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THE NEW SWEDISH NOVEL. Just published, 2 vols., post tivo., 215., THE ROSE OF TISTELON, A TALE OF THE SWEDISH COAST. By EMILIE CARLEN. Translated from tho original Swedish. " A story of surpassing interest—a tale of exceeding pathos and ower."—Atlas. " Its Swedish scenery and manners have nearly as much novelty as in ' The Neighbours.' "—spectator. " Such a work as Crabbe would have produced, had he written in proae."—Court Journal. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman. • AVIES'S FINE WAX CANDLES, ls. sd. per lb.; they only require trial to prove them the handsomest and most economical candles in existence, that do not require snuffing. Genuine Sperm Candles, 2s. per lb.—Superior transparent Wax, 2s.— Genuine Wax, 2s. 3d.—Best kitchen and office Candles, 53d.—Extra fine Moulded Candles, with the improved Wax Wicks, 7d.—Yellow Soap, 465., 525., and 58s. per 1121bs.—Mottled, 60s. and 64s.—Wind sor and Palm, Is. 4d. per packet.—Old Brown Windsor, Is. 9d.—Rose, 25.—Camphor, 2s.—Superior Almond, 2s. 6d.—Superfine Sealing 'MX, 4s. 6d. per lb.—Refined Sperm Oil, 6s. per gallon—Solar Oil, 3e. 6d.—For Cash, at DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, 63, St. Martin's-lane (opposite New Slaughter's Coffeehouse), Charing-cross. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Signor FOR NASARI has the honour to inform the Nobility, Sub scribers to the Opera, his Friends, and the Public. that HIS BENEFIT will take place TO-MORROW EVENING, May 9, when will be performed Herold's Chef d'ceuvre, ZAMPA. -. Camilla, Madame Persiani ; Rita, Madame Bellini ; Zampa, Sig nor Fornasari (kis first appearance in this character) ; Alfonso, Signor Corelli • Daniel Capuzzi, Signor Lablache ; and Dan dots, Signor Lablache (his first appearance in this character). After wkich, the Second Act of NORMA, by Madame Grisi, Favanti, Signor Lablache, and Signor Mario. To conclude with the Grand Ballet, in Six Tableaux, by M. Perrot, entitled ONDINE, ou, LA NAIADS. The Scenery by Mr. W Grieve. The music composed by Signor FU Jlk n in i cipal characters by Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlle. Scheffer, Mille. Fer dinand, Mdlle . Plunket, Mdlle. Barville , a n d Mdl le. Adelaide Frani; M. Perrot, M. Montassu, and M. St. Leon. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box Office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven. The Opera will commence at Half past Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, MAY 8, Will be repeated A New Grand Opera, entitled THE BRIDES OF VENICE. Count Alberto, Mr. W. Harrison ; Count Ono &Tans°, Mr. Borrani ; Naima, Mrs. Alfred Shaw; Geraldo, Mdlle. Albertazzi ; Francesca, Miss Romer. To eonclude with the revived Grand Fairy Ballet, entitled THE REVOLT OF THE HAREM. Mahomet, Mr. Howell; Ismael, M. Silvaln ; Myssouf, Mr. W. H. Payne, Zulma, Mdlle. Lucile Grahn; Zelika, Mdlle. Clara Webster ; The Genius of the Harem, Madame Dress Boxes 75., Second Price Ss. 6d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes Is., Second Price Ss. ; Pit Ss , Second Price 25.; Middle Gallery Ls., Owed Price Is. ; Upper Gallery ls., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MK. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE. THIS EVENING, MAY 8, Will be revived the Comedy of LONDON ASSURANCE, Sir Harcourt Courtly, Mr. W. Farren ; Max Harkaway, Mr. Strick, land; Dazzle, Mr. Charles Mathews; Mark Meddle, Mr. Webster; Mr. Spanker, Mr. Buckstone • Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Grace Harkaway, Miss Julia Bennett ; Pert , Mrs. Humby. To be followe d a New, Original, Occasional, and Local Extra. naga nsa, founded on Fact, entitled THE DRAMA AT HOME; or, An Evening with Puff. Principal Characters by Mr. C. Mathews, Air. J. Bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mrs. Glover, Miss P. Horton, and Miss Lee To conclude with a New Farce, entitled LOVE IN A SACK. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr L T. Archer, at the Box office, from Ten till Five. - P.UNCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. • THIS EVENING, MAY 8, Will be repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled CROWN DIAMONDS. Count de Campo Mayer, Mc. Weiss; Don Hen riques de Sandoval, Mr. Allen; Rebolledo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; La Caterina, Madame Anna Thillon •; Diana, Miu Grant. After which, BOMB ASTES FURIOSO. To conclude vfith the Grand Ballet, entitled LEOLA; or, the !day clay Bride. Patrick, Mr. T. Hill; Phe li m, Mr. Gil bert; Rhona, Miss Charleton ; Leola, Miss Bailin. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LA IT ENGLISH OPERA. HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. Open Sesame; or, a Night with the Forty Thieves," continues to be nightly received with perfect enthusiasm by crowded and fashionable audiences. THIS EVENING, MAY 8, Will be repeated an Original Comic Drama, entitled THE THREE WIVES OF MADRID. Principal Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Diddear, F. Matthews, Emery, Wigan, Craven, Turner, Yarnold, Miss Woolgar, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Greve, Miss Turner, Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by an Apropos Bagatelle, called POLK AMANIA Characters by Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with a Grand Burlesque Fairy Extravaganza, called OPEN SESAME; or, a Night with the Forty Thieves. Cha rades; by Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Turner, Miss Grove, Mrs. Wigan, Miss James, Miss Fairbrother, And Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Mathews, Turner, Younge, Wigan, Sarnold, and Chaplin. _PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Poxes, 45.; Upper /Sexes, Ss. ; Pit, 2s. • Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; Upper Boxes, Is 6d. ; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier (holding eight persons), Two Guineas Private Boxes on the Second Tier (ho'ding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private poxes on the Pit Fier (holding six persons), One Guinea. MTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. Grand Attraction. THIS EVENING, MAY 8, Will be repeated the Hiitorical Spectacle of the INVASION OF ENGLAND BY WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR ; or, the Battle o f Hastings. With all the effects of the Norman Conquest, Death of Harold, &C. Entire Change of the Splendid Scenes of the Circle. To conclude with the Oriental Spectacle a THE SECRET MINE; or, the H.ndoos of the Ruby Cliffs. The doors will open nightly at six o'clock, and the performances oommenco at seven. Box-office opened daily from ten till four. The private boxes have been reconstructed and decorated with care and jiplendour. Acting and stage-manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING MAY 8, Transcendent Success of Miss Barnes' Tragedy of " Octavia Bra galdi"—an entirely New Piece, and 4 . Whitefriars" at half-price. Will be repeated a New Tragedy, entitled OCTAVIA BR A GALDI ; or, The Confession. Supported by the Entire Company, Ltd Mile Charlotte Barnes, from New York. After which, a New Piece for the Million, entitled LA POLKA. To conclude with an entirely Now Drama, embracing all the *krona offsets of the celebrated work, entitled WHITEFRIARS, lo which the entire Company will perform. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Four. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. OPEN EVERY EVENING. The GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH is getting more and more mysterious. He nightly introduces new wanders. Ills Mystic Temple is thronged with most brilliant audiences, who proclaim him to be the only legitimate Professor of modern Magic, the very " ne plus ultra" of Cabalistic phenomena. He performs more wonders in one night, than all other Professors could accomplish in a month. The " Great Wizard of the North" has no rival no equal in Europe or the world. He will be fouhd nightly " at Home" Plucking from his Mystic Caul dron NEW MAGICCOPICAL EXPERIMENTS of Natural Phi. losophy, bringing from any Gentleman's Hat a Feather Bed and the sifts of Flora. Between the parts of the Wizard's Performances, Mr. SMITH will ivrform on his new Instrument, the CRYSTALOPHION. Mr. PHILIPS, the Banjoist, will nightly appear. The THREE INFANT ARABS, Seven, Nine. and Twelve years of Age, go through p new and original Performance. Dress Circle, 35.; Pit, Is. Bd.; Gallery, 6d. Reserved Seats, and Private BoXes can be secured at the Theatre, and of all the Agents. Second Price at Nine o'clock. Boon open at Half-past Severs—the Wizard appears at Eight EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT NOTICE. ONE SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON MU SEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collection of Misto- Meal Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed - 07 One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a COAt of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in- Strut -Nye and interesting manner, the most Important part of Euro pun history, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and LOUIS XIV., to tho deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often, daring 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 prietor has recently been able to increase, by several very fine pictures, &e„ his previous almost incredible number and variety of 'MSS., Works of Art, and a multitude of valuable Relics, and other curiosities, in this most instructive and, as hundreds have said it Aught to be, a National Museum. Many thousand have Inspected it, smd THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS have stated that it ought to be seen by every of.Q. The price of admis• lion is reduced to ONE SHILLING. The NAPOLEON (MUSEUM is to be seen only at the "Egyptian „Hall." Piccadilly, dally from Ten till Dusk. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Tipperary Vindicator, containing an investigation of c h ar ge,' preferred against the police, and adverted to by a has not bee n rece i ve d . Correspondent' THE WEATHER. —SUN OFFICE, MAY 8. • TUERMOJIETER, Lowest, 47 ; Highest, 71 ; Noon, 60. BAROMETER, 3 0.—W1ND, N.E. soTE.—'rlie number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. I n B arometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. num WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TIdZS DAY. Morning 5S minutes after 5 J Evening 22 minutes after 6. a% • 4—V, f t. W' at" u . -.- • 1 ft , • ' a ' OIT * tic ‘-' SECOND EDITION. 41. ' betityn LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1844. The Marquis of NORMANBY, in the House of Lords last evening, made some remarks about the recal of Lord BixicinououGu, and faintly called for docu ments which he evidently knew would not be granted. He, at the same time, defended the course pursued by the Indian Board of Directors, and contended that until the correspondence on the subject was produced , the House and the country could not entertain a shadow of suspicion a s to their motives. The Earl of RIPON declined to produce the corres po.ndence, or enter on the matters adverted to by the :Noble Marquis. ;. o rd BROUGHAM, after adverting to the recal of Lord EJ,LENBOROUGH, expr essed his satisfaction at the app ,intment of Sir HENRY lIARDING E and inferred i!rO m this, that the Po li cy whic h Lord ELLENBORO.I4; II had pursued, and which had been so successful, WOLIM be continued by his su ccessor. The Duke of 'W ELLI NGTON disclaim e d any inten tion of interfering N rith the privileges of th e E ast India Directors in t h e remarks which he had m a d e • on a former evening; but, at tide same time, he must *repeat that he did not consider they had exercised their privileges with discretion. Several other Lords spoke, and thus the discussion ended. The Rollie adjourned at Half-past Seven o'clock. In the House of Commons Mr. MACKINNON moved that the report on the Leeds and Bradford Railway Bill .be considered that day six months, and on a division the amendment was lost by a majority of 66. Sir R. PEEL contradicted the statements that had _ „,appeared in some newspapers to the effect that Cap in DRUMWOND had refused to afford protection to Ceionel BON'ET, the leader of the insurgents at Ali °ante. Colo' tel BONET had never applied for , pro tee tion. Mr. HUMB moved for all copies of correspondence .between the 1 ;curt of Directors of the East India Company and the Government, respecting the recal of Lord ELLENBOROUGH. Sir R. PEEL opposed the motion. Sir H. HAR BINGE, he said, would proceed to India by th next packet, and nothing should induce him to send out at the same time a correspondence that might fetter his administration. From the remarks made by Sir ROBERT PEEL in his speech, and from remarks made in the Lords, the public may infer that Sir HENRY HARDINGB will pursue the policy of his predecessor. A number of other Members spoke. Mr. MA.. CAULAY hoped Mr. Hunaz would not press his mo tion. Lord JOHN RussELL concurred. Mr. HUME persisted in his motion, and, on a division, he was supported by 21 Members, and opposed by 197. The House adjourned at Half-past Eight. Sir ROBERT PEEL last evening, gave a direct contradiction to the accusation made against Capt. DRUMMOND, commanding the Scout, off Alicant, for not protecting Colonel BONET when he applied to him to save his life. Captain DRUMMOND, in a letter addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, states, that at the request of the British Consul, he had an interview with Colonel BONET, whose object in visiting the ship was to offer any assistance in his power to Capt. DRUMMOND during his stay at Alicante, to which the English officer made a suitable reply. Colonel BONET then left the ship, and never after wards made any application for protection. This is at utter variance with statements which have appeared both in Whig and Tory journals. The Madrid cor respondent of the Morning Post gives the following melancholy account of the interview :—" I am glad to see that Capt. DRUMMOND'S refusal to give a re fuge on board his ship to the rebel BONET, at Alicante, has been brought before the House of Commons. The Morning Post was the first to mention this ex traordinary occurrence, which has since been severely commented upon by several foreign journals. It is quite true BONET was shot through the back, without trial, because Captain DRUMMOND denied him an asylum on board the Scout. The insurgent leader went on deck, accompanied by Mr. WEARING, our Consul at Alicante; and an eye-witness of the scene says, in writing to me, that he will never forget BONET'S look of utter despair, as he went over the vessel's side, and entered the boat which rowed him on shore to certain death." Now, this is an atrocious accusation against a British officer, and, therefore, should not have been made but on the best authority. It turns out the charge is utterly false, and the Eng glish navy and the English nation, too, are thus ex posed to the most cruel obloquy by foreigners, for acts which never were committed. No vacancy which has occurred since the general election—not even that of the City of London—is so important to the friends of free trade as that of South Lancashire. The League would have only rendered itself ridiculous by attempting to wrest un fortunate Woodstock from the Duke of MARLBO ROUGH, or Launceston from his Grace of NORTHUM BERLAND; these agricultural boroughs are valued by the nation at their proper worth, and a contest in them would scarcely excite more attention than a squabble in a servants'-hall—but the southern division of Lancashire, the great seat of those manufactures which have suffered most severely under the curse and blight of monopoly, is a constituency which, at the present crisis, holds the destinies of futurity and the fate of England's industrial prosperity. If the manufacturers allow themselves to be mis-represented by a monopolist—if they aid or assent to the return of an enemy of their class and order, with what face can they hereafter ask the Eng lish people to help them to burst chains which they have themselves forged—to break fetters which they have themselves riveted ? Under such circumstances, it is the duty of all free traders in South Lancashire, to be up and doing; the crisis has come upon them suddenly and unexpec tedly, but the supporters of a good cause can never be wholly unprepared, for truth is an inexhaustible ar moury and sincerity is a ready weapon. We know not whether the free-traders have yet fixed upon a candidate, and in fact the man in this case is of infinitely less importance than the principle. The great question placed in issue, and perhaps to some extent staked on the result of this election, has but a very remote connection with family interests or even mere political parties ; it is simply the question between " good trade" and " bad trade "—between " open markets" and " closed markets"—between " remote payments" and immediate returns ;" and under such circumstances a man should select his candidate, as he choses his clerk, irrespective of all considerations but his aptitude for the task entrusted to his charge. We have heard several persons named as likely to be put in nomination, and we may add, that not one of those mentioned could fail to be a useful repre sentative; but in all constituencies, there are local elements of strength, not easily discoverable by stran gers, of which advantage ought to be taken in so close a struggle as that which is impending. Pre judices must be conciliated, hereditary prepossessions respected, and old topics of irritation avoided. To court opposition is to invite defeat; it is the policy of the League to win by persuasion rather than to conquer by force. No political party that ever existed in this country has had so simple and intelligible a creed as the League ; it is comprised in two words, FREE TRADE. To increase the articles of this faith would greatly diminish the chances of proselytism, and, at the pre sent moment, any addition to the avowed objects of the League would be equally wrong and impolitic. No man when selling his goods asks whether the purchaser is a Whig or a Tory ; the question would be just as absurd if asked respecting those who bring customers to his shop. No matter what the creed or party of a monopolist may be, he is the man who drives away purchasers from the manufacturers' warehouse, by telling them that the only payment they can offer shall not be received ;—no matter by what conventional designation a free-trader may be known, he is the man who opens the world's markets to the manufacturer's productions, and brings him ready payment from all the ends of the earth. To prefer the monopolist, because he is baptised with some name hallowed by unmeaning prejudice, would be worse than the folly of the Byzantines who chose their leaders from the colours they wore in the chariot-races of the circus ; to reject a free-trader because he had received some nick-name not in ac cordance with irrational prejudice, would be to imi tate the folly of the Republican patient in CROMWELL'S days, who refused to be healed because the physician prescribed a sovereign remedy; or the worthy alder man of our own days, whose stomach revolted against a radical