The Sun. — London, England, 1839-06-14 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. The Public is respectfully informed, that the PRESENT MANAGEMENT WILL TERMINATE WITH THIS SEASON. THIS EVENING, Juii - o. 14, Will be performed the New Play, in Five Acts, called RICHELIEU, OR 'I HE CONSPIRACY, Written by Sir E. Lytton Bulwer, Bart. After which, ttMILIE; OR, THE LOVE TEST. To-morrow, King Henry V., with High Life Below Stairs. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. LAST NIGHT BUT ONE of the OPERA COMPANY, THIS EVENING, JUNE 14, Will be performed, the Comic Drama called PETER THE GREAT AND PAUL THE MARINER. After which the Grand Opera entitled LA SONNAMBULA. Count Rodolph, Mr. W. Balfe ; Elvino, Mr. Templeton ; Amina, Miss Romer. To conclud e w i t h the successful Drama, called ALICE GRAY, THE SUSPECTED ONE _ _ ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Under her MAJESTY'S IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE. GRAND " PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CRAM PETRES!! ! On MONDAY and THURSDAY NEXT, JUNE 17 and 20, By a splendid Band, composed of the most distinguished Instru mental Performers in the Metropolis, Selected and conducted by Mr. Godfrey. Commencing at Six o'clock, and terminating at Nine. On Tuesday, June IS, the superb Waterloo Fete, and First Grand Miscellaneous Flower Show of tl:e Royal South London Floricultural Society for 1839, with a Magnificent Display of Flowers, Shrubs, Fruit, and Vegetables. In addition to the Promenade Musicale, the Alpine Singers, and the Band of the Surrey Yeomanry Cavalry will attend. Gates open at One, The magnificent Day-light View of MOUNT IIECLA, and the unequalled Menagerie, are exhibited daily. Admission One Shilling. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We feel much obliged to a Reverend Correpondont at Bristol for calling our attention to the subject ad verted to in his letter. We entirely concur in his re marks, but a person of his candour cannot fail to see that in conducting such a multifarious concern as a daily paper, a paragraph may be inserted, or a remark made, which is not in accordance with either the poli tical or religious principles of the Editor. 4L13,- ,- 4 -4 ,- , - ~t -L.1., • C .- 4 7 , .. , ~ 7 1, - -1 ..,......, 44 , ."4 i5t A ...... A 42416 \4 1 -c - . s‘. 4... •- , -; - "1 --- • -. • ,-, . + ZfiV 44. LONDON : FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1839. Amongst ns pres the petitions to the H ouse o f Lords last night, was one from the Canadian prisoners. It was presented by Lord BROUGHAM, who explained at some length the case of these petitioners, and con demned the law of the Attorney-General, the discom fited inventor of the novel construction of the Habeas Cor e pus Act. Th e pet i t i oners prayed for inquiry and lif. The Marquis of NORMA NEY said many of the alle gations in the petition had been for some time under the consideration of the Government. The Clerks of the Peace Bill was withdrawn, on its being ascertained that the House was against it. Lord DENMAN also withdrew the Borough Courts' Bill, which had been much altered in the Commons. The Poor-laws, or rather the Earl of STANHOPE, provoked a little discussion, and the Noble Earl came off second-best in a contest with the Duke of WEL LINGTON. The Noble Earl obtained some returns, but his mode of speaking of the Poor-law Commissioners, and of 'all the parties concerned in the administration of the Poor-laws, was discountenanced by Peers of all parties. A petition presented by Mr. DILLON BROWN in the Commons, from Dr. WHALE, the Cath o li c Arch bishop o f T uam, is doubly worthy of notice. The pe tition was against the National Scheme of Education, because the religious education of their respective flocks was a duty solely and exclusively belonging to the Catholic Clergy. They could not give up that Education into other hands without a renunciation of the obligations they owe to the Divine rounder of their religion. In this respect the Roman Catholic Clergy take exactly the same view as the Clergy of the Church of England, and in the mischievousness of their demands may be seen, as in a mirror, the mischievousnes s of the demands of the Anglican Clergy. The petition was objected to that it purported to proceed from the Archbiship of Tuam, which, it was said, was the usur pation of a title forbidden by the law. It was con tended that the law did not forbid other persons giving to Dr. APHALE the title of an Archbishopric which no longer existed in the English Church. A considerable and ;not very gentle discussion ensued, at the end of which the House deCided, by 165 to 82, that the peti tion should be'rejected. Slr. LAW gave notice that he should move the rejec tion of the Metropolitan Police Courts Bill, on going into a Committee. In answer to questions, Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that the Government meant to introduce a measure to amend the Tithe Commutation Act, and did not mean to introduce any measure founded on the recommenda tion of the Committee on Church Leases. Like the weather the work begins to wax warm in the Commons. Lord STANLEY is to move an Address to her Majesty to rescind the Order in Council for the formation of a Board of Education, and Sir R. PEEL is to take the sense of the House on the propriety of omitting the first clause of the Jamaica Bill, which was ordered to be read a third time on Monday. Lord JOHN RUSSELL withdrew his resolutions con cerning Canada, and asked for leave to bring in two Bills —one to continue the Act for the Government of Canada, which expires next year, till 1842, amending Sir WILLIAM FOLLETT'S clause ; and the other esta blishing the union of the two provinces-11Iontreal to be the seat of the Government. Leave was given --dis cussion being postponed till the Bills are brought in. .The 'Metropolis Police Bill was discussed in Corn m.i.ttee, and some divisions took place, Hon. Members ° m i le:jog to a clause, closing booths after 11 o'clock, who !tiding gentlemen to the treadmill for 14 days may be riotous in the street ; but both clauses wells carriei in tronizedspite of Colonel SIBTHORP, who pa . onotbs and Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, who had no objection s to roters being so punished east of Temple notfhe r bar. ' npoorrtt of the other business, which was of much i:• 1 meet. The Houseansee' is hardly susceptible of abridg at till after One o'Clock. . The two measures ag ch the Tori es and evening, are the B a l lot ainst whi-----. have opened all their batteties, firin g away morning Plan of Education. They , and the IVlinisterial dread k nowledge they d rea d independence. "They desir e to'keep, and the....nm. lrV4 . litilerNTrO hielvvg WI LSO N, MAYOR.-A COMMON COUNCIL, holden in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of London, on Thursday, the 13th day of June,lB39, Resolved unanimously, That this Couit views with alarm the introduction into the Commons House of Parliament of a Bill, intituled " A Bill for regulating the police Courts in the Metropolis," whereby it is sought to alter the established Laws, and subvert that noble bulwark o f B r iti s h Lib erty, " Trial by Jury," by, which the people of this hitherto fres country have been for ages protected. That placing Mer,sistrates (having judicial powers) under the control of and subject to dismissal by the Ministers of the Crown, is calculated to deprive such judicial functionaries of that free and constitutional independence for which the Judges of our land are eminent. That subjecting persons liable to the payment of debts and damages for civil injuries to imprisonment in Houses of Correc tion, is a degradation to which no civil debtor ought to be sub jected, and puts his punishment on the same footing with that of the criminal. That the proposed " Bill for regulating the Police Courts in the Metropolis" has for its objects the above evils, as well as many other inroads on the rights and liberties of the people. That this Court do therefore forthwith pre!ent petitions, founded on the above resolutions, to both Houses of Parliament, praying that the said Bill may not be proceeded with. WOODTHORPE. L..ti\V LIFE ASSURANCE socitTy, for -ALI the Assurance of Persons in any Station of Life, FLEET STREET, next St. Dunstan's Church, June 3, 18.39. Notice is hereby given,that a GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS will be held at the SOCIETY'S OFFICE, FLEET-STREET, on MoNns V, the 24th day of June inst., at Half-past 11 o'Clock in the Forenoon, pursuant to the pro visions of the Deed of Settlement, for the purpose of electing a TRUSTEE, in the room of William Williams, Esq. deceased, and also to elect SIX DIRECTORS and TWO AUDITORS, in lieu of those who will go out of °Mee by:rotation, and for general purposes. One of the Auditors will be chosen by the Proprietors, and the other by the assured of two years' standing in the sums of 1,0001. or