley, proved that the prisoner had offered the horse for sale in his master's yard for three pounds, but on Mr. Winkley's put ting several questions to him respelling his name, his place of residence, and where he got the horse, "he took haself off all at vonce" without giving the required explanation. The prisoner was not more fortunate on the present occa sion, and he was at once committed for trial. He had before been convicted for a similar offence. MARLBOROUGH-STREET . (THIS DAY.) Margaret Morgan, a young, handsome, and very fashion ably-dressed French woman, was charged with robbing Mr. Thomas Graham, of No. 7, Trevor-square, Knightsbridge, and a member of the Stock Exchange, of 10s. in silver, under the following circumstances : Mr. Robinson, the solicitor, attended on the part of the accused. The prosecutor stated that, between 3 and 4 o'clock that morning, as he was passing up the Haymarket with a port manteau in his hand, having just returned from Brighton, he was accosted by the prisoner who, after persisting in walking by his side for some distance, suddenly thrust her hand into his right hand trowsers-pocket, and withdrew it grasping the amount of silver in question ; he immediately seized her, and called " police," and on a constable of the S division coming up, and taking her into custody, she scattered some money over the carriage-way. A number of cabmen and other fellows of the lowest grade were about, and the police-constable was only enabled to pick up three shillings out of the ten. He had seen his money safe but a few minutes before. In answer to questions put by the prisoner's solicitor to the prosecutor, he admitted that he had been drinking. Mr. HARDWICK—A drunken man is not, as a matter of course, to be robbed. The prosecutor said he came forth on public grounds as he had noticed several of the swell snob, who infest the West end, following up the prisoner, and he had no doubt that the intention of the parties was to rob him of his watch, a valuable one, guard-chain, portmanteau, and other property he had Omit Wm. Mr. HARDWICK said he must see the public protected from such nocturnal depredations, and committed the pri soner to take her trial at the Central Criminal Court. UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.) John Faulkner was charged in the police-sheet with at tempting to cut his wife's throat. A noise was heard in the prisoner's room at one o'clock that morning, and a policeman entering, his wife was found bleeding from a slight wound in the throat, which she said was inflicted by her husband. She was the worse for liquor at the time; her husband was sober. The wife was not in attendance. The prisoner denied the charge, and gave a melancholy account of his wife's propensity for liquor, which had reduced him to beggary. Mr. COTrINGHAM said that the wife not being in attendance to press the charge, he should discharge the accused. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO TIIREE. There was an animated inquiry for Cotton at Liverpool yesterday, at fully previous rates ; sales about 7,000 bales, of which 2,000 American were on speculation.—Shares had rather a quiet appearance :—Dublin and Cashel, 44 ; Great Western, Fifths, 21i ; Brighton, 45 ; South-Western, 85 ; North British, 3 ; Paris and Lyons, 3 ; South-Eastern, 381 ; Do. New, 14. The private bankers who have the privilege of issuing notes, are up hi arms at the prospect of there being, before man' years have expired, but one point of issue established for England and Wales ; Ireland and Scotland being left out of the Premier's plans for the present. The joint-stock banks are pretty passive, as they have obtained more than they expected from the Government. Private meetings were held yesterday, of the principals, not only of the joint-stock but of the private banks; and of the former the shareholders are to be convened in public meeting on an early day, to consider—not oppose—the intended alterations in banking and currency. There is no doubt but that the proposals of the Ministers will be passed into law with but slight modifications. From a periodical that has been sent us, we extract the following as to the Tea trade : " The rate of consumption, upon the average, has more than doubled in the United States within the twenty years, whilst in this country it has progressed something more than one third only. The exports of Tea from Canton to the United States, in 1840, exceeded 9,000,000 kilogrammes. The inference from such premises would seem to be clear and un mistakeable. The growing customer for the teas of China will, pari passe, become the largely growing monopolist of the supply of China with cottons, woollens, hardwares, metals, &c. What the United States do not produce them selves, or do not produce cheaply enough, they can be fur nished with in European Continental markets, on more ad vantageous terms. British merchants are already exporting German and Belgian woollens to China, because