cure. The men of Lancashire, and particularly of its southern division, have taken the lead in appealing to the people of England against the restrictions by which the industry of the nation is crippled, and rendered unproductive. They have thus voluntarily incurred a responsibility which they are now called upon to fulfil. On them the eyes of the nation will be fixed for the next fortnight, and their example will either point the way to speedy victory, or furnish an excuse for the retardation of a cause, the ultimate success of which is certain, but every delay of which is fraught with serious peril to the general community. At a ball and supper given to Lord ELLENBOROUGII at Calcutta, his Lordship disburthened himself of a speech—in reply to the President, who had proposed his health—which is not less remarkable for its matter than its manner. " Most people," observed the Noble Lord—we quote from the Calcutta Star — come to this country to make their fortunes, but I came here to do my duty. I have met with oppo sition, but I have put down all opposition that may arise. I have done my duty. I have never abused pfatronage. I am ready to sacrifice fortune—my life, inecessary. / do not care for any man living. Whoever best serves the State , is my friend. Hitherto, my me asures h ave all been' triumphant and nsulacycecsesfnutlinue/stuakcceenssofur Hdietafvoern only knows that. How far ; at allfarthey events it will not be my fault. I deserve success— that's a fact! /am come amongst you, like an Eng lish gentleman among his tenants. If you receive we politely, well and good ; if not, it is your fault, not mine." The Report concludes by observing that his Lordship " tossed off a bumper of Btirgnndy amidst rapturous applause." e H t i h s e L n or e ds n h e ip b , um w pe e s r us o - t. have brought himself B p e u c r t g , u m n u d s y t h b a e v f e o r t e o s s h e e d o e ff o m a l o d r inspiration of every sentence. Mark, for instance, the i in anto pinerzetnreaeteftarhe stronger erremthaarnks;vatlehreis manifest ndiscreet— the insufferable egotism, faintly disguised under a show of modesty, which is exhibited in the eternal repetition of that imposing monosyllable "I." It was "I" did this —"I" did that ! But "I" take no credit for what "I" did ! God forbid, "I" am naturally a modest man ; but this "I" may say with perfect truth—namely, that if "my " measures do not continue successful, it will not be "my " fault, for "I" deserve success ! Not a word, in praise of the gallant soldiers who acted under his command! Not a word in praise of the triumphant NAPIER, who gained a victory unparalleled in Indian annals. From his Lordship's speech it might be inferred that his only was the head that conceived the plan, and the hand that achieved the triumphs on the banks of the Indus—that he acted, on the occasion, in the two-fold capacity of statesman and soldier—in a word, that it was he himself, and none other, that accomplished everything ! Was ever such a superlative instance of double-dis tilled bashfulness yet exhibited by an individual holding the august and dignified post of Governor- General of India! Then, observe the exquisite super ciliousness of the remark, "most people come to this country to make their fortunes, but / came here to do my duty"—an impressive confession, which at once sets the speaker, in point of public virtue and disinterestedness, at an immeasurable distance above all other Anglo-Indian officials. They came to make their fortunes—" I," to do my duty Glorious and unapproachable Unit ! How grateful ought we not to be, that in the person of Lord ELLENBOROUGH we have at least one important public servant who, come what may, is resolved at all risks, sternly to do his duty ! The concluding sentence of his Lordship's speech is worthy of its imposing commencement. If the Calcutta folks do not receive him politely, "the fault," he coolly and cavalierly tells them, "will be yours, not mine." It is utterly im possible that he should be the sufferer by their in civility. They will be the sole victims. He moves, like the sun, along his course in solitary and splendid majesty, at a height so far above their mark, that any attempt to influence or annoy him by their opinions, their prejudices, their discourtesy, or their downright opposition, is as hopeless a task as it would be to fill the sieve of the Da naides ! On a calm consideration of his Lordship's most unaccountable speech, we have come to the conclusion that it was intended—to quote the words of the Duke of WELLINGTON—" as a song of triumph," similar to that which he chautted on the glorious occasion of his levanting with the gates of Somnauth. Viewed in this light all that is perplexing in it ceases at once to be a marvel and a mystery, and we recognise in it a fine poetical Ossianic rhapsody, whose very egotism and hyperbole are the strongest possi ble recommendations in its favour. But to be serious —if it be possible to be serious on such a theme—we can scarcely bring ourselves to believe that the pas sage on which we have been commenting, was really and truly spoken by Lord ELLENBOROUGH. We always knew him to be a vain and somewhat indiscreet man, who, when he once took up a crotchet, stuck to it with the tenacity of a horse-leech ; but we knew him also to be shrewd, intelligent, energetic, and enterprising; and these are qualities incompatible with that sickly, purblind, inflated vanity and egotism which pervades every sentence, and is ingrained into the very texture, of his Calcutta speech. On Monday night Sir R. PEEL submitted his eleven resolutions, connected with the conditions on which he will propose to Parliament, at a future day, the re newal of the charter of the Bank of England. The Premier expressed a strong desire that Members would not, then, enter into any discussion of them, but take time carefully to deliberate upon and digest them. Some of our Contemporaries, we per ceive, have taken this hint upon its literal expression, by abstaining for the present from any detailed exa mination of the purport and effect of these "resolu tions." If we were sufficiently alive to the honour of having our opinions confirmed by Ministerial authority, we should have sufficient grace to follow the example of those brother journalists. We perceive that Sir ROBERT took the same view of the universal pervading importance of this question of the Bank Charter, which we hazarded in a leading article on Mon day. He considers it as " entering into every transaction of which money forms a part." He al lows, as we have argued, " that there is no contract, public or private—no engagement, national or indi vidual, which is unaffected by it." That "the en terprises of commerce, the profits of trade, the arrange ments to be made in all the domestic relations of so ciety, the wages of labour, the transactions of the highest amount and of the lowest, the payment of the national debt," &c., &c., are all affected by it. But if we follow the course thus set us, and the Premier's recommendation to Hon. Members, we cannot abstain, in the meantime, from remarking that it is, too evidently, the"purpose of her MAJESTY'S Govern ment to give to the Bank a greater, because a more im mediate, control than ever over the currency of the coun try, and to extend and aggravate the pernicious princi ples and influence of the disastrous Bill of 1819. It is Sir ROBERT PEEL'S clear desire and intention to enhance the evil which he has the unenviable distinc tion of having already inflicted upon our national prosperity, by enactments which can have no other operation than to make money dear. If he have abandoned his original purpose of constituting the Bank of England the sole bank of issue, he has pro posed that there shall be no new joint-stock banks (of issue) authorised hereafter. But we purposely re frain from going at present into the examination of his plan in detail. The Right Hon. Baronet laboured, with most pains-taking but not very felicitous application, to bring a few jokes to bear on the impugners of his Currency Bill, and of the sagacity of the Bullionist, but his "great guns" were harmless. A speech more illogical in its attempts at " reasoning down " (as this process is called in Parliamentary parlance) his opponents we have never perused. He talked in re ference to the gold standard, "of the principles which determine the price of that of which paper is merely the representative." From whence we infer that Sir ROBERT really would have us believe that money must necessarily be metallic, or that value can be expressed only in money. He must recant such paradoxes as these, before he next attacks the writings of the " Gemini," and Birmingham in general, albeit, Birmingham will always be redolent of distasteful associations to the non-reforming Mi nister of 1829. But if Sir ROBERT was unfortunate in his exposition of principles, he was not less at fault in his illustration of a pound. "What is a pound," said the gleesome Baronet, "and what is an engagement to pay a pound ?" . . . " The whole foundation of my measure rests upon the assumption that according to practice, according to law, according to the ancient monetary polity of this country, the mean ing of a pound' is neither more nor less than a CERTAIN definite quantity of gold, with a mark upon it to determine its weight and fineness ; and that the engagement to pay a pound' means nothing, and can mean nothing else, but the promise to pay to the holder on detnand, when he demands it, a definite quantity of the precious metals." Now, how does the reader suppose that this close reasoner—this acute and ironical scourge of the TAYLORS, and LEATHAMS, and ATTWOODS—illustrates his own definitions by the " practice," the " law," and the " ancient monetary system of the country ?" To begin, first, with the last, he thus re-states and answers his own question : " What is the meaning of the pound, according to the ancient monetary polity of this country ? In the reign of WILLIAM the CONQUEROR a pound of silver was the pound of account. The pound represented both the weight of metal and the denomination of money." Why, then, a pound (of 12 ounces, Troy) was, by our " ancient monetary polity," NOT " neither more nor less than a CERTAIN definite quantity of gold,"—to wit, one ounce of such weight and stan dard as to be equivalent to the Mint value of Si. 17s. 104 d. "By subsequent debasements of the currency, a great alteration took place —not in the name, but in the intrinsic value of the pound ster ling." How ? Then the pound, in all that subse quent period, was NOT, either in " practice," " law," or " our ancient monetary polity, a certain definite quantity of the precious metals." But it was an in dpfinite quantity. "It was not until a late period of the reign Of Queen ELIZABETH that SILVER, being TITER the standard' of value"—(good bye, " ancient monetary system," and "polity," and " standard" of GOLD !)