The Sun. — London, England, 1844-06-19 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Signor COSTA has the honour to inform his Friends, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public that his BENEFIT will take place . TO-MORR.OW EVENING, JUNE 20, When Will be.produted an entirely New Opera feria, composed by pi, costa, the Poetry by Leopoldo Tarantini, entitled • DON CARLOS. With New Scenery by Mr. W. Grieves Philip IL (Ring of Spain), Sig. Lablache • Don Carlos (his son), Mario; The Couht Foss (Friend of Don Carlos) Sig. Fornasari ; 0 one; -(Grandee of Spain), Giubilei; Isabella (Wife of Philip), l‘lsAbnie Grist. •' • Tb , esoicliide witht he Grand Ballet entitled ALMA; ou, La Fille du Feu. Principal Dancers•rMdile. Cerito, Mdlle. Fanny Elssler, M. St. Leon, , • • and M. Perrot. -- ApplicationsArEokes, Stalls, and Mckets to be made at the Box ediCi/j Opera . -eribMinAde. • Doors open at Half.past 'Seven. T he Ooera will cosarnetWat Eight o'Clock. _ THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMA RKE . M • R, BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE . • • THIS EVENING, JUNE 19, • Will be repeated the Prize Comedy of - QUID PRO QUO; or, THE DAY Ok DUPES. • With a Prologue and Epilogue. Earl of Hunsdon', Mr. Stuart; Lord Bellamont, Mrs. Nisbett ; Jeremy Chignon, Mr. Strickland;' Henry, Mr. H. Holl ; Captain Sippett, Mr. Buekstone; Sir George Mordent, Mr. W. Farren ; Countess of Hunsdoa, Mrs. W. Cliflbrd ; Lady Mary Bivers, Miss Julia Bennett Mrs. Grigson, Mrs. Glover; Bridget [rim, Mrs. Humby. The Prologue to be spoken by Mr. Webster, and the Epilogue by Mrs. Nisbett and Mrs. Humby. After which, THE TRUMPETER'S DAUGHTER. Phillipot, Mr. Webster • Madelon, Madame Celeste. Webster; conclude with RURAL FELICITY. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit 3s. ; Gallery, 'le.; Upper Osllery, Is. Half-price—Boxes, _34. ; Pit 25.; Gallery. Is. ; Upper MH Uallery, . Doors opened at alf.past Six, and the Performances commence at Seven. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr I. I'. Archer, at the Box office, from Ten till Five. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STR FET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, JUNE 19, Will be repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled CROWN DIAMONDS. Count de Campo Mayor, Mr. Weiss ; Don Hen riques de Sandoval, Mr. Allen; Rebolledo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; La Caterina, Madame Anna Thillon ; Diana, Miss Grant. To which will be added ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright; Cleopatra, Miss Emma Stanley. To conclude with a New Farce, called WILFUL MURDER. Mr. Consol, Mr. Granby; Pythagoras Sphoon, Mr. Wright; Frank. Yea therly, Mr. Fitsjames ; Rhoda, Miss E. Honner. THEATRE ROY AL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING, JUNE 19, Will be performed a New Domestic Drama, entitled THE MO. MENTOUS QUESTION. Characters by Messrs. Diddear, F. Vining, J. W. Collier, Miss Fortescue, and Mrs. A. Wigan. After which, THB THREE FRA DIAVOLOS. Principal Characters by Messrs. T, Vining, Keeley, Wigan, Diddear, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. Woollillge, Toi be followed by an Apropos Bagatelle called POLKAMAN lA. Characters by Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss VVoolgar, and Mrs. Keeley. T. conclude with a (Irani Burlesque Fairy Extravaganza. called OPEN SESAME; or. - a Night with the Forty Thie es. liassarac, Mr. Keeley; Morgiana, Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF ADMISSION. —Balcony Boxes. 45.; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2 s. ; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier (bolding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Tier (holding eight persons), . One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guir ea. ASTLEY'S ROYAL. AMPHITHEATRE OF A 'ITS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. Great Success of the Chinese Feast of Lanterns, and New Military and Naval Spectacle. THIS EVENING, JUNE 19, Will be repeated an entire new Military arid Naval Equestrian Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR; or, The Conquests of Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery, Dresses, Appointments. Ac., to realise the recent triumphs of England's Army and Navy. Feast of 2.50 Lanterns. ' After which, an Allegorical Sketch and Living Tableaux of the Principal Events in the Career of the. Emperor Napoleon Buona parte—Austerlitz, St. Helena, Marengo, with Fame's •Tebute to, En land's Hero—the Duke of Wellington. Entire Change of Scenes of the Circle—Monsieur Turnaire on Nine Horses—Herr Teisbeck—La Petit Isabelle— Mr. Newsome— Mr. R. Smith and his Steeds of the Menage, &c. • T. conclude with . THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA ; or, The Deserter of Moscow. The doors will open nightly at six o'clock, andlhe performances commence at seven. Box-office opened daily from ten till four. The private' boxes have been reconstructed and decorated with care and splendour. • - Acting and stage.manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. DAV IDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATR F. • • • Amazing Novelty—Three German Dwarfs, under the Patronage of the King of Saxony—More remarkable instances of 41minutive perfection than ever General Tom Thumb—Last Week of 'Mr. G. Wieland's Engagement. • • -." • THIS EVEKING, JUNE 19, • Will be repeated a New Drama in •Three Act+, entitled THE INSTRUMENT OF TORTURE, in wnich Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks, Honnor, Vale, Lewis, and .Johnson Mrs. H. Vining, Mrs. Hughes, and Mrs. Hicks, will perform. • After ' whicb, a Lilliputian Ballet, entitled Napoleon's Grati tude' in which the, Erockstedt Family — three German Lilli p tivians, only 28, 32, and 36 inches in height will perform. • To be followed by the Comic Piece of HIDE AN D.SE.e:K. • To conclude with a Grand Fairy Spectacle.called THE SPRITE OF THE SNOW DRIFT. Zimmeir, the Sprite, ..by Mr. G: E Wieland. Superb Scenery and Dresses , xtraordniary effects, and wonderful feats... Places and Pnvateßoxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.. alike, from Eleven to Four. 4URREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, • • Daylight View of . LONDON in the OLDEN TIME!• • Painted by- Danson and Teibin. The sensation caused by this unrivalled production Ia beyond all former precedent; the artist, the amateur, the casual observer are all struck with its- extraordinary beauty and fidelity of delinea tion, and are unanimous in pronouncing it the most wonderful ex hibition ever witnessed. To view it only as a vehicle for the terrific display at Dusk is unjust ; it should be seen in the calm stillness of the quiet Evening, with its Towers and Steeples reflected in the spa. cious Lake, to be telly appreciated. The Evening PROMENADE CONCERTS, conducted by Mr. Godfrey, are upon a scale of more than usual excellence: but words fail in doingjustice• to the awful representation of THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON. Its fearild characteristics are truthfully peurtrayed, but at the same time so beautifully blended with the Wonders of the Pyrotechnic Alt, that delight is predominant over terror; and the Thousands who nightly crowd the Gardens hail it with acclamations, and admit that Southby, the Unrivalled Pyrotechnist, has achieved a matchless less triumph. The Gardens and Zoological Collection are in the most perfect state, and combining so many and interesting features, are by far the most attractive lounge in or near the metropolis. - • keeding of the Animals at Five—Concert at Six—Conflagration at Dusk. Admittance, One Shilling. KOYA EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT NOTICE. ONVI. .QUDILIJONCI Admission to THE NAT OLEOIS MU., SEUM, the most 1U ntnceni alltt—Cztvmh-re- of_ Histo rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known=g - den tortnea by Ono Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at. a cost of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in structive and Interesting manner, the most Important part of Euro history, viz.--CIURLES 1., OLIVER CROAIWELL, and MTIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often, during the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies, also, many thousands of the Nobility and Public ; and the Pro victor has recently been able to Increase, by several Very fine pictures, &c., his previous almost incredible number and variety of MSS., Works of Art, and a multitude of valuable Relier,,and other zuriosities, in this most instructive and, as hundreds have ,said it 'night to be, a National Museum. Many thousand have Inspected it, and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS have stated that it ought to beseen by.eVery, Wm. The price of admis- Von is reduced to ONE SIIILLING. • , The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen only at the " Egyptian Hall," Piccadilly, daily from Ten till Dusk. - . . THB WEATIIgn.-SUN OFFICE, JCNE 18., FHERMOIKETER, Lowest, 56 ; Highest, 72; Noon, 64. BAROMETER, S.E. NOTIL—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the reezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. lIIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TWA DAY. Morning 52 minutes after 3 I Evening ... 