The Sun. — London, England, 1839-06-13 00:00:00

r EVENING EDITION. IMIDLAND GRAND UNION RAILWAY. This important. Railway is intended to connect. the great ma nufacturing districts of Nottingham and Sheffield, and unite with them the Manchester and Sheffield, Sheffield and Rother ham, North Midland, and the great London lines, and assn to open to the London Market the valuable Coal-fields of the Mid land Counties at prices vastly lower, and with Coals generally much better than those at present consumed by the inhabitants of the Metropolis. The first portion of the line will be from Nottingham to Te versall (the heart of the Coaldistriet), and the Capital necessary for which (including the purchase of the Pinzton and Mansfield Railway) will be 250.0001., which will be divided into 12,500 shares of 20/. each, three-fourths of which are already called for by resident proprietors, and the possessors of which will have the important option of taking at par all the remaining shares of the line to Sheffield, amounting to 500,090/., before they are offered .to the public, no matter what may be the premium to which the first shares may rise. The prospectuses, with the names of the London and the Local Directors, will speedily be published. The plans and sec tions have been deposited in the Parliamentary Offices in time to introduce a Bill next Session, which Bill there is reason to believe, will meet with support from all the local intereits. Further information may be received by applying to the Soli citor of the Company, W. M. Wilkinson, r_sq., 44, Lincoln's Inn-fields; the l'arliamentary Agents, Messrs. Northhouse and Blount, 4, Parliament-street ; the Consulting Engineer, Jos. Locke,-Esq., or the Working Engineer, W. D. Holmes, Esq., Cannon r row, Westminster. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. The Public is respectfully informed, that the PRESENT MANAGEMENT WILL TERMINATE WITH THIS SEASON. THIS EVENING, Jura , . 13, Will be produced the Historical Play of KING FILNIN V., From the Text of Shakspeare. King Henry the Fifth, Mr. Alacready. After which, A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. To-Morrow, Richelieu, with Amilie. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. LAST WEEK OF THE OPERA COMPANY! THIS EVENING, JUNE 13, Last Night but one of The Love Spell. Will be performed, the Comic Drama called PETER THE GREAT AND PAUL THE MARINER, After which the Grand Opera entitled THE LOVE SPELL. With all Donizetti's Original Music of •' L'Elisir d'Amore," Adine, Miss Romer; Nemorina, Mr. Templeton ; Dulcamara Mr. Balfe To conclude with the successful Drama, called ALICE GRAY, THE SUSPECTED ONE. • iari% \r-oz k *N'r ° • 4:1,. • Zin '')14.2/4 LONDON : THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1839. The Lords did not meet yesterday. The Commons met early, and a great number of Petitions were presented for a uniform penny postage, for and against the Government plan of education, &c. &c. The Rating of Tenements Bill was lost on a division, after a short discussion, on the question that the House go into a Committee. The numbers were, 70 for, 94 against. We do not regret the loss of this Bill, which Was another step towards debasing the lower classes by Making the landlords pay the rates on their dwellings. The Custody of Infants Bill went through a Corn raittec, after Sir EDWARD SUGDEN had vainly attempted to desp o il it of its chief provision. The Committee ,decid e d aga i ns t hi m by 49 to 11. Sir EDWARD mus t °e erotchetty, for he is generally on the losing side. Several other Bills were passed through Committees. The Sugar Duties were voted for the present year I_ 4ll Committee of Ways and Means, and at a Quarter nu Nine the House adjourned. hh MACAULAY has written a short and em phatic letter to his constituents, which contains the "owing passage : I cannot refrain from expressing to you in a few sin te_• e.itnd earnest words, the feelings with w hick I have en or'fanew functions. It is not easy for any re tovriltative to owe more to his constituents than I owe Pt , . I appeared amongst you witho ut rank, or wealth, or local connection. To scarcely one of you was I known en by sight. I stayed only a week amongst you. I can. %Bed not a single elector. I gave no pledge as to any Particulior vote. I made no attempt to evade any question gist was prOposed to me. I did not disguise from you, that on some subjects I keld opinions different from yours. .?:tle!rity and reason were the only means which I em raVor the purpose of winning your confidence and ▪ h o „ And the result is that you have conferred on me fir h. - " r such as free people only can bestow,—an honour of .V rin my estimation , than any patent of mobility or order of knighthood,—an ,1 1 51Pqm: whi c h hundreds, far "Perim' to Me in birth and fortune, would consider as ch e aply purchased by profuse e xpenditure, and by months of assiduous personal solicitation. I should be indeed of ▪ cold and insensible' Indere if I could receive such :a dis tinction without exultation and gratitude." That is . frank and honourable, alike to Mr. MA CAULAY and his constituents. Nothing recom mended him to them but his talents, and they valued his talents more than high rank, dignified birth, and great riches. Would to God that all, or the half, or the fifth part, of the constituencies of the empire acted on the same principle, and were equally independant ! Then should we have a House of Commons which, from its knowledge and talents, would deserve the confidence of the nation. Ambi tion might lead such a House astray, but if • it be came a tyrant, we should at least have the consola tion of being tyrannized over by men of the first abilities of the empire. Mr. MACAULAY being thus honourably distin guished by the citizens of Edinburgh, who are a c omparatively enlightened race of men , being by " 1 8 own acquirements and abilities a first-class Nth, and a representative, by his matured opinions, of Some of the most enlightened classes in every Part 'of the empire, whatever falls from hint 15 as well worthy of public notice, as the Words o f any man, which is saying a great deal ' N n this wide and vast empire. Now , Mr. MACAULAY was rather forward at Edinburgh in r epelling the claims of the bulk of the population t ° a share in the elective franchise. We consider that question to be of the most pressing import ance ; as it is decided so will be the willing obe dience, or the fear-constrained submission of the linen - franchised classes ; and as we consider Mr. MACAULAY to be a very great authority, so we esteem it our duty to subject one of his arguments 4t least to examination. We do not, we beg it may be understood, call this question of pressing importa n ce , m erel y be c ause t i ne Chartists have taken it up ; but because the bulk of the community are not done justice to by the ruling classes, and they are sensible of it. if either of these conditions are wanted, we should regard it of secondary importance. If the p eo pl e were not'sensible of injury, and if injury were not actually done them, the ferment might be allowed , patiently to subside. It is the actual ex istence of both conditions which makes us say, that the question of the Suffrage is, for the future inter nal peace and prosperity of England, one of the most important and pressing questions which the'press can discuss. Mr. MACAULAY grounds his objections to the extension of the franchise mainly on the ignorance of the buik of the people ; if we can show that lie is himself ignorant of the very principles on which the progress of society de pends, or erroneously interprets its phenomena, we tray ven t ure to doubt whether the rest of his argu ments applying to this very important and pressing question, be deserving of mote weight than they de rive from his deservedly great name. Let .us first observe, that if ignorance be the Principle of disfranchisement, it ought to be carried throughout. When a Peer is a nearly natural fool, like the Duke of This, or the Marquis of That, he ought not to be allowed to vote, much less be al lowed, when besotted with wine, or when he is seeking hi s pleasure among the enchanting opera danserfses of Paris or Naples, to vote away by proxy the liberties of his countrymen. When a poor man is endowed with natural talents, which he has cultivated by education, he ought, oa nr..MAcAuLAY's disfranchising principle, not only to have a vote for a representative, but to be eligi ble to sit in Parliament. If ignorance he the test of disfranchisement, knowledge should bethe of only test for granting political power. The d ifficulty defi n i ng ignoraoce and knowledge and of settlin g at what exact point incapacity should commence, and enfranchisement begin, must at once, we should think, satisfy Mr. MACAULAY that, on principle, his test for bestowing or withholding political power would be impracticable. In the speech he delivered on the day of nomination at Edinburgh lie expatiated at great length, and Wi th great justice, on the advantages enjoyed by civilized man, even of the humblest rank, over his THE &UN, LONDON, THURSDA V, JUNE 13, 1639. Under her MAJESTY'S IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Brilliant success. ! GRAND " PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAM PETRES ! !! THIS EVENING, JUNE 13, Commencing at Six o'clock, and terminating at Nine. By s splendid Band, composed of the most distinguished