—" received that determinate weight which it retained without variation, with constant refusals to alter it, until th e year 1 716, when gold was prao- THE SUN, LOND ON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY B, 1844. tically substituted for silver as the exclusive standard of value." So, from WILLIAM to ELIZABETH, our " ancient polity" recognised, NOT the pound of gold, but the pound of silver, as the standard of value. From a period not a century after the close of WIL LIAM'S reign ti 111567, say about 300 years, even this pound was of greatly debased silver ; and from 1567 to 1719, or for 150 years, the enhanced value of the pound remained unaltered. Farewell, the "ancient prac tice " by which our gold standard of value is said tobe sanctioned ! Well ;—"for a certain period afterwards, both gold and silver constituted the standard of value; and in 1717, it having been determined that the value of the guinea should, be 215., in 1774 it was enacted that no legal contract should be discharged in silver for any sum of more than 251." Adieu! most con sistent, unbroken, venerable, presumptive "custom of the country," only chequered by these trifling changes !—" That" (measure of 1774) " therefore made gold substantially the measure of value in this country." Sir ROBERT'S " therefore" is about as good a sequitur as his definition of "certain definite" (that is, unchanging and unalterable) quantity. One more citation, and we will leave Sir ROBERT for the present. He supposes himself to be arguing against any change in the existing standard of value. " There is no more reason," he says, " why a pound should not be bound by all transactions—notwith standing our increase in wealth—there is no more reason why you should change your pound—than there is to say that a foot shall be a foot and a half." The difference between the two cases, the reason for such a principle of adoption in the one—the utter absurdity of its application in the other—are things so self-evident, that we will not waste one word of commentary on such a preposterous analogy. Had the Premier proposed his own " foot" for the standard of Parliamentary symmetry in that member, it would have had not one tittle less of relation to the matter in hand, or been one iota less inefficient as a measure of comparison ! Madrid journals of the 30th ult. have been received. One of them, the Correspon.val, publishes the condi tions of an offer made by five Spanish capitalists, to raise a loan of a thousand millions of reals (about 250 million francs) for the Government. The chief con ditions are that the Government shall give 100 reals stock for 40 in money, and that the payment of the interest shall be secured on the tobacco monopoly. In one of the articles the Government engages not to contract any new loan until the above be paid off, and shall engage to fulfil all the above conditions. The Funds had recovered alittle from the depression caused by late events. Three per Cents. were done 31 for cash, and 30i, at 60 days ; the Four per Cents. at 20i- at 59 days; and the Five per Cents., at 24. The Paris papers of Monday published a telegra phic dispatch, dated Bayonne, May 4, announcing the capitulation of Almeida on the 29th ult., from which we learn that Count Bozarist and a number of officers, who raised the standard of rebellion, had made their escape into Spain. The intelligence in these papers possesses little interest. The Duchess of KENT was much occupied in visiting all the public places of note in Paris and the neighbourhood. On Sun day she went to Trianon, with the QUEEN and several members of the Royal Family, and after the conclu sion of the water-works returned to the Tuileries with the Royal party. The KING did not accompany her Royal Highness, having to preside at a Cabinet Council. On Tuesday there will be a fete at Fon tainbleau, at which the KING and Royal Fa mily, with the Duchess of KENT, will be pre sent. Her Royal Highness will remain at Fontainbleau until Thursday, when she will leave for Switzerland. The Constitutionnel has an ar ticle on railroads, attacking with much severity the backwardness of the Government and the Chambers in adopting any plan for carrying out the proposed new lines. " The railroads," it states, " were expected to be the great business of the ses sion. However, the Chambers have been sitting for four months, and not a single report on all the diffe rent Bills presented by the Minister of Public Works has been made. M. TESTE was accused of incapacity and supineness, and it was hoped that his successor, M. DUMON, would find means for getting out of the dilemma in which the law of 1842 had involved the railroad question. This was a misconception ; for M. DUMON still drags on in the ruts and sloughs of incertitude and sluggishness. He takes up every system, but holds to no one. The new Minister of Public Works, since he decided upon amending the law of 1842, ought to have emancipated himself from Parliamentary influence and the exigencies of local interests ; but he has wanted the courage. He has neglected the main lines, to favour those of a minor order. Has not the law of 1842 classed the lines from Paris to Strasburg, and from Paris to the Mediterranean ? Do not these two lines predominate by their importance and utility over all others ? Are they not equally connected with our internal I nztry as to its grounds prosperity and our foreign commerce ? Th ese ques tions have long ago been answered by a ll men who regard with judgment the gener a l i nterest. Could any doubts on this subject remain, it willsuffiocuds suffice to to these Ministry o e r r f i oe presenting t te y o s n h s t ng reportyet the law of two lines, an d a l so to the in which a d ec id e d p report of the Committee to which the Bill was re ferred. All the other roads form but the small veins to these two great arteries. Well ! what is M. DUMON doing ? He seems to have completely aban doned the Paris and Strasburg line, and cuts short the communication between Paris and Lyons, by proposing at first to carry the work no further than Chalons-sur-Saone, and by choosing afterwards a direction which cannot fulfil all the conditions of a line crossing the kingdom from north .to south. In compensation, he gives us the roads between Orleans and Vierzon, and between Tours and Bordeaux. This certainly is not what the country expected ; and this arrangement will satisfy but very -few localities. The Chambers, we say it with regret, do not show more ardour in coming to a resolution than the Cabinet itself. Two months have elapsed since the Bill for the North railroad was presented, and not a glimpse of a report upon a matter so urgent h as escaped. If the same drawling system goes on, we shall come to the end of the session without any other means of action than the deplorable * law of 1842." On Monday the Three per Cents. closed at 84f. 60c., and the Fives at 122 f. 15c. THE BOURSE-MONDAY, MAy 6. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents 121 65 .. 121 90 • • 121 65 • • 121 85 Four per Cents. Three per Cents B4 55 .. 84 60 .. 84 55 .. 84 50 Bank of France....... 3lOO • • 3100 . 3100 ..3100 Laffitte Bank,ls,ooof. Sharessl6o ..5165 ..5160 • • 5165 Belgian Bank...—. ..... 692 50 .. 692 50 .. 692 50 .. 692 50 1841.... •• 1110 ..1110 ..1110 —lllO Belgian Fives,lß3l. 1840 1842...•..•. 1081 .. 1081 .. 1081 .. 1081 Spanish Active 321 .. 321 .. 321 .. 321 Threes • • • . .... 35 .. 35 .. 341 • . 341 Passive 6 .. 6 .. 6 • • 6 Portuguese Five per Cents.. 451 .. 46 .. 451 • • 46 Neapolitan •••.. lOl 85 .. 102 05 .. 101 85 .. IN 05 Roman, e*iv lO4 .• 104 .. 104 .• 104 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, L. 8... • • .• .. • . .. 255 .. 253 75 .. 251 25 .. 252 50 Rouen .. 96 Rouen to Havre.. • . • • • • .• • . 73i Orleans ..... •• 737 50 •• 735 737 50 •• 975 .. 972 50 975 Strasburg to Bale .:.. .. • • 276 25 .. 276 25 .. 273 75 .. 275 Avignon to AtarseLUes• • . • 770 .. 770 .. 770 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. .. 770 Verailles, R.B. • • 375 .. 375 375 .. 375 L. 8.• ••. • • •••• •• 255 .. 255 .. 252 50 .. 252 50 Rouen ...... ..... . 972 50 .. 972 50 .. 967 50 . 967 50 Rouen to Havre.. •• ••• • 737 50 .. 740 .. 737 50 .. 737 50 Orleans ..... . ..... •• 977 38 .. 977 50 .. 975 .. 975 Strasburg to Bale. . . Avignon to Marseilles.— • . 772 50 . 777 50 .. 770 - 770 THE COURT.