9 minutes after 4 the two divisions, or for further commentary, on them. Mr. WILLIAM BAGGE, Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS, Mr. CHARLES GORING, and Mr. C. TURNOUR, we observe among those whom new lights, illu minated between midnight on Friday and midnight on Monday, had induced to become opponents of the amendment they had previously supported. It has been, altogether, after allowing for the fact that twenty-four more Members voted last night than on Friday—one of the most extraordinary " crosses " (in sporting parlance) ever got up on the Parliamentary course ! An important public meeting was held on Mon day in the Town-hall of Birmingham, on the . subject of Ireland, when the warmest sympathy was express ed for that aggrieved country, and a solemn protest was recorded against the prosecution, trial, sentence, and imprisonment of Mr. O'Coroism. and his co-de fendants. A few, among many of the reasons, which induced the meeting to record this protest, are con tained in the following significant passage :—" Be cause the prosecution has been characterised by cir cumstances exhibiting an unfair influence over the right administration of justice; the suspicious disap pearance from the jury-list of the names of a number of Roman Catholics, whereby the jury, instead of being composed of twelve creditable men who - were neighbours to the fact, and unexceptionable to the parties concerned, was constituted exclusively of the religious and political opponents of the ac cused ; the marked bias against the defendants of one of the judges who presided; the conflicting opinions of the Court on several points of law during the trial ; the vague and undefined nature of the imputed offence ; and the refusal of a new trial, notwithstand ing the judicial decision of Judge PERRIN that the traversers were entitled to it." These are weighty reasons, which will be sure to make an impression on the minds of all intelligent and impartial English men. The language in which they are conveyed, is calm but forcible and decided, and proves that the men of Birmingham entertain the strongest feelings of sympathy for the Irish State pri soners—feelings which we may observe, by the way, are fast spreading among , English reformers of all grades, and will tend seriously to increase Sir ROBERT PEEL'S already numerous catalogue of Minis terial difficulties. It is high time, indeed, that Eng land's voice should be heard on the subject of Ire land's wrongs, and the Premier be told that, if he cannot make up his mind to adopt a more enlightened and conciliatory system of policy towards the sister country, he must make way for those who can and will. He has had quite a sufficient trial ; the utmost forbearance has been manifested towards him; and there is no longer the slightest excuse for his delay in acting justly towards Ireland. It is now ,four years and upwards since he took the reins of power, armed with an authority which no Minister has wielded since the clap of the second PITT. He had but to command, to be obeyed. The sister-country — generously forgetful of the past misgovernment of Toryism—was willing to hope for the best, and accept an instalment of the heavy debt so long owing to her, if she-could.not obtain the whole. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S smooth constant professions of good-will encouraged these hopes; and the diminished strength of the .Orange party, which was besides distracted by in ternal feuds, gave him the finest possible opportunity of realiiing a portion, at least, if not all, of his pro fessions. But session after session came and went, and still found nothing, but empty professions bestowed on , Ireland: Not one of her admitted grievances was removed—not even an attempt was made to remove them—the . old inveterate spirit of Tory distrust was still exhibited towards her ; the Catholics as usual were kept as much as possible in the back-ground, and their enemies premoted to offices ,Of honour and emolument ; and the Conservative Cabinet showed, throughout their Irish policy, . that they had changed their name only, and not their nature. At length, towards the close of last year, the question of the state of Ireland was formally brought formiard in the House of Commons. But was the long discussion that ensued of a cheer ing, of a pacific character.? Far otherwise. It was neither more nor less than a proposition, supported by the entire weight of Government, and insisted on by them ua u isimaeneami innst grinding Deo esitYs for increasing the severity of the existing Arms Bill And this is about the sum total of the benefits that the Premier, after four years' un controlled authority, has conferred on Ireland ! But no, we do him injustice. He has, in addition to his insulting Arms Bill, contrived to place under the secure lock and key of a Peni tentiary, the man of all others most dear to the hearts of Irishmen—the man who may be said, without exaggeration, to hold his country's destinies in his hand—the man who, if we mistake not, will yet be found too strong _for the Ministry who have incar cerated him., Truly, Ireland has every reason to be grateful to her Tory rulers—every reason to sink back into that state of quiescence which she ex perienced during the conciliatory Administration of 'Lord NORMARBY ! But the end is not yet come. True, the monster-meetings are .put a stop to, and Mr. O'CortziaLL is confined within the four walls of fe. prison; taut it is his body only that is in durance ; his spirit still walks abroad ; the seed which he sowed —be it for good or for evil—still flourishes; and, perhaps, he was- never so powerful as he is at the present moment ; for to admiration of his talents and confidence in his patriotism, are now added the in tensest sympathy. in his fate, and the conviction that his trial has been an unjust one. Sir RoniaT PEEL has already shown that he cannot govern. Ireland. yet to show—and the proof, will be forth coming ere long—that he cannot govern England. . We recur to the very important subject brought under: the notice of the House of Commons, on. Mon day night last, by Mr. THOMAS DUNCOMBE. The Hon. Gentlemen, it will be remembered, stated, on the authority of a petition, which he presented, that certain letters, written and posted by the petitioners, Messrs. LINTON, LOVETT, MAZZINI, and others, had , been opened, read, and unduly detained at the General Post-office. Petitioners, who were prepared to prove the truth of these allegations, declared that the letters in question, which had been written at No. 47, De vonshire-street, Queen-square, Bloomsbury, were not written with any political purpose, and contained no treasonable matter. They now prayed the House to grant a Committee of Inquiry into a proceeding which they could only identify with the system of espionage established in the departments of some foreign States, but which was a system alike repugnant to the spirit of the British Constitution, and dangerous to the prin ciples of British liberty. All this, and more, is perfectly true of such a system. It is one calculated, moreover, to excite all the indignant jealousy of Englishmen on the score of that national honour and good faith which they appeal to with a just and noble confidence in protesting against, or re senting, the crooked policy observed by other States in tampering with the private business and affairs of foreigners who may happen to be within their juris diction. The sacredness of sealed letters is (not to speak disparagingly of so sound a principle), a moral prejudice, a received axiom, an inalienable association in the scheme of English society. It is assumed to be as unviolated in practice as it is unim peachable in theory; and the scorn and contempt vi sited on its infraction, in private life, are of the most intense and implacable character which can attach to the vengeance of opinion. We speak of that opinion which is the unwritten judgment of the community (on crimes against social confidante and private inte grity)—beyond and independent of all legal penalty. No wonder, then, that Mr. DUNCOMBE'S address ex cited so profound a sentiment within and beyond the walls of Parliament ; and we trust, for the character of the country, that the matter it involved is not to be allowed to sink out of notice, or to escape a most searching inquiry, out of any consideration for the shuffling statement offered by the Home Secretary, Sir JAMES GRAHAM—a statement halting between habitual arrogance, and awakened timidity ; between an affectation of the speaker's confidence ini: n i a so d fficial i m punity, under th e latent p owers of an unsuspected clause in a consolida tin g Post-office statute ner vous indications of his alarm at the succession of un welcome questions provoked from various quarters by the tone and temper of his refusal to supply the infor mation demanded of him. Sir JAMES is, after all, but a clumsy dabbler in the art of managing spies; he will .find these servilest of public hacks as liable to break down 'in St. Martin's-le-Grand as at Clontarf or Donnybrook. Now let us look a little at the detail of the debate) THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDA in its actual order. Mr. DUNCOMBE, we repeat, after the petitioners, stated that the letters were written for no political purpose, and contained no treasonable matter. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, in no subsequent pas sage, attempts to aver that they did. This should be borne in mind, because it is a fact which deprives the Right Hon. Secretary of any ex post facto justification for breaking their seals to get at their contents. Mr. DUNCOMBE asked whether the Right Hon. Baronet was aware that the letters of these individuals had been so opened, read, and examined at the General Post-office ; and, if such things had been done, whe ther they were done by authority of any of the prin cipal Secretaries of State ? Sir JAMES evaded this question, by assuming that the House was aware that, from so early a period as the reign of ANNE, power had been invested in the principal Secretaries, "by warrant, to detain letters, and to empower the Post office authorities to open them." Why, these powers were granted under so different a state of things f r om that which at present exists—internal convul sions, a fgreign war, and jacobinical intrigues for the restoration of the STUARTS..