Instru mental Performers in the Metropolis, Selected and conduc!ei by Mr. Godfrey. The magnificent Day-light View or MOUNT HECLA, and the unequalled Menagerie, are exhibited daily. Admission One Shilling. • uncivilized brethren, and he affirmed that the supe riority of the former was mainly occasioned by" defe rence to law and security of property." He repeated this, and affirmed Oat all our advantages were owing to " the existence and preservation of law, or der, and property. On such a topic. however general may be the opinion embraced and expounded by Mr. MACAULAY, the public cannot be too careful in forming their opinions, and we shall state some circumstances which seem to us to prove that Mr. MACAULAY very much over-rates the influence of law, and is scarcely warranted in affirming that we owe our civilization to security of property. The whole science of political economy, with which Mr. MACAULAY is well acquainted, turns on the principle, that th e grea te r a d van t ages an d su periority of civilized man is due to division of labour. Each civilized man does only a small part in the business of feeding and clothing himself. The savage feeds, clothes himself, builds his own house, and makes his own tools. By such a difference of proceeding one civilized man makes clothing enough, or procures food enough, for a score ; while the savage can scarcely procure a scanty supply of both, by all his exertions, for himself and his . partner. All this difference is owing to division of labour; and division of labour is not dictated or arranged by law. It springs • from the difference of sex, and extends as population multiplies. It is a natural principle which operated in the beginning of society, and is still operating, to carry forward improvement and civilization. Law may stop this progress as in that country whence Mr. MACAULAY has lately returned to England, where the lawgivers seized it at a point of advancement, and fixed the occupa tions of men irreversibly, dividing them into a few classes, and condemning the son not to depart from the trade or customs of his father ; or as in our own country, where the Corn law, by limiting the supply of food, limits the amount of population, checks the division of labour and the progress of civilisation. We maintain then that division of labour is a great principle of civili zation, far superior in its effects to that deference to law, which Mr. MA CA ULAY,an aspiring law-maker, more naturally than justly pressed on those who ask for; an extended suffrage. In his first speech at Edinburgh Mr. MACAU LAY condemned the Corn-law, and declared him self an advocate for free trade. He must believe, therefore, that a deference to the Corn-law is inju rious to the community ; and as the only im pediments or restrictions on free trade spring from laws, he must also believe that civi lization would be promoted by wanting those restrictive laws. From that publication to which Mr. MACAULAY has in modern times been one of the largest and most brilliant contributors, and perhaps from Mr. MAcnue.AY's own wri tings, se have learned, " that the first materials of the laws of England were little more than the schemes of avarice or aggrandisement, or the ebullitions of revenge. The text, though often written upon sand, was written with the sword. The practice, indeed, afforded an evil commentary, but the law itself, was the parent crime." Mr. MACAULAY is too wise a man to suppose that a deference to ebullitions of revenge in the law-givers—that a deference to crime, was particularly favourable to the progress of civilization ; and we set this opi nion of the Edinburgh Review in opposition to the assertion of Mr. MACAULAY. His own opi nion as to Corn-laws, and the opinion of the Review, are enough to prove that his assertion of a deference, to law being the cause of civilization, must be taken with some limitations. We must now stop, but we hope we have said enough to show that this very clever man very much overrates the value and utility of the law, which he puts up as a barrier to the claims of the working classes, for an extension of the suffrage. If there be a possibility of his being in error on that vital principle, he may possibly think it necessary to re vise all the opinions on which he defends the pre sent unjust distribution of the franchise. • Some of our Contemporaries are exercising their ingenuity on the case of STOCKDALE v. HAN SARD, which involves a dispute between the Court of Queen's Bench and the House of Commons on a question of privilege. Before saving anything on the subject, we shall wait to see the Report of the Committee of Privileges. Our own impression at present is, that the privileges of the House would he quite safe, and the Courts be able to protect the . ... . ... .. people if the libel law were made what it ought to be. The present dispute grows out of the libel law, and if that were so constructed that the jury should weigh all the circumstances of every publication, judging of , the•motives of the publisher, and allowing the truth or falsehoood of the libel to pass at its true value, no actions would ever be brought against the printers and publishers of the Rouse of Commons' papers for libels contained in them, and no such dispute as the pre sent could ever arise. In general the conten tions between law and privilege only ter.d to bring both the Courts and the Houses of Parliament into contempt. The present dispute will be advantageous to the public, if it lead to its proper consequence, the making the law of libel a rational enactment. We request the attention of our readers to the report of a public meeting, held at West Bromwich on Mon day last, for the purpose of taking the sense of the in habitants oa the plan of education against which the Clergy and the Wesleyan Ministers have raised such an outcry. It is evident that these parties—who, though they would cut one another's throats as rival sec taries, can unite heart and hand when the common craft is in danger—find themselves in a pitiable mi nority whenever they venture out of their holes and corners, and appeal to public opinion in behalf of bi gotry and popular ignorance. Some Wcs!cyan preachers, it appears, took a very active, not to say violent part in the proceedings of the meeting referred to ; but it is gratifying to see that they were backed by an exceed ingly small number, even of their own "people," as they call them. They are now convinced that it is one thing to hawk about and get signatures to anti-educa tioanl petitions, which they falsely describe to their poor dupes as petitions against Popery, and another to meet the friends of education in the arena of public discussion, where deception is stripped of its pious dis guise, and priestcraft exposed to merited detestation. It will be observed that one of the resolutions passed at this meeting, that by which a petition to Parliament ap proving of the Government plan was adopted, was seconded by a member of the Wesleyan body. German papers to the 7th inst., received last night, bring the subjoined late intelligence from Egypt: -- ALEXA NORIA, MAY 16.—The Pacha arrived here from the Delta on the 12th. The Consuls-General immediately waited on him to compliment him, and to confer with him on the important events that seem to be impending. To the exhortations to pre=erve peace expres!ed by the se veral Consuls, he replied, " I do not desire war, I wish for peace, bat I will not suffer any one to attack me with impunity. A Turkish corps has already patsed the Eu phrates, and is on my territory, yet I have enjoined my son, Ibrahim Pacha, to wait for an actual attack, and then to commence operations." Of course no answer could be made to this p-udent declaration. When the Russian Consul spoke to him of the note of the Russian Govern. ment which had lately been presented to him, in which the Pacha was required not to begin war with the Sultan, to lay the arrears of his tribute, and withdraw his troops from the frontiers, to the in terior of Syria, the Pacha said, " The Sultan must wait for his tribute, for as he manifested the most hos tile intentions towards him, it would be worse than firclocks if he (Mehemet Ali) would give the Sultan money, and furnish him with the means of executing his plans against him." He gave a similar answer respecting the with drawal of his troops. The English steam-boat that re turned yesterday from Beirout, brought word that Ibrahim had collected his whole force, including the garrisons of the towers in the neighbourhood of Aleppo. Damascus is confined to the care of Emir Beseher, and his Druses. Irregular corps are stationed along the Hemaro to Naplou'. The Khan has wholly submitted ; Sheik Schekle seems to be for Ibrahim. Ibrahim has large magazines in Adana, Taraplus, Alexandretto, and Aleppo, whereas the Turks have taken no precaution. —Algerneine Zeituug, June 7. The French Chamber of Peers was occupied on Tuesday with reading the Report of the Committee a ppointed to inquire into the origin of the enteules of the 12th and 13th ult., which was presented on that day by M. MERILIIAU. This document, which is signed by Baron PASQUJER, Chancellor of France, the Duke DECAZES, Count DEBASTARD, and Barons do DAC. NANT, MERILIIAU, and BARTIIE. is very voluminous, and professes to prove that the lute insurrection was but an extension of the conspiracy of 1834—" which caused bloodshed," observes the Report, " in