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, and attended by the Royal suite, are expected to arrive at Buckingham Palace, about three o'clock this afternoon, from Claremont. A grand dinner will be given in the evening, at Buckingham Palace, to the Noble Direc tors of the Concert of Ancient Music, the Prince being the Director for the evening. The Illustrious party will afterwards proceed to the Hanover-square Rooms. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN SHOE-LANK.----This morn ing, at half-past three o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out in the lower part of the house of Mr. Lescombe, a glass manu facturer, Shoe-lane, nearly opposite the London National Schools. The police ran instantly to Farringdon-street, where they procured fire-ladders and hastened onward to rescue the inmates ; and in three or four minutes the engines were on the spot, followed by the West of England ; but the firemen, although well supplied with water, could save but a small portion of the stock. The ;premises of Messrs. Pontifex and Co., as well as several small houses at the back, were alone saved through the instrumentality of the assist ance rendered by the neighbours. The family all escaped, but saved not a particle of clothing. The fire was not ex tinguished till half-past four, when several of the engines left for another fire in Pall-mull, THIS DAY'S NEWS. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY). This was the last day of Easter Term, and the Court took appeal motions, none of which possessed the slightest interest. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY). Motions of no interest, this being the last day of Easter Term, occupied the Court the whole day. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.) THE MURDER AT MARYLEBONE. At ten o'clock this murniag the prisoner, William Crouch, who was described in the calendar as " a groom, aged 28, re manded from last session, standing indicted for the wilful murder of Frances Elizabeth Crouch," was placed at the bar. The prisoner is rather boyish in his appearance, with a somewhat pleasing expression of countenance. Mr. Parry prosecuted, and Mr. Clarkson defended the prisoner. Mr. Parry having stated the case, called Mrs. Elizabeth Haynes, who said, I am the wife of Samuel Has nes, who resides at Chesterfield-street, Marylebone. I have known the prisoner since September last, at which time he resided in the same house that I did. His wife was re siding with him. I remember the morning of Saturday, the 30th of March last, and saw the prisoner on that morning between seven and eight o'clock. He went out that morn ing- about half-past ten. I saw him again about four o'clock the same afternoon, when he came home with a man. I went outside the door to him. I asked the prisoner If he had seen my husband, and he said he had not. He then left the house again and returned in about an hour afterwards. He was alone then, and I told him he had been drrnking, but he denied it. His appearance was that of a drunken man. He sat down in the room and said, "It must be done—it must be done—l can't wait." I said, " What is that, Mr. Crouch, are you in a hurry ?" and he repeated the words three or four times. He then fell asleep, and I said nothing further to him. He was asleep for some time. When he woke up, I told him that Mrs. Lynes had sent his clean clothes ; and he said, " I shall never want them ;" and he got up and opened the bundle of clothes, and, pulling out a shirt which was torn, said, " There is a pretty thing for a fellow to put on his back." He said it had been lying in the box for six weeks, and " she " was too lazy to mend it, or sew any buttons on it. I told him I could sew buttons on it before the morning, and he said he should never wear it any more He sat down for a few moments, and then get up and looked for a pair of stockings, and, not finding them, he said, " I have not had a pair of stockings for these six weeks." He said, " Why the b— h— could she not mend my stockings?" He remained for a few mo ments, and then left the room, and went into my bed-room, where his own box was placed. He unlocked the box, and locked it again and then came into my room, a n d p u t th e box key into his waistcoat pocket. He sat down for about five minutes, and then left the house. I did not see him again until seven o'clock, when an alarm was given, and on looking out of the window I saw him running. The prisoner's wife had left him about a fortnight before. Until that time she had lived with him, and after that time she used to come backwards and forwards. The night the prisoner's wife left he said, "I will lie wait for her, and give her a good hiding ; and if I had her here I would cut her throat with a razor." Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—The prisoner's wife lived about forty yards off. The night this happened the prisoner was tipsy. By the COURT—I heard the alarm given al: out five minutes after he left the house. By Mr. CLARKSON—The conversation about the razor oc curred about a fortnight before. His wife was very kind to him. He had a little girl about nine months old. He was proud of the child. Mrs. Lynes used to take the child while the mother went to work. When the prisoner's wife came to see him, she brought the child with her. Mary Lynes examined—l am the wife of Charles Lynes. I knew the prisoner and his late wife. They had been married a year and eleven months. She had a child about nine mouths old, and I used to take care of it. I have done so since the child was a fortnight old. I remember Saturday, 30th March, when I saw the prisoner at about eleven o'clock in the morning. He was going down Marylebone-street. He said, " I think she has cut me, for she has not been to see me this morning." I said she is at work, and he then passed on, and I did not see him again until twenty minutes to seven o'clock, when I saw him at my own house, No. 4, Little Marylebone-street. The prisoner's wife was in my room, she had come up to suckle the baby. There was a little girl named Sarah Simpson in the room with her. The prisoner was about to pass me on the stairs, and I desired him to stop until I had dried the stairs, for I was then cleaning them. He said, " Is my missis up stars." I said, " Yes, she is." I did not notice anything particular in his manner. When I had finished the stairs he passed up into the room. His wife was singing, " Fare thee well, love, I am going," and as soon as he put his foot into the room the song ceased. I heard the little girl Simpson cry out "mother, mother !" and I instantly went into the room. The prisoner was standing with the razor in his hand by the side of my chest of drawers. He was wiping a razor. His wife was lying against the wainscoting. She was bleeding from the neck, and was quite dead. I took the prisoner by the shoulders and asked him how he dared to treat his wife in that manner, but he made me no answer. The child was under the deceased. The prisoner said, if one man was not enough, twenty were not too many. I thought he addressed this to the corpse. He then went hastily down stairs. I ran after him, and called out " Stop him !" I overtook him in the street and stopped him, and said, " Mr. Crouch, how could you do so ?" but he did not answer. I left him with Robert Davies, my landlord. When he was brought back he asked if his wife was dead, and I said " Yes, she is, you villain." He said " Well, well, I did it, and I couldnot help it." He was asked what he had done with the razor? and he said "I threw it away," but I said " No, no, it is in his pocket," and there I believe it was found. Cross examined—The deceased bore a most excellent cha racter. She was a very moral, well-conducted woman. When the prisoner came to my house on the Saturday he seemed to me to be in a good temper. The door of the room in which Mrs. Crouch was sitting was open. I could hear everything that passed. Nothing was said but what I have stated. I did not see the infant taken out of the room. Sarah Simpson, a little girl apparently about five years of age, dressed in deep mourning, was then placed on the bench, and questioned by the Learned Judge, who informed the jury that from her answers she was evidently unacquainted with the name of her Creator, and was therefore incapable of cal ling upon him to attest her truth. She was consequently not examined. Charles Bennett was then called, and said I am a police man, D 18. I was on duty on the evening of 30th March, and was called to take the prisoner into custody. I took him by the collar, and he said, " You need not collar me, I will go quietly." As we were going along he said "Ah, well, it served her right ; why did she leave me ?" I then took him to the room in which the body of the deceased was lying. The room was full of blood. I asked Mrs. Lynes what he had done with the instrument, and she said he had got it about him. I asked him first, and he said he had thrown it away. I searched him, and found the razor in his coat pocket. On the road to the station-house he said, "I don't care anything about it ; you may hang me and be d—d." Further on he said, "Ah, that cursed drink, it is the devil." I then took him to the station-house, and on taking off his neckerchief I discovered a cut in his throat. It was a small cut; it had bled but very little. A surgeon saw him afterwards. Cross-examined—He repeatedly said, " Oh, my dear wife ; I love her." He was taken over to Dr. Clarke's, and his neck was stitched up, and he was afterwards taken to the workhouse. He there said, " Oh, that cursed handkerchief, if it had not been for that I should have finished myself; for if I was dead I should be as