the differ ence of prices, as compared with British manufactures, is equal at once to a reasonable profit. We may remark, that, for one, Captain Pidding himself has verified the fact, as suredly with no feelings of satisfaction, whatever the per sonal advantage accruing. Out of a bad bargain, nationally, arising from the exorbitant taxation of tea, the public are partially compensated, however, in one sense. For if with cheaper German woollens the merchant is enabled to obtain ten catties of tea against nine which Leeds or Gloucester cloths would only procure, it is evident that from the larger supplies, the price of tea must be cheapened to the consumer. " We shall conclude for the present with remarking that in the heavier and more substantial qualities of cotton cloths American ' domestics' are already largely supplanting, and in long cloths advantageously competing with, the similar fabrics of British make in the markets of China. The raw cottons of Georgia and New Orleans have but recently sought the-same regions, yet, from their superior preparation and finer as well as longer fibres, they can hardly fail eventually to supersede or to greatly interfere with the vent of one of the chief export staples of British India. The lead of the United States has already excluded that of this country in all neutral marts." We have been favoured with the sight of a commercial letter from Mexico, which states that trade was excessively dull there, and at Tampico matters were equally bad. The Stock Markets have been very firm this morning, at a quotation within a mere fraction of par. The Commis sioners took about the usual amount of Consols at 99k. A few bargains were made at 994. The Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are firm. Exchequer Bills are at 755. premium, and India Bonds at 925. premium. Bank Stock is at 1951, and India Stock at 284 to 289, a rise of li to 2 per cent. since the day before yesterday. The Spanish securities have fluctuated frequently this day, and the tendency has been rather to improve. The Three per Cents. have rallied from 33i to 34j, and the Active Bonds from 23i to 24. Portuguese Stock is dull at 44. Dutch and Belgian Bonds are steady, and in the South American Stocks the alterations trifling. A fair amount of business has been transacted in the Rail way Shares, but prices have not generally materially altered. In Bank Shares little is doing. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 19534 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 99%% 3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities 101%% New 3 34 per Cent. Annuities 102% 7434 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 123(,34 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860. India Stock India Bonds,l,ooo 92 Ditto under 1,000 92 Consols for Account 9 9700i Exchequer Bills, 130. 154 d 1,0001. 5001 .......... 75 pm. Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCIL Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent lO2 Columbian Bonds. j g,l% Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. Ditto Deferred Stock. 1554% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Converted 46)4 45)4 Ditto for the Account. 46 Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 23c: Ditto for the Account I 23 34 24 Ditto Three per Cent. Ditto for the Account 34% 33 34%,% Dutch 234 per Cents 1319i New Loan 1837, 5 per Cents. ............... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Bristol and Exeter Chester and Holyhead 5 Eastern Counties Ditto New Registered 61. 6s. Sd. Ditto Perpetual 5 per eent l3s. 4d.... 1% Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O Ditto Registered Great Western Ditto 34 Shares 5O 75% ... to '75 Ditto Fifths l2 20% ...... to Harwich (Braithwaite) Ditto( Lo, ke) ' 2 34 Hull and Selby London and Birmingham. lOO 233 to .-. London and Blackwall London and Brighton 5O 44%%;... to London and Greenwich London and South Western Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 18 North Midland Ditto Thirds 2l/. 13s. 4d. 3O to South Eastern and Dover 3234 Yarmouth and Norwich York and North,Midland Ditto 34 Shares 25 59% to Paris and Orleans .......... ...... . 20 ......... 3835 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY B.—There is no material change in our market to-day ; our quotations are : Manchester and Birmingham, 59 to 59k; North Union, 110 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 804 to 81b ; South-Eastern, 38b to ; Ditto, New, 12 to 12b ; Caledonian, 4 11-16 ; Man chester, Bury, and Rossendale, 5 15-16. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended May 4, 1E44, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat 55s 3d. 1 Oats Barley 3ls. Bd. 1 Rye .. 3os. ltd I Pea5e......... 31s. 2d AVSEAGILS OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS. Weeks ending' WHEAT. 'BARLEY.' OATS. I RYE. I MEANS. ---.