upwards for the whole term of life. By order of the Directors, GEORGE KIRKPATRICK, Actuary. N. B. Business wil commence at 12 o'Cleek precisely. The Dividends for the sear 138 are in the course of payment. HIS Majesty the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, haviri7 AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES), •ffer many possibilities of obtaining _ _ _ LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH, are NOW SELLING SHARES for any of the said DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY. Persons desirous to purchase may receive, PREVIOUS to giving any order, the PROS PECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing, WITH OUT DELAY, a line to • HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH. P. S. The next Distribution contains porßons of 3,5001., 7,0001., and '24,000/. The distributing day being VERY NEAR, NO TIME IS TO BE LOST f o: those desirous to become shareholders for THIS NEXT DISTRIBUTION. The Tories are to be led to the onslaught upon education, which is to take place in the House of * Commons this evening, by Lord ASHLEY, Why the leadership is to be committed, pro hac vice, to this Noble Lord, to whom the Times of yesterday, as if in indirect condemnation of him who ought to have taken the lead, applied the epithets " resolute and conscientious" we do not pretend to know. It is possible that the Right Hon. Baronet shrinks from the responsibility of identifying himself with the advocacy of the principle which his less cautious fol lowers are neither ashamed nor afraid to avow, namely, that it is their best policy to keep the people in ignorance. He well knows the odium which that statesman deserves and is fated to en counter, who, at this time of day, heads a crusade against the enlightenment of the people. Sir ROBERT is no bigot, though he often uses bigots as his tools ; neither has he a par ticle of enthusiasm in his composition ; for him, therefore, the crown of political martyrdom has no charms. Though his late una ' enerous and ungen tlemanly condu c t t owar d s the QUEEN, which has ' been so justly term e d " di s l oya l i nso l ence, " has, all probability, c l ose d t h e d oor of office again & him f o r a l ong t i me, i f not for ever, he, notwithstandi ng , l oo k s upon hi mself as a Pre mier in p osse , an d natura ll y enough backs out of any unto war d p os i t i on w hi c h may expose him to the unenvi a bl e di st i nct i on o f b e i ng at once the object of Royal disfav our an d popu l ar h atred. This may be the reason of the temporary substitution of a subal tern for the Commander-in-Chief of the forces on the eve of a pitched battle, which, if we are to be lieve the scribes of the party, will decide the fate of the Church and its helpmate, the State. The Times sounds the alarm of the Priests, the ministers of darkness, in the following words— "We call upon the Conservative mind of Great Britain to stir itself at this alarming hour, and not merely to avert the immediate peril which threatens us, but to crush, by some strong de monstration of the public will, every chance of a speedy revival of the mischief from the same quar ter." This breathes the genuine spirit of Tory ism. We here see all disguise thrown off, and the inseparable connection between it and popular de gradation openly avowed. To instruct the people is to undermine the stronghold of the system, there fore the Times describes national education as full of peril and alarm, as a " mischief" which it is the duty of every Tory, who is true to his principles, to crush, both now and for ever I How far this demon-like cry of the Times against the education of the poor, will be responded to by the party at large, of which it is consi dered the organ, this night will show. We tell the Hon. Gentlemen who represent that party in the House of Commons that they never came to the consideration of a question involving more weighty consequences to themselves—to say no thing of its national importance —than that which they will have to decide to-night. There is now no room for subterfuge or evasion. The Govern ment plan of education has been pared down al most to a state of inefficiency to suit the taste or appease the clamour of those who disliked or pre tended to dislike it. It has been deprived of that pro vision which formed the sole (ostensible) objection on the part of its opponents. What remains can give offence to no one who acknowledges the proposi tion, that knowledge is better than ignorance, or, to express it in the language of Scripture, " For the soul to be without knowledge is not good." The question to call forth the strength of trial to night, is simply whether the poor shall be educated or not—whether an attempt, a beginning, shall be made to diminish the vast mass of ignorance which disgraces this land, filling it with crime and misery, or the continuance of the intellectual and moral eclipse which overshadows so large a portion of the nation, shall be sanctioned by a solemn decision of of the Representatives of the people. Since the above was written, we observe, by the report of the proceedings in the House of Com mons last night, that Lord STANLEY is to super sede Lord ASHLEY. Consistently with the cha racter of the Member for North Lancashire, he is to take a bolder step than Lord ASHLEY would venture on. He is to move an " Address, praying that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to revoke the O r d er i n C ounc il o f the 10th April, 1839, appointing a Committee of Council to superintend the application of any sums voted by Parliament, for the purpose of promoting public education," The Noble Lord goes the whole hog, therefore, as the slave of the priests, and declares, that not only shall there be no secular control over the public money (=ranted for education, but there never shall be any such control. Lord STANLEY, the Oxford bigot, the pupil of Bishop PHILPOTTS, iS the proper man to undertake such a cause. Mere is to be a grand meeting in favour of the Poles held at the Freemason's Tavern to-morrow. We have no doubt that it will be well attended, and that much interesting matter will be brought forward. His Royal Highness the Duke of Susszx will take ;he chair. We understand that a Deputation of Paper Ma kers is in town with a view of communicating with the Government on the subject of Post-office Re form. These gentlemen are apprehensive, we un- people in ignorance, and at the same time to secure their obedience. The Ballot Would enable the I enthralled elector to give his suffrage freely. A good syster,. / 4 secular education would enable him to distinguish with increased accuracy his politi cal friends ; the Tories are therefore decidedly opposed to both. They arc quite greedy of opprobrium. Even if we had some trifling objec tions to the Ministerial plan of education—it we thought, with the late Mr. COBBETT, that educa tion was a farce—if we were ready to say that the education which fits a man to perform his duties, the chief of which is earning his own subsistence by his own labour, is the only education which the State ought to encourage, and that school instruc tion is not necessary for all, we should be extremely careful how we opposed a scheme which is founded in the best motives, which has in view the most praiseworthy objects, and which, if it be not at first complete and perfect, will be susceptible of continual improvement. But the Tories are quite regardless of all such feelings and recommend a t ions , and only anxious to increase the odium which the ,resent generation bears towards them, and which posterity will say they most richly deserve. Such an aversion have they to light, that to extinguish it they are ready to trample charity and bene volence under foot, and were Christianity now first to be taught, they would be the men to cling to the established and an cient idolatry, and insist on perpetuating the Mo loch faith of their ancestors. They are the coun terparts of the Jesuits described by BERANGER, and are for fanning the flames of bigotry while they extinguish the calm light of knowledge. Of the Ballot they say it will destroy the Consti tution, that it will put an end to the Monarchy, and they denounce as traitors the Ministers who consent only to allow their usual followers and friends to vote on the subject as they please. The Monarchy must be in a wretched state, the Constitution must already be on its last legs, and WELLINGTON'S pills and PEEL'S scouring draughts will never restore it to vigour, if it is so weak as to be overturned by the Ballot-box. What the Tories really mean by these wrathful denunciations is, that the Tory Con stir ution, the Tory Monarchy will be destroyed by the Ballot. They know that they influence the votes of electors, not by love and frankness, but by ter ror and delusion. They know that whenever the electors shall be free agents, whenever the Tory squire shall not be able to threaten his tenants to turn them out of his farms unless they vote as he wishes—as we see by the Brighton papers, some of the s qu i res o f t h e R ape of Bramber have been threatening their tenants should they vote for Mr. SA LONIONS, the Tories know that whenever the shopkeeper shall not dread the loss of the parsons custom, and the custom of those whom the parsons can influence, their power over the constituencies will be at an end, that their numbers in Parliament will be thinned, and that their ATonarchy, their Constitution will be at an end. Now, as they are everywhere the advocates of tyranny and oppression, at home and abroad, loving coercion, calling out in their fury day after day for a strong Government, that is a Government by the sword, as they are seeking to keep back knowledge, and to maintain priestcraftin all its vigour, ..he ballot which would be the destruction of their Monarchy and their Constitution would be a great moral benefit to the public, and a great advantage to the constituencies. We were not fully aware of all the blessings of the Ballot till we witnessed the determined hostility of the Tories. 