Paris, Lyons, St. Etienne, and other considerable towns." The language of the Report itself deserves to be quoted : It is impossible to believe that the late revolt was a mere fortuitous and momentous assembly of malefactors, wh o wished to gratify their personal revenge and cupidity. Everything tends to make us disbelieve this. The accused I themselve s even do not preend that it IV;t3 so, but profess themselves c the continuers of the frightful horrors of All the documents of the official history of the six years which separate. April, 1834, an d M ay , 1839, a gree in esta -1 blishing the lamentable fact that the anarchical passions overcome in 1834 have not since that period for one in stant ceased their criminal hostilities against the constitu tion and repose of the country. We do not wish to esta blish an unjust union between acts of unequal criminality; but when a party is the avowed enemy of the established Government, when men coincide in their destructive wishes, the country ought to trace the affair to the bottom, and to punish those who counselled crime and those who justified it. Thus in the interval of the complots of 1834 and the re volt of May, 1839, we saw Fieschi's infernal attempt, which startled the world at the very moment we were occupied with trying the accused of 1834 ; Alibaud's attempt the following year, in 1:=36 ; that of Meunier in 1837 ; and the events of Strasburg in 1838. It seemed as if Providence warned the Government each year by some new attempt, that the enemies of constitutional order were not asleep, and that the vigilance of the defenders ought to keep pace with the activity of the attackers. If revolutionary emeutts and the annual whetting of the guillotine, be among the warnings which Providence vouchsafes Louis PHILIPPE, then has the French Go vernment received most ample evidence of the Divine in terposition. But the idea is blasphemous. Tyrants provoke insurrections—they bathe their hands in the blood of their subjects, and reeking with human gore, chant 7'e Deunis in professed gratitude for the power to tram ple upon virtue, truth, and patriotism. The Report admits that the laws against Secret So cieties have only tended to increase them, and make them more dangerous and more difficult of discovery. Five years ago, when these laws were before the Chambers, The Sun held the very same language. We stated then that it was not by severity, but by moderation and justice, that the Government of Louts PHILIPPE could convert its enemies into loyal subjects. The amnesty did much gnod, but it was clogged with too many re strictions, and it unfortunately appeared two years too late. This fact is inferentially admitted, and even stated by the Committee. One of the most curious and most questionable paragraphs in the Report is that in which the Committee state that the object of the con spirators is no longer n hat it was in 1634. The following looks very like a device on the part of their Lordships to alarm the monied and commercial interests, and to increase the jealousy with which the rich are wont to regard the political struggles of the poor. For our selves we have not the least doubt of its inaccuracy : Since all France ought to be informed of the prospect reserved for her by the enemies of her order, it is now our duty to make known that Republican principles have grown more exacting, in proportion as they have gained ground. France must not retrogade to year 8, nor 3, but 7—it is only to the year 1793, that the perfect desired equality can be found. The mere replacing some men in the Government of the country, appears niggardly to the self sty led regenerators, but the power must be transferred into the bands of those who possess nothing, because there only is virtue to be found. There is a maximum fixed for fortunes which is never to be passed over. It is not only the land proprietors who arc designated as feudal oppressors ; but also the proprietors of capital, the heads of commerce and industry are asso ciated in the same proscription, under the name of " ex ploiteurs," who thus excite the hatred of the "exploiter" —that is to say—those for whom they provide a subsistence. Thus you see, that not only a political, but a social revo lution was in view. Property was to be revised, modified, and transferred. It is the conspiracy of Balieuf (judged by the High Court of Vendome, 7 Prabial, year s)—it is the bloody execution of that mad, senseless project. The agents destined to accomplish these incendiary dreams were ad mirably adapted for _their anti-social projects. Common workmen, and youthful apprentices, and some young students, impatient of parental authority, these were the auxiliaries for the work of demolition. The wants of some were excited, the credulity of others was abused, and chi merical hopes of fortune and grandeur were dexterously held out to the young and ambitious. Thus this army of disorder was so constituted that, had it enjoyed a momen tary triumph, no hand would have been raised to preserve the wrecks of social order. It was not a plot of political resentments, for none of the agitators having anything to lose would be the worse for losing. The mischief of these exaggerations is, that when comprehended they produce instead of groundless alarm, an equally groundless security. Truth—rigid truth is safest and best in the long run. It may be quite true that a few wild visionaries entertain the opinions attributed to the disaffected by the Com mittee, but the Republican party in France—that party which identifies itself with the principles of the Revolution of July, entertains no such fanciful and absurd theory. There is no other topic of any interest in the French Journals of Tuesday. No business of interest engaged the attention of the Chamber of Deputies. In some of the Journals we find rumours of war in the East, but they are rumours, and groundless besides. Most of the Deputies who resigned their seats to take office under SOULT have been re-elected. The Pilate du Calvados of the 9th of June, contains the following:—" It is, all over, at least for the present, with the sugar manufactory in our provinces. NVith the treaty which effects this rising manufacture, with its sub jection to the odious exercise of the indirect taxes, what ever be the form in which the officers perform their duties—with the threat of a law for lowering the duty on Colonial sugar--a law which will, in fact, impose a duty of 30 per cent. on indigenous sugar, our manu facturers think it best to stop their operations, and settle their accounts, than to go on with the certainty of losing in proportion to the pains they should take. Accord ingly our farmers having received no orders, nor entered into any contracts for B eet-root; the cultivation of that plant, which was becoming so extensive„ in thie, , oesratryy , will soon be reduced to nothing in comparison of what it' might be, as only . one manufactory will continue at work; most of our farmers have sown only what they intend in winter to feed their cattle. This unfortunate state of things is very prejudicial to our Arondissement, because the Sugar manufacture gave employment to numerous persons. who must now look out for some other means of gaining their livelihood.—Cour rier,Francais. BOURSE.-PARIS, TUESDAY, JUNE 11. t irst Highest Lowest I Ast Price. PFice. Price. Price French 5 per Cents 4 per Cents lOl 50 ... Vil 50 ... 101 50 ... 101 t 0 3 per Cents 79 90 ... 79 95 ... 79 90 ... 79 90 Bank of trance Laffitte Ba.ik I,ooof. 811 1075 .00:5 ...iino —fiat: 5, 0 0 A h 545 ...5241 ...524 i ...5245 Belgian Bank BlO ... 810 ... 810 ~.810 Coupons Spanish Aciive l9's ... 2 . ... 19% ... 20 Portuguese 3 per Cents Nea. ontan 99 00 ... 99 60 ... VJ 50 ... 99 50 Roman RAILWAY SHAREa. St. Germain ... (Inn ... o Versailles, B. B 7OO ... 707 5 , 1 ... 700 ... ;or 50 LB I6J ... 170 ... 155 ... 155 . Havre 952 50 ... 952 50 ... 950 ... 050 Orleans . 46) ... 460 . 461 ... 460 DUTCH FUNDS.—ASIST ERDAY,JUNE 11. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, `2% per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. A mort Syndic, 4},i per cent.... 95 95 Ditto, ditto, *2 per cent. fietj t-N Commercial Company, 41., per cent lBO k 1504 Ditto (1K32 and 1833) 5 per cent. Ditto PM, 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month l2 Two months BELGIAN I. UNDS—bxuass.Lis, JUNE 11 loi 1 4 t 0.)% Actual Deist, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 1 I% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 3 per Cent. 7144 Loan of City, 1832,4 per Cent ......... .......... 1k.% Society of Commerce, 4 %per Cent lly Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 7S% National Society .—Brussels Papers, June 10. HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, JUNE S. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Rank shares l5lO 1515 An 10-Russian Loan .. InB 1074 Russian S per Cent. Ist series, Certificate ...... 14 , 3 1 4 10.3;, Inscription, Ist Series 10•2% 1W Russian 5 per Cent. Hops and Lo. 3d and 4th Se • its Ditto in Certificates Dutch actual Uebt, 2% pe Cent. 51% 51 Ditto 5 per Cell' 1 usi 100% Polish Bond, New t icket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 725( 7254 Norwegian Luau, 1!.31, 4 per Cent....... .IW% Itl% A USTRI A N FUNDS.—VtaxNA, JUNE 3. Five per Cents. Metalliquee .....».»..........»....».. 107 }oar per Cents. ..... ............................. ..... 