---- Mar. 30 April 163 W 5 55 5 55 1 32 7 19 8 32 10 'A 1 33 1 90 1 F EASE. 33 3 3 3 9 34 4 31 2 30 11 31 2 31 0 31 8 32 5 20 27 155 8132 7 120 1i 31 2!31 4 130 8 May 4 55 3 31 8 20 1 30 11 131 9 31 1 IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX sums Wheat 555. 6d. Oats Barley 32a. 7d. I Rye ... 32g. 3d.Pea5e.........315. sd, DUTIES OW FOREIGN CORN. Wheat .........17s. Od. I Oats .... ..... 61. Odd Beans 10s, 6d Barley .... ...... bs. Od. Rye ...... ... 10g. 6d. 1 Pease ..... log. 6rl MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) HAT MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 to 31 lOs ; use ful ditto, 3/ lOs to 31 15s ; fine Upland ditto, 31 16e to 41; Clover Hay, Si 5s to 5/ ; Oat Straw, I/ 63 to 1/ 8s ; Wheat Straw, 118 s to 11 lOs per load. Supply but moderate, and trade steady. CUMBERWID.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 2118 s to 31 106 ; use ful ditto, 31 12s to 31 16s; fine Upland ditto, Si 171 to 4/ ; Clover Hay, 31 to 4118 s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 8e to 1/ lOs ; Wheat Straw, 1/ lOs to 1/ 12s per load. Both Hay and Straw moved off freely at full quotations. WHITECHIPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 2/ 18s to 318 s ; useful ditto, 3/ lOs to Si 15s ; fine Upland ditto, 31 16s to 71; Clover Hay, 315 s to Si 5s ; Oat Straw, 116 s to 118 s ; Wheat Straw, 118 s to 1/ 103 per load. A moderate supply, and a fair demand. MEAT MARKETS. SOUTHALL, MAY B.—We had a full average supply of each kind of fat stock on sale this morning, yet the demand was throughout steady, at, in most instances, a trifling improve ment in the quotations. Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s ; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 8d ; Lamb, 5s to 6s 2d • Veal, 3s 6d to 48 4d ; an d Pork, 2s 10d to 3s 8d per Sibs. gupply—Pleasts, 40 ; Sheep and Lambs, 2,041 ;Calves, 39 ; Pigs, 36. _ . ~ ROMFORD, MAY B.—Prime Beasts and Sheep were in de mand at full currencies. Otherwise, the trade ruled dull. Beef, from 2s 6d to 4s ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 4s; Lamb, 41 10d to 6s ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; and Pork 28 4d to 3s 8d per 81bs. Sucking Calves, 18s to 28s; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 19s •, and Milch Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 181 lOs each. LEWES, MAY 7.—There was a fair amount of business doing here to-day, at fully previous rates :—Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 4s 2d ; Lamb, 5s 4d to 5s 10d ; and Pork, 4s 4d to 3s 8d per 81bs. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-( THIS DAY.) 1.0/4130N, MAY 9.—Wind, westerly, light breezes, and fine DEAL, MAY 8.--Wind, A.M. N.N.1., P.M., E.N.E., light.— Sld. Java, Hong Kong; Auguste, and Meline, Port au Prince. PORTSMOUTH, MAY B.—Wind S., light.—Sld. Cleopatra, FALMOUTH, MAY B.—Wind variable, and light.—Arrd. Admiral Nelson, Queripol. PRAM PRAM (AFRICA), JAN. 25.—Arrd. brig Sylph, of and from Liverpool, from the coast, put in for a navigator, the master and the mates having died. Off, Adeline, Dowling, Sierra Leone. CLYDE, MAY 4.—Sid. Douro, Halifax. s.—Adam Smith, Rio ; Brilliant, Quebec and Montreal. LIVERPOOL, MAY B.—Wind N.W., light.—Arrd., Euclea, Heldon, Calcutta. Off, Harvest Home , Calcutta ; Alexan der , supposed from ditto ; Araminta, Bombay ; Ann Rankin, New Orleans ; Princess Victoria, Charleston. Sld. John Patchett, Ceylon ; Superb, Ichoboe ; Steward, Pernambuco ; Nugent, Bahia ; Selby, Hayti ; Racer, Dalhousie ; Indus, Quebec. TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.--The complaints made by correspondents to this and other journals within these few days have had the desired effect, and yesterday, net only were the stones and other rubbish removed from the basin, and the area generally cleared, but four or five constables of he A division of police were stationed there to prevent a recurrence of such evils as those which have been justly complained of. The water was yesterday also withdrawn from the basins, and preparations were making to complete the jets, which are expected to be in full play in the course of a few days. ROYAL MARlNES.—Captain Buchannan, Lieutenant Gwyn, one sergeant, one corporal, and forty privates, of the Woolwich division, have been placed under orders to join the Collingwood, eighty guns, and the remainder of this corps, will be furnished from the Chatham divi sion, and are expected to proceed to South America. NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND.-(THIS DAY.) The eleventh annual meeting of this flourishing institu•• tion was held to-day, at the Company's offices in Bishops gate-street. JOHN MELVILLE, Esq., took the Chair at twelve o'clock, and after entering into a statement of the affairs of the Com pany, read the following report : " It now became the duty of the Directors to present to the Proprietors their Eleventh Annual Report. " The Directors in the first place, have to inform the Pro prietors of the following important acquisition to the business of the Company. At Torrington, the private bank of Messrs. Loveband and Cox, and at Bideford, the old Bideford Bank of Messrs. Ley and Cox, have been incorporated with the Branches of the National Provincial Bank which had already for some years existed at these places. " Similar arrangements have led to the establishment of two new branches—namely, one at Sherborne, and the other at Newport, in the Isle of Wight. At Sherborne, the Bank of Messrs. Pretor and Co., which had been in existence for nearly a century, has been transferred to this Company ; and at Newport, in consequence of the dissolution of the Isle of Wight Joint-stock Bank, the Company has succeeded to the very respectable business of that establishment, with the con currence and support of its numerous and wealthy share holders. " In accordance with the views expressed is the last report with respect to the discontinuance of minor branches and agencies, the Directors have closed the following, namely, Knutsford, Charteris, Ringwood, and Shepton Mallet. By an arrangement also with the Devon and Corn wall Bank, which was considered mutually benefi cial, the branch at Kingsbridge has been relinquished to that establishment, for which it has given an equivalent, by retiring in favour of this Company at Dart mouth. The observations with which the Directors pre faced in the last report the annual statement of account are applicable, and with still greater force, upon the present occa sion. Since the last meeting the employment of the Com pany's funds has daily become more difficult, and notwith standing an improvement in some branches of trade, the value of money has gradually decreased until it has reached an unprecedentedly low point of depression. " Under disadvantages so unusual and protracted, the Proprietors will naturally be prepared for a correspond ing diminution of profits, and accordingly, from the state ment of accounts now to be submitted to the meeting, it will be perceived that, in order to maintain the dividend of 6 per cent for last year, recourse has been had again to the re served fund. In 1843, on the Ist of January, the amount of undivided property was 57,8671. 15s. sd. ; and on the 31st of December, in the same year, the nett profits, after making allowance for bad and doubtful debts, and for a proportion of preliminary expenses, was 21,4351. Os. 3d., making a total of 79,3021. 15s. Bd. ; from that was to be deducted the dividend of 6 per cent., 24,6491. 165., which left the undivided profit, in Decembre, 1843, of 54,6521. 19s. Bd. Although with large accumulating re sources, employed in safe and available investments, and with the means, consequently, at their command of in creasing the profits of the Company when a demand for capi tal shall return, yet the low rate of interest on money having assumed a somewhat permanent character, the Directors trust that the Proprietors will agree with them in thinking it more advisable to reduce the dividend than to encroach further upon the reserve. The Directors, accord ingly, now propose that the dividend for July next should be at the rate of five per cent. " Since the foregoing report was prepared for the Proprie tors, the Government has submitted to Parliament its inten tion with respect to the renewal of the Bank of England Charter, and to the law affecting joint-stock banks. " Without explanation of details the Directors feel it would be premature to give any decided opinion as to the proposed measure, but as Government has avowed its inten tion of respecting existing interests, and to proceed on the principle of facilitating the operation of joint-stock banks, the Directors entertain an expectation that any new legisla tion will not operate any disadvantage to the National Pro vincial Bank." After a short discussion, the report was adopted. Mr. Henry Weymouth, Mr. Isaac Nicholson, and Mr. Thomas Wilson, were re-elected Directors ; Mr. Edward Stewart and Sir D. Scott were elected Directors, in the room of Mr. George Lynch and Mr. Archibald Paul. A dividend of 5 per cent. was declared, and, after a high eulogium had been passed by several of the Directors upon the course pursued by the Manager, Mr. Robertson, the meet ing separated, every Proprietor appearing well pleased with the prosperity of the establishment. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE: NEWMARKET-TUESDAY NIGHT. Arrivals.—Duke of Rutland, Duke of Montrose, Mar • quis of Exeter, Lord and Lady Albemarle, Lord Orford, Lord Vivian, Lord W. Powlett, Sir R. Bulkeley, Sir D. Baird, Hon. Colonel Anson, Hon. G. Fitzroy, Hon. Captain Rous, Colonel Peel, Colonel Brinkman, Messrs. Thornhill, Batson, Newton, Gardnor, Higgins, Port man, S. Stanley, Rush, jun., Forester, Jaques, &c. WEDNESDAY. Handicap Plate of 50/. for three yrs old and up wards. A.F. Lord Exeter's f by Gladiator, out of Elegance, 4 yrs, Bst 61b (W. Boyce) 1 Mr. Crockford's Pine Apple, 4 yrs, Bst I Ilb 2 Mr. Berrington's Father Mathew, 3 yrs, Est 131 b . 