11 - 1 - 0 . 8t7 . N, - 14074150 N; PRIDAY,TIII4IB 14, 1F39. derstand, of the proposed plan of employing stamped covers deranging the present paper manufacture. The supposition now is that the stamped covers to be used, in order to avoid the risk of forgery, must be made of a particular kind of paper, for manufacturing which, one individual claims a ' patent, though it is doubtful whether he legally possesses it. To all paper manufacturers hut the one fortunate owner of the patent this would be a serious injury, and it remains with the authorities and with the:public to ascertain whether all the ad vantages of Mr. HILL'S plan cannot be secured without inflicting a serious injury on a num ber of enterprising tradesmen. Uniformity and simplicity are the great elements of that plan, but to these must be added freedom of choice and action. Numerous cases will readily occur to the reader, such as a man in a distant village being unable to get a stamped cover, the supply being ex hausted, or having to send a considerable distance for one before lie could write a letter, which would render the compulsion always to write a letter on stamped paper, or seal it with a penny adhesive stamp, ofo serious inconvenience. The question therefore is, whether the two methods may not be advantageously combine,], and the use of stamped covers adopted by those who approve of them, while it may be left optional to other per sons to write on unstamped paper, and pay for their letters on putting them into the Post-office, or on delivery. We are not suffi ciently well acquainted with Post-office manage ment to decide what exactly are the advantages and disadvantages of these different plans, but we should suppose that the uniform rate will so much facilitate the receipt, sorting, and delivery of letters, that it will cause little or no delay to take a penny with a letter instead of the stamp, or to demand one on delivering it. The Committee of the House of Commons confined their recommenda tions to reducing the postage, and to making it uni form, and do not countenance the stamp cover, the use of a particular kind of paper, or the compulsory payment in advance. The pro • posed exclusive use of stamped envelopes is, we understand, decidedly objected to by some of those who have most closely examined the ques tion, as tending to encumber a useful plan, and to deprive the public of many of the advantages which a low uniform postage is calculated to insure. It will be seen by reference to our Law Report that the Sheriffs' Court have assessed the damage done to Mr. STOCKDALE by the publication of the House of Commons at 1001. How will the money be levied ? Mr. HANSARD will not pay, and the Sheriff will issue, we suppose, a writ in execution. The House of Commons will thus be brought into direct conflict with the Courts of Law, its servant will have his property taken away, or his person will be incarcerated for obeying its orders, or the Courts of Law, having issued a solemn judgment, will allow their authority to be set aside. We look to the denouement of this plot with some interest, but without anxiety. The real useful authority of the Parliament will not be abridged by its not being allowed to publish libels ; and the utility of the Courts will not be lessened by the Parliament undertaking to amend the libel law. Disputes between the House of Commons and the Courts have in former times set the nation in a tumult, one half siding earnestly with the Courts, and the other half siding as earnestly with the Commons ; but all parties at present look on this contest with calmness, not to say indifference. This is a satisfactory proof that both the Courts of Law and the Parliament, arc more correctly valued than formerly. As the knowledge of the public of their doings has become accurate, they have ceased to feel for either of them a blind reverence. The abolition of slavery in the French colonies begins n attract the serious attention of Lours PHILIPPE'S Government. In the Monileur of Wednesday we find two Royal Ordinances upon the subject ; the first commanding an annual census to be taken of the slave population in the islands of Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, and Bourbon, which is to be presented to the Government with a Report carefully detailing the facts connected with the moral improvement and nume rical increase of the slaves ; and the second amending , Royal Ordinances of 1831 and 1832, defining the cir cumstances under which slaves may become en titled to their freedom. An increase to the number of 34,000 .individuals has taken place in the slave population of these islands within the last seven years—that is, since the date of the first of the amended Royal Ordinancei. whatever be the language of the French Government the work of emancipation will go on very slowly in the French colo nies. 'rhe French are bad colonists at the best, and know in general nothing about the requisite pnrcess for qualifying a slave population for the enjoyment of civil liberty. Could the Government be brought to declare the children of all slaves born after a certain day to be free, and adopt measures for training them in the know !edge, language, and habits of free citizens, the sure 'oundation would be laid for a gradual, safe, and general emancipation of the whole coloured race without involv ing the sacrifice of one franc piece of either public or private property. The French Ministry are experiencing very little op position in the Chamber of Deputies on the Budget. The Coalition appear faithfully observant of the implied contract among the leaders of the several sections, to the effect that where no increase appeared in the items beyond the sums voted for 1838, they would be adopted after the usual Ministerial explanations, showing their continuance to be called for by the exigencies of the public service. The Court of Peers met on Tuesday for the trial of the prisoners of the 12th and 13th of May. The names of nineteen individuals appeared in the act of accusation or indictment, of whom fifteen were present. The other four had not been taken, notwithstanding the unremitting vigilance of the Police. The prisoners in custody were : —Barbes, a lawyer, wounded; Rondil, an umbrella maker; Mirlon, 56 years of age, a labourer, and liberated felon; Lemierre (Louis Joseph); Philippet ; Detrade, a toyman, wounded; Guilbert, 37 years of age, a currier; Longuet, a commercial traveller; Austen; Bonnet; Nou guez ; Martin, a pasteboard maker, 19 years of age, wounded ; Lebarzie ; Dugas; and an Irishman named Walsh, who of course took part in the " row" for the pleasure of having a bit of a "scrimmage." We should say that mere accident led him to fight o❑ the side of the rioters, did we not know that the generous impulse of helping the weaker party is generally uppermost in the breast of Paddy, when about to exercise his cudgel in a quarrel not his own. The latest accounts from Bayonne are to the 9th inst., but they merely state that by mutual consent the Carlists and Christinos in the Basques are reposing after the toils of the late three days' campaign. lisranTEno's " occupation" will never be " gone," if it be left to his own management. Only let the Treasury supply him with money, and he will contrive to fight more battles in the Basques without winning an inch of territory than it cost Timone. to conquer all Asia. The subjoined extracts include what little other news there is in the French Journals : The Augsburg Gazette has published a letter, dated Pestb, May 31, which say that letters from Servia an nounce disturbances in that country ; they do not state whether these disturbances arc of importance, but they seem to be of a political nature. The Austrian Government, it is added, had taken mea sures to secure the frontier towards Servia. This communication of the German Journals gives a pe culiar interest to tile following letter, which we have this moment received : .