happy as she is." Mary Anne Smith—l am the sister of the deceased, Frances Elizabeth Crouch. Her maiden name was Frances Elizabeth Downing. Mr. Joseph was then called, and said—l am a surgeon re siding in Great Marylebone. On the evening of the 30th of March I was called to No. 4, Little Marylebone-street, where I saw the body of the deceased lying on the floor. I found a wound in her neck which had divided the windpipe, the left jugular vein and right jugular vein, ard part of the spine. That which kept the head on . was the spine. I was also called to examine a wound in the prisoner's neck. It was not at all a serious wound ; it was quite superficial. It had been sewn up when I saw it. The prisoner, when I saw him, was in a state of stupor, but he rapidly got out of that state ; that was about a quarter of an hour after the murder was committed. I saw the prisoner afterwards several times. I asked him if he had any pain in the head, and he replied, "No." His head was lying on his breast. I saw him the next day, and on asking him how he was, he said he wished that he was dead, and was crying very much. He asked to see his child I saw him again on the Monday, in order to ascertain whe ther he was fit to go before the Coroner, and I found that he was Cross-examined—l have never found that concussion of lie brain has resulted in madness. I have never known concussion happening to a madman produce sanity ; nor have I ever known concussion of the brain to a sane man produce madness. Re- examined—The usual effect of concussion of the brain is insensibility. Concussion is a curable disease generally. There were other witnesses, but Mr. Clarkson thought it was not necessary to call them, and they were therefore not examined. This was the case for the prosecution, and Mr. CLARKSON rose to address the jury for the prisoner. He said that in fact the only question they would have to consider was, whether the prisoner, when he committed the crime with which he stood charged, was or was not disor dered in his mind, insomuch as to preclude the posssibility of his being responsible for his own act. The Learned Counsel then adverted to the evidence which had been adduced, from which he said it would appear that the prisoner was devotedly fond of his wife, and proud of his in fant child. He would ask the jury whether such a man, being so proud of his child, would, while in a sound state of mind, seek to smother that child in the blood of its mother ? He (Mr. Clarkson) was in a position to show that the priso ner ad, for a very considerable time prior to the com mission of this act, as far back as 1838, been looked upon by his relatives and friends with doubt respecting his sanity. This was the ground upon which he stood up in defence of the unfortunate man at the bar. (Here the prisoner apppeared to be overwhelmed by an agony of grief, and for a consider able time kept his face buried in his handkerchief. The Learned Judge directed that he should be accommodated with a chair.) Mr. Thomas Jolliffe Tuffnell was then called by Mr. CLARKSON, and said—l am assistant-surgeon to the 3d Dragoon Guards. In 1838 I was in Devonshire. On the 17th December in that year the prisoner was brought to the Devon and Exeter Hospital. He was at that time in the service of Sir Lawrence Palk. He was perfectly insensible. The symptoms were those of concussion of the brain. I was told that it had resulted from a blow on the temple. I treated him for concussion of the brain. He was perfectly insensible for three days. He did not answer any question until three days after that. He underwent the discipline of a person who had received severe concussion of the brain. He was under my care for at least a month. I saw Sir Lawrence Palk, and told him that after the accident I did not think the prisoner would be a capable servant. He was a groom in the service of Sir. Lawrence Palk. I thought the injury which he bad received was likely, if he took the smallest quantity of liquor, to prevent his being able to take care of a pair of horses. I have had experience in these sort of cases. I had to treat a soldier in India for concussion of the brain, and the result was, that I was obliged to invalid him and send him home, for he was entirely unfit for subsequent service. After con cussion of the brain a person is very liable to excitement. They are easily excited. A person, after having received such an injury, might become disordered in his mind. That is my opinion, from works which I have read on the subject. The prisoner, after the accident to which I have referred, was taken, by the di rec ti on o f Si r L awr ence Palk, to a plac e called Kenton. It was my opinion when he left the hospital that he would ultimately become unsound in his mind. Cross-examined by Mr. PARRY—The soldier to which I have referred was quite unfit for the duty of a soldier, as he would frequently lay down his musket when on i hnpertant duty, and walk quietly away. I would not have trusted the prisoner with a valuable horse of mine. I think the effect of his taking ardent spirits would be to cause him to ~r im muck." A person having received concussion of the brai n would, in taking alcoholic liquors, exhibit great excite ment. Re - examined-.-I have semi sucb, after taking liquor, sullen and raervee, Mrs. Sarah Smith was then called and examined—l have been for eighteen years one of the nurses of the Devon and Exeter Hospital. I recollect the prisoner being brought into that hospital. His head was shaved, and he remained in sensible for a week or ten days. When he recovered his senses he walked as though he had been a drunken man, and was always very low in his mind. Henry Sibley was called, and said that he was in the ser vice of Sir Lawrence Palk. He took the prisoner to Kenton. The evidence of this witness went to show that the prisoner was entirely an altered man after the accident. Mr. 'William Collins ' cross-examined—l am a surgeon, living in Kenton, in Devonshire. I have been in the pro fession for 45 years. I know Sir Lawrence Palk and remem ber the prisoner being in Sir L. Palk's service. I remember him to have been a good servant. I also remember him receiving an accident. In consequence of that accident he was placed under my care after leaving the Devon and Exeter Hospital. His case was clearly a case of concussion of the brain. When I saw him he exhibited great weakness of mind, almost amounting to vacuity. He re mained at Kenton about five weeks. I saw him during that time daily. My opinion at that time was, that his mini would be affected for a considerable period, possibly for life. I have known concussions of this description to result in insanity, both violent and quiet. I should not be surprised if I he ar d o f a man, under such circumstances, committing a sudden and violent act. I knew a case of a farm-servant who had concussion of the brain, who, after drinking a quantity of cider, went out and taking a plough shaft, attempted to murder his master. Ido not know whe ther these was any provocation by the master. Such a per son would be more likely to be affected by liquor than by any other cause. Cross- • examined by Mr. PARRY—When the prisoner left me I considered him to be quite unfit to go into service. I should think that ardent spirits would make him low and depressed, and not violent. Mrs. Susan Ford was called and examined. She stated that she resided at Kenton, and knew the prisoner. Before he sustained the accident he was a very cheerful man. After the accident he appeared to be sullen, and to avoid all society. He became very dejected and low. Mrs. Serle, examined, said—The prisoner resided in my house at Kenton. I did not know him before the accident. While in my house he was in a very low dejected state. If any gentleman or lady came to my house, he would sit with his hand to his head, and take no notice of them. John Marsham said—l am a servant, in the employ of the Earl of Falmouth. The prisoner was also in his Lordship's service. He was in that service until January, 1840. He was discharged for having disobeyed the orders of the coachman. He was a very dull person. I never heard him converse with any of the servants. He was asleep half his time, and he was called in the house the half-cracked man. I always thought he was half-cracked. I have seen him so drowsy as to render it necessary for us . to put burning paper to his feet to wake him. He came into the service of Lord Falmouth after he left Sir Lawrence Palk. Cross-examined—The prisoner was second coachman to Lord Falmouth. He had very little driving. (The trial was proceeding when we went to press.) UNION HALL.--(THIS DAY.) Thomas Lock, a notorious young " prig," was charged with stealing a handkerchief from the pocket of a gentleman in High-street. The prisoner was observed in the act of taking the hand kerchief out of the complainant's pocket, by a gentleman, who, on witnessing the act, seized him by the collar. The prisoner, on being accused of the theft, turned on the witness, gave him a violent kick on the shin, and had the audacity to charge him with having committed the robbery. The prisoner was identified as having been in custody be fore on similar charges, and the magistrate committed him for three months to Brixton. Three medical students were charged with lareaking a pane of glass in a tailor's shop window in the Westminster-road. The defendants, in passing along the road, ran up against what is termed a " dummy," at the complainant's door, and drove it through the window, demolishing glass to the amount of 1/. 