3 Mr. Newton's Jenny Jumps, 4 yrs, 7st 81b 4 5 to 4 agst Jenny Jumps, 3 to 1 agst Father Mathew, and 3to 1 agst Elegance filly. Jenny Jumps made slow running to the bushes, where, on her followers joining company, she resigned. Father Mathew went on with the running to within 100 yards of the chair, where Pine Apple and the Elegance filly challenged ; a pretty race home was decided in favour of the filly by half a length, Father Mathew a capital third. The Suffolk Stakes of 15 Sovs. each, 5 ft if declared, with 100 added. Last mile and a-half of R. C. (69 Subs., of whom 44 declared, and four did not name.) Mr. Villiamson's The Cure, 3 yrs, Est 31b (R. Cotton) 1 Lord Glenlyon's Ben-y-Ghlo, 4 yrs, 7st 91b 2 Duke of Bedford's Minotaur, 4 yrs, 7st 71b The following also ran Mr. John Day's St. Law rence, aged, 9st—Duke of Grafton's Cataract, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—Lord Exeter's Albion, 5 yrs, 7st 41b—Mr. Philli more's Syntaxina, 6 yrs, ist—Col. Peel's Hartshorn, 4 yrs, Est 71b (carried Est 121b)—Lord Miltown's Bourra Tomacha, 4 yrs, Est 41b—Lord Maidstone's Deuce Ace, 3 yrs, sst 61b—Lord Chesterfield's Buzz, 3 yrs, sst 41b—Mr. A. Glenn's Lucy Long, 3 yrs, 4st 81b—and Lord Albemarle's Candidate, 3 yrs, 4st 81b. Betting-2 to 1 agst The Cure, 2to 1 agst Minotaur, 7 to 1 agst Ben-y-Ghlo, 10 to 1 agst Cataract, and 10 to 1 agst Candidate. • The Manto filly was declared not to start at about 12 o'clock this morning, having previously been backed at 6to 1. St. Lawrence made running for three quarters of a mile at a strong pace. The Cure, who had followed him in company with Minotaur, overpowering the lad, then took the lead from him, and went two lengths in ad vance to the corner of the plantations, where St. Lawrence was beaten. Ben-y-Ghlo now joined Minotaur, and beat him at the foot of the hill, but could not reach The Cure, who, albeit hanging to the right, maintained his lead to the end and won by three lengths; Cataract was fourth, St. Lawrence fifth, Lucy Long si x th, an d B uzz se venth; all beaten a length or two from each other, The Jockey Club Plate of 501. ; for four yrs old, 7st 21b; five, Bst 31b; six and aged, Bst 91b; the pro perty of members of the Jockey Club, B.C. Lord Exeter's Wee Pet, 4 yrs (Mann) 1 Duke of Rutland's Hyrcanian, 4 yrs 2 6 to 4 on Hyrcanian, who was beaten easily. Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each; for four yrs old colts, Bst 101 b; fillies, Bst 51b. Last three miles of B.C. (4 Subs.) Mr. Thornhill's Elixir, Brother to Mango, walked over. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) NEWMARKET, WEDNESDAY NIOHT, ENTRIES FOR THURSDAY. Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, winner to be sold for 200, &c. Mr. Rogers's Clara, 4 yrs—Lord. Exeter's Mocha, 3 yrs— Lord Orfotd's Nininka colt, 3 yrs—Colonel Peel's colt, out of Jason's dam, 3 yrs. Handicap Sweepstakes. T.Y.C. Colonel Peel's Canton, 4 yrs, Bst 71b—Lord Exeter's Maria Diaz, 4 yrs, 7st 61b—Mr. Stephenson's Dr. Wood, 4 yrs, 7st 41b. The only bet laid in the evening was 300 to 100 agst the Ugly Buck, nearly all the " ring" having taken flight for town. A new match has been made between Semiseria and Ex. tempore, to run at even weights, on Monday in the Hough. ton Meeting, 500 each, 100 ft. SHREWSBURY RACES.—WEDXESDAY. The Whitehall Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 20 added. Mile and a half. (4 Subs). Mr. A. W. Hill's Beaumont, 3 yrs, 7st 21b walked over. The Tankerville Stakes, of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft, and only 5 if declared, with 100 added ; the second saves his stake. Two miles. (43 Subs, 31 of whom declared.) Mr. Mostyn's General Pollock, 4 yrs, 7st 131 b Marlow 1 Mr. Worthington's Hooton, 4 yrs, 7st 131 b Mr. Gough's Greenfinch, aged, 7st 121 b: 3 Mr. Tomline nd Xanthus, 4 yrs, Est 101 b Mr. Collett's Cattonite, 5 yrs, Bst 81b The following also started but were not placed :—Mr. Ed monistone's Ermengardis, 6 yrs, 7st 41b—Mr. Ongjey's Rode rick, 5 yrs, 7st—Lord Miltown's Birdeen, 4 yrs, 6st, and Mr. D'lsraeli nd British Tar, 3 yrs, sst 51b. A good race with three, was won by about a neck ; Rode rick beaten off a long way. The first heat of the County Members' Plate was won by Mr. E. Herbert's Joanna, Fausta second, Princess of Wales third, and Brewood fourth. The race was not run out when the post left. EGLINTON PARK RACES.—TuEsDAY. The Trial Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added. The last to pay the second-horses stake. Half a mile. (11 Subs.) Mr. H. Johnstone's The Era, 4 yrs, 1 Ist 41b (Johnstone) 1 Mr. Ferguson nd The Whistler, 3 yrs, lOat 21b 2 The following also started, but were not placed :—Lord Eglinton's The Potentate, aged, 12st 61b—Mr. L. Palk's Billy Button, aged, 12st 61b—Major Campbell nd Wayward, aged, 12st 61b—and Mr. Ramsay's Whistle Binkie, 5 yrs, 11st 111 b. Match, 100 sovs, h ft. Two miles.