‘ VIENNA, JUNE 3. —nie trews which I lately gave respecting the presence of numerous Russian agents in Servia, Montenegro, and other countries adjacent to Hun_ gary, is fully confirmed. The Government is in posses sion of the most positive information on this subject. The departure of the Russian Ambassador appears to be certain, and in all probability he will not return to his post here. " I believe that I shall be able to transmit to you in a few days an acc:unt of the measures taken by the Cabinet of Vienna relative to the affairs of the East. The crisis cannot be prolonged for the stutu quo is no longer tenable ; it must be shortly put an end to, whatever be the repug nance to war manifested by the three other great Powers. The communi cat i ons b etween our Court a::d that of Berlin have been less frequent for some time ; and this coolness is ascribed to the religious affairs which might become very serious in case any accident should concur with them. " Our exchange has recovered from its alarm, but it is on the alert." SPAIN.---After the tacking of Ripoll the Carlists proceeded to la Cordagne, to the number of about 3,000, to besiege Puycerda. A letter from Enabech, a small French village about a quarter of a league from Pucerda, states that since the sth of June there has been a fire of musketry between the factious and the garrison. The women and children haven refuge in the French territory. The Church is for tified, which will enable the besieged to hold out till the arrival of Carbo or of Baron Le Meer.—Le Commerce. On Sunday, at break of day, some police agents per ceived, near one of the barriers of Paris, two individual; drawing a cannon without a carriage, two feet long, and upwards cf six inches in diameter. The mysterious atti tude of those individuals awoke the suspicion of the agents, who approached them, thinking that they were robbers. A violent conflict ensued between them and those indi viduals, and it was with difficulty they were able to appre hend them. The position in society of the individuals ar rested, and the nature of the object found in their posses sion, not warranting a supposition that they had committed a robbery, a search was made at their lodging, and it would appear from the contents of several papers seized in them, that the cannon was intended for the accomplishment of some treasonable plot. The smith who made it has been arrested. The cannon was submitted for examination to two officers of artillery, who declared that, although clum sily manufactured, it could fi re more th an 50 roun d s with out bursting. Ono of the Judges of Instruction has been charged with the investigation of the affair.—Gazette des Tridunaux. BOURSE.—PAMS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12. HALF-PAST THREE.—There has been little business done in French Stocks. For the Account the Three per Cents. opened at 79F. 80c., declined to 79f. 70c., and closed at 79f. The. The Five per Cents. from 111 f. 60c., declined to 111 f. 45c. ; thus they are both 5 cents. lower than yesterday. For Money the Three per Cents. are 20c., and the Five per Cents. 15c. lower than yesterday. The Bank of France Shares are M. higher, as are the I,ooof. Laffitte Bank Shares; those of 5,000 f. are unaltered. The Belgian Bank Shares are sf. lower. The Spanish Active has receded -2;, having opened at 20 and closed at 19k. There has been some bustle in Railway Shares. The St. Germain have improved sf. ; the Versailles Left Bank have recovered 15f. ; the Versailles Right Bank have declined 2f. 50c., and the Orleans and the Havre sf. One of the alterations in the constitution of the two latter Companies proposed is, that when they have completed their lines— one six and the other eight leagues —the Government shall be authorised to purchase at cost price. The Chamber of Deputies having given strong symptoms not to be dis posed to grant a loan to the Versailles Left Bank, it i3not likely that it will be inclined to sanction such an outlay of the public money. First Higliest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price Price. French 5 per Cents ..... lll 30 ... 111 20 ... lit 25 ... 1 i 1 25 4 pc: Cents lOl 50 ... RI 50 ... 101 50 ... 101 50 3 per Cents 71) 811 ••• 79 € l O ... 79 70 ... 79 70 Bank of trance Laftitte Bank I,ooof. Sli , 1075 „,10-: 5 ...iim _1075 5,0001. :_•11 5040 ...5245 ...5240 ...5245 Belgian Bank BlO ... 810 ... 605 ... 605 Spanish Ac.ive ll O... 21 ' 10% 197 Passive 414 ... 4;4 ... 4V, 4 , 6 Portuguese 3 per Cents Nea; °awn 93 50 ... VJ 50 ... 99 30 ... 9.1 30 Roman RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Versailles, N. B 705 ~, 707 Si ... 705 ... 705 L.B. 165 ... 173 ... Irs ... 170 Havra Orleans .. Strasburg to Bale ... 327 50 ... 327 50 ... 325 ... 325 .--......5a.—_ Madrid journals of the sth inst. have been received, in which we find the report of an agent of the French Government at the head quarters of ESPARTERO'S di vision, being implicated in a secret correspondence with the enemy, officially contradicted. The Gazelle asserts that the French Government has not had for several months an agent at the head quarters of the Army of the North. While this proves the falsehood of the alledged charge beyond the possibility of cavil, it like wise manifests the comparatively little interest which king Louis PHILIPPE takes in the triumph of the QUEEN'S arms. We have no other news of any mo ment from the Spanish capital. Brussels and German Papers of the latest dates have just been received. The former announce the arrival of the Duke of SUTHERLAND and family at Liege on Tuesday, from Naples. The following news from Ha nover includes all that is of much interest in the Ger man Papers : HANOVER, JUNE 7.—At length the Second Chamber was able yesterday to proceed to business, there being 38 Members present. The Chamber prolonged the old budget (it rejected the budget laid before it), but ex pressly declared that the voting of the budget should not in any way affect the question relative to the Constitution. Though the Second Chamber has voted the budget yes terday, it is by no means certain that in the next sittings there will be a sufficient number of Members present, and we must remember that the budget, or, account of the im portance of the subject, must be voted three times. It re mains to be seen what the First Chamber will say. It was proposed by M. Werner, Counsellor of the Consis tory that the Assembly should petition his Majesty to con voke a new Assembly of the States, and in the letters of convocation not to take the elections as a recognition of the Constitution of 1819, that the electors might not be de terred from proceeding to an election for fear of prejudicing their rights. The draft of the Address in the First Cham ber expresses similar sentiments. Harnburgh Papers, June 1. BELGIAN F UNDS—Banssims, JUNK 12, Actual Debt, 2)4 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. 1 :1% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92 --- 3 per Cent. 7l 4 Loan of City, 1832 , 4 per Cent `94% Society of Commerce, 45iper Cent ll3 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent a% National Society —llrwsels Papers, June li. HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, JUNE 11. Austrian 5 per Cent s . Bank Shares 11,04 IMI7 An 10-Russian L oan lO7 Ti, 107,4 Russian 5 per Ce n t. l e t series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Series 102% 102 Russian 5 per Cent. Hop and Co. 3d and 4th Se.Ls 98 Ditto in Certificates Dutch actual Debt, 2 . ., per Cent Ditto 5 per Cent 1 il. 1004 v Polish Bonds Anglo- Danish Loan 3 per Cent Norwegian Lean, 1834, 4 per Cent.....,.. EXCHANGES OS LONDON. HAMBURG, JUNE 10.-13. 7.—Two months, 13. 534. CHRISTIANIA, JUNE 5 . --Three months, 15. BERLIN, JUNE B.—Three months, 6. 211. i, PETERSBURG'', MAY 31.