The Sun. — London, England, 1839-06-10 00:00:00

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After which, KATHERINE AND PETRUCHIO. To-n - iorrew, The Lady of Lyons, with Amilie. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. LAST WEEK OF THE OPERA COMPANY! THIS EVENING, JuNr. 10, 'Malec. performed, the Comic; Drama called PETER THE CIREAT AND PAUL THE MARINER. After which, 13ellini's Opera of LA SONNAMBULA. Count Rodolph, Mr. W. Balfe ; Elvino, Mr. Templeton ; Amina, Miss Romer. Ts conclude with the successful Drama, called ALICE GRAY, THE SUSPECTED ONE. Under her MAJESTY'S PI IEDIATE PATRONAGE. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Bridiant success. 1 ! GRAND " PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAM PETRES! I ! THIS EVENING, JUNI! 10, TO-MORROW, and THURSDAY NEXT, Commeneing at Six o'clock, and terminating at Nine. By a splendid Band, composed of the most distinguished Instru mental Perfgriners in the Metropolis, Selected and coutluc'el by Mr. Goat - fey. The magnifleent Day-light View of MOUNT HECLA, and the unequalled Menagerie, are exhibited daily. Admission One Shilling. - - 47 ) r 5. -s-d ; ''k• \ : f...1 - ~., •:}; - b':':' ,4 7 - % _ . :. `4,7 . 4,.:_,' 41 4) • Zhe atl_,L. LONDON : MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1139. In the few observations which we made on the debate in the House of Louis on the Court of Chancery, we ventured to suggest that the most efficient, and indeed only efficient, reform would be obtained by abridging the temptation of solicitors and barristers to bring improper causes into Court. Of course the same observation applies to their pro tracting suits. Let any man consider for a moment what must be the effect of having an army of func tionaries with a strong pecuniary interest (in a country where the desire of wealth overrides the sense of honour, and very generally the sense of honesty), in protracting and multiplying suits. They never can lose. The property about which they provoke these contests is always enough to pay them all their expenses and all the fees. Whenever it ceases to yield payment to them they give up the Cause. A Contemporary (the Standard) seems inclined to throw all the blame on the rich litigant, plaintiff or defendant, relying on the weight of his . purse to carry him through, and on the poor liti gant, relying on delay to weary out his opponent ; but neither rich nor poor litigant could act with out the instrumentality of solicitors and coun sel, who point out the course, to insure delay, or give that victory to wealth, which ought to 'belong only to justice. The State, or the Courts which act for the State, by licenses and monopo ties, by regulations, presenting the duties of solici tors and limiting the power of pleading in the Court to certain individuals, makes itself responsible for the character and conduct of solicitors and bar risters. Admitting, therefore, that part of the Cost arises from unjust litigants themselves, by what light, let us ask, does the State create and organise two large bodies of men to pander to the vicious ap petites of litigants, and urge them on in a career of litigious fraud, while they are themselves seem e, and like camp followers, plunder both parties ? As leng as their avarice is stimulated A here can be no improvement. It must be quite im -1). °s4 ible for any multiplication of Courts, or for any exertio ns on the part of the Judges, to keep pace with id e self interest of the host of solicitors and barris ters, a s l on g ts they may, unChecked, encourage liti gation. They, as well as causes, will certainly be mul tiplied in proportion as the increase of Courts aug ments the facilities for deciding cases, and enables them to persuade suitors to submit their adverse claims to a Court for decision. To show that our notion on this subject is neither singular nor unfounded, we shall quote a passage from a pamphlet by Mr. SPENCE, Queen's Counsel, and a Chancery Barrister I have serious doubts whether one Judge would be suffi cient, especially if he is not to be confined to his duties in the Court of Chancery; for it has been found by experi ence that no sooner is there a chance of getting causes heard, than they multiply to a very great extent. The average number of causes set down in the three years pre ceding the appointment of a Vice-Chancellor in 1813 was five hundred and forty; in the three succeeding years, it increased to seven hundred and seventeen ; in the three years ending in 18'34, it had increased to 1,301. Petitions and motions have, since 1813, increased in an equal or higher degree ; the funds, too, which have been brought into the Court for distribution or administration, have in creased from about 29 to 40,000,000. The appointment of a new Judge at present would, I have no doubt, produce a corresponding increase in the business. I therefore can not recommend the appointment of a new Vice- Chancellor, as having that quality which is now deemed so essential, namely, finality ;" indeed I should be sorry Hit bad. We hear an immense deal from Conservatives of the wisdom of our ancestors, though the lawyers do not very highly compliment the wisdom of former generations of priests, nor priests that of former generations of lawyers ; and the spe cimen we have just quoted of the cunning of the latter tribe will amply justify the doubts of ,the clergy. It must also be remembered that former generations of lawyers provided fees for every stage of a process, and thus they gave a strong interest to all the functionaries concerned to protract suits, as well as multiply them. Under the stimulus of that sinister inte rest the present practice of the Courts of Equity and of Law grew up. It was dictated and ar ranged by the lowest and most paltry motives, those of the self-interest of the lawyers, not from any comprehensive view of what was necessary to pro cure a fair hearing for adverse parties, and enable an honest Judge to pronounce a correct decision. This generation, however, must suffer from that, and tiara must abide by this chicanery as the wisdom of our ancestors. Taking this view of its origin, we agree with the Evenin g m. Contemporary already referred to : • To ordinary observers—to all certainly who have ever seen the pleadin gs b y in an equ i ty su i t , unaccompanied an y fee to themselves; or—a sti ll more instructive and im pres!ive lesson—have had to peruse a bill of costs in equity, tha¢ remedy presents itself et once — a trenc h ant reform of the w h o l e equity process—a reform which shall diminish the costs of suits in equity nine-tenths. Mr. SPENCE seems inclined to a similar opinion, though he does not carry it so far as we laymen, for he only says it is necessary " carefully to revise the practice of the Court of Chancery." But as long as barristers can make large fortunes by en gaging in unjust causes, as long as solicitors can also acquire great wealth without incurring the chance of loss, so long will all improvements in the practice of the Courts, all trenchant reforms in the whole equity process, be but trifling with the evil, if they do not give facilities for these two classes of men to provoke litigation. We therefore are quite de cided that the only means of effectually reforming the Courts will be to make such a reform the inte rest of the two great classes of legal functionaries who now combine to promote litigation ; and we are also convinced that the effectual way to chock .their improper proceedings would be to place a power in the hands of the Judges to fine heavily njust both ci tars and barristers for promoting u We contend further that the Legislature is bound to do something of this kind, because those two classes of men exist like the Courts, thems e l ves , b y its regulation. Th e y are not like merchants and bankers, and hand-loom and power-loo m weavers, the offspring of the natural wants of society and of the division of labour; the monopoly and privilege of the barrister is conferred by the Courts, and the solicitors are their servants, and subject to their jurisdiction. Such a prin. \ciple of reform may not fail within ordi nscy mks ; but the many unsuccessful at ter-iv' ts which have been made to reform the Court of Chancety, prove that the application of some new principle is required, Ours may seem to be sweeping, at the same tune it is simple. It concerns, however, only the holders of property, and if the pocr are deprived of a vote for the legis lature, they may also congratulate themselves that they have never anything to do with the Court of Chancery. We shall conclude by quoting from a second pamphlet of Mr. SPENCE, an example of the manner in which Solicitors, Barristers, Judges, and Masters in the Court of Chancery, have hum bu";ged and plundered the unhappy people who have recourse to them in the hope of obtaining their rights : The cause of Stubbs against Sargon was instituted some years ago, to clntermirre the rights of the several legatees under the will of a person who had realised a con siderable property in trade. The costs of the suit up to the hearing of the original cause were taxed and paid some time since. Bills of the costs incurred in the subse quent part of the suit were lately carried in to be taxed, preparatory to their being also paid out of the es•ate. 1 have put in columns the amounts taken off on taxation from a few of these bills, and what the estate has bad to pay for the berklit thus derived r Taxed off. Costs of taxation. s. d. s. d. Plaintiff's bill .. . 