—Mr. Palk's Cerito, aged, list (Lord Wilton), beat Lord Maidstone's Emperor, aged, lOst 91b, The Southbar Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, with 50 added ; for three yrs old, 9st 101 b, four yrs, list 61b; five yrs, 12st 21b ; six yrs, 12st 71b ; aged, 12st 101 b. Winners of 100/. 41bs ; twice, 71bs extra ; Scotch bred horses allowed 51bs ; mares and geldings, 31bs. Two miles, (8 Subs.) Lord Waterford's Firefly, 5 yrs (Owner) 1 Captain Boyd's The Conqueror, 5 yrs 2 The following also started :--Mr. L. Palk's Billy Button, aged ; Mr. A. Robertson's Tinder-bo x , age d ; an d M r . San diland's Whitney, aged. The Irvine Cup of 1501, added to a subscription of 10 sovs. each, Once round and a distance. (16 Subs.) Mr, Johnstone's William le Gros, 5 yrs, list 121 b (Mr. W, H. Johnstone) 1 Lord Eglinton's Aristides, 4 yrs, llst Mr. Ramsay's Shadow, aged, 12st 41b ... 3 Mr. Meiklam's Aristotle, 5 yrs, I Ist 121 b Mr. G. H. Moore's Red Rover, 6 yrs, 12st lib The Produce Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft. Half a mile. , . (Four Subs.) Mr. Ramsay's Rose of Cashmere, Bst 11b.......(W. Noble) 1 Mr. Alexander's Pilot, Bst 71b .. 2 The Hunters' Stakes of 5 soya. ea c h, and 50 added. Two . _ miles. (10 Subs.) Mr. Milbank's Robinson, aged, 12st 101 b... ...... walked ever. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, with 50 added. Mile and a _ quarter. (11 Subs ) Lord Eglinton's Quebec, 4 yrs ... ... 1 Mr. Moore's Oh Don't, 5 yrs Sir James Boswell's Miss Julia, 5 yrs ... 9 Sir Robert, Cerito, and Bourdeaux were not placed. The Earl and Countess of Kenmore, Lord and Lady Hatherton and Hon. Miss Littleton, the Bishop of Lincoln and family, Sir E. and Lady Thomason, &c., were among the arrivals announced last week at Great hialyern. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Publir eptitton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. • On Tuesday the King and Queen of the French, and the rest of the Royal family, with the Duchess of Kent, left the Tuileries for Fontainbleau, where they were to remain until Thursday evening. The two Chambers were respectively occupied during Mon; day with the adjourned discussions on the Education Bill and the Prison Reform Bill. On the latter, the Marquis de La' rochejacquelin, in speaking of the new prison of La Force now in construction in Paris, drew a very melancholy Pin ture of the cells destined on the new system for the prisoners- The Marchioness of Hertford continues seriously indis posed at her chateau of Bagatelle, near Paris. Her Ladyship has been for many years an absentee. M. Marchand, who was valet-de.•chambrs to Napoleon, hale by a letter to the Constitutionnel, respecting the sloe by the executors of Sir Hudson Lowe of various articles de scribed as having belonged to the late Emperor. M. Igo' chaud declares that some of the articles so described were never in the possession of the Emperor. He mentions Pan' . cularly the Brequet watch. the portrait, and the garden chair, and adds that, although the hair in the medallion ling be genuine, the ribands connected with it had never been worn by Napoleon. , 5 One of the journals states that on the day of the King s fete the receipts at the toll-house of the Pont des Invalides, at one sou for each passenger, amounted to 30,000 E If this be true 600,000 persons must have passed over the bridge- The marriage of the Archduke Albert of Austria with the Princess Hildegarde of Bavaria, was celebrated at Munich on the Ist inst., in the presence of the Royal Family, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, the members of the dill; matic corps, the Hereditary Prince of Modena, and Princess, the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse, Fri l, ls and Princess Luitpold, the Duchess of Leuchtenberg, 14 "" ; Duchess Louisa of Bavaria, and Prince Edward of Sax? Altenburg and his Princess. The Dowager Empress of Brad' Duchess of Braganza, was present in the King's pew. The fact of the Prince de Canino, Charles Napoleon 80n5.;,, parte (says a letter from Rome), having obtained leave "'" visit Naples for five days, gave birth to a crowd of conjec" tures. His only object, however, was to arrange about t he scientific congress, which is to meet next summer at NePl el4 The King received the Prince at a private audience, was de lighted with the plan, and promised to have the savant isk, sl3 in the court carriages to the foot of Vesuvius. The Ministe r San Angelo, will be President of the meeting. A Frankfort journal states that the King of Prussia li ft ordered his Ministers again to present a Bill to the States 1O the modification of the Penal Code, and that it is intends. to abolish corporeal punishment. LAW AND POLICE. At the Mansion-house the wife of an industrious man, for e : man to an extensive engineer, was committed to the Ho s " of Correction for one month, for attempting to destroy her' self. It appeared that her unfortunate husband had be ° nearly ruined by her profligate habits. At