-11 9-32. At the meeting of the Westminster Reform So ciety, of which we give a report in another part of the paper, it was stated by one of the speakers, that a tradesman in St. James's had suffered a loss of 2,0001. by giving a conscientious vote at the last election. This is no new fact, but it is one that cannot be brought too often before Reformers, because - it proves-that un less some plan is devised for protecting Liberal trades men against intimidation and actual punishment, they will either cease to vote at all, or give their votes to the Tories. It is too much to expect, that a man will thus sacrifice the interests of his family, even for an object which he believes will greatly benefit the country. Patriotism is one of the first of virtues, but except on occasions of great excitement, the great body of electors will look more to their own interests than the interests of the community at large. This the Tories know, and for this they will resist the Ballot to the last. What, therefore, is the duty of Reformers? Not to trust to any Government, but to hold meet ings, to petition the Legislature, and to press the ques tion in season and out of season, till one of the great pr7nciples of the Reform Bill, as planned by Lord John Russell shall be fully carried into effect. COMMON PLEAS-(THIS DAY. The Court sat in banco under the new Act in the Vice-Chan cellor's Court. A case was decided, after a long argument, in which the only point of interest was that an action for a malicious prosecution would not lie, where there was not a clear want of reasonable or probable cause, as well as proof of malice. Mr. Justice Vaughan also sat at nisi prius, but nothing of interest occurred. EXCHEQUER COURT -THIS DAY HARRISON V. FRANCIS AND ANOTIIIIR. This was an action upon a bill of exchange for 501., accepted in the names of Francis and Wallis. It appeared that Wallis carried on the business of general agents and auctioneers in Drury -lane. They having got into embarrassed cire;lmstances, the defendant Francis entered into a negotiation with them for the purchase of their business and stock, which lie eventually did fo: the sum of 1601., paying down 50/., and gi , i ng t wo bills for 601., and another for 501., which were both paid. For the plain tiff it was preyed that the bill in questi on was accepted by Wallis, who had represented himself as a partner, and it was shown that after the curchase by Francis, Wallis remained on the premises and conducted the business, and that he had given orders for the writing of some s i gn b oards, but on them was the name of Francis alone, and the Bill was ma d e out in his name, though it was paid by Wallis. The defendant Francis called witnesses, who proved that he alone bought and paid for the business, and that Wallis remained on the premises merely as his servant, under an agree ment t h at he and his family should reside on the premises rent free, and that for his services to Francis he should receive 30s. per week, and that after Wallis had been some time in his employment h e (defendant) felt called upon to charge him with felony, from the manner in which he was dealing with the property on the premises. In charging the Jury, his Lordship said it was strange that Harrison, to whom the bill had been endorsed by a person named Stevens, should not have taken back the bill to him, and allow Stevens to fight his own battles. Be confessed it appeared to him as irregular ; and though he had a perfect right to bring the action . against the acceptor, still it appeared to throw an air of suspicion upon the transaction. The Jury almost immediately found a verdict flr the de fendant Francis. LLOYDS' SHIPPING-(THIS DAY. DEAL, JUNE 13.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Camerons, Mackie, from Grenada. Sailed the Sultan, Poole, for Sydney; Hotspur, Scott, Quebec; Edward Barnett, Stewart, Gibraltar. PORTSMOUTH, JUN E , 13. Wind S. E. to W. N. W. FALMOUTH, JUNE 11—Wind W. to S. S. W. ; 12, S. S. E.—Sailed the Arethusa, Wakefield, for Trieste. PLQMOUTII, JUNE 13.—Wind E. S. E.—Arrived the Frances, Kirkers, from Van Diemen's Land. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 13. .,.-..Wind E., fresh.—Arrived the Ewell Grove, Burton, from Laguna; Russia, Elliot, New Orleans ; Lavinia, Reynolds, New York ; Dash, Hun tress, Newfoundland ; Two Brothers, Gottenburg. Sailed the Watkins, Adamson, for Berbice ; Liverpool (steamer), Fayrer, New York ; Star, Glover, Do. ; Washington, Quebec ; Persia, Johnstone, Boston ; Liffey, Stone, Mes sina; Ellen German, Blundell, Leghorn; Adriana, Lisbon. Off port, Robert Bruce, New Orleans. QUARANTINE CERTIFICATES. The following has been received at Lloyd's:— " Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade, Je 8, " Sra—l am direct e d by the Lords lB39 of . the .Committee of Privy Council for Trade to acquaint you, for the information of the merchants in the Russian trade, that her Majesty's Govern ment having represented to the Court of St. Petersburgh the s erious inconvenien ce resulting to the commerce o f the two countries, from not re cogn i z i ng at the Russian pens the certi ficates granted at the q uarant i ne stations in G rea t Britain, the Russian Government h ave consented to rece i ve t h e certificates granted at the quarantin e stat i ons of Stangate C r eek, 111ilford Haven, and Motherbank, as suff i cient evidence o f articles liable to carry infection havi ng undergone every neces sary purifica tion ; and all vessels bearing such certificate will be admitted in the Russian ports accordingly. " I arn, Sir, your obedient servant, (Signed) " DENIS LE I%IARCHANT. " The Chairman of Ll " oy s. APOTHECARIES' HALL. At the Court of Examiners held last night at Apothecaries' Nall, the fol. lowing gentlemen were granted certificates of qualifica tion : _ Mr. Charles Durie, of Blackburn. Mr. Richard Saville Jackson Mr. Robert Denmark, -. Mr. George Mackrell Nealds, Ripley, Mr. George Th ompson Cooper, of Iston. The Court rose at t en o ' clock. Surrey. MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of English and Foreign Grain this week have been moderate, and scarcely any sales of Wheat have been made. In other Grain no variation, but more money was demanded for Oats. Flour excessively heavy in sale. Wheat. English 2,540 qrs. Irish Foreign Oata. Finur. 3,210 qrs. I 2060 , acks 14,0J0 1,100 -Is. AItttIVALS. Barley. 42 0 qrs. 1,' 1 9 This is settling day in the Foreign market, and ac cording to all appearance at present, the account will go off well, although there still prevails a very great scarcity of money. The duty paid on the 12th inst. on 32,527 quarters of corn was 10,8 , 12/. Gs. Bd. in consequence of its being the following day lOs Bd. duty, PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 1902 IY4 3 per Cent. Red. 9 2% % 3 per Cent. Cons. 3,4 per Cent 99% Ditto Red. 9J% New 9 y per Cent N:w 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Jan. 5, 1810 "14 5-16 Oct. 10, 18511 Jan. 5, 1!,6i1 Jan. 5, 1860 April 5, 1880. Jan . 5. 1870 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bemis Belgian Bonds Ditto Account DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock Ditto Bonds 32 34 pm. South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 Exch. Bills, Xl,OOO 31 30 32 pot. Ditto 600 .. 33 31 pm. Ditto Small 33 34 32 pm. Ditto Commercial — pm. Ditto Advertised Bank Stock for Account ..., 192% India Stock for Account ... Congos for Account 93% THIS DAI AT ONI O'CLOCK ' Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds —. Ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account ......... ..... Ditto Account Chilian Bonds D.tto Account Columbian Bonds - Ditto Account... ....... " — Ditto Account Ditto Metallic — Columbian Bonds, 1824....... 32 Spanish lands 1117 i - -Da --A le ce,verit 1414.74. i . i 4... . 92 1 4 Ditto Acc oun t. Danish Bonds . . Passive' •.... ..... 4/k Ditto Account fr Derrod Greek Bonds , French, 5 per cent...—. —f. —c. Ditto Bonds, 1325 ! --- 4 per cent. f. — c. Ditto Account -- 3 per cent. Mexican Bondi, i per Cant. —.-- Exchange. —f. —c. Ditto Account — Dutch, 2Y per cent. id 5% Ditto, 6 per Cent • Ditto Account. Ditto Account Neapolitan — Ditto Account — PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. ithrrincy Iron Mining Company ... 4O 35.6 Birmingham and Derby Railway Company .... 70 33 Brighten Railway London and Illatkwall Railway .., • 11 9 14% London and Southar a pt on ~.... London and Croydon Railway Company 1 1/. Ilk ed. 13% 4 % Provincial Bank of Ireland A nlo Mexican Mint lO ''.' 1 % MALP-PAST OIVB. To the present time the brokers and jobbers are chiefly occupied in settling their accounts in the foreign market, which not being of any great extent, it is expected that it will go off easy. Money continues scarce, and in demand at a high pre mium, particularly in the Foreign Market. It is reported that a proposal is going to be made to the Portuguese Finance Minister to take their Local Stock at 90, which at present is about 80, in payment for the divi dends due pere. Consols arc rather heavy and not quite so good as in the early part of the morning ; may be quoted 93:4 i for the Account ; Reduced 9 2 a ; Exchequer Bills, 30 32 ; India Bonds, 32 34 ; Bank Stock rather improved, 1001- 191 i. In the foreign Market, Spanish Active 19, ; ; Portuguese, 351 it . ; Three per Cents. 21 4 1 ; Colombian 324 ; Dutch Two-and-a. Half per Cents. rather lower, 55i ; Five per Cents., 103. BALLOON ASCENT.