71 810 78 14 3 Deft. Field and wife 24 17 0 62 8 2 George Stubbs 3 0 0 60 15 01 Wm. Stu Lbs... 12 15 0 62 0 6 Silver and wife 27 1 7 2 68 14 9 —Pound and wife 45 15 0 63 16 6 188 12 0 396 9 2 " So that such is the expense of this process under the present system, that in the instances stated, it cost the estate and they thy the parties 3961. 94. in order to gain the sum rf 1881. 12d. Bd. ; the untire costs of the mere taxation amouLt to about 7001. In the cause of Hughes against \Vyme, they are nearly to the same amount. There arc, no doubt, many other causes which would afford en equally instructive lesson." The more we consider the present state of parties in this country, the more we are convinced that the people must, and they only can, help themselves. Lord BROUGIIA M, in one of his recent publica cations, praises Mr. HORNE TOOK E for having given, in his long imprisonment and trial, decided proofs of patriotism. Mr. MACA ULAY too, at Edinburgh, made the public aware of the great ad vantage to the people of having the Government administered by Whig hands. So far as Ireland is concerned, there can be no doubt that this is a pre-eminent advantage. At the same time, before the accession of the Whigs to office, there was a manifest improvement in the character of the Government. For several years, none of the upper classes have been called on to exhibit those proofs of patriotism which Lord BROUGHADJ so much admires in HortNE TOOKE. The ultimate result too, of such patriotism as displayed in Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, the last specimen of one of these true patriots, is not such as to make us set much value on it. His patrotism would probably have found an ample reward in a Peerage, and not receiving that he has become a patriot Tory. THISTLEWOOD, indeed, and some others, have given proofs of their patriotism, we believe, since Sir • FRANCIS, but they were not of a nature to jus tify or reward imitation. We mac infer, therefore, we think, from this gradual disappearance of proofs of patriotism, that the Executive Government was in a gradual course of amelioration before the accession of the Whigs to office. Praising very much their_ general forbearance • from prosecutions of the press, and from instituting trials for sedition, we cannot at the same time deny that such things were of not frequent occurrence in the years immediately prior to their accession to of fice. If, as we suppose, the Executive Government was in a gradual course of amelioration just as society is in a gradual course of civilization—the Whigs as compared to the Tories have the advan tage of coming at a later period, and so may appear to advantage, without possessing much greater merit. Just as the Protestant Church in all comparisons with the Church of Rome derives a great and un fair advantage from comparing a Church which came into existence in the sixteenth cen tury, with a Church that flourished in preceding and less civilized ages. Our de duction from these rather desultory remarks is that the Executive Government, which, under the Whigs has not forced men to give HORNE TOOK A'S proofs of patriotism, would not, under the Tories, supply many such examples. Our further deduction is, that so far as our personal liberties and property are concerned, we have no thing to apprehend from the Executive Govern ment, which has ceased in the course of thinfirs to be very oppressive, and that what the country re quires is rather improvement in legislation than in the Executive Government. But it so happens that in the present balanced state of parties, each being jealous of the othergaining a lasting hold of popularity and power by a judicious legislation, nothing whatever can be obtained from Parliament. So far does this excessive jealousy carry our rival legislators, and has carried them for some time, that, according_ to Mr. SPENCE, aye, and ac cording to Lords BROUGHAM and LYNDHURST, the Legislation by which each of them proposed to improve the Court of Chancery, was defeated by his rival. Nothing therefore of any importance, or of much utility, can possibly be obtained from the Legislature, and consequently it will belong to the press and to the people to ascertain which mea sures would most promote the public happiness, to make them the themes of discussion and concen trate on them public opinion, so as hereafter to in fluence the conduct of the Legislature. Unless we adopt that measure, legislative improvement will be hereafter as impossible as it is at present. This Ses sion, stricken with atrophy, must soon come to an end; whether the Whigs or the Tories be in office there can be no hope from it; and time will be given the people to consider what it is most de sirable to require of the Legislature, and concentrate their energies in obtaining it. What the Whigs and the Radicals may resolve on we will not at present attempt to say, but the Tories, if they con tinue consistent in office, must, above and before all things, increase the revenues and the power of the priesthood. The Church must be.extended in Scotland, and in England, and must be replaced in all its pristine power of exacting tithes in Ireland. The Tories affirm—that they really believe it we will not assert—that the morality, and con sequently the happiness, the peace, and wel fare of the community, depend on the supremacy of the Anglican priesthood, and the maintenance of their power over the education, and over the minds of the community. To accomplish that then must be their great object; all the Radicals and Whiffs are convinced that the domination of the Anglican Church is one of the most serious evils which Legislature has to remedy. They can, therefore, but consider the accession of the Tories to office, which would throw all the weight of the Executive Government into the scale of the pliesthocd, as a curse to the community. There is some truth, and also some misappre hension, in the letter of a Correspondent from Ban bury on the 101. county qualification. If " the Liberals will not stir an inch," and the Tories are allowed to have the registration all in their own way, almost every proposed correction of the Re form Bill would be as objectionable as he considers the object of Sir HESKETH WOOD'S motion. We cannot, however, think so meanly of the men who carried the Re form Bill, nor can we believe that the Libe rals of Banbury would desert their Represen tative, who votes for Household Suffrage, Ballot, and Trienni a l P ar li amen t s , mere l y be cause he differed from them on one point, and conscientiously, though in our opinion erro neously, voted against the motion. We say erro neously, because if Sir ROBERT PEEL and his party had entertained our Correspondent's opinion, they ought to have supported Sir HESKETH FLEET WOOD. They knew better. They knew that if such a motion had been carried, a great number of 101. householders would have voted against them, and that the cry for the Ballot excited by the 501. clause would have been increased to an extent which would have obliged even the House of Lords to yield to it. The Hollando-Belgic question is at last happily and finally settled. For once copious ink shedding has, notwithstanding the ridicule of the Tories, preserved the peace ,of Europe. Oa Saturday afternoon a Confefence of the Representatives of the five Great Powers was held at - the Foreign Office in Downing-street, when the ra tifications of the Treaty of Peace between Hol lahnadn,ed. and .. Belgiu m , were f orm ally and solemnly ex c We frank] ) acl-nowled , re that this result , of which we more than once ' despaired, is creditable to the firmness and energy of Lord PALMERSTON ; and we shall ever think the better of him for this signal proof of his abilities as a Minister and a ztatcsman. We this day present to our readers another powerful article from the Examiner on the subject of " the Lunatic Committee of Visiting Justices" of the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum at Han well, to whi c h we di re ct particular attention. Proverbially the Magistrates of Middlesex have been, and are, a mere bye-word—the laughing-steak of the community. We do not believe these is to be found in the whole of the English counties any parallel to them. But bad as the whole body of Middlesex Justices is, inefficient in every thing except shameful and extravagant expenditure of the county money, " the Lunatic Committee" of that body, by then- own statements, appear to out-Herod Herod. We hope for the honour of the Magis trates of other counties, that the case made out by the Middlesex Lunatic Committee against them selves, by their own Reports and the audits of their own accounts, is not to be predicated of any other County Lunatic Asylum in England. We consider the