101% Three per Cents. Hank Shares . ............. ...... .............••• l5lO —AllgemeineZeitung. June S PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN. JUNE 8. Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent. 1(0% 102% Prussian Engiish Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 103 102% bjccrutnge on London, three mourns 6 20% —Prussian State Gazelle. June 9. 11Iadrid Papers of the 4 h inst. have reached us, but they are barren of news of importance. An address to the electors, signed by the Minister of Finance, is put forth with a view to make known the political creed of the Government. It is vague and unsatisfactory. The Ministers claim to belong to no party, and to have no thing at heart but the defence of th 9 QUEEN and Con stitution. Letters from Constantinople of the 221 Wt., have reached us, but they bring no news of importance. The greater part of the Turkish fleet was leaving the her= hour for a summer cruise in the Mediterranean. THE RIVAL PSALM .SINGERS.—Som e years ago, at a town in Wales, a humble set of psalm singers, consisting chiefly of mechanics, were told by a newly in ducted incumbent, that they must no longer sing in the church, for he had patronized some young bucks, who offered their vocal services, but in a different part of the church. Well, Sunday arrived, and the bells were rung, as usual, and the church soon became crowded to bear the performance of the " gentlemen singers," as the new ones were called. In the usual place the clerk commenced with, " Let us: sing praise," &e. &c. "an anthem taken from"—but, ere he could complete the sentence, the "old originals" struck up, with all their might, to the utter astonishment of the congregation, and to the high indig nation of the clergyman, who sent the clerk up to the gak lery to order them to desist ; but they only laughed at poor Amen, and sung the louder, until the anthem was con cluded. On which the minister motioned to "his" party to commence, which they had no sooner done than the others started again, and completely roared their rivals down. Of course, this made a great noise in the town, and the clergyman threatened to prosecute the ancients; but the townspeople took their part, and the thing dropt, and so did both choirs ; and from that day to this, it has been "every man hisi own psalm singer."—Cheltenham Looker-on. We understand that the action brought by Mr. Paternoster, against the parties concerned in arresting him as insane, - will. be tried at the Court of Common Pleas, before - a special Juiy, on l riday week. A grand meeting of the friends of Poland is to be held at the Freemasons' Tavern next Saturday, at one - o'clock, the Duke of Sussex in the chair. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELT.E O'CLOCK. Arrivals this morning—French and Ostend mails, also a Jamaica mail, by the Lapwing, sailed the 6th of May ; St. Thomas's, May 1 ; Porto Rico, May 2; Cape Henri, May.lo We have received Jamaica papers of the above date ( May 6), The following are extracts from the above papers: " We have received a file of the Observer, published at Nassau, New Providen ce , and perceive by it that the elec tions fur member s o f the Bahama Assembly are going on. Several had been elected in the latter place, but at present we are unprepared to say what are the changes that have been made, and whether favourable to the Governor's views or not. " It is rumoured to the Windward, that a change was likely to take place in some of the Governments. Sir H. M.Leod is to go to Trinidad—this is known to be the f.ct ; Sir Wm. Colebrooke to Barbadoes; and Sir Evan M'Gregor to the Cape of Good Hope. " We perceive by the Emancipator that it is sought to impress the British public with the opinion that it is ab solutely necessary the labourers should have their ground secured to them for twelve months, and that the proprie tors will not consent to the arrangement." A new bank establishment is about to be constituted in Jamaica, to be called the Jamaica Loan Society, or Plan ters' Bank, for making loans on crops, produce, land, houses, and other property ; capital 500,0001., in 20,000 shares, at 251. each. We have received Port of Spain Gazettes to the 27 th of April. • " The removal of our Lieut.-Governor, Sir Henry M'Leod, from this island toTrinidad, has caused great re• gret. We pledge ourselves for the authenticity of the fol lowing letter from a manager of an estate on the coast:— " EsTArE, Avail, 19. " Dear Sir,--The labourers of the quarter of --, in general, are badly disposed to fulfil their duty ; they are besides very negligent and insolent, particularly those of estate, of whom the Africans are worse than the rest. Not only they, but the carmen and crook boys of the estate, are ill treating the stock, by either beating them, or not giving them necessary care. I have frequently observed this, and remonstrated with the people; much insolence has been the answer I have received from them. Under these circumstances I beg to inform you that I can not any longer remain the manager." We have received the Journal VAntwerp of yesterday's date. Accounts from Frankfort state that Stocks were heavy here, owing to advises from Visama, that of the Bank Ac- tions having receded from f. 860 to 1,816, but afterwards improved to 1,822, after 'Change. We learn that the Course of Exchange at Vienna of the 3d of May comes as follows : Metalli - clues 1071, Bank Actions 15154, they were pre viously 1527. '1 his fall is alp ibuteti to a large sale by the house of Sina, after having received a courier ft om Turkey. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—We have had a good demand for L Cotton to-day, and lull prices have been obtained. The sales 5,000 bags, chiefly to the trade. '1 he accounts received from Manchester to-day state that there was a fair demand for yarn yesterday, and a considerable amount of business would probably have been done if the spinners had keen disposed to accept previous prices; but as they generally demanded a slight advance, the actual business done was by no means in proportion to the extent of the inquiry. In some few articles, and espe cially m inferior qualities and low numbers of mule yarn. a slight advance was realized ; but in other descriptions the prices paid were about the same as on Tue,day last. There was very little demand for goods of any description, and the market was not improved by the knowledge of the fact, that the Stalybridge manufacturers had resumed full time, or by some rumours of the failures, one of which indeed was publicly announced, but not of a serious extent. SHERRIFFS COURT-(THIS DAY.) IMPORTANT CAsE —FIZIVILECES OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. STOCKDALE V. lIANSARD. Mr. CARRINGTON stated that this was a writ of inquiry to assess damages in a cause in which John Joseph Stock dale was plaintiff, and Luke Hansard and others were de fendants. The declaration alleged the publication of a libel by the defendants against the plaintiff, who had been for years a publisher, arid who had pnbiished a certain scientific work in 1827, treating of anatomical subjects, and illustrated by anatomical plates. The defen dants, in a report of the Inspectors of Prisons, stated the work to be of a most disgusting na ture, and obscene in the extreme. There was no plea asserting that any p or ti on o f th e libel was true. I n th e state of the record the libel must therefore be taken to be entirely false. But the defendants pleaded that the In spectors of Prisons, Messrs. Crawford and Whitworth Russell, made a report to the House of Commons, who had passed a resolution that all their reports and papers be printed and published for general circulation, that the de fendants were ordered to publish for sale, the report in question, and that the House of Commons had resolved that the power of publishing such of its papers as they deemed necessary, was conducive to the public interest, and was an essential incident to the constitution of the Com mons House of Parliament. The plaintiff demurred to this plea that it was not good in point of law, because the established laws of this realm could not be superseded, suspended, or altered, by any resolution of the House of Commons, which could not create a new privi lege, inconsistent with the known laws of the land. The , question had been solemnly argued before the Court of Queen's Bench ; who decided that the plea was bad, and that the defendants had no justification for the publication. The present writ was issued to the Under Sheriff and the jury, to inquire and assess the damages received by the plaintiff by reason of this unjustifiable publication. Mr. CURWOOD said the jury were now called upon to discharge their duty in one of the most important cases which had occurred for the last 150 years. The question of law which had been decided was no less than this : whether the laws and liberties of this country could be subject to the resolu tion of the Muse of Commons. In stating this, it was not with a view to inflame the minds of the Jury ; but on the contrary, to warn them, notwithstanding all that had taken place, that they were legally to confine themselves to the awarding such damages, as they thought the plaintiff had ' sustained. What had the House of Commons assumed? He wished not to speak disrespectfully of that House, they had acted on the report ofa Committee of Learned lawyers, but the result had proved that they had