—that it was then a question of confiding them to the con stitutional and clean hands of a GODOLPHIN, instead of those of a GRAHAM. The same power, however, Sir JAMES asserts, came under the review of Parliament in 1837, and, by the Ist VICTORIA, was continued in her MAJESTY'S principal Secretaries of State. But, in the first place, even if this were so, it would only show that, in the scandalous hurry with which the House of Commons gallops through official Bills, at the more advanced periods of a session, the most important and most iniquitous provisions and powers may escape all observation and discussion ; and, in the second, the fact remarked by Mr. HUME, and afterwards cleverly illustrated by Mr. WATSON, in the debate on Friday, is not exactly, as it suited Sir JAMES thus to state it. Sir JAMES (who can never "pull up" in time), carried away by this felici tous invocation of ANNE and VICTORIA, wont on to this very tender ground :—" That the power com plained of he had, as Home Secretary, by the law of the land ; that he had exercised it, as one entrusted to Ministers for the public safety; that the Parliament . of the country placed confidence in those who exer cised it"—among those, of course, is himself. As if Parliament had forgotten his unexampled apostacy from his party;, his inconceivable desertion of his principles ! As if Parliament could be tutored to for get the quondam Radical Whiggery of the present Tory Secretary, by the humiliating exhibition of his tacit acquiescence in, and patient endurance under, the jibes, and taunts, and sneers, of the Pre mier whom he now serves, at the " Corn and Cur rency" doctrines of " Sir JAMES GRAHAM, of Ne therby," in 1827, when appealed to, and vindicated by, the Birmingham " Gemini" of 1844 ! As if the House of Commons, with the recollection fresh in its mind of Education Bills ejected, and Factory legislation failures, and secret missions, and private instructions to ostensible reporters for public :papers, and this last acknowledged exercise of a power disgraceful to all concerned in its proposition, its grant, or its use, were reasons for " confidence," truly ! But then, it seems, with respect to the letters of three of the petitioners, no warrant had ever been issued. " With respect to the fourth, he bad on his own responsibility issued a warrant which was not' now in force. So then, in three of these cases, if Sir JAMES will obstinately withhold further information, we are to assume no warrants were issued. How came the letters of these parties, then, to be opened, examined, read, detained ? Who is to plead to this illegality ? Does Sir JAMES gravely expect that the Parliament, or the people of England, sill tamely submit, like whipped schoolboys, to be assured that for the power " to have thus been exercised is for the public good." Mr. DUNCOMBE complained—and with reason, too —that such proceedings were worthy of foreign despotisms, only—not of an enlightened monarchy like this :—that not one man in 20,000 was aware of the " power" thus smuggled into the Act, 1 VICTORIA ;—that in times of peace especially, there could be neither excuse nor reason for its being put in action. He affirmed (and Mr. WALLACE con firmed his statement by some remarkable facts) that within these two years the practice of opening and detaining letters at the Post-office had largely in creased. We cannot concur in Mr. LABOUCHERE'S defence of his own conduct in 1836-37, in incorpo rating such a power as that complained of in his Bill, on the mere principle that it already existed in pre vious statutes, and his was but a Bill of consolida- tion. No Englishman ought to consent to vest such a power in any hands, except under much more strin gent restraints and control. If necessary in time of war, or under strong cases of suspected treasonable correspondence, let the detention and opening be made matters previous specific communication to, and authority from, Parliament. Dr. BOWRING, we suspect, was not far froi the truth in his suspicion that the letters of the petitioners had been opened, "not for an honest English purpose, but for a discre ditable foreign one." With Mr. HUME'S spirited re probation of the practice, and its assumed authority, we cordially concur. But Mr. 'WATSON brought the affair to its true constitutional, and Sir JAMES him self may find its true responsible, bearing. From the Right Hon. Baronet's having given no answer to Mr. 'WARBURTON'S inquiry " whether he had issued a se parate warrant in each case in which a letter had been opened," Mr. WATsoN read the words of the 9th ANN, C. 10, S. 40, which were—" Except by express warrant in writing under the hand of one of her MA JESTY'S principal Secretaries of State for every such opening, detention, or delay." Now these terms could never be satisfied by "A" warrant, to be kept in force till revoked, to open all letters coming in a particular handwriting to a particular individual. But in Mr. LABOUCHERE'S Act—of " simple conso lidation"—the words gave a power "to open, detain, or delay letters in obedience to an express warrant," &c. These are certainly strangely altered in the pro cess of consolidation. But, as Mr. WATSON ob served, "In all matters we must look back to sta tutes which existed before, and, in doing so, it would be found they made an express warrant necessary for each opening." The production of the warrant, or the warrants, one and all, we trust, will be sternly insisted upon. Parliament can then form their own construc tion of the Home Secretary's construction of an Act of Parliament. In the meanwhile, her MAJESTY'S Government must have discovered that in taking Sir JONAH GRAHAM on board, they have shipped a de serter who is sure to sink every vessel that may carry his unlucky person ! We have received Madrid journals of the 10th, but they are barren of intelligence. The Funds had im proved a little. The Three per Cents. closed at 271 to for cash, and 27} at 60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at 201 at 60 days. The Journal des Debats, of Monday, contains an other singular article on the affairs of the East, and especially the relations of China with the East India Company. We are surprised to find the able and cautious editor of this paper duped by some unscru pulous correspondent at Bombay or Calcutta, who mistakes the visions of his own imagination for facts, and transmits them to Paris as the latest news of the day. " The news brought from China by the last mail," says that journal, " possess much interest. Political as well as commercial affairs are assuming a different aspect, and we can already foresee coming changes of sufficiently grave importance." It then relates a story, dressed up by its veracious corre spondent in these words :—" The first event of im portance is the arrival at Calcutta of Sir WILLIAM PARKER, the Governor of Hong-Kong, charged with a proposition from the Emperor ofCHINA to the East In dia Company. The Ruler of the Celestial Empire being desirous to save his subjects from the de moralising effects produced by opium, offers to pay the Company an annual tribute of a million and a half sterling, on condition that they give up the cul ture of opium throughout the whole extent of the British possessions." This is a lesson of philanthropy, the writer adds, which would do honour to the country of WILBERFORCE and Lord ASHLEY. It is a noble spectacle to see this poor Monarch (pauvre ntonarque) conquered and scoffed at, exclaim, with the money in his hand—" Here is the gold which ye seek—the gold which ye must have for your luxury and comfort. Well, take it. I give it you, but do not Poison my subjects." , The bargain, however, it would appear, was not struck, as the English in India could make more by the.trade. .This is all very im portant, and fresh news to the English public. The only domestic news in the Paris papers is a • general strike among the barristers practising hi the Cour Royale. It appears that a leading member of the bar wished an important suit, in which he wl5 engaged, to be postponed on account of the death of his child, as he was unable to do justice to his client.. M. &GUM, the President, however, refused to ac cede to the proposition, stating that private feeling had nothing to do with public duty, and that the business of the Court could not be interfered with by the absence of any of the counsel. This decision created a sensation unfavourable to the President, which was still further increased by his declaring in another instance, where an advocate threw up his brief in an unworthy cause, "that the advocate in question had done wrong ; that barristers in general were bound to plead whether the case were good or bad; and that, if they did not do so, they acted con trary to conscience and to their oath." A meeting was held in consequence, when they unanimously re ' solved to refuse to plead in the • Court without an ample apology from the President. That determina tion was to be announced to the Learned Judge on Monday. DEATH OF THE AUTHOR OF THE " PLEASURES or HOPE. " —It is with feelings of poignant regret that we record the death of Thomas Campbell, the poet, who died a day or two since at Boulogne, in the sixty fifth year of his age. With the sole exception of Rogers —who still lives and flourishes at a most patriarchal age—Campbell was the only remaining disciple of the polished but artificial school of Pope. The first work by which he made himself conspicuous in literature was the " gjgaiures of Hope"—a poem which was