2s. 6d. They were not quite sober at the time, and having hesitated to pay for the damage, they were ac cordingly taken into custody and locked up all night. The MAGISTRATE having given the defendants a lecture on their conduct, discharged them on paying the damage they committed. QUEEN-SQUARE.-(THIS DAY.) Joseph Rowbottom, a middle-aged man, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Bond, charged with recklessly driving a horse, which was bleeding at the mouth and nostrils, and in a dreadful state of exhaustion. Mr. Quarles, a solicitor, attended on behalf of the defendant. About three o'clock yesterday afternoon the, defendant and others drove a market-cart at a rapid pace along Queen street, Chelsea ; the horse was much exhausted, and being driven in a careless manner nearly dashed against the shop window of a pork-butcher. The defendant and his companions were intoxicated, and stopped at apublic-house in that street, where they had some gin and beer, and having washed the mouth of the animal they turned his head round with the in tention of proceeding towards Chelsea College, but the horse could scarcely crawl. Finding that he would not move, three of the men pushed the wheels whilst the defendant held the reins. The wretched animal had only proceeded a short dis tance when it darted off at a rapid pace, and when in the Grosvenor-road reared and fell. The witnesses were cross-examined at some length by the solicitor, but their evidence, whieh went to show that the defendant ill-treated his horse, and by his reckless driving endangered the lives of persons in the road, was not in the least shaken. Mr. BOND said the defendant had been guilty of great mis. conduct, and had placed the lives of many persons in danger he should fine him 305., or in default to be committed for 21 days. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.: CORN-EXCHANGE -WEDNESDAY The supply of English Wheat was limited, while the sale for it was tolerably active, and prices were steadily supported. Very few transactions were reported in Foreign Wheats, at barely late rates. Barley and Malt were firm, at unaltered currencies. Oats, Beans, Peas, and Flour about stationary. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Fleur, English 3,860 qrs. 1,310 qrs. 1,890 qrs. 2,32osaks Irish.. ."--- -- 1,500 --- Foreign. ..... . 2 - alt, 3,058 qrs. WHITECHiIiEL. We had only a moderate supply of Meat, yet the demand was inactive at late rates :—Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 6d ; Mut ton, 2s 6d to 3s 8d ; Lamb, 5s to 6s 4d; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 6d; and Pork, 2s 4d to 4s 2d per 81bs. - -- - NEWMARKET RACES. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) NEWMARKET—TUESDAY NIGHT. LATEST BETTING. SUFFOLK STAKES. 75 to 40 agst the Cure I 2to 1 agst Minotaur DERBY. Even between two and the 30 to 1 agst Bay Momus field 1000 to 15 agst Foig-a-ballagh 5 to 2 agst Ratan —t 11 to 4 agst The Ugly Buck 2000 to 10 agst Beaufront—t 10 to 1 agst Leander—t OAKS. 12 to 1 agst Crenoline 600 to 500 on Sister to Mar -12 to 1 agst Merope tingale agst Barricade ; 25 to 1 agst Charming Kate 6 to 5 offered the other way PLATE ENTRIES FOR WEDNESDAY. Jockey Club Plate—Wee Pet, 4 yrs; Hyrcanian, 4 yrs. Handicap Plate, A.F.—Pine Apple, 4 yrs, Bst 111 b ; Ele • gance f, 4 yrs, Bst 61b ; Dr. W eo d , 4 yrs, 7st 111 b ; Jenny Jumps, 4 yrs, 7st 81b ; Father Mathew, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b ; Elmina, 3 yrs, sst 101 b. Two-yrs-old Stake (Thursday) —Lord Exeter's b f Petro nia by Velocipede out of Czar's dam ; Colonel Anson's ch f by Emilius, d by Taurus, out of Wrisk's dam ; Lord Lons dale's b c by Emilius, out of Rint. BET - TING AT MANCHESTER —YESTERDAY. DERBY. 5 to 2 agst Ratan—t 25 to 1 agst Bay Momus sto 2 agst Ugly Buck—t 25 to 1 agst Akbar 20 to 1 agst lonian 25 to 1 agst Campanero 20 to 1 agst Orlando Offers of 10 to 1 agst Leander OAKS. 7to 1 agst Si s t er to Mari 9 to 1 agst The Princess tingale—t 11 to 1 agst Merope 8 to 1 agst Barricade-4 12 to 1 agst any other SUFFOLK STAKES.—Offers to take 6 to 4 about the Cure. ebtrb Mbitt on NEWMARKET RACES (THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.) The Suffolk Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 5 ft, if de declared, &c. Mr. Williamson's The Cure •••• 1 Mr. John Day's Ben-y-Ghlo ...... .......... 2 Minotaur (third), St. Lawrence,. Cataract, Albion, Syntaxina, Hartshorn, Bourra . ternaaha, Deuce-Ace, Buzz, Lucy Long, and Candidate, also started. Won easy. The Handicap Plate was won by the Elegance filly beating Pine Apple, Father Mathew, and Jenny Jumps. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(T HIS DAY.J LONDON, MAY B.—Light breezes from N. to N.E., and fine, PORTSMOUTH, MAY 7.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Fairy Queen. London, and sailed for West coast of Africa. FALMOUTH, MAY 7.—Wind N., fresh breezes.—Arrd, IVilhelmina, Frosbey, Pernambuco; Randers, Clausen, Ha vannah. MONE ?AND COMMERCIAL NEWS, CITY; QUARTER TO THREE. There was rather a large business done in Cotton at Liver pool yesterday, 10,000 bales changi ng h an d s. Prices were id. to id. higher than on Friday, and the market was ex. ' tremely firm. The sales included 700 Maranham, at sid. to 6d. ' 30 Egyptian, at lid. ; 200 Bahla, at sd. ; 200 Surat, at aid. to 4d. ; and the rest American, at 4id. to 6id. per pound.— Shares generally were very good, and a considerable business was done. Chester and Holyhead were 7i ; Eastern Counties, 12i ; Dublin a n d Cashel, ; Edinburgh a n d Gl asgow, 16i; Great Western, Half, 75i ; Birmingham Quarter, 27i ; Croydon, 19i ; South Western, 84i ; North British, 3; North Midland, 91i i Paris and Lyons, 3i ; Do. and Orleans, 37i ; South. Eastern, The steamer Tweed, from the West Indies, bringing also the Mexican mail, furnishes_ the following dates :--Jamaica and Barbadoes, April Demerara, April 6 ; Tri. nidad, April 4 ; Vera Cruz, April 2. The accounts read better in respect to the weather, though in Jamaica there was no chance of the *jury occasioned by the long and severe drought being to any extent re paired. The p easants were quiet, but the more recently ar rived Africans seemed the least inclined to work, and prowl about, it is stated, content with an occa sional job from the more industriaus labourtrs, longer resident in the colony. The evil appears also to rest partly with the Legislature, which had made no provision for educating or improving the mom! habits of the new population. The Trinidad papers have some very strong remarks upon the subject of the condition to which the Africans liberated at St. Helena have been reduced, before arriving at their destination, owing to the imperfect regulations for their con veyance in our cruisers. At Barbadoes the mills were in full work, 44d there had been seasonable rains. The Tweed brings a smaller remittance from Mexico (55,000 dollars) than many had expected ; but it seems there is every probability of further amounts coming steadily to hand, so that we presume about half a dividend may be mat safely* muted $34, The Consol Market has been firm, and there is an improve ment upon yesterday's closing rates of A per cent., viz. t 99/ 4 for Money, and 99a 4 for Account. Exchequer Bills have been steady at 755. to 775. premium. The New Three and-a- Half per Cents. have realised 102/ to i ; the Reduced 101 A to / ; and the Three per Cents 984 to 99. Bank Stock has been marked 195 to 196, which is not quite so good. Nothing particular has occurred in the Foreign Mar ket, but Spanish Bonds are rather firmer, being 234 / for Five per Cents., and 34a to i for the Three per Cents. The Portu guese Converted Stock is at 45 to 46. Mexican have been much the same, but certainly noUrigher. The Actives have realised 35/ to i, and the Three p? Cents. 15/. Danish bonds are firm at 88. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 61i to *, and Belgian at 102/. The Railway Shares are firm, with a fair business doing. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 195 IN 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 9 9306 3% per Cent. Annuities, 1818 101%k%% New 3% per Cent. Annuities 102% ' 31% Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1361 12% -16 Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860. Bank Stock for Account Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, I%d. I%d 1,000/. 5001— ....... . . ....... ..... ... 75 pos. Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent 102% Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent. SS Mexican Bonds, .837, 5 per Cent. .... 251630 i Ditto Deferred Stock 15)4 Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent MI 23ji N Ditto for the Account Ditto Passive Bonds. Ditto Three per Cent. - Ditto for the Account ..4 i Vifo il Dutch 2% per Cents 6l Ditto for the Account Dutch 5 per Cents 10014% PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. PAID. Pea SHARE. Chester and Holyhead... ......... ... 5 ..... .... 7 Dublin and Cashel . 2% 5% to .... Eastern Counties Ditto New Registered SI. 6s. Rd. Ditto Perpetual 5 per eent 13.. 4d.... 1 Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O .... ..... 66 Great Western . ........ ..-........... 75 Ditto % Shares Ditto Fifths l2 ..... ".• 20 . .».. to ..... Harwich (Braithwaite) Lancaster and Carlisle London and Brighton W 45 to 44% London and Greenwich London and South Western 41% 854% ... to Ditto Eighths k ..... 4% London and Croydon IK" 19% to ..... Manchester and Leeds 7O - to Ditto 34 Shares Manchester and Birmingham Midland Counties Northern and Eastern 45 57144 „. to North Midland Ditto % Shares 4O ..... ... 45 " ..... to . Norwich and Brandon South Eastern and Dover ...... ... 