rashly adopted their opinion of the question. Never had there been a case more solemnly argued in the Queen's Bench. The Queen's Attorney-General had consumed three days in endeavouring to convince the Court that the power which the House of Commons hod claimed was legal—the jury could do no better than read the luminous judgment of Lord Denman and the other Judges, who had held that the law must triumph over one branch of the Legislature. Nothing could so deeply interest Englishmen : and this judgment stood unequalled, and unrivalled. The UNDER SHERIFF said this had nothing to do with the question which the jury had to decide. Mr. CURWOOD had already submitted that the jury were not to consider this in their damages, except in this way,—that Mr. Stockdale was a humble in dividual,—he had raised this important question, he had fought this momentous battle, he had thus far been instrumental in securing the liberties of his coun try. The slanders that had been raised against him stieuld not weigh with .the jury for a single moment. The Attorney-General had stated that he would not get a farthing damages. What was that but an impeachment of his character and an allegation that he deserved all that had been said against it ? Let no reports that might have come to the ears of the jury make any impression t upon their minds. The case had been calmly, solemnly, and constitutionally argued, in the Queen's Bench ; it now was the jury's duty to give the plaintiff such damages as upon the Record he was entitled to—whether it was one hundred pounds, fifty pounds, or—if they thought he deserved no more one farthing. Doubtless, the jury had heard a great deal about the dignity of the House of Commons being compromised; and about the House of Commons not allowing itself to be subjected to the decisions of the Judges. It was not so. It was the law, which emanated from the united wisdom of the three branches of the Legislature—which was superior to any one branch separately considered—the Judges were but the oracles, who pronounced the law—as the Holy Spirit of old spoke by the mouth of the prophets; it was no de gradation to any body of men, even to one so powerful as the House of Commons, to submit to the law of the land—the emanation of the united wisdom of the Im perial Legislature. The House of Commons had set up this claim, that whatever they published was intangible, not to be questioned ; that they might, in short, libel the whole world with impunity. They had libelled enough already by their Press. It was but a day or two ago that a member of that House had told him that a petition had been presented, containing the most calumnious statements in regard to a gentleman who, by a friend, appeared in the House and vindicated himself. The UNDER SHERIFF—Why state circumstances which, even if you could put them in evidence, would not be rele vant to the case ? What have we to do with what was privately told you ? Mr. Cuewoon—The same thing is stated in the judg ment of the Queen's Bench. The UNDER SHERIFF—The judgment of a Court is a different thing. Mr. Cuewoon proceeded to say, that the libel which had been published by the defendants in this case, had gone into ten thousand channels, not one-tenth of which would votes of th• House of ''knistfo r f ri a t z t l h gre r liar 'ail The n all over England, uS,Y. all over Europe ; for copies of the proceedings of the House of Commons were transmitted to public bodies on the Continent—even to America. Thus widely was Mr. Stockdale's name damned as the publisher of obscene works—which it was admitted upon the record he was not —and he (Mr. Curwood) had read the work in ques tion, and could state that both the letter. press, and the plates were of the same description. as those of many other similar scientific works, Cyclope dies, &c. But two " Inspectors of Prisons," forsooth-- one of those bodies of Commissioners so frequehtly ap pointed by the present Administration—had, without reading the work, only glancing at the plates, declared them to be obscene. Now, upon the Record it stood clearly admitted, that Mr. Stockdale was the publisher "1 scientific works—that the work in question was one—and that he had been unjustly libelled. The amount of damages which should be given was for the jury alone to determine. What evidence would he (Mr. Cur wood) give of the extent of mischief which his clime had suffered through this libel? Libels of this kind were like the " pestilence that walketh in darkness. You see it not, you hear it not—but fell under its fangs." How could he give in evidence what persons had refused to deal with Mr. Stockdale in consequence of the libel ? It was matter entirely for the Jury to draw their own con. elusions upon. Suppose a tradesman libelled—he found his custom falling away—he found himself gradually ruined, but he could not produce sufficient evidence that A. or B. or C. had, on account of the libel, refused to deal with him. He could not show the exact amount in pounds, sh;llings and pence, which he had lost by reason of the libel. The Jury must say what in their opinion the plaintiff, an emi nent publisher, had suffered, or was likely to suffer, through the libel in this case ; and they would understand that it was on account of its impossibility, that the plaintiff had not produced distinct evidence of the loss he had sus tained. No persons appeared on behalf of the defendants to speak in mitigation of damages. It was in the Votes of the House ot Commons that they would not appear upon the damages, though they did upon the plea. The Messrs. Hansard were the nominal defendants—but they acted by the orders of the House of Commons, and had nu malicious feeling towards the plaintiff. But under the law, they were unanswerable ; yet they would not suffer by the verdict of the jury, for the House had agreed to repay them any loss they might sustain in the matter. The UNDER-SHERIFF —That is not proved, is it ? Mr. CUItWOOD—It is in the Votes, The UNDER-SHERIFF —That is not evidence. Mr. CURWOOD said—Every Englishman was supposed to be present, by Deputy, in the Commons House of Parliament, and supposed to be cognizant of its votes. However, he only stated that as matter of congratula tion, that innocent men would not suffer. He only asked the jury to give to the plaintiff such damages as the law, upon this record, entitled him to, for a libel admitted to have been unjust. The Learned UNDER -SHERIFF said it was qu i; true that the present action had given rise to the trial of a very important public ' question, but he concurred with the Learned Counsel, who, with so much moderation and tem per, had opened his case ; and if the Learned Counsel had not stated it it would have been his (the Under-Sheriff's) duty to till the Jury that they had nothing to do with that topic. They were simply called upon, in virtue of the writ from the Queen's Bench, to assess the damages which in their opinion the plaintiff had sustained by the libel complained of. The nominal defendants, the printers, as in most cases, though the law supposed malice, could searcely be imagined to have been actuated by any ill feeling towards .the plaintiff; but the plaintiff was entitled to recover such damages against them as, in the judgment of the jury, he had suffered. The declaration alleged no special damage, which it might have done, by affirming that certain customers had, since the libel, ceased to deal with him. The jury thud' >re hail to esti mate,to the nature of his busi ness as a bookseller looking sellerarid publisher, what he had probably suffered, was now likely to suffer, in consequenee of the libel. And he (the Under Sheriff) felt bound to tell the jury that they had nothing to do with any indemnification of the de fendants by the House of Commons, even had it been proved, for the law made the defendants responsibl e , and upon the verdict of the Jury execution might be taken out against them. The Jury consulted for a few minutes, and then found 1001. damages. SOUTII A USTRA uovernor has re ceived a d, spatch from her Majesty's Secretary f or t h e Colonies, in reference to the re-iti.tatement of Mr. Charles Minn, as Advoc,,te.General and Crown Solicitor of the pros ince. Lord Glenelg had acceded to the request of the Commissioners ; but the Governor has considered that the opinions entertained and promulgated by Mr. Mann ren dered it impossible that he could act in Council with ad vantage to the public service, and his Excellency has acre fore been pleased further to suspend Mr. Mann from dice until hor Majesty's pleasure should be linown.