Government imperatively called upon to interfere and afford some protection to the Rate-payers. The case made out by the Lunatic Committee, is so strongly condemnatory of their own proceedings—the proofs of their inefficiency to con duct an expenditure of public money are so glaring, that without imputing anything like criminality, we are strongly convinced, that the sooner " the Lu natic Committee" are relieved from the trouble of continually putting their hands into the pockets of the County Rate-payers, the bstter will it be for the community. From the Report of the proceedings at the Marylebone Vestry, on Saturday, it will be seen that that influential body came to an unanimous vote, including the Tory Lord KENYON'S vote, as well as the votes of several county Magistrates, calling upon the Government to institute an in quiry into the expenditure of the County of Middle sex. This is as it should be; it is not a party ques tion, but a great practical grievance,. in which the whole County Rate-payers, and we ourselves in common with them, are intemted. We hope the Government will respond to the call, by prompt accquiescence. The result of the Devonshire meeting is exactly what we anticipated. There was a considerable majority in favour of addressing the Queen—such a majority, indeed, as no honest and impartial eye could by any possibility mistake ; but, as. we stated last week, the High Sheriff is a Tory, and High Sheriffs of that description do not feel themselves called upon to decide any cause in which there is Toryism on one side and only justice on thelothet in favour of the latter. This gentleman, therefore, from a natural defect in his organs of vision, could not see that which was as clear as the sun at noonday to every body but himself and his Tory sub, namely, that two-thirds of the Castle yard, where the meeting was held, mere filled with Liberals, and the remaining third with the support ers of " disloyal insolence." Upon the conduct of these functionaries, or the quality of mind which could stoop to so dishonour able a meanness as it involves, jt is useless to wasto words. To make a silk purse out of a sow's ear is a feat that we believe has hitherto baffled the skill of our most ingenious artisans, and it is just as hope less a task to look for real honour and sterlinginteg,rity among the hacks of a degraded faction. 'When a man is once thoroughly imbued with Tory princi ples—supposing him to have been a gentleman be fore, which we cannot assert to hav e been the case in the instance before us—good bye to all gentle manly feeling, and all uprightness in political matters. The mind loses its perception of right and wrong—the moral sense becomes deadened— there is no restraint from within—and the only consideration with the unhappy victims of this ac cursed system, is how far they can go without coming under the penalties of the law. The Tories of Devonshire however have no cause for triumph. Quite the contrary. They know that they were defeated, and so do the public. The partiality of an official cannot conceal the mortifying fact that the following Address was approved by a large majority of a County Meeting :--- " TO TILE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. " We, your Majesty's faitlafut subjects, inhabitants of the county of Devon, in county assembled, beg to approach your Majesty with aeotitnente of the most devoted ,ietyalty and attachment. 6' We desire to express our admiration of the wisdom which enabled your Majesty to detect, and the firmness with which your Majesty has resisted the attempt lately made to encroach on the constitutional privileges and pre. rogatives of the Crown, in demanding the dismissal, and claiming the appointment of the Ladies of your Majesty's Household. " We feel assured that the same spirit and determina tion which have been so nobly displayed by your Majesty in maintaining the prerogatives of the Crown will be evinced by you on all occasions in supporting the rights and liberties of the people.—(Cheers.) " We hail with wain: Hod satisfaction the expressions of your Majesty's decided attachment to the principles of a Liberal Government, and we trust that our Majesty will ever call to your councils honest and enlightenedstates men, who, whilst they steadily uphold the prerogatives of the Crown, will carry cut such measures of Reform as arc indispensably required in all our institutions, ecclesiastical as well as civil. In order to confirm and extend the bless ings of our free Constitution, and to advance the welfare and prosperity of the mighty empire which Divine Provi dence has committed to your care." The principal opponent of the Address was the Earl of DEVON. This pedantic, self-conceited personage, whose tongue seems out of all propor don to his brains, pretended to find fault with the Liberal Members representing boroughs within the county, for not being at the meeting. We do not mean to defend the absence of all who were not there, but does it become this noble chatterer to throw the first stone at any one who is absent from his duty, when he belongs to a body of legislators, who, as he was told by Mr. DIVETT, may, while they reside in Constantinople, vote away our lives and liberties in the British Parliament ? From the following extracts from the Dutch and German papers, received last night, it would appear that both the Sardinian and Russian Governments were perfectly well aware of the prospective occur rence of the late enzeute in France several weeks before it took place. The present is not the best time for dwelling at any length upon this circum stance. A number of persons are in the course of being tried by the French Chamber of Peers for a crime of which, should they be found guilty, thcy will suffer an ignominiouS death, and therefore humanity dictates an abstinence, on the part of Fo reign Journalists, from any remark calculated either to excite a prejudice against them, or to defeat the proper ends of public justice. We may, however, take leave to ask what steps did the Governments of Russia and Sardinia take to make the King of the FRENCH aware of the danger which threatened kis person ? Did one or the other send a courier to Paris to inform the CITIZEN KING that his life was in peril ? And if they did, how did it happen that the French Government did not prevent the shedding of innocent blood in the streets of Paris ; by the adoption of suitable precautionary measures ? But it IA ill be time enough to enter into the merits of this very complicated ques tion when the Court of Peers has decided respecting the guilt or innocence of the prisoners now at its bar. In the mean time it is strange if such statements as the following do not make an extraordinary sensation in France. The coinci dence between the accounts from Cracow and Turin are most striking : Tunm, MAY 29. —The riot in Paris, which took the French Authorities by surprise, and found them quite un prepared, effused no such surprise here. We knew here some weeks ago, what would happen in France. The Sar dinian Government had therefore taken its measures, while at Paris they were quietly looking on, while a handful of of agitators ventured to show themselves in the Lee of a very powerful armed force. It would be really a Let de serving of punishment if the French Authorities knew nothing of what was passing under their eyes. While a foreign Government at the distance of 100 leagues was accurately informed of the approaching proceeding of the Parisian Revolutionists. A short time before the .Allgenzeine Zeitung had published information (sent from this city) that the Sardinian Govern ment had ordered increased vigilance to he ob served in the frontier, because it apprehended fresh troubles in France, and we know of a plot against the life of Louis .Phillippe. The first part of this notice has proved true, and as for the second we know that the hatred of the adversaries of Louis Philippe is implacable. We know here the views of the United Republican and Bona parte parties, and shall not be surprised at an attempt on the King's life, because we aro informed of what that in corrigible party contemplates notwithstanding its late failure. CRACOW, MAY 22.—The accounts from Paris, relative to the late disturbance have excited the more sensation here, as reports of a revolution in the French capital is to take place in the course of this month, have been in circulation here for several weeks. These reports were spread in a quiet manner and were ~~.> THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 10 1839. propagated all over Poland ; they represented the mea sures, adopted to ensure the success of the attempt, and the means of effecting it in such a manner that its failure seemed hardly possible—various opinions were formed of the probability of success. When news of the disturbance was received on the 20. h by private letters, and on the following day the account of the total suppression of the riots, it was received of course with a variety of feelings. Those who had prophesied the failure of the disturbance had the most reason to be satisfied. The . arrivals from Lisbon are of the 3d inst. by the Liverpool steamer, which reached Falmouth on Saturday evening from the Mediterranean. The Portuguese Go vernment was engaged in the preparation of a project of law for placing the foreign and domestic creditors of the State on the same footing—a just and impartial measure, but one not the less likely to meet with determined op position on the part of the home creditors. Their Most Faithful Majesties and the Princes were in excellent health, and the cmlntry was more tranquil than it had been for many month's. We have received the wl.olc of the Paris Papers of Friday nnl Saturdq. The news of importance in the French Journals is, in amount, levy trifling-. In the official columns of the Moniteur we only find the following telegraphic dis patches : " Madrid, June 2. " From the Ambassador of France at Madrid to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. " The Official Gazette of this day contains a decree fur the dissolution of the present Cortes, and the convocation of new Chambers on the Ist of September." " 13.1rdeaux, June 5, One o'clock P M. " The Lieutenant General, Commander cf the 11th Military Division, to the Minister of War. " Yesterday, at Saintes, nine of the 50 individuals im. plicated in the corn riots of La Rochelle were acquitted, and 41 sentenced to hard labour or imprisonment. They endeavoured by their tears and groans to stir up the popu lation. The latter, however, remained calm ; the pri soners were conveyed back to gaol, and public trancoillity was not disturbed." Although the first despatch from Madrid only an nounces the dissolution of the Cortes, there is reason to infer that the REGENT at the same time decreed the removal of Baron DE MEER from the Captain-General ship of Catalonia ; the removal of General QurnocA from the Capta;n-Generaiship of New Castile, and the Inspector-Generalship of the National Militia ; and a new loan to be raised for the support of the clergy. The Court of Assizes of the Seine was occupied the whole of Friday with the trial of the editot s and pub lishers of Le .illon!teur Republicain and L' IL:now-Libre for attacking the sacred Majesty of Louts PFLILIPPE in their respective columns. s The articles denounced were treasonably libellous, but the Court was not able to come to a decision on Friday, owing to the length of the pleadings. The following extracts include the whole of the in tellivenee found in the Paris Journals : It is asserted that Espartero, having learned that the Commissioner pppointed by Louis Philippe to accompany his army was in correspondence with the Calists, has with drawn from him the permission to fallow the movements of the troops. It is said that the Cabinet of Madrid, some time ago, sent notes to our Government, to ask for the exchange of M. de Fcnnsac, who is accused of having little sympathy for the Queen's cause. M. Soule is, they say, disposed immediately to give him a successor, but the name of the diplomatist who is to supply his place is not known. The Journal des Debats adds the following to a letter from the harbour at Syra, in which it was stated that the Turkish army, although it had passed the Euphrates, had not crossed the Svrian frontier : The correspondent of the Semaphore is well in. formed In fact the pachalik of Orfa, of which I3ir forms a part, extends on the right bank of the Eu phrates (the Syrian bank) to six or eight hours' march from the river. The pachalik of Aleppo finishes at KrA- Hisar, where a torrent runs which descends from Mount Taurus. These limits date many centuries back ; the occupation of Syria by the Egyptians has nut changed them. It remains certain, then, that the Ottoman troops in their movement on the Euphrates have nut invaded any portion of the tcriitory of Mehemet Ali. Bir is also a considerable distance from Aleppo. They calculate he. twcen the two cities twenty five hours of march of a caravan equivalent to the longest leagues of Europe. The Sud, of Marseilles, publishes the following letter from Aleppo, Batt d Bth cf May : " A Russian corvette anchored yesterday atAlexundretta. She .brougnt an envoy of her nation, who immediately set off to summon the Turkish and Egyptian armies to suspend their march." The Duke of Lt‘uchtenherg.„ future son-in law of the Emperor Nicholas, arrived on the 27th of May at Warsaw, and, after a visit to . Prince Paskewitch, continued his jour ney to St. Petersburg. Letters from Darmstadt, dated the 3th inst., announce as positive, the marriage of Princess Mary of Hesse with the Imperial Crown Prince of Russia, who was shortly ex. petted to arrive is that city. Sidi Mustapha, the Envoy of the Bey of Tunis, bad reached Turin on his way to Paris. He was to leave the former city for the latter on the 4th inst. _ _ The Moniteur announces the ratification of the treaty between his MajeAy the - King of the French and her Majesty the Queen i.f Great Britain and Ireland, fur the transmission via France, of the correspondence of the latter kingdom with the East Indies. DOURSE.... , -, Pa iiss....e.airuntss.r.....luira • 8- HALF-PAST Tuitet.-:-Very little business has been done to-day. Fur the Account the Three per Cents. ' opened at 79f. 95c., rose to sor., and closed at 79f. 90c., as yes terday (Friday). The Five per Cents. opened at I 1 If. 55c., rose to Illf. 60c., and closed at 1 1 If. 55e., being a rise of 5 cents. For Money the Three per Cents. are 10c., and the Five per Cents. Sc. higlr.:r. The Bank of France Shares are unaltered. The Laffitte Bank Shares are Of. lower. The Spanish Active is i better. The Railway Sharel continue without any new feature. The St. Germain unaltered. The Versailles Right Bank 2f. 50c. ; and the Versailles Left Bank 121. 50c. lower. T lrst Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price Price French 5 per cents ... ltt 30 ... 111 40 ... 111 30 ... 1.1 35 4% per Cents IW ... 106 ... 100 ... 103 4 per Cents lOl 50 ... 11 50 ... 101 50 ... 101 1;0 3 per Cents 7O 85 ... 19 85 ... '79 80 ... 79 S., Bank of trance Belgian If per Cents ... 72 35 ... 72 35 ... 72 35 ... 72 :38 Bank 797 no ... SOU ... 797 51) ...13..0 Coupons ......... Spanish Active ld% .., 19;. ... 1274 ... 19r. Passive 4% ... 4% ... 4% ... 4% Nea, olitsn R oman RAILWAY SHARES. St. Cermail Versailles, B. B 697 50 ... 697 .0 ... (92 50 ... (4)2 50 L.B. t7s ... 275 ... 265 ... 2 '7 50 f-Tavr, Strasburg to Bale 332 50 ... 331 50 ... 332 5.1 ... 332 50 DUTCH FUNDS.—ANSTERDAM, JUNE 7. Money. Bills. Arms) Debt, 2% per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per, cent. A toort Syndic, 4% per cent.... Ditto, ditto, .3 per cent. Commercial Company, •V:;, per colt 1E304 181 Ditto (1832 and 1833) 5 per cent. Ditto F 37, 5 per cent s G l ' i: e A r n e N d c ol, l). (l:; D e I s imi z it a h ubms, j i u k l9 2 )' : '4 B — . it;j111: I °: DeL , t, 2k' per Cent. Loan l e, Sc la ; Two months Exch: , 53/ BothtAild's Loan, 5 per Cant l^l4 Loan okThirty Millions 4 per Cent 024 —.-- :3 per Cent ...... Loan cf City, 1832, 4 per Cent ... 02% Society or Commerce, .154 per Cent Bank CI Belgium, 5 per eent 78% National Swietv Brussels Papers, June 8. HAMBURG BOItSEN HALLE, JUNE 7. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Book Shares lAti 1515 t , n,lo-Russiai Loan . Russian 5 per Cent. ht series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Series lO-234 lu2 Russian 5 per Cent. hops and c.o. 3d and 4th Se i s 9B Ditto in Certificates 31 53% I 0 3 4 RO% Polish Bondi ' pe Pe r C C e e i n i l 13:3 • 151% Anglo-141111th Loan, 3 per Cent 72!,i, 72% Norwegian Loan, IsC3l, 4 per Cent—. IUIM I.IX, DittoN)euel.ii. i. act ual c..k..e: ... . debt,............. EXCHANGES ON LONDON , . HAMBURG, JLINII 7.-13. 7.—Two months, 13. SM, wive:mows, MAY 31.—Thirty days, 11 . 33. AUSTRIAN FUNDS..—VIENNA, MAY 21 _ ___ five per Cents. lll;talliques Fort per Cents. .......... .......... ............. Thi ee par Cents. .................« ..... ..... ...... 81% bank Shares ............„ .. . .......... ...«. ......... ... ...... 1529 —AligemeineZeitting. June 4. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JUNE 4. MIL Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per c2nt. 103% 10t% Prusbian English Loan, 1830, 4 percent li. 1025 Xxchmage on London, throe months,., 6 '20% —Priersiaq State Gazette. Juno 3. LISBON, JUNE 3.—There have been very serious disturbances at the University of Coimbra, between the townsmen and cownsrnen, in which several have been, severe ly wounded and maimed, though, happil y , no li ves have been lost. Riots of this sort have been of late so frequent that it is thought the Government will soon be obli g ed to close the University , for a while at least. THE HEREDITA ItY GRA ND DUKE OF RUSSIA. _ i ii s Imperial Highness, ere his departure from Mivart's, nave a farewell dejeune to his numerous friends and ac quaintances. When the meal was finished, his Highness commenced the foreign custom . of s a l ut i ng hi s guests on each side of t he face. We were n ot a li ttle amused to observe more t han one " Old English Gentleman" slink out or the room, fearing that his turn might come next. Habit is stronger than nature, and that we should lift up our hands and eyes because we see others adopt what they have been taug ht from infancy as ri g ht and correct, is only o h u ndred proofs that we are constant l y act i ng benfeor oef w a e s oundly think. The impulses o f t hi s f uture Savereq• are generous to the last degr ee , an d his „n liberality b ou ndless, ;is le has proved ,eyond a doubt. He can ?slate our En g lish pockets as well as our coun- tenanccs. BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE.--The repairs of this structure, which have been going on for the last s:x years, to the inconvenience of passengers and the destruction of the navigation of the river, appear to be now progressing towards completion. The wank of the balustrade on the west side of the bridge has been removed, and a plain but osuf London Bridge, supp o rt e d on p:llars stron t, parapeTt,h:ortneceewstt. wlikheichtbaarte substituted. of the lonic order, have been rcbuilt, and the pillars sup porting them arc all new. IiNGLISII AND TURICISII COMMERCIAL TnEvry.—Some of our Contemporaries arc favouring their readers with a translation of this treaty from the Tuakish langulg,te. It appeared in precisely the same words in The San more than three months ago. Mr. Walter Long, the Member for North Wilts, has at length formally declared his adhesion to Tory prin ciples. A revenue cruiser is ordered by Government to Kildeney, county of Donegal, to protect Mr. Hector in fishing for Salmon this season. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Oxford packet, from New York, has arlived at Liverpool—sailed on the 21st ult., bringing Papers to the 21st. We have received Jamaica Papers by the mail of the 25th April. . _ (Prom the above Papers.) . _ The labourers of St. Andrew's and other parishes have scarce been undeceived ;Tith respect to rat erroneous opinion they had formed of their right to their masters' property, but they have fallen into another. They have scarce been taught to know that they have no right to oc cupy his houses without his permission, than they proceed to dismantle them of such parts as they themselves may have added by way of couvenietsee or improvement. Fre quent complaints of this nature are now brought before the ma 2 islrat • s. We perceive that complaint is made of the resistance which the people on the estates, in some parishes, make to the payment of rent, and also to the attempt to levy for such rents; and it is thought that the constables tuf;ht to be protected in distraining by the military. That the lat ter, will be done, is extremely impr h.bie. X From the INT3rth side Journals by the Post.) Wo have this day to record one other step ia the pro gress of democ ra ti c p r i nc i p l es i n t hi s i s l an d , b y t h e re signation of the Honourable William Prater, as Custos of the parish of Trelawney, and Major-Gan. of Militia. We have received Cape of Gond Hope papers to the 7th of April ; they do not contain any accounts from the Border or any ether information worth notice. We have Demerara papers to the 13th of April :—" We regret that we cannot tran sm i t t o E ng l an d b y t h e pac k et a favourable account of the state of affairs in British Cohn " The peasantry in this colony are much more culpable, in regard to the unsteadiness and slovenliness of their labour than any other set of human creatures would be if surrounded with similar temptations. "jc is beyond a doubt that many proprietors, hardly able to take off the crop of the compulsory system, and finite unable to supply its place with the prepratives fur future harvests, must ere long give up the fruitless struggle, unless altistance be given them with immediate spsed, ,to a large .extent. The very season sce►rs to be conapir ing with the indfdcnce and capziei of man. The country is alsulutely scorched under the intense wad protr:cted dr.xght ; the likelihood of general sickness and increitied indisposition of field labour, being the close conseq•rences of the setting hi of the rainy months, is a new cause of alarm." " S.:veral branches cf commerce have undoubt: dly hal en impulse given them by the ret,mtion, in the colpy, of the money,that used to benefit the absentees in Europe; hat the Impulse is unnatural, and must have its limits %here no produce is raised. How are wages to be given ?" From the islands there is not much news of any moment. We have received the Port of Spain Gazettes to the 13th April : " At St. Vincent a Meeting has been held in Charlotte pariah to take into consideration the disorganized state of the district. A Memorial has been addressed to his Ex cellency on the subject." Ihrbadoes papers have been received up to the 7th We fear sugar-making in our Island is proceeding, with rather a snail's pace from the unconquerable indo lence 0; the labourers. The continued bright and dry weather has so fully ripened the canes that in many places they are becoming very dry and they ought to be cut down." The Liverpool steamer has arrived at Falmouth, I..ft G;b-altar on the 30. h May, Cadiz•3lst, and Lisbon 31 Jule. The papers from Lisbon do not contain much news of importance. The Exchange from New York may be quoted at 93. United States Balik ; Shares 1181. • The information by the Lisbon mail is somewhat of a move favourable nature, respecting the Foreign debt, than previously received. It appears that the present Ministry at least makes a show of honesty, e.ni have plJeed the foreign debt with that of the interior ; but I am a;,pre hensive there is no money in the treasury to pay either of them. C,nsols opened this morning at the leaving-off nrice of Saturday, 94 to for the Account ; Reduced 921 ; Exchever Bills 30 32 ; India. Bonds 30 32; BaLk Stock 192} 193} ; Inlian Stock 256 257: In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 191 ; Portu guese improved to 35k, owing to the account,: from Lisbon respecting the Foreign debt ; Brazilian, 79. ; Colombian also improved to 31/ ; Dutch Two-and-a-Ileif Cents. 561 ; Five per Cents., 102 k 103. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONL O'CLOCK Austrim Ronde Peruvian Bona Belgi . aa Ditto Account. , . . 7 _____ .............. _ lit tto Account Brazilian Bonds .. Ditto New Bonds ........ 33 4 Ditto Account Buenos Aytes Bends — Ditto, 3 per Cent. ...... ... t I !i, Ditto Account — Ditto Account Chiiian Bonds ... — Prussian Bonds — D tto Account Colnuibian Bonds - 2l,i , Ditto Account — Ditto Account —i Ditto Metallic Columbian Bondp:, 1i.:94 ... . .- Spanish Bonds 1 9 ,; Ditto Account 313 . 7 ,? ii R 4 'i , Ditto Account. !llk% Danish Bones ... , -;1,.i Di:to Account — Def. rz ei SS I Greek Bonds — French, 5 per cent....... —f. —c. Ditto Bonds, 1/52.5 — -- 4 per cent. f. — c. alto Account —; ---- 3 per cent...—. —f. —r. Mexican Bonds, 6 per Cent —-- Exchange. f. --,.. Ditto Account — I Dutch, 256 per cent. ..... ... . 5 0!3 Ditto, 6 per Cent ... 'Ali ' Ditto Account — - Ditto Account Neapolitan. —, Ditto Acc0unt.............. lIALF-PA ST ONE. LITERTOOL COTTON-MARKET, JUNR 8 —The dernanti for Cotton to day has been very fair from spinners to about 3,500 bags have been sold at full prices of vcsterdsy, holders shelving more firmness. American, 7i 01; 800 . Surats, chiefly for e x port, 4:t per lb. 'KA. a !Ong tine past we have not bad-such a quaut:ty of arrivals of ship letters as to-day; they are from the three quarters of the globe, South, East, and West—thcso from the East are of old dates. The She'drake has brought the Jamaica and LeeTard Island Mails. Sail( d from Jamaica about Toth April, St. Thomas, 231 March, H yti, 22th March. We find ia the Demerara papers that the mortiXty among tic troops is distressing rod alarming, some blame the water, some say the fruit and new rum are the cau:es. Consols are not (-elite so good as in the early part of the day, and have receded from 94 to 94; for Account, re duced 921 i ; Exchequer Bills, 31 32 ; India Bonds, 32 ; Spanish Active, 194-; Portuguese, 351; Three per Cents. 214 ; Colombian, 31k; Mexican, 2G : I ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. SG; Five per Cents. 103. Na news or reports to communicate. • CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS rank Stock - --- 14c4 -. 3 per Cent Re.l 3 per Cent. Cc as 3% per Ccnt. Red IV) New 3W. per Cent New 5 per Cent Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 0ct.1859 .. Jan 1060 FOREIG _ . . India Stack Ditto Bonds I;itto Old Annuities — Ditto New Annuities iEx. Bilis, L000t.......2.: ....... 30 pm. Ditto 50'4'. 32 pm. Ditto 5001 "4 pm .Bank Stock for OK! — 'lndia Stock fur Ope; 'Consols for Act (4 4 FUNDS. Austr:an, 5 per cent — Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent. ICI% Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian Bonds — rsrussian, 5 per cent — Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent — Russian Bond:, 5 per cent.... 112% Chihat: 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic — Colomb ' atn, 6 per cent 29N, Spanish, 5 per cent 19% Ditto, 1824 : ,11.4 Ditto, Deferred S% Danish, n per cent ......... ..,... 751 A French, 5 per cent. —t —c. Greek &ads, i 825, 5 per ct. Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent French, 3 per cent —C. —( Ditto, (i per cent., 1825 ...... 25 1 4 Dutch, 2% per cont. Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent..... Ditto, 5 per cent. 1035 SD A RES. Great North of England Railway 2l Great Vv'estern Railway . 7b1,4 London and Brighton it , lway London and Greenwich Railway l7 London and Croydon Railway ("1 run ) in!,', Manches.ter and Birmin:;liam Railway —.....„„---.........._____ Her NI ' - " .1. _ajosty the Queen Dowager attended the performance of Handel's _Messiah, at the Hanower.,7.gtore Rooms,. on Wecincsday evening, for the benefit cf the Royal Society of Musicians, and expressed herself highly gratified. EXTRAORDINARY DESPATCH.—Last week a briekmaker in the employ of the Eastern Counties' Railway Company, completed the task of mcultling 50,000 bricks, between Monday and Saturday night. We are informed that, at the eleven tables engaged in thit like work, little short of half a million of bricks were moulded in the same time.— Clielmforl Chronicle. -- BIRMINGHAM AND DERBY JUNCTION RAIL- Wednesday the 29:h ult., the directors of the above railway inspected the line between Derby and the junction with the London and Birmingham Railway at Hampton-in- Arden, a distance of abcut thirty-eight miles. They proceeded from the bridge over the river Dove, a distance of seventeen miles, towards Tamworth, with a train of p assenger carr i ages , drawn by an engine built by Messrs. Charles Tayleur and Co., of Warrington. The line is generally and cn many portions remarkably straight. The gradients are so extremely favourable that it may almost be said to be a level, and the motion, we are assured by gentlemen who accompanied the Directors, was easy and smooth, to a degree which they had seldom,. experienced on any other railway. By the simplicity oh construction and stability of the bridge ever the Teme and Trent, at their junction near Alrewas, over which the train passed at speed, the Directors were strongly impressed. It is near this point that the intended junction with the branch of the Manchester and Birmingham Extension Line is to be effected, by which the traffic from Lancashire to Derby, Nottingham, and the eastern parts of the king dom, will eventually be brought along the line of this railway. Though some portions of the line were not in so complete a state as to render the further passage of the train advisable, the greater portion of the permanent way was laid, and in a few wcoks the engines will be able to pass along the whole distance. Considerable progress is makiog in the station accommodations for the Company's traffic at Derby and Burnton-upon- Trent ; the building of the station at the junction with the London and flit learn line at Ilampton-ia- Arden will soon be Completed, and no doubt exists that the line may be opened to the public, :for the whole distance from D er b y to the junctioa with the London and Birmingham Railway, is the course of the ensuing month. ST. MICHAEL'S TOWER AND BELLS.--lii consequence of the great vibration of the hanthonte and lefty Gothic tower of St. Michael's church, Cornhill, can. etl by the ringing of the bells, it was deemed neces sary to lower and rehang the whole peal, which has bet.n l ate ly efliseted. The bells arc twelve in nun - .bt , r, and, with the exception of those of St. Saviour's, Southwark, and St. Peter's, Muncrott, are decidedly the finest-toned peal of twelve bells in England. TIIE LIVERPOOL BARBERs.---P o li ce officer 80 charged Genr,ge Knight, hair-dresser, with shaving on Sunday. The defendant admitted the truth of the charge, but urged in extenuation, that it was a great convenience to the male public to be able to obtain a " cleat, scams " be fore attending divine worship. The megistretes said ,hey hal no discretion, and he was accordingly mulcted in the penalty of five shillings.—J. Dauhleday wits fined the like sum for a similar offence. Mr. Doubleday said, he had reason to believe that the officers were bribed to lay infer m eioni against him and Mr. Knight, as a groat number , of the f earthy practised on a . Sunday without inter ! tuptior; COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and anguet Mother attended Divine service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. Jsmcs'a. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Hook, from Ecclesiastes, chap. v. ver. 2. The Prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Knepp, the Lessons by the Rev. Mr. Hall, and the Altar service was read by the Sub_ Dean, and the Rev. Messrs. Ileli and Knapp. The Chant was Chard's, the Te Doom and Jubilate in C., Nares; the Sanctus, Savage ; the Responses, Kieg ; the Anthem, " Sin. 0 Heav'ns" (Kent) was sung by Messrs. Hawkins, Hobbs, and J. B. Sale. Sir George Smart presided at the Organ. The Bishop of Norwich, Clerk of the Closet, was in Waiting. The Royal Suite included Lady Lyttelton, Lady Flora Hastings, Hon. Miss Spring Rice, Hjn. Miss Paget, Earl of Uxbridge, Hon. C. A. Murray, lion. Major Keppel, and Colonel Wemyss. The Royal party rcurned to Buckingham Palace after the service. The Duke of Sussex visited her Majesty yesterday. Ti. Queen, accompanied by the Princess Victoire of Saxe Coburg-, and the Prince and Princess of Leineagen, took an airing yesterday arternoon, in an open carriage and four, in Retie Pink and Regent's Palk. The Baroness Feriyevessey, and the Hon. Miss Paget, followed in a careieg,e nnd four; and Colonel Wemyss, Equsry in Wait ing, attended her Mejesty on horseback. Viscount Melbauree, and Lord John Russell, had audi ences of the Queen on Saturdey. • Her Majesty, accompanied by the Ducheis of Kent, Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Cobura, Princess Vietuire, and the Princes Augustus and Leeeold cf Saxe Coburg, the Prince and Princess of Leinineen, end Count Alex ander Mensdorf, and att en d e d by a large suite, honoured the Italian Opera with her presence on Saturday evening. Sir James Clink has been in attendance at the Palace during the week on Prince Edward of Leiainger, who is still indispeaud. Iler M.ljesty the Queen Dowager attended Divine Service yesterday afternoon in the Chapel Royal St. James's. Lady Clinton, lion. Miss Boyle, and the Hon. Miss Hope Johnstone were in waiting on her Majesty. The Princesugusta att en d e d Di v i ne serv i ce yester d ay morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. Lady Mary Pelham was in waiting on her Royal Highness. Her Majesty, the Queen Dowager, attended by Lady Clinton, Hon. Miss Boyle, and Hen. Miss Hope John stone, took a dtiee in as open landau and four on Satur day kfternoon to Kensington. Her Majesty alighted and walked in the Gardens. The Duchess of Gloucester, the Duk a! - ,d Duchess of C.mbridge, and the Prince, , s Augusta L:f Cambridge at 'enled Divine Scrvica yest-mlay morning in Grosvenor ChapA Miss Kerr was in a.‘teridar.cs ca the Duchess of Cambridge. The P;inecss Augusta visited tLe. Quern Dowager on Saturday. The . 13i.ike and the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, dined with her Majesty the Queen Da:Tager, on Saturday evening, at Marlborough 11,:use. - The Duke of Susses visited the Prinecs3 Augusta yes :erday at Clarence li3use, S. James's. A 'Cabinet Council was held en Saturday afternoon at Elie residence of Viscount Melbourne in Downing-street. It was attended by all the Ministers. TLe Cow:el sat three hours. A deputation from the Aborigines Protection Society, consisting of Mr. B . i , coc, M. P., Mr. Fowell Buxton, Mr. Bannister, and Mr. Morning, had an interview with Zr. Labouchere, on S.•.turday, on the sui.ject of native evidence in Courts of Justice in the colonies. His Excellency Reshid. Pasha left the Embassy's resi dence in Bryanstun-square on Thursday morning, for Paris, on a temparary absence, and eller breakfasting with his children and suite at Mr. Salame's cottage, in the Kent Road, he proceeded, at 12 o'clock, to Dover. Ali Effendi, Councellor of the Ottoman Embassy, is now the Acting Charge d'Affaires during his Excellency's absence. The Atitrian and Russian Ambassador, the Belgian Minister, the French, Prussian, and Netherlands Charge d'Affsires, transacted business ou Saturday at the Foreign Office. A deputation consisting of Mr. P. Protheroe (Bristol), Mr. Macgregor, Mr. Wilson (from Dublin), and Mr. William Burnley (from Glasgow), had an interview with the Marquis of Nama:iby on Saturday; at the Colonial Office. Sir George Chctwynd had an interview with Viscount Melbourne, en Saturday, in Downing-street. Despatches were received yes:el-Jay, at the Colonial Office, from the Governors of the Wes: Lila Colonies. Lord H)l!and has recovered from.his recent attack of gout. His I.4rdship had a dinner patty on Saturday, at Holland House, Kensington. LATEST NEWS from the UNITED STATES AND CANADA. By the arrival of the packet-ship Oxford, at Liverpool yesterday, we have received New York Papers to the 20th ult., with a file of the Toronto Chri4tinn Guardian to the 15th ult. inclusive. Ai the Papers by the Oxford from the United States are only two days later than those brought by the Liverpool steamer, they add little to our previous stock of news