Guildhall a woman of the name of Lee was char with a similar offence. Having spent in a couple of days tb money her husband had left her to keep her for a week, s il o took 50 drops of laudanum. This was her third attempt self-destruction. Mr. Alderman Hughes att em pt e d to c on vince her of the heinous nature of self-murde r , but aPV rently with no effect, and she was remanded for a week. , At Worship-stsset, a woman of the name of Brown, six years of age, was brought from the Bethnal-greenww house before Mr. Broughton, upon a charge of attempting' so drown herself. The case was a curious one. Something seen floating on the canal, near the workhouse, and 01 1 amination it turned out to be the prisoner's c l oa k, which/ partially inflated, and kept her body from s i n king, thoug wholly under water. When brought ashore she was all; rently dead, but great pains were tak en an d an i m ation f restored. She was ordered to b e p asse d t o h er p l ace o f sett le' ment, which is St. Clement Danes, in the Strand. COURT-FASECIONABLE. The Court is expected to leave town for Windsor on t o 27th inst., and on the following day (Whit Tuesday) or Queen and his Royal Highness P r i nce Alb er t will hcel" the Montem, at Eton, with their presence. r It is now stated that the Kin g of H anover h as g ive n the intention of visiting England this year. vit4 The Marquis and Marchioness of W a t er f or d, on I'oe _ a Eglintoun Castle, where they are stayi ng w ith the Ear Countess of Eglintoun, will come to tow n , an d during thud stay in the metropolis will reside at Mivart'a hotel, IP" - ments having been taken for their reception. f G 0 Earl de Grey does not intend to lea ve th e sea t o vcrnment until the autumn for this country. He purls* pass a short time at Newby Hall, Y or k s hi re, an d t Yorkshire Hussars, of which fine provincial corps the - 0 7,j Earl is Colonel-Commandant, will assem bl e f or t h e ir lan . training. The Countess of Blessington en t er t a i ne d at &nu er bn o f Tuesday the Marquis of Normanby, Earl and Countess Tankerville, the Hon. Spencer Cowper, the Right 11.14. Stanley, Mr. Luttrell, and Mr. Charles Sheridan. 1 0 7; evening some distinguish e d v i s it ors arrived, and."l4. Jun t h and Herr Kcenig enlivened the party by pew orm ing brilliant success, their new compos i t i ons Polka," lately composed by M. Jullien., and dedica ted • Lady Blessington. • be General Espartero and hi s l a d y and niece are passuitbef season in comparative reti remen t at their villa, called Aw Lodge, Park-road, Regent' s -p ar k , and the "RoyceW NIXSCELLANZOITEL . the The operation of poleing has commenced generally ~,1 0 hop districts. In those of Maidstone, so me hundreaJ, acres have been already ti e d, an d t h e bine is strong and rous. We have nearly similar accounts from Mereworth Hadlow. The flea had made its apipearance in some Place.'' Tne agents for the traversers, Messrs. O'Connell, Stet._ and others, have ser ve d a no ti ce upon the Crown so li c ite , ' , apprising them that their counsel would, on Wedneffet move the Court to have sev era l a lt era ti ons an d amendo— made in the postea, and in other portions of the record., On Monday mor n i ng , th e new course for the River I•tii between King's-bridge and Barrick-bridge, was o fa t = n et presence of his Excellen c y th e L or d - Lieutenant 'ru e 7t:he and lower dams were cu t th roug h at eleven o ' cloc k , a n tide tide flowed in rapidly an d smoothly, so that the entire 03 was filled in less tha n a quar t er o f an hour. His ExcellS2l congratulated the c on t rac t ors on t h e rap i d manner in V"' they had repaired the recent damage. A dinner was give n y es t er d ay at t h e Albi on H o tel, ,i . o± l ; dersgate-street, on a scale of grea t sp l en d our , by the 1 104 .6 r and supporters of the Ch ar t er . house-square infirinarY•to wards of one hund r ed an d s i x t y gent l emen sat dowo_ ,Th e dinner. The followi ng su b scr i pt i ons were announc ed: „ e l f -- Goldsmiths' and Mercers' Companies contributed respect; 50 guineas; " One who knew the value of the Charity : SL; guineas ; Lord John Russell, 101.; Mr. Emerson Tennealoo, the Lord Mayor, 10/. ; Mr. Sheriff Moon, 10/. ; the li cal .;vl, , , t , Fairlelgh, 20/. ; the A ux ili ary S ociety, 36/. ; Messrs. bread, 10/. ; Alderman Copeland, 10/. ; Mr. John Foster I v " Mr. James Foster, 10/. ; Major Moore, Si., &c. THE STATE TRIALS. -- --- (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) flier The postponement of judgment is owing to s o r rence of opinion among the J u d ges a s to the valiclit_. it „.Y. the objections rai s ed by th e t raversers ' counsel agWily the verdict, and the charge which produced said, and on some authority too, that Mr. Justice dissents from his learned brethren, and yields to th ew :. pression that th e accuse d an d convicted gentlemen br; not had a fair t r i a l. S ome say that Judge perk mind inclines a littl e i n t h e same way ; but this, 11, ' Ol l. events, is certain—th ere w ill b e no judgment t hi s to be This will enable Mr. O'Connell to gratify his wish ° f o r present at the debate on the Factories Bill, and to vote ..c . o s the ten hours against the Ministerial proposal. I fe ., , Lb e• to mention another ru mour , w h ic h was curren tly our laced in the hall of the C our t s to -d ay, t h at the ~.m were disposed to grant a new trial—an event wilL i all probability, would t erm i na t e t h e proceedings re-. the traversers, as it is exceedingly likely the G°.