—aouth Australian. The ball for Queen Adelaide's Hospital, on Friday night, at the Hanover-square Rooms, holds forth the greate,t attraction. Many of our most distinguished nobility will be present, and the scene will be ore of the mast brilliant and attractive of the season, though it may not be so crowded as was th ball for th e A ca d emy of Music, when for a length of time: dancing was impracti cable. Tue opprtuniry of rendering an important service to a deserving Hospital will not be lost by the rich and generous. LITERATURE. FESTUS : A POEM. Pickering, London, 1839. We took up this singular poem with something not unlike a prejudice against it, for in the very first page we met with a dialogue, of no great excellence, in which God, Lucifer, the Holy Ghost, and the Son of God were the chief speakers ; and we naturally concluded therefore that the volume was the production of some crazy, ambitious visionary, who had mistaken the promptings of self-conceit for th e genu i ne i ns pi ra ti on o f genius, an d was eager to furnish the world with another illustration of Pope's prophetic line, that " fools rush in where angels fear to tread." We had not gone far, however, before we discovered that " Festus," so far from being what we somewhat too prematurely sur mised it was, was a poem evincing uncommon vigour of imagination ; penned in a daring but not irreverent spirit ; high-toned, though not uniformly well sustained in its character ; rich and graceful in its poetical gar niture ; and abounding in bold, subtle, and occasionally original thought. That the author is one who thinks and feels for himself, is evident in every page ; that he is young, and his intellect consequently not yet matured, is equally evident in the frequent crudities, and pert familiarities of expression, strangely out of place in such a theme as he has chosen, by which his poem is defaced. A still more striking proof of, as yet, unripened mind, is manifest in the vagueness and inde finiteness of purpose that everywhere characterize Festus. It is a grand, and in many instanccs,a sublime, collection of fragments, but nothing more. As a whole, it wants unity and distinctness. The aim proposed to be accom plished at the commencement, is continually lost sight ot. Still, despite these drawbacks, we consider the author to be one capable of the very highest flights in poetry, butnot until the judgment which comes of experience, shall have disciplined his thoughts, and sobered the riotous excesses of his imagination. The leading idea of his work, namely, that of Lucifer presenting himself at the foot stool of God, and asking leave to tempt Festus. is taken from that sublime oriental poem, the book of Job ; and the incidents consequent on this idea, will frequently remind the reader, of Goethe's and Marlowe's Faustus, and Byrou's Cain. There is nothing however, like servile imitation apparent ; and the conception of Lucifer, who is represented as a grand, and thoughtful Intelligence, remorse-stricken, is a thousand times loftier than Goethe's vulgar, callous, Mophistophiles, with his eternal bad jokes, and still worse sarcasms, and, at least, equal to Byron's Fiend. Thus much for the leading idea of the poem ; we now proceed to some of the pissages that have most struck us. In the first soliloquy of Festus occur these impres sive lines : " Man is one ; And he bath one great heart. It is thus we feel, With a gigantic throb across the sea, Each others' rights and wrongs ; thus are we men. Sometimes we feel the wish across the mind That wc should join with God, and give the world The go-bye; but the world meanwhile turns round And peeps us in the face—the wanton world! We feel it gently pressing down our arm, The arm we had raised to do for Truth such wonders; We feel it softly bearing on our side; We feel it touch and thrill us through the body, And so we're fools." The presentiment of approaching ill, such as has been known to cloud for a time the most brilliant intellects, is finely described in these lines : " There are points from which we can command ouc life, When the soul sweeps the future like a glass, And coming things, fullfreighted with our fate, Jut out, dark, on the quill!, of the mind." There is infinite tenderness and beauty in this sen timent, which is put into the mouth of Lucifer ;-- " I have oftentimes heard my angels call Most piteously on their lost loves in Heaven, And, as I suffer, I have seen them come— Seen star-like laces peep between the clouds. Some souls lose all things but the love of beauty, And by that love they are redeemable, For in love and beauty they acknowledge good, And good is God, the great necessity." Here is a midnight scene breathing the very spirit of repose : " All things are calm, and fair, and passive. Earth Looks as if lulled upon an angel's lap Into a breathless, dewy sleep ; so still, That we can only say of things, they be. The lakelet now, no longer vexed with gusts, Replaces on her breast the pictured moon, Pearled round with stars. Sweet imaged scene of time To come, perchance, wlien this vain life o'erpast, Earth may some purer being's presence bear ; Mayhap e'en God may walk among his saints In eminence and brightness like yon moon, Mildly outbeaming all the beads of night Strung o'er night's proud, dark brow." The subjoined passage is as nobly conceived, as it is poetically expressed Day bath too much light for us To see things spiritually. Mind and night Will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers, With whom, to see each other's sacred form Must satisfy.—The stillness of deep bliss, Sounctas the silence of the high hilt-top Where thunder finds no echo." The intense, hopeless melancholy of this sentiment will convey a vivid idea of the author's conception of Lucifer : I know Nor jot', nor sorrow; but a changeless tone Of sadness., like the night wind's, is the strain . Of what I have of feeling. lam not As other spirits ; but a solitude E'en to myself." Compared with this, how coarse and mean are the sentiments which Goethe has put into the mouth of his not fiend! The following is festub'.s description of his first love : I her for that she was beautiful ; And that to me she seemed to be all nature And all varieties of things in one : Would set at night in clouds of tears; and rise All light and laughter in the morning : fear Nu petty cus'oms nor appearances ; But think ,A hat others only dreamed about ; And say what others did but think ; and do What others would but say ; and glory in What others dared but do; it was these which won me; And that she never schooled within her breast One thought or feeling, but gave holiday To all : and that she told me all her woes And wrongs and ills: and so she made them mine In the communion of love : and we Grew like each ether for we loved each other : She, mild and generous as the sun in spring; And I, like earth all budding out with love." Their parting is thus described. The words marked in italics arc exquisitely beautiful and pathetic : " I see her now 1— Whate'er thou art, thy soul is in my mind ; Thy shadow hourly lengthens o'er my brain, ' And peoples all its pictures with thyself. Gone, not forgotten—passed, not lost—thou wilt shine la heaven, like a bright spot in the sun. She said she wished to die, and so she died ; For, cloud-like, she poured out her love, which was Her life, to freshen this parched heart. 'Twas thus— I said we were to part, but she said nothing ; There was no discord; it was music ceased!" The deep, earnest, and solemn feeling that pervades the subjoined sketch of a Sabbath-day, will remind the reader of Wordsworth's most emphatic manner in the Excursion : Come, we will quit these saddening themes ; and sing To me, for I am gloomy, and I love Thy singing, sacred as the sound of hymns, On some bright Sabbath morning, on the moor Wh, , re all is still save praise; and where hard by The ripe grain shakes its bright beard in the sun; The wild bee hums more solemnly ; the deep sky ; The fresh green grass ; the sun, and sunny brook ; All look as if they knew the day, the . hour, And felt with man the need and joy et thanks." In the following passage a striking, though not per haps very original thought, is expressed with great vigour: " What is life worth without a heart to feel The great and lovely, and the poetry And sacredness of things ? For all things are Sacred ; the eye of God is on them all, And hallows all unto it. It is fine To stand upon some lofty mountain-thought And feel the spirit tretch into a ; To joy in what might be, if will and power For good, would work together but ohe hour. Yet millions never think a nob!e thought, .Put with brute hate ef brightness. hay a mind Which drives the darkness out of them, like hounds." W e have said that our author's conception of Lucifer is that of a lofty, ambitious Intelligence, stricken with incurable remorse, and so far differing from the malig nant, glazing, mean-thoughted Satan of scripture. In the line which we subjoin, his entire character is re vealed to us in three brief, but most significant and com prehensive words, which are sublime in their very terse ness and simplicity. In order that the reader may rightly appreciate their uncommon force, we should inform him that a funeral has just passed, which draws Irons Festus some common-places about grief, where upon Lucifer abruptly interrupts him with— " Would you have grief? Let me come—l am Woe I The happiness of earth is thus gracefully alluded to ; " The highest hills Pre miles below the sky ; And so far is the lightest heart below 'Flue happitioss." The pleasure which a refined and elevated intellect lerives from thought is eloquently insisted on in these lines : oh, to create within the mind is bliss ! And shaping forth -the lofty thought or lovely. We seek not—need not Heaven; and when the thought, Cloudy and shapeless, first forms on the mind, Now darkening into some gigantic make, Slow the heart shakes with pride and fear, as Heaven Quakes under her own thunder." As a specimen of case, richness, and melody of ver sification we quote the subjoined passage. The image with which it concludes, is exceedingly felicitous ‘"Tis sweet to be awakened by a kiss, When dreaming of the very lips which waken: Ah, never be that visionary bliss But for the bright reality forsaken ! 