written, we believe, before he had completed his 22d year, and which still maintains its place among our English classics. This brilliant production was followed by " Gertrude of Wyoming "—a more chaste and elegant, but scarcely so animated a composition as its predecessor —" Theodric," the " Pilgrim of Glencoe," and those immortal lyrics , " Hohenl inden," " Lochiers Warning," " Ye Mariners of England," the " Exile of Erin," and the " Battle of the Baltic," which have rendered his fame as enduring as the lan guage in which they were written. But Mr. Campbell was not only a poet, he was a prose-writer also of considerable merit; and published successively lives of Mrs. Siddons and Petrarch, together with " Letters from Algiers," which abound in descriptions of exquisite beauty. For a long series of years he edited the " New Monthly Magazine," to which he contributed many little poetical gems of the purest water; and on his secession from this periodical, started the "Metropo litan," of which, however, he soon wearied. From an early period of his public career, he enjoyed a pension of three hundred pounds a-year ; was one of the founders of the London University ; and in the year 1836, had the high honour of being elected Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow. In politics he was of the Liberal school ; took a warm interest in the affairs of -Poland ; and was on habits of familiar acquaintance with all the most illustrious literary spirits of his country. As a poet he would have achieved the highest possible rank —for his genius was of the first order—had he had more faith in his own impulses, and obeyed with more boldness the promptings of his fervid ima gination. But he was fastidious to a degree in his poetical tastes, and would, at any time, sacrifice a fine thought to a correct line. His " Gertrude of Wyoming" possesses all the fine polish of Parian marble ; and the description of the death of the heroine, and her last address to her agonised husband, is, of its kind, the tenderest and most touching episode to be found in the whole wide range of modern English poetry. Mr. CaMpbell was born in Scotland, and received his education in Edinburgh. He was social in his habits, was a kind friend, and a truly catholic politician. THE WEATHER.—There has been a delightful change in the weather since Monday. The ba rometer has fallen fully half an inch , and we have had several genial showers of rain in the course . of the night and this forenoon. As the change has taken place about the time of new moon, and the sky is much overcast, we may hope that the long and de structive drought is at last come to an end. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, JUNE 14.—Several persons of distinction have arrived here within these two days. Among them are Lord Ashburton, Lord Elcho, General Sir G. Ha milton, and Vice-Admiral Sir J. Sykes. The celebrated Fanny Elssler has arrived from Vienna, on her way to London. The magistrates and commercial council of Walheim have just addressed a petition to the Chamber, soliciting the imposition of a duty of at least 10f. per 1,000 killo grammes on hay imported into Belgium over the Dutch frontiers. The. cultivation of the meadows and the trade in hay are the only . resource of that commune since the completion of the iron railway ; it has, therefore, been carrried on with great spirit to arrest the distress which threatened the inhabitants. For some time they sent very large quantities to Brussels every week, but foreign competition threatens to deprive them of this last re source. The Chamber of Representatives is still dis cussing the project of law relative to labour. It is not ea to perceive what may be the result. TURKISH FRONTIERS, JUNE I.—The Montemgrins have again committed great excesses against their Turkish, neighbours, attacking a caravan of Turkish merchants from the Herzowina, returning from Rajura ; they murdered part of the merchants, and carried off all their goods. They sent the heads of the murdered per sons as trophies to the Vladika, who, however, immedi ately sent back the heads, and,ordered the goods to be restored. The plunder was, indeed, dispersed in all di rections, but search was making for it, and the Vladika sent to the Turkish Pasha assurances that satisfaction should be given. "•;- 4 3f,t' , le, "IPA a 1 , • 4.4 t : 6 # o_3z. ,At - 2_4 ,✓ r'11,16 f 4 4; .eirwezib, - - • ‘ , ll.. rat i gag , IS :i 1, .1 1 iltilt I . /2144 LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1844. In the House of Lords the Insolvent Debtors' Bill, and the Court of Bankruptcy Bill passel through Committee. The Slave Trade Treaties Bill was read a third time. The Earl of STRADBROKE presented a petition from Stow Market, praying the House to take measures for preventing incendiarism. The House adjourned at an early hour till Friday. The Commons did not make a House. The Mem bers were exhausted by the debates on the Sugar Question, and as only thirty-six Members were pre sent at four o'clock, the SPEAKER adjourned the House till this day. ' . .The present House of Commons had already earned, in dealing with the Factory question, an un enviable celebrity for the facility with which it could be brought to unvote to day what it had voted yes terday; to affirm, absolutely, to day that which it shall as fully and distinctly retract to-morrow. But the flexibility of purpose which it betrayed on Mon f4y; liai scarcely been paralleled by any Legislative Assembly since that which was summoned, in the dead of night, to meet a Roman CssAR in solemn Coupeil, ami'then and there did gravely advise the Imperial Majesty on the most eligible mode of dress ing a.monsteryturhot. On Friday night last, as our readersiwill remember, the Commons, by a majority of 20 40 . 45, in a - House of 462 Members, exclusive .... • of four, tellers,•,aeeided that the words in the first d ilu te 'of ; the -Sugar Duti es Bill, i ntro d uce d b y h er ...,... A t ti o T y A _Ministers, which charged a Customs d ti ty:, o f-fq.V-4s. per dwt."—" in respect of sugar the of any Briti sh gr pwitii possession in A mer i ca, and - i -, leeLfroin thence," snout.") NOT stand part of such elauseil:;"And inasmuch as this question arose on the " **VA I L t" 'proposed by Mr. Pamir MLLES, to the effeetJhat the duty in respect of " sugar the growth of;* British. posseisipn in America, and imported 601-I,olence," should be 1/. per cwt., the Com niltteef, c ' in' ,the ordinary course of thin g s, would do4leas, have gone op, on Friday evening, the amendment being next, specifically propose d from the tablOblaffirrn:it, liSr the Same, or very nearly the same ... •. . samajority. • Ministers, however, begged for time to:consider theol.frse i they should take in the matter, aer .the adverso..vote ,Against their original clause. blast night Sir R. ,PE•tii,iit the close of one of the • o ‘ o ict iisic t o. . 5 .. w i ~, txtuoitsnnotiriceskrthtt , boternment were determined to, adhere .. to r the. v origißal f .claule. The wonderful c..,:(*.:,4ii'y4,4ati,i:lipilibii,gie Ilouse resolving itself "' la c- 4 ctriittPe RnAttel , Bill,' after a short.Elebate, Mr r 4 E2WS ' , MILF+',SI . aTnirbileni iir4:9 ' IPA; ' andwas negatived . , €,,, '---:t-' - '5( Tillus" -the fZi*gnis.ly,lgoes"2 ss , against Ayes 233. 4.7 1 ;1' - mi is - ' *" l s"itY.‘ l 4- ,Frid.ay night of 20 against r n ters, tivai - '4,6hi ~4..... d, c cr_____ ' )- 4 , 4-' - ' I ..- t .. favour, last ' night, - of 2d, ~ a_.l( - -' - e', ;into a. majority in their on Virtually one and the Co' ''''''' - - - same question! 41 / 4 , ----'-' . •:, ....itive no room, this m o r n i ng , f or an analysis of ..-, ‘,.- LLOYDS SHIPPING. LONDON, JUNE 18.—Wind this day at noon, light breezes from S.S.E., with showers at times. Poirrsmouni, JUNE 17.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. her Majesty's ship Bonetta, eastward. Sid. her Majesty's steamer Prome theus, Sierra Leone ; her Majesty's ship Cygnet, Ascension, and coast of Africa. - YARMOUTH, ISLE or WIGHT, JUNE 16.--Acrd. Lion (steamer), London, and sailed for Calcutta. COWES, J U NE 17.—Arrd. Ovando, Dyer, Matanzas. DEAL,JUNE 17.—Wind, A.m., S.E. •, P.M., E.S.E. to E:, moderate.—Arrd. Mona, Cork. Sld. Yore, Port Adelaide ; John Williams, Cape of Good Hope, &c. ' • Cybele, Berbice. F ALMO UTH, JUNE 17.—Wind S.E., light.—Off, her Ma jesty's ship Apollo, Quebec, sailed 28th ult. ; Salem, Batavia. FRASERBURGII, JUNE 13.—The Cock of the North, of and for Aberdeen, from Spey, got on Caimburg Brig this morn ing, but has come off and proceeded with apparently little damage. TRURO, JUNE 15.—Acrd. Minerva, Swansea, with damage, having been in contact, 11th inst., off Mumble Head, with the 'Brand, of Brixham. OFF THE NORTH FORELAND, JUNE 15.—Kimber, Park, Bermuda. Do NAG HADEE, JUNE 14.--Acrd. Countess of Westmore land, Clark, Valparaiso, for Newcastle ; touched on the North Rock, but does not make much water. HULL, Juirlu 16.—Arrd. Houghton ' Wilson; Rimswell, Brown ; and Andromache , Hunter, St. John's, New Bruns wick; S amu el Spyvee, Wilson Bombay. L IVERPOOL , JUNE 17.—Veind S.S.E., moderate.—Arrd. Lana Danis, Quebec. Sld. Gun, Singapore ; Harvest Home, Thomas Miller, and William Wallace, Calcutta ; Antigua packet, Ceylon ; Australia , Clydesdale, and Lancaster, Bom bay ; Ganges, Aden, Baron of Bramber, Rio ; Heroine, ditto ; Cicely, Brazils ; Cosmopolitan and Sarah Trotman, Africa ; Gondola, Trinidad ; St. Vincent, St. Vincent's ; Carena and Higginson, Barbadoes ; Lydia, Antigua ; St. Mark, Savannah; Luceflia, Baltimore; Columbus, Louisa, and Nile, New York ; Almira and Triton, Boston ; Bartley, Halifax ; Erna, Richebucto ; Ann Jeffrey, Druid, Eglinton, and Tay, Quebec ; Dixon and Tam O'Shanter, Montreal. Off; Helen Thomson, New York. OFF Conic, JUNE 15.