---It was yesterday an nounced that Mr. Hampton would make an ascent in a balloon from Cremorne House, Chelsea, and conic down in a parachute as soon afterwards and as immediately near the metropolis as possible. Notwithstanding, however, the chance of a break-neck catastrophe, so attractive to the English, the announcement failed to collect large numbers, and accordingly there were no crowds to persuade Mr. Hampton to the ascent. For a long while it was doubtful whether or not the courage of the aeronaut could be screwed to the sticking post ; but at last (that is to say at nearly half-past eight o'clock in the evening, the balloon having been advertised to ascend at five) Mr. Hampton plunged in niedias res, and went up at all hazards. He ascended grandly, and amid many appleuses, and after continuing mid-air for a few minutes, descended in his parachute at Stamford Bridge, Fulham, without further harm or accident than a chance contact with a wall, and returned to Cremorne House by a quarter after nine o'clock. As the grounds were opened at one o'clock, those who came early had an awful time to wait, and it cannot be said (although some music and posturing sought to enliven the tedium) that they were presented with any re compensing allurement for the delay. In brief it is rather absurd to announce an ascent at five o'clock, and then to take till near nine to gather the courage to make it. The Duke of Brunswick was present, with a few more persons of distinction. There were only three or four Peers in the !Luse of Lordi last night during the long and tedious "lecture" of Earl Stanhope, who has on other occasions exhibited his peculiar talent for talking the House out with Poor-law grievances. When be had concluded his state ment, the Duke of Wellington exclaimed, " Are you done yet ?" in a manner that raised a general laugh at the Noble Earl's expense, which he endeavoured to escape by requesting the Duke of Wellington to mcve the adjourn ment of the House. His Grace, however, stoutly refused, and their Lordships, after a three hours' infliction, which they endured with their proverbial patience, walked quietly out. SUDDEN DEATH OF MORI, THE EMINENT VIOLINIST.—We regret to announce the death of this accomplished musician. Mr. Mori fulfilled his .duties as leader of the band at her Majesty's Theatre on Tuesday last, and his absence from the orchestra last night was understood by his professional brethreen to have been occa sioned by an attack of lumbago. As the ballet approached its termination, at nearly one o'clock this morning, Mr. Mori, jun., who was then performing in the orchestra, was called away, by an intimation that his father was in a dangerous state; and when he arrived at the house in Bond -street he received the melancholy information that his father had ceased to exist. The family of the, late Mr. Mori consists of two sons and three daughters, for whom an ample provision is left. FATAL ACCIDENT AT GREENWICH NEW PIER. -0.1 Tuesday afternoon, a lad named Jacob, whose father is in the employ of Messrs. Grissell and Pete, con tractors for the new pier now in course of erection off the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, was in the act of stepping from the head of a skiff on to one of the long barges now forming a temporary and floating pier for steamers, his foot slipped and he was precipitated into the water. Several boats instantly put off to his assistance, but were unable to afibrd any assistance, as he never again rose to the surface. Several men were engaged during yester day in dragging for the body, a reward having been offered for its recovery. We understand that the Irish Railway Bill is now nearly completed, and that it will be brought in by Lord Morpeth on the 21st inst. The Earl of Winehilsea, Lord Brougham, Sir J. Graham, Sir R. Peel, and Sir T. Fremantle, attended Divine service at the Temple on Sunday, to hear the Rev. Mr. Benson, Master of the Temple. WARSAW, JUNE 2.—The Prince of Warsaw, Governor of the Kingdom, is gone to the Bohemian Spas and will not return for some weeks. SMITHFIELD. A moderate snpply. Little doing in Mutton and Beef, and prices of the la: ter are a trifle lower. Fine Lamb bask in sale. Veal and Pork unaltei ed. Beef 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. ; Mutton 3s. 10d. to 4s. 6d. ; Veal 4s. Bd. to ss. 4d. ; Pork 4s. 2d. to ss. 2d. ; Lamb Ss. 4d. to 6s. 2,1. Beasts 58;6 ;' Sheep and Lambs 8,570 ; Pigs 535 ; Calves 402. CITY FISH MARKET. Supplies good, and prices generally l ow . T ur b o t 4 s. to I Ss. ; Soles Gd . to 3s. 6d. per pair ; Lobsters Gd. to 3s. Gd. ; Salmon good. 2s, per lb. ; Whiting sd. to 10d. ; Haddocks Bd. to Is. 2d. ; Mackerel 6d. to Is. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELTE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY.—The im port of Cotton for the last few days amounts to the extra ordinary quantity of 105,000 bags, of which 97,000 are from the United States, being the largest quantity, we believe, ever received in one week, and the value of which cannot be less than a million and a quarter sterling. Althcalgh the accounts received from the manufacturing districts are still very unfavourable, and the pressure for money continues unabated, there has been a good deal doing in Cotton, owing to the spinners having run them selves rather bare of stock. The sales since the brokers' last report have been as follows :—The Bth instant, 2:,000 10th, 11,000; 11th, 3,000; and 12th, s,ooo—in all 16,000, at id. per:lb. advance on the lower qualities of American. This day there has not been so much in quiry. The sales are about 3,000 bags to the trade. ARRIVALS THIS MORNING—French and Ostend mails ; Hamburgh ; Ship Letters from New Orleans, Santa Cruz, Charleston, Bermuda *and Grenada ; Si ngapore, J anuary 26 ; Hobart Town, February 1, old dates. (From New Brunswick papers received to the 12th May.) At a General Meeting of the Stockholders of the City Bank, held on Friday the 3d inst. it was resolved that the capital stock of that Bank should be merged in the Bank of New Brunswick, which we learn has since been done. (From the Royal Gazette of May 8 ) We understand that the Lieutenant- Governor has re ceived by the April mail dispatches from the Secretary of State, convejing to his Excellency the most entire ap proval on the part of her Majesty's Government of all his measures and views in connection with the recent disputes ith the State of the Maine. It appears that the endeavours of the East India and China Association to obtain, through that Government, an arrangement with France for the conveyance of the India mail between Alexandria and Calais, has proved successful. It has been continually stated, both at Liverpool and in the American papers, that there would be a short crop of cotton in the United States; these reports, no doubt, were agitated for sinister views and speculative motives, both at Liverpool and in America, for we no* find by the immense import of cotton of 105,000 bags, of which 97,000 bags are from the United States, being the largest quantity ever known in one week, valued at a million sterling, no doubt, ere this, it is ascertained in the United States that: the cotton rig, as it is generally called, has terminated at Liverpool. The American holders on the side have trken the alarm, fearing that a considerable fall in the price would take place, consequently they are shipping off from their monopolising store-houses to Liverpool. Consols opened this morning at the same quotations they closed at 93 1 1 94, for the Account ; Exchequeeßills, 29 31 ; India Bonds, 29 31 ; Bank Stock, rather im proved and in demand, 190 192; India Stock, 2i6 258. In the Foreign market the only feature worth notice is the Columbian Stock, which continues to improve, closed at 314 32 ; 1 ; at present, 34 ; Spanish Active as they closed, 191 ; Portuguese same as they closed 351 ; Three per Cents., 212 ; Belgian, 1011 102 ; Brazilian, 791 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 554 56; Five per Cents., 1024 103. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held a Privy Council at two o'clock yes terday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. It was attended by the Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the Chancel lor of the Exchequer, the President of the India Board, the President of the Board of Trade, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse. At the Council an Order in Council was issued, revok ing an Order in Council of February last, respecting the holding the Summer Assizes at Newtown, in Montgo meryshire. Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. Her Majesty gave audiences to the Marquis of Lans downe, Lord John Russell, the Chancellor of the Exche quer, Earl of Albemarle, and Viscount Melbourne. The Court was attended by the Marchioness of Nor manhy, Lady in Waiting, Lord Byron, Lord in Waiting, the Comptroller of the Household, Mr. Rich, Groom in Waiting, and Colonel Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting. The Royal Dinner party at the Palace yesterday, in cluded the Duke of Argyle, Marquis of Anglesea and Lady Adelaide Paget, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Liverpool and Lady Louisa Jenkinson, Earl and Countess of Ches terfield, Eat 1 and Countess of Clanwilliam, Earl of Ux bridge, Li rd and Lady Seymour, Lord Alfred Paget, and Lord George Paget. The Band of the Ist Life Guards attended at the Palace during the evening. The Hon. Miss Cocks, and the lion. Miss Cavendish, have succeeded the Hon. Miss Spring Rice, and the lion. Miss Paget, as the Maids of Honour in Waiting on the Queen. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by Lady Clinton, lion. Miss Boyle and Earl Howe, left Marlbo rough House at ten o'clock yesterday morning in a car riage and four, for Bushy Park. His Serene Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar, attended by M. de Wagner, and Captain Count de Beust, accompa nied her Majesty to Bushy Park.' The Duchess and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Miss Kerr, went from town to Bushy, yesterday, and partook of a de jeune with her Majesty. The Queen Dowager, the He reditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar, the Duchess and the, Princess Augusta of Cambridge, returned to town from Bushy last evening. The Duchess of Gloucester, attended by Miss Harvey, went yesterday to Bagshot Park. The Duke of Cambridge attended the funeral of the late Sir Herbert Taylor, at St. Katherine's yesterday morning. His Royal Highness visited the Princess Au gusta in the afternoon. Prince Augustus. and Prince Leopold of Saxe Cobourm, accompanied by Count Al exan d er M ens d or f , an d attended by Lord Alfred Paget, visited the Tower yesterday, and afterwards the Royal Mint. A Deputation from the New Zealand Land Company, consiming of the Earl of Durham, Governor ; Mr. Somes, Deputy-Governor, and the following Directors, viz.:-- Lord Petro, Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Mr. Hutt, M. P., Mr. Russell Ellice, Mr. Alderman Pirie, Mr. G. F. Young, Mr. Thomas Hankey, Mr. Boulcott, Mr. Willis, and Mr. J. B. Gordon, and Mr. John Ward, the Secre tary, had :an interview with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Colonial Office. Mr. Colquhoun had an interview with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes• terday in the. Council Chamber. An application was made for an extension of the term of Basey Downton's Pa tent. The case was adjourned. The Lords present were Lords Lyndhurst and Brougham, the Judge of the Prero gative Court, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS lIE R L D.—The pressure for money in the Commer cial Markets is becoming much more severe than even the best informed anticipated a few days ago, and, without exaggeration at present, we may add, it cannot well be conjectured how it will end. We have learnt, and we assert with some degree of confidence, that the late state ments on this subject, which have appeared under this bead, have been but too sadly confirmed. The commercial letters from the manufacturing dis tricts are very gloomy upon the subject of the restriction which has been put upon bills sent up here for discount with the endorsements of certain joint-stock banks. There appears to be but very little doubt amongst the commercial and monetary interests that the present deter mination of the Bank of England to clear the " Augean stables" of the discount market of those pests to sound principles of commerce, accommodation and cross bills, will and must be attended with many painful results ; at the same time it is quaintly inquired who were the parties that in the first instance encouraged by their countenance the " rags" which for more than two years have kept the commercial markets in this country in a perpetual whirl of derangement. The rollovving official return of the exports of bullion from the 6th to the 12th of June inclusive, shows that the exportation of the precious metals is still carried on to a very serious extent :—The amount of gold coin exported has bean 4,838 ounces, and of bars 2,550 ounces : of silver coin 5,050 ounces, and of bars 4,010 ounces. Money has been more in request to day in the English Stock Market, and, coupled m a minor degree with the intelligence from Constantinople, of the warlike demon strations between the Porte and the Pacim of Egypt, it has had the effect of creating much heaviness, and a slight decline in the British Funds. Money is still worth from 15 to 20 per cent. per annum in the Foreign'Market ac cording to circumstances, but as the bears are anxious to redeem their position, the market generally has not abated of its firmness. POST.—There was again a great want of money at the Stcck Exchange. On the English Market as much as iq per cent. interest was said to have been paid upon the deposit of stock, while on the Foreign the rate has ranged between 15 and 20 per cent. for loans till the close of the next Account, much depending upon the quality of the stock deposited, and the lenders taking care, where the commodity offered was nothing better than Spanish or Portuguese, that the quantity was sufficiently large to cover them. From this circum stance it may be easily guessed what would be the con sequence of any amount being brought forward to be rea lised. The scene of the memorable May Account of 1835 would probably in that case Le re-enacted, as, in the opi nion of• many, it certainly must sooner or later. The threatening aspect of affairs in the East, combined with this continued stringency in the Money Market, has caused much depression in the public securities. THE TRADE OF THE COUNTRY.—The offi cial returns which have just been made public relative to the trade of the United Kingdom, proves that though the past year was not marked by any speculations, still the trade of the country is in a healthy and sound condition. It is shown by these returns that the value of imports into the United Kingdom (as per offiical valuation), was 61,268,3201., being an increase of 6,500,0001. over the imports of 1837. The increase of exports of the produce and manufactures of the United Kingdom has been from 72,548,0471. to 92,450,231/., or very nearly 20,000,000/. Accord ing to the returns, the real or declared value of the produce and manufactures of the United King. dom shipped off in the year ending on the sth of Ja nuary last, was 50,060,9701., or about 8,000,000/. more than the exports of 1837. The new vessels built last year in the United Kingdom amounted to 1,490, of the tonnage of 270,280 tons. In the registration of vessels in the ports of Great Britain, there was not any material increase last year—the amount on the 31st December last, was 26,609 ships of the aggregate tonnage of 2,890,601 tons, and having on board 178,583 men ; in the number of British and foreign vessels emplo3ed in the foreign trade, there has been a considerable increase within the last three years, namely, from 21,478 in 1837, to 24,798 in the corn mencement of the present year. The aggregate amount of the tonnage of these vessels has been increased from 3,404,370 tons, and 191,510 men, to 3,997,053 tons and 223,300 men. The quantity of British shipping which cleared outward from the United Kingdom for foreign ports, in the year ending on the sth of January last, was 15,907 vessels of 2,876,236 tons, and 162,763 men, showing an increase over the re turns of the previous year of about 33,000 tons, and nearly 15,000 men. There was also an increase in the number of foreign ships, their tonnage and crews, which cleared out from the British ports last year. The totals of both, on the sth January last, were 24,427 vessels of 4,099,039 tons, and employing 231,149 men. It appears from these statements, made from official data, that not only is tho trade and commerce of the country in a favourable posi tion, but that the British as well as the foreign ship-owners are in a more flourishing condition than they have been for many years past. FIRES.—About ten o'clock yesterday morning, the house, No. 319, Oxford-street, narrowly escaped de. struction by fire. It appears that some carpenters em ployed in repairing the interior had imprudently made a fire on one of the stove hearths in an upper room, which became red hot,and set fire to the beam underneath. No time was lost in sending fcr engines, which quickly arrived, and the flames were speedily got under. Another fire hap. pencd yesterday morning in the shop of Mr. Edwards, slopseller, in Houndsditch, which was occasioned by the escape of gas. It was, however, got under before any great mischief was done. AN OLD TRICK.—On Saturday night last Mr. James Ashworth, of No. 8, Edmund's-place, Aldersgate street, was robbed of 50/. in Bank notes, by two men, who having persuaded him to accompany them to the Hunger ford Hotel, there left him nothing but waste paper in ex change for his Bank notes, which the rogues pretended to deposit in safety in his fob. POCKET-PICKING. --At Marlborough•atrcct police-cffice yesterday James Davis was charged with having picked the pocket of P. Scrope, Esq., M. P., of Belgrave-square, of a purse containing four sovereigns and some silver. The purse was not found on the pri soner, but as he was ascertained to be a bad character he was sent to the treadmill for three months. THE INTARSIIALSEA PRISON.