'Tis sweet to dream we're blest at last with her, Who first made pleasure in our nature stir ; Tho' many a fairer, kinder, since we've known, That first voluptuous vision sits her throne ; Still, it, our sleep, plays o'er young passions's part. As pleasure's chest still haunts the ruined heart." E,VI4",NING EDITI The following idei is striking, but, if our recolleckTi, does not deceive us, the germ of it may be found, in Sir Thomas Browne's " Religio Medici :" " All things that speak of heaven, speak of peace : Peace hath more might than war; high brows are calm : Great thoughts are still as stars; and truths, like suns, Stir not, but many systems tend around them : Mind's step is still as Death's." The character of the author's phil oso phy miy be judged of from the following sentiments, whose tone is remarkably healthy and genial : __ " Unsay What thou bast said of man, nor deem me wrong ; Mind cannot mind despise—it is itself. Mind must love mind; the great and good are friends Aid he is but half great, who is not good. And oh, humanity is the fairest flower Blooming in earthly breasts. A woman's gentle and melodious voice gives rise to this poetical image : " A soft, rich toae—a rainbow of sweet sounds, Just spanning the soothed sense." Perhaps the above simile may be considered of rather too abstract a nature by those who regard only tho common-places of fancy, but, to our thinking, it is ster ling ore. Spenser, we are sure, would have been de lighted with it. We quote the following, not for its poetical beauty, but for its elegance and refinement as a compliment : " To me there is but one place in the world, And that's where thou art." Au obvious truth is well expressed as follows : " Drink and drain The bowl I The vintage of a hundred years Would never slake the memory f shame, Nor quench the thirst of folly." Here is a graceful, periphastical manner of telling a lady—in plain English—to " hold her tongue :" " Now, stay thy pretty, little tuneful tongue, Nor silver o'er tby syllables." A serene summer sunset : " The day Bath gone to God, Straight, like an infant's spirit." The approach of the day ofjudgment is thus solemnly intimated : " There is no shadow on the face of life, It is the noon of fate." The following graphic description is suggested by the recollections of youth : " bad A friend with whom in boyhood I was wont To learn, think, laugh, weep, strive, and love together; For we were always rivals in all things— Together up high, springy hills, to trace A runnel to its birth-place; to pursue A river: to search, haunt old ruined towers, And muse in them ; to scale the cloud clad hills While thunders murmured in onr very ear; To leap the lair of the live cataract, Or crouch behind the broad white waterfall— Tongue of the glen, like to a hidden thought— To reach, perchance, some long, green-floating flag, Just when the sun's hot lip first touched the stream Reddening to be so kissed; and oft at night, Bewildered and bewitched ly favourite stars, We would breathe ourselves amid unfootcd snows, For there is poetry where aught is pure ; Or over the still, dark heath, leap, like harts, Through the broad moonlight, fur we felt wherever We leaped the golden gorse,or lowly ling, We could not be from home—that friend is gone I There's the whole universe before our souls. Where shall we meet next ? Shall we meet again ? Oh ! might it be in some far, happy world, That I may light upon his lonely soul, Hard by some broad, blue stream, where high the hills, Wood-bearded, sweep to it's brink—musing, as wont, With love-like sadness upon sacred things." The moral of the poem, and a nobler was never yet in culcated, may be found in these lines. Festus, alter having been pardoned by the Almighty, thus addresses his tempter, Lucifer : " Let us part, Spirit. It may be, in the coming, That as we sometime were all worth God's making, We may be worth forgiving." In the above extracts from Festus, we have confined ourselves almost exclusively to the more level passages of the poem, and such as are least likely to be caviare to the multitude ; but there are many others of a far higher and rarer order of beauty, in which we are at a loss which most to admire, the boldness and grandeur of the conceptions, dreamy and abstract though some of them are, or the incomparable ease and simplicity of the expression. The descriptions of the Fiend's flight round the universe ; of the passing into Heaven, and thence into Hades ; of the inauguration of Festus as sole monarch of the world ; of the perishing away of man from earth ; and the consummation of all things on the " great day of compt ;"—in these descriptions, as in numerous others, where the interest is more strictly human, the author shows himself a poet in the most comprehensive meaning of the phrase ; as in his occa• sional abstruse speculations on Life, Death, and the mystery of Mind, he shows himself an acute and search ing reasoner. We have already glanced at his faults, and may here say, in addition, that they chiefly origi nate in his somewhat feverish anxiety to produce an effect. He often goes hunting and beating about the bush for striking images and uncommon forms of ex pression, forgetting that to startle is not to delight, and that eccentricity is no proof of imagination. Then again, he is apt to be so abrupt in his transitions, as almost to engender a feeling of the ludicrous in his reader's mind. Where be is most successful, there he is uniformly most simple and natural—a hint which, we trust, will not be thrown away on him. We conclude with the remark, that Festus, whether viewed with re gard to its blemishes or its excellencies, in the most re markable poem that has appeared since the days of Byron. LLOYDS' SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEA 1., JUNE 12.—Wind W. S.W.—Arrived the Neptune, Giles, from 31anilla •' Reward, llagg, Jamaica ; and G , aphyra, La Guavra. Sailed—Litherland, 11..wkin_s, for Barbadoes; Re,overy, Barker, Queboe ; Herald, Alcock, Alexandria ; and Attea, Constantinople, with the rest of the outwarn bound. PotersmouTit, JUNE I2.—Wind E.S.E. to S.E. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 1 . —Wind N,W, to S.W. F.% LMOUTH, JUNE Il.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Lap wing (packet), from the West Indies, sailed from St. Thomas's, I ult. ; Porto Rico, 2d ; Cape Henry 10th. LIVERPOOL, JU NE Ih—Wind variable.—Arrived the PeZ nang, Lawson, from Canton ; Alert, Sutton, Bahia ; Portia, Pernambuco ; Eliza Kitlick, Waugh, Hayti ; Jenny, Jamaica ; Belmont, Young, Honduras ; Caledonia, Bibby, Zolaff, Mer rill, and John Walker, Laskin, New Orleans ; Colchester, Withers, Mobile ; Ganges, Seofteam, and Chieora, Halsey, Charleston ; Queen Victoria, Chambers, Savannah ; Thomas, Seymour, Jamaica ; Ilobinhood, Proctor, New York ; Cal cutta„M'Kinnell, Sarah, Lacket, Ruby, Westcott, and Hannah Kerr, Bacon, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Halifax, M'Clearv, Halifax ; Earl Grey, Douglas, Marseilles, Tally Ho, Miles, Lisbon ; .Niary and Jane, Archer, Danzic. Sailed the Dibdin, Kruger, for New York. Off port, the Jamaica, from Jamaica ; Chester, St. John's, New Brunswick; Jupiter, Charleston. V ---)'.4tifil '''' `l5/ / f I .{s At.-,--,-i 4,1‘/..; " r co. TDB FUNDS. Owing to the accounts from Constantinople, which are again of a very warlike appearance, as well as the fall of the Funds at Vienna, after a courier having been received by the house of Stna, from Turkey, has had a slight effect on the British market. Consols which closed at 94k opened this morning at 931 94 for the Account ; but to the present hour no business to any extent has been doing, Bank Stock still continues very heavy, by which it is generally supposed that the Bank Directors are determined to narrow their discounts. Bank Stock is one half per cent. lower than it closed at, 190 191 ; Ex chequer Bills 29 31; India Bonds 29 31 ; India Stock 257 258 ; Spanish Active a shade lower ,19 ; Por tuguese also 354- i; Three per Cents., 21/1 ; - Brazilian, 79,-} ; Colombian, 311 ; Mexican 261 ; B e l g i an, 101 k 102 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 55- 5 6 1 ; Fi ve per Cents., 1021 103 k. PRICES OF JTOCKS TIM Bank Stock IVO 3 per Cent. Red 921,, % 3 per Cent. Cans. - 3s, per Cent - Ditto Red. 10J !)t1 New 34 per Cent ..... . - New 5 per Cent. - Rank Long Annuities toexpire Jan. 5, 18110 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock Ditto Bonds 34 31 pm. South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 - Exch. Bills, .Cl,OOO 31) 31 pm. Ditto ............... 500 .. 31 33 Pm Ditto Snail.. :it 33- Oct. 10, 1859. l4 3-16 Jan. 5, 16410. - Jan. 5, 1880 April 5, 1880 ......_ - . • • . . pm. Ditto Commercial — pro. Ditto Advertised Bank Stock for Account ... 1912 India Stock for Account ... . _ .... —..... Jan . 5.1870 — I Consos for Account 937i PRICES OF FOREIGN FU NDS 'nits DAI AT ONL O'CLOCK Austrian Bonds —l Peruvian Bonds — Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Apes Bends Ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Chilian Bonds Dtto Account Columbian Bonds 294 Ditto Account Columbian. Bond., Ditto Account SIN " Dank iTh bones .. Ditto Account Prussian Bonds RusMan Bonds, ISt?... Ditto Account Daus ire, Ditto Account Greet ..... Pawl's . .... Def.rreil French, 5 per Pent....... —f. --c. Ditt• bonds, 1925. Ditto Account ..... 