—Brunswick, Morrison, St. An drews ; South Esk, Robinson, St. John's, New Brunswick. SAUNDERSFOOT, JUNE 15.—Sld. Lady Phillips, Pictou. WEXFORD, JUNE 15.—Arrd. Hibernia, Neville, St. John's, New Brunswick. TAE KING or SAIIONY.—His Majesty went early yesterday morning to St. Paul's, and ascended the cathedral, at 5 A.M., to have a panoramic view of London before the fires were lighted. From St. Paul's his Majesty went to Smithfield, and from thence to Billingsgate. The King afterwards went to Covent-garden Market. His Majesty was on foot, and was attended by the gen tlemen of his suite. HARBOURS OF REFUGE ON TUE COAST.---It has been suggested to Lloyd's, that if the Spatway, or passage between the Buxey and Gunfleet Sands, was better known, and such measures as are necessary for a that purpose taken, such as the laying down buoys, Sic., nd a leading mark through and into the River Cole, the shipping interest would be greatly benefited, as, although that harbour iS but little known by the seamen generally, it is capable of holding 500 sail. The Gazette des Tribunaux publishes the following account of a trial which took place a short time ago at Christiania, in Norway :—" In the night of the 23d De cember last, a peasant named Sydfjord applied for shelter, during a storm, ; toy. Moerstroem, the clergy man of the village of Tolile9.; This : was immediately granted, and a bediooter :was 'assigned to the guest. As soon as M. Moerstroem and his wife were sup posed to be asleep, , Sydfjard , entered their bedroom, and inflicted on each a wound id' the , throat with a knife. The dergyman•-died almost irrmiediately ; but his wife, notwithstanding her .viottneV , withable to rise and escape Icy' the windovfo, and fake , refuge in the house Of a neghbour, whilst the m u rderer was in an adjoininoC . Sorn, where lie killed. Al:ie . :adopted son of M. Moerstfoeni. The magiitrate of :the village, on being apprised of this calamity, proceeded with several persons to the parsonage-house, where they.found the murderer, who was ignorant of the escape of one of his victims, tranquilly packing up all the portable property. He was arrested but, notwithstanding the p ositive evidence against him, persisted in declaring that he was innocent, until ten days afterwards, when, being placed in presence of Madame Moerstroem, who was then dying, he burst into tears, and confessed his crime. He was brought to trial, found guilty, and sentenced to be beheaded, and the crime having been aggravated by a violation of hospitality, it was ordered that after death the body should be burned, and the ashes distributed by the winds." STORM IN EDlNBURGM.—Yesterday afternoon, a large portion of the wall between the Queen's Park and the Dumbiedikes was blown down by the high wind which pre vaned; during the day from the westward,• in ecitiSequetice of which twelve sheep and four lambs, the property of Mr. Cormack, James's-square, were killed. —Edinburgh Evening .Post of Saturday. MORNING, JUNE 19, 1844, MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. The Consol Market leaves off steadily at 983 to T. Those who talk of an advance in prices on account of Sir :Robert Peel's remaining in office, should remember that they are now even not so high as they were on this day 'week. Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. touched 1013, and Three per Cents. 983. Spanish Bonds left off at 23i 3- for the Actives, and at 344 3 for the Three per Cents. A purchase in Brazil Stock caused an advance to 82 and in Old Portuguese to 81. Colom bian were dull at 124. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Eastern Counties, New, were 53 to 3 ; Great Western, 453 ; Ditto, Fifths, 103 ; Harwich (Locke), 3 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, I ; Birmingham, 118 to 1174 ; Manchester and Leeds, 36 ; Newcastle and Darlington, 21i. ; York and North Midland , Half , 35 ; arid Paris and Rouen, 17i, to 183 premium. Eastern Counties were 111 discount. The axchange on Paris, Antwerp, and Hamburgh was, this afternoon, rather more in our favour. The following is the official return of the exports of the precious metals from the Port of London for the week ending Thursday last : Silver Bars to Hamburgh „ Coin to Rotterdam IP, „ St. Kitt's If Bullion to Rotterdam 11,600 oz. to Hamburgh 6,500 oz. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday had a very firm appearance, and fully 10,000 bales were sold at steady prices, and in some instances rather higher. Exporters took 2,500 bales, and speculators 500. The sales included 300 Egyptian, at 7d. to Sid. ; 100 Bahia, at 53d. ; 200 Maranham, at 5/d. to Rd. ; 500 Surat, at 3d. to 3/d. ; and the rest American at 34 to 7d for New Orleans.—Shares were rather languid. Eastern Counties, 11/ ; Grand Junction, 217 ; Birmingham, 219 ; Ditto, Thirds, 354 ; Midland Counties, 934; North Midland, 934; Ditto, Half, 463; Paris and Lyons, 33. There are no ship-letters to-day, but the Brazil Mail is considered due. Her advices, however, will probably not be of particular interest, as we have intelligence by private ship to the 20th April, and the packet was to leave on the 22d of that month. The renewed division on the Sugar Bill, leaving the ques tion in abeyance till next year, has not caused any vexation in Mincing-lane, as the importers and dealers are harassed by these frequent petty changes, and would rather go on till a decided alteration can be made. At the sametime, it is admitted that if the free foreign sugar could have been got in without much delay, but which, owing to the distinctive vouchers required as to their growth, &c., few persons believe, a boon would have been conferred upon the consumer. The movement of the agriculturists against the Bank Charter Bill is considered to be gaining ground, AS, indeed, the farmers begin to be more sensible of the increased diffi culty they will experience in obtaining occasional money accommodation from the local banks. Numerous petitions have been adopted, in substance mostly agreeing, but especially directed to this point. The Funds have been very steady, and support the im provement of yesterday afternoon. Consols for Account have been 984 to 3. Exchequer Bills are also at the full pre mium of 745. to 765. East India Bonds have been steady at 955. premium. The Reduced Three -and -a-Half per Cents. are 1014 to 3, and the Three per Cents. 984 to 4. Bank Stock has been marked 1974 to 1984. Long An nuties are 12 7-16 to 123. The Foreign Market has been well supported, although the operations are on a moderate scale only. Spanish Five per Cents. obtain 234 to i t, and the Three per Cents. 343 to 4; Mexican Stock has maintained itself at 343 to 3 ; Colombian is dull at 121, and Brazilian at 81/ to . Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 613 to 4. The Share Market is very quiet, but has a firm appearance for the few railways dealt . in. There have been no transfers n banks or mines. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 17.—We have bad a quiet market, without any material change in prices : —Barnsley Junction, 3 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 57 ; ditto Quarters, 4 prem. ; "York and North Midland, 120; Preston and Wye Guarantee, 25. CLOSING PRICES. BJtITISH FUNDS. Bask Stock 198% Indian Stock pm. 3 per Cent. Red 98% Ditto Bonds 95 pm. 3 per Cent. Cons. 3% - per Cent. Red :„... . „ lOl% Ditto New Annuities ... New 3% per Cent. Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 130 ... '76 pm. New 5 per Cent. Ditto 5001. ...... ......... Pin. Long Annuities to expire ' Ditto Small 76 pm. Jan 1860 12% Bank Stock for Acct.... Oct. 1859 12% Consols for °pg..... ..... 98% Jan. 1660 lndia Stock for Acct.... FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent ... ...... Portuguese, 5 per Cent Belgian, 5 per Cent — Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... Russian, 5 per Cent Chllian, 6 per Cent ... ..... ... !Ditto, Metallic .......... ...... Colombian, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, 3 per Cent 34% Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — 'Ditto, Deferred Danish, 3 per Cent Greek, I8.:5, 5 per Cent — Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per Cent ..... ... French, 3 per Cent. —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 Dutch, 2% per Cent...... 613 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — Ditto, 5 per Cent .........100% SHARES. Eastern Counties (23 paid) Ditto Registered (816 s 8d paid) Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid 77 ki Ditto Fifths, 12 paid 2:.% Harwich (Braithwaite), 2% paid. ' Lancaster and Carlisle, 5 paid' 5% London and Birmingham (Stock) Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Newcastle and Darhngron Junction. 21 paid 42% York and North Midland (50 paid) l2l Ditto Half Shares (25 paid) P , ' - and Rouen, 20 paid 38% 'aria - ~ - pa COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERIAY., Amster dam CF. 12 6 Gibraltar — Ditto, at sight l2 4 Leghorn 3O 45 Rotterdam 2U. 12 6i Genoa 25 90 Antwerp ' 25 90 Milan — Bamburgh M. 8.13 14 Venice 47 Alton . 13 144, Naples 39 Paris, 3 days' sight... 25 65 Palermo, per oz ll7 Ditto, 3 months -25 85 Lisbon 54 Marseilles 25 90 Oporto 54 Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 23 Frankfort on Maine.. 121 i Bahia 23 Petersburgh, 3 Us... 37 Buenos Ayres — Berlin 7 NewYork,2ldys sight Vienna, effee. f 1.3 M 953 Philadelphia — Trieste, ditto Madrid 37 Foreign Gold, bars. £3 17 9 Cadiz Bilbao ' 36 New Doubloons..... 