from the States. From the frontier the accounts continued to ba very satisfhctory. Acts of out rage wirer becoming of rare occurrence. Previous to he proregaticn of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada, on the 11:h ult., that body adopted an address to the Queen by a majority of 21 votes against 12, is which they implore hrr Majesty riot to withdraw from them immediately the protection of any portion of the troops now stationed in the two proviaces. They deplore the vast expense which the British tation has incurred to maintain the supremacy of order, allegiance, and the laws, but they add that in the upper province it was not rendered necessary by internal treason, but by the hostile attacks of a neighb our i ng peop l e, w i t h a h em h er A k. j esty was pro fessedly at peace, acd who ore still waging war against the Crown and subjects of Great Bitain. They request the Imperial Government to demand indemnity for the destruction of the Sir Robert Peel steamer ; and for the injuries sustained by individuals in their property by the lawless incursions cf the S 3 matthisors. Respecting Lord Durham's report, the address contains the following para. graph : ‘: Since the commenzement of the present Session of the Provincial Parliament, the final Report of your Ma jesty's High Commissioner on the affiirs of British North America, has been received in this country. In this Report your Majesty's fe'thful subjects find many, statements deeply affecting the social and politics]. relations and condition of Upper and Lower Canada, and recommendations of several important changes in the form and practice of the Constitu tion. It is with much concern that your Majesty's faithful subjects find that your Majesty's High Commissioner has strongly urged the adoption of these changes by your Ma jesty and the Imperial Parliament, without waiting for the opinion that may be formed of them by the people, who arc to be most deeply and immediately affected by them. Under these circutstances, we have caused a Report to be drawn up, by a Select Committee of tl.e House of As sembly, which contain:, matter referring to this subject, as well as to our relations with the people of the United States, which, we respectfully submit for your Majesty's consideration." The whole of the Liberal Press, and a very large mino rity in the Assembly are strongly in favour of Lord Durham's Report. As to the Report of the Select Com mittee, it was drawn up by Attorney-General Haggerman, an official hack, enjoying the regard of no party but the sinecurists,: pensioners, and jobbers, and whose removal from of would do much to obtain for any Government the confidence of the Canadian people. UPPER. CANADA. PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT. Toronto, May 11, 1839. This day, at six o'clock, his Excellency the Lieutenant- Governor proceeded in state from the Government House to Chamber of the Honourable the Legislative Council, where being arrived and seated on the Throne, the Gentle man Usher of the Black Rod was sent with a Message from his Excellency to the House of Assembly, command. ing their attendance. The Members present being come up accordingly, his Excellency %vas pleased to prorogue the Session of the Legislature with the following speech : Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council; and, Gentlemen of the House of Assembly— In relieving you from your Legislative duties, I desire to exi:ress • soy satisfaction at the seal and patience you have displayed in considering the important subjects which have engaged your attention. • It has not surprised me, that consc'eatious differences of opinion have so lung lel to much embarrassment in the disposal of the clergy reserves. You were right, certainly, to leave no means unat tempted, in order finally to settle this great question by the Provincial Legislature ; but every expecrent having failed, and all hope being excluded of unanimity here, 1 rejoice greatly that this Parliament has resolved, that the diffi culties of this subject shall net longer be suffered to excite aud encournge antagonist feeling in a community, whose common safety requires the greatest concord. I shall feel it my duty, to the utmost of my knowledge and ability, to put her Majesty's Government in possession of the desires and opinions of the people of Upper Ca nada, reksarding the public aid to be afforded to the main tenance of the C'nristien religion in the colony t and will, without loss of time, t transmit that Bill, together with your address thereon. The Bill which you have passed, accepting the cession of the casual and territorial revenue, upon condition of a permanent supply for the support of the Government, in its ordinary and meet necessary details, will, I hope, prove satisfactory to her Majesty. The omission, however, in the Bill to provide for certain annuities, charged upon these revenues, renders it neces sary for me to reserve the Bill for the signification of her Majesty's pleasure thereon. I have derived great satisfaction from the Bill which you have passed, for the promotion of liberal education, and the extension of schools, of a highly useful character, to every district in the province; and I most sincerely hope, that another Sessien of the Legislature will not be allowed to pass over, without your making a similar wise and liberal provision for common schools. Among ti:c measures of the Session. I am happy to ob serve a 8.11 for the establishment of a Lunatic Asylum, which will have the humane effect of rescuing many un happy beings from incurable wretchedness ; and I have no doubt, that the burden consequent on cap rying this benefi cent design int,: operation, will be cheerfully submitted to by the people of the country. In susteining the great interests or the country, no ob ject of legishvion requires more ere and precaution than the elue regulation of its system of banking; and nothing is more haz ueloue to those. interests that: a prolonged issue of inconvertible bark paper. Impressed with this truth, I consider it would have been better to fix a much earlier day, for the return to a sound system of banking, but have, nevertheless, determined nut to withhold my concurrence to the Bill, which both Houses of the Lessislature have agreed in thinking necessary. Gertlemen of the House of Assembly— I thank you, in her Majesty's name, .for the supplies granted for the service of the present vcar. In superintending the ordinary dishursernente, I shall economically restrict then within tie narrowest limits., which are consistent mid: a due reeard to the efficient administration of public affairs ; and I trust there will be _EVENING EDITION. no recurrence of the distressing events which caused an expenditure last year, unexampled at any former period. The serious doubts expressed by her Majesty's Govern ment as to passing any measures calculated to affect, and especially to derange, the monetary system of the Province, render it my duty to reserve, till her Majesty's pleasure be known, such of the Bills as you have passed, which appear to me to have that tendency. I will lose no time in transmitting these Bills to her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, that the decision upon them may be known with the least possible delay. In the mean time, I trust that the sale of the stock in the Bank of Upper Canada, and the other resources of the Province, will enable me, during the interval, to carry on the public service without any material inconvenience. Having felt it my duty to adopt this caurse in reference to these Bills, it has become necessary for me also to re asrve, for the signification of her Majesty's pleasure, the Bill for the relief of sufferers by the late insurrection, or by foreign aggression; or, otherwise, claims under that Act might be presented before there were any means provided fur their liquids'ion. It is my deliberate opinion, that at this crisis you must seek for, and :rely upon, the protection and advice of her Mejt - sty's G Trernment in your money concerns. Holoureble Gentlemen and Gentlemen : In re turning to your homes, and amongst those whom you represent, I wish earnestly to impress upon you, that your exertions in maintaining the same constitutional spirit which has actuated you in your Parliamentary labours will materially serve and promote the welfare cf the couetry ; and I firmly hope and believe, that in any measure that Le: Majesty's Government may recommend, and the Imperial Parliment may adopt, for the future regulation of these important Colonies, you will find that yrsur loyalty to your Sovereign, and your faithful ettsehmerit to the Empire, will be pre-eminent!) , regarded, and sill ensure to you the maintenance and protection of those political institutions and constitutional principles which you so justly appreciate and revere. (From the Courser and Inquirer.) NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, MAY 19. The Stock Market on Saturday presented the same steady yet quiet appearance, which has characterised it throughout the whole of the past week, the tendency being however to improve in prices. Sales