4 per cent. —t. —e. 3 per cent. —l'. —c. IlleXiciiiii;nils, S per Cont. —. Eichange. —f. --c. Ditto Account ........ ...... ' Dutch, 2 per cent. AI 5% Ditto, 6 per Cent. Ditto Account sli Ditto Account ....... ........ Ditto, 5 per cent BM% 2% Neapolitan. --. ) Ditto Account ...... PRICES OF SHARES Tills DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. aid Birmingham and Derby Railw ay Compan y ... Per ‘nare... 70 60 2 Borniugharn and Gloucester Railway Company s'l 281, r:ristul and Exeter Railway t.oispany ............ 23 lu Great North of England Railway Coinpany.... 3.i, 20 Brighton Railway Loudon vind Blackwell Railway I l g!iU Low... and Birmirigharn Railway Company 9O U:S Ditto hares 5 rg Loiroun 4 tick Croydon Railway Compan. HALF PAST ONE. The great scarcity of money which still prevails, both in the British and Foreign Markets, as well as for com mercial affairs, has damped the spirit of speculation, which added to the present uncertain state of affairs be tween the Turks and Egyptians, cause the speculators to be very cautious in operating ; no positive intelligence has as yet been received that the Turks and Egyptians have come to blows, although their armies are at a short distance from each other. The Dutch mail of June 12 has arrived, and brings ac counts from Vienna of June 3, with intelligence from Con stantinople of May 22, by which it appears that they had no official news of the crossing of the Euphrates by the Turkish troops. At all events it appears that the news of hostilities having commenced is premature ; report says they expect the breaking out of hostilities momentarily. Dutch prices same as the previous day. The above mail is only one day later. Consols at present heavy, 93i ; R e d uced 92a ; Bank Stock, Money, receded to 190; for the Account 192 ; India Bonds nothing done. Spanish Active 19i ; Portuguese 35i ; Three per Cents. 21i- ; Colombian 31 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 56; Five per Cents. 103 uni. CONsTANTINOPLE, MAY 22.—The Tyne frigate left here on Monday morning last, having been re. lieved by the Carisfort, which arrived on Friday. On coming down from Therapia, previous to her sailin', she performed one of those manoeuvres so well calculated to inspire the Turks with the superiority of the crews of our vessels, and to point out to them the deficiencies of those of their own. On coming abreast of the extremity of the palace of Dalma Batchi, orders were given to shorten sail, and fire a salute of 21 guns, on the smoke of which having cleared awa,, the vessel, but a moment before crowded with sail, was seen floating quietly on the water, decorated with the flags of every nation, the yards manned, and not en inch of canvass to be seen. The salute was returned from the battery on shore. and as soon as it had ceased, the Sultan's flag being hoisted to the mainmast, a second salute was fired in honour of it by the Tyne, and when the noble vessel was again discovered, amid the wreaths of smoke rolling from her sides, she was under full sail again on her way to Constantinople. The Sultan viewed the noble mtnceuvre from his window, and expressed himself highly gratified with it. A similar oue was performed by the 13arham, when here a few years since, but. not so suc cessfully. A few days previous to this the boats of the Tyne manceuvred together with those of the Capit an Pacha's ship before the palace , by the expre ss request, and much to the gratification of, the Sultan. The friendship and good fvcling which have been kept up by Captain Townsend and his officers with the ofli(!ers of the Turkish fleet, and the services which Captain Townsend h as more than once had an opportunity of rendering to the C ap i t „.. l % Paella, have left the Turks every reason to regret this frigate being removed from the station, nor are they back. ward in expressing it. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIE TY . —A t the meeting on Monday evening, G. B. Gre en h ougli, Esq , the newly-elected president, in the chair, several commu nications of interest were announced. Among other sub jects it was announced that the Prussian Minister of In struction had forwarded to M. Schernburgek a valuable donation of books as a testimony of his services and enter prise in geographical discovery. Captain 'Washington next drew the attention of the meeting to the reported discovery of a new river and harbour in Western Australia, but which Sir James Stirling, who was present. stated that he did riot consider of any importatico. The latter stated that he was happy to annou nce that lie had rece i ved very recent accounts from Lieut. Grey., who was at the Swan Itiver, in a state of convalescence, where he was preparing to undertake a fresh expedition into the interior. A.BoLiTioN OF SLAVERY.—AN EJECTED ArroitNe.v !—We understand that an influential attorney in this palish has lost several of the properties which had Seen for many years under his charge. It appears that the prop r i etor h a d received let ters in En gland, stating that his peasantry would not work at lower wages th an ss. per day. " Well," said the good gentleman, " just take a trip to Jamaica and see how things stand." So said so done: he arrived, and soon after sought occasion to in quire in to t h e wor king of his prope r t i es. lie had several interviews with the most intel li g ent of th e people, and a few weeks' experience convinced him that his attorney had ' deceived him : that he had wantonly defamed the charac ' ter of the l a b oure r s , %Owe discontent, was to be attributed solely to mismanagement, and nut to the causes assigned. The result has been " a notice to quit," cti Monsieur th e attorney. This is one good effect of the coming out of an absentee proprietor, and we hope that ethers 7. ill follow , the example. _-Falmouth Post. CORN AVERAGES. kiE'NERAI. AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended June 7, le:1u, made up from the Returns of the Ins.eetori in the different Cities and 'Dawns in England and Wale, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat figs. 7d. Oats Barley ...... 101 Rye IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE F:X WEEKS VRECEDING. Whvat 7os. 7d. Oats i= Ad. Brans 39 3 . 01, Barlvy o.ls. 3.1 I liye DUTIIS ON FOREIGN coittc. Whcat.... ..... lOi. 1 4 ,1. Oats Barley 2s 44. I Rye THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) lIUNGERFORD MARKET. Supplies good, and a fair business done. Prices pretty steady. Turbot, ss. to 18s. Soles, 10d. to 3s. 6d. per pair. Lobsters, 1•. to 4s. Salmon, 2s. per lb. for good. Beef, lid. to 84d. Mutton, 7id. to Bid. Veal, Bd. to Pd. Pork, to 81d. 'Vegetables, plentiful, good, and cheaper, with a very fair trade. CITY FISH MARKET. Fair supplies, but the weather affected the trade. Prices steady. COAL MAR , ki S. d. Tiurdon Main l9 i Walls Endßraddyll'sHetton 22 ti I lolvwell Main 2l I , W.ols En , l tiaswell 2 ., 3 Ord'6 liedhugh %V yl3 ns W ills End Browiii', Walls End “nsforto Walls FAid Hilda Walls End llo'spur ''ails End Northumberland 11l it Ilartley Wa Is rnd Todd's Beusham IS t Howard's Netherton Main 19 3 blahs End Belmont :ET.—June 12 Shun arrived since I. market-ti ,y, :2-.. BANK PARLOUR PAPER.—We are informed, and rather think there is no doubt of the correctness of the statement, that the Bank Directors threw out some bills presented yesterday by two or three banking houses of high standing in the City. It appears that they bore the indorsements of certain country joint-stock banks, which is assigned as the cause. The anti bank party have already begun to talk of this as "an arbitrary proceeding," adding that " it must tend to disturb credit and confidence." The step is further con. demned as one that is "particularly objectionable at the present moment, when the mercantile classes are already exposed to some inconvenience by the prevailing pres sure on the money market " The cry of yesterday was, that the Bank increased their securities as the depesits diminished, or, in other words, answered the signal of distress raised by the mercantile community, when the circumstances of the country required that a restrictive policy should be persevered in, and when, in the opinion of some the institution itself has been in jeopardy. The fact is the Bank have no chance, whatever course they take, of pleasing all. The conflicting interest of stock jobbers, some speculating for a rise and others for la fall, are alone sufficient to render this itnpos sible. The present case, every impartial person must see at a glance, that the Directors would be acting very inconsistently, if, while they are curtailing their accommo dation to the metropolis, they at the same time counte. nanced and encouraged in any way the reckles s operations of the Joint Stork Banks in the country. T he effect of this would be to neutralize the precautionary measures they have lately felt themselves called upon to adopt, and need lessly to prolong the evils whi ch are inseparable from a crisis like the present. —Morniny Post. Esi SussEx.—A requisition has been in course of signature during the last week, ca lli ng upon C o l. George Wyndham to allow himself to be put in nomination for West Sussex. We need hardly say that it has been most numerously signed. The enthusiasm of the freehold era has been raised to a hi eh dec r ee ; for the Rama of Wyndham has an effect almost magical in Sugser.--- i ./3/1 4 ;11tczt ( Tory) Gazctte. _I - I I A Ir.