0 0 0 Barcelona 36 , New Dollars 0 410 Seville — Silver in Bars 0 4 11i FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Earl of Leitrim, in Great Cumberland-place ; Lord Leveson, in Bruton-street ; Sir E. and Lady Smythe, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from Acton Burnet, Shrop shire ; Lord Crofton, at the Marquis of Anglesey's, Burling ton-street, from Mole Park, Roscommon; Mr. Baillie, in Belgrave-square, from 11111 Park, near Sevenoaks ; Mrs. and the Misses Alexander, on Carlton-terrace ; Earl and Countess Bruce, in Pall-mall; ,Lord and Lady Cloncurry, from a con tinental tour; Captain ancflady Caroline Barthe Hamilton . and family, from ditto; Sir Charles Chad and Lady Jane 'Tumour, at the York Hotel, Albemarle-street, from their seat in NOrwich ; Mr. and Mrs. Barton and family, at ditto, from a tour ; Mrs. Burrows and family, at ditto, from Paris ; Mrs. and Mrs. Armitt and family, at ditto, from Woolwich ; Mrs. and Miss Hendrick, at ditto, from West Grinstead ; General arid Miss Sitwell, at Crawley's Park Hotel, Norwood, from town Mr. and Mrs: Long and family, at ditto, from Regent's Park; Lady Caroline Morrison, at ditto, from Har ley-street ; Mr. and Mrs. Kinnaird Smith, at ditto, from Welbeck-street ; the Countess of Charlemont, at ditto, from Grosvenor-street'; the Countess de Palffy, at Thomas's Ho tel, from Paris. DEPARTURES. Lady Matilda and Miis Locke, for St. Leonards-on- Sea ; Messrs. Wainwright and Anthon (of the United States), from the Burlington Hotel, Cork-street; the Hon. William Bagot, from Lord Dartmouth's, St. James's-square, for BlOm field, near Stafford;' the Hon. G. J. Cavendish, for his villa, at Chertsey ; the' Hon..H. D. Ward, for Lord Ward's seat, Himley Hall, Staffordshire ; Mr.. and Mrs. Wm. .Gerrard, from the York Hotel, Albemarle-street, for their seat in Lan cashire; Mr. and Mrs. , Bendyehe and family, from ditto, for their seat, Kneesworth House, Royston ; Mrs. Waddington and Miss Cocksedge, from ditto, for Ely, Cambridgeshire ; Mr. and Mrs. Nesbitt and family, from Crawley's Park Hotel, on a tour in the north ; the Hon. Mrs. Brown Jones and family, from ditto, for Wales; Mr. and Mrs. Harman, from ditto, for Richmond;. General and Mrs. Soubbankoff, from ditto, for, the Continent. • • MARRIAGE IN HIGH LII.E.—=On Monday, at St. George's, Hanover-square, by the Venerable Archdeacon Shirley, Keith Stewart Mackenzie, Esq., of Seaforth, to Miss Hope Vere, eldest daughter of the late James Joseph Hope Vere, Esq., of Craigie Hall, and Blackwood, N.B. The bride was given away by, the Duke of Wellington. There were present the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton, Marquis of Huntly, Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, Earl and Countess of Dalhousie, Earl and Countess of Dunmore, Earl and Countess of Rosebery, Countess of Lincoln, Earl of Gif ford, Lord John Hay, Lady Charlotte Egerton, Viscount and Vi sc o u ntess Beresford, Viscount Loftus, Lady Anne Dash wood, Hon. Admiral • Proby, Ladies Proby,. Hon. Mrs. Stewart Mackenzie, of Seaforth, Hon. Captain and Mrs. Knox, Right Hon. Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Hon. Charles Murray, Sir Archibald Macdonald, Sir John Wilson, Mr. Hay, Mr. Wells, Ike. The bridesmaids were thg Misses Hope Vere and the Misses Stewart Mackenzie. After the ceremony the wedding party, with the exception of the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton, and the Countess of Lincoln, who were prevented by a domestic calamity from joining the happy circle, returned to Lady Elizabeth Hope Vere's house in Park-lane, where they partook of an elegant dejeuner. In the evening Lady Elizabeth entertained a select party of friends. _ _ -------- FRENCHGENEROSITY.—The brig Symmetry, which arrived at Falmouth lately, for orders from Odessa, with grain, had a very long passage, and when a few leagues off Scilly, the crew were so short of provisions as to be com pelled to bruise some of their cargo and make a kind of pud ding for food. They were likewise very short of water. In this strait the Symmetry fell in with an English brig, and one of the officers went on board, and inquired if he could be spared some provisions. Have you got any money? was the reply. This being satisfactorily answered, one cwt. of bread was hoisted out, for which this selfish captain charged 285., though most probably it cost him only a guinea! A few days after the Symmetry fell in with a French brig, and after stating their destitute condition, applied again for provisions. The French captain immediately got out a bag of his very best bread, a supply of water, and a variety of other articles of consumption, and when he was asked the cost, he magnanimously replied, " Noting, me no take one sous; me very glad to carve you; no take one sous." — West Briton. PROSPECTS OF THE GROUSE SEASON.—We learn that the grouse are in the seine critical state with the crops, being, like them_, dependent upon the wea ther of the next week or two. The birds are just now chipping the shell, and are found in hatches from eight to twelve, which, allowing for casualties in early youth, would likely give an average number of coveys in the autumn. Everything, how ever, depends, so far as regards the lower range of moors, upon an early fall of rain, for with the continuance of the present drought for another fortnight few birds, in such situations, would survive it. Again, on the higher range of shooting grounds—viz., at the head of Atholl, Badenoch, and Lochaber, where the snow is only yet melting, abundance of springs are found all the year ov e r for the young birds,and the supply of birds on such places will , to all appear ance, be as good as usual. The principal moors in the Perth shire Highlands, are held on leases, so that there are com paratively few changes on such; but on the lower grounds there are some excellent shootings in the market. —Perthshire Courier. A man is going about' the town selling - canaries, which turn out to be nothing more than sparrows painted yellow. Several persona have been taken in.—Liverpool Mail. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Publtt Optnton, " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The Courtier Francais announces the arrival of the Em peror of Russia in Bavaria. M. de Severin, the Russian Mi nister; on receipt of a courier, apprising him of his Majesty's approach, immediately left Munich for Kissengen, to make the necessary preparations. The Pluton war steamer had arrived at Havre from Brest. It is now said that the Prince de Joinville will proceed in that vessel direct to Tangiers, where he will hoist his flag on board the Souverain line-of-battle ship. The election for the town of Louviers is fixed for the 6th of July, and it is generally believed that M. Charles Laffitte will be returned for the fifth time. M. Kirsch, who ascended en Friday evening at Paris, in a balloon of a new construction, with the intention of passing two days of experiments, descended near Epernay, after only four hours' voyage, and after having gone into so rare an at mosphere that the thermometer of Reaumur was at eight de grees below zero, and the wine he had taken up froze in the bottles. He gives, as one of his reasons for descending so soon, that he had forgotten his purse. The Heraldo, a Madrid paper, contains a letter from Ceuta of the Ist instant stating that the Pashas and military chiefs of Morocco were actively engaged in making warlike prepa rations, but that the population of Tetuan, Angora, and Tan giers were greatly opposed to war. The Prussian papers of the 7th give an account of some disturbances at Breslau and Peterswalden, in Silesia, in con sequence of differences which had arisen between the mas ters and workmen in some cotton manufactories. Troops, both cavalry and artillery, had to be called in, who repressed the riot, after considerable injury had been done to the pro perty of the masters. LAW AND POLICE. At the Central Criminal Court William Burton Newenham was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, for the abduction of Miss `Northam. At the Mansion House the Lord Mayor granted a sum mons, calling upon the commander of one of the steam-boats which ply between London and Blackwall, to answer the serious complaint of having overloaded the vessel on Sunday, to the imminent danger of the lives of the passengers, several hundreds of whom were on board. His Lordship intimated that he, as conservator of the river, would attend to all com plaints against the commanders of steam-vessels for any acts by which the lives of the public were endangered. A young man of fashionable appearance, who gave the name of Sackville Sackville, but whose real name is Charles Davis, was brought up in the custody of Kendall, a detective officer, charged with forging and uttering a bill of exchange for 2501., with intent to defraud Mr. Simon Benda, of 4, 'Trafalgar-square, solicitor. He was remanded. At the Uxbridge Petty Sessions, Thomas Cheal, a farming labourer, in the employ of Mr. Samuel Newman, farmer of liarmondsworth, Middlesex, was yesterday brought up for fur ther examination, on a charge of having set fire to his master's premises. The Bench said the evidence was not sufficient to support a charge of arson against the prisoner, but it clearly made out a charge of having negligently and carelessly set fire to his master's premises. The prisoner did not deny having acted as had been stated in evidence, and he was fined under the Act of Parliament in the penalty of 1001. The prisoner, who appeared astounded at the deci sion of the Bench, declared it was totally out of his power to pay such a penalty, and he was committed to prison for 1$ months. The case of the Queen v. Deane closed in the Court of Ex chequer on Monday, the jury giving a verdict for the Crowa for 2,8401. COUET-FASHIONABLE. On Saturday the Duke and Duchess of Richmond enter tained the following party at dinner:—Ladd Saltoun, Hon. Mi3s