—There are at present only thirty four prisoners in this prison, thirty-ono of whom are in on writs of execution issued out of the Palace Court, and three committed by the Court of Ad miralty. The prison is properly out of the Palace Court, and forms one of the very heavy charges for keeping up the Court. Formerly prisoners having committed offences on the high seas were imprisoned there • but a few years since an Act of Parliament was passed authorising the Secretary of State to direct their committal to any other gaol in the kingdom. Two of the three, Admiralty prisoners are under commitment, but will shortly be removed, and the other has been under confinement for upwards of two years for contempt of the Admiralty Court. When the Palace Court is abolished, which the officers of the Court are pre. paring for, it is expected the above prison will bo placed at the disposal of the county of• Surrey, and thus relieve Horsemonger-lane gaol of debtors incarcerated by the Court of Requests for petty debts. There hare been 60,300 hogsheads of flax sowed this year in the north of Ireland. EVENING EDITION. THE MARQUIS of LONDONDERRY and MR. H. GRATTAN, M.P. I Na. 1. Reform Club, Tuesday Evening, June 11. Mr. Henry Grattan presents his compliments to Lord Londonderry. He has seen in the newspapers a speech at tributed to his Lordship, an extract from which (the 2forn ing Advertiser and Globe) he takes the liberty of enclosing• He will be much obliged to Lord Londonderry if he will have the goodness to say whether he meant to apply to bina the strong terms of opprobrium therein expressed. To the Marquis of Londonderry, Holdernesse House, Park-lane. No. 2. Holdernesse House, One, P.M., June 12. Lord Londonderry presents his compliments to Mr."' Grattan. His note, dated Tuesday even i ng , h as o nly Jot reached him. Lord Londonderry read in his place in the House of Lords an extract from the reports of the newsPa' pers of a speech of Mr. O'Connell's, stated to have been made at a public meeting in Dublin, to address the Que!ef in which accusati o n s were m ad e aga i nst t h at party t o wine° Lord Londond e r r y i s p rou d t o b e l ong . Th e para graph Lord Londonderry cited is as follows : " Mr. Grattan had said that her Majesty's life would n ot be safe if the T or i es came i nto power ; and he, Mr. O'Con nell, declared solemnly he was convinced she would not live six months if that event took place." Also, " He knew the Tory party were capatle of every human baseness and ferocity." Lord Londonderry at once admits if these sentiments are accurately reported, accusing the Tory party of an intention of murdering the Queen, be considers them as base and infamou s . I t was to such accusations Lord Lon donderry's epithets applied. To H. Grattan, Esq., M. P., 21, Manchester -buildings' No. 3. Reform Club, June 12, 1839. Mr. Henry Grattan presents his compliments to Lor a Londonderry. He h as rece i ve d a portion of a newspaper, and a written extract by Lord Londondery, containing a speech of Mr. O'Connell's. He begs to say that he not accountable for any opinion and expression in Mr. O'Connell's speeches. As Mr. Henry Grattan has not in any speech of his alluded in any way to Lord London derry, he must request that Lord Londonderry will dill-, tinctly say whether h e i n t en d e d t h at the wor d s "b ase " and "infamous" should apply to him. To the Marquis of Londonderry, Holdernesse House. No. 4. Holdernesse House, June 12- Sir,—ln reply to your letter, just received, I have only to say that, in my letter of this morning, I distinetly plained the grounds on which I used the expressions, of which you complain. lam not prepared to unsay w hat I then expressed, and I can only repeat the purport of that explanation. Considering the authority on which I spoke, I then avoided any p ersona l a ll us i ons. I meant to re pel so unfounded an accusation, and I can only adhere to tilte purport of my former communication, that, unwilling as t should be to affix upon any i n di v id ua l t h e respons ibility 0' having uttered such sentiments as those reported in tb . ° public accounts of th e meet i ng to w hi ch I alluded, or adhere to the opinion I have already expressed, as *Pr' ing to any individual who is prepared to avow such tan° guage.—l have the honour to be, your obedient servant. VANE LONDONDERRY. To Henry Grattan, Esq., M. P., 21, Manchester -buildings• NO. 5. 21, Manchester -buildings. Mr. Henry Grattan begs to inform Lord Londonderry that, as he has never on any occasion alluded to him!! any of his speeches, and as Lord Londonderry declines ', 4 ; state that the offen s i ve ex p ress i ons "base and infamous were not intended to be applied to him, he must consider this to be an insult on Lord Londonderry's part as grogs as it is unprovoked. He has, therefore, requested a friend of his to com mun i cate to L ord Londonderry hi s senti ments on this subject. Thursday morning, one o'clock, June 13, 1839. The Marquis of Londonderry, Holdernesse House. No. 6. Thursday Morning, June 13, 1839 ' Sir—Mr. H. Grattan's letter to Lord LondondeerY, °f last night, has just been placed in my hands, and I bate to request th a t y ou w ill state from Lord Londond err y Mr. H. Gratt an t h at h e h as nothing to add wh i c h has no t been already stated in his last letter to Mr. H. Grattan. . The epithets complained of were applied, not to indi viduals, but to injurious accusations reported to have been publicly uttered against a political b o dy ; and, since th ere is no disav owa l on Mr. H. Grattan's part of the language and sentiments reported to have been used, Lord London derry regrets he cannot recede from the opinions he has already expressed. I have the honour to be, your obedient servant, J. J. Bodkin, Esq., M.P. G. BENTINCK. In consequence of this correspondence a meeting Was al ' ranged, which took place yesterday, at Wimbledon Com mon, at three o'clock. The parties were usual distance, and c n th e s i gna l b e i ng given, Lor d Lon donderry received Mr. G rattan ' s fi re, and then fi re d el the air. Mr. Bodkin, on t h e part of Mr. Grattan, t h e n expressed himself pe r fe c tly sat i s fi e d, and the affair ter minated to the satisfaction of a ll parties. placed at the DUTCH MAIL. On the other hand, a deputation of the Assembly of the Estates, with the President of the First Chamber at its head, has been to-day at the Palace. It is said that his, speech did n o t c on t a i n a wor d respecting the Assem bl y 0 1 the Estates; not so much as a wish that the misunder standing may be shortly put an end to. His Majesty. amcng other remarks, said, as we hear, that his sole object, ever since his arrival in this country, has been to promote the welfare of the people, and that this will likewise be his object in future. His Majesty's reply is equally intent with regard to the Estates. —Hamburgh Borsenhalle, June 9. THE HAGUE, JUNE 10.—His Royal Highness the Here ditary Prince of Orange set out this morning for Ste t ' gard, and this evening Count Van der Duyr Van Ma ar " dam followed his Royal Highness. 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On the 9th inst., at Brussels, William George, eldest son of the Rev. William Drury, aged 21. London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG , . 0 f No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office. No. 112, Strand , in the county of Aliddlesex.—Friday, June 14, 1b39. • HANOVER, JUNE 6.—To-day there were thirty-eight Deputies present in the sitting of the Second Chamber. The examination of the validity of the return was passed over cursorily, and even the examination of the last year's budget was liipinated, and it was then voted. The address proposed in the First Chamber will be the next matter discussed, and the session will be ended. (From the Bremen Journal.) HANOVER, JUNE s.—Yesterday evening after the grand parade in honour of the King's birth-day, a tumult took place. As a great number of people we►c in the streets it is no wonder that the Bargshasse was crowded. Stones were thrown at the doors and windows of the Palace Office; some mounted gend'armes cams up and soon dis persed the crowd. It is said that the tumult was caused by the arrest of an individual. The Magistrates of the Capital have not inquired on this occasion whether they would be permitted to pay their compliments, but have ex pressed, in an address which is said to be equally respect ful and decided, those congratulations and their great re gret at their not being allowed to offer them in person at the foot of the throne. Now ready, with a Portrait of Que en C aro li ne, T HE CONCLUSION OF THE DIARY OF TUE TIMES OF GEORGE IV. Being Vols. 111. and IV. Comprising numerous Curious and Interesting LETTERS of QUEEN CAROLINE, the PRINCESS CHARLOTTE, And other Distinguished Persons. .' ; W• To ensure the completion of their Sets, the Purchasers of Vols. I and 11. of this 'Work should give immediate Orders to their respective Booksellers fot these Concluding Volumes. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street.