were made of United States' Bank at 118-1 ; Delaware and Hulson Curial Co. 890; North American Trust Co: 854; Stonington Rail road Co. 36; and Harlem Railroad Co. at 594. From New Orleans we are in possession of the weekly Market Reports of the 11 th instant. The business in cotton for the week ending on that day had not been extensive, amounting only to 8000 a 10 000 bales, but at full previous prices. The sto.k in port is estimated at 123,811 bales. An amicable arrangement had been consummated on the 10th instant ) between Mr. Nolte ani the parties with whom that gentleman had been in diaiculty, through the intervention - of the Citizens' Bank on the following terms, viz :—The co'tens lately wader seizure are to be shipped accor di ng to t h e or i g i na l in tentions, awl Mr. Nolte to draw bills in favour of each fac tor for the balance still due to him; these bi:ls are to be taken by the Citizens' Bank, who agree to waive their legal claims to damages (20.00) in the event of these drafts being returned unpaid, which might result from a decline in the foreign market. We learn it has also been further settled in cases where the advances have been 'nide by privee houses, that they will bear, proportionately with the factors, any loss which may be experienced ir.Liverpool on the cottons in which they are interested. Exchange at New Orleans ruled at 7 a 7i per cent. p re m ium on Eng land, sf. 25c. a sf. 271(7. on France, and a I per cent. premium on New York at sight. Freights dull at forme.. rates. The Lrouston intelliyencer of the 2d instant contains a highly interesting statistical view of the finances cf Texas, of which we famish an extract. The whole amount of paper money issued by the Government since its formation, is 1,099,453 dollars; about 198,453 dollars 11-4 s been withdrawn from circulation, leaving a balance of 900,000 dollars. -Funded debt of the Government redeemable after 1842, 6G7,800 dollars ; military and other scrip, 243.000 dollars; other claims against the government, 75,000 dollars; expenditure of the civil list, 400,000 dollars ; the whole amount of debt due or bearing interest, 2,599,000 dollars. The resources to meet this debt are estimated as follows :—lmport Lr the present year 934,000 dollars ; amount for land dues, 504,000 dollars ; supposed amount of d:reet taxes. 250.000 dollars ; and of lots in the city of Austin, 500,000 dollars; sale of lots is Gaveston, 230,000 dollars ; sale of lots in Calhoun, 500,00) dollars. Total, 3,048,000 dollars. SALES AT THE STOCK EXCIIANGE. 22...5bar...3 Union Bank 60 do Dry Dock Bank lo6il 100 do . Mechanics' Bank 10 do Commercial Bank 11 do. Back of State of New Yet k lo6} 69 do Bank of Commerce 100 do ... Delaware and Hudson Boi Si( 85 do Kentucky 8ank...d0...5.60 days 89 31 do Lafayette Bank, C;n 10. . 4 o Ohio Life and Trust Co. 36 d 0.... ...... N. Amer. Trust and Banking Co. 85i 10 do Equitable Insurance Co. 40.. . .do 17th Ward Ins. Co 761 70 do. New Jersey Railroad lOl 50. . .do Nlohavi k Rai i: c. , ad 64. 641 10... ..do Stcnington Railroad 36k 36i wmiamAtifimmummocem , .—:...tme”,- ~-........ QUEEN'S 13ENCII.--(THIS DAY.) THE QUEEN V. THE PAIUSH (,FrICZItS OF LAUDETEI. A rate had been obtained in this case, calling upon the defendants to show cause why a mandamus should not issue, calling upon them to produce the parish books, and allow the attendance of the Vestry Clerk therewith, for the purpose cf ert:ring into a scrutiny or the votes taken at the last elccticn of officers for the parish. It appeared th a t a meeting- of the 'parishioner,; in vestry ar. , :ribled, had been held at the Thys' School, in lerinbeth, on Reiter Tuesday last, for the purpose of el -etieg parish officers, over which tie Rev. Dr. D'Oyley, the Rector, presided as chairman. Two sets of officers were proposed, and the chairman lut the names, and took the show of hands thereon, which was in favour of the fist set. A poll was then demanded, and the Chairman said he would grant a poll to take place in the Church porch on the following morning. Ile was requested to take the sense of the parishioners in vestry assembled as to when and where the poll should take place, but ho refused to put the question, and afterwards left the chair, when another Chairman was elected, the parishioners assembled proceeded to take the poll immediately, and afterwards made proclamation for those who bad not already voted to come forward and vote, and that then they proceeded to cast up the votes, when it was found that the election had fallen on those iu whose favour the show of hands had been. On the next day a poll took place at the Church porch, which lasted three days, and the same perscns had a majority, on which a scrutiny was demanded and granted by the Rector, upon which the parish officers refused to produce the books, 'and a man damus was applied for in consequence. Sir F. Poeeciee this morning showed cause against the rule, and on the ground that the law requires the election to take place by the parishioners in vestry assembled there and then; and that the first election was consequently the valid one, and under that the officers had been sworn in and were now performing their functions; be contended that the proceeding afterwards taken at the Church porch was a riullity, because the Chairman had no power to ad journ the poil without the consent of the parishioners in vestry assembled, and he had refused to put the question, and he left the Chair. The law required that the officers should be elected by the parishioners in vestry assembled, and therefore it was illegal to adjourn the poll to another time and place, and consequently there could be no excuse for requiring these bock; to scrutinize an election, which by the illegal manner in which it was held was null and void. Air. CRESWELL (who was with Sir F. Pollock) con tended that the Chairman had no power to determine whether there should be a pull cr not, but was bound to proceed eith it at once, when it was demanded, and that when the election was begun, the Chairman had no right to stop it or to adjourn the vestry of his .own authority, and that as the first election was the legal one, the manda mus ought not to issue to assist in scrutinising a nullity. Mr. Haves followed on the same side. _ The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in support of the rule con tended that the conduct of Dr. D'Oyley was perfectly legal, and that the churchwardens had no right to elect another chairman while he was in the chair and proceed with the election—that the election at the church-porch was the legal eme, and that a scrutiny having been de.. mended, he could not make a legal return unless these books were produced. Lord DENMAN said the rule must be made absolute, be cause, prima facie the Chairman must be supposed to have legal authority to regulate the proceedings of the meeting over which he presided.—Rule 4bEolute. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) TUE QUEEN V. THE CORPORATION OF BRIDGEWATER. JoSTIN moved for a rule to show cause why a man damus should not issue to the Mayor. Aldermen, and Town Council of 13,idgewater, commanding them to as sess an adequate compensation to he paid Mr. John Tre vor, the late Tov.n for %Iv lota of his ofilc..t. Mr. Justice COLES:IG:: a tu!e. LLOYDS' SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, JUNE B.—Wind S. lisrht airs.—Arrired the from the South Seas ;'Benevollen, Gibbeck, Singapore. 9.—Lady Fevet sham, Webster, Bombay; Hortensia, Willy, Manilla; West Indian, M'Arthur, An tigua ; Musey, Beaseley, 13arbadoes ; Jack, Africa; Duke of Lancaster, China ; Ambassador, Mauritius. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 8 —Wild S. S. W., 9, W. S. Arrirtd her Majesty's ship Cornwallis, from Berniud:•, s tiled 7.b ult. ; F'orence, Davis, M &Ira, 26. Off port—.., Narnsinek, Batavia, sailed Fa.% 21, St. Helena Ap:il 21. Livnuroot., JtNE 8 and 9.—Arrived the Fatima, F e l,_ theis, from Calcutta, sailed Feb. 22 ; Dryade, Rickets, Singapore ; Arnubia, Bell, Bombay ; J up iter, Ram say , ditto ; Oxford, Rathbone ; Shetell, Allen ; Page ; ; El.iw, Allen, Ncyr York ; Nautilu s , Gr.iybuin, Monte Video; Adventure, ditto ; B,iivar: Barbvioc 3 ; Persian, Natchez ; M, tide, Be-rker, Naples ; Ark, Leghorn ; Maria Caoline, Mes sina ; Amity, Jefferson, Leghorn; Druronore, Cal. cutta, Freeman ; Sultan, Jamaica ; Ha- Mabile ; Nelson , Village , Virginia ; Columbine vprina • Kensington , Curtis. New o,l eans; Nile, 'Licata; Roralin.l, Marseill es; J ane , do.; La Riz, Barcelona; Frolic, Bennett, Tars; Minerva, Scott, Lisbon; Notion , Wakeham ; Figaro, Antelope; Toil ck, Burrneda; Jupiter, Dantzic; Jessu, Eason, R.,bsou ; Johanna Marta, Station; Johanna and Emil Oil port—Mansfield, Cummins ; Ellen Jane, town; Warrior, Lisbon:Sailed Win. Carey, Mabri:iut ; Nlohartk, New York; Henry Morgan, Charles , New South JAn;es Hunt, Daily ; Grenadier, 'Australia ; Sat, Quebec ; Yet ularn, Andrew ; Gibraltar, North America ; ILxil, New York ; Liverpool, Johnstone; St. John, New uus wick ; Poenhontas, Turley, Ph iladel p hia ; Leonard Dobson, ditto ; St. Andrew, Scott, Quebec. by Ine ,ed •oy