Fraser, Earl and Countess of March, Miss Greville, Lord Gifford, Lord William Lennox, Lord Saltoun, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Lord A. Gordon Lennox, Hon. L. Grant, Mr. and Mrs. Turnbull, Colonels Richardson, Smith, and Rowan, Mr. Hasler, Dr. Hair, &c. _ _ The Marchioness of Breadalbane arrived at the Salutation Hotel, Perth, on Tuesday afternoon, from Edinburgh ; and next morning proceeded north to Taymouth Castle. Preparations are being made at Ravensworth Castle for the reception of the Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby, who are expected to visit the Newcastle races, where the Noble Marquis will officiate as one of the stewards. The Countess of Tankerville, after a short visit to Paris, has returned to London. Earl Cadogan has arrived from Paris, having, made a brief stay there on his way to this country from a tour in Sicily. Count Kielmannsegge, the Hanoverian Minister, is slowly though gradually improving in health. Ills Excellency is still confined to his house. Lord and Lady Ashburton and the Hon. Misses Baring are daily expected at Bath House, from the Continent, after a re sidence of some months in Naples and Rome. On leaving Italy the Noble Lord and Lady repaired to the German Baths, from whence they are now on their way home. Lady (Ralph) Howard's ball was given on Monday" in Belgrave-square ; it was a very brilliant assembly. The principal apartments were illuminated in a style of great elegance. There were present nearly three hundred fashion. ables, including several of the foreign ambassadors and their ladies. atizscELL.arezotrs. Thursday next is expected to be a grand day at Oxford, when the usual business of the commemoration will take place in the theatre, and the prize essays and poems will be recited by the respective authors. In the afternoon the last grand miscellaneous concert will conclude the public festivities. A Government measure is before the House of Commons, to " Empower Canal Companies to vary their Tolls, Rates. and Charges in Different Parts of their Navigation." It is declared that certain railway companies are authorised to vary the rates and charges according to local circumstances, and that greater competition for the public advantage would be obtained if canal companies were to have like powers vested in them in respect of their several canals and navi gations. On Monday the officers who have served and are serving in the 7th, or Queen's Own Hussars, held their anniversary dinner at the Clarendon Hotel, in commemoration of their services. Among the distinguished officers present on this occasion were the Marquis of Anglesea, the Duke of Beaufort, Lord Vivian, Lord Crofton, Earl of Belfast, Lord Alfred Paget, Sir W. De Tayler, Sir Arthur Chichester, Colonels Keane, Wildman, Lyster, Rollins, Portman ; Sir James Ham lyn Williams, Captains Lumley, Grasett, Inge, Bushe,Wynd ham,Peel, Phillips, &c. A special general meeting of the Essex Agricultural Pro tection Society took place at Chelmsford on Monday evening, for the purpose of opposing the Bank Charter Bill. A very strong feeling on the currency question has existed amongst the agricultural classes for years past, and the general opinion in Essex certainly is that the Bill of 1819, and the subsequent measures which have been resorted to in order to give effect to the principle of that Bill, have been highly injurious. Several speeches were made against the measure, and a peti tion to both Houses of Parliament, praying that the maxi mum circulation of past years should be taken to regulate the future maximum of issues; and that the period from which it is taken should be extended to five or more years. A SHORT QUERY (BUT MORE SHORT" THAN SWEET"). TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR-My old banking friend feels absolutely certain that in the event of Sir Procrustes Peel carrying his Currency-curse Bill, an immense contraction in the cir culation of all banks of issue, except the Bank of Eng land, must immediately ensue, leaving a vast gap to be filled up by gold, and the notes of the Threadneedle street concern. The issue of the latter institution must, therefore, be temporarily extended (I have already shown that ulti mately it must be much contracted), and as the Directors are empowered to pass over to the issue department, if they please, the whole of their gold and bullion, it is possible, that the present circulation of twenty-one mil lions may be for awhile stretched to thirty—fourteen on Government debt, &c., sixteen on gold and bullion. Let us imagine another fortnight of dry weather, a deficient harvest, great importation of corn, and exporta tion of specie and a run on the banks—events dependent on each other, and by no means unlikely to occur : the Bank of England notes are driven in for specie, the de posits withdrawn (the former amounting to thirty mil lions, the latter to thirteen), a demand for forty-three millions of gold is created—the Bank has sixteen I From what source does Sir Robert Ruinall purpose to provide the remaining twenty-seven millions ? Yours, &c. COMMON SENSE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sllt,—To those who know that I have had something to do with the Court Gazette, and yet know not what, I beg to state that since three months ago I have been assisting the publisher in the advertisement department, quite unknown to the editors and proprietors of what country I was ; the employment, having no connexion whatever with the press, I undertook upon the ground of the sympathy which that paper showed sometimes to the cause of Poland. The article published on the Sa turday before last, on account of the arrival of the Em peror of Russia, bears quite a different character, being written entirely in prejudice to the Poles. However, though the account might be differently viewed by many, yet what belongs individually to me, the circumstance is sufficient to interdict me anything whatever to have to do in the abOve office, and to resign the employment di rectly. Having done so, I hope you will appreciate my motives, and therefore not refuse to allow publicity to my present statement through the medium of your co lumns.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, June 14, 1844. FERDINAND BIELINSKI. --- DEATH or, VIE HON. ARTHUR H. COLE.—The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Countess De Grey, Earl and Countess Enniskillen, Earl and Countess Cowper, Mr. and Lady Mary Vyner, Mr. and 'Lady Florence Balfour, Lady Frances Cole, and several other families of rank are placed in mourning by the demise of the Hon. Arthur 11. Cole, who ex pired on Sunday morning, at an early hour, at his residence in Manchester-square, after a protracted indisposition. The deceaSed, who was the fourth son of the late Earl - of Ennis killen, was born June 28,1780, and was unmarried. He re presented Enniskillen for a long series of years, having sat for that borough in seven parliaments and up to the last month was strict in attention to his duties in the House of Commons, when he resigned his seat from his increasing ill health in favour of his nephew the Hon. Capt. H. A. Cole. TEN BULLOCKS KILLED ON THE MIDLAND RAIL WAY.—A drove of bullocks had strayed on the Birmingham portion of the Midland line of railway, on Friday night, the Bth instant, when the mail train, which leaves Birmingham soon after, twelve at night, ran amongst them, and killed three of their number. Just before this accident occurred, an engine and tender passed the drove en route to Birmingham, and presently meeting the mail train referred to, the driver became apprehensive that mischief might arise on the mail train coming up to the spot where the beasts were assembled, put back his engine to see the result, and be ready to afford assistance, when, unluckily, his own tender ran into the drove with a tremendous crash, killing seven more of the straying animals. A cow,was killed on Monday evening last, on the Midland line near to Loughborough.—Lincoln Mercury. Yesterday, between the hours of one and two o'clock, the neighbourhood was thrown into a state of alarm, in consequence of a young man of the name of Markam, a drayman, in the employ of Messrs. Coombe and Delafield, the well known brewers, having precipitated himself from the attic window of the Coach and Horses public-house, in Charles-street ; a female passing at the time witnessed the dread ful event, and immediately gave the alarm to the policeman duty, 'who conveyed the unfortunate man, to King's 04- lege Hospital, but he expired ere he arrived there. Nacause can be assigned for the rash act ; he quitted the bar with the intention, of retiring to rest, and was perfectly sober. , IMPERIAL PARLIAM'ENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, June 18. Their Lordships assembled at Five o'clock. The Insolvent Debtors Bill and the Court of Bas' ruptcy Bill passed' through Committee, Lord REDESDALE preiented a_petftion frets Northumberland against any' alteration in the cost laws. • 'jilt' Lord WHARNCLIFFE l a id on the table.e.,: for the regulation of charitable bequests in Ire which was read a first time. The Marquis of NORMANBX said he should pry' sent several petitions in -the course of the ensuing month in favour of this 13111. 'LEEDS, PARISH BILL. Lord WHARNCLIFFE moved the first rel" of the Leeds Parish Bill. The Bistiop of RIPON expressed his full col s ; rence in the object of the Bi.ll,lwhich was to divid e ' great parish of :LeedS into smaller parishes, th e e a n o ". dewments for which were to be provided out of pUblic funds. •• The Bill was then read a first time. SLAVE:TRAE 'BILL. .