32% Ditto New York and North Midland ..... ..... to . Ditto 34 Shares Paris and Orleans ••••••••••••••••••••• W •••• Paris and Rouen 2O 37 %% '% to --. Rouen and Havre. 8 .•... ..... . • •••••• to JOINT STOCK BANKS. London Joint Stock London and Westminster o 26 it to MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 7.—The Market continues very firm, with a fair demand an d a good business doing :—Bristol and Exeter, 75 ; Eastern Counties, 13k; Ditto, Registered, 15 ; Grand Junction Quarter Shares, 431; Midland Counties, 91; North Union, 1101; Sheffield and Manchester, 80i ; South Eastern, 38* ; Ditto, New, Ili; Preston and Wyre, 19*; Blackburn and Preston, si; Mau* chester, Birmingham, and Rossendale, 6 5 15-16tb3 ; Union Bank of Manchester, 9. THE WEST INDIA MAIL. IMPORTANT FROM HAYTI. SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 7.—The Tweed Royal Mail Com pany's steam-ship, Captain R. Sharpe, is just arrived from the West Indies and Mexico, bringing sixty-four passengers and invalids. Her dates of departure are as follow :—Tam pico 21st March, Vera Cruz 2d April, Honduras 22d March, Havannah 11th April (met there the Tiviot), Nassau 13th April, Bermuda 22d April (met there the Medway), Deme rara 6th April, Barbadoes Bth April, Grenada 9th April, Tri nidad 4th April, Jamaica Bth April, St. Thomas's 15th April. and Shagres 12th March. The Tweed brings 263,800 dollars, 55,719 of which are for the Mexican dividends. She also brings ninety-seven serous of cochineal, seventeen bales of gum, and a quantity of pa dust. Also about 7001. worth of pearls, consigned to Paris. It is thought, notwithstanding there is not sufficient de;llars necessary for the dividends, that the Thames, expected about the sth of July, will bring a very large consignment. The Tweed experienced head winds the whole passage: had not this been the case she would have been here two days earlier. The Tweed was also detained at Bermuda coaling. At Bermuda—Admiral Sir Charles Adam, in the Illus trious, and the Inconstant, and Euriclice frigate. The Warp. Albatross, and Ringdove, were fitting out to suppress the slave trade on the coast of Africa. The Pique was at Vero. Cruz. The Royal Mail steamer, Tiviot, with the Ist of March mails, arrived at Kingston (Jamaica) on the Ist April. The Royal Mail Company's steamer, Thames, Captain P• Hasle, which sho u ld h ave arr i ved at Kingston (Jamaica). from Havannah on the 3d or 4th of April, reached the Com pany's wharf on Sunday, the 7th of April, at 2 P.m.. She had been detained at Bermuda more than two days extra, in consequence of severe gales there blowing, and which had done some damage. The port pilot refused to take out the Thames until the gales had much moderated, The following lamentable account of the insurrection at Hayti we copy from the Jamaica Gazette of the Bth April The French brig Adelina, Captain Tahet, arrived in this port on Saturday evening, bringing disastrous intelligence, and no less than 140 passengers, including 25 children—all persons of colour, and compelled to fly from their native land s , to seek refuge under the flag of foreigners. " Our readers remember that the new President, Herard, had marched with a large army for St Domingo city, tq quell the insurrection in the eastern portion of the island. Tak ing advantage of the absence of the General and troops, the black people rose en masse on Sunday, the 31st ultimo, and commenced an iniscrimine slauhter of the brown pou lation. On Wednesday the National Guards, of the town of Aux Cayes, went out with two pieces of ordnance to suppress the rebellion and punish the rebels, but, as we have learned. their own General Commanding delivered up the cannons W the blacks, and joined them himself. Thus strengthened they drove the National Guard back to Aux Cayes, entered the town, and commenced a relentless butchery—murdering every brown person, without regard to sex or age. The wretched inhabitants had no means of defen ce , no re f u ge ► save on board the few foreign ships lying in the harbour-- French, American, and English. Into these they crowded in confused and huddled batches —men, women, and chil dren literally covering the decks, and exhibiting a distress ing spectacle of misery and sudden destitution. DA the decked vessels were not sufficient to hold the number of wretched refugees ; the port was dotted over with small open boats, each containing as many human beings as it could hold, who dared not remain on land te await certain massacre, and yet could have little hope of escape by sea. Captain Tahet, a man worthy of his ceurtrY and of humanity, could not for a moment think of leaving to a miserable fate those who had fled to his protection and the guardianship of the tricolour. He was bound for France. and had but provisions sufficient for his crew. To Cuba, O r Porto Rico, which would have been on his route, he could not bring his poor proteges, for there they would not have been received. With disinterested generosity, therefore, he sailed for Jamaica, and here has safely landed his unhappy freight. Most of these made their escape from shore without any other property than their wearing apparel —some indeed with scarcely that. At eight o'clock on Thursday evening last Captain Tahet set sail, and at that time the work of blood was going' on, and the port crowded in the manner mentioned. We shall probably have some of the other vessels with the refugees arriving here to-day. When the Adelina left, her commander had just got his letters from St- Domingo; and, though rumours were rife, there was no cer tain information of any encounter having taken place be tween Herard and the Spanish revolters." THE STATE TRIALS. FURTHER POSTPONEMENT. DUBLIN, TUESDAY.—For nearly an hour before the time their Lordships usually sit, the Court of Queen's Bench wet this morning crowded by the public and those members of the junior bar wh o h a d mot i ons to make in the exercise of that precedence of their elder brethren which is conceded to them on the two last days of term. The public were, no doubt, attracted by the prevalent rumour that something de finite would be stated by the Court this morning in reference to the new trial motion, and they consequently evinced much interest and anxiety upon the subject; but amongst the bet ter informed and more passive gentlemen of the bar a feeling prevailed that their Lordships Would in all probability be un able to harmonize their supposed conflicting opinions, and than very intricate and opposite data on which the motion rested. without the aid of other judicial advice, and fuller time for consultation. Still there was doubt as to the result (eve% amongst those who most confidently entertained that Vies) which the knowledge that their Lordships had come ( 100 2 to Court at the unusually early hour of 10 o'clock tbr the pur e ' pose, as it was said, o f consu l t i ng i n chamber on tbt merits of the motion, contributed to increase. Mr. Justice Burton took his seat on the bench about half past eleven o'clock, and proceeded to hear the motions of the Junior bar. In a short time after Judges Perrin and CranlP:, ton entered, w ear i ng th e appearance (it was remarked) 01 men who had been reeently engaged in warm discussion. The Bar had scarcely made their bow to their LordshiPe , when " silence" was again called for the Lord Chief Justice- At this time the Court was 'very full. All the law-officer s and counsel engaged for the Crown, Mr. Kemmis. the Crown solicitor, some of the counsel for the defence, a n -. two of the trav erssrs only (Mr. Steele and Mr. Tiernef , were in their usual places. When the Lord Chief Justice entered, a member of 0 4 outer bar was addressing the Court in support of some ortw nary motion, which his Lordship listened to for a kw minutes. As another gentleman was about to address t° B Court, His LORDSHIP, interrupting him, and addressing th e Attorney-General, said—" Mr. Attorney, lam sorry to tell . that the Court fi n d th a t th ey cannot give judgment in I°' case until next term." "The case," though not more specifically designatel,,,,bl. his Lordship, was i ns t an tl y understood to be that of "The Queen v. Daniel O'Connell and others." Public eurioei . was satisfied, and i n a f ew moments the Court was comPani tively empty. Trinity Term commences on the 22d inst. BIRTHS. On the sth inst., at Hyde Park-square, the wife of Capta in H. R, Brandreth R.E., of a daughter. On the 25th ult., at the Manor House, Hallaton, Leicester shire, the wife of Thomas Vowe, Esq., of a daughter. the On the 28th ult., at R us hd en H a ll , Northamptons hire , lady of Frederick Sartorius, Esq., of a son. On the Ist inst., at Shadforth Parsonage, the wife of t/34 Roy. R. G. L. Blenkinsop, of a daughter. On the 21st ult., a t th e R ectory, St. Leonar d' s , Ese tAr , th e lady of the Rev. W. B, Wills, of a daughter. DIED. ya o rd n , a th ot q p B: :r i e n g s r t el t E e l d iz ab et h , wife of Mr. D. Judson, Sc ott's- On the Ist of March, Mary Ann, wife of Mr. Henry 3:Nab° , Tank-square, Calcutta. On the 21st of March, at Spanish Town, Jamaica, Henry, seventh son of the late Fairfax Moresby, Esq. On the 2d inst., at Sunninghill, Berks, Henry Richard. youngest son of Charles Clem, nts Brooke, Esq. On the 4th inst., in Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park, Georg' Travers, third son of G. Marsden, Esq. On the 4th inst., in Chester-terrace, Miss Parke, aged 75. On the sth inst., in Windmill-street, Fitzroy-square, AfiSit Elizabeth English, of Croydon, Surrey. Jolly, On of e 6 B t h e l i g n r s a t ; e A .p n l n a i c e e, r Cal i l m eo li t c t o. Jolly, daughter of the late J. 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