„' ment would not renew the en gagement aga i ns t the' DUTCH PAPERS. ~ THE HAGUE, MAY 4.—The Mi n i s t er o f Finel l ,t lot published the result of the inscriptions made onr of and 2d of May for the loan of thirty-four roun e r"o florins, at four per cent., on accoun t o f our trans 22 ' .- possessions. The inscriptions were— In money 5,6 20 ,1 Lorrenter charged in the colonies Total 22,15-,9 00 0 y The Minister declares th at , i n consequence, 0.11' -ding scriptions are exc e pt e d. I t appears by the lot e . so 6 notice that the maxim um o f t hi rty - f i ve millions "7„,6e& been obtained. However , there is reason to be s e ' - idesip with the result o f this first trial. We know, h es " re that offers of conversion for considerable sums we l l o gi, ceived after the moment fixed for the closing of the and which, consequently, could not be accepted. 00 0 AMSTERDAM, MAY 4.—We learn fro m the Hak e the project of law relative to the tariff of import, frlP ° o l and transit duties, is under consideration in the. Cone of State. THREE PERSONS DROWNED IN THE ItIVE-•_"l i sit evening, about seven o'clo c k, th ree unfortunate incit„';d whose names are at pres en t un k nown, were dr° l 7 ~c e er" Battersea-bridge, under the f o ll ow i ng melanc h o ly c' - o pOV stances :—lt appears from inquiries made upon th e , ~en that the first unfortunat e p erson , w h o was appar ently ''..l l * tleman about Ko_years of age, was r o w i ng u p the rive wherry alone. He had pas se d th roug h one o f the SP": 4 . tb Battersea-bridge with ra il roa d spee d , i n cons equenceZ, the very strong c urren t s w hi c h are mostly preva l en t un. 7 1 , 0 0 arches of this bridg e , w h en th e h ea d of hi came came in collision with o ne o f th e numereto there stationed, and he was precipitated. In''''b e fore water and disappeared. He, however , ro se twice, bUt ed h os the boats which had put off t o hi s ass i st ance had rennl, tld he went down a third ti me , an d was carried awayby t 4 ; s o--• Two other unfortunate b e i ngs — a young man and tin° also lost their lives in a similar manner about the aer a ; „,or and place, and altho ug h th e d rags an d b oa t s were in diate requisition, neither of the bodies were, or have colitr been, recovered. The numerous accidents which are s peedr fluidly occurring at this bridge calls loudly for so me remedy to prevent a recurrence of them. 4 .; of the THE MEDICAL P ROTESSION .--A meeting told at Committee of the Medical Protection Assembly wit s it w ee Tuesday at Exeter Hall, Mr. Simpson in the chair._ „„der" proposed that a detailed account of the grievanTLiedr which the profession labours should be prepared and PTholci in the shape of an address to the profession and tb_ e _P„ r iblin:. but the subject was deferred for the consideration 0! -• meeting, which is to be called so soon as the main . terW o rte Sir James Graham's Bill on the subject of raech e ea_i,toy shall become known. It was announced by the 7 0 - g, i that Mr. Hawes had expressed his intention of nl" or 113 6 the House of Commons, within the next few daYs c , e ._. e d or use of the Society, for a return of the amount re i lT ice jo s_ nually for the last ten years from the stamps on, r _ of for the same, of patent medicines ; and also fora E r j glin gi the verdicts, &c., of coroners' inquests he ld made, to th• during the last tree years, similar to the return s few House of Commons, on the motion of Sir B. W Bl ' 4 years since. —The Bill to roll VINEGAR AND GLASS DUTIES. t n h o e w d p u a t y y a o b n le v o in n eg fl a in r, t an gl d ass to th m e clanses. rein yesterday printed. It contains fourteen for secur n e the duty on vinegar to cease, save licenses as here. • g r makers to take out aksaemteheasduotniebsotallne4l794 otha: f dti d t u f t: o l r Ot p h en o a f it O y c . tob v e i r n n e ex a t, the duties and as re t gu o l an at y lo a ns rtrento _ a fo n r d e, d o r r aw b b e a fi c n k e s d o . n fiFirnotmgrasesfittoh ce J em u as l e y en, n tan e o x fd t tho th eth e conniggib otorth be imposed, to he under the manag of Excise. Glass may be taken out of sto re .s _ me n. n or fraudu of the full duty. Makers of flint glass not securi . C, B t h i o reap liable July next, notice being given to the Excise, and e . Pr befo rer°ll duties P at lently removing glass so intended to be sto full dutT, together with penalties.