„ 0 . Lord WHARNCLI D FFE TREATIES & move th - e'third , res ew ? of the Slave Trade Treaties Bill. The Earl of MINT° wished to draw t h e a ttenn? e , of their Lordships to the present Rite of 'the siV c i i trade in Cuba and to the inefficient manner ill w'„ i t e the treaties for the' Suppression o f th e s l a ve trafie executed by Spain.' During ; : the regency.4i ' tero, the Spanish Government took every , means to put an• end to the slave _trade He understoqd that since the Spanish Govern' a had been 'changed, the slave' tr a d e h a d revived, fu' of the same fees had lieen ,est,ablished for the bent 0: 1 the Governor on the-importation of slaves, whic h t l . formerlyaszittiad.c ,- - In fact, the treaty was eons`a"-; violated for the benefit of,, 3 the , Governor, 041)°; HeD Ahtt, J'N_pble'' wo Would „; l a enabled to, i ,stagei' ; 'o4:?:.:. s 't.hose statements 4 t i, been exaggerated, .oroitail) events, that her . V', jesty's,GavertincenfTfaV(fal all in their power, ". enforce - he oliservani* 44e - treaty. The Earl of.ABER-6 ..t,apf i said it was b4t, , inesreikligs,p4ti place in thefrgaie' and lie was sorrritcr suyiiihitabere was little - er en; of aggeiatierf•Jo Mei °I At an early pert g-to the last ses.44 5e ' -xpressed a hope 7:1 1 1, the slave trade would speedily • cease a 0 ,,, the island of Cuba, owing to" the . ~e f, 4 l s tions of the. honest Governor-G en eral a` - f ) who then ruled' over that' island. But Ge ne by Valdez bad gone far beyond the instructions o ' r t, Own Government in , carrying the treaty into Clfecd and in consequence of his exertions the imports slaves had diminishedfrom 40,000 annually to 3Pciii lie was sorry to own, that in the present years:wh o a One month, as many slaves had been imported es t a l been imported during the last year of General Ifettri i ! Government. The Noble Earl was quite 1,0 in attributing this increase of the s .ty trade to the change of system in E a rl Superior Government of Spain. The Noble I A : id must be aware that all these treaties were '4 perfectly executed by Foreign Powers. He hed ° .l o o mentioned the case of Spain, but there could doubt but that the same wasthacase with the From one end of the empire to the other the ? sions of the treaties were set at naught. The Bill was then-read a third time. POOR-LAW (IRELAND). 1 1 11 The Marquis of CLANRICARDE postpones, motion on the Irish P001...1aw till Thursday we ek; - INCENDIARY - FIRES. 4;0 The Earl of STRADBROICE presented 1 0 ,,-te.. from StoWmarket;) in — Suffollc;praying the 11 00 1 7 e take some measures for ~the prevention of ineel 4 rbial fires in that district. FrOm all the evidencit I , e d been -able to collect on the subject, _fie 1 3 e°' or that they were caused chiefly ~by ohilike n ' o ise persons of dissolute character. -'they seemed t 0 from- principal-of_which - 0-3 groat-increase of population, and' the diffienl t iot employing them:- The petition...also Complihie°,. q r , the magistrates felt a difficulty in dealing witi 4 S to sons charged with setting fire to outhouses a n i s tr. standing.oorn, in con Sequence of the state of the _ o f Lord - PENMAN said there was a differeneouvo opinion among the judges on this point, and h e c see no 03 impropriety in introducing a measure t ° s od the question clear, both with respect to outhouse. ear l to standing corn. He was sorry that the Noble,:'lo had stated the cause of these fires to be t h e caw: be of the population. As far as his. experience wen et a generally found that they were .caused by inV tbe quite unconnected with the state or condition of people. a Lord CAMPBELL said he fully coneurr; efld what had fallen frOM:his Noble. and, Learned ~b (Lord Denman), and trusted that the defects 0 7 4 ,0 had been pointed Out would be remedied. ge, do happy to hear that the Noble Lord who presentea,co petition 'did not attribute these fires to the mitig,ftd that had taken place in the criminal law of the c oo ' with respect to arson, but to other causes. ot Lord WHARNCLIFFE said he would take e a o f to mention to his 'Right - Hon. Friend at the bet' o l the Home Department' the suggestions which ' been made, and which, he was sure, would receiv e early and attentive consideration. , Their Lordships then adjourned until Friday HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 18. There being but thirty-six Members presol. Four o'Clock, the House adjourned till to-morrow MONUMENT TO SIR DA -57 ° 1. : WILKIE. ----- The monument to Sir David Wilkie is now erect the church of Cults. It is truly an exquisite W°I.PpV art. So striking is the likeness, that many of the fe e rishioners who have seen it discovered at once the TV tures of the man whom it is designed to represent• inscription is as follows : Sacred to the memory of SIR DAVID WILKIE, R.A., a Principal Painter in Ordinary in England , en Limner for Scotland, To King George IV., King William IV., and Cl eee . B • Victoria — Born at Cults, 18th of November, 178 5 ,,,,; 5 p i 1e t ; died Ist June, 1841 ; buried at sea, off Cape I f e re vi As the painter of domestic scenes, his work s ornament alike of the palace and the cottage. 00 Through life he was guided and animated bfed sacred principles to which he had often liste n when a boy in this place, from a Father's lips. In order to acquire the accurate means of Must's tia his art the history of our Saviour, t he he departed for the Holy Land, and died on homeward voyage. • ISt This tablet is erected by his affectionate sister 111 , 0 tr i Sir David is placed on the east, and the tneel t r i ,f,,tt his father and mother by Chantrey on the wes„" ;Jr pulpit—each of them within a few inches of 11 " Herald. fi° a „: ( 1 $ 'A,;4 4 CAVE MANURE.—Some time since we 1' o f to a cave at Newmarket, in the neighbourheo%oo' town, in order to examine the nature of the bird nor which is so abundantly deposited within this r i f e f isl A ceptacle. The cave is of easy descent, and rnaY,_r n e h sno by any person desirous to see this material, Avn''',, e tr b i to have been accumulating since the flood, or rot i rtr some remote earthqnake, which may have threthos massive piles in their present state of the to gi.7o rnpt, and, the picturesque. The manure is , - 0 01v 4 0 masses several feet deep, aad these caves ar e throughout -the Wand. Upon close inspection,ld fier; to be an excrementitious combination of anientu o l?,• getable substances, and from the number of is 11 0 '., which live upon insects and vegetables, tbor,;ye doubt but it is of the richest and most stilt:win: t he ,0 lity r and roeli he made equally available with tbig much extolled guano. We are surprised 0 1 re ceP t o not been tried long ere this. What we hs ve ,., we e t learnt of failure in the use of the guano manT",:tioti•j, persuaded has either arisen from its 'inisaPP" c 7,l;ie t o the continued drought which has carried oft' its 30 j o sandal properties. There is another point to igt o g have experieneed in the use of manure, and t' to Vrl e ,, application without other material to correct, or abb e'' into equilibrium, its too potent and stimulati ve This must be . guarded against by the judgraeloi o . 4 ll ,e perienee of the • agriculturist ; and we mos t hope that some of our country friends will a/ tb or manure with the guano' at the same time. If to iy do so, and send us the results, we shall be 1 2 0,1 1 1 1 0 1 .0) them before the public, with such deset4Prailessj process as they may have pursued.—Corn A f t A lt Chronicle, April 12. in' AgiPe7so PEWS IN CHURCHES.—Many persons ir 0 ..09 1 they , may by law be allowed to box off . t' e 'diflP - itt church into many compartments, and that tir A bento owners of these can sell, mortgage, and deliaocie-vto the same way as they do their houses and _ l o icl_.,,,,r i g e tt such is a great mistake. No person has fre% l",o# to a seat, nor can he sell, mortgage, or devise o ,o,onki the seats cease to be occupied by their pron,,,rigtcy pants, the churchwardens may (and do in Ws: l ,r e ri o , give them to others in want of sitting s. eptk ioner may claim to be seated in his ow n vided there is room, and the churchw a r dens him in the seat of another, if the latter's fa° sufficiently numerous to fill it. Such is the 1 101 • set Gazette. ig, HERRING TRADE.—WICS, JUN E boats' crews have been in pursuit of he week, but have caught very few. The fishill:000,001 gresses at Lewis, but it is expected to . cease peg will, however, be prosecuted betwixt that AA( Thurso for the next three or four weeks. „it's 1 1,0 twenty-one vessels have arrived here laelen,: s declLo rings from the Lewis, and nin eteen again livitis dispatched to the Baltic markets, carrYing 00.1 6,805 barrels. ilft. c - 5 to / s THE ENGLISH PEERAGE.—When Henry o pf his Parliament, they e were only twenty-nin e :A .." Peers to be found, and even: s ome of thous to 0,0 seats illegally, for they had been a tt a inted; gpvSl twenty-nine not five remain, and they, as :te,;31,/ for instance, are not Norman nobility vvn ott of , 01 E n glish peerage to thre e sources—the 5p01i934..0.1)L40 Church, the open and flagrant sale of its bona: ot ir, A pj elder Stuarts, and the bo r oughmongering,rie ti m es. Those are the three main sources of o ' 7 ; Yr peerage of England, and, in mytopinion;-ding —Coningsby. The COUI kwtio Queen and t r g in the r o y a of wi t; r , - iersoiorff, L o tit riant Albert Itrd e : 4118 , left Buck I° °rning f klit the o a r her CatniwiNsvainc ic;loconducte t l t Ing next pa 11 4 4 ast. ot fi ce, 11 74 ' with h an ' P is co el tY wa s • rft Sheriffs of Lt Cr his arrival, 1:414%0urt whi ~r Ike '',, l • Sher P; Court, wl „..-.43 , t h o.sty took k, e trial h h air ac c k• • Iwoi t idZ i ug then re l ea aY the Lord ► t " 3 the Icing Aftt Ween the /Ity, r deieune 1 E4 4 thi e* i t t o h e ;_ u Iv] ka Zjiratic tr,COrlductint°° conducting al g t ihustriouis°T 4 d, ter.„;., after re